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#define on 1
#define off 0

// Version number, incrementing this will erase/upload factory settings.
// Only devs should increment this
#define VER 76

// EEPROM Stepping, be careful not to overstep.
// We reserved floats for just to be sure if some values needs to be
// changed in future.
// byte  = 1
// int   = 4
// float = 8

// Panel 8bit REGISTER with BIT positions
// panA_REG Byte has:
#define Cen_BIT        0
#define Pit_BIT        1
#define Rol_BIT        2
#define BatA_BIT       3
#define Bp_BIT         4
#define GPSats_BIT     5
#define GPL_BIT        6
#define GPS_BIT        7

// panB_REG Byte has:
#define Rose_BIT       0
#define Head_BIT       1
#define MavB_BIT       2
#define HDir_BIT       3
#define HDis_BIT       4
#define WDir_BIT       5 //
#define WDis_BIT       6 //
#define Time_BIT       7

// panC_REG Byte has:
#define CurA_BIT       0
#define As_BIT         1
#define Alt_BIT        2
#define Vel_BIT        3
#define Thr_BIT        4
#define FMod_BIT       5
#define Hor_BIT        6
#define Halt_BIT       7

// panD_REG Byte has:
#define Warn_BIT       0
#define Off_BIT        1
#define WindS_BIT      2
#define Climb_BIT      3
#define Tune_BIT       4
#define CALLSIGN_BIT   5
#define RSSI_BIT       6
#define Eff_BIT        7

/* *********************************************** */
// EEPROM Storage addresses

#define OffsetBITpanel       250

// First of 8 panels
#define panCenter_en_ADDR 0
#define panCenter_x_ADDR 2
#define panCenter_y_ADDR 4
#define panPitch_en_ADDR 6
#define panPitch_x_ADDR 8
#define panPitch_y_ADDR 10
#define panRoll_en_ADDR 12
#define panRoll_x_ADDR 14
#define panRoll_y_ADDR 16
#define panBatt_A_en_ADDR 18
#define panBatt_A_x_ADDR 20
#define panBatt_A_y_ADDR 22
#define panBatt_B_en_ADDR 24
#define panBatt_B_x_ADDR 26
#define panBatt_B_y_ADDR 28
#define panGPSats_en_ADDR 30
#define panGPSats_x_ADDR 32
#define panGPSats_y_ADDR 34
#define panGPL_en_ADDR 36
#define panGPL_x_ADDR 38
#define panGPL_y_ADDR 40
#define panGPS_en_ADDR 42
#define panGPS_x_ADDR 44
#define panGPS_y_ADDR 46

// Second set of 8 panels
#define panRose_en_ADDR 48
#define panRose_x_ADDR 50
#define panRose_y_ADDR 52
#define panHeading_en_ADDR 54
#define panHeading_x_ADDR 56
#define panHeading_y_ADDR 58
#define panMavBeat_en_ADDR 60
#define panMavBeat_x_ADDR 62
#define panMavBeat_y_ADDR 64
#define panHomeDir_en_ADDR 66
#define panHomeDir_x_ADDR 68
#define panHomeDir_y_ADDR 70
#define panHomeDis_en_ADDR 72
#define panHomeDis_x_ADDR 74
#define panHomeDis_y_ADDR 76
#define panWPDir_en_ADDR 80
#define panWPDir_x_ADDR 82
#define panWPDir_y_ADDR 84
#define panWPDis_en_ADDR 86
#define panWPDis_x_ADDR 88
#define panWPDis_y_ADDR 90
#define panRSSI_en_ADDR 92
#define panRSSI_x_ADDR 94
#define panRSSI_y_ADDR 96

// Third set of 8 panels
#define panCur_A_en_ADDR 98
#define panCur_A_x_ADDR 100
#define panCur_A_y_ADDR 102
#define panCurB_en_ADDR 104 //(!Not implemented)
#define panCurB_x_ADDR 106 //
#define panCurB_y_ADDR 108 //
#define panAlt_en_ADDR 110
#define panAlt_x_ADDR 112
#define panAlt_y_ADDR 114
#define panVel_en_ADDR 116
#define panVel_x_ADDR 118
#define panVel_y_ADDR 120
#define panThr_en_ADDR 122
#define panThr_x_ADDR 124
#define panThr_y_ADDR 126
#define panFMod_en_ADDR 128
#define panFMod_x_ADDR 130
#define panFMod_y_ADDR 132
#define panHorizon_en_ADDR 134
#define panHorizon_x_ADDR 136
#define panHorizon_y_ADDR 138
#define panHomeAlt_en_ADDR 140
#define panHomeAlt_x_ADDR 142
#define panHomeAlt_y_ADDR 144
#define panAirSpeed_en_ADDR 146
#define panAirSpeed_x_ADDR 148
#define panAirSpeed_y_ADDR 150
#define panBatteryPercent_en_ADDR 152
#define panBatteryPercent_x_ADDR 154
#define panBatteryPercent_y_ADDR 156
#define panTime_en_ADDR 158
#define panTime_x_ADDR 160
#define panTime_y_ADDR 162
#define panWarn_en_ADDR 164
#define panWarn_x_ADDR 166
#define panWarn_y_ADDR 168
#define panOff_en_ADDR 170
#define panOff_x_ADDR 172
#define panOff_y_ADDR 174
#define panWindSpeed_en_ADDR 176
#define panWindSpeed_x_ADDR 178
#define panWindSpeed_y_ADDR 180
#define panClimb_en_ADDR 182
#define panClimb_x_ADDR 184
#define panClimb_y_ADDR 186
#define panTune_en_ADDR 188
#define panTune_x_ADDR 190
#define panTune_y_ADDR 192

#define panEff_en_ADDR 194
#define panEff_x_ADDR 196
#define panEff_y_ADDR 198
#define panCALLSIGN_en_ADDR 200
#define panCALLSIGN_x_ADDR 202
#define panCALLSIGN_y_ADDR 204

#define measure_ADDR 890
#define overspeed_ADDR 892
#define stall_ADDR 894
#define battv_ADDR 896
//#define battp_ADDR 898
#define OSD_RSSI_HIGH_ADDR 900
#define OSD_RSSI_LOW_ADDR 902
#define RADIO_ON_ADDR 904
#define ch_toggle_ADDR 906
#define OSD_RSSI_RAW_ADDR 908
#define switch_mode_ADDR 910
#define PAL_NTSC_ADDR 912

#define OSD_BATT_WARN_ADDR 914
#define OSD_RSSI_WARN_ADDR 916

#define OSD_BRIGHTNESS_ADDR 918
#define OSD_CALL_SIGN_ADDR 920
#define OSD_CALL_SIGN_TOTAL 8

#define CHK_VERSION 1010

#define EEPROM_MAX_ADDR 1024 // this is 328 chip


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Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet
This conversation with Justin Peters took place at Workbar, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 28, 2016. Only the introduction is transcribed below.
First, thank you for coming. I assume you are gathered at Workbar because Donald Trump is not in the debate tonight; it starts at 9. The man makes wonders. [Did you see the clip of Trump in Iowa City on Thursday calling Bernie Sanders a communist and in reply getting a tomato thrown at him? The man called out Heil Trumpler! American democracy.]
Second, you all should purchase Justin Peters' important book, which will teach you more about American politics and culture than you'll learn from Fox news on its best night. The book comes on the heels of a documentary, "The Internet's Own Boy," and coincides with a new collection of Aaron Swartz's writings. I urge you to read the books and watch the documentary.
Justin's book uses Aaron's life as a lens to tell the story of free culture, and I'll let him draw the connections between Aaron's many projects and the broader movement. But for some of us Aaron's story is a deeply personal affront to our ideals. Jeff Mayersohn, owner of the Harvard Book Store, is here tonight. As are Aaron's friends George Scialabba, the attorney Jerry Cohen—who stood up for Aaron in the Boston Globe—and Harvey Silverglate, who wrote brilliantly about his prosecution. We're also glad to see Carol Rose, executive director of the ACLU Massachusetts. Kind thanks to Bill Jacobson and Workbar for hosting us this evening.
I met Aaron in the fall of 2010. He'd returned to Cambridge from San Francisco and waved goodbye to the commercial startup life. He'd worked in the Democracy Center, and he was now working on fellowship at Harvard and living at 95 Massachusetts Avenue, about five blocks from here and a short walk to my apartment in Inman Square to which he would occasionally come for dinner and conversation.
To me he had the mien of a Talmudic scholar, including the bad posture that comes from bending over books and computer terminals. He was soft-spoken, sweet smiling, and sported good sense of humor and strange diet, and he seemed to be balanced in this peculiar combination of fragility and toughness.
I appreciated his sense of independence and openness to experimentation. Just then George, and Jeff, and Jerry were joining with me to move The Baffler literary magazine from Chicago to Cambridge and restart it here. We're a bit more respectable now, but at that time we were picking up all kinds of oddballs and eccentrics. We envisioned the new Baffler as a loosely formulated, tightly run, independent-minded collective of disaffiliated journalists and poets, under-paid artists and illustrators, closet utopians, ex-professors, and partially disenfranchised philosophers. Aaron fit right in.
Aaron by this time had left the startup world, left corporate life, left institutions. To me, Aaron was immensely attractive. My first instinct told me he was constantly learning how to test his ideals in the world. He had that basic courage. I though he was what the German social theorist Karl Mannheim called a 'free-floating intellectual.' (There is a whole line of thinking, in fact, that has perceived free-floating intellectuals as a danger to existing institutions.) He came equipped with knowledge of anarchism and libertarian socialism. His father had been a Baffler reader in Chicago in the 1990s.
Though by dint of background and expertise we had almost nothing in common, this spontaneous mutual formation, or elective affinity, freed us up to focus on what we thought was important, in writing, conversation, and art. This is a crucial point in understanding Aaron's appeal. You don't get to meet many people in this country who are free in this respect; if they are free they float, unfocused and undisciplined. Aaron seemed to me a very fine and rare example of a free person, following his own path, trying very hard to live in accord with his democratic ideals. One tiny illustration, by way of contrasting him with the haughty and hierarchical professors down the road: Only in retrospect did I realize that Aaron didn't condescend to me when I asked him what must have been very, very basic technical questions about digital publishing.
Our discussions centered on the philosophical basis of anarchism (authority and hierarchy) in American thought, the problems with formal education (he left after 9th grade, I punished myself all the way to a phd; we arrived at the same conclusion, though it took me longer to figure it out), the corruption of science, the feudal nature of academia, and the tech industry here and in Silicon Valley.
Aaron joined The Baffler's new masthead as contributing editor, and we collaborated throughout 2011 and 2012. He registered our website and set up the framework. He participated in our initial planning sessions in Brooklyn. He gave me extensive editorial commentary on our first new issue, which appeared in March 2012. He wrote a brutal essay about Apple from which Justin quotes in his book.
A week after his first indictment came down on July 14, 2011, George Scialabba and I—after we recovered from our shock—wrote a post for Guernica protesting the US Attorney's decision. The case kept getting worse in the ensuing months, and we were frustrated that Aaron's plight was not getting more attention. We were really puzzled, too, since there seemed to be no victim in this case, yet it persisted.
He was a bit hot. The New York Observer published a snarky blog calling attention to the fact that our publisher at the time was MIT Press, and yet we had hired on the MIT hacker Aaron Swartz. In the aftermath of that article, I got a call from a somewhat miffed director at the press asking me about the relationship and asking for a 'heads-up' on such sensitive matters involving him.
I last saw Aaron in New York after Thanksgiving in November 2012. He came to an event of ours. I remember thinking he looked scared and small, fragile. I last talked with him three days before his death. He said he was looking forward to an expanded role at the Baffler and in particular to helping us launch a research institute with the motto, "direct action through ideas." This he liked very much.
At the time of his death on Friday, January 11, 2013, Jeff Mayersohn and I were sitting in his office at Harvard Book Store discussing how we could help with Aaron's defense fund. Later that night I received a text message with the bad news. We were both heartbroken and deeply shaken by his death. And three years later, I think a lot of us are still profoundly disturbed at the misconduct of the U.S. Attorney's office and the cowardice at the highest levels of MIT. Now that I've given away my feelings about all this, let me turn this over to Justin Peters, who gives us a broader perspective. Justin will read from his book, after which, we'll have a conversation, and you are warmly invited to participate. Please say hi to Justin.

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Truss and Hancock get roles in Cabinet, David Cameron announces
Andrew Fitchett
Liz Truss outside Swaffham Assembly Rooms. Picture: Ian Burt - Credit: Ian Burt
Thetford and Brandon's MPs, Elizabeth Truss and Matthew Hancock, have been given Cabinet posts by David Cameron.
Richard Porritt interviews Matthew Hancock MP at Westminster.
Ms Truss, MP for South West Norfolk, retained her job as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs after a series of announcements by the Prime Minister's office today.
Mr Hancock gets a new role, being named as Minister for Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, having previously served as Minister for Business, Enterprise and Energy.
Six places in Norfolk where KFC could open a new restaurant


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Home > CBD Education > Does CBD Oil Have Any Side Effects?
Does CBD Oil Have Any Side Effects?
Anyone who has taken pharmaceutical medications has seen the lists that come with the first filled prescription. It explains the many possible side effects that the medication can produce. Most current studies indicate that CBD has almost no significant adverse side effects on the human body, even when taken frequently and in large doses. But there are a variety of possible effects, depending on the person taking it.
A principal reason for this is that the body already contains a naturally occurring endocannabinoid system, with two receptors that control normal functions, CB1 and CB2. CBI receptors, which are primarily found in the brain, affect movement, coordination, appetite, moods, and memory, among other things. They're the receptors that process THC. CB2 receptors, which deal with inflammation or pain, are mostly found in the immune system. Both receptors are located in multiple locations in the body.
Rather than working against problems in the body, CBD intensifies the body's own ability to combat physical problems. It boosts the functions of natural biological processes.
Potential Side Effects When Starting CBD Oil
It's not uncommon for beginners to experience some unwanted side effects when first starting CBD oil. These can include headaches, nausea and a general worsening of symptoms.
This is typically a result of taking too much CBD. Lowering the daily dosage can alleviate these effects. CBD microdosing is a popular method of finding your "sweet spot" dosage that will produce benefits without side effects. It involves starting with very low doses (as little as one drop) and slowly increasing over time as needed.
Studies On The Side Effects Of CBD Oil
Clinincal studies examining side effects of CBD oil in treatment have appeared in professional journals in the medical community for over 40 years. They investigate the usefulness and side effects of CBD treatment for a wide variety of problems. These trials have tested CBD's effectiveness on both human and animal subjects.
A 2017 review of the clinical studies on CBD added findings from more recent investigations to a previous literature review published in 2011. The survey concludes that, generally, all the studies they examined reported a "favorable safety profile of CBD in humans." While they conclude that use is safe, they also found evidence of some side effects in the surveyed reports.
The three most commonly observed side effects were fatigue, diarrhea, and weight loss or weight gain. The authors point out that while these side effects may occur, CBD actually has a "better side effect profile"—meaning that it has fewer adverse effects on the body—than pharmaceutical drugs.
Fatigue is the most common side effect reported by the authors. However, in the case of weight loss or weight gain, they point out that there are many factors that could affect whether a person gained or lost weight, such as their diet and the individual's genetic predisposition. Other possible side effects mentioned in the studies they describe include nausea, dry mouth, vomiting, and dizziness.
However, a 2012 paper in the Journal of Pharmacology reports that CBD actually has anti-emetic and anti-nausea properties. So side effects of nausea or vomiting found in other studies are unlikely to be caused by CBD.
In 2018, the FDA approved the drug Epidiolex (cannabidiol), a CBD product to treat two rare kinds of early-onset epilepsy, that could be administered to children older than 2 years old. In clinical trials, CBD was found to significantly reduce seizures in patients with these two forms of epilepsy, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, and Dravet syndrome. The FDA report concludes that the benefits of Epidiolex far outweigh the potential damages.
The one particular side effect they found was liver damage. But they also say that the subjects for this study were primarily people with serious health issues, and that possible liver damage is easily avoided with patient education, appropriate dosage, and regular testing to spot potential adverse effects.
Other side effects were also found in some patients in this clinical trial, including irritability, lower appetite, infections, sensitivity issues such as rashes, gastrointestinal problems, problems with breathing, or reduced urination. But as the report notes, the symptoms might have had other causes.
A 2017 CBD report by the World Health Organization cited a more recent, small sample experiment with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome and Dravet syndrome patients who were also taking the prescription drug clobazam. Researchers were able to reduce side effects by cutting the doses of clobazam rather than the doses of CBD. If patients are experiencing side effects, it may not be the CBD itself that is causing them, but other medications taken at the same time.
A paper produced in 2006 reported trials in the anticoagulant properties of cannabinoids. It determined that patients with hemophilia should be cautious of CBD treatments because of issues with blood clotting. Patient with health concerns that require highly specific treatment should always consult a doctor before trying CBD.
Side effects are troublesome and regular features of pharmaceutical medications. This is evident in the extensive warning lists that patients receive with the first prescription of a new drug. Many of the drugs prescribed can't be just discontinued without inflicting harm, and have to be tapered off from.
CBD treatment, on the other hand, can be started and stopped without any danger. CBD is not considered to be addictive. So if a patient decides to stop taking it, there are no adverse effects other than ending the beneficial qualities of using CBD.
Without exception, clinical trials have shown that CBD has the potential to improve health, and much more research is needed. The National Institute of Health, the World Health Organization, and the scientific press are already on record advocating for CBD use. "Favorable safety profile of CBD in humans" and "better side effect profile," coming from these respected institutions of the medical establishment, clearly indicate that CBD is safe for most patients, and that any side effects are minimal.
1 Potential Side Effects When Starting CBD Oil
2 Studies On The Side Effects Of CBD Oil
3 The Bottom Line
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Prospect, KY (May 05, 2002) - Victims Assistance of America, Inc (VAA) -- It has been decided that the National Headquarters for Victims Assistance of America, Inc (VAA) will be located in Washington, DC. The first state division will be started in the state of Kentucky.
We are soliciting companies in DC and also in KY at this time for the donation of office space. We would like to borrow space-enough for our operation, until we are funded and can afford space of our own. If you know of anyone in either state who could help us with this, Please have them contact us.
If it were to come with desks, phones and computers that would be even better. We are about done with our set-up phase and moving into our grant-writing/fund-raising phase. It would be nice to have a little more room to spread out than what we have right now. Thank you for any help that you can offer.


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package io.shardingsphere.shardingproxy.backend.jdbc.connection;

import io.shardingsphere.transaction.core.TransactionOperationType;
import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;
import lombok.SneakyThrows;

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.LinkedList;

/**
 * Local transaction manager.
 *
 * @author zhaojun
 */
@RequiredArgsConstructor
public final class LocalTransactionManager implements TransactionManager {

    private final BackendConnection connection;

    @Override
    public void doInTransaction(final TransactionOperationType operationType) throws SQLException {
        switch (operationType) {
            case BEGIN:
                setAutoCommit();
                break;
            case COMMIT:
                commit();
                break;
            case ROLLBACK:
                rollback();
                break;
            default:
        }
    }

    private void setAutoCommit() {
        recordMethodInvocation(Connection.class, "setAutoCommit", new Class[]{boolean.class}, new Object[]{false});
    }

    private void commit() throws SQLException {
        if (connection.getStateHandler().isInTransaction()) {
            Collection<SQLException> exceptions = new LinkedList<>();
            exceptions.addAll(commitConnections());
            connection.getStateHandler().getAndSetStatus(ConnectionStatus.TERMINATED);
            throwSQLExceptionIfNecessary(exceptions);
        }
    }

    private void rollback() throws SQLException {
        if (connection.getStateHandler().isInTransaction()) {
            Collection<SQLException> exceptions = new LinkedList<>();
            exceptions.addAll(rollbackConnections());
            connection.getStateHandler().getAndSetStatus(ConnectionStatus.TERMINATED);
            throwSQLExceptionIfNecessary(exceptions);
        }
    }

    private Collection<SQLException> commitConnections() {
        Collection<SQLException> result = new LinkedList<>();
        for (Connection each : connection.getCachedConnections().values()) {
            try {
                each.commit();
            } catch (final SQLException ex) {
                result.add(ex);
            }
        }
        return result;
    }

    private Collection<SQLException> rollbackConnections() {
        Collection<SQLException> result = new LinkedList<>();
        for (Connection each : connection.getCachedConnections().values()) {
            try {
                each.rollback();
            } catch (final SQLException ex) {
                result.add(ex);
            }
        }
        return result;
    }

    private void throwSQLExceptionIfNecessary(final Collection<SQLException> exceptions) throws SQLException {
        if (exceptions.isEmpty()) {
            return;
        }
        SQLException ex = new SQLException();
        for (SQLException each : exceptions) {
            ex.setNextException(each);
        }
        throw ex;
    }

    @SneakyThrows
    private void recordMethodInvocation(final Class<?> targetClass, final String methodName, final Class<?>[] argumentTypes, final Object[] arguments) {
        connection.getMethodInvocations().add(new MethodInvocation(targetClass.getMethod(methodName, argumentTypes), arguments));
    }
}

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Sure, they don't work, but these cardboard consoles definitely start more conversations. Best part, you don't even need tape or glue. Thicker paper is recommended, as is a nice printer that can handle 150dpi printouts.
Unfortunately, no papercraft game pads are included with these two designs, put up by Cubeecraft.


Pamela, I'm so glad you got to have that vacation & "recharge your batteries. We all need that from time to time. You are gifted with the use of words. I enjoyed "Not Knowing" very much! Give my regards to Max.
Pamela: Your blog is terrific! Spoke to me right now as my Mom is in a nursing home with poor health and as I prepare for a partial retirement in a few months. Letting go of our desire and illusion of control is one of the hardest things we will ever do.


Plum shades are the perfect fall and winter lip color. They add a festive touch and a hint of glamour to a casual outfit. Dark red and burgundy shades are universally flattering colors. And they make your teeth look super white.
My favorite is Estée Lauder's Velvet Plum. It is highly pigmented but buildable, depending on how much color coverage you like. This lipstick gives a vibrant color brilliance, while also being hydrating.
What is your favorite winter lip color? Leave me a comment and let me know!


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In October of 2005, at age 71, Flo Schornstein took the lead on a drive to raise funds for ReLeaf New Orleans, a re-greening initiative aimed at replacing many of the thousands of trees that Katrina had taken from the Crescent City.
Flo knew that the landscape left by the storm would have a heavy impact on people already straining to imagine the futures of their old neighborhoods. She also knew that, in a city struggling to rebuild basic services, public funding to replant lost trees would not be available.
But Flo Schornstein knows how to raise money… and she knows how to get the community involved. It's what she does. Just look at the success of the Parkway Partners program – a public/private partnership that she created when she headed the City's Department of Parks and Parkways. Flo created that program to get community members involved in caring for their green spaces. Through her leadership and fundraising efforts, Parkway Partners made improvements to public parks, created community gardens and developed an "adopt-a-neutral-ground" program.
Re-Leaf is a branch of Parkway Partners – of which Flo remains development chair. So far ReLeaf's efforts can be seen in over 3,000 trees planted since the storm, including mass plantings on Broad, Elysian Fields, St. Claude and Lee Circle.
Flo's history with the city has given her the ability to see a better future for the city. To make that better future a reality, she is tapping a lifetime of fundraising experience to help raise money for ReLeaf.
For Flo, age is irrelevant. When you're helping others, there's no time to think about aging. Flo is focused on continued achievement and growth. Just like the trees she's helping to plant. Just like the communities she's helping to revitalize.
Flo Schornstein… Peoples Health Champion.
"In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, my fundraising skills have been sharpened."
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A Champion may even be you. Nominate yourself or someone you know—like a relative, co-worker or neighbor—as a Peoples Health Champion.
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Abstract: The cross-border movement of people, associated with the increased integration of economies and ongoing changes in the international division of labour, forms an essential component of the globalisation process. A sharp increase in labour mobility has coincided with official recruitment agencies and private entrepreneurs providing all sorts of services to migrant workers in exchange for fees. Yet while trade and financial flows are welcomed by nations, labour flows raise concerns about possible influxes of both documented and illegal migrants, the potential erosion of national sovereignty; and, since 11 September 2001, fears of terrorism. This has resulted in more stringent immigration policies and border controls by the state. Migration has thus become a major domestic and international political issue, particularly for developed countries. Moreover, the issue continues to be debated mainly in the context of developed countries. Nevertheless, international migration (in response to global economic forces) within developing regions, such as Southeast Asia, is also an important phenomenon, and worthy of attention on its own. This chapter examines the changing labour demand patterns and labour supply in the context of increasing economic integration in the Southeast Asian region. It focuses on the economic disparities and structural interdependencies between source and destination countries; and the employment of unskilled contract workers, especially in Malaysia and Singapore. The chapter also makes the point that the institutionalisation of the migration process, particularly for unskilled labour, serves to create both a black market in migration and conditions conducive to human trafficking and exploitation.


Smytus is the former general of The Cluster and one of the main antagonists of the animated TV series My Life as a Teenage Robot. He works under Queen Vexus, although he is often known to go off onto missions of his own even just to feed his own ego. When it comes to battling Jenny, he often has some tool or weapon which he uses to put him in a temporary upperhand only to eventually be outwitted by Jenny's intellect.
He was voiced by Steven Blum, who also voiced Vilgax, Makucha, and Starscream.
Commander Smytus made his first appearance in "Dressed to kill" where an accident on his starship caused him to lose a supply of rare super-powered Pip Crystals which he had planned to use as his power source to overtake and destroy the Earth. The crystals landed on Earth, in Jean Phillipe's dress store, ending up on the dresses that Brit and Tiff Crust were examining for the upcoming prom. Smytus masqueraded as a Ukrainian supermodel named "Smytlona" in attempt to retrieve the crystal-coated dresses in Jean's store, but Jenny appeared and exposed his ruse. With the Crust Cousins now in control of the crystals, Smytus was shrunk down to the size of a beetle, and he retreated (it is unknown how he later returned to normal size). The fight over the Pip-Crystals ended with Jenny cleverly showing the Crust Cousins an article in a fashion magazine deeming crystals "out of style", and the crystal-covered gowns were locked away where Smytus could never find them.
Later, in "Sister Sledgehammer", Smytus returned to Earth yet again to get revenge. He managed to successfully capture Jenny in a trap, using his Cluster Drones to take over her mind and body and assimilate her into the Cluster as a massive destructive robot, using her as the main power core. He then sent her to destroy the Earth, first commanding her to annihilate her creator, Nora Wakeman, and ravage her hometown, the city of Tremorton. However, when Jenny was overtaken by the Cluster, a distress signal was sent out which automatically reactivated prototypes XJ-1 through -8 to come to her aid and battle to save her. The XJ-Sisters seemed to be no match for Smytus, however, and he managed to assimilate the second through eighth prototype XJ robots into his droid. It seemed that Smytus had finally won, before XJ-1 inadvertently brought Jenny back to her senses by throwing up motor oil on her face. Once freed from the Cluster's control, Jenny defeated Smytus once more. Jenny under complete control of Smytus' Cluster Drones in "Sister Sledgehammer". In "Escape From Cluster Prime", when Vexus launched her invasion on the Earth, Commander Smytus was put in charge of enslaving every human, putting them to work building more robot troops for the Cluster's army. When Brad and Tuck rounded up a mini coup to force the Cluster to leave, Smytus set to detonate Earth instead. Once Jenny had left Cluster Prime (now with Vexus dethroned and exiled, and with the golden computer chips returned to the robot citizens), she returned to save Earth from being annihilated by Smytus. In a last resort, however, Smytus set himself and his starship to self-destruct. Jenny evacuated his ship of all her friends and allies, and promptly hurled it deep into space where the resulting explosion wouldn't harm her home planet.
Smytus somehow survived his own detonation and appeared again, along with Vexus and Krackus, on a garbage asteroid. When Jenny, Brad, and Tuck happened upon the asteroid in "Trash Talk", Vexus planned to capture and drain Jenny of her energy using their new invention, but she, Smytus, and Krackus got into an argument over how to use it. Jenny and her friends managed to escape the asteroid, which Vexus had set to self-destruct.
Due to the discontinuation of the series, what became of Smytus after his final appearance remains unknown.
Smytus is portrayed as an overconfident and power-hungry military leader that wants nothing less than the Cluster to enslave or at times eradicate the human race. He sees organic life as inferior to mechanical life forms that only should serve robots or be wiped out. Often he tends to boost on his high ranking within the Cluster and seeks not just more power but also the fame he feels entitled to. He is also shown a bit egotistic as he often boost of being a destroyer of worlds and was more concerned with getting a new pair of legs than escaping an asteroid he, Vexus and Krakus were stranded on and when Professor B found the three robot, he rebuilt his leg good as the last tim.
Smytus resembles a large, heavily-built, green cybernetic beetle. His round, bulky, darkly-colored body is striped down the front with many different shades of deep green and yellow-green. He is clad in armored garments (which could possibly be his exoskeleton due to his insect-like traits), with thick, spiny gauntlet-like cuffs on his wrists, and rather short, thin legs with large, bulky dark green pointed boots covering his feet. He appears to have large beetle-like wings that run down his back, resembling a cape, and he possesses the ability to fly with them. A long, sharply-pointed regal-looking collar-like feature protrudes from each side of his neck, and his arms and legs appear to be armored with protective plates. He has beady, pale yellow-greenish eyes with slit pupils, and a rather large mouth lined with a row of straight blocky white teeth with a small but noticeable gap in the middle. A single long black antenna-like feature sticks up from the top of his head and extends out to the side. His rather square-shaped insectoid head is black, and his face is pale yellow-green.
When enraged (as shown in Dressed to Kill) Smytus is able to morph his seemingly cybernetic body to wield many razor-sharp yellow-green pincers and spines, with his hands enlarging and becoming large three-pronged mechanical-looking claws, and his wings unfurling into wide segments like interlocking plates of metal.
Smytus is a strong and capable leader of his army able to easily over power and nearly enslave the human race a minimum of at least once though he was more than happy to just destroy Earth and move on to another planet, due to both a hatred of organic life and possibly to get revenge on Jenny for her perviously stoping his attempts of conquest.


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Group agitating distressed OFWs in Saudi Arabia
By Bernice Camille V. Bauzon Reporter
A group of Filipinos in Saudi Arabia is "agitating" distressed workers who are awaiting repatriation to "sow disorderly conduct" amid the Kingdom's crackdown on illegal workers, an official of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Wednesday.
He said this as reports of violence continue to be reported from the Kingdom.
DFA spokesman Raul Hernan dez said that a Filipino worker punched a Philippine consul there when a group of campers in Jeddah forcibly entered the consulate's office to get documents and passports.
This happened over the weekend, the Foreign Affairs official said without identifying the group he was referring to.
"We don't want that to happen. What we want is there should be orderly processing of their applications, orderly distribution of passports and orderly request for extension of their passports, so that the services will be extended to them in an efficient manner," Hernandez added.
Citing Philippine Ambassador to Riyadh Ezzedin Tago, Her nandez also denied the allegations by labor group Migrante that Filipino campers are being treated badly by Philippine officials.
He said there is no truth to the allegations that the consulate cut off the electric supply of the campers. Tago said the disruption was caused by "overloading" since campers are using appliances and gadgets.
"All assistance is being given to wards and campers like the distribution of food and other basic necessities," Hernandez assured.
Although entrance to the embassy is being controlled "to maintain order," Hernandez said that "anyone who would like to seek assistance is welcome."
Filipinos who have been staying illegally in the oil-rich kingdom or whose working permits have already lapsed camped out of the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh and the Philippine Consulate in Jeddah to seek the assistance of officials in their repatriation.
They have been camping outside the consulate or staying in shelters provided by the embassy since mid-April.
This is in line with the kingdom's decision to crack down on illegally staying foreigners in the country. Under the Saudization law, which will take effect on July 1, employers and businesses operating in the kingdom must prioritize the economic opportunities for Saudi citizens.
This has put to risk the employment of some one million Filipinos working in the country, especially those who have been staying illegally there.
To date, there are still some 38 campers outside the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh and 258 outside the consulate in Jeddah. The consulate also has 164 wards in the shelter.
Philippine officials there have been working to repatriate thousands of Filipino workers who sought the assistance of the embassy for fear that they may be imprisoned for violating Saudi's new immigration laws.
The Saudi government also provided several concessions to the Filipinos such as canceling the need for a no objection certificate and the penalties and fees imposed on them for overstaying.
Such concessions allowed the Filipinos to acquire exit visas and eventually be repatriated back to Manila.
"What we are saying here is our Filipinos in Saudi Arabia should be patient and cooperate with our consulate and also with our embassy because the consulate and embassy officials are there to help them which we have been doing from the very beginning," Hernandez said.
"Be patient with what is going on in terms of repatriation. This can be done in a more efficient and faster way if they were with us and if they allow our officials to be able to do their jobs. Any activities of hostilities or violence will be counterproductive to what we are doing to help our people to go home and legalize their papers there," he added.
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It isn't just shippers that are angry at the nation's railroads.
Amtrak has released its first-ever quarterly report card on the performance of the class 1 railroads with which it shares track space. The relationship between Amtrak and the railroads is like that of a landlord and a tenant: outside of the Northeast corridor, which Amtrak owns, Amtrak passenger trains move on tracks owned by class 1 railroads. The question of priority between Amtrak and freight movement has always been an area of friction.
The law is clear about who is top banana in the relationship: Amtrak. "Except in an emergency, intercity and commuter rail passenger transportation provided by or for Amtrak has preference over freight transportation in using a rail line, junction, or crossing unless the Board orders otherwise" is the relevant section of the transportation law governing the rights of Amtrak. A possible change in that prioritization two years ago fizzled.
Service on class 1 freight railroads has deteriorated in recent months, enough to have led the Surface Transportation Board to request information from the railroads as to the cause.
For its report, Amtrak set a benchmark of delays per 10,000 train miles. It defined that as "the number of minutes of host-responsible delay, divided by the number of Amtrak train miles operated over that host, times 10,000.
"Put in perspective, an "F" host forces Amtrak trains on a particular route to wait one hour and 40 minutes on average for freight trains, and forces many Amtrak trains on this route to wait as long as 3 hours and 12 minutes," the report card says.
So how did the big six of railroading do? Canadian Pacific received an A. BNSF got a B+ and Union Pacific got a B minus. CSX got a C, and Norfolk Southern and Canadian National both were handed an F.
The quality of the grades and the amount of overlap of the routes does not appear to be correlated. Canadian Pacific and its A rating only has four Amtrak routes running on CP tracks. BNSF, with its B+ rating, has 11. Norfolk Southern, with its F rating, has 11 overlapping routes, while fellow F-grade holder Canadian National has seven.
Beth Toll, a spokeswoman for Amtrak, said in an email to response to Freightwaves questions that Amtrak has seen a deterioriations in freight operations recently, "leading to severe delays for Amtrak passengers," she said. "To that end, the Report Card may be indicative of the experience that shippers have on some hosts, as well."
Asked if the railroads knew this report was coming, Troll did not answer directly. "All of our hosts know where they are performing, and poorly-performing hosts have been fully aware of Amtrak's concerns and data since long before the Report Card was issued," she wrote.
Norfolk Southern came in for particularly pointed criticism in comments about the New Orleans-New York Crescent service. "The typical Amtrak train, carrying approximately 350 passengers, is delayed over 1 hour and 40 minutes due to Norfolk Southern's freight trains and many Amtrak trains on this route are forced to wait as long as 3 hours and 12 minutes," the report said. "Amtrak trains full of passengers are often routed into side tracks while they wait for NS freight trains using the main track."
Norfolk Southern did not respond to an email request for comment.
With Amtrak and shippers both unhappy with class 1 railroads, it's important to note that they are not necessarily on the same side of the debate. Taking steps to alleviate Amtrak's concerns could exacerbate freight movement woes that have become a big issue with shippers. It also comes as Amtrak itself is under fire for several actions and delays in installing Positive Train Control safety systems on its full fleet, an ongoing process for freight railroads as well and which has been blamed by some of them for their own delays.
The tone throughout the report card clearly appears to seek a confontational tone. "Host railroads often choose to force Amtrak trains with hundreds of passengers on them to stop and wait in favor of their trains carrying coal, garbage, crude oil, empty freight cars, or any freight that the host chooses to prioritize," the report said.
Note the freight that was highlighted in that list: things that are dirty (garbage), not particularly popular (coal) or non-productive (empty freight cars). The "any freight" reference could be cars, televisions, appliances or literally hundreds of other things more desirable than hauling solid waste, but they were not singled out.


Jomfruland, the island with unique scenery and an exciting history, is a gem in Kragerø beautiful archipelago. Here you can see farms, beaches and unique cottages that cover the entire island. In the age of the Vikings the island was named Aur, translated to "gravel and coarse sand mixed with pebbles". And that's what Jomrfruland is, because the island came up from the sea for 4000 years ago after the last ice age as a moraine and the island bears witness to that history, and so, is part of Gea Norvegica Geopark, the island is an important part of Europe's geology and part of an area with extremely large geological diversity both in national and international context. Since 2016 Jomfruland is a National Park!
The favorable climate and rich vegetation gives Jomfruland a diverse birdlife. There are between 60 and 70 species of birds that nests here. Jomfruland offers a unique nature experience. As an example, every spring, visitors flock to the flat island to experience the incredible blooming of the Wood Anemone (Anemone nemorosa L.) in the magical oak forest. In the magical oak forest you might also find "the count urinal" or one of Theodor Kittelsen trolls? The artist Theodor Kittelsen visited the island and drew lots of inspirations from Jomfruland for his art.
There are two lighthouses located on the centre of Jomfruland (near the pier Tårnbrygga). The oldest lighthouse is made of bricks (approximately 250.000 bricks) and was lit in 1839. The second lighthouse was built 1939 it was then built in iron. The lighthouse is open to visitors during the summer, and offers beautiful views of Jomfruland and the rest of the Kragerø archipelago.
Be sure to visit one of the three restaurants on Jomfruland, Tårnbrygga Cafe, Haga kystkafe or OKIDOKK at Asvik brygge, for some nice seafood, Italian pizza, a light baguette, ice cream or a refreshing drink and then explore the many art exhibitions in the summer season. Or just relax on the beach at Tårnbrygga which is a perfect beach for all ages.


Chopperize Mince with ginger garlic paste and raw papaya into very fine form.
Roast Poppy Seeds, coriander seeds, cumin seeds and Grams in a pan and grind them in fine powder.
Now add ground spices, onions, yogurt, red chili flakes,salt, nutmeg mace powder in mince and mix well and leave for 1-2 hours.
Heat oil in a pan. Add Cardamom and when it splutters, add Mince in the pan. Give it a good mix.
Add water and leave on low medium flame till its smooth.
Once water is dried mix mince well until oil separates from it.
Add butter and give a coal smoke.
Garnish with Coriander, ginger and Serve with Nan or Parathas.
Chanay, khashkhash, dhania aur zeera ko dry roast karke grind karlain.
Qeemay ko adrak lehsan paste, kacha papita ke sath chopper main achi tarah chop karlain.
Ek bowl main qeema, pissa hua masala, pyaz, dahi, al mirch, namak, hari mirch, jaifil javitri shamil karke achi tarah mix Karen. Ek ghanta fridge main rakhden.
Ek pan mainoil shamil garam karain aur hari elaichi shamil karlain. Ab marinate hua qeema shamil karke bhoonlain.
Adha cup pani shamil karke halki aanch par qeema pakne den, 20-25 mins yahan tak ke pani sookh jaye, oil ooper ajaye aur qeema bhi bilkul naram gal chukka ho.
Ab makhan rakh ke koile ka dum den 2-3 min.
Adrak aur dhania se garnish karke serve karain.


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Baseball playoffs postponed
Rain has already caused a changeup in the FCIAC playoff schedule.
The FCIAC baseball semifinals scheduled for Monday have been moved to Wednesday at Harbor Yard, with the final moved from Wednesday to Friday.
With baseball postponed, the HAN Network will come to you live from Norwalk High with the FCIAC girls lacrosse semifinals. Ridgefield, the sixth seed, faces second-seeded New Canaan at 5 p.m., followed by a matchup between fifth-seeded Staples and the top-seeded Darien Blue Wave. You can watch live on this website.
Monday night's winners will meet in the FCIAC girls lacrosse championship Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Norwalk High.
The HAN Network will still bring you all the baseball from Harbor Yard Wednesday. The semifinals, now Wednesday, see the defending champion and six-seed Darien facing Wilton at 5 p.m., followed by eighth-seeded Trumbull against fourth-seeded Ridgefield. The championship game is now scheduled for a 7 p.m. first pitch Friday night.
Boys lacrosse will also be coming to you on the HAN Network this week. Tuesday's semifinal doubleheader at Brien McMahon High School in Norwalk pits third-seeded Ridgefield against second-seeded Greenwich at 5 p.m., followed by fifth-seeded Wilton against top-seeded Darien. The final will come to you live Thursday at from McMahon.
The softball semifinal games at Sacred Heart University have been moved to Tuesday starting at 3 p.m. with No. 6 Ludlowe taking on No. 2 Darien, followed by No. 5 St. Joseph vs. No. 1 Westhill, 5 p.m. With poor weather forecast for Thursday as well, the championship game has been moved up one day and will be played at 5 p.m., Wednesday, May 24, at SHU.
The boys tennis semifinals have been pushed back to Tuesday, with New Canaan playing at Greenwich, and Darien playing at Staples. Both matches will start at 4 p.m.
The girls track and field championships have been moved to Wednesday, May 24, and will be run at Danbury High School.
Greenwich High School was scheduled to host the meet on Monday, but the facility is unavailable on Wednesday.


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How Prohibition Encouraged Women to Drink
During Prohibition, American women "made, sold, and drank liquor in unprecedented fashion," writes historian Mary Murphy.
Two Prohibition-era bootleggers in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1921
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By: Erin Blakemore
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When alcohol became illegal in 1920, the result was anything but sober. Thirsty people openly flouted the law in a drunken, thirteen-year-long binge—including many women. During Prohibition, American women "made, sold, and drank liquor in unprecedented fashion," writes historian Mary Murphy. For Murphy, the story of Prohibition is one of bootlegging mothers, drinking daughters, and critical developments in how women worked and played in public.
Prohibition was achieved largely due to the efforts of women who found purpose and a public expression of feminist solidarity in their temperance work. Murphy points out that women found opportunities in the newly dry West.
Prohibition "rattled" old, easily understood patterns of drinking, Murphy writes, and changed how women drank. Increasingly, women stepped up to the (underground) bar—and turned increased demand for alcohol into lucrative bootlegging businesses. "In all aspects of the liquor business," she writes, "women moved into spaces that had once been reserved exclusively for men."
Prohibition was a brief moment in which women were able to redefine long-held sex roles.
Though women had always imbibed, they rarely did so in public before Prohibition. In small towns, there were no places for women to drink anonymously. Throughout the West, including in Butte, Montana, saloons were male-only establishments. Men were initiated into a hard-drinking social life that took place behind closed doors. The only women at saloons were prostitutes, and in 1907 laws were passed criminalizing women in spaces designated for drinking. Women did purchase alcohol from saloons, but these transactions took place at the back door and liquor was consumed at home.
Prohibition changed everything. Private restaurant-nightclubs sprang up when saloons closed, and these establishments welcomed women. People found old recipes for wine and liquor in their grandmothers' cookbooks and got to producing alcohol. Women also started running their own speakeasies: "home speaks," in which they served homemade liquor and perhaps provided a phonograph for some dancing. Working- and middle-class women began making their own wine and even operating stills.
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"Women who made whiskey and those who patronized speakeasies were breaking both custom and the law," writes Murphy. For young women, speakeasies stirred a spirit of rebellion. They bobbed their hair and shortened their skirts while they were at it.
For Murphy, Prohibition was a brief moment in which women were able to redefine long-held sex roles, and "behavior followed structural change." Though nineteenth-century feminists had not fought for the right to drink in public, the right was gained by those bootlegging mothers and drinking daughters. And once Prohibition was repealed, they'd be damned if they gave up their freedom—or their cocktails.
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How the Victorians Politicized Lace
Scholar Elaine Freedgood tells the story of how, in the face of encroaching industrialism, handmade lace enjoyed a frilly revival.
The pioneering collection of farm and craft buildings at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff preserves traditional design and building techniques.
Finding Krao Farini
Public discourse on the bearded lady, a staple of circus sideshow, revealed the racial biases underpinning Darwinian theory.
The Feud Between Immigrant Newspapers in Arkansas
A feud between two nineteenth-century German-language newspapers showed that immigrant communities embraced a diversity of interests and beliefs.
Women in the Age of Polar Exploration
Opportunities were restricted during the so-called Heroic Age, but women still dreamed of exploration...and sometimes managed to reach the polar regions.


There is a village shrine, on the eastern side of Jeju Island, which is very significant in shrine cosmology. This is the shrine, situated in Songdang-ri, where the goddess Baekjuddo or Geumbaekju/Geumbaekjo resides. It is natural that we explore Jeju shrines starting here.
Baekjuddo (ddo or tto signifies a particularly powerful deity) is the mother of eighteen of the island's prominent shrine gods. She, and her husband Seocheonguk, are the primary progenitors of a great number of the island's major shrine deities. Being that there are hundreds of shrines occupied by gods on Jeju, the couple's offspring only make up a minor proportion of the totality of shrine deities. Shamans often talk about classes of shrine gods—those that come from Jeju natively, those that come from abroad, those that miraculously appeared—and a final category—Baekjuddo and Seocheonguk's descendants.
Baekjuddo is certainly seen, these days, as the highest shrine goddess. People consider Songdang, the village where she and Seocheonguk reside, to be a holy site. Baekjuddo's altar in Songdang, along with the altars of the couple's eighteen sons, are a prominent feature in the island's sacred landscape.
Baekjuddo is a pure, ascetic, and hard-working goddess. People come before her altar with an immense feeling of jungseong or spiritual purity. Twice a year, on village festival days, when shamanic ceremonies are held in the shrine, members of the larger island community visit the shrine to pay tribute to Baekjuddo. Still, it is the local residents of Songdang, along with their head shaman, who plan ceremonies and take care of the upkeep of the shrine. Although, the goddess is known all over Jeju, she still functions locally as the goddess who rules specifically over her own village. If we look at the shrine dieties as functioning in an almost bureaucratic manner when it comes to bookkeeping, we can see Baekjuddo as the head bureaucrat. For instance, when someone dies in a distant village, word of their death is spread across the island by spirit messengers until it reaches her. It is she who reports directly to the supreme deity, the Sky God, who will send for the messenger gods, the psychopomps who finally come to retrieve the soul.
Baekjuddo is an agriculturist, opposite her husband, who is a hunter. She is theorised by some to be the representative originator of agricultural practice on Jeju Island, bringing her knowledge with her from the foreign land she was once exiled from. The village of Songdang could be seen as a physical embodiment of the spot where two cultures, a native hunter-gatherer one and an outside agricultural one, came together. The myth of Baekjuddo and Seocheonguk certainly highlight both agriculture and hunting. While presently most offerings made to shrine deities are from farming practices, there was a time when hunted game was offered to the gods in shrines. Baekjuddo herself, receives vegetarian fare as tribute, except for fish which features prominently on her altar during ceremonies.
In the current era, Baekjuddo's larger public ceremonies are conducted with much fanfare. The goddess is a major symbol in Jeju Island's cultural milieu.


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Review: Subtlety makes and breaks the Pixel 4's new Google Assistant
Abner Li
- Oct. 25th 2019 3:37 pm PT
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Google Assistant is what unifies the company's first-party hardware across different form factors. Back in May, the company teased a "next-generation Assistant" that's faster and more capable. In actual usage, the most important changes with the Pixel 4's new Google Assistant are a new subtle design that borders on invisible and seamless "Continued Conversation," while the much-touted phone control fails to live up to its promise.
Assistant UI evolves and shrinks for the better
Regardless of how you open the Assistant, you know it's new thanks to the absolutely delightful four Google colors that stream in from the sides of the phone before pooling together at the bottom. The resulting light bar is inherently Googley with a glow emanating from the strip as Assistant asks, "Hi, how can I help?" Beyond looking futuristic, this subtle "UI" at the bottom of the screen signals when Assistant is available to take a question and has colors shift as you're speaking.
Of all the launch methods available now (there are many), I prefer the single button press in the Pixel Launcher's search bar. It requires less effort than Android 10's gesture navigation system, while Active Edge does not work for me because I'm a chronic tight squeezer of my phone. (As a complete aside, I don't often pocket my devices. When I'm out in the world or even around the house, I much prefer to be holding it so that I can always see news the Ambient Display. As I'm also case-less, I derive my sense of phone security from squeezing it tightly whenever it's not being used and just at my side.)
Instead of immediately opening a sheet that covers the bottom third of your screen, the Pixel 4's new Assistant is more subtle. A transparent overlay that's about 60% shorter transcribes your command, while there are shortcuts for the Assistant Updates feed and text input. Unfortunately, this design removes the ability to quickly launch Lens, but it's altogether a much-improved aesthetic and user experience.
Similarly, responses do not take up the entire display. Answers to simple questions just take up the bottom third of the screen, while launching music is a half panel. The largest sheet I've regularly encountered — for the weather — takes up two-thirds of the screen.
This conciseness results in your current app or homescreen remaining visible in the background. You can tap anywhere above or outside Assistant to return to what you were doing before seeking help. With the old design, exiting Assistant was like closing any other app or required a swipe up on the gesture pill to go back to the homescreen.
This much-improved preservation of context and subtlety reveals how Google wants you to interact with Assistant. In the past, voice was an experience that took up the entire display and often brought you to a scrollable feed. The new Assistant on the Pixel 4 is now more akin to Google's proclaimed ambient computing future where interacting with help should occur without a forethought of disrupting your life.
That said, the new Assistant could have been even more "out of the way" and UI-less. When the next-generation Assistant was first demoed at I/O, Google showed it off with 2-button navigation. The beauty of that deprecated navigation system is how your speech transcript could be displayed to the right of the pill. Assistant didn't need a new transparent overlay; it could just take advantage of the navigation bar.
Faster Assistant, but not more Assistant
Another step forward is Pixel 4's big technological achievement: shrinking the 100 GB models responsible for speech recognition and language understanding to just 0.5 GB. Running on-device, voice processing works offline and allows for local actions like turning on the flashlight or starting a timer without the need for the cloud.
Google at I/O touted a 10x speed increase in getting answers, but in usage I haven't noticed a real drop in how long it takes to get most things done with Assistant. Then again, I've never had an issue with Assistant's speed in day-to-day life.
Queries that still need to hear back from Google — which make up the bulk of requests — ultimately take about the same time to complete and is all down to your internet connection. Simple tasks like opening apps or taking a picture are speedy, but it's unclear if l prefer this to just tapping away on the screen.
This speed does make possible the firing of back-to-back commands that Google expects people will do in the future for complex tests. Experiences would otherwise be glacially slow and impractical. While I'm willing to issue additional follow ups, the added speed does not make me invoke Google more times throughout the day.
The bigger usability change with the new Assistant is Continued Conversation. Similar to how the visual interface is now out of the way, not having to preface every command with "Hey Google" makes voice interaction so much more natural. Google will keep the microphone on for a few seconds in case you have anything else to ask. You quickly learn to exclude the hotword and it's mighty futuristic. Oddly, I noticed that you have to manually turn on Continued Conversation for the Pixel 4 in Assistant settings.
The new Assistant tricks are limited in scope
Being able to control the Pixel 4 with your voice is perhaps the biggest feature add that Google is advertising for the new Assistant, and there are a couple examples of this that Google is touting specifically. The first involves asking for a set of pictures with just your voice, tapping to select one, and then having Assistant send directly to a contact. This specific interaction — which to the company's credit involves many steps — works very well.
That said, this mix of voice and touch interaction seems to be an inefficient way to send a picture, link, or video once you're well-versed with Android share sheets, Google apps, and Messages. It's definitely useful for owners new to Android and Google services — and harkens to the popularity of just demanding tasks from Smart Displays and speakers, but they'll eventually pick up how to quickly navigate.
Beyond directly controlling specific apps like Photos, Google touts the new Assistant as aiding general multitasking. For example, if you're texted about your travel details, you can ask, "When does my flight land?" the answer to which Assistant is already aware of because of what's in your Gmail inbox. The new Assistant displays a panel with the information, and you can say things like "Reply I'm taking off at 10:30" and the Assistant will know to insert that text in the "Reply" box in messages.
These are nice and all, but inspired by what Google showed on stage earlier this year, I had the expectation that the new Assistant today would be capable of doing a greater number of more complex tasks. One of the first things I tried doing was navigating the web with my voice, which is only a partial experience for now.
On the Pixel 4, "Visit 9to5google.com" opens in Chrome, while the Pixel 3 launched a Chrome Custom Tab that originated from the Google app, thus being removed from my other open tabs. This is an improvement, but I could not select articles to open by voice or scroll down — though Assistant did advise me to download the Voice Access accessibility app.
As seen with Google Photos and Chrome (to a limited degree), some apps are more closely integrated with the new Assistant than others. For example, when you ask for locations in Maps or videos in YouTube, commands will be interpreted as if you typed directly into the in-app search fields.
Meanwhile, sending a simple email is possible through the Assistant UI today, but the ability to compose directly in Gmail — as shown at I/O — is not yet available. Speaking of email, there is still a bug where you cannot have a G Suite account on your device to use the new experience.
The new Assistant is evolutionary, not revolutionary
Many Google products — and visions about AI — start out as promises. The new Assistant fully accomplishes the specific use cases that Google is advertising to buyers. That said, the real promise is how many more complex, but everyday phone-controlling workflows can be handled by voice in the future.
With that control off in the distance — albeit closer than ever before, the real thing that Google brings to the table with new Assistant is an unobtrusive design that is subtle today and signals an invisible future. Until voice becomes a more powerful control, the new Google Assistant should not be the sole reason you buy the Pixel 4 or Pixel 4 XL.
More on Pixel 4:
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[Update: Official explanation] Google Pixel 4 drops from 90Hz refresh rate when you lower the brightness
Pointing Google Lens at the Pixel 4 box uncovers an Easter Egg
Assistant is Google's personal assistant that is capable of answering questions, performing automated tasks, and more
Editor. Interested in the minutiae of Google and Alphabet. Tips/talk: abner@9to5g.com


Note: This is the launch of the effort to get Gov. Sarah Palin -- in 2012 -- a new home, the White House in Washington, DC. The following message is from Janet of the Read My Lipstick Network (RMLN), which I urge you to join.
Only a few short days to go before VICTORY! Every single vote matters and could be the one that puts us over the top. Make some phone calls! Find a rally! Send emails and blog, blog, blog.
On November 5th things in this country are going to change, and we need to be prepared to change, too. The focus of the Read My Lipstick Network has been to support Sarah Palin and to get our dynamic duo elected on Nov. 4th. We've also been working to promote conservative values, regardless of party affiliation.
Our voice is going to be all the more important the day after the election. Either we'll be supporting John McCain and Sarah Palin and will be working to get news out that the media won't cover, OR (hopefully not), we'll be working to preserve conservative values in our great country as the other guys undermine everything that has made our country free and prosperous.
Either way, it's going to be tough and your blogs and your voices will be critical in the coming years. I'm attaching two new logos we'll be using after the election rather than just the lips or the logos we've been using. If you have the blogroll on your site, you won't need to do anything, it will self update (as soon as we can get into it!). Plan to pop them up on Nov. 5th and connect them to http://www.readmylipsticknetwork.com/. The larger logo is perfect for the sidebar of most blogs, the other is a smaller version you may want to include elsewhere.
We would much prefer that you have the blogroll code on your blog (located here: http://rmlnblogroll.blogspot.com/), however some of you can't include blogrolls. Another potential issue some of us are discussing is that Google and Blogger are owned by a big supporter of Obama. It's a possibility that at some point we're going to have difficulty using their free system. Just something to think about!
We're setting up our Read My Lipstick Network website and should have it ready to roll right after the election (it will be http://www.readmylipsticknetwork.com/). We're also setting up a Ning site similar to http://www.teamsarah.org/, which may or may not take off, we'll see (it's free ;-). We're also connecting with some other great groups that are already gearing up to move forward after the election (how about this - some are planning to work toward electing Sarah Palin as President in 2012!).
I've been telling you about the Wake Up America Movement (http://www.wam08.org/), http://www.mccainvictory08.com/, bloggers for Drill Here, Drill Now (http://theamericansentinel.com/about/), http://www.anobamnation.net/, http://www.justsaynodeal.com/, PUMA and others and encouraging all of you to get involved with them. Take a look at http://www.modernconservative.com/.
I think that connecting with them will be a positive move for RMLN, don't you? After the election we ALL need to band together and keep on fighting the good fight. Maybe all the groups need to come up with one big umbrella name to ensure we're walking together and working clearly toward our common goals! Kind of like the fish symbol tells everyone that you're a Christian, maybe we need a similar symbol that connects the purpose and share the commonality of goals. Another thought for another day .
Right now, let's get John McCain and Sarah Palin elected and send Barack Obama back to the Senate. Obama has already said if he doesn't win on Tuesday he'll be back for the next election. We'll definitely need to be out there shoring up support for conservative values, 'cause they are going to attack, attack, twist and attack when he doesn't win.
Visit http://www.johnmccain.com/ and make some phone calls!


U.S. Trade and Development Agency awarded a US$878,800 grant to the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) to conduct an LNG terminal project feasibility study.
Panama Canal Authority invited submission of proposals from interested U.S. companies to develop a feasibility study to assess and plan the development of LNG-related projects in Panama, according to the filing.
ACP is looking to build LNG-related infrastructure in order to capitalize on the projected increase in LNG tanker traffic resulting from the expansion of the Panama Canal.
Specifically, the feasibility study should give recommendations to develop a comprehensive strategy for the development of LNG facilities on canal property.
Deadline for the submission of proposals has been set to January 29, 2016.
Posted on January 20, 2016 with tags Feasibility Study, LNG infrastructure, Panama Canal.
Gazprom Transgaz Ekaterinburg is clearing the way for the use of LNG and CNG as fuel for vehicles.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said it has received an order from Astomos Energy Corporation for a very large LPG carrier.
State Secretary Wilma Mansveld (for Infrastructure and the Environment) revealed that she will the LNG safety deal.
Suez Canal Authority revealed that the transit toll discount for LNG carriers will be reduced in 2015.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries informed it has received an order for two next-generation LNG carriers from Mitsui.


On Monday February 25, 2019, Cisco Umbrella will release Umbrella Insights Virtual Appliance (VA) version 2.4.3 to the stage release track.
On Thursday February 28, 2019, Cisco Umbrella will release Umbrella Insights Virtual Appliance (VA) version 2.4.3 to the first wave of the production track.
On Monday March 4, 2019, Cisco Umbrella will release Umbrella Insights Virtual Appliance (VA) version 2.4.3 to the second and third wave of the production track.
On Monday March 18, 2019, Cisco Umbrella will release Umbrella Insights Virtual Appliance (VA) version 2.4.3 to the final wave of the production track.
Customer VAs may upgrade over a period of days as opposed to consecutively upgrading one after another. To receive this upgrade, ensure that your firewall is configured to enable access to disthost.umbrella.com.
As a reminder, two VAs must be configured in order to upgrade automatically during these windows.
In accordance with Cisco policy, a list of open source software modules used in the VA is attached to these release notes. It contains licenses and notices for open source software used in this product.
The VA start menu is now read-only.
Configuration changes on the VA now require authenticated access and can be made via the restricted shell (now called the Configuration Mode). More more information, see Configuration of the Virtual Appliance: Upcoming Changes.
New 'config' commands in the restricted shell to enable configuration of the VA name, IP address, netmask, gateway and local DNS servers.
Support for deploying VAs on Microsoft Azure and configuration over SSH.
Support for remote configuration of an on-prem VA over SSH.
Note: For security, remote configuration is turned off by default and must be explicitly enabled through the restricted shell on each VA.
Support for changing the password through the restricted shell.
Support for resetting a forgotten password to the default password through the Umbrella dashboard.
The 'support' commands in restricted shell for configuring SNMP, Anycast and setting up the support tunnel are now available as 'config' commands.
Trusted Network Detection for the Umbrella Chromebook Client (UCC). For more information, see Umbrella Chromebook Client Release Notes.
SNMP OIDs for system (1.3.6.1.2.1.1) are now exposed to enable compliance with monitoring systems that mandatorily need to read these OIDs.
Ping command in restricted shell now terminates after four attempts.
Fix for issue where allocating more than 3.5 GB RAM to an 8-core VA can cause the VA to sometimes stop processing DNS requests.
Azure AD Domain Services is not supported.
Dual-NIC support is not included in this release. Existing dual-NIC configurations will be retained but cannot be changed. Support for enabling dual-NIC and changing existing dual-NIC configurations will be added in an upcoming release.


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Q: How can I resume a persisted instance by a new version activity? I have a Workflow Activity to handle task operations. The flow of the activity is "Create->Detach->Accept->Finish". A new workflow instance will be created for each new task. And the unfinished instances are persisted into database.
And after several days I change the activity, append a new step "Verify" at the last of the flow, so now the new flow is "Create->Detach->Accept->Finish->Verify".
I found that I can't resume the persisted instance by the new version activity. While I attempt to load the persisted instance, an exception thrown. How can i resume old instance by the new version activity? I want that the unfinished task can be handled by the new flow.

A: Unfortunately there isn't much you can do about this in .NET 4.  Soon in .NET 4.5 there are new APIs that will allow you to update the persisted instance to prevent this.

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After Indiana, Gay-Marriage Supporters Should Look in the Mirror
By Robert Oscar Lopez
You may have noticed in the news that something very scary is happening in America.
A movement is growing, in state after state, to distort the U.S. Constitution in order to discriminate. Claiming to protect the rights of certain citizens, this movement will allow some to refuse an important benefit to a vulnerable and targeted class of others, based merely on their "beliefs." Imagine the floodgates of segregation and Jim Crow opening and the injustice flooding America. Imagine inhumanity flourishing under the misleading guise of "rights of conscience," when in truth, those asking for conscience protections are really trying to practice discrimination under the radar.
No, I am not talking about Indiana's attempt at passing a religious freedom law based on the First Amendment. After all, those who drafted Indiana's law patterned it after similar laws designed to protect the religious freedom of groups like American Indian sects, Muslims, and Jews. Yet because Indiana's law was vigorously supported by Christians, it was likened in the Atlantic to the Jim Crow "message on weekends from the pulpit, on school days from our segregated schools, and every day from our governments." The New York Times was quick to point out, "critics say" it "could allow individuals and businesses to discriminate against gays and lesbians," adding in an official editorial that it was a "cover for bigotry." In Politico, Katie Glueck and Adam Lerner argue that Democrats will be able to sweep aside the pretext of individual First Amendment rights and paint the champions of the law as "religious extremists on the wrong side of history."
All these reactions to Indiana's law represent the right principles applied at the wrong time. In truth we should be skeptical when a movement seeks to strip away the rights of other people through stealth and deflection, while claiming hypocritically to be safeguarding its own beliefs. These are the right questions to ask. It's just not the right context in which to ask them. The time to galvanize against such a form of doublespeak is not now, when Indiana is merely trying to allow religious people some leeway in a toxic environment. The time to galvanize was when the gay marriage movement took a turn, in the first decade of the 21st century, toward demanding the rights of "family equality."
Everything that gay marriage supporters accuse Indiana's law of doing, gay marriage is doing to children. These supporters accuse Indiana of using First Amendment rights as a cover to be cruel to gay people who were born gay and can't help who they are. Meanwhile, gay marriage supporters are using their Fourteenth Amendment rights ("equal protection") as a cover to be cruel to children who were born from a mother and father and can't help who they are, either. Gay marriage supporters allege that at some point in the future a pizzeria might refuse to make them a cheese and pepperoni calzone. Meanwhile, gay-marriage supporters have already forcibly denied thousands of children the benefit of knowing and being raised by their natural-born mother and father.
It is still unclear whether gay people are born gay or become gay due to life circumstances. Au contraire, it is beyond doubt that children are born with a mother and father and only become fatherless or motherless due to life circumstances. Hence, while gay marriage supporters are being hypocritical, their hypocrisy is asymmetrical: The doublespeak they use to deprive others in the name of their own rights is infinitely more damaging and systematically unjust.
Not All "Deeply Held" Beliefs Are Religious
Gay marriage stems from the deeply held belief that gay people are just as good as straight people. This includes the conviction that they are just as good at raising children, children whom same-sex couples cannot conceive but whom heterosexual couples people can. This also includes the necessity that state force be used to keep other people's children under the power of gay couples and opposite-sex parents away from children so that the gay couple's exclusive emotional bond to them cannot be diminished.
Let's revisit our opening analogy for a moment. Gay rights supporters say a Christian entrepreneur's religious beliefs should not be used against people who do not belong to her religion. At the same time, they insist that their own beliefs in the equality of same-sex parenting be used against children who may grow up and say, "this wasn't like growing up with a mom and dad. This was worse."
Ten years ago, few children of same-sex couples were dissenting from "family equality" publicly. Today, we have a whole genre of same-sex parenting dissidents: books by Jakii Edwards, Dawn Stefanowicz, Denise Shick, Rivka Edelman, and me, plus copious blog posts and articles by people like Katy Faust, Manuel Half, Jean-Dominique Bunel, and Heather Barwick. Read my book Jephthah's Daughters: Innocent Casualties in the War for Family "Equality." The real-life objections are catalogued in gory detail in that volume. A sign of the growing impetus behind this genre is the fact that six children of gay parents filed amicus briefs against gay marriage: see here, here, and here.
Gay-marriage supporters prophesize a resurgence of segregation based on the flimsiest of evidence. Meanwhile, gay marriage is promoting not only segregation but also slavery. Children who have no choice in the matter are forced to live in homes that exclude adults of one sex (including their own parents), and they are placed under the power of unrelated adults in exchange for money, then kept there by the force of the state until they reach the age of maturity, at which time they will have been so estranged from their ancestry that the bonds will never be more than superficially reconstituted.
Jeremy Hooper, an articulate gay father, runs an entire website called "Good as You," where he focuses much of his time on attacking anybody who points out weaknesses in the same-sex-parenting creed. The "Good as You" doctrine may not be religious, but it is a deeply held belief in the sub-rational sense: i.e., a tenet held without firm empirical grounding and often in the face of plentiful contrary evidence.
At least in the realm of religion, faith is based on believing in something that hasn't been proven. In the realm of political obsession, faith is based on getting others to believe something that has been explicitly disproven and which collides violently with common sense as well as other people's human dignity. I would rather associate with people who believe in gods I do not believe in, than subject myself to people who believe in false myths that tear me away from my roots.
From Subrational Belief Come Rhetorical Fallacies
Supposed champions of gay rights bristle when they hear someone say, "there are gay people who are perfectly happy not going to Memories Pizza, so why worry?"
"Some are happy with the way things are" smacks of sophistry. Of course some people are happy being denied a benefit—there were some who were happy living in segregated housing and attending all-black schools, but we would never cite that as a reason to make it legal for Vanderbilt to reject all black students. While Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in Virginia, there were millions of other slaves who never took up arms against their masters—does that mean we ought to allow slavery to exist?
In the next breath, the same gay-rights champions tell me and other same-sex parenting dissidents: "Zach Wahls is happy with his two moms. Why can't you be more like him?" It is possible, of course, that Zach Wahls has no interest in exercising his free speech, bearing arms, getting a speedy trial, or voting—but these rights are still there, waiting for him to claim, if at any time he decides he wants to avail himself of them. His right to his father (in his case, a sperm donor) does not follow that pattern. He says he is happy not having a father now, but if he changes his mind long after his lesbian guardians have passed away, the gay-marriage movement will have trapped him. The gay-marriage movement, and the IVF machine spurred by gay marriage, took away his right to his father, so he can never have one. At that time he will be a member of the disenfranchised class that he helped to disenfranchise.
Talk about trading away a birthright for a mess of pottage. Zach Wahls is trading away other people's birthrights for applause on YouTube.
I was raised by a lesbian couple and had to build bridges to my estranged father in my late twenties. Much of the connection to my father and the benefits of growing up with him were irreparably lost by the time I was a grown man—but at least, I knew who my father was and where to find him. I could salvage my ancestry.
A new generation of children will not even have that consolation I had. Conceived in loveless fertility clinics, gestated in the wombs of women they will never meet, trafficked from poor biological families with the help of complicit governments, "adopted" through a social services system corrupted by money and political pressure, or torn from their birth parents by family court judges who are desperate to please the gay lobby, the new generation of children will be far worse off than I was.
When the debate over gay marriage has receded, when their gay guardians are dead and buried, when the world has moved on, these children will still never be able to recover their heritage. Maybe the glossy studies by pro-gay sociologists are right and they won't have terrible grades. Maybe the pro-gay pediatricians are right and they will develop without higher instances of ringworm, childhood leukemia, or autism. Maybe the pro-gay physicians are right and these children can rest assured that no undue harm was inflicted on them biologically as a result of being estranged from half or all their heritage, and subjected to the power of two gay guardians who loved them.
But these assurances that "no harm was done" are half-hearted and weak when you are speaking to someone who can never find her father. If I have to choose a text to follow for guidance, I'd choose Sophocles' Oedipus Rex over a declaration by the American Psychiatric Association. Fifty years ago, Oedipus Rex was as respected as it was two thousand years earlier, for what it said about the human need to be connected to one's father and mother. Fifty years ago, the APA classified homosexuality as a mental disorder and its members were using electric shock therapy to cure gay people. If they could be wrong for 100 years about homosexuality, it's likely they can be wrong for 20 years about same-sex parenting.
Chances are, much of the sound and fury is untrue, and social-science studies will increasingly uncover the deep wounds—both emotional and biological—wrought upon a class of citizens who were targeted to be unilaterally estranged from father or mothers, then sold to gay couples to be raised under the fiction that they had two mothers or two fathers.
It is not much to ask: Could the LGBT movement please apply a fraction of the scrutiny they direct at others, to themselves? If gay-rights advocates want other groups to part with their deeply held beliefs in order not to place an undue burden on gay people, then can gay people please part with their deeply held beliefs about equality not to place an undue burden on children? Fair is fair. Or at least, it should be.
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Hallway visualization will help you to see it before the repairs.
When they come to visit you first, they served in the hallway. Therefore, it should look very good.
In addition, the hall should be compact and comfortable for all family members.
On the hallway visualization, we see that the designer used a gray tint of the walls and ceiling. Gray color in the interior plays the role of calm, home comfort.
On the floor, we can see the visualization hallway parquet light oak. A white baseboard complement this room. On the area of three-square meters of designer placed a large locker with upholstered seat and shoe departments. It saves space. Also the cupboard, hanging clothes hooks.
The door is white, and there is an intercom next to it in white.
On the opposite side of the driving mirror to the full height. As well on the other side, you can watch photos and a shelf for small things. On the other hand, having moved the mirror, we see the hallway for things.
A large chandelier in the form of a tablet on the ceiling illuminates the room.