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The Video Of Katy Perry Crying Over A Contestant's Engagement On 'American Idol' Is Sweet
By Annakeara Stinson
Katy Perry has never been one to keep a lid on her emotions, but can you blame her? She's got a lot she needs to express, and the world is an emotional rollercoaster of a place. But Katy Perry crying over a contestant's engagement on 'American Idol', is a particularly relatable all-the-feels moment, because live engagements in front of massive crowds are never going to get old. Love is exciting, people, let's just accept that!
So, here's the deal. On Monday night's episode of American Idol, contestant Joanna Jones got a surprise engagement from her dearly beloved, Matt, and while it happened, Katy Perry could not — I repeat, could not — keep it together. When witnessing the proposal, the rainbow suit-clad singer literally dropped to the ground. The love was too much. It was simply too much.
But Perry had every reason to be overcome with sobs of joy. I meant the whole thing was actually a double-whammy surprise for Joanna Jones, as she didn't even think her darling boyfriend Matt was even going to make it to the show. The man had final exams!
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"I wish my boyfriend Matt could be here," Jones said during an interview on the show. "He's the most supportive, loving, awesome guy I've ever met."
Jones added that she didn't want "to get ahead" of herself but she was sure he was The One, and she would be totally psyched to spend her life with him. "We don't need to tell him that quite yet," Jones laughed.
Oh, Joanna, aren't you in for a surprise!
But again, Jones thought that Matt had good reason for not coming to the show. Joanna said he was in his last semester of school and finishing up all his finals, so he just couldn't make it. A likely story, Matt. Apparently, he even shed some tears when he told her he would be missing her big night on Idol. A night she called "the most important performance of my life."
Jones killed it hard and impressed the judges with an admittedly flawless rendition of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game." Perry was instantly moved by the performance and couldn't take her eyes off Joanna the whole time she sang, in fact. It really laid the groundwork for the proposal to come.
Upon singing her last note, Matt shot out of the wings, introducing himself to the crowd and explaining that while he couldn't be there all week (because of finals) he couldn't wait another day to profess his forever love. This is when Perry went down hard and, without missing a beat, started to sob like a newborn and fan herself. One of the other judges even called out, "Katy's gone!"
Thank the heavens that Joanna said an enthusiastic and very emotional yes. A moment KP actually missed because she was sobbing so hard behind the judge's table.
But she got it together, and with co-judges Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan to give the couple a hug, still looking pretty shell-shocked if we're honest. Someone luckily gave her a tissue, and she announced that she needed the makeup team ASAP. Nothing's wrong with a few tear tracks, girl. It shows you're human!
Guess it's pretty lucky that she and Orlando Bloom have decided to tie the knot not too long after this, especially since she yelled out "Why won't somebody love me like that?" at the end of the clip. Could she have put the pressure on bae after witnessing this beautiful night?


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Kyle Cantrell Offers Preview of New Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out CD Today
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LEBANON, Tenn. – (December 11, 2012) – SiriusXM Satellite Radio listeners are invited to take a step back in time for a bluegrass style performance of classic country music hits by Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out.
This special presentation is a "sneak preview" of the award-winning band's new CD, Timeless Hits From The Past Bluegrassed, which will be released on January 7, 2013. The CD will be available exclusively in all Cracker Barrel Old Country Store® locations and online at crackerbarrel.com, Amazon and iTunes. You can be part of this advance listening opportunity by tuning in on December 12 at 11:00 a.m. ET.
Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out will join SiriusXM Bluegrass Junction host Kyle Cantrell for a World Premier Track By Track of Timeless Hits From The Past Bluegrassed and will share their thoughts and experiences in recording their own versions of classics that were originally recorded by John Denver, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, and more. Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out has won the International Bluegrass Music Association's (IBMA) Vocal Group of the Year award seven times and is led by the IBMA's most-awarded Male Vocalist (five times).
Bluegrass Junction's World Premier Track by Track will re-air worldwide on Thursday, December 13 at 9:00 p.m.ET and Sunday, December 16 at 11:00 a.m. ET. The announcement of Timeless Hits From the Past Bluegrassed [1] appeared on Cybergrass earlier.
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Ex-Head of Mass State Police Says Others in Boston FBI Should Have Gotten Nailed for Protecting Whitey Bulger
The story about the Boston FBI cover up and coddling of thugs like James "Whitey" Bulger isn't going to vanish any time soon, even though many years have passed.
The latest: Thomas J. Foley, the former head of the Massachusetts State Police, who spent 20 years chasing Bulger, has penned a book: "Most Wanted: Pursuing Whitey Bulger, The Murderous Mob Chief The FBI Secretly Protected."
Foley says that rogue FBI agent John Connolly, Bulger's handler, isn't the only FBI agent who should have taken the fall for protecting Bulger, the Boston Herald reported. Connolly is serving 40 years in prison in Florida for his corrupt relationship with Bulger and fellow mobster Steve "The Rifelman" Flemmi.
"I know I'm going to take some flak on this thing, but it had to be told," retired state police Col. Thomas J. Foley told the Boston Herald. "It happened. It's totally backed up and that's just the way it was."
"Connolly deserved what he got, but he wasn't the only one that should have got it," Foley said.
Bulger was captured last year after being on the lam. He was wanted for 19 murders.
To read more click here.
Posted: 5/7/12 at 10:09 PM under FBI, News Story.
Tags: massachusetts state police, Steve Flemmi, thomas foley, Whitey Bulger


On November 25th, 2014, Greencells Group GmbH, together with the Chinese technology group HUAWEI, is hosting the 1st Europe Solar Day. About 160 international guests from the energy sector are expected to attend the congress. Guests, contributions and panel will be exceptionally good. For example, Nick Boyle from Lightsource, the world's largest fund for renewable energies, will be one of the speakers.
Greencells Group has announced it has completed five solar plants in the UK as an Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) provider, and connected all plants to the National Grid by the end of March. The combined capacity of all projects is 62.5MWp and will help power approximately 20,000 homes in the surrounding regions.


Naomi Osaka and Svetlana Kuznetsova meet Friday in the quarterfinals of the 2016 Tianjin Open.
Naomi Osaka is coming off a straight sets win over Lucie Hradecka that took 21 games to decide. In the victory, Osaka won 75 percent of her first serve points and 70 percent of her second serve points. Osaka continues to build her momentum after a strong showing at the US Open and just making the final in Tokyo. Osaka is close to being a top-40 player in the world for the first time of her young career and will turn 19 years old in a few days. A shot at a title would certainly be a nice birthday present and help put tennis fans on notice even more with the rising Japanese star. Osaka can compete with anybody as long as she continues to serve at a high percentage. Osaka has won six of her last eight matches on hard court.
Svetlana Kuznetsova is coming off a straight sets win over Donna Vekic that took 22 games to decide. In the victory, Kuznetsova won 70 percent of her first serve points and 53 percent of her second serve points. Kuznetsova is putting together a nice finish to her season, as she's won seven of her last 11 sets and has made the quarterfinals for the third time in her last five events. Seven of Kuznetsova's last eight victories have been decided in straight sets and she's proving she can still be a force at 31 years old. The only concern with Kuznetsova is her second serve, as she must be more effective if she hopes to advance to the semifinals. Kuznetsova has won seven of her last nine matches on hard court.
This will be the first time these two have met on the tennis court.
Anybody who has been following my picks knows I have tons of stock in the young Osaka and back her whenever I can, especially when the lines are sweet. For example, we backed Osaka as an underdog against Yaroslava Shvedova, and that was a quick straight sets victory. Osaka is the real deal and will be competing for grand slams once she gets more experience under her belt. I like Osaka in this match as well due to Kuznetsova and her weak second serve. Osaka eats up subpar serves with winners across the court. Not to mention Osaka's birthday is just days away, so she'll want a good showing, and she'll be the crowd favorite here.
Give me Osaka to beat a top-10 player.


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Why all this talk about 'gaming addiction' is not helping families
Dr Kristy Goodwin
Sep 15 2018 at 1:54 AM
The issue of gaming addiction among kids and teens is getting a lot of traction in the media since the World Health Organisation officially listed "gaming disorder" as a disease earlier this year. Oh, and since the world's most popular game Fortnite came on the scene.
Earlier this month, we heard an outcry from parents in the wake of a 60 Minutes segment on gaming addiction, in which the parents who agreed to share their stories in the segment faced a barrage of shameful criticism from people online.
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As someone who researches this topic and regularly speaks to parents who are trying to navigate this brave new world of parenting in the digital age, I have two problems with this focus on addiction.
Firstly, any addiction is a really complex issue; it's not straightforward.
Research tells us that the reality of kids being medically diagnosed with internet or gaming addiction is estimated to be around 3 per cent, so this is hardly an issue affecting the general population.
The limited research we have available into internet and gaming addiction also shows that addiction is often a byproduct of other underlying mental health issues. We are fairly certain that kids with depression, anxiety or poor impulse control for example are more vulnerable to addiction and the harmful potential of video games.
There are many factors that come into play, such as gender differences, and biological and sociological factors, when considering gaming addiction.
That's not to say many more kids are not obsessed, digitally dependent or that they don't have unhealthy tech habits, but we have to be cautious about labelling their behaviour "addiction".
My second problem with the recent focus on addiction is that, in highlighting extreme examples, we have to be careful about blaming parents.
I call it "techno shaming" and, when we see stories in the media about kids who are addicted and their parents get attacked, this doesn't help any of us who are trying to figure this out to engage in transparent conversations about the challenges we're facing as modern parents.
We are the first generation of parents to raise kids in this digital world. We've got no frame of reference, unlike with lots of other parenting dilemmas such as food refusal or tantrums or sleep issues.
Our parents simply didn't have to deal with the digital dilemmas we're facing. We can't even ask friends with slightly older children how they tackled these issues, as technology keeps evolving and changing.
We're all in this together and we're all making decisions on the fly without firm guidelines about what's helpful and what's not. We're in unchartered waters, so it's no wonder we're confused and concerned.
Demonising games isn't the solution, blaming parents isn't the solution and suggesting that we have an epidemic isn't the solution. Instead, we need to equip parents with practical solutions about how to help their children and teens tame their tech habits.
The 3 Bs Solution
I believe there are three key aspects to ensuring screen time doesn't get out of hand in your home, whatever age your kids are.
1. Boundaries
Kids need firm, consistent boundaries around what, when, where, how and who they use technology with. Parents and carers need to be the pilots of the digital place and establish and enforce firm boundaries with their kids and screens. What is age-appropriate? When can they use it (bearing in mind time of day has a huge impact on kids' behaviour)? Where can they use devices … because having consoles and phones in bedrooms for example can lead to more harmful tech habits and the likelihood of nastiness and bullying is much higher in the evening when kids' brains are tired (when their amygdala, their emotional brain, switches on and their prefrontal cortex, their logical brain, switches off)?
Kids (and we) need a balance between online and offline, analogue and digital worlds, rapid-fire, fast-pace activity and slow action. We need to ensure screens don't displace kids' basic needs and developmental priorities.
3. Boredom
Our kids have become so accustomed to being digitally distracted, it's become a habitual way for them (and us) to operate. Our kids' brains need white space and time to daydream — neuroscientists call it "mind wandering" mode. When they enter this state, they can think creatively and solve problems.
By focusing on these aspects, rather than blaming and shaming, we just might find our way through these murky waters.
Dr Kristy Goodwin is one of Australia's leading digital parenting experts (and a mum who also deals with her kids' techno-tantrums!). She's the author of Raising Your Child in a Digital World, a speaker and researcher. Dr Kristy is presenting seminars on this topic in Sydney on 20th September and Canberra on 24th September. https://drkristygoodwin.com/


It turns out trying to write and finish a book while moving to another country and going to a high-rent area is hell for trying to do anytime in a timely manner.
I'd hoped to get Book II of the Nightfall series, now titled Within the Light, out within a year or so of From the Dark. So around July 2018. As you well know, it is now March 2019.
But Within the Light is now open for preorder from most major retailers (only ebook format currently) and will be available on May 19, 2019.
It's been a crazy time.
While the pre-order is up, I will be scurrying like an ant behind the scenes trying to get the book just right and ready for publication. An email will be going out shortly to anyone on the emailing list.
If you've been here from the beginning, thank you for waiting. If you've just joined us, welcome, and I look forward to continuing the adventure with you.
I decided to take the advice of some book gurus and hunker down to finish Book II (working title Into the Light). Consequently, I'm happy to announce the first draft has been completed!
I'll be moving into the second draft now, which will consist of rewriting for quality, checking for plot consistency, and general retooling to make sure everything's the best I can get it to be. There's still a lot of work to come, but the story has been laid down.
Lots of things happened in the real life, including a move and certain other things taking place. No excuse, of course! This business requires discipline and rigor.
And I'll have to start looking ahead to the book launch phase, which as I've complained about before, includes planning months ahead for the various parts of the marketing behemoth to all come together! Yes, this is indeed a true new age, where the author takes on these responsibilities, but comes around to own all parts of the process.
Is the second book wildly different from the first?
Are the main characters back?
Why ask questions of yourself if you're just going to be vague?
Yes, yes! No further details can be given without giving the story away.
I will say that the improved writing speed is encouraging. It hopefully means the third book will come out in an even shorter time than the second one!
Well, you know what they say: the first trilogy makes the sci-fi/fantasy writer. Just kidding, nobody says that. I just said it. I certainly do think it though.
Take heart, friends! We will soon be resuming our adventure… !
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Writing is going well on the second book. I've said this before, but the lessons learned from writing the first book are making this second time around much smoother and better. I'll be taking the time and effort saved to try to become better at this business of writing!
Andy Huang has the mind of a psycho physicist. I found following the convoluted paths of his imagination to be amazing.
G. Powell, thank you, thank you. The keyword here is "convoluted." Thank you, G. Powell, firstly for bringing up this important aspect of From the Dark, and secondly, for understanding that the "convoluted paths of [the] imagination" needed to write the book can be a damned fine thing.
Yes, the plotlines in From the Dark are convoluted!
They are complex, messy, and intertwined with one another. They were born out of taking each plotline in the most interesting, exciting, and dynamic fashion I could think of, then having all the plotlines cook together like noodles in a wok.
Yes, it all can be difficult to follow at times. I really have to do better with that. My wonderful beta reader Tiffany Dawn Munn at Owlediting tried to tell me about the importance of signposting. Like anybody else, sometimes I don't know what others don't know because it's all in my brain. This is all a factor in the writing and something I'm taking care to be careful about.
There were massive hairy, headachey moments where I had to figure out sticky parts of the plotting. But on the whole it was worth it. And like I've said, I'm definitely learning to do it better for the second book. One of my other beta readers, Persephone Grey, had told me in her feedback that the book was unpredictable. It got that way because, to be honest, it was unpredictable for me as well. It was a wild trip writing it. I hope to do it all over again for the second book.
Speaking of which, here is a blurred-out screen capture of a chapter-by-chapter plot outline I made while writing From the Dark to make sure of the continuity. As there are different groups of characters in the book, you can see there are three major lines that intersect with one another. Not every interplay between the characters is mapped out with a line, but the positions on the chart helped keep track of continuity. This chart helped me maintain some semblance of sanity amidst the madness.
In other news, From the Dark will be going on sale from the 21st to the 24th of September (a few days hence!) It's as good a time as any to pick up the book for a friend, or three.
United States aircraft carrier design eschewed armored steel flight decks in favor of teak flight decks. Though this appears as a lower-tech solution at first glance, American carrier doctrine provided a solidly logical reason for this arrangement. Teak decks shattered easily when struck, and, though the crew repaired minor damage with planks stockpiled on board, a major kamikaze or bomb strike often necessitated a retreat to the United States for refitting. The Americans located the armored deck one level lower, with a much thicker, heavier hangar deck than IJN or Royal Navy flattops.
A lightweight teak flight deck and a heavyweight hangar deck gave American aircraft carriers a much lower center of gravity. This permitted a larger flight deck, overhanging the sides of the hull and giving space for a much larger complement of aircraft. In some cases, U.S. carriers supported twice the number of aircraft found on British or Japanese carriers of exactly the same weight. American aircraft carriers, thanks to their large aircraft complements on light teak decks, punched far above their weight relative to their IJN opponents. These high concentrations of aircraft suited U.S. flattops ideally to a highly aggressive strategy, able to provide massive local air superiority and support devastating long-range strikes depending on the situation.
What I love about this passage is how it highlights a technical / shipbuilding aspect of ships having a tactical impact. It would just be lovely to be able to include these kinds of details in the writing (more on this later) and have the spacecraft have varying tactical consequences accruing from their build.
The foremost fact of life as a tanker is the importance of maintenance and logistics. The track system and roadwheels take a great deal of abuse from large rocks, tree stumps and other assorted battlefield wreckage when the tank moves any significant distance. The track, held together by long pins, wants to fall apart and the crew must constantly monitor it for signs of damage. Most tanks carried a few spare track blocks, but extra track pins to hold them together were often scarce. Good crews check the track and roadwheels at every halt of more than a few minutes and conduct spot-tightening. If they fail to do so, crews can expect to routinely throw track (i.e. the track comes off the roadwheels), which immobilizes the vehicle. In tank platoons and companies, it is imperative that junior leaders force tank crews to conduct routine maintenance – even in extreme cold weather, muddy field conditions and during combat operations. Friction is a tank's worst enemy and river crossings tend to wash grease out of fittings on the running gear, which can cause roadwheel hubs to burn out if not tended to soon after fording. For example, a T-34 required a minimum of 1kg of grease for each 100km the tank moved on dry surface, but this would need to be replaced sooner if water obstacles were crossed. All tank engines and transmissions leak oil to some degree, particularly as filters and gaskets wear out. German tank engines often relied on rubber gaskets, which were prone to brittleness in the frigid Russian winters, leading to massive oil leaks if not promptly replaced. Turret systems including hydraulic reservoirs, optics and radios needed to be checked as well and the main gun needed to be bore-sighted again (usually by using string across the muzzle and a snake board target) after any significant move or firing. If the optical telescope and main gun went out of alignment due to hits on the turret or a very bumpy ride, then the tank's gunner would have a difficult time hitting targets.
From this passage we get a real sense of the technical/logistical details of a tank's upkeep. Details like these add reality to tactical/strategic deployments, making every movement and action have a logistical cost, and consequently, a consequence. (Forczyk outlines excellently in the book the logistical determinants of success/failure on the WWII Russo-German front.) The goal, if/when adding details like this to the writing, is a strategic logistical system that makes sense, and adds more reality to actions within the universe.
However, in terms of the actual writing, the larger theme would have to be how details can be included in a natural way. The struggle is always between wanting to include more details to give the world a more 'solid' feel, and wanting to keep the prose organic in a way that is still 'spoken' from a character's perspective.
Details must always be relevant to the story—histories and topic pieces are not suitable for the novel format. When details are not relevant to the story they tend to become verbiage, often taking the reader out of the immersion of the story.
The details must be given from a character's perspective, ie. things a character would think relevant to their current situation. Otherwise the detail would kind of float in from the ether into the prose and leave the reader with a sense of a ghostly narrator speaking into a microphone from behind the curtains.
These are not hard and fast rules, and I'm sure I've broken them too. But I think you can get a sense of the process and some of the interesting trade-offs within.
Header image from Military_Material on pixabay.com (CC0 Creative Commons).
Since I'm starting work on the second book in the Nightfall series, I think it a good time to provide a rundown of my writing process. I will also be putting up a progress graphic on the sidebar of this blog to keep track!
For me, brainstorming amounts to coming up with the starting points of the plot.
Something I will expand on in future posts is that I tend to come up with the plot as I write.
For the second book, ItL, I've been helped in the brainstorming by having looked ahead toward the next two books when I was writing FtD. I have a much bigger web of starting points to work with, most of which can be attributed to having spent the amount of time I have with the world and the characters.
Research for FtD took three months, plus more wherever it was needed during the writing. For ItL, it will mostly be a matter of looking things up when I need them.
The First Draft is where I plan to put down a set number of words per day, scaffolding the ideas and plot that I've brainstormed.
For FtD this took about two years. To be sure, when I was writing FtD, I didn't realize it was just the first draft. I'd gone into it with the typical new author's naivety that I was writing the final draft. So I spent a lot of time polishing sentences and sections, some of which were entirely cut away for the final manuscript.
For ItL my goals have become much clearer. I'm writing with the understanding that much of this will be reworked or rewritten, and the goal is, as I've said above, to scaffold entire sections; to see if ideas work; and to get a sense of the general flow of the book.
For ItL, I would like Stage 1 to take three months, instead of the twenty-four it took for FtL.
The discrepancy is that a lot of the process of writing FtL was me struggling with finding a style and voice that fit the genre and what I wanted to do. Much of the three+ years writing FtL was, unbeknownst to me at the time, the process of this happening. For ItL, I would say I am able to draw on a more-stabilized style + voice, and hopefully will be able to save a lot of time for Stage 1.
Although it sounds iterative (first, second), the Second Draft has quite a distinct set of goals for me. These are: to rework sections that didn't work in Stage 1; to rewrite sentences to become of better quality; and to cut, edit, or add things to form the flow of the book.
Stage 2 will involve reading a section a day, then rewriting or reworking it as needed. In Stage 2, writing quality becomes one of the top priorities.
For FtD, the process was mashed in together with Stage 1 and Stage 3, and indeed continued all the way till the self-publishing. For ItL, I hope for the process to take three months to four months.
At the end of Stage 2 I will give the book to T. to read for feedback. T. was my first reader for FtD and will be for ItL.
In this stage, I respond to first readers + beta readers' feedback.
This means I will respond to T.'s edits, then probably send the manuscript out for beta reading. (I have found a few trusted beta readers, including the fabulous Tiffany Dawn Munn at OwlEditing.com.) I will then respond to their feedback and edit the manuscript.
For FtD this was a continuing, messy process that took six months to a year. Now that I've been bloodied in the arena, I hope to shorten this process to three months.
Polishing of ideas, sentences, sections, and then the formatting to put it into a publishable format. In this stage, I will also look forward (in the sense of "planning for," and not "anticipating with happiness") to the marketing aspects of it, as I've found since beginning the self-publishing journey, that it is always better for marketing to have been planned for three months ago.
I will write more about this in the future, as marketing was not anything I'd ever expected in my life to do, and will only describe here as being dunked into the cold, cold ocean to find out your life preserver was actually cotton candy.
Which is all to say I hope ItL sees light (yeah) in close-to-a-year's time.
There is still a lot to unpack about the writing process, but I do want to get to spaceship-related posts sometime soon too! Till next time!
Header image licensed from Adobe Stock / © sdecoret.
Hello space fans! Here's some hand-made concept/cover art for Inca!
As you can probably tell, I really love silhouettes!
Meanwhile, work continues apace on all the promotional efforts.
Hopefully this is a good tidbit for now.


- Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories.
Mr. President, EAFORD and Geneva International Centre for Justice wish to call attention to the consequences of the Israeli illegal settlement activities on the Palestinian civilian population, which have been taking place since 1967.
These actions do not only have an impact by changing the demographic composition of the occupied Palestinian territory, but also gravely affect Palestinians' quality of life as well as their enjoyment of the most basic human rights. Additionally, women's mental health is gravely affected by the exposure to frequent military incursions and intense violence.
Land confiscation and house demolitions, which have been used by Israel to create and consolidate settlements, have forced a high number of Palestinians to leave their homes and properties. This has led to extensive internal displacement.
Through land confiscation, many Palestinians are deprived of their most important means of livelihood. Agriculture is in fact an important livelihood for a high number of individuals, especially for the population living in Area C, whose economic activity is principally based on herding and farming activities.
In addition, these illegal activities have a strong negative impact on Palestinians' right to education and access to healthcare, which are two of the most basic human rights.
We call on the international community and the Council to take all necessary measures to finally halt the illegal settlement activities that exposes Palestinians to a high degree of vulnerability and violates their inalienable rights, such as their right to self-determination and right of return to their homes and properties.


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What Black Rose Tattoo Mean
The black rose tattoo can also represent rejuvenation and rebirth. While you might look at the black rose tattoo and thing it only represents the darker side of life, this isn't necessarily true. In fact, the black rose tattoo can represent the death of old ways or habits and the beginning of new ones. When etched as a specific design style, black rose tattoos are depicted to convey a combination of death, grief, and mourning. The commemorative black rose, thorn and stem, or bouquet of the flowers could reference a physical loss, such as the death of a loved one or an important figure in the collector's life.
Black rose tattoos can indicate rebellion and strength, as Irish warriors often used black roses as a symbol of rebellion against the British (via Thoughtful Tattoos ). In the 16th century, there was even a song called "The Little Black Rose," which was a devotion song to the strength the Irish had during their battles, per Irish American Mom. Historically, the black rose means someone has died or is about to die, as well as that someone is mourning a death of a close one. Most commonly, black roses are given in tragic situations or used as a symbol of tragedy. Even tarot cards feature a black rose to indicate a life or death situation or to forsee someone in one's close circle dying.
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As you may have already guessed, the most common meaning of a black rose tattoo is death, grief, and sorrow. Black is a color that is always associated with death. Hence, it only makes sense that a tattoo symbolizing love for a departed soul be in black. People get black rose tattoos in respect of someone they love after they pass away.
Signifying a rebirth or a major change, black roses are known to represent optimism and hope. What is the meaning of a single black rose? The black rose can be used as a symbol of death and mourning This concept came from the tarot cards— the death card.
The black rose tattoo has many meanings but the one below is probably the most common meaning seen with this tattoo design. A black rose can be a symbol of love, death, passion, beauty and gloominess. In Victorian times, a black rose represented silence or somberness. In some cultures, a black rose is a symbol of death and/or funerals.
Most commonly, a black rose tattoo is related to death and what is memorable. It's often used to show respect to someone who has passed away in Western culture. However, in the East, the white roses bear a similar meaning instead of genuine love and purity, as we all know. Another thing that a black rose symbolizes is strength, power and rebellion.
Black roses have come to stand for death and darkness. A person who has lost a loved one will often get a black rose tattoo to remember them. Those who just want their black rose tattoos to represent darkness will sometimes use other images, such as skulls, to make the meaning more obvious. Orange Rose Tattoo
The black rose is frequently used as a symbolic tattoo idea associated with death, grief, and mourning, or incorporated into duality themes that balance life and death, or good and evil. According to Greek mythology, when Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, bled on white roses, she transformed them into what are now known as red roses.
The Meaning of a Black Rose Tattoo . When it comes to tattoos, black roses can hold a lot of meaning for the individual who chooses to ink one on their body. A black rose tattoo doesn't have to be a symbol of sadness or mourning; in fact, it can represent many different things including secret love, rebellion, protection, and even a passionate.
Black rose tattoos are unique among floral designs, particularly because they denote a different level of significance than their colorful counterparts can contain. These dashingly dark insignias revel in a basis of stark contrast. They reveal magnanimous complexity by meshing a decadent symbol of beauty with a mystically wizened background.
The black rose tattoo's meaning is quite deep and meaningful- it means loss and grief. If you have incurred an irreplaceable loss in life, you can think of getting a black rose tattoo. A traditional rose tattoo meaning is simple- it symbolizes love. But a black rose tattoo meaning is much more complex; there's more to just loss.
Black rose tattoos are normally seen as a memorial to a show the love and loss of a loved one. The tattoo has a long tradition as a memorial tattoo with both men and women. Black rose tattoos in recent years are seeing a surge in tattoo popularity with the spouse of members of the armed services to honor them while they are at war.
Black Rose Tattoo Meaning. The black rose tattoos differ from the regular rose flower tattoos, which show many feelings, love, and beauty. Most people relate the black rose tattoo with the memory of a lost loved one or past event, power, and even rebellion. For example, Irish warriors used black roses as a sign to rebel against the British.
Other Common Black Rose Symbolism. Just like the phrase, "when one door closes, another one opens", black roses can imply the end of a meaningful time in your life, but can also be a lovely indicator of the start of something new. Signifying a rebirth or a major change, black roses are known to represent optimism and hope.
Black roses tattoo symbolizes the loss of love, one's loss in general, and can even serve as a reminder of death. They have a generally bleak and dark meaning, but can also see as a source of mysterious beauty, one's everlasting pain, or even the strength to overcome the pain.
The Meaning of the Black Rose. The black rose can symbolize many different life events, and the context of how the black rose is used shows what the person intended to communicate. Death and Mourning. The black rose can be used as a symbol of death and mourning. This concept came from the tarot cards — the death card. There is a white rose on.
A Black rose tattoo also symbolizes rebirth, reincarnation, and rejuvenation, strength and courage, revenge, devotion, and tragic or unfulfilled love. So, people can get a black rose etched on their body for several reasons. Irrespective of the reason, these tattoos look stunning and make for unique tattoo designs. The history of black rose tattoo
The symbolism behind rose tattoo colors. Red roses often stand for love and romance, but can also be used as a memorial or to commemorate a sacrifice of some kind, perhaps honoring a loved one in the military or law enforcement who was killed in the line of duty. Pink roses represent a more innocent kind of first love, while yellow roses.
A black rose tattoo can be a metaphor for death, mourning, and grief but keep in mind that Blackwork is also just a really popular style right now.the particular color of a rose may not define its meaning unless the person who carries it with them always had a specific concept in mind that they wanted to imbue their piece with.
Black rose tattoo is simply actually an exaggeration. Usually, however, this term was used which represents many violent underground groups. It has become synonymous with resistance etc. FAQs What do rose tattoos mean? They're a classic symbol of love although they also carry other meanings, such as hope, renewal, and strength.
Apart from that, a burning rose tattoo can also mean unconditional love for someone. This is one of the top messages that the ink can convey. A fully grown rose tattoo can also represent growth and achievement. This is because it takes effort for a rose to grow. You should also note that a burning rose tattoo can also symbolize the destruction.
Black Rose Tattoo A red rose represents love and passion, but a black rose has a much more somber meaning. The color is often linked with death, loss, and mourning, and individuals who have lost a loved one or are in deep emotional pain, often choose ink like this. It could also be a tribute to someone who has died and a way to remember them.
A black rose tattoo is a unique floral design and, once tattooed on your skin, creates a stark contrast. The effect is dramatic not just to your skin, but it also adds that needed confidence boost. There are several meanings to black rose tattoo design, such as tranquility, grief, loss, loneliness, and even loss of faith.
Single Black Rose Tattoo. Source: Instagram @santiago.v_tattoo. In this tattoo, a single black rose is placed on the side of the neck. The design is simple with no shading, just the silhouette of the flower, its stem, and leaves. Customize this design to your liking by changing the placement or size.
A blue rose tattoo is also popular as a secondary image, or as part of an overall theme in larger flower tattoos, most often as a striking contrast to traditional black and gray ink. As a symbol of love, passion, and possibility, the rose works either as a complement or a contrasting symbol as a single rose or in small tattoos.
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2021-02-27 18:39:42 | Khashoggi's murder: It is time for accountability | Jamal Khashoggi News
February 27, 2021 - by James Cook - Leave a Comment
Story by: Al Jazeera
In 2018, Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi went to the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul to pick up documents he needed for his wedding. He never walked out.
Inside the consulate, a team was waiting to kill him with the tools necessary to make sure his body was never found again. It was an attempt to make a critic simply disappear and be forgotten. That strategy appears to have worked for more than two years as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (also known as MBS), widely reported to be responsible for the murder, has escaped any meaningful form of accountability.
But this week we saw a glimmer of hope that the crown prince will be eventually held accountable. The Biden administration released an unclassified intelligence report about Khashoggi's killing, thus offering an official confirmation that the prince was involved in the murder. For more than two years, the Trump administration thwarted the efforts of the Open Society Justice Initiative in court to secure the release of records that would disclose such information, including this very report.
The report's publication is a step towards establishing accountability and stopping the crown prince from literally getting away with the murder. But these revelations need to be followed with decisive action. For too long the US, the European Union and the United Kingdom have voiced condemnations of Khashoggi's murder while in reality turning a blind eye to it.
With mounting evidence available, there now need to be consequences for such an egregious crime. On February 26, the State Department issued sanctions on 76 individuals, but not MBS. But that is not enough. It is unconscionable for the US government to let the murderer-in-chief – the crown prince – walk free from punishment. By only imposing travel and financial sanctions on lower-ranking officials, it sends a clear message that MBS and authoritarian leaders around the world can literally get away with murder and continue to persecute dissidents with impunity.
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That is why Open Society is calling on the US, UK and other government and others around the world to end arms exports to Saudi Arabia and impose travel and financial sanctions on MBS and all others responsible for the murder. Failure to follow through with these actions would be unconscionable.
Ending all arms exports to Saudi Arabia would send a clear message that human rights violations will no longer be ignored in the interest of multibillion-dollar arms contracts. That reality was something former President Donald Trump was happy to brag about.
Last month, the Biden administration temporarily suspended arms sales to Saudi Arabia, but it needs to go further and make the ban last as long as Saudi Arabia continues to engage in a consistent pattern of gross human rights violations. The US, along with the UK and France, is among the top arms exporters to Saudi Arabia.
Ending the arms exports would not only send a strong message over the Khashoggi murder, but also end Western complicity in another area where Saudi Arabia flaunts human rights and international humanitarian law: the bombing of civilians in neighbouring Yemen.
Furthermore, there should be targeted financial and travel sanctions that make consequences personal and not just abstract. MBS and his henchmen should face asset freezes and travel bans similar to those imposed by the US on Russian officials.
There is no reason for the crown prince to be allowed to visit his $300m French chateau while the crime he directed goes unpunished. Those who carried out his orders and have not thus far been sanctioned should also feel pressure and know there is no business as usual for them.
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Releasing more official government information on Khashoggi's murder would help ensure that he is not forgotten and guard against the repetition of such crimes. The report released this week was not the only record the Trump administration has withheld from us in our litigation.
A CIA report widely cited in the media, but not officially released, concluded with "medium to high confidence" that MBS ordered Khashoggi's killing. In court, the Trump administration refused to even admit that it had the report. The court's recent decision, however, requires the US government to identify the report and explain the legal basis for withholding it from the public.
Hatice Cengiz, Khashoggi's fiancée, has called on President Joe Biden to break with the past and release the report.
Making new documents available to the public and taking decisive action against the Saudi government and the crown prince set the groundwork for further accountability measures. Official confirmation is vital for establishing public and legal accountability and taking action shows that the drive for accountability will not be left at vague statements expressing "concern".
Though the latest documents may continue to come out of the US, no action will be effective unless it is supported by the international community. It is up to governments committed to free speech and democratic values to see to it that the path to accountability is realised.
Now that the report's official findings are plain for all to see, failure to take decisive action against MBS and Saudi Arabia would be immoral. It would deprive Khashoggi and his family of their right to justice. And it would pave the way for Saudi Arabia and other authoritarian governments to continue to murder and persecute dissidents with impunity.
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The Great Oyster Crash
Ocean acidification hits the Pacific shellfish industry.
August 26, 2015 Eric Scigliano
In the summer of 2007, something strange and troubling happened at the Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery. Located on Netarts Bay in Oregon, the hatchery raises oyster larvae for shellfish growers from Mexico to Canada. Its "seed," as the oyster larvae are called, began dying by the millions—for no apparent reason.
The calm waters of Netarts Bay are home to Whiskey Creek, one of the largest oyster hatcheries in the United States.
Photo by Karina Ordell
Disease isn't uncommon in a hatchery's tanks, but that same year, up the coast in Washington, wild oyster larvae also failed in Willapa Bay, which has been the heart of the Pacific Northwest's oyster industry since the 1850s.
The Willapa Bay growers scrambled to replace their natural beds with farm-raised seed from Whiskey Creek and other hatcheries. But there was very little of it to buy. Washington's Taylor Shellfish Farms, the Pacific Coast's largest grower, also lost most of its larvae that year.
The situation was dire. Whiskey Creek and Taylor are key links in the nation's seafood supply chain. Along with another Washington hatchery, they provide nearly all the seed for the West Coast's growers, who in turn produce more than a quarter of the 700 million or so farmed oysters that Americans slurp down every year.
Suddenly, it seemed, seafood lovers might have to do without their slippery delicacies, or at least pay a lot more for them. Growers on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts wondered if whatever was striking the Pacific hatcheries might soon hit them. And when the culprit was finally revealed, it provided the first example of how a worldwide crisis in ocean chemistry could devastate coastal economies and change restaurant menus across the country.
Whiskey Creek is owned by the husband-and-wife team of Sue Cudd and Mark Wiegardt. Wiegardt grew up tending oysters on Willapa Bay, where his family has been farming them since the late 1800s. Cudd, a fisheries biologist, got a job at the Wiegardt operation in 1984 and married Mark in 1989. She began managing the Whiskey Creek Hatchery in the mid-'90s, and the couple took over the business in 2002.
With the future of the West Coast oyster industry in doubt, Mark Wiegardt has travelled to Washington, D.C., many times to testify and meet privately with members of Congress about the threat of ocean acidification to the industry.
At the sprawling, barn-like warren about two hours west of Portland, where cylindrical plastic tanks serve as incubators for shellfish larvae and algae, a big part of Cudd and Wiegardt's job is to keep vigilant watch for infections. When the 2007 crisis hit, the couple set about solving it according to standard industry practice: by looking for whatever pathogen might be making their "babies" sick.
They eventually found a larvae-eating bacterium called Vibrio tubiashii raging through their tanks. Attacking it with maximum force, they hired a researcher and hatchery manager from Oregon State named Alan Barton to build a $200,000 system to filter and sterilize the water they drew from the bay. It squelched the vibrio but failed to stop the carnage; the infestation, it seemed, was a symptom of some underlying problem rather than the cause. The larvae were still dying, and Cudd and Wiegardt were facing ruin. So were many of the Pacific oyster farmers who relied on them.
Wiegardt has a farmer's weatherbeaten face and stoic manner. Like all farmers, he's used to boom and bust cycles. But even he started to despair. "The frustrating thing is people in the industry saying, 'It's got to be something you're doing wrong,'" he says. His colleagues and competitors stopped their scoffing as news of other die-offs began to trickle in. In 2008, in an unprecedented cooperative effort for the industry, the Pacific Coast Shellfish Growers Association declared a seed-supply crisis. It persuaded its members to donate $40,000 so that Wiegardt and Cudd could keep Barton on the hunt for the culprit, in hopes of helping eradicate it elsewhere.
"We'd done everything we could to eliminate bacteria," Barton says in his native Georgia drawl. He began to wonder if something more fundamental might be amiss—something in the makeup of the sea itself. "Shellfish hatcheries never worried about chemistry, just infections. I was back to being a 14-year-old kid with an aquarium, worrying about water chemistry."
Uncovering a killer
In July 2008, all the remaining larvae at Whiskey Creek died suddenly. At the same time, the water in Netarts Bay (and hence in the hatchery's tanks) became noticeably more acidic—an indication it had welled up from lower depths offshore.
This wasn't entirely unexpected: Each summer, the north wind periodically pushes back the water along the Oregon coast, allowing deep, cold offshore water to surge in toward land. Barton checked federal CoastWatch reports and confirmed that a strong upwelling had been underway at the time the larvae died.
It was the breakthrough Whiskey Creek's operators had been waiting for. The culprit behind their die-offs, it turned out, was part of a much bigger change in oceans around the world. Called ocean acidification, it results from too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The sea is the world's great carbon sink, holding about 50 times as much of the element as the air. Phytoplankton at the ocean's surface absorb carbon dioxide for photosynthesis, and when the tiny plants die, they sink and decompose, releasing CO2 into the water column.
Dissolved CO2 forms carbonic acid, the same weak acid that gives soda water its tang. Cold water can hold more CO2, so the frigid waters at the ocean bottom are more carbon-saturated—and more acidic—than the warmer surface water above.
Some people think that's a good thing; scientists and engineers have even proposed pumping CO2 into the deep ocean for storage as a possible strategy to slow global warming. Trouble is, that acidified water doesn't stay down in the deep: It rolls back to the surface along the West Coast and other upwelling zones.
These nutrient-rich upwellings, full of sunken organic matter and minerals, support a famously rich marine food chain, from microscopic plankton to eight-ton killer whales. But if the waters become too acidic, they're lethal to many shell-building creatures, including young clams and oysters, whose formative coverings are uniquely vulnerable in their first week or two of life.
Even as the hatchery folks were struggling with acidifying water inshore, scientists from Mexico, Canada, and the United States were documenting similar changes in the waters farther out. They found that the upwellings operated on a time lag: The water rising from the depths today holds CO2 absorbed about 30 to 50 years ago, when expansions in transportation, industry, and other human activities began pushing increased amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.
Because carbon emissions have continued rising since, future upwellings are sure to be even more acidic. "We've mailed a package to ourselves," says Oregon State oceanographer Burke Hales, one of the scientists who conducted the offshore research, "and it's hard to call off delivery."
Adaptation in action
Cudd and Wiegardt didn't have time to worry about future deliveries; they had to act immediately to protect their oysters. That meant rethinking their operation from the sea bottom up.
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"We used to think cleaner water was better," Cudd says, and so they purified and filtered relentlessly. But seawater chemistry is devilishly complex and hard to manipulate. Cudd and Wiegardt decided they had to learn to make better use of the water the ocean was giving them, but to do that they needed to know precisely what was in it. Unfortunately, their monitoring gear, like that of most in the industry, was minimal and crude. "We were driving down the road blind," says Wiegardt with a sigh.
Hales turned on the lights. In 2010, he lent Whiskey Creek a gizmo that looks like a heart monitor but is actually a seawater monitor that he built in his lab at Oregon State. The colored squiggles snaking across its twin screens measure the vital signs of the incoming water: temperature, salinity, and dissolved carbon dioxide. Cudd and Wiegardt call their gadget "The Burkalator" and watch it like day traders tracking their stocks.
The Burkalator revealed a striking pattern: Carbon dioxide and acidity levels tended to peak in early morning. They fell off through the day as the algae in the bay did what green plants everywhere do when the sun shines—take up CO2 for photosynthesis. When night fell, the photosynthesis ceased and the pattern reversed itself. The readings often varied dramatically in a single day.
Thus informed, Cudd and Wiegardt could time their draws to take only sweet, low-CO2 water, avoiding the sour morning blend. This entailed compromises; to draw less often they had to reduce production and recycle used water. But as Cudd says, "It's worse to put in bad water than to reuse mucky water."
Hales and his colleagues installed another Burkalator at the Taylor hatchery in Washington. They found that pH and CO2 levels varied just as widely there, but by depth rather than time of day. Taylor's hatchery sits on a deep bay whose waters are stratified like a layer cake. Cold, sour upwelled water tends to slide under the warmer, sweeter surface water. Again, the solution was simple: Taylor now draws from a shallow pipe rather than from deep water.
A temporary reprieve
The results are bracing. After a dire 2008 and '09, Taylor had its best year ever in 2010. Whiskey Creek isn't out of the woods, but the hatchery is shipping seed again.
A worker at the hatchery releases steam from one of the tall vats of algae where oyster larvae feed.
The crisis offers both a foretaste of how the seas are changing due to acidification and a model for how industry and science can work together to mitigate it, says Lisa Suatoni, an NRDC staff scientist working on the issue. "It's our first good example of the potential economic impacts of ocean acidification," she says. "And it's a perfect example of people adapting to the crisis."
But even the scientists and hatchery operators who have collaborated in this success admit that it's a stopgap. In the long run, only reducing carbon emissions into the atmosphere will keep ocean acidification from getting worse and threatening more shellfish.
"I'm afraid the ocean will be dead long before we have to worry about the other implications of global warming," Barton says quietly. "I didn't believe any of this stuff three years ago. I was always skeptical about our global models. But ocean acidification is pretty cut-and-dry for me now. You see it every day. You can't escape it."
What You Need to Know About Ocean Acidification
Carbon pollution isn't just warming the climate—it's also making our oceans more acidic. NRDC scientist Lisa Suatoni explains why we must pay attention.
The Blue (Plastic) Planet
You've probably heard that there's a lot of plastic swimming around in our oceans. But do you know how much? (Spoiler alert: It's way more than you think.)
The Smart Seafood Buying Guide
Five ways to ensure the fish you eat is healthy for you and for the environment.
How carbon pollution is wreaking havoc on marine life.
10 Ways to Reduce Plastic Pollution
By simply using less plastic, you can help keep marine life from eating and getting entangled in garbage.
Going Deep to Save Our Ocean Treasures
How NRDC helped form an unlikely alliance to help protect 38,000 square miles of unique habitat in the Atlantic.


WASHINGTON - Saudi Arabia today officially acknowledged the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, saying that he died in an altercation inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul and that 18 people had been arrested in connection with the investigation. In a statement released on state television, the Saudi government said a senior intelligence official had been dismissed in connection with Khashoggi's death.
Jamal Khashoggi disappeared on Oct. 2 after visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
Authorities said 18 Saudi citizens had been detained in Jamal Khashoggi's slaying; at least five Saudi top officials were fired.
A fight inside the Saudi consulate in Turkey led to Khashoggi's death, officials said in a statement.
Saudi Arabia acknowledged early Saturday that Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in a fight, and said 18 Saudis were being held as suspects.
Saudi Arabia said on Saturday preliminary results of investigations showed U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi died in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul after a fight with people he met there, state media reported.
Kingdom sacks top intelligence official, state media reports, saying missing journalist was killed in 'fist-fight'.
The kingdom's public prosecutor said Mr. Khashoggi died after an argument and fistfight inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
Journalist Jamal Khashoggi died in a "fight" with individuals inside the Saudi consulate in Turkey, Saudi authorities said after nearly two weeks of speculation. A senior Saudi intelligence official was fired over the incident.


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Q: How in Python check if two files ( String and file ) have same content? I am very new to Python and have question. How in Python check if two files ( String and file ) have same content ? I need to download some stuffs and rename, but I don't want to save same stuff with two or more different names (same stuff can be on different ip addresses ).

A: If the file is large, I would consider reading it in chunks like this:
compare.py:
import hashlib

teststr = "foo"
filename = "file.txt"

def md5_for_file(f, block_size=2**20):
    md5 = hashlib.md5()
    while True:
        data = f.read(block_size)
        if not data:
            break
        md5.update(data.encode('utf8'))
    return md5.digest()

md5 = hashlib.md5()
md5.update((teststr + "\n").encode('utf8'))
digest = md5.digest()
f = open(filename, 'r')
print(md5_for_file(f) == digest)

file.txt:
foo

This program prints True if the string and file match

A: Use sha1 hash of file content.
#!/usr/bin/env python
from __future__ import with_statement
from __future__ import print_function

from hashlib import sha1

def shafile(filename):
    with open(filename, "rb") as f:
        return sha1(f.read()).hexdigest()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import sys
    import glob
    globber = (filename for arg in sys.argv[1:] for filename in glob.glob(arg))
    for filename in globber:
        print(filename, shafile(filename))

This program takes wildcards on the command line, but it is just for demonstration purposes.

A: It is not necessary to use a hash if all you want is a checksum. Python has a checksum in the binascii module.
binascii.crc32(data[, crc])

A: The best way is to get some hash (i.e. md5) and compare it.
Here you can read how to get md5 of file.

A: For each file you download make a hash or a checksum. Keep a list of these hashes/checksums.
Then before saving the downloaded data to disk, check if the hash/checksum already exists in the list, and if it does, don't save it, but if it doesn't, save the file and add the checksum/hash to the list.
Pseudocode:
checksums = []
for url in all_urls:
    data = download_file(url)
    checksum = make_checksum(data)
    if checksum not in checksums:
         save_to_file(data)
         checksums.append(checksum)

A: While hashes and checksums are great for comparing a list of files, if you are only comparing two specific files and don't have a pre-computed hash/checksum, then it is faster to compare the two files directly than it is to compute a hash/checksum for each and compare the hash/checksum
def equalsFile(firstFile, secondFile, blocksize=65536):
    buf1 = firstFile.read(blocksize)
    buf2 = secondFile.read(blocksize)
        while len(buf1) > 0:
        if buf1!=buf2:
            return False
        buf1, buf2 = firstFile.read(blocksize), secondFile.read(blocksize)
    return True

In my tests, 64 md5 checks on two 50MB files complete in 24.468 seconds, while 64 direct comparisons complete in just 4.770 seconds. This method also has the advantage of instantly returning false upon finding any difference, while calculating the hash must continue to read the entire file.
An additional way to create an early-fail on files that aren't identical is to just check their sizes before running the above test using os.path.getsize(filename). This size difference is very common when checking equality of two files with different content, and so should always be the first thing you check.
import os
if os.path.getSize('file1.txt') != os.path.getSize('file2.txt'):
    print 'false'
else:
    print equalsFile(open('file1.txt', 'rb'), open('file1.txt', 'rb'))


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Q: Mac Mini as a server in small network I'm thinking about setting a small network and having a Mac Mini as the server. I'll need to make it accessible remotely, used to share files locally and remotely. There's need to backup everything up constantly.
This is the current setup i'm thinking about:

*

*MAC OSX SERVER

*RSync

*Firewire Enclosure with enough storage capacity

*Netgear router with portfoward (we currently have one, it's very basic any sugestion would be good, maybe something faster)

Notes:

*

*My background is Win / Ubuntu Linux

*Started using Mac a few weeks ago

*I'll have to stick with a Mac, because there's a software for project management that requires Win or Mac Osx, and Mac Mini is the cheapest

*I found about thunderbold but it's very expensive and even though is fast, I suppose the router is not fast enough, so I'll stick with Firewire.

*For first run I'll have a Monitor and Mouse connected to the Mac Mini, after I'm thinking about administrating it trough Apple Remote Desktop or SSH

*The backups will be sent to a NAS in LAN or other device

I'm finding difficult to find a cheap solution for storage. The firewire enclosures I'm finding are limited (500G or 750G) and then there's 2/4 bay enclosures that costs around 300 GBP / USD.
My question:
I'm wondering what's the best way of doing this ? Is there any good tips or sugestions I could follow for setting everything up properly ?
*We are a small team and the "File server" is used to keep our projects. I'll also use it as a staging server (install MAMP) and GIT. We'll also have a project management server running in the machine called Filemaker (Streamtime).
Thanks a lot for looking,
any tips are appreciated!

A: Typically this kind of question often falls inbetween us and superuser.com but you're building this for a small business so I think it deserves to be here.
For a small environment a Mac Mini is just fine, it has no hardware redundancy (PSU/fans etc.) but it'll do just fine.
Firstly make sure you go for the server-specific build, it's more expensive but has an i7 CPU and dual disks for use as a software-driven RAID1 pair. It obviously comes with OSX Server too.
The actual software is VERY easy to use, certainly for a beginner, it's pretty much all point and click but you will 'hit the wall' with it much more quickly than if you used a Windows or Linux server but then their learning curve is much higher too. Oh and of course there's no client licence costs with the Mac too which can really help.
As for the TB/FW question, so long as you stick to a FW800 enclosure and ensure you use the same software RAID (or better yet hardware RAID if the enclosure will support it) then you'll be fine. Don't be tempted to go for one of these cheapo NAS boxes with one or two 1Gbps NICs, a FW800 enclosure will be much quicker overall even though its raw signalling rate is slightly lower.
Oh and don't forget that OSX Server already comes with Apache already, but I would suggest you put some time into thinking exactly how your whole DNS/domain setup is going to work as with OSX Server it's best to get that right first time than having to keep going back tweaking. Other than that it's all very easy and by the time you outgrown that box Apple may have an appropriate machine out for you to move to - fingers crossed anyway.

A: If you're deploying an OSX based system, I'd strongly recommend using Timemachine for your backups versus DIY solutions built around rsync. It's built in, surprisingly good at what it does, and all it needs is enough local disk to play with (or remote disk if you invest in a Time Capsule).
If you're looking for ways to find cheap storage, this is not the place for it. Product recommendations are specifically off-topic in the FAQ.
However, I second Chopper's recommendation of a FW800 based system. It has enough disk bandwidth to deal with multiple drives (even if one of 'em is your TimeMachine drive). You'll want to spend some money on this, as good enclosures are worth it.


A series of attacks by radicalized youths have prompted Germany to go for loosening its anti-terror laws to allow security services to monitor teenagers with links to Islamic extremists as young as 14 years old.
Bundestag, the German parliament, is scheduled to vote on amendment during its session on Friday.
"The heightened threat level has underscored the need to reduce hurdles for the German intelligence services, notably in the area of data retention where the law remains very restrictive compared to other European countries," Marian Wendt, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling Christian Democratic Union of Germany party, told Reuters.
Previously, the German intelligence was only allowed to track and collect data on suspects from the age of 16.
According to Hans-Georg Maassen, the head of Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), his agency was unable to prevent several attacks this year due to this clause.
In February, a 15-year-old girl, identified by police as Safia S., seriously injured a police officer at the train station in Hanover, stabbing him in the neck with a kitchen knife.
The police confirmed that they were aware of the teens radicalization, saying that she flew to Turkey in an attempt to join Islamic State (Is, Daesh, formery ISIS/ISIL) terror group shortly before the attack.
And, in April, two 16-year-olds with ties to Germany's radical Salafist community attacked a Sikh temple in the city of Essen.
Besides loosening of the age limit, Germany has prepared a whole set of tighter anti-terrorist measures as a response to attack in Paris and Brussels.
The new legislation would also increase police powers to deploy undercover agents, Germany's intelligence agencies to exchange information with foreign partners more freely and obligate the buyers of pre-paid mobile phones to submit identification and a home address.


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'use strict';

const { expect } = require('chai');

const queryBuilder = require('../../../lib/sql-query-builder');
const astFixture = require('./fixture');

describe('query-builder (fulltext search)', () => {
    let queryAst;

    beforeEach(() => {
        queryAst = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(astFixture));
    });

    afterEach(() => {
        queryAst = null;
    });

    it('should support single attribute', () => {
        const ast = queryBuilder({
            queryAst,
            searchable: ['col1'],
            search: 'foobar'
        });

        expect(ast.where).to.eql({
            type: 'binary_expr',
            operator: 'LIKE',
            left: { type: 'column_ref', table: 't', column: 'col1' },
            right: { type: 'string', value: '%foobar%' }
        });
    });

    it('should support multiple attributes', () => {
        const ast = queryBuilder({
            queryAst,
            searchable: ['col1', 'columnAlias'],
            search: 'foobar'
        });

        expect(ast.where).to.eql({
            type: 'binary_expr',
            operator: 'OR',
            left: {
                type: 'binary_expr',
                operator: 'LIKE',
                left: { type: 'column_ref', table: 't', column: 'col1' },
                right: { type: 'string', value: '%foobar%' }
            },
            right: {
                type: 'binary_expr',
                operator: 'LIKE',
                left: { type: 'column_ref', table: 't', column: 'col3' },
                right: { type: 'string', value: '%foobar%' }
            }
        });
    });

    it('should escape special pattern characters "%" and "_"', () => {
        const ast = queryBuilder({
            queryAst,
            searchable: ['col1'],
            search: 'f%o_o%b_ar'
        });

        expect(ast.where).to.eql({
            type: 'binary_expr',
            operator: 'LIKE',
            left: { type: 'column_ref', table: 't', column: 'col1' },
            right: { type: 'string', value: '%f\\%o\\_o\\%b\\_ar%' }
        });
    });

    it('should support multiple attributes and non-empty where clause', () => {
        const ast = queryBuilder({
            queryAst,
            filter: [[{ attribute: 'col2', operator: 'equal', value: 5 }]],
            searchable: ['col1', 'columnAlias'],
            search: 'foobar'
        });

        expect(ast.where).to.eql({
            type: 'binary_expr',
            operator: 'AND',
            left: {
                type: 'binary_expr',
                operator: '=',
                left: { type: 'column_ref', table: 't', column: 'col2' },
                right: { type: 'number', value: 5 }
            },
            right: {
                type: 'binary_expr',
                operator: 'OR',
                left: {
                    type: 'binary_expr',
                    operator: 'LIKE',
                    left: { type: 'column_ref', table: 't', column: 'col1' },
                    right: { type: 'string', value: '%foobar%' }
                },
                right: {
                    type: 'binary_expr',
                    operator: 'LIKE',
                    left: { type: 'column_ref', table: 't', column: 'col3' },
                    right: { type: 'string', value: '%foobar%' }
                },
                parentheses: true
            }
        });
    });
});

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Christopher J. Durovich
President and Chief Executive Officer, Children's Health
Chris Durovich, the Chief Executive Officer of Children's Health, has more than 30 years of leadership experience in adult and pediatric health care and physician practice management. Since becoming President and Chief Executive Officer in 2003, he has guided Children's Health to be the eighth-largest pediatric health care system in the nation, serving nearly 300,000 children each year.
Prior to joining Children's, Chris served in adult health care leadership roles at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Michigan Health System, Northwestern University Medical School and Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
Chris is currently a member of the AHA Board of Trustees and Executive Committee and previously served on Regional Policy Board 7 and as a Section for Maternal and Child Health delegate. He currently serves as past-chair of the Children's Hospital Association and was chair of the Child Health Corporation of America. Chris also served on the Board and Executive Committee of the Texas Hospital Association and Board of Directors of the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions. He is past-chair of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council, past vice-chair of the Teaching Hospitals of Texas and past-chair of the Children's Hospital Association of Texas. He is also a member of the Board of Visitors for University of Texas Southwestern Hospitals and Clinics and the Dallas Medical Resource.
His community leadership roles include serving as a board member of the Dallas Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Circle Ten Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas, and the Ronald McDonald House of Dallas. He is also a member of the Dallas Citizens Council and the Dallas Assembly.
Chris has been recognized for his leadership with the March of Dimes National Leadership Award and with a HIMSS CEO IT Achievement Award. In 2013, he was named to the Dallas Business Journal's list of "Who's Who in Healthcare." In 2014, he was honored as an Entrepreneur of the Year by the EY Southwest Region.
He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Vermont, his MS from the University of Northern Colorado and MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives and in the American College of Medical Practice Executives and has served as an adjunct professor at Rice University. He also served on active duty in the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps.
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In line with its essential role in the community and its status as a company limited by guarantee, Cerebral Palsy Australia is committed to maintaining the highest standards of corporate governance.
The ASX Corporate Governance Council (The Council) published the Principles of Good Corporate Governance and Best Practice Recommendations, upon which the ASX's own Corporate Governance Statement is based.
These Guidelines are now considered best practice for listed companies in Australia, and are, for the most part, applicable to Cerebral Palsy Australia.


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Old Market takes Gold
Leslie Jones Architecture's team were in triumphant spirits last night following Old Market, Hereford scooping arguably the most prestigious award in the retail calendar.
Old Market, which was designed by Leslie Jones and Allies & Morrison, won 'New Centre of the Year' at the BCSC Gold Award. The £90 million scheme, developed by Stanhope and funded by British Land, has created a modern 310,000 sq ft open-air extension to the city's retail offering.
Brian Tracey, Director at Leslie Jones said: "We are proud to have contributed to the development of Old Market, which has been breathing new life into Hereford since it opened in May. This significant accolade is testament to the scheme's success in attracting new retailers and leisure operators as a natural extension to the historical city's offering."
London Designer Outlet in Wembley, which was designed by Leslie Jones for Quintain, was also shortlisted for the award.
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From shampoos, to soaps, to lotions, to makeup — it's not uncommon for a single person to use 10 or more personal care products each day. But some of the ingredients in beauty products aren't that pretty. U.S. researchers found that one in eight of the 82,000 ingredients used in personal care products are industrial chemicals, including carcinogens, pesticides, reproductive toxins, endocrine disruptors, plasticizers, degreasers, and surfactants.
1. BHA or BHT – used mainly in moisturizers and makeup as antioxidants and preservatives. BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) and BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) BHA is toxic to the immune system and a possible human carcinogen. BHT may be toxic to the skin, lungs, liver, and immune system. Both chemicals can cause allergic reactions, are suspected of interfering with hormone function (endocrine disruption), and may promote tumour growth.
2. Coal Tar Dyes – used in hair dyes (Look for p-phenylenediamine or colours identified as "C.I." followed by a 5-digit number) Phenylenediamine, has been found to be carcinogenic. Coal tar itself is recognized as a human carcinogen and the main concern with coal tar.
3. DEA – used to make cosmetics creamy or sudsy (Look also for related chemicals MEA and TEA) DEA (diethanolamine) and DEA compounds irritate the skin and eyes and may be toxic to the immune and nervous systems. DEA compounds can also react with other ingredients in cosmetics to form carcinogenic nitrosamines.
4. Dibutyl Phthalate – used mainly in nail products and are also unlisted fragrance ingredients. It can enhance the capacity of other chemicals to cause genetic mutations, although it is not a mutagen itself. In laboratory experiments, it has been shown to interfere with hormone function (endocrine disruption) causing reproductive and developmental problems.
5. Formaldehyde-releasing Preservatives – used as preservatives in cosmetics (Look for DMDM hydantoin, diazolidinyl urea, imidazolidinyl urea, methenamine, quarternium-15, and sodium hydroxymethylglycinate) Formaldehyde is a recognized human carcinogen. They are also toxic to aquatic organisms.
6. Fragrance or Parfum Fragrance recipes are considered a trade secret, so companies are not required to disclose fragrance chemicals in the list of ingredients. Many of these hidden ingredients are irritants and can trigger allergic attacks, migraines, and chemical-induced nerve irritation in sensitive individuals. Individual fragrance ingredients have been associated with cancer and neurotoxicity.
7. Parabens – are widely used in cosmetics as a preservative (Look for ingredients ending in "paraben" (e.g., methylparaben)) Suspected of interfering with hormone function (endocrine disruption).
8. PEG compounds – are widely used in cream bases in cosmetics (Look also for related chemical propylene glycol and other ingredients with the letters "eth" (e.g., polyethylene glycol)). May harm the nervous system and interfere with human development.
9. Petrolatum – used as a barrier to lock moisture in the skin in a variety of moisturizers A petrochemical, it can be contaminated with cancer-causing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
10. Siloxanes – used in cosmetics to soften, smooth, and moisten (Look for cyclomethicone and ingredients ending in "siloxane" (e.g., cyclotetrasiloxane) They are also suspected of interfering with hormone function (endocrine disruption) and of liver toxicity.
11. Sodium Laureth Sulfate – used in cosmetics as a cleansing agent and also to make products bubble and foam (Look also for related chemical sodium lauryl sulfate and other ingredients with the letters "eth" (e.g., sodium laureth sulfate). Contaminants may cause cancer.
12. Triclosan – used mainly in antiperspirants/deodorants, cleansers, and hand sanitizers as a preservative and an anti-bacterial agent Is suspected of interfering with hormone function (endocrine disruption).


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