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British regulators will shape Google's future, as antitrust watchdog reveals Privacy Sandbox deal
BYDavid Meyer
June 11, 2021, 10:11 AM UTC
Good morning. David Meyer here in Berlin, filling in for Alan.
The EU has quite a reputation for effectively exporting—or trying to export—its Big Tech rules around the world. As a frequent first mover, it influences the rules that follow outside its borders, and the policy changes that companies make.
The U.K. may no longer be an EU member as of last year, but if it's trying to keep on making its own mark in this arena, it's off to a flying start.
This morning, Google and the country's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced a potential deal—it's now open for consultation—following an investigation into Google's upcoming privacy changes. (Short version: Google's phasing out Chrome's support for third-party tracking cookies, and ad-tech firms and publishers complained to the CMA that Google's proposed replacement technology would disadvantage them.)
Remarkably, under the deal, the CMA and the U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) would hold Google's hand as it develops its new "Privacy Sandbox" technologies, which are supposed to protect user privacy while still making relevant or semi-targeted advertising possible. To be clear, we're talking about the future of Google here, globally—and British antitrust and privacy regulators will be shaping it.
Yes, the watchdogs are enforcing competition and data-protection laws that are essentially unchanged from when the U.K. was in the EU, so the specter of EU influence still looms large here. And French competition regulators have also been busy whipping Google's ad business into shape this week. But, that said, the CMA and ICO's close cooperation—a competition-privacy partnership that specifically targets the realities of Big Tech—is novel and probably indicative of the wider future of tech regulation.
In this case, Google's proposed commitments (which would be legally binding) include: involving the CMA and the ICO in the development of its Privacy Sandbox proposals; no discrimination against advertising and ad-tech rivals when designing the post-cookie paradigm; the public disclosure of results when Google tests its cookie alternatives—and even "a standstill period of at least 60 days before Google proceeds with the removal of third party cookies," so the CMA can check everything's kosher before giving the go-ahead.
Here's what CMA CEO Andrea Coscelli said this morning: "The emergence of tech giants such as Google has presented competition authorities around the world with new challenges that require a new approach. That's why the CMA is taking a leading role in setting out how we can work with the most powerful tech firms to shape their behavior and protect competition to the benefit of consumers."
And here's Google legal director Oliver Bethell: "If the CMA accepts these commitments, we will apply them globally…We understand that our plans will be scrutinized, so we'll also continue to engage with other regulators, industry partners and privacy experts as well. We believe that these kinds of investments in privacy will create more opportunity, not less."
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EA hack
Electronic Arts got hacked, with the attackers nabbing source code for EA's hit FIFA 21 soccer game and trying to sell it on underground hacking forums, and also obtaining the code for EA's Frostbit gaming engine. Disclosure of the hack knocked EA's shares by nearly 2.8%, though they mostly recovered. Fortune
Amazon fine
Amazon could be whacked with a fine of over $425 million in Luxembourg, where the privacy regulator reckons Amazon has broken the EU's General Data Protection Regulation. This would be the biggest GDPR fine to date. Amazon's crime? That's not publicly known yet, though it has something to do with the collection and use of personal data. Wall Street Journal
The CDC says it's seeing more cases of heart inflammation than expected in 16-to-24-year-olds who received their second Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna mRNA vaccines. We're still talking about very rare cases of myocarditis or pericarditis, but the CDC thought it would see 10-102 cases by the end of May and actually saw 275. CNBC
Bitcoin and Basel
Global banking regulators say the industry faces increased risks from cryptocurrencies, due to everything from wild volatility to the money-laundering problem. Therefore, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has proposed the toughest possible capital requirements for holdings in Bitcoin and other cryptoassets: a 1,250% risk weight. It's a big mainstreaming move for crypto though. Fortune
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$25 minimum
Aspiration CEO Andrei Cherny implemented a $25 minimum hourly wage across his financial-services company, and in this piece for Fortune he runs through the reasoning: "Today's smartest companies know that in order to grow and thrive they have to act responsibly—toward their customers, their community, their employees and the environment. Research has shown that companies with strong practices toward their people and the planet end up outperforming their peers." Fortune
Blackstone buildings
Fortune's Shawn Tully provides a deep look at how the private equity giant became the world's largest private owner of commercial real estate: "In the past several years, [Blackstone] has consistently delivered returns that range from low double digits for its more conservative, longer-term vehicles to well above that for its more opportunistic offerings. It has hit those marks by exiting areas that faded soon after, notably suburban shopping malls and offices in overbuilt U.S. cities, while pivoting to four categories where it previously parked little cash, but that have since prospered mightily." Fortune
Crypto COVID-19
Last week's Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami was one of the biggest gatherings in the U.S. since the pandemic started. There were lots of parties. Not many people wore masks. So, how did it go? Lots of people caught COVID-19. Bloomberg
The EU and the U.K. are at a serious impasse over the issue of chilled meat. At least, that's the quirky headline; the underlying issue is the longstanding one about post-Brexit border checks between Northern Ireland and the rest of the U.K. And it really is a serious problem with no solution in sight. This is a good Anand Menon piece on the sausage-y situation, and where President Biden fits into it. Guardian
This edition of CEO Daily was edited by David Meyer.
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Star Tribune: Revenue falls 33 percent, or $100 million, in just two years
By David Brauer | 02/20/2009
The Star Tribune, which grossed $303 million in 2007, is expected to bring in a staggering $100 million less this year, according to a bankruptcy court filing.
The paper's David Phelps broke the story Thursday night, highlighting ownership's request to abrogate its pressmen's contract. That Teamsters local has been the most recalcitrant; its refusal to take double-digit wage cuts and changed work rules last summer upended concessions Teamsters drivers and mailers were willing to take. The three locals agreed to hang together on any givebacks.
Looking at the Strib's survival plan — which would carve out a $30-million-plus profit on a projected $203 million in revenues — it's not hard to see why the pressman would object. As Phelps notes, the proposal asks them to take $6-$12 wage cuts (roughly $12,000 to $24,000 a year), or between 23 and 50 percent of their salaries.
Unlike other Strib employees, the pressmen have so-called "manning" rules guaranteeing crew size, which makes it harder to cut jobs. (Though not impossible, especially as papers shrink: the Strib laid off 19 workers after the summer concession rejection.)
Assuming ownership isn't overstating the revenue drop as a negotiating ploy, the paper's post-bankruptcy profit margin would be at least 15 percent (at least $32 million on that $203 million in revenues). That would be enough to service restructured debt, ownership maintains. (Without union concessions, the Strib says, its profit would be about $3 million.)
But with revenues falling this fast — and the economy getting worse — how long could even this new plan work? Phelps says creditors have demanded an April deadline on labor concessions — but we haven't yet seen how big a haircut creditors are willing to take. If the paper is truly to survive, the razor should slice close.
Submitted by scott schultz on 02/20/2009 - 09:02 am.
Please name me a media in this market that is not seeing significant revenue shortfall in this era. And please use percentages (up or down).
$100 million is a lot, but the revenues for the newspaper are far higher than other media. It would not be fair to compare the Stribs revenue shortfall to those of smaller media. Even though the smaller media is in the same 'precarious' situation. I would focus on Clear Channel radio for starters, as well as ADVO in this market.
Secondly, newspaper pressmen need to ask themselves this question – who wants them? They can storm out of any negotiations, and let the paper fall. Where they going to go in this economy?
You can scream that AVISTA assumed too much debt. I thought it was stupid to spend a trillion in Iraq. But there you are. Deal with it. Cutting your salaries to save your job is the right move for now. Go to school for another career. THEN change jobs in a couple of years when the economy changes.
Submitted by dan buechler on 02/20/2009 - 10:30 am.
scott, you are correct I learned of another 2 former colleagues who were let go and they both were highly educated individuals but made 60% of what a pressman is paid.
Submitted by john smith on 02/20/2009 - 02:57 pm.
Hey mr.schultz why would i vote myself out of a job.Thats right they want to layoff 24 and im one of them,plus the 19 they laid off in October.They want two weeks of our vacation taken away,our health insurance will go up 350.00 a month on top of the $6.00 per hour pay cut.we are 35 hour work week.pension freeze,no ot until after 40 hours.So that means we can work 2-3 shifts in a row for straight time,with no sleep(real healthy no sleep).If they are losing so much why havent the 13 vps taken a pay cut,they got a freeze,I'll take that.Just so you know the pressman plan on a pay cut BUT there is than just a paycut.This was there plan in the beginning get rid of the unions,thats why the didnt pay cash.They bought Boston Scientific,cash and Bristol Meyers cash,we are talking billons.Drivers, mailroom they want $13.00-$15.00 hour pay cut,scott you take a 50 percent cut and tell me how well you will survive.AND VOTE YOU OR SOME OF YOU FRIENDS OUT OF A JOB
Submitted by dan buechler on 02/20/2009 - 05:55 pm.
John, part of me feels for you but when a job is lost you lose 4 weeks of vacation, your health insurance goes up 1500/month, most people don't get overtime after 35 hours, some don't get it even after 40. More people than you will ever know have already taken a 50% pay cut. I am not mad at you and wish you the best. I'm not living on a large ranch somewhere I got me a small house
two kids and a wife. If I or someone could give everyone health care without being indigent I would also pray for their success.
Submitted by Joe Musich on 02/20/2009 - 10:42 pm.
Are the Strib reported number accurate ?
What's the impact of lost readership ?
If the lost readerhip numbers are high what are the reasons people left as done by survey ?
Is it all a consumer economy dependency "hitting bottom ?"
The worker is getting screwed !
Submitted by Richard Parker on 02/24/2009 - 12:44 am.
Please remember, or learn, that the reason for the manning clause is safety. The pressmen work in an environment where a machine can rip an arm off. They're expected to coordinate their skills with the extreme speed and efficiency of the presses in getting papers out to the readers. Maybe it's a moot point whether that's even worth it anymore (long-term viability of print media), but we don't want to return to the days when packinghouse workers, coal miners, etc., were expendable, do we?

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This week, we're here to discuss characters you like but not many other people do…and then you end up having to defend them!
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The first person to come to mind was easily Claire. She's immature, and yes, can be annoying…and she makes some very bad decisions. But that doesn't make her a bad person, she has her reasons!
I know at least a couple of people have read this series and found the last book the least emotional and romantic between the two main characters. However, it happens to be my favourite book of the series!
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Margo, Margo, Margo. How everyone finds you an annoying b*tch is not unreasonable. But I do wish people would also see your clever humor, wit and downright sassiness.
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When I decided to transition from being a full-time worker to part-time worker in order to spend more time pursuing photography, it was a huge financial risk. Yes, my income was cut in half, but there are some things in life that money can't buy. It has been an amazing year that has exceeded even my wildest dreams and expectations. And it was only made possible because of all of my clients who believed in me and chose to hire me as their photographer. Words can't express how thankful I am to each of you. Every single project I worked on, whether big or small, is an experience I will always remember. Now that the sentimental stuff is out of the way, I'd like to share my personal favorites from each project I've worked on this year.Things got off to a slow start with my first session not beginning until February 1. One of my wife's good friends asked me to take pictures of their son's "Rock" (aka baby's first birthday).
Next up is Sunny, who asked me to capture his surprise proposal. He flew in from San Francisco on Valentine's Day to surprise his girlfriend.
Whitney Barnes was working at Samsung as an engineer when she contacted me for some studio portraits. She broke all of the stereotypes I had about engineers. She's now pursuing a career in the entertainment field full time. Do a search for 휘트니가 누구야? on Naver.com and you can see her videos.
In April, Vanchestca contacted me for some engagement pictures. She ended up convincing her friends Belinda & Canaan to also get some pictures. Both couples were from Hong Kong and I had a blast taking their pictures.
On May 18, the World Cup of Photography contacted me to inform me that I had won 1st place in their professional wedding photo competition. My first prize as a photographer! I received a blue ribbon, a 32gb SD card, and a one-year subscription to Adobe's cloud.
I took a break in May and went on a babymoon with my wife to Jeju Island. It was our first time there and I was blown away by the island's beauty.
After coming back to Korea, I went right back to work and had a family portrait session with the Younger family. They were one of the two winners of my photography auction held at my church.
May 22 was my anniversary, so I surprised my wife by taking her to Pierre Gagnaire, one of the only Michelin-starred restaurants in Korea. It was probably the most expensive meal I'll ever eat, but it was well worth it. It was also the last expensive dinner my wife and I would be able to enjoy before the birth of our son.
On May 27, I met with a Bahraini musician named Hasan living in Seoul. Qatari-based Alef magazine asked me to do an editorial piece. It was my first official magazine publication! It was officially published in their August issue.
June got started with an engagement session at Sunyodo Park. Juliana & Hans came all the way from Pohang to take the pictures. Hans is a film guy who would later help me find an assistant for a one of my future gigs (more on that to come below).
I finally had some time in June, so I decided to take my wife's maternity pictures. We were too lazy to head to the studio, so we just used the wall in our apartment as the backdrop. It's amazing what you can do with photoshop.
I thought I was done in June, but then I received a late night message to film an indie band. The father told me it was a father-son duo. Unfortunately, this was a private gig and I don't have the video to show.
July 1 marked my transition into fatherhood. Gabriel Minkyu Yi was born on July 1st.
My new duties as a father kept me quite busy and I only had one session in July. It was with Jammie & Etienne who were newlyweds from the US. They were kind enough to buy Gabriel a present: cute Mickey Mouse overalls!
In August, I found myself in Pohang for my first photography-related business trip. I was there for a week filming behind-the-scenes footage of the Australian Jazz singer Briana Cowlishaw. She performed at the Chilpo Jazz Festival. I contacted my former client, Hans, to find me an assistant shooter. If it weren't for him, I would've struggled to get some of the footage! Thanks Hans!
Mid-August, I was contacted by Chris Menyen, the founder of the Guanxi Network, to take pictures at a business networking event. I would do one more event with him in September.
At the end of the month, I took Gabriel to the studio to take some pictures. I rented the studio for one hour, but he ended up crying for 45 minutes. I was able to get some normal pictures, but this crying one is still my favorite.
I began September by going to a music cafe near my apartment to watch a live jazz band. People probably thought my wife and I were crazy for bringing Gabriel out late at night, but he somehow managed to sleep through the whole concert.
The next day, I took pictures at Jiyoon's daughter's "Rock". Jiyoon is one of my wife's closest friends, and we've all known each other for more than 10 years.
Mid-September, I took pre-wedding photos of Cornel & Anneke. Maybe not really pre-wedding because they were already married. I guess I should call them "after-wedding" photos…I had a difficult time choosing my favorite from their session because they were all so beautiful!
It was also during this time that one of the managers at Cosmai Café in Milano, Italy, asked to use one of my pictures at an exhibition. It was a picture I took during an engagement session inside of Cosmai Café in Seoul. I had no idea it was an Italian-owned café!
The end of the month found me doing another engagement session with Joanne & Christian. They are both from the states, but Christian is currently stationed in Korea for military service.
October began with another secret proposal. I pretended to be filming a documentary at Namsan Tower and asked Claudia & Sam to be in the film in return for an iPad. Of course Sam was in on the secret. If you want all the juicy details of the proposal, just watch the video.
At the end of the first week, I took a break and went to Yeoido for some personal family portraits and portraits of my friend's family. You may remember this couple from my wedding picture that won first place.
The second week of October found me at Yongsan Family Park for Rachel & Robert's pre-wedding/engagement photos. They were the second winners of my photography auction. After Yongsan Family Park, we went over to Ichon Han River Park.
The third week of October had me at Hapjeong for a portrait session. Gloria wanted portraits to commemorate her transition into her 30s! What a great idea!
November started with my most interesting photo session to date: A session with 5 ladies from Hong Kong who wanted to take pictures in wedding dresses. Some were married and some were still single. I was nervous about this one, but it ended up being an absolute blast!
Two days later I had a pre-wedding session with Mark & Aileen from Malaysia. They kept telling me how they weren't photogenic, but their pictures said otherwise.
I received three more inquiries for the month of November, but had to turn them down because I went to Seattle for my cousin's wedding. Before their wedding, I did a short session with them in Pike Place Market.
On November 16, my cousin was happily married to Daniel Rim. I'm still working on their wedding video, so be on the lookout for it in the coming months.
Before leaving Seattle, my wife and I setup decorations to take pictures of Gabriel's 100-day celebration. The infant mortality rate was quite high in Korea during the Korean War and post-war period. It's for this reason that a baby's 100th day of life is a time of celebration in Korea.
I came back to Korea on November 30 expecting to rest and enjoy the remainder of the year, but somehow, it ended up being my busiest month! I had a total of 8 sessions scheduled. The first week of December had me at Gyeongbokgung Palace & Myeongdong for Ronnie & Steve's honeymoon session.
The following week I found myself taking portraits and engagement pictures of a couple from Saudi Arabia. I won't be showing any of their pictures publicly, but I also had an amazing session at Namsangol with Rasyidah & Firwan that same week. It snowed the night before and on the day of their session, so it was a dream come true for all of us.
Sunday rolled around and I did a last-minute portrait session with Ian around Shinsa. He's looking for an English teaching job, but my advice to him would be to pursue modeling.
I couldn't resist adding just one more from Katty & Gavin's session. Nothing beats a romantic kiss in the subway stairwell as people pass by.
Maybe I'm an idealist, but I truly believe every person was built with a passion and purpose to pursue. Don't let society dictate or control your decisions. Take charge of your own fate. Use your God-given talents and don't let them go to waste. Of course you also have to be realistic, but don't close the doors of opportunity that do open up to you. And don't let one failure bring you down. Often times, failure, is actually the starting point of success.
My goal this year is to transition into photography full time. I understand that this could be a huge financial risk, but I hope one year from now I'll be writing a new post as a full-time photographer. Until then, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!


It reduces reasoning to inherently social experiences. As I said, I am in total agreement that a significant portion of our thinking/reasoning originates from social experiences, which is only natural given that we are such social animals. But it seems too strong to claim that there is no influence on reasoning processes from the non-social interactions of the agent with her environment (on an externalist approach), or simply by the internal development of her reasoning capacities (on an internalist approach).
It reduces reasoning to inherently linguistic experiences. I've had this worry for a long time regarding Brandom's inferentialist program based on the 'game of giving and asking for reasons', and Mercier and Sperber seem to take a similar position. Crucially, it implies that pre- or non-linguistic creatures fall outside the scope of rationality and reasoning. But language is relatively a late-comer in the evolution of the human species, and it is implausible that selection for reasoning would have started only once language was already present.
It fails to appreciate the strong presence of cooperative forms of dialogical interaction. One fruitful taxonomy of dialogical situations, proposed by K. Stenning in Chap. 5 of Seeing Reason (btw, Stenning is my favorite researcher in the field of psychology of reasoning; big fan of David Over too) is between adversarial and cooperative dialogical interactions. My own reconceptualization of deduction in terms of its dialogical origins emphasizes (as does Stenning) its adversarial nature. Much of the 'surprising' results observed in experiments with deductive reasoning tasks might be explained in terms of the subjects engaging in the 'wrong' game; they take the task to be some sort of cooperative task, while in fact it is adversarial in essence. My feeling is that, overall, our dialogical practices are much more often cooperative than adversarial (naturally, a claim that could and should be tested empirically), and even insofar as reasoning in general is shaped by dialogical interactions, Mercier and Sperber's model only seems to accommodate the adversarial component. My claim concerning the dialogical origins of deduction is very different in that it makes no appeals to evolutionary considerations (deductive reasoning is for me a cultural development), and in that it attributes a role to adversarial dialogues in the emergence of deductive reasoning, not reasoning in general.
There is much more that I could (and will, at some point) say on this highly stimulating paper, in particular concerning how the authors interpret the data on confirmation bias (my favorite reasoning bias as well, but I strongly disagree with their take on it), but this is already too long for a blog post.
UPDATE: Massimo Pigliucci bashes the paper. I agree with many of the points he makes, in particular with the overall rejection of evolutionary psychology. In this case in particular, it is yet again a ultra-adaptationist story, but clearly reasoning may well be a byproduct of some other adaptive feature(s). Moreover, it is far from obvious that the capacity to 'win arguments' would really give individuals the evolutionary edge so as to be selected for.


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Sri Lanka Planetarium () is a public planetarium located in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It is the first and only planetarium in the country and maintained as an institute under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Research.

The Planetarium was established on 1 February 1965 by the State Engineering Corporation as a special feature for the Ceylon industrial exhibition held in Colombo same year. The planetarium was designed by the chief engineer from the State Engineering Corporation of Ceylon, A. N. S. Kulasinghe, and was constructed by engineers from Germany. The building takes elements from the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (Sir Frederick Gibberd - 1960) and the Cathedral of Brasília (Oscar Niemeyer - 1960). The building has a reinforced concrete floor and a pre-stressed concrete folded plate roof, which was pre-cast on-site. The building was funded by the German Democratic Republic as a gift to Ceylon. The planetarium is  high and  in diameter.

The building was refurbished in 2014 at a cost of Rs 200 million and re-opened to the public on 9 December.

The planetarium has a digital fully-spherical projector stationed at the centre of the building, which projects an artificial sky on the  diameter dome above a 570-seat auditorium. The universal projector is a product of Carl Zeiss AG East Germany.

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Tourist attractions in Western Province, Sri Lanka
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The prime minister was asked on the BBC's The Andrew Marr Show what was the "brutal" Brexit negotiating advice that Trump had talked about in their joint press conference outside the prime minister's Chequers country retreat.
May said: "He told me I should sue the EU. We're going into negotiations with them".
She added: "Let's just keep our eyes on the prize here".
May's revelations came after a damning critique of her exit plans by Trump.
"What Trump is saying [is] litigation is a weapon, it's a tool, it's when you go in hard, and I think what Donald Trump told her is that a deal like this has gotta be done hard, it's gotta be done fast, it's gotta be clean, and it can't take a long time", he explained.
- Queen, 92, has "lotta years left" - Trump met May at the prime minister's Chequers country retreat for talks on Friday before meeting Queen Elizabeth for tea at Windsor Castle.
May did not provide details of what sort of legal case the USA president had in mind, and it was not immediately clear what practical effects such an intervention would have during tense negotiations over Brexit.
But Trump has made clear his animosity toward the EU, aggressively criticizing his European NATO allies for taking advantage of the USA on trade and defense spending.
The British government has also stepped up planning for a so called "no deal" Brexit that could spook financial markets and dislocate trade flows across Europe and beyond. That has infuriated fervent Brexit supporters, who see it as a bad deal. Along with Johnson, the man who had been leading the Brexit negotiations, David Davis, also quit in protest.
"I'm sure Theresa May doesn't want to split the Conservative Party and therefore she will find that the inevitable outcome of the parliamentary arithmetic is that she will need to change it to keep the party united".
Following on from her article in The Mail on Sunday this morning, May defended her Brexit blueprint on the BBC, and urged her critics to get behind it.
Britain and the European Union would maintain a "common rulebook" for goods to ensure smooth trade including in agricultural, food and fisheries products.


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By Pat Shaw on	 July 15, 2019 News
Good News !
Marconi SC have been successful in gaining a £10000 grant from Sport England towards our SB20 Keelboat Project.
The project aims to secure the long term future of this type of sailing at the club by developing a fleet of boats. This follows the clubs commitment to this last season when an SB20 was purchased on a trial basis to gauge response. The response was overwhelmingly positive from all who managed to get out and sail the SB20. The grant enables the purchase of three more SB20s and the club will now be in a position to offer regular small fleet racing and one off events using these four boats.
The award of the grant was the result of extensive work by Sue Shenton and the logistics involved in sourcing suitable boats and conveying them to the club has been taken on by Peter Ward. There is great support for this project from the board and the committee, it is intended to add an area of sailing to the club portfolio which up to now has been absent. The single SB20 which entered this years ECPR did quite well and came in second endorsing the suitability of these boats for our location.
Its planned that the boats purchased with the aid of the grant will arrive at the club shortly before Cadet Week and its hoped that the boats can be rigged and tested in order for them to be made available for organised sailing during camping fortnight.
For information on how to get involved with Keelboat sailing at Marconi S.C. please contact Peter Ward – contact details are in the year book.
Here is what our cadets thought about sailing the club SB20 last summer:
Keelboat SB20
Pat Shaw
Pat is Marconi Sailing Clubs, Rear Commodore (Sailing) he might occasionally be seen driving a power boat :-) Or falling off the front end of an RS800.........


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Delhi civic polls live: BJP ahead of AAP, leads in over 120 wards
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Delhi MCD Election Result Live Updates: Counting of votes is under way for 250 wards of Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) amid tight security. According to initial official trends, AAP and BJP both are leading in over 100 seats each. The EVMs, with the mandate of 73,20,577 voters, will remain under tight vigil at 42 centres across the national capital. Both AAP and the BJP have exuded confidence that they will emerge victorious in the polls while the Congress is seeking to regain lost turf. Both the ruling BJP and AAP have put up 250 candidates each for the elections, while the Congress has 247 aspirants and Bahujan Samaj Party, 132. Delhi recorded a voter turnout of 50.48 per cent in the polls held on December 4. The fate of 1,349 candidates at 250 wards was sealed in the Sunday polling for the Delhi MCD elections compared with 2,538 in 2017. In the 2017 civic election, the BJP had won 181 of the 270 wards, the AAP had won 48 wards and the Congress 27. The Delhi MCD results will likely be out by 3pm. Stay with TOI for all the latest updates:Read Less
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Dane Ingham (Lismore, 8 de junio de 1999) es un futbolista australiano nacionalizado neozelandés que juega como defensor en el Newcastle United Jets. Su hermano Jai también es jugador de fútbol.

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En 2015 se incorporó al Brisbane Roar Youth, que disputa la NPL Queensland, segunda división de Australia. En 2017 subió al primer equipo realizando su debut en una goleada por 6-0 sobre el Global filipino en un encuentro de la Liga de Campeones de la AFC 2017. Recién en su tercera aparición para el club, marcó su primer gol profesional ante el Perth Glory en un empate 2-2.

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Selección nacional
Fue convocado para un campo de entrenamiento con la . Sin embargo, al poseer ascendencia neozelandesa obtuvo el pasaporte de dicha nacionalidad con el fin de representar a la . Hizo su debut con los All Whites el 28 de marzo de 2017 en una victoria por 2-0 sobre . Posteriormente, fue convocado por Darren Bazeley para disputar con el  la Copa Mundial de 2017, aunque debió abandonar el equipo luego de haber disputado dos partidos por haber sido convocado a la selección mayor para la Copa FIFA Confederaciones 2017, donde aparecería ante  y .

Partidos y goles internacionales

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Futbolistas de Australia
Futbolistas nacionalizados en Nueva Zelanda
Futbolistas de la selección de fútbol sub-20 de Nueva Zelanda
Futbolistas de la selección de fútbol de Nueva Zelanda
Futbolistas de Nueva Zelanda en la Copa FIFA Confederaciones 2017
Futbolistas del Brisbane Roar Football Club
Futbolistas del Perth Glory Football Club
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CDB fund Sandy Bay Sea Defence Resilience Project
The Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines is receiving support from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), to boost its ongoing efforts to tackle climate change.
The Board of Directors of the CDB has approved financing of 13.4 million U.S Dollars to enhance resilience of Sandy Bay and other North Windward communities to coastal hazards and the potential impacts of climate change.
The Sandy Bay Sea Defence Resilience Project aims to reduce the rate of coastal erosion, through the construction of sea defences in sections along the Sandy Bay coastline.
Daniel Best, Director of Projects at the CDB said the Project will reduce the vulnerability of Sandy Bay and other North Windward communities to aggressive coastal erosion, caused by wave action and storm surges associated with the passing of tropical storms and hurricanes.
Mr. Best said the erosion of the Sandy Bay coastline threatens the Windward Highway and the social and economic activities of the surrounding community. He noted that the Windward Highway provides the community's only access to key economic activities, including the geothermal site currently under development and to popular attractions in the north-eastern section of the coast.
The key project components include: preparation of a feasibility study inclusive of an environmental and social monitoring plan; construction of sea defences along approximately 730 metres of shoreline, as well as auxiliary works such as green space and pavement construction; engineering and construction-related services; and project management, monitoring and evaluation. The CDB says the investment is consistent with the Bank's Disaster Management Strategy and Operational Guidelines, and Climate Resilience Strategy.
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ADRON HOMES GIFTS HOUSES AND CASH TO STAFF IN COMMEMORATION OF ITS 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY.
Adron homes & property gifts Houses and Cash to staff in commemoration of its 10 year anniversary
The Frontline real estate company in Africa, Adron homes & property recently named a road after its first land lady "Queen Marry Onoja, in the magnificent and luxury estate, Manhattan Park and Gardens, Pearland river-lake, Keffi- Abuja road.
The unveiling of the road "Queen Mary Onoja road", gifts loyal staff houses and cash as GMD paid a royal courtesy visit to Gomo of Kuje and Emir of Uke Kingdom which is part of the 10th year anniversary of the company.
The managements and member of staff, paid a royal courtesy visit to The Gomo of Kuje, His Royal Highness, Alhaji (Dr) Haruna Tanko Jibrin where the peerless estate is situated.
During the visitation, the management of Adron Homes and Properties lead by its Group Managing Director, Aare Adetola EmmanuelKing vowed their support to provide social amenities and many other basic infrastructure to ensure the environment and community are conducive; which is part of the company's Corporate Social Responsibility, (CSR) in marking 10 years of tremendous successes.
Also while giving his speech at The Palace of the Emir of Uke Kingdom, HRM Abdullah Hassan in Nasarawa state (host community to one of Adron Homes estates known as "Manhattan Park and Garden Estates", the GMD of the real estate company, Aare Adetola EmmanuelKing, gave thanks to God for the company's 10th year , because he also revealed on how the company started on Monday February 7th, 2012, with the help of his delectable wife, Olori Aderonke EmmanuelKing who brought into his vision to start a company wholeheartedly.
" On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of our beloved company, I want to spend time recalling the past, my biggest feeling is: enthusiasm and dream are the greatest assets and standing on the stage of the 10-year anniversary celebration. I am deeply touched & emotional, remembering the time when I decided to take up this monumental challenge to own a business " he opined
He further stated in his speech that he was passionate about his people and their welfare. While saying this, he gave a remark on how he gave his 55 million personal apartment to his long serving staff when she had housing challenge.
" At that time, I had 2 houses and I was moved to gift her my first personal house I had ever built for myself and we all knew the emotions tied up with such property. I gifted her my 4 bedroom detached Duplex which was worth 55 million naira as at then but now currently valued at over 80million "
Adron Homes which is known for making incredible affordable used the opportunity to present houses and Cash gifts to 10 selected members of his staff for their commitments and loyalty.
Adron homes and property is a reliable and trustworthy company that also has estate in locations across Nigeria; such as Lagos, Abuja, Ogun, Nasarawa and Oyo State with over 32 estates and still counting.
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The lounge area should be cozy, have low lighting, plenty of seating, a buffet table, and a bar with a variety of cocktails, wine, beer, and soft drinks. Consider hiring college students to serve drinks and perhaps pass appetizers, or hire a personal chef or caterer with servers to enjoy the company of your guests during the event. If you need new tunes, I'm sure Princeton Record Exchange can supply you. If you're looking for customized save the dates and invitations, Joy Cards on Nassau Street produces amazing works of art.
I've listed some suggestions below, and you can create a party as simple or elaborate as you budget allows. The nice thing about lounges is you can have more than one during your event to suit the interests of you and your guests. Some lounges can be smaller and opened for a short time to offer variety, and get people to mingle more.
All can gather around a couple of flat screens to watch games while munching on pub grub like quesadillas, potato skins, or Buffalo wings from Chuck's. Wash it all down with a good brew or cocktail. Providing a billiard table, foosball table, and/or dart boards are a bonus, especially for those who aren't into spectator sports. This can be in addition to other lounges.
Hire a jazz pianist or ask a friend to tickle the ivories. Don't have a piano? Play traditional or smooth jazz to add to the ambience. Heavy hors d'oeuvres with wine and cocktails are nice in this setting. An alternative is to play New Orleans jazz, and serve up creole appetizers!
Select a room with a door and an opened window. A Little Taste of Cuba has a nice selection of quality cigars for your event. Provide single malt scotch like Glenlivet, cognac, or perhaps the locally imported Double Cross Vodka to enhance the experience. Check here for drink pairings based on the strength of your smoke. Play suave Bossa Nova music or Frank Sinatra for a Rat Pack feeling. This lounge can be in addition to the others mentioned.
Can you say Casino Royale? Place Black Jack, craps, roulette and/or poker tables around the room, and make sure you have plenty of clay chips. Hire some dealers for the tables or ask some friends to work them. There's no permit necessary as long as no money will be exchanged, but the atmosphere can still be electric! This event definitely calls for a martini bar. Up the ante with gadgets to play with, i.e. an iPad with gaming apps like iSlots, Poker for iPad, Texas Hold 'em for iPad, and Black Jack on it, a portable DVD player or laptop with a Bond DVD from Princeton Record Exchange pre-loaded, or tell everyone to check in on Facebook and tag guests with their smartphones. Black tie is optional.
This is perfect if your crowd is into dancing. This could be swing, disco, Top 40, or whatever you listen to. The cocktails, wine and beer will loosen up those who are normally timid to dance. Hire a DJ to motivate everyone to keep moving, or connect your MP3 player or computer to your audio system and select a great playlist. Choose the crossfade option (under preferences>playback) if you're using iTunes for an uninterrupted flow of music. Pass heavy hors d'oeuvres to those not shaking their groove thing, and dancers can make their way to the buffet. This lounge can also be in addition to the others mentioned.
I've saved my favorite for last. If you like to spice things up, have your guest enter a room with ottomans and large cushions on the floor, an optional hookah that you can buy at Cafe 360 in Freehold for $20 – $100, and a belly dancer to entertain guests. If you don't have a dancer, play music like Moroccan Bellydance to set the mood. If your budget allows, place a party tent in the room with a Persian rug on the floor and ceiling curtains that drape down along the sides for a cozier atmosphere. Add uplighting, potted palm trees, and Persian lanterns as finishing touches. Mezze such as stuffed grape leaves, falafels, hummus and baba ghonuj with flat bread available at Zorba's Grill, and kefta kabobs can be passed, and entrees like taijine chicken and lamb tanjia with cous cous can be set up buffet-style. Check Ten Thousand Villages or Home Goods for Middle Eastern/North African decor. Want a camel in front of your house to make a statement? Contact Kafka Farms in Watchung.
Love this idea, especially the Moroccan themed lounge.
The Moroccan lounge is definitely my fave. Can you imagine going to someone's house with a camel in front to greet you?


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Q: What to do with .desktop files that comes in tar.gz I recently downloaded Blender from its website and when I unpacked the tar.gz archive I found out that there is a blender.desktop file. I know that it is used for creating menu or desktop shortcuts. I just don't know how can I use .desktop files.

A: What are .desktop files (launchers)
.desktop files are text configuration files that, when properly installed, inform the menu system of the desktop on the existence of an application on the system.
The desktop environment will populate its application menu based on the information found in .desktop files present in system folders (including /usr/share/applacations), or in the folder $HOME/.local/share/applications in the user's home folder. When the user clicks the menu item, the application is launched based on the information contained in the .desktop file.
What to do with your desktop file

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*Move it to the folder ~/.local/share/applications.

*Check whether the Exec= line is correctly pointing to the executable. Open your .desktop file with a text editor. Make sure that the line starting with Exec= points to the actual executable file of the program. If the executable is in a folder included in the the search PATH (issue echo $PATH in the terminal to see the search path), it is sufficient to include the name of the executable. Else, the full path of the executable must be provided.

If the Exec= line points to a correct executable, the launcher will automatically appear in your application menu.

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The Land Of Wolves
The Return Of The Wolf
The Beast Of Waste And Desolation
The Face of the Wild: Dakota, the female wolf in Colchester Zoo, England (Photo: Alexander Fiske-Harrison)
I started this blog with the earnest intention of documenting my investigations for a proposed book on wolves.
I began well, with trips to Romania and Scotland, and meeting key figures in that world, but then before I could write up the notes and recordings from those, I was dragged away by other things, some personal, some work, including in the world of horses – as you can see in the article from the Spanish newspaper ABC right – which I will translate and publish online soon – and also the world of bulls, as you can see from the article in Boisdale Life magazine below.
To summarise where I got to: in the Autumn of 2016 I met with the conservationist Paul Lister at his club in Notting Hill in London – via his excellent right hand Sam Sutaria – who not only founded The European Nature Trust, TENT, but also has rather famously been planning to reintroduce wolves to his 23,000-acre Wilderness Reserve in the Scottish Highlands, Alladale, for some years. (He recently put a time limit on this project, which is the end of this year, in which times he requires the plans to become concrete: as you can read in The Guardian here.)
Paul is a remarkable man – and a generous host – whose dedication to conservation is practically without comparison. So, when the Daily Mail sent me to Romania for a travel article – online here – another area where he has profound conservation interests, we decided to join forces.
It was a happy coincidence that on the day we met in Transylvania the Romanian parliament had just approved his most ambitious project there: the foundation of the largest National Park in Europe in the Făgăraș Mountains, named in the press as Europe's Yellowstone Park (no coincidence given what I describe below.)
Paul, Christoph and I celebrate the announcement at Equus Silvania into the night (Photo: Alexander Fiske-Harrison)
This was not his dream – and labour – alone, but also that of many others including the wolf biologist Christoph Promberger (whose Transylvanian horse-trekking ranch Equus Silvania I also wrote up in my article), with whom he had formed Foundation Conservation Carpathia (FCC) in 2009.
Containing the largest remaining chunk of virgin forest – untouched by man since the dawn of time – and a large proportion of Romania's apex predators, i.e. 40% of Europe's wolves, bears and lynx, it is both extraordinarily ambitious and extraordinarily noble as a project.
In the valley is some of the last virgin forest in Europe. (Photo: Alexander Fiske-Harrison)
And partaking in any of TENT's many events in London, like their upcoming UK premiere of the documentary 100 Days Of Solitude at BAFTA, tickets online here , contributes directly to that work.
Having spent my time so enjoyably and informatively in Romania with Paul (and the representatives of Britain's Woodland Trust who joined us in our helicopter to view the new park.) Paul then invited me to see his Alladale Estate.
There I had the honour and pleasure to meet the man behind the most successful conservation intervention of the past quarter century, Doug Smith, chief biologist of the US National Parks Service, who was responsible for the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone Park in 1995 and the extraordinary ecological results that followed (along with Doug's charming wife and children.)
The view from my bedroom window at Alladale (Photo: Alexander Fiske-Harrison)
There followed days of walking, talking, mountain biking – Paul is terrifyingly energetic and the Smith's are the definition of the great American outdoorsmen (and women) – and informal assessment for this place as a land for wolves. The answer was, in theory at least, positive.
So, hopefully this winter will see me reconnect with this project, the book that will come from it – and the characters that will people it – from Transylvania to Yellowstone, with the Highlands of Scotland between them. Now is the time. I was there at the beginning, I intend to be there at the end.
In the meantime, do the right thing, and support TENT by signing up to their newsletters, joining their amazing experiences in Romania and the UK, attending their events, and raising their profiles so we can help turn a part of Scotland back into the Great Forest of Caledon it once was, rather than the soggy ecological desert the Highlands currently are, and preserve those parts of Europe that are still in good shape, conservation-wise, like Romania and here in Spain where Paul has also partnered up, and leave the world a little better than we found it.
Plastic in the water is not the only problem we face…
Alexander Fiske-Harrison
The northernmost remnant of the original Neolithic Forest on the mainland of Britain, in the Alladale Estate, in the Highlands of Scotland
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The new wolf, Kera, at Colchester Zoo, on the day she arrived, March 16, 2016 (Photo: Alexander Fiske-Harrison)
Five years ago to the day, I sent the final proofs of my manuscript on my time with the fighting bulls of Spain to Profile Books.
Into The Arena did okay, and became something of a set text on that arcane and archaic, bloody and beautiful world in the English language. However, I came to it as a lover of animals, as I wrote in an essay on the subject in Prospect magazine in 2008:
I have always been an animal lover. I grew up with cats, dogs and horses reading the novels of Gerald Durrell, Richard Adams and Gavin Maxwell, joined the WWF before I was ten and began as an undergraduate at Oxford as a biologist…
The author and his first pet, 'Puddy'
My researches in this area, when I was working on philosophy of biology and consciousness at the University of London, even included spending time with Great Apes at Georgia State University and writing arguing for improved captive welfare in a cover essay for the Financial Times in 2001 (reprinted on my blog here.)
However, where I really wanted to go in terms of research was wolves and the domestic subspecie(s) of them, dogs.
I had begun corresponding with L. David Mech, the father of wolf biology – who brought the phrase 'alpha male' into common usage – in early 2009 when I had been asked by Prospect to review Mark Rowlands' book The Philosopher And The Wolf.
Rowlands and I would fail to see eye-to-eye when he misleadingly reviewed Into The Arena for The Times Literary Supplement. Our exchange in the letters pages of The TLS, reprinted here, spilled over into the mainstream press.
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I got back in touch with Professor Mech in 2012, whose book Wolves: Behaviour, Ecology and Conservation is the bible on the subject, about the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone Park in the United States. As I did with Paul Lister, who spoke about his hopes of reintroducing wolves in Scotland and the realities of having done so in Romania.
I then got diverted by working on my novel The Devil's Voice, but have always said in interviews, right up to my most recent, in Spain, for ¡Hola! magazine, that,
My next book will be non-fiction about wolves. I am planning to go and study them in America. I have a great love of wildlife.
Recently, this has become a reality. This month I have spent my weekdays at Colchester Zoo, a few miles from my family home, as they begin to form a new pack of wolves and my weekends with family friends who are forming a very different, and yet very similar, pack of their own.
Lottie, the Daschund puppy of Andrew Bancroft Cooke, and Pepper, the Labrador puppy of his father Anthony
I've been rereading Mech and Konrad Lorenz on the ethology, and the stories of Ernest Seton Thompson's 'Lobo' and Jack London's 'White Fang'. I went further back to the symbolic man who 'catches the wolf in the corn' in Silesia in Frazer's Golden Bough and Fenrir, the wolf at the end of the world in the Norse myths of the Elder Edda.
I came to realise that my book should include everything, from our co-evolution – and the creation of the dog and its creation of modern man – to our mythology and our projection onto them of our deepest and darkest desires, hopes and hatreds. (What I once termed in Frieze magazine, "anthropopsychism".)
How else has man taken a mid-size social predatory carnivorous mammal, which does exactly what you'd expect from such an animal, and gone from calling it "the beast of waste and desolation" – in Teddy Roosevelt's memorable phrase – to perceiving it as some kind of spirit-animal cum cuddly toy?
Totemic madnesses both.
I could see the end of such a book: I would have to buy a dog of my own (what else are publisher's advances for?) How to begin though?
And then the Daily Mail asked me to go to Transylvania, to the Carpathian mountains, with the largest virgin forests left in Europe and the greatest population of wolves. So the land of Dracula I fly, to see "the children of the night".
Twitter: @fiskeharrison
(P.S. For anyone interested, the title of this blog and working title of my book, comes from this scene here in the excellent film Sicario.)
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I did some writing and lettering for Poler, a Portland company that makes rad camping gear. Benji Wagner paired my lettering and language with his excellent photographs, and Print Pinball made them real.
Offset printed, CMYK and black on duplex paper-chipboard. Photos by Print Pinball.


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Некромантија () је облик магије у коме се позивају душе мртваца ради прорицања.

Од раздобља ренесансе Некромантија је озлоглашена као облик црне магије, приписујући јој као главни циљ призивање демона. Одатле је настао израз нигромантија у значењу црна магија.

Из некромантске праксе развио се током 19. века модерни спиритизам.

Историја

Стари век
Некромантија је била позната многим народима у антици; од Персије и Бабилона до Египта. Вештина призивања мртвих спомиње се и у грчко-римском времену.

Најстарији литерарни запис о некромантији налази се у грчком епу Одисеја, у делу у којем Одисеј одлази у Хад и призива душе умрлих на начин како му је објаснила Кирка.

Постоји и више спомена о некромантији у Библији. Један од таквих спомена је и старозаветна прича о јеврејском краљу Саулу који одлази код вештице из Ендора да му помогне призвати дух преминулог Самуела (1 Сам 28-28,25). Надаље, у Поновљеном закону (Пнз 18,9-12) наводи се забрана врачања и некромантије:

Грчки географ Страбон записао је да је Некромантија код Персијанаца један од заступљенијих видова прорицања. Истоветни обичаји забележени су и код Халдејаца, Бабилонаца и Етрушчана.

У Грчкој и Риму евокације мртвих одвијале су се у пећинама, и у близини вулкана, река и језера.

Средњи век
Хришћански оци у првим стољећима хришћанства указују на раширеност некромантије код паганских народа и залажу се против такве праксе. С временом се појам Некромантија све више поистовјећује с осталим праксама вештичарства и црне магије, па се на пример, Тертулијан противио тој пракси тврдећи да се призивачима уместо душа умрлих заправо приказују демони који их желе обманути.

Премда је Некромантија етикетирана и здружена са "црним умијећем" заједно с алхемијом, магијом и вештичарством, ипак је донекле преживела као облик прорицања током средњег века.

Ренесанса
Појавом ренесансе и ревитализацијом новоплатонистичке филозофије, оживљавају сви облици окултне праксе, тако и Некромантија. Чувени ренесансни окултист Хеинрих Корнелиус Агрипа је у својој књизи Де окулта пхилосопхиа описивао магичне обреде потребне за призивање душа умрлих.

Савремено доба
Од 19. века обликује се савремени вид некромантије, спиритизам, вештина призивања умрлих особа уз помоћ духовних медија.
Један од најпознатијих традиционалних покушаја евокације мртвих, забележио је француски окултист Елифас Леви у својој књизи Догма и Ритуал Високе Магије из 1856. године. Догађај се збио за време Левијевог боравка у Лондону у лето 1854. године. На молбу неке енглеске даме, Леви је извео обред некромантије и, према његовом уверењу, призвао дух Аполонија из Тијане.

Види још
 Магија
 Демонологија

Референце

Литература
 Библија, Свето писмо Старога и Новога Завјета
 Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsichology, vol. 2, Farmington Hills, 2001..
 Eliphas Levi|Lévi, Eliphas, Transcendentalna magija, Esotheria, Beograd, 2004..

Спољашње везе

Окултизам
Парапсихологија

ja:ネクロマンシー


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Q: Dovecot can't receive external mails, AddressValueError After updating
from dovecot-1:2.2.10-7.el7.x86_64 to 1:2.2.10-8.el7.x86_64
from dovecot-mysql-1:2.2.10-7.el7.x86_64 to 1:2.2.10-8.el7.x86_64
from dovecot-pigeonhole-1:2.2.10-7.el7.x86_64 to 1:2.2.10-8.el7.x86_64
I can not receive emails from external mail addresses. Sending mails works fine as well as receiving them when they are send from a local mail address.
In /var/log/maillog I have the following Error:
Oct 30 15:11:21 hostname postfix/smtpd[28227]: connect from sonic304-22.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com[77.238.179.147]
Oct 30 15:11:21 hostname postfix/smtpd[28227]: Anonymous TLS connection established from sonic304-22.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com[77.238.179.147]: TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)
Oct 30 15:11:21 hostname policyd-spf[28530]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Oct 30 15:11:21 hostname policyd-spf[28530]:  File "/usr/libexec/postfix/policyd-spf", line 707, in <module>
Oct 30 15:11:21 hostname policyd-spf[28530]:    instance_dict, configData, peruser)
Oct 30 15:11:21 hostname policyd-spf[28530]:  File "/usr/libexec/postfix/policyd-spf", line 419, in _spfcheck
Oct 30 15:11:21 hostname policyd-spf[28530]:    res = spf.check2(ip, helo_fake_sender, helo, querytime=configData.get('Lookup_Time'))
Oct 30 15:11:21 hostname policyd-spf[28530]:  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spf.py", line 297, in check2
Oct 30 15:11:21 hostname policyd-spf[28530]:    receiver=receiver,timeout=timeout,verbose=verbose,querytime=querytime).check()
Oct 30 15:11:21 hostname policyd-spf[28530]:  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spf.py", line 378, in __init__
Oct 30 15:11:21 hostname policyd-spf[28530]:    self.set_ip(i)
Oct 30 15:11:21 hostname policyd-spf[28530]:  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spf.py", line 405, in set_ip
Oct 30 15:11:21 hostname policyd-spf[28530]:    self.ipaddr = ipaddress.ip_address(i)
Oct 30 15:11:21 hostname policyd-spf[28530]:  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaddress.py", line 163, in ip_address
Oct 30 15:11:21 hostname policyd-spf[28530]:    ' a unicode object?' % address)
Oct 30 15:11:21 hostname policyd-spf[28530]: AddressValueError: '77.238.179.147' does not appear to be an IPv4 or IPv6 address. Did you pass in a bytes (str in Python 2) instead of a unicode object?
Oct 30 15:11:21 hostname postfix/spawn[28087]: warning: command /usr/libexec/postfix/policyd-spf exit status 1
Oct 30 15:11:21 hostname postfix/smtpd[28227]: warning: premature end-of-input on private/policy-spf while reading input attribute name

Any ideas what's the cause of the error?

A: I have fixed my problem. As stated in the comments, the corresponding Bug report is https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=12393.
The fix provided in the comment by Yohei TOMIYAMA works for me.
Before you fix it, make sure it's the same bug. The following versions of the packages must match:
yum list installed | grep pypolicyd-spf
pypolicyd-spf.noarch   1.3.2-2.el7   @epel

yum list installed | grep python-ipaddress
python-ipaddress.noarch   1.0.16-2.el7  @base

The package python-ipaddress may only be required by pypolicyd-spf or this fix will break anything else. You can check this with
rpm -q --whatrequires python-ipaddress
pypolicyd-spf-1.3.2-2.el7.noarch

Now the fix:
rpm -e --nodeps python-ipaddress
vim /usr/libexec/postfix/policyd-spf

At line 40 change the line as following:
- import ipaddress
+ import ipaddr as ipaddress

That's it. Depending on the configuration of the mail-provider they retry sending the mail in intervals. After an hour or so most of the missing mails should be received.
As mentioned above, thanks to Yohei TOMIYAMA for providing this fix.


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The Stone Circle (Ruth Galloway Mysteries) (Paperback)
By Elly Griffiths
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In a chilling entry to the award-winning Ruth Galloway series, Ruth and DCI Nelson are haunted by a ghost from their past, just as their future lands on shaky ground.
DCI Nelson has been receiving threatening letters. They are anonymous, yet reminiscent of ones he has received in the past, from the person who drew him into a case that's haunted him for years. At the same time, Ruth receives a letter purporting to be from that very same person—her former mentor, and the reason she first started working with Nelson. But the author of those letters is dead. Or is he?
The past is reaching out for Ruth and Nelson, and its grip is deadly.
ELLY GRIFFITHS is the author of the Ruth Galloway and Brighton mystery series and the stand-alone novels The Stranger Diaries and The Postscript Murders. She is a recipient of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, the Mary Higgins Clark Award, and the CWA Dagger in the Library Award. She lives in Brighton, England.
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Big asteroid shows itself ahead of Earth flyby on April 29 (photo)
April 24, 2020 April 24, 2020 ggubash
We have nothing to fear from 1998 OR2.
The Arecibo Observatory captured this radar image of the big asteroid 1998 OR2 on April 18, 2020. 1998 OR2 will fly by Earth at a distance of 3.9 million miles (6.3 million kilometers) on April 29.(Image: © Arecibo Observatory/NASA/NSF)
We've now got a good visual on the big space rock that's going to fly by Earth next week.
On Saturday (April 18), the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico captured a radar image of the asteroid 1998 OR2, which will zoom within 3.9 million miles (6.3 million kilometers) of our planet on April 29.
For perspective: The moon orbits Earth at an average distance of about 239,000 miles (385,000 km). So we have nothing to fear from asteroid 1998 OR2's Earth flyby on April 29, scientists stress.
Arecibo team members have been wearing masks in the workplace to help minimize the spread of the novel coronavirus, and they apparently see a bit of themselves in the approaching space rock.
"#TeamRadar and the @NAICobservatory staff are taking the proper safety measures as we continue observations. This week we have been observing near-Earth asteroid 1998 OR2, which looks like it's wearing a mask! It's at least 1.5 km across and is passing 16 lunar distances away!" team members tweeted on Saturday via the @AreciboRadar account. (@AreciboRadar is not an official Arecibo account. But @NAICobservatory is, and it retweeted the April 18 post.)Arecibo Radar@AreciboRadar
#TeamRadar and the @NAICobservatory staff are taking the proper safety measures as we continue observations. This week we have been observing near-Earth asteroid 1998 OR2, which looks like it's wearing a mask! It's at least 1.5 km across and is passing 16 lunar distances away!
The Arecibo researchers aren't the only ones keeping an eye on 1998 OR2. For example, Italian astrophysicist Gianluca Masi, who runs the online Virtual Telescope Project, has been tracking the asteroid as well.
And Masi will continue to do so. On April 28, in fact, he will host a live webcast about 1998 OR2 that will feature telescope views of the object.
Astronomers estimate that 1998 OR2 is between 1.1 and 2.5 miles (1.8 to 4.1 kilometers) wide — big enough that an impact could threaten human civilization. But, to repeat, there is nothing to fear here; the asteroid will miss us by a large margin on April 29.
Indeed, you should quell any general death-from-above fears that may be running rampant in your head. NASA has found and tracked the vast majority of giant near-Earth asteroids, and none of them pose a threat to Earth for the foreseeable future.
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NASA reveals stunning 'Cosmic Reef' blasting to life in nearby galaxy →
Kamala Harris will resign Senate seat Monday in run-up to inauguration January 17, 2021
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will resign her Senate seat on Monday – two days before she and President-elect Joe Biden are sworn in on Inauguration Day.
FBI arrest another Tennessee man over Capitol riot selfie, Facebook post decrying Antifa, BLM January 17, 2021
The FBI arrested a man in Nashville early Sunday morning after he allegedly posted from his Facebook account decrying Antifa and Black Lives Matter, while celebrating riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Danielle Wallace
Gov. Hutchinson: Trump misled followers into believing election was rigged, resulted in attack on Capitol January 17, 2021
Sen. Cory Booker expects Trump impeachment trial 'as quickly as possible' January 17, 2021
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., said that after the House voted to impeach President Trump last week, he expects the Senate to hold a trial relatively soon.
Navy to deploy destroyers with new laser attack weapon January 17, 2021
Navy destroyers will soon be armed with high-powered, precision 60kw laser weapons that can track and incinerate attacking drone targets at sea, bringing new "at-the-speed-of-light" attack technology to maritime warfare in new ways.
Jonathan Turley: Trump impeachment trial – why his best defense may be no defense January 17, 2021
It is the future of the Constitution, not Donald Trump, that most concerns me as the Senate is about to try to remove a president who has already left office.
Alec Baldwin says he dreamed Donald Trump was tried for 'sedition' with a makeshift noose outside courthouse January 17, 2021
Alec Baldwin took a somewhat alarming jab at Donald Trump over the weekend.
New COVID-19 strains shows possible 'resistance' to antibody, but not vaccines January 17, 2021
A number of new COVID-19 strains have arisen over the past month, stirring concern that current treatments and vaccines will not be effective. Those concerns are largely unfounded, Dr. Rochelle Walensky told "Face the Nation" host Margaret Brennan.
Peter Aitken


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to be the last bird of summer.
this female landed behind Windemere.
she's been without mate for the last two weeks.
she's apparently the only bird still around.
building energy for a long southern flight .
she'll head south any day for Venezuela.


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Tesla just whipped out the 'D': 700HP, AWD, and Autopilot!?!
The Tesla Model S is officially every bit as obsolete as that iPhone 5 you're still using. More obsolete, even.
Meet the Tesla Model S P85D. Basically, it looks just like a normal Tesla Model S, but with all-wheel drive. And 691 hp. That changes lanes automatically on the highway. It's not a concept, either: you can order it right now for around $120,000, and have it by December.
Awesomely, the process of making the car all-wheel drive is the reason it's now so powerful. Available as a $14,600 option over a normal P85, the P85D keeps the 470 hp rear motor, then adds a second motor putting 221 hp to the front wheels. Total output is a Corvette Z06 annihilating 691 hp, meaning the car can hit 60 mph in 3.2 seconds, and can do a standing quarter mile in 11.8 seconds.
And that autopilot feature? It's essentially a complex system comprised of cameras, radar, sonar, and GPS. If you put your turn signal on and there's no car in the way, it'll automatically change lanes for you. It'll even automatically adjust your speed based on speed limit signs. In theory, you won't have to do a thing "from on ramp to off ramp," at least according to Tesla.
But, of course, this is real-life-Bond-villian Elon Musk's company, so it doesn't stop there. Using that same tech, Musk claims the car can park itself, then come meet you when you're ready to go somewhere. Seriously, we're not making this stuff up.
Aaron Miller is the Rides editor for Supercompressor, and can be found on Twitter. Put that drivetrain in a lightweight coupe, and he's sold.


Sub Pop is a music label founded by Bruce Pavitt in 1986, known for catapulting the grunge genre in the 1990s. The label is very identical to the city it is based on, Seattle, and contributed to the rise of popular 90s Seattle bands such as Nirvana and Soundgarden. In the 2000s, Sub Pop continued to shape Seattle's musical landscape in the heydays of new folk music and signed bands like Fleet Foxes, the Head and the Heart, and Band of Horses. Many would think that Sub Pop's glory days are all in the 90s past, but the label kept recruiting fresh music from around the globe. Their current roster is diverse in personas and genres: from riot grrrl legends Sleater-Kinney to dream pop pioneers Beach House, and from the socially conscious high energy punk of Downtown Boys to the Afrofuturist experimental hip hop sounds of clipping. We have compiled a playlist showcasing Sub Pop's newest releases; sample the diversity of genres and listen to the great taste of this legendary label.
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Lester Kesselring, 71, of Sebring, Fla., was called home to be with the Lord on Monday, Nov. 21, 2011.
He was born and raised in Dixon, Ill.
His career began in 1959 after entering Brethren Volunteer Service, and he was challenged to organize an activities department for a multilevel retirement community in Boonsboro, Md. He met Barbara Landers, whom he later married, and the two committed themselves as a team to serve the elderly. They continued to do so for 50 years.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Charles and Lois Kesselring, and is survived by his wife, Barbara; son, Anthony (Cathy) and daughters, Dawn (Jerel) Eller, Bonnie Kesselring and Roseann Kiefer; sister, Marcel (Baldy) Miranda; brother, Howard ( Sharon) Kesselring; and aunt, Darlene (Dean) Butterbaugh.
Services will be 4:30 p.m. Friday at Sebring Church of the Brethren.
Memorials are requested to the Palms Foundation, 725 S. Pine St., Sebring, FL 33870; or to Church of the Brethren, 700 S. Pine St., Sebring, FL 33870.
Burial at a later date will be in Windber, Pa.
Morris Funeral Chapel, Sebring, www.morrisfuneralchapel.com.


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Jan. 8, 2016 Research Highlight Chemistry Physics / Astronomy
Cooling an unusual magnetic material
An experimental and theoretical study reveals how the interplay of electronic and structural effects leads to intriguing magnetic and electrical properties
Figure 1: The interaction between electronic and structural effects in the complex crystal structure of K2Cr8O16 causes its unusual magnetic and electrical properties. Reproduced from Ref. 1 and licensed under CC BY 4.0 © 2015 P. A. Bhobe et al.
The properties of typical ferromagnets like iron and nickel have been widely studied and are relatively well understood. However, a few rare magnetic materials exhibit complicated behaviors that are difficult to explain. In an experimental and theoretical investigation of one of these complex materials, RIKEN scientists, with collaborators in India, Germany and Japan, have uncovered how the interplay between electronic and structural effects gives rise to fascinating magnetic and electrical properties1.
Ferromagnets consist of regions, or domains, in which all the magnetic spins are aligned in the same direction. The ordering of the magnetic spins is related to the arrangement of atoms in the crystal structure. It also depends on the valency of the magnetic atoms, namely the number of electrons in the outermost shell per atom. This parameter does not usually change across the ferromagnetic transition as a function of temperature.
One exception is K2Cr8O16, a close relative of CrO2, the magnetic compound used in recording tapes. As the temperature drops below 95 kelvin, K2Cr8O16 changes from being electrically conducting to insulating, but unusually, it remains ferromagnetic. "A transition from a ferromagnetic metal to a ferromagnetic insulating ground state is quite rare, with only a few known examples," explains Ashish Chainani of the RIKEN SPring-8 Center, who led the study.
This surprising property of K2Cr8O16 has been linked to its crystal structure (Fig. 1), which consists of a framework of octahedra made of chromium and oxygen atoms. The chromium atoms, which determine the magnetic properties, exist in a mixture of +3 and +4 valence states.
By performing spectroscopic measurements, the researchers tracked those valence states as the material transitioned from a conductor to an insulator. They found the distribution of +3 and +4 valence states changed as it was cooled to 95 kelvin. "These fluctuations have been totally missed in previous work," says Chainani.
Once the material becomes insulating, the distribution of valence states is frozen in, with on average three in four chromium atoms having +4 states and one having a +3 state. Theoretical calculations revealed that the structural changes in the crystal alone cannot explain such complex ferromagnetic properties. Rather, the unusual properties of this material stem from interactions between the electrons―known as strong correlations―along with small distortions in the crystal structure.
These findings highlight the importance of comprehensively studying the electronic and structural properties of complex materials, in which subtle effects can significantly alter the material properties.
1. Bhobe, P. A., Kumar, A., Taguchi, M., Eguchi, R., Matsunami, M., Takata, Y., Nandy, A. K., Mahadevan, P., Sarma, D. D., Neroni, A. et al. Electronic structure evolution across the Peierls metal-insulator transition in a correlated ferromagnet. Physical Review X 5, 041004 (2015). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevX.5.041004


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