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Q: Shift focus to next EditText in another RecyclerView item (CardView) I am using a RecyclerView to a hold a bunch of CardViews, which contain an EditText. The user should edit the text and continue to the next CardView by clicking the "continue/finished" button on the soft keyboard. While the next EditText gets focused the soft keyboard should stay opened. The card views are as wide as the phone's screen and need to be scrolled horizontally / from right to left.
My code can already identify a "continue" button click but I am stuck at shifting the focus.
Please let me know if this is possible and if it is how. Thanks

A: One way of doing this is by adding a method to your class extending RecyclerView.ViewHolder.
public static class MyViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
    // each data item is just a string in this case
    public CardView mCardView;
    public EditText mEditText;
    public MyViewHolder(CardView v) {
        super(v);
        mCardView = v;
        mEditText = v.findViewById(R.id.mEditText);
    }

    public void takeFocus() {
        if (mEditText != null && mEditText.isShown()) {
            mEditText.requestFocus();
        }
    }
}

Depending on if there are other ViewHolder classes that you are using, you would likely want to add some logic such as mViewHolder instanceOf MyViewHolder before calling the takeFocus() method.

A: I solved it.
First I have to scroll to the item from the recycler view and then invoke the requestFocus() method of the edit text.
To prevent the soft keyboard/IME I used the InputMethodManager to forcibly show the IME.


A mulmul sharara with shantoon lining. It has tassles on the side in gold and gota work along the hemline of the pants. Wear it with our chanderi kurta or even a printed cotton kurta for a more casual look.


Claire has Mr Linky this week, so be sure to head over and to share you links!
I was looking at my challenges for this year, and had a sudden realisation. I have basically read nothing for any of my perpetual challenges like The Complete Booker, The Orange Prize Project and The Putlitzer Project. I think I have read one book that was longlisted for The Orange Prize Project, but I didn't actually realise that until months after I read it! So this week my loot is heavy on books that have been listed for a prize!
Second Chance Pass by Robyn Carr - Okay, so this one isn't a major prize nominated book, but I just read the third and fourth books in the series, and have to keep reading!
Started Early Took the Dog by Kate Atkinson - Oh, and neither is this one, but the next one is I promise!
The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore - I read the prequel to this book, The Siege, a few years ago. I was kind of underwhelmeed by it, but this one was long listed for the Booker this year. I still have a real fondness for boosk set in Russia, so I hope I like it.
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - Pulitzer Prize winner!
That's a nice selection of books! It's funny how these challenges can disappear in the back ground and then suddenly you realise, there are more books that need reading!
Have fun, they all look good.
So jealous of the Kate Atkinson. That's one of the books I had to cancel my holds on in preparation for my move.
I will be interested to hear what you think of the Kate Atkinson, as I have been kind of curious about that one. Also, I have Olive Kitteridge on my shelf as well, and must make time for it!!
Olive Kitteridge is on my tbr list. Enjoy your loot!
Looks like some good stuff. As a public librarian, it's so cool to see people enjoying their library loot. Thanks for supporting libraries.
I have owned Olive Kitteridge for a while now but have yet to read it! I guess I should do so. A lovely selection of loot for this week!
Great selection of books. I read Olive Kitteridge and liked it.
I've heard wonderful things about Jasper Jones. Do let me know what you think of it!
Ohh I LOVE the Virgin River series! So excited that Netgalley has the next two books posted! :D Hope you enjoy all your loot!
Oh, I've been waiting to get my hands on that Kate Atkinson novel! (Must admit that while I adore the Jackson Brodie series, Human Croquet is still my favorite of all her novels).
The Betrayal and Olive Kitteridge sound great. I've only read one Kate Atkinson and found it okay, perhaps I should check out another one.
Oh, these look good. Enjoy Olive!
Pam, Linda and Darlene, Olive seems to be a very popular choice!
Sam, I have only read her Jackson Brodie books, not any of her other books. I do like those one though.
Lynn, Human Croquet is one I haven't read!
Mollie, I did see that Netgalley had those books posted, but didn't request them yet because I am only up to book 6. I have however read four in the last month, so maybe I should just request them!
Stephanie, there has been lots of good press about Jasper Jones!
Dave and Tami, it is my pleasure!
Zibilee have you read the other books in the Atkinson series?
Claire, hopefully your new library system will be great and you will be able to request it again!
Leeswammes, there are always new books that need reading!


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Mosquitoes Collected in Fresno Test Positive for West Nile Virus
Trump Said Water Wars 'Easy' to Fix. What Do Farmers Say Now?
Impact of Trump's Tariffs on Americans Explained
Jamie Ouverson
Women's World Cup Champ's Hotel Room Burglarized
Biden: Congress Should Immediately Make 'Dreamers' Citizens
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2020 Fresno Mayoral Poll: Police Chief and Janz Lead Brand
An exclusive GV Wire mayoral poll in advance of the 2020 election finds Police Chief Jerry Dyer and Fresno County Deputy District Attorney Andrew Janz faring well in potential match-ups with incumbent Lee Brand.
GV Wire asked 300 likely voters who they would choose among two high-profile potential candidates —Dyer and Janz — and Brand, who is seeking re-election.
Dyer is preferred in a three-way race, with Janz a close second. Janz holds an edge in a one-on-one matchup against Brand.
Thanks to the Fresno City Council last year removing time limits for fundraising, Brand has amassed a six-figure campaign chest. Through the end of 2018, the latest reporting date, Brand raised more than $445,000.
Janz has publicly stated that he is considering a mayoral bid. In 2018, he gave Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Tulare) his most competitive election, raising millions in the process. Nunes prevailed, winning 52.7% of the vote.
Janz's showing raised his name recognition among city voters — 51% of Fresno's registered voters are in the 22nd congressional district.
"I haven't decided whether I'm running for mayor. But this poll tells us what we already know — Fresno is ready for a change," Janz said.
Dyer is scheduled to retire as Fresno police chief in October after 18 years. A public search for his successor is underway. He would not commit to extending his public career.
"I do not know what the future holds for me, other than finishing strong as the police chief," Dyer said. "These are certainly interesting numbers, but it is simply a poll. The decision for me to run for political office in the future would not be based on a poll, but rather a calling."
Brand declined GV Wire's request for comment.
In the poll, Dyer received 31%, Janz 26%, Brand 18%, "some other Democrat" 15% and "some other Republican" 10% support.
Minus the generic options, Dyer garnered 39%, Janz 37%, and Brand 24% support.
In a runoff scenario between Janz and Brand, poll takers chose Janz with 53%. That included one-third of Republicans crossing over for Janz. Thirty percent of Democrats said they would vote for Brand.
GV Wire developed the poll, conducted by Focus Vision — an international market research company with an office in Fresno. Respondents answered an online survey April 8-16.
The poll has a margin of error of +/- 6%.
The Demographics
Although the mayoral position is nonpartisan, political affiliations are important to many voters. Brand and Dyer are Republicans; Janz is a Democrat. Also, Dyer does not live in the city of Fresno, despite serving as its police chief. To run, he would need to move within the city limits 30 days prior to filing, which would be approximately December 2019.
Other potential candidates, according to Fresno political watchers, include former councilman and supervisor Henry R. Perea and current councilwoman Esmeralda Soria.
Brand Finished Strong in 2016
In the 2016 mayoral race, early polls showed Brand trailing, and during the June primary, Perea earned 45% of the vote to Brand's 31%.
However, Brand rallied to edge Perea, receiving 51% of the vote.
The most recent figures from the county clerk show 245,776 registered voters in the city: 41% Democrats, 28% Republican, 26% no party preference. The remainder are registered with other parties.
March Primary
The mayoral primary is March 3, 2020, less than 11 months away. If no candidate receives a majority of the votes, a runoff would take place in November.
Since Fresno held its first election under the strong mayor format in 1996, no incumbent has lost when running for a second term.
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Patty April 26, 2019
Go Janz!
Fred April 26, 2019
Dyer has issues.
His first Deputy Chief (Foster) got busted by the Feds. Dyer was quick to say he didn't know. So, either he's as dishonest as Foster, or he's an idiot for not knowing what was going on in his own house. Either way, Dyer wasn't worthy of remaining Chief.
Then, his second pick for Deputy Chief (Carrasco) didn't know how to store here weapon and got it stolen, along with her badge, police radio & briefcase (who knows what was in there).
We just don't Dyer bringing his level of incompetence/dishonesty to City Hall.
Jim April 27, 2019
If this means we have to suffer through more Janz commercials, I may just have to move.
Robert April 27, 2019
LMAO your poll was flawed, i never was "polled" as were many of my neighbors and we would have voted for BRAND. Funny thing about polls they are only as good as the people, demographics that you survey (a poll is basically a survey)
Janz doesn't stand a chance for Mayor, he would be bad for Fresno and punish all the farmers and take money from his hollywierdo , and SF friends.
Go FRESNO Go Brand.
Greeka April 27, 2019
Police chief Dyer.

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After a lengthy hiatus, the magazine of the Australian Horror Writers Association returns for its 12th issue. As well as fiction from the likes of Angela J Maher and Matthew R Davis, it features my new essay, "A Shared Ambition - Horror Writers in Horror Fiction".
"On 15 September, 2016, Little, Brown & Company announced a new book by James Patterson and Derek Nikitas, entitled The Murder of Stephen King. On 22 September, 2016, it was announced that this work would be withdrawn, because the authors "didn't want to cause Stephen King or his family any trouble." (www.thewrap.com)."
I had already been thinking about the ways in which the figure of the horror writer was used in works of horror fiction, from S.K.s various avatars to depictions of Mary Shelley. The saga of this aborted book crystalised these thoughts into another wildly ambitious research project, that led to me finally watching a whole episode of Quantum Leap. Trust me: real horror writers wear muslin.
Electronic copies of Midnight Echo #12 may be acquired here or even here.


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Live Ghosts Tell Their Human Stories At Anchorage Museum [Cemetery]
Who was that man, I used to wonder, when I saw a name on a building, or a statue. Or wandering through a cemetery trying to imagine that all of the people named on the graves were people who'd had whole lives - fears, joys, good times, bad.
Dick Reichman as Joseph Reno
So I really had to go to the Anchorage cemetery tour, where actors tell the stories of the people lying below the ground. The program thanks Cemetery Players Acting Group, Cyrano's Theatre Company, Anchorage Community Theatre, and the Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery staff.
I first came upon the grave of Joseph Reno (1884 - 1942), whose ghost resembled greatly the Anchorage actor Dick Reichman. Reno was a businessman, whose bars drew in the paychecks of men who'd come to Alaska to make their fortune.
Reno/Reichman complained at the end that he'd died during WW II, not a good time for Italians in the US, so his name was not on his gravestone.
Sunday evening was perfect weather for the large crowd as we walked around the cemetery to the ten sites marked with flags, where an actor would tell his or her story near where they were buried. Except in one case. Rachel Gregory told the story of her husband, Jess Wickersham (1883 - 1924), whom she shot to death with the gun he'd given her, as she explained, as an apology after the previous time he'd beaten her. She'd already decided that she couldn't continue taking his drunken beatings (had he been drinking at one of Reno's bars?) any more, so she pulled out the gun and shot him. The judge, seeing her bruises, sent her home and she married a neighbor who'd been kind to her and had helped her on that fatal night.
A few years earlier, John Sturgus (1861 - 1921), Anchorage's first police chief, was shot one night in
the alley behind the Anchorage Hotel if I remember Bruce Kelly's accounting right. He said he'd taken the job, because year round jobs were scarce, but the bar owners and gambling folks, seemed to have it in for him. (Did Joseph Reno have anything to do with this one? I'm only coming up with these questions now and they didn't hint at them Sunday night.)
Frank Hoffman (1871 - 1937) ghosted by Ron Holmstrom, was also a lawman - a US marshall, who was known for his charm and, if the stories were accurate, would probably be a good trainer for police forces around the country. He rarely had a gun. Instead he was polite and talked his suspects into jail, where he fed them well.
Wanda Gelles, whose spirit was channelled by Sara Baird, was the first bank robbery victim in Alaska, while working at Elmer Rasmusson's bank. (I know, these red flags makes it look like a golf course rather than a cemetery.)
My fantasy was coming true, as these ghosts told their stories at their gravesites. But there was one name on the list I really wanted to see - Lidia Selkregg (1920 - 1999). She and I arrived at the School of Business and Public Administration (the name back then) at the same time and we connected instantly. I knew her well and admired her greatly.
But I was in for a disappointment. The story itself was fine, and the look was reasonably close, but how it was worded and presented were all wrong. Audrey Kelly had to imagine Lidia, I guess, and did her own take based solely on the words she was given. She spoke in calm, well modulated sentences. But Lidia was never calm or well modulated. She talked 150 Italian accented words a minute and those words didn't always quite fit together right, one bumping into another as she used 50 words where a native speaker might have used 20 to get the same point across. But then Lidia was getting three or four or five points across at the same time. It was more like she was juggling words and breathlessly trying to make sure none of them hit the ground. And always with a loving smile and sparkling eyes.
It made me wonder how close the other ghosts were to what their real selves sounded like. The old timers, well, who knows? But for those who passed away more recently, there are still lots of folks in town who would know. I know the cemetery folks did research on the lives of the folks highlighted, but did they talk to people about how they spoke?
But I'd like to think that David Haynes got Judge Ralph Moody (1913 - 1997) right, because he was so good. He told the story of moving from a poor Alabama family to being a judge in Alaska. And how his own poor background didn't give him any extra sympathy for poor folks. And how he enforced his dress code - coats and ties gentleman - and how one attorney got to court and had forgotten his tie. He took a shoelace and put it round his neck like a bolo tie. Moody said at the end of the tie he asked the attorney about the tie and then fined him for coming to court without shoelaces.
There were ten seances Sunday, these were just a few. These same graves will reveal their secrets again in August, though I'm having trouble pinning down the exact date. Here's the Facebook page. Oh, the tour is free! But you can (and should) leave a donation.
The Municipal website gives a history of the cemetery. Here's a short excerpt:
"The Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery, located between 6th and 9th Avenues and Fairbanks and Cordova Streets in downtown Anchorage, Alaska was originally established as the Cemetery Reserve by President Woodrow Wilson in Executive Order 2242 of August 31, 1915, coincident with the federal survey of the original Anchorage Townsite. Then with Executive Order 2836 of April 10, 1918, President Wilson directed that burial land be made available, without charge, to the public.
He also ordered that the Cemetery Reserve of the Anchorage Townsite be subdivided to sell up to half of the cemetery land to qualified religious and fraternal organizations. Because of these two provisions, free burial land for the public, and up to 50 percent of the land could be (and now is) owned by private religious and fraternal groups, the Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery is one of the most unusual cemeteries in the nation. . ."
[July 12, 2016 9pm: I can't believe I put museum instead of cemetery in the title. Face is very red.]


I recently had to do some performance profiler evaluation for .NET applications and I figured I'd share my results. Note that it's as scientific as I could make a subjective review (e.g., "friendly UI" might mean something different to you than to me), but maybe it'll help you out. Also, I'm not a "profiler expert" and, while I've used profilers before and understand generally what I'm looking at, this isn't my primary job function.
Visual Studio 2008 Team System Developer Edition (there's a profiler that comes along with the install of VSTS 2008 Developer).
Intel VTune Performance Analyzer 9.1.
I put an explanation of what each feature "means" in tooltip form, so put your cursor over it if you don't understand what I'm talking about. An "X" in the box means it has the feature.
Testing was done on a dual-2.8GHz processor machine running Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit and 4GB RAM.
This requires Visual Studio, which means you have to have VS installed on the machine running the app you're profiling. That said, this was the easiest to get results from and the easiest to interpret.
In general this appeared to be the best balance between "robust" and "usable" but I couldn't actually see the report that came out because it locked up the UI thread on the machine and ate 3GB of memory. I've asked about this in the forums. Turns out this is fixed in the next version, 6, currently in EAP.
I couldn't actually get a profile to run using VTune since it complained of being "unable to determine the processor architecture." As such, I don't know how well the reporting works.
When I ran dotTrace 3.1 on a multi-proc system, I got several timings that came out with negative numbers (-1,000,289 msec?). You can fix this by setting the proc affinity for the thing you're profiling. I tried a nightly build of dotTrace 4.0 and that's fixed. dotTrace 4.0 will also let you profile a remote application - something the others don't support.
AQtime has a lot of power behind it but lacks the usability of some of the other profilers. It appears that if you take the time to really tweak around on your profile project settings, you can get very specific data from an analysis run, but doing that tweaking isn't a small feat. I spent a good hour figuring out how to profile an ASP.NET application in the VS dev server and setting it up. Also, while it very well may be due to my lack of experience with the tool, AQtime had the most noticeable impact on the application's runtime performance. It took several minutes for the first page of my app to load in the browser.
For now, it looks like the VSTS profiler is my best bet. If I could figure out the UI problem with ANTS, or if dotTrace 4.0 was out, I'd say those options tie for my second choice. The VTune profiler seems to be the most… technical… but it also desperately needs a UI refresh and seems geared toward profiling unmanaged code, where managed code is a "nice to have" rather than a first-class feature.
UPDATE 1/21/2010: I added AQtime to the list of profilers I tried out. Also, I removed the "VS integration" checkmark from ANTS because, while it adds a menu entry to VS, all it does is start up the external application. I'm not counting that. Finally, I found out my ANTS problem is fixed in the next version, 6, currently in EAP. Since it's not released, I still have to go with the VSTS profiler, but once it's out, I'd vote ANTS.
Over my holiday break I spent some time playing Grand Theft Auto 4: Episodes from Liberty City. I'm not quite finished with it, but I've gotten far enough that I have an opinion.
Let me give you a frame of reference so you understand where I'm coming from.
I'm a huge Grand Theft Auto fan. Whenever a new Grand Theft Auto comes out, I take a whole week off work and dedicate the entire week just to playing the game. I get the expensive edition with all the bells and whistles. I finished GTA4 with 100% completion. I am, as far as I can tell, the target market for Grand Theft Auto.
Given that, when I heard there were expansion packs coming for GTA4, I was really excited. That, the holiday season, and one of those frozen buckets of daiquiri and I've got the most awesome cheap vacation ever. They released it as separate downloads or as a self-contained disc (same price), so I got the disc (love that Xbox DRM), the strategy guide, and when vacation time came around, I was in.
There are two expansions: "The Lost and Damned" and "The Ballad of Gay Tony." I have very different feelings on each expansion.
In "The Lost and Damned," you play the leader of a biker gang. You go on several missions to fight rival gangs, to get money for your own gang, and to help out friends. The missions themselves are fairly standard GTA fare, but they're fun. I was partial to the gun battles (there were several) since many were fairly large scale with lots of enemies. A couple of missions were difficult, but I never really struggled with them - I might have to run them two or three times, but I could get them. The feel of the whole thing was good and got you involved with the story. Very nice.
I did not play "The Lost and Damned" through to 100% completion. There were some race missions that were optional to the completion of the story and I've always absolutely despised race missions in any of the Grand Theft Auto games. Driving around the town at my own pace is fun, but the driving really isn't the goal in my opinion; it's a means to get you somewhere, so not having pressure when driving is key. The driving controls are pretty sloppy on most vehicles and shooting while driving takes some serious getting used to. Anyway, I didn't do the races because I don't like the race missions, but I suppose I could have if I really cared.
After "The Lost and Damned," I moved on to "The Ballad of Gay Tony." In that, you play a guy who runs some night clubs with a business partner, Gay Tony, who is always getting into trouble and you get to bail him out. I'm not done with it yet, but this one is where I start having some fairly strong opinions.
First off, I like the characters in the expansion a little better than the ones in "The Lost and Damned." They're a lot more colorful and more fun, so big plus for the story. I particularly like the additional tie-ins with the characters from the original GTA4 game. There were a few tie-ins in "The Lost and Damned," but the connections with "The Ballad of Gay Tony" are, like the characters, more fun and colorful.
I also like the addition of the "base jumping/parachuting" activities. It reminds me of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which was a really fun game.
They grade you on how well you did on each mission.
Whenever you complete a mission, you get this statistics screen that pops up and tells you percentage-wise how well you did. There are some [seemingly] arbitrary criteria that you're supposed to fulfill to get 100% completion. Of course, you're not told what the criteria are until after you've finished the mission, so there's problem number one.
The real problem is that many missions are unreasonably difficult.
As it stands, on most missions I'm having to run them three, four, five times to even complete them. While I've played all the Grand Theft Auto games and invest quite a lot of time in them, I'm not 14 years old anymore. I don't have the time or inclination to run, re-run, and re-re-run missions to get 100% on them. I'm not interested in (and possibly not even capable of) developing the Nintendo-timing snap-reflexes required to fulfill the criteria you won't tell me about until after I've run the mission six times and barely completed it.
Not only that, but "grading me" on how well I did is a huge distraction. I'm not in the "sandbox environment" anymore, where I can do whatever I want or solve the mission however I see fit. Now I'm more on rails, having to do things within a predefined time limit using a specific set of resources in a specific way. That totally defeats the purpose of the thing, in my opinion, and makes it feel less like I'm my own character in my own environment and more like… well, more like I'm just playing a standard platformer. If I wanted that, I'd get the standard platform game and move on.
I won't even get into the fact that you can't save wherever you'd like to in GTA games - you have to save between missions and you have to go all the way back to your safehouse to do it. If you're in the middle of a really difficult mission that takes 20 minutes to finish and you get killed at the 19th minute… well, too bad. Get killed on the way back to your safehouse? Tough cookies. (They did implement an "autosave" feature in GTA4 so you at least don't lose your progress if you complete a mission, but still.) Yeah, that's how it's always been, but it doesn't make it right.
I won't even get into some of the tedious missions they added like "Club Management," where you're supposed to help manage a night club and basically walk around from room to room and get forced to "scan the floor for trouble" by looking around with a thumbstick. Sometimes you even get to go run errands for people like escorting a VIP from one club to another. No, thanks.
"The Ballad of Gay Tony" has turned GTA from a game into a chore. I don't want to compete with other peoples' standings on how well they did on the missions. I don't want to be pulled out of the sandbox environment. I don't want to "replay missions" to see if I can improve my score. I liked the "pass/fail" that was going on before… but now that there's grading and achievements attached to your "percentage complete" on the missions, I'll never get 100% on this thing, and really, I'm not interested. And I'm not interested in tedious crap that just eats up time but isn't actually fun.
Should that matter to Rockstar? Yeah, it should. I'm not interested in getting 100% because it's too hard, but I am a completionist, too, so not being able to get 100% irritates me. It makes me feel like I've been ripped off because I bought a game I want to finish but really won't be able to. It's frustrating and irritating.
Yeah, you can argue that it's all in my head and I'm not being forced to get 100%, and that folks who want that additional challenge now get it and I should just ignore it. I just have to question how many folks actually wanted that challenge and whether that group of folks is really the target market. Maybe they are and I'm alone. I sure hope not. I like my vacations in Liberty City and I hope I don't have to find somewhere else to go.
I'd love to be able to give this feedback to Rockstar somehow but I'm not sure how. If you know, leave it in the comments for me.
I found I was running out of space with all of my DVDs and such, even after adding an eSATA port multiplier and a few 1TB drives. I only have one drive slot left, and while at first I thought I'd fill it, I realized that doesn't leave me much wiggle room in the event of a real emergency where I need to do some fancy drive swapping. As such, I decided to replace one of the 500GB drives with a 2TB drive. The 500GB drive I took out will stand ready as a replacement for the system drive should catastrophe strike.
I started the upgrade with about 750GB free because I wanted to be sure there was enough free space to remove the 500GB drive without losing any data.
Post upgrade, I have a total of 7.73TB in storage with 2.08TB free.
Given that I've figured DVD images run about 6.7GB each, that gives me room for another 300 DVDs before I run out of space. Of course, when I hit a bit over 1TB free, I'll have to consider what my upgrade options are in case I need to remove a 1TB drive to replace it with something larger.
UPDATE 1/9/2010: Turns out I got a bad drive. The first night it was in I got a bunch of errors from WNAS.SYS telling me something about "VRM temperature too high." Doesn't make a ton of sense, but that's what happened. Anyway, that first night it totally disappeared from the storage pool, as if by magic. The second night I decided to re-seat it (thinking "bad connection") and run chkdsk on all drives. Got the WNAS errors again and a bunch of disk errors, so… back it goes. Most of my drives are Western Digital and the drive I tried out was a Samsung. Being a little technology-superstitious, I'll probably get a WD drive as a replacement.
UPDATE 1/15/2010: I put a Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB drive in and I'm back up to 7.73TB. So far I'm not seeing any of the weird WNAS.SYS errors I was seeing before which leads me to believe I had a bad drive. Every other drive in the system, save the system drive, is a WD Caviar Green drive, and I've had good luck with them, so I'm hoping my luck will hold.
UPDATE 1/16/2010: I see the WNAS.SYS temperature warning errors again, but it appears that so many in succession is generally understood to be some sort of bug in the driver rather than a health issue. The system didn't restart itself or anything, so I guess I'll just watch it. One thing I found while I was looking for the solution to the WNAS.SYS issue is this article over on the HP site that says how Samsung SpinPoint drives will suddenly "disappear" from the system and it's a compatibility issue. As it turns out, that's the type of drive I ordered that failed - a Samsung SpinPoint 2TB. Looks like the WNAS.SYS error and the drive failure were unrelated. I'm still watching how this WD drive behaves. I can ignore false errors in the logs (though it's fishy that they show up when I add a 2TB drive - maybe I'm crossing some size boundary that causes the bug to show up?), but if a drive "disappears" on me, that's trouble. I'll probably wait a week or so before putting any additional info on the server that might make it so I can't remove the drive.
UPDATE 6/16/2010: Be careful of using the WD Green drives. Only some model numbers appear to be good.
I have some files (like my local Subversion repository, some documents, etc.) that I need to sync between computers and I was recommended Dropbox as the way to get that done. I signed up, installed it, and it works brilliantly.
That said, my primary complaint is that it only synchronizes files inside a special "My Dropbox" folder that it creates. Anything you want to synchronize has to live in there. Thing is, while I don't mind changing the location of some things, like my documents, I really would rather not change the location of other things, like my local Subversion repository. I like it in "C:\LocalSVN" rather than "C:\Documents and Settings\tillig\My Documents\My Dropbox\LocalSVN" or whatever.
Turns out you can use the magic of symbolic links to fix that right up. If you create a symbolic link (junction point) inside "My Dropbox" to content that actually lives outside "My Dropbox" then the content gets synchronized just fine but can live wherever you want.
If you are in Windows XP, you'll need to go get a free copy of Junction and put it somewhere in your path like your C:\Windows\System32 folder. In Windows Vista or Windows 7, you'll use the built-in "mklink" command.
Get Dropbox set up and synchronizing on your computer without the external content.
Open a command prompt as an administrator on your machine.
Change to the "My Dropbox" folder that you set up. In Vista or Windows 7 it'll be like: cd "\Users\yourusername\Documents\My Dropbox" In Windows XP it'll be like: cd "\Documents and Settings\yourusername\My Documents\My Dropbox"
Create a directory link to the folder containing the external content. In Vista or Windows 7 it'll be like: mklink /d "External Content" "C:\Path\To\External Content" In Windows XP it'll be like: junction "External Content" "C:\Path\To\External Content"
That's it. Dropbox will see the symbolic directory link as a new folder with content it needs to synchronize and it'll get done.
Note that you can do things the other way around, too - move the content into the "My Dropbox" folder and then create the symbolic link from the original location into the moved content… but this way it means you don't have to do the moving to begin with. Admittedly, I kinda wish I had figured this out before I moved everything, but now I know.


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Trump Claims God Is 'Testing' Him With The Pandemic After He Built The 'Greatest Economy In History'
Collin Gossel
While the pandemic has killed over 170,000 Americans, President Donald Trump said in a recent speech that the virus is actually God's way of "testing [him.]"
During his remarks in Mankato, Minnesota, Trump made false claims about the pre-pandemic economy and said God was now telling him to do it again.
"We built the greatest economy in the history of the world, and now I have to do it again."
"You know what that is? That's God testing me. He said, 'You know, you did it once.' And I said, 'Did I do a great job, God? I'm the only one that could do it.'''
President Trump on rebuilding the economy after the Pandemic: "That's God Testing me" https://t.co/AWeTxCYqdm
— Benny (@Benny) 1597692435.0
According to Trump, the pandemic is God's punishment for his arrogance.
As the audience laughed, Trump said:
"[God] said, 'That, you shouldn't say. Now we're going to have you do it again.'"
"I said, 'OK, I agree. You got me.' But I did it once. And now I'm doing it again."
Bow down and worship him. He really is God's chosen one. Trump Brags COVID Is God Testing His 'Greatness'… https://t.co/mpbRVItHuL
— StridentConservative (@StridentConservative) 1597769522.0
But Simone Campbell, executive director of NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice, said that Trump's religious analysis "lacked spiritual maturity."
Campbell compared Trump's trials to Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane, saying:
"It's not that God does this unto me, but rather we see that time in Gethsemane as the story of Jesus accepting the consequences of his being a prophetic leader and his willingness to be faithful to the call of being a prophetic leader."
"...It's not like God is doing it to him, it's the consequences of his choices. He evidences no concern for the suffering of people. That makes it a very un-Christian statement, in my view."
Twitter was also pretty unimpressed by Trump's invocation of God's will.
Trump saying he created the greatest economy in the world and now God is testing him by having him rebuild it. Can't. Stop. Laughing.
— Rich Engstrom (@Rich Engstrom) 1597755977.0
Many online guessed what God actually testing Trump would look like.
God to Trump: "So you think I'm testing you with the pandemic? You can't even pass a test of basic humanity. Your g… https://t.co/DVQgLKulbW
— Ed Hull (@Ed Hull) 1597751910.0
Fun Fact: @realDonaldTrump said, "God is testing me ", when it comes to coronavirus. God says, "Donnie, the test is over. You failed."
— Mark D. Kimball (@Mark D. Kimball) 1597764563.0
The true test of Trump's response to the virus happened back in the early spring, when he was given the opportunity to take decisive action and instead downplayed the danger of the pandemic.
I didn't think I could be further shocked by @realDonaldTrump 's narcissism. Unfortunately I was wrong. The pandemi… https://t.co/YWOV7aKzIX
— Charles Leonard (@Charles Leonard) 1597759379.0
8/17 #TrumpFails Trump claims the coronavirus, which has killed 775,000 people, is god's way of testing him for bui… https://t.co/EmmgFSZS3z
— Eric Ernst (@Eric Ernst) 1597735923.0
Every day more Americans die from the virus which every other developed nation has managed to contain. Now, more than ever, it's important that our leaders take this issue seriously.


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Organiser: Dr Sarah Nason
Jurisprudence is an optional module in the LLB programme. The aim of the module is to enable students to acquire and demonstrate an accurate knowledge and appreciation of fundamental questions concerning the nature of law, the relationship of law and morality, theories of justice and rights and other related topics. The module will also enable students to develop an ability to compare, contrast and critically evaluate particular works of legal philosophy with reference to key contemporary legal, moral and political issues.
This course examines key issues in jurisprudence and legal philosophy such as legal positivism and natural law, the relationship of law and morals, theories of justice and rights and the nature of the good life. Students will critically examine selected legal philosophies with reference to key current concerns such as the relationship between different branches of the State, domestic and international political issues including terrorism and security, the right to privacy and the rule of law principle. Students will be expected to address these issues with respect to standard and more advanced jurisprudential theories and concepts and to develop a critical personal opinion based on assessment of the theories examined during this course.
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Develop a personal opinion on key debates in legal philosophy based on assessment of the theories examined during this course and communicate this personal opinion both verbally though contributions to seminars, and in writing.
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This course will be taught by way of 20 seminars, two hours per week over two semesters. Seminars will routinely require students to engage individually and in groups in acquiring, commenting upon and applying the principles and details of the subject under the guidance and instruction of the tutor. Students will be expected to engage in substantial private reading around the key issues presented in seminars.
Teamwork - Able to constructively cooperate with others on a common task, and/or be part of a day-to-day working team
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The concept of law - H. L. A. Hart 1997, c 1994
Law's empire - Ronald Dworkin 1998
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UU uses 2FA for more programmes: 'Secure log-ins are absolutely vital'
These past few months, there's been quite a lot of grumbling about two-factor authentication (2FA), especially among students. Logging in to Osiris and Blackboard suddenly required the use of one's mobile phone as well. Later this month, the same procedure will be used for Office programmes. "But it'll take you no more than five minutes, and it's for your and everybody else's safety".
By Xander Bronkhorst , on 03/17/2021 - 18:22
"Can we talk about how annoying the 2FA for Osiris and Blackboard is now? Whatever happened to logging in without accidentally opening that WhatsApp convo again (…) because you're waiting for the blue pop-up of terror? (…)"
The complaint above was part of a funny post on Facebook page UU Confessions earlier this year. It expressed a sentiment shared by many UU students. The message was posted one day after UU had made two-factor authentication mandatory to access the virtual learning environment Blackboard. The double log-in method was already required to access the study registration system Osiris.
Distracting phone
Students who want to view their grades or workgroup assignments can no longer simply log in with their username and password. Now, they also have to use an app (which shows blue notifications) and a PIN code or text message code to confirm they are who they say they are.
That's both cumbersome and distracting during study sessions, said student members in a University Council meeting. Many students put their phones away before studying as a means to avoid distractions, the council members explained.
Carol van der Palen, Deputy Director of the IT department, explains that 2FA doesn't necessarily have to be annoying. He recommends students to think about the programmes they're going to use before they start working, and make sure they're logged in to all of them beforehand. Then, you can put away your phone – preferably set to 'Do not disturb'. "You don't have to keep it in your hand at all times".
UU's information campaign about 2FA tries to paint a happy picture. "Protects your data and the university's", says the voiceover. But of course the Deputy Director acknowledges that students and employees may find 2FA inconvenient.
That's why he wants to explain the importance of the 2FA process. "We're trying to reduce the number of additional actions as much as possible. But even if you needed a 2FA code ten times a day, it would still cost you no more than a few minutes a day, for your and everyone else's safety".
Last year, after Maastricht University fell victim to ransomware, which shut down all its IT systems, the UU rushed to implement the two-step login system. Van der Palen estimates that 96 percent of students and employees have installed 2FA. The number of users went from 4,000 to over 45,000 in 2020.
Van der Palen is happy with the development. The dangers of not using 2FA are great. The e-mail addresses of students and employees can be found easily. For criminals, it's a piece of cake to collect them and then run large password files on them, he explains. In an in-house test with "weak" passwords used often, 14 accounts of UU employees came up, including a professor's account.
The deputy director also refers to data from Statistics Netherlands showing that, last year, 1.2 million Dutch people fell victim to digital crimes. Relatively often, the victims are 25 years old or younger.
"Regard the university like a skyscraper. Once thieves have made it past the main entrance downstairs, they can take their next step and end up opening your front door. With the Solis data of students or employees, criminals can't just access the personal data of the person involved, but they can also go look for more valuable information or more access rights. That can be done by impersonating someone, for instance. There are tons of examples of that".
Logging in again after 30 minutes
Van der Palen says most students and employees understand his message. The recent hacks at the University of Amsterdam and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Inholland and NWO clearly demonstrate the risks educational institutions run of losing data or being held hostage.
The questions posed by the students in the University Council focused on minimising the inconvenience for students when using 2FA. Is it really necessary to log in again after being idle for 30 minutes?
Van der Palen replies: "Unfortunately, it isn't possible to allow them to stay logged in for longer: the risk becomes too big. If someone goes out to lunch and leaves all his software open and accessible, that's a potential risk. We don't leave our front doors open anymore either, do we?"
And then there's the long recovery code students need to keep safe after signing up for 2FA. They need that code if they buy a new phone or lose their phone, and have to reinstall 2FA.
Students are used to requesting new passwords online for everything, but that isn't possible in this case. They have to show their ID – although it's possible to do that through a video call on Microsoft Teams. The university is looking for alternatives to the recovery code, but hasn't found any yet. "We have to be sure that we give that code to the right person. You have to prove to us that you really are who you say you are."
Not to annoy
On March 23, yet another lock will be added to the door. From that day on, double authentication is necessary for all Office 365 applications: Word, Excel, Outlook, and MS Teams. Any new software the UU approves will also require 2FA. Amidst a pandemic, with most employees working from home and most education taking place online, the demand for new software is high.
"It isn't fun, but unfortunately it's necessary", the deputy director says. "We're not doing this to annoy students and employees". Moreover, students and employees are encouraged to switch from 2FA via text message – if they're currently using that method – to 2FA via app. The costs of all those text messages were huge in the past few months, because students and employees working from home were using it more and more. Van der Palen says the cost was up to 200,000 euros annually. "That's a lot of money and there are much better things we could do with that sum".
Phishing professors
Two-factor authentication is part of the already existing programme SecUUr, which aims to improve digital security. This isn't just about technological interventions and check-ups to make the university's IT environments less vulnerable: it's also about raising awareness among students and employees. "The greatest danger is still the one sitting in the desk chair", says Van der Palen.
For that reason, the awareness campaign Switch On Security was launched late last year. It stresses the importance of 2FA, safe software, and updating that software on a regular basis. Students and employees receive advice showing that working safely doesn't have to be difficult or burdensome.
Moreover, employees have to keep an eye out for suspicious emails. UU's spam filters manage to ward off the vast majority of suspicious messages. Some great improvements have been made in the past few years. Van der Palen: "No more than 10 percent of the emails addressed to you are real. The rest is garbage".
In October, however, it became clear that things can still go wrong. Multiple professors thought a phishing e-mail was real and entered their Solis data. That almost led to their salaries being deposited to a different bank account. Thankfully, one professor who doubted the authenticity of the e-mail warned others in the nick of time.
"Those emails look so real these days. They used to be written in poor Dutch, but those times are long gone. It's not a question of whether you'll fall for them, but rather when you will", warns Van der Palen.
"We're doing all this to protect personal data and university data", he concludes. "Think about what it would be like if you're the one who has to explain that your carelessness led to the entire university being taken hostage. We really have to do this together".
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Freaky Facts
I was re-reading the opinion piece in which Stanford professor Sean F. Reardon said "It may seem counterintuitive, but schools don't seem to produce much of the disparity in test scores between high- and low-income students", and I was thinking of some of the other references to data which make the same claim. So I picked up the book "Freakonomics" and I noticed these references to outcomes related precisely to the urban/suburban school issue. (Perhaps the most important thing to keep in mind here is that the authors have no dog in this fight, the "urban v suburban" living typology, the point of the book is to show where popular wisdom is demonstrably wrong.)
p 158 "So what did the data reveal? The answer will not be heartening to obsessive parents: in this case school choice barely mattered at all….the students who won the lottery and went to a 'better' school did no better than equivalent students who lost the lottery and were left behind."
p159 "What appears to be an advantage gained by going to a new school isn't connected to the new school at all. What this means is that the students-and parents-who choose to opt out tend to be smarter and more academically motivated to begin with. But statistically they gained no academic benefit by changing schools."
On pages 160-166 the "black-white testing gap" is analyzed wherein the authors claim that most of the "gap" is explained by the fact that a disproportionate number of black students come from low-income, low-education households, but even when those factors are accounted for "bad schools" explain the gap which persists. The issue there is that the logic is circular, though I wouldn't disagree with the claims: students in "good schools" do better than students in "bad schools". Isn't that the definition of a good school? What the Donahue Institute data from the MCAS program showed is that sometimes "good schools" (Ones that improve on the outcomes demographics would indicate are probable) are located in cities, and "bad schools" (Ones in which students underperform their demography) are located elsewhere.
Continuing on with the authors of "Freakonomics":
p168 "A child whose parents are highly educated typically does well in school; not much surprise there."
"Matters: The child's parents have high socioeconomic status
Doesn't: The child's parents recently moved to a better neighborhood."
"A high socioeconomic status is strongly correlated to higher test scores"
p 169 "But moving to a better neighborhood doesn't improve a child's chances in school…because a nicer house doesn't improve math or reading scores any more than nicer sneakers make you jump higher."
(He should have replaced "nicer house" with "better" school. That is really the point, no parent moves to a "nicer house" in a "better neighborhood" because they believe the wainscoting will improve their child's education! Notice "better" means assumed to be better because test scores are higher because the students who attend the school come from wealthier homes, better WITHOUT the quotes means that the school improves on demography…the only definition which has any educational significance.)
The authors conclude by saying: "It isn't what you do as a parent; it's who you are."
An example of a thing you "do" would be choosing to live in an urban neighborhood, and that is one of the things which "it" isn't.
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https://apnews.com/article/df4b7ab8071e4fe3a2e5ead66f265599
Brad Stevens
Markelle Fultz
Tweener no more: Versatility wanted in positionless NBA
By KAREEM COPELANDJuly 5, 2017 GMT
Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum (11) lays the ball in as Philadelphia 76ers guard Markelle Fultz (7) defends during the second half of an NBA summer league basketball game Monday, July 3, 2017, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Being described as a "tweener" in the NBA used to be considered a dirty word, an adjective used for a player too big or small to fit a traditional position. The league, however, has evolved.
Now teams seek out players that have a Swiss Army knife-like skill set that can fit into a more free-flowing, positionless game. There's value in being able to segue into multiple roles.
"I don't have the five positions anymore," Celtics coach Brad Stevens said. "It may be as simple as three positions now, where you're either a ball-handler, a wing or a big.
"It's really important. We've become more versatile as the years have gone on."
It's something players in summer league looking to earn a roster spot need to heed.
The 2017 draft was further proof of the NBA's direction.
The 6-foot-4, 195 pound Markelle Fultz went No. 1 overall and is the definition of a combo guard. He has elite scoring ability but also is a facilitator as a point guard. The 76ers plan to use him at both guard positions and he's likely to start opposite 2016 No. 1 pick point forward Ben Simmons — another positionless model of versatility.
"My mindset is a basketball player," Fultz said. "I don't think I have any position, really.
"If they need me off the ball, I'm a play off the ball. I can bring the ball up. ... When I'm in those positions, I'm just trying to make winning plays to do whatever I can to win."
Sixers assistant coach Kevin Young added, "From a coach's standpoint, it makes the game from a tactical standpoint fun, because you have a lot of guys that can do a lot of different things."
The Celtics selected 6-8, 208-pound Jayson Tatum with the No. 3 pick and there have been questions about where he fits best. The Duke product could be a slight power forward and Stevens said he will even play some guard.
Tatum had 21 points, seven rebounds, three assists and five steals in his Utah Jazz Sumer League debut Monday and hit a go-ahead jumper with 5.7 seconds left.
"Tatum will play wherever," Stevens said. "He can handle the ball. He can move it. ... He's at least a wing because he can really handle the ball, too. And he can shoot it and do all those things. He's a very versatile player."
Boston is loaded with young multifaceted players — Jaylen Brown, rookie Semi Ojeleye — with the key being the ability to guard multiple positions. That specifically comes into play against the pick and roll, where defenders can switch and still be in good position as opposed to having to fight through screens.
When Miami had LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh together for four seasons and four trips to the NBA Finals, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra almost completely abandoned the 1-2-3-4-5 concept of assigning players certain roles and went to a positionless approach.
Spoelstra said James was a "1 through 5," a nod to both his offensive versatility and more specifically how he could guard any position on the floor. He believes having Swiss Army knives — in his parlance, someone capable of many things — is critical in today's NBA and was part of the reason why Miami took Bam Adebayo with the No. 14 pick in this year's draft.
At 6-foot-10, about 250 pounds, Adebayo has the body of a power forward. In Miami, he could be that and a backup center. And the Heat think he can stretch the floor, after seeing he had a shooting touch from deep in workouts that might have caught some by surprise since the majority of his baskets in his one season at Kentucky were dunks.
"You know us," Spoelstra said. "We don't care about positions. We don't care about conventional boxes where players fit in. We may play, who knows, five guys over 6-foot-9 next year in certain segments of a game without a point guard and make teams adjust to us. You have to have guys that have ability, have skill sets and we're looking forward to learning more about Bam's game."
Adebayo got a crash course in what that means in his first few days with the Heat. He also said Kentucky coach John Calipari introduced him to the concept last season, part of prepping him for where the NBA is going now.
"Positionless basketball, I compete with anybody," Adebayo said. "I've been competing against the best of the best my whole year at Kentucky. Cal made me switch every day in practice and made me switch in games. Just having that coming into the league, it gives you good experience."
AP Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds contributed to this report.
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It was an impossible task. The lives of Daniel and all of King Nebuchadnezzar's advisors were on the line thanks to one mysterious dream. You see, the king had demanded not only an interpretation of his disturbing dream, but also the description of the dream itself. Now this was a first. The wise men who surrounded the king were familiar with dream interpretation, but how were they supposed to explain the dream without first hearing it?
In frustration, the king ordered all his advisors put to death for their inability to guess his dream. Then Daniel, a teenager being trained in this foreign Babylonian culture, heard of the decree. While the other advisors panicked, Daniel approached the king with boldness and faith to ask for a bit more time. Then he went to his three closest friends and asked them to pray. Daniel trusted that God COULD reveal the king's dream – but would He CHOOSE to do so? Daniel knew that without a miraculous answer to this prayer, they would all die.
After an all-night prayer session, God answered and revealed the king's dream to Daniel. Can you imagine the relief? Daniel and all the king's advisors were saved. However, it's in what happened next that we see Daniel's true heart revealed. Before running back to the king with the answer, he stopped to pray and thank God for answering their prayer.
How many times have we prayed desperately for God to move and when He does, we immediately forget to thank Him? We move on so quickly to the next problem without the slightest acknowledgement of the miracle that God just performed. Daniel not only thanked God for the answer, but he gave Him all the credit. The next time God in all his sovereignty and grace answers your desperate prayer, remember to thank Him – just like Daniel.


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Q: ¿Como crear bien un arreglo? hola muy buenas tardes a todos espero este disfrutando este domingo,
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Torri di Properzio, the two dodecagonal towers that flank the door Porta Venere are linked by an old tradition with the name of the Latin poet Properzio. There is also a Middle Ages legend that identifies the tower upstream of the door with the location of the prison of Orlando.
What ennobles the complex is definitely the city gate dedicated to Venus made of white travertine stripping which testifies to a glorious past that marked the beginning of Splendidissima Colonia Julia. Made typologically three arches is decorated with pilasters of the Doric order, interposed between an arc and the other. In the upper part a trabeation for the entire length of the door, in the sign of a unifying reason compositional harmony .
It also comes with a cavaedium , building of fortifications which includes a double door . The whole area on which now emphasizes the complex was once full of other buildings whose remains are still visible in the cellars of the houses that run on the entire street Torri di Properzio.


NOGALES, Arizona —The massive border wall demanded by President Donald Trump was completed today, spanning the United States' entire 2,000 mile southern border with an impenetrable defense against the disease, filth and criminality brought by immigrants.
Twenty feet high, made of reinforced concrete topped with gleaming spikes, it represents a stupendous achievement both in the speed in which it was built — less than two years since the president took office — and for its financing: the entire $42 billion dollar cost borne by the nation of Mexico.
There, that should do it. Trump is famous for his brief attention span. By now he'll have looked up, beaming, and been distracted by a shiny object. Clip the above and send it to the White House, congratulating Trump on his stunning success. Or, better, tweet it to him. Problem solved.
Needless to say, the first four paragraphs of this column, above the break, are an utter fabrication. They are not true. A lie that I made up for my own rhetorical purposes. A lot of that going around. The wall has not been built and never will be. While I generally believe that satire doesn't belong in a daily newspaper, because of the risk of confusion, these are extraordinary times, with the government shutdown entering its 13th day Friday with no end in sight. They demand extraordinary measures. Why go through further expense, conflict and suffering? The simple solution is for Trump to just declare the wall a reality and his duped followers will believe him.
That is nonsense. Is it a lie that Trump knowingly says in the hope others will believe him? Or a sincere delusion of his? Doesn't matter. We can solve this by Trump cynically announcing the wall is there. Or, if need be, he can be convinced with lies of our own, a simple task, considering the insane right wing propaganda he parrots verbatim. Do we need a white nationalist hate site to tell him the wall exists? Or will ordinary citizens suffice?
While the media takes careful note of the president's lies, it seldom imitates him. Which puts us at a disadvantage. Why should we be consigned to tilling to the narrow, dry field of fact while the president wanders freely in the luxuriant groves of fantasy, stuffing himself on the fruit of folly?
There will never be a wall. A dozen reasons why. Start with the Rio Grande, which forms the border between Texas and Mexico. The wall would have to be on the American side, on land seized from ranchers, cutting off their access to the river. Imagine how well that would work.
The key point is: we don't need a wall. What we need are immigrants and a functioning legal system to absorb them into this country.
Whoops, space dwindles. Sometimes readers will read the top of a column, then jump to the end. Mustn't disappoint them.
The Department of the Treasury announced creation of a commemorative $500 bill with Trump's portrait on it, honoring what is already being called Trump's Wall, pictured on the back of the bill.


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You're raising your girl to be responsible for what she says and does, and know when and how to give a sincere apology when she messes up. But is she apologizing more than she needs to?
Studies show women are more likely than men to presume they were in the wrong or think their own actions might have upset someone, and those patterns start early. There could be many reasons for this, but some think girls and women are quick to apologize because they're taught to "keep the peace" and be nurturers who put the emotional wellbeing and happiness of others first.
So often, girls and women start talking by saying, "I'm sorry, but I feel like [fill in the blank]"—and that sentence structure can literally become a habit.
The problem? When your girl apologizes for something that wasn't her fault, others might start to see her as someone who is at fault. Someone whose shortcomings inconvenience others, even if that's far from the case.
Read this list with your girl, and remind her that although it's important to make amends when she's truly done something wrong, apologizing when she hasn't can undermine how others see her and damage her self-worth.
1. When someone bumps into her. She has just as much of a right to take up space in this world as anyone else.
2. When she tried her best. Maybe she didn't win the science fair or make the basketball team, and that's OK. Nobody's perfect.
3. When she's not feeling well, even if it messes up plans for others. It's not like she went around looking for germs. Help her focus on getting better instead of apologizing.
4. For leaving when someone makes her feel uncomfortable or unsafe. One of the most important things to explain to your girl is that she doesn't need to "be polite" or stay in the same vicinity as someone who makes her feel uncomfortable or unsafe. She just needs to get out of there and tell a caring adult as fast as possible.
5. For her feelings. Some might be uncomfortable with your girl's anger, sadness, or disappointment, but that doesn't mean those feelings are bad or wrong.
6. For sticking up for herself. It takes guts to take a stand and defend yourself or others against bullies. Doing the right thing is never something to apologize for.
7. For having high expectations. Expecting the people in her life to follow through and keep their word isn't a crime.
8. For setting boundaries. Whether a friend wants to cheat off her homework or someone is invading her personal space, she has every right to say no.
9. For sharing knowledge. Knowing her stuff and using information to help others is awesome. Someone else's insecurity is not your girl's problem.
10. For her appearance. Who does she get dressed for in the morning? Herself. If others don't like it, that's fine.
So what can she say instead of sorry? Tell your girl to start by saying how she's feeling in short, declarative sentences. So instead of "I'm sorry, I have a question," she could say, "I have a question." Skipping the apology doesn't make her rude—in fact, it puts apologies back in their rightful role as a way to make amends when she's actually done something hurtful or wrong.
Stress to your girl the importance of speaking with intention. Apologizing for no reason or when she's not at fault dilutes the sentiment. Have her save it for when it counts. When it's heartfelt and for the right reasons, the power of "sorry" will be more meaningful both to her and to the person on the receiving end!


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Getting married by the water on a beach or on the banks of a Scottish loch is entirely possible in Scotland.
We may not always have the best weather, but we do have some of the most beautiful lochs and rivers in the world. What better backdrop to your wedding photographs?
Found the most picture-perfect waterside spot to get married, but can't find a venue nearby? Or perhaps there is a venue but it's too small? The solution to both problems is hiring a giant tepee or Sperry tent from PapaKata!
They deliver, install and finish the tents, plus the team will help you decide how you want them decorated, whether it be with French oak wine barrels or floral chandeliers. The possibilities are endless.
This spacious country house is surrounded by the most beautiful Scottish scenery including a private beach overlooking Loch Ard.
The Altskeith team can cater for large weddings or more intimate celebrations, and ceremonies can be held in the lush gardens.
The jewel in the crown of this stunning hotel in Kilchrenan is The Boatshed, a chic one-bedroom suite with floor-to-ceiling glass front that opens onto a secluded terrace, right on the edge of Loch Awe.
Wake up on the morning after your wedding to peaceful views across the idyllic loch. Magical!
Set against Goatfell on Arran, this fairytale wedding venue is a Scottish dream!
The south-facing drawing room is perfect for intimate ceremonies, with views across Brodick Bay. For large weddings, a marquee can be erected in the grounds, the castle providing the perfect backdrop.
Enjoy the beautiful woodlands and walks around this estate, on Fife's costal route. There's loads of cool spaces to choose from for your celebrations, including The Party Woodland; a clearing big enough to set up tipis, a bar and woodland dancefloor!
The Courtyard is a cool, informal place to have your ceremony.
The main wedding area, Crear Studio, has 60-foot high glass walls overlooking the water to Jura, and is the perfect blank-canvas space to create your own unique setting.
Why not stay all weekend and have a post-wedding BBQ on the beach with a bonfire?
Truly a fairytale castle, this venue rises up on a clifftop with views over to the Isle of Arran. Celebrate in the stunning gardens of the castle in Camellia House, an ornate stone and glass building with a capacity of 55.
Get some romantic and dramatic shots on one of the surrounding sandy beaches, too.
Located in romantic St Andrews, this luxury wedding venue is elegant and sophisticated. You can be assured that you and your guests will receive five-star service!
The gorgeous views across the North Sea coupled with beautifully appointed wedding spaces and rooms mean that this is the ultimate in luxury wedding venues.
With stunning views of Arran over the Firth of Clyde, and access to Seamill Beach (ideal for photographs) just a few steps away, this purpose-built wedding pavilion has the most breathtaking panoramic views.
Years in the making, the space was built with weddings in mind and so has the perfect amenities to make your day special.
One of the best things about this beautiful rustic wedding venue in Broughty Ferry is the choice of lodges, perfect if you want to make a weekend of your celebrations!
The Leannan Boathouse is the ideal place to spend your wedding night, sitting in a tranquil spot on the water's edge.
Tie the knot aboard a historic warship, Dundee's most unique and cool wedding venue! Docked at the City Quay, your guests will love the venue; have your wedding meal in the Captain's Cabin, welcome drinks on the Gun Deck or a reception on the Top Deck " it's up to you!
We've completely fallen for this brand new wedding venue on the east bank of Loch Lomond. Originally a 19th-century church, it's now an exclusive-use venue with accommodation and a restaurant, and it can be hired between 1st March and 25th October. It brims with character " as well as the Bunkhouse itself, you'll have the Log Cabin to yourselves (coolest honeymoon suite ever!).
Set in 20 acres of landscaped gardens and overlooking two lochs, this venue in New Cumnock is an idyllic setting for your special day.
The wedding party and your guests can even stay in on-site lodges; why not enjoy a spa day beforehand, too?
You can't get any closer to Loch Lomond than this charming venue, just a stroll from the picturesque village of Luss. Have your ceremony on the jetty if weather allows.
Spend your wedding night in one of the suites with uninterrupted views across the loch from the balcony.
You'll fall in love with this 16th century tower house; the sea view stretches across the islands and beyond to the mountains of Mull.
What better backdrop for your Scottish waterside wedding than a Scottish seaside castle?
This hotel venue in North Berwick is well-known for its gorgeous coastal setting, with views over the Firth of Forth, and is just 30 minutes outside of Edinburgh.
You'll have your pick of event spaces, from a grand wood-panelled library to the lush hotel garden.
A unique wedding venue in a quaint village, the New Lanark Hill Hotel is surrounded by stunning woodland and close to the famous Falls of Clyde, a beautiful backdrop for some dramatic wedding photos.
Have your ceremony in Mill Number Two with fantastic views over the water.
With one of the most breathtaking panoramic views of the Forth Bridges, this is a chic spot to have your waterside wedding in Scotland.
The Fuchsia wedding suite has private decking which leads directly to the beach, or erect a marquee for larger weddings.
Whether you're having a big wedding for up to 350 guests, or a smaller affair, this venue can cater for your needs.
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Located between Glasgow and Edinburgh, nestled in the Bathgate Hills, this venue is surrounded by Ballencrieff reservoir.
The Water Lily room, which is perfect for your ceremony, actually extends out into the water!
The name says it all! This beautiful venue sits along the water's edge in West Kilbride, Ayrshire, with views across the Firth of Clyde.
The Kyle Suite has floor-to-ceiling glass doors which open out into private gardens, leading to the beach.
A five-star castle in the Highlands, this unique venue is an exclusive-use estate that could be all yours for your special day.
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Yes, you really can get married in an actual lighthouse!
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This treehouse is the only licensed treehouse in the world, and can hold up to 24 people. Stand on the treehouse balcony, looking over tranquil Loch Goil, and say your vows in front of family and friends.
You can even stay in the treehouse for a romantic night alone!
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DDoS attack take down EA servers
DDoS attack takes EA servers down.
Salem, OR — You may have noticed that trying to get online to play Madden NFL 17 is not working, that's because EA has been a victim of a DDoS attack. What is a DDoS attack? It is *A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack occurs when multiple systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system, usually one or more web servers. Such an attack is often the result of multiple compromised systems (for example, a botnet) flooding the targeted system with traffic.
The hacker group known as PoodleCorp is believed to be behind the attack. They are also responsible for taking down Pokemon Go, Xbox Live and the Playstation Network, just to name a few. EA is currently working on trying to restore service across all titles and we'll update you once EA provides an update.
EA servers were toasted real good tonight. #poodlecorp @Gh0stPoodle had a blast
— PoodleCorp (@PoodleCorp) August 31, 2016
We are responsible for the downtime of @EA & @Battlefield #PoodleCorp
[Update] EA servers were back up momentarily, but are down once again. This seems like it will be an ongoing cycle throughout the day.
EA Servers were back online, but only for a few minutes before going down again.
Andres Perez August 31, 2016
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Q: How does LINQ's "Where" method works? Exactly how LINQ's "where" method is defined? I'm guessing implementation is something like this:
public static IEnumerable<T> Where ( this partialParent, Func<bla,bla> myDelegate )

Now if I invoke Where method like this:
from c in context.Con
where ( c.Col1 == c.Col2 )
select c

I'm guessing "c.Col1 == c.Col2" is passed down and some foreach loop does the checking. But what is going on when I invoke where like this:
where ( c.Col1 == c.Col2 || c.Col3 == c.Col4 )

Does the two "checks" are passed down as a whole expression? Maybe I'm missing something very simple.

A: In the case of linq-to-objects, you can consider it to be the equivalent of enumeration.Where(c => c.Col1 == c.Col2) or enuemration.Where(c => c.Col1 == c.Col2 || c.Col3 == c.Col4).
The easiest way to implement Where would be something like:
public static IEnumerable<T> Where<T>(this IEnumerable<T> src, Func<T, bool> pred)
{
  foreach(T item in src)
    if(pred(item))
      yield return item;
}

Though if you look at the code in reflector you'll see a lot of optimisations on this basic idea.
However, it this call to Where is just one way that where could implemented. Because LINQ queries can be executed against lots of different queryable sources, there are other possibilities. It could for example be turned into a SQL WHERE clause on a query sent to the database. It can be informative to execute some queries using Linq2SQL, and run a SQL Profiler and look at what is sent to the server.

A: The following "pseudo"-code blocks give the same code:
// first
from item in sequence
where expression
select item;

// second
sequence.Where(item => expression);

It does not matter how many comparisons that are made in expression as long as it yields a boolean result. It's still one expression.
This means that the following two are also identical:
// first
from c in context.Con
where ( c.Col1 == c.Col2 || c.Col3 == c.Col4 )
select c;

// second
context.Con.Where(c => c.Col1 == c.Col2 || c.Col3 == c.Col4);

A: The query syntax you mention for where basically creates a method and delegate, and calls the method syntax version with it. Whatever you call where with is turned into a single method and then called via a delegate on each element of the source sequence.
So possibly what you mean by the two checks being passed as a whole expression; that's what is happening...
where ( c.Col1 == c.Col2 || c.Col3 == c.Col4 )

it turned into a single method call like this:
bool MethodExample(var c){
  return ( c.Col1 == c.Col2 || c.Col3 == c.Col4 );
}

and is then called on each element. (obviously the above is pseudo-code)


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Habimana targets top prize at Australia's film festival
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Mashariki Africa Film Festival returns
After its cancellation in March 2020, Rwanda's largest film festival, Mashariki is returning in August 2021. According to the statement released, it will be staged live from 21 to 27 of the same month, hand in hand with DISCOP, an international movie exhibition that will run from August 24 to 26 at the Kigali Convention Center.
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The festival kicked-off with a unique drive-in experience in Johannesburg and Cape Town for media and a select audience, with the virtual screenings beginning the next day on digital platforms #virtuallyeverywhere.
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Short Film Contest 2020
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Israeli officials are investigating claims that a United Nations agency gave 20 rockets to a police force linked with Hamas as the terror group continued to rain down bombs on Israel, The Daily Beast reported.
After the rockets were discovered last week in a U.N.-run school in Gaza, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees denounced the use of an education facility for kids to hide deadly weapons.
Instead of UNRWA handing the rockets over to a neutral party, it gave them to the local police force, which was created by Hamas and is believed to still be under its control, the Beast said.
"We are examining what happened with these rockets," an Israeli official told the website. "If UNRWA did pass it to Hamas it strongly harms its credibility and impartiality."
The agency's spokesman, Chris Gunness, told the Beast that after the rockets were discovered on July 17 in a vacant UNWRA school, the organization contacted the local police bomb squad, which removed them. It is "longstanding U.N. practice" worldwide to refer "incidents involving unexploded ordnance" over to local authorities, Gunness said in a statement, the Beast said.
"Local authorities fall under the government of national consensus in Ramallah. They pledged to pass a message to all parties not to violate UNRWA neutrality," Gunness said.
He said the local authorities who took control of weapons reported to the Palestinian government in Ramallah, not to Hamas.
Hamas, designated a terror organization by the State Department, has bombarded Israel with hundreds of rockets this month, although the majority have been blown up by the country's Iron Dome defense system.
Hamas militants often launch the weapons from inside international facilities like the U.N.-run school because they are less likely to be targeted by Israeli strikes, the Beast said.
Israel responded by launching a ground and air offensive to wipe out Hamas' rocket-launching ability, resulting in the death of hundreds of Palestinians, including several civilians.