An American classic. It's 1941, and refugees are desperately fleeing a war torn Europe. One of the few free ports is Casablanca in French Morocco, where exit visas are granted for people to travel to America. For a price, that is. Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) runs the most popular café in Casablanca, and his world is turned upside down when he comes into possession of two stolen travel documents. The situation is made worse when his long lost love, Ilsa (beautiful Ingrid Bergman) shows up with her husband Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), who is an important leader in the Czech underground. Captain Renault (delightful Claude Rains) has orders to detain Laszlo, who is wanted by the Third Reich, and only Rick can get him out of Casablanca alive. But will he?
A beautiful film in all regards. The writing is sharp and witty, the direction is slick, the music is stirring, and the cinematography is superb. Excellent performances by all of the players, and the exchanges between Rick and Renault are priceless. While the film is full of famous and memorable quotes, the one that really hits home is when Ilsa says "one girl hurts you and you take your revenge on the entire world." Yeah, I know how that feels.


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Cosmos » Biology » Scientists uncover the brain area responsible for buffets
21 October 2018 /
Nick Carne
Scientists uncover the brain area responsible for buffets
Rat study finds unexpected neural activity connected to decisions about food. Nick Carne reports.
We may soon have something specific to blame for our bad food choices.
US neuroscientists working with rats have found "strikingly dominant" neural activity related to food preference decisions in a previously overlooked part of the brain, suggesting this is where those choices are made.
"The level of brain activity we saw exceeded our expectations by far," says David Ottenheimer from Johns Hopkins University in the US, lead author of a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications.
Of course, this power could be used for good as well as evil. Ottenheimer and colleagues say their finding may be the key to developing therapies and treatments to encourage healthy eating. And that's relevant to other issues of concern and research interest, such as portion size.
The aim of the research was to find some clues to how our brain determines what and how much to take when we have several competing food options, whether at a buffet, on a menu or simply in the refrigerator.
That often requires quick decisions about which of two similar dishes, such as macaroni-cheese or mashed potatoes, would be the most rewarding. Even if we can have both, how much of each do we take?{%recommended 7801%}
In their study, the researchers gave rats one of two sugary drinks each day; one was made with sucrose (which the rats preferred) and the other maltodextrin. They mapped each rat's brain activity precisely at the moment it realised which drink it had been given, pinpointing the neurons that registered the excitement for sucrose and the disappointment for maltodextrin.
They found that the activated neurons were in an area called the ventral pallidum, a spot long associated with reward and pleasure perception, but thought to be in more of a secondary role.
Next, the rats were presented with a different set of options: either the maltodextrin drink or plain water. When they received maltodextrin, the ventral pallidum neurons fired as they previously had for sucrose. This suggests they were making context-dependent decisions, zeroing in on the best food option at any given time.
"Because the signalling by ventral pallidum neurons changes immediately when the rat changes his ranking of which flavour is his favourite, we see this response as providing a real-time readout of what you like best from currently available options," says senior author Patricia Janak, also from Johns Hopkins.
The next step is to figure what the signalling in this part of the brain means. Is it used to reinforce prior food-seeking actions and make them more likely to occur again? Or is it used to inform future decisions and bias them towards one food reward over the other next time someone is presented with a food choice?
"Our data suggest that further investigation of ventral pallidum will be critical for understanding how we make decisions about eating," Ottenheimer says. "If we want to figure out why a food can be exciting in one scenario and disappointing in another, ventral pallidum could be the key."
Originally published by Cosmos as Scientists uncover the brain area responsible for buffets
Nick Carne is the editor of Cosmos Online and editorial manager for The Royal Institution of Australia.
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It's simplistic and it's brief, but by God, I had loads of fun with Genji: Dawn of the Samurai.
Rather than come up with a brand-new concept for their third-person swordfest, the folks at Game Republic clearly used Capcom's Onimusha franchise as the blueprint for their game. Players alternate control between two different characters, a Samurai and a warrior monk, and progress through a multitude of towns and dungeons packed with enemy swordsmen and supernatural beasts. Most of the hands-on effort involves rapidly tapping the attack buttons, which cause your heroes to chop their hapless opponents to bits… literally. Even the game's story is put together in a similar manner to the way stories unfold in Capcom's successful franchise. The first two Onimusha games were supernatural embellishments of true stories taken from Japan's history. Genji is a supernatural embellishment of events that actually took place in Japan during the late 1100's.
According to history, a young Samurai named Minamoto Yoshitsune, representing the Genji clan, rallied a small army against the much-larger force of the Heishi, and ultimately stopped the Heishi from taking over Kyoto and controlling Japan. Genji, the video game, is a loose re-telling of those events. In the game, the Heishi are just as numerous, but now they possess supernatural crystals, called Amagahane, that grant them magical powers. They're also involved in science experiments that involve crossing animals and people with demons. Yoshitsune, like his real life counterpart, is a badass Samurai in the game, but he doesn't have an army to command. Instead, he has an Amagahane of his own and a partner that he can change places with, a warrior monk named Benkei. If you played either of the first two Onimusha games and remember how they fiddled with the story of Ieyasu Tokugawa, then you'll be right at home with Genji's unique interpretation of its own historical basis.
As action games go, Genji is just as satisfying as Capcom's efforts have been. The two main characters are very different from each other, but both are fun to control. Yoshitsune, the Samurai, carries a pair of swords and can unleash rapid, multi-hit attacks on enemies. His counterpart, Benkei, the warrior monk, carries around a massive pole or spear and doles out damage in sluggish, powerful bursts. The characters differ in other, practical ways too. Yoshitsune is fast, but not very sturdy. Benkei moves around like a turtle, but he can absorb and dish out damage like a tank. Yoshitsune can double jump, wall jump, and pull himself up onto ledges. Benkei can't do any of that, but he can smash through certain doors and obstacles. For the most part, you're free to control whichever character you prefer, although there are times where you'll need to use a specific character to open a door or access an area that is off-limits to the other character. You have to return to a local safe house to change characters, which means you'll do a bit of backtracking from time to time, but not so much that you'll feel discouraged from changing characters when you need to.
Although there are a few simplistic switch and door puzzles, gameplay predominantly involves hacking, chopping, and slashing your way through the enemies you encounter. It's not uncommon for the screen to display "25 hits, 15 kills" as you continue to slash and hack away at incoming enemies, many of which will end up decapitated or cut in half before bloodily disappearing from the playing field. The cast of generic enemies is a healthy menagerie of soldiers, enchanted beasts, and supernatural uglies. Once you reach the end of a town or dungeon, you'll typically square off against a 'boss' of sorts–either another badass Samurai or some gigantic monster.
A key story element is something called "Amagahane," which are little glowing orbs that bestow their owners with supernatural powers. For the game's bosses, this usually means the ability to cast various kinds of magic (fire, lightning, and so forth). Yoshitsune and Benkei have their own Amagahane, which give the pair the ability to enter a state of mind called "Kamui." Kamui is just a fancy term for the Matrix -esque bullet-time effect we've seen in countless other video games. When you tap the kamui button (L1), you'll activate a brief slow-motion effect that causes enemies to move at sluggish speeds. Furthermore, if they attack you during kamui, you can counter their attacks and unleash one-hit kills by tapping the appropriate button when it appears on screen. Kamui is an integral aspect of gameplay. You get more experience points when you kill enemies during a kamui period and some of the game's bosses can only be defeated by using kamui-based counter-attacks.
Aside from stabbing everything in sight, there are also some basic RPG style character development aspects to keep in mind and manage. Yoshitsuke and Benkei gain experience by defeating enemies and level-up just like typical RPG characters do. Every time one of them levels-up, their health, attack, and defensive ratings automatically increase. Weapons, armor, and items also work in much the same way that they do in a role-playing game. You can buy swords, suits of armor, and health potions from merchants in the various towns, or hunt them down in chests and secret nooks scattered throughout the scenery. Some enemies drop rare items and weapons when you finish them off with strong attacks or by using kamui. Managing equipment isn't too difficult. You can forge custom weapons by mixing items at the blacksmith's shop or just make do with the more-than-ample stock weapons you find. Each character can have one weapon, one suit of armor, and one piece of jewelry equipped at any given time, but there aren't any limits placed on how much a character can carry in his backpack.
Genji's features, though unoriginal, do at least gel together nicely. Combat is the game's main focus, but the puzzles and RPG elements help guide the violence somewhat. The environments offer some degree of interactivity, in that there are places to climb, rooftops to jump onto, and switches to trigger. You can also talk to non-player characters and travel between the different towns, forests, temples, and dungeons whenever and as often as you like, except for when some areas are closed off at the end of a chapter (there are three chapters). All told, this is one heck of an action romp for people that think swords and Samurai are cool.
A major contributor to the game's overall cool factor is its presentation. Not just slick graphics that tax the PS2's hardware, but cinematic details that actually bring the world of 1170's Japan to life. Camera angles pan and zoom like the pre-set cameras in the Resident Evil games. The environments capture the rustic flair of the era, juxtaposing small villages and towns with the forests, caves, and mountains that dominated the scenery during that time period. Motion-capture actors were used to image character faces and to come up with attack animations. There are DVD quality cinematic intermissions, complete with Japanese language dialogue and subtitles, that advance the story. And then there are all of the little details. Run through a forest or slash at some trees and you'll notices leaves falling softly to the ground. Look down into a puddle and you'll see the reflection of the surrounding environment. Walk through it and you'll cause the water to splash. The Japanese are silly for cherry blossoms, as you'll see in some levels where they flutter through the air like dainty snowflakes.
While playing, I had many moments where I honestly felt like I was experiencing the true sights and sounds of Japan during that time period. If you want to, you can just take it all in… stand on a bridge and watch the koi swim around in the water below, all while cherry blossoms gently fly through the air and fall to the ground or into the water. The realistic environmental sound effects and the authentic Japanese music that makes up the main portion of the soundtrack support the scenery wonderfully. I wasn't quite as impressed by the game's "actiony" sound effects, which are the same sorts of screams, clanks, and explosions that are in every game nowadays.
The biggest problem I had with Genji is that it was over way too soon. I completed the game in approximately 6 hours, and it only took that long because I made a concerted effort to collect rare weapons and level-up the characters. Some people out there will blow through the game in 3 or 4 hours, easy. Once you're done, you can always play through again, keeping the loot you collected the first time, or try to tackle the "hard" mode, which disables leveling and shop purchases altogether. This is the sort of game that's worth replaying from time to time.
All in all, while I felt the ride was too short, I enjoyed every minute of it. Few games these days can offer a solid 6 hours of joy, even if they have quests that take 50 hours to complete. In that regard, Genji is worth the price of admission (especially if you can get it on discount).


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Rep. Cori Bush (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
In truth, [Missouri Rep. Cori] Bush isn't paying for personal security; her campaign donors are paying for her personal security. Her police protection accounted for more than a third of her campaign expenditures during the second quarter. So, the very individuals and organizations that were so excited by her calls to defund the police that they contributed to her campaign are actually funding police to protect Cori Bush.
The problem is her constituents don't have rich supporters willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars to protect them. They have the police. And the city of St. Louis, which Bush represents in Congress, recently cut $4 million from its police budget and eliminated 98 officer positions. Where is the money going? About $1.5 million will go for affordable housing, another million will go to assist the homeless population, and another million will be diverted to crime-victim support services — including funeral expenses for crime victims.
Maybe if St. Louis had a hundred more cops on the streets, there would be fewer funerals. Last year, the city had 262 homicides, the most per 100,000 people since 1970. Yet despite the explosion of murders in her city, Bush praised the decision to take almost 100 police officers off the streets of St. Louis as "historic."
— Mark A. Thiessen in Democrats want police protection for themselves, not for the rest of us
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Draven July 31, 2021 At 08:04
in other news, water is wet.
Bill July 31, 2021 At 09:05
Water is not wet; things that get water on them are wet.
Geoff "A day without a demented troll is like a day of warm sunshine" PR July 31, 2021 At 11:44
Is a fish aware of water? 🙂
possum July 31, 2021 At 16:17
I was wondering that the other day .
StLPro2A July 31, 2021 At 17:55
Are humans aware of air????
Duct-tape your mouth and nose shut and let me know… 😉
Whill Whheeton August 1, 2021 At 10:22
Water is wet because the water has water on it and they make each other wet.
Adjacent water molecules makes each other wet.
joeyj August 1, 2021 At 17:21
Shhhhh…..you're divulging how much you slept in class…..
Bush is a clown sans red rubber nose; an embarrassment to St. Louis. However, the color only voters that put the likes of her in political office are an even greater embarrassment. Therein is the real problem….the Government Plantation Dwellers. "You can't fix stupid."
Gov. William J Le Petomane July 31, 2021 At 08:28
I've often thought the same about urban voters, but after the 2020 election I'm not so sure it's their fault.
The urban voters form the core of the Government Plantation voting base. The November 2020 election highlighted how Libturds "top off" the needed count. Lyndon Johnson, during his first Senate election, went back to the same West Texas precinct three times finding his "top off" needed votes until he had enough. Their "top off" process is much more refined and emboldened now.
Emboldened, certainly, but I don't know about refined. They found an extra 800,000 'top off' votes in Philly. That's pretty bold.
Just one man's opinion but voter fraud should be treated as treason and the guilty should be shot without a blindfold at dawn. Now I bet that would straighten out our cities!
Dude July 31, 2021 At 10:00
Voter ID AND thumbprints should be required to vote. We could easily implement secure elections, but "we" don't want them.
LifeSavor July 31, 2021 At 15:27
Gov. WJLP,
"…voter fraud should be treated as treason and the guilty should be shot without a blindfold at dawn."
Miner49er July 31, 2021 At 16:10
It all hinges on the accuracy of the information, not the source. Do you dispute the voter totals indicated in the story? If the answer is yes, what are the voter totals you believe are accurate and what sources do you cite to support your alternative numbers?
@Dude.
Thumbprints?, are you kidding. Volunteering to have your fingerprints taken is not a good idea if you ask me.
Peter Gunn July 31, 2021 At 17:55
+ 1,000,000 possum!
The last thing anyone should want is their fingerprints floating around on the internet waiting to be purloined.
Gov. WJLP, Lifesavior…….heads on pikes lining the DC Reflecting Pool would be a strong deterrent.
So you guys have gone through life without ever having your thumbprint taken? Do you think someone will leave your prints at the scene of a crime?
Dude, the only place I have been required to "provide" a fingerprint was to enter Walt Disney World- and the only reason I went along with it was because of the looks I got from my wife and daughter when my initial reaction was "Hell No!"
What I ended up doing was touching the edge of my right pinky fingernail on the device and slowly press the tip of my finger down against the glass until the light turned green. I'd estimate that it only took about 1/4 of an inch of the very tip of my pinky to make the machine happy. And I was fine with that- they only got 2-3 parallel lines of dermal ridges- it'd be pretty damn hard to match that to anything. My "method" has worked every time since.
The only "authority" I have ever voluntarily provided my full fingerprints to is law enforcement for licensing purposes. I wouldn't ever consider voluntarily giving my finger prints to any "company"- especially when everyone brainlessly uploads all information to the internet without a second thought about security or privacy.
The issue with the internet is that one's fingerprints simply become a data packet on the internet, and as we're reminded daily- data on the internet is not secure. When your fingerprint data is available on the internet- anyone can do anything they want with it. I won't willingly go along with allowing that to happen
But, to each their own.
Dude August 1, 2021 At 09:09
"The only "authority" I have ever voluntarily provided my full fingerprints to is law enforcement for licensing purposes."
Congratulations. You're already in the system. So am I. So are most adults that haven't been living in a cave. I get it. It feels a little weird, like a privacy violation. The thing is, criminals can't steal my identity with a print. They need my social security number. Guess what? Our SS #'s are floating around all over the place. You have to give it out all of the time.
Election integrity is a major issue right now. Democrats have created another crisis, just like they're currently doing with the border, inflation, debt, and poisoning young minds. It's time to think outside the box. Racist Democrats think people with a particular skin tone are too dumb to figure out how to get a government issued ID. Guess what? Almost everyone has a digit. Anyone can give a print. How are they going to argue against that?
Peter Gunn August 1, 2021 At 11:35
"The thing is, criminals can't steal my identity with a print."
But they can steal your print, which, in a digital world, means your fingerprint (data code) is no longer unique to you- and therefore useless for identification.
As they say about computers- garbage in, garbage out. When fingerprint data is made vulnerable via the internet, the ability of someone else to utilize your fingerprint data in any way they wish makes your ID data untrustworthy. The more places one allows their fingerprints to be "accessed" the more chances one has of having your data pilfered.
Of course I'm in the "system"- I was given no choice. But I only authorized the use of my data to one local law enforcement agency, one federal law enforcement agency, and one state licensing agency. Sure, I didn't like it- but it's what was "required" for me to "exercise" my constitutional rights (and it was relatively early in the history of the "modern" internet- 1992).
So, yes- if someone gained access to one of those three agencies who have my (ink/analog) fingerprints then I guess I'm SOL. But guess what- I didn't authorize them to make my personal data vulnerable by copying/digitizing/uploading/sharing via a known insecure transmission method (the internet). That's on them.
I have actively sought to keep my fingerprint data as secure as possible by not volunteering it to every Tom, Dick and Harry simply for the sake of "convenience". The more people who do, the more data is vulnerable, the more data is vulnerable the more it's stolen, and the more it's stolen the more the data become useless.
Election integrity is indeed a major issue right now. Do I want to add another layer of dubitable complexity to an already disputed election system? No- I most certainly do not. My photo ID is determinately enough (and should be required for everyone wishing to vote).
Yes, I'm a firm believer in analog over digital- it's easier to manipulate digital data than it is to forge a human with a photo and voter ID, handwritten check lists, all retained hand ballots, thousands of human election process witnesses, etc., etc.
Digital just makes it easier to cheat.
Maybe I'm missing something here. If more than one person is using the same print, that automatically prompts an audit of those ballots. Whoever is using the fraudulent print will be found out when they can't replicate the print under scrutiny and arrested. At a minimum their fraudulent ballot will be thrown out if the person can't be located. Discarding the fraudulent ballots is the entire point, so I don't understand why this couldn't work.
By the way, the poll worker should get a picture of what you're supposed to look like since your print will be tied to your photo. Do you think these potential fraudulent voters will be able to also look just like you?
I'm thinking about the specific digital data code that comprises "your" print. When that data becomes available to others for manipulation as they see fit- you may not want to be associated with "your" data anymore. Would you want to own it if you don't "own" it? Savvy?
I am reminded of grocery shopping with my mother as a child- when mom wrote a check at checkout the cashier always grabbed a stack of stapled papers and visually scanned it. After years of watching this happen I finally figured out that the cashier was comparing the check account number to a list of "bad" check account numbers. I thought that was really smart (and that I was so smart for figuring it out). Well, checking an individual's fingerprint code is similar to comparing it to a list of checking account numbers- if it's listed on the "bad" list, it ain't no good. You don't want your fingerprint data code to end up on a "bad" list.
I envision an ever-growing list of "compromised" fingerprint data making fingerprint verification rather useless at best, and intimating criminal liability at worst. By simply proving that you are the only person capable of legitimately "reproducing" your "unique" fingerprint code isn't helpful if the code you present is deemed untrustworthy.
Or I could be completely off-base and totally wrong. It's food for thought, though… regardless.
"It's food for thought, though… regardless."
What you're saying makes perfect sense. It's definitely something to consider. There would need to be safeguards in place to make sure people don't end up on the "bad" list. Inevitably some people still would, just like sometimes identities are stolen. Everything is a delicate balance of the pros and cons. Regarding election integrity, I think we can do much better.
"They found an extra 800,000 'top off' votes in Philly."
That is quite the claim, have you any actual evidence with which to back up your assertion?
"CLAIM: Pennsylvania election officials mailed out 1.8 million ballots but counted votes from more than 2.5 mailed ballots.
AP'S ASSESSMENT: False. The statistic combines data from Pennsylvania's June primary election, in which 1.8 million voters requested vote-by-mail ballots, and data from the general election, in which voters mailed back more than 2.6 million ballots that were counted.
THE FACTS: In the weeks before the November 2020 election, more than 3 million Pennsylvania voters requested vote-by-mail ballots.
Data from Pennsylvania's Department of State analyzed by the U.S. Election Project, an election data site maintained by University of Florida political scientist Michael McDonald, show 3,087,524 mail ballots requested and 2,629,672 mail ballots returned and counted.
But those figures were distorted at a legislative hearing in Gettysburg last week as President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani tried to argue there was fraud in Pennsylvania's election.
Among Giuliani's claims was that only 1,823,148 vote-by-mail ballots were sent to voters, and the fact that a much larger number of mailed ballots were counted in the election results suggested widespread irregularities.
"Now this is the part that is a mystery," Giuliani said during the hearing. "Mailed ballots sent out, 1,823,148. But when you go to the count of the final count of the vote, there were 2,589,242 mail-in-ballots. What happened? How do you account for the 700,000 mail in ballots that appeared from nowhere?"
But there is no mystery. There were not 700,000 mail-in-ballots that appeared from nowhere.
Giuliani mixed two different statistics in his claim. State data show the 1,823,148 figure is actually the number of voters who requested a vote-by-mail ballot in the state's June primary– not in the general election."
https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-afs:Content:9787630390
Miner,
Really? You are quoting AP.
OK. Enough said.
jwm July 31, 2021 At 16:00
SeaLion's gotta SeaLion.
Minor, first, I didn't bother reading your comment past the first sentence as it is irrelevant. Second, I recall an election official testifying to congress that out of those ~800,000 mail in ballots in question about 1200 went to Trump. Not likely. Third, it comes down to the smell test. What isn't in dispute is that during the count (in Philly and elsewhere) election workers illegally blocked partisan observers from witnessing the count. I've been working on this for 9 months now and I can't come up with a plausible reason to do that unless you were committing mass voter fraud. If you can enlighten me as to a possible legitimate reason to illegally block partisan observers from witnessing the count I'll reconsider my determination that the entire election was a fraud. Otherwise, pound sand.
"I recall an election official testifying to congress that out of those ~800,000 mail in ballots in question about 1200 went to Trump. Not likely."
That is not at all correct, Rudy was lying about the 800,000 ballots, that's why he is being suspended in many jurisdictions.
Rudy intentionally mixed the numbers from the primary and the general election in order to mislead the "poorly educated" because they weren't swift enough to catch his slight of hand.
Seriously, please share whatever numbers you think are accurate and the source you rely for their veracity.
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Miner49er August 1, 2021 At 04:20
Almost ZERO ballots rejected in Georgia this election. In years past, over 6%. Not possible. Must have signature check on envelopes now. Very easy to do. Dems fighting because they got caught. Far more votes than needed for flip.
Lifeslaver, it all hinges on the accuracy of the information, not the source. Do you dispute the voter totals indicated in the story? If the answer is yes, what are the voter totals you believe are accurate and what sources do you cite to support your alternative numbers?
It is very easy to tell the Fake Miner's posts because they are always incorrect.
"Almost ZERO ballots rejected in Georgia this election. In years past, over 6%"
Here's the facts regarding that lie:
"Georgia Secretary of State (SoS) shared in a Facebook post and on its website the numbers for rejected absentee ballots in 2016, 2018 and 2020, visible here and here .
The Facebook post by the Georgia SoS says that in the 2016 Presidential election, 580 out of 246,621 absentee by mail ballots were rejected for "missing or inaccurate oath information" with a rejection rate of 0.24% (here).
In the 2018 general election, 454 out of 284,393 absentee by mail ballots were rejected for missing or non-matching signatures with a rejection rate of 0.15% (here).
In 2020, 2,011 out of 1,322,529 absentee by mail ballots were rejected for missing or non-matching signatures with a rejection rate of 0.15%. Both 2018 and 2020 has the same rejection rate of 0.15% for signature issues, the Georgia Secretary of State said. (here)"
https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2832CM
The Georgia vote was likely mostly manipulated through the adjudication process.
"Biden's margin of victory in several key states could have been provided by shifting write-in and minor party ballots through ballot adjudication."
Check out this article for even more statistical anomalies in the 2020 election.
https://redstate.com/stu-in-sd/2021/05/04/w-i-m-p-did-adjudication-of-these-votes-provide-the-holograms-margin-of-victory-n373099
I previously mentioned requiring prints to vote. The adjudicators also need to affix their prints to the adjudicated ballots. We also need to keep a copy of the original ballot for audit purposes. They currently just destroy the original ballot which makes no sense unless you want to cover for cheaters. Every election with statistical anomalies should trigger a real audit, not a recount of potentially fraudulent ballots. If you have certain statistical anomalies on your tax return, guess what? You're about to be audited.
"could have been provided by… "
That doesn't offer evidence to prove any claims about fraudulent votes, it merely speaks to possibilities.
And the fact is, Donald Trump and his allies are lying about the 800,000 fraudulent votes in Georgia, as the Republican Secretary of State's posts show.
And your idea of allowing the government to collect everyone's thumbprint is out of hand, I'm surprise you with champion such an authoritarian control strategy, bravo to your handlers for their chutzpah!
Exactly Miner. That's why I'm talking about audits.
Straw man Miner. I never mentioned 800,000 fraudulent votes in GA.
"And your idea of allowing the government to collect everyone's thumbprint is out of hand…"
I'm willing to have a conversation about this. I think there are pros and cons to everything. I listed my pros and cons. Now list yours.
I understand it is easy to lose track on these long threads, my entry into this thread was because of the governors post:
"avatarGov. William J Le Petomane
A little research shows that Donald Trump made that claim publicly, no surprise that his personal attorney Rudy is also making that claim.
In both cases, Trump and Rudy are intentionally conflating the numbers from the primary and the general election, they could not be more dishonest.
And amazingly enough, I believe the official results of the primary and general election as posted by the Republican secretary state of Georgia, are relatively accurate.
Why don't you trust the People's elected representative, the Republican secretary of state of Georgia's accounting? Do you have actual evidence that proves it is inaccurate?
Or just questionable third-party analysis showing "statistical anomalies"?
Fingerprint identification technology is not reliable:
"Courtroom testimony and reports stating or even those implying that fingerprints collected from a crime scene belong to a single person are indefensible and lack scientific foundation, a new AAAS working group report on the quality of latent fingerprint analysis says.
"We have concluded that latent print examiners should avoid claiming that they can associate a latent print with a single source and should particularly avoid claiming or implying that they can do so infallibly, with 100% accuracy," states the report."
https://www.aaas.org/news/fingerprint-source-identity-lacks-scientific-basis-legal-certainty
"New findings published Monday by researchers at New York University and Michigan State University suggest that smartphones can easily be fooled by fake fingerprints digitally composed of many common features found in human prints. In computer simulations, the researchers from the universities were able to develop a set of artificial "MasterPrints" that could match real prints similar to those used by phones as much as 65 percent of the time.
The researchers did not test their approach with real phones, and other security experts said the match rate would be significantly lower in real-life conditions. Still, the findings raise troubling questions about the effectiveness of fingerprint security on smartphones."
"Fingerprint identification technology is not reliable…"
But you said something about using prints was an authoritarian control strategy. Now you've completely flopped, and you're only concerned with the reliability of it. Have you considered taking your findings to every law enforcement agency in the country? I never said it was a fail-safe solution. It's another check. Are you aware that technology is currently evolving at a rapid pace? Do you honestly think we are incapable of incorporating this, along with photo ID, as another check? My guess is you're naturally opposed to any extra election integrity measure, just like most Dems, and you searched for a con after you already made your snarky remark about it being an authoritarian control measure. Sometimes I think I could have a more honest, adult conversation with a fence post.
Are you aware that people make fake IDs? Should we stop requiring people to present IDs?
Stop arguing with me, Miner49er. I am disingenuous, completely fake, and a proven liar.
The Rueters article above is 100% incorrect. However, since I have been saying I am a moron, that knows nothing, I will use disinformation, like I did here.
The Rueter article I so proudly used is from NOVEMBER 23 and UPDATED 8 MONTHS AGO! You need to read the entire article, because it is only the last 2 paragraphs where some truth lies.
"…According to the nonprofit, nonpartisan organization Ballotpedia, Georgia rejected 6.42% of mail-in ballots in total in the 2016 general election and 3.10% in total in the 2018 midterm…𝙄𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙮 𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙢𝙥 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤…(KEY!)…The higher percentage he mentions for past years is likely based off the total rejected ballots which can not be compared with 2020, as this information is not available."
BUT THE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE!
https://news.ballotpedia.org/2021/04/20/the-daily-brew-checking-in-on-ballot-rejection-rates-from-2020/
That Ballotpedia article is dated April 20, 2021, and contains the factual numbers fake new Reuters will not update.
Absentee/mail-in ballot rejection rates;
2016 Georgia received 213,033 rejected 6.4%
2020 Georgia received 1,327,126 rejected 0.4%!!!!
Donald Trump was correct! (again)
Listen to me again…I am a p'ucking moron!!!
Miner disappearing in 3..2..1…(again) (as always).
"Do you have actual evidence that proves it is inaccurate?
I didn't notice this comment earlier. Maybe it was being moderated? Anyway, Miner, why don't you tell that to the IRS when they come to audit you. They don't just immediately prosecute you. They audit you first. They audit you when something looks fishy. Don't pretend that this is a difficult concept. The next question is, why is the Republican GA SOS fighting an audit?
To answer your question about trusting an elected official: Hell no I don't trust them. I don't care what their political party affiliation is. Trust is something that is earned. People would trust him and his office if he made everything transparent instead of being so shady. Why do you trust him?
Dude sez:
"But you said something about using prints was an authoritarian control strategy. Now you've completely flopped, and you're only concerned with the reliability of it."
How do you get that?
The unreliability of fingerprint data is only one of many issues regarding this subject that give a prudent person pause regarding implementing this sort of ID practice.
Under the constitution, we have a court system to adjudicate controversies under law. This court system has considered, examined and rejected these vote fraud allegations as without merit.
Including many Republican appointed judges and justices, many appointed by Donald Trump himself.
And regarding these so-called audit, I remember on election night many Trump supporters were upset because all the votes were not immediately counted and a winner announced that night, as if it was an indication of fraud.
Yet the Arizona so called audit has dragged on for months without any identification of a single vote as fraudulent, just misunderstandings about the election process regarding absentee and mail in voting.
If the votes should've all been counted on election night, why are you OK with the so-called audit taking months to count the votes and still not identifying a single fraudulent vote by name?
"They audit you first. They audit you when something looks fishy."
Yes, and Republican election officials have audited the vote in both Maricopa county and Fulton county, and found no significant issues, much less fraud.
Did I, Miner49er, forget to mention that election experts estimate there was (at least) over 8,100,000 (8.1 million) excess votes for Biden.
That Trump won the states of PA, MI, WI, NV, AZ, GA, MN.
Likely and possible Trump, if cyber flipping occurring, also won NM, VA, CO, NJ, NH.
And it was closer than you thought in WA, OR, RI, CT, HI.
The Election Process has been fraudulent for years, Donald Trump exposed the Democrats biggest secret.
Read more here;
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/elections-expert-seth-keshel-releases-national-fraud-numbers-finds-8-1-million-excess-votes-us-election-affirms-trump-won-pa-mi-wi-nv-az-ga-mn/
I want to answer my own question.
"..If the votes should've all been counted on election night, why are you OK with the so-called audit taking months to count the votes…"
Answer; Dominion will not release the routers, passwords, Splunk logs, ballot envelopes, voter data breach records, and other evidence from the 2020 election.
The Associated Press reported that "The auditors have fought for months to get a hold of security tokens needed to access internal configurations of precinct-based tabulators."
In other words Dominion has no intention of complying with the Arizona Senate's legal and lawful subpoenas and it will likely take criminal action to enforce them.
Read about it here;
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/dominion-subpoena-deadline-expires-tomorrow-company-refuses-release-intellectual-information-arizona-senate/
This is completely false. Maricopa County isn't finished because the people in charge there have been fighting it tooth and nail. No other county in the country has received a full audit, including Fulton County. I've already made lists for you of everything that was off in this election that should prompt an audit, so I'm not wasting my time repeating myself. The likely truth is that you aren't interested in any real audit because you're happy with the result. No, the opposite isn't true for me. I want to have confidence in the process. When everything is as shady as the 2020 election, no thinking person would be confident in anything related to it.
Debbie W. July 31, 2021 At 10:59
A Black American belonging to the democRat Party makes as much sense as a Jew belonging to the nazi party. That's chiseled.
Furthermore…Sensitive man-karens who do nothing but sit on needles and pins and wait for a court to decide the obvious are prone to feel "down" when they see someone saying things that rains on their parade of stupidity. And what are those things being said that you will never and I mean "never" hear coming from the pompous pasty mouths of such sensitive man-karens and their pals? The Truth About Gun Control.
Yuck! July 31, 2021 At 13:23
Trouble with life, dead end job, bills to pay as troubles with the wife? Well, hold your head up high, because at least you're not the geezer what lays down with this miserable, hate filled hag 🤪! Ain't no 🐱 with that!
It really burns your ass that she's getting what you can't…
Laid.
How about doing humanity as a whole a solid and just off yourself?
Please? 🙂
Shire-man July 31, 2021 At 08:17
I always feel like these sorts of politicians are a hop,skip and a jump away from becoming Charles Taylor.
Dennis Sumner July 31, 2021 At 08:22
Well duhhh, that's what they DO!!
Democrats are hypocrites. Well here's my surprised face; 😱.
Patrick Hills July 31, 2021 At 08:33
Security for me but not for the. Let them eat cake. Americans have already seen through the facades of these phonies. The politicians just aren't getting it through their heads by the record numbers in firearm sales We the People have had enough
Leigh July 31, 2021 At 08:36
Typical politician… laws for thee but not for me
To a fascist you are all expendable.
A True Patriot July 31, 2021 At 09:35
Hey it's stolen valor jwm. Tell us all about your brave service in (the) 'Nam (era), POG!
Tired of the bs July 31, 2021 At 11:35
T P = A$$wipe
Ass wipe has a noble purpose, a demented Incel troll doesn't… 😉
Tired of the bs = Irrelevant 🤡. Your posts make even sentient traffic cone Geoff the Pervert look semi coherent by comparison.
I'd also like to add the the 2A is inviolate, except when it comes to 🚩 candidates GTP and 'Tired of the bs'.
Oh, I'm very aware you were never brave, jwm, but thanks for reaffirming your cowardice!
I'd also like to add that guns are great, provided they're not allowed into the hands of mental midgets.
Incel boy. A good thing you don't own any guns. We'd be hearing about you shooting up a school to get even with all the women that refused you.
You biden supporters are all alike.
Its at least semi amusing.
T P=A$$wipe
Your little emogies are so cute. Did mommy show you how to do that? Don't forget to take the trash out and clean your room.
A school shooting?! What the heck are you talking about? That is horrible. Please don't project your disgusting fantasies on me, stolen valor jwm.
Brave? I was never brave. Lucky enough to serve with men that were.
Good thing you're a loner Incel that no one will have to count on.
He is right about talking about the schools.
Bad look.
Think of better insults or you are going to end up like Geoff.
RGP July 31, 2021 At 08:59
Standard procedure. Fearless leaders are too important to die.
Funny how they want to defund the cops and take or keep guns from law abiding folks…. But they never seem to mention taking guns away from the criminal gang members.
Always blaming the gun… never the thugs using them.
Remember when Hillary called out the super predators? Oh how the times have changed.
Southern Cross July 31, 2021 At 21:47
The Democrats have made deals with the criminals. The Justice System is starting to follow the line. The Police and Military are still to get on board with the war against the people.
Patrick Hills August 1, 2021 At 01:07
Socialism requires security first
DEMOCRATS failed,,Communists require supreme loyalty again Democrats fail. Defund police STUPID then Democrats demand this and that without loyal force for implementing, result FAILURE. Try again when you get educated idiots
Southern Cross August 1, 2021 At 22:25
If you want a picture of Democrats' vision of the future, look south of the Rio Grande.
"Remember when Hillary called out the super predators?" She was referring to Bill and Jeffery…..
Jim from LI July 31, 2021 At 09:20
Hypocrisy – It's what's for dinner on every Democrat's table.
Elmer Fudd July 31, 2021 At 10:06
Sky high Homicide rates?
Think of it as evolution in action.
"…another million will go to assist the homeless population…"
"Assist" is code for increase, as in not only the homeless population, but the size and budget of the government which is ALWAYS the goal with any issue.
The more millions in play, the more available for Libturds/politicians to skim, scam, squander, and buy votes with.
hawkeye July 31, 2021 At 10:15
I don't think it'll take much more of this, for the inversely proportional relationship between leftist policies and quality of life to begin to dawn on people. Hopefully it won't be too late. In this case, it's the relative numbers of cops and undertakers, which oughta be a pretty obvious indicator.
rt66paul July 31, 2021 At 16:35
These people don't realize leftist(or any) policies or quality of life – they only listen to CNN and believe the people serving them kool-aid. Politics is the new religion, since the preacher can't make church donations set people free(except him and some elders), they believe the politician who will force donations by the "rich"(the white middle class), will do so. Funny how "trickle down" never works, it has to far to trickle and gets wiped out before it reaches the bottom of the ladder.
The minorities who have achieved "middle class" have started to realize this – it is the rich that are just getting richer, the poor never see it. The rich only fund studies that allow their children(that got Master's and Doctorial degrees in liberal arts/social studies at public universities) to suck at the teat of the public sow. That money never goes any further to a permanent solution.
Huntmaster July 31, 2021 At 11:14
The problem with democracy is that 50% of the electorate falls on the wrong side of the bell curve.
And at least a third of those on the right side of that curve are riddled with self-imposed, manufactured-guilt based complexes and feel it is their duty and not-so-solemn obligation to cater to the whims of those on the wrong side.
The good news is, their kids will likely turn conservative on them… 😉
NORDNEG July 31, 2021 At 11:42
Nothing is or will happen to people like this,
The electorate is very tribal when it comes to electing candidates.
You gotta know it's other blacks that put her in office, so, like I said , nothing said here will change the fact that she's using her powers as politicians do, by screwing the public.
Darkman July 31, 2021 At 14:05
Not just 'Other Blacks' but just as any if not more Whites: Who are 'Down with the Struggle' out of a need to pay a Penance for past deeds committed before they were born and thus clear their conscience or Openly protesting past deeds to show BLM the devotions to the 'Cause'. In the end the motivation is on one hand self serving. While on the other it is self defeating. The problem arises when they cannot or refuse to see the destruction that lies in the path of their choices. These are the people that are the biggest danger to Freedom and Liberty. They follow blindly out of the emotion of Guilt and will do so all the way to either Their or Freedoms Demise. The question is as they are self replicating, which will come first? Keep Your Powder Dry.
"…out of a need to pay a Penance for past deeds committed before they were born and thus clear their conscience or Openly protesting past deeds to show BLM the devotions to the 'Cause'"
History will record this as the biggest mass-delusion of the last 100 years. The only problem is, surviving until the supposedly-woke actually wake the fuck up, and the odds of that happening at this point is dim.
If the actual liberals, the ones interested in liberty and freedom don't clean that mess up, they will be aghast when someone else does it, not as nicely as the liberals would have done it…
NTexas July 31, 2021 At 14:30
THE ONE , CAN'T FIX STUPID , SO TRUE , , MAYBE CAN VOTE HIM OUT ?
who him? the person featured in the article is female, i think. cant really tell nowadays?
Haven't been to StLouis since 1968, it sucked then and I'm sure its sucks more now.
It is very hard to vote someone out when they have control of the ballot box
Unless the vote is cast from a rooftop.
It's not who/how many vote. It's who counts the votes that determines elections.
Jack August 1, 2021 At 08:40
Cori Bush is a walking dumpster fire of political BS.


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Q: TikZ + PGF: Aligning nodes with relative positioning I want to draw my physical data center layout in LaTeX using TikZ and PGF but I'm facing a problem aligning my racks correctly.
In the MWE I've drawn three racks, two of which (network equipment) are a bit deeper than the first (server equipment). Their front should be aligned which I indicated using a red line in the following screenshot

The MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}

\tikzset{server rack/.style={
            draw,
            anchor=north west,
            minimum height=7.5mm,
            minimum width=10.7mm}}
\tikzset{network rack/.style={
            draw,
            anchor=north west,
            minimum height=7.5mm,
            minimum width=12mm}}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}[node distance=0mm]
\draw[step=6mm,gray,very thin] (0,0) grid (4.2,4.2);
\node[server rack]  (C17) at (1.33,3) {C17};
\node[network rack] (D17) [below=of C17] {D17};
\node[network rack] (E17) [below=of D17] {E17};

\draw[thick,red] (2.4,3) -- (2.4,0);
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

A: Explanation as suggested by @Ignasi
When you use the options below=of somenode et similia provided by the positioning library, e.g. when you create a node by
\node[below left=of A.south east] (B) {some text};

you are basically positioning a specific anchor (implicitly north east, through the explicit option below left=of) of the node you are creating (B), with respect to a specific anchor (explicitly south east) of an already existing node (A).
NOTE If no anchor is specified for the existing node then the anchor "opposite" to the one chosen for the new node is chosen (e.g. below left=of A] specifies the north east anchor for B, so south west is chosen for A; it has the same effect of below left=of A.south west).
Obviously the distance between the nodes' anchors you use in relative positioning can be set through node distance. In the following figure (with the code to generate it attached) I graphically explain the preceding words. Setting node distance=0 (and removing all gray nodes) produces your attempt on the left and the desired result on the right.

\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}

\usetikzlibrary{positioning}

\tikzset{server rack/.style={
            draw,
            minimum height=7.5mm,
            minimum width=10.7mm}}
\tikzset{network rack/.style={
            draw,
            minimum height=7.5mm,
            minimum width=12mm}}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}[node distance=2cm]

\node[server rack]  (A) at (.5,4) {A};
\node[network rack] (B) [below=of A] {B};
\node[network rack] (C) [below=of B] {C};
\draw[|<->|, gray] (A.south) -- (B.north) node[at start, anchor=north west, inner ysep=0] {\tiny \verb|A.south|}
                                          node[midway,   anchor=west,       inner ysep=0] {\tiny \verb|(B) [below=of A]|'s effect}
                                          node[midway,   above, rotate=180, inner ysep=2pt, sloped] {\tiny \verb|node distance|}
                                          node[at end,   anchor=south west, inner ysep=0] {\tiny \verb|B.north|};
\draw[|<->|, gray] (B.south) -- (C.north) node[at start, anchor=north west, inner ysep=0] {\tiny \verb|B.south|}
                                          node[midway,   anchor=west,       inner ysep=0] {\tiny \verb|(C) [below=of B]|'s effect}
                                          node[midway,   above, rotate=180, inner ysep=2pt, sloped] {\tiny \verb|node distance|}
                                          node[at end,   anchor=south west, inner ysep=0] {\tiny \verb|C.north|};

\node[server rack]  (A) at (5,4) {A};
\node[network rack] (B) [below left=of A.south east] {B};
\node[network rack] (C) [below=of B] {C};
\draw[|<->|, gray] (A.south east) -- (B.north east) node[at start, anchor=north west, inner ysep=0] {\tiny \verb|A.south|}
                                                    node[midway,   anchor=west,       inner ysep=0] {\tiny \verb|(B) [below left=of A.south east]|'s effect}
                                                    node[midway,   above,             inner ysep=2pt, sloped] {\tiny \verb|node distance|}
                                                    node[at end,   anchor=south west, inner ysep=0] {\tiny \verb|B.north|};
\draw[|<->|, gray] (B.south) -- (C.north) node[at start, anchor=north west, inner ysep=0] {\tiny \verb|B.south|}
                                          node[midway,   anchor=west,       inner ysep=0] {\tiny \verb|(C) [below=of B]|'s effect}
                                          node[midway,   above, rotate=180, inner ysep=2pt, sloped] {\tiny \verb|node distance|}
                                          node[at end,   anchor=south west, inner ysep=0] {\tiny \verb|C.north|};

\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

Actual answer

This is the solution you're looking for, I think.

*

*No change is needed to the first block, since... it's the first one! :D

*Since the third block is equal in size to the second one, no change is needed either.

*The second block: it should be positioned on the left of the right (i.e. west) side of the first block.

The code becomes
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}

\tikzset{server rack/.style={
            draw,
            anchor=north west,
            minimum height=7.5mm,
            minimum width=10.7mm}}
\tikzset{network rack/.style={
            draw,
            anchor=north west,
            minimum height=7.5mm,
            minimum width=12mm}}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}[node distance=0mm]
\draw[step=6mm,gray,very thin] (0,0) grid (4.2,4.2);
\node[server rack]  (C17) at (1.33,3) {C17};
\node[network rack] (D17) [below left=of C17.south east] {D17}; % <-- modified line
\node[network rack] (E17) [below=of D17] {E17};

%\draw[thick,red] (2.4,3) -- (2.4,0);
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

A: Try with \matrix:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
%\usetikzlibrary{positioning} % not needed in this solution

\tikzset{server rack/.style={
            draw,
            minimum height=7.5mm,
            minimum width=10.7mm}}
\tikzset{network rack/.style={
            draw,
            minimum height=7.5mm,
            minimum width=12mm}}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}[node distance=0mm]
\draw[step=6mm,gray,very thin] (0,0) grid (4.2,4.2);

\matrix[anchor=base east]  at (2.5,1) {
    \node[server rack]  (C17) {C17}; \\
    \node[network rack] (D17) {D17}; \\
    \node[network rack] (E17) {E17}; \\ };

\draw[thick,red] (2.4,3) -- (2.4,0);
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

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Teams from Harpswell (left) and Brunswick (right) discuss the border dispute, at the Harpswell town office Tuesday night.


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Q: Need some contrains, but seem unable ro configure it in xcode interface builder? I have two controls vertically placed
I have an UIImageView a top. I may at runtime resize this in height to better hold he image inside (this is my own code that resize) - below that I have an UITableView which should fill height.
I have set UIImageView constraints to left:0 (superview), top:0 (superview), right:0 (superview) - I have not set a bottom constraint since there is none. it could be whatever it takes.
However, some problems with UITableView though...
When I try add constraints for UITableView (spacing to nearest neighbor) and select the top, it force enters the height of the UIimageView (here 107 pixels, but that height changes at runtime, so it should not use that). That appears to be wrong. I want spacing to be 0 to nearest neighbor, not 107 from top, so already here I fail at setting up a meaningful constraint
Am i missing something obvious? I am new to ios/xcode so it is very likely
Anyhow, currenly I am getting these warnings:

Frame for outlet tableview" will be differen at runtime

and

height is ambigious for outtlet main logo

If it not possible tto define align/constraints/fill I want, I guess I could simply do it runime? The calculation should be pretty simple? But would sill like to get rid of warnings then.
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A: Give height constraint for your imageView. For tableView give vertical spacing to your imageView with appropriate constant (0 if you don't want any spacing between them). And give bottom:0 (superview) for your tableView along with left and right. That should get rid of those warnings. Now you can change constant property of height constraint for imageView at runtime and tableView height will be changed automatically. To change constraint at runtime create IBOutlet for that particular constraint and change constant property of the constraint.
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Q: Using a pipe as a stream C First time I ask for help here.
I'm currently programming a game in C and for the network part I'm transmitting a string. To analyse this and get back the different int printed in it, I want to use a stream. Since I found no stream in C, I am using 'pipe' and fdopen to transform it to a File stream.
I was doing it like that at first :
int main (){
    int fdes[2], nombre;
    if (pipe(fdes) <0){
        perror("Pipe creation");
    }
    FILE* readfs = fdopen(fdes[0], "r");
    FILE* writefs = fdopen(fdes[1], "a");
    fprintf(writefs, "10\n");
    fscanf(readfs, "%d", &nombre);
    printf("%d\n", nombre);
    return 0;
}

But it's not working.
A functional way is to use write instead of fprintf and this is working :
int main (){
    int fdes[2], nombre;
    if (pipe(fdes) <0){
        perror("Pipe creation");
    }
    FILE* readfs = fdopen(fdes[0], "r");
    write(fdes[1], "10\n", 3);
    fscanf(readfs, "%d", &nombre);
    printf("%d\n", nombre);
    return 0;
}

I found a solution to my problem but I still want to understand why the first solution wasn't working. Any idea ?

A: It's caused by stream buffering. Add fflush(writefs); after the call to fprintf.
 fprintf(writefs, "10\n");
 fflush(writefs);
 fscanf(readfs, "%d", &nombre);


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Frédéric Vasseur, född 28 maj 1968, är en fransk ingenjör som är stallchef för det italienska Formel 1-stallet Scuderia Ferrari.

Han avlade examen i flyg- och rymdteknik vid École supérieure des techniques aéronautiques et de construction automobile (ESTACA). 1996 grundade han racingstallet ASM och inledde på direkten ett samarbete med biltillverkaren Renault, för att tävla i franska Formel 3 och där de vann mästerskapet 1998 med föraren David Saelens. På 2000-talet började man också att tävla i Formula 3 Euro Series och där förarna var bland annat Paul di Resta, Jamie Green, Romain Grosjean och Lewis Hamilton. 2004 gick Vasseur ihop med Nicolas Todt och grundade racingstallet ART Grand Prix för att tävla i GP2 Series. De förare som körde för ART var bland andra Lewis Hamilton, Nico Hülkenberg, Nico Rosberg, George Russell och Stoffel Vandoorne. I oktober 2012 grundade han företaget Spark Racing Technology och blev tilldelad, av det internationella motorsportsförbundet Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), att bygga eldrivna racingbilar till Formel E, som började tävla 2014. I december 2015 meddelade Renault att man skulle återvända till F1 efter ett fem års långt uppehåll och bli åter ett fabriksstall från och med säsongen 2016. I februari 2016 blev det offentligt att man hade utsett Vasseur som stallchef för F1-stallet, men det varade bara säsongen ut innan han lämnade Renault. Enligt uppgifter var det främst på grund av meningsskiljaktigheter med Cyril Abiteboul, VD för Renaults motorsportavdelning. I juli 2017 blev han utsedd till att vara VD för österrikiska Sauber Motorsport AG och stallchef för deras F1-stall. I februari 2019 blev det officiellt att Alfa Romeo Racing skulle ersätta Sauber i F1 och Vasseur fortsatte som stallchef för det nya F1-stallet. I december 2022 ersatte Vasseur Mattia Binotto som stallchef för Scuderia Ferrari.

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Veda & Theory of Quantum Mechanism
QMT-QUANTUM MECHANIC'S THEORY AND THE VAISESIKA – PRAPATTI SIDDHI
From the scriptures we can understand that the life in Vedic Era was far more civilized and happier than at the present days of advanced 'science era', (this Kali Yuga, oh – in which WE also have to live). Unfortunately, the modern world and the scientists started to evaluate our Ancient Vedic scripts and principles most of the time undermining their values and teachings and so subtly influencing the people through media and education to give up their original spiritual culture, and become Americanized. Amazingly, some people are proud of becoming Americanized what however, according to our Vedic culture is nothing more then to become a mleccha. Surprisingly however, just as some people like to give up Vedic spiritual culture – similarly some people are finding a great inspiration and treasure of knowledge in the Vedas. In other words, there are scientists who are studying and discovering amazing knowledge in Vedas describing things that are supporting their scientific discoveries. One of them is teleportation – or tele-transportation the process of moving objects from one place to another more or less instantaneously, without using conventional transportation. This art was known to all mystic yogis in Vedic times and some of them even nowadays are able to travel from one place to another in almost no time. For some people it is not a secret that the scientists are performing many experiments to achieve success in teleportation. Further, the scientists are also discovering that the ancient Vedas had very advanced knowledge of arithmetic, astronomy, healthy lifestyle, and healthcare or Ayurveda. Ayurveda that is increasingly becoming popular in the west is known for its natural healing using medicines taken from natural resources. It is very appreciated that by Ayurvedic healing one can cure not only the symptom of the disease but also the cause of it without any bad side effects.
In the following essay, compiled by Sri Sri Nitai Das Prabhu, there is a brief description of Newtonian physics, Quantum Mechanics (QM) and atomic theory of western science compared to the Vedic Nyaya and Vaisesika philosophies. We hope that you will find a new way to appreciate the ancient culture given by Srila Vyasadeva and other sages and thus begin to take more seriously their important spiritual knowledge for upliftment of consciousness.
For the practical experience and valuable ethos, the olden day scholars left a systematic menu for everything – right from tooth brushing to sleeping habits! The time table of day-to-day activity menu is thus very systematic spiritual practice that a faithful Srivaishnavas follow. The practice of daily rituals is known as 'Nithya Karma Anushtanam' that includes, Sandhya Vandanam – thrice a day, Bhagavat Aradhanam – Ijjya – i.e. offering prayers to the Lord, reciting of Vedic hymns and notes, and following the Srivaishnavam Path as per the Srivaishnava Sadhachara Nirnaya.
That the materialist really understands in detail the QMT, he have to study it for many years and even then he might not fully understand it. The reason for this is because the materialistic science is often obscure due to its scientific jargon and the incomplete knowledge. Interestingly however, the Vedas explain everything making the knowledge they give complete by combined material and spiritual understanding. For example, it is described that the material energy is composed of the smallest particles, paramanu's. Because of the interplay of their qualities, modes or guna's and the desires of the soul's and the Super-soul the activities of the material energy take place.
So, this essay is an attempt to present some of the similarities of QMT and the Vedic wisdom how I read and heard from other ISKCON devotees and gathered thus info from materialistic science and the Vedas.
The first question is what is QM? The theory of QM gives description of the mechanics or workings of the different quantum or units of matter. It deals with the behavior of matter e.g. light on the atomic and subatomic scale. It attempts to describe and account for the properties of molecules and atoms and their constituents–electrons, protons, neutrons, and other more esoteric particles such as quarks and gluons.
NOTE: in the SB 3.11.1 Srila Prabhupada say that science has not yet found the ultimate smallest indivisible particle called paramanu (the atom). Gautama Muni's definition of atom is similar to Bhagavata's: param va truteh – the atom is that which is not capable of being divided.
Here we would like to mention that during their research work, some scientists became attracted to the Vedic Sankhya and Vaisesika (analytical study of matter and the atomic theory) because they found in them things similar with QMT. Let see the opinion of a few recognized scholars. Physics Nobel prize winner Eugene Wigner said: "… the basic philosophical ideas of the Bhagavad-Gita, Gita on existence are virtually identical with those which quantum mechanics lead me to." Further W. Heisenberg (German Physicist, 1901-1976) opined: "After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense".
One of the interesting points of QMT is the theory of many dimensions. This same knowledge about many dimensions we find also in the Vedas which explain that there are unlimited higher dimensions, what means more than four dimensions known to our conditioned nature (length, breadth, height and duration of time).
E.g.: Banasura used 1,000 arms to work 500 bows and shoot 2,000 arrows at a time at Krishna. In this case, we are dealing with a materially embodied being living on the earth. One might wonder how 500 material arms could be mounted on one shoulder without interfering with one another. Moreover, if this is possible, how could they aim 500 bows in the same direction at once? Did the bows pass through each other? In the book 'Vedic Cosmography and Astronomy" Sadaputa Prabhu explains that this phenomena happening in one place was possible because of Banasura's body existed in the higher dimensional space.
The Veic literature nowhere mentions that we can experience the higher dimension with our material blunt senses not even if we would look through microscopes and telescopes. IOW, like in the example of Arjun and mother Yasoda, they could see the higher dimensional universal form of Krishna in one place only because Krishna gave them the ability to see that higher dimensional existence. Another way to get the vision of the higher dimensions of existence is by developing higher sensory powers like that of the demigods and the sage's. Of course, the highest spiritual sense perception (pratyakshavagamam dharmyam Bg.9.2) one can get only by the mercy of Krishna and thus e.g. see the spiritual dimensions of the holy places like Vrindavana and their eternal residents including Krishna.
There is one interesting point in connection with this. When the English missionaries in 19th century were trying to convince the Indian intellectuals to give up the Vedic culture explaining the Vedas as only a mythology, they had a book compiled of very esoteric examples from the Vedic literature like the above mentioned Banasura's; the description of Ravana with thousand heads; Brahma with four heads etc, etc. Using the lower Newtonian physics that recognize only three dimensions, the English missionaries presented such examples as an absurdity, and they would ask the people, especially the intellectuals: "Do you really believe in this?" Thus many Indians having insufficient knowledge and faith in the Vedas would reject their own culture, which is an interesting phenomena, even nowadays. However, presently even these esoteric descriptions can become acceptable by using the knowledge of higher dimensions explained by QM, which as we mentioned is also described in the Vedic literature. So, the descriptions of this kind implicitly require higher-dimensional conceptions of space.
This and some other ideas of QM are quite mysterious some are possible to proof by experiment, and some not, still they continue to inspire the scientists to contemplate about them. Realizing that some of the theories cannot be adequately tested by experiment the Harvard physicist Howard Georgi characterized modern theoretical physics as 'recreational mathematical theology'. I would like to describe few more interesting ideas of QM e.g. the quantum non-locality which in the Vedic literature is known as 'prapti-siddhi'.
First of all this theory is superior than Einstein's theory of relativity which imposes a limitation saying that events in the universe happen at a speed that does not exceed the speed of light. Things happen, in other words, always at the speed of light or less. This is called the "law of local causes".
For example we would know that the sun exploded only after eight minutes after the explosion since this is the time needed for the light to reach the earth planet more precisely our vision.
However, already at the time of Einstein the theory of QM came up which claims that there are forces by which the information is spread rough out the universe quicker then the speed of light, actually instantly. At the birth of this theory there were no experiments to prove its validity but even then Einstein had a hard time to counteract it's idea. Although Einstein was not the profounder of QMT, in 1935, he together with Nathan Rosen and Boris Podolsky proposed through flawless mathematical reasoning that if the quantum theory were correct, then a change in the motion of one twin particle (previously being one photon particle but then divided through a crystal) would affect its twin photon particle simultaneously, even if the two had been widely separated in the meantime'. The word 'simultaneous' is excluded in the theory of special relativity of Einstein, which forbids the transmission of any signal faster than the speed of light. Obviously, a signal telling the particle 'what to do' would have to travel faster than the speed of light if instantaneous changes were to occur between the two particles.
In 1964 Bell's Theorem emerged as a proof that Einstein's impossible proposition did in fact hold true: instantaneous changes in widely separated systems did occur.
In 1972, Clauser confirmed the statistical predictions of quantum mechanics, working with an elaborate system involving photons, calcite crystals, and photo multiplier tubes. The experiment has since been run several times with the same consistent results; Bell's Theorem stands solid.
The Bell's theorem is unthinkable to Newtonian physicists. Mathematics and experimentation have taken us where our logical mind cannot go. Just imagine once more, two photon particles once in contact, and then separated even if they travel to the opposite side of the universe will both change their directions instantaneously when a change in one of them occurs! There are three answers why, by three type of people. The scientist would say that there is something what transfers the information from one photon particle to another quicker than the speed of light and actually simultaneously which means there is a connection between them on the higher dimensional level. The mayavadis or the advaitins would say it is because of the universal consciousness Brahman, or because ultimately everything is one. And the Krishna bhaktas would say it is the Paramatma who coordinates and directs everything including photon particles.
So, let see how the scientists and the Vedic wisdom explains this unbelievable phenomena.
Physicist Jack Sarfatti of the Physics/Consciousness Research Group proposes that no actual energy-requiring signal is transmitted between the distant objects, but 'information' is transmitted instead.
Nic Herbert, a physicist who heads the C-Life Institute, suggests that we have merely discovered an elemental oneness of the world. This oneness cannot be diminished by spatial separation. An invisible wholeness unites the objects that are given birth in the universe, and it is this wholeness that we have stumbled into through modern experimental methods.
I am sure that the impersonalists philosophers like these opinions of the scientists, because it confirms their theory of oneness: 'sarva khalau idam brahma' – everything is Brahman, and that's why the two distant photon particles changes simultaneously their directions. However, we can authoritatively say that this controlling activity is only due to the universal super-consciousness, the Paramatma or the Super-soul since we never saw anything done under the ultimate control of impersonal force.
Anyway, this theory predicts forces that travel with infinite speed what is not possible to measure in the laboratory, but numerous experiments at the best universities in the world have demonstrated the existence of forces that operate faster than the speed of light, thereby providing impressive empirical evidence for non-locality.
In the Vaisnava and other Vedic literatures there are descriptions of abilities like going to the other side of the universe or taking something from other planets e.g. an apple, in no time. This is called prapti-siddhi, one of the mystic powers of the yogis. Nowadays some modern physicists seriously speculate about the use of quantum non-locality in communications and even teleportation, which is the same as prapti-siddhi. But will they succeed?
It is an interesting fact, that great yogis, such as Kardama Muni, are unaware of the underlying processes that translate their desires into physical actions. When Kardama Muni created an entire flying city, as described in the third canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam, he was amazed. So, if even Kardama Muni did not understand the wonderful working of material nature what to say about the scientists who have therefore even less chance for that. Actually, it is said that only Krsna can fully understand His own energy. Moreover, if the scientist don't understand the existence of the soul and after that the existence of God they are just wasting their time. Referring to the example of Srila Vyasadeva, when he became self realized he understood Krsna the living entities and the power of the material energy as well. Therefore, it would be better that the scientists understand Krsna by practice of self-realization and then they would fully understand the material energy as well.
Fortunately some of the scientists are realizing the need to understand more than only the material energy. E.g. the Danish nuclear physicist Niels Bohr, also a Nobel laureate, stated, "All of us know that there is such a thing as consciousness, simply because we have it ourselves. Hence consciousness must be a part of nature, or, more generally, of reality, which means that quite apart from the laws of physics and chemistry, as laid down in quantum theory, we must consider laws of quite a different kind." Such laws will include the laws of reincarnation, which govern the passage of consciousness from one physical body into another, the three modes of material nature (gunas), the 28 mystic perfections or yoga-siddhis (see Srimad Bhagavatam 11.15.3-9).
As mentioned in the beginning of this essay QM attempts to describe and account for the properties of molecules and atoms. Here at the end let see what the Vedas say about atoms (paramanus).
According to the Veda the paramanu's are the components of the (6 kinds of) quarks (elementary subatomic particles), and 6 types of anti-quarks and the leptons (the electron, positron and neutron). These are the smallest particles known in the western science. Each of these particles is a little smaller then the 10^-18. The atom of the western materialistic science is 10^-10. The paramanu according to the Nyaya-Vaisesika is 0.79×10^-22. The radiations or energies, the modes or the guna's of the paramanu's are all different. They mix so that you get varieties of quarks (elementary subatomic particles) and leptons. If these assemble then we get e.g. mesons (elementary particle having a mess between that of an electron and proton called also a mesotron), protons, antiprotons, hadrons, baryons, neutrons. The atoms and molecules are composed of these particles. The further combination of these elements form the objects and unlimited varieties of qualities. The qualities, modes or guna's means in relation to rupa, sparsa, sabda, rasa and gandha (form, touch, sound, taste and smell). The paramanus are the building blocks of the universe and the gunas are like the concrete that bind the paramanus.
The Paramatma controls the types of qualities and the qualities of intensities of these ultimately as e.g. the light is dimmed or adjusted.
So The Quantum Mechanism Theory is an unending search for other dimensions, unknown particles and more – that simply cannot be illustrated; one has to go through on his/her own experiments in oneness with the Lord God.
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Q: Disable DHCPv6 while not disabling SLAAC in network manager I have two ipv6 addresses, one is from DHCPv6 (/128) and one from slaac (/64), with

nmcli connection modify iface  ipv6.method "auto"
  nmcli connection modify  iface ipv6.addr-gen-mode "eui64"
  nmcli connection modify iface  ipv6.token "::dead:beef"

i made slaac address static, but i want to delete ipv6 from DHCPv6. Is it possible? In gui there's only "auto" and "auto, only dhcp" variants. I want "auto, only SLAAC" variant.

A: After a bunch of searching and experimentation it appears that the only setting that will accomplish this is ignore.
nmcli c mod enp10s0f4 ipv6.method ignore

This gave me only the SLAAC address and ignored DHCPv6 entirely. Unfortunately it also ignored the setting ipv6.addr-gen-mode and gave me an EUI64 address  even though it was set to stable-privacy.
3: enp10s0f4: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:24:27:88:13:67 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 10.0.0.75/24 brd 10.0.0.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute enp10s0f4
       valid_lft 172789sec preferred_lft 172789sec
    inet6 2001:db8:8d7f:9760:224:27ff:fe88:1367/64 scope global dynamic mngtmpaddr
       valid_lft 86398sec preferred_lft 86398sec
    inet6 fe80::224:27ff:fe88:1367/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

For my purposes this is acceptable but you'll have to decide for yourself whether you can accept trading one problem for another.


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Share this Story: Council calls for information on Truth and Reconciliation
Council calls for information on Truth and Reconciliation
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Councillor Lennox proposed the notice of motion at the Dec. 10 Council meeting.
At the Dec. 10 council meeting Councillor Deanna Lennox put forward a notice of motion for Council to direct Administration to bring back information regarding the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's municipal calls to action.
The motion directed administration to bring back an overview of Truth and Reconciliation, and an outline of the 'calls to action for all levels of government and specifically identified for municipalities' as identified by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The motion also called for an outline of the Articles that impact Fort Saskatchewan as identified in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples of the world, and and implementation plan that includes the financial impacts for the City to follow through on it's primary responsibilities under Truth and Reconciliation.
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Council directed further that the information should be presented to them no later than the second quarter of 2020.
"I was fortunate enough to go to the social summit in Sherwood Park and they had a feature speaker from the Indigenous Community," said Councillor Lennox at the Dec, 10 council meeting. "He said 'let me tell you about the word reservation'. He said another word for it was 'prison'. He said 'up until a year ago he needed a permit just to leave the reservation.' It was just an excellent reminder to me as to how much I don't know, and how there's so much more that I, and we as a council and as a municipality, can learn. I also look at it through the perspective of my own history with the RCMP which is linked to the North West Mounted Police. It's highly ingrained in this community and so intertwined with the Indigenous community. I think that it would benefit our community greatly to learn a little bit more and to take steps forward in acknowledgement and in truth in the reconciliation efforts."
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was first established in 2008 with the purpose of documenting the history and lasting impacts of the Canadian residential school system on Indigenous students and their families.
Starting in the 1870s, the Government of Canada began funding a system of church-run residential schools. These schools isolated Aboriginal children from their families and their culture with the objective of assimilating them into mainstream society. The official mandate of the initiative was to "kill the Indian in the child". Many students experienced untold emotional, physical, and/or sexual abuse while enrolled at these schools. When the last residential school closed in 1996 approximately 150,000 children had passed through the system.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission released an Executive Summary of its findings along with 94 calls to action for various sectors of Canadian society. The calls to action of the TRC are mandates in order to "redress the legacy of residential schools and advance the process of Canadian reconciliation".
"I think that it's absolutely imperative that we do have something because we have many indigenous people within our community and I think with the citizens that are here it will really speak to the fact that we want to have a community that is inclusive of everybody," said Mayor Gale Katchur. "I think that this is a good initiative and we should keep progressing it along."
The motion was carried unanimously.
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