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There is nothing quite like falling asleep to whale blows and then waking up to them in the morning. We had an amazing second day out on Roseway Basin and our third started out with dozens of scattered whales all around us. Some appeared to be feeding, so we spent the morning bouncing back and forth documenting as many whales as we could. We finally got back on our trackline just before noon, only to veer off of it soon after with more whale sightings. At one point we picked up two whales rolling around with each other, who we later identified as Catalog #3893 (a six-year old female) and #3570(a nine-year old male). They were fairly preoccupied, so we were able to get a good close approach.
Catalog #3570 riding on the back of #3893. Photo by Jessica Taylor.
Not long after we snapped some shots of our two SAG-ing whales, we picked up a sighting that every whale researcher dreads: an entangled right whale. We tracked along with Catalog #3946 (a four-year old female) for the majority of the afternoon, with a handful of disentanglement attempts. Another blog will be posted in the next few days with more details on the entire disentanglement effort and the whale at the center of all the attention.
Our first sighting of Catalog #3946's current entanglement. Photo by Kelsey Howe.
In the early evening we came upon a mom/calf pair! This was really exciting since only two out of the 20 calves born in 2013 have been photographed since the spring in Cape Cod Bay, plus mom/calf pairs are an uncommon find in Roseway Basin. We identified the mom as Catspaw (#1632) and calf, the former of which has a unique sighting history.
Catspaw with her plump 2013 calf in the foreground. Photo by Jessica Taylor.
Catspaw was first seen in 1986, but then went 12 years without a sighting from 1988 to 2000, so she was presumed dead for the majority of the 90s before being "resurrected" in 2000. If a right whale has not been seen in six years, it is presumed dead until it is resighted alive or matched to a carcass. Every once and awhile these "presumed dead" whales reappear and with much glee are given the fitting status of being "resurrected." Since 2000, Catspaw has had three calves, with her current calf raising that count to four. Her second calf (Resolution, #3532) was the first ever documented right whale birth, which happened to be photographed by our aerial survey team off of Florida back in 2005. It is also interesting to note that Catspaw is not a regular visitor to the Bay of Fundy (BOF), except during her calving years. Perhaps the lack of food in BOF this season has drawn her to other feeding grounds, which makes sense considering her calf is plump and sporting an incredibly large fat roll behind its head.
To top off our unique and busy day, our last sighting before sunset was a blue whale. Since our crew does not normally encounter blue whales in BOF or Roseway, it took us a few surfacings to correctly ID the species. Blue whales are the largest known animal to have ever existed, measuring about 100 ft for an adult. We were able to identify the species by its small dorsal fin, which is located so far back that it was only visible when the whale fluked during a terminal dive. When we got back on land, we sent photos of this individual to Richard Sears of the Mingan Island Cetacean Study, an organization known for their long-term studies of blue whales. Richard was able to match this whale to a cataloged adult female of about 70 ft in length, who has been seen foraging in regions south of the Gulf of St. Lawrence (including a 2006 sighting in BOF), which are the typical stomping grounds of northeastern Atlantic blue whales.
By the time the sun set in the west, we were exhausted, yet exhilarated by our day full of whales. We ended up photographing 20 right whales, with many more in the area (undocumented because our priority in the afternoon became the entangled whale.) In the last two days out on Roseway, we more than quadrupled our right whale count for the entire season, which is pretty cool.
Stay tuned for our third blog from this Roseway trip to learn about entangled whale #3946 and our disentanglement efforts.
Knowing that our weather window for our third offshore trip was one to be grasped quickly, the Shelagh team left the dock in Campobello Island around midnight on Tuesday, September 17 and transited across the Bay of Fundy overnight. When our team of five researchers awoke for sunrise on Wednesday, we were close to German Bank, southwest of Yarmouth, N.S. Our first day of survey passed by quietly, as the only large whales we sighted were three humpbacks and three fins. As we neared the southwest corner of our survey box for Roseway Basin, the sun had neared the horizon, and we left ourselves to drift under the brilliant Harvest Moon as we rotated through night watches.
On Thursday morning, we motored the short distance back to where we ended watch on Wednesday evening. Just before 9:00 AM, we photographed one right whale that we identified as Catalog #1239, but another three hours passed until our next right whale sighting. Our excitement grew as we monitored our position- we were nearing the "honey hole" of Roseway Basin, which has historically held high numbers of right whale sightings. It took us another five and a half hours of patient surveying until we finally found that pot of honey, but never has a horizon full of right whale blows been so sweet.
We got right down to business with a surface active group (SAG) of 10-15 individuals, and at the center of attention was Phoenix (Catalog #1705). Phoenix is so-named because of her recovery from entanglements, and is a successful reproductive female who has birthed four calves, an inspiring story that makes her a fitting whale for our sponsorship program. Her most recent calf was born just last year, which is potentially why she appeared to be grey and have poor skin condition- nursing a calf for months while the mother herself fasts drains her resources. After weaning the calf, there is usually at least one year of "resting," and ideally during this time period the female will regain blubber reserves and a better body condition before becoming pregnant again. The whales did appear to be feeding, so hopefully Phoenix was also finding plenty to eat.
A plankton tow in the evening revealed lots in the water column!
We stayed with the SAG until it broke up about half an hour later, and then moved around to try to document other whales in the area that we hadn't already captured in our data. There were whales in all directions and distances, and we worked until the light was so low that we couldn't photograph anymore.
Even though our cameras were put away, we stayed on deck to listen to the whales that were blowing around us. We felt so lucky to be watching right whales off the starboard, fluking in an orange sunset under Venus and Saturn, while off the port side, whales swam under the full moon and Uranus.
When weather keeps us on land and the lack of whales/internet problems frustrate us to no end, all that pent up energy needs to go somewhere; therefore, a common August pastime is a good, friendly game of soccer to liven up Lubec life. Soccer captain and "professional" player Philip Hamilton will rally the troops (sometimes a group as small as 4 or as large as 14), and we will all head over to the high school soccer field.
We improvise a bit without proper goals (water bottles for goal posts) or sidelines (no out-of-bounds), but that is all part of the fun! We regard rules more as guidelines (we are scientists after all!), so usually halfway into the game, certain people start using tactics more commonly witnessed during a game of rugby, hockey or wrestling. But major injuries are few and far between, so fun is had by all.
During the last week of August, when several families of team members were in town visiting, we marched over to the field and had a great game that was generously photographed by Bill McWeeny. We thought you all might enjoy a look at what we do to keep spirits up and laughter plentiful.
Last Friday, our team of eight decided to divide and conquer for the first weather window we'd had in days. The Shelagh was sent offshore with four researchers to survey the Grand Manan Banks, Lurcher Shoal, and the southwestern coast of Nova Scotia, for what would have been a two day survey. Unfortunately by the end of Friday they had not encountered any right whales, and an already rough sea state with a worsening forecast caused the Shelagh to head back to home port late Friday night. They returned to the Lubec house in the early hours of Saturday morning, exhausted and a bit battered...but negative data is still worthwhile data (at least that's what we say to make ourselves feel better), so their survey effort adds another important piece to this season's puzzle.
Meanwhile, back in the Bay of Fundy, the remaining four team members took the R/V Nereid out for a spin. It started off as any other survey this season: early and with a healthy amount of cautious optimism. We had just reached the northern portion of our tracklines when we received a radio call from the R/V Euchaeta (used by basking shark researchers with the Grand Manan Research Station) with news that garnered raucous cheering from our boat: the Euchaeta was about six miles southeast of us with at least three right whales!
The Nereid motored in that direction as quickly as we could (while maintaining proper surveying speed, naturally), and more cheering occurred when the first v-shaped blow of a right whale was spotted. At the surface were two right whales traveling together, with a single whale not too far off. The pair of whales included Manta (Catalog #1507) and Tux (#3401), 28 year-old and 9 year-old males, respectively.
Over the last three decades, Manta has been seen often in the Bay of Fundy and Cape Cod Bay, and was one of the handfuls of whales we photographed during our field season last year.
The third whale proved to be an important sighting; Kingfisher (#3346) is a 10 year-old male, who was severely entangled in fishing gear at the young age of one. A disentanglement attempt soon after he was first sighted with gear in 2004 eventually helped him shed the majority of it, yet a wrap of multiple lines still remains around his right flipper. Over the past nine years he has been seen regularly, and assessments from these sightings show that his health is not in decline. Due to his stable health condition and the tricky location of the entanglement, he has been downgraded to "monitor" status (entangled, but not life-threatening). During our observation, Kingfisher wasn't spending time at the surface and the wind has started to pick up, so conditions wouldn't have been favorable for a disentanglement attempt anyway. However, we made sure to collect plenty of photographs so that his current body condition and health can be evaluated. From our perspective on the boat he seemed in good condition, which is impressive considering his entanglement case is the longest on record for any whale in the North Atlantic.
It was great to have documented these three whales since they appeared to be traveling south out of the Bay (even against the tide), so the chances are slim that we will see them again this season. By 2:00 PM, we hadn't come across any other right whales, and our sea state had deteriorated to where it would be nearly impossible to photograph whales if we did find them, so we decided to head for home. It was a long, wet and sloppy two-hour slog back to Lubec, but despite all of that, we were in a good mood. Working a handful of whales during a sparse field season feels a bit like hitting the jackpot. Plus, it is always comforting to know that our study species still exists!
Today, a team of four researchers depart on the Shelagh for a two day survey offshore. In the past couple of weeks, we've posted a few blogs about where the first Shelagh crew surveyed and what we encountered along the way, but there is a whole other aspect that we haven't covered yet. In the best possible way, offshore life is simplistic. The everyday distractions are nonexistent and you live by the rules of the sun, wind, and sea.
On a typical day, our trusty Captain Joe would be up by 0530(L) to navigate the boat towards our starting waypoint (wherever we left off the night before). Our first watch of two observers and one recorder would start working by 0700(L), once there was enough daylight to effectively survey. Then our research team of five would rotate through the three "on-watch" positions every hour throughout the day. Once we picked up whales, it was all hands on deck for proper photo and data collection. But if you were off watch without whales around (which, unfortunately, was more frequent than not), then the the hour was your own to entertain yourself on a 45 foot boat; therefore, the most common activities were eating, napping, or reading.
We would maintain this rotating watch schedule until around 2000(L), when the light would get too low to properly survey. After shutting down the engine and hoving to for the night, part of the crew would prepare dinner (often a delicious, pre-made casserole dish), while the rest would organize the data and download photos.
After dinner, the night watch would begin at 2200(L). We would rotate every hour and a half to keep an eye on the radar for passing ships. This wasn't really an issue until our final night when we hoved to near the entrance of the Grand Manan Channel. Let's just say that certain shifts that evening were more exciting/nerve racking than others, as several ships passed within a quarter of a mile of the Shelagh! In the morning, we'd wake up and do our survey rotation all over again.
To some, this scheduled life may seem mundane, but with a great crew and beautiful weather, we kept ourselves entertained with homemade music videos, stories, and loads of good humor. Once you get into the groove of things, there is really nothing quite like starting and ending your day with brilliant sunrises and sunsets, all with the hope that sometime in between, our seemingly elusive right whales would grace us with their presence. We're hoping that this second Shelagh trip is as successful as ours, but with even more right whale sightings!
During our six days offshore in August, we surveyed the Grand Manan Banks, Lurcher Shoal, Roseway Basin, and part of Brown's Bank. That's a lot of ocean, and we certainly had plenty of sightings to keep us on our toes! Over the course of those six days, we counted 27 ocean sunfish, 6 basking sharks, and 36 leatherback turtles! Personally, I was very excited to see leatherbacks. I've watched these huge turtles haul themselves out of the Caribbean Sea to lay their eggs at Sandy Point Refuge, located on the island of St. Croix, USVI. The mortality rate of hatchlings and juveniles is very high, but even the small possibility that one of the leatherbacks I was seeing on Roseway had been born from one of the clutches laid on St. Croix was very exciting to me.
Aside from our four right whales, other large whales did make an appearance. We counted 4 fin whales, 11 sei whales, 15 humpback whales, and 19 minke whales. We tried to photograph as many humpback whales as we could, as we submit them to a humpback whale catalog for identification.
Another exciting sighting was a small group of about 7-10 pilot whales (commonly known as "blackfish") that passed right by the Shelagh. Their large, broad dorsal fins and bulbous heads were what initially distinguished them, but another unique identifying feature were their flukes, which were raised before disappearing on a long dive. Their flukes looked so small and dainty in comparison to the rest of their bodies!
We had our fair share of dolphins and porpoise as well; approximately 122 white-sided dolphins, 151 common dolphins, and 310 harbor porpoise! The most thrilling dolphin interaction I've ever had occurred on this trip- three common dolphins bow riding the Shelagh, right under our feet as we stood on the bowsprit!
At some moments, they chose to coordinate their movements, and they would dance back and forth across the bow of the boat, zigging and zagging in sync with each other. Other times, they expressed their individuality by swimming away to leap out of the water, or (my favorite) swimming upside down. It was exhilarating to watch how effortlessly they moved, and to see these wild animals having fun!
While observing these dolphins swimming below us, we noticed that they would occasionally turn on their sides. In this position, they seemed to be purposefully looking at us. Could they recognize us as living beings, separate from the vessel? I like to think so.
After a good 15-20 minutes, the three dolphins started swimming further away from the boat, and before we knew it, they were gone. Right before they disappeared, I heard a high-pitched whistle from one of the dolphins. I had never heard dolphins communicating unless there was a hydrophone involved, so I wasn't sure if I was just imagining things, but I later read that it is possible to hear common dolphins above the surface (listen to two examples here!)! The next morning while I was laying in my bunk, I even heard some whistles through the hull of the boat! So while we didn't have the right whale sightings we were hoping for, we all came away with a greater sense of awe and curiosity about the ocean, both of which researchers in our line of work can never have too much of.


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3 'fresh' stories that you need to know about today – HotelTonight,The Blueberry Wave, Kognitio, Littlewoods
by Will Corry on November 9, 2014 in Lead Article, News you can use
HotelTonight Hires Beats Music and King.com Marketing Pro as CMO
Leading mobile-only hotel booking app adds Mark Phillips to its executive team, appoints Zillow's Amy Bohutinsky to board and brings on former Airbnb executive to lead international expansion
London, 7th November 2014 – HotelTonight, the leading mobile-only hotel booking app, today announced that Mark Phillips, former CMO of Beats Music, has joined the company as its Chief Marketing Officer.
Phillips joins the HotelTonight team with nearly 20 years' experience building and developing global consumer and technology brands. Most recently, Phillips led marketing for Beats Music, the subscription-based music streaming service that was recently acquired by Apple.
He built up their marketing team and successfully launched the service in January of 2014 with a partnership with Ellen DeGeneres, a Super Bowl spot and brand and performance campaigns featuring Trent Reznor. Prior to Beats, Phillips was VP of Brand Marketing at King.com, where he helped guide Candy Crush's meteoric rise and build King's brand before the company went public in April 2014. Phillips also brings an international background in advertising and marketing to HotelTonight, including leading Adidas' marketing campaign for the London 2012 Olympics and their highly awarded global Impossible is Nothing campaign.
HotelTonight also shared today that it has appointed Amy Bohutinsky, Chief Marketing Officer at Zillow, to its Board of Directors. Bohutinsky joined Zillow pre-launch in 2005, and built the brand and marketing team from the ground up. Today, Zillow is the largest online and mobile real estate brand, with nearly 90 million unique users per month. Before Zillow, Bohutinsky ran communications at Hotwire, and began her career as a broadcast journalist for various ABC and NBC affiliates.
The Blueberry Wave teams up with Kognitio to dramatically reduce 'big data' processing time from 1 hour to 1 minute
Award-winning data marketing agency The Blueberry Wave have made significant leaps in dramatically improving their data processing time by teaming up with supercomputing specialists Kognitio.
The new system has seen The Blueberry Wave switch from traditional Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) to Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) which has transformed data processing time; on average, what previously took one hour to process now takes just 1 minute.
The Cotswolds-based agency is responsible for streaming hundreds of millions of data records for their clients on a daily basis.
However, with overnight batch processing jobs under pressure to complete in time for the next working day, the firm quickly identified that no amount of code or data manipulation in their traditional SQL environment would enable them to speed up the process of delivering refreshed systems before the start of the working day and support the exponential increase in data its clients were presenting.
Steve Schneekloth, Consultant at The Blueberry Wave, explained: "With digital channels exploding and real-time technology evolving at an ever increasing pace, we are being swamped with huge volumes of less structured data needing immediate interpretation and response.
Littlewoods gets into the festive spirit with integrated panto campaign
Online retailer Littlewoods, a Shop Direct Group brand, will embark on a week-long teaser campaign with ITV to launch its Christmas pantomime-themed advertising activity.
The ads form part of a fully integrated campaign, developed and implemented with media agency Vizeum, to showcase the brand's 'Make you Christmas Wishes Come True with Littlewoods' proposition. Two 10" spots will air during a range of ITV programmes including Coronation Street and The Great Fire to promote a brand competition between 2 and 6 November.
The winners will then be revealed in a 20"ad competition during the first ad break of the Coronation Streets' 7 November episode before the launch of the full 40" Christmas ad. This TV content will then be supported with targeted Sky AdSmart ads and a partnership with another key ITV Show I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Herefrom 19 November. A further sponsorship deal with Movies 24 and Movies 24+ will see the two channels rebranded to Christmas 24 and Christmas 24+ to bring the brand closer to the families across the UK.
In line with the creative, Littlewoods will also sponsor Pantomimes across 10 different sites throughout the UK by partnering with the Ambassador Theatre Group. As part of the deal, Littlewoods branding will feature in auditorium AV screens, online platforms, printed products and point-of-sales.
The brand will also take the festive spirit out to the streets of the UK with an immersive outdoor Aladdin themed experience in London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Glasgow shopping centre hubs.
Tags: HotelTonight, Kognitio, Littlewoods, The Blueberry Wave.	Print article

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In this post I'll give to you the steps to compile Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.22 in Raspberry Pi 3. Why? Well because in general this little computer is cheap, has low power consumption, and is great to use as a test machine for developers.


MENA: how much do you know about the region?
MENA (MNN) — The Middle East and North Africa are often called the MENA region. But, besides that quick geography lesson, how much do you know about the MENA region?
Dr. Terry Ascott of SAT-7, a satellite TV ministry to the MENA region, says it's a diverse, non-unified area of around 25 countries.
Ascott says each of the countries in the MENA region are as different from each other as the countries in Europe. This can pose a challenge to SAT-7 as it broadcasts across this region. To address the linguistic challenges, SAT-7 broadcasts in the three main languages of this area: Arabic, Turkish, and Farsi.
"Arabic is the biggest challenge because of all the diverse…dialects and the huge span of time zones. They cover six time zones from the Mauritania and Morocco right through to the Arabian Peninsula," Ascott explains.
There is a modern standard Arabic, used often by politicians. It's a classical Arabic form, which reflects the standard written Arabic in the region.
"If you use this language, most people will understand it. Although, it comes across a bit like Shakespearian English would in England. It's a bit out of touch with the day to day language of the street," Ascott shares.
But, despite the challenges, TV and radio are powerful tools in the region. This is partly because of the high illiteracy rate common in these countries. Plus, the internet is not as popular, since it requires literacy to navigate and is censored. This means people get most of their entertainment and information from broadcast TV.
"Up until the 1990s, all broadcast television was controlled by different governments. In fact, it was so important that you found tanks stationed outside of TV stations because owning and controlling a TV station means you own and control what people think," Ascott explains.
This happened out of London, UK in 1991. Broadcasting continued from London for several years, up until the organization doing the broadcasting moved to Saudi Arabia. Ascott says today, about 400 million people between Afghanistan and Mauritania have access to satellite television.
However, some countries in the MENA region do still hold to apostasy laws. Sometimes, these laws are punishable by death as a capital crime. But, SAT-7 isn't converting people. It's simply regularly presenting the Christian faith to 25 million people in the region.
"I would say it's a basic human right that everyone should have the opportunity to hear the Gospel, the teachings of Jesus, and make an informed decision about how they want to respond to those," Ascott says.
Yet, it's actually easier to share the Gospel message in the MENA region than other areas of the world. People there don't need to be convinced God, absolute morals, and an afterlife exist. They just need to know who God is.
"Presenting the Christian faith in that context is relatively easy," Ascott says.
Ascott says most Middle Easterners are not violent. In fact, they're as appalled and shocked at the violence coming from the region as many Westerners. These people have similar desires to people in the West. They want to raise their families, contribute to their society, and to have good jobs.
But seeing Muslims see Muslims killing one another for being the wrong type of Muslim or the abuse of power by governments in the name of religion has been a turnoff from following any god. Some have become agnostic or even atheists.
"It's in this context that we broadcast about the God of love, the God of reconciliation, the God of forgiveness and this resonates with people who are so tired of the endless violence and the killing that's been going on in the name of religion," Ascott shares.
SAT-7 has seen amazing responses to Christ in difficult countries like Iran, Syria, Algeria, and more. And because of the radical difference in Christ's teaching of forgiveness and turning the other cheek, there's been an increased interest in the Christian faith.
"Once you get past all of these negative stereotypes about Muslims and Arabs and Iranians and Turks, you find that they're the most hospitable, kind, compassionate people that you can imagine," Ascott says.
For example, while living in Cairo, Ascott was walking down a street when he saw an elderly woman with a string shopping bag. In it was a glass bottle of cooking oil. In the busyness of the street, the lady was pushed and her bag hit a pole. The bottle broke and she lost her cooking oil.
At this moment, it was clear the woman was distressed by the loss of her cooking oil. Within 10 seconds people on the street were pulling money from their pockets and giving it to her so she could buy more. They were telling her it would be okay.
"This is the kind of spontaneous kindness and hospitality and generosity that you find in the Middles East. And you might find that just astonishing. It just doesn't fit with all the stereotypes we get through stories of ISIS and the abuse that goes on," Ascott shares.
Ultimately, every country and region has its good and its ugly. The MENA region is not alone in this. But, it's vital to not forget the good and the humanity of the people there.
Pray for people in the MENA region to hear the Gospel and be transformed by Christ's truth and love. And pray for SAT-7 to continue sharing Christ's truths in the region.
Learn more about SAT-7's work here!
Want to keep in touch with SAT-7? Then, click here.
Give to SAT-7's work here!
Pray for people in the MENA region to hear the Gospel and be transformed by Christ's truth and love.
And pray for SAT-7 to continue sharing Christ's truths in the region.


Working with Mr. Brown on our class composition.
Experimenting in science using our understanding of sound being a vibration. We had to investigate ways of changing pitch and volume creating our own musical instruments.
Having fun and experimenting with musical instruments.


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Q: PKIX path building failed: Does not work in production server .It does not trust the certificate My J2EE application throws following exception when i deploy it in production environment. I've tried self-signed certificate generated by keytool, but it doesn't make any sense
JDK: (Oracle JDK) java version "1.7.0_80"
Tomcat :7.0.55
javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
This application talks to an API which needs to communicate over HTTPS. Following is the code segment:
public  String reqSender() throws Exception
{

String inputLine="xxxxx";
String refreshToken="addddddd";
String httpsURL = "https://mifc.xxx.lk/xxx/token?grant_type=refresh_token&refresh_token="
                        + refreshToken + "&scope=PRODUCTION";

URL myurl = new URL(httpsURL);

HttpsURLConnection con = (HttpsURLConnection)myurl.openConnection();
con.setRequestMethod("POST");

con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
con.setRequestProperty("Authorization","Basic YxsdsdsfdfsfsdsdsdSncxU0dlQXJPY3F1Q1JndXc3bU1h");

InputStream ins = con.getInputStream();

InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(ins);

    try (BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(isr)) {

        while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
        {
            System.out.println(inputLine);
        }   }
    return inputLine;}

A: Reason for the problem  : client unable to trust the certificate of server side that we try to access.Therefor I've written to use HttpsURLConnection to extend HttpURLConnection and X509TrustManager to authenticate.Also used a separate class "SSLCert" to trust certificate. So that client trust the certificate and communicate as expected.
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import static java.lang.Math.log;
import static java.lang.System.out;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import org.json.JSONObject;

import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
import java.security.SecureRandom;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
import javax.net.ssl.HostnameVerifier;
import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLSession;
import javax.net.ssl.TrustManager;
import javax.net.ssl.X509TrustManager;

public String reqSender()() throws Exception {
        String acessToken = null;
        String rfshToken = null;
        double expiresIn = 0.0D;
        int x = 0;
        SSLCert.trustAllHostnames();
        SSLCert.trustAllHttpsCertificates();
        //DbCon con = new DbCon();

        try {
            String refreshToken = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
            System.out.println(refreshToken);
            System.out.println("");
            System.out.println("Calling web service...");

            URL url = new URL(
                    "https://mifxx.xxxxx.lk/apicall/token?grant_type=refresh_token&refresh_token="
                    + refreshToken + "&scope=PRODUCTION");
            System.out.println("web service called" + url.toString());
            HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
            conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
            conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type",
                    "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
            conn.setRequestProperty(
                    "Authorization",
                    "Basic xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx1JndXc3bU1h");
    enter code here
            /////start
            HttpsURLConnection conHttps = (HttpsURLConnection) conn;
            TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[]{new X509TrustManager() {

                public java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
                    return null;
                }

                public void checkClientTrusted(
                        java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {
                }

                public void checkServerTrusted(
                        java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {
                }
            }};

            HostnameVerifier allHostsValid = new HostnameVerifier() {
                @Override
                public boolean verify(String arg0, SSLSession arg1) {
                    return true;
                }
            };

            // Install the all-trusting trust manager
            try {
                SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
                sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new java.security.SecureRandom());
                HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc
                        .getSocketFactory());
                HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier(allHostsValid);
                conn = conHttps;
            } catch (Exception e) {
            }

            /////End
            x = conn.getResponseCode();
            System.out.println(conn.getResponseCode() + "CODE");
            if (conn.getResponseCode() != 200) {
                throw new RuntimeException("Failed : HTTP error code : "
                        + conn.getResponseCode());
            }

            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                    conn.getInputStream()));

            System.out.println("Output from Server ....");
            String output = null;
            while ((output = br.readLine()) != null) {
                System.out.println(output);

                JSONObject obj = new JSONObject(output);
                String defult = obj.getString("scope");
                String tokenType = obj.getString("token_type");
                expiresIn = obj.getDouble("expires_in");
                rfshToken = obj.getString("refresh_token");
                acessToken = obj.getString("access_token");

                System.out.println("");
                System.out.println("-------------------------");
                System.out.println("Access Token :" + acessToken);
                System.out.println("Refresh Token :" + rfshToken);
                System.out.println("Token Type :" + tokenType);
                System.out.println("Scope :" + defult);
                System.out.println("Expiration time: " + expiresIn);
                System.out.println("-------------------------");
                System.out.println("");
            }

            conn.disconnect();
        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            //log.error(e);
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            //log.error(e);
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return rfshToken;
    }

Following class is the SSLCert
 SSLCert class

import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
 import java.security.SecureRandom;
 import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
 import javax.net.ssl.HostnameVerifier;
 import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;
 import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
 import javax.net.ssl.TrustManager;
 import javax.net.ssl.X509TrustManager;

 /**
  * This class provide various static methods that relax X509 certificate and
  * hostname verification while using the SSL over the HTTP protocol.
  *
  *
  */
 public final class SSLCert {

   /**
    * Hostname verifier for the Sun's deprecated API.
    *
    * @deprecated see {@link #_hostnameVerifier}.
    */
   private static com.sun.net.ssl.HostnameVerifier __hostnameVerifier;
   /**
    * Thrust managers for the Sun's deprecated API.
    *
    * @deprecated see {@link #_trustManagers}.
    */
   private static com.sun.net.ssl.TrustManager[] __trustManagers;
   /**
    * Hostname verifier.
    */
   private static HostnameVerifier _hostnameVerifier;
   /**
    * Thrust managers.
    */
   private static TrustManager[] _trustManagers;

   /**
    * Set the default Hostname Verifier to an instance of a fake class that
    * trust all hostnames. This method uses the old deprecated API from the
    * com.sun.ssl package.
    *
    * @deprecated see {@link #_trustAllHostnames()}.
    */
   private static void __trustAllHostnames() {
       // Create a trust manager that does not validate certificate chains
       if(__hostnameVerifier == null) {
           __hostnameVerifier = new _FakeHostnameVerifier();
       } // if
       // Install the all-trusting host name verifier
       com.sun.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection.
           setDefaultHostnameVerifier(__hostnameVerifier);
   } // __trustAllHttpsCertificates

   /**
    * Set the default X509 Trust Manager to an instance of a fake class that
    * trust all certificates, even the self-signed ones. This method uses the
    * old deprecated API from the com.sun.ssl package.
    *
    * @deprecated see {@link #_trustAllHttpsCertificates()}.
    */
   private static void __trustAllHttpsCertificates() {
       com.sun.net.ssl.SSLContext context;

       // Create a trust manager that does not validate certificate chains
       if(__trustManagers == null) {
           __trustManagers = new com.sun.net.ssl.TrustManager[]
               {new _FakeX509TrustManager()};
       } // if
       // Install the all-trusting trust manager
       try {
           context = com.sun.net.ssl.SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
           context.init(null, __trustManagers, new SecureRandom());
       } catch(GeneralSecurityException gse) {
           throw new IllegalStateException(gse.getMessage());
       } // catch
       com.sun.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection.
           setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(context.getSocketFactory());
   } // __trustAllHttpsCertificates

   /**
    * Return true if the protocol handler property java.
    * protocol.handler.pkgs is set to the Sun's com.sun.net.ssl.
    * internal.www.protocol deprecated one, false
    * otherwise.
    *
    * @return                true if the protocol handler
    * property is set to the Sun's deprecated one, false
    * otherwise.
    */
   private static boolean isDeprecatedSSLProtocol() {
       return("com.sun.net.ssl.internal.www.protocol".equals(System.
           getProperty("java.protocol.handler.pkgs")));
   } // isDeprecatedSSLProtocol

   /**
    * Set the default Hostname Verifier to an instance of a fake class that
    * trust all hostnames.
    */
   private static void _trustAllHostnames() {
       // Create a trust manager that does not validate certificate chains
       if(_hostnameVerifier == null) {
           _hostnameVerifier = new FakeHostnameVerifier();
       } // if
         // Install the all-trusting host name verifier:
       HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier(_hostnameVerifier);
   } // _trustAllHttpsCertificates

   /**
    * Set the default X509 Trust Manager to an instance of a fake class that
    * trust all certificates, even the self-signed ones.
    */
   private static void _trustAllHttpsCertificates() {
       SSLContext context;

       // Create a trust manager that does not validate certificate chains
       if(_trustManagers == null) {
           _trustManagers = new TrustManager[] {new FakeX509TrustManager()};
       } // if
       // Install the all-trusting trust manager:
       try {
       context = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
       context.init(null, _trustManagers, new SecureRandom());
       } catch(GeneralSecurityException gse) {
           throw new IllegalStateException(gse.getMessage());
       } // catch
       HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(context.
           getSocketFactory());
   } // _trustAllHttpsCertificates

   /**
    * Set the default Hostname Verifier to an instance of a fake class that
    * trust all hostnames.
    */
   public static void trustAllHostnames() {
       // Is the deprecated protocol setted?
       if(isDeprecatedSSLProtocol()) {
           __trustAllHostnames();
       } else {
           _trustAllHostnames();
       } // else
   } // trustAllHostnames

   /**
    * Set the default X509 Trust Manager to an instance of a fake class that
    * trust all certificates, even the self-signed ones.
    */
   public static void trustAllHttpsCertificates() {
       // Is the deprecated protocol setted?
       if(isDeprecatedSSLProtocol()) {
           __trustAllHttpsCertificates();
       } else {
           _trustAllHttpsCertificates();
       } // else
   } // trustAllHttpsCertificates

   /**
    * This class implements a fake hostname verificator, trusting any host
    * name. This class uses the old deprecated API from the com.sun.
    * ssl package.
    *
    *
    *
    * @deprecated see {@link SSLCert.FakeHostnameVerifier}.
    */
   public static class _FakeHostnameVerifier
       implements com.sun.net.ssl.HostnameVerifier {

       /**
        * Always return true, indicating that the host name is an
        * acceptable match with the server's authentication scheme.
        *
        * @param hostname        the host name.
        * @param session         the SSL session used on the connection to
        * host.
        * @return                the true boolean value
        * indicating the host name is trusted.
        */
       public boolean verify(String hostname, String session) {
           return(true);
       } // verify
   } // _FakeHostnameVerifier

   /**
    * This class allow any X509 certificates to be used to authenticate the
    * remote side of a secure socket, including self-signed certificates. This
    * class uses the old deprecated API from the com.sun.ssl
    * package.
    *
    *
    *
    * @deprecated see {@link SSLCert.FakeX509TrustManager}.
    */
   public static class _FakeX509TrustManager
       implements com.sun.net.ssl.X509TrustManager {

       /**
        * Empty array of certificate authority certificates.
        */
       private static final X509Certificate[] _AcceptedIssuers =
           new X509Certificate[] {};

       /**
        * Always return true, trusting for client SSL
        * chain peer certificate chain.
        *
        * @param chain           the peer certificate chain.
        * @return                the true boolean value
        * indicating the chain is trusted.
        */
       public boolean isClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain) {
           return(true);
       } // checkClientTrusted

       /**
        * Always return true, trusting for server SSL
        * chain peer certificate chain.
        *
        * @param chain           the peer certificate chain.
        * @return                the true boolean value
        * indicating the chain is trusted.
        */
       public boolean isServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain) {
           return(true);
       } // checkServerTrusted

       /**
        * Return an empty array of certificate authority certificates which
        * are trusted for authenticating peers.
        *
        * @return                a empty array of issuer certificates.
        */
       public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
           return(_AcceptedIssuers);
       } // getAcceptedIssuers
   } // _FakeX509TrustManager

   /**
    * This class implements a fake hostname verificator, trusting any host
    * name.
    *
    *
    */
   public static class FakeHostnameVerifier implements HostnameVerifier {

       /**
        * Always return true, indicating that the host name is
        * an acceptable match with the server's authentication scheme.
        *
        * @param hostname        the host name.
        * @param session         the SSL session used on the connection to
        * host.
        * @return                the true boolean value
        * indicating the host name is trusted.
        */
       public boolean verify(String hostname,
           javax.net.ssl.SSLSession session) {
           return(true);
       } // verify
   } // FakeHostnameVerifier

   /**
    * This class allow any X509 certificates to be used to authenticate the
    * remote side of a secure socket, including self-signed certificates.
    *
    *
    */
   public static class FakeX509TrustManager implements X509TrustManager {

       /**
        * Empty array of certificate authority certificates.
        */
       private static final X509Certificate[] _AcceptedIssuers =
           new X509Certificate[] {};

       /**
        * Always trust for client SSL chain peer certificate
        * chain with any authType authentication types.
        *
        * @param chain           the peer certificate chain.
        * @param authType        the authentication type based on the client
        * certificate.
        */
       public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain,
           String authType) {
       } // checkClientTrusted

       /**
        * Always trust for server SSL chain peer certificate
        * chain with any authType exchange algorithm types.
        *
        * @param chain           the peer certificate chain.
        * @param authType        the key exchange algorithm used.
        */
       public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain,
           String authType) {
       } // checkServerTrusted

       /**
        * Return an empty array of certificate authority certificates which
        * are trusted for authenticating peers.
        *
        * @return                a empty array of issuer certificates.
        */
       public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
           return(_AcceptedIssuers);
       } // getAcceptedIssuers
   } // FakeX509TrustManager
 } // SSLCert

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Jim High
CDF — 72 Years of Success
By Jim High
People will long remember and talk about the year of 2020, which thank goodness is almost over. But it's not necessarily the worst time America has ever had. I was born in 1940 and for the first half of the 1940s the world was at war with itself in all of Europe and all of Asia at the same time and Americans were fighting on both sides of the world. World War II ended when I was five years old. Tupelo is still a small town, but back in the late 1940s it wasn't much more than a village. So what happened, because in some categories we lead the nation today. I won't try to list all of the firsts that have happened in Tupelo, Mississippi, or all of the categories where we are famous nationwide, because this column is about what happened. The story of how and why Tupelo became the city it is today is based, I think, squarely on just one thing. The Community Development Foundation, formed in 1948 by the businessmen of Tupelo and under the leadership of George McLean, who owned the Daily Journal newspaper. Tupelo didn't get television until the early 1950s so I didn't grow up with anything other than the Mickey Mouse Club and Howdy Doody, which is why I was so surprised to find this meaningful quote from Dr. Seuss recently, which I think says a lot about Tupelo and the CDF. "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who will decide where to go." Today Tupelo thinks of the CDF as mostly an industrial development organization and of course they have done a lot of that culminating with the huge Toyota plant that came to our area a few years ago. But in the early days of CDF, they had committees for everything. There was even a committee that worked with the medical community to help build it up to the point that we have the largest hospital in rural America right here in Tupelo, Mississippi. CDF had a cultural enrichment committee, which worked with all of the arts organizations, resulting in our symphony orchestra and community theater and Gumtree Festival, all of which have celebrated their 40th anniversary or more. And before there was ever a Downtown Tupelo Main Street Association, CDF had its retail merchants committee that worked with local businesses. In other words, CDF was a community wide organization that looked after the needs of everything and everyone. As my business career in the insurance industry developed, I was asked in 1978 to accept the Chairmanship of the CDF, which I was honored to do. At that time CDF had around 400 to 450 members. I distinctly remember one of our Board of Directors meetings where I challenged the board to take on the task of building our membership up to 1,000 members. Quite frankly the board thought I had lost my mind and some said so, but today the CDF has 1,149 members. Our community comes together to get things done under the banner of the Community Development Foundation, a program that has been heralded nationwide and copied by cities all across America. Just recently as a Past Chairman of the organization, I received the report from CDF's President & CEO, David Rumbarger, on the year of 2020, and I want to share some of it with you. "Since COVID-19 struck, we have reached out to all our chamber members and small businesses multiple times to share information and offer our assistance with the CARES Act assistance programs. Over 1,900 Lee County's small businesses utilized the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans provided by the SBA and local banks to protect and secure payroll for over 21,700 employees. Our banking community really stepped up during this time and worked long hours to help area businesses. In January 2020, Lee County's residence employment was 39,220 this employment number dipped to 32,310 by April, but surged back to 39,700 by September. Despite the devastating economic effects of COVID-19 on our communities employment has risen in Lee County by 1.2% since January 2020. Local companies have added $52.3 million in capital investment and $9.8 million in new payroll into the community this year." "The CDF team also had the pleasure of working with over 120 of our local businesses to provide a 3-day help center for small businesses applying for the Mississippi Back to Business grants. We partnered with Lee County, the City of Tupelo, Three Rivers Planning and Development and Itawamba Community College in this workshop with CDF taking the lead. To date we have assisted over 270 businesses in applying for over $2.4 million in state assistance. This event was not restricted to only CDF members, but was an open event for all North Mississippi businesses."
What Matters Most .... So, what happened? Tupelo created the Community Development Foundation and it has served Tupelo, Lee County, and all of Northeast Mississippi exceedingly well and will continue to do so with everyone's support.
© 2020 #23 - Jim High can be reached at 20 Road 447, Iuka, MS 38852 or call 662-401-1932.


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GR: "Can a love extend until touching the deepest ropes bonding society? And can a personal story become the access to the heart of civil rights?" Two questions you asked yourself before leaving for Washington. In this project, with respect to your past works, for the first time you have worked on two levels: one is emotional and intimate, the other is social. Tell me all about it.
AR: Both in questions and answers the two levels are always intertwined. Questions were to me the keys of all the reasons that pushed me to leave, even if the emotional level has played a fundamental role.
AR: From a conceptual point of view this project condenses in one day only – 8 hours – a huge work I made about myself, with the idea of what I could do and that I had to be honest to photograph something that had my look on one side and that had an idea of presence, testimony and a personal history on the other. A love story of four years with Veronica, an Italian-African-American girl, who has put me in contact with a world I had no idea of, with realities coming straight from her American family in Chicago and related to the condition of African Americans. And so I started going deeper, reading and learning more and more.
When Ferguson happened – August 2014 – I was shocked on a personal level because it was a world I was detaching from – her and I had broken up in June – which was still deep within me: all the people I had met, their stories, their families. Of course, the interest was also private, as a citizen and photographer, aware of the world spinning around me.
For the first time I had felt the desire of participating without initially knowing how. I was asking myself "what do I do?", "how do I do it?", "what kind of photographer am I?", "how do I want to share it?".
When in the summer I overheard there would have been a march in Washington, I remember thinking "OK, this is the moment". A single event allowed me to go pull my strings, working on more technical levels: a more authorial photography, private and made of details. A photography that entered in bigger dynamics.
GR: Some images from Scultpures recall the attention on some details that represent America in the popular iconography. It feels as if you were suggesting to use them as a key to get deeper into a global vision.
AR: Yes, indeed there is. I have called them the "epiphenomena", small phenomena that tell a bigger story. I really wanted to show all the various present universes. There is the boy with Nikes on his feet, technical jacket and brand new accessories and the middle-aged woman, in fur, giving you the idea of a person who has reached quite some awareness about her own self. There are religious groups who have seen the march as a great opportunity to bring their message forward, thanks to the enormous media coverage and the presence of so many people, giving their own interpretation about the problems of the American society. A very radical interpretation, some time apocalyptic.
GR: Why did you not choose a reportage? Wasn't it maybe more immediate to share the facts?
AR: The work a photographer can do is to shoot a photograph, a shot of an instant but loaded of precedent work. A work of analysis. I did not go there to show this event through the lens of a reportage photographer lens, who shows you his own position in the pictures. In this project there is no position.
At the beginning, before leaving, I started from the idea that the book should have been called "A story of love and brotherhood" but then, when I saw the final result, other things about myself came through: I am an analytic photographer who does not do emotional photography.
The book has been gathering quite some interest, especially for the fact it is the result of eight hours of shooting. This is a detail I like to point out because in general, speaking of documentary photography, we have challenged this secular assumption of projects having to last only months, if not years, to be valid.
The assumption has been challenged because, to know something, a context, it is not just about being in the situation but also asking yourself some questions before even starting the work: who you are, what position do you have, and what kind of photography you choose to do. These are fundamental elements to me.
GR: Tell me about the audio tracks.
AR: The book is the first step in a project on three main levels: photographs, their tracks and the accounts written on a diary. All together they form the corpus of a more immersive exhibit.


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Next year we are all going green, according to the Pantone Color Institute. Here's why.
Critic's Notebook: Man, Can You Hear That Crazy Forest Green?
The Prism Quartet devoted two concerts at Roulette in Brooklyn to exploring the complex, subjective notion of color in music.
ColorSearch, founded by ArtBinder's Alexandra Chemla, uses the mathematical value of artworks' colors to allow users to search visually.
Mr. Reed, a painter and the last surviving member of the group, was known for his technique of staining the canvas and for hard-edge form.
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Tag Archives: Venezuela
Venezuela Is Not Panama | Venezuela 4
April 21, 大庄家彩票彩金 robbo28
One of the saddest things about running a channel focused on geopolitics is realizing just how little the US government actually knows about the world beyond our borders. It's not just the Trump administration, this problem is universal. At the beginning of April, the Trumpsters doubled down on their Venezuela policy, taking a number of steps to intimidate the Maduro government. Many critics complained about the timing, questioning whether this was the right moment to use military resources in this way. But as far as I have seen, nobody attacked the ridiculous premise at the center of the new policy.
By indicting Maduro as a drug trafficker in the US, and then initiating military exercises focused on his country, Trump's Venezuela guy, Elliott Abrams, and the rest are trying to draw a direct parallel with Panama, a country the US invaded successfully in 1989. What's obvious to anybody with a map, but not to anybody discussing Venezuela policy in Washington DC, is that Panama is a very, very different country from Venezuela. lays out the simple facts.
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Saudi Arabia Goes To War | Coronavirus 2 | Oil Endgame | Markets Are Dumb 11
March 17, 大庄家彩票彩金 robbo28
This Coronavirus thing impacts everything. The oil market is no exception. I've committed to some pretty strong predictions about the future of the oil market and how it means the end of the current regime in Saudi Arabia. I still stand by all of those predictions, but it's hard to say whether this current crisis accelerates the timeline, or slows it down. Starting March 6th, Saudi Arabia went to war against every other producer in the world.
I believe that the US oil industry will be the most prominent victim. The sustained period of low oil and gas prices we are about to experience may bring us to an inevitable future more quickly. Saudi Arabia will be the last oil producer. The crucial question remains the price at which they are able to sell that oil for. It's now possible to envision a future where Saudi Arabia controls price again… but only briefly. explains…
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How To Be Patriotic | Avoiding the British Empire 0
November 17, 2019 robbo28
I think is a fairly clever way to launch this epic series on the British Empire's lessons for the world of today. One of the many things I think about when I'm doing any sort of persuasive writing is "What are the arguments against this?" It may not be apparent this week, but what today's video does, is get out ahead of what I anticipate will be some of the most prevalent arguments against this video. The vids this week are probably more likely to piss off fans of the British Empire, But the vids on the two following Tuesdays should start annoying the "Why U No Like America" types. As with many videos, the argument here had its genesis in a facebook argument years ago. I'm glad to finally get it out there.
And no, Rambo, the symbol of rampaging 1980s hyper-patriotism, does not appear in this video. I'm hoping to capitalize on some of the magic of , which kicked off my series. "Saudi Arabia Is Finished" did not feature Eddard Stark of Game of Thrones Fame, despite his being featured on the thumbnail. My guess is that pop culture reference might have had something to do with the almost 800K views that video has racked up. I am hoping Rambo can help with this one…
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3 Dumb Things About the Coup in Bolivia
With this blog post, I'd like to continue to complain about something I was harping on in . In our new media era coverage of international news is just abysmal. Because it gets clicks, you can find exhaustive coverage of every new sound bite in the 大庄家彩票彩金 US presidential election. But when political earthquakes like this happen, we're reliant on a staggeringly small range of voices. As I mentioned in the video, many of the New York Times stories written on Bolivia are actually produced in Brazil. That may be where their regional headquarters are but in previous eras there would have been actual correspondents on the ground, or at least competent local stringers that the NYT could have been able to rely upon. But instead we've got a guy who certainly knows more than I do, but will be writing about Brazil next week, and maybe Uruguay the week after next.
I am kind of hard on the unthinking coverage of the New York Times and the Washington Post in this video, but that doesn't mean I am against these organizations. In fact, I think you should all subscribe to them. As biased and incomplete as the stories they tell sometimes are, without them we'd be lost. If the opponents of these resources get their way, then all we'd have to go on in Bolivia would be the reports of the Organization of American States, the US State Department, and the triumphant tweets of US senators. As bad as things are now, that would be even worse. In the 1980s the US media effectively blocked some terrible US policies in Latin America. It's pretty clear that the media no longer has the strength or capacity to do that. That's pretty sad.
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Why the Wall Street Journal's "When Turkey Destroyed Its Christians" Article Is Really Bad…
November 5, 2019 robbo28
As promised, I'm going to spend this week's blog post weighing in on "", an infuriating article written by two academics, Benny Morris and Dror Ze'evi, and published by the Wall Street Journal this past May…
In 1915, the Young Turk government that was losing World War I for the Ottoman Empire embarked on a program of genocide against its Armenian minority. Outside of Turkey you won't find anyone who disputes that, and you certainly won't find anyone to dispute that here. The Armenian Genocide happened, full stop. Bludgeoning the Turks with this fact until they admit it is a fair thing to do.
That's not what this Wall Street Journal article does. It attempts something much more sweeping and sinister. With the US-Turkish relationship more fraught than it has been since at least the 1970s, we should be trying to understand Turkey better. Instead, the two authors offer us a highly prejudiced and incomplete essay damning Turkey in irresponsibly sweeping terms over its history with its Christian minority. The Wall Street Journal has given these arguments credibility they do not deserve by publishing them. The article, and the book it is based on, argues that across four decades and three completely different governments, the loss of territory on three continents, and the immolation of a 600 year old empire, the Turks engaged in a conscious multi-decade program of anti-Christian genocide that is directly comparable to the Final Solution cooked up by the Nazis. The authors actually say that in the closing paragraph of their article. By doing so they manage to cheapen the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, and commit a pretty horrific slur against the Turkish people. To my mind it's quite similar to saying that the pre-Nazi Weimar German government of the 1920s and 1930s and the post World War II West German government are just as guilty of Genocide as the Nazis are, implying that there is something naturally evil about the Turks. These authors seem to be motivated by exactly the same sorts of blind nationalist disrespect for history that Armenian Genocide deniers are. The lead "historian" on this is Benny Morris, an Israeli scholar who distinguished himself in his youth by pointing out that the foundation of Israel involved more ethnic cleansing of Arabs than is usually admitted. He has spent his career since writing about why ethnic cleansing to found the Israeli state was actually a good thing. He's a figure associated with justifying the political projects of his own country, and not an expert on this era. Dror Ze-evi, the second author, does appear to be an Ottomanist, but he's either not a good one, or he knows he's being dishonest.
If you're familiar with the history, you're already aware of how deeply insulting it is to tar Ataturk and the Ottoman sultans with the crimes of the Young Turk Genocidaires, but let's run through this a bit. It takes a lot for me to defend the late Ottoman Sultans, but the outright Nazi comparison does the trick. The fundamental historical point that the WSJ article never mentions is that across the 19th century, the Ottoman empire was losing territory. As they lost territory, their central lands in Anatolia filled up with ethnically cleansed Muslims from across Europe. If you walk through central Athens, you will find multiple former mosques or burnt out relics of them. Well over 100,000 Turks were kicked out of Greek territory after Greece's independence in 1830. There are churches in Istanbul today, but there are no mosques in Athens. The Russians repeatedly invaded Ottoman territory, usually forced back more by pressure from the other European powers rather than Ottoman strength. Serbian, Romanian and Bulgarian independence happened in stages of mixed sovereignty and self determination. As these territories became more self-governed, atrocities against Muslims, some of whom had been there for 600 years, became more frequent. To its eternal shame the Ottomans engaged in atrocities as well. Interestingly the WSJ article does not mention the Bulgarian massacres, which were some of the worst anti-Christian massacres carried out by the Ottoman government. This is because mentioning those atrocities would require acknowledging the other side of the story, decaying Ottoman control in Europe and the accompanying ethnic cleansing of Muslims. It's kind of hard to write a hit piece alleging one-sided Turkish ethnic cleansing if you mention actions that were carried out by Muslim populations that no longer exist. The late Ottoman sultanate was a brutal, vicious, failure, losing miserably and committing great atrocities. But were they Nazis? No. Were they even as bad as the Russians, Belgians and Americans of the time? No. They just failed where the Russians, Belgians and Americans succeeded, so their atrocities are harder to wave away.
The Young Turk government that took power from the Sultan in 1908 initially included a lot of propaganda about a new understanding between Turks and minorities. Some of its leaders may even have believed that propaganda. Under the pressures of losing World War I, they carried out a genocide against the Armenians in 1915. Nothing to defend here. Though I would argue that the writers of the WSJ article ARE defending the Young Turks, by pretending that their horrific actions were part of some over-arching Turkish plot, not their own unique responsibility.
It's the last bit of the WSJ article argument that is truly outrageous. After the Ottomans lost World War One, the victorious allies, chiefly Britain, offered a whole bunch of Turkish territory to Greece. This left out the inconvenient fact that the Turks still held that territory at the end of hostilities with the allies. The Greeks invaded, sweeping across Anatolia, carrying out all manner of atrocities against local Turks as they went. The Turks under Ataturk, the founder of the Turkish republic, rallied and pushed them out, committing atrocities against local Greeks as they went. At the end of the war, after the invading Greeks had been pushed out, a population transfer was agreed. 1.5 million Christians were moved to Greece, and Half a million Muslims were moved to Turkey. This imbalance is explained by the fact that as Greece expanded throughout the 19th century, they had ethnically cleansed all Muslims as they went, while the Ottomans didn't get started on systematically extirpating Christians until 1915. The Population transfer was a horrible thing, and not something that the international community would accept today. At the time however, it was seen as an appropriate solution. What's important to remember here, is that unlike the situation with the Armenians, the Greek government was equally at fault for what happened to the Greeks of Anatolia, if not vastly more culpable than the Turkish government. The WSJ article doesn't mention any of this detail at all. It simply slots the end of Greek presence in Anatolia into its fairy tale of Turkish evil.
History is important. Harvard, the WSJ, and these "scholars" may not think so, but I do. The Wall Street Journal's brand may be fading in the Murdoch era, but it still matters. People reflexively believe things that are printed there. Because I lived in Turkey for 6 years, multiple people have reached out to me to talk about this article. I see it pop up on twitter all the time, especially in light of the recent non-existent anti-Kurdish genocide in Northern Syria. Turkish history is not a topic that many in the US have really dived into. If the WSJ says something about it, it will believed. Many Americans now believe that the Turks had a four decade, concerted, out of nowhere plot to murder all of its Christians. That's not true. The fact that this article exists is an example of the "Plot against Turkey" I talk about in .
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Trump Is the OPEC President | Venezuela 3 | Libya 3 | Iran Sanctions 3
April 23, 2019 robbo28
Some videos come pretty easy, and is one of them. I really like it when new ways of looking at stuff pop into my head. The more I think about it though, there are other aspects to this I should have included. The shift in the oil market here is pretty extraordinary. It's actually the birth of a sort of "Super OPEC". It's also an OPEC that's a lot more dangerous for its members. With a US president in charge, especially a US president listening to Texas oilmen, military operations become a potent tool of market making.
The world, and the US, used to have a minimal investment in the stability of petro-states. In the long term, these places should be happier without US supported perma-leaders, but the short term looks increasingly grim. As oil demand peaks, the ballooning US petroleum industry will need to be protected. The US can do this by knocking off competitors one by one. This could be an underappreciated aspect of Libya's permanent oil crisis since 2011. Petro-states on each side of the conflict have no incentive to get their proxies on the same page and producing more. Venezuela is being knocked out. So is Iran. Destabilizing Iraq would be very easy. Saudi Arabia is super shaky. A broader war in the Middle East would be horrible, but it would be pretty great for the new head of OPEC… The US president.
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The Intellectual Dark Web Is For Baby Boomers | Ilhan Omar
March 12, 2019 robbo28
In I made brief reference to Ilhan Omar and her supposed antisemitism. The most interesting thing about this is that most of the people pushing that story have no idea what she's actually been accused of. The tweet from 2012, which she has apologized for, mentioned in the video, wouldn't strike most of the world as antisemitic, but it definitely is according to US standards that I agree with. The controversies over the past few months aren't antisemitic by any fair definition. She has simply called attention to the fact that US politicians are paid a great deal of money by organizations like AIPAC to privilege Israeli interests over US interests.
A year ago I probably would have been more skeptical of Omar, but the sad fact is that the US congress has proved their allegiance to Israel, over and over. The Omar controversy itself makes this clear, but there are much more concrete actions to point to. I don't know much about the "Boycott, Divestment and Sanction" or "BDS" campaign against Israel. What I do know is that multiple state legislatures have imposed flagrantly unconstitutional laws that penalize US citizens that refuse to sign anti-BDS pledges. Regardless of the worth or evil of BDS as a program, that's a straightforward limitation of the first amendment rights of US citizens in a foreign country's favor. Before this year, I was content to chalk the anti-BDS excesses up to Evangelical Christians in red states who support Israel because they want it to die in the end times that they believe an Israeli state will bring about. The US courts have already ruled versions of these law unconstitutional, and I thought that that slow progress would deal with the issue. Unfortunately not. A bi-partisan group of legislators has mounted an anti-BDS crusade, and is trying to pass national law that allows States to discriminate on the basis of speech and association. That's outrageous. That's a clear example of US legislators being bought to put allegiance to Israel over the rights of US citizens. You can read more about .
Very few of the people who attack Omar have reckoned with this insanity. What's more, they make assumptions about who she is, and what she believes. Many supposedly serious journalists attempted to pull the "Oh yeah, well why doesn't she attack Saudi Arabia!?!?!" card. This is ridiculous because she is one of the most consistent voices in Congress against the US-Saudi destruction of Yemen. She is also a supporter of LGBT rights, something else that is ignored in the absurd attacks on her. Our government and media is trying to turn one of the most consistent and heroic opponents of US foreign policy into a racist caricature. It's pretty awful.
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Venezuela | Trump Keeps Saving President Maduro
January 29, 2019 robbo28
The put me in a depressing frame of mind. Venezuela is definitely something to be taken seriously. People are dying, and a country is disintegrating. The sanctions that the Trump administration announced today could very well cause mass starvation. But do you ever get the sense that this is all a bad joke? On both sides, we've got hardliners who talk a lot about opposing the other country on grand principled grounds. But both sets of awful leaders desperately need each other. This whole kabuki theater does get people killed, but the main point isn't taking down the dictator, or taking down the imperialists.
The main point is holding on to power. Maduro uses aggression from the US to justify his power. US presidents, Republican and Democratic, use foreign leaders who set themselves up as antagonists to justify our defense expenditure and cover up for our own leaders failures. It's all a really sad joke. A joke that kills people.
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How the Oil Market Dies | Markets Are Dumb 8
I often talk about the oil price on this channel. That's what I do with . But I don't think I talk about what incredibly good news the death of the oil market is. For the environmentalists this is a bit of a mixed bag, but I think on balance very good. The whole "peak oil" thing has turned out to not be a problem. 30 years ago it was mostly the US, Japan and Europe that were intensively using other people's petroleum resources. We've more than tripled the number of people, and probably more than tripled the amount of consumption. And we've all survived. That's pretty damn cool. The downside of course is that we're producing more and more carbon. Cheaper oil prices are not a good thing for those worried about global warming in the short term. Oil is cheaper, more of it gets consumed, and more carbon gets dumped into the atmosphere. But it can actually be a good thing in the long term.
Lower oil prices provide the same sort of good news to environmentalists that it does to geopolitics nerds. Bad people have less power. If oil is permanently cheaper, that provides less money to all the people who used to use oil wealth to steer the world. , lower oil prices are leading to a collapse in terrorism. It will also lead to a collapse in oil industry influence in the United States and other countries across the world. We can already see it happening. The fact that electric cars have been allowed to go this far is an indicator of how much power the oil industry has already lost. The days when oil execs could confidently march into the government's most powerful positions almost certainly ended with Rex Tillerson. The Oil industry's global warming skeptics are still churning out their reports, but they look laughable to everybody now, including the oil executives who pay for them. The oil industry's decline in prestige will cede the climate change conversation to the scientists and their friends in the environmental lobby almost entirely. Good news all around!
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How One US Oil 大庄家彩票彩金 Is Wrecking Venezuela
September 12, 2018 robbo28
was super tough to put together. Back in the early days of this channel I had a gloriously scatter-shot approach. I would just put up a video on whatever bugged me that week. I would jump around from , to how much I disliked , to in depth theories about the . I'm honestly a bit surprised by how well all of these hold up. I think it's because so much of how issues (and films!) are covered is so surface and superficial, that bringing any context at all to them makes for pretty good videos. That said, I've got a video or two, , that I don't think holds up all that well.
In recent years the focus of the channel has changed. I dive in deep on what's going on in certain countries like , , or . This new, in depth approach has been great for the channel, and I think it also makes for much better videos. When something comes up with one of those countries, I usually have a pretty good idea of what I want to say, and I usually have some good, under-covered context to add to the conversation. Writing those scripts rarely takes more than 5 or 6 hours. My research on those countries is constantly on-going, and I don't have to think too hard to put together something I'm proud of.
This one was different. I don't claim to be an expert in anything, I only promise to do a better job than any cable news channel. This is super easy with the countries I've been covering for years. Venezuela is new for me. For years I've wanted to do more Latin America coverage, but I haven't had the time to do the in depth reading that is necessary. It's impossible to avoid having an opinion on Venezuela of course, but they are not really "MY" opinions. It's what I've been force fed by other news sources. That made writing this one super tough. I had to try to cut through the layers of bullshit and say something original. The story of what's really behind Venezuela's drop in oil production was one I've wanted to tell since May, but the framing was super difficult. I just don't have the necessary context, which I hope I made clear… went through multiple drafts over multiple weeks. I hope you think it was worth the wait!
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Jharkhand To Introduce 'Himmat' Mobile App
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RANCHI: After being launched in Delhi, the 'Himmat' mobile app for women safety will now be introduced by the Jharkhand government as part of its security measures, the state assembly was informed.
"The state government is committed for security of women and their empowerment. Himmat App, which the Delhi Police has launched in Delhi, will be introduced in Jharkhand" Chief Minister Raghubar Das said in the state Assembly.He was replying to a query from BJP MLA Radhakrishna Kishore on what measures the state was taking to protect women in the background of atrocities against them, which was on the rise between 2012 and 2014.
As per the Delhi Police website, its recent launch of Himmat safety App was available for Android Smart phones in order to provide immediate police assistance in the event of any emergent situation that may arise anytime, anywhere. The Jharkhand Chief Minister also said plans were afoot to raise the strength of women in the police department to 30 per cent and setting up women police stations in every district. In order to create awareness on security-related issues in all schools, Raghubar Das also said a woman official would be appointed as liaison officer.


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Patience Jonathan's Abuja hotel to be converted to isolation centre
A hotel belonging to Patience Jonathan, former first lady, will be converted to an isolation and treatment centre for COVID-19 patients, according to TheNation.
The hotel, said to be located in Abuja, is reportedly under interim forfeiture secured by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in 2018.
The newspaper quoted a source as saying the former first lady "struck a deal" with Aisha Buhari, wife of the president, which led to the release of the hotel, for use by the government.
The wife of the present was said to have entered into the agreement with Patience through her pet project- the Future Assured Programme.
During the negotiation, Patience was quoted as saying: "This is the time we must all come together, irrespective of political differences, to assist this nation to fight the pandemic. It is a time to shun politics. I will do everything to help this great country that has also given me the opportunity to serve."
The wife of the president was also said to have made an offer to Osagie Ehanire, minister of health, to convert the hotel to a treatment centre that "meets international standards".
The hotel will reportedly be managed by the federal capital territory (FCT) COVID-19 committee while the Future Assured Programme will provide facilities like water, furniture, bedding, fittings and modern health equipment used in managing COVID-19 cases.
"Since the dispute over the property is still in court, the First Lady opted to seek the consent of Mrs. Patience Jonathan on the temporary use of the seized hotel. This mutual understanding has removed all legal hurdles," a source was quoted to have said.
"After the nation has overcome the COVID-19 pandemic, the hotel will be handed over to the Federal Ministry of Health, which will in turn revert back to the EFCC. Those involved are, therefore, the Future Assured Programme, the Ministry of Health, the EFCC and ex-First Lady Mrs. Patience Jonathan.
"All the existing agreements are without prejudice to the final decision of the court on the property, which the First Lady said is owned by a separate entity, Aurora Foundation."
In 2019, a federal high court in Lagos ordered the permanent seizure of $8.4 million (about N3 billion) and N9.2 billion, belonging to the former first lady.
Mojisola Olatoregun, the presiding judge, gave the order in line with an application filed by the EFCC.
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This in my opinion is just a bunch of gibberish… Lets see if this is not just propanganda sha
April 14, 2020 at 9:31 pm - Reply


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module SpreeBatchProducts
  module Generators
    class InstallGenerator < Rails::Generators::Base

      def add_migrations
        run 'rake railties:install:migrations FROM=spree_batch_products'
      end

      def run_migrations
         res = ask "Would you like to run the migrations now? [Y/n]"
         if res == "" || res.downcase == "y"
           run 'rake db:migrate'
         else
           puts "Skiping rake db:migrate, don't forget to run it!"
         end
      end
    end
  end
end

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