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Q: how to use Snackbar after Json response? I tries to use Snackbar , but it require a view, i have defined the mainlayout as a View Object. And used when Json response completed.
But i dont see any snackbar popup ?
Is there a way to handle that ?
Below is how i handle when parse JSON response.
public CityWeather parseJSONResponse(JSONObject response){
    cityWeather=new CityWeather();

    Log.d(LOG_TAG,"parse1");

    JSONObject resp= response;
    JSONObject detailJo;
    JSONObject cityJo;
    JSONObject aqiJo;
    String aqi;
    String city;
    String nowtemp;
    String condcd;
    String pm25;
    try {
        Log.d(LOG_TAG,"start parse");
        //Log.d(LOG_TAG,resp.toString());
        JSONArray weatherarrary = resp.getJSONArray(KEY_API);

        Log.d(LOG_TAG,"start parse2");

        //get Details
        detailJo=weatherarrary.getJSONObject(0);

        Log.d(LOG_TAG,"start parse3");

        //getAQI
        //Log.d(LOG_TAG,detailJo.toString());
        cityJo=detailJo.getJSONObject(KEY_AQI);

        Log.d(LOG_TAG,"after send json true");

        //when city not found
        if (cityJo==null){

            Log.d(LOG_TAG,"parse fail");
            return cityWeather;
        }

        aqiJo=cityJo.getJSONObject(KEY_CITY);
        Log.d(LOG_TAG,aqiJo.toString());

        aqi=aqiJo.getString(KEY_AQI);
        pm25=aqiJo.getString(KEY_PM25);

        Log.d(LOG_TAG,"parse succss1"+aqi+" "+pm25);

        //get City
        cityJo=detailJo.getJSONObject(KEY_BASIC);
        city=cityJo.getString(KEY_CITY);

        Snackbar.make(mainview,city+"添加成功",Snackbar.LENGTH_SHORT);

        //get now temp
        cityJo=detailJo.getJSONObject(KEY_NOW);
        nowtemp=cityJo.getString(KEY_TMP);
        Log.d(LOG_TAG,"parse succss2"+city+" "+nowtemp);
        //
        cityJo=cityJo.getJSONObject(KEY_COND);
        condcd=cityJo.getString(KEY_CODE);
        Log.d(LOG_TAG,"parse succss3"+condcd);
        cityWeather=new CityWeather(city,aqi,pm25,Integer.parseInt(nowtemp),Integer.parseInt(condcd));

    }catch (JSONException je){
        Log.d(LOG_TAG,"JSONexp"+je.toString());
    }

    Log.d(LOG_TAG,"parse succss4");
    return cityWeather;
}

A: You are not displaying the Snackbar via show()
Check if you still have issues after changing:
Snackbar.make(mainview,city+"添加成功",Snackbar.LENGTH_SHORT);

To:
Snackbar.make(mainview,city+"添加成功",Snackbar.LENGTH_SHORT).show();


Spanish car manufacturer Seat has launched new lifestyle product branded specially for women with eyeliner headlights and all those needs that women demand.
After research of 18 months, Seat and Cosmopolitan has launched the car that is perfectly designed for active young women who are self-confident and really wants to go places.
The vehicles design is perfectly thoughtful feminine touch and it is the result of two years collaborative research. The car is also popular on twitter as many women are happy with that car that fulfill their needs and specially designed for ladies lifestyle.
Susanne Franz, Seat's marketer tells that the new model was feminine and a tribute to modern women, the car available in two colors known as Seat's Mii model was fit for latest women. The design of the car is exciting the drivers and the main purpose easy to park and a pleasing car with personality.
Women's comment after the design of the car: Oh good, this car is easy to park as we find generic viagra and priligy difficulties while handling the car at the side of the road.
The company Seat works with Cosmopolitan magazine to launch car exclusively for women. The four-seat car makes driving easy for women and its parking sensor and hill hood control. The car shade with glamorous interior and door side mirrors and have purple Alcantara seats. Sadly, it doesn't come with pink.
The new offensive design comes in color white and Violetta – no blue, black color is released as women demand some masculine shades. The car headlights as it emphasize the eyeliner shape and jeweled bi-color rim design because women want the car that looks like her face. The car has the sound system and the driver can connect its phone to hook up with Drive Mii app.
The car will be launched early in the UK in 2017, with the price on that day but approximately $11,000 million.
How to attract customers to your car service?


Hello artists and entrepreneurs of all kinds; designers, painters, photographers, promoters, party planners, producers, and anyone looking to hire a model, hostess and/or actress!
I'm an experienced, hard working, reliable model living in Austin Texas. I am professional yet easy going and fun! I am an exhibitionist by nature. When modeling I see myself as a complex utility to help people make their visions come to life. I love to help inspire, promote and invigorate an artist's creative and business aspirations. As a model, I love the opportunity to test viewers' perception of art and question the need for censorship.
I have acting experience in short films, music video and video game development. I am published in print/website advertising campaigns for local businesses and promotional material for local bands. I'm currently working part time as an assistant for a local photographer. I also work as a figure model for several established art schools and individuals. I've worked with Los Hooligans and The El Rey Network at Troublemaker Studios as a model in the production of promotional material for a major motion picture.
Other than a model and aspiring photographer I am a student, painter, writer, actor, entrepreneur and I'd like to eventually get into producing and directing film. I love to cook scrumdiddlyumptious delights, travel, collaborate with articulate, inspired people and make sweet love to life itself. I'm the girl next door who has dark secrets and luminous spark. I am the woman you may think is shy at first sight, but I might surprise you with a bite. All in all, I am Emma Anne and I am unstoppable.
I love to work with everyone from beginners to the most experienced! Please don't hesitate to send me a message no matter how experienced you are! I'm sure we can have fun and do some fantastic work together!
I can travel anywhere. Please be able give me reasonable notice to travel anywhere outside Austin and a month anywhere outside Texas. I will include travel expenses in my fee and require a deposit before any travel reservations are made. Do not hesitate to drop me a line if you are outside Austin and would like to shoot with me. We can work something out!
I will bring one or two suitcases full of wardrobe choices to every session. I can find and purchase virtually anything specific you may want that I don't already have. I will have to charge for any items I'm asked to buy, and of course you can keep the garments you pay for or I may pay for it if it's something I'd like.
I can meet most needs for hair and make-up myself. I can hire the stylist/artist and add the cost to my modeling fee, or you can find them through your own contacts if what's needed is beyond my ability.
As I am a full time traveling freelance model, I can't do TF often. I will only consider trade offers if terms are negotiated fairly and the session is planned to ensure everyone gets outstanding images.
Also, as I am an aspiring photographer, I am open to trading modeling/MUAH/wardrobe services for photography equipment.
When traveling outside Texas, I require a deposit be made before any travel arrangements are finalized.
I will expect a cancellation fee be paid if a cancellation occurs for any reason that I am not responsible for.
Deposits may be paid in person, Western Union or through PayPal.
-What kind of idea or project you have.
-A description of what will be expected of me.
-What the finished content will be used for.
-The duration of the session.
-Any other info you feel is relevant.
These are all factors that I use to determine a rate. I do not have a set rate. My prices a very reasonable and I'm not a stickler for time.
It may take a day or two to respond to messages if I'm out of town. Thanks again for reading my profile and perusing my port! Please let me know if you'd like me to help you create, entertain and promote!
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Q: Convert two arrays to a new one using LINQ I have two double[] X and double[] Y.
I want to create a new array Z, where each Zi = Xi * Yi
I wonder if it's possible to do with LINQ?
(I'm learning LINQ now; of course I can use plain for).

A: If you don't want to use a 3rd party lib or .NET 4.0, you could use 'Select'
double[] z = x.Select((d, i) => d * y[i]).ToArray();

'i' is the index of element 'd' for the current iteration and it's used here to retrieve the accordant element from y.

A: It's possible at 4.0, using Zip (that's the definition of zip - combining elements on the same position):
double[] Z = X.Zip(Y, (x, y) => x * y).ToArray();

On 3.5 you can use MoreLinq, which has a custom Zip extension method.

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Home > Journals > AIS Journals > MISQE > Vol. 4 (2005) > Iss. 3
Delivering on the Promise of E-Procurement
Ruey-Lin Hsiao, National Cheng-Chi University and The Logistics Institute – Asia Pacific (NUS-GeorgiaTech)Follow
Thompson S. H. Teo, National University of SingaporeFollow
Electronic procurement (e-procurement) involves using online facilities to conduct some of the activities involved in procuring goods and services, especially on-line bidding. It has been increasingly implemented by firms to reduce procurement costs, compress negotiation cycle times, and enhance access to global markets. However, most procurement executives remain unsure about how to implement e-procurement effectively. Based on a field study of 26 firms with business operations in Asia, we suggest a three-stage model for implementing e-procurement: (1) assess e-procurement's match with your firm's purchasing practices, (2) determine your operational and strategic objectives, and (3) overcome the key barriers most likely to discourage buyers and suppliers. This paper lists specific decision criteria in each of the three stages to help IS executives, procurement managers, and market makers mitigate the risks of e-procurement and implement it with greater confidence and effectiveness.
Hsiao, Ruey-Lin and Teo, Thompson S. H. (2008) "Delivering on the Promise of E-Procurement," MIS Quarterly Executive: Vol. 4 : Iss. 3 , Article 4.
Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/misqe/vol4/iss3/4
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When an electric field is locally applied to tissues in vivo the uptake of exogenous DNA can be greatly increased. This approach to gene transfer, called electroporation (EP) or gene electro transfer (GET), has potential applications in the treatment of skin disorders, vaccinations, some types of cancer and metabolic diseases. The eect of electric elds on cells and tissues has been studied and related to the uptake of DNA. Tissue impedance changes have been measured as a result of electroporation. The aim of this study is to explore the predictive accuracy of impedance spectroscopy for the success of GET. Mice were used in this study for their histological similarities to human skin. The mice were injected with plasmid DNA coding for luciferase and given one of a series of electroporation treatments varying the number and intensity of the electric pulses delivered. The number of pulses delivered was based upon impedance measurements taken during the EP procedure. Mice were then imaged to quantitatively measure the luminescence resulting from the gene delivery procedure at intervals of 2, 4, 7, 10 and 14 days after treatment to quantitatively determine the biological response to gene electrotransfer. Increased luminescence was noticed in treatment groups compared to injection only groups, and the most eective treatments resulted from a feedback mechanism based upon percentage changes in skin impedance. The relationship between impedance change and gene expression suggested that treatment can be improved based on impedance measurements taken during the EP treatment.
Fajardo Gomez, Lina, "Impedance Measurements as a Means to Improve the Biological Response of Gene Electrotransfer" (2015). Graduate Theses and Dissertations.


These meat monsters are disgusting! Sorry to say that, but they are made of meat, and still so hungry and wants more flesh! They are invading tonight Mr. Meaty's store. You must protect the workers from the invading meat armies! Play Mr Meaty game online. Played 0 times.
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Q: Issue with looping videos in beamer presentation using media9 package I've stumbled across an issue when trying to embed a video in my beamer presentation using the media9 package. Strangely, it embeds it correctly and displays it properly for the first iteration. However, after the first iteration when its supposed to loop, it has a weird behaviour where the first part of the media isn't displayed but the second part is. The looping process still works fine though.
I'm using the latest version of Acrobat Reader which should properly work with embedded videos.
What I'm currently using:
\includemedia[
  width=\linewidth,
  totalheight=5cm,
  activate=pageopen,
  deactivate=pageclose,
  passcontext,  %show VPlayer's right-click menu
  addresource=presentation/assets/videos/seq2seq_1.mp4,
  flashvars={
    %important: same path as in `addresource'
    source=presentation/assets/videos/seq2seq_1.mp4
    &autoPlay=true
    &loop=true
  }
]{\fbox{Click!}}{VPlayer.swf}

The video I'm trying to embed is: https://jalammar.github.io/images/seq2seq_1.mp4
What I've tried so far:

*

*Using a different file format (i.e. *.flv)

*Using a different video (i.e. https://jalammar.github.io/images/seq2seq_2.mp4)

*Using a different Player (i.e. StrobeMediaPlayback.swf)

Are there any workarounds or tricks I could use? I think I'm using the package correctly but it seems that something about these specific mp4s (encoding or something) causes this weird behaviour.

A: Based on the comment from @AlexG:
"Re-encoding the video using ffmpeg, with a higher number of keyframes (every 10th video frame) fixes the looping issue":
ffmpeg -i seq2seq_1.mp4 -c:a copy -c:v libx264 -profile:v high -pix_fmt yuv420p -g 10 -r 30 seq2seq_2.mp4


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This was a busy week for JAC members across the country, who met with congressional candidates and Members of Congress. JAC also honored its former president and longtime member Betsy Sheerr in Philadelphia. It was great to see old friends and meet new members.
From l to r: Betsy Sheerr and comedian Andy Borowitz.
AnnDee Levy (l) with NV Congressional candidate Ruben Kihuen.
From l to r: Dana Gordon, Barbara Goldberg Goldman, Jill Zipin.
Judith Bloom, Dana Gordon, Rep. Ami Bera (CA-7), Jackie Cohen, Linda Sher, and Marcia Balonick.
And from the JAC archives... Past JAC president Lois Zoller (l) with former Israeli President Shimon Peres (r).
Remembering Shimon Peres
President Barak Obama's Eulogy
"A free life, in a homeland regained. A secure life, in a nation that can defend itself, by itself. A full life, in friendship with nations who can be counted on as allies, always. A bountiful life, driven by simple pleasures of family and by big dreams. This was Shimon Peres's life. This is the State of Israel. This is the story of the Jewish people over the last century, and it was made possible by a founding generation that counts Shimon as one of its own."
"(Shimon Peres) used his gifts to imagine a future of reconciliation not conflict, economic and social empowerment not anger and frustration, and a nation, a region, and a world enhanced by caring and sharing, not torn asunder by the illusions of permanent dominance and perfect truth."
JAC Statement
"JAC mourns the loss of former Israeli President Shimon Peres, a true statesman and leader. Peres will be remembered for his work to build a lasting peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. He valued the U.S.-Israel relationship and the close bonds between our two countries based on shared values. His unending commitment to peace laid the groundwork which we hope will lead to a permanent peace in the region."
Michigan Membership Meeting
MI Senators Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters
Rep. Sander Levin (MI-9)
Home of Roz Blanck
Hillary Clinton Election 2016 Update
Kimberly Walz, Director of IL Women for HIllary
Highland Park, IL
For more information and to RSVP, contact the JAC office at 847.433.5999 or info@jacpac.org
Coffee with Evan Bayh
Indiana Senate Caniddate
Call the JAC office for details
Lunch with
Rep. Ben Ray Lujan
supporting the DCCC
Lunch with Nancy Pelosi
Steve Santarsiero
candidate for U.S. Congress
Reception with
Rep. Jan Schakowsky
Brad Schneider
Candidate for U.S. Congress (IL-10)
call JAC office for details
Rep. Cheri Bustos
Candidate for IL-10
address available upon RSVP
Hillary Clinton's Rosh Hashanah Message
"I send my best wishes for a Shana Tova - a happy and healthy new year - to Jewish families and communities in the United States, Israel, and around the world.
All Americans should question whether we're doing all that we can to work on "Tikkun Olam"-repairing the world. That means asking ourselves if we could be doing more to help those who are hungry or in need of shelter. If we could be doing more to make sure everyone has access to health care. And if we could be doing more to build a brighter future where no one is left out or left behind.
We are stronger together, and if we commit to work in good faith with one another, surely we can build a better world for future generations."
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The Lessons of Shimon Peres
Next year will be seventy years since the UN voted on November 29 to partition Palestine and to create a Jewish State. We are on the eve of all those significant anniversaries... but they will not arrive until next year. Peres lived an extraordinary life of great purpose and accomplishment. Yet, it is hard not to feel wistful: Is there anyone who would have deserved more to see 120 years since the Zionist Congress, a century since Balfour, and 70 "fullness" years since UN Resolution 181 than Peres?
Hamas Calls for 'Day of Rage' During Peres Funeral
The Hamas terror group urged Palestinians to hold a "Day of Rage" on Friday, coinciding with the state funeral of former Israeli president Shimon Peres, which will be held in Jerusalem on that day. The call is meant to mark the one-year anniversary of the beginning of a wave of terror attacks, including stabbings and car-rammings throughout the West Bank and in Jerusalem, that launched in September 2015.
Jewish State Shifting From Defense to Offense in Fight Against Delegitimization
The Jewish state is shifting from defense to offense in the fight against delegitimization, a high-level Israeli government official said. The director general of the Ministry of Strategic Affairs said the government was using information-gathering as a means to help it thwart the activities of anti-Israel individuals and groups around the world.
Netanyahu and Abbas Shake Hands at Peres Funeral
Former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres was laid to rest Friday morning, as world leaders gathered at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl cemetery to pay their respects. Current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas notably shook hands during the ceremony-a stunning signal of good will considering the pair's long history of feuding over responsibilities in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. President Obama remarked that Abbas's presence at the funeral was "a gesture and a reminder of the unfinished business of peace" as started by Peres decades ago.
Anti-Semitism & BDS
Why A Vote for Trump Is A Vote for Mainstreaming Anti-Semites
Earlier this week, Donald Trump Jr., a key coordinator of his father's presidential campaign, sparked controversy when he retweeted a notorious anti-Semite to his 631,000 followers on Twitter. The comment itself was not anti-Semitic, but a criticism of Hillary Clinton, which is probably how the younger Trump was taken in:
Florida Christian Group Launches Petition To Make Abortion As 1st Degree Murder
A group known as Abolish Abortion Florida has created a petition asking state residents to support a constitutional amendment which would outlaw abortion in the state. Not only would this law ban abortion altogether, it would also charge a woman and her doctor with first degree murder - which could theoretically lead to the death penalty. Currently, Florida law classifies first degree murder as a capital offense. Under the proposed law that would ban reproductive rights, a prosecutor could bring murder charges if a woman exercised her constitutional rights and had a procedure in the state of Florida.
This Feminist Rabbi Is Dismantling The Abortion Vs. Religion Debate
For most people, the contradictions between religious values and modern moral dilemmas are an indomitable obstacle, and nowhere is this more clear than the issue of reproductive rights. The traditional thinking is that all major religions are diametrically opposed to abortion, but according to Rabbi Lori Koffman, reproductive justice advocacy is intrinsic in her Jewish faith. As she'll passionately tell anyone who asks, abortion rights aren't about abortion itself, they're about the equality and dignity of all people.
Californians Can Soon Pick Up 12 Months of Birth Control
Californians, beginning in January, will be able to get a year's supply of contraception in a single trip to the pharmacist. H ealth plans will be required to cover up to 12 months of hormonal contraceptives, such as birth control pills, rings, and patches. Oregon and Hawaii recently enacted similar measures, removing the insurance barriers and logistical hurdles that sometimes lead to missed pills and unintended pregnancies.
Donald Trump Pledges to Sign Anti-LGBTQ 'First Amendment Defense Act'
Trump has pledged to sign the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA), if passed by congress. It was first introduced in the House on June 17, 2015 and would effectively legalize anti-LGBTQ discrimination across the board, including among employers, businesses, landlords and healthcare providers, as long as they claim to be motivated by a firmly held religious beliefs.
Where the Public Stands on Religious Liberty vs. Nondiscrimination
The U.S. public expresses a clear consensus on the contentious question of whether employers who have religious objections to contraception should be required to provide it in health insurance plans for their employees. Fully two-thirds of American adults say such businesses should be required to cover birth control as part of their employees' insurance plans, according to a new Pew Research Center survey, while just three-in-ten say businesses should be allowed to refuse to cover contraception for religious reasons.
Beyond the Core
WI Systematically Failing to Provide Photo IDs Required for Voting
Nine percent of registered voters in Wisconsin don't have a valid voter ID and many are still struggling to get the documents they need to vote in November. It appears that Wisconsin is violating multiple court orders by not promptly giving eligible citizens free IDs or certificates for voting. This is particularly concerning, since early voting began this week in cities like Madison and Milwaukee and thousands of Wisconsinites are casting ballots.
Political Byte
Why No One Should Vote for Gary Johnson or Jill Stein
By now, you've seen Gary Johnson's second "Aleppo moment," from Wednesday night's Hardball. It's embarrassing even to watch, like seeing someone who genuinely thinks he can sing butcher a song. As we know, it's the second time Johnson has had such a moment, the first coming three weeks ago, when he obviously had no idea of what was happening in, or even likely the very existence of, the world's most tragic city. Please, don't vote for Gary Johnson or Jill Stein.
Why the Rest of the World Would Hand Clinton a Landslide Victory
For a country supposedly in decline, the United States is getting a lot of attention these days. Millions of people around the world, not counting 84 million in the United States, were glued to screens watching the Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump bout on Monday. Vladimir Putin is the new czar of Russia, and Xi Jinping the emperor of China. But who remembers Russia's Duma elections? Clinton and Trump get the ratings - worldwide.
Want A Voice in Presidential Debate Questions? Here's Your Chance.
Electing a president is serious business, and while every election-from school board member to county council to Congress-is important, this election is especially critical. So much is at stake for both individuals like you and me and for the United States at large. The next president will have profound influence on many areas of our lives, such as expanding access to health care, including abortion care and contraception.
Alabama's Chief Justice Faces Ethics Charges for Second Time
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, a Republican, is fighting to keep his job. He's accused of violating judicial ethics for telling local judges they were bound by Alabama's gay marriage ban - and not the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. His trial is set to start Wednesday. He has been suspended pending the trial, and faces removal from the bench.
Why Hillary Clinton is the Safe Choice for President
This paper has not endorsed a Democrat for president in its 148-year history. But we endorse Clinton. She's the safe choice for the U.S. and for the world, for Democrats and Republicans alike.
Bill Clinton Opens Up About Hillary
The former president shared intimate details about the "joys and blessings" he's witnessed throughout their 40-year marriage, while also touching on her "heartbreaks and disappointment."
Trump Watch
USA Today in Scathing Editorial: Trump is 'Unfit for the Presidency'
The USA Today editorial board is opposing Donald Trump's candidacy, taking a position in a presidential election for the first time in the newspaper's 34-year history. Describing Trump as "erratic," "ill-equipped" to be commander in chief and a "serial liar," the newspaper slammed him for trafficking in "prejudice" and having a "checkered" business record. "This year, one of the candidates - Republican nominee Donald Trump - is, by unanimous consensus of the Editorial Board, unfit for the presidency," it states.
Study Finds 20M Would Lose Health Coverage Under Trump Health Care Plan
A new study that examines some major health care proposals from the presidential candidates finds that Donald Trump would cause about 20 million to lose coverage while Hillary Clinton would provide coverage for an additional 9 million people. The U.S. uninsured rate stands at a historically low 8.6 percent, mainly because of President Barack Obama's health care law, which expanded government and private coverage. Yet it's uncertain if the nation's newest social program will survive the election.
Meet the Guy Donald Trump Would Put in Charge of Protecting the Environment
If Donald Trump should win the White House in November, the man who would oversee his administration's leadership of the EPA has made a career as a climate change denier. It's the clearest sign yet that when Trump says climate change is a "hoax," he means to turn that assertion into a centerpiece of his environmental policy as president.
Amy Schumer Hits Back: 'You Got the Wrong Jew'
Amy Schumer deflected charges of racism by saying, "you got the wrong Jew." The comedian's comments came in response to criticism that has dogged her since she tweeted a controversial message and participated in a widely criticized interview with "Girls" creator Lena Dunham. Her comment came the same day she and Dunham drew criticism for an interview that some said contained racist undertones.
Rabbis Mull Whether To Talk About Politics on High Holy Days
This election - it's driving everyone a little meshuganah. So as the High Holy Days approach for Jews, and their rabbis are putting the finishing touches on their sermons, one wonders: Will they dive into the topics making headlines these days - among them: the roiling politics, the Black Lives Matter movement and immigration? Or will rabbis avoid jumping into the messy stew of issues that have divided us in the months leading up to the Jewish New Year?
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If the eight-person team behind the new startup Hadrian has their way, they'll have transformed the manufacturing industry within the next decade.
At least, that's the goal for the new San Francisco-based startup, founded only last year, which has set its sights on building out a new model for advanced manufacturing to enable the satellite, space ship, and progressive energy technology companies to build the future they envision better and faster.
"We view our job as to provide the world's most efficient space and defense component factory," said Hadrian founder Chris Power.
Initially, the company is building factories to make the parts that go on rocket ships, according to Power. Still, the business has implications for any company that needs bespoke components to make their equipment.
"Let me tell you how bad it is at the moment and what's going to happen over the next 20 years. Right now, everyone in space and defense, [including] SpaceX and Lockheed Martin, outsources their parts and manufacturing to small factories across the country. They're super expensive, they're unreliable, and they're completely invisible to the customers," said Power. "This causes big problems with space and defense manufacturers in the design phase because the lead time is so long and the iteration time is super long. Imagine running software and being able to iterate on your product once every 20 days? If you can imagine a Gantt chart of how to build a rocket, about 60% of that is buffer time… A lot of the delays in launches and stuff like that happen because parts got delivered three months ago. It'd be like running a Mcdonald's and realizing that your fries and burger providers could not tell you when the food would arrive."
It's hard to overstate the strategic importance of the parts suppliers to the operations of aerospace, defense, and advanced machining companies. As no less an authority on manufacturing than Elon Musk noted in a tweet, "The factory is the product." According to Hadrian's investors Lux Capital, Founders Fund, and Construct Capital, it's hard to overstate the geopolitical importance of re-establishing the U.S. as a center of manufacturing excellence. Which is one reason why they're investing $9.5 million into the very early stage business.
"America made massive strategic mistakes in the early 90s which have left our national manufacturing ecosystem completely dilapidated," said Founders Fund principal Delian Asparouhov. "The only way to get out of this disaster is to re-invent the most basic input into our aerospace and defense supply chains, machining metal parts quickly and with high tolerance. Right now, America's most innovative company, SpaceX, relies on a network of near-retired machinists to produce space-worthy metal parts, and no one in technology is. focused on solving this."
Power understood the problem at his previous company, Ento, which sold workforce management software to blue-collar customers. It was there he realized the issue. the aging workforce and the need for manufacturers to upgrade almost every aspect of their own technology stack. "I realized that the right way to bring technology to the industrial space is not to sell software to these companies; it's to build an industrial business from scratch with software."
Initially, Hadrian focused all of its efforts on the space industry, where the component manufacturing problem is especially acute. Still, the manufacturing capabilities the company is building out have broad relevance across any industry that requires highly engineered components.
"The demand for manufacturing from both the large SpaceX and Blue Origin all the way to this growing long tail of companies from Anduril to Relativity to Varda," said Lux Capital co-founder Josh Wolfe. "Most of these guys are using mom and pop machine shops… [and] those shops are horribly inefficient. They're not consistent, and they're not reliable. Between software automation and hardware, you can cut down on inefficiency every step of the process… I like to think of value creation as waste reduction… such mundane things like quoting, scheduling, bidding, and planning all the way to the programming of the manufacturing… every one of those things takes hours to tens of hours to days and weeks, so if you can do that in minutes, it's just a no-brainer. [Hadrian] will be the cutting edge choice for all of the new and explicitly dedicated and focused aerospace and defense companies."
Power envisions a network of manufacturing facilities that can initially cover roughly 65% of all space and defense components and will eventually take that number up to 95% of members. Already several of the most significant launch vehicle and satellite manufacturers are in talks with the company to produce hundreds of units for them, Power said. Some of those companies just happen to be in the Construct, Lux, and Founders Fund portfolio.
And the company's founder sees this as a new way to revitalize American manufacturing jobs as well. "Manufacturing jobs in space and defense can easily be as high paying as a software engineering job at Google," he said. Hadrian would like to offer an onramp to high-paying manufacturing careers in the 21st century is an ideal world in the same way that automakers provided good union jobs in the twentieth.
"We haven't built any of this. If you look at the sheer number of people that we need to train and hire on our new technology and new systems, that people problem and that training problem is part of growing our business."
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Posted July 16, 2020 by OPC of America
The OPC is deeply saddened to learn that Christopher Dickey, legendary foreign correspondent, former OPC Governor and longtime member, died suddenly in Paris at the age of 68. He was an OPC member since 1999 and served as a vice president on the Board of Governors since 2014. He was running again in the OPC's board election this year, saying in his candidacy statement that "I've been pleased to participate in decision-making on such issues as micro grants, the promotion of our distinctive press IDs, and membership initiatives, always with an eye to attracting young and diverse new membership."
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He most recently served as foreign editor for The Daily Beast. Daily Beast correspondent Barbie Latza Nadeau wrote an obituary for her longtime colleague, recalling her first meeting with him in 1997 in Rome.
"He was truly the best beat reporter I ever met — friends to spymasters and sheikhs, cardinals and cops, insurgents and intellectuals — and all he ever wanted was for anyone he mentored to try to beat him to a source," Nadeau wrote.
The New York Times' Daniel Victor wrote that "colleagues and competitors recalled Mr. Dickey as a giant of the international press, whose mastery of sourcing and extensive travels made him one of the most knowledgeable writers on world affairs. He was said to be an enthusiastic mentor to young journalists, fine-tuning their copy and regaling them with stories of his past."
Jeff Bartholet wrote in Newsweek about his colleague of 20 years. "Chris covered wars but did not tout himself as a war correspondent. He had none of the bravado—the roguish derring-do—favored by others. He preferred nuance over firepower. His sources were diplomats and spymasters, royalty and refugees, soldiers and the occasional jihadist, but also poets, artists, and historians. At times, he could seem a little out of place in his tailored suits, Christian Dior ties, and shoes of European leather, yet he embraced the dust and chaos and resilient humor of Cairo and other Middle Eastern cities. He was as happy at a camel market as he was at a diplomatic soiree."
MSNBC's Brian Williams spoke about Dickey during a broadcast on Thursday. You can click here to watch it or click the window at the bottom of this article.
NPR rebroadcast an interview on the WHYY program Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
OPC Governor Farnaz Fasssihi expressed her condolences by email:
"Chris was a legendary foreign correspondent, I had long heard of him and read his work before I met him in the Middle East. He was humble and friendly and generous with his advice to younger reporters who looked up to him. We ended up sharing a house in Baghdad and Chris became a dear friend and a mentor. He helped me navigate job offers, hone story ideas and encouraged me to think outside of my comfort zone and write a book. He taught me that it was important to have a creative project alongside our day jobs as journalists and he set by example. He always had a great book he had just finished or one he was about to start writing. In the past few years, I looked forward to seeing him at the OPC awards dinners. At the OPC board meeting last year I sat next to him and we caught up and as always he was supportive of my new career turn and told me to embrace the change. I asked him about his latest project and he mentioned his grandchildren and how spending time with them and spoiling them brought him great joy. We will really miss Chris. May he rest in peace."
OPC President Pancho Bernasconi on Twitter celebrated Dickey's ability to combine "journalistic talent, humanity and just plain speaking."
OPC Past President Deidre Depke wrote a remembrance for the OPC:
"America got to know Chris Dickey very well in the weeks after Diana's death in 1997. Chris, Newsweek's Paris Bureau Chief, seemed to be on permanent duty for CNN and the other news networks, standing at the mouth of the Pont de l'Alma tunnel, delivering the latest on the investigation into the doomed princess's tragic end. I was foreign editor for the magazine in those days, and occasionally had to pick up the phone to demand that he step away from the lights and file for the magazine. Invariably, within minutes, he'd send a beautifully written story, unflustered by the various requirements of newsrooms around the world. That was classic Chris: suave, charming and impeccably informed. He was a foreign correspondent who produced wonderful journalism without breaking a sweat. In our years of collaboration, Chris did so on every big foreign story of the time. And after September 11, Chris demonstrated that he also was deeply sourced at home, delivering deeply reported pieces on America's investigation into the terror attacks, revealing a whole new world of espionage underway in secret offices of the NYPD. Chris knew them all: kings and queens and princesses, presidents and diplomats, soldiers and spies. He was the best lunch date in the world; the one to call when you needed a bar, a restaurant, a discreet hotel anywhere on earth. Already, the world seems less interesting without him."
OPC Past President Marcus Mabry:
"I am not usually at a loss for words. But figuring out how to sum up what Chris Dickey meant to me is stupefying.
"Chris was my friend, my mentor, my confidant, my boss, my employee — that one was a laugh — my muse, my teacher, my critic.
"We met when I interned for him in Paris in 1989. He and Ruth Marshall encouraged me to change my plans and work at Newsweek for a year before starting law school at Yale. I deferred Yale Law, then I never went.
"I would spend nearly two decades at Newsweek. Chris encouraged and inspired me. He gave me advice that led me to taking a year off to be the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, which he had been a decade before. He gave me advice that led me to take the job of Chief of Correspondents at Newsweek managing all the magazine's domestic and foreign bureaus.
"And along the way, we had seemingly bottomless glasses of wine in Paris and Algiers and New York and talked with endless sources about French intelligence, Islam in France, and France and America in the world.
"The world is less effervescent, less brilliant without Chris in it. But he will always be a part of those of us he touched. And he touched so many of us."
OPC member Mort Rosenblum wrote an extensive remembrance that you can read in a separate piece here. An excerpt follows:
"Christopher Dickey was a giant among us. He accomplished five times what the normal driven world-watcher does. He'd produce a solidly researched, poetically composed book in the time it would take most of us to do a Sunday feature. But he was never too busy to spend an hour or two in the Tuileries over a glass of something admirable and some properly aged Conté. He was thrilled when those old Nokias evolved, enabling him to work his magic from a cafe table on the Champs-Elysees when he wasn't poking into some distant mayhem."
OPC Governor Vivienne Walt:
"Chris was a joy to have as a colleague. He was the person you most wanted to run into on the road, as I did so often, whether in the Iraq War, the Egyptian Revolution, the Paris attacks, and so many other places. He grasped immediately the entire scope of the story, and then was such a superb conversationalist. In addition, Chris knew everyone that counted, no matter in which country. That was a measure of what a great companion he was. He was gregarious, and people were attracted naturally to him. The most interesting and important people in so many countries regarded Chris as their personal friend. It was as though he saw journalism as an integral part of one epic life journey. We were also on the France 24 set many times together, where no matter what the subject was, he would talk with authority, wit, and endlessly curiosity and grace. We'll miss you terribly Chris. You left us with so much to live up to, and so much of your work to read, and photos to enjoy.. I only wish we had many more years of you."
Andrew Nagorski, author of 1941: The Year Germany Lost the War:
"Shortly after I took a Newsweek buyout in 2008, I came to Paris for some meetings related to my new job. Chris and I met up at a cafe, and we talked about all the usual doings at Newsweek, especially its financial troubles. Since he had passed up on that and previous buyouts, I asked him if he ever intended to leave the magazine. "I want to be the last man standing," he said with a laugh. When Newsweek continued to implode and split up with the Daily Beast, he made the wise choice of going with the Beast, which allowed him to be that last man standing in Paris for the rest of his days. He knew what he wanted and, thanks to his remarkable talents and energy, he made it happen. It was all too short, but what a remarkable life."
Carol Doerflein wrote:
"I was the Asst. Public Affairs Officer at the US Embassy in San Salvador 1980-1982. After work, I generally headed to the Camino Real Hotel to have a drink and to share informal perspectives with the international press corps who gathered there. Chris and I talked about anything and everything, rarely agreeing but never being disagreeable. I most remember the times when he was tired and sweaty from a hard day's work, maybe a little curt or dismissive, but he still made the time for conversation that mattered. I considered him a friend, at a time when things were raw, emotions ran high, and so much that could have gone wrong between an Embassy official and a WaPo reporter, didn't. I am shocked and sad beyond words."
OPC member Bob Dowling:
"Chris Dickey was the best of our generation. Prolific, incisive, always probing and provoking. A great loss at 68. His famous father James only lived until 73. Both did so much in their lives."
Chris Whipple, author of the book The Gatekeepers and The Spymasters:
"The sad news about Chris Dickey sent me to my book case, and a faded copy of Joan Didion's 'Salvador'. It's a distant memory, but I happened to be in San Salvador in 1982, doing a story with photographer Eugene Richards for LIFE on U.S. military "advisers" to that country's murderous regime. Then, one day, Didion, the world's most celebrated writer, walked into the Camino Real hotel. That was the famous watering hole where we mostly twenty-something reporters hung out, trying to impersonate cool, world-weary foreign correspondents. But Chris Dickey never had to impersonate anyone; he was the real deal. And no one was the least bit surprised when Didion, who was as baffled as the rest of us by that strange, bloody war, latched on to Chris as her explainer-in-chief. RIP Chris Dickey."
From David Alpern, former Newsweek reporter, writer, senior editor and co-host of the Newsweek On Air network radio broadcasts:
"Of course Chris gave great radio for the Newsweek On Air show, full of eyewitness and wisdom, his own and that of his great sources worldwide. His contributions on Islam and Intelligence the weekend following 9/11/01 have helped make that the most downloaded broadcast and rebroadcast in the show's entire online archive back to 1982 (https://archive.org/details/fyeo_140907_complete). Will shortly post a small collection of Dickey appearances, also including Iraq, Mideast Peace, Angelina Jolie and his stateside survey of "Southern Discomfort" with the impending election of Barack Obama.
Personally I will never forget the graciousness he showed when I spent the better part of a week in Cairo, on the press junket for a freelance travel story. He picked me up at dawn each day for a set or two of tennis while it was still cool enough to play at the vintage Sporting Club on Gezira Island in mid-Nile. A life and career cut too short, but never in decline!"
See links to a list of Dickey's stories sent by David Alpern at the bottom of this post.
Arlene Getz, Past OPC Vice President and former editorial director of Newsweek, wrote a longer remembrance posted here on the OPC site. Here is an excerpt:
"There's another word that needs to be added to these moving memories of Chris. It's prescient. Chris was an early adopter of, well, everything. When Newsweek magazine finally started to embrace the online world, he was one of the first columnists for Newsweek.com. He shrugged off the qualms of those Newsweek writers who thought publishing online was somehow inferior to publishing in print and those who felt it was cannibalizing the magazine, loving instead the ability to see responses from readers — and engage with them — in real time. The result was "Shadowland," which I was fortunate enough to edit most weeks that he wrote it."
Selcuk Tepeli, who met Dickey when he was editor-in-chief of Newsweek's Turkish edition, said DIckey was a good friend, mentor and colleague.
"Christopher Dickey was one of best war correspondents, one of best writers on world affairs, and he was a legend in our profession as everybody mentioned. We met when I was the editor in chief of Newsweek Turkish edition. Actually I was not lucky enough to have enough time with him, nevertheless he was a realy good friend and a mentor for me in our limited times.
"Moreover, he will keep helping me ever with his gifted kind of narration on very different subjects in the life. I remember almost all of his articles with original point of views, attractive lead paragraphs and a unique humour inside sentences.
"For example, 'Can we trust WikiLeaks' he asked once. 'Raw intelligence information is distorted and deceptive. 'Knowing a little is a dangerous thing,' wrote Alexander Pope, a 18th-century poet who was master about political attitudes. How dangerous can it be to 'know a little' on the basis of hundreds of thousands of documents that WikiLeaks throws in front of the public, which cannot be understood?'
"Chris wrote about happiness also: 'National income can be a measure of everything; except the things that make life valuable…'
"Does money bring happiness? So far, probably half of humanity has tried to find an answer to this difficult question. Those who listened to Dostoevsky could find an answer: 'People cannot be happy because they don't know they are happy,' Dostoevsky said. Chris was happy and knew he was happy. Fortunately, big journalists like Christopher Dickey have gone through this world, so people does not have to read Crime and Punishment to search for this single line.
"And I remember that he designed a great finish for his article on the discussion about GDP covering: 'In fact, it is obvious that if policy makers want to know not only how quickly they go but also where they can go, they also need temperature and fuel indicators. Such a new and improved GDP may still be on showcase.'
"In another article about how the remains of colonialism turned into a political and economic problem for Western countries, Christopher Dickey had written: 'Probably we have gone beyond the compassionate discourse of early Orwell literature…' His articles were like novels. Thank you Chris."
From Elaine Sciolino, a Newsweek colleague in Paris before many foreign and domestic postings for The New York Times:
"Chris was a dear colleague and friend, with a strong, clear voice that never wavered — in his writing, on the air. He did it better and faster and more gracefully than the rest of us. And he transformed himself into a brilliant photographer as well. His photos during confinement capture the loneliness — and the beauty — of Paris unadorned with people. But I love this one from December 2018: "An early Christmas card for my friends. Feel free to share." Let's share the joy of his life, as we mourn his death."
Will Cathcart wrote on LitHub:
"When a great writer dies, we must write for them. When a great editor of many writers dies, a torrent of rough copy flows into newsrooms everywhere.
"Christopher Swift Dickey didn't die for what he believed in. Instead, he stuck around to tell the story. He once told me, in convincing me not to go chase after some war zone, that no story is worth dying for.
"This was, of course, ironic because Chris spent most of his career covering war zones until he settled down in Paris in 1990 where he remained until he departed as a proud grandfather of three.
"Chris helped so many of us tell our stories. And then he corrected our grammar. For the rest of my life, I'll be rereading the writing guide he would send out with slight frustration to all of his writers every several months as a gentle reminder."
As part of a tribute from colleagues with The Daily Beast, Anna Nemtsova wrote:
"'I'm your editor now.' It's not often a reporter gets a call from an editor just to ask how they are doing. That was the first call I got from Chris Dickey. In February, 2014, Independence Square in Kyiv was covered in flowers, candles and memorials. People were walking about, crying over the deaths of protesters gunned down a few days before. I was covering the uprising. Chris asked if I was OK. Then he said, "I'm your editor now. Try to keep a diary of little details. Describe smells." I immediately knew I was in good hands.
"The decade I spent with Newsweek, the last few years a chaos of failing ideas about what to do, was history. I now had a dream foreign editor. We worked on projects from 23 countries. Chris edited my copy every week for six and a half years. Every time he wrote "go" to a pitch or "great stuff" to a story, my wings grew. I am sure all of my colleagues felt the same."
Sonya Fry, former OPC Executive Director:
"One of the most interesting book nights held at the OPC featured Chris Dickey's book "Securing the City" about counter-intelligence operations in NYC after 9/11. Ray Kelly, NYC Police Commissioner, and Chris regaled the over-flow audience with information, stories and personal experiences about keeping NYC safe after the destruction of the World Trade Centers. Dickey, who is best known and revered as a foreign correspondent, wrote with intelligence about the world of NYC police and its new mandate to scour the world to stop terrorism in New York.
"At that time I was Executive Director of the OPC and was a bit rattled when the police came in the late afternoon and scoured the event space even hiding in the kitchen during the book talk. There was a portal sized window from the kitchen into the living room and whenever I looked up I could see the eyes of the officer who watched every move in the room.
"Chris had an engaging personality and was always full of great stories since he had covered most of the world. He was charming, genuine and fun to engage in conversation. It is with sadness that I opened Dickey's book and found this lovely thought "For Sonya who makes it all possible, with best wishes. NYC 2009."
François Picard of France 24:
"When we'd go for beers after the show, his weapon of choice was rosé. The interruptions were commonplace as he continued to work on stories with the Beast's foreign correspondents yet he would take the time to listen and exchange with everyone from the youngest intern to the top brass of the Paris press corps. Most importantly, the first call would be 30 seconds to minute after we got off air and would be walking out of the studio: it was his 97-year old mother-in-law who would offer her first impressions of the show. Friday nights at France 24 will never be the same."
Robin Wright, columnist for The New Yorker:
"This is a staggering loss for all of us who were lucky enough to count Chris as a friend and colleague. My god, I can't count the war zones and adventures we shared. He was a man of such elegance – in his writing, his sense of the world and common human worth, his wry humor, and his eye for capturing beauty in its many forms with his camera. Just hours before his death, I "liked" another one of his magnificent photos from Paris on Instagram. What a rich legacy Chris leaves. And how much he will be missed by so many. Love you Chris!"
Dickey recently hosted an online discussion for the OPC on May 14 with author Krithika Varagur on her new book about Saudi Arabia's global influence, which is available on the OPC's YouTube channel.
You can also read a Q&A we published in the OPC Bulletin in March 2018.
We will update this story with more remembrances from OPC members as we receive them.
He is survived by his wife Carol, his son James, three grandchildren and his sister Bronwen and brother Kevin.
Thank you to David Alpern for sending this small sampling of Chris Dickey's many appearances on Newsweek On Air. For more. just go to https://archive.org/details/foryourearsonly and type his name in the Search box, then stand back!
https://archive.org/details/fyeo-Newsweek_noa_010916_complete at 22:05 – Islam & Intelligence After 9/11
https://archive.org/details/newsweekonair_030309_complete at 13:22 – New Terror Threats from Iraq & Bin Laden
https://archive.org/details/newsweekonair_011111_complete at 2:55 – Saudi Arabia: Friend or Foe?
https://archive.org/details/fyeo-Newsweek_noa_100214_complete at 1:08 – Have We Won the Terror War?
https://archive.org/details/newsweekonair_930905_complete at 00:03 – A Mideast Peace? (plus Terry Anderson)
https://archive.org/details/newsweekonair_070311_complete/David+Alpern+(2007)+-+Newsweek+on+Air+03%2C11%2C2007+%5BFLAC%5D/09+-+Track09.flac on Angelina Jolie, celebrity and humanitarian crises
https://archive.org/details/newsweekonair_080803_complete/newsweekonair_080803_complete/05+-+Track05.flac – on "Southern Discomfort" from the Obama Campaign
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Now that former Foreign Secretary and London Mayor Boris Johnson is the runaway candidate to become the next Conservative party leader and ergo the country's Prime Minister, everyone is looking closely at his every move and word. And this includes not just his character and domestic exploits but also the detail behind his "eminently feasible" plan for Brexit.
Businesses, lobbyists and campaigning organisations have been watching every twitch on Brexit for the better part of two years.
There has been a lot of jargon as part of this, some of which meme-worthy ("red white and blue" anyone?) and some of it rather technical ("alternative arrangements"; "Malthouse compromise"). This is aside from the usual technical language which got hearts racing for the policy advisers across the country (divergence of standards; mutual recognition).
If Boris Johnson is to become the next PM on 23 July 2019, then soon the lobby will fill with people asking questions about when Brexit will finally be delivered. But the question on every campaigner's and lobbyists mind is: "How will he actually deliver Brexit and what shape will it take?"
This question asks about the nature of the future relationship Mr Johnson may be advocating. He has said he would seek to renegotiate the Withdrawal Agreement, despite Brussels rejecting this.
The question is also how hard or soft on the spectrum he will seek to draw his own red lines. This follows criticism that Theresa May had drawn her lines to deeply into the sand allowing her little negotiating wiggle room and that she had sought to square a circle with Brussels which was impossible to deliver.
Finally, the cursed and much commented parliamentary arithmetic now has sparks manic calculations over the possibility of a no confidence vote in Boris' new administration (with rebels from inside the Conservative camp thinking about voting against the Government) if he sought to lead the UK out of the EU with no agreement at all ("no deal Brexit").
With a "reset button" due to be pushed on the negotiations, pundits and campaigners are assessing what actions the future PM's words will prompt and thus how things will play out by Halloween (and beyond).
So far rumour has it that Johnson is telling everyone what they want to hear. In the media, he is light on the detail. However, most interesting so far is one of the comments Johnson made is about his plan to "disaggregate" Theresa May's Brexit withdrawal agreement, starting from the promises made to EU citizens' rights:
"There is a clear way that the now effectively defunct withdrawal agreement can be disaggregated. The good bits of it can be taken out" he said, and passed by Parliament.
The parts that have stopped the agreement being passed before, would then be dealt with during the transition period after a Withdrawal Agreement was passed by MPs.
The key barrier to the agreement passing before was the backstop provision for the Irish Border. At the time Boris Johnson advocated for the "maximum facilitation" technique (another bit of reheated jargon) which could be used to conduct checks via technology, avoiding any border infrastructure.
A newly appointed Business and Trade Union Alternative Arrangements Advisory Group, has already been put to work on alternative arrangements to help replace the Northern Irish backstop by the end of 2020 backed by £20 million of funding to support the development, testing or piloting of any ideas that emerge from the advisory groups.
This sounds familiar and brings back echoes of Penny Mordaunt and Andrea Leadsom's plan for a "managed no deal" which would have included the UK leaving the European Union without a trade deal, but with a two-year transitional period to avoid a "cliff edge". At the time, it was reported that no fewer than 11 Cabinet ministers were in favour of a managed no deal if a Withdrawal Agreement could not be agreed by Parliament.
Criticisms at the time included that a Brexit transition period has legal status only as part of a negotiated withdrawal agreement.
The wiggle room Johnson might seek to create lies in the technique already employed by Theresa May: by getting further commitments in the Political Declaration rather than the Withdrawal Agreement, which he may try to sell to the Commons in parts rather than in bulk, and leaving the backstop and EU divorce payment out.
Insider commentators have for a while suggested that a no deal re-brand might be on the horizon, meaning that the UK could leave the EU without a comprehensive, wide ranging Withdrawal Agreement package deal. This could be replaced with mini treaties which could pass through Parliament facilitating withdrawal step by step while securing bi-lateral agreements in areas of mutual interest in order to retain the status quo in practical terms to avoid the cliff edge effects of no deal, such as restrictions to air travel and other areas which the Government has already prepared for.
The reason why Brussels might grant this is simple: common curtesy to a new national leader and fear of the optics should a refusal lead to no deal by default and be branded as a push out of the club.
If this works out for Boris, this is the only way to break the deadlock that does not involve a second referendum and instead ensures practical withdrawal from the EU to allow future relationship negotiations to formally commence.
The proposition could certainly secure votes from Theresa May's former naysayers, namely the European Research Group (ERG) led by Jacob Rees-Mogg and the DUP.
Johnson has confirmed the UK "must" leave by October 31, deal or no deal which may get him support from the DUP, with whom the Conservative party has a formal support agreement to secure a majority in the Commons. The DUP's Brexit spokesman Sammy Wilson joined a campaign pressing the candidates to agree to leave the EU with or without a deal on 31 October. Since then Johnson has upped his comments to leaving the EU with or without a deal, "do or die."
However we have seen the Commons pull a few rabbits out of the hat this last session, and Johnson confirmed if parliament were to take no deal off the table, "of course the prime minister has to obey the law."
Following Johnson's promise to "not going to bottle it" on the EU exit date, what could go wrong?


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Mathematical modeling of process of formation of multilayer 3D structure by additive method using electric arc heat sources
Journal Sovremennaya Elektrometallurgiya
Publisher International Association «Welding»
Issue # 1, 2018 (March)
V.A. Kostin, G.M. Grigorenko, V.A. Shapovalov, A.N. Pikulin
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The results of simulation of temperature fields, kinetics of deposition of layers of dissimilar metals and the character of structural transformations during the formation of an additive multilayer structure of 17G1S and 30XGS steels are presented. For the computer simulation, the COMSOL Multiphysics calculation package was used. The effect of temperature on the thermophysical parameters of steels was taken into account. The simultaneous effect of three arcs on the process of formation of deposits, kinetics of structural transformations and the diffusion processes of the redistribution of alloying elements was studied. It is shown that to reduce the stress level between additive deposit and substrate up to 50 MPa it is necessary at the beginning of the deposition process to apply the preheating of substrate by arc without application of material being deposited and also to keep the time of passing between the adjacent arc heat sources in the range from 5 to 30 s. It has been established that at low arc power (1 kW), a ferrite-bainite structure is predominantly formed in the deposit, the share of bainite in which is 71 % , 28 % ferrite, and about 1 % martensite. When using an arc of higher power (5 kW), a bainite-martensite structure is formed in the deposit, the share of bainite in which is about 50 %, the share of martensite increases to 40 % and ferrite — to 10 %. The increase in arc power leads to increase in maximum temperature of the molten pool to 1750...1850 ºC, increase in the cooling rate to 15...25 ºС/s and, as a result, increase in the share of martensite in the structure of the deposited layers. A software has been developed that can be used for mathematical modeling of the metallurgical additive process of forming products from various steels and alloys. Ref. 16, Tab. 2, Fig. 8.
Key words: additive production; modeling; deposition; functional materials; structural transformations; microstructure
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7. Shapovalv, V.A., Grigorenko, G.M. (2015) Metal structure control during solidification. Elektrometall., 2, 51–54 [in Russian]. https://doi.org/10.15407/sem2015.02.08
8. Shapovalov, V.A., Grigorenko, G.M. (2015) Supression of liquation processes in large ingots. , 1, 26–30 [in Russian].
9. Volyansky, I., Shishkovsky, I. (2016) Laser assisted 3D printing of functional graded structures from polymer covered nanocomposites. New Trends in 3D Printing. Ed. I.V. by Shishkovsky. Rijeka, Croatia, 237–258. https://doi.org/10.5772/63565
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11. Spencer, P. J. (2008) Brief history of CALPHAD. CALPHAD, 32, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.calphad.2007.10.001
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Though nine people died in the brutal gun battle, not a single person has been convicted.
Nearly four years after nine men died and another 20 were injured in a brutal melée at a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas, the local district attorney announced Tuesday that he will dismiss the remaining 24 cases involved in the shooting—effectively closing the criminal matter that began on May 17, 2015.
On that hot and bloody Sunday, a gun battle broke out between members of the Bandidos and Cossacks motorcycle clubs at a quiet outdoor shopping mall.
In the aftermath of the shootout, officials said they found more than 300 weapons in the kitchen areas, between sacks of flour and in bags of tortilla chips, inside vehicles, and even down the toilets of the restaurant, which has since shuttered.
Outside, blood pooled and bodies were draped between hundreds of motorcycles as men and women were lined up to be handcuffed.
More than 200 people were shuttled on city busses to the city's convention center to be detained, most were transferred to the McLennan County Jail where 177 were held on charges of engaging in organized criminal activity in lieu of $1 million bonds. Motorcyclists and others were heavily critical of the mass arrests.
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Carrizal's case is among those that are to be dismissed, the Tribune-Herald reports.
McLennan County District Attorney Barry Johnson, who won against Reyna in the most recent election, was heavily critical of the former district attorney in his press statement. Johnson reportedly took over the case in January when he assumed office.
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The Basic Set at 40
Gamers of a Certain Age all know about their first Basic Set. For some, it was light maroon with a red book. For many it was a red box with red books. But some of us had a different experience. The box was blue(ish) and had a dragon on the cover, the book was blue and it changed gaming forever.
On July 22, 1977 the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set was shown at Origins Game Fair and it changed the face of RPGs. Prior to this people learned to play from others that had been playing. The John Eric Holmes edited Basic Set gave brand new players with no prior experience in either RPGs (which really meant D&D) or in wargames. It gave us the Moldvay Basic set and the Frank Mentzer Basic set. But more importantly, it opened the world of D&D to others.
Dr. Holmes took on the massive task of collecting what was then OD&D, edited it and reorganized it into a game that made sense to new players. There is some debate as to whether this was designed as a stand alone game line (which it would become) or as an introduction to Advanced D&D (which it reads like).
A lot of blogs will talk about the history of the Holmes Basic Edition. A great post can be found over at +Wayne Rossi's Semper Initiativus Unum, Basic D&D at 40 and pretty much the entire Zenopus Archive blog by +Zach H.
My experiences with Holmes though are a little different.
My gaming began in 1979, before the Moldvay set, but after Holmes. I had read the Monster Manual and I had a copy, badly xeroxed, of the Holmes Basic set. Like many, my "first" D&D was a combination of Basic and Advanced. Still today that is the same experience I look for in D&D.
I will be honest, it took me a while to get the game down. With Holmes D&D I always felt like there was something I was missing. I only learned later of the "Little Brown Books" and how "Basic" actually came about. I also did not have a full copy.
I would later get my hands on a copy of Holmes to read in full. It was an eye opening experience to be sure. I had been playing Moldvay Basic for a while and moving over to AD&D proper. Holmes felt like a Rosetta Stone to me. A product that could crossover between these two games.
When I got a hold of a copy of my own much later I would use it for 1st level characters with my adventure of choice, B1 In Search of the Unknown, before moving over to AD&D.
I became a fan of J. Eric Holmes work and even stumbled on vague references for a Witch class!
I had found some alternate evolution of D&D, one where Basic lead to Advanced and not to Expert. Where you played a magic-user in one and a wizard, illusionist or witch in the other.
It should come as no surprise then that my own witch class is heavily influenced by my time playing using the Holmes and Moldvay rule sets.
Re-reading my Holmes set over the weekend made me think about how much fun a box set really is. The next time I start up an AD&D game, I'll be starting with Holmes.
I also feel the need to mention that along with Holmes the Traveller "Little Black Books" also celebrated 40 years.
Safe journeys to you Free Trader Beowulf. Hope you found help.
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Darryl R Taylor said...
Heheh, it was only about six months ago that I got my first copy of Holmes basic (still with the chits in the back), which was 14 months after my first copy of Moldvay, which was some 31 years after my first copy of Mentzner.
I still haven't found the players for the Holmes game, when I do I fully intend to make part of the experience a "history lesson rpg", where there is an extra game outside the D&D game where everyone at the table has to pretend that they have never seen a video game, modern comic book, or seen any of the movies that have come out since the mid/late 70s.
So much of the modern media that most people under 30 take for granted has been influenced in some way, shape, or form by ODD/Holmes/AD&D, it is fun to be able to show just a bit of that to kids who are used to VTT/Warcraft/Whatever.
Someday I will sit down and make a video recording of opening the sealed bag of dice that came with the Moldvay (it WAS a real score at a thrift shop) and colouring in the numbers with the crayon, I haven't done that since 1983.
Maybe I'll do that as part of the lead in to the beginning of the Holmes campaign, that could make for a good pod cast, methinks...
Doug said...
My module in my Holmes box had the chits... ...but there was no cover for the included module. The one with the map.
I had a booklet of room descriptions, I always assumed we were supposed to make our own maps for it.
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