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Fun Facts About Lee Min-Ho & The Rest Of The 'Pachinko' Cast
Pre-debut dreams, breakout roles, and more!
Amanda Arambulo , on 1 Apr, 2022
Lee Min-Ho's latest K-drama, Pachinko, started airing on Apple TV on 25 March. The drama will have a total of eight episodes with new episodes dropping every Friday until 29 April.
Pachinko plot
The story revolves around Kim Sun-Ja (Jeon Yu-Na as a kid, Kim Min-Ha as a teen, and Youn Yuh-jung as older Sun-Ja), a woman who was born and raised in Busan during the Japanese occupation in Korea. She falls in love with Koh Han-Su (Lee Min-Ho), a powerful and rich man with a mysterious background. Due to a series of events, Kim Sun-Ja moves to Japan and experiences the hardships of a Korean immigrant living in another country. Sounds intriguing, right?
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Who are the members of the Pachinko cast?
As you may now know, Lee Min-Ho (The King: Eternal Monarch) leads the Pachinko cast along with Kim Min-Ha (Partners In Justice). Noh Sang-Sun (Bloody Romance) completes the main cast as Baek Isak, a church priest who offers to marry Sun-Ja after finding out she got married out of wedlock due to her affair with Han-Su. They are joined by Jin Ha as Baek Solomon, a worker who aims to enter the big leagues in the corporate world set in 1989. Baek Solomon is Sunja's grandson.
Veteran actress Youn Yun-Jun, best known for her roles in The Housemaid and My Husband Got A Family also participated in this drama as the older version of Sun-Ja.
Aside from Lee Min-Ho and Youn Yuh-Jung, Pachinko's main cast members are quite new to the K-drama scene, which definitely gives the series a fresh and exciting flavour. That's why we decided to look into some fun facts about these actors to get to know them even better.
1. Lee Min-Ho (Koh Han-Su)
Lee Min-Ho as Koh Han-Su. (Photo from: apple.com)
We already know Lee Min-Ho from his many successful dramas, starting from his breakout role as Gu Jun-Pyo in the Korean version of Boys Over Flowers. There's also his portrayal of the charmingly smart Lee Yoon-Sung in City Hunter, and his cunning con artist role as Heo Joon-Jae in Legend Of The Blue Sea. But Pachinko is the first time he's actually playing a villain (or villain-like) character in a drama.
Apart from that, did you know that prior to acting, his dream was actually to become a football player?
Unfortunately, Lee Min-Ho's dream of playing professionally was cut short when he got injured in 5th grade. Still, he is known to be a huge fan of the sport up to the present, with Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo being his favourite player.
But that's not all. His acting career was almost put to a major halt, too, when he got into a serious car accident in 2006. This was three years prior to bagging the lead role in Boys Over Flowers.
He was with his childhood friend and now fellow actor Jung Il-Woo (49 Days, Moon Embracing The Sun) when it happened. They were going on a trip with two other friends when they got hit by another car from the opposite lane. Lee Min-Ho was in a coma for weeks and suffered multiple injuries. In the end, Lee Min-Ho and Jung Il-Woo survived but their two other friends didn't.
Despite these many challenges, Min-Ho was able to debut as an actor and is known to be one of South Korea's most sought-after leading men today.
2. Kim Min-Ha (Kim Sun-Ja)
Kim Min-Ha as teen Kim Sun-Ja. (Photo from: apple.com)
Pachinko is Kim Min-Ha's first lead role. She doesn't have a lot of TV shows and films in her portfolio but one of her most notable appearances is playing the younger version of Sun Hee in the Park Shin-Hye-led 2020 film The Call.
The 26-year-old breakout actress shares the same agency as Squid Game's Jung Hoyeon!
But film acting wasn't exactly her first love, instead, she wanted to become a voice actress. This was inspired by her love for anime growing up, which even led her to attend formal training on how to become a voice actor. However, as fate would have it, Min-Ha bagged small television and film roles over the years that led her to audition for Pachinko. Given her impeccable acting in the drama, we're so glad fate led her here!
3. Youn Yuh-Jung (older Kim Sun-Ja)
Youn Yuh-Jung as older Kim Sun-Ja. (Photo from: apple.com)
The beloved South Korean veteran actress has been in the entertainment industry for over 50 years. She has over a hundred dramas and films under her belt. In 2020, she received critical acclaim for her portrayal of Soon-Ja in the film Minari. This role made her the first South Korean actress to receive the Best Supporting Actress award in various international award-giving bodies including the Screen Actors Guild Awards, British Academy Film Awards, and the Academy Awards. She's also the first South Korean actress nominated for a Critics' Choice Movie Award under the same category. Talk about a highly impressive record that's hard to beat!
4. Noh Sang-Sun (Baek Isak)
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Similar to Kim Min-Ha, Noh 'Steve' Sang-Sun doesn't exactly have a lot of acting jobs listed on his resume. However, his modelling portfolio is another story. Sang-Sun has graced the pages of Marie Claire and GQ Korea multiple times. He has also walked a number of runways for DKNY.
His character in Pachinko's career is definitely a lot less glamorous than his real-life career. But we're hoping this won't be the last we'll see Sang-Sun onscreen considering his impressive performance as Baek Isak.
5. Jin Ha (Baek Solomon)
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Jin Ha's first K-drama role may be Pachinko but his previous works are actually more international-based. He's appeared in the FX limited series Devs with Parks & Recreation's Nick Offerman and Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World's Alison Pill, as well as the Broadway musical Hamilton with Lin-Manuel Miranda.
However, he was recently under fire when netizens discovered his old Tumblr blog containing photos of middle-aged and elderly women taken without consent. The photos were also posted along with sexually suggestive captions. The actor has since taken down the blog and apologised for its existence. He also deleted all his social media accounts following the incident.
We're not sure what to feel about the matter entirely (it falls into the many situations of 'to cancel versus not to cancel someone for their past actions' category which is a different conversation altogether) but right now, we sincerely hope he meant what he said about regretting his past actions.
What kind of roles are you excited to see the Pachinko cast in after this drama? Watch this space for the latest about this cast and more K-drama news in the future.
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In Uncle Charlie Killed Dutch Schultz, author Alan Geik tells of his family's connection to noteworthy Jewish-American gangsters of New York City. These eastern European immigrant outlaws, whose adventures were preserved through many years of Geik kitchen table discussions, became the foundation of a uniquely American organized crime network.
Determined to escape by any means the poverty and congestion of their Lower East Side slum neighborhood, when merely boys they turned to crime and combined into Prohibition Era gangs. They graduated from petty offenses to bootlegging and hijacking to labor racketeering and beyond. Eventually, they branched out into casino gambling, stolen goods fencing and professional murder. Along the way, they violently tangled with each other, with outside gangs, with strikebreakers and with American Nazis. Ultimately, they entered into a cooperative agreement with Italian-American gangsters and formed a monopolistic rackets syndicate, an entity Geik describes as "the biggest cash flow business in American history - organized crime."
The "Uncle Charlie" of the book title, refers to Charles "Charlie the Bug" Workman, a professional assassin. Linked with rackets boss Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and with Brooklyn killers later referred to as "Murder, Inc.," Workman eventually served twenty-three years of a life prison sentence for the October 23, 1935, murder of Arthur "Dutch Schultz" Flegenheimer. Workman was released from prison in March of 1964. Geik reports that his own first conversation with the man he knew as "Uncle Charlie" occurred about that time.
While the title focuses on Workman and the earliest chapters are confined to the New York area, the book is more wide-ranging. Geik discusses crime figures Arnold Rothstein, Meyer Lansky, Abe "Kid Twist" Reles and others. And he ventures out to such places as Cleveland, Las Vegas and Havana.
Uncle Charlie Killed Dutch Schultz: The Jewish Mob: A Family Affair was released in November 2022. It is available in paperback (284 pages) and Kindle ebook editions through Amazon.com.
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Labels: Alan Geik, Book News, Books, Charles Workman, Dutch Schultz, Jewish Mob, Lepke, Lower East Side, New York City
'Ten Notches' examines Pretty Boy Floyd
Ten Notches: Murders Committed by Pretty Boy Floyd, written by Jeffery S. King, tells the life story of Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd, late Prohibition Era gangster and bank robber, through detailed accounts of the murders attributed to him.
The author notes that, after Floyd's death in a shootout with law enforcement, his watch was found to be marked with ten notches. The FBI felt the notches correlated with the number of men Floyd had killed during his criminal career. His ten victims, including seven members of law enforcement, were slain between March 25, 1931, and the infamous Kansas City Massacre of June 17, 1933.
The author pays special attention to the Kansas City Massacre and to the work of FBI agent Melvin Purvis, who led authorities on a successful hunt for Floyd.
Ten Notches is 216 pages, including eight pages of photographs and four pages of bibliography. The work is footnoted. First released in late summer of 2022, it is available in paperback and Kindle e-book formats through Amazon.com.
Author Jeffery S. King, a former reference librarian for the Bureau of the Census and for the Washington, D.C., Public Library, has also written The Life and Death of Pretty Boy Floyd, The Rise and Fall of the Dillinger Gang and other true crime books.
Labels: Books, Jeffery S. King, Pretty Boy Floyd, Ten Notches
November 2022 issue of Informer
The Mob in Youngstown
Organized Crime in the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys
Informer's 32nd issue was released today (Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022). "The Mob in Youngstown" issue tracks the history of organized crime in the area of Youngstown, Ohio, from the earliest reports of the 1890s though the exposure and destruction of the Mob presence more than a century later.
The Youngstown underworld was unusually complex, as four Mafia organizations - those from Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit and Buffalo - a non-Mafia Calabrian criminal society and other gangs all had interests in the region, cooperating and competing with each other at different times. Sitting at the approximate midway point between Cleveland and Pittsburgh, assigned "open city" status by U.S. Mafia bosses and afflicted by intensely corrupt political and law enforcement leaders, Youngstown was an underworld frontier where the rules - even those made by outlaws to govern their own interactions - were widely ignored.
Readers of this issue will learn about the secret regional groups behind names like, "Society of Honor," "Sacred Circle" and "Society of the Banana." They will encounter crime figures like "Fats" Aiello, Ernie Biondillo, Frank Cammarata, "Cadillac Charlie" Cavallaro, Joe Cutrone, "Tony Dope" Delsanter, Vince DeNiro, "Wolf" DiCarlo, "Big Jim" Falcone, Mike Farah, "Red" Giordano, "Big Dom" Mallamo, Dominick Moio, "Two-Gun Jimmy" Prato, Rocco Racco, Rocco Strange, Lenny Strollo, "Zebo" Zottola, as well as the Barber brothers, the Carabbia brothers, the Naples brothers, the Romeo brothers and many more.
"The Mob in Youngstown" features the writing and research contributions of James Barber, Justin Cascio, Margaret Janco, Thom L. Jones, Michael A. Tona, Edmond Valin and Thomas Hunt.
The issue is available in Informer's traditional print magazine (188 pages, including covers) and electronic PDF magazine formats through the MagCloud service.
Like recent issues, this one is also available as a paperback print book (378 pages) and Kindle-compatible ebook through Amazon and as an EPUB-compatible ebook through Google Play Books.
This November 2022 issue is the first Informer issue to be made available as a hardcover print book (378 pages) through Amazon and as an audiobook (10 hours: 22 minutes) through Google Play Books.
For more information on the issue, summaries of its articles and details of the different format options, visit the Informer website. Informer, a journal of U.S. crime and law enforcement history, has been published since September 2008.
Labels: Cleveland, Informer, Mafia, Magazine, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Thomas Hunt, Youngstown
Car-bomb takes Youngstown rackets chief
Minutes after midnight on Monday, July 17, 1961, the "Uptown" (South Side) business district of Youngstown, Ohio, was shaken by the explosion of a car-bomb. The blast claimed the life of rackets boss Vincent DeNiro.
Vehicle wreck removed from scene of explosion.
In addition to controlling vending machine, lottery and other rackets as the local representative of the Cleveland Mafia, the thirty-nine-year-old DeNiro co-owned Cicero's restaurant at Market Street and Indianola Avenue, across the street from the explosion.
Cicero's was closed on Sunday. DeNiro had a late dinner that night with friends at the Cafe 422 near Warren. At midnight, his companions - pizza restaurant owner Robert Parella and jeweler James Modarelli - drove DeNiro to a parked car on Market Street. The car belonged to a DeNiro girlfriend, Edith Magnolia. DeNiro's own car was parked behind Parella's pizza shop just a few blocks away, but he chose to drive Magnolia's car that night because he feared a car-bomb attack. (FBI was later told that DeNiro's enemies knew he was using different vehicles and had wired explosives to three different automobiles that night.)
The bomb erupted as he started the car at eleven minutes after twelve. The strength of the blast was said to be equivalent to ten sticks of dynamite. The hood of DeNiro's car was blown onto the roof of a nearby one and a half-story building. Windows around the business district were shattered. DeNiro's body was torn to pieces in the explosion. There was no autopsy.
The press reported that it was the seventy-fifth bombing in the Youngstown area in a decade and the fifth gangland murder in less than two years.
DeNiro was killed in retribution for the shotgun slaying of Youngstown's leading Pittsburgh-aligned racketeer, S. Joseph "Sandy" Naples in March 1960. Naples and DeNiro, once partners in the rackets, had become bitter rivals since the early 1950s. The brothers of Naples hired Dominick Moio of Canton, Ohio, to arrange the killing of DeNiro.
Moio was later hired by the Cleveland Mafia to set up the vendetta car-bomb murder of Billy Naples in 1962. Moio played for both sides in the feud until summer of 1963, when Cleveland bosses decided he was a liability. Moio's remains - shot and burned - were found in the trunk of his car outside of Canton.
Note: The November 2022 issue of Informer: The History of American Crime and Law Enforcement will contain more on DeNiro, his associates and the underworld history of the Youngstown area.
"Bomb leads checked at Youngstown," Dayton Daily News, July 18, 1961, p. 7.
"Fifth gang killing in Youngstown," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 18, 1961, p. 1.
"Gangland bomb kills Vince DeNiro; DiSalle assigns Melillo to probe," Youngstown Vindicator, July 17, 1961, p. 1.
"Naples murder gun owned by Canton police," Youngstown Vindicator, March 16, 1960, p. 1.
"Police quiz associates of slain Ohio racketeer," Chillicothe OH Gazette, July 18, 1961, p. 5.
"Rackets figure blown to bits," Sandusky OH Register, July 17, 1961, p. 1.
"Won't enter Youngstown slaying probe yet -- Di Salle," Akron Beacon Journal, March 13, 1960, p. C1.
"Youngstown night club owner killed by bomb," New Philadelphia OH Daily Times, July 17, 1961, p. 1.
"Youngstown slaying stirs Di Salle action," Akron Beacon Journal, July 18, 1961, p. 17.
Perkins, Zach, "Remembering Uptown (Part One)," Urban Youngstown, urbanyoungstown.weebly.com.
Peterson, Stanley E., "Unknown subjects: Bombing - Murder, Charles Cavallaro...," FBI report from Cleveland office, file no. CR 157-742-498, NARA no. 124-10220-10492, Sept. 9, 1964, p. Cover-S.
Labels: Car-Bomb, Cleveland, DeNiro, July 17, Mafia, Moio, Naples, Ohio, Pittsburgh, Thomas Hunt, Youngstown

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Q: Is "there" omittable in this kind of sentence, "Have you ever wondered how many atoms are in a drop of water"? This post says

Have you ever wondered how many atoms are in a drop of water or how many molecules are in a single droplet?

If I rewrite this as
Have you ever wondered how many atoms there are in a drop of water ...
Is this still idiomatic? in other words, are both with and without "there" idiomatic?

A:
X atoms are in a drop of water

is idiomatic as is

There are X atoms in a drop of water.

I suspect that "there are" is likely to be more common, at least in the U.S. because "it is" and "there are" are ubiquitous constructions there. Stylistically, I prefer "X atoms are" as more concise, but that is mere opinion.
Because both declarative sentences are idiomatic so are the questions formed from them.

How many atoms are in a drop of water?

or

How many atoms are there in a drop of water?

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Student entrepreneurs pitched their business ideas to win cash prizes at the annual competition.
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A team of SDSU entrepreneurs came up with an idea to help keep skateboarders safe when the sun goes down.


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Éply és un municipi francès situat al departament de Meurthe i Mosel·la i a la regió del Gran Est. L'any 2007 tenia 297 habitants.

Demografia

Població
El 2007 la població de fet d'Éply era de 297 persones. Hi havia 113 famílies, de les quals 21 eren unipersonals (4 homes vivint sols i 17 dones vivint soles), 46 parelles sense fills i 46 parelles amb fills.

La població ha evolucionat segons el següent gràfic:

Habitants censats

Habitatges
El 2007 hi havia 121 habitatges, 113 eren l'habitatge principal de la família, 5 eren segones residències i 3 estaven desocupats. 119 eren cases i 2 eren apartaments. Dels 113 habitatges principals, 91 estaven ocupats pels seus propietaris, 20 estaven llogats i ocupats pels llogaters i 2 estaven cedits a títol gratuït; 1 tenia dues cambres, 5 en tenien tres, 20 en tenien quatre i 87 en tenien cinc o més. 99 habitatges disposaven pel capbaix d'una plaça de pàrquing. A 40 habitatges hi havia un automòbil i a 64 n'hi havia dos o més.

Piràmide de població
La piràmide de població per edats i sexe el 2009 era:

Economia
El 2007 la població en edat de treballar era de 196 persones, 149 eren actives i 47 eren inactives. De les 149 persones actives 143 estaven ocupades (82 homes i 61 dones) i 6 estaven aturades (1 home i 5 dones). De les 47 persones inactives 18 estaven jubilades, 16 estaven estudiant i 13 estaven classificades com a «altres inactius».

Ingressos
El 2009 a Éply hi havia 112 unitats fiscals que integraven 310 persones, la mediana anual d'ingressos fiscals per persona era de 21.266 €.

Activitats econòmiques
Dels 7 establiments que hi havia el 2007, 1 era d'una empresa de fabricació d'altres productes industrials, 1 d'una empresa de comerç i reparació d'automòbils, 2 d'empreses de transport, 1 d'una empresa d'hostatgeria i restauració, 1 d'una entitat de l'administració pública i 1 d'una empresa classificada com a «altres activitats de serveis».

L'any 2000 a Éply hi havia 11 explotacions agrícoles.

Fills il·lustres
 Georges Darmois (1888-1960), matemàtic i estadístic

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

 Résumé statistique Fitxa resum de dades estadístiques d'Éply a l'INSEE.
 Évolution et structure de la population Fitxa amb el detall de dades d'Éply a l'INSEE
 France par commune Dades detallades de tots els municipis de França accessibles a partir del mapa.

Municipis de Meurthe i Mosel·la

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Retired general: Climate change is 'accelerant to instability'
By Adam Wagner StarNews Staff
Stephen Cheney, CEO of the American Security Project, spoke at an event on the Battleship North Carolina
WILMINGTON -- Retired Marine Corps Brigadier General Stephen A. Cheney stood on the Battleship North Carolina on Tuesday and explained to Wilmington-area officials and residents that the nation's armed forces may soon be pressed into conflict by the realities of climate change.
"It's an accelerant to instability. It's a force multiplier," said Cheney, the CEO of the American Security Project. Cheney pointed to a five-year drought in Syria that pushed farmers into Aleppo and at the likelihood of future migrants fleeing high temperatures in sub-Saharan Africa as examples of the climate's impact.
Southeastern North Carolina, of course, is still on the mend from its own bout with Mother Nature, with the battleship itself in the midst of a $2.1-million recovery from damage inflicted during last September's storm. Cheney also visited U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune near Jacksonville, observing an estimated $3.6 billion in damage there.
"I just don't think people up in D.C. understand the magnitude of this problem. This was a Category 1 hurricane, as you all know, when it came ashore. What happens when you have a Category 5?" said Cheney, who later added damage such as Camp Lejeune's can pose a readiness issue for the military.
The American Security Project, founded in 2011, advocates for an all-of-the-above approach to preventing carbon dioxide from entering the environment, Cheney added, perhaps most crucially eliminating coal power plants. Minds are, Cheney said, beginning to shift as climate change's impacts are felt throughout the country.
Cheney also acknowledged Wilmington Mayor Bill Saffo and the steps the city has taken to prepare itself for climate change.
Wilmington officials have gathered their counterparts throughout Eastern North Carolina in the Eastern N.C. Disaster Recovery and Resilience Alliance, advocating for the state to invest in infrastructure improvements that will protect citizens in an era of climate change.
"This great location ... comes with the reality that we are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and the associated sea level rise. In case we were in need of a wake up call, Hurricane Florence delivered that and then some," Saffo said.
Among the concerns the mayor raised were raising Interstate 40 so it would be less likely to flood again, cutting off access to the city as it did during Florence; increasing shelter capacity; and revamping New Hanover County's emergency operations center to be better equipped for a major storm.
Speaking of the city and, more broadly, the state, Cheney said, "You're a prime example here of what the impact can be, and you're also becoming an example of how we can mitigate this situation."
Florence's impacts were felt acutely at the battleship, damaging exhibition space and the auditorium at the attraction's visitors center and damaging its roof. Capt. Terry Bragg, the battleship's executive director, said Tuesday those repairs are nearly complete, but also that he is projecting a $770,000 dip in revenue this fiscal year.
Even before Florence, Battleship staff were working on a plan to combat frequent flooding on the attractions grounds along the Cape Fear River's western bank. Dubbed "Living With Water," the plan would replace an oft-flooded section of the parking lot with a tidal marsh and build living shorelines aside the ship.
"Climate change," Bragg said, "costs money."
Reporter Adam Wagner can be reached at 910-343-2389 or Adam.Wagner@GateHouseMedia.com.


Merry Christmas to all Orthodox Christians especially Egyptian Orthodox Christians that saw a lot last year. God knows all Egyptians from North to South , from East to West saw a lot.
Anyhow to celebrate Christmas this year I would like share this amazing mix of classical music , Islamic inshad, Egyptian Coptic hymns and Christian hymns from Mozart in Egypt 2 album.
It is called "Al Maghfera" - The Pardon. The one who sings the Islamic part is late Sheikh Mohamed El Helbawy who was one of the most famous Monshadeen in Egypt.
This amazing piece of art makes me cry from its beauty.


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In 2016, the North African industrial gases business generated revenues of $330m, which is up from $150m in 2006, indicating an average annual growth rate of just over 8%. Egypt is by far the largest gases market in the region, generating revenues of around $125m, or 38% of the regional business.
Whilst political unrest during during 2011 has affected economic growth adversely across most of North Africa, there has been a solid rebound in 2012 - aided by the large hydrocarbon economies of Libya and Algeria, as well as somewhat calmer political climates in Tunisia and Egypt (though recent events continue to pose question marks around the latter). Morocco's economy has faltered somewhat as a result of the economic crisis in Europe (with which it has closer links than with the rest of Europe) but, even so, continues to post positive growth figures.
We do anticipate reasonably healthy levels of growth going forward into the 2017-2021 timeframe, stretching from 3.0% p.a. in a low scenario to 8.5% p.a. in a high scenario. This should see the industry achieve revenues of between $385 million to over $500 million by 2021 in the region.


A study by MacLennan in 1996 found that 4.4% of his sample had used homeopathic medicines in the past year, and 1.2% had visited a Homoeopath i.e. an estimated 240,000 homeopathic consultations in 1996 [MacLennan AH, Wilson DH, Taylor AW. Prevalence and cost of alternative medicine in Australia. Lancet, 1996, 347: 569-573].


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As forecasts hit fever pitch of Greece being bundled out of the euro, there was bound to be plenty of wild speculation – and a snippet doing the rounds is that holidaymakers should be worried about holding Greek euro notes.
Travel firm DialaFlight even posted a blog, swiftly removed, making some fairly bold claims about whether Greek euro notes would prove worthless if the troubled nation fell out of the currency.
And that is true. The euro is a common currency, entirely equal across all nations, and while it is printed in individual member countries, wherever your note comes from the design is exactly the same.
But while the Eurocrats would have you believe that each of those notes is absolutely equal, there is one tiny crucial difference that lets you see where they come from. That involves a little-known trick I learnt about a few years ago.
Tesco's confirmation today that it's renaming its 'Tesco Value' range doesn't surprise me.
Tesco Value food, in its (in)famous blue and white stripes, looked like something that would be thrown off the back of a truck by UN aid workers, and was about as appetising.
You would've thought Tesco Value was perfectly placed to clean up in the age of austerity. Thrifty is nifty and people are happy to boast about grabbing a bargain.
But the function of Tesco Value wasn't to offer shoppers a good deal. Or at least it wasn't the only function.
Tesco's Big Price Drop has not proved to be a resounding success. My view always was that in a country where everything is permanently on sale and you can't move for signs shouting about that fact, this was hardly a way to stand out from the crowd.
We are bored of stuff being on sale, meanwhile the bargain hunting ultras, such as those who follow cult leader Martin Lewis, are wise to any price trickery and keen to catch big business out wherever possible. So it was hardly surprising the view that prices were going up before they were going down swiftly spread.
These famished devourers of loss leading products are also, I would presume, notoriously difficult to make money off, even if spending £56 on Chocolate Oranges you don't need is hardly money saving.
But if you do feel that you have to go down the Big Price Drop route, it might be an idea to actually be lowering your prices and not promoting the fact that you've put them up.
Will you be sending your Valentine an austerity Asda Smart Price card?
A dozen red roses, a box of chocolates, an expensive bottle of perfume, a weekend break away – the list of the more generic gifts to give the person you love at Valentine's Day.
But these are bleak economic times. The eurozone crisis rumbles on, household bills are soaring and petrol prices at the forecourt (where the less prepared of us buy a last minute bunch of flowers) remain stubbornly high.
This means many might be cutting back on gifts for Valentine's Day. But fear not, supermarket giant Asda has launched what can only be described as a 'budget' Valentine's card. But costing seven pence, it could be argued to be a 'budget budget budget' Valentine's card.
Passwords are everywhere. On the worldwide web these days, you are expected to use a combination of capital letters, lowercase letters and numbers for passwords to keep your personal data safe.
I seem to have stacked up about ten different passwords, all of which are stored safely in my head. But what are the most common passwords that are stolen?
Well, unsurprisingly, the most common password stolen by a hacker is 'password.' Using 'password' as your password is not a clever idea - unless you want to be a sitting duck for hackers.
Password management provider SplashData, has announced its annual list of worst internet passwords, in order of how common they are.
Passwords such '123456' and 'qwerty' are on the list, along with strange ones such as monkey (6th) and 'shadow' (19th).
Even in Australia where the economy has been booming and petrol costs less than £1 a litre, fuel prices are a big issue.
Yesterday morning I went on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio, 720 Drive, which is Perth's regional station – think of it as the BBC over here and a station like BBC Essex.
When the producer rang my mobile and I was ready to go live, I was excited about talking to our Australian friends and was also worried that the signal may play havoc with my chat to presenter Russell Woolf.
But it went without a glitch. We chatted about my cheapest petrol prices in the world article and compared Australian petrol prices to British petrol prices.
I found out that in Australia, the average price for a litre of petrol is $1.40AUS, which is the equivalent to 90p in British money and is on the increase at the same level as British prices.
Companies have jumped on the Royal bandwagon by peddling products, research and press releases in various different forms, often straddling the line between whimsical and bizarre.
This is Money has been inundated with Royal Wedding press releases from special edition toaster bags, Gold Ring Krispy Kreme doughnuts and even the importance of getting a will for the big day. We present the best (of the worst).
Chocolate banking, thumb insurance and Ronaldo's nationality switch were some of the great April Fool's Day jokes in the press today.
Amar Mahdi rounds up the personal finance ones that made us chuckle the most, including our very own This is Money-pranking efforts.
This, if you'll pardon the expression, is absolute genius. Ever wondered what Quantitative Easing (aka QE or 'printing money') is?
Well, allow these satirical bears to explain (via the medium of YouTube).
Unfortunately, we can take no credit for some of the genuinely funny stuff here, or responsibility for any (very) mild expletives.


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Chapter 1: A Theological Look at Demonology
What exactly is demonology? Like any word that ends in "ology," it's tempting to simply say, "Demonology is the study of demons," and be done with it. Unfortunately, understanding demonology as an aspect of theology is not that simple.
It is perhaps more accurate to say that demonology is the study of supernatural beings that are not gods. This can include spirits that might also be considered benevolent. The discipline varies widely by cultural and spiritual belief.
If, for instance, you believe in demons that are the minions of Satan, but have a strong attraction to a nature religion like Wicca, you might also believe in fairies, elves, sprites or other "spirits" that are considered "mischievous," but not necessarily "evil" per se. This book will look at demonology in a Western Christian context. It is not, however, a religious book in and of itself.
In the 21st century, more people have a passing conversance with demonology than you might expect, but much of that "knowledge" is derived from popular culture. While entertaining, and often frightening, this type of demonology generally has little to do with the theological study of demons.
Popular Culture Demonology
Television programs like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, Sleepy Hollow, Being Human, Witches of East End, and Constantine have given an entire generation a paranormal and demonic vocabulary.
Reality programs such as Ghosthunters often feature "demon hunters" like John Zaffis and Ed and Lorraine Warren who claim to overlay "fact" on fiction. Zaffis scored his own show, Haunted Collector, and the Warrens first came to fame due to their involvement in the Amityville Horror case. But how does this blending of entertainment and theology serve the popular perception of demonology? Often, poorly.
One of the most beloved characters in the Buffy series was a green-skinned "Deathwok Clan" demon with red horns named Lorne. He had more in common with a Frank Sinatra-esque lounge singer than a bloodthirsty creature from another realm — and zero credibility in terms of established demon lore. Lorne is a charming fictional creation, but he has no basis in fact. On the other hand, Moloch, the demonic bad guy that plagued "witnesses" Ichabod Crane and Abigail Mills in the first season of the Fox series Sleepy Hollow does have proper demonic bona fides.
Moloch is spoken of in the Bible, as well as in Milton's Paradise Lost. Long associated with child sacrifice, the series writers made Moloch's chief agent the disaffected and scarred son of Crane and his witch wife, Katrina. While granted a "mashup" of Washington Irving's original Legend of Sleepy Hollow and esoteric religious literature, the result is much more commendable than most such attempts.
In 2014, NBC made a demonic entry in their Friday night line-up with Constantine, an adaptation centering on a character from the DC Comic Hellblazer. In the series, rogue exorcist and demon hunter John Constantine protects the innocent and battles the forces of darkness in uneasy alliance with an angel named Manny. Keanu Reeves played the same demon hunter in a 2005 film adaptation also called Constantine.
In a review of that work published in the Journal of Religion and Film, Jeffry Mallinson, dean of the School of Theology at Colorado Christian University wrote:
Audience members with any theological or biblical background will have difficulty willfully suspending disbelief. Much of the plot depends on a caricature of Roman Catholic theology where one is damned on a technicality or redeemed through a loophole. All of this occurs without the satire of Dogma (1999)*. Particularly distracting are moments when John's Apocalypse is called "Revelations," and when an esoteric prophecy is found in a lost chapter of 1 Corinthians. The imagined text would have been more plausible as a Gnostic manuscript or secret copy of "Revelations." This may seem hypercritical; yet such distractions hinder the creation of a plausible fantasy world.
* Dogma, with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, is summarized on IMDB.com in this way: "An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loop-hole and reenter Heaven."
While it might, indeed, seem hypercritical to take exception with the Book of Revelation being referred to incorrectly in the plural, the greater point is the ease with which scripture and esoteric texts can be used as plot devices with no fear of a discerning general public quibbling. The average "man on the street" would be hard pressed to pronounce much less correctly identify the origin of a Gnostic manuscript.
Gnosticism was a 2nd century heretical movement in Christianity that taught a belief in the demiurge, a lesser divine being who ruled the earth, while Christ was seen as the emissary of a more remote and supreme being. In this school of thought, salvation or redemption depended on the attainment of esoteric knowledge or "gnosis.")
These same "men on the street," who would draw a blank on Gnosticism could undoubtedly identify "666" as the mark of the anti-Christ, offer up at least one paranormal story about a haunting, and likely assert the presence of Satanic worshippers among us. Never mind the fact that Satanists in the tradition of Anton LaVey, do not worship the Christian devil nor are they interested in being the evil counterparts of Christian churches.
LaVey's followers are, however, atheistic and materialistic. For them, Satan and demons are psychological symbols and representations of humankind's vital nature. Unlike teenagers spray-painting inverted crosses and burning black candles, Satanists rarely perform rituals. They do approach life from a skeptical perception and embrace unbridled devotion to sensual enjoyments of all kinds from fine food to sexual pleasure.
You can feel free to mix anything else you like into this "common knowledge" conception of Satan, demons, and evil. Throw in a little black metal music and Harry Potter for good measure. Few of the associations really hold together in a factual interpretation, but they do fit neatly into a fundamentalist religious filter that posits a cosmic battle between the ultimate good, God, and the ultimate evil, Satan. This view has, however, evolved over many centuries of debate about what actually constitutes good and evil.
Before we go on, I want to say that I am content for the reader to determine according to their own belief structure, the role of evil in this world. You may see demons as a metaphor for the internal struggles with which we all cope and that have figured heavily in Western thought and literature. You may see demons as active agents of Satan on earth.
For the purposes of this text, demons will be presented, theologically, as creatures in the service of Satan. In this view, their role is to subvert man's relationship with God by trickery and potentially possession.
The overriding point of this text, however, is to separate "fact" from "fiction" and de-sensationalize the popular, "common knowledge" view of demons that does nothing but fan the flames of religious and spiritual fears.
The Evolving Role of Satan
Many impressive books have been written about the evolving role of Satan in theological interpretation. I especially commend to you The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics by Elaine Pagels.
While acknowledging that I may be going down something of a slippery slope, I want to offer at least a conceptual summary of the evolving role of Satan as it has come down to us in Western religious thought. Since all demons serve him, he is the ultimate bad guy in this story.
Anyone even mildly conversant with the Biblical account of the life of Christ knows that he went into the desert before he began his public ministry. This is recorded in both the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. Jesus spent forty days and forty nights in the desert struggling with Satan.
To fully understand how Christian theology developed to accommodate the twin concepts of good and evil as polar opposite locked in a cosmic struggle, we must mythologically step back from the question for a moment.
Creating a figure like Satan that is the embodiment of evil is an attempt to explain forces of chaos and confusion over which people exercise very little practical power.
It is a mistake to assume that the word "mythology" means something that is not true. A myth is an instructive story. Taken in this literal definition, scripture is myth.
That does not mean that it is not true as it is held close in the hearts of the faithful. Other cultures however, have their own mythology, and those stories offer interesting corollaries to standard Western Christian belief.
The Story of Seth
In Egyptian mythology, for instance, we find an incredibly all-purpose "devil" in the figure of the god Seth. He was believed to be responsible for an impressive array of chaos and confusion. He was the ruler of the desert and of foreign lands, of storms and turbulent seas.
His powers were associated with natural catastrophes including earthquakes. He was seen as the opposite of all of the life-affirming qualities of his brother Osiris. Instead, Seth signified darkness and disorder.
Seth murdered his brother Osiris, cut up his body, and scattered the pieces throughout Egypt so Osiris could not gain immortality in the afterlife. The wife of Osiris, Isis, gathered up the scattered pieces and reunited them, helping Osiris to secure eternal life and to become the king of the underworld.
Horus, the son of Osiris, exiled Seth to the desert for eternity for his crime. Clearly, there are similarities to this story and to that of Cain and Abel in the Christian Bible.
I do not share this Egyptian myth to suggest to Christians that the account of events in their holy book is incorrect. Instead, this is an illustration of a different society attempting to come to terms with the duality of good and evil. This is a theme as old as man himself, and one that continues to capture our imagination and places us on the horns of societal and personal moral dilemmas.
To grasp the evolution of Satan as Christians know him today, it is also important to realize that the Hebrew Bible is much less monotheistic than the Christian New Testament.
Angels in the Hebrew Bible
Before the appearance of Satan in the Hebrew Bible, the text introduces readers to angels. These are celestial beings referred to in Hebrew as the mal'akim or messengers. For instance, it was a mal'ak that guided Moses to the Promised Land.
These messengers might deliver the word of God to a prophet, assign a special task to a chosen person, announce a significant birth, guide an individual toward the correct path, offer comfort, or administer punishment.
Not all of these messengers, however, behaved appropriately, or we would not have the story of the sons of God who seduced human women leading to the birth of the race of giants called the Nephilim.
Basically, the Hebrews made accommodations for good and bad angels. The fully formed idea of demons only develops later in the tradition of the Christian faith. This is not to say however that there are not mentions of demons in the Hebrew Bible*, although the references are problematic in light of the belief that Christians hold today.
The term "Hebrew Bible" refers to the collection of Jewish texts that are used as the canonical sources for the Christian Old Testament. Most are in Biblical Hebrew with some Biblical Aramaic. The content is not the source for the canonical portions of the Roman Catholic Old Testament. "Hebrew Bible" is meant to be a scholarly neutral term with no implication of interpretative tradition.
As a comparison, the 46 books of the Catholic Old Testament are:
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, Esther, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom, Sirach, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Baruch, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi
In the Christian Old Testament, the 39 books are:
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk,, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi
Where the names of other ancient texts are used in this book, I will try to identify them individually.
In Leviticus, there are references to a demon named Azazel. It would appear in the text that Aaron sacrifices a goat to Yahweh and another to the demon. The King James version of the Bible gets around this by saying that Azazel is a place name, but it is quite clear in Jewish literature that Azazel is the name of a demon.
He is credited with teaching humans to make knives, swords, and shields. In the Book of Enoch, an ancient Jewish text but not a canonical book of the Bible, Azazel reveals the internal secrets of heaven and teaches man all forms of oppression upon the earth. Azazel also becomes transformed into the serpent that tempts Adam and Eve in the garden.
Another demon from ancient Jewish literature is Lilith who in later tradition is regarded as the first wife of Adam. She is found in the company of unclean animals and is in league with the head of the fallen angels, her husband Sammael.
Lilith actively works for the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden and in some traditions she is the servant responsible for the temptation story in Genesis. Following the expulsion, Lilith continues her attacks on mankind, and is generally held to be responsible when small children die.
The Hebrew text, particularly in the book of Isaiah, makes it clear that God is responsible for both good and evil. Satan, on the other hand, is a part of God's council. He is the Accuser, who serves at God's request.
The best illustration of this role occurs in the Book of Job. Basically, God throws Job under the bus to test him. When seen in this light, the story is the tale of God and Satan working together to put Job and his faith under the microscope.
The Personification of Satan
It is not the purpose of this text to fully explore Hebrew theology. If it were, it would become increasingly clear that Satan is an ambiguous figure as is his role on God's council. It would seem that Satan is an obedient servant of God, sending evil and misfortune to the unfaithful and the faithful.
There is none of the familiar imagery of modern Christianity that shows Satan as the supreme ruler of hell, sitting at the head of an army of demons for the purpose of waging war against God and humanity.
Grasping the familiar personification of Satan, requires looking to the period between the time when the last of the Hebrew Scriptures were composed, and the beginning of the life of Christ. This is generally taken as being 300 years in duration. During this time Satan, as we know him, came into his own.
These 300 years are referred to as the Babylonian Captivity. They begin with the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC to the Babylonians followed by the exile of the Hebrews throughout the region. During this exile, the Hebrew people came into contact with Persian and Zoroastrian religious practices.
The evolution of Jewish literary expression subsequently transformed angels from "messengers" into distinct celestial beings with personalities and given names. Religious writers began to imagine a heavenly world which was much more elaborate.
The absolute dichotomy of good versus evil began to take shape. The word demon assumed a growing negative connotation for the Jews. These creatures were seen as being in league with an arch enemy who stood in opposition to the true God. Their role was to entice humans to stray from their faith. Demons excelled at tempting mankind and at promulgating false doctrines.
Thus, both the Jewish and then the Christian faith developed a working concept of a spiritual war. The conflict was, however, expected to come to a resolution on the Day of Judgment when evil fell before the power of ultimate good. Until that happens, specific demons are free to wreak havoc through spreading misfortune, cultivating sin, and exploiting the flaws of mankind.
What are Demons According to the Bible?
The Biblical interpretation is that demons are the fallen angels exiled from heaven with Satan as described in Revelation 12:9:
"And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him." (KJV)
About one third of the angels are believed to have gone with Satan. In Job 28:4-7, we learn that angels were created before the earth and that Satan fell from grace before God tempted Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden as described in Genesis 3:1-14.
Satan's fall is also described in Isaiah 14:12–15, which is one of the more poetic renditions of the story:
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Judge says government's suit over Bolton book can proceed
by: ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press
FILE – In this Sept. 30, 2019 file photo, former National security adviser John Bolton gestures while speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. A judge ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration can move forward with its lawsuit against former national security adviser John Bolton over that his tell-all book, which officials say contains classified information. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration can move forward with its lawsuit against former national security adviser John Bolton over his tell-all book, a judge ruled Thursday in denying a request to dismiss the complaint.
The Justice Department alleges that Bolton's book, "The Room Where It Happened" contains classified information, and the government sued in June to try to prevent the release. Though the book was published as scheduled, a suit accusing Bolton of breaking contracts with the government by disclosing classified information and by failing to complete a required prepublication review can proceed, U.S District Judge Royce Lamberth said in a 27-page opinion.
The Justice Department, the judge wrote, "plausibly pleads that Bolton breached those obligations." A lawyer for Bolton did not immediately return an email seeking comment.
The book, which details Bolton's 17 months as Trump's national security adviser, contains descriptions of conversations with foreign leaders that could be seen as politically damaging to the president. Those include accounts that Trump tied providing military aid to Ukraine to that country's willingness to conduct investigations into Democratic rival Joe Biden and Biden's son Hunter, and that Trump asked China's President Xi Jinping to help his reelection prospects.
Lamberth in June denied the government's request for an injunction to block the book from being published, given that thousands of copies had already been distributed. But he also scolded Bolton for moving ahead with the book's publication without waiting for formal, written authorization that the book had been cleared.
Bolton's lawyers have said he worked for months for a White House career official to ensure that the manuscript was carefully screened and that he received verbal clearance last April that the book no longer contained classified material. But White House officials conducted a second review that they said identified classified information still in the book.
The case took a notable turn when a lawyer for that career official, Ellen Knight, submitted a statement that said that Knight had advised National Security Council lawyers that she intended to clear the book for publication, but she was told to take no action and to tell Bolton that the process was "ongoing."
Weeks later, she learned that a White House official who she says had no previous classification experience had been instructed to conduct a second review of the manuscript. That official, Michael Ellis, flagged hundreds of passages that he believed were still classified. Knight disagreed with that conclusion and considered the re-review to be "fundamentally flawed," according to the filing.
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Q: Parse error when parsing manifest I made an application that attempts to download an APK update to internal storage from a remote server, and then install the update on the device.
I tested it on a API24 device and everything works as expected.
Now I am testing it on a API 19 device (to test the part of the code pertaining to the old way of updating apps) and I keep getting "Parse error when parsing manifest". What puzzles me is that I can install the APK manually on the device and there is no parse error, so I don't think the problem is in the actual manifest file. I checked the length of the downloaded APK file in the internal storage and it appears to be fully downloaded. The code for downloading the APK is the same for all API versions.
Code:
pathToApk = getFilesDir() + "/update.apk";
try (InputStream is = response.body().byteStream();
     BufferedInputStream input = new BufferedInputStream(is);
     OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(pathToApk)) {
         byte[] data = new byte[1024];
         int count;
         while ((count = input.read(data)) != -1) {
             os.write(data, 0, count);
         }

}

File toInstall = new File(pathToApk);
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
  Uri apkUri = Uri.fromFile(toInstall);
  Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
  intent.setDataAndType(apkUri, "application/vnd.android.package-archive");
  intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
  startActivity(intent);
}

Error:
W/PackageParser: Unable to read AndroidManifest.xml of /data/data/my.package.name/files/update.apk
  java.io.FileNotFoundException: AndroidManifest.xml
    at android.content.res.AssetManager.openXmlAssetNative(Native Method)
    at android.content.res.AssetManager.openXmlBlockAsset(AssetManager.java:501)
    at android.content.res.AssetManager.openXmlResourceParser(AssetManager.java:469)
    at android.content.pm.PackageParser.parsePackage(PackageParser.java:544)
    at com.android.packageinstaller.PackageUtil.getPackageInfo(PackageUtil.java:73)
    at com.android.packageinstaller.PackageInstallerActivity.onCreate(PackageInstallerActivity.java:467)
    at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5350)
    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1088)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2320)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2417)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$800(ActivityThread.java:151)
    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1342)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:110)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:193)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5322)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:829)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:645)
    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
11-10 10:16:24.213 4140-4140/? W/PackageInstaller: Parse error when parsing manifest. Discontinuing installation

AndroidManifest.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="my.package.name">

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

<application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:supportsRtl="true"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
    <activity
        android:name=".main.activities.UpdateActivity"
        android:screenOrientation="portrait">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

    <provider
        android:name="android.support.v4.content.FileProvider"
        android:authorities="${applicationId}.provider"
        android:exported="false"
        android:grantUriPermissions="true">
        <meta-data
            android:name="android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS"
            android:resource="@xml/provider_paths" />
    </provider>
</application>
</manifest>

EDIT
See my answer for solution.

A: The problem was that the system could not read the APK from the private internal storage of my application on API<=23.
The fix was pretty straightforward.
Changed this line:
OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(pathToApk)

To this:
boolean old = Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.N;
OutputStream os = old ?
    openFileOutput("update.apk", Context.MODE_WORLD_READABLE)
    : new FileOutputStream(pathToApk)

A: Add request here .
1.checkSelfPermission for Manifest.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

*

*if granted , you can do readFile();

*If not ,you should requestPermissions .
2.deal with onRequestPermissionsResult in your code
/**
 * permission code
 */
private static final int MY_PERMISSIONS_REQUEST_READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE = 1;

/**
 * requestPermissions and do something
 *
 */
public void requestRead() {
    if (ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(this,
            Manifest.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE)
            != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {

        ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(this,
                new String[]{Manifest.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE},
                MY_PERMISSIONS_REQUEST_READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE);
    } else {
        readFile();
    }
}

/**
 * do you want to do
 */
public void readFile() {
    // do something
}

/**
 * onRequestPermissionsResult
 *
 * @param requestCode
 * @param permissions
 * @param grantResults
 */
@Override
public void onRequestPermissionsResult(int requestCode, String[] permissions, int[] grantResults) {

    if (requestCode == MY_PERMISSIONS_REQUEST_READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE) {
        if (grantResults[0] == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
            readFile();
        } else {
            // Permission Denied
            Toast.makeText(ToolbarActivity.this, "Permission Denied", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
        return;
    }
    super.onRequestPermissionsResult(requestCode, permissions, grantResults);
}

Add permission to the manifest
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

A: Nicely described HERE
This is how i managed
if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.N){
            outputFile = File(Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_DOWNLOADS), "ABC.apk")
        } else {
            outputFile = File(filesDir, "ABC.apk")
        }


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public class CellRenderer_RendererHolder
	extends java.lang.Object
	implements
		mono.android.IGCUserPeer
{
/** @hide */
	public static final String __md_methods;
	static {
		__md_methods =
			"";
		mono.android.Runtime.register ("Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android.CellRenderer+RendererHolder, Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null", CellRenderer_RendererHolder.class, __md_methods);
	}

	public CellRenderer_RendererHolder () throws java.lang.Throwable
	{
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Vic Firth 5B Nova Hickory Drumsticks Wood Tip From Vic Firth
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Q: CSS fixed container in IE6 #fixed {
    border:1px solid red;
    height:100px;
    left:50%;
    margin-left:-500px;
    position:fixed;
    top:0;
    width:1000px;
}

how can i make this element display the same way in IE6? the div is the first element directly in the body
regards

A: IE 6 doesn't support position: fixed (Source) and there is no easy CSS-only workaround as far as I know.
You would need to employ a JavaScript based workaround solution that adjusts the element's position when the page gets scrolled.
There's a very simple solution outlined in this SO question. Those JS based solutions tend to be pretty jiggly and jerky in my experience, they are nowhere near the smoothness of position: fixed.

A: Sorry don't have time to translate my sample with your exact requirements but take inspiration with those code :
// Modern browser : FF, Chrome, Opera
// ----------------------------------------

#fixmetoo { position: absolute; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; }
div > div#fixmetoo { position: fixed; }

// IE6
-------------------------------------------

<!--[if lt IE 7]>
div#fixmetoo {
        right: auto; bottom: auto;
        left: expression( ( -80 - fixmetoo.offsetWidth + ( document.documentElement.clientWidth ? document.documentElement.clientWidth : document.body.clientWidth ) + ( ignoreMe2 = document.documentElement.scrollLeft ? document.documentElement.scrollLeft : document.body.scrollLeft ) ) + 'px' );
        top: expression( ( -100 - fixmetoo.offsetHeight + ( document.documentElement.clientHeight ? document.documentElement.clientHeight : document.body.clientHeight ) + ( ignoreMe = document.documentElement.scrollTop ? document.documentElement.scrollTop : document.body.scrollTop ) ) + 'px' );
    }
<![endif]-->

A: Hum, you could try this css - then the element is centered.
<!--[if lt IE 7]>
<style type="text/css">
#fixed {
margin: 0 auto;
}
</style>
<![endif]-->