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As Commissions of Inquiry Commences…"Noto huna we want, nar de money we want -President Bio
By Abdulrahman Koroma
As the countrys commissions of inquiry commences, Sierra Leone's president, HE Rtd. Brig. Julius Maada Bio has in a statement he made during a recent " Thank You" tour in Kono reechoed the fact that the commissions of inquiry are not set up to witch hunt political opponents but preferably to get past government officials to account for stolen public funds.
The President said in the Sierra Leonean creole language that noto huna we want; nar de money we want.
This in loosely translated in English as: We are not coming after you; we are coming after the money.
He informed the people of Kono that the commissions of inquiry are not targeting any ethnic group or region but ensuring that the stolen monies are retrieved for developmental purposes inclusive the free quality education in the country.
He sternly advised those who are toying with the fight against corruption or intend to stand in the way of the commissions of inquiry to deviate from such act or they would meet with the stiffest resistance.
If you are invited to the inquiry and you fail to attend, you will face the full force of the authority of the state, President Bio asserted, pointing out that he deliberately refused to respond to what he described as a misguided APC Press release not to give it credence."
Earlier, Sierra Leone's main opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) party issued out a press release describing the commissions of inquiry as a "kangaroo court, and that members of the party that served in the previous regime would not subject themselves to it.
The APC among few things also highlighted that the commissions of inquiry are targeting a single tribe and only Sierra Leoneans from the northern part of the country.
The said press release was later described by the Sierra Leone Police as inciting which led to the invitation of the party's national executive including the former president of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma who also doubles as its leader and chairman.
In his interview to both national and international media houses the country's former Vice President, Victor Bockarie Foh has called on the Koroma administration to face the commissions of inquiry to defend the allegations levied against them, and that if he's called upon to face the commissions of inquiry he would made himself available at any time.
If President Koroma called me I would ask him to do the same- and also would tell him if he refused to make himself available people would think that the allegations levied against him are true.
He also stated that the current president is in the right trajectory in terms of combating corruption in country.
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Hello! I put together a document about making bumpers to help our team document the process and thought it may be useful to other teams as well. It goes through pros and cons of materials selection and various ways of making bumpers. It also explains how to make different types and some quick fixes for competitions.
This is not an official document or anything. A second version will be created later with more photo heavy step by step instructions but I wanted to put this out there now while teams may be starting to make their bumpers.
If you have any comments or suggestions, let me know!
A document about making bumpers.
It goes through the pros and cons of various materials used in making bumpers, how to make different kinds, and common quick fixes for competitions.
How to wrap bumpers around the corner?
This is a pretty awesome guide. If you need more sample images feel free to use ones from our gallery, we have hundreds of teams.
In addition I can't recommend using these slide-snap latches enough.
Multiple teams have been using them since Neutrino #3928 started it a few years ago I believe.
Here is a photo of 1296's robot with them.
Here is a photo of our 2017 robot as well with them installed.
Just in case you were wondering how much of an expert she is: Kelsey is the real deal. The 3928 bumpers in 2012 were no joke and ALL Kelsey. Not to mention some of the other other teams she's worked with.
If you're looking for some more helpful bumper tips, you can check out bumper school: http://www.robopromo.com/category_s/1825.htm! This has some great tips and solutions to common bumper challenges.
This is a great compilation of all sorts of bumper information for all teams to use. I'm sure this will help teams as they are designing their bumpers. Thanks for taking the time to put it together and post it for the whole community.
One addition is that when working with nylon or Cordura, a hot knife will sear the edges as it cuts. This reduces the likelihood of fraying. A simple wood burning tool can be used as a hot knife. This can be useful for cutting your team numbers from white nylon or Cordura.
Commercial companies that work with nylon or Cordura have laser cutting tables. The laser also cuts with heat which sears the edges and reduces fraying. If you can get access to a smaller laser cutter, you can use this to cut smaller parts for your bumpers, including team numbers from white fabric. These can then be sewn onto your bumper fabric before assembling your bumpers.
Those slide latches are a great find. Turns out McMaster has them as well. They are going on this year's robot for sure! Thanks!
The McMaster latches are about triple the cost and they are stainless instead of regular steel. We tested with the McMaster ones but moved to these after.
The smaller laser cutters (such as our 30W Epilog) that many schools may have for engineering courses can also be used for heat transfer vinyl and vinyl stickers in general, making for some clean bumper numbers and sponsor stickers.
Cutting vinyl on laser cutters is risky due to the PVC* content in most varieties of vinyl. One can find PVC free vinyl, but they need to actively look for it.
I'm only nitpicking on this because PVC is really bad for the laser.
*PVC can be cut with a laser but the thermal process produces hydrochloric acid and toxic fumes. For this reason, it is advised you not cut PVC with laser cutters in order to prevent corrosion of your laser system and to ensure the safety of the user.
Those slide latches are a great find. Turns out McMaster has them as well . They are going on this year's robot for sure! Thanks!
Yeah, we bent a few McMaster ones last year & went back to nuts on threaded posts. As long as you have a dedicated "bumper nut driver" drill - life is good.


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'90 Day Fiancé' Star Colt Johnson Dating New Brazilian Beauty 6 Months After Filing for Divorce
Jul 1, 2019 6:31 pm·
By Chelsea Duff
It didn't take long for Larissa Dos Santos Lima to move on and find a new love, and now 90 Day Fiancé star Colt Johnson is revealing that he's done the same. Nearly six months after the star filed for divorce, and four months after he claimed he wasn't ready to date, he's revealed that he's in a new relationship — and it's with another Brazilian beauty. But this relationship isn't anything like Colt's last. He and his new girlfriend, Jess Caroline, seem to be doing great. Check out the gallery below to meet the stunning redhead and see what their relationship is like.
Courtesy of Colt Johnson/Instagram
After fans watched his relationship with Larissa fall apart on 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After, Colt, 34, kept most of his private life private. But now, he's starting to share his new love with fans.
Back in May, the reality star started posted inspirational messages on Instagram. On a video he took at the airport, he wrote, "It's always darkest before the dawn. No matter what, please don't give up. I promise it'll get better. Have faith, in both your self and in the fact that everything happens for a reason."
A few days after that, he posted a photo of blue skies and calm water, captioning it, "We all arise from our own ashes. Everything returns later in its changed form. A chapter has ended, swept away by the whirlwind. One door has closed but another has opened … and on the other side … my future. The ending is only the beginning."
On Wednesday, June 26, fans seemed to discover just what — or who — was making Colt feel so introspective and optimistic. The star sparked dating rumors as a woman named Jess Caroline seemed to share in a Facebook group that she'd started seeing Colt.
Courtesy of Jess Caroline/Instagram
After reaching out to Jess, In Touch can now exclusively confirm that news. Though the Brazilian beauty's Instagram is private, she was willing to give fans a glimpse into her relationship.
Crushin'
In the caption, Jess wrote, "You are my person. Miss you." Though it's not clear exactly how long the couple has been together, they seem like they're going pretty strong. So strong, in fact, that Colt was feeling artistically inspired.
Painting Portraits
On Instagram, he shared a painting he'd done of his new lady. "For those that don't know. I enjoy drawing in my spare time," the 34-year-old revealed. "I started originally as a way to handle stress and kill time."
Opening Up
"I haven't drawn in a while, but more recently I have started again," he continued. "I guess you could say I found my muse." How sweet is that? It seems that we're not the only ones impressed by the sentiment.
Feeling's Mutual
"You are my person," Jess said again, this time in the comments of Colt's post. And that's not the only sweet sentiment that she had to share. Confirming that she'd written the Facebook post about Colt, the Brazilian beauty had all kinds of nice things to say.
Messy Meeting
Telling the story about how they first met, the English translation of Jess's post read, "I lost my flip flops at the pool party on my first date with him. I was barefoot, dirty feet, hair was a mess and super drunk."
"We are together for a while," she continued. "[Anyone] who knows me knows that I'm chill and have good intentions, also that I don't judge people's choices. … I'm with him because I want and because he wants."
Natural Attraction
"We have chemistry," she explained. "If you say, 'He's ugly and fat,' well, he can lose weight. The important thing is how he treats me. He makes me laugh and he's nice. We like the same movies and songs."
Bryan Steffy/WireImage
No Judgment
"I know about his past and have watched the show … I don't defend him or her. It was just a relationship that didn't work out and life goes on. I'm not going to be rude to anyone."
"Let's have some empathy to people and their choices," Jess finished, cutting off any potential criticism of her man and his ex. "Let's try to make things lighter and criticize less, please."
Courtesy of Larissa Dos Santos/Instagram
Ex Issues?
So what does Larissa think? Though Colt revealed back in February that he "honestly" doesn't care about his ex seeing someone new, Larissa herself is actually "happy" for Colt.
When a fan asked how she felt about the rumors that Colt was seeing someone new, she didn't have any problems with it. "Life goes on," she shared, seemingly wishing her ex well.
It looks like both the halves of the 90 Day Fiancé couple are feeling settled in their new relationships, and we couldn't be happier for them — but we won't be crossing our fingers for a double date any time soon.
90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After
Colt Johnson
Larissa Dos Santos Lima
90 Day Fiancé's Ashley Is Facing Charges After Throwing Fire Extinguisher Through Jay's Window
'90 Day Fiancé' Star Danielle Jbali Shares New Fitness Progress Photo: 'Looking Good, Girl!'
'90 Day Fiance' Stars Steven and Olga Are Back Together, Living in NYC!


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Q: replace variable using sed during string replacement I have an xml file with a line: <includes>xyz</includes>
I have to append a value to xyz like <includes>xyz abc/v1.2.3</includes>
The value abc/v1.2.3 is stored in a variable: stringReplace="abc/1.2.3"
I am trying to achieve the same using sed:
sed -i -e "s/<includes>xyz<\/includes>/<includes>xyz\ $stringReplace<\/includes>/g" localConfig.xml

However, I am getting "sed: -e expression #1, char 41: unknown option to `s'".
Please help or any other way of doing it.

A: If you have a slash / in the variable or file then use different separator (here i used | )
 sed -i -e "s|<includes>xyz</includes>|<includes>xyz $stringReplace</includes>|g" localConfig.xml

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So I decided roughly a decade too late that the POWER/PowerPC/SPARC RISC fanboy in me probably needed to (reluctantly) accept that x86 won the war, which means I've been brushing up on my x86-64 assembler (by poking in head_*.S, which is correctly written in AT&T syntax, and not that other syntax I shall not name) and trying to catch up on what the heck Intel and AMD are working on in terms of roadmaps, etc. I now know how REX prefixes work on "Intel 64″, for example. And I've read the recent changes to the ABI (Fortran support included!). I shall poke at the recent SVM/nested page tables stuff sometime for fun. Oh, and I don't care that I'm not an IA32 assembly guru, I shall focus on flat 86-64 and forget about last century's segmentation and other ye olde bank switching inspired hacks.
This weekend, I've gone over all of the recent models and public announcements, read some IDF bits, and learned about Intel's QPI (as opposed to the one I knew, AMD HT – QPI is basically trying to throw off the FSB, but it does some nice failover things HT does not include AFAIK). I've concluded that the model numbers used by these guys these days are way, way too confusing. Even more so than when I last really cared about this stuff – determining which "Xeon" has Intel-VT or AMD-V is a game of looking up lots of 4 digit model numbers where a simple naming formula somehow including reference to the microarchitecture used in the model "name" would suffice to convey far more useful information). But, none of this stuff is your grandfather's x86. It's every bit as capable (in x86-64 anyway) of taking on the other Big Endian arches I have always personally preferred.
I expect to do a lot more to keep up with x86 development rather than letting my own personal academic fondness for cleaner ISAs limit my exposure. I'm thinking about getting another older Xeon build/test box for playing with x86 stuff and for speeding up kernel compiles at home – perhals a used Dell PE1950 or Precision 490 as these have the best bang for buck ratio at the moment. What I would like to know, from anyone who bothered to read this far, is where should I be going to get the very latest information on x86 developments? I'm on the k.o lists, and I am specifically not a game playing weenie who cares about that stuff – I want to know about roadmaps, things like the new AES extensions, etc. I don't care that the "whizzbang X1234 blah blah would look uber l33t in this plexiglass case I just bought on eBay".
There's been a lot of talk recently about Fedora's policy (or lack thereof) for shipping updates to existing stable releases. Rather than keep repeating the same points on the mailing lists ad nauseam, let me give my own $0.02 here. Keep in mind that these are my own personal opinions, and nobody else's.
First off, I know in using Fedora that I am not using an "Enterprise" distribution that is intended to remain rock solid and stable for a long time without substantive changes. I'm ok with having to upgrade every 6 or 12 months, and I'm willing to deal with fixing breakage when that happens (though obviously in a perfect world the upgrade would be entirely seemless). What I am not ok with is updates shipping that cause any breakage or behavioral changes to my perfectly working system when I have not asked to perform a major upgrade. I expect that, if I upgrade my laptop system ten minutes before a meeting, then it will still work exactly as it did before. I don't want to have to delay doing any updates – as I do now – for fear of the result.
Since time doesn't stand still following a release, and bugs and regressions are found – and security issues are raised – a flow of updates to a "stable" release is both necessary and healthy to any distribution. But updates should be just that: updates. And also "necessary". To me, an "update" is not shipping a major version bump on an existing piece of software, or replacing an entire stack (complete with all manner of behavioral changes – no matter how "small": it does matter if that menu item moves around mid-release) – after the release. That's called a new release. Or rawhide. Or whatever. The point is that a release has to have some kind of meaning for it to even be worth having a release. Otherwise, you may as well just call it "Forever Rawhide".
Now I'm not saying there can't be flexibility. For example, I don't personally care at all about KDE update frequency. I'm sure the people who work on it (many of whom I have met over the years) are very nice people, and I know they do good work. But I don't use KDE (other than a few specific pieces of software, such as k3b), and I haven't for years. So if KDE is updated ten times a day, I'm not going to even notice. I'd rather, for the sake of the users have a consistent policy, but perhaps that stack could be excluded since its maintainers are quite vocal about being able to make a lot of updates. I would rather an exemption were made for their specific stack rather than have the rest of the distribution need to following the same rolling update trend.
What I am going to notice, however, is if any of the critical path components that I rely upon is broken, has a behavioral change, or is needlessly updated way too often to make any real sense. Needless includes pulling in some minor upstream bits that aren't materially warrented by actual or likely bug reports. Those things are best done in rawhide where they belong, and where those who are more than willing to test as they go will happily help shake out issues. I myself run rawhide also, but on dedicated real or virtual machines that are only for testing and not intended to be used or relied upon for daily work. Even in the case of rawhide, I think things should be at least reasonably tested on a standalone system (more than just compile tested) before pushing if they stand a chance of breaking something fundamental in the distribution.
Think about it this way. The Fedora development cycle is about 6 months. If you are a user and really, badly need some major new feature, you might have to wait an average of 3 months. Even if that's hardware enablement that makes the distribution otherwise inaccesible to you, I would rather that you have to wait 3 months for the new version (during which time you are free to try the pre-releases, alphas, betas, etc.) than ship an intrusive update that may negatively affect other users who already have working systems that can already make full use of what they have available. It's simply not worth inconveniencing existing users of a stable release for the possible benefit of those who are not already using it and can wait until the next time.
Anyway. I think Fedora needs an update policy, and it needs a strong one. If you know me, you know I am far from a conservative guy, but I do think that stable Fedora updates should have a fairly conservative update policy for at least all critical path components. Those should never be updated unless necessary to fix specific bugs, and only in a fashion not likely to cause regressions for other users not affected by those bugs, or who rely upon specific behavior not to change (i.e. not a whole major version bump). The components not in the critical path can have more wiggle room if necessary, but I would still like to see far fewer updates in the stable releases.


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March 3, 2019 March 3, 2019 Nevaeh Grant My Blog
There are some great strategy games to be played on your Mac in 2019. Let's see what's on Starting at number 10 we have Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus. Great news, in February, this game became fully supported for macOS. These Warhammer 40,000 series is not shy about coming over to our platform, that is for sure. In Mechanicus, which is a turn-based strategy tactical game, you take control of the most advanced army in the Imperium, known as the Adeptus Mechanicus, hence the name of the game. The game is full of decision making, which actually affects the outcome of a mission you are undertaking. You can customize your army, control them, manage resources, and discover new zimpler deposit casinos in canada.
Mechanicus is quite a demanding game, so it's best played on Macs from 2015 and up. Number nine is Tropico 6. Coming very soon to Mac computers on the 30th of March 2019, Tropico 6 is that latest game in the series. On Steam, a Mac version has been confirmed. In Tropico 6, players can prove themselves once again, as a dictator or peace-loving statesmen on the island state of Tropico and can shape the fate of their own banana republic through four distinctive eras. There are some new things here like managing extensive archipelagos, building bridges to connect islands, and new means of transportation and infrastructure, and there are some more new things here, too. I know Tropico 5 had mixed reviews out there, so hopefully this new game can improve on where it may have been somewhat of a let down previously. (cheering) – Fellow Tropicans, thanks to me, Tropico is an undisputed paradise. – [Narrator] Number eight we have Phoenix Point. Arriving in September 2019, Phoenix Point is from the creator of X-COM. On the games FAQ page, you can see that a macOS version has been officially confirmed. It appears to have a very similar gameplay style to XCOM, but this time, it has a darker and creepier look and atmosphere.
Phoenix Point will offer turn based tactics and world-based strategy against an alien menace. There will be huge boss battles, soldier development and customization, new weapons and equipment, destructible environments, and heaps of diverse missions. I remember I found XCOM 2 be very challenging, but in a good way, guys, in a good way, so I'm hoping Phoenix Point keeps this as a strong aspect of the game. Number seven is Sid Meier's Civilization® VI: Gathering Storm. This is the second expansion to Civilization VI and the developers of the expansion say that the game is more alive than ever before. The expansion brings environmental effects, such as volcanoes, storms, climate change, floods and droughts. Plus, there is heaps of other new content here also, seven new world wonders, seven natural wonders, 18 new units, 15 new improvements, nine new buildings, five new districts, two new city sets, nine new techs and 10 new civs have been added. Phew, that's quite a lot. Remember, this content requires the base game in order to play and it's best played on Macs from 2014 and up. Number six we have Frostpunk. Some time later in 2019, Frostpunk is going to be ported to Mac.
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Few days back, we posted about how to Update Galaxy S4 with Android 4.3 Test Firmware I9505XXUEMI8, Today we are back again with the new Android 4.3 I9505XXUEMJ3 Leaked Firmware for Samsung Galaxy S4 I9505 model. The new firmware is available for download and this new firmware works perfectly as any other official firmware and powered with some new features. Samsung is currently working on the Android 4.3 Jelly bean firmware and the firmware is expected to release in the end of the October. As per the sources this firmware is the final build of the Android 4.3 and works fine on any of Galaxy S4 I9505 models. If you are the Galaxy S4 I9505 smartphone owner and want to try your hand on the new 4.4 firmware, follow the below mention guide to update your device with this new leaked firmware. This firmware will wipe your device and remove all the saved contents form your phone, so do take the full backup of your device before proceeding.
The guide is only for the S4 GT i9505 device, don't try this firmware on any of your other android smartphones. To apply this update on your phone you need a windows PC, ODIN Flash Too, USB driver and Firmware. If you are ready to update your device, then read all the instruction very carefully and follow all of them on your device and PC one by one. IMPORTANT:– Don't forget to take the full backup of your phone.
Step 1. Download the Android 4.3 I9505XXUEMJ3 firmware here and extract the folder on your desktop.
Step 2. Download the ODIN application here and extract the folder on your windows desktop.
Step 3. Switch off you phone and wait for 5 seconds, boot your phone in Download more. To do this press and hold Home + Power + Volume down buttons. Press Volume Up button again to enter into Download Mode.
Step 4. Connect your phone to the pc with USB cable and run the ODIN.exe file to open the application on your desktop.
Step 5. Once the phone is connected you will see the blue sign in Odin screen.
Step 6. Click on the start button to start the update process.
Once the update process is finished on your phone, your phone will reboot and this time you will disconnect your device from computer. Now Android 4.3 I9505XXUEMJ3 Leaked Firmware is successfully installed on your phone. In case at the time of restart your device stuck on Android loop or stuck on Android boot screen, then follow this guide to come out of Android loop.


whilst on a holiday in Wicklow, she met Paul Henry and with his encouragement and advice began painting.
Contemporary Irish Art exhibition at Aberystwyth in Wales. In 1962 she had a one-person show at the Ritchie Hendiks Gallery in Dublin.
Her works are included in many private and public collections including the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin. She became famous for her paintings of trees.


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Facebook News will pay UK outlets for content in 2021
Facebook will begin paying UK news publishers for some articles with the launch of Facebook News in January.
The feature adds a dedicated news tab to the Facebook app, and has already launched in the United States.
Facebook said it will "pay publishers for content that is not already on the platform" and prioritise original reporting.
It comes after years of tension between Facebook and news publishers, who have often accused it of "stealing" content.
But hundreds of UK news outlets are already signed up to deals for the new feature, Facebook said.
They include publishers such as Hearst (Cosmopolitan, Elle, Esquire); the Guardian Media group; regional newspaper giant JPI Media; and the Midland News Association.
Facebook said it expects more publishers to join after the launch.
Facebook threatens news sharing ban in Australia
News publishers fight tech giants for better deals
The news tab is only available on the mobile app – not in a web browser.
But Facebook said its launch in the US has shown it that 95% of the traffic to Facebook News publishers through that tab, are new readers who "have not interacted with those news outlets in the past".
That may sound promising for news outlets trying to increase their audience on Facebook, as news accounts for only about 4% of a user's main "news feed".
The deals struck between Facebook and publishers are not public, so it is not known how lucrative they could be for struggling news outlets.
But previous efforts to bring publishers into the fold have not always been a success.
Over the years, Facebook has encouraged news publishers to produce video for its platform and has changed the algorithms that govern its main user feed at the expense of news.
It has also tried to drive publishers to use its instant articles feature, which limits advertising and other features of the publisher's website.
Facebook has always insisted it doesn't want to make editorial decisions. It outsources fact-checking to organisations like Full Fact, and will outsource curation of this news service to an organisation called Upday, tasked with surfacing "reliable" and "relevant" news, whatever an on-the-day editor decides that means.
This initiative crosses a commercial rubicon. The company has always directed traffic back to publishers, but this is the first time that Facebook will pay news publishers for their work.
For more than a decade, the likes of Rupert Murdoch's News UK – as well as many local publishers – have argued that big tech companies carry their content without paying for it, and so act as leeches.
This move will begin to weaken that argument. Some of the publishers paid by Facebook will be struggling local titles, dependent for their future on the flattering interest of a Californian tech giant.
Yet, as recently as 2018, Mark Zuckerberg said he wouldn't pay publishers for content.
This new move is a loud gesture to British regulators, saying Facebook will invest in public goods such as journalism, provided the regulatory environment is favourable.
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Seasonal Climate Outlook Message for April to July 2008
Outlook stays positive for autumn - winter
The 30 day average of the SOI remained positive throughout March and was plus 10.2 for the month. The SOI Phase for March was 'Consistently Positive' (Phase 2). Based on this SOI and historical rainfall records the outlook for April to June indicates a 50 to70 % chance of above median rainfall for much of Queensland.
Some regions in the far west, the south and the north of Queensland only have a 30 to 50% chance of exceeding median rainfall. The outlook indicates that for an isolated region, encompassing the Cooloola -Sunshine Coast area, there is a 70 % to 80 % chance of above median rainfall. For more information try www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au .
Further analysis indicates rainfall for much Queensland is more likely to be close to or above the long term average (or middle third to upper third) rather than below or well below average.
For those who like to follow the relationship between the SOI and rainfall patterns in more detail have a look at what happened in your area during April to June in the following years; 1950, 1956, 1967, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1989, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2004. Work out your long term average rainfall for April to June and see how many times rainfall was well below, well above or close to average.
Currently (as at 1 April) the 30 day average of the SOI is plus 10.5.
Most of Queensland received close to or above median rainfall so far this northern wet season. The main exception is the far west of the state, which has received very much below average. There are also dry areas in the south east corner, such as the eastern Darling Downs.
According to the Bureau of Meteorology's summer (December - February) climate summary maximum day time temps have been cooler than normal. Minimum overnight temperatures were close to average in north of the state, but cooler than normal in the southern half of Queensland. For more details try www.bom.gov.au/climate .


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Q: Previously deleted constraints show up as conflict in Xcode 9.4 I have an issue where previously deleted constraints seem to show up as conflicted. I am working in a custom xib file, messed around with constraints a bit and decided to start over by using Clear constraints for All Views in Container. I then added new constraints and now I get the following list of conflicts:

I am positive these constraints do not exist anymore.
I can't select further down than the selected one, can't right click or double click. Same goes for the context menu, the checkboxes are unselectable:

I have tried Product > Clean, also restarted Xcode. No luck. The project builds fine and my constraints are applied correctly, I just would like to get rid of the warnings.

A: And just like that, they are gone. Must have been some Xcode cache.


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The Community Schemes Ombud Service by Dr Carryn Melissa Durham
Posted on 3 July 2016 by Sean
As the Regulations are currently with Parliament, it is hoped that they will be signed during the course of this year. It is for this reason that I will go back to basics in this blog post and discuss the main purpose for the establishment of the Community Schemes Ombud Service ("the Service").
A crucial development in South African sectional title legislation occurred in 2011 with the promulgation of the Community Schemes Ombud Service Act 9 of 2011 (the "Act"). The Act will be administered by the Department of Human Settlements. The Act will only come into operation at a date fixed by the President by proclamation in the Gazette, which will be after the Regulations under this Act has been enacted. Furthermore, the provisions in the Act requiring consideration and determination by the Service will only come into operation at the date at which the Service is in full operation.
The rationale for the establishment of the Service is that there is no existing ombudsman for community schemes in South Africa. The regularisation of community schemes has, until now, been dealt with by fragmented regulations. There has been a lack of an effective dispute resolution mechanism. The time delays and costs relating to arbitration and litigation are high, and a barrier for many persons to deal with their disputes. Even minor disputes must be dealt with by initiating arbitration or litigation. Furthermore, bodies corporate cannot approach the Small Claims Court, as only natural persons can initiate proceedings. There is a power and financial imbalance between individual property owners and the executive committees of the bodies corporate or home owners' associations. The establishment of the Service has marked the advent of a new regulatory regime.
The primary purpose of the Act is to establish an efficient, cost-effective and independent dispute resolution service in respect of community schemes."Community scheme" is defined as "any scheme or arrangement in terms of which there is shared use of and responsibility for parts of land and buildings, including but not limited to:
· a sectional titles development scheme;
· a share block company;
· a home or property owner's association, however constituted, established to administer a property development;
· a housing scheme for retired persons; and
· a housing co-operative as contemplated in the South African Co-operatives Act 14 of 2005."
The functions of the Service are:
1. to develop and provide a dispute resolution service;
2. to train conciliators, adjudicators and other employees of the Service;
3. to regulate, monitor and control such other scheme governance documentation as may be determined by the Minister; and
4. to take custody of, preserve and provide access electronically or by other means to sectional title scheme governance documentation and such other scheme documentation as may be determined by the Minister by notice in the Government Gazette.
In performing these functions the Service must promote good governance of community schemes; provide education, information, documentation and such other services as may be required to raise awareness to owners, occupiers, executive committees and other persons or entities who have rights and obligations in community schemes, as regards those right and obligations; monitor community scheme governance; and generally, deal with any such matters as may be necessary to give effect to the objects of the Act.
In regard to the first function the Act provides for two methods of dispute resolution, namely conciliation and adjudication.
In the conciliation process the parties use the services of an independent conciliator, to be appointed by the Chief Ombud, to assist parties to arrive at a mutually agreeable solution.
In the adjudication process, an independent adjudicator, appointed by the Chief Ombud, or selected by both parties from the list provided by the Ombud, determines how the dispute is to be resolved and makes a binding order to this effect.
Ms Dinkie Dube, who has been appointed as the Adjudicator-General, reports that the Service has seen a steady inflow of applications for dispute resolution, although officially the service is not yet in operation. The nature of the disputes that have been lodged with CSOS, comprises behavioural issues, such as a neighbour who allegedly plays loud music; collection of levies incorrectly calculated; incorrect procedure followed in the election of trustees; irregular resolutions passed at general meetings and the installation of an inefficient security gate at the entrance of the scheme.
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Vieira Lima, together with President Temer (having illegally taken over power), was involved in a corruption scandal concerning construction and building companies, one of which is headed by his relatives. The former Minister of Culture, Marcelo Calero announced this information and resigned last week because of the pressure on him over failure to submit to the Ministry of Culture and the National Institute of Cultural Heritage to grant permission to construct a high-rise building in the historic part of Salvador.
The Congressional Ethics Committee is carrying out this investigation.
In this situation, the former chairman of the lower house of parliament, Eduardo Cunh, has been recently arrested. Eduardo Cunh was an initiator of the impeachment of the president-elect Dilma Rousseff and also one of the closest associates of Temer.
At the time of Rousseff's impeachment, Cunh was also charged with involvement in corruption scandals. However, the court was not able to deprive the chairman of the parliamentary mandate, and with it, his immunity.
However, his arrest occurred already as soon as Temer became president. This was no accident, since Temer was clearly sanctioned at the highest level of government, perhaps in Washington.


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Recurrence of uprisings in Iran highlights missing factor in Western policy
The Islamic Republic of Iran has been a uniquely tough space for American and European overseas coverage because the Islamist dictatorship was established within the wake of the 1979 revolution.
All through the previous 4 many years, I've personally witnessed the challenges confronted by policymakers on either side of the Atlantic, by way of understanding the completely perplexing Iranian political state of affairs and the way to answer it.
What has compounded the issue is the geopolitical significance and significance of Iran and its influence on the area and the worldwide order. Merely put, Iran is simply too massive and too urgent to be ignored.
The scale of that downside turned extra evident in 2002 when the nation's main pro-democracy opposition group, the Individuals's Mojahedin Group of Iran (PMOI/MEK), first revealed particulars of the regime's secret nuclear weapons program. However by that point, different points equivalent to a penchant for hostage-taking and the help of varied worldwide terrorist teams had already been firmly established as demanding Western consideration.
Paradoxically, despite the fact that the nuclear revelations strongly influenced worldwide views concerning the threats posed by the Iranian regime, they didn't appear to alter the false notion that Western governments might change the regime's habits by providing concessions. Consequently, these governments have maintained insufficient insurance policies whereas ignoring the pivotal issue of the Iranian folks and the function of the opposition PMOI/ MEK. Latest and ongoing developments contained in the Islamic Republic have made it abundantly clear that inattention to the Iranian Resistance and what it represents is a critical lacking consider American and European approaches to Iran coverage.
The identical current and ongoing developments make clear the significance of these insurance policies not solely to Western pursuits and the pursuits of regional allies, but in addition to the welfare and long-term governance prospects of the Iranian folks themselves.
Normalizing Requires Regime Change
As of this writing, the Islamic Republic is three weeks into what might fairly be termed a nationwide rebellion, first introduced on by public outrage over the federal government's choice to take away subsidies on important foodstuffs. The influence of that call included a right away spike of roughly 400 % within the value of cooking oil, and equally catastrophic will increase for rooster, eggs, dairy, bread, and pasta. Demonstrations started on Could 6, primarily in Khuzestan Province, and since then they've unfold to at the very least a dozen others. Anti-government protests continued subsequent to the collapse of a 10-story constructing within the metropolis of Abadan (South-West Iran), which killed dozens and injured dozens extra. The disaster was the direct results of rampant corruption and nepotism contributing to sub-standard building.
The present rebellion adopted the identical primary sample as one which started in December 2017, continued via a lot of January 2018, and marked an obvious turning level in longstanding conflicts between the Iranian folks and the Iranian regime. In that case, preliminary protests over financial situations started within the nation's second-largest metropolis of Mashhad, after which unfold to nicely over 100 different localities. As they did so, they carried provocative anti-government slogans that seemingly normalized public requires regime change.
The identical slogans, together with "dying to the dictator" "down with Khamenei (the supreme chief), and "dying to the oppressor, whether or not the shah or the mullahs," have been heard in numerous protests over the following 4 and a half years. There have been at the very least eight protests since December 2017 that had been giant sufficient in scale to qualify as nationwide uprisings, together with the latest ones.
As with every of the prior uprisings, the continuing demonstrations in Khuzestan and elsewhere have advanced to incorporate requires regime change alongside their unique expressions of financial grievance. Now as then, the anti-government message was promoted upfront by "Resistance Items" affiliated with the MEK – activist collectives which are additionally recognized for acts of concentrating on symbols of the mullahs' rule, in addition to the general public show and projection of photographs of leaders of the resistance, particularly Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the Nationwide Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), and Massoud Rajavi, the historic chief of the MEK.
Escalating Repression, Escalating Resistance
The longstanding exercise of the Resistance Items underscores the truth that Iran's regime is dealing with challenges not simply from a free assortment of aggrieved residents however from an organized opposition motion with a particular plan for the way forward for the nation. This has grown more and more unmistakable in current months because the actions in query have grow to be notably extra subtle and extra frequent.
On January 5, the Resistance Items burned a statue of Qassem Soleimani, the eradicated commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Pressure within the provincial capital of Shahr-e kord in western Iran only a few hours after the disclosing.
Soleimani was killed by a US drone strike in Iraq two years earlier. Iran had tried to retaliate towards the killing by launching a volley of missiles at Iraqi navy bases housing US forces, however within the pursuing hours, the IRGC shot down a business Ukrainian airliner, killing all 176 folks onboard. After the regime tried unsuccessfully to cowl up the incident, protests started to emerge on college campuses and in public areas spanning at the very least a dozen provinces.
As with prior demonstrations towards the state of the economic system, the focused public condemnation of the January 2020 missile strike, quickly turned political towards the regime. This was made all of the extra outstanding by the truth that the protests got here solely two months after one other nationwide rebellion throughout which the IRGC was the foremost perpetrator of an almost unprecedented crackdown on dissent.
The November 2019 rebellion was sparked by the federal government's choice to intentionally elevate gasoline costs, for an already beleaguered inhabitants. Protests instantly unfold to some 200 cities in all 31 provinces. The outraged inhabitants solely focused authorities facilities and repressive facilities and the slogans of the protesters all through Iran had been virtually an identical, concentrating on the regime in its entirety. All that indicated the function of an organized resistance in main the protests. Within the face of dramatic public outrage at the moment, authorities minimize off web entry for a lot of the nation, in an effort to concurrently impede organizing efforts and sluggish the unfold of reports relating to mass shootings and mass arrests.
The November 2019 crackdown stands out for example of the regime's willingness to make the most of broad-ranging political violence to keep up its maintain on energy.
In that case, roughly 1,500 peaceable protesters had been killed by gunmen who had been principally members of the IRGC. This determine was initially reported by the MEK and its associates and was later confirmed by a Reuters' report that cited a number of sources from contained in the Ministry of Inside. Moreover, hundreds of contributors in that rebellion had been arrested alongside different recognized activists, and plenty of had been subjected to a marketing campaign of systematic torture that progressed for months and was detailed in an Amnesty Worldwide report titled "Trampling Humanity".
The regime's response to the November 2019 rebellion was a dramatic escalation from its response to the preliminary rebellion in January 2018, which nonetheless killed dozens and resulted in prolonged jail sentences for a lot of others. The escalation was certainly associated to the narratives that emerged from regime officers and state media shops after requires regime change absolutely entered the mainstream.
Regime Propaganda Collapsing
In response to no much less an authority than Supreme Chief Ali Khamenei, the preliminary rebellion was largely attributable to the MEK, which had "deliberate for months" to facilitate simultaneous protests in all main cities. In truth, Khamenei in the end blamed the rebellion on a "triangle of enemies" comprised of the MEK, Western governments, and Iran's regional adversaries. That is ironic in mild of the truth that the MEK is hardly talked about in Western discussions of Iran coverage, a lot much less included within the methods that emerge from these discussions.
This isn't to say that the MEK is with out help within the West. It has many high-profile backers within the fields of parliamentarians, authorities, safety, intelligence, and academia, however their help has but to translate into comparable consideration from the precise management of america, the European Union, or its member states. This reality solely makes Khamenei's statements about current uprisings extra ironic, insofar as these statements threaten to undermine his personal regime's success in downplaying the ability and affect of the MEK.
When the supreme chief and his subordinates started warning concerning the energy and affect of an organized Resistance motion, they contradicted their very own preexisting narratives which claimed no such motion existed. Iranian state media had lengthy dismissed the MEK as a "cult" and a "grouplet" missing any significant help among the many common public. However after all, this description can't be reconciled with the regime's newer acknowledgement that huge swaths of the nationwide inhabitants have adopted the MEK's lead in staging a number of nationwide uprisings.
The eight uprisings which have taken place over the previous 4 and a half years are notable not just for their scale or for the truth that they had been invariably preceded by public appeals from MEK Resistance Items, but in addition for his or her geographic and demographic variety. This units them other than prior large-scale protests just like the 2009 protests, which had been dominated by middle-class activists in Tehran. Thus, it additionally undermines longstanding assumptions that poor, rural Iranians characterize a stronghold of help for the theocratic regime.
These assumptions have arguably held again Western policymakers from exploring their full vary of choices for confronting the Iranian regime or partaking with the Iranian folks. Tehran amplified that impact via its decades-long marketing campaign to each downplay and demonize the MEK and another pro-democracy voices that sought worldwide help for his or her efforts to overthrow the clerical regime and set up a system of self-governance for the Iranian folks.
Assaults on the MEK are incessant inside Iranian state media, and plenty of of these assaults have bled into the worldwide press. Between March 2019 and March 2020, the regime broadcast greater than 300 motion pictures and documentary sequence on the MEK, and inside that very same interval, two separate courtroom rulings in Germany ordered information shops to pay damages and revise articles as a result of it was decided that their claims concerning the MEK might in the end be traced again to Iranian intelligence.
The instances involving Der Spiegel and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung had been sadly not distinctive, as a result of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Safety has spent a substantial period of time growing a community of pleasant journalists, typically even directing its personal brokers to ply their commerce within the guise of educational or journalistic roles.
Points of this disinformation marketing campaign had been revealed in a very intimate trend in February 2021 when a person by the identify of Hadi Sani-Kani despatched a letter to officers with the United Nations detailing how he had collaborated with the Ministry in writing false tales concerning the MEK after defecting from the group.
One of many high priorities of the Iranian regime's diplomatic equipment has been neutralizing and marginalizing the MEK on the worldwide scene.
The Wall Avenue Journal revealed on Could 8, 2008, "Iranian officers have urged suppression of the MEK in negotiations with Western governments over Tehran's nuclear program and different points, in response to a number of diplomats who had been concerned in these talks."
With the progress that the MEK has made lately, the Iranian authorities determined to decapitate the opposition at any value and as such deliberate the bombing of the huge worldwide gathering in help of the Iranian Resistance in Paris on June 30, 2018.
The choice by the Supreme Nationwide Safety Council (the very best decision-making physique in Tehran on nationwide safety issues) was relegated to the Ministry of Intelligence and Safety (MOIS) and the Overseas Ministry that had been chosen to hold out the operation. Assadollah Assadi, Tehran's Third Counselor in Vienna who was a veteran MOIS officer and coordinator of the MOIS actions in Europe, was assigned to hold out the operation. Assadi introduced the extremely subtle bomb from Tehran on a business flight to Vienna and subsequently handed it over to 2 of his brokers in Luxembourg on June 28, 2018.
Because of the vigilance and shut cooperation of safety providers of a number of European nations – together with Belgium, France, and Germany – the plot was foiled.
The couple, Iranians with Belgium citizenship, had been arrested in Brussels on June 30 on their method to the gathering within the suburbs of Paris. The bomb was within the trunk of their automotive. One other agent, who was additionally Iranian with Belgium citizenship, was arrested on the venue of the key gathering the identical night. Assadi, who was overseeing the operation whereas on "vacation" in Germany, was arrested close to the Austrian border on July 1.
Some 100,000 folks together with hundreds of European residents and a whole bunch of dignitaries took half within the rally. (I headed the Italian delegation). The first goal was Maryam Rajavi. If the plot was not foiled, it might have been one of many deadliest terror instances within the current historical past of Europe.
Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the Nationwide Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
Following greater than two years of investigation, Belgian investigators and the courtroom concluded that this was the work of a state. Assadi was sentenced to the utmost sentence of 20 years in jail and his three brokers had been sentenced to 17 and 18 years of imprisonment.
On the first look, it defies logic that Tehran assigned one in all its Europe-based diplomats to hold out the operation at a time when Tehran was searching for Europe's help to interrupt the sanctions. It's common sense that if the operation was profitable, it could have at the very least short-term diplomatic backlash for Tehran. However remarks from then-Overseas Minister Javad Zarif on July 1, 2018, revealed that Tehran had hoped to depict this as an inside job and a false flag operation. Tehran's calculation was that given the surge within the actions of the opposition, a critical blow to the organized resistance and its chief would have outweighed the short-term diplomatic loss.
The timing of the deliberate assault was very telling. It was just a few months after the 2018 rebellion by which Khamenei had explicitly underscored the function of the MEK and several other regime's senior officers, together with IRGC Admiral Ali Shamkhani, the Secretary of the Supreme Nationwide Safety Council, had vowed that the MEK would obtain a critical blow the place it was least anticipated.
For supporters of the MEK, such tales are affirmation of the Iranian regime's typically single-minded give attention to that group as a risk to its maintain on energy.
However the terror and demonization marketing campaign present much less vivid examples of that phenomenon than the regime's numerous crackdowns on dissent, courting again to the earliest days of the Islamic Republic.
Longstanding Dedication to Violent Repression
Whereas surprising in its personal proper, the sheer scale of the November 2019 crackdown got here as little shock to individuals conversant in the regime's repressive historical past. Its worry of the MEK was by no means extra obvious than in 1988, on the finish of eight-year Iran-Iraq Battle, when the regime's weakened state made it particularly susceptible to a surge of common dissent.
That yr, the regime's founder and first supreme chief, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa declaring all members of the MEK responsible of "enmity towards God", a capital offense. In consequence, "dying commissions" had been empaneled in prisons throughout the nation to interrogate political prisoners over their views and affiliations. Those that did not disavow the MEK or show their loyalty to the regime had been summarily executed and usually buried in secret mass graves.
It's estimated that some 30,000 political prisoners had been killed on this trend, simply qualifying the bloodbath as against the law towards humanity. One perpetrator of that crime, a former official at Gohardasht Jail named Hamid Noury, is at the moment awaiting a verdict following his prosecution in a Swedish courtroom, however other than this, no official concerned within the bloodbath has confronted significant penalties.
Fairly on the contrary, a number of the main perpetrators have steadily risen via the ranks of the Iranian regime over the previous three many years, thereby reinforcing the regime's vendetta towards MEK activists. The severity of the November 2019 crackdown is probably attributable partially to this phenomenon. On the time, the nation's judiciary was led by Ebrahim Raisi, who due to this fact oversaw the torture marketing campaign that adopted the IRGC's mass shootings. In 1988, Raisi was one in all 4 officers to serve on the Tehran dying fee, which was answerable for the most important single share of the 30,000 executions.
Raisi's function within the 2019 crackdown quickly proved to be a stepping stone towards even higher energy over home affairs.
In June 2021, Khamenei put in Raisi as president of the Islamic Republic following a tightly managed election by which he was the one viable candidate to look on the poll. This was a strategic choice by Khamenei which entailed axing even a number of the most loyal figures and factions of the regime that had the least rift with the supreme chief.
By appointing Raisi, Khamenei had chosen to impose an much more repressive setting all through the nation, step up help for terror teams within the area, intensify belligerence within the area, and additional defy the worldwide neighborhood on the nuclear program. A number of Iran observers pointed to a roughly 40 % enhance within the price of executions throughout the months instantly following Raisi's "election".
In mild of Raisi's status because the "butcher of 1988", his presidential appointment makes probably the most sense if understood as a response to the rising discontent. Truly, following the November 2019 rebellion, which pushed the regime to the precipice of being overthrown, Khamenei made it abundantly clear that his essential precedence is to stem the rising tide.
An October 2019 photograph taken on the Esplanade des Invalides in Paris exhibits a member of the Iranian opposition erecting photographs of political prisoners who had been executed in 1988 by the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
On the similar time, these phenomena are solely underscored by the circumstances that surrounded that appointment and successfully disadvantaged each the Raisi administration and your entire regime of any declare to legitimacy.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo just lately commented upon this example whereas visiting Ashraf 3, the neighborhood established by the MEK in Albania following the relocation of three,000 of their members from Camp Liberty in Iraq. In his remarks to residents, Pompeo additionally addressed Raisi's repressive mandate and his function in undermining that mandate by stoking the folks's financial discontent.
"Raisi just isn't the president of the folks of Iran," Pompeo stated. "He's the president of the Ayatollah. His mission is evident: inflict ache, frighten, proceed to loot and plunder. However Raisi has already failed. He has did not crush uprisings in Iran or break the noble spirit of dissent throughout the Iranian folks."
That failure is extra particularly a failure to tamp down public consciousness of the MEK as a viable various to the theocratic regime. Since Raisi's appointment, that consciousness has unfold by way of the standard efforts of MEK affiliated Resistance Items.
On January 27, the Resistance Items interrupted the published of 25 Iranian state TV and Radio channels, exhibiting crossed-out photographs of Supreme Chief Khamenei, photos of Maryam and Massoud Rajavi and excerpts of their speeches.
Since then they've introduced down a number of authorities ministry web sites, and have used public handle methods at busy public markets. Every of those shops has performed host, in current months, to the now-familiar name for "dying to the dictator", and excerpts of speeches from each Mrs. and Mr. Rajavi.
It might be doable to say that actions by the organized resistance motion have escalated at a quicker tempo than the regime's efforts to suppress them. In any occasion, it's affordable to conclude that the MEK represents an more and more salient risk to the clerical regime's maintain on energy, and thus a facet of Iranian affairs that European and American policymakers should take into account.
Resolving a False Dilemma
Mike Pence, the previous US Vice President stated on October 28 in Washington "One of many greatest lies the ruling regime has bought the world is that there's no various to the established order. However there's an alternate – a well-organized, absolutely ready, completely certified and popularly supported various referred to as the MEK (Mujahedin-e Khalq). The MEK is dedicated to democracy, human rights and freedom for each citizen of Iran, and it's led by a rare girl. Mrs. Rajavi is an inspiration to the world. Her Ten-Level Plan for the Way forward for Iran will guarantee freedom of expression, freedom of meeting, and freedom for each Iranian to decide on their elected leaders."
Mrs. Rajavi's plan additionally requires secular governance, safeguards on the rights of girls and minorities, and disavowal of the belligerent overseas coverage that's so important to the present regime's identification. Though Western policymakers have often expressed optimism concerning the doable softening of that identification, the general development has truly been in the wrong way, particularly lately.
On Could 25, in a listening to earlier than the Senate Overseas Relations Committee, in an change with the Chairman of the Committee, Democratic Senator, Bob Menendez, United States Particular Consultant for Iran Robert Malley acknowledged that Tehran's conduct grew worse in areas equivalent to missile proliferation and help of worldwide terrorism throughout the interval when the 2015 Iran nuclear deal was nonetheless in impact. However some elements of the regime's conduct additionally worsened after then-President Donald Trump pulled the US out of the deal in 2018.
What could also be wanted, due to this fact, is an altogether new technique in step with the rising new actuality on the bottom – one which acknowledges regime change by the Iranians as a extra viable answer to issues emanating from Tehran, and one which formally acknowledges the forces pushing for that end result from contained in the Islamic Republic.
No such technique has been forthcoming prior to now 4 many years, as a result of Western policymakers have overwhelmingly been caught in a false dilemma, believing that their solely choices had been to simply accept the present composition of the Iranian authorities or to take away it by pressure of arms and settle for the chaos that comes of leaving a rustic leaderless.
However there's a clear lesson to be taken from the eight uprisings towards the regime of the final 4 and a half years: the Islamic Republic of Iran is now ripe for a regime change.
To realize this objective, it's wanted a now not deferrable dedication by EU and US establishments with a view to guarantee a Transatlantic stance that brazenly helps and legitimizes the organized opposition motion now main the nation's transition to democracy.
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Handcrafted Homes in Pennsylvania Woods
By Lloyd Kahn on March 16, 2020
A terrific article in today's NYTimes (3/16/20) online by Michael Snyder, with great photos by Chris Mottalini.
Everything about this story and the photos struck me as right. I felt at home here. I love the rumpled bed in the second photo. I also like the idea of an "alternative to modernism."
How Two Children Are Keeping Their Father's Design Legacy Alive
A pair of Pennsylvania homes constructed by the Japanese-American furniture designer George Nakashima have become an enduring testament to mid-century folk craft.
"From 1946, when he founded his studio on a three-acre plot in New Hope, a historic artist's colony halfway between New York City and Philadelphia, to his death in 1990 at the age of 85, Nakashima devoted his life to transforming slabs of walnut, cherry, burled maple and redwood into coffee tables shaped like pools of water, Shaker-style chairs with hand-whittled spindles and dining-room tables fashioned from slices of tree trunks, their cracks and seams bridged with joints like butterflies caught in amber. 'He felt his work was a form of integral yoga: How you work and live is all connected,' his daughter, Mira, 78, told me on a damp, gray morning last fall while showing me around the grounds of the studio, which she has run since her father's death. Organic, improvisational and individual, the tens of thousands of objects he made in the course of his lifetime were also functional, meant for daily use; they were, Mira says, "the antithesis of Modernism, a protest against mass production."
"But the homes where Mira and Kevin live, patinated and imperfect and crowded with debris, more fully capture the spirit of mingei. Less an antithesis to Modernism than an alternative to it, such projects embraced 20th-century idioms while refusing to accept industrial mass production as the fundamental fact of modernity. 'Dad always said that building furniture was just like architecture but smaller,' Mira says. In his houses for his children, the opposite holds true: Like Nakashima's tables and chairs, they can be read as works of folk art, useful objects that, as Yanagi wrote, 'honestly fulfill the practical purpose for which they were made.'"
www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/t-magazine/george-nakashima-legacy.html
Article sent us by Elizabeth Kirkland
Tags: architecture, building, carpentry, crafts, design, interiors, natural building, natural materials, woodwork
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Thank you for posting this story. It is great to see such beautiful homes.
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5 Reasons to be excited for Gran Turismo 7
10 months ago by Chris Impey
This week is no doubt an exciting one for petrolhead players everywhere, seeing as Friday marks the first time in almost 10 years that a mainline Gran Turismo game will have launched on PlayStation console. That is, if you don't count 2017's Gran Turismo Sport – but even that was half a decade ago. Luckily, the wait looks to have been more than worth it, as developer Polyphony Digital looks to have made a lot of headway, implementing a range of new systems, mechanics, and tech sure to see Gran Turismo 7 claim the driving simulator crown.
Not sure what's new in Gran Turismo 7 or why it warrants checking out? That's where we come in. In this article we'll be running through 5 distinct reasons to be excited for Gran Turismo 7 ahead of its launch on PS4 and PS5 later this week. From the number of cars you'll be able to take for a spin on the track to how racing will feel on the PS5 DualSense controller, here's why players with a hankering to go fast will want to take note.
Cross compatible release across PS4 and PS5
While it might irk some players on PS5 to know that Gran Turismo 7 is also coming to PS4, Sony and Polyphony Digital have been careful to ensure players that it will still run and look great on both console generations. The instinct is to think that the current-gen version is likely being held back graphically or performance-wise in the effort to simultaneously fit the PS4 architecture, when in actual fact it means that players with a PS5 will get a slightly better experience with no player getting left behind. There are 100 million PS4 console units sold floating out there worldwide, after all.
Already we've seen how cross compatible titles can work for this current era of PlayStation. Spider-Man: Miles Morales and the recently released Horizon: Forbidden West prove that first-party PlayStation exclusives continue to look great on both consoles; Those lucky enough to have nabbed a PS5 just get to enjoy some extra visual flourishes. Gran Turismo 7 is included in this (but more on that later).
The grand return of GT Simulation mode
It's not uncommon for most sports or sports-adjacent titles to include some type of career mode. WWE 2K has MyCareer, FIFA had the Journey, and for the longest time the Gran Turismo series had what's called GT Simulation mode – but trust us when we say, it's much more exciting than it sounds. Not only is it a way for Polyphony Digital to capitalise on some nostalgia (the most first debuted in the PS One original), but it's another way to keep single-player focused gamers engaged outside of the more competitive-driven modes.
GT Simulation Mode is bound to have you slowly work your way up from rust bucket vehicle all the way up to the car of your dreams. We know from recently State of Play presentations that players will start with roughly 20,000 in-game credits, which will be just enough to get you started with an extremely basic used car. Before long, however, you'll be tested to win as many races as possible, outpacing your rivals in order to accumulate funds needed to make you even more of a competitor. GT Simulation Mode is a welcome return.
Over 420 unique cars to get behind the wheel of
Any Gran Turismo game is only as good as the cars featured within it, right? That's why it'll be extremely exciting for long-time racing fans to hear that there will be well over 420 vehicles available to drive in Gran Turismo 7 – and that's just at launch. More are set to be added over the course of the game's lifecycle, especially since PlayStation is positioning this as a living, breathing racing simulator that will continue to grow and be extended over the years.
Not all of the cars in Gran Turismo 7 have been revealed just yet, but some of the highlights confirmed so far are listed below. These represent the very tip of the iceberg:
Bugatti VGT Gr.1
Ferrari FXXK
Ford GT40 Mk I '66
Lamborghini VGT
Excellent haptic feedback support for PS5 players
It's sort of expected now that any prominent first-party PlayStation exclusive title will find some way to integrate the PS5 DualSense controller's unique functionality. The same is absolutely set to be true for Gran Turismo 7, as Polyphony Digital hopes to immerse you into the act of racing as faithfully and as closely as possible. The Dualsense's adaptive triggers, for example, will be used to accurately recreate the sensation of an anti-lock brake system.
With such well-executed haptic feedback like this integrated, players will be able to feel the system's various types of pressure releases, in addition to feeling a tire's locked state. Sony has also revealed that the Dualsense's adaptive triggers will be used to provide varying degrees of pedal weight, depending on the type of car you're driving. For the very first time in a Gran Turismo game, 7 is able to communicate to you the current status of the vehicle through touch sensation alone. And this is all thanks to the DualSense controller's excellent haptic feedback. Sorry PS4 players…
Running at 4K resolution + 60fps exclusively on PS5
Effectively portraying the vast sense of speed these in-game vehicles can achieve is of the upmost importance to Polyphony Digital. That's why, in a rare turn of events (even on PS5), Gran Turismo 7 has been designed from the ground up to run at a simultaneous 4K 60fps on PlayStation's current-gen console. This is a feat other first-party treats like Demon's Souls and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart have struggled to pull off, instead offering players the choice between fidelity and performance modes.
No such option exists in the PS5 version of Gran Turismo 7, however, mainly because it isn't necessary. In addition to the high frame-rate and 4K visuals, the racer will also make use of high dynamic range, deepening any on-screen blacks and brightening whites in order to portray and render the tracks you race on more accurately. This is what helps take GT7 to the next level, beating out other simulation racers out there.
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