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Also, check out this Portland infill thread on the Skyscraper page. What can we do to get Hamilton's developers and architects to start designing high quality infill projects like this?
Most of these would be considered 'landmark' in Hamilton, yet are the norm in Portland. Is it as simple as having an architectural review board?
It seems to me that most of these projects in Portland arrive at City Hall already looking spiffy and full of LEED principles. They aren't being sent back to the drawing board by City Hall. The architects and developers actually seem to pride themselves on their work.
Who knows, but Hamilton's new buildings are quite drab. Some LEED ones are happening now (HHS General Hospital, Woodward Ave lab, Student Residence on Main West), so hopefully they'll raise the bar and encourage more of the same.
"I saw all four of these when RTH first published them.
Keep the open space, the square, in front (the homeless will thank us later) Have the front entrance set back from the street, as in a couple of the schemes. But I think there's a real opportunity in creating that new entrance, something that could be a real gem in the right hands. And I'm not talking about anything even remotely pseudo-classical. Nothing will replace the original, so why even bother.
I've come across soooo many examples of small, infill-type projects in the last few years. There's architectural firms who've built reputations on them - just the right building for just the right space in just the right neighbourhood that needed it. And this is the perfect design challenge.
Makes me want to run around Toronto snapping photos of small, understated entrances that work. Or new construction that acts as a gateway to something existing in a historical context."
You and Anthony are so right. By all means, take pics and send them to us to publish. It gets kind of embarrassing always referring to Portland....yes there is some crime and homelessness there - in fact, from what I read homlessness seems to be on the rise. It's not a perfect city, but can certainly seem like it when you see the neighbourhoods and balanced transportation system.
This is an idea whose time should come. I actually proposed a Sustainability Commissioner back when Wade was Mayor. Ideally it should be someone at the highest level and who has influence over all City departments. Think of the savings that could come from taking a sustainability approach to all aspects of City operations - building permits and regulation, transportation, planning and economic development,food security, health, energy systems. Such a position would put Hamilton on the international map and be a genuine indicator that Hamilton is much more than the negative image that lingers outside our borders. Real progress on Vision 2020 so we no longer have to be embarassed by the annual indicators report - oopps, guess that hasnt happened since Linda Harvey left over a year ago. This is definitely an idea worth pursuing.


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Considered an industry expert, Steve is frequently cited in leading trade journals, makes appearances on broadcast media financial programs, and is regularly invited to speak at meetings and investment conferences throughout the country. In the past, he has served as a contributing editor, authored articles for major industry publications, and has conducted seminars for industry-related university curriculums including the Universities of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Arizona and St. Thomas.
Steve is the author of many books and articles, including The Myths of Inflation and Investing. He has been a frequent contributor to leading trade journals, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, The Journal of Portfolio Management, The Financial Analysts Journal, Newsweek, and Business Week.
In 1999, Steve and former Leuthold team member Eric Bjorgen co-authored a special study, "Corporate Insiders' Big Block Transactions", for which they won the prestigious Charles H. Dow Award. In addition, Steve Leuthold's Financial Analyst Journal article, "Inflation, Deflation and Interest Rates," was awarded the 1982 Graham and Dodd Scroll by the Financial Analysts Federation.
Most recently Steve has been spending his time between his Family Office (Leuthold Strategies, LLC) in Minneapolis and continued efforts in obtaining forestland in the U.S. to devote to Wilderness Forests via his Family Foundation. He has spent many hours with the Nature Conservancy of Maine, New York, and New Hampshire to find available land to purchase with the purpose of preserving natural land and wilderness for generations to come. His Family Office is a small investment firm that manages family assets and the Leuthold Family Foundation, as well as private clients.
Steve remains very active in his business, but hobbies include his garden in Maine (five varieties of potatoes), environmental and animal welfare activities, as well as reliving his past as a Rock 'n' Roll pioneer. After graduating from Albert Lea High School (Minnesota) in 1956, Steve pursued a higher education at the University of Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Minnesota. He has four children, Kurt, Mike, and Russell Leuthold and Linda Donerkiel. He spends much of his time with his partner of 20 years, Sharon Hovey.
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We are once again providing short summaries of several moments from the MTA Symposium and we will have more next month. As usual, there was too much information from the two-day event to summarize quickly.  In this month's summary, we present information about the MTA Annual Award Winner Larry Williams, an article with lessons learned over a lifetime in the industry from Steve Leuthold and the rules for a complete trading strategy from Perry Kaufman.
There is also a review of a book written by Michael E. S. Gayed, the late father of this year's Charles H. Dow Award co-author Michael Gayed. This book was originally published in 1990. It was recently republished by the author's son as a tribute to his father's life and work. While the book is certainly a tribute to an insightful mind, it is also a modern day primer on what's important in the markets. The section on economic indicators is one of the most practical collections of indicators ever assembled, and each section concludes with a clear opinion about the indicator's usefulness.
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Charles H. Dow Award from the MTA and the Graham and Dodd Scroll Award from the CFA Institute. Dr. Ben Hunt relies on game theory to understand the markets and the economy. Dr. Tucker Balch, a featured speaker, presents the results of research into buying and selling by company insiders that he completed with Scott Strong. Insider trading information is a form of sentiment analysis that technical analysts have used for many years.
We also have several other articles this month including Tom McClellan's look at VIX ETNs and John Bougearel's review of the current state of the market. Tom presents facts to demonstrate why long-term investors should avoid an ETN that is designed specifically for short-term traders. John presents some interesting chart patterns and provides a forecast based on technicals and fundamentals. He includes an overview of the macroeconomic environment that exists now and at several key turning points in the market. Please send any feedback or work you'd like to share through the newsletter to editor@mta.org.
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Conversations: Podcast Interview with Steve Leuthold - Conversations returns this week with Steve Leuthold! After wrapping up a spectacular presentation for the Minneapolis Chapter, Steve spent some time with Tim Braun, CMT discussing his outlook on our current market.
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Facebook announced that users can now sign up for its Messenger service without having to create a Facebook account. The company on its blog said that the feature is currently live in Canada, the United States, Peru or Venezuela and there's no word when there is a global roll out or for India.
With the new pdate, users will be prompted by an option that says "Not on Facebook?" when they open the app. They can then sign up with their name, phone number and a photo.
The move is in line with Facebook's efforts to be push Messenger to be a standalone platform which will also developers to create applications for the service. Since March, the Messenger Platform has more than 40 developers working to create applications. Here's a complete list of applications on the Messenger platform.
Facebook also during its F8 conference said that it will be opening up Messenger for businesses and allows companies to have conversations with a person during a checkout flow, send updates like order confirmations and shipping status updates and ask free-form questions about the order, receiving quick responses.
Recent developments in Messenger
– Facebook added a video calling feature in the Messenger app, the social media giant revealed through a blog post. However the feature is currently limited to iOS and Android users in the US, UK, Mexico, Oman, Laos, Uruguay and some other European countries. Facebook mentions it will roll out the feature to other locations over the coming months.
– In March, Facebook announced that it will be allowing peer-to-peer money transfers over its Messenger application and it will be rolled out first in the United States. To send money users will see a "$" icon on their Messenger application and will have to tap on it and type in the amount they want to transfer.
– Facebook's Messenger platform, a dedicated chat interface for the web, is now live. Messages can still be sent via Facebook.com, however Messenger is targeted for those who want to exclusively chat on the platform without the clutter of the social content from the main site.
– In 2014, Facebook added voice calling feature in its Messenger app for Android app users in India.
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Yevgeniy Prigozhin, Putin ally, boasts he 'interfered' in U.S. elections
Russian oligarch Yevgeniy Prigozhin, an ally of President Vladimir Putin and head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, which is fighting in Ukraine, boasted on Monday that he was interfering in the United States midterm congressional elections and planned to continue doing so.
Prigozhin gained infamy as an operator of internet "troll farms" and was placed under sanction by the U.S. Treasury Department for his role in meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, using a company he owned, then called the Internet Research Agency, to spread misinformation and sow discord, especially on social media platforms.
Asked by Russian media about new interference in the midterm elections, Prigozhin replied: "Gentlemen, we interfered. We are interfering and we will interfere. Carefully, precisely, surgically and in our own way, as we know how to do."
His comments were published by his press service on Russian social media platform VKontakte.
"During our pinpoint operations, we will remove both kidneys and the liver at once," Prigozhin said.
Prighozin's provocative remarks, on the day before Election Day in the United States, were impossible to verify. U.S. government cyber agencies have said they largely neutralized the Russian troll farms in subsequent election cycles.
Major social media platforms also have become far more vigilant about policing suspicious content, though Elon Musk's recent large-scale staff cuts at Twitter have raised questions about whether the company could maintain properly monitor content ahead of Tuesday's vote.
Whether Prigozhin's remarks were true, or merely disinformation intended to raise alarm in the United States, they nonetheless reflected how Putin and his supporters view Russia as fighting a multifront war against the U.S.-dominated, allegedly hegemonic West. Putin and his allies have said that Russia is fighting the U.S. and other NATO nations in Ukraine, and blamed the West for prolonging the war Putin started.
State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters Monday that Prigozhin's "bold confession, if anything, appears to be just a manifestation of the impunity that crooks and cronies enjoy under President Putin and the Kremlin."
Russia has also used disinformation, its muscle in energy markets and its control over Ukrainian food exports in an effort to shatter Western unity over support for Ukraine. A key objective of the Kremlin involves weakening Western democracies, by promoting far-right candidates, targeting centrists and spreading divisive online rhetoric.
Influencing the overall outcome of a midterm congressional election, given hundreds of candidates on the ballot in all 50 states, is more complicated than a head-to-head presidential race. But individual congressional races, in small districts or individual states, can be prone to outside interference.
The Treasury Department brought sanctions against Prigozhin in March 2018 for his role in interfering in the 2016 elections, and again in 2019 for meddling in the 2018 congressional elections. In each case, the department citied his role in financing the Internet Research Agency troll farm in St. Petersburg.
The United Kingdom and the European Union have also brought sanctions against Prigozhin.
The oligarch, who made his fortune through Russian government catering contracts, including for kindergartens, schools and the military, is known as "Putin's chef."
He also runs FAN news agency, which pushes his agenda, including attacks on his political enemies and praise for his own projects, such as his push into Africa in recent years, offering security services and advice on political manipulation to autocrats on the continent in return for access to resources.
After years of denying any link to the Wagner mercenary group, Prigozhin in recent months has openly admitted his association with the private militia, even personally recruiting fighters in Russian prisons, despite the fact that mercenary groups are illegal under Russian law.
Wagner mercenaries for months have tried unsuccessfully to push Ukrainian forces out of BakhmutUkraine, a battle that has taken a heavy toll on each side and left the city in ruins, even though Western military analysts have said there is no strategic military logic to push to take the city.
Bloomberg News reported that Graphika social media analysis firm had found a Russian political interference network associated with the Internet Research Agency has been engaged in new political interference, promoting right-wing conspiracy theories, aiming to swing midterm election races against Democrat candidates.
The latest United States sanctions on Prigozhin came in July, related to Prigozhin's "Project Lakhta," a disinformation campaign that he financed targeting audiences in the United States, Europe, and Ukraine. According to the Treasury Department, Project Lakhta spends tens of millions of dollars to fund troll farms "and other mechanisms of malign influence."
"Since at least 2014, Project Lakhta has used, among other things, fictitious online personas that posed as U.S. persons in an effort to interfere in U.S. elections," according to the Treasury Department.
Graphika reported that the Russian network made "direct attempts to undermine support for Democratic candidates in Pennsylvania, Georgia, New York, and Ohio," from August and September. A prime vehicle was the release of political cartoons, "almost certainly intended to go viral."
"The network comprises a series of fake personas on alt-tech platforms popular with far-right online audiences in the U.S., including Gab, Parler, Gettr, and the discussion forum patriots.win. These personas routinely spread inflammatory narratives about sensitive cultural and political issues in the U.S., including vaccines, gun control, racial injustice, and allegations of child sexual abuse. The actors are consistently critical of the Biden-Harris administration," the Graphika report said.
The figures in the network also shared articles from right-wing media and screenshots of social media posts accompanied by incendiary political commentary, the report found.
According to the report, online trolls from Internet Research Agency targeted Democratic candidates — including Sen. Raphael G. Warnock and gubernatorial hopeful Stacey Abrams in Georgia, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, Senate candidate John Fetterman in Pennsylvania and Senate candidate Tim Ryan in Ohio — with racist or inflammatory material.
In a new development, the accounts also weighed in on Russia's war against Ukraine, promoting the false Kremlin narrative that Ukraine is a Nazi state, and suggesting that the Biden administration's support for Ukraine had hurt American standards of living.
But Graphika reported that the latest campaign had achieved minimal online traction.
Prigozhin's political currency has risen in the Kremlin because of his role in the war, not only sending Wagner into battle but also setting up people's defense groups on Russian territory near the border of Ukraine.
At the same time, Prigozhin has emerged as one of the loudest critics of the Russian military over its failures and retreats in Ukraine. He recently vented angrily to Putin about the subject, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter. The exchange was included in the daily intelligence briefing provided to President Biden. Prigozhin denied speaking to Putin.


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Setting up a cheap and low-cost home virtualization server for Proxmox.
I have used Proxmox at work for setting up small servers and liked the fact that it was free and seemed to "just work" without much hassle. Currently there are three Raspberry Pi's for file serving, downloading, and streaming content over my local network and I wanted to add a Plex server, Zoneminder, and Nextcloud. I also like to try out new ideas and virtualizing makes this very easy to quickly try something out and delete it if I realize it's not what I'm looking for.
I was shooting for a budget of under $300 and almost made it. At work I've installed several used HP Proliant DL360 G6 Servers with 24 cores and they are plenty fast, but use more power than most of my house, and sound like a Harrier taking off. I looked into Intel processors, but didn't think the cost justified the horsepower and wanted something fairly low-power too. I found out that AMD had just released a new Athlon 5370 APU that had a maximum TDP of 25 Watts and had enough power to run Plex transcoding @ 1080p with some room to spare.
The hard drives were from old laptops that I replaced with SSDs and the network card was from a batch of five that brings the cost of it to $26. I added the extra SATA power splitter and SATA data cables to connect all three hard drives.
The instructions from Silverstone are clear enough. Open the case, install the I/O shield, then install the motherboard.
The RAM is simply pushed into place and clicked down so the tabs at the end snap down. The ethernet card is also pushed down and the a single screw is installed above the ports to hold it in place.
The hard drive enclosure is unscrewed and the drives go in on their sides. The SATA data and power cables needed to be longer and more ports so I could install all the drives I wanted to. They only cost $10 total and it is a tight fit, but they worked eventually.
The CPU installs very easily, but the cooler (fan) is a pain to install. The screws have springs that apply tension, but they make it very hard to screw in since you have to push down very hard onto the cooler to get them started. I was a little worried that it might break something, but the motherboard just flexed until the threads started catching. Maybe I did this incorrectly, but I don't see how.
The nice thing about this motherboard is that it can be run off an external power supply. I already had a few floating around the house and it makes it a little cheaper to not need to buy in internal supply. Supposedly it also helps the computer run cooler in the small and cramped case, but I don't have a way of verifying that at this time.
Now that the hardware is installed, I will go over installing Proxmox and then configuring some small virtual servers.


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Rapid Adoption of Public Cloud Opens a Cybersecurity Gap, Warns Cybersecurity Professionals
Few are confident in spotting security risks and vulnerabilities in DevOps operated public cloud environments
Palo Alto Networks LONDON Sep 18, 2018 at 09:00 AM
LONDON, 18 September 2018 – A majority of European and Middle East cybersecurity professionals at organisations using DevOps practices in the public cloud believe that their organisations are trading speed for security. In a newly published cloud security study commissioned by global security leader, Palo Alto Networks® (NYSE: PANW), 72 percent of cybersecurity professionals indicated that the speed of public cloud adoption is introducing preventable security risks to software updates.
The DevOps model increases collaboration between development and operations teams, allowing for a fast-paced approach to application creation and enhancement. Organisations have adopted this model to achieve faster application delivery, enhanced innovation, more stable operating environments, and performance-focused employee teams. Yet as the DevOps model is enthusiastically embraced, the survey findings indicate that cybersecurity is being overlooked and organisations may be vulnerable as a result. Most notably:
There is concern among cybersecurity professionals about whether cybersecurity can match the speed and frequency of how DevOps updates apps and services in the public cloud. Only 47 percent of survey respondents indicated that they are confident that cybersecurity is working well for DevOps teams operating in the public cloud.
Only 22 percent of cybersecurity professionals said they had a firm grasp on the risks and needs that come with securing DevOps-operated environments in the cloud
Nearly three quarters (73 percent) report that their organisations have either fully or partly adopted DevOps development in the public cloud. They are regularly deploying and changing software, with 1 in 5 doing many updates on a weekly basis.
As Greg Day, vice president and CSO for EMEA at Palo Alto Networks, explains: "DevOps is proven to deliver strong results. Rapid delivery of code, infrastructure and data enables organisations to meet the needs of their customers faster than ever and stay ahead of their competition. However, too often, the speed and complexity of delivery has resulted in traditional cybersecurity processes failing to complete even rudimentary checks and controls at the same rapid pace, resulting in unnecessary risks. Indeed, we see over half failing to meet basic password management policies. Organisations won't wait for security teams to catch up, so they must leverage native integration points and automate their cybersecurity capabilities to address the continuous and real-time visibility and governance needed to keep pace with DevOps practices."
The Palo Alto Networks Security Operating Platform enables organisations to confidently deploy applications in the cloud by preventing data loss and business disruption. Palo Alto Networks customers operating in hybrid and multi-cloud environments benefit from a comprehensive and consistent security offering that integrates directly with cloud platforms.
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We are the global cybersecurity leader, known for always challenging the security status quo. Our mission is to protect our way of life in the digital age by preventing successful cyberattacks. This has given us the privilege of safely enabling tens of thousands of organizations and their customers. Our pioneering Security Operating Platform emboldens their digital transformation with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in security, automation, and analytics. By delivering a true platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of change-makers like us, we provide highly effective and innovative cybersecurity across clouds, networks, and mobile devices.
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What is a denial of service attack (DoS) ?
A Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack is an attack meant to shut down a machine or network, making it inaccessible to its intended users.
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Zero Trust has become one of cybersecurity's most used buzzwords. It's imperative to understand what Zero Trust is, as well as what Zero Trust isn't.
Secure access service edge, or SASE (pronounced "sassy"), is an emerging cybersecurity concept. It is the convergence of wide area networking.
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The controlling element of the PA-800 Series is PAN-OS®, the same software that runs all Palo Alto Networks NextGeneration Firewalls. PAN-OS natively classifies all traffic, inclusive of applications, threats, and content, and then ties that traffic to the user regardless of location or device type.


PACCAR s Information Technology Division (ITD), located in Renton, WA utilizes cutting-edge technology to provide systems development, consulting, voice and data communications services to the entire Corporation, which has high visibility in the technology sector.
PACCAR ITD is searching for talented individuals to join our Summer Internship Program!
This position is responsible for the development and maintenance PACCAR Engineering applications and programs. Associated development activities predominantly use C#, .NET development, APS.NET and VB, using SQL server as back-end database and will focus on the support, maintenance, and enhancement of applications in the Sales and Marketing domain.
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Rushing into Federation with Malaya has left Sabah being subordinate to the peninsula.
KOTA KINABALU: Former Sabah Secretary Simon Sipaun personally views Sept 16 1963, when Sabah federated with Malaya, as the saddest day for Sabah. He was then 25 years old.
Simon was giving his impromptu views during the pre-Merdeka talk, "Malaysia at the Crossroads", in Kota Kinabalu.
He cited Indonesia as an example of a country that turned in the right direction when it came to the crossroads.
An example is that an ethnic Chinese was recently elected as the Governor of Jakarta, a post almost as powerful as the presidency. The Chinese, pointed out Simon, form less than two per cent of the population in a largely Muslim nation of 250 million.
The Federation, in contrast according to Simon, has degenerated into notions of racial superiority governed by an increasingly intolerant and belligerent centre reliant on lunatic fringe movements.
The pre-Sept 1963 Sabah, shades of which are still visible, was one where a person's race and religion did not matter and there was no deliberate influx of illegal immigrants designed to change the demography.
He urged the young to keep all this in mind as they delve into history and try to fathom the basis, if any, for Sabah to be in Federation with the peninsula.
Simon noted that no new federation was set up in 1963 and the Federal Constitution is a "copy and paste" version of the Malayan Constitution.
He warned that the advent of the Internet has brought about a sea of change and that the young will not tolerate draconian leaders and laws or any attempts by the government to "hide the truth".


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package me.henrytao.sharewifi.fragment;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Fragment;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;

import me.henrytao.sharewifi.R;

/**
 * A simple {@link Fragment} subclass.
 */
public class NavigationDrawerFragment extends Fragment {

  public NavigationDrawerFragment() {
    // Required empty public constructor
  }

  @Override
  public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
      Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    // Inflate the layout for this fragment
    return inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_navigation_drawer, container, false);
  }

}

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Papers released under the 30 year rule show Margaret Thatcher and her Conservative and Unionist Government lied in order to wreck something of value to the majority of us so a minority could make money... Who knew?
Well, anyone who was paying attention.
Just like they are lying and twisting words and facts now about the privatisation of the NHS and rising poverty levels and homelessness, caused directly by their welfare bill and supported by Liberal Democrats such as my local MP and Tory/LibDem Coalition Minister, Jo Swinson.
Those who supported and encouraged Thatcher and her lies and her lying cabinet are now firmly on the wrong side of history. They've been found out.
They lied to and manipulated their country- the people of the UK-us- AND BATON CHARGED AND KILLED to get their own, profitable way.
Thatcher lied when she said she and her Government had no input in the NCB fight against miners fighting for their family livelyhoods and communities. Her own notes show she was micro-managing the Tory millionaire sponsored war against working people.
Those supporting Cameron, Clegg, Iain Duncan Smith and Osborne as they literally laugh at people in poverty are on the wrong side of history. Those who support the lies and doom mongering of the Scottish referendum No campaign are on the wrong side of history.
Compare what we know now about "the terrorist," Nelson Mandela- his absolute insistence on truth - even when it meant longer for him in jail; his fight against a lying, racist Government that was supported by our Thatcherite, proven liars in Government supporting our rich elite who had interests in South African mines etc.
When we teach our children about Thatcher/Cameron /Clegg/IDS will we say, "they were truthful and stood up for what was right? They were doyens of truth and justice who faught for the weakest in society. Truth was their very foundation- and with this they defended the NHS, the poor and the working woman and man. They were principled?"
Of course we won't, because what this 30 year release of papers show, prove, is that Tories are liars who will club and shoot the poor in order to boost shares/ steal resources/ keep you in your place; and all of those who last year praised dead Thatcher, Lady 'T,' for her steely spirit etc, were praising a liar. A woman who lied for power. A woman who lied so the elite could begin the robbery of the working class. A robbery that continues under the present Westminster Government.
A woman who brought disgrace on the office of Prime Minister.
And it was no "little fib." She outright lied about her involvement in the Miners Strike. Publically. Repeatedly.
And please remember that in the coming weeks as the Tories and Liberal Democrats deny privatising the NHS; deny their policies are causing a housing crisis; deny their "bedroom tax" is a tax and in their warped, lying language calls it a "subsidy"- a "subsidy" that is throwing lots of poor and working people into debt - a subsidy only for profiteers wanting to sell off London's social housing stock; deny impoverishing thousands to the point where the Red Cross are now organising food parcels on the streets of Britain for the first time since WW2 and "foodbank" has become an accepted means to give 'benefits' in 21st century "caring Britain" where millionaires get tax breaks, 17% pay rises while the rest of us have pay freezes and literally freeze trying to ensure their dividends in their power companies increase every year.
This Tory and Liberal Democrat Government are liars too, like the Thatcher Government of 1984. Like the Thatcher admiring Blair Government who dragged us to war. And when they wanted to drag us into another war in the Middle East, they were called on their lies. We saw through them and continue to see them for what they are- because since Thatcher made it 'acceptable' to blatantly lie to the country, politicians have done it over and over again and less and less people see their lying, manipulating, twisting, Thatcherite forked tongues as anything worth voting for.
I suspect released papers will be less candid in 30 years time as Thatcher etc had every reason to believe they would be gone when their documents were released, or at the very least it would no longer matter in their millionaires utopia. It does matter in the Ghost Town of a broken Britain their lies and greed has created. It matters that they lied to us and it matters that they have continued to lie, unbroken, since Thatcher, Redwood, Cameron did back during Queen Maggies reign.
I suspect there will be calls for the 30 year rule, that basically exists to cover liars politicians arses, to be extended to a 50 year rule.
The Archbishop of Canterbury asked us minions to be 'Mandela like.' Truthful, resolute in the face of lies and tyranny. Mandela 'the terrorist' Cameron, Thatcher and the rest would have liked to have seen hung for his truth.
Thatcher died last year. Few, only them, will tell their children to be Thatcher like.
And remember what that is- A LIAR.
Surprise. The BBC arent reporting that Thatcher lied.
Reportage needs to up its game. We are being failed by our mass press. I am really shocked by the omissions the BBC choose to make eg- last weeks debate in Parliament about food banks and poverty at which prominent front bench Tories laughed at stories of people's struggles for food etc and the glaring omission of the pro- NHS demonstrations and the ongoing privatisation of the NHS.
I'm also shocked that the BBC has not reported that a Thatcher Tory Government Minister wanted to drain Scotland of more money than they did. I take it this editorial decision has been made in order not to clash with Cameron's want to pretence that Scotland is a loved part of the UK, in spite of, not because of, its resource riches.
Instead the BBC is reporting Thatcher's "pragmatism," ie.ruthless lying.


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Il Bel'skij rajon () è un rajon dell'Oblast' di Tver', nella Russia europea; il capoluogo è Belyj. Istituito nel 1929, ricopre una superficie di 2.135 chilometri quadrati.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Rajon dell'Oblast' di Tver'

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Greetings, Magooshers. Today I'm going to talk to you about some great games that can help you build your English skills. Some of these games for learning English can be played alone. Others can be played with friends, family, and classmates. Let us know if you've encountered any great English games in the comments below!
Choose Your Own Adventure Reading Games
When I was a kid, I read the original Choose Your Own Adventure books. These books let you choose what the characters should do. When a character has a decision to make, you can follow instructions like "If you think he should open the door, go to page 6" or "If you think he should leave the door closed and go somewhere else, go to page 51." These days, you can also play reading adventure games online. It's a really fun way to practice reading and build reading skills.
Popcorn Storytelling
This is an enjoyable group creative writing or speaking game. Here's how it works: One person writes or says a sentence that is the beginning of a story. The next person adds another sentence to continue the story, and so on. The story can go in a lot of surprising directions. It helps you learn to use English quickly and creatively.
Exploratorium's Listening Memory Game
In this online game, you see a group of squares. When you click a square, you hear something in English. In different versions of the game, you can match words, numbers, or tone of voice. It's a very good game for listening word recognition and memory.
Apples to Apples
This is a group card game where contestants match adjectives to nouns. Players will explain why they think their adjective is the best match. You can buy the game, make your own cards to play it at home, or play it online. The game has official rules, but there's a lot of ways to make your own rules. A great way to practice vocabulary, grammar, and speaking.
Elllo.org's Listening Guessing Games
I've been using Elllo.org with my students for years. Elllo's listening guessing game page is fun and challenging. Go here to listen to conversations and other English speech. Match what you hear to the pictures you see.
Typing Speed Games
There are many games you can play online to improve your typing speed in English. This is especially useful if you are preparing for university or college study. (Or if you're studying for computer-based exams like the TOEFL and GRE.) TypeRacer is one of my favorite websites for games like this. You can compete against other typists online, set up an online game with your friends, or play games alone against a computer.
Karaoke Games
Practice English with Karaoke games where you sing along with your favorite English language songs. A computer listens to your voice through a microphone and gives you a score based on English accuracy. If you live in an East Asian country, you can probably find a few Karaoke parlors in your town that offer these games. Public Karaoke gaming is a little less common in other parts of the world, but worth looking for. Websites like Karaoke Party let you play Karaoke games online.
Freerice.com
This website features a self-study vocabulary building game. A word appears on the screen, and you match it to a definition. The words get harder and harder every time you get a right answer. Even a native English speaker will eventually find the game difficult. It's a surprisingly addictive game. And it's for a good cause. Every time you get an answer right, the makers of the website donate ten grains of rice to the UN World Food Programme.
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"On the surface—and again, the surface is all we have right now—Trump's paid maternity leave proposal bears a close resemblance to a very good one advanced by domestic policy analyst Abby M. McCloskey in National Affairs last year. McCloskey, a conservative in good standing, has served as an adviser to the presidential campaigns of former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Donald Trump's mortal enemy, the famously low-energy former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Her proposed maternity-leave program is simple, cheap, pro-growth, and business-friendly."


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Q: Recover ram used by lightdm when not using it What is the difference between these three commands:
sudo systemctl stop lightdm.service

or
sudo lightdm stop

or
sudo service lightdm stop

I'm setting up a command line server with the possibility to start lxde when needed. I've edited grub file, and it boots directly to the command line. Problem comes when I start an X session. when I close it, ram goes down by a tiny bit. But when i run this command:
sudo systemctl disable lightdm.service

Xserver closes AND ram goes down by a good 150MB, which I prefer that way. Problem is that it seems that if I want to close the xserver and get that ram back, only this works.

*

*Do I have to use this command over the command 1, 2 or 3 stated above?

*Can I corrupt the system or something using that one?

A: I answer myself in case someone has the same questions, completing Anwar's answer:

*

*service is a wrapper for systemctl, so its the same

*you don't corrupt anything by closing lightdm, in fact, is desirable for a command line server.

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The lesser-known story of the Peshtigo Fire
Diocese of Green Bay officially confirms Marian Apparition site.
The lesser-known story of the Peshtigo Fire Diocese of Green Bay officially confirms Marian Apparition site. Check out this story on marshfieldnewsherald.com: http://mnhne.ws/1BaOYc2
Kris Leonhardt, For News-Herald Media Published 11:03 p.m. CT Dec. 25, 2014
Interior of chapel at Our Lady of Good Help Shrine near Peshtigo.(Photo: Contributed photo)
Peshtigo was a thriving lumber town in those early days of Wisconsin. Home to the Peshtigo Company, a quite successful business in those days providing every imaginable wood product to many areas. With access to numerous means of transporting goods, the community was destined for greatness.
The year of 1871 had been a dry one for the area. Residents looked forward to the coming winter months and the promised reprieve from battling the blazes that the previous weeks brought about.
The once damp wooded wetlands had become a literal hot bed of activity, with trees so dry that their leaves had fallen barren and dry on the autumn ground, creating a thick carpet primed for any spark that might enter its confines.
It is unclear what began the blaze that occurred the same day of the more publicized Chicago Fire; however, by the time it was extinguished the "Great Peshtigo Fire" had consumed millions of acres and killed thousands of individuals.
Twelve years earlier, Adele Brise, the daughter of Belgian immigrants, had been walking through those same woods, in an area called Robinsville, when she had a vision that was so startling that all she had the power to do was turn and bolt from the situation.
It would take two more visits before the 28-year-old future sister could fully grasp what she was seeing and would take heed in what the visitor was requesting.
Between two trees, in a smoky white haze, Adele saw a women looking quite unlike what is commonplace to today's likeness of the Blessed Virgin Mary. As Adele relayed the experience to others, she spoke of how the golden-haired Blessed Mother had implored her to teach faith to the children and to alert sinners.
Soon after, Adele's father would construct a chapel at the location and Adele went about her mission. It was there on Oct. 8, 1871, that thousands sought refuge from the impending fire. As flames danced and licked their way through the wooded region, refugees spent the night walking the grounds, praying the rosary, and carrying a statue of Mary.
All of the area outside the five-acre property was reduced to a landscape of ashen turf and charred remains, sparing the site of the incredible apparition.
As the area set to recover from the horror set before them by fire, Adele again set about her work. While met with much difficulty, Adele remained faithful in her duties and respectful to the Catholic Church, even in the face of disbelief.
During her time, Sister Adele set up a Catholic School of children's instruction and began a community of Franciscan women. She is buried on the grounds.
Twelve years after the Peshtigo Fire, the community of Robinsville was renamed Champion in honor of the events that occurred there.
Over the years, many special graces have been allowed during visits to the chapels and its grounds, granting financial, health, and other requests doled out by visitors.
In 2010, after a two-year study of the apparition and its merits, the Diocese of Green Bay officially declared the authenticity of the site, making it the only confirmed Marian Apparition site in the United States.
More than 150 years after Sister Adele's encounter, Our Lady of Good Help Shrine joined the ranks of well-known Marian apparition sites at Guadalupe, Mexico; Fatima, Portugal; and Lourdes, France.
"Why after 150 years?" says shrine caretaker, Karen Tipps, in an interview with Diocese publication, The Compass. "It's now because it's meant for this time in history. If you look at the state of our children right now, there's no hope, there's now faith, there's nothing to live for. There's a sense of like, nothing's been passed on to them that they have hope in."
For more information on the shrine, contact Our Lady of Good Help at 4047 Chapel Drive, New Franken, WI 54229, 920-866-2571, or www.shrineofourladyofgoodhelp.com.
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We are looking for volunteers to fill various roles prior to, and during the event. This is a volunteer run event to help bring the windsurfing community together, encourage young kids to take up the sport, boost the image of windsurfing, and help promote the region and local retailers to help the community. Therefore we need as much help as possible! If you are keen to participate and help support windsurfing, WA and the Midwest region please get in touch here to let us know what you can do.
As a volunteer you will get an event t-shirt, a daily meal voucher and free drinks throughout the day.
There will be one assigned head judge to oversee that the event is run professionally and ensure there is fair judging so that all competitors can feel like they have been treated equally.
However, we need 6 judges to judge each division. As a judge you will obviously not be judging the division you have entered in and we will ensure that you have plenty of time between judging and your own heats. You will be judging from the scaffold platform so will have prime view of the action. We know how tiring it can be so we will look after you so that you'll be well hydrated and fed at all times. It's an excellent way to watch the action, learn moves, and get pumped for your own heat!
The more volunteers we have, the less time each rider will have to judge so get involved!!
For each division we would ideally like 4 judges resident outside of Western Australia and 2 judges from Western Australia.
Keeping an eye out on the competitors and liaising with jet skis to ensure that any competitor who finds him/herself in difficulty is helped accordingly.
Checking that the competition area is free.
The coolest thing about this job is you get to use a walkie talkie and say cool things like "roger that" and "over". Also we'll make sure you don't do it for too long, and that you are fell fed and hydrated.
One of the most important jobs of all- you'll be in charge of keeping a very close watch on the heat times and working the flags accordingly. You also get given snacks and beverages, get to hang out on the platform with all the cool cat judges, and watch the action.
Registering all those losers that haven't pre-registered online, give them the form, make sure they've completed it correctly, take their money, answer all their questions.
Cross check that all registered competitors have the right insurance and have signed in.
We need as many hands as possible to help set up and pack down the event.
Set up will be start at 7am on Wednesday 5th December. This will include putting up the Marquis, helping out clearing up the spot, and finishing off the judging tower.
Once the last heat is run on Sunday 9th December, we will need a hand to pack everything down and do a general clean up.


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Enter Artworks
A zine is a self published creative work in book format. It is intended to have a relatively small circulation and follow a Do It Yourself (DIY) aesthetic. We purposely chose to track, share and record our engagement with diverse communities in the zine format. We wanted to produce collectable, lasting material that could be printed and shared with our participants and others interested in exploring the Human Cell Atlas project.
Throughout One Cell At A Time, artist Dominic Smith has been present at many of the artist's public workshops, watching, listening and capturing activity as it happens. As engagement activity moved online, participants presented themselves in virtual workshops within small boxes and discussions became linear. Inspired by the way the virtual interfaces we are now using to communicate force us into manageable, flat geometries, Dominic began exploring the early experiments of 19th century art and design, namely Bauhaus, Constructivism and the School of Paris. This was a time when artists were developing a new visual literacy to help us understand and communicate the rapid changes that were happening in society as a result of the growth of modern industry. Through this process he has succeeded in evolving a graphical identity that combines the bold shapes of constructivism with the accessible feel of a zine.
Dominic Smith's practice reflects an interest in the collaborative nature of narrative and lens based practices, digital platforms and hybrid digital material culture. Recent work has involved a return to analogue, chemical photography and alternative distribution practices such as zines and affordable print editions, fusing contemporary digital practices with historical photographic methods. Dominic also has a wealth of experience as a curator, event facilitator and producer.
Thank you to all of the One Cell At A Time artists for their adventurous spirit.
Thank you to all workshop participants for allowing me to capture their thoughts and work
But a special thank you to the Once Cell At A Time producers for doing the groundwork that made this possible,Justine Boussard, Cathrin Poppensieker, Fusion Arts and Matt Burman, Cambridge Junction.


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I'll be premiering the Torn In Two live A/V show on January 16th in Los Angeles.
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"Warmer Nights", the third and final video for Torn In Two is out now. Directors Notes premiered the film along with details of the behind-the-scenes process, including concept drawings and fabrication photos.
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Torn In Two is out now on all services and deluxe double vinyl.
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The Torn In Two video is now available on YouTube and Vimeo.
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The score for Impulse is out now on most services via Lakeshore Records. Links HERE.
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Excited to say that I composed the score to "Impulse", a new show from Doug Liman premiering on YouTube Red June 6th.
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I provided the score for Marvel's first podcast "Wolverine: The Long Night" available now on Stitcher Premium. It's a dark, scripted story following Logan through a small town. Recorded in ambisonics. Main titles below.
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Tickets are now on sale for our next Echo Society show, FAMILY. A three-day festival at a legendary residence in Los Angeles, with special guests to boot. More info HERE.
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The newest '1979' vinyl pressing is in stock and up for sale.
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Territories, the first release on our new record label, 79Ancestors, is available now on all digital streaming services and vinyl + VR headsets. The album's theme is centered around depicting "imaginary landscapes" with sound.
Order the vinyl + VR headset bundle now and you'll be ready to dive right into the Territories virtual landscapes in the coming weeks.
Features new music by Deru, SHIGETO, Telefon Tel Aviv, Rafael Anton Irisarri, A.M. Architect, VHVL, Tongueless, and Before Tigers.
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2 million plays on YouTube on a random upload of '1979' feels like some sort of milestone this day and age. I'm happy that 3 years on this record is still being discovered.


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Q: How can we print this output? String x = "1 -7 2";
String y = "-2 2 1";

Output:
1,-2
-7,2
2,1

We'll use x's first number which is negative or positive, y's first number ...

A: In Java you can use the Scanner class.
String integers = "1 -4 3";
Scanner sc = new Scanner(integers);
while(sc.hasNextInt())
{
    System.out.println(sc.nextInt();
}

Look it up in the javadocs :)
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Scanner.html

A: Just a rough sketch

*

*split both strings at white space into arrays

*loop over these two arrays and merge them one by one

A: For Java:
You can split each of your strings using the split method and then you have an array of each that you can print out the corresponding characters from each array.

A: In java use directly split function on space " "
In c use strtok on space ' ' and put those into 2 array of integers and just loop over it. for odd iterations first array for even iterations 2nd array and print those numbers

A: This deals with cases where x and y are not of the same size
    String x = "1 -7 2";
    String y = "-2 2 1";

    // Split the strings
    String[] xSplit = x.split("\\s+");
    String[] ySplit = y.split("\\s+");

    // Loop through them
    for (int i = 0; i < xSplit.length; i++) {
        System.out.print(xSplit[i] + " ");

        if (i < ySplit.length)
            System.out.print(ySplit[i] + " ");
    }

    // Print more y if needed
    for (int i = xSplit.length; i < ySplit.length; i++) {
        System.out.print(ySplit[i] + " ");
    }

    System.out.println();

A: simple way to do it in C:
char * x = "1 -7 2";
char * y = "-2 2 1";
int xs[3], ys[3];

sscanf(x, "%d %d %d", xs, xs+1, xs+2);
sscanf(y, "%d %d %d", ys, ys+1, ys+2);

printf("%d, %d\n%d, %d\n%d, %d\n", xs[0], ys[0], xs[1], ys[1], xs[2], ys[2]);

A: This should do:
String[] splitX = x.split(" ");
String[] splitY = y.split(" ");

System.out.println(splitX[0]+","+splitY[0]);
System.out.println(splitX[1]+","+splitY[1]);
System.out.println(splitX[2]+","+splitY[2]);


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Home Electric Vehicles EV Charging Petition drive seeks to reverse 200%+ increase in Blink Network charging station fees
Petition drive seeks to reverse 200%+ increase in Blink Network charging station fees
David Herron September 26, 2014 April 13, 2015 EV Charging
A few days ago I asked whether Blink's recent pricing change for charging services was gouging consumers. That pricing change had some welcome changes, such as switching from charging by the hour to charging by the minute. But the effect has been a drastic increase in the cost of a charging session at a Blink station. I'm seeing repeated complaints about this from EV drivers posting on Facebook, and now there is a petition drive underway asking the CarCharging Group to revert the pricing on Blink charging sessions .
Formerly these sessions cost $1 per hour. With a car capable of charging at 6 kilowatts, that translates to a cost of $0.16 per kilowatt-hour. Except Blink has been derating their stations because of overheating problems at the charging cord, so it might have been working out to be $0.25 per kilowatt-hour.
The new rate varies (click on the second link above) and users are now seeing costs around $3 per hour. Yikes.
The petitions notes the same point I just mentioned – a huge percentage fee increase for charging at a Blink station. The author of the petition claims this increase will deter potential electric car drivers, and cause an exodus of users from Blink's stations.
I suppose that's what will happen – the company is certainly earning a negative reputation from this action. Rather, the already-negative perception of the Blink network is simply being reaffirmed.
The petition notes, as did I in an earlier post, that the charging network owners must be able to make their profit. Since $0.49 per kilowatt-hour seems to be a fairly common price at charging stations, that makes me wonder if that's the price level needed by charging networks to sustain the business?
The charging networks obviously have costs beyond the cost of the electricity. That means their price must be high enough above the electricity cost to give them enough to cover their costs and maybe even a bit of profit.
At the same time, the higher the price at the charging station the closer it gets to the cost of gasoline.
A big attraction of electric cars is that, at $0.11 per kilowatt-hour for electricity, the "fuel cost" to drive an electric car is a tiny fraction of the fuel cost for gasoline. But at $0.49 per kilowatt-hour that no longer holds true.
The terms of the petition are to
Revert the fees to $1 per hour or equivalent
Maintain the change where it's calculated on a 1 minute granularity
Rethink the business model
Like the author of the petition, I am unable to charge my electric car at home. Most of the planning for EV charging assumes drivers will charge at home at the low $0.11 per kilowatt-hour (or so) that's the nationwide average. Those of us who don't have that option are completely beholden to whatever the charging networks decide is their fee structure.
EV Drivers have enjoyed free charging for a few years now, and maybe just maybe have become addicted to that idea. I wonder if free charging, or unsustainably low-cost charging, will survive for the long term?
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