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Q: Android audio with STREAM_ALARM - how to silence speaker when headphones plugged I am developing an Android alarm clock app and I am using the STREAM_ALARM for playing the alarm audio. When I plug in headphones during the alarm playing the audio, the audio starts playing in the headphones but also continues playing in the speaker.
But I want to silence the speaker so that the user can plug in his headphones and continue listening to the audio without interrupting any people around him. This might be unusual behavior, but it's very important for this specific alarm clock app.
Maybe I could use STREAM_MUSIC, but:

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*The docs say that Unless your app is an alarm clock, you should play audio using the STREAM_MUSIC stream.

*If the alarm starts ringing and headphones are already plugged in, I do need it to play through the speaker. STREAM_MUSIC does not do this. There might be workarounds, but I need this 100% reliable, so it'd be better to make a workaround for silencing the speaker when needed than a workaround for making it loud when needed.

*I am not sure what other consequences it might have, it doesn't seem safe.

So, is there any option to force the speaker to be silent? Using some reflection maybe?
I was also considering changing the stream type on the ActionHeadsetPlug to STREAM_MUSIC, but it requires stopping the audio, recreating the MediaPlayer instance, seeking to the previous position, rebinding any events, other logic etc.. a lot of work for my use case. Silencing the speaker would definitely be better if it's possible.

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Online Fisher symposium: The limits of an Aristotelian constitutional jurisprudence
Posted Wed, September 12th, 2012 12:30 pm by Inimai Chettiar
The following contribution to our Fisher symposium comes from Inimai Chettiar, the Director of the Justice Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. The Brennan Center filed an amicus brief in Fisher v. University of Texas along with the League of Women Voters.
Fisher v. University of Texas perfectly demonstrates how a constitutional jurisprudence divorced from reality and history can make the Supreme Court turn logic into a pretzel. Next month the Court has the opportunity to allow universities to use race explicitly to create genuine equal opportunity. Or, it can perpetuate the farce that the Equal Protection Clause and today's society are colorblind. Unfortunately, since the Court's modern jurisprudence overlooks the true purpose of the Equal Protection Clause and the reality of structural bias, the latter may be an easier path.
It is absurd to argue that the Equal Protection Clause does not support race-conscious college admissions. Congress drafted the Fourteenth Amendment, which was ratified in 1868, specifically to redress the wrongs of slavery, an institution based on the systemic subordination of people based on skin color. The Amendment was explicitly intended to allow the government to set race-based policies. Reconstruction-era legislators passed many such measures, such as the Freedmen's Bureau. Almost a century later, in Brown v. Board of Education, the Court ruled that the government must end unequal application of the law and has an affirmative constitutional obligation to end racial disparities in schools. In the 1960s, "affirmative action" was initiated to provide "compensatory justice" to redress the historical oppression of African Americans and other racial minorities.
Unfortunately, since Brown the Court has repeatedly restricted government's tools to promote integration and racial equality. Equal protection has been turned upside down, protecting white Americans at the expense of people of color. For example, in 1974 in Milliken v. Bradley, the Court reversed a lower court's desegregation plan for Detroit and its suburbs, despite the Sixth Circuit's warning that it would be "opening a way to nullify Brown." Four years later, in Regents of University of California v. Bakke, the Court struck down a medical school's policy to reserve a set number of slots for people of color. In his controlling opinion, Justice Lewis Powell missed the larger intent of the equal protection clause and coated it with an unnecessary layer of complexity: Absent a specific history of intentional discrimination, a university can constitutionally use race-conscious admissions only to promote "diversity" among the student body, but not to remedy broader inequality. In 2003, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor relied on Powell's diversity rationale when deciding Grutter v. Bollinger, which upheld the University of Michigan Law School's use of race as one factor among many in admissions decisions. Yet, because it is practically impossible to rip "diversity" from its historical context, this has left equal protection jurisprudence in a tortured form.
Less than a decade after Grutter, the Court is now revisiting the law well-settled in Grutter. The current challenge in Fisher involves undergraduate admissions at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). UT Austin awards eighty-five percent of its freshman slots to students in the top ten percent of their high school class. The remaining fifteen percent of the class is reserved for students evaluated on a "holistic" basis, which considers academic factors, leadership skills, extracurricular activities, work history, family background – and race. These applicants are admitted based on the totality of their lives to foster a diverse student body. UT Austin has followed Grutter's instructions to the letter.
Simply because these policies have brought some people of color some progress does not mean society is now color-blind and equal treatment for all prevails. The idea that today's society is now "post-racial' is a convenient fiction. Empirical research has found repeatedly that people of color are underrepresented in institutions of higher education, hold a smaller percentage of political and private-sector leadership positions, have poorer health outcomes and lower income, and are disproportionately arrested and imprisoned compared with white Americans. The fact that this litany even has to be cited shows how unmoored from reality our notion of equality has become.
At root, what has created this confused jurisprudence is the Court's underlying definition of "equal" treatment. The modern American definition of "equality" stems from Aristotle's theory that "like cases should be treated in a like manner" and "unlike cases should be treated in an unlike manner." But as pioneering scholar Catharine MacKinnon has noted, this definition fails to recognize that "unlike cases" can still be equal. Cultural, gender, and racial norms and experiences create different people – all still of equal value – who enhance society because of their "unlike" attributes. Just because a person of color may bring different strengths to university life does not mean he or she is not of equal value as a white student. To argue the opposite is to impose a sterile, one-dimensional value on human beings.
Critical race legal theorist Derrick Bell pointed out that legal, societal, and educational "norms" overlook women and people of color. While to critics it may appear that these constituencies seek an "unfair advantage" – especially in the context of higher education admissions — all they seek is fair consideration in the first place. In fact, this dynamic is present in the debate about critical race theory itself. Judge Richard Posner has criticized critical race theorists for using narrative and allegory. Posner argues that, "by repudiating reasoned argumentation, the storytellers reinforce stereotypes about the intellectual capacities of nonwhites." But the very notion that "reasoned argumentation" is somehow intellectually superior to narrative and allegory to explain legal theory is the product of a racially biased norm. (It appears Posner also forgot that Plato – the father of Western philosophy – wrote in allegory.) Our entire system of education and legal norms was built by and for those in power – white heterosexual men of privilege. Outsiders must conform to these supposedly "objective" academic measurements, or else be branded as lacking sufficient intelligence. But when the very instrument for determining who meets certain criteria is itself biased in favor of those in power, any assertions of objectivity are false.
It is this reality that modern equal protection jurisprudence misses: racial preference for white Americans is already built into the fabric of the educational system, law, and society. So, for example, a teacher who held Posner's beliefs may give lower grades to students of color who use a narrative explanation and higher grades to white students who have internalized the traditional western norms of writing because he considers the latter a "better" form of writing. Academic grading is itself biased. It is not a race-neutral judgment – especially given the disparities in educational resources in communities of color versus white communities, even after controlling for income. Different cultural norms and forms of expression, as well as non-English languages spoken at home, also affect student performance. All of these differences affect the academic portion of a student's application. This is exactly why selective institutions such as the University of Michigan and UT Austin have turned to holistic evaluations as a part of their admissions process.
Ending de jure segregation does not, in and of itself, achieve racial equality. Despite the Court's tortured interpretation to create a color-blind Equal Protection Clause, remedying racial disparities is still this nation's ongoing constitutional mandate. Racial inequality will actually become more intractable if the Court decides that the Constitution prevents the government from reducing discrimination.
Against the odds, let's hope that the Roberts Court – and Justice Kennedy in particular – neither blithely ignores the precedent of Grutter and the cases before it, nor the historical and contemporary realities of race.
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Recommended Citation: Inimai Chettiar, Online Fisher symposium: The limits of an Aristotelian constitutional jurisprudence, SCOTUSblog (Sep. 12, 2012, 12:30 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2012/09/online-fisher-symposium-the-limits-of-an-aristotelian-constitutional-jurisprudence/


You ask me: "Tell Us Your Story?" Very well! *My* story is that I'm a big Trump supporter, & I live in POLK County, Florida (Lakeland, e.g., between Tampa & Orlando), but I'm also very poor, & I'm a recipient of the POLK Care indigent health care, paid for my a 1/2-cent sales tax, and guess what? It works, and works well! (I got a cataract surgery as well as regular checkups.) So, why am I telling *you* this? Well, you (Pres-elect Trump, VP-elect Pence, lawmakers, & *all* staff) have been tasked with "repeal & replace." Fine! But, 'replace' with what? How about we use the POLK Care as a model, ok? [I know this answer seems too simple or "too good to be true," but sometimes the "simple" answer, per Occam's Razor, is the correct one.] PS: I'm OK with the other 'Conservative' ideas (for example, to allow competition across state lines), but these "other" ideas are merely icing on the cake. **My** idea is the whole cake itself. (Now, funding it might have to be modified from a sales tax to an equivalent Income or Use tax, but, hey, POLK County's plan works, and if it works, don't fix it -- rather, use it as a model to copy, and, yes, you may cite me, Gordon Wayne Watts, as the constituent who thought of this idea, should you speak to the press and want to clarify background details in your legislative actions, here.) PS: Yes, I've harassed... uh, I mean, sought constituent representation (let's be politically correct!) from my good friend, Rep. Dennis Ross (R-FL-15th) on this issue (and other issues), so you need to get him into gear & get him on board with this idea of mine (and my other ideas on your failing higher-ed challenges). -- I want you all to succeed, and I hope my ideas are encouraging and helpful.


(Reuters) - Frustrated by their inability to stop sophisticated hacking attacks or use the law to punish their assailants, an increasing number of U.S. companies are taking retaliatory action.
Known in the cyber security industry as "active defense" or "strike-back" technology, the reprisals range from modest steps to distract and delay a hacker to more controversial measures. Security experts say they even know of some cases where companies have taken action that could violate laws in the United States or other countries, such as hiring contractors to hack the assailant's own systems.
In the past, companies that have been attacked have mostly focused on repairing the damage to their computer networks and shoring them up to prevent future breaches.
But as prevention is increasingly difficult in an era when malicious software is widely available on the Internet for anyone wanting to cause mischief, security experts say companies are growing more aggressive in going after cyber criminals.
"Not only do we put out the fire, but we also look for the arsonist," said Shawn Henry, the former head of cybercrime investigations at the FBI who in April joined new cyber security company CrowdStrike, which aims to provide clients with a menu of active responses.
Once a company detects a network breach, rather than expel the intruder immediately, it can waste the hacker's time and resources by appearing to grant access to tempting material that proves impossible to extract. Companies can also allow intruders to make off with bogus files or "beacons" that reveal information about the thieves' own machines, experts say.
Henry and CrowdStrike co-founder Dmitri Alperovich do not recommend that companies try to breach their opponent's computers, but they say the private sector does need to fight back more boldly against cyber espionage.
It is commonplace for law firms to have their emails read during negotiations for ventures in China, Alperovich told the Reuters Global Media and Technology Summit. That has given the other side tremendous leverage because they know the Western client company's strategy, including the most they would be willing to pay for a certain stake.
But if a company knows its lawyers will be hacked, it can plant false information and get the upper hand.
"Deception plays an enormous role," Alperovich said.
"There is no business case for it and no possible positive outcome," said John Pescatore, a National Security Agency and Secret Service veteran who leads research firm Gartner's Internet security practice.
Nevertheless, the movement shows the deep anger and sense of futility among security professionals, many of whom feel that a bad situation is getting worse, endangering not only their companies but the national economy.
"There's nothing you can do" to keep determined and well-financed hackers out, said Rodney Joffe, senior technologist at Internet infrastructure company Neustar Inc and an advisor to the White House on cyber security.
Joffe recently looked at 168 of the largest 500 U.S. companies by revenue and found evidence in Neustar forensic logs that 162 of them owned machines that at some point had been transmitting data out to hackers.
Frustration by security professionals is not new. Some privately admitted to rooting for Lulz Security last year during that hacking group's unprecedented spree of public crimes, when it broke into and embarrassed Sony Corp, an FBI affiliate and others with routine hacking techniques [ID:nL2E8E6EDO]. They said the resulting media coverage finally caught the attention of CEOs and legislators, although tougher cyber security laws have yet to pass Congress.
Although some strike-backs have occurred quietly in the past, Facebook popularized going on offense, said Jeff Moss, founder of the influential Black Hat security conferences and an advisor to the Department of Homeland Security.
In January, Facebook Inc named some of the Russian players behind the malicious "Koobface" software that spread through spam on various social networks, earning the gang an estimated $2 million.
The security industry's shortcomings were underscored most recently by the discovery of the Flame spying virus in the Middle East.
"It's time to have the debate about what the actions would be for the private sector," former NSA director Kenneth Minihan said at the RSA security conference held earlier this year in San Francisco.
In April, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told the San Jose Mercury News that officials had been contemplating authorizing even "proactive" private-entity attacks, although there has been little follow-up comment.
Many large security providers no longer preach that keeping the enemy out is paramount. Instead, they adopt the more recent line taken by the Pentagon, which is to assume that hackers have gotten inside and will again.
The mainstream advice now is to focus on trying to detect suspicious activity as quickly as possible in order to shut it down.
Hitting back with force is only the most colorful of possible responses after that. More common alternatives include deep analysis of what data has been sent out and attempts to learn whether the recipients were competitors, criminals who might try to resell it, or national governments, who might be inclined to share it with local industry.
Some experts also say executives should identify their most prized intellectual property and keep it off of networked computers and consider evasive action - such as having 100 versions of a critical digitized blueprint and only one that is genuine, with the right one never identified in emails.


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Report: Simulator Training Flawed
Problems stemming from simulator training have been cited as contributing factors in airline accidents that caused more than half of the 522 fatalities over the last decade, according to a USA Today analysis published on Tuesday. Most recently, the NTSB cited deficient simulator training as a contributing factor in its final report on a December 2008 accident in Denver, in which six people were severely hurt when a Continental 737 ran off a Denver runway. Simulated crosswind training in the airline industry is "inadequate," the NTSB reported, due to "deficient simulator wind gust modeling" that fails to provide pilots with "realistic gusty crosswind training." USA Today noted that simulators also were cited in the NTSB reports on last year's fatal Colgan Air crash and the November 2001 crash of an American Airlines A300 in which 265 people died.
In its report on the Colgan Air crash, the NTSB said airline simulators needed to do a better job of helping train pilots to handle icing emergencies. In the A300 crash, the NTSB found that a simulator exercise had given pilots a false sense of how the rudder would respond to inputs. The investigators found that the rudder pedal motion in the simulator and the airplane produced by normal and high pilot input forces resulted in different pedal displacements. The differences were attributed to the software representation of the elastic cable stretch in the simulator, which was less stiff than the cable stretch on the A300-600 airplane. The NTSB voted earlier this year to urge federal regulators to create higher standards for simulator performance, USA Today said.


On Mac El Capitan, I installed Ethereum using brew following the instructions at https://ethereum.gitbooks.io/frontier-guide/content/installing_mac.html, the installation is successful and ethereum-1.3.3 is installed.
However when I try to create an account using gets account new, I get the following error, any clues how to get past this?
UPDATE: this is now resolved, the following commands did the trick.


spw020247 SCOTLAND (1928). Alloa, general view, showing Town Hall, Marshill and Church Street. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north.
Title [SPW020247] Alloa, general view, showing Town Hall, Marshill and Church Street. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north.
St Mungo's School (as it became) Woodwork/Technical building. Teachers included Ian Stevenson and Mr Lamb. Dry and dusty inside, ye couldn't get a drink withoot fear of annoying the teachers!
Greenfield House now houses the Town Council offices.
The wagon road which was used to transport coal from the Holton area of Sauchie to Alloa harbour. Although the tracks are gone the road still exists from Station Hotel down to South School.
Colville's Nursery now built over.
I worked there delivering flowers on an auld fashioned heavy bike. Ten shillings for a Saturday, 8.00am till noon. Plus tips! Mr Colville senior was a very knowledgeable gardener.
Drill Hall now no more.
The Drill Hall now no more.


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How Does The Gaming Industry Stack Up Against Hollywood Movies?
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How many online games have you played in 2021? Do they compare to the number of Hollywood movies you have watched under the same span? Some Canadians will confirm that they have watched fewer Hollywood movies than the number of casino games they have played. That's a fact because playing games is more engaging and exciting compared to watching. Furthermore, it has vast benefits than watching. But the reality is that we can't compare the two shallowly. We linked up with one of our experts to elaborate on the video game industry vs the movie industry. So, are video games superior to Hollywood movies?
Video Games Are Immersive
When watching, it's the main and the other characters that do most of the things. You have to follow what is happening and get entertained. It happens that way because the movie gets scripted first before it gets displayed on your screen. But that's a different case with the games industry.
Gaming allows them to be the main characters in the game. When a loss occurs on their side, it shows they failed to show up at the right time. That's contrary to when you watched a movie where the main character was the one influencing everything. As such, you become fully immersed in the movie.
During open discussions, your friends will allow you to defend your gaming skills. That's because they know you are the main character in your favorite game. However, when discussing a movie, they won't take you seriously because they will treat everything as fantasy.
Games Give A Reason To Come Back
How many times have you ever gone back to the movie you watched a few days ago? It's rare for people to watch what they have watched because there will be nothing they will be getting from them.
That will only happen if they will be showing their friends the interesting parts of the movie. However, that's completely the opposite online gambling industry. Canadian gaming enthusiasts never tire of playing their games.
There are many real money online casino Canada sites that offer quality games that the players are always looking for. Playing such games frequently makes the players build on their skills and also earn from them. That's contrary to Hollywood that only makes you sit and watch without gaining any skills or winning any prizes.
Video Gaming Is A Global Thing
Everyone would love to expand their network through new interactions globally. That's what video gaming promises. Whether you're playing Rainbow Six Siege or another game, you will have a better opportunity to interact with players who have played it and share the experience.
It will also give you a reasonable opportunity of learning more from them. Furthermore, games get developed worldwide, giving everyone an equal chance of diving into action once they get released.
That's not the same scenario with videos because there are no skills to be shared after watching them. The majority of the people have nothing to share in terms of experience. Besides, it confines those who watch them to one network hence not growing their circles locally and internationally.
Develops The Mind
Anyone who has played a video game or seen others play will testify that it requires much concentration. Without paying proper attention to the games, they only end up in losses. Doing that consistently and frequently builds the mind and trains one to be attentive always when dealing with many things. That's different with Hollywood videos which only require you to pay attention to follow up but not to train the mind.
How Does Their Revenue Compare?
It's no lie that the gaming industry makes more money than Hollywood. That is evident considering how people get hyped when they hear a new video gaming is about to be launched. The reaction and the psych for the two are often different and vary widely.
The majority of video games are for adults and purchased mainly by them, making the industry significant sales. Video gaming is no longer a children's hobby but an income-generating activity, unlike movies used in entertainment. Therefore, when comparing video game revenue vs. movies, the video game takes the lead.
As you can see, the future of entertainment relies majorly on video games and not movies as they used to be. Therefore, if you plan to invest in the gaming industry, don't hesitate because the returns will be fruitful.
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In recent months — as the country has been transfixed on the high-stakes drama of the impeachment inquiry — the very fabric of our nation has become altered. Not because of new witness testimony or details pertaining to Ukraine, but because of dramatic new steps the Trump administration has taken to fundamentally change our immigration system.
These changes will impact America's innovation economy. This is true for cities like Boston, where over a quarter of the residents are foreign born and, according to The Boston Foundation, nearly all the region's growth since 1990 has been driven by increases in nonwhite immigrants; rural communities that depend on migrant labor to keep their economies humming; and asylum seekers hoping to find a safe and secure future. But its greatest impact will be on America's moral standing on the world stage.
Reuters recently reported that the Trump administration has quietly amended US asylum rules, permitting the government to send asylum seekers to countries with which we've struck bilateral agreements — even if the asylum seeker didn't first pass through those countries. In other words: The new rule would allow the Department of Homeland Security to send individuals seeking protection to places like Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, which all rank among the top 10 countries with the highest homicide rates in the world. To put a finer point on this, those seeking protection in the United States because they fear persecution from their government based on their race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or particular social group would be sent to some of the most dangerous places in the world.
Last month, President Trump issued a proclamation requiring legal immigrants to prove they have the means to obtain health coverage before they receive a visa. Specifically, the proclamation states that immigrants have to demonstrate either that they can afford to pay for medical bills or that they will enroll in health insurance within a month of entering the United States. This is no small thing: Should it survive court challenges, the move could cut legal immigration by a staggering 65 percent, according to Vox.
In addition, the Trump administration plans to increase citizen application fees by at least 60 percent, and to start charging asylum seekers for applications and work permits. And in September, the administration drastically cut the refugee cap to 18,000 from its previous limit of 30,000. This represents a historic low for the United States at a moment when 25.9 million refugees worldwide are fleeing war and persecution. This is misguided not only because it is mean-spirited, but because preventing refugees from entering our country means less entrepreneurship, less innovation, and fewer workers for growing American businesses. Refugees earned more than $77 billion in income and paid more than $20 billion in taxes in 2015, per a New American Economy report.
America should be a special place where freedom and equality move from dream to cherished reality — like in the Boston metropolitan area, where, in 2015, immigrants accounted for 21 percent of business owners.
To go further, the Trump administration effectively outsourced to state and local governments the ability to crack down on immigration, by forcing states and cities to opt in to refugee resettlement. That means local politicians with ulterior motives — or who just aren't paying close attention — can make it even harder for refugees to go through the process.
Then there's the "public charge" rule. The rule "is simply a new agency policy of exclusion in search of a justification," as Judge George Daniels made clear in his ruling, halting its domestic implementation. Yet it is much more: The rule would make it harder for legal immigrants to enter the United States while scaring immigrant families — including those with children who are US citizens — from receiving assistance they need, such as Medicaid, food stamps, and housing vouchers. It's already happening: Senior citizens are underutilizing public benefits in anticipation of the rule taking effect.
The flurry of immigration news during the Trump impeachment process winding its way through Congress, and throughout the past three years, makes it hard to focus on the more bureaucratic policy changes being implemented. But these changes are challenging the notion that America welcomes newcomers who can reach their fullest potential as Americans.
These rules are scaring off bright new minds from enrolling in our country's prestigious universities and staying to build iconic new companies. According to Forbes, "new enrollment of international students at US universities declined by more than 10 percent. . . . At the same time, the enrollment of international students in other countries, particularly Australia and Canada, has skyrocketed."
Not only do these changes close America's door to immigrants and refugees who would otherwise become much needed workers and future entrepreneurs, they represent a departure from the values and ideals that have long defined this country.
America should be a special place where freedom and equality move from dream to cherished reality — like in the Boston metropolitan area, where, in 2015, immigrants accounted for 21 percent of business owners. Immigrants embody this dream, arriving today much like our own ancestors arrived: often with little more than prayers, hope, and determination. We have been a land of opportunity that enables immigrants to give back to the nation, protect Americans and American values, and, ultimately, become American citizens themselves. This opportunity benefits all of us.
When America turns its back, we close the door on that opportunity. We give license to other countries to turn their backs too. We cede the moral high ground and we undermine our own economic competitiveness.
If ever there were a time for Republicans and Democrats to come together and propose reforms that strengthen our immigration system — and stand up to Trump's unilateral actions — it is now.
American values and leadership hang in the balance.
Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, is host of the "Only in America" podcast and author of "There Goes the Neighborhood: How Communities Overcome Prejudice and Meet the Challenge of American Immigration." Follow him on Twitter @anoorani.


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Director of World Food Programme David Beasley held discussions with filmmaker Skye Fitzgerald (available at hungerward.org) after the online release of a documentary film on the Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen, titled Hunger Ward on April 9.
The new 30-minute film focuses on the terrible plight and death rate of malnourished children in Yemen, featuring coverage at the Sadaqa Hospital in Aden, the West Asian Nation's largest hospital; and the Aslan Clinic, the largest Malnutrition Treatment Centre in northern Yemen. The scenes and the words of the Medical Directors – Dr Aida Alsdeeq in Aden and Nurse Mekkiah Mahdi at the Aslan Clinic – are gripping. The film also shows the horror of the wreckage of a Saudi missile strike on a funeral gathering in Yemen, with shoes of dozens of the dead still scattered in the rubble of the ruins. The postscript states simply that Saudi Arabia, with US backing, is still waging war against Yemen, and that France, Germany, other nations, and the Houthis are complicit.
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Beasley has given this documentary advance publicity to mobilise world attention on the growing famine in Yemen. Speaking at a virtual forum at the Biden Institute, the University of Delaware, on April 7, he repeatedly stressed that the warfare must stop and that famine was "man-made". He said that in the next 10 days, he would visit Haiti, Honduras, Guatemala, and if possible, Venezuela, because of the worsening food situations, there.
Beasley gave the Delaware students a status report on World Hunger, showing how it was increasing. He said that when he had come into office in 2017, there were 700 million hungry people globally, and 80 million were on the brink of starvation. The number the people, who were on the brink of starvation, increased to 135 million just before COVID-19 rocked the world. Today, that number is 270 million. Out of this number, 34 million are nearing the point of starvation. He called it phase 3 to 4 (on the UN scale, called Integrated Phase Classification (IPC), No 1 is considered as real, but minimal food insecurity; No 2 stressed; No 3 crisis; No 4 emergency and No 5 is considered as famine).
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Beasley went into a "breakdown by country", according to the IPC scale. This includes, for example, 19-21 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo are in Phase 4; and 19 million in Afghanistan are in Phase 3 to 4. While "Syria is imploding", Haiti is in crisis, he added.
Beasley further called for USD 5 billion for World Anti-famine Work, on top of the ongoing anti-hunger funding. "We have a vaccine for starvation … it's called food," he stressed. When asked about nutritious food, Beasley said, in essence, that, of course, that was necessary. However, he explained to the student the fact that "food for survival" was now the issue before the Global Community. He declared that the WFP budget was covered at USD 5.9 billion in 2017… then, it rose to USD 8.9 billion in 2020, saying that was not enough. This year, it needs to be in the USD 15 billion range. He recognised that the US increased its contribution to the WFP from USD 1.9 billion four years ago, up to USD 3.47 billion. He also identified that while Washington was typically "fighting over everything, with rinky-dink concerns", there has been a bipartisan agreement on food aid. He scored the billionaires, who watch the deaths happen, stating: "I get upset … in 2020, a new billionaire was created every 17 hours." There were 493 new billionaires created in 2020. "And, all I need is USD 5 billion," insisted Beasley.
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Written by: Aleatha Romig
Narrated by: Samantha Prescott, Brian Pallino
Lennox "Nox" Demetri and Alexandria "Charli" Collins had every intention of following their agreement, but rules are made to be broken. In Cunning, they were reunited, with Nox setting down new rules for the game and Charli having no choice but to follow them. Now, once again, the game has changed. Nox and Charli's hot, sensual encounter has grown into something more, but it is threatened by secrets and regrets. Is it their love and intense sexual chemistry that's pushing them together or something darker?
Series: Infidelity, Book 3
Infidelity, Book 2
One year. No future. A past that won't go away. Lennox "Nox" Demetri broke his own rule by making a deal. It may not have been directly with the devil, but that doesn't mean Satan himself isn't watching. Was it fate that brought Charli into his life and his bed? What will happen when rules are broken and secrets are revealed?
One week. No future. No past. No more. Alexandria Collins has one week to live carefree - no ghosts of her past or pressures of her future haunting her. Reinventing herself as "Charli", she is knocked off her feet by a sexy, mysterious man who brings her pleasure like she never imagined. With her heart at stake, she forgets that decisions made in the dark of night reappear in the bright light of day.
Narrated by: Charlotte North, Jacob Morgan
To the world, I no longer exist. The life I live occurs outside the third dimension - a memory, a ghost, the boogeyman, or perhaps simply a figment of the imagination. When I'm passed on the street, there is no connection. No eye contact. I'm the one whose presence leaves a cold chill of uncertainty, quickly erased by minds who don't want to acknowledge that men like me exist. On the dark web, I'm known as Kader, and for the right price, I will do what others can't or won't.
Series: Tangled Web Series, Book 1
With danger lurking around every corner and my life turned upside down, I struggle with who to believe and who to trust. Can my heart convince my mind that what was bound long ago is where I'll find love, safety, and security? Or are the memories simply an illusion?
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By Amazon Customer on 2019-08-15
Ripples: A Consequences Stand-Alone Novel
Narrated by: Kylie Stewart, Eric Rolon
You might not know me. I'm the baby of the Rawlings family, the princess, the daughter who came along later. I'm not like my older siblings, successful at everything they touch. My mother and father have provided me with every luxury as well as their unyielding love and support, but I'm not spoiled. I'm also not content. By example, my parents have shown me how love should be. I don't know their past, and that doesn't matter. I know what I've seen—two people devoted to one another.
Series: Consequences, Book 6
Consequences, Book 1
Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger
Anthony Rawlings had a plan - to teach Claire Nichols to behave. Claire Nichols had a plan - to survive! In an unfamiliar bedroom within a luxurious mansion, Claire Nichols wakes to memories of a brutal abduction. All of her recollections have one common denominator, the man she just met - Anthony Rawlings. Unbeknownst to Claire, Anthony has had her in his sights for a long time. Every action has consequences - and his actions resulted in their chance meeting. Facing incomprehensible circumstances, Claire must learn to survive as she comes to terms with her new reality.
Truth continues the tumultuous saga of Consequences, introduces new players, and uncovers more intrigue. Aleatha Romig skillfully weaves past transgressions through current deception to create a fervent world of obsessed desire. In this reality can an all-consuming relationship survive? When buried sins are discovered they threaten not only Tony and Claire's future - but their very lives! Will the truth be revealed in time?
Behind His Eyes - Consequences
Consequences, Book 1.5
Narrated by: Sebastian York
Behind His Eyes – Consequences is a companion to the audiobook Consequences, by New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Aleatha Romig. It is not a standalone audiobook and should not be listened to as such. This companion was written to explore the thoughts and motivations of Anthony Rawlings, the man behind the consequences.
Series: Consequences, Book 1.5
Behind His Eyes - Truth
This companion is not a standalone book and should not be seen as such. This companion explores the thoughts and motivations of Anthony Rawlings and his struggle to accept the truth behind the consequences. It is not intended as a total rewrite of Truth, but meant to enhance the listener's understanding. Behind His Eyes - Truth contains significant scenes from the novel Truth, as experienced from Anthony's point of view.
Narrated by: Savannah Peachwood, Alexander Cendese
Within the underbelly of one of America's largest cities lives a world where a man's word is either his most valuable tool or his most respected weapon. When my father ruled that world and that city, he promised me someone who would one day make my reign complete. Since that day long ago, Araneae McCrie has been mine. She just didn't know. My father is now gone. The city and the underbelly are now mine. The time has come for me to collect who was promised to me, to shred her life of secrets and make her who she's always been - mine.
Series: Web of Sin, Book 1
One chance meeting plus... One sexy, possessive alpha and one spunky, determined heroine plus... One week of uncontainable, unbridled passion plus... One impulsive decision times... Two declarations of love divided by... The sum of intertwining pasts, lies, and broken rules equals... Entrapment.
Web of Desire, Book 3
Narrated by: Savannah Peachwood, Noah Michael Levine
Patrick has awakened a fire I forgot existed. Will this renewed desire warm my soul or consume my world? Is it too late? Will the life we yearn to have survive the ashes? From New York Times best-selling author Aleatha Romig comes a brand-new dark romance, ASHES, set in the dangerous world of Sparrow Webs.
Series: Web of Desire Series, Book 3
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese, Savannah Peachwood
The twisted and intriguing storytelling that you loved in Consequences and the Infidelity series continues with the epic conclusion of the all-new alpha anti-hero in the dark romance series Web of Sin, by New York Times best-selling author Aleatha Romig.
I am...That's no longer an easy statement. Who am I? Since Sterling Sparrow, a man so handsome he takes my breath away and so infuriating he pushes me in ways I've never known, came barreling into my life like a category five hurricane, I can't even finish that simple statement. In 26 years I've lived three lives - been three different people. Renee. Kennedy. And now, Araneae. They say that I was named after the spider to make me resilient. Sparrow would then be a bird. Birds eat spiders. I prefer to consider myself a cat.
She thought she could save those she loved. He thought he could save her. They'll both learn the truth. Fidelity, the dramatic conclusion to the epic five novel series Infidelity, following Lennox "Nox" Demetri, Alexandria "Charli" Collins, the Montagues, Demetris, Fitzgeralds, and Spencers, is finally here. When the vows are complete and the dust settles, who will be left standing?
When Claire Nichols met Anthony Rawlings, she didn't know they had a past, or that he had plans for her future. Over time, the role of teacher changed - games became reality - and domination turned to desire. Despite an insurmountable history, Claire and Tony found their way back to each other. Just when they seemed to have it all - love, respect, and the promise of a family - the game master exposed the truth. Claire's world once again spun out of control. Unwilling to allow her child to suffer the consequences of an old vendetta, Claire fled....
Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine, Savannah Peachwood
I've made my mark and proven my loyalty to a man, a city, and a way of life. That loyalty has provided me with all the spoils of success. For the longest time, that hasn't included a woman at my side. There is only one beauty that can bring my untapped desire to life. I shouldn't have opened the door. Cracking open the stone and striking the flint is my doing. What follows is hers. With something so intense, will this spark lead to a blazing inferno? Will we make it out of the ashes before everything I hold dear is ravaged?
Everything changed the night our eyes met across the room. His green gaze upon me prickled my skin with uncustomary warmth while my peek beneath his cuff - of a riot of color on his wrist - sparked my insatiable curiosity. Tall and mysterious, Kader was a man whose secrets I longed to know. Little did I realize that the night we met was only the beginning - the beginning to the end of the existence I knew. What will happen as his assignment becomes our obsession?
No longer simmering and crackling beyond our realm, the fire smoldering in the distance roars to life. The blaze has the capacity to scorch and destroy everything and everyone in its path. All that I've known and believed was obliterated the moment Madeline spoke a truth I'd never suspected. With one sentence, one plea, my life has taken an uncharted turn. Through the smoke and soot, I search for answers. A man, an outfit, and my brothers-in-arms have been my solace, my calling, and my reason to live. Now that I know there's more, what will the future hold?
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Internet society, individuals have no privacy at all, reselling information and telecommunications fraud abound, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. Data is gold, manufacturers spend high cost to collect user data are used to do what?
Although letting others know their own house number and telephone number is a terrible thing. However, it is not always clear that information is most valuable, because it is likely that the user is deliberately forging or inaccurate: you are likely to tell the wrong way to contact the real estate agency; instead, to be alert, implicit and natural, to portray the user's profile : Weekly browsing the news, brushing social media, cycling and payment sharing mode, all contain a wealth of information. Data generated by user behavior is like a 3D printer, shaping a full-bodied person.
In order to obtain the hidden behavior, different applications in as many as possible in almost all corners of the user behavior as detailed as possible in addition to location, read text messages and phone calls into the application every moment, it will faithfully record each reading , Click and stay, more rogue applications will also record the activities of other applications. All kinds of so-called security assistants hide the background, sucking greedily and transmitting data.
We may not understand ourselves, it is more difficult to get acquainted with others, but the machine knows everyone. Artificial Intelligence is so popular that its biggest application is not yet as cool as science-fiction movies. By mastering the detailed behavior of hundreds of millions of users, complex depth models with hundreds of millions of parameters can learn similar user characteristics and behavioral patterns for Business Marketing and Forecasting. For example, when we see the word "殚 精", our mind naturally pops up. If user behavior is coded as characters, the machine can estimate the later actions with a high probability after analyzing enough sequences of actions. The hacking into the application transfer behavior and the average person is completely different, he will first check the balance, turn over a list of friends, and then see the binding of which credit card, AI background has already started early warning mechanism, and thus require authentication. These technologies are widely used in anti-fraud cash surpluses and so on.
Under the same sky, everyone's interests and hobbies are very different, that is, the so-called Thousands of Noodles. User information is heavily used for personal recommendation and behavior prediction. But these technologies will be deeper than expected to all aspects of life.
An e-commerce APP from the installation start, home page layout, ad sorting, to the details page layout, and even logistics are customized. For example, if the regular return, return insurance because they do not make money will not appear in the payment page. Because users with similar personalities probably have similar product preferences, through precise collaborative filtering, precise marketing can greatly improve the click-through rate and purchase rate of advertisements and help manufacturers to obtain more profits.
Information APP Pursuit of clicks and ad exposure. The more eye-catching the "Shocking" title party, the more favored the algorithm, resulting in non-nutritive segments running rampant; the more clicks on a certain type of article, there is a higher probability of recommendation, the strong Constant Matthew effect is serious . For example, engaged in artificial intelligence, then the world is full of artificial intelligence how the article will naturally be formed may be false prosperity and illusion. Parents sharing a daily generation of health chicken soup and rumors, that fundamental reason is that they like it? Or because the information is flooded around the recommendation, so that they have no choice?
Because the current personalized recommendation algorithm is not perfect, the model is very difficult to model the user satisfaction, often there will be users do not like or outdated recommendation. Compared to other applications, WeChat has done a very restrained marketing recommendation. Any big V does not have the privilege of occupying the screen of others. However, we filtered out and filtered similar recommendation systems when filtering friends. Therefore, people of two strata are likely to be in different worlds and do not understand each other.
More than ten years ago, we got information through TV broadcasts and bought goods at supermarkets, all of whom we heard and heard the same. But now everyone looks down at the phone, but the phone is very, very private, you only know your screen, we really are the same?
Is the price of the product really the same? Although the taxi application price, because of the surrounding supply and demand, time and place to dynamically adjust, but it is hard to say whether it is also personalized by personal custom. The tolerance of high prices and the repeated opening of taxi pages will demonstrate the strong desire to take a taxi and further enhance the possibility of fare increases. Taxi around obviously, but the software is not displayed, send a single or probably their own vehicles, because manufacturers do not make money in the taxi.
Marketing is the lifeblood of business, credit is the core of finance. Everyone in the online loan interest rates and quotas is the same? Education, vehicles and real estate will be used to assess credit ratings. For individual micro-loans, overdue users generally have repayment ability but lack of willingness to repay. This situation is difficult to cover the traditional credit, but it is easy to speculate through the usual pattern of behavior. If we do not talk about credit on weekdays and there is no plan for consumption, the algorithm model can already be classified as a high-risk group for a long time. Borrowing quotas will be lower and interest will be higher.
The algorithm of maximizing profit develops the price discrimination of "student card half-price" to incomparable precision. It accurately estimates the highest threshold of user response. We tried to open the hole, if the software deliberately temporarily modified the volatile commodity prices, we have the probability of later found this problem?
A product tips out of stock, it is really out of stock status? Perhaps the system estimates that this one is not profitable, or that buyers are wiping wool. Red envelopes reward seems random, but the lottery on the screen are basically lies. Lucky Goddess will always make the future more profitable people winning. Due to the degree of fatigue control, once won the prize, then pumping hand cramps is also difficult to repeat the lucky.
An article has been deleted, it is really deleted? Or only a few people can not see? An article that pushes a success Nobody appreciates praise, but is it really pushed to someone else? The major media companies have behind the gold and investors, such as in the know is difficult to see the true meaning of Tencent negative information, but Ali Department of the various black materials are rapidly ignorant in the knowledge, you guess Who knows what investment? interesting!
Due to the current high cost of data acquisition, low back-flow rate, and the technical level of algorithm engineers, the existing algorithm system is far from adequate for controlling and understanding information. In the near future, however, sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) in all corners collect vast amounts of information; real-time computing becomes mainstream, and the model reacts to new signals within seconds to adjust tactics; GPU clusters of tens of thousands of machines Be able to easily simulate the mind and behavior of hundreds of millions of users. Maybe just a sudden drifting brain needs, precision ads will be immediately displayed to you. You must see what you or others want to see. Everyone is covered in a shell around the periphery, to see the world is processed filter, the information becomes unequal, the world is further divided.
Three primary colors incident was indignant geothermal for a week, but then completely disappeared in the network, people have to confuse the power of information control. Currently sensitive information monitoring is still stuck in very original keyword filtering, it is easy to avoid shielding by replacing sensitive words, let alone sensitive audio and video. However, future algorithms will have the ability to understand beyond the average person. If a piece of information is made inappropriate, then it will be blocked from the source, whether it is the so-called paragraph, metaphor or irony, explosive communication is nonsense.
In the second quarter of the British drama "black mirror", a few stories are told. One of them is that in the future, everyone in the play is fitted with a smart eye. As long as you do not like a person, you can shield him directly. Later, he will The outline of the figure that turned pale before you, though he could hear his voice, did not know what he said specifically. The divorcee divorced his ex-wife and the ex-wife hated him, so his ex-wife shielded all the information about her and her daughter. Unloved man wanted to see her daughter side, begging, appears in the eyes of her daughter is a strange white shadow and messy noise.
Perhaps we can systematically read information and knowledge to avoid fragmented custom information on the brain; maybe we can try more face-to-face temperature conversations rather than hasty words on the screen; maybe we can spend more time on our life And travel instead of gossiping someone else's story in the drama movie.
We are still glad that the vast majority of recommendations and customizations have not risen to the level of "control," so there is always free access to information through other means; luckily the controller is a human rather than a more powerful machine, or the story in the Matrix Will be a reality; fortunately, their motives are generally out of economic interests rather than political purposes, or wherever they are peace and prosperity and peace and prosperity.


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// Copyright 2015 CoreOS, Inc.
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.

package hostgw

import (
	"bytes"
	"fmt"
	"net"
	"sync"
	"time"

	log "github.com/coreos/flannel/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/golang/glog"
	"github.com/coreos/flannel/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/vishvananda/netlink"
	"github.com/coreos/flannel/Godeps/_workspace/src/golang.org/x/net/context"
	"github.com/coreos/flannel/backend"
	"github.com/coreos/flannel/pkg/ip"
	"github.com/coreos/flannel/subnet"
)

const (
	routeCheckRetries = 10
)

type HostgwBackend struct {
	sm       subnet.Manager
	network  string
	lease    *subnet.Lease
	extIface *net.Interface
	extIaddr net.IP
	ctx      context.Context
	cancel   context.CancelFunc
	wg       sync.WaitGroup
	rl       []netlink.Route
}

func New(sm subnet.Manager, network string) backend.Backend {
	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())

	b := &HostgwBackend{
		sm:      sm,
		network: network,
		ctx:     ctx,
		cancel:  cancel,
	}
	return b
}

func (rb *HostgwBackend) Init(extIface *net.Interface, extIaddr net.IP, extEaddr net.IP) (*backend.SubnetDef, error) {
	rb.extIface = extIface
	rb.extIaddr = extIaddr

	if !extIaddr.Equal(extEaddr) {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("your PublicIP differs from interface IP, meaning that probably you're on a NAT, which is not supported by host-gw backend")
	}

	attrs := subnet.LeaseAttrs{
		PublicIP:    ip.FromIP(extIaddr),
		BackendType: "host-gw",
	}

	l, err := rb.sm.AcquireLease(rb.ctx, rb.network, &attrs)
	switch err {
	case nil:
		rb.lease = l

	case context.Canceled, context.DeadlineExceeded:
		return nil, err

	default:
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to acquire lease: %v", err)
	}

	/* NB: docker will create the local route to `sn` */

	return &backend.SubnetDef{
		Net: l.Subnet,
		MTU: extIface.MTU,
	}, nil
}

func (rb *HostgwBackend) Run() {
	rb.wg.Add(1)
	go func() {
		subnet.LeaseRenewer(rb.ctx, rb.sm, rb.network, rb.lease)
		rb.wg.Done()
	}()

	log.Info("Watching for new subnet leases")
	evts := make(chan []subnet.Event)
	rb.wg.Add(1)
	go func() {
		subnet.WatchLeases(rb.ctx, rb.sm, rb.network, rb.lease, evts)
		rb.wg.Done()
	}()

	rb.rl = make([]netlink.Route, 0, 10)
	rb.wg.Add(1)
	go func() {
		rb.routeCheck(rb.ctx)
		rb.wg.Done()
	}()

	defer rb.wg.Wait()

	for {
		select {
		case evtBatch := <-evts:
			rb.handleSubnetEvents(evtBatch)

		case <-rb.ctx.Done():
			return
		}
	}
}

func (rb *HostgwBackend) Stop() {
	rb.cancel()
}

func (rb *HostgwBackend) Name() string {
	return "host-gw"
}

func (rb *HostgwBackend) handleSubnetEvents(batch []subnet.Event) {
	for _, evt := range batch {
		switch evt.Type {
		case subnet.EventAdded:
			log.Infof("Subnet added: %v via %v", evt.Lease.Subnet, evt.Lease.Attrs.PublicIP)

			if evt.Lease.Attrs.BackendType != "host-gw" {
				log.Warningf("Ignoring non-host-gw subnet: type=%v", evt.Lease.Attrs.BackendType)
				continue
			}

			route := netlink.Route{
				Dst:       evt.Lease.Subnet.ToIPNet(),
				Gw:        evt.Lease.Attrs.PublicIP.ToIP(),
				LinkIndex: rb.extIface.Index,
			}
			if err := netlink.RouteAdd(&route); err != nil {
				log.Errorf("Error adding route to %v via %v: %v", evt.Lease.Subnet, evt.Lease.Attrs.PublicIP, err)
				continue
			}
			rb.addToRouteList(route)

		case subnet.EventRemoved:
			log.Info("Subnet removed: ", evt.Lease.Subnet)

			if evt.Lease.Attrs.BackendType != "host-gw" {
				log.Warningf("Ignoring non-host-gw subnet: type=%v", evt.Lease.Attrs.BackendType)
				continue
			}

			route := netlink.Route{
				Dst:       evt.Lease.Subnet.ToIPNet(),
				Gw:        evt.Lease.Attrs.PublicIP.ToIP(),
				LinkIndex: rb.extIface.Index,
			}
			if err := netlink.RouteDel(&route); err != nil {
				log.Errorf("Error deleting route to %v: %v", evt.Lease.Subnet, err)
				continue
			}
			rb.removeFromRouteList(route)

		default:
			log.Error("Internal error: unknown event type: ", int(evt.Type))
		}
	}
}

func (rb *HostgwBackend) addToRouteList(route netlink.Route) {
	rb.rl = append(rb.rl, route)
}

func (rb *HostgwBackend) removeFromRouteList(route netlink.Route) {
	for index, r := range rb.rl {
		if routeEqual(r, route) {
			rb.rl = append(rb.rl[:index], rb.rl[index+1:]...)
			return
		}
	}
}

func (rb *HostgwBackend) routeCheck(ctx context.Context) {
	for {
		select {
		case <-ctx.Done():
			return
		case <-time.After(routeCheckRetries * time.Second):
			rb.checkSubnetExistInRoutes()
		}
	}
}

func (rb *HostgwBackend) checkSubnetExistInRoutes() {
	routeList, err := netlink.RouteList(nil, netlink.FAMILY_V4)
	if err == nil {
		for _, route := range rb.rl {
			exist := false
			for _, r := range routeList {
				if r.Dst == nil {
					continue
				}
				if routeEqual(r, route) {
					exist = true
					break
				}
			}
			if !exist {
				if err := netlink.RouteAdd(&route); err != nil {
					if nerr, ok := err.(net.Error); !ok {
						log.Errorf("Error recovering route to %v: %v, %v", route.Dst, route.Gw, nerr)
					}
					continue
				} else {
					log.Infof("Route recovered %v : %v", route.Dst, route.Gw)
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

func routeEqual(x, y netlink.Route) bool {
	if x.Dst.IP.Equal(y.Dst.IP) && x.Gw.Equal(y.Gw) && bytes.Equal(x.Dst.Mask, y.Dst.Mask) {
		return true
	}
	return false
}

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Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan passes away in Switzerland
Former United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan passed away at a hospital in Bern, Switzerland, in the early hours of Saturday.
He was 80 and was born in Ghana in 1938.
He was the first black African, to serve as the seventh UN Secretary-General from 1997-2006.
The former UN-Secretary was also Chairman and founder of the Kofi Annan Foundation.
A statement posted by the foundation on his Twitter account said, "It is with immense sadness that the Annan family and the Kofi Annan Foundation announce that Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Laureate, passed away peacefully on Saturday 18th August after a short illness.
The UN Migration Agency tweeted: "Today we mourn the loss of a great man, a leader, and a visionary."
UN Secretary-General António Guterres in a statement said, " Kofi Annan was a guiding force for good. It is with profound sadness that I learned of his passing. In many ways, Kofi Annan was the United Nations. He rose through the ranks to lead the organization into the new millennium with matchless dignity and determination. "
"Like so many, I was proud to call Kofi Annan a good friend and mentor. I was deeply honored by his trust in selecting me to serve as UN High Commissioner for Refugees under his leadership. He remained someone I could always turn to for counsel and wisdom — and I know I was not alone. He provided people everywhere with a space for dialogue, a place for problem-solving and a path to a better world. In these turbulent and trying times, he never stopped working to give life to the values of the United Nations Charter. His legacy will remain a true inspiration for all us," António said.
"My heartfelt condolences to Nane Annan, their beloved family, and all who mourn the loss of this proud son of Africa who became a global champion for peace and all humanity," António added.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed sorrow and grief on the demise of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
"We express our profound sorrow at the passing away of Nobel Laureate and former UNSG Mr. Kofi Annan. The world has lost not only a great African diplomat and humanitarian but also a conscience keeper of international peace and security", tweeted by PM.
Modi also added that Kofi Annan would always be remembered for his contribution to the MDGs.
"Mr. Kofi Annan's significant contribution to the MDGs will always be remembered. My thoughts are with his family and admirers in this hour of grief. May his soul rest in peace", another tweet by PM Modi.
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HUSH, HOLD by Quinn Latimer
"Patricia L. Boyd: Hold," Kunstverein München, March 9–May 9, 2021, installation view
Viewing art – or, more precisely, visiting exhibitions – under the conditions of the pandemic is often a test of patience and organization. The euphoria of recent reopenings was quickly extinguished as a new wave in Europe forces closures to be reinstated. Here, author Quinn Latimer retraces a recent excursion, narrating her thoughts and prescribing a salve for their breathless pace: go back to the lake. Open the book. Approach the object, the image, the wall. Let it hold you. Let it hush you in its expert relation, if just for a bit. Hush, hold.
Hush, you might say to yourself. Or: Hold. You are not writing a poem; you are holding on. One week lakeside in Bavaria and you are already talking to yourself or to the walls. The walls in the city seem to be holding, so you take the train in, away from the mountains, to see some exhibitions for the first time in six months. The institutions have opened but another wave is cresting and they will likely close, as they have across the borders, so better see the shows fast. You've gotten out of the habit of seeing art, letting it do its quick work on you. Art has been one of your forms of self-soothing, as the scriptwriters say, since you were a child: close enough to the wall holding the painting or some sculptural object or some still or moving images, and your mind goes quiet, your posture relaxes into the only body that would appear to hold you, your mouth mouths: Hush. Then:* Hold.*
You take it in. Your porosity, some seriousness of breathable purpose, invites the wall and its object into a kind of loop or short circuit of physicality and mutuality and reception that allows you to – what – hold on. You take what is there – you always have. The art is a gift, or it is a grift, but either way you are grateful; in this relation, you are always in debt. You figured out this trick when you were a kid and you've been doing it since. Now that art isn't enough, though (and, anyhow, the art spaces open and close like a short circuit now), you do other things – coaxing the same chemicals, with your thirsty circuits, to release. You run, yes, but running isn't enough; there are other tricks. Love is one; friendship, another; reading and writing, of course, too; but it's all in doubt these days. You can barely read; your attention is shot. Your life has narrowed and emptied and loosed you again, in a way you did not foresee, and you are always in sorrow, desire: Hush. You beg: Hold. And something does.
A language not on its knees to meaning. This is a line that crops up frequently in your texts this past year. Why? It is not difficult to deduce the reasons for this image of supplication to the sonorous text, to the visual and acoustic languages beholding your life, to your own prodigious grief, to your own stuttering desire. If the language is not on its knees to meaning, what is it on its knees for. Is this supplication or sound or sorrow and is there a difference. Is this about the cold stone floor of the sentence? For instance: You have spent the past weeks writing about a Black conceptual poet of sixties New York whose two out-of-print books have been reissued by an art world suddenly awake to its own not casual operations of white supremacy. The late poet's poems – semiotic, material, improvisatory, incandescent, concrete – are not on their knees to meaning, no, but they are studded with desire: so many Os, that lick of lyric poetry, orgasmic sign of the oral, so much code studding his pages.
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM, one poem of his goes and you echo, with the despondent satisfaction of the disciple, with a long outbreath of circulating air. [1] It's a long viral note and you blow it. The poet's name is N. H. Pritchard and you study his portrait. The image bleeds to the very edges of his book cover in the way of late-century publishing, in the very way that you like. One's image stayed at the very surface of one's work, flooding it. On his cover, Pritchard's mustache is curled, his tie is wide, his eyes soft. Inside, his poems syncopate the pages, his grounds, his walls; studded with space, with lacunae, with some poetics of absence, the poet's lines hum with ambient structure. His book is called The Matrix. A matrix is a structure; it holds.
In the city, the institution that has brought you to this northern country has an exhibition that also holds. It is called, well, "Hold." [2] In the tall, narrow, cathedral-like space of Kunstverein München, the walls are embedded with blocks of soap-like material both hard and soft, forms of illumined opacity. A milky amber hue of light and grease and burned, burnished fields, the forms seem specked with spores, but it is cooking grease gleaned from restaurants; they are negative casts of various forgotten objects – tools, screws, the arm of an office chair – whose absence they hold within them, then offer you. The empty space they carve is so articulate that you read it like signs, like code, like language. The soap-like casts are embedded in recesses cut into new holding walls of the institution, or they are held by thick frames of the flaking white walls of the previous art institutions in which they had been previously installed, and which the artist sliced into when the exhibition was done, extracting the surrounding section of wall. Thus does the excised wall become permanently attached to the cast, less a frame than a containing body. The artist, Patricia L. Boyd, describes these excisions as prostheses; their function is to hold the cast and to extend it – in size, in meaning, in citation, in circulation.
High up on the wall, or placed at eye level, Boyd's works appear to you like votives, like icons, like screens, like memory, like fragments of celestial or corporeal bodies. Image and sculpture, sign and signified, the works immediately "touch" you, "speak" to you, extend their "hand," as it were, both soft and hard, to you. (If you will continue to go to the body for your metaphors, it is because this is what holds you. Here and elsewhere.) The "wall pieces" seem to offer glimmers of some self-blazoning, as did the medieval women mystics. Still, you stare at the rough white frames of wall containing their cast centers. The structural dependency they make manifest, the institutional and psychic conditions they embody, the care they make rough and sly. You wonder about the long-left fragments and past conditions that you carry about your person. About the previous lives and institutional relations and departed loves that frame you like some roughly excised set of walls; about the absent objects that you yourself contain the sign of.
What of object relation theory, of all this living relative to objects? Internal objects refer to the internalization of external objects, formed from our early dependencies on our parents – or so (you think) suggests D. W. Winnicott's theory of holding. This theory, everywhere at the moment – and what does this say, hold for us, what water does it carry – is about the psychic work that being held, cared for, dependent, does. Or does not do if such care is withheld. Winnicott once wrote about a session in which a patient described, with his hands, being curled up, suggesting, as the doctor put it, like some art historian-cum-psychic: "the existence of a medium." Winnicott went on: "After a while I asked him if he understood what I meant and I found that he had immediately understood; he said, 'Like the oil in which wheels move.' Having now received the idea of the medium holding him, he went on to describe in words what he had shown with his hands." [3]
Carrying these thoughts with you (not in your hands, though), you move to the next room. Slanted with light from the line of windows set high in the walls, the room holds a series of large photograms of the artist's apartment windows. Windows above, then, and windows below; images all. Exposed and brushed by trees and sky and everything else it does or does not contain. Negative light: images of what was and what left an indelible impression. You feel the high, wide, narrow walls of the Kunstverein München press in. You feel exposed or held – you cannot tell. Situated along the arcades of the Hofgarten, the Kunstverein's building once served as an insulated passageway between courtly venues. Later these rooms held the Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke, that is, the Museum of Casts of Classical Sculpture. The high windows and broad walls ape the interiors of 18th-century picture galleries, which needed the wall space and light to – what – hold what they displayed.
You check your phone: among your messages is an announcement of another exhibition at another institution, Bonner Kunstverein, in which some echo, some rhyme, catches your eye. It is a group show called "The Holding Environment." Your read the description quickly: "The notion of the holding environment – the slippage between care, dependence, holding and that which fails to hold adequately – loops back in the show," which engages "with the pitfalls of a corrupted notion of care, but also with paths for rehabilitation, restoration and restitution, negotiated through a non-selfish spirit of holding." [4] It is the season of theorizing care, you know this; you have just moderated a symposium on this. It is the season of pandemic and systems which will not hold you, will hold no body carefully but capital. Still, the voluminous use and array of these C and R and H words impresses you (they impress and they hurt you). You wonder if you might take the train to Bonn, if the new regulations will allow it.
There are other places of holding to visit, too, though—to behold. The Hölderlinturm is one. The tower in Tübingen that held Hölderlin from 1806 until the poet's death in 1843. The poet who never left the grief of his childhood, his mother who never visited him within his holding tower. The tower's foundation goes back to the 13th century, its stone gleaned from the medieval city wall that once traced the northern bank of the Neckar. Hölderlin – an ancestral Höld, if you will – once wrote: "Who reigns over everything wants most / Is that the established Word be / Caringly attended, and that / Which endures be construed well." [5] You slip (as if on a stone) and read "constructed well" and imagine a wall, running along a river, and then its disassembling, its pale stones taken and slotted for a foundation for a tower, shot through with light and dark and dependency and poetry, rising above that same gleaming water.
There are other poems. Other walls both ancient and nascent, their seasons of holding and containing, their self-soothing or shattering songs in the key of H. What is that Lydia Davis poem? You think it's called Hush, Hold but you know it's really called "Head, Heart." What if it weren't, though. What if it were a simple equation in which one could swap certain words for other signs of H and ache? Here we go:
Hush, Hold
by Lydia Davis
Hold weeps.
Hush tries to help Hold.
Hush tells hold how it is, again:
You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But
even the earth will go, someday.
Hold feels better, then.
But the words of hush do not remain long in the ears of hold.
Hold is so new to this.
I want them back, says hold.
Hush is all hold has.
Help, hush. Help hold. [6]
You'd do to read the real poem now. No, really. You'd do to hush, to hold, to stop reading doom and dependency in every surface and sign, its lick and lock of departing love, deserting desire, desert where your family should be. On and on and on. So go back to the lake. Open the book. Approach the object, the image, the wall. Let it hold you. Let it hush you in its expert relation, if just for a bit. You are in so much debt. Getting close won't hurt a bit.
Quinn Latimer is the author of Like a Woman: Essays, Readings, Poems (Sternberg Press, 2017). She was editor-in-chief of publications for documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel, and she is currently a lecturer at Institut Kunst in Basel.
Image credit: courtesy of Patricia L. Boyd and Kunstverein München, photos: Constanza Meléndez
[1] N.H. Pritchard, The Matrix Poems: 1960–1970 (Brooklyn, NY: Primary Information, 2021).
[2] "Patricia L. Boyd: Hold," curated by Gloria Hasnay, at Kunstverein München, March 9–May 9, 2021.
[3] D.W. Winnicott, Holding and Interpretation: Fragment of an Analysis (London: Hogarth Press, 1986), 188.
[4] "The Holding Environment," curated by Fatima Hellberg, opens at Bonner Kunstverein on April 9, 2021.
[5] Friedrich Hölderlin, "Patmos," translated by Scott Horton. In Harper's Magazine, July 16, 2007, https://harpers.org/2007/07/patmos/.
[6] With apologies and debt to Ms. Davis for using her poem like this. The reader can find her original, "Head, Heart," in The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (New York: Picador, 2010).
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