Here is a quick introduction to using the LC Technology RW1820 temperature module. We aim to provide you with the tools you require to start measuring temperatures.
This example will demonstrate the use of an Arduino UNO in requesting and interpreting data from a RW1820 sensor module. Once connected and the first program loaded, the serial monitor will display a live temperature readout. This will use the OneWire library created by Paul Stoffregen and the DallasTemperature library created by Miles Burton.
The code consists of the an include, definition, launch, setup and loop. First the OneWire library and the DallasTemperature library are linked to the code. The sensor pin is defined followed by the OneWire library and DallasTemperature library instances established. The setup launches the serial connection and sensor connection. The loop contains the control program that will run continuously after the setup. It begins by requesting the information from the sensor instance. It then prints the value to the serial monitor.
output temperatures from a RW1820 sensor to the serial monitor.
With the board loaded with the program and all the connections made the module will begin to output a temperature in Celsius. The animation below shows a brief loop of the sensor being placed under a hot cup of water.
Using multiple temperature sensors - changing the number "0" in "sensors.getTempCByIndex(0)"
Use the DallasTemperature library to produce the output in Fahrenheit.


At this time, I am called to publicly share Indigenous wisdom and knowledge to educate about how humanity can heal itself. This is a challenging task, because it involves more than a translation from one language to another.
I use specific words and phrases that accurately distinguish and describe to convey the holistic integrity of the Dineh language thinking system.
However, to fully comprehend the Dineh thinking system, you must experience yourself as being within hozho (natural order). Such a correction in thinking leads to curing—rather than coping.
A single word in Dineh is an interconnected hieroglyph. To understand this interconnectedness requires a thought reversal process—a reframing from one thinking system to a completely different one.
affirmative thinking system—hozho: see blessingway.
authentic—ehozin: holy thinking for balance and harmony within the natural order.
blessingway—hozhooji: ceremony to awaken one to natural order (hozho); choosing constructive and life-affirming choices; healing from intentions and decisions that destroy oneself and others. See living the loving way.
co-creative solution—hoozhooji k'e iina: manifestation of powerwithin, from creator, that radiates love for ourselves in order to have powerwith others for communication and relationship to live the loving way; eliminates the need for powerover.
conscienceness—ntsahakees (distinct from consciousness): spiritual clarity and awareness of the natural order as reality; the concept of holy thinking in the Dineh language.
consciousness—digiis (distinct from conscienceness): reality that depends on one's perception and is thus subject to dualistic thinking.
coping—doo halyaa da (distinct from curing): one does not know how to take care of one's self spiritually; a temporary fix that takes away the sacred self-identity and replaces it with a deficient self-image. Coping does not correct the root cause of out-of-balance conditions.
core issue—te'e'i: spiritual impoverishment perpetuates hunger, poverty, disease, and premature death; the root cause that maintains any out-of-balance condition.
curing—hozho nahasdlii' (distinct from coping): using affirmative thinking within the natural order that corrects the root cause of any out-of-balance condition.
healing—biiji: ceremony and singing that reverses one's way of thinking to shift from giving the body wrong information to knowing how to inform the body of correct information for wellness restoration by reawakening to holy thinking.
inverse thinking system—hocho: a thinking system in which reality depends on one's perception and is thus subject to dualistic thinking. See consciousness.
living the loving way—hozhooji: literal translation of the blessingway ceremony as translated by my paternal aunt. It is a way of living in reverent revolution, of making decisions that are constructive and life affirming. See blessingway, reverent revolution.
medicine person—diiyiin dinee' bii yazhi: a sacred and precious child of creator; everyone is a medicine person when using holy thinking to make decisions for constructive and live-affirming choices, by living the loving way, as a way of life.
natural order—hozho: an all-encompassing concept of holiness and wholeness in harmony with the movement of cycles such as seasons, cardinal directions, and moon phases. For collective survival, we must remember and reawaken to hozho—to harmonious living on Mother Earth.
people—dineh: people, as in earth-surface people and five-fingers people.
powerwith: in accordance with the natural order.
powerwithin to have powerwith—K'e: communication and relationship, knowing one's sacred place in the natural order.
powerover—ba hol chiih: trans-generational unresolved and displaced anger.
precious child of creator—shil baa hozhoonii: knowing that the I am a precious child of creator eternally exists within me. In this context, creator is not capitalized, to differentiate the English meaning of a patriarchal God from the Dineh meaning of the creator's holy breath that gives life and voice.
sacred self-identity—diiyiin dine'e': a child of the holy people, who are the ancestors who lived the loving way, as a way of life.
thought reversal: a reframing from one thinking system to an entirely different one. In this context, the reversal is from the English-based closed, Eurocentric thinking system to the Dineh-based manifestation of an open natural order system.
wisdom keepers: in conventional English language means people who use conscience with knowledge (not perception), but may not necessarily be a diagnostician and practitioner.
Note: in Dineh language a traditional healer is a singer—hatali. However, there are diagnosticians and practitioners who are not singers in the strict sense of that definition.
Mahican, Lenape, or Mohawk? Anyone know?


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As they say in the classics, life is never boring and in last night's budget this proved to be the case for superannuation. Attached is a before and after flow chart of the proposed superannuation changes.
Fair to say, the world is changing.
No doubt we will be in touch with all and sundry.


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PAP: Why Ex-militants Scholarship Was Suspended – Ndiomu
by Tapre Timine January 7, 2023, 6:46 am
The Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Maj Gen Barry Ndiomu (rtd) has disclosed why the the scholarship program for ex-militants was suspended by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Speaking on Thursday in Abuja, Ndiomu said the scheme was suspended because it was unsustainable.
According to him, just one per cent of the trained ex-Niger Delta agitators were gainfully employed.
Ndiomu further said that plans for a cooperative would be made for trained former agitators to establish their businesses.
The Interim Administrator clarified that the government had no choice but to halt the scholarship programme, adding that the seven billion naira initiative could not be sustained.
"Let me quickly mention here that one of the reasons it was necessary to suspend the scholarship programme was because of the costs of the Presidential Amnesty Programme.
"For example, we now have a total of well over 3,000 individuals to whom scholarships have been awarded.
"If you looked at the bill, tuition fees are well over N7 billion for a session. We are talking about onshore 3,000 plus, offshore, and there's no government institution.
"There was a need to take a second look at it and that was why we had that problem with Baze University because it was just impossible to pay the tuition across these institutions.
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Security: Department of Defense give $3 million grant to scientists to defend nex gen cyberattacks
The next generation of cyberattacks will be more sophisticated, more difficult to detect and more capable of wreaking untold damage on the nation's computer systems.
So the U.S. Department of Defense has given a $3 million grant to a team of computer scientists from the University of Utah and University of California, Irvine, to develop software that can hunt down a new kind of vulnerability that is nearly impossible to find with today's technology.
The team is tasked with creating an analyzer that can thwart so-called algorithmic attacks that target the set of rules or calculations that a computer must follow to solve a problem. Algorithmic attacks are so new and sophisticated that only hackers hired by nation states are likely to have the resources necessary to mount them, but perhaps not for long.
"The military is looking ahead at what's coming in terms of cyber security and it looks like they're going to be algorithmic attacks," says Matt Might, associate professor of computer science at the University of Utah and a co-leader on the team.
"Right now, the doors to the house are unlocked so there's no point getting a ladder and scaling up to an unlocked window on the roof,"
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You Want to Keep Your Friends. Indeed, even the best of companions become weary of caring for your creature each time you leave town. Furthermore, the more you ask, the all the more chafing it progresses toward becoming. After for a little while they won't put much exertion into the errand. Best to leave the activity to the experts! You need to make the most of your get-away, not stress over the security of your pet or if your home has been broken into. A pet sitter will gather your mail, change the lights, and influence the place to look lived in. Pet Sitting Service suppliers offer particular house and pet care directions. Whether you need pet sitting or dog walker in Atlanta, all such services are a just a click away.
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"The time has come for me to put my thoughts on paper about my trip.
I arrived on Christmas Eve when I landed we walked, yes I said walked, around the CBD (Central Business District) in Brisbane. We walked a lot in Australia.
Then we went to the Hills house for an Australian Christmas Eve Dinner. We had prawns and pavlova, what they eat on Christmas Eve and Christmas day. Then we were off and running.
The beaches- we went to Byron Bay, Surfers Paradise, Stradbroke, and Moreton Island. I would love to describe them you but I don't know how to paint the picture with words or even an artists pallet. I have never seen such blues in the water or the sky or the white of the sand and the clouds. There are things out there to see.
The last day we went to Moreton Island for an adventure day. I attempted to paddle board, notice attempted. Went kayaking, and put the kayak on backwards. We snorkeled, which is amazing. We banana boated, and I feel off the jet ski. Yep! thats what I said. Then we went sand tobogganing. It was a fun last day.
We also went to Sydney and sailed the Sydney Harbour, saw the Opera House, went to a concert. There are things to do.
Then there was the tasting. I ate the finest piece of meat I've ever eaten. A waygu steak, it's unbelievable. There is a place here called Max Brunner Chocolate, it is the finest, yes I said finest Chocolate there it. This isn't everything I tasted but it's the high points. Oh! and we ate at a Jamie Oliver's Restaurant and The Breakfast Creek Hotel. There is something to taste.
There are things to feel. The sand between your toes, holding a koala bear, petting and feeding a kangaroo. There are things to feel. Go Feel Something!
This isn't everything I experienced on my trip, but my point now is....I took a trip.
Finally, yes! I am about done. To the greatest daughter and son in law I have, Thank you and love yall!"
Like I said, he is pretty good with words.
This is all coming from my Dad.
The man who got his passport when I moved here.
I have many more posts about my Dad's trip, but I chose to Make Memories while he was here not type. I will get caught up and post soon.
It's All About Making Memories!
Thrilled he came to Austraila and got to experience the charm you and Josh spread.
Oh my goodness, I love this! Larry needs a blog.
Yeah, he has now offered guest posts, autographs, and guest appearances. He thinks he is real good since he has posted on my blog :) All joking aside though, it was fun to let him make a post. I think he did a great job! I can give Dad your e-mail and I am sure he would guest blog for you! HA!
Yeah, he has now offered guest posts, autographs, and guest appearances. He thinks he is real good since he has posted on my blog :) All joking aside though, it was fun to let him make a post. I think he did a great job!


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Four former New Canaan stars in action for Virginia vs. Loyola men's lacrosse opener
Michael Kraus of the University of Virginia works with the ball during a game last season. — Matt Riley/UVA Media Relations photo
The Virginia Cavaliers will square off against the Loyola Greyhounds when the college men's lacrosse season gets underway on Saturday and the game will feature four athletes from New Canaan.
The season-opener for both teams will be played at noon at Loyola's Ridley Athletic Complex in Baltimore, Md., and is a rematch of last year's first-round NCAA tournament game, which was won by Loyola, 14-12.
The headliner for local players is Michael Kraus, a junior attack who is in his third year at Virginia and in September was named a team captain by head coach Lars Tiffany.
Kraus had a remarkable sophomore season at UVA, leading the Cavaliers with 44 goals and 39 assists for 83 points. He became just the third player in program history to reach 80 points in a season, and he ranks second behind Doug Knight, who had 86 in 1996.
Kraus, a former New Canaan Rams' captain, was named a Third Team All-American, and earned a place in the All-ACC team.
The Cavaliers feature New Canaan's John Fox, a sophomore, as a short stick defensive midfielder. A graduate of Brunswick School, Fox played in all 18 of Virginia's games last spring, collecting three goals and 17 groundballs, and causing 12 turnovers.
Jackson Appelt, a 2017 graduate of NCHS, is a sophomore middie for the Cavaliers. He played in five games as a freshman, scoring two goals, and scored on his first collegiate shot in his debut against Manhattan.
Virginia was 12-6 last spring, finishing as the runner-up in the ACC tournament. In the league playoffs, the Cavs defeated Syracuse 11-10 in the semifinals before falling to Notre Dame 17-7 in the final.
Loyola's roster included former Ram Peter Swindell, a 2016 graduate of NCHS. Swindell, a junior midfielder, played in 15 games on the Greyhounds' second midfield unit, scoring eight goals and picking up one assist. He has been named to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll in each of his first two seasons at Loyola.
The Greyhounds' roster also features four more Fairfield County players, including Kevin Lindley of Darien, Paul Volante and Bobby Austin of Ridgefield, and Bailey Savio of Greenwich.
Lindley, a sophomore attack, had a great first season at Loyola, tying for third among NCAA Div. I freshman in goals scored with 37. He was named to Patriot League All-Tournament team, and tied the league and Loyola freshman record with eight goals vs. Holy Cross in March.
Loyola finished the 2018 season with a record of 13-4 and won its fourth Patriot League championship in five years, defeating Lehigh 15-8 in the title game. The Greyhounds were 1-1 in the NCAA tournament, defeating Virginia in the first round before falling to eventual National champion Yale, 8-5, in the second round.
Weekly sports editor, Hearst Connecticut Media.


What follows is a tale of a surprising encounter I had on my last day in Germany which reminded me to never presume I know a person by what I see on the outside. This opportunity came about following a strange series of events that created "the time in between". Some would call it serendipity.
In my last week of living in Germany I had a boat load of things to wrap up. I packed a small box of items from my office – a framed picture that I'd carried with me from America to Germany of the Digital Farming team crowded in front of a 57 Chevy parked in front of y'all Nebraska corn. Another photo of a younger version of my husband smiling at me from the top of a boulder along a river near Yosemite national park. My 5 year service award. My favorite coffee cup.
This box sat in my apartment, ready for the movers who would come and add it to the pile of boxes and wrapped furniture that would be loaded into a van and packed in to a sea crate for delivery to my home in America.
As I prepared to move home, one task on my list was to return my fleet car to the Opel car dealership in Cologne. Cologne is a city I thought I'd visit often while I lived in Germany, but as it turned out my life in Germany was focused either in Düsseldorf, traveling to another country for the weekend or striking out for a wanderen (hike) in the Bergischeland near Altenberg Dom. I made a few trips to Cologne and every time I went I found the drive to be frustrating, parking to be a nightmare and the experience to not be different enough from my time in Düsseldorf to justify the trip. So, I traveled a few times with visitors who wanted to see the impressive Dom or drink a glass of Kölsch at Früh.
I also traveled a few times to the car dealership for an oil change. So it came that when I called up the dealership to arrange to return my car and booked the last appointment of the day on the day before my return flight to America I suddenly realized I wouldn't have a way to get home. The drive was long enough that I didn't want to hassle a friend, so I texted my favorite taxi driver and arranged for him to pick me up. I don't know why I didn't consider a train… my only excuse is I had A LOT on my mind that week and I wanted to simplify.
Now I realize that I made that choice for a reason. I made that choice so I could have "the time in between" to engage in a conversation that has fundamentally shifted my view on a very important aspect of humanity. Let me explain it to you here.
Here's how "the time in between" came to be. In my last Wednesday in Germany I went to the office and forced myself to clock out on time to make it to Cologne for my car return appointment. As I traveled the busy roads the clock was ticking and I found that in spite of my best efforts I'd be a bit late. Which leads me to one of the most humorous things I learned in Germany. The idea that Germans are extremely punctual is a myth. Sure, Germans, just like most of us, strive to be on time or early, but I didn't find people where any more often on time or late than anywhere else I've traveled in the world. Nevertheless, I would encounter a real logistical problem if for some strange reason I couldn't return my car that day. At 6 am the next morning I'd be boarding a plane bound for America! I had to drop off my car!
As I pulled up to the dealership I rushed in to begin the return process. I had budgeted an hour for the process so the taxi was scheduled to pick me up at 4:30. At 3:45 we were done and I pondered what to do with the time. I decided now was my chance to enjoy one last Kölsch in Köln before I repatriated. I had noticed a corner bier joint on my way in to the dealership.
I finished handing over my keys, said one last farewell to Super Z and took off down the street by foot. The streets bustling with people, I passed by kiosks and kebab shops en route to my destination. Shortly after climbing out of a train-line underpass, I found the bier joint I had spotted on my way in. Two older gentlemen stood outside at the traditional round table for 3 – both with a tall, thin glass of Kölsch resting on a coaster in front of them. One smoking a hand rolled cigarette.
I walked in and ordered a beer from the bar maid. My German passable as we completed the entire brief exchange in Deutsche. I began to feel I had actually made it and could pass as a local. It was a lovely afternoon so I walked outside with my Kölsch and was pleased to find the y'all round table vacated. I dropped my shoulder bag at my feet and took my first long drink of the lighter cousin of Alt.
Halfway through the glass I received a text from my taxi driver. He was in Köln, but unfortunately discovered that there were two locations in Köln with the same exact address and he was clearly not at the right one. This meant he was still about 45 minutes away from me. I eased his distress by letting him know I had a comfortable place to wait. Then settled in to a bench seat at a table and order eine mehr Kölsch mit bratwurst, bitte.
This series of events is what led to the "time in between". What happened next was completely unexpected and changed my view on an entire population of people: namely – refugees and native borne peoples of non-native descent. What struck me later is that none of this would have happened if the car return hadn't gone so fast, or my taxi was late, or my nostalgic thirst hadn't kicked in, prompting me to walk up the road and grab a bier.
What happened next is a lady walked up weighed down by heavy bags – the plastic handles cutting into her forearms – and expressed to me in German how tired and thirsty she was. This declaration was promptly followed by collapsing herself into the bench seat at the neighboring table. We began to carry on a conversation across the two tables. After a couple of sentences in German from me she switched to perfect English. I guess my German wasn't so good after all… A bit later, the bar maid appeared and she ordered a beer. When it arrived, we toasted our biers and I welcomed her to join me at the bench just opposite me at "my" table. I say "my" table because in Germany, a table never belongs to one person. They are meant to be shared. Sharing doesn't always result in a conversation, but many times it does and these spontaneous conversations are sometimes the most interesting you'll have all year. Such it would be that day.
But, first I should give you a bit more insight into what I was rolling over in my very mind that day in the hours that led up to the "time in between". The German election results had just rolled in and AFD had gained seats in the parliament. Enough seats to indicate that 1 in 10 voting age Germans had supported their cause. A cause which was largely rooted in anti-Islamic campaigning efforts. I myself had witness these campaign signs as I traveled on my daily commute to and from the office and when I was strolling about in Berlin on sunny Saturday afternoon. Signs which featured sun-kissed women in bikinis accompanied with slogans: bikinis not Burkas. Others featured women wearing said Burkas with messaging making it clear this was not welcome in Germany. But the one that really got me was a tight shot of not one, but two, pairs of bosoms bouncing out of the top of Dirndl blouses which espoused a fervent desire to maintain traditional German culture.
As I had driven through the neighborhood just a couple of hours before, I was contemplating the results of this election and the conclusion that 1 in 10 Germans had felt strongly enough in this direction to vote as such, ok maybe not completely on the Islamic topic, but this and some others associated with it. And as I drove, I looked at the people in the streets and observed that nearly 100% of the people I saw did not look like "traditional Germans" but were in fact appeared to be Arabic of some descent. We're they Islamic? This is could not tell by looking, but I observed a bustling neighborhood with people who likely hailed from Turkey (note that in Germany you will find the largest population of Turks outside of Turkey – many of whom are practicing Muslims. My own local treasured Turkish grocery did not sell pork products at all…), South Africa, and possibly refugees from Syria. I found myself wondering how these people felt when they woke up and heard the election results and learned that 1 in 10 of the local population maybe didn't want them here? Little did I know that I would soon be able to hear how this felt first hand!
I was rolling this over as I walked back through the neighborhood to grab a beer and then this is when "the time in between" brought me full circle. There's a detail I haven't yet revealed to you. My drinking partner was a woman of Arabic appearance. We started with the usual stuff: where are you from, what do you do…? I learned that she was a chemist intern who would love to be hired by the company I work for: Bayer. After the small talk, we somehow, maybe it was on her mind too, came to the topic of the elections. She introduced her self as a Muslim, non-practicing. I found this to be an interesting way to define herself. A catholic (especially one that is non-practicing) typically wouldn't define themselves as a catholic in terms of their racial or ethnic background. She wore no head covering, and otherwise traditional "western" clothing. But her face, her face and her hair color is what gave her away. This was of no consequence to me until I realized what it meant to her and her new perspective of how she felt she could fit in her current place in the world. Which, I'll cut to the chase, following the election results, she felt she didn't fit at all.
And here is where it got really interesting – she was born in Germany! Yet, she now felt she did not belong, in the place of her birth because of her appearance and her implied connection with a religious group. This is where the conversation became startlingly eye-opening for me. I too was living temporarily in Germany, but thanks to my Northern European roots and my wardrobe acquired in Germany, I had come to the point where everyone thought I was a local. So much so that when I traveled to other arts of Europe people would be more inclined to think I was German than American! And here was a woman who was born in Germany and suddenly felt she did not belong, and this part made me profoundly sad, was no longer safe in her own home. To make matters worse for her, she was recently married to a refugee who struggled to find work and also felt at risk of attack.
Then the situation became more dire. She talked about her former dream of moving to America, which she now wasn't so sure about following our own elections and general sentiments toward Islamic people in the US. I reassured her that there were places where she could live and be safe. But, again, I found myself reeling from learning about her view on the world.
Then I sat back and wondered what did these guys (AFD) really hope to accomplish. They say they want to preserve and protect the "traditions of Germany". But, if new people were coming in, couldn't it be that new traditions could be accommodated while the old were preserved?
They campaigned on a platform of no Islamic mosques, but how can you welcome people in to your country for safety and not allow them to express their religion? Is the only way to thrive in a new place to adopt the local religion instead of making space for diverse religions? Ok, I visited Turkey and I experienced the intrusiveness of the call to prayer ringing out so loudly from a nearby mosque that we literally were forced to stop talking until it concluded. But is this so different from the lovely loud church bells that ring from towering spires in the center of every German town many times a day?
I know that there are elements of good and evil mixed in with all these establishments, but I couldn't wonder if the AFD strategy was beginning from a place that could never win. People voted for them for many reasons – some out of fear of change, others perhaps out of hatred, some in reaction to feeling out of control. But, I wondered if this vote would only do more to empower the forces of terror in the Islamic world?
Many of these thoughts developed in my next conversation so I didn't talk about it with my new friend. I wrapped up our conversation by encouraged her to keep studying, train in Krav Maga, stay alert, and don't give up on America. We parted with a hug and a smile. Me, saddened, but also grateful for "the time in between" where two worlds serendipitously collided.
My taxi pulled up, and I dashed across the intersection (of course only after the little man went green – I was still in Germany after all!) and climbed in. As we made our way to the autobahn, he grumbled about the mix-up and the traffic. I shared with him my experience at the beer joint. And this is where the day took yet another interesting turn.
My driver was a native born German who had deep German roots and a traditional upbringing. I couldn't miss the chance to gain his perspective on the election. He shared with me his take on where the vote came from – a point of deep-rooted frustration in the German populace. The decision to take in a large refugee population had created local strains in services and public spaces. Welcoming people into your community but asking them to exclusively follow your rules had (I would say not surprisingly) caused some rubs in small communities. Many refugees are still not allowed to work and struggled to learn the German language. There is no safe place to where they can return but it appears many people feel there is no plan to appropriately integrate them as contributing members of German society. Add on top of this the high tax rates in German and abundance of social systems, all of it came together with some tragic terror attacks to stir up nationalism similar to what is seen around the world. This is a gross simplification of all the social factors, but was the gist of what we discussed.
At the end of the day I found myself with quite a lot to contemplate as I considered the plight of my two very different German native-born conversational partners. One who feels like she no longer belongs in her home, but had no home to wish to flee. I failed to mention her parents live in Turkey and she is Kurdish, so no option for her to safely return. Another who feels his tax burden is increasing with no end in sight and his homeland is being invaded and not respected by a people who struggle to adopt the local customs either out of blunt disrespect or lack of understanding.
I debated if I would even write about this on my blog because I fear it could create some non-productive discussion, but I'm still a believer in the power of sharing stories to learn about others. It is for this reason that I offer this to you and I encourage you to think harder before you look only at the outside of a man or a woman or a child and think you know that person. Because the truth is that what is on the outside is often only the beginning of the story and what lies underneath may be very surprising indeed.


We've previously heard the LG G4's camera could be seriously impressive, but we've now got more details that shed light on just how much of an improvement the included snapper will be over its predecessor, the LG G3, thanks in part to a huge six-layer lens.
According to reports posted by BusinessKorea, the LG G4 will be able to capture 80% more light than the G3, thanks to a large lens module that is double the size of the one found in LG's previous flagship handset.
If that isn't impressive enough, the lens – which is apparently going to be built entirely in-house by LG Innotek – will feature a six-element feature that will offer high-precision, large-diameter shots.
According to the report LG Innotek has also included an ultra-thin 0.1mm glass blue filter, which will prevent infrared emmissions from entering the lens. This will keep the colours in images looking as realistic as possible.
The LG G4's camera will be 16MP with a wide f/1.8 aperture, so it should be excellent at taking photos in low light conditions.


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Q: Use JavaScript to find innerHTML text and return parent tag ID With JavaScript, one often want to use the e.g. getElementById() function to search for a HTML-tag with a specific ID and return it's innerHTML values.
However, is it possible to achieve the opposite?
<tag1 id="myID1">
    <tag2 id="myID2">
        <tag3>myText</tag3>
    </tag2>
</tag1>

I want to create a function which is looking for the first appearance of "myText" as a innerHTML text and returning it's upper most parent tag id. In this case, if I search for "myText", I expect to return "myID1". How can JavaScript achieve that?

A: To scan through the children of an html element you could use a recursive function something like:
function findInnerHTMLMatch(s,e){
  if (e.innerHTML===s) return e;
  for (let n=0;n<e.children.length;n++){
    const rtn=findInnerHTMLMatch(s,e.children[n]);
    if (rtn) return rtn;
  }
}

then if you want to find on the whole page just call findInnerHTMLMatch('myText',document.body).
This will return the DOM element containing exactly and only the text you specify.
After that I find your requirements unclear.  If you are seeking the ultimate parent element then, logically, you will end up with the <html> element every time.  So, are you after the top element with an id defined?  If not what else and, perhaps most importantly as this will help clarify things, why?

Just because I enjoy thinking about these things... If you want to do it without recursion, a stack works well and is possibly more elegent:
function findInnerHTMLMatch(s,e){
  const stack=[e];
  while (stack.length){
    const el=stack.pop();
    if (el.innerHTML===s) return el;
    stack.push(...el.children);
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We set out to find out what happens in the life and mind of a player. We are not talking about a football, rugby or tennis player, not even VLC, we are talking about a schizophrenic who dates multiple women at the same time.- One woman for each personality. The urban and slang definition of a player.
So we caught up with one of the best players in town who identifies himself as "Fourcorner" and we had the following interview with him.
So, tell us Mr. Four-corner, many people say that most players always gloat about their victories but say nothing about their losses. It is said players get rejected more than the average citizen. Is that true?
I can neither deny no confirm that. Under section 23 of the Players constitution I cannot divulge that information.
Fair enough. So how many girlfriends or side-chicks what have you, do you have?
Let me just say, they are so many that they have decided to register an Association with my main girlfriend as the president of that association. Women In Four-corner International (WiFi). roughly 24.
Whoa! Wait a minute, you say your main chick is on the forefront of this initiative? Isn't she offended that you have side-chicks?
Well "The Twerk Twerk Twerk Twerk Queen" as we call her does not discriminate against side-chicks for she was a side-chick her-self and she had to fight against my ex-wifes oppressive regime. She is sitting with DJ Mox and negotiating with the directors of Sabhuku Vharazipi to finally bring to life Moxinator's long awaited master-piece 12 Years A Side Chick. The movie industry in Zim will benefit from this one.
Oh my goodness. So anyway what sort of issues does the WiFi deal with?
WiFi? – Well you can for instance use it to connect to the internet or transfer files over Local Area Network?
Okay back to your question, the role of the association is to tackle major concerns that the women face. The challenges they come across in trying to keep me satisfied and so forth. They raise money for make up and the association regulates whose turn it is to be on the profile pic with me.
Oh, so what happens to those who may want to have you on the Whatsapp display pic daily?
Due to reports of jealousy motivated violence in previous years over original photos the association resolved that others are only allowed to use that picture if it is by an app like Pic Mix.
You mentioned an ex-wife. What happened to her?
I have no idea, I only heard that she died after a long illness. I wonder what she was suffering from.
What challenges do you face as a player in Zimbabwe?
Well I get challenges from a lot of fellow big dhara's who want to challenge my game especially when there is a yellow bone.
Let me re-frame that. I meant what other problems besides these big dhara's?
Discrimination is a big problem. As a player I also do philanthropy, like Bill Gates, but because of my skin perhaps they want to call me the derogatory terms of blesser and sugar papa. Ungrateful girls have called me douche-bag but I am a born winner.
As a philanthropist I have been sponsoring young girls and giving them small grants for their skills as a way of giving back to their tax-paying parents from the missing 15 billion dollars. I have offered swallowships to many of them… and they have been so grateful as to kneel for them.
Okay that was unneccessary detail, I regret asking but ummm… Thank you Mr. Four-corner for sharing a lot with us.
PS: This is a fictitious interview for your own amusement. Feel free to follow me on twitter @Mcpotar or request me on Facebook.


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January 2021 Issue of SchoolArts Magazine focuses on Compassion
The January 2021 Issue of SchoolArts Magazine focuses on Compassion. Click the link below to access it online.
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Since 2015, the art department has been submitted a revised version of its curriculum for publication in this nationally recognized magazine committed to advancing K-12 art education throughout the U.S.
We are thrilled to announce that art student, Evangeline J's Op Art drawing is featured as one of this issue's Clip Cards.
Art teacher, Mr. Juarez, has an article published on Pandemic, Protests, and Perseverance.
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Ukraine is opening up part of its old KGB archive, declassifying hundreds of thousands of documents spanning the entire Soviet period.
But the move to expose Soviet-era abuses is dividing Ukrainians, the BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse reports from Kiev.
Deep in the bowels of Ukraine's former KGB headquarters there is a deathly silence. Thousands of boxes, piled floor to ceiling, line the walls. Each box is carefully numbered and each one contains hundreds of documents: case notes on enemies of the former Soviet state.
Behind each number, there is a story of personal tragedy.
Volodymyr Viatrovych, the chief archivist, pulled out a brown cardboard folder stuffed full of documents: case number 4076. At the centre of the case is a letter, dated 1940 and addressed to "Comrade Stalin, the Kremlin, Moscow".
"Dear Iosif Vissarionovich," the letter starts. Nikolai Reva wanted Stalin to know the facts about the great famine of 1932-33, when millions died as a result of the Soviet policy of forced collectivisation.
Like many at the time, Mr Reva believed that Stalin was being kept in the dark, and that if only he knew what was happening, he would surely put a stop to it.
But his letter landed him in the Gulag. He was eventually rehabilitated – 25 years later.
Many met a harsher fate.
Leafing through one of many macabre photo albums, Mr Viatrovych pointed to a picture of Ivan Severin, shot in the head by the Soviet security services. Under the picture, in very neat handwriting, is written: "Liquidated, 3 April 1947".
Mr Viatrovych and his team are helping people to find out what happened to relatives and loved ones, often decades after they disappeared.
But the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), now in charge of the files, is declassifying them selectively.
They are concentrating on older cases, like that of the "liquidated" Mr Severin, who was part of a guerrilla campaign against Soviet rule in western Ukraine after World War II.
The authorities are preparing to mount a criminal prosecution in relation to the famine, or Holodomor, as it is known in Ukraine, though it is doubtful whether there is anyone still alive to stand in the dock.
But SBU head Valentyn Nalyvaichenko hopes this is just the beginning.
"As soon as Russia starts to open and uncover its archives, there will be more and more truth about the real history," he said. At the moment, he added, Russia is not being especially co-operative.
But there is another obstacle to complete disclosure, and that is the Ukrainian Security Service itself. They are the ones deciding which files to declassify.
I put it to Mr Nalyvaichenko that the SBU is, after all, a successor to the KGB. He came out on the defensive.
"First and most important for me – we are not a successor to the KGB. That's according to the law," he said.
Could he state categorically that no-one working for the SBU today had formerly worked for the KGB?
He could not, admitting that 20% of his employees were former KGB officers. Some analysts in Ukraine believe that is a conservative figure.
It seems unlikely that SBU officers who worked for the Soviet KGB in the 1970s and 80s will be enthusiastic about declassifying documents that could incriminate them. Even if, as Mr Nalyvaichenko pointed out, the SBU is trying to recruit younger staff.
But not all young Ukrainians have an exclusively negative view of their 20th-Century history.
In Kiev, there is a vast monument to the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany: a sprawling bronze relief of soldiers bearing guns and bayonets.
"We love our history," said Svitlana, a young schoolteacher from the southern city of Odessa, on an outing with her class.
She was not keen for the children in her charge to be forced to examine the darker chapters of Soviet history.
The idea of airing the past as part of a healing process, and excluding members of the former regime from positions of authority – a process known as "lustration" – is being actively promoted by some in the Ukrainian administration.
But it is highly controversial. Dmytro Tabachnyk, a historian and opposition lawmaker, thinks the notion is absurd.
In a forest just outside Kiev, the tree trunks are tied with thousands of white scarves.
The scarves are embroidered in the traditional Ukrainian way, with red-and-black geometric patterns, and each one symbolically represents a life lost to Soviet oppression.
Under Stalin, the Soviet secret police would bury executed political prisoners at Bykivnia. No-one knows exactly how many bodies lie buried in this wood, but some estimates put the figure at more than 200,000.
But, says Nico Lange, the German director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Kiev, Ukrainians must stop blaming the Russians for their past, and start looking inward.
"Ukrainians have a tendency to perceive themselves as only victims of those historical processes," he says.
The Germans have experience of confronting their own past, both following World War II, and after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
But it will take a lot of united political will for such a process to get under way in Ukraine.
And it may be that, for the moment, there are still too many people alive and in positions of power, who were involved with the Soviet regime in one way or another.
He was pronounced dead two hours later at the UCLA medical centre. Jackson's brother, Jermaine, said he was believed to have suffered a cardiac arrest.
Jackson, who had a history of health problems, had been due to stage a series of comeback concerts in the UK, beginning on 13 July.
Speaking on behalf of the Jackson family, Jermaine said doctors had tried to resuscitate the star for more than an hour without success.
TV footage showed the star's body flown from UCLA to the LA County Coroner's office where a post-mortem is expected to take place on Friday.
Concerns were raised last month when four of Jackson's planned comeback concerts were postponed, but organisers insisted the dates had been moved due to the complexity of staging the show.
Michael Jackson was brought here to the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles around 12 hours ago. Earlier there were several hundred people here, before it got dark – there was a sense of grief, of disbelief.
But in the last few hours, these people have been singing his songs, dancing, there was a guy on a keyboard earlier, playing his songs for people to dance along to.
This has turned into an impromptu celebration of Michael Jackson's music. He's the king of pop as far as they're concerned. They're still shocked by his sudden death but they're here because they want to show their support.
A spokeswoman for The Outside Organisation, which was organising the publicity for the shows, said she had no comment at this time.
Broadcaster Paul Gambaccini said: "I always doubted that he would have been able to go through that schedule, those concerts. It seemed to be too much of a demand on the unhealthy body of a 50 year old.
"I'm wondering that, as we find out details of his death, if perhaps the stress of preparing for those dates was a factor in his collapse.
Tributes have poured in from the entertainment industry. Sir Paul McCartney described Jackson's death as " sad and shocking".
The pair worked together on two hit tracks, Say Say, Say and The Girl Is Mine from Jackson's Thriller album.
He said " I feel privileged to have hung out and worked with Michael. He was a massively talented boy-man with a gentle soul.
"His music will be remembered forever and my memories of our time together will be happy ones.
Speaking outside New York's historic Apollo theatre, civil rights activist Rev Al Sharpton paid tribute to his friend.
"I knew him 35 years. When he had problems he would call me," he said.
Can't believe it. I'm gutted. RIP Michael, thanks for everything you gave us.
Melanie Bromley, west coast bureau chief of Us Weekly magazine, told the News the scene in Los Angeles was one of "pandemonium".
"At the moment there is a period of disbelief. He was buying a home in the Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles and the scene outside the house is one of fans, reporters and TV cameras – it's absolute craziness.
Tributes from the world of music and film have already flooded in from celebrities including Madonna, Arnold Schwarzenegger and ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley.
Large numbers of fans have also gathered outside Jackson's home and at the UCLA medical centre with lit candles to mourn the star while playing his greatest hits.
Facebook groups have also been set up for fans to share their memories.
The singer's albums are occupying the top 15 slots of online music retailer Amazon.com's current best-seller chart, led by his 1982 smash hit Thriller.
Paramedics were called to the singer's house in Bel Air at 1221 (1921GMT) following an emergency phone call.
They performed CPR on Jackson and rushed him to the UCLA medical centre.
A spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department said the robbery and homicide team was investigating Jackson's death because of its "high profile", but there was no suggestion of foul play.
Jackson began his career as a child in family group The Jackson 5.
He then went on to achieve global fame as a solo artist with smash hits such as Billie Jean and Bad.
"For Michael to be taken away from us so suddenly at such a young age, I just don't have the words," said Quincy Jones, who produced Thriller, Bad and Off The Wall.
The singer had been dogged by controversy and money trouble in recent years, becoming a virtual recluse.
He was arrested in 2003 on charges of molesting a 14-year-old boy, but was found not guilty following a five-month trial.
He is survived by his mother, Katherine, father, Joseph and eight siblings – including Janet, Randy, Jermaine and La Toya Jackson.
Bands playing at Glastonbury Festival this weekend are set to pay tribute to the King of Pop – Michael Jackson – who has died at the age of 50.
Festival organiser Emily Eavis, writing on the social networking site Twitter, called Jackson a "truly great artist".
She added: "There will be tributes all over the site, all weekend".
Gabriella Cilmi will sing a tribute to Jackson on the Pyramid Stage, where she will perform a cover version of his hit song Billie Jean on Friday.
A Glastonbury spokesman said there was nothing formal planned to mark Jackson's death, but said: "A lot of the performers will be talking about it during their sets".
Many festival-goers learned of the news late last night as DJs scattered around the festival site began playing Jackson tracks.
BBC Radio 1 presenter Jo Whiley is at the festival site and noted a muted mood at Worthy farm on Friday morning.
She said US artists performing later today, such as the Black Eyed Peas and N*E*R*D, would be "knocked sideways" by the news of Jackson's death.
Tommy Bowen, keyboard player for the band White Lies, who play the Other Stage on Friday, said most of the bands playing the festival "can't help but be touched by what's happened".
He added: "He's such an influential artist, I think many of the people here have been brought up on Michael Jackson.
Artists including Lily Allen, Lady GaGa and Neil Young will all play at the festival later.
The internet suffered a number of slowdowns as people the world over rushed to verify accounts of Michael Jackson's death.
Millions of people who Googled the star's name were greeted with an error page rather than a list of results.
It warned users "your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application".
"It's true that between approximately 2.40PM Pacific and 3.15PM Pacific, some Google News users experienced difficulty accessing search results for queries related to Michael Jackson and saw the error page," said Google spokesman Gabriel Stricker.
Google's trends page showed that searches for Michael Jackson had reached such a volume that in its so called "hotness" gauge the topic was rated "volcanic".
Google was not the only company overwhelmed by the public's clamour for information.
Before the company's servers crashed, TweetVolume noted that "Michael Jackson" appeared in more than 66,500 Twitter updates.
According to initial data from Trendrr, a Web service that tracks activity on social media sites, the number of Twitter posts Thursday afternoon containing "Michael Jackson" totaled more than 100,000 per hour.
That put news of Jackson's death at least on par with the Iran protests, as Twitter posts about Iran topped 100,000 per hour on June 16 and eventually climbed to 220,000 per hour.
Early reports of Mr Jackson's death and the confusion surrounding it caused a rash of changes and corrections to be made on his Wikipedia page as editors tried to keep up with events and the number of people trying to update the page.
There was a domino effect as users then fled to other sites. Hollywood gossip writer Perez Hilton's site was among those to flame out.
Beginning at 2.30PM Pacific "the average speed for downloading news sites doubled from less than four seconds to almost nine seconds," said Shawn White, Keynote's director of external operations.
He told Data Center Knowledge that "during the same period, the average availability of sites on the index dropped from almost 100% to 86%".
Furniture store Habitat has apologised for causing offence after accusations it exploited unrest in Iran to drive online Twitter users to its products.
Keywords – called hashtags – such as 'Iran' and 'Mousavi' were added to its messages so people searching for those subjects would see the firm's adverts.
Users of the networking site reacted angrily and the posts were removed.
The retailer has said the use of the hashtags were "not authorised", but declined to say who was responsible.
Contributors to Twitter posted messages claiming Habitat should be "ashamed" and saying it was "piggy-backing" on the political situation in Iran.
One of the controversial messages – called tweets – which appeared before being removed by Habitat, read: HabitatUK: #MOUSAVI Join the database for free to win a £1,000 gift card.
In a statement Habitat said it had "never sought to abuse Twitter".
One online communication expert told the BBC it was hard to imagine how such a "serious misjudgement" could have happened.
Twitter is a social networking tool that has been used widely by people inside and outside Iran to share information and eyewitness accounts, link to news reports and co-ordinate protests disputing the recent election result.
Users following conversations about what was happening in Iran searched for key words and in some cases were directed to adverts for Habitat.
Habitat added: "We would like to make a very sincere apology to any users who were offended by last week's activity on Twitter.
"The top ten trending topics were pasted into hashtags without checking with us and apparently without verifying what all of the tags referred to.
The business said it was "totally against" its communications strategy, that it had removed the content and would ensure it did not happen again.
When asked whether an outside firm had been responsible for the strategy their spokesman declined to give details.
Alex Burmaster, communications director at research firm Nielsen Online, said while some companies had succeeded in the art of advertising within social networking sites, Habitat had got it wrong.
"What they have done is extraordinary, that they would even risk something like that.
"This could not have led to anything other than a consumer backlash.
He added that marketers had to be particularly careful about the way they used social media – more so than they would be in any other form of media – because consumers were more "in control".
"Advertising in social media can be like gatecrashing a party. People who use social media are much less tolerant to have their conversations interrupted by advertisers.


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FM could privatise 1% at a time
Leave a Comment / Articles, The Economic Times, The Times of India / By Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar / February 7, 2022 February 7, 2022
The Budget has been widely praised for avoiding populist freebies before the coming state elections and focusing instead on a big investment thrust to accelerate economic growth and lift all boats. The black spot is the failure of privatisation this year and diminished hope for the future.
The current privatisation approach is a proven disaster. We need something different. One solution would be to sell 1% of the shares of selected PSUs every month at the going market price. That would avoid accusations of under-pricing and cronyism. Right now, we hear constant fears of what might go wrong and how structures and procedures must be devised to avoid scam accusations and ensure a good sale price. By all means address those issues, but meanwhile keep selling 1% per month so that money for fresh investment keeps rolling in and is not hostage to constant roadblocks from vested interests. Niti Aayog suggested an approach of this sort in the Arvind Panagariya era.
In many cases, fresh legislation is required to permit privatisation, creating procedural delays and inviting heated political and trade union opposition in each case. Instead, the government should pass one omnibus law authorising sales of any of its assets, overriding the original laws that gave it ownership. This will speed up sales and reduce political sensitivities.
Last year, the Budget projected asset sales of Rs 175,000 crore. The revised estimate is now just Rs 78,000 crore. In what looks like a despairing loss of confidence, the estimate for next year is even lower at Rs 68,000 crore.
Despite the spurt in GST collections and the attack on black money, the overall trend in revenues is simply not buoyant enough. Sitharaman's Budget speech said there was "fiscal space" for a big investment thrust, but this was based on a bounce-back from Covid, and cannot be sustained. Rathin Roy, former member of the PM's Economic Advisory Council, says there is an ongoing fiscal crisis demonstrated by the tax to GDP ratio, which was targeted at 8% from 2017-18 onwards but keeps falling short. Meanwhile, the ratio of interest to GDP rises inexorably as government debt keeps mounting. The only way forward is large-scale asset sales, but these have now foundered.
Finance Ministry sources are ambiguous about whether the Rs 78,000-core figure for asset sales this year includes proceeds from the IPO of the Life Insurance Corporation which officials hope to complete by March end. Maybe this will fetch a bonanza. But none should confuse an IPO with privatisation. The latter is a real structural reform ensuring a new management that improves future performance.
Almost two years ago the government decided to privatise heavyweights like BPCL, Container Corporation of India (CCI) and Shipping Corporation of India (SCI). Many hailed this as a breakthrough. Almost two years later, none of the three have been sold.
This is not the stuff that reforms are made of.
Last year's Budget speech promised privatisation of two banks and one insurance company. This year's speech was deafeningly silent on that.
Last year, Sitharaman announced a National Monetisation Pipeline that would sell a whopping Rs 600,000 crore of old infrastructure (such as ports, roads, airports, and rail routes) over four years to finance new infrastructure. Many of us hailed that as revolutionary. But what has actually happened? The Budget gives no clue about sales this year or next, or why the huge promised inflows have not materialised. It says nothing of the railway routes fiasco. The government called for bids for 151 privately-run passenger trains on 109 routes. It failed to get a single acceptable bid. Among other things, bidders had no faith in the proposed regulatory structure to give them a level playing field with government-run competition. Entrenched bureaucratic interests do not want loss of turf.
Government surrender to the farm agitation seems to have taken the wind out of the sails of radical change. Privatisation seems to be a casualty. If the BJP fares badly in the UP state election, it will unfortunately give further impetus to BJP factions that favour the promotion of communalism over economic change as the way forward.
Sitharaman needs a time-bound plan for asset sales, with bureaucratic responsibility clearly fixed and heads rolling after any serious failure. The government is often criticised for being too authoritarian, but asset sales require more toughness, not less.
In addition, she should announce a scheme to sell 1% of shares of select public sector undertakings every month. That will keep revenue rolling in while political sensitivity fades, setting the scene for eventual outright privatisation.
This article was originally published in The Times of India on February 5, 2022.


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