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Ted Azulay
Penny and John Dale
Verena Clement
Rev. Bob Lowry
Rev. C. W. Pfeiffer
Helen Pfeiffer
Joe Rubino
Rev. Robert Lowry with Curt and Emily Bliss in December 1970
It is a thrill to look back into our six years at Riverside and remember the many happy experiences we had together. But before we do so "recollect", I must take a moment to express my appreciation once again to the staff and to those dozens of people who contributed much to bring honor and competence to our mission for Jesus Christ. No Pastor could ask for a more dedicated Session, nor Diaconate, nor Trustee Board. And those who served our staff, a special thanks to you.
Now, remember the days when we made the decision to "go for broke" in education? Those early months were chock full of planning and organizing a "first string" of Riversiders who would carry us to where we wanted to be in education. And we made it! We spent many busy hours in teacher education, curriculum planning, communicants class, vacation church school and even spent whole weekends away from Cocoa Beach in order to attend seminars and workshops in education!
Our effort "paid off" in greater commitment and involvement. I was genuinely delighted to be part of a people who took education seriously. The commitment undoubtedly strengthened worship, stewardship, and outreach. Our twenty-five to thirty teachers made an impact on our church far beyond their number and five became Master Teachers for the Presbytery.
In this area of concern with education, we invited Dr, Dietrich Ritschl, Rev. Robert Taylor and Professor David G. Buttrick each to spend a number of days with us as "Preacher/Teachers". Your Riversider response was exhilarating, and we were led to new ideas, concepts, and questions.
We furthered our interest in contemporary questions by inculcating a number of one evening seminars on various topics such as the "Exorcist". And then each year many took part in longer seminars on such subjects as Human Sexuality and Transactional Analysis.
One of the most meaningful experiences for me as Pastor was the "Log In Groups". You'll remember some twelve of us gathered for six weeks to share, study, and pray together.
God surely blessed these groups for it was through them that many discovered a new meaning for life in Jesus Christ. Others found joy and peace for their lives.
Worship has always been extremely crucial for Riversiders. Even in the supposedly "off" summer months, you involved yourselves in the central act of the Judaic-Christian faith. Our church was the stronger for it, to be sure.
I appreciated so much the excellent music and Choir, the participation of the Elders, the Communion Service, the welcome liturgy for our new members, and the special services at Christmas, Lent and Easter. Worship gave us strength.
Looking back over the past six years, it's obvious we were faced with many challenges that strengthened our faith and discipleship. Not many communities experienced a ten percent drop in population in 1970! Not many saw its major industry retreat so severely. Not many witnessed the tremendous change in its denizens as we did. Further we were enmeshed in a culture that gave little strength to the values we espouse. Our community was known throughout the fifty states as a "fast" place. Divorce, alcoholism, and rootlessness ran rampant. Throughout the past half decade, much of this is no longer true, and the area is becoming an attractive place to live and raise a family. Riversiders can thank God for this.
And we were continually challenged by newness and change. Every week it was apparent that our friends and neighbors were finding it difficult to live successfully in a place of fun and leisure with little in the way of heritage and guidelines. We found it necessary to review our vows of churchman ship and discipleship in order to remain faithful to His calling. It wasn't always easy, nor without pain.
And now a personal word of deep appreciation to Riversiders for many rewarding experiences. I can remember the hours in which we shared the significant questions of life! I appreciate the hospital visits, the talk-it-over times. The weddings were always a joy, and the times were extremely meaningful when we gathered to remember a friend or loved one who had died.
I appreciate learning from and with you about what it means to be a Christian minister in these times. The whole Lowry family knew of your love and devotion without which the Pastorate would have been at times a burden.
May God bless and keep you in His care as you invite Rev, Rex Pedlow and his family to be with you. If you share your life with the Pedlows as you did with us, they will know a most fruitful ministry indeed.
Ted Azulay – Riverside's Choir
No Church, no matter how small, could be complete without a choir. During our first few weeks of services in the old St. David's Episcopal Church on Orlando Avenue, Helen Trabue was our organist with Ted Azulay the sole choir member. After about the third or fourth Sunday service there, lightning found its mark in the afternoon, and although the Cocoa Beach Volunteer Department responded in short order to save the sanctuary, the devil must have been upset to the point that he directed his wrath toward the organ — it fell through the smoldering floor!
Following that catastrophic event, future services were held in Helen's home (La Joya) on Atlantic Avenue. It was during that time that she made her "pitch" to our small congregation to lend their voices to sing the Lord's praises. Within a short time, nine volunteers responded, and Riverside's Choir came into being, with Helen directing and daughter, Barbara Cox, our organist (she would rather have sung, but mother persuaded). Our first "performance" was in the meeting room above Ramon's Restaurant on Palm Sunday, and our second, on Easter Sunday in Jake's Bowling Alley across the street (which we lovingly called "St. Jake's".
Back to Ramon's for the next couple of months until our sanctuary (Knox Hall) was ready for occupancy on June 23, 1957, and which by now, our Choir had increased to an even dozen. Within a few weeks we felt that we were ready to be robed, but on Riverside's limited budget (we had just purchased our first little organ), how were we going to acquire them? Well, we were so enthused with our status as a full fledged Choir, that each member provided enough money (some buying their own outright) to supplement contributions from a few members of the congregation, with about three or four spares to be used in anticipation of expansion (we didn't want to be "caught with our robes down").
Some time later, Jane Stimson became our organist, relieving Barbara of that responsibility and adding her alto to the choir (which is what she preferred in the first place). A few months later, Ernest "Pop" Bilson (now at rest with the Lord) directed for a short time, followed by Jeweldine Calvetta when "Pop" decided he wanted to sing. Caroline Zehr took over the console and direction when we moved into our present sanctuary with twenty-one in the choir. As time went by, Jean Walker became our director and Phyllis Barger the organist.
In 1967, Glenn Arnold was lured into the fold as Choir Master (title his preference), and during his tenure the Choir reached its peak membership of thirty voices with new robes (our present ones), and some new innovations in presenting the music for worship.
We are a happy and dedicated "crew" under the direction of a great and lovable "captain", and are always on the look-out for new voices to help us praise the Lord with song.
Please forgive if there are any errors or omissions in this sort of historical narrative. Just blame it on the fading memory of the "old man of the Choir".
SERVICES OF ORGANIZATION – October 7, 1956
The Cocoa Beach Presbyterian Church gained official status when the Congregation gathered in the Community Church for the Service of Organization, thus establishing the Riverside Presbyterian Church.
The Service was opened with a Call to Worship, followed by an Invocation pronounced by the Rev. Claude Fausnaugh, Minister of the Palmdale Presbyterian Church, Eau Gallie, Fla. The Rev. Dr. George Bost, PhD., Pastor First Presbyterian Church, Stuart, Fla. led the Responsive Reading, and offered the "Offertory Prayer" …. during the Offertory Mr. Ted Azulay presented "The Lord's Prayer".
Our Scripture lesson that evening was taken from Matthew 5:1-16, the Story of the Beatitude: with their application to the Christian life. This was followed with the Evening Prayer by the Rev. Charles Sellers, Pastor of the Rockledge Presbyterian Church. The Sermon for the evening was delivered by the Rev. Charles T. Martz, Synod Executive of Synod of Florida. Dr. Martz spoke on "The Church In Your Community".
Presbytery then proceeded to the matter of acknowledging the List of the Charter Members. The Roll of Charter Membership was to remain open until Dec. 31, 1956. At that time we reported 78 names. Presbytery then proceeded to the Election, Ordination and Installation of Elders. Six men were chosen by the Congregation: M. T. Azulay, David Birrel, Joel Brown, Edwin Kyte, Don Butler, and David Glasser. Three people were nominated for Trustees: Mrs. J. Watson Shurtz, William T. Taylor and Garland Reynolds. Then followed the presentation of the Official Books by Presbytery; the Rev. E. A. Finn, Stated Clerk of Presbytery, and Pastor of the Community Church in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, in charge.
The Business of the evening having been finished, a closing Hymn was sung, and the Benediction was pronounced by the Rev. C. W. Pfeiffer of the new Riverside Church. This concluded the Organizational Service of the Riverside Presbyterian Church, Cocoa Beach, Fla.
Joe Rubino – The Good Old Days
Joseph & Hettie Rubino
How many times have you heard someone say "Remember the good old days" or "Boy, don't you miss those good old days?" Well, as far as I'm concerned, these are the good old days, today and everyday. These days that we're living thru now are the good old days for me.
Yes, the fine cars, fancy clothes, beautiful homes, and even air-conditioned churches. It hasn't been too many days since Riversiders sat thru Sunday services in the heat of the summer without benefit of air-conditioning, and also putting up with the sand fleas and mosquitoes. No, we didn't have air-conditioning then because we just didn't have enough money in the church budget for any extra things; if it wasn't essential, we didn't need it. We even had to build our classrooms then, by adding a wall here, a partition there "" an outlet here and so forth.
Well, one day I was doing the duties of an usher for the typical hot summer Florida Sunday service, and Lou Bonesio, one of our old timers, mentioned that the reason I didn't see him there more often on Sunday was that it was just too hot to sit thru an hour of sweating and such. He asked why didn't we get an air-conditioner for just the sanctuary, (Knox Hall). When I explained to him that we just couldn't afford it, he wouldn't believe it. So he said, "Joe, what would it take to air-condition this place?" I said, "Lou, a generous person." He offered to buy them, if I would install them and my big mouth did it again. I promised to install them, and within a day or two I received a call at work telling me the air-conditioners were at the church awaiting installation. After a few hurried phone calls and my assurance that we could get it done in an evening, the work party gathered. We just happened to pick a spot on the wall that was poured solid with concrete and had steel rods in it too. To make a long tedious story a lot shorter, I'd just say it took a few extra days to get the job done. We didn't have any power tools to speak of then, just strong backs — not too smart but strong.
Well, the following Sunday Riversiders sat in cool air-conditioned comfort for the first time. The nice part about this story is that the church budget didn't get tapped for a single penny.
Yes, the good old days are the days you can sit back and recall as you are relaxed and comfortable. The most beautiful thing about those good old days is the "People" we knew and worked with, worshipped with and even cried with.
Another story that comes to mind is the time I asked Rev. Pfeiffer how the church school was doing since we had lost our Superintendent, Marlene Minella (now Mrs, Wells). Well again my big mouth did it. The following Sunday, Rev, Pfeiffer announced from the pulpit that good old Joe had offered to take on the chores of the Church School Super's job. I didn't recall that I had said that, but then I had asked about it, hadn't I? In those days it wasn't smart to inquire about things like that — especially if they were looking for people to fill slots. Well, thanks to a great person that was then working as the Church School secretary, I didn't do too bad a job. Thanks to her, I looked pretty good. She had me doing the things that she thought needed doing. She had a way of getting me to think of the things she was thinking about and then she would agree with me and let me think that all the time it was my idea. Well, that person is still here sitting back there in cool air-conditioned comfort also. That beautiful person is Rilla Birrel. Thank you Rilla.
Yes, folks, the good old days "what are they? Aren't they the days we enjoy the most, the days that bring back sweet memories? Well, these then are the good old days; TODAY, as we think back to those beautiful people we worked with as we built this church "" those people who are not here today. So then how about today? Aren't we indeed lucky to have you sitting there? Yes, we are. You who are also building a church "" not with hammers and nails but with your time, talent and money. Yes, you are also builders, and thanks to each of you, us old-timers can sit back and enjoy the comforts of today's sanctuary. So when you are thinking of the good old days, think a little about the days you are living through now. Yes, these are the GOOD OLD DAYS. Thank you, one and all.
THE FIRST EASTER
Helen Pfeiffer(with recollections from Jane Stimson)
Helen Pfeiffer Preiss and Fred
The congregation had been meeting at the home of Mrs. Helen Trabue for several months, moved to the second floor of the Minella Building on Highway 520 for subsequent worship services, and as Easter approached we realized that our meeting room would not suffice for that particular Sunday. The Catholic congregation was meeting in the building directly across the highway "Jake's Bowling Alley". We arranged with them to have our service in that building on Easter Sunday and changed our hour of service to accommodate their schedule.
Easter Sunday arrived and so did we. Walking into a room reminiscent of beer and cigarettes was something different in the way of worship to most of us. Our pastor told us that while this building was used for something entirely different during the week, for this day it was the Lord's house. The largest congregation ever assembled was present and when offering time approached it developed that the collection plates were locked in a closet, and the key apparently was not to be found. The only thing the ushers could find were Schlitz beer trays and they were trying to decide if they should use handkerchiefs as liners or just use them as they were. Fortunately the key was found and the regular collection plates arrived in the nick of time.
Even though it was in most respects a definite deviation from any experience, past or since, that service remains forever embedded in our memories as a truly rich experience. Never has the Resurrection been celebrated with more joyous songs or thankful hearts as we celebrated yet another milestone in the beginning of Riverside Presbyterian Church.
Random thoughts of my life with Riverside Presbyterian Church (written in 2005)
Verena and Bruce Clement
In 1971 my husband, Don MacPherson and son, Jym and I returned to the states from Latin America, where we served in the Diplomatic Corps. The Cape had a big lay-off and people sold homes for the loan amount. We bought a 3 bedroom house with a double garage on a canal for $27,500 with a GI loan at 4% interest. My husband had suffered two heart attacks and took early retirement. He wanted to build a boat, which helped heal his heart by the challenge.
We looked for a church with the most kids and Riverside won. The youth leaders were very active and we took bus trips, using the Lynx buses up to the Smoky Mountains. Buses had bunks and cooking facilities and some adults got to go. I did. We also had Easter breakfasts. Joe Rubino was the teacher and his wife, Hettie, can give you lots of history. Pastor Bob Lowry and his wife, a retired nurse, and 4 or 5 kids were great. We had adult Sunday school in the sanctuary. Milton Boren was the vocal teacher at the high school and between services he led us in singing. He really knew how to make us sing. He left us to go to a church in Cocoa.
Our area was known for the average age in the low thirties and with Engineer degrees. Life was very social and most women belonged to the Women's Club and many volunteered at the hospital. We had big name bands come for dances for hospital funds and it was pride that we got to church on Sunday. Riverside people were leaders in social and government positions and had a big part in our community. By the way, women wore hats and gloves and high heels.
Sadly, Don and I were in an auto accident, taking out two spans of bridge. In saving me, by pushing me out of the windshield, he was drowned. The community and church were great support. Cell groups were formed at that time to help all of us. Drs. Harold and Kathyrn Bookbinder, who are psychologists, were our prime leaders. We also did "I'm OK You're OK". So many things happened at the Cape and people were looking for understanding. I recall when the shuttle exploded; the children in school had a lot of counseling. Dates I don't recall. An interesting thing: when we had our accident, I had broken ribs and Reverend Lowry was to go to a meeting so our funeral was delayed . He said he had never lost a personal member of his family — his son and my son Jym were good friends. I told Jym he did not have to go to school on Monday, but he said what would he do — his courage built mine — the community helped a lot.
Glenn Arnold was our organist. I see Penny Dale, Janet Boardman, Sam Privett, and George Norton still singing. So many have passed away.
Aurilla Birrel was a strong woman leader. Ada Garvin has been a secretary at the church and I consider her a historian. Jean Menges, Louise Hurd, Millie Streiter, Marilyn Grigsby, Penny Dale, Janet Boardman, Arline Biery — look at the Honoraria for leaders.
John Dale had a very important place.
Roy Wegener, retired military and financial advisor became the head of the trustees and I served for two terms. During this time we decided to buy the land where today's church stands. I had never spent $75,000, the cost of the land. Barbara Cox was the lawyer. We had owned back to the river and had many meetings about the land. I lost, as I thought the Presbytery should build a retirement home "" hindsight, what a loss. We did pay off debts. Brian Grisby and Marilyn are another couple who can give you insights. Cleo and Norma Jean Clark. Just happened to think of the Lehmans who were transferred away and have come back to us.
We helped Bob Lowry to get his doctorate and he left us for St. Augustine. We then had some other pastors.
Finally Rex Pedlow and Rita came. Their Irish wit and ways were wonderful and they were with us for ten years before he returned to Ireland. I still keep in correspondence. We always had a party for Irish day with green beer — and he played the piano and he taught the kids to do the jig. To listen to him was a pure joy — he was taught elocution and also spoiled me for a person not reading the sermon. He was very determined in what he wanted. The question of enlarging the sanctuary was discussed and he said he needed our Fellowship Hall — a wise decision. We had rummage sales to raise the money and made several thousand dollars. Most of the money was used for the kitchen. Curt and Emily Bliss were very active in the choir and he did a lot of the electrical work as a volunteer. He is missed.
Allen and Ann Brindisi from New York came as a young couple with two boys. Again their ten-year tenure was great. I recall the night we were at a deacon meeting and he told us they would be leaving. Sadness swept over the group. I spoke up and said we will find out who is a Brindisi Christian and who isn't. Later he gave me a big hug for reminding people the church is not the preacher.
Back to Rex — he was up on American rules. In 1981, I had been a widow for 10 years, receiving a good annuity and working for Naval Ordinance Test Unit and had met Bruce Clement, a widower. We decided to get married and I approached Rex — what age do you have to be to keep your annuity? — I said 62 and he said that is when I will marry you! May 19, 1982, we had a church wedding and my son gave me away. Our reception was in Knox Hall and Penny Dale and women of the church were in charge of the reception. Maggie Wegener played. Emily Bliss played the cello.
We had a big party for Rex and Rita and helped them have their sale. They were gracious hosts in our church home.
Sonja Walker, wife of Robert, started our children's school (BCC Lab School). We also had a full time Sunday school superintendent.
Much thought was given to enlarging the church (now Riverside Chapel) and/or building a new one. Some of the member meetings were very heated with opinions. It was finally decided to build. Rev. Pedlow got us the Fellowship Hall and Rev. Brindisi the new Sanctuary. During this time, Allen also received his doctorate. Your records will show the trainees we had, including Jane who left to finish some college work and came back with her two children. Our Sunday school has had different ones as leaders — your records will show. Many of the regular schoolteachers taught — I taught kindergarten, under the leadership of Mary Kramer. She and her husband were also leaders.
Bea Lewis came at the time of Rex's last sermon. Rex had a heart by-pass and several others did about the same time, including my Bruce.
John and Penny Dale
Written July 2006
Rebecca, Connie and Tricia
Church Camp
Reading in the DBR about the group of Riverside youth attending summer camp at Cedarkirk this year, reminded me of long ago times in the mid 60's when Greta Jones, Bonnie Kennedy Mahon and I drove our daughters Becky (Rebecca), Patricia and Connie to church camp at Lake Placid.
That was before the union of the northern and southern Presbyterian churches and Riverside was of the northern persuasion. We were a member of the East Florida Presbytery with headquarters in Cocoa Beach in the Cape Royal Building. Bob Booker was the Presbytery Executive and he and his family were members of Riverside. East Florida Presbytery conducted a youth camp on beautiful Lake Placid in south central Florida.
After we moms deposited our happy campers in their cabin and saw them settled, we drove back and treated ourselves to an elegant lunch at Chalet Suzanne near Lake Wales. That was so much fun we did it again the next year. I remember one year after picking the girls up at the end of their camp session, the three of them sobbed most of the way home because they hated saying good-bye to their new friends and counselors.
As a postscript to her happy days at Lake Placid, my daughter, Connie, spent a summer there as a waterfront counselor when she was in high school. She had honed her aquatic skills and obtained a Red Cross life-saving certificate. John and I drove down to visit her one August day and she insisted that she wanted to take us both to lunch at Chalet Suzanne for our upcoming birthdays. We tried to dissuade her knowing that the cost of the meals was more than her meager wages could cover. She was adamant about it so we agreed. When we arrived at the restaurant and studied the menu, we all agreed that since none of us was very hungry, we would only have dessert.
Penny Dale
RIVERSIDE IN THE 60'S
As Riversiders we should all give many thanks to the exciting 1960's. The Church was only a few years old when things began to happen in a big way.
The 60's began with the arrival of the manned space program and John Glenn sitting on a chair in the back row of the Knox Hall Sanctuary and the whole national press corps waiting across Pinellas Lane to get his picture. John autographed the Bibles of every child in the congregation. Our family got four, but all seem to have been lost.
The 60's were the days of daily launches and the arrival of new families to launch Atlas, Titan, Polaris and many other programs in development at the Cape. These families consisted of two approximately forty-year-old adults and an average of four and one third children. They came from Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, St. Louis, Washington and other places participating in the programs. Many of these families came with a strong church background as leaders in a wide range of sizes and with various activities and programs. The worship service and the Church School grew until we had to build the Riverside Sanctuary and Calvin Hall to carry on the program. There were almost 200 children and two worship services f1lled Riverside with a crowd waiting outside to attend Milton Borens very popular song session between services. We were receiving new member classes every month and in the year 1966 we added 159 new members. In fact, 802 new members joined in the decade.
In the midst of all this wonderful success came tragedy. Our popular young minister was summarily dismissed by action of the Presbytery for inappropriate behavior and ordered not to appear in the pulpit again. This caused a split in the congregation and left us with a suddenly very empty pulpit. Somehow, as Clerk of Session, it became my duty to do something fast. I called Rev. Charles Marx, Presbytery Executive, who told me of a man in Evanston, Illinois who might be available for about three months. David Jones and I called him immediately and found he was interested and available. With Session permission we called him back and offered him $500 a month, an apartment and driving expenses to Cocoa Beach to serve as our preacher and "to do what ever else preachers do".
We knew very little about Rev. Buttrick but soon found that he had been the senior minister at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York for twenty five years, was the senior editor of the twelve volume "Interpreters Bible", the author of several published books and one of the most renowned clergy in the denomination and that he was Dr. Buttrick. I felt embarrassed about the financial arrangement, but we could not afford to change it.
Dr. Buttrick set out to heal the division in the congregation, and to be a small church pastor by visiting every home to hear their story and try to convince them to stay with Riverside. He had not done this type work for a long time as head of staff of a big city church but he entered in to it with energy and compassion. He gave us three months of outstanding and healing sermons and put us on the path for a new decade of growth and dedication in HIS service.
John Dale


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Helping A Loved One with Anxiety During the Holidays Blog Helping A Loved One with Anxiety During the Holidays
Helping A Loved One with Anxiety During the Holidays
Dec 09, 2019 Cedars-Sinai Staff
Dinner parties and other holiday gatherings can trigger anxiety for all sorts of reasons.
Some people have difficult histories with their families. Politics or other hot topics can lead to arguments, which can be especially hard for someone with anxiety. Others struggle with crowds or sensory overload.
If you have a loved one struggling with anxiety, you can learn to be a source of support. Here are 5 tips to help avoid potential stressors this holiday season.
"Anxiety is not one-size-fits-all. Ask your loved one what they need."
Don't force activity
Dr. Scott Irwin, professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Cedars-Sinai, says the first thing to remember is that anxiety is a human feature, not a flaw.
"Anxiety is wired into us by evolution," he says. "It's a useful emotion that helps us identify threats and protect us from danger."
The trouble arises when anxiety stops someone from living life the way they'd like to, so be sensitive to what your loved one is experiencing.
"If they really don't want to go to the big family dinner, don't try to talk them into it. If they want to go and are struggling with anxiety, that's where you can help," says clinical social worker Jan-Kees Van Der Gaag.
"Never tell someone with anxiety to just get over it."
Read: Dealing with Stress: Know the Hidden Symptoms
Match your actions to their needs
Anxiety is not one-size-fits-all. Ask your loved one what they need.
If they're anxious about going to a party, talk through options in a calm moment before the event and figure out what's going to work for them. Jan-Kees says some people appreciate a buddy system.
"If you know your spouse can't deal with that loud uncle, you can agree ahead of time to come over and take their place if he won't stop talking."
If that isn't possible, agree to leave at a certain time, or come up with a signal for when it's time to go.
Help them temper their thinking
People who are anxious often emphasize worst-case scenarios.
To help them get perspective, ask them to think about the following questions: What's the worst that could happen? What's the best that could happen? What's most realistic or likely?
"The most important thing is to let your loved one know they're not alone."
Share coping strategies
Mindfulness is an important tool for people with anxiety, says Dr. Irwin.
"Meditation, deep chest breathing, and progressive relaxation are very helpful," he says, "as is sleep, which is the best antidote for many conditions."
If your loved one isn't aware of this, let them know. Again, bring it up ahead of time when they're in a good place.
You can also make use of your loved one's insights into their anxiety. Help them spot when their anxiety-driven patterns happen. To do this, get their permission first. It's important to respect their limits.
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Learn about therapy
Ideally, someone with anxiety should seek professional help before they have to deal with triggers. If they're open to it, encourage them to see a professional who has experience with cognitive behavioral therapy, which Jan-Kees says is highly effective.
"It takes time, so starting therapy sooner rather than later is a good idea," he says.
Offer to attend a session with them and learn about the treatment so you can better understand what they're going through.
Dr. Irwin adds that medication can also be helpful.
"A good doctor or social worker will come up with a personalized plan and also make adjustments over time," he says. "The most important thing is to let your loved one know they're not alone. There's help out there, and it can make all the difference."
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Peter has been led in several murder trials at the Central Criminal Court and has prosecuted cases of attempted murder.
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Oauth2 for Authorization and Authentication?
How to identify provider for oauth2 redirect_uri callback?
What is the future of OpenID, OpenID2, Open Connect? Is it worth implementing a provider?
The jwtstore configuration was causing an issue with the spring security configuration.Moved the relevant code to another class and it got working.
Open ID Connect Provider - Persist ID Tokens?
Is OpenID Connect dynamic registration possible with salesforce.com?
Dynamic registration is not supported by Salesforce's OpenID Connect implementation at this point in time; they restrict registration to clients operated by their customers/users like may of the big vendors, so they only offer client registration through the administration GUI after logging in the customer.
The OpenID Foundation keeps a list of libraries/products here: http://openid.net/developers/libraries/ IdentityServer3 implements both OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect in C#.
Can you use OpenID Connect without obtaining OAuth credentials?
The way to achieve this in OpenID Connect is by using OpenID Connect Discovery and OpenID Connect Dynamic Client Registration protocol extensions but of course your OpenID Connect Provider needs to support these extensions.
wrt. to "1. Can OAuth be used for SSO" there's a very good read here: http://oauth.net/articles/authentication/ which basically says: "not without an extension profile, and that is done already as a standard profile called OpenID Connect"
What OpenID Connect authorization flow to authenticate mobile app users?
IAppBuilder does not exist after Startup, it is used to build the request execution pipeline and then discarded. The pipeline was not designed to be modified after Startup.


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//
//  Created by Jesse Squires
//  http://www.jessesquires.com
//
//
//  Documentation
//  http://cocoadocs.org/docsets/JSQMessagesViewController
//
//
//  GitHub
//  https://github.com/jessesquires/JSQMessagesViewController
//
//
//  License
//  Copyright (c) 2014 Jesse Squires
//  Released under an MIT license: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
//

#import "JSQMediaItem.h"
#import "JSQAudioMediaViewAttributes.h"

#import <AVFoundation/AVFoundation.h>

@class JSQAudioMediaItem;

NS_ASSUME_NONNULL_BEGIN

@protocol JSQAudioMediaItemDelegate <NSObject>

/**
 *  Tells the delegate if the specified `JSQAudioMediaItem` changes the sound category or categoryOptions, or if an error occurs.
 */
- (void)audioMediaItem:(JSQAudioMediaItem *)audioMediaItem
didChangeAudioCategory:(NSString *)category
               options:(AVAudioSessionCategoryOptions)options
                 error:(nullable NSError *)error;

@end

/**
 *  The `JSQAudioMediaItem` class is a concrete `JSQMediaItem` subclass that implements the `JSQMessageMediaData` protocol
 *  and represents an audio media message. An initialized `JSQAudioMediaItem` object can be passed
 *  to a `JSQMediaMessage` object during its initialization to construct a valid media message object.
 *  You may wish to subclass `JSQAudioMediaItem` to provide additional functionality or behavior.
 */
@interface JSQAudioMediaItem : JSQMediaItem <JSQMessageMediaData, AVAudioPlayerDelegate, NSCoding, NSCopying>

/**
 *  The delegate object for audio event notifications.
 */
@property (nonatomic, weak, nullable) id<JSQAudioMediaItemDelegate> delegate;

/**
 *  The view attributes to configure the appearance of the audio media view.
 */
@property (nonatomic, strong, readonly) JSQAudioMediaViewAttributes *audioViewAttributes;

/**
 *  A data object that contains an audio resource.
 */
@property (nonatomic, strong, nullable) NSData *audioData;

/**
 *  Initializes and returns a audio media item having the given audioData.
 *
 *  @param audioData              The data object that contains the audio resource.
 *  @param audioViewAttributes The view attributes to configure the appearance of the audio media view.
 *
 *  @return An initialized `JSQAudioMediaItem`.
 *
 *  @discussion If the audio must be downloaded from the network,
 *  you may initialize a `JSQVideoMediaItem` with a `nil` audioData.
 *  Once the audio is available you can set the `audioData` property.
 */
- (instancetype)initWithData:(nullable NSData *)audioData
         audioViewAttributes:(JSQAudioMediaViewAttributes *)audioViewAttributes NS_DESIGNATED_INITIALIZER;

/**
 *  Initializes and returns a default audio media item.
 *
 *  @return An initialized `JSQAudioMediaItem`.
 *
 *  @discussion You must set `audioData` to enable the play button.
 */
- (instancetype)init;

/**
 Initializes and returns a default audio media using the specified view attributes.

 @param audioViewAttributes The view attributes to configure the appearance of the audio media view.

 @return  An initialized `JSQAudioMediaItem`.
 */
- (instancetype)initWithAudioViewAttributes:(JSQAudioMediaViewAttributes *)audioViewAttributes;

/**
 *  Initializes and returns an audio media item having the given audioData.
 *
 *  @param audioData The data object that contains the audio resource.
 *
 *  @return An initialized `JSQAudioMediaItem`.
 *
 *  @discussion If the audio must be downloaded from the network,
 *  you may initialize a `JSQAudioMediaItem` with a `nil` audioData.
 *  Once the audio is available you can set the `audioData` property.
 */
- (instancetype)initWithData:(nullable NSData *)audioData;

/**
 *  Sets or updates the data object in an audio media item with the data specified at audioURL.
 *
 *  @param audioURL A File URL containing the location of the audio data.
 */
- (void)setAudioDataWithUrl:(nonnull NSURL *)audioURL;

@end

NS_ASSUME_NONNULL_END

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Claremont ruggers set to tackle B.C. Games
International youth sevens comes to Saanich this weekend
Travis Paterson
Claremont secondary students Payton Cochrane
Shaye Tudor's been a diver, a weightlifter, a BMXer, but now, she's a rugby player.
This summer Tudor will spend as much time playing and training in rugby to consider it a full-time job.
The 17-year-old Claremont secondary student already went to Las Vegas for an international youth rugby sevens tournament in February, which her B.C. Bears U18 team won. She also captained a national U18 team that travelled to England for a pair of matches in the spring. Tudor recently played at the U18 Provincial Rugby Championships with the South Island Tide.
Tudor, who's going into Grade 12, was already well on her way as a dedicated rugby player two years ago when she recruited fellow Claremont student Payton Cochrane, who'll celebrate her sweet 16th on Friday and is going into Grade 11.
Cochrane and Tudor are Saanich's contribution to the Island's Zone 6 girls team which will compete in the rugby sevens tournament at the upcoming B.C. Summer Games in Abbotsford, July 21-24.
This weekend they'll both be on the field in Saanich for the Victoria Youth International Sevens in the U18 category. Tudor will dress for Team B.C. and Cochrane for the Zone 6 team.
"It's a hectic amount of rugby and it's definitely going to make summer go fast but it's how I'd like to spend my summer," Tudor said.
Back in 2014, Tudor messaged Cochrane to come out for the rugby team after she saw Cochrane at a youth rugby clinic held at the Pacific Institute for Sports Excellence.
"I remembered she was lightning fast when we needed players for the school team," said Tudor, who usually lines up as a flanker at the back of the forward pack in 15s.
Cochrane, meanwhile, played fullback for Team B.C.'s U15 squad last summer, though she mostly focused the offseason on basketball camps, which she'll continue to play in the winter ahead. For this summer is all about rugby for Cochrane, who is gravitating towards a focus on the contact sport.
"It's one of those sports where you have to love everyone who's playing," Cochrane said. "I might not be a three-point shooter in basketball but maybe I can bring some of my rugby game to the court, and vice versa," she said.
Cochrane didn't know she'd be playing rugby one day when she was watching her dad, Al Cochrane, the former coach of the Mount Douglas Rams, run through countless tackling drills.
The five-time B.C. champion Rams (AA and AAA), of course, are not a bad team to watch, in particular for their work ethic.
"I came out to rugby and I had no idea what to do, so all those days I was a little kid sitting with the football equipment watching the Rams practice came back to me," Cochrane said.
Saanich's Saunders having all-star season
Victoria HarbourCats playoff-bound


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#define A_FIL_MAX_NAME_LENGTH 255

/* Info about the memory file
 */
struct a_filMemFileMeta_s {
	char      shm_name[A_FIL_MAX_NAME_LENGTH + 1];
	char      db_name[A_FIL_MAX_NAME_LENGTH + 1];
	c_address address;
	c_long    shm_size;
};

/* Context info
 */
struct a_filContext_s {
	char   *fname;
	struct  a_filMemFileMeta_s memFileMeta;
};

a_filContext
a_filInit(
	char *fname,
	char *shm_name,
	char *db_name,
	c_address address,
	c_long shm_size)
{
	a_filContext context = a_memAlloc(sizeof(struct a_filContext_s));
	context->fname = fname ? a_memStrdup(fname) : NULL;
	if (shm_name) {
		strcpy(context->memFileMeta.shm_name, shm_name);
	}
	if (db_name) {
		strcpy(context->memFileMeta.db_name, db_name);
	}
	context->memFileMeta.address = address;
	context->memFileMeta.shm_size = shm_size;
	return context;
}

void
a_filDeInit(
	a_filContext context)
{
	if (context) {
		if (context->fname) {
			a_memFree(context->fname);
		}
		if (context->memFileMeta.shm_name) {
			a_memFree(context->memFileMeta.shm_name);
		}
		if (context->memFileMeta.db_name) {
			a_memFree(context->memFileMeta.db_name);
		}
		a_memFree(context);
	}
}

/* Writes a header with Mem File Meta info to a file.
 * The file is considered to be opened for writing,
 * i.e. the file descriptor fd > 0.
 * Returns 0 if antyhing fails, otherwise >0.
 */
static int
a_filWriteHeader(
	a_filContext context,
	int fd)
{
	int result = 0;
	if (0 < fd) {
		int n;  // nr of bytes writen
		struct iovec v;
		v.iov_base = (void *)&(context->memFileMeta);
		v.iov_len = sizeof(context->memFileMeta);
		n = writev(fd, &v, 1);
		result = 0 < n;
	}
	return result;
}

/* Writes a memory dump to a file, preceded by a header.
 * It uses heapAddress as the Start Address and takes the
 * size from the context's info.
 * If anything fails, 0 is returned, otherwise >0.
 */
int
a_filHeap2File(
	a_filContext context,
	c_address heapAddress)
{
	int result;
	int fd;  // file descriptor;
	fd = open(context->fname, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP);
	if (0 < fd) {
		if (a_filWriteHeader(context, fd)) {
			int n;
			struct iovec v;
			v.iov_base = (void *)heapAddress;
			v.iov_len = context->memFileMeta.shm_size;
			n = writev(fd, &v, 1);
			result = 0 < n;
		}
		close(fd);
	} else {
		result = 0;
	}
	if (!result) {
		perror("?Could not create file for writing, reason");
	}
	return result;
}

/* Reads the memory file's header into the context.
 * The file is considered to be opened (0 < fd) and
 * the file pointer is at the start of the file. (Nothing
 * has been read yet.)
 * This function will return 0 if anything fails, otherwise >0.
 */
static int
a_filReadHeaderDo(
	a_filContext context,
	int fd)
{
	int result;
	if (0 < fd) {
		int n;
		struct iovec v;
		v.iov_base = (void *)&(context->memFileMeta);
		v.iov_len = sizeof(context->memFileMeta);
		n = readv(fd, &v, 1);
		result = 0 < n;
	} else {
		result = 0;
	}
	return result;
}

/* Reads the memory file into memory.
 * The file is considered to be opened (0 < fd) and the
 * header has been read (for setting the file pointer to
 * the start of the memory data).
 * This function will return 0 if anything fails, otherwise >0.
 */
static int
a_filReadFile2HeapDo(
	a_filContext context,
	int fd,
	c_address heapAddress)
{
	int result;
	if (0 < fd) {
		int n;
		struct iovec v;
		v.iov_base = (void *)heapAddress;
		v.iov_len = context->memFileMeta.shm_size;
		n = readv(fd, &v, 1);
		result = 0 < n;
	} else {
		result = 0;
	}
	return result;
}

/* Reads the header info of a memory file and stores it in the
 * context. Its info can then be read through the various
 * Get Functions.
 * If anything fails, this function will return 0, otherwise >0.
 */
int
a_filReadHeader(
	a_filContext context)
{
	int result;
	int fd;
	fd = open(context->fname, O_RDONLY, 0);
	if (0 < fd) {
		result = a_filReadHeaderDo(context, fd);
		close(fd);
	} else {
		result = 0;
	}
	return result;
}

#if 0

static void
a_filPrintHeader(
	a_filContext context)
{
	printf("[a_filPrintHeader] shm_name=\"%s\"\n", a_filGetShmName(context));
	printf("[a_filPrintHeader]  db_name=\"%s\"\n", a_filGetDbName(context));
	printf("[a_filPrintHeader]  address=0x%X\n", (unsigned int)a_filGetShmAddress(context));
	c_long size = a_filGetShmSize(context);
	printf("[a_filPrintHeader] shm_size=0x%X (%ld)\n", (unsigned int)size, size);
}

#endif

/* Reads a memory file into heap. Before calling this function,
 * the file's header must have been read (by a_filReadHeader) and
 * a (heap) memory block must have been allocated with the size
 * collected from the ReadHeader action.
 * If anything fails, this function will return 0, otherwise >0.
 */
int
a_filFile2Heap(
	a_filContext context,
	c_address heapAddress)
{
	int result;
	int fd;
	fd = open(context->fname, O_RDONLY, 0);
	if (0 < fd) {
		if (a_filReadHeaderDo(context, fd)) {    // dummy read for setting file pointer
			// a_filPrintHeader(context);
			result = a_filReadFile2HeapDo(context, fd, heapAddress);
		}
		close(fd);
	} else {
		result = 0;
	}
	if (!result) {
		perror("?Could not open file for reading, reason");
	}
	return result;
}

/* Returns a pointer to the currently known shm_name in the context
 */
char *
a_filGetShmName(
	a_filContext context)
{
	return context ? context->memFileMeta.shm_name : NULL;
}

/* Returns a pointer to the currently known db_name in the context
 */
char *
a_filGetDbName(
	a_filContext context)
{
	return context ? context->memFileMeta.db_name : NULL;
}

/* Returns the currently known shm_size in the context
 */
c_long
a_filGetShmSize(
	a_filContext context)
{
	return context ? context->memFileMeta.shm_size : 0;
}

/* Returns the currently known address pointer in the context
 */
c_address
a_filGetShmAddress(
	a_filContext context)
{
	return context ? context->memFileMeta.address : 0;
}

//END a_fil.c


If you travel often, buy consecutive days with a myki Pass.
Choose where you'll be travelling and how many days you need. You can buy a myki Pass for 7 days or anywhere between 28 and 365 days.
When you buy a myki Pass for between 325 and 365 days, you only pay for 325 days, and receive up to 40 days free. Select 365 days on a myki machine or ask for 365 days when buying from a shop or ticket office.
Your myki can store two myki Passes at a time.
If you're buying a myki Pass via the Google Pay app for Mobile myki, you'll only be able to buy passes for 7, 28, 30, 31, 35, 40, 60 and 365 days.
If you buy a myki Pass for Mobile myki via the mymyki website, you can buy passes for 7 days or anywhere between 28 and 365 days.
When your current myki Pass is almost expired, you can buy your next Pass so it's ready to activate when you need it. Only one myki Pass can be active at a time.
You can travel as many times as you want in your chosen zones for the duration of the pass.
Your myki Pass activates when you first touch on in one of your chosen zones and expires at 3am on the morning after the last day of the pass.
You can activate your myki Pass for 12 months from the date of top up. Your pass will expire after 12 months if you don't activate it. You can request a refund for the value of an unused Pass.
You can have myki Money and myki Pass on your myki at the same time, but you can't choose to use myki Money if you have a valid myki Pass for the zones you're travelling in. myki Pass will take precedence. Your myki Pass won't work if your myki Money has a negative balance.


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Q: ManagedCuda and __constant__ variables I am using ManagedCuda in C#, and I have one question that I can't find an answer to... maybe you can help me. I was reading that in C++ and CUDA you can declare a variable (which is an array) like:
__constant__ double myVar[X]; (this is supossed to hold an array of X elements)
and then later use this to set the value from host code:
cudaMemcpyToSymbol(myVar, &arrayFromHost[0], sizeof(arrayFromHost) * numElements,
                   size_t(0),cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);

so now you can use something like:
__global__ void myFunction(double *res)
{
    *res = myVar[0] + 2.5;
}

using a value that was set in myVar from the host...
but in ManagedCuda I don't seem to be able to do that... how can I do that??

*

*Declare constant variable in my *.cu file

*Set value (an array) from my *.cs file to that constant

*Use the value from constant 1. in a function inside that same *.cu file

(or a __device__ variable... I don't know... it will be a variable that will receive an array (with a unknown number of elements) the first time it is run, and from then on, the function will reference its values, but that variable will never change)
Right now I only declare a CudaDeviceVariable and I don't touch it ever again, but on my kernel I always have to send the DevicePointer, which I think makes it harder to understand when reading...
Right now it looks something like this:
myKernel.Run(staticData.DevicePointer, moreData.DevicePointer,
             evenMoreData.DevicePointer, numberOfElementsWhichNeverChange,
             moreStaticData.DevicePointer, myResults.DevicePointer)

I would like to skip the 3 parameters that have data that never changes and set it in another function like setData.Run(numElements, staticData, moreStaticData);
and use from constant or device variables in other funcions in my *.cu file.

A: myKernel has a method SetConstantVariable() doing exactly what you want to do. Just call it before you launch the kernel:
In your *.cu file:
extern "C"
{
    __constant__ double myConstVarInCuda[5];
    __global__ void myFunction(double *res)
    {
        *res = myConstVarInCuda[0] + 2.5;
    }
}

In C#:
 double[] myVarInCS = new double[] { 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 };
    myKernel.SetConstantVariable("myConstVarInCuda", myVarInCS);
    myKernel.Run(...);

If you don't declare your Cuda code in an extern "C" scope, be aware that names get mangled. In that case you can look up the exact mangled name in the PTX code.

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—Rohan Alva, Jindal Global Law School
Development in Constitutional Courts
Four new justices have been appointed to the Supreme Court of India. With the addition of these justices, the total number of Supreme Court judges now stands at 30, a notch below its full strength.
Ricardo Lewandowski has been elected as the President of the Brazilian Supreme Court, and will replace Joaquim Barbosa who had in June this year expressed his desire to step down from the Court.
A judge in Tennessee has affirmed a state law which bars the official recognition of out-of-state same-sex marriages.
The Ontario Court of Appeal in Canada ruled that the requirement of prospective citizens to take an oath of allegiance to the Queen as per the Citizenship Act, is constitutional and is not a form of forced speech.
The European Court of Human Rights, ruling on a batch of petitions brought by prisoners incarcerated in the United Kingdom, declared that the UK's prohibition on prisoner's exercising their franchise was in breach of their suffrage rights. The Court, however, declined awarding monetary recompense for the rights violation.
Shai Dothan, In Defence of Expansive Human Rights Interpretation in the European Court of Human Rights, 3 Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law (2014) (presenting a defense of, and analyzing the benefits which flow from, the European Court of Human Rights' method of broadening the ambit of human rights that ought to be protected by member states)
Lee Epstein & Andrew D. Martin, An Introduction to Empirical Legal Research (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) (emphasizing the increasing importance of empirical legal inquires and explaining the framework within which empirical analysis should be engaged in)
James Bernard Murphy, The Philosophy of Customary Law (Oxford University Press, 2014) (jurisprudentially analyzing the meaning of customs and evaluating the position and impact of customs within the formal legal structures)
Annick Masselot & Anthony Maymont, Balanced Representation between Men and Women in Business Law: The French 'Quota' System to the Test of EU Legislation, Centre for European Law and Legal Studies Online Paper Series (University of Leeds, 2014) (examining the nature of gender disparity in the appoint of female board members in European Union based companies, and positing on the useful lessons that can be learned from the French efforts towards attaining gender equality)
Bryne Michael, Can the Hong Kong ICAC Help Reduce Corruption on the Mainland, 2 Chinese Journal of Comparative Law 78 (2014) (analyzing the positive role of the Independent Commission Against Corruption in combating corruption in Hong Kong, and evaluating how the introduction of specific changes in the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance can strengthen the Commission's ability to properly target corruption in mainland China)
The Indian Parliament formally passed the National Judicial Appointments Commission Bill, a piece of legislation which seeks to reform the process by which justices are appointed to the high courts and Supreme Court by creating a stand-alone body to deliberate on judicial appointments. The bill, which will effect an amendment to the Indian Constitution will be transmitted to the states for ratification.
The Brazilian president assented to a law which endeavors to offer holistic protection to domestic workers. This law regulates important aspects of domestic work such as working hours, and wage payments.
The House of Representatives in Trinidad has approved a constitutional amendment proposal to establish a term limit for the prime minister, to institute a recall procedure for parliamentarians, and to require all elected representatives to win a majority of the vote in their electoral district.
The American president, Barack Obama, has called on voters to provide the Democrats with a working majority in the Senate, since this would be essential for the Obama administration to successfully nominate justices to the US Supreme Court, which he hopes to do within his presidential term.
Peter Nyomb, the Attorney General for Uganda, has instituted an appeal calling for a review of the Ugandan Constitutional Court's invalidation of the 'Anti-Homosexuality Act'.
KT Thomas, In defence of the collegium, The Indian Express
David Cole, The Anti-Court Court, The New York Review of Books
Bruno Dondero, Conflicts of interests: the French Law approach, Le Blog du professeur Bruno Dondero
Dimitrina Petrova, Uganda's anti-homosexuality law and our cultural wars, Oxford Human Rights Hub
Renáta Uitz, Worthy of a second look? The Chamber judgment in the Hungarian church re-registration case, ECHR Blog
Call for Papers/Conferences
Max Planck Institute for Human Development invites entries for a conference on 'Criminal Law and Emotions in European Legal Cultures' to be held on the 21st and 22nd of May, 2015.
Participants are invited for the 'Second International Conference on Interdisciplinary Legal Studies' which is organized by the International Center for Research & Development and Unique Conference. The conference is scheduled to be held on the 9th and 10th of June, 2015.
The Law and Development Institute in association with the Payson Centre and School for Law, Tulane University, invites submissions for a conference on 'New Directions for Law and Development Studies' to be held on the 10th of April, 2015. Single page abstracts are due by the 15th of October, 2015.
Submissions are invited by the Australian International Law Journal for its 21st Volume. All submissions are due by the 12th of September, 2014.
A save the date has been announced by the European Society for International Law for its 'Annual Summer Conference' which is to be held from the 10th of September to the 12th of September, 2015.
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WATCH: Whatever you do, don't scratch Kim Kardashian's wooden floors
Home / 10 July 2019, 09:30am / Bang Showbiz
Their expensive taste has created work for them as they have to fly a special company to the US to smooth out any scuffs the flooring may get. Picture: YouTube.com
Kim Kardashian West has to fly people in from Europe to repair her wooden flooring.
The 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians' star and her husband Kanye West weren't afraid to splash the cash when they were renovating their $60-million mansion in Los Angeles, California, but their expensive taste has created work for them as they have to fly a special company to the US to smooth out any scuffs the flooring may get.
Speaking to Forbes, writer Zack O'Malley Greenburg said: "The lushly landscaped exterior of the property [Kanye] shares with his wife, Kim Kardashian West, and their four children (North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm) serves as stark contrast to the unadorned alabaster walls within. Nearly every surface is a monastic shade of white. The floors are made of a special Belgian plaster; if scuffed, the delicate material can be repaired only by a crew flown in from Europe."
At the beginning of this year, the 42-year-old rapper and his wife bought the property next door to their current one - meaning they now own the entire block.
The home they've purchased comes with three bedrooms and three bathrooms, but it's unknown as of the time of writing whether they intend on using the second home, or if they just want to make use of the extra land to expand their whopping estate.
The couple's new purchase comes after they backed out of the sale of $14-million holiday home in Miami Beach in December, after rising concerns over security.
Unfortunately for the couple, Kanye lost the $600 000 down payment he made on the property when he reserved it as a Christmas gift for Kim.
The condo was situated just a few steps away from the beach within a building that has been dubbed 'Billionaire Beach Bunker'.
The 38-year-old reality TV star and the 'Bound 2' hitmaker are now looking into property in the Bahamas or other tropical destinations that their family can enjoy.
The couple have four children; North, six, Saint, three, Chicago, 17 months, and one-month-old son Psalm.
Kim and Kanye West back off R190 million house deal
WATCH: Kim Kardashian's modern kitchen has the internet divided
Kim Kardashian controls her temperature controlled closet via an app on her phone
Kim and Kanye are victims of swatting hoax
Kim Kardashian West bags over R37 million from a lawsuit


Executive Summary: Fedora 27 to 28 upgrade leaves desktop locked up.
Linux Fedora 28 was released yesterday and I missed the note!
So first thing this morning I sit down at my testbed machine: a dell optiplex 755 (circa 2008) – intel core2 quad Q6600 @2.4GHz, 4GBDDR2, Seagate 250GB sata drive.
I was running Linux Fedora 27 desktop and it had an icon for software updates. All of those were installed and then rebooted. The only remaining item was the fedora 28 upgrade. It was downloaded and then the install started. It did not take long.. less than 1 hour and it rebooted again.
And that is where the problem is. It appeared to be locked up and unresponsive to mouse or keyboard.
A manual power cycle and some fiddling with the grub2 options (removing rhgb and quiet), gave the old command line startup display.
then locked up, no key responds no mouse. cannot ssh connect. totally dead to keyboard.
try replugging keyboard, mouse, no change.
Wow. Not even a kernel crash!
Tried manually cycling power several times, same results.
Next tried using the lat fedora27 kernel… SAME results!
Tried the grub rescue option.. SAME results… Arrgg!
After an hour of research on the internets, I found something that works… adding the parameter nomodeset into the /boot/grub2/grub.cfg kernel line (the one with the rhgb and quiet parms).
recompile with the command grub2-mkconfig and reboot!
nomodeset turns off video mode drivers from within the kernel until the graphical desktop has loaded.


There have been some science news reports with sensationalistic titles about "oceans" of water under the surface of the earth. Those may prompt readers to think that if you dug a hole deep enough, you could have a nice swimming hole. Not hardly. As we read at Creation-Evolution Headlines, "A claim of vast reservoirs of water deep in the earth is based on indirect evidence, and likely has little or nothing to do with surface water or floods" (see "Beware of Misinterpreting Water Claims").
Christians can be just as gullible as their secular counterparts, saying, "Aha! Mockers wonder where the water went after the Flood, and there it is!" Reign in that filly, Freddie. Mockers who have a bent to disbelieve will still not be impressed, especially since the Flood water is still here; if the earth was smooth, it would be covered by water for a depth of over 1-1/2 miles (over 2.41 km). As for that water in the earth, there is still a great deal of research to do. Was it a part of the Genesis Flood? We need a plausible model and mechanism for how it got to the surface and/or how it became trapped in the rock. It's all big news and interesting, but creationists tend to be a bit more circumspect than writers for the secular press. As Tas Walker says about the claims of water in the following article, "...are based on interpretations of indirect evidence". Yeah, "oceans" indeed.
This is not a new discovery. Scientists have been speculating for decades that the earth's transition zone holds abundant water within the mantle, in a mineral called Ringwoodite.
To read the rest, click on "Oceans of water deep inside the earth".


Easy and delicious, these Red Velvet Coconut Macaroons are a beautiful treat just in time for Valentine's Day!
I've got a great last minute dessert recipe today that's perfect for Valentine's Day! I took my favorite coconut macaroon recipe and turned it into Red Velvet Coconut Macaroons!
I have to admit red velvet isn't my go-to flavor when I'm ordering dessert but every time I have it, I think to myself – why don't I have this more often? It's really delicious and so fun for Valentine's Day and Christmas.
You'll notice that I added a fun little drizzle and lots of sprinkles to spruce up the macaroons. That's not totally necessary but it sure is pretty! The macaroons dry out a little bit on the exterior so the color isn't as vibrant as it is on the inside. I thought this was an easy and delicious way to remedy that effect.
A pretty and sweet treat just perfect for the coconut lover in your life!
Easy and delicious, these Red Velvet Coconut Macaroons are a beautiful treat just in time for Valentine's Day!
Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring frequently to dissolve the sugar. Remove from heat.
In a medium-sized, heat-proof bowl, combine shredded coconut and hot syrup, stirring until evenly distributed. Let mixture cool for about 20 minutes.
Once cooled, stir in the cake mix until thoroughly combined.
In a separate bowl, whisk egg whites and vanilla extract together until foamy and thick. Gently fold in the coconut mixture.
Use a cookie scoop to scoop out mounds of the coconut mixture. Make sure to really pack the coconut in tightly. You want golf-ball sized mounds. Space the macaroons 2 inches apart.
Bake 15 to 18 minutes, rotating the baking sheet if necessary. Place baking sheets on racks and let cool completely.
Melt candy coating according to package directions and drizzle on top of the cooled macaroons. Sprinkle with pearls or jimmies. Let set up before storing in an airtight container.
What a fun flavor for macaroons! Perfect Valentine's Day treat!
These are gorgeous! And so irresistible. I'm a huge fan of playing with macaroons, and you've come up with the ultimate awesome flavor!


On March 25, Alicia Florrick gets a new friend when Matthew Perry joins The Good Wife in a recurring role as Mike -- a Chicago attorney with questionable motives in an episode titled Blue Ribbon Panel.
The title comes from the 7-person panel Mike heads up and Alicia is assigned to in order to investigate a police shooting.
But anyone expecting Mike to have a single Bing-esque quality will be sorely disappointed as co-creator Robert King tells ETonline, "this is a character unlike anything we've ever seen Matthew play."
Is Good Wife Headed For A Viral Attack?
"No one skates as effortlessly between drama and comedy as Matthew Perry, so we're especially thrilled to have him on the show," he said in a statement alongside his co-creator, Michelle King. "We're huge, huge fans, and are nearly giddy over what he can do with the role."


The DL: A New York, NY Bar.
Ludlow Manor's shut down the top two floors in order to focus on bringing a new resto to life on the first one, which looks like an oligarch's reception chamber thanks to massive curtains, distressed mirrors, a gilded trellis, and glitzy chandeliers. New American small plates get a "touch of irony", resulting in a PB&J that's actually a pork belly & jam slider, Lobster Crack (knuckle meat steamed in vermouth), and bacon-topped Ludlow Mac, hopefully not a cheesy nickname you give to yourself.


The bee hotel referred to in the last post is actually a maternity ward. There are now eight or nine holes filled by the Orange Tailed Bees with eggs and what they need when they hatch. I have also seen the bees dig out the holes after an Ichneumon wasp has visited and taken advantage, by laying her eggs in or on the bee's eggs.


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Q: C++ Хочу модернизировать программку с вводом функцией "random" Здравствуйте, Уважаемые знатоки!  мне 67 лет, проучился на курсах "foundation". Xотел бы получить более глубокие познания в этой области науки.
Имею программу :
include <iostream>
using namespace std;
void selectionSort (int arr[],int arrSize){
int min_idx;
int i=0;
for(int i =0; i<arrSize-1;i++)
{
 min_idx = i;
for(int j =i+1; j < arrSize; j++)
 if(arr[j]<arr[min_idx])
 min_idx = j;
 std::swap(arr[i],arr[min_idx]);
}

}
void printArray(int arr[],int arrSize){
for(int i =0; i<arrSize;i++){

 std::cout << arr[i]<< " ";
}

}
int main()
{
constexpr int arrSize=10;
int arr[arrSize] {2,1,18,14,28,17,99,77,88,100};
selectionSort(arr,arrSize);
printArray(arr,arrSize);
return 0;
}

хотел чуть переделать вводя функцию "random" и вводить цифры каждый раз случайные и получить правильно от сортированные
srand(time(NULL));
 int arrSize = 10;
 int ratings[arrSize];
 for(int i =0; i<arrSize; i++)
 {
     ratings[i] = rand()%10;
 }

совместить не получается помогите пожалуйста, как можно подробнее

A: Не очень понятно... Вы хотите просто создать массив со случайными данными? Типа этого:
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

void selectionSort (int arr[],int arrSize)
{
    int min_idx;
    for(int i =0; i<arrSize-1;i++)
    {
        min_idx = i;
        for(int j =i+1; j < arrSize; j++)
            if(arr[j]<arr[min_idx])
                min_idx = j;
        std::swap(arr[i],arr[min_idx]);
    }
}

void printArray(int arr[],int arrSize)
{
    for(int i =0; i<arrSize;i++){

        std::cout << arr[i]<< " ";
    }
}

int main()
{
    srand(time(0));
    constexpr int arrSize=10;
    int ratings[arrSize];
    for(int i =0; i<arrSize; i++)
    {
        ratings[i] = rand()%10;
    }
    selectionSort(ratings ,arrSize);
    printArray(ratings, arrSize);
}

Или вы хотите именно функцию, создающую массив? тогда встречные вопросы — нужен именно массив, или можно (раз у нас С++) vector? Если именно массив — то вы уже в курсе о динамическом выделении памяти через new?


Adjustable shoulder support for use with 15mm lightweight bars. Can be combined with our other 15mm accessories to build a custom handheld camera rig.
For using Nikon mount lenses on Canon DSLR cameras. Precise, German engineering – the best adapter on the market.
Known as a 'Zamerican' in Zacuto parlance (Zpeak), this is a more robust alternative to regular articulating arms.


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Via Labicana
The Via Labicana was an ancient road of Italy, leading east-southeast from Rome. It seems possible that the road at first led to Tusculum, that it was then extended to Labici, and later still became a road for through traffic; it may even have superseded the Via Latina as a route to the southeast, for, while the distance from Rome to their main junction at Ad Bivium (or to another junction at Compitum Anagninum) is practically identical, the summit level of the former is 22 metres (72 ft) lower than that of the latter, a little to the west of the pass of Mount Algidus. After their junction it is probable that the road bore the name Via Latina rather than Via Labicana. The course of the road after the first six miles from Rome is not identical with that of any modern road, but can be clearly traced by remains of pavement and buildings along its course.[1]
The arch of Gallienus was the old Porta Esquilina in the Servian Wall. Here started the intra moenia portion of via Labicana.
Via Labicana (shown in red)
Via Labicana entered Rome through the Aurelian walls via the ancient monumental gate of Porta Prenestina, and reached, after an internal part, the Servian Wall, entering through the Porta Esquilina, decorated with the arch of Gallienus. The section of the road near Rome is now known as the Via Casilina. A statue of Augustus as pontifex maximus found at a villa of Livia on this road is known as the "Via Labicana type" and is housed at the National Roman Museum. The Roman Emperor Didius Julianus was buried by the fifth milestone on the Via Labicana, after being executed in 193. The ancient church of Santi Marcellino e Pietro al Laterano was built at the intersection with via Merulana near the catacombs where the remains of St Marcellino and St Pietro were found.
1 Roman bridges
Roman bridgesEdit
For an overview of the location of Roman bridges, see List of Roman bridges.
There are the remains of at least one Roman bridge along the road, which crosses the Fosso del Giardinetto 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) east of Rome.
Find sources: "Via Labicana" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Ashby, Thomas (1911). "Labicana, Via". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 4. Ashby cites his own contribution to Papers of the British School at Rome, i .215 sqq.
Omnes Viae: Via Labicana on the Peutinger map
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Via_Labicana&oldid=984990850"


Can I charge two devices at a time?
Yes, some Syska car charges come with multiple ports so you can charge more than one device at a time. Please refer to the user manual or product specifications for further details.
Syska car chargers offer a warranty period of 6 months.
Compatibility of my charging cable with the charging port of the device?
Ideally, you must use the charging cable provided by the manufacturer but Syska's charging ports support most kinds of USB cables for your ease and comfort.
No, your car doesn't need to be switched on or moving. The charger simply draws power from your car's battery.
Can I remove it/ plug it in while the car ignition is turned on?
Yes, you may use the Syska car charger as you please whether the ignition is on or not. Just avoid using your device while it is charging.


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Court Rules Against Atlantic Coast Pipeline Again
The bad news keeps coming for backers of a controversial natural gas pipeline that would span the Appalachian Mountains.
The proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline would cross about five miles of the Monongahela National Forest and 15 miles of the George Washington National Forest, shown above.
Yesterday, a federal appellate court declined to reconsider its earlier finding that the Forest Service overstepped its authority when it granted permission for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to cross the Appalachian Trail.
The 4thCircuit Court of Appeals also found that "the Forest Service abdicated its responsibility to preserve national forest resources" when it gave permission for the pipeline to cross the George Washington and Monongahela national forests.
Officials with Dominion Energy, the pipeline's principal developer, vowed to continue their efforts to build the 600-mile pipeline, which would stretch from West Virginia to North Carolina. Company officials said today they expect to file an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court within the next 90 days.
Opponents of the pipeline praised the appellate court's decision.
"Atlantic could reroute, but instead it should scrap this boondoggle and stop running up a bill it wants to stick to customers," said D.J. Gerken, a senior attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center.
In addition to its legal troubles, the pipeline's estimated price tag has swelled to about $7 billion, which is about $3 billion higher than initial estimates.
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Daily Content Archive as of Sunday, September 23, 2018
(as of Sunday, September 23, 2018)
Definition: (verb) Make impersonal or present as an object.
Synonyms: depersonalize
Usage: Pornography objectifies women.
Identifying Auxiliary Verbs
Auxiliary verbs are verbs that add functional meaning to other "main" verbs in a clause. Auxiliary verbs can be identified by two main criteria. What are they?	More...
Euripides was a Greek playwright recognized, along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, as one of Athens's three great tragic dramatists. Unlike his contemporaries, who concerned themselves with grandiose themes and deities, Euripides wrote about ordinary people and social issues. He began competing in the dramatic festival of Dionysus in 455 BCE and won his first victory in 441 BCE. Of his 92 plays, only about 19 survive. Many of his plays are resolved by a deus ex machina, which is what?	More...
The Lewis and Clark Expedition Returns (1806)
In May 1804, about 40 men left St. Louis, Missouri, and headed west on an expedition initiated by US President Thomas Jefferson to search out an overland route to the Pacific Ocean, make contact with indigenous peoples, and survey the new Louisiana Purchase. More than two years later, the party returned to great acclaim. Their journey had an incalculable effect on the history of the American West. Who accompanied the explorers and helped them negotiate with the Native Americans they encountered?	More...
John Coltrane (1926)
Coltrane was an influential American jazz saxophonist and composer. He worked with numerous big bands before emerging in the 1950s as a major stylist while playing with Miles Davis. His playing exhibited a dazzling technical brilliance as well as ardent emotion. Coltrane made a number of influential recordings, among them the 1960s classics My Favorite Things and A Love Supreme. He was deeply spiritual and interested in all religions. What church made him a saint after his death?	More...
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues—faith and hope.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
wash (someone's) mouth out (with soap)
— To punish someone for using rude, vulgar, or obscene language by cleaning their mouth with soap (usually used merely as a threat). More...
Erau Festival (2020)
This Indonesian festival takes place in Tenggarong, in the province of East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. Today the Erau Festival is celebrated for as long as a week around September 24, the anniversary of the city's founding, though many of the ceremonies performed during the festival go back much further. The festival opens with special blessing and purification ceremonies, followed by musical and dance performances, art exhibits, and more traditional Dayak ceremonies.	More...
Today's topic: scent
breath - From an Old English word meaning "scent, smell." More...
flair - Comes from Latin fragrare, "smell sweet," and was first the ability to detect the "essence" or "scent" of something and know how to act accordingly. More...
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relish - First meant "odor, scent," then "taste, flavor." More...


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Some Mario Vargas Llosa books
10 March 2009 by Ray
The Cubs and other stories (1959)
This was Mario Vargas Llosa's first published story, about growing up and learning about life on the streets in Lima, a theme he developed extensively in his impressive first full-length novel The Time of the Hero (La ville et les chiens). Darned interesting. (...)
Some W.G. Sebald books
Vertigo (1990)
This is a literary essay on memory and the tricks it plays on us by a modern master of evocative, erudite, clear-sighted prose. Sebald takes us in the superb opening chapter with Stendahl through the Alps during Napoleon's Italian campaign to meditate on the contrast between (...)
Some P.G. Wodehouse Books
9 March 2009 by Ray
Very Good, Jeeves!
Although I have always been a P.G. Wodehouse fan (how can one possibly not be?), I have tended to avoid the Jeeves books on the (foolishly mistaken) grounds that they would be too predictable, preferring the almost-always-wildly-funny collections of stories about Archie (...)
Pepe Carvalho: a Spanish Hercule Poirot
17 September 2007 by Ray
The Quintet of Buenos Aires by Manuel Vasquez Montalban is a big, rather verbose, but all in all quite captivating plunge into the darker side of life in contemporary Argentina as we follow the investigations of an odd-ball but very distinctive detective from Barcelona named Pepe Carvalho, who (...)
"The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus", edited by Brian Aldiss
30 July 2007 by Ray
This is a really outstanding collection of science-fiction stories from the late forties and fifties, the golden age of sci-fi in my humble and no doubt biased opinion, that being the period when I first discovered the genre, which was all the rage then, in my youthful days. But it was (...)


Many people are not aware that for many years, the talc they were exposed to may have contained asbestos. Asbestos-containing talc was incorporated in many commercial and home construction products, including joint compound and wallboard, and paints. It was also common in the rubber industry, and in foundries as a release agent.
One longtime talc defendant and their former law firm is now facing trouble for allegedly lying in numerous lawsuits involving asbestos-containing talc exposures. A lawsuit claiming BASF and its lawyers filed false documents and fraudulently concealed evidence that its talc products contained asbestos has been reinstated by the Third Circuit. The lawsuit alleges "a strategy of denial and deceit" by Engelhard and its attorneys to fool people into dropping their lawsuits or settling cheaply. A lower court judge had thrown out the class action, brought by thousands of asbestos victims, ruling that BASF and its attorneys conduct was protected because it took place as part of judicial proceedings. The Third Circuit ruled that dismissing the case would "immunize systematic fraud,… fraud calculated to thwart the judicial process."The case is quite the cloak and dagger affair. BASF, the world's largest chemical maker, acquired Engelhard, a Fortune 500 chemical and mining company, in 2006.But the lawsuit itself goes back to a claim filed in 1979 against Engelhard by Thomas Westfall, an Englehard employee who had been exposed to talc. The case was settled in 1984, and Engelhard and its attorneys, New York law firm Cahill, Gordon and Reindil, LLP, rounded up the evidence and documents that had been produced in that lawsuit. This included the testimony of three Engelhard employees that its talc contained asbestos – that testimony was sealed by the settlement's confidentiality order and never made public.Even worse, according to the lawsuit, the law firm Cahill, Gordon then went forward and created false evidence, affidavits and expert reports, claiming (falsely) that Engelhard talc did not contain asbestos. Cahill, Gordon used this false evidence in stock pleadings in which they claimed all plaintiffs' lawsuits invalid because Engelhard products didn't contain asbestos.The entire scheme unraveled in 2009 in the course of a mesothelioma lawsuit filed by Donna Paduano, the daughter of a former Engelhard research chemist. Paduano's father testified that he had found asbestos in Engelhard's talc, but in the 1980s had been instructed to turn over all his records to the company. BASF's new lawyers then found and turned over a stockpile of documents that were found in a Cahill, Gordon storage facility.
BASF has not yet said whether it will appeal the ruling, but has stated that it will continue to fight the class action claim.
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Here are my favorite picks for anime like Sound! Euphonium. Keep in mind the list is in no particular order. Enjoy!
At Shirahamazaka High School, a special recital is held every year in which music students are able to showcase their talents in front of professionals and other prestigious guests. A third year, Konatsu Miyamoto desperately wants to sing in her last high school recital, but because she screwed up the year before, the vice principal has barred her from participating.
Chika Homura begins her high school career with a goal: to develop a "cute girl" persona. After quitting the volleyball team despite her all-star status, Chika decides to join her school's underrated Wind Instrument Club and play the flute, believing it to be the most delicate and feminine instrument. For the first time in nine years, Chika reunites with her childhood friend and total opposite, Haruta Kamijou. Unfortunately for Chika, Haruta is not fooled by her efforts to become more endearing. But this does not deter Chika, and she develops a crush on the band instructor, Shinjirou Kusakabe—but so does Haruta!
On the outskirts of the country of Helvetia rests the tranquil town of Seize. Upon its cobbled streets, citizens go about their daily lives, undisturbed by the increasingly tense military relations between Helvetia and the neighboring Roman Empire.
Shirobako begins with the five members of the Kaminoyama High School animation club all making a pledge to work hard on their very first amateur production and make it into a success. After showing it to an audience at a culture festival, that pledge turned into a huge dream—to move to Tokyo, get jobs in the anime industry and one day join hands to create something amazing.
"Senshadou" is a traditional sport using World War II era tanks in elimination-based matches. Widely practiced by women and girls alike, it's advertised as a form of art geared towards making ladies more prominent in culture and appealing to men. Becoming a worldwide phenomenon over time, the influence of senshadou leads to the creation of a world championship which will soon be held in Japan.


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Q: Logitech Options on Linux I am a new ubuntu user and want to use my machine to it's full extent, so I looked for Logitech Options software for my Logitech MX Master 2s on linux, but found nothing.
Will the software run through Wine? If not, is there any other way to install Logitech Options or get to customize the functions of macro buttons and the thumb wheel?

A: There is an unofficial driver logiops for Logitech mice and keyboards which works for me with Ubuntu 18.04 and Manjaro and the MX Master 2S and 3S.
Features include but not limited to:

*

*thumb button with gestures,

*smartshift scrolling with an individual threshold

*individual dpi settings.

See this answer on how to install and configure the driver.
The Flow feature is not yet implemented but there seems to exist an alternative for Windows/Linux/Mac called barrier.

A: As it stands Logitech Options is not available for Linux and it does not appear to be running in WINE. You could always check the WINE website for more information, but it looks like there is nothing yet.
You should always checkout the Arch Linux Wiki for help. Here is the article covering the MX Master.
Piper might be what you are looking for.
From the Github page:
Piper is a GTK+ application to configure gaming mice.
Piper is merely a graphical frontend to the ratbagd DBus daemon, see the libratbag
README for instructions on how to run ratbagd

A: sudo apt install solaar
solaar

This was the answer for me. I used it to enable a unifying USB receiver, and share it with an ERGO K860 keyboard and an MX ERGO trackball. Solaar will detect all devices paired with supported Unifying, Lightspeed, or Nano receivers, and at the very least display some basic information about them. A really excellent utility. Props to @vito genovese for the heads-up.

A: I was having the same problem as you did/do. The solution that I found to address this issue was installing Solaar.
This application allows you to manage Logitech devices. I have a Logitech 400 plus (A keyboard with a mouse) and with that, I can achieve the things that I needed to change.
sudo apt install solaar
solaar

And you're going to see on the top right corner a battery icon indicating the battery remaining on your device. Hope this helps you!

A: After trying many other solutions listed here, logiops has worked great so far: custom button-mapping, gesture support, smart shift, etc. Nearly every LogiOptions feature seems to be supported by it. I'm running Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS and using an MX Master 3.
Folks may be put off by it because there's no GUI, and build and installation aren't trivial (I had a problem where cmake couldn't find libevdev). That being said, Danish Shakeel's Configure Logitech MX Master 3 on Linux blog post helped quite a bit, especially for getting started with the configuration file. The documentation for the configuration file is quite good, but it can get a little tricky and there aren't many examples out there aside from the example in the repository.
For what it's worth, here's my configuration (located at /etc/logid.cfg by default):
devices: (
    {
        name: "Wireless Mouse MX Master 3";
        smartshift:
        {
            on: true;
            threshold: 30;
            default_threshold: 30;
        };
        hiresscroll:
        {
            hires: true;
            invert: true;
            target: false;
        };
        dpi: 1700;
        buttons: (
            {
                cid: 0x52; // scroll wheel button
                action =
                {
                    type: "Keypress";
                    keys: [ "KEY_RIGHTMETA" ]; // open activities overview
                }
            },
            {
                cid: 0x53; // back button
                action =
                {
                    type: "Keypress";
                    keys: [ "KEY_RIGHTMETA", "KEY_PAGEDOWN" ]; // move to previous space
                }
            },
            {
                cid: 0x56; // forward button
                action =
                {
                    type: "Keypress";
                    keys: [ "KEY_RIGHTMETA", "KEY_PAGEUP" ]; // move to next space
                }
            },
            {
                cid: 0xc4; // mode shift button
                action =
                {
                    type: "Keypress";
                    keys: [ "KEY_RIGHTMETA", "KEY_A" ]; // show applications
                }
            }
        );
    }
);

For mapping keyboard shortcuts, refer to /usr/include/linux/input.h.

A: I was looking for ways to configure my G700s on linux. piper works very well for configuring my mouse and apparently works for a number of other gaming mice.
edit: I got piper from the official arch repository, but is available in and the ubuntu repository.

A: logiops might be a good choice, this is an unofficial driver for Logitech mice and keyboard.
project page

A: I tried Solaar and piper they both didnt work at all , then I tried something called "easystroke gesture recognition" basically its Logitech options on steroids , you have much more options and you can custom everything and it can be used on any mice.

A: About unifying remotes, you might also wanna look at ltunify if you just need to pair. Easy use. But it's just for pairing.

A: Installing Solaar as suggested by @vito-genovese solved the connectivty issue that support said that Logitech Options would help. Unfortunatly, it is not possible to reconfig keys or change speed profiles with the app, but helped with connecting my Logitech MX Vertical correctly with Ubuntu.
While trying to open the app I got the following error:
Solaar: missing required package 'python-pyudev'

I solved it installing python3-pyudev based on this issue report:
sudo apt install python3-pyudev

A: In my case I needed to change my Logi K650 so that I didn't have to press fn key in order to use F-keys (as in F1...F2 keys).
The package solaar works great, I just had to unplug and plug back in the dongle after running the program for the first time, then wait about a minute for the UI to show available options, and finally turn off the Swap Fx function toggle button (had to press the lock icon twice to unlock the option):


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