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President Hu Jintao's Chance To End The One Child Policy and Gendercide
The contrast with the American presidential election campaign could not be greater but this week the Chinese Communist Party made its once in a decade transfer of power to a new Politburo of one-party State appointees. President, Hu Jintao is expected to hand over the reins of power in March.
Before he leaves office there is one last question which President Hu should address – and which would earn him widespread respect and admiration: it is a brutal and discriminatory policy which for 32 years has tarnished the reputation of a great country and which has left a trail of misery. Last month the United Nations commemorated its International Day of the Girl: highlighting the 100 million girls who are the victims of domestic violence, compulsory veiling, the sex trade, trafficking, bonded labour, forced marriages, genital mutilation, and sexual abuse. In China – and elsewhere – that discrimination begins even before birth, when the three most dangerous and deadly words which can be uttered are the words "It's a girl"
Thirty two years ago China passed a law which institutionalised the routine killing of little girls, merely because of their sex. It's a policy which shamefully has been indirectly aided and abetted by British taxpayers money.
Statistics related to the birth control policy are staggering.
The Chinese government says about thirteen million abortions are carried out every year. That amounts to one thousand, four hundred and fifty eight every sixty minutes or, to put it another way, a Tiananmen Square massacre every hour. The vast majority, of course, are girls. China's One Child Policy and the country's traditional preference for boys have led to widespread abandonment, infanticide, and forced abortions.
China's One Child Policy causes more violence against women and girls than any other policy on earth – than any official policy in the history of the world.
A story which broke in June of this year and which caused outrage throughout the world illustrates the brutal and discriminatory nature of this policy. Feng Jianmei was forcibly aborted at seven months when she and her husband, Deng Jiyuan were unable to pay a fine of almost £4,000. Having fled to the mountains officials tracked her down, found her hiding under a bed, forcibly aborted her baby and left the bloody body of that little girl next to her on her bed.
Then, in July, a man in Anshan city in northeast China was rummaging through a garbage bin for recyclables when he caught sight of a small plastic bag.
When he removed the bag and looked inside, what he saw would have shocked and sickened any civilized human being.
Inside was a newborn baby girl with a deep cut to her throat. She was so newborn that her placenta and umbilical cord were still attached. Her entire tiny body was covered in blood.
Luckily for her, local residents got her to hospital and, as far as we know, the baby's life was saved.
Earlier in the year, in March, A photo of a forcibly aborted full term baby drowned in a bucket, submitted anonymously, circulated on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, and in the West. The infant was reported to have cried cried at birth, before being drowned in a bucket by family planning officials.Also in March, in Jiangxi Province, a 46-year-old woman was forcibly sterilized, in retaliation for bringing a petition against the one child policy. The woman posted the following account on the internet:
"The town government sent more than 20 strong men. I could no longer give birth to a child at that time, but they still dragged my legs, treated me like an animal, and forcibly performed a tubal ligation on the operating table of the Family Planning Office."
Centuries-old tradition, combined with government-enforced birth control policies, have had horrifying and devastating consequences.
But while China is by far the leader in this appalling trend, it's by no means alone. India, with its history of deadly discrimination against girls and women, is rapidly catching up. Today there are now markedly more males than females in India than there were in the early 1990s, and various regions are facing serious and growing gender imbalances.
One United Nations expert estimates that gendercide has cost the lives of around two hundred million women and girls worldwide over the past thirty years. It has also led to violence against citizens and sometimes to the murder of those who don't comply with the policy.
Gendercide is also on the rise globally. As an international predilection for sex-selective abortion grows, so more and more women and girls are losing their lives or simply "missing", the result of sterilization or other means. Western Asia, in particular, is a region of growing concern. And in February of this year undercover journalists discovered sex selection abortions taking place in the UK.
And this isn't just about the loss of precious human life. The gender disparity it creates is causing a catalogue of other problems. China now has thirty-seven million more males than females, fuelling human trafficking and sexual slavery. As this spreads to neighbouring states, national security is threatened. China's One Child Policy is also fostering an ageing population without young people to support them – an anomaly expected to hit the country within the next twenty years.
What was therefore a policy enforced for economic reasons has ironically now become China's economic death sentence.
Many Chinese people have been urging Hu Jintao to abandon the one child policy and there are signs that the protests are having their effect. One man in particular has done more than anyone to force open the debate about gendercide. In April of this year the blind self taught lawyer, Chen Guangcheng, who spent four years in prison for opposing the policy, escaped house arrest, finding safe passage to the United States.
We can learn much from his example. Chen's bravery and heroism has inspired many Chinese dissidents and campaigners around the world. He has seen what sighted people have failed to see; spoken out when those of us with free speech have failed to do so.
In a recent interview, Chen said he was confident reform will come to China, but stressed that if everyone made an effort to build a more just and civil society, then it would come faster. Here's one thing each of us can do:
A brilliant new hour-long film, entitled "It's A Girl" was recently premiered at Westminster at a meeting which I chaired. The film conveys a simple yet powerful message: that the words "It's a girl" – usually proclaimed with such joy and celebration – are deadly for large populations of the world.
It is available to be seen in parishes and in small groups in people's homes or in colleges. Anyone wishing to show the film should contact its maker, Andrew Brown andrew@shadowlinefilms.com and there are more details at:
https://www.davidalton.net/2012/10/31/its-a-girl-premiered-at-the-british-parliament-exposing-the-scandal-of-gendercide/

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Nigerian Governors Tell Kyari: Subsidy Is A Major Drawback To Government Revenues
The Nigeria Governors' Forum (NGF), has told Mele Kyari, the new Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that a new deal might be needed to curb the drawback subsidy payment is having on funds available to the different tiers of government.
Kayode Fayemi, Chairman of the forum and Ekiti State's governor, observed that increases in the price of the cost of a barrel of oil will always drive up the amount of money spent on subsidizing the cost of the product.
Fayemi informed the GMD that accountability measures had been discussed on how to equitably distribute revenues.
"It is important to highlight that subsidy remains a major drawback to government revenues. We may need to consider a new deal on how the government will absorb the cost of subsidy," Fayemi is quoted to have said in a statement issued by Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, the NGF's head of media.
"This has become necessary, given the new reality of low oil revenues and rising government commitments. We believe that at the current course, subsidy costs will continue to offset any recovery in the oil market. Fayemi supported this assertion with figures spent on keeping the cost of gasoline at N145 by the NNPC in 2017 and half year 2018.
"The country recorded one of its lowest costs of subsidy in 2016 when oil traded at an average of $48.11bn. Total subsidy that year was around N28.6bn; but the amount rose to N219bn in 2017 and N345.5bn by mid-2018, as the price of oil and domestic PMS— Premium Motor Spirit, consumption rebounded.
"These are important considerations for us, with direct implications for energy security and economic stability in the country."
Reiterating the dire dependence of states on petroleum revenue, Fayemi said, "Over the last few years, the forum has built a working relationship with the corporation on matters related to the size and distribution of oil revenues in the country.
"Both organisations have held a series of engagement meetings to discuss ways to address the challenges bedevilling the oil industry. This partnership remains critical to us because it is integral to the fiscal stability of both the federal and sub-national governments, given the central role oil revenues play in funding our budgets."
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WATCH: First look at starring roles for V&A Dundee and Gleneagles in Brian Cox's HBO drama Succession
Matthew Macfadyen and Sarah Snook were among the stars of Succession to film scenes at V&A Dundee.
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Published: 12:00
The first glimpses of the starring roles for Dundee's V&A museum and the Gleneagles resort in the HBO media drama Succession have been revealed.
An official trailer has been revealed for the next instalment of the show, which will see Brian Cox's character Logan Roy honoured in Scotland for his 50 years in business.
Cox is seen alongside leading members of the cast of the show, including Sarah Snook, Alan Ruck, Matthew Macfadyen, Holly Hunter and Jeremy Strong.
Dundee-born Cox was stunned to learn that the makers of the show had decided that his character, who has drawn comparisons with Rupert Murdoch, was also from the city and that they wanted to film a number of scenes there.
He only discovered that his character was born in Dundee towards the end of filming on the first series, which was launched to critical acclaim last year.
Scenes were shot at the V&A in Dundee less than year after it opened its doors on the city's waterfront, as well as at Gleneagles, the nearby village of Auchterarder, in Perthshire, and in Ayrshire.
Scott Ferguson, executive producer of Succession, said: "Shooting in Scotland presented us with a truly unique and exciting opportunity for Succession, not only visually with amazing locations and a fantastic creative and technical crew, but also in terms of storytelling. The cast and crew had a fantastic time, and of course, there was something very special indeed about bringing Brian back to his – and Logan's – hometown of Dundee."
Brodie Pringle, head of screen commission at Screen Scotland, said: "It is incredibly important for Scotland to forge relationships with international studios like HBO and Succession has provided a unique opportunity to do this on a project featuring one of Scotland's most established actors, Brian Cox.
"This production has not only provided vital training opportunities for new entrants to the industry in Scotland but also the first on-screen cameo of V&A Dundee, a new location with a very exciting future ahead."
Cox, who started his career at Dundee Rep theatre when he was just 14, plays the head of a dysfunctional family behind a global media empire in Succession.
Speaking ahead of the filming in Scotland, Cox told The Scotsman: "The irony is we started Succession and I originally wanted to play him as Scots. I thought it would be interesting to play Logan Roy as Scots.
"And the writer went, 'He needs to be American.' And I was like, 'Okay, fine.' And the director, Adam McKay, who did Vice, said: 'I think the Scots idea is a good idea.' We left it and the compromise was that I was born in Quebec, Canada.
"Now, this was on the pilot. So we were filming the last bit of it, episode 9, in Eastnor (in the Cotswolds) for this sequence where we came back to England for my daughter's wedding.
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"The guy who proposed the toast for my birthday in the first episode said to me: 'You know they've changed your birthplace?'
"I said: "What do you mean, they've changed my birthplace?' He said, "Yeah, you're not born in Quebec anymore. I said, 'Where am I born?' He looked at his phone and went, 'Oh, here we are: Dundee, Scotland.' I went: 'What?'
"And I went up to the writer and said: 'What do you mean Dundee, Scotland? I've been playing this as a sort of American, mid-Atlantic thing'. And he said, 'Oh, we just decided that would be a good place for you to be born.'
"I hope I reflect Dundee. They call it the City of Discovery, but really it's the city of survival. It's not the City of Discovery. I've such a strong affection for it."


DrawingML is the language for defining graphical objects such as pictures, shapes, charts, and diagrams within ooxml documents. It also specifies package-wide appearance characteristics, i.e., the package's theme. DrawingML is not a standalone markup language; it supports and appears within wordprocessingML, spreadsheetML, and presentationML documents. DrawingML is distinct from SVG and VML. SVG (scaleable vector graphics) is a graphics file format for two-dimensional graphics in XML. It is used mostly on the web and in desktop publishing. VML is a competing language for vector graphic files. It is now largely deprecated in favor of SVG. According to the ECMA OOXML specification, "The DrawingML format is a newer and richer format created with the goal of eventually replacing any uses of VML in the Office Open XML formats. VML is a transitional format; it is included in Office Open XML for legacy reasons only." VML is still used extensively within Microsoft Word for certain graphic comnponents, in particular for things as shapes and text boxes.
DrawingML is a sprawling, confusing set of specifications for a number of different visual components within office documents. It is composed of a number of different namespaces, and care must be taken to be sure you have the correct namespace and namespace prefix for a given element within a particular document type. One must also be mindful of the differences between specification of the object and placement of the object within the document. Sometimes the definition (and namespace) of the object is the same throughout the three document types and only the specification of placement varies from document type to document type. In other cases, both the object and placement are unique to each document type.
Below is a brief summary of the various object types within the three document types and their corresponding namespaces. DrawingML objects such as charts and diagrams in any document type are all placed within a <a:graphic> element, which in turn contains a <a:graphicData> element. These elements are part of the main drawingML namespace: xmlns:a="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main". The <a:graphicData> element is essentially undefined, so applications can support or not support the particular object that is defined within it. The element has a uri attribute which is used to specify the type of data and/or "server" that can process the contents of the element. For example, the uri for a picture within Word is "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/picture". Microsoft Office supports a set of objects, including charts, diagrams, locked canvas, table, ole, etc. Other applications will have their own set of supported object types.
The picture object is defined with other content in the content part, document.xml, within the <pic:pic> element. This is wrapped within a <w:drawing> element within the regular wordprocessing namespace: xmlns:w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main".
The namespace for the picture definition is xmlns:pic="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/picture".
The XML for placement of the picture (e.g., whether it is inline [<wp:inline>] or anchored [<wp:anchor>]) is within the wordprocessing drawingML namespace: xmlns:wp="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing".
A diagram is defined outside of the regular content (document.xml) part and is instead defined in a separate part (one for each chart), chart1.xml (or chart2.xml, etc.).
The chart is placed in the document.xml within a <a:graphicData> element, as noted above, by placing a reference to the chart part in an attribute of <a:graphicData>. The namespace (and uri attribute value of <a:graphicData>) for the diagram specification is xmlns:dgm="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/chart".
The XML for placement of the chart (e.g., whether it is inline [<wp:inline>] or anchored [<wp:anchor>]) is within the wordprocessing drawingML namespace: xmlns:wp="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing".
A diagram is defined outside of the regular content (document.xml) part and is instead defined in a group of four separate parts (one group for each diagram): colors#.xml, data#.xml, layout#.xml, and quickStyle#.xml. There is also a fifth part, drawing#.xml, which Microsoft added as an extension for persisting diagram layout information.
The diagram is placed in the document.xml within a <a:graphicData> element, as noted above, by placing references to the diagram parts using a <dgm:relIds> element. The namespace (and uri attribute value of <a:graphicData>) for the diagram specification is xmlns:dgm="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/diagram".
The XML for placement of the diagram (e.g., whether it is inline [<wp:inline>] or anchored [<wp:anchor>]) is within the wordprocessing drawingML namespace: xmlns:wp="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing".
Shapes and textboxes in Microsoft Word 2003 and 2007 are implemented with VML, which has been largely deprecated and is not covered on this site. With Word 2010, Microsoft has moved toward using the same data structures that are used for diagrams and charts. Word 2010 includes both VML and drawingML in the XML for the document, using <mc:AlternateContent> with a pair of child elements: <mc:Choice Requires="wps">, which contains the drawingML xml, and <mc:Fallback>, which contains the VML. The wps for the Requires attribute refers to the new namespace word wordprocessing shapes (as well as to the uri attribute value of <a:graphicData>): xmlns:wps="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShape".
Textboxes and shapes are inserted within the <a:graphicData> element, using a <wps:wsp> element. The extensions by Microsoft of drawingML for Word are not covered in detail here. Finally, note that text frames are similar to text boxes in many ways, but their underlying XML is very different. They are not part of drawingML. Instead they are within wordprocessingML and their specification is part of the specification of a paragraph. See WordprocessingML - Text Frames.
Themes enable common styling across document types and are defined within the main drawingML namespace: xmlns:a="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main". They are defined in a separate theme1.xml part.
A picture is placed within a worksheet by a <drawing> element, which merely references a separate drawing1.xml (or drawing2.xml, etc.) part. Placement or anchoring of the picture is specified with within the drawing part using the desired anchor (e.g., <xdr:twoCellAnchor> element). The drawing part contains the <xdr:pic> element, which defines the picture.
The namespace is xmlns:xdr="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/spreadsheetDrawing". Note that it is is not within a <a:graphicData> element.
A shape is placed within a worksheet by a <drawing> element, which merely references a separate drawing1.xml (or drawing2.xml, etc.) part. Placement or anchoring of the chart is specified with the desired anchor (e.g., <xdr:twoCellAnchor> element) within the drawing part using the xmlns:xdr="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/speadsheetDrawing" namespace. The drawing part in turn contains an <xdr:sp> element which defines the shape. Note that it is is not within a <a:graphicData> element.
A chart is placed within a worksheet by a <drawing> element, which merely references a separate drawing1.xml (or drawing2.xml, etc.) part. Placement or anchoring of the chart is specified with the desired anchor (e.g., <xdr:twoCellAnchor> element) within the drawing part using the xmlns:xdr="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/speadsheetDrawing" namespace.
The drawing part in turn contains the typical <a:graphicData> element noted above, which contains a <c:chart> element. That element references a separate part chart1.xml (or chart2.xml, etc) which defines the chart.
The namespace (and uri attribute value of <a:graphicData>) for the chart specification is xmlns:c="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/chart".
A diagram is placed within a worksheet by a <drawing> element, which merely references a separate drawing1.xml (or drawing2.xml, etc.) part. Placement or anchoring of the diagram is specified with the desired anchor (e.g., <xdr:twoCellAnchor> element) within the drawing part using the xmlns:xdr="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/speadsheetDrawing" namespace.
The drawing part in turn contains the typical <a:graphicData> element noted above, which contains a <dgm:relIds> element. That element references a group of four separate parts (one group for each diagram): colors#.xml, data#.xml, layout#.xml, and quickStyle#.xml which together define the diagram. There is also a fifth part, drawing#.xml, which Microsoft added as an extension for persisting diagram layout information.
The namespace (and uri attribute value of <a:graphicData>) for the diagram specification is xmlns:dgm="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/diagram".
Textboxes are created by inserting text into shapes. See shapes in spreadsheets, above.
The picture object is defined with other content for the slide in slide1.xml (or slide2.xml, etc.), within a <p:pic> element.
The namespace is xmlns:p="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/presentationml/2006/main". Note that it is is not within a <a:graphicData> element.
A shape is defined with other content for the slide in slide1.xml (or slide2.xml, etc.) in a <p:sp> element. The namespace is xmlns:p="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/presentationml/2006/main". Note that it is is not within a <a:graphicData> element.
A chart is placed within a slide by a <p:graphicFrame> element, which in turn contains the typical <a:graphicData> element noted above, which contains a <c:chart> element. That element references a separate part chart1.xml (or chart2.xml, etc) which defines the chart.
A diagram is placed within a slide by a <p:graphicFrame> element, which in turn contains the typical <a:graphicData> element noted above, which contains a <dgm:relIds> element. That element references a group of four separate parts (one group for each diagram): colors#.xml, data#.xml, layout#.xml, and quickStyle#.xml which together define the diagram. There is also a fifth part, drawing#.xml, which Microsoft added as an extension for persisting diagram layout information.
Text is created by inserting text into shapes. See shapes in presentations, above.
OOXML has three different table models--one for wordprocessing tables, on for spreadsheet tables, and one for presentations. This last one is part of drawingML. A table is placed within a slide by a <p:graphicFrame> element, which in turn contains the typical <a:graphicData> element noted above, which contains an <a:tbl> element. That element contains the data for the table inline--the table is NOT in a separate part.
The uri attribute value of <a:graphicData> is "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/table". The namespace for the table specification is the drawingML main namespace xmlns:a="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main".
The ECMA OOXML specification (3rd edition) for drawingML is broken up into different sections, mostly to reflect the different namespaces.
There is a section (20.1) on most of the main features in the namespace xmlns:a="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main", including shapes, non-visual properties, colors, and styles. A different section (201.1) covers the remaining parts of the main drawingML namespace, including text and text formatting, bullets and numbering, and tables, all used mostly within presentation documents. There is a separate section (20.2) on pictures generally; the namespace for a picture varies with the document type. Then there is a section (21.2) for the chart namespace (xmlns:c="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/chart") and a section (21.4) for the diagram namespace (mlns:dgm="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/diagram"). There is a section (20.4) for placement/positioning of drawingML objects within wordprocessing documents (xmlns:wp="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing"), and a section (20.5) for placement/positioning of drawingML objects within spreadsheet documents (xmlns:xdr="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/spreadsheetDrawing). Finally, there are separate sections on locked canvases (20.3, not covered here) and on drawings within charts (21.3) (xmlns:cdr="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/chartDrawing).


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Never-ending beauty and a different experience every time I enter the Park. A photographer's paradise.
Done lots of things, but photographing the Smokies is my second love, right behind loving on my amazing wife and fellow photographer, Jan.
"Thanks, folks, glad you enjoyed it."
"WOW, Gordon!!! This one is just stunning!!! 8)"
An East Tennessee sunset,taken as we came out of the school after watching our granddaughter play basketball. It pays to always have your camera close at hand!
Monument To The Past, an old lodge site in the Elkmont area of the Park. What a beautiful fall it has been here in the Smokies!
"Isn't it wonderful these trees were spared years ago for us to enjoy and love today......"
The Brier on a gray, rainy day.
Thanks. I'm looking forward to exploring this site.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GORDON! I still want to visit your shop, hopefully soon.
I will be in the park next week and I want to visit your shop/gallery, could u please tell me where it is located at? thanks, Sharon.
Nice to hear your shout out on TodaysPhoto.org!!
We visit the area every trip! I just sent the information to my mom. She and my Dad will be down in April.
Thank you for the invite! My mother is at work right now...drooling over your work!
I just checked out your Smoky Moments site...what an awesome talent you are!
Thank you for your kind words! Gus, our dog, was 14. He had a good run.


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Kenny Jackett
Graham Taylor: "Kenny Jackett wants it. But it will be a big challenge."
Wolverhampton Wanderers: Graham Taylor says Kenny Jackett knows what he is doing
Bill Howell
Updated 14:26, 3 JUN 2013
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Graham Taylor insists Kenny Jackett will be walking into 'hire 'em fire 'em' Wolves with his eyes wide open.
Former Millwall gaffer Jackett, left. was last week handed the task of getting the club back to the Championship.
Many regard the job as a poisoned chalice after Molineux chairman Steve Morgan has axed four managers in 16 months
But Taylor knows Jackett better than most, having managed him as a player and had him as his right-hand-man at Watford, and says he will know what he is letting himself in for.
"I think he will be aware. But I think he is strong enough," said the former Wolves, Villa and England boss. "He wants it. But it will be a big challenge,"
Taylor still believes the sacking of Jackett's predecessor, Dean Saunders, after just four months beggars belief.
"I don't know how Dean was appointed in the first place," he said.
"I am not being unkind to him, but what a strange appointment to make if you are going to get rid of the fella. I just don't know."
Taylor pointed the finger at Morgan for undermining managers at Molineux.
"It came out in public in Mick McCarthy's reign that the owner went into the dressing room after they had played Liverpool.
"They hadn't played well and he gave them a rollicking in front of the manager. From that moment on Mick McCarthy was done for. His whole presence, his whole authority, was gone."
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A file manager is a program that enables us to explore the filesystem and manage files and directories. It is the most important utility of an operating system. Without it, moving, renaming or deleting files is a difficult task.
Windows 10 OS has a powerful file manager as compared to the earlier edition of the Windows OS, but it still lacks many features. Two of the biggest limitations of the Windows Explorer is that it doesn't support regex search and keyboard shortcuts.
If you use Windows OS for professional tasks, you must use a third-party program for managing files. Below, I've shared the best Windows file manager software that you can use as an alternative to the Windows Explorer tool.
Q-Dir is a file manager software that allows you to explore directories in 10 different ways. Hence, you can work with multiple directories at a time with it.
Q-Dir comes with an inbuilt FTP client. It lets you see the files packed inside the Windows cabinet and Zip archives. The program supports drag-and-drop function. Hence, you can move files between folders easily with it.
Q-Dir adds a search box to each pane. It lets you preview photos. It allows you to create regex enabled filters for finding files. For easier management of the files, the program adds some of its important functions to the context menu of Microsoft Windows OS.
Unlike other file manager software we've covered here, Far Manager provides a command line interface that supports mouse events.
The file manager supports plugins and it provides a variety of keyboard shortcuts. The software enables you to record macros for executing the same task in another directory. Because it is a text based file manager, the program is incredibly fast and lightweight.
The file manager ships with an inbuilt text editor and it supports color customization.
FreeCommander XE is one of the most powerful file manager software for the Windows OS. It is a small utility that provides many features.
FC XE enables you to capture desktop screenshots in four different ways. It has a tool that allows you to search for files containing specific text. As it has an inbuilt text editor, you can check the file's content without opening the document processor. FC XE comes with a bulk file renamer utility.
FreeCommander XE allows you to send files to a remote computer. It supports FTP protocol. It lets you create encrypted self-extracting archives.
Total Commander is yet another popular file manager software for the Windows OS. It provides dual-pane layout. TC offers two icon libraries for its menu bar and the toolbar.
The program lets you share files over a network connection. It has the option to synchronize directories. TC can encode and decode encrypted files. It supports batch rename operation on files and directories.
You can combine smaller files into a single file or split large files with the Total Commander program. TC allows users to compare directories and create compressed archives in six different formats. It lets users change the volume label of a disk without formatting the disk.
Total Commander enables you to customize menu, shortcuts, colors, etc. It can unhide hidden files and folders.
XYPlorer is the best Windows file manager software. It has a great interface. Its toolbar gives you access to 15+ powerful utilities. XYPlorer provides a powerful file finder tool that enables you to find files by their tag, content, size, date, etc.
XYPlorer supports integration with the Windows context menu. It lets you filter files with complex regular expressions. It supports checkbox selection.
You can customize the interface of this file manager software. XYPlorer supports multi-pane windows and it offers color filters that highlight file names, directories with different colors.
The program can calculate the size of the files/folders in real-time. It enables users to find duplicate files. It can rename multiple files in one go.
Microsoft introduced the popular Unix shell called Bash in the Windows 10 OS in 2016. If you know Linux commands, you must unlock the bash shell and begin using it to manage files.
If you know shell scripting, you can write scripts to automate file management tasks in Windows. Bash should be used by advanced users only because if you fire an incorrect command, you may end up removing a file/directory permanently.
If you're a normal computer user, consider using one of the GUI based Windows file manager software mentioned in this article.
Conclusion: If you don't like the Windows Explorer tool, download and use one of the file manager software mentioned above. The programs provide plenty of options. They're customizable, lightweight and user-friendly. You can use them on Windows 10, XP, 7, Vista, 8.1 or 8 OS.
Nice collection but I want to mention this one: http://www.winzip.com/win/en/learn/file-management.html. Winzip is the best tool in my opinion.


Sometimes we need to overwrite an observer. The first way that usually comes in mind is overwriting the model. Usually is named Observer.php, because this is the "best practice".
And NO, you don't have to overwrite the model. Observer.php doesn't extend anything anyway and usually contains all of the module's observers, so you can't overwrite the same observer in more than one module.
In magento when a new observer is added, it must have an unique identifier. This identifier is the key!
Actually, there is another element: "area". When Mage::dispatchEvent(…) is performed, events will be dispatched using "area" and "identifier".
If the event was in the frontend area, it would be: "global" then "frontend".
Overwriting is in fact a observer defined in the same config area as the original event (global, frontend or adminhtml), attached to the same event and with the same identifier as the original observer (e.g. adminnotification).
I've added dependencies because without the original module, this module will be useless.
There's a "best practice" to name a module that is overwritten with the same name as the original module.
The observer should contain all the new logic. The file is in app/code/local/CP/AdminNotification/Model/Observer.php, just like you would probably expect from the structure above.
Disabling is preaty similar to overwriting, the difference is in the config and the fact that an observer file is not needed anymore, because there isn't a new logic.
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History Index
Streets & Places
The naming of this famous valley and lake in the San Bernardino Mountains has been ascribed by John Brown Jr., to Benjamin D. Wilson, a Tennessean by birth, who had spent a number of years hunting and trapping in New Mexico, and who came to San Bernardino Valley with a party of New Mexicans and bought a part of the Jurupa Rancho from Don Juan Bandini in 1843.
Benjamin D. Wilson and Wife
In 1845, pursuing a band of marauding Indians, Wilson and party discovered a lake at which grizzlies were so numerous that twenty-two men lassoed eleven bears. On the return of the party, the feat was repeated, making twenty-two bears in all killed in that locality.
Prospecting for gold in Bear Valley began in 1858, and in 1860, gold was discovered in nearby Holcomb Valley.
The diggings were shallow and easily worked, and large quantities of gold were taken out by a number of fortunates. But suddenly the ore gave out, and for a time, Big Bear was practically deserted. A forty-stamp mill was erected at Gold Mountain in Bear Valley in 1870, but was destroyed by fire. "Lucky" Baldwin was one of the owners of a ten-stamp mill erected in Bear Valley in 1876, but it proved to be a non-paying investment.
In the 1880's a group of citrus growers in Redlands decided the only answer to their water problems would be the impounding of water in Bear Valley, after a survey by a state engineer indicated that the Valley would be a perfect storage reservoir.
The Bear Valley Reservoir and Bear Valley Irrigation Company was formed and incorporated, and a temporary dam was placed in the Valley in 1883. In 1884, the permanent dam was completed, at a cost of $75,000 with an additional cost of $30,000 for the land, purchased from Los Angeles parties, the Southern Pacific Railroad, and the U. S. Government.1
Masonry Dam, Bear Valley, 1884
The dam was enlarged and improved in 1890. But because laws enacted to deal with irrigation problems were inadequate, a series of lawsuits followed, which tied up property and water rights for decades.
The term "Big" became attached to Bear Valley's name when people began to differentiate it from "Little Bear Lake", later known as Lake Arrowhead.
1 Brown, John Jr. and Boyd, James, History of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill. 1922, pg. 83


How does one assess the risk of a fast-moving technology landscape, and more importantly, the speed at which business strategy changes? It all boils down to the methodological approach of risk assessment to quantify how potential events can impact business objectives.
In order for the IT risk assessment process to be a successful driver for creating the audit plan, it is important to define the audit universe. The audit universe is, first and foremost, a living document that has to be updated on a periodic basis. It should capture all of the businesses, regions and functions that make up the organization. There has to be collaboration between key business stakeholders and internal audit to come up with this audit universe, but it should be primarily driven by the audit function. Upon creation of this audit universe, there is a means to perform the risk assessment, which is primarily an enterprise risk-level activity. Depending on your organization's structure, this responsibility can be shared between the chief risk officer and the chief audit executive. This responsibility could also belong to the chief information security officer, who then works with the internal IT audit function to come up with a risk assessment process.
The IT risk assessment process encompasses laying out all of the key business, financial, IT, privacy and external/regulatory risk factors and ranks them by the various businesses and regions/functions. Upon completion of this task, which should be done on an annual basis, there is a good framework in place to use for annual audit plan activities. Certainly, there will be times throughout the year when this IT risk assessment has to be revisited as key internal and external risk changes due to key strategic improvements the company is making.
"Managing Data Protection and Cybersecurity—Audit's Role," ISACA Journal, volume 1, 2016.


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CROSS (2012) short review
It took 3 years and 4 different directors to complete Cross' sluggish 75 minutes about a man (Simon Yam) who is devastated by his wife's suicide, which according to his beliefs condemns her to hell, and so decides to save as many souls as he can by killing suicidal people before they can actually do it themselves. He then surrenders himself to the police, only to realize that someone may have been pulling the strings all along. Though it's often visually arresting, with evocative cinematography conjuring disquieting imagery that combines the mundane with the unnatural, Daniel Chan, Steve Woo, Lau King Ping and Hui Shu Ning's Cross is too narratively inept to engage in the least. A thudding use of flashbacks and exposition often clashes with the ambiguity the filmmakers so clearly aim for. There's no pacing to speak of, each scene fading listlessly into the next, with a major twist being so clumsily introduced that you'd be forgiven for not even realizing it's a twist. Simon Yam is fine in the role of an unflappable killer reminiscent of his character in the infinitely superior The Man behind the Courtyard House (2011), but he simply has too little to work with. Randomly, Nick Cheung crops up in an amusing scene that may have been tacked on to capitalize on the success of Roy Chow's Nightfall, which already cast him alongside Simon Yam earlier in 2012. *1/2
Tagged nick cheung, simon yam
https://asianfilmstrike.com/2015/04/13/cross-2012-short-review/


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Is mobile now king?
censhare Editorial Team
Evidence overwhelmingly suggests that we have reached a point where thinking mobile-first is not something to bear in mind for the future – but rather, where we are right now. Brands and businesses that fail to adapt to this new reality risk losing touch with their audience.
Here is a brief overview of how consumer behaviour is evolving in the context of the multi-screen landscape:
53% of all emails are now opened on mobile devices.
Mobile email opens have increased by 180% in three years.
27% of consumers plan to use some form of mobile payment in the next six months.
Mobile now accounts for 40% of all online retail sales.
In light of such compelling trends, it seems clear that the mobile experience must be a key area of focus for brands. However, evidence suggests that the speed of behaviour change within the average business has struggled to match that of its consumers.
A recent Econsultancy study asked top UK retailers to rate their organisation's understanding of its customer journey for a range of audiences and contexts. For the segment 'customers who primarily use mobile devices', only 51% of respondents felt their organisation had a 'strong understanding' of the journey.
Elsewhere, an analysis of 50 high street retailers carried out by Somo revealed:
20% do not have a transactional mobile website.
30% do not have an iOS app.
46% do not have a website that supports responsive design.
Judging by these figures, it's clear that brands need to up their game with mobile. We are living through an astounding period of technological evolution. But if businesses fix their sights too rigidly on any one particular type of device, just as they feel they've 'caught up', they may well look up to find the landscape has yet again transformed itself – requiring further catch-up. Businesses need to realise that we've entered a landscape in which the only constant feature is rapid change. Those that prosper will be the ones that aren't in a constant battle against change, but have cultivated a culture that 'flows' with it.
Rather than fixating on any specific device, brands need to cultivate a much more holistic understanding of what 'mobile' is and what it demands. Paul Adams, VP of Product at Intercom, elaborates :
'Mobile' is not about devices, it's about access to consuming and publishing information. For me, obsessing about specific devices was a bad path (they change too frequently)... and obsessing about phone versus tablet was a bad path (they have merged into one larger category of portable screen and continue to evolve all the time). Information via screens not devices – this is the key idea.
In other words, 'mobile' is a mindset to be cultivated, rather than a piece of tech to be served. The 'mobile mindset' required is a relentless focus on understanding the customer journey, and all its shape-shifting contexts and touch points – from desktop, to smartphone, to tablet, to smart watch, and beyond.
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