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Israeli car fires on Palestine TV correspondent
MADA Condemns the Shooting of Journalist Al-Samodi
PNN | August 10, 2012
The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) condemns a shooting involving Palestine TV correspondent Nizar Al-Samodi in Jenin last night 9th August, by an Israeli-registered car.
Al-Samodi told MADA that he was returning to his home in Jenin from Ramallah on Wednesday night when he arrived the crossroads known at 'Tormos Aya and Singel' at about 10:30pm. He said someone then fired a shot at him which hit the car mirror, only missing him by centimetres.
He added: "The bullet was fired by a white Israeli car with yellow number plates. I believe the goal was to kill me, but the shooter underestimated the speed of the car, so the bullet just missed me and broke the mirror of the car instead. I filed a complaint today with the Israeli military liaison office."
August 10, 2012 Posted by aletho | Full Spectrum Dominance | Israel, Jenin, Palestine | Comments Off on Israeli car fires on Palestine TV correspondent
Amnesty International: An Instrument of War Propaganda?
By Felicity Arbuthnot | Global Research | August 8, 2012
Amnesty International has released satellite pictures of "craters" in Syria, citing: "an increased use of heavy weaponry, including near residential areas."
The BBC reports, quoting Amnesty: "Images from Anadan revealed more than 600 probable artillery impact craters from heavy fighting between Syrian armed forces and armed opposition groups." (My emphasis.)
Further: "Turning Syria's most populous city into a battlefield will have devastating consequences for civilians. The atrocities in Syria are mounting already," warned Christoph Koettl, emergency response manager for Amnesty International USA, without acknowledging that the killings of civilians are committed by the US-NATO Free Syrian Army (FSA) rather than the government.
Digital Globe via Amnesty International "More than 600 probable artillery impact craters,
represented here with yellow dots, were identified in Anadan, in the vicinity of Aleppo, according to Amnesty International."
"The Syrian military and the opposition fighters must both adhere to international humanitarian law, which strictly forbids the use of tactics and weapons that fail to distinguish between military and civilian targets", he added.
Amnesty's record on impartiality suffered a fatal blow when they stated in 1991 that Iraqi soldiers had torn babies from their incubators in Kuwait and left them to die on the floor of the hospital's neo-natal unit. Arguably this sealed the 1991 onslaught on Iraq. The story that the Kuwaiti government rewarded Amnesty with $500,000 for endorsing this pack of lies has not gone away – and as far as I am aware, to date, has not been denied.
Amnesty's record suffered a further blow when it organised a demonstration last year, outside the London Syrian Embassy, with CAABU (Council for Arab British Understanding) calling for the overthrow of the sovereign Syrian government. A plan which was outlined by the US Embassy in Damascus in December 2005. This action arguably falls under the definition of incitement to terrorism, set out by the UN Security Council on 4th May 2012. (SC/10636.)
The Syrian government is doing what any nation would do to defend its country when attacked by terrorists, many from outside and many also with British accents, according to recently escaped, kidnapped British and Dutch journalists.
However, back to your 600 craters. The insurgents also seemingly have rocket propelled grenades and have also boasted of capturing tanks with heavy weaponry. However many craters or not, they will certainly be responsible for many and will not have clean hands.
Further, I do not seem to remember Amnesty blasting the British and Americans soldiers for killing, raping, murdering whole families of Iraqis and Afghans, also illegally invaded, who simply wanted their countries back, or were totally innocent victims.
No doubt the all is now directed by your new US Head, former top aide to Hilary Clinton, who seems to hate most of the world's non Western population, especially those of the Middle East, or of predominantly Muslim heritage.
Amnesty has moved a long way from its fine founding aims.
Debating Amnesty About Syria and Double Standards (alethonews.wordpress.com)
Amnesty's Shilling for US Wars (alethonews.wordpress.com)
Asking Amnesty International to Oppose War (alethonews.wordpress.com)
'Amnesty Int'l whitewashing war for US' (alethonews.wordpress.com)
August 10, 2012 Posted by aletho | Deception, Mainstream Media, Warmongering | Amnesty, Amnesty International, Amnesty International USA, Syria | Comments Off on Amnesty International: An Instrument of War Propaganda?
US public "brainwashed" to hate Iran says president of Veterans for Peace
By Sherwood Ross | Aletho News | August 10, 2012
MIAMI, FL — The president of a veterans' anti-war organization said the American public has been "brainwashed" to hate Iran and pressure to prevent the U.S. from attacking it will have to come from outside the US.
"I don't think we can get mass protests going against [war on] Iran here," said Leah Bolger, president of Veterans For Peace (VFP) in a speech Thursday to its 27th annual national convention here. "The American public is brainwashed. The American public is saying 'We hate Iran,'" Bolger said.
"We have to reach out to the global community and get them to put pressure on the US to prevent war against Iran," she told an audience of cheering veterans at the Marriott Biscayne Bay hotel. "We see how the U.S. sanctions are an act of war against Iran, a country which has done no harm to anyone."
American are brainwashed, Bolger said, because the mass media has framed Syria and Iran "as terrorist nations out to get us" and making wars against them as "necessary."
Bolger went on to say, "The Iranian people have done nothing illegal. They have every right to develop nuclear power. Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT)."
By contrast, she continued, "Israel has never let the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspect their facilities. The best way to discourage nuclear weapons is for the US and Israel to dismantle their own. We are bellicose and activist nations."
The veterans cheered when Bolger said VFP is the only veterans organization that has called for the abolition of war. The group has also called for dismantling the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Veterans For Peace was founded in 1985 and has approximately 5,000 members in 150 chapters located in every US state and several countries. It is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization recognized as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) by the United Nations, and is the only national veterans' organization calling for the abolition of war.
Sherwood Ross may be reached at sherwoodross10@gmail.com.
August 10, 2012 Posted by aletho | Mainstream Media, Warmongering, Militarism, Wars for Israel | Iran, Israel, Syria, United States | Comments Off on US public "brainwashed" to hate Iran says president of Veterans for Peace
Resolving the Budget and Debt Crises
By Ron Forthofer | Dissident Voice | August 10th, 2012
There is a looming double whammy threatening the economy beginning in 2013. These two threats are: 1) the expiration of the Bush tax cuts; and 2) implementation of $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts over a ten-year period, an outcome of the 2011 debt ceiling debacle.
These threats raise the specter of driving the U.S. back into recession or depression. Many people might question the phrase 'back into recession' since they feel we are still in the Great Recession.
Unsurprisingly, in most of these negotiations over the deficit and long-term debt, corporate-funded pundits and politicians focused on the need for more budget cuts. However, some strong special interests are now raising concerns about the agreed upon cuts. In particular, the Congressional-military-industrial (CMI) complex strongly opposes the additional $600 billion in cuts to the military budget that are mandated over a ten-year period. Given that the U.S. spends as much on its military as most of the rest of the world combined, these cuts certainly seem justifiable. The CMI complex now wants more cuts to programs benefiting the public instead of cutting unnecessary weapons programs or closing many of the hundreds of unnecessary military bases spread worldwide.
Instead of the politicians' focus on budget cutting, numerous polls of Americans support raising revenue by increasing taxes on the wealthy. Despite our clear wishes, increasing the federal revenue has received relatively little attention from the pundits and politicians. However, at least the White House is pushing for elimination of the Bush tax cuts for those making over $250,000. The elimination of this cut would be a start along a path that could eliminate the deficit and shrink the debt.
Most Americans don't realize how changes in the tax code affected our nation's fiscal health. For example, the corporate share of federal taxes went from an average of roughly 28% in the 1950s to an average of about 10% over the 2001 to 2010 period. In addition, the top marginal individual tax rate dropped from 91% in 1954 to 35% today. Cuts in the top capital gains taxes for long-term gains from 28% to 15% also primarily benefited those at the top of the income ladder.
These huge cuts pushed by the extremely wealthy have done immense damage to our nation's financial outlook as well as greatly increasing inequality. For example, the top 1% now hold about 35% of the nation's wealth compared to the bottom 50% holding about 1.1%.
Some steps that would go a long way towards restoring our nation's fiscal health and reducing our shameful inequality are the following:
implementing a small tax on the wealth of the top 1%;
adding a small fee on financial speculation;
creating a highly progressive income tax with many categories and a top marginal rate of at least 70% on incomes over $1,000,000;
restoring the estate tax with estates under $3.5 million exempted;
removing loopholes in the corporate tax code that allow many large global corporations either to get refunds, to pay no taxes, or to pay effective tax rates far lower than the official rate of 35%;
eliminating corporate welfare at the federal and state levels that basically benefit large global corporations at the expense of small businesses and the public;
removing the cap on wages taxed for Social Security and also subjecting unearned income to taxes for Social Security;
enacting Medicare for all;
stopping illegal aggression against other nations;
withdrawing from Afghanistan in a timely manner;
ending the harmful, costly and failed war on drugs; and
cutting military spending, particularly for weapons programs, unnecessary military bases and the costly privatization of many tasks.
Some may view these steps as class warfare against the wealthy. However, if you examine these proposals, you can see that the wealthy have already been engaged in class warfare against the rest of us for well over thirty years. According to the media though, it is not class warfare if the wealthy do it. Warren Buffet addressed this idea a few years ago: "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."
The Congressional Progressive Caucus has also proposed a less daring plan, "The Peoples' Budget", as another way of eliminating the budget deficit. For related information, read the just published The Betrayal of the American Dream by Donald Barlett and James Steele.
Ron Forthofer is a retired professor of biostatistics from the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston and was a Green Party candidate for Congress and also for governor of Colorado.
August 10, 2012 Posted by aletho | Economics | Bush tax cuts, United States | Comments Off on Resolving the Budget and Debt Crises
Judge Begrudgingly OKs Morgan Stanley Derivatives Price-Fixing Settlement
By Noel Brinkerhoff | AllGov | August 09, 2012
Morgan Stanley got off easy, according to consumer advocates, when a federal judge reluctantly approved a $4.8 million settlement involving price fixing in the electricity market.
The agreement resolved accusations that Morgan Stanley had gotten into a complex swap arrangement with KeySpan Corp. through which it gained a stake in the profits of its competitor Astoria Generating Company Acquisitions. The scheme allowed KeySpan to bump up the cost of electricity in New York, taking approximately $300 million out of consumers' pockets.
Other than paying just under $5 million, which represented less than a quarter of its earnings from the scheme, Morgan Stanley did not have to admit any wrongdoing.
Judge William H. Pauley III said he had "misgivings" about the size of the penalty, saying, "$4.8 million is a relatively mild sanction."
"There is a risk that a large financial services firm like Morgan Stanley could view such a modest penalty as merely the cost of doing business," Pauley added.
Peter Vallone, a councilman who represents the Queens district that hosts KeySpan's facilities, was irate over news of the settlement. "Here, they're allowed to keep what they stole," Vallone told Courthouse News. "That is ridiculous…. This is pocket change for them."
The AARP and New York's Public Service Commission objected to the settlement. They said Morgan Stanley should have been forced to admit what they did was wrong and pay $21.6 million, the amount it made off the deal with KeySpan Corp.
On Wall Street Crime Pays – A 350% IRR To Be Exact (zerohedge.com)
Morgan Stanley Derivative Accord Wins Approval in First Case – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)
August 10, 2012 Posted by aletho | Corruption, Economics | AARP, KeySpan, Morgan Stanley, William H. Pauley III | Comments Off on Judge Begrudgingly OKs Morgan Stanley Derivatives Price-Fixing Settlement
Israeli high court rejects south Hebron village petition
Villagers in the South Hebron Hills face eviction as Israel pushes plans
to use their land for army training (MaanImages/Eleonora Vio, File)
BETHLEHEM – Israel's High Court on Thursday rejected a petition against the removal of Palestinian villagers from the southern West Bank by the Israeli army, but stressed further legal challenges were still open.
The ruling allows villagers in the south Hebron hills to remain in their villages until November 1, when an order blocking their displacement will expire.
The court said it was not taking a position on the wider dispute, in which the Israeli government has ordered demolition of eight of the 12 villages in an area the army designates as a military training zone.
Tamar Feldman, a legal director for the Association for Civil Rights in Israel who filed the petition, insisted: "It is the full legal right of all of the residents of these villagers to remain on the land that they have owned for generations and use it for their livelihood."
"There is no justification, legal or moral, for evacuating and displacing residents from their homes and their lands – whether we are talking about 12 villages or 8," she said.
Residents of the south Hebron hills have fought a long battle to remain in their homes.
In 1999, over 700 residents were evicted due to "illegal residence in a firing zone" and Israeli forces confiscated property and demolished buildings and wells.
Israel's High Court issued an interim injunction, and Israeli forces allowed named petitioners to return but not their relatives.
In July, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told the court the army plans to demolish Khirbet al-Majaz, Khirbet al-Tabban, Sfai, Khirbet al-Fakheit, Halaweh, Mirkez, Jinba, and Kharoubeh.
The Israeli state says the residents are squatters from the nearby town of Yatta, while lawyers for the villagers say their rural communities pre-date the establishment of the state of Israel.
Israel 'closes road' linking Hebron villages slated for demolition (occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com)
Israeli kills 2 Palestinians near Hebron (alethonews.wordpress.com)
Palestinian voice from Susiya, a Palestinian village that existed before the establishment of the State of Israel (alethonews.wordpress.com)
Israel orders demolition of eight Palestinian villages for military training sites (alethonews.wordpress.com)
Susiya: Another Casualty of Israeli Occupation? (alethonews.wordpress.com)
August 10, 2012 Posted by aletho | Civil Liberties, Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism, Illegal Occupation | Ehud Barak, Hebron, Israel, Ma'an, Mount Hebron, West Bank | Comments Off on Israeli high court rejects south Hebron village petition
Shepherd Shot by Israeli Army Denied Right to Sue
By Kelly Joiner | International Middle East Media Center Editorial Group & Agencies | August 10, 2012
An Israeli commander has ruled that a Palestinian shepherd who was shot by the Israeli military three years ago will not be allowed to sue for damages.
The Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported that the military signed a document disallowing the three year old lawsuit filed by Mohammed Shamasna, but the military will pay 10,000 NIS to cover three years of legal fees.
Shamasna was shot in November of 2007 and had to undergo several operations and a lengthy rehabilitation process.
According to Israeli military regulations, if an Israeli officer finds that someone is injured during a necessary military operation, the wounded person cannot make a claim for damages. However Shamasna's lawyer Laviv Habib stated that he believed that the order was signed simply to block the case from going forward since it took more than three years to declare that it was a military operation.
Coverage of this incident in Ha'aretz favored the view that the Israeli military was being generous in providing money for legal fees. Questions about the need for military accountability for the shooting of civilians during a military operation were not raised. Nor was the thought that someone who was shot would have incurred medical fees in addition some loss of livelihood given it would be difficult to maintain work as a shepherd following this type of incident.
Israeli Mayor to Demolish UN Humanitarian Agency Emergency Shelter (alethonews.wordpress.com)
New Regulation Bars Palestinians and Immigrants from Using Israeli Courts (alethonews.wordpress.com)
Israeli troops steal 1000 goats from southern Lebanon (alethonews.wordpress.com)
August 10, 2012 Posted by aletho | Civil Liberties, Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism | Haaretz, International Middle East Media Center, Israel, Kelly Joiner | Comments Off on Shepherd Shot by Israeli Army Denied Right to Sue
Occupied Lives: I have no future
Palestine Center for Human Rights | August 8, 2012
Ahmad Dalloul in front of his destroyed factory in Tel-el-hawa
Mamoun Ahmad Dalloul (36) lives in Tel-el-hawa with his wife and 9 children. Until recently, he owned a dairy-products factory that produced milk, cheese and yoghurt. Since December 2008, Mamoun has re-built his factory 4 times after it was repeatedly targeted and destroyed by Israel's forces. On 04 June 2012, at around 1:00, his factory was targeted and destroyed by Israel's forces for the 5th time.
On the evening of the most recent attack, Mamoun received a call from his brother, who lives adjacent to the factory, informing him that the factory had been destroyed by a missile from an F16: "I rushed to my factory and, when I arrived, there were firefighters and police. The neighbors were panicking and standing in the streets. I was told that a missile had hit the factory and then penetrated 6 or 7 meters into the ground. There was something like an earthquake for 5 minutes, and then the missile exploded and pulled everything into the crater. I do not know what kind of missile it was."
After 5 attacks on his factory, Mamoun is devastated: "The first time my factory was destroyed was in December 2008 during Operation Cast Lead. The factory was very big and on the ground floor of our residential apartment. I received a call from Israel's forces, who told me that the building would be targeted in the next 15 minutes. My family and I fled immediately. 3 missiles were fired from an F16 and the building was completely destroyed. In just a few minutes, we lost everything. We were suddenly homeless and I had lost my only source of a livelihood."
Mamoun and his family were forced to shuffle from one household to another, looking for a place to stay: "We would stay at my parents' house for a few days then move to my brother-in-law's house and spend a few more at my brother's house. My son kept asking why we had no home. Finally, as my wife is a refugee, UNRWA built us a single residential unit. I then rebuilt my factory in Sabra, which is in central Gaza City. It was very small and modest because there was barely any construction material in Gaza, as well as money constraints. 6 months later, it was destroyed by Israel's forces. I then partnered with someone else and tried to rebuild in a different location, but it was destroyed while we were still constructing."
A crater made by the missile fired from an F16 on 04 June 2012
At this point, Mamoun had given up and decided to not rebuild his factory: "The first 2 times, I rebuilt because this is my only source of a livelihood. There are hardly any employment opportunities in Gaza. My factory provided work for 120 individuals, including my 3 brothers and my son. I saw how they were all suffering without work and thought that the factory would at least provide them with the income to support themselves and their families. I had enough after the 3rd attack, but a representative of the European Commission came to visit from Jerusalem and said they would mediate on my behalf. They promised that the factory would not be targeted again. Each time I bought new machines, they came and took pictures and reassured me all was well. I was encouraged by this and started to develop the factory slowly. Then, just like that, it was targeted and destroyed again. They did not keep their promise."
Each attack has resulted in severe economic hardship for Mamoun and his family: "I have had to borrow money and my savings are almost depleted. I sold 2 pieces of my land to rebuild my factory. I even sold the house that UNRWA gave us to set up the factory and have a source of income. I can no longer sustain the expenses for my family. For a while, people would not even let me rent an apartment in their buildings, because they thought it would be targeted."
Mamoun feels that his story is one of many that illustrate the suffering of Gaza: "There are people who are displaced and dying. I know what it feels like to be homeless. My children have had to grow up seeing dead people, war and destruction. They no longer even react to airstrikes, because this is what they are used to. My factory was a civilian establishment and I did not plan any resistance activities there. Why would I want to put my family in such danger? I am tired of this destruction. I have no future now. Why can't we be left to live in peace and stability like other people in the world?"
The direct targeting of a civilian object constitutes a war crime, as codified in Article 8(2)(b)(ii) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Similarly, under the Fourth Geneva Convention Article 53, the destruction of private property is prohibited unless rendered absolutely necessary by military operations. The destruction of such factories infringes upon human rights principles, including the right to work and right to attain an adequate standard of living contained in Article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Owner of dairy factory hit by Israel urges world action (alethonews.wordpress.com)
Israel Destroys EU Development Projects Worth €29 Million (altahrir.wordpress.com)
August 10, 2012 Posted by aletho | Illegal Occupation, Subjugation - Torture, Timeless or most popular, Video, War Crimes | European Commission, Gaza, Israel, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court | Comments Off on Occupied Lives: I have no future
Stuxnet, Flame… Gauss: New spy virus found in Middle East
RT | August 9, 2012
A new virus dubbed Gauss has attacked computers in the Middle East spying on financial transactions, emails and picking passwords to all kind of pages. The virus resembles Stuxnet and Flame malware which was used to target Iran, Kaspersky Lab says.
Gauss has infected hundreds of personal computers across the Middle East – most of them in Lebanon, but also in Israel and Palestinian territories. Kaspersky Lab has classified the virus, named after one of its major components, as "a cyber-espionage toolkit".
The malicious malware spies on transactions in banking systems and steals passwords and credentials to social networks, emails and instant messaging accounts. It can also collect system configurations.
Though Gauss seems to be specifically designed for several Lebanese online banking systems, it can also go after Citibank and PayPal users.
It is not immediately clear who may be behind the new Trojan virus, but Kaspersky Lab says the "nation-state sponsored" toolkit has features characteristic of Flame, DuQu and Stuxnet malware, which targeted machines in Iran.
"After looking at Stuxnet, DuQu and Flame, we can say with a high degree of certainty that Gauss comes from the same 'factory' or 'factories,'" Kaspersky Lab said in their report on Thursday. "All these attack toolkits represent the high end of nation-state-sponsored cyber-espionage and cyber war operations."
The researchers cannot say whether Gauss was meant to simply spy on account transactions, or to steal money from targets. But given the high probability of a nation-state actor behind it, the virus may be a counterintelligence tool, which could be used to trace funding of various groups or individuals.
Gauss has attacked over 2,500 personal computers in the Middle East. Only one attack has so far been reported in Iran (image from http://www.securelist.com)
The virus is yet to be fully exposed, as the Moscow-based internet security company is still trying to crack its payload, a section that sends and receives instructions from an outside source once it has infiltrated a system. The company is asking for assistance from any cryptographers since the payload is highly encrypted and its purposes remain unclear.
The virus was first spotted in June this year while Kaspersky Lab was looking for variants of Flame. Gauss appears to have been most active from May to July 2012, until its control and command infrastructure stopped functioning. Now the virus is in a dormant state.
Still, the malware, apparently created back in 2011, managed to spread much farther than Flame, which attacked around 700 PCs across the Middle East this spring.
Flame and Stuxnet are widely speculated to have been ordered by the US and Israel to hit Iran's nuclear program. Western officials gave a tentative confirmation the CIA, the National Security Agency and the Israeli military were all involved in developing the Flame spying toolkit.
As for the Stuxnet attack, which in 2010 damaged uranium enrichment centrifuges in Iran, Washington has so far declined to comment on if it was behind the sabotage.
Now Gauss, which shares parts of its code with Flame, appears to add to the US and Israel's presumed cyber arsenals.
August 10, 2012 Posted by aletho | War Crimes | Gauss, Israel, Kaspersky Lab, Lebanon, Middle East, PayPal, Stuxnet, United States | 1 Comment

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Q: The type 'COMSVCSLib.ObjectControl' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced
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*I have two VB 6 assemblies (DLLs). ProgramA.dll, and ProgramB.dll, which I need to add as reference in my .NET Web Service (version 2.0).

*I was handed over these two DLLs by different developers.

*One developer gave me simply ProgramA.dll

*The other developer gave me ProgramB.dll, ProgramB.exp, and
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*I simply registered ProgramA.dll using regsvr32 and added its
reference in my .NET project

*I then added reference of ProgramB.dll
in my .NET project

*Now when I try to build my .NET Web Service, it is giving me following error:
The type 'COMSVCSLib.ObjectControl' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced.
I can see following files in References of .NET application:
COMSVCSLib
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Also, the code is showing problem with ProgramB assembly (for which I had those .exp and .lib files)
What could be the possible reason, or am I doing anything wrong here?

A: You shouldn't have two different references on COMSVCSLib. You could try to remove one or the other.
PS: .exp and .lib files are useless for a .NET client

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The Young and the Restless spoilers for Thursday, August 23 bring shocking revelations and damaging secrets. Plus, a newcomer slowly gathers evidence.
Phyllis (Gina Tognoni) confronts Summer (Hunter King), according to She Knows Soaps, and sparks fly when Phyllis finds a plane ticket to Philadelphia instead of plans for a yoga retreat. Of course, Kyle (Michael Mealor) gave her the details about Summer's plans, but when Phyllis sees the truth for herself, she knows she cannot let it stand.
Phyllis asks her daughter about what's going on, then accuses Summer of going to Philly just to be with Billy — a claim Summer really cannot deny. It's become clear to Phyllis that her daughter really is out to sabotage her relationship and steal her boyfriend. That sounds just like the Phyllis of old, but will the new Phyllis be able to put a stop to Summer's damaging behavior?
Meanwhile, Ashley (Eileen Davidson) learns a shocking secret when Kyle discovers a discrepancy in the books at Jabot. It seems Billy submitted a false invoice for repairs to "Jaboat" that were never made and pocketed the money instead. While the evidence is damning, Ashley isn't ready to confront her erstwhile brother just yet. She wants to see how much further he'll go.
Apparently, gambling is in Billy's blood. Whether it's money at a poker game or risky stores with the family business, Billy needs the thrill of playing to win and beating the odds. There's just one problem, though, the house usually wins. Ashley cannot stand by and allow Billy to lose with Jabot.
Finally, Sharon (Sharon Case) confides in her new friend, Rey (Jordi Vilasuso). As the owner of Crimson Lights, Sharon does a lot of talking to a lot of people, and she's friendly. When Rey comes in and helps Phyllis (Gina Tognoni) with a flat tire, Sharon is happy to chat it up with him. They discuss her relationship with Phyllis, and she hints that all may not be completely perfect between them.
Sharon doesn't realize that Rey is slowly gathering up details about all the women who participated in getting rid of J.T., never noticing that when she spills all the tea about things, he carefully writes it down along with his other notes. Before long, Rey will end up putting together the entire story, and the four women's lives will never be the same.
Check out CBS or POP tomorrow to watch what happens next.


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Q: Does app could cause phone reboot and how to release variable I write an app which will continuously request data from a sensor board and send data to server. I use a Motorola Droid phone which have not be activated to test my app. I find that sometimes after several hours the phone will reboot. I just want to know does it cause by my app run out of memory. And if an app runs out of phone's memory, should just the app be force closed or the phone be reboot?
If this causes by app running out of memory how could I release and clear variables. Should the system automatically do this? I think the main problem might be that I set a global json variable to receive and send all data. After sending the data, I just user new JSONObject() to initiate the variable. I just want to know does the old one will be released automatically? If not, how can I do to release it?
Thanks

A: If an app runs out of phone's memory, an exception will be thrown and if the exception will not be catched - an app will be force closed.
System automatically clean unused memory. Yes, your old JSONObject should be autoreleased by garbage collector.
To learn how to find memory leaks in Android programs, read the article in Android developers blog: Memory Analysis for Android Applications


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A methodology based on distributed fiber optic sensors is proposed to detect the lateral buckling for subsea pipelines in this study. Uncontrolled buckling may lead to serious consequences for the structural integrity of a pipeline. A simple solution to this problem is to control the formation of lateral buckles among the pipeline. This firms the importance of monitoring the occurrence and evolution of pipeline buckling during the installation stage and long-term service cycle. This study reports the experimental investigations on a method for distributed detection of lateral buckling in subsea pipelines with Brillouin fiber optic sensor. The sensing scheme possesses the capability for monitoring the pipeline over the entire structure. The longitudinal strains are monitored by mounting the Brillouin optical time domain analysis (BOTDA) distributed sensors on the outer surface of the pipeline. Then the bending-induced strain is extracted to detect the occurrence and evolution of lateral buckling. Feasibility of the method was validated by using an experimental program on a small scale model pipe. The results demonstrate that the proposed approach is able to detect, in a distributed manner, the onset and progress of lateral buckling in pipelines. The methodology developed in this study provides a promising tool for assessing the structural integrity of subsea pipelines.
In this study, a structural identification method is proposed to assess the integrity of gravity-type caisson structures by analyzing vibration features. To achieve the objective, the following approaches are implemented. Firstly, a simplified structural model with a few degrees-of-freedom (DOFs) is formulated to represent the gravity-type caisson structure that corresponds to the sensors\' DOFs. Secondly, a structural identification algorithm based on the use of vibration characteristics of the limited DOFs is formulated to fine-tune stiffness and damping parameters of the structural model. Finally, experimental evaluation is performed on a lab-scaled gravity-type caisson structure in a 2-D wave flume. For three structural states including an undamaged reference, a water-level change case, and a foundation-damage case, their corresponding structural integrities are assessed by identifying structural parameters of the three states by fine-tuning frequency response functions, natural frequencies and damping factors.
Jacket-type offshore structures are always exposed to severe environmental conditions such as salt, high speed of current, wave, and wind compared with other onshore structures. In spite of the importance of maintaining the structural integrity for an offshore structure, there are few cases to apply a structural health monitoring (SHM) system in practice. The impedance-based SHM is a kind of local SHM techniques and to date, numerous techniques and algorithms have been proposed for local SHM of real-scale structures. However, it still requires a significant challenge for practical applications to compensate unknown environmental effects and to extract only damage features from impedance signals. In this study, the impedance-based SHM was carried out on a 1/20-scaled model of an Uldolmok current power plant structure in Korea under changes in temperature and transverse loadings. Principal component analysis (PCA)-based approach was applied with a conventional damage index to eliminate environmental changes by removing principal components sensitive to them. Experimental results showed that the proposed approach is an effective tool for long-term SHM under significant environmental changes.
Submersed rock-berm structures are frequently used for protection of underwater lifelines such as pipelines and power cables. During the service life, the rock-berm structure can experience several accidental loads such as anchor collision. The consequences can be severe with a certain level of frequency; hence, the structural responses should be carefully understood for implementing a proper structural health monitoring method. However, no study has been made to quantify the structural responses because it is hard to deal with the individual behavior of each rock. Therefore, this study presents a collision analysis of the submersed rock-berm structure using a finite element software package by facilitating the smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method. The analysis results were compared with those obtained from the Lagrange method. Moreover, two types of anchors (stock anchor and stockless anchor), three collision points and two different drop velocities (terminal velocity of each anchor and 5 m/s) were selected to investigate the changes in the responses. Finally, the effect of these parameters (analysis method, anchor type, collision point and drop velocity) on the analysis results was studied. Accordingly, the effectiveness of the SPH method is verified, a safe rock-berm height (over 1 m) is proposed, and a gauge point (0.5 m above the seabed) is suggested for a structural health monitoring implementation.
A main goal of this study is to propose a damage detection technique to detect and localize damages of a top-tensioned riser. In this paper, the top-tensioned finite element (FE) model is considered as an analytical model of the riser, and a vibration-based damage detection method is proposed. The present method consists of a FE model updating and damage index method. In order to accomplish the goal of this study, first, a sensitivity-based FE model updating method using natural frequencies and zero frequencies is introduced. Second, natural frequencies and zero frequencies of the axial mode on the top-tensioned riser are estimated by eigenvalue analysis. Finally, the locations and severities of the damages are estimated from the damage index method. Three numerical examples are considered to verify the performance of the proposed method.
Previous long-term measurements of the Uldolmok tidal current power plant showed that the structure\'s natural frequencies fluctuate with a constant cycle—i.e., twice a day with changes in tidal height and tidal current velocity. This study aims to improve structural health monitoring (SHM) techniques for offshore structures under a harsh tidal environment like the Uldolmok Strait. In this study, lab-scale experiments on a simplified offshore structure as a lab-scale test structure were conducted in a circulating water channel to thoroughly investigate the causes of fluctuation of the natural frequencies and to validate the displacement estimation method using multimetric data fusion. To this end, the numerical study was additionally carried out on the simplified offshore structure with damage scenarios, and the corresponding change in the natural frequency was analyzed to support the experimental results. In conclusion, (1) the damage that occurred at the foundation resulted in a more significant change in natural frequencies compared with the effect of added mass; moreover, the structural system became nonlinear when the damage was severe; (2) the proposed damage index was able to indicate an approximate level of damage and the nonlinearity of the lab-scale test structure; (3) displacement estimation using data fusion was valid compared with the reference displacement using the vision-based method.
An optimal sensor placement (OSP) method based on structural subsection technique (SST) and model reduction technique was proposed for modal identification of truss structures, which was conducted using genetic algorithm (GA). The constraints of GA variables were determined by SST in advance. Subsequently, according to model reduction technique, the optimal group of master degrees of freedom and the optimal objective function value were obtained using GA in a case of the given number of sensors. Correspondingly, the optimal number of sensors was determined according to optimal objective function values in cases of the different number of sensors. The proposed method was applied on a scaled jacket offshore platform to get its optimal number of sensors and the corresponding optimal sensor layout. Then modal kinetic energy and modal assurance criterion were adopted to evaluate vibration energy and mode independence property. The experiment was also conducted to verify the effectiveness of the selected optimal sensor layout. The results showed that experimental modes agreed reasonably well with numerical results. Moreover the influence of the proposed method using different optimal algorithms and model reduction technique on optimal results was also compared. The results showed that the influence was very little.
In this study, local dynamic characteristics of mountable PZT interfaces are numerically analyzed to verify their feasibility on impedance monitoring of the prestress-loss in tendon anchorage subsystems. Firstly, a prestressed tendon-anchorage system with mountable PZT interfaces is described. Two types of mountable interfaces which are different in geometric and boundary conditions are designed for impedance monitoring in the tendon-anchorage subsystems. Secondly, laboratory experiments are performed to evaluate the impedance monitoring via the two mountable PZT interfaces placed on the tendon-anchorage under the variation of prestress forces. Impedance features such as frequency-shifts and root-mean-square-deviations are quantified for the two PZT interfaces. Finally, local dynamic characteristics of the two PZT interfaces are numerically analyzed to verify their performances on impedance monitoring at the tendon-anchorage system. For the two PZT interfaces, the relationships between structural parameters and local vibration responses are examined by modal sensitivity analyses.
This study aims to propose a Bayesian approach to consider changes in temperature and vehicle weight as environmental and operational factors for vibration-based long-term bridge health monitoring. The Bayesian approach consists of three steps: step 1 is to identify damage-sensitive features from coefficients of the auto-regressive model utilizing bridge accelerations; step 2 is to perform a regression analysis of the damage-sensitive features to consider environmental and operational changes by means of the Bayesian regression; and step 3 is to make a decision on the bridge health condition based on residuals, differences between the observed and predicted damage-sensitive features, utilizing 95% confidence interval and the Bayesian hypothesis testing. Feasibility of the proposed approach is examined utilizing monitoring data on an in-service bridge recorded over a one-year period. Observations through the study demonstrated that the Bayesian regression considering environmental and operational changes led to more accurate results than that without considering environmental and operational changes. The Bayesian hypothesis testing utilizing data from the healthy bridge, the damage probability of the bridge was judged as no damage.
Structural nonlinearity is a common phenomenon encountered in engineering structures under severe dynamic loading. It is necessary to localize and identify structural nonlinearities using structural dynamic measurements for damage detection and performance evaluation of structures. However, identification of nonlinear structural systems is a difficult task, especially when proper mathematical models for structural nonlinear behaviors are not available. In prior studies on nonparametric identification of nonlinear structures, the locations of structural nonlinearities are usually assumed known and all structural responses are measured. In this paper, an identification algorithm is proposed for locating and identifying model-free structural nonlinearities and systems using incomplete measurements of structural responses. First, equivalent linear structural systems are established and identified by the extended Kalman filter (EKF). The locations of structural nonlinearities are identified. Then, the model-free structural nonlinear restoring forces are approximated by power series polynomial models. The unscented Kalman filter (UKF) is utilized to identify structural nonlinear restoring forces and structural systems. Both numerical simulation examples and experimental test of a multi-story shear building with a MR damper are used to validate the proposed algorithm.
Parametric identification of structures is one of the important aspects of structural health monitoring. Most of the techniques available in the literature have been proved to be effective for structures with small degree of freedoms. However, the problem becomes challenging when the structure system is large, such as bridge structures. Therefore, it is highly desirable to develop parametric identification methods that are applicable to complex structures. In this paper, the LSE based techniques will be combined with the substructure approach for identifying the parameters of a cable-stayed bridge with large degree of freedoms. Numerical analysis has been carried out for substructures extracted from the 2-dimentional (2D) finite element model of a cable-stayed bridge. Only vertical white noise excitations are applied to the structure, and two different cases are considered where the structural damping is not included or included. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed approach is capable of identifying the structural parameters with high accuracy without measurement noises.
Modal identification of civil engineering structures based on ambient vibration measurement has been widely investigated in the past decades, and a variety of output-only operational modal identification methods have been proposed. However, vibration modes, even fundamental low-order modes, are not always identifiable for large-scale structures under ambient vibration excitation. The identifiability of vibration modes, deficiency in modal identification, and criteria to evaluate robustness of the identified modes when applying output-only modal identification techniques to ambient vibration responses were scarcely studied. In this study, the mode identifiability of the cable-stayed Ting Kau Bridge using ambient vibration measurements and the influence of the excitation intensity on the deficiency and robustness in modal identification are investigated with long-term monitoring data of acceleration responses acquired from the bridge under different excitation conditions. It is observed that a few low-order modes, including the second global mode, are not identifiable by common output-only modal identification algorithms under normal ambient excitations due to traffic and monsoon. The deficient modes can be activated and identified only when the excitation intensity attains a certain level (e.g., during strong typhoons). The reason why a few low-order modes fail to be reliably identified under weak ambient vibration excitations and the relation between the mode identifiability and the excitation intensity are addressed through comparing the frequency-domain responses under normal ambient vibration excitations and under typhoon excitations and analyzing the wind speeds corresponding to different response data samples used in modal identification. The threshold value of wind speed (generalized excitation intensity) that makes the deficient modes identifiable is determined.
Thermal loads, especially thermal gradients, have a considerable effect on the behaviors of large-scale bridges throughout their lifecycles. Bridge design specifications provide minimal guidance regarding thermal gradients for simple bridge girders and do not consider transversal thermal gradients in wide girder cross-sections. This paper investigates the three-dimensional thermal gradients of arch bridge girders by integrating long-term field monitoring data recorded by a structural health monitoring system, with emphasis on the vertical and transversal thermal gradients of wide concrete-steel composite girders. Based on field monitoring data for one year, the time-dependent characteristics of temperature and three-dimensional thermal gradients in girder cross-sections are explored. A statistical analysis of thermal gradients is conducted, and the probability density functions of transversal and vertical thermal gradients are estimated. The extreme thermal gradients are predicted with a specific return period by employing an extreme value analysis, and the profiles of the vertical thermal gradient are established for bridge design. The transversal and vertical thermal gradients are developed to help engineers understand the thermal behaviors of concrete-steel composite girders during their service periods.
Response estimation at unmeasured locations using the limited number of measurements is an attractive topic in the field of structural health monitoring (SHM). Because of increasing complexity and size of civil engineering structures, measuring all structural responses from the entire body is intractable for the SHM purpose; the response estimation can be an effective and practical alternative. This paper investigates a response estimation technique based on the Kalman state estimator to combine multi-sensor data under non-zero mean input excitations. The Kalman state estimator, constructed based on the finite element (FE) model of a structure, can efficiently fuse different types of data of acceleration, strain, and tilt responses, minimizing the intrinsic measurement noise. This study focuses on the effects of (a) FE model error and (b) combinations of multi-sensor data on the estimation accuracy in the case of non-zero mean input excitations. The FE model error is purposefully introduced for more realistic performance evaluation of the response estimation using the Kalman state estimator. In addition, four types of measurement combinations are explored in the response estimation: strain only, acceleration only, acceleration and strain, and acceleration and tilt. The performance of the response estimation approach is verified by numerical and experimental tests on a simply-supported beam, showing that it can successfully estimate strain responses at unmeasured locations with the highest performance in the combination of acceleration and tilt.


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PH like 'a frog in boiling water' — CBCP
Catholic bishops gather for Mass at the start of their 112th plenary assembly at the Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral, Jan. 22, 2016. CBCPNEWS
The country's Catholic bishops have come out strongly against the Duterte administration on Sunday, criticizing the nation's "bleak political landscape".
In a two-page pastoral letter, they lamented a litany of issues besetting the country including the continued killings, red-tagging and intimidation of government critics.
They also lamented the recent shutdown of broadcast network ABS-CBN and "harassment" of media critics.
"Is it not evident to us how this pattern of intimidation creates an atmosphere detrimental to the freedom of expression in our country?" the bishops said.
While saying that a semblance of democracy is still in place, the bishops used a famous analogy to warn the country of more troubling times ahead.
"We are already like the proverbial frog swimming in a pot of slowly boiling water," they said.
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) made the statement around a week before President Rodrigo Duterte's fifth State of the Nation Address.
The church leaders particularly condemned Duterte's controversial new anti-terrorism law, which took effect on Saturday.
The bishops said they are still in "disbelief" about the manner in which the measure was "fast-tracked" and approved in Congress while the country is reeling from the Covid-19 pandemic.
"The dissenting voices were strong but they remained unheeded," they said.
Among other things, the law allows warrantless detention and wiretapping of people the government deems as terrorists.
The CBCP also threw its support behind efforts to question the enactment of the law in the high court.
"We draw consolation from the groups of lawyers and ordinary citizens that have filed petitions before the Supreme Court, questioning the constitutionality of the newly signed law," the bishops said.
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Die evangelische Dorfkirche Wiederau ist ein denkmalgeschütztes Kirchengebäude im Ortsteil Wiederau in der Kleinstadt Uebigau-Wahrenbrück im südbrandenburgischen Landkreis Elbe-Elster. Hier befindet sie sich, von einem Friedhof umgeben, in zentraler Lage im Süden des Wiederauer Dorfangers.

Sie gehört zur Kirchengemeinde Uebigau im Kirchenkreis Bad Liebenwerda der Evangelischen Kirche in Mitteldeutschland.

Baubeschreibung und -geschichte
Bei der Wiederauer Dorfkirche handelt es sich um einen am Ende des 13. Jahrhunderts entstandenen rechteckigen Feldsteinsaalbau mit Satteldach. Der eingezogene, im 15. Jahrhundert errichtete, mit einem Walmdach und Wetterfahne versehene Westquerturm besteht vorwiegend aus Raseneisenstein. An der Nord- und Südseite des Kirchenschiffs ist jeweils ein bauzeitliches Rücksprungportal mit Backsteingewände zu finden. Auf der nordöstlichen Seite befindet sich unter einem Schleppdach ein Anbau aus dem Jahre 1952.

Nachdem die Kirche durch einen Brand im Dreißigjährigen Krieg im Jahre 1631 schwer beschädigt wurde, erfolgte zwischen 1661 und 1671 wieder ihre Instandsetzung. Bei diesen Arbeiten wurden unter anderem auch alle Fenster erweitert. Im auslaufenden 19. Jahrhundert erfolgte dann schließlich 1895 eine umfassende Restaurierung des Bauwerks. Im Jahre 1980 erfolgte eine Erneuerung des Turmdaches. Ursprünglich war auf diesem ein Dachreiter mit Laterne und Schweifhaube zu finden.

Ausstattung (Auswahl)
Das Innere der Kirche ist von einer flachen Balkendecke und einer kurzen aus dem 17. Jahrhundert stammende Hufeisenempore geprägt. In der Predella des hier vorhandenen und aus dem Jahre 1672 stammenden Kanzelaltars ist eine von Stifterwappen gerahmte Inschriftenkartusche zu sehen. Die sechseckige Sandsteintaufe stammt aus dem Jahre 1675. In ihrer Kuppa befinden sich die Wappen des Adelsgeschlecht von Brandenstein. Die 1675 entstandene auf einer gewundenen Ecksäule ruhende prächtige Patronatsloge des Schlosses Neudeck besitzt in den Bogenöffnungen eine Rundscheibenverglasung. Des Weiteren ist in der Kirche eine mittelalterliche Kirchentruhe zu finden.

Orgel
Die Wiederauer Orgel wurde in den Jahren 1855/1856 durch den Orgelbauer Moritz Baumgarten aus Zahna gefertigt. Der Zweite Weltkrieg brachte für die Orgel gegen Ende Verwüstung mit sich. Zu einer landeskirchlichen Erhebung über den Zustand der Orgel gibt Kantor Schuster im Juni 1950 Erläuterungen: "Die Orgel ist sehr stark reparaturbedürftig. Durch Kriegseinwirkungen hat die Orgel stark gelitten. Die Pfeifen lagen im Juni 1945 zu hunderten verstreut in der Kirche umher. Es fehlen noch heute viele Pfeifen und von den wieder eingesetzten Pfeifen sind viele stark beschädigt, sodass eine einwandfreie Begleitung des Gemeindegesanges durch die Orgel kaum möglich ist. Der Gemeindegesang der sonst sangesfreudigen Kirchenbesucher leidet darunter sehr." Wie lange dieser desolate Zustand angehalten hat, ist unbekannt.

Die ursprüngliche Disposition sah 1856 wie folgt aus:

Richtig desolat wurde das Instrument in den 1980er Jahren, als ein heftiges Unwetter das Dach über der Orgel abdeckte und Regenwasser eintrat und vieles beschädigte. Dies machte eine grundlegende Reparatur notwendig, und alle Beteiligten gingen diese auch gründlich an. Das bedeutete auch für dieses Vorhaben, dass man der damaligen Auffassung zur Zeit der ausgehenden Orgelbewegung folgend, das Klangideal der Romantik als Irrweg betrachtete und es deshalb für ratsam erachtete, Orgeln des 19. Jahrhunderts zu "barockisieren". Dafür bot sich bei der notwendigen Orgelreparatur in Wiederau nun die Möglichkeit: Im alten Gehäuse hinter den nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg eingebauten Ersatzprospektpfeifen kamen auf der historischen Baumgartenwindlade im Manual neue Pfeifen als andere Register zum Einsatz. Das alte Pfeifenwerk wurde aufgegeben. Lediglich die Pedalpfeifen Baumgartens haben bis heute ihren Platz in der Orgel behalten.

Seitdem lautet die Disposition wie folgt:

In den Jahren 2020/21 wurde die Orgel durch die Firma Mitteldeutscher Orgelbau A. Voigt renoviert und erhielt neue Prospektpfeifen aus Zinn. In diesem Zuge wurde auch eine barocke Neuintonation durchgeführt.

Grabmäler

Auf dem die Kirche umgebenden Friedhof befindet sich ein Grabmal in Form eines Eichenstamms aus der Zeit um 1800 der Familie von Rephun, welche Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts auf dem Wiederauer Rittergut ansässig war. Des Weiteren ist hier unter anderem auch ein zeitgleiches Grabmal in Form einer kannelierten Säule mit Inschriftenkartusche und Flammenvase.

Das Gefallenendenkmal ist mit einem schmiedeeisernen Zaun umfriedet und befindet sich unmittelbar neben der spätmittelalterlichen Feldsteinkirche. Es soll an die in den beiden Weltkriegen gefallenen Einwohner aus Wiederau, Bahnsdorf und Neudeck erinnern. Am oberen, tempelartigen Teil des Denkmals befinden sich zwei Tafeln mit den Namen der Opfer des Ersten Weltkrieges. An der Vorderseite des Sockels wurde eine Gedenktafel für die Opfer des Zweiten Weltkrieges aus Wiederau und Bahnsdorf angebracht.

Literatur (Auswahl)

 Sybille Gramlich/ Irmelin Küttner: Landkreis Elbe-Elster Teil 1: Die Stadt Herzberg/Elster und die Ämter Falkenberg/Uebigau, Herzberg, Schlieben und Schönewalde, S. 230 bis 233, ISBN 978-3-88462-152-3.

Weblinks

 Die Wiedauer Kirche auf der städtischen Homepage von Uebigau-Wahrenbrück

Anmerkungen und Einzelnachweise

Kirchengebäude des Evangelischen Kirchenkreises Bad Liebenwerda
Kirchengebäude in Uebigau-Wahrenbrück
Erbaut im 13. Jahrhundert
Baudenkmal in Uebigau-Wahrenbrück
Wiederau
Bauwerk im Elbe-Elster-Land
Wiederau

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Generation and translation of transcripts from talks on Confreaks.

So the idea to do this was presented to me by @murtazz while attending
Garden City Ruby Conference 2014 - India's first regional ruby conference.

The directory structure for transcripts and translated version will be:

{conference hash tag}
  {language}

The language code used for sub-folders should be based this page:

http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/language-identifiers.html

Under the langauge folder we want to add a file for each presentation.
  - check the conference directories readme for file format names.
  - srt files with timestamps unnecessary - txt files will sync with videos on youtube so long as lines are roughly 40-50 characters

Conferences Under Translation:
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gcrc14 - Garden City Ruby Conference 2014, Bangalore, India
  primary language: en

rubyconf2013 - Ruby Conference 2013, Miami Beach, Florida
  primary language: en

railsconf2014 - Rails Conference 2014, Chicago, Illinois
  primary language: en

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Kiuruvesi [] ist eine Stadt in der finnischen Region Savo mit  Einwohnern (Stand ). Sie liegt im Nordwesten der Landschaft Nordsavo 120 Kilometer nordöstlich der Stadt Kuopio an der Grenze zu Nordösterbotten und Kainuu.

Überblick
Das Stadtzentrum nimmt nur einen kleinen Teil der 1.422,97 Quadratkilometer großen Gesamtfläche ein. Im weitläufigen, ländlich geprägten Umland befinden sich die Dörfer Aittojärvi, Hautakylä, Heinäkylä, Honkaranta, Kalliokylä, Koivujärvi, Korpijoki, Koskenkylä, Lahnajoki, Lapinsalo, Laukkala, Luupuvesi, Löytänä, Niemiskylä, Näläntö, Osmanki, Paajakka, Pihlajamäki, Rantakylä, Rapakkojoki, Remeskylä, Rytky, Ryönänjoki, Salmijärvi, Salmenkylä, Sulkava, Tihilä, Toiviaiskylä und Turhala.

Die 1873 gegründete Gemeinde ist seit 1993 eine Stadt. Nach dem Winterkrieg wurden 1940 rund 2000 Karelier aus den Ostgebieten, die Finnland an die Sowjetunion abtreten musste, in Kiuruvesi angesiedelt. So steht auch im Zentrum von Kiuruvesi neben der evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche ein orthodoxes Gotteshaus, das 1957 für die der Ostkirche angehörigen Neusiedler errichtet wurde. In den 1960er Jahren war die Einwohnerzahl der Gemeinde mit 17.000 auf ihrem Höchststand, seitdem ist sie durch die konstante Abwanderung in die Ballungszentren Südfinnlands auf mittlerweile unter 10.000 gesunken.

Kiuruvesi ist traditionell landwirtschaftlich geprägt. 2003 arbeiteten 27 Prozent der Erwerbstätigen der Stadt im Land- und Forstwirtschaftssektor. Die wichtigsten Produkte sind Milch und Rindfleisch. Ein Zehntel der landwirtschaftlichen Nutzfläche von Kiuruvesi wird ökologisch bewirtschaftet, weshalb sich die Stadt selbst als "Hauptstadt Bio-Finnlands" bezeichnet.

Politik

Stadtrat
Die stärkste politische Kraft in Kiuruvesi ist die bäuerlich-liberale Zentrumspartei. Bei der Kommunalwahl 2017 erhielt sie 46,5 % der Stimmen. Im Stadtrat, der höchsten Entscheidungsinstanz in lokalen Angelegenheiten, stellt sie mit 17 von 33 Abgeordneten die absolute Mehrheit. Zweitstärkste Kraft im Rat ist das Linksbündnis mit sieben Sitzen. Ebenfalls im Stadtrat vertreten sind die Nationale Sammlungspartei mit sieben Mandaten, die rechtspopulistischen Wahren Finnen mit zwei sowie die Christdemokraten mit einem Sitz. Die Sozialdemokraten konnten mit 2,7 % der Stimmen kein Mandat erringen.

Söhne und Töchter der Stadt
 Paavo Lonkila (1923–2017), Skilangläufer
 Soini Nikkinen (1923–2012), Speerwerfer

Weblinks

Quellen

Stadtrechtsverleihung 1993


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Optical and near-ir spectrophotometry of the galaxy ngc 3310
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Pastoriza, Miriani Griselda
Dottori, Horacio Alberto
Terlevich, Elena
Terlevich, Roberto
Diaz, Angeles I.
Astrofisica extragalatica
[en] Galaxies: abundances
[en] Galaxies: individual: NGC 331O
[en] Galaxies: peculiar
[en] Galaxies: stellar content
[en] H 11 regions
We present spectrophotometric observations in the optical and near-infrared of the nucleus and six H11 regions in the spiral galaxy NGC 3310. Four of the regions are circumnuclear at less than 400 pc from the nucleus, and two are located in the spiral arms at 600 and 1600 pc respectively. Abundance analysis complemented with detailed photoionization models indicates that, while the circumnuclear and disc H II regions have a moderately low metallicity (0.2-0.4 Z̛), the nucleus has solar abundanc ...
We present spectrophotometric observations in the optical and near-infrared of the nucleus and six H11 regions in the spiral galaxy NGC 3310. Four of the regions are circumnuclear at less than 400 pc from the nucleus, and two are located in the spiral arms at 600 and 1600 pc respectively. Abundance analysis complemented with detailed photoionization models indicates that, while the circumnuclear and disc H II regions have a moderately low metallicity (0.2-0.4 Z̛), the nucleus has solar abundances. No radial gradient was detected away from the nuclear region. The IR Ca II triplet in absorption is observed in some of the H II regions and a moderately strong WR spectral feature at 4686Å in the brightest HII region 9 arcsec SW of the nucleus is also reported. The simultaneous occurrence of these features in H II regions with strong emission lines indicates that star formation lasted a few rnillion years. ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. London. Vol. 260, no. 1 (Jan. 1993), p. 177-190


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9 Viral And Popular Games of 2021
On January 25, 2021 April 24, 2022 by Anil Sharma
Popular Games of 2021: Even though it has entered 2021, the community still has to stay at home due to Corona. One of the entertainment that is impossible to give boredom is game. This new year there is a huge list of popular games in 2021 which provide a special challenge for game lovers.
Popular Games of 2021
The development of games that exist in the world is like a technology that is constantly increasing and changing. Even though you have to stay at home, at least the game is a savior to get rid of boredom. Then what are the games that were popular in 2001?
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List of Popular Games of 2021
As a game lover, of course it won't be complete if you don't enjoy the viral games that are popular in 2021. To find out what are the most popular games in the new year, please check here:
1. Diablo Immortal
This game, which was successfully developed by Blizzard Entertainment, asks players to explore and fight up to 9 regions at the same time. There are several challenges for players who play this Diablo Immortal game.
One of them is to find other creatures that were not in the previous Diablo game. Diablo is not a new game in 2021. However, Blizzard Entertainment has presented its newest version of Diablo Immortal in 2021.
In this game, there is a story that is taken between the events that happened in Diablo 2 and Diablo 3. So that it allows the players to be able to make choices 1 among 6 classes. While each class has 12 skill tricks.
2. Deathloop game
This game has a very unique premise and is different from other games. The player is required to play the character as an assassin.
His job is to kill the target in a party as many as 8 people on a remote island. It turned out that the party was only in 5 loops like the film Groundhog Day.
So that only the killer can find out. Meanwhile, players will only enter a new day by bringing in more information. This information contains about the behavior and movements of the target killer.
But unfortunately this game cannot be played in January. The reason is because the developer, Bethesda, will release this Deathloop game via PlayStation 5 on May 21, 2021.
As a popular game in 2021, COE developer Andre Wilson launched this Battle Royale game and is available on consoles and PCs. But take it easy, because the developer will also add mobile platforms and Nintendo switches this year.
This game has a concept as a battle royale game. Apex is different from other online games because it has unique looks and abilities. There are several roles that can be played, such as defense, attack, scout, support and others.
4. Garden Story
The appearance of this popular game in 2021 has a premise and adorable character design. Players can play the character Concord, which is a wine that has a funny shape.
Concord was used as an option to build a village. Players can take Concord on an adventure, make new friends, fight a criminal named Rot, create new items, and more.
Garden story is indeed a new game in 2021, but there is no need to question the number of players, because the number is already very large. Are you curious about the gameplay? Please download via Google PlayStore
5. H1Z1
When viewed in terms of appearance, this game has similarities to the PUBG mobile and Fortnite games. This H1Z1 gameplay has as many as 150 players and can jump simultaneously from the plane.
After that, look for ammunition, weapons, and other supplies when they reach the mainland. There are various types of vehicles available to make it easier for players of this popular 2021 game when they want to move places.
This is also the same as the Pubg mobile game because players can play together with a team of 4 or play Solo.
Even though the presence of H1Z1 is not as popular as the Pubg mobile game, it turns out that the newest game in 2021 already has millions of players. Whether it's via PC or via PS4.
6. Hitman 3
Through the Hitman 3 game, players can be introduced to new environments. Especially for players who are planning or carrying out complex assassinations.
The murder was carried out in the middle of the story of Agent 47 and is classified as still mysterious.
Hitman 3 is indeed included in the list of new games in 2021.
But the gameplay is also very fun and unique. Hitman 3 requires players to import all levels from previous Hitman games.
In addition, the developer also provides support for virtual reality. This new game will be available on Xbox, PlayStation, stadia, PC, mobile or others.
7. Game Stray
If you are a cat animal lover, then you must play this Stray game. When else can you play the cat game as the main character?
This game is made by Annapurna with a futuristic cyberfunk design. Later you will play together as cats looking for their way back home.
While the cat lives in a future city area that is already filled with robots. In 2021, get ready to enjoy the excitement of the popular 2021 game.
8. The Medium
This game, which has a psychological horror genre, can be played using a third person perspective, namely as Mariana.
This game from Bloober Team asks players to take a trip to the spirit realm. The goal is to inhabit the 2nd world and solve a puzzle.
In order to fight against the enemy's power, the player must have good psychological abilities.
In addition, it also has to recharge by interacting at energy points. In this game, energy points are referred to as spirit wells.
9. Cyber Shadow
Cyber Shadow has an action genre, successfully developed by Mechanical Studios and has been published by Yacht Club Games. The first time this game was exhibited through Pax East in 2019.
However, along with the development of the game, Cyber Shadow was also raised by Aarne Hunziker. The player must control the ninja character who will fight with the enemy.
In January 2021, gamers can enjoy this game via the Xbox One ceiling, Playstation, Microsoft Windows and Nintendo switches.
But unfortunately this game is not yet available on mobile devices. But take it easy, over time it will develop to Android.
Entering the new year 2021, game developers are trying to schedule the release of the latest and popular games.
The goal is certain so that players who are bored with 2019 games can enjoy the popular 2021 games. But unfortunately, not all of the popular 2001 games can be played with any gadget.
For that you have to find out what gadgets are able to provide support for the latest games.
Topics Gamingtags Gaming, Popular Games of 2021


Robert Stein is a museum leader, technology expert, and strategist with deep experience in the museum field heading up innovative projects and diverse teams. In April 2016, Rob joined the American Alliance of Museums as the Executive Vice President and Chief Program Officer to lead the organization's programming efforts in service to both national and global audiences. In that role, Stein is responsible for key strategic initiatives including the expansion of the Alliance's role as a thought leader, content provider, and global catalyst for excellence in the field of museums. Rob is a sought-after author, speaker, and consultant, focusing on the impact museums can have in their communities, how technology efforts can change the dynamic of museum innovation, and how metrics and measurement can encourage excellence for the practice of museums. ¬ Stein is active in service to the museum field having held positions as a board member of the Museum Computer Network, a member of the International Program Committee of Museums and the Web, and as a National Advisor to the Education Committee of AAM. He is currently a Senior Advisor to the National Center for Arts Research at Southern Methodist University.
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