The FTC v. Qualcomm non-jury trial continued yesterday with Qualcomm still at the plate, defending charges levied against it by the FTC. On Tuesday, Qualcomm called one of its expert witnesses to the stand, according to a report from CNET. The aptly named Tasneem Chipty, an expert in competition policy and antitrust economics, said under oath that "Qualcomm felt competitive pressure from Intel" over Apple's business. She added that the chip maker responded by stepping up its innovation, and by cutting prices. Those actions don't make Qualcomm anticompetitive, she said.
Chipty pointed out from the witness stand that Qualcomm did not have the "market power" to force phone manufacturers into poor business deals that would cost these companies billions of dollars. She also pointed out that Qualcomm lost 50 basis points of market share in the premium handset market from 2014 to 2017 as competitors like Intel, Samsung, MediaTek and Huawei were picking up business.
Last week, an Apple executive named Matthias Sauer took the stand after being called by Qualcomm. He testified that Apple was about to use Intel's chips for the iPad in 2014 even though they failed to meet Apple's requirements. Qualcomm was about to lose the business until it gave Apple price incentives to stick with Qualcomm's components.
The FTC says that Qualcomm acted like a monopoly by giving Apple incentives to use its modem chips on an exclusive basis, and by sticking to its "no license, no chips" policy. Qualcomm calls this "flawed legal theory," and says that customers stick to its chips because they are the best in the market.
Presiding over the trial is Judge Lucy Koh of Samsung v. Apple fame. If she rules in favor of the FTC,Qualcomm could be forced to change some of its business practices related to how it sells chips to phone manufacturers.
Let me get this straight, Qualcomm said you can't make a phone without their tech and patents and yet this person wants us to believe they don't have leverage over Apple. You can't have it both ways Qualcomm. If an oem can't make their product without your tech, you effectively have leverage over them.
Doesn't Microsoft make more from Android than it did with Windows mobile? Doesn't mean they had leverage/complete control over it. Phones are VERY complex, heck even Apple pays fees to Nokia. This doesn't mean Nokia calls the shots at Apple.
You are aware that the main reason why we don't have Exynos chipsets in the US is due to Qualcomm right? In fact, Samsung isn't even allowed to sell its Exynos chipsets to anyone because of a deal they signed with Qualcomm in 1993 in exchange for its wireless patents. It wasn't until 2016 that the FTC in Japan finally took action against Qualcomm for that anticompetitive deal which is still being appealed. In other words: Qualcomm has a long history of being the big patent bully on the block. At least Microsoft just simply lets people pay to use its patents without making stupid regulations on how you use it.
There are two Samsung handsets for sale at Cricket right now that have Exynos chipsets in them: The Galaxy Amp Prime 3 with an Exynos 7570 chipset in it, and the Galaxy Halo with an Exynos 7870 chipset in it - both for sale in the US. I'm sure those aren't the only two... is that illegal, or did Qualcomm's grip slip just a little bit?
Samsung was never restricted to use Exynos is the US. Their devices work amazing on GSM carriers. Now, Samsung just like Apple needs/needed CDMA tech from QC. Without this tech they would not have been able to cater to Sprint and Verizon customers. So rather than confusing people with 2 different models in the US. They decided to sell only QC chipset phones for their flagships. What goes beyond this is that, Samsung made an agreement with QC way back in the 90's due to which it cannot sell Exynos to anyone else. This issue is also currently in court "I guess". Now are these agreements correct or wrong, I do not know. But it would be cool for everyone to use Exynos chips moving forward.
I would also like to add to this. During the SD810 fiasco, Samsung released S6 , S6 Edge and Note 5 with Exynos chips only (Exynos 7420).
"Doesn't Microsoft make more from Android than it did with Windows mobile?" Most confusing comment ever. QC can have leverage when they say iPhone is not possible without them. Microsoft is using an open source software. How the heck can they leverage anything or be leveraged lol.
Microsoft was reportedly making $10 for all Android phones being sold. At the time when Windows mobile was still sold, Microsoft was supposedly making more from Android sales than from it's own OS. Does that mean Microsoft has leverage over Android?www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/microsoft-is-making-2bn-a-year-on-android-licensing-five-times-more-than-windows-phone/&ved=2ahUKEwi1wsvb3YXgAhUrvFkKHcegATgQFjADegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw11Y8g9bEU3wAM-AuB6TOq-&cf=1 I'm not sure what open-source software Microsoft is using that you're referring to. I'm just letting you know that when standard essential patents exist, you aren't able to license them at exorbitant rates, hence, it's not leverage.
"Microsoft is using an open source software." Nope! The money they earn is from microsoft hardware and software patents that phones need to operate, nothing to do with Android code.
I was wondering what monkeyb was referring to.
I meant to say Android is open source. I misunderstood your original comment and I guess I added an even more confusing comment. Sorry about that.
They definitely have so much leverage, at least they used to have in 2015 as they were the first to come up with 4G modems for mobile phones. They are the leading mobile chip manufacturer in the entire world and they even surpassed Intel in terms of overall CPU manufacturing. Their chips and modems are better than others (Apple's own A series is better than them though) BUT that doesn't give them the right to force OEMs like Apple to give them more money whenever they want.
Of course any company can have its fee recalculated retroactively, if the court is going to say that QC abused its power when it set the prices.
I thought the point was that "Apple shouldn't have to pay Qualcomm anything?" If Apple agreed to it, regardless of how bad a deal it might have been for them (and it is pretty obvious that it wasn't a 'terrible deal' for Apple, or else they wouldn't have been able to make such profits on iPhones, and would never have signed the deal in the first place... plus, it increased their market share in the states by allowing them to sell their wares through Sprint and Verizon and US Cellular, in addition to existing 3GPP channels like AT&T and T-Mobile), they should pay for the part of it that they exercised. I don't think they should have to stay in that contract, and certainly this should never happen again under the same circumstances, if it indeed can be proven in court, but in any case, I doubt it will hurt Apple to pay a couple billion dollars to Qualcomm when Apple makes between $89 billion and $93 billion a quarter in revenue, with a gross margin between 38% and 38.5%, and operating expenses between $8.7 billion and $8.8 billion a quarter... and all that in a low quarter, while, according to others on this site, they are sitting on $128 billion in cash in various places, after debts (large debts help them pay less taxes...) are subtracted from actual balance sheets. Apple is laughing all the way to the bank either way. It's pretty clear that they just don't like to share their revenues with their contractors.
Oh yeah, and in case anybody demands to know where I got the guidance numbers for the quarter in question, they are posted by Apple themselves, here: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/11/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/ Not only do they list 2018 Q4 results, but they also list 2019 Q1 guidance numbers. Bottom line is Apple is doing awesome with or without their problems.
Apple only withhold the sums that are considered abusive; they paid and should pay every penny QC is ENTITLED (but not through an abusive contract - that is voided of power). Siren, Gates could pay 100$ for a loaf of bread - no problem - but why should he, when everyone else pays a few cents? Nobody likes to share their hard earned revenue with a deceitful person.
Besides, if there are two bread makers, and one of them sells a loaf for $1.49 and the other for $3.99, and people buy the $3.99 loaf because it is a lot better, but complain that they would rather spend $1.49, and then try to get the government to "force" the maker of the better loaf to charge only $1.49 for their product in the name of "fairness"... well, what happens is that they just look at you funny, and say, "make your own bread!" What most people don't seem to realize is that we cannot force Qualcomm to make the best chips at a price that is competitive with the lesser chips... it cannot be "forced." If the government goes to Qualcomm, and says, "in the name of fairness, you will make the best chips and sell them for the same price as competing chip manufacturers' chips", they may just look you in the eye, and say "make your own chips!"
It's about standards: you can't have your tech be a mandatory standard and at the same time charge whatever price you want. It's like making hdr mandatory by law and charging $1k+5% of the price of each phone.
Qualcomm charged Apple 3.99 for the loaf of bread, because Apple has money to pay; to everyone else they charged 1.49 for the exact same loaf of bread; that is not capitalism, that is deceitful.
Is there evidence that they did exactly that, or is that merely an allegation that is yet to be tested in court?
Sure there is; even QC admitted it charged Apple more.
I mean, to me, the media is so far awash with so many allegations that each side then denies, that it is hard to tell exactly what is going on when they muddy the waters so much. Qualcomm is pretty clearly a bad monkey here, for their "no license, no chips" policy which is clearly ridiculous, but I see Apple as just as combative in a negative way, bullying their way out of agreements that they made knowing how bad it would be with Qualcomm, and trying to weasel and whine their way out of paying... in fact, they are asking to be paid half-a-quarter's worth of their own profits! Neither side makes much sense to me right now. My opinion is that they both need to sit down and take it, each in their own ways. I do not hold either side in this guiltless. But, the problem is that, with all of the swirling allegations and swift denials from BOTH sides, it is likely going to be impossible to tell who is at fault for what, ultimately, outside of a court of law.
It's actually very simple (and not about Apple at all); the court had to hear the parts but this trial could have ended in 5 minutes: you can't have standard essential patents and also charge what you please and refuse to sell.


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New Zealand Rugby Star Sonny Bill Williams, the first Muslim to represent the All Blacks, fought back tears in a video he posted on Twitter reacting to the mosque attacks.
"I just heard the news and I couldn't put into words how I'm feeling right now," said Williams. At least 49 people were killed in 2 separate attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand on March 15.


Superheroes: Oversaturated or Raising the Bar?
It should also be noted that I'm scheduled for an Autographing session on Sunday at 3pm, but since my flight home leaves at 5pm, I'll either be at the airport or on the way by then. So if you want something signed, please catch me elsewhere!
Panels/Signings: I'm sure there'll be some.
Hope to see you at one or more of these fine shows!
Since the news has been made public, I can now announce that I'm attending Special Edition NYC this June.
It'll be my first east-coast con appearance in I-don't-know-how-long (I think the last one was a Baltimore Con, but I don't remember what year it was), and I'm really looking forward to it. The plan is for me to share table space with my pals Richard Howell (on Saturday) and James Fry (on Sunday), and it'll be great to have a chance to spend some time with them, and of course to meet and talk with readers, and all the usual con stuff.
A look at the lithograph we'll have at the booth at Wizard World Portland, later this month.


Germans erected the death camp facility approximately five kilometers from the village of Sobibór, in the area adjacent to the nearby railway station. They divided it into the following sectors: camp foreground with the unloading ramp and quarters of the SS-men and camp guards (Vorlager); sector with workshops and residential barracks for forced laborers (Lager I); sector with a square where transports were processed and with facilities for sorting and storing property plundered from the victims (Lager II); and the extermination sector which housed the gas chambers and pits used for mass burials, and starting from late 1942 for cremating the victims' bodies (Lager III).
The German extermination camp in Sobibor was set up in a densely forested area by the Lublin-Chełm-Włodawa railway line. Formed in early May 1942, the SS-Sonderkommando Sobibor was first manned by Jews from the area of Puławy and then from other parts of Lublin District. Among them, there were Austrian, German, Czech and Slovak Jews who had been relocated to the Lublin region. Later, some transports with foreign Jews were directed directly to Sobibór. According to the report of the commanding staff of Operation Reinhardt, by the end of 1942, 101,000 were murdered in the camp. Some transports were subject to selection on the railway ramp: the SS-men kept alive only those capable of work. At first, only men were left alive; later, also women who were employed at the site or sent to labour camps. In Sobibór, they were employed in the workshop, did some cleaning works, extended the camp, segregated the victims' property, unloaded transports. Some were incorporated into the so-called Sonderkommando stationed in a separate part of the camp (Lager III). They were forced to do the most gruesome work, such as clearing the gas chambers and burning the bodies.
In the spring of 1943, Himmler ordered that transports from the Netherlands and France be directed to the camp. As a result, 38,000 people were brought to Sobibór in total. In September, several transports were sent to Sobibór from the Reich Commissariat East, including several dozen Red Army POWs of Jewish origin from the ghetto in Minsk. Later on, they played a key role in plotting and launching the revolt.
As in other extermination camps, also Sobibór has its inner resistance movement. Initially, the idea of revolting against the camp personnel came from the Polish Jews. The group of conspirers was led by Lejb Felhendler, the former head of the Judenrat in Żółkiewka. Several options were considered, e.g. to poison the SS crew or plant a bomb in the canteen. The conspirers did not rule out seeking assistance from the Soviet partisans operating in the local forests but ultimately abandoned the idea as unrealistic. Also, the Dutch Jews, led by the naval officer Joseph Jacobs, were preparin an escape in collaboration with the camp wardens from Trawniki. They were betrayed and exposed, and the SS-men murdered most of the Dutch prisoners. However, there were several successful individual escapes.
The situation of the prisoners changed fundamentally at the end of September 1943. This was when a group of Red Army POWs of Jewish origin were brought to the camp, among them Lieutenant Alexander Pechersky. Felhendler and Pechersky quickly found common ground. The camp resistance movement supported by the former Soviet troopers who knew how to use weapons made the idea of revolt more and more realistic. The scheme involved a secret elimination of all SS-men, seizing weapon and then forcing through the main gate. Then the escapees were to scatter to make the chase less effective and seek shelter on their own. The Sonderkommando members did not participate in the revolt as they were isolated from the rest of the camp.
The revolt was planned to start at 3:30pm, 14 October. The circumstances favoured the schemers: the camp commandant, Franz Reichleitner, was away together with the greatest camp torturer Gustav Wagner. They acted according to plan: individual SS-men were driven to the workshop by prisoners who pretended to seek advice or assistance. Once entering the facility, the camp staff were killed one by one and their bodies hidden. Another major step was to cut off the power supply and communications to prevent the SS-men from calling in reinforcements. At about 5:00pm, the prisoners, like every day, turned up for the roll call in order not to arouse suspicion. Pechersky yelled, "Comrades! To the gate!," which meant a call for a revolt. Most prisoners scattered, many panicked and did not even attempt to escape. According to the plan, the core group began to push towards the main gate of the camp, while some others headed to the armoury where they managed to collect some weapons and ammunition. The guards manning the watchtowers and those standing behind the barbed wire opened fire. The prisoners were shooting back. The commandant of Lager I, Karl Frenzel, and several other Germans escaped death. The Jews were forced to retreat under a hail of bullets. The only way of escape was through the barbed wire fence and the minefield behind it.
As it was getting dark, 300 prisoners managed to flee, leaving 40 behind dying in combat or on the minefield. Next day, Globocnik's successor, Jakob Sporrenberg, the Commander of the SS-Police in Lublin District, arrived in the site and ordered the execution of all Jews left in the camp. According to one of the reports of the Border Police in Chełm, "it was necessary to use arms when searching the camp because the prisoners resisted" (J. Schelvis, Sobibór, A History of Nazi Death Camp, New York 2007, pp. 179-180) . A search began by the Police, Gendarmerie, Wehrmacht and even the Border Guard units. Until early November, the majority of escapees were captured and murdered. 50 of them survived the war, including Pechersky and Felhendler.
The uprising and escape of Sobibór prisoners, coupled with the death of the majority of the SS personnel, led to the decision to liquidate the camp, which had already played its part in the extermination plan. Several hundred Jews from Treblinka were brought to the site to dismantle the buildings and obliterate the traces of mass murder. They were all executed after the work was completed. Between May 1942 and October 1943, about 180,000 people were murdered in Sobibór: children, women, and men.
The Sobibór uprising which broke out on 14 October 1943 was, on the one hand, one of the most remarkable acts of Jewish resistance during WW2, next to the rising in the Warsaw ghetto and the revolt in the Treblinka death camp. On the other hand, it drove Heinrich Himmler's decision to launch the extermination of all Jewish prisoners of Majdanek and the labour camps in Trawniki and Poniatowa for "security-keeping" reasons. This plan was codenamed Aktion Erntefest and claimed 42,000 Jewish lives between 3 and 4 November 1943 only.
The documents discussed below come from the State Archives in Lublin. These are excerpts from daily reports drawn up by the Kommandeur der Ordnungspolizei im Distrikt Lublin (Commander of the Ordnungspolizei in Lublin District, team 518, Ortskommandantur I/524, ref. number 18-19) and a situation report submitted by the Commander of the 3rd Mounted SS-Police Unit in Chełm concerning his unit's participation in the chase after the Sobibór escapees (team 514, 3rd Mounted SS-Police Unit in Chełm [SS-Polizei Reiter Abteilung III in Cholm 1941-1944]). They contain records of action taken by the German police against the runaways from the death camp in Sobibór in October 1943. In later reports, such records do not appear any longer. It is worth noting that the first report uses the German term Aufstand, meaning "uprising", which shows the significance attached to the event.
14 October 1943, at about 17:00 hours, uprising [Ger. Aufstand] of the Jews in the Sobibór SS-camp, 40 km north of Chełm. They overpowered the guard detail and fled in an unknown direction after an exchange of gunfire with the rest of the camp personnel. Nine SS-men murdered, one SS-man missing, two foreign guards shot.
5A. 21 October, in the area of Adampol, 46 km north of Chełm, five Jews from Sobibór were shot by troops from the Wehrmacht base.
The current situation seems to confirm our assumptions that a large part of the Jews have crossed the Bug river. Another part of the Jews, who were supposed to be kept in confinement in the area of Bukowa-Sawin on 16 October 1943, is now completely dispersed all over the area. We are receiving reports from various locations which say that one, two, or three Jews turned themselves in, were captured, or shot (Sobibór, Wołczyny, Uhrusk, Sawin, Chełm, etc.).
Until now, thanks to the cooperation with the Military Police [Truppenpolizei], Wehrmacht, Border Guards [Zollgrenzschutz], etc., a total of 100 out of 300 escaped Jews have been liquidated.
In the search areas, no more than 3 to 5 Jews are still there to be captured, no more. Besides, everything else is an arduous work to do. Major search operations are no longer reasonable at the moment. Three are still underway. Therefore, I propose that the active units of the Military Police, the Wehrmacht and the SS be released, and the second squadron continued reconnaissance.
on 20 October, are 164 was combed, and on 21 October, area 171 in collaboration with 1.18 Security Police in Lublin.
On 19 and 20 October, three Jews were shot during an escape attempt.
28 October, in the village of Wereszyn..., three Jews were shot before being arrested by the Harvest Protection Unit [Ernteerfassungstrupp] from Urszulin.
29 October, in the area of Wyryki Municipality..., two escaped Jews from Sobibór were shot by the Military Police [Truppenpolizei] before arrest.
30 October, between Stawki and Rozanka..., two Jews were shot by the Military Police [Truppenpolizei] before arrest.


Fig. 3. Detection of BCR-ABL protein and its phosphorylation. Plasma samples prepared from peripheral blood plasma of a normal subject and an untreated chronic myeloid leukemia patient were incubated with anti-BCR coated beads, followed by incubation with antibody directed against ABL (upper row) or phosphorylated Tyr245 of ABL (lower row). PBS served as a negative control.
beads (1:10 with blocking buffer) with 5 ^L anti-mouse PE for 15 min at room temperature in the dark. The beads are washed and resuspended in 500 ^L flow PBS for flow analysis. An example of the result is shown in Fig. 2.
2. If normal samples exceed 5% shift more than PBS controls, newly conjugated beads are recommended. If all samples display a 100% shift more than normal, reblock and quench beads before use. If the scatter profile of beads is dispersed and excessive noise is present in the forward vs side scatter plot, there may be contamination in the blocking/dilution buffer.
1 Kantarjian, H. M., Talpaz, M., Cortes, J., et al. (2003) Quantitative polymerase chain reaction monitoring of BCR-ABL during therapy with imatinib mesylate (STI571; gleevec) in chronic-phase chronic myelogenous leukemia. Clin. Cancer Res. 9, 160-166.
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Work at EA
Anyone who keeps half an eye on what's going on in this industry surely has heard about the recent controversy concerning work practices at Electronic Arts.
If not, a brief recap: first, the anonymous spouse of an EA worker told all. This broke on Slashdot Games on November 11th. Then, Joe Straitiff, a former EA engineer told all. Then pandemonium ensued.
The New York Times, CNN Money and Salon.com have reported on the issue.
Bulleting boards are buzzing. Comment sections are overflowing. The IGDA is talking about it. There's talk of class action lawsuits (more about that here). There's talk of unions. In Australia, people are getting organized.
(In all the hubbub, you may have missed Evan Robinson's commentary and this fascinating guide to EA's company culture.)
Kotaku.com has reported that EA promises change. They got their hands on an internal memo by J. Russell (Rusty) Rueff, Jr., Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Facilities.
Salon has reported on the reactions to the memo.
I'm going to post this as is now, and write up my comments later.
Update: Get the T-shirt.

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In an article at LearnVest, you can find tips and tricks for how to save money on your AC bill this summer–whether you already have one, or are considering buying one.
Learn more about how to buy an energy efficient unit (that's the right size for your home), plug leaks, and more.
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Doors at 8:45pm, showtime at 9pm. $5 tickets.
Note: This will be our last Sunday show at UCB-East. Next one will be Friday, Feb 10 at 9pm.
I'll be doing a spot at the Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival showcase at The Creek. It'll feature comics bringing their A game and should be a really fun show.


Todays IAF strikes were followed by mass war hysteria on twitter & news channels. Most of these people are ignorant who have suspended the use of common sense. But its disconcerting that educated privileged people are cheering on at the prospect of a war. This is true jahaalat.
अगला लेखUS to Pakistan- Take 'Meaningful action' against terrorist groups.


Since his first experience with the electronic music world at the tender age of 13 when he became the DJ at his local rollerskating rink, Tony Kasper (who has performed previously as "Mindbender") has kept his finger on the techno community's pulse. Hailing from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Tony's exposure to classic blues, jazz, and rock and roll fueled his passion for music, and for the past two decades, he's been driving audiences with his technique and vision. Through his music, he seeks to reveal beauty and strength where others see decay and despair, and his desire resonates in his approach, simultaneously aggressive and dark, playful and funky.
As the Techno Buyer at Chicago's renowned WAXaddict Records from 2003 to 2007, Tony was able to push the boundaries of underground dance culture by hand-selecting a wide range of unique tracks to feed the scene. During his nine-year stay in the Windy City, Tony was an integral part of several promotional companies and performed at many events ranging from raves and warehouse parties to major clubs alongside internationally respected producers like Adam Beyer, Joel Mull, Alexi Delano, Pascal FEOS, Samuel L Session, Joris Voorn, The Advent, Bryan Zentz, Adam Marshall, Mike Dearborn, Cari Lekebusch, Traxx, Cajmere, Gene Hunt, Lester Fitzpatrick, Mark Verbos, Terry Mullan, and Frankie Bones. Tony has traveled throughout the United States performing in key cities like Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles, and turning the tables at venues during Miami's Winter Music Conference and Detroit's Movement Festival.
Tony's inimitable mixing style is highly adaptable to the ambiance of the events he plays. His history with techniques, such as using up to three turntables, and his continuing progression into digital controls and modulation combined with the rich resource of his track knowledge enables Tony to control his audience with every measure played.
Tony released several tracks and remixes on labels such as Kompute Musik and Smooth Agent Records, but it wasn't until he signed with Jay Denham's Black Nation Records in 2010 that he had the opportunity to release his first album, Know Who You Are, featuring the international dance floor DJ picks "Come in Earth" and "Selections." Since 2010, Tony has released several singles, including the popular "No Sleep Required," featured on Dave Clarke's White Noise Radio show, and remixes, including the recent "Mufflerman" on Packed Music (Madrid). His studio mix series is available for streaming on Soundcloud, and he has been a featured artist for numerous podcast shows, showcasing most recently for Element 44, SUBterror Radio, CoCo.fm, and Blank Code. Currently residing in Miami, Florida with his wife and daughter, Tony continues to push his sound through its boundaries, and in addition to his anticipated 2017 releases and another forthcoming album, he is seeking a degree in Audio Engineering.


Canada's biggest seafood aquaculture company, says many problems will have to be solved before salmon can be raised commercially on land.
Cooke Aquaculture reacted on Tuesday to claims made this week by some attending a conference at the Atlantic Salmon Federation near St. Andrews.
The New Brunswick government said aquaculture sales were worth $192 million in 2012 and the sector created about 1,150 jobs. (CBC)Neil Halse, Cooke's vice-president for communications, said the company has 20 years experience with land-based recirculating aquaculture systems.
The Department of Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries said aquaculture sales were worth $192 million in 2012 and the sector created about 1,150 jobs. Salmon represents 96.5 per cent of the province's aquaculture sales.


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Q: data extraction from web I am planning to do a data extraction from web sources (web scraping) as part of my work. I would like to extract info around my company's 10km radius.
I would like to extract information such as condominiums, its address, number of units and its price per sqft. Other things like number of schools and kindergarten in the area and hotels.
I understand I need to extract from few sources/webpages. I will also be using Python.
I would like to know which library or libraries should I be using. Is web scraping the only means? Can we extract info from Google Maps?
Also, if anyone has any experience I will really appreciate if you can guide me on this.
Thanks a lot, guys.

A: For Google Maps, try the API. Using web scraping tools for Maps data extraction is highly discouraged by Google TOS.
If you are using Python, it has very nice libraries BeautifulSoup and Scrapy for this purpose.
Other means? You can extract POIs from OSM data, try the open source tools. Property Info? May be it's available for your county / state from Govt Office, give it a try.

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Eruption in the Tonga Islands: tsunami warning in the United States, New Zealand, Australia and Chile
ALERT – US Weather Services is advising residents of the West Coast of the United States to leave beaches and harbors due to tsunami warnings.
E. Ro with AFP – 2022-01-15T16:45:39.668+01:00
After "minor floods" in Hawaii, tsunami warnings were issued Saturday morning for the west coast of the United States, according to the US weather services. These alerts come after Friday's eruption of a volcano in the Tonga archipelago.
"Leave the beaches, ports and marinas" in the areas concerned, recommends the National Weather Service (NWS), which specifies with "relief" that the American islands of Hawaii did not report any damage.
California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska could be affected
Several states could be affected by the tsunami, including California, Oregon and Washington, as well as Alaska and the Canadian province of British Columbia, said the NWS. "The main impacts expected are strong rip currents and flooding of coasts and low-lying areas", warns the weather service on Twitter.
Tsunami warnings have also been issued for Fiji and Samoa, New Zealand and Australia. The Australian authorities have notably asked the population of Sydney and its region, New South Wales, to "to get out of the water, and to move away from the edge of the water".
In Chile, the National Emergency Situations Office has warned of the possibility that a "minor tsunami" does not reach Easter Island and other Chilean archipelagos. "As a precautionary measure, in the Juan Fernández Archipelago, the San Félix Islands, Easter Island and Chilean Antarctica it is requested, due to the eruption of a volcano in the Tonga Islands, to leave the areas of beaches where a minor tsunami could occur", said Onemi.
Indonesia: 7.3 magnitude earthquake hits eastern archipelago, tsunami warning lifted
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import os

import pexpect
from behave import given, then, when

@given('I am out of any context')
def out_of_any_context(context):
    if hasattr(context, 'process'):
        context.process.kill(9)
        context.process = None

@when('I type `with {command}`')
def type_with(context, command):
    context.process = pexpect.spawn(
        "{cwd}/bin/with {command}".format(cwd=os.getcwd(), command=command)
    )

@when('I type `{subcommand}`')
def type(context, subcommand):
    context.process.sendline(subcommand)

@then('I see "{expected}" in the output')
def then_i_see_the_output_of_the_command_git_status(context, expected):
    context.process.expect(expected)
    assert expected in context.process.after.decode('utf-8')

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Q: How to define custom source set in android gradle.kts? I want to release my application in three stores. I have the rate section and update dialog in my application (which has a button to go to the store for update application). to manage these features I decide to make three flavors and three sources set to have different implementations of rate and update sections in different kotlin file.
this is my Gradle file:
android {
    flavorDimensions("appStores")
    productFlavors{
        create("p1Flavor"){
            dimension="appStores"
            sourceSets {
                create("p1SourceSet"){
                    java.srcDirs("src/main/java","src/firstStoreDir")
                }
            }
        }
        create("p2Flavor"){
            dimension="appStores"
            sourceSets {
                create("p2SourceSet"){
                    java.srcDirs("src/main/java","src/secondStoreDir")
                }
            }
        }
        create("p3Flavor"){
            dimension="appStores"

            sourceSets {
                create("p3SourceSet"){
                   java.srcDirs("src/main/java","src/thirdStoreDir")
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

I want to add a directory that contains two files (updateStore.kt and rate.kt) to src for every flavor. I mean I have three directories with three different names which every directory contains updateStore.kt and rate.kt with different implementations.
when I build my project I get this error:
The SourceSet 'p1SourceSet' is not recognized by the Android Gradle Plugin. Perhaps you misspelled something?
What should I do?

A: I realized that using source set is not appropriate for this situation and i decide to use buildConfigField.
android {
    flavorDimensions("appStores")
    productFlavors{
        create("p1Flavor"){
            dimension="appStores"
            buildConfigField("String","APP_STORE_NAME","\"p1store\"")
        }
        create("p2Flavor"){
            buildConfigField("String","APP_STORE_NAME","\"p2store\"")
            dimension="appStores"
        }
        create("p3Flavor"){
            buildConfigField("String","APP_STORE_NAME","\"p3store\"")
            dimension="appStores"
        }
    }
}

and every where that i need to understand which flavor is selected, i use these codes :
when(BuildConfig.APP_STORE_NAME){
        "p1store" -> {
            //TODO
        }
        "p2store" -> {
            //TODO
        }
        "p3store" ->{
            //TODO
        }
    }


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Lhasa Apso er en hunderace der stammer fra højsletterne i Tibet, landet der ofte betegnes som "Verdens Tag". Disse egne ligger nemlig i en højde af 3500-5000 meter over havets overflade. Klimaet er yderst ekstremt: lange isvintre og korte hede somre. Disse hårde betingelser har præget mennesker og dyr i årtusinder. Alle tibetanske hunde er derfor meget robuste og modstandskraftige og har næsten alle udviklet en tyk, fyldig pels til beskyttelse mod vejrforholdene.

Kun få fra den vestlige verden har betrådt dette fjerntliggende, svært tilgængelige og hemmelighedsfulde land, hvilket har medført, at kun få tibetanske hunde er dukket op i de vestlige lande. Først i begyndelsen af det 20. århundrede er et stigende antal hunde nået til Nordamerika og Europa og har her dannet grundlag for det opdræt vi kender i dag.

Lhasa Apso´en kan findes så tidligt som 800 f.Kr. i historiske beretninger fra Tibets Klostre og fandtes i stort tal ved hoffet i dette land. Den blev betragtet som lykkebringer og er vel nok den eneste ægte TIBETANSKE LØVEHUND. Den privilegerede stilling, som Lhasa Apso´en nød hos tibetanerne, der betragtede den med en særlig hjertelig hengivenhed, har præget dens væsen.

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Ghost Fishing » North Sea season 2018 kicked off!
North Sea season 2018 kicked off!
We kicked off our North Sea season with a spectacular dive on a submarine wreck on March 31. Our team headed out to the North Sea with a new diving charter "Araid Wreckdiving" from IJmuiden harbor for a regular dive on the HMS E36, a WWI submarine resting at 28m of depth.
The dive was mainly planned to test the procedures with the new vessel and some new personal diving equipment. Still surprised by unusual good visibility we immediately found an enormous haul of fishing nets -a combination of several types- attached to the submarine, which we obviously could not ignore. After freeing two Atlantic Cods that had just been trapped in fishing line and hooks recently lost by recreational anglers we removed the complete haul of nets. The removal process was a perfect example of smooth teamwork and precise underwater communication. Check out the video we released after the dive!
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Venice, as I explain to anyone who asks, is one of those places that makes your heart glow when you think about it. At least it is for me. Where else can you see history preserved in time so much so that Marco Polo and Shakespeare would know their way around the city today if resurrected?
It's a living museum with its inhabitants observing you as much as you observe them. I tried to tap into the locals rhythm.
Market in the morning. Aperitif in the afternoon. Dinner after 7:30 pm. A slow wander of the streets in between. But you'll always be a tourist to them. Although, thanks to GowithOh, I was able to experience a bit of what it would be like to live the Venetian lifestyle. In short, it was delicious and filled with wine. Here are some images of my "Instagramed" Venice photos from late June.
GowithOh apartment view in the Dorsoduro area not far from the Accademia bridge.
The Frari church only a 15 to 20 minute walk from our Dorsoduro apartment. It is my favourite church in all of Italy!
The much needed daily cafe although this one a little special…more on that soon!
Cicchetti and wine as we toured the streets with Walks of Italy experiencing the best and most historic wine bars in the city.
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Great photos of one of my favorite cities! Glad you had a fabulous time (and it looks like you ate well too).
Thank you Megan! We ate very well, drank plenty of wine and explore until our feet were blissfully sore.
Looks like you had a wonderful trip! Lovely photos too.
It was certainly an interesting trip traveling with my sister and her now ex-boyfriend – more on that soon!
I have been following on Facebook and have enjoyed what I see.
I loved your photos from Diner en Blanc – hope to join you next year!
You've managed to capture my favourite city so well with your photos and comments, especially when you refer to it as a living museum which it certainly felt like when we were there in 2011. Gosh, has it really been three years since we were there? 0_o Time to go back!
It was interesting returning a second time around. Still lots to see and photograph and there's always something new going on.


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Hey everyone, welcome back to my sports and fitness blog. As one of the parents of my 6 year old, I understand how difficult it can be to get your children into sports regularly. I get it. As a kid I was pretty bad as well, having to be put into over half a dozen sports before I found one that stuck, and I was already 12 by that time. That why I try to find sports that my son can have fun at and continue playing if he wants to. Sports equipment is quite costly though, meaning that I tend to buy secondhand sports equipment from http://www.for-sale.ie/ which is actually great as I never lose much if he doesn't enjoy. Here are a couple of the sport that we have played with our son and some good ways to get your kids into them while still having fun.
This one should be obvious to any of my regular readers. I enjoyed softball a lot as a kid, but unfortunately there wasn't a team for me to join.If my son ends up liking softball he will run into the same issue, but right now softball is the only batting sport he can participate in due to his age. Softball (or baseball) helps train your hand eye coordination as well as your team work. All we bought initially was a softball and a softball bat, which we found online from http://www.for-sale.ie/softball-bat at a really low price. Now we go to the park every weekend to throw the ball around, and my son's first team practice is in a couple months.
Of course I had to start my son playing with a football as early as I could. I am not even Irish but my wife is and she said it was almost as important as the baptism. Before my wife was even in the hospital I went online and found a cheap football ball for sale thanks to awesome prices at http://www.for-sale.ie/football-ball and I have not regretted it. All three of us can easily head outside, put some hats down for a goal and kick the ball around. Best of all, the kid loves it no matter how serious we are.
As an American living in Ireland, I had to include this one. I still have to watch all my games from back home, and I even participated in an amatue league here. I would love it if my son got into the game, but maybe not for a couple years. WIth American Football possibly being in the Olympics, it might gain some more traction here in Ireland and maybe I can find a league for him to join by then.
Not exactly a team sports, but bike riding is a great activity to stay active with and one that if fun for the whole family. The website for Sports Ireland says that kids should get at least 60 minutes of exercise a day, and a leisurely bike ride is a great way to get that and more. Simply get on your bikes and head out to the nearest forest path or biking trail and explore. Make sure you know the area before biking there, and to pack plenty of water!
Make sure they have fun!
The most important thing for you to remember regarding putting your child in sports is that this is for them. The most important thing for you child to remember is simply to have fun. No matter what sport they choose, having fun is always the goal. If you liked this post then please check out my last post about boxing.


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Karthi blogs Algae Pollution a Worldwide Pr... You are here
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"That green algae floating in the water, it?s dead right?" David Ochs asked. David is an officer of the National Association of Diving Instructors (NAUI) and a veteran diver. He saw the green algae floating in mid-water off Delray Beach, Florida, during a dive with his students.
The algae drifted northward in the flow of current. Some clumps were small, others were long and filamentous. The entire water column contained algae. Underwater, reefs in the Atlantic Ocean off South Florida have been plagued with algae. I've studied environmental issues off the same reefs from Palm Beach to Boca Raton over the last 25 years. It is easy enough to identify the major source of ocean pollution: people. Too many people living on swamp and sand.
Algae Proliferation
Issues that arise from over-population include development, agriculture, and waste. In Florida everything that goes upon the land ends up in the ocean. The complex systems of run-off during frequent rains in the tropics, evaporation, and direct ocean dumping create nourishment for algae. Waste containing nitrogen and phosphorus creates an environment favoring algal growth in the marine environment.
Once that concept is understood, everything else is simple. Political machinations led to off-shore oil drilling despite dire predictions of crisis caused by massive spills. Pollution by algae is an even greater peril since it is a quiet menace.
Only a handful of scuba divers even notice the problem. Reefs are dead. Entire reef structures are overgrown with thick mats of algae. Sea fans, sponges, and hard corals are all covered with heavy mats of algae. When I take my fingers and touch a sea fan branch in contaminated areas, it breaks off, brittle and dead.
What NAUI instructor David Ochs observed in the water column was green algae growing in suspension. It will settle as soon as the current stops. Frequently there is no current in the area of the reefs depending on the meandering of the Gulf Stream. The algae will settle and grow on the reef. Algae proliferate quickly in warm water nourished by sunshine filtering down from above. It is a plant. Given the advantage of increased nitrogen in sea water it thrives.
I have identified two major species of algae in what is an underwater cocktail: Lyngbya, a blue green algae, and Geramium, a red algae. The Geramium gives a red-brown color to tufts clinging to corals underwater. My findings have been confirmed by specialists at the Smithsonian Institution.
This is no revelation. Algae have contaminated and killed reefs around the world. When I studied the problem off the Island of Corsica in the Mediterranean, it was clear that a village with a year around population of 5,000 that swelled to 55,000 in summer with the influx of tourism could not handle the increased load of sewage. The result of additional effluent into the sea was algal growth. Algae contaminated corals underwater and killed them.
The same instances of algae proliferation have been seen around the world. The biology of it is simple. Feed one species nutrients and it is favored in nature. It grows out of control and subsequently kills other forms of life
Captain Craig Smart volunteered his dive boat, Starfish Enterprise, out of Boynton Beach, to take a group of volunteers attached to Reef Rescue to the site of the Delray Beach sewage outfall pipe. The conduit is a huge 4-foot diameter pipe that was built a mile out into the ocean. The Reef Rescue group dove on it with television news cameramen.
I tied a float off to the pipe so that the divers could descend with their cameras and document the event. It was a landmark. Government ordered the sewage outfall pipe, one of nine in Palm Beach County, shut down. At the same time, on land, news cameras taped a worker closing a valve. In the water the cameras recorded the diminishing flow and eventual halt to the effluent.
The sewage outfall pipe that for years spewed sewage, treated and at times untreated, into the ocean was closed but not abandoned. The catch was that the city of Delray Beach could use the pipe when it rained and more effluent backed up in their holding systems than could be contained. More than could be deep well injected to get rid of it.
Captain Smart had divers in the vicinity of the Delray Beach sewage outfall pipe a month later, and it was clear that it was back on line. Swirls of water appeared on the surface above the outfall pipe indicating it was open and being used. This after mandated closure.
Agricultural Causes
It is not only sewage that contains nitrogen. Everywhere in coastal Florida storm drains gather rain water. Everything on the land is washed into these storm drains. Those little warning signs that lawns have been sprayed and are dangerous to people and animals for 24 hours or more, mean that when it rains those chemicals go right into storm drains. Everything on roadways, golf courses, lawns flows with the rain into pipes and is immediately and without any treatment of any kind sent into the Intracoastal Waterway and thence at tide change into the ocean. Some cities are trying to stem the flow by starting settling ponds near the Intracoastal. These still do not remove nitrogen.
Florida's agriculture is likewise nurtured with fertilizers and chemical sprays. No agriculture could take place in sand without artificial means of nurturing it. Sugar cane and other crops as well as animals require feed. Feed contains nitrogen. Animal waste contains nitrogen.
Florida is the largest beef producer in the United States. Animal feed lots raise beef and other animals for slaughter. Beef, hogs and other animals are sold by weight. They are fed up with various products as well as chemical additives. They produce waste that must be disposed of. On land that waste adds to the nitrogen load that reaches massive canals that criss-cross Florida.
The canals lead to the Intracoastal Waterway and are controlled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and water management districts. When it rains and water levels rise, engineers open gates and dump water from canals. This contaminated water reaches the ocean through cuts in the Intracoastal at tide change.
Liquid from animal waste evaporates. We know from common experience that any spill evaporates. Spill liquid, be it gasoline, chemicals, or urine, and it evaporates. It doesn't disappear?it just evaporates. It enters the atmosphere. It still doesn?t disappear somewhere into the galaxies of outer space as some might be deluded into thinking. Minute particles hang around and are gathered in clouds and returned to earth in rain. Contamination goes up and it comes down exactly in the same structure. Another peril to the marine environment.
There is nothing as startling as massive oil spills coming ashore. Those produce a wail of lament, lawsuits, and demands by law makers for fixing blame and responsibility. The quiet menace of algae contamination of ocean resources goes on without notice. Reefs are killed and their ability to support life diminished more certainly but less dramatically than from oil spills.
There is no easy solution. Development should have been strictly limited. Agriculture using fertilizers, pesticides, and insecticides prohibited. Feed lots controlled. Population settled not on fragile Everglades or beach fronts but in areas that already had adequate sewage treatment as well as a nitrogen and heavy metal contaminant removal processes in place before the first house was built. Landscapes and recreational pursuits like golf courses should have been contained to prevent run off. Great and massive canals that throw away precious fresh water in drought crisis should be changed from flood control to water conservation systems.
Billions of dollars later, only an imperfect system can be predicted if it is ever implemented or effective. An oil spill is a minor annoyance by comparison. What David Ochs and his divers observed, what Captain Craig Smart sees every day, what goes on underwater is everybody?s responsibility. It is easy to dismiss since so very few observe the silent killer at work destroying what required nature millions of years to create. We are quickly destroying the very thing that makes life viable in Florida.
Without offshore reefs, hurricanes would have swept Florida?s few feet of sand into the ocean eons ago. Without reefs, no marine life would find homes and no recreational pursuits available. Without reefs, life as we know it cannot exist around the world.
Do something, anything, even if it is to restrict use of nitrogen based fertilizers on your plants. Use organic products instead of chemicals. Insure that detergents are environment safe. A little bit by many goes a long way toward solving massive issues. When gasoline tops $3 per gallon, it is wise to turn off excess electric lights when not needed. One bulb a day will make a difference. Power plants spew out contaminants despite tighter regulations on use of fossil fuels.
Old hat but sound solutions that require no government regulation. The quiet menace of algae pollution has seen government regulation to attempt to control it. Since government is often the flagrant violator of the laws, it goes unpunished. Has any attention been paid to the issue of algae contamination of the offshore reefs? Compare it to the recent oil spill that reaches the attention of people everywhere, every day. Consider this worse and in far greater proportion. It is a silent killer, requiem to the reefs.
Dr. John Christopher Fine is a marine biologist and Master Scuba Instructor and Instructor Trainer. He has authored 24 books. His research and studies have created awareness for ocean conservation worldwide
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Mon January 10 2011 02:04:29 AM by Karthi algae pollution | marine life 3779 views
Shankar wrote:
Wed October 27 2010 11:11:14 PM
Nice post Karthi !
Its time to focus on bioremediation even to manage unwanted algae, I guess.
Algae is seriously considered for managing sewage and am sure there are experts in this forum who could suggest ways and means to use the algae to manage the increased sewage during high traffic times.
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EHS Administration, Regulatory Developments
Proposed Methane Rules Will Impact Both New and Existing Sources
By Lisa Whitley Coleman, EHS Daily Advisor Jan 5, 2023 EHS Administration, Regulatory Developments
Updated: Jan 5, 2023
Both the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the EPA have recently issued proposed rules aimed at reduced methane emissions from both new and existing oil and gas production sources.
The BLM's proposed rule aimed at curbing flared, vented, or leaked methane waste on federal and tribal lands is similar to a 2016 Obama administration proposed rule. A federal court shot that down when it ruled that the purpose of the BLM's regulation was designed to protect air quality, which is the sole authority of the EPA. It determined the BLM exceeded its statutory authority.
Analysts predict that this proposed rule will face similar legal challenges.
However, the BLM received new authority under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which includes the "Royalties on All Extracted Methane" provision, providing "that, for leases issued after the date of enactment of the IRA, royalties are owed on all gas produced from federal land, including gas that is consumed or lost by venting, flaring, or negligent releases through any equipment during upstream operations," reports an article by Holland & Hart LLP.
According to the Regulatory Impact Analysis, the proposed rule would have the following economic impacts:
$122 million per year in costs to industry
Benefits to industry of $55 million per year in recovered gas
Additional royalties of $39 million per year for federal or tribal governments
Benefits to society from reduced methane emissions of around $427 million per year
Comments on the proposed rule can be made under Docket ID# BLM-2022-0003-0001 until January 30, 2023.
The supplemental proposed rule, published December 6, 2022, will impose significant costs on the oil and natural gas industry.
The original proposed rule to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) and volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions, published by the EPA on November 15, 2021, received substantial comments requesting the Agency to further strengthen the proposed standards.
As summarized in a second Holland & Hart article, the proposed rule, applicable to both new and existing sources, includes the following:
"Fugitive Emissions: Ties fugitive emissions monitoring requirements to the types and amount of equipment at a site rather than to estimated emissions and increases frequency of monitoring for all sources.
Alternative Monitoring: Allows facilities (and regulators) a wider selection of methane detection technologies for fugitive emissions monitoring in lieu of OGI surveys or EPA Method 21.
Well Closure: Imposes ongoing fugitive monitoring requirements until wells are plugged according to [a] well closure plan submitted to [the] permitting authority.
Flaring: Restricts flaring to times when there is no other feasible route to a sales line or other beneficial use.
Super-Emitter Response Program: Creates a new program requiring owners and operators to undertake a root cause analysis and take prompt corrective actions when an approved third party detects large methane emissions events.
Pneumatic Controllers, Pneumatic Pumps, and Centrifugal Compressors: Requires the use of zero-emissions pneumatic controllers and pumps at both new and existing facilities. Pneumatic pumps at an affected facility could not be driven by natural gas."
Comments on the proposed rule can be made until February 13, 2023.
Tags: BLM, EPA, methane, methane emissions reduction


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Jay Meehan: Lost in the gulag again
Jay Meehan
"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break." ~ Shakespeare
"You can always tell a pig by its grunt." ~ Nikolai Gogol
As a defense mechanism against the current President's attempts to re-create the Constitution in his own image, my recent reading habits have led me mostly to Shakespeare and the Russians. Which, in turn, has caused me to spend an inordinate amount of time figuring out how to make a buck off it.
Hence, I've come to the realization that my best bet is to put my money on the "Russkies" and let it ride. I'll convert all my doubloons into rubles, take the points and Putin, and bet the Dacha. If only there existed a fantasy league for selling our country to the highest bidder, we could double-down and make a killing here.
Me and my kind are not totally blameless here. We must shoulder at least a modicum of responsibility for the emergence of Trump.
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With so-called Christians at the helm of both careening nation-states, it's all "faith-based." Corporate America will not despoil once-sacred and protected national monument lands for profit. Neither will they turn the soon-to-be-much-less-fairly-accessed routings of the Internet into their own toll road to an ever-expanding bottom line. Trust them! Have faith!
Roy Moore may have lost in Alabama but Jim Crow maintains his proxy. The Trumpians will get to the bottom of why so many non-whites were allowed to evade the carefully positioned German Shepherds and fire hoses on their way to the polling booths and then, that will be that. Trust me. Have faith.
The wagers, in the main, will more than likely involve stringing together a moderate slew of sure things with long odds. Like whether or not congressional Republicans will shut down any and all in-house investigations that appear to be closing in on the (gasp!) truth. Holding such votes in the middle of the night while their colleagues from the other side of the aisle are out of town, or sorts, seems to have a high probability.
The longest shot out there, of course, would be a bet that Special Counsel Robert Mueller will survive the onslaught of fake news directed at him by the Nazis at Fox and the West Wing. Vlad and the Donald won't stand for it. They have too much to lose as it were. As Dostoyevsky once warned: "The formula 'two and two make five' is not without its attractions."
My plans are pretty much downrange and all-inclusive. I'll assemble my windfall from this Trump-Putin sports-book parlay and hide it under the new GOP tax bill umbrella. I mean, that's a given. Why in the world would I want to pay tax rates that have been assigned to the middle class, or the "great unwashed" as the GOP likes to refer to them.
Actually, I find little reason to lose faith in the evangelicals within the Trump advisory groups. I won't be slapping down any loot on whether or not they will be adopting real Christian values anytime soon, that's for sure. They'll be too busy shoring up the levees protecting corporate America from the waters rising against their continued assault on diversity.
And with Trump stacking his judiciary appointments with those flaunting a mental acuity somewhat equal to his own, having faith that the courts of the present and, especially, the future will atone for his excesses is fading by the day. I never once said these fools were dumb.
Then there is the philosophical cleansing going on within the Environmental Protection Agency and other cabinet-level departments to rid them of science-based personnel and monitoring procedures. Hopefully the diligence applied to the email-scanning of those who may have once voiced ecological understanding of the problems involved will be echoed by the office of the Special Counsel.
I no longer ask how we got ourselves in such a predicament. Looking to Shakespeare again, I find, if not solace, at least an internal roadmap: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves." Me and my kind are not totally blameless here. We must shoulder at least a modicum of responsibility for the emergence of Trump. Not that we should consider standing for it, of course.
Maybe I'm just finally getting to understand horror from the eyes of Lady Macbeth: "Out, damned spot!"
Jay Meehan is a culture junkie and has been an observer, participant, and chronicler of the Park City and Wasatch County social and political scenes for more than 40 years.
Tom Clyde: Go outside
The skiing conditions are bad, the coronavirus is still raging and the news is frightening. So Tom Clyde went outside. He didn't regret it.
Teri Orr: The revolution is a live feed
Amy Roberts: In all fairness
Tom Kelly: Sagebrush and snow
Tom Clyde: Banana republic time


We want to also look for "dlumd10.dll" and "dlumd11.dll", not just "dlumd32.dll".
Bug 1160295 ended up fixing the regression in the original checking of dlumd32.dll, and to simplify things, we'll open this one to go for the original purpose of that bug.
The try failures with test_CrossSiteXHR_origin.html don't seem to be related.
[Tracking Requested - why for this release]: KaiRo mentioned that this could be a ride along for FF40.
Once this lands, I'll ask for an uplift.
Bug 1160295 (uplifted through release) landed on August 12/13th; this bug landed on central on August 23rd.  We know there are crashes that survived the fixing of bug 1160295 (e.g., https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/64931a12-486a-491d-9eca-62c6a2150817).  The number is smaller, but it is a startup crash, so we need to decide if it's important enough to uplift, and how far?
Attachment #8649593 - Flags: approval-mozilla-beta?
Attachment #8649593 - Flags: approval-mozilla-aurora?
Milan, we will be doing a dot release this week. As it is a startup crash, we could take it, agree?
Fix a startup crash, taking it.
> we could take it, agree?
"Fix a startup crash when using DisplayLink (Windows Only) (1195844)"
Could be the force-enable prefs.
We might want to make a note in the crash report whenever force prefs are used.
Did the crash volume go down at all?  There are different versions of the DLLs we're investigating, but all of them are below 8.6.1.36484, so this should have caught them - it did not.
If the volume went down, it's probably the forcing of the acceleration as David mentioned.  If the volume didn't go down, then there is a bug somewhere.
it may be a bit too early to tell for sure, but the relative volume looks like it is in the same range in 40.0.2 and 40.0.3 at around 0.2% of all browser crashes.
in absolute numbers, within 5 days of the 40.0.2 release there have been 308 crashes & in the same timespan after 40.0.3 it have been 278 crashes. that doesn't look like a significant change.
No, that looks like this patch isn't doing much if anything.
> No, that looks like this patch isn't doing much if anything.
Actually, it may have made things worse - https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/33d48c2e-8ad8-45ee-b962-8215b2150902 now crashes with dlumd32.dll which was covered before.
> > No, that looks like this patch isn't doing much if anything.
> 8215b2150902 now crashes with dlumd32.dll which was covered before.
I'm not so sure about the "worse" part. There were dlumd32 crashes on 40.0.2 before this patch, presumably for whatever reason is also causing the continuing dlumd11 crashes.
You're right, this particular bug didn't make things worse.  It was actually bug 1160295 that rendered these checks ineffective.
This patch seems to be fine the way it is.  It is not effective until the correct solution to bug 1160295 though, so I'll leave this one opened until then.  The rest of the details in bug 1160295.
Milan, this looks fixed now in bug 1160295. Do you think this is resolved ? It seems kind of unclear whether it's fixed on all branches or just for 43 though.
Yes, this should be fixed by bug 1160295, and I just asked for the uplifts there.


Today I'm going to talk about a bit of an unpleasant topic: What to do when your coworkers hate you.
There can be pretty much be only two reasons for this. The first is that you are a jerk and the second is that they are jerks. Fortunately something can be done in both situations.
In a situation where several or all of your coworkers seem to hate you, it's unfortunately highly likely you are the jerk and deserve the hate. There are situations where this might not apply, especially if it's a new job, so don't get insulted just yet. I'll talk more about that in a minute.
No matter who's at fault and what the reason is, it's important to do your best to resolve the situation.
Hate is a very string negative feeling that we feel in all our body. It's saps the energy and joy from both participants, the hater and the hated.
Even though hate is such a negative feeling, some people seem to get addicted to it. It's a form of power you can use on other people. It gives you a sense of control.
When there's something wrong in your own life or you have low self-esteem, hate can give an overwhelming sense of power. The unfortunate thing is that being hateful towards others is only going to leave people worse off, it's never a solution to anything.
I'd like to point out that healthy aggression and defending yourself and your honor are not the same as hate. Feeling aggressive towards someone who is threatening you or your loved ones is only human and usually a healthy thing if you can keep your cool and asses the situation correctly.
But when you start hoping that bad things would happen to someone and feel bitter and envious of their success you are feeling actual hate. Add name-calling and trash talking behind back and you have the stereotypical hateful office place jerk.
The bad thing about hate and hateful people is that it can really kill other peoples work motivation and the general vibe of a work place. It's contagious in a way.
So many times in a situation where you feel like your coworkers hate you, they are actually feeling like you hate them as well. And if you are honest with your self, you will probably recognize this is true.
This is because being the target of hate will pretty much raise your defenses and make you hate the hater. Most workplace drama is caused by situations like this.
It doesn't matter which one started it, but everything said and done by the other counterpart will be interpreted with a negative vibe indefinitely or until something is done to resolve the situation.
So it might be you, it might be them, but it's likely both.
Oh I almost forgot, there's a third option. It's all in your head!
If you feel like anywhere you go in your life you end up being picked on, bullied and trash talked I'm sorry to break it to you, it might be time to take a hard honest look in the mirror.
The unfortunate thing is that the people who go to this category will probably click on the back button of their browser right about now. Or they will skip to the next chapter since they know for absolutely certainty it can't be them. They're perfect after all.
On the other hand if you are going in your head right now thinking about everything you might have said or done to upset your coworkers you are likely not the one at fault.
You see the people who act like jerks are usually blind to their own shortcomings. That's essentially what makes them jerks.
They usually lack the ability reflect on their behavior in different situations. For example, they might not realize someone felt they were being rude and got insulted. Then when the counterpart reacts by retaliation, the jerk (blind to his/hers own rude behavior) will feel bullied and the victim.
It's essentially a deep lack of empathy that results in antisocial behavior. It usually goes hand in hand with feeling superior to others and always blaming others or the world for your problems.
So you are ready to do some intense self reflection and think about if maybe you have some fault in the fact all your colleagues seem to hate you?
I have a few questions for you. If you answer yes to most of them you should probably work on your social skills.
Do you point out other peoples mistakes when there's no real need to?
Do you criticize other peoples appearance, behavior and actions?
Do you pass blame instead of owning up to your own mistakes?
Do you make negative assumptions about peoples motives and actions?
Do you enjoy it when someone else fails?
Do you feel envious when someone else succeeds?
Do you assume other people know how you feel without telling them?
Do you like having power over other people?
Do you think you are better than others?
Do you take others into consideration when making decisions?
These are clearly just the tip of the iceberg, but if you recognize yourself in most of those questions, it highly likely you are the reason your coworkers hate you.
Then again if any of those questions didn't ring any bells, you are either a saint or fooling yourself. They are all very human things to do after all.
How to determine if it's all in your head?
Depression and anxiety can make people think weird stuff. I know this from firsthand experience. When you are depressed the whole world can seem to be against you. If you also suffer from social anxiety it can be very easy to misunderstand a social situation.
You might for example feel someone was being rude or hateful towards you when they didn't say hi or make eye contact in the cafeteria. When in reality they just might be going through stuff in their head or maybe they have social anxiety as well.
Depression and anxiety puts a negative spin to everything and they make our world and life very self-centered. A depressed person cannot see that other people are not probably trying to bully them, they might even trying to be friendly or just ignoring them. The other person might not even register a situation the depressed person felt was threatening.
I know this might feel harsh if you are depressed, but it's true. I've suffered my fair share of depression and have recognized this behavior in myself.
So if you suspect you might have depression or some form of anxiety disorder, I wouldn't make too hasty assumptions about colleagues hating you. It might literally be in your head. The only way to find out is to get your head together first.
Depression and anxiety are no jokes and they can really lower the quality of your life, so please act immediately if you think you might be suffering from them. Below are a few links to helpful resources that can help you determine if you might have depression or anxiety and where to get help.
Please talk to your doctor or health care provider before making any diagnoses or assumptions, this is serious stuff.
So you have come to the conclusion your own behavior might be the reason your coworkers do not like you? And you kept reading this far? Congratulations! There is hope for you yet.
If you honestly think it's not you, skip to the next chapter.
Like I stated before, real jerks never own up to their mistakes or see their own faults. If you are able to recognize bad behavior on your part the good news is you can fix it!
The bad news is it's probably going to take some time and quite frankly it probably won't be very enjoyable. But it's worth it in the end because you will grow as a person and… well, you know… you stop being a jerk!
The first step to growing as a person is recognizing the problem. You have now recognized the main problem: your behavior towards other people needs work.
Next it's time to zero in on the details. What it is exactly you do to trigger other peoples defenses?
The whole subject of self-improvement and personal growth is too wast to go into detail here but there is one book I would recommend to someone in your situation.
It's the Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson. Don't let the name fool you, the book is not about not caring about other people. It's quite the opposite. It can really help you recognize what's important in life and what are your core values.
If you are constantly rude and selfish or otherwise difficult in other peoples eyes, your root values are probably rotten and selfish. It's time to change them. So read the book and thank me later.
And no, the book is not going to fix you. You are going to have to do that. It just points you to the right direction.
So you gave it a good honest think through and you honestly think you are decent person that shouldn't be the cause of all this hate? And you are pretty sure you are not depressed? Great!
That leaves as with the third option that it's actually the coworkers. There are many reasons this might be the case and in most of them you have nothing to do with it. You are just the collateral damage.
The main variable here is if you are new or have been with the company a longer time. If you are the new guy/gal, any frustrations within the work community are easy to take out on you. It's not fair, but it happens.
If you've been with the company for some time already then the essential question is did things change recently? Were your coworkers hostile towards you before or did something happen that made you the target. Maybe someone got laid off and some of your coworkers think it should have been you? You can try to find out the reason and get to the root of the cause.
Hostile things like racism are unfortunately still rampant in modern society so it's also possible you are the target of a hate crime in action.
You have to accept that their behavior might never change and you have to make the decision if the job is worth being hated. In my opinion nothing is worth suffering daily hateful behavior.
If you decide it's not worth it, it's time to make an exit plan. No matter how bad the situation is, it's never wise to leave with the doors banging. I know, they probably deserve it, but you have to realize you are the only one who will suffer if you piss off a former employer.
New employers will ask around and if you've been professional about your resignation the former employer would have to be pretty horrible and unprofessional to give a bad word about you. It does happen though, people can be real assholes.
Then again, if you tell your old coworkers and bosses to shove it and trash talk about the company, you can be sure they will give a bad word to your potential new employer. Even if they deserved it.
I hope this helped you solve why your coworkers might hate you. I hope you all the best in your situation. It's not a good one, no matter who's at fault.
Please check the resources I pointed out if you read this far. I really think they can help you.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to drop a comment below. I promise to answer as fast as possible!