In the afternoon of September 5, 2017, the attack between Cao Jun, the general manager from Xi'an Xidian Jietong Wireless Network Communications Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Xidian Jietong") and an attorney from Fangda Partners in the scene of the 8th China Patent Annual Conference aroused wide concerns among insiders, and the public attention was once again directed back to the patent battle between Xidian Jietong and Apple Inc., involving the standard-essential patent, which is a threshold issue in the IP field.
In April 2016, Xidian Jietong filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc. regarding the infringement of the patent "Method for safe access of a mobile device in a WLAN and secure data communication" (patent no.: 02139508.X, date of filing: November 6, 2002; hereinafter referred to as "patent involved") before Shaanxi Provincial High People's Court. Apple Inc. raised an objection to the jurisdiction. After the objection was overruled by the Shaanxi Provincial High People's Court, Apple Inc. appealed to the Supreme People's Court. The Supreme People's Court issued the final verdict, (2016) Zui Gao Fa Min Xia Zi No. 159 verdict, rejecting the appeal and upholding the original ruling.
In May 2016, Apple Inc. filed a request for invalidation regarding the patent involved before the Patent Reexamination Board of SIPO. In February 2017, the Patent Reexamination Board issued the No. 31501 Decision to maintain the patent. Apple Inc. was dissatisfied with the decision, and thus filed an administrative litigation against the invalidation decision before the Beijing Intellectual Property Court.
In October 2016, Apple Inc., on grounds of the breach of the FRAND duty by Xidian Jietong, filed a lawsuit regarding the disputes over the invention patent license contract before the Beijing Intellectual Property Court.
The patent involved in the above series of disputes is entitled "Method for safe access of a mobile device in a WLAN and secure data communication" with the patent No. 02139508.X, which was filed on November 6, 2002 and granted on March 2, 2005. The patentee is Xi'an Xidian Jietong Wireless Network Communications Co., Ltd. During the prosecution of the patent involved, Xidian Jietong as one of the members in the standard drafting team, participated in drafting the relevant mandatory national standard (WAPI [Wireless LAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure], which is a security protocol and is also a mandatory standard for WLAN security in China), and the patent involved becomes a standard-essential patent of the national mandatory standard of China GB15629.11-2003/XG1-2006.
The patent involved is the same as the patent involved in the Xidian Jietong vs Sony Mobile Communications (China) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "SONY China") case regarding the WAPI standard-essential patent infringement as concluded by the Beijing Intellectual Property Court in March 2016. The Beijing Intellectual Property Court in the (2015) Jing Zhi Min Chu Zi No. 1194 Judgment identifies that SONY China infringed Xidian Jietong's standard-essential patent right, and thus SONY China should immediately cease the infringing acts. In consideration of the following factors,i.e.,. the patent involved is a basic invention in the WLAN security field, has won relevant scientific awards, and is incorporated into the national standards of China, and the defendant has failed during negotiation, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court supported the plaintiff's claims, i.e., "to determine the amount of compensation, which is three times the license fee," to determine the financial damages in the amount of more than CNY8.62 Million, and fully supportedthe plaintiff regarding the reasonable expenses for patent protection in the case in the amount of more than CNY0.47 Million. The above two items of expenses total more than CNY9.1 Million. In July 2015, SONY China filed a request for invalidation regarding the patent involved before the Patent Reexamination Board.
The Patent Reexamination Board issued the No. 28356 InvalidationDecision and maintained the patent in February 2016.
TheBeijing Intellectual Property Court has conducted a valuable review of the issues such as "exhaustion of rights of a process patent," "nature of the FRAND license statement," "establishment of indirect infringing acts," and "applicable conditions of injunction" in the first-instance judgment regarding Xidian Jietong vs SONY China case.
As to the issue regarding exhaustion of rights of a process patent, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court holds that exhaustion of rights of a process patent in the current legal framework in China is merely applicable to the circumstance where a product is directly obtained according to the patented process, namely, a manufacturing process patent, and a pure process patent will not lead to exhaustion of rights. This opinion has triggered wide debates among practioners in the industry. Some insiders believe that the pertinent legal provisions shall not be mechanically applied to the doctrine of exhaustion of rights, and the rights of a pure process patent will be exhausted after the detection device is sold.
As for the nature of the FRAND license statement, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court holds that the FRAND license statement is merely the promise made by the patentee, and thus is a unilateral civil legal act. The promise does not mean that the license has been granted; that is to say, it cannot be identified merely from the FRAND license statement that both parties have concluded a contract for a patent license. The FRAND license statement does not mean that the patentee has granted a license, which is a position widely agreed in the IP field.
However, the legal nature of the FRAND license statement is still a highly debated issue among practitioners in the industry. Some insiders believe that the FRAND license statement does not involve specific information such as the license conditions and rates, thus the nature of the FRAND license statement is merely equivalent to an invitation to offer a license. The processes such as offer and promise of a contract will not commence until the person implementing the standard-essential patent makes a license request.
As to the issue regarding establishment of indirect infringing acts, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court holds that generally speaking, direct infringing acts shall serve as the prerequisite for indirect infringing acts. However, this does not mean that the patentee shall prove that another subject actually implements direct infringing acts, and it will be enough to merely prove that if the user of the prosecuted product used the product in a predetermined manner, such use will comprehensively cover the technical features of the patent right. Whether the user shall bear the liability for infringement has nothing to do with the establishment of indirect infringing acts. Regarding the above opinion, some practitioners believe that it is a disguised "principle of superfluity establisment" which goes against the cornerstone of the patent infringement judgment – "All-elements Rule," and thus it is unpredictable for subjects in the market to pre-judge whether their acts constitute infringement and to reasonably avoid such risk.
As to the issue regarding an injunction, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court holds that when both parties have not reached a settlement through negotiation, as to whether the implementation of the patent involved by defendant can exclusively eliminate the plaintiff's right to seek an injunction, both parties' failures during the patent license negotiation shall still be considered. Considering that the technical solutions to the standard-essential patents cannot be replaced, all countries hold a prudent attitude towards the applicability of an injunction for standard-essential patents. The applicability of an injunction for standard-essential patents is correspondingly provided in the Judicial Explanation II on Some Issues Concerning the Application of Laws to the Trial of Patent Infringement Disputes issued by the Supreme People's Court and Guidelines for Determining Patent Infringement (2017) issued by the Beijing High People's Court. In the Xidian Jietong vs SONY China case, Beijing Intellectual Property Court finds that both parties cannot enter the formal patent licensing negotiation process due to the actions of the defendant. Based on this fact, the plaintiff's claim of injunction is supported.
The standard-essential patent infringement case between Xidian Jietong and SONY China is still under second-instance review. The legal issues involved in this case still need to be finally affirmed by the second-instance court. The series patent wars between Xidian Jietong and SONY China, as well as Apple Inc., will inevitably have a long-term influence on the legal practice among Chinese courts regarding standard-essential patents and related legal issues.


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Jeff was born and raised in Syracuse, New York, in an environment which in-advertently lent itself to show business. As an only child, he got way too much attention from his parents, and subsequently, faced a real dilemma with the transition of leaving home and being in school. But Jeff figured out very quickly how to get back the attention by making his classmates and teachers laugh, In fact, most of his elementary school time was spent in a special "Jeff Altman" chair in the principal's office. Jeff's first exposure to performing came early in life - his dad was one of the finest slight-of-hand artists in the country. It wasn't long before his son began to fiddle with cards and coins as well.
Today, Jeff considers slight-of-hand a coveted avocation and he achieved notoriety for publishing many tricks. Jeff's father also gets credit for teaching his son to play the drums, something Jeff still loves and does. Deluded by academic aspirations, Jeff spent four years in Baltimore where he managed to graduate from Johns Hopkins University. While there, he not only earned a diploma, but also a reputation as a disturbed young man. It wasn't uncommon to see Jeff being escorted out of the Hutzler Reading Room dresses as bush. Twice during his college days he visited Los Angeles, spending most of his time at the renowned Magic Castle, an exclusive magicians' club in Hollywood. Intoxicated by the West Coast, Jeff began to realize that his days as a "scholar" were numbered and soon after graduation he packed up his car and made his way to California.
After a six-month tenure at the Magic Castle, Jeff began working at the world-famous Comedy Store; and, it was here, in its heyday, where he developed a stand-up act and started to think of himself as a comedian. It wasn't long before Jeff was tapped for several appearances on The Merv Griffin Show and started performing in clubs across the country. "Suddenly, I was rich," recalls Jeff. "I was amazed that I was able to generate an income over $3000 in one year by being a comedian." That wasn't bad; his apartment was only $100/month, and sometimes if he vacuumed the halls, they cut his rent in half.
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Altman is one of the most highly pursued comedians by advertising companies and has appeared in over 30 national campaigns ranging from Budweiser to Panasonic. He currently is the television and radio spokesperson for Southern California Mitsubishi's 1997 campaign. Jeff supports various charitable organizations, including CARE, coordinating one of their successful annual fund-raiser, Comics for CARE, at the Comedy Store, as well as the Los Angeles mission and American Red Cross. The rest of Altman's free time is spent with his seven-year old daughter, Faith, who makes him laugh harder than any of his comic pals.
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Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, commonly referred to as the L-1011 (pronounced "El-ten-eleven") or TriStar, is an American medium-to-long-range, wide-body trijet airliner built by the Lockheed Corporation. It was the third wide-body airliner to enter commercial operations, after the Boeing 747 and the McDonnell Douglas DC-10. The airliner has a seating capacity of up to 400 passengers and a range of over 4,000 nautical miles (7,410 km). Its trijet configuration has three Rolls-Royce RB211 engines with one engine under each wing, along with a third engine center-mounted with an S-duct air inlet embedded in the tail and the upper fuselage. The aircraft has an autoland capability, an automated descent control system, and available lower deck galley and lounge facilities.
The L-1011 TriStar was produced in two fuselage lengths. The original L-1011-1 first flew in November 1970 and entered service with Eastern Air Lines in 1972. The shortened, longer range L-1011-500 first flew in 1978 and entered service with British Airways a year later. The original-length TriStar was also produced as the high gross weight L-1011-100, up-rated engine L-1011-200, and further upgraded L-1011-250. Post-production conversions for the L-1011-1 with increased takeoff weights included the L-1011-50 and L-1011-150.
The L-1011 TriStar's sales were hampered by two years of delays due to developmental and financial problems at Rolls-Royce, the sole manufacturer of the aircraft's engines. Between 1968 and 1984, Lockheed manufactured a total of 250 TriStars, assembled at the Lockheed plant located at the Palmdale Regional Airport in southern California north of Los Angeles. After L-1011 production ended, Lockheed withdrew from the commercial aircraft business due to its below-target sales.
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LAM KID
[Extraskeletal effects of parathyroid hormone]
KISS Zoltán, MUCSI István, TÚRI Sándor, SZABÓ András, KISS István, SZEBENI Andrea, KECSKEMÉTI Valéria, TÓTH Miklós, LAKATOS Péter
LAM KID - 2011;1(03)
HUNGARIAN 2011;1(03)
[The parathyroid gland and its product, parathyroid hormone (PTH) have been subjects of interests in biomedical research for 150 years. Early studies, understandably, concentrated on the primary function: the regulation of serum calcium level. In the past few decades, however, more and more data have shown that, in contrast with the classical view, PTH receptors are expressed not only on bone and kidney cells, but in almost all organs of the human body. Therefore, the effect of PTH obviously cannot be limited to the regulation of bone and mineral metabolism. Systemic symptoms of hyperparathyroidism also became more understandable and explicable by the results of studies on the extraskeletal effects of PTH. Despite the intensive research, the mechanisms of PTH-mediated effects are not well understood in a number of areas. Therefore, it is of great importance to perform further studies in this field, which will hopefully expand our knowledge soon. In our current work, we aim to summarise the nonclassical, extraskeletal effects of PTH (that is, those not related to the regulation of bone metabolism and kidney function) and the results of related studies.]
PTHparathyroid hormoneCa2+PTH receptor
[Osteonecrosis of the jaws: real and unreal scares]
VASZILKÓ Mihály
[Osteonecrosis caused by bisphosphonates has been known for a long time, but it is still not widely known. Some people overestimate the danger caused by this disease, whereas others underrate it. In this paper, we summerise data from the international literature and our experiences concerning 93 patients treated at our clinic. We discuss the already known details of the pathomechanism of this disease, its risk factors, the diagnostic methods, the specific stages of the disease and the treatment approaches. Considering the difficulties of treatment, we can't emphasise enough the importance of prevention, since the development of this complication can be minimised even in patients at risk with dental sanation before the bisphosphonate therapy and/or with further intervention performed with antibiotic preventive therapy. We must also point out the importance of early diagnosis and of directing these patients to the appropriate specialist units.]
HUN 2011;1(03)
[The pathogenic and clinical significance of the RANK-RANKL-osteoprotegerin system in rheumatoid arthritis]
SZENTPÉTERY Ágnes, VÁNCSA Andrea, SZABÓ Zoltán, SZEKANECZ Zoltán
[Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterised by increased local and generalised bone resorption, which manifests in the develoment of marginal erosions and generalised osteoporosis, respectively. An increasing number of data suggest that lymphocytes, proinflammatory cytokines and other mediators involved in inflammation contribute to arthritic bone resorption. Therefore, the term 'osteoimmunology' has also become widely used. In RA, Receptor Activator of Nuclear Factor kappa B (RANK) and its ligand (RANKL) play a crucial role in bone resorption. These proteins, which belong to the tumor necrosis factor a (TNF-a) receptor and TNF ligand superfamilies, respectively, activate osteoclasts while interacting with T cells, synovial fibroblasts and other cytokines (e.g. IL-1, IL-17), which results in bone resorption. Osteoprotegerin (OPG) is a decoy receptor that also belongs to the TNF receptor family and inhibits RANK-RANKL interactions. There is increased RANKL production and decreased OPG production in RA. The interaction of RANKL with IL-17 is particularly important. Regarding therapy, sulfasalazine, methotrexate and biological agents, especially TNF inhibitors suppress RANKL-mediated bone resorption and thus the development of joint erosions. RANKL-RANK interaction can be directly inhibited by recombinant OPG or anti-RANKL antibody (denosumab). Among these agents, denosumab gave promising results in experiments performed in animal models of arthritis. These were followed by a phase II human RA trial, which proved that denosumab decreased MRI erosion scores in RA.]
[The results of the Ca-Intake.hu study - Calcium supplementation as a part of basic therapy of osteoporosis is more than a routine step]
LAKATOS Péter, SPEER Gábor, DOMBAI Péter, ZAJZON Gergely
[Calcium intake is considered the base therapy of osteoporosis treatment. It is known that in case of inadequate calcium intake, specific anti-osteoporotic drugs are inefficient. In the present study, we aimed to investigate the alimentary and supplementary calcium intake among Hungarian osteoporotic patients, using a nationwide representative survey. Patients with osteoporosis were enrolled in the study. We determined the total alimentary calcium intake and the average supplementary dose. In some cases, total calcium intake was lower than recommended, in other cases it was significantly higher than that. In some cases, bone density showed a positive correlation with calcium intake. Vitamin D supplementation complied with current recommendations.]
[Personal genome - brave new world?]
ÁRVAI Kristóf, KÓSA János Pál
[Treatment of postmenopausal osteoporotic women with strontium ranelate: results at 10 years]
SZEKERES László
Ca&Bone
[The role of alfacalcidol in the prevention of osteopenia following renal transplantation]
BERCZI Csaba, ASZTALOS László, KINCSES Zsolt, BALOGH Ádám, LŐCSEY Lajos, BALÁZS György, LUKÁCS Géza
[AIM - The aim of this prospective study was the long-term evaluation of the effect of calcium and alfacalcidol treatment on calcium metabolism in patients with renal transplantation. METHODS - Patients were divided in two groups. Patients in Group 1 (n=159) received calcium substitution, while patients in Group 2 (n=81) were treated with alfacalcidol. Serum Ca, P, Mg, alkaline phosphatase (AP) and PTH levels were determined before and after transplantation regularly for three years. Femur neck and lumbar vertebral bone mineral densities (BMD) were measured at the same time after transplantation. RESULTS - After transplantation the mean serum calcium level significantly increased, while the mean serum phosphate level significantly decreased in both groups. After the operation the PTH levels decreased in both groups and it was found to be more pronounced in the alfacalcidol group.The majority of patients had osteopenia in the follow-up period. Between the third month and the third year after transplantation, BMD increased by 9.4% in Group1, and decreased by 4% in Group 2 at the lumbar spine. At 3 years the mean BMD value at the femoral neck was increased by 6.5% in Group 1, and by 6.7% in Group 2, compared to the 3-month values.The change in BMD was only significant at the lumbar spine, in Group 1 (p=0.019). During the follow-up period osteonecrosis was diagnosed in 6 patients in Group 1 and in 9 cases in Group 2. CONCLUSION - Alfacalcidol treatment decreased secondary hyperparathyroidism more rapidly and effectively, which was also indicated by the more pronounced decrease of serum PTH levels. During the 3 years follow-up period, BMD increased in both groups except for the lumbar spine in Group 2, however, the majority of the patients still had osteopenia.The study could not demonstrate a superiority of alfacalcidol over calcium supplementation in the prevention of posttransplantational osteopenia.]
[Evaluation of bone mineralization in cow's milk sensitive children]
HIDVÉGI Edit, ARATÓ András, CSERHÁTI Endre, SZABÓ Antal, SZABÓ András, HORVÁTH CSABA
[BACKGROUND - Patients with cow's milk allergy (CMA) form a potential risk group for osteopenia, because their milk-free diet usually has a low calcium content.The study analyses various parameters of bone mineralization in CMA children. PATIENTS AND METHODS - Twenty-seven CMA patients (mean age: 4.3 years, range: 3-8 years) were enrolled in the study.Transient sensitivity to cow's milk was observed in 20 of 27 patients. During the milk-free diet period (mean duration 11.8 months) children were fed by extensively hydrolysed or soy-based formulas. Seven patients still required a cow's milk free diet at the time of the study. Serum levels of Na, K, Cl, Ca, P and Mg ions, as well as of alkaline phosphatase (AP), parathyroid hormone (PTH), osteocalcin and beta-crosslaps were determined for all 27 patients.The values were compared to those of 20 healthy age-matched controls. Bone mineral densities (BMDs) of CMA patients were also measured. RESULTS - The AP and PTH levels were higher in CMA patients than in the control group (AP: 610.2 U/l vs 499.7 U/l, p<0.01; PTH: 1.56 pmol/l vs 0.83 pmol/l, p<0.03), but all values fell in the normal range.The osteocalcin level was similar in the two groups, and the beta-crosslaps was lower in CMA patients than in the controls (0.92 vs 1.47 ng/ml, p<0.001).There was a positive correlation between both AP and osteocalcin and AP and beta-crosslaps levels.The mean Z score of bone mineral density in patients with CMA was -0.6. In 10 cases the Z score was below -1, which was associated with a significantly elevated PTH level compared to the group of patients with a Z score above - 1 (2.24 pmol/l vs 1.16 pmol/l, p<0.03). CONCLUSION - In children with CMA on a cow's milk free diet, slight disturbances of bone mineralization were observed, therefore, osteodensitometric check-up of these children is recommended.]
HUN 2002;5(01-02)
Autonomic nervous system may be affected after carpal tunnel syndrome surgery: A possible mechanism for persistence of symptoms after surgery
ONDER Burcu, KELES Yavuz Betul
After carpal tunnel surgery, some patients report complaints such as edema, pain, and numbness. Purpose – The aim of this study was to evaluate autonomic nervous system function in patients with a history of carpal tunnel surgery using sympathetic skin response (SSR). Thirty three patients (55 ±10 years old) with a history of unilateral operation for carpal tunnel syndrome were included in the study. The SSR test was performed for both hands. Both upper extremities median and ulnar nerve conduction results were recorded. A reduced amplitude (p=0.006) and delayed latency (p<0.0001) were detected in the SSR test on the operated side compared to contralateral side. There was no correlation between SSR and carpal tunnel syndrome severity. Although complex regional pain syndrome does not develop in patients after carpal tunnel surgery, some of the complaints may be caused by effects on the autonomic nervous system.


Sometimes its hard to replace some of our old stuffs — like our first PC.
Most of us still uses our old PC even if it can't run new operating system. But luckily some Linux distributions out there are suitable to power up your old buddy.
But having a good lightweight Linux distro can't guarantee smooth and faster Linux experience, since you use different other programs which utilizes more RAM. However you can speed up your old Linux PC by using it with some lightweight Linux software.
In this article we are going to list some lightweight Linux programs that will power up your old or low configured Linux computers.
Ario Ario is a GTK2 client for Music player daemon.
Pragha Pragha is based on Gtk, sqlite, and completely written in C, constructed to be fast and light.
Audacious Audacious plays your music without stealing away your computer's resources from other tasks.
Cmus cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
MOC MOC (music on console) is a console audio player for LINUX/UNIX designed to be powerful and easy to use.
QMPDClient QMPDClient is Qt4 based mpd client features : Covers' display, Lyrics' display, Tag guessing, Internet radio and lots more.
mpg123 A fast free MP3 console audio player for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Hpux and near all other UNIX systems. Also decodes mp1 and mp2 files.
Midori Midori supports many of the most popular parts of the web along with built-in privacy tools, including script disabling, third-party cookie blocking, stripping referrer details and automatic history clearing after a set amount of time.
surf surf is a simple web browser based on WebKit/GTK+. It supports the XEmbed protocol which makes it possible to embed it in another application.
Arora Arora is a cross platform web browser built using Qt and WebKit.
Dillo Dillo is a multi-platform graphical web browser known for its speed and small footprint.
ELinks ELinks is an advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser, which is portable and runs on a variety of platforms.
rekonq rekonq is a web browser for KDE based on WebKit with nice minimal look, lightweight approach and have advanced features.
NetSurf NetSurf is a multi-platform web browser for RISC OS, UNIX-like platforms (including Linux), Mac OS X, and more.
Hv3 Html Viewer 3 (hv3) is a powerful yet minimalist web browser that uses Tkhtml3 as a rendering engine and SEE (Simple ECMAScript Engine) to interpret scripts.
Trojitá Enables you to access your mail anytime, anywhere without slowing down your pc.
Alpine Alpine is a fast, easy to use email client that is suitable for both the inexperienced email user as well as for the most demanding of power users.
Mutt Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operating systems.
Claws Mail Claws Mail is a user-friendly, lightweight, and fast GTK based email client.
Sylpheed Sylpheed is a simple, lightweight but featureful, and easy-to-use e-mail client.
PCManFM PCManFM is the default file manager for LXDE, to be a lighter alternative to Files (Nautilus) on your GNOME desktop. It features tabbed browsing and can optionally manage the desktop background.
Thunar Thunar is a modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. Thunar has been designed from the ground up to be fast and easy to use.
emelFM2 It is a file manager for UNIX-like operating systems. It uses a simple and efficient interface.
Vifm Vifm is an ncurses based file manager gives you complete keyboard control over your files without having to learn a new set of commands.
Ranger Ranger is a file manager with an ncurses interface. It is designed to give you a broader overview of the file system by displaying previews and backviews, dividing the screen into several columns.
ROX ROX is a fast, user friendly desktop which makes extensive use of drag-and-drop.
Squeeze Squeeze is a modern and advanced archive manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment.
Xarchive Xarchive is a GTK+ 2 front-end for various command line archiving tools.
Xarchiver Xarchiver is a lightweight desktop independent archive manager built with the GTK+2 toolkit.
Fotoxx Fotoxx is a free open source Linux program for image editing and collection management.
mtPaint mtPaint is a painting program from scratch that could easily create pixel art and manipulate digital photos.
Mirage Mirage is a fast and simple GTK+ image viewer.
GPicView GPicView is a simple and fast image viewer for X. Made by the developers of LXDE.
QIV Quick Image Viewer is a very small and pretty fast gdk/Imlib image viewer.
GQview GQview is an image viewer for Unix operating systems (developed on Linux). It's key features include single click file viewing, external editor support, thumbnail preview, and zoom features. Some image management features are also included.
Geeqie Geeqie is a lightweight Gtk+ based image viewer for Unix like operating systems.
Qingy Qingy is ultralight and very configurable graphical login independent on X Windows.
CDM CDM provides an ultra-minimalistic, yet full-featured login manager written in bash.
Xpdf Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
LilyTerm LilyTerm is a terminal emulator based off of libvte that aims to be fast and lightweight, Licensed under GPLv3.
st st is a simple terminal implementation for X.
ROXTerm ROXTerm is a terminal emulator intended to provide similar features to gnome-terminal, based on the same VTE library.
Xterm The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System.
RXVT RXVT is a terminal emulator for X11. It is a popular replacement for the standard 'xterm'.
ACME Acme is a powerful text editor, development environment and textual-user-interface platform.
Vim Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient.
Beaver Beaver is an Early AdVanced EditoR.
Sam A minimalist text editor with a graphical user interface, a very powerful command language and remote editing capabilities.
Geany Geany is a text editor using the GTK+ toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment.
Medit Medit is intended to be a useful programming and around-programming text editor.
PyRoom PyRoom is a free editor that stays out your way – and keeps other things out of your way, too.
Deluge Deluge is a lightweight, Free Software, cross-platform BitTorrent client.
aria2 aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.
Transmission Transmission, A Fast, Easy, and Free BitTorrent Client.
RTorrent rTorrent client uses ncurses and is ideal for use with tmux, screen or dtach. It supports saving of sessions, allows the user to add and remove torrents and many more.
Parole Parole is a lightweight and minimalist option that keeps the focus on what you're watching.
SMPlayer SMPlayer is a free media player for Windows and Linux with built-in codecs that can play virtually all video and audio formats.
Videos Videos is a video playback application designed to work with GNOME 3. It's based on Totem, the original GNOME video playback application, which has been included in GNOME since 2.10.
MPlayer MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems.
AbiWord AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.
WordGrinder WordGrinder is a Unicode-aware character cell word processor that runs in a terminal.
Orage Orage is a new modern calendar application for the Xfce Desktop Environment.
Calcurse Calcurse is a calendar and scheduling application for the command line.
Remind Remind is a sophisticated calendar and alarm program.
Todo.txt Todo.txt manages your Todo list from the command line.
Conky Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any kind of information on your desktop.
htop An interactive process viewer for Unix systems. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses.
PyPanel PyPanel is a lightweight panel/taskbar written in Python and C for X11 window managers.
Docker Docker is a docking application (WindowMaker dock app) which acts as a system tray for KDE and GNOME2.
Awesome Awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X.
Gnumeric Gnumeric is an open-source spreadsheet program.
Shotwell Shotwell is a photo manager for GNOME 3.
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Fireweed (Erechtites hieraciifolius), is a herb that many will either love or hate. As a member of the daisy family, Asteraceae, it has a particularly pungent aroma and flavoring that can be an acquired taste. You may also see it being referred to as American burnweed and even pilewort, which hints at its past use as a medicinal herb.
Young Fireweed Leaves and Buds (Erechtites hieraciifolius) (Photo by Sphl on Wikimedia Commons)
Originally native to North and South America, it has also found its way across the world through trade and colonisation. It grows throughout North America, but the highest population densities are found in the northeastern and midwestern states. You'll usually find it growing in recently disturbed soil, especially in an area that may have been recently burnt or affected by fire. This helped to give fireweed its name, as it quickly dominates an area that fire has passed through.
It is a fairly tall weed, growing quickly to an average height of 1-2m. Its leaves are thin, lightly serrated and have a long lobed, lance shape. The chunky flower buds that appear in summer and early autumn have white to pale yellow petals, and barely open. They cluster together at the top of the plant, developing into a seed head full of dry wispy fruits, much like the dandelion.
Edible parts and other uses
Young leaves and shoots can be chopped or added whole straight into a salad or sandwich, however some can find the taste too overpowering. Finely chopping the leaves and gently sautéing with other mild herbs and butter can create a tasty sauce for potatoes, wild mushrooms or groundnuts. Some foragers compare the taste of fireweed to tarragon, a herb which pairs well with stews, fish and meat dishes. The young flower buds and shoots can also be pickled, giving them a sweet, crunchy tang.
Fireweed Leaves (Erechtites hieraciifolius) (Photo by Stefan.lefnaer on Wikimedia Commons)
Histories and stories have emerged in Native American cultures, of fireweed being used often in medicinal practices. It is believed that poultices and concoctions were made to treat skin lesions, poison ivy irritation, dysentery and also haemorrhoids. A concentrated extract of the plant could also be infused with oil to create a purgative, which was used to rid the body of toxins.
Scientific studies have shown that fireweed contains trace amounts of pyrrolidine, which can cause damage to the liver if consumed in great quantity. However as with most foods, anything eaten in large amounts is generally not good for the body. So fireweed in small, herb like, quantities is safe to consume.
Fireweed Habitat (Erechtites hieraciifolius) (Photo by Stefan.lefnaer on Wikimedia Commons)
Spring and summer are the optimum times for harvesting, as the new shoots and buds begin to appear. You'll find fireweed growing in a number of locations, from road edges to lake edges. However as with all wild food foraging, pick plants that are considered weeds away from urban areas to avoid the risk of herbicides.
You can also harvest the leaves throughout the fall and even winter. However the leaves will likely be tougher and with a more bitter flavoring.
Fireweed shares its name with that of another north American native species. Fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium), occasionally referred to as great willow herb, is another tasty wild edible. You can harvest and prepare the young shoots and leaves of the plants in much the same way.
Due to its strong flavor, it can be hard to find a good balance when preparing meals with fireweed. However with a little experimentation, you will find the flavoring matches a number of surprising dishes. From fruit salads to cold pasta salads, fireweed can add a interesting twist to a dish. Growing in many fields and back yards, fireweed is a great native wild edible that you can forage and experiment with throughout the year.
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Officer who shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, will not face criminal charges
The incident in August 2020 sparked days of destructive protests.
Protesters in August 2020
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By Alex Nitzberg
Updated: January 5, 2021 - 6:12pm
A Wisconsin prosecutor announced Tuesday that he will not bring criminal charges against Rusten Sheskey, the police officer who shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha last year.
The prosecutor said the evidence was "incontrovertible" that Blake was armed with a "razor blade-type knife," which the suspect admitted possessing.
"It's really evidence about the perspective of Officer Sheskey at each moment and what would a reasonable officer do at each moment," Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley said. "Almost none of those things are answered in that deeply disturbing video that we've all seen.
"Officer Sheskey felt he was about to be stabbed," Graveley added.
Sheskey shot Blake seven times on Aug. 23 as he was attempting to get into a vehicle in which his three children were passengers, amid a domestic dispute, according to the Associated Press.
Blake resisted arrest, and state investigators later discovered a knife inside the vehicle, authorities said.
The incident sparked days of violent protests among many across the country this past summer over concerns about police brutality.
Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers announced earlier this week that he was prepared to activate 500 National Guard members ahead of a prosecutor's upcoming decision.
In addition to the governor's decision, the Kenosha Common Council unanimously approved an emergency resolution Monday that would go into effect when county District Attorney Michael Graveley announced the decision about charges.
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Bucking the trend elsewhere in the West, German voters may opt to stay the course.
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Fundraising underway for cancer-care transportation
Del Rio resident Tina Muñoz (left), who used the van service provided by Kate Marmion Rides to Radiation, receives a certificate commemorating her last radiation treatment from Danielle Ardolino with Clear Springs Center for Cancer Care in Uvalde.
Finding and paying for transportation can be an extreme burden for cancer patients trying to obtain treatment, and for that reason Kate Marmion Rides to Radiation was created after the close of the capital campaign that raised over $5 million to build the Kate Marmion Regional Cancer Medical Center in Uvalde.
This "Saving Lives Close to Home" campaign brought Clear Springs Center for Cancer Care, the first and only radiation therapy practice west of San Antonio, and expanded specialty care for the residents of this region.
Patients typically receive 30 radiation treatments delivered daily over six-weeks. The foundation's mission is to help alleviate financial burdens for patients associated with traveling to and from their daily treatments in a vast nine-county region.
"It is amazing how something as simple as a van service eases financial and logistical worries and provides patients independence at a time when they are their most vulnerable," said Sheri Rutledge, foundation executive director. "These are patients that cannot afford to drive to their daily appointments, don't have access to transportation, or are fatigued, sick and often at risk of infection, making public transportation a risk. Donations fund the operation of two vans that transport them to their treatments in Uvalde.
"We are now in our sixth year of service," Rutledge added. "Donors have provided 245 patients with transportation. We meet a need that is not duplicated by any other organization in our area and we operate five days a week, 50 weeks out of the year."
Armandina "Tina" Muñoz is a retired floral designer who lives in Del Rio. She has one son and two grandchildren and used the van service recently. Muñoz presented with chest pain in late April that required her to be airlifted to San Antonio to replace a heart valve. During surgery they discovered that she had a spot on her lung that was determined to be cancerous.
"I just left it all to the man upstairs, you know, prayer is the best medicine," Muñoz said. "Once I recovered from my heart surgery I started chemotherapy once a week here in Uvalde. Then I needed 30 radiation treatments. My sister-in-law took me to my chemotherapy treatments but it was hard for her to take off from work. When I found out that the van could pick me up it was such a relief. I was able to sleep after I learned of the service. The van has been great and the drivers are courteous and are always on time. There are so many things I would like to say to the donors, please keep on giving to the service; it took a big load off of me."
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Fire Island Dance Festival Sunday Show Tickets Available This Weekend
by A.A. Cristi
BroadwayWorld.com Jul. 17, 2019
This Weekend - Produced by and benefiting Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Fire Island Dance Festival (#fidance) will bring six world premiere works and some of the world's most celebrated choreographers and dance companies to a picturesque waterfront stage on the Great South Bay. Tony and Academy Award Winner Joel Grey will Host.
Some tickets are available the closing performance at 5 pm on this Sunday, July 21. New this year: cocktails follow each performance at The Pines' Whyte Hall. Also for Sunday a hassle-free daytrip package is available, which features round-trip luxury transportation from New York City, a champagne luncheon and tickets to the performance. A VIP option, which includes the champagne luncheon and tickets to show without the transportation, also is available. The daytrip package is $275; the VIP option is $225. Complimentary roundtrip water taxi service to and from Fire Island Pines is available, courtesy of Fire Island Water Taxi. Tickets are on sale now at dradance.org or by phone 212.840.0770, ext. 229.
The companies and choreographers performing at this year's Fire Island Dance Festival are
• American Ballet Theatre principal dancer James Whiteside sharing a world premiere performed by fellow ABT dancers corps de ballet member Aran Bell and soloist Catherine Hurlin
• A.I.M, founded by Kyle Abraham, premiering an excerpt of a work that will debut in full in 2020 featuring Tamisha Guy and American Ballet Theatre's Calvin Royal III
• The legendary Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater presenting "Sinner Man," an excerpt of the company's lauded masterwork Revelations
• Emmy Award nominee and Fire Island Dance Festival favorite Al Blackstone presenting a world premiere about the history of the Fire Island Pines set in the 1970s
• Dorrance Dance presenting a world premiere tap piece featuring Tony nominee and former New York City Ballet principal dancer Robbie Fairchild
• Martha Nichols (The Greatest Showman, La La Land) presenting a solo piece performed by Ballet BC's Jordan Lang
• MOMIX performing the energetic and irresistible Pole Dance
• Paul Taylor Dance Company sharing Sunset, an iconic piece from Taylor's legendary repertoire
• Choreographer Garrett Smith sharing a world premiere performed by Pacific Northwest Ballet principal Lucien Postlewaite and corps de ballet member Christopher D'Ariano
• Tony-winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon sharing a world premiere work performed by Garen Scribner (Broadway & national tour of Wheeldon's An American In Paris)
Ephrat Asherie Dance, a New York City-based company rooted in street and social dance, will kick off the festival Friday night at the Leadership Event at Whyte Hall, which is reserved exclusively for Leadership Supporters. .
Last year's event raised a record-breaking $604,103, with more than $6.1 million raised since the festival began in 1995. Through their generous support, Fire Island Dance Festival attendees have helped ensure that those in need throughout the New York area and in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. receive lifesaving medications, nutritious meals, counseling and emergency financial assistance.
In honor of Dancers Responding to AIDS supporters and the festival's 25th anniversary, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is adding the Pines Care Center to its National Grants Program. This now-annual $7,500 grant will support a rapid HIV testing initiative throughout the Pines' season
Dancers Responding to AIDS relies on the extraordinary compassion and efforts of the performing arts community to fund a safety net of social services for those in need. As a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, DRA supports the essential programs of The Actors Fund, including the HIV/AIDS Initiative and The Dancers' Resource, as well as more than 450 AIDS and family service organizations nationwide. For more information, please visit Dancers Responding to AIDS at dradance.org,
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The Western world has witnessed a dramatic change in the conception of wild animals. The dominant view in Christianity has been that wild nature is something dark and frightening that should as far as possible be tamed and rendered safe. The idea of systematically protecting the natural world, including wild animals, first developed in North America in the late nineteenth century. Since then the idea that wild animals, including prey animals, ought to be protected has developed and spread.
Management of wild animals has given rise to considerable controversy, however, also at the international level, not only because of conflicting interests, but also because there are different moral visions of the right of humans to utilize wildlife. These visions range from what is often called wise use to preservation and no-use policies. Controversies surrounding zoos, circuses, hunting (such as sealing, whaling), and wildlife management are just some of the focal points of this general controversy.
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Opportunities and Challenges in Applying the 3Rs to Zoos and Aquariums
This paper analyses opportunities and challenges for each of the three Rs when applied to animals housed in zoos and aquariums.
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Based on a survey of public media in Denmark, this paper identifies different animal welfare issues relating to rewilding projects.
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In this commentary on Rowan et al's article on sentience politics, especially regarding farm animals, we ask how the welfare of wild animals differs from that of farmed animals, especially how the ability to make…
Ethical management of wildlife. Lethal versus nonlethal control of white-tailed deer
By C. Gamborg, P. Sandøe, & C. Palmer (2020). Conservation Science and Practice. Wiley. Abstract Calls for ethical management of wildlife in the international conservation com- munity are increasing. However, it is not…
Compassionate versus consequentialist conservation
By J. Hampton, B. Warburton & P. Sandøe (2018) Conservation Biology. Wiley Abstract Ethical treatment of wildlife and consideration of animal welfare have become important themes in conservation but ethical…
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Beyond Castration and Culling: Should we use Non-Surgical, Pharmacological Methods to Control the Sexual Behavior and Reproduction of Animals? By C. Palmer, H. G. Pedersen & Peter Sandøe (2018) Journal of Agricultural…
Killing Animals for Recreation? A Quantitative Study of Hunters' Motives and Their Perceived Moral Relevance
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Bears or butterflies? How should zoos make value-driven decisions about their collections?
By C. Palmer, TJ Kasperbauer & P. Sandøe (forthcoming 2017) Book chapter in The Ark and Beyond, Minteer, B.A., Maienschein, J. & Collins, J.P. (eds.). University of Chicago Press Excerpt Zoos are ethically contested…
Animal Welfare Impact Assessments - A good way of giving the affected animals a voice when trying to tackle wild animals
By P. Sandøe & C. Gamborg (2017) Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. Springer. Abstract Control of wild animals may give rise to controversy, as is seen in the case of badger control to manage TB in cattl…
A dividing issue: Attitudes to the shooting of rear and release birds among landowners, hunters and the general public in DK
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Reverse Polish notation Implement a program in assembly language that performs the evaluation of a Reverse Polish notation arithmetic expression and then displays the result. The numbers appearing in the expression are integer numbers, 32 bits, and the operations that apply to them are +, -, /, *.
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I want someone to transcribe the bass part from this song: [fazer login para ver a URL] (Soft Parade by Vulfpeck). Either in standard notation or tablature is fine. There's a few little fills/variations in there I'd particularly like transcribed. Thanks.
See attached article. I would like to have it translted into English. Reproducing the mathematical notation isn't necessary.
A "Learn to Play Guitar" book, aimed at the high school classroom. It will/does include music notation, tablature, guitar chord charts and of course written text and some photos.
Create an indicator for NinjaTrader 8 that takes the price and divides it by the volume the results is to be displayed in scientific notation. Please see the attached Word document for a more detailed description.
Change existing house plan to use Speedfloor and Light Wight Concrete for roof. Change wall notation to be concrete. House Plans provided in pdf. Required to redraw.
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A look back at Roy Halladay's career.
HOLIDAY, Florida -- Former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay was killed when the small aircraft he was in crashed into shallow waters in the Gulf of Mexico near Holiday, Florida. He was 40.
No other details were immediately available, including a potential number of victims, injuries, or a cause of the crash.
Roy tweeted frequently about his love for flying.
Harry Leroy Halladay III, affectionately known as "Doc," was one of just six pitchers to win the Cy Young Award in both leagues.
Halladay pitched a perfect game on May 29, 2010, beating the Florida Marlins 1-0. In his first-ever postseason start later that season, Halladay threw the second no-hitter in MLB postseason history against the Cincinnati Reds in Game 1 of the NLDS.


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Fresh off of their win at the South by Southwest, (SXSW) AR WAll is using AR to revolutionize the way movies are filmed. CEO, Rene Amador was kind enough to give us a glimpse into how special effects will be filmed in the future. These complex location shots will be made easier with the use of the technology developed by AR Wall.
We hope you enjoy this demonstration by Rene and the rest of the crew at their headquarters in Culver City, California.
Catch AR Wall at the upcoming 2018 NAB Show in Las Vegas, April 7th – 12th.


In the federal government, Common Access Cards and personal identity verification cards for employees and contractors incorporate biometrics and give agencies a better foundation for security and ID management than many private-sector organizations enjoy.
Can authentication deliver better citizen services?
Security credentials could be based on a primary payment card, a mobile phone or a driver's license -- items users are unlikely to lose or misplace. Read more.
But that wasn't always the case. A few years ago, Kayvan Alikhani, senior director of technology at RSA Security, would have recommended against using most biometrics as the front line in authentication.
The technology returned too many false positives and false negatives to be reliably used. Yet today, he said, "with iris detection, we're at one out of 5 million when it comes to false acceptance or rejection rates."
And it's not just irises. Fingerprint scans are now a central part of many mobile phones' login process, and some devices are capable of hand scans, vein detection, facial recognition and voice recognition as well. It's even possible to identify individuals by the way they walk or hold their phones.
Mobile devices, in fact, are emerging as promising replacements for traditional identification cards and other physical security devices.
"Smartphones, tablets and phablets are becoming more and more equipped with sensors," Alikhani said. "You can do a good job of mixing and matching."
Plus, standards-based bodies such as the FIDO Alliance -- which was formed in 2012 to address the lack of interoperability among strong authentication devices -- are striving to make sure that all the different authentication methods can work well together.
Another advantage of using smartphone-based biometrics for authentication is that the scans never leave the device. Agencies can easily issue new passwords to employees if the old ones are compromised, but fingerprints and eyeballs are significantly more difficult to refresh.
"By storing those attributes on the device, you don't have a honeypot of millions of records," said Patrick Clancey, senior director of federal programs at MorphoTrust USA.
Nok Nok Labs CEO Phillip Dunkelberger agrees that putting trust in a purely software-based solution is riskier, and the hardware component that identification cards offer is a significant advantage. In addition, the latest smartphones have built-in hardware-based security features, Dunkelberger said, and that "secure element hardware...is the most secure way you can do it."
Clancey said adoption of biometric security is likely to come first in the private sector. "Once it is proven and commoditized, you'll see adoption by state, federal and local agencies," he added.
Yet although mobile-based biometrics are a great addition to security, they should not be the only component, Prescient Solutions CIO Jerry Irvine said. "There's still a lot of concern about the security of mobile devices because they're still consumer-grade devices," he added.
With multiple forms of authentication to improve security, verification no longer has to be annoying and intrusive for users.
Instead, "people are looking at contextual-based indicators of authentication or trust," Clancey said.
Those indicators are passive, which means the user isn't even aware the verification is happening. For example, an employee's location when he or she logs in could factor into the authentication process.
If an employee is at his or her work computer, for example, that's one level of authentication. Logging in from home is another. Logging in from, say, North Korea might lower the trust level of that particular connection.
Another type of passive authentication verifies employees by the fact that they have their phones with them. Although by itself this is no guarantee of identity, it does make it more likely that individuals are who they say they are.
A person's walking gait or typing pattern can also help verify users, without he or she having to jump through any additional hoops.
"The general trend that we see... is toward more passive, contextual authentication," said Paul Madsen, principal technical architect at Ping Identity. "Rather than having the user go through this overt, explicit login ceremony, our systems get better at being able to recognize the user passively."
Only when the risk profile requires it would employees be asked to take additional steps, such as a biometric scan of some kind, he added.
Even with context-based passive authentication backing up the biometrics, the security process should not end when an employee logs in.
"The third piece is behavior analytics," said Mike Wyatt, leader of the identity access management practice at Deloitte Advisory.
Agencies can use pattern analysis to look for atypical interactions, he said. If something unusual is detected, the system can require a higher level of authentication. For example, if an employee suddenly access a database he's never used before, he could be asked for additional identity confirmation -- or an alert could be sent to his manager.
Another advantage of mobile-based authentication is that today's smartphones don't require any specialized readers or other technology.
Most modern phones, for example, come with several types of wireless connectivity. In addition to voice and data connections to cellular carriers, phones can also connect to local Wi-Fi networks, Bluetooth devices and touch-and-go near-field communication (NFC) readers at point-of-sale terminals for mobile payments. Any one of those channels could also be used to authenticate an employee walking into a building.
For example, in addition to transmitting identity confirmation, an app could use a cellular or Wi-Fi network to send location information that confirms the employee's GPS coordinates. And Bluetooth and NFC signals could be used to authenticate employees walking through particular doors or accessing individual desktop PCs, servers or other equipment.
Mobile authentication could also be used to allow employees to access websites. Today, that is usually done by sending a one-time password to a mobile device, but there are other options. For example, MorphoTrust, which makes 80 percent of the driver's licenses in the United States, is in the process of launching an eID service that allows users to authenticate themselves to any website by using a credentialed app on their phones to scan a QR code shown on the screen.
Web application developers could have their users download the app to do the phone-based authentication or include the eID technology in their own mobile apps.
MorphoTrust officials are hoping to get enough traction with the system that the eID becomes a ubiquitous form of alternative authentication, just as "sign in with Facebook" and "sign in with LinkedIn" have become.
Maria Korolov is a freelance business and technology writer based in Western Massachusetts.


I grew up in Wilmette, a moderately conservative suburb of Chicago. It was almost all white, mostly upper middle class, but with some regular middle class and a bunch of Asian or Jewish households for diversity. For the most part, I didn't see the raging, insane right-wing nutters. You know, the kind of place where people accepted that government was necessary, you had to pay at least some taxes, and abortion should be legal with some restrictions. What really intrigues me, then, about Wilmette is the library. The library was an important part of my early childhood. My mother brought me there all the time, not just to check out books, but also to participate in activities. As I got older and became more of a bookworm, I spent even more time there.
The atmosphere in court was transfused with the nativist and reactionary sentiments still pervading American society in the wake of the Red Scare. District Attorney Katzmann was able, therefore, to try Sacco and Vanzetti not only for murder but, in effect, for being anarchists, atheists, foreigners, and draft dodgers. Judge Thayer, repeating his role as presiding magistrate, had no objection to Katzmann's interjecting such extraneous and inflammatory information, despite its prejudicial effect on the jury. Nor did he interfere with Katzmann's coaching and cajoling of prosecution witnesses to obtain descriptions of the shooting and of the perpetrators that were remarkably more detailed and incriminating than those they had provided to Pinkerton investigators more than a year earlier. With defense witnesses, especially Italians, Katzmann was patronizing and disdainful, implying that they were lying to defend their compatriots. Several witnesses whose testimony would have helped the defendants were never called to testify or brought to the attention of the defense. Katzmann's handling of the alleged murder weapons and ballistics evidence was likewise unethical. The prosecution's chief expert, Captain William Proctor of the state police, did not believe that Sacco's Colt .32-caliber automatic had fired the bullet that killed the guard. (The remaining five bullets taken from the two bodies could not have been fired from the guns found on Sacco and Vanzetti.) Nevertheless, by prearrangement with Katzmann, Proctor testified when asked about the bullet in question that "it is consistent with having been fired from that gun," meaning any Colt .32-caliber automatic, not Sacco's weapon. Katzmann also knew that the .38-caliber revolver found on Vanzetti at the time of his arrest could not have been taken from the slain guard, as the prosecution claimed. The guard's weapon was a .32-caliber revolver with a different serial number--evidence withheld from the defense. Katzmann's manipulation of evidence may even have included substituting a test bullet fired from Sacco's gun for the real fatal bullet.
... The weight of evidence--the weapons, ballistic tests, and eyewitness testimony--and the issue of consciousness of guilt (independently stressed by Judge Thayer in his instructions to the jury) as well as the prejudice Katzmann had evoked against the accused combined to ensure a guilty verdict on 14 July 1921.
A six-year struggle to save Sacco and Vanzetti followed the trial. Countless observers worldwide were convinced that political intolerance and racial bigotry had condemned two men whose only offense was that of being foreigners, atheists, and anarchists. Edmund Wilson, like many others, believed that the case "revealed the whole anatomy of American life, with all its classes, professions, and points of view and all their relations, and it raised almost every fundamental question of our political and social system." ... Sacco and Vanzetti defenders eventually included radicals, trade unionists, intellectuals, liberals, and even some conservatives, such as Boston lawyer William G. Thompson, who replaced Moore as chief defense counsel in 1924, and Harvard law professor and future Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter. Arrayed against them were the upholders of traditional conservative values and institutions associated with patriotism, religion, and capitalism. They were intransigent in their belief that the American system of justice could do no wrong and that the two subversives were guilty as charged, had been fairly tried, and deserved the maximum penalty.
I believe I read this book when I was in fourth or sixth grade, and it made me realize that justice in America was not, never had been, and likely never will be, blind. It's kind of amazing that my library even had it. The people who live in that community are essentially the exact same people in the last line of the paragraph above.
Another oddity stocked in the YA section of my library was The Soothsayer's Handbook: A Guide to Bad Signs and Good Vibrations by Elinor Lander Horwitz. From this book, which I checked out many, many times, I learned to do basic Tarot Card readings, numerology, reading Rune stones, and some tips to improve my ESP capabilities. (From the Glenview Public Library in the neighboring town, I was able to get a book on handwriting analysis. I thought these to be very handy skills when I was a freshman in high school. The fact that my library had this occult-lite book blows my mind.
So, I offer a hearty thanks to the Wilmette Public Library. As an eccentric, curious youth, I found a place where I was welcome and could learn more. I am today an eccentric, curious adult with kooky behaviors and lefty beliefs, and I would not trade it for anything. I hope the library offerings today are as varied as they were in the 1980s and 1990s. It could make a big difference for a weird kid.


1 Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me saying, 2 Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it 3 and say to it, Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, And I will stretch out My hand against you And make you a desolation and a waste. 4 I will lay waste your cities And you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD. 5 Because you have had everlasting enmity and have delivered the sons of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of the punishment of the end, 6 therefore as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will give you over to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you; since you have not hated bloodshed, therefore bloodshed will pursue you. 7 I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation and I will cut off from it the one who passes through and returns. 8 I will fill its mountains with its slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those slain by the sword will fall. 9 I will make you an everlasting desolation and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD. 10 Because you have said, These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them, although the LORD was there, 11 therefore as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your envy which you showed because of your hatred against them; so I will make Myself known among them when I judge you. 12 Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard all your revilings which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel saying, They are laid desolate; they are given to us for food. 13 And you have spoken arrogantly against Me and have multiplied your words against Me; I have heard it. 14 Thus says the Lord GOD, As all the earth rejoices, I will make you a desolation. 15 As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be a desolation, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
1 And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD. 2 Thus says the Lord GOD, Because the enemy has spoken against you, Aha! and, The everlasting heights have become our possession, 3 therefore prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord GOD, For good reason they have made you desolate and crushed you from every side, that you would become a possession of the rest of the nations and you have been taken up in the talk and the whispering of the people. 4 Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the forsaken cities which have become a prey and a derision to the rest of the nations which are round about, 5 therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who appropriated My land for themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and with scorn of soul, to drive it out for a prey. 6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My wrath because you have endured the insults of the nations. 7 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, I have sworn that surely the nations which are around you will themselves endure their insults. 8 But you, O mountains of Israel, you will put forth your branches and bear your fruit for My people Israel; for they will soon come. 9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you will be cultivated and sown. 10 I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities will be inhabited and the waste places will be rebuilt. 11 I will multiply on you man and beast; and they will increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited as you were formerly and will treat you better than at the first. Thus you will know that I am the LORD. 12 Yes, I will cause men--My people Israel--to walk on you and possess you, so that you will become their inheritance and never again bereave them of children. 13 Thus says the Lord GOD, Because they say to you, You are a devourer of men and have bereaved your nation of children, 14 therefore you will no longer devour men and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Lord GOD. 15 I will not let you hear insults from the nations anymore, nor will you bear disgrace from the peoples any longer, nor will you cause your nation to stumble any longer, declares the Lord GOD. 16 Then the word of the LORD came to me saying, 17 Son of man, when the house of Israel was living in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds; their way before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity. 18 Therefore I poured out My wrath on them for the blood which they had shed on the land, because they had defiled it with their idols. 19 Also I scattered them among the nations and they were dispersed throughout the lands. According to their ways and their deeds I judged them. 20 When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, These are the people of the LORD; yet they have come out of His land. 21 But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went. 22 Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD, It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for My holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went. 23 I will vindicate the holiness of My great name which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when I prove Myself holy among you in their sight. 24 For I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands and bring you into your own land. 25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. 26 Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances. 28 You will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers; so you will be My people, and I will be your God. 29 Moreover, I will save you from all your uncleanness; and I will call for the grain and multiply it, and I will not bring a famine on you. 30 I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field, so that you will not receive again the disgrace of famine among the nations. 31 Then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and your abominations. 32 I am not doing this for your sake, declares the Lord GOD, let it be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel! 33 Thus says the Lord GOD, On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places will be rebuilt. 34 The desolate land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by. 35 They will say, This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; and the waste, desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited. 36 Then the nations that are left round about you will know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted that which was desolate; I, the LORD, have spoken and will do it. 37 Thus says the Lord GOD, This also I will let the house of Israel ask Me to do for them: I will increase their men like a flock. 38 Like the flock for sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so will the waste cities be filled with flocks of men. Then they will know that I am the LORD.


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fue un general japonés que durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial ocupó sucesivamente los cargos de Jefe del Estado Mayor del Ejército Imperial Japonés (1940-1944) y de Ministro de la Guerra (1937-1938; 1944-1945).

Biografía
Como Ministro de la Guerra en 1937 fue uno de los principales artífices del «Incidente de China», eufemismo utilizado para referirse a la invasión de China, y como Jefe del Estado Mayor del Ejército en 1940-1941, fue uno de los principales defensores de la expansión de Japón por el sudeste de Asia y el Pacífico y de la guerra preventiva contra Estados Unidos, iniciada con el ataque a Pearl Harbor.

Segunda Guerra Mundial

Como Jefe del Estado Mayor del Ejército desempeñó un papel muy activo en las conferencias de enlace y en las cuatro Conferencias Imperiales que condujeron a la guerra con Estados Unidos. En la Conferencia Imperial del 2 de julio, en la que se aprobó la completa ocupación de la Indochina francesa —lo que provocó unas duras sanciones económicas y comerciales por parte de Estados Unidos—, le dijo al presidente del Consejo Privado Yoshimichi Hara, que no creía que «los estadounidenses vayan a declararnos la guerra por la Indochina francesa», asegurándole a continuación que la ocupación se iba a realizar «de forma pacífica».

Sería ascendido al grado de Mariscal de Campo en 1943, siendo cesado de su cargo como Jefe de Estado del Ejército un año después, el 21 de febrero de 1944, por orden del primer ministro Hideki Tōjō. Sin embargo, Sugiyama fue nombrado inspector general de Entrenamiento Militar después de la expulsión de Tōjō el mismo año, volviendo a ser nombrado ministro de Guerra. A su vez, en julio de 1945, se le pidió que tomara el mando del  Ejército General, que dirigía las defensas de la mitad oriental del continente japonés contra la anticipada invasión aliada.

Diez días después de la rendición de Japón se suicidó con cuatro disparos en el pecho. Lo mismo hizo su mujer en su casa. Su tumba se encuentra en el cementerio de Tama, en Fuchū.

Referencias

Bibliografía

Enlaces externos
Historial de Hajime Sugiyama

Historia de Japón
Militares japoneses de la Segunda Guerra Mundial

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Hey all, looking to purchase my Mom some new XC socks. Her feet are notoriously cold. I've been using Darn Tough myself and love them but seeing a lot on Smartwool as well. What's everyone's recommendations?
Does she already have xski boots?
Thanks for the reply, yes, she has boots, and a few good pairs of socks. I was just wondering if there were any recent thoughts on preferred options. I was researching and saw some new compression socks that are supposed to improve circulation, anyone tried these?
In this cold, Toe-Heaters may be the only solution for someone with chronically cold feet. That said, in my experience the Smart Wool socks are marginally better than Darn Tough. Don't know of any other brands to try.
Boots make a big difference. My Alpina Alaska are by far warmer than my other boots.
Sometimes cold can be caused by moisture. I have sweaty feet that turn to cold feet if I stop moving. I use a wicking liner and thin socks. All my boots have a waterproof/breathable liner of some sort (Goretex, Alpintex, etc...) so I try to get as much moisture as I can to the membrane. Also all my boots are real leather. Some of the pleather boots cause my feet to swamp up and turn to ice.
I've also had cold feet in plastic shell boots even with thick liners. The issue there is lack of motion and circulation or blood constriction, I believe.
I ordered a pair of "Heat Holders" socks (I think it was the work version with reinforced heels and toes) that I find to be the warmer than any other sock I've owned. But, I second what Montcalm said. I got a pair of Alpina Alaska boots for christmas and they make a tremendous difference - much more than any sock would. might not be the most cost effective solution though. I didnt know I had especially sweaty feet until I tried the alaskas and had dry socks when I got home.