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Al Qaeda, News Analysis
Ohio Arrest Shows Threat to U.S. from Al-Qaeda in Syria
American citizen Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud was indicted after a cleric associated with Jabhat al-Nusra (Al-Qaeda in Syria) ordered him to carry out an attack here, the Justice Department announced. His plot to attack a military base in Texas was thwarted. The involvement of Al-Nusra will make it difficult for the U.S. to keep looking the other way as it gains territory in Syria.
Originally from Somalia, Mohamud grew up in the U.S. He lives in Columbus, Ohio and Islamist radicalism seems to be a family affair in this case. His brother died fighting for Al-Qaeda in Syria and was apparently a major influence in Mohamud's radicalization.
Their younger brother, Abdiqani Aden, was arrested earlier this month during a visit to Mohamud because he made a gun symbol with his hands and pointed towards the sheriff's deputies. He was speaking in a foreign language at the time. This is especially threatening because Mohamud's second-choice target was a prison.
The government's monitoring of communication between the two older brothers shows their motivations were not frustration with U.S. foreign policy or personal trials. They were inspired by a glorification of those who die in violent jihad and a belief that such "martyrs" are guaranteed entry into heaven.
His brother left the U.S. in May 2013 and went to Syria to link up with Jabhat al-Nusra, Al-Qaeda's Syrian wing. Mohamud's travel arrangements involved Al-Nusra members and that is presumably the group he joined, but his online postings showed his loyalty was with ISIS. Al-Nusra facilitators appear to have been surprisingly unconcerned by this.
This may indicate the rift between the leadership of ISIS and Al-Qaeda isn't necessarily trickling down to most of the membership. The attacks in Paris are another example where Al-Qaeda and ISIS supporters worked together despite the quarrels of their leaders.
His brother was killed in June 2014 and he returned home afterwards. Mohamud told a close associate that he completed his training with an unidentified terrorist group in Syria and a cleric told him to return to the U.S. to carry out an attack. The indictment charges Mohamud with providing material support to Al-Nusra, so it appears that he never joined ISIS.
Mohamud began plotting but two unidentified individuals close to him reported their dialogues to the FBI and likely recorded them. One was a friend of his for three years and all indications point to one or both of these informants being Muslim. This is another example of why the demonization of informants by groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is so dangerous.
Mohamud decided his preference was to attack a military site with a prison as a backup option. He chose a base in Texas and hoped to execute three or four U.S. soldiers before achieving "martyrdom." The FBI arrested him before he could start putting the details together.
The cleric's involvement is an important detail because it threatens to unravel the Obama Administration's façade that Al-Nusra isn't a direct threat to America. It also indicates the group is putting an increased emphasis on hitting us at home.
The U.S. realized in September the air campaign against ISIS needed to include a unit within Al-Nusra named the Khorasan Group that was orchestrating terror plots against the West. The problem is that Al-Nusra is much more popular than ISIS and works closely with other Syrian rebels, including ones the U.S. supported and anticipated relying upon to fight ISIS on the ground.
The desire to avoid alienating Al-Qaeda-allied Syrian rebels and their supporters led the Obama Administration to begin promoting a myth that the Khorasan Group is an independent entity that is somehow illogically linked to Al-Qaeda but not Al-Nusra. The New York Times repeated it in its coverage of this case.
The myth is harmful to U.S. interests and anti-Islamist Syrians because it distances Al-Nusra from Al-Qaeda, thereby giving it a higher ceiling of public support. A Zogby poll in November found the population of Turkey favors Al-Nusra above all other participants in the Syrian civil war. A whopping 40% of Turks support Al-Nusra the most.
The indications are that Mohamud's Syrian cleric is from Al-Nusra but it's still significant he's in ISIS because that would mean it is now dispatching operatives from the region to America. That would be a shift from relying on so-called "lone wolves" inside the U.S. who plan terrorism because they've determined that traveling to the Caliphate is unlikely to succeed.
It is true that Mohamud's case is important because it's the first publicly-acknowledged case of an American going to Syria for jihadist training and returning home to commit terrorism, but there's a bigger point to be made. The U.S. is at war with Jabhat al-Nusra because it is at war with Al-Qaeda. If a Syrian rebel partner doesn't approve of the U.S. recognizing that unavoidable fact, then that's not a partner worth having.

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Almost all of the people of Pakistan are Muslims or at least follow Islamic traditions, and Islamic ideals and practices suffuse virtually all parts of Pakistani life. Most Pakistanis belong to the Sunni sect, the major branch of Islam. There are also significant numbers of Shīʿite Muslims. Among Sunnis, Sufism is extremely popular and influential. In addition to the two main groups there is a very small sect called the Aḥmadiyyah, which is also sometimes called the Qadiani (for Qadian, India, where the sect originated).
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The role of religion in Pakistani society and politics finds its most visible expression in the Islamic Assembly (Jamāʿat-i Islāmī) party. Founded in 1941 by Abū al-Aʿlā Mawdūdī (Maududi), one of the world's foremost thinkers in Sunni revivalism, the party has long played a role in Pakistan's political life and has continually advocated refashioning Pakistan as a chaste Islamic or theocratic state.
The majority of Pakistani Sunnis belong to the Ḥanafiyyah (Hanafite) school, which is one of four major schools (madhhabs) or subsects of Islamic jurisprudence; it is perhaps the most liberal of the four but nevertheless is still demanding in its instructions to the faithful. Two popular reform movements founded in northern India—the Deoband and Barelwi schools—are likewise widespread in Pakistan. Differences between the two movements over a variety of theological issues are significant to the point that violence often has erupted between them. Another group, Tablīghī Jamāʿat (founded 1926), headquartered in Raiwind, near Lahore, is a lay ministry group whose annual conference attracts hundreds of thousands of members from throughout the world. It is perhaps the largest grassroots Muslim organization in the world.
The Wahhābī movement, founded in Arabia, has made inroads in Pakistan, most notably among the tribal Pashtuns in the Afghan border areas. Moreover, after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, Saudi Arabia assisted Pakistan in caring for vast numbers of Afghan refugees in the border areas and in the construction and staffing of thousands of traditional Sunni madrasahs (religious schools). Those schools generally provided instruction along Wahhābī lines, and they subsequently became vehicles for the spreading influence of extremist groups (particularly al-Qaeda and the Taliban of Afghanistan) in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and elsewhere throughout the country. Although extremism in the name of Islam has become more pronounced in Pakistan since 2000, more-moderate Sunni Muslims are found in the country's business community, especially among Gujarati Memons and Chiniotis from Punjab who follow less-conservative Islamic traditions.
Among the Shīʿites there are several subsects; notable are the Ismāʿīlīs (or Seveners)—including the Nizārīs (followers of the Aga Khans, among whom are the Khojas and the Bohrās), who are prominent in commerce and industry—and the Ithnā ʿAshariyyah (or Twelvers), who are more austere in their practices and more closely resemble the Shīʿite tradition found in Iran. Shīʿites have long been the target of Sunni radicals, and violent encounters between followers of the two sects are common.
With the exception of some sects, such as Dawoodi Bohrās, there is no concept of an ordained priesthood among Pakistan's Muslims. Anyone who leads prayers in mosques may be appointed imam. Those who are formally trained in religion are accorded the honorific mullah or mawlānā. Collectively, the community of Muslim scholars is known as the ʿulamāʾ ("scholars"), but among the practitioners of a more popular sect of Islam (generally associated with Sufism) there are powerful hereditary networks of holy men called pīrs, who receive great reverence (as well as gifts in cash or kind) from a multitude of followers. An established pīr may pass on his spiritual powers and sanctified authority to one or more of his murīds ("disciples"), who may then operate as pīrs in their own right. There are also many self-appointed pīrs who practice locally without being properly inducted into one of the major Sufi orders. Pīrs who occupy high positions in the pīr hierarchy wield great power and play an influential role in public affairs.
Among the basic tenets of the Aḥmadiyyah is the belief that other prophets came after Muhammad and that their leader, the 19th century's Mīrzā Ghulām Aḥmad, was called to accept a divine mission. The Aḥmadiyyah therefore appear to question Muhammad's role as the last of God's prophets. More conservative Muslims find this seeming revision of traditional belief blasphemous, and in 1974 a constitutional amendment declared the Aḥmadiyyah community to be non-Muslims. The community became the focal point of riots in the Punjab in 1953, instigated by the Islamic Assembly but also including a broad representation of religious groups. Since then the Aḥmadiyyah have experienced considerable persecution, particularly during the administration (1977–88) of Gen. Mohammad Zia ul-Haq—when they were denied all semblance of Islamic character—and they have been denied positions in the civil service and the military and often have been forced to conceal their identity.
At the time of partition, most Hindus left newly formed West Pakistan for India. In the east, wealthier Hindus also fled newly formed East Pakistan, but a sizeable minority of Hindus (nearly 10 million) stayed behind. The vast majority remained there until the civil war of 1971 (which led to the creation of Bangladesh) compelled them to seek refuge in India.
There is also a small but fairly significant population of Christians in the country. There are adherents to a variety of denominations, Roman Catholicism being the largest. Violent attacks against Christians became increasingly common during the Zia ul-Haq regime, a trend that continued afterward with the increase of religious strife.
Geographically, the population of Pakistan is distributed rather unevenly. More than half of the population is in Punjab; on the other hand, Balochistan, the largest province in terms of area, has significant areas with virtually no settled population. Likewise, within each province, the population further pools in various areas. Much of the population of Balochistan, for instance, is concentrated in the area of Quetta. The region around Karachi and the inhabited strip along the Indus River are the most densely settled areas in Sindh province. Within Punjab the population density generally decreases from northeast to southwest. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa the plain around Peshawar and Mardan is a high-density area. Broadly speaking, population density is greatest in fertile agricultural areas. Nomadism and transhumance, once common lifestyles in Pakistan, are practiced by relatively few people in the 21st century.
The traditional regions of Pakistan, shaped by ecological factors and historical evolution, are reflected in the administrative division of the country into the four provinces of Sindh, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (including the Federally Administered Tribal Areas), and Balochistan, each of which is ethnically and linguistically distinct.
In the Punjab, until the advent of irrigation, most of the population was restricted to those areas receiving more than 20 inches (500 mm) of precipitation annually, namely the Potwar Plateau and the upper Indus plain. Such areas where dry farming is practiced are referred to as barani. Later, large areas of uncultivated land in the Indus River plain of the southern Punjab were irrigated by canals and populated by colonists drawn from other parts of the province. Referred to as the Canal Colony, that area now forms the richest agricultural region of the country.
Agricultural wealth is concentrated in those barani areas around Lahore that have benefited from irrigation, together with the Canal Colony areas and Sindh province. Those regions contain most of the rural population of Pakistan and produce more than half of the country's wheat and virtually all of its cotton and rice. Landholdings are larger in the Canal Colony areas of the Punjab and in Sindh.
Elsewhere, in the overpopulated and poor districts of the barani region that do not benefit from irrigation, holdings are exceedingly small and fragmented. In those districts, there is great pressure to migrate from the villages in order to find employment in towns, to enlist in the armed forces, or to seek work abroad, particularly in the Persian Gulf states of the Middle East.
About two-thirds of the rural population of Pakistan lives in nucleated villages or hamlets (i.e., in compact groups of dwellings). Sometimes, as is generally the case in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the houses are placed in a ring with windowless outer walls, so that each complex resembles a protected fortress with a few guarded entrances. Dispersed habitation patterns in the form of isolated single homesteads are rare, occurring only in a few mountainous areas. But it is not uncommon to find numerous satellite hamlets of varying sizes near larger villages; such hamlets are occupied either by a landlord (along with his family, servants, and sharecroppers) or else by members of an extended family group living together in adjoining houses. The spread of tube wells (driven wells) in the Punjab has increased the tendency for such dispersal, for people often prefer to live near their tube wells in order to guard the valuable machinery. The concept of village, therefore, often tends to be equivalent to that of the mawzaʿ (an area of land that, together with a village and its satellite hamlets, forms a unit in land-revenue records). It is difficult to speak of an average size of village, for patterns of habitation are complex. Most groups of dwellings have a minimum of a dozen or a score of houses, and there are usually a few hundred dwellings in each "village." Large villages rarely have populations exceeding 2,500 persons.
Three basic types of village layout are to be found. Most of the older settlements are of the "spiderweb" form, having at least one focal point, such as the village mosque, some shops, or a well from which lanes radiate. A few villages follow the contours of hill slopes and other natural features. In the Canal Colony areas, villages are of a regular rectangular pattern, with a well, a mosque, and a school, as well as the house of the village headman, at the centre and with the houses being arranged in a series of concentric rectangles. Houses are built from available local materials; the vast majority are of adobe, a material that is not only cheap and reasonably durable in the dry climate but also provides better insulation from extremes of heat and cold than brick or stone. Houses usually have walled courtyards where animals are tethered and where people sleep in the open in the hot summer.
The urban population of Pakistan represents about two-fifths of the total. Two cities have a dominating position—Karachi, the capital of Sindh province (and of the country until 1959), and Lahore, the capital of Punjab. Since the 1960s, government policy has been directed toward the dispersal of industry, which had become heavily concentrated in Karachi. As a consequence, urban growth has been more evenly distributed among several cities. Karachi remains the principal port and centre of commerce and industry.
Pakistan: Urban-rural Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Rapid and unplanned urban expansion has been paralleled by a deterioration in living conditions, particularly in the housing conditions of lower-income groups. Many urban households are unable to pay rent for the cheapest form of available housing and live in shacks in makeshift communities known collectively as katchi abadis. Water supply and sewerage systems are inadequate, and in many areas residents have to share communal water taps. Inadequate urban transport is also a major problem.
Karachi experienced serious ethnic conflict between the muhajir immigrants and Sindhis and (since the late 1980s) between the Sindhis and Punjabis. Discouraged by civil strife, businesses—both industrial and commercial—began to relocate to Punjab, particularly in and around Lahore. After Karachi and Lahore, the principal cities are Faisalabad and Rawalpindi in Punjab and Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Quetta is the capital and largest city of Balochistan. The national capital, Islamabad, adjoins Rawalpindi.
Pakistan is one of the most populous countries in the world. Infant mortality has decreased, and life expectancy has increased; nearly two-thirds of the population is under 30 years of age. The birth rate is higher than the world's average, while the death rate is lower. Life expectancy is 66 years for men and 70 years for women.
Pakistan: Age breakdown Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
The overwhelming demographic fact of Pakistani history is the enormous shift of population during the country's partition from India. Millions of Hindus and Sikhs left Pakistan, and about eight million immigrants (muhajirs)—then roughly one-fourth of the country's population—arrived from India, bringing their own language (mostly Urdu), culture, and identity. Most settled in Sindh province, but muhajir pockets can be found throughout the country.
The major demographic shifts in the postindependence period have been movements within the country (largely to urban areas), the exodus of large numbers of Pakistanis to live and work abroad, and the influx of large numbers of Afghan refugees into the country beginning in the early 1980s.
The movement of people to urban areas and abroad can be tied to an overall increase in population—which has strained resources, particularly in rural areas—largely due to improved health care and dietary intake.The economies of most parts of the countryside have been unable to absorb the increased population, and many Pakistanis have turned to the cities in search of jobs. Though Karachi and Lahore are the only two cities that can properly be called megalopolises, all of the cities of Pakistan have grown rapidly in size and population since independence. Even in the cities, however, resources have been strained. Beginning in the oil boom of the 1970s, large numbers of Pakistanis traveled to the Persian Gulf states seeking work. Most found employment as unskilled labourers, traveling without their families and returning home at the end of their contracted time. Also, a great many Pakistanis—mostly among the educated professional classes—emigrated to the West, either to the United States or to the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries, but with advances in modern communications they often have kept in close contact with other family members still in Pakistan.
During the 1980s millions of Afghans fled to Pakistan during the Afghan War. Most of them settled along the two countries' shared border, although a significant number migrated to larger cities. It was only with the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in the late 1980s and, more importantly, the end of Taliban rule there in 2001 that significant numbers of Afghans were repatriated. Nevertheless, a great many have remained in refugee camps in the border areas as well as in Pakistan's cities.


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Opinion: Are the Denver Nuggets following the Colorado Rockies blueprint?
Opinion: Are the Denver Nuggets following the Colorado Rockies' blueprint?
Defense was key to the Rockies' run to the playoffs and now Nuggets are finding similar payoffs to good guarding.
In the ways that matter most, the 2018 Colorado Rockies had arguably the best full season in franchise history.
They won 92 games, tied for the most in team history, and earned their second consecutive playoff berth. They finished in a dead heat at the end of 162 games for what nearly became their first National League Western Division title and won their first play-off game since 2009 — on the road no less. While the late-season run in 2007 was magical and ended with the only World Series berth in team history, this season from start to finish was in many ways even more impressive.
And they did it with defense and pitching, not offense.
And now here come the Denver Nuggets, off to a great start to the new NBA season and apparently ready to use the same unusual formula.
As the Rockies have been known for many years as a powerful offensive team, so too have the Nuggets. Denver has had offensive-minded coaches like Doug Moe, Paul Westhead and George Karl who liked to get up and down the court. Their mentality was use the Mile High altitude to wear out your opponent. Defense? Sure, OK. Sometimes. But winning in Denver has always been about scoring points in bunches.
But if we are to trust the early Nuggets returns, this season may prove to be, like the Rockies season, a much different story.
Through their first 12 games, the Nuggets are 10-2, off to one of the best starts in team history. They've done so without really hitting their stride offensively. They've held six opponents under 100 points. That includes the two-time defending champion Golden State Warriors. Denver ranks fourth in the NBA in scoring defense and just 13th in scoring offense.
Nuggets coach Michael Malone has long been a proponent of defense. While offense comes and goes on different nights during a long season, teams that can count on a strong defense can weather most storms. Fans might be sick of hearing this, but it's proven that defenses do win championships.
While the Rockies never really found an offensive groove this past season, the Nuggets still have time to do so. They've shown flashes, like in the 115-108 win over Eastern Conference power Boston that was fueled by Jamal Murray's 48 points against one of the league's top defensive teams. Two nights later he managed just 15 points.
Denver has a capable offensive team. They also have their best player struggling on offense due to a nagging injury. Nikola Jokic has been battling problems with the fingers on his shooting hand and has been reluctant to shoot much. Still, he's been a rebounding and passing force while continuing to be one of the best big men in the NBA's Western Conference.
Jokic and the Nuggets are finding out that there's more than one way to win games. The Rockies showed them how.
Listen to Mark Knudson Monday morning at 11:30 with Brady Hull on "The Hull Show" on AM 1310 KFKA Greeley.


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From September 5 to 11, filming occurred at the fortified complex The Alcazaba of Almería and the Wall of Jayran in Almeria.[48] Production moved to Fuerteventura from September 13 through September 26, with the Corralejo Dunes National Park, Parque Holandés, El Jablito, La Oliva and The Jandía Natural Park as filming locations.[49][50] Filming in Tenerife began during the last week of September, shooting around different locations of the island for 2 weeks.[51][52]
The Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover of 1986 was designed and written with the purpose of streamlining most of DC's characters into one more-focused continuity and reinventing them for a new era, thus Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor were declared to come from the Earth-Two dimension, and along with all of their exploits, were erased from history, so that a new Wonder Woman character, story and timeline could take priority.
Wonder Woman's appearance in the early golden age of comics made her the first prominent female superheroine. The psychologist William Moulton Marston created Wonder Woman somewhat as a counter reaction to the presence of prominent male superheroes (at this time Superman, Batman and Captain America), as well as a counterbalance to the "blood curdling masculinity" that was dominant at the time, with the hopes that the character could serve as an inspiration for young children (though in certain ways it was geared more towards female readers.) Marston had been partially motivated to create this character because of the accomplishments of his own wife, who was also an accomplished academic at a time when it was difficult for women to fulfill this role. As a result, the first Wonder Woman series contained many complementary articles and features which sought to highlight the inner power of women. There were articles for instance on the different career paths that women could pursue (according to the standards of the 1940s) as well as a series of stories on famous and accomplished women, called the Wonder Women of History. Marston introduced the character in All-Star Comics #8 in 1941. She became the lead character in Sensation Comics in 1941, and got her first solo book in 1942.
The Invisible Plane appeared in the very first comic stories, including All-Star Comics #8, where it is shown as being able to fly at over 2,000 mph (3,200 km/h) and to send out rainbow rays that penetrate the mist around Paradise Island, as well as landing stealthily and having a built-in radio. Wonder Woman is seen storing the plane at an abandoned farm near Washington, D.C., in the barn; she goes there as Lt. Prince and changes clothes in some of the earliest tales. Though never explicitly stated, the Plane is presumably stored there when not in use for the rest of the Pre-Crisis era. In a story published shortly after, it flies at 40 miles (64 km) a second.[citation needed]
Wonder Woman grossed $412.6 million in the United States and Canada and $409.3 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $821.8 million, against an estimated production budget of $120–150 million.[5] Estimates for the number the film needed to surpass internationally in order to cover its production and promotional costs and break even ranged from $300 million[176] to $460 million.[177] Deadline Hollywood calculated the net profit of the film to be $252.9 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues, making it the 6th most profitable release of 2017.[178]
Following the Rebirth retcon, the "Year One" storyline explains that while put in a cell after coming to Man's World, Diana was visited by the Greek gods in animal form. Each gave her powers that would reveal themselves when she needed them to. She first displays strength when she accidentally rips the bars off her cell door when visited by Steve Trevor, Etta Candy, and Barbara Ann Minerva. Later on a trip to the mall, she discovers super speed, great durability, and the power of flight while fighting off a terrorist attack.
CBS ultimately decided to move The Incredible Hulk up to the Friday 8:00 hour from 9:00 to introduce the new series The Dukes of Hazzard, but no further episodes of Wonder Woman were produced due to the lack of new cast members for a fourth season and low ratings. After her first musical television special, Carter gave up the role to focus more on her musical career.[citation needed]
Wonder Woman's character was created during World War II; the character in the story was initially depicted fighting Axis military forces as well as an assortment of colorful supervillains, although over time her stories came to place greater emphasis on characters, deities, and monsters from Greek mythology. Many stories depicted Wonder Woman rescuing herself from bondage, which defeated the "damsels in distress" trope that was common in comics during the 1940s.[13][14] In the decades since her debut, Wonder Woman has gained a cast of enemies bent on eliminating the Amazon, including classic villains such as Ares, Cheetah, Doctor Poison, Circe, Doctor Psycho, and Giganta, along with more recent adversaries such as Veronica Cale and the First Born. Wonder Woman has also regularly appeared in comic books featuring the superhero teams Justice Society (from 1941) and Justice League (from 1960).[15]
Hermes, the messenger god of speed, granted Diana superhuman speed and the ability to fly.[183] She is capable of flying at speeds approaching half the speed of light.[181] She can react quickly enough to deflect bullets, lasers, and other projectiles with her virtually impenetrable bracelets. After the 2011 relaunch of the character, Wonder Woman does not naturally possess the power of flight. She gains it once she is hit by a feather thrown by Hermes.[184][185][better source needed]
Development of a live action Wonder Woman film began in 1996, with Ivan Reitman slated to produce and possibly direct. The project floundered in development hell for many years; Jon Cohen, Todd Alcott, and Joss Whedon, among others, were also attached to the project at various points. Warner Bros. announced the film in 2010 and Jenkins signed on to direct in 2015. Inspiration for Wonder Woman was drawn from Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston's 1940s stories and George Pérez's 1980s stories about Wonder Woman, as well as the New 52 incarnation of the character. Principal photography began on November 21, 2015, with filming taking place in the United Kingdom, France, and Italy before finishing on May 6, 2016, the 123rd anniversary of Marston's birth. Additional filming took place in November 2016.
In Wonder Woman Vol. 1 #204, Diana's powers and costume were returned to her and she is once again reinstated as Wonder Woman.[94] I-Ching is killed by a crazy sniper in the same issue.[96] Later, Diana meets her sister Nubia, who is Hippolyta's daughter fashioned out of dark clay (hence Nubia's dark complexion).[97][98] Nubia claimed to be the "Wonder Woman of The Floating Island", and she challenges Diana to a duel which ends in a draw.[98] Returning to her home, Nubia would have further adventures involving Diana.[97]
Wonder Woman is a fictional superheroine, appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character is a founding member of the Justice League. The character first appeared in All Star Comics #8 in October 1941[1] with her first feature in Sensation Comics #1, January 1942. The Wonder Woman title has been published by DC Comics almost continuously except for a brief hiatus in 1986.[3] In her homeland, the island nation of Themyscira, her official title is Princess Diana of Themyscira, Daughter of Hippolyta. She has no father; she was created out of clay and brought to life by the gods of Olympus. When blending into the society outside of her homeland, she sometimes adopts her civilian identity Diana Prince.[4]
When she is preparing for the final game (Teaming up with Supergirl, Starfire, Bumblebee and Batgirl against Lobo, Maxima, Bleez, Mongal and Blackfire), the competition is interrupted by Lena Luthor. Wonder Woman starts putting civilians safe, including the Embassador, who, out of fear, orders her to star with him to protect him. She refuses and returns to the batlle, angering the Embassador. She fight Lena and then Brainiac. Upon their defeat, Wonder Woman rejoins with her mother, thinking she dissapointed her by no following the Embassador orders, but Hippolyta is proud instead, stating that Wonder Woman will be an amazing Queen.
On November 3, 2016, Rupert Gregson-Williams was hired to write and compose the film's music.[138][139] He was joined by Evan Jolly, Tom Howe,[140] Paul Mounsey,[141] and Andrew Kawczynski,[142] who provided additional music. The soundtrack was released on CD, digital, and vinyl the same day as the film.[143] Australian musician Sia sang a song for the film, titled "To Be Human", featuring English musician Labrinth. Written by Florence Welch and Rick Nowels, the track is also featured on the soundtrack.[144] The soundtrack also features samples from Wonder Woman's theme "Is She with You" from the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice soundtrack composed by Hans Zimmer and Junkie XL.
Wonder Woman figures were released for Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. Prior to that, there were plans for a show called Wonder Woman and the Star Riders, which similar to Sailor Moon, would have featured Wonder Woman leading a team of teen magical girls. Prototype dolls for the series were made. There was also a statue from the animated Wonder Woman movie and a Wonder Woman action figure for the Justice League War movie. Wonder Woman dolls and figures were also released for the DC Super Hero Girls line.
As early as the 1950s,[210] Wonder Woman's tiara has also been used as a razor-edged throwing weapon, returning to her like a boomerang.[183] The tiara allows Wonder Woman to be invulnerable from telepathic attacks, as well as allowing her to telepathically contact people such as the Amazons back on Themyscira using the power of the red star ruby in its center.[63]
Orion brings them to New Genesis where Diana has learned she has been in a coma for three days.Angered by this, she goes to talk to Highfather but realizes that in doing so, he saved her life. He informs her Orion is meditating in order to control his anger. After a heart to heart talk among each other, Diana finds out that Highfather will allow them to escape, on the condition that they surrender the baby. Diana, disappointed tries to remind Orion what she's done for him. Orion apologizes to Highfather and follows them through the boomtube with Zeke in tow, although Highfather says that their is no need.
Issue #600 introduced Wonder Woman to an alternate timeline created by the Gods in which Themyscira had been destroyed and the Amazons scattered around the world.[42] In this timeline, Diana is an orphan raised in New York who is learning to cope with her powers. The entire world has forgotten Wonder Woman's existence and the main story of this run was of Diana trying to restore reality even though she does not properly remember it herself.[126] Diana has no memories of her prior adventures as Wonder Woman, recollecting her memories in bits and pieces and receiving different abilities and resources (such as the power of flight and her lasso) during the progression of her adventure. A trio of Death Goddesses called The Morrigan acted as Wonder Woman's main enemies.[127] Diana ultimately defeats the evil goddesses and returns everything back to normal.[128]
Artemis of Bana-Mighdall briefly served as Wonder Woman during Hippolyta's trials for a new Wonder Woman. Orana, a character similar to Artemis, defeated Diana in a new contest and became Wonder Woman in pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths continuity. Orana was killed during her first mission. Others who have donned the Wonder Woman persona include Nubia, Cassandra Sandsmark, and Donna Troy.
Wonder Woman was legally barred from appearing in the first few seasons of the Batman: The Brave and the Bold, but made a cameo from behind in the episode "Sidekicks Assemble!" She later made a full appearance in the final season during the episode "Scorn of the Star Sapphire!," and played a main role in the episode "Triumvirate of Terror!" In the show, she was voiced by Vicki Lewis.
At the end of the 1960s, under the guidance of Mike Sekowsky, Wonder Woman surrendered her powers in order to remain in Man's World rather than accompany her fellow Amazons to another dimension. Wonder Woman begins using the alias Diana Prince and opens a mod boutique. She acquires a Chinese mentor named I Ching, who teaches Diana martial arts and weapons skills. Using her fighting skill instead of her powers, Diana engaged in adventures that encompassed a variety of genres, from espionage to mythology.[35][36] This phase of her story was directly influenced by the British spy thriller The Avengers and Diana Rigg's portrayal of Emma Peel.[37]
Wonder Woman was also allowed to become a bit more physical in the third season and could now be seen throwing the occasional punch or kick. The writers also came up with several unusual ways for Diana to execute her spinning transformation, the most notable instances occurring in the episode "Stolen Faces" in which Diana makes the change while falling off a tall building, and the season two episode "The Pied Piper" in which she changes while strapped into a spinning chair.
I thought George's one "mistake" in rebooting Wonder Woman was making her only 25 years old when she left Paradise Island. I preferred the idea of a Diana who was thousands of years old (as, if I recall correctly, she was in the TV series). From that angle, I would have liked to have seen Diana having been Wonder Woman in WW2, and be returning to our world in the reboot. Not having that option, I took the next best course, and had Hippolyta fill that role.[81]
As a child, Steve Jr. had heard his late father's stories of adventures with Wonder Woman during World War II.[8] It is essentially confirmed in the second season première that his father never introduced him to Wonder Woman and that he had never even seen her photographed. It is similarly implied that he and YN1 Diana Prince were unaware of each other. Diana is taken aback by the younger Steve's existence, implying that his father had never spoken of the boy to either Wonder Woman or YN1 Prince. This was particularly striking when she spoke to Steve Jr. about knowing his father well, from the j-shaped burn scar on his right shoulder, to the 20mm shell casing that he used as a paperweight.
Pre-production officially began by early December 2017 in the United Kingdom.[27] That same month, director Patty Jenkins stated that the film would be another great love story with a new love interest being introduced.[28] In April 2018, the film was confirmed to be set in the 1980s.[29] The next month, production designer Aline Bonetto (Amélie, Wonder Woman) was announced to be returning for the sequel, as well as Academy Award winner Lindy Hemming, also returning as costume designer.[30]
The New 52 relaunch of DC's main titles was controversial, to be sure. However, most fans agree that at least a few gems came out of that line. One of them was certainly the New 52 Wonder Woman. With the art by Cliff Chiang and storyline by Brian Azzarello, the Blood storyline that started Wonder Woman's New 52 tenure was not just a brilliant iteration of a familiar character for comic book fans, but a great jumping-on point for anyone not entirely familiar with Diana's characters.
After Sekowsky's run ended in the early 1970s, Diana's roots were reverted to her old mythological ones and she wore a more modernized version of her original outfit, a predecessor to her "bathing suit" outfit.[194] Later, in 1976, her glowing white belt was turned into a yellow one.[194] For Series 3, artist Terry Dodson redrew her outfit as a strapless swimsuit.[195]
In 2010, Warner Bros. stated that a Wonder Woman film was in development, along with films based on DC Comics superheroes the Flash and Aquaman.[83] Both Wonder Woman and Aquaman were still under consideration for solo film subjects as of June 2013.[84] DC Entertainment president Diane Nelson said Wonder Woman "has been, since I started, one of the top three priorities for DC and for Warner Bros. We are still trying right now, but she's tricky."[85] On October 5, 2013, WB chairman and CEO Kevin Tsujihara said he wanted to get Wonder Woman in a film or on TV.[86] Shortly afterward, Paul Feig said he had pitched the studio an idea for Wonder Woman as an action-comedy film.[87][88] The studio then began to search for female directors to direct the film.[89] While Michelle MacLaren was the studio's initial choice to direct (and while she initially indicated interest),[90][91][92] she eventually left the project due to creative differences.[93]
Since Waggoner returned in a technically new role, Diana's mother Hippolyta was the only other first season character to be seen or mentioned, though she was played by a new actress, Beatrice Straight, succeeding Carolyn Jones and Cloris Leachman in the role. The post-war fates of General Phil Blankenship, Etta Candy, and Drusilla / Wonder Girl were never revealed.
Gloria Steinem also liked the film, stating that she felt it made the "Amazon origin story clear; [Wonder Woman] was stopping war, not perpetuating it." Steinem also noted that she knew "some women were disappointed by all the makeup, but I may be desperate—I was just happy that the Amazons had wild hair!" Her only complaint lay in the choice to eliminate the World War II setting as the Wonder Woman comic book developed in response to existing comics that were "so sadistic and racist that there was a congressional hearing on the subject".[251] Steinem also gave Hillary Clinton the first Wonder Woman Award in October 2017 during the Women's Media Center's "Speaking Truth to Power Awards" (an organization created by Steinem, Jane Fonda, and Robin Morgan). Upon receiving the award, Clinton noted that she had seen Jenkins's Wonder Woman film and that she "loved the outfit". She also said that as her granddaughter was "really keen" on Wonder Woman, Clinton "thought maybe I could borrow something from her for the night. It didn't quite work for me, but I will say that this award means a lot to me because as a little girl, and then as a young woman, and then as a slightly older woman, I always wondered when Wonder Woman would have her time, and now that has happened."[252] Clinton had previously praised Jenkins's film, in a public August 2017 message, stating that "it was just as inspirational as I'd suspected a movie about a strong, powerful woman in a fight to save the world from international disaster would be."[253][254][255]
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Jerry Fogel, Actor on 'The Mothers-in-Law,' Dies at 83
1:49 PM PDT 10/23/2019 by Mike Barnes
NBC/Photofest
Jerry Fogel with Deborah Walley on 'The Mothers-in-Law'
He played the newlywed husband of Deborah Walley's Suzie on the 1960s NBC comedy.
Jerry Fogel, who portrayed one-half of the newlywed couple hounded by the meddling Kaye Ballard and Eve Arden on the 1960s NBC comedy The Mothers-in-Law, has died. He was 83.
Fogel died Monday at a hospice facility in Kansas City, Missouri, his family announced. He was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2008.
The lanky 6-foot-3 actor also played Lt. Commander William Outerbridge in Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and was Ken Howard's brother-in-law, Bill Donahue, on the CBS high-school basketball drama The White Shadow.
Fogel quit his job as a popular rock 'n' roll DJ in his native Rochester, New York, signed with William Morris and came to Hollywood before landing the role of Jerry Buell on The Mothers-in-Law, created by I Love Lucy writers Bob Carroll and Madelyn Pugh Davis and produced by Desi Arnaz.
On the 1967-69 show, Jerry and Suzie Hubbard (Deborah Walley) elope and move in with her parents (Arden and Herbert Rudley) in their garage apartment. Right next door are Buell's folks, portrayed by Ballard and Roger C. Carmel. (When Carmel quit the show after seeking a raise, Richard Deacon stepped in for the second season.) The two sets of parents can't help but muck things up, especially when the young couple have twins.
Born on Jan. 17, 1936, Jerome Fogel was the son of a theater owner in Rochester. He attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and West Point, then spun records on radio station WBBF before deciding to try acting.
"I remember telling my wife, 'This is something I am just going to have to do,'" he recalled in 2016. "I was very naive. She was willing to go along with it. … If I hadn't done that, I would have lived the rest of my life saying, 'What if?'" They had two young sons at the time.
In 1966, Fogel made his onscreen debut on an installment of The Big Valley and appeared in the first episode of That Girl.
After The Mothers-in-Law, Fogel showed up on such shows as Ironside; Love, American Style; Room 222; Here's Lucy; Barnaby Jones; Marcus Welby, M.D.; The Mary Tyler Moore Show; and The Bob Newhart Show and in the 1975 movie The Day of the Locust. He recurred on The White Shadow starting in 1978.
When his acting career ended, the Leawood, Kansas, resident returned to his roots, co-hosting a radio talk show in Kansas City.
Survivors include his wife, Sandy; sons David, Mark and Ross; and grandchildren Madeline, Derek, Max and Mila.
Mike Barnes
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Maersk and Rickmers: Maersk Tigris released
According to both Maersk Line and Rickmers Shipmanagement, the Iranian authorities released detained container vessel Maersk Tigris after more than one week in Iranian waters.
BY RITZAU FINANS, REUTERS AND SHIPPINGWATCH
Both Maersk Line and Rickmers Shipmanagement confirm on Thursday that container vessel Maersk Tigris has been released by the Iranian and authorities and is no longer sailing in Iranian waters.
Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported earlier today that detained container ship Maersk Tigris had been released. Maersk Line and Rickmers Shipmanagent have confirmed the information.
News agency AP reported that Iran was likely prepared to release the seafarers on board the Maersk Tigris within two days, said a spokeswoman from Iran's Ministry of Foreign affairs, though under the condition that Maersk Line pays a fine related to an old case concerning unclaimed cargo.
The freight case dates all the day back to 2005 where Maersk sailed ten containers to Dubai on behalf of an Iranian company. The containers were never collected at the port by any of the parties and local authorities confiscated the cargo after 90 days.
This caused the Iranian company to sue Maersk and on the 18th of February 2015, Maersk was sentenced to pay USD 136,000.
However, this was not good enough for the Iranian company which wanted more money from Maersk. And now it seems that the court may have decided that Maersk must pay USD 3.6 million in damages for the lost cargo back in 2005.
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Maersk Line was in contact with the Iranian courts and the PMO again on Wednesday concerning the delicate case.
Maersk Line announced in a brief statement Tuesday that the crew on Maersk Tigris was in good spirits, and that the company was in contact with the Iranian courts. The carrier had at time not yet received any form of written documentation for the surprising detainment of the vessel, including any court rulings, arrest orders or similar documents that could be the foundation for the arrest of Maersk Tigris.
Maersk Tigris' route through the Strait of Hormuz (the green line). Click here for bigger graphic
Maersk Tigris sails under the Marshall Islands flag, an independent republic in the Pacific over which the US holds full security responsible.
Hans Tino Hansen, CEO of Risk Intelligence, pointed to three possible scenarios in relation to the incident, the first of which he described as the most frightening one, though perhaps also the most unlikely.
"That scenario would be if a civil lawsuit is in fact the reason this ship was arrested. Because in that case, all parties with even the slightest ties to business relations in the country could face a potential risk of a similar incident. In this case, one could ask why the Iranians would pick a ship that in fact has nothing to do with Maersk Line beyond the fact that the carrier has chartered it. They could have picked a light blue ship, as they were looking at the week before, but maybe it was because the Maersk Kensington was sailing under US-flag that nothing more came of it," said Hans Tino Hansen in an interview with ShippingWatch.
Find the other two scenarios in the interview here
The crew on Maersk Tigris consists of 25 men primarily from Eastern Europe and Asia as well as one British citizen.
Iran to release seafarers once Maersk has paid
Maersk in talks with Iranian courts for detained ship
Maersk opting to be "more cautious" at Iran
US Navy escorts British ships past Iran


AE Techron, was founded as Audio Electronics Inc., in August of 1992, by former employees of the Techron division of Crown.
Its purpose has been to create high-quality, durable electronic products for research, the military and industry—including EMC testing, MRI/NMR and the power relay test industries.
Out of this work has come lines of reliable power amplifiers, test systems and test and measurement products, and an inventory of electronic building blocks that helps us to provide quick-to-market custom electronic solutions for our customers.


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Q: Objective C Core Plot Fixed Y Axis for Bar Graph I'm trying to create a class that I can use to create bar, pie, and line graphs using the Core Plot library for an iOS application. I want to create some standardization in this class so that I only have to change a few options for each view controller that inherits my graph class. I have the pie graphs working the way I want, but I'm having issues with the bar graphs. I want a bar graph that is horizontal and where the Y axis is fixed for each plot based on how many plots there are.
Code:
enum
{
    PieGraph = 0,
    LineGraph,
    BarGraph
};

Graph.h:
#import "CorePlot-CocoaTouch.h"
#import "BaseViewController.h"

CPTGraphHostingView *hostView;

CPTTheme *selectedTheme;

/*************** graphing options *******************/

int graphType;
int fillPercentage;

CGFloat xMax;
CGFloat yMax;

NSString *graphTitle;
NSString *xAxisTitle;
NSString *yAxisTitle;

BOOL graphOnBottom;

@interface Graph : BaseViewController<CPTPlotDataSource, UIActionSheetDelegate, CPTBarPlotDataSource, CPTBarPlotDelegate>

/*************** Methods *****************/

// graphing methods
-(void)initPlot;
-(void)configureHost;
-(void)configureGraph;
-(void)configureChart;
-(void)configureLegend;
-(void)configurePlots;
-(void)configureAxes;

@end

Graph.m:
#import "Graph.h"

@implementation Graph

-(void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super viewDidAppear:animated];
    [self initPlot];
}

/************************ Methods *************************/

// initialize the entire graph plot
-(void)initPlot
{
    [self configureHost];
    [self configureGraph];
    if (graphType == PieGraph)
    {
        [self configureChart];
        [self configureLegend];
    }
    else if (graphType == BarGraph)
    {
        [self configurePlots];
        [self configureAxes];
    }
}

// configure the host
-(void)configureHost
{
    CGRect parentRect = self.view.bounds;

    int maxHeight = (parentRect.size.height - 55);
    int height = (maxHeight - ((100 - fillPercentage) * maxHeight / 100));

    int yPosition;
    if (graphOnBottom) yPosition = (maxHeight - height + 55);
    else yPosition = 55;

    parentRect = CGRectMake(parentRect.origin.x, yPosition, parentRect.size.width, height);

    hostView = [(CPTGraphHostingView *) [CPTGraphHostingView alloc] initWithFrame:parentRect];
    hostView.allowPinchScaling = NO;

    [self.view addSubview:hostView];
}

// configure the graph
-(void)configureGraph
{
    CPTGraph *graph = [[CPTXYGraph alloc] initWithFrame:hostView.bounds];
    hostView.hostedGraph = graph;

    if (graphType == PieGraph)
    {
        graph.paddingLeft = 0.0f;
        graph.paddingTop = 0.0f;
        graph.paddingRight = 0.0f;
        graph.paddingBottom = 0.0f;
        graph.axisSet = nil;
    }
    else if (graphType == BarGraph)
    {
        graph.plotAreaFrame.masksToBorder = NO;

        if ([xAxisTitle isEqualToString:@""]) graph.paddingBottom = 0.0f;
        else graph.paddingBottom = 30.0f;
        if ([yAxisTitle isEqualToString:@""]) graph.paddingLeft = 0.0f;
        else graph.paddingLeft = 30.0f;
        graph.paddingTop = 0.0f;
        graph.paddingRight = 0.0f;

        CPTXYPlotSpace *plotSpace = (CPTXYPlotSpace *) graph.defaultPlotSpace;
        plotSpace.xRange = [CPTPlotRange plotRangeWithLocation:CPTDecimalFromCGFloat(0.0f) length:CPTDecimalFromCGFloat(xMax)];
        plotSpace.yRange = [CPTPlotRange plotRangeWithLocation:CPTDecimalFromCGFloat(0.0f) length:CPTDecimalFromCGFloat(yMax)];
    }
    else if (graphType == LineGraph)
    {

    }

    CPTMutableTextStyle *textStyle = [CPTMutableTextStyle textStyle];
    textStyle.color = [CPTColor blackColor];
    textStyle.fontName = @"Helvetica-Bold";
    textStyle.fontSize = 12.0f;

    graph.title = graphTitle;
    graph.titleTextStyle = textStyle;
    graph.titlePlotAreaFrameAnchor = CPTRectAnchorTop;

    selectedTheme = [CPTTheme themeNamed:kCPTPlainWhiteTheme];
    [graph applyTheme:selectedTheme];
}

// configure the chart
-(void)configureChart
{
    CPTGraph *graph = hostView.hostedGraph;

    CPTGradient *overlayGradient = [[CPTGradient alloc] init];
    overlayGradient.gradientType = CPTGradientTypeRadial;
    overlayGradient = [overlayGradient addColorStop:[[CPTColor blackColor] colorWithAlphaComponent:0.0] atPosition:0.9];
    overlayGradient = [overlayGradient addColorStop:[[CPTColor blackColor] colorWithAlphaComponent:0.4] atPosition:1.0];

    CPTPieChart *pieChart = [[CPTPieChart alloc] init];

    pieChart.dataSource = self;
    pieChart.delegate = self;
    pieChart.pieRadius = (hostView.bounds.size.height * 0.7) / 2.5;
    pieChart.identifier = graph.title;
    pieChart.startAngle = M_PI_4;
    pieChart.sliceDirection = CPTPieDirectionClockwise;

    pieChart.overlayFill = [CPTFill fillWithGradient:overlayGradient];

    [graph addPlot:pieChart];
}

// configure plots
-(void)configurePlots
{
    CPTGraph *graph = hostView.hostedGraph;

    if (graphType == BarGraph)
    {
        CPTMutableLineStyle *barLineStyle = [[CPTMutableLineStyle alloc] init];
        barLineStyle.lineColor = [CPTColor lightGrayColor];
        barLineStyle.lineWidth = 0.5;

        CPTBarPlot *bar = [CPTBarPlot tubularBarPlotWithColor:[CPTColor redColor] horizontalBars:YES];

        bar.dataSource = self;
        bar.delegate = self;
        bar.barWidth = CPTDecimalFromFloat(2.5f);
        bar.barOffset = CPTDecimalFromFloat(2.5f);
        bar.identifier = @"redBar";

        bar.lineStyle = barLineStyle;

        CPTBarPlot *bar2 = [CPTBarPlot tubularBarPlotWithColor:[CPTColor greenColor] horizontalBars:YES];

        bar2.dataSource = self;
        bar2.delegate = self;
        bar2.barWidth = CPTDecimalFromFloat(2.5f);
        bar2.barOffset = CPTDecimalFromFloat(2.5f);
        bar2.identifier = @"greenBar";

        bar2.lineStyle = barLineStyle;

        [graph addPlot:bar toPlotSpace:graph.defaultPlotSpace];
        [graph addPlot:bar2 toPlotSpace:graph.defaultPlotSpace];
    }
    else if (graphType == LineGraph)
    {

    }
}

// configure axes
-(void)configureAxes
{
    if (graphType == BarGraph)
    {
        CPTMutableTextStyle *axisTitleStyle = [CPTMutableTextStyle textStyle];
        axisTitleStyle.color = [CPTColor blackColor];
        axisTitleStyle.fontName = @"Helvetica-Bold";
        axisTitleStyle.fontSize = 12.0f;
        CPTMutableLineStyle *axisLineStyle = [CPTMutableLineStyle lineStyle];
        axisLineStyle.lineWidth = 2.0f;
        axisLineStyle.lineColor = [[CPTColor blackColor] colorWithAlphaComponent:1];

        CPTXYAxisSet *axisSet = (CPTXYAxisSet *) hostView.hostedGraph.axisSet;

        axisSet.xAxis.labelingPolicy = CPTAxisLabelingPolicyNone;
        axisSet.xAxis.title = xAxisTitle;
        axisSet.xAxis.titleTextStyle = axisTitleStyle;
        axisSet.xAxis.titleOffset = 5.0f;
        axisSet.xAxis.axisLineStyle = axisLineStyle;

        axisSet.yAxis.labelingPolicy = CPTAxisLabelingPolicyNone;
        axisSet.yAxis.title = yAxisTitle;
        axisSet.yAxis.titleTextStyle = axisTitleStyle;
        axisSet.yAxis.titleOffset = 5.0f;
        axisSet.yAxis.axisLineStyle = axisLineStyle;
    }
    else if (graphType == LineGraph)
    {

    }
}

// configure the legend
-(void)configureLegend
{
    CPTGraph *graph = hostView.hostedGraph;

    CPTLegend *legend = [CPTLegend legendWithGraph:graph];

    legend.numberOfColumns = 1;
    legend.fill = [CPTFill fillWithColor:[CPTColor whiteColor]];
    legend.borderLineStyle = [CPTLineStyle lineStyle];
    legend.cornerRadius = 5.0;

    graph.legend = legend;
    graph.legendAnchor = CPTRectAnchorBottomLeft;
    //CGFloat legendPadding = -(self.view.bounds.size.width / 8);
    graph.legendDisplacement = CGPointMake(3.0, 3.0);
}

@end

And finally the view controller class I am testing all of this on:
TestView.h:
#import "Graph.h"

NSArray *channel;

int offline;
int online;

@interface TestView : Graph

/*************** Methods *****************/

// back button
- (IBAction)backButtonClicked:(id)sender;

// handle view load
-(void) handleViewLoad;

// set arrays
-(void)setArrays;

@end

TestView.m:
#import "TestView.h"

@interface TestView ()

@end

@implementation TestView

- (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil
{
    self = [super initWithNibName:nibNameOrNil bundle:nibBundleOrNil];
    if (self) {
        // Custom initialization
    }
    return self;
}

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view.
    [self handleViewLoad];
}

- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning
{
    [super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
    // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}

- (IBAction)backButtonClicked:(id)sender
{
    [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
}

/*************** graph things ****************/

-(NSUInteger)numberOfRecordsForPlot:(CPTPlot *)plot
{
    return 1;
}

-(NSNumber*)numberForPlot:(CPTPlot *)plot field:(NSUInteger)fieldEnum recordIndex:(NSUInteger)idx
{
    int returnVal = 0;
    NSLog([NSString stringWithFormat:@"idx: %d", idx]);
    /*switch (idx)
    {
        case 0:
            for (int x = 0; x < [channel count]; x++)
            {
                if ([channel[x] integerValue] == 20) returnVal ++;
            }
            offline = returnVal;
            return [NSNumber numberWithInt:returnVal];
            break;

        case 1:
            for (int x = 0; x < [channel count]; x++)
            {
                if ([channel[x] integerValue] != 20) returnVal ++;
            }
            online = returnVal;
            return [NSNumber numberWithInt:returnVal];
            break;
    }*/
    if ([plot.identifier isEqual:@"greenBar"])
    {
        for (int x = 0; x < [channel count]; x++)
        {
            if ([channel[x] integerValue] != 20) returnVal ++;
        }
        online = returnVal;
        return [NSNumber numberWithInt:returnVal];
    }
    else if ([plot.identifier isEqual:@"redBar"])
    {
        for (int x = 0; x < [channel count]; x++)
        {
            if ([channel[x] integerValue] == 20) returnVal ++;
        }
        offline = returnVal;
        return [NSNumber numberWithInt:returnVal];
    }
    return 0;
}

-(CPTLayer*)dataLabelForPlot:(CPTPlot *)plot recordIndex:(NSUInteger)idx
{
    /*switch (idx)
    {
        case 0:
            return [[CPTTextLayer alloc] initWithText:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Offline: %d", offline]];
            break;

        default:
            return [[CPTTextLayer alloc] initWithText:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Online: %d", online]];
            break;
    }*/

    if ([plot.identifier isEqual:@"greenBar"])
    {
        return [[CPTTextLayer alloc] initWithText:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Online: %d", online]];
    }
    else if ([plot.identifier isEqual:@"redBar"])
    {
        return [[CPTTextLayer alloc] initWithText:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Offline: %d", offline]];
    }
    return nil;
}

-(NSString*)legendTitleForPieChart:(CPTPieChart*)pieChart recordIndex:(NSUInteger)idx
{
    switch (idx)
    {
        case 0:
            return @"Offline";
            break;

        default:
            return @"Online";
            break;
    }

    return @"";
}

// handle view load
-(void)handleViewLoad
{
    session = [BaseViewController getSession];
    [self setArrays];

    graphType = BarGraph;
    fillPercentage = 50;
    graphOnBottom = NO;
    graphTitle = @"Coordinators Online/Offline";
    xAxisTitle = @"Number of Devices";
    yAxisTitle = @"";
    xMax = (CGFloat)([channel count] + ([channel count] * 0.30f));
    yMax = (CGFloat)([channel count] + ([channel count] * 0.30f));

    [self initPlot];
}

// set arrays
-(void)setArrays
{
    channel = [Json extractCoordinatorChannel:session];
}

@end

Here are some examples of what my graphs look like:

As you can see, the issue is that both the x and y axes are changing based on the value. I need only the x axis to change, and the y axis to be fixed for each plot.

A: The datasource should check the fieldEnum parameter to see which data field (bar location or bar tip) is being requested.
switch ( fieldEnum ) {
    case CPTBarPlotFieldBarLocation:
        returnVal = /* y value */;
        break;

    case CPTBarPlotFieldBarTip:
        returnVal = /* x value */;
        break;

    default:
        break;
}

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GAO report cites lack of coordination on rail security
(The following story by Alice Lipowicz appeared on the Washington Technology website on October 10.)
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The federal government�s efforts to protect mass transit systems from terrorists are disjointed and do not receive enough input from system owners, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
At least four federal agencies promote rail security. The lead agency, the Transportation Security Administration, has not yet completed its vulnerability and risk assessment for mass transit systems, GAO said in the report, issued Oct. 7.
As of July, TSA had not yet finished a risk assessment for the passenger rail sector, nor had it developed a method on how to rank and compare risks. Furthermore, the agency had not collaborated sufficiently with mass transit system operators to get the information it needs to complete the risk assessments.
�Until both of these efforts have been accomplished, in collaboration with rail industry stakeholders, TSA will not be able to prioritize passenger rail assets based on risk and help guide investment decisions to protect them,� GAO said in the report.
After the Madrid subway bombings in March 2004, TSA issued emergency instructions to the 32 U.S. mass transit systems that carry 11 million passengers a day. In October 2004, TSA completed an overall threat assessment for mass transit, passenger rail and freight rail systems. As of May 2005, TSA had performed individual assessments on 700 transit stations and 73 bridges and tunnels, but 370 assessments remained to be completed, GAO said.
Other federal agencies, including the Homeland Security Department�s Office for Domestic Preparedness, and the Transportation Department�s Federal Transit and Federal Railroad administrations, are working separately to promote mass transit security. As of July, the domestic preparedness office had finished seven risk assessments, and expected to do 12 more.
Sometimes the agencies� guidelines are conflicting, such as TSA�s post-Madrid order that rail engineer compartment doors be locked, which runs counter to the Federal Railroad Administration rules, GAO said. While the departments of Homeland Security and Transportation have signed a memorandum to work together and have begun doing so, there is no timetable for implementing agreements, GAO said.
The Homeland Security Department expects to release an updated National Infrastructure Protection Plan in November, and TSA is expected to issue a rail security plan in February 2006. Until those efforts are completed, it may not be possible to prioritize and rank the risks facing mass transit systems, compared to the risks of attacks on other sectors, such as water, energy, health care and financial services, GAO said.
Meanwhile, operators of the 32 mass transit systems are installing new closed-circuit TV, emergency phone and access control systems for sensitive areas such as tunnels and control rooms, among other measures to heighten security, GAO said in the report.
Closed-circuit TV systems have been installed or upgraded in 29 systems. One system, New Jersey Transit, has deployed �smart� video that sounds an alarm indicating a significant event, such as when a package has been left unattended. Several other operators expressed interest in smart video systems, the GAO said.
Twenty-three of the 32 mass transit systems had installed or upgraded access control systems to sensitive areas such as tunnels, employee-only areas and control rooms; 22 have removed trash bins to prevent bombs from being placed in those containers; and 18 have upgraded or installed new emergency phone systems, GAO said.
GAO recommended that the federal government and mass transit agencies consider measures being taken in Europe and Asia, including conducting covert testing of the system by placing suspicious packages for employees to find, providing a central clearinghouse on best practices and technologies available for security, and conducting random screening of passengers and their belongings.


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May 17, 2007 By David Burn
Derek Powazek, the founder of JPG Magazine and long time member of the technorati has been forced out by his business partners. Believing as he does in radical transparency, he chose to detail some of the sordid details on his blog.
Unfortunately, issue 10 will be the last one that Heather and I will have a hand in. We are no longer working for JPG Magazine or 8020 Publishing.
Why? The reasons are complicated, and the purpose of this post is not to air dirty laundry – it's just to let the community know why the founders of JPG are no longer there. We owe you that much.
In one evening, Paul removed issues 1-6 from the JPG website, removed Heather from the About page, and deleted the "Letter from the Editors" that had lived on the site since day one. Paul informed me that we were inventing a new story about how JPG came to be that was all about 8020. He told me not to speak of that walk in Buena Vista, my wife, or anything that came before 8020.
Here's where the whole "not lying" thing comes in. I just could not agree to this new story. It didn't, and still doesn't, make any business sense to me. Good publishing companies embrace their founding editors and community, not erase them. Besides, we'd published six issues with participation from thousands of people. There's no good reason to be anything but proud of that.
Paul Cloutier, JPG's current Editor and Publisher and former friend of the Powazek's, says in return, "We have no intention of rewriting the history of JPG Magazine. Derek and the contributors behind the early issues are a critical part of who we are and the heritage of JPG magazine is not something to be erased or forgotten."
Who to believe? Hard to say. What's easy to say is Derek and Heather are superstars in their world. So their take is likely to be the one adopted as "reality."
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Samuel H. Smith  amerikai oktatási vezető, valamint a Washingtoni Állami Egyetem nyolcadik rektora.

Smith 1940. február 6-án született a Kalifornia állambeli Salinasben. Samuel BSc-diplomáját és doktori képesítését a Kaliforniai Egyetem berkeley-i kampuszának növénypatológia szakán szerezte, továbbá tiszteletbeli doktori fokozattal rendelkezik a tokiói Nihon Egyetemről és a vlagyivosztoki Távol-keleti Szövetségi Egyetemről.

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Smith legjelentősebb tette a WSU Tri-Cities-i, spokane-i és vancouveri kampuszának létrehozása, valamint a távoktatási programok alapjainak lefektetése. Az egyetem Samuel vezetése alatt növekedésnek indult, egyben nemzetközi hírnévre tett szert; a férfi prioritásai közé tartozott a nők és a kisebbségekhez tartozók arányának növelése.

A rektor által vezetett kampánynak köszönhetően az egyetem az eredeti 250 milliós célt meghaladva 275,4 millió dolláros támogatást szerzett a magánszektoron keresztül. A gyűjtésnek köszönhetően ösztöndíjprogramok indultak, valamint növelték a munkavállalók számát, és technológiai fejlesztéseket is végrehajtottak.

Smith 1997–99 között a National Collegiate Athletic Association vezetői tanácsának elnöke volt.

2000-ben a férfi az állami fenntartású egyetemeket tömörítő szervezet igazgatótanácsának elnöke, valamint a Kellogg fejlesztési tanács tagja lett, amely pozíciót június 8-ig tartott meg; visszavonulása után Seattle-ben egy WSU-kirendeltséget nyitott; feleségével, Patriciával jelenleg is a városban élnek.

Samuel később a Nyugati Kormányzati Egyetem (melynek a WSU is alapítója) kuratóriumi tagjaként folytatta pályafutását, valamint a Washingtoni Felsőoktatási Koordinációs Bizottság tagjaként a Talaris Kutatóintézetet, illetve a hátrányos helyzetű diákok tehetséggondozását segítő Washingtoni Oktatási Alapítványt vezette.

Intézményvezetői karrierje előtt Samuel Smith tizenhat évet töltött a Pennsylvaniai Állami Egyetemen, ahol először oktató, majd tanszékvezető, később pedig a Mezőgazdasági Főiskola dékánja, valamint a mezőgazdasági kutatóállomás igazgatója volt. A férfi jelenleg is a Washingtoni Oktatás-fejlesztési Bizottság (a Washingtoni Felsőoktatási Koordinációs Bizottság utódja) kötelékében dolgozik.

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The family-friendly Sydney Observatory is popular with both science enthusiasts and kids. Visit to learn about astronomy, admire the mid-19th-century stone building, and enjoy views of Sydney Harbour from the well-tended gardens. For the most hands-on experience, book a day, evening, or night tour, each of which gives you the opportunity to look through some of the observatory's telescopes. The observatory also runs educational programs for both kids and adults.
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Visitors are not allowed to consume food in the observatory, but there is a vending machine offering drinks.
The Sydney Observatory is conveniently located at 1003 Upper Fort Street in Millers Point, just west of Circular Quay and The Rocks and south of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The site is within walking distance of many other local attractions. To reach the observatory via public transportation, take a ferry, the T1, T2, T3, or T8 train lines, or the L2 light rail line to Circular Quay (which is about a 12-minute walk away), or the 311 bus to Argyle Street and Kent Street.
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Kim said that inter-Korean cultural events should be held more often.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un Sunday attended the first concert in Pyongyang for over a decade by South Korean entertainers, including a K-pop girlband, the latest gesture of reconciliation before a rare inter-Korean summit.
The 120-member group, 11 musical acts as well as dancers, technicians and martial artists, gave one concert on Sunday with another set for Tuesday.
The young couple were seen clapping their hands during the two-hour event, also attended by Kim's powerful sister, Kim Yo Jong, and ceremonial head of state Kim Yong Nam.
"Please tell (South Korean) President Moon Jae-in how great an event like this is... I am grateful for a gift like this (concert) to the people of Pyongyang," Kim told visiting Seoul officials.
Kim also showed "great interest in the songs and lyrics (of South Korean singers) during the concert," Do Jong-hwan, Seoul's culture chief and the head of the delegation, told reporters.
The South's taekwondo athletes also staged a performance before an audience of 2,300 in Pyongyang on Sunday ahead of a joint display of the Korean martial art with the North's practitioners on Monday.
Kim followed up by agreeing to a summit with Moon, and offering a face-to-face meet with U.S. President Donald Trump. Kim also met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing last week during his first overseas trip.
The inter-Korean summit, the third after meetings in 2000 and 2007, will be held on April 27. No date has been set for the U.S.-North Korean summit although it is expected before the end of May.
In another sign of eased tensions, an annual U.S.-South Korean military exercise which got under way in the South Sunday will last for just one month compared to some two months normally.
This year's drills feature fewer strategic weapons such as nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, Seoul's military has said. Such deployments during past drills has frequently drawn an angry response from Pyongyang.
Sunday's concert to a packed audience at the elaborately decorated 1,500-seat East Pyongyang Grand Theatre ended with a standing ovation after a finale in which all the stars appeared on stage to sing a song about unification.
One of the most closely watched acts was Red Velvet, part of the South's hugely popular K-pop phenomenon that has taken audiences in Asia and beyond by storm in recent decades.
Before the concert, even the leader Kim joked: "There was so much interest in whether I'd come to see Red Velvet or not."
The five-member girlband, known for its signature K-pop mix of upbeat electronic music, stylish fashion and high-voltage choreography, performed two of their hits, "Bad Boy" and "Red Flavour."
"The North's audience applauded to our performance much louder than we expected and even sang along to our songs... it was a big relief," band member Yeri told reporters.
"I told myself, 'let's do our best even if there's no response (from the audience)... but they showed so much reaction," added a member called Wendy.
Despite the North's isolation and strict curbs on unauthorised foreign culture, enforced with prison terms, K-pop and South Korean TV shows have become increasingly popular there thanks to flash drives smuggled across the border with China.
The emcee of Sunday's concert was a popular member of K-pop band Girls' Generation, Seohyun, who had performed with the visiting North Korean singers during their Seoul concert in February.
Kim's late father and longtime ruler, Kim Jong Il, was known to be a fan of the 68-year-old Cho.
Another famous singer, Choi Jin-hee, also performed for the fourth time in the North and sang "Maze of Love," a hit in both Koreas and another of the late Kim's favourites.
The stiffened crowd refused to respond to the athletes who asked them to clap their hands to "Fire," an intense electro-dance score peppered with rapid-fire rap delivered in both Korean and English.


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Work began on the construction of the largest radio telescope in the world – Square Kilometer Array
On Monday, the first work began on the construction of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), the largest radio telescope in the world. The work will be completed in 2028.
The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is a whole array of radio telescopes connected in a single network. As a result, the total collecting area should exceed 500,000 m2. The installation will operate as an adaptive antenna array with a sensitivity 50 times greater than that of any other existing radio telescope. The placement of the antennas themselves in different parts of the world (in Australia and Africa) is also one of the important factors that determine the capabilities of the observatory. In particular, it is through SKA that astronomers will try to find the first stars of the Universe.
The system will operate in the range from 50 MHz to 25 GHz, which will allow it to perform a wide variety of tasks. Including astronomers will be able to detect very weak radio signals.
SKA will contribute to a wide variety of areas of astronomy. In particular, the recently discovered "fast radio bursts". In a fraction of a second, they release an amount of energy equivalent to what our Sun emits in a whole year. And we have no idea what it is. How is this possible? I hope SKA will give an answer
Dr. Shari Breen
Despite the fact that the construction will be fully completed only in 2028, the system will start working already in 2024, since at that time four antennas will have already been built and connected. It is also important that the system is designed in such a way that after the completion of all work it can be further expanded by adding new antennas.
At the moment, the budget of the facility is estimated at about 2 billion euros.
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According to insider Ice Universe, the base model of the Galaxy S23 with 128 GB of flash memory will receive UFS 3.1 flash memory. This is just about the younger model, since the S23 + in the minimum configuration will have 256 GB of flash memory, like the S23 Ultra.
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World Business|Filler in Animal Feed Is Open Secret in China
Filler in Animal Feed Is Open Secret in China
By DAVID BARBOZA and ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO APRIL 30, 2007
Pieces of melamine displayed by a worker. The melamine is ground into a powder and added to animal feed as a filler to keep costs low. Credit Ariana Lindquist for The New York Times
ZHANGQIU, China, April 28 — As American food safety regulators head to China to investigate how a chemical made from coal found its way into pet food that killed dogs and cats in the United States, workers in this heavily polluted northern city openly admit that the substance is routinely added to animal feed as a fake protein.
For years, producers of animal feed all over China have secretly supplemented their feed with the substance, called melamine, a cheap additive that looks like protein in tests, even though it does not provide any nutritional benefits, according to melamine scrap traders and agricultural workers here.
"Many companies buy melamine scrap to make animal feed, such as fish feed," said Ji Denghui, general manager of the Fujian Sanming Dinghui Chemical Company, which sells melamine. "I don't know if there's a regulation on it. Probably not. No law or regulation says 'don't do it,' so everyone's doing it. The laws in China are like that, aren't they? If there's no accident, there won't be any regulation."
Melamine is at the center of a recall of 60 million packages of pet food, after the chemical was found in wheat gluten linked this month to the deaths of at least 16 pets in the United States.
No one knows exactly how melamine (which is not believed to be particularly toxic) became so fatal in pet food, but its presence in any form of American food is illegal.
The link to China has set off concerns among critics of the Food and Drug Administration that ingredients in pet food as well as human food, which are increasingly coming from abroad, are not being adequately screened.
"They have fewer people inspecting product at the ports than ever before," says Caroline Smith DeWaal, the director of food safety for the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington. "Until China gets programs in place to verify the safety of their products, they need to be inspected by U.S. inspectors. This open-door policy on food ingredients is an open invitation for an attack on the food supply, either intentional or unintentional."
Now, with evidence mounting that the tainted wheat gluten came from China, American regulators have been granted permission to visit the region to conduct inspections of food treatment facilities.
The Food and Drug Administration has already banned imports of wheat gluten from China after it received more than 14,000 reports of pets believed to have been sickened by packaged food. And last week, the agency opened a criminal investigation in the case and searched the offices of at least one pet food supplier.
The Department of Agriculture has also stepped in. On Thursday, the agency ordered more than 6,000 hogs to be quarantined or slaughtered after some of the pet food ingredients laced with melamine were accidentally sent to hog farms in eight states, including California.
Scientists are now trying to determine whether melamine could be harmful to humans.
The pet food case is also putting China's agricultural exports under greater scrutiny because the country has had a terrible food safety record.
In recent years, for instance, China's food safety scandals have involved everything from fake baby milk formulas and soy sauce made from human hair to instances where cuttlefish were soaked in calligraphy ink to improve their color and eels were fed contraceptive pills to make them grow long and slim.
For its part, Chinese officials dispute any suggestion that melamine from the country could have killed pets. But regulators here on Friday banned the use of melamine in vegetable proteins made for export or for use in domestic food supplies.
Yet what is clear from visiting this region of northeast China is that for years melamine has been quietly mixed into Chinese animal feed and then sold to unsuspecting farmers as protein-rich pig, poultry and fish feed.
Many animal feed operators here advertise on the Internet, seeking to purchase melamine scrap. The Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Company, one of the companies that American regulators named as having shipped melamine-tainted wheat gluten to the United States, had posted such a notice on the Internet last March.
Here at the Shandong Mingshui Great Chemical Group factory, huge boiler vats are turning coal into melamine, which is then used to create plastics and fertilizer.
The Shandong Mingshui Great Chemical Company makes a chemical called melamine and sometimes sells melamine scrap to other producers who use it to make animal feed. Credit Ariana Lindquist for The New York Times
But the leftover melamine scrap, golf ball-size chunks of white rock, is sometimes being sold to local agricultural entrepreneurs, who say they mix a powdered form of the scrap into animal feed to deceive those who raise animals into thinking they are buying feed that is high in protein.
"It just saves money if you add melamine scrap," said the manager of an animal feed factory here.
Last Friday here in Zhangqiu, a fast-growing industrial city southeast of Beijing, two animal feed producers explained in great detail how they purchase low-grade wheat, corn, soybean or other proteins and then mix in small portions of nitrogen-rich melamine scrap, whose chemical properties help the feed register an inflated protein level.
Melamine is the new scam of choice, they say, because urea — another nitrogen-rich chemical — is illegal for use in pig and poultry feed and can be easily detected in China as well as in the United States.
"People use melamine scrap to boost nitrogen levels for the tests," said the manager of the animal feed factory. "If you add it in small quantities, it won't hurt the animals."
The manager, who works at a small animal feed operation here that consists of a handful of storage and mixing areas, said he has mixed melamine scrap into animal feed for years.
He said he was not currently using melamine. But he then pulled out a plastic bag containing what he said was melamine powder and said he could dye it any color to match the right feed stock.
He said that melamine used in pet food would probably not be harmful. "Pets are not like pigs or chickens," he said casually, explaining that they can afford to eat less protein. "They don't need to grow fast."
The resulting melamine-tainted feed would be weak in protein, he acknowledged, which means the feed is less nutritious.
But, by using the melamine additive, the feed seller makes a heftier profit because melamine scrap is much cheaper than soy, wheat or corn protein.
"It's true you can make a lot more profit by putting melamine in," said another animal feed seller here in Zhangqiu. "Melamine will cost you about $1.20 for each protein count per ton whereas real protein costs you about $6, so you can see the difference."
Feed producers who use melamine here say the tainted feed is often shipped to feed mills in the Yangtze River Delta, near Shanghai, or down to Guangdong Province, near Hong Kong. They also said they knew that some melamine-laced feed had been exported to other parts of Asia, including South Korea, North Korea, Indonesia and Thailand.
Evidence is mounting that Chinese protein exports have been tainted with melamine and that its use in agricultural regions like this one is widespread. But the government has issued no recall of any food or feed product here in China.
Indeed, few people outside the agriculture business know about the use of melamine scrap. The Chinese news media — which is strictly censored — has not reported much about the country's ties to the pet food recall in the United States. And few in agriculture here do not see any harm in using melamine in small doses; they simply see it as cheating a little on protein, not harming animals or pets.
As for the sale of melamine scrap, it is increasingly popular as a fake ingredient in feed, traders and workers here say.
At the Hebei Haixing Insect Net Factory in nearby Hebei Province, which makes animal feed, a manager named Guo Qingyin said: "In the past melamine scrap was free, but the price has been going up in the past few years. Consumption of melamine scrap is probably bigger than that of urea in the animal feed industry now."
And so melamine producers like the ones here in Zhangqiu are busy.
A man named Jing, who works in the sales department at the Shandong Mingshui Great Chemical Group factory here, said on Friday that prices have been rising, but he said that he had no idea how the company's melamine scrap is used.
"We have an auction for melamine scrap every three months," he said. "I haven't heard of it being added to animal feed. It's not for animal feed."
David Barboza reported from Zhangqiu and Alexei Barrionuevo reported from Chicago. Rujun Shen also contributed reporting from Zhangqiu.
A version of this article appears in print on , on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: In ChinA, Additive In Animals' Food Is an Open Secret. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe


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Gustav Larsson (8 March 1914 - 1973) was the second on the Åredalens CK curling team (from Åre, Sweden) during the World Curling Championships (known as the Scotch Cup) 1963 and 1964.

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Q: Error 405, method not allowed on HTTPRequest in C# I am trying to use megaupload api to get information of my files with C#.
Even tho request should be very fast i am doing it asynchronously.
According to their instructions on their website a request on curl should look like this: curl https://megaupload.nz/api/v2/file/u1C0ebc4b0/info
I don't know if it is me understanding wrong the entire thing here but i am getting an error saying Method Not Allowed from EnsureSuccessStatusCode
Here is my code:
static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            //var urlApiFormat = https://megaupload.nz/api/v2/file/{id}/info
            //var myURL = https://megaupload.nz/L8ydu8i3b6/Mystic_v1.1_rar
            Task.Run(() =>
            {
                var sReturn = megauploadSharpAsync(@"https://megaupload.nz/api/v2/file/L8ydu8i3b6/info");
                Console.WriteLine("Result: " + sReturn.Result);
            });

            Console.ReadKey();
        }

public static async Task<string> megauploadSharpAsync(string url)//, string outputFile)
        {
            try
            {
                using (HttpClient client = new HttpClient())
                {
                    var postParams = new Dictionary<string, string>();

                    postParams.Add("method", "GET");
                    //postParams.Add("api_key", "keyforaccountupload");

                    using (var postContent = new FormUrlEncodedContent(postParams))
                    using (HttpResponseMessage response = await client.PostAsync(url, postContent))
                    {
                        response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode(); // Throw if httpcode is an error
                        using (HttpContent content = response.Content)
                        {
                            string result = await content.ReadAsStringAsync();
                            return result;
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                await Task.Run(() =>
                {
                    //some magic
                    Console.WriteLine("Error: " + ex.Message);
                });
                return string.Empty;
            }
        }

A: Look at this line:
using (HttpResponseMessage response = await client.PostAsync(url, postContent))

PostAsync sends POST request to server, while you should send GET request instead. Replace PostAsync with GetAsync and get rid of redundant postParams


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Bass Museum of Art is 3 minutes' drive away from the property. The Art Deco District is 2.1 miles away. The Bayshore Municipal Golf Course is 6 minutes' drive away from this Miami Beach hotel.
The Miami Beach EDITION has been welcoming Booking.com guests since 14 Aug 2014.
This room features a minibar and 48-inch flat-screen cable TV. The private bathroom includes a bathrobe, slippers, hairdryer, and cosmetics mirror.
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