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Soros Fund Management takes new positions in Sierra Wireless, Booking, Agree Realty
Nov. 14, 2022 5:38 PM ETAnalog Devices, Inc. (ADI), DHI, LBRDK, TEAM, UBER, DIS, BK, ILMN, WMB, ROST, CWH, OPEN, KMI, ACI, TDY, VMC, UNP, SRPT, ADC, BKNG, SWIR, SW:CABy: Max Gottlich, SA News Editor15 Comments
George Soros's Soros Fund Management took new stakes in Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ:SWIR), with 1.39M shares, Booking Holdings (NASDAQ:BKNG), with 10K shares, Agree Realty (NYSE:ADC), with 231K shares, Sarepta Therapeutics (NASDAQ:SRPT), with 101K, Union Pacific (NYSE:UNP), with 57K shares, Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE:VMC), with 70K shares, and Teledyne Technologies (NYSE:TDY), with 31K shares, in the third quarter, according to its 13F filing dated Monday.
The fund exited its holdings in Albertsons Companies (NYSE:ACI), Kinder Morgan (NYSE:KMI), Opendoor Technologies (NASDAQ:OPEN), Camping World Holdings (NYSE:CWH), Ross Stores (NASDAQ:ROST), The Williams Companies (NYSE:WMB) and Illumina (NASDAQ:ILMN).
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Reduced its stakes in Liberty Broadband (NASDAQ:LBRDK) to 1.38M shares from 1.74M shares, D.R. Horton (NYSE:DHI) to 2.61M shares from 2.97M shares, and Analog Devices (NASDAQ:ADI) to 78K shares from 124K shares.
During the second quarter, Soros Fund Management opened new positions in GCP, Biohaven, Tesla.


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Jerome Flynn Reveals Why He Ditched Animal Products
In an interview with the Mail Online, the actor reveals he initially adopted a plant-based diet because he had a crush on a fellow student – who was vegan.
But the thespian found it difficult to stop eating goat's cheese – until the founder of a leading animal rights charity opened his eyes.
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"[My crush] used to growl at me if I sat next to her with a sausage for lunch, and I was rather uneducated and naive about the process to get meat to our plate," he said. "She would bring me educational leaflets from PETA and Viva.
"I went vegan, but I found it very hard to be vegan at that time – I didn't really know myself how to look after myself in terms of plant protein and it started to drive me a bit mad, so I came off the vegan train and was vegetarian, but I was practically vegan.
"I stayed with goat's cheese, thinking naively that there was less cruelty involved in the goat industry. But then, my friend, the wonderful Juliet Gellatley [founder and director of vegan charity Viva] came to stay and shared a campaign she was doing about the goat farming industry. It made it very explicit the kind of terrible cruelty that was going on, so I came off and I've been vegan since, that was about three years ago."
Viva! says: "We are absolutely thrilled to have played such a pivotal role in Jerome's journey towards veganism and are proud to have such an outspoken, passionate activist as our patron."
by Maria Chiorando
Maria is the Editor of Plant Based News. A former magazine editor, newspaper reporter, and features writer, her work has been published by The Guardian, The Huffington Post, and various regional newspapers. She was previously the editor of Vegan Life magazine and Vegan Trade Journal. She has interviewed a huge range of people, from Prime Ministers to authors, activists, pop stars and actors, and enjoys the varied range of topics writing for PBN allows her to tackle. You can follow her on Twitter @MariaChiorando and Instagram @mariachiorando.
Article reprinted with permission from Plant Base News
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Supply Chain Competition and All-Effects Warfare: Fundamentals of Strategic Advantage (Part 1 of 2)
September 18, 2020 September 17, 2020 Over The Horizon 1 Comment acquisition, AI, artificial intelligence, autonomy, china, cyber, decision making, doctrine, Information Operations, information warfare, innovation, intelligence, joint, Leadership, national security, NATO, Policy, risk, Russia, strategy, technology
By Thomas A. Drohan
Approximate Reading Time: 19 minutes
Executive Summary: In the hands of authoritarian powers, supply chains are systematically weaponized into broad warfare that subsumes democracies' traditionally narrow military approach. This series analyzes supply chain competition, warfare, and strategy in two parts. Part I discusses fundamentals that set strategic parameters for achieving an "all-effects" advantage: globalization and protectionism; strategies of national security; incentives and risks; and political and technological change. This broad perspective on competition and warfare is necessary to implement the cooperative and confrontational competition prescribed in the US National Security Strategy. Part II identifies decisions and makes recommendations to combine superior "all-effects" using diplomatic, informational, military, economic, and social instruments of power. This integrative perspective is necessary to synergize strategic advantages derived from the US National Defense Strategy and sixteen other national security-related strategies.
Supply chains are vital to military success and socio-economic well-being. They also are mechanisms where authoritarians confront and wage warfare, while democracies cooperate and compete. Why is this important?
In an information era where an increasing number of actors have access to more means of achieving significant effects, a great power needs to have a grand strategy. Compare the following three scenarios: (1) United States is cut off of investments and trade with Russia and Iran; (2) China's cutoff of rare earth minerals to Japan; and (3) Russia's cutoff of oil and electricity to Ukraine. When are these exercises of economic leverage and when are they acts of war? Authoritarian and democratic security strategies give different answers. Authoritarian economic competition is part of all-effects diplomatic, informational, military, economic, and social (DIMES) warfare that employs non-lethal and lethal means across any domain. In all-effects warfare, there is no self-imposed "short of armed conflict" competition.
Democracies take a narrower "should deterrence fail" approach to warfare. Lethal effects are for when non-military actions fail. Such idealism has political appeal, but there is a cost: DIMES (i.e., diplomatic, informational, military, economic, and social) instruments of power are not integrated into the National Security Strategy. For instance, US military doctrine definitionally restricts hybrid warfare and armed conflict to violent means. Adversaries, meanwhile, freely combine cooperative and confrontational effects using any available psychological and physical means.
As a result, US joint all-domain operations activities stay in their military lane while broadly strategic adversaries achieve more effects via hybrids such as narrative warfare and economic competition. At the same time, US diplomats focus on cooperative effects, (e.g., persuade, dissuade, secure, and induce) rather than confrontational effects, (e.g., compel, deter, defend, coerce) seeking "cooperation where our interests align."
ALL-EFFECTS WARFARE
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The result is a target-rich US national security policy of self-imposed no-go zones that adversaries exploit with all-effects warfare.
Predictably, authoritarian threats wage all-effects warfare below democracies' self-inflicted thresholds of "wartime" responses. While the Trump administration invoked the Defense Production Act in 2017 (hurricanes) and 2020 (pandemic), the idea of building (and blocking) commercial supply chains for national security smacks of waging war for prosperity. That shatters liberal economic principles. The predicament for democracies is: how to develop superior effects?
This two-part article answers that question by focusing on a vital ingredient of strategic competition and complex warfare: supply chains. Supply chains provide a complex yet tangible focus on fundamental advantages of superior national security strategies.
What is a Supply Chain?
A supply chain for a good or service consists of everything from development to marketing to procurement-to-fulfillment and customer service. This broad scope includes buyers and suppliers, infrastructure, and regulations, all of which are competitive and strategic. Supply chains provide the logistics of warfare that make strategies more than wishful thinking. During so-called peacetime, supply chains develop through cooperative and confrontational competition, the rules of which are contested. Rules matter because supply chains create and destroy economic relationships that are the foundation of political and military power.
To account for the conceptual breadth of supply chains and draw conclusions for strategy, we analyze supply chain competition, warfare, and strategy in two parts. This article analyzes fundamental advantages of globalization and protectionism, strategies of national security, and incentives and risks. The next article will identify decisions and recommend integrative options to achieve strategic advantage.
Globalization and Protectionism
Contentious arguments still rage over how globalized and how protectionist competition should be conducted. The benefits of globalization today flow from the post-World War II order erected by a relatively un-ravaged United States. Since then, every US National Security Strategy has equated freedom, "the most contagious idea in history," (National Security Council Report, 1950) with two founding economic values:
Non-discriminatory free trade: the World Trade Organization (WTO) lists fundamental principles for multilateral trade based on agreed rules: (a) equal opportunity for most-favored nation status; (b) freer trade via negotiation; (c) predictable, transparent commitments; (d) fair competition; and (e) development with reforms to accept the preceding obligations.
Discriminatory actors, however: (a) grant favors to selected partners outside free trade agreements; (b) construct non-negotiable barriers to competition; (c) conceal policies, practices, prices, and promises; (d) export below cost; and (e) accept trade concessions without reforming.
Fixed parity among dollar-based currencies: the dollar-based, convertible-to-gold standard that emerged in 1945 (Bretton Woods) was replaced in 1973 by a more flexible arrangement (Jamaica Agreement) to permit limited government interventions yet prohibit predatory manipulations. Today's mix of free-floating, managed-floating, and fixed-peg currencies includes the International Monetary Fund's basket for special drawing rights on its international reserve, which is comprised of the US dollar, euro, Chinese renminbi, Japanese yen, and British pound sterling. Strong currencies attract foreign investment; weak currencies promote exports.
Protectionism arose from these concerns under a banner of national independence. The movement has gained momentum despite the confrontational protectionism that proliferated between the two world wars: tariffs, quotas, trade blocs, and trade wars. Distrust among rivals reinforces desires for self-sufficiency as comparative advantage shifts to different areas. In open competition, climbing up the value ladder requires market-oriented integration. In protected competition, value-added integration is influenced by fears of over-dependence in critical sectors such as agriculture, defense industry, and health.
Protecting self-sufficiency incurs costs. Consumers in developed economies may pay less for goods, but also depend upon outsourced labor, inventory, and production. Expanding self-sufficiency, even within an alliance, risks political costs. Such as getting replacement parts for the Joint Strike F-35 fighter due to the reduced credibility (induced by Russian S-400 air defense sales) of a NATO supplier (Turkey). Not so clear cases include many that mandate "made in the USA." Which supplies, food, raw materials, and energy sources should we pay more to secure this way?
In a competitive global environment filled with state and non-state actors seeking profit margins, market share, and influence, businesses constantly adapt. They create partnerships, invest in technology, move production and services, and hire/fire labor. Mandated protectionism would have businesses maintain legacy partners, satisfice with good-enough technology, keep production and services at home, and retain existing labor.
Discriminatory competitors have a solution: reap the rewards of interdependent globalization and independent protectionism at the same time. Some competitors discriminate systematically. When does illegal competition become warfare?
When Competition Becomes a Strategy of National Security
When competition becomes a strategy of national security, mutually legitimate competition is replaced by threats unrestricted by violence-based strategies of warfare. The combined effects of such "unrestricted warfare" can be cooperative and confrontational, often at the same time: persuade —dissuade; induce—secure; compel—deter; coerce—defend. This broad strategy can envelop a narrower strategy. Why?
Mutual threats are not identical threats when values vary. So, combined effects impose dilemmas that are not necessarily recognized as threats as we see today. Our "should deterrence fail" military approach to warfare focuses on winning battles of armed conflict rather than wars of cooperation and confrontation. At the same time, the spread of warfare into an all-pervasive information environment is expanding and evolving what constitutes national security. The result is a squeezing out of what is regarded as non-security-related competition needed to accommodate change.
In this environment, a key issue for supply chain security is how to protect the benefits of globalization without globalizing protectionism. Any state will try to free ride on globalization's benefits. However, authoritarians impose protectionism to prevent competition that threatens their monopoly on power. Democracies protect globalization and negotiate protectionism as exemptions from liberal rules. Rules with the consent of the governed are the basis of a democracy's legitimacy.
This difference in governance matches the difference in what constitutes a matter of national security. If we understand security as "the absence of threats to acquired values and the absence of fear that such values will be attacked," then regime type matters very much.
From a comparative perspective that is limited here by space, we will examine one complex threat to western democracies: China. China is a major focus in the US National Security Strategy for 3 key reasons:
China is one of the two authoritarian Permanent Member States of the United Nations Security Council. Any permanent member can veto a resolution or decision of the 15-member Security Council.
China engages in discriminatory trade against every WTO principle mentioned above: (a) granting, de-granting, and buying favors via weaponized investment; (b) setting import quotas and initiating high tariffs (22); (c) concealing and stealing information; (d) dumping/re-routing dumped exports; (e) benefiting from WTO and WB membership while rejecting diversification, property rights, and reforms.
China spews official disinformation while calling for reforming international governance. China's strategic use of information uses selective evidence, faulty cause-and-effect, and false dichotomies to persuade targeted audiences that China is a blameless and benign model of global cooperation.
Since joining the WTO as a developing country in 2001, China insists on retaining that special status to identify and align with similarly victimized followers. Yet, that status includes seven of the ten most wealthy countries by per capita gross domestic product and purchasing power parity: Brunei, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Macao, Qatar, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates. Now the second largest economy, China's national security modernization includes globalizing protectionist supply chains.
Globalizing Protectionism
China globalizes protectionism in two ways: (a) large-scale industrial policy to enforce modernization priorities, state-owned enterprises and banks to consolidate supply chain control in key sectors; and (b) government-guided investment funds to leverage private capital from development to fulfillment. This end-to-end approach produces supply chains that strengthen China's domestic industries, extract foreign technology, and induce deficit-ridden and commodity economies into dependence. Beijing also creates new organizations that enable manipulative authoritarianism. How?
The New Development Bank (NDB) (i.e., Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) operate according to opaque relationships and rules. The NDB rules include equal shareholding and voting with China as the largest contributor. China has the greatest number of top 100 banks with twice as many assets than the US:
The AIIB operates by consensus, with a China veto. The China Development Bank (CDB), established in 1994, is the world's largest lender for development projects. CDB loan financing serves the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) strategy's construction of supply chains across Eurasia. Meanwhile, half of China's international lending is not reported to the International Monetary Fund or World Bank, adding to developing countries' hidden debt.
China's financial clout is also manipulating democracies into self-imposing authoritarian policies. Take, for instance, the profoundly effective result of protectionist education. Ivy League universities "protect" students from China's National Security Law with a warning about competing ideas: "this course may cover material considered politically sensitive to China."
In this context of globalized competition and protectionism, supply chains have become integrated for various reasons in non-transparent ways. Liberal-style integration refers to competition among producers, storage facilities, and transportation networks not of the same firm: vertical integration. China's illiberal integration is the opposite of this: horizontal integration of Party-controlled enterprises. As a result, international partners in China's military and civilian supply chains unwittingly contribute to China's all-effects warfare. How?
First, supply chain complexity frustrates achieving visibility due to multifarious interconnections among production orders, inventory levels, capacity and utilization, deliveries, revenues, and lead times. Second, China's "military-civil fusion" strategy (18-23) protects domestic control of economic, military, and social governance.
As supply chains have become more globally integrated with respect to cross-border trade, investment flows, and labor markets, China's protectionist practices undercut transparency and trust. They subsidize, direct, and pressure public and private enterprises to create dependencies that can be leveraged.
For example, in February 2020 China threatened to cut off medical supplies and pharmaceuticals to the United States during the pandemic that started in and emanated from China – perhaps deliberately – then exploited. In March, the state-run Xinhua news media warned of banning medical supply exports to the United States. In May 2019, the state-run People's Daily outlet threatened to cut off rare earth minerals to the United States to leverage trade negotiations. Recall that China slashed exports of rare earth minerals to Japan in 2010 in the context of a territorial dispute over the Senkaku Islands (Diaoyutai, according to Beijing).
The use of trade dependencies to compel behavior reflects Beijing's confrontational approach to supply chain integration. China uses such protectionism to attack threats to autonomy and preserve authoritarian rule. With few shots fired, Beijing's security strategies have been broad enough to envelop and render US all-domain military operations ineffective. How has this happened? By constructing broad advantages where democracies are less willing to go. To understand this, the next section discusses incentives for and risks of achieving advantage.
Incentives and Risks
Political-economic incentives boil down to increasing one's relative power and prosperity. For authoritarians, the purpose is to create a "stability of limited or non-opportunity" that leverages influence over elites. Supply chain competition is politicized for advantage. Information such as supply schedules, inventory management, and distribution networks are closely held. Contrast this to pluralistic political systems, where "stability" is a dynamic of providing more opportunity to a wider variety of actors. Risks are spread out and contestable. Democratic accountability generates more publicly available information.
In authoritarian regimes, increasing power and influence requires reducing that of one's rivals. The rules about what risks are imposed on and assumed by whom, are neither publicly accountable nor negotiable. So, in areas that China regards as strategic, such as territorial disputes and industrial policy priorities, advantage is not a win-win proposition. The single-Party state seeks to create a broad industrial foundation for win-lose advantages in prioritized industrial sectors: (a) equipment manufacturing, shipbuilding, automobiles, iron and steel, non-ferrous metals, construction, petrochemicals, light industry, and textiles; and (b) new energy, new energy automobiles, energy conservation, environmental protection, info tech, bio-tech, value-added equipment manufacturing, and new materials. Connected via opaque and complex supply chains, these capabilities provide some resilience.
State-owned enterprises and subsidized private conglomerates politicize supply chain competition to serve regime interests. Disinformation campaigns propagate the politics as national identity. For foreign businesses, it is a struggle to get reliable information. The challenge is to discern the informal relationships driving decisions and constituting trust.
Technological incentives for advantage are a bit clearer. The digitization of information expands connections and enables economic efficiencies, such as reduced transportation costs. From containerization to real-time tracking and predictive delivery, e-commerce and intermodal transfers are making trans-continental supply chains profitable. Automation of routines, such as inventory management, and the sharing of information, such as departed-en-route-arrived data, enhance functional integration. This reduces costs and broadens supply chains.
The same technology that enables communication across distributed supply chains also creates vulnerabilities that used to require a military operation to disrupt. Businesses and governments face an explosion of diverse threats such as cyber and disinformation attack, outsider-becomes-insider, and the theft of financial and intellectual property. These threats pose an extreme threat to commodity supply chains that make use of extensive automation to keep costs down. Non-disclosure agreements and standards of practice, such as the US government's cybersecurity maturation model, can reduce risks of depending on technology and information.
Competition Becomes Warfare
Authoritarian politics and new technologies escalate supply chain competition into warfare.
China's access to foreign-sourced resources are enabled by technologies that reduce transportation costs and require information sharing. To deal with the growing complexity of supply chains, technologies such as artificial intelligence, block chains, 5G networking, and quantum computing offer solutions. All of these require decisions about how much control over valuable information should be allowed and by whom.
Authoritarian politics cannot be separated from the use of technology. The 2015 Agreement between President Obama and Chairman Xi and endorsed by the G-20 prohibited commercial spying. As information technology expands China's massive domestic surveillance, that agreement favors China. Internal controls over citizens and foreign businesses are not considered state espionage in China. Evidence that Chinese hackers and researchers are attempting to steal coronavirus vaccine information are consistently denied by China's Foreign Ministry.
Instead, China's Blockchain Services network promises to change the world by managing information securely with transparent, trusted information. Yet, the Party's centralized control, massive surveillance, and persistent disinformation is the exact opposite of a distributed ledger that is trusted and secure because it's an open peer-to-peer network. Trusting China's distributed technology is problematic, but a huge domestic market with mobile apps is enticing partners with monitored alternatives to US-centered international banking transactions. As Beijing induces partners to adopt monitored apps and bans technologies with uncensored search engines, its coercive power strengthens.
China also manipulates external relationships and institutions to turn competition into warfare. Beijing uses the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) created by Moscow to reshape its own supply chains via selective free trade zones. As a result, Russia is becoming a country of transit points servicing the China market. Chinese arms imports from Russia, which used to comprise one-half of Russia's total, are increasingly lower tech as Beijing copies Russian technology for its own exports.
Technology, governments, and businesses have a way of creating alternatives. Citing national security concerns, the US Government permitted a subsidiary of Google to open a direct underwater cable connection that avoids Hong Kong. Cyber security laws in China prevent the free flow of data, requiring in-country storage to enforce what is private and what is not. Based on that and ongoing Chinese information operations, foreign businesses have good reason to expect continued state-sponsored theft of intellectual property.
Other tech trends affecting supply chain access to energy and information are advances in tracking goods and services, and the containers in which goods arrive and depart. More visibility can enable businesses to prevent some of the surprise stack ups in ports during the coronavirus pandemic. Transit routes are shifting through the Arctic such that China regards itself as a "near-Arctic" state. The ability to gain insight into more aspects of multiple supply chains will drive infrastructure to develop more sources of supply. This insight, however, may not erase the costs incurred when sourcing from production or labor locations that are not lowest cost for the right match of product and labor expertise.
The struggle to compete against authoritarian practices brings us to the question, how can global supply chains be protected against entrenched discriminatory competition that constitutes warfare?
Challenges of Protecting Globalization
Discriminatory practices are not unique to China, but they are exceptionally non-negotiable. In supply chain language, systematic discrimination occurs as follows. China's single-Party elites run the development and marketing of individual freedoms to retain control over competitors' procurement-to-fulfillment efforts. As for customer service, it is highly selective. The entrenched continuity of this supply chain warfare is reinforced by Xi Jinping's entrenched political position and ideological prominence.
Xi was "elected" unanimously by the National People's Congress, a formality eliminated by a Constitutional change in 2018 that allows Xi to serve for life. His selection as Communist Party of China (CPC) Chairman by the Party's Central Committee in 2012 guaranteed the Presidency anyway. Xi also is Chairman of the Central Military Commission, other key commissions and leading small groups (LSG):
Xi's continuity is based on protecting authoritarian rights and suppressing any political opposition. Economic growth is paramount. Xi presides over strategic protectionism and infrastructure-driven development on a transcontinental in scale.
China's authoritarian protectionism is here to stay. The roots include nationalism, predatory trade and finance, lack of competition, disadvantaged workers, and more broadly, societal differences with respect to adapting to change. Imperial China's "century of national humiliation" included all of that. As a result, globalization based on agreed non-discriminatory practices is precisely the kind of change that China seeks to prevent. We see this play out in the incentives for integrating supply chains.
Supply chains regarded as legitimate competition operate according to economic incentives: profit, market share, and added value. In China, however, these factors are manipulated to achieve national advantage: enhancing corporate pricing with subsidies; foreign-targeted taxes and beneficial land-use policies; compelling foreign firms to divulge private intelligence and technology; coercing board of directors members; and inducing key executives' resignations with anti-corruption charges. Where judicial systems are not independent of the executive branch, rule of law becomes elite rule by law.
Beijing's active pursuit of leadership positions in international institutions are about protecting China's political and economic interests. Chinese officials in senior posts at the World Bank, Interpol, United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and International Civil Aviation Organization serve China's authoritarian control:
The World Bank website page devoted to China spins positive narratives about China's economy, innovation and reforms
Interpol collected intelligence on anti-CPC activists
UNESCO is used as cover to conduct maritime surveys in support of China's territorial claims and occupation in disputed South China Sea territory, such as the recent establishment of UNESCO's South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center in Beijing
ICAO induced international compliance via Notices to Airmen (NOTAMs) with an Air Defense Zone announced the day it was put into effect over disputed territories (6-20) in disputed areas of the East China Sea
Multilateral arrangements designed to protect members against outside competitors are vulnerable to China's aggressive protectionism when divided. With huge capital assets, Chinese businesses buy out the membership's debt and then take ownership of assets.
Toward ASEAN, China divides state interests to prevent unified positions on territorial disputes, oil pricing, and any official Chinese position. Toward Australia, for instance, China threatens boycotts after Canberra's call for an independent inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. Chinese cyber operations also protect Beijing's predatory globalization by targeting foreign technology, "anti-China" activities, commercial information, and defense intelligence.
Toward Superior Strategy
The origins and impact of globalized and protected supply chains are important because they produce issues that become non-negotiable matters of national security. Authoritarian states are built to weaponize supply chains for national advantage. Democratic states compete unarmed by their narrow approach to warfare.
In the United States, a prevailing idealistic view of warfare fixates on "military" ends, ways and means. Institutionalized in laws of armed conflict, the focus is on gaining and maintaining a combat advantage. Combatants are defined in terms of "taking a direct part in hostilities" using armed means with lethal effects.
This view is not the "principled realism" called for in the US National Security Strategy. Rather, it is a strategy subsumed by DIMES-wide competitors waging all-effects warfare. This shortfall in the fundamentals of advantage can be remedied with a broad approach to competition and warfare. An integrated strategy that combines effects can counter and defeat China's all-effects warfare.
In Part II, we will identify major decision points and recommend strategic integrative options for supply chain competition and all-effects warfare.
Brig Gen (ret) Thomas Drohan is Director of the International Center for Security and Leadership, JMark Services Inc. (securityandleadership.com). He formerly headed the Department of Military & Strategic Studies at the United States Air Force (USAF) Academy. He holds a PhD from Princeton University, an MA from the University of Hawaii, and a BS from the USAF Academy. Brig Gen Drohan's publications include A New Strategy for Complex Warfare: Combined Effects in East Asia, and articles in journals such as Joint Force Quarterly and Defense Studies. His career includes combat rescue, airlift and anti-terrorism in East Asia, the Middle East, and Afghanistan. He is a Council on Foreign Relations Japan fellow and Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies scholar.
Disclaimer: The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Air Force or the United States Government.
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If you landed here chances you lost hope of all the links and by-the-book ways to compress your geodatabase. You probably have a versioned geodatabase that no matter how many times you compress, no matter how many users you kick out, how many connections you kill; The state is not set to zero.
You have one version SDE.DEFAULT and it is still pointing to state 8549347 or whatever and this state is referencing thousand of edits. So you are stuck with a huge performance issue on your database because of all the queries to the A and D table. Even if you reconcile and post all versions you still can't seem to get to state 0. Usually replication might cause this, so you might have few hidden versions pointing to state 0 . Therefore compress command will get confused when these versions with state 0.
BEFORE YOU DO THIS, BACKUP YOUR DATABASE, DO AN ORACLE DUMP OR A SQL SERVER BACKUP. ALTHOUGH THIS THING WORKED FOR ME THREE TIMES I CAN'T GUARANTEE JACK.
Buckle up, we are about to open the hood of the SDE Technology and loose few bolts in the SDE engine, change a fuse or two, start the engine manually and put the hood back.
1- Fireup your DBMS, connect as SDE user.
Parent_Name: This is a stupid field, bad ERM design, there is a parent_version_id so we can get the name of the parent. Unless they did it like to avoid joining, thus speed up the query response time, then they are smart and I am sorry.
Parent_Owner: again, stupid field, never mind.
Parent_Version_ID: The parent version id there you go.
5- The geodatabase is not compressing because there are two states pointing to zero which makes the compress command thinks everything is rosy. So take your screwdriver lets screw this DB.
You should now see your state tree set to zero.


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Mesite
Family of birds
Mesites
Subdesert mesite (Monias benschi)
Clade: Columbimorphae
Order: Mesitornithiformes
Wetmore, 1960
Family: Mesitornithidae
Mesitornis
Monias
Respective ranges: brown mesite in orange, white-breasted mesite in green and subdesert mesite in blue
The mesites (Mesitornithidae) are a family of birds that are part of a clade (Columbimorphae) that include Columbiformes and Pterocliformes.[1] They are smallish flightless or near flightless birds endemic to Madagascar. They are the only family with more than two species in which every species is threatened (all three are listed as vulnerable).[clarification needed]
The mesites are forest and scrubland birds that feed on insects and seeds. The brown and white-breasted mesites forage on the ground, gleaning insects from the leaves and under them, as well as low vegetation. The subdesert mesite uses its long bill to probe in the soil. Other birds, such as drongos and flycatchers, will follow mesites to catch any insects they flush and miss. Mesites are vocal birds, with calls similar to passerine song, used for territorial defence. Two or three white eggs are laid in a stick-nest located in a bush or low branch.[2] The Mesitornis species are monogamous[3] while Monias benschi is polygamous and unlike the other two shows significant sexual dichromatism.
Systematics[edit]
There are two genera, Mesitornis (2 species) and Monias (subdesert mesite).[4][5]
Monias Oustalet & Grandidier, 1903
Subdesert mesite Monias benschi Oustalet & Grandidier, 1903
Mesitornis Bonaparte, 1855 [Mesites Geoffroy, 1838 non Schoenherr, 1838; Mesoenas Reichenbach, 1861]
White-breasted mesite, Mesitornis variegatus (Saint-Hilaire, 1838)
Brown mesite, Mesitornis unicolor (Des Murs, 1845)
Historically, mesites' phylogenetic relationships were not very clear; they have been allied with the Gruiformes,[6] Turniciformes[7] and Columbiformes.[8]
Recent phylogenomic studies support Pterocliformes (sandgrouse) as the sister group of mesites[1][9][10] while some more recent studies place this clade with another clade constituted of Columbiformes and Cuculiformes (cuckoos).[11]
Columbiformes (pigeons)
Pterocliformes (sandgrouses)
Phylogenetic relationship of the mesites within Neoaves.[11]
^ a b Jarvis, E.D.; et al. (2014). "Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds". Science. 346 (6215): 1320–1331. doi:10.1126/science.1253451. PMC 4405904. PMID 25504713.
^ Archibald, George W. (1991). Forshaw, Joseph (ed.). Encyclopaedia of Animals: Birds. London: Merehurst Press. pp. 100–101. ISBN 978-1-85391-186-6.
^ Gamero, Anna; Székely, Tamás; Kappeler, Peter M. (2014). "Delayed juvenile dispersal and monogamy, but no cooperative breeding in white-breasted mesites (Mesitornis variegatus)". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 68: 73–83. doi:10.1007/s00265-013-1624-4. S2CID 17145658.
^ IOC World Bird List v6.3 [1]. "IOC Names File Plus 6.3". Retrieved 30 August 2016.
^ "Part 7- Vertebrates". Collection of genus-group names in a systematic arrangement. Archived from the original on 5 October 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
^ Sibley, Charles; Jon Edward Ahlquist (1990). Phylogeny and classification of birds. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-04085-7.
^ Livezey, Bradley C.; Zusi, RL (January 2007). "Higher-order phylogeny of modern birds (Theropoda, Aves: Neornithes) based on comparative anatomy. II. Analysis and discussion". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 149 (1): 1–95. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00293.x. PMC 2517308. PMID 18784798.
^ Hackett, Shannon J.; Kimball, Rebecca T.; Reddy, Sushma; Bowie, Rauri C. K.; Braun, Edward L.; Braun, Michael J.; Chojnowski, Jena L.; Cox, W. Andrew; Han, Kin-Lan; Harshman, John; Huddleston, Christopher J.; Marks, Ben D.; Miglia, Kathleen J.; Moore, William S.; Sheldon, Frederick H.; Steadman, David W.; Witt, Christopher C.; Yuri, Tamaki (2008). "A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History". Science. 320 (5884): 1763–1768. doi:10.1126/science.1157704. PMID 18583609. S2CID 6472805.
^ Fain, Matthew G.; Houde, Peter (2004). "Parallel radiations in the primary clades of birds". Evolution. 58 (11): 2558–2573. doi:10.1554/04-235. PMID 15612298. S2CID 1296408.
^ Yuri, T.; et al. (2013). "Parsimony and Model-Based Analyses of Indels in Avian Nuclear Genes Reveal Congruent and Incongruent Phylogenetic Signals". Biology. 2 (1): 419–444. doi:10.3390/biology2010419. PMC 4009869. PMID 24832669.
^ a b H Kuhl, C Frankl-Vilches, A Bakker, G Mayr, G Nikolaus, S T Boerno, S Klages, B Timmermann, M Gahr (2020) An unbiased molecular approach using 3'UTRs resolves the avian family-level tree of life. Molecular Biology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaa191
Wikispecies: Mesitornithidae
ADW: Mesitornithiformes
CoL: CMB
EoL: 7583
GBIF: 5254
iNaturalist: 69
IRMNG: 108509
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mesite&oldid=1131418515"
Mesitornithidae
Taxa named by Alexander Wetmore
Endemic birds of Madagascar
Wikipedia articles needing clarification from February 2021


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A Church Is Not the Building, And It May Not Even Need One
By Clyde Meador
By: Clyde Meador October 5, 2016
"Our situation is different—people here expect a building." In almost every country, among almost every people group I have visited in the past forty years, I've heard that statement from both locals and, frequently, missionaries on the field. Of course the associated thought is that a church can't be effective in its context unless it meets in a building recognized by the culture as a church.
The question is whether a church is better served—or more to the point, whether it's more effective—if it has a building whose singular or primary use is for meetings of the church. The answer is that requiring, expecting, and/or depending on a church building is more of a hindrance than a help in most church-planting situations on the mission field.
The Church is Not a Building
Whenever a non-believer has in his or her mind a definition of "church," that definition is usually a building. The same is true for many Christians. Yet, too closely identifying a local body of Christ with a building diverts the focus from the identity of the church as a community of called-out ones, as well as the tasks and functions of the church. A building can easily demand more attention, more money, more emotion, and more division than that which is truly important.
Too closely identifying a local expression of the body of Christ with a building diverts the focus from the identity of the church and the tasks and functions of the church.
Of course, apart from situations of significant persecution, it's very helpful to have a regular place to meet, so that Christians and community members know where to gather for worship services and other activities. However, that certainly does not require a special building. A home, an office, a borrowed or rented room, or set of rooms can fill the need well.
At no time does the New Testament give an indication that any local church of that era had a church building. Among the many references to a local church in the New Testament, the usual reference to location is the name of the city in which the church meets. In only five instances is a more specific location stated, and those instances all refer to a home (Rom. 16:5, Rom. 16:23, 1 Cor. 16:19, Col. 4:15, and Philem. 1:2). These were churches that happened to meet in someone's house. They weren't some kind of second-class entity called a "house church." First-century Christians clearly did not experience the need for a special church building.
Buildings Are Costly
Often when a church decides to have its own building, the building demands time, energy, resources, and focus. Financial and other resources of the church are diverted largely to the building effort. Granted, in some settings a building appropriate to the culture—made of inexpensive local materials and constructed by church members—can be easily and quickly established, and those particular negatives are overcome.
However, sometimes the desire for a building is met by resources from the outside. Far too often the provision of a building by others engenders a sense of dependency in many aspects of the church's ministry and inhibits the development of the church's own abilities and resources. In some cases, members don't sense the provided facilities are theirs and are even unable to maintain or use it well. Also, the obvious outside provision of a church building communicates to the non-believing community that Christianity is clearly the religion of outsiders, requiring the support of outsiders.
The obvious outside provision of a building communicates that Christianity is clearly the religion of outsiders, requiring the support of outsiders.
Occasionally those seeking to plant a church may think that providing a building will attract nonbelievers to come. Unused or empty buildings testify that this is seldom an effective means of outreach and evangelism. Actively going after the lost is much more effective than seeking to attract the lost to come.
Furthermore, in many settings nonbelievers are much more comfortable when they are invited or accompanied to a secular place to encounter Christianity, rather than to a church building that may be mysterious or even threatening to them. It's not unusual for a nonbeliever to have negative perceptions about church buildings. They may, in many cases, face persecution by family or others simply for entering one.
Sometimes, Buildings are Required
There are occasions when there seems to be outside requirements for a church to have a church building. On rare occasions, governments may issue a law for churches to have buildings in order to be officially recognized by the government. In those cases, the church must determine the best way to relate to governmental expectations and requirements.
More often, though, an apparent outside requirement for a church building comes from ecclesiastical bodies (in the case of Baptist churches, usually associations, unions, or conventions). Such a requirement ignores what a church is and the functions and ministry of a church. In that situation, patient leadership and education must bring about a change in such a traditional requirement. Many examples around the world show that more effective and dynamic church planting happens when such an nonbiblical requirement is removed.
Requiring a building ignores what a church is and the functions and ministry of a church.
Buildings Must Not Divert Our Attention from Our Identity or Our Task
Is it required that a church have a building? Certainly not. Can having its own building be helpful to a church? Quite possibly. Is it wrong for a church to have its own building? Probably not. But it is wrong if it diverts the church from its major tasks of evangelism, discipleship, and planting other churches.
And it is wrong if many of the resources of the church—such as energy, attention, finances—are drained away in providing and maintaining a building. Furthermore, it's wrong if the church exhibits pride in its building more than gratefulness for and worship of its Lord.
Yes, our situation may seem different, for the context in which we find ourselves expects a church to have its own building. But we are even more different than that. We are a New Testament church, not of this world, and we must show the world who is the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Maybe that's with a building as a tool, but it's never with the building as the substance of the church.
Dr. Clyde Meador served with the International Mission Board for forty-one years as a church planter, seminary teacher, area director, and regional leader in Central, South, and Southeast Asia. His twenty-seven years overseas were followed by fourteen years in the home office, serving as executive vice president, interim president, and advisor to the president. He retired in May 2016.
Matthew Bennett | June 6 2019
No Lone Rangers: Why We Should Only Send Missionary Teams
Elliot Clark | March 29 2017
5 Ways Not to Return from a Mission Trip
Greg Handley | December 20 2018
When Your Church's Missions Heartbeat Has Flatlined
Afshin Ziafat | November 23 2016
Why Appointing Qualified Elders is an Important Aspect of Healthy Church Life in Every Context


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Alpine, Texas—In a tiny and remote West Texas town, pipeline protesters are following in the footsteps of those at Standing Rock.
Two residents of the 6,000-person city of Alpine were arrested early Tuesday morning on grounds of trespassing after they chained themselves to the entrance gates of a pipeline-construction site owned and operated by Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the Dallas-based energy company responsible for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). Dozens more stood by, holding electric tea lights and signs denouncing the energy company.
Inspired by the fight against the DAPL near the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, the group was protesting a different ETP pipeline project. The Trans-Pecos Pipeline will cut through the spare and pristine Big Bend region of Texas to the border of Mexico, transporting natural gas into Mexico's interior.
This was the latest in a more-than-two-year battle to halt the pipeline's construction, during which its opponents have fought vigilantly, albeit through more institutionalized avenues. Since news of the pipeline began to spread in the spring of 2015, residents concerned about the environmental impact of the pipeline and its infringement on private land have collected signatures and rallied the support of local governance. They sat through condemnation hearings, and even filed suit against the pipeline company. They filed more than 600 comments with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the agency responsible for regulating the small segment of pipeline that would stretch beneath the Rio Grande, and requested that the entire length of the pipeline be subject to environmental review. Their request was denied in May of this year, and ETP continued construction at full steam.
Many feel their voices have fallen on deaf ears. Now, tired and disillusioned after years of protesting, and with the pipeline very near completion, opponents of the Trans-Pecos Pipeline are trying direct action for the first time.
This week's victory at Standing Rock, in which the Army Corps of Engineers announced it would not permit the pipeline to be drilled under the Missouri River, underscored the power of direct action. Indigenous organizers and, eventually, thousands of supporters camped on the banks of the Cannonball River to protect their ancestral lands and water source. Their united action, even in the face of police violence, proved that last resorts can work.
In fact, the events at Standing Rock have inspired the opposition to rethink their approach entirely. At a recent meeting, during which the opposition clandestinely discussed plans for Tuesday's action, they talked about shifting the verbiage of their protest to more closely resemble that of the protest in North Dakota.
The group also discussed making water the focus of their protest to echo the "water is life" motto of the Standing Rock movement. After all, they said, the Trans-Pecos Pipeline would cross beneath the Rio Grande, as well as a handful of regional watersheds.
But some among them worry that folding their fight into the movement at Standing Rock might undermine other significant issues highlighted by that fight—namely, the centuries-long mistreatment of indigenous tribal communities in the United States.
Indeed, theirs is just one regional pipeline fight among dozens like it that are taking place across the nation, with local residents embattled in near-identical fights. In West Virginia and Virginia, for example, residents concerned about the $3.5 billion Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline have formed an alliance to oppose the project, which they say threatens their underground water supplies. Resistance is also gathering against the Bayou Bridge pipeline, another ETP project, which would snake through 60 miles of Louisiana and Texas. Still, few outside these and other municipalities engaged in local pipeline fights have taken notice.
"The system is rigged against us," was a common refrain at Tuesday's protest in West Texas.
But those fighting for their sacred land and water rights at Standing Rock have accomplished what few other pipeline protests could—they've garnered national media attention.
Opponents of the Trans-Pecos Pipeline are eager to do the same. "Even if we don't stop it altogether, we're bringing a lot of awareness to this issue in order to pressure, to get our government to change oil and gas infrastructure regulation," Glover said.
As protesters stood in the early morning darkness beneath a sky replete with stars—one of the biggest draws to the region are its dark skies, which opponents say could be affected by the pipeline infrastructure—they began to sing the popular Woody Guthrie song, "This Land Is Your Land," but they changed a few of its verses.
Sasha von OldershausenSasha von Oldershausen is an Iranian-American journalist writing about the Texas-Mexico border. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The Guardian, and Texas Monthly, among others.


In Vancouver-based DJ Sleepy Tom's new video for "The Currency," we follow a group of investment bankers who are on top of the world. There's power, money, drugs and women but like a lot of times when these things mix, it eventually comes crashing down. Sleepy Tom tells Rolling Stone that the song originally had lyrics, but it wound up becoming an instrumental, so he needed the video to capture the music's intensity.
"The Currency" came out last year on Beatport and he's currently working on his next album for Fools Gold.


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Q: Gitlab - Too many authentication failures for git My command line git is not working since last week, all I remember is that I init a local folder into git version controlled, and add a remote git ref to it. Then my git is unable to push or pull. It shows:
git clone git@gitlab.xxx.com:xxx/myproj.git myproj
Cloning into 'myproj'...
Received disconnect from 192.168.xxx.xxx: 2: Too many authentication failures for git
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

What's weird is that my version control in JetBrain Idea works fine, it can still pull or push that project which can't be pull in command line.
I've add the id_rsa.pub to gitlab before, and I re-add it again now, but it does not work.
My ssh debug info
ssh -v git@gitlab.xxx.com
OpenSSH_6.2p2, OSSLShim 0.9.8r 8 Dec 2011
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh_config line 20: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to gitlab.xxx.com [192.168.xxx.xxx] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /Users/abc/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/abc/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/abc/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/abc/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.2
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.3
debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.3 pat OpenSSH_5*
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
debug1: Server host key: RSA d7:11:d8:62:a6:30:1d:4a:c7:f1:99:bd:ba:54:de:60
debug1: Host 'gitlab.corp.com' is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /Users/abc/.ssh/known_hosts:127
debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: Roaming not allowed by server
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,hostbased
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /Users/abc/.ssh/id_rsa.cn0
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,hostbased
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /Users/abc/.ssh/id_rsa.cn6
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,hostbased
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /Users/abc/.ssh/id_rsa.cn1
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,hostbased
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /Users/abc/.ssh/id_rsa.cn2
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,hostbased
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /Users/abc/.ssh/id_rsa.cn5
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,hostbased
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /Users/abc/.ssh/id_rsa.cn8
Received disconnect from 192.168.100.218: 2: Too many authentication failures for git
abc@LiuzhMacbook:~/.ssh$
abc@LiuzhMacbook:~/.ssh$ ls
authorized_keys  id_rsa           known_hosts      tmp/
abc@LiuzhMacbook:~/.ssh$ rm known_hosts
abc@LiuzhMacbook:~/.ssh$ ssh -v git@gitlab.corp.com
OpenSSH_6.2p2, OSSLShim 0.9.8r 8 Dec 2011
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh_config line 20: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to gitlab.corp.com [192.168.100.218] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /Users/abc/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/abc/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/abc/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/abc/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.2
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.3
debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.3 pat OpenSSH_5*
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
debug1: Server host key: RSA d7:11:d8:62:a6:30:1d:4a:c7:f1:99:bd:ba:54:de:60
The authenticity of host 'gitlab.corp.com (192.168.100.218)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is d7:11:d8:62:a6:30:1d:4a:c7:f1:99:bd:ba:54:de:60.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'gitlab.corp.com,192.168.100.218' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: Roaming not allowed by server
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,hostbased
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /Users/abc/.ssh/id_rsa.cn0
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,hostbased
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /Users/abc/.ssh/id_rsa.cn6
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,hostbased
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /Users/abc/.ssh/id_rsa.cn1
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,hostbased
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /Users/abc/.ssh/id_rsa.cn2
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,hostbased
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /Users/abc/.ssh/id_rsa.cn5
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,hostbased
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /Users/abc/.ssh/id_rsa.cn8
Received disconnect from 192.168.100.218: 2: Too many authentication failures for git

A: First of all set your ssh keys.
If our keys are set correctly - try to restart the ssh-agent
eval $(ssh-agent)

You should see the PID of the process and you r keys will load.
To add your keys manually use: ssh-add. This will load the keys from you default .ssh folder

A: running on linux
the following worked for me (I use gitlab):
  eval $(ssh-agent -s)
  ssh-add ~/.ssh/<ssh_directory>
  ssh -T git@gitlab.com

and in one command:
 eval $(ssh-agent -s) &&  ssh-add ~/.ssh/gitlab &&   ssh -T git@gitlab.com

A:
In SourceTree, try changing SSH Client from PuTTY/Plink to Open SSH.

A: You can use a different ssh url in order to reference the right public/private key you want.
Add in your HOME/.ssh a file named config:
Host            mygitlab
Hostname        gitlab.xxx.com
User            git
IdentityFile    ~/.ssh/id_rsa.gitlab
IdentitiesOnly yes

And change your url:
git clone mygitlab:xxx/myproj.git myproj

That way, you avoid the default ssh behavior which presents every keys for ssh to try.

A: finally - primitive reboot of the host machine works, but would like to know what really happens...

A: For me, the issue was I had a lot of old keys in .ssh folder. So, just removed them and everything worked properly.

A: this maybe a ssh connect problem
when you delete a private key locally
you do not delete its fingerprints of identitie
use this command to check out
ssh-add -l

for more help
ssh-add -h

use this command to delete all identities
ssh-add -D

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CIVILIAN/ALTER EGO NAME: Now secret identity but has been known as "Vlad E Meyer". Also, AKA "The Blue Wizard"
1. Conjuration - Ability to conjure up matter and items. Mass usually is up to the size of a large car or such. Pretty much it is taking hold mystically of an item someplace and bringing it to where I would like it. Living items cannot be conjured.
3 - Invisibility - Actually a form of air elemental manipulation, where bends light waves around him. Cannot perform any aggressive or attack action during this.
4 - Mystic Sight - Is able to manipulate his eyes (so that they appear to be pools of mercury) so that he is able to see things as they truly are. Able to see invisible objects and past mystical disguises (mechanical disguises still work ... if used well and expertly enough). Would be able to detect hidden doors, etc. Line of sight.
5 - Master of martial arts. Having roamed many dimensions and lived a very long time, has learned many combat skills. Added with his half-elven nature (quickness of reflex) he is a very skilled hand to hand (and foot) combatant.
6 - Able to create and use dimensional doorways. Also, able to create and use dimensional pockets (so able to hold lots of goodies in my clothes without causing too much of a bulge in the pockets). Dimensional doors can be within the same time/space continuum, or can also open to the nexus between the dimensions (of course, such takes great skill and energy and is very tiring to do).
7 - Mystical Imbuation - Able to take items and imbue with magical powers. For example, flying carpet or broomstick. This means having the best and most perfect item, and then using a combination of spell casting and alchemical practices to put a spell (or spells) on the object.
8 - Alchemisty - Is able to make potions, salves, poultices, and the like which have mystical and metaphysical benefits, and uses.
9 - Not human - Is half-elven. Thus, reflexes are quicker than normal human, though is not in the 'super' class. Also, is able to undergo more extremes of temperature and pressures for longer than normal human, but still, not in the 'super' class. Is BETTER than human, but not amazingly so.
Is a half-elf with normal weaknesses.
Hmmmmmm... I have often been hired for my ability to make magical items and alchemical salves and poultices and such (rp not SL manufacturing).


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The Southeastern Conference will implement the use of a visible television timeout countdown clock on the field at all 14 SEC on-campus football venues for the 2018 season the conference announced on Tuesday. The on-field display will allow fans, game officials and both teams to view the remaining time during each television commercial stoppage from anywhere in the stadium.
"The use of a visible timeout countdown clock will provide fans in particular an opportunity to know when a game will re-start after a television timeout and hopefully give some definition to the perceived delays in a game," stated SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey. "The clock will also give teams, game officials and event administrators more definitive information for time management in their respective areas of the game."
The display is operated by the TV timeout coordinator, or 'Red Hat,' on the field during television commercial breaks and is turned off during routine game action. The time shown on the TV timeout countdown clock will be the official time remaining in a timeout. When the display reaches zero, the game officials will make the ball ready for play. This will require both teams to be ready on the field and the television production to be back from its commercial break.
The TV timeout countdown clock will also be utilized at three off-campus Southeastern Conference games played during the regular season including Georgia vs. Florida in Jacksonville, Fla., Arkansas vs. Texas A&M in Arlington, Texas and Ole Miss at Arkansas in Little Rock, Ark., as well as the SEC Championship Game on December 1, in Atlanta, Ga., at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The clock will not be used at neutral site games involving non-conference opponents, such as games to be played on opening weekend in Houston, Arlington, Atlanta and Orlando.
The SEC worked with Victory Game Clocks to develop the TV timeout countdown clock for the upcoming football season. The countdown clock is a variation of the company's eDown digital product currently utilized at several SEC schools, the SEC Football Championship Game, and a number of bowl games. Both projects are a by-product of the Auburn University Economic Development Administration (EDA) program, where prototypes and final design were completed by a group of 16 Auburn students in the program.
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Nothing like a Punk show in the suburbs! Classic NY style Punks, Chelsea Hotel, rock the 19th Hole once again.
Automatic Thrill ripped through a tight set that had range of sounds. Numerous genre influences could be heard: Punk(obviously), Blues, Rock, and Alternative just to name a few. They all took the stage, especially their energetic frontman, for themselves, and didn't stop rocking until they got off.
Blower tore straight into some new material(a song called "Guarantee" according to the set list). They banged out a raucous set of Kiss goes Punk style Rock(, but really that was probably apparent with a single look at them on-stage). Make-up, costumes, and an impressive stage(Pyrotechnics not included) are just a few Blower staples. Gritty rocking riffs flew relentlessly through the 19th Hole, until they made their fog clouded exit after a cover of KISS' "Black Diamond"
Chelsea Hotel hit the stage, also dawning new songs: "Austin, and "Looking For Tango"(which would be featured in the latter half of their set). Being the local experts on old school NY punk, all the stops were pulled out. Along with their own quality originals they included some nice covers of: The Dictators("Avenue A"), Johnny Thunders("Chinese Rocks"), and of course some beloved Pagans tunes("Her Name Was Jane", "Six And Change" among others). After over an hour of club rocking they left the stage, having run through basically every song in their repertoire.


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Group: XE.
Model: Volkswagen Tiguan, Jeep Compass.
Passengers: 5 seater.
Doors: 5.
Age limit: 27.
Extras: - Air conditioning - Radio - Airbag - Power steering - Central locking.
The Volkswagen Tiguan is Volkswagen's reference SUV, with compact dimensions, and in the line of medium SUVs. The Volkswagen Tiguan was completely renewed in 2016; to a certain extent we could consider it as a Volkswagen Touareg in miniature.
On board, the Volkswagen Tiguan has also improved significantly. We find quality finishes, and more equipment, with an entertainment equipment based on a touch screen available in 5" and 8".
The Volkswagen Tiguan also hosts the new digital instrumentation of the brand, the Active Info Display, as well as head-up display and automatic emergency braking system in the city.
As for practicality, the Volkswagen Tiguan has a cargo space that has grown to 615 litres (+145 litres with respect to its predecessor) and up to 1,65 litres if we fold the backs of the rear seats.
The Jeep Compass is designed for all kinds of adventures and also for standing out in the urban jungle.
Its infotainment features an 8.4-inch screen and the new generation Uconnect 5, with wireless connection from the smartpohne to the car via Apple CarPlay and Android Auto as standard.
In addition, the range comes as standard with the Signal Recognition System, Automatic Emergency Braking with pedestrian and cyclist recognition, and 360-degree cameras, among other features.
Although officially a 5-seater, it is preferable for a total of 4 passengers if comfort in the rear seats is not to be compromised. The boot has a volume of 438 litres.
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