I was totally wrong. Its the driver problem. Every proper driver gives basic functionality for a device without any problem. All the other driver components are optional & just give extra control over the things. Somebody may like those but many think they are just a burden! The choice also depends upon the user interests & practices.
The only possibility is that a proper win7 driver will need some extra stuff that is not included in a win 8 or win 10 only driver. In every case a proper Win 7 driver will work straight away. So, we have to find a proper win7 driver.
(a) I also have a bluetooth driver from Intel to test but first give me the link to the driver you installed just now.
(b) I could not understand what happened when you tried SCM ?
(c) I have understood the fsquirt trial.
(d) I also see that you have installed Killer Performance Driver Suite in win7. Which one you used ? Is it listed in Device Manager ? If yes, How it looks in the Device Manager ? Does Device Manager entry says that the device is working correctly ? What is the hardware ID it shows there ?
(e) The listing you see in Win 10 Device Manager may be lesser in win7 but there should be at least some entries in the win 7 Device Manager. Now you installed the intel bluetooth driver successfully. Is it listed in Device Manager ? If yes, How it looks in the Device Manager ? Does Device Manager entry says that the device is working correctly ? What is the hardware ID it shows there ?
As i have already said above, Killer Control Center may be useless or useful for you but it is not required for the basic functionality. That work is always done well by a proper win7 driver.
I ask you to not uninstall the Killer & Intel Bluetooth drivers as of now. There is a possibility that one more driver is not installed which may be crucial. I will be able to tell about it tomorrow.
The previous queries are needed to be answered before saying anything further!
b) It is easier with NTLite. One has to just extract the driver properly. As soon as the .inf is pulled by NTLite, It is shown by the NTLite what is that driver actually. It seems that the rest things, .dll, .sys, .cat, etc. are internally pulled by NTLite from the extracted driver folder but it does not tell those!
So, One has to just take care that the extracted driver folder contents are not changed & required .inf is picked. NTLite should be given a fair chance to pick the driver from the extracted driver folder. Don't try to directly supply .inf files without extracted driver folder's other contents.
The thing to take notice is that storage drivers & storage updates ( NVMe) are needed to be integrated into INSTALL.WIM & both editions of BOOT.WIM while others need to be integrated only into the INSTALL.WIM.
Boot.wim has two editions : 'Windows PE' & 'Windows Setup'. Windows PE is not required for Setup & Installation but it is needed for Recovery Environment. So, if one intends to use Recovery Environment from the ISO, he should not remove it. Besides, the things integrated into Windows Setup, should be integrated into Windows PE as well.
I answer you to your post #99, excuse me but takes a little while to catch you all the screen of the all IDs Hardwares.
1. One information is missing!
Go to the Device Manager in win 7 & get ALL Hardware IDs & ALLCompatible IDs for 15DB : USB 3.1 Host controller.
CRIS: Ok, this I did.
3. In the meantime i will be finding a bluetooth driver with control centre, etc. if it is there.
& Windows Updates in the install.wim only.
I really appreciate your efforts & understand that it takes time.
2) I think you have not read post #101. There are some new facts & queries. I am not mounting any pressure but i can't suggest further without those queries answered.
3) Also read post #102. There are some facts.
Take your time & answer when you are comfortable.
CRIS: Happaned nothing, which means the software by Icons turn on and turn off the Wireless and Bluetooth but in fact doesn't work. Which means that the hardware doesn't work, and the software does't pop up any error or problems. The SCM software, just it works as a button that switch that's it.
I also see that you have installed Killer Performance Driver Suite in win7. Which one you used ? Is it listed in Device Manager ? If yes, How it looks in the Device Manager ? Does Device Manager entry says that the device is working correctly ? What is the hardware ID it shows there ?
CRIS: The Killer software are just rubbish software that allow you to prioritize the connection channel of each softwares that you are going to use to serfing or downloading from internet. Are just softwares to managment the channels if the Hardwares works. If the hardware doens't work the software it's installed but is not related to the functionally of the hardware. Doesn't install any Hardware ID, because it's just a software and that's it (they write it even in them oifficial site about these softwares, especially under my model Killer 1550).
CRIS: As you can see from all my "IDs screen shots", the strange thing that the bluetooth even if it's installed without problems, is not listed out at all in Device Manager.I was thinking if we need manually to install the drivers managers build-in inside the Windows 7 OS like the Bluetooth Device (RFCOMM Protocol TDI),maybe as you said it is not enough for Windows 7 the proper Drivers.
CRIS: Yes, axactly when i say it's Useless, I would like to say that the softwares from Killer Lan it's just not required for the basic functionalityof the hardware.
CRIS: I didn't know that NTLite use DISM as in the back ground of the software. Thank you for this info.
CRIS: Thank you for this info as well.
sorry, but this period I'm a bit busy. I will try to give you all the infos shortly.


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During one performance, the number three Hercules lost one of the outboard engines which had to be shut down. The crew feathered the prop and continued with the air show routine without a hitch!
It was tough going if you were assigned to one of the USAF Tactical Air Command's Troop Carrier Squadrons (TCS) in the 1950s. In the hierarchy of the day, the pilots and crews of the airlift squadrons picked up the still-used sobriquet of "trash-haulers," while the airmen in the bomber and fighter squadrons flew advanced aircraft that were often the cutting edge of technology and performance. The bomber crews of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) won the lion's share of the USAF budget in the name of nuclear deterrence and the fighters of the Tactical Air Command (TAC) were setting world records for speed and altitude and carrying the latest in missile and radar equipment.
But the troop carrier squadrons by and large were still flying piston radials in aircraft with technology not far removed from the aircraft of World War 2. Even the long-haul transport crews of MATS, the Military Air Transport Service, had it better than the guys who slogged around on intratheater missions in Douglas C-47 Dakotas and Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcars. The C-119 was so underpowered that its single engine performance was near-abysmal. Back then, the graduates of USAF flight training with the lowest scores went to the troop carrier squadrons.
The first operational C-130As went to the 463rd Troop Carrier Wing at Ardmore AFB, Oklahoma. Pilots were ecstatic about flying a tough transport that handled like a fighter jet. There were even TAC fighter pilots who were transferring to the Hercules. Suddenly Herk pilots could walk into any officers' club with pride knowing that they had a "trash-hauler" that even the fighter jocks wanted to fly. It's pretty safe to say that the arrival of the C-130 Hercules was a massive morale boost for the troop carrier squadrons of the TAC.
While the first operational C-130 units were with the 463rd TCW in Oklahoma, the Hercules training unit would be the 314th Troop Carrier Wing at Sewart AFB in Tennessee. There at Sewart would pilots, loadmasters and mechanics be trained on the Herk. While the 314th was still getting operational, flight crews from the 463rd TCW took their new mounts to bases all over the U.S. and participated in airborne exercises with the Army who were also excited about the arrival of the Hercules.
As told by Sam McGowan in his book The C-130 Hercules: Tactical Airlift Missions, 1956-1975, one of the units, the 774th Troop Carrier Squadron "Green Weasels" that was part of the 463rd TCW at Ardmore AFB happened to be at Fort Campbell, Kentucky for a week-long exercise with the 101st Airborne Division. One day the winds canceled a scheduled airborne drop, but four of the 774th TCS's C-130s were ready to go. So the flight crews took off anyway to make use of the time to get some formation flying practice in and spent several hours flying low over Kentucky and Tennessee honing their skills. On their return to the airfield at Fort Campbell, they made several low passes at high speed and in tight diamond formation. It donned on them- hey, why not form a demonstration team like the Thunderbirds to demonstrate the new Hercules everywhere?
Back at Ardmore AFB, they worked on their demonstration routine and suggested that they fly the routine for the personnel of the 314th TCW at Sewart AFB to show off the new planes that they'd be getting. TAC Headquarters approved the plan and the demonstration was a success. At first they called themselves the Thunderweasels, a combination of the Thunderbirds and the Green Weasels nickname of the squadron, but they settled on becoming "The Four Horsemen" after Knute Rockne's famous football offensive team at Notre Dame in 1924.
The Four Horsemen won official recognition from the USAF as an aerial demonstration team and from 1956 to 1960 they performed their routine of tight formation flying and sharp turns throughout the United States and even went overseas to Europe and the Far East. During one performance, the number three Hercules lost one of the outboard engines which had to be shut down. The crew feathered the prop and continued with the air show routine without a hitch!
As shown in the following video filmed in 1960, The Four Horsemen were the world's only four engine per aircraft demonstration team. Flying four C-130As in close formation, the team would perform a number of maneuvers over a twenty-three minute airshow that closed with a bomb burst — or as the team called it, Horseman Burst. The show was performed at an altitude of 500 to 1,000 feet.


After years of resisting, Nintendo Co. Ltd (NTDOY) Tuesday finally gave into the inevitable and said it would start putting its games on smartphones and other mobile devices.
The maker of Super Mario, whose shares have fallen by over 80% from their 2007 peak as the rise of mobile gaming has gnawed away at its console-based business, said it's teaming up with DeNA, an online gaming firm, to develop smartphone games that will feature Super Mario, Donkey Kong and other familiar characters from its catalog.
Nintendo will take a 10% stake in DeNA in exchange for a 1.2% stake in itself, in a share swap valued at 22 billion yen $181 million).
Nintendo's share price since Apple launched the smartphone revolution.
They will also launch later this year an online membership service accessible on mobile devices and Nintendo's existing 3DS portable system and its Wii U console, Reuters reported.
Iwata had consistently refused to acknowledge a trend that has been undeniable for most industry observers in recent years. While online gaming through smartphones and other mobile devices has exploded, demand for console-based games has withered. Nintendo recorded three straight years of operating losses before its last fiscal year and delivered another profit warning in January after a near 40% year-on-year drop in sales of its 3DS console.
It still expects to make money in the year through March, helped by the fact that the yen has depreciated sharply against the dollar, increasing its profit margins in the U.S..
Iwata told a press conference that the company doesn't intend to abandon the console model completely. He said it will continue to work on a new console, called the NX.
DeNA, which grew from a startup launched in 1999 to a major online gaming company, has also lost its momentum in the past two years as users moved on to more popular gaming apps. DeNA mainly develops games played on browsers.
As a result of the capital alliance, Nintendo will become the second largest shareholder of DeNA after its founder, Tomoko Namba, who has a 13.1%, Reuters reported.


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Parque Shima () é um parque público urbano em Loudi, Hunan, China. Ele cobre uma área de 225.000 metros quadrados (2,420,000. Localizado no Distrito Louxing, parque Shima faz fronteira com a rua Xiangyin oeste no sul, rua Xiushi no oeste, rua Yuetang no norte e a estrada do meio Xinxing no leste. Ele é um famoso jardim botânico e um ponto paisagístico local, integrando a pesquisa científica, popularização e turismo em Hunan. É adjacente a estação ferroviária Loudi.

Atrações turísticas

 Yuma Lago (御马湖)
 Shima Pavilhão (石马阁)
 Alívio de Parede (浮雕屏风墙)

História Natural
Existem mais de 20 espécies de plantas cultivadas no parque, incluindo Cinnamomum camphora, Cupressus lusitanica, Magnolia grandiflora, salgueiro, Magnolia denudata, Osmanthus fragrans, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, pêssego, Acer rubrum, Pinus massoniana, Rhododendron simsii, e Phyllostachys edulis.

Acesso do público
Em 1999, Shima Parque foi oficialmente aberto ao público.

Galeria

Referências

Shima
Loudi

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This documentary pays a tribute to a bygone L.A. institution celebrates Jewel Thais-Williams and the gay dance club that served the city's minority community.
Scarlett, a neglected agoraphobic girl, suddenly finds herself pregnant with no recollection of how. One of her stuffed animal toys, 'Chicken', starts talking to her and she becomes convinced that the toy is the father of her child.
Huge advancements in scientific technology have enabled a mogul to create an island full of living dinosaurs. Tragedy strikes when one of the workers is killed by a velociraptor. It';s now a race for survival with dangerous creatures roaming all over the island.
Henry, a middle school student in Alabama, finds refuge in music after he is stuck living with his drug-addicted mother when his father is deployed to Afghanistan. With the help of a local pastor, the boy decides to take part in a local singing contest.
John J. Rambo is a former United States Special Forces soldier who fought in Vietnam and won the Congressional Medal of Honor, but his time in Vietnam still haunts him. A drifter on his way to get some food, Rambo is arrested by Will Teasle, a small town sheriff who is used to getting things his way. When he can';t stand anymore abuse at the hands of Teasle and his deputies, Rambo goes crazy, uses his combat skills killing a deputy and escaping into the surrounding hills, massively armed with every weapon he needs. As the publicity of Rambo';s one man war escalates, Teasle and his posse are confronted by Colonel Trautman, Rambo';s former commander and the only one who may be able to stop the terrible fate awaiting everyone involved.
Several couples volunteer for human trials designed to treat psychological problems. At first, the treatment results are promising as their perception becomes clearer, but the couples start to perceive too much, and things turn deadly.
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Blood, Enjoyment and Belonging in Selected Vampire Fiction
Satele, Daniel
This thesis argues that blood is the central object of the vampire genre. Since the entry of the word 'vampire' into English in the early eighteenth century, human understanding of blood changed drastically. Yet the vampire's blood-drinking remained its definitive characteristic. Moreover, in vampire stories the human characters also draw blood, wielding knives, guns, needles and more, in efforts to establish or defend the type of community in which they wish to live. The modern vampire is born, in part, out of the confrontation of the Enlightenment with blood itself. Due to blood's centrality to western premodernity, its complex symbolism, along with its status as a real substance that is indispensable to human life, blood was uniquely placed to both mark and carry surplus meaning as western culture faced rapid upheavals with the onset of modernity. The vampire genre became a forum for probing and interpreting unresolved questions of belonging and exploitation that emerged. To serve this function the genre used blood as the definitive object of vampiric enjoyment. Combining Lacanian psychoanalytic understandings with medical history and the close reading of a range of vampire texts, this thesis traces how premodern beliefs about blood as individual and collective essence never fully disappeared, even in the face of scientific and medical discoveries that disproved them. In the late nineteenth century, older ideas about blood as heredity morphed into eugenicist beliefs that blood was the agent of racial degeneration. Several vampire texts incorporate elements of eugenics discourse. In the twentieth century, when eugenics was disavowed, blood nevertheless remained a symbol for race and essence. As Jim Crow segregation ended in America, postmodern vampires who relate to their blood-drinking with reluctance appeared. The ironic distance between postmodern vampires and their earlier counterparts meant that the genre provided a means for exploring the afterlife of eugenics, given the vampire's history as a racialised monster. Case studies of three novels – Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897), Richard Matheson's I Am Legend (1954) and Fledgling (2005) by Octavia Butler – are centralised in this discussion. A conclusion examines the first season of the television series True Blood (HBO, 2008).
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That Time Big Bang Theory Played SWTOR
July 31, 2019 November 20, 2021 Lisa Clark SWTOR, swtor big bang theory
If you're a fan of Big Bang Theory, you may have noticed that one episode (S05E19) where the gang all played SWTOR.
In their usual hilarious manner, the gang talked "nerdy" about "that new Star Wars game" and the other games they had played in the past (remember when they played WoW?) And of course, the girlfriends didn't understand, although Bernadette jumps in with her pink laptop to play their healer (stereotypical, but still good for a laugh).
"My Howie-wowie has an owwie."
Anyway, most of it is just reference to the game, which they never actually call by name, except for one scene on Raj's screen where we actually get to see them play.
SWTOR fans have criticized this clip every time it gets brought up but I think it's all in good fun and one player commented on a thread that he found out about the game because of this episode! I doubt he's the only one, and I consider that a win if it was introducing new players to the game.
If you're also a fan of SWTOR, you may have noticed some things seemed odd on Raj's screen. For one, they weren't grouped up, Raj didn't have this companion out and it looked especially empty on Coruscant that day. People also criticized how they were playing without a mouse, but it's an MMORPG, not an FPS and I know a lot of people who play that way.
However you feel about it, I've stumbled upon some really fun info about how this entire seen was shot and I think you'll like it. First, let's refresh what took place on the show.
Here is a compilation of all the times SWTOR was mentioned in The Big Bang Theory if you want to see for yourself.
If you didn't watch the show, then have a look at the clips to see for yourself. If you did watch, it's a fun lookback with some additional insight into how it all happened.
Someone on Reddit who goes by Redcrosse says that he actually filmed footage for that episode when he worked at BioWare. He explains a lot of the things people had criticized, and some other background info, too.
Here's what he said:
"I actually filmed the footage for that episode while I worked at BioWare. It was a super weird one-off request! The show's producers had very specific requests, from the location to the race/gender/outfit combos the characters would wear. Each player was roughly built to look like the characters on the show. We weren't told how exactly the footage would be used, but we had a vague idea of what the episode was about. If I recall, we were told Bernadette was supposed to pick up a new pretty outfit and was to be more interested in dressing her character than fighting, but I'm not sure if they kept that storyline or not.
The companion wasn't out because it might have caused confusion as to which character on screen was being played by each of the show's cast members. The other Jedi was probably an NPC that was dressed to look like a player character. Our team of video editors was small, so we'd often have to film multiplayer footage solo, so NPCs came in handy. We did have a second machine we could use for group shots, but it's been so many years that I can't tell you exactly why we shot it without the party UI up, but I bet it was requested that way. The zone's player count in the top left is probably an oversight – we couldn't film on a live server since we needed cheats, and we'd often fix things like that in post, but since the footage was basically delivered raw to the show's producers, we probably never got the chance.
Fun fact – we also sent them a collector's edition and some other SWTOR swag, and some of it was visible in the background in at least a few episodes!"
Regardless of whether or not you were a fan of the show, I think it's really fun to see games like this show up in the mainstream and popular culture. The more recognition they get, the more players they get, and the more games like this we get to have – and keep.
"It's on like Alderaan!"
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A senior Republican senator says he has been reassured by President Trump he's committed to defeating the Islamic State group before all US troops are withdrawn from Syria.
Senator Lindsey Graham had criticised Mr Trump's decision to withdraw American troops, arguing it would hurt national security.
But after a meeting at the White House he told reporters the President and his generals had a plan that made sense, hinting the pace of withdrawal would be slowed down.
"We still have some differences but I will tell you that the president is thinking long and hard about Syria – how to withdraw our forces but at the same time achieve our national security interests"
"The President assured me he is going to make sure he gets the job done. He promised to destroy Isis. He's going to keep that promise."
Mr Graham alluded to a delay in withdrawal saying " I think we're slowing things down in a smart way," but he didn't give specifics or any indication that the President had changed his stance.
There's been no comment so far from the White House or the President.
On December 19th, the President announced that all 2,000 US troops would be pulled out of Syria and asserted that IS had been defeated.
The move was criticised by major allies as well as members of his own party.
It's widely believed that it played a part in US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis's decision to resign his post. It's also thought top US envoy involved in the fight against IS Brett McGurk also decided to quit because of President Trump's decision.
Critics of the plan believe a US withdrawal could leave space for the Islamic State group to stage a resurgence. It would also leave US allies the Kurds more exposed to attacks.


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NSO Used Real People's Location Data To Pitch Its Contact-Tracing Tech
Tags: COVID, smartphones, surveillance, surveillance devices
NSO, a private intelligence company best known for developing and selling governments access to its Pegasus spyware, pitched its contact-tracing system earlier this year, dubbed Fleming, aimed at helping governments track the spread of COVID-19. Fleming is designed to allow governments to feed location data from cell phone companies to visualize and track the spread of the virus. NSO gave several news outlets each a demo of Fleming, which NSO says helps governments make public health decisions "without compromising individual privacy." But in May, a security researcher told TechCrunch that he found an exposed database storing thousands of location data points used by NSO to demonstrate how Fleming works — the same demo seen by reporters weeks earlier. TechCrunch reported the apparent security lapse to NSO, which quickly secured the database, but said that the location data was "not based on real and genuine data." NSO's claim that the location data wasn't real differed from reports in Israeli media, which said NSO had used phone location data obtained from advertising platforms, known as data brokers, to "train" the system. Academic and privacy expert Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler, who was also given a demo of Fleming, said NSO told her that the data was obtained from data brokers, which sell access to vast troves of aggregate location data collected from the apps installed on millions of phones.
NSO is currently embroiled in a lawsuit with Facebook-owned WhatsApp, which last year blamed NSO for exploiting an undisclosed vulnerability in WhatsApp to infect some 1,400 phones with Pegasus, including journalists and human rights defenders. NSO says it should be afforded legal immunity because it acts on behalf of governments.
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Dozens of Journalists' iPhones Hacked With NSO 'Zero-Click' Spyware, Says Citizen Lab
Tags: media, smartphones, spyware, surveillance
For more than the past year, London-based reporter Rania Dridi and at least 36 journalists, producers and executives working for the Al Jazeera news agency were targeted with a so-called "zero-click" attack that exploited a now-fixed vulnerability in Apple's iMessage. The attack invisibly compromised the devices without having to trick the victims into opening a malicious link. Citizen Lab, the internet watchdog at the University of Toronto, was asked to investigate earlier this year after one of the victims, Al Jazeera investigative journalist Tamer Almisshal, suspected that his phone may have been hacked. In a technical report out Sunday and shared with TechCrunch, the researchers say they believe the journalists' iPhones were infected with the Pegasus spyware, developed by Israel-based NSO Group. The researchers analyzed Almisshal's iPhone and found it had between July and August connected to servers known to be used by NSO for delivering the Pegasus spyware. The device revealed a burst of network activity that suggests that the spyware may have been delivered silently over iMessage. Logs from the phone show that the spyware was likely able to secretly record the microphone and phone calls, take photos using the phone's camera, access the victim's passwords, and track the phone's location.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/20/citizen-lab-iphone-nso-group/...
Surveillance Compounded: Real-Time Crime Centers in the United States
Tags: police, surveillance
Over the last two decades, law enforcement agencies across the United States have been obtaining more and more sophisticated surveillance technologies to collect data. Technologies such as networked cameras, automated license plate readers, and gunshot detection are deployed around the clock, as are the tools to process this data, such as predictive policing software and AI-enhanced video analytics. The last five years have seen a distinct trend in which police have begun deploying all of this technology in conjunction with one another. The technologies, working in concert, are being consolidated and fed into physical locations called Real-Time Crime Centers (RTCCs). These high-tech hubs, filled with walls of TV monitors and computer workstations for sworn officers and civilian analysts, not only exploit huge amounts of data, but also are used to justify an increase in surveillance technology through new "data-driven" or "intelligence-led" policing strategies.
As part of the Atlas of Surveillance project, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and students from the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno have identified more than 80 RTCCs across the United States, with heavy concentrations in the South and the Northeast. In this report, we highlight the capabilities and controversies surrounding 7 of these facilities. As this trend expands, it is crucial that the public understands how the technologies are combined to collect data about people as they move through their day-to-day lives.
Source: https://atlasofsurveillance.org/real-time-crime-centers...
What Modern Video Surveillance Looks Like
Tags: CCTV, surveillance
A few years ago, when you saw a security camera, you may have thought that the video feed went to a VCR somewhere in a back office that could only be accessed when a crime occurs. Or maybe you imagined a sleepy guard who only paid half-attention, and only when they discovered a crime in progress. In the age of internet-connectivity, now it's easy to imagine footage sitting on a server somewhere, with any image inaccessible except to someone willing to fast forward through hundreds of hours of footage.
That may be how it worked in 1990s heist movies, and it may be how a homeowner still sorts through their own home security camera footage. But that's not how cameras operate in today's security environment. Instead, advanced algorithms are watching every frame on every camera and documenting every person, animal, vehicle, and backpack as they move through physical space, and thus camera to camera, over an extended period of time.
Source: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/video-analytics-user-manuals-are...
France Bans Use of Drones To Police Protests In Paris
Tags: facial recognition, police
The Council of State said Paris police prefect Didier Lallement should halt "without delay" drone surveillance of gatherings on public roads. The ruling comes weeks after MPs backed a controversial security bill that includes police use of drones. Its main aim is to regulate how people share film or photos of police.
Privacy rights group La Quadrature du Net (LQDN) has argued that the bill's main measures violate freedom of expression and that drones equipped with cameras cannot keep the peace but track individuals instead. The Council of State ruled there was "serious doubt over the legality" of drones without a prior text authorizing and setting out their use. LQDN said the only way the government could legalize drone surveillance now was in providing "impossible proof" that it was absolutely necessary to maintain law and order. The decision is the second setback in months for Parisian authorities' drone plans. In May, the same court ruled that drones could not be used in the capital to track people in breach of France's strict lockdown rules.
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55411695...
TikTok: Rampant product placement
Tags: advertising, corporate power, screen culture
In the world of TikTok, brands have the opportunity to get products out into the real world – or make stories of them already being out there. The platform turns placement into consumption as consumers participate – or play – with the products. Product placement on the platform could come from just giving products out to creators, or partnering with them, as is done on other platforms. However, it could also come from amplifying organic content or trends that are already happening with a brand's products … Viewers are the stars. When it comes to distinguishing between viewers and audiences on TikTok, just as with content and ads, the lines are blurred. In fact, many TikTok users are also creators. For these creators, the feed is their stage and this where the opportunity for sponsorship and placement lies for brands.
Source: https://www.adnews.com.au/news/as-seen-on-tiktok-how-product-placement...
Hundreds Riot, Thousands Protest at iPhone Factory in India
Tags: apple, iphone, workers
The international news agency AFP reports on "a violent rampage at a Taiwanese-run iPhone factory in southern India" leading to over 100 arrests. About 2,000 workers were involved in the protest, reports the Verge, citing the Indian Express newspaper.
The workers are protesting over allegations of unpaid wages and exploitation, according to AFP. "Local media reported workers saying they had not been paid for up to four months and were being forced to do extra shifts…"
Workers at the Taiwanese-run Wistron Infocomm Manufacturing near Bangalore smashed glass panels with rods and flipped cars on their side… CCTV cameras, fans and lights were torn down, while a car was set on fire, footage shared on social media showed…
A local trade union leader alleged that there was "brutal exploitation" of factory workers in sweatshop conditions at the iPhone manufacturing plant. "The state government has allowed the company to flout the basic rights," Satyanand, who uses one name, told The Hindu newspaper… Labour unrest is not uncommon in India, with workers paid poorly and given few or no social security benefits.
Source: https://venturebeat.com/2020/12/07/nextmind-real-time-brain-computer-i...
High-Frequency Traders Push Closer To Light Speed With Cutting-Edge Cables
Tags: capitalism, economy, environment, fibre, financial
High-frequency traders are using an experimental type of cable to speed up their systems by billionths of a second, the latest move in a technological arms race to execute stock trades as quickly as possible. From a report:
The cable, called hollow-core fiber, is a next-generation version of the fiber-optic cable used to deliver broadband internet to homes and businesses. Made of glass, such cables carry data encoded as beams of light. But instead of being solid, hollow-core fiber is empty inside, with dozens of parallel, air-filled channels narrower than a human hair. Because light travels nearly 50% faster through air than glass, it takes about one-third less time to send data through hollow-core fiber than through the same length of standard fiber. The difference is often just a minuscule fraction of a second. But in high-frequency trading, that can make the difference between profits and losses. HFT firms use sophisticated algorithms and ultrafast data networks to execute rapid-fire trades in stocks, options and futures. Many are secretive about their trading strategies and technology.
Hollow-core fiber is the latest in a series of advances that fast traders have used to try to outrace their competition. A decade ago, a company called Spread Networks spent about $300 million to lay fiber-optic cable in a straight line from Chicago to New York, so traders could send data back and forth along the route in just 13 milliseconds, or thousandths of a second. Within a few years the link was superseded by microwave networks that reduced transmission times along the route to less than nine milliseconds. HFT firms have also used lasers to zip data between the data centers of the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, and they have embedded their algorithms in superfast computer chips. Now, faced with the limits of physics and technology, traders are left fighting over nanoseconds. "The time increments of these improvements have gotten markedly smaller," said Michael Persico, chief executive of Anova Financial Networks, a technology provider that runs communications networks used by HFT firms. High-frequency trading is controversial, with critics saying that some ultrafast strategies amount to an invisible tax on investors. Industry representatives say such criticism is unfounded.
Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/high-frequency-traders-push-closer-to-lig...
Australia Sues Facebook Over Its Use of Onavo To Snoop
Tags: Facebook, spying, VPN
Australia's Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is suing Facebook over its use, in 2016 and 2017, of the Onavo VPN app to spy on users for commercial purposes. From a report:
The ACCC's case accuses Facebook of false, misleading or deceptive conduct toward thousands of Australian consumers, after it had promoted the Onavo Protect app — saying it would keep users personal activity data private, protected and secret and not use it for any other purpose, when it was being used to gather data to help Facebook's business. "Through Onavo Protect, Facebook was collecting and using the very detailed and valuable personal activity data of thousands of Australian consumers for its own commercial purposes, which we believe is completely contrary to the promise of protection, secrecy and privacy that was central to Facebook's promotion of this app," said ACCC chair Rod Sims in a statement. "Consumers often use VPN services because they care about their online privacy, and that is what this Facebook product claimed to offer. In fact, Onavo Protect channelled significant volumes of their personal activity data straight back to Facebook."
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/16/australia-sues-facebook-over-its-use...
Facebook Said It's Developing A Tool To Read Your Brain
Tags: brain-computer-interface, Facebook
Facebook told employees this week that it's developing a tool to summarize news articles so users won't have to read them. It also laid out early plans for a neural sensor to detect people's thoughts and translate them into action. From a report:
[…] He [Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer] also detailed a neural sensor to read commandments from people's brains. Having acquired neural interface startup CTRL-labs in 2019, Facebook demonstrated its progress in the field with a sensor that takes "neural signals coming from my brain, down my spinal cord along my arm, to my wrist" and allows a user to make a physical action. Schroepfer noted that it could be used for typing, holding a virtual object, or controlling a character in a video game. "We all get the privilege of seeing the future because we are making it," he said. Still, Facebook's chief technology officer seemed to anticipate any criticisms of the products — or past failures — by touting safety measures. "We have to build responsibly to earn trust and the right to continue to grow," he said. "It's imperative that we get this right so that people around the world get all these amazing technologies … without experiencing the downsides."
Source: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-news-article-sum...
How the Nature Conservancy, the World's Biggest Environmental Group, Became a Dealer of Meaningless Carbon Offsets
Tags: capitalism, environment, NGO
At first glance, big corporations appear to be protecting great swaths of U.S. forests in the fight against climate change. JPMorgan Chase & Co. has paid almost $1 million to preserve forestland in eastern Pennsylvania. Forty miles away, Walt Disney has spent hundreds of thousands to keep the city of Bethlehem, Pa., from aggressively harvesting a forest that surrounds its reservoirs. Across the state line in New York, investment giant BlackRock has paid thousands to the city of Albany to refrain from cutting trees around its reservoirs. JPMorgan, Disney, and BlackRock tout these projects as an important mechanism for slashing their own large carbon footprints.
By funding the preservation of carbon-absorbing forests, the companies say, they're offsetting the carbon-producing impact of their global operations. But in all of those cases, the land was never threatened; the trees were already part of well-preserved forests. Rather than dramatically change their operations — JPMorgan executives continue to jet around the globe, Disney's cruise ships still burn oil, and BlackRock's office buildings gobble up electricity — the corporations are working with the Nature Conservancy, the world's largest environmental group, to employ far-fetched logic to help absolve them of their climate sins. By taking credit for saving well-protected land, these companies are reducing nowhere near the pollution that they claim. […]
Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-nature-conservancy-carbon-offs...
China Turns On Nuclear-Powered 'Artificial Sun'
Tags: energy, technics
China successfully powered up its "artificial sun" nuclear fusion reactor for the first time, state media reported Friday, marking a great advance in the country's nuclear power research capabilities. Phys.Org reports:
The HL-2M Tokamak reactor is China's largest and most advanced nuclear fusion experimental research device, and scientists hope that the device can potentially unlock a powerful clean energy source. It uses a powerful magnetic field to fuse hot plasma and can reach temperatures of over 150 million degrees Celsius, according to the People's Daily — approximately ten times hotter than the core of the sun. Located in southwestern Sichuan province and completed late last year, the reactor is often called an "artificial sun" on account of the enormous heat and power it produces. They plan to use the device in collaboration with scientists working on the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor — the world's largest nuclear fusion research project based in France, which is expected to be completed in 2025.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-12-china-nuclear-powered-artificial-sun.htm...
Australia's Great Barrier Reef Status Lowered To 'Critical' and Deteriorating
Tags: climate change, environment
The health status of Australia's Great Barrier Reef has officially declined from "significant concern" to "critical" for the first time, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced this week. CBS News reports:
It said climate change is now the biggest threat to natural World Heritage sites, including the world's largest and most spectacular coral reef. According to the new report, one-third of the 252 natural World Heritage sites are now threatened by climate change. Previously, invasive species were listed as the top threat.
The Great Barrier Reef must contend with ocean warming, acidification and extreme weather to stay alive amid record heat waves. It has lost half of its coral to climate change since 1995, with its status now listed as "critical" — the most urgent designated status in the classification system of the UNESCO advisory board. Sites listed as critical are "severely treated and require urgent, additional and large-scale conservation measures," the report said. Additionally, the report warns that plans to protect the reef long-term have been slow to implement, failing to stop or reverse the reef's deterioration.
The report adds that four other Australian world heritage sites have also deteriorated and received lowered statuses — the Blue Mountains, the Gondwana rainforests, the Ningaloo Coast and Shark Bay. "Overall, more sites have deteriorated than improved since 2017," reports CBS News.
Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/australia-great-barrier-reef-critical-det...
US Air Pollution Monitoring Network Falling Into Disrepair
Tags: pollution
The U.S. air pollution monitoring network has fallen into disrepair after years of budget cuts and neglect, leaving tens of millions of Americans vulnerable to undetected bad air quality from events like wildfires to industrial pollution, according to a report by the investigative arm of Congress. Reuters:
The conclusions from a 2-1/2-year audit by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) confirm key findings in a Reuters special report published last week that detailed broad failures in the air-pollution monitoring system, whose data guides U.S. regulatory policy and informs the public about health risks. Federal funding for the air monitoring network, which is overseen by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and operated and maintained by state and local environmental agencies, has declined by about 20% since 2004, after adjusting for inflation, leaving it in poor condition, according to the GAO report viewed by Reuters. The GAO report said some agencies have reported termite damage and leaky roofs at shelters housing sensitive but aging pollution monitoring equipment, and one state agency resorted to shopping on eBay to find used monitor parts because the manufacturer had stopped making them.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-pollution-airmonitors-gao-idUSKBN2...
China Expanding Weather-Control Program To Make Artificial Rain, Snow
Tags: artificial, technics, weather control
China is massively expanding its weather-control project, and is aiming to be able to cover half the country in artificial rain and snow by 2025, the government said Tuesday. Business Insider reports:
The practice of "cloud seeding" was discovered in the US in 1946 by a chemist working for General Electric. China launched its own similar program in the 1960s. Dozens of other countries — including the US — also have such programs, but Beijing has the world's largest, employing around 35,000 people, The Guardian reported.
In a statement, China's State Council said that the country's cloud seeing project will expand fivefold to cover an area of 2.1 million square miles and be completed by 2025. (China encompasses 3.7 million square miles, meaning the project could cover 56% of the country's surface area.) The project will be at a "worldwide advanced level" by 2035, the State Council said, and will help alleviate "disasters such as drought and hail" and facilitate emergency responses "to forest or grassland fires."
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/china-expanding-weather-modification-p...
US Used Patriot Act To Gather Logs of Website Visitors
Tags: surveillance
The government has interpreted a high-profile provision of the Patriot Act as empowering F.B.I. national security investigators to collect logs showing who has visited particular web pages, documents show. But the government stops short of using that law to collect the keywords people submit to internet search engines because it considers such terms to be content that requires a warrant to gather, according to letters produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The disclosures come at a time when Congress is struggling with new proposals to limit the law, known as Section 215 of the Patriot Act. The debate ran aground in the spring amid erratic messages from President Trump, but is expected to resume after President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. takes the oath of office in January.
In May, 59 senators voted to bar the use of Section 215 to collect internet search terms or web browsing activity, but negotiations broke down in the House. During that period, Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon and one of the sponsors of the proposal ban, wrote to the director of national intelligence seeking clarity about any such use. Six months later, the Trump administration finally replied — initially, it turned out, in a misleading way. In a Nov. 6 letter to Mr. Wyden, John Ratcliffe, the intelligence director, wrote that Section 215 was not used to gather internet search terms, and that none of the 61 orders issued last year under that law by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court involved collection of "web browsing" records. Mr. Wyden's office provided that letter to The New York Times, arguing that it meant Mr. Wyden's proposal in May — which he sponsored with Senator Steve Daines, Republican of Montana — could be enacted into law without any operational costs.
But The Times pressed Mr. Ratcliffe's office and the F.B.I. to clarify whether it was defining "web browsing" activity to encompass logging all visitors to a particular website, in addition to a particular person's browsing among different sites. The next day, the Justice Department sent a clarification to Mr. Ratcliffe's office, according to a follow-up letter he sent to Mr. Wyden on Nov. 25. In fact, "one of those 61 orders resulted in the production of information that could be characterized as information regarding browsing," Mr. Ratcliffe wrote in the second letter. Specifically, one order had approved collection of logs revealing which computers "in a specified foreign country" had visited "a single, identified U.S. web page." Mr. Ratcliffe expressed regret "that this additional information was not included in my earlier letter" to the senator, and suggested his staff might take further "corrective action." In a statement, Mr. Wyden said the letters raise "all kinds of new questions, including whether, in this particular case, the government has taken steps to avoid collecting Americans' web browsing information." "More generally," Mr. Wyden continued, "the D.N.I. has provided no guarantee that the government wouldn't use the Patriot Act to intentionally collect Americans' web browsing information in the future, which is why Congress must pass the warrant requirement that has already received support from a bipartisan majority in the Senate."
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/us/politics/section-215-patriot-act...
Google Illegally Spied On Workers Before Firing Them, US Labor Board Alleges
Tags: google, spying, surveillance, workers
Google violated US labor laws by spying on workers who were organizing employee protests, then firing two of them, according to a complaint to be filed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) today. The complaint names two employees, Laurence Berland and Kathryn Spiers, both of whom were fired by the company in late 2019 in connection with employee activism. Berland was organizing against Google's decision to work with IRI Consultants, a firm widely known for its anti-union efforts, when he was let go for reviewing other employees' calendars. Now, the NLRB has found Google's policy against employees looking at certain coworkers' calendars is unlawful. "Google's hiring of IRI is an unambiguous declaration that management will no longer tolerate worker organizing," Berland said in a statement. "Management and their union busting cronies wanted to send that message, and the NLRB is now sending their own message: worker organizing is protected by law."
Spiers was fired after she created a pop-up for Google employees visiting the IRI Consultants website. "Googlers have the right to participate in protected concerted activities," the notification read, according to The Guardian. The company said Spiers had violated security policies, a statement that hurt her reputation in the tech community. Now, the NLRB has found the firing was unlawful. "This week the NLRB issued a complaint on my behalf. They found that I was illegally terminated for trying to help my colleagues," Spiers said. "Colleagues and strangers believe I abused my role because of lies told by Google management while they were retaliating against me. The NLRB can order Google to reinstate me, but it cannot reverse the harm done to my credibility."
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/2/22047383/google-spied-workers-befor...
Human 'Stuff' Now Outweighs All Life on Earth
Tags: civilisation, environment
It's not just your storage unit that's packed to the gills. According to a new study, the mass of all our stuff — buildings, roads, cars, and everything else we manufacture — now exceeds the weight of all living things on the planet. And the amount of new material added every week equals the total weight of Earth's nearly 8 billion people. "If you weren't convinced before that humans are dominating the planet, then you should be convinced now," says Timon McPhearson, an urban ecologist at the New School who was not involved with the research. "This is an eye-catching comparison," adds Fridolin Krausmann, a social ecologist at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, who also was not involved in the work. There are many measures of humanity's impact on the planet. Fossil fuels have sent greenhouse gases soaring to levels not seen in at least 800,000 years. Agriculture and dwellings have altered 70% of land. And humans have wiped out untold numbers of species in an emerging great extinction. The transformations are so great that researchers have declared we're living in a new human-dominated age: the Anthropocene.
Source: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/human-stuff-now-outweighs-all-...
Report Claims America's CIA Also Controlled a Second Swiss Encryption Firm
Tags: CIA, encryption, spying
Swiss politicians have voiced outrage and demanded an investigation after revelations that a second Swiss encryption company was allegedly used by the CIA and its German counterpart to spy on governments worldwide. "How can such a thing happen in a country that claims to be neutral like Switzerland?" co-head of Switzerland's Socialist Party, Cedric Wermuth, asked in an interview with Swiss public broadcaster SRF late Thursday. He called for a parliamentary inquiry after an SRF investigation broadcast on Wednesday found that a second Swiss encryption firm had been part of a spectacular espionage scheme orchestrated by U.S. and German intelligence services.
A first investigation had revealed back in February an elaborate, decades-long set-up, in which the CIA and its German counterpart creamed off the top-secret communications of governments through their hidden control of a Swiss encryption company called Crypto.
SRF's report this week found that a second but smaller Swiss encryption firm, Omnisec, had been used in the same way.
That company, which was split off from Swiss cryptographic equipment maker Gretag in 1987, sold voice, fax and data encryption equipment to governments around the world until it halted operations two years ago. SRF's investigative program Rundschau concluded that, like Crypto, Omnisec had sold manipulated equipment to foreign governments and armies. Omnisec meanwhile also sold its faulty OC-500 series devices to several federal agencies in Switzerland, including its own intelligence agencies, as well as to Switzerland's largest bank, UBS, and other private companies in the country, the SRF investigation showed.
The findings unleashed fresh outrage in Switzerland, which is still reeling from the Crypto revelations.
Source: https://www.courthousenews.com/report-claims-cia-controlled-second-swi...
Microsoft Also Patented Tech to Score Meetings Using Filmed Body Language, Facial Expressions
Tags: biometrics, microsoft, surveillance, workers
Newly surfaced Microsoft patent filings describe a system for deriving and predicting "overall quality scores" for meetings using data such as body language, facial expressions, room temperature, time of day, and number of people in the meeting. The system uses cameras, sensors, and software tools to determine, for example, "how much a participant contributes to a meeting vs performing other tasks (e.g., texting, checking email, browsing the Internet)."
The "meeting insight computing system" would then predict the likelihood that a group will hold a high-quality meeting. It would flag potential challenges when an organizer is setting the meeting up, and recommend alternative venues, times, or people to include in the meeting, for example… A patent application made public Nov. 12 notes, "many organizations are plagued by overly long, poorly attended, and recurring meetings that could be modified and/or avoided if more information regarding meeting quality was available." The approach would apply to in-person and virtual meetings, and hybrids of the two…
The filings do not detail any potential privacy safeguards. A Microsoft spokesperson declined to comment on the patent filings in response to GeekWire's inquiry. To be sure, patents are not products, and there's no sign yet that Microsoft plans to roll out this hypothetical system. Microsoft has established an internal artificial intelligence ethics office and a companywide committee to ensure that its AI products live by its principles of responsible AI, including transparency and privacy. However, the filings are a window into the ideas floating around inside Microsoft, and they're consistent with the direction the company is already heading.
Source: https://www.geekwire.com/2020/microsoft-patents-technology-score-meeti...
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The First Trailer for The New Mutants is Finally Here
By Bryan Abrams
Folks have been waiting a long, long time for a look at Josh Boone's X-Men spinoff The New Mutants, and we've finally got it. Written by Boone and Knate Lee, The New Mutants centers on a team of young mutants who are being treated, so to speak, at a secret facility where they're trying to understand and control their incredible abilities.
The New Mutants was shot in 2017, and the plan was to give Marvel fans and comic book fans, in general, a proper superhero/horror film. That conceit is very appealing, but then there were delays—and delays—and for a while, it seemed like The New Mutants would never see the light of day. Well, now we've got a trailer and it very much appears that the film will indeed find its way into theaters this summer.
So how is the trailer? It's sure doesn't look like a film that's troubled. It began its life as a 20th Century Fox film, the same people who brought you the hard-R Logan and the gleefully mischievous Deadpool franchise. The New Mutants looks like a film that wants to push boundaries as those titles did, but now it's a Disney movie, so we'll see if it does well enough to be the first entry in a new series. It certainly holds our attention. The young mutants at the facility seem haunted by their abilities and terrified of what they might become (save for Anya Taylor-Joy's Magik, who seems to relish her deadly powers). The cast is excellent, which is yet more cause for hope.S
Speaking of the cast, they include Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones) as Wolfsbane, the aforementioned Anya Taylor-Joy (Split) as Magik, Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things) as Cannonball, Henry Zaga as Sunspot, Blu Hunt as Mirage, and Alice Braga as Dr. Cecilia Reyes.
The New Mutants opens in theaters on April 3, 2020.
Check out the trailer here:
Featured image: L-r: Charlie Heaton, Anya Taylor-Joy, Blu Hunt, Henry Zaga, and Maisie Williams. Courtesy 20th Century Fox/Disney
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iRealHousewives | The 411 On American + International Real Housewives: Kim Zolciak-Biermann Reacts To Marlon Wayans' 'White Chicks' Joke!
Kim Zolciak-Biermann Reacts To Marlon Wayans' 'White Chicks' Joke!
Following Part 1 of The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 10 reunion special, Marlon Wayans posted an unflattering screenshot of Kim Zolciak-Biermann, comparing her looks like his White Chicks character.
"No we are not in production on White Chicks 2," he wrote on Instagram while showcasing a picture of Kim Zolciak-Biermann. "The f--k?!"
Kim reacted to the post immediately and responded to the post. "Was always a super big fan of yours and my kids loved you," she wrote in the comments section. "This hurts but I guess its all for laughs."
Kim's husband Kroy Biermann came into her defense and shared his thoughts on the situation, according to a screenshot obtained by the Comments by Celebs' Twitter account.
TMZ caught up with the Don't Be Tardy couple in LAX and Kim descirbed the situation as "disgusting." She told TMZ she thinks that in the era of #MeToo, a grown man "mocking a woman is gross."
"It's not setting a good example," she added. Meanwhile, the former Atlanta Falcons athlete said Wayans needs to "grow up" and called him "a coward."
As for Marlon, he is unfazed by the Biermann's comments and defends his White Chicks joke. Watch video clip below!


(Newbury, ON) – On April 7, 2015, several hospital and community dignitaries attended the opening of the new Palliative Care Suite at Four Counties Health Services (FCHS). At the official opening, the Suite was blessed by members of the FCHS Pastoral Care Committee, Rev. Deb Dolbear VanBilsen, Pastor Jamie Greenwood and Rev. Richard Golden. The addition of the Palliative Care Suite was one of the recommendations brought forth in FCHS's renewed vision paper. The Suite will offer palliative care patients and their families' privacy and dignity in a calm, peaceful space. Features of the unit include a kitchenette and a space for family to sleep, complete with furnishings.
"MHA is pleased to announce the opening of a dedicated unit for palliative/end of life care at the FCHS site. The room is a welcome addition to the breadth of services offered by Four Counties Health Services," says Ken Williams, MHA Board Chair.


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Q: Bitwise operator and single ampersand
Possible Duplicate:
Why do we usually use || not |, what is the difference?

Can I use single ampersand like & instead of a bitwise operator like &&?  What kind of differences may arise and is there a specific example to illustrate this issue clearly?

A: The single & will check both conditions always. The double && will stop after the first condition if it evaluates to false. Using two is a way of "short circuiting" the condition check if you truly only need 1 condition of 2 to be true or false.
An example could be:
if (myString != null && myString.equals("testing"))

If myString is null, the first condition would fail and it would not bother to check the value of it. This is one way you can avoid null pointers.

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*with & and ¦ both operands are always evaluated

*with && and ¦¦ the second operand is only evaluated when it is necessary

Here's a link to a page with a pretty good explanation of how to use these.
Java Quick Reference on Operators

A: The other answers are correct to an extent, but don't explain the whole thing.
First off, the doubled operators, && and ||, function sort of like nested if statements:
if (expression_a && expression_b) {
    do_something;
}

is equivalent to
if (expression_a) {
    if (expression_b) {
        do_something;
    }
}

In both cases, if expression_a evaluates to false then expression_b will not be evaluated -- a feature referred to as "short-circuiting".  (The || case is similar but a hair more complicated.)
Additionally, in Java (but not in C/C++) the && and || operators apply only to boolean values -- you cannot use && or || on an int, eg.
The single operators, & and |, on the other hand, are relatively "pure" operators (commutative and associative with respect to themselves), with none of the "short-circuiting" of the double operators.  Additionally, they can operate on any integer type -- boolean, char, byte, short, int, long.  They perform a bit-by-bit operation -- bit N of the left operand is ANDed or ORed with bit N of the right operand to produce the Nth bit in a result value that is the same bit width as the two operands (after they are widened as appropriate for binary operators).  In this regard, their operation with boolean is just the degenerate case (albeit one that is somewhat special-cased).
Normally, one would use only the doubled operators for combining boolean expressions in an if statement.  There is no great harm in using the single operators if the boolean expressions involved are "safe" (cannot result in a null pointer exception, eg), but the doubled operators tend to be slightly more efficient and the short-circuiting is often desired (as in if (a != null && a.b == 5), eg), so it's generally wise to cultivate the habit of using the doubled forms.  The only thing to beware of is that if you want the second expression to be evaluated (for it's side-effects), the doubled operator will not guarantee this happens.

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This Is Cave Music () — второй альбом американского джаз-трио Moon Hooch, выпущенный 16 сентября 2014 года на лейбле Hornblow/Palmetto Records. В отличие от их самостоятельно изданного дебюта, этот альбом включает вокал, синтезаторы и пост-обработку.

Описание
Предыдущий альбом группы, названный Moon Hooch, был выстроен вокруг смеси инструментального джаза и инди-рока. Эта смесь перешла и во второй альбом группы, к которой добавились вокал и сильное влияние электронной танцевальной музыки. Несмотря на это, группа продолжила использовать акустические инструменты, такие как бас-кларнет и различные саксофоны.

Критика
Мэтт Коллар из AllMusic оценил This Is Cave Music в 4 балла из 5, написав, что у группы получился «запоминающийся, многослойный альбом, перетекающий из синти-попа 80-х в дабстеп и авангардную инструментальную музыку». Обозреватель NBR, Макс Левенсон, отметил, что альбом ознаменовал собой новый этап в творчестве группы: музыканты стали исполнять более сдержанную музыку со значительным вниманием к деталям.

Список композиций
Все песни написаны Moon Hooch.

Участники записи
 Джеймс Мушлер — барабаны и перкуссия;
 Майк Уилбур — тенор-саксофон, вокал;
 Венцель Макгоуэн — баритон-саксофон, контрабас, кларнет, электронный духовой синтезатор.

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Альбомы 2014 года
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A few years ago I read a vampire novel.
I don't usually read vampire novels, but this one was cowritten by one of my favorite film directors and I figured it was worth giving a try. That book turned out to be pretty good, as far as vampire novels go, so I decided to give the sequels a try. The second novel in the series was enjoyable and, while I could see fans of the original being turned off by the sudden introduction of fantasy elements to their very serious medical procedural, I personally enjoyed the addition of fallen angels and ancient half-human half-vampire monsters, partially because I was writing books that dealt with similar themes.
Then I read the third novel in that series and everything went to hell.
I don't even remember how the trilogy ends, except that it involved a nuclear bomb and I hoped for half of the third novel that all of the characters would be caught up in the blast. I'm sorry, Guillermo del Toro, but you and Chuck Hogan kind of lost me somewhere in the hazy transition between The Fall and The Night Eternal. It's OK. I still love Pan's Labyrinth.
So you can see my concern that I may have made the same mistake.
The third worst thing about being an indie author, just behind having absolutely no marketing/promotion that I don't do myself or pay for out of my own pocket and having to hold down another job to pay for the "art", is the dread of wondering whether my few trusted beta readers are just being nice to me. What if the book that I've spent months writing is so bad that readers might actually prefer to have spent their time looking at some word art generated from the text of the novel?
What if I have recreated the disaster that I so loathed in another author's work?
Which is part of the reason why it took so long for Words of Power to come out. I was simply too afraid that the book was a disaster.
But that's just my inner critic speaking. Just the voice that sits at the back of my mind telling me that I need to give up writing and spend my evenings watching reruns of M*A*S*H with a nineteen pound cat sitting on my chest, slowly smothering me with his furry love. And while I do love my cats and enjoy a good darkly humorous war drama that aired for more years than the war lasted, that little voice is one that I have got to ignore. It's been there criticizing everything I do for years and (most of the time) I've been happiest when I manage to ignore it.
And so I give you Words of Power.


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Friday, May 6 2005
FDA To Implement Guidelines Banning MSM From Donating Sperm Because of Perceived HIV Risk
FDA on May 25 will implement new rules banning anonymous sperm donation by any man who has had sex with another man within the past five years because the agency says that such men collectively are more likely to be HIV-positive than other men, Long Island Newsday reports (Taylor, Long Island Newsday , 5/6). The rule is part of FDA's new tissue donation regulations, which were released in May 2004 and will require tissue banks to test donors and donated tissues for HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, syphilis and other diseases and ask donors about their risk factors for such diseases. Chlamydia and gonorrhea testing also will be required for sperm and egg donation. Exceptions to the rules exist for cells or tissues removed from a person and implanted back into them and for sperm and eggs from a person's sexual partner. The rules also include exceptions for repeat anonymous sperm donors ( Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report , 5/21/04). In addition, the guidelines would not prevent men who have had male sexual partners within the past five years from donating sperm to a friend or family member, according to the AP/Minneapolis Star Tribune (Crary, AP/Minneapolis Star Tribune , 5/5).
Gay-rights advocates "blasted" the regulations, saying that they are discriminatory and would be difficult to enforce, Newsday reports. New York City Council member Philip Reed (D) said, "First of all, how do they know if you are gay? There are people who have sex with the same sex but don't identify as gay. If I have a feather on my cap and wear a bracelet, am I gay? Now are we supposed to feel that the sperm bank is cleansed and we are now safer?" Ronald Johnson, associate executive director of Gay Men's Health Crisis, said, "It is bad science because it injects a false sense of security and the impression the government is doing something, when in fact they are not taking the more effective way to do proper screening and protection." He added, "We feel that there are adequate and reliable screening procedures that ought to be in place rather than a blanket rule that discriminates against sexually active gay men as a whole category" (Long Island Newsday , 5/6).
Alternative Proposals
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund in a letter to FDA has suggested a sperm donor screening procedure that is based on sexual behavior rather than sexual orientation, the AP/Star Tribune reports. The guidelines recommend that any prospective sperm donor be rejected if in the past 12 months they have had unprotected sex with an HIV-positive person, an injection drug user or "an individual of unknown HIV status outside of a monogamous relationship," according to the AP/Star Tribune . Leland Traiman, director of Rainbow Flag Health Services, an Alameda, Calif.-based sperm bank, said that sperm safety also could be determined by testing donors for HIV at the time of donation, freezing the sperm for six months and then testing the donor again six months later.
FDA, ASRM Response
Eleanor Nicoll, a spokesperson for the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, said, "With an anonymous sperm donor, you can't be too careful," adding, "Our concern is for the health of the recipient, not to let more and more people be sperm donors." An FDA spokesperson said that the new rules are "prudent" even if they exclude some MSM who practice safe sex, according to the AP/Star Tribune (AP/Minneapolis Star Tribune , 5/5). An FDA spokesperson also reiterated that the guidelines excluding MSM from anonymous sperm donation are based on "scientific consideration," Newsday reports (Long Island Newsday , 5/6).


Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is a multisystem autoimmune disease most commonly associated with recurrent arterial and venous thromboembolism and recurrent fetal loss. Other possible antiphospholipid antibody (aPL)-related clinical manifestations include cardiac involvement. The heart is involved through direct (autoimmune mediated) and indirect (thrombosis) mechanisms. There is an increased cardiovascular mortality in APS; however, the cardiovascular risk is lower in patients with primary APS (PAPS) compared with lupus-related APS. Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is a multisystem autoimmune disease most commonly associated with recurrent arterial and venous thromboembolism and recurrent fetal loss. Other possible antiphospholipid antibody (aPL)-related clinical manifestations include cardiac involvement. The heart can be involved through immune mediated and /or thrombotic mechanisms. Mortality due to cardiovascular problems is elevated in APS. However, the cardiovascular risk in patients with primary APS (PAPS) compared with lupus-related APS is yet to be established. Cardiac symptoms of APS include valve abnormalities (thickening and vegetations), coronary artery disease (CAD), myocardial dysfunction, pulmonary hypertension and intracardiac thrombi. Heart valve lesions are the most common cardiac manifestation, observed in approximately one third of PAPS patients and usually do not cause hemodynamic significance. Deposits of immunoglobulins including anticardiolipin (aCL), and of complement components, are commonly observed in affected heart valves from these patients. This suggests that an inflammatory process is initiated by aPL deposition, eventually resulting in the formation of valvular lesion. aPL may have a direct role in the atherosclerotic process via induction of endothelial activation. Multiple traditional and autoimmune-inflammatory risk factors are involved in triggering an expedited atherosclerotic arterial disease evident in APS. It is imperative to increase the efforts in early diagnosis, control of risk factors and close follow-up, in the attempt to minimize cardiovascular risk in APS. Clinicians should bear in mind that a multidisciplinary therapeutic approach is of paramount importance in these patients. This article reviews the cardiac detriments of APS, including treatment recommendations for each cardiac complication.
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Dancing (with both feet lifted off the ground)
Discussion in 'Rarities and New Songs' started by John, Feb 6, 2014.
John Well-Known Grayhead
Dancing (with both feets off the ground)
Here is an older intimate and touching Song David played in 2012 but also during his sounding out tour 2013/14
from Marcel taken on the Sundance
and from the dingle session with Lisa O'Neil - but only the audio..
I guess it will be one of this unreleased tracks, because it's not on Mutineers, like alive and all the love... And all the others. I hope they will make it together on a b-side record. And this I imagine would be sold out as fast as possible...
Ahhh, sorry! I was dreaming again
John, Feb 6, 2014
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wolfie Well-Known Grayhead
John, thanks for posting the audio from Dingle. I love this song so much. It really is one of my favorite songs of David's ever. I have to believe (okay, I have to hope!) that it is released someday. Maybe album after this one (*fingers crossed*). Going to go listen to it again.
wolfie, Apr 27, 2014
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Birdie Member Grayhead
Anyone got the lyrics for it? Some parts are difficult to make out........
Love, Birdie
Birdie, Nov 27, 2014
I had but half a (or from) life
Before I went with you
Up to the roof and dived
Into the starry blue
Over the lights of the town
Dancing with both feet off the ground
To see what's so cynical
Throw off it's hearts disguise
To witness a miracle
Through my own bloodshot eyes
Floating like leaves swirling round
Baby I like your style
And with the flying sparks
Come on let's walk a while
On through the ?????? dark (HELP???!!!!!!)
No more the old regrets
No more the doubt in me
The best hasn't happened yet - No
No so let for that old debris - Yeah
No more the fear holding down
Dancing with both feet lifted off the ground
Gambling it all too much, to take - Yeah
Gambling it all too much
Lying alone with you
It's funny the way I get
A kind of nostalgia for
What's not even happened yet
We're in an altered state
We're not really here as such
Smashing through armor plate
With only the merest touch
We climbed the winding stair
Into the world of dreams
We read what's written there
We all just know what it means
Dancing with both feet lifted off the broken, stony ground
......................................................................(speechless) .........................................................................
It's such a brilliant song.. brilliant lyrics!! Need some help there to correct them! Sadly the song does not fit on Mutineers.. Maybe it's on the next record then..
Otherwise I've got an Idea:
This song would be the perfect christmas present for me and all other Grayheads and DG-fans!!
IMAGINE this song released as signed and limited christmas EP... Without any guitar.. Only with Robbie, Caroline and Niamh.. This would be the best present I can imagine!! I would even love a post-christmas EP.. And would even take it as Download... I mean David is on tour actually..
John, Nov 28, 2014
nevermind likes this.
As I wrote in the thread for his performance in Cologne at the Gloria:
He performed it solo. He said that playing this song is like sitting hours in front of a painting by Mark Chagall..
So this picture here might be his source of inspiration:
It's called "Over The Town"...
Amanda S, nevermind and RosalieEP like this.
@John: I think you are right at most parts. The word you are missing could be "morphem", but I am not sure about "gambling it all too much". I think it's the wrong word, but cannot figure out what it really is...........
Birdie, Dec 2, 2014
@carmel59 @thefox Maybe you guys can help here?
John, Dec 15, 2014
carmel59 Well-Known Grayhead
John said: ↑
Hi John, I listened over and over but can't make out those parts either. In that third stanza could "dark" be "dock"?
I would correct the next line to "Let for that old regret"
That "gambling" word I think is more than one word and maybe "in it all too much, etc.........
Beyond all that pure poetry heh? Never get tired of it!!
carmel59, Dec 16, 2014
@carmel: I thought of that one line it would be "Let fall that old regret"....
first line to me is "I had but half of live"
last part of the story to me is always "I" and "me", not "we"
and about that "gambling"- thing, I always hear a word starting with "th" at the beginning.........
Getting me completely nuts....... meanwhile listening to David one BBC Radio2
Birdie, Dec 17, 2014
i always thought it was "damn but aaaaaaain't it all too much to take, yeah."
thefox, Dec 18, 2014
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Amanda S New Grayhead
@John ...mothy dark? Maybe?
Amanda S, Apr 13, 2015
@Amanda S - thought about it too, but what should it mean? Is it slang? Can't find any translations... :/
John, Apr 13, 2015
RosalieEP Well-Known Grayhead
I agree "mothy," like moths.
RosalieEP, Apr 14, 2015
RosalieEP said: ↑
This seems legit. Thought that it comes from moths - but as I said I could not find any translations.. But finally @@RosalieEP@@Amanda S it makes sense ^^
Birdie said: ↑
You're right and wrong: David changed the lyrics from I to we in 2013/14. If you ask me it was the right move for the songs atmosphere.. So the final version is the one with "we" and the second video I've posted
But I'm not sure about "Dancing". Think of it as it was played last year, as it was our Cologne present. It had so much passion and heart - I don't believe that any studio recording could top that.
Mhmm, there will be always compromises in the studio.. But think about all the other love songs which were recorded.. This Years Love sounds live 10000 times more beautiful than on White Ladder.. But it's quiet really good as recording. What I want to say is that it's important for the song to be recorded on cd, even when it's pretty clear that it won't be so magical as performed live.. But this song would be definitely a highlight on the next record.
And yeah.. The present was soo nice.. I wrote David on all social medias to play it in cologne - and it seems that he heard me then..
And you are all right with "Damn but ain't it all too much to take, yeah - Damn but ain't it all too much" @thefox @carmel59 @Birdie.. I was not glad with gambling as well.. but my eyes could'nt find the right words the more I've searched..
So thank you all - I think we made this pretty well.. This is a must for the next album!!
The corrected lyrics are:
I had but half from life
On through the mothy dark
Damn but ain't it all too much to take, yeah
Damn but ain't it all too much
@John: ok then, other love songs had been recorded; sure. But in most cases we knew the studio versions before the live version, so it was easier to deal with. There will be no chance of changing my mind on that - it will never be the deeply heartfelt one that it is now.
Birdie, Apr 15, 2015
Haha @Birdie - I bet David will change your mind on that ^^
Well, maybe you are right.
Maybe he will.
As long as it is no duet with that LeAnn Rimes.......
Sorry to revive such an old thread but I have to say that my heart broke when I saw the album tracks listed and didn't see this on the new album. After hearing the album I get it, I do!! But.... I still love it and have a little kernel of hope (I am stubborn, okay?!?!) that it will still come out someday (hoping as a solo, not duet). If not, well, at least this beautiful, beautiful song was ever created and heard and lives on in the videos and fan recordings that have been shared.
wolfie, Mar 20, 2019
Overdog New Grayhead
I've just been thinking the same thing and googled the song to see if perchance I missed any recent news about it.
Didn't expect to land on this somewhat old thread and see new life having been breathed into it
Overdog, Jul 17, 2019


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Walk through the doors of the Sharpless, and walk up the stairs to your right. To your left you will see a sitting area; go to it. Where are you?
That's the question a lot of students have been asking recently. Is the Lounge called "the Eighth Grade Lounge" or "the Middle School Lounge" and who is it for? I talked with Principal, Ken Aldridge to see if I could get some of these answers. (Details of my talk with Ken will follow later in the article).
A couple weeks ago, there was a lounge incident that caused more than just a little debate. Let's just say for now that when the seventh graders refused to leave the "eight grade lounge" even when the eighth graders told them to, things got… uhh messy.
It went down something like this: "So do you wanna like get out of the lounge now?" snarked an eighth grade boy, as the unintended revolution began. This time, unlike in Harry Potter or The Hunger Games when the underdog child wins against all odds to break out of the mold and beat the powers that be to win the revolution, we, the seventh graders, lost. So as the seventh graders left in defeat, eight graders once again assumed their rightful place on their so-called throne. Wel, I guess it only makes sense. Where else would the Kings and Queens of the Middle School watch as their rightful subjects walk through the doors, and enter the kingdom of discreet power.
But hey, when sticking up for themselves failed, the seventh graders did what any other seventh graders would do. TELL. Thanks to Tom Levy, the eighth graders got the message. But then promptly forgot and/or ignored it. So that's when I decided to go talk to Ken to get his opinion on who the lounge should belong to.
Here are some of the basics I found out during my interview with Ken. The lounge was created in 1997 when the Middle School was created; its official name is, "The Middle School Lounge". Some seventh graders a while ago asked Ken to remind the eighth graders what the name of the lounge was and some faculty have also had some complaints about it.
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Two young men represent Antigo as all stars in historic Cooperstown
Caden Kautza (left) and Reed Kuenzli representing the Antigo area on the Wisconsin All Star team in Cooperstown.
By Craig Marx, Editor
Baseball got its start in historic Cooperstown, New York. Recently, two young men from the Antigo area had a the opportunity of a lifetime as Caden Kautza and Reed Kuenzli were able to add to the legendary sports venue's history by playing for the Wisconsin All-Stars (WAS) baseball team earlier this month.
Caden, 13 years old, and Reed, 12, were selected to play for the WAS team during a two-day long tryout session held in Oshkosh. After nervously waiting to receive the selection email, the two boys would eventually join the storied ranks of one of the state's premier youth ball clubs.
Practicing twice a week in Oshkosh over the course of the summer, the two all stars also helped fund their own trips to Cooperstown to play against some of the best teams in the country in the Cooperstown Dreams Park summer tournament. Caden and Reed spent the interim time leading up to the tourney selling concessions at Saratoga Park while also seeking and receiving the support of several Antigo area businesses.
Under the tutelage of Coach Brian Burgert, the two aspiring all stars arrived in upstate New York a few days before the tournament's opening ceremonies. Spending time in Syracuse, the two families eventually rented houses near the Cooperstown baseball complex, itself a massive venue of 22 ball diamonds featuring games from sun up to late night. With over 100 teams competing from all over the United States, Caden and Reed soon represented Wisconsin as a baseball powerhouse.
Following the opening ceremony honoring long time coach Lou Presutti, games got underway on Sunday, August 13th. Beginning with a round robin style of play to determine later seeding, the boys began their tournament run against the City Baseball team of Washington, opening the floodgates with a 26-3 win. Over the course of their next five games, the 12-man WAS team would go on to outscore their competition 62-10, securing Caden and Reed's team a No. 1 seed in the upcoming elimination round.
The Wisconsin All Stars faced off against the Tustin Scorpions of California, stinging the competition back with another dominant win, this time 14-0. Moving into the "Sweet 16" round of play, the boys and their team met tough competition from Virginia in the Restin Warriors. Despite a 9-0 loss and elimination from the tournament, the dominant WAS team had everything to be proud of during the experience, taking ninth out of 104 teams present at Cooperstown.
Caden and Reed both demonstrated and embodied all that the Cooperstown classics are meant to showcase, including respect and camaraderie as well top-tier baseball. The boys stayed with the team in on-sight barracks, where respect for other teams and the player's uniforms themselves was strictly enforced. Encouraging sportsmanship and helping the players take in the national scope of the event, Caden and Reed took part in the time-honored tradition of pin trading. The boys arrived at Cooperstown with 50 pins apiece, and each young man doubled that in an effort to fill their pin books.
The boys also received rings and name-engraved bats for their participation in the tournament, where they now stand amongst baseball's legends as inductees of the American Youth Baseball Hall of Fame.
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