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EE to bring 250 jobs to Northern Ireland
Posted on Thursday 20 February 2014 by Ulster Business
Mobile network operator EE is to create 250 customer service jobs in Northern Ireland as part of a move to bring 1,000 jobs back to the UK from overseas service centres.
EE – which was formed in 2010 through a merger of major mobile brands Orange and T-Mobile – said the jobs would be put in place over the next two years, starting from Spring 2014.
The company - also known as Everything Everywhere - has recently promoted its brand through a quirky advertising campaign featuring 1980s film star Kevin Bacon and is the first of the major networks to roll out a 4G mobile service in Northern Ireland.
EE did not say where the Northern Ireland jobs would be based and said the location of the remaining 750 roles that are being re-shored would be announced in due course.
The positive news came as it was confirmed that the number of people claiming unemployment benefit in Northern Ireland had fallen for the 12th consecutive month, with the decrease of 600 in January meaning the claimant count has reduced by 6,200 in the past year.
Olaf Swantee, CEO of EE, said: "I'm very proud that EE is leading the UK telecoms industry, delivering not only the first but the biggest and fastest 4G network for the country. And within 18 months, I want to be able to say that EE has done for customer service in the UK what it has done for networks. And a major step towards this is returning 1,000 customer service jobs to the UK, where performance has been shown to exceed that of overseas contact centres."
The company's move also brought endorsement from Prime Minister David Cameron, who said: "It's great news that EE is bringing over 1,000 jobs back to the UK. As part of our long term economic plan, I believe we can become the world's leading re-shoring nation and provide new opportunities for hard working people.
"I'm also delighted that the successful EE apprenticeship scheme will be expanded to help even more young people develop their skills."
On top of the service centre jobs, EE also said it planned to almost triple the size of its apprenticeship scheme to over 1,300 by the end of 2015. To date, the company said it has hired 80% of the 460 apprentices who have completed the programme and it plans to continue this level of job offers.
The company recently announced plans to expand its presence on high streets across the UK in 2014, which will see it open 50 retail stores this year, creating an additional 350 new jobs.
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IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, HILLARY CLINTON EDITION
Written by Nick Harlow
Twitter: @NicholasHarlow
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By Nick Harlow
Hillary rolled her eyes as the television screen filled with a scene from the White House Christmas Eve celebration. She glared at the image of the first family, laughing and toasting with egg nog. "I am so sick of these people. Watching this makes me wish I had never been born."
She heard the voice of a secret service agent through the heating vent. "You and me both." Followed by laughter.
She turned off the television, threw the remote against the wall, smashing it. No matter, she had a big supply of those. She got up and headed for the kitchen. She found a group of agents playing cards. One sat up straight and smiled at her. "Merry Christmas, ma'am."
"Bite me. You guys know where my husband is?"
The agent looked at his cohorts. "He, uh, said he had some Christmas stuff to do."
"In other words, he's doing Holly or Noelle."
"I… uh…"
She put up her hand. "Nevermind. I'm going for a walk in the woods." The agents started to get up. "By myself." The agents sat as she moved to massive the Sub-Zero refrigerator, opened it, and pulled out one of the ten gallons of chardonnay. She opened a cabinet to get a glass, then thought better of it. She threw on a coat and headed out the door.
The wine was having its desired effect. Hillary's head began to spin so she lay down on a pile of leaves just as light snow began to fall. It was getting very cold, so she buttoned up her coat. "Need more antifreeze." She took another swig from the gallon jug of wine and looked up at the stars. "If you wanted me to lose every time, why am I even here? Why have you tortured me this way? I wish I'd never been born."
She finally succumbed to the wine, closed her eyes and fell asleep.
"Hillary? Wake up. Hillary…"
Her eyes flickered open. Her vision cleared and she focused on a beautiful blonde woman standing over her dressed in the brightest white she'd ever seen. The woman's face and dress had an ethereal glow in the moonlight. Hillary was no longer cold, and noted the snow had stopped. She leaned up on one elbow. "Is this Heaven?"
The woman shook her head. "No. It's Iowa."
"Field of Dreams joke. We use it all the time. Appropriate in your case since you ran for President and spent so much time in the state."
"Very funny. So… you're an angel?"
"And I'm dead?"
"No. You're not dead since you've never been born. That was your wish before you fell asleep, remember? And what you said when watching television. Of course we've also had that prayer request on your behalf from about twenty million people. Anyway, I'm here to show you how the world looks without you. Each life touches so many others. You need to see how your absence changed things."
"So you're like that Clarence character in the movie?"
"Sort of. But my name's Monica."
Hillary rolled her eyes. "Is that another attempt at humor?"
"No, that's really my name. It's just a coincidence. You should be familiar with those since you used them as an excuse in your campaign so many times." The angel extended her hand and helped Hillary up. "Come on. We're going on a tour." The angel snapped her fingers and they were gone.
Hillary materialized in the middle of a snowstorm. She saw thousands of people wearing green and yellow heading in the same direction. She turned to Monica. "Where are we?"
"Wisconsin. There's a Green Bay Packers game today."
"So, I touched someone's life here?"
"Nah. Since you didn't bother to visit this state during your campaign, I thought you might want to see what it looks like."
Hillary glared at the angel.
"Sorry, I couldn't resist. Anyway, on with the tour." Snap.
She found herself on the White House lawn and couldn't help but smile. "I knew it. The whole campaign was only a dream."
Monica shook her head. "This aint the TV show Dallas and you aint Bobby Ewing. 2016 happened. Get over it. And you've never been born, remember? You're still not the President."
"Let me ask you a question… was everything set in stone for my life? Is there such a thing as fate?"
"Kinda sorta. It's hard to explain. But there were several possibilities for you."
"Well, was there ever any heavenly scenario in which I would have been elected?"
"Nope. There was even a timeline in which you ran against Kid Rock and lost. But we angels thought Trump was more fun."
"Well then, why are we here?"
"Because Bill still became President in 1992."
"Without me?"
"Yep. C'mon."
They started walking toward the front door, then entered the building and headed toward the Oval Office. "So who's the First Lady?"
Monica opened the door, revealing her husband behind his desk surrounded by several gorgeous twentysomething women in revealing outfits. "There is no First Lady. He's the first bachelor President of modern times."
"Who the hell are all these bimbos?"
"They're known as the Nighttime Cabinet. They've got a huge following. The public can't get enough of this. They call Air Force One 'the flying mattress.' And there's a reality show called Real Girlfriends of the White House."
"You cannot be serious."
The angel shrugged. "Without you around he's out of control. Wanna see more? His executive secretary is a former centerfold."
"I've had enough. Get me outta here."
"Fine." Snap.
Hillary found herself outside a small house, beautifully decorated for Christmas. The scene through the window was one right out of a Normal Rockwell painting. A family gathered around a piano in front of the Christmas tree singing carols. She could hear the music as they walked close to the window.
Hillary studied their faces but didn't recognize them. "I don't know these people."
"Well, you've never met, but you're familiar with the father."
"Sorry, can't place him."
"But surely you know the name. Check out the mailbox."
Hillary turned and saw the last name. "Still no idea who they are."
"The father is one of the four men killed in the Benghazi raid. But since you've never been born there was a different Secretary of State who sent the support that was requested by the Embassy. No one ever died. This man made it home to his family."
"I don't want to see this."
"Didn't think so."
"Why are you showing me these things? Isn't there something bad that happened because I wasn't born? Something terrible I could have prevented?"
"Well… there is one thing." Snap.
Hillary's eyes widened as she watched the new Senator from New York being sworn in. "Anthony Weiner? Seriously?"
"You weren't here to carpetbag the seat. So he grabbed it."
"So, let me get this straight… if I'm born, I prevent him from becoming a Senator?"
"And if I'm not born, does he eventually go to jail?"
"No. He remains a bachelor since he never meets your assistant. And he's Bill's wingman. He doesn't need the internet. Just drops by the White House every night. Bill would never let anything happen to his best buddy Carlos Danger. They have so much in common. And after Bill's out of office, the Presidential library in Arkansas makes the Playboy mansion look like a convent."
"Oh, dear. Is there more?"
"No, that's the end of the tour. Not it's time for you to make a decision. I can grant you the wish that you've never been born, or return you to your current life. Though bear in mind you will never, ever be President."
"I guess I'll go back to the living, if nothing else to annoy Bill."
The angel nodded. She snapped her fingers and they materialized back in the woods.
Hillary noted it was snowing again and freezing. "Well, I'm not sure I should thank you for that… tour."
"I know some things are hard to swallow, but you wanted to know. It's my job to show people what might have been."
"But the things you showed me were so awful. What kind of angel are you?"
"Well, Hillary, if you're familiar with the Bible… I'm a fallen angel." Monica threw back her head and laughed as her eyes turned red.
Hillary's eyes filled with fear. "You mean… you're…"
"Look at it this way. When you wrap things up here on Earth… at least you won't be cold!"
Nick Harlow is a former television reporter and network producer. He is the author of several political thrillers and the recent "Deplorables' Guide to Fake News."
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Q: Executing a bat file on a different machine and getting the output I need to execute a .cmd file which is on a different machine. I can access the file system of that machine like: \\IP\Location\File.cmd
The code I have is from : http://omtlab.com/java-how-to-run-exe-file-and-batch-file-using-java-program/
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;

public class GetResponseMain {
    //This is Example that display how to get response using java
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        String filePath = "\\\\255.255.255.0\\Scripts\\ClearCache.cmd";
        try {

            Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(filePath);
            p.waitFor();
            InputStream in = p.getInputStream();
            ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

            int c = -1;
            while((c = in.read()) != -1)
            {
                baos.write(c);
            }

            String response = new String(baos.toByteArray());
            System.out.println("Response: "+response);

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }
}

This code was supposed to print the output. But it shows the contents of the .cmd file.
I think that instead of executing the script on that machine. It is executing it locally.
So how can I fix that?

A: I think the first concern is: Can the File.cmd be run on local machine? Because of lack of suitable software on local machine (that the File.cmd depends on), it may fail to run. If it gives errors when you run it on command line, it will also give the same errors when you run it through java. Making it suitable to be run on local machine may be a long task, depending on how complicated the File.cmd is, and what software needs to be installed on your local machine to make it work.
On the other hand, if you want to run it on remote machine itself (while you are sitting at the terminal of local machine), you can use PsExec or wmic as pointed out by others in comments.

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Q: How to kill SSH session that was started with the -f option (run in background) I'm pretty lost on this. From the man page:
 -f      Requests ssh to go to background just before command execution.

After starting SSH with the -f option, I have a working tunnel. But after I finish using it I don't know how to further interaction with it. For example, I cannot close the SSH tunnel when I finish with it.
The usual methods I know don't work. For example, jobs returns nothing. The ~ command is not recognized (and I don't know exactly how to use it, anyway).
However, pgrep tells me that the SSH tunnel is still running (after I have closed the terminal, etc.). How do I interact with it? How do I close it?

A: I found the solution here: http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/11/24/auto-closing-ssh-tunnels/
The best way – Tunnels that auto-close
As it has been mentioned previously, instead of using the -f -N switch combination, we can just use -f alone, but also execute a command on the remote machine. But, which command should be executed, since we only need to initialize a tunnel?
This is when sleep can be the most useful command of all! In this particular situation, sleep has two advantages:

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*it does nothing, so no resources are consumed

*the user can specify for how long it will be executed

How these help in auto-closing the ssh tunnel is explained below.
We start the ssh session in the background, while executing the sleep command for 10 seconds on the remote machine. The number of seconds is not crucial. At the same time, we execute vncviewer exactly as before:
[me@local]$ ssh -f -L 25901:127.0.0.1:5901 me@remote.example.org sleep 10; \
          vncviewer 127.0.0.1:25901:1

In this case, the ssh client is instructed to fork the ssh session to the background (-f), create the tunnel (-L 25901:127.0.0.1:5901) and execute the sleep command on the remote server for 10 seconds (sleep 10).
The difference between this method and the previous one (-N switch), basically, is that in this case the ssh client's primary goal is not to create the tunnel, but rather to execute the sleep command for 10 seconds. The creation of the tunnel is some kind of side-effect, a secondary goal. If vncviewer was not used, the ssh client would exit after the 10 sec period, as it would have no more jobs to do, destroying the tunnel at the same time.
During the execution of the sleep command, if another process, vncviewer in this case, starts using that tunnel and keeps it occupied beyond the 10 sec period, then, even if the ssh client finishes its remote job (execution of sleep), it cannot exit because another process occupies the tunnel. In other words, the ssh client cannot destroy the tunnel because it would have to kill vncviewer as well. When vncviewer stops using the tunnel, then the ssh client exits too, as it has already accomplished its goal.
This way, no ssh processes are left running in the background.

A: When I start a tunnel with:
ssh -fN -D 8080 SOME_IP_HERE -l LOGIN_NAME_HERE

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*-f Requests ssh to go to background just before command execution.

*-N Do not execute a remote command.  This is useful for just forwarding ports.

*-D Specifies a local "dynamic" application-level port forwarding.

*-l Specifies the user to log in as on the remote machine.

I can close it with:
ps -lef | grep ssh | grep "8080" | awk "{print \$2}" | xargs kill

A: I have found a robust solution at SO, see: https://stackoverflow.com/a/26470428 . All credit goes to @ghoti .
I hope I'll be forgiven for not repeating the whole story. It is based on the "advanced" SSH ControlMaster configuration option, which you best put into your ~/.ssh/config file. Here is how I did it for VNC-over-SSH (my employer's VPN has all ports closed except SSH and HTTPS).
~/.ssh/config part (note the ControlMaster and ControlPath entries:
Host vnc
    HostName    my.desktop.internal.within.company
    User    laryx
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa
    LocalForward 5999 127.0.0.1:5900
    RequestTTY no
    ExitOnForwardFailure yes
    ControlMaster auto
    ControlPath ~/.ssh/control_sockets%r@%h:%p

I connect/disconnect with a little Bash script:
#!/bin/bash
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
    echo "This script creates an SSH tunnel to my desktop"
    echo "so that I can share its screen via VNC-over-SSH"
    echo "Usage: $0 start|stop"
    echo "Remember to start VPN first!"
    exit 1
fi

if [ $1 == "start" ]; then
    # Assuming that the VPN connection has been established
    # 1) Start the tunnel with
    ssh -f vnc -N
    # 2) check it
    ssh -O check vnc
    echo "Now share the screen by connecting to 'vnc://localhost:5999'"
    exit 0
fi

if [ $1 == "stop" ]; then
    ssh -O exit vnc
    echo "Now you may exit the VPN"
    exit 0
fi

The tunnel is controlled via the ssh -O commands.

A: The best solution I found to kill all tunnels in one command line is
ps -lef|grep ssh|grep "\-L"|awk '{print $4}'|xargs kill
for the ssh sessions, just remove the tunnel option
ps -lef|grep ssh|awk '{print $4}'|xargs kill

A: To kill the tunnel, use ps -C ssh or ps | grep ssh or any other variant to determine which ssh process is running your tunnel. Then kill it.
Alternatively, you can look for the process by determining which one has this port open:
netstat -lnpt | awk '$4 ~ /:1234$/ {sub(/\/.*/, "", $7); print $7}'

If you want to kill all ssh clients running on your machine (as your user), pkill ssh will do it.

A: As answered by others here, pkill ssh kills it.
To create a tunnel that could be brought back, I start it in screen without the -f option, and then detach the screen with Ctrl-A D. To bring back the tunnel, call screen -r.

A: An especially good solution for scripting is to use master mode, with a socket for control commands:
ssh -f -N -M -S <path-to-socket> -L <port>:<host>:<port> <server>

To close it again:
ssh -S <path-to-socket> -O exit <server>

This avoids both grepping for process ids and any timing issues that might be associated with other approaches.


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Fourth House Lord in the Second House/4th House Lord in 2nd House/4th House Lord in Second House.
Today, 4th house lord sitting in 2nd house.
Now, what does it mean to have 4th house lord sitting in 2nd house?
It means the planet which rules/controls/owns the 4th house of your horoscope is sitting in the 2nd house of horoscope.
Now, what is the impact of having 4th house lord sitting in 2nd house?
Its generic interpretation is that native's mother and home are becoming a source of income for him. Most commonly, it shows someone who is engaged in family business. It also shows someone in real estate business and making wealth from there. It also shows that native is very family oriented person as energies are getting exchanged between home and family.
Now, results may be different due to aspect, conjunctions of other planets or the planet being Retrograde or Combust. Moreover, now we also need to check the strength of 2nd house lord as 4th house lord is going in 2nd house. So again, Overall Chart Reading is important.
So, let's see how different planets will behave differently as 4th house Lord in 2nd house.
Sun - Suppose it is a Taurus Ascendant chart and Sun rules the 4th house with Leo sign and sits in the 2nd house in the sign of Gemini. It shows that native's ego and sense of pride gets developed when he is working with his father in family business. Here, parents become a source of wealth as 4th house is Mother and Sun is Father. Mother has an equal say in family matters. As Gemini is sign of Business, it clearly shows someone getting involved in family business.
Moon - So it is Aries Ascendant Chart and Moon rules the 4th house with Cancer sign and sits in 2nd house in Taurus, where it is exalted. Here Mother alone becomes the most important person in family. Person is highly attached with mother. This position gives lots of wealth from mother and home. This also shows a person who is teacher and earns from teaching kids as 4th house is early education, 2nd house is speech and Moon is nourishment, hence it becomes important in careers like teaching and nursing.
Capricorn Ascendant - So if it is Capricorn Ascendant, Mars rules 4th & 11th house and sits in 2nd house in Aquarius sign. This position of Mars will bring some positive and some negative impacts. This shows harsh relations with brother over some property matters. Also, some aggressive environment and arguments within family. At the same time, these people become guard or protector of family and wealth. They can earn a lot from real estate business.
Leo Ascendant - Now if it is Leo Ascendant, Mars rules 4th & 9th house and sits in 2nd house in Virgo sign. Almost all the things told above can be seen from this position too as Mars is in enemy sign here also. Additionally, relations with mother become transformative. Mother has to go through some sudden ups and downs in life. Here person can be a Lawyer too as Mars rules the 9th house of Law and sits in the sign of disputes and conflicts, i.e. Virgo, in the house of Wealth.
Pisces Ascendant - If it is Pisces Ascendant, Mercury rules 4th & 7th houses and sits in 2nd house in Aries. This shows a very communicative relation with mother. Mother was very calculative person who taught the native about how to make and save his wealth. This position also suggest a family business like scenario. This gives a very direct speech, this person never mince with words. At the same time, he is very practical about his wealth and family needs.
Gemini Ascendant - If it is Gemini Ascendant, then Mercury rules 4th & 1st house and sits in 2nd house in Cancer. Most of results will be same as we discussed in earlier para. Major difference is that this person will have a very emotional way of speaking, as Mercury is in the sign of Cancer. Hence, this person can be a better businessman than the earlier one as he will first try to emotionally connect with customer and then sell his product. But it can back-fire too as getting too much emotional may harm the business.
Aquarius Ascendant - If it is Aquarius Ascendant, Venus rules 4th & 9th house and sits in 2nd house in Pisces sign, where it is exalted. These are the people whom we can say as born with silver spoon. Planet of Wealth is exalted in the house of Wealth. Huge wealth from Family, Mother and Family Business. They can do great in business related with conveniences. Extremely beautiful relation with mother. Great family environment.
Cancer Ascendant - If it is Cancer Ascendant, Venus rules 4th & 11th house and sits in 2nd house in Leo. It shows that a guy will get a wife who is very demanding, means she will like only the best things in life. The person himself wants to live life like a King. Here, wealth factor will not be as good as the earlier one, but it won't be too bad either. One thing is that desire of living a Kingly life will keep them motivated to work hard and earn more. Its not that this person will not get wealth, but he may not be satisfied with his earnings.
Virgo Ascendant - If it is Virgo Ascendant, Jupiter rules 4th & 7th house and sits in 2nd house in Libra Sign. Jupiter expands the things related to house where it sits, so here it expands the family and wealth of person. It shows person wants to keep a very balanced relation with everyone in family. It also shows a person earning from teaching. Else it can be a person in business of Finance. Home Environment had been Religious. Person remains dissatisfied with the wealth and support he receives from Mother or Home.
Sagittarius Ascendant - If it is Sagittarius Ascendant, Jupiter rules 4th & 1st house and sits in 2nd house in Capricorn, where it is debilitated. This creates a situation where person gets wealth from his family and mother but he is not able to hold on to it. Here, wealth doesn't stay with person if Jupiter is really close to exact debilitation degrees. It also shows not so good relations with mother and person not having right values in life. Spirituality goes for a toss.
In either sign (Capricorn/Aquarius) as 4th house lord, Saturn in 2nd house (for Libra/Scorpio Ascendants respectively) shows that person lives life in two phases regarding wealth. 1st phase is up to 30 years where he starves for money. He lives a frugal early life where he is almost in the position of begging. He is unable to make any wealth, unable to save any money. Even if he somehow saves some little money, that gets spent due to some unfortunate sudden event. Stressful relations in family. They feel detached from family. And then the 2nd phase of life after 30, when they start getting wealth and saving it. Saturn makes them realize the value of money. Now, they are very realistic about wealth and hence they live a good 2nd phase of life. Key for them to be away from family as soon as possible and be independent. Their prosperity lies in being independent.
Rahu - If Rahu is 4th house Lord through its sign Aquarius, as it co-rules Aquarius along with Saturn, and sits in 2nd house in Sagittarius then 1st of all we need to make sure of Saturn's position as it is the main ruler. Rahu in Sagittarius in 2nd house shows a person who has always felt that his family environment is quite unusual or different from homes of their friends. It also makes them obsessive about religion and higher studies. They become voracious readers. This position gives lots of wealth. They are the super rich fellows in society. Their source of income is unusual and foreign.
Ketu - Likewise, If Ketu is 4th house Lord through its sign Scorpio, as it co-rules Scorpio along with Mars, and sits in 2nd house in Virgo then 1st of all we need to make sure of Mars' position as it is the main ruler. As Ketu isolates/separates a person from the things related to the house Ketu is sitting, here it actually separates person from the concept of hoarding and gaining wealth. And that's why, people with Ketu in 2nd or 11th house end up as the richest people in the world because whatever you don't care for in life comes very easy to you. They don't care for wealth, so wealth comes easy. Ketu in 2nd house also becomes a karaka of 2nd marriage, so best way to avoid any such situation is to marry your spouse twice. It may also give a malefic speech to person. They feel isolation from family too, like both sides are unable to understand each other's point of view. It may also send person away from family in early childhood.


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Q: Restangular how to test if an Rest-Resource is reachable If have an Rest-Resource which can be down. In my App I will do a put to the Resource but before the put is performed I see an OPTIONS-Request which get an Error and the put is not performed. So I can not handle the error state of the put. How can I check that an Resource is not reachable? Or how can I disable the OPTIONS-Request? Or how can I interact with the OPTIONS-Request, to get the error from it.

A: Options requests is for CORS request. The browser does a OPTIONS requests to see if the current method is allowed in the request type. This is the way CORS works. You can handle your error in your promise and check the error code to handle it appropriately. If you want to do it across your app try a interceptor.
http://djds4rce.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/understanding-angular-http-interceptors/ (PS I am the author of the article. shameless plug)


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Google has finally seen fit to allow us to purchase its Asus-made Nexus Player. The device goes on sale today for £80 with an optional game controller for £35.
The Nexus Player is the first device to offer access to Android TV and with that comes support for a huge number of Android apps and games. This product is, basically, Google taking on Apple TV and Amazon's Fire TV.
Google also seems to understand that the Nexus TV needs to offer everything Chromecast does, so this device can stream from any of the apps you might currently use with Google's HDMI stick. That means you can press a button on your phone to stream from Netflix, or you can load the app directly on the Nexus Player.
Gaming is also another key part of the Android TV concept. Google clearly wants us to be able to enjoy the games that we love on our phones on our big-screen TVs. There are some obvious problems with this, most obviously the fact that phones use touchscreens for control, but the optional game controller will be good for some games.
The Nexus Player has a decent amount of power too, with a quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage for apps. Wi-Fi is also improved from the Chromecast too, here you get 802.11ac which can offer far higher transfer speeds. Because the Nexus Player also does 1080p, the extra bandwidth will be useful for getting high-quality video streaming.
Google has a bit of a fight on its hands here though. Apple TV is, it seems, about to get a lot better and Amazon's Fire TV is a great little device too, especially for anyone who has Amazon Prime Instant Video, with its impressive library of streaming video. The Nexus Player might be a bit too late to make much impact, but only time will tell if it can come close to selling the same number of devices as Google's own popular Chromecast.


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Q: Xml Signature for XmlElement fails to verify I apologize in advance for the rather lengthy block of code, but it's the smallest compilable example I could produce. I already omitted all error checking from the original code. I'm using Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5, although this is nothing new to 4.5, it should work with any version.
I am trying to sign an XML documents' elements to protect them from tampering. I don't want to protect the whole document, but only certain elements. Maybe even different elements with different keys.
However, when I sign three example elements and try to verify them, the first one always verifies, the other two fail. To make it even worse, the first one even succeeds if I modify it after being signed. I have googled a lot, read a lot of tutorials and even asked a theoretical question here, but I don't have any clue what I'm doing wrong. Can anybody spot my mistake?
Note: I'd be more than happy to offer the same bounty that's on friday's question to anybody solving this.
The certificate was created by executing:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1A\Bin\makecert" -r -pe -n "CN=XMLDSIG_Test" -b 01/01/2013 -e 01/01/2014 -sky signing -ss my

The Test xml file is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<PackageRoot>
  <Package>
    <Changes >
     <Change/>
    </Changes>
  </Package>
  <Package>
    <Changes>
     <Change/>
     <Change/>
    </Changes>
  </Package>
  <Package>
    <Changes>
     <Change/>
     <Change/>
     <Change/>
    </Changes>
  </Package>
</PackageRoot>

The code to sign and verify:
namespace SOExample
{
  using System;
  using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;
  using System.Security.Cryptography.Xml;
  using System.Xml;

  public static class Program
  {
    public static void Sign(this XmlElement element, X509Certificate2 certificate)
    {
        var identifier = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();

        element.SetAttribute("Id", identifier);

        var signedXml = new SignedXml(element) { SigningKey = certificate.PrivateKey };

        var reference = new Reference("#" + identifier);

        reference.AddTransform(new XmlDsigEnvelopedSignatureTransform());

        signedXml.AddReference(reference);

        signedXml.ComputeSignature();

        var xmlDigitalSignature = signedXml.GetXml();

        element.AppendChild(element.OwnerDocument.ImportNode(xmlDigitalSignature, true));
    }

    public static bool VerifySignature(this XmlElement element, X509Certificate2 certificate)
    {
      var signedXml = new SignedXml(element);

      XmlNodeList nodeList = element.GetElementsByTagName("Signature");

      if (nodeList.Count != 1) return false;

      signedXml.LoadXml((XmlElement)nodeList[0]);

      return signedXml.CheckSignature(certificate, true);
    }

    public static void Main()
    {
        var xmlDoc = new XmlDocument { PreserveWhitespace = true };

        xmlDoc.Load("ExamplePackage.xml");

        var certificate = GetCertificateBySubject("CN=XMLDSIG_Test");

        foreach (XmlElement root in xmlDoc.GetElementsByTagName("PackageRoot"))
        {
          foreach (XmlElement package in root.GetElementsByTagName("Package"))
          {
            package.Sign(certificate);
          }
        }

        xmlDoc.Save("test_signed.xml");

        Console.WriteLine("XML file signed.");
        Console.WriteLine("Press any key to verify");
        Console.ReadLine();

        var signedDoc = new XmlDocument();

        signedDoc.Load("test_signed.xml");

        foreach (XmlElement root in xmlDoc.GetElementsByTagName("PackageRoot"))
        {
          foreach (XmlElement package in root.GetElementsByTagName("Package"))
          {
            Console.Write("Verifying Package " + package.GetAttribute("Id"));
            var success = package.VerifySignature(certificate);
            Console.WriteLine(success ? " successful!" : " failed!");
          }
        }

        Console.WriteLine("Done.");
        Console.ReadLine();
    }

    private static X509Certificate2 GetCertificateBySubject(string certificateSubject)
    {
      var store = new X509Store("My", StoreLocation.CurrentUser);

      store.Open(OpenFlags.ReadOnly | OpenFlags.OpenExistingOnly);

      foreach (X509Certificate2 c in store.Certificates)
      {
        if (c.Subject == certificateSubject)
        {
          store.Close();
          return c;
        }
      }

      store.Close();
      return null;
    }
  }
}

A: You have a bug in your test code. The second foreach loops again over xmlDoc instead of signedDoc. Fixing this will change the outcome to fail for all nodes.
Why they fail I don't yet know.

I couldn't find out why they fail with your code but I found a way to make it work.
The difference: All signatures are direct childs of the root element:
public static void Main()
{

    // ...

    var signedDoc = new XmlDocument { PreserveWhitespace = true };

    signedDoc.Load("test_signed.xml");

    foreach (XmlElement root in signedDoc.GetElementsByTagName("PackageRoot"))
    {
        foreach (XmlElement signature in root.GetElementsByTagName("Signature"))
        {
            var success = signature.VerifySignature(certificate);
            Console.WriteLine(success ? " successful!" : " failed!");
        }
    }

    Console.WriteLine("Done.");
    Console.ReadLine();
}

public static void Sign(this XmlElement element, X509Certificate2 certificate)
{
    var identifier = Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N");
    element.SetAttribute("Id", identifier);

    var signedXml = new SignedXml(element) { SigningKey = certificate.PrivateKey };
    signedXml.AddReference(new Reference("#" + identifier));
    signedXml.ComputeSignature();

    var xmlDigitalSignature = signedXml.GetXml();

    element.OwnerDocument.DocumentElement.AppendChild(
        element.OwnerDocument.ImportNode(xmlDigitalSignature, true));
}

public static bool VerifySignature(this XmlElement element, X509Certificate2 certificate)
{
    var signedXml = new SignedXml(element.OwnerDocument);
    signedXml.LoadXml(element);

    return signedXml.CheckSignature(certificate, true);
}

One important detail to notice: PreserveWhitespace needs to be set to true for signedDoc, too.


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Стрєльнинські десанти — низка невеликих тактичних десантів, здійснених послідовно західніше Стрєльни Балтійським флотом в часі Стрєльнинсько-Петергофської операції Ленінградського фронту 5 — 8 жовтня 1941 року.

Передумови
У вересні 1941 року нацистські сили зімкнули кільце блокади навколо Ленінграду — захоплено Стрєльну, Петергоф, вийшовши до Фінської затоки, блокували залишки 8-ї армії на Оранієнбаумському плацдармі, Балтійський флот був блокований в Кронштадті.

5 жовтня, перший десант
Рівночасно з проведенням Петергофського десанту, по 5-й ранку місцевого часу 5 жовтня 1941 року західніше Стрєльни біля села Вікколово висаджується десант біля Ленінграду зведеного загону прикордонників — 500 прикордонників, командир — капітан М. М. Буйневич — що були підрозділом 20-ї стрілецької дивізії НКВС. Десантний загін мав завданням відволікти на себе частину ворожих сил та розвинути наступ в напрямі підрозділів 42-ї армії задля з'єднання з ними, котрі того ж дня почали наступати. Десант носив тактичні ознаки — бійці були озброєні лише легкою стрілецькою зброєю — з'явно не відповідав завданням, котрі були перед ним поставлені — на прорив німецької оборонної системи та зв'язування активних дій великого угрупування противника. Підготовка операції та здійснення десантів здійснювалися силами Ленінградської військово-морської бази, командував контр-адмірал Юрій Пантелеєв.

Вирушав десант з ленінградського Торговельного порту; до загону висадки входили 25 буксированих шлюпок, 14 моторних катерів, 2 катери зразка «малий мисливець», до загону вогневої підтримки входило 4 «малі мисливці». Так як на підготовку було лише 2 доби — надзвичайно малий відтинок часу — частина десанту у зв'язку з низькою видимістю не була висаджена — до 130 бійців — котрі повернулися на базу.

Ті десантні сили, що здійснили висадку, змогли вибити німецькі підрозділи з прибережних позицій та просунулися в південному напрямі до 1 кілометра; до місця бою терміново перекидаються нацистські підкріплення, до котрих входили й артилерія та танки, і швидкому часі після десантування зв'язок з ним було втрачено.

Для підтримки дій десанту було виділено й 2 есмінці та 16-та залізнична флотська батарея, однак після втрати зв'язку із загоном вони вели вогонь некоординовано — по глибині ворожої оборони. Авіація Балтійського флоту для підтримки десантних дій здійснила 116 літаковильотів, однак через відсутність даних льотчики здійснювали удари на власний вибір та діяли розрізнено, що великої помочі десанту надати не могло. Після кількох годин бою з переважаючими силами противника більшість десантників було вбито, одна група зуміла повернутися увечері, її підібрав катер.

6 жовтня, другий десант
Не володіючи даними про обставини, керівництво Ленінградського фронту (генерал Георгій Жуков) вимагає термінової висадки нового десанту. По 3-й ранку 6 жовтня від Ленінградського порту у напрямі стрєльнінського кладовища висаджується рота прикордонників — 147 чоловік під керунком старшого лейтенанта П. Г. Биченкова, також зі складу 20-ї дивізії НКВС. Висадження здійснювали на 9 гребних шлюпках, 6 катерах зразка «ЗІС» та 3 катерах, в загоні підтримки було 2 катери — «морські мисливці».

Нацистські сили виявили роту ще на підході, висадження здійснювалося під сильним кулеметним обстрілом та зі значними людськими втратами, затонули 1 катер та 1 шлюпка; командир роти також був при посадці поранений, проте відмовився повернутися та здійснив висадку з ротою. Рота не змогла відійти далеко від берега та зайняла кругову оборону; протягом дня прикордонники відбивали німецькі атаки, в темний час доби пішли на прорив, який здійснили з великими втратами, пройшли через лінію фронту по берегових комишах. Командир Биченков, поранений в бою, був нагороджений орденом Червоного Прапора.

8 жовтня, третій десант та спроба танкового прориву
Незважаючи на знищення двох попередніх десантів та невдачі у наступі 42-ї армії, на вимогу командуючого фронтом вночі на 8 жовтня у парку Костянтинівського палацу десантовано ще один батальйон прикордонників 20-ї дивізії НКВС — 431 вояк, командир — старший лейтенант А. А. Челідзе. Для десантування було виділено 22 різноманітних катери та 8 шлюпок, у загін артилерійської підтримки — 5 катерів «морський мисливець». З огляду на шаблон дій радянського керівництва, німецьке командування передбачило можливий новий десант та посилило чисельність і склад сил у можливому місці десантування.

Висадження десанту супроводжувалося інтенсивним артилерійським, кулеметним та мінометним вогнем; на берег змогло висадитися 249 бійців, решта повернулися на базу, кілька чоловік загинули на кораблях, було потоплено 2 катери та 2 шлюпки.

Напружений бій тривав до середини дня, це відбувалося практично без артилерійської підтримки — усі артилерійські засоби за весь день здійснили близько 100 вистрелів, штаб авіації флоту просто відмовився приймати заявку Ленінградської військово-морської бази на авіаційну підтримку десанту. Ті нечисельні, що залишилися живими, увечері були евакуйовані морем.

Задля надання підтримки десанту 8 жовтня при виконанні нездійсненного завдання — оволодіння Стрєльною — на світанку здійснюється спроба прорвати лінію фронту силами зведеного танкового полку — 32 танки КВ-1 124-ї танкової бригади, командував майор Н. Р. Лукашин (Лукашик).

Використовуючи ефект несподіванки, зі втратами, танкісти з 2-ма ротами 124-го мотострілецько-кулеметного батальйону вирушають по шосе Автово — Урицьк для нанесення удару по поселенню Володарський, змогли прорвати лінію фронту та дійшли до Стрєльни. Радянська піхота була відрізана від танків, із Стрєльни звідти від них по радіо отримано повідомлення, що десантників не було виявлено. Командир бригади полковник Олексій Родін наказав продовжити пошуки десанту. Звідтіля полк з дозволу генерала Миколи Болотникова робить спробу прорватися назад через фронтову лінію на північний схід від Івановки, потрапили під щільний артилерійський обстріл, 9 жовтня через Фінську затоку до радянських сил дісталося лише 3 танкісти.

Висновки
Наступ частин 42-ї армії на сухопутному фронті не дав жодних, навіть невеличких, результатів. 10 жовтня новий командуючий фронтом — Іван Федюнінський — віддає наказ про припинення операції; в подальшому радянська історіографія взагалі замовчувала його існування.

Причинами головними таких втрат та безвихідності атак десантів в основному були обмеженість тактичного бачення тодішнього командуючого та намагання здобути перемогу будь-якою ціною Георгія Жукова, котрий вимагав відправляти десанти один за одним, даючи часу на підготовку від 1 до 3 діб, та особисто забороняв проведення попередньої артилерійської підготовки — для забезпечення прихованості десантування.

2006 року на місці висадки Стрєльнінського десанту було встановлено та освячено пам'ятний хрест.

Див. також
 Шліссельбурзькі десанти
 Петергофський десант
 Десант на Пішмаш

Примітки

Битви СРСР
Битви Німеччини в Другій світовій війні
Конфлікти в 1941
Десанти Другої світової війни
СРСР у Другій світовій війні
Битви в СРСР
Блокада Ленінграда
Битви в Росії
Жовтень 1941
Події 5 жовтня

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The Baker Portfolios and associated awards were launched in 2008 by the William G. Baker Memorial Fund in collaboration with the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance (GBCA). In 2014, the program was brought in-house to GBCA, and officially became a program of the Alliance. The program offers a well designed portfolio website created to showcase all participating artists' work, as well as provide monetary awards, additional exposure, and an exhibition at a major institution for each year's winners.
After the first two years, changes were made to the process, including removing a popular vote for b-grant winners. In 2014, the smaller awards were increased from $1,000 to $5,000.
Cara Ober: The Baker Awards are making changes again for 2016. What are you aiming to accomplish with these changes?
David London: One of the joys of working with the Baker program is that we are always assessing its value and impact and exploring new ways the website and awards can better serve the greater Baltimore artistic community. For the 2016 season, we want to offer a truly transformational prize and to create a new structure that will highlight the amazing finalists who have not been given public recognition in the past. Additionally, we have made some structural and branding changes to the site, as a result of conversations about how to better highlight the portfolio aspect of the site. Our goals are always to provide the best possible service to the community by increasing awareness, exposure, and recognition of the diverse art and artists in the region.
CO: Can you talk about the long-term goals of the Baker Artist Awards and how this is unique to Baltimore?
DL: The mission of the Baker program is to support artists and promote Greater Baltimore as a strong creative community. We artists to see that Baltimore is a great place to live and make work. And we want others to appreciate artists' contributions and buy their work!
Melissa Warlow: In developing the awards program, the Baker Fund's Board of Governors was driven by its vision to create an environment where Baltimore artists thrive and the lives of the region's residents are enriched by their presence. The on-line portfolio site is critical to that vision, giving voice and visibility to metropolitan Baltimore artists and providing a vehicle to present their talents to local, national and international audiences.
The monetary awards are an important component and serve multiple purposes: to provide an incentive for uploading creative work onto the website, to support the lives and creative processes of the winners, and to send a message that the Baltimore region welcomes and supports artists in their creative endeavors. Finally, announcing the winners on MPT and the annual exhibition at the BMA provide important exposure to audiences who are not necessarily plugged into the site and who value experiencing the award-winning work in person at the BMA.
CO: Let's talk about changes in monetary value. You are switching from three 25k awards and three 5k awards to one 50k, one 20k, and three 5k awards. Does this suggest a change in the core values of the program or merely a refinement of the original goals in 2008? What does the organization hope to accomplish by offering one significantly large award?
DL: These changes do not represent a change in our core values, but rather the evolution of our thinking about the potential of both the site and the prizes.
This year, there will be one $50,000 Mary Sawyers Imboden Prize, one $20,000 Mary Sawyers Baker Prize, and three $5,000 Prizes. The change in award amounts was made to create a truly transformational prize for one artist, while maintaining meaningful support for four additional artists. The $50,000 prize will be awarded to an artist who exemplifies a mastery of craft, commitment to excellence, and presents a unique and compelling vision.
Connie Imboden: Starting in the early 1990's, my mother, Mary S. Imboden, began to suggest that I take her place on the Board of Governors of the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund. At the time, I was very busy with my career as an artist and had no interest in philanthropy. In the mid-90's, my mother began to develop signs of Alzheimer's disease and by 1999 it was hard for her to put her thoughts together but she had the wherewithal to insist that I take her place of the Baker Board. Out of my deep respect for her and her strong feelings, I accepted. This turned out to be one of the most important decisions of my life as the Baker Fund, and the good it continues to do, has become a passion for me.
DL: We have also eliminated the title of "b-grants" and the three $5,000 awards will henceforth be known as the The Semmes G. Walsh, Nancy Haragan, and Board of Governors Awards. These prizes will continue to recognize both emerging artists and established artists exploring new directions.
Semmes G. Walsh gave more than forty years of service to Baltimore and the William G Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund who were grateful for his integrity, common sense, and a commitment to artistic excellence. Nancy Haragan, founding director of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, gave years of creative service to Baltimore's arts sector. The Board of Governors Award recognizes the amazing contribution that the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund's Board of Governors has made to Baltimore.
CO: In the past your secret jurors have selected approximately 60 finalists for the award before narrowing it down to the winner. Why do you want to now make finalists status public this year?
DL: This decision to add a public "Finalists" page to the website, which will feature up to 60 artists starting in February 2016, is two-fold. First, it is meant to increase the value and impact of the program for a larger pool of artists. Approximately 60 finalists, whose work is viewed as exemplary, will receive a professional credit as well as a heightened level of visibility.
CO: I have thought for many years that the Baker website is a more significant prize than even the money you award and the show at the BMA. It's well designed, looks beautiful, totally free, and is easy to use. It must have been costly to design and to maintain and it can be overlooked by artists whose focus is the cash prize. Can you talk about the changes to the website and what the goals are?
DL: We see the website as a tool of great value to participating artists providing a free, user-friendly, online portfolio to all eligible artists in the region.
The language throughout the site has been changed to help shift both the artists and the public's view of the Portfolio site, in an effort to increase understanding of the site as a stand-alone program, un-related to the awards.
Along with the rebranding to Baker Artist Portfolios (discussed below), we have eliminated the word "Nomination" from the site. Artists are no longer "Nominating" themselves, but rather creating a "Portfolio." Artists who create a Portfolio will be automatically in the running for an Award.
CO: There are many critics, including myself, who have said for years that changing the Baker's secret jurying practices to one where the jurors are public would create more transparency and more value for artists in the area. Knowing who the jurors are can create layers of recognition, in terms of the artists selection and for the larger art world beyond Baltimore. Do you see this practice changing in the future if Baltimore artists continue to ask for it?
DL: Like all aspects of the program, the Baker team continues to discuss and consider all aspects the jury process.
CO: In the past I have had out of town colleagues assume that I was nominated for an award when they see my entry on the site, and this is not accurate as artists are self-nominated. Next year, Baker is changing the language around the nomination process to a 'portfolio' rather than a 'nomination' — this seems to suggests more neutrality in the process and less confusion. Was this the reason behind the change? Aside from the change in description will any other part of the uploading or application process change?
DL: The website has been rebranded as the "Baker Artist Portfolios," which was done in an effort to increase the understanding of the site as a portfolio of Baltimore artists, independent of but connected to the award program. We feel as though, at this moment in time, with the eyes of the world on Baltimore, the Baker Artist Portfolio site is an opportunity to show the world our amazing art, artists, and community. The site offers images of our community you are not likely to see on CNN.
Though we recognize that some artists will create a Portfolio solely with the hopes of receiving prize money, we hope that this change in language will be a positive step in shifting the perception of the website in both the minds of participating artists.
For the public, we hope that this change in language will help eliminate any confusion regarding the former "self-nomination" process.
We take great pride in knowing that the site has been viewed in nearly every country across the globe, and we often hear stories from artists who have their portfolio on the site, who have found collaborators, collectors, fans and friends from the site.
We often hear from artists that many use their Baker Portfolio profile as their professional website.
The application and uploading process will remain the same.
CO: In the future will you offer tech support to those who need it in order to attract a more diverse group of applicants? Is this a service that GBCA currently offers via the Baker site? There are definitely artists in Baltimore who are challenged by socio-economics and age who are not able to apply.
DL: We will be offering a free info session at the Baltimore Community Foundation on Monday, November 16th, from 1PM – 3PM, which will go over both the technical aspects of using the site, as well as provide an overview of the program.
We have also updated the "Help" section on the website with more in-depth instructions and tips on creating and improving a nomination.
Artists who require additional support of any kind are welcome to contact Program Manager David London at [email protected] or at 410-230-02000, should they require one-on-one help or technical assistance.
We are committed to helping artists create the best portfolio possible and are spreading the word among GBCA's growing constituency about the Baker Awards and the Rubys Artists Grant Program.
CO: In the past I have criticized the awards for choosing a disproportionate number of male artists for the top prize. Although I understand that jurors need to have one main criteria – 'the best art' – in mind, this is a completely subjective decision. Is there a way that the Baker Awards can become more transparent and equitable in selecting a more diverse range of artists to represent Baltimore more accurately? I know that the award is not designed to reflect Baltimore statistically or from a quota standpoint – however, this award via secret jurors has the opportunity (at least this is how it seems from the outside) to choose anyone within reason.
It would be positive and powerful to continue to see more women and people of color receiving this top award – just because there are so many deserving and talented people in Baltimore and because the larger art world is, frankly, doing a terrible job in race and gender equity. It would be great for Baker to be a leader in recognizing a more diverse range of talent. Can you respond to this or explain the reasoning behind the current practices that have gotten us to this point?
DL: Since the inception of the program, the jurors have been instructed to make their selections based solely on the artwork represented on the site as well as each artist's portfolio as a whole.
We remain intentional when selecting both local and national jurors to ensure not only their expertise in their particular field, but also that they represent the full spectrum of race, gender, backgrounds and views. Ultimately, the selection of each year's winners is in the hands of the experts.
CO: Your organization is amazing and doing so much for artists in Baltimore!!!! Thank you for continuing to do what you do and to innovate and reinvigorate the process. It is important, it is valued, it is appreciated! Going forward, what would you like potential new participants to know about the awards program, website, or exhibit?
DL: The Baker Artist Portfolio site is a unique opportunity for Baltimore to put its best foot forward. GBCA has received numerous calls and emails from regional, national and international media over the past few months asking what is taking place in Baltimore. We proudly point them to the Baker site as a window into the art and artists of our city and region. We believe that now is the time for artists to help show the rest of the world what we all know about Baltimore—that this city is a thriving hub of artistic practice, amazing artists, and an artistic community which supports one another and celebrates a culture of creativity and transformation. Independent of the awards, participating in the portfolio site is an opportunity to show the world what we all love about the Baltimore region!
Artists, remember you can upload or update portfolios through 5PM on January 15, 2016.


Once you have received Christ as your Savior and Lord, the next step is to be identified with Christ through water baptism. Galatians 3:27 says, "For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ." During the worship service on Sunday, August 13, you will have the opportunity to be baptized. We encourage you to follow the command of our LORD and identify yourself with Him through baptism. It is a wonderful experience for the believer!
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Second edition of Sharjah Film Platform concludes with awards ceremony
International jury awards nine prizes in narrative, documentary and experimental film categories
HH Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Member of the Federal Supreme Council of the United Arab Emirates, Ruler of Sharjah, and Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation, with filmmakers and jury members at the Sharjah Film Platform award ceremony, Sharjah Art Foundation, 2019. Photo: Sharjah Art Foundation
The second edition of Sharjah Film Platform concluded with the announcement of the Best Narrative, Best Experimental and Best Documentary Films as well as six Jury Prizes, which were selected by an internationally renowned jury of filmmakers and film industry professionals.
The award for Best Narrative Film went to Far in Night by Syed Maisam Ali Shah for a film that captures the fleeting poetry of ordinary moments and suggests a world that is hidden to many. The Jury Prizes for narrative films were awarded to Blessed Land by Pham Ngoc Lân for a film with a lyrical rumination on loss and progress and Children of the Lake by Emerson Reyes for its original approach to the need for stewardship—for each other and the land—in a violent new world.
The award for Best Documentary Film went to Lotus by Mohammadreza Vatandoust for an exceptionally well-made and moving short film, one that combines great cinematography with poetic storytelling. The Jury Prizes went to two films that deal with forced migration and share a sense of urgency: Shadow by Zeinah Al Qahwaji and Otranto by Ionian Bisai and Sotiris Tsiganos. Both have strong women as leads, but they are presented from different directorial perspectives. One is strong on introspection; the other pursues a cause that is both political and personal.
The award for Best Experimental Film went to That Cloud Never Left by Yashaswini Raghunandan for its hybrid of documentary and fiction as well as its poetic liberties with scanned 35mm film, folk songs and the essential labour of the People's Archive of Rural India. The Dark Cloud by Ndumiso Mnguni was awarded the Jury Prize for Best Experimental Science Fiction Film for its risk-taking approach to the Afrofuturist genre, blending Zulu cosmology, networked technology and messages from the fourth dimension. Finally, 32-Rbit by Victor Orozco Ramirez was awarded the Jury Prize for Best Experimental Animation for a hallucinatory vision of reinventing our Internet reality through CTRL+Z, its use of kinetic high-speed animation and the darkest of humour.
The jury members included Abdulla Al Kaabi (filmmaker); Emile Fallaux (Board Member, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam); Solange Farkas (Chief Curator and General Director of the Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil); Annemarie Jacir (filmmaker); Butheina Kazem (writer, filmmaker and Founder, Cinema Akil); Johnny Lahoud (writer, producer, director and actor); Mohamad Malas (filmmaker); Richie Mehta (writer and director) and Naeem Mohaiemen (artist).
This year's edition of Sharjah Film Platform featured over 50 local, international and regional short and feature-length films in the narrative, documentary and experimental genres, which were submitted through the annual SFP open call. The festival also included an extensive programme of talks and workshops led by acclaimed experts in the film industry.


Niti Aayog, a planning body considered to be India's most influential think-tank, is sending a report to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, targeted at electrifying all vehicles in the country by 2032. It's likely to shape a new transport policy, according to government and industry sources.
The 90-page report also encourages the government to back the opening of a battery production plant for electric vehicles by the end of 2018. Another argument is using tax revenue from the sale of gasoline- and diesel-engine vehicles to pay for charging stations that would power the EVs.
Taxes and interest rates would be lowered for those purchasing EVs, and conventional petroleum-powered vehicles would see a cap on how many could be sold.
These policies would be a dramatic shift for one of the world's fastest growing auto markets.
India may follow a similar route as China.
Like China, India is seeing it big cities become packed with new residents and vehicles as the economy grows. Indians are moving away from agrarian districts and small towns to live in their first flats in the city. While many will ride bicycles and take public transit, personal vehicles are taking off in popularity.
Similar to China's "new energy vehicles" policy, plentiful subsidies may appear on the market to bolster EV sales. India may remove incentives from hybrid vehicles and keep them attached to plug-in hybrids like the Chevy Volt and battery electric models like the Tesla Model S.
Ever crowded cities bring a new set of challenges including traffic gridlock and air pollution. India's policy is focused on this demographic trend.
"India's potential to create a new mobility paradigm that is shared, electric and connected could have a significant impact domestically and globally," said a draft version of the report.
EV sales, like in most large vehicle markets around the world, have been slight in India. The segment represents slightly more than 1 percent of new vehicle sales in that market, with Delhi having the largest share. Delhi's government had enacted the Air Ambience Fund to subsidize clean air strategies including EV purchase incentives.
As for now, Mahindra & Mahindra is the largest seller of EVs in the nation. The Mahindra e20 small electric hatchback is the top seller in India for that segment.
Most of the EVs are built in country, such as the Mahindra e20 and e-Verito, and Maruti Suzuki electrified models. The BMW i8 import is another top seller in that market, as is the Volvo XC90 plug-in hybrid.
Tesla plans to open shop in India this year. When asked about that plan on Twitter, CEO Elon Musk posted that it will take place soon. "Hoping for this summer," he tweeted.
Tesla's contact with India inspired a visit from government officials to Tesla's corporate campus in California during fall 2016. The prime minister and a delegation toured the facility and invited Tesla to join India's campaign to become a renewable energy hub.
India has been looking into alternative energy sources for years. The U.S. Department of Energy reported that India was the fourth largest consumer of crude oil and petroleum products in the world in 2015, after the U.S., China, and Japan. The country depends heavily on imported crude oil, mostly from the Middle East, similar to China. More than 80 percent of its crude oil demand is being met through foreign oil suppliers.
The Indian government has been pushing for increasing domestic fuel sources reducing foreign imports, improving air quality, and reducing carbon emissions in fast growing cities. That can come from renewable energy replacing coal, more domestic oil production, liquefied natural gas for commercial vehicles, and compressed natural gas for light-duty vehicles. Electric vehicle transportation is being added to the list.
To raise those new vehicle sales numbers way beyond 1 percent for EVs will be a real challenge. High battery costs keep the price of the cars too high, even when government subsidies wash away a chunk of that sticker price. Lack of a charging infrastructure keeps the "range anxiety" in place for drivers afraid of running out of electric power before they arrive at their destination.
Those challenges will raise the bar on the government finding necessary support to adopt the ambitious policy. Backing will need to be assisted by major companies, such as automakers and energy suppliers, willing to establish presence and capital in the growing market.


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At the age of 35 my neighbor's daughter said to me, "Ms Kelly, you don't have to be able to draw to paint"! And so, a young girl started me on an adventure I would have never thought possible. And she was right! And drawing is something you can learn. Who knew! I've been painting ever since but recently found my true love, sculpture. I use to bake out of my home years ago and thought, "if I can make this cake look like a snake, maybe I could do sculptures". It took me years to try sculpture and only bc I wanted to try some 3D art on canvas.


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Brazilians rank high in the world in social media usage, spending more than nine hours a day online. While they love to chat online they are not yet spending much online, though e-commerce and digital advertising are growing fast.
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The virus is not harmful to humans, but is taking a huge economic toll on the pork industry.
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A highly contagious disease that kills infected pigs has swept across China and is moving through neighbouring countries. Scientists in China are ramping up efforts to study the virus that causes African swine fever and produce a vaccine. But scientists elsewhere fear that political pressure to make a vaccine quickly could risk introducing chronic strains of the virus.
Although the haemorrhagic disease was first recorded in Kenya in 1921, China's first case was detected only last August, in the north-eastern city of Shenyang. Since then, the government has reported more than 120 outbreaks across some 30 provinces, autonomous regions or municipalities.
Officials had long feared the arrival of African swine fever in China, which is the world's largest pig producer. The virus is not harmful to humans, and virologists say the risk of it mutating to become infectious to people is low, but the economic cost of an epidemic is enormous.
With no vaccine or treatment, more than one million pigs have so far been culled in the country to try to contain the outbreaks. An study published in October, two months after the virus was first detected there, reports that the death of some 100,000 pigs — just 10% of the latest figure — had cost the Chinese economy US$20 million1. A shortage of pigs could also jeopardize worldwide availability of the blood-thinner heparin, warns Paulo Mourão, a molecular biologist at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
The drug's active ingredient is extracted from the mucous membrane of pig intestines, and used to treat heart attacks, among other things; China accounts for almost 80% of worldwide production2. Swine fever "has the potential to cause an unprecedented shortage of heparin's raw material, which may jeopardize the global supply", says Mourão.
The Chinese government says the outbreaks are under control, but some researchers are sceptical.
There is little information about how the disease is spreading in China, or how effective the control measures have been, says Linda Dixon, a virologist at The Pirbright Institute in the United Kingdom. She suspects that some cases might have gone undetected.
China has roughly 440 million pigs, and unofficial estimates of the proportion currently infected with the virus vary from 10% to 40%, says Dirk Pfeiffer, an epidemiologist at the City University of Hong Kong.
Research investment
The Chinese government is prioritizing research on the virus, setting aside about 100 million yuan (US$15 million) for projects, says George Gao, vice-president of the National Natural Science Foundation of China in Beijing.
The work will help to fill the many gaps in scientists' understanding of the virus, including its detailed structure and how it transmits to hosts and evades their immune systems. "We know almost nothing about this virus," says Gao.
Before the outbreaks, researchers in China were banned from studying the live virus in case it escaped from a lab and infected pigs. Now that the virus has entered the country, scientists at the second-highest-level biosafety laboratories can study it in cells, and those at the most secure biosafety laboratory can work with it in animals, says Gao. "Within a couple of months, I expect to see Chinese scientists contributing a lot to the field," he says.
The Harbin Veterinary Research Institute (HVRI), part of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, is among the few institutions in the country with permission to handle the live virus in cell culture, and the only facility currently qualified to test the infection in pigs, which is essential for vaccine development, says Bu Zhigao, who heads the institute.
Researchers at HVRI are investigating what, if any, natural immunity pigs have to swine fever with a view to making drugs and developing new diagnostic techniques, but how quickly the virus spreads and vaccine development are the priority, says Zhigao, although he declined to comment on the details of the research.
At a symposium on swine fever in Beijing on 9 April, Pfeiffer says that he heard HVRI scientists present research on a potential vaccine. He says that the experimental vaccine uses a less harmful strain of the pathogen to trigger an immune response — known as an attenuated vaccine — instead of an inactivated strain or a portion of the virus. The benefit of attenuated vaccines is that they tend to produce a stronger and longer-lasting immune response than inactive vaccines, says Dixon.
Political pressure
But Pfeiffer and Dixon are concerned about the intense political pressure in the country to come up with a vaccine quickly. "Vaccine development is something one needs to do very cautiously," Pfeiffer says.
Attenuated vaccines are made using a live virus, and there is a risk that the microorganism could persist and spread throughout the pig population, and cause unacceptable adverse reactions, Pfeiffer adds. "It is a bit like playing with fire," he says.
One thing to monitor is whether a vaccine prevents replication of the deadly form of the virus in a host, notes Dixon. If it doesn't, vaccinated pigs, which might show no symptoms, could infect unvaccinated animals.
In the 1960s, a large number of animals in Portugal and Spain were vaccinated with an attenuated vaccine in a field trial, which led to the emergence of chronic forms of the virus that remained infectious5.
A vaccine is probably still some years off, says Dixon, whose team was the first to sequence a variant of the disease3 that entered Georgia in 2007, an outbreak that introduced the virus to the Caucasus and spread to Europe.
Access to the live virus, as opposed to the isolated genes that scientists in China were limited to working with before, also means that groups in the country can study how it survives in the host. In January, researchers at the China Animal Health and Epidemiology Center in Qingdao published the genome sequence of a local strain1, which they say resembles a variant isolated in Poland in 2015 that is currently circulating in Europe. And, in February, researchers at HVRI reported work that determined that a virus extracted from the spleen of an infected pig was extremely virulent, resulting in certain death, and efficient at passing from pig to pig4.
These results will help to improve measures to prevent and control the disease, says Zhigao, the HVRI paper's lead author. Backyard and small pig farms are an important source of income for millions of Chinese families, he says. "We must control this disease, no matter how big a cost it is," he says.
Outside China, there is concern that the disease will spread to countries that lack the resources and infrastructure to control it, says Dixon. The virus is already moving through neighbouring Mongolia, Vietnam and Cambodia. "It seems inevitable that Laos and Myanmar will be next," says Dixon. Officials in Thailand, South Korea, Japan, Australia, the Philippines and Malaysia are also worried, she says.
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text:
#ifndef _lucene_util_StringBuffer_
#define _lucene_util_StringBuffer_

#if defined(_LUCENE_PRAGMA_ONCE)
# pragma once
#endif

CL_NS_DEF(util)
  class StringBuffer:LUCENE_BASE{
  public:
   ///Constructor. Allocates a buffer with the default length.
   StringBuffer();
   ///Constructor. Allocates a buffer of length initSize + 1
   StringBuffer(const int32_t initSize);
   ///Constructor. Creates an instance of Stringbuffer containing a copy of
   ///the string value
   StringBuffer(const TCHAR* value);
   ///Constructs a StringBuffer using another buffer. The StringBuffer can
   ///the be used to easily manipulate the buffer.
   StringBuffer(TCHAR* buf,int32_t maxlen, const bool consumeBuffer);
   ///Destructor
   ~StringBuffer();
   ///Clears the Stringbuffer and resets it to it default empty state
   void clear();

   ///Appends a single character
   void appendChar(const TCHAR chr);
   ///Appends a copy of the string value
   void append(const TCHAR* value);
   ///Appends a copy of the string value
   void append(const TCHAR* value, size_t appendedLength);
   ///Appends an integer (after conversion to a character string)
   void appendInt(const int32_t value);
   ///Appends a qreal (after conversion to a character string)
   void appendFloat(const qreal value, const int32_t digits);
   ///Puts a copy of the string value in front of the current string in the StringBuffer
   void prepend(const TCHAR* value);
   ///Puts a copy of the string value in front of the current string in the StringBuffer
   void prepend(const TCHAR* value, size_t prependedLength);

   ///Contains the length of string in the StringBuffer
   ///Public so that analyzers can edit the length directly
   int32_t len;
   ///Returns the length of the string in the StringBuffer
   int32_t length() const;
   ///Returns a copy of the current string in the StringBuffer
   TCHAR* toString();
   ///Returns a null terminated reference to the StringBuffer's text
   TCHAR* getBuffer();

   ///reserve a minimum amount of data for the buffer.
   ///no change made if the buffer is already longer than length
   void reserve(const int32_t length);
  private:
   ///A buffer that contains strings
   TCHAR* buffer;
   ///The length of the buffer
   int32_t bufferLength;
   bool bufferOwner;

   ///Has the buffer grown to a minimum length of minLength or bigger
   void growBuffer(const int32_t minLength);
   ///Has the buffer grown to a minimum length of minLength or bigger and shifts the
   ///current string in buffer by skippingNInitialChars forward
   void growBuffer(const int32_t minLength, const int32_t skippingNInitialChars);

  };
CL_NS_END
#endif

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Buzz Aldrin has walked on the Moon, rapped about the Rocket Experience, and served as a tireless advocate for exploring the high frontier. Next week, the Apollo 11 astronaut turns 80 on January 20, 2010, and well-wishers worldwide can join The Planetary Society in saying Happy Birthday.
To honor the man who has contributed so much to space exploration and the world, The Planetary Society is collecting birthday greetings. The Society will present a giant birthday card to Buzz, that conveys the good wishes and thanks of thousands of people, who have been inspired by his achievements and lifetime of space advocacy.
To date, The Planetary Society has gathered over 6,000 messages from well-wishers in 85 countries. One parent sent a message from his sons, aged 3 and 5, named Armstrong and Aldrin. Others recounted their joy in meeting Buzz at one of his many public appearances through the years.
Many recalled the moment they watched the first humans step foot on another world.
"When will you go again?"
There is still time for people to send their birthday greetings to Buzz. Messages will be collected until Thursday, January 21, 2010.


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How Marketing Made L.A.
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The Devastation of Black Wall Street
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St. Francis Square: How a Union Built Integrated, Affordable Housing in San Francisco
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Forgetting Abraham Lincoln
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Getting Historical Movies Right: Hollywood vs. Historians
Does the movie industry owe it to the public to get the facts right in historical movies?
A Hell of a Cracker
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