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THE BIG PREVIEW: Virginia takes on No. 1 Gonzaga in key non-conference matchup
Can the Hoos pull off the upset?
By Paul Guttman@TikiUVA Dec 26, 2020, 1:20pm EST
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The strength of schedule for the No. 16 Virginia men's basketball team took a hit after the Hoos lost out on both the Michigan State and Villanova games as a result of the team's COVID-19 issues. Getting Gonzaga, the number one team in the nation, on the schedule helps as Virginia prepares for ACC play, and of course winning the game would be nice.
The Zags are No. 1 for a reason. They have played three teams ranked in the KenPom top 10 and they're 3-0 against those teams with an average margin of victory of 9+ points per game. Their three other games — Auburn and Northwestern State twice — have an average margin of victory of over 25 points per game. Those two Northwestern State games were back-to-back on Monday and Tuesday, and the Bulldogs haven't played since.
Gonzaga is third in points per game nationally, averaging almost 95 points per game. They are also sixth nationally in tempo and second in offensive efficiency. Virginia is, once again, the slowest team in America. They're also 53rd in offensive efficiency, quite an improvement over last year's 234th ranking.
The Zags have more top talent than the Hoos, but Virginia appears deeper. One of the reason's we've seen some struggles early this season is uncertain rotations as Tony Bennett is still settling in on his best lineups. Only Jay Huff and Sam Hauser have started every game, and 10 guys average 10 minutes per game. Of the 10 regulars this season, just five saw real minutes last year. Bennett has said that there is parity on the roster, so he has to find the right combinations and matchups.
Conversely, Gonzaga has used the same starting lineup for their first five games and only changed one spot on the second day of the back-to-back. Of their seven rotation guys, four were regulars on last year's team. One of the newcomers is freshman Jalen Suggs, who has simply been one of the best players in the country thus far. He's averaging 16 points and seven assists per game while providing elite perimeter defense. He's also shooting 50% from three, which was supposed to be his weakness..
Obviously, he's also incredibly athletic. There's a reason he's a projected top-5 pick in the NBA draft.
As you can see from the clip above, Gonzaga is going to run some press. That's how they speed you up. We know it's tough to speed up Tony Bennett's teams, but we also know that when it does happen, it's not good. Figure on seeing a lot of both Kihei Clark and Reece Beekman, because having two strong ball-handlers on the floor makes the press less effective.
One ancillary benefit of the press is that Mark Few can send several players to the offensive glass, knowing they can remain in the front court for the press. In other words, not having a set defense is by design.
The Zags have three players among the top 500 nationally in offensive rebounding rate in Drew Timme, Anton Watson, and Joel Ayayi. That is three of their starters (though Watson did not start their last game). Timme is the biggest and best of that group. He's a beast inside and on the glass and draws a ton of fouls.
This might be a game where we see more of Francisco Caffaro, because he has the size to keep Timme and company off the glass and help keep Jay Huff out of foul trouble. Huff's inside-outside game is something Gonzaga is going to struggle to defend so Virginia can't afford to have him sitting on the bench much.
On the wings with Watson and Ayayi is Corey Krspert. Kispert was first team All-WCC last season and was on a number of preseason All-America lists. He is 6'7 and has one of the sweetest jump shots in the country. That is exactly the type of player that has hurt the pack line defense in the past. He's made 46% of his threes this year, and he's 40% for his career on nearly 500 attempts. He leads the Zags in scoring at just under 21 points per game. Bennett has a few options — namely Sam Hauser, Trey Murphy, and Justin McKoy — to guard Kispert because of Virginia's length on the perimeter.
When they aren't pressing, the Zags are a fairly standard man-to-man defense. They will switch on some screen action, but they also hedge with their big men. If you can turn the corner on them, there's really no intimidating shot blocker.
And here's an example of the switching. The weak-side defenders get caught ball watching and it's an open jumper for Iowa. We haven't really seen a ton of pick n roll from the Wahoos this year, but that may be in part due to the level of competition. When we have seen it, it's been Kihei Clark and Jay Huff and it's been successful.
This isn't even a good screen, but Clark's quickness gets him past his man and Huff's defender can't guard both the shot and the pass. Gonzaga is going to score — they're too talented and too well-coached not to — so the Hoos will have to score to keep up. Getting looks like this one for Huff will certainly help.
This is probably the toughest game of the season for Virginia. They looked very good last time against William and Mary, but overall this season they've been inconsistent. If this team plays the way we know they can play, and does it for 40 minutes, they can win. If we see the inconsistent effort that we've seen too often this season, Gonzaga might run away with this game.
You can catch the game at 4pm on CBS.
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The ideology of Zionism, which provided the philosophical underpinning for the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, was not initially a religious movement. Whether or not Theodor Herzl was an Atheist, his writings display no interest in religion, and he certainly made no connection made between his vision for a new Jewish state and the activities of the Almighty. Modern defenders of the state of Israel though are far less reticent in their use of religious language. Indeed, it is rare to hear any contemporary politician speak in support of Israel without making reference to some Biblical text or image! This seems to be especially true of politicians who identify themselves as Christians.
Over the last generation, Christian Zionism has indeed become a bulwark of support for successive Israeli governments – allowing the State of Israel to flout the mandates of the United Nations and to oppress Palestinian Arabs with increasing impunity. Zionist governments are shielded from the dictates of the UN and from international law by their Western allies – most obviously the United States – and the US gets significant domestic support for its pro-Israel policies from the church.
If Norman Finkelstein's analysis in his book of 2012 – "Knowing too much – why the American Jewish romance with Israel is coming to an end" – is correct, Zionist governments can no longer take for granted the support of Jewish communities outside of their country. Bizarrely though, they seem to be on much firmer ground when it comes to support from the church, at least in the United States.
According to the Pew Research Centre, 63% of white evangelical Christians in the USA believe it is their biblical responsibility to support the nation of Israel, and Christian Zionist groups such as the International Christian Embassy (ICEJ), Christian Friends of Israel (CFI) and Christians United for Israel (CUFI) claim to have over 50 million members between them! These groups form a virtually impenetrable lobby when it comes to US foreign policy regarding Israel, and this is what allows the crimes of violence, such as those we see now perpetrated against unarmed protestors in Gaza, to continue, with Mr Netanyahu confident that no one is ever going to hold him to account.
As to the origins of this aberration of the church, I can do no better than refer you to my friend and colleague, Dr Stephen Sizer, who is an expert in this field. For today's purposes, I want to focus not on the origins of Christian Zionism but on what keeps this ideology in place at a theological level, and I think the answer to this is reasonably straightforward. It is the appeal Christian Zionists make to their Scriptures – both to their New Testament and to the Jewish Bible – and most especially to a series of prophetic texts that they believe foretell both the establishment of the Zionist state and its victory over all its political opponents!
Armed with these prophetic texts, Christian Zionists claim that defending the state of Israel is a Biblical mandate for all believers, regardless of what injustices they might thus be sanctioning or how many people might be oppressed or killed. It is my contention though that not only have the Christian Zionists misread particular verses, but they have misunderstood their sacred texts at a deeper level and have failed to understand the way prophecy works in the both the Jewish and Christian Scriptures.
The focus of Christian Zionists though is on the part of the promise concerning the land, which they see as still being in the process of fulfillment.
In the history of Israel, as related in the Jewish Scriptures themselves, the land is both conquered by the descendants of Abram and subsequently lost to them, though there are indeed various prophecies of a return to the land.
Christian Zionists will claim that this prophecy was not fulfilled (as is generally supposed) when the king of Persia, Cyrus the Great, allowed the Jews to return to their land – an event generally dated at around 538 BCE – but nearly 2,500 years later, in 1948, with the foundation of the modern state of Israel!
Once this leap is made, and prophecies that are normally thought to be related to events that occurred two and half thousand years are identified as finding their fulfillment in the modern day, it doesn't take too much imagination to find a plethora of other contemporary events referred to in similar fragments of Scripture.
Hence, Zechariah 8:4 – "Thus says the Lord of hosts, 'Old men and old women will again sit in the streets of Jerusalem" – is seen by Christian Zionists as being fulfilled not in the above-mentioned return from exile, but in the Arab-Israeli war of 1967 when the Israeli army seized control of East Jerusalem from Jordan!
Likewise, prophecies that speak of coalitions of armies conspiring against Jerusalem, such as Psalm 86 or Zechariah 12:3 – "all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it" – are taken as references to current hostilities between the modern state of Israel and its Arab and Persian neighbours.
Of course, for Christian Zionists, the end-point of their story is not the victory of the state of Israel over its enemies but the return of Christ, which they see as being intrinsically linked to Israel's military victories.
I won't bother explaining in detail how exactly they connect these military and spiritual events, as even I find it a bit baffling, but the upshot is that Christ can't return until Israel has destroyed all her enemies, which, they say, makes it incumbent on every Christian believer to get behind the state of Israel in its military ventures so that the plan of God for the world might come to completion!
I hope I'm doing Christian Zionism some degree of justice in my brief summary. When I have heard these people speak, they generally pull out a lot more verses from the Bible to buttress their case than the small number I have offered above. Even so, I've limited my presentation to a handful of prophetic texts as my main contention with Christian Zionism is not with their interpretation of any particular text but with the way these people approach the prophetic literature as a whole.
Christian Zionists give their support to the state of Israel based on prophetic texts that they believe predict the victory of Israel over its enemies. I consider their interpretations erroneous, but even if I agreed with their interpretations it would not affect my politics since prophecy in the Jewish and Hebrew Scriptures doesn't work that way. Biblical prophecy is never normative. The prophecies themselves do not tell us what to do. Biblically speaking, it's always the commandments that tell us what to do. The role of prophecy is to bring us back to the commandments.
This is one thing that both Christianity and Islam and, I believe, Judaism agree on. Being a prophet of God is not fundamentally about predicting the future. There is a big difference between prophecy and fortune-telling.
In the Jewish Bible, as in the New Testament, as also in the Qur'an, the role of a prophet is to call people back into a relationship with God. If the prophet's message includes dire predictions about the future, this is because God's commandments have been broken and the prophet is urging his hearers to avoid the judgement he foresees by showing repentance and faith and obedience to God's commandments.
It is God's commandments that are normative. It is the commandments that must be obeyed. Prophetic predictions about the future function to call us back to those commandments, but the predictions themselves do not tell us what to do.
When Amos proclaims God's judgement – "For three transgressions of Israel and for four, I will not revoke the punishment" (Amos 3:6) – his purpose was not simply to upset people by telling them that they were about to be destroyed, nor was he inviting anyone to come and join him in destroying Israel. On the contrary, his purpose was to call his hearers to repentance so that the nation might not be destroyed.
a 'boiling pot from the north' (Jeremiah 1:13) would spill over in their direction and destroy everything, this was not designed to shift anybody's political allegiance from Israel to the northern nation of Babylon (or Assyria).
Jeremiah's hope was always that the events he prophesied would not come to pass, and when things did take place just as he had predicted, Jeremiah wrote a whole book of Lamentations, mourning Jerusalem's destruction.
Biblical prophecy is never normative. Jeremiah's prophecies of doom did not make destroying Jerusalem a moral imperative, such that the correct response from his hearers would have been to enlist in the Babylonian army and join in the looting. Such prophecies were rather designed to function like shock therapy – jolting listeners back to a sober awareness of their spiritual plight.
Hence Biblical prophecies were never designed to shape 21st century foreign policy any more than they were given for the sake of satisfying curiosity about the future. Prophecies were given in order to call people to back to God and to God's commandments.
Once we recognise this, the fundamental flaw in the logic of Christian Zionism is laid bare. They claim that the Biblical prophecies point to the triumph of the modern state of Israel over neighbours. Even if this were correct and that some prophet had predicted a military victory for modern Israel, this would not mean that either the prophet or the Bible endorsed such an event. Nor would it mean that believing people should support it, any more than Jeremiah's dire warnings were intended to garner support for the destruction of Jerusalem.
In the Hebrew Bible, when a prophet gave dire predictions about the future, his hope was that his warnings would cause his hearers to come back into a relationship of obedience to God, and that this would result in his prophecies proving false. Prophecy thus always functions to lead us back to the commandments. The tragedy of Christian Zionism is that it gets the whole process back-to-front – urging us to follow the prophecy, even if this means breaking God's commandments!
Prophecy has never been normative for people of faith. It's the law of God that is normative. The commandments inform our actions and tell us how we ought to behave towards God and towards our neighbours. It is on the basis of the commandments that we might construct a Biblically-based foreign policy, which would require focusing, of course, on justice.
This is indeed the great tragedy of Christian Zionism – that under the guise of faithfulness to Biblical prophecy, it justifies stealing and murder and any number of other crimes that are clearly contrary to the commandments of God.
A genuinely Biblical approach to the situation in Israel/Palestine must begin, not with prophecy, but with God's unambiguous command to do justice – a justice that respects the rights of the Palestinian people to their land, to life and to liberty.
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In 2011, a group of 20 technologists across the country will test a theory: Given coding talent and information-technology knowledge, big municipal governments can make their cities better without spending a whole lot of money.
This is the thesis behind Code for America, a non-profit built up over the course of this year to send technologists to cities the same way Teach for America trains and sends teachers to schools. In 2011, Code for America's leadership announced in a webinar yesterday, 20 "fellows" — earning modest pay for the year, plus travel expenses and health care — will work in four teams across the country on projects, formulated in partnership with the sponsor cities, that chiefly revolve around networking citizens with institutions and to each other.
Washington, D.C.: D.C. Chief Information Officer Bryan Sivak is putting the resources the district is getting from Code for America to work on Civic Commons, a project, already in its formative stages, to create a sort of open-source software catalog for municipalities across the country. The idea here — a favorite of New York techies at OpenPlans — is that cities can save money on development by using the same open-source software, like Open311, at the core of their IT infrastructure.
Boston: In Boston, Teach for America technical director Dan Melten explained, Code for America will be linking student data to a universal student ID card that is already in the pilot phase in Boston.
"In the city of Boston we're spending on things like after-school programs ... but they can't really see their impact on grades because the data isn't shareable in a way that's permeable," Melten said.
This program, Melten said during the webinar, could put a privacy filter on top of the student data to filter out personally identifiable information, then serve the data up for developers through an API.
By tying multiple databases together in this way, it could also, he said, accomplish internal tasks like allowing a parent to only fill out one health form for a student rather than separate ones to join a soccer league, enroll in school and in an after-school program.
Philadelphia and Seattle: Developers will work on social networking and other tools to better catalog the online and offline resources available for civic leaders — as well as civic leaders themselves. The idea in both cities, broadly defined, is to better empower people to get engaged in civic life. Technically Philly, Civsource Online and, in Seattle, TechFlash, have more on those projects.
The teams of fellows will get training and orientation at Code for America's headquarters in San Francisco in January, get their feet wet in their host cities in February, and then code from March through August. The projects are slated for launch in September.
Each of the 20 fellows, chosen from over 360 applicants, will be making $35,000 for the year, plus health care and travel expenses, Code for America Executive Director Jennifer Pahlka told me in a follow-up email. (They're also expected to network in each city, with Code for America's advisory board, and with each other — which probably doesn't hurt either.) The four major cities involved, Washington, D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, and Seattle, will be paying $225,000 to participate in the program this year, and 2012 cities will each pay $250,000, she wrote in the same email. That certainly ain't bad as far as spending by a big city for an IT project, but, as several people in the CfA webinar yesterday pointed out, that kind of spending is prohibitive for smaller cities and towns — a crucial target population for the theory that technology can make municipal government smaller, more efficient, and more participatory for citizens.
That said, the output from CfA will be open source — so smaller municipalities could conceivably adopt these projects, if they make it to release, for far less money.
Code for America is led by Pahlka, a veteran of the video game and video-game-centric-media industries, is financially backed by institutions like the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and organized with the help of O'Reilly Media founder Tim O'Reilly. The non-profit is looking for cities and fellows for 2012, as well as volunteers to contribute to each of the four 2011 Code for America projects.


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This past Sunday was the Nokesville Horse Society's JPR (Judged Pleasure Ride) at Sky Meadow State Park in Virginia. It was the 5th and final leg of the 2014 Crystal Crown Series. I did this ride last year, when it had a Wizard of OZ theme. It was awesome! This year the theme was the 70's. And it was awesome!
Val and Zoe met up with me, and we rode out together after getting our 70's on. Half of the points for the final obstacle were decided on if rider and horse had on three visible 70's items. We planned ahead and borrowed a set of tie dyed matching t-shirts and helmet covers from the Old School team gear, and Val brought paint which she and Zoe applied to our ponies in the form of flowers and ying yangs. We looked good. Other riders had on giant wigs, flowers, big sunglasses, and peace signs, not to mention tassels and fringe!!
The first obstacle, "Saturday Night Fever" was a wooden structure, much like a run in shed open on both ends, or a covered bridge maybe, with the walls and roof made of tarp. There was a strobe light and music playing inside and shiny tassels hanging down. It was an extremely windy day, and Simon and Rhea (Zoe's pony) were having nothing to do with it. Of course Val and Sprite walked right on in and scored a perfect 10. Val ended up leading us both through afterwards for the experience. Simon all put pooped his pants as he ran out, completely sure that he was leaving Sprite to his fate with the pony eating monsters inside.
The second obstacle was our favorite. It was basically light saber jousting called "May the Force be With You". There was a barrel with a light saber on it. The rider, picked up the light saber, and then at a minimum of a trot, needed to spear two rings, ring jousting style, and then place the light saber on a barrel at the end. Using our mounted games skills, we crushed this obstacle like pros. The volunteers at this obstacle were extremely awesome, and let us run back and forth through it a few times, laughing ourselves up and cheering each other on in true mounted games rider fashion.
The third obstacle, "Pin Ball Wizard" was supposed to involve pushing a giant horse ball through a cover leaf pattern, but the high winds required a change, and riders just needed to trot the pattern. Seemingly easy, I trotted off first, and on the back, right hand barrel turn, Simon's games skills kicked him and he tried to launch out of his turn into a canter, so I got a minor dock on that one.
"Everyone Knows it's Slinky" was another fun obstacle. It involved a table, with a step stool on top of the table and a slinky on top of the stool. The rider needed to ride up and slinky (to their best slinkying ability) the slinky down the steps. We all did pretty well at this one too. The ponies were a little ansty, expecting us to grab and go, but all in all, we cleared this one in pretty good fashion.
"Twister" was the next obstacle along the course, and included a really well made spinner! The rider spun the pin, and it landed on a color and hoof. Then the rider needed to place that particular hoof in that particular color. I went first and Simon did challenge me a little by deciding to rest his hoof on the toe in the circle, before I got him arranged properly. Sprite was also a little antsy. Rhea wanted to spin the spinner herself but then squared up in her circle nicely. Easy-peasy and on we went on a nice hack through the woods and hills.
We all rocked on through "Grovey Garden" without a bat of the eye. Reflective hanging, and spiny things lined both sides of the wide trail, with music playing and everything blowing around. I was really impressed with Simon, because I expected him to at least be a little looky, but nope. Rhea being only five months under saddle was very impressive as she marched on through. And of course Sprite, thought nothing of it.
"Halloween (the movie)" was a challenge that I felt went better than expected. There was a post with a rope over it. The rope was a long noose hooked around Michael Meyers neck, which was a stuffed dead body on the ground. The rider needed to collect the end of the noose, drag the body forward, and then back back up to the starting point, returning the rope to the pole. Simon, the x-driving pony, who has shown nothing but continual terror at dragging things since his career change, was excellent at the drag and other than being a little off angle, backed up like a champ. I was slow at picking up the rope and then returning it to the post, taking my time to get it properly on, and went over time by a few seconds. Boo. Zoe did the same thing, after Rhea performed expertly. Val just made time with a quick turn at the end and leap over the flags.
The next obstacle was the water one, "Orca (the movie)". There was a creek crossing with a blown up pool orca in the water. The pony needed to fully enter the creek, stand for the count to five, and then walk out. Sprite, who had pretty much dominated the whole course was a little antsy and not very interested in standing still getting Val docked a few points. Simon and Rhea stood like champs and then Simon insisted on a long drink afterwards.
The "Harlem Globetrotters Slam Dunk" was the next obstacle, and it required the rider to pick up a ball from a barrel, ride to a ground pole, halt, and then toss for a basket. None of us made the dunk, but we all rolled through pretty smoothly. Val and I both got docked for not pausing long enough at pick up and drunk, with Zoe showing us up with her and Rhea's laid back performance.
The final obstacle was the "Cool Cat's Hula Hoop". We got stuck in a bit of a traffic jam before this one and our ponies were bouncing around waiting for their turn. Note to self for next time, ride back down the trail and around and come back when the line should be shorter rather than wait in line. By the time we were up to go, all three of us were dancing around. We each had to ride up to a post, pick up a hula hoop, side pass over a few steps, stop and whirl the hoop around for the count to five (or maybe it was three) and then side pass back, and hang the hoop back up. My first half was excellent, but my pass back was a bit forward, with Simon being ready to move on.
We finished up and were greeted by the organizer, Kari, who asked how things went, our favorite and least favorite obstacles, etc, and then were provided an AMAZING lunch. The cookies with the coconut in them… three thumbs up on those in particular.
This ride was AWESOME! The organizer, and all the volunteers were fantastic and all dressed in theme! All three of us had an amazing time goofing off together, playing dress up, and challenging our ponies and ourselves. One thing we did find challenging was the rule to "not coach" each other through obstacles, and restraining our loud cheering support. We also wish there were more of these JPRs available, but unfortunately three of the five fall on the same weekends as Mid-Atlantic competitions. Maybe we will get luckier next year!
A HUGE THANKS TO ALL THE VOLUNTEERS!!!
I snagged the first seven photos from organizer Kari and volunteer Bobbi off Facebook. The others were taken by us while we were riding.


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'Impeachment' regrets
Sarah Paulson regrets wearing 'fat suit' for role, more news
By Mark Gray 6:34am PDT, Aug 31, 2021
Regret over padding
Sarah Paulson wishes she could get a do-over regarding a choice she made for her upcoming role in "Impeachment: American Crime Story," which debuts on Sept. 7. From an acting standpoint, Sarah is proud of her portrayal of Linda Tripp, the whistleblower who exposed Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, but she strongly regrets donning a "fat suit" for the gig. "It's very hard for me to talk about this without feeling like I'm making excuses," she told the Los Angeles Times. "I think fat phobia is real. I think to pretend otherwise causes further harm. And it is a very important conversation to be had." Sarah had initially planned to gain weight for the role in the series, but that plan didn't work out. That's when the suit came into play. "I think the thing I think about the most is that I regret not thinking about it more fully," she said. "And that is an important thing for me to think about and reflect on. I also know it's a privileged place to be sitting and thinking about it and reflecting on it, having already gotten to do it, and having had an opportunity that someone else didn't have. You can only learn what you learn when you learn it." The Emmy winner said she "wouldn't make the same choice [using the fat suit] going forward."
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Naked days
Talk about being caught red handed! Over the weekend, Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin's daughter Amelia Gray Hamlin didn't know what to think when she went outside and saw her parents skinny dipping in the middle of the day in a hot tub! "I just found my parents skinny dipping in the hot tub and idk if Im traumatized of like if [it's] cute," she wrote alongside a photo of the parents in their birthday suits, which she posted to her Instagram Story. The family didn't detail where the naked encounter occurred, but most fans believe it was in Muskoka in Canada. The naked tale also came just a few days after a "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" clip showed Lisa complaining about Amelia's relationship with Scott Disick, who is 18 years older than the model. "Like, why can't it be Harry Styles? Why the f–k is it Scott Disick?," Lisa said. A day later, Amelia playfully jabbed at her mom, writing on Instagram, "ugh, love the support."
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Album success and drama
August 29, 2021, was the day that Kanye West fans had waited and waited for — his long-delayed album "Donda" was finally released. To little surprise, Kanye's 10th studio album crushed its musical competition, hitting No. 1 on Apple Music in 130 countries. However, the release wasn't without drama. Prior to the release, there was an issue with DaBaby's verse on the song "Jail 2." Ye — as he may soon be known as — refused to release the album without DaBaby. The scuttlebutt was soon cleared. Then, a few hours after "Donda" was out, Kanye claimed his record label released it without his permission. "Universal put my album out without my approval and they blocked Jail 2 from being on the album," he wrote on Instagram. ("Jail 2" is included on both Apple and Spotify.) Funny enough, many fans thanked Universal in Kanye's comments section.
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Millions lost
While starring on The Disney Channel's "Even Stevens" in the early aughts, Christy Carlson Romano was rolling in the dough. As a 16-year-old, she had raked in "millions of dollars" between her acting career, a book deal and a record deal. Now, 21 years later, she admits that she blew through all her money. All of it. In a YouTube video, Christy, 37, said she had a "complicated" relationship with money, having always thought she'd had an ample amount of it. "My biggest thing about child actors, you aren't told that the work is going to slow down," she said. "In fact, I was told the opposite, specifically by my mom, some of my team, even my money manager at the time." Initially, Christy put some money toward college, but she dropped out less than two years later. "Then I had this money at my disposal," she said. "I was never told how much money I was making. Money didn't have a purpose for me, I didn't really know what it was. I just knew that I had it and didn't care about it. That's a problem." Once the money was out, she took roles she didn't want to do. "Basically, I did a nude scene," she recalled. "I had never thought in a million years that I would ever do something like this. I was America's sweetheart, morally sound in my mind. I believed in the Disney magic, I still do. And then I felt so exploited and marked and horrible." Despite her money matters, the actress assured fans she's ok now and learned from her financial mistakes.
Car collecting
It's not a stretch to say that Cat Cora is driving her estranged wife crazy. New legal documents, obtained by TMZ, show that the famed chef and Nicole Ehrlich have reached a divorce settlement, and the latter will get THREE cars, a 2010 Lexus RX 350, a 2015 Audi CV and a 2017 Jeep. Nicole will also get furniture, jewelry and several bank accounts. For her part, the "Iron Chef" star will get some furniture, jewelry and artwork. Cat is also getting some of her companies. The divorce will become final on Nov. 8. Both women have waived the right to receive spousal support, and they shared no children together.
Italian love lines
That's amore, indeed! Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker's romance is visible from air, land and now sea. On Aug. 30, the lovebirds, who jetted off to Italy last week, went all touristy as they cuddled up on a gondola in Venice. Perfectly enough, the gondola seat was even shaped like a heart. A few hours after, the reality TV star posted a stunning image with her beau taken at a Dolce and Gabbana fashion show. Kourtney captioned the photo with a heart. Travis commented, "We're moving to Italy." Just last week, the couple romanced in Mexico. Although Blink-182 isn't on the road right now, Travis is clearly still on tour… a love tour.
Things are about to look different at "The View." On Aug. 30, producers of the daytime show announced that no one would permanently replace conservative voice Meghan McCain just yet. Meghan, the daughter of the late Sen. John McCain, left the show in early August as its 24th season drew to a close. For the upcoming season, a rotation of conservative women will fill Meghan's former slot alongside Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin and Sara Haines. The women set to lend their voices include Ana Navarro, former Utah congresswoman Mia Love, Condoleezza Rice, S.E. Cupp, Carly Fiorina, "Real Housewives of New York" star Eboni K. Williams, Mary Katharine Ham, Alyssa Farah, "Southern Charm" and "Real World" alum Cameran Eubanks and Gretchen Carlson. In addition, to celebrate the upcoming 25th season of the ABC show, a parade of former cohosts will also return for one-episode stints.
Robin memories
While starring in "Dead Poets Society" together in 1989, Ethan Hawke wasn't exactly the biggest fan of Robin Williams. He also felt that Robin didn't like him. Ethan later found out he was wrong. "I thought Robin hated me. He had a habit of making a ton of jokes on set," Ethan said during a Q&A at the 55th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. "At 18, I found that incredibly irritating. He wouldn't stop and I wouldn't laugh at anything he did." Afterward, Ethan was surprised when the late actor helped him land an agent. "There was this scene in the film when he makes me spontaneously make up a poem in front of the class," Ethan said. "He made this joke at the end of it, saying that he found me intimidating. I thought it was a joke. As I get older, I realize there is something intimidating about young people's earnestness, their intensity. It is intimidating — to be the person they think you are. Robin was that for me."
Acting school scam
Sir Anthony Hopkins sees nothing redeeming about acting school. While speaking to British GQ ahead of receiving The Legend Award at GQ Men Of The Year Awards, Anthony advised aspiring actors "not to waste their money" on acting schools, implying that most the instructors don't have the credentials to actually teach the craft. "Don't waste your money. They're failed actors that set themselves up as gurus," the two-time Oscar winner said. "There's one very well-known actor with an acting class here in Los Angeles and he's the star of the show! And all these other students sitting around paying their fees and he's the star! He's on stage with them, interrupting them, being rude to them. No, you don't do that."
Former child star Tony Dow has been hospitalized, but his wife is quick to point out that the "Leave It to Beaver" alum does not have COVID. (He took five tests, all negative, to prove he's COVID-free.) Tony, his wife says, has pneumonia. On Aug. 30, Lauren Dow, told TMZ that she rushed her husband to the hospital last week. He then sat in the emergency room for 24 hours because there were no beds, all of which were full of COVID patients. Lauren said things are looking up for her husband and he could be released within a week.
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Iraq's cabinet announced Monday it has authorised mobile phone firms to use third-generation frequencies, after years of promises amid the frustrated pleas of cellular operators.
A Las Vegas company that owns casinos in four states says its system for processing credit and debit card information has been hacked.
"From Superstorms to Factory Fires: Managing Unpredictable Supply-Chain Disruptions," published recently in the Harvard Business Review, describes a method developed by MIT professor David Simchi-Levi, founder of the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation, to manage unpredictable supply chain disruptions. This method helps prioritize the financial impact of risk through the Risk Exposure Index (REI), enabling companies to focus mitigation efforts on the most important suppliers and risk areas. The method was implemented successfully at Ford Motor Company.
Researchers in the US are capitalising on the falling cost of TFT-based flat panel display manufacture to produce inexpensive, flexible large area neutron detectors to help monitor the movement of fissile materials.
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(Phys.org) —The Human Interfaces Group at Carnegie Mellon, led by the group's director Chris Harrison, an assistant professor of Human Computer Interaction, have done work that shows how traditional hand movements to perform tasks such as measuring and erasing can be naturally applied to the digital screen, improving on a natural interaction with computers. They have come up with TouchTools, a gesture design approach. With TouchTools, you manipulate tools on the screen just as you would in real life; the idea is to make software more natural to use. They are showing the world their TouchTools concept, which Gizmodo recently referred to as "skeuomorphism applied to interaction design."
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8 Awesome Videos Tips And Guides on PCB Design!
Here's a well made video on how to create a PCB at home with the method of screen printing. The development time and drying of the cards change will depend on the quality of the ink you use, type of bulb in use and distance of the light which is exposed on the cards.
Here's how to create your own PCB using heat toner transfer method. This method although will only work with the laser printer.
This video explains how to make clear glass PCBs.
How about creating your PCBs with one of the most inexpensive method, i.e. with a marker pen! No kidding!
Another easy, quick and inexpensive method of creating your Printed circuit board.
Toner transfer method of producing printed circuit boards for electronics project.
As the introduction says the tutorial explains how to get rid of the ugly DIY circuits on prototyping board and design a PCB (printed circuit board) well. The video carries a whole bunch of PCB design tips so that your PCB comes out right!
Again a well explained and understandable video demo of how to create your own PCBs at home with easily available inexpensive materials. The author has used toner transfer method.
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Ubuntu and Debian Linux-based operating system is based on tradition. Ubuntu's target for the average computer user and installation is very easy to use, up to date, and to provide a secure operating system.Ubuntu, with over 20 million users is the world's most popular Linux distributions.
Electronic company which is a product of Labcenter Proteus visual electronic circuit capable of enabling the simulation of a circuit diagram, simulation, animation and PCB drawing program. The most important difference from the classic workbench is loaded into the microprocessor. HEX files can be run. Proteus model library has an expanding day by day. Proteus software is a virtual laboratory. All kinds of electric / electronic circuit diagram on computer media using Proteus can try. Change the values of the re-run of the circuit elements and the result can be observed. This program contains thousands of electronic elements can be used even in the production of circuit design. Electrical fault report can be prepared, the ingredients list on a regular basis can give a lot.
Proteus is a program for Windows based on the Linux operating system setup before "wine"  is the windows emulator 'is necessary to establish a reputation.
After installing Wine "Proteus-setup.exe" file and right click on " Wine Windows Program Loader to"command is issued.
After this step, following the standard installation process is completed.
BlueStacks App Player allows users to run Android applications on a Windows 7 PC.
If you have an Android phone, you've probably installed an app or two. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to run them on your Windows PC? BlueStacks App Player makes this possible for certain apps.
BlueStacks App Player is the alpha version of an emulator that lets you use use Android on PC. It works a bit like a widget. When clicked, BlueStacks App Player will display the ten apps that have already been pre-installed, which are mostly games.
BlueStacks App Player's interface is easy to navigate. You can install new applications by clicking the "Get More Apps" button. Currently, there are more than 25 apps you can install this way. Hopefully, the number will grow as BlueStacks App Player develops.
The BlueStacks App Player team is currently taking emails for volunteer signups for an upcoming beta release as well. You can add your name to the list on the program's official website.
This software enables the user to install and successfully run the androids apps into your system.
Apps like granny run , watsapp, hike , Temple run etc can now be viewed and played on your PC..
Install the fav apps and use them..
Step #1: Download the Android 4.1.1 ROM here [XDA LINK] to PC, you'll find two version, the de-odexed version lets you to use themeing and on the other hand, the odexed version lets you to install future OTA updates.
Step #2: Plug the device to PC using USB cable and copy the downloaded file to the device.
Step #3: Disconnect the device from PC and power it off.
Step #4: Reboot the device into recovery mode by holding down volume up, volume down and power buttons until screen turns on.
Step #5: Perform full wipe, first select the wipe data/factory reset, and confirm on the next screen then select wipe cache and confirm on the next screen.
Step #6: Select Install and locate the downloaded file that you've transferred in above step and confirm installation. Wait till installation complete.
Step #7: Once the installation is completed, select "Go Back" after that select "Reboot System Now." Please note that the first boot may take time, so be patient.
NOTE: This Font Khmer Unicode not support all phone !!
Warning : it may lost use your system !!!
All users download Flashtool and install it.
(*) On devices with hardware keyboard, choose the correct layout.
Let the flashtool prepare. It will ask you to connect your mobile, follow the steps.
Note: on devices with touch navigation keys, hold volume down key instead of back button while connecting your device.
1) Official - Handing in the Xperia smartphone at Sony Service center.
2) Unofficial- Flash Gingerbread using Flashtool.
Flashing your mobile is at your own risk. Sony would be in no way responsible for any damage.
Let the flashtool prepare. It will ask you to connect your mobile, follow the steps to connect.
Note: on devices with touch navigation keys, hold volume down key instead of back button while connecting your device to flashtool.


Grain sorghum has a reputation for being able to withstand dry weather. Southeast Nebraska farmer Don Bloss says that's been the case on his farm this year.
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Q: Securing database passwords in a VBA application from users and QAs We have a Word VBA application that is installed in over a 1000 computers and users use it on a daily basis. This VBA addin connects to multiple databases whose credentials are stored in a custom xml file we came up with. Our company now doesn't want to store the password in the xml file as clear text because when the application is installed on a user's machine, the xml file is also pushed to the installation folder as part of the installation and a curious user who digs into the xml can actually find the passwords to databases. They want a security feature implemented in a week, without making wholesale code changes, that will prevent users and QAs/prod support people testing the application from seeing these passwords. Since the timeframe is very limited, I came up with this idea:

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*Having substitute strings in the xml file as a password place holder.(example below)

*Have a dictionary in the application itself that maps these values to the actual password.

*Password-protect the file that has the actual application code.

Sample Xml referred to in point 1.
<Database-Passwords>
    <DB-Name>DB1</DB-Name>
    <Username>Username1</Username>
    <Password>FakePassword1</Password>
</Database-Passwords>

Maintain a list of key value pairs in the application code which will have        (FakePasword1, RealPassword1) as key value pairs.
This will prevent the users from knowing the password. But QAs and Prod Support who step through the code and debug the application can still identify the passwords. How could this be overcome? Is there a way to secure the passwords in such a way that the application would seemlessly work with minimal code change, but users/QAs won't be able to crack the password?

A:

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*Having substitute strings in the xml file as a password place holder.(example below)

UNSAFE, anyone with a little bit of knowledge could decompile your app and find out the real password. I think even opening the exe,dll with notepad could give me the real password.

*Have a dictionary in the application itself that maps these values to
  the actual password.

EDIT: probably unsafe, I didn't quite get the idea behind this one. Sounds pretty much like the first option.

*Password-protect the file that has the actual application code.

UNSAFE You can "password-protect" it in your OS, that doesn't mean if I try using a Linux Live CD I couldn't view the file in plain text. Also you would have to store the file password in your app (probably) and an user could do the samething I mentioned in the first option to find the password for the file.
The best way to secure your DB password is having it in a controlled access environment (a server, for example). That means you would have to create a client server arquitecture. Basically you will create a client app that will connect with the server and the server will "talk" with DB

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Napa, CA (November 20, 2019) – Festival Napa Valley has announced the election of two of Northern California's most influential businesswomen and philanthropists to its Board of Directors: Proprietor of Ackerman Family Vineyards and Ackerman Heritage House, Lauren Ackerman, and co-owner of Golden Gate Sotheby's International Realty and Owner and Publisher of Haute Living San Francisco magazine, Olivia Hsu Decker. Comprised of 24 prominent vintners, business leaders and philanthropists, the Board of Directors is responsible for overseeing Festival Napa Valley's mission of enriching the community through innovative performances and inspiring educational programs.
"We are thrilled to add these two local leaders to our Board of Directors," said Timothy Blackburn, Chairman of the Board of Festival Napa Valley. "Their passions align perfectly with Festival Napa Valley and we are grateful to Lauren and Olivia for agreeing to contribute their time and talent to helping our organization thrive."
A former tech entrepreneur, Lauren Ackerman moved to Napa Valley in 1994 when she and her husband purchased the Stonehaven Vineyard property. They started making wine in 1995 for themselves and eventually began selling commercially. In 2010, she purchased a dilapidated Victorian in downtown Napa, restoring it meticulously and turning it into what is now the Ackerman Heritage House, a unique event space for weddings, corporate meetings, intimate food and wine experiences, afternoon tea and more. Today, she owns and manages Ackerman Family Vineyards and is one of Napa Valley's most active philanthropists, serving in various board or committee capacities with numerous organizations.
"I am delighted to bring my passion for community building and the arts to Festival Napa Valley," said Ackerman. "It is an honor to work alongside so many impressive board members to achieve our goal of making the arts accessible to all."
Olivia Hsu Decker
Born in Shanghai, Olivia Hsu Decker immigrated to San Francisco in 1975. Olivia joined Merrill Lynch Realty in 1980 where she had great success, working her way up to become the company's number one sales agent in the U.S. from 1986-1988 and eventually starting her own luxury real estate brokerage in 1989. Currently, she and her business partner, Bill Bullock, own Golden Gate Sotheby's International Realty with 23 offices from Silicon Valley to Napa Valley and 15 cities in between. In March 2018, Olivia acquired Haute Living magazine San Francisco after serving as the magazine's ambassador from 2008-2017. Olivia is the Publisher and a contributor to the magazine with content focused on luxury lifestyle with purpose. Olivia devotes her life, energy and resources to her business and performing arts and charity events.
"Having studied classical voice and performed on stage during my school years, I know the importance of giving inspiration and confidence to students through music," said Hsu Decker. "I am looking forward to working with the Festival Napa Valley team to continue their work of bringing world-class music to Napa Valley and supporting music education programs in our community."
The 15th edition of Festival Napa Valley will take place at venues throughout Napa Valley, July 17-26, 2020. View the full board roster at https://festivalnapavalley.org/about-us/board/.
About Festival Napa Valley: Festival Napa Valley is committed to enriching the cultural vitality of the community and making the arts accessible to all. Blending the beauty and bounty of Napa Valley with the very finest performing arts, the festival pairs world-class performances with culinary and wine pursuits staged in iconic wine country settings. The annual summer celebration of the art of life has transformed Napa Valley into a cultural destination. Festival Napa Valley is presented by Napa Valley Festival Association, a nonprofit public benefit corporation governed by a board of prominent vintners and local leaders. More than 200 artists, wineries, resorts, theaters, restaurants and vintners participate each year. Festival Napa Valley 2020 will take place July 17 – 26. To learn more, visit festivalnapavalley.org.
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Jazz vs Classical Music
Upon entering a modern record store, one is confronted with a wide variety of choices in recorded music. These choices not only include a multitude of artists, but also a wide diversity of music categories. These categories run the gamut from easy listening dance music to more complex art music. On the complex side of the scale are the categories known as Jazz and Classical music. Some of the most accomplished musicians of our time have devoted themselves to a lifelong study of Jazz or Classical music, and a few exceptional musicians have actually mastered both. A comparison of classical and Jazz music will yield some interesting results and could also lead to an appreciation of the abilities needed to perform or compose these kinds of music.
History of Classical Music
The music called classical, found in stores and performed regularly by symphonies around the world, spans a length of time from 1600 up to the present. This time frame includes the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Contemporary periods. The classical period of music actually spans a time from of 1750 to 1800; thus, the term Classical is a misnomer and could more correctly be changed to Western Art Music or European Art Music.
History of Jazz Music
Jazz is a distinctively American form of music, and its history occupies a much smaller span of time. Its origins are found in the early 1900s as some dance band leaders in the southern U.S. began playing music that combined ragtime and blues. The terms "Jazz" and "Jazz Band" first surfaced in the year 1900. After World War I, Jazz music had evolved and was aided by the development of the recording industry. The small dance band ensemble grew into the larger orchestra known as the "Big Band". The music of the Big Bands became known as "Swing." In the late 40s and through the 50s, a different kind of Jazz became popular. This music, played by a very small ensemble, was much more sophisticated and complex. It became known as "Bop." In the last twenty years there has been a combination of Jazz with popular music of the US and Latin America. This modern Jazz music has been called "Fusion."
Instruments of Classical Music
In Classical music, both large orchestras and small ensembles are used. But generally, the greatest and most prominent compositions are for the larger symphony orchestra. The largest part of the orchestra is the string section consisting of violins, violas, cellos and string basses. These instruments were invented very early in medieval times, but really matured into their present form during the late 18th century. The wind instruments, comprised of brass and woodwinds, took longer to mature. The brass section in particular did not posses the ability to play chromatically (in all keys) until the advent of valves which allowed the length of the instrument to be changed while playing. This occurred around the middle to late 19th century. Consequently, the brass instruments are less prominent in the music of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven along with their contemporaries. Late 19th and early 20th century composers make use of a very large orchestra with all the fully developed wind instruments. Currently, composers also make use of the full orchestra but with the addition of increasingly larger percussion sections which add many unique and unheard of sounds than in earlier music.
Instruments of Jazz Music
Early Jazz music was played in small ensembles making use of clarinet, tuba, cornet, baritone, drums, and piano. Dixieland groups of New Orleans had similar instrumentation. During the Swing era, larger groups were employed to achieve more of an orchestral sound. The Big Bands of the this era were predominantly wind orchestras containing alto and tenor sax sections, trumpet and trombone sections, along with piano and drums. When Bop music arrived, the alto saxophone and trumpet were the preferred instruments of the major soloists who were backed up by piano, string bass and drums. With the advent of Fusion, electric instruments such as the electric guitar and keyboard synthesizer became prominent.
How has each of these kinds of music been transmitted to later generations of musicians?
Early in the evolution of classical music, a system of notation was gradually developed which for the most part remained stable from the Renaissance on. This gave the composer control over how his compositions were to be played. Throughout the history of Jazz, however, notation was more like a rough sketch. This was because the syncopated rhythms of ragtime and the melodic riffs of the blues were not easily notated. Also, early Jazz musicians were not formally trained; they usually learned by ear. Some songs were transcribed and written down, but not in precise ways. Jazz music became more of a passed on tradition that a musician learned through interaction with other players. In a similar way, the modern Jazz musician must rely on previous recordings to get a feel for the style and technique which he desires to learn from. But in classical music, one composer can learn from an older composer by looking at and analyzing the music that the previous composer wrote down. Likewise, classical musicians can master the parts they must play by practicing the music that has been written or published beforehand. These two approaches to passing on tradition are both valid. However, without the recording medium Jazz music might have developed much differently than it has.
Conductor vs No Conductor
The cohesive element that keeps a musical group together is also an interesting contrast. In Classical music, the conductor uses a baton and plays the orchestra as if it were his instrument; he looks at a complete score of all the events happening in the composition and interprets these events based on his knowledge and intuition of what the composer intended. Jazz groups rarely utilize conductors. The swing era employed them for the sake of keeping the larger sized group together but other jazz styles did not and do not to this day. The drummer of the Jazz ensemble provides the beat that keeps the group together but even he is interacting with the other soloists as the song is performed.
Improvisation in Jazz Music
Perhaps the most interesting point of comparison between the two types of music is in improvisation. Improvisation is the ability to play and compose spontaneously "on the spot" while the music is playing. This has been an important element of Jazz from it's inception. Although improvisation was less prominent during the swing era, it regained importance with Bop and onward. Early Jazz was improvised, using ragtime and blues as a loose structure. In the swing era, popular songs were arranged by an arranger and soloists played improvisations over the repeating sections in order to lengthen the song for dancing. With the advent of Bop, improvisation assumed great importance. The musicians memorized the chord changes to a song, along with the melody, but then played very loosely and in the end substituted new chords along with greatly embellishing the original melody to the point of being unrecognizable. These factors, along with the ability to interact with each other, became important and remains so in the Fusion music of today.
Improvisation in Classical Music
In Classical music, modern listeners are mostly unaware of the fact that many of the great composers of the past were not only excellent performers but also great improvisers. Starting with J.S. Bach (1685-1750), the greatest composer of the Baroque era, he in fact made his living through his great skill as an improvisor. It was common for the Lutheran Church organist of his day to be able to improvise on choral melodies and Bach was considered one of the greatest at this. There are written accounts of other composers improvisational abilities including Mozart (1756-1791), Beethoven (1770-1829), and Franz Liszt (1811-1886). Yet, as time went on, improvising gave way to the composer's desire to exert complete control over his music. By the late 19th century, improvising was rare and not used at all in public performances of classical music.
In summation, we can say that Jazz and Classical music represent two approaches to Art Music. The Classical composer or performer has a long and rich body of music in written form that he uses to learn from while the Jazz musician uses a body of recorded music to learn. Because of it's small size, the modern Jazz ensemble allows loose interaction while the symphony orchestra's large size and diversity of instruments provides many different sounds and wide dynamic range. In classical music the composer strives for control; he uses printed music to guide and direct the musicians through the conductor. In Jazz music, the songs are loosely composed, thus forming a basis for individual expression within an ensemble. When you go to hear a symphony, you hear an orchestra conducted by the conductor playing a composition. When you go to a Jazz club you hear a small jazz ensemble interacting and improvising a song. Both of these kinds of music provide rich expression and detail to the serious listener. They take different paths to reach their final form but give a person equal opportunities to appreciate the creative output of each.
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Cindy Storer and Nada Bakos were part of a majority female team of CIA intelligence analysts — dubbed "The Sisterhood" — who contributed to the effort to locate Osama bin Laden. Margaret Warner talks with Storer and Bakos about their intensely detailed work and frustrations with having that work sometimes ignored or belittled.
Joining me now to discuss the hunt for bin Laden and al-Qaida, I'm joined by two members of so called sisterhood of CIA analysts who appear in the film "Manhunt" and whose work was so crucial to the U.S. effort, Cindy Storer and Nada Bakos.
And welcome to you both.
Like most CIA analysts, you have worked in secret. Your identities have been kept secret all these years. Why did you decide to speak so openly through this film?
I just wanted to be able to tell the firsthand account story for essentially a lot of people that are still there, in addition to my former colleagues.
I thought this was a good opportunity to be able to give the viewer a sense of what national security is like and how the CIA works.
My motivations were very similar.
And I — on a personal level, I really hoped this would help people understand what our colleagues are doing, and they wouldn't just be sort of faceless colleagues in the bureaucracy that you can put blame on for whatever goes wrong.
This was — at least informally, your unit within the bin Laden or al-Qaida hunting unit was known as "The Sisterhood." Do you think there's something different about women analysts?
Yes, it's funny, because I honestly don't know.
I have gone through so many theories with so many different people. For me, personally, in those years, I never thought of myself as a woman, except when we were lumped together that way by other people who were trying to criticize the program.
Other than that, I was just another analyst doing what needed to be done, I thought anyway.
And, Cindy, what was the hardest thing? Let's go back to the '90s. When you were trying to piece together that puzzle that was al-Qaida, the organization, what was the biggest challenge in recognizing and identifying that what looked like separate attacks around the world from the East Africa bombings to the Cole were in fact the work of this one organization and its name was al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden was the head of it?
There's the technical difficulties, if will you, of just trying to figure out — going through all these mounds of little bits of information, and trying to make it — see if there's a picture there.
And to do that, you have to have a model — you have to have several models in your head about how organizations look like, how they work, how they might not work. What could it be besides a certain kind of organization? And then you are constantly testing the information you get against all these various ideas you have in your head. And then it turns out to be something that you recognize or something that you don't.
And, Nada, how was the work that this unit did viewed, let's stay before 9/11, within the agency?
You know, I — when I joined in 2000, I wasn't in the Counterterrorism Center, but my understanding — and, Cindy, you weigh in on this — is that, you know, counterterrorism work wasn't initially viewed as important as some of the traditional analytical work.
I mean, most analysts in the agency are — it's kind of — it's scholarly, really. It's a combination between scholarship and journalism, a lot of the job is.
And doing counterterrorism or doing really any transnational issue is a little bit different, not that you are not achieving those levels of scholarship on the issues, but you are also digging down into all of these little details that most people don't have to worry about.
If you are working a state — a country, you already know the wiring diagram, how the state is organized, even if you have to figure out who really has the power. Well, with a group like this, we had to figure out they even existed. And doing that kind of detailed worked was looked down upon.
And then, in 2001, your unit and the CIA in general was warning the administration, the rest of the government, that something big was coming, yet 9/11 happened.
When that happened, did you blame yourselves, or were you angry at the criticism that it was due to an intelligence failure?
Well, you can't help but feel guilty and blame yourself, even if there really is nothing you could have — more you could have done.
It's just human nature. And then, yes, it was very difficult to deal with everyone blaming you for something that you tried so hard to prevent.
Nada, what would you add to that?
For — in large part, everybody at the CIA takes their job incredibly seriously. That sense of responsibility is not lost on the people who do that job.
So, to have to point out that there was maybe some issues leading up to 9/11 or points missed, I mean, certainly, the people doing the work understood exactly what had happened.
After 9/11, the unit and — expanded, but really shifted to focusing on targeting individuals for kill or capture. How big a shift was that?
You know, from my perspective, it was pretty dramatic.
I mean, I went from a traditional analytical role and then moved over to the operations side. And, even informally, there were obviously some people already doing that targeting work.
When targeting, you are targeting someone to be captured and interrogated or killed. What kind of a moral dilemma did that pose for you? You talk about it in the film a little.
When you — you are evaluating the problem, if it's determined that this person or individual is doing something that is harming the United States' national security interest or doing something within the country that — and in this case, it was a war theater inside of Iraq — it's — I think the onus is upon us to be able to control that situation. And if the only way to do that is to capture or kill an individual, then I think it's warranted.
After decades working on this, bin Laden is dead, a lot of al-Qaida senior leadership is dead. How confident are each of you that the United States is going to be able to manage this ongoing threat in the decades to come?
That's a hard question, because, obviously, you know, as we go into the future decades, we're not going to be just looking at this threat. There will be something new coming down the line. It's probably going to look different.
And, as we always do, we focus on the current, the current war, which we have to do. And I'm always concerned that we're not going to listen to the next people who are standing and jumping up and down with their hair on fire trying to get people's attention to something totally new and different.
Nada Bakos and Cindy Storer, thank you so much.
Online, Margaret compares "Manhunt" with some of the other recent retellings of the hunt for bin Laden. You can find that on our World page.


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Q: java -version In Bash Script. Giving integer error I am trying to make this if..fi case work for the Java Version from wrapper.conf configuration file./ and from the system, If the output from wrapper.conf is java
I would have two options;
1. wrapper.java.command=/apps/jdk1.8.0_191/bin/java
2. wrapper.java.command=java
If it's long one with Java Version it should just print it.
If it's just java, which means it's using default java, and should check the java -version.
With Below script, I am failing to get it. I am getting below error.
integer expression expected
Usage: java [-options] class [args...]
           (to execute a class)
   or  java [-options] -jar jarfile [args...]
           (to execute a jar file)

Script Snippet:
for file in $(echo $folder/conf/wrapper.conf)

do

JavaVersion=$(grep "command" $file | awk -F "=" '{print $NF}')

if [ "$JavaVersion" -eq "java" ]; then

java -version 2>&1 >/dev/null | grep 'java version'

else

$JavaVersion

fi

A: Besides the missing done for your loop that fra-san commented on and the -eq integer comparison complaining about the strings you asked it to compare, there's also the error where you called some particular java binary with no parameters, generating the second half of the error you saw.
Since you're likely wanting the java version in either case, simply execute $JavaVersion regardless.
JavaVersion=$(grep wrapper.java.command= "$file" | awk -F "=" '{print $NF}')
"$JavaVersion" -version

Appears I misunderstood the end goal of printing the wrapper.java.command value if it's not exactly java, otherwise executing java -version.
if grep -Fxq wrapper.java.command=java "$file"
then
  java -version 2>&1 | grep 'java version'
else
  grep ^wrapper.java.command= "$file" | cut -d= -f2-
fi

A: The -eq operator is for integer comparison.  Since you are trying to compare strings you will need to use =, specifically:
if [ "$JavaVersion" = "java" ]; then

Additionally, the following line seems flawed:
java -version 2>&1 >/dev/null | grep 'java version'

You are redirecting both stdout and stderr to /dev/null (all output) so there will be nothing left to grep.