text:
.class Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService$PerformClearTask;
.super Ljava/lang/Object;
.source "BackupManagerService.java"

# interfaces
.implements Ljava/lang/Runnable;

# annotations
.annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/EnclosingClass;
    value = Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService;
.end annotation

.annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/InnerClass;
    accessFlags = 0x0
    name = "PerformClearTask"
.end annotation

# instance fields
.field mPackage:Landroid/content/pm/PackageInfo;

.field mTransport:Lcom/android/internal/backup/IBackupTransport;

.field final synthetic this$0:Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService;

# direct methods
.method constructor <init>(Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService;Lcom/android/internal/backup/IBackupTransport;Landroid/content/pm/PackageInfo;)V
    .locals 0
    .parameter
    .parameter "transport"
    .parameter "packageInfo"

    .prologue
    .line 4709
    iput-object p1, p0, Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService$PerformClearTask;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService;

    invoke-direct {p0}, Ljava/lang/Object;-><init>()V

    .line 4710
    iput-object p2, p0, Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService$PerformClearTask;->mTransport:Lcom/android/internal/backup/IBackupTransport;

    .line 4711
    iput-object p3, p0, Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService$PerformClearTask;->mPackage:Landroid/content/pm/PackageInfo;

    .line 4712
    return-void
.end method

# virtual methods
.method public run()V
    .locals 6

    .prologue
    .line 4717
    :try_start_0
    new-instance v1, Ljava/io/File;

    iget-object v3, p0, Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService$PerformClearTask;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService;

    iget-object v3, v3, Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService;->mBaseStateDir:Ljava/io/File;

    iget-object v4, p0, Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService$PerformClearTask;->mTransport:Lcom/android/internal/backup/IBackupTransport;

    invoke-interface {v4}, Lcom/android/internal/backup/IBackupTransport;->transportDirName()Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v4

    invoke-direct {v1, v3, v4}, Ljava/io/File;-><init>(Ljava/io/File;Ljava/lang/String;)V

    .line 4718
    .local v1, stateDir:Ljava/io/File;
    new-instance v2, Ljava/io/File;

    iget-object v3, p0, Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService$PerformClearTask;->mPackage:Landroid/content/pm/PackageInfo;

    iget-object v3, v3, Landroid/content/pm/PackageInfo;->packageName:Ljava/lang/String;

    invoke-direct {v2, v1, v3}, Ljava/io/File;-><init>(Ljava/io/File;Ljava/lang/String;)V

    .line 4719
    .local v2, stateFile:Ljava/io/File;
    invoke-virtual {v2}, Ljava/io/File;->delete()Z

    .line 4723
    iget-object v3, p0, Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService$PerformClearTask;->mTransport:Lcom/android/internal/backup/IBackupTransport;

    iget-object v4, p0, Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService$PerformClearTask;->mPackage:Landroid/content/pm/PackageInfo;

    invoke-interface {v3, v4}, Lcom/android/internal/backup/IBackupTransport;->clearBackupData(Landroid/content/pm/PackageInfo;)I
    :try_end_0
    .catchall {:try_start_0 .. :try_end_0} :catchall_0
    .catch Landroid/os/RemoteException; {:try_start_0 .. :try_end_0} :catch_1
    .catch Ljava/lang/Exception; {:try_start_0 .. :try_end_0} :catch_0

    .line 4731
    :try_start_1
    iget-object v3, p0, Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService$PerformClearTask;->mTransport:Lcom/android/internal/backup/IBackupTransport;

    invoke-interface {v3}, Lcom/android/internal/backup/IBackupTransport;->finishBackup()I
    :try_end_1
    .catch Landroid/os/RemoteException; {:try_start_1 .. :try_end_1} :catch_2

    .line 4737
    :goto_0
    iget-object v3, p0, Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService$PerformClearTask;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService;

    iget-object v3, v3, Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService;->mWakelock:Landroid/os/PowerManager$WakeLock;

    .end local v1           #stateDir:Ljava/io/File;
    .end local v2           #stateFile:Ljava/io/File;
    :goto_1
    invoke-virtual {v3}, Landroid/os/PowerManager$WakeLock;->release()V

    .line 4739
    return-void

    .line 4726
    :catch_0
    move-exception v0

    .line 4727
    .local v0, e:Ljava/lang/Exception;
    :try_start_2
    const-string v3, "BackupManagerService"

    new-instance v4, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    invoke-direct {v4}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;-><init>()V

    const-string v5, "Transport threw attempting to clear data for "

    invoke-virtual {v4, v5}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v4

    iget-object v5, p0, Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService$PerformClearTask;->mPackage:Landroid/content/pm/PackageInfo;

    invoke-virtual {v4, v5}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v4

    invoke-virtual {v4}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->toString()Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v4

    invoke-static {v3, v4}, Landroid/util/Slog;->e(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)I
    :try_end_2
    .catchall {:try_start_2 .. :try_end_2} :catchall_0

    .line 4731
    :try_start_3
    iget-object v3, p0, Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService$PerformClearTask;->mTransport:Lcom/android/internal/backup/IBackupTransport;

    invoke-interface {v3}, Lcom/android/internal/backup/IBackupTransport;->finishBackup()I
    :try_end_3
    .catch Landroid/os/RemoteException; {:try_start_3 .. :try_end_3} :catch_3

    .line 4737
    :goto_2
    iget-object v3, p0, Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService$PerformClearTask;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService;

    iget-object v3, v3, Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService;->mWakelock:Landroid/os/PowerManager$WakeLock;

    goto :goto_1

    .line 4729
    .end local v0           #e:Ljava/lang/Exception;
    :catchall_0
    move-exception v3

    .line 4731
    :try_start_4
    iget-object v4, p0, Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService$PerformClearTask;->mTransport:Lcom/android/internal/backup/IBackupTransport;

    invoke-interface {v4}, Lcom/android/internal/backup/IBackupTransport;->finishBackup()I
    :try_end_4
    .catch Landroid/os/RemoteException; {:try_start_4 .. :try_end_4} :catch_4

    .line 4737
    :goto_3
    iget-object v4, p0, Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService$PerformClearTask;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService;

    iget-object v4, v4, Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService;->mWakelock:Landroid/os/PowerManager$WakeLock;

    invoke-virtual {v4}, Landroid/os/PowerManager$WakeLock;->release()V

    .line 4729
    throw v3

    .line 4724
    :catch_1
    move-exception v3

    .line 4731
    :try_start_5
    iget-object v3, p0, Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService$PerformClearTask;->mTransport:Lcom/android/internal/backup/IBackupTransport;

    invoke-interface {v3}, Lcom/android/internal/backup/IBackupTransport;->finishBackup()I
    :try_end_5
    .catch Landroid/os/RemoteException; {:try_start_5 .. :try_end_5} :catch_5

    .line 4737
    :goto_4
    iget-object v3, p0, Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService$PerformClearTask;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService;

    iget-object v3, v3, Lcom/android/server/BackupManagerService;->mWakelock:Landroid/os/PowerManager$WakeLock;

    goto :goto_1

    .line 4732
    .restart local v1       #stateDir:Ljava/io/File;
    .restart local v2       #stateFile:Ljava/io/File;
    :catch_2
    move-exception v3

    goto :goto_0

    .end local v1           #stateDir:Ljava/io/File;
    .end local v2           #stateFile:Ljava/io/File;
    .restart local v0       #e:Ljava/lang/Exception;
    :catch_3
    move-exception v3

    goto :goto_2

    .end local v0           #e:Ljava/lang/Exception;
    :catch_4
    move-exception v4

    goto :goto_3

    :catch_5
    move-exception v3

    goto :goto_4
.end method

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text:
Read Me a Poem
"I Love to See the Summer Beaming Forth" by John Clare
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes | May 31, 2022
Flickr/mabelia
Amanda Holmes reads John Clare's poem "I Love to See the Summer Beaming Forth." Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you'll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.
This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song "Canvasback" by Chad Crouch.
Amanda Holmes, the author of the novel I Know Where I Am When I'm Falling, is a book club facilitator for Fairfax County Public Library. Read her book reviews and feature column at the Washington Independent Review of Books.

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I took my annual trip to Ireland in late November. Now, I know that is not the best time for a golfer to make a visit, but it's a good time for a golf tour operator to see what's new. Many of the golf oriented guest houses and small hotels are closed and if the owners aren't off in the southern hemisphere or Florida for a holiday, they have lots of time to show us around. Most golf courses are open as well though some will require that you play your ball off the fairway on the first cut and others may only be open to members. Larger hotels that cater to more than golfers continue to be open.
My itinerary took me to Lahinch, Doonbeg, Ballybunion, Killarney, Adare and Dublin. Though the purpose of the trip was to visit and inspect hotels, guest houses and golf courses, I did play a round of golf. David Walsh, owner of the Tides Guest House in Ballybunion and a member of the Ballybunion Golf Club, invited me to join him for a round on his home course. What a treat! David is a two time Golfer of the Year at Ballybunion and I could not have asked for a better golfing partner.
I won't take you on a hole by hole description of the course, but don't let the first five holes lull you into thinking that this course is a yawner. It's true these holes are nothing spectacular, but they open the door to some of the best links holes in golf. Seeing the course for the first time, one is amazed that golf is even possible over this terrain. The thick grassy dunes are everywhere and they are high, really high. With plenty of left and right dog legs and elevation changes, the narrow fairways are like green ribbons laid between towering dunes. Playing the dunes is special, but it requires a high degree of accuracy off the tee and to the green.
Though the course has been around since 1893, it wasn't until 1971 when Herbert Warren Wind, the famous golf writer, proclaimed Ballybunion to be one of the 10 top golf courses in the world that golfers took notice. This might be partially due to Ballybunion's location. It's tucked away in a far western corner of County Kerry off narrow country roads and away from any major city.
Now, if isolation is an indicator of great golf, you have to put Doonbeg into the group. Despite its goal to become a major U.S. styled golf resort, Doonbeg is located off tiny roads (more appropriately called lanes) that have made driving in Ireland infamous. Greg Norman's Doonbeg is close to finishing a huge building project. In addition to its tough golf course, Doonbeg will have luxury accommodations designed for its many U.S. based members and guests. The new digs will open to guest in April.
There is some good news for self-drive golfers in Ireland this year. Though the country has done much to improve many of its roads and added "dual carriageways" (freeways) in the last ten years, driving in Ireland is still a challenge. Not only are many of the roads extremely narrow, but you drive on the wrong side of the road, holding a steering wheel located on the opposite side of the car and compete for road space with a great deal of traffic (the fruit of Ireland's economic boom). With Hertz recent (I was one of the first to use it) introduction of its Never Lost GPS system this year, driving and finding your way will become a lot easier. Though not perfect (it's calibrated in miles and road signs are in kilometers) and at a cost of about $13 per day (it's not cheap), it is still a navigation aid you should consider.
There is more good news waiting for you in Ireland in 2006. Properly planned, next year's trip could cost less than in 2005. One reason is that the dollar has strengthened about 10% meaning you can buy a lot more for your dollar in 2006. Second, many golf courses, hotels and guest houses have kept prices at 2005 levels or increased them only moderately. There is one caveat, however, and that is the Ryder Cup. Expect to pay a lot more if you are any where near the K-Club in September. Ryder Cup packages that include event tickets, hotel and a round of golf at nearby course start at about $4,000 per person.
There is some news from Lahinch as well. Though Lahinch has had several quality guest houses and small hotels, it has always lacked a good hotel with enough rooms to accommodate a group of golfers. With the recent opening of the remodeled 60-room Lahinch Golf & Leisure Hotel, Lahinch can now boost quality accommodations for just about any sized group. Their two bedroom suites are ideal for a group of four as they include a common living area and a stripped down kitchen. For a bit more style and Manor House type comforts, you can't beat the Moy House just south of town.
Finally, not all of the great golf in Ireland is along its rugged coast. Though links style golf is what we think of when talk turns to Irish golf, there are plenty of parkland style courses to choose from. One of the best is Adare Golf Course. Located on the grounds of the luxury Adare Manor Hotel & Golf Resort, this Robert Trent Jones Sr. designed course opened in 1995 and has earned rave reviews by all who have played it. Fortunately, you don't have to stay at the Adare Manor Hotel to play the course. My choice is to stay in the picturesque village of Adare. The Dunraven Hotel located just across the street from the entry gates to Adare Manor and has just the right style without the high price. If you are flying home from Shannon, I will often recommend ending a trip in Adare. Not only will you board your flight with wonderful memories, you are only 40 minutes from the Shannon Airport making it an easy drive to catch your flight home.
This is a great time to start planning your golf trip to Ireland in 2006. Tee times at the best courses are still available now but don't wait too long. But, if the Irish golfing bug has you right now and you don't mind a bit of wet and cold (thankfully no snow), you might want to give Ireland a try this winter. The grass is always green in Ireland.


text:
/**
* @file  Client.cpp
* @author  suxunbin
* @date  13-AUG-2021
* @brief  a gStore socket client
*/

#include "Client.h"

using namespace rapidjson;
using namespace std;

GstoreConnector::GstoreConnector()
{
	this->serverIP = defaultServerIP;
	this->serverPort = defaultServerPort;
}

GstoreConnector::GstoreConnector(string _ip)
{
	if (_ip == "localhost")
		this->serverIP = defaultServerIP;
	else
		this->serverIP = _ip;
	this->serverPort = defaultServerPort;
}

GstoreConnector::GstoreConnector(int _port)
{
	this->serverIP = defaultServerIP;
	this->serverPort = _port;
}

GstoreConnector::GstoreConnector(string _ip, int _port)
{
	if (_ip == "localhost")
		this->serverIP = defaultServerIP;
	else
		this->serverIP = _ip;
	this->serverPort = _port;
}

GstoreConnector::~GstoreConnector()
{

}

bool
GstoreConnector::connect()
{
	bool flag = this->socket.create();
	if (!flag)
	{
		cerr << "Cannot create socket. @GstoreConnector::connect" << endl;
		return false;
	}

	flag = this->socket.connect(this->serverIP, this->serverPort);

	if (!flag)
	{
		cerr << "Cannot connect to server. @GstoreConnector::connect" << endl;
		return false;
	}

	cout << "Connect to server successfully!" << endl;
	return true;
}

bool GstoreConnector::send(std::string _cmd) {
	bool send_return = this->socket.send(_cmd);
	if (!send_return) {
		cerr << "Send command error. @GstoreConnector::send" << endl;
		return false;
	}
	return true;
}

bool GstoreConnector::recv(std::string& _recv_msg) {
	while (true)
	{
		this->socket.recv(_recv_msg);
		if (parseJson(_recv_msg) != 1)
		{
			cout << _recv_msg << endl;
			break;
		}
		cout << _recv_msg << endl;
	}
	return true;
}

bool
GstoreConnector::disconnect()
{
	std::string _cmd = "{\"op\":\"close\"}";
	bool send_return = this->socket.send(_cmd);
	if (!send_return) {
		cerr << "Disconnect command error. @GstoreConnector::disconnect" << endl;
		return false;
	}

	std::string _recv_msg;
	this->socket.recv(_recv_msg);
	cout << _recv_msg << endl;

	bool flag = this->socket.close();
	return flag;
}

int
GstoreConnector::parseJson(std::string strJson)
{
	Document document;
	document.Parse(strJson.c_str());
	Value& p = document["StatusCode"];
	int StatusCode = p.GetInt();
	return StatusCode;
}


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text:
Intracranial electrical stimulation alters meso-scale network integration as a function of network topology
Thompson, W. H. and Esteban, O. and Oya, H. and Nair, R. and Eberhardt, F. and Dubois, J. and Poldrack, R. A. and Adolphs, R. and Shine, J. M. (2021) Intracranial electrical stimulation alters meso-scale network integration as a function of network topology. . (Unpublished) https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20210831-204705170
Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial.
Human brain dynamics are organized into a multi-scale network structure that contains multiple tight-knit, meso-scale communities. Recent work has demonstrated that many psychological capacities, as well as impairments in cognitive function secondary to damage, can be mapped onto organizing principles at this mesoscopic scale. However, we still don't know the rules that govern the dynamic interactions between regions that are constrained by the topology of the broader network. In this preregistered study, we utilized a unique human dataset in which whole brain BOLD-fMRI activity was recorded simultaneously with intracranial electrical stimulation, to characterize the effects of direct neural stimulation on the dynamic reconfiguration of the broader network. Direct neural stimulation increased the extent to which the stimulation site's own mesoscale community integrated with the rest of the brain. Further, we found that these network changes depended on the topological role of the stimulation site itself: stimulating regions with high participation coefficients led to global integration, whereas stimulating sites with low participation coefficients integrated that regions' own community with the rest of the brain. These findings provide direct causal evidence for how network topology shapes and constrains inter-regional coordination, and suggest applications for targeted therapeutic interventions in patients with deep-brain stimulation.
Report or Paper (Discussion Paper)
https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.16.426941 DOI Discussion Paper
https://openneuro.org/datasets/ds002799/versions/1.0.3 Related Item Data
https://github.com/wiheto/esfmri_connectivity Related Item Code
Thompson, W. H. 0000-0002-0533-6035
Esteban, O. 0000-0001-8435-6191
Oya, H. 0000-0002-1733-5478
Nair, R. 0000-0002-8526-7948
Dubois, J. 0000-0002-3029-173X
Poldrack, R. A. 0000-0001-6755-0259
Adolphs, R. 0000-0002-8053-9692
Shine, J. M. 0000-0003-1762-5499
The copyright holder for this preprint is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-NC 4.0 International license. This version posted January 19, 2021. Funded by NIH grant U01NS103780 (RP, RA), The Simons Foundation Collaboration on the Global Brain (RA), Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation grant 2016.0473 (WHT), National Health and Medical Research Council 1156536 (JMS), Swiss National Science Foundation PZ00P2_185872 (OE). This work was conducted on an MRI instrument funded by National Institute of Health grant 1S10OD025025-01. Code analysis: The entire code for the project can be found at https://github.com/wiheto/esfmri_connectivity under a Apache-2.0 License. Further, this repository has been linked to the preregistration at OSF, and all pull requests can be tracked seeing all the changes made.
NIH U01NS103780
Simons Foundation UNSPECIFIED
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation 2016.0473
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) 1156536
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) PZ00P2_185872
NIH 1S10OD025025-01
Intracranial electrical stimulation alters meso-scale network integration as a function of network topology. WH Thompson, O Esteban, H Oya, R Nair, F Eberhardt, J Dubois, RA Poldrack, R Adolphs, JM Shine. bioRxiv 2021.01.16.426941; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.16.426941


text:
Jeff Sessions' Replacement Matt Whitaker Has Had Quite The Twitter Presence Over The Years
By Caroline Burke
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images News/Getty Images
Just hours after the 2018 midterm elections wrapped up, POTUS made a stunning announcement on Wednesday: the Attorney General was resigning. Jeff Sessions' temporary replacement Matt Whitaker has generated concern over his newfound takeover of Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, as he has criticized the probe in the past. But it's not just Whitaker's bias of the Russia probe that has people scratching their heads — he also has had a pretty robust Twitter presence throughout the last several years.
A majority of the tweets on Whitaker's official account are related to the University of Iowa, of which he is an alum. Still others are more bizarre, such as his tweet about his new law firm finally getting Wi-Fi so that he didn't "need to hijack Taco John's free wi fi [sic] any more." In yet another tweet, Whitaker asserted that Dave Matthews is "the Jimmy Buffett of our time." And in perhaps the most surprising tweet yet, Whitaker tweeted out a series of cat memes to illustrate hurricane intensity, as seen below.
But other tweets from Whitaker seem to have been more politically charged, though it's unclear whether he was writing in jest or sincerely. In one August 2017 tweet, Whitaker wrote, "Is the #Borderwall going to be similar to #thewall on #GoT ? If so, where is #eastwatch ?"
Unsurprisingly, Whitaker is a staunch conservative who has run for elected office three times as a Republican: First, he ran for state treasurer of Iowa in 2002 (unsuccessfully), then he ran for U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Iowa in 2004 (successfully), and then lastly, he ran for a Senate seat in Iowa in 2013 (unsuccessfully; he placed fourth in the Republican primary).
During his Senate run, Whitaker told an Iowan radio station that he sought to emulate staunch conservative senators like Ted Cruz and Rand Paul.
Whitaker also claimed at a Republican forum during his Senate run that he didn't trust judges who didn't believe in an afterlife. Specifically, Whitaker explained that when selecting a federal judge, he would want to know that they have a "Biblical view of justice."
"As long as they have that world view," he said, "they'll be a good judge. If they have a secular world view, where this is all we have here on earth, then I'm going to be very concerned with how they judge."
CNN on YouTube
Immediately following Trump's announcements on Whitaker becoming the interim attorney general, several notable lawmakers gave public statements condemning Whitaker's role. In a tweet, Nancy Pelosi called the decision a "blatant attempt by [Trump] to undermine" Mueller's investigation, and Chuck Schumer tweeted that Trump "clearly ... has something to hide."
As acting attorney general, Whitaker will now have full oversight of Mueller's Russia investigation, until Trump finds a permanent replacement for the role. He will additionally function as the head of the Department of Justice, and will also technically be the chief lawyer for the United States government.


text:
Remembering a Dutch Partisan
Policing and Repression
Pepijn Brandon
Truus Menger-Oversteegen was part of a generation that sacrificed everything to fight Nazism and build a better world.
On Saturday, July 2, Truus Menger-Oversteegen, sculptress and member of the anti-Nazi Dutch armed resistance, died at the age of ninety-two. Her life reminds us of the crucial role communists and socialists played in the fight against fascism. Further, the fact that the Dutch state did not fully recognize her role in the resistance until 2014 tells us something important about the politics of World War II commemorations.
I knew Truus through my grandmother, Mirjam Ohringer, who died just three weeks before her at the age of ninety-one. They described themselves — and a third long-time friend and Communist Party member Els Schalker-Kastanje — as the "three musketeers."
All three were militant left-wing women. Their "red families" instilled radical politics in them well before the outbreak of World War II.
Each suffered great personal losses as a result of Nazi occupation and persecution. In 1941, Mirjam's first love — a Jewish-German Communist refugee — was swept up in the first wave of anti-Jewish arrests in Amsterdam. Shortly after, he was murdered in the concentration camp Mauthausen.
Almost all of Mirjam's family in Germany and Eastern Europe were also killed as part of the Nazi persecution of Jews. Els's father was murdered in Dachau. Truus lost three members of her resistance group, including Hannie Schaft — "the girl with red hair," who became an icon of the Dutch antifascist resistance.
After World War II ended, they promoted an unapologetically political form of commemoration, under the slogan that became the title of Truus's memoir — Not Then, Not Now, Never — to highlight the real history of radical Dutch resistance.
The Teenage Militants
Mainstream stories about anti-Nazi activities in occupied Western Europe tend to start with Germany's 1940 conquest. But Truus emphasized that her antifascist resistance started much earlier.
She grew up in the Zaan's "red belt," the industrial zone north of Amsterdam. Like my grandmother's parents, her family participated in the Communist-led International Red Aid, which helped Jewish and political refugees illegally cross the border between Germany and the Netherlands.
In an eerie foreshadowing of today's Fortress Europe, the Dutch police routinely handed the refugees they caught directly over to the Gestapo. At an early age, both Truus and Mirjam learned to be silent about the strangers that were hidden in their bedrooms. They proudly recalled that they learned the ropes of illegal action in the 1930s, when the Dutch conservative party held power.
In the first year of the Nazi occupation, these young women from red families — Truus was sixteen in 1940, her sister Freddie fourteen, and Mirjam fifteen — handed out leaflets, distributed illegal newspapers, and helped procure aid for refugees. Their success depended on what they learned working with International Red Aid. Their activities at that point might still have had a hint of frivolity to them.
All this changed in February 1941 when Communists and radical socialists called for a general strike in Amsterdam and the Zaan region. The action quickly transformed into a spontaneous protest against the first deportations of young Jewish men. Mirjam's father hid one of the printing presses producing the leaflets in his tailor shop, while Truus and her sister Freddie leafletted factories.
The strike was a success, unparalleled in Nazi-occupied Europe. Tens of thousands of workers walked out and demonstrated. But the repression that followed was brutal, fundamentally changing the nature of the movement.
It became much more dangerous for Jews to participate in the organized resistance. Most, like Mirjam, went into hiding. Deportations mounted, supported by the mostly compliant Dutch police and officials, and those who earned generous "head-sums" for reporting Jews.
At the time of this mounting repression, a local militant approached Truus and her sister — both still in their teens — to join the partisans. Their small cell, which grew to eight fighters, was connected to similar groups through their commander Frans van der Wiel and became one of the most famous Dutch resistance groups.
When the student Hannie Schaft joined them in 1943, they considered her the "intellectual" because all the initial members came from working-class backgrounds. Together, the three women and five men sabotaged railway lines, rescued Jewish children, and killed Nazi collaborators who had betrayed Jews.
When I interviewed Truus ten years ago, she described these events with the same directness and aversion to hero-worship that characterizes her memoir: "We were ordinary girls; we did not like aggression."
But behind her matter-of-fact presentation, there were deep motivations. She grieved over a failed transport of Jewish children: caught in the searchlight in a remote area, all but one of the kids were mowed down by machine-guns. She courageously carried on after her comrades were arrested and shot, a fate that befell Hannie Schaft. And finally, she remembered the rising tensions within the resistance movement itself during the final phases of the war.
When the nationalist forces led by Prince Bernhard — a one-time Nazi sympathizer — finally joined the fight, they rolled back the Community Party's influence in favor of a conservative-led "national front."
There are still rumors that members of Truus's fighting unit were deliberately turned over to the Nazis. Even though definitive proof of this has never been provided, the Menger-Oversteegen sisters experienced firsthand how Bernhard's men would send Communist operatives on life-threatening missions that were actually smuggling operations that benefited the new resistance's rich commanders.
These tensions were carefully washed away in the official postwar commemoration culture, which celebrates a unified struggle — led by the monarchy — against "the German invaders." Communist Party leaders had their own, popular-front reasons to collude with the nationalists and smooth out these contradictions.
But for rank-and-file militants like Truus and her comrades, the struggle extended beyond national liberation. They hoped that the defeat of fascism would usher in a left-wing reconstruction of Europe.
The Cold War quickly dashed their hopes and further ratcheted up the tension between Communists and nationalists. In 1952, when the Communist Party organized the first commemoration for Hannie Schaft, the government banned the demonstration and a police force — backed by tanks — was sent in to disperse the crowd.
For years, the Dutch left organized its own World War II commemorations, separate from the official ones. It is no surprise that it took the Dutch state until 2014 to give Truus and her sister the highest distinction for participating in the resistance.
The Wrong Lessons
Even this long-overdue recognition is not void of irony. Welcoming old Communist fighters back into the nation's fold is the final stage of a strategy designed to ritualize the European memory of World War II and depoliticize resistance movements.
In this official commemoration culture, the horrors of the Nazi occupation remind us to value completely abstract notions of freedom, justice, and democracy — ostensibly embodied in the holy trinity of liberal capitalism, the rule of law, and the peaceful process of European unification.
For veteran fighters like Truus or my grandmother, commemoration was never so vacuous and conformist: it carried a completely different political message. They insisted that fascism grew up within the folds of liberal capitalism, and warned that it could do so again. And they knew their willingness to go against the forces of law and order and defy the pre-fascist state taught them how to survive the dark years that followed.
As we lose the last of this generation of resistance fighters, we must not let official culture erase their revolutionary politics. In a period of officially sponsored nationalism, persecution of refugees along the borders of the European Union, and the growing threat of fascist movements, we need to fully remember this legacy.
Pepijn Brandon is a Dutch historian who currently works at the University of Pittsburgh.


Dusty Moongazer, also known as FoxFuzz is a 5'3", 115lb anthropomorphic red fox (Vulpes vulpes). Originally created for the America Online chatroom known as the Red Dragon Inn, he currently spans across several worlds and genras. He is a native of Chicago, Illinois.
In the online virtual world of Second Life, he goes by the name of Dusty Montale. It is here where his personality matches his player the most, and 'role playing' is only done on occasional situations. While in Second Life, Dusty is often found doing free lance DJing for clubs such as Club Pawprintz and Wild Thingz. Dusty Montale's personality can be best summed up as a wise cracking, smart alec who is fiercly loyal to his friends.
In the text based world of Tapestries, he goes by the name of FoxFuzz.


– Insurance is one of the oldest parts of economy and human life. The number of insurance classes has grown.
– People buy individual insurance to protect themselves against risks such as loss, damage, injury and so on.
– Companies protect themselves too – business insurance.
– Roman soldiers were paid and part on their money was given to a special fund. If they were killed in the battle their families got his money.
– Over the centuries people who wanted to have an insurance joined onto a club or society and pay money into the fund every year. There was one problem: how much money should each person put into the fund?
– This question was solved by James Dodson, the maths teacher, who worked in London. He said that people should pay so much money how probable is that they might die. It depended on the age of the person, how healthy he or she was and how risky job he did.
– If you want to protect yourself you must underwrite an insurance policy – a contract which shows what you are insured against and the level of compensation that will be paid.
– After the accident you must make an insurance claim for compensation.
– Insurance companies are in business to make profit. Therefore they aim to collect more money in premiums then they have to pay out in claims.
– They are usually established as joint-stock companies and provide a wide range of types of insurance.
– They are large investors on the stock market.
– Underwriters – they sell insurance. They are usually very wealthy people who are responsible for paying insurance claims which they underwrite.
– Brokers – they buy insurance on behalf of the general public. They deal with underwriters and help people to choose the best insurance.
a) Whole life – premiums are paid until insured person dies. The sum of money is then paid out to the dependents.
b) Endowment insurance – premiums are paid for an agreed number of years. The client can receive the money at the end of this period or if the clients dies earlier, dependents inherit the money.
In the CR – all citizens are covered by compulsory health insurance. It is basically free (we pay for seeing the doctor and per prescription). Employers pay H.I. for their employees, private persons pay for themselves, the state pays for children, students and retired people.
In the UK – National Health Service provides free medical care to all people in the country. It is based on general taxation.
In the USA – there is no national health insurance. There are only private i. companies which can decide weather to insure a person or not. A lot of people have not enough money to pay for the insurance. If they are ill, they get into debts or they have to go to charity hospitals, which are not very good.
What do you know about Lloyd's of London?
What kinds of non-life insurance do you know?
What do you know about health insurance in the Czech Republic, Great Britain and the USA?


As hard as it might be to believe, in the 1980s you could buy property in Bernal Heights for next to nothing. A long period of decline and neglect had left the proud, working-class neighborhood in such a state that businesses and homeowners alike had fled, leaving boarded-up storefronts and empty Victorians in their wake. Even the Bank of America, which had kept a presence on Bernal's Cortland Avenue for decades, considered moving out.
Today, such an exodus seems absurd, especially in a neighborhood recently called the country's "hottest" by Redfin. Buyers now target Bernal Heights so often that neighborhood homes routinely sell for well over their asking price, sometimes after fierce bidding wars. Bernal Heights is well past its "low" point.
Despite the furor, part of Bernal's allure remains its relatively affordable market. In a city whose median single-family home price recently soared past $1 million, Bernal is still a middle-class neighborhood offering plenty of options above and below that mark. A recent check of Bernal homes on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) showed single-family homes available for as little as $525,000 ranging all the way to $2 million, with a median asking price of $995,000.
Buyers are drawn to Bernal for a number of reasons, and not all of them are economic. For example, there are few San Francisco districts offering so many historic homes, thanks to a pair of factors. Because of Bernal's history of neighborhood activism, it's been free of large-scale redevelopment. The first settlers came to Bernal Heights 150 years ago; many of the existing homes in the neighborhood are almost that old. The second reason is somewhat ironic: Bernal's long period of decline meant many of its oldest homes escaped being snapped up by ambitious remodelers or flippers during San Francisco's early renaissance periods, leaving them authentic and intact for 21st-century buyers.
They're the type of historic homes – Victorians – that traditionally capture the imaginations of San Francisco buyers. In Bernal Heights, you can purchase a 19th-century farmhouse with a view, a garden and all of the period details you can handle, and you can do this in the middle of the second-most densely populated city in America. Some buyers find this opportunity – to restore a classic Victorian or Edwardian home to its former grandeur – irresistible.
This is not to say that there is only one kind of house for sale in Bernal Heights or even one kind of historic home in one type of condition; far from it. This is a large neighborhood with multiple personalities and multiple types of living. North slope homes feature a breathtaking downtown view; south slope domiciles boast walking access to Cortland Avenue. Homes on the east slope are often more rural than their neighbors to the west (and often have views of San Francisco Bay) and property in St. Mary's Park, at Bernal's southern border, are of the same vintage and style as the fully-detached pre-war "streetcar suburbia" homes you'd find in neighborhoods like West Portal.
Bernal homes can run from the challenging to the spectacular. Some of the city's most impressive contemporary construction is on Bernal's north slope (as well as some of its most creative; a few north slope lots are extremely steep and narrow), and don't forget that Bernal has San Francisco's largest collection of existing earthquake refugee shacks from 1906, adapted into permanent dwellings. Some stand alone or are connected in twos and are easily identified; others have been integrated into other construction and are harder to spot.
The district has classic "full five" and "junior five" homes from the 1930s, 40s and 50s and new condominium complexes (small ones; Bernal's homegrown activists have successfully blocked major development from encroaching on their neighborhood). It's large enough to offer very different micro-neighborhood experiences within its borders; life near Precita Park is very different from life near Holly Park, for example.
All of this is what makes Bernal so attractive and what is driving its present-day popularity. It is, in many ways, unlike any other San Francisco neighborhood. No other offers such housing diversity, so many options at so many price points and the opportunity to "live in the country" while living in the city.
Why has spring seen such ferocious markets these past few years? Buyers have been jumping aggressively back into the market much earlier in the year and in much greater numbers than sellers, creating a fierce high-demand/low-supply dynamic that fosters competitive bidding. This chart tracks the median house sales price by quarter.
And as a comparison to the simplified overview above, below is a look at actual average dollar-per-square-foot house values over the last 20 years in the northern Pacific Heights-Marina District of San Francisco. This very expensive area fell less in value than the city as a whole after the 2008 financial markets crash, and since the recovery began has surged well above its previous peak values of 2007.
The large majority of SF home sales this past spring sold quickly, without price reductions and for over asking price. This chart breaks down, by neighborhood, the average percentage over list price those homes sold for: Historically speaking, these are astounding percentages. This statistic will also be affected if large numbers of agents adopt a strategy of underpricing their listings to artificially boost demand. Note that the South Beach-Yerba Buena-Mission Bay district has by far the most listings and sales in the city, and that relative abundance of inventory affects this statistic.
And this chart is an overview of San Francisco's trend on a month by month basis.
Comparative values for 3-4 bedroom houses and 2-bedroom condos with parking.
Comparative dollar per square foot values by neighborhood and property type.
Comparing the percentage make-up of San Francisco home sales – house, condo, co-op, TIC and multi-unit properties – between 2008 and 2014: condo sales are way up due to extensive new construction over the past 10-15 years, house sales (as a percentage of total sales) are somewhat down as very few new houses are built in the city, and TIC sales are way down due to political and financing issues.
What's Behind San Francisco's Real Estate Market?
This chart is a simplified, smoothed-out and approximate look at the last few real estate cycles in San Francisco, illustrating estimated percentage changes in home prices from successive peaks and bottoms of the market. The years between these high/low points are simply depicted here as straight lines (which does not reflect reality). Different market segments have experienced varying appreciation and depreciation rates over the years and how this chart applies to any specific property is unknown without a tailored analysis.
Population growth: San Francisco has recently been adding approximately 10,000 new residents per year and new home construction has not come close to adding enough additional housing units to meet increase demand. (And more would move here if they could find a place to live.) New construction is booming again in the city, but it will be a while before enough new units arrive (to rent or to buy) to substantially change the existing high-demand/low-supply dynamic.
Employment growth: San Francisco now has the highest number of employed residents in its history and job numbers continue to grow as new companies start up and existing ones expand. Many of these new jobs are very well paid.
Surging stock market: The S&P 500 is up over 50% since 2011 began. The affluent have benefited most from the recent, large increase in the value of financial assets, and San Francisco has one of the most affluent populations in the country. When people feel wealthier, they spend more on homes, second homes and real estate investment properties.
Brand new wealth: Thousands of newly affluent residents – including significant numbers of millionaires and even billionaires – have been created in the Bay Area in recent years from stock options, IPOs and company sales. This is super-charging the "wealth effect" on the market.
High rents: Purchasing a home in San Francisco, with the attendant tax benefits and equity accrual (as well as the possibility of future appreciation), often makes compelling financial sense if the alternative is to pay an extraordinarily high rent.
Low interest rates: from 1996 to 2006, the average interest rate on a 30-year fixed rate loan was approximately 6.3%. As of early July 2014, it was 4.1%. That 35% reduction in the cost of financing makes an enormous difference in affordability and the ongoing cost of housing.
Work there, live here: A relatively recent development, many of the people working or taking new jobs in Silicon Valley high-tech and bio-tech now insist on living in the city. The "Google bus" phenomenon is just one illustration of a trend which puts considerable additional pressure on our housing market.
Magnet effect: San Francisco, a small city of 7 by 7 miles, is now the capital of perhaps the fastest growing, most lucrative, highest-prestige business segment. It is also in one of the most beautiful, best educated, most tolerant and culturally rich metropolitan areas in the world. That makes the city a magnet for smart, creative, ambitious people from all over the planet and they are willing to pay a premium to live here.
Limited supply: Almost two thirds of the city's housing is in rental units, much of it under rent control. The number of homes suitable for owner-occupancy and available to purchase each year is relatively small: As an example, the SF homes market is less than half the size of the markets in either Alameda or Contra Costa counties.
today's San Francisco real estate market.
None of this implies justification for an ever-appreciating real estate market: Almost all these factors can stall or even go into reverse. Real estate and financial markets are prone to a wide variety of extremely complex and hard-to-predict economic and political factors – and they typically go in cycles: up, down, flat, up again (repeat). And economic and market fluctuations are not uncommon within cycle phases. Still, these are, we believe, the fundamental realities underpinning the city's homes market now.
San Francisco's real estate market is now about 2 ½ years into its latest recovery. In the last few cycles, recoveries have typically lasted 5 to 7 years before a significant market adjustment, but, of course, the past is no guarantee of the future.
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Grand Wailea Foundation Awards $30,000 During Holiday Kick-Off
December 3, 2019, 9:58 AM HST
* Updated December 4, 11:05 AM
An estimated 3,000 people attended the annual holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony and holiday kick-off event at the Grand Wailea Maui over the weekend.
The event on Sunday culminated in the ceremonial lighting of a 25-foot live Norfolk Island Pine tree and more than seven miles of lights strung along the resort's entrance and driveway.
This year, attendees enjoyed complimentary hot cocoa and cookies as well as a live concert by Maui's own award-winning, Nā Wai 'Ehā, named for the four sacred waters of Wailuku, Waikapū, Waiehu and Waiheʻe in Central Maui.
As part of this year's Tree Lighting Ceremony, the newly launched Grand Wailea Foundation donated a total of $30,000 to three local nonprofits. Hui o Wa'a Kaulua, Maui Historical Society, and Boys & Girls Club of Maui were each awarded a lead grant of $10,000 by the Foundation for their work serving the community.
"Thank you to Grand Wailea Foundation for supporting us; it allows us to educate our children and our adults about from whence we came – across the deep seas of the Pacific Ocean to Hawai'i," said Clifford Nae'ole, board member and cultural advisor to Hui o Wa'a Kaulua. The organization plans to use the grant to help fund a voyage to Tahiti in 2020.
"This monetary donation goes a long way toward helping fund our programs to serve the kids," said Stephen Bennet, operations director, Boys & Girls Club of Maui. "Throughout the year, Grand Wailea is also donating meals and snacks for our clubhouses and afterschool programs. We owe a very big mahalo to the Grand Wailea for its partnership."
Established as the philanthropic arm of the Grand Wailea Maui resort in 2019, the Grand Wailea Foundation builds upon a rich legacy of giving over the resort's three decades of operation.
"These organizations make significant contributions to the preservation of Hawaiian culture and history and to the education of Maui County keiki," said JP Oliver, managing director of Grand Wailea and president of the Grand Wailea Foundation. "It is an honor for Grand Wailea Foundation to support their goals in 2020 with grants that help extend their reach and deepen their impact."
In November, BRE Hotels & Resorts – the owner of Grand Wailea – made a $75,000 donation to celebrate the establishment of the Grand Wailea Foundation. Additional fundraising to support the mission and initiatives of the Foundation will include fundraising events, as well as a voluntary guest contribution program.
Attendees of this year's Tree Lighting Ceremony were also invited to shop a collection of Maui-made products from local artisans with a portion of proceeds going to support the Foundation.
Maui's own award-winning, Nā Wai 'Ehā was the featured entertainment at the resort's annual Tree Lighting Ceremony held over the weekend. PC: GWR.
An estimated 3,000 people attended the annual holiday event culminating in the Tree Lighting Ceremony of a 25-foot live Norfolk Island Pine tree. PC: GWR.
Hui o Wa'a Kaulua accepts a $10,000 check from the Grand Wailea Foundation to help fund a voyage to Tahiti in 2020. PC: GWR.
The Maui Historical Society accepts a $10,000 donation from the Grand Wailea Foundation as part of the resort's holiday celebration. PC: GWR.
Stephen Bennet, operations director, Boys & Girls Club of Maui accepts a $10,000 check from the Grand Wailea Foundation. PC: GWR.
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Pictured with a Royal Arch Casting Full Polished finished in Smooth Mist, the grand Hawthorn mantel has a presence in any living room. It's size and clean lines make the Hawthorn fire surround a favourite for the more traditional consumer with a larger living space.
This surround is shown here in Smooth Mist along with a Royal Arch Casting Full Polished and Granite Hearth.


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South Australian COVID-19 outbreak highlights dangers of "reopening" campaign
By Oscar Grenfell
A sudden coronavirus outbreak in South Australia (SA) underscores the reckless character of a pro-business campaign by the state and federal governments and the corporate elite for the overturning of all COVID-19 safety restrictions prior to Christmas.
On Sunday afternoon, SA health authorities announced they had identified four infections in the capital city of Adelaide, all locally-acquired. Infections caused by community transmission were last previously confirmed in the state in April.
Government officials and the media had proclaimed the virus effectively "eliminated" in SA and lifted most lockdown measures. Mass gatherings, large sporting events and substantial attendance at high-risk venues, including bars, clubs, restaurants and gyms, were resumed months ago.
A queue for coronavirus testing in Adelaide's northern suburbs [Credit: ABC News, screenshot]
Infections increased to 17 on Monday, and 22 today, with another 7 suspected cases awaiting confirmation.
While the numbers remain relatively small, the highly infectious nature of the virus and the removal of virtually all lockdown measures in the state sparked warnings from health experts of the potential for a rapid COVID-19 spread.
In just four days, the number of Adelaide residents instructed by state authorities to self-isolate and seek testing, because they may have been exposed to the coronavirus, has grown from around 100 on Sunday, to over 4,000 as of this morning. Almost 50 separate locations, including medical facilities, restaurants and schools, have been identified as potential sites of transmission because they were visited by people who have since tested positive.
SA Liberal Party Premier Steven Marshall today announced a six-day partial statewide lockdown, including school, hospitality and construction site closures and bans on people leaving their homes. He described it as a "circuit breaker," yet it falls far short of the period required to medically assess any suppression of virus transmission. Significantly, the SA outbreak was announced two days after last Friday's meeting of the "national cabinet," an unconstitutional body of federal, state and territory leaders. It has largely ruled by decree throughout the pandemic and overseen the lifting of safety measures at the behest of big business.
At the Friday gathering, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and state premiers discussed reopening all state borders by Christmas. Dominant sections of the corporate elite have denounced the maintenance of travel restrictions as an unacceptable barrier to a complete reopening of the economy for the lucrative holiday season.
State premiers who retained some border restrictions, particularly in Queensland and Western Australia, have come under fire in the corporate press. To the extent that the governments in those states have not yet completely opened their borders, it has been motivated by fears of the business consequences of further COVID-19 outbreaks. Significant exemptions have been in place for months, moreover, especially for major sporting competitions and other corporate activities, on top of the continued operation of factories and reopening of schools.
The South Australian outbreak has complicated the reopening drive. Authorities in Queensland, the Northern Territory, Victoria and Tasmania have labelled Adelaide a COVID-19 hotspot, so interstate travellers from the city must quarantine for a fortnight. Western Australia has re-closed its eastern border.
Despite the dangers that have been revealed, powerful sections of the political and media establishment have doubled down on their demands for a lifting of border restrictions. Corporate chiefs told the media it is impermissible to return to the "blunt instruments" of lockdowns and border closures.
Prime Minister Morrison immediately insisted it was necessary to "press on" with the reopening agenda. New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian declared: "We need to live with COVID and every time there is an outbreak, you can't shut down borders and disrupt lives and businesses."
This is in line with the criminally-negligent response of governments and the entire political establishment throughout the pandemic, which has been motivated solely by corporate profit interests.
In April, state and federal leaders, Labor and Liberal-National alike, rejected a plan by epidemiologists aimed at eliminating coronavirus transmission, saying it would be too costly. Instead they opted for a "containment" strategy—the virus would be allowed to continue circulating, but would supposedly be kept at "manageable" levels through contact-tracing and localised restrictions when "clusters" emerged.
This led to a mass outbreak in Victoria in July, with thousands of infections and hundreds of deaths. That surge was only brought under control many weeks later, after the state Labor government was compelled to institute a "stage four" lockdown, involving closures of schools and some businesses amid fears that the entire health system would collapse.
Commentators have pointed to parallels between the South Australian outbreak and the last "wave" in Victoria. Many of the infections in Victoria originated in the hotel quarantine system for international travellers returning to Melbourne. The state Labor government outsourced operations at the facilities to private security companies which employed low-paid casual workers without any medical experience.
The Adelaide outbreak too has been traced to SA's quarantine hotels. A worker at one of the facilities unwittingly caught the virus before transmitting it to her relatives. The infection was only discovered after an elderly family member went to hospital with respiratory issues.
It has been revealed that hotel quarantine staff were not tested unless they were displaying symptoms, despite being on the virus frontline, and that 40 percent or more of infections in SA are asymptomatic.
The quarantine worker and her relatives live near Elizabeth, a working class suburb in outer northern Adelaide. The area has been devastated by decades of trade union and government-enforced job cuts culminating in the 2017 closure of the General Motors Holden car plant, around which the suburb was originally built.
Unemployment in the area today stands at an estimated 40 percent, and rates of poverty have skyrocketed. Those who do have a job are often employed on a casual basis and can be forced to travel large distances to get to work.
During the previous Victorian outbreak the most exploited sections of the working class were hardest hit because of the precarious character of their employment, the absence of adequate financial assistance to self-isolate, and a lack of medical and other social services.
Concerns have been raised about South Australia's testing capabilities. Adelaide northern suburbs residents report having to wait up to eight hours for a test, amid hot weather.
There is also no evidence that contact-tracing abilities have improved at a national level, even though a failure to track the spread of the virus contributed to the scope of Victoria's surge.
Significantly, Morrison, backed by the SA government, has rapidly deployed military personnel to Adelaide. Governments have used the pandemic to expand the domestic use of the armed forces, while doing little or nothing to improve chronically under-funded health capabilities.
The deployment of troops is motivated by concerns in ruling circles over growing social and political opposition. While infections in Australia have been far lower than in Europe, the United States and internationally, the same pro-business response to the pandemic has been evident. The Adelaide outbreak further refutes claims that Australia can be isolated from the worsening global health crisis amid the refusal of governments to institute necessary lockdown and health measures.
In addition, Australian governments have used the pandemic to funnel billions of dollars to the corporations, while presiding over mass unemployment and rapidly growing poverty, and accelerating attacks on jobs, wages and working conditions.
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dunya48 | Kemalist Devrimci Siyasi Site. - Çin'le Amerika Arasında Bir Hızlı Tren Mi?
Çin'le Amerika Arasında Bir Hızlı Tren Mi?
Amerika Birleşik Devletleri'ni Çin'e bağlayan demiryoluyla saatte 350 km hız yapan trenle iki günlük seyahat!
Bu Çinli mühendislerin üzerinde çalıştıkları uçuk bir proje.
Mayıs ayı başlarında konuyla ilgili Çin resmi iletişim kurumu projenin üzerindeki perdeyi kaldırdığını İngiliz The Guardian gazetesi yazdı.
Toplam olarak 13 bin km.lik demir yolu Kanada bağlantısı ile Amerika'ya ulaşmadan önce Çin'in kuzeyinden başlayıp Pasifik Okyanusu'nu aşmadan önce Sibirya'dan geçecek.
İnanılması zor bu proje Trans-Sibirya'nın ( 9 bin km civarında olduğu...) önünde dünyanın en uzun demiryolu olma ünvanını elde edecek ve tabii ki 200 km uzunluğunda iki kıtayı birbirine bağlayacak dünyanın en uzun tünelini inşa etmek gerekecek.
Başka büyük projeler de var!
Kıyaslama yaparsak, Manş Tüneli 37 km.Pasifikte yapılacak tünel Manş ile kıyaslanmayacak ölçüde devasa dünyanın en uzun tüneli olacak. Japonya'daki dünya rekorunu elinde bulunduran 53 km.lik Seikan Tüneli'nden 4 kat daha uzun bir tünel sözkonusu.
Bununla birlikte Pekin'e inanılırsa, bu eserin gerçekleştirilmesi çok fantezi değildir.
Çin Mühendislik Akedemisi üyesi Wang Mengshu, Beijing Times günlük gazetesinde bu demiryolu projesi fikri, deli saçması bir rüyanın bile çok daha ötesindedir diye açıklıyor. Ve diyor ki, " Bugünlerde bu konuyla ilgili devam etmekte olan tartışmalarımız var.Zaten Rusya da yıllardan beri bu projenin gerçekleştirilmesini istemektedir"
Un train entre la Chine et les États-unis ?
Deux jours de voyage à 350km/h, c'est le temps qu'il faudrait pour relier la Chine aux Etats-Unis, en train. C'est aussi le projet totalement fou sur lequel travailleraient des ingénieurs chinois selon la presse locale. Les organes de communication officiels ont dévoilé l'information début mai, rapporte le journal anglais The Guardian.
Au total, 13.000 km de voie ferrée partiraient du Nord-est de la Chine, passeraient par la Sibérie pour traverser l'océan Pacifique avant d'atteindre les Etats-Unis, via le Canada. Un projet incroyable qui deviendrait le plus long chemin de fer au monde, loin devant le Transsibérien (qui ne mesure qu'à peine plus de... 9000km), et qui nécessiterait le plus long tunnel mondial pour rejoindre les deux continents (200km).
D'autres projets de grande ampleur!
En comparaison, le tunnel sous la Manche est sous-marin pendant 37km. Le tunnel sous le Pacifique deviendrait donc -et de très loin- le tunnel le plus long au monde, la portion sous-marine étant quatre fois plus longue à elle seule que le tunnel du Seikan (Japon), 53km et actuel détenteur du record.
Pourtant, la réalisation de l'ouvrage n'est pas si fantaisiste à en croire Pékin. Wang Mengshu, membre de l'Académie chinoise d'ingénierie, explique au Beijing Times que l'idée est bien plus qu'un rêve farfelu: "Actuellement, nous avons déjà des discussions en cours, la Russie envisage ce projet depuis des années."
Chinese experts 'in discussions' over building high-speed Beijing-US railway!
China is considering plans to build a high-speed railway line to the US, the country's official media reported on Thursday.
The proposed line would begin in north-east China and run up through Siberia, pass through a tunnel underneath the Pacific Ocean then cut through Alaska and Canada to reach the continental US, according to a report in the state-run Beijing Times newspaper.
Crossing the Bering Strait in between Russia and Alaska would require about 200km (125 miles) of undersea tunnel, the paper said, citing Wang Mengshu, a railway expert at the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
"Right now we're already in discussions. Russia has already been thinking about this for many years," Wang said.
The project – nicknamed the "China-Russia-Canada-America" line – would run for 13,000km, about 3,000km further than the Trans-Siberian Railway. The entire trip would take two days, with the train travelling at an average of 350km/h (220mph).
The reported plans leave ample room for skepticism. No other Chinese railway experts have come out in support of the proposed project. Whether the government has consulted Russia, the US or Canada is also unclear. The Bering Strait tunnel alone would require an unprecedented feat of engineering – it would be the world's longest undersea tunnel – four times the length of the Channel Tunnel.
According to the state-run China Daily, the tunnel technology is "already in place" and will be used to build a high-speed railway between the south-east province of Fujian and Taiwan. "The project will be funded and constructed by China," it said. "The details of this project are yet to be finalised."
The Beijing Times listed the China-US line as one of four international high-speed rail projects currently in the works. The first is a line that would run from London via Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Kiev and Moscow, where it would split into two routes, one of which would run to China through Kazakhstan and the other through eastern Siberia. The second line would begin in the far-western Chinese city of Urumqi and then run through Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Turkey to Germany. The third would begin in the south-western city of Kunming and end in Singapore. The routes are under various stages of planning and development, the paper said.
Wang was not immediately available for comment. A man who picked up the phone at his office said he was traveling and would not respond to interview requests."
• This article was amended on Friday 9 May 2014. The project is nicknamed the "China-Russia-Canada-America" line, not the "China-Russia plus America line" as we said first. This has been corrected.


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Deputy Premier Jackie Trad and Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. Picture: AAP/Glenn Hunt
State Labor: 'We need to deliver what people want'
by Jessica Marszalek, Michael Wray
21st May 2019 3:21 PM
THE Palaszczuk Government has heard the message from Queensland voters who turned away from Labor in droves on Saturday, according to a senior minister.
Transport Minister Mark Bailey said the Government needed to learn the lessons from the federal election and deliver "what people want".
"I think Labor needs to listen to the message that voters gave them on Saturday, generally that is that the voters are always right and there's lessons there for Labor that we are already looking at and examining," he said.
"Of course it was a federal Labor campaign, there is responsibility there for federal Labor but there's lessons there for state Labor and we certainly are listening."
Queensland Transport Minister Mark Bailey: "... The voters are always right and there's lessons there for Labor that we are already looking at and examining." Picture: AAP Image/Aaron Bunch
It comes after analysis by The Courier-Mail showed that the Palaszczuk Government would be wiped out in a bloodbath if the federal election results were repeated at next year's state poll.
Several ministers have already traveled to the regions today to make announcements aimed appeasing growing discontent of voters and Labor MPs living outside the southeast corner.
A group of regional MPs upset with Palaszczuk Government's handling of the stalled Adani Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin forced a meeting with the premier to vent their anger last week.
Mr Bailey said there were "very strong regional members" in the Government who "put forward their points of view very strongly and very fiercely".
He said the Government was pro-resources.
"In terms of that project (Adani) I understand there's two issues where they've got to provide further information on, only two remaining but that's something to be judged by the independent regulator so I look forward to them submitting that information and meeting the standards that apply to any applicant," he said.
LABOR FACES WIPEOUT AT NEXT STATE POLL
THE Palaszczuk Government would be wiped out in a bloodbath if the federal election results were repeated at next year's state poll.
Deputy Premier Jackie Trad would be swallowed by a rising Green tide in her South Brisbane electorate, while LNP swings up and down the coast could see just three Labor MPs left north of Caboolture.
Analysis by The Courier-Mail reveals Townsville, Thuringowa, Mundingburra, Keppel, Rockhampton, Maryborough and Mackay would fall like dominoes down the coastline, taking out Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk's hopes for a third term amid anger about Adani.
Former Labor speaker and minister John Mickel MP believes the party should be pro-mining.
Labor would battle to keep Cairns, Barron River, a handful of seats in Brisbane and lose its newly-won Gold Coast jewel Gaven, with little chance of realising plans to pick up more electorates south of Brisbane to counteract losses in the regions.
The analysis, based on swings and total votes recorded at federal polling booths, and compared to results from Queensland's 2017 election, comes as another Labor stalwart, former minister and speaker John Mickel, urged Labor to better sell its resources credentials.
"We should be pro-mining because we have got a good story to tell," he said.
"It is mining that provides the royalties that pay for the school teachers and the cops and the doctors and the nurses and that cannot be immediately replaced."
Mr Mickel said the majority of coal mined in Queensland was metallurgical coal for steelmaking, and solar could not make steel.
Deputy Premier and Treasurer Jackie Trad would be swallowed by a rising Green tide in her South Brisbane electorate if the Federal election results were repeated at next year's Queensland election.
Ms Palaszczuk has been defiant when asked if her government accepted any responsibility for the poll result, saying: "Queenslanders are smart enough to know the difference" between a federal and state election.
But as regional MPs worry an anti-Adani stance will kill them, it can be revealed Ms Trad would be the biggest scalp amid any pro-mining backlash.
LNP preferences already saved her from a Greens onslaught in 2017 but with the LNP resolving not to do the same in 2020, Ms Trad will be hard pressed to survive.
Analysis of her inner-city seat's largest polling booth at West End at the weekend shows an 11 per cent swing to the Greens candidate, who outpolled Labor incumbent Terri Butler on first preferences.
Communities Minister Coralee O'Rourke would be wiped out if the tide of conservative votes that washed over north Queensland on Saturday was repeated at the State Election next year.
Meanwhile, massive swings towards the LNP north of Brisbane dwarfed a national swing of just 0.5 per cent and would wipe out all but a few of Labor's 12 MPs north of Caboolture.
Only Speaker Curtis Pitt, first-term Cook MP Cynthia Lui and Gladstone's Glen Butcher may survive in the north.
Seven other regional Labor MPs would face wipe-out including the seat of Mackay, held on an 8.3 per cent margin.
Even before Saturday's vote, MPs with seats close to the Adani Carmichael coal mine were feeling the heat and forced Ms Palaszczuk into an emergency meeting to vent their anger at the Government's handling of the mine.
Communities Minister Coralee O'Rourke was one attendee who faces electoral oblivion amid a dramatic reversal of two-party preferred votes in booths across the two federal seats overlapping Mundingburra.
Labor MPs in the neighbouring seats of Townsville (0.4 per cent) and Thuringowa (4.1 per cent) face the same swings and a plunging primary vote.
Across the region, booths that were solidly Labor in 2017 were flipped deep into LNP hands on Saturday off preference flows from minor parties.
A drop in One Nation's primary vote in Herbert - which covers the most densely populated areas of Thuringowa - saw the LNP's primary soar and, if replicated next year, would turn Thuringowa blue.
It could be one and done for Gaven MP Meaghan Scanlon at the next election unless she can prove to be more popular than Labor's candidate at the Federal Election on Saturday and hold on to her seat for a second term.
Hopes of swapping regional losses for Gold Coast gains look shaky with Labor losing ground there at the weekend. In Brisbane, Labor would likely lose marginal Aspley after varying swings of up to 10 per cent were recorded toward the LNP in the overlapping federal electorates of Lilley and Dickson.
Housing Minister Mick de Brenni, who holds Springwood by 3.6 per cent, will face a scare after federal Labor frontbencher Jim Chalmers kept Rankin but recorded swings of up to 10 per cent against him at different booths.
Labor could hold onto Mansfield, Redlands, Ferny Grove and Redcliffe, but MPs will still be nervous.
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Q: Best way to listen for an event in c# I need to make a small listener utility that "listens" for audio activity and performs an action when it detects sound.
At the moment I am just using a while loop:
        MMDeviceEnumerator DevEnum = new MMDeviceEnumerator();
        MMDevice device = DevEnum.GetDefaultAudioEndpoint(EDataFlow.eRender, ERole.eMultimedia);

        float level = 0;
        while (level == 0)
        {
            // Get current audio level
            level = device.AudioMeterInformation.MasterPeakValue;
        }
        Console.WriteLine("Audio Detected");
        Console.ReadKey();

This works OK, but given I want this utility to be "always on" in the background, I want to make sure I am doing this in the most efficient manner.
Is this bad practice? Should I be creating an EventHandler, and if so, how do I do it?
To give a bit more detail about the requirements, when the utility detects audio I want it to resize a window. (It's a video conference window in a browser which should stay minimised. When a third party joins the call and starts to speak, I want the window to maximise. When the user finishes the call they will just minimise the window again, and I want to the listener app to continue listening for the next time a user joins the call.)

A: Use OnPropertyValueChanged event. Inside this method use the same code as in your while loop.
By the way: Are you aware of the fact, that "Audio Detected" will be print out when user first time reaches level 0? Is it what you want?

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Synagogue, now the public library, in Baja.
...From Janoshalma I catch the train to Baja. Once in town I stop at a kiosk and see a postcard of the interior of the synagogue for sale. I point to the picture and ask the proprietor where the building is. He points grumpily and vaguely down the street behind him. Following this half-hearted clue and hoping it's not a red herring, I head in that direction.
After walking back and forth a couple streets, and returning in the direction of the centre, I see high walls, and above it the classical style roof with Hebrew inscription: the town's library, and formerly, when a Jewish community existed here, the town's synagogue. Beyond the walls is a large courtyard, the imposing temple to the left, long steps with pillars, the entrance opening on a dark lobby, and then into the schul, a gloriously coloured arched ceiling soaring above.
On either side of the building beneath the generous galleries are white alcoves lined with inset wooden bookshelves, illuminated by large windows. The colours are breathtaking, and so new. It underwent a thorough restoration in 1985, to its original condition, apart from the changed usage.
The synagogue is in neo-classical style, designed in the mid 1800s by Karoly Gerster and Lajos Frey. The pillared Aron ha Kodesh, a semi-circular window above it, still contains three old Torahs. Three heavy candle chandeliers hang down the main body of the hall, on either side of which are sloped reading tables.
Outside, a long wall with roof, arched cloister-like supports and shaded benches, runs around half the length of the courtyard, and around the corner. In the centre is a Holocaust memorial listing the names of the 3000 or more Jews from the Baja area who were deported and died during the war.
According to my guide book, in 1990 only twelve Jews remained in this large commercial town, the sole remnants of a community which settled here in about 1725, and which, in 1910, numbered some 20% of Baja's entire population.


Even though RIM and Verizon have yet to officially announce the BlackBerry Tour there are signs that an announcement and release of the device are in the not too distant future. A tipster over on Engadget Mobile has found that if you try to visit the webpage vzw.com/tour you are automatically redirected to http://estore.vzwshop.com/bbtour.
The redirect is a dead link, however, it does stand to reason that if Verizon is going through the trouble to redirect you to a site where you presumably would be able to buy a BlackBerry Tour once it does become avaialble, that availability of said device probably isn't too far around the corner.
The much anticipated BlackBerry Tour 9630, formerly known as the BlackBerry Niagara, is rumored to hit Verizon shelves sometime in mid-July. We aren't sure which exact day it will launch… There are credible rumors stating that the Tour's release date will be the 13th, the 15th, or the 17th so we will just cover our bases and say that the BlackBerry Tour will launch the week of the July 13th.
BlackBerry Niagara 9630 Coming To Verizon In May?
Word on TheStreet.com is that the BlackBerry Niagara 9630 could ship on Verizon in May.
There has been recent speculation regarding the timing of the Niagara's arrival at Verizon. This is of no small concern for Wall Street observers who see the arrival as a potential last-minute enhancement to RIM's May quarter performance.
The timing of a May release of the BlackBerry Niagara couldn't be better for Verizon. The BlackBerry Storm has been the number one smartphone selling on the nation's most reliable network, however, sales are starting to taper off and it has been over a year since Verizon introduced its last full QWERTY keyboarded BlackBerry, the Curve 8330.
The BlackBerry Niagara will be viewed as an upgrade to the the Curve, which has not only been the best selling BlackBerry, but the best selling smartphone in the US since the month after the iPhone 3G came out last year. If the Niagara isn't delayed and actually comes out in May, it could be a big way to close the quarter for both Verizon and Research in Motion.
The first pictures of the the CDMA BlackBerry Niagara 9630 have hit the web courtesy of CrackBerry.com. It looks to be just slightly larger than the BlackBerry Curve 8900 but considerably smaller than the BlackBerry Bold. I can't wait to get my hands on one of these.


Scenic America's legal attack against digital billboards failed at every level: in federal court and on appeal. On October 16, 2017, the US Supreme Court declined to take the case.
The 2007 Guidance also suggested operational best practices such as duration of message, transition time, spacing, brightness, and location.
For the sake of context, let's recall what led up to this federal Guidance in 2007 that said states could allow and regulate digital billboards.
I offer a unique perspective as a former state regulator. In my opinion, the industry was a step ahead.
Showed that digital billboards are recyclable and achieved big gains in energy efficiency, while also enhancing commercial property values.
My first exposure to digital billboards occurred when I was a regulator with the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT).
A precursor technology to digital change of copy was known as tri-vision, changeable messages on motorized slats. In 1996, FHWA issued a memo that said, "Changeable message signs are acceptable for off-premise signs, regardless of the type of technology used . . .if such interpretation was consistent with State law," with no flashing, intermittent, or moving lights. (Barbara Orski, FHWA Director of Real Estate Services, July 17, 1996).
Ohio and some other states took steps to approve off-premise electronic billboards after reviewing state law in light of FHWA's 1996 memo.
In 2006, FHWA asked outside consultants to examine billboard controls. The consultants collected input from regulators, the industry, and billboard critics via 100+ interviews, multiple focus groups, and seven field hearings. OAAA coordinated the industry's voice.
The industry was represented by OAAA and two members of OAAA Legislative Committee on an assessment advisory panel comprised of OAAA coordinated industry participants for interviews, focus groups, and public meetings.
OAAA coordinated industry comments to a federal "docket" opened to receive written viewpoints. Of the more than 1,800 comments submitted to the docket; more than 1,700 were in support of billboards.
A report for FHWA dated November 21, 2006, said divergent stakeholders perceived technology as important and there was potential for agreement. This report, produced by independent conflict-resolution experts called The Osprey Group, identified "new technology standards" as the number one issue in outdoor advertising.
On September 25, 2007, FHWA issued a Guidance memo, updating its 1996 memo.
In 2006, the federal safety agency (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) published a standard that was widely disseminated and well understood: if drivers diverted attention for more than two seconds, accident risks increase significantly. This research was conducted by experts at Virginia Tech's Transportation Institute.
The OAAA hired Virginia Tech to drill down on a specific question: do digital billboards distract drivers or not? In March of 2007 – six months prior to the federal Guidance memo on digital billboards – experts at Virginia Tech said digital billboards are safety neutral.
Later, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) would use the same methodology – an instrumented car to track eye movements — to test safety. The federal contractor was global engineering firm SAIC, Science Applications International Corporation. The federal study, posted December 30, 2013, said eye glances in the direction of digital billboards are well under the two-second safety threshold established in 2006.
The presence of digital billboards does not appear to be related to a decrease in looking toward the road ahead, which is consistent with earlier industry sponsored field research studies (VTTI).
The longest fixation to a digital billboard was 1.34 seconds, and to a standard billboard it was 1.28 seconds, both of which are well below the accepted standard.
When comparing the gaze at a CEVMS versus a standard billboard, the drivers in this study were more likely to gaze at CEVMS than at standard billboards.
The researchers were careful to note the FHWA study adds to the knowledge base of digital billboard safety, but does not "present definitive answers" to the questions investigated.
OAAA also hired outside experts to study accident records, which showed no correlation between digital billboards and crashes. The first such report, from the Cleveland, OH, market, was published in July of 2007. Similar research based on accident records would follow from four other areas (Rochester, MN; Albuquerque, NM; Reading, PA; and Richmond, VA).
Digital billboards should avoid glare, said the federal Guidance issued in 2007. To achieve that goal, the industry self-regulated and collaborated with government.
A growing number of state and local governments have adopted the industry standard to avoid glare (0.3 foot candles above surrounding light conditions). A leading expert, Dr. Ian Lewin, former president of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, worked with OAAA to determine this limit.
In 2007, the FBI began using digital billboards to help find fugitives in Philadelphia. By the next year, OAAA would enter partnerships with the FBI and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to display AMBER Alerts.
Government at all levels, including emergency managers, uses digital billboards to communicate with the public.
Today, more than 7,300 digital billboards operate nationwide. Forty-five of the 46 states with billboards have enacted laws, regulations, or policies allowing digital billboards. The industry invested in research, took steps to self-regulate, and proactively addressed critics' claims. In retrospect, the industry was a step ahead.


Title - 7 Wonders: Magical Mystery Tour Game Download for PC Description - Release your tension with 7 Wonders: Magical Mystery Tour, a Puzzle game given by Mumbo Jumbo. Repair the incredible wonders all over the world!
So, 7 Wonders: Magical Mystery Tour is the newest Match-3 installment with super compelling environment. According to this plot you and your workers are to help people rebuild different legendary places all over the world. The whole play is based on classical Match-3 gameplay. The trick of matching three or more like-colored symbols to clear game board will be well familiar for the majority of players.
Brilliant artwork saves the whole game adding much on its environment. Visual effects and music background serve this title in a proper way, creating comfortable game atmosphere for choosy players. It is nice to watch animated scenes that are all well-made and have a good sense of humor. The characters are very cute with their gestures cheering us on.
There is no any bad things to say about 7 Wonders: Magical Mystery Tour. While this game doesn't stand far from its sibling games, its play is extremely addictive. If you dip your toe into this game, you will feel like you have played this a million times before, but still very addictive. Mambo Jumbo certainly knows a secret how to turn an ordinary game into an outstanding one. Have fun!


So a few days ago we released our new Bedside Tables. You can see the post here. We are extremely proud of our product as we believe it is the best quality and best priced bedsides in the market.. Lets take another look at our Union Jack Bedside. Not the detail in the scallop (bottom edging) of our bedside (left) against a leading online furniture retailer in Australia. Not to mention their price is over $200 more than ours.
Also our bedsides table come with a a solid oak table top which is superior to some other examples we've seen on the market. Our competitors example above also comes with a rougher unfinished top.
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The role of Internet in the culture emergent from the present world (1945-2003). Interactive installations, Net.Art and hypertexts on line as studies of case
Joan Campàs Montaner
jcampas AT uoc.edu
Human and social sciences
Gabriel Ferraté Pascual
gferrate AT uoc.edu
B.29289-2005 / 84-689-2417-2
Catalan, Spanish, French
www.tdx.cesca.es/TDX-0510105-120517/
digital art, Net.art, hypertext, ciberculture, interactivity
The thesis is a research in history applied to the fields of artistic and literary production in the network. It attempts to explain how a new cultural field turns up, develops, is consolidated and is legitimated. It also deals with how the mode of informational production is making a cyber cultural superstructure emerge and how the art and the digital literature are integrated into it. We want to find out if the digital revolution and Internet are on the basis of the constitution of a new cultural field and, in affirmative case, we want to describe its components and structures. The work has been structured in five blocks: First: a historical description -of 1945 in 2003 that studies the process of convergence among art, literature and computer. Second: a theoretical presentation of the digital art and its conceptualization, making a special emphasis in the processes that characterize it, like the hypermedia, modelisation, generation, performance, the experimentation and the memorization. The new relationship established among author, work and receiver is also analyzed and a certain demystification of the concept of interactivity is proposed Third: a fieldwork about the Net.art and the virtual communities of artists, that it has allowed us to establish a possible proposal of taxonomy of the works and a going deeper in some thematic subjects such as the digital body, the identity in net and the conception of the planet Earth. Fourth: a construction of the hacker discourse and of its practices of artivism in the Net, among which they enumerate themselves from the simple activism computerized until the resistance to the war or the electronic civil disobedience, to leading the discourse to cyberterrorism and the politics of fear in the North American administration, since the era Clinton, and the great investments in security justified, but unnecessary, in the name of the national defense. Fifth: the confirmation of our hypothesis of game: there is a new cultural field, based on the digital technologies and Internet, which entails a new system of representation of the artist, a new system of production, distribution and reception of the images and the digital texts and the crisis of the traditional models of market, show and criticism.


Google Drive Not Syncing? How to Fix it?
How to Safely Backup Android Photos?
Nowadays, it seems to be a great pleasure for you to record their life with mobile phones. As photography on mobile phones comprehensively popularizes and applies in everyday life, it also provides convenience if you long for shooting with mobile phones.
Meanwhile, for you, a photography enthusiast on mobile phones, the memory of mobile phones has become an urgent problem, because the storage of photos occupies a large proportion of the phone's memory.
However, cloud storage solves this problem very well. When you are out of memory, you can directly move the photos from your phone to the cloud storage. The key point is that you don't need to delete phones on the phone.
For photo storage and processing technology, Apple and Google are the two giants. Since it was announced in 2015, Google Photos under Google company has been in a significant role as a photo service provider, including photo sharing and storage service.
Then, if unfortunately mistakenly deleting photos from Google Photos, how to get deleted photos from google photos? The following part will list several methods to cope with.
Now, if you cannot retrieve and recover your deleted photos via the Trash for longer than 60 days, or for no backing up and syncing the deleted photos to Google Photos, you can try to utilize a third-party software to realize recovery of your deleted photos.
FoneDog Toolkit could be the best alternative for you. This method is majorly about how to recover deleted photos on Android mobile phone.
Step 1. Download the FoneDog Toolkit—FoneDog Android Data Recovery.
Step 2. Connect your Android mobile phone to the PC and enable USB debugging on Android. It is a mode for USB debugging to allow your Android mobile phone to connect to the PC via USB cable.
Step 3. Choose the file type you want to recover, Media>Gallery or Picture Library, and then click the "Next" button to start scanning.
Step 4. Select the deleted photos to retrieve and click Restore to save them on your PC.
Step 1. Start the Google Photo app on your mobile phone.
Step 2. Click the Menu button in three bars. Then you can see the Trash. Choose it and it will show you your deleted photos.
Step 3. Tick photos you want to recover.
Step 4. Finally, tap on Recover and the photos are saved again.
Note: TWO main reasons why you cannot recover your deleted photos via Trash.
#1. Photos are permanently deleted or photos staying on the Trash are longer than 60 days. Therefore, you may not recover your deleted photos directly from the Trash. Please keeping reading and see Method 2 for a further help.
#2. Here exists the situation that you fail to find your deleted photos on the Trash even though the deleted photos are no longer than 60 days. That's because the photos are not backed up and up to date to Google Photos so they cannot be found in Trash after being deleted.
An icon a cloud with a slash in the corner of the photos will tell you whether the photos are synced to Google Photos or not. If you happen to this case, please go forward to Method 3.
Step 1. Surf on the Google Drive Help page and select Missing or deleted files.
Step 2. Then tell the support specialist or fill in a form about how to recover deleted photos on Google Photos.
Google Photos excels in photo sharing and storage service. To obtain a better experience on Google Photos, you are suppose to know about how to recover deleted photos from Google Photos, consisting of directly recovering deleted photos o from the Trash, recovering permanent deleted photos via Google support, and recovering permanent deleted photos on your Android mobile phones with the help of an absolutely best software, FoneDog Toolkit—FoneDog Android Data Recovery. It can safely recover deleted data from Android phone and tablet.
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Hola, por favor Ayúdenme... El 28 de febrero eliminé permanente mis fotos de google fotos, y hace unas semanas me robaron mi celular. Cómo puedo recuperarlas, y me acabo de dar cuenta que se eliminaron algunas imágenes demasiado importantes. Cómo puedo recuperarlas. Por favor Ayúdenmeeeeeee... Estoy demasiado desesperadaaaaa.
Hola, hace dos días elimine muchas fotos de la papelera, es decir, definitivamente que hoy en día me son de urgencia recuperar, por favor podría hacerlo?
How to Recover WhatsApp Messages after Uninstall?


Google launched their Chrome OS recently. Sundar Pichai, the head of Google's Chrome project, said: "People on their computers live on their browsers within the web. But if you look at computers today...they have nothing to do with the browser or the web. Most personal computers were designed before the web existed." William sent in Anandtech's take on it, and there's more coverage on TBreak.
They also unveiled their first Chrome OS laptop, the CR-48, thanks soulblade64. The first Google Chrome OS laptop is about to go into a pilot program. The program apparently runs for US people only, but in the application form they allow you to select Australia for the country, but you can only select US states. I didn't have my application rejected selecting Australia though, so I might have a chance. More on engadget and Techi.
Apparently tap and go cards are increasing in popularity.. but this is the first I've heard of them, thanks Sniper. The type of retailers who have installed the new card machines include fast-food outlets, hardware stores, taxis, newsagents, supermarkets, pharmacies and a growing number of vending machine operators are also installing the card readers. MasterCard's Mr Cartwright says the average customer transaction is about $25.
The European Commission has imposed an $876M fine on Taiwanese and South Korean LCD makers, thanks MoJoMaN. Europe's competition watchdog accused the firms of running a cartel between October 2001 and February 2006 that fixed prices, harming European buyers of televisions and computers equipped with the liquid crystal display component.
Kotaku report on a Kinect hack that sets up a Minority Report like interface. Using Kinect drivers for Linux, some kids from the Robot Locomotion Group and Learning Intelligent Systems teams at MIT have come up with a system that has Kinect detecting all ten of your fingers, along with your palms, and using them to allow interaction with a display.
ASUS have a competition for Australia and New Zealand only. Today ASUS announced the launch of a brand new competition, PRIDE, offering users the opportunity to share their motherboard stories with the world. PRIDE stands for Performance, Reliability, Innovation, Design and Efficiency. PC aficionados from across the world can reveal their PRIDE starting 7th December, 2010 and compete against others to win an impressive array of prizes.


Toddlers and biting may be a difficult challenge but there is hope for a cure if you are patient and consistent. First you need to understand why your toddler bites. The primary reason that a toddler bites another child or their parents is because of frustration. The toddler is now aware of his/her needs but frequently lacks the ability to successfully communicate those needs. Another reason that toddlers bite is when they are stressed. New situations, new environments, new people or playmates can all stress a toddler and biting maybe their reaction to it. Being hungry or tired also add to the toddler's stress.
If a toddler bites out of frustration it is important to start teaching them the exact words they need to use in order to express their wants. Simple phrases like, "I want..." work best. If a toddler bites out of stress the best medicine is preventative medicine. Try to avoid putting the child in positions where he/she will likely to become stressed, a stress that may result in biting.
When your toddler bites it is important that you respond immediately and appropriately. You need to let the toddler know that biting is not acceptable social behavior and that it needs to stop. Teaching the toddler appropriate means to handle stress and frustration are the best tools to handle toddlers and biting.


London, UK: Wednesday 14 June – Borough Market re-opened to the public today following its closure after the London Bridge terror attack.
"There has been a market in this area for a thousand years. It has survived fire, flood, plague and war. Sometimes – like now – it has become the focus of attention. But mostly it has just been a part of the everyday life of the city and its communities – a place people come to shop, eat, socialise and laugh. That's exactly what markets do all over the world – bring people together.