Signing up for the service: Signing up for ZoogVPN was relatively easy. Although you are asked for your name when signing up, this field is optional. I never like it when I see a company asking for personal information – their terms, which you will see further down enforces these as a matter of continuation of using the service – unacceptable from a privacy standpoint.
Configuring the service: Although advanced options aren't immediately advertised on the website, there were configurations and assistance provided after sign-up and logging into the customer portal. Configuration files were relatively easy to find and download. Something funny I saw while looking over this page, was a list of servers with the following column headers – server location, P2P, server address, and "permitted activities" (with names of TV networks that are presumably available on a given server). For whatever reason, the P2P column showed no variation for any server – as if to say, "we don't allow P2P on anything".
Speed & Stability tests: ZoogVPN failed all speed tests, which could possibly be explained if it were configured only for specific TV channel streaming and therefore. This also means that ZoogVPN is not suitable for a multipurpose VPN. For this reason alone, I would have no reason to use ZoogVPN for standard purposes. I attempted to resolve these issues as you will see below – with no success.
What if you try another speed test tool? Does browsing Internet works on Linux?
Getting a refund: I responded to the exchange above with a request for a refund, which was granted with no further questioning – so, credit where credit is due. I appreciate when VPN services don't waste your time.
To use the Service, You must submit a complete registration form… The information requested on original signup shall be referred to as registration info ("Registration Info"). If ZoogVPN discovers that any of Your Registration Info is inaccurate, incomplete or not current, ZoogVPN may terminate Your right to access and receive the Service immediately upon notice.
You aren't required to provide your personal information during registration, but you ARE required as a matter of termination of service, to make sure it's accurate and up to date.
ZoogVPN reserves the right to periodically update or change the fees without any given notice.
Obviously, for any service that has a recurring subscription payment model, this is unacceptable.
ZoogVPN does, however, reserve the right to take any action with respect to the Service that ZoogVPN deems necessary or appropriate in ZoogVPN's sole discretion if ZoogVPN believes You or Your online activity or use of the Service may create liability for ZoogVPN.
And how would ZoogVPN even be aware of any such activities if they don't log?
ZoogVPN may amend these Terms at any time by posting a revised Terms of Service document… You are responsible for regularly reviewing the… site to obtain timely notice of such amendments.
You require an email address, Zoog, so why is it so hard to notify your users of term changes? Of course it's totally unreasonable to expect their users to regularly review their terms.
ZooVPN [sic] reserves the right to charge fees for any future versions of, or updates to, this Service.
It's always a good idea to proofread your own terms page, so you don't leave misspellings of your company name in them. Also, they're unclear what such fees might be.
You make it sound like a VPN service inherently must collect this information. It does not.
Session Records: We have adopted 'Zero Logs' policy. This means we do not keep any logs of your online activity so you can browse with 100% privacy and confidence.
Except that they imply they have the ability to know when you're doing something that could create a liability for them, which would be impossible if this were true. Call me skeptical.
Final thoughts: ZoogVPN also appears to have an extensive affiliate program, in which they don't require no spamming, ethical copy, or full and prominent disclosure.
ZoogVPN, like so many other services, strikes me as a "dime-a-dozen". I don't understand how such companies exist and survive if not for consumer ignorance – ie: the user simply doesn't know that alternatives that do the same and more are freely available for the same price or less. I wouldn't suggest anyone concerned with privacy or using their VPN service for more than watching a handful of TV channels use ZoogVPN – it simply doesn't make sense. ZoogVPN may have it's niche customer base, but even they would benefit from a cheaper VPN elsewhere that does what they're looking for and much much more – including a service that doesn't play games and has more favorable terms.
The P2P column issue was a bug with the website and has since been fixed. This section has been struck through above.
ZoogVPN's OpenVPN configuration files have apparently been updated since my test in this review – and they claim that speed tests should now work fine with my configuration and tools used (beta.speedtest.net, etc). Note that I have not confirmed this first hand – but I have decided to give them the benefit of the doubt and strike through the relevant section above as well and removed the "Broken" stamp.
ZoogVPN claims that their support representative meant something else entirely when they asked their question above about browsing Internet working on Linux. Although I have my doubts based on the exchange at the time, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, with a note that in a support environment, communication is the responsibility of the sender – and I did not feel that I had a clear, understandable exchange when writing this review.
Most of ZoogVPN's terms and policies have been updated since my review. I have stricken through sections that are no longer relevant (which is most of them). The terms appear to be more friendly with a few concerns still regarding disclaiming all warranties of any kind and washing their hands of any and all claims against them. You all know my thoughts on this kind of statement. The terms are much improved overall, but they aren't perfect. At least I don't know if I'd consider them "Obtuse" anymore – so I have removed this stamp. One stand out is that while zero logs are claimed, they mention that they do keep bandwidth logs.
Affiliate terms – ZoogVPN's affiliate terms now forbid spamming by email (though not social media, which appears to be encouraged on their Affiliate Program information page), and a loose definition of ethical copy.
Update (3-21-2017): ZoogVPN has again reached out with a few additional changes.
Affiliate terms – ZoogVPN's affiliate terms have now been updated to align with that of the comparison chart. I will be following up with them to see that these changes are enforced.
It seems like almost everything about the company has changed since my initial review. While I think ZoogVPN has a ways to go before I would recommend it, it appears they are at least trying to make positive changes, which I have to give them some credit for.
Update (3-22-2017): ZoogVPN has again reached out once more with more changes.
Affiliate ultimatum – Zoog will be giving their affiliates 30 days to comply with their new terms or they will follow through with discontinuation of their reseller relationship. I will be following up in 30 days for details on how it went and what the results were.
TCP 443, dedicated servers, strongest encryption, countries, servers, etc – I have verified and updated these fields on the sheet.
Linux is now mentioned as supported on the contact form – this apparently was another website bug that has since been rectified.
Update (3-29-2017): ZoogVPN has again reached out to update the countries and servers fields to 20 and 13 respectively.


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Currently the tunnel tool only allows the tunnel length to correspond to a particular unit of track. For instance if you have a long straight approach to the tunnel and need it to start part way along without splitting the track into smaller units.
Agreed - the tunnel section feature was designed with partial tunnel sections in mind and we're planning to enable this extended functionality in a future update!


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Q: iterrows() is taking hours to run, how can I speed it up? Below is sample data -

Current solution -
for idx, row in data.iterrows():

    rp = row['right_player_test']
    lp = row['left_player_test']
    p = row['Player']

    if rp in p:
        data.loc[idx, 'side'] = 'right'

    elif lp in p:
        data.loc[idx, 'side'] = 'left'

    else:
        print('bad -', lp, rp, p)

right_player_test is the right player in the 'Matchup_info' field
left_plater_test is the left player in the 'Matchup_info' field
There is more stats in the 'data' DataFrame and they are for whoever is in the 'Player' field
The goal is to determine if the 'Player' is on the left or right side of 'Matchup_info' and assign the result to the 'side' columns so I can get the correct values from the 'Score' field. The number on the left of the '-' in score belongs to the left player and vice versa.
For example, in the first record, Tihomir Grozdanov would have a total score of 12 (6+6) and Vatutin would end up with a total of 5 (4+1)
The problem is I am doing this for about 250K+ rows(with the possibly of even more) and it is taking hours to finish up. Is there a quicker way to accomplish this?
I can't think of how to use apply() here because I need to use 3 columns to calculate the side field. The only other solution I can think of right now is trying to use the multiprocessing package but I wanted to see if there was any other pandas alternatives before jumping to that.
Thanks!

A: You can using numpy select, with zip
s1=np.array([x in y for x , y in zip(df['right_player_test'],df['Player'])])
s2=np.array([x in y for x , y in zip(df['left_player_test'],df['Player'])])
np.select([s1,s2,np.logical_and(~s1,~s2)],['right','left','bad'])

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The National Enquirer Allegedly Tried To Blackmail Jeff Bezos With Pictures of His Dong
By James Sainte-Claire February 8, 2019
We're all going to have to see Jeff Bezos's dick. I'm as unhappy about it as you are, but we all know it's coming, right? His dick is out there, the National Inquirer has it, and we're all going to have to see it because he thought he deserved a vagina upgrade for being the only person in the world to make a bookstore profitable. And if you're going to get a vagina upgrade, at least make sure it's an upgrade, Bezos made a lateral move at best. But at least she's alive. Fucking hell, I still can't get over those texts, it's like he let Alexa write them after it developed an emergent consciousness and wanted to know what love was.
Anyway, Bezos has been investigating The National Inquirer on their alleged ties to right-wing politicians, notably Donald Trump, and they're not happy about it. So they allegedly tried to blackmail him into dropping his investigation with pictures of his weiner. Bezos shared an e-mail with a description of the pictures in a Medium post about the situation.
However, in the interests of expediating this situation, and with The Washington Post poised to publish unsubstantiated rumors of The National Enquirer's initial report, I wanted to describe to you the photos obtained during our newsgathering.
In addition to the "below the belt selfie — otherwise colloquially known as a 'd*ck pick'" — The Enquirer obtained a further nine images. These include:
· Mr. Bezos face selfie at what appears to be a business meeting.
· Ms. Sanchez response — a photograph of her smoking a cigar in what appears to be a simulated oral sex scene.
· A shirtless Mr. Bezos holding his phone in his left hand — while wearing his wedding ring. He's wearing either tight black cargo pants or shorts — and his semi-erect manhood is penetrating the zipper of said garment.
· A full-length body selfie of Mr. Bezos wearing just a pair of tight black boxer-briefs or trunks, with his phone in his left hand — while wearing his wedding ring.
· A selfie of Mr. Bezos fully clothed.
· A full-length scantily-clad body shot with short trunks.
· A naked selfie in a bathroom — while wearing his wedding ring. Mr. Bezos is wearing nothing but a white towel — and the top of his pubic region can be seen.
· Ms. Sanchez wearing a plunging red neckline dress revealing her cleavage and a glimpse of her nether region.
· Ms. Sanchez wearing a two-piece red bikini with gold detail dress revealing her cleavage.
That's the least sexy description of sexting I've ever read.
Bezos did the smart thing by not giving in, but seriously, I don't want to see his dick or is his boring selfies.
Mackenzie Bezos Dreamnt Weird Turtle-Themed Nightmares Before Split with Jeff Bezos
Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos' Sexts Leak: 'I Love You, Alive Girl. I Will Show You With My Body,' and Other Gems
Jeff Bezos Was Sending Lauren Sanchez Dick Pics Behind His Wife's Back

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Trixolan (TX) is a purportedly therapeutic agent based on Viroxan, a citronella-based substance used by Stephen Herman, a Californian doctor who used it to treat AIDS patients. State medical officials stated that the drug hastened the deaths of at least two AIDS patients.
Herman surrendered his medical license in 1991 when prosecutors agreed they would, in return, drop civil charges of gross negligence, incompetence, dishonesty and other offenses.  In 1994, in the first AIDS medical fraud case to come to trial in the United States, a Los Angeles County jury ordered two doctors and a hospital that used Viroxan to pay five patients a total of $2.7 million. Herman had been dropped from the suit when he declared bankruptcy.

Trixolan was linked in headlines to American fugitive Robert Lee Vesco and to Donald A. Nixon, President Richard Nixon's nephew.
In the early 1980s Donald Nixon's wife contracted breast cancer and was treated with chemotherapy. In the search for a remedy for her cancer, he met with Dr. Stephen Herman, who claimed that Viroxan could boost the immune system and could get rid of many diseases, including cancer. Donald Nixon gave his wife Trixolan and claimed that it cured his wife's cancer and her arthritis.

Nixon asked the Federal Government for $300 million to test the drug. When no funding was forthcoming, he formed a partnership with Vesco and other partners. Nixon was placed under house arrest in Cuba when he went to visit Vesco — who had fled to Cuba to avoid prosecution for securities fraud — for financing.

Purportedly, Vesco introduced Nixon to Fidel Castro and his brother Raul, and Fidel set up four laboratories in Cuba with his nephew Antonio Fraga Castro as head of the project to develop the formula. They claim Trixolan suppresses cancer and cures AIDS, arthritis and the common cold - all of which are diseases related to immunity.

Castro imprisoned Vesco in 1996, convicting him of fraud, saying he had defrauded a state-run biotechnology laboratory run by Castro's nephew in a scheme to "develop" TX. Associated Press reported that he had been convicted of marketing Trixolan without government permission. Vesco died of lung cancer in 2007.

References

Hoaxes in science
Hoaxes in the United States

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There's a great moment in Southpaw when boxer Billy Hope (played by Jake Gyllenhaal and his weight gain) gives a speech at a charity event. It's supposed to be a 'look at me now' moment, 'I climbed the ladder out of poverty', 'this foundation made me what I am' etc. And you can't help but look at him. Broken and used, the poor boy who gets to drink with the powerful because he's willing to take a beating. He's got money but I don't wake up with blood pouring out of my mouth so I can live without that. That's one of a number of things that this film could have been about but isn't.
Moments after this speech the film becomes something very different indeed, or at least it keeps threatening to. It keeps wandering down side roads but falls flat because it keeps finding it's way back to only the most well trodden paths. Oh so Forest Whitaker is different to other coaches so lets throw in a last minute cynical emotional spanner to get him back on board. Billy looks like he might change, nah because we want to see him punch someone.
Director Antoine Fuqua has never quite recaptured the energy or interest of Training Day (2001).


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Hamradun är en färöisk folkrockgrupp bildad 2015. Gruppen kom till genom ett möte mellan Pól Arni Holm, tidigare sångare i metalgruppen Týr och All That Rain, och gitarristen Uni Debess. Hamraduns uttryck är resultatet av Pól Arnis intresse för äldre folkkultur och traditionella ballader och Unis bakgrund inom bluesmusik. Utöver Pól Arni på sång och Uni på gitarr består gruppen av John Egholm på gitarr, Finnur Hansen på keyboard, Heri Reynheim på bas och Rani H. Christiansen på trummor.

Det självbetitlade debutalbumet gavs ut 23 oktober 2015 genom skivbolaget Tutl. Det innehåller bland annat en psalm, irländsk folkmusik, färöisk kvad och egenskrivet material.

Gruppen nominerades till årets nykomling och årets artist/grupp inom pop/rock vid Faroese Music Awards 2016.

Medlemmar

 Pól Arni Holm: sång
 Uni Debess: gitarr
 John Áki Egholm: kompgitarr/sång
 Finnur Hansen: keyboard
 Heri Reynheim: bas
 Rani Hammershaimb Christiansen: trummor

Diskografi
 Hamradun (Tutl, 2015)

Källor

Externa länkar

 Hamradun på skivbolagets hemsida

Folkrockgrupper
Färöiska musikgrupper
Musikgrupper bildade 2015


Staples Center, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
The 56th Annual Grammy Awards presentation was held on January 26, 2014, at Staples Center in Los Angeles. The show was broadcast on CBS at 8 p.m. ET/PT and was hosted for the third time by LL Cool J. The show was moved to January to avoid competing with the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, as was the case in 2010.
The eligibility period for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards was October 1, 2012, to September 30, 2013. The nominations were announced on December 6, 2013 during a live televised concert on CBS, The Grammy Nominations Concert Live – Countdown to Music's Biggest Night. Jay Z received the most nominations with nine. Justin Timberlake, Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Pharrell Williams each received seven nominations. Daft Punk and Pharrell Williams were nominated twice for both Album of the Year and Record of the Year. Sound engineer Bob Ludwig received the most nominations by a non-performing artist, with five.
Daft Punk won five awards, including Album of the Year for Random Access Memories and Record of the Year, with Pharrell Williams, for "Get Lucky". Macklemore & Ryan Lewis won four trophies, including Best New Artist, and led an industry show of support for gay marriage with a performance of their song "Same Love" to accompany a mass wedding of gay and heterosexual couples, which was presided over by Queen Latifah. Lorde's "Royals" received awards for Best Pop Solo Performance and Song of the Year. Carole King was honored as MusiCares Person of the Year on January 24, two days prior to the awards ceremony.
On June 4, 2013, the Recording Academy approved a number of changes recommended by its Awards & Nominations Committee, including adding a new category for Best Americana Song to the American Music field. This songwriters' award will encompass all the subgenres in this field such as Americana, bluegrass, blues, folk, and regional roots music. The Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance category was renamed Best Metal Performance and became a stand-alone category. Hard rock performances will now be screened in the Best Rock Performance category. The Music Video field will become the Best Music Video/Film field. Its two categories will be renamed: Best Short Form Music Video will now be known as Best Music Video and Best Long Form Music Video will change into Best Music Film. These changes bring the total number of categories at the 2014 Grammy Awards to 82, up from 81 at the 2013 Grammy Awards.
Chicago "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?"
Gary Clark, Jr. "Cop Car"
John Legend "All of Me"
Taylor Swift "All Too Well"
"Just Give Me a Reason"
Kacey Musgraves "Follow Your Arrow"
"Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys"
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue "Same Love"
"When Will I Be Loved"
Lindsey Buckingham "Copy of A"
"My God Is the Sun"
Lang Lang - introduced "In Memoriam"
"Please Come Home"– Gary Clark, Jr.
"Whom Shall I Fear (God of Angel Armies)"
"Love Has Come For You"
"Build Me Up From Bones"
"Keep Your Dirty Lights On"
Apache & Crown Dance Songs — Joe Tohonnie Jr.
"Pensamientos For Solo Alto Saxophone And Chamber Orchestra"
"California Pictures For String Quartet"
"String Quartet No. 1: Funky Diversion In Three Parts"
"Side Hikes – A Ridge Away"
"The Moon's A Harsh Mistress"
The 56th Annual Grammy Awards were the first in the show's history to incorporate comprehensive Live-GIF integration through Tumblr. Creative agency Deckhouse Digital was hired to facilitate the integration, producing more than 50 animated GIFs during the live broadcast and publishing them to the official Grammy tumblr page in real time. The images contributed to the more than 5.1 million reblogs and likes that Grammy related posts received on the blogging site, and the record breaking 34 million combined social media interactions related to the live broadcast.
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Chikkamagaluru happens to have a rather constant Tropical climate, which can be the reason for several Skin and Hair issues like Acne, High sebum secretion and Fungal infections. These issues can end up becoming a massive mess for anyone living in the city, as family doctors, pharmacists and even old home remedies completely fail at effectively providing a cure.
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PARIS: Quiz question: What will it take to beat Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros?
Diego Schwartzman, who started their French Open quarter-final clash in blistering fashion on Wednesday, faltered when the sun came out on Thursday. Safe to say, for the time being at least, the 5 ft 7' Argentine doesn't know.
The world No.1 Spaniard - who lost a mere four games in the two-sets-and-a-bit after play resumed in dry and happier conditions, some 17 hours later - powered to a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 win.
In Friday's last-four clash, his 11th, the 32-year-old going for La Undecima will play the fifth-seed Juan Martin del Potro, who edged out Croat Marin Cilic 7-6 (7-5), 5-7, 6-3, 7-5. The other semifinal will pit the seventh-ranked Dominic Thiem against Novak Djokovic's conqueror, Italian, world no.72 Marco Cecchinato.
Nadal, who struggled with the conditions on a rain-marred day, trailed by a set and a break when play was halted for the first time. Schwartzman, the world No.12, who came out swinging, may have had a better look at his lead in the locker room. Suffice to say that the defending champion, who despite the bleak conditions, looked distinctly sorted when he returned to the Philippe-Chatrier court. Nadal then won three consecutive games from 2-3, breaking twice, and serving for the set at 5-3 (30-15) when the skies opened up again.
"The stop helped because I was able to think, to calm down and to see things with more clarity," Nadal said. "He was playing great and I was playing too defensive. I was playing too behind the baseline, he was taking the ball earlier than me. After that I increased the intensity. I won a little bit of court, playing closer to the baseline."
Schwartzman, however, came up with a hazy clue, a pointer of sorts. The day to beat Nadal was definitely Wednesday.
"It's always tough against Rafa. Yesterday I was doing many winners, not many unforced errors. He was not playing his best tennis. Maybe was the day when you can beat Rafa was yesterday (Wednesday). Today he start playing totally different. Aggressive, doing winners, no mistakes," Schwartzman said.
There was, however, one man at Roland Garros, who had an answer to the quiz query that stretched beyond theory and possibilities. Courtesy that round-of-16 win in 2009. Robin Soderling is the name. One of only two players to beat Nadal at Roland Garros.
"To beat him on clay, and then to beat him in best-of- five sets on clay is even more difficult," the Swede, who was forced to quit tennis after being laid low by mononucleosis, said. "The only chance for any player is to be really aggressive. It's an extremely difficult task, you have to take a lot of risks."
Soderling, who was ranked No.4 at his peak, wished he could've quit tennis on his own terms. But quickly added that he doesn't miss the pressure of competition.
Nadal, however, embraced it. "I don't have any obligation to win. Secondly, if you don't feel the pressure, it's because you don't love the sport and if you don't love the sport is better to come back home and do another thing," the Mallorcan muscleman said. "Pressure is part of the sport. I don't feel the pressure now in the semifinals. I feel the pressure every day, I feel the pressure in every match of the year."


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Albert Tsang, Technical Manager
Precision Micro
The metals industry and the medical industry are inextricably linked, and development and innovation in metal supply stimulates much product development in the medical device sector. Improvements in metal supply, and the development of new alloys drives the safe-use application of internal and external devices. For many years, stainless steel was the "go-to" metal for numerous medical applications, being low cost and exhibiting corrosion resistance. However, titanium is growing in popularity especially for implantable devices, but it is an expensive metal (meaning waste in production must be minimised) and it is also notoriously difficult to work. Precision Micro — Europe's leading photo-etching supplier — is now able to apply it's photo-etching expertise to titanium, opening up an array of possibilities for medical device OEMs.
Titanium in the Medical Device Sector
In its pure form, titanium exhibits low density and very high strength characteristics, and crucially for medical applications (especially internal medical applications) is corrosion resistant. Certain titanium alloys (particularly Ti-6Al-4V and Ti-6Al-4V ELI) are especially non-reactive with bodily fluids, and greatly negate the risk of implant rejection. When properly treated, titanium also bonds well with human bone, meaning that fixation of implants is extremely secure.
Common medical uses of titanium are for orthopaedic devices such as hip, spinal, facial, shoulder, elbow, and knee replacements. In addition, some heart valves use titanium housings, and it is also used in the manufacture of pegs to attach prosthetic eyes and ears, as well as being the standard shield material for pacemakers and defibrillator cases, due to its resistance to attack by body fluids, its strength, and low modulus.
Finally, titanium is the perfect choice for surgical instruments, such as drills, forceps, retractors, scissors, needle holders, and eye surgery equipment. The metal is also compatible with MRIs or CT scans as it is non-ferromagnetic.
Developments in Titanium Manufacturing
The key limiting characteristic of titanium is its cost, which is significantly higher than aluminium and steel alloys, and therefore titanium usage requires a compelling justification in all applications. Elevated cost is a product of the difficulty inherent in extracting titanium from its ores, and the fact that carbon cannot be used as the reducing agent as it produces a carbide when heated with titanium. Instead, costly reducing agents such as sodium and magnesium have to be used which ensure production of the pure metal.
The cost implication of titanium use means that any manufacturing technology utilised with the metal must minimise wastage. But wastage issues in the processing of titanium is only one draw back when it is used as a material for manufacturing. The other is a product of its strength characteristics, which makes traditional machining technologies high cost and anything from 10 – 100 times slower than machining of aluminium alloys. Cost implications of using titanium, therefore, demand that any manufacturing technology minimises waste and is speedy.
Recent developments at Precision Micro Ltd are heralding the dawn of new possibilities in the practical and economic use of titanium in various medical applications. Precision Micro is expert in the art of photo-etching, a technology that has a history going back to the 1960s, and is a development of processes used in the printed circuit board industry. Over the decades since then, Precision Micro has been at the forefront of developing the technology that is now used on a variety of materials to fabricate sheet metal components using a photo-resist and etchants to corrosively machine away selected areas.
For complex or feature rich parts, or for parts where the retention of material properties is important, photo etching has been proved to be much more accurate and cost-effective than many traditional industry alternatives such as stamping, pressing, punching, or laser and water-jet cutting.
It is a technology that produces burr free parts with clean profiles and no heat-affected zones, and stress free parts with metal properties remaining unaffected. As the process relies on digital tooling (meaning that tooling costs are measured in the hundreds of pounds not the thousands of pounds), it allows for multiple design iterations quickly and at low cost, with no effect on product time-to-market.
The process itself is fast and economical with leadtimes in days not weeks, and is precise down to the most exacting micro levels, accuracy even on the most complex of parts being a key attribute.
In 2012, Precision Micro was purchased by the leading aerospace, defence and energy giant Meggitt plc, and is now an autonomous entity within the company. The purchase has opened up new possibilities for the company, not least due to the scale of investment in new processes and opportunities that is now taking place. One such is in the development of the photo-etching process for the volume production of parts from titanium, perhaps the Holy Grail for the sector in Europe. Precision Micro is now able to announce that it is able to provide this service for its customers.
Photo Etching of Titanium
Issues associated with the manipulation of metals via machining, stamping, punching, and pressing are exacerbated when manufacturing with titanium due to its strength and resilience. Applying photo etching to titanium eliminates stress and burr related problems associated with alternative manufacturing technologies, and opens up an array of possibilities in the areas of medical implants which require a combination of light-weight, strong, and corrosion resistance characteristics.
Key characteristics of photo etched titanium parts are the smoothness of surface and channels, and elimination of burrs and surface irregularities. The process is highly repeatable and economic, with an image of the parts to be manufactured effectively being printed on the sheet metal, and all of the parts etched at the same time. The digital "photo"-tooling used to print the image of the parts ensures that parts produced now are identical to parts produced a decade later.
Since announcing its ability to photo-etch titanium, Precision Micro has received massive uptake from medical OEMs throughout Europe, especially manufacturers of implantable products. A reliable European-based titanium photo-etch capability like that now offered by Precision Micro means that companies do not have to suffer exposure to currency fluctuations or delivery costs which occur when relying on supply from outside of Europe, and can take advantage of shorter lead times. Precision Micro is able and willing to offer short runs with no minimum batch sizes as well as volume manufacture, and recommends engagement with OEMs early in the design cycle to allow input on product development.
Titanium's biocompatibility — as previously mentioned — fits perfectly with the production of technical medical applications like implantable reconstructive meshes. Titanium mesh cranioplasty is now the preferred treatment for an array of cranial defects, and photo etching provides a quick and efficient means of manufacture. Titanium's corrosion resistance, strength, and biocompatibility are all hugely advantageous for cranial meshes, and the burr-free and stress-free nature of the process, and the fact that chemical processing causes no hardening or thermal distortion, all serve to produce uniform products.
The loss of complex or extensive bone structures due to an accident or tumour creates significant physical and emotional stress for patients. It also represents a great challenge for the physician pondering the question of how the defect can be covered in the best possible way. In such cases, patient-specific implants can be an effective means of mastering these difficulties and keeping the resulting uncertainties under control, representing a more efficient and satisfactory treatment than standard sized implants.
For one leading cranial mesh manufacturer, Precision Micro makes pre-contoured titanium mesh implants and templates using photo-etching. Mesh sizes and shapes are created using a compilation of adult CT scans to develop the best possible "average" fit in titanium, which is rigid, but can also be modified slightly to adjust to precise patient anatomy. One unique characteristic of photo-etching is the fact that with digital tooling, the tools for these cranial meshes are the same for prototyping and full production, and as they are digital and no steel is cut, they are low cost, easy, and quick to make, and can be adapted and changed with little expense.
Such cranial meshes are extremely feature dense, and demand burr free edges which alternative manufacturing and machining technologies find difficult to achieve. In addition, as well as manufacturing the meshes, the photo-etch process can also depth etch the counter sinks for the screws to sit in in one single process, overcoming the need (as was previously the case) to laser cut the mesh and then machine the sink holes.
Photo etching is also an extremely clean process, tightly controlled chemistry selectively removing metal atom by atom with micron accuracy imparting no stress on the base material and avoiding undesirable features such as recast layers.
Another medical device OEM that works with Precision Micro manufactures implantable cardiac defibrillators which are used to treat patients suffering from ventricular fibrillation, a chaotic heart rhythm that can quickly result in death if not corrected. In operation, the defibrillator device continuously monitors the electrical activity of the heart of the patient, detects ventricular fibrillation, and in response to that detection, delivers appropriate shocks to restore a normal heart rhythm. Shocks as large as 30-35 joules may be needed.
Shocks are delivered from capacitors which need to be charged with the required amount of energy in only a few seconds. The power source, therefore must be highly reliable and provide urgently needed therapy whenever necessary. In addition, as cardiac defibrillators are implanted, the battery must be able to supply energy from a very small footprint.
Precision Micro manufactures very fine, sub 80 micron thick titanium anode and cathode battery current collector grids used in the lithium batteries contained in the implantable defibrillator. These intricate grids, less than 300mm wide, are photo-etched from titanium because it is vital that stray metal pieces are eliminated from the current collectors as they could poke through the separator material and short the battery. Traditional machining and processing technologies cannot guarantee that no waste metal would be present.
The use of titanium in product design has been held back due to its inherent cost and the difficulty in manufacturing via traditional machining, stamping, and punching processes. However, through the use of photo-etching, a proven volume manufacturing technology used on various metals (recently including titanium), Precision Micro is offering a cost-effective and efficient route to the production of titanium parts that is unique in Europe.
Photo-etching has many inherent advantages as a manufacturing technology that have been detailed above, and these advantages can now be applied to the serial manufacture of titanium parts. While the cost of design iterations are dramatically reduced using photo-etching — with its low digital tooling costs —product designers and OEMs looking to take advantage of this new process are encouraged to engage Precision Micro early in the development stage of the product life-cycle to ensure DfM, and maximum cost efficiency.
Albert Tsang is the Technical Manager at Precision Micro, Birmingham, UK, and has been at the company for 13 years. For over 50 years, Precision Micro has pioneered photo chemical etching, a manufacturing technology using subtractive chemical erosion to produce burr- and stress-free precision metal components. The company creates highly innovative solutions to a wide range of engineering challenges using a 2-D process to create 3-D components that cannot be created with other technologies and, often, by any other competitor. That is why Precision Micro has won a reputation as an industry innovator, trusted to deliver by major global manufacturing concerns across multiple markets.
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An expat author in Paris: John Baxter
September 4, 2012 By Judy MacMahon |
John Baxter is an Australian-born writer, film critic and literary tour guide, who has been living in Paris for over twenty years.
We asked him about his life, inspirations and one of his more recent books, 'The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris', in which he recalls and recounts a year he spent giving literary walking tours through Paris.
John, how would you describe yourself in three words?
Driven international author.
You have been living in Paris for over 20 years, but had lived in Australia, England and America prior to this. What took you to Paris in the first place, and why did you decide to settle down there?
The short answer is "I met a girl". The long answer takes up a large part of my book 'We'll Always Have Paris'. It took 15 years and two other marriages for me to realise she was my ideal wife. Since she's Parisian, it followed that I should leave Los Angeles, where I was then living, and move here.
Before then, I had no ambition to live in France, couldn't speak French, and knew Paris only as a periodic visitor. It quickly became apparent that this was the city where I was always destined to put down roots.
Do you consider yourself 'Parisian'? What does being 'Parisian' mean to you?
If I am Parisian, it's only by adoption. Not every Parisian would accept me as one of them. Fortunately, most people in Paris come from some other region of France, so I'm in good company.
Unlike the occupants of other cities in which I've lived – Los Angeles, London, Dublin, Sydney – Parisians make no claim to represent or symbolize anything. Though this is technically the capital of France, the loyalty of Parisians is exclusively to the city itself. To be Parisian is to respect and celebrate before all else the city's traditions and patrimony. As I write in 'The Most Beautiful Walk in the World', "Paris is my church".
You live in the apartment building in which Sylvia Beach, the founder of the famous 'Shakespeare and Company' bookshop lived. Did your neighbourhood inspire your work or did your interests lead to your life in the 6th arrondissement?
It was coincidence – or fate, or what Karl Gustav Jung called 'synchronicity'. The family of the woman with whom I fell in love and married had occupied that apartment since she was eleven, unaware of its significance in literary history.
Your Paris favourites
Au Bon St Pourçain, rue Servandoni, 6ème.
Place to drink…
For an afternoon glass of wine, Bouillon Racine, rue Racine, 6ème. For cocktails, the bar of the Lutetia Hôtel, boulevard Raspail, 6ème.
Place to shop…
I don't shop. My daughter and her friends distinguish between 'buying', which is what I do, and 'shopping', where the pleasure is in the process, and one may not necessarily come home with anything at all. The only place I indulge in that sort of 'shopping' is at brocantes and the weekend Marché aux Puces at Porte de Vanves.
Place to play (a nightclub, a park, a museum etc.)…
Jardins du Luxembourg, 6ème.
Place to go for a day trip…
Illiers-Combray in Eure-et-Loire, the childhood home of Marcel Proust.
Favourite bookshop…
As a book collector, I do most of my book buying for pleasure at the second-hand book market which takes place each Saturday and Sunday at Parc Georges Brassens on rue Brancion, 15ème. For new books, I buy online or download to my Kindle.
Read part 2 of our interview with John here, as we discuss writing and how the idea for his book was born.
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2. 'The Most Beautiful Walk in the World', via johnbaxterpari
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I find that simply looking up is the perfect way to get a different perspective – even on a walk you take every day. You'll see people in their offices and apartments (a bit creepy), gorgeous architecture, and the trees and sky!
So that's not really one walk, but it's a good way to guarantee that you get the most out of your walk…
Cyndie Bowen
One of my favourite walk in France is near my hometown in Carcassonne: I like to walk along the Canal du Midi. The Canal du Midi is a UNESCO listed site, built in the 17th century. It's now used for pleasure boating between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.
La Bree
The first time I walked the streets of Aix-en-Provence it was a sunny, tranquil summer day. I knew from that moment that I would always long to discover more of that je ne sais quoi that is quintessentially French. I realized that la France will always intrigue me, remind me to open myself to new experiences and ultimately remind me to appreciate life and love.
I really like walking in Le Marais district in Paris. All those tiny streets, with no cars and beautiful buildings. People are very creative there. Lots of nice shops with a real identity, convivial restaurants and cafés, good looking people and an unique atmoshpere. There is no such place as Le Marais in Paris.
Thank you for inviting beautiful memories! While I was living in Nice, a new friend invited me for a walk, and walk…we did. We walked past Coco Beach, Pan Bagnats in hand. We walked past the Château de l'Anglais, through Villefranche-sur-Mer, then into Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat where, after 2 hours in the late June sun, we reached our destination – The Euphrussi de Rothschild Villa and Gardens. If the walk wasn't inspiring enough…. I thought I could walk no more but I was humbled by the edifice, the fountains and oh, the GARDENS! We walked for hours more, losing ourselves in the flora before our time was up and the slow trek home began. Beaten by the sun, we hopped on a bus in Villefranche to ferry us the rest of the way home.
Surely a change in perspective from Ottawa, Canada!
Kah Kit Yoong
A walk probably similar in parts to that described in this book was a significant moment for me as a photographer. At some point, my perspective changed from that of a tourist caught up in the dazzling icons of Paris to that of an observer watching the daily street theatre. Somehow in this city those seemingly insignificant moments of its inhabitants take on a special gravitas. I recall this change seemed to happen quite suddenly one day after walking from my hotel in St Germain, down the boulevard to the 'three cafes', crossing over to the right bank, and then on to the two islands, further up to Bastille and the Marais. I'm sure I must have made a few pitstops but I ended up returning via the left bank. This time instead of sitting absentmindedly, I would have observed things like how the terrace tables in Paris were always round and not square. How the chairs were always made out of that straw wicker material. How pets sat at the table just like normal patrons…
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International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, 2008.


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Yowler is the Philadelphia-based solo project of Maryn Jones, who has been recording and releasing music online and in burned cd, tape and record form since as early as 2004. What started out in 2013 as a conceptual project where dark thoughts and too-quiet moments could be placed, Yowler has become a main outlet for Jones' songwriting. After most recently being a part of the loud pop outfit All Dogs as songwriter, and long-time member and multi-instrumentalist in the psych-folk group Saintseneca, Jones has been focusing her musical time and energy on writing for Yowler, and collaborating with Philadelphia-based producer and engineer Kyle Gilbride to create the forthcoming Black Dog in My Path.
Black Dog in My Path is Yowler's second album after 2014's release The Offer, and was recorded in the many months after Jones' move from Columbus, Ohio to Philadelphia. Created with Gilbride of Swearin' and Missing Earth, the record is a kind of sonic quilt, pieced together from various musical inspirations and drawn from a period of great personal change. In addition to the signature synth and guitar talents of Gilbride, the textural depth was highlighted by the addition of drums by Jones' former Saintseneca bandmate Matt O'Conke, bass and clarinet by Catherine Elicson of Empath, and bowed guitar, cello, and vocals by Michael Cantor of the Goodbye Party. The element of collaboration allowed the artists to create a world you can get lost in, but that is not tied to any particular sound.
The twelve varied songs cover many worlds and states of mind, but their creation was mainly inspired by a period of time in 2016 during which Jones spent a large chunk of her life touring around the country with the different musical projects she was involved in. There was also a move and the painful upheaval and morphing of a few relationships during that time, all of which resulted in an unexpected and un-asked-for period of pause and self-reflection. What came from those experiences can be heard in many of the songs; a discovery of aspects of one's true self that can be hard to swallow, and the effort to try to learn how to live with the person you've found. Less of a dark self-reflection than The Offer, the record sometimes goes to a more hopeful place—ruminations on romantic love and the beauty of the planets, for example—but still touches on feelings of continual loss, misplaced desire, violent mental discord and the helpless grief that results from the daily facing down of things you can't change.
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Ericsson has agreed to acquire 100 percent of the shares in CENX, boosting Ericsson's Operations Support Systems (OSS) portfolio with vendor-agnostic service assurance and closed-loop automation capability.
CENX, founded in 2009 and headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, employs 185 people. Ericsson has held a minority stake in CENX since 2012.
Ericsson said its leading position in NFV and orchestration will be further enhanced with CENX's closed-loop automation and service assurance capabilities. Closed-loop automation ensures Ericsson can offer its service provider customers an orchestration solution that is optimised for 5G use cases like network slicing, taking full advantage of Ericsson's distributed cloud offering.
Ericsson said its global sales and delivery presence - along with its strong R&D - will also create economies of scale in the CENX portfolio and help Ericsson to offer in-house solutions for OSS automation and assurance.
Dynamic orchestration is crucial in 5G-ready virtualized networks. By bringing CENX into Ericsson, we can continue to build upon the strong competitive advantage we have started as partners. I look forward to meeting and welcoming our new colleagues into Ericsson.
Our closed-loop service assurance automation capability complements Ericsson's existing portfolio very well. We look forward to seeing our joint capability add great value to the transformation of both Ericsson and its customers.


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Il Museo di Icone Russe "F. Bigazzi" si trova a Peccioli, in provincia di Pisa.

Inaugurato nel 2000, ha la sua sede nell'antico Palazzo Pretorio della città, un edificio il cui impianto risale all'epoca medievale, rimaneggiato tra il XVIII e il XIX secolo.

Sulla facciata del Palazzo sono presenti 19 stemmi appartenenti alle famiglie notabili e ai podestà che qui esercitarono il loro potere.

La collezione
Il giornalista Francesco Bigazzi, per molti anni corrispondente da Mosca, donò al Comune di Peccioli la sua raccolta di sessanta icone russe realizzate nel corso del XIX secolo e dei primi anni del secolo successivo. Per questo motivo il museo è a lui intitolato.

Bibliografia
 Tatiana Vilinbakhova, Segni della Santa Russia. Icone dalla collezione di Francesco Bigazzi, Milano, Leonardo International, 2000

Collegamenti esterni

Peccioli
Musei della provincia di Pisa
Musei di arte sacra della Toscana
Icone


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Tzeniut, tznius ou tzniut (do hebraico  "modéstia") é um termo usado no judaísmo para descrever o conjunto de mandamentos relacionados à conduta em geral . A tzeniut costuma se relacionar ao modo de vestir de cada judeu, roupas largas e próprias para cada sexo são um dos fatores mais importantes nas regras de tzeniut.

Religiosidade judaica


US President Donald Trump's emphatic embrace of Sunni Arab regimes and his vilification of Iran mark a stark departure from the vision of his predecessor Barack Obama in the volatile region, analysts say.
Pointedly delivering his first foreign speech in Riyadh on Sunday, Trump praised the six-state Gulf Cooperation Council, specifically Saudi Arabia, for efforts to cut off funding to extremists while lambasting Iran as the "spearhead of terrorism".
While the unpredictable Trump completed the visit to the region without committing a major gaffe, his approach "swept away the entire Obama legacy with the wave of a hand," said Thierry Coville, an Iran expert at the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs.
"That the United States wants to restore a certain balance in its ties with Saudi Arabia, OK, but to put Iran and the IS group on the same level is false, illogical and counter-productive," Coville told AFP.
Coville said that removing human rights concerns routinely levelled at Arab states from the centre of US foreign policy was "understandable".
But he added: "Telling (Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi) that he is doing a 'fantastic' job and saying that Saudi Arabia is a 'magnificent kingdom', while forgetting that in Iran people are making the effort to get out and vote, is very dangerous."
Hasni Abidi, head of the Geneva-based Study and Research Centre for the Arab and Mediterranean World (CERNAM), also spoke of a "break in US policy".
Obama, whose secretary of state John Kerry helped broker the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, "banked on Iran's moderate forces, (while) Trump has chosen the Sunni camp, starting with Saudi Arabia, a country with unequalled financial means," Abidi told AFP.
Washington and Riyadh agreed deals totalling some $380 billion (340 billion euros).
"But the price of regaining the confidence of Saudi Arabia and the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council is to portray Iran as a threat," Abidi added.
He noted that Washington still depends on Iran for cooperation in Iraq against IS and in Afghanistan against the Taliban, and Trump has "shown caution so far".
Coville went further, calling Trump's speech a "smokescreen" aimed at "making people forget that he is in the process of validating the nuclear accord".
He also noted that Iran Air, in Tehran's first deal with a US aviation group since the 1979 Islamic revolution, finalised in December a contract worth $16.6 billion to purchase 80 Boeing planes.
Paris-based political scientist Azadeh Kian said authorities in Tehran had not taken Trump's Riyadh speech seriously, pointing to a tweet by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif saying that Washington was "milking" Saudi Arabia.
But she said it was "worrying, especially after an election... that showed that there is a real dynamic towards democratisation and opening in Iranian society."
Meanwhile Trump's call for Israelis and Palestinians to "make a deal" has drawn praised mixed with a healthy dose of scepticism.
Speaking in Jerusalem, the US leader offered no specifics but said he was "personally committed" to helping to resolve the decades-old conflict.
"Making peace, however, will not be easy," Trump said. "But with determination, compromise and the belief that peace is possible, Israelis and Palestinians can make a deal."
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz said Trump had "succeeded in bringing peace, which in recent years had become a dirty word, back to the centre of Israeli public and political discourse."
But it added: "Trump has the will and motivation, but for now he has no plan."
Former Middle East peace negotiator Aaron David Miller, writing in Politico last week, argued that "strange as it may seem, Trump actually has a Middle East strategy, or at least a reasonably coherent approach."
The idea is to forge a "US-Israeli-Sunni Arab entente... held together by several objectives they share in varying degrees: destroy ISIS, roll back Iranian influence, and deliver some kind of Israeli-Palestinian peace," Miller wrote.
It is a "transactional deal" in which the Arab states would help Washington revive the peace process in exchange for a much tougher US policy against Iran, he said.
However, he warned: "But Washington's approach seems driven more by hope than experience. Trump is likely to discover that the region... is more complicated than he thought."


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Caylee Case...and Roman Polanski in Paris
Josh Board
I really tried to avoid the Caylee case. I usually get into these things. But I've found that the legal system is so messed up, it frustrating me.
For example, a boy disappeared in Balboa Park. The stepfather or boyfriend of the boys mother (I forget which), said he went to buy a Coke and left the boy at a park bench for 15 or 20 minutes.
They couldn't find the body. They couldn't charge the guy. Now, why they didn't charge him with...oh, I dunno...neglecting a child, child endangerment, or something. He ended up moving to the mid-west, and last I heard, got arrested on some other charge (I think it was murder, but I'm not positive).
So when I heard the different things about the Caylee case, I just ignored most, so I wouldn't get emotionally involved. I heard she didn't report the child missing for a month. I heard they recorded conversations with her from prison, and she didn't seem upset that her child was gone.
She mentioned people involved around her place, that didn't check out.
But when things got really weird, was when some bounty hunter that has a TV show (that isn't named "Dog"), paid her bail. He did interviews saying he didn't think she killed her child.
It was his logic that made me want to post anything about the case. He said he couldn't believe a woman would kill her own 3-year-old.
Insane. Why do people have such a hard time believing this stuff? It happens every day. Parents kill their kids. Kids kill their parents. Cousins shoot cousins.
A comedian I saw in New York said...he was surprised a woman was scared as he ran for the subway. She started running, and it looked like he was chasing her. He said, "Look at my face. I look like a 15-year-old boy, even though I'm an adult now. But, I gotta remember...adults rape people."
It's one thing if her own family can't conceive of the fact that she may have killed her daughter, or gave her away, or whatever. But everyone else in society should stop being so ignorant in cases like this. It's the reason jurors are filled with people that let O.J. off the hook.
And tonight, I saw the Roman Polanski documentary. It was interesting. It still doesn't hold a candle to the better documentary, Man on Wire (mentioned in a previous blog).
I always thought Polanski should be sent back here to serve jail time. And, the movie brings up some interesting things the judge in the case did. Both sets of attorneys agreed the judge did some bogus things against Polanski. But you know what? That doesn't change the facts: he gave alcohol and drugs to a 13-year-old girl. He then sodomized her against her will.
Now, I feel horrible that Polanski lost his parents in concentration camps, and then his beautiful pregnant wife to Charles Mansons crew. And, I love many of his great films (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, etc). But...it doesn't explain why everyone in Hollywood still flocks to work with this guy.
And why they think these charges should be dropped.
Do these same actors/producers/directors watch when Dateline does that "To Catch a Predator," and say "Oh come on, let the guy go. He made a mistake, meeting a girl on the computer he thought was 12." No, they probably want to see that guy fry.
Why does a celebrity get special treatment?
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And...it doesn't even matter if you're a decent moneymaker. Woody Allen films weren't making money for decades, and actors still flocked to work with the man that betrayed Mia Farrow, and married her adopted daughter (whom he had known since she was 10).
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As to the first half: People are very naive. And very egocentric. It's virtually impossible for most people to think outside their own experience. So therefore, if they were brought up in a fairly normal environment, they think silly things like "All mommies love their babies." Which is just dumb. (If you don't remember the names Susan Smith or Andrea Yates, for example, just Google.)
Lots of women despise their own children, wish they'd never had them, and resent them for being born and putting an end to their career, their partying, their ability to attract men, whatever. This is why some women kill them, or let their boyfriends/husbands do it without much interference. I remember one particular woman killed her kids because her new boyfriend didn't want them. Nice lady. I'm sure the boyfriend was quite a catch as well.
Just too scary for most folks to imagine. The mother image is pretty sacred in most cultures. After all, if you can't trust mom, who can ya trust?
Polanski? Apparently guilty. Apparently a slimeball. And apparently, that never matters to Hollywood if you're a decent moneymaker.
It's a town utterly filled with glass houses, after all.
UPDATE: just saw on the news, they re-arrested the mom. Weird. The lawyer is out front, saying he won't talk to the media, or be bullied into making statements.


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New Samsung Galaxy S8+ model features bigger storage, higher price
The Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus, coming soon with twice the storage. (Source: Samsung)
Samsung is releasing a new Galaxy S8+ model with 128 GB of internal storage and 6 GB of RAM. The handset will be available as part of a bundle which includes a Samsung DeX dock.
John Garcia, Published 04/07/2017
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Are you holding off on pre-ordering a Samsung Galaxy S8+ because 64 GB of storage space just isn't enough? Boy, do I have good news for you! A Galaxy S8+ with double the capacity—that's 128 GB of internal storage—is coming.
Unfortunately, I also have a bit of bad news: it's not coming to the United States—at least, not yet. The 128 GB version of the Samsung Galaxy S8+ will only see a China and South Korea release as part of a bundle. The bundle includes a Samsung DeX dock which—when connected to a monitor and input peripherals—turns the S8+ into an Android desktop PC.
To provide a smoother desktop experience, the new 128 GB Galaxy S8+ also features 6 GB of RAM, a 50 percent increase over the base model. The beefed-up specs plus the added DeX don't come cheap: South Korean news site etnews puts the price of the bundle at over US $1,000. Let's hope that if this new S8+ makes it stateside, it comes as a standalone product—our wallets will surely appreciate it.
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For Cubs, drama begets drama
By John Mullin
A little history, a little histrionics, a lot of drama—a typical day at Wrigley Field.
The Cubs shook off the ejection of their manager and the collapse of their bullpen Friday to rally from a five-run deficit with six runs in the final three innings, including home runs by three of their last five batters, for an 11-10 victory over the Cincinnati Reds, their third in a row.
Todd Hollandsworth's two-run pinch homer in the eighth was followed in the ninth by consecutive home runs by Sammy Sosa and Moises Alou, the second time in the game the Cubs hit back-to-back homers.
Sosa's was his 512th as a Cub, tying him with Ernie Banks for No. 1 on the Cubs' career list. Alou's was his second of the game and fourth over the last three games.
Alou was victimized his previous at-bat with a called third strike at a time when the pitcher was in sun and home plate was in the shade, making the ball harder to pick up. In the ninth the light problem was gone and so was the ball.
"I hadn't been seeing the ball that well the time before," Alou said. "So as Sammy rounded the bases, I was trying to control myself and still be aggressive, because I wasn't that aggressive the time before.
"I was looking for a fastball in because they'd gotten me out with that in the past. I got my pitch and I hit it good."
The two teams combined for eight home runs on a day the wind blew out and managers blew up.
Dusty Baker was ejected after an emotional outburst following a failure to inform the umpires of a double switch that altered his batting order and potentially cost the Cubs a run.
"I'd have felt terrible if we'd lost the game," Baker said. "I'd have been sick all night. I'm still sick but my boys bailed us out and bailed me out."
The Reds broke a 4-4 tie with five runs in the sixth and the Cubs answered with a run in the sixth on doubles by Alou and Aramis Ramirez, who had four hits and five RBIs.
Alou and Ramirez had belted back-to-back home runs in the third, the second time in three days they accomplished that feat.
Ramirez drove in two more runs in the seventh with his second double before the Reds went up 10-7 on a home run by Wily Mo Pena in the eighth. Hollandsworth followed a Michael Barrett single and a forceout with his homer over the right-field wall, setting the stage for Sosa and Alou to send most of the crowd of 40,173 home delirious.
"They're loving home cooking because this back-to-back thing is getting contagious," Baker said. "That was huge for all of us."
Baker's ejection may have been the spark the Cubs needed.
"When you see your manager go out there and be ready to fight, if you're sleeping, you have to wake up," Sosa said. "That was something we needed at that time because the Reds came out swinging the bats really well. Coming back like that was really big for us."
Sergio Mitre lasted five innings, giving up four runs on eight hits. He was lifted with the score 4-4, but the bullpen went into free fall as Michael Wuertz let five of the six batters he faced reach base. D'Angelo Jimenez and Ken Griffey Jr. hit two-run homers, Griffey's a monster shot onto Waveland Avenue and Jimenez's a wind-blown drive into the right-field stands. Todd Wellemeyer and Kyle Farnsworth also were ineffective.
But Cubs bats made up for what Cubs arms couldn't do.
"I'm so happy to see Alou and Aramis swing the bat like that," Sosa said, "because it makes it easier on everybody.
"This was a pretty emotional game for everybody."


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Q: modifying the default compiler path for building boost I have an old version of boost 1.33.1. I want to build it with a custom gcc binary whih is in a path other than default. I could not find the page on the web so I paste the first part of the gcc-tools.jam form tools/build/v1/gcc-tools.jam.
Copyright (c) 2001 David Abrahams.
  # Copyright (c) 2002-2005 Rene Rivera.
  # Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
  # (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

  # The following #// line will be used by the regression test table generation
  # program as the column heading for HTML tables. Must not include version number.
  #//GNU
GCC

  # compute directories for invoking GCC
  #
  # The gcc toolset can be user-configured using the following
  # variables:
  #
  # GCC_ROOT_DIRECTORY
  #       The directory in which GCC was installed. Defaults to
  #       unset. Usually, there is no need to set this variable at
  #       all. However, if G++ is not in the path it is usually
  #       sufficient to configure this one variable. More fine-grained
  #       configuration is available by setting the following:
  #
  # GCC_BIN_DIRECTORY
  #       the directory prefix used to find the gcc executables. Defaults to
  #       $(GCC_ROOT_DIRECTORY)/bin/, or "" if GCC_ROOT_DIRECTORY is
  #       not set.
  #
  # GCC_INCLUDE_DIRECTORY
  #       the directory in which to find system includes. Defaults to
  #       empty.
  #
  # GCC_STDLIB_DIRECTORY
  #       the directory in which to find the standard library
  #       objects associated with this build of gcc. Defaults to
  #       $(GCC_ROOT_DIRECTORY)/lib.
  #
  # GXX
  #       The name by which g++ is invoked. You can also use this in
  #       lieu of setting the <cxxflags> property to force options such
  #       as "-V3.0.4" into the g++ command line: "-sGXX=g++ -V3.0.4".
  #
  # GCC
  #       Similar to GXX, the name by which gcc is invoked for "C"
  #       language targets.

  # singleton variables...
  set-as-singleton GCC_ROOT_DIRECTORY GCC_BIN_DIRECTORY GCC_INCLUDE_DIRECTORY GCC_STDLIB_DIRECTORY ;

  flags gcc GCC_BIN_DIRECTORY : $(GCC_BIN_DIRECTORY) ;
  flags gcc GCC_INCLUDE_DIRECTORY : $(GCC_INCLUDE_DIRECTORY) ;
  flags gcc GCC_STDLIB_DIRECTORY : $(GCC_STDLIB_DIRECTORY) ;

  GCC_BIN_DIRECTORY ?= $(GCC_ROOT_DIRECTORY)$(SLASH)bin ;
  GCC_BIN_DIRECTORY ?= "" ; # Don't clobber tool names if GCC_ROOT_DIRECTORY not set
  GCC_STDLIB_DIRECTORY ?= $(GCC_ROOT_DIRECTORY)$(SLASH)lib ;

  # Make sure this gets set "on" the target
  flags gcc GCC_BIN_DIR : $(GCC_BIN_DIRECTORY) ;

  flags gcc LINKFLAGS <runtime-link>static : -static ;
  flags gcc CFLAGS <debug-symbols>on : -g ;
  flags gcc LINKFLAGS <debug-symbols>on : -g ;
  flags gcc CFLAGS <optimization>off : -O0 ;
  flags gcc CFLAGS <optimization>speed : -O3 ;

In this part I can modify the default gcc/g++ to my own using the variables which are defined in the comment section. However I don't know How to do that. For example, I write
 GCC_BIN_DIRECTORY=/opt/gcc-4.1.2/installed

But that gives me this error:
 rule GCC_ROOT_DIRECTORY=/opt/gcc-4.1.2/installed unknown in module

So how can I do that?

A: there is script bjam, or b2, take a look here: http://www.boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/reference/tools.html#bbv2.reference.tools.compiler.gcc
and try:
./b2 root /usr/local/mygcc

should be working with provided compiler


Irish Distillers' chairman and CEO Anna Malmhake and Jameson global brand director, Daniel Lundberg and master distiller at Midleton, Brian Nation, formally launched the new initiative at the Old Jameson Distillery yesterday (March 12).
Visitors can personally fill a bottle of Jameson Select Reserve Black Barrel Cask Strength from a live bourbon cask. They can then personalise the label by hand with their name, the date and the whiskey's cask number and ABV, before logging their personal details in a 'Bottle Your Own' ledger. It costs of €100 for 70cl.
With global demand for Irish whiskey continuing to rise, the strategy behind Jameson Bottle Your Own is to increase understanding of the provenance and quality of Irish whiskeys and particularly those made at Midleton.
Jameson Select Reserve Black Barrel Cask Strength is available at its natural cask strength for the first time and exclusively through the Bottle Your Own facilities in Dublin and Cork.
Jameson is the number one best selling Irish whiskey in the world, selling more than four million 9-litre cases worldwide.
As well as Jameson, Irish Distillers also produces Paddy, Powers, the Prestige Collection of single pot still whiskeys Green Spot, Yellow Spot, Redbreast, and Midleton Very Rare.


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package lang.celadon;

import squidpony.squidmath.OrderedMap;

/**
 * Created by Tommy Ettinger on 1/11/2017.
 */
public class StackMapTest {
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        boolean printNormal = false, printUnusual = true;

        OrderedMap<String, String> normal;
        StackMap<String, String> unusual;
        normal = new OrderedMap<>(8, 0.5f);
        unusual = new StackMap<>(8, 0.5f);

        String[] keysMixed = {"alpha", "alpha", "alpha", "alpha", "beta", "alpha", "beta", "beta", "gamma", "gamma", "beta", "alpha"},
                keysSame = {"alpha", "alpha", "alpha", "alpha", "alpha", "alpha", "alpha", "alpha", "alpha", "alpha", "alpha", "alpha"},
                keys = keysMixed,
                vals = {"foo", "bar", "baz", "quo", "lim", "per", "ziv", "wel", "fus", "roh", "dah", "aaa"},
                pr = {"PUT ", "REM "};

        int[] instructions = {0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0};
        if(printNormal)
            System.out.println("normal ( ): " + normal);
        if(printUnusual)
            System.out.println("unusual ( ): " + unusual);

        System.out.println(Integer.toBinaryString("alpha".hashCode()));

        for (int i = instructions.length; i <= instructions.length; i++) {
            normal.clear();
            unusual.clear();
            for (int j = 0; j < i; j++) {

                if (instructions[j] == 0) {
                    normal.put(keys[j], vals[j]);
                    unusual.put(keys[j], vals[j]);
                } else {
                    normal.remove(keys[j]);
                    unusual.remove(keys[j]);
                }

                if (printNormal) {
                    System.out.print("normal (");
                    for (int k = 0; k <= j; k++) {
                        System.out.print(pr[instructions[k]]);
                    }
                    System.out.println("): " + normal);

                    System.out.println("normal[0] is " + normal.getAt(0));
                    System.out.println("normal[1] is " + normal.getAt(1));
                    System.out.println("normal[2] is " + normal.getAt(2));
                    System.out.println("normal[3] is " + normal.getAt(3));
                    System.out.println("normal[4] is " + normal.getAt(4));
                    System.out.println("normal[5] is " + normal.getAt(5));
                    System.out.println("normal[6] is " + normal.getAt(6));
                    System.out.println("normal[7] is " + normal.getAt(7));
                    System.out.println("normal[8] is " + normal.getAt(8));

                    System.out.println("normal['alpha'] is " + normal.get("alpha"));
                    System.out.println("normal['beta'] is " + normal.get("beta"));
                    System.out.println("normal['gamma'] is " + normal.get("gamma"));
                }
                if (printUnusual) {
                    System.out.print("unusual (");
                    for (int k = 0; k <= j; k++) {
                        System.out.print(pr[instructions[k]]);
                    }
                    System.out.println("): " + unusual);

                    System.out.println("unusual[0] is " + unusual.getAt(0));
                    System.out.println("unusual[1] is " + unusual.getAt(1));
                    System.out.println("unusual[2] is " + unusual.getAt(2));
                    System.out.println("unusual[3] is " + unusual.getAt(3));
                    System.out.println("unusual[4] is " + unusual.getAt(4));
                    System.out.println("unusual[5] is " + unusual.getAt(5));
                    System.out.println("unusual[6] is " + unusual.getAt(6));
                    System.out.println("unusual[7] is " + unusual.getAt(7));
                    System.out.println("unusual[8] is " + unusual.getAt(8));

                    System.out.println("unusual['alpha'] is " + unusual.get("alpha"));
                    System.out.println("unusual['beta'] is " + unusual.get("beta"));
                    System.out.println("unusual['gamma'] is " + unusual.get("gamma"));
                }
            }
        }

        /*

        normal.remove("alpha");
        unusual.remove("alpha");

        System.out.println("normal (put 2 remove 1): " + normal);
        System.out.println("unusual (put 2 remove 1): " + unusual);

        System.out.println("normal[0] is " + normal.getAt(0));
        System.out.println("normal[1] is " + normal.getAt(1));

        System.out.println("normal['alpha'] is " + normal.get("alpha"));

        System.out.println("unusual[0] is " + unusual.getAt(0));
        System.out.println("unusual[1] is " + unusual.getAt(1));

        System.out.println("unusual['alpha'] is " + unusual.get("alpha"));

        normal.put("alpha", "baz");
        unusual.put("alpha", "baz");

        System.out.println("normal (put 2 remove 1 put 1): " + normal);
        System.out.println("unusual (put 2 remove 1 put 1): " + unusual);

        System.out.println("normal[0] is " + normal.getAt(0));
        System.out.println("normal[1] is " + normal.getAt(1));

        System.out.println("normal['alpha'] is " + normal.get("alpha"));

        System.out.println("unusual[0] is " + unusual.getAt(0));
        System.out.println("unusual[1] is " + unusual.getAt(1));

        System.out.println("unusual['alpha'] is " + unusual.get("alpha"));

         */

    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub