NEW YORK FASHION WEEK. My first day in NY was a loong day, I flew in red-eye and my first appointment was at 9AM. I naturally gravitated to this all black ensemble because of comfort – both are light, chiffon and sheer. With all black, I like to accessorize more heavily like I did with this crystal statement necklace and bright cobalt blue clutch.
I stayed at Hudson Hotel which is real close to the Lincoln Center, it was perfect to go back and forth from the shows. Hudson is beautiful inside and you would never think of all the smaller venues they have inside, my favorite was the Sky Terrace. It was the perfect back drop for my photos and my perfect resting place in-between shows!
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Hearts FC
Hibs chairman Rod Petrie tells stricken Hearts: 'It's your own fault'
THE Gorgie side went into financial meltdown yesterday, putting every player up for sale. But they have found no sympathy from rival chairman Petrie.
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Rod Petrie: "Those who made the decisions are accountable for where they are"
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HIBS chairman Rod Petrie last night stuck the boot into stricken city rivals Hearts by claiming their financial meltdown is entirely down to the Tynecastle directors.
Petrie has no wish to see the Jambos go out of business and believes the retention of one of the biggest clubs in the country is vital. But the Hibees chief insists the Gorgie outfit have nobody to blame but themselves as they teeter on the brink.
Petrie, speaking after an SPL Board meeting yesterday, said: "It's a concern for everybody connected to the club that there is such uncertainty at the moment.
"Decisions have been made and those who made the decisions are accountable for where they are.
"As a league, we want to make sure all the clubs eligible to participate do participate."
The crisis has been triggered by the collapse of Lithuanian parent company UBIG, which is claiming insolvency and is owed £10million by Hearts.
The Jambos are also in debt to the tune of £15m to Ukio Bankas, which has been declared bankrupt.
Hearts released a grim statement yesterday saying every player – including their clutch of talented kids – was now up for sale in order to raise cash they need to see them through the summer months.
Managing director David Southern later cast doubt on the club's ability to pay wages this month.
Failure to pay off a £100,000 tax bill will almost certainly lead to a winding-up order and voluntary administration could follow, with job cuts almost inevitable and 15 points being docked next term if Hearts have not emerged from the insolvency process.
The club has been living from hand to mouth since owner Vladimir Romanov pulled the plug on funding almost two years ago.
And the statement released by Hearts appeared to point the finger at the fans for not doing enough as 1500 fewer than expected have taken up season tickets so far.
It read: "The payments to HMRC and players/staff salaries are the most important issues in our focus these days where very limited time remains available to the club.
"However given that the revenues for season tickets has dried up and no other realistic income is available quickly enough, the club will consider offers for the players of the current squad, including the most promising talent."
Neil Doncaster delivers strong defence of SPL as top flight prepares to rejoin forces with SFL
Hearts chief David Southern: Jambos squad may be up for sale but they won't go on the cheap

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George Reinitz was twelve years old when he and his family were taken from Szikszó, Hungary, and deported to Auschwitz, where many of his family members were killed. As a boy on the brink of adolescence, he experienced the horrors of a Nazi death camp. Following his liberation he returned to his hometown where he remained for a few years before immigrating to Montreal in 1948 as part of the Canadian Jewish Congress's War Orphans Project.
In Wrestling with Life, George Reinitz recounts his vivid memories of childhood and his experiences in one of the worst places humans ever created. He recalls being tattooed with an unclean needle, eating raw potato skins to stave off hunger, watching his father get whipped in the face, and looking after the horses of SS officers. In Auschwitz he learned and used survival skills that he later applied in the commercial realm. George settled in Montreal and became a world-class wrestler, competing internationally and carrying the flag for the Canadian team at the 1957 Maccabiah Games in Israel. After working in a number of jobs he found his calling in the furniture business, eventually founding Jaymar Furniture, a leading manufacturer and a company that still operates successfully in Quebec.
Wrestling with Life is a moving account of a child's survival under the most difficult of circumstances. It tells the story of one man's hard-won success as a businessman and athlete.


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Take You Shirt Off is the first single off R&B singer T-Pain's fourth studio album RevolveR, the track was produced by Mannie Fresh. The music video was released on December 2, 2009. Cameo appearances were made by Rick Ross, Petey Pablo and George Clinton.


(CNS) - An estimated 600 ground operations workers at Los Angeles International Airport could soon walk off the job over a labor dispute a move that could create a major disruption at LAX and beyond.
remain in operation, the Los Angeles Daily News reported. Swissport employs more than 1,000 people at LAX.
At issue are the severance packages the aviation services company has proposed. Fernandez says they are inadequate. Swissport, he said, wants to pay $600 to employees who have been with the company for up to two years, $800 for workers who have logged two to five years, $1,000 to employees with five to eight years experience, $1,200 for those with eight to 15 years and $1,400 to workers who have been with Swissport for 15 or more years.
"That's the entire package" and there are people who have been working with this company for 40 years!" he said. "I'm trying to keep them at the table. We're trying to bargain in good faith."
counter-proposal with higher severance payouts, but Swissport has yet to respond, Fernandez said.
"Our members are getting to the point that if we don't hear back they may walk off the job," Fernandez said, according to the Daily News.
"That would create big problems, not only here in Los Angeles, but nationwide. If you've got 600 people walking out of work at LAX the entire nation will have a problem."
Swissport serves 24 airlines at LAX, including Frontier, Aero Mexico, Air China, Lufthansa, Spirit Airlines and Virgin Atlantic Airways, according to the company's website.


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Netflix's Transformers: War For Cybertron Earthrise Release Date Confirmed
The next part of the animated Netflix Transformers show arrives next month.
By Dan Auty on November 23, 2020 at 10:29AM PST
The Transformers franchise might have slowed down on the big screen, but the Netflix animated series Transformers: War For Cybertron has shown there's plenty of life left in the series. The first part of the show, titled Siege, hit Netflix in July. The second part is titled Earthrise, and the release date has now been announced.
Transformers: War For Cybertron Earthrise will hit Netflix on December 30. A very brief new teaser has also been released, which follows this longer one that arrived in September. Check it out below.
All seems lost, but the war rages on. Transformers: War For Cybertron Earthrise debuts December 30 #TransformersWFC pic.twitter.com/Cey7bGe3f4
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The series is a tie-in with a Hasbro's War For Cybertron toy range, which launched in 2018. The show focuses on the fight between Autobots and Decepticons for the future of their homeworld of Cybertron. Earthrise sees the Autobots stranded on another planet with a gang of Transformer mercenaries after them. The third part of the series is titled Kingdome, and that'll arrive in 2021.
Transformers isn't the only popular '80s toy and TV property to be getting the Netflix animated treatment. A new He-Man show titled Masters of the Universe: Revelations is on the way from director Kevin Smith and has an amazing voicecast that includes Mark Hamill as Skeletor.
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This photo provided by the media bureau of Yemen's operations command shows Yemeni Borkan-1 (Volcano-1) missiles.
Yemen's Houthi Ansarullah fighters and their allies in the army have fired a long-range ballistic missile at an airbase in the Saudi capital Riyadh, marking the second such attack on the city, a report says.
The missile of Borkan-2 type accurately struck King Salman Air Base on Saturday, Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported.
In a statement carried by Yemen's official Saba news agency, a Houthi military official said the missile attack came in retaliation for the criminal Saudi war on Yemen.
Meanwhile, the Yemeni army pledged that missiles would target the Saudi territory until the regime's bombing campaign stops.
It further announced that 108 ballistic missiles have been fired at positions held by Saudi invaders inside and outside Yemen so far.
Separately on Saturday, Yemeni fighters targeted with a Zelzal-1 missile a gathering place of Saudi mercenaries in the al-Ramzah district in the kingdom's southwestern Jizan region.
They also launched a missile attack against positions held by the mercenaries in al-Maton district of Yemen's northern Jawf province.
Saudi officials have not made any comments on the reports yet.
Last month, the Houthis confirmed the firing of a ballistic missile at the al-Mazahmiya army base in western Riyadh, in the first such attack by the Yemeni forces on the Saudi capital.
On the battlefield, Yemeni snipers shot dead two Saudi soldiers in Jizan on Saturday.
A mine blast also hit two Saudi armored vehicles in Saudi Arabia's southern Najran region.
Saudi Arabia has been leading a deadly military campaign against Yemen since March 2015. The kingdom has also imposed an aerial and naval blockade on its southern neighbor.
Britain and the US have provided huge amounts of arms and military training to the Saudi forces.
The war by Saudi Arabia, which seeks to restore to power Yemen's former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, has killed over 12,000 Yemenis, according to recent tallies.
Yemenis have taken to the streets of the capital Sana'a to slam Saudi Arabia's aggression against their country.
The United Nations Security Council, in response to Russia's request, has met to discuss the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Yemen.
Yemenis protest in Sana'a against the ongoing deadly Saudi campaign.
Yemenis kill a Saudi soldier in a retaliatory attack on military positions in the south of the kingdom.


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package org.elasticsearch.painless.node;

import org.elasticsearch.painless.Location;
import org.elasticsearch.painless.lookup.PainlessLookup;
import org.elasticsearch.painless.lookup.PainlessLookupUtility;

import java.util.Objects;

/**
 * Represents a Painless type as a {@link Class}. This may still
 * require resolution to ensure the type in the {@link PainlessLookup}.
 */
public class DResolvedType extends DType {

    protected final Class<?> type;

    /**
     * If set to {@code true} ensures the type is in the {@link PainlessLookup}.
     * If set to {@code false} assumes the type is valid.
     */
    protected final boolean checkInLookup;

    public DResolvedType(Location location, Class<?> type) {
        this(location, type, true);
    }

    public DResolvedType(Location location, Class<?> type, boolean checkInLookup) {
        super(location);
        this.type = Objects.requireNonNull(type);
        this.checkInLookup = checkInLookup;
    }

    /**
     * If {@link #checkInLookup} is {@code true} checks if the type is in the
     * {@link PainlessLookup}, otherwise returns {@code this}.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if both checking the type is in the {@link PainlessLookup}
     * and the type cannot be resolved from the {@link PainlessLookup}
     * @return a {@link DResolvedType} where the resolved Painless type is retrievable
     */
    @Override
    public DResolvedType resolveType(PainlessLookup painlessLookup) {
        if (checkInLookup == false) {
            return this;
        }

        if (painlessLookup.getClasses().contains(type) == false) {
            throw location.createError(new IllegalArgumentException(
                    "cannot resolve type [" + PainlessLookupUtility.typeToCanonicalTypeName(type) + "]"));
        }

        return new DResolvedType(location, type, false);
    }

    /** @return the canonical Painless type name */
    @Override
    public String getCanonicalTypeName() {
        return PainlessLookupUtility.typeToCanonicalTypeName(type);
    }

    public Class<?> getType() {
        return type;
    }
}

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In HTML5, when you add a work center or view as a shortcut in a language, it remains in that same language when you log back in with another language.
Go to any work center view.
Log out of the system.
Log in with other language.
Go to Shortcuts work center.
These shortcuts are user-specific. An end-user would normally always log into the system using the same language. It is not expected that one user would use the system in multiple languages.


Bucks County Community College's Board of Trustees voted Thursday, April 11, to increase tuition by $15 a credit for county residents in order to balance the budget for the next academic year.
All other college-wide fees remain unchanged. The vote came at the board's monthly meeting at the Newtown Campus. The tuition increase takes effect with the fall semester, which begins August 21.
Dr. Stephanie Shanblatt, college president, noted that while the increase was needed to maintain academic quality and services, Bucks remains the best educational value for students in the region.
Shanblatt added that the college is committed to serving all Bucks County residents, including degree-seeking students, local businesses, and lifelong learners, through a strategic direction that ensures positive outcomes. For example, new workforce programs address skilled labor shortages in high-demand occupations in the county.
Effective with the fall 2019 semester, tuition for Bucks County residents increases from $150 a credit to $165 a credit. That means tuition for Pennsylvania residents who live outside of Bucks County rises from $300 to $330 a credit, and tuition for out-of-state residents increases from $450 to $495 a credit. All other fees remain the same.
The increase means that a typical returning full-time student – a Bucks County resident taking 12 credits a semester – will pay $4898 for 24 credits and fees for the 2019-20 academic year, an increase of $360.
Bucks County Community College is a public, two-year college offering more than 80 programs of study to more than 14,000 students seeking academic degrees, certificates and noncredit certifications. In addition, Bucks provides specialized workforce training and hundreds of noncredit professional development and personal enrichment options for tens of thousands of people annually. To learn more, visit www.bucks.edu.


Genuine Audi Black Grill - S-Line / S3 / A3 it will fit it all. - NOT FK, NOT chinese, genuine so please do not ask 'is this real'. YES it is.
Black fins, black gloss surround etc. Plate holder not included as only have the Euro one (unless you got euro plate from germany it wont work lol). But they are about $40 i got quoted.
Brand new, was going to use it but decided not to. RRP is over $950 in Australia.
Happy to take offers over $400 to be honest, as its taking up room.


Welcome to the Cyborg Institute! The "Institute," somewhat in-jest, has been an attempt at building an ad hoc virtual think tank in the tradition of free software. The Cyborg Institute has always addressed issues at the intersection of technology, society/culture, and the individual user.
taskn a note tracking utility for use with TaskWarrior.
See "Projects Overview" for more information.
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Keeping journals and writing letters used to be commonplace and these physical records were some of the most valued items passed from one generation to the next. We now text, email and post, but too often requirements for brevity and concerns about privacy limit what we record and there is limited thought given to preservation. Many of our most important memories, thoughts and feelings stay trapped in our minds, fade with time and are lost when we are gone: the funny things our kid said; how that favorite teacher influenced us; the travel experience that changed our perspective on life…all lost forever.
Most of us still believe "a picture is worth 1000 words" but how often have we looked back on one of our photos and struggled to identify what was going on at that moment? If we can't recall the "who, what, when and where" context and stories behind our own content, it will be impossible for others to do so in the future and the value of these memories will be significantly diminished and will probably be discarded. Imagine a biography with nothing but a picture section – this is what most of us are creating today. Even if our digital pictures somehow happen to be preserved, what will they be worth to us and others without the stories and context that give them significance?
The personal content that illustrates our lives is typically fragmented, stored in filing cabinets, boxes, albums, social media accounts, devices, online storage accounts, hard drives and other storage media. It is also fragmented across family members and friends. This fragmentation makes it difficult to collect, organize and preserve the memories for us, and others, to look back on.
What happens to the content on our social media accounts when the service goes out of business or we die? Most of us would not want to archive everything posted to our social media accounts but some content is meaningful and worthy of preservation. Currently, this content is likely to be lost or, in the case of Facebook, "memorialized" for your Facebook friends but inaccessible after that.
Cloud storage solutions like Dropbox are useful for data back-ups and accessing content from multiple devices but they are typically file folder based and do not offer features such as adding notes, tagging and changing metadata. This limits how useful they are for capturing and preserving the precious memories of our lives.
Saving a digital file does not guarantee it can be opened at some future date. There are thousands of file formats and many have become obsolete or can no longer be opened by the newer versions of the applications that created them.
As people have become more comfortable with consuming digital content, the amount of content being converted into physical form (e.g. printed photos) has declined. While there are risks that physical content may be lost or damaged, having a physical record as well as a digital one increases the chances of content being preserved.


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obfsproxy is a tool that attempts to circumvent censorship, by transforming the Tor traffic between the client and the bridge.
When you start tor you can choose connection type using obfs4 proxy. How Tor browser gets the list of obfs4proxy ? It download it using clearnet ?
How to use obfs4proxy.exe merely in a console?
Couldn't connect to server through obfsproxy( & where to get the latest document)?
How do I run a bridge with obfs3 pluggable transport?
Is there a obfs4 package for ARMv5?
I'm trying to install obfs4 support on a bridge. But I cant find the right package to install. Can anyone help me find it? Running archlinux for arm on a pogoplug v2 Thanks!
Can current obfuscators defeat deep packet inspection mentioned in "Seeing through Network-Protocol Obfuscation"?
What does the log line "not enough directory information to build a circuit" mean?
Is it possible to use obfsproxy bridges and Meek bridges together?
How would I go about making obfs4 a standalone proxy for usage with OpenVPN or other programs?
How can I start obfs4proxy.exe without starting Tor Browser?
How to run an obfs4 bridge?
I want to help censored users. How can I run an obfs4 (Pluggable Transport) bridge on a Debian-like GNU/Linux machine?
How to update obfs4proxy source code?
How to add obfs3 bridges in torrc?
I have installed Tor on my Ubuntu system, not the Tor browser bundle. Now I can add bridges into torrc file and it's ok. But I want to know how can I add obfs3 bridges into torrc file?
Tor Browser Bundle on Mac - how to run obfsproxy?
Are individual circuits exposed in inter-relay traffic?
I have TBB 3.62 that contains everything I need to run on openSUSE 13.1, but they can not be used in the command-line mode (no gui), how to install tor+obfs offline in terminal and openSUSE 13.1?
How does TBB gets "Provided bridges"?
Does connections using obfs3 still work in China?
how to make Scamblesuit+openvpn work?
How can I run multiple obfuscated services on a machine?
OpenVPN + obfsproxy + obfs3 on Windows?
Why aren't pluggable transports default?


Chinese President Xi Jinping has responded to Donald Trump's anti-trade rhetoric by backing "openness" and "economic liberalization." He said protectionism was like "locking yourself in a dark room." Although his message was welcome, many in the West observed that his government followed a very different course at home, cracking down on contact with foreign people and thoughts.
Ironically, in launching its economic campaign to protest South Korean deployment of the THAAD anti-missile system, Beijing is effectively doing Washington's bidding. U.S. policymakers long have worried about the PRC's economic draw on the South. As China voluntarily curbs those ties, American officials couldn't be happier.
North Korea continues to embarrass its nominal friend and ally, the People's Republic of China. The North's Kim Jong-un apparently ordered a hit on his half-brother, Kim Jong-nam, who was murdered at the Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia airport.
Conflict often results during power transitions. The U.S. should learn from Great Britain's policy toward the rabidly nationalistic rising giant on the North American continent. After fighting two wars with its one-time colonists, Britain wisely chose peace.
President-elect Donald Trump's attack on international trade, and especially his intention to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), will allow the People's Republic of China to seize the economic lead in Asia and prevent any goal of making America great again.
China has experienced significant cultural and economic developments since the late 1990's. Because of China's growing dominance on the international stage and changing internal politics, the significance of Chinese public opinion is becoming more significant in policy decisions. American policymakers, too, should pay attention to Chinese public opinion. The dynamic worldview of Chinese opinion is illustrated through these statistics, which Washington can use in developing its policy toward Beijing. The U.S.-China relationship obviously matters for the two nations, and also affects the rest of the world.
Hillary Clinton is expected to be more belligerent than Obama in dealing with Beijing. But the U.S. cannot expect confrontational or coercive tactics to succeed. Doing so could damage further cooperation between the two countries and drive Beijing closer to North Korea. Instead, the U.S. should aim to take a more diplomatic approach to their relationship with Beijing.
By ignoring the Chinese, Kim Jong-un has been gambling with his regime's future. The PRC appears more ready than ever before to abandon its troublesome friend. However, inertia—and a cold-hearted assessment of interests—is likely to hold Beijing back from cooperating with the U.S. if forced to choose America over Pyongyang.


Does his new movie and new haircut spark new questions regarding the Aussie's hair loss?
In another nominee for the worst hair cut decision, Hugh Jackman sports a dodgy looking mullet hair style in his new movie Chappie, an underwhelming movie about a robot with feelings (we liked it better the first time we saw it in 1986 when it was called Short Circuit). But perhaps what's the most interesting thing this reveals, beyond Jackman's more decision ability when picking movie roles, is his hairline. The unfortunate haircut highlights what appears to be a drastically receding hairline. Rumors have swirled for years that the jacked Australian actor has worn some sort of hair system. Over the years, Jackman's hair has (literally) been all over the place. From the various forms of the cartoonish hairstyle he sported in all the X-Men and Wolverine movies, to the buzzcut mess he sported in the big screen adaptation of the classic play Les Miserable, to the shaved bald look he'll rock for the upcoming Peter Pan movie "Pan." Perhaps the ever changing hairstyles has caused some of the hair follicles to get over worked and now some of them refuse to come out and play. Whatever the case may be, we think most of us can agree that bald Hugh Jackman is pretty badass looking. The photo of a bald Hugh Jackman at the Wimbledon tennis championships really carries a striking image. The handlebar mustache and with the natural looking receded hairline on full display here, Jackman's look is at the apex of alpha male style. This should be inspiration to those who are struggling with hair loss and holding on to the few fibers they have left. Jackman's shaved look provides such a great example of how masculine and strong the shaved look can be. Pair the liberating feeling of shaving the head with the magic of SMP and you'll have a look that you can boldly go forth with. The handlebar mustache is purely optional — all though, it may be the perfect finishing touch.


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import ReactComponents from "../react-components";
import utils from "../../../../test/mocha/testUtils";
import React from "react";
import ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import {mount} from 'enzyme';
import sinon from "sinon";

const assert = utils.assert;

describe('ConfirmButton', function () {
  let button;

  it('should render text properties', function () {
    button = mount(
      <ReactComponents.ConfirmButton text="Click here to render Rocko Artischocko" />
    );
    assert.equal(button.text(), 'Click here to render Rocko Artischocko');
  });

  it('should use onClick handler if provided', function () {
    const spy = sinon.spy();

    button = mount(
      <ReactComponents.ConfirmButton text="Click here" onClick={spy} />
    );

    button.simulate('click');
    assert.ok(spy.calledOnce);
  });

  it('shows icon by default', function () {
    button = mount(
      <ReactComponents.ConfirmButton text="Click here" onClick={function () { }} />
    );
    assert.equal(button.find('.icon').length, 1);
  });

  it('optionally omits the icon', function () {
    button = mount(
      <ReactComponents.ConfirmButton text="Click here" onClick={function () { }} showIcon={false} />
    );
    assert.equal(button.find('.icon').length, 0);
  });
});


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Today, I have been thinking a lot about assumptions, and how sometimes we make decisions based on assumptions, instead of facts. You know, the bible speaks of always getting an understanding, and so many times, we make decisions without getting an understanding.
For instance, I do no necessary talk about my cycling workouts that I do during the winter; it's really nothing special. It's just what I do. Just like I brush my teeth, go to work, and pick my afro, I do my cycling workouts. So, when folks say things that allude to me not riding, I want to punch folks or scream. I wonder why they won't just ask... Get An Understanding.
However, then it goes back to me, and me being responsible for my response to folks. I'm thinking that maybe I could kindly say with a fake smile: "Man, I've being training." Or, I could absorb folks assumptions the same way that the ground absorbs rain water?
Now, you know I am not a saint, and there are tons of decisions that I make that are based on assumptions, but know, I am trying to do better. This mindful living can be HARD! I am hearing God say Grace and Mercy, Grace and Mercy and not just for other folks, but for myself as well.
Last school year I did not challenge my Advanced Placement Literature students to do the 10 to 40 book challenge, I assumed that they were readers. Now, I know where the assumptions came from, but you know that I had no proof that my AP seniors read more than my tenth graders. However, after much discussion, I realized that the AP seniors needed to be challenged to read more just like the tenth graders. Now, everybody is encourage to go higher; there is always room to go higher.
Last year I spent a lot of time focusing on reading. I knew that many of my students were not readers, and I know that I was playing a part in doing full out Readicide. Yep, I was teaching books that I love, thinking that I was reaching the masses and was actually committing Readicide; killing kids love of reading. Gave the students choice, and it totally changed my classroom for the better.
This year, I needed to get that writing going along with the reading. After following, on twitter, a whole lot of folks who are farther along than me and taking their advice, I have been focusing on helping my students to get their thoughts out without the pressure of me and that red pen. We have been responding to the texts that they are reading through writing. I read their responses and respond, but I do not correct for grammar errors. However, I am noticing that I am not seeing many grammar errors, and I have some thoughts about why, but that's a whole 'nother blog.
Their one big writing piece was to fully develop whatever they wanted to write about. And, they have been writing. When they said they were finished, they would come and sit next to me, and we would talk through the papers and make correction as we went along.
Y'all, I have cried and cried and cried. One student sat next to me, and I read her story, and I wept, and she wept. When I finally was able to speak, all I could say is "I'm sorry." We talked about it, and we both cried and cried. I read many more papers and asked questions and listened and cried.
The funny thing about my crying is that all of the students saw me crying, and you know, they were quiet and somber. No one laughed or asked what was wrong... They were just quiet and somber; we were sharing a moment.
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Q: signedness vs bit size Given example below, with the simulators I've tried, the value of d2 is created by sign extending 4'sd2 - i1.  From, my reading of the standard (1800-2012) I expect 4'sd2 - i1 to be treated as unsigned and zero extended in the same way as for d1.
What am I missing?  Does the unsignedness of i1 somehow change as it is being widened from 2 to 4 bits?  Thanks.
module sign_test(input clk, input /*unsigned*/ [1:0] i1,
                 output reg [7:0] d1, output reg [7:0] d2);
  always @(posedge clk) begin
    d1 = $unsigned(4'sd2 - i1); // this gets zero extended; the only possible values for 'd1' are 0, 1, 2 and 0x0f
    d2 = 4'sd2 - i1; // this gets sign extended; the only possible values for 'd2' are 0, 1, 2 and 0xff
    // but 11.8.1 says "4'sd2 - i1" should be unsigned:
    //  "-- For non-self-determined operands, the following rules apply:
    //       [...]
    //       -- If any operand is unsigned, the result is unsigned,
    //          regardless of the operator."
    // and 'i1' is unsigned by default (adding "unsigned"
    // explicitly doesn't change the behaviour).
  end
endmodule

A: I think the reason for the difference is not to do with whether each expression is signed or unsigned, but instead to do with the number of bits Verilog uses to do the calculation.
This is a context-determined expression:
d2 = 4'sd2 - i1;

That means Verilog uses the maximum of all the widths involved (the widths of d2, 4'sd2 and i1, which is 8 (the width of d2). As you say unsigned arithmetic is done. With a value of 2'b11 for i1:
d2 = 00000010 - 00000011

which is
11111111

With
  d1 = $unsigned(4'sd2 - i1);

however, the width of d1 is not taken into account, because of the call to the $unsigned system function. This makes the expression 4'sd2 - i1 a self-determined expression and so the bit width used for the calculation is 4 - the maximum of the widths of 4'sd2 and i1. So
0010 - 0011

is
1111

This is then zero-padded to
00001111

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A key part of most Office 365 deployments is directory synchronization with on-premises Active Directory (AD). To maintain a link between individual object in AD and Office 365, one attribute in AD is defined as the source anchor. The source anchor acts as a unique identifier for each object so that you can change properties like UPN and have them replicate to the proper matching object in Office 365.
Older versions of Azure AD Connect used the objectGUID attribute as the source anchor. In many cases, this is a good choice because it is an attribute that doesn't change. However, in complex configurations with multiple AD forests, this can cause an issue during migrations. When a user account is moved from one AD forest to another, it gets a new objectGUID in the new forest. Due to the new objectGUID , Azure AD Connect treats the user as a new user instead of an existing user.
To avoid this issue, we need to use an attribute for source anchor that can be moved between forests. Microsoft now recommends that deployments of Azure AD Connect use the mS-DS-ConsistencyGuid attribute as the source anchor. Unlike objectGUID , this attribute can be modified. So, it can be maintained when users are moved between forests.
I've just recently completed this process and I'll provide some general guidance (for my own reference) and a few items that I didn't see anywhere else.
First, read the information from Microsoft on updating the source anchor. You'll need to scroll down a bit to the heading "How to enable the ConsistencyGuid feature - Existing deployment".
If you're like me, before attempting this you'll scour the web looking for information about how to fix things when they go wrong. Unless things change a lot after I write this, you won't find much. The reason you won't find much is because the wizard does exactly what it's supposed to.
Note: The wizard does not ask you which attribute you want for the source anchor. It is assumed that you want to use mS-DS-ConsistencyGuid.
When the wizard is done, a full sync is triggered for all connected forests. As part of the full sync Azure AD Connect reviews the value of the mS-DS-ConsistencyGuid attribute. If the value is blank, the objectGUID value is copied into the mS-DS-ConsistencyGuid value. Then on the next sync cycle the mS-DS-ConsistencyGuid value is sent to Office 365.
The Modify AD FS Claim Rules section in the above link has four rules. The net effect of these rules is to use mS-DS-ConsistencyGuid if it is populated and use objectGUID otherwise. This avoids downtime when AD FS rules have been modified but the mS-DS-ConsistencyGuid hasn't been populated yet.
If you have let the installation and configuration wizards for Azure AD Connect manage all of the service account permissions and AD FS integration, there should be no issues. However, if you've been manually configuring the permissions and AD FS rules, you might need to make changes manually.
dsacls.exe "dc=contoso,dc=com" /I:S /G "contoso\serviceaccount:RPWP;mS-DS-ConsistencyGuid;user"
The above command grants (/G) inheritable (/I:S) permissions to the service account to read (RP) and write (WP) the mS-DS-ConsistencyGuid attribute on user objects.
Review the AD FS claim rules for Office 365 and verify that they were modified.
Review the mS-DS-ConsistencyGuid attribute on several user objects to verify that it has been populated.
On one deployment, we had an error in the Azure AD Connect full sync for one domain immediately after finishing the wizard. The domain that finished properly updated the mS-DS-ConsistencyGuid attribute and the domain with the error didn't. Running an incremental sync didn't fix it. We needed to force a full sync again to get the attribute updated properly.
When viewing the value of the mS-DS-ConsistencyGuid attribute in Active Directory Users and Computers, the value might be displayed in special characters for some users. This is a display error in Active Directory Users and Computers. This is not something you need to fix.
I was still able to remove the device by using a Windows PowerShell prompt connected to Exchange Online. But what I noticed is that for the Remove-MobileDevice cmdlet to work, I needed to use the Identity property from the mobile device rather than the Name property that the Exchange admin portal was attempting to use.
You can see in the screenshot above using the Name or DeviceID properties didn't work. Only the Identity property which includes the full path with the user name works.
I've opened a support ticket with Microsoft and we'll see what they come back with. It was not a know issue when I contacted them, but they're going to do some checking on the back end. I will update this blog post when there is a resolution.
So, support indicates that it's definitely an issue, but to raise visibility with the support team they asked me to create an "idea" at office365.uservoice.com. This location seems more for feature requests than bug fixes. However, I've put an "idea" in. I'll continue to update as I learn more.
My client has informed me that this issue has been fixed. I'm not sure the date, but you should no longer see this problem.


My parents weren't movie people, but I grew up watching a small handful of VHS tapes (The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking, The Little Rascals, Milo and Otis, The Neverending Story, Drop Dead Fred, A Little Princess, The Secret Garden). Then I discovered a small video store on the corner of my street, so I started walking there and renting all the Olsen twins' movies. But I certainly did not get much of a film education until I started working at a different video store around 2002 at age 14. As such, most of my favourites are recent films, and I have very significant gaps in my viewing – especially films released before the 1970s.
I tend to fall for films which are quiet and intimate. I am drawn towards the representation of parenthood and childhood on screen, particularly things that allude to the impact of upbringing and household dynamics. I will quite easily overlook minor issues with screenplays or performances, so long as a film nails it's cinematography. Yet I want to be challenged by film. I want it to make me question life. I want to see the world through the eyes of another, and change my own worldview in the process.
On high rotation in my house as a teen, The Virgin Suicides is perfect for a melancholic Sunday viewing. Then, as an angsty young teenager stuck in a small regional town, I saw it as an on-screen representation of the suffocation I was feeling. Yet there is something beautiful and idyllic about teenage imprisonment here – frilly dresses, living room-sized bedrooms, and Josh Hartnett-faced love interests. It is perhaps not as objectively good as it is dear to me, but it's an impressive feature debut from Sofia Coppola and it will always be my absolute favourite.
A delicate portrayal of an at-times brutal childhood, The Tree of Life is Malick's finest. As far as I'm concerned, the present day scenes have very little value. However the film's exploration of childhood and memory in dream-like flashes lets you sway through the life of another with an intimacy unlike any other film. Jessica Chastain is grace personified, as an angelic mother figure whose purity radiates and washes over me like warm light. It represents the solace a child finds within the arms of his mother, especially in a home filled with so much tension and fear. It's not a film to be intellectualised, but experienced and felt.
I don't remember seeing this for the first time, because Notting Hill feels like a movie that I have always known. It's probably my most watched film of all time, and I am sure I had already clocked at least 100 watches by the time I graduated high school. There's nothing great about the plot, or the filmmaking, or even the performances (though Julia Roberts is great), and yet it is still somehow perfect to me. And there is a scene which I swear is inspired by Katharine Hepburn's 1942 film Woman of the Year, though I've never seen anyone else mention it.
Obsessive love for Carol has almost become an internet meme at this point and it's difficult to separate the film from the chaos surrounding it, which is a bit of a shame because it can certainly stand on its own. Todd Haynes has never been better (although Safe is a deserving second), and nor has Cate Blanchett, which is high praise for such an amazing career (my meagre words can do her no justice, so I will not attempt it). I love just about everything about this film – the performances, the styling, the music, the cinematography. But it is more than the sum of its parts, and those final moments leave me with a heaving chest every time.
Arrival is such a small story inside such a big story, then somehow it's an even bigger small story. It's about the very essence of life and is questioning some of the greatest aspects of being, memory, and time. Although better on rewatch, it's a film that I cannot bring myself to waste. It's not a throw-on-in-the-background kind of film; it's best when you're able to give over a part of yourself, allow it to run away with you, spin you about, and gently cradle you by its end. If you allow it to, Arrival can change the way you think about life.
An exploration of time, place, loss, longing, and being, A Ghost Story is doing a lot with very little. It's best to go into this one blind, so I won't go into much detail and I've only seen it once....there's too much to unpack in one viewing. It's doing something quite unique, and I'm desperate to see it again. I suspect it will get reduced to comments about Casey Affleck under a bed sheet or "the film with the pie", but there is so much love and patience in this film, giving its audience time and space to ponder. A great companion piece to Arrival.
With a rare delicate touch from David Fincher, follow the life of Benjamin Button from birth until death. It's an unusual life, but the most interesting thing about it is not his aging backwards, but rather the people he meets throughout. There's an overarching theme of time slipping through Benjamin's fingers, just as it is through all of ours. The way time passes is both beautiful and quietly devastating. The romance between Benjamin and Daisy is probably my favourite one on screen, as it explores the curse of circumstance, cherishing moments, and allowing love to take hold.
A realistic portrayal of the dynamic nature of love, where romantic love and friendship are intertwined and how relationships often dance between the two. It's incredibly bittersweet. Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg are two of my favourites and they've never been better than here, managing performances with just the right amount of humour, vulnerability, and heartbreak. It's a breakup movie, but you don't need to be in the middle of a breakup to watch it and cry, and laugh, and laugh-cry.
I had to include a Kate Hepburn in here, and this is probably my favourite. She's doing what she does best – verbal jousting and chemistry with Spencer Tracy. It's a sort of almost-feminist story of a husband and wife competing in the court room, representing opposing parties in an attempted murder case. Don't overthink its message – it doesn't hold up – but just enjoy it for its screwball comedy nature. And then watch The Philadelphia Story, Desk Set, Woman of the Year and Bringing Up Baby. These are the movies I wish I grew up with....sorry, Olsen twins.
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Q: shared preference stored value check and display a widget I'm storing an id and a bool value using shared preference when a button click in a container.Next time when I come to that screen I need to check that saved id and the bool value with the id of that container and not to show the container if the ids are same.Container is wrapped with a visibility to hide it when clicked.
bool isVisible = true;

Visibility(
    visible: isVisible,
    child: Container(
      child: ElevatedButton(
        child: Text('Click'),
        onPressed: () async {
           SharedPreferences prefs =
                                await SharedPreferences.getInstance();
                            setState(() {
                              isVisible = false;
                              prefs.setBool('container', false);
                              prefs.setInt('Id', container.id);
                            });
                          },

        ),
    ));

A: I'll assume you're not using a State Management library.
You could wrap this Visibility widget in a StatefulWidget, fetch the datas from your sharedPreferences in the initState method, and refresh your screen with a setState
Another solution would be to use a FutureBuilder, which is better for your current use-case in my opinion.

class _MyHomePageState extends State<MyHomePage> {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(
        title: Text(widget.title),
      ),
      body: Center(
        child: FutureBuilder(
            future: isVisible(),
            builder: (BuildContext context, AsyncSnapshot<bool> snapshot) {
              if (snapshot.hasData) {
                return Visibility(
                  visible: snapshot.data ?? true,
                  child: ElevatedButton(
                    onPressed: () async {
                      //Whatever you need
                    },
                    child: const Text('Click'),
                  ),
                );
              }

              if (snapshot.hasError) {
                return const Text("Error");
              }

              return const CircularProgressIndicator();
            }),
      ),
    );
  }

  Future<bool> isVisible() async {
    SharedPreferences prefs = await SharedPreferences.getInstance();
    final containerId = prefs.getInt('Id');
    final containerVisibility = prefs.getBool('container');

    //Do your stuff and return the bool you want
    return true;
  }
}


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Heinrich IV. (* 1315/20; † 24. Dezember 1344) war Graf von Bar von 1336 bis 1344. Er war der Sohn von Graf Eduard I. aus dem Adelsgeschlecht Scarponnois und Maria von Burgund aus dem Älteren Haus Burgund.

Biographie
Erstmals wird er 1323 erwähnt, ein zweites Mal 1329, als sein Vater ihn mit einer Tochter Johanns von Böhmen zu verheiraten versuchte. Als Graf Eduard I. 1336 starb, verweigerte Heinrich IV. Herzog Rudolf von Lothringen den Lehnseid für diejenigen seiner Herrschaften, die Lothringen unterstanden, woraufhin Rudolf 1337 die Umgebung von Pont-à-Mousson, Heinrichs Besitz, verwüstete. Im Gegenzug plünderte Heinrich den Westen des Herzogtums, woraufhin Rudolf das Barrois angriff. Es bedurfte der Intervention des französischen Königs Philipp VI., um den Krieg zu beenden.

Als König Eduard III. von England 1339 damit drohte, in Frankreich einzufallen, schloss sich Heinrich dem Heer Philipps an. Die Bedrohung endete 1340 mit einem Vertrag – und führte zum Wiederaufflammen der Kämpfe mit Rudolf in der Umgebung von Neufchâteau; erneut musste Philipp eingreifen, um die Auseinandersetzungen zu beenden.

Als der König von England 1344 mit dem Ende des Waffenstillstands drohte, war Heinrich IV. als Cousin des Engländers einer derjenigen Adligen – neben Herzog Johann von Normandie, Philipps Erben, Herzog Odo IV. von Burgund – die zu Papst Clemens VI. nach Avignon gesandt wurden, damit dieser einen neuen Vertrag durchsetze. Eine Epidemie zwang die Gesandtschaft jedoch, die Stadt wieder zu verlassen. Heinrich hatte sich jedoch bereits angesteckt, im Juli verließ er die anderen, im Oktober traf er in Vincennes ein, am 24. Dezember 1344 starb er.

Familie
Heinrich IV. von Bar heiratete 1338 Yolande de Dampierre († 1395), Tochter von Robert de Dampierre, Graf von Marle und Herr von Cassel, und Jeanne de Bretagne, Enkelin von Robert III., Graf von Flandern, Yolande von Burgund, Gräfin von Nevers, Arthur II. Herzog von Bretagne und Yolande von Dreux, Erbin Grafschaft Montfort-l'Amaury. Ihre Kinder waren:
 Eduard II. (1339–1352), Graf von Bar
 Robert I. (1344–1411), Graf und später Herzog von Bar

Literatur
 Georges Poull: La Maison souveraine et ducale de Bar. Presses Universitaires de Nancy, Nancy 1994, ISBN 2-86480-831-5.

Graf (Bar)
Herr (Marle)
Familienmitglied des Adelsgeschlechts Scarponnois
Geboren im 14. Jahrhundert
Gestorben 1344
Mann

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You can really make the shell your own, adapting every facet to the way you work (and even the different ways you work from week to week). In this section we'll look at quick changes you can make. Scripting, a way to extend and combine the functions offered by the shell, will be introduced later.
Each command-line shell has the concept of a variable. Variables consist of two parts: the variable name and the variable value. If I were to say "x=6", "x" is the name of the variable, and "6" is the value. To see the value of a variable, one puts a dollar sign in front of the variable name. Here is a very simple example.
Above, the first line assigns the value 6 to the variable x and the second line asks the shell to display the value of x. Note that we put the dollar sign in front of the variable name when we want to see its value, but we never use the dollar sign when assigning the value.
So anything starting with a dollar sign ($) is interpreted by the shell as a variable. One variable sneaked into an earlier section on exit status: you saw that $? contains the exit status of the previous command.
Now, what kind of useful things can we do with variables? A common use is to save typing. Say that the files for the project you're working on all week are located in a directory called /home/jsmith/projects/foo/confoobulator. /home/jsmith/projects/foo/confoobulator is a lot to type, but you can save typing by assigning the value to a variable.
The (ordinary) variable p becomes an environment variable, and can be used by any command that my shell runs.
The first dollar sign shown in that example is just a prompt; it has nothing to do with variables.
Your output will look different, but many of the variable names will be the same. You will find some of these useful in later work.
SHELL is the path to your login shell.
USER is your username. When you logged into your GNU/Linux system, this is the username you typed in.
PATH is a list of directories, separated by colons. When you run a command (like cat or ls), your shell looks in these directories to find the executable program. We'll talk more about PATH in just a moment.
PWD is your current working directory (that is, the folder you are in).
HOME is your home directory. You start out in this directory when you first log in.
_ is the last executed command. In this case, /usr/bin/env.
My shell found the ls command by using the PATH environment variable.
The value of PATH is a list of directories, separated with colons. When I typed ls, my shell looked for the command in /usr/local/bin/ls, then /usr/bin/ls, and finally /bin/ls. /bin/ls is where the command lives, so my shell was able to run that. If there wasn't a /bin/ls, then my shell would have tried /usr/games/ls, and then given up.
You may have seen a lot of nice customizations in the book--or even better, thought up a few customizations of your own--and may be ready to save some of them so you can reuse them in every terminal session. Anything you define in the shell is lost when you close the terminal window. So this is a good time to look at configuration files, which save useful customizations between sessions.
Your home directory contains several hidden files that contain settings for the shell and other programs. In addition, there are entire hidden directories where programs store information, such as the colors you chose to put on your desktop.
In the previous listing (which will look different on your system) the .bashrc and .profile files are what we're particularly interested in. These are where you can put your customizations. It doesn't matter much which one you choose. The .bashrc file is particular to a type of shell (there are many types) called Bash, whereas .profile is read by other shells in case you decide to use something besides Bash.
Bash configuration works in a very simple manner: Bash just executes the commands when it starts up, exactly as if you typed them in before you did anything else. So anything you see in this section that you like--an alias, a function, a change to an environment variable, etc.--you can put in a configuration file. Entire scripts can be included.
Your startup files likely have commands in them already. Some are installed along with the operating system, while others are added by system administrators at workplaces. To change these customizations or add your own, check out the section on text editors in this book. Pick one editor and learn a dozen or so of its basic commands so you can do the minimal editing needed to put in your customizations.
You can combine a number of commands and give it a name; then you can use this name like any other command. Consider writing a function whenever you find yourself executing the same commands repeatedly. You can also write flexible functions that change their behavior based on arguments, just as other commands do.
To save your commands as a function, issue a command named function followed by the name you want to assign it, and the commands in curly braces. Note that we've used hash marks (#) to add some comments so we will remember what the function is for later. The shell ignores the hash mark and any text that follows on that line.
Now you can issue the command savelog and execute the embedded commands. You can put the function definition in a startup file so you never have to type the definition in again.
The previous example was quite contrived because you very rarely issue the exact same commands in sequence. However, you often have a complicated command that you run on different files, or other objects.
# Compare the Emacs back-up version with the current version.
The first thing this function does is save the first argument in its own $arg variable. The shift command removes the argument and shifts all the other arguments over, so that the second argument is now . In the section on scripting, you'll see how to use loops to process arguments or other items one by one.
Functions can contain compound statements, such as if/then blocks. To show how flexible and powerful the combination of functions and compound statements can be, we'll include here an if/then statement that was shown earlier in the section "Handling command failure".
then echo "you now know more about "
then echo "you now know more about draw"
As long as you can guess what errors or other conditions will occur, you can handle them automatically in a function.
It's important to put a space after the dot, before the filename.
where user is the login name, host is the name of the computer, ~ is the working directory, short for the user's home, typically in the form /home/user, and $ means that the current user is not root.
with the time printed in red. This uses \d for the date, \e[31m to turn on red color, \t for the time, \e[0m to turn off red, \r\n for Carriage Return and New Line, and the rest as in the default.
To make things more interesting, you can run a program within the prompt by enclosing it in [$( )]. This example counts the number of files in the current directory, by counting the lines (wc -l) piped in from a directory listing (ls).
$ PS1="\u@\h [$(ls | wc -l)]:$ "
Besides the configuration files in each user's directory, the system has a lot of configuration files that control system-wide behavior. Sometimes you'll find it necessary to edit one by hand, using a text editor. In this section we'll show how to grant someone superuser privileges, a system-wide issue controlled by a file named /etc/sudoers.
It is best not to edit this file in an ordinary text editor. The sudoedit command provides a much safer way to edit configuration files.
This makes a temporary copy of the file and opens the copy in an editor. You can override the default editor by setting the VISUAL or EDITOR environment variable to "vi", "emacs", or whatever you like.
Permission lines in /etc/sudoers identify the user, followed by the hosts the user can use sudo on, which groups the user can act as a member of, and which commands the user can execute using sudo.
An operator in a corporate or school system might have permissions that look like this.
This also lets you edit any configuration file on your computer.
Different countries use different conventions for all sorts of things: character sets, currencies, the formats of dates and times, and even paper size and shape. Computers can be instructed which language to use, and which version of the language to use for a particular country. This combination of customized information is called the locale.
The LANG setting en_US.UTF-8 specifies English as the language, US as the country, and Unicode UTF-8 as the encoding. Money in the US is in dollars, $. Paper is letter, 8.5" × 11", as opposed to A4 for most of the rest of the world.
You usually specify a language and country when you install your operating system, and everything including the shell picks those values up. Originally, it was supposed that language, country, and character encoding would go together, but in our increasingly global society, it can happen that a Hungarian temporarily in the US on UN business would choose UTF-8, French language, metric (SI) measurements, Euros, Swiss address and telephone formats (for the home office in Geneva), and US letter paper.
You can change any of these settings in your shell by assigning an appropriate string to the relevant environment variable. The accepted values for locale settings are provided with options to the locale command.
You will get different locale specifications depending on the languages and encodings selected on your system at installation time or modified later.
To set your preferences, check for the correct format using these commands, and set the locale environment values in your .profile accordingly.
Another essential element of localization is your preferred keyboard layout, set with the loadkeys command for the command line, and setxkbmap for the X Window System (used on virtually all free desktops).
The setfont command lets you change to a font for a specific writing system.
This sets a bitmap font covering ISO 8859-1, suitable for many Western European languages.
If you need to type documents in more than one writing system, you probably need to move to X. But there are extended versions of Emacs and vim that can create plain text files in multiple writing systems, either in their own format or in Unicode.


Who's going to win at Wrestlemania?
Triple H or Brock Lesnar? If Triple H loses he will have to retire from WWE.
Brock lesnar will win ,he'll destroy hhh cuz he's the best wrestler in wwe today.
Both are very strong but i think Triple H will win.
HHH. It's redemption time for The Game.
I'll be hopping Lesnar to break HHH arm and destroy him as well and get the win.
I give HHH a 51% chance.
Obviously HHH. First of all, he has to get redemption from Summer Slam. Second of all, do you really think WWE would let HHH lose his wrestling career? Thought so.


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Pregnant woman found dead in Lake Michigan identified via dental records as Chicago resident, 19
By Talia Soglin
A 19-year-old Chicago resident has been identified as the pregnant woman found dead in Lake Michigan earlier this month, the Lake County sheriff's office said in a news release.
The body was recovered from the lake Aug. 15 after a fisherman saw it floating in the water about 3 miles southeast of Waukegan Harbor. The woman who died was identified by the Lake County coroner's office this weekend as Yarianna Wheeler.
She was about six to seven months pregnant when she died, the sheriff's office said in an earlier news release, and her body had likely been in the water for no more than seven to 12 days.
Wheeler's autopsy showed she had suffered "several sharp force injuries," though an official cause of death was still pending.
Wheeler, who was originally from Bellwood, was identified based on a tip received by Lake County sheriff's detectives. The Lake County coroner's office forensic odontologist made the identification using Wheeler's dental records.
Her death is being investigated as a homicide.


The propose of this module is to add reference to sales order in order to calculate the cost occured for that sales order, especially from Purchase Orders.
The Ref Sales Order can be filled "Manually" at this moment.
Selection of SO Lines in PR/PO, to make it more fine grain.


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Kevin Klose To Leave RFE/RL
RFE/RL President Kevin Klose, Prague, January 21, 2014
RFE/RL President and CEO Kevin Klose has announced that he will leave the organization March 1.
In farewell remarks to RFE/RL staff, Klose expressed how "honored and delighted" he was to have worked with colleagues in Washington; Prague, Czech Republic, where RFE/RL's offices are headquartered; and in RFE/RL's 19 local bureaus.
At the request of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), Klose returned to RFE/RL in January 2013 after previously serving as its president from 1994 to 1997. In his most recent tenure, Klose oversaw the revitalization of RFE/RL's Russian Service, Radio Svoboda and its Moscow bureau; strengthening of the company's multimedia platforms and programming; and, most recently, the Ukrainian Service's outstanding coverage of Kyiv's Euromaidan protests.
"Having achieved what the BBG asked me to do, it's time to move aside and take up the other part of my life," Klose said, adding that he plans to work "as an independent person steeped in journalism in the pursuit of a wider public engagement of the importance of the work we and our colleagues in U.S. international media do."
"Words are inadequate to express how sad we are to see Kevin leave," said RFE/RL's Editor-in-Chief Nenad Pejic. "He pushed us to the next level, and raised the bar of our professionalism. He stood for us whenever we needed it and we responded by making our content better, sharper, more attractive."
Klose is a tenured professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, where he served as dean of the journalism college from 2009 to 2012. He also served as president of NPR from 1998 to 2008, directed the International Broadcasting Bureau at the U.S. Information Agency from 1997 to 1998, and was an editor and reporter for "The Washington Post" for 25 years, including stints as Moscow bureau chief, city editor and deputy national editor.


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Q: plotsymbol label I'm playing with core-plot to generate a scatter plot. I've added a plot symbol and want to add a label near every symbol.
I able to do that but want to change the position of this label. I can set the offset but it move the label only vertically, I need to move the label horizontally.
Any way to do that?
this picture shows what i'd like.
screen shot
Thanks

A: The automatic labels will always appear above the point. You can create annotations to label your data points. For each label, use CPTPlotSpaceAnnotation, anchor it to the coordinates of the data point, and set the displacement and content anchor.
To put the labels to the right of the point, set the displacement to (x, 0) where x is the number of pixels between the label and the center of the data point. Set the content anchor to (0, 0.5).


Think back to 1982. It seemed that no matter where you went, if you turned on a radio, you heard the song 'Nobody'. It was everywhere.
'Nobody' was a huge #1 country hit, a Top 20 pop hit, a Top 5 Adult Contemporary hit and sold well over a million copies.
The singer? Well, all we really knew is she had just one name. Sylvia.
Sylvia was Sylvia Jane Kirby, born in Kokomo Indiana and she burst across the music world in 1982. Her single 'Nobody' was played on the radio more than any other song that year, 1982. She was the ACM's Female Vocalist of the Year and received a Grammy nomination. In other words, her career was hot!
Sylvia had a few other country hits, but nothing approaching the success of 'Nobody'. So, whatever happened to Sylvia?
Well, Sylvia continued to tour, criss-crossing the country through the 1980's, releasing albums. Then she decided to essentially retire.
Why? Burned out? Not at all, she just wanted to go into another area of her career. Songwriting.
Now, Sylvia, at the age of 58, is a 'life-coach', working with aspiring people in the music industry-singers, songwriters, musicians and others.
She's happily married and lives in the Nashville area.
And hopefully, 'Nobody' doesn't call!


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La extrapolítica o política transhumanista es un conjunto de ideologías políticas que además de proyectar un cambio en la sociedad apelan a la mejora del hombre como rol activo del Estado. El origen de la palabra extrapolítica proviene de la adición del prefijo extra (fuera de) a la palabra política para diferenciar las propuestas políticas transhumanistas de las bioconservadoras o tradicionales, como una alusión al deseo transhumanista de superar los límites humanos y por ende políticos.

Transhumanismo Democrático
Aprueban la mejora humana como un rol del Estado que debe ser asumido para evitar escenarios catastróficos en donde la mejora tecnológica quede reducida a un reducido grupo humano o élite. Se basa en la libertad de elección individual, la libertad morfológica y el acceso libre a las tecnologías de mejora para todo ciudadano.

Dirigido por Nick Bostrom y Julian Savulescu, con apoyo de James Hughes, la Asociación Transhumanista Internacional (World Transhumanist Association - WTA) es una agrupación que promueve y difunde el transhumanismo democrático a través de escritos de carácter políticos, éticos y científicos. Esta agrupación promueve la mejora humana a través de la ingeniería genética y ampara el desarrollo de la súperinteligencia artificial.

Transhumanismo Libertario
El transhumanismo libertario o simplemente transhumanismo es una corriente individualista que se opone a la inclusión del Estado en el proceso de transhumanizción. Fomenta el libre mercado y arguye que la intromisión del Estado limitaría la acción y disposición de elección del hombre. Alguna vez lo propuso el extropianismo y su enfoque anarco capitalista

Retropolítica
La retropolítica es cualquier práctica extrapolítica que agregue a alguna de las cuatro teorías políticas clásicas (liberalismos, socialismos, nacionalismos o conservadurismos) la visión transhumanista o adecue el transhumanismo únicamente a los valores de la ideología escogida.

El prometeísmo fue una de las expresiones retropolíticas vigentes en los años 2000. Considerada como transhumanismo Fascista por el sociólogo transhumanista James Hughes debido a su apego a ideas nazis, el prometeismo apuntaba a la mejora tecnológica obligatoria del individuo humano, así como a su selección racial a partir de mecanismos contrarios a la democracia, la igualdad y lo políticamente correcto.

Críticas
Los neo-luditas (ludismo) o bioconservadores son los nombres que reciben los movimientos o agrupaciones que se oponen al uso de tecnologías para la mejora humana. En el 2001 los extropianistas, bajo el mando de Natasha Vita-More, crearon un comité de acción político Progress Action Coalition (Pro-Act) para hacer frente al avance político bioconservador.

Véase también

 Transhumanismo
 Política
 Ideologías políticas
 Espectro político
 Humanismo secular
 Bioética

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Transhumanismo


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This large sunny room with private deck and entrance has a sitting/dining area, king size bed, and your own bath. Walk-in closet, refrigerator, and wireless Internet access.
We are located on the "bay" side of Wellfleet, 17 miles from Provincetown airport and wharf, in the heart of the Outer Cape. Beaches, Boating, Biking. A lovely vacation spot.
Rates for 2018: 1 or 2 guests (two-night minimum): $160/night ($195/night for June 29 through September 3). No pets or smoking, please. Cash, personal and traveler's checks accepted.
All overnight guests must be confirmed prior to your arrival – a maximum two persons per night are allowed per room.
Our cancellation policy: Full refund of deposit if canceled up to two weeks before arrival; thereafter, refund only if we subsequently rent the nights of your original reservation.
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It is a brave man that will face the media and try to put words to his pain after last Sunday's shattering loss in McHale Park but George Dugdale, never known for shirking a challenge during his playing career, didn't flinch from facing the media.
True to nature, George felt that the final score-line did little justice to the effort a young Leitrim team had put in this year – "As they say, goals win games. The final margin didn't reflect the effort we put in.
"For large parts of that first half, we competed really well, two or three lapses in concentration where they had overlaps and they ended up with goals, it killed us. Going in eight points down at halftime was a tough station.
"Even with the first goal, we had a man down injured but we recovered from that to a large extent but the second goal was a killer blow and it was very hard to lift things.
Not one to offer excuses, George wasn't seeking solace or offering false comfort – "Shane Moran was injured and Wayne McKeon was injured, they were two further set-backs but hold on, that is the difference between division one and division four.
"If you make mistakes you get punished and we got punished badly today for moments of indecision and over-laps that they created.
"We were under no illusions as to the difficult task we had today, they have huge strength in depth in their panel, they're playing from Division One. Their aspirations are All-Ireland Finals, our are Connacht Finals but it is hard to compete.
Picking the Leitrim lads up for the Qualifiers is not going to be easy but the Mohill man believes that there are targets for the Green & Gold to aim for.
Asked about the difficulty in picking up his troops in the next week or two, George said "That's out jobs as managers. We hadn't thought about the Qualifiers, we were looking to get today over first and then plan from here.
"That's our next task, to regroup, refocus and see where we can go from in the Qualifiers. It is a very young team so I suppose a decent run in the qualifiers would help us. I don't think Leitrim have ever won a game in the Qualifiers so it is another step forward if we can win a game.


Retired Major DP Singh is India's first amputee distance runner who believes that being active can improve fitness among people with disabilities.
DP Singh has run in 18 marathons with blades attached to his legs after he became seriously injured in the Kargil war of 1999. But he never let his disability come in the way of achieving his dreams.
Singh says that marathon running improves physical and mental health.
In the past few years, Singh has been creating awareness about blade running in India to encourage other amputees to help overcome their disabilities.


Everyone enjoys a little downtime, especially our overworked heroes. Players must have an existing Sparks character for this event. Everyone enjoys a little downtime, especially our overworked heroes. Come and interact with the other heroes of the Rebellion. Get in a little training or just brush up on your social skills. Players must have an existing Sparks character for this event. Ongoing campaign.


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What is Copyright and Creative Commons?
This video helps to explain the basics of copyright law and creative commons licensing and the role each can play in helping creators protect and share their work. It teaches:
Why copyright law exists
How to copyright a creative work
Creative Commons licensing basics
How both copyright and Creative Commons licensing can help creators
Rules of thumb for using licensed work
Julia's dream is to make a living as a photographer. In this dream, she takes amazing photos, people buy them, and their purchases fund her future work.
But it's not that simple. Julia wants to publish some of her photos to help spread the word, but she's concerned because photos are easy to copy. She could lose control and not be able to make a living from her talent.
So she does some research and learns that in the U.S., as with other countries, we have laws that give creators of materials like books, images, movies, artwork and music a way to own and protect their creations. It's called copyright law. Owning the copyright means having the exclusive right to manage and sell the material.
And she's surprised to find that when she creates photos, she owns the copyright to them automatically, without taking any other action. Though she can always register them with the U.S. Copyright office for good measure.
She likes being covered by copyright law, but it limits her exposure, because her permission is required for sharing a photo. She needs a way to make some of her photos more sharable.
Her research leads her to Creative Commons, which is a set of licenses that she can use to make her copyrighted photos free for sharing.
By licensing specific photos with a Creative Commons license, she doesn't have to approve each person's request for sharing, as long as a few simple rules are followed. She chooses a license that requires the user to provide attribution, or credit for her work, and to be non-commercially.
Using Creative Commons means she retains some rights while her photos and name have the potential to be seen by many more people because they can be shared for free.
After considering the options, Julia decides to license a few photos with Creative Commons, and use copyright with "all rights reserved" for the rest of her portfolio because it will be important for her goals. So she adds copyright information, which includes the year the photo was first taken and her name, wherever those photos appear.
Across the country, Kelly needs a travel photo for his magazine article. He searches, and finds a nice one online and notes a Creative Commons license and Julia's name. His use is commercial, so he visits her site and finds more photos that fit his needs.
The one he wants is marked "all right reserved", so to avoid copyright infringement and potential legal issues, he contacts Julia who gives him permission to use the photo in exchange for a license fee. This way, Kelly can use the photo in his magazine and Julia can build her career.
Both Kelly and Julia understand that ownership and proper use of materials can be difficult to navigate, especially because the Web is global and copyright laws can vary by country.
So here are a few things they always consider...
When they see a copyright symbol or notice, they ask the creator about proper use. And they still ask even if they don't see a symbol.
When they see Creative Commons licenses like these, they know they can share the material for free, as long as they follow the rules of the license, found at creativecommons.org.
Both copyright and Creative Commons are important parts of a system that come with a responsibility to follow rules, rules that support the future work of people and organizations who can make our world a better place.
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RNC Chair: We Want Assurances from Facebook, Twitter That They Are Not Going to Suppress Conservatives
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Pam Key
Friday on Fox News Channel's "America's Newsroom," Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said the RNC and the Trump 2020 campaign sent letters to Facebook and Twitter requesting answers about concerns that conservative content is being blocked.
McDaniel said, "We've seen in the history of Facebook there have been instances where they have changed the trending topics. They've suppressed conservative viewpoints, we've recently seen with Diamond and Silk that they suspended their account."
She continued, "We just preemptively wanted to go to Facebook and say we want assurances that you won't suppress conservative voices, that the Silicon Valley thought police is not going to determine what voices filter through on their social media platform.' We sent a letter to Facebook and Twitter. We've asked them to respond by June 18th and we're hoping we can get that to our audience, our GOP membership who cares very deeply about this country, who want to see a fair treatment on these social media platforms. They use them heavily and we have a very important mid-term coming up and I think it's an important time to have this conversation."
(h/t Grabien)
Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
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I agree with Larry in his comments below EXCEPT that rather than ask the business units if it is OK to destroy a file, I tell them that the retention period is up for a particular records and that we are destroying the file, and see if we get any feedback within the retention schedules procedural time limits.  The reason I prefer to tell rather than ask is because when you ask you are giving the decision authority over to the person you are asking, whereas I believe that the authority to dispose of the records should continue to reside in the Records Dept / Records Committee.  If you give every little Napoleon the right to simply deny destruction, despite the retention schedule, you won't have a defensible schedule, because it could be construed as doing selective destruction. Dept. Heads should only be able to delay destruction by citing a business need, law, statue, or regulation that requires continue maintenance of the item.  If such a contingency does come up, it may be time for the Committee to review and revise the schedule.
One party thinks "If you have an approved retention schedule that all parties (including legal) have weighed in on, then you can just go ahead and discard it when retention is met."
The other thinks "Records Management is generally just the custodian of the records, NOT the owner and they shouldn't disposition ANYTHING without the OWNERS approval"
1) You MAY have an approved retention schedule, but are all citations current, and have all revisions been approved by the same parties?
2) Do you have a process that ensure Records Management is informed of EVERY legal action that may require a 'hold' be placed on some records, and can RM identify all of those records?
3) Have business models changed since the retention schedule was approved and has anyone reviewed the schedule to determine if it is still consistent with business needs?
4) If records are discarded that have ongoing/enduring./legal value, are you willing to be responsible for NOT asking the question prior to disposal?
So yeah, as with many RM thingies... "It Depends...."


UKube-1 the UK Space Agency's (UKSA) first satellite has 'booked' its journey into space on a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket. The launch from Baikonur in Kazakhstan is expected to take place in the 3rd quarter of 2013. UKube-1 has also completed Thermal Vacuum Testing to verify the spacecraft operation in a simulated space environment.
UKube-1 will carry a set of AMSAT-UK FUNcube boards to provide a 435/145 MHz linear transponder and a 145.915 MHz BPSK telemetry beacon for educational outreach.
UKube-1 – the UK Space Agency's first CubeSat mission – has 'booked' its journey into space on a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket. The launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrone in Kazakhstan is expected to take place in March 2013.
UKube-1 carries an amateur radio 435/145 MHz linear transponder built by members of AMSAT-UK.
In this 20 minute video Korean artist Hojun Song DS1SBO and Donghee Park describe the Open Source Satellite Initiative amateur radio CubeSat OSSI-1.
The article describes how Korean artist Hojun Song DS1SBO developed his own home made satellite and says radio operators will be able to communicate with the satellite. If all goes well, it will repeat a message in Morse code using its LED lights at a set time and location.
The DIY satellite OSSI is planned to launch on a Soyuz-2-1b from the Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan in December with the Bion-M 1 and Dove 2 satellites. (The Dove 2 CubeSat will transmit images on a 2.4 GHz downlink). The satellites will be placed into an orbit with an apogee of 575 km, perigee of 290 km and inclination of 64.9 degrees. They are expected to remain in orbit for about a year before burning up on re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
The OSSI uplink is in the 145 MHz band and the downlink in the 435 MHz band.


After five years of negotiations, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement was finally signed in early February 2016 in Auckland, New Zealand. The TPP, which President Obama describes as a strategic "pivot" toward Asia, is a trade pact covering 40 percent of the world's economy and provides a common set of standards for the signatories on various trade issues, including where data must be stored in order to conduct business in the various territories. The TPP was signed by the United States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.
While U.S. ratification of the TPP is unlikely before the election, the agreement's e-commerce provisions should give financial institutions some pause. These provisions are meant to simplify cross-border transfers of electronic information and prevent the "forced localization," as couched by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, of computing facilities. In this instance, "forced localization" refers to requiring local computing facilities to be used in a territory as a condition for conducting business there. But the TPP carves out a large exception to the commerce-friendly provisions for the financial industry. The end result is that financial institutions may instead be subject to rules actually requiring local computing in order to conduct business in a state or territory. The TPP goes on to say that TPP states or territories are required to allow the cross-border transfer of information by electronic means, except if that transfer is for a financial institution.
The exclusion of financial institutions in measures designed to facilitate global trade is of great concern. There appears to be a limit in the TPP on the ease with which financial institutions are allowed to engage in global commerce. Given the importance of transferring electronic data across borders, these exceptions, depending on how they are ultimately interpreted and implemented, may prove to be quite suffocating for U.S. financial institutions.
Since President Obama was granted fast-track authority to negotiate the TPP in the first place, Congress will have no voice to amend the TPP. Fast-track authority requires Congress to approve or reject a trade agreement without any amendments. Thus, Congress's approval will have a serious impact on U.S. lending institutions. Accordingly, all U.S. financial institutions that are or may seek to do business with TPP states or territories should stay apprised of the TPP's status. Indeed, this past March, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew left open the potential for a helpful side agreement in response to the financial services industry's concerns about the data flow rules.