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SoftBank to sell off at least two-thirds of its stake in T-Mobile
SoftBank has also given T-Mobile's parent company the option to buy most of its remaining stake.
Written by Campbell Kwan, Journalist
Campbell Kwan Journalist
on June 22, 2020 | Topic: Tech Industry
Image: T-Mobile
SoftBank Group has announced it will sell around two-thirds of its T-Mobile shares and also give the telco's parent company, Deutsche Telekom AG, options to buy most of its remaining stake as part of ongoing efforts to reduce debt.
The first deal will see SoftBank Group sell over 198 million of its T-Mobile shares to T-Mobile itself.
Once those shares are sold, T-Mobile will then sell them via public and private offerings, to T-Mobile shareholders and to Marcelo Claure, a SoftBank director.
As part of that deal, SoftBank Group will also pay T-Mobile $300 million, in addition to any fees and expenses paid by T-Mobile in relation to the transaction.
In a separate deal, SoftBank Group will give Deutsche Telekom options to buy over 100 million T-Mobile shares, which accounts for most of the Japanese conglomerate's remaining stake in the US telco. The options will be available until 22 June 2024.
See also: SoftBank is looking to sell its T-Mobile stake
SoftBank added it would lose its right to nominate four of T-Mobile's 14 directors, with that number to be reduced to either one or zero, depending on its ownership in T-Mobile following the transactions.
SoftBank acquired its stake in T-Mobile only two months ago, after the telco merged with the then-SoftBank owned Sprint.
SoftBank's decision to part with its T-Mobile shares is part of its ¥4.5 trillion ($41 billion) debt reduction scheme, announced in March, which was set up to increase its cash reserves in the face of negative performance by several of its key investments.
Prior to the sale, SoftBank Group had revealed an operating loss of ¥1.36 trillion for the fiscal year ended March 31, which was its first annual loss in 15 years. The trillion dollar figure was largely attributed to SoftBank's Vision Fund experiencing a ¥1.93 trillion loss. Compared to the year prior, the fund posted a ¥1.26 trillion profit.
The Vision Fund's consumer investments, real estate investments, and transportation and logistics investments -- which include Uber, Didi Chuxing, and Grab -- were hit particularly hard. The fair value of these three segments fell by $3.3 billion, $3.3 billion, and $2.8 billion, respectively, in the three months to March alone.
As part of the debt reduction scheme, SoftBank will use any accrued funds, which includes the proceeds from the sale of its stake in T-Mobile US, to buy back up to ¥2 trillion worth of shares. This is in addition to two separate ¥500 billion share buybacks that were announced in March and May, respectively.
Beyond the losses, SoftBank is also facing a lawsuit from WeWork for its decision to back out of a $3 billion tender offer that was agreed upon in October last year.
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Q: App get crashed when FUIButton is tapped I'm using FlatUIKit to custom my own buttons. But when button is tapped , app get crashed.
I have the following codes just the same as the example code of FlatUIKit. I have tried to install it via CocoaPods or added it manually.
FUIButton *myButton = [[FUIButton alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 340, 240, 60)];
myButton.buttonColor = [UIColor turquoiseColor];
myButton.shadowColor = [UIColor greenSeaColor];
myButton.shadowHeight = 3.0f;
myButton.cornerRadius = 6.0f;
myButton.titleLabel.font = [UIFont boldFlatFontOfSize:16];
[myButton setTitle:@"hahahaahhhahah" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[myButton setTitleColor:[UIColor cloudsColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[myButton setTitleColor:[UIColor cloudsColor] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];
[self.view addSubview:myButton];
[myButton addTarget:self action:@selector(weiboLoginAction:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

Here is the crash log in iOS 6:

2014-09-04 15:47:13.298 comChat[37118:907] -[UICFFont weiboLoginAction:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x8a914e0

In iOS 7 , there is no crash log.

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Q: Why do I get an error with a foreach loop inside a while loop? The quick program I made for Problem 7 on Project Euler keeps producing an error.
I am unfamiliar with Java. I transferred my Python code for Problem 7 into Java, just to see if I could do it. I am teaching myself Java to get ahead of the game.
The code for my Python program is:
no = 2
print(3 % 2)
primes = [2]
while len(primes) != 10001:
    no = no + 1
    no2 = 0
    for each in primes:
        if no % each != 0:
            no2 = no2 + 1
            if len(primes) == no2:
                print(primes[-1])
                primes.append(no)
print("Final answer is: " + str(primes[-1]))

The code for my Java program is:
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class P7Euler {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int no = 2;
        int no2 = 0;
        List<Integer> primes = new ArrayList<Integer>();
        primes.add(2);
        while (primes.size() != 20){
            no = no + 1;
            no2 = 0;
            for(int i : primes){
                if(no % i != 0){
                    no2 = no2 + 1;
                    if(primes.size() == no2){
                        System.out.println(primes.get(primes.size() - 1));
                        primes.add(no);
                    }
                }

            }
        }
        System.out.println("The final answer is: " + primes.get(primes.size() - 1));
    }
}

The error message:
Exception in thread "main" java.util.ConcurrentModificationException
    at java.util.ArrayList$Itr.checkForComodification(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.ArrayList$Itr.next(Unknown Source)
    at Test1.examples.P7Euler.main(P7Euler.java:16)

EDIT: The code was wrong, the for loop I originally used is now there.

A: First, I assume the correct syntax for the loop is for(int i : primes){.
You cannot modify a list while iterating through the elements using a foreach loop. Try using a java.util.ListIterator to add to the list while iterating:
for (ListIterator<Integer> listIterator = primes.listIterator(); listIterator.hasNext();) {
     int i = listIterator.next();
     if(no % i != 0){
         no2 = no2 + 1;
         if(primes.size() == no2){
              System.out.println(primes.get(primes.size() - 1));
              listIterator.add(no);
         }
     }
}

A: The foreach loop will use an Iterator to go through your list, forbidding the change you're trying to make with primes.add(no).
As your list is an ArrayList, you can access the i-th element at no additional cost with primes.get(i) and the size by primes.size(). An easy way out would be:
for (int idx = 0; idx < primes.size(); idx++){
    int i = primes.get(idx);
    if (no % i != 0) {
        no2 = no2 + 1;
        if(primes.size() == no2){
            System.out.println(primes.get(primes.size() - 1));
            primes.add(no);
        }
    }
}

A: You may not modify a Collection in an enchaned for loop (or in any other for that matter)


QUIZ: Can you guess the TV show from the kitchen?
TV shows contain many things, such as people, animals, cars and often a sturdy old kitchen. Sometimes, they even have ghosts.
But how good are you at identifying these kitchens once the characters are removed? You bloody idiot, can you even do it?
To be fair, it's actually a little bit harder than you'd think.
15 questions lie ahead. Any score lower than 10 means you're a big idiot. Sorry.


The Trump administration is poised to suspend a landmark, Soviet-era arms control pact with Russia, a move likely to inflame already high tensions between Washington and Moscow.
Current and former officials and experts widely agree that Russia has been flouting the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
But the Trump administration's decision to pull out has implications for U.S.-Russia relations and the broader global strategic environment.
"As they get out of the treaty, can they do it in a way that maintains a level of stability in the U.S.-Russia strategic relationship? And secondly, how do they ensure that the alliance is talking with one voice?" said Frank Rose, who served as assistant secretary of state for arms control under former President Obama.
"It's not just a bilateral treaty from the United States and Russia. It really goes to the heart of Eurasian security," Rose added.
President Trump Donald John TrumpHouse Dems demand Barr cancel 'inappropriate' press conference on Mueller report DOJ plans to release 'lightly redacted' version of Mueller report Thursday: WaPo Nadler accuses Barr of 'unprecedented steps' to 'spin' Mueller report MORE announced in October he intended to withdraw from the INF Treaty.
In December, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Michael (Mike) Richard PompeoTrump admin announces new restrictions on travel to Cuba Russia is gaining influence in Libya: How will Washington respond? Trump reverses policy, allows lawsuits against businesses in Cuba MORE gave Russia 60 days to come back into compliance before the United States would suspend its obligations under the treaty. That deadline comes Feb. 2.
The treaty, signed by then-President Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev, bans nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometers.
The deal was credited with helping end the Cold War and eliminating an entire class of missiles that once threatened Europe.
But the Obama administration in 2014 publicly accused Russia of violating the treaty. Since then, U.S. officials have unsuccessfully worked to bring Moscow back into compliance.
The latest effort came earlier this month when Andrea Thompson, under secretary of State for arms control and international security, led a U.S. delegation in talks with the Russians in Geneva.
At the talks, Russia offered to let Washington see the disputed cruise missile at the heart of the dispute. The United States rejected the offer as inadequate.
At the breakfast roundtable, Thompson said she was "not particularly optimistic" Russia will come back into compliance, adding the United States has presented its evidence several times to no avail.
"Maybe the 50th time will be the charm," she quipped.
The cruise missile at issue has been dubbed the 9M729. Stepping up its public relations campaign, Moscow showed the missile to a group of foreign military attaches and journalists this past week.
During the showcase, Russian Lt. Gen. Mikhail Matveyevsky claimed the missile has a range of 480 kilometers, or 20 kilometers less than the lower limit of the INF Treaty.
The 9M729 differs from the older 9M728 missile, Matveyevsky said, by having a more powerful warhead and a more precise guidance system. But, he said, the booster, cruise engine and fuel tank are unchanged from the older missile, rejecting a U.S. allegation it has a larger fuel tank that allows it to travel farther.
Rather than being able to travel farther than the old missile, he claimed, the new missile has a range of 10 kilometers less because of the heavier warhead and control systems.
Moscow has also accused the United States of violating the treaty with its Aegis Ashore missile defense system in Romania and Poland. The United States says its system is purely defensive, and so complies with the agreement.
A senior State Department official said Friday that Russia is engaging in a "mad dash" as the U.S. deadline approaches.
Moscow's recent proposal to show U.S. officials the missile is "not serious," the official said, because it would be a "static display" where Russia controls what data the United States is shown. The offer was also contingent on Washington letting Russia see the Aegis Ashore system, something the official said is unnecessary because the United States has already proven it doesn't violate the treaty.
The Trump administration in late 2017 began research and development on a missile that would be banned by the treaty. So far, none of the research has fallen outside the bounds of the treaty.
Once the United State suspends its obligations, the administration would have the "option" to start work that doesn't comply with the treaty, the official said, without definitely saying that such work will begin after Feb. 2. The official also would not discuss specific work that could be done after the suspension.
But an arms race is what arms control advocates are fearing.
With a suspension and subsequent withdrawal likely, Reif said there are steps both sides could take to mitigate the fallout from the collapse of the INF Treaty.
For example, he suggested an agreement to keep any noncompliant missiles far enough away from Europe that the continent is not within range, or an agreement that any INF-range missiles cannot be nuclear.
"The risk is, even if it doesn't happen immediately, that the United States moves forward with R&D, starts testing a system, the Russians field more of their current 9M729, look at other noncompliant missile options, which increases tensions, increases military competition, increases the risks of a missile race," he said.
The clock, which is a metaphor for how close the earth is to destruction by nuclear weapons and climate change, was kept this year at two minutes to midnight, the closest it's been to midnight since 1953.
Some, however, have expressed skepticism that the treaty's end could spawn an arms race, noting that Russia has already fielded the capability the U.S. says is in violation of the INF.
The newly minted Democratic chairmen of the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees have expressed concerns about the demise of the INF Treaty.
But there appears to be little recourse for lawmakers to stop Trump. While the Constitution requires Senate approval to enter into treaties, it say nothing about withdrawing from treaties.
Congress would need to approve funding for any new missiles that fall outside the bounds of the INF Treaty, providing one potential avenue for action.
The NDAA also has to be negotiated with the Republican-controlled Senate, where leading senators agree with Trump's decision.


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Q: kubectl pods are running but persistent volumes seems to be unclaimed? kubectl get pods:
NAME                         READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
wordpress-2942163230-47xzl   3/3       Running   0          20m

kubectl get pv:
NAME      CAPACITY   ACCESSMODES   RECLAIMPOLICY   STATUS      CLAIM     STORAGECLASS   REASON    AGE
pv0001    30Gi       RWX           Retain          Available                                      30m

kubectl get pvc:
NAME            STATUS    VOLUME    CAPACITY   ACCESSMODES   STORAGECLASS   AGE
task-pv-claim   Pending                                      manual         26m

Why is the task-pv-claim not claimed? Here is my deployment config:
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: wordpress
  labels:
    app: wordpress
spec:
  replicas: 2
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: wordpress
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: wordpress
    spec:
      terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 30
      containers:
        - image: eu.gcr.io/abcxyz/wordpress:deploy-1502795865
          name: wordpress
          imagePullPolicy: "Always"
          env:
            - name: WORDPRESS_HOST
              value: localhost
            - name: WORDPRESS_DB_USERNAME
              valueFrom:
                secretKeyRef:
                  name: cloudsql-db-credentials
                  key: username
          volumeMounts:
            - name: wordpress-persistent-storage
              mountPath: /var/www/html
        - image: eu.gcr.io/abcxyz/nginx:deploy-1502795865
          name: nginx
          imagePullPolicy: "Always"
          ports:
            - containerPort: 80
              name: nginx
          volumeMounts:
            - name: wordpress-persistent-storage
              mountPath: /var/www/html
              readOnly: true
        - image: gcr.io/cloudsql-docker/gce-proxy:1.09
          name: cloudsql-proxy
          command: ["/cloud_sql_proxy", "--dir=/cloudsql",
                    "-instances=abcxyz:europe-west1:wordpressdb2=tcp:3306",
                    "-credential_file=/secrets/cloudsql/credentials.json"]
          volumeMounts:
            - name: cloudsql-instance-credentials
              mountPath: /secrets/cloudsql
              readOnly: true
            - name: ssl-certs
              mountPath: /etc/ssl/certs
            - name: cloudsql
              mountPath: /cloudsql
      volumes:
        - name: wordpress-persistent-storage
          persistentVolumeClaim:
            claimName: "task-pv-claim"
        - name: cloudsql-instance-credentials
          secret:
            secretName: cloudsql-instance-credentials
        - name: ssl-certs
          hostPath:
            path: /etc/ssl/certs
        - name: cloudsql
          emptyDir:

If I do a kubectl describeI get the following output:
Volumes:
  wordpress-persistent-storage:
    Type:   GCEPersistentDisk (a Persistent Disk resource in Google Compute Engine)
    PDName: wordpress-disk
    FSType: ext4
    Partition:  0
    ReadOnly:   false

Which was actually the previous config... Strange as I did do a kubectl apply with the config, as well as deleting the pod (so it would restart with the new config).

A: It seems I had to delete the deployment kubectl delete deployment wordpress and not just the pod.


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AYA is getting a new You Tube Channel in this project funded by the Big Lottery! And we need YOU to help create the content. The plan is create 10 or more films that showcase youth social action and inspire others to do their own! So, if you're already on a project, why not plan a film that captures the essence of your project, or if you're not already volunteering but like the idea of developing your media or communication skills, then get involved!


Each year Soap and Glory launch some amazing gifts most notably their huge hat box style gift (this year it is called the Soap and Glory Yule Monty Gift Set) which each year sooner or later does end up as the Boots Gift of the week and gets slashed to half price or better. However if bath and body products aren't really your thing and your more of a cosmetic gal then you may want to note down the 15th of November as the Soap and Glory Girl-O-Whirl starts it's reign as Boots Star Gift of the Week. This is Soap and Glory's first cosmetic only gift set and what is even better for one week only on Boots it will be slashed from £40 down to £19!
take-anywhere, zip-around case with inside mirror.
So be sure to jot down the 15th of November as I'm pretty sure this will sell out quickly.
Wow I love this set. What are your thoughts on Soap and Glory make up?
Wow.. I think I may just neeeed this!
I love the products but it is quite bulky, I wonder how easy it would be to depot the shadows & blush?
Fantastic, I think I'll be picking up a few when they're cheap without having a plan on who to give them to, although 1 will most likely be for me!
I've never actually tried soap and glory for make up, so this is definitely tempting!
I'm still to try their make up range.... it's on my list!
Lovin the look of this little kit tho!
I love the look of this! Hopefully they'll get some more back in stock at my local boots. . .
Thank you for this! Snapped one up online for my little sister's Christmas. Can you blog about the best festive gifts for 2013?


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How A Cotton Sack, Passed Down Over Generations, Tells A Larger Story About Slavery
Published September 7, 2021 at 11:42 AM MDT
This is FRESH AIR. Our guest interviewer, Arun Venugopal, has the next interview. He's a host and senior producer at public radio station WNYC in New York. Here's Arun.
ARUN VENUGOPAL, BYLINE: One winter day in South Carolina in the 1850s, an enslaved woman by the name of Rose discovered that her 9-year-old daughter was about to be sold off and that they'd, in all likelihood, be separated for the rest of their lives. So Rose made a quick decision, packing a cotton bag with a few personal items, and a little food, and placing it in her daughter's hands. That cotton bag remained in the child's possession and was passed on from one generation to the next, and at one point in the early 1900s was inscribed with the family's tale. And this journey of an embroidered cotton bag from the days of slavery to its eventual place in the National Museum of African American History and Culture is at the center of a new book, "All That She Carried: The Journey Of Ashley's Sack, A Black Family Keepsake."
In the words of author Tiya Miles, this book is about the burdens of being human in an inhumane world, and about how Black women in particular have responded to systemic erasure with art, compassion and love. The history of Africans in America is brutal, she writes. But we have made art out of pain, sustaining our spirits with sun bursts of beauty, teaching ourselves how to rise the next day. Miles is a historian at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and is also the author of "The Dawn Of Detroit" and "Tales From The Haunted South."
Tiya Miles, welcome to FRESH AIR. You've brought us from the 1850s, when Rose, the mother of Ashley, in sort of an act of desperation, but also, as you describe an act of love, hands her this bag. And she's sold off at the age of 9. And then decades later, her own granddaughter - Ashley's granddaughter, Ruth, Ruth Middleton, decides to inscribe this tale upon the cloth, to embroider in a few sentences the story of her family. What is it that she tells us in this inscription?
TIYA MILES: So this is what Ruth has sewn onto the sack. My great-grandmother Rose, mother of Ashley, gave her the sack when she was sold at age 9 in South Carolina. It held a tattered dress, three handfuls of pecans, a braid of Rose's hair, told her it be filled with my love always. She never saw her again. Ashley is my grandmother, Ruth Middleton, in 1921. So in this inscription, Ruth Middleton tells us those specific names and events and locations and emotions that really encapsulate her family's story of brutal separation during enslavement. Ruth Middleton has made a choice to sew this family record, to sew this story, rather than to write it down on a piece of paper, for example.
And I think that decision of hers is actually information about her, information about what it meant to be a young Black woman in Philadelphia in the early 1900s and what the value of a handicrafts and especially fancy sewing work was, two Black women who had for their entire lives and for many generations in this country been relegated to a lower category of womanhood, a category of womanhood that was viewed as deemed fit for brute manual labor, as opposed to being fit for the kinds of feats of artistry that Ruth Middleton is reaching for when she decides to embroider her family's story.
VENUGOPAL: You mention that there's hair, that - the lock of hair. And you mentioned pecans as well, which might have just seemed like, oh, here's something to eat on the way. But you write in the book that something even as simple as pecans, it's not something that Rose would have easily come by, that it was actually quite rare for someone in her position to have come into possession of. Is that right?
MILES: Yes, that is right. You brought up the hair, and you brought up the pecans in particular. Those are not just simple things. Rose actually cut off one of her own braids and packed it for her daughter, Ashley. This was such an incredible action, I think, of self-worth and self-possession and of communication because Rose, of course, didn't own herself legally. She was owned by a white South Carolinian couple legally. And so her hair was technically not her own.
And yet, through this act of taking a part of her body, which didn't belong to her legally, and packing it away for her daughter, Rose silently stated self-possession, self-worth. And I think that she passed that message on to her daughter through giving her that braid. By giving this braid to Ashley, Rose was making sure that she would physically be present with Ashley into the future.
VENUGOPAL: At some point in the life of this bag, it was no longer in the possession of Rose and Ashley's descendants. And it was rediscovered in the 21st century by a flea market shopper, a white woman who was rummaging through a bunch of old stuff. Where exactly did she find it?
MILES: She found it in Tennessee. She was a woman who used her garage selling and flea marketing afternoons and weekends to supplement her family's income. She would find interesting things, and then sometimes she would resell them on eBay to help pay for her kids' tuition, actually. And she came across this bit of rags in a Tennessee flea market, just rifling through the bin and noticed the inscription on the sack. She read it and recognized that this was something special. She then went and purchased the whole bin of old discarded cloth of rags for $20 and then started to research the names on the sack.
VENUGOPAL: And when the bag first went on display, this was at Middleton Place - correct? - A museum that was once a plantation. I'm just wondering, how do you feel about that?
MILES: Well, I mean, that's the question, right? I felt that it was, in some ways, a betrayal of everything that Rose had attempted to accomplish and everything that Ashley had attempted and Rosa, Ashley's daughter, had attempted and Ruth had attempted. When Ruth finally actually moved to the North, I mean, Ruth had gotten out. She had gotten out of South Carolina. She had gotten out of this place that had enslaved generations of her four mothers. She had gone north like thousands of other African Americans in this first wave of the Great Migration. And yet, this object that she clearly cherished and that she devoted her time and her artistry to transforming was sent right back down to the very state where her four mothers were separated from one another and where they suffered this terrible loss.
So I did feel all of that when I went to Middleton Place. I felt a sense of sadness and a sense of resentment for these women. And yet, when I sat with not only the feelings, but also with the complexity of the situation, I came to realize that this was the way that this sack had been rescued, in a sense. Middleton Place was the institution that acquired the sack and that devoted its own people power to, you know, researching the sack and to curating it for the very first time, to trying to understand who the women were. And so my feeling of it is that, yes, we wish that Ruth's descendants had been able to continue to steward this sack. Or we might wish that a Black managed and a Black-owned historic site or museum or institution actually owned the sack. And yet that's not what happened. Middleton Play Foundation is the owner of the sack. And the staff members there are caring for it, and they view it as their most important artifact.
GROSS: We're listening to the interview our guest interviewer, Arun Venugopal, recorded with historian Tiya Miles, author of the new book "All That She Carried." We'll hear more of the interview after a break. This is FRESH AIR.
(SOUNDBITE OF LOS SUPER SEVEN'S "CALLE DIECISEIS")
GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. Let's get back to the interview our guest interviewer, Arun Venugopal, recorded with historian Tiya Miles, author of the new book "All That She Carried." It's about what we can learn from slavery and survival from one cotton bag that was passed on from an enslaved woman in the 1850s to her 9-year-old daughter, who was about to be sold.
VENUGOPAL: You found your own family story tethered, as you say, to that of Rose and Ashley in part because of something that happened to your ancestors during Jim Crow, a story that was often recounted to you by your grandmother Alice. What is it that she kept on telling you over the years?
MILES: Well, my grandmother was one of these women who was a natural-born storyteller, and one of the stories that she continually returned to was the event of the loss of her family's farm in rural Mississippi. And what happened is that she and her family were doing well. They had livestock. They had, as she puts it, plenty to eat, which was always very important to her. And they, I think, expected life to go on in this way, to go on in a way that they had some degree of protection from the worst that the South could hand Black people.
But it didn't happen that way. Instead, there were some white men in this Mississippi town who came to our family's farm and who demanded that her father, who had actually lived quite a long life, had married a woman who was much younger than he and who had been enslaved as a child - they asked her father to sign a document which he couldn't read because he had not had the opportunity to be educated. And then they came back, these white men with guns, saying that the documents that he had signed - his name was Price (ph), my great-grandfather - basically gave over his farm and his wife's livestock - because she owned the cows - to them.
And because they were white men and because they had guns and because it was the early 1900s in Mississippi, many decades before the civil rights movement, terribly unsafe place, the family had to move. And they had to move right then. And my grandmother talked about how her big sister Margaret was able to save one cow and take it over to the neighbor's house for safekeeping. And even though they were quite poor after the loss of their farm, the memory of her sister Margaret saving that cow had always stuck with her, and she passed it along to me.
VENUGOPAL: And you actually inherited a quilt from this same Great-Aunt Margaret, didn't you?
MILES: Yes. Yes, I have a quilt that she made, and it's on my wall right now. I'm just turning to look at it. It's a quilt that my grandmother cherished because, of course, it reminded her of Margaret. And so for me, this quilt represents that resistance, that resilience, that creative action in the face of pressure and that insistence on carrying on despite trauma.
VENUGOPAL: Tiya Miles, thanks so much for joining us today.
MILES: Thank you so much, Arun.
GROSS: Tiya Miles is a professor of history at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and author of the new book "All That She Carried." She spoke with guest interviewer Arun Venugopal, a host and senior producer at public radio station WNYC in New York.
Tomorrow on FRESH AIR, we'll remember actor Michael K. Williams. We'll listen back to two interviews with him. He co-starred in "The Wire," "Boardwalk Empire," "The Night Of" and "When They See Us." He's nominated for an Emmy for his performance in "Lovecraft Country." I hope you'll join us.
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Not Just What, Take Care of When As Well!
People spend days tweaking their diet plans. Some believe in eating 6 times a day in small portions, some continue with 3 meals a day system. Instead of going by some cool trend or examining one more supposedly groundbreaking study, let's look at how it used to be since no variable can defeat what stood test of time!
In ancient times, there was no concept of dinner in India, but due to constant invasions, most routines and rituals based on solid science have been altered.
Bt-cotton (Bollgard I), which was introduced in 2002 (by promising immunity against the Pink Bollworm) has caused severe damage to crop biodiversity, claimed thousands of lives, and eroded much-needed organic matter from the topsoil.
Well, the nature catches up. Eventually.
So, the Pink Bollworm also has caught up with this Bt-cotton and have become immune to Bollgard II (which was introduced in 2006).
Delayed Monsoons and Adhik Masa — What's the Relation?
How many of you know that during Adhik Masa, it doesn't rain and our ancestors knew how to make a scientific calendar that keeps in mind both the solar + lunar movements so farmers don't have to suffer.
Today, people think it's Aug/Sep/Oct so it's got to rain. Well, no. It depends on many factors, but in a tropical country like India tidal forces (aside from heat) play a big part which Gregorian Calendar ignores altogether which results in delayed monsoons that, well, aren't actually delayed. No wonder farmers want to sue IMD.
The two principal sugars in honey are fructose (fruit sugar) and glucose (grape sugar). The content of Fructose and Glucose in honey varies from one type of honey to the other. Generally, the fructose ranges from 30-44% and glucose from 25-40%. The balance of these two major sugars causes the crystallization of honey, and the relative percentage of each determines whether it crystallizes rapidly or slowly.
hung like white flags on washing lines.
that used to cradle us at dusk.
that sang and died in the church's eaves.
A conversation is more about listening than talking — it's a dialog between two or more entities, unfiltered.
How many times you have heard a Farmers' Market happening nearby and not finding a single farmer on sight? Not to sound pedantic or show irritation towards anything f-a-n-c-y done by Kombucha-sipping-connoisseurs, but we've been observing this from the periphery, and it felt like a right moment to raise the bar.
Instead of encouraging farmers to use centuries-old knowledge and take up organic farming while solving deep-rooted issues like logistics (nearly 40% of all fresh food produced in India perishes before it can get to customers) and unequal land distribution (5% of the farmers own 32% of the land), government relied on a cheap technological trick.


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Intel reportedly shipping next-gen Thunderbolt controllers expected in new Macs
Josh Ong | Apr 12, 2012
Chipmaker Intel has begun shipping its second generation of Thunderbolt controllers, which are believed to be bound for Apple's upcoming Mac releases, according to a new report.
Vr-Zone claimed on Thursday to have received confirmation that Intel is "finally shipping" the controllers, codenamed "Cactus Ridge." The report also said that a "handful" of PC motherboards had been delayed because of the controllers, while noting that it was a "minor issue."
The publication expects the controllers to make their way into upcoming iMac and MacBook Pros. New Mac Pro systems could also add Thunderbolt support, though the future of Apple's professional line of desktops remains uncertain.
Intel will reportedly offer two Thunderbolt solutions for its next-generation Ivy Bridge chips. The 12x12mm DSL3310 controller chip has two lanes of PCI Express bandwidth and uses 2.1W of power, while the DSL3510 provides four PCI express lanes and draws 2.8W.
"The DSL3510 can also be used for daisy chainable devices and as such it would be a lower cost, smaller and more power efficient alternative to the original Light Ridge or CV82524 chipset," the report noted.
Author LG Nilsson speculated that Apple will most likely use the DSL 3310 for its notebooks and the DSL 3510 for its desktop systems. The addition of support for multiple DisplayPort inputs on the DSL3510 could allow the chip to interface with both discrete and integrated graphics, according to the report.
A third controller, DSL2210, is a cheaper alternative that could be used for external storage devices. The chip, however, doesn't support daisy chaining.
Source: VR-Zone
The arrival of the next generation of Thunderbolt controllers may provide further evidence that Apple is on the verge of releasing new laptops. Multiple authorized resellers have run low on supplies of the company's 15-inch MacBook Pros ahead of the expected launch of Intel's Ivy Bridge processors.
Intel launched the Thunderbolt technology last February alongside Apple's early 2011 MacBook Pro models. More than a year later, Apple's competitors are gearing up to release their own Thunderbolt-equipped ultrabooks as early as this quarter.
Future plans for Thunderbolt include the addition of optical cables that will accommodate longer lengths and eventually faster speeds. Intel has also voiced commitment to support the PCI-Express 3.0 standard, which will feature a bit rate of up to 8 gigtransfers per second.
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What is it with these Intel codenames? What's next, "Dry Gulch"?
drblank
I think it was a little misleading with the " though the future of Apple's professional line of desktops remains uncertain" statement when you just finished saying that "New Mac Pro systems could also add Thunderbolt support". Here is the situation. Apple hasn't refreshed the MacPro because they have been waiting for a new processor that makes sense for them to upgrade to. Obviously, Thunderbolt is missing from the current MacPro, so I would be safe to say that it is of course going to be added. Didn't Apple mention that they were to refresh the MacPro this year? The only thing I feel is that it might make sense for Apple to make the MacPro system something that could be rack mountable like a server, since a lot of the professionals in the Audio/VIdeo production have rack systems that they install ProTools rigs, portable studio rigs, etc. It would make sense that they make a rack mount system. I personally would love to see them add an optional redundant power supply and some other redundancy to make it also a VERY serious workstation as well as being able to be more like a real server with slots, since Apple left the XServe market, this could serve (no pun intended) as a great high end workstation AND a nice rack mounted server with one box. But that's my observation.
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Originally Posted by drblank
Apple hasn't refreshed the MacPro because they have been waiting for a new processor that makes sense for them to upgrade to.
That's out now, though.
Didn't Apple mention that they were to refresh the MacPro this year?
The only thing I feel is that it might make sense for Apple to make the MacPro system something that could be rack mountable like a server? It would make sense that they make a rack mount system.
The number of Mac Mini that you can fit in the same space as a Mac Pro are, what, 12x as powerful?
?since Apple left the XServe market, this could serve (no pun intended) as a great high end workstation AND a nice rack mounted server with one box.
They left that market for a reason. I don't see them coming back.
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I'm confused by this because I thought the controller was being built into the Light Peak chip. Could someone set me straight here?
Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton
Greg Giraldo might have a few ideas to offer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFgsJxf7bDc (adult humour)
If you expect people to read your posts making it human readable would help.
slang4art
Originally Posted by SolipsismX
Don't be pedantic.
Only the 'iPhone 14' Pro models will have ProMotion displays
The "iPhone 14" may not use ProMotion in its non-Pro models, with a new report claiming that consumers will have to wait until the "iPhone 15" in 2023 for the feature.
Apple AR headset could cost consumers over $2,000
Apple's long-rumored mixed-reality headset could cost consumers over $2,000 when it eventually ships, with a report claiming the expensive development and components justifies the potential price.
Apple surveying South Korean suppliers for Apple Car parts
The main manufacturer of the forthcoming "Apple Car" is expected to be chosen by the end of 2022, and firms in South Korea are vying to provide parts.


PTG 7mm-.300 Win Mag reamer.
Discussion in 'Sold/Expired' started by smack, Mar 31, 2019.
Super clean PTG removable pilot 7mm-300 Win Mag chamber reamer. It has cut two chambers.
I already have my version of the 7mm-300 Win Mag. It has minimum case taper with a 35 degree shoulder(7.21 Sage). So I have no use for the straight 7mm neck down of the 300 Win Mag.
I've been shooting wildcat chamberings for 20 years. So if you have a reamer laying around that is a wildcat of one sort or the another and wouldn't mind trading. Send me a PM of what you have. I'll sell the reamer outright for $165.00 Shipped.
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Asia stocks sink on US recession fear, Europe debt
Oil extended sharp losses to fall below $86 a barrel amid expectations a slowing global economy will undermine demand for crude.
Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average slid 3.7 percent to 9,303.95 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng dived 4.8 percent to 20,844.59. China's Shanghai Composite Index lost 1.9 percent to 2,633.52.
"Losses today have been indiscriminate," said IG Markets strategist Ben Potter in a report. "The big question on everyone's mind is what will happen across European and US markets tonight and will there be any form of emergency policy response?"
The Dow closed Thursday down 512.76 points, at 11,383.68. It was the steepest point decline since Dec. 1, 2008.
Thursday's decline was the ninth-worst by points for the Dow. In percentage terms, the decline of 4.3 percent does not rank among the worst. On Black Monday in 1987, for example, the Dow fell 22 percent.
Investors fretted over the U.S. economic recovery ahead of Friday's release of crucial jobs figures for July, which often set the tone in markets for a week or two.
Many were also rattled by the lack of agreement in Europe about debt and how to stabilize the euro, said Tom Kaan of Louis Capital Markets in Hong Kong. He said they were watching to see if the U.S. Federal Reserve launches a new stimulus effort.
"It's a general fear that is clouding the markets at the moment," Kaan said.
Elsewhere in Asia, South Korea's Kospi shed 3.6 percent to 1,945.72 and Taiwan's benchmark skidded 5.1 percent to 7,891.66. Australia's benchmark dropped 4.1 percent to 4,101.20 and India's Sensex shed 2.2 percent to 17,312.04.
Investors, already fidgety after protracted political bargaining to raise the U.S. debt limit and worries that Italy and Spain are getting deeply embroiled in Europe's debt crisis, searched for assets considered safer such as gold.
In Europe, most markets shed more than 3 percent Thursday. France's CAC-40 tumbled 3.9 percent, Germany's DAX lost 3.4 percent and Britain's FTSE 100 also slid 3.4 percent.
"Stocks will continue to dive, especially in Euroland, where profits are disappointing analysts' estimates," said Carl B. Weinberg of High Frequency Economics in a report.
In currency markets, the dollar edged down to 78.64 yen from late Thursday's 79.02 and the euro weakened slightly to $1.4116 from $1.4130.
On Thursday, Japan's government intervened in markets to weaken the yen against the dollar to support exporters. Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda said authorities acted to protect the economic recovery following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
The dollar had fallen as low as 76.29 yen on Monday. It hit a record post-World War II low of 76.25 yen in the days following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
The intervention was coupled with monetary policy easing by the central bank's board.
Japan's moves came only a day after the Swiss National Bank intervened to slow a rise in the Swiss franc, another currency perceived as a save-haven at a time investors are fleeing risky assets such as shaky European government bonds.
Benchmark oil for September delivery was down $1.05 to $85.58 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Crude fell $5.30 to settle at $86.63 on Thursday.


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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Dr. h.c. Dr. h.c. Fritz Klocke
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Dr. h.c. Dr. h.c. Fritz Klocke began his distinguished career (1970-1973) as an apprenticed toolmaker while at the same time pursuing his production engineering studies at Lemgo/Lippe Polytechnic, and later (1973-1976) at Technical University Berlin. He then (1977-1981) went on to serve as Assistant at the Institute for Machine Tools and Production Engineering, Technical University Berlin. Starting in 1981, Klocke achieved or received the following academic credentials and awards: Chief Engineer; (1982) Doctorate in engineering; (1984-1994) employed at Ernst Winter & Sohn GmbH & Co., Norderstedt; (1984) Head of Process Monitoring; (1985) Technical Director, Mechanical Engineering Department; (1985) Awarded Otto Kienzle Medal by the Universities Production Engineering Group; (1995) Director of the Chair of Manufacturing Technology at the Institute for Machine Tools and Production Engineering (WZL) of the RWTH Aachen, and director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology, Aachen; (2001-2002) Dean of the Faculty for Mechanical Engineering; (2006) Honorary Ph.D. by the University of Hannover; (2007-2008) President of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP); (2009) Honorary Ph.D. by the University of Thessaloniki; (2010) Honorary Ph.D. by the Keio University; Award of Fraunhofer Medal; (2012) Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME); (2014) Eli Whitney Productivity Award (SME); and (2014) hobbing Fellow of RWTH Aachen University. (Bio last updated 2018-02-05 Contact Randy Stott, Managing Editor, with changes.)
Articles by Fritz Klocke
Analysis of the Influence of the Working Angles on the Tool Wear in Gear Hobbing (January/February 2018)
A calculation method is developed to estimate tool wear on hobs.
Performance of Gears Manufactured by 5-Axis Milling (March/April 2017)
Free form milling of gears becomes more and more important as a flexible machining process for gears. Reasons for that are high degrees of freedom as the usage of universal tool geometry and machine tools is possible. This allows flexible machining of various gear types and sizes with one manufacturing system. This paper deals with manufacturing, quality and performance of gears made by free form milling. The focus is set on specific process properties of the parts. The potential of free form milling is investigated in cutting tests of a common standard gear. The component properties are analyzed and flank load-carrying capacity of the gears is derived by running trials on back-to-back test benches. Hereby the characteristics of gears made by free form milling and capability in comparison with conventionally manufactured gears will be shown.
Process Model for Honing Larger Gears (November/December 2015)
Hard finishing technology, e.g. — honing — is used to manufacture high-performance gears. Gear honing is primarily used to hard finish small- and medium-sized automotive gears. And yet trials have shown that gears with a module larger than mn = 4 mm can also be honed efficiently, but problems often occur due to unstable process design. In this paper a model to improve the process design is described.
Local Simulation of the Specific Material Removal Rate for Generating Gear Grinding (September/October 2015)
Generating gear grinding is one of the most important finishing processes for small and medium-sized gears, its process design often determined by practical knowledge. Therefore a manufacturing simulation with the capability to calculate key values for the process — such as the specific material removal rate — is developed here. Indeed, this paper presents first results of a model for a local analysis of the value. Additionally, an empirical formula — based on a multiple regression model for a global value describing the process — is provided.
Quality and Surface of Gears Manufactured by Free-Form Milling with Standard Tools (January/February 2015)
The recently available capability for the free-form milling of gears of various gear types and sizes — all within one manufacturing system — is becoming increasingly recognized as a flexible machining process for gears.


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Q: Managing VPN-based users/VLAN access to a test environment I'm involved in the setup of a demo/user lab environment comprising several racks of server kit. The idea is that potential hardware/software customers can be given a VPN account that will allow them into specific kit only. The main challenge is that the users can do whatever they want with the servers in terms of OS (Windows, Linux, ESXi, Xen...), so I believe isolating them to a specific VLAN, with their kit on the matching switch ports, is a possible solution.
I envisage using a bastion server to manage the VPN accounts and was looking at ClearOS because its GUI makes setup/access control easier for the lab techs to work with, but I can't see a way of configuring the VLAN control so that, for example, VPN user 1 is on VLAN 10 and VPN user 2 is on VLAN 15..etc
I'm hoping to end up with a GUI-based setup where the work effort extends to setting up a user VPN account, specifying their target VLAN and making sure  their target systems are connected to the relevant bank of switch ports. In essence, I'm hoping to avoid the need for regular editing of tons of iptables stuff etc..
From some work I did a few years back, I also have it in my mind that a Mikrotik box with RouterOS might do this kind of thing, but I don't have one to play with right now.
I have asked this question over at the ClearOS forums, but ("crickets") so does anyone here have experience with this type of setup - any guidance or thoughts appreciated.
Thanks.

A: I am not familiar with ClearOS but with Mikrotik you can definitely do what you need.
Either by using it's GUI (Winbox), or web interface (webfig) or standard terminal (SSH/Telnet).
Since what you describe (each VPN on its own VLAN) needs a few (repetitive) steps for every new user on the system you could also use Mikrotik's API to manage what you need using your own workflow.
So you could write your own GUI (in PHP for example) and make it as simple as you want while in the background it may run 5-10 commands on Mikrotik that end users don't need or care to know about :)


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Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. Declares First Quarter Cash Dividend
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GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, Dec. 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. (NASDAQ Global Select Market: "CWCO"), a leading developer and operator of advanced water supply and treatment plants, today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a quarterly cash dividend of $0.085 per share.
The cash dividend is payable January 31, 2020 to shareholders of record at the close of business on January 2, 2020.
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About Consolidated Water Co. Ltd.
Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. develops and operates advanced water supply and treatment plants and water distribution systems. The company operates water production facilities in the Cayman Islands, The Bahamas and the British Virgin Islands and operates water treatment facilities in the United States. The company also manufactures and services a wide range of products and provides design, engineering, management, operating and other services applicable to commercial and municipal water production, supply and treatment, and industrial water and wastewater treatment. For more information, visit www.cwco.com.
This press release includes statements that may constitute "forward-looking" statements, usually containing the words "believe", "estimate", "project", "intend", "expect", "should", "will" or similar expressions. These statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that would cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to (i) continued acceptance of the company's products and services in the marketplace;(ii) changes in its relationships with the governments of the jurisdictions in which it operates; (iii) the outcome of its negotiations with the Cayman government regarding a new retail license agreement; (iv) its ability to complete the project under development in Baja California, Mexico; (v) the future financial performance of its subsidiary that manufactures water treatment-related systems and products and provides design, engineering, management, operating and other services applicable to commercial, municipal and industrial water production; (vi) the collection of its delinquent accounts receivable in the Bahamas; (vii) its ability to integrate and profitably operate recently acquired subsidiary PERC Water Corporation; and (viii) various other risks, as detailed in the company's periodic report filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). For more information about risks and uncertainties associated with the company's business, please refer to the "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and "Risk Factors" sections of the company's SEC filings, including, but not limited to, its annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, copies of which may be obtained by contacting the company's Secretary at the company's executive offices or at the "Investors – SEC Filings" page of the company's website at http://ir.cwco.com/docs/. Except as otherwise required by law, the company undertakes no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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