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Windows 10 Sun Valley: Everything we know so far
A design refresh, new features, and an attempt to bring Windows back into the spotlight.
Zac Bowden
Source: Microsoft
Microsoft is currently working on a major update for Windows 10 that is expected to debut later this year that will bring with it a refreshed design and new features that are supposed to enhance the users' workflow in 2021 and beyond. Codenamed Sun Valley, this will be the biggest update to Windows 10 since Microsoft left the OS to stagnate on the market. Microsoft wants to reinvigorate the desktop, and Sun Valley is where it all starts.
Unfortunately, Microsoft still hasn't detailed its plans for Sun Valley, so we don't yet know on an official level what Microsoft is planning to deliver. However, I've been talking to several sources who are familiar with the company's plans, and I think I'm ready to detail what I believe Microsoft is working on for its Sun Valley project.
Now, it's worth mentioning that many of the features and UI changes I detail in this post are things that have been described to me by sources. I've not seen or experienced everything mentioned in this post which means there's room for misinterpretation in some areas, so keep that in mind.
This also isn't a comprehensive list of features. There's definitely stuff I don't know about yet, so keep that in mind. Finally, these plans can and probably will change. Microsoft may cut or postpone any of these features at any time, as that's just the nature of Windows OS development.
With that, let's get to everything I know.
A big UI refresh
One of Microsoft's goals with Sun Valley is to freshen up the Windows 10 user interface a bit. This will include rounding off corners on buttons, app windows, and shell elements such as the Start menu and Action Center, making legacy interfaces like File Explorer, File Properties, and copy dialogs more consistent with modern interfaces in Windows, and cleaning up parts of the OS to create a simpler, leaner user experience that caters to today's more modern workflows.
Internally, Microsoft has described this effort as "reinvigorating" the Windows Desktop. Externally, Microsoft announced last year that it would be "reinvesting" in Windows 10 in the 2021 time frame. Job postings on Microsoft's careers website have also described plans to "rejuvenate" the Windows user experience, touting Windows as "BACK."
So, the three R's: reinvigorating, reinvesting, and rejuvenating. That's what Microsoft wants to deliver with Windows 10 Sun Valley.
I've heard that Microsoft is working on a "simplified" Taskbar that will clean up the system tray by moving most of it into the Action Center, just like on Windows 10X. This also paves the way for the new 10X Action Center to debut on Windows 10, featuring the same improved Quick Settings panel, music control UI, and visually separated notifications area. You can read more about the new Action Center here.
Regarding the Start menu, I know that Microsoft is working to round off "sharp" elements of its UI, such as the corners around live tiles and the Start menu itself. Context menus and Jump Lists in the Start menu and Taskbar are also expected to get the rounded corner treatment, along with most modern in-box apps.
The image below is an accurate recreation of the rounded Start menu design that Microsoft is working on internally. We recreated the image to protect our sources, but what you see below is exactly how it is:
I've also seen builds internally that feature the new Windows 10X Start menu. I suspect the 10X Start menu will be an optional feature that users can turn off if they prefer the older live tile interface of the current Start menu. Start, Action Center, and Jump List menus will be visually separated from the taskbar, following a similar design trend found on Windows 10X.
Most in-box apps will be getting a design refresh too, including Settings and File Explorer. We've already seen Alarms & Clock get updated with a new design, and I'm told most other in-box apps will follow the same path and will be updated using Microsoft's new WinUI design toolset.
I also understand that we're going to see newer, streamlined animations that make the experience feel more fluid. Windows 10X already has fluid animations, so I would expect to see most, if not all of those animations come to Windows 10 desktop too.
New OS features
In addition to UI updates, Microsoft is also planning to introduce new features to the Windows user experience that will enhance people's productivity in their workflows. We've already seen a couple of new features, including the new "news and interests" widget in the Taskbar, but plenty more are on the way.
Microsoft is planning to add a new battery usage chart to the Settings app that will break down which apps were using the most power in any given hour, and provide tools to prevent them from draining your battery in the future.
Mockup by Windows Central to protect sources.Source: Windows Central
There's also a new feature that will allow you to separate Microsoft Edge tabs from app windows in the snap assist view, making it easier to organize, find, and snap the content you want. This will be handy for those who have many tabs and apps open at once and might not remember which tab is open in what browser window.
I'm also told that snap assist will be getting an update to make it more reliable when docking to and from a larger display, now remembering which apps are snapped where instead of forgetting once you connect or disconnect.
I've heard that Microsoft is building a new "dashboard" feature that may live in the Task View area, which will provide you with an overview of everything going on with your Microsoft or corporate account, including upcoming calendar events, recent documents in Office, emails, To Do's, and other news and interests related to your network.
Expressive input methods such as voice and pen are set to receive new updates too. There's a new voice control UI that is much cleaner, featuring rounded corners and the likes. Pen users are also getting an updated, dedicated context menu interface that appears when using Windows with a pen peripheral.
For tablets, I hear Microsoft is working on a new "gesture layer" that sits above the UI and allows touch users to use gestures to manipulate app windows and system navigation. Similar to the trackpad gestures found on Windows 10 today but doable using the touchscreen instead. You'll be able to do things like minimize an app window with a four or five finger swipe down, for example.
Microsoft is also planning to cater to the "power user" market by allowing users to uninstall most in-box apps with Sun Valley. Microsoft allows users to uninstall a handful of in-box apps today, but I'm told with Sun Valley the list of uninstallable in-box apps is going to grow significantly.
When is it coming?
Microsoft is hoping to deliver Sun Valley as an update in the fall of this year. I've heard it'll begin rolling out in October, likely under the "October 2021 Update" (version 21H2) moniker. Windows Insiders will begin seeing Sun Valley bits show up over the next few weeks and months, before Microsoft signs off on a "final build" sometime in June.
Once a final build has been determined, Microsoft will begin testing the Sun Valley update as a designated release in the Beta Channel, and continue adding last minute features and fixes to the OS via cumulative updates. These cumulative updates will roll out as a single day one patch alongside the Sun Valley release in October.
So that's everything I know about the Windows 10 Sun Valley update so far. There's a lot planned, and if Microsoft is able to deliver what it hope to, this might end up being the most significant Windows 10 feature update to date. Hopefully, Microsoft is planning to talk about Sun Valley on an offiical level soon, to generate some much needed hype for Windows 10 if nothing else.
What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments.
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Siemens Gamesa launches 14 MW turbine
We're always first with the biggest solutions, CEO asserts, intending to hijack the majority of the booming offshore wind market with a new turbine. From the beginning, the new turbine will be available in an even larger version, and with a 222-meter rotor, it can generate one fourth more than last year's new model.
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From 2024, the offshore wind sector will see another quantum leap, as Siemens Gamesa initiates serial production of its latest offshore wind turbine. With a 222-meter rotor and capacity of 14 MW – with the option to power-optimize to 15 MW – the new turbine can generate 25 percent more power than its predecessor and once again send the market leader to the front line of the continued technological race. This with a clear goal that the new turbine must ensure the firm's dominance.
"More than half of the global market is currently ours. And it must stay that way. That's why we want competitive turbines ready in time, and right now, projects for the mid-2020s are being tendered, auctioned and decided upon. We'll be ready for them with our new turbine," says Siemens Gamesa Offshore Chief Executive Andreas Nauen to EnergyWatch.
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According to to TMZ news, the wedding would take place in the first week of March. Apparently Justin's birthday falls within the same week.
The couple have already "Save The Date" cards to some celebrity couples including Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott.


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Senate GOP Deigns to Allow One Judicial Confirmation Vote
Paul Gordon | October 26, 2015
Mitch McConnell is allowing the Senate to vote on a judicial nominee later today, only the ninth such vote the majority leader has allowed this year. The long journey of New York's Lawrence Vilardo from nomination to confirmation typifies the dramatically different ways Senate Democrats and Republicans regard our nation's federal judicial system.
In July of 2014, Judge Richard Arcara of Buffalo announced his plans to take senior status early in 2015. Just three weeks later, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer recommended Vilardo to the White House, which thoroughly vetted him and nominated him on February 4 of this year. Especially since the last remaining active judge in Buffalo was going to be taking senior status a month later, leaving it without an active federal judge for the first time in more than half a century, needless delay would be particularly harmful. Unfortunately, although Vilardo could have been confirmed months ago, it is only today that the Senate is acting to fill the vacancy.
First, his hearing was delayed. Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley holds confirmation hearings infrequently and forces nominees to wait weeks or months longer than necessary for their hearing. In the first ten months of the year, Grassley has held only seven confirmation hearings for circuit and district court nominees, and they usually could have accommodated more nominees than Grassley allowed. So it wasn't until early May that Vilardo had his hearing.
Next, the Judiciary Committee was scheduled to vote on Vilardo's nomination on May 21. However, Grassley delayed the vote for two weeks without explanation. This actually came as no surprise, since Senate Republicans have made unexplained and unjustified delays of President Obama's judicial nominations a routine part of the confirmation process. But after this delay, the committee approved Vilardo by unanimous voice vote on June 4, sending his unopposed nomination to the full Senate.
In the nearly five months since, the nomination has languished, as Senate Republicans have refused to schedule a vote. Schumer took to the Senate floor to formally request a vote in July, so that this and two other New York vacancies could be filled before the Senate's extended summer recess. It only takes one senator to scuttle such a request, and Grassley took to the floor to say no. Grassley did not claim that senators needed more time to vet the nominees. Nor did he claim that there were problems with the nominees. Instead, he said the Senate should not vote on any of the New York nominees because the Senate was planning to vote in September on a Missouri nominee who had been waiting longer. He also cited the previous confirmation of many of President Obama's judicial nominees throughout the country as an excuse, as if that were somehow a justification for denying New Yorkers effectively functioning courts even though the Senate was fully prepared to vote. Grassley's action made clear that even when everyone agrees that particular nominees are highly qualified to fill critically important positions in our nation's judiciary, the GOP regards allowing our courts to function effectively as a major concession to the Democrats.
The same thing happened in mid-September, this time with Texas Senator John Cornyn instead of Grassley serving as the hatchet man. Cornyn claimed the Senate should delay voting on the New York nominees because Senate Democrats had held confirmation votes for several judges at the end of last year's lame duck session – as if that were a legitimate justification. Further weakening Cornyn's credibility, he failed to mention that three of those nominees were from Texas, and that he himself had specifically urged the Democrats to confirm them during the lame duck.
At the end of September, the president of the New York State Bar Association condemned the delays and urged the Senate to swiftly vote on Vilardo and all the other pending nominees.
Last week, McConnell allowed the Senate to confirm one of the New York nominees, Ann Donnelly. And today, he is finally allowing a vote on Vilardo.
As noted above, this is only the ninth judicial confirmation of the year. In contrast, when Democrats took over the Senate during George W. Bush's last two years in office, they had let the Senate confirm 34 judicial nominees at this same point. So while judicial vacancies and judicial emergencies fell during 2007, both have risen significantly in 2015 due to GOP refusal to process nominations in a timely manner.
So Lawrence Vilardo's confirmation later today is something to celebrate. But it also begs the question of why Senate Republicans are limiting today's vote to just one nominee.
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P.J. O'Rourke Profiles RFE In 'World Affairs Journal'
P.J. O'Rourke looks at RFE's role in fostering civil society and the free flow of information across South Asia, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union for "World Affairs Journal." An excerpt is reprinted below, or read the entire article on the "World Affairs Journal" website.
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At dinner in Prague with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's president, Jeff Gedmin, and half a dozen RFE/RL staffers, Gedmin said, to no one in particular, "Do you think at any time in the future history will look back and say, 'I wish they hadn't broadcast so much information'?"
It will be an unpleasant future if history says that. And it won't be RFE/RL's fault. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty broadcasts information to Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East in twenty-eight languages. Much of the information comes from the places where those twenty-eight languages are spoken. RFE/RL has five hundred and fifty employees in Prague—speaking the twenty-eight languages and then some—forty more back in Washington, and several hundred full- and part-time correspondents, editors, and technicians at bureaus in eighteen countries. Reporters are also working, sometimes clandestinely, in countries where RFE/RL bureaus aren't allowed. The mission is to tell people living in those countries what is happening to them.
"I don't know what's happening to me" would be a statement of psychological or sociological distress in a liberal democracy, but it's a plain statement of fact concerning the material world for anyone who doesn't live in a liberal democracy. Government censorship of media, government influence on or ownership of media, and simple lack of infrastructure keep several billion people uninformed about the most important and intimate matters in their own lives. (And according to Radio Farda, RFE/RL's Iranian service, the Iranian judiciary has ruled that psychology and sociology should not be taught in schools.)
The concept of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is "surrogate broadcasting"—doing the job that independent media would do if there were any or enough of it in the places RFE/RL serves. Jeff Gedmin calls it "holding up a mirror." It's a Cold War idea. Radio Free Europe's first broadcast was to Czechoslovakia in 1950, as the Communists were using show trials and purges to solidify their control in Prague.
Like its sister organization Voice of America, RFE/RL is funded by the U.S. government. But Voice of America is primarily about America. RFE/RL is primarily about Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, the Balkans, the North Caucasus region, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan...
Vaclav Havel, the first president of free Czechoslovakia, said, "I learned about America from VOA and learned about my own country from Radio Free Europe."
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was talk in Washington about closing down Radio Free Europe. More thoughtful policymakers prevailed. With the New World Order came a new set of world disorders. Igor Pomeranzev, a Russian broadcaster for RFE/RL, told me what a Moscow cab driver told him: "In the old days, I listened to Radio Free Europe to get news about my country. Now—I listen to Radio Free Europe to get news about my country."
RFE/RL no longer broadcasts to Estonia, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Bulgaria, and Romania (though it has added service to Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, the Balkans, and other places). The retrenchments may have been premature. Jay Tolson, RFE/RL's news director, said the president of Romania told the BBC, which also had cut its Romania service, "You left too soon."
Mardiros Soghom, RFE/RL's deputy director of broadcasting strategy and operations, said that, in the matter of media independence, "Places like Latvia are losing ground. The trend lines are bad." He was worried about a "reassertion of the Soviet sphere of influence" while, back in the U.S., there has been a "move toward more Middle East involvement" in concerns about media freedoms.
John O'Sullivan, RFE/RL's executive editor, said, "Unless there's a threat involved it's hard to convince America it's important."
But there is a threat involved. O'Sullivan sees, in fact, two threats rising to replace the Cold War threat of international Communism. Jihadism is a threat of course, but so is what O'Sullivan calls "the politicized use of corruption." Russia, most notably, has managed to harness corruption to increase the power of the state.
"Putin is combining the KGB elite with the oligarchs," Soghom said.
The increase in state power is being used not just domestically but in foreign policy. And, O'Sullivan points out, politicized corruption and jihadism aren't mutually exclusive. Witness the Taliban's harnessing of Afghanistan's opium crop.
The strange logic of jihadism and the strict solipsism of corruption are more difficult to combat, ideologically, than Marxism. Fortunately no ideology is needed. "We are carrying on an argument promoting liberty's ideal," Soghom said, "by just providing information."
The most effective part of American foreign policy isn't military or economic and it isn't even really an ideal. It's just an idea.
The idea is that nobody in the world thinks, "I wish I knew less. I wish other people could tell me anything, and I'd believe it because I don't know any better. I wish other people could tell me what to do because they know what's going on and I don't. I wish other people could push me around."
All the rights of freedom rest on freedom of speech, on information, on communication. Armand Mostofi, director of Radio Farda, said, "We try to provide a window to the free world."
In return, the Iranian government spends, by the estimate of RFE/RL's technicians, approximately $40 million a year jamming Radio Farda. This is roughly four times Farda's annual budget. As a work-around, Farda uses shortwave, which is harder to jam, and Web sites on proxy servers, including one that was developed by Falun Gong supporters in China. Radio Farda has more than fifty thousand Facebook friends in Iran. The Iranian government has responded by buying Internet screening systems from China. The Iranian government has also responded with secret police legwork. An eyewitness phoned in a report of a demonstration against Iran's rigged elections, and Iranian intelligence agents spent eleven months tracing the woman. She was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for giving information to Radio Farda—and for being at the demonstration. Iran's minister of culture has written a book denouncing Radio Farda. Even the denunciation is secret. The print run was limited to three hundred—for official use only.
I asked why Iran was going to so much trouble. "What do they fear?"
"The truth," said Mostofi, "about everything."
Talking to Radio Farda staffers, I could understand that just the structure of the Iranian government is a truth that Iran would not like to have told. The mullahs and the leaders of the Revolutionary Guard seem to have sent themselves to night school, studying every style of totalitarianism. Mimicking the Brezhnev-era Soviet nomenklatura, they've created an elite on the take. The Revolutionary Guard Corps is, among other things, 125,000 bagmen skimming graft from the top posts in politics and industry. Iran's dictators use the stratagems of theocracy with considerably more organizational skill than the Taliban. They employ the Stalinist technique of placing a "political officer"—a Revolutionary Guard member—with every military unit. Meanwhile, like the Nazi SS, they have the Revolutionary Guard as a military of their own. On the original fascist model, Iran is also organized from the bottom up, with the least employed and employable drawn into a militia force, the Basij, which has at least a nominal membership of 13.6 million. There are Basij branches within tribes, at offices, in colleges, high schools, grade schools, and summer camps. And all this is funded with petroleum reserves that allow the Iranian government to combine the "oil-archy" of Saudi Arabia with the isolationist Juche philosophy of North Korea.
Such a monumental structure of repression would seem hard to shake, but the smallest illuminations of ignorance appear to shake it. "Freedom of information for this regime is like sunshine for Dracula," said Mostofi.
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'Relief tinged with regret' — Coveney says Ireland must build new relationship with UK after Brexit
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Simon Coveney has admitted that he feels 'relief tinged with regret' as Ireland is forced to develop a new relationship with the UK following Brexit.
After months of relentless negotiations, the UK and the EU finally came to a last-minute Brexit deal on Christmas Eve.
It came just one week before the end of the transition period on December 31 which will see the UK finally level the Union following the Referendum in 2016.
The UK and the EU finally reached a Brexit agreement on December 24. Pic: Aaron Chown/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
The Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs has admitted that while he is relieved that the UK and the EU finally struck a deal, he regrets the British decision to leave.
In a statement, the Fine Gael TD said he is focused on building a relationship between Ireland and the UK in the New Year.
'Ireland is now focused on building a new relationship with the UK outside of the EU,' Mr Coveney said.
Simon Coveney said he is looking forward to Ireland forging a new relationship with the UK. Pic: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie
'I will be updating the Cabinet on Tuesday on the deal which runs to 2,000 pages and has taken us four very long years.
'The border, the peace process, billions in tariffs and our place in the single market were all threatened by Brexit, these have all now been put to bed.
'When you weigh up the enormous damage of a no deal, I think Ireland has defended itself against the vulnerabilities Brexit forced upon us.
Mr Covney admitted that he felt 'relief tinged with regret' as the UK finally leaves the EU. Photo: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie
'The protection from the Irish protocol and this deal is beyond what many predicted would be possible.
'There will still be some changes to the status quo on January 1 because of our nearest neighbour being outside the EU and Cabinet will also discuss supports for the most affected sectors.
'This weekend my feeling is one of relief but tinged with regret that the UK is going it alone.
Simon Coveney said that he is focused on Ireland's new relationship with the UK outside of Brexit. Pic: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie
'Ireland is now focused on building a new relationship with the UK outside of the EU. Personally I hope talk of 'Brexit' will fade away.'
The hefty Brexit deal was finally published by the European Union on December 26.
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Millimeter observations of galactic sources
Clegg, P. E., Rowan-Robinson, M. and Ade, Peter A. R. 1976. Millimeter observations of galactic sources. Astronomical Journal 81 , pp. 399-406. 10.1086/111899
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/111899
Observations at wavelengths close to 1 mm of 53 Galactic source positions, including most of the available strong CO sources and infrared sources associated with compact H II regions, are described. Strip maps across W49 and W51, and a complete map of Orion, are presented, the latter suggesting a strong correlation between far-infrared radiation from dust and molecular line emission. Spectra of some of the sources are shown. A composite spectrum suggests similar dust cloud properties in the various sources. Comparison of the present fluxes and upper limits with CO excitation temperatures enables the 1-mm optical depths to be estimated.
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OPINION: Harvard's Man Of The Year, Milo Ventimiglia, Places Service To Veterans Above Himself
Jeff Cortese Contributor
February 08, 2019 11:30 AM ET
I dropped my strong hand to the ground — white-knuckled and ready to go — in the best three-point stance I could muster as a first-timer. I was both excited and scared as I stared across at my opposition. If he was afraid, he sure didn't show it. The ring of the coach's whistle marked my inaugural gridiron battle in full pads. I stumbled out of my stance and slammed face mask to face mask – and like that, I was on my back. As the haze lifted from my eyes, I saw the hand of my foe extended in my direction. We locked arms and with his crooked smile that conveyed both sympathy and strength, he peeled me off the ground. That was the first time I met one of my oldest friends, Milo Ventimiglia.
Milo has an extensive Hollywood resume written with the blood and sweat of over twenty years in the industry. It's funny now to look back on all that has happened since we were kids. I once joked that his nerve-damaged mouth made him look like Sylvester Stallone. Fast-forward 15 years, and he's playing opposite Stallone as Rocky's son in Rocky Balboa. Go figure.
Like anybody trying to make a living, he's had high points and low points. Periods where things couldn't seem to get any better and periods where they couldn't seem to get any worse. Despite all the ups and downs, there's one thing he's always made time for, and that's service to others. He has a well-earned reputation for being generous with his time and down-to-earth with his colleagues and the people he meets on the street. Milo, the son of a veteran like myself, has supported multiple military charities and participated in numerous USO tours both stateside and abroad.
There are many in Hollywood who see their celebrity as an opportunity for activism. They take to Twitter or Facebook and posture themselves for or against an issue and wage a war. To each his own, of course. But service is an act of humility that emphasizes the dignity of the human person, lived out not unlike the great actors of old, the classic Hollywood icons like John Wayne and Bob Hope.
Service — the humble giving of one's self – brings hope to those who can't get enough of it. Traveling overseas to visit the troops is a minor sacrifice in the face of what those with whom he's visiting have made, but it matters. It matters to the men and women he visits, if only for a moment. But it's a great moment. An uplifting moment. Milo and others who travel on USO tours bring peace to turmoil. The world and the country are in the middle of a very tumultuous time with no shortage of passionate opinions. But it's humility — it's service to others — that is what brings the greatest hope for peace in the future. Regardless of your calling, it's safe to say we can all use a little more peace in our lives.
On Feb. 8, Milo will be honored as Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals 2019 Man of the Year — a highly prestigious award from the country's oldest theatrical organization. The honor is presented annually to "performers who have made lasting and impressive contributions in entertainment." Past recipients include some of Hollywood's biggest stars, including Tom Hanks, Robert Downey Jr. and Harrison Ford.
This is an honor he has certainly earned, but it's what he does off the screen that really makes him a classic. I'm a career law enforcement guy. I'm not qualified to opine with any degree of credibility on Milo's acting, but I know this much — Harvard got it right when they said Milo has made lasting and impressive contributions, but there are military professionals around the world who know it to be far more than just in entertainment. You could say he's always had a knack for picking people up.
Jeff Cortese (@JeffreyCortese) a financial crimes manager in the private sector, is the former acting chief of the FBI's Public Corruption Unit. Before his 11-year career with the bureau, he worked as a dignitary protection agent with the U.S. Capitol Police and served on the security detail for the Speaker of the House.
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Q: Partial match of enum variants Let's assume this code:
pub enum Operations {
    Nop,
    Read,
    Write { content: Vec<u8> },
}

pub fn do_operation(op: Operations) {
    match op {
        Operations::Nop => {}
        rest => {
            // open a file
            match rest {
                Operations::Read => {
                    // read file
                }
                Operations::Write { .. } => {
                    // write file
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

As you can see, I have three variants, where in two I'd like to do similar operations (in this case open a file and do something with it).
But with the third variant I want to do a operation, that doesn't involve opening the file at all.
Currently rust refuses to compile this code:
error[E0004]: non-exhaustive patterns: `Nop` not covered
  --> src/lib.rs:12:19
   |
1  | / pub enum Operations {
2  | |     Nop,
   | |     --- not covered
3  | |     Read,
4  | |     Write { content: Vec<u8> },
5  | | }
   | |_- `Operations` defined here
...
12 |               match rest {
   |                     ^^^^ pattern `Nop` not covered
   |
   = help: ensure that all possible cases are being handled, possibly by adding wildcards or more match arms
   = note: the matched value is of type `Operations`

IMHO it should be detectable by the compiler that Operations::Nop isn't possible anymore.
Is there a way to make this work, e.g. by activating a nightly feature or using a workaround? Is there an open issue at github which already suggests this kind of partial matching?

A: This is unfortunately not possible; Rust doesn't do the sort of type narrowing that Typescript or Swift do.
Your best alternatives are:

*

*Use => unreachable!(). It's annoying but not a big deal in the long run (especially since the optimizer will trivially notice that the branch is unreachable and omit it from the compiled code)

*Refactor your enum to reflect the nested behavior you want, or consider using an Option to contain your Nop variant:

enum Operation {
    Noop,
    FileOperation(FileOperation),
}

enum FileOperation {
    Read,
    Write { content: Vec<u8> },
}

fn do_operation(op: Operation) {
    match op {
        Nop => { ... },
        FileOperation(file_op) => {
            // open a file
            match file_op => { ... }
        }
    }
}

Between these two, I'd probably recommend just doing unreachable, especially if (as I assume is the case) your actual Operation enum is much larger than the sample code you've shown here.

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The Glenlivet Captain's Reserve Single Malt Scotch Whisky
by Jason August 3, 2020 July 7, 2020
Come on down the price is right.
A famous line from a bygone age of television. But it reveals a pearl of wisdom that still applies to this very day. See, we're all obsessed with a bargain, or at least the prospect of the hunt. Whether it is the thrill of winning against the capitalist and corporate system or merely taking a speculative punt on a previously ignored whisky. We love the sense of a bargain and throwing caution to the wind.
We're living in an era of flash sales, discounts and a recalibration of price points for certain whiskies. The musical chair jostling to find their perfect positioning in an increasingly crowded marketplace. The slight admission that the bottler over-egged the price point, only to engage in a sly retreat towards a more meaningful price. The deletion of a specific expression has become a common sight in recent times, only to be suddenly replaced by something younger and often more expensive. The art of the redesign that keeps many experts and industry commentators employed in a vicious circle of press releases and soundbites. Each of these and many more, ensure that now and again, the decks are cleared of old stock and weary designs, or just failing stock is discounted. Only then, do we know, if indeed the price has morphed from the overpriced to the sweet spot.
This is the dilemma that we use our judgement to decipher when faced with an array of bottles for sale. Recently, I found myself in Edinburgh on a Sunday morning and in a supermarket branch of Sainsbury's – other retailers of whisky are available – but I'm being candid here. If you're like me, then with a few moments to spare, you'll venture down towards the whisky or whiskey, away from the cans of Irn Bru and proper crisps. Ignoring the ranks of beers, cider (sorry Adam), vodka, rum and gin. To see what's on offer, or what supermarket exclusives have appeared since your last foray. This isn't the normal hunting ground for an enthusiast such as myself, but it is beneficial to keep in touch with the assortment of everyday whiskies for many drinkers.
We always listen to feedback here on Malt and while we try to do our darndest to bring you whiskies from across the world and of all ages. There's a need to cover more of these everyday examples and return to those relegated or ignored bottles.
A scan of the shelves confirmed some heavy discounting and enticing prices with a few empty places being evident. Several caught my eye, but it is today's Glenlivet Captain's Reserve that was victorious. Glenlivet is a huge brand and presence in whisky. A distillery that we don't cover much nowadays unless an independent has released a sherry bomb. Glenlivet is what I like to refer to amongst my circle as a dead brand. By this I mean you've moved on from it in your whisky journey. It remains a memory, but like Auchentoshan, Balvenie, Glenfiddich and their ilk, not something you will look back upon and return to. But this doesn't mean that we shouldn't re-engage with it on occasion for those out there.
The price reduction was substantial, as normally retailing for £47, this Glenlivet expression is at the high end of what you'd expect to find in a supermarket unless you're in Waitrose. Instead, this bottle cost me just £32, which seems too good to be true. I had wondered if the expression was being deleted or the packaging revamped? Both seemed unlikely as this cognac finish Glenlivet was only launched in 2018. In whisky terms, that's yesterday. Pure speculation on my part, but both of the remaining bottles were showcasing slightly bashed packaging that might symbolise the last of the line for this retailer. They'd tried to give the Captain a chance with his fancy cognac finish and it hadn't found an audience. And at nearly £50, noting the competition on the shelves, I can see why, or why not just walk up the aisle and buy a cognac yourself for much less?
I am surprised that this is only a recent addition to the Glenlivet range as the packaging feels tired, safe and decades-old rather than just 2 years. The abundant use of purple, wording and showcasing George Smith in regal terms almost brings a Napoleonic theme and projection of grandeur, which taps into the use of the cognac casks. In terms of age, Glenlivet isn't talking about such details. The casks are used as a finish for a minimum period of 6 months to enhance a portion of the American/sherry casks (first fill) that have been utilised for the initial maturation. French wood is prized and often considerably old, depending on where Glenlivet sourced their casks from and this translates into the overall cost. In recent times, we've seen cognac casks used as a finishing instrument across the industry from the likes of Arran, Deanston, Glenfarclas and Glenmorangie with some American distilleries also experimenting with the qualities these casks can deliver.
A cognac cask can bring a robust sense of oak to proceedings. Few distillates can stand up to the nature of French oak for a full maturation. Meaning that most of the cognac casks we'll see are indeed finishes. Carefully managed it can bring an oaky elegance to the whisky, fortifying the aromas and flavour and enhancing the texture. An interesting comparison would be alongside the Glenlivet 15 year old French Oak Reserve, which uses limousin oak casks from France. Slightly more expensive at £53.99 via Master of Malt. The immediate question would be why do both exist and what differences do they bring? That's for a future tasting, but on paper you'd presume the French Oak Reserve uses wood exclusively from the Limousin forest, whereas this Captain cognac is unspecified and that might entail casks from Tronçais, which according to the Cognac-Expert is softer and lacks the forceful nature of Limousin. Perhaps the Glenlivet was listening to Mark in 2015, when he concluded that they shouldn't worry about the age statements. Instead, they should rip off the numbers – of all of them – and instead start bottling whiskies that make for more exciting calling cards.
Looking online, a bottle of this Glenlivet Captain's Reserve will cost you £46.95 from The Whisky Exchange, while expect to pay slight less at £44.90 via Master of Malt and Amazon will charge exactly the same. Underlining my good fortune at the supermarket and how it pays to shop around.
The Glenlivet Captain's Reserve Single Malt Scotch Whisky – review
Colour: butterscotch.
On the nose: a pleasing arrival of toffee, marmalade, cardamon and apricot. More time in the glass reveals notes of tobacco, honey and chocolate orange. Adding water brings out a leathery quality, dried ginger, walnuts and plums.
In the mouth: toffee lingers again with some black pepper seasoning. There's a sense of a very withdrawn and shy dram – one that's been watered down heavily. Some patience is required. Then you begin to pick up figs, cinnamon bark and kindling. A pleasing essence of rubber mixes well with golden syrup and stewed apples. Just a drop of water delivers more of the sherried wood with red grapes, cranberries and slightly drying in parts.
This plays to the core Glenlivet audience extremely well. Far from a challenging or difficult whisky, this is easy drinking territory and easily poured into a tumbler with ice. I can see why this exists. It offers a sense of what cognac can bring to a whisky. Displaying a little more quality and character than the staple Glenlivet expressions.
I'm also reminded that changes to the filtration and strength would pay dividends for consumers. Glenlivet can afford to give a little more when charging nearly £50 for this, or at least reinforce why it costs so much, whilst avoiding an age statement. In their defence, I would state that there is a decent age to this whisky, as there's nothing harsh or undignified whatsoever. A luxurious suspension and softness to the experience that makes for an easy dram. Personally, I'm at a stage now where I want a little more vigour and character. This Captain's Reserve feels suffocated not by the wood, but rather the safe environment that Glenlivet likes to exist within.
Jason is based in Scotland and is Malt's Chief Engineer. He is also the online editor for Distilled. You can reach out via Instagram.
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Smeds says:
"Endured" a bunch of core Glenlivet at a tasting a while back. Asked the (young) ambassador about chill-filtration and colouring. "I don't know" volunteered the "rep", searching for clues on the bottle. Pretty much sums up the whole "approach". They do sell a lot of whisky, though.
Hi Smeds
Disappointing they didn't even know that after the intensive training. Yes and yes seems to be the most likely answer. Hopefully, we'll return to Glenlivet soon.
Cheers, Jason.
I found myself continually pulled out of this otherwise excellent review by the sheer quantity of jarring sentence fragments. This article really should have been better edited! That said, I think 5-6 our of 10 is a fair conclusion to reach for this expression, and agree with nearly all of the points made.
Thanks Chad, glad you approve.
I was tempted by this when it was offered for £25 on Amazon. A very disappointing dram, I expected better, I found it very bland and uninteresting, maybe just to subtle for me. At least it was cheap.
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Enhanced transparency for producers with MLA performance review
Grass fed beef producers are set to benefit from greater accountability and transparency with Meat & Livestock Australia's performance review, according to Cattle Council of Australia.
The 2010-2015 performance review is an independent analysis required under MLA's statutory funding and includes a detailed economic impact assessment.
Cattle Council of Australia chairman Howard Smith said the Council supported the review's recommendations.
Mr Smith said the independent analysis would deliver enhanced benefits to beef producers.
"The review highlights the positive outcomes MLA has generated for producers and believes it is essential MLA's future performance be measured against the Grass fed Beef Industry Strategic Plan 2020,'' he said.
"The review's recommendations will enable greater assessment of MLA's performance and deliver improved accountability and transparency to producers.''
The performance review, conducted by ACIL Allen, examined MLA's performance over the five years to 2014-15 and confirmed MLA has the necessary governance and organisational arrangements in place to deliver against its plans.
Mr Smith said MLA's four main strategic areas of activity – maintaining and improving market access, growing demand, increasing productivity, industry integrity and sustainability – were in line with the key priority issues identified in the BISP 2020.
He welcomed MLA's new regional consultation model ensuring research was targeted to producers and their business needs.
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The Ataturk Memorial Service at the Ataturk memorial at Tarakena Bay in Wellington in 2016. The memorial features the Ataturk 'quotation', complete with the invented line about "the Johnnies and the Mehmets" lying side by side. Photo: Getty Images
APRIL 25, 2018 Updated April 30, 2018
James Robins
James Robins is a freelance journalist and critic. He is currently writing a book on the connections between Anzac and the Armenian Genocide.
Immortal wartime words a fiction
National museum Te Papa says it will look at how it can change a WW1 exhibition following revelations that a famous phrase attributed to Turkey's former leader and war hero, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, was in part made up. James Robins reports.
The following lines will be familiar to most New Zealanders:
Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives…You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us, where they lie, side by side here in this country of ours…You, the mothers who sent their sons from faraway countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land, they have become our sons as well.
These tender words 'to the Anzac mothers' are attributed to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Republican Turkey, in 1934. They have been repeated at Anzac Day commemorations for it seems as long as modern memory can reach back. Ministers and dignitaries use them as an appeal to lofty, conciliatory ideals.
In the liturgy of Anzac Day, our most sacred and revered time of national pride, Mustafa Kemal's words are among the most imperishable, like John McCrae's 'In Flanders Fields', or Laurence Binyon's 'For the Fallen' in their undying promise of remembrance.
They appear most prominently in granite at Gallipoli itself, on Anzac Parade in Canberra, and as part of two monuments to Mustafa Kemal himself in Wellington: at Tarakena Bay, and in Pukeahu National Park, directly in front of the National War Memorial.
Because of those ameliorating words, and because he fought honourably against Anzac troops during the Gallipoli Campaign, New Zealanders have come to view Kemal as a noble and inspirational figure: the father of a nation, a progressive reformer and moderniser, an enlightened leader in the Middle East.
But history is often a bitter pill. Recent research from the Australian organisation Honest History, which is committed to challenging "the misuse of history to serve political or other agendas", has shown that Mustafa Kemal never said those words, wrote them down, nor thought of them, in 1934 or any other time.
That quote, says Peter Stanley, Honest History's former president and Professor at the University of New South Wales, is "fraudulent".
"There's no question. It's absolutely crystal clear … that the quote was made up [15] years after Kemal's death."
One expects that New Zealanders wouldn't erect monuments to Fascist Italy's Mussolini, or Chile's Augusto Pinochet, or Romania's Nikolai Ceaușescu. So why is Mustafa Kemal so favourably remembered in this country?
And however much New Zealanders might look at Atatürk through rose-tinted glasses, his name is far from spotless.
Mustafa Kemal was born in 1881 to a middle-class family in Thessaloniki, then part of the Ottoman Empire. He joined the military and was quickly inducted into a cloak-and-dagger secret society of fellow officers working to overthrow the Sultan.
This group of shadowy men later became part of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), a radical opposition group. Kemal took part in their 1908 uprising that later became known as the Young Turk Revolution.
It was a fractious time for the Empire. Over the decades leading up to the First World War, it had been losing territory to nationalist movements in the Balkans. Other imperial powers like Britain, France, and Russia toyed with its internal affairs. In order to establish security, the CUP led a coup against the government in 1913, establishing a ruling triumvirate. They took the Ottoman Empire into the war alongside Germany and Austria-Hungary.
However much New Zealanders might look at Atatürk through rose-tinted glasses, his name is far from spotless. File photo: Getty Images
Kemal was stationed very close to Ariburnu (Anzac Cove) when the first New Zealand troops landed on April 25, 1915. He was partly responsible for the bloody defence which stopped Anzac forces pushing further inland. And in August 1915, Kemal was again central to the Ottoman offensive that retook Chunuk Bair – the highest point in the Anzac campaign.
At precisely the same moment as these battles were taking place, the CUP enacted a plan to annihilate the Christian minorities of the Ottoman Empire, including Armenians, Assyrians, and Pontic Greeks. The CUP leaders feared they were a 'fifth column' working to destroy the state. More than a million innocent people lost their lives. Today, it is considered a genocide.
Kemal served out the rest of the First World War on various fronts, and was generally respected as an honourable, if hot-headed, commander. He was untainted by the crimes against humanity committed by his CUP comrades.
However, after the armistice, Kemal was chosen to lead the insurgent Turkish Nationalist movement. One of his first campaigns was against the fledging Republic of Armenia, a tiny state populated by refugees and genocide survivors. "It is indispensable," Kemal told his field commander in September 1920, "that Armenia be annihilated politically and physically".
By 1922, Kemal had beaten back a Greek occupation force and began renegotiating a peace treaty that would form the basis for the Republic of Turkey.
Because Kemal traced a line from Empire to Republic via Gallipoli, New Zealand leaders have often sought to tie together what they see as a moment of shared nation-building.
For example, in 2000, Prime Minister Helen Clark addressed a state dinner in Ankara: "For New Zealand, the battle at Gallipoli was a defining event which led to a developing recognition of our unique identity as a separate nation. For Turkey, Gallipoli was significant because Mustafa Kemal displayed his great leadership abilities there, and went on to become the founder of the Turkish Republic…"
Or as Winston Peters stated at Gallipoli on Anzac Day 2007 the last time he was Foreign Minister: "After the war, it was Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, a divisional commander at Gallipoli and later founder of the Turkish Republic, who paved the way for reconciliation…"
Contrary to this popular view of Mustafa Kemal as an enlightened leader, a moderniser, and a 'man of destiny', Kemal was, in fact, a ruthless dictator.
The true source of the famous message 'to the Anzac mothers', in other words, is a mass-murderer.
New Zealand newspapers from the 1920s and 30s often called him "Turkey's Mussolini" and compared him to other tyrants of the age like Hitler and Stalin. For the duration of his 15-year tenure, he ruled an authoritarian state in which all opposition parties were banned.
Although there is much pride in the claim that Turkish women got the vote in 1934, there was nothing to vote for as elections were entirely ceremonial. Kemal purged the civil service and universities of perceived enemies, conducted show trials of 'coup plotters', and cracked down severely on the press. Kemal's version of a secular Turkey did not resemble the pluralism of the United States' First Amendment, but instead expunged religion from society altogether and strictly controlled any remaining religious organisations.
Some historians, such as Uğur Üngör, Associate Professor in the Department of History at Utrecht University and author of The Making of Modern Turkey, have argued Kemal was a "totalitarian" dictator because he sought to control all areas of Turkish life.
Through his marathon, myth-creating speech of October 1927 (known as Nutuk), Kemal created an alternative history for Turkey mostly divorced from truth. This history was used to indoctrinate a new generation of children who had been cut off from their written past completely by the Alphabet Reform of 1928, which changed the written Ottoman script to a Latinised version.
Kemalism was "deeply illiberal", Üngör says, "by virtue of being Turkish nationalist and excluding all non-Turkish-Muslim political participation."
"Modernisation and democracy are not synonyms," Üngör points out. "Stalin modernised Russia, but destroyed millions of lives…The utopia of 'we're moving toward modernity' can be compared to American Manifest Destiny, in which Native Americans were obstacles to 'progress' and needed to be weeded out."
Further still, Kemal hung a veil of silence over what happened to the Ottoman Empire's Christian population during the First World War. Genocide denial has survived as official Turkish policy ever since.
As detailed in Honest History's meticulous research, an Anzac veteran and a retired Turkish schoolteacher bumped into each other at Gallipoli in 1977. The teacher carried a guidebook, and in that book was a quote attributed to Mustafa Kemal.
The Anzac relationship between New Zealand and Turkey is a relatively new thing. Photo: Getty Images
The veteran was moved by those words, and asked the teacher to write them down. He took them back to Australia, where they fell into the hands of another digger, Alan J Campbell, who was in the process of building an Anzac memorial in Brisbane.
Campbell wrote to the Turkish Historical Society asking for a source for those words. The Society turned a blank. They only thing they found was a newspaper interview given by Kemal's former Foreign Minister and Interior Minister Şükrü Kaya in 1953, in which he claimed to have read a speech written by Kemal in April 1934 to a delegation of British and Australian visitors at Gallipoli. Kaya's 1953 version is very similar to the one so familiar today.
But no one present that April day heard those seismic words. The British and Australian press covering this significant event did not record Kaya giving a speech on Kemal's behalf. When Kemal died four years later, in 1938, none of his obituaries mentioned the address. No serious biography of Kemal cites those words either.
There is only Kaya's claim that they are Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's words.
This is especially troubling given that Şükrü Kaya was one of Kemal's right-hand-men in the early regime, and was a leading perpetrator of the Armenian Genocide. During the First World War, Kaya was head of the Directorate for the Settlement of Tribes and Immigrants, responsible for issuing deportation orders to whole towns and villages of innocent Armenian civilians, sending them to their deaths in the Syrian desert. Kaya's department also directly oversaw the theft and plunder of Armenian property.
More troubling still is the fact that Alan J Campbell, when organising his Brisbane memorial, simply invented the crucial sentence "There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours…"
How then did these "fraudulent" words end up in history books, museum exhibits, Prime Ministers' speeches, and on prominent memorials in New Zealand's capital?
In 1984, a deal was cut. In exchange for Turkey officially renaming Arıburnu, the beach where the first Anzacs landed on April 25, 1915, as Anzac Cove, the Australian government agreed to build a memorial to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on Anzac Parade, Canberra (unveiled in 1985).
Ever since, and because of the increased popularity of Anzac Day, appearances of the Kemal 'quote' have proliferated.
The New Zealand government joined the negotiations, and another Atatürk memorial was dedicated in 1990 atop a rockface overlooking Tarakena Bay – a site chosen for its resemblance to Anzac Cove.
Both memorials feature the Ataturk 'quotation', complete with Alan Campbell's invented line about "the Johnnies and the Mehmets" lying side by side.
Prior to the deal, New Zealand and Turkey did not have intimate ties. Their diplomatic relationship was, as one Ministry of Foreign Affairs briefing paper from the mid-1980s describes it, "generally insubstantial". The two nations did not have embassies or cross-accredited ambassadors until 1993. The high-level, tripartite Anzac 'special relationship' is actually a rather recent phenomenon.
The Tarakena Bay memorial proved controversial, but not because of Kemal's despotic legacy or the provenance of his famous 'words'. The Wellington Maori Council pointed out that the proposed site was the location of sacred Pā. Their concerns were ignored, and planning was "carried out under fairly strict secrecy". And although the Ministry of Culture and Heritage was asked to check Kemal's role in the Gallipoli campaign, they did not check the origin of the quote.
In 2005, a small memorial cairn bearing the 'quote' was built in Auckland's Domain not far from the Auckland War Memorial Museum. And in 2017, another Atatürk monument was unveiled in Pukeahu National Park, just in front of the National War Memorial, Wellington (designed and built on a commission from the Turkish government by the New Zealand Defence Force's official artist Matt Gauldie).
The 'quote' also appears in the immensely popular Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War exhibition at Te Papa, famous for its super-sized figures created by Wellington's Weta Workshop. Nearly two million people have walked past the exhibition's tribute to Atatürk since it opened in April 2015.
That 'quote' became an intrinsic part of Anzac Day. However, things are changing.
In response to questions from this writer, a Te Papa spokesperson has stated that the national museum "will look at how we can change the exhibition text to better reflect the quote's contested origins".
The renowned historian Christopher Pugsley, author of the seminal Gallipoli: The New Zealand Story (now in its fifth edition), was historical director in charge of the exhibition, and he says the quote was only checked for translation – not for its provenance.
Pugsley admits that if the recent research on the Kemal 'quote' had been available when The Scale of Our War was being put together, they would have approached things differently.
"If this was 2014 or 2013 and we had Honest History in front of us, we would have come up with a different solution," Pugsley says.
Now, Pugsley says that guides for the exhibition will be "briefed on the background to the quotation itself and how recent historiography has raised questions..."
Last year, the Ministry of Culture and Heritage quietly moved to change its website information about both Atatürk monuments to indicate the quote is "widely attributed to Atatürk, although its exact origin is disputed".
"We wouldn't want to claim them to be absolute fact anymore," says Neill Atkinson, Chief Historian for the MCH. "There's clearly considerable doubt about that."
"What is valuable," Atkinson adds, "is to have open debate about these things and to have information out there that people can make up their minds about."
The debunking of these words shouldn't threaten the genuine and authentic reconciliation honoured by Anzac Day, Peter Stanley argues.
"Do we decide it's more important to unite with each other and accept a falsehood, or do we unite and deny the falsehood?" he asks.
Nor should there be a gaping hole in Anzac commemorations now. There is a verifiable and proven statement made by Mustafa Kemal via telegram to Australia in May 1934, widely printed in New Zealand newspapers:
"The landing at Gallipoli on April 25, 1915, and the fighting which took place on the peninsula will never be forgotten," the telegram reads. "They showed to the world the heroism of all those who shed their blood there. How heartrending for their nations were the losses that this struggle caused."
However, in the wake of the 'Rhodes Must Fall' campaign which began in South Africa, the removal of Confederate statues in the US South, and controversies in New Zealand over memorials to French explorer Jean-François-Marie de Surville or Colonel Marmaduke Nixon, the question of who New Zealanders choose to memorialise and how they remember them is still as vital as ever.
And even if every footnote, memorial, plaque, or speech could be amended, the question of how we remember Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and his brutal legacy still lingers.
As Peter Stanley says: "We don't believe in lying. We think that lying is bad … So how is it possible to live with something that we know is a lie?"
James Robins asked the Turkish embassy in Wellington for comment but has had no response to date.


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January's CommonGrounds winner, Nima Shahab Shahmir, was also the recipient of Tech Connects $500 pitch prize!. Nima is a WVU Tech student majoring in Computer Science, at the Beckley Campus. He is the first student participant going through the Beckley "Launch Lab" and the first winner of the prize that is sponsored by Tech Connect.
Academic units across West Virginia University are committed to collaborating productively to support and provide resources to students who have vision for new products or businesses. In this session, attendees will hear from students in a number of majors and colleges at WVU, including Business and Economics, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Agri-business. These young people truly embody the entrepreneurial mindset and innovative spirit we want to foster in all our students, on campus and beyond. Working in teams, they've come up with some exciting things to share. You'll also hear how the WVU LaunchLab, the College of B & E, the College of Creative Arts and the Reed College of Media work together to ensure the success of these teams. The panel will be facilitated by Steve Cutright of the Brickstreet Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the College of Business and Economics, and by Carrie White, the Director of the WVU LaunchLab.
UT Austin's McCombs School of Business, MBA Entrepreneur Society, and Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship proudly invite you to the 4th annual Pitch Texas Competition!
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With an aim to encourage the adoption of cloud CRM solutions in regulated industries, Salesforce recently announced the launch of a new platform called Salesforce Shield, which came shortly after Box introduced the general availability of Box Governance. Like Shield, it also focuses on ensuring cloud customers meet legal, regulatory and business policies regarding data storage and transfer.
The fact that the leading cloud CRM and cloud collaboration providers have launched solutions for the regulated industries almost at the same time could indicate a new trend that isn't likely to disappear. Namely, after several years of struggles with cloud implementations, organizations that have strict data security policies have started changing their attitudes towards the cloud. A recent survey by Cloud Security Alliance revealed that the cloud adoption in the finance sector increased significantly in 2014.
Also, 61 percent of professionals working in the finance sector are in the process of creating a cloud strategy within their organizations, according to the same survey. Conversely, only 18 percent say they are planning to continue using the private clouds.
Similarly, the healthcare industry is also seeing an accelerated adoption of cloud solutions. Skyhigh Q2 2015 report on the cloud adoption and risk in health care suggests that more institutions are embracing the cloud to increase employee productivity and cut costs.
Compared to previous years, the use of private clouds in these industries is gradually decreasing — mainly thanks to the growing number of secure cloud solutions designed in accordance with the national security standards. Among them, Salesforce Shield and Box Governance are probably the products that would revolutionize the industries and enable even more organizations to migrate sensitive data to the cloud.
Platform encryption native to the Salesforce1 platform.
A field audit trail that enables companies to keep track of changes and ensure they are using only the most accurate data.
Event monitoring for the purposes of increasing visibility of the actions associated with the data use.
Retention management, which helps administrators control preservation and deletion schedules of their sensitive documents.
Content security policies that protect clients' sensitive data.
Defensible eDiscovery to comply with data discovery requests.
Historically, the cloud has been associated with numerous security risks, which is why its adoption in the regulated industries has been notably slow. While the enterprises managed to find an intermediary solution by implementing hybrid clouds, businesses in regulated industries took more time to actually develop efficient public cloud strategies.
This is especially true for the health care industry, which has probably seen the tightest constraints regarding IT infrastructure innovation. The challenges here range from managing employee productivity apps to authentication, access and audit paradigms, as mentioned in a study by SecureLink. Working with highly sensitive citizens' data, healthcare institutions have had a limited number of IT solutions at their disposal.
For the past few months, however, we've been seeing a significant increase in the number of apps that support HIPAA and FINRA compliance for healthcare and finance organizations. Unsurprisingly, this contributed to accelerating the adoption of new IT solutions in the sector, with the cloud leading the innovation process.
The new offerings by Salesforce and Box are likely to become leaders in the regulated industries market given their already established reputation of reliable cloud providers. The precisely-defined features are likely to be welcomed by numerous organizations worldwide, significantly changing the landscape in the regulated industries, as previously mentioned.
However, this does not mean that their struggles associated with IT innovation will be over. Salesforce Shield and Box Governance may make a deep impact on the way regulated industries use the cloud, but a number of other IT challenges will remain.
This mostly relates to the trends of outsourcing IT components and managing their implementation, which will force these industries to keep improving their strategies until they're sure they've found all the right solutions for their needs.
How Salesforce & Box are changing the landscape in regulated industries originally published by Gigaom, © copyright 2015.
Speculation grows over what else Apple will announce next week (Ewan Spence covers the predictions here on Forbes), and we've had enough leaks about the specs of the iPhone 6S to spoil what product announcement Tim Cook will make for the device itself. But what is being overlooked is just the sheer weight of users likely to adopt the 6S as their next phone.