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With the elections over, do you think CNN and the other networks will finally have something nice to say about the Donald and the good things he's done. Not a chance, because they are staffed by LGBTQ/radical feminist/socialists who don't care about reporting on positive things that affect normal peoples' lives, only theirs.
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Now that the mid-terms have – thank the Lord – finally passed, it would seem reasonable that CNN and the other major networks staffed by devotees of Barack Obama and his LGBTQ/radical feminist socialists would move on to more objective news and not get so hysterical about the Donald, scaring people toward their Progressive cause, as they did before the elections.
But we aren't so lucky. Just a week after the elections, the Donald went to France to pay respects at an American cemetery to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, but cancelled because of inclement weather, and all the mainstream media and the wondrous keepers of information flow on the internet went into high shaming gear, saying how disrespectful he was to the dead soldiers and to France by staying inside his hotel.
The French president was also prompted with an anti-Trump question, telling a reporter that the Donald's use of the word "nationalism" stirred up memories of 1930s Germany, while back in the U.S., as we are told by CNN and the other media, the word emboldens white nationalism, a close relative of the Nazis.
The Donald just can't get a break by the U.S. mainstream media, which includes al the major networks – CBS, NBC, ABC, CNBC, PBS, and of course, the lead Trump basher CNN – who haven't had a nice word to say about him since the inauguration.
Ever since he took office, one would be hard pressed to find a kind, positive word any of those networks have uttered about him, despite the fact that the stock market is at record highs, unemployment at record lows, minority employment is at records, tax cuts have put money into American pockets, he has reached trade agreements that have benefitted American jobs and the economy, and the borders have been closed off, where under the Obama Administration they were like the doors opened at Best Buy on Black Friday.
The talking heads at these networks go about reading their teleprompters as if what they are reporting is objective news, that they are carrying on the great American journalistic tradition of a check and balance on government, protecting us from corruption and tyranny. But when it comes to Trump, it is all scowling, shaming dirt on the man and his administration.
What people miss and forget – especially Millennials with no sense of history or perspective on journalism and its sacred public trust – is that what happened with the leading broadcast news media was that our former great Diversifier Barack helped shape the editorial view and content of CNN and other broadcast media, which had previously been liberal but somewhat objective, but after Barack got through with them were staffed by mostly young reporters, many with his LGBTQ/radical feminist/socialist view of the world.
Barack and his pals from Chicago, namely Senior Advisors Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod, shaped CNN in particular and filled it with newsreaders and editors who were devotees of the Chicago Progressive socialist/radical feminist cause, and were all prepared to pass their loving teleprompters toward Hillary to carry us to the brave new Progressive globalist world of Diversity that Barack had begun leading us toward.
Then a strange, unfortunate thing happened. A capitalist with a comb over and scowl came along who was outside the sleazy, corrupt world of Washington, who appealed to Americans in the heartland who didn't like the world Barack was creating, who talked of jobs and bringing back the middle-class lifestyle that had been trashed over the previous eight years.
They were Hillary's "Deplorables," ordinary folks from middle America, who unlike the talking heads in the east coast newsrooms, often didn't have a college degree and were trying to raise children and put food on the table and didn't like the prospects and world Obama was creating, nor the intractable stupidity of Washington, who came out in record numbers to elect the Donald in a real show of true democracy on the hope that he would bring back the jobs and livehoods that had been lost. Which he has.
But CNN and the others can't let go of Barack and his cause. They have relentlessly gone after the Donald ever since he took office, with accusations of Russian collusion in the election, trying to paint him a sleaze ball by dragging up old girlfriends, saying his rhetoric has created an atmosphere of hate and helped resurrect groups like the white supremacists and neo-Nazis in America, when it has been CNN that has done the stirring of hatred by demonizing Trump on character issues that have overshadowed the things Trump has actually accomplished.
The other thing to remember about CNN and the networks as they go after Trump is that Barack Obama and his Chicago pals, who molded the current network attitudes on the Donald, were and are Alinskyites – devotees of Saul Alinsky, the original community organizer and Barack's hero and mentor, who back in Chicago in the 1950s and 60s used to organize black neighborhoods by demonizing Richard J. Daley and trying to get under his skin the way CNN is trying to get under the Donald's hide.
Saul said that in community organizing "the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act. . . . An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent."
So whether they realize it or not, by spreading fear and discontent on the Donald into our living rooms every day, the talking heads at CNN and to a lesser extent the other networks, are in fact community organizing for Barack and his socialist Progressives. They did it leading up to the mid-term elections, sending untold numbers of Trump-hating voters to the polls to vote Democrat or Progressive out of sheer vile hatred of the Donald, stirred up by the Alinsky journalism of demonizing and fear.
Now, with the mid-terms over, CNN is back at it, making the Donald seem evil and mean and an unstable tyrant, when, unlike CNN, he actually likes America and its people and democratic traditions.
One wonders, and worries a little bit, that the generation of Millennials coming up, who derive their information from the likes of CNN and CNBC and PBS and internet news sources who report "news" in Alinsky style on our current leader, that in order to make informed decisions when it comes times to vote, whether these Millennials will ever understand or be able to see that the media is informing them by stirring up dissatisfaction and discontent, leading them down a primrose path to a globalist world, not knowing that in socialism, if they don't like you, they demonize you and might try to take away your job, or worse, your cell phone.


At one point, farmers' belief that some of their sheep were naturally resistant to gastrointestinal parasites was put under the heading of "farmer folklore". However, as parasites began to develop resistance to drugs used to kill them, and the world's farmers dealt with losses due to parasites estimated in billions of dollars, researchers began seeking scientific evidence that would form a basis of breeding for natural resistance. As it turned out, farmers were right. Not only are some sheep naturally resistant to parasites, there are relatively easy ways to tell which ones are, such as checking the conjunctiva colour in their eyes, but also more advanced scientific ways, which identify the genetic markers of resistance. In Argentina, where mutton and wool are enormous contributors to the agriculture sector, the Joint FAO/IAEA Division works with the National Institute for Agricultural Technology (INTA), which maintains a large flock of sheep to record results of breeding. Incorporating data on natural resistance into breeding programmes has meant millions of dollars in extra income for Argentina's sheep farmers.
Wool and mutton production is an important contributor to Argentina's agricultural sector, bringing an annual export income of more than USD 210 million, which is second only to the country's beef cattle production. As with other countries worldwide, Argentina's sheep farmers are constantly at battle with gastrointestinal parasites that attack their flocks – a scourge that has an ongoing impact on quality and quantity of their production.
Research on this topic, spearheaded by the Joint FAO/IAEA Division, has concentrated on identifying animals that have natural resistance to parasites and used that information to help farmers improve their breeding programmes. Breeding for natural resistance allows farmers to reduce or even avoid the cost of drugs used to treat parasite infections, which is especially important in the developing world, where farmers often cannot afford the drugs in the first place. In addition, although veterinary pharmaceutical companies constantly release new drugs to treat parasite infections, within a few years, the parasites develop resistance. This problem is multiplied because farmers who cannot afford to buy required amounts of drugs may reduce the dosage or use it less often than recommended, both of which would speed up the process of parasites developing drug resistance. The situation is further compounded by potential contamination of food with anti-parasite drug residues.
Argentina's National Institute for Agricultural Technology (INTA) maintains a flock of 2 000 sheep on its campus in the Patagonia area where, for many years, researchers have recorded animals' weight and wellness: if they are resistant to parasites, they should have a normal level of red blood cells and steady weight gain; if susceptible, they should lose weight and become anaemic, which is one symptom farmers could identify easily, since healthy animals have dark pink conjunctiva but anaemic ones have pale conjunctiva. It is also possible to check for parasite infections with a blood test or by counting parasite eggs in the animals' faeces, which reflects the number of mature parasites living in the gastrointestinal tract of the animal. The more resistant the animal is, the lower the number of mature parasites, and thus fewer eggs are released in the faeces.
But parasite level is not the only parameter for breeding. Farmers also want to improve their sheeps' wool quality, meat and milk production, growth rate, reproductive efficiency and survival rates. As the Joint Division and its counterpart institutes have increased their knowledge base, they have added a genetic element into decisionmaking for breeding. This is where the process moves from the field into a laboratory where it is possible to study an animal's DNA. The Joint Division has introduced a nuclear-derived molecular technique to identify specific DNA markers of resistant animals across two or three generations, which can then be incorporated into a genetic evaluation that enables breeders and farmers to make the best possible breeding decisions.
Funded by the IAEA's technical cooperation programme, the Joint Division provided INTA with guidelines and protocols for recording quality data. It also trained a local scientist in the genomic techniques and analyses of bioinformatics data, and field staff in proper ways to collect quality data and DNA samples. The breeding programmes need the data and samples to ensure that the rams chosen for breeding are parasite resistant. Once they have identified the more resistant animals, they can either sell the rams or use artificial insemination to disseminate the resistant traits among the sheep population.
Breeding for parasite resistance means helping farmers prevent loss of animals and improve wool production.Wool loss for animals infected with parasites is estimated at between 15 and 20 percent per year – equivalent to 1 kg of fleece per animal with a value of about USD 1. So if the wool is not lost due to parasites, it adds up to Argentine farmers having an extra USD 30 million each year in income. The farmers also will save about USD 70 per ewe and USD 400 per sire ram, due to longer life expectancy and increased wool and meat production.
With its success in breeding for parasite resistance, INTA and the Joint Division are sharing what they know. They are providing expert services and training professionals in other Latin American and Caribbean countries that have similar problems and, hopefully, will find similar solutions.


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I won't say I'm 100% sure, but even though that YouTube channel says "Anonymous Official," I seriously doubt this video (or that channel) has anything to do with the real Anonymous.
That video sounds like a rehash of sundry historical revolutionary writings that promise utopia after destruction.
I didn't get destruction so much as non-participation. Inventing an alternate way of living, using a different form of money and just dropping out of the pay your taxes and live a mindless existence by the rules of the elite power mongers. Not scary to the Trumps of the world who would just trade with them, terrifying to the Clintonites. I spent decades reading the anarchist literature, I'm comfortable with the intellectual types who just want to be left alone. I have trouble with trying to define rights, personal or property, without a structure and philosophy of defending them. Without a police force every person walking down the street without the expertise and means to defend themselves with deadly force essentially has no rights in an anarchist society. An invitation to thuggery. That's the trouble I have with anarchism. But, private money, private exchanges, life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, real capitalism and markets in everything, what's not to like? The millennials who hate the right and the left? Maybe Anonymous appeals to them, maybe they're smart enough to realize what they criticize as "capitalism" is nothing of the kind and come around to Von Mises and the Austrians. Could happen. Fuck the socialists and Marxists and hippies. I don't think that's what Anonymous is, Marxists and hippies and Sander supporters. I could be wrong, I'm just an old man, 99.9999% ignorant. (Last month it was only 99.999%, but I'm older and wiser now).
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WHATS WRONG WITH THE PARLIAMENTRY SYSTEM OF GOVERNING?
The theory is that population representation represents the true interests of the population of a country, or a particular area. In England you cannot see the deficiencies quite so easily, because of the larger industrialized aspects of the country and population. You add to that, a Santa Claus in the form of a North Sea Oil Field, lubricating the economy and government, so that everybody with their hand out, can have a job and some cash flow, there seems no problem with the parliamentry system at all.
The truth is, that before the North Sea Oil find came on-line, England was almost at the point of revolution and civil war. The system was breaking down. Since then, they have got rid of the House of Lords, an anachronism holding back the creation of a true working democracy, but since then, the oil flow funds have eased the strains and things are in a state of status quo. There have been no changes to create a working consensual democracy with checks and balances.
England being so big, it is hard to see the nuances, the cause and effect on how the parliamentry system works. But in the Caribbean, we have lots of ex-colonies and Belize is as good a place as any to search out and find the difference between theory and practice. Belize in being so small, brings out the worst of the parliamentry system into plain daylight. Here we can examine the cause and effect of the theory in more detail.
In Belize, we have the usual parliamentry system. One winning party gets the government. The legislature, or parliament is made up of elected representatives, all of whom are in the winning party and get a Cabinet seat.
What really happens in practise?
1)Well, for one, we know that the two party system, in a winner take all government, polarizes society and the population. In a system that works by patronage of the winning party and that party operates by patronage of the leader of that winning party. It is a two layer system, that operates in the manner of rewarding friends and punishing enemies. In Belize, about 48 % of the population are basically disenfranchised. Though that has changed over the last eight years, there is actually no political constitutional framework from letting it happen. There should be! You cannot operate a governing system that works solely on good will. Cause if you get some rabid despot in there, in any cabinet ministerial system, you are going to cause trouble.
2) Couple that with the fact that population representation is highest in towns or cities, or old colonial capitals and you end up with a city running the country by sheer numbers. Surely a distorted view of the nature of national development? Usually, the poorest most ignorant sections of such cities, due to the population representation system actually decide which person will control the whole country. Their votes are bought. These bought votes and mafia political groups in the town by their sheer numbers can control a political party. Through patronage and intimidation of the few scattered rural representatives this city group then own the country to loot. It happens in Lima, Peru and Kingston, Jamaica and Belize City, Belize.
3) Development itself and economic growth comes about from the government enabling people to help themselves. Under the system in Belize, it does not work that way. In Belize, the Cabinet Minister, or elected representative for any rural area might get the controlling party to agree on a new school, a water tank reservoir, or something like that. Government contracts are given and the elected representative from this winning party comes home and announces, what he, or she has got for the community. The outside contractor comes in, builds the whatever, to the specificiation laid down from the centralized party controlled department and the keys are handed over to the community. See what we have done for you, shouts the elected representative.
We have to take some examples from the USA. This place is made up of 50 countries, they call STATES. They co-exist in a federated format. Each country, or state has it's own government. When it is decided to repair airports, like they wish to do in Belize right now. The Federal government decides on how much money is going to be budgeted for this item. It is then split up and given to the 50 countries, or states to carry out this work. If some state has more of a problem; then a special grant system becomes available, subject to restrictions on how it is matched with funds, or the work will be carried out and such criteria. But everybody, all 50 states get an equal share irregardless of population representation.
Not so in Belize. In Belize, the cabinet and the legislature are all one. The decisions are made in the Cabinet and rubber stamped in the legislature and again rubber stamped in the Senate of appointed people. Like right now, the cabinet is probably going to budget money to repair one, or two airports in the country. But there are six districts? Who gets the work first? Why the one with the most elected representatives representing population representation! That would be the Belize District. There is no distribution of an agreed amount to repair airstrips in the country, to each of the six districts, to spend as they see fit on repairing, or maintaining their airstrip.
The same story with a schoolroom. The party centralized government builds it, the elected representative takes the credit and the people of the community were marginally involved. For development to take place, you have to enable people to help themselves. Money for schools should first be given equally to each district government to be re-distributed according to need in their district. EVERY district should get money, an equal amount of money to repair or add on schools at the same time. Locals should contract the work out and build it themselves. It should not be done by the winning political party in a centralized controlled patronage manner up in Belmopan.
4) When it works this way, as it does in Belize, what you have is a distorted bias of overall national development. The Belize District because it has more elected representatives, gets more money spent on it, ( look at one town, Belize City ) than all other districts. The other districts are treated as trash! Look at the Toledo District. With just a couple of elected representatives based on population representation, the district has never developed. Or been allowed to develop, because no money has been given to them to develop with. Oh sure! There was the pig project. $5 million dollars spent on the Toledo District, of which the elected representative said, the Toledo District got only 4 pigs out of it, but no money. You have to give the money to district governments, who in turn, have to have formulas for distributing money around their district to small and larger communities more equally. Only that way can you get development. Locals must do it for themselves! People must be enabled to help themselves. This is development.
4) So development is about a different way of distributing national Federal money for development projects. It is not about a centralized party controlling everything, but allowing locals to have the money, to help themselves. Traditionally in working systems, States, or Departments, or in our case in Belize; the Districts should get about 6% of the average annual revenues of the last five years, given to them outright, to divvy up among the priorities they set themselves. Extra funds from the central legislature can also be distributed to any district that meets GRANT criteria intended to tackle larger problems. But distributing money by a biased population representation cabinet is not development of the country of Belize. It is distorted. Always will be. A shortcoming of the parliamentry system.
5) The position of the elected represented in a working democracy, is to debate and fight bills for allocations for budgets in the legislature. But not for their district alone. The debate should be for the six districts equitably and that is how the money will be distributed, ordered by the legislature and not by a cabinet minister, or cabinet. Cabinet Ministers are overall managers of departments. They don't mess around with deciding who gets money and who does not. This is done at the legislative level for the Federation of six districts and distributed to District governments, who in turn then do the same for their communities in their district. Cabinet Ministers and or elected representatives should have NO CONTROL over contracts or money. Theirs is solely a law making body and budgetary decision making body on a national Federated six district total basis as a single unit. It doesn't work that way in the parliamentry system of course. Which is why the Toledo District has gone no where in the past 30 years and the port town of Belize City with a heavy population, in a parliamentry population representation system has gobbled up hundreds of millions of dollars in that same time period.
6) To get a debate, you also need a geographic balance between population representation and geography of six districts. The Senate is supposed to provide this, but can hardly do so when appointed Senators rely on their income from party patronage. The Senate should be an elected body, two per district. You then balance the legislative debate on laws and budgets for the six districts of the nation, by the Senate which represents the geographic interests. The Senate of course should have one year longer than any elected representative to stop party patronage collusion.
6)Term limits are of course another widely used system of diversifying polical power. This frustrates cabals. Two term limits, no pensions are a good idea. A constant rotation of young new people in the political governing of the country. Electing one third of the legislative elected population representatives each and every year also stops collusion and corruption. It also sees a fresh flow of energy and ideas into the government.
7)A Prime Minister as a ceremonial person with no power is another good idea. An elected person from the public, or from the legislature is fine, but only one year term limit. Witness Jamaica and Belize with the same "for life" leaders for decades. Atrocious! This Parliamentry part of the system is a dictatorship based on patronage within a political party. It creates cabals, mafia groups and corruption.
These are some of the basics learned by studying Switzerland and their Cantons, and the 50 countries called States of the Federated USA. Both countries winning their independence and ideas of democracy from REVOLUTION against monarchists.


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Rex Arvin Wade (born October 9, 1936) is an American historian and author who has written extensively about the 1917 Russian Revolution. He has taught courses in Russian and Soviet history at George Mason University since 1986.

Career
Born in Piedmont, Kansas, Wade taught at Wisconsin State University, LaCrosse from 1963–68, the University of Hawaii from 1968–86, and as visiting professor at the University of North Carolina, University of Nebraska, and Portland State University, before joining the George Mason faculty in 1986.

Wade has authored numerous books on the subject of the 1917 February and October revolutions, among which include:
The Russian Search for Peace, 1917 (1969);
Red Guards and Workers' Militias in the Russian Revolution (1984);
The Russian Revolution, 1917 (2000);
The Bolshevik Revolution and Russian Civil War (2001).
Revolutionary Russia: New Approaches to the Russian Revolution of 1917 (2004).

He co-edited Politics and Society in Provincial Russia: Saratov, 1590-1917 (1989), and edited Documents of Soviet History (Vol. I, 1991; Vol. II, 1992, Vol. III, 1994).

He retired in 2006 but is currently planning a book, The Long Revolution: Russia 1880-1930.

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External links
Rex Wade GMU Faculty profile

21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Historians of Russia
George Mason University faculty
1936 births
Living people
American male non-fiction writers

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New Horizons probe to Pluto has scientists 'drooling'
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is less than a week from its historic flyby of Pluto and scientists are getting more and more excited about images taken in recent days.
Spacecraft to come as close as 12,500 kilometres from distant dwarf planet on Tuesday
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is on track to become the first probe to visit distant Pluto, capping a reconnaissance of the solar system that began more than 50 years ago.
Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft resumes operations after glitch
The spacecraft is "very healthy; it has just happily taken away all the commands necessary to carry out the observations," Mark Holdridge, Pluto mission encounter manager, said on Friday.
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The five-billion-kilometre journey to Pluto, an unexpectedly peach-hued world with contrasting dark and light regions across its face, has taken more than nine years.
For most of the voyage — the equivalent of flying 120,477 times around Earth — the probe hibernated, saving wear-and-tear on its systems and trimming ground control costs to help the mission meet its $720 million US budget.
But now it's sending back photos with more clarity and definition.
"It's just juicier and juicier, it's amazing," Hall Weaver, a New Horizons project scientist, said in a mission update that NASA released on Friday.
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NASA's New Horizons navigator Frédéric Pelletier guides Pluto probe
"The science team is just drooling over these pictures. If you look at the new pictures now, it's already five to six times better resolution than what we've been able to get before," Weaver said.
This image shows a bright heart shape on the rusty-coloured surface of the dwarf planet. (NASA/Reuters)
Clipping along at 14 km/second, New Horizons awoke in January to begin observations of Pluto and its primary moon, Charon, located beyond Neptune in the Kuiper Belt region, which was discovered in 1992.
Before then, Pluto was considered an odd, outlier ninth planet of the solar system, smaller than Earth's moon and out of place among the gas giants that occupy what was previously considered the outer solar system.
Six months after New Horizons launched and with more than 40 Kuiper Belt objects on the books, the International Astronomical Union made a controversial call to reclassify Pluto as a "dwarf planet."
Astronomers have since discovered about 2,000 more Kuiper Belt residents out of a population estimated at hundreds of thousands.
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New Horizons spacecraft spots possible ice cap on Pluto
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Ironically, it was the discovery of the Kuiper Belt that provided the scientific motivation and money for a mission to Pluto. Scientists believe the Kuiper Belt holds fossils from the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago.
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New Horizons will conduct its science on the fly, much like NASA's Pioneer, Mariner and Voyager missions of the 1960s to the 1980s, when exploration of the solar system began. Built lean, New Horizons does not carry propellant for a braking burn to slow down and slip into orbit around Pluto.
A computer program to orchestrate every aspect of the spacecraft's pass by Pluto began on Tuesday, following a nail-biting computer crash that suspended science operations for three days. But it was resolved.
"So far it is looking really good, looks like we are converging and we are happy with this results," said Holdridge.
New Horizons is expected to come as close as 12,500 kilometres from Pluto at 7:49 a.m. ET on Tuesday.
New Horizons space probe suffers glitch on approach to Pluto
New 'Pluto in a minute' video
NASA talks to the man who discovered Pluto
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Some EU lawmakers oppose release of funds to Hungary's Orban
FILE PHOTO: Hungarian PM Viktor Orban delivers a speech for National Day, in Zalaegerszeg
Gabriela Baczynska
By Gabriela Baczynska
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Some European Union lawmakers warned the bloc's executive Commission against unlocking billions of euros in funds for Hungary, saying Prime Minister Viktor Orban was trampling on democratic norms.
The Brussels-based European Commission is expected next week to endorse giving to Hungary funds worth as much as a tenth of the country's estimated 2022 GDP after Budapest moves to improve anti-graft safeguards and the independence of its judiciary.
Orban has clashed bitterly with the EU over democratic norms, as the Hungarian leader tightened restrictions on NGOs, media, academics and judges and cracked down on the rights of migrants and gays.
Lawmakers representing the Socialist & Democrats faction in the European Parliament, as well as those with the liberal Renew and the Greens said the latest changes were nowhere near enough to ensure a sound democracy in Hungary.
"The Hungarian government is not respecting the rule of law," said Eider Gardiazabal Rubial, a Spanish member of the S&D. "The correct decision is to approve the freezing of the funds."
Sophia in 't Veld, a Dutch liberal, said Orban was blackmailing the EU by blocking joint decisions requiring unanimity, from a minimum global corporate tax to 18 billion euros of planned support for Ukraine to help it fight Russia.
"We see horsetrading with our values," she told the chamber.
Daniel Freund, a German Green and former Transparency International activist, said: "Money must be frozen once and for all, it's the only language Orban understands."
A speaker for the EU parliament's largest group, the centre-right European People's Party, was less outspoken. A member of the European Conservatives and Reformists group - where Orban's Fidesz sits - has backed Budapest in its fights with the bloc.
The heated missives, however, are not likely to derail what EU sources told Reuters was a looming approval of funds totalling as much as 14.7 billion euros ($15 billion).
Speaking for the executive, European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders said progress had been made in negotiations between Brussels and Budapest in recent months.
While Orban may not get all of the money unlocked, he would likely win the Commission's conditional approval for some 7.2 billion euros earmarked for Hungary from the bloc's stimulus fund to help economies heal from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Commission is also expected to suggest lowering from 7.5 billion euros - or 65% of development funds envisaged for Hungary in the coming years - penalties over corruption. ($1 = 0.9770 euros)
(Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska; Editing by Paul Simao)
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It's only the 2nd week of the NFL season but you would think the Buffalo Bills versus the New England Patriots game on Sunday was for the AFC Championship. Social media across the Country has been heating up over the past week. At 1pm all of the chatter will come to a halt when Rex Ryan leads the Bills through the tunnel at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park.
The Patriots have owned Buffalo for the past decade, nobody can dispute that. Since Tom Brady came in for the injured Drew Bledsoe in 2001, he has picked apart Buffalo's defenses in every phase imaginable. He has torn the hearts out of Bills fans time and again and has been to 6 Super Bowl's throughout the process. Brady is a 4-time SB champion, most recently hoisting the Vince Lombardi trophy last February.
The Patriots championships have been seriously called into question this off-season after an ESPN story exposed in great detail New England as frauds, cheats and liars. All the while Buffalo was revamping it's coaching staff, offense and resigning key defensive standouts. This is a new era in Bills football. The Ryan hire puts to bed any talk of laying down for the Patriots. In fact Buffalo is built to finally manhandle coach Bill Belichick and Brady.
On Sunday Bills fans will have a first hand look at the future and seem plenty confident that Buffalo is ready to reclaim the AFC East as it did in the early 90's.
The Pats opened up the 2015 season at home last Thursday, defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers 28-21. Rob Gronkowski caught three touchdowns while former Bills TE Scott Chandler had one. The Steelers were missing Le'Veon Bell and Mike Pouncey, an elite RB and the starting center. Additionally the defense had been lackluster through preseason and again vs the Pats. The Pats victory was easily predicted.
That was last week though. Belichick now has film on the Bills starting QB Tyrod Taylor and has seen the defensive schemes Andrew Luck was faced with. He's had a week to analyze the footage and prepare his game plan in which he is seen as second to none in the NFL.
Ryan has his work cut out for him as well. Taylor did a fine job controlling the tempo of the Bills new look offense. I am not confident that the Pats defense will be able to keep Percy Harvin, Sammy Watkins and Charles Clay in check while defending Taylor and a hopefully healthy LeSean McCoy (listed as questionable Friday).
The Bills defense was without Dareus vs Indy, he's back and ready to shut down the Pats running attack. Brady will be looking for Grink, that is well known. That is where things will get tough for the Buffalo defense. No team has been able to stop that duo, not even Seattle's D last year.
If the Bills find a way to disrupt Gronk's routes and keep Brady on the run Sunday this could be a runaway victory for Buffalo.


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Gentiloni puede hacer referencia a varios artículos:

Personas
 Paolo Gentiloni Silveri (1954-), político italiano.
 Umberto Gentiloni Silveri (1968-), historiador italiano.
 Vincenzo Ottorino Gentiloni (1865-1916), político italiano.

Miscelánea
 Pacto Gentiloni, acuerdo realizado en 1913 entre Giovanni Giolitti (Primer ministro de Italia) y el conde Ottorino Gentiloni.


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Anne Krieger
KRIEGER, ANNE: Passed away peacefully on April 5, 2015 at her home in Santa Cruz, CA. surrounded by her loving family. She was born on September 6, 1918 in Szczycociny, Poland; moving to Pittsburgh at the age of 5. She was raised on the North Side, and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, earning her degree in Social Work. Anne married the love of her life Dr. Louis Krieger, who practiced dentistry in Homestead for many years, with whom she raised her 3 daughters. Anne was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother, and a proud Pittsburgh resident for more than 87 years. She was an active member of the Jewish community, including Hadassah, Technion, and Temple Sinai. She moved to Santa Cruz, California to be with her daughters in 2013. Anne was preceded in death by her husband, Dr. Louis Krieger, her daughter, Karol Krieger Hays, and her brother, Dr. Louis Goldszer. She is survived by her daughters, Patti Krieger, Claudia Miller (Daniel), and grandchildren, Satya Louisa Miller, Jesse Tas Hays (Tracy Kroul); her great grandson Maxwell Louis Hays, and her sister-in-law, Beatrice Bicky Goldszer and her 3 sons and their families. Graveside Services and Interment were held at Temple Sinai Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Temple Sinai, 5505 Forbes Ave. Pittsburgh, PA. 15217. Arrangements entrusted to Ralph Schugar Chapel, Inc. www.schugar.com<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Dear Anne Krieger Family et al, Our beloved Anne is FOREVER! Her guiding wisdom and sharp wit were surpassed only by a loving, giving heart! How fortunate to have known her unique sparkle and nourishing warmth, and she, to have been so well cared for by her Precious Daughters, Family and Friends! And the angels sing!
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Q: Overloading arithmetic operations for C++11 Python wrapper I'm working on a Python wrapper.
// wraps Python's Object primitive
class Object
{...}

// wraps Python's Float primitive
class Float : Object
{...}

// wraps Python's Float primitive
class Long : Object
{...}

(Note Python has one primitive for integer types and another for floating-point types).
All primitives inherit from Object in the wrapper (Object contains the pointer to the underlying Python object)
For Prim1 : Object and Prim2 : Object,
Prim1 + Prim2

...can be handled through Python's C-API function PyNumber_Add
This will handle:
Float + Long
String + Float
Dict + Dict
etc., all kinds of stuff...

However, I need to implement things like:
Float + double
Float + int
Long + double

i.e. Mixing a C++ type with a Python type.
And I'm not sure how to implement this.
I've currently got a set of macros:
#define OP( op, func, param_a, param_b, expr_A, expr_B ) \
    inline Object operator op( param_a, param_b ) \
    { \
        return Object{ func(expr_A,expr_B), borrow_ref }; \
    }

#define OPS( ... ) \
    OP( +, PyNumber_Add         , __VA_ARGS__ ) \
    OP( -, PyNumber_Subtract    , __VA_ARGS__ ) \
    OP( *, PyNumber_Multiply    , __VA_ARGS__ ) \
    OP( /, PyNumber_TrueDivide  , __VA_ARGS__ ) \
    OP( %, PyNumber_Remainder   , __VA_ARGS__ )

#define BI_( param_a, param_b, expr_A, expr_B ) \
    OPS( param_a, param_b, expr_A, expr_B ) \
    OPS( param_b, param_a, expr_B, expr_A )

//------------------------------------------------------------

OPS( const Object& a, const Object& b   , a.ptr(),        b.ptr() )
BI_( const Object& a, int b             , a.ptr(),  Long{b}.ptr() )
BI_( const Object& a, long b            , a.ptr(),  Long{b}.ptr() )
BI_( const Object& a, double b          , a.ptr(), Float{b}.ptr() )

#undef BI_
#undef UNI
#undef OPS
#undef OP

It works, but I'm not sure if this is going to handle all situations.  I'm also guessing it isn't the best way to do the job.
I am considering:

*

*handling Object op Object within the Object class:
Object operator+( const Object& rhs ) const { return Object{ PyNumber_Add       ( ptr(), rhs.ptr() ) }; }
Object operator-( const Object& rhs ) const { return Object{ PyNumber_Subtract  ( ptr(), rhs.ptr() ) }; }
Object operator*( const Object& rhs ) const { return Object{ PyNumber_Multiply  ( ptr(), rhs.ptr() ) }; }
Object operator/( const Object& rhs ) const { return Object{ PyNumber_TrueDivide( ptr(), rhs.ptr() ) }; }
Object operator%( const Object& rhs ) const { return Object{ PyNumber_Remainder ( ptr(), rhs.ptr() ) }; }

*maybe I can use templates to handle the other situations
Something like this?:
template< Foo /*derives from Object*/, Bar /*doesn't*/ >
Object operator+(Foo foo, Bar bar)
{
    return foo + Object{bar};
}

i.e. somehow force promoting Bar to an Object (Object can contain constructors for promoting from native C++ types), then I think this should do it.
But I'm not at all sure, hence am asking for guidance.
The full code listing is here:

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Banker-turned-politician Meera Sanyal died on Friday after a brief illness.
Sanyal, 57, had joined the Aam Aadmi Party after quitting her job as the country chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, and contested a Lok Sabha election in 2014.
She unsuccessfully contested the 2014 Lok Sabha election from Mumbai south constituency.


Synthol or "site enhancement oil" is a sterilized MCT oil that consists of 85% oil, 7.5% Lidocaine (pain killer), and 7.5% alcohol. Synthol is a readily available product on the internet, prices are varied.
Synthol is used to enhance the appearance of muscles. It is sometimes used by professional bodybuilders to inject into weaker or imbalanced muscles to give instant size. Essentially, Synthol works as a synthetic oil implant. The most common muscle groups in which Synthol is utilized, is in smaller muscles such as the biceps, triceps and calves. In extreme cases, one may even inject Synthol into the shoulders and chest.Many regard using Synthol as "cheating" as no hard training or dieting is required to actually gain size in any one muscle group, just inject and appear instantly bigger.
The argument against Synthol, is that although the use of anabolic steroids does assist in adding slabs of muscle mass, one must still work incredibly hard to make sufficient gains. Without anabolic steroids and hard training, it would be near impossible to sport a 20 inch set of arms, however, Synthol does give the user the ability to go from a natural 16-18 inch arm to a freakishly large and bloated 20-23 inch set of guns in a matter of weeks. No muscle growth takes place, however, only an accumulation of oil within pockets in the muscle.
The physical appearance achieved through the use of Synthol is not very aesthetically pleasing. To some degree, "disgusting". As a result of injecting Synthol, the end result is often what looks like an unnatural mutation in the arms or shoulders, covered in lumps and bumps. It's very hard to fool people into believing it is 100% natural muscle due to the fake, lumpy and puffy look that it induces in the muscle. It is unknown just how long Synthol will last within a muscle more research is yet to be conducted on this subject.
A famous Synthol abuser well known and somewhat hated in the bodybuilding community, is Gregg Valentino. He has denied that his unnaturally and mutated looking arms contain Synthol, but that they are the product of injecting thousands of millilitres of steroids over many years.
Aesthetically speaking, Synthol will do nothing but have you ridiculed and taunted by others who can see that your muscles aren't actually real muscles, rather a build up of oil stored within pockets in the muscle. The girls will not be impressed if you sport a set of arms that look like a lumpy sack of potatoes. There is no simple or easy alternative to building natural lean muscle mass, it takes time, hard work and dedication.


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"The so-called paradox of freedom is the well-known idea that freedom in the sense of absence of any restraining control must lead to very great restraint, since it makes the bully free to enslave the meek. This idea is, in a slightly different form, and with a very different tendency, clearly expressed by Plato.
Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right even to suppress them, for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to anything as deceptive as rational argument, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, exactly as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping; or as we should consider incitement to the revival of the slave trade." Popper 1945: 226, n. 4).
This is a controversial and perhaps misunderstood passage.
But Popper's point in historical context remains a powerful one: how can a liberal society tolerate violent, subversive fascists or communists or others like them who, if they gained power, would totally destroy a society's freedom? Some balance between freedom of speech and the right of a liberal society to preserve itself has to be struck – at the very least in times of dire emergency.
Popper's answer seems to be that when such movements become dangerous and violent – when they are directly inciting violence, sedition and the overthrow of the basic legal and political system of a democracy – a liberal society must reserve the right to ban them for the sake of preserving freedom.
Naturally, one can argue whether Popper was right about this, but his paradox of tolerance is a thought provoking concept.
Hacohen, Malachi Haim. 2000. Karl Popper, The Formative Years, 1902–1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York.
Popper, Karl. 1945. The Open Society and its Enemies. Volume I. The Spell of Plato. George Routledge & Sons, Ltd, London.
How is this passage misunderstood? It's crystal clear.
How can it be misunderstood? Well, I am confident Gene Callahan has read it, or Hedlund.
Okay, but how would either of them misunderstand it? I feel like there's some level of inside-baseball communication here that I'm not catching.
Well now I'm into explaining the joke. But if you are asking the mechanics of how to get *anything* misunderstood, I'd say Hedlund should be your first stop.
The paradox of tolerance uses second order logic, therefore the incompleteness theorem applies. The most common misunderstanding comes from believing that it's not a paradox. As a result of this misunderstanding, people often use the paradox of tolerance to defend intolerance. They claim that their intolerance is in opposition to intolerance.
Except intolerance of intolerance is exactly where Popper took it, stupid.


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Divided We Stand: Why Squabbles in PF Are Good for Zambian Democracy
Posted on August 31, 2013 by Elias Munshya, MBA, LLM, MA, MDIV	3 comments
E. Munshya wa Munshya
The beauty of Zambian democracy is that no president in Zambia holds a monopoly over political players be it in the ruling party or in opposition. In fact, Zambian democracy manifests itself greatly in the personal ambition of various political players. Without personal ambition, democracy would lose its value and we could quickly slip back into a one-party or one-man participatory democracy. As such, it is the personal ambition of various political players that gives fuel and impetus to the fight for democracy anywhere.
It is in this light that the current squabbles in the Patriotic Front should be seen. These are not fights just for the sake of fights. These are fights for control, fights for power. Clearly, the fights serve notice to the current president that no one will succumb to blind loyalty to him. It also serves notice to the future of Zambia that this nation does not lack men and women who are willing to present themselves as potential leaders of this country. It is in this spirit of competition that our democracy can be mostly nurtured and matured.
That being the case, why then should these squabbles be good for Zambian democracy? Several reasons should be provided as an answer to this question. The PF squabbles provide a test for Zambia's leader. In fact, all of Zambia's presidents have had to deal with such squabbles at some point in their leadership. Kaunda's post-independence honeymoon ended abruptly when several Lozi politicians revolted against his political leadership in 1965 and 1966. For his part, Kaunda did something about this and was a present player into the problems that had engulfed both his UNIP party and the nation. Kaunda provided leadership during these squabbles and he was not ambivalent towards the problems. He fired the troublemakers and started to make efforts at winning back the Lozi constituency. These efforts paid off handsomely when at the party convention of 1968, the Lozi constituency bounced back into the realms of UNIP.
In addition, towards the end of Kaunda's rule, several squabbles broke out. The most significant was when Enoch Kavindele decided to challenge Kaunda for the presidency of UNIP in 1990. Kavindele showed some ambition. And with the power of ambition intact, the garden of democracy shall forever be watered.
Just after winning the presidency in 1991, Chiluba also faced the greatest test of his leadership. Senior members of the MMD, unsatisfied with the course he was taking, started to grumble. However, the greatest squabble that defined Chiluba's first year in office was the one between his highest ranking cabinet members: Miyanda, Mwanawasa and Michael Sata. Particularly, vice-president Mwanawasa felt that his cabinet juniors, with clear knowledge of President Chiluba, were sidelining him.
It was not long after that, that Chiluba took control of the situation and publicly forbade his cabinet members from "laundering dirty linen in public." However, there was no way Sata and Mwanawasa were going to work together. Their differences were irreconcilable and a few months after these public spats, vice-president Mwanawasa left cabinet citing Chiluba's decision to side with Sata as one of the reasons.
From this saga, one thing is clear: Chiluba took control of the situation. He was also visible throughout these problems and he showed his preferences in the whole thing. Chiluba decisively took sides in the matter. These are the elements lacking in the current spats within the current ruling party. President Sata is absent from the squabbles going on in the ruling party. This behaviour from a president is highly unusual and notwithstanding any potential problems arising from division, the president's silence might be the greatest undoing. President Sata might pay a heavy political price for this sloppiness and ambivalence.
The people of Zambia did not vote for Kabimba. Zambians did not vote for Membe. Zambians did not vote for GB Mwamba. The man in power is Michael Sata and in moments like this, Zambians expect the president to show up and lead the way. Squabbles shall always be there, but so should be the president.
Therefore, if you have squabbles without clear leadership from a president you plant seeds of ambivalence that would stifle the growth of democracy. By now, President Sata should have taken a firm stand against these public spats. He should also have fired some of these people. Both Kabimba and GBM cannot be right. President Sata should be able to tell which one of the two is causing the problems. with this knowledge, President Sata can then fire the problem maker so that they could form a political party or something to that effect. Such a faction formed out of these squabbles would help test our democracy further. For sure all these squabbles will make any one including president Sata to have no illusion that Zambians could be taken for granted.
Had there been no divisions and squabbles within the MMD or UNIP, we would not be where we are today as a democracy. Just look at the Zimbabwe situation, without personal ambition of political players shady characters like Mugabe would continue to rule way into his 100th birthday. ZANU-PF stalwarts have shown no ambition, and no initiative in trying to remove the tentacles of this dictator. Loyalty has in Zimbabwe planted seeds of a brutal dictatorship. As for Zambia, things are different. Zambian political players do not have the same amount of loyalty exhibited by their Zimbabwean counterparts. In Zambia, most cabinet ministers do not see themselves as mere servants of a sitting president. Most of them see themselves as potential successors to the president. It is this ambition that keeps democracy alive and prevents the growth of a personality cult for a president.
If there is anything we can take from GBM's public differences with Kabimba, it is the fact that Zambia is bettered by these differences. But in order for Zambia to benefit even more, President Sata must wake up and show leadership.
What good is a cobra if it cannot bite?
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Obrey
September 3, 2013	02:52
Internal squabbles or "Conflicts" are good for democracy and development. This opens up people's minds and creates ambition. However, this needs to be managed as the absence of regulated conflict can may lead to the squabbles or conflicts spinning out of control and causing serious damage to both people directly involved and the nation at large.
I therefore agree that the president as the overall "boss" needs to show leadership and regulate or 'manage' this conflict before it spirals out of control and destabilizes his party and the nation.
The ambition you're identifying is as a result of the principle failing to balance interests. Much as I would want the president to come out and as you call it "show leadership" I would rather he stays away for obvious interests.
On the flip side, president sata is better off not taking sides as any show of aligiency to either side will spell doomsday end for Pf as we have all come to know it, an extension of sata's ego. Once his riffraffic ego of his runs out, the organisation will die like unip a year after losing elections.
Advocatus Dei
No matter how much I try, I always find myself disagreeing with what you write. We cannot find pleasure or console in the wrangles in the PF especially if we expect them to govern properly…I am sure you can insert relevant scripture here on ruling a kingdom when your home is not in order.
If you say personal ambition fuels democracy then in the same way it also fuels dictatorship! Democracy characterizes itself in orderly and usually more peaceful ways than what we are seeing. I am worried that if people are willing to go this far to get power, how much further will they go to keep power? Besides, the most probable thing to come out of squabbles in a party is a host of splinter parties…and whilst that could be a good argument for democracy I am inclined to be pessimistic…If the current state of affairs is anything to go by, more parties would mean more thugs to beat and harass people, more political rhetoric…etc. Work Done =0
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For a long time, Mac and iOS developers used frame-based layout with auto-resizing masks sprinkled on top to position most UI components. And then Auto Layout came along. Over the past few years, we've seen the introduction of devices with new screen sizes, support for right-to-left scripts, Dynamic Type, and Split View on iPad — and the old approach to layout made all of these difficult to manage. To future-proof the layout logic, and to deliver the best user experience, it is now recommended to use Auto Layout.
Auto Layout is a layout system provided by Apple in UIKit and AppKit, and it dynamically calculates the size and position of views. It is used to create responsive user interfaces by setting up various constraints.
Auto Layout was introduced with iOS 6 and is now the de facto standard for laying out user interfaces on iOS. Before that, frame-based layout and auto-resizing masks were used. They did a pretty good job, but developers also only had to deal with a handful of different screen sizes and aspect ratios then. As such, dynamic layout was not as important as it is today, because traditional layout approaches still allowed for the creation of responsive layouts.
Naturally, when it was introduced, Auto Layout wasn't as refined and powerful as it is today; it started small, with a somewhat lacking API. At first there was the visual format language, which enabled setting up constraints using a formatted string. Then the introduction of layout anchors in iOS 9 made things a lot easier. Setting up the layout via constraints in code became much less difficult, because layout anchors help with reducing unnecessary boilerplate and take less code to set up. While there are quite a few open source libraries enhancing layout logic by building on top of Auto Layout, you will still be OK if you only rely on the standard Auto Layout API.
A big help for setting up the UI was the introduction of UIStackView, which simplified setting up layouts even more. A stack view is a special kind of view that is only used for laying out views. It can't draw and show any content by itself, so this work is done by using Auto Layout under the hood. You can arrange any subviews in a stack view and change their layout — including the direction, spacing, distribution, and axis — via the stack view's properties. Basically, it simplifies what you would usually create via Auto Layout constraints on the individual views themselves by nesting those views in a versatile stack view.
What follows are a few code snippets demonstrating how a layout is set up with different approaches that result in almost the exact same positioning. You can see how to position an image view (imageView) with a label (label) beneath it and with both elements centered together vertically in a view (view).
You can achieve nearly the same result by using Interface Builder, but here at PSPDFKit, we almost exclusively use programmatic layout setup. PSPDFKit for iOS is a large codebase, and we're continuously refactoring it to keep up with modern technologies like Auto Layout. We transitioned most of our UI code to Auto Layout when we introduced RTL support and added iPhone X compatibility.
We also created some small helper functions that simplify the usage of creating and activating constraints. These convenience helpers are implemented on a category of UIView. One of the helpers allows you to add constraints for a view that is positioned inside another view, and another helper allows you to constrain a view to a specified UILayoutGuide.
By using Auto Layout and stack views, some of our UI components that previously used a lot of complex frame calculations were refactored to instead use a simple set of Auto Layout constraints or a variation of a (sometimes nested) stack view setup.
You should now have an overview of how Auto Layout has advanced in recent years. You also saw examples of how Auto Layout can improve your UI logic, and you learned how to remove boilerplate code by using helpers. As a next step, if you have not yet looked at it, you can check out the official Auto Layout guide on the Apple Developer website for a deep dive into this topic.


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1997 Acura Integra Type R With Just Over 6,000 Miles Sells for Colossal $82,000
The collector car bubble is still inflating as a similar-condition car sold for nearly $20k less a year ago.
By Chris Tsui September 28, 2019
John Huelsebusch—Copyright 2019 John Huelsebusch via Bring a Trailer
If you scoffed at that old Acura Integra Type R that sold for $63,800 at Barrett Jackson just one year ago, get ready to be outraged all over again because a similarly clean, low-mileage example just sold for a whopping $82,000 on Bring a Trailer.
Put up for auction by its original owner in St. Louis, Missouri, this 1997 Championship White Integra Type R shows 6,190 miles on its odometer and boasts a clean Carfax as well as a clean title. Par for the high-dollar used-collector-car course, the Acura comes with its original window sticker, maintenance records, and owners manuals. Despite the low AF miles, this particular Integra hasn't been a total garage queen since the listing points out scratches on the Type R's rear bumper. The scuffs have got to be pretty minor though, since we can't seem to see 'em in any of the photos.
The car apparently received a new timing belt, tensioner, water pump, drive belts, a clutch adjustment, and an oil change in July of this year but its new owner will definitely want to slap a new set of tires on considering the rubber its currently wearing was manufactured way back in 2004.
The Integra Type R is powered by a 1.8-liter four-cylinder making 195 horsepower going to the front wheels via a five-speed manual transmission. It might seem pedestrian on paper but its 8,400-rpm redline, relative rarity, and heavenly handling have made it a modern classic. When it's discussed by auto writer types fortunate enough to have driven it, the phrase "best front-wheel-drive car ever made" usually isn't far behind.
Still, though. $82,000? You could buy two brand new Honda Civic Type R's for that money and still have around $10,000 left over for a couple seasons worth of tires and track days...provided you can find a Honda dealership willing to part with two CTR's with zero "market adjustment."
Anywho, don't be surprised to see the Integra Type R break into the six figures around this time next year.
Obsessing Over Astronomical Auction Results Only Makes Us Miserable
Nothing good or fun ever really comes out watching pristine examples of once-attainable cars sell for absurd cash. So, why bother?
This Rare Acura Integra Type R Was Sealed in a Secluded Room for Years and Now It's for Sale
Does it count as a barn find if the original owner intentionally trapped it in a barn?
This 21-Year-Old Acura Integra Type R Just Sold for $63,800 at Barrett Jackson Las Vegas
Is that too much money to pay for a four-cylinder, front-drive car? Maybe not in this case.
New Acura Type S Concept Is Proof That Beautiful Japanese Sports Cars Still Exist
This marks the return of the Type S moniker, which was last used on the sporty 2008 TL variant.
The Only Supercar Made in America Is the 2020 Acura NSX
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These anabolic steroids are also called anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) and they are made in an artificial way in laboratories by human hands. These are mostly derivatives of testosterone produced within the human body. These steroids are often prescribed by physicians for people who have low level of hormones like testosterone in their body. There are other illnesses like AIDS where the steroids are prescribed for the sufferer. The athletes use these for steroid stimulates muscle tissue anabolism during the regular dose. When one goes for a higher than normal dose – one causes harm for their own body and is not recommended at all.
These steroids are good for your body when they are used in low level or in the right dosage. The bodybuilders often get tiny tears in the muscles when they lift weight or do other heavy workouts. These nicks and cuts in muscles often are repaired by the body. There are new cell growths at the place of the tear. The process of adding bigger and stronger cells to the muscles are called muscular hypertrophy. This is the basis of growing of more muscles. This growth is helped with the testosterone that is produced in the body.
This is the work of the natural testosterone that is produced within the body. The same work is done by the steroids when they serve as supplement for the body. The steroids are ingested and then these compounds travel to the cells of the muscles through the blood flow and there they interact with the DNA of the cells. The steroid then starts the process of protein synthesis that helps in growing of new cells with the help of available protein.
When the steroids are taken in higher quantity, the body gets more muscles to boast about. The reactions from this huge protein synthesis are not correct as it affects the liver. This stimulates muscle tissue anabolism in a bigger level and often can harm the body. This is the reason why it is recommended dose that the bodybuilders are requested to take. It may harm them internally without much knowledge to these athletes. The muscle growth is also required by athletes who run on the track or who are doing different acrobatics. They will benefit when the anabolic steroids are taken in measured dose that is desired and safe for all.


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Cloud Snooper enables malware to communicate across firewalls
Cloud Snooper is a sophisticated attack that uses a unique combination of techniques to allow malware on servers to communicate freely with its command and control servers through firewalls, according to the latest report of security software company Sophos. The company's researchers believe the attack was the work of a nation-state motivated by espionage.
As detailed in the report, the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used together include a rootkit circumventing firewalls, a rare technique to gain access to servers disguised as normal traffic, and a backdoor payload that shares malicious code between both Windows and Linux operating systems, a known, but uncommon approach. While each individual element has been observed previously in attacks by highly skilled adversaries, they have not been seen before in combination.
Have you read "Mapua partners with Sophos in offering cybersecurity courses"?
Sophos expects that this package of TTPs will trickle down to the lower rungs of the cybercriminal hierarchy and be used as blueprints for new firewall attacks.
"This is the first time we have seen an attack formula that combines a bypassing technique with a multi-platform payload targeting both Windows and Linux systems. IT security teams and network administrators need to be diligent about patching all external-facing services to prevent attackers from evading cloud and firewall security policies," said Sergei Shevchenko, threat research manager, SophosLabs. "IT security teams also need to protect against multi-platform attacks. Until now, Windows-based assets have been the typical target, but attackers are more frequently considering Linux systems because cloud services have become popular hunting grounds. It's a matter of time before more cybercriminals adopt these techniques."
Advice for Defenders
Create a full inventory of all devices connected to the network, and update all security software used on these devices
Ensure all external-facing services are fully patched. Cloud hosting services often provide firewall security, but this should not be a substitute for an organization's own cloud security measures
Check and double-check all cloud configurations. The Sophos 2020 Threat Report reveals that user misconfiguration and lack of visibility are the top causes of attacks in the cloud
Enable multi-factor authentication on any security dashboards or control panels used internally to prevent attackers from disabling security products during an attack
Categories: Cybersecurity
Tagged as: Advanced Targeted Attack, Cloud Snooper, sophos
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PH student team wins Finastra's global hackathon held in New York


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using System.Collections.Generic;

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{
    public partial class AspNetUserLogin : Repository.Pattern.Ef6.Entity
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        public string LoginProvider { get; set; }
        public string ProviderKey { get; set; }
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Here is a picture I came across in a back room at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.
I call this picture Creation.
It is fun to look around and find interesting things to see.
Every day life is fun and interesting and has a lot of value.


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I complessi is a 1965 commedia all'italiana anthology film consisting of three episodes.

Cast
Una giornata decisiva
Nino Manfredi: Quirino Raganelli
Ilaria Occhini: Gabriella
Riccardo Garrone: Alvaro Morandini
Umberto D'Orsi: Ernesto

Segment directed by Dino Risi, written by Marcello Fondato, Ruggero Maccari and Dino Risi.

Il complesso della schiava nubiana

Ugo Tognazzi: prof. Gildo Beozi
Claudie Lange: Erminia
Paola Borboni: Baracchi-Croce, Beozi's assistant
Nanda Primavera: Beozi's Mother-in-law
Claudio Gora: Antiquary
Carletto Sposito: Massimo Tabusso

Segment directed by Franco Rossi, written by Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Ettore Scola, Age & Scarpelli.

Guglielmo il dentone

Alberto Sordi: Guglielmo Bertone
Franco Fabrizi: Francesco Martello
Romolo Valli: Father Baldini
Armando Trovajoli: Himself
Lelio Luttazzi: Himself
Nanni Loy: Himself
Vincenzo Talarico: Himself
Alessandro Cutolo: Himself
Edy Campagnoli: Herself
Kessler Twins: Themselves
Gaia Germani: Herself
Leo J. Wollemborg:  Himself
Pina Cei: Atelier Fabiani's Owner
Renato Terra: Contestant
Ugo Pagliai: Contestant
Piero Gerlini: Edoardo

Segment directed by Luigi Filippo D'Amico,  written by Rodolfo Sonego and Alberto Sordi.

External links

1965 films
Italian black-and-white films
1960s Italian-language films
Commedia all'italiana
Italian anthology films
Films set in Italy
Films set in Rome
Films shot in Rome
Films directed by Dino Risi
Films directed by Franco Rossi
1965 comedy films
Films directed by Luigi Filippo D'Amico
Films with screenplays by Ruggero Maccari
Films with screenplays by Age & Scarpelli
1960s Italian films


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A Bat triggered the sensor that activates the Defense Systems and he has to use the Arrow Keys to Escape! And bring a lunch. This game is hard, serious. Worlds Hardest Game starring a bat.
Pretty fun, could be better though.
Its a bit random. And quite easy.
I REMEMBER WHEN ALL GAMES LOOKED LIKE THIS!


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#ifndef __GST_IVORBIS_DEC_H__
#define __GST_IVORBIS_DEC_H__

#include <gst/gst.h>
#include <tremor/ivorbiscodec.h>

G_BEGIN_DECLS

#define GST_TYPE_IVORBIS_DEC \
  (gst_ivorbis_dec_get_type())
#define GST_IVORBIS_DEC(obj) \
  (G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE_CAST((obj),GST_TYPE_IVORBIS_DEC,GstIVorbisDec))
#define GST_IVORBIS_DEC_CLASS(klass) \
  (G_TYPE_CHECK_CLASS_CAST((klass),GST_TYPE_IVORBIS_DEC,GstIVorbisDecClass))
#define GST_IS_IVORBIS_DEC(obj) \
  (G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE_TYPE((obj),GST_TYPE_IVORBIS_DEC))
#define GST_IS_IVORBIS_DEC_CLASS(klass) \
  (G_TYPE_CHECK_CLASS_TYPE((klass),GST_TYPE_IVORBIS_DEC))

typedef struct _GstIVorbisDec GstIVorbisDec;
typedef struct _GstIVorbisDecClass GstIVorbisDecClass;

/**
 * GstIVorbisDec:
 *
 * Opaque data structure.
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struct _GstIVorbisDec {
  GstElement            element;

  GstPad *              sinkpad;
  GstPad *              srcpad;

  vorbis_dsp_state      vd;
  vorbis_info           vi;
  vorbis_comment        vc;
  vorbis_block          vb;
  guint64               granulepos;

  gboolean              initialized;

  GList                 *queued;

  GstSegment		segment;
  gboolean		discont;

  GstClockTime          cur_timestamp; /* only used with non-ogg container formats */
  GstClockTime          prev_timestamp; /* only used with non-ogg container formats */

  GList			*pendingevents;
  GstTagList		*taglist;
};

struct _GstIVorbisDecClass {
  GstElementClass parent_class;
};

GType gst_ivorbis_dec_get_type(void);

G_END_DECLS

#endif /* __GST_IVORBIS_DEC_H__ */


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Manchester United, News
Man United's expected 4-2-3-1 formation against Leicester-Stunning front three
Ritesh Gogineni
Jose Mourinho's first competitive game in charge sees him at Wembley facing last year's surprise packaga Leicester City. Certainly in recent times, this has been the most hyped Community Shield fixture and expect it be analysed over and over again until the Premier League starts.
Mourinho's intentions with his squad have become clear, but there are a still few questions regarding whom he will trust in midfield and defence. United still have a shaky defence and an lopsided midfield,we will have to wait and see how the Portuguese chooses to address this. Mourinho is taking a gamble by going in to the season with United's defence being so weak, if you would also like to gamble, visit online casino sites like casinoreviews.co.uk .
The front three pick themselves alongside Wayne Rooney who is expected to start the season as the number 10. Carrick's partner this season might end up being Paul Pogba but Ander Herrera is expected to start this game. From Mourinho's press conferences, it did seem like he is not entirely happy with Bailly and so Phil Jones is expected to partner Chris Smalling in defence. This certainly will be Jones' last chance at United and the most important thing for him would be to stay fit.
See also Man United's predicted formation against Young Boys: Rangnick's heavily rotated 4-2-2-2 formation
Editor/Founder of The False 9.
The Evolution and Political Dynamism of Football in Mussolini's Italy
The Death Of The Box-To-Box Midfielder.
Descent into darkness: Osvaldo Zubeldia and the era of antifutbol


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Background The Multiple Sclerosis Functional Composite (MSFC) is a multidimensional clinical outcome measure that includes quantitative tests of leg function/ambulation (Timed 25-Foot Walk), arm function (9-Hole Peg Test), and cognitive function (Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test).
20/02/2014 · The Multiple Sclerosis Functional Composite Measure (MSFC): an integrated approach to MS clinical outcome assessment. National MS Society Clinical Outcomes Assessment Task Force. National MS Society Clinical Outcomes Assessment Task Force.


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At first her parents objected (I'd left home some years before and had no contact with mine), but that did not deter her. I am seven years her senior and have been able to teach her many things she would not have known had we not paired up.
In time her parents had no choice to accept that we would never marry, but we are happy together, never fight about anything and our wills are made out to benefit each other when either of us meet our demise.
Many of our friends and acquaintances are divorced, some multiple times. Others are unhappily trapped in a relationships they would rather be shot of, but for various reasons cannot separate. Had they not married, they would have been able to come sort of arrangement and part ways.
Therefore, in my opinion, marriage is an outdated institution.


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Q: GetCursorPos Node FFI - How to get pointer return by ref I wrote following code to set keyboard cursor position. But get garbage. Any clue, what am I missing?
var ffi = require('ffi');
var ref = require('ref');
var Struct = require('ref-struct');

var point = Struct({
    'x': 'long',
    'y': 'long'
  });
  var user32 = ffi.Library('user32.dll', {
      GetCaretPos:['bool',[locPtr]]
  });
var pbuf = new point();
  caretpos = user32.GetCaretPos(pbuf);

  console.log(":",pbuf.x  );

Next, I tried the following, but that doesn't work as well.
var ffi = require('ffi');
var ref = require('ref');
var Struct = require('ref-struct');

 var voidPtr = ref.refType(ref.types.void);
  var user32 = ffi.Library('user32.dll', {
      GetCaretPos:['bool',[voidPtr]]
  });
var pbuf = new Buffer(2);
  caretpos = user32.GetCaretPos(pbuf);
 var cpos =(new Uint8Array(pbuf));
  console.log(">",cpos  ); //Doesn't work **> Uint8Array [ 0, 0, 0, 0 ]**

A: As the article heading states "GetCursorPos in Node FFI" and return pointer x,y
The code below works for me, its a hack to get the x,y pointer.
var ffi = require('ffi');
var repbuffer = new Buffer(16); // holder for windows structures
var user32 = ffi.Library('user32.dll', {
    'GetCursorPos':['bool',['pointer']]
});
//Show mouse cords at console every sec
setInterval( function() { getmousepos();}, 1000);
function getmousepos(){
    var p = user32.GetCursorPos(repbuffer);
    var x= repbuffer[0]+ (repbuffer[1]*256);
    var y= repbuffer[4]+(repbuffer[5]*256);
    console.log(x + " " + y);
}

A: What worked for me:
var PointStruct = Struct({
    x: ffi.types.long,
    y: ffi.types.long,
});

var user32 = ffi.Library("user32", {
    GetCursorPos: ["bool", [ref.refType(PointStruct)]],
    SetCursorPos: ["long", ["long", "long"]],
});

export function GetMousePos() {
    let mousePosBuffer = ref.alloc(PointStruct);
    let success = user32.GetCursorPos(mousePosBuffer);
    let mousePos = mousePosBuffer["deref"]() as {x: number, y: number};
    return new Vector2i(mousePos.x, mousePos.y);
}

export function SetMousePos(x: number, y: number) {
    user32.SetCursorPos(x, y);
}


What do different dharma shastras say about domestic violence against women, is domestic violence treated as sin in majority of them? I would like to know from different dharma shastras especially the shastra by ved vyasa and parashar.
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est un astéroïde de la ceinture principale d'astéroïdes découvert en 1993.

Description
 a été découvert le  à Kushiro (Japon) par Seiji Ueda et Hiroshi Kaneda.

Caractéristiques orbitales
L'orbite de cet astéroïde est caractérisée par un demi-grand axe de , un périhélie de , une excentricité de 0,17 et une inclinaison de 1,99° par rapport à l'écliptique. Du fait de ces caractéristiques, à savoir un demi-grand axe compris entre 2 et  et un périhélie supérieur à , il est classé, selon la , comme objet de la ceinture principale d'astéroïdes.

Caractéristiques physiques
 a une magnitude absolue (H) de 15,0 et un albédo estimé à 0,224.

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste des planètes mineures (35001-36000)
 Ceinture d'astéroïdes

Liens externes

Références

Objet céleste découvert en 1993
Astéroïde de la ceinture principale

Objet céleste découvert par Seiji Ueda
Objet céleste découvert par Hiroshi Kaneda