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A US official says tech giants Alibaba and Tencent present similar risks as Huawei
A US State Department official has said that tech companies Alibaba and Tencent should be seen as tools of the Chinese government, along with China's embattled telecom giant Huawei. It raises the possibility that the US will widen its range of Chinese targets for enhanced scrutiny due to security concerns.
"Whether de facto or de jure, such giants can in some important respects or for some purposes act as arms of the state—or, more precisely, the Chinese Communist Party, to which the Chinese state apparatus is itself subordinate," said Christopher Ashley Ford, assistant secretary of the US State Department's bureau of international security and nonproliferation. He was speaking at a conference in Washington. The State Department published a transcript on Wednesday (Sept. 11).
"Firms such as Huawei, Tencent, ZTE, Alibaba, and Baidu have no meaningful ability to tell the Chinese Communist Party 'no' if officials decide to ask for their assistance…Such aid may not necessarily occur routinely, but it certainly can occur—and presumably will—whenever the Party considers this useful and cares to demand it," he said.
Ford also accused the Chinese companies of helping Beijing to develop, build, and maintain the techniques used for "a foundation of technology-facilitated surveillance and social control", upon which he said the "China Dream" or "China Model" is built. Both terms refer to China's efforts "to shape the world consistent with its authoritarian model," he said. "As these companies export their products and services to the rest of the world, the security and human rights problems associated with this 'China Model' are progressively exported with them."
Huawei has previously said it would not hand over data even if Beijing asked for it. After Ford's remarks were published, a spokesman said in an email: "Huawei employs around 150,000 people in China, pays the relevant tax and follows the laws of China. That is the extent of our relationship with the government, which is similar to the relationship we have with governments in the 170 markets worldwide where we operate." The spokesperson added: "Neither the Government nor the Party have any management decision-making role in Huawei and the company has zero external ownership."
Ford's remarks, first reported by The Information, come as the US steps up scrutiny of Chinese companies. In May, the Trump administration put Huawei on a trade blacklist citing security concerns over its alleged ties to the Chinese government. This has effectively barred Huawei from doing business with some of its American suppliers, whose products—phone chips and operation systems including Google's Android—are essential to the telecom giant's survival. Five Chinese video surveillance companies, including industry giant Hikvision and startup Megvii, are also being considered for the trade blacklist by the US, because of concerns that they help Beijing track and repress the minority Uighurs in Xinjiang.
While it's unlikely that the Trump administration would make an immediate decision on enhanced scrutiny of Alibaba and Tencent, Ford's remarks point to a worrying development. This US official grouped China's first generation tech champions or BAT —Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent— with Huawei. This suggests that the US security community may view the BAT, which are US and Hong Kong-listed, in the same way they look at un-listed Huawei. This would potentially make it difficult for these firms to do business or invest in American companies, say observers.
Alibaba said it had no comment for the story, while Tencent, Baidu, and ZTE did not reply to requests for comment.
source: Quartz
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package cn.edu.zstu.sunshine.utils;

import cn.edu.zstu.sunshine.entity.BookBorrow;
import cn.edu.zstu.sunshine.entity.Course;
import cn.edu.zstu.sunshine.entity.Exam;
import cn.edu.zstu.sunshine.entity.Exercise;
import cn.edu.zstu.sunshine.entity.Network;
import cn.edu.zstu.sunshine.entity.Score;

/**
 * 实体类属性复制
 * Created by CooLoongWu on 2017-9-22 14:01.
 */

public class EntityCopyUtil {

    public static Network copyNetwork(Network to, Network from) {
        to.setPort(from.getPort());
        to.setIp(from.getIp());
        to.setType(from.getType());
        to.setName(from.getName());
        to.setBalance(from.getBalance());
        return to;
    }

    public static Exam copyExam(Exam to, Exam from) {
        to.setCourse(from.getCourse());
        to.setAddress(from.getAddress());
        to.setSeatNumber(from.getSeatNumber());
        to.setTime(from.getTime());
        return to;
    }

    public static Exercise copyExercise(Exercise to, Exercise from) {
        to.setDate(from.getDate());
        to.setDuration(from.getDuration());
        to.setFirst(from.getFirst());
        to.setSecond(from.getSecond());
        return to;
    }

    public static Score copyScore(Score to, Score from) {
        to.setCourse(from.getCourse());
        to.setInstitute(from.getInstitute());
        to.setRebuildScore(from.getRebuildScore());
        to.setScore(from.getScore());
        to.setResitScore(from.getResitScore());
        to.setYear(from.getYear());
        to.setTerm(from.getTerm());
        return to;
    }

    public static Course copyCourse(Course to, Course from) {
        to.setTime(from.getTime());
        to.setAddress(from.getAddress());
        to.setCourseName(from.getCourseName());
        to.setTeacherName(from.getTeacherName());
        return to;
    }

    public static BookBorrow copyBookBorrow(BookBorrow to, BookBorrow from) {
        to.setAuthor(from.getAuthor());
        to.setBookName(from.getBookName());
        to.setBorrowDate(from.getBorrowDate());
        to.setReturnDate(from.getReturnDate());
        return to;
    }
}

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Courtesy of that enthusiastic chronicler of Cheshire railways, and the Middlewich line in particular, Alan Wilkinson, here's an evocative shot taken in October 1964 of the crew of number 41229 (the same engine which had, until four years earlier, been the main motive power for 'the Dodger') chatting to legendary Middlewich signalman David 'Jock' Myles as they wait for pilot assistance to Sandbach during a signalling failure.
This superb photo is taken from Alan's book Railways Across Mid-Cheshire (Foxline (Publications) Ltd ISBN 1 870119 66 5 which comes from the Scenes From the Past series and contains many fascinating photos of railways in our area, including many rare ones of the Sandbach-Northwich line in steam days. Copies are available on Amazon.
Labels: 1964, DAVID 'JOCK' MYLES, EVENING INTERLUDE AT MIDDLEWICH STATION, MIDDLEWICH STATION 1964, OCTOBER 1964, SANDBACH TO NORTHWICH RAILWAY.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This wonderful animation, which we first featured in August 2015, recently came to mind, and I decided to re-publish it in the run-up to the 2016 FAB Festival. Firstly because it's a great piece of work in its own right and a brilliant example of the way that creative people in Middlewich are picking up on the multifarious happenings in the town and reflecting them back to be enjoyed by both inhabitants and visitors, as well as those poor, exiled Middlewichians who can no longer experience Middlewichness first hand.
Secondly because it reminds me of the last great skirmish I had with an unrepentant, unreconstructed, dyed-in-the-wool Keep Middlewich Miserable Campaign member. I'm itching to name him, but it wouldn't be fair because my first action, after telling him briefly what I thought of his views and what he should do with them, was to block him finally and irrevocably on Facebook - my invariable policy when people are rude. Because, as Sybil Fawlty once memorably said, there is NO excuse for rudeness. And there isn't. Ever.
It's been well said by many that you wouldn't accept people being rude to your face, so why would you accept it on Facebook?
Basically this KMMC member accused me of being 'obsessed with Middlewich'.
He had, it seemed, been monitoring my activities on the Middlewich Diary and on Facebook (which was nice, if a bit creepy, of him) and he had, finally, had more than he could stand.
'Everybody' knew, he said, that Middlewich was 'finished' and what had once been 'a lovely little town' was now an ugly and depressing place. He wondered why I 'couldn't see it' and offered to 'argue the toss' with me on this point.
This, I had to tell him, certainly wasn't happening, on the oft-cited grounds that there's 'no good knocking when there's nobody there' and I wasn't going to waste any of my (to me) valuable time.
And to accuse someone who runs a website called 'the Middlewich Diary' of being 'obsessed' with the town mentioned in the title, seemed to me odd to say the least.
But doesn't it some as a bit of a shock to have someone tell you that Middlewich, formerly a 'lovely little town' is now 'ugly and depressing', when it is surely obvious to anyone with the slightest glimmer of intelligence that the truth is exactly the other way round?
So my correspondent was consigned to the Facebook rubbish bin, along with 'Sam Dean' (not 'her' real name, by the way) and all the other obnoxious and deluded bores which, unfortunately, Facebook throws up from time to time.
But take another look at 'The Community Assembles', listen to that great music from Messrs Murfitt and Thompson, and rejoice in the fact that Middlewich, despite all its shortcomings and problems, is the lively and fascinating place we know and love today - Dave Roberts, Editor.
Once again Melody Smith Animation was at hand at this year's FAB Festival to help locals and visitors alike produce an animated Festival Souvenir like no other.
Look out for some familiar places and some familiar faces, including our Town Crier Devlin Hobson and his wife Jenny who, we're told, in common with other participants,'animated themselves'!
You always used to be able to gauge a town's importance by the size and appearance of its local police station.
Here, pictured in 1972 before its demolition to make way for a much smaller building, is Middlewich's rather imposing and substantial looking Victorian police station.
The change to a smaller building had less to do with rising or falling crime rates than with the way the Cheshire constabulary was organised.
As can be seen from our colour picture, the old station, with its courtyard and flagpole. had a solid and reassuring look to it which the current one lacks.
The Morris Minor too harks back to an age of 'proper' police stations, 'proper' police cars and 'proper' policemen and policewomen.
On the roof can be seen Middlewich's air raid siren, later used to summon the fire brigade. This siren was replaced by a new one placed on top of the hose-drying tower at the new fire station in Civic Way when it opened in the early 1970s.
This system of telling the firemen (and everyone else) that there was a fire was replaced by individual alarms in firemen's homes, and then by a bleeper system in around 1970/71.
The siren in Civic Way was occasionally tested for a few years after its use by the fire brigade ceased, as it was intended to give warning of nuclear attacks during the period of Cold War tension which lasted until the end of the 1980s.
It was an eerie sound, so reminiscent of wartime Britain, which has now been consigned to the history books.
The siren in Civic Way now seems to have disappeared, the need for it presumably having disappeared too in an age of improved telecommunications.
Page 152, Middlewich's siren was given the nickname 'Moaning Minnie'.
If you ever heard it, you'll understand why. There is, of course, a lot more information on the role that Middlewich Police Station played during World War II, when it acted as a control room for the various air raid, fire and auxiliary services in the town, in Allan's book.
Until 1927, again according to Allan Earl, the church bells had been used as a means of summoning the fire brigade. Presumably there would have been a distinctive pattern to the ringing of the bells for a fire alarm in order to distinguish such an alarm from normal, or practice, bell-ringing.
* This account dates back to 2011 when there was very little police presence in the town, and the police station was only occasionally manned. The building now houses a couple of computers for the use of our Police Community Support Officer, based in Holmes Chapel and will, according to reports, soon be closed altogether.
Note: This diary entry was one of several which appeared on Facebook in 2011 before the start of the Middlewich Diary blog. For some reason this one was never transferred to the Diary at that time, and we're pleased to be able to do so now.
Dave Roberts: My late mother always maintained that she saw a flying saucer hovering over the police station in 1970. All very intriguing. She was certainly the last person you'd suspect of imagining things, or indulging in flights of fancy.
Here's a direct Youtube link to part one of 'Bank Holiday', made by the Mid-Cheshire Amateur Cinematography Society in the late thirties around Middlewich, Bostock and Beeston Castle. The film was written by Bill Oakes and features, among others, Arthur Roberts, Evelyn Ridgway, Bill Oakes and Winifred Oakes.
Part one is justly famous because it features a few fleeting seconds of Middlewich Railway Station in all its 1937 glory.
Beeston Castle & Tarporley Station also features in the film, as do many local beauty spots (and pubs) in the area. The large house at the beginning of the film is not in Middlewich but in Wheelock, and still looks pretty much the same today.
The original film is now in the safe keeping of the North-West Film Archive in Manchester. This is the official, authorised Salt Town Productions version.
We are working on a new, continuous version of this film with music featuring the appropriate I'm Happy When I'm Hiking, performed by Albert Whelan.
The film is dedicated to the memory of my Dad, Arthur, who plays the drunk with the bike and the fishing tackle. That's him in the opening scene, throwing stones at someone's bedroom window.
Watch out in Part two for the scene in which our weary revellers are picked up and given a lift by a gentleman with a horse and cart. This was completely unscripted and happened when the horse and cart chanced to be travelling along the country lane where filming was taking place. The scene where those same revellers stop to take their boots off and rest their sore feet was filmed at Bostock. That old-fashioned mile-post is still there, exactly as it was over three quarters of a century ago.


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Massanutten Mountain is a synclinal ridge in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, located in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is near the West Virginia state line.

Geography
The mountain bisects the Shenandoah Valley just east of Strasburg in Shenandoah County in the north, to its highest peak east of Harrisonburg in Rockingham County in the south.

The mountain is divided into northern and southern sections, divided by the New Market Gap.  The northern section consists of 3 roughly parallel ridges, forming 2 valleys.  The wider, main valley, is called Fort Valley, while the smaller one is known as Little Fort Valley.  The ridges of the northern section converge at New Market Gap. The southern section consists of a series of closely gathered ridges, separated by precipitous creek gorges.

On the eastern side of the mountain range lie the Page Valley and the Blue Ridge Mountains. On the western side lie the North-Central Shenandoah Valley and the Great North Mountain of the Alleghany Mountains.

Recreation
Most of the range is part of the Lee Ranger District of the George Washington National Forest and contains the Elizabeth Furnace and Camp Roosevelt recreational areas.  The Potomac Appalachian Trail Club maintains the Massanutten Trail as well as several other hiking trails in the forest. Signal Knob, a former Civil War signal station on the northern peak of the mountain, is a popular destination.  The forest service also maintains several ATV trails.

In 1971, the Massanutten Mountain ski lodge and four-season resort village was established near the southern peak. The private resort has nearly doubled in size since Great Eastern Resorts bought it in 1995.

Flora and fauna
Wildlife on Massanutten includes black bear, coyotes, wild turkeys, white-tailed deer, timber rattlesnake, and luna moths. Significant flora includes mayapple, bluets, wild lupine, cardinal flower, and pinxter flower.

Geology
The geology of the Massanutten Mountains is dominated by Silurian Massanutten Sandstone, a lateral equivalent of the Tuscarora Formation in the Appalachian Mountains to the west, overlying the Ordovician Martinsburg Formation. Erosion of the Martinsburg shale in some areas of the mountain caused the sandstone to break and slide to form talus slopes. The Massanutten Sandstone is folded in a synclinorium, and it outcrops at the ridge tops.

Mountains of Massanutten
 Massanutten Peak
 Green Mountain
 Three Top Mountain
 Powell Mountain
 Little Crease Mountain
 Short Mountain
 Mertins Rock
 Bowman Mountain
 Kerns Mountain
 Catback Mountain
 Waterfall Mountain
 First Mountain
 Second Mountain
 Third Mountain
 Fourth Mountain

Notes

Mountains of Page County, Virginia
Mountains of Rockingham County, Virginia
Mountains of Shenandoah County, Virginia
Mountains of Warren County, Virginia
Ridges of Virginia
Shenandoah River

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BLUME Haiti invites you to be a part of our goal to raise $3,500 to provide 35 additional scholarships to deserving Haitian musicians to attend a summer music camp. Last year, with your help, BLUME Haiti provided 65 scholarships, but we know greater need exists. Our goal is to provide 100 scholarships in total this summer.
So far generous people like you have contributed $1,300 towards this goal. Will you be the next donor to make a difference? Click here to donate or learn more.
Last week on #GivingTuesday we launched our 2nd Annual Keys for Haiti campaign. Our goal was to reach $4,000 in new and increased donations to be matched by our board. Amazingly, we reached our goal in ONE DAY!!! Can you believe it? We never thought this would happen!
We are so touched by this incredible display of support for music education in Haiti.
We raised $6,134 from 99 different people, 83 of whom were first-time donors!
We surpassed our $4,000 match goal in less than 24 hours!
THANK YOU to each and every one of you who donated to make this possible.
As many of you know, the Gates Foundation also provided matching gifts up to $2 million on #GivingTuesday. We are very hopeful that BLUME Haiti will receive some of this matching money, but we will not find out for several weeks. Thank you to everyone who donated early to help us take advantage of that opportunity.
Your generosity inspires us to continue to find new and innovative ways to support young musicians in Haiti. To that end, and to provide an opportunity for people who didn't get a chance to donate to Keys for Haiti, we've set another goal. We would like to raise $3,500 by Dec. 31 to provide 35 scholarships to deserving Haitian musicians to attend a summer music camp.
Many Haitians struggle to afford their basic daily needs of food, water, and shelter, let alone pay to send their child to music camp. There is always more need for scholarships than we are able to meet, yet we know that the 2-3 weeks scholarship recipients spend at camp, where they can be totally focused on music, allows them to progress by leaps and bounds. In many cases, the training they receive at camp gives them the skills to begin teaching and earn their livelihood . Won't you help us provide this experience for another Haitian student or teacher? Donate now.
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Nothing Makes a Statement Like Having an Army Tank in the Garage
This is way cool.
At WSJ, "These Vehicles Are Tons of Fun, and Good for Thwarting Road Rage: Private Tank Owners Roll Out Heavy Weaponry; A Spin in Parking Lot":
PORT LAVACA, Texas—Weapons buffs may stock semiautomatics in the gun safe. But nothing makes a statement like having an Army tank in the garage.
Scattered around the country are members of a small fraternity of guys who own tanks. They are hyper-avid history buffs or hyper-edgy investors or just wealthy men who can now afford hyper-sized versions of the toys they played with when they were boys. Tank brokers—yes, there is such a thing—estimate there are several hundred to 1,000 private tank owners in the U.S.
"There's always a little boy in the man," says Barbara Bauer, whose husband, Bill Bauer, owns a pristine, 20-ton, World War II Chaffee tank in Port Lavaca.
Mr. Bauer, the 70-year-old chairman of First National Bank in Port Lavaca, stores his Chaffee, a pair of armored half-tracks and other vintage military vehicles in a climate-controlled warehouse, where his four-man team of mechanics keeps them in showroom condition. On Veterans Day he takes the tank out for the parade, but mostly he just likes to admire it and preserve it for the next generation of history fans.
Brothers Ken and Gene Neal, owners of Bullet Proof Diesel, a truck-parts manufacturer in Mesa, Ariz., once took their 1966 British Chieftain tank into the desert and joyfully drove it over a rusty car, with the turret facing backward...
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The grapes were hanging very near to the ground. One of the secrets of the world-famous Bordeaux wines? I asked Alain, the owner of the littlest winery in the Medoc. The vines and their placement and the style of binding and growing get practiced since generations, he told me. However, I am happy that they understand their craft, the output is fabulous wine.
After a long subway drive, we entered an area of Tokyo, called Odaiba. Our target was the Mega Web Toyota Theme park. Before joining I shot photos from the surrounding, a great place with modern buildings.
For all mountain adventurers, mountain lovers and outdoor enthusiasts, I recommend visiting the "Three Merlons" or Tre Cime di Lavaredo, in the Sexten Dolomites of northeastern Italy. The landscape on the mountain peak reminded me of episodes of the Star Trek original series. With the foggy and rainy day, I was barely alone with my wife on the Dolomites. My Fuji X-T1 could resist the rain, photo-shooting was no problem at all.
It's fun and exciting to watch the different types of trams in San Francisco, besides the Cable Car. They have different wagons and styles, colors like green, red, grey and blue and roll through the city, from station to station and give every photographer one more reason to come and visit. This night shot is an example for one advantage of smartphones for photo shooting. Suddenly I heard the tone of the tram, and it was approaching the station, and I shot the scene with my Google Pixel II XL immediately. With my Sony A7R II in the photo bag, the shot would have gone lost.
The scenery of a typical Sunday afternoon autumn walk, yellow and orange leaves, some swans on a lake and a cloudy sky. First, my wife Karin, my daughter Cara and I took a pick-up train to the Laxenburg Lake. Then we walked around and had to take the ferry, to cross the lake. It was only about 30 meters distance; thus the price was only 60 cent per person. Funny, I have never seen such a little ferry with such a short distance to overcome.
Coming from the old town and at approaching the castle square of The Iconic Edinburgh Castle you will see the house on the photo on the right side. Even not as spectacular as the castle, it's worth a photo for its complex architecture, size, shape and color coordination. A highlight in this historically rich city. For the deep blue sky, I merged 5 hdr-photos from -3,7 to +4,3 EV.
Built from millions of bricks, the big cellars of Schlumberger stock thousands of bottles of finest champagne. I went from cellar-vault to cellar-vault, placed the tripod and shot the arcs and walls. The exhibition areas were beefed up with lightning, bottles, and stories of the wine-fermentation. And the good thing, tripods were welcomed, that's not often the case.
I arrived on top of mountain Schafsberg with the cogwheel railway. This area is well-known for heavy raining and dust, even in the summer months. I was happy and surprised that the weather was beautiful this day. Nothing could stop me from my photo-adventure on the mountain-tops. My wife Karin dared to climb a steeper wall, only with sneakers on. I stayed at the bottom of the steeper part because my photo-equipment was hanging down and my heavier body-weight. However, I was high enough for shooting mountain-photos with raptors.
The big European cathedrals and domes are impressive buildings. Planned with gigantic dimensions, made from huge stones and concrete, show the signs of stability. Built for the millenniums with overwhelming sizes. I was in Milan with my wife and brother- and sister-in-law for one day only, and the most part we spent on the roof and pathways and hall of the Milan Cathedral.


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1, July 2017
Kanu Nwankwo says Tiote's death is a lesson to all of us 0
Former Super Eagles striker, Kanu Nwankwo, has urged Africans to become more aware of heart-related diseases, following the untimely death of Ivory Coast international, Cheick Tiote.
Tiote collapsed and died last month while training with his Chinese club, Beijing Enterprises. Kanu recalled how Cameroon's Marc-Vivien Foe slumped and passed away, while playing at the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup.
The 40-year-old who established the Kanu Heart Foundation, also revealed his plans to build five specialist hospitals across five African nations including Nigeria. "I'm talking to friends so we can do something to create awareness to try to help children in Africa," Kanu told BBCSport.
"Tiote's death was not good news. It's not the first time it is happening. "We lost Marc-Vivien Foe. He died and nothing was done. Tiote is gone and nothing is being done. "One man cannot do everything. What happened to Tiote is a lesson to us all. We can't let it go on like this.
"We should talk more about it, information needs to get out there because the problem is huge. "Our dream is to build a hospital in Nigeria and four other countries in Africa. "The funds have been the issue but if we can make it happen it's going to help a lot because right now we are taking the kids to India and it cost a lot."
Source: Daily Post


if jimmie johnson isn't vanilla, then what flavor is he?
As the campaign to prove that Jimmie Johnson isn't vanilla rolls on, I thought it would be fun to assign an ice cream flavor to each of the drivers in The Chase for the Sprint Cup Series Championship.
I don't know why Jimmie would mind being vanilla, I mean, it's a classic and reliable flavor (how do you mess up vanilla??). It's a trusty, go-to flavor, and doesn't that make sense for him since we rely on him to win all the time? I'm just sayin'.
2.) Denny Hamlin – Ben & Jerry's Neapolitan Dynamite: Because Denny is the only one that sort of reminds me of Napoleon Dynamite.
3.) Kevin Harvick – Ben & Jerry's Chubby Hubby: He's not chubby, but he is a hubby.
4.) Jeff Gordon – Rocky Road: It's been one for, like, the past 2 or 3 years, right?
7.) Tony Stewart – Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey: He had a monkey once.
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I am as agile as a tiger. My color and stripes are my camouflage that I allow me to blend into any setting. My favorite animal is a tiger because I convinced my younger myself that I was Princess Jasmine. What Desi girl didn't though? Right, ladies? Jokingly, I always tell my Dad I want a pet tiger. He responds saying, "I wouldn't be able to afford to feed it let alone take care of it." Also, there is a good chance it would eat me. It's a shame that I do not live in the fictional city of Agrabah.
Sometimes, I have those moments where I wish my parents moved back to Pakistan, so I could live like a princess. And then I remember how spoiled I am to live in a 1st world country where I can have everything I want at my fingertips. I digress. Madonna once said, "Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as a sheep." This is my year to be a tiger. If you could be reincarnated into any animal, then what would you be?
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I've never been able to answer that question. I always get stopped by thinking of the vulnerability of animals in our world, which seems to be less and less their world every day.


The country's average connection speed goes up, but other South American neighbors fared better.
The average Internet speed in Brazil has gone up by 11 percent in the second quarter of 2014 but the country has gone down in a global ranking published by Akamai.
Despite the fact that average speed has increased in Brazil, reaching 2.9 Mbps in June and up 19 percent year-on-year, other countries have seen better results, according to the the State of the Internet quarterly study.
This includes South American nations such as Uruguay, Chile and Argentina, where growth rates stayed above 30 percent, with average speeds of 5.6 Mbps, 4.4 Mbps and 4.2 Mbps, respectively.
In terms of global average peak connection, Brazil reached 20.2 Mbps, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 13 percent. This compares to a 225 percent growth in Uruguay, with 49.7 Mbps.
Brazil now occupies the 89th position among 136 countries considered by the research, down two positions in relation to the previous year.
According to the Akamai study, the global average broadband speed has gone up by 21 percent, reaching 4.6 Mbps and surpassing the 4 Mbps broadband minimum speed considered by the survey.
South Korea remained the top performer with connection speed of 24.6 Mbps and 4 percent growth on the previous quarter, followed by Hong Kong, with 15.7 Mbps and a 18 percent increase in speed.
The report also looked at mobile broadband speeds of more than 4 Mbps and found that in the second quarter, Denmark reported the highest level of mobile broadband adoption at 92 percent, whereas Brazil, Croatia, Paraguay, Vietnam and Bolivia all had mobile broadband adoption rates below 1 percent.
At the start of Brazil's presidential campaign, president Dilma Rousseff, currently running for re-election, made the "Banda Larga Para Todos" (Broadband For All, in Portuguese) pledge to provide cheaper and faster Internet access to those who don't have it yet.
The president added that as well as connecting digitally excluded Brazilians, the idea is to broaden the fiber optic infrastructure of the country, which would result in faster access.
At the time, Rousseff said details of the pledge - such as how the new plan would fit into the broader National Broadband Plan and separate initiatives such as the government's partnership with Google to bring connect remote areas with balloons - would be released during the election campaign.
However, overall proposals for Rousseff's eventual second term have been published online and make no additional mentions to the broadband improvement promises. Brazil will hold general elections this coming Sunday (5).


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ARTICLES MOVIES & TV 7 HILARIOUS WAYS REALITY WOULD RUIN FAMOUS MOVIE SCENES
7 Hilarious Ways Reality Would Ruin Famous Movie Scenes
JM McNab
We shouldn't expect movies to completely represent reality. Superhero movies don't work too good otherwise, and no one needs to think about how Tom Cruise's hair color hasn't changed since 1986. But even knowing that, it's still sometimes fun to imagine what some science fiction or fantasy settings would look like in the real world.
Completely nuts, it turns out.
7 Lightsaber Duels Would Be Over In Seconds, Possibly Kill Everybody
Along with space battles, alien creatures, and angst-filled whining, one of the key ingredients of the Star Wars saga is the lightsaber duel. An amalgam of Samurai duels and coke-fueled disco aesthetics, the lightsaber fight is a cultural icon, as evidenced by every child who's ever whacked a sibling with a broomstick while yelling about the Force.
Or (sigh) ... four broomsticks.
While the movies portray lengthy, intense lightsaber duels, real-life lightsaber battles would probably end faster than a prom night's lovemaking. According to a sword-fighting instructor, because of the lightsaber's "incredible cutting ability and instant lethality" fights would be over almost immediately. As soon as someone made a move, they'd either be victorious or leave themselves vulnerable to being laser-sworded to death. The exciting, prolonged fights we see in the movies don't make sense because "you aren't there to injure the weapon." Think about how fast a point is scored in a fencing match. Fights would have way less frantic slashing and a lot more inaction, each fighter trying to mind-fuck their opponent into fractionally dropping their guard.
"I'll never join you ... Also, your shoelace is untied."
Then there's the possibility that the clash of two lightsabers could explode in your goddamn face killing your opponent, also you, and possibly everyone else in the room. If the lightsabers are made of hot plasma contained by magnetic fields, Dr. Martin Archer argues that when two lightsabers collide, huge amounts of hot plasma would be ejected, doing all sorts of vaporization to hands, legs, and faces. This means Han Solo's preference for blasters isn't ignorant -- it's just plain sensible.
6 The Little Mermaid Would be a Screaming, Blubbery Monster
The Little Mermaid was Disney's attempt to take a classic story full of murder and sadness, and turn it into a romantic tale about a young woman altering her DNA to be with a dude. Wait. Really? Did Prince Trust Fund even once offer to grow gills to go live underwater with her?
No. No, he did not.
And while Ariel -- the titular undersea creature with big blue eyes, shell bra, and flowing red locks -- has become iconic, that's probably not how she should actually look. Ariel lives in a deep underwater kingdom, far beyond the reach of even James Cameron. But it's cold down there. Based on what we know about other marine mammals, the only way mermaids could survive would be to have lots of blubber, hair, or both. These mammals would also have short appendages to reduce blood flow, meaning Ariel would quite literally be a hairy or obese mermaid with stubby arms, perhaps resembling something not unlike a demented walrus-potato-wig.
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"Hey, sailor."
Also, because water is denser than air, mermaids would have to have " incredibly powerful voice boxes" in order to speak underwater. Meaning that were Ariel to ever arrive on land, she wouldn't sound sweet and innocent, she would sound like an all-whale version of the Star Wars Cantina Band.
5 A Real Jurassic Park Would Be Full Of Bears And Woolly Mammoths
What child didn't watch the original Jurassic Park and dream about visiting a dinosaur sanctuary full of T-rexes, velociraptors, and glistening, bare-chested mathematicians?
Roar.
And to a kid, the premise even seemed pretty sciency. As that double helix cartoon explained, you simply need to extract DNA from mosquitoes in amber, clone dinosaurs with it, and build a poorly secured park around them. Why couldn't there be a real Jurassic Park? Well, there could be, but there'd be some problems.
It turns out that the science behind Jurassic Park has a few flaws. For one thing, any prehistoric mosquitoes would probably have feasted on more than one species of dinosaur, leading to a park full of Cronenbergian dino-pastiches rather than proper dinosaurs. Secondly, DNA wouldn't last long enough for us to clone dinosaurs.
The googly eyes and Southern accent also turned out to be bullshit.
So what prehistoric animals could we resurrect and stuff inside a theme park? Well, scientists are apparently close to being able to clone a woolly mammoth. And if a hirsute elephant doesn't sound too exciting, ancient DNA expert Beth Shapiro has also suggested the prehistoric short-faced bear could be feasibly cloned. So that's ... rad?
But what about dinosaurs dammit?! Well, the closest we can get might involve mutating chicken DNA. Since we now know that Dr. Alan Grant was right when he discussed how similar birds and dinosaurs are, it's been suggested that scientists could tinker with the genetic traits of a chicken to remake a dinosaur. Suppressing their feathers, giving them back claws, reducing their viciousness a bit, that kind of thing. Meaning that our real-life Jurassic Park wouldn't be full of dinosaurs so much as mutant chickens.
Universal Pictures, KFC
And that we've been picturing the wrong kindly, bearded man as its architect.
4 A Mad Max Apocalypse Would Be Sorta Nice After A While
We're all familiar with the Mad Max series, the story of a widowed cop in a world that keeps falling apart while he mysteriously gets younger. In its universe, the earth has suffered a full-on nuclear apocalypse. Leaving behind only a smattering of people, punked-out cars, and the power-balladry of Tina Turner.
Interesting how many synthesizers survived the apocalypse.
The latest entry in the franchise, Fury Road, portrays this post-apocalyptic world as a vast, sun-drenched desert where people have to fight for a taste of whatever water gets vomited out of Mount Skullface each day.
"SIP UPON MY BILE, KIDS!"
But this vision of what the earth would look like after a nuclear holocaust is way off. For one thing, the soot released in the stratosphere by a nuclear war would turn the goddamned skies black. Less Mad Max movie, more Evanescence music video. Eventually, the sky would clear, but even that process would take "around 30 years." But in Fury Road, Max is still as fresh-faced as ever.
Even if we say that it has been 30 years since the bombs dropped (and between movies Max visited one of the future wasteland's best plastic surgeons) the world wouldn't be the desert craphole we see in the movie. Water wouldn't be particularly scarce, in fact, nor the world a desert. The nuclear winter would have cooled the planet, if anything. And with all those people dead, groundwater aquifers would have begun replenishing. So a real-life Max would probably be kicking back with a nice glass of well water instead of battling the goth division of Cirque du Soleil.
3 Spider-Man's Web-Shooters Would be Shockingly Unwieldy
While the Tobey Maguire-era of films modified Spider-Man's powers to include ejaculating webs from his wrists, thus furthering its rather icky metaphorical underpinnings, the comics and more recent movies show that Peter Parker actually crafted mechanical web-shooters -- devices on his wrist that contain what is essentially super-strong silly string, allowing him to swing from building to building.
Buckle Up: We're about to get deep into the weeds of a fight between two equally stupid ideas.
But how could Spider-Man keep canisters of a such an amazingly strong material coiled around his wrist like one of Johnny Depp's dumb bracelets? What would that look like in real life? Even the toy version appears to be about as convenient as strapping a mag light to your wrist.
Marvel Toys
Giving these things to teen boys stirs up all sorts of troubling imagery.
Worse is the problem of ammo. Wired did some math and figured out how big Spidey's web-shooters would have to be if he had about 50 uses of his web-shooters. It turned out to be about the equivalent of strapping eight or nine soft drink cans to your wrist. So not exactly the sleek, skin-tight devices of the comic.
Rhett Allain/Wired
Wrist ejaculate seems so much tidier now.
2 Warp Speed Could Create Freaking Ghost Ships
Warp engines are the faster-than-light travel devices used in the Star Trek franchise, powered by, well, let's shorthand them as "magic crystals." Forgiving the fact that the source of this scientific advancement is the same thing new age druids prescribe for serious illnesses, there's another issue around warp speed that would make the Trek universe look even wackier than usual: ghost ships.
CBS Television Distribution
"Set engines to 'OooOOOOoooOOOooo'."
A paper by a physicist at Michigan Technological University theorized that if a spaceship left earth, traveled at five times the speed of light to a planet around ten light-years away and then returned, a whole bunch of ghost images of that ship would appear, even years apart. Now, this isn't entirely outside of the Trek canon -- Captain Picard once used a sudden burst of warp speed to create just such a ghost ship to confuse his enemies. This, of course, became known as the " Picard Maneuver."
Another, less heralded "Picard Maneuver" was done entirely in the bedroom.
According to The Physics Of Star Trek, this phenomenon would make the universe an "interesting and barely navigable one, full of ghost images of objects that long ago arrived where they were going." Somehow the writers never got around to explaining which crystal the Federation used to stop that problem.
1 Harry Potter's Wizard World Would Be A Feces-Smeared Mess
Who among us hasn't dreamt of living in Harry Potter's secret Wizarding World? What's that? Healthy, well-adjusted people? What are you even doing here? Go away.
But for the rest of us sweaty, wand-clutching Potter fans, it turns out we may have been idealizing a world which would really be gross as hell. Why? Owls.
For some reason, the wizard community's primary form of correspondence isn't by phone or email, it's by owl. Now, one of the less-celebrated aspects of phone calls and emails is that they don't shit all over the place. Owls do, and now you see the issue. And it's not just poop. Owls also occasionally throw up pellets of fur and bone. And worse, once a day they empty their "ceca" intestinal sacs, yielding a foul smelling substance that's a bit like the devil's own chocolate pudding. Oh, and researchers have also found that some owls use their feces to mark their territory.
Basically, owls are gross as crap. And the majestic, awe-inspiring turrets of Hogwarts would, in reality, be encrusted in a thick layer of well-scented crap. Probably a good thing books are a scent-free medium then, huh?
JM is now on Twitter, and co-hosts the podcast Rewatchability.
Also check out 5 Famous Sci-Fi Devices That Totally Ignore Actual Science and 4 Realizations That Will Ruin Science Fiction For You.


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Kari Peters (ur. 17 listopada 1985 r.) – luksemburski biegacz narciarski, zawodnik klubu LN.

Kariera
Po raz pierwszy na arenie międzynarodowej Kari Peters pojawił się w 14 stycznia 2005 roku, podczas zimowej uniwersajdy w Innsbrucku, gdzie zajął 89. miejsce w sprincie stylem dowolnym.

W Pucharze Świata zadebiutował 5 grudnia 2009 roku w Düsseldorfie, gdzie zajął 74. miejsce w sprincie techniką dowolną. Pucharowych punktów jeszcze nie wywalczył.

Osiągnięcia sportowe

Igrzyska olimpijskie

Mistrzostwa świata

Uniwersjada

MŚ U-23

Mistrzostwa świata juniorów

Puchar Świata

Miejsca w klasyfikacji generalnej

Miejsca na podium
Peters nigdy nie stał na podium indywidualnych zawodów Pucharu Świata.

Miejsca w poszczególnych konkursach Pucharu Świata

Linki zewnętrzne
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Urodzeni w 1985
Luksemburscy biegacze narciarscy
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Ludzie urodzeni w Dudelange


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Harp Making in
Late-Georgian London
At the end of the eighteenth century, after the French Revolution, the centre of pedal-harp making moved from Paris to London. There, building on the work of its Bavarian originators and Parisian developers, mainly immigrant makers elevated the instrument to new musical, technical, and decorative heights, and placed it in the hands and salons of the British upper classes and aristocracy. Until recently, the story of harp making in England has been dominated by the Erard family who built about 7,000 of an estimated 15,000 harps made in London during the nineteenth century; some 20 other makers have been all but forgotten.
This book, the story of harp making in late-Georgian England, assesses the role and consumption of the harp in society whilst describing its decorative and technical development. Forgotten makers and their innovations are identified. Through the lens of newly discovered documents and the reinterpretation of others, Jacob Erat's manufactories are reconstructed. His working methods, illustrative of those used in the wider industry, are rediscovered, and employees and suppliers are revealed anew.
Mike Baldwin
Author / Historian/ Harp Maker
Podcast: Encounters with the Good People - 2
Did the Good People hold our Ancestors in higher regard than they do us? In this episode we take a look at the relationship between our Ancestors and the landscape which shaped their lives, and their relations with the good people. Kitty ponders:
Is our treatment of the landscape and the natural world, one of the reasons the Good People have withdrawn from us?
Might they come back to us if we change the way we view the natural world around us?
We welcome back Mike Baldwin, author of 'Mizen: rescued folklore, histories and songs from Ireland's south west'. Mike shares insights into how our Ancestors, and dare I say the Good People, regarded the landscape around them.
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