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Ținutul Suceava was one of the ten Romanian administrative regions (ținuturi) created on August 14, 1938, as a part of King Carol II's administrative reform. From August 14, 1938, to June 28, 1940, it included the whole of Bukovina, a county of Bessarabia (Hotin) and a county of Moldavia (Dorohoi). It was named after the river Suceava. Its administrative capital was the city of Cernăuți. After its northern part (the counties Cernăuți, Storojineț and Hotin, as well as parts of the counties Rădăuți and Dorohoi) was ceded to the USSR on June 28, 1940, Ținutul Suceava was restructured on September 16, 1940, when Baia county became a part of the region, and abolished only a few days latter, on September 22, 1940. Ținutul Suceava had two governors: Gheorghe Alexianu (August 14, 1938 – February 1, 1939) and Gheorghe Flondor (February 1, 1939 – September 22, 1940). Alexianu's mandate was marked by the suppression of ethnic minority and Jewish rights.

Coat of arms
The coat of arms consists of seven pallets, four of gules and three of azure, representing the former seven counties (județe) of Greater Romania which it included (of the total 71). Over the pallets there is a castle, representing the medieval citadel in Suceava.

Constitutive counties
The administrative reform of August 14, 1938, kept the existing 71 counties, but conveyed the marrow of their prerogatives to the news regions.
 Câmpulung County
 Cernăuți County
 Dorohoi County
 Hotin County
 Rădăuți County
 Suceava County
 Storojineț County

See also
 Bukovina Governorate
 Historical administrative divisions of Romania
 Chernivtsi Oblast
 Nord-Est (development region)
 History of Romania
 History of Ukraine

References

External links
 Map

Bessarabia
Bukovina
Suceava
1938 establishments in Romania
1940 disestablishments in Romania
States and territories established in 1938
States and territories disestablished in 1940


With the New Year we are delighted to announce a new interesting congress coming in 2018. The 34th International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology & Therapeutic Risk Management (ICPE 2018) will take place in the Prague Congress Centre in the latter half of 2018. This event proves that long- term partnership matters, because ICPE 2018 is another joint success of Prof. Jiří Vlček and C-IN´s cooperation.


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With the 15th anniversary of Digimon Adventure 02 this year, Digimon fans are revelling in nostalgia. For those who loved playing with Digivices, an upgraded version of the D-3 associated with that show is here: D-3 ver. 15th. Although they come in two colors — white and blue, modeled after Davis's (Daisuke's), and black, modeled after Ken's — customers can choose six different partner Digimon : Veemon, Wormmon, Patamon, Hawkmon, Gatomon, and Armadillomon.
Despite its close resemblance to the original model, the D-3 has been rebuilt. Over 150 different Digimon are included, and over 80 can be raised from eggs. They include the strongest Digimon , Imperialdramon (Paladin mode) and Armageddemon.
The game map has been revamped to better reflect the world of the TV series. Seven different settings correspond to the anime's story progression: the Digital World (from Episodes 1 – 21), New York (from Digimon: The Golden Digimentals ), the Digital World again (from Episodes 22 – 37), Japan (Episodes 38 and 39), around the world (Episodes 40 – 42), Tokyo (Episodes 43 – 50) and Odaiba (from Digimon: Diaboromon Strikes Back ).
The original Digivice will also be rebooted for the 15th anniversary, and the D-3 is compatible with it, as well as the older Digivices (the D-3 series, the Digivice series, the Digimon Pendulum series, and the Digital Monster series). Connecting the D-3 ver. 15th with a Digivice ver. 15th will reveal a secret message.
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Q: how to make android chronometer invisible and visible when clicked I am working on app which has a titlebar with chronometer on the left and a textview centered in a RelativeLayout.

RelativeLayout take height of textview and fill screen width
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/titlecontainer"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:padding="5dip"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:background="@color/titlebckgrnd">

I want to hide the chornometer when user clicks on it and unhide it user clicks again.
How this can be achieved?
EDIT, further to the answers and comments:
Here is the color file code
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
   <resources>
   <color name="titlebckgrnd">#FFD55A2E</color>
   <color name="titletext">#FFFFFFFF</color>
 </resources>

I used the following code as suggested
final TextView chron = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.chronometer);
    ((Chronometer) chron).start();
 chron.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
        private boolean mToggle = true;
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
                Log.d("Gaurav", "Invisible");
                if(mToggle) {
                    Log.d("Gaurav", String.valueOf(chron.getCurrentTextColor()));
                    chron.setTextColor(R.color.titlebckgrnd);
                    mToggle = false;
                }
                else {
                                          chron.setTextColor(R.color.titletext);
                                          mToogle = true;
                                    }

                //chronImage.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

                //v.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);

        }
    });

but the result is

and it does not respond to any more clicks.
LogCat Results

Even the debugger breakpoints show change in Textcolor value but color change in display does not happen.

A: If I properly understood your question you can do that way to hide the chronometer:
// We are in your Activity:

final View chronometer= findViewById(R.id.chronometer);

chronometer.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(View v) {
        chronometer.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        // Use View.INVISIBLE if you would like to keep the room for this view
    }
});

But there will be no view displayed anymore. So depending of where the user should click to have it displayed again, you may have to give your view and/or its text the same color as the background instead of making them invisible:
// should chronometer be a TextView that displays the time:

final TextView chronometer = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.chronometer);

chronometer.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    private boolean mToggle = true;

    public void onClick(View v) {
        if (mToggle ) {
            chronometer.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);
            mToggle = false;
        }
        else {
            chronometer.setTextColor(Color.WHITE);
            mToggle = true;
        }
    }
});

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We love birthdays!!! So many of our family and friends are no longer here to celebrate their birthday it seems really ungrateful not to be thankful and celebrate the joys of the anniversary of birth. Mine is always a bit of an emotional challenge as I recall the fact that Fay and Quindel, my loving parents, the ones that brought me in to this world and loved me as long as they were here are indeed no longer here. However, this year I was showered with an abundance of love that made for a really special…not day but week.
You can see from the Supper Club post that the celebration began four days early and indeed a good time was had by all. Then I was invited to birthday lunch on Tuesday by legendary Chef Robert Hayes where we planned a Bollywood event that you'll get to hear all about in November. Thursday, the real date of my birth came about and I had a glorious evening with my Sweet One at internationally recognized Kelly English Restaurant Iris.
The perfect bite from the chef saying thank you. Sometimes you don't know what it is…you just savor the flavor and know that dinner is going to be lovely.
This was a Foie Gras like I've never had before…absolutely decadent…really like the best butter you've ever tasted and the bread had the taste of a Popover but was dense and delicious.
We asked for their popular Lobster Knuckle sandwich to be made in to a salad. They were happy to oblige and it was delicious. Whoever peels all the grape tomatoes should get a huge raise!!!
We did two entrees…the halibut and the Ribeye…neither were standard setting but I would go back and order both of them again. That's where I am now. I'm not looking for food that reinvents the wheel but taste and quality that doesn't break the bank and that you remember enough that you want to have it again. Interestingly, it's the sides that elevate the composition of both dishes. The Baba Ganouj (chunky baba ganoush) and the Truffled Mashed Potatoes were perfectly cooked and meritable accompaniments to the proteins.
The desserts all sounded too heavy but the server mentioned a Brandy Alexander and the word milkshake so we had coffee and a BA…divine.
I will tell you that we've been to Iris several times prior and have never really loved it. It's an old house trying to be a high-end restaurant, albeit it beautifully designed. I guess it's a sign of the economy when the best restaurants are in old houses, warehouses or strip malls.
However, something has changed. The server and the menu were very customer driven. Nothing is fussy. No one is in your face. And, the food was absolutely memorable. The room across the hall was very noisy so we were glad we were in our quite, little parlor…Brandt called it the bedroom. Overall, we were extremely pleased and will look forward to going again. The experience made for a very happy birthday dinner.
Then Friday night our chosen family invited us to a standard setting birthday celebration.
Sharon and Lawrence hosted in their beautiful home that I was honored to help them design. It's not an old house, warehouse or strip mall…far from it.
..that became more magical as day turned into night.
Clearly, I had a "little" of everything…mixed greens, marinated shrimp and artichokes, grilled vegetables and orzo and LOBSTER mac and cheese…Kind and Gracious Heavenly Father what sweet friends we are blessed with. They truly are the only reason we continue to live in Memphis!!!
Jim and Linda brought the best cheesecake I've ever had. Frost is relatively new in East Memphis and I don't know that any of us will ever bake again. It may look like an average cheesecake but let me tell you it was everything but average.
Then came Saturday when our dear friend Kirk invited us to the home of our new friends Munnie and Henry.
We had a little work to do as we are doing a business dinner next week. But then, took a "cocktail cruise". We got out on the lake and could just barely see the sun as it set inside the trees. Then, like someone turned on a switch, the sky came to life in a glorious exposition of color and light. We were all in awe at the majesty and glory of this natural display of nature.
I don't want to hurt feelings so I can't say this was my favorite birthday meal. So, I'll just say I wish I had this plate again, right now. When I was growing up this was the kind of meal we had almost every Saturday night. Catfish, hushpuppies, slaw, fresh tomatoes and onions. We had french fries but this time the greens and rice elevated this meal way beyond a typical Saturday supper. I am so sorry you don't get to see the black bottom pie Kirk made for dessert. We all inhaled it as soon as it hit the table. Kirk said it's not as good as what he's had before. Thus, we highly encouraged him to keep trying!!! I'll try to photograph the next one.
There you have it. Now, I'm moving on to 56. I am so blessed!!! Good friends, good health, a partner that loves me without condition…I try to celebrate every day.
When your birthday comes I hope you'll find a lovely house and plan a party so a good time can be had by all!!!
I always love to see and read what you are up to. I am so happy that you had a wonderful birthday! I still remember when you and Bob decorated my room door when we were traveling wit Michael's and the pantsuit out decorated for me.


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Ten American Foreign Policy Influentials Who Died in 2017
from The Water's Edge
American flags flying at the Washington Monument in Washington, DC. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay
December 27, 2017 3:49 pm (EST)
Year's end is a time for taking stock, counting successes, and assessing failures. It is also time for remembering those who are no longer with us. Here are ten Americans who died in 2017 who through their vision, service, intellect, or courage helped shape U.S. foreign policy. They will be missed.
Benjamin Barber (b. 1939) was a political scientist who wrote Jihad vs. McWorld among other books. Born and raised in Greenwich Village in New York City, Barber earned his undergraduate degree from Grinnell College and his Ph.D. from Harvard. He taught for three decades at Rutgers University, before joining the faculty at the University of Maryland in 2001. Jihad vs. McWorld was released in 1995, but it didn't become a bestseller until after September 11, 2001. It argued that two competing forces were shaping the world and threatening democracy—retribalization and globalization. As Barber later put it: "These two sets of forces could not avoid clashing and exploding; they were going to create nothing but death and explosion unless we did this third thing, and we didn't." The third thing was to create authentic democracies. How to advance and perfect democracy was a constant theme in Barber's writings. His other books included Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age (1984) and The Conquest of Politics: Liberal Philosophy in Democratic Times (1988), and Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy (2003).
Chuck Berry (b. 1926) pioneered rock 'n' roll. Berry was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He recorded his first song, "Maybellene," an adaptation of the country hit "Ida Red," in 1955. It was a smashing success. By the end of the 1950s, Berry had recorded seven more top forty hits. He was known for his distinctive guitar-playing techniques and his trademark "duck walk." (He said he developed it to "hide the wrinkles" in his suit.) The Beatles cited Berry as a critical influence, and they covered many of his songs. John Lennon once said, "If you tried to give rock 'n' roll another name, you might have called it Chuck Berry." In 1959, Berry was arrested for violating the Mann Act and sentenced to three years in prison. He served eighteen months. Berry recorded his biggest hit— "My Ding-a-Ling"—in 1972. Fourteen years later, Berry was voted in as a member of the inaugural class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Step into any bar in any city around the world and you realize how much the rock 'n' roll Berry helped create contributes to America's soft power.
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George Bria (b. 1916) was a longtime reporter for the Associated Press (AP) who covered some of the biggest stories during World War II. Bria was born and raised in Waterbury, Connecticut. His parents were Italian immigrants. He earned his undergraduate degree from Amherst College and his master's from Middlebury College. He went into the newspaper business with the goal of becoming a foreign correspondent. He succeeded, but not before covering one of the biggest domestic news stories of the day. Shortly after joining the AP's Boston bureau in 1942, he reported on the horrific Cocoanut Grove fire, the deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history and to this day the second deadliest U.S. building fire. Bria spoke French and Italian fluently, so in 1944 the AP sent him to Italy to cover the war. He followed U.S. troops as they marched up the Italian peninsula. In April 1945, he was one of the few reporters to view the body of the executed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. The following month he reported on Germany's surrender in Italy. He subsequently covered the Nuremberg trials and the Berlin Airlift. Bria held a variety of editorial jobs at the AP later in his career, before returning to reporting in the early 1970s as the AP's correspondent to the United Nations. He retired from the news business in 1981 to grow vegetables. That led him to write periodic columns in the 1990s on the delights of gardening.
Zbigneiw Brzezinski (b. 1928), or "Zbig," was President Jimmy Carter's national security advisor. Born in Warsaw, his father was a Polish diplomat. In 1938, the elder Brzezinski was posted to Montreal, where the family avoided the German and Soviet invasion of Poland. The family stayed in Canada after the war, deterred by Poland's newfound place behind the Iron Curtain. These formative years informed his subsequent hardline anti-Soviet views. A top student, Brzezinski earned his Ph.D. in government at Harvard, where he taught before joining the faculty at Columbia. He advised the Kennedy, Johnson, and Humphrey campaigns, and, eventually Jimmy Carter, whom he met through the Trilateral Commission. As Carter's national security advisor, Brzezinski was on the frontline of the SALT II Treaty negotiations, the Camp David Accords, the Iran Hostage Crisis, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the establishment of diplomatic relations with China. He was often at odds with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, a dynamic that helped precipitate Vance's resignation in 1980. After leaving the White House, Brzezinski returned to teaching and writing—lots of writing. He was a staunch critic of the invasion of Iraq. Carter memorialized Brzezinski as "brilliant, dedicated, and loyal," an appropriate description for an outstanding scholar and public servant.
Nancy Hatch Dupree (b. 1927) was a historian who dedicated her life to preserving Afghanistan's heritage. Dupree was born in Cooperstown, New York, and grew up in what is now Kerala, India. She went to high school in Mexico City, earned her undergraduate degree at Barnard College, and stayed on the Upper West Side long enough to earn her master's at Columbia. In 1962, she moved to Kabul with her then husband, who was the CIA station chief in the country under the guise of being the U.S. embassy's cultural attaché. There she met and fell in love with the anthropologist Louis Dupree. She divorced her husband and married Dupree. (Her former husband married Dupree's former wife.) She spent the next half century living in or near Afghanistan. She wrote five books and numerous articles on the country. When the communists came to power in 1978, they kicked the Duprees out of the country. They settled in nearby Peshawar, Pakistan. She traveled to Kabul frequently after the communist regime fell in an effort to persuade the Taliban not to destroy the country's cultural heritage; regrettably, she did not always succeed. Her final project was cataloging the thousands of photos that she and her husband took during their time in Afghanistan, providing invaluable insight into a world that no longer exists.
David Fromkin (b. 1932) wrote one of the great books about the creation of the modern Middle East, A Peace to End All Peace. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Chicago. After a distinguished career in private practice, Fromkin shifted gears and began writing. He would go on to write seven books on politics, history, and international relations. A Peace to End All Peace was published in 1989 to near universal acclaim. The book traced how the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire sowed the seeds for the conflict that continues to grip the Middle East today. In 1994, Fromkin started teaching at Boston University, where he directed the Center for International Relations. In 2000, he became the founding director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of Longer-Range Future at BU, which today is known as the Pardee School of Global Studies. Fromkin retired from teaching in 2013.
Deane R. Hinton (b. 1923) was a career Foreign Service officer who served as U.S. ambassador to five countries and angered the Reagan administration with his insistence that El Salvador's security forces and right-wing "death squads" were committing human right abuses. Hinton was born in Missoula, Montana, and earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, seeing service in North Africa and Italy. He joined the Foreign Service at the war's end. He eventually rose to the position of career ambassador, a status that requires Senate confirmation and that recognizes "especially distinguished service over a sustained period." Just fifty-six foreign-service officers have been so honored. Hinton was U.S. ambassador to Zaire, the European Communities (predecessor to the EU), El Salvador, Pakistan, Costa Rica, and Panama. Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko suspected Hinton of involvement in a plot on his life in 1975 and declared him persona non grata. Hinton's response to the charge: "Total nonsense. My defense always was that if I'd been out to get him, he'd have been dead." As U.S. ambassador to El Salvador in the early 1980s, he repeatedly filed reports accusing Salvadoran soldiers and death squads of political killings and human rights abuses. President Ronald Reagan ignored Hinton's charges and certified that El Salvador met the human rights standards required to receive U.S. foreign aid.
David Rockefeller (b. 1915) was a businessman, philanthropist, longtime chair and patron of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the last surviving grandson of John D. Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil. David Rockefeller attended Harvard University, the London School of Economics, and the University of Chicago, where he earned his Ph.D. in economics. He enlisted in the army in 1942 and served in North Africa and France. After World War II ended, Rockefeller joined Chase National Bank, eventually becoming chairman of what became known as Chase Manhattan Bank. He painstakingly built personal relationships with heads of state and turned Chase into a global brand. Both Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter asked him be secretary of the Treasury. He said no both times. Rockefeller's philanthropy was legendary. He mobilized the private sector to help save New York City from its fiscal crisis in the mid-1970s, chaired the Museum of Modern Art for several decades, and helped found the Trilateral Commission. He became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in 1941 and served as its chairman from 1970 to 1985. He was extraordinarily generous in his support for the Council. Its think tank, which I have the privilege to direct, is named in his honor. Every day we try to meet the standard Mr. Rockefeller set with his commitment to enriching the public debate.
Richard H. Solomon (b. 1937) was a Sinologist and diplomat who helped engineer America's opening to China in the 1970s. Solomon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and earned his undergraduate degree in chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He stayed at MIT for graduate, but switched to international affairs generally, and China specifically, for his Ph.D. He was on the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1971 when Henry Kissinger recruited him to join the staff of the National Security Council (NSC). Solomon was integral to "Ping-Pong Diplomacy," which helped advance Richard Nixon's rapprochement with China. Solomon traveled with the Chinese table tennis team on their April 1972 visit to America. He left the NSC in 1976 to head up the RAND Corporation's political science department. He returned to government in 1986 to serve as the State Department's director of policy planning. President George H.W. Bush appointed Solomon as assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs in 1989. In 1992, he was made U.S. ambassador to the Philippines. Solomon left the U.S. government in 1993, becoming the president of the United States Institute of Peace. He held that position until 2012, when he rejoined RAND as a senior fellow.
Samuel V. Wilson (b. 1923) was a counterinsurgency specialist and the fifth director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). "General Sam" was born in Rice, Virginia, and lied about his age to join the National Guard at sixteen. During World War II, he worked for the Office of Strategic Services (the CIA's predecessor) and fought in Burma with Merrill's Marauders. It was there that he first became interested in counterinsurgency tactics He developed more nuanced ideas about counterinsurgency as director of the Army Special Forces School and later implemented them as a U.S. Army officer in Vietnam. He eventually was promoted to Lt. General. Along the way he served as deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency and then as director of the DIA. At the end of his career he helped form Delta Force. He retired from the U.S. Army in 1977 but remained active. He chaired the special commission that reviewed the failed 1980 Iranian hostage rescue. He also became a professor at, and then president of, Hampden-Sydney College. He was a skeptic of the war on terror, saying "We are standing on the cusp of something new and we don't know exactly what it is." In his final years, Wilson provided expert commentary for Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's epic PBS documentary on the Vietnam War.
Other Americans who had an impact on foreign policy and who died in 2017 include: Richard Cavazos was the first Hispanic four-star general in the U.S. Army; Leon Cooper was a veteran of the Battle of Tarawa during World War II and who went on to advocate for the site's preservation; John H. Cushman was a highly decorated U.S. Army Lt. General who sought to overhaul how the U.S. military conducts its planning; Professor Morton Deutsch founded the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution; Arthur Finkelstein was a conservative political consultant who worked for candidates in the United States and abroad; Wesley L. Fox was awarded the Medal of Honor for his valor during the Vietnam War; Myles Frechette was a career foreign service officer who served as U.S. ambassador to Cameroon and Colombia; Aijalon Gomes created an international incident in 2009 when he was arrested for sneaking into North Korea.
Howard Hart was a CIA officer who oversaw the agency's clandestine program of arming Afghan fighters against the Soviets; Thomas J. Hudner Jr was awarded the Medal of Honor during the Korean War for his effort to rescue the Navy's first black pilot; Arthur J. Jackson was awarded the Medal of Honor for leading a one-man assault at the Battle of Peleliu during World War II; Charles Jenkins was a U.S. army sergeant who defected to North Korea in 1965 and spent the next four decades living there; Thomas James Kinsman was awarded the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War for throwing himself on a grenade to protect his fellow soldiers; William L. Kirk was a four-star Air Force general and an expert in electronic warfare; Hugh Montgomery was the CIA's longest-serving operative; Hal Moore was a highly decorated U.S. Army Lt. Gen. who co-wrote the 1992 bestseller, We Were Soldiers Once…and Young, about the Battle of Ia Drang during the Vietnam War.
Glenn D. Paige was a distinguished political scientist who co-founded the Center for Global Nonkilling; Leonard H. Perroots directed the Defense Intelligence Agency during the Reagan administration; Lawrence Pezzulo was a career Foreign Service officer who served as U.S. ambassador to Uruguay and Nicaragua; Dr. Jeffrey T. Richelson was a national security scholar and an expert on the Freedom of Information Act; Wilburn K. Ross was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery during World War II; Edward L. Rowny was a Lt. General and U.S. arms control negotiator who resigned from the U.S. Army to protest the SALT II Treaty; Howard Bruner Schaffer was a career Foreign Service officer who specialized in South Asia and who served as U.S. ambassador to Bangladesh during the Reagan administration; Alfred Stepan was a leading scholar of Latin American politics; Jeremy Stone was a mathematician who became the longtime leader of the Federation of American Scientists; Sam Summerlin was a longtime foreign correspondent for the AP; Harry E.T. Thayer was a career Foreign Service officer who served as U.S. ambassador to Singapore in the early 1980s; Edward Tipper was a World War II veteran who was depicted in Band of Brothers; John P. White was deputy secretary of defense during the Clinton administration; Jerry Yellin flew the last U.S. air combat mission in World War II.
Corey Cooper, Rodolfo Martinez-Don, Madison Phillips, and Benjamin Shaver contributed to the preparation of this post.
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Google threatens to leave China after massive cyberattacks
Attacks tried to access Gmail accounts of Chinese, Western human rights activists, search giant says
Google today said that a "highly sophisticated and targeted" attack against its network last month originated in China, and tried to access the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.
In a blog post Tuesday, David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, said that attacks have forced the company to "review the feasibility of our business operations in China." Google, continued Drummond, is "no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all."
The end result of those discussions, said Drummond, may be that Google shuts down its search engine and close its offices in the People's Republic of China.
"This is a bold and a very difficult move on [Google's] part," said Leslie Harris, the president and CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), a Washington, D.C.-based civil liberties group. "But with the revelations that there have been major cyber attacks aimed at human rights activists, both in China and in the West, it's hard to see how Google could have remained silent."
According to Drummond, Google was one of at least 20 large companies that were targeted by massive attacks in December. In Google's case, the attacks resulted in the theft of some company intellectual property.
More troubling, said Drummond, was that the attacks were aimed at accessing the Gmail accounts of human rights activists in China. Gmail is officially unavailable in the country, but activists and others use anonymous proxies to circumvent that rule.
"We have evidence to suggest that a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists," said Drummond, who added that with the exception of two accounts, those attacks had been unsuccessful. The message content of those accounts was not compromised, Drummond claimed; instead, only some information, such as subject lines and the date the account was created, was accessed.
Drummond also said Google had discovered that the Gmail accounts of dozens of U.S.- and Europe-based advocates of human rights in China had been "routinely" accessed by unauthorized users.
"We have taken the unusual step of sharing information about these attacks with a broad audience not just because of the security and human rights implications of what we have unearthed, but also because this information goes to the heart of a much bigger global debate about freedom of speech," said Drummond.
Google launched its Chinese-language search engine at google.cn in early 2006, and at the time spelled out its position on business in the country. "We will carefully monitor conditions in China, including new laws and other restrictions on our services. If we determine that we are unable to achieve the objectives outlined we will not hesitate to reconsider our approach to China," the company said four years ago.
The disturbing nature of the attacks, as well as what Drummond called "attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the Web" by Chinese authorities, gave the company pause, then led it to a decision.
"Any company in China has to constantly monitor the situation," said Harris of the CDT. "And at some point, it may be untenable. Google made that very clear when it went into China. It appears that Google has decided that the risks to their users and their own values outweigh the benefit of operating in China."
Harris declined to speculate on what impact a Google withdrawal from China would have on other technology firms that operate in the country -- both Microsoft and Yahoo, for instance, have a presence there -- but said she expected Google to face resistance if it did pull out. "I can't imagine this was an easy decision for them," she said. "They're certain to get push-back from some shareholders."
If Google does end up closing shop in China, Harris acknowledged that it would be a setback for the idea that Western companies could change China's position on issues such as human rights. "I don't think that [this idea] has had the impact we would have liked, but it has had a huge impact on access of information that China's citizens now have," she argued.
Like Drummond of Google, Harris noted that recent moves by the Chinese government have been hard to stomach. "They've become increasingly shrill about what a company makes available, who can have blogs and domains in the country," she said. "They've been piling on the restrictions."
But the battle isn't over, even if Google leaves, Harris said. "The fact is, [the Chinese government] cannot control all information. That's the hope we've always had, that at some point technology wins."
Drummond did not set a timetable for the discussions Google wants to have with Chinese authorities, or, failing a settlement agreeable to both sides, a deadline for any decision to withdraw from the country and shutter its search site.
Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gkeizer, send e-mail to gkeizer@ix.netcom.com or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed .


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Q: Changes in the nodejs code for inserting a batch in mySQL table Here is the code
const add_friend = async (user_id, users) => {
    try {
             var data1 = [];
        for (const user of users) {
            data1 += [user,user_id,"Request Pending"];
                }
            await mysql.query('INSERT INTO friendship SET ?', [data1])
            await mysql.end()
}
     catch (err) {
        throw err

So users is the list of all other user_id's which is coming as a parameter.
user_id is a single id.
What I am trying is to convert it into one list data1 with three values user_id1, user_id2, and request pending after that I want to update the table in one query only.
But the syntax is not correct. What should be the correct syntax. Please help.


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Q: How to automate significance tests with multiple groups in the dataset between treatment and control I am really new to R.
My data looks like this: Every city belongs to a state and has treatment and control values for the variable Num1. I need to perform a two way t tests or Anova (regardless) to check significance between Num1 values of cities for treatment group and Num1 values for the state for control to which the city belongs (this should be done for each city). The result should be p values for each city treatment- state control group.
City Measure_group   State  Day        Num1
A    Treatment        X    01.01.1900   279
A    Control          X    02.01.1900   256
B    Treatment        Y    03.01.1900   71
B    Control          Y    04.01.1900   372
C    Treatment        Z    05.01.1900   127
C    Control          Z    06.01.1900   303
D    Treatment        W    07.01.1900   248

I have already tried basic ANOVA to do this but it does not work as it compares all cities to each other without any relationship.
    model <- aov( Num1 ~City+State, data= data1)
    comparison <- pairs(lsmeans(model, ~City|State))
    test(comparison, by = NULL, adjust = "fdr")


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Q: Изменить цвет формы при checked = true unit U3_4;

interface

uses
Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms,
Dialogs, StdCtrls;

type

TForm1 = class(TForm)
CheckBox1: TCheckBox;
RadioButton1: TRadioButton;
RadioButton2: TRadioButton;
RadioButton3: TRadioButton;
RadioButton4: TRadioButton;
procedure CheckBox1Click(Sender: TObject);
procedure RadioButton2Click(Sender: TObject);
procedure RadioButton1DblClick(Sender: TObject);
procedure RadioButton3Click(Sender: TObject);
procedure RadioButton4Click(Sender: TObject);
private
{ Private declarations }

public
{ Public declarations }
end;

var
  Form1: TForm1;

implementation

{$R *.dfm}

procedure TForm1.CheckBox1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  RadioButton1.Enabled := True;
  RadioButton2.Enabled := True;
  RadioButton3.Enabled := True;
  RadioButton4.Enabled := True;
  if CheckBox1.Checked = False then
    RadioButton1.Enabled := False;
  if CheckBox1.Checked = False then
    RadioButton2.Enabled := False;
  if CheckBox1.Checked = False then
    RadioButton3.Enabled := False;
  if CheckBox1.Checked = False then
    RadioButton4.Enabled := False;
end;

procedure TForm1.RadioButton1DblClick(Sender: TObject);
begin
  if CheckBox1.Checked = True then
    Form1.Color := clBtnFace;
end;

procedure TForm1.RadioButton2Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  if CheckBox1.Checked = True then
    Form1.Color := clRed;
end;

procedure TForm1.RadioButton3Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  if CheckBox1.Checked = True then
    Form1.Color := clYellow;
end;

procedure TForm1.RadioButton4Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  if CheckBox1.Checked = True then
    Form1.Color := clGreen;
end;

end.

ВОПРОС: Как сделать так, чтобы только при значении checked = true цвет формы менялся. То есть мне нужно сделать так, чтобы при снятии флажка с checkbox1 цвет формы был по умолчанию
A: Вешаешь на клик на checkbox1 код:
procedure TForm1.CheckBox1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  if CheckBox1.Checked = True then begin
    if RadioButton1.Checked then
      RadioButton1Click(Self);
    if RadioButton2.Checked then
      RadioButton2Click(Self);
    if RadioButton3.Checked then
      RadioButton3Click(Self);
    if RadioButton4.Checked then
      RadioButton4Click(Self);
  end else begin
    Form1.Color := clBtnFace;
  end;
end;


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Home / On Being Included
On Being Included
Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life
Book Pages: 256 Illustrations: 3 illustrations Published: March 2012
Author: Sara Ahmed
Gender and Sexuality > Feminism and Women's Studies, Pedagogy and Higher Education, Theory and Philosophy > Race and Indigeneity
What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable, feature of institutional life. Yet diversity practitioners often experience institutions as resistant to their work, as captured through their use of the metaphor of the "brick wall." On Being Included offers an explanation of this apparent paradox. It explores the gap between symbolic commitments to diversity and the experience of those who embody diversity. Commitments to diversity are understood as "non-performatives" that do not bring about what they name. The book provides an account of institutional whiteness and shows how racism can be obscured by the institutionalization of diversity. Diversity is used as evidence that institutions do not have a problem with racism. On Being Included offers a critique of what happens when diversity is offered as a solution. It also shows how diversity workers generate knowledge of institutions in attempting to transform them.
"Ahmed develops and excellent study for those wishing to view the multiple realities of diversity. Highly recommended. General readers, undergraduate students, graduate students, and professionals." — P. Kriese, CHOICE
"Ahmed's book is not a how-to guide to 'what works.' But On Being Included would be an excellent choice for a faculty-staff reading group about social justice in the academy, because Ahmed provides a rich resource for serious rethinking: 'My aim is not to suggest that we should stop doing diversity, but that we need to keep asking what we are doing.'" — Meryl Altman, Academe
"Drawing from interviews and informal conversations with higher education diversity practitioners across the United Kingdom and Australia, scholar Sara Ahmed has crafted a keen meditation on the meaning of diversity in higher education and its implications for inclusion.... Focusing on what practitioners can learn about institutions as they work to transform them, her book will be of interest to anyone seeking to promote greater inclusion at their institution." — On Campus with Women,
"Regardless of positionality and lived experiences, this text is engaging both intellectually and emotionally. Ahmed's unflinching candor compels reflection and tough (hopefully productive) conversations far more effectively than a conventional 'diversity document'. This is a text that moves to confront and change the status quo." — Corin de Freitas and Alex Pysklywec, Society and Space: Environment and Planning D
"Despite having read widely within the ?eld of diversity and higher education, it is rare for a book to so powerfully call to mind my own identities as did this one. . . . This work is most appropriate for an educational anthropology course or unit focused on applied work within higher education. . . . It would also be useful for researchers looking for a new theoretical approach to how discourse and documents perform within institutions or, more provocatively, how they fail to do so." — Lauren Miller Griffith, Anthropology and Education Quarterly
"On Being Included is one of those books that took over my life. It seemed like, for a while, I inserted this text into just about every conversation I had. 'Oh, that's similar to what Sara Ahmed talks about when she says … ' Maybe it's because I want people to associate me with this brilliant author! It's also partially because this book is really smart about dealing with the ways that terms–specifically, diversity–are taken up within the institution (and she does a neat job of thinking through what institution means) and used to obscure particular kinds of work." — Erin Frost, Theorizing Feminist Apparency blog
"[T]he book links deeply theoretical questioning to personal experience, empirical findings in interviews, informal discussions and engaged participant observation. It provides the reader with many insights, some created within different varieties of collective intellectual labor that are referred to as discussions in a seminar, meeting or informal talk, that nourish the quest for reading that is simultaneously compelling and delightful. In its combination of theory and practice, the book offers food for thought to theorists and practitioners alike." — Anitta Kynsilehto, International Feminist Journal of Politics
"On Being Included is well structured and presented, and at 187 pages of text it is substantial and scholarly without being excessive… the book remains accessible. It's actually a good read." — Samira Farhoud, CAUT Bulletin
"On Being Included does an excellent job of bringing to life, in highly perceptive ways, the experience of doing diversity work. As ethnography, its strength indeed may lie in bracketing other times and places. However, the resonance with other documented experiences in Britain and Australia contributes to the book's value in offering not just a picture of diversity politics but a vivid account of the persistent features of contemporary organisational life when faced with projects seeking change." — Davina Cooper, British Journal of Educational Studies
"For those of us interested in diversity work, Ahmed's On Being Included provides a novel way of thinking about diversity. In her readings of institutional documents interwoven with the voices of diversity workers, Ahmed cautions us to think about diversity as a tool deployed to further crystallize institutionally sanctioned racist practices that recede to the background of everyday life." — Andres Castro Samayoa, Somatechnics
"[A] unique account of diversity as an institutional practice and also of what people do and feel when they do not quite fit the norms of an institution or are 'out of place.' Ahmed captures the experience of diversity in liberal institutions through the image of a coming up against a brick wall and an important part of this book is the 'physical and emotional' labour of confronting that wall." — Karim Murji, Ethnic and Racial Studies
"Ahmed's interviews, her personal connection to the subject matter (her presence is part of how her institution does diversity (p. 153), and she has done 'diversity work' there as well), and her linking of empirical and theoretical insights make this a deeply engaging read." — Sonia Lawrence, Jotwell
"The strength of the argument here is the compelling empirical data that shows both the necessity and the possibilities of accounting for how diversity work gets stuck, which forcefully complements her earlier conceptualization." — Xin Liu, NORA
"This book offers a grounded and open exploration of what it means to 'do' diversity, to 'be' diverse. It challenges the reader, both in style and in content, to reconsider relations of power that stick to the multiple practices, meanings, and understandings of diversity, and to reconsider how we engage, reproduce, and disrupt these relations." — Juliane Collard and Carolyn Prouse, Gender, Place, and Culture
"A key finding in Ahmed's rich analysis of race relations is how diversity policies can become a mechanism for preserving whiteness. . . . Above all, Ahmed's corpus of work on race and cultural studies continues to remind us that race is a 'sticky sign'. . . . The wonder of Ahmed's book is that it allows us insight into some of the more ephemeral ways whiteness, privilege and institutional discrimination come to operate as normative." — Anoop Nayak, British Journal of Sociology of Education
"Ahmed gives some arresting acounts of the ways that the uproar often surrouding the accusation or implied accusation of racism can reinforce whiteness. . . . This is a timely and engaging book ." — Sophie Rudolph, Gender and Education
"On Being Included is a high level discussion of how and why universities struggle to overcome the constraints of their institutional habitus. Perhaps because of my own complicities, this book challenged me at a personal level. It is an insightful, rigorously theoretical, and grounded conversation about racism and diversity within higher learning and a book for anyone who believes we can do better." — Joe Corrigan, Alberta Journal of Educational Research
"On Being Included is an insightful, challenging, and well-written text. Teachers and administrators who are interested in diversity should certainly take time with Ahmed's work, as should anyone interested in assessing
the larger role of institutional context in higher education." — Stephen Okey, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religon
"Just when you think everything that could possibly be said about diversity in higher education has been said, Sara Ahmed comes along with this startlingly original, deeply engaging ethnography of diversity work. On Being Included is an insightful, smart reflection on the embodied, profoundly political phenomenology of doing and performing diversity in predominantly white institutions. As Ahmed queers even the most mundane formulations of diversity, she creates one eureka moment after another. I could not put this book down. It is a must-read for everyone committed to antiracist, feminist work as key to institutional transformation in higher education." — Chandra Talpade Mohanty, author of Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
"Sara Ahmed's sensitive and respectful analysis of the complexities faced by diversity workers in higher education institutions arrives at a moment when we urgently need ways to rethink institutional dynamics and the animating effects of policy regimes and processes. This is a vital book: vital as a compass guiding the eye, heart, and mind to the knowledge that can emerge from the labor of institutional transformation, and vital in the sense of being life-giving to those involved in the process." — Gail Lewis, coauthor of Citizenship: Personal Lives and Social Policy
"There are no other books of this caliber examining the institutional culture of diversity in higher education. Sara Ahmed not only offers a rigorous empirical study of how diversity operates in the real world; she also develops a brilliant theoretical framework exploring the affective reproduction of inequality. At the same time, as a black feminist, she draws on her own embodiment of difference and experience as a diversity practitioner." — Heidi Safia Mirza, author of Race, Gender and Educational Desire: Why Black Women Succeed and Fail
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Sara Ahmed is Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her books include The Cultural Politics of Emotion; Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality; and Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism.
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Introduction. On Arrival 1
1. Institutional Life 19
2. The Language of Diversity 51
3. Equality and Performance Culture 83
4. Commitment as a Non-performative 113
5. Speaking about Racism 141
Conclusion. A Phenomenological Practice 173
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Google Announces Pixel and Pixel XL Phones: Snapdragon 821, 5" & 5.5" Screens, $649, Preorders Start Today
by Ryan Smith & Matt Humrick on October 4, 2016 4:30 PM EST
At an event today in San Francisco, Google unveiled its latest vision for Android smartphones—the Google Pixel and Pixel XL. For this generation, Google nixes the familiar Nexus name, along with the cluttered and confused Nexus model numbering system, replacing it with the newer Pixel moniker and creating a unified hardware family that also includes the existing Chromebook Pixel notebook and Pixel C tablet.
Despite early rumors that Huawei would manufacture the new Pixel phones, that arrangement reportedly hit a snag and HTC eventually won the contract. Huawei partnered with Google for last year's Nexus 6P (LG manufactured the Nexus 5X), and helped create a unique-looking, well-built phone with a few minor shortcomings. A follow-up device would be intriguing, but instead Google has come full-circle, enlisting the help of HTC who created the Nexus One, the very first Nexus phone.
Though make no mistake: Google may be contracting out the manufacturing, but all of the branding is explicitly Google. The name of the event "Made by Google" says it all. Google is presenting the Pixel as their phone, not an Android phone with stock firmware as how the Nexus was originally presented.
Google Pixel & Pixel XL
Overall Google is introducing two phones: the Pixel and the Pixel XL. The former is the successor to the Nexus 5X, while the XL replaces the Nexus 6P. Compared to past generations of the Nexus lineup and even competing phones, these two phones are much closer in construction and specifications. Other than their sizes, display resolution, price, and battery capacity, both phones have the same internals and configurations, including the same cameras with the same capabilities. As a result the Pixel XL is for all practical purposes a bigger Pixel, with a battery and display to match.
In terms of design and market positioning, one thing to note from the very start is that unlike the mid-range(ish) Nexus phones, the Pixel phones are meant to be flagship products. This means that Google is placing a greater focus on features and design, and that they're also pricing the phones to match. So current Nexus users who are coming from $400 phones may be in for a bit of a shock at the $649+ Pixel. The Pixel may succeed the Nexus, but it is definitely not meant to be the Nexus.
The overall design for the Pixel then is another take on the rounded glass and aluminum designs we have seen in multiple phones over the years. The back of the phone uses both materials; the top-half (including the fingerprint sensor) is glass, while the bottom half is aluminum. Matt will have more on the feel in his hands-on, but at first glance it looks like it should be similar to other phones that have used this style. Meanwhile both phones will be available in a trio of colors. Taking a minor dig at Apple, Google has named these Quite Back, Very Silver, and Really Blue, with the latter being the pre-ordained "limited edition" color.
Meanwhile we'll get to the hardware specifications in a moment, but it's worth noting that Google is using the Pixel phones as a launch vehicle for a couple of their new technologies/initiatives. The Pixel is the first phone ready for Google's Daydream VR platform, and pre-order customers will receive the associated Daydream View VR headset for free. The Daydream system wirelessly connects to the phone – so Google doesn't need to worry about USB port alignments – and Google is ramping up the content side of the system with the usual mix of partnerships and leveraging YouTube's growing capabilities.
The Pixel is also being used to launch Google's enhanced Google Assistant functionality. The successor to the Ok Google functionality in previous generation phones, Google is further expanding what their voice-activated search and action software stack can do, with a focus on making that a core part of the Pixel phone experience. This also includes opening up the system to outside developers via a new SDK that will be launching next year, so that 3rd party developers can add actions to the system.
Google Pixel Phones (2016)
Google Pixel Google Pixel XL Google Nexus 5X Google Nexus 6P
SoC Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
(MSM8996 Pro AB)
2x Kryo @ 2.15GHz
2x Kryo @ 1.6GHz
Adreno 530 @ 624MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 808
(MSM8992)
4x Cortex-A53 @ 1.44GHz
Adreno 418 @ 600MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 v2.1
Adreno 430 @ 600MHz
Display 5.0-inch 1920x1080 AMOLED 5.5-inch 2560x1440 AMOLED 5.2-inch 1920x1080 IPS LCD 5.7-inch 2560x1440 SAMOLED
Dimensions 143.8 x 69.5 x 7.3-8.5 mm 154.7 x 75.7 x 7.3-8.5 mm 147.0 x 72.6 x 7.9 mm
136 grams 159.3 x 77.8 x 7.3 mm
RAM 4GB LPDDR4 2GB LPDDR3 3GB LPDDR4
NAND 32GB / 128GB 16GB / 32GB (eMMC 5.0) 32GB / 64GB / 128GB (eMMC 5.0)
Rear Camera 12.3MP Sony IMX378, 1.55µm pixels, f/2.0, PDAF + Laser AF, HDR+ 12.3MP, 1/2.3" Sony IMX377 Exmor R, 1.55µm pixels, f/2.0, Laser AF, Auto HDR, dual-tone LED flash 12.3MP, 1/2.3" Sony IMX377 Exmor R, 1.55µm pixels, f/2.0, Laser AF, Auto HDR, dual-tone LED flash
Front Camera 8MP Sony IMX179, 1.4µm pixels, f/2.4 5MP, 1/4" OmniVision OV5693, 1.4μm pixels, f/2.0 8MP, 1/3.2" Sony IMX179 Exmor R, 1.4μm pixels, f/2.4
Modem Qualcomm X12 LTE (Integrated)
2G / 3G / 4G LTE (Category 11/9) Qualcomm X10 LTE (Integrated)
2G / 3G / 4G LTE (Category 6) Qualcomm X10 LTE (Integrated)
2G / 3G / 4G LTE (Category 9)
SIM Size NanoSIM NanoSIM NanoSIM
non-replaceable 3450 mAh
non-replaceable 2700 mAh (10.3 Wh)
non-replaceable 3450 mAh (13.18 Wh)
non-replaceable
Connectivity USB 3.0 Type-C, 3.5mm headset USB 2.0 Type-C, 3.5mm headset USB 2.0 Type-C, 3.5mm headset
Wireless 802.11a/b/g/n/ac 2x2 MU-MIMO, BT 4.2, NFC, GPS/GNSS 802.11a/b/g/n/ac 2x2 MU-MIMO, BT 4.2, NFC, GPS/GNSS 802.11a/b/g/n/ac 2x2 MU-MIMO, BT 4.2, NFC, GPS/GNSS
Launch OS Android 7.1 Android 6.0 Android 6.0
Launch Price $649 / 749
32GB / 128GB $769 / $869
16GB / 32GB $499 / $549 / $649
32GB / 64GB / 128 GB
Under the hood, the Pixel phones pack a Snapdragon 821 SoC, which includes four of Qualcomm's custom 64-bit Kryo CPU cores. The two cores in the performance cluster have a peak frequency of 2.15GHz, while the other two cores in the power cluster have a peak frequency of 1.6GHz. Relative to the Snapdragon 808 and 810 SoCs found on the Nexus phones, this is a shift in both frequency and architecture. As Snapdragon 821 is just a new iteration of Snapdragon 820 there won't be any surprises here, but based on what we've seen in other phones that have made a similar transition to 820, we should see a good performance uplift in both CPU and GPU tasks.
The Pixel phones also include 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM, twice as much as the Nexus 5X, or 33% more than the Nexus 6P. Again this is pretty standard for Snapdragon 820 devices, and should provide a kick to multitasking performance under Android.
The amount of internal storage has also been significantly increased. The base models come with 32GB of NAND, while the high capacity models come with 128GB. Google has not officially disclosed which flash storage technology the Pixel is using, but it's almost certainly UFS given the SoC and the phone's flagship status. Like the previous generation Nexus phones, there's no micro SD card support for the Pixel phones, so high NAND capacity is important. Coming off of the Nexus 6P little has changed – that phone was already available at 128GB – while this is a 2-4x capacity improvement over the more constrained Nexus 5X. Even then, Google is being mindful that 128GB is still a finite amount, and they will be offering unlimited photo and video storage in their cloud service for free in order to alleviate any capacity anxiety.
Helping to fill that capacity will be the phones' camera. Here Google is using a 12.3MP Sony IMX378 sensor, which can capture 1080p video at up to 120fps, or 4K video at up to 30fps. Focusing the camera is provided by the usual combination of phase detection and laser detection. Meanwhile the front camera uses a smaller Sony IMX179, an 8MP sensor with slightly smaller pixels.
Somewhat surprisingly, there isn't any OIS available on either phone. OIS is admittedly not very common on 5" and below phones, as the mechanism takes up space and Google wanted to avoid a camera hump. So the lack of OIS on even the Pixel XL may be a consequence of the shared camera model between the two phones.
That said, despite the lack of OIS, one of the major marketing points for the phone is its EIS image stabilization. Here Google claims they're sampling the gyroscope at 200Hz in order to apply what they're promoting as some of the best image stabilization on the market. So it will be interesting to see how well that holds up in practice. EIS has made great strides over the years, but OIS sets a very high bar in the flagship market.
Overall, Google spent a significant amount of time touting the image quality of the Pixel's camera as a key product differentiator from both their earlier phones and the competition. Google's partners used a very similar sensor on the last-generation Nexus phones, so it'll be interesting to see just how things compare. Meanwhile on the software/implementation side, Google is also claiming that their capture time is faster than any other phone, including zero shutter lag in HDR+ mode.
Meanwhile, on the display side, the Pixel and Pixel XL use 5" and 5.5" AMOLED displays respectively. The smaller phone is a 1920x1080 display, while the larger phone bumps that up to 2560x1440. We'll have a bit more here in our hands-on look at the phone, but in the meantime Google has somewhat frustratingly opted to define the color space in terms of NTSC. So from the specifications alone it's not clear what these phones can do beyond the usual sRGB color space, though clearly Google is looking to offer some form of wide color gamut support. That said, as Google/HTC are sourcing panels from the usual vendors, it's unlikely there's anything here we haven't seen before.
In terms of battery capacity, the smaller Pixel packs a 2770mAh battery – virtually identical to the Nexus 5X – while the Pixel XL bumps that up to 3450mAh, which is even more identical to the Nexus 6P. Google's touting 26 hours of battery life for voice calls and 13 hours for internet browsing for the Pixel, and 32 hours/14 hours respectively for the Pixel XL. Both phones also implement quick charging via the USB Type-C Power Delivery standard, and Google says that the included 18W power adapter can fast charge the phone to "7 hours of use" in 15 minutes.
Moving on to the modem, both Pixels are relying on the Snapdragon 821's integrated Qualcomm X12 LTE modem, which offers up to Cat 11 performance depending on the carrier. Interestingly, in their tech specs Google notes that there will be two configurations of the phone: a North American version, and a Rest of World version. The band support for the two phones is slightly different, and this likely has something to do with Google working with Verizon as their carrier partner for the US launch.
Wrapping up the specs, you'll find the usual collection of wireless standards and interface ports. This includes 2x2 802.11ac WiFi, a USB Type-C port that supports 3.0 speeds, and a 3.5mm headset jack.
Pre-orders are starting today, with units available in stores (and pre-orders presumably arriving) on October 20th. Unlike the Nexus phones, Google is going head-first into the flagship market here, so the Pixels are priced accordingly. The 32GB Pixel is $649, and the 32GB Pixel XL is $769. Bumping the capacity up to 128GB will in turn add another $100 to those prices.
ddriver - Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - link
Decent specs, some interesting features, many useless, overpriced. That sums it up.
WithoutWeakness - Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - link
Really Blue. Very Silver. Much Color. Such Wow.
I like the additions to Nougat but I'm really annoyed that it seems like Google is locking a few of them up to be Pixel features that require the new phone. Google Assistant integrated into the core OS à la Google Now looks to be Pixel-only from what I've read. I don't really feel compelled at all to upgrade from my Nexus 6P given the increased price and design changes (dual front facing speakers, please Google - look at that chin!).
I think Google made a smart move by selling this through Verizon carrier stores as they had a hard time getting the Nexus name known to people outside the tech-savvy Android user base. Putting physical phones in stores will let people see it side-by-side with iPhones and Samsung Galaxys and it will help the brand grow. Hopefully next year we get a more inspired design - not another iPhone clone - and a few really killer features to validate the increased price point.
The day I need google assistant to tell me jokes - remind me to kill myself for there is no longer any purpose in my existence.
I guess simpletons will be stunned by all that cheesy hype, for me it was quite off-putting. I'd feel stupid and shallow getting a phone promoted in such a silly manner. It might be worse than apple LOL. But explains it all, seeing how they target the same price point. And sure, that's where the money is. Took them long enough...
Samus - Wednesday, October 5, 2016 - link
Anybody who's interested in the sensor quality (or lack there of, frankly) should check out the Mi5s pic's here that showcase a variety of situations.
http://www.gizbeat.com/10919/sony-imx378-is-the-ne...
Basically the sensor is one of the best available (at least the best Sony has - a supplier that seems to be the flavor of the day for Android OEM's) but not THE best. I for $650-$750 I expect something better than a $30 sensor. The camera is constantly one of the most disappointing aspects of Android phones and they really need to get on it. Samsung and Apple each have over 800 engineers, programmers and testers working on their cameras so it's no surprise the experience and quality of using a camera on the Galaxy S7 and iPhones are always the industry benchmark.
So long story short, why don't OEM's just pay a few bucks more and license Samsung's ISOCELL sensor?
tuxRoller - Saturday, October 8, 2016 - link
The sensor is only one part of the equation.
Optics are extremely important and I'd imagine that's where xiaomi skimped.
Ananke - Monday, October 10, 2016 - link
Because Samsung would not sell or license the sensor to anybody, at least not at any reasonable price. It's their competitive edge, they will never give it away. Same is valid for Apple...
Lolimaster - Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - link
Users need to stop bitting the $600+ "premium" smartphones.
$400 should be their limit, nexus 6P at $400 was a high end and premium as anything else, now $250 more for another "premium device".
UtilityMax - Wednesday, October 5, 2016 - link
Whaaa? Even 400 USD is too expensive. The 32GB Nexus 5X is now sold for under 300USD.
Last week I picked up a 32GB Moto X Pure from Best Buy for just 250USD + tax. With the exception of the fingerprint scanner (which X does not even have) it matches the Nexus 6P in every other meaningful spec.
willis936 - Wednesday, October 5, 2016 - link
If this phone had OIS and NVMe I'd happily plunk down $850 on the 128G 5" model. I bought a 6S plus when it came out because my M7's battery was EOL but iOS is just such a bad environment. The 6S hardware has spoiled me though and I don't want to go back to shaky cameras or slow storage.
Also that blue is really pretty and it's always surprising how companies aren't trying to capitalize on aesthetics when they spend so much on design[1].
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Kubojima, Y., Suzuki, Y., and Tonosaki, M. (2014). "Effect of additional mass on the apparent Young's modulus of a wooden bar by longitudinal vibration," BioRes. 9(3), 5088-5098.
We investigated the influence of an additional mass bonded on a wooden bar on its apparent Young's modulus based on a longitudinal vibration theory. Rectangular bars of Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis Carr.) were used as experimental materials. After bonding an iron piece on a bar, a free-free longitudinal vibration test was performed to obtain the Young's modulus. Modal analysis was also performed to examine the effect of a knot on the measured Young's modulus. The Young's modulus decreased with an increase in mass of iron pieces bonded on the specimen and that in a size of the knot, since the constants required for the frequency equation of longitudinal vibration changed due to the additional mass and the knot. An equation was developed which contains the effects of the mass and position of the iron piece on the constants. The Young's moduli calculated by this equation resembled the values without an iron piece and the knot. Assuming a knot to be the additional mass, the estimation method used to examine the effect of a knot on the apparent Young's modulus was proposed. The analysis showed that the higher the resonance mode and the nearer the position to an end, the more effective efforts to reduce the effect of the additional mass will be.
We investigated the influence of an additional mass bonded on a wooden bar on its apparent Young's modulus based on a longitudinal vibration theory. Rectangular bars of Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensisCarr.) were used as experimental materials. After bonding an iron piece on a bar, a free-free longitudinal vibration test was performed to obtain the Young's modulus. Modal analysis was also performed to examine the effect of a knot on the measured Young's modulus. The Young's modulus decreased with an increase in mass of iron pieces bonded on the specimen and that in a size of the knot, since the constants required for the frequency equation of longitudinal vibration changed due to the additional mass and the knot. An equation was developed which contains the effects of the mass and position of the iron piece on the constants. The Young's moduli calculated by this equation resembled the values without an iron piece and the knot. Assuming a knot to be the additional mass, the estimation method used to examine the effect of a knot on the apparent Young's modulus was proposed. The analysis showed that the higher the resonance mode and the nearer the position to an end, the more effective efforts to reduce the effect of the additional mass will be.
Before strength tests are carried out on structural elements and full-size structural timber, the elastic modulus of a specimen must be frequently determined using nondestructive testing methods. Such cases tend to involve vibration tests that are performed by tapping a specimen: generally speaking, a longitudinal vibration test is mainly used as well as a flexural vibration test (Sonoda 2014). Because some structural elements and full-size structural timber contain defects such as knots, their influence on the elastic modulus is important.
To investigate the influence of a defect on flexural vibration test results, an equation of flexural vibration was solved with a Rayleigh method, and the effects of a knot and loss of a section were studied, whereupon a high correlation between the dynamic Young's modulus and bending strength was obtained (Nakayama 1968; 1974a,b,c; 1975; Nakayama and Aoki 1967; Nakayama and Oshiumi 1970a,b; Nakayama and Yoshikai 1974). In our previous work (Kubojima et al. 2003; 2005; 2006) an equation for the flexural vibration of a beam with additional mass was solved, and the effect of inhomogeneity in a beam on Young's modulus was investigated.
Consequently, the reason for the inadequacy of the result of the Goens-Hearmon regression method (Goens 1931; Hearmon 1958) based on the Timoshenko bending theory (Timoshenko 1921) was clarified. Yang et al. (2001a,b, 2002) detected defects in wood via nondestructive means; using curvatures of the flexural vibration wave shape measured by modal analysis. Relative frequency shifts in free flexural vibration were investigated, and the defect position was detected (Roohnia et al. 2011). For longitudinal vibration, an inverse solution procedure enabling identification of the defect position from the power spectrum was exploited, and the defect position was effectively identified (Sobue et al.2010).
The present work focused on the inhomogeneity of density (e.g. a knot) in a specimen. Although the frequency equation for the longitudinal vibration of a bar fixed at one end and with a concentrated mass at the other appears in many textbooks (e.g. Timoshenko 1928; Kawai 1953; Kawai 1954), no equation under a free-free condition could be found. The longitudinal vibration test for wood timber is mainly undertaken under a free-free condition. Accordingly, an equation to calculate accurate Young's modulus values taking into account the additional mass was developed under a free-free condition, whereupon the change in the Young's modulus caused by the additional mass, and its bonding position on a specimen and the effect of the resonance mode of the longitudinal vibration test were investigated.
We assume that an additional mass has no effect on the actual Young's modulus of wood, even though it may affect the apparent modulus, as obtained by conventional, uncorrected vibrational methods.
where C and D are constants and c is velocity.
where, S is the cross sectional area of the bar.
and is the ratio of the concentrated mass to that of the bar. Suffix n is the resonance mode number. Equation 7 is the frequency equation for the free-free longitudinal vibration with the concentrated mass.
This is the frequency equation for a bar that has free ends without the concentrated mass.
This is the frequency equation for a bar under a fixed-free condition without the concentrated mass.
Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis Carr.) was used for the specimens, which were 300 mm (longitudinal, L) long, 30 mm (radial, R) wide, and 5 mm (tangential, T) thick.
The specimens were conditioned at 20 °C and 65 % relative humidity until the weight was constant. The tests were conducted under the same conditions.
To obtain the Young's modulus, free-free longitudinal vibration tests were conducted by the following procedure: The test bar was placed on a small sponge at the position of x = l/2. The vibration was excited in the longitudinal direction at one end by a hammer, while the motion of the first mode of the bar was detected by a microphone at the other end. The signal was processed through an FFT digital signal analyzer to yield high-resolution resonance frequencies. The sampling rate of the microphone signal and the FFT resolution were 20 to 12500 Hz and 0.25 Hz, respectively. A diagram of the experimental setup is shown in Fig. 2. The vibration test was conducted for the specimen without and with iron pieces 1 (0.63 g, 0.033), 2 (1.28 g, 0.067), and 3 (1.91 g, 0.099). The iron pieces were bonded at x = 0, 0.1l, 0.2l, 0.3l, 0.4l, and 0.5l on the LR-plane with two-sided adhesive tape, which meant the same specimen could be used for bonding an iron piece on 6 positions of the specimen.
To simulate the resonance frequency in the L-direction of a specimen with a knot, modal analysis was conducted using an existing finite element method program, "ANSYS 14.5" developed by ANSYS, Inc., which is a library program of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Information Technology Center (AFFRIT), Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), Japan. The resonance frequency of the first mode was calculated with the block Lanczos method. The dimensions of the specimen were 300 mm (L) long, 30 mm (T) wide, and 5 mm (R) thick. Figure 3 shows the finite element mesh of the specimen. This model consisted of two dimensional quadrangle elements. The parameters used for the modal analysis were as follows: density was 330 kg/cm3 and Young's modulus in the L-, T-, and R-directions were 7.35, 0.29, and 0.59 GPa, respectively, the shear moduli of the LT-, RT-, and LR-planes were 0.343, 0.015, and 0.637 GPa, respectively, and Poisson's ratio of the LT-plane was 0.60. They were values of the normal part of Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonicaD. Don) (Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute 2004). The density of the knot was 900 kg/cm3 (Nakamura 1972; Nakayama and Yoshiaki 1974). The positions of the knot were x = 0.1l, 0.2l, 0.3l, 0.4l, and 0.5l (l = 300 mm). The diameters of the knot were 10, 20, and 29 mm.
Figure 4 shows the results of the longitudinal vibration test. The Young's modulus calculated normally, namely, from Eqs. 4, 8, and 9, declined with the increase in additional mass.
Conversely, given various , Eq. 7 was solved by the "Mathematica Ver. 9" software (Wolfram Research Co., Ltd.), which is a library program of AFFRIT, MAFF, Japan; the obtained mn was substituted into Eq. 8, and Young's modulus was calculated from Eq. 4. The Young's modulus values obtained in such manner were almost equivalent to that without the additional mass, which meant the effect of the additional mass on the Young's modulus could be corrected using Eq. 7.
Figure 5 shows the results of the modal analysis. The Young's modulus calculated normally from Eqs. 4, 8, and 9, declined with the increase in the diameter of the knot. Here, a rectangular bar of width b, thickness h, length l and a circular knot of radius r is considered (Fig. 6). The densities of the knot and other part are , respectively.
When the diameters of the knot are 10, 20, and 29 mm, values of are 0.015, 0.060, and 0.13, respectively.
Given various and , Eq. 7 was solved by the "Mathematica Ver. 9" software; the obtained mn was substituted into Eq. 8, and Young's modulus was calculated from Eq. 4. The Young's modulus values obtained in such manner were almost equivalent to that without the knot, which meant the effect of the knot on the Young's modulus could be corrected using Eq. 7.
Next, a knot is assumed to be the additional mass. Although the Young's modulus of wood itself is not changed by the additional mass, the value calculated by Eq. 9 is lower than the accurate value. For example, we consider that Young's modulus is apparently reduced by a knot by 10 % if Eq. (9) is used. The first resonance mode is used.
When n = 1 and Ea = 0.9E, from Eqs. 13 and 14, .
Substituting various values and m1 = 2.98 into Eq. 7, is calculated and r obtained from Eq. 12.
The shaded part of Fig. 7 shows the region of 0.9 Ea/E 1. Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonicaD. Don) is considered and b, l, values are 30 mm (T), 300 mm (L), 330 kg/m3, and 900 kg/m3, respectively.
The higher resonance mode of longitudinal vibration is less influenced by the specimen setting conditions of a specimen (Arima et al. 1990; Aratake et al. 1992). The additional mass relates to the specimen setting conditions as shown in the theory section. Thus, the effect of the resonance mode was investigated. The additional mass is placed at the anti-nodal positions of the free-free longitudinal vibration shown in Table 1.
Figure 8 shows the relationship between Ea/E and for n = 1 to 5. The value of Ea/E decreased with increases in and while it decreased less with an increase in n. The longitudinal displacement of vibration decreases with an increase in n, which means that ensuring a higher resonance mode and a position nearer to the end among the anti-nodal positions are effective means of reducing the effect of the additional mass. Hence, when the longitudinal vibration is used, as high a resonance mode as possible should be used.
The effects of the additional mass and the knot on the apparent Young's modulus could be corrected using Eq. 7.
Assuming a knot to be the additional mass, a method of estimation to examine the effect of a knot on the apparent Young's modulus was proposed.
Ensuring a higher resonance mode and a position nearer to an end among the anti-nodal positions will be effective in reducing the effect of the additional mass.
We would especially like to thank Prof. Akio Koizumi of Hokkaido University for his suggestions in conducting our work. This work was financially supported by the Research grant #201402 of the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute.
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Article submitted: May 1, 2014; Peer review completed: July 2, 2014; Revised version received and accepted: July 2, 2014; Published: July 10, 2014.


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CHAINSAW DUPONT has defied and embraced the fates from day one. He was born on Friday, August 13th, 1956, in McComb, Mississippi, and grew up in the Mississippi Delta, where almost everyone worked on the nearby plantation. His mother, a piano player who had received lessons from a young Fats Domino in New Orleans, was so superstitious that she celebrated David's birthday on August 12th until his 13th birthday, when she finally 'fessed up.
By that time, she had encouraged him to play music; his father, a promising boxer, had left the family permanently for New Orleans. David had picked cotton, a job which persisted until the late 60s, when mechanization finally overtook manual labor, and he had been in bands with his 3 brothers.
"That first band didn't last very long. One Christmas - I was about 3 years old - my mother got us all musical instruments. My grandmother was watching us one day, and she left out somewhere, told us to stay in the house. We decided we had a marching band, and started walking along 24 Highway, which was a pretty busy road there, near McComb, to the general store in town. When my grandmother found out we was playing along that highway, which was dangerous, she whipped the older boys with a switch. I got off because she figured I was too young to know any better".
He ran away from home at 14, headed south to New Orleans in search of his father, eventually staying with relatives there. By the time he returned to Swan Lake, his mother had been killed in a mysterious auto accident, and he went north with an older brother to Chicago's west side, and began to play guitar.
"I got to Chicago in October '71 and I didn't even have a coat. I started playing guitar seriously in February '72. We were partyin' at a friend's house, I heard a Sly & the Family Stone record, & decided I had to play a guitar so I could play this riff on that record. I started to play all day from 10 in the morning till 10 at night."
Music has ruled his life since then, and he traveled the country, playing in a wide variety of bands, including jazz, reggae, and even backing up a black Elvis impersonator. Chainsaw was homeless for a time, met a young Stevie Ray Vaughan, narrowly missed being killed by white supremacists, and generally lived an itinerant life during that time, until settling back in Chicago in the late 80s. After several band projects, and a demo recording, he caught the attention of blues harp legend Junior Wells, and hooked up for an international tour that included Japan, in the coveted spot as Junior's guitarist.
He continued writing songs, in a style he calls "Delta crush", a sort of industrial blues that would eventually see daylight on "Lake Street Lullaby", a collection of original songs released independently in the Fall of 2003. His experiences growing up on the plantation, on the road as a homeless musician, and playing the Chicago blues circuit have all contributed to the album. Working with bands in both the trio format popularized on Chicago's west side, as well as the larger configurations favored by Muddy Waters and other southside players, he is collaborating and developing new takes on urban blues that reflect more modern influences yet pay tribute to the classics, still tempting the fates by taking chances, but choosing his notes and words carefully in his songcraft.
His debut CD, "Lake St. Lullaby", includes a song cycle of 13 original songs that document the journey he and so many other bluesmen have made from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago, and marked him as one of the brightest songwriting talents on the Chicago scene today. The release of ?Bourbon St. Breakdown?, his second full CD, and the second part of a blues trilogy, contained another 13 originals, in a variety of Louisiana styles, and he?s currently working on a Memphis-themed record to complete the trilogy.


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