Those of you that follow the tech world closely enough might already think tablets are so last year. It's not impressive when they get a power upgrade, as those upgrades are expected, and the industry norm of iterative upgrades don't raise the specs enough to warrant a raised eyebrow. The future of the tablet seems to just be a stronger tablet, but what if that future involved getting rid of batteries and processors? A new patent aims to do just that.
Oddly, the central box would also receive user input — voice commands, for example — from across the room, and process them so the user can control the device. This, though, would make it so your tablet is rendered useless if it were out of range of the box and couldn't connect to the internet for whatever reason. Most likely, there would be an alternative tablet-side input.
Due to the processing power being handled offsite, the tablet's power requirements would drastically drop, and could stay powered through the minimal amount of power provided by wireless charging.
If this seems a little useless because you'll be stuck in the range of the control box, or at least stuck in the range of a WiFi signal, the patent application provides a scenario where this system would be useful. Like the (secretly expensive) Raspberry Pi or most Chromebooks (the Pixel notwithstanding), school would make an ideal environment for the remote display system. For example, the central processing and power box would be stationed in a classroom, and each student would receive a remote display. Considering the displays have most of their internal organs removed, the students wouldn't be able to load them up with personal software, and the school could set the devices up how they wish through the central box. The system could also be used to deliver e-textbooks to students, removing the need to lug around stacks of heavy books.
The patent application points to tech outside of the remote display tablet as well. Considering Jeff Bezos is one of two inventors, this could mean that Amazon is looking to incorporate this tech into its Kindle somewhere down the line. The filing also makes note of other systems into which the tech could be incorporated, like car windshields, wireless earpieces, and glasses.
If you live in a big city or remote rural area, though, the tech's reliance on being able to access the base station might make the idea seem quite hindered. If your city has a subway or you take an above-ground train to work, you'll notice that you either frequently don't have internet access, or it's spotty at best. If you live in a remote rural area, you might not have internet access altogether whenever you leave your house. Hell, if you're waiting around at a doctor's office or even standing in a long line, you probably don't have WiFi access, so it'd be quite difficult to connect to your base station and have your tablet access your data. If you think the response to that is, "Well, give it some local storage," it still wouldn't have a processor or battery. So, then you give it a processor and a way to power itself and now you have a standard tablet.
The system doesn't seem ideal for personal, portable use, but based on the above education example, it does seem like a good tool for educational settings.


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Frankfurt am Main is situated on the Main River in the south-west part of Germany. The city is the financial and transportation centre of Germany and the largest financial centre in Europe.
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Q: Returning next line of file in C I'm working on a project in C. The purpose of the project is to code a function that returns the next line of a file every time it's called.
I'm only allowed to use the malloc, free and read functions.
Code I have Tried
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include "get_next_line.h"

int my_putstr(char *str)
{
    int i;

    if (str == NULL)
        return (1);

    i = 0;
    while (str[i] != '\0')
    {
        write(1, &str[i], 1);
        i = i + 1;
    }
    return (0);
}

char *my_strcpy(char *src, char *dest)
{
    int i;
    int r;

    r = 0;
    i = 0;

    if (src == NULL)
        return (dest);

    while (dest != NULL && dest[i] != '\0')
        i = i + 1;

    while (src[r] != '\0')
    {
        dest[i] = src[r];
        i = i + 1;
        r = r + 1;
    }
    dest[i] = '\0';
    return (dest);
}

int check_back_n(t_stock *stock)
{
    int i;

    if (stock->save == NULL)
        return (1);

    i = 0;
    while (stock->save[i] != '\0')
    {
        if (stock->save[i] == '\n')
            return (0);
        i = i + 1;
    }
    return (1);
}

int my_realloc(t_stock *stock)
{
    if ((stock->temp = malloc(sizeof(char) *
                (READ_SIZE * stock->counter) + 1)) == NULL)
        return (1);

    stock->temp = my_strcpy(stock->save, stock->temp);
    free(stock->save);

    if ((stock->save = malloc(sizeof(char) *
               (READ_SIZE * (stock->counter + 1)) + 1)) == NULL)
        return (1);

    stock->save = my_strcpy(stock->temp, stock->save);
    free(stock->temp);
    return (0);
}

char *fill_over(t_stock *stock, char *over)
{
    stock->r = 0;
    stock->i = 0;

    while (stock->save[stock->i] != '\n')
        stock->i = stock->i + 1;

    stock->save[stock->i] = '\0';
    stock->i = stock->i + 1;

    if ((over = malloc(sizeof(char) * READ_SIZE) + 1) == NULL)
        return (NULL);

    while (stock->save[stock->i] != '\0')
    {
        stock->save[stock->i] = over[stock->r];
        stock->save[stock->i] = '\0';
        stock->i = stock->i + 1;
        stock->r = stock->r + 1;
    }
    return (over);
}

char *get_next_line(const int fd)
{
    t_stock stock;
    static char *over;

    stock.counter = 2;
    if ((stock.save = malloc(sizeof(char) * READ_SIZE) + 1) == NULL)
        return (NULL);

    stock.save = my_strcpy(over, stock.save);
    free(over);
    while (check_back_n(&stock) == 1)
    {
        if (my_realloc(&stock) == 1)
            return (NULL);

        if ((stock.buffer = malloc(sizeof(char) * READ_SIZE) + 1) == NULL)
            return (NULL);

        if ((stock.read_return = read(fd, stock.buffer, READ_SIZE)) == -1 ||
                        (stock.read_return == 0))
            return (stock.save);

        stock.counter = stock.counter + 1;
        stock.save = my_strcpy(stock.buffer, stock.save);
        free(stock.buffer);
    }
    if ((over = fill_over(&stock, over)) == NULL)
        return (NULL);

    return (stock.save);
}

int main()
{
    char *s;
    int fd;

    fd = open("test", O_RDONLY);
    while (s = get_next_line(fd))
    {
        my_putstr(s);
        write(1, "\n", 1);
        free(s);
    }
    return (0);
}

When I tried to run the code, I got the following errors:
*** Error in `./a.out': free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000002024031 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib64/libc.so.6(+0x7283f)[0x7fbb5b3f383f]
/lib64/libc.so.6(+0x780ae)[0x7fbb5b3f90ae]
/lib64/libc.so.6(+0x78db6)[0x7fbb5b3f9db6]
./a.out[0x400a38]
./a.out[0x400ab4]
/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5)[0x7fbb5b3a2b05]
./a.out[0x4005c9]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-00401000 r-xp 00000000 08:07 3146955                                /home/degana_r/rendu/CProgElem/GetNextLine/CPE_2015_getnextline/a.out
00600000-00601000 r--p 00000000 08:07 3146955                                /home/degana_r/rendu/CProgElem/GetNextLine/CPE_2015_getnextline/a.out
00601000-00602000 rw-p 00001000 08:07 3146955                                /home/degana_r/rendu/CProgElem/GetNextLine/CPE_2015_getnextline/a.out
02024000-02045000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                                      [heap]
7fbb5b16a000-7fbb5b180000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 157433                         /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1
7fbb5b180000-7fbb5b37f000 ---p 00016000 08:05 157433                         /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1
7fbb5b37f000-7fbb5b380000 r--p 00015000 08:05 157433                         /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1
7fbb5b380000-7fbb5b381000 rw-p 00016000 08:05 157433                         /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1
7fbb5b381000-7fbb5b51f000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 147837                         /lib64/libc-2.19.so
7fbb5b51f000-7fbb5b71e000 ---p 0019e000 08:05 147837                         /lib64/libc-2.19.so
7fbb5b71e000-7fbb5b722000 r--p 0019d000 08:05 147837                         /lib64/libc-2.19.so
7fbb5b722000-7fbb5b724000 rw-p 001a1000 08:05 147837                         /lib64/libc-2.19.so
7fbb5b724000-7fbb5b728000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7fbb5b728000-7fbb5b748000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 162636                         /lib64/ld-2.19.so
7fbb5b91e000-7fbb5b921000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7fbb5b946000-7fbb5b948000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7fbb5b948000-7fbb5b949000 r--p 00020000 08:05 162636                         /lib64/ld-2.19.so
7fbb5b949000-7fbb5b94a000 rw-p 00021000 08:05 162636                         /lib64/ld-2.19.so
7fbb5b94a000-7fbb5b94b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7ffc76b9d000-7ffc76bbe000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                              [stack]
7ffc76be8000-7ffc76bea000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                              [vdso]
7ffc76bea000-7ffc76bec000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0                              [vvar]
ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                      [vsyscall]
Aborted

A: Since this is an assignment for you, the best answer would be to have you look up how free() works in C.
Standard C Free
Also, learn the difference between the stack and heap in C.  You're mixing them badly in your code.
7. Memory : Stack vs Heap

A: First of all I am wondering why are you using malloc() instead of calloc().
To find memory leak problems use Valgrind tool. It is the best tool to find all the leaks.

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AZ Alkmaar 0-2 Vitesse Arnhem
De Kuip, Rotterdam
Sunday 30th April 2017
Vitesse Arnhem's talismanic forward, Ricky van Wolfswinkel bagged a late brace to lead his side to KNVB Beker glory at the expense of AZ Alkmaar in the final which was held in Rotterdam on Sunday evening – the 28-year-old guiding the club to it's first major trophy in it's 125-year history in the process.
However, despite their grandstand finish to the game, Henk Fraser's side were second best for much of the opening period and were lucky not to fall behind when, with just three minutes on the clock, a Derrick Luckassen free kick from more than 25 yards rattled Eloy Room's crossbar.
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Predictably, with the final pitting fifth against sixth in the Eredivisie standings and just a point separating the two in the table, there was little to choose between the sides for much of the second stanza with the game failing to catch fire until twenty minutes from time when Room was called upon to deny a back post header from AZ centre half, Rens van Eijden just seconds after Luckassen had seen a similar effort cleared off the line by Ricky van Wolfswinkel with the Vitesse 'keeper caught in no-man's land following a corner from the right.
Despite AZ, who were looking to lift the cup for the fifth time – having secured their final berth via a nail-biting penalty shootout victory over second tier, Cambuur at the start of March, looking the more likely to make the breakthrough, it was Vitesse who, against the run of play, hit the front nine minutes from time when, having stolen a march on the Alkmaar back line, van Wolfswinkel headed a Milot Rashica cross from the right past Krul from close range to become the first Vitesse player to score in the final of the KNVB Beker since Piet van Bochove in 1927.
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Man of the Match: Ricky van Wolfswinkel.
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Reading of the Week: Cannabis for Mental Illness (CJP)? Also, Cannabidiol for the Cannabis Use Disorder (Lancet Psych) & Love on the Police (Globe)
September 17, 2020 / David Gratzer / 1 Comment
"Should I take cannabis for my mental illness?"
Our patients ask this question – in our EDs, inpatient wards, and outpatient clinics. We shouldn't be surprised. Cannabis is now legal, and private industry pushes the medicinal benefits of cannabis. But what does the literature say?
This week, we have three selections.
The first is a new Canadian Psychiatric Association position statement that considers cannabis and mental illness. Dr. Philip G. Tibbo (of Dalhousie University) and his co-authors systematically reviewed the literature. They found 29 RCTs, including for anxiety and psychotic disorders. "Use of cannabis or a cannabinoid product should never delay (or replace) more evidence-based forms of treatment."
Many products, little evidence?
But is there emerging evidence for cannabis? Tom P. Freeman (of the University College London) and his co-authors did a phase 2a trial using CBD to address cannabis use disorder, which is written up in The Lancet Psychiatry. "In the first randomised clinical trial of cannabidiol for cannabis use disorder, cannabidiol 400 mg and 800 mg were safe and more efficacious than placebo at reducing cannabis use."
Finally, on a pivot, in the third selection, we consider an essay from The Globe and Mail. Rebeccah Love writes about her own experiences with psychosis and her recovery. She also considers whether police should be involved in mental health crises. "The image of a police officer – often a big white man with a gun – is interpreted as a threat, an agent of death, an oppressor."
Selection 1: "Are There Therapeutic Benefits of Cannabinoid Products in Adult Mental Illness?"
Philip G. Tibbo, Kyle A. McKee, Jeffrey H. Meyer, Candice E. Crocker, Katherine J. Aitchison, Raymond W. Lam, David N. Crockford
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 11 September 2020 Online First
In response to the federal government legalizing and regulating access to cannabis in 2017, the CPA published a position statement with respect to cannabis use and adverse health consequences in youth and young adultsbased on the accumulating evidence of negative consequences of early sustained use (e.g., National Academies of Sciences and Medicine, 2017). However, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals are also being asked about the potential therapeutic uses of cannabis and cannabinoid products for mental illnesses; information is widely distributed on cannabis use being associated with mental wellness and suggesting cannabis use as a treatment for a variety of mental health concerns. As the CPA is evidence based, it is prudent to examine the existing research in this area to inform our membership needs and thus the public.
Tibbo et al. make this comment early in their position statement.
Here's what they did:
"The CPA has systematically reviewed the existing literature on RCTs examining potential beneficial uses of cannabis and cannabinoid products to treat mental illness. This review incorporated studies in adults only (greater than 18 years old). Of the 1,982 papers identified, 29 RCTs were available to review… Methodological quality for each study was assessed using Cochrane Collaboration guidelines."
The position statement closes with seven comments; five that are clinically relevant follow.
The CPA –
"Acknowledges there are no current Health Canada–approved indications for use of cannabis or cannabinoid products for the treatment of mental illness."
"Acknowledges there is some limited evidence for use of cannabinoid products (excluding combustible dried cannabis and cannabis edibles) for the treatment of mental illness, but the evidence base is currently of low-quality and below that required to meet Level 1 evidence."
"Strongly discourages cannabis and cannabinoid product use by anyone experiencing mental illness. Use of cannabis or a cannabinoid product should never delay (or replace) more evidence-based forms of treatment. We encourage patients to discuss potential harms of use with their treating physician."
"Recommends that mental health care professionals should approach counselling around cannabinoid-based treatments with appropriate caution given the known side effects and lack of positive RCTs."
"Recommends that any discussion of the potential therapeutic benefit of cannabinoid products be balanced with the risk for adverse outcomes (e.g., worsening of the underlying illness, addiction, cognitive impairment) and should be within the context of the methodology of the current RCTs, which includes carefully chosen cannabinoid products, dosing, side effect monitoring and regimented drug administration."
This is a good review of the available evidence.
The recommendations are thoughtful and clear. The most clinically relevant: "Strongly discourages cannabis and cannabinoid product use by anyone experiencing mental illness." (!)
Though they drew on thousands of records from their database searches, the number of RCTs was actually not so large – just 29. The authors were able to analyze RCTs for various disorders (anxiety, PTSD, psychosis, anorexia nervosa) but the overall numbers were small (3, 1, 6, 2, respectively). The authors comment on the quality of the studies: "Sample sizes were relatively small in most of the RCTs, which weakens the conclusions, and they evaluated a variety of naturally derived and synthetic tetrahydrocannabinol (THC; e.g., nabilone, dronabinol, nabiximols) and cannabidiol products at varying doses across studies, making comparisons difficult."
Tibbo et al. have done a real service in writing this position statement. But our understanding of cannabis is limited, and that's reflected in the current literature. In other words, as research continues, the best available evidence may be quite different in a few years.
The CPA position statement can be found here:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0706743720945525
Selection 2: "Cannabidiol for the treatment of cannabis use disorder: a phase 2a, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised, adaptive Bayesian trial"
Tom P. Freeman, Chandni Hindocha, Gianluca Baio, et al.
The Lancet Psychiatry, 20 July 2020 Online First
Cannabis is increasingly being legalised for medicinal and recreational use. The long-term effects of these policy reforms are unclear, but might include substantial changes to the types of cannabis products sold and their availability to millions of people worldwide. When considering the potential health effects of cannabis use, its largest contribution to the global burden of disease is the impact of cannabis use disorders, which affect an estimated 22 million people worldwide – similar to the prevalence of opioid use disorders.
So begins a paper by Freeman et al.
They conducted a phase 2a, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised, adaptive Bayesian trial.
People were recruited by advertising, and needed to meet DSM-5 criteria for cannabis use disorder.
In the first stage: "4-week treatment with three different doses of oral cannabidiol (200 mg, 400 mg, or 800 mg) or with matched placebo during a cessation attempt by use of a double-blinded block randomisation sequence…"
In the second stage: "new participants were randomly assigned to placebo or doses deemed efficacious in the interim analysis."
Primary end points included "reducing the urinary 11-nor-9-carboxy-δ-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC-COOH):creatinine ratio, increased days per week with abstinence from cannabis during treatment, or both…"
Here's what they found:
In the first stage, 48 participants were involved (with 12 assigned to the three cannabidiol doses, and placebo); the 200 mg dose was eliminated from the trial as an inefficacious.
In the second stage, an additional 34 participants were allocated to cannabidiol 400 mg (n=12), 800 mg (n=11), and placebo (n=11); "at final analysis, cannabidiol 400 mg and 800 mg exceeded primary endpoint criteria (0·9) for both primary outcomes…"
"Compared with placebo, cannabidiol 400 mg decreased THC-COOH:creatinine ratio by -94·21 ng/mL… and increased abstinence from cannabis by 0.48 days per week…"
This is an interesting paper.
The number of participants was very small.
These are early days in our understanding cannabis.
The Lancet Psychiatry paper can be found here:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(20)30290-X/fulltext
Selection 3: "A police officer is not the best person to help someone in psychosis"
Rebeccah Love
The Globe and Mail, 21 August 2020
A person with severe mental illness is considered the ultimate unreliable narrator.
She tells you a story about a horrible thing that happened to her, and you ask:
'Yes, but did this actually happen? Are you sure you remember correctly?' 'Yes, but what did you do to provoke this?' 'Yes, but were you not a threat to other people?' 'Yes, but you were sick, you deserved this treatment.'
In June of 2008, I graduated as valedictorian of a well-known Toronto private school. I was ambitious, highly motivated and excited for my future.
A year later, I would be experiencing my first episode of psychosis, admitted into St. Michael's Hospital Emergency Room. I would spend the next four years going in and out of psychiatric wards in states of serious mania and psychosis.
So begins an essay by Love.
She writes about her experiences: "The thing you have to remember about a person experiencing psychosis is that they do not interpret their surroundings in a normal way: in my episodes during these years, all things and people around me became metaphors. Police officers or paramedics or hospital security guards were not just people to me: they represented force, harm and danger."
She also notes her privilege:
"My story is unusual: I come from a privileged white family, was able to complete my education, and was trained from a very young age to transform all my trauma and emotional energy into art. Since my last hospitalization for mania in 2012, I have gone on to a successful career as a film director, and am well-supported by my community. I currently live a mentally stable life, enjoy the company of many wonderful friends, and look forward to continuing my journey as a filmmaker and storyteller until I am a very, very old woman."
She wonders if the experiences of others would have been different:
"The police officers I encountered in all my various hospitalizations never shot me. They never even pulled out a gun. They may occasionally pull a gun when encountering white people in crisis, but it appears from the statistics that they are much more likely to pull a gun if a person in crisis is not white. Those who do not speak English as a first language are also at a significant disadvantage. I may well have been just as sick as each of these three people I mentioned above at the times of my wellness check, but here I am today, alive, typing out an essay."
This is a great essay.
How to handle mental health crises? Love is clear in her dissatisfaction with the current approach: "The best person to help a person in crisis, a person like my 18-year-old self or like Regis Korchinski-Paquet or Chantel Moore or Ejaz Choudry, is someone who has had proper training in crisis care. That could be a nurse, a social worker, or a specialized de-escalation team who can use non-violent tactics when caring for the patient. Translators are sometimes needed. Police officers are not trained properly for these kinds of emergencies, and they are not the right people to respond to these calls."
The essay doesn't describe alternative models in detail. Others have. Writer Christie Thompson, for example, describes the work of crisis responders in Olympia, Washington: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/07/24/crisisresponders
The Globe essay can be found here:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/first-person/article-the-best-person-to-help-someone-in-psychosis-is-not-a-police-officer/
Tags: Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, cannabis, cannabis use disorder, The Globe and Mail, The Lancet Psychiatry
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My name is Rebeccah Love and I wrote the Globe and Mail essay you referenced in the above post. My best friend who is a psychiatry resident pointed it out to me. Thank you for sharing my words. I could not find an email address to write to but just wanted to say that I am deeply grateful for the exposure and if ever you were seeking any further conversation about psychosis and Bipolar I would be delighted to engage. My short films revolve around Bipolar Disorder..I have invited the chief physician of CAMH to come and give a talk at my premiere and my films have screened in mental health units across Toronto through TIFF's Outreach program, if ever you wanted to feature some short films on your blog, please let me know.
Enjoy the week
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Marcel Hirscher clinches record fifth straight World Cup overall title
By Nick ZaccardiMar 16, 2016, 7:40 AM EDT
In a season full of injuries and absences to other contenders, Marcel Hirscher once again reigned supreme.
The Austrian won a record-extending fifth straight men's Alpine skiing World Cup overall title, clinching the crystal globe when his closest rival, Norway's Henrik Kristoffersen, decided to skip the World Cup Finals downhill in St. Moritz, Switzerland, on Wednesday.
Hirscher, 27, entered this week's four-race finals with a nearly insurmountable 353-point lead over Kristoffersen. If it stands, it will be Hirscher's largest margin of victory in the World Cup overall standings (309 points, 2013).
Winners receive 100 points per race, but the slalom and giant slalom specialist Kristoffersen has never entered a World Cup downhill, so the overall title was all but conceded to Hirscher before this week. The most points Kristoffersen can accrue this week is 300.
Hirscher has also never raced a World Cup downhill and wasn't entered Wednesday, either. Swiss Beat Feuz won the race, while Peter Fill became the first Italian man to take a World Cup downhill season title.
Hirscher's handful ties the record for non-consecutive men's overall titles held by Luxembourg's Marc Girardelli. The women's record is held by Annemarie Moser-Pröll, who earned six total and five consecutively in the 1970s.
At 27, Hirscher is likely not done contending for crystal globes. He's won eight races this season. One victory at the World Cup Finals — most likely in this weekend's giant slalom or slalom — would tie his highest victory total for one campaign.
He's never displayed such versatility as this season, winning races in slalom, parallel slalom, giant slalom and his first World Cup super-G victory. Hirscher is now at 39 career World Cup wins, sixth all time among men.
No doubt Hirscher had an easier path to this year's overall title after season-ending injuries to longtime rivals and Olympic champions Aksel Lund Svindal and Ted Ligety.
In fact, Hirscher trailed Svindal by 107 points in the overall standings when the towering Norwegian tore an ACL crashing in the famed Hahnenkamm downhill in Kitzbuehel, Austria, on Jan. 23.
Svindal, 33, and Ligety, 31, are both much older than Hirscher. Kristoffersen, at 21, may be the one who eventually supplants the Austrian.
Hirscher owns World Championships slalom and super combined gold medals and slalom silver from Sochi, but his trophy chest lacks Olympic gold. He must wait another two years to check that off.
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According to a recent survey conducted by CouponCodes4u over 2,103 consumers in the U.S., 53% of users own 7-inch Tablet in the country. 45% of the Tablet users have iPad, while 19% , 16% and 13% users own Google Nexus 7, Samsung's Tablet and Amazon's Kindle Fire respectively. Just 7% own other types of Tablets including BlackBerry PlayBook.
On asking a question to respondents whether they would like Amazon's Kindle Fire Tablets or not, 55% respondents answered affirmative, while 45% were unimpressed with Amazon's latest Tablet. Among those who liked the new kindle Fire HD, 51% said they would prefer to buy the Amazon's latest HD Tablet due to 'competitive and affordable price' purposes, while 27% preferred due to Amazon's powered content library. In addition to this, 13% respondents liked the Tablet due to its ability to set parental controls on their apps, while just 9% were impressed with its improved specification.
Among unimpressed respondents, 45% preferred larger screened Tablet, while 11% were not impressed with Amazon's app numbers. Despite of iPad Mini's arrival in the next month, 39% of respondents were likely to consider Amazon's Kindle Fire HD Tablet, on the contrary, 54% would like to opt Apple's forthcoming 7-inch Tablet.
Just a week before, I explained Apple's iPad was ranked top in the U.S. in terms of customers satisfaction with 848 points (out of 1,000 points), followed by Amazon's Kindle Fire with 841 points, Samsung with 827 points, Acer with 811points, Barn's & Noble's Nook with 803 points.
It's pretty clear that majority of users in the U.S. prefer iPad and I think, it's not prudent to explain here why they are more likely to own Apple's Tablet; Everyone is knowing the reason. But, a significant number of users in the country prefer Amazon's Kindle Fire due to its affordable price-strategy, digital library and integrated services. It's quite clear from the survey, Google Nexus 7 Tablet has also grabbed the attention of folks across the country due to outstanding specifications, features and price.
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Anorak News | Madeleine McCann: 'Creepy' Robert Murat Sues Media, FBI Investigates And Hating Kate McCann
Madeleine McCann: 'Creepy' Robert Murat Sues Media, FBI Investigates And Hating Kate McCann
by Anorak | 14th, April 2008
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak's at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
THE SUN: "McCanns want an FBI probe"
The FBI is America's Federal Bureau of Investigation. Madeleine McCann is British child who went missing in Portugal.
Says the McCanns' spokesman Clarence Mitchell: "We believe Portuguese police have been found wanting. We are asking the British Government to call for such an inquiry. It's important for Madeleine and other missing children."
But what of the FBI?
Kate and Gerry want a panel of missing children experts, including former US and Met police, to look at how the inquiry team handled itself.
So not an FBI probe, rather an investigation by a group of which some may be American. Read all about it!
THE GUARDIAN: "McCann case suspect issues record number of libel writs."
One of the formal suspects in the Madeleine McCann case is to sue 12 media outlets in what may be one of the largest libel claims in the history of the British media.
It's "creepy" "oddball" Robert Murat:
Robert Murat is demanding damages from 11 newspapers and one TV station. It is the largest number of claims ever made against different British media outlets on the same issue.
Simons Muirhead and Burton, a London-based law firm, confirmed it was "representing Robert Murat in respect of a number of libel actions".
The case is being brought against Sky, the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star, Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Metro, Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, News of the World, Sun and the Scotsman.
The Mirror's Lori Campbell told the police of the "creepy" Murat. But why did she tell the press?
Watching Robert Murat
THE HERALD: "Madeleine suspect Murat could win £2m suing UK media"
Caroline Kean, of media law specialists Wiggin, said that if Mr Murat successfully argued the papers inferred he was involved in Madeleine's abduction or murder, he could win a record payout.
She said: "You could expect £200,000 per paper, per claim, and that would clear £2m."
DAILY TELEGRAPH: "Madeleine McCann 'suspect' Robert Murat sues British media for libel"
He and his family are believed to be particularly aggrieved by a number of reports in the aftermath of his being made an arguido – or official suspect – which repeated claims made by Portuguese media.
In at least one case – the false allegation that there were pornographic images on his computer – the Portuguese media later published corrections.
THE TIMES: "Brits love to torture a 'bad mother'"
Says Melanie Reid: "In a long media career, the persecution of Kate McCann is the cruellest thing I have seen."
Crueller than the media's take on Robert Murat?
How many centuries of accumulated spite and misogyny, I wonder, went into the latest twist in the Madeleine McCann saga.
Did the British television presenters feel the remotest twinge of conscience as they sensationally reported – second-hand via a Spanish television station – the leaks from the Portuguese police portraying Kate McCann in the worst possible light, as a mother who had left her children to cry?
And did Britain's tabloid editors, themselves presumably sons of mothers and husbands to the mothers of their own children, flinch even a jot as they ordered the devastating headlines "Mummy, why didn't you come when we cried?" to be unfurled on their front pages alongside the face of the missing little girl?
I have seen, lived with and been party to many different kinds of sadism in a long media career, but I honestly think that this latest outbreak of malice towards Kate McCann is just about the cruellest thing I have witnessed…
But somehow we have passed a watershed. With this latest betrayal, picking deep at Kate McCann's emotional scars, we have regressed to the level of the medieval peasants reaching for the ducking stool. Although women suspected of being witches, I sometimes grimly think, received a fairer fate in their slow drowning than do modern women accused of being bad mothers, who are tortured to the point of mental disintegration.
And then the clincher:
Why do we do perpetuate this immense cruelty upon women? There is no justice in it. Kate McCann is just the latest in a long line of high-profile victims of the prevailing fatwa – that all mothers must be perfect, self-sacrificing angels. From Kate McCann to Louise Campbell (the mother of Molly/ Misbah, the Scots girl who fled to be with her father in Pakistan), to Britney Spears to Anne Robinson to Frances Shand Kydd, nobody loves to torture a perceived bad mother or a bolter like the British do.
Yeah, Britney Spears, Princess Diana's mother and a BBC quiz show host are like Kate McCann, a woman whose child went missing and is an "arguido" in the case. Good of Ms Reid to point that out.
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The list below contains links to blog posts I have already written about the differences between Lenormand and Tarot.
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Basics 2: two types of spreads vs. countless variations of spreads. Includes a demonstration of both and a speculative reason for the difference.
What's the difference between the Lenormand Coffin and the Tarot Death card?
What's the difference between the Lenormand Heart and the Tarot Lovers?
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Вариант Чигорина — шахматный дебют, начинающийся ходами:  1. d2-d4 d7-d5  2. Kb1-c3.

Относится к закрытым началам.

Впервые дебют исследовал итальянский теоретик XVIII века Д. Понциани.

Выбирая данное начало, белые готовят продвижение е2-е4 и стремятся к быстрому развитию.

Варианты

Продолжение 2. …Kg8-f6
Основное продолжение за чёрных, цель которого — установление контроля на полем e4. При других вариантах белые, как правило, получают перевес.
 3. Cc1-g5 — см. система Вересова
 3. e2-e4 — см. гамбит Блэкмара — Димера

Менее распространённые варианты
 2. …f7-f5
 2. …e7-e6
 2. …Сc8-f5
 2. …c7-c6
 2. …Кb8-c6

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 Дебют ферзевых пешек

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Let's mix up The LEGO Batman Movie reviews a bit and bring in something new and exciting: the LEGO DC Super Hero Girls line. LEGO sent us a few of the sets, and we're pleased to bring you reviews of 41230 Batgirl Batjet Chase (206 pieces; $24.99 USD) and 41231 Harley Quinn to the Rescue (217 pieces; $29.99 USD), both available now.
I'm pretty pleased overall with this little set. It feels like a super hero set first, and a LEGO Friends set second. This set has 206 pieces, which come in two numbered bags. The first bag contains Batgirl, the little yellow "cute but evil" Kryptomite (it is pretty cute), and a little quad thing.
The quad's about as exciting as you'd expect: a few slopes on wheels. I'm not 100 percent sure why there's a grabby arm that makes off with Batgirl's purple Batphone, but there you go. Though if some evil little yellow thing ran off with my cell phone, I'd be pretty annoyed, too. The Kryptomites are pretty darn cute and are very simple. They consist of a Travis brick, some cheese slopes, and a couple clips. I can easily see building an army of these guys from my own collection, made easier by the fact you get an extra face tile. The quad features baby bows in magenta, which are always useful. It also has a magenta flag on a trans-green 4L bar. The flag attaches with a 1×1 round light grey plate with hole, which is actually unnecessary to attach the flag.
Let's talk about Batgirl: I really like her. The hood of her sweatshirt is molded into her hairpiece; the bit of hair hanging down looks odd, because the mini-dolls are taller and thinner and the hair was designed to also be compatible with a standard minifig. So, the hair looks better in that regard on a proper minifig, but doesn't detract overall from the mini-doll version. Her wings are a vinyl plastic sheet that hook around the leg piece and up over the neck peg. Her torso is not overly stylized but leaves no question it's Batgirl.
The Batjet is a lot of fun. It's mostly dark blue, with purple for the main cockpit and engine. I like the shaping on the wings. Like usual, I'd vastly prefer all the stickered parts to be prints. It's especially applicable here because the stickers go on a lot of curved pieces, and they're difficult to center fully. I'm something of a perfectionist so if my stickers aren't centered, it really bothers me. The only printed part on the Batjet is the BAM tile on the back, which is part of the mechanism for releasing the net to catch the Krytomite. The Batjet also features two shooters (one on each wing).
Speaking of the net, it's a very simple, mostly effective solution. the net is balled up and placed inside the purple engine. By pushing in the BAM tile, the net is ejected. It flattens out to cover the target. When it's balled up inside the engine, it doesn't seem terribly secure and falls out easily.
As for new parts…there are no new molds here aside from Batgirl's hair, and only a few recolors of existing pieces or new prints. We do, however, see some of our favorite new parts. There are two 2×3 tiles we first saw in 21307 Caterham Seven 620R, and there are 6 of the new quarter-round 1×1 tiles that we first looked at in the 21306 Beatles Yellow Submarine.
At $24.99 USD and 206 pieces, it's a little high on the price-to-parts ratio but pretty good for a licensed set. I recommend the set.
This set is available both on The LEGO Shop and Amazon.
Apparently in this universe, Harley Quinn is on the good side, saving Steve Trevor from adorable little green Kryptomites. The little creatures are apparently robbing the Capes and Cowls Cafe, as best I can tell. This set is a little underwhelming; it's $29.99 USD but only contains 217 pieces. You build Harley's little flying contraption and a storefront. The store features an arcade game and espresso machine, along with a catapult that flings cupcakes.
Harley herself is interesting; she has a new hairpiece that's very reminiscent of Harley from Suicide Squad. She's got a button-up checkerboard shirt and plain pants. The checkerboard shirt looks like a great one for a bowling league. Trevor is rather bland, with Draco Malfoy's hair in light yellow, chucks, and a Cafe t-shirt. I like the turn-about for Trevor being the lad in distress, with Harley coming in to save him from the green Kyrptomites (who apparently fling trans-green chains and steal money?).
Harley's flying contraption is simple; a bright red engine with wings and a place for her to stand. It flings a net to catch the Kryptomites. The store front is just that: a window and a door, with a bit of plate inside to put a booth to grab pizza after all that saving business. The coffee shop and espresso machine is on the top floor, with the cupcake flinging catapult. The window is pushed out by pressing in the BAM tile.
The bottom half of the store front is more interesting, and I like the color choices. The upper portion seems like it's a random afterthought with it being bright pink. The catapult adds very little and seems out of place here. I understand the need for them in Castle sets; in a cafe it feels tacked on.
The arcade game is a simple design. I am disappointed they didn't go for the same design as 75827 Ghostbusters Firehouse Headquarters. The Ghostbusters one has nice detail to it, along with some nice techniques, where this one is simple stacked brick for the most part. I do like the comic book tile addition, however.
This set, like the previous one, also has a fair number of stickers. The BAM tile and the comic book tile, along with the Kyprtomite faces are the only printed parts. Of particular frustration is the fact the stickers are mostly clear, which always seem to catch all the dirt specs no matter what precautions you take, and show tiny bubbles easily.
With the higher price point of the two sets for effectively the same amount of pieces and a less interesting model, I'd recommend waiting to catch this one on sale, and with the frequency of discounts Amazon seems to be posting, you may not have long to wait. And for those of you who are Harley Quinn fans, this is currently the only way to get the mini-doll version of her, so it may be worth springing for the set at full price.


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May 9, 2016, by Editor
The Geopolitics of Desertification in China
Written by Marijn Nieuwenhuis.
The Transformation of China's Territory
China's territory is in the process of historical change. And by that I mean to say that its material foundation, the very stuff of territory, is in the process of a literal transformation. I am referring to the creeping desertification that swallows every year thousands of square kilometres of productive soil. Desertification at present takes place at more than twice the pace it did during the period from 1950 to 2000. The Gobi desert alone is said to gobble up "3,600 square kilometres of grassland each year, creating powerful sandstorms, robbing farmers of food-producing land, and displacing people from their homes." Some speak of "one of the greatest environmental disasters of our time" while others argue that it is "probably the largest conversion of productive land into sand anywhere in the world." The State Forestry Administration has identified land desertification as "the most important ecological problem in China" and it likely that climate change only furthers that importance.
Many accounts have rightfully pointed out that the threat to the subsistence of about a third of China's population, affecting especially those in the western and northern territories, could pose serious challenges to both political and economic stability. The total damage of desertification to the national economy is estimated at roughly RMB 54 million per year but that burden is not equally shared by all regions. Research shows that "for seriously desertified regions [in the country's north and west]…, the loss amounts to as much as 23.16 percent of… annual GDP". The fact that one-third of the country's land area is eroded has led some 400 million people to struggle to cope with a lack of productive soil, destabilised climatological conditions and severe water shortages. Droughts damages "about 160,000 square kilometres of cropland each year, double the area damaged in the 1950s." Blaming the desertification on overgrazing and bad cultivation, the state has since 2005 started to reallocate millions of people from dry and barren territories under its controversial and hotly contested "ecological migration" programme.
The sand transformation of China's territory is furthered by decades of deforestation. Greenpeace writes that only two percent of the original forests in China have remained intact – "that's just 55,448 square kilometres, of which only 0.1 per cent is fully protected." Despite extraordinary efforts by the Chinese Government to reduce the rate of erosion, culminating in the largest reforestation project ever undertaken, reports showed that the "desertification trend has not fundamentally reversed." A senior official recently was quoted saying that it would "take 300 years to turn back China's advancing deserts at the current rate of progress." It is not an understatement to suggest that the Government's challenge of confronting the material transformation of its own territory is one of gigantic and unprecedented proportions. One could argue, and I would concur, that the state is faced with the material limits of its territorial politics.
A Swirling Geopolitics
Dust and sand storms have intensified as a result of China's transformative desertification process and now pose provocative geopolitical and biopolitical challenges. Whirling soil sediments from the Gobi deserts have become an annual plague in the country's Western parts but are now also shown to move all the way across the Pacific Ocean and beyond. Material traces of China's deserts have been found in places as far as New Zealand and the French Alps. The transnational transportation of harmful materialities has an immediate effect on both ecological and social geographies. "Yellow Sand" is said to damage the Korean and Japanese economies for billions of US dollars each year. Even worse off is Mongolia, which itself is going through territorial desertification, and, according to climate projections, is said to "see more warming than any other East Asian country, with average temperatures increasing more than five degrees by 2090." Together, the deserts of the two countries form (after the Sahara) the second largest dust source on Earth.
It is thus not only the soil of territory that is going through a process of transformation but also the atmosphere above the ground of territory. The inhalation of particulate matter is demonstrated to have devastating effects on the biological health of animals and humans alike. Asian dust has in the last decade been linked to both cardiovascular and respiratory diseases while more recent research discovered "a statistically significant association between Asian dust storms and daily mortality." Dust storms not only transport materialities but also toxic pollutants, bacteria, viruses, pollen and fungi. Microbiologists have shown that the concentration of aerial viable bacteria (CFU) during Asian dust events in Taejon, Korea, "increased on average 4.3 times over that observed under normal atmospheric conditions." The environmental effects of China's modernisation project are even felt in places as far away as the US. A commentator in the New York Times wrote in a recent article that the "movement of air pollutants associated with the production of goods in China for the American market has resulted in a decline in air quality in the Western United States." Analyses in the Earth sciences, for which dust cycles have become a core research subject, show that "the role of dust in the Earth system extends well beyond its impact on the radiation balance, and involves the interactions with other physical, chemical and biogeochemical processes on global scales."
Given their transnational character, it is no surprise that Dust and Sand Storms (DSS) are now also becoming an important policy concern for multilateral governance. The Asian Development Bank has together with several UN agencies and regional countries set up the Prevention and Control of Dust and Sandstorms in Northeast Asia. The main objective "of this collaborative project is to promote the establishment of a regional cooperation mechanism for the prevention and control of DSS in Northeast Asia." The DSS issue was also an agenda point in the recent 2015 Joint Declaration for Peace and Cooperation in Northeast Asia signed by South Korea, Japan and China. All countries are already members of the Tripartite Environment Ministers Meeting (TEMM) which, in both its 16th and 17th communique (2014, 2015), considered DSS "a major environmental challenge facing the region." The TEMM has established special working groups with experts from the three countries to "work together to improve DSS forecasting accuracy and to develop measures of vegetation restoration in DSS source areas in China."
The materiality of China's territory is in the process of fundamental changing. This transformation has immediate consequences which synthesise ecological and social matters of concern. What becomes evident from the country's desertification is that the materiality of the territory is in the process of becoming a domain of political interest for both national but also international governance. Dust and sand particles do not stop at the border but cross them with the effect of transforming the biological, ecological and social life-worlds of other territories. The swirling of Chinese desert sand forces other states to take a direct interest in the monitoring and forecasting of the materiality of China's territory.
Dr. Marijn Nieuwenhuis is a Teaching Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick. His current research focuses on the politics of the air and deals with questions of technology, pollution, security, territory and governance, in particular in the Chinese context. Image credit: CC by World Bank Photo Collection/Flickr
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Bohemian Rhapsody | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX | What's Best Audio and Video Forum. The Best High End Audio Forum on the planet!
This film is drama, comedy and rock and roll with pathos interspersed. The ending will have you in your seats watching the rolling credits.
Mike Myers has a role and is so disguised that he is difficult to make out.
The reviews weren't great so I thought I would skip this one. Looks like I should reconsider and go watch it.
Farrokh Bulsara (5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991), known professionally as Freddie Mercury, was a British singer, songwriter and record producer, best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Queen. He was known for his flamboyant stage persona and four-octave vocal range. Mercury wrote numerous hits for Queen, including "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Killer Queen", "Somebody to Love", "Don't Stop Me Now", "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", and "We Are the Champions". He led a solo career while performing with Queen, and occasionally served as a producer and guest musician for other artists.
Mercury was born of Farsi descent on Zanzibar, and grew up there and in India before moving with his family to Middlesex, England, in his late teens. He formed Queen in 1970 with guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor. Mercury died in 1991 at age 45 due to complications from AIDS, having confirmed the day before his death that he had contracted the disease.
didn't even touch 50% on metacritic...yikes.
but i've heard its a go just for the music.
Agree w Steve. Its definitely a good movie and worth a trip to the theater as it is worthy of the Big Screen for the music immersion benefits alone.
Most music artist movies are really only good to the fans who will obsess over them short of being entire flops. If this is an actual good movie that is different, I may make the time for it.
I saw the movie today thought it was worth going to see for sure, quite good actually. The use of the song Fat Bottomed Girls was out of sequence chronologically in the story.
Rami did a stellar acting job. Without question a watered down version of events to focus on Freddies personal issues.
I am a Queen fan, and read the not so good reviews. The comments here plus the trailer makes me want to go see it.
I've read that a lot of this film is chronologically inaccurate which is disappointing as well - i figured as much.
There are chronologically incorrect data in virtually every biopic. I agree about the teeth and the story. Having said that Rami Malek is the story. I'll. be shocked if he doesn't win the Oscar for best actor.
Saw it at Cinerama in downtown Seattle. Much, much better than anticipated. Agree that Rami Malek will be nominated for an Oscar. Thought the actor who played Brian May did a great job.
We saw Bohemian Rhapsody today and enjoyed the movie.
Agree that Rami Malek was quite good as Freddie Mercury. However, it was one of the few times in a movie like this that the actual person portrayed was more handsome them the actor who played them.
After seeing the movie the mediocre reviews seem to miss the mark - but opinions vary for movies.
I can't disagree about handsomeness of one or the other but having seen Malik in his TV show without the mouthpiece he's an average joe. The kid is certainly buff if that was his body we saw.
I went to the movies today. I enjoyed it immensly. I'm kind of surprised to read the lukewarm reviews afterwards. I may go once again - I want my 14 year old daughter to see it.
I saw the movie today. I agree with Steve and others that Rami Malek was sensational as Freddie Mercury.
However the chronological falsehoods threw cold water on what could have been pure magic. Hi-FiGuy mentioned Fat Bottomed Girls being out of sequence, and so was the birth of We Will Rock You; it came after a scene from 1980 (!). I thought there was something else that wasn't right, but don't remember now. Also, why did the film have to claim that the band had not performed for years before Live Aid? That's just a lie, they were on tour (The Works Tour) the year before!
Had the movie not had those easily avoidable faults -- throwing them in for drama really accomplishes nothing -- it could have been wonderful. I did tear up a bit during the Live Aid show, that was superb.
A Star Is Born was our favorite movie until we saw Bohemian Rhapsody.
The chronological issue wasn't a problem for me since I didn't remember the original timing anyway.


The years around the Russian Revolution in 1917 may represent the greatest dream humanity has ever had. A just world was around the corner, man was going from necessity to freedom.
Barriers burst in all areas. The workers were to take over and control the factories, the farmers were to take over the land, the women were to be free, even sexuality should be free! The art was to be revolutionized, and the Russian artists came to influence art in the rest of the world. Mayakovsky, Chagall and other artists stood in the center of it. It was revolution. It was war. It boiled over everywhere, and the truth changed all the time.
In Russia, the revolution died. And turned into … dictatorship. And just as much as the revolutionary period was overwhelming and overpowering with its great dreams and liberation projects, the reaction – the Stalin Age – was a nightmare the world had never seen before.
An incredible story, which also affected millions of people outside the Soviet in the following decades. Not least Teater Albatross' Robert Jakobsson, who had his youth in Gothenburg in the 60s and 70s.