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"""
A Diamond collector that collects memory usage of each process defined in it's
config file by matching them with their executable filepath or the process name.
This collector can also be used to collect memory usage for the Diamond process.

Example config file ProcessResourcesCollector.conf

```
enabled=True
unit=B
cpu_interval=0.1
[process]
[[postgres]]
exe=^\/usr\/lib\/postgresql\/+d.+d\/bin\/postgres$
name=^postgres,^pg

[[diamond]]
selfmon=True
```

exe and name are both lists of comma-separated regexps.

count_workers defined under [process] will determine whether to count how many
workers are there of processes which match this [process],
for example: cgi workers.

"""

import os
import re

import diamond.collector
import diamond.convertor

try:
    import psutil
    psutil
except ImportError:
    psutil = None

def match_process(pid, name, cmdline, exe, cfg):
    """
    Decides whether a process matches with a given process descriptor

    :param pid: process pid
    :param exe: process executable
    :param name: process name
    :param cmdline: process cmdline
    :param cfg: the dictionary from processes that describes with the
        process group we're testing for
    :return: True if it matches
    :rtype: bool
    """
    if cfg['selfmon'] and pid == os.getpid():
        return True
    for exe_re in cfg['exe']:
        if exe_re.search(exe):
            return True
    for name_re in cfg['name']:
        if name_re.search(name):
            return True
    for cmdline_re in cfg['cmdline']:
        if cmdline_re.search(' '.join(cmdline)):
            return True
    return False

def process_info(process, info_keys):
    results = {}
    process_info = process.as_dict()
    metrics = ((key, process_info.get(key, None)) for key in info_keys)
    for key, value in metrics:
        if type(value) in [float, int]:
            results.update({key: value})
        elif hasattr(value, '_asdict'):
            for subkey, subvalue in value._asdict().iteritems():
                results.update({"%s.%s" % (key, subkey): subvalue})
    return results

class ProcessResourcesCollector(diamond.collector.Collector):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        """
        prepare self.processes, which is a descriptor dictionary in
        pg_name: {
            exe: [regex],
            name: [regex],
            cmdline: [regex],
            selfmon: [boolean],
            procs: [psutil.Process],
            count_workers: [boolean]
        }
        """
        super(ProcessResourcesCollector, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.processes = {}
        self.processes_info = {}
        for pg_name, cfg in self.config['process'].items():
            pg_cfg = {}
            for key in ('exe', 'name', 'cmdline'):
                pg_cfg[key] = cfg.get(key, [])
                if not isinstance(pg_cfg[key], list):
                    pg_cfg[key] = [pg_cfg[key]]
                pg_cfg[key] = [re.compile(e) for e in pg_cfg[key]]
            pg_cfg['selfmon'] = cfg.get('selfmon', '').lower() == 'true'
            pg_cfg['count_workers'] = cfg.get(
                'count_workers', '').lower() == 'true'
            self.processes[pg_name] = pg_cfg
            self.processes_info[pg_name] = {}

    def get_default_config_help(self):
        config_help = super(ProcessResourcesCollector,
                            self).get_default_config_help()
        config_help.update({
            'unit': 'The unit in which memory data is collected.',
            'process': ("A subcategory of settings inside of which each "
                        "collected process has it's configuration"),
        })
        return config_help

    def get_default_config(self):
        """
        Default settings are:
            path: 'process'
            unit: 'B'
        """
        config = super(ProcessResourcesCollector, self).get_default_config()
        config.update({
            'path': 'process',
            'unit': 'B',
            'process': {},
        })
        return config

    default_info_keys = [
        'num_ctx_switches',
        'cpu_percent',
        'cpu_times',
        'io_counters',
        'num_threads',
        'memory_percent',
        'ext_memory_info',
    ]

    def save_process_info(self, pg_name, process_info):
        for key, value in process_info.iteritems():
            if key in self.processes_info[pg_name]:
                self.processes_info[pg_name][key] += value
            else:
                self.processes_info[pg_name][key] = value

    def collect_process_info(self, process):
        try:
            pid = process.pid
            name = process.name
            cmdline = process.cmdline
            try:
                exe = process.exe
            except psutil.AccessDenied:
                exe = ""
            for pg_name, cfg in self.processes.items():
                if match_process(pid, name, cmdline, exe, cfg):
                    pi = process_info(process, self.default_info_keys)
                    if cfg['count_workers']:
                        pi.update({'workers_count': 1})
                    self.save_process_info(pg_name, pi)
        except psutil.NoSuchProcess, e:
            self.log.warning("Process exited while trying to get info: %s", e)

    def collect(self):
        """
        Collects resources usage of each process defined under the
        `process` subsection of the config file
        """
        if not psutil:
            self.log.error('Unable to import psutil')
            self.log.error('No process resource metrics retrieved')
            return None

        for process in psutil.process_iter():
            self.collect_process_info(process)

        # publish results
        for pg_name, counters in self.processes_info.iteritems():
            metrics = (
                ("%s.%s" % (pg_name, key), value)
                for key, value in counters.iteritems())
            [self.publish(*metric) for metric in metrics]
            # reinitialize process info
            self.processes_info[pg_name] = {}


No single person has come to more represent the big questions about drug safety that emerged following the withdrawal of Merck 's painkiller Vioxx than the Food and Drug Administration's David Graham.
And now that a Texas jury has awarded the widow of one Vioxx patient $253 million, Graham, who works in the FDA's Office of Drug Safety, is more critical than ever. Of the drug, and his employer, for whom he doesn't speak.
"If the judgment is that there's blood on Merck's hands," Graham says, "there's blood on the FDA's hands as well."
Graham has estimated that Vioxx killed some 60,000 patients--as many people, he points out, as died in the Vietnam War. He says that fundamental problems at the FDA led to those deaths. "People should turn to Congress and demand a drug safety system that is free from corporate influence--and a distinct center for drug safety."
In Graham's eyes, the problem at the FDA is that the same scientists who approve drugs are the ones charged with deciding whether or not they are safe enough to remain on the market when problems crop up. "There is no feedback or review process to say, 'You guys have made a big mistake,' " he says. When problems are recognized by drug safety officers, it can be hard for the message to take hold.
Graham says that he thinks there should be formal, periodic reviews of the safety of new medicines--and that the FDA should release documents that explain its reasoning.
"The FDA does not think anything it did is a mistake," he says. "None of its decisions are evidence-based."
A new bill currently before Congress, engineered by Sens. Chuck Grassley and Christopher Dodd, would creat e a new office of drug safety at the FDA--a step Graham thinks could prevent future safety disasters. Others have argued that such a safety center might be too isolated, preventing it from being effective, or too powerful, creating gridlock. Another bill, said to be in the works from Sens. Michael Enzi and Edward Kennedy, would try to fix the FDA without creating a separate safety office.
Since Vioxx was withdrawn, a firestorm of controversy has enveloped the drug industry, also touching in one way or another Bextra, from Pfizer ; Natrecor, from Johnson & Johnson ; Accutane, from Roche; and Meridia, from Abbott Laboratories . The wave of controversy shows no sign of stopping--and Graham remains one of its most outspoken figures.
"Today Merck was on trial, and a judgment was rendered," he says. "But when will the public hold the FDA accountable for its role, its complicity, in this catastrophe?"


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NTI Digirator DR2
The DR2 is a handy digital testing gadget that is easy to use and highly portable.
ProSoundNetwork Editorial Staff
The Digirator DR2 is the latest Minstrument from NTI, the audio test and measurement company headquartered in Liechtenstein. The Minstrument product line consists of a series of separate test generators and signal analyzers spanning a wide range of digital, analog, and acoustical tests.
These are lab-grade instruments, but are all compact, battery-powered (three AA cells), and rugged enough for field troubleshooting or system testing. The DR2 provides a comprehensive range of audio test signals as well as specialized test sequences for verification and adjustment of Dolby Digital, Dolby E, ProLogic, and DTS surround installations.
The DR2 follows the form factor of NTI's second-generation Minstruments—a palm-sized unit with LCD, scroll wheel and Enter button, a set of quick-access buttons for Level, Frequency, and Waveform selections, a Power button that doubles as a display backlight switch, and a Mute button. Finally, there's a button to set the resolution of the scroll wheel: 0.1 or 1 dB steps for level and frequency steps of 1/3, 1/6, 1/12 octave or 1 least significant digit. The case fits comfortably in one hand, and a soft, shockresistant jacket is provided, as well as a hand strap.
An RCA jack provides a transformerisolated 75-ohm S/PDIF or AES3-id (with the supplied RCA-BNC adapter) output. A male XLR supplies 110-ohm balanced AES/EBU or unbalanced AES3 with the supplied XLR-BNC adapter. A TOSLink optical output provides either stereo S/PDIF optical or an 8-channel ADAT Optical output. The normal output is stereo (two channels) but either channel can be switched off, or the polarity of one channel can be inverted with respect to the other.
XLR and RCA outputs span the full sample rate range from 32 to 192 kHz. The S/PDIF optical output goes to 96 kHz, though the ADAT output operates only at 44.1 and 48 kHz. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the ADAT output can be used to test four channels of a 2X sample rate S/mux input. The optical output can be switched off, providing a bit of additional battery life.
A female XLR serves as a sync input should it be necessary or desired to synchronize the Digirator's output with house sync. Normally the DR2's internal low-jitter clock provides the data clock reference, but when a suitable signal is connected to the Sync Input, it is automatically detected, the Impedance menu pops up allowing you to select 75-ohm or 110-ohm termination or bridging, and the sync signal can then be selected as the clock source for the output data stream. Sync can be word clock, PAL or NTSC video black burst, DARS (AES3 without the audio) or an AES/EBU or coax S/PDIF audio stream.
While the DR2 is primarily a signal generator, it is also capable of verifying a channel or device under test for bit-accurate transmission as well as throughput delay (latency). The sync input connector doubles as the input for Transparency and I/O Delay testing. Firmware updates and audio test file loading and management are via a USB port.
The Digirator generates a variety of test signals including sine, pink and white noise, stepped or continuous linear or logarithmic sweeps (called "chirp"), a burst for measuring throughput delay (latency) and a polarity test waveform which works in conjunction with the NTI analyzers. In addition, Dolby and DTS nonlinear (encoded and compressed) PCM multichannel test signals in a variety of formats are available, offering channel identification, pink noise, tones, and a polarity test for surround systems.
The DL2 also functions as a WAV file player, allowing any waveform, test sequence, sound, or announcement that you can record to be output. Sound files, loaded via the USB port, are stored in folders in the DL2's nonvolatile memory.
Selecting the FILE menu presents a list of available sound files. Because the memory size is limited and the non-linear test files are quite large, only a basic set is pre-loaded. Additional test files and some instrument sounds are supplied on a DVD. All test signals originate as 48 kHz WAV files, which get internally converted to the desired output sample rate. This limits the highest audio frequency to a tad below 24 kHz, a minor quibble, as the DR2 can't check the full-range frequency response of a 96 kHz channel.
The Digirator offers control over the Pro/Consumer format, Non-Linear, and Emphasis channel status bits. Changing the Emphasis and Non-Linear flags doesn't change the test signal, but it provides the ability to check the receiver's response to those flags.
Up to 10 specific test setups (waveform, level, frequency, sweep time, etc.) can be stored as Configurations, which can be named (limited to eight characters, so you gotta be creative) via the USB port.
The obvious generator functions are very straightforward. Choose the test signal, connect the Digirator to the device under test, and go. The display and menus are intuitive, and the quick access buttons speed adjusting the signal parameters. For the more complex tests, the LCD displays what you need to see including the clock sync source, sample rate and, when running with external sync, the incoming clock frequency. Selecting SWEEP or CHIRP from the Waveform menu pops up a submenu for setting the starting and ending frequency, dwell or sweep time, and for selecting a single or continuous sweep. Selecting FILE displays the current folder and file name. The cursor and scroll wheel are used to navigate folders and select the file with the desired test signal.
The Transparency test is a simple go/no-go verification that all the audio data bits pass through the channel unchanged. Passing the test gives confidence that the channel will successfully transmit non-linear (encoded and data-compressed) data such as Dolby and DTS multichannel surround audio formats as well as conventional linear PCM audio. If the test fails, it's time to get out a serious data analyzer such at NTI's DL1 Digilyzer to locate the specific problem.
The manual is sketchy about what, specifically, is tested in the transparency test, and how to tell whether the test passed or not since it neither says PASS or FAIL. A change in sample rate or changed data bits is indicated by the generic "DATA CHANGED" message, which is indeed suspicious.
As long as both ends of the channel are accessible, Transparency can be checked with a single instrument. Two Digirators can be used on opposite ends of the channel, if necessary. In addition to end-to-end testing, a recorder can be tested by recording the Transparency test signal and playing it back into the DR2's input for analysis.
I/O delay is another in-out test, which measures the time required for a pulse to pass through the AD-DA channel. The resolution for this test is 0.1 ms (also displayed as PAL or NTSC video frames). For checking latency through a DAW chain, a display in samples would be convenient.
There's no official estimate of battery life, but NTI says that at trade shows, where it's continuously on, they get four to eight hours from a set of alkaline cells. Auto shutoff and intelligent control of the display backlight can increase battery life. NiMH or Li-Ion rechargeable cells work fine, though you can't recharge them in the unit. An optional AC power supply is available for bench use, however the manual recommends battery operation for the cleanest signals.
This is a handy gadget for testing digital inputs and transmission chains. It's easy to use, can go anywhere, and can perform a range of useful tests. It's a good tool for the maintenance shop or a broadcast facility, but probably overkill for the project studio. My only wish is that the audio frequency range extended to 40 kHz or above, but that would require a significant redesign.
Mike Rivers has a long list of engineering credits with the Smithsonian and is the author of the last Mackie HDR manual.
Audio Precision APx515 Analyzer
Using the Audio Precision APx585
Neutrik ML1 Minilyzer Audio Analyzer
Audio Precision ATS-2 Audio Test and Measurement System
Maxi-Matcher Tube Matcher
Sencore SoundPro SP495
TerraSonde Audio Toolbox
NTI Minirator MR-PRO
Qualikit-PRO Audio/Video Testing/Calibration Software

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What do you farmers think about this comment ?? ... i think now days we have no other chose but to leave farming to the government and DEFRA etc, because they have such a grip on us at the moment, its almost like we are not allowed to do are job without it coming under scrutiny, i sometimes wished i lived in the old day, where we were allowed to do are job without so much red tape and restrictions.
I think he has (maybe) bought into the globalist aristocracy's agenda of "go big or go home" that is so prevalent in most industries today, including farming.
Have not seen details of this quote.
Could you give more details?
Ah poor old bloke clearly the old dementia is starting to kick in.
Maybe it really is time you lot gained independence !
Jokes and insults aside, there is convincing evidence that a rising level of income, and this is true throughout all of socio economic groups/races in the world, that when income exceeds a certain level the interest and care for the environment rises in line with it. It is a direct linear relationship.
In the 3rd/under developed world it has been estimated at a GDP of $3600 pa.
In short what I am saying is that under current income levels many farming businesses struggle to stay afloat without taking on the additional burden of altruistic environmental aims. When you're drowning you don't give a toss about saving the whale.
I do take Umbridge towards the privileged classes lecturing me on such matters. Had HRH achieved something off his own back and through the sweat of his own brow or wit then I might take a different view.
I think the chattering classes call this JAM (JUST ABOUT MANAGING) which I guess is what most farmers do.
If we had more money I am sure that more effort would be put into these virtue signalling activities.
Mostly I fully agree with you. Commodity prices in real terms have declined all my 85 years, which means that farmers have to look to survival first. If you look at all of the evangelistic environmentalists(e.g. Melchett) you find they have great inherited wealth.
Not for them worrying about paying for next weeks groceries!
I thought that Prince Philip's comments were offensive, the same as the "bang on" comment by people who agree with him. But then he has a history of being at the least un-diplomatic and at the worst downright rude. Remember the slitty-eyes episode ?
It's not just farming but the whole demographics of the countryside that have changed in my lifetime. There are very few family farms around this area any more. The local estate used to have 9 tenant farmers, now there is 1. I remember when more than 50% of farms milked, maybe only 30 cows, but they would almost certainly also have 150 ewes, some stores in the barns in Winter and a bit of corn & some spuds. I remember when about 6 of us grew spuds, all within a 2 miles radius. Probably only 6-10 acres but it provided some seasonal work for the locals when picking & sorting. The year I finished growing them I had to advertise in a couple of local village shops for pickers and half of those who turned up didn't last the day and no one appeared the next day !
And so look where we are now. We've gone from the guaranteed price system which was designed to just put a floor in the market to the bribery that we see today. Because bribery is what it is. We'll pay you £X if you will join one of our many enviromental schemes and at the same time grow some food. The family farm didn't have to be bribed. As well as family members being interested in their environment there was always the local lads who would come and help out at bale carting, moving cattle, etc. and who in turn would enjoy a bit of shooting, decoying, and yes, even walking up a charlie or two.
Hedges were layed, gates were hung, ditches were kept clean out, etc. I have spent many hours clearing snow on the roads, all for no reward but just because it needed doing. And what have we got now ? I wouldn't go out and clear snow in case some beligerent idiot accused me of making a slippery surface and they had damaged their pride and joy because they don't drive according to the conditions. I have cleaned many many ditches out for customers to get the water away. It appears now that great crested newts are more important than preventing the land from becoming waterlogged.
I have seen the best days.
Maybe not, but you and he are both wrong. You honestly believe that he is right when he says that farming is too important to be left to farmers ? How on Earth would he know ? What has he ever done for agriculture and food production for this nation of ours ?
Oh, and one more thing. "your" in that last quote is incorrect. It should be "you are" or, as is more often used "you're" where the apostrophe takes the place of the missing letter "a"
Last edited by zaza; 12-02-19 at 07:13 AM.
Oh, and one more thing. "your" in that last quore is incorrect. It should be "you are" or, as is more often used "you're" where the apostrophe takes the place of the missing letter "a"
I am not trying to help myself. I'm trying to help you. A bit of help is worth a lot of sympathy.
How very true. But if you really really try ever so ever so hard you could have the last word.
Come on, you know you can do it.
Very good post, it does illustrate exactly why farmers have behaved the way they have, if they managed to survive. It is not their fault they have been forced in to the farming practices they have adopted. Cheap food policies, anti cooperative laws, supermarket greed, all have combined to create an industrialised industry. Of course Prince Philip, and Prince Charles could both live in a cloud cuckoo land, as could the people like Melchett who they listened to. Not for them a meeting with an accountant to explain yet another years poor trading figures.
I do feel sad though that on this forum discussion has changed to personal attacks, no better than Facebook.
At least he recognises it is important. Which is more than can be said for some of the policy makers in government.
Children behave yourselves otherwise you will be on detention at playtime.
He was entitled to criticise others, he had seen the light, very bright sunlight!
Only trouble was, at the same time he saw the light, he failed to see the car coming at a hell of a lick!


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Mike Myers & Wife Welcome Baby No. 2: Sunday Molly
On April 11, 2014, in Celeb, by ayesha
Posted: April 11, 2014 by Jenny Schafer Congratulations are in order for Mike Myers and Kelly Tisdale. The Austin Powers actor, 50, and his wife, 37, welcomed their second child – a daughter named Sunday Molly – on Friday, April 11, Us Weekly reports. "We couldn't be happier," the proud parents tell the mag.
Posted: April 11, 2014 by Jenny Schafer
Congratulations are in order for Mike Myers and Kelly Tisdale.
The Austin Powers actor, 50, and his wife, 37, welcomed their second child – a daughter named Sunday Molly – on Friday, April 11, Us Weekly reports.
"We couldn't be happier," the proud parents tell the mag.
Together since 2006, the couple were wed in New York City in 2010. They are already parents to son Spike, 2.
"Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it," the Shrek star said last fall.
"I am the happiest I have ever been in my life," he added. "I knew I wanted to be a father. I didn't know it was going to be this awesome or that my kid would come out so beautiful and lovely…I had a great dad and always wanted to have the experience, and I'm having it now."
Filed under: Births,Mike Myers
Photo credit: FameFlynet
Source: Mike Myers & Wife Welcome Baby No. 2: Sunday Molly
Last Lap: Why Did Minnie Driver Leave Twitter?
On April 11, 2014, in Article, Celeb, eBooks, Movies, Music, Videos, by nadia
Is Hilary Duff calling off her divorce? Divergent fans will get to see even more of the film franchise's stars, and two MTV Movie Awards veterans share secrets for success
Is Hilary Duff calling off her divorce? Divergent fans will get to see even more of the film franchise's stars, and two MTV Movie Awards veterans share secrets for success.
Minnie Driver has left Twitter after a barrage of hurtful comments were directed at her. The actress was apparently criticized after the public saw photos of her in a bikini during a recent vacation. Keep your head up, Minnie — don't let those haters get you down! [Us Magazine]
Hilary Duff has reportedly reconciled with her estranged husband, Mike Comrie. The two might even decide to dial it back on getting divorced. [Celebuzz]
Now that Divergent is a solid box-office smash, word comes that the final book in the trilogy will be adapted into to two films. Hey, we're not complaining — more of a chance for us to see Shailene Woodley kick butt. [Perez Hilton]
The 2014 MTV Movie Awards are almost upon us, and it never hurts to get some advice on how to win the coveted Best Kiss award. Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler, who won in the past for their smooch in 50 First Dates, tell us how it's done. [MTV News]
[Photo Credit: Getty Images]
Source: Last Lap: Why Did Minnie Driver Leave Twitter?
Best Week Ever Is Psyched That Game Of Thrones Is Back!
On April 11, 2014, in Article, Celeb, eBooks, Entertainment, Fashion & Lifestyle, Music, Television, Videos, by nadia
We at Best Week Ever have two favorite television shows: Best Week Ever and Game of Thrones. Now that the HBO fantasy drama is back for a fourth season, we can dish on the Khaleesi, her dragons and how hot Jaime Lannister is–even if he does only have one hand now. Check out the Best Week Ever cast extolling the virtues and the vices of Westeros in the clip above.
We at Best Week Ever have two favorite television shows: Best Week Ever and Game of Thrones. Now that the HBO fantasy drama is back for a fourth season, we can dish on the Khaleesi, her dragons and how hot Jaime Lannister is–even if he does only have one hand now. Check out the Best Week Ever cast extolling the virtues and the vices of Westeros in the clip above. Oh! And be sure to tune in for an all-new episode of Best Week Ever tonight, April 11 at 10/9 C. SET YOUR DVR!
Source: Best Week Ever Is Psyched That Game Of Thrones Is Back!
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Discussion in 'General' started by planetsi, May 18, 2009.
I am having problems and i think it is realated to the start order as it appears that mydns is trying to start before mysql.
How do i make it start after mysql?
It has the solution for opensuse 11.1 and mydns (at least it works for me).
Yeah... i can start it using the "/etc/init.d/mydns restart"
You haven't read all the thread that i gave to you.
Change the "RUN_PARALLEL" to "no" in "/etc/sysconfig/boot".


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Q: select only HH:MM:SS (hour, minutes and seconds) from timestamp column in postgres I have a postgresql database with a column with timestamptz data (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS) and I want to do a query only of the HH:MM:SS.
In the example, "ingested" column name is the one with the timesamptz
select ingested from my_database
This is an data example: 2020-12-23 12:18:13
How can I get 12:18:13 only?

A: You can convert to time:
select ingested::time

To avoid the milliseconds:
select ingested::time(0)

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The press has entered a golden age of climate sceptics
The week in the media, from Boris Johnson's calculated gaffes to Russia's election meddling – and climate concerns
By Peter Wilby
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Theresa May probably thought she was playing clever politics when she put Boris Johnson, a potential rival, into the Foreign Office. First, he would be abroad much of the time and therefore out of the limelight and unable to plot against her. Second, the Foreign Office requires diplomacy and, whatever Johnson's merits, that isn't among them. May set him up for isolation, obscurity and failure.
It hasn't worked. Johnson is too accident-prone for a department that runs tangible public services – make him Home Secretary and half the nation's prisoners would have escaped within a week – but, short of war breaking out, the Foreign Office holds few risks for an ambitious politician. Johnson's "gaffes" – threatening the Italians that we won't buy their Prosecco, blaming the Saudis for wars in the Middle East – aren't gaffes at all. They are calculated attempts to get himself noticed, win public approval for putting foreigners in their place and challenge May to fire him and make him a martyr. So far, his gaffes are working.
Buying Sky
Don't expect the government to try to stop Rupert Murdoch's £11.2bn bid, predicted in this column in October, to buy the 60 per cent of Sky that he doesn't already own. A similar bid was withdrawn in 2011 after a public outcry over phone-hacking. Sky was then called BSkyB and the bidder, now 21st Century Fox, was News Corp. But Murdoch was and is behind them all and not much else has changed: if anything, hacking turned out to be even more widespread in his papers than was then thought.
May met him in September. An understanding was almost certainly reached. Don't believe denials. It was persistently denied that Murdoch had met Margaret Thatcher to discuss his bid for the Times and Sunday Times in 1981, which Thatcher's government refused to refer to the regulatory authorities. Three decades later, Thatcher's private files showed that the meeting indeed took place.
It is hard not to laugh at Americans' indignation over Russia's alleged meddling in the US elections. For at least a century, the US has done everything possible to influence the outcomes of other countries' elections.
Just after the Second World War, the CIA lavished money on Italy's Christian Democrats and invented sex scandals to discredit left-wing leaders. In Iran in 1953, the CIA launched a successful coup to overthrow the democratically elected Muhammed Mossadeq. In Chile in 1964, it spent $4m on "covert action projects" to stop the socialist Salvador Allende winning an election. After Allende won the presidency at his fourth attempt in 1970, the CIA organised a coup to oust him. As US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton herself opposed the reinstatement of the elected president of Honduras after a military coup in 2009.
Americans should be thankful that they are unlikely to suffer a coup because, as the Latin American joke has it, there's no US embassy in Washington.
The climate deniers are winning
At a reunion of former Observer hacks (I worked there from 1968 to 1975), I talk to Geoffrey Lean, formerly of the Daily Telegraph and Independent on Sunday as well as the Observer, and widely described as the doyen of environment correspondents. How fares the planet, I ask. Not well, he says. The year 2016 is poised to be the hottest on record, beating 2014 and 2015, the previous record-holders. Wasn't October unusually cool? Only by recent standards, Geoffrey explains. It was hotter than any October before 1998 and this November beat all previous Novembers for warmth.
Readers of most British newspapers can be forgiven if they are only dimly aware of this alarming intelligence. By my calculations, ten global-warming sceptics – including the Sunday Telegraph's Christopher Booker, the Mail on Sunday's Peter Hitchens and the Times's Matt Ridley – have regular columns in the main sections of national newspapers. I ask Geoffrey how many columnists in national newspaper comment sections accept the overwhelming scientific consensus and write about the subject as often as the sceptic ten do. "There used to be four of us," replies Geoffrey, whose contract with the Telegraph ended last year. "But three of us have been sacked in the past 18 months." The Guardian's George Monbiot now stands as the lone "warmist".
Amazingly, climate-change deniers still portray themselves as a beleaguered minority, struggling to get a hearing.
Blot on the high street
Loughton, Essex, where I live quietly and unfashionably, is a town of "handsome Tudorbethan architecture". Not my description but that of the Daily Mail, which devotes a double-page spread to Loughton's high street, featuring the loss of "once-loved" independent retailers and the rise of "unlovable replacements" such as estate agents and coffee shops. I am in sympathy with the Mail's general drift, but I cannot quite share the sniffy tone about the spread of beauty clinics, nail bars and Pilates studios. Almost every day, I read reports about how machines will soon destroy most people's jobs. Then I walk down the high street and marvel at how human beings manage to prosper by selling each other services that nobody previously thought were needed.
Logging off
When I get up on Christmas Day, I shall light a fire. It will be one of a diminishing number of days that I do so. That is partly because of environmental worries but also because, as I get older, logs and coal seem to require too much physical exertion.
As I carry the loads from the cellar, my body simultaneously struggling with the effects of seasonal overindulgence, I shall reflect that my parents did this every day for more than 40 years. Forget motor cars, TVs, vacuum cleaners and washing machines. The most transforming technology of my lifetime was domestic central heating.
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Peter Wilby was editor of the Independent on Sunday from 1995 to 1996 and of the New Statesman from 1998 to 2005. He writes the weekly First Thoughts column for the NS.
This article appears in the 15 December 2016 issue of the New Statesman, Christmas and New Year special 2016
"Oh, ok…": Journalist checks behind Felicity Kendal's ear for facelift scars mid-interview
Dylan Jones's Diary: The world's greatest song, duplicitous journalists and why Boris begged for forgiveness
ITV showed us how a political debate should be done


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Stephen Martin-Pinto is a fifth generation San Franciscan. His great great grandmother, Guadalupe Miranda, was born here in San Francisco in 1848. His great grandmother was a survivor of the 1906 earthquake. His grandfather was an engineer for the city for 30 years, and his mother was a nurse at San Francisco General Hospital. His other grandparents were immigrants from Ecuador, and his grandfather was one of the first Hispanic doctors in the Mission District.
Stephen attended St. Phillip's Elementary, Lowell High School, and University of California at Davis, graduating with a degree in Environmental Engineering in 2001. While at Davis, he was a member of the Men's Crew team for 4 years, and had a late night music radio show on KDVS 90.3FM, the college radio station.
Left photo: Promotion to Corporal, April 1, 2006, Miramar Marine Corps Air Station, San Diego California.
Right photo: On assignment for the Bureau of Land Management on a Type I (hot shot) Hand crew, Alaska, July 2009
After graduation, he enlisted in the US Marine Corps, inspired by the events of 9/11. He was given the Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) of 7051, Aircraft Firefighter and Crash Rescue Specialist. He was stationed at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station in San Diego, California for 5 years, deploying to Iraq and promoting to the rank of Sergeant. After Iraq, he was selected to attend Officer Candidate's School in Quantico, Virginia. He was promoted to Second Lieutenant, given the MOS of 0602 Communication Officer, and deployed to Afghanistan and Georgia (the country) as a foreign military advisor and trainer. He promoted to Captain, left active duty in 2014, and returned to San Francisco.
Left Photo: At the Detroit Steps Fundraiser, as President of the Sunnyside Neighborhood Association, Nov 2019
Right Photo: At work on the Central Subway, as member of Pile Drivers Local 34, April 2016
He was hired by the San Francisco Fire Department in August 2014, transferred to the Marine Corps Reserves, and also became an apprentice Pile Driver with Local 34. As a firefighter, he has worked at nearly every station, and has been assigned to Pacific Heights, Inner Sunset, Bernal Heights, Civic Center, and Chinatown Stations. He did a deployment to the wildfires in Southern California in 2018. He is a certified fire instructor, and teaches fire control at locations around Northern California. He is a NERT and Listos SF instructor, and is a member of the department's Vision Zero and Tactical EMS committees. He was promoted to Major in the Marine Corps reserves in 2019, and has done short deployments to Canada, Korea, and attended the Captain's course at Camp Pendleton. As a union pile-driver, he worked as a welder on the Central Subway project in San Francisco, as well as various other projects around the bay area.
Left photo: With Erica Maybaum, Sup. Norman Yee at the Circular Avenue Ribbon Garden Cleanup, May 2019
Right photo: Then 1stLt Martin-Pinto, near the Georgia-Azerbaijan border on a training mission, stopping to meet the locals, Nov 2013
He has been very active in the community, serving as president of the Sunnyside Neighborhood Association from 2016-2020, secretary of the West of Twin Peaks central Council since 2019, and Commissioner of the San Francisco Veteran's Affairs Commission since 2019. He has served on the district 7 participatory budget committee, and has been active as a neighborhood voice for the Balboa Reservoir Project, the Detroit Steps project, and the Circular Avenue Ribbon Garden cleanup.
Left photo: On Mount Davidson, with lots of dogs of friends and family, February 2020
Right photo: Teaching fire control at Yuba College, Marysville CA
He currently lives in the Sunnyside neighborhood with his family, two dogs, and three chickens. His hobbies include playing the banjo, guitar, and harmonica. He likes to travel and has been to nearly every state and major city in the US. He is fluent in Spanish, and proficient in Russian and Georgian (the language) from his time in the military and time at SFFD Station 14 (mid-Richmond district).


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Frank O'Hara, Valentine
February 14, 2013 • By Matthew Zapruder
FRANK O'HARA's "Having a Coke With You" always seems to me like a good poem to read at a wedding, until I read it again. After which I love it even more, and realize once again how unsuitable it actually is for such an occasion. The poem is about the distance one lover feels toward another in the first, uncertain times of a relationship. Its lines are full of hope and intense attraction to the lover, and the world the lover moves through, and also the things we know, but don't yet want to know we know, about how we are really feeling with this new person. This state of new love fills the poet with an energy that allows him in turn to fill the lines with what can be called mundane nobility:
it is hard to believe when I'm with you that there can be anything as still
as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it
in the warm New York 4 o'clock light we are drifting back and forth
between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles.
Whenever I read those lines I think it was entirely in the hope of having such moments that I moved to New York and had experiences. But the seeds of the anxiety are there, as they are in the whole poem. They reside in the difficulty of phrases like "it is hard to believe" and "unpleasantly definitive." The fact that "thank heavens" this person has not gone to the Frick yet is just like that experience of listening to your friend explain how great it is that a new boy/girlfriend doesn't share your interests or talk much because it helps you "recognize the way I've been taking for granted my own enthusiasms." You smile and nod and think two months max if the sex is pretty good.
In this video (below) of him reading the poem I love the way he looks up when he reads the "spectacles" line. He knows how good it is, it's not even arrogant, it's the completely objective recognition of the presence of poetry. He just happened to write it. But the reason why this wonderful, beautiful poem is not a good one to read at weddings is right there in the last line.
and what good does all the research of the Impressionists do them
when they never got the right person to stand near the tree when the sun sank
or for that matter Marino Marini when he didn't pick the rider as carefully as the horse
it seems they were all cheated of some marvelous experience
which is not going to go wasted on me which is why I am telling you about it
Great relationships and marriages are not made out of people telling each other things, in a kind of strenuous overdetermined attempt to connect and find commonality. True love begins and continues with a lifetime of a different kind of telling and listening. I feel so sorry for O'Hara here, in his loneliness, and even sorrier that he died only a year older than I am now in a stupid tragic accident. He was one of the greatest poets who lived in our time, so let us read his poem on Valentine's Day and remember him.
— Matthew Zapruder
Frank O'Hara, "Having a Coke with You"
is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne
or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona
partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian
partly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for yoghurt
partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birches
partly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people and statuary
between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles
and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint
you suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did them
I look
at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world
except possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it's in the Frick
which thank heavens you haven't gone to yet so we can go together the first time
and the fact that you move so beautifully more or less takes care of Futurism
just as at home I never think of the Nude Descending a Staircase or
at a rehearsal a single drawing of Leonardo or Michelangelo that used to wow me
or for that matter Marino Marini when he didn't pick the rider as carefully
as the horse
[more Valentine's Day poems]
Matthew Zapruder
Matthew Zapruder is an American poet, editor, and teacher. He is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Father's Day, from Copper Canyon in Fall 2019, as well as Why Poetry, a book of prose. He is editor at large at Wave Books, and teaches in the MFA and English Department at Saint Mary's College of California.
Let the Flowers Speak to the Love Stuff
Valentine's Day is here, and the pressure to be sexy is on. Run of the mill avenues of seduction include flowers and a lingering dinner followed by something sweet. A few of us throw lingerie and jewelry into the mix. ...


ADDING TO AN ALREADY SNOW-FILLED FEBRUARY.
light snow by 10 AM.
storm totals and liquid water equivalents.
PEAK WIND GUST FOR YESTERDAY………………38 NW AT 11:22 A.M.
ASOS…………………..40 NW AT 11:22 A.M.
FASTEST MILE FOR YESTERDAY………………..30 NW AT 1:31 A.M.
MAXIMUM 2-MINUTE ASOS AVERAGE……………..29 NW AT 1:32 A.M.
MAXIMUM 2-MINUTE DAVIS AVERAGE…………….26 NW AT 11:40 A.M.


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Can anyone make any recommendations for a reasonably priced individual or garage to fit lowering springs in the West London / Slough area.
Any ideas on what I can expect to pay? I have two cars need doing.
My last vehicle was done a few years ago, I think I paid circa £120 but as I said, that was a few years ago.
BMW 635d (E63) and a mates 2010 Audi A5 sportback.
Both to be lowered on Eibach springs which have been ordered and should be here next week.
Not sure if you're still looking, but I used R-Tech at St Albans for a Schnitzer upgrade - impressive workshop and people, and did a great job.


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Q: How do I find this value for the feedback fraction?
How exactly do I find this value for the feedback fraction Beta? Thank you. \$\omega_0\$ here is the natural frequency calculated as \$\omega_0\$ = 1/RC and s is the complex frequency.

A: It`s very simple:
The feedback factor is nothing else than a frequency-dependent voltage divider Z2/(Z1+Z2) with Z1 as a series combination and Z2 as a parallel combination of the given impedances (R resp. 1/wC).
This passive part forms the most simple form of an RC-bandpass.


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MarketFinance raises £100m debt financing from Deutsche Bank
MarketFinance raises debt financing from Deutsche Bank to support £100m of new lending to UK SMEs, sole traders and partnerships
The funding will help MarketFinance provide up to £100m of lending to UK SMEs.
This will include offering loans to the UK's 3.2 million under-served sole traders and partnerships for the first time.
Eligible businesses can access up to £500,000 within less than 24 hours of applying, to help them hit their business targets and manage cash flow as lending to small businesses falls to lowest levels on record.
London, UK – 19th May 2022 – MarketFinance, the leading fintech credit and payments company, today announced a debt raise from Deutsche Bank which the company will use to part fund up to £100m of lending to support strong, well-managed SME businesses with their investment and working capital needs.The announcement comes at a time when results from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB)'s quarterly Small Business Index (SBI) show that lending to UK businesses has hit an all-time low with fewer than one in ten (9%) small firms applying for finance in Q1 2022 – the lowest proportion since SBI records began.
MarketFinance also announced today that it is expanding its lending capacity to include under-served SMEs, such as the UK's 3.2 million sole traders and partnerships, offering competitive rates and terms, while continuing to serve limited companies and LLPs. With the fastest credit decisioning and payouts in the market, UK SME borrowers – the backbone of the economy – will be able to access between £10,000 and £500,000 within 24 hours of applying to aid their growth plans.
"Closing a funding deal from a high calibre institution like Deutsche Bank is a huge milestone for our business, and a testament to our lending track record, our technology, and our people. More than that, this facility will allow us to continue to deliver on our mission to make finance frictionless for UK SMEs."
Marion Delille, VP Capital Markets at MarketFinance.
"The fintech movement started in the shadow of the 2008 financial crash, and has since become a vital part of the finance ecosystem in the UK and exported globally. Companies like MarketFinance were there to help during the Covid pandemic. We're continuing to innovate by serving sole traders and partnerships for the first time and by embracing the move to embedded finance. We're making our products available via key platforms, helping businesses manage their payments and gain seamless access to finance when they need it most. Businesses need funding in the good times and the bad, and we're right here standing by them."
Anil Stocker, CEO and Co-founder at MarketFinance
Born in the shadow of the 2008 financial crash, MarketFinance operates a proprietary fintech platform which makes access to highly competitive business loans and working capital frictionless for UK SMEs – with the fastest credit decisions in the market. The business recently announced it reached profitability in 2021. This was driven largely by the business demand for working capital over the pandemic, product development to offer embedded finance with key business-to-business platform partners, and its role as a delivery partner for the British Business Bank lending schemes, CBILS and RLS.


Tip: Observation is one of the most important tools you have for detecting and isolating LAN problems. An equally important factor in observation is familiarity with how the network normally runs (or should run).
Technique: A truly serious problem rarely happens all at once but is often a sequence of events that could be more easily corrected if detected early. Examples of these sorts of problems are running out of resources such as buffers, CPU capacity, memory, disk space, data transmission bandwidth, and some hard disk failures. Your best tool for detecting these sorts of problems before they turn into emergencies is to regularly monitor your network and compare the data for changes over time.
Tip: Error and transaction logs are useful sources for help in problem determination.
Technique: Three logs which are useful for debugging network errors are the LANTRAN.LOG located in the IBMCOM subdirectory, LAN Server Error Log, and the OS/2 System Log.
The LAN Server Error Log can be viewed by selecting the Error Log icon within the Administrative GUI. The OS/2 System Log can be displayed by entering SYSLOG at an OS/2 command prompt. LAN Server also keeps a statistics log which is accessed via the NET STATISTICS, or NET STATS command.
DIRSTAT displays network adapter status.
FINDNAME locates duplicate NetBIOS names.
LSS monitors network errors, messages and alerts and provides problem determination support.
RDRDEBUG dumps LAN Server internal data structures.
SMBTOOL captures and views System Message Blocks.
SNAPDF formats and views SNAPDUMP data.
Technique: First try looking for the source of the problem by checking error logs and looking for anomalies in the configuration, statistics, traces, and dumps.
If the problem leaves no trail of evidence, methodically change one factor at a time to either recreate or eliminate the problem. All data collected during the indirect approach is relevant and should be noted. Really tricky problems may be intermittent: changing one factor may increase or decrease the frequency of the problem reoccurring. Other difficult problems to isolate are those triggered by a combination of parameters or events; these require research into how the parameters interrelate. Be sure to back up and record the original configuration before attempting any changes.
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CENTURIES-OLD POTION MAY LEAD TO CURE FOR MRSA
Carrington > Blog > Medical > Centuries-Old Potion May Lead to Cure for MRSA
A new study by researchers shows there may be a cure in the near future for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, otherwise known as MRSA.
The antibiotic-resistant bacterium is estimated to cost the United States' healthcare system more than $2.5 billion dollars a year, according to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.1
Dr. Christina Lee thought of the experiment to see if a 10th century potion used to treat eye infections could work as an antibacterial remedy. Lee enlisted the help of researchers from the University of Nottingham's Centre for Biomolecular Sciences and researchers based in the U.S.
Together, they found that the potion known as Bald's eyesalve killed up to 90 percent of MRSA bacteria when researchers applied the potion in vitro and to open MRSA wounds on mice.
"We are genuinely astonished at the results of our experiments in the lab," Lee said in a statement.2
Lee and her colleagues used the Bald's eyesalve after Lee, who is an Anglo-Saxon expert, translated the recipe from Bald's Leechbook, an Old English book. According to Lee, medieval books often contain remedies used to treat bacterial infections. Lee said it is important to understand just how effective medieval remedies were, as they could lead to better treatments against bacterial infections that cause serious illness, or death.
Results Surpass Expectations
Dr. Kendra Rumbaugh led the testing in the U.S. MRSA-infected wounds are difficult to treat not only in people, but mice as well.
"We have not tested a single antibiotic or experimental therapeutic that is completely effective; however, this 'ancient remedy' performed as good if not better than the conventional antibiotics we used," Rumbaugh said.
Researchers believe the remedy works because of the potion's ingredients: garlic, onion or leek, wine and oxgall. Dr. Freya Harrison said they expected a "small amount of antibiotic activity" because the ingredients have been known to have an effect on bacteria.
"But we were absolutely blown away by just how effective the combination of ingredients was," Harrison said. She noted how testing conditions were purposely made difficult. For example, Harrison's team let artificial infections grow into dense biofilms. Because individual cells bunch together to form a sticky coating, antibiotics have difficulty reaching them.
"But unlike many modern antibiotics, Bald's eyesalve has the power to breach these defenses," said Harrison
1 'Reducing MRSA Infections: Staying One Step Ahead,' http://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/ImprovementStories/ReducingMRSAInfectionsStayingOneStepAhead.aspx
2. Rayner, Emma, University of Nottingham. 'AncientBiotics – a medieval remedy for modern day superbugs?' 3/30/2015, http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/2015/march/ancientbiotics—a-medieval-remedy-for-modern-day-superbugs.aspx


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Russians profit from Britain's offshore secrecy
Posted byRussian_Village	 November 27, 2012 Leave a comment on Russians profit from Britain's offshore secrecy
Britain's friendly regime of offshore secrecy has tempted an extraordinary array of post-Soviet billionaires to descend on London, sometimes to the sound of gunfire.
Vladimir Antonov fled permanently to Britain after his father, Alexander, was gunned down in a Moscow street in 2009. Another associate, German Gorbuntsov, narrowly survived a volley of shots in London last March.
When Antonov bought a luxury yacht in Antibes, the Sea D, he was careful to register its ownership to an anonymous British Virgin Islands (BVI) entity, Danforth Ventures Inc. He also found funds to try to take over the ailing Swedish car manufacturer Saab, though he did not take control. He did succeed for a while in owning the even more ailing Portsmouth football club.
Antonov is currently on bail in Britain. Lithuanian authorities are trying to extradite him for allegedly looting their collapsed bank Snoras, which he denies.
The allegation that oligarchs exploit Britain's offshore secrecy regime to shift assets out of their own countries is not an uncommon one. One refugee from the law is the Kazakh billionaire Mukhtar Ablyazov, who was last seen in February allegedly heading out of London on a coach to France.
Ablyazov has been sentenced to 22 months in jail for contempt of court as the BTA Bank in Kazakhstan attempts to pursue his maze of offshore assets. The bank's lawyers claim Ablyazov, who denies it, has made off with £4bn using BVI and Seychelles companies, nominee directors and layers of front men.
These billionaires justify their use of British-controlled secrecy jurisdictions because they say they must protect themselves from corporate predators and political enemies in their home countries.
Another fleeing oligarch, the Georgian Badri Patarkatsishvili, – a partner of fellow exile Boris Berezovsky– was found dead in 2008 in his Surrey mansion.
Patarkatsishvili's business manager, Eugene Jaffe, managed £500m of the Georgian's assets from a central London office in St James's Square through a BVI company, Salford Capital Partners. Jaffe's company was owned in turn by an opaque BVI trust he set up called Montana River.
The wild-west financial landscape of post-Soviet Russia has attracted at least one entrepreneur from the British Isles to exploit the possibilities of the BVI secrecy regime. We have traced BVI entities used in Russia by the man once known as the richest in Ireland, the property developer Seán Quinn. He expanded into schemes for shopping malls in Moscow and Kiev. He has now declared himself bankrupt and has received an Irish jail sentence for contempt, as the now state-owned Anglo Irish Bank seeks to recover what it says is a missing £2bn.
Other post-Soviet financiers have used Britain's secret offshore facilities for widely different purposes. The London-based Latvian oil trader Evgeny Tikhonov set up an entity in the BVI to hide a total of $2.4m (£1.5m) that his employer, Shell, subsequently convinced a British civil court he was wrongly skimming off from fuel deals. He was, however, acquitted of criminal charges over this.
The fund manager Igor Tsukanov, another arrival in the fashionable west London area of Notting Hill, kept funds in the BVI that will have apparently legally sheltered them from Russian taxes.
And on a lesser scale, Dimitry Sergeev, a mobile phone games entrepreneur from Novosibirsk, faced a potentially costly dispute with a small Manchester supplier over some allegedly unpaid invoices because his firm was BVI registered. A source there said: "We decided it was too difficult to bring a legal action in the BVI." Sergeev did not comment.
Undoubtedly the most flamboyant post-Soviet beneficiary of Britain's offshore secrecy regime is Rinat Akhmetov, the richest man in the Ukraine. From a base in the coal-mining Donetsk region, he has personally acquired industrial assets estimated to be worth £11bn. He shifted £136m out of the former Soviet republic in 2007, in order to buy the most expensive flat ever sold in London, at One Hyde Park.
Asked why he hid behind a BVI company, his company spokesman in the Ukraine said it was "for internal structuring reasons". He added: "Water Property Holdings Limited fully paid all taxes and charges … as required by applicable laws in the UK. This includes payment in February 2011 of stamp duty land tax (SDLT) at a rate of 4% which amounted to £5.467m."Legal use of BVI entities to disguise Russian movement of funds into British companies, also appears to be widespread. In one example we have unearthed, a British-registered firm, Pennard Chemicals Ltd, with an address at rental offices in Cannon St in the City of London, has had declared revenue over the last 3 years of more than 100 million euros, described as commission on unspecified Russian deals. Pennard Chemicals named director, The Hon Andrew Moray Stuart, with an address in Mauritius, is one of the sham nominees the Guardian/ICIJ research has identified. The shareholder, Imex Executive Ltd, is a BVI entity set up by a Moscow incorporation agency. In turn, its sham nominee directors include Jesse Hester in Mauritius and a sham nominee shareholder, Brenda Cocksedge. These nominees sell their names, without exercising genuine control or ownership. The real owner, according to company records we have seen, is named as Ivan Kovlachuk.Offshore secrets
Guardian team: David Leigh, Harold Frayman and James Ball.
The project is a collaboration between the Guardian and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) headed by Gerard Ryle in Washington DC. Guardian investigations editor David Leigh is a member of ICIJ, a global network of reporters in more than 60 countries who collaborate on in-depth investigative stories that cross national boundaries. The ICIJ was founded in 1997 as a project of the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington DC-based non-profit.
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Ken has consulted for Disney, Honda, Kodak, the Gap, and many other companies.DON SHULA led the Miami Dolphins to five Super Bowl appearances and the Baltimore Colts to one, more than any other head coach in the NFL. Considered to be one of the greatest coaches of all time, Coach Shula is the only NFL coach to have a perfect season that included a Super Bowl victory.
He has co-authored three books, The Winning Edge, with Lou Sahadi, and Everyone's a Coach and The Little Black Book of Coaching: Motivating People to Be Winners, both with Ken Blanchard.Ken Blanchard and Don Shula team up to share their powerful secrets of effective coaching in everyday situations. Ken Blanchard and Don Shula are featured in their program Coaching from the Heart.
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Reuters: Ebola costs Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone $2 billion: World Bank
"The World Bank on Tuesday pledged further assistance to Liberia, the country worst hit by Ebola, and revealed that the epidemic would cost more than $2 billion across the region, causing once-booming economies to slow down or shrink…" (Cooney/Toweh, 12/2).
U.N. News Centre: Ebola: World Bank reports economic impact in worst-hit countries to exceed $500 million in 2014
"The World Bank announced [Tuesday] that economic growth estimates in the three countries most affected by the Ebola crisis have been revised sharply downward with the impact totaling well over half a billion dollars in 2014, as the United Nations health agency officially declared the outbreak in Spain over…" (12/2).
World Bank: Ebola: New World Bank Group Report Shows Growth Shrinking, Economic Impact Worsening in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone
"The Ebola epidemic continues to cripple the economies of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, and is projected to result in negative or contracting growth in these countries next year as they work to eradicate the virus, according to an Ebola Economic Impact Update released today by the World Bank Group…" (12/2).
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Food safety / edited by Howard R. Roberts.
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Handbook of food additives / editor, Thomas E. Furia.
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Choosing the right Sling TV plan will require some thinking on your part. We found some odd differences between the Orange and Blue packages. For example, ESPN and Disney, two of the most popular cable channels, are available on Sling Orange, but not on the more expensive Sling Blue. Also, FOX and NBC channels are on Sling Blue, but not on Sling Orange. This goes against traditional TV plan pricing—where you get all the channels in a cheaper plan when you pay for the more expensive plan.
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Looking out towards the Victoria State Library, the expanse of Melbourne lights up as the sun sets for the day. You can make out the fringes of the CBD, as well as the residential district of Carlton and the prestigious Melbourne University campus. To the naked eye, the lights from houses in the suburbs shimmer like stars in the darkened skies. The intersection to the left sits right in front of Melbourne Central, a busy station on the CBD's loop line and the tram stop in front of it, serving the rest of the city.
Zooming into the far left just beyond ME Bank, you can also see a glimpse of the Docklands with the West Gate Bridge, and the much-maligned and broken Southern Star Ferris wheel, Australia's attempted answer to the now-famous London Eye.


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AMD Excavator és una arquitectura creada per AMD que pertany a la 15a família de microarquitectures d'AMD, conegudes amb el sobrenom de Bulldozer, de la qual n'és la quarta generació, rellevant així a la seva predecessora Steamroller.

L'APU basat amb arquitectura Excavator per aplicacions mainstream s'anomena Carrizo, tot i que hi ha una gran quantitat de diferents línies de CPUs i APUs diferents que l'utilitzen, com és el cas de les Bristol Ridge, Stoney Ridge i els diferents models dins de les famílies G i J d'àmbits embedded, entre altres. Pel que fa a servidors, Excavator també està present a la línia de CPUs i APUs coneguda com a Toronto.

S'ha confirmat que Excavator serà la revisió final de la família Bulldozer, amb dues noves microarquitectures rellevant-la l'any que ve. Aquestes noves arquitectures seran la AMD Zen x86 i la AMD K12 ARM.

Arquitectura
Excavator consta d'una arquitectura de 28nm fabricada per l'empresa Global Foundries. Aquesta utilitza el conjunt d'instruccions AMD64 (x86-64), i alhora suporta altres instruccions SIMD com ara les MMX, les SSE fins a la versió 4.2 i fins i tot algunes noves com ara les AVX2, entre moltes altres. És compatible tant amb sockets de tipus FM2+ com amb AM4.

Una de les principals raons per la popularitat de l'arquitectura Excavator és l'augment d'IPC en comparació amb la seva predecessora (Steamroller), cosa que s'aconsegueix doblant la cache de dades a L1 des de 16KB per core fins a 32KB per core. També hi influeixen altres millores com ara una millor predicció de salt i millores de prefetch a la cache L1, que produeixen una menor latència a L1. La L1 d'instruccions és de 96KB per mòdul, i la L2 és d'1MB, variant entre una o dues caches depenent del tipus d'APU.
Suporta tant controladors de memòria DDR3 com DDR4.

Algunes de les característiques d'AMD que suporta aquesta arquitectura són Cool'n'Quiet, TurboCore i PowerNow.

Processadors i acceleradors

Desktop
Hi ha dues línies per a entorns Desktop: una exclusiva de CPUs i una d'APUs, com són la Carrizo i la Bristol Ridge, respectivament.
La línia de CPUs Carrizo va sortir al mercat a començament de 2016. Els seus processadors utilitzen 4 cores Excavator x86 separats en dos mòduls i el socket utilitzat és el FM2+.

Mentre que la línia d'APUs Bristol Ridge va sortir al mercat al setembre de 2016 i els seus acceleradors estan basats amb cores Excavator x86, dos o quatre depenent del model, i utilitzen el socket AM4.

Servidors
El roadmap d'AMD de 2015 per a servidors mostra la línia de CPUs i APUs Toronto. Les CPUs es tracten de processadors quad-core basats amb arquitectura Excavator, igual que els APUs, diferenciant-se amb l'àmbit d'ús, sent els clusters de serveis per a webs i empreses l'àmbit de les primeres i els clusters de computació i media l'àmbit dels acceleradors.

Mòbil
Es troben dues línies d'APUs, les ja mencionades Carrizo i Bristol Ridge.
La línia Carrizo aquest cop es tracta d'acceleradors, llançades al mercat per AMD durant el 2015. Utilitza cores Excavator, entre 2 i 4 depenent del model, i utilitzen el socket FP4.

L'altra línia d'acceleradors és la Bristol Ridge, va sortir al mercat al juny de 2016. Conté 4 cores Excavator x86 i també utilitza el socket FP4.

Ultra-mòbil
Només es troba una línia a aquest àmbit, i és la Stoney Ridge, que conté dos cores Excavator x86.

Embedded
Per a entorns embedded que utilitzin cores Excavator, es troben bàsicament dues línies de SoCs, com són la Brown Falcon i la Prairie Falcon. La primera va sortir al mercat al febrer de 2016, i integra dos cores Excavator, igual que la segona, diferenciant-se segons el seu àmbit de mercat que pretenen ocupar.

Vegeu també
 AMD Zen
 AMD K12

Referències

Microprocessadors x86 d'AMD

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Interested in gaining more design insight from Jeff Gothelf? He has Lean UX Full Day Workshops coming up in San Francisco, Dublin and London.
Great article. I work for a B2B software and our UX team is going to conduct this type of workshop very soon. The participants will represent cross-functions like product mgt, product marketing, implemetation, dev, sales and UX. However, this audience may need some convincing around the purpose of the workshop and it would be helpful to mention some companies that have done similar proto-persona creation. Anyone know of a short list I could use when we pitch the idea and begin the workshop?
Personas should be based on factual data, that means finding the customers where they are and interviewing them. Adding content like "Has a black lab named Max" may add an extra element of realness but isn't it just superfluous content that has no value? I'm of the opinion that it depends on the product or service you're designing, personally I avoid adding irrelavent extras if it doesn't reflect the users motivations and behavioural patterns.
I have created personas in the past, along side with use-case scenarios. They have been found to be invaluable during early design stages and in the creation of low-fidelity mock-ups. What we found to be important while creating personas was to go to client sites and actually interview various users, then using that real-life data to create 3-4 personas.


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Tsukiji Fish market
We anxiously woke up early in the morning to train to Tsukiji Fish market to take advantage of the fresh catches brought in by the fisherman. As we strolled through the hectic market with racing forklifts and dock workers yelling at each other, and the smell of fresh fish was pervasive. Although it was way earlier than our normal breakfast time, we sat down at one of the sushi bars and enjoyed a beer while watching the sushi chef hoist a giant tuna onto his cutting board, slice it open with a machette, then blow-torch the choicest pieces. Needless to say, it was the freshest sushi we'd ever tasted.
Tifana Tattoo shop
After the market, we returned to Shibuya and navigated the street signs in all Japanese to Tifana Tattoo shop. Dave was paired with a female artist who spoke minimal English. We collaborated with her on a traditional Japanese style design and watched in awe as she drew a beautiful peony flower by hand.
That night we celebrated Aubrey and Dave's birthday at the Hyatt Hotel, famously portrayed in Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation.
The next morning we explored Harajuku, an area known for shopping and fashionable patrons. It was almost like a Halloween parade, with people dressed like schoolgirls, dolls and goth zombies. It's located on the unfortunately named "Takeshita" Street.
We also toured the fancy Ginza area. We arrived at 9am and as we entered the grand department store, all of its employees were lined up to bow to us.
Dave photographed the sunrise somewhere over the Pacific as we flew back to California, which, after visiting Japan, seemed oddly different, strange and weird.
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What's up with… Orange, Samsung in India, SignalWire
By TelecomTV Staff
Orange takes its convergence play to Romania
Samsung linked to 4G/5G gear production plan in India
SignalWire adds T-Mobile to its investor roster
The latest convergence move from Orange, new speculation of a move into India by Samsung Networks, and a big name investor for comms API developer SignalWire are the leading news items in today's roundup.
Orange has expanded its European 'convergence' strategy to Romania with impending launch of a combined fixed-mobile service offer. The launch, starting 28 March, comes six months after Orange closed its acquisition of a 54% controlling stake in the fixed line operator formerly known as Telekom Romania Communications (now Orange Romania Communications), so adding its own fixed broadband service capabilities to its existing mobile operations. With its resulting combined offer, Orange Romania becomes the latest market in Europe to fall in line with the giant operator's convergence services strategy that is being spearheaded by Deputy CEO Mari-Noëlle Jégo-Laveissière, who has responsibility for Orange's European operations outside of France. "Orange Romania and Orange Romania Communications have made a tremendous job to reach these new milestones. As we have shown regularly over the past few years, convergence is the key to our growth across Europe. Today, our ambition is becoming reality. Orange has now grown in Romania into an infrastructure-based convergent operator across B2C, B2B and ICT markets, playing a key role in achieving our ambitions in Europe," noted Jégo-Laveissière, who discussed the convergence strategy during recent interviews with TelecomTV. (See Orange's strategy to accelerate fibre and 5G rollouts across Europe and Faster fibre rollouts are key to convergence strategy success, says Orange's deputy CEO.)
Not for the first time, Samsung is rumoured to be planning to manufacture 4G and 5G network equipment in India for Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel while meeting the country's guidelines for local supplier status and also become eligible for financial incentives under the Indian government's Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme. As Huawei falls out of favour, companies such as Samsung see an opportunity for new business in a giant market that is now, more than ever, dominated by Ericsson and Nokia. Samsung Networks, it should be noted, is one of the top seven providers of communications networking gear in the world, following its success in recent years in providing mobile networking gear to operators in North America (including a massive 5G RAN deal with Verizon) as well as Asia. For more, read this Economic Times article.
SignalWire, which develops voice, video and messaging APIs that developers can use to create communications applications, has raised an undisclosed sum from T-Mobile Ventures as part of its Series B round of funding. The company had previously raised $30 million in the round, and has now topped it up and closed out the round with the new (but undisclosed) equity investment. "T-Mobile is thrilled to be the first US wireless provider to invest in SignalWire. As we shared in our 5G Forward announcement, we envision a future where everything that can be connected, will be. And that requires massive innovation," said Rob Roy (no, not that Rob Roy), SVP of Emerging Products at T-Mobile. "SignalWire's solutions are all about enabling developers to build better and faster. This investment is another step in unlocking innovation on our industry-leading 5G network." Read more.
Vodafone UK, Nokia, Plymouth City Council and Plymouth Marine Laboratory announced the world's first marine-focused testbed powered by "a state-of-the-art" 5G Mobile Private Network (MPN). Trials will be run at the Plymouth Smart Sound site. Among the companies that have confirmed participation are: Lloyds Register and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), which will create a fully synthetic and virtualised environment to test marine autonomy scenarios by utilising live data from Smart Sound Connect on a digital platform; ROADS, which is an international programme to develop specific digital standards and measurements; and The Bounty Project, an educational and public programme that will include mounting of live cameras and data sensors to provide live streaming from Bounty's End, a sailing vessel. The network will be free for businesses, academics and government organisations to use in testing and research on and under the waters of Plymouth Sound. You can find out more here.
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Canada to resettle female Afghan judges, families living in limbo
Canada will take in female Afghan judges and their families who have been living in limbo, primarily in Greece, since their evacuation from Afghanistan in the fall, a spokesperson for the immigration minister said Friday.
In addition to the judges and their families, a group totalling about 230 people, Canada will also resettle an unspecified number of Afghans from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities who had been referred by a third-party aid organization, the spokesperson said.
They are expected to come to Canada next year but there is no firm date.
Canada has promised to resettle 40,000 Afghan refugees but has no timeline for doing so. Since the Taliban took control of the country after the U.S. troop withdrawal in August, Canada has resettled 3,915 Afghans with connections to the Canadian government and another 2,535 on humanitarian grounds, according to government figures.
Afghan women made great strides in the two decades since the Taliban last ruled the country from 1996 to 2001, joining previously all-male bastions such as the judiciary, the media and politics.
"All the achievements of 20 years came back to zero within the blink of an eye," said Freshta Masoni, a family court judge staying in Athens with her toddler daughters.
Since returning to power, the Taliban pledged to protect women's rights in accordance with Islamic law, announcing a general "amnesty" for all former state workers. But advocates fear a backslide to when women were not allowed to work and girls were banned from school.
Even if they can leave the country, Afghan asylum-seekers may face years of waits amid logistical backlogs and delays. Western countries usually resettle refugees referred by the UN refugee agency, which has limited capacity to process applications for resettlement.
"The biggest bottleneck there is the issue that referral partners in the region have not been able to ramp up capacity," Canada's immigration minister, Sean Fraser, told Reuters earlier this month. "These challenges are going to take a little bit of time to sort out."
Afghanistan's refugee situation is different from the Syrian refugee crisis that galvanized the world several years ago, UN refugee agency officials and advocates say.
Unlike Syria, the Afghan crisis escalated rapidly during a global pandemic and many face difficulties leaving the country. Those who do leave face additional waits, often in countries with little capacity to support them.
Some of the female judges, who have been living in Greece since October, told Reuters they have lacked health coverage because of their temporary visa status.
Advocates have called on countries to resettle Afghans without requiring a designation from the UNHCR or other NGOs, a step Canada has signalled it is open to.
Walter@webpressglobal.com
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