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Coronavirus Cases Surge in U.S.A.
Date: March 6, 2020Author: lance goodall 0 Comments
Passengers on board the Grand Princess cruise ship off San Francisco watch while a U.S. military helicopter hovers above the deck
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Congress approved an $8.3 billion emergency spending bill to fight the virus, but officials in several countries say the virus will keep spreading fast for some time.
March 6, 2020, 12:08 a.m. ET
Sense of crisis deepens in U.S. as worldwide cases approach 100,000.
The U.S. government rushed testing kits to a cruise ship quarantined off the coast of California on Thursday as the number of new cases and deaths related to the coronavirus in the United States continued to rise.
So far, 14 deaths have been linked to the virus — all but one in the Seattle area — with more than 200 confirmed cases across the country.
Reports of cases in New Jersey, Maryland and Tennessee brought the number of states with infected patients to 19, and Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland declared a state of emergency.
Washington State reported dozens of new cases on Thursday, and New York added 11. San Francisco reported its first two cases, and Houston its first.
Around the world, there were more than 98,000 cases and more than 3,300 deaths. A global database maintained by Johns Hopkins counts more than 53,600 recoveries from the virus.
With the caseload in Europe passing 5,000 and rising fast, major conferences, trade shows, cultural events and sporting competitions have been canceled.
Officials warned that the outbreaks — the largest is in Italy, but France, Germany and Spain are also being hit hard — will continue to grow.
Italy and Iran ordered all schools and universities to close. New Delhi did the same. School closures have affected roughly 300 million students globally.
The number of coronavirus cases in Britain has climbed to 115, and on Thursday the country reported its first fatality. Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke about how a health system sapped by years of austerity-driven reductions in budget growth would try to cope.
U.S. health officials are closely monitoring for coronavirus cases in the United States.
This map will be updated as more cases in the U.S. are confirmed. As of March 5, there were over 200 cases confirmed in the U.S., based on NBC News reporting. Around 50 of the cases are in individuals evacuated from either Wuhan, China or the Diamond Princess cruise ship.
Eleven people — 10 in Washington state and one in California — have died.
At least 15 patients have recovered: Six in California, four in Nebraska, two in Illinois, one in Washington, one in Arizona and one in Wisconsin.
The virus has infected more than 98,700 people in at least 83 countries.
New York's Cases Double; Thousands are self-Quarantined.
Commuters in Times Square in New York.Credit…John Taggart for The New York Times
The number of confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in New York State doubled on Thursday to 22, with officials announcing two additional cases in New York City, eight new cases in Westchester County and one on Long Island.
The virus's potential reach was underscored by a much larger number:
As of Thursday morning, the city Department of Health was monitoring 2,773 New Yorkers currently in home isolation, most of them in self-quarantine.
Most of them had recently traveled to one of five countries where the outbreak has been most severe — China, Italy, Iran, South Korea or Japan — according to Dr. Oxiris Barbot, the city health commissioner.
At least two New Yorkers — a health care worker who has tested positive after visiting Iran and her husband, who tested negative — are under mandatory quarantine in their Manhattan home.
The eight new Westchester cases were all connected with a man from New Rochelle who is hospitalized, adding to eight that were found the day before. The two new New York City patients — a man in his 40s and a woman in her 80s — and the Long Island case, a 42-year-old man in Nassau County — were hospitalized after testing positive.
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UNESCO has announced additions to its list of World Heritage in Danger, citing threats to Sites of the Ancient Kingdom of SabaMarib (Yemen), Tripoli's Rachid Karameh International Fair (Lebanon), and The historic center of the port city of Odesa (Ukraine).
"Odesa, a free city, a world city, a legendary port that has left its mark on cinema, literature and the arts, is therefore placed under the close protection of the international community, " write Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, "While the war continues, this inscription represents our shared determination to ensure that this city, which has weathered global turmoil, is protected from further devastation."
Lebanese Pavilion of Rachid Karami-Tripoli . International Fair
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The Rachid Karameh International Fair of Tripoli in northern Lebanon was designed in 1962 by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer. According to UNESCO, "The Fair was the flagship project of Lebanon's modernization policy in the 1960s. A close collaboration between Oscar Niemeyer, the project's architect, and Lebanese engineers resulted in the creation of a new project. a remarkable example of exchange between different continents."
The World Heritage Committee added the site "due to its alarming conservation status, lack of financial resources for its maintenance, and the potential risk of proposed developments that could compromise the integrity of the complex." fit."
Ma'rib Ancient City Source: German Archaeological Institute, Faculty of Oriental Studies
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Sites of the Ancient Kingdom of Saba, Marib in Yemen include "seven archaeological sites that testify to the rich Kingdom of Saba and its architectural, aesthetic and technological achievements from the 1st century AD.st millennium BC until the arrival of Islam around AD 630," according to UNESCO.
The agency points to ancient Ma'rib's irrigation system for its "technological prowess in hydrological and agricultural engineering on a scale unmatched in ancient South Arabia, which led to the creation of man-made oases." greatest ancient."
These sites were added, "due to threats of destruction from the ongoing conflict."
According to UNESCO, world heritage sites "must have outstanding universal value" and meet at least one of 10 selection criteria. The criteria include representing "a masterpiece of human creative genius" and bearing "evidence of a cultural tradition or a civilization that exists or has disappeared."
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As our observation of Lent continues, we encourage you to read and pray through this week's daily devotion.
"My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness." These words are not easy for me to hear right now.
Can I be honest for a second? At first glance it seems like such a token response. It's like God is telling Paul to just get over it. "You have enough, so just move on." And it seems like this response satisfied Paul. He accepted his shortcoming and even found pleasure in living with it.
I don't think I'm like Paul.
Last night I got to do one of my favorite things in the world. I got to spend the evening in Trevor & Brittany's home along with Chris and other friends. These people are my family and I cling to the rare moments that we have to spend together. We ate and talked and laughed. We enjoyed each other's company.
And all I could think about was what I didn't have.
You see, my friends have spent so many of the previous months in transition. Having endured tight living quarters and uneasiness in job situations, they have moved their possessions to new homes. It has not been easy in any sense of the word.
But now they are on the other side. They have beautiful new homes and fulfilling new jobs. They are enjoying the fruits of struggling through transition. They have found friends and community in their new surroundings.
I look at their new homes and remember the cracks in my own. I hear about their work and dread the struggles that I have in my own job. It's amazing how I can simultaneously rejoice with my friends and resent their good fortune at the same time. It's a miserable feeling that mars the blessing in front of me.
So in my longing for newness and change and more, I'm not sure I want to hear God tell me that I have enough. I want more. God says I have all the grace I need.
This is my desire in Lent. That in depriving myself of anything – food, coffee, and activity I enjoy – I may realize that more is not necessarily the answer. That I can survive without the more that I think I need.
That I may be reminded that enough is a godly concept not to be rejected.
So today, may we all lay down our desires for more, even if it is just for a moment. May we see that enough is a not just sufficient, but something to rejoice. And may we all embrace the enough in our lives long enough to revel in the blessings that we have right before us this day.
Because pleasure and joy can be found in enough.
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Greece's Austerity Measures Put Patients at Risk
by TRNN March 18, 2013 September 23, 2020
Pharmaceutical Companies withhold medicine from Greece, fearing that the medicine will be exported to other European countries. Greece is penalized for austerity measures it had been forced to implement.
SHIR HEVER, ECONOMIST, ALTERNATIVE INFORMATION CENTER: An acute shortage of medicine in Greece is causing uncertainty and can put patients throughout the country in immediate danger to their health. Large international pharmaceutical companies are intentionally withholding shipments of medicine to Greece in order to protect their profits.
Greece, wracked by an economic crisis, has been threatened by international organizations and by the powerful economies in the European Union. Under external pressure, the Greek government approved extreme austerity measures.
As a direct result of the austerity measures, the standard of living of Greeks has fallen. The average disposable income for Greek households has dropped in 2010 by 11.4 percent, and in 2011 by 10.7 percent. In both years, Greece had the steepest drop in household disposable among all 34 countries of the OECD.
But although the Greek government decided to continue to use the euro as the currency of Greece, preventing it from implementing expanding monetary policies, and although the domestic demand in Greece has plummeted between 2009 and 2012 by 26.9 percent (again, more than any OECD country), the prices in Greece continue to rise.
As a result of sharply raised taxes, Greek households find themselves paying more for their everyday needs. Energy costs have skyrocketed by nearly 50 percent in 2010 to 2011.
One of the reforms implemented by the Greek government in May 2010 in order to reduce public spending was to reduce the prices of 12,500 types of medicine by about 21.5 percent, thereby reducing the costs of financing Greece's health insurance costs. The government expected to save about EUR 1.9 billion per year by reducing drug prices and explained that it had no choice but to take this step.
One of the reasons for the Greek government's decision in 2010 was the fact that in the years leading up to the decision, Greeks have been spending an increasing share of their income on pharmaceutical products. While in 2004 the per-capita expenditure on drugs was USD 460, in 2007 it was already USD 677, a 47 percent increase and more than any other OECD country.
But despite the income generated by the Greek market for the pharmaceutical companies, large corporations, including AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Roche, and Sanofi have decided to withhold drugs from the Greek market.
In June 2012, a medicine shortage was reported in Greece. Drug companies accused EOPYY, Greek's main health insurance fund, of owing them EUR 540 million. This February the shortage spread, and affects more drugs and more patients. Withheld drugs include, among other things, treatments for hepatitis, arthritis, bowel disease, hypertension, and high-cholesterol, as well as antibiotics and anesthetics.
Dimitris Karageorgiou, the secretary general of the Panhellinic Pharmaceutical Association, told The Guardian that drug supplies are down by about 90 percent.
At the same time, the Swiss Red Cross reduced supplies of donor blood to Greece, which has not paid its bills to the Red Cross in time.
The reason that the drug companies have decided to withhold the medicine is not just the fact that they will receive smaller revenues from the lower prices. After all, the cost of producing the drugs is a mere fraction of the price to the consumer. The reason is that the corporations are worried that Greeks will export the cheap drugs to other European countries. Because of the E.U. trade rules, the drugs could be exported without customs and sold for a lower price in other European countries, thereby threatening the profits of the corporations also in countries which were hurt less severely by the economic crisis.
Again, we see how membership in the E.U. has turned to be a mixed blessing at best for Greece. The country is punished for having a strong currency which it cannot control, a heavy debt which was accumulated through corruption and false promises, and for implementing spending cuts which were imposed on the government.
PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Did the Greek people have any choices here?
DAVID HARVEY, DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR, CUNY: Yeah, I think they did. I think they should have defaulted.
HEVER: In a desperate attempt to appease the pharmaceutical companies, the Greek government has applied an export ban on about 60 drugs, and launched investigations against businesses suspected in breaking the ban.
If we look at the five large pharmaceutical corporations withholding drugs from Greece–AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Roche, and Sanofi–we find that in 2011 the combined net profits of the five corporations reached over EUR 44 billion, meaning that the Greek government's move to reduce medicine costs in Greece is a drop in the sea compared to the profits of these companies.
For those who worry that drug companies need high revenues from their sales in order to finance the development of new medicine, it should be noted that each of the five large drug corporations has spent a smaller amount on their research and development than their net profits. Each corporation could double its research spending and remain profitable.
But one must remember that the corporations were not set up in order to fight illness. Their purpose is to generate profits for their stakeholders.
VOICEOVER: The health care landscape is constantly changing. Patients, physicians, and payers demand safer, more effective treatments, while investors search after robust and sustainable business models.
HEVER: For that purpose they employ scientists who have been trained in government-paid education systems. Greece, incidentally, closed or merged 1,976 schools in 2011 in order to reduce public spending.
The business model of pharmaceutical companies is based on the premise that human knowledge can be owned as property. The corporations maintain their high profits by keeping a monopoly over the right to produce drugs, and keep the formulas for life-saving or life-improving medicine a closely guarded secret for as long as possible. In order to accumulate these formulas, the companies have no qualms about benefiting from the fruits of a public education system. But in times of crisis, as Greece is facing now, the corporations have proven that they put profits over human lives.
This is Shir Hever for the Real News.


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Q: updating a property in an array of object immutably using react hooks I'm trying to update an array property in an array of objects using react hooks, as we all know when we need to update the state based on a previous state we use the function set"MypopertyName"
as shown below:
My code:
  const [MenuList, setMenuList] = useState([
    {
      id: 0,
      title: "sushi",
      desc: "finest fish and vegies",
      price: "$22.99",
      amount: 1,
    },
    {
      id: 1,
      title: "shneitzel",
      desc: "a german specialty",
      price: "$50.99",
      amount: 1,
    },
    {
      id: 2,
      title: "pizza",
      desc: "an italian specialty",
      price: "$100.99",
      amount: 1,
    },
    {
      id: 3,
      title: "pasta",
      desc: "an italian specialty",
      price: "$200.99",
      amount: 1,
    },
  ]);

my problem that I wanna change the amount of the meal based on clicks of the user so here is what I tried:
  const onClickHandler = (id) => {
    for (const key in MenuList) {
      if (MenuList.id === id) {
        return (MenuList[key].amount = MenuList[key].amount + 1);
      }
    }
  };

I know that the reactivity system of react only works when I call setMenuList() I tried that but it doesn't work besides I wanna update the specific object immutably so I need to use the function syntax like this:
setMenuList((prevMenuList)=>{
  //my code
})

also, I didn't manage to get it work, sorry guys I'm one of the old gurus that used the class-based components for a long time you know with the state={} and so on the whole new hooks concept is new for me.
So any help would be appreciated and thank you in advance.

A: The use of the function-based setter
setMenuList((prevMenuList)=>{

is useful when the function may be called when the menuList currently in its scope is not what's currently being rendered - for example, for when the function is called after an API call finishes. This is completely different from React's need to not mutate state, which requires another approach entirely.
Map the state array, and when the ID matches, return a new object with the amount incremented.
const onClickHandler = (id) => {
  setMenuList(
    menuList.map(
      obj => obj.id !== id ? obj : ({
        ...obj,
        amount: obj.amount + 1
      })
    )
  );
};

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Why am I talking about the Stefan and Sebastian? Because when planning my first trip ever around Southeast Asia I took inspiration from their posts� that is how I discovered the Gili islands, which honestly were completely unknown to me! The Nomadic Boys wrote a few months back (you can read their complete reportage here) a complete ironic gay friendly review about the Gili Islands. This review helped me clear my mind and decide which of the three islands to choose for my holidays: they compared the three islands to the Destiny�s Child!
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The Productive Centrality of the University in the Age of Cognitive Capitalism
Today we often use the concept of 'Cognitive Capitalism',[1] or, indeed, Post-Fordist production, to denote a profound breakdown that has occurred during the last few decades. And when we speak about a 'society of knowledge' we point out that today knowledge is the new tool of capitalist accumulation. Asserting this doesn't mean hiding the fact that in the complexity of the contemporary world, we cannot observe completely different productive regimes co-existing, as we do within the metropolis. Indeed, the majority of work done in a metropolis certainly isn't immaterial work: cleaners, janitors, salesclerks and storekeepers do not properly perform conceptual or symbolic manipulation.
The assertion of the 'hegemony' of cognitive labour and immaterial work therefore means something else, something very different from a quantitative measurement of this or that employment sector. The term, indeed, refers to all the work that is done within the metropolis. So even though the majority of work done in the metropolis is not strictly speaking cognitive, it is nonetheless oriented and addressed by the sector of cognitive labour. That is to say, the more prevalent forms of work are themselves organized as a function of cognitive labour. And it is in this sense that we can speak of the hegemony of cognitive labour. It is also in this very same sense that Marx wrote about hegemony within the Grundrisse (1993: 106-107).
This term: 'hegemony of cognitive labour', underlines the inherent arbitrariness of criticisms made concerning the supposedly questionable validity of the conceptual differentiations made between cognitive or immaterial labour and material or non- cognitive labour. These criticisms are to be understood as arbitrary precisely because cognitive and immaterial labour is always made up of a material and bodily component. And material labour, for its part, is also always made up of a cognitive and immaterial content. In this light it is the category of material labour, rather than the category of immaterial labour, that is problematic.
The concept of 'cognitive capitalism' therefore presents us with the inherent difficulty of proposing any sort of systematic dichotomy between intellectual labour and manual labour, the very dichotomy which nonetheless typifies Fordist factory work. It presents us with the great challenge of explaining the nature of the new productive contemporary metropolitan space.
To accept this concept of 'cognitive capitalism', I suggest, is to simultaneously accept the assertion that many traditional conceptual divisions are no longer adequate to the task of understanding the new division of labour within knowledge society. To accept the concept of 'cognitive capitalism' therefore means that we must find the role of capital's command in some other way. And with such a framework in mind, we can also see that the function, role and mechanism of many contemporary institutions have become completely different.
In this note I want to consider the case of the university. What is the university today? Well, if the productive tool is knowledge, if immaterial labour and cognitive labour define the hegemony of the productive world today, then the university is now the centre of the productive realm. Within such an era the university becomes the factory,[2] the realm within which economic wealth is produced, much in the same way that the manufacturing factory was just such a realm decades ago.
You have not misunderstood: the university today produces.
At the spatial level, we can say that the university is inside the productive process of modernity, with its circuits of teaching, learning, research (and its financialization), copyright management, and so on. Such centrality is accompanied by an increasing 'becoming corporate' of the university itself. More and more today we can speak of the corporate university, namely, the public institution that has to manage itself in accordance with the efficiency and productivity standards of the entrepreneurial world. The rhetoric of new public management, investment, accountability, stakeholders and so on, is more and more infiltrating the university mechanism. Despite widespread resistance to such evolutions, we are faced with a pervasive and relatively unchallenged adoption from inside the university of this managerial rhetoric.
The question is why? How is this possible? I suppose it is because in recent years, corporations are becoming more and more like universities, because the Post-Fordist factory has a similar refrain to the living substance of the university. The ability to learn and to adapt through learning is precisely what the contemporary labour market requires. To be able to learn today is to be able to be productive today.
And at the temporal level, we can say that the contemporary university is oriented towards the present. Universities no longer look towards the future since the shaping and training of the workforce is not for the future, but for the here and now.
The present is the time of university and education. Here and now.[3] In this way, when one speaks about life-long learning it doesn't mean postponing the result, the 'final date' of the educational process until who knows when. The student is therefore no longer an unproductive figure that goes to school today and one day, in the future, will enter into the labour market. No. The student today is an immediately productive figure, and his or her productive time is within the here and the now.[4]
The central role of the university today insofar as the valorization of capital is concerned is a paradoxical one. For the goal of the university nowadays, is to earn well and hence to devalue knowledge. The contemporary university is therefore a space which devalues and discredits some forms of knowledge over others insofar as potential wage and remuneration is concerned. What does this apparent paradox of contemporary society mean? Speaking about wealth production, we refer to capitalist production. This is a production based on command. So we must ask: how is this command over cooperation, the productive capacity of the work force, exercised today?
This question is asked because the modern university is by no means a free zone, it is certainly not a place where the cooperation and productivity of the subject is free. It is also asked because, when the university becomes like the factory, we could say the 'edu-factory', it simultaneously adopts the goal of redefining the command of the workforce and of productive power itself. The factory is not only a space of production, therefore, it is also a mode of commanding production and the work-force. It is not a free space, but rather a space where one makes struggles. To say the university is a central space of the productive mechanism means, therefore, that it is a space where the command of productive power is articulated – the space where it is put to work. The modern university, therefore, is the point of application for the forms of command and control which characterizes cognitive capitalism. Such is the argument which I will try to make here.
Fordist Productive Power and the Distinction between Manual and Intellectual Labour
Within this note what I am trying to do, insofar as I am writing about the role of the modern university, is to pinpoint the relationship between capitalistic command and productive forces. For what is capitalism if it is not a social relation? And within this section I want to consider the classical distinction between manual and intellectual labour characteristic of the Fordist period. By doing this, I want to pave the way towards a drafting of what might be called a genealogy of capitalism's commanding dispositif. By taking such a retrospective leap, therefore, I think that we can put ourselves in a position to better understand the nature of the space which the university occupies today insofar as what I will go on to call the 'political economy of knowledge' is concerned.
From the perspective of the Fordist firm and the Taylorist system of work geared towards the mass production of standard commodities, one can outline what might be called the real polarization of knowledge. Inside of this system of production we encounter a formal separation between manual labour, on the one hand, and intellectual labour, on the other. This separation, for its part, was accompanied by the incorporation of knowledge into machines: the standardization of manual labour led to the becoming machinic of labour. The system of machines came to take on an almost trans-individuality reality, a reality which was at the same time the triumph of fixed capital. This triumph is a response to the capitalist's need to assume greater control over the productive process, to become free from any sort of reliance upon the knowledge possessed by labourers. The gradual process of gaining such control was at the same the process which saw the transformation of worker knowledge into a set of mechanic processes. Industrial capitalism was born de facto within this dual process of the disembodiment of knowledge and the becoming knowledgeable of machines.
The proliferation of machines as the simultaneous disembodiment of knowledge finds its utmost rationality in the Fordist model of production where the firm's organizational mechanisms are reflected two-fold. On the one hand we have the assembly line, itself composed of nothing but un-thinking, manually labouring bodies. And on the other hand, we have the planning stage, itself composed of nothing but absolutely thinking intellectual labour. This division between a purely intellectual component, on the one hand, and a purely bodily component is described by Carlo Vercellone as a "control of the intellectual power of production" (2006: 41, trans. by the author). And this very division between intellectual and manual labour is the Fordist ground upon which capitalism's command over the power of human production most firmly asserts itself.
Capital's command within the Fordist organization was carried out through the control of productive power within this formal division between manual and intellectual labour. But this distinction could not be maintained indefinitely – it was a form of control which was permanently exercised but also permanently limited. The separation between manual and intellectual labour was continually broken by labour itself in its very materiality. A separation of the nature of labour therefore existed, and was operationalised, but this separation was an entirely artificial one. And it was this inherent artificiality itself which emerged for all to see during the cases of strikes and whenever the assembly line itself was subjected to sabotage. These moments portray the separation between intellectual and manual labour in all of its artificiality. They show it to be nothing but an attempt to control, rather than express, the sheer vitality of human labour power.
The hegemony of intellectual labour therefore emerges and asserts itself at the very point where control attempted to eliminate it. In the strike, within sabotage, emerges the reality of the knowledge of the worker, the knowledge to stop the machine, the knowledge to control the production cycle, the knowledge to subvert the supposed hierarchy between manual and intellectual labour. The worker therefore asserts his knowledge of the production process through sabotage. And this knowledge is shown, thereby, to be inherently political rather than purely technical.
The very frequency of such confrontations and struggles made it impossible to completely separate the categories of manual and intellectual labour in a material sense. The frequency of such confrontations therefore served to expose such a separation as nothing other than a series of attempts to control the power over production. This particular control is a parcelled-out specialization and repetition of the worker's task itself. It is, to be precise, a 'political economy of knowledge' something capable of transforming knowledge itself.
The university, under Fordist conditions, is therefore an institution that produces and reproduces this separation between manual and intellectual labour. But under Fordist conditions it is not yet a socially pervasive institution since it presupposes a sharp division between inside and outside, a division that reproduces the unsustainable separation between manual and intellectual labour. The university, in this sense, was not immediately productive but rather functional to the productive system. It was a site that served to reproduce the hegemony of command of the Fordist factory by presupposing and therefore perpetuating the formal division between manual labour, on the one hand, and intellectual labour, on the other.
Post-Fordist Productive Power: Differential Inclusion and the Mass University
Today we are faced with quite another matter. The classical division between intellectual and manual labour is now posed differently, and the use of this classical category is less and less useful in understanding the new code of capital's command over productive power.
As I have already remarked, the category of 'cognitive capitalism' presents itself as a useful means of understanding the new division of contemporary work beyond this classical distinction between intellectual and manual labour. It helps us to understand how the old scheme is no longer sufficient. Thereby, it helps us to speak about a new geography of capitalist command, about a new device of command that starts at the point where the workers' movement had overcome Fordist organization, a device which comes into play precisely at the point where manual and intellectual labour become indistinguishable from one another. We cannot understand the concept of cognitive capitalism unless we pass through this notion. Cognitive capitalism is not the hegemony of 'intellectual' over 'Fordist' labour. To repeat the point from which this note initially departed, the concept of 'cognitive capitalism' rather refers to the impossibility of separating and distinguishing between material and intellectual labour in the traditional, that is Fordist, way.
The workers' struggles of past decades have forced capital's command into a new space. From here, where it is more and more difficult to distinguish between what is manual and intellectual, one doesn't go backwards, that is, one doesn't attempt to nostalgically re-establish that which used to be. We rather progress on the basis of that which such resistances have produced. Resistance, after all, is that which produces such transformations. We might even say that resistance, understood in this way, is ontologically productive, that it is productive of the contemporary world of things. So today, if we are to understand capitalism's workings and its command after the victory of the workers' struggle against the factory organized upon the notion of the hegemony of intellectual labour, we have to see that the progressive intellectualization of work is no longer central. On the contrary, the downgrading and discrediting of the workforce itself inside of cognitive capitalism is what must command our attention.
So what, then, in light of the above, is the role of the university today? Moreover: at the time of the internet which spells the breakdown of the university's relative monopoly over knowledge, what is the university now for? We can confidently assert that the demise of the centrality of the Fordist factory and its division of labour is replaced today with the centrality of a university which becomes the place of pure command, a place for the prioritization of certain forms of knowledge possessed by the workforce. The apparent paradox outlined at the beginning of this article has now lost its 'paradoxical' distinctive character: downgraded knowledge here means that the university, as it is today, is more and more a part of a world where access to knowledge is free and, therefore, in spite of the university itself. Within such a reality of abundant knowledge, the university therefore plays the role of authority, the role of discrediting some knowledge in comparison with others. In short, the university is the contemporary space of command, a site where division and control become imposed onto the workforce. The goal of the university today is to produce a new differentiation of the workforce and this is done through a process of progressively prioritizing sectors of the workforce in terms of the knowledge it possesses.
The role of the university has therefore changed quite profoundly for the university has become nothing short of a mass university. All around us we see an increase in the number of graduates and, therefore, an increase in the level of enrolment within universities. The number of registered students has been constantly increasing ever since the Second World War: this gives us a measure and an idea of how much it has changed, of how central it has become.[5] During the first half of the twentieth century, the university was the place of reproduction based upon a sharp and strongly defined border between inside and outside which was reflected within the already described division of the workforce. The university was therefore a device capable of exclusion. Indeed, it was an institution largely reliant upon exclusion. The effect of exclusions through closed entry requirements, for example, was to create a high level of stratification between those who are able to afford the costs of studying, and a lower stratification for those who were outside (the majority). This double stratification and its deep logic of exclusion was at the base of the classical distinction between intellectual and manual labour, hegemonic in the Fordist era, where the university was the place of its production and reproduction.
Today's university has, to a large extent, lost this particular border between its inside and its outside by directing its mechanisms towards inclusivity. Yet this process of inclusion doesn't outline a homogeneous inclusion, it rather operates on the basis of a differential inclusion. The segmentation of the workforce happens not on the threshold of the university's inside/outside but rather within the university's inclusion process itself. It is here that the tools for producing hierarchy become cognitive, it is on the basis of these tools that we can distinguish between skilled and unskilled labour. The likes of the Bologna process therefore reveal to us the nature and characteristics of these new filters and borders. We can see within such differential inclusion techniques the multiplication and production of new and fresh borders inside the workforce and the labour marketplace, a sort of generalization of the policies of management of migrant labour which becomes extended onto the whole population through the Higher Education sector itself.
Put otherwise: as production becomes diffused and the Fordist organization's factory loses its hegemony, the command of the workforce and of its hierarchy is produced by the university. If the distinction between manual and intellectual labour has broken down together with its device of exclusion, the modern university's inclusion process is not linear but one of differential inclusion. Here we find an overlap between techniques of labour hierarchization and the tools that become cognitive.[6] The mass university becomes inclusive by segmenting and differentiating with respect to some disciplines but not others. This sort of differentiation reflects the labour world where a segmentation of the workforce is effected between whose who can recognize their competences and knowledges as opposed to those who cannot. This disciplinary segmentation refers to the recognition (or lack thereof) on the part of the competences of workers.
Secondly, the working of the mass university involves a management of knowledge the quality of which is immediately connected with the relation of the workforce to the marketplace through the collapse of temporality in forms of life, work and education. We can easily point to internships and other situations where the value of knowledge is made null: when one works for free. The internship, widespread across Europe, is a clear example of how the university system works towards a segmentation that devalues knowledge in terms of wage and remuneration. Moreover, the university works as a mode for governing and managing an increasing quota of the precarious workforce employed in sectors of low skills: the so-called shit jobs of students who simply cannot afford their study.[7] This is a real workers' reserve army, an army which the university itself organizes and builds up. Far from being a beautiful soul outside of the hidden dangers of the market, the student is exploited even when not working.
Finally we have the construction of a hierarchy of the university itself at a national and international level. This hierarchy sets up filters to process a differentiation inside of the workforce where a degree from 'x university' or 'y country' is worth less or more than the same degree from another university or country. This hierarchy of degrees is applied onto the same international workforce, inside a new international division of labour.
Listen to the Sound of Struggle: Self-Education as Autonomous Institution
To conclude, I'd like to mention some of the recent struggles around Europe within the university context. These struggles are not simply student struggles. Within the ephemeral borders of the university and its productive centrality, the struggles of the past years have taken shape differently from the classical university struggles. Indeed, these struggles, from the anti-CPE struggle in France in 2006 and those against the reform of Sarkozy's government in 2007, onto the occupation of Greek and Italian universities in 2005, may be understood as the new configuration of a new cycle of struggles, a new cycle marked by the complete overcoming of the classical figure of the student.
On the one hand the university context becomes central to capitalist production. And on the other hand we can find its immediately metropolitan dimension.
This is a new cycle of struggles where the main characteristics are the common processes of the precarization of life on the one hand, and the constant processes of educational policy harmonization (read: the attempt to construct a common market for the workforce at the European level) on the other. The metropolitan dimension of these university conflicts are elements that allow us to read properly what happened in our university, our metropolis, to understand that they are the same. These battles reconfigure how the struggles for access are struggles against filters and blocks of differential inclusion inside the workings of the modern university. These struggles displace the contemporary production of capitalist command onto productive power today and shape the hierarchical process conflicts around the students' mobility as a workforce.
To sum up what I've been trying to say here in a few points: I've tried to show how today the centrality of the university in the productive process entails that a new exploitation of the workforce passes through knowledge. That means that knowledge itself is a new strategic battlefield of the productive process, that knowledge is the battlefield against new sets of exploitation and blackmail. And if knowledge has a new centrality with regard to the capitalistic production of conflict, we need to consider two matters further.
Firstly, that the quality and production of this knowledge itself becomes a strategic field of struggle. In this way the experience of self-education in many universities at a global level represents a decisive field of conflict: workers' management of their own knowledge, of production and of its socialization. This is synonymous with worker autonomy and therefore with exodus from contemporary command. The construction of autonomy and the planning of ways for existing networks to increase these practices is what, for example, the 'edu-factory' project is all about. The demand for the autonomy of content and the modality of the research of self-education itself is the field of difference capable of threatening the new set of command.
Secondly, to speak about the university and the contemporary institutions of capitalist command and of self-education, is to try to find an adequate organizational level for the contemporary dispositif of power. It is to attempt to elucidate how it articulates, to attempt to hone in on its modes of governance. It is to attempt to read these modes of governance as process of power and command management and to attempt to find ways to react to the creative power of conflicts: this is the answer and advanced point of new forms of command.
How are we to articulate the organizational practice of self-education when a physical outside does not exist? From where do we organize the threat? We need to find a new and public line of escape: a way to invent new weapons as Deleuze and Guattari (2004: 445) said, in a scenario that is no longer physical but becoming more and more time bound. We need to organize self-educational practices and workers self- management at a new level: at the level of the institution. And it is in this sense that we come to the idea of an autonomous institution. We must organize the university space, from inside, as an irreducible outside: a place where we find material resources, funds and organizational resources for labour's management of knowledge, autonomy and production of critical knowledge. By critical knowledge I mean a sort of knowledge that is able to organize, to open up and manage the crisis of the command of productive power as it goes through knowledge.
[1] 'Cognitive Capitalism' is the literal translation into English of the term 'capitalismo cognitivo', a concept born out of European (and particularly Italian) 'post-operaismo' thought. See, for example, Vercellone (2003) and Negri (2008).
[2] See the edu-factory Manifesto [http://www.edu-factory.org/index.php?option=com_contentandtask =viewandid=5andItemid=6].
[3] The slogan of Italian university movement of 2005 was: 'our time is here and starts now' [http://www.globalproject.info/art-6049.html].
[4] A document of the Paris VIII University meeting written during the students' struggle in France in November 2007 was suggestively entitled 'we don't want a future, we want a present!' It continues: "the project is to postpone existence in a future, in a post. We refuse this permanent updating. We want a present in which to extract something decent […]" (Trans. by the author). [http://www.globalproject.info/art-13859.html?var_recherche=cpe].
[5] [http://www.edu-factory.org/index.php?option=com_contentandtask=viewandid=86andItemid=41].
[6] [http://www.uniriot.org/index.php?option=com_contentandtask=viewandid=204andItemid=104].
[7] See in particular Bousquet, 2008, wherein the author describes the exploitation of undergraduate students as cheap labour and as a docile and disciplined workforce. Students, argues Bousquet, are already workers. The progressive 'intellectualization' of the workforce, in this light, doesn't mean an increase in wages but, on the contrary, the reduction of minimal guarantees. This is the scenario where the promise of a better future is in reality a present made of exploitation and debt.
Bousquet, M. (2008) How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-wage Nation. New York: New York University Press.
Deleuze, G. and F. Guattari (2004) A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. B. Massumi. London: Continuum Press.
Marx, K. (1993) Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy, trans. M. Nicolaus. London: Penguin.
Negri, A. and C. Vercellone (2008) 'Il rapporto capitale/lavoro nel capitalismo cognitivo' [http://www.posseweb.net/spip.php?article17].
Vercellone, C. (2006) Capitalismo Cognitivo conoscenza e finanza nell'epoca postfordista. Rome: Manifestolibri.
the author(s)
Paolo Do is a member of the edu-factory collective [www.edu-factory.org] and of the Uninomade project in Italy. He is editor of POSSE [www.posseweb.net]. He co-edited Lessico Marxiano, concetti per ripensare il presente (Rome, 2008) within LUM (Free Metropolitan University) at ESC [www.escaterlier.net]. In 2008 he co-organised The Art of Rent seminar series at Queen Mary's University of London.
E-mail: paolo.posse AT gmail.com


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ProAm Sports Medicine Debuts Championship Treatment in Las Vegas
By Jamie Malloy | Las Vegas, NV
ProAm Sports Medicine is committed to 'Championship Medical Treatment for All'
Formerly known as "Athlete Advantage Medical," ProAm Sports Medicine, is launching a revolutionary new concept in healthcare. The practice is launching their new healthcare concept, Expedited Injury Treatment, which will be opening a new location in Las Vegas.
The sports medical aide program will be partnering up with Syndicate MMA Gym to form a next generation complex for training. This event will only be held privately. It will not be open to the public.
Private tours and one-one interview sessions are available ahead of the grand opening. The event will be held from Thursday, December 2, 2021 through Wednesday December 8, 2021 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. PT.
About ProAm Sports Medicine
ProAm Sports Medicine is now a top medical aide for professional, college, and recreational athletes. ProAm boasts first-level care. This includes testing for COVID-19 and pre-fight medical exams. They also provide injury treatment, physical therapy and performance resources at their high performance training facility.
The sports medicine company has a motto, which is, "Championship Medical Treatment for All." This motto means athletes of all levels will be provided with the best resources and care providers both locally and nationwide, with a process that gets rid of delays, while getting the patient back up on their feet as soon as possible.
We all deserve first-level care, even if we're not all first-class athletes. That's what makes all of us so special. Guess what Rob Gronkowski? I'm special just like you.
This out of the box marketing policy makes ProAm a top provider of COVID-19 testing in the US. They have made their mark handing out tests to live sports and entertainment audiences. They have given out tests at corporate trade shows, conventions and educational venues. They want to make sure that health and safety is their first priority.
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James Murphy, CEO and founder of ProAm Sports Medicine and John Wood, owner of Syndicate MMA Gym will speak about opening the sports complex. They will also explain how an injury treatment will benefit athletes of every level.
Dr. Jeff Davidson will be there to attend and give his opinion at the opening ceremony. Davidson is a ProAm Sports Medicine Consultant and serves as the Chief Medical Consultant for the UFC.
The Chairman and Medical Director of Valley Hospital's Emergency Department, and a Clinical Associate Professor for the University of Touro Medical School, is confirmed to attend along with Professional Boxer, Shane Mosley Jr.
Media Opportunity
Photo opportunities – Executives and VIPs at the ribbon cutting; the training facility, gym and physical therapy rooms; injury treatment center, and professional boxer Shane Mosley Jr.
Interview opportunities – James Murphy, President and CEO of ProAm Sports Medicine, John Wood, owner of Syndicate MMA Gym.
Most medical insurance policies are accepted. For more information visit ProAm Sports Medicine or follow @proammedicallv on Facebook or @proammedical on Instagram.
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6:00 p.m. – Welcome and Presentations
6:30 p.m. – Breakout media interviews
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Deputy Fired for Using His 'Loud Truck' to Taunt Neighbor
Petty neighborhood conflicts happen all the time but, when you're an officer of the law, it's especially key to keep things civil if you'd also like to keep your job. Case in point: South Carolina deputy Christopher Capps was fired after admitting to using his "loud truck" to taunt a neighbor who liked to "complain about the loud cars" in Beaufort County Council meetings and had previously requested a noise ordinance.
According to the Associated Press, Capps deliberately drove his truck loudly past the neighbor's home, which prompted the neighbor to chase Capps in his own vehicle for more than six miles before both men were pulled over by other police officers. On the positive side, Capps immediately confessed to what he was doing and acknowledged that it was a "stupid, stupid" mistake.
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Pickup truck on 38-inch tires.
"I'll admit I did poke the bear a little bit," Capps said to a supervisor before admitting to an internal investigator. "I know it was wrong, I know, you know, morally it was wrong. As a deputy, I'm supposed to be held to a higher standard than that, and you know, it was a stupid, stupid thing to do."
Capps was fired by the Sherriff's Office for off-duty behavior that "discredited the department or brought it into disrepute."
And because I know you all are wondering, disciplinary documents obtained by the Island Packet of Hilton Head say the ex-officer's truck was equipped with 38-inch off-road tires. There was no mention of what kind of truck it was, but 38-inch tires are, admittedly, not small things and they can cause quite the noise rolling down the road.
Here's an example of a lifted truck on 38s:
Just last month, we reported on California BMW owner Bryan Hillman, who was being sued by his mother's neighbors for apparently driving his stanced E46 3 Series loudly and recklessly for years around the neighborhood and generally being an asshat, including allegations of verbal assault and intimidation against a lady named Susan. A quick look at Bryan's Twitter feed confirms that he is, currently, still keeping it classy.
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Microsoft Guts and Rebuilds Dynamics AX
By Erika Morphy | Nov 19, 2015
CHANNEL: Social Business
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The next time you look under the hood of Microsoft's Dynamics AX, you might have a hard time recognizing it. The forthcoming new iteration of the flagship enterprise resource planning (ERP) product has been completely revamped.
For starters, the product has been rewritten entirely in HTML5.
Microsoft Dynamics used HTML5 in the past, for instance in companion apps with time and expense management, Mike Ehrenberg, technical fellow, Microsoft Dynamics ERP told CMSWire.
It also offered browser solutions based on SharePoint. The new AX has done away with that piecemeal approach, Ehrenberg said, "HTML5 is the broad user experience that also unifies the architecture."
Microsoft Add-Ins
But this is still Microsoft we are talking about. Dynamics AX may be re-architected in the latest version of the Hypertext Markup Language but it's also been infused with Microsoft technology. Making star appearances in the portfolio are Azure SQL, Azure machine learning, Office 365, Cortana and Power BI.
Power BI is, of course, Microsoft's native analytics program. And here too, Dynamic AX is giving users another "first," Ehrenberg said. "This is the first time Power BI has been embedded in our ERP system."
Power BI could always be used alongside the ERP in past iterations, he continued, "but we did the work with the Power BI team to embed it inside."
There are new productivity and collaboration-oriented features such as Tasks Guides, which records the steps in a business process much like an Excel macro and a concept called "Workspaces," where users can gather all the processes, data and activities for their specialized roles.
It also includes a mobile piece, the Windows 10 Universal App — or what Ehrenberg called a hybrid app, in that it delivers Dynamic AX's HTML5 experience in an app container. Yes, the app will also be available for iOS and Android, Ehrenberg said, "reflecting our cross-platform commitment."
The result, Ehrenberg said, is "truly transformative."
Dynamics AX will be generally available in the first quarter of 2016.
Now let's unpack some of these features.
All in One Analytics
The blend of Azure SQL, Power BI and Office 365 bears a deeper look. The combo of the first two are embedded throughout the platform, providing near real time analytics. The advantage, Ehrenberg explained, is that users don't have to leave the app to work with a separate analytics or business intelligence tool.
Dynamics AX also uses in-memory BI to channel Power BI, so the user can create the analytics, see what they pull up in the application, tap PowerBI to drill down into the data, even reaching the original transactions.
Here, Azure machine learning can swoop in to make suggestions, say on financial planning or product recommendations, based on previous calculations and configuring.
Collaboration, In Context
Dynamics AX is also heavy on the productivity and collaboration factor, Ehrenberg said. It has Office 365, after all, and Skype interoperability as well.
The new feature "Workspaces," takes some of this a bit further. As Ehrenberg explains, it is for employees who have specialized roles or tasks, or for those who just like their work flows a certain way — which, when you think about it, probably covers all users.
Workplaces brings all the data, tasks and activities meant for the roles in one place, which creates a double whammy of sorts as the configuration can also bring new context to the data. And if that doesn't work, the aforementioned Power BI, in-memory BI and Azure SQL can always be summoned to wring out new insights.
Likewise for another new tool, Task Guides, created to aid in the development of a new process, or to teach someone new to a role how to perform a new process. On-screen guidance is available to build the process and as a nice added touch, users can drive the application using voice commands through Cortana.
The Benefit of the Cloud
Dynamics AX, of course, is delivered through the Azure Cloud, a mode that gives Microsoft a close up view of how its customers work and what works for them. "We can see what people are using, what is working and what is not," Ehrenberg said.
For that reason, everything in Dynamics AX was engineered for optimum use in the cloud, he said. "We have one of the biggest cloud footprints out there and Dynamics AX is built to take advantage of that."
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High Contrast Episode 21: Tangent Mode On!
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Hello! I am new to this and I have doubts about the operation of the cam sensor or cam sync. my car is a honda civic with a series B engine, DIS system to do it Coil on plug with Kseries coils, I am using the oem crank trigger (12 teeth) and the factory dealer uses the TDC coil pickup and that is 4 teeth and delete it 3, in the photo you can see at the end of the DIS painted with liquid paper white. The question is the following is how I can determine in which cycle the engine is? the engine ignites but suddenly shuts off as if it were off the cycle. Question 2, I have a damper Ati and when the cam sensor tooth is as close as possible to make contact with the pickup coil this is approximately a 35 degree (see photo) BTDC, does this have to do? Is there any formula? now the firing order begins in cylinder 3, then in 4, then in 2 and finally in cylinder number 1. how can i really know if it is cylinder 3 that starts my firing order? if the firing order were started in cylinder number 3, would it be correct to use cylinder 3 to measure the time light? the REF DEGREE BTDC where would it be good to start 60 or 80 degrees? I hope you can help me then the EMS is WOLF tuner series (Australian ecu) 24 teeth with 5 skip, according to wolf 24 divided between 4 events equals 6 so are 5 skip, filters are 0 crank trigger reluctor rising edge , and cam sync reluctor rising edge, 24 teeth with 5 skip, according to wolf 24 divided between 4 events is equal to 6 therefore they are 5 skip, the filters are 0.
I'll try and answer your questions although I'm not familiar with the Wolf ECU so can't help specifically on that platform.
First of all the position in the engine cycle (or which cylinder is firing at any particular time) is deduced by the sync input which happens once every engine cycle (or 720 deg). In most cases there is an offset or calibration parameter in the ECU that essentially defines where the sync tooth occurs relative to TDC on cylinder #1. During cranking the ECU waits to see the sync input so it can decide where in the engine cycle it is.
Some ECUs specify a particular point in the engine cycle where the sync tooth occurs (perhaps 60 deg BTDC #1 for example), while other ECUs aren't so fussy. I can't tell you how this information relates to the Wolf product. With regard to your question about the sync location, if you can adjust the offset or calibration in the ECU then this should be workable. Essentially you will set the base timing on #1 cylinder and you'll either be on the correct (firing) engine cycle or you will be on the exhaust stroke and the engine won't run. If the engine won't run but the timing looks correct with the timing light then you can add or subtract 360 degrees from your offset and you should be good to go.


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Q: encoding parameter with special symbols in a HTTP call A string parameter in my url has special symbols (1008~38|1011~21|1022~26)
Using Java HttpUrlConnection in java to make http post call to a service.
targeturl = http://localhost.com/myapp/destinations=1008~38|1011~21|1222~26
URL url = new URL(targeturl)

url generated is following which looks like is already encoded
    http://localhost.com/myapp/destinations=1008~38%7C1011~21%7C1222~26
Not sure if I have to encode the character '~' also. Please help


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Chinese Hackers Win $382,500 For Hacking KVM On Ubuntu, Edge, Adobe Reader
In 2018, the Chinese government barred Chinese security researchers from participating in hacking contests in foreign countries in a bid to keep the knowledge of disclosing software vulnerabilities in China itself. The decision affected popular hacking contests like Pwn2Own that were mostly dominated by Chinese participants.
As a response to the ban, the Chinese government started organizing TianfuCup, for local security researchers.
On the first day of the ongoing TianfuCup, Chinese security researchers have managed to successfully discover zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Edge (based on EdgeHTML), Google Chrome, Safari, Office365, D-Link DIR-878 Router, Adobe PDF Reader, and quemu-kvm + Ubuntu.
Team 360Vulcan, which won the Pwn2Own in 2016 by hacking Google Chrome within 11 minutes, is leading the TianfuCup 2019.
I'm not at all surprised to see 360Vulcan has an exploit in every category. They are a large team with a lot of skilled people. Also, they always dominate by quantity in pwn contests, they go after everything. (The router bugs don't pay out enough, I guess, to attract 360) https://t.co/bvn41vIK16
— thaddeus e. grugq (@thegrugq) November 16, 2019
On Day 2, Chinese hackers exposed the vulnerabilities in D-Link DIR-878 router, Adobe PDF Reader, and VMWare Workstation. Team 360Vulcan was expected to exploit iOS in their much-anticipated session, but the team gave up before it happened.
Nonetheless, Team 360Vulcan won the competition bagging prize money of $382,500 for hacking Microsoft Office 365, VMWare Workstation, Microsoft Edge, qemu+Ubuntu, and Adobe PDF Reader.
A major chunk of the prize money won by Team 360Vulcan came from the exploits of VMWare and qemu+Ubuntu that were valued at $200,000 and $80,000, respectively.
Many companies, including Google, sent their representatives to the competition for picking up the exploits' reports and issue a patch as soon as possible.
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Food Industry Meetings is an international business convention dedicated exclusively to the development of the supply chain for the Food & Beverage Processing Industry in Mexico.
The official venue for the Food & Beverage industry to explore the market, and identify new commercial relationships and investment opportunities on an international scale.
The event will be held on 19 & 20 April in Toluca, Mexico.
If you are an HHM member please contact florencia@hollandhousemexico.com for a special price.
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7 February 2023 | 09:00 AM
Save the date for Digital Health Connections!Date: 7 and 8 February 2023 in Mexico City.An event that seeks to promote collaboration between companies in the health sector, through the presentation of success stories, analysis, discussion and learning in order to generate concrete solutions and grounded actions for current issues in the sector.Register now in this first edition, and be part of the companies that lead the transformation of digital health in Mexico and Latin America.Register Here: https://dhc.medikit.mx/register/HHM members will receive a complimentary registration, contact: nayeli@hollandhousemexico.com
Accreditation Ceremony & 4th Anniversary HHM
23 February 2023 | 07:00 PM | Sierra Fría 670
It is with great pleasure that Holland House Mexico and NLinBusiness invite you to join us in celebration of the official accreditation of HHM by NLinBusiness, and our 4th anniversary. On Thursday 23 February From 19.00 – 22.00 hrs At the Residence of H.E. Ambassdor Wilfred Mohr NLinBusiness NLinBusiness is an initiative by the Dutch employers' organizations VNO-NCW and MKB Nederland. NLIB works closely together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate, the trade associations FME, Evofenedex and Koninklijke Metaalunie, as well as with other interest groups, Top Sectors, knowledge institutes and the Dutch business community. HHM: Accredited NL Business Hub The NLinBusiness accreditation is a quality mark that validates the expertise and services Holland House Mexico provides. Requirements include that the NL Business Hub is a "not-for-profit" organization with the mission to strengthen the trade relationship between the Netherlands and foreign markets. NLinBusiness also assesses the membership composition, governance structure, as well as the quality, transparency, and service portfolio of the organization. HHM is the 12th hub to be accredited, following Holland House Colombia and Dutcham Sao Paolo in the Americas. Please note that this event is for HHM Members and Invitees only. Registration is mandatory.


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2022 Bulgaria Thu, Mar 3 National Holiday
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March 3rd is Bulgaria's National Day. It honours the Bulgarian volunteers who, during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 with the assistance of Russian and Romania.
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When is Bulgarian Liberation Day?
This public holiday in Bulgaria is always celebrated on March 3rd. The full title of the holiday is the Bulgarian Day of Liberation from the Ottoman Domination.
This holiday is Bulgaria's national day and honours the Bulgarian volunteers who, during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 with the assistance of Russian and Romanian forces, liberated Bulgaria from almost 500 years of Ottoman rule.
History of Bulgarian Liberation Day
The date of March 3rd marks the date of the signing the Treaty of San Stefano in 1878.
This peace treaty ended the war and was signed between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, which proclaimed Bulgaria as an independent state, albeit a vassal state within the Ottoman Empire.
Bulgaria had become part of the Ottoman Empire in 1396. In the late nineteenth century, a growing tide of nationalism had been spreading across Europe, which had been threatening the break up of the western parts of the Ottoman Empire.
In April 1876, uprisings in other parts of the Ottoman Empire spread to Bulgaria. The suppression of the revolts by the Ottomans was horrific and when the atrocities were made public to the West and Russia, international condemnation was widespread. On April 24th 1877, Russia formally declared war on the Ottoman Empire.
How is Bulgarian Liberation Day celebrated?
This holiday is a welcome holiday at the start of spring and is traditionally marked by ceremonies across Bulgaria, particularly in those towns and cities which saw the fiercest fighting in the war.
Shipka Pass in the Balkan Mountains is at the centre of celebrations marking the key battle that took place there. In Sofia, there will be church services, wreath-laying and a military march to honour those who gave their lives in the war.
March 3rd became Bulgaria's Liberation Day in 1888, though it took until 1978 before it gained its National Day of Bulgaria status and was formally decreed as an official holiday in 1990.
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'Hardware Updates' in iPhone X and iPhone 8 Handle Battery Issues
by iPhoneHeat on Feb 7, 2018
With the release of iOS 10.2.1, Apple included a new feature in its mobile operating system that throttled the overall operating system performance in an attempt to avoid random shutdowns on older iPhone devices. This iPhone slow-down by Apple's software was discovered by the public at the tail-end of 2017 and that's when the company started feeling the heat from the end users.
Apple admitted the change and said that the performance throttling happens on the devices with a battery that has reached its end of life cycle. To address the situation, the company introduced a $29 battery replacement program and even considering sending out rebates to customers who purchased the batteries at full-price for their older iPhone models.
That bit of information became a public knowledge when Apple sent a letter to US Senate, following a query from Senator John Thune (R-SD). The letter also revealed that the software feature that throttles OS performance is not necessary for the new iPhone models. The company has introduced "hardware updates" in their new iPhone models to address the same battery issues.
In an answer to a question asked by Thune that if the company planned on issuing a "similar software update … for newer phone models," to which Apple replied:
iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X models include hardware updates that allow a more advanced performance management system that more precisely allows iOS to anticipate and avoid an unexpected shutdown.
In her response, Apple also noted that "all iPhones have basic performance management" without going into details. Apple did not indicate how much of this performance management system is base don software and how much of that is handled by the hardware. The company also refrained from telling if they plan on releasing a software update to address the battery related issue for these new iPhone models in the future when they become old.
While Apple admits that there are hardware improvements introduced in new iPhone models, the company is not necessarily saying that future software updates for such issues won't be necessary.
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Apple releases iOS 11.3 beta 2 with new Animoji and Battery Health Feature Fix: Can't Immediately Answer Incoming Calls on iPhone X


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Former University student builds hospital in Syria
Former Master's of Public Health student Khaled Almilaji realized his vision of building an underground hospital in his home country of Syria with the help of the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs' Humanitarian Innovation Initiative and University student groups.
Former ambassador talks Israel, Palestine peace prospects
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Former Ambassador Dennis Ross spoke about the United States' role in the Middle East and the state of the region to a crowded Salomon Center Thursday.
Cicilline '83 discusses role of US in UN
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U.S. Congressman David Cicilline '83, D-R.I., spoke about the United States' relationship with the United Nations in honor of United Nations Day Friday.
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New Med School program educates students on opioid addiction
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Amid the statewide and nationwide opioid epidemic, the Alpert Medical School is shaping its curriculum to prepare students to treat opioid misuse disorder.
Raimondo, Sen. Hassan reflect upon role of women in politics
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Governor Gina M. Raimondo and Senator Maggie Hassan '80 P'15, D-N.H., spoke about the importance of women in politics and their own experiences as leaders.
Barred from United States, Almilaji GS builds underground hospital in Syria
Khaled Almilaji MPH, whose U.S. visa was revoked while traveling to Turkey over winter break, is building a hospital in Idlib City, Syria.
Lives of two Iranian students upturned by Trump immigration bans
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As President Trump signed his first executive order on immigration, Babak Hemmatian GS discovered his father's colon cancer had spread to his other organs.
Todd Stern discusses future of climate, energy policy
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"Don't give up and don't be resigned" in the fight against climate change, said Todd Stern, former U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change.
Syrian student stranded in Turkey due to visa complications
When Khaled Almilaji GS got to the airport in Gaziantep, Turkey, he was told by Turkish Airlines that he would not be allowed to enter the United States.
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Students from the top 1 percent attended Brown at roughly the same proportion as students from the bottom 60 percent from 2006 to 2013.


Looking forward to the New Year. A time to make the changes that I need to turn my weight (non) loss around. The last Nov reboot fizzled. A week in or so I found out some things about my health that kept me from going forward, I turned my back mentally, physically, to my overall health, which is somehow redundant of what I was trying to accomplish. A new year a new me.