Most news media (newspapers, television and radio stations, and magazines) are owned by corporations that rely on other companies to place advertisements and help the media pay their bills. So what are the odds that a newspaper will run a story criticizing a major advertiser, or run a story exposing the media's corporate owner? More importantly, what news company is going to risk raising the ire of its own government, when doing so could jeopardize that company from attending any future government press conferences that their competitors will surely attend?
If you think that any of the news sources listed in this chapter are free from any bias, influence, or censorship, it's time to rethink your perception of how the news media really works. Every year, Project Censored (http://www.projectcensored.org) offers their top ten stories that the news media conveniently ignored, that inevitably turn out to be major environmental, political, or social disasters that make a prominent corporation or government look corrupt, exploitive, or just plain incompetent.
Some recent stories that Project Censored highlighted include a report by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences warning that catastrophic climate changes could be imminent due to global warming, the pesticide poisoning of 10,000 Ecuadoran farmers and Amazon Indians by DynCorp, and America's covert war in Macedonia to establish an oil pipeline to link the Black Sea with the Adriatic coast.
The Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting site (http://www.fair.org) reported that Dan Guthrie, a columnist for the Grants Pass Daily Courier, claims he was fired for criticizing President Bush as "hiding in a Nebraska hole" in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks. The column sparked angry letters to the editor, causing the newspaper to print an apology that stated, "Criticism of our chief executive and those around him needs to be responsible and appropriate. Labeling him and the nation's other top leaders as cowards as the United States tries to unite after its bloodiest terrorist attack ever isn't responsible or appropriate."
In another example, Tom Gutting was fired from the Texas City Sun for also criticizing President Bush on the day of the terrorist attacks. The newspaper later printed an editorial with the headline, "Bush's Leadership Has Been Superb."
Other corporate influences show up in the thinly disguised advertisements masquerading as news, such as stories urging Americans to get more calcium by drinking milk (indirectly promoting the dairy industry by ignoring other sources of calcium, medical information that suggests that milk is not a particularly healthy food after all, or listing the types of drugs that dairy farms use to force cows to produce more milk-drugs that can deform the cows and contaminate the milk itself).
Besides promoting a particular product, the news media may simply ignore information that puts the welfare and safety of individuals ahead of the liability and financial well-being of corporations. Common news stories offer tips about how parents can reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) while ignoring New Zealand research from 1994 (http://www.healthychild.com) that links SIDS to a fungus and toxic gases released by fire retardant chemicals in mattresses and blankets.


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Jeffrey Epstein Pal Glenn Dubin Doesn't Know Who This Other Epstein Buddy 'Glen Dubin' Is
Apologies to the Virgin Islands authorities, but in spite of the shared last name, he's got no idea where to find him.
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Denise George, the attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands, is leaving no stone unturned in her quest for justice for all of the children in whose sex Jeffrey Epstein trafficked on his private not-so-virgin island in the U.S. territory. And every stone she turns seems to have a prominent hedge or private equity fund or their leaders under it. And so out go subpoenas to Leon Black and Apollo Global Management. And, of course, out go subpoenas to Highbridge Capital Management, whose sale to JPMorgan Chase was for some reason arranged in at least part by Epstein, when he wasn't busy having sex with and/or pimping out children. And also to Eva Andersson-Dubin, an Epstein ex-girlfriend and wife of Highbridge founder Glenn Dubin.
But Glenn Dubin himself? Looks like he needn't have gone to the trouble of shutting down his hedge fund to avoid having to talk about his relationship with Epstein, which allegedly went beyond introducing him to Jes Staley to include relations with members of Epstein's harem both over and under the age of consent, because George is actually looking for information from someone else entirely.
In the notices, filed Sept. 3 and made public on the court's website Tuesday, the Dubins will have 30 days, once they've been served with the subpoenas, to hand over any documents they may have from 1998 until the present that detail their financial transactions with Epstein and their travel to Epstein's properties in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Glenn Dubin's name is spelled "Glen" in the documents…. The subpoenas are also asking for all documents and communications between the Dubins and "any female associated with Jeffrey Epstein."
We don't know who this Glen Dubin is, but we're sure that Glenn Dubin is glad he's not him.
Virgin Islands Intends to Subpoena Dubin in Epstein Lawsuit [Bloomberg]
U.S. Virgin IslandsGlenn DubinPedophilescrimeGlenn Or Glen DuhlawDenise GeorgesubpoenasEva Andersson-DubinJeffrey Epstein
Report: Jeff Epstein Did A Little More For Glenn Dubin Than Find A Buyer For His Hedge Fund
Certainly enough (allegedly) to earn some breast meat on T-Day, if you catch my drift.
Virgin Islands Attorney General Curious Why Leon Black's Name Keeps Coming Up In Her Jeff Epstein Investigation
Denise George has some questions (and document requests) for the billionaire.
Glenn Dubin Will Not Have To Field Jeffrey Epstein-Related Question From Investors Anymore
Not that his retirement has anything to do with the dead pedophile, of course.
New York Times Quantifies Exactly How 'Limited' Leon Black's Relationship With Jeffrey Epstein Was
It's measured in eight figures.
Inept Labor Secretary Resigns For Being Inept Federal Prosecutor
Alex Acosta is gonna go find something else to do badly now.
Nassau County Is A Hotbed Of Fraud And We Couldn't Be Prouder
From meat mislabeling to a guy named Heckler cold-calling Ponzi scheme victims, it's been a delightful month on Long Island.
Leon Black's Mistress Says He Tried To Do For Jeffrey Epstein What Epstein Did For So Many Others
What are "best friends" for, after all?
Just How Fulsome Was Jes Staley's Description Of His Ties To Jeffrey Epstein To British Regulators?
They'd like to know if he improperly kept his underwear on in his disclosures to them.

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It's already December (thats quick!) & X'mas is just around the corner. Have you got your tree up yet?
X'mas is just 4 days away, and Plymouth was showered with glittering lights. Shoppers thronging the outlets and the city centre is bustling. Me and Hoong planned a walk around the town taking some snapshots. What interest us is the beautiful ferris wheel in front of the Guildhall. The scene after sunset was a spectre.
An early X'mas dinner at Dave's place, Glenholt. X'mas is 2 weeks away but Dave has thrown us an early X'mas party since on X'mas he is very much belonged to his family and not us! Therefore, a party has to be organised and since everyone is kinda available on the 11th, why not?


There are many times when a proof of concept (POC) is required for either a project or a body of research. Often these are used to demonstrate an idea to examine if it is suitable and the POC may never become a fully fledged product. There are some key differences when it comes to POC vs production (or release ready) code and some of these are covered here - this is certainly not exhaustive.
Developers will often have to comply with a coding manual of style and these can differ between establishments. A POC is often a "quick and dirty" demonstration of an idea, so compliance with styles may be ignored. If the developer is using an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) this might automatically apply the style (line spacing, indentation etc.) but this isn't guaranteed.
Some Software Development Kits (SDK) and standards also set rules, a good example being Android apps. In Android app development it is not permitted to perform network operations on the main thread in order to avoid a non-responsive user interface (UI). This can be bypassed and while that may be appropriate for a POC it would provide an incredibly poor user experience in a full product.
Branding is another set of rules a developer may need to comply with, with marketing departments keen to ensure a uniform look for clients and for internal staff. POCs can be very bland examples, with the marketing team only getting involved once the project has been approved.
If breaking the rules, it's important to ensure they're adhered to when moving from POC to production.
This is problematic at the best of times, with many developers finding the process of writing documentation a bore and a distraction from "the real work". Nonetheless, good documentation is essential to the ongoing maintenance of a product. Not only will it be a useful tool for the main developer, to jog their memory, but it will ensure any newcomers to the team can develop with relative ease. Many IDEs have plugins to generate documentation based on comments (that's assuming the developer bothered to add any).
When it comes to a POC, documentation is less important. Firstly, the POC will not be as large as the full product and, secondly, the POC may never become a full product anyway. Companies are reluctant to direct developers to write full documentation for non-production systems - it's simply not economical to do so - and even less likely to require it for a proof of concept that'll be re-written long before the code enters production usage.
// TODO - Alice: What on Earth does that mean Bob?!
Output is the real risk, and I've seen plenty of occasions where developer frustrations (or developer jokes) have ended up exposed to users, both in my code and other people's. This particular risk is common to both POCs and production software and my advice is simple - don't swear or be silly in your code! That said, a system that I and my coding partner wrote still says "forage, mine, make crystals out of belly button fluff". Fortunately that system is used in quite a relaxed environment (for a LARP system) and the staff find that humorous (although most have never noticed).
A POC is very useful for the early stages in the development life cycle. They can save months of code by proving if an idea is valid so they're worth doing. Keep in mind the differences and use best practice wherever possible. Happy developing!
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A list of HTTPS inspection exceptions I've found are needed to work with Google services. Includes those needed for Chromebooks and the Google Play Store (Android app installs).


A 30-year-old Kimball Township man charged with fatally shooting an off-duty police officer, and injuring his estranged wife and her neighbor, will be back in court March 20.
Joshua Bauman's case has been on hold after his lawyer said during a pre-trial hearing in October he would be requesting his client undergo a criminal responsibility examination at the Center for Forensic Psychiatry in Saline. The lawyer indicated they would be asserting a defense of insanity.
A pre-trial hearing is set for Bauman at 1:45 p.m. March 20 in front of St. Clair County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Kelly.
Bauman is charged with first-degree premeditated murder; two counts of assault with intent to murder; one count of first-degree home invasion; and one count of felony firearms.
Police have said Bauman went to his estranged wife's Clyde Township apartment in the early morning hours of Aug. 24, before breaking into the apartment and fatally shooting Port Huron Police Lt. Joel Wood.
He is also charged with chasing his estranged wife, Ashly Bauman, and shooting her and her neighbor who was trying to help.
Ashly Bauman had filed for divorce in May, according to court records.
Joshua Bauman's case was bound over to circuit court in September after District Court Judge Cynthia Platzer ruled there was enough evidence to move the case toward trial.
Wood was a 22-year veteran of the Port Huron Police Department.
Joshua Bauman was located by officers in Southfield about four hours after the shooting. He was arrested without incident. He's been held at the county jail without bond.


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Articles on Cecil Rhodes
Former South African government minister Nomvula Mokonyane, a leading member of the ruling ANC, at the commission probing grand corruption. Luba Lesolle/Gallo Images via Getty Images
How corruption in South Africa is deeply rooted in the country's past and why that matters
Steven Friedman, University of Johannesburg
Corruption has been a constant feature of South African political life for much of the past 350 years; solutions will also take time.
A statue of slaveholder Robert Milligan is removed at West India Quay, east London. Yui Mok/PA Wire/PA Images
Statues are just the start – the UK is peppered with slavery heritage
Sophie Campbell, University of Nottingham
Britain's heritage is steeped in the remnants and history of slavery, but you wouldn't necessarily know it.
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What should British universities do about benefits received from past wrongs?
Steven Greer, University of Bristol
History is complex and multi-dimensional. Any response to what happened in the past should reflect this.
A statue of Ethiopia's last emperor, Haile Selassie, at the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa. Hailu Wudineh Tsegaye / Shutterstock
Emperor Haile Selassie statue joins list of Africa's troubled memorials
Martin Plaut, School of Advanced Study
Leaders go in and out of fashion, making statues built in their memory a tricky issue.
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Whiteness characterises higher education institutions – so why are we surprised by racism?
Remi Joseph-Salisbury, Leeds Beckett University
Student-led campaigns have been calling out racism in universities for years. After a shocking incident at Nottingham Trent University, perhaps we should start to listen.
Former South African President Jacob Zuma. Never again should one man wield so much power. GCIS
South Africa's democracy stood up to the test: but some things need to change
Keith Gottschalk, University of the Western Cape
Zuma will go down in history as South Africa's most corrupt head of government since Cecil Rhodes was prime minister of the Cape Colony.
Violent service delivery riot near Soweto, Johannesburg.Millions of poor South Africans live in shacks. EPA/Nic Bothma
Why the dream of a prosperous, united nation continues to elude South Africa
Edward Webster, University of the Witwatersrand
The National Question cannot be resolved solely through South Africa's constitution. There's potential for a far more radical transformative project than traditional liberalism.
A statue of former Cape Colony governor Cecil Rhodes is removed from the University of Cape Town after student protests. EPA/Nic Bothma
Decolonising research methodology must include undoing its dirty history
Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, University of South Africa
The process of decolonising research methodology is an ethical, ontological and political exercise rather than simply one of approach and ways of producing knowledge.
Students cheer as a statue of Cecil John Rhodes is removed from the University of Cape Town in April 2015. REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham
Decolonising the curriculum: it's time for a strategy
Suellen Shay, University of Cape Town
There is a risk that because of fatigue, frustration and silencing the important moment created by South Africa's student movements will pass by with no proper, long-term structural change.
The US and Cuban flags with Havana's National Capitol Building in the background. EPA/Michael Reynolds
Lessons from Cuba about reclaiming symbols of a painful past
Lyn Snodgrass, Nelson Mandela University
Cuba's National Capitol Building has been reclaimed as the seat of the National Assembly 54 years after it was abandoned by the new revolutionary government. There are lessons in this for others.
Protests are continuing at Oxford over a statue of Cecil Rhodes. John Stillwell/PA Wire
What medical ethics can teach us about the #Rhodesmustfall debate
Katrien Devolder, University of Oxford
If it's ok to use research carried out in unethical experiments – as long as we acknowledge they were wrong – is it ok to keep a statue of an infamous imperialist?
South Africa is losing patience with the ANC. Reuters/Mark Wessells
South African students toppled Rhodes – but they can't get rid of Zuma
Stephen Chan, SOAS, University of London
South Africa's president is direly unpopular and his government on the ropes – but protests against him are just empty symbolism.
The grave of Cecil John Rhodes in Zimbabwe's Matopos Hills. Susan E Adams/flickr.com
History is not a morality play: both sides on #RhodesMustFall debate should remember that
Cheryl Hudson, University of Liverpool
Why Oriel College Oxford was right not to agree to take down a statue of the British imperalist.
Cecil John Rhodes: master of all he surveys - but not of a secret society. Reuters/Eddie Keogh
Rhodes: closet gay man who hatched a secret society to promote empire?
Paul Maylam, Rhodes University
The book contains major flaws, the chief of which is the lack of solid, supporting evidence. Brown claims that 'Rhodes documented everything' – which was not actually the case in this regard.
The world according to the British empire. Imperial Federation, Map of the World 1886; Wikimedia
School curriculum continues to whitewash Britain's imperial past
Deana Heath, University of Liverpool
We teach children about the birth and end of Empire, but miss out the violence of what happened in between.
A student beats the statue of Cecil John Rhodes with a belt as it is removed from the University of Cape Town. Reuters/Mike Hutchings
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What Cecil John Rhodes said in his will about who should get scholarships
Rhodes was an ardent white supremacist who believed Africans to be inferior. He intended his scholarships to be for white males only. This has since fallen away.
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Volunteering in NYC for Thanksgiving: From Citymeals on Wheels to FeedingNYC and more
West Side Campaign Against Hunger, New York Cares and Pride Is Home offer just a handful of ways to give back this week.
Citymeals on Wheels will distribute Thanksgiving meals this week across New York City. Photo Credit: Citymeals on Wheels
By Tianqi Liao Special to amNewYork Updated November 18, 2018 6:16 PM
For New Yorkers looking to give back this week in the spirit of Thanksgiving, here are just a few places and ways you can serve:
FeedingNYC 2018
FeedingNYC is a volunteer program dedicated to hand-delivering Thanksgiving meals for those in need around the city. This year, volunteers can sign up for sessions on Tuesday to join a group of 12 to deliver boxed meals in one of the five boroughs to families in homeless shelters.
You can choose to register as a volunteer or, if you are unable to attend, adopt a box by making a donation to FeedingNYC.
Register for volunteering or donations here.
Thousand Turkey Challenge
Every year, West Side Campaign Against Hunger holds its Thousand Turkey Challenge in support of low-income families in the city.
To get involved, you can bring a turkey on Monday or Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., or Wednesday from 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
(You can also text a turkey to show your support: text TURKEY to 56512)
Citymeals on Wheels
Citymeals on Wheels is a nonprofit that focuses on raising funds for elderly New Yorkers in need of food and companionship.
Every holiday, the organization hosts food distribution events, and Thanksgiving is no different. Those interested in delivering meals, participating in a senior chat or pairing with an isolated New Yorker can apply at citymeals.org/holidayvolunteer.
For a donation, visit their website and select donate now.
Founded by city residents in 1987, New York Cares hosts numerous events throughout the year to engage volunteers in charitable work.
This Thanksgiving, they are offering slots for new volunteers to lend a hand. On Tuesday, interested individuals can register to join the Thanksgiving Dinner Prep for Seniors at the Clinton Housing Development Company. Later on the same day, there's also the Thanksgiving Potluck at Brooklyn Gardens' elementary school PS 557K.
Click here to sign up now.
God's Love We Deliver
Throughout the week leading up to Thanksgiving, God's Love We Deliver is hosting various events for which volunteers can sign up to help. From baking to meal-kit assembly to delivery, the chain of production and distribution is broken down into sections for easy management.
For their Holiday Meal Campaign, known as Celebrate With a Plate, each Thanksgiving feast is priced at $10. Once you donate, meals go toward New Yorkers with serious illnesses.
Prideishome
For Pride Is Home and Faith Forward TV's 1st Annual Thanksgiving Community give-back, they have teamed up with 333 Lounge to feed 100 people and families on Thursday from 12 p.m.-3 p.m.
It's free to sign up and volunteers meet at the 333 Lounge on 333 Flatbush Ave. in Brooklyn.
Brown Bike Girl's Thanksgiving Day Vegan Meal Delivery Project
On Thanksgiving Day, Brown Bike Girl is teaming up with Chili on Wheels to deliver vegan meals to the homeless in areas of Harlem and the Bronx.
Meet at Tompkins Square Park at 11 a.m. with your bike to load it up with vegan meals.
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Q: strictNullChecks and null value propagation I would like to start using strictNullChecks flag in a very big code base. It is definitely a very useful flag but I'm starting to include null types in most of the interface definitions. Maybe it's a personal perception since I never used the flag before, but it's starting to decrease the code readability (imho). I have the sensation that null is everywhere. All originates in a function returning <type> | null that propagates up in the functions call stack, forcing me to also include null types in interfaces.
Most of the time I have optional nullable fields like:
interface X {
  field?: string | null
}

This kind of things are a bit weird when both null and undefined are falsy values.
I've thought about replacing null types with undefined, eg: <type> | undefined to remove null types from optional interface fields so I just have:
interface X {
  field?: string
}

But then I lose the semantic value of null which is something that I would like to maintain.
So, what do you think about strictNullChecks? Do you find this kind of fields field?: string | null a bit weird or is something that you like and feel comfortable with it?

A: Personally, I would suggest dropping null entirely, and using undefined instead.
If you have a semantic difference between a null and undefined value in your application, it's likely to cause confusion (in both TS & plain JS). If you don't, and you're just returning null/undefined at random, it'll be simpler and more consistent to use only one.
In terms of which to use, I suggest undefined primarily because TypeScript has slightly better support for it (i.e. ?). There are arguments for using only null instead, it's just more verbose, and it's often convenient to have undefined as your indicator of missing data because it's the default value of every uninitialized variable/field, and those should usually have the same semantics & behaviour as explicitly unavailable data.

A: I would agree with the answer by Tim Perry with regards to using only one - either null or undefined - and my advice is also to stick with undefined, mostly because you cannot avoid it as this is the value of missing fields and uninitialized variables.
Also null doesn't work for default function parameters:
function f(x = 1) {
  // ...
}

Here f(undefined) will set x to 1 but f(null) will not!
The only argument for null is that JSON doesn't support explicit undefined but this is not such a problem as for those cases when you deserialize JSON that needs explicit null values (as opposed to just missing values, effectively meaning undefined) you can easily convert that.
In my projects I go as far as to forbid nulls with a linter config, e.g. for TSLint:
    "no-any": true,
    "no-null-keyword": true

This witch strictNullChecks works great in avoiding many kinds of errors.
Remember that the creator of NULL has called it his billion-dollar mistake. Having two nullish values is even worse. But if you have just one (like undefined) and you are using strict null checks in TypeScript then you can be pretty safe from the problems usually caused by null/undefined in most of the languages.
No matter if you go for undefined, null or both, I strongly advice you to always use strictNullChecks because without it your code is not really type safe.
See the TypeScript 2.0 release notes about null- and undefined-aware types:

The type checker previously considered null and undefined assignable to anything. Effectively, null and undefined were valid values of every type and it wasn't possible to specifically exclude them (and therefore not possible to detect erroneous use of them). [emphasis added]

It is not enabled by default for backwards compatibility with old code that was written before the new way of checking null and undefined was added.
Consider this simple function:
const f = (x: string) => x.toLowerCase();

It is not type safe without the strict flags.
It can crash with runtime TypeError exceptions like:

TypeError: Cannot read property 'toLowerCase' of undefined

With the strict flags:
const f = (x: string | null) => x.toLowerCase(); // COMPILE TIME ERROR
const f = (x: string | null) => x && x.toLowerCase(); // OK and safe

For more info, see:

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*Call me irresponsible if I crash on null or undefined in JavaScript or TypeScript (my talk on YouTube)

*My arguments about enabling strict flag by default in Deno

*More arguments for enabling all strict flags
Update: Soon you will be able to use optional chaining in the example above:
const f = (x: string | null) => x?.toLowerCase(); // OK and safe

and even like this, if x could be not null but possibly a type without .toLowerCase() method:
const f = (x: string | number | null) => x?.toLowerCase?.(); // safe as well

For more info, see the documentation about the optional chaining operator.

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Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc. (GBT) was a small, privately held biotechnology firm that decided to focus on their new drug candidate, GBT440, to treat the rare sickle cell disease that had no known cure. The CEO raised venture capital (VC) funds in the past, and current clinical trial data for GBT440 were encouraging. However, additional external funds were needed by the end of 2015 to replace depleted cash and enable company expansion to support GBT440 development for future FDA approval. The CEO pondered over four traditional funding sources: going public (IPO), seeking additional VC funds, finding angel investors, or seeking a strategic partnership to sustain GBT and satisfy its key stakeholders. Students are asked to use pertinent strategic management and decision-making tools and methods to address the needs of key stakeholders, and to ultimately select the best funding source for GBT.


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Acura RDX Hybrid not part of the company's future plans: Report
The CR-V Hybrid has been on sale in the U.S. for almost three years (March 2020). In late 2022, it also underwent a full redesign, complete with a powertrain upgrade. However, contrary to some expectations, a platform twin/cousin in the form of an Acura RDX Hybrid is not planned.
Why the Acura RDX Hybrid is not in the pipeline
Dave Gardner, the executive vice president of Business & Sales of American Honda, has confirmed the company is not planning further Acura hybrid models. The premium brand will "bypass hybrids altogether and move directly to zero-emission vehicles," Gardner told CNET in an interview in August 2022. By "bypass" he meant no further launches, as there have been Acura hybrids in the recent past, such as the ILX Hybrid, NSX, and MDX Sport Hybrid. Most recently the NSX retired, with production having concluded in November 2022. The Acura ZDX, Acura's first pure-electric car, debuts next year. With it comes an exciting new era in the brand's operations stateside.
The 2023 Acura RDX employs a 2.0-liter turbocharged engine that produces 272 hp and 280 lb.-ft. of torque. A 10-speed automatic transmission is standard, and an all-wheel drive system is available as an option. The FWD configurations deliver a combined fuel economy of 24 MPG (EPA-est.) and the AWD configurations, a slightly lower 23 MPG (EPA-est.). The 2023 Honda CR-V Hybrid's electrified engine can return 40 MPG, or 37 MPG if you check the AWD option, which puts it in a different league.
An all-electric model for the Acura RDX's segment
An Acura EV for the RDX's segment should emerge in the second half of the decade, once the Honda e: Architecture is ready. Image Source: Honda
In the second half of the decade, the Acura RDX could gain a pure-electric powertrain or perhaps the nameplate could give way to an electric compact SUV. The model for the segment will likely ride on the bespoke EV platform that will be part of the Honda e:Architecture, which will debut in a Honda model in the U.S. in 2026. Batteries may be sourced from the Honda-LG Energy Solution JV plant in Fayette County, Ohio, which the two companies announced in October 2022. The American battery factory will have an annual production capacity of about 40 GWh. Mass production, starting with pouch-type lithium-ion cells, is to begin by 2025.
Customers looking for an electrified alternative to the 2023 Acura RDX may consider the 2023 Lexus NX Hybrid, which costs USD 43,105 (incl. DPH fee) onwards and delivers up to 39 MPG (combined, EPA-est.).
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Thursday Theology: Reflections on Mission: A Starting Point
Co-Missioners,
Today we introduce you, in some cases again, to the Rev. Richard Gahl of Westlake, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. Dick is a good friend of Crossings. He was a featured speaker at our conference in 2010 and in the years since has published a couple of essays through Thursday Theology. He spent his active career in the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Pastoral calls in Pennsylvania led to a stint of at least 20 years as Executive Director of the LCMS's Ohio District. This entailed an intense focus on issues of congregational mission and stewardship, areas in which he developed an expertise that others in the wider church came to recognize and call on. Now retired, he spends a lot of time in his study reading widely and deeply, especially in the area of Christian mission. On Sundays he goes to church at the ELCA congregation in neighboring Fairview Park where our Thursday Theology editor, Jerome Burce, serves as senior pastor.
Time was in U.S. Lutheran congregations when intentional thought and conversation about the Church's mission in the world was relegated to one or two seasons of the church year, Epiphany in particular. Other matters—more pressing, as it was thought—would own the spotlight other times. Dick is among many who have confronted that notion, pushing hard and steadily against it as stubborn minorities are wont to do. Their view, heartily subscribed to here, is that every season is mission season.
Take Advent. As we hinted last week, what else is John doing on the banks of the River Jordan if not firing the starter's pistol that gets God's mission in Christ rolling in earnest? That makes today the perfect day for firing a pistol of our own on a series Dick has promised to write for us. We've asked him to pass along some insights from those books he's been poring through of late. We're assuming not only that you'll find his reports useful in themselves, but that you'll come to notice how they're pushing our other writers to keep their focus on mission too. To repeat our Lord's own mantra, lifted up in Burce's relaunch essay of two weeks ago, "As the Father has send me, so I send you."
Peace and Joy,
The Crossings Community
Baptism, Bible and God's Mission
by Richard Gahl
This essay lays the foundation for an ongoing series of reflections about the Mission of God under the Crossings website banner, "Where the Gospel Meets our Daily Lives." It tells about a movement of mission writers and practitioners that emerged from the work of Lesslie Newbigen, a missionary to India who retired back home to England where he put lessons learned overseas to work in the pastoring of an urban parish. Titles of his published works include Foolishness to the Greeks, The Gospel in a Pluralistic Society, andThe Open Secret.In the 1980's a group of church leaders and thinkers formed the Gospel and Our Culture Network (hereafter GOCN) "to ask basic questions [in light of Newbigen's insights] about why and how churches had become so captive to individualism and consumerism. They wondered why churches had lost touch with the way biblical texts spoke of God's mission in and for the world."1
Reading the Bible Missionally, a recent GOCN publication, includes a telling diagnosis by Michael Goheen of Calvin Theological Seminary. He paraphrases a statement of N. T. Wright, the retired Anglican bishop and prolific writer with respect to all things New Testament: "The church believing that the benefits of Christ were just for them has betrayed the purpose which God has given them. It is as though the postman were to imagine that all the letters in the bag were just for him."2 In other words, the church has come down with a major case of soteriological self-centeredness. For me! For me! "The concept of membership as status, an accomplished level of spiritual attainment, must be replaced with a lifelong process of calling and response that could be called 'vocation to mission'."3 For others! For others!
Holy Baptism is the starting point for understanding the individual's role in the Mission of God. The American hymnals Lutheran Book of Worshipand Evangelical Lutheran Worship both include a welcome to the newly baptized that points to mission. The "welcome" currently in use at Messiah Lutheran Church in Fairview Park, Ohio shapes the welcome with these words:
We welcome you into the Body of Christ and the mission we share. Join us in giving thanks and praise to God bearing and bearing God's creative and redeeming word to all the world.
The Lutheran World Federation fleshes out the foundation for this welcoming to mission in its 2004 document, Mission in Context.
In the church every baptized Christian is endowed with a special gift for mission, for mutual up-building and encouragement. Whether they be male or female, lay or clergy, young or old, all these gifts are to be developed, appreciated and availed."4
In a 2015 study, Becoming the Gospel: Paul, Participation, and Mission, Michael J. Gorman describes the people of God, the church, as a living commentary on the Good News. "It lives the story, embodies the story, tells the story."5 The word "becoming" suggests continual growth and development through all stages of life in the mutual interaction of the community of faith in discernment of "what God is up to in the world, and to join in."6 The calling of the people of God is to be "a distinctive people for the sake of the world."
Refreshingly, the Gospel and Our Culture Network people are calling us back to a missional reading of the Scriptures as a training tool for our calling to become Gospel in the world. It's not just that God has "called me by the Gospel," He equips his people for becoming Gospel. As a GOCN participant, N. T. Wright states it simply: "The New Testament was written in order to sustain and direct the missional life of the early church."7
Certainly, as the Gospel of John states, "these things are written so that you will believe that Jesus is the Messiah" (John 20:31). But it doesn't stop there. "The Bible is both a record and a tool of God's mission in and through his people…. It shapes people for their missional vocation."8
One of this writer's favorite questions when working with congregations has been: "What is God calling us to be and to do in this time and in this place?" Reading the Bible Missionally is not just a collection of essays that are well worth reading and pondering, it is a summons to seek out the unique mission instruction in each and every book of the Bible for the work of the people of God in this time and this place. N. T. Wright suggests the unique purpose of the New Testament was to sustain and direct the early church. It will also inspire and direct 21st century Christians in our calling as the people of God.
God's Mission
The GOCN people are adamant that we not talk about "mission." The subject rather is God's mission. Michael Goheen explains it this way:
Mission is not first of all a human enterprise: it has its true source in the love of the Father who sent the Son to reconcile all things to himself. The Son sent the Spirit to gather his church and empower them for mission: the church was sent by Jesus to continue his mission—"As the Father has sent me, so I send you."9
Again Goheen:
Mission begins not with the task of a people, but with the redemptive activity of God. The Bible narrates the work of the triune God to restore the whole of creation and the whole life of humankind from the corrupting effects of sin. If we are to understand mission properly, we must begin with the work of God. Only then may we ask: How does the church participate in this mission."10
We turn to Luke 24:29 for a final thought about the Bible and the Mission of God. "Then he began with Moses Teachings and the prophets to explain to them what was said about him throughout the Scriptures." Christopher Wright makes sure we review the Old Testament in this understanding of God's mission. At the conclusion of his The Mission of God Wright reminds the reader of the point of his book. In effect, he fills in the details of what Jesus likely told the Emmaus disciples in explanation of his divine calling.
When we grasp that the whole Bible constitutes the coherent revelation of the mission of God, when we see this as the key that unlocks the driving purpose of the whole narrative…, then we find one whole world view impacted by this mission."11
In summary: Baptism calls the baptized to God's Mission. The Bible is the tool kit and training guide for God's Mission. And God's Mission itself entails nothing less than a life of continual becoming for the child of God and for God's family, the church.
This is where the Gospel meets our daily lives.
1 Alan J. Roxburgh & M. Scott Boren, Introducing the Missional Church, Baker Books, Grand Rapids, MI. 2009 p. 9-10.
2 Michael W. Goheen, editor, Reading the Bible Missionally, William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI. 2016 p. 259-60.
3 Darell L. Guder, The Continuing Conversion of the Church, William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI. 2000. p. 176.
4 Lutheran World Federation, Mission in Context, Geneva, Switzerland. 2004. p. 36.
5 Michael J. Gorman, Becoming the Gospel, Paul, Participation and Mission, William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI. 2015. p. 43.
6 Ibid. p. 53.
7 Reading the Bible Missionally, op.cit. p. 175
8 Ibid. p. 242.
10 Ibid. p. 21.
11 Christopher J. H. Wright, The Mission of God, Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative, IVP Academic, Downers Grove, IL. p. 533.
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Though the same analysis found no coloration between egg intake and coronary heart disease.
A new systematic review and meta-analysis of studies relating to the relationship between eating eggs and coronary heart disease and strokes has found that eating one egg a day could reduce chances of stroke by 12%.
The review, published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, looked at studies dating between 1982 and 2015. A total of 308,000 subjects were taken into account when researching the relationship between eggs and strokes.
Dr. Dominik Alexander of the EpidStat Institute, the study's principal investigator, said that more needed to be done to establish the connection between eggs and the likelihood of suffering a stroke, but added: "Eggs do have many positive nutritional attributes, including antioxidants, which have been shown to reduce oxidative stress and inflammation. They are also an excellent source of protein, which has been related to lower blood pressure."
Though the decrease in risk of stroke was observed, the study's look at the relationship between egg intake and coronary heart disease came up with a "nonstatistically significant" change in risk.
The meta-analysis was undertaken by the Egg Nutrition Center, the research arm of the American Egg Board – which is overseen by the US Department of Agriculture.
"Based on the results of this meta-analysis, consumption of up to one egg daily may contribute to a decreased risk of total stroke," said the paper, "and daily egg intake does not appear to be associated with risk of CHD."


Some of Scandinavia and Northern Europe's most iconic cities are included on a Baltic Sea cruise, giving you time to soak in the sights and culture of Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, and Helsinki, as well as Tallinn, Estonia, and St. Petersburg, Russia. Copenhagen and Stockholm are the most common departure points for this route (trips are usually 10 to 14 days), while some lines launch from Dover or Southampton, England. If you choose a longer cruise, additional ports could include Riga, Latvia; Gdansk, Poland; and Warnemunde, Germany, the closest cruise port to Berlin.
The Food: From Stockholm's fresh shrimp salad to Copenhagen's pork sausages, Helsinki's rye sourdough bread, and the bilini (stuffed pancakes) and borscht (beetroot soup) of St. Petersburg, definitely try the local favorites.
Gilded Palaces of St. Petersburg: Imperial Russia's ornate palaces and cathedrals absolutely cannot be missed here. The Church of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is particularly stunning.
Fjords: Itineraries that include Norway treat passengers to the stunning fjords that cut into the country's long coastline. Sweden also has some fjords in the south, but there's no comparison.
Historic Capitals: All of them, from Stockholm to Copenhagen, Helsinki to Oslo, have well-preserved old quarters to explore. Castles, forts, and grand buildings date back to the 17th and 18th centuries, and sometimes even earlier.
St. Petersburg: Ships dock here for two or three days because there's just so much to see, including the top spot: the Hermitage Museum. Back in the mid 18th century, it was a private museum of Catherine the Great; today, it's Russia's largest art museum, with millions of pieces, from ancient Greek and Roman works to 15th- and 16th-century French and impressionist masterpieces.
Stockholm: Spend time in the picturesque city's 13th-century Old Town to check out the Royal Palace and ancient churches. And don't miss the Vasa Museum. The massive warship sank on its maiden voyage in 1628, just minutes after it left the docks, and was excavated and restored about 50 years ago.
Copenhagen: This walkable city is a delight, from its broad boulevards to the narrow cobblestone streets. Check out the daily changing of the guard at the Amalienborg royal palace, the city's famous statues (including Danish Writer Hans Christian Anderson and the "Little Mermaid"), and the mid-19th-century amusement park at Tivoli Gardens.
It's Chilly: Even in the summer, it can get nippy — in Stockholm and Helsinki especially. Temperatures routinely dip down into the 50s, so bring layers you can peel off and put on.


THE EMPRESS, is the 14th Path of Daleth-meaning-Door, on the Qabalistic Tree of Life and Her planet is Venus which the Rider-Waite-Smith deck displays as a sigil on her heart-shaped shield.
THE EMPRESS, is also called the "Gate way to Heaven", or as I call her, "The Womb with a view", as She is the transitional state of energy between the Above and the Below. The effect of this transition is from One into many, so the key to this card is multiplicity.
If one looks at Thoth-key 2- PRIESTESS card, they'll observe a simple diaphanous robe, while that of THE EMPRESS is appropriately covered with all the jewels of creation. She is the Great Mother of Ideas that we often call "Mother Nature". The red rose as a sign of Venus, a symbol of the goddess and of love, becomes the pattern of the Rider-Waite-Smith Empress.
In the Rider-Waite-Smith Deck, the High Priestess is pregnant, in a passive state of incubation, which is the result of the merging of Chokmah (will to force) and Binah (will to form). The Empress is the Universal womb in which all manifestation is gestated.
The Rider-Waite-Smith Empress card emphasizes the flow of life. Here she is both Mother Earth and Mother Venus shown by the planetary signs on both dress and love shaped shield. The Cypress trees and pearls in the background, are also sacred to Venus while the foreground wheat refers to the figure of the Empress as Isis. The crown of 12 stars on her head refers to the zodiac. The crystalline water flowing down from the right represents the water from which Aphrodite is born. This is a key continuous process whereby the pristine consciousness of the PRIESTESS gives rise to the unconscious-instinctual thought patterns of the EMPRESS. In her right hand is the Orb of the Sun, referring us to 6th Sephiroth on the Tree of Life, Tiphareth, the Sun, who administrates the thought forms of the Empress as a denser expression.
As a Qabalist, I am painfully aware of the inadequacy of anthropomorphic symbolism when describing the Supernal Triangle (the As above), yet Tarot pictures unconsciously communicate a great deal of information, that words can only flail at.
The images represented in THE EMPRESS card are an attempt to convey the concept of pure fruition. As an exercise towards this goal of understanding, the initiate must try to conceive of pure emotion,which is a feeling which has no subject or object, neither love nor hate, but which is the raw material of both; a kind of Lust without need of result. Armed with such an understanding, the initiate may begin to understand something of the Great Binah, The Great Mother, THE EMPRESS, who is the Illuminating Intelligence or Birth Mother of Ideas through transitional state of Understanding.
All that is Life on Earth is the providence of THE EMPRESS, as she builds life forms around the Spirit of Life, establishing the Laws of the Universe that have to do with restriction and formation. She is the Supernal Female Force. She is also Venus-Aphrodite. the Goddess of Love. Love is the Law. The Luminous Intelligence of Chokmah, becomes the Illuminating Intelligence of THE EMPRESS, inferring filling up and emitting Light, thus bestowing the title of Mother of Light on the Great Mother.
She is a Door, and one may pass through a door in any direction, to pass through Her on the Return Path, is to pass into Supreme Darkness. The dual dynamic of the Door, has often been shown first as the goddess Juno and later, Janus, the Roman Two-Faced god, each face looking in opposite directions. In fact the Latin word janua means door and this god was stated by the Romans, to have presided over communications and the affairs of men. Here then, as THE EMPRESS, Janus resided over the passage of ideas. Originally, Janus was a Solar Entity, and THE EMPRESS is the Mother of the Sun, so the comparison is not only viable but pertinent as well, so anything that can be said about Janus can be said about THE EMPRESS as well, even though she is anthropomorphic image as Venus-Aphrodite.
The Luxurious Proliferation of Nature with each facet so compelling, being both beautiful and hypnotic, it is possible for the student to lose sight of the Overview of the Path of Daleth. This point was acknowledge by A. Crowley in his Book of Thoth, where he warned, "...the student who is dazzled by any given manifestation may be led astray. In no other card is it so necessary to disregard the parts and to concentrate upon the whole".
We know that the Venus-Aphrodite is the "Goddess of Love" but many forgot that She is also named the "Goddess of Desire". Desire, being born with the most abstract principle of Form, holds a very specific meaning for the Student of the Mysteries, as to feel is to desire, but to unite wholly with the Universe, requires the "want of nothing" and the acceptance of All. Thus, the coming to or the leaving of desire is another aspect of the Door Way that is THE EMPRESS-- Path of Daleth. THE EMPRESS, as shown in the Thoth Tarot card, looks to be all nurturing and light; However, the darkened crescent of the Moon suggests transformation or change and to Qabalists She is known as the Mother of Life and Death. Growth and destruction are concurrent Empress- activities, just as old cells die and new cells are born in a daily cycle in your physical body.
The transparent bubbles shown in front of the Empress image, represent the veil that we must pass through to realize the Path of Daleth (Door), to pass beyond the veil is to cross into a completely new level of conscious energy, where her laws no longer apply. The veil is a dramatic separation of imagined reality and what is Real.
By now, the able initiate knows that God is the Mind that created the Universe by thought. We do the same thing, as "images of god", we create reality by imagining it. Whatever we create in our personal minds, becomes. This is an often ridiculed concept or precept of both metaphysics and the mysteries. However, ridicule does not an understanding make, and as a Personality attains greater Self=Awareness, the implications of responsibility for what one thinks become most profound.
The Thoth Tarot Empress, is illustrated in the alchemical image of Salt, that is the inactive principle which is activated by the alchemical Sulfur (Emperor), maintaining the whirling (Spiral) balance of the Universe. The design of the Alchemical symbol of Salt, is , a circle with a line bisecting it horizontally, as is shown in the positioning of her arms and if you put the Empress and the Emperor, side by side, her on the Left and Him on the right, there faces are looking at each other. This is Yab Yum, illustrating the Tibetan word that means , Goddess God, face to face, as well as, the activating activity. The twisted blue shapes represent flames and her birth from Water, which we know to represent consciousness. The Living Holy Grail, is the Lotus like chalice in her hand. At her waist is the Zodiacal girdle or belt, above her head are the dove and sparrow , both are birds of Venus. At her feet is a white pelican that is feeding her own young with her own flesh which is a common symbol of the Great Mother, for even not so great mothers, build the young from their own flesh.. The white eagle shield corresponds to that red eagle shield of the Emperor. To reiterate,The alchemical references for the Supernal Triangle are, THE MAGUS is Mercury, THE EMPRESS is salt, THE EMPEROR, is Sulfur. Thus Kether is Mercury, Binah is Salt and Chokmah is Sulfur, the Sephiroth united on the Tree of Life that turn our leaden consciousness into the Golden Intelligence of the Son (Sun), i.e. the Divine Child. The only blocking veil to this end, is Desire consciousness. We must lose the reality of the "I Wants" known as "Wanna-Be's" and become the I AM's of our original inheritance.
As always, words make the reality of their meanings seem so simple, but in truth, the simplest words are the most subjective, such as IT, or I . One must cross the emptiness of want, of sense, of sight, before one can visit the Great Mother, who creates the I Am of us all.
The querent is experiencing the principle of wise love.
The querent may experience a high dedication to healing and nurturing. All in all, THE EMPRESS, represents happy, stable, relationships, growth and fertility.
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Electric Fire is het vierde soloalbum van Queen-drummer Roger Taylor. Het album is uitgebracht in 1998 en heeft twee singles, "Pressure On" en "Surrender", voortgebracht. Met uitzondering van de cover van Working Class Hero van John Lennon staan er allemaal nieuwe nummers op het album.

Nummers
 Alle nummers geschreven door Taylor, tenzij anders aangegeven.
 "Pressure On" - 4:56
 "A Nation of Haircuts" - 3:32
 "Believe in Yourself" - 5:00
 "Surrender" - 3:36
 "People on Streets" - 4:11
 "The Whisperers" (Taylor/Evans) - 6:05
 "Is It Me?" - 3:23
 "No More Fun" - 4:13
 "Tonight" - 3:44
 "Where Are You Now?" - 4:48
 "Working Class Hero" (Lennon) - 4:41
 "London Town - C'mon Down" - 7:13

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Muziekalbum uit 1998
Muziekalbum van Roger Taylor
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You already know that having a pool is most certainly something that will draw attention. Your friends and family are going to want to spend time around your pool, talking, laughing, drinking and eating. But if your deck is not fashionable and if it doesn't have a good design that people are simply not going to enjoy it. You need to make sure that you're going to have the best design possible for your pool deck and, luckily for you there is a way for something like that to happen.
Decorative concrete decks can definitely be found all over the place. You just need to make sure that you are going to find the kind of design that is going to suit you the best. Of course, instead of searching for something like that in general, it is much more preferable for you to narrow down your research to the area where you live. For example, searching for decorative concrete nh is most certainly going to make the process a lot easier for you. You will be able to find the companies that will give you options on decorative concrete for your pool deck close to where you are.
At the same time, you will actually have the option of choosing the right prices. If you do know which people or which construction companies close to you will be able to give you different designs for your pool deck and you will most certainly be able to choose the right prices as well. But make sure that you are going to keep one thing in mind. You must not think about the price first.
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Welcome to the April 2, 2014 edition of ACM TechNews, providing timely information for IT professionals three times a week.
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Robot 101: Learning to Work With Humans
Can a Computer Craft Compelling Stories?
Immigrants From the Future
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Microsoft Builds a Digital 'Monkey' to Hunt Fraudulent Ads
EU Funding for Robots That Learn and Think for Themselves
DARPA Looks to GPUs to Help Process Big Data in the Military
MIT Researchers Bring Javascript to Google Glass
Student Designs App to Help Commuters Stay on Track
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Virtual Reality Technology to Be Used for Art and Self-Expression, MIT Professor Says
The Washington Post (03/31/14) Robert Barnes
It is not yet clear whether the U.S. Supreme Court will help bring greater clarity to the rules governing software patents as they deliberate over Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International. U.S. Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr., representing the Obama administration, asked the court for a broader ruling making software eligible for patents only when it provides an "improvement in computing technology or an innovation that uses computing technology to improve other technological functions." The case has divided the technology industry, with some companies worried about the loss of their existing patents, and others wanting the court to set a much higher standard for awarding software patents. Attorney Carter Phillips, who represents Alice Corp., warns the Supreme Court's ruling could have a major impact on the software industry. He says the court could "inherently declare, and in one fell swoop, hundreds of thousands of patents invalid, and the consequences of that it seems to me are utterly unknowable." Justice Stephen G. Breyer seems the most interested in a broader solution, noting currently companies are not in "competition on price, service, and better production," but on "who has the best patent lawyer."
The Guardian (04/01/14) Spencer Ackerman; James Ball
U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper acknowledged in a letter to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has performed warrantless searches of its databases to obtain data from Americans' phone calls and emails. Clapper noted in his letter, which was sent in response to Wyden's request as to whether NSA had actually performed such searches, that "U.S. person identifiers" are used in searches of the databases to obtain intelligence on "non-U.S. persons" who are believed to be located overseas. Documents released by Edward Snowden indicate the searches are performed under procedures approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court in 2011. The information that is analyzed is collected under Section 702 of the 2008 FISA Amendments Act, which states the federal government can collect the content and metadata of Americans' communications without a warrant if they are in direct contact with foreign surveillance targets. Clapper said in his letter these searches are legal under Section 702 and compliant with the Fourth Amendment. Wyden disagreed, saying the searches are unconstitutional and they represent a "threat to the privacy rights of law-abiding Americans."
MIT News (04/01/14) Eric Brown
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Interactive Robotics Group director Julie Shah is focused on teaching inherently safe robots to work in teams with people, and vice versa. "We're looking to develop fast, smart-tasking algorithms so robots can work interdependently with people," she says. Shah envisions future factories where industrial robots work safely with humans by putting them on mobile bases and rails thanks to new safety standards and technology. She points out today's cutting-edge robot training methods rely on demonstration and interactive rewards, but her research indicates robots are frequently unclear as to what the reward is referring. Shah studied training techniques of human teams to improve those for robot training, and learned cross training was a consistent factor in effectiveness. Her research team tweaked modified learning methods and algorithms so the robot gets input by switching roles with the person, rather than receiving it as a positive and negative reward. Shah says the experiment yielded improvements in objective measures of team performance, gains in concurrent motion between human and robot, reductions in idle time, and subjective improvements. Shah also aims to optimize task planning and deployment in hybrid human-robot teams through her research.
USC News (03/27/14) Orli Belman
University of Southern California professor Andrew Gordon, who leads the Narrative Group at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, has a new project that involves getting computers to read and generate stories, using the knowledge in those stories to become more intelligent. The project, called Heider-Simmel Interactive Theater, is a Web-based application that enables users to make their own movies and write their own stories using triangles. "This research is trying to solve a fundamental problem in human-computer interaction," Gordon says. "The end goal is to collect enough data to test and train our systems to recognize actions and narrative so that computers will tell stories that are as creative and compelling as the ones people are telling." The researchers want to collect large volumes of data so the system can be tested and trained to recognize actions and motivations. The project is funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research.
The Economist (03/29/14) Oliver Morton
Robots intrigue both designers and enthusiasts in a way that goes beyond the technology's current practical applications, and this offers novel insight into what people desire from technology. Many robots that participate in the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Robotics Challenge (DRC) are designed as humanoids because they must function in a setting that is shaped to human specifications. In addition, real-world robots continue to be influenced by expectations cultivated and continuously fostered by science fiction. However, actual robot technologies still fall short of their fictional counterparts, and most of the capabilities the founders of the artificial intelligence field envisioned--generalized intelligence, comprehension, planning, etc.--have not been realized. For example, giving robots the ability to walk moderately well has been a decades-long effort entailing a massive amount of funding. Many of the most advanced robots in the DRC also are tele-operated with human monitors. Meanwhile, Google's recent acquisition of a large stable of robot engineering talent and intellectual property sends a message that at least one major, innovative company has faith in the field's future prospects. Most robots are perceived as extensions of rather than substitutes for humans, and meeting the challenge of making robots able to work with humans requires them to become socially humanoid.
Reuters (03/31/14) Joseph Menn
Months after revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) paid RSA to adopt the now-discredited Dual Elliptic Curve cryptography system as the default in software used by a broad spectrum of Internet and computer security programs, academic researchers report a second NSA tool compounded the software's vulnerability. The Extended Random extension for secure websites could help decrypt a version of the Dual Elliptic Curve software tens of thousands of times faster, the researchers warn. The Dual Elliptic Curve random number generator had long been a target of cryptologists' suspicions, but the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology and RSA only abandoned the technology after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden released documents about a deliberate flaw in the software enabling NSA to crack the encryption. The Extended Random protocol was promoted as a way to make the numbers generated by the Dual Elliptic Curve even more random. However, the researchers analyzed the protocol and found the additional data the protocol sends before a secure connection begins makes it dramatically easier to predict the following secure numbers. RSA says it did not intentionally weaken security on any product. "We trusted [NSA] because they are charged with security for the U.S. government and U.S. critical infrastructure," says RSA's Sam Curry.
Technology Review (03/28/14) David Talbot
Researchers at the University of Southern California and Microsoft have developed technology, known as a digital monkey, that can detect and counter fraudulent advertisements on a large scale. The program moves between millions of app screens to see whether designs violate an app store's terms of use. When the technology was deployed on 50,000 Windows Phone apps, it found more than 1,000 that had ad placements violating the terms of use. The digital monkey systematically reviews apps in an app store, launches an app in an emulator, and then engages with that app and attempts to go through as much of it as it can. If the monkey is confronted with a button, it clicks on it. If it encounters a text box, it attempts to continue by determining what is being sought and entering some data, such as a zip code. "The goal of the monkey is to go to as many pages in the app as possible," says Microsoft researcher Suman Nath. For example, Microsoft's monkey found a misleading ad in an app for playing mah-jongg, the Chinese tile game. The system found a vertical advertising bar on the right side of the screen that was filled with tiles that looked like the tiles used in the game itself.
CORDIS News (03/28/14)
The European Union is funding a project that seeks to develop robots for small and medium-sized enterprises that are able to handle frequent changes in the manufacturing process. The robots developed for the three-year SMErobotics project would enable companies to change processes and assignments without having to call in specialists. A key objective is to enable humans and robots to learn from each other for the overall benefit of industrial manufacturing, which calls for better software components. The goal is to augment state-of-the-art industrial robots with cognitive abilities, according to SMErobotics coordinator Martin Hagele. An intelligent robot system "should learn intuitively and efficiently from its human operator--continuously improving its performance in collaboration with the worker," Hagele says. Technologies to be presented at the Automatica trade fair in June include a lightweight robot for small production runs, a sensor-controlled welding robot capable of learning from a welder, a cost-effective robot cell for general manipulation tasks such as machine feeding, and innovative software. The SMErobotics project runs through the end of next year.
IT Pro (03/31/14) Clare Hopping
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to use graphics-processing units (GPUs) to help analyze big data in support of governmental and military efforts. Speaking at the recent GPU Technology Conference, DARPA project manager Chris White said the agency is looking for people to help them understand real-world battlefields using GPUs. White said DARPA needs expertise to help develop the XDATA cloud to process data from military sensors and communications systems, which will help soldiers make informed decisions quickly. Although GPUs can provide help to process the data, such a complex and specialized solution also needs investment to make it work more effectively, according to White. "Our goal is to apply the principles of big data analytics to identify and understand deep commonalities among the constantly evolving corpus of software drawn from the hundreds of billions of lines of open source code available today," says DARPA program manager Suresh Jagannathan. "We're aiming to treat programs--more precisely, facts about programs--as data, discovering new relationships among this 'big code' to build better, more robust software."
Network World (03/27/14) Steven Max Patterson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed WearScript, a Javascript environment that runs on Google Glass. Wearscript enables developers to experiment with new user interface concepts and input devices to push beyond the human-machine interface limits of wearable devices. One important aspect of Google Glass is how Glass micro apps can compress the time between user intent and action. Micro apps are smaller than typical apps and are ephemeral because they are used in an instant and designed to disappear from the user's perception once completing their tasks. The MIT researchers developed an inexpensive eye-tracking system, which when combined with a few lines of Wearscript, can serve as a new interface for the Google Glass system. Wearscript uses a JavaScript framework that extends the design center of Google Glass micro apps from mainly Android Java developers to front-end developers.
The Realtime Trains Web service is now available as a smartphone application. U.K. commuters will be able to obtain real-time updates on rail delays, arrivals, and departures, and other information before it is announced in train stations. The app is unique in that it only uses open data from Network Rail. "The information I'm using effectively represents past events," says Tom Cairns, a student at the University of Southampton who launched the app. "I've had to develop algorithms to adapt this data so that I can build accurate predictions of the future." The lack of information during his daily commute to school prompted Cairns to create the Realtime Trains website two years ago, and he says more than 100,000 people use it each month and it handles more than 350,000 real-time requests each day. Cairns plans to expand the service to include other transport inquiries, including buses. The free app is available for iOS and Android devices.
Science Business (03/26/14)
ETH Board president Fritz Schiesser recently inaugurated Piz Daint, a supercomputer housed at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) that is now ranked as the most powerful computer in Europe. Piz Daint is the result of the first phase of the national High-Performance Computing and Networking Strategy. Although Piz Daint has been at CSCS for about a year, only recently did it break the petaflop barrier following an upgrade from 12 computer cabinets to 28 and a hybrid expansion with graphics processing units (GPUs). In addition, the combination of GPUs and conventional processors, which together can process about 3.2 billion computer operations per watt, makes Piz Daint one of the world's most energy-efficient supercomputers in the petaflop performance class. "Thanks to projects like [the Swiss Platform for High-Performance and High-Productivity Computing] and [the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC)], [CSCS director] Thomas Schulthess and his team have also managed to position Swiss researchers at the cutting edge of algorithm and software development worldwide," says PASC's Ralph Eichler.
Boston Business Journal (03/27/14) Sara Castellanos
The entertainment industry hopes to deliver on the cultural fantasy of immersive virtual worlds. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab professor D. Fox Harrell says many people dream of the immersive experience popularized by the holodeck in "Star Trek." In an interview, he discusses the future of virtual reality and why it is such a hot topic in the tech world. "Many people desire to express themselves as they can only imagine and see what it is like to experience other identities," Harrell says. His research group, the Imagination, Computation and Expression Laboratory, researches and develops various virtual reality experiences, with a focus on interactive storytelling, gaming, and social media. Harrell sees the true advantage of virtual reality in enabling new types of computer-based experiences used for purposes such as art, engendering empathy, and empowering people. He says Facebook's $2 billion acquisition of virtual reality firm Oculus VR could help popularize virtual reality technology and provide the impetus for developing new forms of art, entertainment, and communication.


Describes one or more of your route tables.
Each subnet in your VPC must be associated with a route table. If a subnet is not explicitly associated with any route table, it is implicitly associated with the main route table. This command does not return the subnet ID for implicit associations.
For more information, see Route Tables in the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide.
association.route-table-association-id - The ID of an association ID for the route table.
association.route-table-id - The ID of the route table involved in the association.
association.subnet-id - The ID of the subnet involved in the association.
association.main - Indicates whether the route table is the main route table for the VPC (true | false). Route tables that do not have an association ID are not returned in the response.
owner-id - The ID of the AWS account that owns the route table.
route-table-id - The ID of the route table.
route.destination-cidr-block - The IPv4 CIDR range specified in a route in the table.
route.destination-ipv6-cidr-block - The IPv6 CIDR range specified in a route in the route table.
route.destination-prefix-list-id - The ID (prefix) of the AWS service specified in a route in the table.
route.egress-only-internet-gateway-id - The ID of an egress-only Internet gateway specified in a route in the route table.
route.gateway-id - The ID of a gateway specified in a route in the table.
route.instance-id - The ID of an instance specified in a route in the table.
route.nat-gateway-id - The ID of a NAT gateway.
route.transit-gateway-id - The ID of a transit gateway.
route.origin - Describes how the route was created. CreateRouteTable indicates that the route was automatically created when the route table was created; CreateRoute indicates that the route was manually added to the route table; EnableVgwRoutePropagation indicates that the route was propagated by route propagation.
route.state - The state of a route in the route table (active | blackhole). The blackhole state indicates that the route's target isn't available (for example, the specified gateway isn't attached to the VPC, the specified NAT instance has been terminated, and so on).
route.vpc-peering-connection-id - The ID of a VPC peering connection specified in a route in the table.
transit-gateway-id - The ID of a transit gateway.
vpc-id - The ID of the VPC for the route table.
One or more route table IDs.
Default: Describes all your route tables.
Information about one or more route tables.
This example describes all your route tables. The first route table in the returned list is the VPC's main route table. Its association ID represents the association between the table and the VPC.


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Данило Грбић (1909—1941) капетан II класе, пилот Југословенског краљевског ратног ваздухопловства погинуо је 6. априла 1941. године у одбрани Краљевине Југославије од немачких бомбардера.

Биографија

Данило Грбић рођен је у Кореници у породици која је генерацијама била свештеничка (брат његовог деде био је Манојло Грбић). Породица 1920. године прелази у Београд где Данило одраста у улици Стари монопол која је нестала изградњом Мостарске петље и завршава школовање.

Војну академију у Београду уписао је 1928. године. По завршетку Војне академије, ступа 1933. године у Извиђачку школу. Био је годину дана извиђач, па потом је завршио 1936. пилотажу, а 1939, ловачку школу. Пошто је са одличним успехом завршио школовање, остао је на служби у Трећој пилотској школи у Мостару. У саставу ове школе била је Самостална ловачка ескадрила којом је командовао капетан Грбић.

Жени се 27. јануара 1940. године, а у децембру добија ћерку.

Априлски рат

У моменту избијања рата, 6. априла, Грбић се налазио у саставу Самосталне ловачке ескадриле Југословенског краљевског ратног ваздухопловства која је била стационирана на аеродрому Косор код Мостара. Угледавши формацију бомбардера како прелеће Мостар у правцу Сарајева, састављену од немачких авиона Јункерс Ју 88 борбеног крила Jagdgeschwader 54, долетелих са југа Италије, без наређења полетео је у једном од два преостала харикена, пресревши их, али је оборен од ловаца из пратње изнад Борачког језера. Грбић је рањен, искочио падобраном из изрешетаног и запаљеног авиона. Издахнуо је у близини Трнова истог дана. Капетана Данила Грбића оборио је Hans Beißwenger у својој првој и јединој победи на Балкану.

Сахрањен је привремено у Трнову, а отац и сестра преносе његово тело за Београд где је сахрањен 2. јуна 1941. год у породичну гробницу на Новом гробљу.

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 Југословенско краљевско ратно ваздухопловство у Априлском рату

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Напомена:  У неким изворима стоји да се битка изнад Трнова одиграла 7. априла што је нетачно јер се о извештају о том догађају упућеном команданту Дринског жандармеријског пука јасно види да се она одвијала 6. априла око 17 часова.

Рођени 1909.
Умрли 1941.
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Firstly to achieve precisely as the index has, theoretically you would have had to have zero invested at March 12 and invested at the low of March 13 and to have sold yesterday at the high for the day. Not likely – not even for the clever fund mangers!
Also you would have to have been invested in stocks according to the weighting of the various sectors of the day. Most private investors do not follow the index in contrast to professional investors who have funds that actually track the indices regardless of whether they like the stock or the sector. Some funds (Index Funds) are obliged to do so, if that is how they have promoted the managed fund whilst others will follow the index as a defensive strategy – that way they cannot get it too far wrong!
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Q: Setting up delimiter at required positions in a Unix Flat File I am a beginner to Unix shell script. I have a huge text file assume of more than 1 lakh records and each line has almost 600 characters. My requirement is to convert the flat file to csv format by putting delimiter as per required positions.
Sample File 1.txt
1234567890
9876543210

Delimiter at position : [1,3,5,9]
Expected O/p
1,23,45,6789,0
9,87,65,4321,0

I tried below code and was working when I am using 1.cfg with 3 records
1.cfg Content :
4
2
1

But as soon as I use file with 4 delimiters in config file ( 6 4 2 and 1 ) its not printing record no 2 which is 4 and printing record as 6 2 and 1
Here is my Sample Code
j=`cat 1.cfg |wc -l`
echo "Total split" $j
counter=0
set -x
for i in `cat 1.cfg`
do
counter=`expr $counter + 1`
echo "Printing value of counter " $counter

# If there is only one field in the config file
        if [ "$j" = 1 ]
        then
                COMMAND_FINAL=`echo "sed -i 's/./&,/$i' 1.txt"`
                #COMMAND_FINAL=`echo "`sed -i 's/./&,/$i' 1.txt`"`
        fi
# If there are more than one fields in the config file and for first record generating the command
        if [[ "$counter" != "$j" && "$counter" = 1 ]]
        then
                COMMAND=`echo "sed -i 's/./&,/$i;"`
                #COMMAND=`echo "`sed -i 's/./&,/$i;"`
                echo "Value of COMMAND VARIABLE is" $COMMAND
# For the 2nd fields untill 2nd last field generating the command
        elif [[ "$counter" != "$j" && "$counter" != 1 ]]
        then
                COMMAND1=`echo "s/./&,/$i;"`
                COMMAND2=$COMMAND$COMMAND1
                echo "Value of command :" $COMMAND
                echo "Value of command1 :" $COMMAND1
                echo "Value of command2 :" $COMMAND2
                #echo "If i is not 1 and i is not last Printing middle records" $COMMAND2
# For the last field generating the command
        elif [[ "$counter" = "$j" && "$j" != 1 ]]
        then
                COMMAND3=`echo "s/./&,/$i' 1.txt"`
                #COMMAND3=`echo "s/./&,/$i' 1.txt"`
                COMMAND_FINAL=$COMMAND2$COMMAND3
                echo "Final Command is " $COMMAND_FINAL
        fi
done
set -x
echo "$COMMAND_FINAL" > execute.ksh
chmod 755 execute.ksh
./execute.ksh
echo "Executing the final command"

A: With GNU awk:
awk '{$1=$1}1' FIELDWIDTHS='1 2 2 4 1' OFS=',' file

Or with GNU sed:
sed -r 's/^(.{1})(.{2})(.{2})(.{4})(.{1})$/\1,\2,\3,\4,\5/' file

Output:

1,23,45,6789,0
9,87,65,4321,0

See: 8 Powerful Awk Built-in Variables – FS, OFS, RS, ORS, NR, NF, FILENAME, FNR