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Just wondering if there's any other fixes for this? I'm trying this with the 3.15 version of the API. The fix described isn't working well. Does anyone know why this is not working?


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What's your idea of the ultimate romantic retreat? Escaping to a private paradise with deserted beaches and nothing to disturb your solitude? Or would you choose an elegant boutique hotel serving seafood fresh from the ocean? Take your pick from our round-up of dream destinations.
Itching to run away with your valentine this year? The Aeolian Islands are perfect for a volcanic romance. Stromboli is the first island to greet visitors sailing from Naples to this dramatic archipelago off the north coast of Sicily. Its fiery, 3,000ft cone rises out of the azure waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea like the classic volcano, a perfect triangle with long plumes of smoke puffing from its summit. The islanders here live with fire and rumbling danger all year round, and it stirs up passions famously captured in Rossellini's classic 1950 film Stromboli.
The most elegant hotel on the island is La Sirenetta (pictured), which is £125 for a double room (00 39 090 986025; lasirenetta.it). Take a trip up the volcano to see the eruptions or a boat tour to view the effects of constant lava flows into the sea, and visit the remote hamlet of Ginostra, where Dolce and Gabbana own a house.
From Stromboli, island-hopping is easy. Calm and sensual Salina, where Michael Radford shot some of the scenes for his Oscar-winning film, Il Postino, is green, fertile and famous for growing capers and sweet Malvasia grapes. Try the wine from Regaleali, a beautiful estate that is home to Salina's newest resort, Capofaro, £173 (00 39 090 984 4330; capofaro.it). Set on a secluded headland overlooking an old lighthouse, it's exclusive and romantic, with just 18 rooms, an idyllic pool and cookery courses in English. Now, that's amore.
Looking for somewhere to stroll hand in hand? Ile de Ré fits the bill. After a one-hour flight to La Rochelle, a 20-minute drive over a bridge takes you to this beautiful island, where smart Parisian families have second homes. The quieter spring and autumn months are ideal for a few days at L'Hôtel de Toiras (00 33 5 46 35 40 32, hotel-de-toiras.com) on the edge of the old port of Saint-Martin-de-Ré. The hotel is elegant and homely, and the chef is expert at choosing what's fresh and fabulous at the local market.
The island is very flat and has a vast network of picturesque cycle paths. Take the one that leads to Le Bois Plage En Ré, a pretty windswept beach. The shopping's great, too. Stock up on those chic soft furnishings and accessories that you can only buy in France, and book a table at Le Skipper (00 33 5 46 09 20 38), where the seafood platter will inspire romance.
A palm-filled speck in the Grenadines, Petit St Vincent psvresort.com is a privately owned Caribbean island with 22 luxurious cottages. There are no phones, TVs or room keys - just warm sea, hammocks, two miles of beach and a sky filled with stars. Fly via Barbados with ITC Classics.
Lanzarote is the best dressed of the Canary Islands, with bright volcanic scenery and pretty houses painted in green and white. Stay inland at the newly opened Finca Malvasia (fincamalvasia.com), which has a pool, a spa and vineyards. Explore the many sights associated with the brilliant artist César Manrique (cesarmanrique.com), including his underground home.
Bali offers the ideal mix of adventure and bliss. It's a beautiful, deeply spiritual island with lots to see (such as the Puri Saren palace, right) and some great hotels. Buy Bali & Lombok (£12.99, Rough Guides), and book with i-escape.com or audleytravel.com.
Need to get out of the city? Lundy Island, in the Bristol Channel, is a hearty place to tramp and snog – there's also a pub and an excellent choice of cottages run by the Landmark Trust (landmarktrust.org.uk). Short breaks by helicopter are available till late March, then there's a regular ferry service – see lundyisland.co.uk.
This glamorous island nestled in the French West Indies is a melting pot of models, music moguls and big-bucks business tycoons. The regulars? P Diddy, Paul McCartney and, most recently, our very own Kelly Brook and fiancé Billy Zane were spotted splashing around on its unspoiled beaches. With only two-dozen hotels on the whole island, demand is high – and prices even higher. For unapologetic luxury, try the recently refurbished Eden Rock Hotel (590 590 29 79 99, edenrockhotel.com); for a still-beautiful yet humbler stay, visit the Saline Garden Cottages (Grande Saline; 011 590 590 51 04 44; salinesgarden.com). Dine with the glitterati at Maya's or La Mandala or, for a romantic rendez-vous that won't cost the earth, try the Wallhouse Restaurant (wallhouserestaurant.com) – a candlelit spot on the place-to-be-seen, Gustavia Harbour. Serious sun-worshippers should head to Saline Beach or the flawless Flamands Beach.
Want the ultimate escape-from-it-all paradise haven? Huvafen Fushi, also known as the Dream Island and situated in the Northern Male Atoll, is, quite simply, pure bliss. The 43 modern bungalows, including ocean and beach choices, each boast a freshwater plunge or infinity-edge swimming pool, as well as plasma screens and a fully-loaded iPod. When you need a break from relaxing on the icing sugar-soft sands, stroll over to the Lime Spa, where you'll be pampered in sense-soothing underwater treatment rooms. Heaven? It could well be.
Whether you opt for unparalleled luxury (the east coast's Le Touessrok, pictured) or a more purse-pleasing abode (Le Sakoa Hotel on the north coast's Grand Baie), either way, you're guaranteed the island's trademark property: a standalone, beachfront cottage. Located in the Indian Ocean, in the crosspath between Africa and Asia, Mauritius is the playground of royalty and celebs alike. By day, chill out on one of its powdery beaches, or check out its stunning abundant reef. By night, enjoy performers dancing Sega – a gyrating African belly dance – and fill up on delicious French and Creole fare.


My heart breaks every time I see this child on the news. This world that we live in is so wrong,it's backwards. I have two children of my own and cry and pray everyday. I will pray for Larry and his family. I will continue to do my part as a parent to teach my children about all walks of life and to be kind to those they come by no matter what. God gave us the ability to be different and unique so why bother people for being different. I pray you all are well.
May God Bless. Larry is a beautiful person. LOVE is the answer. Peace.
Please except our deepest wishes for you to have peace come into your life. God had a need for another angel and he only takes the best. My 9 year old had you in his prayers last night. He said he will be nice to everyone and teach his freinds in class who tease him that he is just like them. My son said it right, we as parents need to educate our children and lead by example. We should love and respect all. I hope parents learn from this tragidy. I know I have. God bless you and never forget the love your child felt for you. no one can take that away.
How can a 14-year old boy hate someone so much? Thank you for the beautiful video story of Larrys short but honest life. My deepest symphathies to Larrys family and friends.
Wow. I found out about this today, and I was horrified. This comes one day after great news. Yesterday, my friend was elected homecoming king at his high school. He is gay and held his boyfriend's hand in front of the whole school. There is hope. One day the world will be better and we will all live in peace. I'm so sorry for you loss. Larry seems to have been a wonderful boy and I can't imagine your pain.
my sadness over the death of this beautiful child is over welming. To the family: use your love of Larry to find an inner strength you have no idea is within you. Breath....one day, an hour, or minute at a time. You have the world to hold you up when you think you can't do it any longer. We are here for you even though you might not see us, hear us or feel us. We are here. Larry will find his way to you too. We love you.
My heart aches for your loss. My little brother hung himself almost 20 years ago. He was gay and suffered mistreatment by his peers for many years. What happened to Larry could easily have happened to him. Your son will remain in my thoughts & prayers. He will not be forgotten.
You were my friend, I will never forget you. I will always remember your smiling face in the morning when you would say hello. Everytime I see a butterfly, I will always think of you. You, are my friend.
sorry for your lost hope that you can fine peace. You loved Larry for who he was and did everything to help him God bless.


Do wind turbines produce electricity all the time?
No, as the wind is intermittent. The capacity factor (the proportion of maximum energy produced) of a wind turbine ranges from 5% for badly sited machines to 25% in very windy sites.


WASHINGTON, DC — In this week's address, President Obama discussed the global campaign to degrade and destroy ISIL. The President stated that our coalition of 66 partners continues to grow stronger and is making vital progress in the fight against ISIL in Iraq and Syria. President Obama also noted that at home we will continue to stay vigilant. At the same time, we'll keep working to build partnerships of trust and respect with communities to help them stay strong and resilient. The President reiterated that although the fight against ISIL will remain difficult, we will prevail – and ultimately destroy ISIL.


Being a cosmopolitan city in Spain, Barcelona is known for adapting to all different types of cuisine from around the country and around the world. The most famous? Tapas. Tapas have a longstanding history within the Spanish culture, and have transformed into one of the most delectable traditions in the Iberian Peninsula, including in Barcelona.
The first tapas were originally seen in the south of Spain. These small snack-like treats were served with beers, wines, and Sherries, making them the perfect pre-dinner bite. The most common type of tapa was a piece of bread with a cold meat, usually ham or chorizo, piled high on top. Today, tapas can be found hot, cold, big, small, on breads, on plates, on toothpicks, in bowls: you name it. Tapas are perfect for sharing with friends and you can even combine some of your favorite dishes to create a filling main meal!
Pan con Tomate: A traditional Catalan tapa. White bread is rubbed with tomato and drizzled with oil and salt, and sometimes served with Manchego cheese. A perfect accompaniment to the rest of your tapas.
Patatas Bravas: The chips or french fries of Spain. Small, deep-fried cubes of potato served with two sauces – alioli (a garlic mayonnaise combo) and a spicy tomato sauce.
Croquetas: Tasty and especially good on a chilly day. These breaded rolls of potato with ham, fish, chicken or spinach are fried and served hot.
Patatas bravas are one of the most delicious and traditional forms of tapas served all throughout the city. As mentioned above, these square-cut potatoes are doused in a special spicy sauce, making them irresistibly delicious. However, if you're looking for the best, you must try them at Bar Tómas de Sarrià. Located in the Sarrià district, this traditional little tapas bar is known for its outrageously amazing fried potatoes served with a secret house brava sauce. Mostly young people and locals gather here for a taste of these delectable treats, while also munching on many of the other fabulous tapas Bar Tómas has to offer.
What many tourists don't know is that the traditional tapas, still served in the south of Spain, are actually free! Though most bars will charge you for larger portions such as sandwiches, many tapas in the southern regions of the country come free when ordering a drink. Atrapatapa is one of the few tapas bars in Barcelona that maintain this tradition, offering free tapas when a guest orders a glass of cava, or champagne. With over 15 choices of tapas to choose from, and prices starting at 1,20€ for cava + one tapa, you can't get a better deal!
Over time, tapas have started to develop into various forms depending on the region they are from. In the Basque Country of Spain, these mouthwatering appetizers are called "pintxos" or "pinchos". Similar to traditional tapas, most are served on top of a small piece of baguette and held together with a toothpick. These scrumptious treats are served with tasty txacolí, a dry white wine. Traditionally, the amount you pay for your pintxo meal is determined by the number of toothpicks left on your plate, some with different colors or sizes indicating higher or lower prices. At Irati Taberna Vasca, guests can choose to swallow down tasty monkfish, tortilla, shrimp, and more at the traditional bar or in the restaurant area.
Visit this local bar with a classic atmosphere for one of the best tapas experiences around. Serving a variety of tapas with cava, you will find this champagne bar near the well-known Picasso Museum, in the Born District. Their canned seafood and anchovies are a particularly huge hit with locals and tourists alike. Come early to this traditional bar, as it starts to fill up around 8pm.
For fresh tapas so good they'll have your mouth watering in seconds, you have to head over to Quimet i Quimet. Here, you will find an array of meats, fish, and cheeses coated in sweet sauces with fruits, nuts and more. A family-run joint, this place is known for its all-knowing bartender who will choose a delectable plate just for you, while you decide the drink. Lining the walls of this bar are bottles of wines and spirits from around the globe, as well as beer selections incomparable to any tourist bar.
This is a great bar with an authentic Andalusian atmosphere, right here in Barcelona. Offering flamenco music alongside more than 50 different types of tapas, this bar has it all. Located just off the famous Las Ramblas, the menu includes plenty of seafood, as well as fresh ingredients straight from the Boqueria Market.
Whether you're visiting Barcelona for a week or you are looking to move here for a year, you simply can't miss trying out some of the most delicious tapas in the Catalan capital. If you are staying in one of the many Barcelona apartments near one of the bars mentioned above, be sure to stop by and ask about their specialty, as almost every tapas place in the city has one. ¡Buen provecho!
Check out Aparment Barcelona's delectable video on tasty tapas in the Catalan capital!
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Like literally millions of others, I received a Kindle Fire for Christmas and after a few days of use I thought I would give my first impressions. I've read a number of Kindle Fire reviews that complain it's not an Ipad killer or not an high end Android phone. Their right. It's not meant to be. But what it is is a great 7 inch Android tablet and ebook reader and the form factor is perfect for my needs.
The Silk browser tends to be a bit quirky and occasionally non-responsive. Also, the touch interface isn't stellar but I've gotten very good at tapping out emails in just a few hours. For very small links on webpages, it can be tricky to use but I find a lighter touch often helps.
For $199, the Kindle is an amazing bargain. Thanks Amazon.


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Why are these the poses models always pull?
Models are beautiful. It's kind of the reason they became models in the first place: because they outshine, without even having to try, the majority of the population around them. Always the hottest person on the bus. Always the most looked-at in the supermarket queue.
They're slim and they're beautiful and they exemplify a look that the ordinary millions strive for. Which begs the question: why do they always always always look like they're in severe emotional and physical pain?
The "My Period Cramps Might Actually Kill Me Does Anyone Have Ibuprofen"
You know this one, because it's the pose that looks the least like any way an human might ever stand, ever. Hands on hips, elbows pushed out like broken wings. Hunched over at the midriff with the skull thrust forward and knees ever so slightly knocked. Yep, she looks like she might be about to vom all over her 3am fried chicken, but notice the other details: the positioning of her hands also makes her waist look miniscule. The tops of her arms are lengthened and tightened, so you can see muscle but no fat. The lollypop effect of her head makes her entire body look smaller.
So even though, looking at her, you feel like there's a distinct possibility that she might have endometriosis, she also looks fabulous. It's all SO confusing.
Just take a look at the 10 models who earned the most in the last year.
The "Alas, Alack, My Husband Is Gone And My Soufflé Collapsed"
There are a lot of angles in this one: if you were a child studying triangles, you'd find a lot to work with in this editorially-favoured pose.
One hand: on the hip. The other: thrown dramatically across the forehead, as if feeling for a fever. The legs are crossed at the ankle. The end result is a woman who looks like she's just found out the ship has sunk, the battalion has failed to return, the car has crashed and the croissants are burned.
But also: she looks delicate and forlorn and waifish. And the positioning of the limbs means that the garment can take centre-stage. Legs look endless. Hair is displayed to full advantage. And thus, alas alack leads directly into "Here is where you can buy the garment that is making me look so marvelous".
The "Why Do They Never, Ever Face The Camera?"
The only models you'll ever see facing camera head on, as if about to charge, are the ones who are so well known that they've got nothing to lose. Why? Unfortunately, it's because it makes you look fat.Think about it: you're exposing all of the widest parts of your body to the camera, and with the camera's ability to add weight, you're dancing into a model's worst nightmare. The phrase here is "quartering out", which means adding a three-quarter turn to every single pose. This decreases your vulnerability, and reduces the size of everything else. Watch for it. You'll see it everywhere, now.
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This is the pose that turns you into a long, tall drink of gin and Slimline tonic; the pose that turns you into a column of a person. And when you consider that the majority of models are leaning towards the six foot end of the spectrum, the result is something truly sculptural.
Employing the quartering out technique (always), one hand rests at the collarbone, as if making sure a really expensive necklace is still there, while the other goes almost, but not quite, into the crotch. The result is something a little ethereal and worried, but look where your eyes go: to the collarbone and to the torso. "What is she hiding?" you think. "I want one" you realize. "Where do I get one?" you ponder.
Now, this is an interesting one: have you ever noticed what models do with their fingers? Unless they're modeling rings or cuffs, the hands are nearly always nothing more than an addendum to a pose – but they can really screw up a look if done wrong. Fists look weird, bringing the hands to the face can look staged and 80's.
So, they use a technique called ballet hands, and if you've ever seen ballet then you know what the reference is. Fingers slightly parted, and all crooked very gently at the joints. Soft and natural, as if caressing a face. This enables the hands to be in an image without looking fake or staged – and never draws attention away from where the focus should be.


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Like a fine cognac, Frances Ruffelle's most recent album deliciously distils her passion for France. Remembering that it was Ruffelle who created the role of Eponine in Les Miserables, a show that was to evolve into one of musical theatre's few truly global sensations, that she is in love with all things French is hardly a surprise.
I Say Yeh Yeh is a pot-pourri of songs special to Ruffelle for a variety of reasons. Les Mis is there, obviously, as are a handful Piaf numbers - but it is in discovering the unexpected amongst the tracks that the album takes on an eclectic charm.
Bookending the collection is Les Miserables and the album opens with L'un Vers L'autre, a Boublil and Schoenberg composition that never made the English show's final cut. The song offers a tiny glimpse into the genesis of a show, with echoes of recognisable motifs occasionally breaking cover. One is left, pondering smilingly, how different the show might have been had L'un Vers L'autre been included.
Eponine's big solo, On My Own closes the album, in an intriguing re-work. Ruffelle's timbre is timeless, but when this most famous of show-tunes is sung here by a woman rather than a girl, Herbert Kretzmer's lyrics are imbued with a worldly-wise insouciance that replaces the number's hallmark youthful aspiration and gives the song an intriguing evolution.
Ruffelle admits that after having searched for a perfectly resonant male voice to record the enigmatically romantic Paris Summer, it was only her chance suggestion to local hairdresser Rowan John that led to him covering the track - in a vocal revelation as charming as the song's lyrics.
Produced by Gwyneth Herbert - who accompanies Ruffelle on a cover of Georgie Fame's eponymous title track - the CD offers a most delicate of musical mille feuilles, a finely crafted foray Français. Ruffelle adds that she recorded I Say Yeh-Yeh for love, rather than the pressure of any commercial or contractual requirement and it shows. A must-have for her fans and Francophiles alike!


Riverview Health Foundation will host its 15th annual Women of Vision Luncheon at Marriott Hotel at Keystone at the Crossing in Indianapolis on Thursday, April 25, 2019. The Diamond Sponsor is once again, CarDon & Associates. This year's keynote speaker will be Joy Fitzgerald, chief diversity officer at Eli Lilly and author of The Journey to Joy.
The Women of Vision Luncheon will benefit the Women of Vision Giving Club, which awards grants to more than 10 different Riverview Health programs impacting women served through Riverview Health. Grant awards for 2019 will be announced at the luncheon.
Registration and shopping will begin at 10:30 a.m. and the luncheon is at noon. Ticket prices are $50 per individual and $1,000 for corporate tables. Sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information, please contact Polly Craig at 317.776.7938 or pcraig@riverview.org . To register for the luncheon, visit riverview.org/womenofvision2019.


Hiro Fujikake (Hiroyuki Fujikake) is a Japanese composer, conductor and synthesizer player.
Hiro Fujikake is the pen name of Hiroyuki Fujikake (Birth name).
Hiro Fujikake was born in Gifu Prefecture Japan in 1949. In 1964 he began his musical studies at the High School . Later he went after the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music in Aichi where he studied composition for four years to complete his Bachelor's degree. But he studied a further three years to get the Master of Music at the same university.
Since then he has won numerous awards for his compositions, such as the Ongaku-no-tomo Composition Prize for "Two Poems for Chorus" in 1970, the second prize of the NHK Mainichi Music Competition for "Threnody" in 1974, the All Japan Band Association's Test Piece Composition Prize for "Concertino Overture" in 1975, the Japan Mandolin Union Composition Prize for "Pastoral Fantasy" in 1975, first prize at the Sasagawa competition for "Nostalgic Rhapsody" in 1975 and "Chaconne" in 1976, Japan Symphony Foundation's Composition Prize for "The Song of Spring" in 1990, and the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Belgium for the symphonic work "The Rope Crest" in 1977. His compositional oeuvre is characterized by a wide variety of symphonies to operas on ballets, musicals, works for concert band, mandolin orchestra and traditional Japanese instruments, working for the radio, the television, film and for special occasions such as exhibitions and exhibitions such as World Design Exhibition in 1989 in Nagoya.
Besides composer he is also a performing artist of the synthesizer in his solo band, which is a synthesizer orchestra directed and controlled by computers. But usually he is accompanied by Japanese taiko drummers, mandolin players, and musicians on Chinese musical instruments. Along with the flautist James Galway, he has recorded two CDs; the CD The Enchanted Forest was recorded in 1990 in the United States spent five months in the Billboard Top 10 of the Classical crossover section. He is a member of the Project Committee of the Nippon Music Foundation.
In his works one hears a union of eastern and western music. Sometimes he also integrates jazz - or rock music. Also natural elements found in his work, because he was a little boy and his early childhood living in Higashi-Shirakawa, surrounded by mountains and a river with clear water.


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I'm really not one to rush into getting dressed on a normal day , but what with my recent cold/flu thing, I've been in my pj's for the last 56 hours (with one laundry respite).
Just when you thought I'd never blog about Sarah Palin again, just when you were sure I'd 'gotten over it'—I've been delving a bit into the Myers-Briggs personality types. My ENFP-ness grows large ("P-ness" — God, I love that joke). To wit: "ENFPs often have strong, if unconventional, convictions on various issues related to their Cosmic View." My Cosmic View apparently includes needing large doses of the truth from politicians, as wacky as that might be.
Check out this article by James Rainey (appeared in the 14 Jan 2009 print edition of the LA Times) discussing Sarah Palin's ongoing lack of media savvy. Actually, you don't have to check it out, because I am about to summarize it for you. For while you may be tired of me talking about Sarah Palin, I am not tired of other people talking about Sarah Palin.
Rainey points out that Sarah can't seem to discriminate between her legitimate gripes against the press and her illegitimate ones (ha ha).
The union of public officials who supposedly supported this claim "quickly backed down," and the Anchorage Daily News reported this correction. Other major newspapers did not, says Rainey.
I'm now going to do one of those wrap-up things in which I tell you all the stuff that I'm not going to say in conclusion, but I actually do say it all and thereby do exactly what I said I wasn't going to do.
Oh heck, I'm out of steam.
Last gasp: To me, it is worth asking the questions about Trig because the truth is important. Is Sarah telling us the truth? Why has she not released her medical records?
Once again, I refer you to a real journalist for a pretty decent wrap up of the whole deal.
I drank the Kool-Aid, and I still have a red stain around my mouth.
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This wouldn't be important if she wasn't threatening a return in 2012.
Let's also find the Truth on a brunch of other things. So many politicians, so many falsehoods, so little time on this planet for living.
PJs? Kewl! Seeing as how you've seen the white fluffy robe of Christmas Present (which I am wearing even as I type), I'm totally down with it.
The big question… do I wear glasses or contacts? If glasses, do I clean them off before PJ portraiture? I believe these vital questions DO have answers… mostly easy ones, at that.
Why am I not surprised that a Sarah Palin supporter didn't know what this effigy of Palin was about? I'm guessing he doesn't even know what an effigy is.
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — A Sarah Palin supporter has suffered buyer's remorse after winning an eBay auction for an effigy that was hung by a noose from a West Hollywood home.
Chad Morrisette, a professional window dresser who created the Palin look-alike, says it went for more than $2,200 on Thursday but the buyer has changed his mind.
Morrisette says the winner thought he was buying a pro-Palin item and didn't realize the truth until he heard about the auction on talk radio.
The mannequin of the Republican vice presidential candidate made headlines after Morrisette hung it from the roof as part of a Halloween display last October.
So how does this work? I just sit around in my sleeping-clothes and type? That's the only way I blog, baby!


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/***********************************************************************
    created:    Tue Jul 5 2005
    author:     Paul D Turner <paul@cegui.org.uk>
*************************************************************************/
/***************************************************************************
 *   Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 Paul D Turner & The CEGUI Development Team
 *
 *   Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
 *   a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
 *   "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
 *   without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
 *   distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
 *   permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
 *   the following conditions:
 *
 *   The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
 *   included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 *
 *   THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
 *   EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
 *   MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
 *   IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR
 *   OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
 *   ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
 *   OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 ***************************************************************************/
#ifndef _FalStaticText_h_
#define _FalStaticText_h_

#include "CEGUI/WindowRendererSets/Core/Module.h"
#include "CEGUI/WindowRendererSets/Core/Static.h"
#include "CEGUI/falagard/Enums.h"
#include "CEGUI/ColourRect.h"
#include <vector>

#if defined(_MSC_VER)
#	pragma warning(push)
#	pragma warning(disable : 4251)
#endif

// Start of CEGUI namespace section
namespace CEGUI
{
    /*!
    \brief
        StaticText class for the FalagardBase module.

        This class requires LookNFeel to be assigned.  The LookNFeel should provide the following:

        States:
            - Enabled                     - basic rendering for enabled state.
            - Disabled                    - basic rendering for disabled state.
            - EnabledFrame                - frame rendering for enabled state
            - DisabledFrame               - frame rendering for disabled state.
            - WithFrameEnabledBackground  - backdrop rendering for enabled state with frame enabled.
            - WithFrameDisabledBackground - backdrop rendering for disabled state with frame enabled.
            - NoFrameEnabledBackground    - backdrop rendering for enabled state with frame disabled.
            - NoFrameDisabledBackground   - backdrop rendering for disabled state with frame disabled.

        Named Areas (missing areas will default to 'WithFrameTextRenderArea'):
            WithFrameTextRenderArea
            WithFrameTextRenderAreaHScroll
            WithFrameTextRenderAreaVScroll
            WithFrameTextRenderAreaHVScroll
            NoFrameTextRenderArea
            NoFrameTextRenderAreaHScroll
            NoFrameTextRenderAreaVScroll
            NoFrameTextRenderAreaHVScroll
    */
    class COREWRSET_API FalagardStaticText : public FalagardStatic
    {
    public:
        static const String TypeName;       //!< type name for this widget.

        /*************************************************************************
            Child Widget name constants
        *************************************************************************/
        static const String VertScrollbarName;   //!< Widget name for the vertical scrollbar component.
        static const String HorzScrollbarName;   //!< Widget name for the horizontal scrollbar component.

        /************************************************************************
            Constructor / Destructor
        *************************************************************************/
        /*!
        \brief
            Constructor
        */
        FalagardStaticText(const String& type);

        //! Destructor.
        ~FalagardStaticText();

        /************************************************************************
            Scrolled text implementation
        *************************************************************************/
        /*!
        \brief
            Return a ColourRect object containing the colours used when rendering this widget.
        */
        ColourRect    getTextColours(void) const                {return d_textCols;}

        /*!
        \brief
            Return the current horizontal formatting option set for this widget.
        */
        HorizontalTextFormatting getHorizontalFormatting(void) const   {return    d_horzFormatting;}

        /*!
        \brief
            Return the current vertical formatting option set for this widget.
        */
        VerticalTextFormatting getVerticalFormatting(void) const     {return d_vertFormatting;}

        /*!
        \brief
            Sets the colours to be applied when rendering the text.
        */
        void    setTextColours(const ColourRect& colours);

        /*!
        \brief
            Set the vertical formatting required for the text.
        */
        void    setVerticalFormatting(VerticalTextFormatting v_fmt);

        /*!
        \brief
            Set the horizontal formatting required for the text.
        */
        void    setHorizontalFormatting(HorizontalTextFormatting h_fmt);

        /*!
        \brief
            Return whether the vertical scroll bar is set to be shown if needed.
        */
        bool    isVerticalScrollbarEnabled(void) const  {return d_enableVertScrollbar;}

        /*!
        \brief
            Return whether the horizontal scroll bar is set to be shown if needed.
        */
        bool    isHorizontalScrollbarEnabled(void) const    {return d_enableHorzScrollbar;}

        /*!
	    \brief
            Set whether the vertical scroll bar will be shown if needed.
        */
        void    setVerticalScrollbarEnabled(bool setting);

        /*!
        \brief
            Set whether the horizontal scroll bar will be shown if needed.
        */
        void    setHorizontalScrollbarEnabled(bool setting);

        //! return the current horizontal formatted text extent in pixels.
        float getHorizontalTextExtent() const;

        //! return the current vertical formatted text extent in pixels.
        float getVerticalTextExtent() const;

        // overridden from base class
        bool handleFontRenderSizeChange(const Font* const font);
        void render(void);

        /*!
        \brief
            Get the current position of the horizontal scrollbar within the
            text.

            The range of the scrollbar is from 0 to the width of the text minus
            the width of a page
            (0 <= position <= (textSize - pageSize)).

        \param position
            Float value specifying the position of the scrollbar within the
            text.
        */
        float getHorizontalScrollPosition() const;

        /*!
        \brief
            Get the current position of the vertical scrollbar within the text.

            The range of the scrollbar is from 0 to the height of the text minus
            the height of a page
            (0 <= position <= (textSize - pageSize)).

        \param position
            Float value specifying the position of the scrollbar within the
            text.
        */
        float getVerticalScrollPosition() const;

        /*!
        \brief
            return the current horizontal scrollbar position as a value in the
            interval [0, 1].
        */
        float getUnitIntervalHorizontalScrollPosition() const;

        /*!
        \brief
            return the current vertical scrollbar position as a value in the
            interval [0, 1].
        */
        float getUnitIntervalVerticalScrollPosition() const;

        /*!
        \brief
            Set the current position of the horizontal scrollbar within the
            text.

            The range of the scrollbar is from 0 to the width of the text minus
            the width of a page
            (0 <= position <= (textSize - pageSize)), any attempt to set the
            position outside this range will be adjusted so that it falls within
            the legal range.

        \param position
            Float value specifying the position of the scrollbar within the
            text.
        */
        void setHorizontalScrollPosition(float position);

        /*!
        \brief
            Set the current position of the vertical scrollbar within the text.

            The range of the scrollbar is from 0 to the height of the text minus
            the height of a page
            (0 <= position <= (textSize - pageSize)), any attempt to set the
            position outside this range will be adjusted so that it falls within
            the legal range.

        \param position
            Float value specifying the position of the scrollbar within the
            text.
        */
        void setVerticalScrollPosition(float position);

        /*!
        \brief
            set the current horizontal scrollbar position as a value in the
            interval [0, 1].
        */
        void setUnitIntervalHorizontalScrollPosition(float position);

        /*!
        \brief
            set the current vertical scrollbar position as a value in the
            interval [0, 1].
        */
        void setUnitIntervalVerticalScrollPosition(float position);

        /*!
        \brief
            Invalidate string formatting and scrollbars visibility.

            This sets a "dirty" flag which causes "updateFormatting" to actually
            perform an update.
        \see updateFormatting
        */
        void invalidateFormatting();

    protected:
        /*!
        \brief
            Update string formatting and scrollbars visibility.

            This only happens if a "dirty" flag is set. The flag is set by
            "invalidateFormatting".
        \see invalidateFormatting
        */
        void updateFormatting() const;

        //! \deprecated
        void updateFormatting(const Sizef&) const;

        // overridden from FalagardStatic base class
        void onLookNFeelAssigned();
        void onLookNFeelUnassigned();

        // text field with scrollbars methods
        void renderScrolledText(void);

        void configureScrollbars() const;

        //! \deprecated
        void configureScrollbars(void);

        Scrollbar* getVertScrollbar() const;
        Scrollbar* getHorzScrollbar() const;
        Rectf getTextRenderArea() const;
        Sizef getDocumentSize() const;

        //! \deprecated
        Sizef getDocumentSize(const Rectf& renderArea) const;

        void setupStringFormatter() const;

        // overridden event handlers
        bool onTextChanged(const EventArgs& e);
        bool onSized(const EventArgs& e);
        bool onFontChanged(const EventArgs& e);
        bool onScroll(const EventArgs& e);

        // event subscribers
        bool handleScrollbarChange(const EventArgs& e);

        // implementation data
        //! Horizontal formatting to be applied to the text.
        HorizontalTextFormatting d_horzFormatting;
        //! Vertical formatting to be applied to the text.
        VerticalTextFormatting d_vertFormatting;
        ColourRect      d_textCols;             //!< Colours used when rendering the text.
        bool            d_enableVertScrollbar;  //!< true if vertical scroll bar is enabled.
        bool            d_enableHorzScrollbar;  //!< true if horizontal scroll bar is enabled.

        //! Class that renders RenderedString with some formatting.
        mutable FormattedRenderedString* d_formattedRenderedString;

        typedef std::vector<Event::Connection> ConnectionList;
        ConnectionList  d_connections;

        /*!
        \brief
            True when string formatting and scrollbars visibility are up to
            date.
        */
        mutable bool d_formatValid;

    private:
        Scrollbar* getVertScrollbarWithoutUpdate() const;
        Scrollbar* getHorzScrollbarWithoutUpdate() const;
        Rectf getTextRenderAreaWithoutUpdate() const;
        Sizef getDocumentSizeWithoutUpdate() const;
    };

} // End of  CEGUI namespace section

#if defined(_MSC_VER)
#	pragma warning(pop)
#endif

#endif  // end of guard _FalStaticText_h_

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#ifndef __TRUSTZONE_TA_PLAYREADY__
#define __TRUSTZONE_TA_PLAYREADY__

#define TZ_TA_PLAYREADY_UUID         "b25bf100-d276-11e2-8b8b-0800200c9a66"

#define PLAYREADY_PROVISIONED_CERT  1
#define PLAYREADY_PROVISIONED_KEY 2
#define PLAYREADY_PROVISIONED_CLEAR_KEY  3  // for debug

#define TZ_DRM_UI64EQL   1
#define TZ_DRM_UI64LES    2

#define TZ_TOKEN_TOKEN    1
#define TZ_TOKEN_VALUE     2
#define TZ_VALUE_TOKEN     3

#define SUPPORT_MULTIPLE_INSTANCE 1

#define C_SECONDS_IN_ROLLBACK_GRACE_PERIOD 30

/* Data Structure for Playready TA */
/* You should define data structure used both in REE/TEE here
     N/A for Playready TA */

/* Command for Playready TA */
#define TZCMD_PLAYREADY_BASE                             0x00000000
#define TZCMD_PLAYREADY_PROVISIONED_DATA_GET             0x00000001
#define TZCMD_PLAYREADY_ECCP256_KEYPAIR_GEN              0x00000002
#define TZCMD_PLAYREADY_ECCP256_KEY_SET                  0x00000003
#define TZCMD_PLAYREADY_ECDSAP256_SIGN                   0x00000004
#define TZCMD_PLAYREADY_ECCP256_DECRYPT                  0x00000005
#define TZCMD_PLAYREADY_OMAC1_KEY_SET                    0x00000006
#define TZCMD_PLAYREADY_OMAC1_VERIFY                     0x00000007
#define TZCMD_PLAYREADY_OMAC1_SIGN                       0x00000008
#define TZCMD_PLAYREADY_COPYBYTE                         0x00000009
#define TZCMD_PLAYREADY_CONTENTKEY_AESCTR_SET            0x0000000a
#define TZCMD_PLAYREADY_CONTENT_AESCTR_DECRYPT           0x0000000b
#define TZCMD_PLAYREADY_AESECB_KEY_SET                   0x0000000c
#define TZCMD_PLAYREADY_AESECB_ENCRYPT                   0x0000000d
#define TZCMD_PLAYREADY_AESECB_DECRYPT                   0x0000000e
#define TZCMD_PLAYREADY_GET_KFKEY                        0x0000000f
#define TZCMD_PLAYREADY_AESCBC_KEY_SET                   0x00000010
#define TZCMD_PLAYREADY_AESCBC_ENCRYPT                   0x00000011
#define TZCMD_PLAYREADY_AESCBC_DECRYPT                   0x00000012
#define TZCMD_PLAYREADY_HANDLE_CONTENT_AESCTR_DECRYPT    0x00000013
#define TZCMD_PLAYREADY_KEYFILE_DECRYPT                  0x00000014
#define TZCMD_PLAYREADY_KEYFILE_ENCRYPT                  0x00000015
#define TZCMD_PLAYREADY_TOKENTIME_COMPARE          0x00000016
#define TZCMD_PLAYREADY_TOKENTIME_UPDATE                 0x00000017
#define TZCMD_PLAYREADY_MACHINEDATETIME_CHECK            0x00000019

typedef struct PLAYREADY_IVDATA {
    unsigned long long qwInitializationVector;
    unsigned long long qwBlockOffset;
    unsigned long  bByteOffset;
} PLAYREADY_IVDATA;

typedef struct TZ_PLAYREADY_ENCINFO{
    char                                        role[100];
    unsigned int                         dataSize;                  //total enc buffer size
    unsigned int                         segNum;                  //trunk number
    PLAYREADY_IVDATA          iv[10];                      //IV data for each trunk
    unsigned int                         offset[10];               //pointer to an integer array, each element describe clear data size
    unsigned int                         length[10];              //pointer to an integer array, each element describe enc data size
    unsigned int                      dstHandle;              //true : dstData is a handle; false : dstData is a buffer;

}TZ_PLAYREADY_ENCINFO;

#ifdef SUPPORT_MULTIPLE_INSTANCE

#define DRM_AES_KEYSIZE_128 ( 16 ) /* Size ( in bytes ) of a 128 bit key */

/* Now at least two or more process will use ta_playready.c at same time , drm server and media server */
#define MAX_AESECB_KEYS_INSTANCE   4
#define MAX_OMAC1_KEYS_INSTANCE   4

typedef struct TZ_PLAYREADY_AESECB_KEYS{
    uint32_t handle;   // tee session handle
    char aesecbKey[DRM_AES_KEYSIZE_128];
    uint32_t bProtect;
    uint32_t bInUse;
}TZ_PLAYREADY_AESECB_KEYS;

typedef struct TZ_PLAYREADY_OMAC1_KEYS{
    uint32_t handle;   // tee session handle
    char omac1Key[DRM_AES_KEYSIZE_128];
    uint32_t bProtect;
    uint32_t bInUse;
}TZ_PLAYREADY_OMAC1_KEYS;

#endif

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29 February, 2016 in Caution, Claims, Space, Video
NASA Concealed Secret Alien Message Claims UFO Group
An audio recording has surfaced in the UFO conspiracy theory blogosphere claimed to be the authentic "leaked copy" of the recording of an alien voice obtained from a UFO probe discovered on Mars by NASA's Opportunity and Curiosity rovers.
A conspiracy theory website, The Sheivae Project, now claims that NASA secretly received an audio recording containing an alien reply to its 1977 VGR message in 2012, but has kept the information hidden from the public. However, a NASA whistleblower leaked a copy of the recording before he died.
According to the Sheivae Project, NASA temporarily lost Voyager signals in the 1990s. The brief interruption of signals was due to the probes being intercepted by aliens who obtained and analyzed the message contained in the VGR.
NASA was aware at the time that the message had been intercepted in space but maintained conspiratorial silence about it.
But later, after NASA landed Opportunity rover to Mars in 2004, it detected artificial signals on the planet but was unable to locate the source of the signals.
Thus, NASA had to wait until 2012 when it deployed the Curiosity rover on the Red Planet. Curiosity rover picked up the signals and allegedly found an alien UFO probe on Mars containing a disc with a recording of an alien voice responding to NASA's VGR message.
But, once again, NASA kept the discovery secret.
However, a researcher who identified himself as Viktor, born in South Africa, reportedly claimed in an Abovetopsecret.com conspiracy theory forum thread that in 2011, he met a man who worked with a NASA-linked company. The man told him that NASA was aware that the VGR message had been intercepted in space but officials had no idea who intercepted the message.
After NASA's Curiosity rover obtained the recording of an alien voice from a UFO probe found on Mars in 2012, the whistleblower leaked it to Viktor before he died of cancer in 2014, claiming it was an alien response to NASA's message.
Victor claimed he worked quietly on the case since 2011 before going public. The recording of an alien voice, claimed to be an effort by aliens to reproduce human speech artificially, begins with bleeping noises followed by a synthetic human voice that says, "Hello. I am Sheivae. I receive your message. I come from world far ways from yours. You are not alone. I hope you receive mine. I hope you understand my message."
Sheivae goes on to explain that she found the Voyager message while wandering in space after having lost her native planet.
The claim is so bizarre that even some members of the alien and UFO community, known for expansive credulity, have expressed doubt, saying it is a hoax.
Skeptics have pointed out that the timing of release of the recording was likely intended to exploit recent reports that NASA kept hidden for nearly five decades a recording of mysterious "space music" heard on the far side of the Moon by the crew of the Apollo 10 mission.
UFO blogger Scott Waring reports he was contacted on Twitter by an anonymous female person who narrated a story similar to Viktor's. The person said that while she worked for a small communications company, she was contacted by a NASA whistleblower with top-secret information to divulge. The whistleblower passed away soon after he leaked the recording of an alien voice.
"It's odd, for sure. No doubt about that. But NASA doesn't like to tell the public about what they find. We always have to find out through the grape vine of old records, photos, eyewitness," Waring commented on his blog.
The leaker defended himself against claims that his story, and the alleged recording of an alien voice, is a hoax by hinting future disclosures.
"Disclosure pictures of the probe would be impossible to explain, but the files in the probe, they can make it look like a hoax, it's easy for them (NASA). People say I am a liar, so you can imagine what NASA can do against me, but I think people are not stupid."
Source: http://www.inquisitr.com/2818159/nasa-doesnt-want-you-to-hear-this-recording-of-an-alien-voice-found-in-ufo-probe-on-mars-according-to-conspiracy-theorists/
The Wow! Signal Might Have Been From Comets, Not Aliens
On 15 August 1977, radio astronomers using the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University picked up a powerful signal from space. Some believe it was our first interception of an alien broadcast. Now it seems something closer to home may have been the source: a pair of passing comets.
full page of the computer printout that contains the "Wow!" signal (Link)
The signal – known as the "Wow! signal" after a note scribbled by astronomer Jerry Ehman, who detected it – came through at 1420 megahertz, corresponding to a wavelength of 21 centimetres. Searchers for extraterrestrial transmissions have long considered it an auspicious place to look, as it is one of the main frequencies at which atoms of hydrogen, the most common element in the universe, absorb and emit energy. What's more, this frequency easily penetrates the atmosphere.
But in the 40 years since, we've never heard anything like it again. Analysis of the signal ruled out a satellite, and a reflected signal from the Earth's surface is unlikely because regulations forbid transmission in that frequency range.
The signal's intensity rose and fell over the course of 72 seconds, which is the length of time that the Big Ear could keep an object in its field of view due to the rotation of the Earth. That meant it was clearly coming from space. So what was it?
Antonio Paris, a professor of astronomy at St Petersburg College in Florida, thinks the signal might have come from one or more passing comets. He points the finger at two suspects, called 266P/Christensen and P/2008 Y2 (Gibbs). "I came across the idea when I was in my car driving and wondered if a planetary body, moving fast enough, could be the source," he says.
Possibly Hydrogen Clouds?
Comets release a lot of hydrogen as they swing around the sun. This happens because ultraviolet light breaks up their frozen water, creating a cloud of the gas extending millions of kilometres out from the comet itself.
If the comets were passing in front of the Big Ear in 1977, they would have generated an apparently short-lived signal, as the telescope (now dismantled) had a fixed field of view. Searching that same area – as subsequent radio telescopes did – wouldn't show anything. Tracing the comets' positions back in time, Paris says that the possible origin for the Wow! signal falls right between where they would have been.
Neither comet was known in 1977; they were both discovered in the last decade, which would mean nobody would have thought to search for them. The odds of any telescope catching them in the region of the Wow! signal by chance were vanishingly small.
To test his idea, Paris proposes looking at the same region of space when the comets are back. Comet 266P/Christensen will transit the region first, on 25 January 2017, then P/2008 Y2 (Gibbs), on 7 January 2018. An analysis of the hydrogen signal of the comets should reveal if he is correct.
Some Are In Doubt
Some researchers are sceptical, saying it isn't clear the comets would release enough hydrogen to generate something like the Wow! signal. James Bauer of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, agrees that the hydrogen from comets can extend quite far, but still thinks the signal won't be strong enough. "If comets were radio-bright at 21 centimetres, I would be puzzled as to why they aren't observed more often at those wavelengths," he says.
Paris says future observations will determine whether he is right. One crucial piece of evidence will be how fast the comets move across the sky. Too slow, and the Big Ear would have seen another signal 24 hours later as they rolled back into view, unlike the solo blast of the Wow! signal. "The hypothesis must be tested before it is ruled out," he says. "Science 101."
Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28747-famous-wow-signal-might-have-been-from-comets-not-aliens/
23 February, 2016 in Space
Space mining edges closer to reality but legal minefield remains
The stuff of science fiction could soon become reality as a growing number of companies and organisations look to space for a treasure chest of untapped resources.
Minerals including iron, nickel, titanium, platinum, water and helium-3 that are found on asteroids and the moon could be mined for use on Earth or used in space for future colonies.
"It's definitely not going to happen like in the movie Armageddon - I can guarantee it's not going be done by humans, it's going to be done by the robots," said associate professor of asteroid mining Serkan Saydam from the University of New South Wales.
NASA research has found that around 1,500 asteroids are within "easy reach" of Earth, and a house-sized asteroid could contain metals worth millions of dollars.
"Asteroid mining companies are (already) set to launch their first space craft in the near future," Mr Saydam said.
"We're still discussing what sort of methods we will use to break the asteroids, is it going to be blasting?"
That reality is drawing closer and closer as the cost of space missions has dropped on the back of cheaper nano-satellite technology, while deep sea mining robotics for extraction under extreme conditions can be adapted for use in space.
Earlier this year, Luxembourg announced plans to pioneer the potentially lucrative business of mining asteroids in space for gold, platinum, and tungsten.
Meanwhile, in November, US President Barack Obama signed the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, allowing US companies property rights over space resources they retrieve.
One US commercial space company, Deep Space Industries, welcomed President Obama's move and said the harvest of space resources will be "the biggest industrial transformation in human history".
The company specialises in space mining, utilising nano-satellite technology to keep costs down.
Regulatory minefield
However, with opportunity comes a regulatory minefield, as questions are raised as to who owns what and which legal framework would apply to government agencies and for-profit companies.
"International framework of space is based on primarily United Nations treaties that were put together in a different era," said Professor Steven Freeland from the University of Western Sydney, who is assisting the Australian Government in its current review of the regulatory framework for space activities.
"They were put together during the period of the Cold War where there were very few countries engaged in space, when the vast majority of space activities were state-oriented."
Space exploration remains highly political, but it has now become open for business as more and more companies seek their fortune in asteroid mining and the potential for space tourism.
"We are literally shaping space for future generations and we need to be careful about the decisions we make around that," said Dr Alice Gormanis, a senior lecturer at Flinders University who focuses on the emerging field of space archaeology.
"Everyone is a stakeholder in outer-space, particularly if you think of something like the moon, a huge role in human cultures across all times, and across the whole of the Earth."
Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-22/space-mining-closer-to-reality-but-legal-minefield-remains/7189880
20 February, 2016 in Articles, China, Space
Mass Relocation For Chinese Villagers, For The World's Largest Telescope!
More than 9,000 Chinese villagers are leaving their homes to make way for aliens — or for the possible echoes of them, at least.
It is not a colonization plan from outer space. The Chinese government is relocating the villagers as it finishes building the world's biggest radio telescope, one of whose purposes is to detect signs of extraterrestrial life.
China to relocate over 9,000 residents to protect world's largest radio telescope https://t.co/hLK8Ak0IKr pic.twitter.com/DtfZuWZIkr
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) February 16, 2016
The telescope will be 500 meters, or 1,640 feet, in diameter, making it by far the largest instrument of its kind in the world. It is called FAST, short for 500-meter aperture spherical telescope, and will cost an estimated 1.2 billion renminbi, or $184 million, to erect. The government hopes to complete it by September.
The mass relocation was announced on Tuesday in a report by Xinhua, the state news agency. The report said officials were moving 2,029 families, a total of 9,110 people, who live within about three miles of the telescope in the area of Pingtang and Luodian Counties in the southwestern province of Guizhou. Depopulating the area will create "a sound electromagnetic wave environment" for the telescope, Xinhua said.
Officials plan to give each person the equivalent of $1,800 for housing compensation, the report said. Guizhou is one of China's poorest provinces.
Forced relocations for large projects are common across China, and so are complaints about them and about the amount of compensation offered. The Three Gorges Dam displaced more than one million people along the Yangtze River, for example, and the middle route of the gargantuan South-North Water Diversion Project has resulted in the relocation of 350,000 people to make way for a series of canals.
The Chinese government has announced ambitious plans for its space program, at a time when the American one's direction is uncertain. China aims to put an astronaut on the moon and a space station in orbit. The FAST project is another important element in the larger plan.
Some official Chinese news reports about the project have emphasized the search for alien life, but the telescope's main scientific work will be somewhat less romantic, gathering large amounts of new data on a wide range of physical phenomena in space including pulsars, galaxies, black holes and gas clouds.
The telescope is being built in a wide depression among karst hills. The site is far from any large city, and ideal for picking up radio transmissions from the sky, the Xinhua report said. Scientists began looking for a suitable site for the project in 1994.
If the truth is out there, some Chinese scientists are confident that the giant telescope will find it. For decades, professional and amateur scientists have combed the data gathered by the largest currently operational radio telescope in the world, the 53-year-old Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, hoping to find traces of intelligent life that, like mankind, may be advertising its existence to the universe through radio emissions. But they have yet to find any sign.
"With a larger signal receiving area and more flexibility, FAST will be able to scan two times more sky area than Arecibo, with three to five times higher sensitivity," Li Di, a chief scientist with the National Astronomical Observatories under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told China Daily last year.
The new telescope should be able to pick up all kinds of radio signals more clearly from sources much farther away than can the Arecibo dish, which is 300 meters (about 1,000 feet) in diameter.
In November, scientists successfully tested the new telescope's "retina," which weighs 33 tons and is suspended 460 to 525 feet above the reflector dish, which was half-finished at the time, China Daily reported.
The telescope is made up of 4,500 mostly triangular panels that measure about 36 feet on a side, the report said, which together create an immense parabolic dish. Scientists will be able to adjust the panels' positions to alter the shape of the dish and reflect radio signals from distant parts of the universe to a single focal point for detection and study.
Mr. Li told China Daily that engineers were aiming to install all the panels by June and complete debugging the antenna by September.
"Ultimately, exploring the unknown is the nature of mankind," he said, adding that it was "as visceral as feeding and clothing ourselves."
"It drives us to a greater future," he said.
China Enters The Search For ET With The Largest Telescope Ever Built! | The Xenologist
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/18/world/asia/china-fast-telescope-guizhou-relocation.html
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/science/china-hunts-for-aliens-and-scientists/articleshow/51063628.cms
12 February, 2016 in Documentary, The What if?
07 February, 2016 in OVNIs, Russia, UFOs, Video
UFO researcher says Russian flying saucer footage is legitimate
A UFO sighting over Russia's capital last month was legitimate, according to the leader of a self-styled UFO research group.
News Corp reports Kosmopoisk founder and leader Vadim Chernobrov believes a video of four mysterious lights flying in formation over Moscow was not the result of digital trickery but a real, mysterious sighting.
The otherworldly orbs caused the usual speculative storm online after they recorded and uploaded.
Now Chernobrov, who reportedly once claimed to have built a time machine, has weighed in adding his gravitas the claims of a man called Timur who first spotted the strange spectacle.
"There were four balls of light. A red one to the left, two white ones in the middle and a less bright one to the right," Timur told Russian media.
"Sometimes the one on the right would disappear and come back.
"All together, they made the geometric shape of a rhombus."
According to News Corp, Chernobrov is convinced the footage is the genuine article.
"The lights cannot be explained as either an atmospheric or a cosmic image," he was quoted as saying.
"The chance of it being some sort of mirage is also impossible due to the precise geometric form the objects have formed."
"Some have said they could look like Chinese lanterns but I would dismiss this possibility because of the movements and speed of the objects."
It is not the first time Chernobrov and his team of UFOlogists and cryptozoologists have claimed to have discovered the truth behind Earth's fledgling inter-planetary relations.
In September last year his team claimed to have discovered ancient remnants of a crashed UFO in Russia.
He was among a group of researchers who believed stone discs found in the Medveditskaya ridge region of the Zhirnovsky district, Volgograd, were millions of years old signs of extraterrestrial visitors.
"We managed to find a dozen of these stone disks, but this is such a unique one" Chernobrov told a local news website.
"Other stones we found is not more more than 1 diameter in diameter.
Previously, we have been able to find such alien stones, but the biggest of them found was in the Kuzbass which was of two metre in diameters (sic)."
Source: https://au.news.yahoo.com/technology/a/30735102/ufo-researcher-says-russian-flying-saucer-footage-was-legitimate/
06 February, 2016 in Gold, Interesting
GOLD bears may names in multiple cultures, The Ancient Egyptians called Gold "The Breath of God", For the Romans "The Muscles of War", the Incas called it "The Sweat of The Sun", and The Aztec's called gold the "Excrement of The Gods,".
For The English, The word "Gold" comes from the Old English word "Geolu", meaning yellow.
But Let me tell you the true cost of this valuable metal, and its darkest secret and the most astonishing facts about Gold.
In times of war and conquest gold plays a valuable part here are some interesting facts, during the culmination of Gallic Wars, Julius Caesar gave each of his soldiers two-hundred gold coins, and subsequently paid off all of Rome's debt.
Marcus L. Crassus
Known as the richest Roman in history with an accumulation of wealth of 7100 talents or 8.4 billion in todays numbers. Marcus Licinius Crassus owned seized property from Sulla's political enemies during Sulla's Purges, to the speculative nature of real estate property investments, including ownership of several silver mines, and the buying and selling of slaves for profit by upskilling them.
In Accordance with Pompey, Julius Caesar, and himself, Crassus agreed on the Governorship of Syria, due to its inexhaustible wealth, for Pompey the province of Spain and Caesar the Lands of Gaul, but destiny has other plans for Crassus and his ambitions.
Occurring in the Parthian-Roman War in 53 B.C., The Battle of Carrhae, turned to disaster for the Roman General, Marcus Licinius Crassus, Crassus just arriving in Syria just a few years ago declared war and was swiftly defeated by the Parthians, Crassus was forced to negotiate by his soldiers, and upon arrival the situation was tense and was set upon and died, as a monument of his greed for Gold, the Parthians, poured molten gold down his throat as a symbol of his thirst for wealth.
King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella of Spain with Christopher Columbus
In 1511, King Ferdinand of Spain coined the immortal phrase: "Get gold, humanely if possible—but at all hazards, get gold." By the 1599, a Spanish governor in present day Ecuador taxed the Jivaro tribe so excessively that they attacked the 12,000 strong settlement of Logrono and executed him by pouring molten gold down his throat alive. The settlement of Logrono still exist to this day.
A flash forward to the present What's even more interesting is the fact that gold is currently circulating the human body right now, but it just a small amount of 0.2 milligrams so you'll need 40,000 people for a Gold coin of 8g.
An unexpected new source of gold is trees? Yes you heard right eucalyptus trees to be precise, Australian researchers in the CSIRO, Australia's Science Institute, have found that Gold does indeed grow on trees, just microscopically on its leaves, but its less than 0.000005 percent of each leaf by weight, mainly due to the fact that Gold is probably toxic and is moved to its extremities (the leaves) to reduce deleterious biochemical reaction, the researchers wrote.
174,100 is the total number of tonnes of gold mined since civilisation
100 million people worldwide depend on gold mining for their livelihood
Australia has 79.85 tonnes of gold a value of 2.8 billion USD or 4 billion AUD
The United States Bullion Depository, or Fort Knox Holds 4,600 tonnes of Gold with a value of 6.2 billion US dollars
The US Federal Reserve Holds 6,200 tonnes of Gold, the Gold is partly owned by the US Federal Reserve but most of it belongs to foreign governments, other central banks, and official international organisations. The Federal Reserve acts as the guardian and custodian of these gold holdings on behalf of its account holders, which also include the U.S. Government. It has an estimated value of half a trillion dollars.
And I'll leave you with this nearly half the gold ever mined comes from one place Witwatersrand, in South Africa. More gold has come from this area than from any continent, about 50,000 tonnes over 120 years, nearly half of all the gold ever mined.
http://www.sharpspixley.com/history-of-gold/
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/gold/eureka/gold-fun-facts
http://www.investinganswers.com/investment-ideas/commodities-precious-metals/50-surprising-facts-you-never-knew-about-gold-1370
http://www.usfunds.com/interactive/gold-through-the-ages/#.VrW-c1KMX7x
https://gatesofnineveh.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/the-battle-of-carrhae/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus
http://www.carbgold.com.au/about.html?catid=12&id=12:facts-about-gold-13
http://mygeologypage.ucdavis.edu/cowen/~gel115/115CH8.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/qi/8667421/QI-Quite-interesting-facts-about-gold.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131022-gold-eucalyptus-leaves-mining-geology-science/
http://www.byondmarket.com/web/gold_facts.html
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/australia/gold-reserves
https://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/goldvault.html
https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/fsreports/rpt/goldRpt/current_report.htm
http://www.factslides.com/s-Gold (FACT #17)
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03 February, 2016 in Documents, OVNIs, UFOs
1975ALGIER00638_b (cable document number)
MARCH 1975, STRANGE "MACHINES" WHICH HAD BEEN MANEUVERING OVER ALGERIAN AIRSPACE. wikileaks (pdf)
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975ALGIER00638_b.html
in Argentina, Documents, Government, Military, OVNIs, UFOs
Argentina Created UFO Investigative Unit Shrouded in Secrecy
In Four Years, Commission for the Study of Aerospace Phenomena Identified Soccer Balls, Birds, Moon
Since he took office in December, Argentinean President Mauricio Macri has uncovered several boondoggles left behind by his predecessor, Cristina Kirchner. Examples of the Kirchners' excesses include a derelict presidential palace and a party room for the vice president at a state bank.
CEFAE Insignia - Argentina
The latest discovery is a commission that Kirchner created in 2011 to investigate Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO's). You read that right.
After four years of allegedly looking into the matter, the Commission for the Study of Aerospace Phenomena (Cefae) produced a flimsy 12-page report in December — when Kirchner left office — analyzing a grand total of 10 sightings. If you were wondering, none of them were alien spaceships.
Argentinean journalist Sebastián Tortora summed up the findings after years of trying to figure out what Cefae actually did:
1. One sighting compatible with the Rigel star (β Orionis).
2. Three standard aeronautical night lights.
3. The combination of the satellite Envisat, the International Space Station ISS Zarya, and "star β Grulla."
4. A small soccer ball thrown at short distance from the camera
5. The planet Jupiter, its quadrant coordinates coinciding perfectly with the time, hour, and location reported by the witness.
6. A bird crossing in front of the camera.
7. A pair of lights from an antenna
8. The Moon, its quadrant coordinates coinciding perfectly with the time, hour, and location reported by the witness [photo taken in daylight, it should be pointed out]
9. [Believe it or not] a case without a single photo or video
10. A helicopter
With such results, it's no surprise that the document, uploaded to an obscure army website, bears no signatures. Furthermore, it covers UFO's reported by the population between 2014 and 2015, leaving what they did during the previous years covered in mystery.
Sadly for the Argentinean taxpayer, Cefae, which allegedly employs geologists, engineers, pilots, radar technicians, computer experts, and meteorologists, did not reveal its operating costs.
Local outlet Hoy argues that, while the commission "organized, coordinated, and methodically carried out investigations into the possible causes of unidentified objects in the national airspace," the Kirchner administration proceeded to "dismantle" the Argentinean Armed Forces.
It also notes that Cefae became an appendix "of the San Martín National University (UNSM), which government officials — as former Planning Minister Julio de Vido and the indicted former Vice President Amado Boudou, for instance — used as a personal cash register."
Under the Kirchner administration, UNSM inaugurated a degree in aerospace engineering, but Hoy claims that the AR$200 million (US$15 million) devoted to its funding was actually a screen to pay ruling party activists and to secure contracts for cronies.
In April 2012, one year after Cefae began its operations, officials claimed that "23 possible UFO sightings were under investigation." They also said that they had received 102 complaints, 79 of which were discarded.
Cefae is just one instance of the questionable use of public funds during the Kirchner administrations.
Last week, the Macri administration laid off 140 personnel at Military Industries, a state-owned firm under the Defense Ministry, after incoming officials discovered the army agency had a small news conglomerate: it ran a TV channel, a FM radio station, a newspaper, three magazines, and had 30 people allegedly proselytizing on Twitter.
Since 2011, Military Industries increased its payroll to 1,000 people. In Buenos Aires alone, it went from having 100 employees to 500.
The Macri administration suspects that Kirchner ran a "propaganda center" inside the facility, employing non-military personnel in social media, graphic design, journalism, and audiovisual production.
Source: https://panampost.com/pedro-garcia/2016/02/02/argentina-created-ufo-investigative-unit-shrouded-in-secrecy/
02 February, 2016 in China, Moon, Space
The landing site of China's first moon lander Chang'e-3 has been named "Guang Han Gong" or "Moon Palace", more than two years after the spacecraft made a successful soft-landing on the moon in December 2013.
Together with three nearby impact craters, the name was approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), China's State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND) announced on Tuesday.
In Chinese mythology, Chang'e is the goddess of the moon while "Guang Han Gong" is the palace that houses Chang'e and her pet Yutu (Jade Rabbit).
The three craters were given the names Zi Wei, Tian Shi and Tai Wei, three constellations in traditional Chinese astrology, according to Liu Jizhong, director of the lunar exploration project of the SASTIND.
The lunar rover Yutu recently found a new type of basaltic rock that could shed light on lunar volcanism, according to an article published by Chinese scientists in the Nature Communications science journal last month.
A total of 22 lunar features have been given Chinese names. The first crater was named Zu Chongzhi after a famous Chinese mathematician in 1961.
Li Chunlai, a member of the naming committee for lunar features, said the coordinates of "Guang Han Gong", with a diameter of 154 meters, are 44.12 degrees north latitude and 19.51 degrees west longitude. The crater, along with other features, is included in the area covered by lunar rover Yutu.
Rita Schulz, chair of the IAU Division F WG Planetary System Nomenclature, said landing sites on the moon can only be officially named when they are the first landing sites for the country's spacecraft.
China Releases Spectacular Moon Images In TRUE HD | The Xenologist
Source: http://english.cas.cn/newsroom/china_research/201601/t20160106_158480.shtml
in China, Images, Moon, Space
On Sunday, the China National Space Administration released hundreds of high-resolution, color images of the moon, offering an unprecedented look at our satellite.
Yutu, The Chinese Moon Rover
Yutu, which means Jade Rabbit, first arrived on the moon in December 2013 aboard China's Chang'e 3 lander. The spacecraft was the first to land there since the Soviets' Luna 24 mission on Aug. 22, 1976.
Chang'e 3 Lander
Unfortunately, two weeks after it was deployed, Yutu suffered technical difficulties. It's been unable to move since then, but it has continued to transmit information, including these stunning images.
What made China's mission especially remarkable was that it was the first soft-landing on the moon in 37 years, since the Russians landed their Luna 24 probe back in 1976.
Self-Portait, of Yutu Chinese Academy of Sciences / China National Space Administration / The Science and Application Center for Moon and Deepspace Exploration
Today, anyone can create a user account on China's Science and Application Center for Moon and Deepspace Exploration website to download the pictures themselves. The process is a bit cumbersome and the connection to the website is spotty if you're accessing it outside of China.
Luckily, Emily Lakdawalla from the Planetary Society spent the last week navigating the Chinese database and is currently hosting a suite of China's lunar images on the Planetary Society Website.
Panoramic View of the Yutu, Taken by Chang'e 3
http://time.com/4202591/moon-photos-true-color/
http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/30/china-just-released-true-color-hd-photos-of-the-moon/#.y0fhdvb:rjzY
in Interesting
Here's What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like, Pretty Amazing
Ancient Greeks Learning Music
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it's claimed) 100% accuracy.
Writing on the BBC web site, Armand D'Angour, a musician and tutor in classics at Oxford University, notes:
[Ancient Greek] instruments are known from descriptions, paintings and archaeological remains, which allow us to establish the timbres and range of pitches they produced.
And now, new revelations about ancient Greek music have emerged from a few dozen ancient documents inscribed with a vocal notation devised around 450 BC, consisting of alphabetic letters and signs placed above the vowels of the Greek words.
The Greeks had worked out the mathematical ratios of musical intervals – an octave is 2:1, a fifth 3:2, a fourth 4:3, and so on.
The notation gives an accurate indication of relative pitch.
So what did Greek music sound like? Below you can listen to David Creese, a classicist from the University of Newcastle, playing "an ancient Greek song taken from stone inscriptions constructed on an eight-string 'canon' (a zither-like instrument) with movable bridges. "The tune is credited to Seikilos," says Archaeology Magazine.
Source: http://www.openculture.com/2013/10/what-ancient-greek-music-sounded-like.html/
in Government, OVNIs, UFOs, USA
UFO truthers want to make Roswell an issue for 2016; meet their lobbyist
One day nearly 20 years ago, Stephen Bassett realized UFO abductees needed a lobbyist.
He had spent four months working for the Program for Extraordinary Experience Research out of a modest townhouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when he had the epiphany: He could continue his research with John Mack, the leading authority on the alien abductions, for the rest of his life - but it would never make a difference.
"It occurred to me that it wasn't a scientific problem, but a political one," he said. They could pile evidence of extraterrestrial encounters from the White House lawn to the moon, and no one would pay it any mind. What the issue needed was someone who could get the powers-that-be to listen.
The alien issue was really heating up in 1996, what with the summer blockbuster "Independence Day," and Bassett worried someone else would get the same idea. So he quit his volunteer gig, piled his belongings atop his beat-up Mazda RX-7 and drove off to Washington.
"I get down there, and I file" the lobbyist papers, he recalled. "I'm the first one. Nineteen years later, I'm still the only one. I coulda taken my time."
Bassett, a balding man with expressive eyes that seem to go from blue to green, has long had one goal: Get the government to admit it has been covering up proof of alien visits. It has been a lonely battle, but he is convinced the stars have finally aligned for his convoluted theory, which involves the Clintons, their longtime adviser John Podesta and a now-deceased billionaire.
"I want to see disclosure by the New Hampshire primary," he said brushing crumbs off his black dress shirt and purple tie during lunch at the National Press Club this month. "And I can make the case that it's going to happen."
Bassett was born in 1946 to a military family that moved all over the country. He read science fiction, built model planes, enjoyed the cheap bowling and milkshakes on the bases. His father rarely spoke to him and fought constantly with his mother. And Bassett struggled with obsessive-compulsive tendencies.
He entered Georgia Tech just as the United States was going to war in Vietnam. While he was able to avoid the draft, the conflict darkened his worldview. There were too many secrets being kept, he felt; his country seemed on a path to disaster.
After college, he spent a couple of aimless decades freelancing as a tennis pro and business consultant, subsidized by an inheritance from his father. Then, a book changed his life.
It was called "Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens," and unlike other literature on the subject, it was written by an acclaimed scholar: Mack, a Harvard psychiatrist with a Pulitzer Prize for Biography under his belt. Mack, who died in 2004, began his research as a skeptic, interviewing dozens of subjects that he at first assumed suffered from mental illness. In the end, he wasn't so sure.
Source: http://www.sooeveningnews.com/article/ZZ/20160129/SHAREABLE/160129835
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Man nearly kills 96-year-old WWII veteran in brutal assault with claw hammer: Authorities
A World War II veteran in England was attacked last week in his home by a suspect wielding a claw hammer, according to police.
A BBC report indicates 96-year-old Jim Booth is still hospitalized after the Wednesday incident at his residence in Taunton.
Avon and Somerset Police announced they arrested 39-year-old Joseph Isaacs in connection with the attack.
Man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder & aggravated burglary following attack on 96-yr-old D-Day veteran Jim Booth in #Taunton.
Jim is now in a serious but stable condition in hospital.
More: https://t.co/o2dQsMunRx pic.twitter.com/9muE2NwszD
— Avon&Somerset Police (@ASPolice) November 24, 2017
The suspect has no fixed address, according to reports.
Isaacs is set to appear in court on Monday. He is facing charges of attempted murder and aggravated burglary.
The U.K. Guardian reported Booth sustained multiple serious injuries to his head and body. Medical personnel described the extent of his wounds as potentially life-threatening.
The victim, whose service included the Normandy invasion, is an "exceptional person," his family said.
"He is, and always has been, our own family hero," the family statement read.
Booth was reportedly among a group of top-secret Royal Navy seamen who scouted the beaches surrounding Normandy in submarines prior to the invasion.
He reportedly received the French military's Croix de Guerre medal for gallantry for his service, specifically for guiding allied ships safely to the shore from a small canoe on D-Day.
His family is confident the bravery he has shown throughout his life will carry him through his current battle.
"Our father is not easily defeated and he grows a little stronger each day," his children said. "We are all now focused on the long process of recovery, which will be helped by the love and support of all those around him."


new HD repaint for the Lockheed L-188 Electra II PSA. You need to download this aircraft from "Team FS KBT". Texture in DXT5 with HD resolution, maybe can slowdown fps. Read carefully the instructions to know how to activate the 4096 textures in fsx config. By Fabio Cabral.
Screenshot of PSA Lockheed L-188 Electra on the ground.
Make sure that you have your texture max load set to 4096 in your FSX .cfg file. They will not display in high quality otherwise.
Navigate to your FSX.cfg file and open it with notepad, or wordpad. Scroll down to the [ GRAPHICS ] Section. Locate where it says "TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD=XXXX* and make sure/change it to "TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD=4096"
Save the config. Fly. Bear in mind that every time you change display settings inside FSX this value is restored to 1024. You will have to change it back again every time or grab a free program that keeps it at 4096.
Thanks to download and have a great flight!
Close up of prop engines on PSA Lockheed L-188 Electra.
The archive l-188_psa.zip has 39 files and directories contained within it.