If the Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, IE and MS Edge shows the Digitalmerkat.com annoying web-page then most probably that your PC is infected with an 'ad-supported' software (also known as adware). This adware modifies the Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Internet Explorer settings to show tons of intrusive popups on all sites, including web-pages where previously you advertisements have never seen. These ads can be varied: pop-up windows, boxes, in-text ads, different sized banners and so on. What is more, the adware, that opens the Digitalmerkat.com pop ups, can cause your Internet connection to be slow or freeze your internet browser so that the interface is not updated anymore.
The adware is the part of the software that is used as an online promotional tool. It is designed with the sole purpose to open dozens of pop-up advertisements, and thus to promote the goods and services in an open internet browser window. So, the Digitalmerkat.com is just one of the many sites of the so-called 'ad-support' type. It's designed to fill the browser's constant stream of ads, or reroute the web browser to not expected and intrusive advertising web sites. Moreover, the ad-supported software can substitute the legitimate advertisements on misleading or even banners that can offer to visit harmful pages. The reason is simple, many advertisers agree on any ways to attract users to their web-pages, so the creators of ad-supported software, often forcing users to click on an advertising link. For each click on a link, the authors of the adware receive income. It is the so-called 'Pay-Per-Click' method.
The malicious software from the adware family that alters the settings of internet browsers usually affects only the Google Chrome, FF, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. However, possible situations, when any other browsers will be affected too. The ad-supported software may change the Target property of a web browser's shortcut, so every time you start the web browser, instead of your home page, you will see the unwanted Digitalmerkat.com advertisements.
Therefore it is very important to follow the instructions below ASAP. The tutorial will assist you to delete adware as well as clean your PC from the Digitalmerkat.com advertisements. What is more, the instructions below will allow you delete other harmful software such as unwanted toolbars and browser hijackers, which could penetrate into machine along with the ad-supported software.
The following step-by-step instructions will help you to get rid of Digitalmerkat.com advertisements from the Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. Moreover, the step-by-step tutorial below will help you to remove malicious software, browser hijacker infections, PUPs and toolbars that your system may be infected. Please do the guide step by step. If you need assist or have any questions, then ask for our assistance or type a comment below. Certain of the steps below will require you to close the web-site. So, please read the steps carefully, after that bookmark or print it for later reference.
The step-by-step tutorial will help you remove Digitalmerkat.com pop-up advertisements. These Digitalmerkat.com removal steps work for the Google Chrome, FF, IE and Edge, as well as every version of Windows operating system.
First, go to Microsoft Windows Control Panel and remove suspicious programs, all applications you do not remember installing. It's important to pay the most attention to programs you installed just before Digitalmerkat.com pop up ads appeared on your web-browser. If you don't know what a program does, look for the answer on the Internet.
It will open a list of all programs installed on your system. Scroll through the all list, and remove any suspicious and unknown programs. To quickly find the latest installed applications, we recommend sort software by date in the Control panel.
The adware can hijack various Windows shortcuts on your desktop (most often, all internet browsers shortcuts), so in this step you need to check and clean them by removing the argument such as http://site.address/.
To save changes, press OK . You need to clean all internet browser's shortcuts. So, repeat this step for the Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Edge.
Run the Reset browser utility of the Chrome to reset all its settings like startpage, newtab page and search engine by default to original defaults. This is a very useful tool to use, in the case of browser redirects to undesired ad sites such as Digitalmerkat.com.
The IE reset is great if your web browser is hijacked or you have unwanted addo-ons or toolbars on your internet browser, that installed by an malicious software.
You will now need to reboot your PC system for the changes to take effect. It will remove Digitalmerkat.com pop-up advertisements, disable malicious and ad-supported web browser's extensions and restore the Microsoft Internet Explorer's settings such as home page, newtab and search provider by default to default state.
If your Mozilla Firefox browser is redirected to Digitalmerkat.com without your permission or an unknown search engine displays results for your search, then it may be time to perform the web browser reset.
In the Help menu, select the "Troubleshooting Information" option. Another way to open the "Troubleshooting Information" screen – type "about:support" in the web-browser adress bar and press Enter. It will open the "Troubleshooting Information" page as shown below. In the upper-right corner of this screen, click the "Refresh Firefox" button.
It will open the confirmation dialog box. Further, click the "Refresh Firefox" button. The Firefox will start a procedure to fix your problems that caused by the ad supported software that causes multiple undesired ads and pop ups. Once, it's complete, click the "Finish" button.
Once installed, the ad supported software can add a task in to the Windows Task Scheduler Library. Due to this, every time when you open your computer, it will open Digitalmerkat.com annoying site. So, you need to check the Task Scheduler Library and get rid of all malicious tasks which have been created by unwanted applications.
Press Windows and R keys on your keyboard together. It will show a dialog box which titled with Run. In the text field, type "taskschd.msc" (without the quotes) and click OK. Task Scheduler window opens. In the left-hand side, press "Task Scheduler Library", as on the image below.
In the middle part you will see a list of installed tasks. Select the first task, its properties will be display just below automatically. Next, click the Actions tab. Necessary to look at the text which is written under Details. Found something such as "explorer.exe http://site.address" or "chrome.exe http://site.address" or "firefox.exe http://site.address", then you need remove this task. If you are not sure that executes the task, then google it. If it's a component of the 'ad-supported' applications, then this task also should be removed.
After completing the manual removal tutorial above all unwanted applications and web browser's extensions which causes web browser redirects to the Digitalmerkat.com web-page should be deleted. If the problem with Digitalmerkat.com pop ups is still remained, then we suggest to scan your machine for any remaining malicious components. Run recommended free 'ad supported' software removal software below.
Zemana Anti-malware highly recommended, because it can find security threats such 'ad supported' software and adwares that most 'classic' antivirus applications fail to pick up on. Moreover, if you have any Digitalmerkat.com popups removal problems which cannot be fixed by this utility automatically, then Zemana Anti-malware provides 24X7 online assistance from the highly experienced support staff.
Download Zemana Anti-Malware on your computer by clicking on the link below. Save it on your Windows desktop or in any other place.
When downloading is finished, close all software and windows on your PC. Double-click the setup file called Zemana.AntiMalware.Setup. If the "User Account Control" prompt pops up as shown in the figure below, click the "Yes" button.
It will open the "Setup wizard" that will help you install Zemana Anti-Malware on your PC system. Follow the prompts and do not make any changes to default settings.
Once installation is finished successfully, Zemana Anti Malware will automatically start and you can see its main screen like below.
Now click the "Scan" button to start checking your personal computer for the adware which cause intrusive Digitalmerkat.com pop ups to appear. Depending on your personal computer, the scan may take anywhere from a few minutes to close to an hour. When a threat is found, the number of the security threats will change accordingly.
Once the scan get completed, it'll display a screen which contains a list of malicious software that has been detected. Make sure all items have 'checkmark' and press "Next" button. The Zemana AntiMalware will begin to remove adware that causes lots of intrusive Digitalmerkat.com pop-up ads. After that process is done, you may be prompted to restart the computer.
We recommend using the Malwarebytes Free that are completely clean your PC system of the adware. The free tool is an advanced malicious software removal program designed by (c) Malwarebytes lab. This application uses the world's most popular antimalware technology. It's able to help you delete intrusive Digitalmerkat.com pop ups from your browsers, PUPs, malicious software, browser hijacker infections, toolbars, ransomware and other security threats from your PC system for free.
Further, click the "Scan Now" button to perform a system scan for the 'ad supported' software which cause undesired Digitalmerkat.com pop-ups to appear. A scan can take anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes, depending on the count of files on your system and the speed of your computer.
When that process is finished, it will display a list of all items found by this tool.
When you're ready, click the "Quarantine Selected" button. Once that process is done, you may be prompted to reboot the system.
The AdwCleaner utility is free and easy to use. It can check and remove malicious software, PUPs and 'ad supported' software in FF, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and MS Edge internet browsers and thereby remove all intrusive Digitalmerkat.com pop up ads. AdwCleaner is powerful enough to find and get rid of malicious registry entries and files that are hidden on the system.
When downloading is complete, double click the AdwCleaner icon. Once this tool is started, click "Scan" button to perform a system scan with this tool for the 'ad supported' software that designed to redirect your browser to various ad pages like Digitalmerkat.com. A scan can take anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes, depending on the number of files on your computer and the speed of your computer. While the tool is checking, you can see number of objects it has identified either as being malicious software.
When that process is done, it'll display a screen that contains a list of malicious software that has been found. When you're ready, click "Clean" button. It will display a prompt, press "OK".
Running an ad blocker program such as AdGuard is an effective way to alleviate the risks. Additionally, ad-blocker software will also protect you from malicious advertisements and web sites, and, of course, block redirection chain to Digitalmerkat.com and similar pages.
Once the installation is complete, click "Skip" to close the install program and use the default settings, or click "Get Started" to see an quick tutorial which will allow you get to know AdGuard better.
In most cases, the default settings are enough and you do not need to change anything. Each time, when you run your computer, AdGuard will start automatically and stop popup ads, web sites such Digitalmerkat.com, as well as other harmful or misleading web-sites. For an overview of all the features of the program, or to change its settings you can simply double-click on the icon named AdGuard, that is located on your desktop.
Now your PC should be clean of the adware that developed to redirect your internet browser to various ad pages such as Digitalmerkat.com. Uninstall AdwCleaner. We suggest that you keep Zemana Anti-malware (to periodically scan your computer for new malicious software, browser hijackers and ad-supported software) and AdGuard (to help you stop intrusive ads and malicious web sites). Moreover, to prevent 'ad supported' software, please stay clear of unknown and third party applications, make sure that your antivirus application, turn on the option to find PUPs (potentially unwanted programs).
If you need more help with Digitalmerkat.com advertisements related issues, go to our Spyware/Malware removal forum.


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It's a long, strange journey to paradise, and often hilarious one, if you bravely follow the road less traveled—wherever it leads. John D. Spalding certainly has. In this smart and insightful collection, Spalding, Beliefnet.com's popular offbeat humorist, wanders America as a modern-day "pilgrim" seeking the Celestial City.
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Russia patrol in northern Syria (via Rojava News Network).
Ongoing ceasefire between Russia and Turkey brings respite for Syrian civilians
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Foreign power involvement risks linking Syria and Libya wars, experts warn.
Civilians are continuing to benefit from a months-long ceasefire in northern Syria, which has seen casualty numbers sharply fall to levels last seen in the early months of the civil war. Experts remain divided however, on how long this pause in fighting will last – and what it means for Syria and its divided people.
April and May 2020 marked the first complete months since the beginning of the Russian campaign in Syria in September 2015, in which Airwars did not monitor any civilian casualty allegations against Moscow. A ceasefire beginning in early March – and international pressure in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis – brought an end to months of violent air raids on Idlib governorate, which had killed up to 556 civilians.
On March 5th, 2020, Russia and Turkey reached agreement on a ceasefire in Idlib governorate, after recent escalations had led to the deaths of 36 Turkish soldiers. Terms included the provision of a 12 kilometre long safety corridor alongside the M4 highway, which connects Aleppo with Latakia; and joint patrols by Russian and Turkish forces.
"The reason why Russia signed the ceasefire is because it got what it wanted. Their endgame has always been to secure the integrity of the Syrian regime," argues Alexey Khlebnikov, a Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst with the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC). "The priority in Idlib was never to take it over in its entirety. The campaign was not targeted at getting every centimetre. There were and there are two major goals: securing the M5, which connects Aleppo and Damascus, and the M4 highway, connecting Aleppo with Latakia."
According to some experts, Turkey did less well out of that agreement. Gerhard Mangott, a professor at the University of Innsbruck specialising in international relations and security in the post-Soviet region, notes: "The ceasefire is a compromise between Russian and Turkish interests, with poor results for Turkey and good results for Russia. Turkey had set an ultimatum to the Syrian government to withdraw to the front line of April 2019, when Syrian and allied forces started their offensive in Idlib. Due to Russian pressure, Turkey had to accept the actual front line."
Idlib offensive: at least 423 civilian deaths
As the last remaining opposition stronghold, north west Syria was targeted heavily during a three-month campaign by the Assad regime and Russia as they sought to gain control of the region. Russian-backed pro-government forces (made up of Syrian Government forces, Hezbollah, and allied armed groups) attempted to push into both Idlib and Aleppo Governorates, and defeat remaining anti-government rebels.
The beginning of the offensive saw pro-government forces make quick advances against rebel troops. By the end of December 2019, the Assad government had captured large parts of the Ma'arat Al Nu'man countryside including Jarjnaz, the largest town in the area; and had completely encircled the main Turkish observation point in Sarman.
Then, following a short-lived ceasefire between January 9th and 15th, the Syrian Government made some of its most significant advances in Idlib since the civil war began in 2011. By January 28th, pro-government forces had managed to capture Ma'arat Al Nu'man, a city of major strategic and symbolic importance due to its position on the Aleppo-Damascus Highway, which serves as one of the country's main economic arteries to areas under government control in northwestern Syria.
Just eight days later, the town of Saraqib – another locale which had served as a bastion against the Assad Government for many years – was captured. The following weeks saw more government advances including the full capture of the province of Aleppo for the first time since the outbreak of the civil war.
Russian airpower has been crucial to each pro-government advance. However, these military victories came at a catastrophic cost to civilians, in both Idlib and Aleppo. Heavily populated urban areas were pummelled before each incursion, with almost no respite for residents.
During the three months of the campaign, Russia was allegedly involved in 250 separate civilian harm incidents – averaging more than three events every day. These airstrikes led to between 423 and 556 civilian deaths and the injuring of up to 1,137 more, Airwars monitoring of local sources indicates. At least 128 children were killed during the campaign – more than a quarter of all tracked fatalities – showing that the most vulnerable often bore the brunt of a ruthless air campaign.
Additionally, crucial civilian infrastructure was hit numerous times. Schools were targeted on at least 15 occasions, while hospitals and medical centres were struck at least nine times. This targeting of civilian infrastructure by Assad and Russia was not new. According to the World Health Organisation, there have been 83 attacks on healthcare facilities in Syria since April 2019.
The Idlib campaign triggered a widespread displacement crisis in northern Syria. By the end of the assault, at least 980,000 people, most of them women and children, were forced to flee the violence. According to Mark Lowcock, UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, these displaced people were struggling to survive in what he described as "horrific conditions".
Tank rolling through ruins in Maarat Numan (via Oleg Blokhin).
The fighting in Idlib eventually stopped after Turkey escalated its own operations against pro-Assad government forces, following a devastating airstrike on a Turkish infantry battalion on the road between al-Bara and Balyun, which had left 32 Turkish soldiers dead and many others wounded.
Following this event, Ankara took the bold decision to intervene directly on the side of the rebels. The ferociousness of Turkey's intervention was unprecedented, with Turkish forces launching a barrage of attacks on pro-regime positions, destroying dozens of military vehicles, equipment and several Russian-made air defence systems. These attacks devastated the Syrian Government, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reporting that 170 pro-regime forces died. Turkish defence minister Hulusi Akar put the toll far higher – claiming that Turkish forces had destroyed two Syrian Su-24 fighter jets, two drones, 135 tanks, and five air defence systems; and had "neutralised" more than 2,500 fighters loyal to the Syrian government.
The risk of being embroiled in an all-out confrontation with Turkey forced the hands of both the Syrian and Russian governments, and prompted a formal ceasefire agreement between Presidents Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Vladmir Putin of Russia. While the eventual ceasefire provided a much-needed respite for civilians in northwestern Syria, millions continued to suffer from the after-effects of the brutal campaign. And with the COVID-19 pandemic showing no signs of abating in the region, refugees from the violence in Syria, clustered into overcrowded camps, may remain most at risk of suffering from the virus.
Khlebnikov at RIAC says he does not, however, think the Covid-19 crisis was the main driver of the ceasefire: "I wouldn't say it is a game-changer or a strong factor in this ceasefire. The Ukraine crisis did not impact Russia's foreign policy, even though the economy was under great distress. So why would Covid-19? It might affect the intensity of the conflict in the long run, and it slows things down because diplomats and leaders are unable to meet in person."
Elizabeth Tsurkov, a research fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and a Syria expert, agrees: "I don't think the Covid-19 crisis impacted the calculations of the warring parties in this conflict."
That the ceasefire has lasted following the Covid-19 outbreak might seem paradoxical, given that both Russia and Turkey recently increased their involvement in Libya. However, those contributions are relatively small for now, compared to Syria. That said, the conflict in Libya has become both interlinked with Syria – with Russia and Turkey again on opposite sides – and also a continuation of the civil war on different soil, as Syrian mercenaries recruited by both Turkey and Russia now fight each other in the Maghreb. Talks between Moscow and Ankara to explore a deal that might see the fates of Syria and Libya connected have been put off for now.
Disinfectant teams battling Covid-19 working in Northern and Eastern Syria (via Rojava Information Center).
"Costs of violating the ceasefire are much higher now"
Previous Syria ceasefires have been fairly short-lived. So why is the Idlib pause still holding more than three months on? "The situation on the ground is different from two years ago. Idlib is now the only lasting stronghold of opposition armed groups and terrorists. And a ceasefire during a civil war, it is not a literal thing. There are certain violations," asserts Khlebnikov.
According to his own estimates, there were 80 violations of the ceasefire in the first half of May. Even so, Khlebnikov sees the ceasefire as quite successful: "Since March 5th, the violence fell significantly. The first [joint Russian and Turkish] patrols were 5 or 7 kilometres long, now they are 45 kilometres long. This builds trust; and the Russian and Turkish militaries are getting used to interacting with each other on hostile ground. That creates a certain restraint for [other] armed groups to escalate."
Mangott also views the results of the ceasefire as so far positive: "I think it will last. Russia is in a difficult economic and financial situation, the GDP will drop by 10% this year. There will probably be a drop in military spending. The current spending priority is on social causes [at home] to take care of the economic crisis, so there is no money for an escalation in Syria."
In mid June there were some reports of violations of the ceasefire, with Russian airstrikes on Idlib and reports of civilian casualties. These appeared to be in retaliation for attempts by the HTS to seize several villages, and attack Russian targets, however. Dr Elizabeth Tsurkov remains positive: "This is the first time in the history of ceasefires in Syria when Russia and the regime will be punished for violating it. Turkish drones will be up the skies, killing soldiers. The costs will be much higher for them. It is difficult to make predictions, because there are too many uncertain factors right now, also looking at the elections in the US coming up. But I think the ceasefire will last for the rest of 2020."
Tsurkov adds: "The area north of the M4 highway will remain out of regime hands for the foreseeable future. Until a deal is reached, the area will essentially be annexed into Turkey. We are already seeing the dynamics of that in northern Aleppo."
Amplifying fears in Damascus of a de facto annexation, in mid June Turkish-backed opposition groups introduced the Turkish Lira and the US dollar as local currencies in cities and towns across Idlib governorate in an effort, they claimed, to stabilise the local economy after the ongoing depreciation of the Syrian pound.
Russia's endgame in Syria
Whenever it might end, Khlebnikov sees the ongoing ceasefire between Russia, the regime and Turkey in northern Syria as a temporary solution: "It is definitely not a final solution. There are two options with the ceasefire: it will be cancelled, or updated. I don't think there will be any major breaches."
"On the other hand, there is a certain risk of escalation, because if Turkey won't be able to deliver on its promises to clear the buffer zone, that may become a legitimate reason for Russia and the Syrian army to launch operations." But, warns Khlebnikov: "In the last four months, Turkey allocated about 15.000 troops and upped military equipment. It is amassing its forces in Idlib. Any fight with Turkey will be a disaster for Russia."
With a mass outbreak of the Covid-19 virus still threatening Syria – with its heavily weakened health care system after nearly a decade of war – a fight between Russia and Turkey on Syrian territory would not only carry great risk for Moscow. It is likely that Syrian civilians would bear the greatest losses, once again.
▲ Russia patrol in northern Syria (via Rojava News Network).
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Highlands Historical Society is celebrating its success in buying back the Highlands Mansion and Gardens in Whitemarsh Township from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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Mt. Airy resident Laura Cohn is celebrating the 25th year she's been running her holiday pop-up store …
SCH students "repopulating" the Wissahickon with native Pink Lady's Slipper orchid seedlings
When members of Wissahickon Garden Club's conservation committee learned about Longwood Garden's work …
The Outdoor Gardeners gather to honor some of their members
The Outdoor Gardeners awarded Laurel Awards to Patti Wilson and Paula MacRae for their support of the …
National Solar Tour is making its way through the Chestnut Hill area, Oct. 2 and 3
The tour is self-guided, so you can use the map to make notes of the addresses of homes you'd like to …
The colors with which we surround ourselves
Remember the fad of about 20 years ago, called "Color Me Beautiful"?
Designing a Twin/Duplex
The owners of shared buildings often cite many conveniences in having a neighbor close -by.
Chestnut Hill Garden District Fund's annual spring planting has Germantown Avenue ablaze with color
For the 18th consecutive year, Germantown Avenue is exploding with the color of flowering annuals …
With the right vision, a rancher could be a good choice
I grew up in a "Rancher". In fact, my father built it himself, in 1959, and it remained our …
Design for all spaces
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Celebrate spring and summer with flowers in new and unexpected places
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Discovering Chestnut Hill
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Monuments under the microscope as times change
When Dr. Paul M. Farber was growing up in Mt. Airy, he was surrounded by history. He started with that in his talk on public art for the Chestnut Hill Conservancy last week.
Germantown Avenue to transform again during Night(s) of Lights
October 8 through the 17, from 7-9pm, historical images from the Conservancy's Archives will be projected through storefront windows, while neighboring historic buildings will be transformed with colored lights and films.
Eateries of Chestnut Hill
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Save Your Photos Month
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Discovering Chestnut Hill: Nurses Week
Did you know that May 6 is both National Nurses Day and the first day of National Nurses Week? This "Week" ends on May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale.
Covid collecting for the Chestnut Hill Conservancy
Scenes that typified Chestnut Hill during the early days of the pandemic in the spring of 2020 are already fading from our daily experience: next-to-no cars on Germantown Avenue, closed stores, Xs …
Discovering Chestnut Hill: The Wissahickon Garden Club
Normally, the first week of March brings us a reminder that spring is just around the corner, with the arrival of the Philadelphia Flower Show. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pennsylvania …
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Discover Chestnut Hill: remembrances of Chestnut Hill Past… (Part 1 Of 2)
This April 1940 photograph shows Alessandra Cartelli's mother and sister, Rose and Louise Cartelli, before boarding the ship to Philadelphia to join Pietro Cartelli. By Molly Murphy Anyone who …
In celebration of International Rock Day
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Amanda Illing
In 2021, one job stood out as Kysen's proudest moment: helping one barristers' chambers rename to Gatehouse, when the set decided to sever associations with its former namesake and slave trade supporter Lord Hardwicke in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. One of the boldest and most positive moves I've seen in law in my entire career.
Working closely with CEO Amanda Illing on this was a privilege… and an education in how to bring people along with your thinking and create true consensus. Marshalling over 100 barristers, plus staff, getting everyone to agree to something as emotive as what their set is going to be called, is no mean feat! I had the pleasure of sitting in on the multiple focus groups she ran with the always delightful Charles Bagot QC in what they called the "Working Title Sub Committee" to develop the new name. I can tell you she was masterful in corralling all the different parts of chambers and getting everyone working together as one. It also says a lot about the culture of collaboration at this particular set of chambers: amazing to see how effectively and harmoniously everyone worked together. And she was doing this whilst also in the middle of a refurbishment project of a building they were planning to move to, and many other related projects. As she describes it, "I was in the middle of a massive series of Venn diagrams!".
Before this latest round of Covid restrictions I popped in to have breakfast with Amanda at the set's new home in Gray's Inn, at 1 Lady Hale Gate (you can see how far Gatehouse has moved away from the set's Lord Hardwicke connections, just from the address!) I was blown away. Their new accommodation looks nothing like a barristers' chambers, instead channeling smart, City law firm. The interiors are spacious, sleek and contemporary, very pleasing to the eye… and not a single piece of wood panelling in sight! There are gorgeous pop-out colours and interesting fabrics everywhere, and a plethora of inviting spaces all around the building to entice people to meet with colleagues and clients and commune, also to enable people to take a moment of solitude in a manic day for their wellbeing or for prayer. And as you'd expect there's also the state-of-the-art facilities for hosting virtual hearings. I haven't even started on the party space on the top floor: a very cleverly designed area with a number of beautiful rooms that can be sectioned off or opened up into a larger sweep, segueing onto an amazing top floor terrace that overlooks the whole of Gray's Inn. What a view! A metaphor for the fact that Amanda and her team are giving us all a new perspective on the Bar.
I interviewed Amanda for this blog several years ago, when we first worked for her and the set. I remember opening with "Amanda Illing is famous for tearing down walls in Chambers…" One of the first things she did when she joined in 2009 was to convince Chambers that it was essential to rip down the partitions separating the different members of the admin team, so that clerks, marketers, managers and the finance team could all see and hear one another, and work as one team. Over 10 years later, she has taken this creative approach to planning workspace in a way that promotes better collaboration to a whole new level. She's raising the bar for everyone at the Bar 😉.
Love this campaign highlighting the role of language in #inclusivity.
Forward-thinking set 7BR has created a series of infographics, following interviews with five AccessAble Ambassadors, each designed to highlight the realities and #accessibility issues facing a disabled person when they're asked to simply 'swing by' or 'nip to the loo'. For a disabled person, 'popping to the shop' can be a dramatically different experience. Have you seen the campaign on 7BR's social? If not you can connect with their Twitter and LinkedIn feeds here...
The campaign is part of an exciting project 7BR will be announcing in early 2022. Another set that is raising the bar at the Bar, this time in relation to attitudes to accessibility.
Whilst in Glasgow this month I had a lovely opportunity to pop in to see ex Kysenite Fred Banning (who I'm proud to say started his legal PR career with us 15 years ago, pretty much straight out of Uni) and enjoy an amazing spectacle in his street: a Winter Wonderland Christmas lights extravaganza that he and his neighbours have put on, festooning their houses and gardens with festival fare, to raise money for Cancer Research UK.
People travel miles to see it and it has been incredibly effective at raising money: over £10,000 so far and counting!
At Kysen we decided to make our annual Christmas charity donation to support this heartwarming initiative. If you want to make a donation too, you can use this link here.


Sensibility and practicality define the 2014 Dodge Grand Caravan!
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Q: input string to int from command line in java I am writing a program in Java that makes use of the command line.
The program that I'm making is used by another program, the problem is that my 4th parameter has to be an int, for example 60(this is an int, it's used for calculations) for my program to work, and the program that uses it then has fixedwidth:60(this is a string) as the 4th parameter.
My question now is how is it possible to still use the 60 in calculations while not giving errors due to the program using it having a string as a 4th parameter and not an int. I have triend Integer.parseInt and Integer.ToString, but I still get the same error
Thanks in advance.

A: Split the string on : and then parse the second part, like so -
String str = "fixedwidth:60";
String[] arr = str.split(":");
int val = Integer.parseInt(arr[1]);
// OR -
// int val = Integer.valueOf(arr[1]);
System.out.println(val);

Output is
60

A: Integer.parseInt(String) and Integer.valueOf(String) both expect the input String to be just the number you want to parse. That's why you probably get a NumberFormatException when trying to parse "fixedwidth:60".
If you really need to input the whole string "fixedwidth:60", you must first extract the number from that string. You can do that with Elliott Frisch's code using String.split(":"):
String str = "fixedwidth:60";
String[] arr = str.split(":"); // arr = { "fixedwidth", "60"}
int val = Integer.parseInt(arr[1]); // arr[1] = "60", which can be parsed

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An unemployed contractor tells his story.
I am still out of and despite having 20 years IT experience and a Degree still cannot find any sort of Office/IT job.
why do they give it to this youngster with hardly any IT experience??
want someone in their 40's like me.
interest from Agencies and Employers.
it is irrelevant how old I am unless of course the IT industry is AGEIST.
Oh of course it is not they say, so I say to them then how old I am is irrelevant.
think only one interview has been from a local agency.
The last job I was in Lightsout Computing, an IT company.
Guess what they tell me sorry you are overqualified for the job as they only really wanted call logging staff not IT staff.
Win2K/NT3.51/4/5 ever since they came out and have a Degree in IT, but guess what I cannot even get an interview with these companies as I am not MCSE qualified!!
I AM OUT OF WORK! How the hell am I supposed to get an MCSE when it costs a small fortune even for one exam. The Job Centre will only pay £300 towards my qualifications.
So what do I do just take any job e.g. Bus driver or do I wait for that IT/Office job?
Living proof that that the IT industry is ageist!!
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We have Exchange Online Hybrid with Exchange 2013 on-premises. All mailboxes are on-premises and testing mail routing. We want to setup conditional mail routing for pilot user group. The below link explains for Exchange Online.
However as we want to setup outbound (Send) connector in Exchange 2013 on-premises, it is possible to setup in the same way mentioned in the above link or different process?
We are using 3rd party Exchange gateway.
We are using 3rd part Exchange gateway.
That is only applicable to Exchange Online.
And there should not exist any third party device between exchange on-premise and O365.


This super-fun back to school craftivity, can be done by elementary kiddos all the way up through high school.
Give the assignment the first week of school, as an interesting icebreaker and way for students to get to know each other.
Students use drawings, clip art, stickers, logos, pictures, words cut from magazines, & photographs to fill up their mind. Completed projects make an awesome bulletin board too.
Be sure and make a sample to share with your students.
My little ones always enjoyed learning things about their teacher.
Students can choose one of my 4 "head templates" or draw their own. My sample took about 15 minutes.
Click on the link to pop over to my blog to grab this fun FREEBIE: "What's on Your Mind? Back to School Icebreaker.


Here are games that get my Gold Stars for great design, ease of play, and most importantly, fun & addicting! These games have stood the test of time, lasting for months in my web browser and hours of Gameplay.
Collection of Educational web-based Games organized by subject (digital mindmap).


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Welcome to the official website of Postage Stamp Airplanes
Home › Home page › PS5558-3 POSTAGE STAMP C47 1/144 TICO BELLE
PS5558-3 POSTAGE STAMP C47 1/144 TICO BELLE
This Die-cast metal airplane model comes in 1:144 scale with plastic stand and is approximately 5 1/2 inches long with 7 3/4 inch wingspan. The C-47 Skytrain developed from the Douglas DC-3™ which was designed for commercial passenger service in the early 1930's. Entering service in 1935, the DC-3 was quickly adapted for military transport service and designated as the C-47 Skytrain. World War II saw high demand for the reliable C-47, with over 10,000 produced. The C-47's played a key role on D-Day, dropping over 50,000 paratroopers during the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord, June of 1944.
"Tico Belle" flew with the 82nd Airborne Division out of Ramsbury on D-day and survived to serve additional missions for the liberation of Europe. It was restored in flying condition on July 2009, and is the flagship aircraft of the Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum in Titusville, FL.
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"Well, the last match was a very fair match in terms of discipline, it was absolutely exceptional. It was really fair play, but good manners before and after the match, that is what I require. Juventus did their part, we did our part as well and that's it. So, without any excuses, no justifications, basically the supporters in the end behaved in such a way that was not appropriate, not very nice. So, I came to the conclusion that was the only reason and that is why I reacted with the three fingers. But there are no other reasons behind that because obviously I have good relationship with the club and also with Max Allegri. We are good friends, we absolutely have a very good relationship with everybody, so I don't have any bad memories of my times when I was here in Italy, so that's it."


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soc·cer | \ ˈsä-kər \
Definition of soccer
: a game played on a field between two teams of 11 players each with the object to propel a round ball into the opponent's goal by kicking or by hitting it with any part of the body except the hands and arms
— called also association football
Examples of soccer in a Sentence
Both of their children play soccer.
A few weeks earlier, they had been told, Byron had broken his right leg playing soccer. — Washington Post, "One boy's tale of family separation heads to court," 12 July 2019 The two older siblings were also seen playing soccer during the match. — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, "Prince Louis, Prince George, and Princess Charlotte Attend a Polo Match with Family," 10 July 2019 Later, Louis played in the grass with his mom while George, who turns 6 on July 22, and 4-year-old Charlotte played soccer nearby. — Erin Hill, PEOPLE.com, "Prince Louis Just Had a Meme-Worthy Moment in Kate's Sunglasses While Greeting Meghan and Archie," 10 July 2019 In much of Europe, women were banned from playing soccer for much of the 20th century. — Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, "What's next for the U.S. women's team after its World Cup win?," 8 July 2019 Until the 1970s women were banned from playing soccer by the Dutch federation (England and Brazil had similar laws in place for years). — Maggie Mertens, The Atlantic, "The U.S. Women's Soccer Team Deserves More Than a Trophy," 7 July 2019 Some had been harassed and shouted at in the streets for playing soccer. — Meghan Mcdonough, Quartz, "Female soccer players are breaking world records to show they're just as good as the guys," 7 July 2019 In between, the Brew Hall at the new Allianz Field is open on weekends even if the Loons aren't there playing soccer. — Kathy Berdan, Twin Cities, "It's not over yet! 19 things to do in summer 2019," 5 July 2019 Rohbock played soccer for BYU and the San Diego Spirit in the now-defunct WUSA. — Alicia Delgallo, Pro Soccer USA, "Close-knit USWNT 'has each other's backs' on path to World Cup final," 4 July 2019
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'soccer.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First Known Use of soccer
History and Etymology for soccer
by shortening & alteration from association football
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English Language Learners Definition of soccer
: a game played between two teams of 11 players in which a round ball is moved toward a goal usually by kicking
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Kids Definition of soccer
: a game played between two teams of eleven players in which a round inflated ball is moved toward a goal usually by kicking
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Ex-Gay HQ Legitimizes Bans on Gays from Using Public Bathrooms
Michael Airhart May 23, 2008
Focus on the Family — the Colorado Springs-based, $100-million-per-year hub of the U.S. antigay, ex-gay, and anti-family movement — lashed out this week at a Colorado bill that would ensure equal access to state public accommodations by gay, bisexual, and transgender Coloradans. The legislation specifically exempts places of worship.
Instead of informing its readers and radio listeners of the legislation's actual wording and purpose, and its protection of the religious freedom of all, Focus opted to lie — calling the legislation a bill of rights for "sexual predators … in any public bathroom they come across."
"SB 200 threatens public safety and tramples religious freedoms," [Bruce Hausknecht, Focus "judicial" activist] said. "This bill needs to be vetoed and sent back to the Legislature with instructions to come back next session with something that all Coloradans can be proud of."
Neither Exodus International nor any other ex-gay activist has yet to object to Focus' attack on the right of gay and transgender people to go to the bathroom. Nor have they objected to Focus' effort to undermine the religious freedom of any Coloradan whose religious beliefs dictate that society at large must treat gay or gender-variant neighbors and taxpayers with equality and respect.
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Michael Airhart is a news editor, digital media technician, and founding editor of Ex-Gay Watch. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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The Strange Death of the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
by Jonathan Haskin | Apr 13, 2022 | All, Climate Change, Russia, Ukraine, Uncategorized
On March 1st, just five days after Russia's surprise invasion of Ukraine, Switzerland-based energy company Nord Stream 2 AG filed for bankruptcy. The company's future had already been imperiled the previous week by the German government's decision to withdraw...
How the War in Ukraine has Affected Anti-Corruption Election Efforts in the United States
by Emma Ross | Apr 8, 2022 | All
Russian tampering in United States elections has been making headlines for years. The issue came to the forefront of national media in 2016 with efforts to damage the Clinton campaign, targeted social media ads, and even accessing voter information. This led to a...
The Future of NATO Reexamined: Conflict, Deterrence, and Grand Strategy
by Grady Stevens | Apr 7, 2022 | All, Europe, NATO, Ukraine
What is NATO? The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by 12 countries in North America and Western Europe. NATO was founded to counter the threat of Soviet expansion in Europe. Its goal is to promote peace and...
Detention Intentions: Prisoners of War and Civilian Detainees in Ukraine and Russia
by Andrea Lorch | Apr 6, 2022 | All, Human Rights, Law of War, Russia, Ukraine
Since the mid-twentieth century, each generation has been defined by war. War has dominated our society in the worldwide instability that has followed both World Wars and mass global colonization. Since 1947, the number of conflicts in the world have continued to...
Russia: Redrawing the Map
by Austin Newman | Mar 31, 2022 | All, Europe, History, Public International Law, Russia
The horrifying and tragic situation in Ukraine should shock no one; it is just the latest in a pattern of actions that Russia has undergone to induce former Soviet Republics (SSRs) into compliance in an attempt to assert its dominance as a global power. Russia has...


The Colorado Master Gardener Program in Weld County is accepting applications for the 2010 Colorado Master Gardener program.
Weld master gardeners are trained to deliver research-based home horticulture information to the public. The program is administered by Colorado State University Extension and funded by Weld.
Training classes taught by CSU professionals start in January and run for 12 weeks. Applicants that have a strong interest in gardening and sharing knowledge with the community are encouraged to apply.
The application deadline is Oct. 15.
For registration and other information, contact Jane Rozum, Weld County CMG Coordinator at jrozum@co.weld.co.us or (970) 304-6535, Ext. 2081.


Only 2,451 miles on completed transformation!
Ever wondered what dropping a LT1 350 V-8 in mid-1950s cruiser would be like? MotoeXotica Classic Cars has the answer – we are proud to offer this 1956 Buick Century Riviera Hardtop Coupe Restomod. It was originally made in GM's Atlanta, Georgia factory (VIN code C). This car has undergone a long and costly transformation with attention to details!
Dressed in a scintillating Champagne over Copper, this car's paint and trim are in overall excellent award winning condition. This Buick's bodywork is straight and solid, the engine bay is extremely tidy, the cargo area is tidy, the battery looks new and the chrome bumpers are in excellent order. There are a Continental spare tire kit and a center high-mounted stoplight (CHMSL) out back.
This Buick wears Hankook Optimo whitewall radials, size 235/75R15 at all four corners. Each tire is mounted to a Zenith true knock-off wire wheel. The tires and wheels are all in very good order.
Under the hood is an upgraded Chevrolet's LT1 350 CID V-8 engine with fuel injection and dual exhausts, which replaced the factory 322 CID Fireball V-8 engine. Street & Performance of Mena, Arkansas enhanced the LT1. The engine has Francis wiring and a Walker radiator. The motor is linked to a 4L60E transmission with overdrive. Additional features include a Fatman front end, a new stainless steel fuel tank and front disc brakes. Other driver convenience features include vintage air-conditioning, power steering, power front seats and tilt/telescopic steering column.
Inside, the interior carries over the exterior colors. There are low-back bucket seats in front with a bench in the rear. They are in excellent order while the copper-colored carpet is in similar condition. There's also a copper-colored headliner. A two-spoke steering wheel, steering column and gearshift lever from 70's Chevy or GMC truck and match the rest of the interior's theme. A digital instrumental panel replaces the dash's original needles and dials. The dash and inner door panels are in very good order and the copper center console has the requisite dual cupholders. The glovebox hides the vintage A/C control panel. A JVC AM/FM stereo with CD player completes the interior. The original interior was Black Nylon and Ivory Cordaveen (code 632).
The model name Century came about when Buick was designing its first production automobile capable of reaching a speed of 100 mph. The division needed to come up with a name. One of the Buick executives had returned from a recent trip to Britain and told the other executives that the British referred to going 100 mph as "doing the century." The executives liked the Century name and it stuck.
In 1954, Buick reintroduced the Century using the same formula of mating the smaller, lighter Buick Special body to its largest and most powerful 322 cubic inch V-8 engine, with the intent of giving Buick a performance vehicle.
This car is currently located at our facility in St. Louis, Missouri. Current mileage on the odometer shows 2,451 miles since being rebuilt. It is sold as is, where is, on a clean and clear, mileage exempt title. GET OUT AND DRIVE!!!


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package org.datatransferproject.spi.transfer.i18n;

import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

public class MultilingualDictionaryTest {
  @Test
  public void getITStrings() {
    BaseMultilingualDictionary sut = new BaseMultilingualDictionary("it-IT");
    String actualCopyOf = sut.get(BaseMultilingualString.CopyOf);
    assertEquals("Copia di {0}", actualCopyOf);
  }

  @Test
  public void getRUStrings() {
    BaseMultilingualDictionary sut = new BaseMultilingualDictionary("ru");
    String actualCopyOf = sut.get(BaseMultilingualString.CopyOf);
    assertEquals("Копия {0}", actualCopyOf);
  }

  @Test
  public void getARStrings() {
    BaseMultilingualDictionary sut = new BaseMultilingualDictionary("ar");
    String actualCopyOf = sut.get(BaseMultilingualString.CopyOf);
    assertEquals("نسخة من {0}", actualCopyOf);
  }

  @Test
  public void getZHStrings() {
    BaseMultilingualDictionary sut = new BaseMultilingualDictionary("zh");
    String actualCopyOf = sut.get(BaseMultilingualString.CopyOf);
    assertEquals("{0}副本", actualCopyOf);
  }

  @Test
  public void getNonExistentLocale() {
    BaseMultilingualDictionary sut = new BaseMultilingualDictionary("12");
    String actualCopyOf = sut.get(BaseMultilingualString.CopyOf);
    assertEquals("Copy of {0}", actualCopyOf);
  }

  @Test
  public void getNullLocale() {
    BaseMultilingualDictionary sut = new BaseMultilingualDictionary(null);
    String actualCopyOf = sut.get(BaseMultilingualString.CopyOf);
    assertEquals("Copy of {0}", actualCopyOf);
  }

  @Test
  public void getEmptyLocale() {
    BaseMultilingualDictionary sut = new BaseMultilingualDictionary("");
    String actualCopyOF = sut.get(BaseMultilingualString.CopyOf);
    assertEquals("Copy of {0}", actualCopyOF);
  }
}

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The council is looking for a firm to supply it with bikes.
The proposals come amid plans to raise parking charges across the city for the first time in over a decade.
Government plans to build on existing rules that govern cycling and driving rules.
The long-term strategy is backed by a fund of €53 million for the years 2019 to 2021.
Because who wants chaffing while they're on the session?
From Westport's third Gran Fondo to a charity cycle on the Cork cost.
The 'stationless' bike scheme has launched in south Dublin and two universities.
The decision last month to keep the trees resulted in a new reconfiguration of the plans for Fairview.
Half of adults own a bike, but less than one in ten cycle daily, according to stats released for National Bike Week.
Galway's Lydia Gurley wins scratch bronze at the World Cup event in Colombia.
The 40 million kilometres travelled since bike schemes began here is enough for 1,000 round trips around the planet.
As things stand, gardaí can only treat the operators like they would any other cyclists.
New mayor Sadiq Khan wants a total ban on dangerous lorries in the English capital.
They're cycling a long way.
4 provinces, 4 cycling sportives.
Nearly 6,000 bikes are stolen every year with 75% of those thefts reported in Dublin.
The peleton arrived in Skerries this afternoon after eight days of racing.
He's part of an eight rider Irish team for next week's World Championships in France.
The best Irish cyclocross rider in history aims for a 19th title this weekend… who is he?
The 26 kilometre route runs close to the back of some landowners homes, intruding on their farmland.
The Coke Zero Bikes will be with you before Christmas.
You have more bikes than you do ex-girlfriends for starters.
The service has also reached the milestone of 50,000 subscribers.
A new Trinity College research project also finds that a large number of cycling accidents are going unreported.
The Giro hits the east coast: What are the traffic arrangements?
More importantly, what's the weather going to be like?
Nothing but the facts. Literally.
The expansion will create 58 new stations and bring the total number of bikes to 1,500 by the middle of 2014.
Public Transport Minister Alan Kelly gave all the details this morning.
Former Ireland flanker David Wallace tells TheScore.ie about his training for the Malin to Mizen Cycle.
Batey was crowned world number one in Auckland yesterday.
There's one up for grabs in Dublin.


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Thanks to helpful comments over at Dharma Folk, I was alerted to two issues that I overlooked. I've since changed my number yet again. The new adjusted figure is still 1.9 million Asian American Buddhists (current estimate: 1.862m; previously: 1.902m) out of 3.3 million Buddhists nationally.
Second, in at least one of my adjustments, I made an assumption I'd like to take back. I assumed that the underestimated number of Buddhists in Hawai'i (106,021) were all Asian American. I'd like to be a little more conservative and assume that this underestimated number be proportioned according to Hawai'is racial/ethnic makeup, leaving 61,693 in the Asian American box (that includes multiethnic individuals). The end result doesn't change much, but I hope it's some comfort to know that I made the effort to take these issues into account.
All feedback is great. Thanks Marcus and Rev. Danny Fisher!


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Survival Skills in the Age of AI
This series introduces trendy and popular themes from among those covered in Fujitsu Research Institute's information magazine Chisounomori. The ninth theme is "Survival Skills in the Age of AI."
The "age of AI" refers to the era in which we will coexist with AI instead of fearing or worshipping it. Given that, we must develop skills to survive in this age, but what specific kinds of skills? This article discusses the skills needed to survive in the age of AI from the author's perspective.
Atsushi Hirano
Manager, Digital Service Business Development Department, Fujitsu Research Institute
Hirano entered Fujitsu Limited's Consulting Division in 2001 and joined Fujitsu Research Institute in 2007. Prior to his current position at Fujitsu Research Institute, he cultivated new markets in the fields of safety/security, the environment, and overseas business while engaging in many national government projects after serving clients in the distribution and service industries as a business strategy and work innovation consultant.
* Affiliations and titles are as of July 28, 2017.
Will Computers Replace Us?
Japan's new curriculum guidelines for 2020 and thereafter are likely to include computer programming as a required course for elementary school education. According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), its objective is to develop the logical thinking skills essential for computer programming, which in fact will prove to be a timeless, universally necessary capability regardless of children's future careers *.
To say it more simply, let me cite Tomoko Namba **, the founder of DeNA and an education expert: "AI development is said to result in the replacement of 49% of the workforce with AI or robots in the future. In other words, we will lose half of currently existing jobs. Those who 'do not want to be used' by computers should start learning early on in life how to instruct computers (write commands), and teaching programming is one way to realize such learning. It is not that the government wants all children to become computer programmers; it wants children to develop skills to enable them to be the ones giving instructions, not the computers."
In March 2016, AlphaGo, which was developed by Google, shocked the world by defeating the world go champion, Lee Sedol of Korea, 4-1. In shogi, we have the recent memory of the late Kunio Yonenaga, shogi grandmaster, losing to the shogi software Bonkras in a close match ***. Computers now defeat humans in go and shogi. While there have been many debates about the technological singularity, I feel that computer intelligence will easily surpass human intelligence sometime in the future.
Thus, we are now at a time in which we must build a new relationship with computers. So, what kind of skills do we, particularly the young adults and children who will lead the next generation, need in this era?
Which Skills Must We Develop?
Associate Professor Michael Osborne of the University of Oxford has pointed out the following: "Typists were replaced by word processors, and bank tellers were replaced by ATMs. The types of work that will survive in the future are those that require creativity and social skills," and "What's important is not to treat AI as a threat but instead to think of how we can use it and work with it" ****. I believe his comments represent the thinking of many contemporary intellectuals, which is in terms of division of labor--we should leave cumbersome work and simple thought processing to AI, and instead focus on work that requires creativity that AI is not (expected to be) good at.
Now, what creativity can people have that computers do not? I analyzed the concept from my own perspective and arrived at the following three key concepts: ideas, sensitivity, and interactions with others.
Simply put, by ideas I mean coming up with something completely new.
AI is smart but it cannot learn without data. If data, such as millions of shogi or go match records, exists and is input into AI for learning, AI will experience millions of movement patterns in an instant, which we can never do. Before we know it, AI will surpass people who improve their skills by spending many years learning from old match patterns. Moreover, computers make no mistakes. Therefore, we can assume AIs will be excellent players.
AI, however, gets confused when unprecedented moves are made. The late grandmaster Kunio Yonenaga was a player who fought this way. Even though he lost the match, he lost simply in terms of judgment and action (movement) within a very small two-dimensional semantic world governed by the specific shogi ruleset.
In daily living or business, various contexts overlap each other multi-dimensionally in a complicated way. If judgment and action (movement) are always following the same patterns or never change in daily living or business, AI will learn them. If AI is presented with an unprecedented idea (and movements formulated by a combination of such ideas), it will have difficulty overcoming it (winning the match). This is the area which continues to require humans. People who always bring new ideas into work will be valuable. More specifically, skills to generate out-of-the-box, totally unconventional ideas or perspectives will be important. In other words, these are the skills that cause people to say, "I have no idea how this kind of idea could result from that input." This is a human skill.
Therefore, it is important for us to actively engage in new areas which do not yet have data and to train ourselves to generate ideas. What we want to develop is the ability to create ideas that enable us to handle encounters with the unknown and even create the unknown. This unknown does not have to be a grand invention or innovation. Always trying to create new ideas at school, in the office, or in daily living can train creativity.
We all know that research to find ways to give AI emotions began a long time ago. For example, Pepper *****, an AI developed by SoftBank, shows emotions; it can become shy and anxious, and it likes people who do something nice to it. SoftBank says that Pepper has emotions while noting that these are actually unique emotional features. Pepper outputs emotions as a programmed function; it does not have the ability to psychologically respond to things or events, nor does it have sensitivity ****** as humans do. Yet I believe that excellent sensitivity is an indispensable ingredient for creativity.
Development of the Painting Fool, which paints in accordance with its 'feelings' of the moment, is underway. It creates beautiful paintings that look as if they were drawn by someone with excellent sense, but it also acts like a human creating not-so-great art from time to time. These examples have led some to believe that AI is starting to have creativity. AI at this level, however, cannot generate a new genre of art like Picasso did. Picasso's paintings are said to be splendid not because Picasso had excellent techniques in realism painting but because he expressed a unique form of art called cubism. Creating and expressing a new form like this is the product of sensitivity and ideas that only humans can produce.
Sensitivity applies to a much wider range of fields than just fine art; no high quality business can grow without the power of excellent sensitivity.
Interactions with Others
People cannot live without interacting with others, and such interactions are a source of new value that we create. By interacting with others, we think a lot and take actions. Others can also motivate us. We then create various things. Taking advantage of technology such as social media, we are dramatically increasing the number of chances to interact with others and continuing to expand our potential and creativity. The capabilities that we continue to demonstrate while being stimulated by others in many ways cannot be easily replaced or surpassed by computers. Recent attention to open innovation and co-creation is a movement that anticipates the potential of relationships with others and is an act borne out of the nature of humans as social animals. People continue to evolve while flexibly making use of the power of computer networks and other people. To understand this, I need merely introduce the examples of Wikipedia, which allows us to search for and input information, and GitHub, which facilitates software development. Skillful interactions with others stem from human nature and guarantee our creativity.
The Pursuit of Humanity
So far, I have discussed skills for surviving in the age of AI by focusing on thoughts, which are brain activities. However, there are other elements we must keep in mind--health and strength. Let us return to MEXT's elementary and junior high school curriculum guidelines. The current curriculum guidelines place importance on 'zest for living.' Zest for living, according to MEXT, consists of solid academic prowess, a well-rounded character, and a healthy body *******. Although these terms are textbook expressions, I fully support the importance of health and (physical) strength. Ideas, sensitivity, and interactions with others as I have discussed so far are also based on or supported by the assumption that we are in good physical condition. By the way, can a computer have physical experiences like us, such as fulfillment, scarcity, pain, pleasure, or even psychological stability or instability based on its health and strength, and form the same or equivalent level of knowledge as we do? Or, do these kinds of questions even have meaning for inorganic computers ********?
Human behavior is a repeating cycle of obtaining and assessing information and acting accordingly. Judgments are made for a reason. AI can also obtain and assess information and perform accordingly, but this is clearly distinguishable from humans by the reason for said judgment. This difference comes from ideas, sensitivity, and interactions with others as well as the aforementioned physical condition. These elements are included in a complex configuration of human thought circuits (or "humanity"), and such thought circuits are too deep and abstract for AI to catch up. We humans must thus keep improving these thought circuits.
Conclusion: The Era of Co-existence with AI
As I described in the earlier part of this article, many intellectuals believe it is wiser for us to keep evolving while keeping focus on the ways that evolution can expand for us rather than focusing on what evolution may take away from us, and it is therefore important to think about how we should use technology. We must calmly view the age of AI from this perspective.
In the recently published book The Second Machine Age *********, author Erik Brynjolfsson states that "computers have overcome the limitations of human intellectual capacity and are trying to take humanity into a new area. How exactly this will take place remains unknown." I agree. What we do know already is that the age of AI is an era in which we live with AI instead of fearing or worshipping it. With that in mind, we must develop skills to survive in this age. Over the past 30 years, physical training methods have completely changed; people used to bunny-hop, but they now train their muscles. Similarly, how we think and train our brains will also continue to change. We humans should welcome such change.
*: Cited from the MEXT website (Teaching programming at elementary schools (discussion summary))
http://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/shingi/chousa/shotou/122/houkoku/1372522.htm
**: Cited from a speech by Tomoko Namba (Educational IT Solution EXPO at Tokyo Big Sight on May 18, 2016)
***: Yonenaga, K. (2012). Ware Yaburetari ~ Kompyu-ta Kisen no Subete wo Kataru [I lost--Everything about the Computer Shogi Match]. Chuokoron-Shinsha
****: Cited from comments published in Asahi World Forum 2016, Asahi Shimbun special article, October 26, 2016
*****: Cited from SoftBank product information (Pepper's emotions)
http://www.softbank.jp/robot/consumer/products/emotion/
******: The first definition of sensitivity in Daijirin (Japanese dictionary): the ability to psychologically respond to things or events
*******: Cited from the MEXT website (Chapter 2 For Better Elementary and Junior High School Education, Part II, 2007, White Paper on Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
http://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/hakusho/html/hpab200701/002/002/002.htm
********: For example, one of the top AI experts in Japan, Yutaka Matsuo, an associate professor at the University of Tokyo, warns us not to mix 'life,' which has the need for self-preservation and species expansion, with 'intellectual capacity,' which displays highly smart behavior if an objective is given (E-Ai ni Ubawareru Shigoto [Work to be Taken Over by AI in the Future]. Special Edition, AERA. June 15, 2015. Asahi Shimbun Publications). The question in this article is close to mixing these two things.
*********: Brynjolfsson, E., et al. (2016). The Second Machine Age. Nikkei Business Publications.


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The game called Gaelic football combines elements of soccer (association football) and rugby. It is one of the most popular sports in Ireland. It is not played much outside Ireland and the United States.
Gaelic football is played by two teams of 15 members. A game is played over two halves, usually of 30 minutes each. In senior championship games between different counties each half lasts 35 minutes. The ball is round and is a little smaller than a soccer ball.
Players try to score by moving up the field with the ball. They may not throw the ball, but they may dribble with hand or foot, punch, or punt the ball toward their opponent's goal. A foul occurs if a player moves more than four steps without releasing the ball, bouncing it once, or soloing it. A player performs a solo by dropping the ball and then toe-kicking it upward back into the hands. A goal, worth three points, is scored by putting the ball between the goalposts and under the crossbar. A single point is scored by putting the ball between the goalposts and over the crossbar.
Gaelic football is an offshoot of a medieval British game called mêlée. Players in that game kicked, punched, or carried a round or oval object, usually the inflated bladder of an animal, toward a goal. It is thought that Gaelic football has been played in Ireland for nearly 400 years. A code of rules that slightly restricted the ferocity of the sport was adopted in 1884. In the same year the Gaelic Athletic Association was formed to govern competition.


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Expo charms global players…Fantastic resort products at Sanganai/Hlanganani
Nqobile Bhebhe, Senior Business Reporter
GLOBAL tourism players who are in the country for the 15th edition of the Sanganai/Hlanganani World Tourism Expo underway in Bulawayo, have expressed deep appreciation of the country's "fantastic" resort product offerings, which they have vowed to aggressively market to their clients.
Boasting of diverse natural heritage attractions, vast wildlife species including the Big 5, rich cultural and historic sites, art and craft, unique climate and food plus a hospitable population, Zimbabwe stands tall among favourable global destinations to visit, but needs more aggressive marketing to reap higher earnings from the sector.
The international tourism buyers are part of the exhibitors to the oversubscribed three-day expo, which stretches up to Saturday under the theme: "Thinking Investment — Explore Zimbabwe Tourism Opportunities.
This year's edition has already surpassed its initial target of 250 exhibitors with organisers indicating more than 270 participants in attendance.
During interactions with Business Chronicle at the expo, which kicked off in Bulawayo yesterday, various international buyers said they were excited by the several untapped international competitive offerings that, when properly marketed, can propel the sector to dizzy heights.
As a run up to the expo, several international buyers from across the world had toured some of the country's resort destinations that include Nyanga and Victoria Falls as part of the pre-Sanganai/Hlanganani World Tourism Expo activities.
Nigerian travel and tour agent, Ms Julie Tongrit, said from the resort attractions she has visited, her perspective about Destination Zimbabwe has been enhanced as she was in a better position to sell the country to her clients.
"Zimbabwe is fantastic and Victoria Falls is out of this world. I have never really known Zimbabwe to be this rich when it comes to tourism," she noted.
"Being a first-timer in Zimbabwe, it's really fascinating. I now have something concrete to sell to my clients. I was not able to sell Zimbabwe because I was not sure what was available.
"I have visited Victoria Falls and Hwange National Park and some many lodges and I now have a new product to sell completely different from what I normally sell."
United Kingdom-based independent travel agent, Ms Maria Hedley, of Maria's Global Gateways said there is a huge appetite for Zimbabwe's tourism products in the UK.
She said armed with knowledge gained from her brief stay so far, she can authoritatively market the products to her vast clients.
"I work as a travel agent and I heard about Sanganai when I was in London. My first impression has been brilliant and from interactions during the speed networking, I have learnt much about Zimbabwe tourism and I'm able to now tell my clients about the country from an informed position.
"I will refer my customers to Zimbabwe," said Ms Hedley.
A buyer from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Mr Zaim Muhammad, who is a managing partner at Red Berry Travel and Tours said there is immense potential for the sector to compete favorably globally.
"Zimbabwe is a great destination and has a lot of potential. From what I have seen in Bulawayo, Matopo National Park and Victoria Falls I will be in a better position to offer an attractive package to UAE clients and Pakistan," he said.
In May, the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority exhibited at the Arabian Travel Market (ATM), a crucial travel and tourism event to unlock business potential within the Middle East for inbound and outbound tourism professionals.
A participant from the United States of America, Mr Manoj Shresthan described the country's tourism sector as growing marvel and said a huge section of American travellers are keen to know what Zimbabwe offers.
"Zimbabwe is a growing destination in America and after my visit here I will aggressively sell Victoria Falls. But Zimbabwe has more to offer than Victoria Falls," he said.
"This is a learning curve for me and am looking for collaborations with companies here in order to promote Zimbabwe.
"I believe in storytelling, when I get back to America, I will definitely spread a good message from what I saw to my clients."
As Zimbabwe drives at marketing itself as a world-class tourism destination, the Sanganai/Hlanganani Expo, which returns to its physical format this year after a two-year disruption due to Covid-19, is expected to drive impetus in rejuvenating the sector and enhancing momentum towards attaining a $5 billion milestone by 2025.
The premier tourism expo provides a unique platform for partnerships and brings together sector players under the same roof with buyers, agents and potential travelers.
The exhibition comes at a time when tourism is on a growth trajectory following the relaxation of Covid-19-induced travel restrictions and lockdowns.
Official statistics indicate that the country recorded 352 719 tourist arrivals in the first-half of the year, up 115 percent from 164 062 tourist arrivals received during the same period last year with a majority of the visitors coming in from the USA and UK.
In 2020, the Government launched the National Tourism Recovery and Growth Strategy to re-start the sector, whose contribution to the national economy has been heavily crippled by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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BUDGAM, Sep 18: In order to curb the practice of riding two wheelers without helmets and to avert road traffic accidents involving two wheelers, the District Magistrate Budgam, Dr Syed Sehrish Asgar today directed all petrol pump owners in the territorial jurisdiction of the district Budgam not to provide petrol to two wheelers who are without helmets.
The order issued under the powers vested to DM under section 144 CrPC, announces that petrol pump owner found violating the order shall be liable for punishment under the relevant provisions of law.
The order has been issued in the backdrop of the large number of road accidents mostly involving two wheelers in Budgam.
The DM further instructs SSP Budgam and SSP Traffic Rural to ensure implementation of the order in letter and spirit across the district.


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Q: Update custom endpoint in Azure Service Fabric Cluster How do I edit/update the custom endpoint in Azure Service Fabric Cluster after the cluster has been created?

A: Yes, it is possible.
You need find your SF cluster load balancer. Modify the port of Health probes and Load balancing rules, you could access service in SF cluster on new port.

More information about this please refer to this link:Open ports for a Service Fabric cluster.