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let user can search all or subdir local storage files.
I have found the web preview in Textastic to be perfect. I have discovered it will even play local mp4 files so I can create video portfolio websites that will play local HD files through HTML5 so I don't have to worry about an internet connection. The only thing that would make this even more perfect is having a full screen mode with the web preview. Then it would truly make a perfect presentation mode that will be able to play anywhere regardless of signal. Perhaps a 5 finger tap could exit fullscreen mode.
Many apps support Shortcuts in Apple's Shortcut App (e.g. Working Copy). If you were to add the actions for New File, Append File, Upload/Download File, and SSH Command I could automate my entire build process through the Shortcut App in your App.
To detect man-in-the-middle attacks SSH clients are supposed to check the host key of the server, for example by comparing it with a known good key. Should the client neglect to check the server key (or an attacker manage to steal the private key of the server) the connection becomes vulnerable to active man-in-the-middle attacks when using password-based authentication.
Add host key checking to Textastic.
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The last time this seems to have been discussed is three or more years ago. So I thought I might start a new thread.
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The editor interface is great, but file creation flow for the remote server is too slow. We need to first create a file locally, then edit it, then upload manually onto the server. Why don't just support *Link* for folders? When I download a folder from a server, it should be linked to the remote server and any new files I add into the folder should just be automatically uploaded into the same folder in the server.
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Sacramento Superior Court Judge Lloyd Connelly upheld a state budget bill today that requires redevelopment agencies statewide to transfer $2.05 billion in local redevelopment (RDA) funds for state purposes over the next two years. The City of San Marcos' portion of this state take will total more than $25 million over the two-year period.
Malone explained that the loss of redevelopment funds will seriously impede or halt important projects in San Marcos like the popular San Marcos Creek District and University District projects; development of South Lake and other parks; and important infrastructure improvements like street widening and other traffic improvements – all of which are being funded through RDA dollars.
"The City plans for and depends on its rightly earned RDA funds to improve the community," continued Malone.
The ruling came in response to the California Redevelopment Association's (CRA) lawsuit, filed in Sacramento Superior Court, seeking to invalidate provisions of Assembly Bill X4-26, passed in July 2009 as part of the 2009-2010 state budget.


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How Smartphones Are Making Wi-Fi Hot Again
Om Malik Aug 18, 2009 (Jun 5, 2020) -- Blog Post
As many of you know, I recently moved to a new neighborhood in San Francisco. The move came with its own share of ups and downs, but waiting for broadband was the most challenging for me. It took almost five days to get the connection hooked up, and while I was waiting, my Internet access came from a Sprint MiFi, arguably the most useful tool for a web worker.
But I quickly ran through my 5GB data transfer limit — thanks to watching Hulu and listening to Spotify, two services that have replaced television and radio in my life. My next best option was Free the Net SF, an open Wi-Fi network maintained in my neighborhood by San Francisco-based startup Meraki. It wasn't the fastest, but it provided enough bandwidth for me to watch "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." The mesh wireless networking hardware maker has been a favorite of ours for years now — and it was the first time I really benefited from its Net SF experiment.
Since then, whenever I walk over for a coffee or want to sit in the park and catch up on my reading on my iPhone, I hop on that network. I don't use AT&T's (s T) 3G network — I use my iPhone as an iPod. And so do others. Meraki recently conducted a wireless access census and found some amazing statistics.
This blog and I were here during the Wi-Fi boom, when the wireless networking technology was seen as a solution for world hunger. (OK, that was a joke.) It quickly went from being an in-home (and on-campus) technology to the cornerstone of municipal wireless efforts. By 2006, the hype cycle ended, and reality set in about the potential and economics of Wi-Fi. Many municipal Wi-Fi efforts started to stall, and companies such as EarthLink backed away from it.
And then smartphones happened. The current smartphone boom, led by Apple's iPhone, has given Wi-Fi a much-needed boost, as Meraki data shows. First, some stats from the census that compared the devices that accessed Meraki access points in 2008 and 2009:
The number of Apple devices observed, including laptops, iPhones and iPods grew by an impressive 221 percent.
Apple now represents 32 percent vs. 14 percent in 2008 of all the devices seen by Meraki networks in North America.
The number of smartphones (handheld devices) has quadrupled over the past year, with RIM showing a gain of 419 percent.
The number of people using Intel-based devices declined 11 percent, which tells me that more people are using smartphones vs. laptops.
Now to be clear, Meraki has a big presence in the San Francisco Bay Area, which skews the usage patterns a little. But, as we have written in the past, Wi-Fi use has been going up across the U.S., as the data collected by AdMob shows. AdMob is a mobile advertising company. We also checked with enterprise Wi-Fi network provider iPass on the network usage, and a company spokesperson told us it had seen a 200 percent increase in enterprise smartphone use over its global Wi-Fi network from the first quarter to the second quarter of 2009. The U.S., UK and the Netherlands were the countries with the highest Wi-Fi growth, regardless of device, during that same period, according to iPass data.
The usage has grown as major 3G networks have choked under heavy mobile Internet use. There is no stopping smartphone sales, according to data collected by Infonetics Research, a market research company. (See chart.) With the growing availability of Google Android-based handsets, 2009 will prove to be a banner year for smartphones. (See a related research report from GigaOM Pro, "Google's Mobile Strategy" (subscription required). We will also be discussing this topic as part of a free Research Roundtable Webinar on Aug. 27, 2009. Register here.)
In my opinion, the presence of PC-quality browsers, such as Safari, on smartphones and webkit-based browsers, as well as the growing popularity of social-networking services such as Twitter and Facebook as communication tools, have boosted the demand for wireless data. These tools demand data connectivity, and people want to check them while on the go. This spurt in usage has left the carriers that long saw themselves as Wi-Fi's enemy coming around and embracing the insurgent technology.
AT&T's $275 million acquisition of Wayport and the recent agreement between Verizon and Santa Monica, Calif., Wi-Fi aggregator Boingo Wireless are signs that despite the availability of faster 3G networks, the low-cost economics of the Wi-Fi ecosystem are alive and kicking.
Wi-Fi, which is based on a sliver of open wireless spectrum, is finally proving its disruptive qualities. The concurrent boom in demand for Wi-Fi-based connectivity shows that most networking technologies have to find a way to coexist in our increasingly bandwidth-hungry lives. As for me, I am enjoying the seamless Wi-Fi — in my apartment, my work and my home.
No wonder I don't miss my 3G connection.
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From left, Broncos quarterbacks Caleb Hanie, Peyton Manning and Brock Osweiler work out at training camp July 28.
Today's question about the Broncos comes from Bill R. in Montana. To submit a question for consideration, send an e-mail to The Denver Post's Jeff Legwold.
Q: Are there any sort of risks if the Broncos make (Brock) Osweiler the backup QB?
A: Bill, if he can perform well in the upcoming preseason games, Osweiler is on track to be the Broncos' No. 2 quarterback.
The Broncos selected the 21-year-old — he'll turn 22 in November — in the second round of the April draft. The model Denver had in mind was similar to the Packers' model.
The Packers had a future Hall of Famer at quarterback in Brett Favre when they happily watched 23 teams pass on Aaron Rodgers. Green Bay selected Rodgers with the 24th pick of the first round in the 2005 draft. Favre played three more seasons in Green Bay — '05, '06 and '07 — before Rodgers was moved into the starting spot.
And in an odd bit of symmetry, Favre had a 4,000-yard passing season in his final year in Green Bay (4,155), and Rodgers had a 4,000-yard season as a first-year starter in '08 (4,038).
Rodgers was 21 years old when the Packers drafted him. He didn't turn 22 until December of his rookie year. As a junior college transfer, Rodgers started for just one full season at California-Berkeley; he was not the starter until the fifth game of his first season for the Bears.
Yes, Rodgers' career path presents a phenomenally high bar for any young quarterback, but the timetable is something the Broncos believe is doable in their situation. The Broncos like Osweiler's make-up, especially the idea that he can mentally handle the job of being a starting quarterback in the NFL.
They like how he quickly rebounded in this training camp already from what offensive coordinator Mike McCoy called a brief bout of "information overload." And Denver likes how he has performed on the field as well, especially how the changes he made to his throwing motion to have a higher release have stuck in drills.
Of late, he has been solidly in place as the No. 2 in team drills. If he continues to handle his business — and the Broncos exit the preseason with Osweiler directly behind Peyton Manning on the depth chart — it would give the Broncos one of the biggest age gaps in the league (if not the biggest) between the starter and the No. 2 at the position.
Manning has been a quality mentor to Osweiler. The rookie has said "How lucky am I? I get to learn from one of the greatest quarterbacks, probably the greatest quarterback, to play the game." And Osweiler has done a tremendous amount of work on his throwing mechanics and simply to learn the playbook.
The biggest risk for the Broncos would be if Manning were to miss some time. A rookie quarterback is still a rookie quarterback no matter how careful the team has been with him. Especially one with as few starts as Osweiler had in college.
Osweiler started just 15 games at Arizona State, having thrown just 55 and 49 passes, respectively, in his freshman and sophomore seasons.
And for a team with designs on more than simply getting a playoff spot — several Broncos players have talked openly about getting themselves into the Super Bowl mix — bridging that experience gap is a lot to ask of a rookie quarterback.
If Osweiler wins the No. 2 spot, that makes him the best option. If he were to be in the No. 2 spot, it would be intriguing to see if the Broncos could find a way to give him a few more snaps with the team's offense during the regular season.
Most of the offense's practice time in the regular season goes to the starter as the team prepares for an opponent each week. Manning, who didn't miss a game in the first 13 years of his career, is known for rarely missing even a practice snap during the season, no matter what bumps and bruises he's had.
So, for Osweiler to makes the most of being the No. 2 behind a professional resource like Manning, he needs to maximize every opportunity he has to take advantage of his situation.


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Karl Beeney December 21, 2020 Karl's chronicles Article 55 The Lake That Fished Too Much2020-12-10T14:26:44+00:00 Comments, Coronavirus, Countries, Popular Articles, tours, Travel
Captain with his punting pole and Chisi island behind
The van rolled forward a few more metres, hit a stone then shuddered itself still. A despondent sigh gradually drew a dozen passengers from their day-dreams, staring through the open windows to the calm lake beyond. At the rear a couple of plump women struggled forward, collapsing their stranglehold over the back row and two skinny old men ever pushed further into the window. The driver grabbed up the handbrake, assured the widening crack across the windscreen could with-stand tomorrows bumps, and proceeded to spill out of the van much in a similar manner to some fish escaping from an upturned bucket on the nearby bank.
A quiet stillness permeated the vehicle, giving heightened credence to the pungent smell of smoked and raw fish that had swam its way into every pore and thread—embedded in one's clothes and nasal passages with that stubborn tenacity of cigarette smoke and sweat. Pulling back the awkward side-door did not allow the stink to fly out like a freed bird, but on reflection to a bursting bubble, only parted a tiny fraction into a bigger sum. Unfolding oneself to the outside embraced the same fish-flavoured atmosphere, made slightly palatable by woodsmoke and synthetic pineapple, the latter bursting from a schoolboy's bubble-gum.
Making fishing traps on Chisi Island
Leaning in, the flabby women whose bodies had lost their identities like dust-sheeted furniture, pulled from the van a stack of shallow raffia baskets, shuffling round to throw them on a pile a dozen deep. Lined with scales, bones and dried out carcasses, the baskets odour, cooked under a two o'clock sun enticed a feline and a mangy dog to test their luck. Advancing with military caution, the cat favoured by size, made off with half a head, bolting under the van with mild astonishment. The dog sadly panicked, ran straight into the women and received a thorough hiding for its blundered efforts.
The lake and its tiny island had turned the sky on its head, and seen from above, reflected within a giant oval shoreline appeared reminiscent of a fruit stone on a polished blue plate. With the last few passengers combing the roof for packages and sacks, it felt pertinent to march down the embankment at Kachulu village and present myself to this calm, almost spiritual body of water. Lake Chilwa, Malawi's second-largest lake rarely saw foreign visitors, making her something of a forgotten relative in comparison to the mother of Lake Malawi. Twenty per cent of the countries geographical territory lay consumed by water, and Lake Chilwa equalled that percentage again in her contribution to the fishing industry. One fifth, roughly seventeen thousand metric tonnes of fish, were pulled out every year.
Lady cleaning up a small fish
Lakes always belied their importance from hardly ever presenting an emotion beyond placid. Unlike the seas, whipped and toyed by storms, dragged back and forwards by the moon, and sped along on currents as fast as national highways, the lakes hardly broke into a chop. But that wasn't to suggest Lake Chilwa hadn't been immune to change.
David Livingstone had noted whilst visiting in 1859 the lake's circumference extended westwards to the bases of the Mulanje and Zomba plateaus over forty kilometres away. With no outlet, it depended heavily on the run-off from these plateaus, as well the seasonal rains. But the fluctuations were substantial, indeed during the dry months when the lake severely narrowed in depth. Lake Chilwa's volume supposedly lay four times greater than its present three-metre depth. Forty kilometres directly north at the far end of marshland, Lake Chiuta had once been contiguous with Chilwa, where large tracts of lake-bed sands and swamps were initially underwater. The same was to be said of Limbe Marsh, a hefty tract of wetlands around the lakes southern perimetre. In the 1960s, suffering from a severe drought, the lake almost dried up entirely.
Fisherman retruning to Kachulu from Chisi Island
Standing on Chilwa's marshy terrain, partially watching my shoes sink into the mud, proffered ideas to the fate of a half-submerged canoe nearby. Those extreme climatic variations felt foreign and sensationalised, standing at odds with the three boats heading off for the double humps of Chisi island. Navigating through a thick band of reeds and the expansive gloss beyond, from where the serene quietness of the place portrayed an unassuming modesty. The shallow waters enticed an abundant amount of birdlife, and you didn't need to be a keen birder to appreciate the varieties stopping off here. Moorhen, lesser gillinule, black crake, and numerous waders. Just in those few minutes when I realised my shoes had disappeared far enough, a heron emerged from behind a fence of reeds with the haughty stance of a conceited actor. I almost laughed at its broken demure when three screeching glossy-ibis flew overhead. Pigeons and hens may have a pecking order, but it appeared an entire class system banded the sky.
Around the marshy shores of Chilwa's northern circumference, birdlife exhibited even greater appeal. Pelicans, black egrets, greater and lesser flamingos often took stock here, sifting through the silt-rich waters. The difficulties for humans to access the area worked in harnessing the bird's survival. Neither Chisi nor Thongwe's island populations had developed enough to encroach on birdlife here, and the wise-looking baobabs sustained the activities of trumpeter hornbill and snake-eagles. With all these areas combined, Lake Chilwa warranted some of the best bird viewings in Malawi.
Fishing boat out on the blue of Lake Chilwa
Lake Chilwa, all 650m² of her had been for tireless generations a beating heart for the shoreside communities here. More so for the few settlements on both Chisi and Thongwe Islands, where their seclusion inadvertently protected traditional lifestyles which had hardly changed through the centuries. Fishing, just like Kachulu absorbed much of the population, one way or another in the local industry. Men would fish, and the women would see to everything else, the gutting, drying and smoking, before taking it off to market. It was very much a gender-defined industry, which on broader inspection covers the majority of Africa. The craft of fishing is exclusively a man's responsibility, and the closest I have ever seen women get to fish has been on Lake Aheme in Benin. There, the boundaries remained clearly defined as only the men were deemed qualified to handle the complexities of net fishing. Women took to the work of crab catching, as baiting came down to timing and luck rather than any skill, and the device did not trap the crab but merely distracted it.
Once the sun had mellowed, allowing the colours to seep back into the landscape, the tall, lithe fisherman pushed off from the shoreline. Standing proud at the stern of his little vessel, attired in faded track-suit trousers half-hidden by a baggy polo shirt. With a wooden pole in hand and vaguely reminiscent of punting along the Avon, the captain pushed through the reeds and onwards to the dark mounds of Chisi island. A soft wind skipped across the lake and fell into the boat, helping to diffuse the sticky atmosphere that coated your body like a layer of grease—producing a rare moment of respite where movement felt as arduous as an astronaut. Sliding across lake Chilwa's reflective surface brought a charming sense of surrealism fit for a Dali dreamscape, in where a tiny wooden boat passed over tremendous clouds, right alongside a flock of migrating birds.
Fishermen in their traditional dug out canoes
Peering out of the boat, it quickly dawned on me just how busy the lake was. A perspective not easily discernable from the bank when distance rendered everything into greyish specks. Now those specks passed by as hollowed-out canoes and fishing boats governed by young men. Some worked together, all part of one family while others were committed to the same employer. Fishing commenced round the clock with boats returning as new ones headed out. The authorities had introduced periods of complete inactivity, banning fishing in allowing stocks to replenish. But dependence on the lake remained paramount to most villagers whose sole income derived from the lake. The government failed to set aside adequate resources in dealing with the problem of overfishing, which given the lakes high yield, couldn't be sustainable much longer.
Looks were always deceptive, and Chilwa's timeless beauty suffered the ageing signs of stress. As the boat closed in towards another maze of reeds, the amount of moored boats struck a deep chord of sobriety. In the dry season, fishermen slept and cooked on stilt platforms above the water, saving them the inconvenience of returning to the shore. Like an English coal-mining town, every one of its inhabitants relied on the industry's ability to continually function. The wheels could not slow down regardless of the worsening terrain. In that regard, Lake Chilwa's major detriment was the jettisoned speed across its own time-line. Increased by population and poverty as demand became ever more necessary. Climate and corruption ploughed along behind, further opening the wounds.
Children posing from inside a rowing boat at Kachulu village
A report carried out in 2012 recorded the dependency of 1.5 million people on agriculture and fisheries at Lake Chilwa. Fishing alone contributed $21 million to the national revenue, pushed higher during the significant drive of the rainy season and a re-emergence of the flood plains. At the opposite end, when the lake receded with reduced fish supply, it fuelled increased exploitation. Farmers who suffered from crop failure, livestock disease and unemployment during severe drought often migrated towards the lakes in the hope of a lifeline. With deforestation and inadequate sanitation from overcrowded villages adding to the difficulties, the scenario feels all but hopeless. But there is light from the concentrated efforts of several organisations.
RAMSAR has already designated the lake as a wetland of international importance since 1997, administering funds towards its protection. A Danish International Development Agency in co-operation with the Malawi government was helping to preserve the fragility of the lake and the surrounding wetlands. By establishing a catchment boosting scheme to protect the lakes natural resources, as well as teaching sustainable management awareness. The agency combined a field of experts in tourism, fisheries, agriculture and environmental affairs to develop ways of reversing the effects of overfishing. Some of this would come from educating lakeside communities in better management. The Lake Chilwa Basin Climate Change Adaptation Program set across a five-year time frame, aimed at securing the livelihood's of 1.5 million people within the basin area. They were working towards the adoption of sustainable work practices and resource management. It offered a way forward but to be genuinely effective the villagers needed to address the underpinning problems of population increase and the alleviation of mass poverty—two major obstacles requiring the sincere involvement of government, chiefs and religious leaders.
Turning to face the distant Kachulu shoreline, the low sun had cast a mauve hue across the water. The beauty of Lake Chilwa seemed to give assurance that all would eventually be well. Could man readdress these issues, forming a coexistence with nature that benefited both? For now, however, there were many catches to overcome.
Facts: Current information set forth by the Foreign Commonwealth Office regarding Malawi's Covid-19 bound regulations are listed below.
Land border crossings remain open only to Malawian nationals and foreign nationals with valid residency visas for Malawi.
All passengers entering Malawi must provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken within ten days of arrival.
The authorities may also test you for COVID-19 on arrival at your own expense. Passengers may be required to remain at the airport or a testing centre until their COVID-19 test results come through, usually within 24 hours. Individuals testing positive may be taken for treatment at a government facility. At the same time, current regulations will require all other individuals to self-monitor for COVID-19 signs and symptoms for 14 days after arrival.
On exiting Malawi, you must provide proof that a COVID-19 test showed negative within ten days of your departure.
Mandatory COVID-19 testing may also take place on departure if you fail to produce a valid negative test certificate, or if the airport staff judge you to display COVID-19 symptoms. This test will be at your own expense.
The current rules for returning to the United Kingdom require your journey and contact details, followed by 14 days of self-isolation. For specific information on each country
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Reaching Lake Chilwa –Infrequent matola's (mini-vans) leave on a 'fill and go' basis from Zomba's bus station. You could charter a taxi for the 30-kilometre distance to Kachulu. or try your luck at the Kachulu junction, flagging down any Kachulu bound vehicle from there. In Malawi, much like anywhere else in Africa, rides are not free, and the driver will expect at the very least, a contribution to the fuel.
Zomba Town offers a decent selection of accommodation in all price ranges with some good cafes and restaurants to boot. Kachulu is more limited, being a simple lakeside village. There were a couple of simple guest-houses with outside toilets and open-air showers. It would be worth asking in Zomba the current options for the village.
Taking a boat across to Chisi Island is a rewarding way to observe the lake. You'll see plenty of fishing boats, some no more than hollowed-out tree-trunks, aptly manoeuvred by young men 'punting' along. Negotiate with a fisherman to take you there and back allowing time to explore the island. Don't be tempted to take a boat out by yourself as dense bands of reeds around the island and the lake's shoreline can quickly tie you up.
For a further overview on Malawi, check out the country's tourism website www.malawitourism.com
Karl Beeney, Lake Chilwa, Malawi
About Karl Beeney
Karl studied as a chef back in the early nineties but it did not take him long before he was juggling a career in hotels and restaurants with long overland journeys in between. Swapping the pressures and familiarity of London for places just as challenging but just as rewarding. An experience he describes 'As the best education without a teacher or a classroom. The world is your canvas and everyone is your guide. From a Mongolian monk to a Zambian shoe seller. How your knowledge of history, geography, religion, culture, customs and language is greatly improved by interaction. Those experiences done through a subconscious mind and compounded into something quite extraordinary and magical. It is simply the best addiction one can have. When travel gets into your blood you get itchy feet, though only figuratively, thankfully. I have never forgotten the quote made by the French philosopher and later, gross paranoid Jean Jacques Rousseau. 'The more I have seen of the world, the less I have been able to conform to its manner.' Having traveled through Australasia, much of Asia including the Stan's, Caucasus and parts of The Middle East and three long routes across Africa, Karl will return to Ghana on an odyssey that will take him overland to South Africa. Making it up as he goes along so anything can happen..
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Q: Data table on click on dynamic controls I have a jquery data table that I am populating from a drop down on change event. I have two check boxes in the data table and I am running an onclick on the check boxes. But on the first click the jquery does not fire only when I click it a second time does the jquery fire, also happens on switching pages.I added the .on() for the click, because I researched and saw that dynamic controls would work that way. Is there something I'm missing also to get this click function to work on first click? Below is some of my code.
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A: You're attaching click handler inside another click handler which doesn't make sense.
Remove first click handler:
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});

Attach the click handler to the checkboxes as follows:
$('#my-table').on('click', "input[id*='secondary']:checkbox", function () {

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and
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Comparison between polar regions of Mars from HEND/Odyssey data
M.L.Litvak a, I.G.Mitrofanova, A.S.Kozyreva, A.B.Sanina, V.I.Tretyakova, W.V.Boyntonb, N.J.Kellyb, D.Hamarab, C.Shinoharab, R.S.Saundersc
aSpace Research Institute, Profsojuznaya street 84/32, Moscow 117997, Russia
bLunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
cNASA Headquarters, Washington, DC 20546-0001, USA
Abstract - In this paper, we have analyzed neutron spectroscopy data gathered by the High Energy Neutron Detector (HEND) instrument onboard Mars Odyssey for comparison of polar regions. It is known that observation of the neutron albedo of Mars provides important information about the distribution of water–ice in subsurface layers and about peculiarities of the CO2 seasonal cycle. It was found that there are large water-rich permafrost areas with contents of up to ∼50% water by mass fraction at both the north and south Mars polar regions. The water–ice layers at high northern latitudes are placed close to the surface, but in the south they are covered by a dry and relatively thick (10–20 cm) layer of soil. Analysis of temporal variations of neutron flux between summer and winter seasons allowed the estimation of the masses of the CO2 deposits which seasonally condense at the polar regions. The total mass of the southern seasonal deposition was estimated as 6.3×1015 kg, which is larger than the total mass of the seasonal deposition at the north by 40–50%. These results are in good agreement with predictions from the NASA Ames Research Center General Circulation Model (GCM). But, the dynamics of the condensation and sublimation processes are not quite as consistent with these models: the peak accumulation of the condensed mass of CO2 occurred 10–15 degrees of Ls later than is predicted by the GCM. © 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2005.08.009 - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103505002903
Litvak, M. L. et al., Comparison between polar regions of Mars from HEND/Odyssey data, Icarus, 2006, Vol. 180, no. 1, pp. 23-37.


I've visited 68 countries plus San Marino and Vatican City, which are too small for this map. Countries I've hitchhiked in are in green and countries I've traveled to without hitchhiking are in light green! Don't panic, if you hover over a country it will turn this strange color.
4 Round Trip to the Caucasus, Iran, Turkey, Cyprus, etc.
Many hitchhikers keep some statistics on their waiting times, distances and average speed and the like. I don't really do that. Keeping track of the routes is easy enough, but the waiting times? Isn't that potentially horribly depressing? Anyway, you do you! I carry around a little book that I use to take note of my rides. I write down the date (if I'm aware), from where to where, what the driver's name was and the topics we chatted about. It has no use in a spreadsheet. Here I made a few interactive maps of a few trips and a few other details. If it was my first time in a country they are written in italics so that's why. This is totally not complete and many trips are missing.
Date: 20 April 2017 – 12 December 2017. Google My Maps has a limit of how many places you can add, so this is the third map of my (nearly) two year trip in South America. This is a continuation of The Southern Cone and the End of the World and Atlantic Crossing by Boat: Hitchhiking South America maps below. Break-off point is Lima, Perú.
Kilometers hitched: 2781 Kilometers (1728 Miles) from Lima, Perú, to Valledupar, Colombia. Add that to the previous two South America maps and I've covered 30.163 Kilometers (18.742 Miles) on this continent! Holy crap!
Use of Public Transportation: The boat from Pucallpa to Iquitos was not hitchable and neither were the four boats from Iquitos to El Coca in Ecuador. I took a short taxi ride from Zumbahua to Quilotoa in Ecuador as well, which was a splurge. The boat to Tayrona National Park wasn't hitchable and the whole trip was a rather expensive ordeal. To get to Punta Gallinas – the northernmost point of South America – is not really possible without arranged (and paid) transportation.
Date: 18 November 2015 – 20 April 2017. Google My Maps has a limit of how many places you can add. This map is a continuation of the Atlantic Crossing by Boat: Hitchhiking South America map below. Break-off point is in La Junta in Chile and continues until Lima, Perú.
Kilometers hitched: 14.967 Kilometers (9300 Miles) from La Junta in Chile, till Lima, Perú. Scroll up to see the continuation of this trip and scroll down to see the beginnings!
Countries: Chile, Argentina and Uruguay, then Argentina and Chile again and into Perú.
Languages needed: Spanish, English, and German.
Use of Public Transportation: The ferry to cross over the Lago General Carrera/Lago Buenos Aires at the Chile Chico border crossing costs 2.100 Chilean Pesos (~€2,60). The ferry €20 from Buenos Aires to Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay.
Date: 18 November 2015 – March 27th when I arrived in La Junta. This trip is ongoing! The following map belongs together with the one above it!
Kilometers hitched: 10.801 Kilometers (6711 Miles) by hitchhiking and approximately 7000 by boats across the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Corcovado.
Countries: Canary Islands (part of Spain), Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Perú, and Chile.
Languages needed: Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Occasional German.
Use of Public Transportation: I had to take a flight from Amsterdam to the Canary Islands (BOOO! I know…) and the cruise ship I took to cross the Atlantic Ocean was a really cheap "repositioning cruise" – both were sponsored. On the mainland of South America I've taken a few city buses to get out of the cities; namely the Saõ Paolo metropolitan area in Brazil and to get out of Asunción, capital of Paraguay. In many places it was possible to walk out of town though.
Kilometers hitched: 11.790 Kilometers (7326 Miles) by hitchhiking and walking (I had to walk a lot in Spain) and 630 Kilometers (392 Miles) by sailboat from Corfu to Malta, that's 340 Nautical Miles. This was supposed to be the trip where I visit all the countries in Europe I haven't been to yet, but then I changed my mind (it happens).
Countries: The Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Malta, Italy, France, Monaco, Spain, British overseas territory of Gibraltar, Portugal.
Languages needed: Spanish and English. Occasional German, French or Russian when hitching with other tourists. Super basic Portuguese, but many folks spoke English/Spanish/Portuñol.
Use of Public Transportation: None, except for the ferries from Malta to Sicily and Sicily to mainland Italy. That last one costs about €2.50 to cross a small strait (Can't Be Arsed to find a boat for that). Emergency flight from Lisbon to Berlin.
Round Trip to the Caucasus, Iran, Turkey, Cyprus, etc.
Kilometers hitched: 19.946 Kilometers (12.394 Miles) hitched over roads. Many parts were done using the speed hitchhiking method (get on the highway, don't leave it until you're at your destination) which is why I was able to cover such a distance in half a year while also visiting places. I covered the distance Maastricht – Tbilisi in five days. The distance Istanbul – Maastricht was covered in 60 hours.
Countries: The Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Abkhazia (disputed territory), Armenia again, Iran, Turkey (again), Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Turkey (yet again) and then the same route home for Christmas through Bulgaria, Serbia, etc.
Languages needed: English, German, Turkish, Russian and basic Farsi mandatory. Random others: Spanish, French, Georgian, Armenian, South Slavic (Balkan languages), Polish and even Dutch!
Use of Public Transportation: None, unless paid by a host/driver/friend. Oh, and the ferry between Mersin and Cyprus isn't hitchable, so I paid.
Kilometers hitched: 8.816 Kilometers (5478 Miles) From Mexico City to Panama City and a little in the Dominican Republic.
Countries: Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and the Dominican Republic.
Languages needed: Spanish and English. Occasional German, French or Russian when hitching with other tourists.
Use of Public Transportation: None, except for the flight to the Dominican Republic. The ferry from Punta Gorda, Belize, to Livingston, Guatemala isn't hitchable, so I paid (but sailed it myself!), but I got a free bottle of Jack Daniel's.
Kilometers hitched: 4.900 Kilometers (3045 Miles) hitchhiked and ferry hitchhiked.
Number of rides: I have no clue. I wasn't tracking my rides as meticulously.
Countries: The Netherlands, Belgium, France, England, Scotland, Shetland Islands (part of Scotland), Isle of Man, Wales.
Languages needed: English, French, Flemish, and Dutch.
Use of Public Transportation: I went by train (one of those douchy Virgin trains with champagne for the wealthy commuters) from Liverpool to Lancaster once and took the Tube to get through and out of London. I paid for the ferry to and from the Shetland Islands (there was a blizzard) and to and from the Isle of Man, but I managed to hitchhike the Eurotunnel and the ferry back to Calais with drivers for free.
Why can't you hitch guatemala?
Great trips and maps, Iris! I love your ideas and reading your motivational posts!
Woww awesome maps and trips. I just loved it. The ideas that you have mentioned are quite motivating. These ideas will motivate people to travel more and more and explore new places. I also love travelling.
As a fellow lover of doing hitchhiking, this is impressive! I'm following your tips for Iran as I'm going there in November. What an amazing log you have here!


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Home » PLP News » STERLING CAPITOL AND PLP AGREE TO DELIVER A PRIME LEEDS LOGISTICS SITE
STERLING CAPITOL AND PLP AGREE TO DELIVER A PRIME LEEDS LOGISTICS SITE
Two of the most active commercial property companies in the north of England, Sterling Capitol and PLP, have entered into an agreement to deliver a 100-acre development in south Leeds.
The development, which will be an extension of Sterling Capitol's Capitol Park Leeds, by Junction 28 of the M62, has the capacity to create 2,000 new and sustainable jobs.
An outline planning application for the site is scheduled to be submitted to Leeds City Council next month.
Mike Heydecke, director of Leeds-based Sterling Capitol, commented: "We are absolutely delighted to be working with such an accomplished company as PLP. Their reputation for delivering high-quality and award-winning logistics developments is fully deserved and they are the ideal partner for high-profile projects.
"Our joint skills as developers complement each other perfectly. We have worked hard to prepare the Leeds site for planning and PLP will drive the development forward, building high-spec industrial and logistics units which will attract quality occupiers. We are also looking forward to working with PLP on future projects across the north.
"The Capitol Park site is a crucially important development for south Leeds, creating much-needed jobs and providing a timely boost to the area's economy. The success of Capitol Park Leeds, adjacent to this new site, has proved that the location, just by the M62 and close to Yorkshire's excellent motorway network, is a winner."
Keith Wilson, Development Director of PLP commented "We are delighted to have entered into an agreement with Sterling Capitol. They have a fantastic reputation for delivering large-scale developments and this partnership approach will give us the opportunity to help bring forward some of the best sites in the region.
"We now look forward to developing out new prime industrial and logistics facilities at Capitol Park Leeds and in keeping with PLP's sustainability commitment, all new speculative buildings here will be delivered to Carbon Net Zero standard which is already proving a key attraction for occupiers," he added.
Capitol Park Leeds is arguably the leading out-of-town business park in Leeds with premium occupiers including Barratt Homes, Hermes and NHS Shared Business Services.
Sterling Capitol have also developed Capitol Park Barnsley and Capitol Park Goole, creating over 3,500 jobs. The company is also working with Strata Homes on the Barnsley West residential and commercial development by Junction 37 of the M1, which will create another 3,000 jobs.
Meanwhile PLP, which was established in 2015, is a specialist UK logistics and industrial property business. The company acquires land and builds out prime industrial and logistics facilities, either speculatively or pre-let to blue-chip occupiers. It is extremely well-funded with a national remit and has recently made significant investments in the Yorkshire region where it is already developing and investing in four locations, either constructing or having completed six units in the last 12 months, ranging in sizes from 45,000 sq ft to over 500,000 sq ft, including the award-winning Bessemer Park development in Sheffield.


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While Intel used CES to talk up practical uses for its RealSense facial-recognition technology, the company is getting creative, using RealSense to turn faces into artistic grains of sand.
After offering glimpses of the new technology in 2014, Intel made plenty of buzz at CES this January with the launch of RealSense -- a face and gesture detection software that uses cameras to map 3D spaces in real time.
While hardware manufacturers are building the technology into their 2015 laptops and PCs and developers are starting to think about potential future applications, Intel is hoping to take the message to the general public in an easy to understand way, joining forces with artists and coders to bring RealSense to the people as part of a massive light show in Sydney, Australia.
Australia's biggest light festival, Vivid Sydney, sees the harbour city lit up with massive light installations every winter, bringing crowds out on to the streets to play with glowing interactive artworks and to watch as the city's skyline is illuminated on a massive scale.
This year, Intel has set up shop at the festival hub, rubbing shoulders with food trucks and local pop-up bars and wowing crowds with a massive caged arena that lets visitors fly their own light-up drone in a game of aerial bumper cars known as "A Game of Drones."
But the centrepiece of the precinct is "Transcendence" -- a massive art installation that uses Intel's RealSense 3D mapping technology to create real-time animations of the faces of festival-goers. Visitors can walk up to one of the laptops set up in the RealSense booths and use the built-in cameras to capture their face and gestures. Their every movement is mapped into hundreds of colourful grains of 'sand,' creating an artwork which is projected onto massive screens overlooking the whole festival hub.
The interactive art doesn't end there. Visitors could also find themselves taking part in a real-time light installation, driven by some serious computer coding.
New media artist Joe Crossley has worked with a number of artists and "creative coders" to use RealSense to create a live display for the festival which renders the 3D scans of visitors' faces (and the odd piece of code) into projections mapped around the Transcendence space.
"We have created a 3D face scanner using the RealSense software developer kit, which will scan the faces of some of participating visitors from the RealSense demo booths located at the entrance of Transcendence," he said.
"This 3D scan will then be drawn through our main media server, and then coders are using [programming language] C++ and [game engine] Unity to generate some awesome visual elements that will continue to self-generate and will then be directly projection mapped throughout the activation."
So while you enjoy a cold craft beer and some artisanal kim chi-spiced hotdogs, you could also find yourself projected into an artwork created by leading coders and visual artists. But in a world where art meets technology, that's half the fun. As Crossley says, it's really just one "big experiment in creativity."


Thanksgiving may be our second favorite holiday of the year, but is it also the most risky?
As you might have heard, the fourth Thursday in November is the biggest day of the year for home kitchen fires — and by quite some margin.
There are an estimated 1,570 home cooking fires on Thanksgiving, about two and a half times the daily average. That number is also nearly twice the amount recorded on Christmas Day or Christmas Eve.
The fourth biggest day for home cooking fires? That would be the day before Thanksgiving.
It's a big spike, but keep in mind that there are 126 million households in the US and something in the region of 44 million turkeys eaten at Thanksgiving each year. That's a lot of dinners passing off without a kitchen fire.
But what drives this surge in Thanksgiving fires and if it happens to you, what does it mean for your insurance?
Not only is Thanksgiving the biggest day for home cooking fires, but these types of fires make up a much larger proportion of all fires that happen on Thanksgiving.
Cooking is the cause for more than three quarters of the residential fires that happen on Thanksgiving–significantly higher than the 50 percent they account for on any other day.
About half of fires in residential buildings on Thanksgiving happen in a period of just four hours.
Between 10 am and 4 pm is when 48 percent of these fires happen, although the peak is around 5 pm to 8 pm on any other day.
In general (i.e. not just on Thanksgiving), cooktops or ranges account for more than three quarters of home cooking fires, making them the leading cause.
This is disproportionate relative to how many people actually own electric ranges. The rate of reported fires for households that cook with electricity is 2.5 times higher than for those who cook with gas.
The positive news, if you can really call it that, is the residential fires that occur at Thanksgiving tend to do less damage than home cooking fires do normally.
The cost of losses caused by Thanksgiving fires is estimated to be $7,800 worth of damage on average compared to $17,560 the rest of the year.
Part of this is because the fires don't tend to spread as far. More 77 percent of home fires on Thanksgiving are limited to the object of the origin of the fire and only 13 percent spread beyond the room of origin.
Outside of Thanksgiving, about a quarter of fires spread beyond the room of origin and about 50 percent only affect the object of origin.
More (relatively) good news is that residential fires at Thanksgiving lead to only 11 injuries per 1,000 fires, which is significantly less than the 25 or so for non-Thanksgiving days.
It isn't a reason to be any less vigilant with your cooking, though.
Of course, the best way to keep insurance costs down is by taking precautions to stay safe in the first place.
Keep kids away from the stove and keep matches and utility lighters out of their reach.
Test your smoke alarms to make sure they are working.
If you are unfortunate enough to experience fire damage this thanksgiving, keep in mind that one of the quirks of homeowners insurance is that it doesn't always make sense for you to make a claim.
This is because your home insurance premiums could increase after a claim, leading to higher costs in the long run–especially once you factor in your deductible.
While exact numbers will vary from case to case, one study found that for fire, vandalism and theft claims, rates rose by an average of 13 percent.
When considering a claim think about the potential for a rate rise first. Because of the potential for rate rises, home insurance really only comes in for large claims that run into the thousands, such as significant structural damage to your home.
So while your policy might cover it, clearly the best thing to do if you're hosting Thanksgiving is keep in mind these stats. The chances of a cooking fire are higher at Thanksgiving but just following some common sense precautions should set you up for a safe and (relatively) peaceful holiday.


Maple Cottage (Ty Mawr) is affectionately referred to by regularly visiting children as their "upside down" holiday cottage!
The cottage sleeps up to 5 guests in the three bedrooms which, together with the bathroom occupy the ground floor with stairs leading to the spacious open-plan first floor affording lovely views over the swimming pool and gardens. The large, sunny lounge, dining and kitchen are on this first floor.
The bedrooms consist of one double, one single and the other has adult-sized bunk beds all beautifully furnished with Welsh Pine.
The attractive bathroom has wash hand basin, toilet, bath with an electric shower over and a heated towel rail.
Combine your stay at Trenewydd and watch the dolphins play either by taking a boat trip or from the Coastal Path. This is the highlight of many of our guests' holidays.We are centrally positioned for visiting the Pembrokeshire National Park.
Your holiday is important to us as well and we believe that Trenewydd Farm Cottages will make your holiday something special and you are very welcome to discuss any special requirements you may have.


The compulsory messy hair shot before getting to Hairtistry Salon.
Not doing new color yet this time, so I got a Scalp Therapy instead which is at the right time for me as the scalp seems a little more oily and itchy than usual.
Thank Tonny for always trying to accommodate to my last minute booking.
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Ex-deputy tells of 'the click of a dry firearm' that the San Juan County sheriff allegedly pointed at him
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) San Juan County Sheriff Rick Eldredge leaves the courtroom after a preliminary hearing in Monticello, Friday August 25, 2017.
By Molly Marcello | Special to The Tribune
· Published: August 25, 2017
Monticello • Charges against San Juan County's sheriff — accused of pointing an unloaded gun at a deputy in 2015 — may be dismissed before going to trial.
After a lengthy preliminary hearing Friday, 7th District Judge George Harmond said he likely will make his decision in September on whether to grant the defense's motion to dismiss all charges against the sheriff and two sheriff's deputies.
The three public safety officers are charged in connection with the 2015 incident, involving Sheriff Richard Eldredge allegedly pointing an assault rifle at then-Deputy Todd Bristol during a firearms qualifications shoot.
Eldredge, 48, faces charges of retaliation against a witness, a third-degree felony, and class A misdemeanor charges of reckless endangerment, obstruction of justice and official misconduct.
Chief Deputy Alan Freestone, 57, initially investigated the matter in the San Juan County Sheriff's Department. Freestone is charged with retaliation against a witness, as well as misdemeanor charges of obstruction of justice and official misconduct.
Deputy Robert J. Wilcox, 46, who was said to be standing next to Eldredge at the time of the alleged incident, faces misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment, obstruction of justice and official misconduct.
On Friday, Bristol described what happened that May 2015 day.
As he walked across the parking lot of a Blanding shooting range, Bristol said he saw Eldredge and Wilcox handling an assault rifle in the back of a Sheriff's Office truck. As he passed the two officers, Bristol told the court he heard the click of a rifle and turned to see the sheriff pointing one at his back.
"As I took a few more steps, I heard what I thought was a click — the click of a dry firearm," Bristol said. "I turned and looked to see what I had seen, and I saw Robert Wilcox. And I heard him chuckle. And then I saw a rifle pointed at my back. … I saw Rick Eldredge's eyes on my back, on the front side of the gun."
At the time, Bristol said he was scared. He told the court that Eldredge apologized as he lowered the weapon, to which Bristol responded with sarcasm.
"[I said] 'no it's all my fault' as if to say 'excuse me for living,'" he said.
By the time this incident occurred at the end of May 2015, Bristol said he knew Eldredge was not happy with him. Three weeks prior, he said, Eldredge came to his house to tell him to "move on" from the San Juan County Sheriff's Office.
"He said, 'I think it's time you move on. … He wanted me to terminate my employment and go elsewhere to a different department," Bristol said. "… He told me that I didn't get along with my sergeant, that nobody in the department liked me. … [He] was just telling me that I wasn't what he wanted to be there."
Bristol said he often felt ostracized within the department. Eldredge's eventual recommendation for his termination — in February 2017 — developed from the complaints he waged against fellow members of the office, Bristol said, including a 2012 complaint against Eldredge's nephew Sgt. Mike Palmer.
Bristol resigned from the San Juan County Sheriff's Office on April 21, after an administrative law judge indicated that the sheriff's allegations in his pretermination notice likely would be sustained.
During Friday's preliminary hearing, defense attorney Tara Isaacson described a long history of issues related to Bristol's tenure at the Sheriff's Office.
Referencing Eldredge's pretermination notice, Isaacson said that Bristol repeatedly received "below standard" and "unsatisfactory" ratings for his interpersonal skills. That notice describes other problems with Bristol, including rising to anger with residents, as well as failing to show up for court or make reports in a timely matter.
"What is the sheriff … supposed to do when a deputy isn't showing up to court, when a deputy is losing it in the lobby, when a deputy is raising their voice, sharing documents with people they shouldn't?" Isaacson said. "… You can see in the pre-termination notice a long list of problems from the very beginning. This is someone who — as you hear in his own testimony — [thinks] everyone else is corrupt. The county attorney, the public defender, the justice court judge — he was making accusations against everyone."
According to the defense, once Eldredge learned of Bristol's allegations regarding the assault rifle in May 2016, he immediately notified the state Peace Officer Standards and Training office and directed Freestone to investigate.
Probable-cause statements given by the state's investigator call Freestone's investigation problematic, with incorrect dates, "missing or no audio interviews" and a conclusion that the assault rifle incident never happened.
But Isaacson argued Friday that Freestone's mistakes were inadvertent, and that he came to this first conclusion in part because of Bristol.
At the time, Bristol was adamant that the incident occurred at the October 2015 qualification shoot, not in May as later revealed. When reviewing the qualification logs for the October event, Isaacson said Freestone concluded that the incident never happened because Bristol and Eldredge attended on different days.
"The problem started with Bristol — Bristol's insistence in the report that it happened in the fall," she said. "That's where the mistakes started, and then that's where the mistakes were compounded. But my client acted in good faith."
In fact, Isaacson noted that Freestone contacted the attorney general's office once his investigation was complete, in order to request a review.
"The reason why we're here is because the sheriff and these gentlemen were doing their best to try to figure out what happened," Isaacson said. "… They go to great lengths to get information to the [attorney general's investigator], and they are thanked with criminal charges."
The state is set to file a response to the defense's motion to dismiss by mid-September. Harmond is expected to rule on the motion shortly after.


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Lawmakers call on feds to drop Clearview AI facial recognition contracts
The Pentagon and Department of Justice have active contracts with the controversial company
By Russell Brandom
Feb 9, 2022, 1:12 PM UTC |
A group of four progressive lawmakers — Sens. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) — sent letters to several federal agencies on Wednesday calling for an end to their use of Clearview AI's controversial facial recognition system.
The letter was sent to the Departments of Justice, Defense, Homeland Security, and the Interior. All four agencies were identified in an August 2021 report from the General Accounting Office as using Clearview for "domestic law enforcement" purposes.
"Clearview AI's technology could eliminate public anonymity in the United States," the letter reads, describing the system as "capable of fundamentally dismantling Americans' expectation that they can move, assemble, or simply appear in public without being identified."
The same four lawmakers had previously introduced legislation that would bar federal law enforcement from using facial recognition technology entirely and add new restrictions for state and local police departments using the technology.
Clearview AI is unique among facial recognition vendors because of its internal database of identified faces, many of them scraped from Facebook, YouTube, and other social networks. The resulting system gives Clearview the power to identify many targets on sight but has made it the subject of ongoing legal actions in America, France, Australia, and other countries. Clearview CEO Hoan Ton-That has previously said more than 2,400 police agencies have entered into contracts with the company.
The letter adds to ongoing pressure on federal agencies to drop facial recognition systems entirely. On Monday, the director of the General Services Agency (GSA) told The Washington Post the agency is "committed to not deploying facial recognition… until rigorous review has given us confidence that we can do so equitably." Still, other agencies are planning to expand their use of the technology once it is more adequately tested.
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Commissioners Retreat From $57-Million Question Until Retreat
Posted by Scott D. Yost | Feb 8, 2019 | News
At a Thursday afternoon, Feb. 7 work session of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners, county staff told the commissioners that the clock was ticking and they needed to go for it – make a big play, that is – but the board, in spite of that advice, decided to drop back and punt.
The game at hand wasn't football but instead was the serious game of funding a host of Guilford County projects including a new animal shelter, an Emergency Services vehicle maintenance facility, a mental health center and a new headquarters for the Guilford County Sheriff's Department – projects that add up to well north of $70 million.
The projects are considered essential for the county, but the Republican-majority Board of Commissioners doesn't want to raise taxes and isn't really keen on borrowing money either.
County staff has been recommending that the board use two-thirds bonds to raise the funds. That's a local government financing method that doesn't require voter approval and one that allows a government to borrow, in any fiscal year, up to two-thirds of the amount of money it paid back on its bonds during the previous fiscal year.
The equivalent for home owners might be a home equity loan where you can borrow money against the amount of your mortgage that you've paid off. And like a home equity loan it's a financing method that means your payments increase and it takes far longer to get out of debt.
At the Feb. 7 work session in the Blue Room of the Old Guilford County Court House Guilford County Finance Director Harley Will told the commissioners that the maximum amount the board could issue this fiscal year is $57 million. Doing so, he said, would actually bring in about $61 million since, based on current market conditions, the local government bonds of the type Guilford County would issue would likely bring the county a $4-million "bond premium."
According to county staff, the effect of the debt on the county budget wouldn't kick in until three years after the bonds were issued but at that point the county would need a tax increase to pay off the debt. Staff said that every one-cent increase in the county's property tax rate equates to $5.1 million in new revenue. To cover the bonds Guilford County would need an increase of more than a penny on the tax rate that would remain in effect until the bonds were paid off.
Commissioner Jeff Phillips stopped staff in the middle of that thought and pointed out there were other options even if the board does issue the two-thirds bonds.
"It doesn't necessarily mean that the tax rates go up by this amount for this many years," Phillips said of issuing the bonds.
He said the one-cent per $5.1 million was just a numerical equivalency and not some rule the board had to follow. He said that if the county cut costs elsewhere or saw increased revenue, the move wouldn't require a tax increase.
At the meeting, Lawing gave the board the number he had in mind.
"What we would recommend, with the information we have today, is for the board to approve 51 or 52 million," the county manager said.
Commissioner Hank Henning joked, "Are those the two options you're giving us – 51 million or 52 million?"
Lawing responded, "Or, if you want to do $51,513,783 …"
That may very well have been Lawing's first joke in a public setting since he arrived in Guilford County government about six years ago.
Several commissioners informed staff that they simply weren't ready to make a decision since they didn't even know the true costs of some of the project projects yet.
Lawing said that they could raise the money and not spend it all if they chose. He also said the clock was ticking since the board has to issue the two-thirds bonds by the end of June and that process must start soon if those bonds are going to be sold by then.
County staff said they needed board approval by Thursday, Feb. 21 given the timeline.
Commissioner Skip Alston, along with other commissioners, said that this was a proper topic for the board's annual retreat, which will take place on Monday Feb. 25 and Tuesday, Feb. 26. Staff didn't seem to like that idea but there was nothing they could do.
Will pointed out that Guilford County Cash and Debt Manager Clay Hicks was resigning at the end of February, but some commissioners joked that Hicks may just have to work really hard on his last few days with the county.
Phillips said a lot of assumptions were being made, this was a very serious matter that required more thought and he said he also didn't like the suggestion of raising the money and keeping it in the bank for other projects as needed.
"That's not how I roll," Phillips said of the county essentially warehousing money.
Over staff's objections, the discussion will now be one of the first items on the agenda at the commissioners retreat.
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ACDP Member of Parliament Steve Swart today reacted to the briefing by Minister Pravin Gordhan on Eskom.
"The ACDP is not satisfied with the update given by Minister Pravin Gordhan. We are angered at the state of this once globally recognised power utility. The lack of maintenance that has taken place is due mainly to financial constraints caused by widespread corruption and state capture at Eskom, as highlighted inter alia by the Parliamentary Inquiry into Eskom, as well as by the Zondo Commission.
We are very concerned about talk of changing procurement processes. There has already been widespread abuse of the existing procurement processes, leading to corruption. How can relaxing of procurement processes be supported given this history, particularly when new contracts, including for the supply of coal and diesel, are being entered into on an urgent basis?
It will also make it more difficult to exercise proper oversight over procurement, given the poor oversight that resulted in the crisis we now face. As it is, it has been very difficult for National Treasury to ensure adherence to proper procurement processes to date.
South Africans are fed-up and angered at the rolling blackouts that are affecting every aspect of their lives. In their view it was foreseeable and could have been avoided. We believe that the ANC-led government must be held accountable for the shocking state of Eskom. The party has aided and abetted state capture and corruption at Eskom as is evident from the Parliamentary Inquiry and Zondo Commission.
Eskom requires a new business model to address the crisis it finds itself in. We are broadly in support of the splitting up of Eskom as recommended into Generation, Transmission, and Distribution, as long as it does not result in additional costs. This should enable Eskom to raise the much-needed funding for its various operations more easily from the market.
A further major cost driver is the inflated head count. This will need to be reduced as part of cost-cutting measures.
Greater focus should also be placed on collecting outstanding municipal debt owed to Eskom running to billions of rands. There doesn't seem to be a political will to collect this debt, which aggravates the financial crisis Eskom finds itself in.
The ACDP also believes that all those implicated in state capture and corruption, including cabinet ministers and members of the Eskom Boards and Management, must be held accountable, both criminally and civilly. Stolen funds can and must be recovered, as we saw with the R1 billion repaid by McKinsey Management Consulting (South Africa has signed a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty as well as an Extradition Treaty with the United Arab Emirates, which will enable this process).


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HORROR MANHUNT: Evil Dad Who Dismembered Baby Daughter Has USD 10k FBI Bounty On Head
Post author:Joseph Golder
A sick dad who strangled, stabbed and dismembered his 11-month-old baby daughter has had a USD 10,000 price put on his head by the FBI.
Christopher Francisquini, 31, poses in undated photo. He allegedly murdered his 11-month-old daughter Camilla Francisquini in their home in Connecticut, USA, on Friday morning, Nov 18., 2022. (Naugatuck Police Department/Newsflash)
Suspect Christopher Francisquini, 31, is accused of the gruesome murder of his daughter Camilla at the family home in the town of Naugatuck, Connecticut State, USA, on 18th November.
The Naugatuck Police Department said that Christopher Francisquini was out of prison on parole and cut off his ankle tag monitor before going on the run.
Newsflash obtained a statement from the Naugatuck Police Department on Saturday, 19th November, saying: "Naugatuck Police Detectives continue to work with local, state and federal partners to track down Christopher Francisquini. The below still was pulled from video surveillance on Quinnipiac Ave in New Haven around 4 pm yesterday 11/18/22.
"The pictured individual matches the clothing description and is believed by investigators to be Francisquini. We urge anyone with information into his current and most recent whereabouts to come forward and contact NPD at 203-729-5221 or our confidential tip line at 203-720-1010."
Image shows Christopher Francisquini, 31, who allegedly murdered his daughter Camilla Francisquini, on Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. He was reportedly spotted at around 4pm at the Quinnipiac Ave in the city of New Haven, in Connecticut, USA, on Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. (Naugatuck Police Department/Newsflash)
The police also said that the suspect is believed to be driving a grey 2006 Chevrolet Impala and that he is a Hispanic male weighing 230 lbs. They also told the public not to approach the suspect but the call them instead.
Police chief Colin McAllister has reportedly called it one of the most difficult cases he has ever had to investigate.
On Monday, he said during a news conference: "This is an unconscionable act. It is a heinous crime."
He also said that the motive was still currently unknown.
He added: "I think that's a question that we're all struggling with at this point. What would lead somebody to do this? Much less to their own child?"
Christopher Francisquini was reportedly spotted at around 4pm on Quinnipiac Ave in the city of New Haven, Connecticut on Friday, 18th November.
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Q: Start Apache despite error in Virtual Host's SSL certificate file I have Apache 2.4.10 with name based SSL (SNI) virtual hosting.
Virtual users can use their own certificate and upload it to server.
Everything works fine until there is some error with certificate file (i.e. file is missing or with wrong name).
Problem is Apache will not start if there is some certificate problem.
Is there some solution how to start Apache with this error (i.e. all vhosts will start except that one virtual host with failure)?
This does not work:
<If "-f '/path/to/file.crt'">
    <VritualHost *:443>
        SSLEngine On
        SSLCertificateFile /path/to/file.crt
    </VirtualHost>
</If>

...and this also does not work:
<VirtualHost *:443>
    <If "-f '/path/to/file.crt'">
        SSLEngine On
        SSLCertificateFile /path/to/file.crt
    </If>
</VirtualHost>

Problem is syntax error in configuration "SSLEngine not allowed here" or "VirtualHost not allowed here". So my config above is not allowed by Apache.
Many thanks.
Edit: Small Typo

A: I would say, this is working by design.
SSL certificates are a security feature. Why would you allow broken certificates on your system, which can compromise the whole server?
As you mentioned, that users can upload their certificates, you need to implement a check feature of those certificates. The validity, correct spelling and integrity of those files should be checked by your upload feature after all.
Additionally, apache is shipping a configuration checker.
$SERVER/bin/apachectl configtest

With this feature, you can check your config files before restarting, if there is any error, you should not restart your server.

A: Instead of trying to start apache in a broken state, you should think of a way to validate the SSLs that are being uploaded by your users, and only if they are valid, to be applied in your apache config.
Example, if the following two MD5 outputs match, cert is (at least) valid (could be self signed, but still valid):
openssl x509 –noout –modulus –in <file>.crt | openssl md5
openssl rsa –noout –modulus –in <file>.key | openssl md5


Spring 2010 Griffin hits webstores today, and recapping on the new collection a second time reminds us just why the British menswear label has been in business for nearly 20 years. The coats this season play to their strengths—military-inspired clothing that works just as well by a campfire as they do on road. There are also fresh collaborations and a whole range of cycling gear to consider, including a nice partnership with Manchester-based outwear specialists Baracuta.


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Where the Hungriest People in the World Live
The 2017 Global Hunger Index looks at the power structures that can dictate every step of a food chain.
The 2017 Global Hunger Index produced many sadly predictable findings but also worrying surprises. The report's subtitle, "The Inequalities of Hunger," suggests a reason.
Naomi Hossain, the guest author of the report, looks at the power structures that can dictate every step of a food chain. "In food systems, power is exercised in a variety of ways and spaces . . . through concentrations of capital and market share that allow agri-food corporations to influence the price of food and food inputs as well as their supply or quality; by government offices, international organizations, or public-private partnerships that can influence, implement, or block food policies and, with their intellectual or organizational resources, can shape debates and mobilize public opinion; or through the authority of individuals over decisions about household expenditures and family meals."
Residents of a UN peacekeeping mission camp in South Sudan, trying to get the attention of Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, during her visit on Oct. 25, 2017. A new report says that girls in the country have the worst school enrollment rates in the world. NEKTARIOS MARKOGIANNIS/UNMISS
Hossain argues that the Sustainable Development Goals do not pay enough attention to these factors, which have created a world "where around 800 million people go hungry and 2 billion suffer from some form of malnutrition, more than a third of the adult population is obese and a third of all food produced is lost or wasted."
The 2017 index was created by the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, D.C.; Concern Worldwide, an international voluntary organization founded in Ireland; and Welthungerhilfe of Germany. The report, complete with explanations of how its data are collected and analyzed, finds progress in many places. But some regions are falling behind, reversing gains. Countries are ranked on a 100-point scale, where 0 means no hunger and 100 is the worst case.
The regions with the most hunger were found in South Asia — driven by India — and in Africa, south of the Sahara.
"Given that three-quarters of South Asia's population resides in India, the situation in that country strongly influences South Asia's regional score. At 31.4, India's 2017 GHI score is at the high end of the serious category," the report said.
But even in regions where overall scores are much better, in the 7.8 to 12.8 range, there are countries in serious trouble, including Tajikistan in Central Asia, Guatemala and Haiti in the Western Hemisphere and Iraq and Yemen in the Middle East. Yemen ranked in the "alarming" category. The full index is contained in an appendix to the main report.
Where Girls Don't Go to School and Women Can't Read
One.org, a development advocacy group with offices worldwide, released a report on Oct. 11, the International Day of the Girl, titled, "The Toughest Places for a Girl to Get an Education." It doesn't end there. The report said that because girls do not go to school, nearly half a billion women worldwide still cannot read in 2017.
Of the top 10 countries where hurdles were highest for girls, only one, Afghanistan, was not in Africa. The worst of them, measured by girls' education, were South Sudan, the Central Africa Republic and Niger. Adolescent girls in conflict zones like South Sudan and the Central African Republic — or in societies emerging from conflict — are 90 percent more likely to be out of school when compared with girls in conflict-free countries, the One.org report found. Girls in these nations have little hope of finding employment and financial independence as adults.
The statistics compiled by One.org are staggering. In South Sudan, with its perennial civil war and presence of UN peacekeepers, 73 percent of girls are not in school. In Niger, only 17 percent of girls and women aged 15 to 24 are literate. In Afghanistan, the ratio of boys to girls enrolled in primary education is 1000 to 71. In Burkina Faso, One.org found that only 1 percent of girls complete secondary school.
Burkina Faso is where Frederic Eckhard, formerly Secretary-General Kofi Annan's spokesman at the United Nations, has devoted his retirement in France to raising funds to support girls' education, including up to university or professional levels, making frequent trips to Burkina Faso to direct his organization there. The program, with offices in Ouagadougou, the Burkinabe capital, as well as in France and the United States, is called Chance for Change.
A former French colony, Burkina Faso is the second-poorest country in the world, with 80 percent of its population surviving through sustenance farming. Almost half the population lives below the poverty line. The country is ranked as the least literate nation, where the average boy completes only five years of school, while the average girl completes only four.
Where Everybody Speaks Too Much English
Back in September, a resolution slipped through the UN General Assembly bemoaning again the neglect of languages other than English in UN documents and other material, despite the clear mandate that the UN should operate in six: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish — with English and French given preference as "working" languages.
The list of grievances is long. Cultures are undermined. Advertising of job postings are too often in English, to the disadvantage of many others readers and speakers beyond the Anglophones. Manuals come out in English first as a lot of time can go by for other versions to appear. There are economic consequences. The resolution notes in particular that a "high proportion of calls for bids are published only in English, and therefore encourages the Secretariat, where appropriate, to make use of existing multilingualism policies to facilitate the participation of local vendors in the United Nations procurement bidding process. . . . "
Implicit (and sometimes explicit) in the 10-page resolution is the sense that the UN Department of Public Information is not heeding its multilingual responsibilities. Neither, the resolution implies, is the peacekeeping department.
The secretary-general is called on to act on a raft of proposed fixes. This is a particularly relevant time for the Lusophone countries — the Portuguese speakers — who have long argued that there are much more of them than most people think, and they are ignored. Secretary-General António Guterres is, of course, Portuguese, though he is also commendably multilingual. The resolution nevertheless asks him to shape up.
The campaign will be back next fall, and the resolution therefore "Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-third session a comprehensive report on the full implementation of its resolutions on multilingualism. . . . " There are dozens of them.
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'The Walking Dead' 101? Norwegian High School Teacher Uses Zombie Video Game To Teach Ethics
'Inquisitr' Editorial Staff
"The Walking Dead," from Telltale Games, garnered plenty of laurels in 2012, being described as "an emotionally gripping journey" by USA Today and the best game of the year by Wired. As beloved as "The Walking Dead" is by fans of the graphic novels and/or those of the television adaptation, it's not surprising to see the title venture into new arenas.
So why not a high school classroom?
That's just what's happening in the coastal city of Bergen in Norway. Teacher Tobias Staaby is using the "Walking Dead" video game to instruct his pupils in the realm of ethics at the Nordahl Grieg secondary school, The Norwegian reports (link is in Norwegian).
"In the first hour I go through the curriculum. Then we start to play and every time we come to an ethical dilemma, we put the game on pause," explains Staaby (converted utilizing Google Translate).
Staaby's students then form discussion groups to consider the issue at hand. After mulling it over, his pupils then open a shared Web application where they can anonymously weigh in on the "Walking Dead" moral dilemma of the moment.
"The game set pupils in dilemmas they would not otherwise have thought of. The answer they give is increasingly their own, as they have to think again, and respond to things they have not heard or read the answer to the media," Staaby says.
The teacher says it changes the dynamic of discussion. Previously, when watching a film, the forum would have to consider situations in the past tense; with "The Walking Dead" or any other game, they can instead approach the situation from "what should we do?" instead of "what we should have done."
"I had a deep personal desire to use this type of teaching because I believe it leads to better learning and greater engagement among students," Staaby explains. "In addition, Nordahl Grieg secondary school is innovative when it comes to technology and education, and this made it possible for me to try it out."
He explains that his top priority is for students to learn over having fun, but that it's wonderful when they can accomplish both.
"At first, I thought it was too geeky for me, but it was actually very nice," says student Lea Alsos on the prospect of using The "Walking Dead" video game for learning. "I can actually learn all the material we've had so far and it is not common that I can do everything already after only one lesson."
What do you think of the "Walking Dead" game being used as an instructive device? Should More teachers use video games to engage their class? What other educational uses does "The Walking Dead" have?
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