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Wet tyre struggles cost Bottas in Italian GP qualifying
Despite showing good pace through Q1 and Q2, a struggle to get his wet tyres switched on left Bottas sixth overall in Q3.
Mercedes Formula 1 driver Valtteri Bottas was left disappointed after qualifying sixth for Sunday's Italian Grand Prix, having struggled to switch his wet tyres on through Q3 and match his early pace.
Bottas featured towards the top of the timesheets through both Q1 and Q2 on the intermediate tyre at Monza, only for more rainfall in the lead-up to Q3 to prompt all drivers to switch to Pirelli's full wet compound.
While teammate Lewis Hamilton was able to sweep to a record-breaking 69th pole position, Bottas finished over two seconds behind in P6, much to his disappointment.
"I think Q1 and Q2 weren't too bad, and there was a lot more potential in the final Q2 lap as well," Bottas said.
"In Q3 with more water coming down, I couldn't get the tyres switched on anymore and that was the struggle.
"Obviously some guys did. The grid seems to be really mixed, and I couldn't in Q3. I don't know why, so we have to have a look."
Despite qualifying sixth, Bottas will rise to fourth thanks to penalties for Red Bull drivers Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo, and he remains confident of a good result.
"It will be a completely different day, it should be dry," Bottas said.
"I think we're going to start from fourth, with the penalties, and the Ferraris are behind.
"We have the potential for a very strong result tomorrow and we need to have a nice and clean race - that's the plan!"
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Ethical aspects relating to cyberspace: web ideologies
Virtual communication as a subject of philosophical and ethical analysis reveals the essence and specificity of the regulation of virtual communication. Commentary
Giancarlo Elia Valori | 20/12/2021
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The ethos of web culture is based on the principles of: unlimited and unrestricted freedom of information, privacy, general availability, quality of information, no harm, limitation of the excessive use of web resources and the principle of inviolability of intellectual property.
The actual implementation of these principles is possible through a number of institutional measures: the formulation of various codes of ethics, which endorse the rights and obligations of participants in virtual interaction, and the creation of an institution of intranet self-regulatory bodies.
The intranet is the private company network that is completely isolated from the external network (the Internet) in terms of services offered (e.g. via LAN), thus remaining for internal use only, possibly communicating with the external network and with other networks through appropriate systems (TCP/IP protocol, also extending with WAN and VPN connections) and related protection (e.g. firewall).
The relevance of the research topic characterises the degree of its scientific development; determines the subject of research; formulates aims and goals; reveals the scientific novelty, as well as the theoretical and practical significance of the ethical aims of communication, and provides data on the approval of the results obtained.
Virtual communication as a subject of philosophical and ethical analysis reveals the essence and specificity of the regulation of virtual communication.
Virtual communication can be defined as a special form of channel-based interaction for receiving and transmitting information. Consequently, its main distinguishing feature is mediation and depends to a large extent on its functionality, which determines its qualitative originality.
Unlike most traditional forms of communication, virtual communication is characterised by distance and by a high degree of permeability: a person located anywhere in the world can become a participant. Virtual communication has therefore a global intercultural nature, and inevitably leads to a collision in the process of interaction of the value-normative orientations of different cultures and, consequently, to the unification of the rules and norms governing communication processes.
The ability to provide information to a very large audience all over the world makes virtual communication be close to mass information communication. This means that any user can take an active part in it, thus becoming not only a receiver, but also a sender of messages.
Because of the machine mediation most forms of virtual communication are characterised by features such as anonymity (understood as the anonymity of a dialogue in which the subjects do not introduce themselves to each other), which, combined with the ability to disconnect at any time, leads to a decrease in the psychological risk in the ordinary communication process in which there is a maior dictated by circumstances of work, wealth, class, public celebrity and fame, age, etc.
Consequently, in the process of virtual communication, it becomes possible to satisfy usually repressed urges and impulses, which, so to speak, cause marginal behaviours. Faced with a subject we do not know and do not look into the eyes, there are more possibilities to pass a judgement without conditioning mediation.
Moreover, the consequence of anonymity is also the risk of a lack of reliable information about each other between the communicants. Therefore, during virtual communication, there is an ongoing construction of the image of the virtual counterpart (often attributing to him/her characteristics that he/she does not actually possess), and of the rules of interaction with him/her. In the process of virtual communication, there is an ongoing construction of the communicator's personality: the specificity of virtual interaction enables a person to create any impression of himself/herself, to wear any mask and play any role - in other words, to experiment (play with others) by passing off an identity he/she does not possess or by imposing one that is capable of asserting itself.
It is no coincidence that most participants in virtual interaction use pseudonyms ("nicknames"): the change of name marks a symbolic rejection of a real person and an exit from real everyday society.
Since in a situation of virtual interaction the factors that form and maintain social inequality in the real world are initially absent (virtual subjects have no body, which means they have no gender, age, ethnicity, nationality), virtual communication is basically a non-status in nature, virtual communication is fundamentally a non-status in nature - and the only criterion of social effectiveness on the Internet are the personal qualities and communication skills of the participant in the interaction (first and foremost, mastery of written speech, but not only written if some people regard audio-conferencing as communication, since video generally frightens those who should be shown).
The blurring of real roles and statuses, the elimination of space barriers and geographical boundaries and, finally, the deconstruction of the subjects of interaction themselves make it difficult for some social institutions to control virtual communication. Another significant feature of virtual communication is therefore its non-institutionalism, which is inevitably accompanied by the uncertainty of the social rules and norms governing people's behaviour in this domain.
The above characteristics leave an imprint in the social relations established in a virtual environment, thus contributing to the creation of a special ethos of cyberspace, and largely predetermine both the nature of the web ethos and the problems it has to face.
The main assumption of the Internet ideology is the proclamation of the cyberspace's independence from any State structure and institution. It is argued that the global network is a completely self-regulating environment that resists all external influences and is not subject to coercive control and regulation and, therefore, should only be constructed in accordance with the moral laws established by the Internet users, but not with the legal ones recognised in real society. The Internet ideology is therefore extremely liberal and its leitmotif can be considered the slogan proclaimed by hackers: "Information wants to be free".
The Internet ideology exists in three versions, which can be conditionally designated as radical-anarchist, liberal-democratic and liberal-economic. The followers of the radical-anarchist version of web libertarianism tend to see the Internet as an "electronic frontier", i.e. the last unregulated area of human life, which, therefore, must be protected from any restrictions, whether external or internal.
However, it is obvious that, despite being somehow attractive, the idea of an "electronic frontier" as a space of unlimited and unrestrained freedom seems entirely utopian since, in practice, such freedom can easily turn into arbitrariness or - on the contrary - into a means of power control that, in turn, pretends to fear the aforementioned followers so that they may be left themselves more exposed, so as to better attack and hit them.
According to the liberal democratic version of web ideology, the Internet should be seen as a means to build a new "digital democracy", i.e. a democracy enriched by the possibilities of information and communication technologies.
This vision is reflected in another common metaphor describing the Internet as a kind of "electronic Agora", i.e. a virtual place where people have the right to express any opinion without fear of censorship. To provide everyone with this unique opportunity, but also - probably even more importantly - to weaken the government's monopoly on the exclusive decision-making of all important issues relating to the life of society by making political processes open and transparent, so that they are available for analysis, scrutiny and correction.
At the same time, the idea of "digital democracy" is contradicted by the fact that the Internet is currently far from being generally available. Even in rich industrial countries, there are various economic, socio-cultural, gender and educational restrictions that make access to the Internet a privilege for the few (this phenomenon is called "digital divide"). It would therefore be too early to consider the Internet as an environment for the functioning of digital democracy: the Internet has great democratic potential, which, however, has not yet been fulfilled completely.
Finally, the supporters of the liberal-economic version of web ideology, which is the closest to classical liberalism, argue that the development of information and communication technologies should lead, first and foremost, to the creation of an "electronic market" that is absolutely free of any State regulation.
It is in economic independence from the State that the theorists of this approach see the guarantee for the development of fair market competition and private initiative. However, on closer inspection, it turns out that the idea of establishing fair market competition in global IT networks is nothing more than a common myth. In reality, the Internet rather creates single and oligopolistic economic structures that have little in common with a free "electronic market".
Moreover, the very logic of the Internet development contradicts the ideology of the "electronic market", which is at the mercy of private entrepreneurs. This shows that the liberal-economic version of web libertarianism is internally contradictory: it is obvious that the key principle of web ideology - the principle of unlimited and unrestrained freedom of information - is scarcely compatible with the principle of inviolability of private property that underlies economic liberalism.
An analysis of the modern versions of the Internet ideologies therefore shows that all of them - as is characteristic of all "-ism" ideologies, are in one way or another utopian, since they tend to over-idealise cyberspace. At the same time, their importance should not be underestimated: they quite adequately express the attitude of the virtual world's inhabitants.
This enables us to state that the only "real" basis of the Internet ethics is the inviolability of the personal information freedom proclaimed by web libertarianism, which acquires the status of an unconditional moral imperative in this system of opinions.
Professor Giancarlo Elia Valori is a world-renowned Italian economist and international relations expert, who serves as the President of the International World Group. In 1995, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem dedicated the Giancarlo Elia Valori chair of Peace and Regional Cooperation. Prof. Valori also holds chairs for Peace Studies at Yeshiva University in New York and at Peking University in China. Among his many honors from countries and institutions around the world, Prof. Valori is an Honorable of the Academy of Science at the Institute of France, as well as Knight Grand Cross and Knight of Labor of the Italian Republic.
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Senator Markey Reacts to Cyberattack that Shutdown Colonial Pipeline
Washington (May 8, 2021) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement responding to reports of a cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline, one of the United States' largest pipelines that carries 45 percent of the total fuel supply for the East Coast, which forced the pipeline to shut down all operations.
"An understaffed, underprepared Transportation Security Administration—which had only six full-time staff on pipeline security as recently as 2019—cannot successfully ensure the security of dangerous and susceptible natural gas pipeline infrastructure," said Senator Markey. The federal inability to prevent and effectively respond to cyberattacks turns our pipeline system into a risk for communities and an increasingly vulnerable component of our electricity system. While we need more information about the circumstances that allowed the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack, we cannot ignore the longstanding inadequacies that allowed for, and enabled, cyber intrusions into our critical infrastructure."
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No two saxophonists are the same, nor are any two horns the same, and a unique symbiotic relationship is formed between each saxophonist and their horn. A relationship that changes entirely when a horn moves from one artist to another. This class explores both the nuanced interplay between the musician and the horn and the affect that relationship has on the artists' expression.
Andrew D'Angelo
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Book extract: RW Johnson's 'Fighting for the Dream''
By the author of the bestselling and controversial book 'How Long Will South Africa Survive?'
RW Johnson
RW Johnson's bestselling and controversial book How Long Will South Africa Survive? was published at the height of the Zuma presidency and it offered a chilling warning. As national elections loom, Johnson examines the state of the nation in his latest book Fighting for the Dream (Jonathan Ball Publishers, R275). Here is an extract from chapter five:
Ramaphoria did not last long. Zuma had allowed his powerful barons to loot – unless they went too far and caused a peasant revolt. This is pretty much what happened in North West province, where the premier, Supra Mahumapelo, was alleged to have looted and tyrannised the population. However, he had placed all his bets on Dlamini-Zuma, and when Ramaphosa won at Nasrec, the province's enraged citizenry rose up, demanding change. So serious was the civil disorder thus caused that Ramaphosa had to break off in the midst of a Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London and fly home to deal with it. But Mahumapelo's summary removal clearly threatened other party barons, particularly Ace Magashule, who was already under suspicion for his involvement with various Gupta pieces of criminality. So Magashule did all he could to hinder the investigation into Mahumapelo. ANC meetings in the North West called to inquire into the complaints against Mahumapelo were arranged at awkward times in remote places, and sometimes in areas where there had been recent lion attacks, thus making it difficult to achieve quorums. But Mahumapelo had provoked such popular hatred that the opposition to him was not to be discouraged, and after several weeks the errant premier was forced to step down – though even then he remained chairman of the provincial ANC, a post from which he was only dislodged later and with difficulty.
This was an early indication that Ramaphosa's position was not strong, an impression confirmed by his difficulty in forming a new cabinet. Under pressure from powerful factions in the ANC, he ended up with a cabinet that still included a number of ministers widely regarded as compromised. He managed to have more honest and competent boards installed at Eskom and Transnet (though even so the Eskom board included anomalies such as Professor Malegapuru Makgoba, who had all but destroyed the University of KwaZulu- Natal and had neither business nor engineering experience). Ramaphosa struggled to impose himself, however, when it came to dismissing Tom Moyane, a crony of Zuma's who had misdirected the tax collection system while commissioner of the South African Revenue Service (SARS). When the judge presiding over Moyane's disciplinary inquiry recommended his dismissal, which recommendation Ramaphosa immediately acted upon, Moyane resisted fiercely and challenged the decision in court. Given that Moyane was believed to have cost SARS anywhere between R50 billion and R200 billion in lost revenue, this was an extraordinary display of chutzpah.
Clearly, there were all manner of Zuma appointees and clients in powerful and lucrative positions throughout the public sector who were determined to fight their corner. Many, after all, had virtually no skills, and if they lost their government positions might end up unemployed. Under Zuma's patronage they had been able to steal, achieve rent-seeking goals and set up gatekeeping positions. They would fight under Zuma's banner or anyone else's, but they would fight. And the really disturbing thing for them about Ramaphosa was that, even in the case of Zuma, he had taken the position that the rule of law must prevail and that he would not interfere with it. The days of pliant police and prosecutors could well be over.
The problem was that Zuma had been in power so long and the odds on Dlamini-Zuma being elected had seemed so good – in which case the whole Zuma system would have continued undisturbed – that not a few of those in power had continued on their merry way. Thus, the managers and directors who were robbing the VBS Mutual Bank of its depositors' funds had felt secure because they had taken out insurance by extending a large 'loan' to Zuma himself and making a R2-million donation to ANC funds. Had the Zuma faction stayed in office they would have got away with this, but once Ramaphosa won the bank failed amid huge scandal. In Mahumapelo's case, the state arms firm, Denel – which had been entirely suborned by the Guptas – gave Mahumapelo's son a R1.1-million bursary to help him become a pilot, although Denel had no history of making such grants. This relatively small detail was one of the straws breaking the camel's back. A furious Pravin Gordhan, by now returned to the cabinet as the minister of public enterprises, immediately ordered an investigation. After all, Denel had had to borrow money simply to pay salaries a few months before.
Gordhan, the SOEs and the 'Indian cabal'
The key mover in this new dispensation was Pravin Gordhan, who began to comb through the SOEs, evicting at least the more notably corrupt individuals. He was not to be brooked, and when, for example, the board of Transnet, the mammoth state transport corporation, failed to take action against miscreants he simply replaced the whole board. Moreover, miscreants might find themselves not only sacked but also reported to the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), and also relieved of substantial sums; the Transnet CEO, Siyabonga Gama, was sacked and ordered to pay back R151 million. Gordhan was regarded with horror – as a veritable Robespierre – by the Zuma-ites, for they were long used to a culture of impunity.
Gordhan was fearsomely unpopular. He was a true believer in the old ANC vision, and smart enough to know that whether or not that dream could be saved would depend not only on uprooting corruption but also on re-establishing a culture of accountability. But corruption had long been systemic and utterly pervasive, operating through the patronage networks that had put down roots in every corner of the country. The result was that when one centre of corruption was eliminated it was like pulling up a convolvulus weed in the garden – one would find that its tendrils reached everywhere, into the most surprising places.
A good example was the VBS Mutual Bank, a black-owned bank with Venda roots (it was formerly the Venda Building Society). Having a black bank had long been a BEE dream, and there was always much support for the idea of a state (ie black-run) bank, though how yet another SOE was supposed to compete with the well-run commercial banks was not explained. VBS had solved this problem by corruptly inducing municipal treasurers and other notables to place deposits with the bank at attractive rates. However, the bank's managers and directors were just as busily stealing the money. When the bank began to founder in 2018, its CEO tried to claim ignorance, but as the appalling scale of the thievery became apparent, his voice died away. It turned out that the bank's shorn depositors were widely spread throughout South Africa and even into Namibia and Botswana.
The scandal widened when it was revealed that money had been funnelled from VBS to the EFF via a network of front companies, and that a considerable sum had been paid to the brother of Floyd Shivambu, the EFF number two. Certainly, it was the party's national chairman, Advocate Dali Mpofu, who had defended Tom Moyane, and it was at this point that the EFF began to make bitter and racist attacks against Gordhan and other Indian South Africans at SARS and the South African Reserve Bank. The EFF went so far as to accuse all Indians of racism against blacks and cleverly suggested that an Indian cabal was at work in Ramaphosa's engine room. This was a quite conscious echo of complaints in the 1980s about an Indian cabal at the heart of the UDF and showed that Malema had sensed that the Ramaphosa team was in part the old UDF reconstituted. It was a strange piece of targeting, though: the Guptas had been far more prominent, after all, and they weren't even South Africans. They had been a far greater affront to African nationalist sensibilities.
By April 2018 the Zuma faction was openly complaining of a purge against them, citing not only the removal of Mahumapelo and the changes to the Eskom and Transnet boards but also attempts to displace the Eastern Cape premier, Phumulo Masualle, and replace him with the pro-Ramaphosa Oscar Mabuyane. A purge, they warned, would cause the ANC to implode. This was a sensitive issue. The fall of Mbeki, followed by a sweeping purge of his supporters, had seen a significant breakaway from the ANC in the shape of Cope. Zuma himself had repeatedly warned of the repercussions should the party axe him. And, of course, in a patronage-based system like the ANC's, it was inevitable that there would now be pressure for jobs from a hungry throng of Ramaphosa supporters. • Fighting for the Dream, Jonathan Ball Publishers, R275.
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to enable the feature. Then restart PowerShell.
Suggestion [4,General]: The most similar commands are: Get-Service, Set-Service, New-Service, Get-PSDrive.
Suggestion [4,General]: The most similar commands are: Get-Process, Get-Alias, Get-Host, Get-Acl.
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I'd have expected to see ping in that list!
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Suggestion [4,General]: The most similar commands are: sv, stz, clv, ft, gpv, gv, nv, rv.
Needed to see select and stz respectively so that's good.
Suggestion [4,General]: The most similar commands are: ipmo, ipcsv, ipconfig.exe, inmo.
For the most part the suggested commands seem to be reasonable and reasonably accurate.
I've mentioned the PowerShell v6.2 experimental features before.
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Copy-Item seems to cause problems for many users.
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The issue Scope issue with Install-Module that I discussed in recent posts is annoying because I know that I'll forget about it and end up installing in the wrong place and have to uninstall and reinstall. Then I remembered PowerShell default parameters.
into my PowerShell v6 profile I've removed the issue. Install-Module will always default to –Scope AllUsers and if I need to override it I can.
$PSDefaultParameterValues is a hashtable where the key is constructed from the cmdlet name and the parameter and a value is supplied.
I use the same profile for production and preview PowerShell v6 instances so all should be good – until there's another change.
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Set-ADComputer -Identity W10ProIp -Description "Used by $($user.Givenname) $($user.Surname)"
You need to use the subexpression – $() – syntax to resolve the values rather than getting references to the $user object.
The default appears to be CurrentUser regardless.
PowerShell v6.2 RC 1 uses PowerShellGet 2.0.4 and PowerShell v6.1.3 uses version 1.6.7. You'll see different behavior depending on PowerShell version so the advice is to use the Scope parameter to ensure the module goes where you intend.
I usually want my modules in Program files (Allusers) rather than my documents folder (CurrentUser).


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This chart shows the changes in the number of sales by price range since 2002. The only segments that have gone down, are the under $225,000 which is because there are so few properties priced in that range anymore.
I think the trend for the last 27 years has been pretty obvious.


On March 7 2008 'Boz' of Clementon age 54 yrs.
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Boz was a member of LOOM # 548 Lindenwold and American Legion Post # 371 Gibbsboro.
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title: "8th Light Chronicles: Day 1"
date: 2016-03-01
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I realize that day 1 at a new job in a new industry is probably not the most accurate way to gauge the direction of your future, but man, do I have some observations. Before I get into the technical content that shall be the focus of this blog, I want to point out how huge of a change this new world seems to be.

I cannot separate my decision to get into consulting from my decision to get into tech, because they were the same decision. Tech consulting was always what I wanted to do. I knew I wanted to be client facing, I wanted to participate in more of the business aspects besides straight coding, I wanted to learn new technologies and have constantly changing requirements, I wanted to build something meaningful to help businesses meet actual needs.

That being said, I don't know where 8th Light will fit in with all of that. It is only my first day.

Culturally, this company is probably as close to Dev Bootcamp as I will get from a real-world company. It is completely illogical how everyone here is so cool. Like, everyone. There seems to be a ton of support. There are snacks! I worked the entire day on a couch.

I would say that the only thing that I am not sure I can quickly adapt to is that there seems to be a lack of structure. People come in late and everyone seems to be gone by 5. There is a fluidity with which people operate here that I am not used to in a business setting. I think that this will likely be the biggest adjustment for me here. That and the daily blogging. So let's get to it.

Day 1 was a working out the kinks day.

I started on a new machine, so the majority of the morning was spent customizing and downloading. Eventually I started to get into Xcode and a [Swift tutorial](https://github.com/nettlep/learn-swift) given to my by my mentor Zach.

Some quick observations about Xcode. Most glaringly, it has a 2 star rating in the App Store, but since I have not gotten very deep into it, I can only report the weaknesses of the platform that I have experienced.

I got about 6 lessons into the tutorial and quickly realized that the version for which the tutorial was written and my current version of Xcode were not compatable. I was getting errors for even a `println` call. That error in itself is not too awful, however if there are any issues in the file at all, it will not compile so nothing else can be tested. I had to do a lot of commenting out of non-compatable code in order to get just a few lines to run. I have to look more into setting breakpoints and the developer tools offered in the suite.

Another issue I came across was how looped behavior was outputted. Instead of being able to see the output of each iteration, a chunk of code like

```swift
for index in 1...5
{
  "This will print 5 times"
}
```

yielded an output of `(5 times)` rather than

```swift
This will print 5 times
This will print 5 times
This will print 5 times
This will print 5 times
This will print 5 times
```

As far as Swift itself, the language has a lot of similarities to other languages that I have seen and worked with. I am quickly realizing that all programming languages have the same basic elements. They all have attributes and functions. Collections and "dictionaries" exist in all languages that I have seen.

To be continued...

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Caillouël-Crépigny ist eine französische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand: ) im Département Aisne in der Region Hauts-de-France; sie gehört zum Arrondissement Laon, zum Kanton Chauny und zum Gemeindeverband Chauny Tergnier la Fère.

Geografie
Caillouël-Crépigny liegt etwa 30 Kilometer westnordwestlich von Laon. Umgeben wird Caillouël-Crépigny von den Nachbargemeinden Guivry im Norden, Béthancourt-en-Vaux im Osten und Nordosten, Neuflieux im Osten und Südosten, Marest-Dampcourt im Süden und Südosten, Mondescourt im Südwesten, Grandrû im Westen sowie Maucourt im Nordwesten.

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Sehenswürdigkeiten
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Träger des Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (Ort in Frankreich)

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Twitter began enforcing its new anti-hate speech measures on Monday, banning some white supremacists, who fled to an alt-right clone. Richard Spencer, for now, remains safe.
Twitter has begun mass suspending accounts belonging to white supremacists and hate groups as changes to the platform's policies take effect today.
Far-right U.K. political group Britain First was one of the first accounts to be suspended, along with its affiliates including Paul Golding and Jayda Fransen. Three of Fransen's anti-Muslim viral video tweets, one of which featured a Dutch boy in the Netherlands falsely identified as a "migrant," were recently retweeted by Trump.
White nationalist Jared Taylor and his site, American Resistance, are also some of the early casualties of Twitter's new anti-hate rules, along with fellow white nationalists Hunter Wallace and the Traditionalist Workers Party. The Traditionalist Workers Party is an organization co-founded by neo-Nazi Tony Hovater, who was recently profiled by the New York Times to substantial backlash.
On Sunday, fear spread among the white nationalist community that Twitter suspensions were imminent. Many began tweeting with the hashtag #TwitterPurge and encouraging followers to find them on Gab.ai, a far-right Twitter clone that once wrote "If you are straight, white, Christian, Republican, anti-PC, libertarian, conservative; to Silicon Valley: you are the enemy" in a press release.
Taylor joined Gab on Sunday posting, "I am grateful to have a platform that does not believe in censorship. I look forward to posting in a community that actually exercises free speech -- a rarity today in what used to be called "the land of the free and the home of the brave."
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As you've probably heard by now, Henry Cavill is reportedly stepping away from his role as Superman in the live-action DC Universe, after appearing in just three films over the course of five years. According to insiders, Warner Bros. was attempting to negotiate a Superman cameo in the upcoming Shazam! film, and that's when talks with Cavill fell apart. He turned down the cameo, and the two sides parted ways.
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This small moment would have been the key to tying the characters in Shazam! to the rest of the Justice League. It could have even led to Shazam appearing alongside Superman in a future Justice League movie. Unfortunately, due to the failed negotiations, that cameo isn't going to be happening, and Cavill is done with the role of Superman.
With Superman out, there's always a chance that another DC character could appear in Shazam!, but there has been no word as to whether or not that will actually be the case.
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Q: get back a string representation from computeDigest(algorithm, value) byte[] The Google App Script function computeDigest returns a byte array of the signature. How can I get the string representation of the digest?
I have already tried the bin2String() function.
function sign(){
var signature = Utilities.computeDigest(Utilities.DigestAlgorithm.MD5, "thisisteststring")
Logger.log(bin2String(signature));
}

function bin2String(array) {
  var result = "";
  for (var i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
    result += String.fromCharCode(parseInt(array[i], 2));
  }
  return result;
}

but it puts "" in the Logs

A: One-liner:
Utilities.computeDigest(Utilities.DigestAlgorithm.MD5, "teststring")
  .map(function(b) {return ("0" + (b < 0 && b + 256 || b).toString(16)).substr(-2)})
  .join("")

A: Did somebody say succinct? (/fulldecent arrives to party with the drinking hat, including straws, after everyone else already passed out)
Utilities.computeDigest(Utilities.DigestAlgorithm.MD5, "thisisteststring")
  .map(function(chr){return (chr+256).toString(16).slice(-2)})
  .join('')

A: Here is an easy way to transform a Byte[] into a String.
Found this in the documentation provided by Google here : https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/utilities/utilities#base64Decode(String)
Utilities.newBlob(myByteArray).getDataAsString();

Better late than never. (And since this topic still comes first when searching this topic in Goole, this might help some folks).

A: If we put Logger.log(signature); right after the call to computeDigest(), we get:
[8, 30, -43, 124, -101, 114, -37, 10, 78, -13, -102, 51, 65, -24, -83, 81]

As represented in javascript, the digest includes both positive and negative integers, so we can't simply treat them as ascii characters. The MD5 algorithm, however, should provide us with 8-bit values, in the range 0x00 to 0xFF (255). Those negative values, then, are just a misinterpretation of the high-order bit; taking it to be a sign bit. To correct, we need to add 256 to any negative value.
How to convert decimal to hex in JavaScript? gives us this for retrieving hex characters:
hexString = yourNumber.toString(16);

Putting that together, here's your sign() function, which is also available as a gist:
function sign(message){
  message = message || "thisisteststring";
  var signature = Utilities.computeDigest(
                       Utilities.DigestAlgorithm.MD5,
                       message,
                       Utilities.Charset.US_ASCII);
  Logger.log(signature);
  var signatureStr = '';
    for (i = 0; i < signature.length; i++) {
      var byte = signature[i];
      if (byte < 0)
        byte += 256;
      var byteStr = byte.toString(16);
      // Ensure we have 2 chars in our byte, pad with 0
      if (byteStr.length == 1) byteStr = '0'+byteStr;
      signatureStr += byteStr;
    }
  Logger.log(signatureStr);
  return signatureStr;
}

And here's what the logs contain:
[13-04-25 21:46:55:787 EDT] [8, 30, -43, 124, -101, 114, -37, 10, 78, -13, -102, 51, 65, -24, -83, 81]
[13-04-25 21:46:55:788 EDT] 081ed57c9b72db0a4ef39a3341e8ad51

Let's see what we get from this on-line MD5 Hash Generator:

I tried it with a few other strings, and they consistently matched the result from the on-line generator.

A: Just in case this is helpful to anyone else, I've put together a more succinct version of Mogsdad's solution:
function md5(str) {
  return Utilities.computeDigest(Utilities.DigestAlgorithm.MD5, str).reduce(function(str,chr){
    chr = (chr < 0 ? chr + 256 : chr).toString(16);
    return str + (chr.length==1?'0':'') + chr;
  },'');
}

A: From this post:
function string2Bin(str) {
  var result = [];
  for (var i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
    result.push(str.charCodeAt(i).toString(2));
  }
  return result;
}

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Comedy - Adult
Last Vegas (2013)
Posted by Victor R Gibson ⋅ November 8, 2020 ⋅ Leave a comment
Filed Under April Billingsley, Bre Blair, Curtis Jackson, Kevin Kline, Mary Steenburgen, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Robert de Nero
Ratings UK: 12A, USA: PG-13, Most countries variations on 12
Source of story An original screenplay
Director Jon Turteltaub
Writers/Script Dan Fogelman
Starring Michael Douglas, Robert De Nero, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Kline, Mary Steenburgen, Bre Blair, Curtis Jackson, April Billingsley
Ratings IMDb: 6.6 by 127,279 people. Rotten Tomatoes: 46% by 146 reviewers.
Elevator Pitch: Four lifelong friends, Billy, Paddy, Archie and Sam, now well past retirement age, pitch up in Las Vegas for Billy's bachelor party since he is about to marry a woman about half his age. Although Paddy has joined the group he and Billy remain at odds because the latter did not attend the funeral of Paddy's wife. Archie has brought along half his pension and wins $100,000 at blackjack, prompting the casino to award them the penthouse suite for their stay, Sam has been given the means and the permission to stray sexually by his wife and they all meet and fall slightly in love with mature lounge singer Diana. But Paddy believes that Billy is not really in love with Lisa, so what to do?
Content: There is no sex or nudity although a lot of young women appear scantily clad, particularly when the guys are roped in to judge a swimsuit competition. They do quite a bit of drinking. If gambling is a problem for anyone there is some. But mostly the four guys wander about in the town argue a bit, sit about a bit, go to a night club which costs them $1800 to get in and gradually move on to the formal party in the penthouse where everybody they have met in the town is invited.
A View: Once more I came to this without any information, and though that it was going to be some sort of old geezer's criminal caper, but no such luck. You would think that any one of these superstars would have been able to carry this film along, but the plot is slim to non-existent really giving them little to do. In fact it is possible that they were having more fun making it than I had watching it. So there it is, one of those so called comedies which you can have on at no cost while doing something else.
Additional Info: Michael Douglas and Mary Steenburgen go on the Las Vegas Stratosphere Tower Thrill Ride. It looks very odd.
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I've been working on an exercise to develop a mission statement for my research. I think I'm settling on the following.
collaborate with communities, giving them an equal voice in my own research and helping them have an equal voice with others.
As technology becomes increasingly ubiquitous, to fully participate in this digital world it is important to have the literacies needed to harness technology when appropriate, and to judge when technology is a hindrance instead of a help. But while there is a significant economic and technical hurdle in achieving full digital inclusion for everyone, I think at the core this is a social problem. Achieving an equal voice requires new understandings regarding the value and indeed necessity of diverse voices in all aspects of our society.
But too often we as researchers do not practice what we preach. For in research many would argue that what we do is too specialized to engage citizens, or is contaminated through subject involvement. I take an opposing view. While it is helpful to regularly take a 10,000 foot view of communities, it is also critical to utilize a scholarship of engagement approach in which citizen scientists participate as equals with academic researchers. In so doing, it becomes possible to gain unique, deep perspectives to important social issues.
While it is important to inform the community regarding the possibilities of harnessing new technologies, and to also enable them to utilize those technologies effectively, the cycle isn't complete until there is also meaningful collaboration. We must practice what we preach lest we live our professional lives as blind men who only percieve the full shape of an elephant through the touch of its trunk alone.


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Завладяването на Никея от селджукските турци е военнополитическо събитие, маркиращо дъното на византийската военна мощ в продължилия близо три века военен конфликт между Източната римска империя и селджукските турски държави.

Предистория
След разгрома на Византия при Манцикерт селджуките се съгласяват на временно примирие с Роман Диоген. След като публично го унижава, Алп Арслан освобождава срещу откуп пленения император и ограничава неприятелските действия срещу Източната Римска империя. Тюркският султан рационално предвижда развитието на събитията - скоро след прибирането на Роман Диоген в Константинопол срещу него избухва въстание, предвождано от аристократичната фамилия Дука. Бившият император е свален, прогонен в Киликийска Антиохия, а по-късно е предаден, ослепен и умира в изгнание през 1072 г. на остров Киналиада в Мраморно море. Новият василевс Михаил VII Дука прави задължителния външнополитически ход и подновява бойните действия срещу селджуките. Алп Арслан  не е изненадан и неговите конници отново бързо вземат инициативата. Същевременно Византия е болезнено притискана от северозапад от печенегите и метежите на павликяните. Загубата при Манцикерт отключва водовъртеж, в който Империята може да погине. Избухва въстанието на българите, водени от Георги Войтех и Константин Бодин. Но най-голяма изглежда опасността на Апенините, където насърчавани от папата бившите имперски нормански наемници бързо стават господари на византийските градове в Апулия и Калабрия. В този преразтеглен военно-административен и снабдителен модел на Империята Алп Арслан лесно овладява античния град Никея, на вратата на Константинопол.

Завладяването на града
В действителност липсват точни исторически описания на de facto бойни действия около града Никея. Поради това , че императорът на практика изоставя града. В действителност става дума за промяна на политическото статукво след нов метеж, воден от стратега на Анатоликон Никифор III Вотаниат, който използва съседите си селджуци като военни наемници. Те му печелят короната на василевса, а той им преотстъпва властта над Никея.

Последствия
След тази съществена териториална загуба Михаил VII Дука на свой ред е свален и подстриган за монах в Студийския манастир. С неуспехите си във вътрешно- и външнополитически план Михаил VII е спечелил прозвището "Парапинак". От своя страна селджуките обявяват Никея за нова столица и тя остава такава двадесет години - до 1097 г., когато кръстоносците на Годфрид дьо Буйон връщат града на Византия.

Бележки

Източници
 Петър Мутафчиев, "Лекции по история на Византия", Издателство Дамян Яков ISBN 954-527-308-9

Битки на Византия
Битки в Средновековието
Селджуци


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filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of Animal Ethics
Animals and Human Society in Asia: Historical, Cultural and Ethical Perspectives
. Edited by Rotem Kowner, Guy Bar-Oz, Michal Biran, Meir Shahar, and Gideon Shelach-Lavi. (
Basingstoke, England
Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
+ xxxvii pp. Hardback. £89.99. ISBN: 978-3-03024362-3.)
Chien-hui Li
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
chien-hui li is professor of history at the Department of History, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. She has published widely in the areas of animal protection, political radicalism, and the relations between religion and science in 19th-century Britain. Her most recent book is Mobilizing Traditions in the First Wave of the British Animal Defense Movement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Email: li.chien.hui@gmail.com
Journal of Animal Ethics (2022) 12 (2): 203–205.
https://doi.org/10.5406/21601267.12.2.11
Chien-hui Li; Animals and Human Society in Asia: Historical, Cultural and Ethical Perspectives. Journal of Animal Ethics 1 October 2022; 12 (2): 203–205. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/21601267.12.2.11
From a largely Western phenomenon, the "animal turn" has, in recent years, gone global. Animals and Human Society in Asia: Historical, Cultural and Ethical Perspectives is just such a timely product that testifies to this trend.
But why Asia? The editors, in their very helpful overview essay, have from the outset justified the volume's focus on Asia and ensured that this is not simply a matter of lacuna filling. The reasons they set out include: the fact that Asia is the cradle of early human settlement and animal domestication; Asia encompasses an extreme diversity of closely connected ecosystems and human cultures; Asia is the place where the world's major religions originated; and, as in other parts of the world, Asia's use of animals for food and other utilitarian purposes constitutes a prominent feature of its culture. All of these factors, they argue, made Asia a unique lab for the exploration...
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I am trying to create a PAL DVD with one 20 buttons menu in DVD Studio 4.
The buttons are in 2 colums and 10 rows. Each button's size is 325 x 33 pixels.
Each button jumps to a single VTS (20 short films in PAL 16x9).
This leads to the problem – I have to do the menu in 4x3 because a 16x9 menu on DVD is limited to 18 buttons maximum.
But my videos are in 16x9 auto Letterbox. And some standalone DVD players don't display the menu pillarboxed.
These are older players that don't have HDMI.
Question 1: Can this be improved in myDVDEdit so all players will show a pillarboxed 4x3 menu?
As an alternative I have tried a trick: I have set the 16x9 menu in DVD Studio to 4x3 and built the DVD (with 20 buttons).
In myDVDEdit I have set the VTS menus to Aspect 16x9 auto Letterbox.
Now my players indeed display the menu in 16x9.
Question 2: Is this a good idea that will work on most players?
And can you please help me doing the settings correctly?
Thank you, I am curious to hear your thoughts.
- 4x3 or 16x9 only -> 36 buttons max.
- 16x9 + letterbox or 16x9 + panscan -> 18 buttons max.
- 16x9 + letterbox + panscan -> 12 buttons max.
Your problem is, if I remember well, DVD Studio only propose 4x3 or 16x9 + letterbox.
The only solution I see is set the menu to 4x3, build the DVD, and set the VTS menus to 16x9. Not to 16x9 auto letterbox.
You will have a dialog box asking you to change the video streams aspect too. Click on Fix.
Of course, with this solution, the menu will be distorted on a 4x3 screen, but no choices.
I hope DVD Studio allow 4x3 menus in a 16x9 project otherwise you will have to mixe two projects and rewrite all the commands. Really not simple.
Hi Jérôme, thank you for this interesting tip. I will try that later and post my test results. And yes, DVD Studio supports 4x3 menu and 16x9 video in one project.
If only the 4x3 screen looks distorted that seems to be ok, because it is more likely that people have an old player and a new 16x9 screen. The old 4x3 screens are quite rare.
The distorted 4x3 menu on 16x9 screen was my main concern. And your technique will avoid that, if I understand correctly.
Which brings me to my original question 1: Is there a way to force pillarbox for the 4x3 menu?
A marked 4x3 video must be pillar boxed on a 16x9 screen. If not, the player doesn't do its job.
I have tried it and the menu works very well on the 16x9 TV, even with the old players.
On the 4x3 TV my two old players behave differently. One player shows the menu correctly (distorted, as expected).
But the other player shows the background picture adjusted to the settings of the player (4x3 letterboxed or pan-scan, both not distorted). Only the subpicture of the menu is distorted. So the positions don't match.
Have I overlooked something, or is this just the bad player?
Hi Jerome, I'm having the same issue with picture. Can I do something to fix this or it a bust?
If the picture is marked 4:3 the player must inform the TV that the format is 4:3 and the TV must switch to 4:3.
If not, the problem may be the player, the cable between the player and the TV, or the TV. Not the DVD.


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