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When police make an arrest, they can search that person and the items in the person's immediate possession. Such a "search incident to arrest" has been authorized by the courts since 1914.
We live in a different world, however, 100 years later. In 1914, a person might have carried papers indicating his identity or home address. A pocket or billfold might have held purchase receipts or an incriminating letter. But in 2014, 90 percent of American adults carry at least basic cellphones that often contain detailed contacts, call logs and text messages; more than half of us carry more powerful smartphones or tablets that can hold everything from the most intimate of correspondence to meticulous data on the places we have been.
Access to a cellphone, especially a smartphone, offers a far more detailed portrait of the device's owner than any item a person could have tucked into a pocket a century ago. The Supreme Court recognized this reality last week.
The court ruled unanimously that law enforcement agents must obtain a warrant before searching the contents of an arrestee's cellphone. The court left open an exception for dire emergencies, such as trying to locate a missing child, but cautioned that the extenuating circumstances would need to satisfy a judge after the fact.
Chief Justice John Roberts, who authored the opinion, soundly rejected the assertion that searching the digital contents of a phone is "materially indistinguishable" from searching physical items in the arrestee's possession. Such a claim "is like saying a ride on horseback is materially indistinguishable from a flight to the moon," he wrote. The ruling also protects data stored remotely, "in the cloud," that can be accessed through an arrestee's device.
Roberts' opinion addressed two cases, one state and one federal, that the Court heard together. In Riley v. California, the defendant's cellphone was searched without a warrant; location data and photographs were used to link him to a gang and to place near the shooting of which he was accused. The California courts ruled the search valid. In United States v. Wurie, the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the defendant's conviction due to a warrantless examination of the flip-style cellphone's call log and other data that led to a home in South Boston, where authorities seized drugs and weapons used as evidence in the trial. As Stephen Wemiel noted on SCOTUSBlog prior to the ruling, lower courts across the country have come down on all sides of the issue.
The Supreme Court, however, has now drawn a clear distinction between cellphones and other sorts of personal effects that can be searched incident to an arrest under previous Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. The two traditional justifications for searching someone who has been arrested are to protect police officers and to prevent the destruction of evidence. Roberts pointed out that data on a phone can endanger no one and that police have other ways to prevent remote wiping of data, such as turning a phone off or placing it in a "Faraday bag" designed to block incoming signals.
The Court acknowledged that the decision will affect the ability of members of law enforcement to do their jobs. But Roberts observed that "Privacy comes at a cost," and added that in the age of email-equipped mobile devices, a warrant can often be obtained relatively rapidly if there is reason for it.
Though the courts have not yet addressed the point, it seems clear that if it is unconstitutional for a police officer to read the contents of your smartphone, tablet or laptop after arresting you, then it is certainly unconstitutional for a customs agent to do so when you do nothing more than cross an international border. And while the ruling has no immediate impact on data collection programs like those of the National Security Agency, law professor Stephen Vladeck told The Washington Post that it is "a cruise missile across the bow of lawyers defending warrantless search programs." The High Court is clearly unwilling to let digital privacy become collateral damage in the fight against crime, and so it appears doubtful it will accept many privacy casualties in the struggle against foreign aggression or terror.
Most constitutional questions are nether black nor white. Real-world issues come in many shades of gray, in which personal rights and societal priorities sometimes collide. The Court reached a sound conclusion with its ruling that if your mobile device contains "Fifty Shades of Grey," it is nobody's business but your own.
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For centuries Tibetans were isolated from the world because of the imposing Himalayan range. In this environment where exposure was limited to information delivered by a few adventurous Westerners, Japanese and Chinese, everyone grew to share the same opinion – the Tibetan leadership is always right, and their opinion overrides everyone else's.
When the Tibetans fled into exile in the 1950s, they carried this attitude with them and over the years, little has changed. Although they have since been exposed to various cultures, ideologies and beliefs, they have also discovered that not everyone agrees with their views about religion and politics, and that their views on religion, if compared to democratic countries, are quite archaic and outdated. Unused to dealing with a difference of opinions, many have resorted to reacting the only way they know how.
Thus in a case of the cyber world imitating the real world, it has become commonplace for Dorje Shugden practitioners to be met with violent, abusive language on the Internet as well as death threats and actual physical violence. When Dorje Shugden devotees try to raise awareness about the lack of religious freedom and how they cannot practice their beliefs without discrimination, Tibetans react with vulgarities and threats. There are many examples of this which we have attached for you.
This language reflects the violent tendencies of the Tibetan people, and only shows that Dorje Shugden practitioners cannot freely express their beliefs. The instant a Dorje Shugden practitioner talks about their belief that religious freedom should be given to all, they are immediately issued with death threats, vulgar words and abusive, violent language. This is across the board, and applies to anyone in the Tibetan community whose opinion differs from the Tibetan government on matters such as the dilemma of autonomy or full independence for Tibet, the approach towards this goal and the loss of Tibetan culture with the Tibetans migrating around the world.
Is this type of behavior and language taught at the Dalai Lama's teachings? That those who practice Dorje Shugden should be sworn at and spat on?
Is the Dalai Lama aware of his followers' behavior? If he is, has His Holiness previously advised his students to refrain from such language and behavior? If the Dalai Lama has not given such advice, why is he remaining silent on the matter? Is his silence actually his approval and support for their abhorrent language?
Do the Tibetans who direct such language towards Dorje Shugden supporters believe that their behavior reflects the Dalai Lama in a positive light? People who do not know Buddhism will see things very simply – if the Dalai Lama's students are kind and compassionate, then it is because their teacher has taught them to be kind and compassionate. If the Dalai Lama's students are vulgar and violent, then they must have learned it from somewhere.
You can see clearly in videos that prior to attending the Dalai Lama's talk, or directly after, the pro-Dalai Lama Tibetans are violent against the Dorje Shugden practitioners who have come to protest peacefully. Is this appropriate behavior for people who are there to receive teachings on compassion, love, tolerance and forbearance? How can they be violent outside of the teaching arena and then, upon walking inside, fold their hands and offer a khata (silk scarf wishing long life) to a man of peace? Does that make sense? The Tibetan leadership should curtail this type of behavior because it looks very fundamentalist, extremist and not befitting of the Dalai Lama's spiritual stature. Remember many Tibetans are now living in free, democratic countries and their violent intolerant behavior against peaceful protesters will not be tolerated in these countries. Do not embarrass your leadership with your behavior.
While democratic nations treat religious freedom as an automatic human right, it would seem that religious freedom is still quite a difficult concept for many Tibetans to grasp. Freedom of worship is the connection of a person to a supreme being, supernatural being or any being that the person deems worthy of worship. The Tibetan leadership goes as far as saying that the Dorje Shugden worship is not even a religion, and thus the ban has nothing to do with religious freedom. However, the devotees of Dorje Shugden worship him as a supreme being, and pray and make offerings to invoke his blessings. If that is not deemed a religion or religious worship, then what is?
In reality, the situation is quite simple. Those who support the Dalai Lama should remember that their actions reflect their teacher. Every time they write vulgarities, rude comments, violent thoughts and wish ill-will towards Dorje Shugden practitioners, are they reflecting the Dalai Lama well? So if the Dalai Lama's supporters were REALLY devoted then they should practice the message that their teacher travels all over the world to spread – compassion should be extended to everyone, regardless of whether they agree or disagree with your views. Scholars of Tibetan Buddhism should stop looking for 'reasons' to eliminate the practice of Shugden but embrace and accept religious freedom. After all, the greatest scholars of Tibet such as Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche, Domo Geshe Rinpoche, Panchen Rinpoche, Pabongka Rinpoche, 30th Sakya Throneholder Sonam Rinchen, 31st Sakya Throneholder Kunkhyen Ngawang Kunga Lodroe, 33rd Sakya Throneholder Padma Dudul Wangchug, 35th Sakya Throneholder Tashi Rinchen, 37th Sakya Throneholder Kunga Nyingpo, 39th Sakya Throneholder Dragshul Thinley Rinchen, 41st Sakya Throneholder H.H. Sakya Trizin, Kyabje Lati Rinpoche, Drayab Gyabgon, Geshe Rabten, Kyabje Dagom Rinpoche, Geshe Tendar, Geshe Ngawang Dhargye, Geshe Kenrab, Kyabje Zong Rinpoche – and the list goes into the hundreds for the last 350 years – have validated and taught Dorje Shugden is a pure and beneficial practice. No Scholar today can rival those great masters both learned and realized from the past.
In fact, since Dorje Shugden practitioners are considered errant, they should be shown more compassion, more wisdom, more tolerance, more understanding. After all, a Buddhist's compassion should reflect that of the Buddhas who have even more compassion for those afflicted with suffering and ignorance. Therefore Dorje Shugden practitioners should be granted full human rights, the freedom to worship and be allowed to participate in mainstream Tibetan activities and all public events by the Dalai Lama.
Let us hypothetically say that their worship of Dorje Shugden is incorrect. Should that not raise the alarm that, more so compared to everyone else, they need to come for the teachings so that they can gain wisdom and eventually, through wisdom, "reject" this practice? Why reject those who are 'evil' or deemed misguided? Why throw them out into the cold to suffer? Nurturing them and not alienating them should be practiced by the Tibetan leadership. Furthermore, as leaders, they should find ways to unite their citizens by common values, not separate them by religious differences. All Tibetans whether Buddhist, Muslim, atheist, Bon, Nyingma, Gelug, Sakya, Kagyu, Shugden practitioners, young, old, male and female should be embraced by the Tibetan leadership as one nation and have full rights. Religion should never create nor have any part in dissension fueled by the leadership themselves.
The Dorje Shugden issue, the undemocratic ban and the suppression of Dorje Shugden devotees will not go away, disappear or be swept under the rug. The unfairness and dissatisfaction that arises from this ban is reaching and saturating mainstream media, so more and more people are becoming aware of this issue. Upholding the ban will only serve to damage the Tibetan cause, not because Dorje Shugden and his devotees are evil, but because the ban against them is unfair and incorrect. If the Tibetan leadership wants this problem to go away, they should remove the ban, effective immediately. They should be just like the democratic nations of the world who uphold their constitutions by allowing individuals any form of religious worship they choose or not.
The pro-Dalai Lama supporters should reflect their leadership well by being kind, even mannered, controlled, compassionate and tolerant.
Scroll down to see a selection of more intolerant, abusive language that is directed at Dorje Shugden practitioners, including death threats and vulgarities. Click to enlarge the images to their full size.
Adar Tsering, a prominent Dorje Shugden practitioner, is regularly issued threats such as these which imply harm, if not death itself, will come to him soon. Is this appropriate behaviour for the Dalai Lama's followers who learn about compassion and tolerance from the man of peace?
This man was escorted out of the 14th Dalai Lama's teaching in Frankfurt, Germany, May 2014, after expressing his need for religious freedom. Notice the violence and vulgarity he experienced on his way out. Is this how people who are sitting in a hall to learn about compassion, should really behave? How is violence arising from anger in any way compatible with peace and harmony?
Tibetans greeting the Dalai Lama in Oslo, Norway on May 7, 2014 were encouraged to cheer more loudly as the Dalai Lama stepped out of his car. Up until the Tibetan crowd cheered, the Dorje Shugden protesters could clearly be heard calling for religious freedom.
The timing of the Tibetan official's encouragement was not a coincidence, and clearly designed to ensure the Dalai Lama would not hear the protesters. Why would a Tibetan official in democratic Norway be encouraging his own people to suppress freedom of speech?
Rotterdam, May 2014 – Tibetans on the way to attending a talk on compassion, love and tolerance by the Dalai Lama showed no compassion, love or any understanding towards the Dorje Shugden practitioners who assembled to peacefully protest the ban against Shugden. They peacefully requested the Dalai Lama to lift the ban as it was unfair and took away the religious freedom of millions of Dorje Shugden practitioners around the world. They have petitioned the Dalai Lama many times in the last 15 years and no dialogue or meeting was ever allowed. The Dalai Lama always promotes dialogue but for the Shugden practitioners, the rules would be different.
The Tibetan attending the Rotterdam talks were spitting on the protesters and even threw feces at the protesters. The security were not happy with the Tibetans attending the Dalai Lama's talk at all and found them contradictory to what was being taught while the protesters were peaceful and had permits and full right to be there and protest. The issue of the unfair and undemocratic Dorje Shugden ban will not go away until His Holiness the Dalai Lama lifts the ban. Mainstream press is picking this story up and circulating all over the world. Dalai Lama should respect all religious practice and allow all to practice all religions and forms of worship as they like without bias and ostracizing. We Dorje Shugden practitioners that number in four million world wide request His Holiness the Dalai Lama to lift the ban and prejudice against Dorje Shugden practitioners world wide. The minute the ban is lifted, we will not protest or make any more issues of this.
Tibetans react angrily to Dorje Shugden practitioners outside Radio City Music Hall, New York. Reliable neutral sources say the crowd was provoked to react in this way.
Tibetans in Mundgod, South India participated in a riot organized and incited by the Tibetan leadership. The 3000-strong mob threatened to burn down the monastery should they gain access to it, as the Dorje Shugden monks remained inside reciting their prayers.
The Dalai Lama encourages the expulsion of monks from the monasteries, should they wish to continue practicing Dorje Shugden.
It's so bad why some people can so rude and cruel to do this kind of things for others just to control or hold the power. It is sad that CTA always like this. They never learn how to respect other religion and human right, what they are tried to do is just for destroy and damage some thing is good.
No one has right to make others suffer and hurt others by intention. So, as one of the Dorje Shudgen practitioner, I will support all the way to make sure get the ban down.
You know, the best and easiest way to prove that something is wrong is by facts, debating, and education. There is no need to use power and authority to scare someone so that they will stay silent because if what ever they were saying is false, then what are you so afraid of?
It's so sad to see lay people and sangha alike so barbaric in stopping another individual's right to practice what they would like. Ultimately, if they practise wrongly, they bear the end of the karma, not you, so why is the CTA, the Pro Dalai lama camp still stopping others from practising Dorje Shugden with such violent and degrading acts. It's pretty disgusting and only reflects badly on yourself and what you have learnt.


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Asian Americans Are Still Being Attacked Because Of Covid
As the Covid-19 pandemic stretches into yet another phase and the delta variant has created more uncertainty and anxiety, the surge in anti-Asian racism because of the coronavirus also shows no sign of abating, a new report reveals.
Since March 2020, Stop AAPI Hate, a coalition of Asian American and Pacific Islander advocacy organisations and scholars, has accumulated a database of self-reported incidents of racist harassment and attacks involving Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
The group received reports of 2,478 new incidents from April to June of this year, bringing the total number of incidents reported since early in the pandemic to 9,081, according to the data released Thursday. Given that the incidents are self-reported, the true number of racist attacks against AAPI people across the country is likely much higher.
"I think we believed we were heading towards bluer skies with Covid, and that might mean less hate that Asian American community members would face," Manjusha Kulkarni, Stop AAPI Hate co-founder and executive director of the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council, told HuffPost. "But then it didn't dissipate, and of course now, even with the disease, we're talking about a huge surge. So looking forward, we have a lot of concerns about what that surge means in terms of the hate and discrimination."
Nearly two-thirds of the incidents were reported by women, consistent with previous patterns and reflective of the ways AAPI women routinely face a toxic combination of racism and misogyny. Throughout the time Stop AAPI Hate has been collecting these reports, the two most common kinds of incidents have involved verbal harassment and shunning or purposely avoiding AAPI people in public. Most of the incidents have taken place at businesses or on public streets.
People demonstrate against anti-Asian violence and racism on March 27, 2021, in Los Angeles.
According to the data, several kinds of attacks increased between 2020 and 2021, such as physical assaults (10.8% of the incidents reported in 2020 versus 16.6% in 2021), vandalism (2.6% in 2020 versus 4.9% in 2021) and online hate incidents (6.1% in 2020 versus 10.6% in 2021).
In one incident report, the respondent wrote that during a Zoom event, "a number of people hacked into the Zoom room and started disrupting my presentation with barely intelligible remarks." One of them wrote into the Zoom chat window: "'CHING CHONG. ASIANS DESERVES [sic] TO BE KILLED.'"
Another respondent in New York City reported an incident involving "an elderly Asian grandmother using a shopping cart as a walker. A man knocked her over and then kicked her shopping cart."
Kulkarni noted that it's possible some of the increase can be attributed to more people feeling encouraged to report their incidents of racism because of increased national attention and awareness.
The group has received incident reports from every US state and the District of Columbia. The two states where the greatest number of incidents have taken place are California (38.6%) and New York (16%), both of which contain large and diverse AAPI populations.
It has to be a multifaceted approach. It has to be federal, state and local governments really doubling down on protecting our communities. And so that includes driving resources to Asian American communities and creating programs to address some of the foundational issues.Manjusha Kulkarni, Stop AAPI Hate co-founder and executive director of the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council
Almost half of the incidents involved the perpetrator saying "at least one hateful statement regarding anti-China and/or anti-immigrant rhetoric." In Thursday's report, the researchers found that the rhetoric tended to fall into one or more of the following five categories, all of which have historical roots:
Scapegoating China or people of Chinese descent for the spread of the virus
Using racial slurs like "chink" or "gook"
Reinforcing the "forever foreigner" stereotype through nativist and anti-immigrant remarks like "go back to China"
Perpetuating Orientalist tropes, like "statements about Asians' perceived cultural exoticism, such as their dietary habits (e.g. dog or bat eating) or comments about dirtiness, etc."
Red-baiting: remarks that "associate the victim with communism or socialism."
Kulkarni said she's concerned about potential attacks targeting young AAPI people as they start going back to in-person schooling in the coming weeks. She's also concerned about the possible ramifications of an upcoming report from US intelligence officials on their investigation into the origins of Covid-19, ordered by President Joe Biden.
She urged Biden and his administration to be careful of the language they use to avoid further inflaming tensions and misinformation that could lead to more racist rhetoric and scapegoating.
While there's much work to be done on many fronts, Kulkarni said she feels encouraged by some recent policy developments on the state level. For instance, California legislators allocated $156 million of the state budget toward efforts to combat anti-Asian racism. Called the Asian Pacific Islander Equity Budget, the money will fund various community organisations and will address issues such as mental health, education and restorative justice. (Stop AAPI Hate received $10 million to support its efforts tracking and responding to hate incidents.) Illinois recently became the first state to require schools to include Asian American history in their curricula.
"It has to be a multifaceted approach. It has to be federal, state and local governments really doubling down on protecting our communities," Kulkarni said. "And so that includes driving resources to Asian American communities and creating programs to address some of the foundational issues."
Read Stop AAPI Hate's full report here.
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PATRIOTIC-The Finger - Marine Style
A Veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to The United States of America for an amount of "up to and including my life."
That is Honor and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it!!
While this one may have been around for a while, it's always worth
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Leading the fight is Gunnery Sgt Michael Burghardt, known as 'Iron Mike' or just 'Gunny'. He is on his third tour in Iraq. He had become a legend in the bomb disposal world after winning the Bronze Star for disabling 64 IEDs and destroying 1,548 pieces of ordnance during his second tour.
Then, on September 19, he got blown up. He had arrived at a chaotic scene after a bomb had killed four US soldiers. He chose not to wear the bulky bomb protection suit. 'You can't react to any sniper fire and you get tunnel-vision,' he explains. So, protected by just a helmet and standard-issue flak jacket, he began what bomb disposal officers term 'the longest walk', stepping gingerly into a 5 foot deep and 8 foot wide crater.
The earth shifted slightly and he saw a Senao base station with a wire leading from it. He cut the wire and used his 7 inch knife to probe the ground. 'I found a piece of red detonating cord between my legs,' he says. 'That's when I knew I was screwed.' Realizing he had been sucked into a trap, Sgt Burghardt, 35, yelled at everyone to stay back. At that moment, an insurgent, probably watching through binoculars, pressed a button on his mobile phone to detonate the secondary device below the sergeant's feet 'A chill went up the back of my neck and then the bomb exploded,' he recalls. 'As I was in the air I remember thinking, 'I don't believe they got me.' I was just ticked off they were able to do it. Then I was lying on the road, not able to feel anything from the waist down'
His colleagues cut off his trousers to see how badly he was hurt. None could believe his legs were still there 'My dad's a Vietnam vet who's paralyzed from the waist down,' says Sgt Burghardt. 'I was lying there thinking I didn't want to be in a wheelchair next to my dad and for him to see me like that. They started to cut away my pants and I felt a real sharp pain and blood trickling down. Then I wiggled my toes and I thought, 'Good, I'm in business.' As a stretcher was brought over, adrenaline and anger kicked in. 'I decided to walk to the helicopter. I wasn't going to let my team-mates see me being carried away on a stretcher.' He stood and gave the insurgents who had blown him up a one-fingered salute. 'I flipped them one. It was like, 'OK, I lost that round but I'll be back next week.'
Copies of a photograph depicting his defiance, taken by Jeff Bundy for the Omaha World-Herald, adorn the walls of homes across America and that of Col John Gronski, the brigade commander in Ramadi, who has hailed the image as an exemplar of the warrior spirit.
Sgt Burghardt's injuries - burns and wounds to his legs and buttocks - kept him off duty for nearly a month and could have earned him a ticket home. But, like his father - who was awarded a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts for being wounded in action in Vietnam - he stayed in Ramadi to engage in the battle against insurgents who are forever coming up with more ingenious ways of killing Americans.
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This article is about the Syracuse metropolitan area and surroundings, the more westerly of two regions known as "Central New York". For the more easterly definition, the New York tourism region formerly known as Central-Leatherstocking, see Central New York Region.
Under this definition, the region has a population of about 1,177,073, and includes the Syracuse metropolitan area. The total area of the above counties is 8,639 square miles (22,370 km2), which is slightly smaller than New Hampshire.
The major colleges and universities in the region include Colgate University, Cornell University, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Hamilton College, Le Moyne College, SUNY Oswego, SUNY Cortland, Utica College, Ithaca College, Syracuse University the SUNY ESF, Cazenovia College, Morrisville State College, and SUNY Polytechnic Institute.
Major newspapers in the region include the Oneida Daily Dispatch, Syracuse Post-Standard, Auburn Citizen, Rome Daily Sentinel, Ithaca Journal, and Utica Observer-Dispatch, as well as the alternative newsweekly Syracuse New Times.
The region is served by several television stations based in Syracuse (including ABC affiliate WSYR-TV, NBC affiliate WSTM-TV, CBS affiliate WTVH, Fox affiliate WSYT and PBS member station WCNY-TV) and Utica (NBC/CBS affiliate WKTV, ABC affiliate WUTR and Fox TV affiliate WFXV).
Note: Cortland County and Tompkins County are often considered part of the New York State region called the Southern Tier; the ski country demarcation line runs through Cortland County. Tompkins County, which features Ithaca at the end of Cayuga Lake, is also considered part of the Finger Lakes. Oneida County and Herkimer County are often considered part of the New York State region called the Mohawk Valley, although the "Central New York" and "Mohawk Valley" definitions overlap, and neither definition is mutually exclusive. Therefore, Tompkins County, Cortland County, Oneida County, and Herkimer County are only Central New York in the broader sense of the phrase "Central New York".
Only Onondaga County, Cayuga County, Oswego County and Madison County are always considered "Central New York".
The New York State Department of Transportation's definition of the Central/Eastern region includes the counties of Albany, Broome, Chenango, Columbia, Cortland, Delaware, Fulton, Greene, Herkimer, Madison, Montgomery, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, Otsego, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Sullivan, Ulster, and Washington, but does not commit itself to a definition of Central New York per se.
During the early historic period, the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee, Five Nations) successfully excluded Algonquian tribes from the region.
The Central New York Military Tract (land reserved for soldiers of the American Revolution) was located here. Many towns derived from the tracts have classical names.
Many Central New Yorkers pronounce elementary as /ɛləˈmɛntɛri/ instead of the General American pronunciations of /ɛləˈmɛntəri/ and /ɛləˈmɛntri/. The r-colored vowels in documentary and complimentary follow suit.
^ "Central/Eastern Region"[permanent dead link], New York State Dept of Transportation. Retrieved 25 January 2009.
^ Dinkin & Evanini (2009): "An Eleméntàry Linguistic Definition of Upstate New York".


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Paul Hilliker is seeking the position of Highway Superintendent of the Town of Conesville. He plans to "keep the quality of the roads we have" and keep the tax burden as low as possible for residents.
Hilliker brings his ten years experience on the Highway Crew between 2010 and 2017 and since worked as a bus driver for the Cairo-Durham School District.
The candidate grew up most of his life in the area and predicts that he would be able to work well with any board that is elected.
He decided to run "we're trying to make sure the people have a choice. I don't want to see it go to a one-party town." He asked whether residents are "happy with the present service?" He said he likes much of incumbent Dave Porter's job performance.


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In talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Putin that Israel would not tolerate an Iranian military presence in Syria or making Lebanon into "factory for precision missiles" to attack Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday.
The prime minister's comments about the missile factories in Lebanon come at a time in which Israel has launched a diplomatic campaign warning that Jerusalem would not tolerate the manufacture of precision missiles in Lebanon that would threaten Israel.
Netanyahu, who traveled to Moscow for his seventh face-to-face meeting with Putin, was accompanied by Israel's Chief of Military Intelligence, Maj.-Gen. Herzi Halevi. Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu also attended the talks. The two leaders met privately for an hour and a half and were later joined by their staffs for talks on bilateral issues.
Netanyahu described the meetings as ensuring that the two countries "don't clash," even with Russian troops stationed in Syria. He also said that they discussed "scenarios of escalation" in the Middle East and how those situations could be addressed. The Prime Minister said that Lebanon and Syria could be stabilized, but that Iran was working to keep both in turmoil.
Netanyahu also told Putin that if problems surrounding the nuclear deal were not addressed, he believed it likely that the United States would exit the deal.
In addition, Netanyahu and Putin marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day by attending the opening of the Moscow's Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center's exhibit "Sobibor: Victorious over Death," which commemorates the uprising against the Nazis at that death camp led by Red Army officer Alexander Pechersky.
Prior to Netanyahu's meeting with Putin, Zvi Magen, a former Israeli ambassador to Russia and currently a researcher at Israel's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), spoke with The Israel Project about expectations for the meeting. Magen said that Netanyahu had an opportunity to exploit tensions between Russia and Iran, and convince Putin to respect Israel's concerns about an Iranian military presence in Syria.
A complete recording of the call with Magen is embedded below.


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Books That Matter: David Philip Publishers during the apartheid years
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As I see it, in publishing there is a significant difference between accidental and nurtured bestsellers. Nowadays, the market is dominated by the former. But every now and then you get a publisher who will understand the value of the latter.
Reading Marie Philip's memoir about the famous publishing house she and her husband established in South Africa during the dark years of apartheid, I was reminded of how precious such an approach is in the book world. It is even more precious and definitely rarer when it is combined with a moral and social conscience which Marie and David Philip and their team exemplified.
It is difficult to imagine the South African literary scene without David Philip Publishers (DPP). Over the years, they have launched or assisted the careers of such writers as Richard Rive, Nadine Gordimer, Mandla Langa, Stephen Watson, Alan Paton, Sindiwe Magona, Ivan Vladislavić and Lyndall Gordon. The list of their titles, which Marie Philip includes at the end of her incisive book, is astounding, to say the least. Just to give you a sample, among their seminal publications are: Don Foster's Detention and Torture in South Africa, Mamphela Ramphele's A Bed Called Home, Michael Fraser's A Fynbos Year, The Essential Evita Bezuidenhout, Ellen Kuzwayo's Sit Down and Listen, and Being Here: Modern Short Stories from Southern Africa (compiled by Robin Malan). Because of their
independence the Philips "had the freedom to take risks and be bold, and even eccentric", as well as to tune into their "own publishing instincts". While it was important to survive, money was not their "main concern". The combination of these factors turned out to be a recipe for great success in all respects.
And it all began with a penguin in the early 1970s. Once they had founded their publishing house and had their logo, Marie Philip wrote the story of a "resourceful penguin" surviving the oil spills of tankers diverted around the Cape because of the closure of the Suez Canal at the time. Published simultaneously in English and Afrikaans, the thin hardback with a dust jacket, Gregory, Jackass Penguin (Gregory, Kaapse Pikkewyn), was a hit in its English edition. It also taught DDP a first valuable lesson about the nature of publishing in Afrikaans in a highly charged socio-political environment.
Soon after the penguin story, manuscripts began to arrive. They decided to accept "any good book that came along", including the perceived 'unsaleables': poetry, essays,
and short stories. As Russell Martin notes, "David's choices were guided by a feeling for what made a good book and his belief that good books would sell (unlike today's belief that if a book sells, it is good)." DDP understood and lived by T.S. Eliot's dictum: "A nation that doesn't value its poets is in danger of losing its soul."
With the books came responsibilities way beyond the call of duty in present-day publishing. The Philips joined a group of oppositional publishers and eventually founded the Independent Publishers Association of South Africa (IPASA). They continued producing books which they believed in, even if they were banned and confiscated. Books That Matter documents the courage it took to confront censorship and harassment from the security police under the apartheid regime. Despite hardship, sales and awards followed, and within a relatively short period of time, David Philip Publishers was a firmly established company, not only locally but also on the international publishing stage.
The Philips were publishers who cultivated strong personal ties with their authors to whom their doors were always open. A glass of wine was always ready to welcome visitors. Arderne Cottage, where the publishing venture was initially based, was often a safe house for activists. Lifelong friendships developed. One comes across authors all the time who reminisce about these close-knit relationships which sustained them through all kinds of difficulties, whether of political, literary or personal nature. In 2009, Nadine Gordimer wrote: "David Philip was the kind of publisher every writer would like to have. His dedication was to the Word as literature, not on the calculated Best Seller but as an art in illumination of the mystery of human existence."
Marie Philip recalls her husband quoting the publisher Faber during a trip to the UK: "Books don't make money". To which an Ethiopian librarian who overheard the statement responded: "No, but they make a difference." DPP's legacy testifies to the fact.
In his commemorative lecture of 2010, "Let it be known: The heritage of David Philip and the needs of the nation", Stanley G.M. Ridge stated: "David Philip's deep conviction made the publisher a vital agent in the process of building the nation and nurturing it to health. Without such publishing, there is a gulf between the promising intellectual growing points in the society and those who need to engage with them. It is by building relationships with writers that those growing points can be discovered and nurtured, and it is often by taking significant risks that the works see the light of day." To comprehend this role is as crucial today as it was before 1994, but few are up to the challenge. In the same lecture, Ridge said: "In a multicultural society, particularly one in an accelerated process of finding itself, it is vital that people across social boundaries come to see beyond the caricatures and enter imaginatively into other people's lives." What better vehicle for such imaginative leaps than the stories we can share through literature? May those who refuse to reach out across those boundaries take heed.
Richly illustrated, beautifully told, Books That Matter is a gem of local literary history. If there ever was a book that mattered, this is certainly one.
REVIEW: No Time Like The Present by Nadine Gordimer
Posted on November 13, 2012 By KarinSchimke
No Time Like The Present
Picador Africa
Sweeping, cohesive, almost epic – and I use the word advisedly – in its scope, No Time Like The Present is the literary thermostat under the tongue of democratic South Africa. But to get the reading you first have to break an almost impossible code.
Nadine Gordimer remains the nation's one true instrument for taking the political and sociological temperature, but in this, her fifteenth novel, she makes no concessions to the reader; appears to have no truck with stylistic niceties; considers – it seems – no-one and nothing in a fever to get down what must be gotten down.
The reader must simply learn to read over, through and under the convoluted stream-of-consciousness writing. The prose is inconsistently and oddly punctuated. Truncated sentences contain subordinate clauses which contain their own subordinate clauses. Points of view flit and alight not just from chapter to chapter, but sometimes within paragraphs.
It's rough going. It is very, very rough going.
And yet, here it is: the one novel that sums it all up, that combs through the knots and lice of democracy's tangled hair and seems to smooth it all out for our stunned observation. Minutia swept together – sparkles and shards and the dust of a thousand post-freedom political storms and intimate tussles of conscience in a book which balks at nothing.
Steve and Jabu are the poster post-apartheid couple – he, white, middle-classed, born to a Christian father and a Jewish mother; she, the educated Zulu daughter of a church elder and school principal from KwaZulu-Natal. Their children are coloured, their friends, ex-Umkhonto We Sizwe cadres, their values and ideals in line with the struggle they fought for freedom in South Africa.
Now they are in "the present time", finding a way to live "(a) normal life. (At last?) What is that. In what time and place?". (This irregular punctuation is Gordimer's).
They move from a flat to a suburb, she from teaching to law, he from working in a paint factory after making bombs in the underground, to being a science lecturer at university. Each grapples earnestly with the challenges of a split country, doing extra work – for free – in their attempts to help knit together a badly fractured society.
In a very general way, post-apartheid writing has followed two main, decidedly uncheerful themes: in non-fiction the tomes that record the rotten arms deal; in fiction crime, that burgeoning genre garnering our authors international book deals.
Gordimer manages a far wider range, her riff more perplexed, more doleful and more poignant than her cerebral, biltong-tough writing makes apparent. There are zero simple answers – there is no black and white in freedom, though black and white underpins it all – that will account for the dismaying turn the country's fortunes has taken.
"For this we fought?" asks a character.
She is thorough, punctilious and meticulous as she lays out the map of free South Africa, pointing bluntly at that which sickens and appals. And she does this – convincingly – through the eyes of former freedom fighters, loyal supporters of the ANC.
There is no public event or concern she avoids: capitalism, poverty, degradation of the environment, HIV/Aids, crime, corruption, immigrants and xenophobia, emigration, school bullying (and the underlying reef of violence that nudges sickeningly above ground at various times), education, electricity, service delivery protests, affirmative action.
There is no personal emotion that she doesn't lift out of the mess to examine: responsibility, duty, betrayal, patriotism, the desire for a "a normal life" (which, questions Steve, might also include for him and his privileged family the Epicurean "right to happiness" – and the guilt this produces in one who, like all freedom fighters, put the greater good before personal satisfaction), the shame of racism, the horror of watching principled men and women fall to greed and genuflect to the requirements the ascension to power lays before them.
Gordimer speaks eloquently to the development of the self – "The synthesis of the self" – portraying the country too as a self that must grow. The country is an adolescent, she has one of her characters think, offering it not as an excuse for bad behaviour, but an almost exasperated, perhaps even hopeful, observation of the obvious.
She also reflects on the dismay when the thing that is being grown (a person, a self, a country) grows skew, gnarls in unexpected ways, showing selfishness, and dangerous concessions to cult of the individual.
Marriage, making whole, growing up – these are leitmotifs trailed by both the characters and the milieu.
In public Gordimer has spoken clearly and consistently against the government's Protection of Information Bill, colloquially known as the secrecy bill. In the privacy of her disciplined dedication to daily writing, she has laid out why in this novel. Just like apartheid South Africa needed her and her courageous ilk then, so we continue to need our vociferous, critical writers and artists now.
There is no time like the present. The past is – in all ways but the most critical, in its legacy – a different country. What happens now – what has happened in the past 18 years – is where Gordimer has pointed her merciless beam.
In doing so she again will make herself a tolerated – not welcomed individual – amongst the touchy, over-sensitive rulers, just like she was in apartheid SA. Good. She's our golden thorn in the government's flesh.
Like loyalty to a country in the face of extreme disregard for its citizens, this book is hard work. But its rewards are far more certain and immediate. It must be read. – Schimke is the Cape Times books editor.
COLUMN: Facing the wild things
Posted on October 23, 2012 By KarinSchimke
Mostly we read because it pleases us, but sometimes what we read is not "pleasing", or "enjoyable" but we don't stop just because the going gets rough. There is some other reward that is not related to our simple understandings of what pleasure might be.
This month I've been struggling with what that other reward might be because friends kept asking me what Nadine Gordimer's new book No Time Like The Present is like.
I don't have a simple answer. It's not "excellent" – to be recommended in that serious or breathless voice we save for books that really do sweep us off our feet.
It's not even really "good" in the usual ways: brilliant writing that shakes itself loose of the page and becomes airborne; unusual concepts approached in new and interesting ways; delightful dialogue that places you directly into someone else's conversation; a plot you can't predict.
The fact is, the book is a plodding walk on the steadily increasing incline of South Africa's of democracy, and it is written so thickly and in such convoluted style – a style that all but disdains the reader – that on a purely aesthetic level it comes across as a chunk of concrete hacked off a modern ruin, rather than a finely moulded piece of clay from the hands of a sensitive ceramicist.
To be brutal, the easy word that comes to mind – the one people would understand most easily in reference to a work of art with a particular effect – is that Gordimer's new novel is depressing, a word that makes most people turn sharply away. And I don't want to do that because I think it should be read.
Gordimer is an "important" writer. She is "relevant". I could use those imperatives, appealing to people's sense of duty, or interest in the South African situation – even to their own vanity: some readers rate themselves as slightly superior beings for their ability to get through notoriously difficult books.
Really, though, the reason I think we read some books – and Gordimer's is a case in point – is because it activates our worst fears. And without understanding rationally why that would be desirable, it is a force in us as strong as the desire for pleasure. We want to be scared witless. But as vicariously as possible.
I don't presume to say something new this matter, but here's my thinking: if we have our worst fears lead into the light through the once-removed experience of reading about other characters' experiences, we are finding our way towards a resolution we would not otherwise experience.
The idea, for instance, of being murdered, abducted, tortured and raped is absolutely abhorrent, and yet thrillers and crime fiction easily rate as the most-read fiction books on the planet – other than love stories, which represent their hopeful opposite. Maybe it has to do with facing down a monster. With imagining how we would respond in certain situations. With testing our internal limits through imagination, rather than through – God forbid – direct experience.
Maurice Sendak, the octogenarian writer of the classic Where The Wild Things Are, has always been a strong advocate of scary books for children, postulating that children want to be afraid. Anyone who's ever been a child – all of us – know this: how fright – the kind contained in ghost stories, or the peek-a-boo games that give babies such a fright and then make them giggle – is thrilling to the point of inducing visceral anxiety, and how overwhelming its resolution or relief is.
"I refuse to lie to children," said Sendak in a recent interview. "I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence."
That's why, I suppose, I am glad that this month I read hard and upsetting stuff like No Time Like the Present and So Much Pretty, an unsettling novel by Cara Hoffmann, and – most depressing and frightening of all – an essay by Arundhati Roy – who wrote the 1997 Booker-prize winning The God of Small Things – entitled Capitalism: A Ghost Story (the original link on OutlookIndia.com appears to be broken).
Because my horror was being contained and managed for me by writers who have already faced the Wild Things and returned not just safely, but alloyed.
This column can also be read here: Books SA


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Q: Compiler optimizations in gcc I have a code in C and I am running some tests. I need to access an array, but in "read-only" mode. I am doing something like this:
for (int i= 0; i < 1000; i++){
    int a = shared_array[rand() % 64];
    int b = shared_array[rand() % 64];
}

My question is: How can I fetch a value from memory and be sure that the compiler is not optimizing it by removing these instructions, given that in my test I am doing nothing with those values.
Even if I add an operation int v = a + b, again v is not used anywhere else, so it could be  ignored.
I am using gcc with -O3, and I need to do it that way to be able to compare it against results from another source.

A: The typical way you force the compiler to actually read an otherwise unused variable is to make it volatile. This should guarantee the compiler actually read/write the variable from RAM when it is used.

A: Use a and b in a function that is not defined in your current compilation unit (source file).

A: The keyword volatile tells the compiler to not optimize that code. This applies for both variables and functions. You can even do this on inline assembly, which is a more advanced topic. See this question.
It is usually applied after the type specifier, e.g. int volatile i = 0;.

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For camera phone lovers out there, there are two new beasts about to go head to head in the form of the Sony Ericsson K850i, which will be released soon, and the Nokia N95 super-phone.
Both phones follow a different design philosophy.
The Nokia N95 is packed to the teeth with features, including GPS Sat-Nav, HSPDA and Wi-Fi, whereas the Sony Ericsson K850i is first and foremost a dedicated camera phone.
Where they come clashing together, though, is in the quality and resolution of their cameras.
Both phones, you see, sport a 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus and a wide range of camera features to help you take the best picture.
Indeed, such is the quality of the photos that either phone can take that it's fair to say they're the best camera phones on the market today.
But which one is best? Only a Sony Ericsson K850i vs Nokia N95 shoot-out can decide for sure.
Round 1: Sony Ericsson K850i
The Sony Ericsson K850i has been designed from the ground up to be more like a camera than a phone. Sure, it's got all the phone features you'd expect - tri-band HSDPA, quad-band GSM and EDGE connectivity, Bluetooth, Java, polyphonic ringtones, etc., etc. But it's the attention to detail that's been paid to the phone's camera that marks the K850i out as a class-beating camera-phone.
This attention to detail can be found even in the camera's lens, which, unlike other camera phones, hidden under glass, and recessed relative to the rear face. The reason for this, apparently, is that Sony Ericsson wanted to make the phone look more like a conventional digital camera; so much so that there's even a dedicated camera on/off key as well as a mode switch – these two are housed on the right-hand side of the phone.
Of more importance is the detail that comes with the camera and its associated software settings. The K850i comes with not one, but two flashes - a xenon flash, and an LED flash, which improves pictures taken at night. It offers four different modes, including normal, BestPic (which takes a burst of pictures rapidly, letting you choose the best one), Panorama (which stitches three photos together), and Frames (which lets you select various frames that will frame the resultant image).
The K850i comes with auto-focus, and also intelligently switches between macro and normal mode depending on what you're taking a photo of. However, If you're after a different look, or can't quite get the look you're after, you can also choose between the following Scenes according to the subject you're taking a photo of:
Twilight landscape
Twilight portrait
Beach/Snow
Hopefully, these should all be self-evident!
In addition to all this, the K850i also comes with red-eye reduction, lets you choose ISO settings between auto, ISO100, 200 or 400, offers five different white balance settings (auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Fluorescent, Incandescent), an image stabilizer to stop pictures blurring, and the following resolutions:
5 MP (2592x1944 pixels)
3MP (2048x1536 pixels)
1MP (1280x960 pixels)
VGA (640x480 pixels)
The camera takes 1.5 - 2 seconds to start up, and 2 - 3 seconds to take a shot.
Phew! As you can see, the K850i really does offer the features you'd normally expect from a stand-alone digital camera.
Round 2: the Nokia N95
Now for the Nokia N95. The N95 has a somewhat more difficult task than then K850i, as despite the fact it too offers a 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus, it also offers so much more. The N95 has to cram in not only HSDPA, but Wi-Fi connectivity as well, plus Sat-Nav and full DVD-quality video recording.
In short, the N95 can be thought of as a jack of all trades, whereas the K850i is the camera specialist.
But it's not quite so cut and dried, though. Despite having to excel at a multitude of different things, the N95's camera is one of the best on the market today, and really gives the K850i's camera a run for its money.
The Nokia N95's camera comes with the following specifications:
Image resolution: up to 5 megapixel: (2592 x 1944 pixels)
Still image file format: JPEG/EXIF
Auto exposure - center weighted
Exposure compensation: +2 ~ -2EV at 0.5 step
White balance: automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent
Scene: automatic, user, close-up, portrait, landscape, sports, night, night portrait
Color tone: normal, sepia, black & white, negative, vivid
Zoom: Digital up to 20x (5 megapixel up to 6x)
In addition, the optics are first rate, with a Carl Zeiss Tessar lens, while shutter speed is 1/1000 - 1/3 second (note that this isn't and indicator of how long it takes for the camera to store the image though).
Like the K850i, the N95 also comes with a macro mode (macro focus distance: 10 - 50cm) as well a normal focus mode (10cm - infinity), but unlike the K850i, you have to set this manually.
As such, the N95 might come with an arsenal of features besides its camera, but the 5 megapixels on offer is no gimmick: the N95's camera is the real deal.
So just how good are both cameras, and which one comes out top?
Round 3: Sony Ericsson K850i cs Nokia N95 head to head: fight!
Both camera phones offer exceptional quality pictures. Digital camera purists may mock that no camera phone will ever take good pictures, but they're wrong.
Sure, neither phone can match a dedicated digital camera for quality, but they can both beat the quality from digital cameras that are a few years old, and we all thought they were great at the time.
Comparing photos of the same image side by side (left), there is a clear difference, thanks largely to Nokia's software filters that aim to enhance the image's colours.
In some respects you get a more vibrant (although slightly less natural) image from the N95 (top picture) than that from the K850i (bottom), but at the expense of detail.
Blow up a picture from each phone, and the K850i will show far more detail than the N95's image.
Another example of this can be seen from these other shots (left).
The N95's image (top) looks at first glance the more vibrant of the two, but its details are more blurred.
Blow the two up, and again, you can really see the difference.
Viewing countless images in a wide variety of different settings reveals some differences between the two - sometimes the N95's images are better, but mostly the K850i shades it. In nearly all cases, it's the N95's filters that make the difference, and the choice comes down to whether you prefer sharper colours at the expense of detail (the N95), or the more natural and detailed look provided by the K850i.
The winner...
And so, to the winner - and it has to be the K850i, but only just. The quality, detail and naturalness of its images just shade it over the N95's.
Surprisingly, though, if you're looking to print the photos you've taken, the prints taken from the N95 end up looking marginally better than those from the K850i. However, it's generally a matter of taste, and anyone looking for a top-end camera phone really won't be disappointed by either phone.
Of course, you want to see for yourself in as much detail as possible, so check out Mobile-Review's super-huge review of both camera phones to see them get a thorough going over, and for more sample photos from both the N95 and K850i than you can shake a stick at.
Before you do, though, here's a taster of their conclusion:
"If you value truly photographic quality of snaps – look no further, [the Sony Ericsson K850i] has no alternatives. In all conscience I have to admit that the Nokia N95 over the past 6 months has become the most popular 5 Mpix equipped device, but the Sony Ericsson K850i is not only on its heels, it also surpasses it in the imaging department (that's our only focus now).
You can claim, screaming and kicking, that cameras in mobile phone were, are and will be nonsense. But what I really recommend these people to do is take their 10-15 year old photo albums and compare quality of images there with some samples given in this article. The revolution is already here – the Nokia N95, the Sony Ericsson K850i and some models still to come have brought it..."
So there you have it - the two best camera phones on the market today. If you want the best camera phone of them all, choose the Sony Ericsson K850i. If you want the slightly-second best camera phone, but also Sat-Nav, Wi-Fi and a whole host of other features (including push-button uploading of your images directly to Flickr), get the Nokia N95.
A tricky decision to make, but a nice dilemma to have!
cybershot Ericsson gps SE Sony Sony ericsson K850i xenon flash
What a superb collection.Iphone
New Honda Activa - 2012
Ingeniously designed – the Activa is made for you to go miles, to do things and to go places. With your loved ones. Developed on Honda's globally tested engineering technology, it comes with a host of new features. The seats maximizes riding comfort. Thus offering you a smooth ride. Perfect in design and technology, the Activa is more than just a scooter. With an increased mileage of 15%*, it allows you to enjoy your rides, no matter how long they are. So now you can enjoy life without stopping. Step onto your Activa, spread the joy with your loved ones, and go on and on. The new family two-wheeler looks stunning in new design and upgraded style. Now comes in 110cc displacement. This automatic gear scooter now features revamped clear rectangular headlamp. Front face has flowing lines with sexy curves. Aerodynamic style is another change that catches the eyes. Overall, the body of the Honda Activa is compact. This compact machine allows the rider to handle it w
Honda CBR 150R 2012 Launched in India Specification and Review
Honda first wooed enthusiasts by displaying its CBR150R at the Delhi Auto Expo in January 2012. Honda launched the world-class economy sport bike at Rs 1,17,385 ex-showroom, Delhi. Honda has launched the smaller CBR 150R in the Indian auto market at Rs 1,16,385 (ex-showroom, Delhi) for the Standard and Rs. 1,17,385 (ex-showroom, Delhi) for the Deluxe variant. The CBR 150R has a light and compact DOHC 150cc engine which produces a peak power of 17.6PS at 10,500rpm and a peak torque of 12.66Nm at 8,500rpm, which is ideal for city riding conditions. The CBR's engine, mated to a six-speed gearbox, will be liquid-cooled and fuel-injected with their patented PGM-FI technology. Front & rear disc brakes will be standard on the bike, it will also have mono-suspension and wide front and rear tubeless tyres offering better stability while cornering. Engine The Honda CBR150R is based on a 149cc 4-stroke carburetted single cylinder 4 valve DOHC engine wit
New Hero Honda CBZ X-TREME-150- 2011
Old CBZ xtreme to New CBZ xtreme 2011: Most important thing about the change is, there are no mechanical changes done. All improvements are done on visual or aesthetic side. Hero Honda India has given another minor face-lift to its popular bike, CBZ X-treme, which now gets host of new comfort and safety features. Technically, there is no major change and it is powered by the same engine. New CBZ Xtreme has all the Hero Honda hallmarks - engine refinement, slick-shifting smooth gearbox, top-of-the-class vibration isolation, low engine noise and quality components. Hero Honda is now Hero MotoCorp and the company revealed its new identity at a mega event in London, UK. What's new in 2011 Hero Honda CBZ X-treme - Digital plus analogue instrument cluster - Shutter for the ignition key - New anti-drag fuel tank - Rear disc brake - New design for alloy wheels - New LED tail lamp - New rear shock absorbers - New exhaust heat shield - New graphics for the fairing
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Highway Patrol Trooper Injured in Vehicle Wreck in Hillsborough County, Florida
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FL. – According to a news story reported online at wtsp.com, a Florida Highway Patrol Trooper was among those injured in a vehicle wreck that happened in Hillsborough County, Florida. The wreck reportedly involved multiple vehicles, and two other people sustained injuries.*
The accident happened early in the morning near Interstate 75 on State Road 674. Florida Highway Patrol and WTSP report that around 6 a.m., a vehicle was traveling west on State Road 674 and attempted to make a left turn into the path of several oncoming vehicles. The westbound car then collided with a truck, and the truck ended up crashing into a Florida Highway Patrol Trooper.
The Trooper was in a marked patrol vehicle at the time, and his vehicle was hit with enough force that it lost a wheel. The wheel subsequently struck a van on the roadway. Investigators have not yet said what led to the accident or why the driver of the westbound car turned in front of traffic. The circumstances surrounding the accident have not been fully reported at this time.
WTSP states that the Trooper was injured and taken to a local hospital. The extent of his injuries is not clear. In addition, the news report says that the driver of the car and the driver of the truck were both injured and transported to hospitals. The driver of the car was identified as a 56-year-old man from Gibsonton, Florida. The driver of the truck was identified as a 55-year-old man. Both are said to be in serious condition.
The driver of the van and a passenger in the van were not identified, and the news report says they were not injured in the crash. Authorities are still investigating the collision and have not released further information at this time.
Accident News is a safety and education initiative from Montlick & Associates, designed to help people better understand and thereby avoid common accident causes. To learn more about our injury prevention programs, including iridesafe.com - click here. We hope you are never in an accident, but if you or family member are injured, call Montlick & Associates 24/7 for your free consultation at 1-800-LAW-NEED (1-800-529-6333) or use our live chat at Montlick.com.
Source:https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/trooper-involved-in-hillsborough-county-crash/67-613211b6-805d-492e-b70c-0353868e3a3b
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use std::fmt;
use std::ffi::CString;
use std::fmt::Display;

use ffi::functions::*;
use ffi::utils::*;

/// Possible error codes.
#[allow(dead_code,non_camel_case_types)]
#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq)]
#[repr(u32)]
pub enum SioError {
    None = 0,
    /// Out of memory.
    NoMem = 1,
    /// The backend does not appear to be active or running.
    InitAudioBackend = 2,
    /// A system resource other than memory (Dummy) was not available.
    SystemResources = 3,
    /// Attempted to open a device and failed.
    OpeningDevice = 4,
    NoSuchDevice = 5,
    /// The programmer did not comply with the API.
    Invalid = 6,
    /// libsoundio was compiled without support for that backend.
    ///
    /// Currently there is no JACK support in Arch Linux until
    /// `jack2{,-dbus}1.9.10-4` is available. See [this](https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/47839)
    /// bug report for details.
    BackendUnavailable = 7,
    /// An open stream had an error that can only be recovered from by
    /// destroying the stream and creating it again.
    Streaming = 8,
    /// Attempted to use a device with parameters it cannot support.
    IncompatibleDevice = 9,
    /// When JACK returns `JackNoSuchClient`
    NoSuchClient = 10,
    /// Attempted to use parameters that the backend cannot support.
    IncompatibleBackend = 11,
    /// Backend server shutdown or became inactive.
    BackendDisconnected = 12,
    Interrupted = 13,
    /// Buffer underrun occurred.
    Underflow = 14,
    /// Unable to convert to or from UTF-8 to the native string format.
    EncodingString = 15,
}
impl Display for SioError {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
        let str_ptr = unsafe { soundio_strerror(*self) };
        write!(f, "{}", ptr_to_string(str_ptr).unwrap())
    }
}

/// Specifies where a channel is physically located.
#[allow(dead_code,non_camel_case_types)]
#[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Debug)]
#[repr(u32)]
pub enum SioChannelId {
    Invalid = 0,
    /// First of the more commonly supported ids.
    FrontLeft = 1,
    FrontRight = 2,
    FrontCenter = 3,
    Lfe = 4,
    BackLeft = 5,
    BackRight = 6,
    FrontLeftCenter = 7,
    FrontRightCenter = 8,
    BackCenter = 9,
    SideLeft = 10,
    SideRight = 11,
    TopCenter = 12,
    TopFrontLeft = 13,
    TopFrontCenter = 14,
    TopFrontRight = 15,
    TopBackLeft = 16,
    TopBackCenter = 17,
    /// Last of the more commonly supported ids.
    TopBackRight = 18,
    /// First of the less commonly supported ids.
    BackLeftCenter = 19,
    BackRightCenter = 20,
    FrontLeftWide = 21,
    FrontRightWide = 22,
    FrontLeftHigh = 23,
    FrontCenterHigh = 24,
    FrontRightHigh = 25,
    TopFrontLeftCenter = 26,
    TopFrontRightCenter = 27,
    TopSideLeft = 28,
    TopSideRight = 29,
    LeftLfe = 30,
    RightLfe = 31,
    Lfe2 = 32,
    BottomCenter = 33,
    BottomLeftCenter = 34,
    BottomRightCenter = 35,
    /// Mid/side recording
    MsMid = 36,
    MsSide = 37,
    /// first order ambisonic channels
    AmbisonicW = 38,
    AmbisonicX = 39,
    AmbisonicY = 40,
    AmbisonicZ = 41,
    /// X-Y Recording
    XyX = 42,
    XyY = 43,
    /// First of the "other" channel ids
    HeadphonesLeft = 44,
    HeadphonesRight = 45,
    ClickTrack = 46,
    ForeignLanguage = 47,
    HearingImpaired = 48,
    Narration = 49,
    Haptic = 50,
    /// Last of the "other" channel ids
    DialogCentricMix = 51,
    Aux = 52,
    Aux0 = 53,
    Aux1 = 54,
    Aux2 = 55,
    Aux3 = 56,
    Aux4 = 57,
    Aux5 = 58,
    Aux6 = 59,
    Aux7 = 60,
    Aux8 = 61,
    Aux9 = 62,
    Aux10 = 63,
    Aux11 = 64,
    Aux12 = 65,
    Aux13 = 66,
    Aux14 = 67,
    Aux15 = 68,
}
impl Display for SioChannelId {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
        let str_ptr = unsafe { soundio_get_channel_name(*self) };
        write!(f, "{}", ptr_to_string(str_ptr).unwrap())
    }
}
impl From<String> for SioChannelId {
    fn from(id: String) -> Self {
        let str_len = id.len() as i32;
        let cstr = CString::new(id).unwrap();
        unsafe { soundio_parse_channel_id(cstr.as_ptr(), str_len) }
    }
}

/// Built-in channel layouts for convenience.
#[allow(dead_code,non_camel_case_types)]
#[derive(Clone, Copy)]
#[repr(u32)]
pub enum SioChannelLayoutId {
    Mono = 0,
    Stereo = 1,
    TwoPointOne = 2,
    ThreePointZero = 3,
    ThreePointZeroBack = 4,
    ThreePointOne = 5,
    FourPointZero = 6,
    Quad = 7,
    QuadSide = 8,
    FourPointOne = 9,
    FivePointZeroBack = 10,
    FivePointZeroSide = 11,
    FivePointOne = 12,
    FivePointOneBack = 13,
    SixPointZeroSide = 14,
    SixPointZeroFront = 15,
    Hexagonal = 16,
    SixPointOne = 17,
    SixPointOneBack = 18,
    SixPointOneFront = 19,
    SevenPointZero = 20,
    SevenPointZeroFront = 21,
    SevenPointOne = 22,
    SevenPointOneWide = 23,
    SevenPointOneWideBack = 24,
    Octagonal = 25,
}

#[allow(dead_code,non_camel_case_types)]
#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq)]
#[repr(u32)]
pub enum SioBackend {
    None = 0,
    Jack = 1,
    PulseAudio = 2,
    Alsa = 3,
    CoreAudio = 4,
    Wasapi = 5,
    Dummy = 6,
}
impl Display for SioBackend {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
        let str_ptr = unsafe { soundio_backend_name(*self) };
        write!(f, "{}", ptr_to_string(str_ptr).unwrap())
    }
}

#[allow(dead_code,non_camel_case_types)]
#[derive(Clone, Copy)]
#[repr(u32)]
pub enum SioDeviceAim {
    /// capture/recording
    Input = 0,
    /// playback
    Output = 1,
}

/// Supported sound formats, each for little- and big-endian.
#[allow(dead_code,non_camel_case_types)]
#[derive(Clone, Copy)]
#[repr(u32)]
pub enum SioFormat {
    Invalid = 0,
    /// Signed 8 bit
    S8 = 1,
    /// Unsigned 8 bit
    U8 = 2,
    /// Signed 16 bit little-endian
    S16LE = 3,
    /// Signed 16 bit big-endian
    S16BE = 4,
    /// Unsigned 16 bit little-endian
    U16LE = 5,
    /// Unsigned 16 bit big-endian
    U16BE = 6,
    /// The 24 bit types are not supported in rsoundio at the moment.
    /// Because there is no native number type that is 24 bits wide,
    /// (at least not in Rusts `std`) I had to use something like
    /// C unions in Rust to support them.
    /// This would probably be unsafe and working with
    /// 3 byte number types is also not too much fun.
    ///
    /// Signed 24 bit little-endian
    S24LE = 7,
    /// Signed 24 bit big-endian
    S24BE = 8,
    /// Unsigned 24 bit little-endian
    U24LE = 9,
    /// Unsigned 24 bit big-endian
    U24BE = 10,
    /// Signed 32 bit little-endian
    S32LE = 11,
    /// Signed 32 bit big-endian
    S32BE = 12,
    /// Unsigned 32 bit little-endian
    U32LE = 13,
    /// Unsigend 32 bit big-endian
    U32BE = 14,
    /// 32 bit float little-endian in [-1.0, 1.0]
    Float32LE = 15,
    /// 32 bit float big-endian in [-1.0, 1.0]
    Float32BE = 16,
    /// 64 bit float little-endian in [-1.0, 1.0]
    Float64LE = 17,
    /// 64 bit float big-endian in [-1.0, 1.0]
    Float64BE = 18,
}
impl Display for SioFormat {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
        let str_ptr = unsafe { soundio_format_string(*self) };
        write!(f, "{}", ptr_to_string(str_ptr).unwrap())
    }
}
impl SioFormat {
    /// Returns the number of bytes a sample takes in this format.
    pub fn bytes_per_sample(self) -> i32 {
        unsafe { soundio_get_bytes_per_sample(self) as i32 }
    }
}

// #[allow(dead_code,non_camel_case_types)]
// enum SoundIoRingBuffer { }

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Q: C# Language Enum Declaration Hi Is there a way to declare  an enum or to customize the way of declaring an enum which returns an object in C#?
private enum testEnum
{
    firstname =1
    ,lastname = 2
}

and if we want to return the names rather than 1 and 2 ?
like testEnum.firstname returns 1 .
I want to declare an enum to return objects like in Java . is it possible?

A: http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/system.enum.aspx
An enumeration is a set of named constants whose underlying type is any integral type except Char. If no underlying type is explicitly declared, Int32 is used. Enum is the base class for all enumerations in the .NET Framework.

A: You can use interfaces for this:
interface IColorEnum {};

class ColorEnum: IColorEnum
{
    public static const Red = new ColorEnum();
    public static const Green = new ColorEnum();
    public static const Blue = new ColorEnum();
};

And use it like usual:
void foo(IColorEnum color)
{
    if(color == ColorEnum.Red) {...}
}

Update+improve: you can even drop interface and just use class with couple of public static fields with type of this class and private constructor to prevent creating new instances of it:
class ColorEnum
{
    private ColorEnum() {};
    public static const Red = new ColorEnum();
    public static const Green = new ColorEnum();
    public static const Blue = new ColorEnum();
};

A: You can do this:
public class NameEnum
{
    static NameEnum()
    {
        FirstName = new NameEnum("FirstName");
        LastName = new NameEnum("LastName");
    }

    public static NameEnum FirstName { get; private set; }
    public static NameEnum LastName { get; private set; }

    private NameEnum(string name)
    {
        this.Name = name;
    }

    public string Name { get; private set; }
}

Is that close enough?

A: The docs state:

Every enumeration type has an underlying type, which can be any integral type except char.

Assuming you mean object to be complex/reference type. then the answer to your question is no. You could always create a class with named properties containing reference types.

A: I think this is only possible in java.
It seems that you want to implement singleton the Joshua Bloch way.

A: I guess that you be a class exposing static fields that can then be of any type you want.


There are no drop-off activities for children at Saratoga Springs. There are childcare centers that are open in the late afternoons and evenings at many of the deluxe resorts. Guest of any of the Disney hotels may use these facilities. You could drop her there for several hours while you have a spa treatment and pick her up later. Reservations can be made by calling 407-WDW-DINE.
Perhaps a better idea would be to get your daughter some spa treatments of her own. You would win some points for being the coolest mom on earth. I'm looking at the Saratoga Springs Spa brochure that lists a menu of choices "For Our Youngest Guests," girls ages 4-12. You can choose "My First Facial," "My First Manicure," "My First Pedicure," or "My First Massage." These services may be purchased individually or as a package. There are also Mother/Daughter packages available. To schedule an appointment or inquire about pricing, you can call the Spa at 407-827-4455. If you are a Disney Vacation Club member, you should inquire about discounted DVC pricing.
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How to Pay for College During a Pandemic
Financial aid officers offer tips and guidance for worried students and families facing uncertainty due to the coronavirus
College financial aid offices are bracing for a wave of needier applicants this fall, even as they work to provide emergency funding to students already on campus.
The economic shock triggered by the coronavirus pandemic is hitting family budgets just as colleges are making aid offers for the coming school year. An unprecedented number of students are likely to need a reevaluation of their financial aid—and colleges are gearing up to respond.
"Financial circumstances are changing for families almost daily," said Ronné Turner, vice provost of admissions and financial aid at Washington University in St. Louis. "Families may need more time simply because of the anxieties and pressure and stress happening right now."
They may also need to file financial aid appeals—known as a request for "professional judgment"—at the colleges they're considering. Under federal law, universities generally look at family income data that's more than two years old when making aid decisions. "That was all based on the theory that most people's income is very stable, and we're now entering a point where very few people's income is very stable," said Rachelle Feldman, director of scholarships and student aid at the University of North Carolina. "We fully expect to get a large volume of appeals. Everyone's life has really changed."
Turner and Feldman spoke during an April 7 online workshop hosted by author and higher education analyst Jeff Selingo. They suggested that students start reaching out now if they've been drastically hurt by the pandemic, but they also cautioned that colleges may not have clear answers yet. (You can watch a recording of the webinar by registering on Zoom.)
"Right now, it's very difficult to understand what fall is going to look like," Turner said. "I can't give you a date when we're going to know that, because this is a very fluid situation."
A screenshot from Jeffrey Selingo's financial aid webinar
Schools are already getting questions about deferring admission or paying reduced rates if campuses remain online-only in the coming fall semester. Selingo said that many families of incoming students are reluctant to commit if there's doubt about in-person instruction for the fall semester, especially if they're considering colleges far from home.
Ellen Frishberg, national scholarship manager at the William E. Schmidt Foundation, is advising some families to consider less-expensive colleges closer to home if they're feeling uncertain about online-only education in the fall.
"Lots of families are considering taking a year off," she said. "I think there will be an uptick in staying local, in deferment, maybe doing your two years at a community college and transferring."
Those trends could have huge implications for universities trying to plan their fall enrollment and financial aid budgeting. Existing policies around gap years and deferred enrollment will have to be reevaluated if there's a sudden surge in demand, or if students aren't able to complete many of the traditional gap year activities like travel or community service. And campus budgets could be under deep strain if many students decide to sit out a year instead of paying for online instruction.
"We're still debating in a lot of ways what we're going to do in the fall," Feldman said. "We want to be extremely thoughtful, and we want to know more about what the government will be doing for families, what kind of extra support they might be getting."
Turner said students needed to keep in mind that most schools are facing similar challenges, given the unpredictable nature of the pandemic and public health concerns.
"We're all in it together," she said. "Just about every single college or university right now is doing remote learning. We will make the best decisions that we can based on the information that is provided from public health officials and from states."
For now, school officials are hoping that families will stay patient and stay in touch. "We will do everything we can to support families through this challenging time," Turner said. "There are financial aid professionals on our campuses who are eager to work with students and families."
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One of the best ways to see any city is on a bike. And it's not just Canadian cities who've reaped the benefits of bike programs. There are over 70 European cities with a rent-a-bike system in place. Most are in France, Britain, Italy, Germany and Northern Europe. Learn more on these countries' individual tourist board websites — there's nothing like than getting some air while going somewhere.