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Minnesota Thunder was an American professional soccer team based in Minnesota, United States. Founded in 1990, the team played in the USL First Division (USL-1), the second tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, until 2009. The team played its home games at the National Sports Center in nearby Blaine, Minnesota for its final two seasons. The team's colors were navy blue, light blue, silver, and white.

The team had a development team, Rochester Thunder, which independently played in USL Premier Development League for another season after the Thunder folded, and a sister organization, the Minnesota Lightning, which played in the women's USL W-League.

History

Before the Thunder
Prior to the Minnesota Thunder forming in 1990 Minnesota had two former professional soccer teams. After two seasons as the Denver Dynamos the franchise was purchased by Minnesota investors and became the Minnesota Kicks. The Minnesota Kicks played the state's first professional soccer game in May 1976 to a crowd of over 20,000 at Metropolitan Stadium. The team survived for six seasons competing in the North American Soccer League before folding after the 1981 season. After two years without a team the Fort Lauderdale Strikers were moved to Minnesota becoming the Minnesota Strikers in 1984. The team played one season in the NASL before transferring to the Major Indoor Soccer League. The team disbanded in 1988 after the 1987–1988 season.

Independent era (1990–1993)
The team was founded as an all star team in 1990. The team was composed of top amateur and former professional players who were mostly in their late 20s or early 30s. The team was coached by then Saint Paul Academy soccer coach Buzz Lagos. The team scheduled five exhibition games against teams in the A-League. At the time the goal was to eventually get a semipro soccer team for the Twin Cities.

The Thunder operated on a budget of $35,000 in their first year paying no salaries. The budget mainly supported stadium rental at the National Sports Center, office rental and promotions. In the first season the team played against the amateur Madison 56ers, professional San Francisco Bay Blackhawks and Winnipeg Fury and the indoor professional Chicago Power and Milwaukee Wave. Attendance averaged around 1,000 fans a game.

In the first season the team lost around $12,000. The next year, 1991, with the help of corporate sponsors Rainbow Foods, Kemps, and Liberty State Bank, the team played an expanded schedule with a record of eight victories and three ties losing $10,000 in the process. The following year the team added four more corporate sponsors and expected to lose about $5,000 with a budget of $45,000 By their third season the team became a model for teams in Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, and Canada due to their competitive schedule, reasonable budget and fan base. As an amateur team, the Thunder was responsible for an opponent's hotel, food and lodging for each road trip. The team was undefeated through their first twenty games.

Buzz Lagos era (1994–2005)

On November 13, 1993 the Thunder announced its intention to join the U.S. Interregional Soccer League. The team joined the Midwest Region and retained their amateur status for the 1994 season. The team finished the year 25–2 losing in a sudden-death shootout to the Greensboro Dynamo in the championship game. The team became professional for the 1995 season.

On July 15, 2004 coach Buzz Lagos earned his 300th victory. It was his 123rd since the Thunder joined the A-League in 1997. Lagos improved his record to 300–127–31 all-time as coach of the Thunder. Five days later Lagos led the Thunder to their first victory over a MLS team in a nonexhibtion game. The Thunder defeated the Los Angeles Galaxy in fourth round U.S. Open Cup game played to 5,505 fans at the Metrodome. The 2004 season holds the highest average attendance with 4,400 over 14 home games.

Amos Magee played for the Thunder for 12 seasons, retired in 2005, is its all-time leading scorer (64 goals and 39 assists), and was inducted into the USL Hall of Fame in 2008. He was named first-team all-league in 1998, and A-League Championship MVP in 1999. He was inducted into the Minnesota Thunder Hall of Fame.

The 2005 season brought many changes to the Thunder. The Thunder's A-League and the lower Pro Soccer League were reorganized. The Thunder were placed in the twelve team First Division which previously had sixteen teams. Additionally, the team was sold to an ownership led by majority owner Saeed Kadkhodaian.  These changes led to Buzz Lagos announcing on August 1, 2005 that he would retire as coach after sixteen season. Lagos cited wanting to spend more time with his family as the main reason to retiring. On October 12, 2005, Amos Magee became the second head coach in the history of the Thunder. The Thunder also purchased a W-League team in 2005.  The team was eventually named the Minnesota Lightning in 2006 before their opening season. 2005 was the only season the Thunder turned a profit, making $6,000 which was immediately paid in taxes to the state of Minnesota.

The Thunder defeated four MLS teams over the course of the 2004 and 2005 U.S. Open Cup competitions.

Final years (2005–2009)

Beginning in August 2007 the team spent $400,000 on a beer garden called the Thunder Lounge and started the Minnesota Thunder Academy. The team also founded the Rochester Thunder in the Premier Development League.

Magee resigned as Thunder manager on July 22, 2008, halfway through the 2008 season.

In November 2009 the Thunder announced their intent to leave the USL First Division to become the co-founders of a new North American Soccer League.

Minnesota's participation in this new league was, however, not to be. In early November 2009 they released all players from their contracts, partly in response to heavy debts and unpaid bills, including wages. The organization was operating with a skeleton staff of 3 people as they tried to reorganize in their final days.

In January 2010, the National Sports Center announced the formation of a new club, the NSC Minnesota Stars that functioned as a replacement for the Thunder.

Colors and badge
A new logo using the colors of navy blue, light blue, and silver was unveiled for the 2008 season. The identity was designed by the Minneapolis design firm Capsule.

The previous Thunder badge incorporated the logo of a capital 'T' and an active soccer ball on a shield reading "Minnesota Thunder". When on the team uniform, it also is adorned atop by a gold star commemorating the 1999 championship season.

The initial Thunder crest was a soccer ball with a thunderbolt crossing it followed by the text "Minnesota Thunder".

When the team became a professional organization, a new logo was created, consisting of an image of the state of Minnesota background with a soccer ball and thunderbolt imposed upon it.

In 2002, the Thunder undertook a marketing re-branding endeavor, where a new logo was created consisting of a soccer ball with movement lines and a T below the words of team's name.

In 2006, a new navy and gold "shield" logo was created by the Minneapolis design firm CAPSULE.

The official mascot of the Minnesota Thunder was Thor.

Stadiums

 National Sports Center; Blaine, Minnesota (1990–2003, 2008–2009)
 James Griffin Stadium; St. Paul, Minnesota (2004–2007)
 Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome; Minneapolis, Minnesota 2 games (2004–2005)
 Macalester Stadium at Macalester College; St. Paul, Minnesota 1 game (2004)
 Stadium at Stillwater High School; Oak Park Heights, Minnesota 1 game (2004)

The Thunder's first home field was the National Sports Center in Blaine, Minnesota where they played until 2003. In 2003 the Thunder wanted to reduce the number of home games played at the National Sports Center to seven. The Minnesota Amateur Sports Commission which owns the National Sports Center was not comfortable with the idea so the Thunder decided to look elsewhere. Their three-year lease expired in 2003 leaving them open to search for other facilities for 2004. At the time revenue from the Thunder accounted for less than one percent of the National Sports Center's total revenue. Barclay Kruse, the associate director of the Minnesota Amateur Sports Commission described the situation as, "The best way to describe it is that we're disappointed."

In 2004 the Thunder played home matches at James Griffin Stadium, also known as "The Jimmy", in St Paul. The move to this stadium in central Saint Paul was made in an attempt to reduce overhead costs and market to a more urban and ethnic crowd. According to then president and general manager Jim Froslid some of the deciding were being on a bus line (mass transit does not go to Blaine) and being accessible to the ethnic community.
Fan surveys indicated that they would attend more games if the Thunder played in a more central location.

On May 12, 2008, they returned to the National Sports Center with a lease until 2011. At the time the Thunder was the only team in the USL to not play in a soccer specific stadium and the only team that played on with painted American football lines.

The Metrodome was occasionally used as a home field.  Macalester Stadium at Macalester College in St. Paul was also used for games in the past. While playing at the National Sports Center the Thunder traditionally played several games a year in other locations notably Macalester College or Eastview High School in Apple Valley.

Supporters

The team's largest supporters' group, the Dark Clouds, were founded in 2004 and worked with the Thunder organization to make improvements to their home stadium. After the Thunder folded, the group supported the NSC Minnesota Stars and Minnesota United FC—including its later MLS incarnation.

Players

Final roster

Hall of Fame
The following people have been inducted into the Minnesota Thunder Hall of Fame:

 Tony Pesznecker Inducted 1996
 Tony Sanneh Inducted 1996
 Manuel Lagos Inducted 1996
 John Swallen Inducted 2002
 Gerard Lagos Inducted 2002
 Tom Engstrom Inducted 2003
 Don Gramenz Inducted 2004
 Buzz Lagos Inducted 2005
 Amos Magee Inducted 2005
 Bill George Inducted 2006

Year-by-year

Honors
USL A-League
 Winners (1): 1999
 Runners-up (3): 1998, 2000, 2003
 Midwest Division Champions (1): 1994*
 Midwest East Division Champions (1): 1995*
 Central Division Champions (2): 1999, 2000
 U.S. Open Cup
 Semifinals (1): 2005
 Quarterfinals (1): 2004
 USISL Sizzling Nine Championship
Runners-up (2): 1994, 1995

Head coaches
  Buzz Lagos (1990–2005)
  Amos Magee (2006–2008)
  Don Gramenz (2008–2009)

References

External links
Official homepage
Supporters' homepage
Dan's Soccer Zone, history of Minnesota soccer

Sports in Blaine, Minnesota
Soccer clubs in Minneapolis–Saint Paul
Defunct soccer clubs in Minnesota
Association football clubs established in 1990
A-League (1995–2004) teams
USL First Division teams
Association football clubs disestablished in 2009
1990 establishments in Minnesota
2009 disestablishments in Minnesota
Soccer clubs in Minnesota

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Q: Why send() doesn't trigger SIGPIPE for a closed TCP connection? I'm writing a simple server and a simple client based on TCP connection in Linux. I discover that when the server is closed, the first following send() from the client will be successful (and return the bytes send). Only the second following send() from the client will trigger SIGPIPE.
The following code illustrates this phenomenon. After the client is connected to the server, I close the socket of the server, and then let the client send two successive messages to the server. The first send() will be successful, while the second send() will trigger SIGPIPE.
Server code:
#include <stdio.h>

#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>

#define SERVER_SOCK 32413
#define LISTEN_BACKLOG 20

int main() {
    int server_sock, client_sock;
    struct sockaddr_in server_addr, client_addr;
    socklen_t client_len = sizeof(client_addr);

    // Create socket
    server_sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);

    // Set address and port
    server_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
    server_addr.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
    server_addr.sin_port = htons(SERVER_SOCK);

    // Bind to port and begin listening
    bind(server_sock, (struct sockaddr*) &server_addr, sizeof(server_addr));
    listen(server_sock, LISTEN_BACKLOG);
    printf("Server is listening\n");

    // Accept client socket
    client_sock = accept(server_sock, (struct sockaddr*) &client_addr, &client_len);
    printf("Connection accepted\n");

    // Close all socket after pressing enter
    printf("Press enter to close server");
    getchar();
    close(server_sock);
    close(client_sock);

    return 0;
}

Client code:
#include <stdio.h>

#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>

#define SERVER_SOCK 32413

int main() {
    // Create socket
    int sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);

    // Connect to server
    struct sockaddr_in server_addr;
    server_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
    server_addr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("127.0.0.1");
    server_addr.sin_port = htons(SERVER_SOCK);
    connect(sock, (struct sockaddr*) &server_addr, sizeof(server_addr));
    printf("Connected\n");

    // Send message after pressing enter
    printf("Press enter to send message");
    getchar();
    printf("1st send: %ld\n", send(sock, "one", 3, 0));
    printf("2nd send: %ld\n", send(sock, "two", 3, 0));

    close(sock);
    return 0;
}

The output of the server is:
Server is listening
Connection accepted
Press enter to close server

The output of the client is:
Connected
Press enter to send message
1st send: 3

So what's going on? Why is the first send() successful? Isn't it supposed to trigger SIGPIPE?

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From the concepts and the commercials, Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls Of Ga'Hoole may not sound like a project from Zack Snyder, director of Watchmen, 300, and 2004's Dawn Of The Dead remake. It's a CGI children's fantasy that pits good talking owls against evil ones, taken from Kathryn Lasky's popular book series, and it lacks the gore and grimness of Snyder's past work. But within seconds of its opening, a feather drifts off an owl's wing, spins in midair in ultra slow motion, then slams into full speed again. It's instantly clear that while Snyder the gorehound isn't at the wheel, Snyder the slick stylist is, with his usual exclamation-point-loaded visual signatures. While that can't compensate for Legend's weak story, his pacing and cutting and the film's superlative animation at least make it a dynamic experience.
Unfortunately, the story rarely rises above cookie-cutter kids'-fantasy tropes: It's a standard hero's-journey story, one that substitutes colorful characters for actual incident. The protagonist, a barn owl named Soren (Jim Sturgess), runs afoul of a tyrannical owl society devoted to collecting a magical MacGuffin with dubious plot powers. He escapes with a tiny elf owl (Emily Barclay), befriends wacky owls voiced by David Wenham and Anthony LaPaglia, and seeks help from a legendary collective of owl heroes. Meanwhile, Soren's brother falls under the wing of evil owl queen Nyra (Helen Mirren). It all builds to the expected good-vs.-bad/brother-on-brother confrontations, which Snyder directs with multitudinous slow-motion, sparks-throwing clashes between owl armor and metal-sheathed claws.
Much of what works in Legend can be credited to Animal Logic, the studio behind 2006's Happy Feet; its animators have created a vivid world with deep, gorgeous spaces that become stunning in 3-D, and owls that would have made Walt Disney weep with their feather-perfect realism and natural movement. And to anyone young enough to have not already seen dozens of rote Chosen One Vs. Generic Evil fables, Legend may well be as exciting as it is beautiful. But there's no nuance or subtlety to hook the adult audiences for whom "Owls go from A to B" is a framework, not a complete story. And a cliché wrought in finely detailed feathers is still all too obviously a cliché.


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Dr. Becker tells of the emergence of electromagnetic medicine, which promises to unlock the secrets of healing, and the growth of electromagnetic pollution, which poses a clear environmental danger. He explains the effectiveness of alternative healing methods that use parts of the body's innate electrical healing systems, and warns that our bodies are being adversely affec Dr. Becker tells of the emergence of electromagnetic medicine, which promises to unlock the secrets of healing, and the growth of electromagnetic pollution, which poses a clear environmental danger. He explains the effectiveness of alternative healing methods that use parts of the body's innate electrical healing systems, and warns that our bodies are being adversely affected by power lines, computers, microwaves and satellite dishes. ...more
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Apr 24, 2013 Charlie Canning rated it it was amazing
Great book that is becoming more important by the day
Technological breakthroughs have accelerated to the point that most of us have no more than a rudimentary knowledge about the science and engineering behind many of the things that we rely upon to live. Fortunately, this ignorance does not prevent us from enjoying technology's benefits. Unfortunately, it does not protect us from its consequences either.
In Cross Currents: The Perils of Electropollution; The Promise of Electromedicine, Dr. Rober Great book that is becoming more important by the day
In Cross Currents: The Perils of Electropollution; The Promise of Electromedicine, Dr. Robert O. Becker writes of the proliferating medical problems associated with the rise of electromagnetic fields (EMF), extremely low fields (ELF), and radio frequencies (RF). The terms EMF, ELF, and RF are used to describe the various forms of wave-like energy given off by power lines, electrical appliances, TVs, microwaves, radios, transmitters, and cellular phones.
Dr. Becker explains the concept of energy medicine in the first section of the book. Throughout history, physicians had known that the body had its own electrical system and that it played a central role in both development and healing. But after proponents of the chemical-mechanistic paradigm took over the medical establishment in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, energy medicine was discredited and this ancient knowledge was shunned.
In the middle section, Becker discusses the possibilities of using the body's innate electrical system to affect therapies and cures through the use of what he calls "electromedicine." He divides this into three categories. In the first are "minimal-energy techniques" like hypnosis and visualization that require no external energy. The second category is for "energy-reinforcement techniques" like acupuncture and homeopathy where the external energy administered is minimal. In the third category are "high-energy transfer techniques" that use comparatively large amounts of energy to stimulate cell growth and healing.
The final section is on "the perils of electropollution." As the subtitle indicates, these are considerable. According to Becker, the medical problems associated with dangerous levels of electromagnetic fields and extremely low fields can be divided into two classes: 1) new diseases and 2) changes in preexisting diseases. Among the new diseases, he lists Electromagnetic-hypersensitivity syndrome, Chronic-fatigue syndrome, AIDS, Autism, Fragile X syndrome, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Regarding changes in pre-existing diseases, he notes that there have been alarming spikes in the number of cases of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, many forms of cancer, and mental illness.
So as not to sound alarmist, it is important to note that Becker does not make any claims that electromagnetic fields alone are responsible for these problems. In the case of low-frequency fields (the kinds that we are exposed to every day), for example, Becker does not categorically state that they are cancer producing. Rather, they are "cancer promoting:" "At this time, the scientific evidence is absolutely conclusive: 60-Hz magnetic fields cause human cancer cells to permanently increase their rate of growth by as much as 1600 percent and to develop more malignant characteristics." And the reason that this is important is that: "We are constantly exposed to cancer-causing agents in our environment, ranging from carcinogenic chemicals to cosmic rays. As a result, we are always developing small cancers that are recognized by our immune systems and destroyed. Any factor that increases the growth rate of these small cancers gives them an advantage over the immune system, and as a result more people develop clinical cancers that require treatment."
Of course, Becker's thesis that extremely low frequencies (ELF) and electromagnetic fields (EMF) are creating a toxic environment for humans begs the question of why they have not been more closely regulated by the authorities. Becker says that this is due to the nature of the evidence: "... no effective action has been taken, ostensibly because no mechanism of action has been identified. The governmental agencies that are responsible have discounted the reports of bioeffects because it is thought that these simply cannot be true; `scientific standards of proof of causality' have been stringently applied."
Another problem in locating the source of all of these illnesses "... is that the disease patterns resulting from exposure to man-made electromagnetic fields are, in general, not new. Instead, for the most part they are increases in preexisting disease types, which may be attributed to many other causative factors (such as toxic chemicals)."
The final thing to note is that Dr. Becker's Cross Currents was published in 1990, about ten years before the cellular phone was to become the preferred form of communication for a whole generation of young people. Now the jury is still out on whether the radio frequency (RF) radiation produced by all of these cell phones will have a negative effect on public health. Let's hope that it will not.
It should be recalled, however, that at one time there were plenty of people in the scientific community and among the general public who thought that DDT was safe and that there was no verifiable link between cigarettes and lung cancer. The case against the harmful effects of radio frequencies and electromagnetic fields may be harder to make, but that may be only because the underlying principles are more difficult to understand. ...more
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This is a fascinating book filled with provocative ideas and studies. If you are interested in electricity and its function in or interaction with the human body, this is a must read. Becker is intelligent, thorough, interesting, and humble. His work will eventually be recognized as ahead of its time, once the stranglehold of greed is removed from our medical institutions and governing bodies.
Aug 05, 2010 Tim rated it it was amazing
Very intriguing look at the effects of electromagnetic radiation (ie from electronics and wires) by a man who won the Nobel Prize for his work in the field of electromagnetic fields and the human body. His chapter on electro-acupuncture is interesting as well.
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This is a very interesting compilation of facts associated with the perils of electro-pollution. I always new that electric & electronic devices are capable of generating an electromagnetic field around them, but I never imaging the extent of the damage they can cause to human health in general. It was surprising to me that some individuals are more prone to become sick by electro-pollution because somehow they tend to be more sensitive to electromagnetic fields.
On the other side, it also intere This is a very interesting compilation of facts associated with the perils of electro-pollution. I always new that electric & electronic devices are capable of generating an electromagnetic field around them, but I never imaging the extent of the damage they can cause to human health in general. It was surprising to me that some individuals are more prone to become sick by electro-pollution because somehow they tend to be more sensitive to electromagnetic fields.
On the other side, it also interesting the concept that the body capacity to heal is electrically induced to the point we can use devices that can induced healing in our bodies instead of having to the induce the same process by simply resting or by wasting money in drugs.
Even though, this publication is kind of old compared to much newer ones that address the same topics, it still resulted in a very educating experience & luckily for me many of the recommendations cited by the author are measures that I'm already implementing in my life to reduce my exposure to dangerous electromagnetic fields. ...more
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For those who study the field of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) poisoning of the human, this is an excellent book. What I find amazing about this book that it was written in 1990! Today, wireless radiation is classed as a suspected carcinogen that is known to increase the risk of brain disease. The free Bioinitiative Report 2012 is saying that autism appears to be an electromagnetic disease. The rise in Autism is almost directly following the rise in adoption of wireless communications. I no lo For those who study the field of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) poisoning of the human, this is an excellent book. What I find amazing about this book that it was written in 1990! Today, wireless radiation is classed as a suspected carcinogen that is known to increase the risk of brain disease. The free Bioinitiative Report 2012 is saying that autism appears to be an electromagnetic disease. The rise in Autism is almost directly following the rise in adoption of wireless communications. I no longer have wireless devices, as they were deforming the plants both inside and outside of my home. When I took my wireless devices out of service, I got very painful and sensitive teeth afterwords! It appeared to be a withdrawal reaction. My plants are now growing normally. I would recommend that you get familiar with the contents of this book and the symptoms of Radio Wave Sickness (RWS), which you may already be displaying and not be aware that it is coming from your wireless products! ...more
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Lobelia laxiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Campanulaceae. It is native to the Americas, where it is distributed in South, Central, and North America as far north as Arizona in the United States. It is known by several English-language common names, including Mexican lobelia, Sierra Madre lobelia, Mexican cardinalflower, looseflowers lobelia, and drooping lobelia. In Spanish and Nahuatl it is known as aretitos, acaxóchitl, and chilpanxóchitl. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit as an ornamental.

In general, this is a perennial herb, subshrub, or shrub usually growing up to about 1.5 meters in maximum height, but known to reach 3 meters. The leaves vary in shape, size, and texture. The inflorescence is a raceme up to 40 centimeters long bearing leaflike bracts and several flowers. The flower may be over 6 centimeters long including its tubular base and corolla with narrow, spreading lobes. It is usually red, sometimes yellowish. The anthers protrude from the corolla. The plant produces seeds and also spreads via underground runners.

In Mexico this plant grows in pine-oak forest habitat. In Arizona it has been noted in riparian woodland.

The hummingbird flower mite (Tropicoseius chiriquensis) lives in the flowers of this plant, feeding on the nectar and pollen and laying eggs. Each flower blooms for about a week, enough time for the mite to complete its life cycle.

Like other lobelias, this species contains medicinally useful alkaloids. Several new compounds have been discovered during chemical analyses of this plant.

References

External links
Lobelia laxiflora. USDA NRCS Plants Profile
Lobelia laxiflora. NatureServe Explorer

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Flora of North America
Flora of Central America
Flora of South America
Garden plants of North America
Garden plants of Central America
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Growing the next generation of anchor firms in southern Ontario
Recipients: Communitech, MaRS Discovery District, Invest Ottawa
Region: Southern Ontario
Stream: Regional Innovation Ecosystem
Total funding allocated: $52.4 million
Communitech, MaRS and Invest Ottawa will work with high-potential firms to accelerate their growth and help cultivate a strong pipeline of scale-ready companies.
It's a proven formula. Provide a nucleus for entrepreneurs who need financial support, increased business and marketing skills and access to mentors, workshops and potential customers. Three of Ontario's top innovation hubs have successfully implemented this very formula to nurture start-ups, and a FedDev Ontario investment has supported them in taking it to the next level with a new Scale-Up Platform. This innovative project has brought together three leading hubs—Communitech, MaRS and Invest Ottawa—to pool their resources and provide tailored services to help high-potential companies scale up.
The Scale-Up Platform will pave the way for strong job growth and economic benefits as a driving force for Canada's technology sector, with the potential to help transform the current Waterloo-Toronto-Ottawa start-up tech corridor into a world-leading scale-up tech cluster. The three hubs are building a pipeline of scale-ready ventures with the goal of creating 30 $100-million anchor firms by 2024. And our Agency is excited to facilitate their efforts. "FedDev Ontario is playing a pivotal role by investing more than $52 million in the first scale-up platform of its kind in Canada," says Michael Tremblay, President and CEO, Invest Ottawa and Bayview Yards. "Our organizations have identified more than 100 high-growth and scaling firms with the potential to achieve significant revenue. A sustained focus on this cohort will produce the next generation of anchor companies for our economy."
Scaling companies are those growing in headcount or revenue by at least 20 percent per year over three years. They account for less than five percent of all Canadian firms, but create more than 50 percent of all new jobs. The process of getting 30 companies across the line as $100 million anchor firms will also support an additional 900 companies to reach early-, mid- and late-scale readiness. This investment will directly assist 12 key and emerging sectors in southern Ontario, strengthen partnerships with several post-secondary institutions, business accelerators and incubators and help innovative companies create up to 18,000 jobs.
According to MaRS CEO, Yung Wu, scaling companies are "crucial to fostering shared prosperity" here in Ontario and across Canada. "We need to help these scale-ups because they provide solutions that solve real problems for real people. They can cement Canada as an innovation leader, while also attracting investment and incredible talent from around the world."
New Growth and Innovation Network to Support Scale Ups in Ontario
Communitech
Invest Ottawa
Over the next five years, Kitchener-Waterloo's Communitech will receive $18 million, Toronto's MaRS Discovery District will receive $17.5 million and Invest Ottawa will receive $16.9 million. The hubs will leverage FedDev Ontario's investment and matching partner contributions to build on regional disruptive technology and talent strengths to support high-growth, globally oriented technology firms accelerate growth and commercial success.
"Our three hubs have a proven track record of success and work with companies that have the greatest potential to scale globally and, through their high-tech products, create a better world," says Wu. "Coordinating our programs and services and jointly focusing on the highest potential companies is an evolution in how our ecosystem can support breakthrough companies with important solutions."
As part of this platform, Communitech and Invest Ottawa are collaborating with regional partners to help cultivate a strong supply of scale-ready companies. Additionally, the platform will help enable and catalyze the growth and success of more women-owned firms and Indigenous entrepreneurs, and ensure that innovation centres in smaller communities have access to scale-up programming, advisory services and support for their client companies.
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If you're like many security practitioners, you spend a lot of time working with spreadsheets. Whether you're trying to prioritize your findings or distribute work to remediation teams, an all-too-common workflow is to export this data into a spreadsheet to then be sorted, filtered, copied, and distributed.
This tedious, manual effort seems to be the standard for vulnerability management programs everywhere, but with our vulnerability management solution, InsightVM, you can automate this workflow very easily.
Let's look at a typical scenario. Like many organizations, you may have a vulnerability management policy that outlines an SLA such as, "all vulnerabilities with a CVSS score of 7.0 or higher must be remediated within 30 days." Many security practitioners assign this work to the remediation teams by exporting all vulnerability results to CSV, filtering by asset group to target each working team, sorting by CVSS score, cutting off the ones below 7.0, and shipping it out.
Each of the IT teams then gets a spreadsheet with thousands of rows listed out by vulnerability, requiring them to dig into each one to figure out what they're expected to do to resolve it. Even worse, they usually end up filtering again on each solution to figure out which vulnerabilities share the same remediation steps, then create a pivot table or spend time copying and pasting to get the list of assets that require similar solution steps. Is it any wonder, then, that these teams end up sticking to their standard patching workflows and seeing what sticks?
All this being said, let's look at how much simpler it can be with InsightVM Remediation Workflow. After navigating to the Projects tab, create a new project for one of these remediation teams. In this example, we'll create one for the Windows Server administrators. I'm using an OS filter to narrow this down to just Windows Server assets, but you could also use a filter for a tag or dynamic asset group if you've already created groupings like this for your remediation teams. For vulnerabilities, I've filtered on just vulnerabilities with a CVSS score greater than or equal to 7.0. I've also assigned it to my Windows Server administrator, Doug, and set the due date for 30 days from today.
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Historically, the work involved in creating this report was only half the battle. With projects, however, the solutions for all the in-scope vulnerabilities are rolled up and become the central focus. When Doug views his project, he'll see a succinct list of the things he needs to do to meet the goals or remediation SLAs—without any additional filtering, sorting, pivot tables, or copy-pasting. He can also sort these to his liking by solution title, the number of assets affected, the risk remediated by the solution, or status of the solution in the project.
From each solution, he can also drill down to get solution details and references or details about the vulnerabilities that would be resolved by this solution. Within the asset details, he can also select all of the impacted assets and export these to CSV, which allows him to easily drop this list into his patching tool or assign the task to someone on his team.
Of course, many IT teams rely on tickets being entered into their ticketing system, and don't want to use another product to get this work assignment. From the project creation, integrations with ServiceNow and Jira allow you to automatically assign tickets to the correct group with the necessary details to carry out remediation steps, such as solution details and affected hosts. If the ticket is marked as complete, it will update the project to "awaiting verification" and update the progress accordingly.
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Suppose an administrator completes the work without noting it in the ticket. When the asset is assessed again by either a vulnerability scan or a running agent, and found to no longer be vulnerable to the in-scope vulnerabilities, those solutions (as well as the ticket) will be closed in the project. You'll always be in sync with your remediation teams, even if they're working within their ticketing system.
By using Remediation Workflow, you can easily create filtered, prioritized, and—most importantly—actionable projects. By using projects to distribute this work, you'll be able to easily demonstrate remediation progress while reducing your organization's overall risk.
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\n"On Skype, Mdhara (Mukanya) will talk about his album, its meaning. He will answer questions from the floor," Vava said.
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Other songs on Dangerzone are Chikonzero, Zimbabwe, Chikwereti Music and Varimudande.
\nThere is also the title track Dangerzone, Nhamo Hurombo, Hatidi Politics, Celebrate, Are You Ready and Pasi Idandaro.
Vava said Chikonzero and Zimbabwe were similar in titles with previous tracks, but were different songs altogether in lyrics and beat.
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\nThe 69-year-old last performed in Zimbabwe 11 years ago.


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Q: How can I determine which process owns a hotkey in Windows? Given a hotkey, how can I find which program owns it?

A: This has probably been answered on Stack Overflow in this thread:
Find out what process registered a global hotkey? (Windows API)
Here's Pauk's answer:

Your question piqued my interest, so I've done a bit of digging and
while, unfortunately I don't have a proper answer for you, I thought
I'd share what I have.
I found this example of creating keyboard hook (in Delphi)
written in 1998, but is compilable in Delphi 2007 with a couple of
tweaks.
It's a DLL with a call to SetWindowsHookEx that passes through a
callback function, which can then intercept key strokes: In this case,
it's tinkering with them for fun, changing left cursor to right, etc.
A simple app then calls the DLL and reports back its results based on
a TTimer event. If you're interested I can post the Delphi 2007 based
code.
It's well documented and commented and you potentially could use it as
a basis of working out where a key press is going. If you could get
the handle of the application that sent the key strokes, you could
track it back that way. With that handle you'd be able to get the
information you need quite easily.
Other apps have tried determining hotkeys by going through their
Shortcuts since they can contain a Shortcut key, which is just another
term for hotkey. However most applications don't tend to set this
property so it might not return much. If you are interested in that
route, Delphi has access to IShellLink COM interface which you could
use to load a shortcut up from and get its hotkey:
uses ShlObj, ComObj, ShellAPI, ActiveX, CommCtrl;

procedure GetShellLinkHotKey;
var
  LinkFile : WideString;
  SL: IShellLink;
  PF: IPersistFile;

  HotKey : Word;
  HotKeyMod: Byte;
  HotKeyText : string;
begin
  LinkFile := 'C:\Temp\Temp.lnk';

  OleCheck(CoCreateInstance(CLSID_ShellLink, nil, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER, IShellLink, SL));

  // The IShellLink implementer must also support the IPersistFile
  // interface. Get an interface pointer to it.
  PF := SL as IPersistFile;

  // Load file into IPersistFile object
  OleCheck(PF.Load(PWideChar(LinkFile), STGM_READ));

  // Resolve the link by calling the Resolve interface function.
  OleCheck(SL.Resolve(0, SLR_ANY_MATCH or SLR_NO_UI));

  // Get hotkey info
  OleCheck(SL.GetHotKey(HotKey));

  // Extract the HotKey and Modifier properties.
  HotKeyText := '';
  HotKeyMod := Hi(HotKey);

  if (HotKeyMod and HOTKEYF_ALT) = HOTKEYF_ALT then
    HotKeyText := 'ALT+';
  if (HotKeyMod and HOTKEYF_CONTROL) = HOTKEYF_CONTROL then
    HotKeyText := HotKeyText + 'CTRL+';
  if (HotKeyMod and HOTKEYF_SHIFT) = HOTKEYF_SHIFT then
    HotKeyText := HotKeyText + 'SHIFT+';
  if (HotKeyMod and HOTKEYF_EXT) = HOTKEYF_EXT then
    HotKeyText := HotKeyText + 'Extended+';

  HotKeyText := HotKeyText + Char(Lo(HotKey));

  if (HotKeyText = '') or (HotKeyText = #0) then
    HotKeyText := 'None';

  ShowMessage('Shortcut Key - ' + HotKeyText);
end;

If you've got access to Safari Books Online, there is a good
section about working with shortcuts / shell links in the Borland
Delphi 6 Developer's Guide by Steve Teixeira and Xavier Pacheco. My
example above is a butchered version from there and this site.
Hope that helps!

A: Caution: If you use Win 8 or later, do not use this utility as it will create some trouble - see comments.
If you are running a Windows earlier than Windows 8, then Windows Hotkey Explorer is probably what you want. This is also mentioned in the StackOverflow question: Find out what process registered a global hotkey? (Windows API).

A: I've recently wrote a small utility - Hotkey Detective - for newer Windows versions (tested on 8.1 and 10). It simply shows what process owns the hotkey when you trigger the keystroke.
As distinct from other known tools, like Hotkey Explorer, my utility doesn't list all hotkeys, because that would involve artificial triggering all of them, and breaking the system in the end. In order to see what process is the guilty one, simply run my utility with administrator privileges and press the stolen hotkey. That's all.
Hotkey Detective's sources and a quick usage manual can be found on GitHub. The binary releases are there too.

This is an early beta, so report any issues if you find them.

A: I must recommend OpenArk. Under "Kernel" tab, "System Hotkey" page, you can find all registered hotkeys and corresponding processes. Remember to click "Enter KernelMode" button first.

A: This works for me in Win10 (and probably all other even vaguely-recent versions of Windows)... also copied here from https://stackoverflow.com/a/43645062/995048 since this page seems to come up first in search results:

One possible way is to use the Visual Studio tool Spy++.
Give this a try:

*

*Run the tool (for me, it's at C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\Tools\spyxx_amd64.exe, or use spyxx.exe to monitor 32-bit processes)

*In the menu bar, select Spy -> Log messages... (or hit Ctrl + M)

*Check All Windows in System in the Additional Windows frame

*Switch to the Messages tab

*Click the Clear All button

*Select WM_HOTKEY in the listbox, or check Keyboard in Message Groups (if you're OK with more potential noise)

*Click the OK button

*Press the hotkey in question (Win + R, for example)

*Select the WM_HOTKEY line in the Messages (All Windows) window, right click, and select Properties... in the context menu

*In the Message Properties dialog, click the Window Handle link (this will be the handle for the window that received the message)

*Click the Synchronize button on the Window Properties dialog.  This will show the window in the main Spy++ window treeview.

*On the Window Properties dialog, select the Process tab

*Click the Process ID link.  This will show you the process (In my Win + R case: EXPLORER)

A: These answers didn't work for me because--if I understand correctly--the hotkey had just been dropped on a .lnk that did not get removed on an uninstall. Spy++ crashed when it was invoked.
Following the steps on this answer solved it: find the shortcut in question (mine was hiding in the start menu, without showing up under windows start button for whatever reason) and remove its hotkey setting (using backspace) or just delete the shortcut altogether.

A: I use Ctrl-Shift-C and Ctrl-Shift-V to copy and paste formatting in Word in win10. AMD's Radeon Pro Software robbed the Ctrl-Shift-C keyboard shortcut to enable/disable the camera. I disabled all hotkeys in the Radeon software and got the functionality back for Word, but one could reassign only the camera portion, or any other conflicting hotkey if one wanted to retain the Radeon hotkey function.


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I like the new forum but I'm coming across a lot of bugs, or performance issues. Is there a place (besides a support case) that we can use to report on issues and provide feedback?
I can't get the RSS to work with my reader, I'd like to know how to address this, too.
Matthew what bugs are you seeing here on the community?
Some inline code doesn't display as it should when using the html feature.
The button at the top "All Questions" doesn't go to the questions, but just to the community home.
This is more of a questions, but How does a questions get marked "Answered"
Mostly its really great, and 100x better than the last one, but I thought this thread will be a good spot to report things we notice.
I should have done a little more digging, but I just realized that this community, and its features are not actually controlled by QuickBase.
It looks like a lot of the bugs I have been experiencing exist in other communities as well, and they are working on improvements.
On the bright side, with it being an outside service any enhancements should come quickly.


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Q: Populate datatable with custom nested response I am very new to data tables. And I need to populate data table with custom response other than default data table response.
please see this fiddle. It is working fine with simple response , BUT now I need to populate data table with more complex response. Below is my code.
HTML

            id
            number
            maxDate
            minDate
            number2

JAVASCRIPT
$(document).ready(function() {
    var result = '{"msg":"success","code":"200","status":null,"data":[{"id":3663101,"lstImeis":[{"number":"18966399926043","maxDate":"2017-08-24 22:08:58.0","minDate":"2017-08-24 22:08:58.0"},{"number":"22418344742097","maxDate":"2017-08-24 18:08:56.0","minDate":"2017-08-24 18:08:56.0"}],"number2":789},{"id":3665337,"lstImeis":[{"number":"32756451080799","maxDate":"2017-08-24 21:09:38.0","minDate":"2017-08-24 21:09:38.0"},{"number":"42540009239622","maxDate":"2017-08-24 16:35:08.0","minDate":"2017-08-24 16:35:08.0"}],"number2":456}],"draw":0,"limit":0,"recordsFiltered":0,"recordsTotal":0}';

    var json = JSON.parse(result);
    var tableData = json.data;

    $('#table').DataTable({
        "processing": true,
        "serverSide": false,
        "bFilter": false,
        "aaData": tableData,
        "aoColumns": [{
            "mData": "id"
        }, {
            "mData": "number"
        }, {
            "mData": "maxDate"
        }, {
            "mData": "minDate"
        }, {
            "mData": "number2"
        }]
    });

});

With this JSON response, I am unable to populate the required data in data table. I have created this fiddle as well.
I have studied this link as well, but I dopnt understand how to manage nested response in data table.
Any idea, how to populate this data into data table.  ? OR any good reference ?

A: OK, so after some help from google, I manage to show the correct response, I used the follwoiung java script code to populate my data into data table.
$(document).ready(function () {
    var result = '{"msg":"success","code":"200","status":null,"data":[{"id":3663101,"lstImeis":[{"number":"18966399926043","maxDate":"2017-08-24 22:08:58.0","minDate":"2017-08-24 22:08:58.0"},{"number":"22418344742097","maxDate":"2017-08-24 18:08:56.0","minDate":"2017-08-24 18:08:56.0"}],"number2":789},{"id":3665337,"lstImeis":[{"number":"32756451080799","maxDate":"2017-08-24 21:09:38.0","minDate":"2017-08-24 21:09:38.0"},{"number":"42540009239622","maxDate":"2017-08-24 16:35:08.0","minDate":"2017-08-24 16:35:08.0"}],"number2":456}],"draw":0,"limit":0,"recordsFiltered":0,"recordsTotal":0}';

  var json = JSON.parse(result);
  var tableData = json.data;

  $('#table').DataTable({
                "processing": true,
            "serverSide": false,
            "bFilter": false,
            "aaData": tableData,
                "aoColumns": [
                        { "mData": "id" },
                        { "mData": "lstImeis.0.number" },
                        { "mData": "lstImeis.0.maxDate" },
                        { "mData": "lstImeis.0.minDate" },
                        { "mData": "number2" }
                ],

            });

});

I hope it will help some one else !!


"Brain drain" is the process in which a state, such as New Mexico, loses its most educated and talented workforce to other states through migration for the lack of apparent opportunities. For New Mexico, this is a problem because the most highly skilled and competent individuals, such as STEM professionals, leave and contribute their expertise to other state economies.
Brain drain is particularly distressing when the skilled workforce truly wants to stay in New Mexico, but cannot due to the perceived lack of opportunities for the highly skilled STEM workforce.
The University of New Mexico is coordinating efforts to reverse the "Brain drain" as it hosts the first-ever New Mexico Educated Workforce in STEM (NEWS) Symposium set for Tuesday-Thursday, Dec. 19-21 at UNM.
The symposium is designed to re-introduce the highly educated STEM workforce from New Mexico to the economic, government, biotech/tech, and business leaders in the state for the purpose of job matching. The structure of the professional workforce in NM is unique, with many talented and skilled professionals, getting advanced degrees and temporarily living out of state. The idea, through the NEWS Symposium, is to show these young STEM professionals that there is a vibrant, creative economy in New Mexico.
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The overall goal is to catalyze new businesses, opportunities and networks to facilitate the economic growth of the state based on homegrown New Mexican talent.
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Memories sparked by new Mob movie, Harry Reid & Gov. List recall danger of battling mobsters in Las Vegas
December 19, 2019 December 19, 2019 Robert Perea 0 Comments Nevada Newsmakers, Ray Hagar
By Ray Hagar, Nevada Newsmakers
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and former Nevada Gov. Bob List were major targets of organized crime when The Mob controlled and skimmed profits from Las Vegas casino-resorts in the 1970s and '80s, they said in interviews this week on Nevada Newsmakers.
"It was a very twisted and difficult time," List told host Sam Shad.
Prompted by their enjoyment of the recently-released crime movie, "The Irishman,' Reid and List told stories of escaping death and ultimately playing large parts in eliminating The Mob's control of Las Vegas' gaming industry.
"The Irishman" is a saga about the death of labor leader Jimmy Hoffa. It includes a major scene about organized crime figures seeking loans from the Teamsters Union pension fund that Hoffa controlled to finance construction and expansion of Las Vegas resorts in the 1960s and 1970s.
Reid, Nevada's Gaming Commission chairman from 1977 to 1981, agreed Teamsters Union funds financed what some consider the Golden Era of Nevada's lucrative resort industry.
"The Teamsters had a lot to do with a time when Nevada was desperate," Reid said. "I say Las Vegas was desperate for an infusion of money. They got it from the Teamsters. Even though there were some shenanigans with the loans, none of them were bad. They were all good loans."
List, elected governor in 1978, sometimes wore a bullet-proof vest because of his wariness of the underworld. He recalls a struggle in trying to squeeze Mob influence out of Nevada gaming.
"In one week, we received wire taps from the FBI, showing a number of casinos where there was skimming going on by the underworld," List said. "And so we went after it very aggressively.
"It was a very difficult time," List said. "I was under a lot of threats and we took a lot of heat. And ultimately, we prevailed in every single place, kicking people out, taking their licenses and then re-licensing new management and ownership to come into those hotels and resorts."
Reid's wife Landra, famously, escaped death when mobsters attempted to blow up Reid's family car in 1981. Reid blames former mob associate and Las Vegas casino executive Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal for the attempted car bombing.
"Lefty Rosenthal was the only person I was ever afraid of," Reid said. "I was not afraid of him physically. I was afraid of what he would do.
"He was the kind of guy who wouldn't hurt you himself," Reid said. "He'd hire somebody to do it."
Rosenthal was considered the best sports handicapper in the world. His time in Las Vegas was the focus of the 1995 Martin Scorsese's film 'Casino.'
It is a movie that Reid will never see.
"Lefty Rosenthal was a bad guy," Reid said. "I've never watched the movie 'Casino' because they tried to make him something that he wasn't, a good guy, I'm told. So a a result of that, I'm not going to that movie and will never see it."
Memories of the near-death of his wife remain vivid for Reid.
"I can still remember that," he said. "Fire trucks came. Police cars were there. I can remember my 5-year-old boy looking out the window at all that. I can imagine it had a tremendous impact on him."
The attempted car bombing haunted Reid when he went to Washington D.C. as Nevada's U.S. Senator, winning election in 1986.
"I remember that when we went to Washington, we started our car with a thing like a garage-door opener," he said. "We'd press a button and it would search for a bomb and if there was no bomb, it would start the engine. I remember that. So going to Washington was a relief to me."
Reid was the chair of the Gaming Commission when List was elected governor. Soon after List's inauguration in 1979, the existence of FBI wiretaps on Mob figures hit the national media. In those tapes, a mobster said Reid "was in the pocket" of the Mob, List recalled. List did not believe it and now credits himself partially for helping steer Reid through the scandal, saving Reid's long political career.
"When the story broke about the wire tabs, with The Mob being heavily engaged with the gaming industry, one of the things that happened very quickly was that there as a rumor that The Mob was connected to Harry Reid," List said. "In fact, there was a wire tap with a fella named Joe Agusto, who was an executive at the Tropicana Hotel. He was caught on tape, saying to one of the mobster overlords he was answering to that he had Harry Reid in his pocket.
"The Mob's code word for Harry Reid was Clean Face," List said. "And Agusto said, 'I got Clean Face in my pocket.' And of course, that went public. And Harry came under tremendous pressure and I came under tremendous pressure as governor — that I should ask for his resignation."
List refused to do that because he believed Reid when Reid told him that he did not have illegal ties to The Mob. List was a Republican, Reid a Democrat.
"I was newly elected," List said. "I had only been in office for about three months when this whole thing began to roll out. Harry came up to see me and he offered me his resignation. And I said, 'Well, Harry, I need to know the truth of this. What is the whole story?'
"And he told me absolutely he never had any such relationship with The Mob and they were bragging among themselves and sullied his name. And I believed him."
It would have been a black eye for Nevada if Reid had resigned immediately after the wiretap story became public, List said.
"And I told him, 'Harry, if you were to resign and I accepted your resignation, the whole world is going to believe the story that you were mobbed up," List said. "And it is going to ruin your reputation. But it is also going to ruin the reputation of the state of Nevada. and we are not going to let that happen.
"And I told him, 'I am not going to take your resignation.' And I pushed back on the people who were expecting me to demand his resignation," List said.
An FBI investigation exonerated Reid, List said. The state, meanwhile, was making decisive progress in its battle to boot The Mob from Nevada.
"As time went along, the FBI continued their investigations and we were taking away licenses and participating in the revocation of licenses (of mob-related casinos). And finally, they (FBI investigators) decided in fact what he (Reid) told me is true. He was not involved with The Mob. They were bragging they were connected to him and they were not and the FBI cleared him."
After his name was cleared, Reid decided it was time to leave the Gaming Commission, List said.
"Then at that time, he called me and said, 'Now I am going to offer you my resignation. I'm ready to get out," List said of Reid. "And I took his resignation then."
If The Mob had managed to derail Reid's career, Nevada would have lost the man who later became its most powerful politician.
"I think that is true," List said. "And, of course, he has thanked me for that."
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Race for gold reaches climax at politically charged Cannes
An anti-Trump tirade from Spike Lee was just one of the political moments at this year's Cannes. Photo: Laurent EMMANUEL / AFP
A jury led by Cate Blanchett will crown the winner of the coveted Palme d'Or for best film at Cannes Saturday, after a politically charged festival rocked by controversy and the #MeToo movement.
Movies by Spike Lee, South Korea's Lee Chang-dong, Turkish master Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Nadine Labaki of Lebanon – one of three female directors among the 21 in contention — drew critical acclaim ahead of the famously unpredictable awards night.
But beyond the prize winners, the 71st Cannes festival may linger for its off-screen moments in the first edition since the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault scandal broke.
Hollywood stars including Blanchett, Kristen Stewart, Helen Mirren and Salma Hayek and directors Ava DuVernay and Patty Jenkins joined a red-carpet protest to demand equal opportunity and a "safe workplace".
Two days later, the festival organisers signed a pledge to encourage more diversity in its selection by 2020, saying they hoped it would set an industry standard.
Despite being one of the most sought-after tickets, the premiere of Danish bad boy Lars von Trier's slasher flick "The House That Jack Built" saw audience members walk out in droves, as reviewers slammed what they called a misogynistic orgy of violence. Both its female stars, Uma Thurman and Riley Keough, were conspicuously absent from the red carpet, where Stewart on another night staged a kind of protest of her own by slipping off her high heels and climbing the vaunted Cannes stairs barefoot.
Anti-Trump tirade
The glamour-drenched festival spotlighted dissident directors, including Jafar Panahi of Iran and Russia's Kirill Serebrennikov, who were barred by their governments from attending. Their films drew lengthy standing ovations, while a single seat marked with their names remained empty.
Polish Oscar winner Pawel Pawlikowski, who won the foreign-language movie Oscar for "Ida" in 2015, caused a scandal at home when he told AFP at the festival that the film had been "blacklisted" by the nationalist government. Warsaw denied the claim.
Critics swooned over Pawlikowski's latest, the slow-burn period love story "Cold War" set against the backdrop of the Iron Curtain.
Political realities dominated the Cannes race contenders. Lebaki won hearts with "Capernaum" set among the poorest of the poor in Beirut and featuring a devastating performance by a 13-year-old Syrian refugee boy.
"While this is unquestionably an issue film, it tackles its subject with intelligence and heart," industry bible Variety said.
Spike Lee scored a hit with "BlacKkKlansman", the stranger-than-fiction story of an African-American police officer who manages to infiltrate the highest levels of the Ku Klux Klan. The film, which several critics called a return to form for the "Do the Right Thing" director, explicitly links the tale set in the 1970s with white nationalism in the Trump era. Lee attacked the US president with an expletive-filled tirade at his press conference that quickly went viral on social media.
Reviewers fawned over Asian masters like Lee Chang-dong who scored a record 3.8 out of 4 stars in a Screen magazine poll for "Burning", about a young man's mounting rage over unrequited love and set near the North Korean border.
Hirokazu Kore-eda of Japan also moved audiences with "Shoplifters", about a family of small-time crooks who take in a child they find on the street.
Turkey's Ceylan, who took home the Palme d'Or four years ago for "Winter Sleep", earned rave reviews for his epic homecoming drama "The Wild Pear Tree". And Matteo Garrone of Italy, best known for mafia tableau "Gomorrah",
delighted cinemagoers with "Dogman" about a soft-spoken pooch groomer who stands up to a local heavy.
'Less America-centric'
In 2017, the top prize went to Ruben Ostlund's "The Square," an art world send-up that went on to bag an Oscar nomination. This year there were less-lavish parties and fewer A-listers on the Croisette seaside boulevard.
However industry insiders dismissed talk of a festival in crisis, saying the sprawling annual event was returning to its core mission in the face of showbiz "disruption".
US magazine Vanity Fair called 2018 a "pivot year", as movie studios plump for social media to promote their blockbusters instead of the splashy French Riviera promotions of old.
"We've found a festival with a renewed spirit," Vanity Fair said. "In making the festival a little less America-centric than it has been lately, Cannes has re-asserted itself as the premier destination for daring, provocative international cinema."
Variety noted that Cannes remained a "major hub" for the film rights trade and said "many projects for sale are embracing inclusiveness, with a raft of sales for female filmmakers".
Spike Lee told AFP that for directors doing edgy work, "Cannes is the greatest film festival in the world, there is no argument. This is the Mecca, this is the greatest stage."
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January 3, Canadian singer and songwriter Justin Bieber released his first solo single in three years. After much anticipation, Bieber dropped his new song "Yummy", the lead single to his upcoming fifth studio album, along with a lyric video through Def Jam Records.
Since the release of "Yummy", there has been quite a bit of controversy, most having to do with the way the song is being promoted by Bieber and his team. They have been called out several times for doing whatever they can to get the song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100. One of their methods of promotion is having Bieber constantly remind fans to buy "Yummy" via Instagram.
One of the ways that Bieber has used Instagram to make sure fans are buying his song is through a fan's Instagram story. Bieber reposted a video that a fan had posted on Instagram. The video explained what fans need to do to get "Yummy" to number one on the charts. He has since deleted the post, but many people found the post to have been too aggressive. Bieber has also told fans to play "Yummy" while they sleep because it would make the number of listens increase, making the song get higher on the charts.
Even with all of the promotion that Bieber and his team have done, "Yummy" was only able to reach number two on the Billboard Hot 100 which was not the goal. However, it was on the charts for three weeks. This could be the result of many fans and critics not being very impressed with the song.
"Yummy" is a dead-on-arrival return that even Bieber sounds bored with," said Pitchfork, a website that critiques the latest songs.
Some people found the song to be a lousy way for Bieber to have a comeback. Sharing this opinion, I was expecting a much more ground-breaking comeback from Bieber, especially since "Yummy" is his first solo single in three years. It was such a shame. Critics can only hope that the rest of the album is full of many better songs that will make up for this disappointing attempt to revive Bieber's name.
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About 5 days ago, City Interactive released another stealth-shooter about snipers, and it has become clear now that the game became one of fail projects of the year. Despite a rather decent amount of pre-orders, Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 game is not able to bring the developers real income.
Here are just some of the scores from different publications, that shows how awful the situation inside City Interactive is now.
Perhaps the company will be able to make some extra money in the future with a free multiplayer add-on, which was published with the Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2. The developers added two maps (Tower Defence and Temple Crossing) and a new game mode in this dlc.
You can find more details about the game in our previous publication, as well as in the Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 gameplay video below.


Secret DJ allows users to intercept and program the playlist at venues right from their phone, so users can hear what they want to.
Secret DJ gives users the power to intercept nightspot playlists and choose the music they want to hear right from their phone.
Currently available to both iPhone and Android users, the free app was created by music consultancy c-burn, alongside a team of DJs, musicians and 'tech geeks.' Loyal venue participants who select enough songs can earn 'DJ status' and always jump the playlist line when they're in-house. Users can search for participating Social DJ network participants nearby, and view venues renowned for great tunes. Offering new opportunities for businesses to engage and build loyalty with their clientele, currently the Social DJ network boasts around two-thousand participating venues to date.


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Meizu MX4 Pro smartphone launches in China (5.5 inch, 2560 x 1536px display)
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Chinese phone maker Meizu's latest phone probably has a higher resolution display than your phone (or tablet, or laptop): The Meizu MX4 Pro has a 5.5 inch, 2560 x 1536 pixel display.
But that's not the only thing that makes this phone unusual. It also has just about every premium feature you can think of, including a speedy octa-core processor, lots of RAM, a high-resolution camera, and a big battery.
Samsung Exynos 5430 octa-core CPU (4 ARM Cortex-A15 and 4 ARM Cortex-A7 cores)
Mali-T628 graphics
20.7MP Sony IMX220 camera sensor
802.11ac WiFi
4G LTE (in China)
Meizu has also added something it calls "Retina Sound" which is just a fancy way of saying the phone has a high-quality digital-to-audio converter and amp for cleaner-sounding audio.
The phone measures 9mm (about 0.35 inches) thick and has screen bezels that are just 2.8mm (0.11 inches) thick).
Like other phones from Meizu (and a number of Chines device makers, for that matter), this a premium phone that'll carry the kind of price you'd expect from a mid-range device in the West. Prices start at a little over $400 for an unlocked model with 16GB of storage.
The folks at GizChina and Mobile Geeks each got a chance to spend some time with the Meizu MX4 Pro, and have posted hands-on videos which you can check out below.
Tagged: china, meizu, meizu mx4 pro, smartphone
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16 replies on "Meizu MX4 Pro smartphone launches in China (5.5 inch, 2560 x 1536px display)"
tsog says:
T628 is weaker than 420/T760, and 420 can barely drive QHD at the same frame rate as 330 on 1080P.
At least rest of the specs (outside of SoC) appear top shape.
dickheadobama says:
who cares about phones you cant buy in the USA…
Brad Linder says:
Possibly the billions of people who don't live in the US.
Only about 45 percent of Liliputing readers are based in the US… and Meizu has global ambitions, so while this phone may or may not make it outside of China, it's likely that the company will eventually offer its devices here. So I figure it's worth keeping an eye on what Meizu's up to, just like Xiaomi and Oppo, among others.
gregory raubertas says:
Keep up the great reporting Brad….its appreciated.
min009 says:
Just look at his username man, clearly a troll. lol.
phissith says:
BoliMKXXVIII says:
Some of us in the US like to know what is going on in the rest of the world.
CmdrAdobo says:
LOL. Hi from the Philippines.
If you want to use smartphone on At&t network but don't want to pay for 3G/4G data but only uses wifi then you might be interested.
Is this the one that may get an Ubuntu Touch version?
UMPC Fan says:
This would make a nice Ubuntu UMPC if I can really do all the things in Ubuntu Touch as I can on a desktop Ubuntu PC on the go (ie. not just in docked mode). I'll look into what Ubuntu Touch offers when a UMPC like device comes out with the OS.
Michael Thompson says:
Oh the octa core that's really just a wimpy quad with a wimpier quad tacked on for power saving?
Price is not value folks.
BoloMKXXVIII says:
What is their track record for sending out updates?
Well, Meizu has good community dev support in China.
njren says:
Used to be pretty bad, but they've really stepped up their game over the last year. Updates 2-3 times a month. And yes, as below, a huge support community in China; outside, not so much. But if you're looking for open bootloaders, alternate ROMs, vanilla Android-type experiences…this isn't it. On the positive side, Flyme is one of the smoothest, most attractive, and radically reimagined Android ROMs out there.
No active digitizer. I'll pass in favor of the
Samsung Galaxy Note.


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Facebook desires an authorization for contemporary technology that examines your home images in hopes of obtaining a great deal even more suggestions right into that you manage.
The socials media internet sites titan sent out an authorization for a formula that would most definitely analyze home images, after that make use of the information for promo targeting. The authorization was sent out in May 2017, yet was divulged today.
The paper, certified "Forecasting home demographics based upon picture information," evaluates that the contemporary technology would most definitely anticipate a variety of elements, consisting of the dimension of a home together with the group.
It would most definitely make use of images launched to the web site, together with the message connected to them (subtitles together with hashtags) to recommend just precisely just how individuals within the images may be connected.
" The on the web system uses the estimates to produce a great deal even more information worrying the customer together with his/her home in the on the web system, together with bargain better together with targeted item distribution to the customer together with the customer's home," the authorization checks out.
The system would most definitely likewise analyze elements such as message background, previous accompany with looking background to see whether individuals share the specific identical IP address.
So, it would most definitely run in 2 components: a "experienced picture variant" for taking a look at images together with human faces, plus a "experienced message variant" that would most definitely analyze tags, account information together with on the internet internet links.
Will it genuinely be made use of?
If copyrighted, the licensed paper defines the contemporary technology can be made use of on Facebook together with Instagram.
Yet in an affirmation to International Information, Facebook suggested versus thinking this will certainly occur.
" We frequently look for licenses for contemporary technology we never in the past carry out, together with licenses ought to not be taken as an indication of future approaches," the affirmation examined.
Facebook notes it sends out thousands of licenses annual together with a variety of never in the past program up right into real remedies made use of on its systems.
That does disappoint Facebook does not track that remains to remain in your home, however.
Facebook currently enables companies to target their promos to whole houses simultaneously. It recognizes those that share a home with elements like surnames, check-in, life occasions together with a great deal much more.
On its web site, Facebook evaluates that internet marketing experts can produce a "home target market," mainly sending the promo to every person that resides in the specific identical residence.
" This function makes it possible for online advertising experts to give appropriate advertising and marketing to member of the family in the specific identical home, that can affect purchase choices of remedies along with products.".
The promo function likewise makes it possible for companies develop information on the range of houses they get to. It's an attribute individuals can get of by seeing the promos choices web site, together with unselecting "person of a family-based home.".
It's a device firms such as Netflix together with Airbnb have in truth divulged rates of interest in.


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The Anti-Advertising Agency teamed with the Graffiti Research Lab to produce a music video about what they call New York's true graffiti problem: the increasing number of ads that bombard people as they walk around this and other cities. The video claims that in 1977, the average city dweller would see 2,000 ads each day, whereas today, that number is 5,000, due in part to flatscreen televisions that play ad loops at the entrances of many subway stops.
The makers of the video fit stenciled black posters over those flatscreen TVs, videotaping the process and the reaction of onlookers. Why am I posting about this on a blog dedicated to digital music? Because the video features a great tune by Brooklyn's own Ratatat (and I suppose because graffiti is related to music on a certain level).