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by quadeong | Jan 14, 2022 | Anti Wrinkle Injections | 0 comments
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It should come off as no surprise to see one of the Kardashians on this list. When it comes to cosmetic treatments, this family has been one of the most outspoken and supportive of treatments like this. In particular, Kim Kardashian has been very transparent about which treatments she gets, and that includes Anti wrinkle Injections injections. More than just admitting it, Kim even featured it as an episode of her show, Keeping Up With the Kardashians. During one episode, she filmed herself getting a anti-wrinkle injections to smooth out some wrinkles on her face. In that episode, you can see her reaction to it.
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Although American actress Brooke Shields says she's skittish around most plastic surgeries, she isn't against cosmetic treatments. In particular, she admits to being a fan of anything that can help her improve her appearance, usually through noninvasive means. Because of that, she has tried Anti wrinkle Injections injections in past several times to treat wrinkles. During one case she helped treat the area around her eyes. Though she admits it was helpful, she is not likely to try it again. This is less from any issues of the treatment, and more because she would rather get laser treatment. As she says, while she may hate wrinkles, she prefers a "gentle touch" to get rid of them.
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Kate Perry
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Linda Evangalista
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Portraits of King Henry VIII
There are two reasons for King Henry VIII's persistent fame – the fascinating history of his reign, and the artistic genius of Hans Holbein the Younger.
If Henry had been immortalized by a lesser artist, it is likely that even six wives and the Reformation would not have ensured his place as the most recognizable monarch in world history.
Henry was born in 1491 and was crowned king at the age of 18. He immediately married his brother's widow and entered into the tangled web of European politics. Despite vast sums of money, much diplomatic wrangling, and several battles, his foreign policy was mostly inconsequential.
His domestic policies, however, changed the course of English history. Determined to annul his first marriage, Henry eventually rejected papal authority in England.
In 1535, he declared himself Supreme Head of a new English church; the Reformation had arrived in England.
He proceeded to marry five more times; two of those wives were executed. When this 'serene and invincible prince' died in 1547, he bequeathed a bankrupt and bitterly-divided nation to his three heirs.
Below are some of the well known surviving portraits of the Tudor King Henry VIII in chronological order.
Henry VIII, c1509
Henry VIII, c1509, unknown artist. This is the earliest surviving portrait of Henry as king of England. It can be viewed at the Denver Art Museum.
Henry VIII, c1520, unknown artist. This beautiful portrait shows the king placing a ring upon his right hand, a symbol of his devout piety.
Henry VIII, c1535, attributed to Joos van Cleve. This is my favorite portrait of the king. It was painted during his brief marriage to his second wife, Anne Boleyn. The king is physically more attractive than in the later Holbein portraits. Henry holds a scroll inscribed 'Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature' (Mark 16.15). This portrait is part of the Royal Collection.
Henry VIII, c1536, by Hans Holbein the Younger. This is the quintessential portrait of Henry VIII. It is perhaps the earliest image of the king by Holbein. It is so beautifully detailed that close inspection is necessary. The cloth of gold sleeve and the intricate pattern of the cloth of silver doublet are perfectly done. Real gold was used to detail the sleeve and the king's jewelry.
The portrait was done around the time of Anne Boleyn's execution, in the midst of the dissolution of the monasteries and before Henry's long-awaited son was born. The king's figure and magnificent apparel are proof of his authority. But Holbein's portrait is not flattering; Henry appears guarded and suspicious, and quite unapproachable. This portrait is part of the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection.
Henry VIII, c1536, after Hans Holbein the Younger. This portrait is a copy of the Holbein portrait above. It is held by the NPG, London but I don't know if it is currently displayed.
Dynastic Portrait: The Whitehall Mural, by Remigius van Leemput after Hans Holbein the Younger, c1667.
In 1537, Henry commissioned Hans Holbein the Younger to create a mural of the Tudor dynasty to commemorate the birth of his son and heir, Edward. It was the only mural which Holbein made in England. It originally occupied an entire wall in Whitehall Palace, which had been designated the official residence of the monarch just a year earlier. The mural was destroyed during a palace fire in 1698. Luckily, King Charles II had already commissioned a small copy thirty years before by the Flemish artist van Leemput.
One of Holbein's preparatory sketches for the mural has also survived
I have also provided a black-and-white scan.
This ink and watercolor cartoon can be viewed at the NPG, London. It gives some insight into the overpowering experience of viewing the mural.
The mural features Henry standing before (and dwarfing) the figure of his father, King Henry VII. On the other side, Jane Seymour, Henry's third wife and the mother of his son, stands before Elizabeth of York. If we accept Leemput's copy as a faithful reproduction, the main alteration Holbein made from the sketch to the mural is making Henry VIII face the viewer directly. In the sketch, he is shown three-quarter face, like the other figures. The alteration to full-face gives Henry an even more commanding presence. The influence of the mural upon subsequent portraits of Henry cannot be overestimated. Later artists essentially copied Holbein's work. Art historians are able to differentiate between Holbein and his copyists based upon subtle weaknesses in details, poor foreshortening, etc
Henry VIII and the Barber-Surgeons, 1540, by Hans Holbein the Younger. This painting was commissioned by the Barber-surgeons and has since been damaged and altered. I have cropped the figure of Henry VIII from the painting.
Henry VIII, c1540, after Hans Holbein the Younger. This portrait is often mistakenly attributed to Holbein. There are actually very few portraits of Henry VIII which can be attributed to Holbein with complete certainty. Those portraits, however, were impressive enough to influence all other artists who painted the king. And so most of Henry VIII's portraits appear Holbein-esque even when they were not actually painted by Holbein. Consider this portrait – the figure of Henry is clearly derivative of the Holbein mural above. The king faces us directly, one hand clutching a glove and the other resting above a jeweled sword. The rings on his fingers are similar as well; the most obvious difference is the color of his sleeves. This portrait can be viewed at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Rome. When I first visited that museum, the last thing I expected to see was a portrait of Henry VIII; it was a pleasant surprise.
Henry VIII, c1540, after Hans Holbein the Younger. This full-length portrait of the king (once again, we have the familiar Holbein pose of one hand clutching a glove and the other resting above a jeweled sword) is part of the Royal Collection.
Henry VIII, c1540, after Hans Holbein the Younger. This is another anonymous portrait clearly inspired by Holbein's work.
Henry VIII, c1542, unknown artist. This portrait is most remarkable, I think, in its depiction of Henry's apparel. It is quite different from most portraits of the king. The jewelry, lavish embroidery, and fur are proof of Henry's great wealth and authority. It was painted during his brief marriage to his fifth wife, Catherine Howard. It can be viewed at the NPG, London.
Henry VIII, c1545, by Hans Eworth. This full-length portrait borrows much from Holbein's iconic portrayal of Henry; the king stands in the familiar pose (yet again, we have one hand clutching a glove and the other resting above a jeweled sword.) Eworth was the favorite court painter of Henry's daughter, Queen Mary I.
Note: The source for this portrait identifies it as by Eworth; it currently resides in Merseyside. I know it looks remarkably like the Walker Art Gallery's Holbein full-length portrait of Henry. Either the source is incorrect, or Eworth copied his portrait directly from the Holbein work. The latter is perfectly possible. As written above, Holbein's work was very popular and influential. And you have already seen the number of anonymous portraits inspired by the Whitehall mural. You can click here to visit the Walker's website dedicated to their Holbein portrait. It was created as support for their 'Henry VIII Revealed' exhibit in winter 2003.
Henry VIII in old age. This anonymous engraving is an unattractive but accurate portrayal of Henry in his mid-50s.
Panoramic Paintings:
The Battle of the Spurs, 1513. This is a cropped detail from the painting which commemorates an English victory against France. It was during this campaign that Henry's close friendship with Cardinal Thomas Wolsey began. Henry's figure is in the center, accepting the surrender of a French lord.
The Field of the Cloth of Gold, 1520. This painting commemorates the historic meeting between Henry and King Francis I of France. Henry's figure can be seen riding to the left, wearing a vivid red and gold outfit.
Hanson, Marilee. "Portraits of King Henry VIII" https://englishhistory.net/tudor/monarchs/portraits-king-henry-viii/, March 10, 2017
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Electricity producer CNR in 850 MW portfolio acquisition
Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR), France's second largest electricity producer, which is 49.97% owned by GDF Suez, has bought a wind power portfolio with a potential installed capacity of up to 850 MW for an undisclosed sum. The "Fox portfolio" consists of 40 MW of operating capacity, 26 MW under construction or waiting to build and 284 MW in the permitting process. The deal also includes an option on a development pipeline of up to 500 MW. The projects are located mostly in the northwest of France, with another cluster in the lower Rhône valley. The seller of the portfolio requested anonymity, although CNR reportedly bought the 40 MW of operating capacity from a local subsidiary of German wind project developer Energieteam. Prior to the purchase, CNR had just 33.5 MW turning and about 150 MW at an advanced stage of development. Since then it has completed two more plant in the lower Rhône valley: 6.9 MW at Bollène which was scheduled to come online last month and 4.6 MW at Pouzin, due to come online early this year. Nordex supplied the five 2.3 MW turbines from Denmark, with the blades and some tower components shipped down the Rhône by barge. The new acquisition brings CNR's operating wind capacity to 100 MW and should allow it reach 430 MW by 2012.
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Plight of Muslims living in Non Muslim Countries: Indian Occupied Kashmir
August 05, 2019 Jalal HB No comments
In our on going series of posts of Islam and life of Muslims in non Muslim Countries, today for this post I have made a slight modification for the plight of Muslims at the hands of Israelis and Indians in Palestine and Indian Occupied Kashmir is the worst case of human rights violation, suppression of seeking freedom and beginning of the worst kind of genocide is unparalleled and most disturbing.
The Muslim inhabitants of the Indian Occupied Kashmir, a disputed territory between Pakistan and India since their independence in 1974 is the worst case of denial of exercise of right of self determination of their future. At the time of independence, while majority Muslim population wanted to be part of Pakistan, a tacit move by the last British viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten ceded Kashmir to India. This created lot of resentment from Pakistan and a war broke out soon thereafter between the two countries, which was halted due to UN intervention and and resulted in a ceasefire with a front solidified along the Line of Control.
The map showing the division of Kashmir across the Line of Control between Pakistan and India [Photo]
As per the provisions of UN, a plebiscite was to be held to determine the fate of the Jammu and Kashmir region. But since 1947, India has consistently denied this right to the Kashmiris and have tried to suppress their right of self determination with brute force. This has frustrated the Kashmiri Muslims and they have resorted to a long freedom struggle for their legitimate rights. And in doing so, thousands of Kashmiris have lost their lives at the hands of the Indian Army and countless have been maimed for life.
Indian brute force suppressing voice of Kashmiris [Photo]
In recent times, the intensity of freedom struggle has picked up a greater momentum and an equally greater suppression by Indian Army. Not only many have been martyred, but use of pellet guns have left ugly scars on the bodies of freedom fighters.
One of the countless pellet gun victims of Indian Occupied Kashmir
Indian forces have committed many human rights abuses and acts of terror against Kashmiri civilian population including extrajudicial killing, rape, torture and enforced disappearances. In 2011, the state humans right commission said it had evidence that 2,156 bodies had been buried in 40 graves over the last 20 years.
Unarmed retaliation against armed Indian Army [Photo]
Some rights groups say close to 100,000 people have died since 1989 while the official figures from Indian sources state the estimates of number of civilians killed due to the insurgency in the range of 16,725 to 47,000 civilians, in which 3,642 civilians were killed by security forces. According to Amnesty International, no member of the Indian military deployed in Jammu and Kashmir has been tried for human rights violations in a civilian court as of June 2015.


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'Prodigal Son' Episode 4 finally reveals what Jessica knew about her serial killer husband and it is not what we think
So far, the show had us believe that Malcolm Bright's (Tom Payne) mother Jessica might have known about his father, Dr. Martin (Michael Sheen) who is also known as The Surgeon who killed 23 people in a killing spree
By Pooja Salvi
Published on : 19:42 PST, Oct 14, 2019
Spoilers ahead for Episode 4 'Designer Complicity' of 'Prodigal Son'
We had spent a long time wondering if Malcolm Bright's (Tom Payne) mother had any inkling of her husband's actions as a serial killer. And 'Prodigal Son' finally answers the burning question about Bellamy Young's Jessica Whitly.
So far, the show had us believe that Jessica might have known about her husband, Dr. Martin (Michael Sheen), who is also known as The Surgeon, a serial killer who killed 23 people.
The foreboding on the show through the last three episodes pointed to this very fact — how much did Jessica Whitly really know about the murders her husband committed while acting like the perfect partner and doting father.
The real question, however, is how much did she really know about the night of his murder? In flashbacks, she was shown asking the police to "take that man away" that night.
Bright, however, doesn't trust this and wants to know the truth as his memories that he triggered with chloroform only worsened his mental health.
He turns to Gil (Lou Diamond Phillips) for help asking him for the evidence tapes from the night of his father's arrest, specifically his mother's as he wants to know what she said and how she said it.
At first, Gil refuses to get him the tapes since the NYPD will never release those tapes for personal reasons. Eventually, though, he comes around and provides Bright with the video.
Michael Sheen as Dr. Martin Whitly (Fox)
In the video, Bright sees his tormented mother being questioned by a younger Gil. At first, she says that she had no idea. Then with some coaxing from Gil, she admits that she knew.
But it is not what Malcolm had imagined this whole time. Jessica admits that she knew he was having an affair. She tells him how she had picked up on cheap perfume from his late-night outings and thought that he was cheating on her.
Breaking down, she says, "I should've known. I let him get away with this. I enabled him."
This substantiates the flashback that is shown earlier in the episode where she is seen wearing the red dress Malcolm points out from his memories. She tells Martin that "it has to stop" because it would "destroy" them.
Martin asks her, "Don't you think I would stop all this if I could? Don't you think I want to be the perfect man, the perfect husband?"
She, however, calls him a monster. Before Martin leaves the room, he tells her that they can continue living their life the way they have lived so far and no one has to know that the decision is on her.
So now that this is taken care of, we must now see how Ainsley (Halston Sage) deals with her brand new visits to her father.
'Prodigal Son' airs on Mondays at 9 pm ET/PT.


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Q: netsh http add urlacl problem I'm trying to set up some ports from a WIX installer.  For WinXP we use httpcfg in a custom action and this works fine.  For Win7, we're trying:
netsh http add urlacl url=http://127.0.0.1/8346/ user="NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users" sddl="D:(A;;GX;;;AU)"

The WIX installer correctly executes this statement and sets up the ports - FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR who runs the .msi.  Users with lesser priviliges cannot access these ports.  I need to set it up for all users on the machine, but I've tried about everything I can think of with no luck.
Something I find odd is that the Admin user can see the assigned ports using netstat -a, but they do not appear at all using netsh http show urlacl...is that an indicator of something wrong?

A: If 8346 is your port number you syntax is incorrect it should be.
netsh http add urlacl url=http://127.0.0.1:8346/ user="NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users"

A: You can add condition to the setup file to prompt for UAC when installation starts. this will ensure all the installer is started by admin and thus will add exception in firewall even when user does not have admin rights.

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Identity Politics: Notts County's Fall From Grace
The last time this happened was in 1893 when, after having lost a test match against Sheffield United, Accrington FC – no relation to Accrington Stanley – resigned from the Football League rather than playing in the Second Division. After unsuccessfully reapplying after a season away, the club folded in 1896. The importance of the founder members of the Football League is deeply ingrained into all English versions of the history of the game. These are English football's apostles. Yesterday afternoon, though, something unprecedented in living memory happened. One of that original twelve was relegated from the Football League. Next year, Notts County will be a non-league football club.
In practical terms, of course, it's just a relegation. Notts will be big fish in the National League next year and, while promotion straight back does tend to be rare, Leyton Orient's return at the end of this season after two years away (coupled with their upcoming trip to Wembley in the final of this year's FA Trophy) has proved that it can be a relatively painless experience once you're there. They'll be on the television more in the National League, and they'll likely win a few more matches, into the bargain. But this isn't a matter of practicalities, is it? Notts County dropping out of the Football League is an emotional matter. For the club itself, the oldest professional football club in the world, it was a badge of identity, and people cling very tightly to their identities, these days. That record of 131 consecutive years has disappeared into the night. It hurts, in a very deep and meaningful way.
The odds were already against them, going into yesterday afternoon's match at Swindon Town. With Yeovil Town's precipitous fall already occupying one of the relegation spots, it was a straight shootout between Macclesfield Town and Notts County, but Macclesfield had a strong advantage. If they could pick up a point from their match against Cambridge United, what happened at The County Ground would be an irrelevance. If Macclesfield slipped up, though, a Notts win would keep them up and send Sol Campbell's team down instead, and a minute from half-time Cambridge took the lead at Macclesfield. Going into half-time, if Notts County could grab a goal, they would go above Macclesfield in the table. Seven minutes into the second half they got it, and for fourteen minutes Notts' heads bobbed above the water before Macclesfield equalised against Cambridge, Swindon first equalised and then took the lead against them, dragging them back under again. A third Swindon goal in stoppage-time sealed the deal.
Few emerge from Notts County's least season in the Football League with a great deal of credit. The buck ultimately stops with owner Alan Hardy. He has had a year of both personal and professional humiliation, with the collapse of his other business into administration, the football club that he owns falling out of the Football League for the first time in 131 years and 120 seasons, and accidentally flashing his genitalia on Twitter.
And then there are the managers. The season started with Kevin Nolan. He was sacked after they lost five of their first six matches of the season and drew the other one. Nolan was replaced by Harry Kewell, but despite a three match winning run early on, he only lasted until November before being replaced by Neal Ardley. Perhaps errors were made in team selection. Perhaps tactical errors were made. But this is League Two, and it feels difficult to believe that all three of these managers, with their combined decades of football experience, were incompetent. Perhaps the problems at Notts County run deeper than most managers could ever hope to fix.
When Notts County collapsed into administration in June 2002, one of the more peculiar pieces of news to emerge from the wreckage that was the club's accounts was that chairman Derek Pavis owned the West Stand at Meadow Lane, in conjunction with former chairman and local MP Jack Dunnett. In May 1987, while Dunnett was still the club's chairman, he arranged for the West Stand to be rented to his company, Park Street Securities, for nothing. Pavis then sub-let the stand's executive boxes back to the club, as well as rooms inside the stand to a social and sports club. He bought the lease in 1999, for £500,000.
The following year, Pavis sold up to the American businessman and journalist, Albert Scardino. Scardino needed to borrow £3.5m to secure the purchase of the club but only made one payment of £565,000 before defaulting. In the meantime, Peter Storrie had arrived as the chief executive and had started spending money that the club didn't have but was expecting on wages, aiming for promotion to the First Division (Championship.) With no money coming from Scardino and the collapse of ITV Digital costing them £1.3m, however, administration was inevitable. The West Stand at Meadow Lane remains The Derek Pavis Stand to this day.
The club remained in administration for what was then a record period of 534 days. With no buyers on the horizon there were points at which it felt as though liquidation had to be inevitable, but a supporters trust was formed in 2003, and the NCST raised £300,000 to pay for a 30% shareholding in the club. The biggest shareholder was businessman Haydn Green, who bought a 49% stake in Notts and the Meadow Lane lease from the administrator for £3m. In January 2007 Green sold his stake, which made the supporters' trust the club's majority owner with more than 60% of the shares. Green, himself a trust member, arranged to give the trust his shares, with the trust to pay him for them only if they subsequently sold any shares on. He died four months later.
By the end of the 2008/09 season, though, patience with the Trust was running out. The club had only finished above nineteenth place in the league twice in the previous eight seasons – and those were thirteenth and fifteenth place – and money was tight to non-existent. When a company called Qadbak Investments, acting as a vehicle for a company called Munto Finance, pitched up at the club making big promises in the summer of 2009, supporters were ready – some would say far too ready – to listen to their offer.
Chairman John Armstrong-Holmes argued that the trust should hand its shares to Munto for free, as well as write an earlier loan of £170,000 loan. He also stated that, that as the shares were to be "gifted" to Munto rather than sold, the trust would not have to pay Green's estate. Some members objected, asking if it would not be "the honourable thing" for Green's estate to be paid for the shares, but Armstrong-Holmes could only offer a snake-oil salesman's response, that "Haydn Green's position in the club's history is acknowledged and will be honoured by Munto."
They went large, bringing in Sol Campbell to captain the team and Sven-Goran Eriksson in to manage it. Kasper Schmeichel, who would be a Premier League championship winner with Leicester City, kept goal Indeed, Notts County won the League Two title at the end of the season. It's just that no-one who was there at the start was there by the end. By September, serious questions were starting to be asked about who these people actually were. A former Everton commercial manager, Peter Trembling, was brought in as CEO. It took until the third week of October for the club to somehow pass the Fit & Proper Persons test, and less than five weeks from that date for the Football League to reopen its investigation into who they actually were.
Trembling was sold the company for a nominal sum on the twelfth of December, and in turn sold it on to Ray Trew at the start of the following February. By this time Eriksson, Campbell and Schmeichel had gone and the club was £7m in debt. Steve Cotterill guided them to promotion, but the details emerging of what had been going on with the previous owners was considerably more diverting and was thrust into the public eye with The Trillion Dollar Conman, an episode of Panorama first broadcast in April 2011. Panorama explained how King set up a network of businesses with the intention of exploiting natural assets in North Korea before his house of cards fell in upon itself.
Trew stayed at Meadow Lane for six years. Three years into his chairmanship, having claimed to have put £12m into the club, he posted on the Notts County Mad forum to state that he couldn't put any more money into the club because of salary cap restrictions and blamed supporters for falling attendances. Bad move. Attendances might well have been falling, but a point at which a chairman needs bums on seats doesn't sound like a good time to start criticising people who aren't going, if he wants them to return. Notts were relegated back into League Two in 2016. Trew quit in February 2016, reinstated himself the following September, and then finally sold up to Alan Hardy in January 2017, with the club third from bottom in League Two.
They survived relegation with comfort that season, ending the 2016/17 season by finishing in sixteenth place in the table, and continued the momentum into last season, ending it in fifth place in the table before losing to Coventry City in the semi-finals of the play-offs. This season, however, saw a return to the club's recent form. Alan Hardy's reckless social media used cost the club an agreement over loan players with Nottingham Forest, who started sending their players to local rivals Mansfield Town instead. By the time Hardy exposed himself on Twitter, it was doing little more than exposing the club as being something of a standing joke. He put the club up for sale shortly after this. Talks are said to be ongoing.
That Alan Hardy isn't the worst owner that Notts County have had over the last twenty years probably says more about the calibre of his predecessors than it does about Hardy himself. This season has been chaotic at Meadow Lane on all fronts. Nolan's departure at the start of the season, when he hadn't really been given long enough to bed in players purchased during the summer, angered a lot of players and led to two boardroom resignations. Harry Kewell was the replacement, but upon his departure from the club ten weeks after his arrival he he described the divisions in the changing room as being "poisonous."
As the manager who took AFC Wimbledon into League One, Neal Ardley could hardly be said to be inexperienced at this level. He overhauled the first team squad in the January transfer window, but by the time headlines were being dominated by off-pitch matters and it was reported that the only reason he didn't resign was that he didn't want to further accentuate the culture of instability around the club. The collapse of Paragon Interiors, Hardy's other main business interest, did that instead. Despite the fact that the club stated that the collapse of Paragon wouldn't negatively impact upon them, subsequent papers confirmed a loan was made to a company – Paragon Leisure Group – to buy shares in the club when Hardy had bought it Ray Trew in January 2017, that Paragon Leisure Group owed just under £7.3m to Paragon Interiors when the administrators were called in, and that Notts themselves owed them a further £1.4m.
In April, meanwhile, the club found itself in court fighting off a winding up petition over £200,000 owed to HMRC. The case was deferred until June to allow a takeover to be concluded. On the pitch, though, things were continuing to deteriorate. Yeovil Town plummetted to the bottom of the table, but Macclesfield Town continued to pick up points. Notts County earned themselves a stay of execution last weekend with a two-one win against Grimsby Town, but Macclesfield's one-nil win at Port Vale ensured that they still needed favours from others as well as a result themselves this weekend. It wouldn't have made any difference had Notts County won at Swindon yesterday because Macclesfield drew against Cambridge, but they couldn't even manage that.
On the one hand, it's shocking, all of this. Those twelve founder members have had their ups and downs over the years, but they've always had a permanence about them. That has clearly not been the case since the introduction of automatic promotion and relegation between the Football League and the non-league game, but even since then those twelve clubs have a special place in the story of English football. That this one should have been treated so badly, in so many different ways, and by so many different people, should be a national scandal, but it isn't because football clubs are only really taken seriously as community institutions by supporters while owners pass them around like candy and governing bodies wilfully refuse to do anything practical to change the status quo.
It is just a relegation. The club might be away for just a season or two. Other former Football League clubs have dropped down, found their feet, and flourished again, such as Luton Town, who are still celebrating their promotion back into the Championship. Optimistic Notts County supporters – should there be any left – might already have considered that a satisfying-looking projection for the future. Others, though, will look at other examples, at Chester, York, Stockport or plenty of others, who've struggled both financially and on the pitch after having slipped down into the non-league game. There are no guarantees that everything will run smoothly next season, especially if their own club is as chaotically run as Notts have been for the last two decades.
And that's where the key to all of this ultimately rests. They may have taken it to the last day of the of the season, and the hurt and disappointment of the events of the last few weeks will certainly continue to hurt, but the truth of the matter is that this has been a long time coming for Notts County. No club could "deserve" the way in which this club has been kicked from pillar to post by asset-strippers, tyre-kickers, fraudsters and no-marks over the years, but it has been the rogue's galleries in the boardroom who have ultimately led one of the Football League's most storied clubs to its trapdoor. Hopefully new owners can set Notts back in the right direction following years of neglect.
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Ian began writing Twohundredpercent in May 2006. He lives in Brighton. He has also written for, amongst others, Pitch Invasion, FC Business Magazine, The Score, When Saturday Comes, Stand Against Modern Football and The Football Supporter. Ian was the first winner of the Socrates Award For Not Being Dead Yet at the 2010 NOPA awards for football bloggers.
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namespace Multitrack {

MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent) :
  QMainWindow(parent),
  ui(new Ui::MainWindow),
  project_(new Project),
  is_project_open_(true),
  welcome_size_(425, 437), project_size_(894, 636) {
  ui->setupUi(this);

  // Load recent projects.
  QString data_directory =
      QStandardPaths::writableLocation(QStandardPaths::DocumentsLocation);
  QString recent_path = QDir::cleanPath(data_directory + QDir::separator() +
                                       "recent.mtcfg");
  QFile recent_file(recent_path);
  if (!recent_file.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly)) {
    if (!recent_file.open(QIODevice::WriteOnly)) {
      qDebug("Could not open file %s for writing.",
             recent_path.toStdString().c_str());
    } else {
      QDataStream ds(&recent_file);
      ds << recent_projects_;
      recent_file.close();
    }
  } else {
    QDataStream ds(&recent_file);
    ds >> recent_projects_;
    recent_file.close();
  }

  ShowWelcome();

  connect(ui->actionNew_project, SIGNAL(triggered()), this, SLOT(NewProject()));
  connect(ui->actionOpen_project, SIGNAL(triggered()),
          this, SLOT(OpenProject()));
  connect(ui->actionQuit, SIGNAL(triggered()), this, SLOT(close()));
}

MainWindow::~MainWindow() {
  delete ui;
}

void MainWindow::RemoveRecentProject(int pos) {
  recent_projects_.remove(pos);
  UpdateRecentProjects(true);
}

void MainWindow::ShowWelcome() {
  is_project_open_ = false;
  setWindowTitle("Multitrack");

  welcome_widget_ = new WelcomeWidget(this);
  setCentralWidget(welcome_widget_);
  UpdateRecentProjects();
  adjustSize();
  resize(welcome_size_);

  connect(welcome_widget_, SIGNAL(New()), this, SLOT(NewProject()));
  connect(welcome_widget_, SIGNAL(Open()), this, SLOT(OpenProject()));
  connect(welcome_widget_, SIGNAL(RecentProjectChosen(int)),
          this, SLOT(OpenRecentProject(int)));
  ui->actionSave_project->setEnabled(false);
  ui->actionSave_project_as->setEnabled(false);
  ui->actionClose_project->setEnabled(false);
}

void MainWindow::NewProject() {
  if (!is_project_open_ || project_widget_->Close()) {
    SourceForm *source_form = new SourceForm(project_);
    source_form->show();
    connect(source_form, SIGNAL(ProjectCreated()),
            this, SLOT(ViewCreatedProject()));
  }
}

void MainWindow::OpenProject() {
  QString initial_directory =
      QStandardPaths::writableLocation(QStandardPaths::DocumentsLocation);
  // Workaround for bug on Mac OS.
#if defined(__APPLE__)
  initial_directory += "/dummy.txt";
#endif

  QString filename = QFileDialog::getOpenFileName(
      this, "Open project", initial_directory, "Multitrack project (*.mtpro)");
  if (filename.isEmpty()) return;

  OpenProject(filename);
}

void MainWindow::OpenProject(const QString &filename) {
  if (!is_project_open_ || project_widget_->Close()) {
    QFile file(filename);
    if (!file.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly)) {
      QMessageBox::critical(this, "Error", "Could not open file " + filename);
    } else {
      QDataStream ds(&file);
      ds >> *project_;
      file.close();
      ViewProject(filename, true);

      // Update recent projects.
      RecentProject recent_project(project_->name(), filename);
      int ind = recent_projects_.indexOf(recent_project);
      if (ind != -1) recent_projects_.remove(ind);
      recent_projects_.insert(0, recent_project);
      UpdateRecentProjects(true);
    }
  }
}

void MainWindow::OpenRecentProject(int index) {
  if (0 <= index && index < recent_projects_.count()) {
    const QString &path = recent_projects_.at(index).path();
    OpenProject(path);
  }
}

void MainWindow::ViewCreatedProject() {
  ViewProject("", false);
  ui->actionSave_project->setEnabled(true);
}

void MainWindow::OnProjectChanged() {
  ui->actionSave_project->setEnabled(true);
}

void MainWindow::OnProjectSaved(const QString &location) {
  RecentProject recent_project(project_->name(), location);
  int ind = recent_projects_.indexOf(recent_project);
  if (ind != -1) recent_projects_.remove(ind);
  recent_projects_.insert(0, recent_project);
  UpdateRecentProjects(true);

  ui->actionSave_project->setEnabled(false);
}

void MainWindow::UpdateRecentProjects(bool save) {
  // Limit to 15.
  while (recent_projects_.count() > 15) {
    recent_projects_.remove(15);
  }

  // Populate "Open recent" menu.
  ui->menuOpen_recent->clear();
  QList<QAction *> actions;
  QSignalMapper *mapper = new QSignalMapper;
  for (const RecentProject &recent_project : recent_projects_) {
    QAction *action = new QAction(recent_project.name(), this);
    action->setToolTip(recent_project.path());
    connect(action, SIGNAL(triggered()), mapper, SLOT(map()));
    mapper->setMapping(action, recent_project.path());
    actions.push_back(action);
  }
  connect(mapper, SIGNAL(mapped(QString)), this, SLOT(OpenProject(QString)));
  ui->menuOpen_recent->addActions(actions);
  ui->menuOpen_recent->setEnabled(recent_projects_.count() > 0);

  // Populate "Recent projects" table.
  if (!is_project_open_)
    welcome_widget_->UpdateRecentProjects(recent_projects_);

  // Write to file.
  if (save) {
    QString data_directory =
        QStandardPaths::writableLocation(QStandardPaths::DocumentsLocation);
    QString recent_path = QDir::cleanPath(data_directory + QDir::separator() +
                                          "recent.mtcfg");
    QFile recent_file(recent_path);
    if (!recent_file.open(QIODevice::WriteOnly)) {
      qDebug("Could not open file %s for writing.",
             recent_path.toStdString().c_str());
    } else {
      QDataStream ds(&recent_file);
      ds << recent_projects_;
      recent_file.close();
    }
  }
}

void MainWindow::ViewProject(const QString &location, bool saved) {
  is_project_open_ = true;
  setWindowTitle("Multitrack - " + project_->name());

  project_widget_ = new ProjectWidget(project_, location, saved, this);
  setCentralWidget(project_widget_);
  adjustSize();
  resize(project_size_);

  ui->actionSave_project_as->setEnabled(true);
  ui->actionClose_project->setEnabled(true);

  connect(ui->actionSave_project_as, SIGNAL(triggered()),
          project_widget_, SLOT(SaveAs()));
  connect(ui->actionSave_project, SIGNAL(triggered()),
          project_widget_, SLOT(Save()));
  connect(ui->actionClose_project, SIGNAL(triggered()),
          project_widget_, SLOT(Close()));

  connect(project_widget_, SIGNAL(Closed()), this, SLOT(ShowWelcome()));
  connect(project_widget_, SIGNAL(ProjectChanged()),
          this, SLOT(OnProjectChanged()));
  connect(project_widget_, SIGNAL(ProjectSaved(QString)),
          this, SLOT(OnProjectSaved(QString)));
}

void MainWindow::closeEvent(QCloseEvent *event) {
  if (!is_project_open_ || project_widget_->Close()) {
    QMainWindow::closeEvent(event);
  } else {
    event->ignore();
  }
}

}  // namespace Multitrack

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UK privacy watchdog silent as Google flicks off critique that its Topics API fails to reform ad-tracking
Natasha Lomas
January 17, 2023, 1:55 p.m. ·10 min read
Late last week, it emerged that Google intends to ignore a call by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) -- the international body that works to guide the development of web standards -- to rethink the Topics API: A key ad-targeting component of Google's so-called Privacy Sandbox proposal to evolve the adtech stack that Chrome supports for targeted advertising.
Topics refers to an ad-targeting component of the Sandbox proposal that is based on tracking web users' interests via their browser.
The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) raised a series of concerns following a request from Google last March for an "early design review" of the Topics API -- writing last week that its "initial view" is Google's proposed Topics API fails to protect users from "unwanted tracking and profiling" and maintains the status quo of "inappropriate surveillance on the web."
"We do not want to see it proceed further," added Amy Guy, commenting on behalf of the TAG.
The TAG's take is not the first downbeat assessment of Topics. Browser engine developers WebKit and Mozilla also recently gave a thumbs-down to Google's approach -- with the former warning against preexisting privacy deficiencies on the web being used as "excuses for privacy deficiencies in new specs and proposals" and the latter deeming Topics "more likely to reduce the usefulness of the information for advertisers than it provides meaningful protection for privacy."
And the risk of the web user experience fragmenting if there's only limited support among browsers for Topics -- which could lead to implementing sites seeking to block visitors who are using non-Chromium browsers -- is another of the concerns flagged by the TAG.
Despite deepening opposition from the world of web infrastructure to Google's approach, the U.K.'s privacy watchdog appears content to stand by and let Google proceed with a proposal that technical experts at the W3C are warning risks perpetuating the kind of privacy intrusions (and user agency and transparency failures) that have mired the adtech industry in regulatory (and reputational) hot water for years. The Information Commission's Office (ICO) is a key oversight body in this context as it's actively engaged in assessing the Sandbox's compliance with data protection law following a major antitrust intervention by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) which it joined.
Asked whether it has any concerns about Topics' implications for privacy, including in light of the TAG's assessment, the ICO took several days to consider the question before declining comment.
The regulator did tell us it is continuing to engage with Google and with the CMA -- as part of its role under commitments made by Google last year to the competition watchdog. The ICO's spokesperson also pointed back to a 2021 opinion, published by the prior U.K. information commissioner on the topic (ha!) of evolving online advertising -- which set out a series of "principles" and "recommendations" for the adtech industry, including stipulating that users are provided with an option to receive ads without any tracking, profiling or processing of personal data -- and which the spokesperson said lays out its "general expectations" in relation to such proposals now.
But a more fulsome response from the ICO to a detailed critique of Topics by the W3C TAG there was none.
A Google spokesman, meanwhile, confirmed it has briefed the regulator on Topics. And responding to questions about the TAG's concerns the company also told us:
While we appreciate the input of TAG, we disagree with their characterization that Topics maintains the status quo. Google is committed to Topics, as it is a significant privacy improvement over third-party cookies, and we're moving forward.
Topics supports interest-based ads that keep the web free & open, and significantly improves privacy compared to third-party cookies. Removing third-party cookies without viable alternatives hurts publishers, and can lead to worse approaches like covert tracking. Many companies are actively testing Topics and Sandbox APIs, and we're committed to providing the tools to advance privacy and support the web.
Additionally, Google's senior director of product management, Victor Wong, took to Twitter Friday (following press reporting on the implications of the TAG's concerns) to tweet a threaded version of sentiments in the statement (in which Wong also claims users can "easily control what topics are shared or turn it off") -- ending with the stipulation that the adtech giant is "100% committed to these APIs as building blocks for a more private internet."
So, TL;DR, Google's not for turning on Topics.
It announced this component of Sandbox a year ago -- replacing a much criticized earlier interest-based ad-targeting proposal, called FLoCs (aka Federated Learning of Cohorts), which had proposed grouping users with comparable interests into targetable buckets.
FLoCs was soon attacked as a terrible idea -- with critics arguing it could amplify existing adtech problems like discrimination and predatory targeting. So Google may not have had much of a choice in killing off FLoCs -- but doing so provided it with a way to turn a PR headache over its claimed pro-privacy ads evolution project into a quick win by making the company appear responsive.
Thing is, the fast-stacking of critiques of Topics don't look good for Google's claims of "advanced" adtech delivering a "more private internet" either.
Under the Topics proposal, Chrome (or a chromium-based browser) tracks the users' web activity and assigns interests to them based on what they look at online, which can then be shared with entities that call the Topics API in order to target them with ads.
There are some limits -- such as on how many topics can be assigned, how many are shared, how long Topics are stored, and so on -- but, fundamentally, the proposal entails the user's web activity being watched by their browser, which then shares snippets of the taxonomy of interests it's inferred with sites that ask for the data.
This is not 100% clear to (and controllable by) the web user, as the TAG's assessment argues:
The Topics API as proposed puts the browser in a position of sharing information about the user, derived from their browsing history, with any site that can call the API. This is done in such a way that the user has no fine-grained control over what is revealed, and in what context, or to which parties. It also seems likely that a user would struggle to understand what is even happening; data is gathered and sent behind the scenes, quite opaquely. This goes against the principle of enhancing the user's control, and we believe is not appropriate behaviour for any software purporting to be an agent of a web user.
Giving the web user access to browser settings to configure which topics can be observed and sent, and from/to which parties, would be a necessary addition to an API such as this, and go some way towards restoring agency of the user, but is by no means sufficient. People can become vulnerable in ways they do not expect, and without notice. People cannot be expected to have a full understanding of every possible topic in the taxonomy as it relates to their personal circumstances, nor of the immediate or knock-on effects of sharing this data with sites and advertisers, and nor can they be expected to continually revise their browser settings as their personal or global circumstances change.
There is also the risk of sites that call the API being able to "enrich" the per-user interest data gathered by Topics by using other forms of tracking -- such as device fingerprinting -- and thereby strip away at web users' privacy in the same corrosive, anti-web-user way that tracking and profiling always does.
And while Google has said "sensitive" categories -- such as race or gender -- can't be turned into targetable interests via the Topics processing that does not stop advertisers identifying proxy categories they could use to target protected characteristics as has happened using existing tracking-based ad targeting tools (see, for example, "ethnic affinity" ad-targeting on Facebook -- which led to warnings back in 2016 of the potential for discriminatory ads excluding people with protected characteristics from seeing job or housing ads).
(Again the TAG picks up on that risk -- further pointing out: "[T]here is no binary assessment that can be made over whether a topic is 'sensitive' or not. This can vary depending on context, the circumstances of the person it relates to, as well as change over time for the same person.")
A cynic might say the controversy over FLoCs, and Google's fairly swift ditching of it, provided the company with useful cover to push Topics as a more palatable replacement -- without attracting the same level of fine-grained scrutiny to a proposal that, after all, seeks to keep tracking web users -- given all the attention already expended on FLoCs (and with some regulatory powder spent on antitrust Privacy Sandbox considerations).
As with a negotiation, the first ask may be outrageous -- not because the expectation is to get everything on the list but as a way to skew expectations and get as much as possible later on.
Google's highly technical plan to build a new (and it claims) "better-for-privacy" adtech stack was formally announced back in 2020 -- when it set out its strategy to deprecate support for third-party tracking cookies in Chrome, having been dragged into action by far earlier anti-tracking moves by rival browsers. But the proposal has faced considerable criticism from publishers and marketers over concerns it will further entrench Google's dominance of online advertising. That -- in turn -- has attracted a bunch of regulatory scrutiny and friction from antitrust watchdogs, leading to some delays to the original migration timeline.
The U.K. has led the charge here, with its CMA extracting a series of commitments from the tech giant just under a year ago -- over how it would develop the replacement adtech stack and when it could apply any switch.
Principally these commitments are around ensuring Google took feedback from the industry to address any competition concerns. But the CMA and ICO also announced jointly working on this oversight -- given the clear implications for web users' privacy of any change to how ad targeting is done. Which means competition and privacy regulators need to work hand-in-glove here if the web user is not to keep being stiffed in the name of "relevant ads."
The issue of adtech for the ICO is, however, an awkward one.
This is because it has -- historically -- failed to take enforcement action against current-gen adtech's systematic breaches of privacy law. So the notion of the ICO hard-balling Google now, over what the company has, from the outset, branded as a pro-privacy advancement on the dirty status quo, even as the regulator lets privacy-ripping adtech carry on unlawfully processing web users' data -- might look a bit "arse over tit," so to speak.
The upshot is the ICO is in a bind over how proactively it can regulate the detail of Google's Sandbox proposal. And that of course plays into Google's hand -- since the sole privacy regulator with eyes actively on this stuff is forced to sit on its hands (or at best twiddle its thumbs) and let Google shape the narrative for Topics and ignore informed critiques -- so you could say Google is rubbing the regulator's face in its own inaction. Hence unwavering talk of "moving forward" on a "significant privacy improvement over third-party cookies."
"Improvement" is of course relative. So, for users, the reality is it's still Google in the driver's seat when it comes to deciding how much of an incremental privacy gain you'll get on its people-tracking business as usual. And there's no point in complaining to the ICO about that.
UK's ICO faces legal action after closing adtech complaint with nothing to show for it
Google kills off FLoC, replaces it with Topics
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Q: Keypress to change frames in As2 I have 4 frames in my movie!
When the movie starts it will be on frame 1! When I press the space bar I want the next frame to be a random frame between 2,3 or 4! what code would I need for this? Im a beginner in flash & actionscript 2!

A: You can use this:
keyListener = new Object();
keyListener.onKeyDown = function() {
if (Key.getCode() == Key.SPACE){

    var random_number:Number = Math.random() * 3 + 1;
    trace('random_number is: ' + random_number);
    var nextFrame:Number = Math.ceil(random_number);
    trace('the next frame should be: ' + nextFrame);
    _root.gotoAndPlay(nextFrame);

    trace('you just hit the SPACE button');
    }
};
Key.addListener(keyListener);

Now you can put this code in the actions layer or in the first frame, where you should have a
stop();

command right before this code.

A: Quite easy: Just make a button instance that will not be seen (i.e., outside the stage bounds). You can make it a 1px by 1px button.
In the actions panel for THAT button, paste this code:
on(keyPress "<Space>"){
    nextFrame = Math.random()*3 + 1;
    _root.gotoAndPlay(nextFrame);
}

Obviously, you'll need to stop the movieclip initially at frame 1 using a stop();


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