Jamie Wehr has transcribed this tender, melancholy, and sensuous impressionistic work for woodwind quintet. To allow the richness of the instrumental colors to shine, he used the original key of Gb major for ensembles confident of playing in the lower registers. For less accomplished ensembles he transposed the piece up a third to Bb major thereby allowing the members avoid the more difficult key and register challenges. Both key settings are included.
This well known and lovely vignette, originally for piano, has caringly been set by Mr. Bricault for standard saxophone quartet.
A sensual impressionistic masterpiece, whose rhythms begin haltingly but then flow gently to a sweet melody is now available for horn sextet.
Claude Debussy's Clair de lune is the third of four movements which make up his Suite Bergamasque for piano. Clair de lune, creates a romantic, sentimental atmosphere whose rhythms begin haltingly but which then flow gently to a sweet melody. This transcription for trombone sextet (4 tenor, 2 bass) draws beautiful sounds.


These are all the words that came to mind when I saw the video of Andrew Johnson, the wrestler from Buena High School in Atlantic County, New Jersey who was told by a referee with a history of racist behavior he had to cut his dreadlocks or forfeit his match during a meet Thursday night. By now social media has exploded with videoes of the act of Johnson's hair being cut and shuddered at the thought that in 2018, people like Alan Maloney, are in positions of authority around over our children. But as a veteran teacher and administrator, I know that there are scores of students like Johnson who are subjected to inhumane treatment at the hands of educators/schools who are supposed to be their advocates.
Just like in any tale of the injustice of any student, it's important for us all to agree on some pivotal points in this incident starting with the rule that Maloney used to justify the inhumane treatment of a child.
Wrestlers are allowed to wear legal hair covers during matches, according to wrestling rules set by the National Federation of State High School Associations. If a wrestler's hair in its natural state extends below the earlobe on the sides or touches the top of a normal shirt, it's required to be secured in a hair cover.
It's common for wrestlers with long hair to compete with a wrap over their heads.
According to Mike Frankel, the wrestler's coaches argued the referee's decision for several minutes, until the referee in question, Alan Maloney, started the injury time clock. At this point, Johnson had no choice but to remove the cap and agreed to have his hair cut.
The New Jersey State Athletic Association asked that Maloney be sidelined until further notice and the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights has opened an investigation.
Johnson had previously wrestled twice this season without incident and he did not wear a hair cover and there were no issues.
And throughout all of these points, the one thing that's lost is that now we still have a student, who was dehumanized and embarrassed in front of gymnasium full of people by an adult who should not have been allowed the opportunity to work with students after he uttered a racial slur in a room full of people in 2016.
In a society where anti-racism is at the core of what we do, the New Jersey State Atheltic Association (or powers that be) should have excused Mahoney of his duties and protected every single student-athlete that he would have come into contact with. Instead, after lengthy hearings, the responsibility was put back into the hands of the schools to deny him the ability to referee their wrestling events. Not two years later we're seeing the consequences all over social media after he was allowed to destroy a child in a gym full of people over their hair. I believe the only reason that the "higher ups" are even opening an investigation is that social media did its job and exposed the ugliness that can happen to students of color when we aren't honest about who we have around our most valuable asset- our children.
Instead, Andrew Johnson was a child who was forced to make an adult decision- cut his locs- in front of a gym full of adults and instead of the entire team walking off in solidarity, Johnson was lauded as a "team player" however in reality instead his hair was a sacrifice to satisfy the ego of adults who look to put students of color in their place. Johnson knew this and so did Johnson's coach by the looks on his face. During the humiliating practice of having his hair cut like an animal in a barn, you can tell that Johnson's soul was crushed, but he's doing what society is telling him is mandatory- sacrifice himself to make others feel comfortable.
Stories like this are common in education, where everyone believes they're non-racist if they post memes around Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday or decry outward examples of racism, but very rarely do we see entire schools, districts or communities do the work of being anti-racist. Instead, we've seen students being slammed to the ground over cellphones, body slammed by school cops, racial slurs being yelled by classmates with no consequences and entire parties of students throwing up Nazi hand gestures and what do we do?
Look the other way and still claim that it's not everyone and that schools/communities are doing the best they can.
You see that stance is easier than communities admitting that despite it being 2018, America is currently fighting for the soul of the country similar to what freedom fighters during the Civil Rights movement and many of these fights can be seen in our classrooms.
-mandating mandatory anti-racism training for teachers, students, and community stakeholders. This isn't negotiable and must be based in truth-telling and accountability. There are so many microaggressions that occur daily to students and teachers that go unspoken.
– examining policies that entrap students like Andrew Johnson and force them to make adult decisions when they're children. These policies include (but aren't limited to) zero tolerance mandates around cell phone usage, hairstyles, and behavior that allow our students to be victimized all in the name of an "orderly school environment".
– hiring and supporting educators who bravely decide to advocate for their students. There are so many teachers who attempt to be the voice to the voiceless but instead, are scapegoated and punished because they do not "fall in line". It's common practice for there to be staff in schools where the faculty and staff know they spew hate but they are protected due to the archaic system of protecting people who have no business in schools.
I contend that the referee should be permanently sidelined from ever working with students, but even more important, I believe that we must recognize that there are students like Andrew Johnson who are victims of unfair policies in schools- public and charter- across the United States. That's the real work that has to take place and that's the work that we know that must be done so that I won't have to stories like this where our students are humiliated in the very space they're supposed to be protected- schools.


Rar archives are the only compression type that preserve certain hidden files and most antiviruses don't scan for these hidden files.
Alternate data streams were introduced in Microsoft's NTFS to match Apple's HFS concept of [forking](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork(filesystem) to maintain some degree of compatibility. It allows a single file to have multiple files of different file types closely associated with the file. Windows uses ADS to store author, title, thumbnail, and other metadata of a file. However, ADS allows any file to be attached to any other file. It's actually trivial to attach files larger than the main data stream.
Windows doesn't expose these data streams to the user. Windows Explorer doesn't show these streams; the file size isn't even affected. If a process is running from one of these data streams, Task Manager doesn't show it. The only Windows-shipped method to identify these files is to use "dir /r" on Windows Vista or greater. This makes ADS a perfect way to hide malware.
When a file with additional streams is moved outside of the NTFS filesystem, only the main data stream is sent. All major file compression formats also strip the alternate streams, except rar. WinRar offers the option to preserve hidden data streams in the rar archive.
Using WinRar, we can hide harmful executables in seemingly innocuous files. Any antivirus software worth its salt should pick this up, so I tested that theory.
Create a file and add the standard, unmalicious test virus EICAR as an alternate data stream named deadly.txt.
Compress harmless.txt using WinRar. Select "Save file streams".
I needed to ensure all the antivirus software tested saw testvirus.exe as a virus, so I used VirusTotal. Not all antivirus software is compliant, as the results show. ByteHero, MicroWorld-eScan and MalwareBytes did not recognize the test virus, so I was unable to determine if they handle rar archives.
When I tested harmless.rar only 17/43 identified the virus. Major antivirus software like AVG, Panda, SUPERAntiSpyware, PCTools, VIPRE, and Symantec were among the 60% that did not recognize the virus.
The rar format can be dangerous for Windows users and it's highly plausible those distributing questionable files know it. It would explain why there hasn't been a greater move to the open and higher compression 7z format.
Until antivirus companies can shape up their support for rar archives: use an antivirus that currently supports rar well, stop downloading rar archives, or use a different OS.
This has been discussed on Hacker News.


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Vlajko Stojiljković (Mala Krsna, 13. mart 1937 — Beograd, 13. april 2002) bio je srpski političar. Stojiljković je bio poslanik Savezne skupštine Savezne Republike Jugoslavije i ministar unutrašnjih poslova u vladi Mirka Marjanovića od 1997. godine do oktobra 2000. godine.

On je bio jedan od osnivača Socijalističke partije Srbije, član Glavnog odbora Socijalističke partije Srbije i predsednik Okružnog odbora Socijalističke partije Braničevskog okruga.

Biografija
Otac mu je bio stolar, gvožđar i botaničar. Osnovnu školu je završio u Maloj Krsni, a gimnaziju u Požarevcu. Zatim je završio Pravni fakultet u Beogradu. Tokom studija se paralelno bavio i "društveno-političkim radom". Sa studija se vratio ne samo sa diplomom, već i sa reputacijom aktiviste na koga je računao Opštinski komitet SK Požarevac. Profesionalnu karijeru započeo je kao sudski pripravnik u Opštinskom sudu u Požarevcu. Ubrzo je prešao u policiju i postao načelnik SUP-a Požarevac. Od 1978. do 1982. godine Vlajko Stojiljković je bio predsednik Izvršnog saveta Skupštine opštine Požarevac. Jedno kratko vreme bio je i upravnik kazneno-popravnog zavoda Zabela u Požarevcu.

Potom je prešao u privredu i radio kao generalni direktor Poljoprivredno-industrijskog kombinata u Požarevcu, od 1984. do 1990. godine. Ubrzo je otišao na mesto potpredsednika Privredne komore Jugoslavije, pa zatim Privredne komore Srbije, gde je 1991. izabran prvi put za predsednika Komore. Na čelnoj funkciji je ostao puna dva mandata, za vreme najtežeg perioda za privredu Srbije.

Četiri dana nakon ubistva ministra policije Radovana Stojičića Badže, Stojiljković je postao Ministar unutrašnjih poslova. Na to mesto predložio ga je tadašnji premijer Mirko Marjanović.

Maja 1999. godine tužilac tribunala u Hagu Luiz Arbur je podigla optužnice protiv Vlajka Stojiljkovića i drugih visokih srpskih državnika za zločine tokom rata na Kosovu i Metohiji. Tokom rasprave o žalbi na prvostepenu presudu Vlastimir Đorđević, načelnik resora javne bezbednosti MUP-a Srbije, je priznao da su na Kosovu počinjeni zločini nad albanskim civilima i on se tom prilikom izvinio žrtvama. Pritom, izjavio je da je za te zločine saznao tek nakon što je u Dunavu kod Tekije nađena hladnjača sa leševima i nije mogao da se usprotivi Stojiljkoviću u prikrivanju zločina tajnim pokopavanjem u masovne grobnice.

Na dan 13. maja 2000. godine odlikovan je Ordenom jugoslovenske zastave prvog reda, za revnosno čuvanje SR Jugoslavije i sistema Srbije.

Nakon Petog oktobra, Vlajko Stojiljković je podneo ostavku na funkciju republičkog ministra, ali je zadržao kao predstavnik Socijalističke partije Srbije, mandat poslanika u Veću republika Savezne skupštine Jugoslavije.

Smrt
Na stepenicama ispred zgrade tadašnje Skupštine SRJ, 11. aprila 2002. nešto posle 19 časova, na dan kada je usvojen zakon o saradnji sa haškim tribunalom, Vlajko Stojiljković je izvršio pokušaj samoubistva. Dva dana kasnije, 13. aprila u 21.30 časova preminuo je u Urgentnom centru u Beogradu. Sahranjen je 16. aprila na Starom groblju u Požarevcu. Sahrani je prisustvovalo oko 1500 ljudi među kojima su bili Mirko Marjanović, Zoran Anđelković, Uroš Šuvaković, Vojislav Šešelj, Milovan Bojić i Mirjana Marković.

Iza sebe je ostavio sina Vladimira koji je takođe izvršio samoubistvo 2004. godine, ćerku Sandru i dve pastorke.

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Spoljašnje veze
 Komemoracija povodom smrti Vlajka Stojiljkovića
 Biografija Vlajka Stojiljkovića
 Odlazak Vlajka Stojiljkovića

Рођени 1937.
Умрли 2002.
Смедеревци
Пожаревљани
Српски политичари
Српски министри
Оптужени за ратне злочине
Народни посланици Скупштине СРЈ
Чланови Социјалистичке партије Србије
Личности Рата на Косову и Метохији
Сахрањени у Пожаревцу

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Lifestyle, News, Tech
Eastside Icons
Written By Haley Hamilton
The 425 has a slew of iconic businesses and people that make us proud to call the Eastside home. Of course, the list includes Bill and his gaggle of friends over at Microsoft, but did you know that Pictionary creator Rob Angel calls the 425 his home, too? We rounded up some of the most famous and globally known icons on our side of Lake Washington (and some local icons, as well) to remind you of some of the great companies and people we get to rub shoulders with.
Where: Renton
Why: It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's … not Superman; it really is a plane. Odds are it's a Boeing plane, too. The world's largest aerospace company, valued at more than $95 billion, may have partially flown the coop to Chicago in 2001, but Boeing will forever have its roots in Washington. (Raise your hand if your senior prom was at the Museum of Flight!)
Where: Redmond
Why: George Washington was a gem of a president, but we can all agree that it's about time to change our state flag from his mean-mugging face to the Microsoft logo. On the surface it may look like Microsoft excels only at computers, but Bill Gates and his team opened our eyes and gave us windows to the soul. For them, we've opened our pocketbooks — Microsoft's fiscal 2015 revenue was $93.6 billion.
Photo courtesy Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Bill and Melinda Gates
Why: You can't mention Microsoft without Bill, and you can't have Bill without Melinda. The dynamic duo are trying to save the world (yo, Marvel, we'd actually want to see that superhero movie) with their Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The nonprofit was created in 1997 and since has distributed $33.5 billion in grants to help people worldwide. The foundation focuses on improved access to health care and the opportunity for every child to go to school. We're glad the richest people in the world are this generous and kind.
Where: Bellevue
Why: The folks behind Paccar just keep on trucking. The company is a leader in designing and manufacturing light-, medium-, and heavy-duty truck parts and reaches customers in 224 countries. Much of its success can be chalked up to producing the monster triple-threat of Kenworth, Peterbilt, and DAF trucks from its Renton assembly plants.
Why: "You know it's going to be good" when multiple people want to claim ownership of founding one the one most well-known grocery stores in the Northwest. That's the interesting case with QFC. According to QFC, founder Jack Croco left Albertsons and his own grocery store in Bellevue in 1963 to launch the chain that has since expanded to 64 locations on the West Coast. But according to Brittany Barker, QFC actually was founded in 1955 by her grandfather, L.H. "Vern" Fortin, and his father-in-law, Lloyd Mitchell, and Croco initially was an employee of theirs. Regardless, QFC locations are open 24 hours, a nice perk when a craving for cold cuts strikes at 2 a.m. QFC has been acquired by Kroger, but the iconic yellow signs still stand like a beacon for locals seeking a classic supermarket they know and love.
Why: The life of an Eastsider is a busy one. Most days are spent finding new ways to avoid 405 traffic, watching Bellevue High School's football team win another state championship, and scoring reservations at the latest John Howie restaurant. With such a full plate, who has the time to hassle over poor cellphone coverage? Good thing Eastsiders and millions of other Americans have been able to rely on 4G wireless communication giant T-Mobile. Last year, the company's revenue grew by 13.1 percent.
Why: Overheard: "OMG, Emily, awesome flannel shirt. Where'd you get it?"
"Eddie Bauer."
"Wow Uncle Jay, nice zip-away waterproof exploration khakis. Where'd you get them?"
"That quilted down coat looks like it can withstand whatever weather rolls in. Where'd you get it, Ben?"
Outerwall
Why: Remember digging into your pockets for a few coins only to lose at the claw-machine game at the front of the grocery store? Yeah, that game sucked. (We didn't want that stuffed monkey anyway … ) Now, thanks to Outerwall, machines at the front of grocery stores are far better. Coinstar takes all those loose pennies and helps turn them into bigger denominations you can actually use, perhaps to rent movies from one of the 35,000 super-convenient RedBox kiosks, which Outerwall created as well.
Why: While other video game creators were busy slipping on banana peels, Bungie was busy taking the galaxy by storm with the first-person shooter Halo. According to Bungie, gamers logged a total of 235,182 years of play from 2000 to 2012. In that time, one traveling at the speed of light could've crossed the Milky Way and back.
Photo courtesy ©2013 Kevin Cruff Photography
Where: Woodinville
Why: Hey! Which one of you finished off the bottle of 2013 Indian Wells chardonnay without sharing? That's awfully rude considering 61-year-old Chateau Ste. Michelle has turned all Washingtonians into wine enthusiasts. (Boone's Farm just can't keep up with our refined palates.) Like the products it sells, the oldest winery in the state keeps getting better with age. But seriously, who drank the rest of the bottle? Fine, you're forgiven, because nobody buys just one bottle of Chateau Ste. Michelle.
Why: As Microsoft's CEO from 2000 to 2014, Steve Ballmer is credited with launching Microsoft's .NET framework and helping usher Microsoft Office and Windows onto virtually every PC. After resigning as CEO, Ballmer balled out and bought the L.A. Clippers for a whopping $2 billion. Now he gets to yell, scream, and display his enthusiastic personality courtside at the basketball games and no one can tell him to stop sticking his tongue out.
Why: On a treasure map, "X" marks the spot, and Microsoft certainly struck gold with its game console, Xbox. Since the release of the original console, Microsoft has gone on to create two other treasures in the Xbox 360 and the Xbox One, which have kept the loot rolling in for the company.
Nordstrom Family
Why: The Northwest is spoiled by the excellent customer service at Nordstrom stores. When Swede John W. Nordstrom founded the retail juggernaut with a Yukon gold-digging pal, little did he know his $13,000 investment in a single shoe store would turn into 116 full-line stores, 167 Nordstrom Racks, and two Jeffrey boutiques in 38 states. Or maybe he had a hunch as he watched his grandson, Bruce, learn the ropes from the ground up. And the company might be headquartered in Seattle, but enough of the Nordstrom clan has settled on the Eastside to justify our claiming them.
Twedes
Where: North Bend
Why: Thanks to David Lynch's cult hit TV show, Twin Peaks, Twedes Café will go down in history for having "a damn fine cup o' coffee" and, of course, a killer slice of cherry pie. The café, built by Roy Thompson and still owned by his family, has become a must-see for fans of the show, travelers and locals alike. If cherry pie isn't your thing, the café also has burgers, big breakfasts, and every other diner delight one might crave.
Why: A worldwide company with offices in Europe, Asia, and Australia, Concur is headquartered in Bellevue and occupies one of the most recognizable buildings in downtown. In December 2014, SAP acquired the company for $8.3 billion. Concur has 4,600 employees and continues to grow, and it has become a top provider for travel and expense-management services and software.
Photo by Julia Sumpter
Why: Where would millions of fantasy-game enthusiasts be without Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons and Dragons, or Pokémon cards? Certainly not in the huge gaming community that Wizards of the Coast has cultivated over 25 years. The popularity of these sci-fi and fantasy games has gone global, epitomized at the annual Gen Con tabletop game convention, property of Wizards CEO Peter Adkison. Hasbro acquired the company in 1999, but Wizards remains an iconic business that countless self-proclaimed geeks have to thank for countless hours of gaming fun.
Bob Wallace
Why: Wallace Properties buildings are scattered throughout the Eastside. Since 1977, when Wallace started his commercial real estate firm, he has served as chair on the Puget Sound Air Transportation Commission, Bellevue Chamber of Commerce, Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue Downtown Association, and the Bellevue Rotary Club. Oh, and Wallace and his wife of 48 years, Joan, were instrumental in the creation of Overlake Hospital.
Photo courtesy Microsoft
Why: In February 2014, Satya Nadella was named CEO of Microsoft, after having been with the company since 1992. Already in his short tenure as head honcho, Nadella — who definitely wants women to ask for a raise if they deserve one — has ushered in a new wave of cloud-based technology at Microsoft. The poetry and cricket lover born in Hyderabad, India, resides in Bellevue with his wife and three kids.
Why: Paul Allen is the poster child for the lofty notion of dropping out of school to pursue a dream. Since dropping out after his second year at Washington State University, Allen, who hails from Mercer Island, cofounded Microsoft; has donated millions to charity; founded real estate powerhouse Vulcan; purchased the Seahawks, Sounders, and Portland Trail Blazers; and has funded numerous scientific expeditions. Not bad for a dropout, huh?
Kemper Freeman Jr.
Why: Kemper is the Oprah of the Eastside. Both he and Oprah have empires designed around finding your favorite things (Oprah tells you what to get, and Kemper and his family provide the 1.3-million-square-foot Bellevue Collection to get them at). And look: We haven't mentioned either of their last names, yet you know exactly whom we're talking about. (Psst, Kemper — please let us know when you plan to go on your own "YOU GET A CAR! YOU GET A CAR! EVERYONE GETS A CAR!" spree. We'd like to be there.)
Photo by Rachel Coward
Where: Issaquah
Why: Imagine a world where Arnold Schwarzenegger is puny. We'd all be goners, having been destroyed by evil robots. The moral is that some things (and people) are better in bulk. Costco agrees. The warehouse club headquartered in the Northwest since 1983 has more than 672 locations supplying red-blooded humans with all the pickles and paper towels one could need should an alien robot invasion occur. Costco had $112.6 billion in revenue in 2014. Obviously, humans have clearly declared, "I'll be back!" after each visit.
Why: It's little wonder why Columbia Winery has taken the competition to school. Six of the 10 founding friends of Columbia Winery were professors at the University of Washington. Its wine, sold nationally, is made with grapes grown on south-facing slopes. All together, Columbia is a large part of the $15 billion economic impact that the state's wine industry produces.
Boehms Candies and Chocolates
Why: The founder of Boehm's Candies and Chocolates, Julius Boehm, was one sweet dude. Before moving to the Northwest, he ran in the 400-meter relay during the 1924 Paris Olympic Games for his native Austrian team. Fleeing Hitler's tyranny in 1940, he came to the U.S. and created the historic confection chalet that has since turned out 150 products made the European way, employing more than 1,000 Issaquah teens in the process. For all his donations and service to Issaquah, the city named Aug. 15, 1978, Julius Boehm day.
Photo courtesy Expedia
Why: Expedia started at Microsoft and then, in 1999, spun off to become a multibillion-dollar company, because that's how we do it on the Eastside. One day you're working for Mr. Gates, and the next you're booking a flight on a solo adventure to become one of the biggest online travel companies, raking in $5.9 billion in revenue, and employing more than 18,000 people internationally.
McCaw Brothers
Why: The McCaws are quite the entrepreneurial family. Craig founded McCaw Wireless in 1987, which he sold to AT&T in 1994 for $12.6 billion, and Clearwire Wireless, which merged with Sprint in 2008. With him during most of these deals were his brothers, Bruce, John, and Keith. It's a quaint story of brothers working together, except instead of lemonade stands, Bruce's side project was cofounding Horizon Air, and John had ownership stakes in the Vancouver Canucks and Grizzlies.
When: 1889 (founded)
Why: Whether it was a Gameboy, Gamecube, Wii, an N64, or even Pokémon cards, most of us have owned or played with a Nintendo gaming product. Though it is a Japanese company, Nintendo has become widely successful across the U.S., and its American operations have been headquartered in Redmond since 1982. Over the years, Nintendo's games and characters have become popular classics, with Pokémon, Mario Kart, and Super Smash Bros. all remaining top game picks. With adorable characters like Luigi, Donkey Kong, and Pikachu, who could resist?
Photo courtesy XXX Root Beer
Triple XXX Root Beer Drive-In
Why: During the 1920s, Triple XXX was a nationwide bottling company with more than 150 bottlers and 100 "thirst stations" for customers to sip on something sweet and bubbly. But, with the rise of the Pepsico and Coca-Cola soda empires, Triple XXX dwindled down to two stores. One is in Indiana; the other has belonged to Issaquah since 1968. Owner Jose Enciso has deviated slightly from Triple XXX's roots — his shop uses Coca-Cola syrup to create nifty '50s-style root beer floats. Triple XXX also hosts a multitude of car shows throughout the year to keep the classics rolling in and the poodle skirts twirling.
Rob Angel
Why: Pictionary. Yup, the dude who created your favorite party game lives on the Eastside. He launched Pictionary in 1985 and hasn't had to wait tables since. For a guy who created the game by spending countless hours flipping through a dictionary, he's the life of the party. Angel has run with the bulls in Spain, climbed glaciers in South America, and been known to throw a mean Seafair party. Quick, now draw all those things in stick figures in 60 seconds without numbers or letters, and NO GESTURES!
Note: A version of the story appeared in the September 2015 issue. It has been edited to reflect the fuller history of QFC.
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REpresentational State Transfer (REST) is a software architectural style utilised by RESTfm to provide Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD) functionality over HTTP.
The World Wide Web is the largest implementation of a REST architecture. Common web browsing utilises the HTTP method 'GET' when loading a web page.
CRUD operations map well to HTTP methods.
RESTfm utilises a hierarchy of Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) to progressively drill down from a list of databases to a single record. Each URI defines a resource.
A special case URI is provided for calling scripts.
RESTfm uses HTTP status codes for all operations. Where FileMaker errors map well to HTTP status codes, they are used. Where there is no equivalent, RESTfm falls back to 500 (Internal Server Error) and provides the FileMaker error details in the response.
200 OK Standard response for successful HTTP requests.
201 Created The request has been fulfilled and resulted in a new resource being created.The newly created resource can be referenced by the URI returned in the response.
403 Forbidden RESTfm will respond to non-html formats with '403 Forbidden' instead of '401 Unauthorized', to prevent browsers from popping up authentication dialogues in web applications. This setting may be overridden in the RESTfm.ini.php config file.
FileMaker Error The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request. This error typically occurs when FileMaker has returned an error. Further inspection of the response message is needed to identify the FileMaker error.
RESTfm returns error information in several ways.
The HTTP Status Code should always be used as indication of success or failure. Error 500 requires further inspection to identify the underlying FileMaker error.
The HTTP Headers contain a copy of the RESTfm and FileMaker Status Codes and Status Reasons.
The formatted response from RESTfm contains a copy of the RESTfm and FileMaker Status Codes and Status Reasons.


In just one month, the Major League Baseball season will unofficially kick off, as pitchers and catchers begin to report for camp in Arizona and Florida. What better way to get excited for the return to baseball than a beer inspired by your team – well, at least if you're a Houston Astros fan.
Over the last couple of years, professional sports teams collaborating with breweries has become a trend – for instance, Boulevard Brewing Company has teamed up with the Kansas City Royals and Devils Backbone has teamed up with the Washington Redskins to sell unique brews in the stadium. The latest partnership comes from Houston-based Karbach Brewing Company and the Astros as the two announced late last week a new beer to their lineup, Crawford Bock, which is a play on the name of Minute Maid Park's Crawford Boxes.
Crawford Bock is a 4.5 percent alcohol by volume effort that the brewery calls a "deliciously smooth, malty beer" and it will feature the Astros logo as well as the team's classic rainbow uniform design. It will be officially released on Jan. 26 at Astros FanFest. The best part of all of this is that a portion of the sales from every case and keg of Crawford Bock beer will benefit the Astros Foundation and its community initiatives, which includes youth baseball and softball, military support and reducing homelessness.
If you're trying to get your hands on Crawford Bock, it'll be available at the ballpark beginning in the first week of March and it can also be found at bars, grocery stores and beer outlets throughout eastern Texas. It's available in 12-ounce six-packs. Can someone please let us know how it is?
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Microsoft Influence on Ireland and the United Kingdom
Posted in Europe, Finance, Microsoft, Open XML, Patents at 11:06 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Question of Tax
Microsoft's tax evasion tendencies are more notorious than most, so they were discussed here many times before, e.g. in [1, 2, 3]. There are concrete examples to show this, even at a more personal level and even a criminal level. Over in the IRC channel, a reader has just brought to our attention this article from May. Part of it says:
Accounts for Microsoft Ireland Research, an Irish subsidiary of the global software giant, show that the company paid just €460,000 in tax, on profits of more than €1.2 billion last year, by using provisions in Irish tax law to take its corporation tax bill down from €158m. Much of Microsoft's international profits are channelled through Ireland, but because the main company for Microsoft's activities has unlimited liability, it does not have to file detailed accounts.
Microsoft's handling of tax issues is a discussion that typically revolves around Ireland for very good reasons that we explored before and will revisit in a moment.
More recently, Microsoft came under fire in India for its practices that involve tax exemptions. They lost the case, which we last mentioned a few weeks ago. They keep dodging the law, just as they do in the United States and Europe (unfulfilled promises and feet-dragging).
Question of Cronyism
In previous posts that mentioned Charlie McCreevy [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28], his negative impact on European law was shown. He seemingly favours monopolisation. It's worth realising where he comes from (Minister for Finance in Ireland). To quote a portion from Wikipedia:
A consistent advocate of cutting taxes and spending, he [Charlie McCreevy] then had an opportunity to implement these policies. In 1999 he announced the biggest give-away Budget in the history of the state. The dramatic cut in interest rates which preceded the joining of the Euro, combined with a tightening labour market and tax reductions led to significant increases in inflation. His 1999 budget also included individualisation measures to reduce the heavy tax wedge faced in particular by married women who choose to work. However, couples on a similar income where one parent worked in the home would not see a similar reduction in their tax bill and following much public debate an extra tax allowance was introduced for stay-at-home spouses. It later emerged that his Tax Strategy group had advised against introducing individualisation due to reasons of cost rather than principle. The change is viewed by some as making a significant contribution to increased female participation in the workforce. However, female workforce participation had been growing even before tax individualisation, due to improved economic conditions.
During his term in Finance, he made many changes to simplify the tax system and presided over Ireland's entry to Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union and later, the changeover to the Euro. In the early 2000s, when Irish economic growth fell back, he maintained strict control on growth in government spending. This was after he had increased government spending in the previous three years. He maintained a significant primary surplus during his 7 years in Finance, while also implementing the tax-cutting programme, major increases in health, education and pension funding as well as increasing investment in infrastructural development to 5% of GNP.
This ought to explain why Microsoft was attracted to the region. Let's not forget The Great OOXML Fiasco and the role Ireland played in it (more examples here).
Question of Lobbying
Regarding Microsoft influence inside the British government, we have already accumulated many links in this post, as well as others. Including the references at the bottom, they make up a partial summary of the many examples already presented in this Web site. In the spirit of never repeating facts where it is possible to just reference prior coverage, we leave that as it is. We just need to sort out a better archiving and searching facility.
Regular readers may remember the Carlyle Group and its possible distant connections to Microsoft. Well, John Major, Britain's former Prime Minister was appointed its chairman several years ago. A reader showed this to us yesterday.
The Carlyle Group is pleased to announce that John Major, the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, will be joining the firm as Chairman of Carlyle Europe.
In that capacity, Mr. Major will serve as Chairman of Carlyle's European private equity funds and their advisory boards. Mr. Major will also be involved in providing counsel and advice to the senior Carlyle investment professionals, now operating in Barcelona, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Munich, and Paris. Carlyle's European private equity funds pursue and make investments in management buyouts,
On several occasions we also mentioned the Bilderberg Group [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7], which lists among its ranks (or participants) the Gates family as well as Labour Party leaders.
It is important to keep track of individuals because companies are, after all, just made out of people, whose preference guides choice and direction of a company (or country). Even the United States Department of Justice is said (and shown) to be in Microsoft's pocket. █
'But when Noorda raised the possibility that Washington might block a merger anyway, Gates replied, according to Noorda: "'Don't worry, we know how to handle the Federal Government."' (Gates strongly denies this. "Are you kidding?" he snaps. "The Department of Justice makes their own decisions.")'
More: Going after Microsoft: the FTC didn't know what Bill Gates did – but they were sure he must have done something wrong – investigation into alleged collusion between Microsoft and IBM to control computer operating software systems; CEO William Gates – Cover Story
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Needs Sunlight said,
Microsoft is bleeding the lifeblood out of the US through three wounds:
1) The loss in productivity due to ever changing, mildly incompatible formats and protocols. Count also the sore known as MS Vista, and the malicious damage is in double digit billions.
2) Apparent tax dodging funnels money right out of the US economy. Further, this is made worse than it needs to be through MS over-charging. MS management has been caught over-charging again and again, but doesn't stop. Monopoly rents allow for the company to fix 4 to 5 times a free market price for the line of defective products. Break the monopoly on formats or protocols and the price of computing comes way down to market levels.
3) Malware, to include spyware and viruses, now kill over $10 000 000 000 of small business profit. Dropping MS from desktops (it's tentative toehold in the server room is already fading) would be the functional equivalent of a $10 billion economic stimulus package, just counting the malware. Throw in damage from spam and the incentive is even greater: 40% of MS Windows machines are actively exploited by criminals for use in spam-generating botnets.
Osama's too hard to catch, but Bill is easy to track. Osama did his damage once, Bill has kept going and increasing the damage each year for decades. The feds could have Ballmer, Allchin and the rest of Bill's cronies in camp X-Ray in short order along with the ringleader Bill himself.
See the links said,
Another interesting set of connections with Ireland, software, and patents is Charlie McCreevy, European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_McCreevy
http://wiki.ffii.org/CharlieMcCreevyEn
http://ec.europa.eu/commission_barroso/mccreevy/index_en.htm
What Else is New
Intel does not seem to grasp very basic concepts associated with accessibility; nevertheless, Intel shamelessly tries painting itself as "woke" and a "justice warrior" (policing speech while overlooking much-needed practical work)
Links for the day
IRC logs for Thursday, January 14, 2021
Today's so-called 'news' about the EPO (Europe's second-largest institution) and the failed UPC is nothing short of shameless propaganda
The idea that Intel "loves Linux" or "supports Linux" is somewhat of a sham; one needs only to consider what Intel insiders are saying about that, having witnessed it firsthand
IRC logs for Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Not "Russian agents" but concerned European citizens are beginning to see the truth behind the Unified Patent Court, which the 'media' has wrongly called "Unitary Patent Court" three times in 2 days
Inside Intel there's a whole bunch of embarrassing secrets about the Developer/Development eXperience ("DX") team; no wonder documentation efforts have been lacking and far too much time wasted putting such documentation together
IRC logs for Tuesday, January 12, 2021
GNOME's supposed 'representatives' (close-knit friends with Microsoft connections) continue to attack RMS (Richard Stallman), the founder of GNU (the G in GNOME) and the Free Software Movement
It seems rather clear that Intel (quite frankly like many other companies but perhaps even more so than the rest) isn't interested in self-assessment and instead it's looking to muzzle or even oust constructive critics
IRC logs for Monday, January 11, 2021
Tiger Computing Ltd (UK) has resorted to baseless legal threats against critics and sceptics, based on clear and obvious misuse of trademark or copyright laws (they don't even seem to know the difference)
Another day, another shallow piece associating "Linux" with security risks based on something that has nothing to do with GNU/Linux and generally boils to nothing like a real threat (unlike Windows back doors)
The "big sites" or the so-called 'news' sites seem incapable of just objectively covering the news (in line with journalism/journalistic standards)
The truth about internal affairs at Intel and developers' struggle with "low/non-tech involvement," as told by insiders
StatCounter says Windows is down to 30% this month (Android is at over 42%) and it's time to talk about the lies which are still being spread by Net Applications (many so-called 'news' sites helped spread those lies last year, including so-called 'Linux' sites)
IRC logs for Sunday, January 10, 2021
FOSDEM mailing list hides the critics of Google; it's becoming part of a familiar pattern
The FSF (Free Software Foundation, established 1985) is losing not only Mr. Oliva; it loses some credibility as the departure contributes to the general perception that there's still an ongoing coup, reinventing the FSF in the image not of its very own founder
Processes that were entirely Free software-centric were rejected and replaced by truly antithetical spyware of companies that aren't Intel and give Intel no autonomy or self-determination
At the advice of friendly FSF board members, I turned in the following letter to the FSF president, asking him to pass it on to directors and voting members at a suitable time...
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New Poll Shows Mideast Is Increasingly a Partisan Issue
You wouldn't know from the U-N-I-T-Y themes of this year's AIPAC conference, but a big partisan gap is opening on how Americans view the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That's according to a soon-to-be-released poll by the Arab-American Institute.
In a capsule summary ahead of the full release of the poll on Thursday, AAI's James Zogby finds:
42% of Democrats had a favorable rating of Israel compared to 92% of Republicans resulting in a 50% gap between the parties.
While the gap is higher in this poll, the finding is consistent with a recent Gallup poll that had 53% of Democrats with a favorable view compared to 80 % of Republicans.
That partisan gap does not translate into sympathy with the Palestinians, according to AAI. But Zogby's summary says that a "plurality or slight majority" agree that an "inability to prevent Israel's settlement expansion makes the U.S. less respected in the world." In other words, it's a poll soon to be denounced by Abraham Foxman.
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Чемпионат России по тяжёлой атлетике 2011 года — 20-й чемпионат России по тяжёлой атлетике проходил в Пензе с 25 по 31 июля.

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Mick Hennessy Exclusive: Savannah Marshall asked to cover up in Saudi, but show was tremendous
Main NewsSep 2, 2019by Umbreen Khan
Mick Hennessy chats to Umbreen Khan about all things Saudi boxing and reveals details of his own next show
I recently got a chance to catch up with longtime promoter Mick Hennessy, who graciously afforded me a rare interview. Here are some of the highlights, including his thought on Andy Ruiz vs Anthony Joshua 2 and the future for his own television shows.
Following the announcement that the Joshua Ruiz rematch will be held in Saudi Arabia, obviously there is a lot of money to be made there, do you think more boxers will want to fight abroad?
Definitely, for sure. I was in Saudi Arabia recently for the Amir Khan fight and for Hughie Fury fighting over there and to be fair it was a great experience. It was different, it was a unique show, it was very different in boxing terms, you know it was great to be a part of that. Fair play to Bill Dosanjh and the team that put that fight on because it had a bit of everything: showbusiness, entertainment, fighting, it was great and obviously, you know they're pulling up the right budgets to get the right showbusiness over there so I think it's going to happen more and more, for sure.
Do you think the fans will be willing to travel to places like Saudi Arabia? Obviously the culture is very different.
We were told of all sorts of things, I had to watch this, watch that and to be fair we never experienced it. It was quite a warm welcome and the food was excellent, you know if we were out of the air-conditioned cars or the air-conditioned hotel for too long the heat would catch up with you, but everywhere is so well air-conditioned out there so I think people will travel. I think they're making it a lot easier around visas and things like that whereby you get a visa if you purchase a ticket. I know places like Dubai have obviously been on this for a long time, I know places like Bahrain and places like that are considering it. You know, once something's started and let's face it you've got the AJ-Ruiz fight gone there. If Pacquiao versus Khan goes there, that's going to be two of the biggest fights in many a year. That would really establish it as one of the main capitals of boxing worldwide.
What are the fans like over there? Do they build the same atmosphere as over here?
It was very passionate, my son [Michael Hennessy Jr] boxed on the card as well in a four-round fight and they had a thing out there: Jeddah Sharks and Jeddah Tigers, they do something like the cricket where they all wear the same tracksuits and my son fought for the Jeddah Sharks out there and wore their tracksuit and it just built up an incredible atmosphere. The fans were going crazy, even for the undercard bouts, it was electric, the atmosphere and then you had Rick Ross playing there and you had Tyga playing there.
They seem to have made it more of an all round entertainment event rather than just a boxing match.
That's exactly what it was, it was fascinating to be fair. I really enjoyed the experience and anywhere like that that's going to be hosting shows of that nature, I would love to be a part of.
Do you have any shows soon?
I'm putting a show together, it will be September 28 and that's Alex Dilmaghani, he's going to be fighting an excellent Nicaraguan called Francisco Fonseca for the WBA International title, that's going to be on Channel 5. We're just putting that together at the moment.
Do you think in the future at any point you would consider putting on a show in another country?
I'd love to, I played a part in the last one, I weren't the on-ground promoter but I put the Hughie Fury fight together. My son went on there and I brought the British TV to the table, Channel 5, so I had a part in the last one, but I wasn't the main promoter and I enjoyed that experience so yeah, I would like to get even more involved.
Does it take much longer to put together a show in another country?
Yeh, I think Bill Dosanjh and his team were working out there for six months on that show and it showed. It was tremendous.
Is that because it was one of the first big-name fights out there?
I think it was the second one because obviously you had the Callum Smith v George Groves fight out there for the World Boxing Super Series so that was the second fight out there so you know, two quality shows like that back to back and now AJ-Ruiz confirmed and obviously there's still talk of Khan-Pacquiao. So great experience, it was good business to go out there and a lot of us were dreading going out there because we was hearing all sorts of rumours, got to watch what you eat, got to watch this got to watch that.
Was it all quite relaxed once you got there?
Yeah, very. It was very hospitable, the people were great, it was really nice.
Were there any rules and regulations over there because of the culture that restricted things?
Savannah Marshall came out there with us, it was only once where because she's an athlete and it's hot and she was training, it was only once where they said 'Could you wear something to cover up?' or something, but it was very, very polite and very respectful.
How did she react?
She was great with it, it was a new experience for her. She respected other peoples' ways and their culture and as they say, 'When in Rome…' You adjust, don't you?
If she were to box over there, would that be a problem do you think?
I'm hearing that it's going to change over there, they are going to allow it at some point. I think that's the whole point of bringing big sport and entertainment there because I think the current government are trying to relax the laws for everyone concerned and especially the people living there to make things hopeful and nicer to live.
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Razer's Class Warfare
Four Corners' Bannon interview wasn't 'masterful' — it was weak and negligent
Sarah Ferguson's widely celebrated Four Corners interview with former Trump adviser and noted nationalist Steve Bannon was a masterclass in journalistic weakness.
Helen Razer
Former Donald Trump advisor and Breitbart editor Steve Bannon
"Massive kudos." "Interview of the year." "Legendary." Such were the gifts from the workers to their queen. The Monday night buzz in legacy media was for Four Corners and its majesty. Sarah Ferguson's "match up" with Steve Bannon was not "gobsmackingly" good. It was a smack to the gob of good sense. Still, some journalists saw "strength" in Ferguson. Me? I saw a soft-tissue massage.
This cannot be "current affairs". Surely, this was not praised by other journalists as "world class", "masterful" or as anything short of a horror. A horror that has mistaken itself for a romantic comedy in which Meg Ryan is the lead. Meg meets her fiery "match" in a book-shop parcel mix-up. He has her Margaret Atwood novels. She has his Milo Yiannopoulos.


Congratulations to all the participants for their hard work leading winning grants for a regionalization plan for SAD 27, SAD 33 and Madawaska.
In 2001 (while SAD 33 superintendent) with the support of my colleagues in Madawaska and Fort Kent, I conducted a workshop on this very topic — citing declining enrollments, the need for extensive repair to all three high schools, the then-current transportation schedule for tech students along Route 1, how sensible it would be to build a regional high school just over the Frenchville/Fort Kent line in Fort Kent. Knowing the attitude of the Maine Board of Education's stance on regionalization, the board would fall all over itself to fund such a proposal, and I suggested MBNA might even fund an auditorium.
During the meeting, I proposed building the school on the flat just over the town line in Fort Kent. Yes, there are parts of the land that may be prone to spring flooding, but on the whole, there is enough land to site the school against the hills and build athletic fields for all sports in one spot. The Department of Transportation might object to building a school on Route 1 because of potential traffic issues, but that can be mitigated with adjusting school start and stop times outside the normal commuting time in the morning and afternoon.
This project affords the prospect of an energy-efficient school facility.
In Rockland, we are in the process of building the new Mid Coast School of Technology with geothermal heating and a propane backup — no heating oil boilers. A vast solar photovoltaic and hot water array has been provided for to make this the most energy-efficient school in the state.
The Valley site is approximately equidistant from the present high schools. Beginning the school day between 8:30 and 9 would mean the furthest students would not have to get up and be ready for the bus any earlier than they do now; thus, all programs would start at the same time.
As for staffing, bring all staff to the new building the first year. With retirements and attrition, staff reductions will occur naturally, so by year three, any excess staff positions will have been closed. Using the Madawaska Teacher's Contract for guidance, apply the contract to all staff, leaving changes to future negotiations.
With a fully state-funded school and the repurposing of three high schools, all communities in the regionalization project should see reduced education costs with more efficient delivery of educational services.
On another note, congratulations to Dr. Levesque School for receiving the U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon Schools Award for outstanding academic achievement for a second time, the first being 1998-99.


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While industrial livestock production involves a remarkably wide array of bad practices, a few manage to extend beyond mere imprudence into the realm of Total Insanity. For instance, the reckless abuse of antibiotics for growth promotion. Or the construction of uncovered multimillion-gallon cesspools for storing livestock manure in residential areas. Or, of course, feeding arsenic to animals raised for food.
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future published a study in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspectives that provided further evidence of the risks associated with the use of arsenicals in animal agriculture. Just in case anyone still needed convincing (Ahem! FDA, Pfizer and industrial chicken magnates). The study, which involved analysis of chicken breast samples purchased at grocery stores in 10 cities across the U.S., revealed that chickens likely raised with arsenic-based drugs yield meat that has higher levels of inorganic arsenic, a known carcinogen that has also been associated with cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, cognitive deficits and adverse pregnancy outcomes.
Why would anyone feed arsenic to chickens?
Although pharmaceutical giant Pfizer voluntarily pulled roxarsone from the U.S. market in 2011, it can still sell the drug abroad -- and other than the sort of basic commitment to social responsibility that big players in the industrial livestock sector love to advertise yet incessantly avoid, there's nothing stopping Pfizer from reintroducing roxarsone to the U.S. market (i.e., the FDA hasn't actually banned its use). Moreover, Pfizer still sells nitarsone, another arsenical drug similar to roxarsone.
What happens to the arsenic fed to chickens?
Turns out that when you feed arsenical drugs to livestock, the arsenic doesn't just magically disappear. Instead, trace amounts of arsenic fed to chicken are excreted in their manure -- and when hundreds of thousands of chickens are raised on a factory farm year after year, the arsenic can accumulate pretty quickly, eventually contaminating soil, groundwater and surface waters.
But not all the arsenic is excreted in manure; some portion also ends up in the poultry meat that U.S. consumers eat every day. The newly published CLF study is the first to quantify concentrations of specific forms of arsenic (most notably inorganic arsenic) within chicken meat, and the first to directly compare arsenic concentrations in meat samples from birds likely raised with arsenical drugs to samples from chickens raised without these drugs.
The researchers tested samples of three types of chicken breast: organic (which means the meat came from birds that were required to be raised without arsenical drugs), antibiotic-free (which means the birds were raised without antibiotics, but not necessarily without arsenicals) and conventional (which, given the high rate of arsenical use when the study was conducted between December 2010 and June 2011, means the birds likely received arsenical drugs). The researchers also contacted the various poultry producers to determine whether they had established policies to prohibit arsenical use, and divided the samples accordingly.
Conventional samples had higher inorganic arsenic levels than antibiotic-free and organic samples.
70 percent of samples from conventional producers without policies prohibiting arsenical use had inorganic arsenic levels that exceeded the aforementioned FDA safety standard.
The researchers had the foresight to preemptively reject any ridiculous "if-you-cook-chicken-to-the-recommended-temperature-arsenic-will-disappear" argument from industrial poultry apologists by cutting each sample of chicken in half, cooking one half and testing both the cooked and raw samples. Unsurprisingly, cooking didn't eliminate the arsenic. But somewhat alarmingly for poultry consumers who prefer not to eat raw meat, cooked chicken samples had higher levels of inorganic arsenic than their uncooked counterparts.
Using a model for cancer risk developed by the EPA, the researchers estimated that based on the levels of inorganic arsenic discovered in the study, industry-wide use of arsenical drugs could cause an average of 124 cancers per year.
Good science to shift bad policy?
The levels of inorganic arsenic discovered in chicken are cause for concern, especially since many of us are already exposed to the carcinogen through additional dietery and environmental paths (for instance, see Consumer Reports' 2012 report about arsenic in rice). But unlike these other sources of exposure, which typically result from natural arsenic deposits, industry or residual contamination from the days of widespread arsenical pesticide use, as noted in the study, "arsenical poultry drugs are deliberately administered to animals intended for human consumption. Consequently, exposures resulting from use of these drugs are far more controllable than exposures from environmental sources."
The authors of the study concluded their analysis in the reserved, impartial tone characteristic of practiced scientists, stating, "Our findings suggest that eliminating the use of arsenic-based drugs in food animal production could reduce the burden of arsenic-related disease in the U.S. population." Since I'm not writing for a peer-reviewed science journal, I'll allow myself to be a little less diplomatic in my own summary: this study provides further evidence that continued use of arsenicals in food animal production poses an entirely unnecessary threat to public health. While the practice might boost the profits earned by poultry giants and the manufacturers who supply them with arsenical drugs, it's imprudent and irresponsible. As such, the FDA has no legitimate justification for its ongoing failure to prohibit arsenicals from food animal production.
This post was originally published on Ecocentric blog.


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Think a company like Facebook, with more than a billion mobile users, couldn't go responsive? Mike Finch tells us they already are for products like code.facebook.com. They're starting small.
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Mike Finch is a designer, writer, and coffee enthusiast living in the Pacific Northwest. He's the founder of Open Design; a project to get designers more involved in open source, and has had the pleasure of designing for companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Oracle.
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Hi, this is a Responsive Web Design Podcast, where we interview the people who make responsive designs happen. I'm your host, Ethan Marcotte.
Karen:
And I'm your other host, Karen McGrane.
And this week, well, there aren't enough thumbs up icons in the world to express how excited Karen and I are to be speaking with Mike Finch from Facebook. Mike, thanks so much for joining us.
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Oh, are you kidding? It's great to have you.
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So Mike, why don't you just introduce yourself, tell us a little bit about what you do at Facebook, and maybe tell us a little bit about how responsive design intersects with that.
I'm a product designer on the platform team at Facebook. I'm currently the designer of Facebook Analytics. It's a tool that's built for app developers to better understand how their users actually use their apps; it's great for usage insights, A/B testing, that kind of stuff. In regards to responsive design specifically, we're in the process of making Facebook Analytics responsive, and I've had some reasonable success with a few other projects at Facebook, getting them to go responsive.
That's really exciting to hear. Maybe you could tell us a little bit about that process of going responsive at Facebook. That could be either with the Facebook Analytics product, or I know you worked on code.facebook.com, I think you mentioned that that was one of the earlier projects you worked on. I'd just be curious how you actually convinced folks that responsive was the right way to go for those products. Were there any questions that came up, or concerns? What were some of the driving factors for going responsive?
That's a great question. Let me rewind for a couple of years: So, it's 2010 or 2011, something like that, I'm sitting at An Event Apart in Boston and this guy named Ethan Marcotte takes the stage, and he started talking about this concept called responsive web design, the idea basically that you could build your site once and it worked anywhere on any device. And I remember sitting there—and this is a totally true story—I remember sitting there and I really needed to pee…
I've basically been a responsive design advocate since that day, honestly.
[laughs]
…But I'm listening to this guy talking on the stage and I actually remember having some inner dialogue, weighing the pros and cons of leaving to use the restroom versus holding it in and getting a kidney infection, because I didn't want to miss a word that the guy had to say. I'm very happy to say that I chose the kidney infection.
I've basically been a responsive design advocate since that day, honestly. Every place that I've worked, every project I've worked on, it's something that I've championed since that day. Really, why go responsive on any project, really? I would say it's just because it's the right thing to do. And I think being able to share that passion with the developers and the PMs, the stakeholders that you work with, I think they get it; I think they get it just like I got it at An Event Apart, sitting there, trying not to pee.
I really love the idea of using responsive design planning as a technique of pruning your existing site's content. I'm not really a fan of removing content for mobile.
Let me ask you something sort of broadly about how Facebook looks at the changes that have happened in the industry since that time, around the increasing population of mobile users. I think when Ethan and I talk to companies about responsive design, there's sometimes this sense from people that they want to point to enormous platforms, like Facebook or Google, that are not responsive for their web front-end and suggest that, "Well, if Facebook and Google aren't doing it, well, maybe we shouldn't do it either." And with Facebook increasingly tipping to—you know, I think you're essentially a mobile product at this point—can you talk about how you describe the needs of a mobile user versus a desktop user? And are those different, and do they affect the way you think about platforms?
That's a great question. So in our Q3 earnings call a couple weeks ago, we announced that we've got now over 1.4 billion people on Facebook on a mobile device each month, and over a billion of that is on Android specifically. Our total monthly active user count is currently 1.55 billion, so we're definitely a mobile-first company at this point; internally it's how it's discussed.
Lately we've been focusing on refining our mobile experiences in emerging markets, areas like Latin America and Africa, places like that. Earlier this June, we launched Facebook Lite, which is like a new version of Facebook for Android that uses a fraction of the data, specifically for poor network areas. It's only like a megabyte in size, so it's super fast to install and load. And, again, considering that there are 900 million active users on WhatsApp and 400 million on Instagram, we're definitely a mobile-centric company.
Your content in one place should be your content everywhere, just presented appropriately for its context.
I'll say it this way: I really love the idea of using responsive design planning as a technique of pruning your existing site's content. I'm not really a fan of removing content for mobile because it goes back to the outdated philosophy of having separate versions of your website, right? Your content in one place should be your content everywhere, just presented appropriately for its context, the context that it's shown in.
I think Facebook is starting to come around to that, actually. So, we're seeing more and more one-off projects becoming responsive throughout the company. There are different exploratory projects in play right now, seeing what else we can make responsive without breaking everything, you know? It's something we're constantly talking about. But we're starting small and trying to grow from there.
The successes I've had so far getting teams to adopt responsive design have all come from just starting super small, something like establishing a responsive grid, and just getting that to work properly.
Mike, I'd love to hear a little bit about scoping. It sounds like you're in the middle of a responsive retrofit right now with Facebook Analytics, but the code.facebook project I think you mentioned was, more or less, a ground-up design project. Just generally, how do you think about structuring and scoping a responsive project? If you've worked on subsequent projects or even newer ones, has your process changed for how you structure those projects?
The successes I've had so far getting teams to adopt responsive design have all come from just starting super small, something like establishing a responsive grid, and just getting that to work properly; no bells and no whistles, just starting as small as possible and establishing a precedent for future responsive design work going forward. Specifically when it comes to our engineering blog, code.facebook.com, I think really we were just concerned with, again, establishing that precedent with something small.
There are a lot of benefits of starting small, right? There's less to go wrong, there's less hoops to jump through, there's less of a risk involved. So, I think when it came to scoping the engineering blog for example, we just tried to go as small as possible to get something out the door that we could build on later.
When we're showing and displaying work to stakeholders for example, when we're showing it on a desktop, they don't necessarily care or notice that the grid is suddenly responsive.
Let me follow up on that and ask specifically about your thoughts on how you best roll out or facilitate a transition to responsive within an organization like Facebook. When Ethan and I were out in Seattle, you gave a fantastic talk on starting small, and I'd be very curious to know: how do you think about getting responsive into the water? How do you think about taking an existing product, like Analytics, and doing a retrofit on it? How do those rollout processes work for you at Facebook?
Because all of these projects are just smaller one-off projects with really small scopes, we just kind of went for it, to be honest, instead of having a gradual rollout or anything like that.
One thing in regards to stakeholders and getting buy-in specifically on some of these projects: we have a ton of autonomy at Facebook, and our stakeholder buy-ins, they're a bit more relaxed than some other places. Most stakeholders of Facebook are just interested in the goals and the results and less about the tactical ways that teams tackle those goals. So we definitely have a lot of autonomy and we're able to chase down solutions kind of as we see fit; we're largely trusted to do those things in the way that we feel is best.
Because of that, when we're showing and displaying work to stakeholders for example, when we're showing it on a desktop, they don't necessarily care or notice that the grid is suddenly responsive, that it's on a fluid grid that actually goes down to mobile. Those aren't things that you just see that are obvious by default. So, I don't think anyone really, at that level, really cares, as long as things are happening in a positive manner and is positive for the user.
Whether we're talking about mobile or desktop, everything on the screen should have to fight for its existence to be there.
Mike, tell me a little bit more about the responsive retrofitting projects. I liked what you were saying about putting the emphasis on the needs of the mobile user and just sort of building up from there. So if you're taking a desktop-specific property, or one that was designed for the desktop, how are you making decisions about what to keep and what to get rid of? Or are you even able to sort of streamline the content to make it more mobile-first appropriate? Tell me a little bit more about that process.
Yeah, I think that everything in general, whether we're talking about mobile or desktop, everything on the screen should have to fight for its existence to be there, I think.
What responsive design does, is it forces you to evaluate the content on your site, on your page, and say, "Is this really necessary?
What responsive design does, especially in the early stages of planning, is it forces you to evaluate the content on your site, on your page, and say, "Is this really necessary? Is this the right content that we're showing at the right time?" I feel that while different parts of it maybe emphasized in different ways, I feel the content should basically be the same from page to page, whether you're on desktop or mobile, and not creating two separate experiences.
Let's talk a little bit more about design process; let's get in the weeds a little bit more. Mike, you've been a long-time advocate of responsive design. Has your design process changed over the last few years? And more specifically, at Facebook, are the applications and tools you're using to produce a design, to talk about the design, to share it with other people, have those changed as well?
The tools that we use at Facebook—again, having complete autonomy over how we work, you get to pick and choose which tools you use and in what manner you use them, there's no standard across the board. So some people prefer making assets and screens from Illustrator or Photoshop or Sketch—I personally use Sketch.
My design process, I wouldn't say it's changed actually that much. The way I kind of design is similar to Brad Frost's Atomic Design and Pattern Lab that he's set up. So I start by creating a library of common UI patterns and controls in Sketch, and when it comes to designing in screens, all your little LEGO bricks are already right there, so all you have to do is kind of click and drag elements into place. So, Sketch also has great art board presets for desktop, tablet, mobile, so in the case of a responsive design project, it's simply a matter of dragging those components into three art boards instead of one. So the process actually hasn't changed that much for me.
By instituting responsive design, it's not that anything changes on desktop necessarily, it's just that now you get mobile for free.
Let's talk about how the process of reviewing your work with the rest of the organization might have changed. So, many teams that we talk to, as they move to a responsive design process, they have moved away from looking at static comps and are now reviewing prototypes, and that changes the way their team interacts. Has that changed at Facebook, or is a responsive review process essentially the same as all the other work you've been doing for a while?
On most teams at Facebook, there are almost two different kinds of design reviews: there's one with your immediate design team and another with your cross-functional team, like the PM you work with and all the engineers. The immediate design team review is more of a UX and craft-based critique, and the cross-functional review is more about addressing specific business goals. Neither have really changed much with the adoption of responsive design.
Thankfully, the beautiful thing about responsive design, I feel, is that if your application or your site has traditionally been desktop-only, by instituting responsive design, it's not that anything changes on desktop necessarily, it's just that now you get mobile for free. In that, it really hasn't changed much, I would say.
As far as communicating some of these new design patterns with the rest of Facebook, it's great. We have a team dedicated specifically to UI patterns that we use across different Facebook properties, and those are built out in different tools, like Photoshop and Sketch, and they're available for both desktop and mobile screens. So, again, we've got quite a bit of UI backing and precedent for making these mobile screens, so the communication process of updating one particular property to be responsive, it actually isn't that big of a deal in our organization because all of the patterns are still the same.
The performance and load times and everything that we care about and look at regularly actually hasn't been any worse. If anything, it's been better.
Mike, maybe you could tell me a little bit about this word I keep hearing, which is performance. Given the fact that Facebook is obviously very focused on emerging markets and lower network constraints, is that something that you've found has kind of bubbled up to some of the responsive projects that you've worked on? And if so, how do you actually define what constitutes good performance for the stuff that you're doing?
Yeah, that's a great question. It is somewhat of a cop-out answer, but it completely depends on the product. So, the performance metrics that we might judge, for example, Instagram on—just as an example—might not be the right set of performance metrics to judge Messenger on.
But in the case of Facebook Code, we really just wanted people to come, relax and learn, really, about the open source work that we're doing. So load times are important, time on site, things like that. But it really does vary from team to team.
You can definitely have very intense applications running, very robust systems, and they can be responsive and still load in a very quick, timely manner.
I will say that looking at the metrics before and after we decided to go responsive on some of these projects, the performance and load times and everything that we care about and look at regularly actually hasn't been any worse. If anything, it's been better. So it's definitely a strong testament to the way that we're building some of these products that you can definitely have very intense applications running, very robust systems, and they can be responsive and still load in a very quick, timely manner. So, it's been great.
We have not only a device lab, but we've got a different cellular service for those devices. We can actually emulate the service on a particular device in an emerging market like Kenya.
That's awesome. This might be circling back a little bit on process, but tell me a little bit about how you tend to QA your responsive projects. Are you doing device testing? Do you have a device lab that you work with? Tell me a little bit more about the way you just sort of make sure everything is working.
Yeah, we have a great device lab in Menlo Park. Actually, we have not only a device lab, but we've got a different cellular service for those devices. We can actually emulate the service on a particular device in an emerging market like Kenya, for example. We can actually pick up the device that is most sold in Kenya, we can experience the speeds, for example, that they would be experiencing there, and we can test accordingly on that.
In regards to our QA process, I don't think it's really changed that much. Being mobile-first now for a few years, our engineers have a pretty good cadence to their browser and device testing, and they've taken those responsive changes in stride, again, because they're already accustomed to designing and optimizing for all these different devices all around the world.
I would imagine that Facebook has astonishingly robust ways of measuring the success of its applications or its products. Has that changed at all when the product was responsive? Like, do you still evaluate the success of the product by looking at the lens of mobile, tablet, and desktop even though a responsive product works across all of those?
So, in our analytics we basically would look at how many people viewed, for example, Facebook Code on desktop and on mobile. And in this case, in the example of Facebook Code, it's about twenty-five percent of users that view it on a mobile device. We would essentially treat that and those metrics, we would slice that off and treat it like we would any other Facebook product that has a specific mobile site for it. So as far as evaluating maybe Facebook Code against the actual Facebook site, we would look at the number of mobile users on Facebook Code and then compare those stats to the users using Facebook on a mobile device.
It's easier to get buy-in on anything if the barrier to entry is low; and if your responsive work has unintended consequences, starting small allows you to fix those mistakes easier.
Well Mike, I've got to say, it's been fantastic talking to you today and I really appreciate you taking a few minutes to chat with Karen and I. Before we let you go, I've got to ask: if any of our listeners are about to start a responsive project, do you have any advice for them? Are there things that you've learned that you would like to share with other organizations who are thinking about a responsive redesign?
Yeah, definitely: just start small. I've found the most success with responsive projects just starting small. Definitely don't be like me coming from An Event Apart, all idealistic, full of ideas—you'll scare people with that kind of enthusiasm. Instead, play it cool and start small with a small goal. You have less to lose if things go badly, it's easier to get buy-in on anything if the barrier to entry is low; and if your responsive work has unintended consequences, starting small allows you to fix those mistakes easier. There are fewer variables to deal with, with user testing; it's easier to user test, faster to build. Just start small, really. Just try to get something out the door and use it as a precedent to build on.
Well Mike, I've got to say thank you for taking the time to talk about your work at Facebook here today. Ethan and I were both so excited to have you on because I think we're both really impressed with what you've been doing.
Oh, it's been my pleasure, really. Thank you so much for having me today.
No, it's been great. So, I look forward to hearing more from you and thanks again.
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reason make was left out, we already got that.
that busybox does not, we shall see if it's really needed.
the busybox awk does not support.  So put gawk back in.
this problem, I did not look deeper.  See next step for why.
Grub was left off for the same reason it was left out of lfs-bootstrap.
of aboriginal linux.  Readline is only in LFS as a dependency of bash.
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What is it that I am doing, that my husband is doing, that my son's father is doing, that my sons step-mother is doing, that all of his aunties and uncles are doing … that is tailoring my son to be adored and respected … to be adorable and respectable?
Maybe nothing. Maybe puberty comes and all those hormones and all those teen experiences just cause some boys to crack.
My son is well adored by his teachers, classmates, and his many aunties and uncles. He is the kid other kids confide in. He is a natural mediator. He is funny, yet polite. At the same time he is a "typical" kid and pre-teen.
Is it just his stars aligned at his birth that made my son this way? I usually think so. I usually don't take much credit for my son's winning ways of being. It's easy to say, "oh, it's just his personality".
(1) Ensure that your son is not in the presence of honorable and respectable men EVERY DAY, and that multiple winning men do not have any hand in raising him.
(3) Forgo clear and consistent boundaries. Angry confused boys should not know where they end and the rest of the world begins.
3a. Don't take any measures to teach him how to "read" other people's unspoken communications, even at a young age.
3b.	Don't give him examples of how emotionally healthy adult men and women say, "No" firmly, or ask powerfully for what they want.
(5)	Don't give him opportunities to learn to manage his own energy or brain chemistry with nutrition, physical movement/exercise, true downtime, or alone-time.
(6) Shy away from seeking therapy immediately when your son exhibits abuse on animals, other kids, or smaller children — This means he shares a common tendency with convicted criminals and serial murderers and criminals — He should wear his tendency as the "he's just being a boy" badge of honor.
(8)	*Do Not Lead by Example* when it comes to doing meaningful work in the world - charity work or engaging in a career, or activities that benefit the greater community.
What good a parent with purpose?
What good is a child who grows into a man with a purpose?
What good is a man with a purpose?
(9) Give him little space to feel and express his own big emotions, or have regular heart-to-heart talks with you about uncomfortable things.
9a.	Pretend that you do not feel or express big emotions.
9b.	Give him no live examples of how healthy adults get angry and work through stuff.
9c.	Ignore opportunities to teach him therapeutic ways for him to express anger, frustration, or other big emotions.
(10) Don't teach him that his words and actions *always* have impact on others, and the possible consequences of that.
(11) Complain, Criticize, or practice martyrdom to get your what you want, rather than make clear requests of your son.


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It is contained in a variable called $data. When I debug, it tells me that region.regions is an array, but I cant use it as such.
This is how I read the data into my var:
$data = json_decode($jsonStringFromApiCall, true);

Please help, thanks!

A: Hope this may help you..
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A: $data = json_decode($jsonStringFromApiCall, true);

you can now get data using $data['region.regions']

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