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NDP 2018: Performances come together from the land, skies and water for the parade
Singapore Army's Red Lion approaching the Marina Bay floating platform on Aug 9, 2018.ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
Spectators at the Marina Bay floating platform on Aug 9, 2018.ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG
Home-grown band MICappella sang a medley of National Day songs including Singapore Town, Count On Me Singapore and We Are Singapore.ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE
Singapore Army's Red Lions arrived the Marina Bay floating platform on Aug 9, 2018. ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE
The crowd waiting for the National Day Parade to start, at the Floating Platform on Aug 9, 2018. ST PHOTO: NG SOR LUAN
A member of the naval diving unit preparing to land on the water during the National Day Parade on Aug 9, 2018. ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
F-15SG fighter jets conducting a flyby in close formation during the National Day Parade on Aug 9, 2018. ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
President Halimah Yacob inspecting the guard of honour at the National Day Parade on Aug 9, 2018. ST PHOTO: BENJAMIN SEETOR
The crowd forming the text for "We love SG" at the Floating Platform on Aug 9, 2018. ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong waving to the crowd after arriving at the Floating Platform for the National Day festivities, on Aug 9, 2018. ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
Performers dancing during the National Day Parade at the Floating Platform on Aug 9, 2018. ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
Dancers performing on a floating stage representing the dragon playground during the National Day Parade, in Marina Bay on Aug 9, 2018. ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE
Fireworks are seen during the National Day Parade on Aug 9, 2018.ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
Aug 9, 2018, 6:16 pm SGT
http://str.sg/oPwL
Tan Tam Mei
tammei@sph.com.sg
SINGAPORE - Looking up into the sky, 25,000 people at Singapore's 53rd birthday bash raised their voices in unison to sing Majulah Singapura as fireworks in the formation of five stars shot up.
Up to 3,000 fireworks lit up the sky for about 12 minutes on Thursday (Aug 9) during the two-hour long National Day Parade (NDP). Earlier in the evening, daylight fireworks were featured for the first time during the pre-parade segment which started at 5.30pm.
Singapore's annual birthday bash began in full swing with the Marina Bay Floating Platform serving as the perfect backdrop for the show to utilise the land, water and skies, in the various performances and displays.
The crowd was greeted by show hosts Ebi Shankara, Joakim Gomez, Nadiah M. Din, Sonia Chew and Gurmit Singh, who rallied them in cheers and games in anticipation of the evening's festivities.
The hosts were joined by iconic and lovable Singapore mascots Captain Green, Nila the Lion, Sharity Elephant, Singa the Courtesy Lion, Water Wally and Teamy the Bee, who ambled on stage to the delight of everyone at the float.
As part of the drive to make the parade more interactive, paradegoers were encouraged to pen down something about themselves to complete the "I am..." message, on the placards in their funpacks.
For the first song of the evening, spectators were treated to a rousing performance by home-grown band MICappella, who sang a medley of National Day songs including Singapore Town, Count On Me Singapore and We Are Singapore.
Parliamentarians arriving at NDP 2018
As the band sang its last note, everyone's attention was directed to the skies as a Super Puma appeared about 1,800m above the floating platform.
For the first time ever, paradegoers got to witness the naval combat divers from the Republic of Singapore Navy execute a free-fall jump for the parade.
Donning their operational gear and dive fins, the eight divers glided swiftly from above and into the waters surrounding Marina Bay.
But that was not the only spectacular free fall paradegoers got to see, as soon after, the crowd favourite Singapore Army's Red Lions arrived on a C-130. They then swooped in from a height of 3,800m in their new wingsuits, before landing effortlessly on the platform.
Red Lion landing during NDP
The parade and ceremony segment kicked off immediately after at 6.20pm, with the military tattoo consisting of more than 560 participants, the largest ever for the parade.
This was followed by the march-in of the 33 contingents, with the segment led by parade regimental sergeant major, Master Warrant Officer Tay Ban Heng and parade commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Shawn Ingkiriwang.
Undergraduate Steve Wong, 23, said that his favourite part of the parade was seeing the Red Lions and naval combat divers.
"They really show how much an individual can achieve if they put in effort and practice," he said, adding that he also enjoyed seeing the contingents march.
NDP contingents marching onto platform
The combined schools choir also made a comeback for the celebrations after a five-year hiatus. Made up of 220 secondary school students, the choir led the crowd in National Day favourites such as Chan Mali Chan and Munnaeru Vaalibaa.
The platform was also filled with loud cheers and shouts at the arrival of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and President Halimah Yacob, who attended her first parade after taking office in September last year.
NDP: President Halimah waving to the crowd after inspecting guard of honour
Following the national anthem and the state flag fly-past, all eyes were once again trained on the skies for the aerial display by the Republic of Singapore Air Force. The fly-past and display involved a total of 26 aircraft, including helicopters, fighter jets and transport planes – the biggest air force contingent to fly over Marina Bay.
NDP: Fighter jets fly past during the parade
Just as the sun had set, the show segment began with Act 1 - Our People, Our Home, which saw singer Joanna Dong performing My Island Home. This was complemented by a mass dance by 600 performers from the Institute of Technical Education who donned various costumes to represent Singaporeans from all walks of life.
They were also joined by 200 participants from organisations like Sembcorp, Nanyang Polytechnic and Changi Airport Group, who were also there to symbolise the diversity and unity of Singapore.
Fireworks going off at the NDP
Act 2 followed with an enchanting performance reflecting the hopes and aspirations of Singaporeans.
Singer Aisyah Aziz performed Water Is Wide against a visual spectacle of illuminated lanterns and 18m-long balloon garlands which swayed gracefully in the wind.
The segment also saw the waters in the Bay come alive with a water procession of dazzling boats and floats sailing by in the form of iconic landmarks like the dragon and pelican playgrounds.
The third act celebrated Singapore's spirit and strength through a dance performance by 650 members of the Singapore Soka Association. In sparkling colour-changing costumes, they formed the shapes of a heart and a house on the stage. They were also joined by singers including Shak'thiya Subramaniamm and Vanessa Fernandez, as well as indie pop band M1LDL1FE.
NDP spectators wishing for peace, stability and harmony for Singapore's birthday
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WATCH: Hangout with ST brings readers behind-the-scenes glimpse into NDP
In Pictures: Singapore celebrates 53rd National Day
Ms Huang Zijuan, 35, who attended the parade with her son Gideon, six, said of the new activity involving the placards this year: "It's fun and an interactive thing to do to get mass involvement."
Gideon's favourite part of the show was the Singapore Soka Association performance.
"They are like butterflies," he said.
The segment was rounded off with a performance by busking duo Mashruddin Saharuddin and his son Nizaruddin, with their rendition of the National Day song favourite - Home.
In the grand finale of the parade, about 500 performers from the People's Association took to the stage to give a vibrant and energetic performance using ethnic drums to rally the crowd. Composer of this year's National Day song Charlie Lim also appeared on stage and led the audience in the remix of the 1987 classic We Are Singapore.
The segment also featured a symbolic moment of unity when everyone at the platform was called on to take the pledge and sing the National Anthem in unison.
Teacher Geraldine Tham, 25, was at her third NDP with her fiance, dentist Alexander Lee, 25.
Ms Tham said: "It's special to be here because I studied overseas for the past couple of years, and it's nice to feel the Singapore spirit again. I hope we continue to appreciate what we have, to grow our strengths, and to stay united."
Retired elderly home operations executive Haroon Omar, 69, said: "I wish for more progress for Singapore, and hope that future generations will see more prosperity than what we have now."
The last rush of fireworks and merry music capped off the night's festivities as a fitting finale for the nation's biggest party.
NATIONAL DAY PARADE 2018


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Philippine National Police girds for 'Rosita'
Zaida Delos Reyes
PHILIPPINE National Police (PNP) chief Director General Oscar Albayalde yesterday ordered all directors of regions threatened by Typhoon Rosita to be on alert and take precautionary measures to prevent possible serious damage.
Albayalde said as part of the PNP's effort to help the government in protecting the public on the possible onslaught of Typhoon Rosita, he directed the regional directors of Ilocos-Pangasinan, Cagayan Valley and Cordillera Regions to be on alert.
The chief PNP directed them to activate their disaster response teams and strictly coordinate with local government units (LGUs) and Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council agencies on possible move they needed.
Albayalde also ordered them to alert their specialized search and rescue units for posible augmentation forces in nearby regions that will be affected by "Rosita".
33 areas under storm signal.
Thirty-three areas in the country were placed under tropical cyclone warning signals as Typhoon Rosita continues to threaten southern Isabela and northern Aurora.
Areas under storm Signal No. 3 are Isabela, Quirino and northern part of Aurora.
Storm Signal No. 2 was hoisted over Cagayan, Abra, Kalinga, Ilocos Sur, Mountain Province, Ifugao, La Union, Benguet, Nueva Vizcaya, Pangasinan, Tarlac, Nueva Ecija, northern part of Quezon, including Polillo Island and southern part of Aurora.
Areas under Storm Signal No. 1 were southern part of Quezon, Ilocos Norte, Apayao, Batanes, Babuyan Group of Islands, Zambales, Rizal, Pampanga, Bulacan, Metro Manila, Laguna, Batangas, Bataan, Cavite and Camarines Norte.
An update issued yesterday by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) showed that Typhoon Rosita was monitored at 410 kilometers east northeast of Casiguran, Aurora.
It is still moving west southwest at 20 kilometers per hour (km/h).
At 11 a.m. yesterday, the weather bureau reported that Rosita weakened due to its interaction with the northeast monsoon or hanging amihan.
Typhoon Rosita has maximum winds of 150 km/h from the previous 170 km/h, and gustiness of up to 185 km/h from the previous 210 km/h.
PAGASA said Rosita remains a threat, with a wide diameter of 600 kilometers.
It warned that stormy weather is expected in areas under Signal Nos. 2 and 3. It is risky to travel by land in those areas.
Moderate to heavy rain and strong to very strong winds were expected to begin hitting Northern Luzon and Central Luzon by Monday evening.
The weather bureau reported that Rosita would make a landfall yesterday in the southern Isabela-northern Aurora and is expected to cross Aurora, Isabela, Quirino, Ifugao, Nueva Vizcaya, Benguet and La Union.
This afternoon, Rosita might exit landmass.
PAGASA warned that flash floods and landslides are possible in areas in the typhoon's path.
There might also be storm surges up to three meters high in coastal areas of Isabela, Cagayan, Aurora, Ilocos Sur, Ilocos Norte and La Union.

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Q: php form saves only the last input field value I have a simple table "Exams" with the columns id, title and a form with a variable amount of exam input fields.
But when one submit the form the last value will be saved triple times.
I suppose it's because of the $sql_insert statement with the same value.
How can i change the code that the different values are submitted in that $sql_insert statement?
echo '<form action="" method="post">';
    for ($i = 1; $i <= $student['passed_exams']; ++$i) {
        echo 'Exams '.$i.' :';
        echo '<input type="text" id="id['.$i.']" name="title" placeholder="passed Exam" />';
        echo '
';
    }
echo '<input type="submit" value=" Submit " name="submit" /></form>';

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
    for ($i = 0; $i < $student['passed_exams']; ++$i) {
      $sql_insert = "INSERT INTO exams (title) VALUES ('".$_POST['title']."')";
      $dbConnection->query($sql_insert);
    }
    $dbConnection->close();
}

A: Php needs name as an array
echo '<form action="" method="post">';
    for ($i = 1; $i <= $student['passed_exams']; ++$i) {
        echo 'Exams '.$i.' :';
        echo '<input type="text" id="id['.$i.']" name="title['.$i.']" placeholder="passed Exam" />';
        echo '
';
    }
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    $dbConnection->close();
}

A: You need to make the title array first as
 name="title['.$id.']"

Then you have to save it as
$_POST['title'][$id]

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This is my first economic note since the election and a really important opportunity to update Australians on the state of the global economy and our plans to strengthen our own economy here at home. As always, this note will focus on the stable, successful economic management that has been a hallmark of the Labor Government to date rather than the current political circumstances. I also want to take this opportunity to reassure the business community that consistent with caretaker conventions, we will continue to responsibly manage the economy until a formal election result has been reached. Our commitment to business certainty and to responsible economic management remains a priority as the nation continues to work through the political processes and outcome of the federal election at a critical time for our economy. The global economic recovery is patchy, and there has been some unwelcome data abroad in recent weeks. It is that global context and our own June Quarter National Accounts release this Wednesday that I want to focus on in today's note.
The news from abroad in recent weeks has reminded us of the uncertainties and fragilities that remain in the global economy. While our region continues to perform strongly, the big industrialised economies are struggling to maintain growth momentum.
Across the Atlantic, European countries continue to face concerns around high sovereign debt, although the bright spot in Europe is Germany, where the pace of recovery has exceeded expectations. Japan's GDP figures released earlier this month also highlighted the fragile nature of the Japanese recovery with growth slowing to just 0.1 per cent in the June quarter as private demand stalled. All of these results show that the developed world recovery still has a long way to go and highlights the importance of experienced, stable and responsible economic management.
While the global economy is continuing to face difficult times, the success of the economic policies we put in place during the global crisis means Australia is in a strong position. We've got an unemployment rate the envy of the developed world at around half that of the US and Europe, a solid fiscal position, and a very strong pipeline of private investment about to get underway. And economic figures released last week further demonstrate that our economic prospects remain very bright.
There are signs that private construction activity is recovering, with figures released last week showing the value of construction work done rose by 3.5 per cent in the June quarter. Almost all of the growth in the June quarter was driven by stronger private building activity, highlighting the continued transition from stimulus‐led activity to private demand. It's certainly encouraging to see private sector activity picking up, as the stimulus projects that helped keep us out of recession continue to wind down.
The outlook for business investment is also very strong, with business investment plans for this financial year being upgraded significantly. The latest CAPEX (capital expenditure) figures released on Thursday indicate that businesses are planning to invest a massive $123 billion in 2010‐11 - an upgrade of 17.5 per cent from the previous quarter's estimate, and 24.3 per cent higher than the corresponding estimate for the previous financial year.
The huge pipeline of investment shown in this data is a strong vote of confidence in the Australian economy and its future prospects. It's also being fuelled by a booming mining sector, with mining investment plans for this year almost 50 per cent higher than the corresponding estimate for the previous year. This investment will continue to support growth and jobs in our economy well into the future.
Of course next Wednesday we will receive further information on the state of the Australian economy with the release of the June Quarter National Accounts. We'll have to wait to see the outcomes, but I'm optimistic that we'll continue to see private activity improve as our infrastructure stimulus winds down.
Australia's policy settings and solid foundations have placed the nation in a strong position to meet the challenges ahead from beyond our shores.
Over the past three years we've put in place a number of reforms to strengthen our economy. We've provided personal income tax cuts in each of the last three years to provide greater reward for effort and incentive to work and innovate. We're rolling out significant investments in critical economic infrastructure, including the National Broadband Network which will transform the way our businesses operate and help them compete. We've put in place a national curriculum and have more than doubled investment in skills and education. These investments are essential to meeting the needs of our workforce today and into the future. And we've moved towards a seamless national economy, including national occupational health and safety laws and consumer codes, as well as cutting red tape for businesses.
And when the global financial crisis hit our shores we took the necessary action to bolster confidence in our financial system and keep the economy growing. We introduced the bank guarantees to secure the flow of credit to households and businesses and put in place powerful economic stimulus. And that action worked, keeping Australia out of recession and Australian workers in jobs, something that proved simply impossible for almost every other advanced economy. Our economy emerged from the GFC with stronger growth than any advanced economy, growing by 1.3 per cent in 2009 when the output of advanced economies as a whole fell by 3.2 per cent. And since we took office, over half a million jobs have been created.
We got in and did what was necessary to keep Australia out of recession, and the Prime Minister and I have mapped out the economic plan we need to continue to strengthen and broaden our economy and ensure that we remain one of the strongest advanced economies in the world.
We've seen the difficulties that capacity constraints can pose for our economy in the past, which is why our plan is to invest in infrastructure across Australia, but especially the infrastructure our mining regions need to keep growing, and to build the skills of our workforce. We have a plan to cut company tax for all companies, and to deliver new tax breaks for all small businesses. This will drive investment, jobs and real wages.
fairer concessions for low income earners making superannuation contributions, and larger contribution limits for over 50s to help them make catch‐up contributions to their super.
I've been discussing these plans with Australians right around the country, not just over the past three months but over the past three years. These sorts of conversations are absolutely critical to ensure we build the stronger economy that gives more Australians a stake in our prosperity, so their hard work and initiative is properly rewarded, and so we can all help fulfil our nation's vast economic potential. Central to this is building a broad consensus behind the right economic plan for our future. I look forward to continuing that conversation with the release of Wednesday's National Accounts. To all who continue to show interest in our economy by reading my economic note and to all of you I've spoken with or corresponded with - many thanks.


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Q: Google Auto Factory / Dagger Integration: Dependencies on injected code It seems that Dagger doesn't explain at all how to deal with providing / managing auto generated code, such as what Google Auto Factory creates. Also the people at Google Auto don't really explain how to integrate back with Dagger so it's causing a pain for people like myself without very senior knowledge of how both libraries work.
The problem I'm seeing is that when you are not providing fully qualified names to factories generated by Google Auto Factory, Dagger will not pick them up at all. However, providing a fully qualified factory name will allow Dagger to link everything together correctly.
My question is that is this is this more of a general / undocumented issue while using Dagger you can come across or a bug that should be fixed in either library?
Works:
@Module(
        library = true,
        complete = false
    )
public class FactoryModule {

    @Provides
    MembersAdapterFactory provideMembersAdapterFactory(
        me.magneto.groups.adapters.MembersAdapterFactoryImpl membersAdapterFactory) {
        return membersAdapterFactory;
    }

}

Fails:
import me.magneto.groups.adapters.MembersAdapterFactoryImpl;

@Module(
          library = true,
          complete = false
       )
public class FactoryModule {

    @Provides
    MembersAdapterFactory provideMembersAdapterFactory(
        MembersAdapterFactoryImpl membersAdapterFactory) {
        return membersAdapterFactory;
    }
}

Factory of:
public interface MembersAdapterFactory {

    public MembersAdapter make(
                       Context context, int resource, List<Member> members);

}

@AutoFactory(
    className = "MembersAdapterFactoryImpl",
    implementing = { MembersAdapterFactory.class }
)
public class MembersAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<Member> {

    private MembersAdapterHelper mMembersAdapterHelper;

    MembersAdapter(@Provided MembersAdapterHelper membersAdapterHelper,
                   Context context,
                   int resource,
                   List<Member> members) {
        super(context, resource, members);
        mMembersAdapterHelper = membersAdapterHelper;
    }
}


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Nvidia Jetson TK1 review
With 192 Kepler GPU cores, the Jetson is king of the ARM-based developer boards
by: Gareth Halfacree
Fast processor; CUDA acceleration; Mini-PCI Express expansion; Low power consumption
Expensive; No Android support; GPIO not friendly to hobbyists
No doubt inspired by the phenomenal success of the Raspberry Pi, Nvidia has upped the ante with the Jetson TK1 - the most powerful commercially-available ARM-based developer board.
Who's going to use it?
Jetson includes the same graphics core design you'd find in Nvidia's laptop and desktop graphics products and even in its top-end Tesla high-performance computing (HPC) acceleration boards.
The TK1 is targeting developers who want to deploy compute-intensive systems in the automotive, computer vision, robotics and medical industries.
32-bit ARM Cortex-A15 general-purpose processing cores running at 2.3GHz.
There's a low-power ARM Cortex-15 core known as the 'Shadow Core', designed to keep the system ticking over when it's idle. And 192 Kepler-class graphics cores with CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) support provide the graphical horsepower.
It's clear from the specifications Nvidia is pushing power, and the Jetson TK1 has it in abundance. The cross-platform SysBench CPU test was blitzed in 7.31ms, faster than any ARM or single-board x86 computer we've ever tested.
Its Peacekeeper web-browsing score of 1,239 places it just below the iPad Air in terms of performance, and gives a clue as to its usability as a general-purpose computer.
The most impressive figure comes as a result of the Kepler CUDA cores: for those willing to port their applications to Nvidia's GPU offload language it hits 300GFLOP/s (billion floating point operations per second) in single-precision mode, although this figure plummets drastically in double-precision mode.
Installing Nvidia's CUDA libraries requires free membership of its developer program, which explains why they are not bundled as standard. The examples and tests included with the CUDA software development kit make it easy to get started, and despite having far fewer CUDA cores than a desktop graphics card, the Jetson TK1 runs through the sample programs with aplomb.
The Jetson TK1 is pre-installed with a copy of Linux 4 Tegra (L4T), a re-branding of Canonical's popular Ubuntu 14.04 Linux distribution, on a 16GB NAND flash partition. Initially, the system boots into a text-only console; a script, referenced in the brief documentation, installs some required drivers and loads the graphical user interface.
At this point, using the Jetson becomes the same as any other PC. Its responsiveness is excellent, as you would expect from a quad-core 2.3GHz processor, and the use of Ubuntu's software library means an excellent array of packages waiting to be installed.
L4T is also the only operating system supported by the Jetson TK1. The company has confirmed it will not be bringing Google's Android platform to the board, despite the Tegra K1 SoC seeing its most common use in Android-based tablets.
The lack of Android support is baffling. Nvidia's Tegra products rarely find uses outside of Google's ecosystem, and the first confirmed products to use the Tegra K1 all use the popular operating mobile system.
Small start-up firms looking to evaluate the Tegra K1 for an Android-based micro-console, tablet or smartphone could have used the Jetson TK1 as a low-cost system for prototyping and proving. But with only the Ubuntu-based Linux 4 Tegra operating system available, this route is forever closed.
Another aspect makes the Jetson TK1 a less tempting proposition for hobbyists is the general-purpose input-output (GPIO) header. Although 125 pins sounds extensive, compared to 26 pins of the Raspberry Pi, only seven on the TK1 are available for general use, plus a handful of extras that can be toggled. The remainder are designed for specific add-ons, such as touch-sensitive display panels and cameras.
The header also uses 2mm - rather than the common 2.54mm - pin spacing and 1.8V logic, making it impossible to directly connect widely used 3.3V and 5V logic components.
Nvidia specifies two target markets: CUDA developers looking to branch into embedded applications, and embedded developers looking to access more compute power.
The TK1 is a tempting device for the former market. Even Nvidia's low-end graphics cards draw too much power to be of use in embedded platforms, whereas the TK1 peaked at 14W during our testing. The chip that powers the Jetson, the Tegra K1, is already being implemented in automotive applications to do in a 10W envelope what had previously taken 100W.
For embedded developers it's a harder sell. While the ARM instruction set architecture is a de-facto standard for the embedded market, devs wanting to make the most of the TK1 will need to learn Nvidia's GPGPU offload language CUDA and port their applications accordingly.
With 300 GFLOP/s of single-precision compute on offer, it could well turn out to be a worthwhile investment - especially in computer vision applications, for which Nvidia provides mature libraries as part of its CUDA software development kit.
The Jetson's GPIO header suggests Nvidia's target market is professionals, but it is equally accessible for hobbyists as it can be picked up from high-street retailer Maplin Electronics in the UK.
Hobbyists may be tempted by the promise of extreme performance and GPU-accelerated computer vision libraries, but are likely to struggle to get the most out of the board. Enterprise users, meanwhile, will likely opt for Nvidia's partner-only reference designs and their usual non-disclosure agreements.
Still, there is high-performance on offer here if you can tap into it as the Kepler CUDA cores are great for acceleration of highly-parallelisable workloads.
The Jetson provides high performance at a premium. Hobbyists will be frustrated by the limited general-purpose input-output (GPIO) while developers will bemoan the lack of Android support.
OS: Tegra 4 Linux (Canonical Ubuntu 14.04)
Processor: 2.3GHz Nvidia Tegra K1, four Cortex-A15 cores, one Cortex-A15 'Shadow Core'
Graphics: 192 852MHz Kepler CUDA cores
Memory: 2GB DDR3L 933MHz RAM on a 64-bit bus, 4MB ROM
Storage: 16GB NAND flash (SD card, SATA expansion available)
Connectivity: Realtek RTL8111GS 10/100/1000 Ethernet networking
Ports: 1x RS232, 1x HDMI, 1x USB 3.0, 1x micro-USB 2.0, 1x Ethernet, 1x analogue audio out, 1x analogue audio in, 1x SATA with four-pin power, 1x JTAG, 125x GPIO, 1x single-lane mini-PCI Express slot
Power Draw: ~3W idle, ~14W full load (CPU and GPU)
Weight: 120g (excluding PSU)


We're re-airing this talk with the news that Jlin and William Basinski are reconnecting for an upcoming Talkhouse Podcast happening live on Pitchfork Radio at Midwinter.
Jlin and William Basinski are two of today's most fascinating and gifted composers. Basinski works with decaying analogue tape loops to create ambient soundscapes, while Jlin constructs brilliant, stuttering reimaginings of footwork rhythms. The friends and collaborators sat down in the Sonos room at Rough Trade NYC for one of three conversations that Talkhouse curated for Northside Festival. The two get into Basinski's tribute to his hero David Bowie, Jlin's boundary-pushing collaborations with cutting-edge dancers, and how a cat on the loose ended up significantly contributing to Basinski's artistry.
Today's episode was recorded and co-produced by Mark Yoshizumi.


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Description: OpenSSL has released a security advisory in response to CVE-2017-3733, a denial of service vulnerability that was privately disclosed to the OpenSSL Software Foundation. CVE-2017-3733 manifests "if the Encrypt-Then-Mac extension is negotiated" during the re-negotiation handshake when "it was not in the original handshake" of a SSL/TLS connection (or vice-versa). Exploiting this could cause both clients and servers to crash. OpenSSL has released a software update for the 1.1.0 branch to addressed this vulnerability. CVE-2017-3733 does not affect OpenSSL 1.0.2.


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The 'Restore Down/Maximize' button I refer to is the one that appears in the middle of the three icons at the top right of any Windows window, between the [_] (minimize) and the [x] (close) buttons.
1. Make sure your desktop has no open windows on it, and nothing docked to any side of your desktop.
3a. If Firefox starts maximized, press the 'Restore Down/Maximize' button at the top right of the window twice.
3b. If Firefox does not start maximized, press the 'Restore Down/Maximize' button at the top right of the window three times.
4. Firefox should now be maximized. Observe the bottom right of the firefox window.
- No resizer grippy should be present because the window is maximized.
Caused by bug 407201 it seems.
not only that, you can actually resize a maximized window using the grippy.
Doesn't seem like a blocker, doesn't seem harmful in our testing, if not 100% correct.
I've noticed that when moving your focus out of the FF window and back to it - the gripper disappears again.
Essentially, what's happening here is that the attribute "sizemode" isn't changing to "maximized" when it happens. You can alt-tab away and alt-tab back and the value then changes, making the CSS rule(s) that depend on it work properly. What needs to happen is on maximize, update the "sizemode" attribute.
Perhaps an additional clue: when Forecastfox is set to appear at the right end of the status bar, the grippy (in the Maximized window mode) appears to the left of the Forecastfox elements, but to the right of all other statusbar elements. Using Forecastsfox's context selection of Options, then canceling, will make the grippy disappear. Resizing and maximizing will cause the grippy to again appear between the normal statusbar elements and Forecastfox.
Is bug 251599 at all related (i.e., would fixing this attribute fix full-screen too)?
This can be used to test how window.minimize(), maximize(), restore() calls and minimizing/maximizing the window manually affects window.windowState property and the sizemode attribute (the latter is used to determine visibility of the grippy).
Please check with the next trunk nightly - should be fixed.
It is still there using the same build.  You have to click the restore down button and then click the maximize button (same button) then the grippy will still show on the maximized window.
That is exactly what I did. However, it must be an add-on that is affecting things for my main-use profile. In using a plain, unadorned profile, the bug is still present.
> still show on the maximized window.
This is windows-only regression. It never worked on at least Mac (not sure about linux).
Bug 472258 was fixed on trunk (3.2) only, which should have fixed this issue.
comments 15&16 tested this on a build before the fix was checked in.
This seemingly is a problem on Linux as well.
I have this on Shiretoko 3.5 final.
On windows 7 RC with the latest trunk when I maximize the window the grippy is present for a split second then disappears. This results in the expected behaviour of not being able to resize the maximized windows using the grippy.
And also see this behavior, but actually it doesn't annoy me. For me, it's a feature, not a bug.
The only reason i see for changing it, is to imitate the behavior of other Windows Applications.
Would it be worth considering to keep the "bug", and actually implement it as a feature, as there's probably someone like me, who likes to resize their windows without having to click the Restore button first?
> Would it be worth considering to keep the "bug"
Possibly, but the way it worked in Firefox 3.5 was broken (code-wise) and it's fixed already in the development version. So your suggestion is effectively a request for another change.
If you care about it a lot, you could submit it separately, try to get input from the UI people, make a patch, get it reviewed and landed. Or just implement it as an extension, which should be simpler.
Okay. If a fix's already implemented, i'll not go any further with it.
After all, this is unintentional, and might confuse some people.
So this is fixed by bug 472258, as I said before. Marking as such.


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Q: Styling Tables - How to use column groups to modify TH tag located in that column I am new to modifying column groups in tables and trying to learn how label the css to make the TH in the featured column group a specific background color, as well as the TD's inside that column group.  My only problem is, I don't know how to setup the CSS to reflect ONLY those sections.
I have made an example table located at: http://jsbin.com/ocezon/1/edit
If I didn't phrase this correctly, please let me know and I will try to explain further.  I have labeled the TH and the TD's I'd like to be able to modify using the #table-5 #featured attribute assigned by column group.
I've tried code like #table-5 #featured TH { background: #000; } but that didn't work.

EDIT:  I found out that this probably isn't possible (and after trying numerous methods, I can't make it work either)...so I decided to give the answer to One Trick Pony for suggesting a method that does work; however, I slightly modified this method to make it easy to modify in the future: http://jsbin.com/icasom/1/edit

A: Without using colgroups, you can style the 3rd child of each row:
#table-5 th:nth-child(3){
  background: blue;
}

#table-5 tr td:nth-child(3){
  background: #C0000E;
}

http://jsbin.com/ocezon/3

I modified this to make it easier to work with multiple tables and make modifying in the future easier: http://jsbin.com/icasom/1/edit

A: your table has a strange HTML structure, colgroup and th not even wrap in a tr :

 <colgroup>
   <col class="row" />
  <col class="basic"/>
  <col class="premium" id="featured"/>
  <col class="enterprise"/>
</colgroup>

        row
        basic
        premium (modify this TH)
        enterprise

            blah
            blah
            blah (modfy this TD)
            blah

            blah
            blah
            blah (modfy this TD)
            blah

            blah
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you could maybe add somme rgba color to darken your background-colors:
http://jsbin.com/ocezon/9/ http://jsbin.com/ocezon/9/edit


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Proposal to boot Chicago cops from public schools rejected by school board
Carlos Ballesteros
Carlos Ballesteros/Injustice Watch
Essence Gathering, a rising senior at Lindbloom Math and Science Academy, was one of two dozen youth who protested outside of Chicago Board of Education president Miguel del Valle's house Wednesday ahead of a vote to terminate the contract between the school district and the Chicago Police Department.
In her four years at Dyett High School on the South Side, 17-year-old Destiny Bell remembers feeling like there weren't enough adults she could tap for emotional support. But there was always a police officer in the building.
"We need someone we can talk to," she said. "Not cops."
Bell, who graduated this month, is one of two dozen youth who protested outside Chicago Board of Education President Miguel del Valle's house Wednesday morning ahead of a school board meeting where members were set to vote on a resolution that would end the $33 million contract between Chicago's school district and police department. The contract pays for more than 200 police officers — or "school resource officers" — to be posted at 73 high schools, according to the district.
The activists outside del Valle's house invited the former city clerk and Illinois state senator to join them on the sidewalk and discuss their concerns about the danger posed by keeping police in schools, especially to Black, Latinx, and immigrant students
Del Valle declined.
"You can stay here as long as you don't make any noise but I want you to know I'm voting no on the resolution," he told the crowd from his front porch.
Chicago has nearly tripled per capita police spending since 1964, data show
For activists and city leaders calling on Mayor Lori Lightfoot to cut the police budget, it's clear that the money could be better spent elsewhere.
The school board president kept his word. The measure to end the school police contract failed to pass the seven-person board, as del Valle and three other board members voted against it. Before the vote, Del Valle cited concerns about gang activity in and around schools as justification for extending the contract. Three board members voted in favor of the resolution: Amy Rome, Luisiana Meléndez, and Elizabeth Todd-Breland.
"I'm a Black mother, I'm a resident of the South Side of Chicago, I'm a former LSC member, I'm a former high school college counselor, a historian, and an education researcher who studies race and education in Chicago," Todd-Breland said. "And in all of these roles, I am clear that police do not belong in schools."
She argued that having police in schools helps fuel the school-to-prison pipeline, and noted that police officers at Chicago schools have "about 2,000 misconduct allegations against them" and have cost the district millions in lawsuit settlements.
Destiny Bell, 17, blows bubbles outside Chicago Board of Education president Miguel del Valle's house Wednesday ahead of a vote to terminate the contract between the school district and the Chicago Police Department.
Wednesday's vote came as cities like Minneapolis, Portland, Oregon, and Charlottesville, Virginia, have recently taken steps to get cops out of their schools in the wake of mass protests against police violence and anti-Black racism, and calls to defund police departments.
An ordinance introduced in City Council last week to terminate the school police contract was successfully blocked by former police sergeant and chair of the City Council's public safety committee, Ald. Chris Taliaferro (29th).
However, at Wednesday's school board meeting, board member Dwayne Truss said each school should decide if they wan't police in their building or not.
"School resource officers are needed in the schools that want them," he said. "Chicago is a city of different communities. That's why LSC should be the ones empowered to make that decision because they understand their communities best."
Chicago City Council members also spoke at the board meeting to weigh in on the debate. Ald. Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez (33rd), a former school teacher, spoke in favor of the motion to get police officers out of schools.
"What my students needed was support — social workers, counselors, reliable adults that they could trust," she said. "They did not need police. Their communities are full of police."
But Taliaferro told board members that cops are needed in schools to thwart school shootings and other potential acts of violence.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot — who both appointed Taliaferro to his committee post and hand-picked the school board — has said she wants the decision to keep cops in schools to rest with individual Local School Councils, which are elected bodies at schools made up of parents, teachers, and community members.
When CPS allowed the councils to vote on whether cops should be removed from their schools, the district reported that LSC members at every school opted to keep them.
Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Stacey Davis-Gates says the district isn't giving schools the option to keep the money used for police to use for other programs if they're voted out.
"If Local School Councils say no, that they don't want police in their schools, they don't get that portion of the $33 million contract. It's a disingenuous argument," she said.
Mueze Bawany, an English and social studies teacher at Clemente Community Academy in West Town, joined protesters outside del Valle's home Wednesday because he wants the board to spend dollars allocated for police on social and emotional health for his students.
"The toughest part for me is seeing how many of our students need more than the support we can give in the classroom," he said. "A lot of my students have needs when it comes to mental health. A lot of my students come from hardship, especially my homeless students."
Essence Gathering, a rising senior at Lindbloom Math and Science Academy, who protested outside the school board president's house Wednesday, questioned whether police officers are necessary to keep schools safe.
"We have cops and we have security guards," she said. "I don't see the purpose of having both."
Unfortunately for her, students don't get a vote on the matter.
CPS Chief of Safety and Security Jadine Chou said at Wednesday's board meeting that school police officers undergo 40 hours of training from the National Association of School Resource Officers, plus another eight hours of training on CPS protocols and the student code of conduct.
Chou said the number of times high schools have used police for assistance has gone down from about 3,000 calls in the 2014-15 school to fewer than 1,200 in the 2018-19 school year.
Despite that drop, police are still being called on Black students at a higher rate than their peers. During the 2019-20 school year, Black students accounted for 60% of police notifications at schools, even though they make up 36% of the district's student population, according to Chou.
Citlali Perez, 18, stands outside Chicago Board of Education president Miguel del Valle on Wednesday. Perez says having police officers in schools endangers students are undocumented immigrants.
Youth activists argue the numbers prove that police in schools puts Black students at risk of being siphoned into the school-to-prison-pipeline. Activists also argue that the officers endanger students who are undocumented immigrants, who can be deported or have their chances of attaining U.S. residency or citizenship dashed by a criminal record.
"We're at risk of being criminalized and being put into the criminal justice system when we're in our hallways," said Citlali Perez, 18, who graduated last year from Back of the Yards High School, a predominantly Latinx school in a community home to a large number of immigrants.
"We know about the risk of having a police interaction when you're undocumented, so when you have a cop in your school, that risk follows you."
Categories: Juvenile Justice, News, Police and Prosecutors
Tags: Chicago Police, Chicago Public Schools
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American Standards - The Death of Rhythm and Blues
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Here's some standards pertaining to American Standards for ya'll to ponder and think about.
How do you improve the socio-economic conditions and lives of a "minority" group in a nationstate as a whole? Hmm, I think our previous scholars have definitely figured this one out, and it's quite simple. Systematically tell them in school that all their failures, shortcomings, and under-achievements are not any direct faults of their own, but rather it's because of the caste system in which their great-grandparents and beyond were subjected to hundreds of years ago. And that the only reason why they cannot get jobs and be well-adjusted and integrated human beings in the healthy fabric of society is because they're subject to racism, no matter how covert or blatantly obvious, regardless of true or false. Indoctrinate them with a sense that another group or party is guilty for their blatant incompetence and laziness, and that the only reason why they dropped out of school is because the dominant and successful group who worked hard enough for their success are pinning them down. So that as an ethnic and racial group of people, they can always scapegoat a faultless group of people for their own genetic and biological failures to assimilate into successful societies. Encourage them to drop out of schools at an early age, and their young men to leave their girlfriends pregnant with children that they won't attend to, so that children are born out of wedlocks and become society taxpayer's burdens. Those who manage to stay a few more years in school, make sure you ingrain them with a sense of entitlement that because their stupid fucking neanderthal ancestors were wronged in the past, that it's socially justifiable to tread on the people who basically feed them like animals (as they're incapable of feeding and taking care of themselves). Have the media blatantly ignore and cover up black on white violence which happens once every few minutes on a daily basis in the western world, while blatantly exaggerate the tiniest bit of white on black wrong-doings so they become national cahoots. Have the media act exceptionally sensitive to black plights and paint rosey pictures about their trials and tribulations as if it was the intended consequences of white oppressors. With a system like this built in place, obviously black people are going places in life. Obviously they're going to topple glass ceilings one day and overcome this supposed racial barrier, which for now we won't argue whether it's biological or socially programmed.
How the fuck are these people EVER going to go anywhere if all society ever does is just coddle them and tell them that whites are the fault for all their competence and shortcomings? How are they ever gonna lift a finger and better their own sake if society continues to pour this welfare pity-blanket over them?
Why do we reward failures? Why does society go the extra mile for vulnerable groups if all they ever do is just bite the hands that feed?
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A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance) is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter (Michel Piccoli) to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife (Brigitte Bardot).


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VERDI Giuseppe
Messa da Requiem*, Quattro pezzi sacri**
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)*, Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano)*, Nicolai Gedda (tenor)*, Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass)*, Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)**, Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra/Carlo Maria Giulini
Recorded 1963-4*, 1962**
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The problem with recordings of this age is that they do not seem old enough to warrant the allowances we make for material derived from 78s and early mono LPs, but nor do they always entirely satisfy. More than actual distortion, of which there are only occasional traces as the choral sopranos ascend to fortissimo Bs and Cs, there is a certain woolliness about the sound, and the stereo images suggests that orchestra and chorus were not in their usual positions but just scattered around the studio anywhere. The slightly earlier recording of the Four Sacred Pieces is actually a little clearer. I don't want to give the idea that the sound is really bad, but it may not have helped my reactions to the performance.
Over the years generations of great Verdi conductors have demonstrated that performances of his works need that untranslatable word slancio together with a firm rhythmic groundswell which carries the music inexorably forward even over the longest dramatic span. For many, Giulini is among the great Verdi conductors, and here there are many marvels of lovingly shaped phrasing (and he is fortunate in having soloists who can sustain his slow tempi with absolutely no sign of strain). But for me the whole thing flounders because there is not the necessary rhythmic grip to hold it up. And when a performance lasts about 15 minutes longer than the norm this has a cumulative effect not evident when listening to individual sections. As one longer-than-usual movement follows another tension is dissipated and a boredom sets in which all Giulini's sincerity and inner conviction cannot alleviate.
Turn to another classic performance, the 1954 Fricsay, and hear how the Lacrimosa, for one, surges powerfully onward with no hint of haste while Giulini's gets bogged down by the heavy spelling out of the accompanying chords. And go where you will with your comparisons, it's the same story in every movement. Fricsay hasn't quite such good soloists (fine though they are, especially Maria Stader) and the mono recording distorts at climaxes, but the sound picture is clearer.
The Four Sacred Pieces are more suited to Giulini's approach and only the Te Deum is occasionally sapped of its coursing energy. The Stabat Mater is highly expressive.
It gives me no pleasure to write what may be seen as a nasty exercise in debunking. Richard Osborne's booklet notes state the case for the defence. A CD booklet would presumably not have been the place for doing otherwise but I have no doubt of his sincerity when he describes the performance, quoting Verdi's own words about Manzoni's principal work, as "a comfort to humanity", and I am sure very many readers will agree. I, too, have to be sincere and can only record that it does precious little for me.
The booklet includes the original texts and translations into English, German and French.
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EU signs 70 mn euro grant for Egypt job creation
Decision on 2014/2015 grant assistance to be taken next month, says EU ambassador to Cairo, and should create jobs in local communities
Ahram Online, Thursday 11 Sep 2014
James Moran, the Ambassador of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Egypt (Photo: Mostafa Abdel Aty, courtesy of D-CAF)
EU weighs aid, commercial links with Egypt
European bank to step up aid to Egypt: Governor
The European Union has ratified a grant of 70 million euros to fund an "emergency employment" programme in Egypt, EU ambassador to Egypt James Moran announced on Thursday.
The programme will include labour-intensive local community projects in small-scale infrastructure, waste management and other areas, an EU spokesperson told Ahram Online.
Egypt's unemployment rate currently stands at 13.3 percent, with 3.7 million jobless Egyptian nationwide, almost 70 percent of whom are aged between 15 and 29 and hold diplomas or university degrees, according to state-run statistics body CAPMAS.
"The decision on the EU's grant assistance programme for Egypt in 2014/15 will be taken next month," Moran added.
The total value of the EU's ongoing programme is over 1 billion euros, according to the statement.


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The Unforgiven: Missionaries or Mercenaries? The Untold Story of the Rebel West Indian Cricketers Who Toured Apartheid South Afr
Ashley Gray (Author)
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Paperback£19.98£18.58(English)

In the early 80s, 20 black West Indian cricketers were paid more than $100,000 each to take part in rebel tours of apartheid South Africa. Some, such as Lawrence Rowe and Alvin Kallicharran, were household names in the Caribbean and around the world, while others were fringe players seeking a short cut out of poverty. All would be condemned by the international cricketing fraternity. Accused of pocketing 'blood money' in order to prop up a regime that systematically discriminated against people of their own colour, they were banned for life from playing the sport they loved. In many cases, they were shunned by their fellow countrymen. A few turned to drugs and gangs, some turned to God - and others found themselves begging on the streets and dealing with mental illness. Forgotten and neglected for close to four decades, The Unforgiven tells their often-tragic stories through face-to-face interviews that explore the human cost of an onerous decision made early in these young men's lives.
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Voter turn-out falling "like a stone" in Canada (Ibbitson)..little wonder!
By John Ibbitson, Globe and Mail, October 15, 2011
Voter turn-out declining, "like a stone" according to Ibbitson.
Recent provincial, territorial and federal elections saw the following turn-outs:
Ontario...49%
Newfoundland and Labrador...58%
Prince Edward Island...76%
Manitoba...56%
Canada...61%
All of these figures are well below previous figures for the same jurisdictions.
A study for Elections Canada published earlier this year found that as each new cohort reaches the age of 18 and becomes eligible to vote, its members participate in fewer numbers than the cohort that came before. Only a third of first-time voters today are actually voting, half the rate of a generation ago.
Statistics Canada asked Canadians who didn't vote in last May's federal election – where turnout was a near-record low of 61 per cent – what kept them away. Twenty-eight per cent said they just weren't interested. Twenty-three per cent were too busy. The rest said they were out of town, ill or didn't like any of the candidates.
lections Canada is hoping to launch a pilot project using Internet voting, perhaps during the next by-election. Marc Mayrand, Canada's chief electoral officer, thinks it might encourage some people to vote who are out of town, far from polling booths or who have mobility issues.
"But whether it will change the turnout dramatically in elections, I think that would be putting hopes far too high," he said in an interview.
Samara, a non-profit that studies and promotes citizen engagement, recently convened eight focus groups of people who don't vote.
Heather Bastedo, who conducted the focus groups, says most people said the same thing. "They feel a sense of powerlessness," she reported. "They've absorbed the lesson that they can't effect change."
The less educated they are, the lower their income, the less engaged they are in social or other media, the less likely people are to vote.
(Ibbitson points to a dramatic rise in young voter turnout in 2008 when Obama became president, as well as a rise in the Toronto vote earlier this year, when then candidate Rob Ford promised to lower taxes. Change the messenger and change the message and voters seem to show up at polls, is one of Ibbitson's observations.)
Let's look a little more closely at Ms Bastedo's observation:
"They feel a sense of powerlessness," she reported. "They've absorbed the lesson that they can't effect change."
Political parties are like other organizations seeking to get the biggest bang for the smallest buck. With limited numbers of contributors and limited amounts in many of their donations, the focus of each political party is to "get out their vote"..and not to waste time with those whose votes are questionable. So much energy is dedicated by mostly volunteers to anyone who, regardless of how 'token' the support, indicates a preference for "our" candidate. That means that there is little energy from the parties to enlarge the voting base generally.
In fact, we often read that political parties "hope" for a bad-weather voting day, so voter turnout will remain low, and more likely result in a return to office of the encumbents.
Then there is the usual advantage on the encumbent side, given the repeated use of their names in news stories over the past four years, so at least most people who could vote will have heard those names.
Here is an example of how many of us felt, while casting a ballot in the last Ontario election.
(By David Berlin, Globe and Mail, October 14, 2011)
In last week's provincial election in Ontario, I held my nose and voted for the incumbent.
What irked me was not his integrity or dedication to public service, both well-proved, but that along the way, this once-bright-eyed idealist had been slapped by his party to show him who was boss. After a one-year stint as minister, he was chucked out of office. From that day on, he become party property. A conscionable person became a mouthpiece who stuck out his nose only to be led by it – a hack.
Worse, this hollowing out is commonplace – the fate of all those who pursue their ideals through our party system.
In Canada, the only exceptions are to be found in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, which have managed to keep political parties out of their legislatures. Municipal politics sometimes seem party-free, but in most places, some councillors and hard-nosed city mayors usher parties in through the back door. In Toronto these days, you are either for or against the Conservative-aligned Ford brothers. Unaffiliated councillors who make up the mushy middle are relics of the past.
Also, over the last twenty or thirty years, the policy input from the ordinary voter has largely been replaced by the "professional" civil service, whose expertise, linked with their history of mentoring their political masters and their academic qualifications make them far more expert than "ordinary people. Another replacement of "ordinary voter" preference emerges from polling data, given the volcanic eruptions of dozens of these companies especially with the equally explosive amount of data available from all forms of technology. Even our cell phone companies are collecting our habits, for their own commercial purposes.
So, if and when you get that proverbial call from "Harris Decima" for example, you know they are calling for their client(s) to gather information that can and will be used by those clients, especially the political parties, to shape both policy and message in the upcoming campaign.
And, if anyone wonders about feelings of powerlessness, we just have to look at Zucotti Park in New York city, where a tent city speaks volumes to the feelings of disaffection, disillusionment, alienation and, yes powerlessness of ordinary, often quite educated and often also unemployed people of all ages.
(By Jeremy Torobin, Globe and Mail, October 15, 2011)
The Occupy Wall Street demonstrations and other expressions of frustration with the global economic and financial system highlight the need for policy makers to show they are serious about forcing change, Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney says.
In a television interview, Mr. Carney acknowledged that the movement is an understandable product of the ``increase in inequality'' – particularly in the United States – that started with globalization and was thrust into sharp relief by the worst downturn since the Great Depression, which hit the less well-educated and blue-collar segments of the population hardest.
"You've had a big increase in the ratio of CEO earnings to workers on the shop floor,'' Mr. Carney said, according to a transcript of the interview with Peter Mansbridge of CBC News, parts of which aired on Friday evening. "And then on top of that, a financial crisis.''
So, compared to marking a ballot with an "X" beside a name, indicating a preference for a political party and candidate, pitching a tent, opening a thermal sleeping bag and joining hundreds if not thousands of others, no matter how disjointed the movement may appear in its early stages, is far more "activist" and engaging.
And potentially, far more effective in getting some notice for the 99% who refuse to be dominated by the 1%.
As Chris Hedges notes, "the elites are in trouble"...and they should be.
(By Chris Hedges, on truthdig.com, October 9, 2011)
The lords of finance in the looming towers surrounding the park, who toy with money and lives, who make the political class, the press and the judiciary jump at their demands, who destroy the ecosystem for profit and drain the U.S. Treasury to gamble and speculate, took little notice of Ketchup or any of the other scruffy activists on the street below them. The elites consider everyone outside their sphere marginal or invisible. And what significance could an artist who paid her bills by working as a waitress have for the powerful? What could she and the others in Zuccotti Park do to them? What threat can the weak pose to the strong? Those who worship money believe their buckets of cash, like the $4.6 million JPMorgan Chase gave* to the New York City Police Foundation, can buy them perpetual power and security. Masters all, kneeling before the idols of the marketplace, blinded by their self-importance, impervious to human suffering, bloated from unchecked greed and privilege, they were about to be taught a lesson in the folly of hubris.
Even now, three weeks later, elites, and their mouthpieces in the press, continue to puzzle over what people like Ketchup want. Where is the list of demands? Why don't they present us with specific goals? Why can't they articulate an agenda?
The goal to people like Ketchup (one of the participants) is very, very clear. It can be articulated in one word—REBELLION. These protesters have not come to work within the system. They are not pleading with Congress for electoral reform. They know electoral politics is a farce and have found another way to be heard and exercise power. They have no faith, nor should they, in the political system or the two major political parties. They know the press will not amplify their voices, and so they created a press of their own. They know the economy serves the oligarchs, so they formed their own communal system. This movement is an effort to take our country back.
This is a goal the power elite cannot comprehend. They cannot envision a day when they will not be in charge of our lives. The elites believe, and seek to make us believe, that globalization and unfettered capitalism are natural law, some kind of permanent and eternal dynamic that can never be altered. What the elites fail to realize is that rebellion will not stop until the corporate state is extinguished. It will not stop until there is an end to the corporate abuse of the poor, the working class, the elderly, the sick, children, those being slaughtered in our imperial wars and tortured in our black sites. It will not stop until foreclosures and bank repossessions stop. It will not stop until students no longer have to go into debt to be educated, and families no longer have to plunge into bankruptcy to pay medical bills. It will not stop until the corporate destruction of the ecosystem stops, and our relationships with each other and the planet are radically reconfigured. And that is why the elites, and the rotted and degenerate system of corporate power they sustain, are in trouble. That is why they keep asking what the demands are. They don't understand what is happening. They are deaf, dumb and blind.
In Canada, where every political story is sanitized, if not homogenized into just another political "mess" but certainly not serious enough to become agitated over, we risk, as does Ibbitson's column, reducing the problem to a manageable, "statistical" and "merely a generational thing".
That is like saying, of a person who is a complete control freak, "She certainly lacks social graces!"
The Hedges rhetoric, unlike the Ibbitson "establishment" rhetoric, faces the problem head-on; calls a spade a shovel, points to the "elite" whose support and encouragement all journalists require in order to continue to do their job, so, as Evan Solomon says in the commercial for Power and Politics, "We've never had people say that coming on our show was unfair; it may have been hard, but not unfair."
And so the establishment continues to blather on, as most of Solomon's guests do, with occasional insightful observations by the pundits, whose job is not dependent on the voters directly.
Canada needs more public comments and commentators like Hedges, and Keith Olbermann (currently on Connect TV in the U.S. but so far as I can tell, unavailable in Canada) speaking truth to power from the left.
This voter apathy, powerlessness, alienation may seem merely statistical to Ibbitson and others; in our view, it is far more serious, as is the detached, and 'establishment' and "politically correct" culture in Canada that produces stories like the one last night on CBC's The National, about the cover-up by politicians of all political parties, of the expenses of Members of Parliament.
The Board of Interior Management, a group of MP's charged with oversight of the expenses of their peers...
has to be one of the most heinous holdovers from the feudal days of centuries past. It is time to dismantle the Board and leave the job to the Auditor General. But don't hold your breath.
Just another of many pieces of evidence that voters have no real influence whether they vote or not.
(I invite your comments, via e-mail to jta@kingsston.net)
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I had the good fortune to work in Bhutan in the late 90's. At that time we installed the first Internet connection there, at the request of the Royal Government. I had some friends working for DrukAir, the national airline, so I used to fly in sitting on the jump seat of their British Aerospace 146. The flights were from either Calcutta or Kathmandu to Paro, VQPR, the only international airport in the country (still is), which were always a thrilling experience.
This is a great landing to do in your sim. This post explains how it was done. Please note that today the preferred runway is 33, descending straight from the PRO VOR. At that time, however, the approach was visual to RWY 15, which included a steep turn across the valley floor and dodging a last hill before the runway threshold. My setup for this flight was X-Plane 11 and the Paro free scenery here. In this post, I used the original footage and cut in some views, at various stages of flight (more or less), from my sim. Below the video you will find instructions on how to set yourself up for this approach.
Start at TAKTI intersection. Set your sim heading 360° at 16000 ft direct to PRO VOR on 108.40. Descend and cross the VOR at 13500. Once at PRO, turn left to 328° and descend to 10500. This is a visual ONLY approach and it was mainly used when there was better visibility on the NE side of the airport.
You will overfly the airport. Once you do, slow down to 160KT or less and make a left turn to follow the valley to your left. Heading is approximately 295°. At about 15 DME reverse course making a U turn across the valley, following the river bed. A few miles ahead, you will see the Paro Dzong compound to the left. This is where the film with Keanu Reeves "The Little Buddha" was filmed. You are now descending to a target altitude of about 8500 ft with the runway revealing around a hill, a house with a red roof on it. That's Mr. Smith's house. At this point you should be fully configured, gear and flaps, or whatever you can hang down for drag.
Keep it tight over the house, expect some updrafts and bumps. Cross the river before the RWY 15 threshold at or below 7800 and you should have a fairly normal landing. There is no taxiway, so better take advantage of the turn-around spot at the end of the runway and taxi to the parking.
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yamaha rn303d review
Wired it up to my turntable (preamp type), CD player. You will receive a verification email shortly. YAMAHA R-N303D NETWORK STEREO RECEIVER The Yamaha R-N303D Stereo Receiver boasts great specs and a range of features, and with an RRP of $699 proves that affordable HiFi gear doesnt have to be weighed down by compromise. Ultimately it's a matter of taste, of course. Black Friday deals: see all the best offers right now! There's a large, custom-made power transformer and a total of eight power transistors (four for each of the stereo channels). The unit sounds good, connected to my router easily. Bath Songs like this, when delivered by the Yamaha, sound like neighbours rather than housemates. Best Stereo Receivers . I mainly use it via Bluetooth from my phone, but it is also a great feature that it has DAB radio too, replacing our stand alone DAB radio. The Yamaha R-N303 features connectivity with AirPlay®, Bluetooth®, Ethernet, Wi-Fi®, Wireless Direct, and a phono stage. Easy set up, good features and superb sound. I have also hooked up by its blue tooth my old ipod using a TROND Bluetooth Tx. The Yamaha is equally well appointed when it comes to less corporeal inputs. Yes, the Yamaha's timing isn't as accurate as we'd like but it's still a generously specified, detailed network receiver with an engagingly smooth and warm sound. The information which appears on this site is subject to change at any time. All your favourite music servicesFor the greatest choice in streaming music, the R-N303D is compatible with a wide range of popular music services. Great on Bluetooth. I have connected a CD player and a turntable to it and those along with the built in tuner completes my system - I'm very happy with my purchase. Please refresh the page and try again. All rights reserved. It doesn't matter what source you select the sound is always clear and full. In some ways this is prodigious value for money, but is too compromised to get an unqualified recommendation. But even if you prefer to keep switches and buttons to a minimum, this Yamaha will lure you in with its extensive specification. Even connecting to my WiFi Router was easy, and worked well. Good connectivity and Musicast is excellent. Even four-square and repetitive CD-borne grooves like Mogwai's Party In The Dark or Prince's Girls & Boys can't quite unite, their rhythms hesitant and club-footed. All hi-fi is a compromise to some extent but the question for potential suitors is how far are you prepared to compromise? is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Up front, fighting for space amongst all those controls and the bright and legible display, are a headphone output socket and a USB input. Nice to have digital inputs and a line output to record to my Yamaha HDD / CD recorder. For a product with such a smooth and balanced overall tonality, its lumpy way with timing is frustrating. Except as expressly set forth in our Terms of Use, all representations and warranties regarding the information presented on this page are disclaimed. Which is plenty of physical connections, we're sure you'll agree. The Yamaha R-N303 is one of the cheapest audio receivers to offer wireless connectivity -- but it's not without its quirks. The RN402 is a second generation Hi-Fi receiver with support for MusicCast. Low frequencies are decently weighty, tonally expressive and don't overhang too much, while at the opposite end of the range, treble sounds shine benignly without suggesting they might get troublesome. Seldom have we encountered a network streamer/amplifier with such lavish functionality – especially at this relatively affordable price. Hard-wired to our router, the R-N803D has no trouble handing over all of the details of the arrangement and the unlikely soulfulness of the vocal – and there's pleasant warmth to the alto and tenor saxophones. The R-N803D proves adept, giving ample expression to the close-mic'd vocal and describing the intensity of each guitar-strum explicitly. YAMAHA RN303D Stereo Receiver review got a score of 9.1/10 from customer reviews. Great features and connectivity with ample yet refined power. We start by testing the Yamaha's over-air performance. I still haven't figured everything out, but I find that the included app is unexpectedly useful as is the direct connection to streaming services.  All Rights Reserved. The output is excellent. What Hi-Fi? Sign up below to get the latest from What Hi-Fi?, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! BA1 1UA. And though I didn't have any extra MusicCast gear on hand for this review, I have tested the format with multiple Yamaha speakers in the past, and found it to be quite effective. England and Wales company registration number 2008885. playlist on Tidal, and play Brighton Gallows by The Great Park – a fine tester of midrange fidelity and detail in particular. There's a degree of automation to setting up the 803 that's unusual in stereo products. Yamaha has tried to combine the classic AV receiver with modern functionality – and the result is the Yamaha R-N303. Receive news and offers from our other brands? Please be advised that the operator of this site accepts advertising compensation from certain companies that appear on the site, and such compensation impacts the location and order in which the companies (and/or their products) are presented, and in some cases may also impact the scoring that is assigned to them. Wired up to two sets of speakers - plenty loud enough. ... Other reviews. The scoring that appears on this site is determined by the site operator in its sole discretion, and should NOT be relied upon for accuracy purposes. The R-N803D covers all connectivity bases, from ancient to modern. The Yamaha R-N303 is actually a very easy receiver to set up. With a comprehensive streamer, DAB tuner and amp all in one case, the Yamaha RN303D matches sound quality with convenience. Thank you for signing up to What Hi-Fi?. . Managed to pair it to my 'phone via Bluetooth which works fine but can't see myself using it too often. Yamaha reviews & products With more than 40 years' independent reviewing experience you can trust our recommendations and buy with confidence. The R-N803D covers all connectivity bases, from ancient to modern. Please deactivate your ad blocker in order to see our subscription offer, We check over 130 million products every day for the best prices. Make the Yamaha R-N303D Hi-Fi receiver the centrepiece of your audio system, and get streaming music services, music from your smart phone, network audio, and the music you listen to every day — and enjoy it even more, with superior, exceptionally musical sound. Throughout the frequency range, the Yamaha errs on the side of caution – and we think that's an entirely sensible move. Basically, if you don't have a source the R-N803D can deal with, that's very much your fault rather than Yamaha's. I have the unit connected to my TV via an optical cable, so I can use the TV's audio delay to sort out the lip sync problems on Amazon, I connected it to two pairs of speakers, a smaller pair of Monitor Audios and an old, larger pair of Akai speakers. 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Hebron Human Interest Israeli attacks
Demolitions destroy village one house at a time
BEQAA, WEST BANK (IRIN) – A small, overcrowded Palestinian village in the southern West Bank, under threat from Israeli-conducted house demolitions and land confiscations, is rapidly becoming poorer."Every house here has one child at least who left because we can't build new homes. Some went to Hebron, but others left for Amman [Jordan] and places abroad" said Ghassan, a young man from Beqaa village, who is a refugee registered with the UN.
Bilal Jaber, who recently received papers saying his house was illegal, is worried it will be destroyed.
"I saved money when I worked as a laborer to build my home," the now unemployed man said. "If the Israelis destroy it, I can't rebuild."
He said he would probably have to move to the old city of Hebron, where the Palestinian Authority provides free housing in an attempt to stop Israeli settlement expansion, though living conditions there are tough.
Beqaa, outside Hebron, was founded in 1973 by Palestinians, including refugees from the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
Most left the city as it became overcrowded, but the new village is now also overloaded, since there are only about 55 homes for over 1,800 people. Around 20 other homes have been demolished in the last 12 years by the Israeli authorities, according to residents and the Christian Peacemaker Teams, a non-governmental organization (NGO) orking in the area.
Furthermore, three water cisterns have been destroyed, and in late 2007 a demolition order was issued against a fourth well. The village also continues to lose farmland.
"My family has lost 20-25 dunams [20-25 square kilometers] of land in recent years, because of the settlements," Muhammed Kamal Jaber, also a refugee, told IRIN.
Demolitions began in 1980s
The demolitions and expropriations began in the 1980s when the settlement of Kiryat Arba started to expand.
"Before the 1980s my father had 200 sheep. But he had to sell the sheep because we weren't allowed to build pens. When we lost the land we had to sell more sheep because we could not grow fodder any more," Muhammed said, adding that now he has none left.
A decline in the village's income comes as previous aid efforts by international organizations have slowly diminished, residents say — paradoxically, just as their need for assistance increased.
"If you used to get by on 2,000 shekels [US$540] a month, now you need 2,500" because of inflation, said Ghassan. "But really most families only manage to make 1,500 at most. So we will need help."
"My father never needed aid. He was a shepherd. If we had jobs we wouldn't need anything," added Muhammed.
A spokesman for the Israeli Civil Administration said all homes which receive demolition orders were built without the necessary permits, and residents do not deny this.
"We've stopped trying to apply for permits because it is pointless," said Haj Azmi Jaber, the head of the village committee.
"They [Israeli authorities] consider our land to be 'agricultural land,' and they say we can't build on this land," he added.
In 2003, three homes in the village were demolished. The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, an NGO, stepped in and helped them rebuild.
A new round of "stop building" orders, which residents and aid workers said was the first step towards demolitions, was issued by Israel in December 2007, and then again in February 2008.
All three of the rebuilt homes were again targeted. The families there said they would not try to rebuild again and are likely to leave the village.
The new orders also hit the village's joint project to build a clinic. Haj Azmi donated land so the people could have a local center for mobile clinics run by the Palestinian Medical Relief Society.
"I watched them write up the order and put it on the clinic building," he said. While only partially built, it too was slated for demolition as of 26 December 2007.
"We would have finished building it by now," Haj Azmi said.


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Launched in 2010, HEX is an award-winning fashion accessory brand. Their product range includes backpacks, duffels, briefcases, totes, waist packs etc. and all the products are a pleasing combination of fashion and technology.
HEX recently launched a new collection of bags - Terra. Featuring a crisp Khaki colour scheme, the collection features a carry on roller, duffle, backpacks, tote and a waist pack. All the products have a coated polyester exterior that has been treated for water resistance and along with red accents provides a wonderful look and feel to the range.
We got our hands on one of the backpacks from the new Terra range and I wanted to show you some pics and share our thoughts on this sleek and stylish backpacks.
- Organiser for pens, keys, cards etc.
Both Mr.H and myself are big backpack fans, as we love hands free travel/commuting. The Terra Patrol backpack, as you can see from the photographs, has a modern, sleek design and comes with a lot of storage space making it ideal for all kinds of usage - office commute, urban exploration or travel.
There's the main padded laptop storage area that can accommodate a laptop up to 17". In addition to that, there are many other compartments and pockets to store pretty much all the essential gear that you might be carrying. We like that HEX has provided multiple pockets making it easy to compartmentalise and organise items. Very functional. And the neutral colour and style makes it suited to all occasions.
The materials used and the build quality look good. And although this is our first experience with a HEX product, we have a feeling that the backpack is going to be durable - made to last for years to come. The bag comes with a good mix of aesthetics and functionality and we are looking forward to lots of adventures with the Terra Patrol.