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She's Gone, Episode 2: The disappearance and death of Carol King (part 1)
An eerie memorial appears after a woman's body is found, and police seem to be out of leads. Follow along from crime to court case in Episode 2 of the She's Gone podcast.
Mar 02, 2020 • January 11, 2021 • 14 minute read • Join the conversation
Carol King's remains were found on an abandoned farmyard after she disappeared from her home near Herschel, Sask. in 2011. Photo by Roxanne King /handout
In a new podcast series, Saskatoon StarPhoenix criminal justice reporter Bre McAdam reflects on cases she's covered involving female victims of homicide.
Episode 2 is the first of two parts on the case of Carol King.
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BRE MCADAM (host): We often hear about crime stories in the early stages of an investigation, when they're shrouded in mystery, and then again when they slowly unravel years later in a courtroom.
But what happens when we examine these cases from crime to court case? Would we potentially see a larger issue at hand? And would it cause us to remember the victims, maybe in a different way?
Working as a criminal justice reporter in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada for eight years, I've covered many cases involving female homicide victims.
Saskatchewan had the highest rate of intimate partner violence and domestic violence in Canada in 2018, according to Stats Canada.
The percentage of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in our province is also one of the highest in Canada, and the rate of femicide — the killing of women and girls primarily, but not exclusively, by men — exceeds the national average.
This podcast series details the stories of four women: their lives, deaths and the criminal cases that followed.
In hopes of ensuring they are never forgotten.
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BRE: This case has actually spanned most of my career as a journalist, when I started covering it back in 2011.
It was a high-profile missing person case that gripped the province, becoming a homicide case — and then, a cold case.
Until some powerful evidence changed everything.
I'm Bre McAdam, criminal justice reporter with the Saskatoon StarPhoenix, and you're listening to She's Gone: Stories of female homicide victims in Saskatchewan, from crime to court case.
My producer Ashley Trask joins me for Episode 2, part one of the Disappearance and Death of Carol King, a story that begins in small town Saskatchewan.
EPISODE 2: The Disappearance and Death of Carol King (part 1)
Carol King, 40, disappeared from the acreage where she lived near Herschel, Sask. in 2011. Photo by Roxanne King /handout
BRE: Technically, Herschel is a village about 150 kilometres southwest of Saskatoon, and about 25 minutes northwest of Rosetown.
The farming community is actually nestled down in a valley. In 2011, around 60 people called Herschel home.
There's a post office and a town office, and there used to be an elementary school. It was turned into a museum to display dinosaur fossils that were found in the area.
You can imagine that this is the kind of place that doesn't really expect a lot of newcomers.
So it was somewhat surprising and unique when Carol King moved to the community in 2009. She had been working in Alberta, but she's actually from a small village in Newfoundland called Mattis Point.
Carol had recently come out west to work in the construction industry.
ASHLEY TRASK (producer): What else do we know about Carol King?
BRE: From what I can gather, Carol liked travelling and taking photos. Her sister Brenda said she took her camera almost everywhere she went.
In her many photos, Carol is often wearing sunglasses and halter tops. She's smiling with sun-kissed skin, her sandy coloured hair swept back in a ponytail.
In 2011, she was 40 years old. She lived alone, on an acreage just outside Herschel.
Her house was one of those pre-fabricated new builds, a bungalow with grey siding and four long, rectangular glass windows in the front.
Just behind the house were two white quonsets or "outbuildings" as they're commonly referred to. The property had clusters of trees, but it wasn't completely hidden from the gravel road that ran parallel.
Carol was at her house when, in the early afternoon of August 6, 2011, she spoke with her sister Brenda on the phone about an appointment she had later that day. Brenda was living in Nova Scotia at the time.
Carol told Brenda that she was going to the local RCMP detachment in nearby Rosetown.
She talked about seeing people prowling around her property, and was going to report it to police.
This was the last conversation Brenda would ever have with her sister.
Court exhibit photos of Carol King's property near Herschel, Sask. Saskatoon
BRE: Later that day, it's believed Carol grabbed her purse and car keys and left her house for her 5 p.m. appointment. But she never showed up.
ASHLEY: But people miss appointments all the time, and she would have been home by herself. How did anyone know something was wrong?
BRE: When Brenda tried calling Carol two hours later, her sister's cellphone was turned off. Now this was very unusual, these women spoke nearly every day, and Carol never, ever shut her phone off.
The next morning, Brenda called RCMP and asked them to check on Carol. Police said she wasn't home, but that the doors of one of her quonsets were left wide open. Brenda filed a missing-person report and three days later, she was in Saskatchewan to help organize a grassroots search for Carol.
ASHLEY: I still remember this day. Carol's disappearance was all over the local news. It was a big deal that her sister came all the way from Nova Scotia help with the search.
BRE: And you might remember that the community of Herschel came out in a huge way too. People got together to walk across fields in long lines, shoulder to shoulder, searching for any clues as to where Carol might be.
It was August, so, remember, this harvest time in Saskatchewan, and people were spending long days out in their fields. The first significant discovery came from police on Aug. 10, 2011 — four days after Carol disappeared.
Officers found her silver PT Cruiser in a slough not far from her house.
The car was discovered right side up, but facing the opposite direction of how you would expect to find it – so the front of the car was facing the road instead of away from it.
Police actually drained the slough in search of any other clues.
I went out to the area where the car was found. I remember there was an RCMP officer stationed on the gravel road as a sort of barricade, but he pointed to a bluff of trees off the road and told me the slough was behind it, which you couldn't actually see from the road.
This was quintessential rural Saskatchewan – spacious yet remote.
Police vehicles ten kilometres north of Herschel at the site where Carol King's vehicle was found in a swamp on Aug. 10, 2011. Photo by richard marjan /Saskatoon StarPhoenix
BRE: Back in Herschel, I went to the post office to ask who I should talk to about Carol's disappearance. The woman who worked there happened to be her closest friend in town.
She confirmed what we later heard from Brenda; that Carol had an appointment with RCMP the day she disappeared.
And Carol's friend had a strong suspicion about who was involved.
A week passed, but still, no sign of Carol. At this point, her family has offered a $25,000 reward for any information that would help find her.
ASHLEY: Okay, so, her car shows up in a slough, and people are searching through fields. Did people think she was alive?
BRE: Well knowing her sister, and where she was going the day she disappeared, Brenda made it very clear at the time that she believed Carol had been abducted.
But, as in all missing persons cases, there was that hope that she was alive.
Until somebody found her body.
An undated photo of Carol King circulated following her 2011 disappearance from her acreage near Herschel, Sask. Photo by Roxanne King /handout
KEVIN BOOTH: It's Kevin Booth, K-e-v-i-n, B- double-o, t-h. I was born and raised for the first 12 years of my life in Rosetown then we moved out to the farm at Herschel.
I don't know, I just had this feeling that I grew up in that area right where Carol disappeared, or was reported to have disappeared. I grew up in that area, I snowmobiled, I motorcycled. I knew the area so I just felt that I had to go out and help if I could some way or another.
BRE: On August 27, so this is now three weeks after Carol was last heard from, which at the time Ash, you might remember, seemed like an eternity for everyone involved in this case. On that day, Kevin Booth had a feeling that he just couldn't shake.
As he said, he grew up on a farm about six kilometres northeast of Herschel. At the time, no one lived on the property – the current owners were just leasing it out as farmland.
It was a Saturday, and Kevin felt compelled to go out to the empty property – even though he had never met Carol.
BOOTH: I had borrowed a quad from one of the companies that has a rental building in our company. They lent me a quad, I loaded it up in the truck and went out to Rosetown. I was going to pick up my brother, we were going to go out just the two of us, there was no formal searches organized that day. So, my brother and I were going to go out. As it happened, he got delayed so he wasn't able to join me, so I just drove out to the farm on my own.
ASHLEY: But you knew the area well and you just… did you have a feeling? Did you just have a sense of duty? Or, can you describe what compelled you?
BOOTH: It's really hard to describe. I did have this feeling; I've never had it before. It's just something that I felt that I had to go out. I went out and started where I knew best. I grew up in that area so I unloaded the quad in our old farmyard, drove around kind of reminiscing.
BRE: He started making loops, expanding further and further out from the property, when something caught his eye in an area that his family used to use as a garden, but was now overgrown with trees and grass.
BOOTH: I saw it, but it didn't really register. I don't know why, but I drove around, drove outside the garden yard, then I started making my laps outside the yards and making the area bigger and bigger. Then, it was after that, that I was still riding outside the yard, and I was probably a couple miles from the farm now, and something was nagging at me to go back.
BRE: Kevin stopped the quad outside the overgrown garden area and walked into the trees.
BOOTH: When I went back, I pulled up, or walked up I should say, and that's when I realized that it was human. So, I happened to have my camera with me, I took a couple pictures, then loaded everything up and went straight back into Rosetown to the RCMP depot.
BRE: Then, he spent a few anxiety-ridden days waiting for the results.
BOOTH: The thing that got me is that when I come back and told the RCMP what had happened, then having to prove myself where I was on those days that she did disappear. It was kind of an initial shock, but after a while it sunk in that, yeah, I guess I kind of realize why they had to ask those questions.
BRE: Through dental record comparison, police confirmed these were the remains of Carol King.
It's important to note that this area where Carol was found was in a 16-kilometre radius of both her home and the slough where her car was submerged. So, whatever happened to Carol, happened pretty close to home.
And, as Kevin points out, someone would have known that the road to get to this area wasn't well-used.
Greg Martin, the new owner of that property, also said in interviews that this was the most isolated part of that area, and whoever put Carol's body there would have known just how secluded it was.
After Kevin's tragic discovery, what had been a missing person case soon transitioned into a homicide investigation.
Police start conducting interviews, and one of the first people they look at is a man named David Caissie – Carol's ex.
During the search for her sister, Brenda said she had given police the name of a man Carol had been intimately involved with. We later learned this was David.
ASHLEY: Did this have anything to do with that police appointment Carol had the day she disappeared?
BRE: Yes. Brenda said Carol was going to make a criminal harassment complaint against David.
David Caissie was formerly in a romantic relationship with Carol King, a 40-year-old woman whose body was found in August 2011 on a rural property near Herschel, Sask. Saskatoon
BRE: So, I want to back up here and give you the history of Carol and David.
The two had met working for a steel construction company near Red Deer, Alberta, and broke off to start their own business, moving to Herschel around 2009.
Their business relationship had turned romantic. But at the time, David was married.
ASHLEY: So this is like, a full-on affair?
BRE: Well apparently, his wife was aware of this extramarital relationship, and they decided to separate when David and Carol moved to a rural property just outside of Herschel.
So, fast forward about two years.
It's 2011 and David buys another property, just down the road from where he and Carol had been living. This is where he moves his wife and kids.
So for a period of time, David is basically going back and forth between the two women, before he ultimately decides to go back to his wife.
Brenda says her sister was not romantically involved with David during the summer of 2011. She says they weren't living together, and the house they had shared was actually in Carol's name.
It was becoming pretty clear that David and Carol were not on good terms.
Brenda visited Carol in July 2011 —— a month before her sister was killed. And she told police that David basically stalked them the entire time.
She said she saw his truck everywhere — driving past her sister's house, sometimes multiple times an hour, following them on the dirt road as they walked home from Herschel, and even parked in the bushes on Carol's property.
On that particular night, she said she and Carol hid for two hours in the house while David combed the yard with a flashlight. Another night, she says David started pounding on the door, yelling that this was his property and he could come on it whenever he wanted.
ASHLEY: Did Brenda or Carol report this happening? This seems like a major change in behaviour.
BRE: They did, and Brenda said she was told to document everything that was happening. She said David was angry because Carol wanted to sell the house, take the money and move back east.
He even sent her a letter, from his lawyer, stating he was entitled to half of the house and that he had put a lien on it.
RCMP guard access to a site where human remains -later confirmed to be those of Carol King – were found in a farm yard on Engen Road northeast of Herschel, Sask. Photo by Greg Pender /Saskatoon Star Phoenix
BRE: As you can imagine, David is considered a person of interest in connection with Carol's death. He was thoroughly questioned by police, including one interview that apparently lasted 15 hours.
ASHLEY: Okay, but doesn't he seem more like a suspect than a person of interest. Can you explain why he wasn't arrested right then and there?
BRE: There just wasn't enough evidence to lay any charges. You see, David had an alibi. He was in Olds, Alberta working the day Carol disappeared, and he had ways to prove it.
This is also what David told reporters during media interviews around that time.
So the investigation continues, but with few other leads. RCMP send out news releases, asking for people to watch out for Carol's purse and cellphone — objects that had not yet been recovered.
Then, in December 2011 — so about four months after Carol's body was found— something mysterious pops up near Herschel that becomes the talk of the town.
It was a cryptic memorial, and Ash, it was so creepy.
ASHLEY: Yeah I'm looking at the photo of it right now. Okay, so there's a cut-out of a white cross almost, like, glued on top of some sort of slab of rock and someone has typed "Carol" inside the cross, followed by her birth and death dates.
There's also a verse, and it reads: "Please don't give him your HATE (capital letters), He's not WORTH (in capitals) it.
The Lord he came and got me, and took me far away. Remember, I wasn't in my body when the DEVIL (capital letters) came to play."
Then it has WHY in capital letters, and underneath it, a photo of Carol.
BRE: And guess where this was.
ASHLEY: Wasn't it near where her body was found?
BRE: It was on that exact property.
Journalists were flocking to it. We had all been in Herschel earlier that day for an RCMP news conference after a suspected arson at Carol's house, and community members were telling us 'you guys have to check this out.'
After walking up to that memorial, alone, in an abandoned field that felt like it was in the middle of nowhere, no sound but the wind as I read that verse aloud, this unsettled feeling just washed over me. I remember running back to my news vehicle and locking the doors. It felt like someone was out there, watching me.
ASHLEY: Did we ever find out who made this memorial?
BRE: At the time, nobody in town knew, or at least they didn't say they knew who was involved, and it would be years before RCMP would reveal the answer.
And we'll get to that later.
A memorial erected to suspicious death victim Carol King, in the farmyard where her remains were found northeast of Herschel. Photo taken Dec. 19, 2011. Photo by Greg Pender /Saskatoon StarPhoenix
BRE: So a year passes, and then another. The public isn't getting any updates from police, and the case seemingly goes cold for five years.
Little did we know, RCMP were planning an elaborate undercover investigation that would begin in 2016.
Now this is only part one of the Disappearance and Death of Carol King. You can listen to part two on our next episode.
She's Gone is researched and written by me, Bre McAdam.
Our producers are Ashley Trask and Matt Olson. Our theme music was created by Brice Hall.
And editorial assistance comes from our editor in chief here at the Star Phoenix, Heather Persson.
You can subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts , Stitcher , Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
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U. of Oklahoma dedicates full week to diversity, equity and inclusion
Christian Schneider - Senior College Fix Reporter •March 15, 2022
New state law revokes mandatory DEI training for all students
On Friday, the University of Oklahoma wrapped up "DEI Week," a full five days dedicated to increasing diversity, equity and inclusion on campus.
During the week, the school's department of Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion held events such as "My Story of Belonging in Our Community of Care," "Diversity in Comics," and a "Muslim Patient Cultural Sensitivity Workshop."
The theme given to DEI Week was "Our Community of Care."
"The University of Oklahoma is committed to providing students, faculty, and staff with learning opportunities that equip them to serve society as leaders who understand the world around them and can navigate it with respect and dignity for all," said OU spokesperson Mackenzie Scheer in an email to The College Fix.
"One such opportunity is Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Week. Throughout the week, students, faculty, and staff may choose to participate in a variety of events aimed at helping community members understand and respect the perspectives of others. The week promotes free speech and civil discourse, and encourages participants to help build a community of care across OU's campuses."
In the past several years, DEI has become omnipresent on campus. In August 2020, Oklahoma instituted mandatory DEI training for all students and professors. After a new state law was signed, the school has since rescinded the DEI requirement for students, but it still applies to faculty.
According to its most recent diversity report, 100 percent of students and 89 percent of faculty complied with the DEI training requirement while it was in effect.
The university called one of the training modules the "Unlearning Series," as it sought to force students and faculty to "unlearn" their biases.
"Learning the history of racism, classism, ableism, sexism, and trans+homo negatvity [sic] is the starting point of the Diversity Ally workshop series. Unlearning individual biases is a necessary skill to advance the sense of belonging at OU," reads the summary of the module in the school's 2021 annual diversity report.
"Developed for OU faculty and staff, this series is designed to foster a welcoming climate in the workplace and the classroom by equipping participants with skills and resources to reduce their biases, to support students and colleagues who experience discrimination and to disrupt harmful dynamics when they arise."
The mandatory training requirement quickly ran into trouble, however, when one graduate student reported the school was marking certain opinions incorrect. The student said OU was not only requiring training, but also requiring students to expressly agree with campus leaders' positions on DEI matters.
That student, Elizabeth Owen, was required to complete three separate diversity modules in the fall semester of 2020. According to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Owen was required to select the "correct" answers as dictated by OU, rather than the answers that she felt "best represented what she would do in the situation."
In one hypothetical example given by the school, a student complains about "all this transgender stuff," and the student receiving the training is asked how he or she would respond.
Owen selected the response closest to her personal feelings, "I agree. Political correctness can be so tiring" — but was told her opinion was not the "best choice."
The video then rewound and required Owen to watch the hypothetical again, then provide a different response. The trainees could not move to the next question until they agreed with the school's preferred response, which was, "You seem upset. What's the matter?"
The university later responded to FIRE, defending requiring certain viewpoints.
"I respectfully disagree that the University's workplace diversity training constitutes an unlawful infringement on employees' rights," wrote OU Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion & Chief Diversity Officer Belinda Higgs Hyppolite in an email to FIRE.
Hyppolite said she wanted "the training module to be as inclusive as possible and do not wish for any person to feel fearful, threatened, or compelled to any particular viewpoint," and had "asked for a meeting with [OU's] vendor to discuss this concern and see if there might be a means to communicate that through the software."
But in May 2021, Oklahoma's governor, Kevin Stitt, signed a new bill into effect that banned mandatory DEI training for students. The new law made the school's "Gateway to Belonging" class, which was supposed to provide instruction in racial diversity, optional rather than mandatory.
"OU's diversity, equity, and inclusion training, provided by EverFi, is designed to foster an inclusive environment," Scheer told The Fix.
"The training is optional for students and required for employees. The training does not impose specific ways of thinking, but instead, presents situational examples of how to engage with the broader world in a way that is understanding of all people and perspectives. As of June 24, EverFi has updated its training modules to ensure individuals are free to select their answer of choice, while still providing education on civil engagement."
Yet despite the end of mandatory DEI training for students, the school maintains a requirement that every college, division and administrative office submit DEI reports to the school on an annual basis.
The OU Gaylord College of Journalism, for instance, demonstrates diversity in its program by naming each faculty member that helps them fulfill the "gender or ethnic diversity" metric. The list includes faculty members that are simply "female."
In its diversity report, the OU Law School boasted of its policy to personally interview each applicant to provide a more holistic version of the student.
"This step has provided the college with an excellent view, beyond written applications, of the needs, goals and motivations of our applicants and admittees, which has enhanced their sense of belonging and has led to an extremely high acceptance rate," the report reads, crediting the policy with providing the school with more minority students.
The College of Law also credited itself for using a "historically balanced" approach to admission, "continuing to focus on the overall quality and potential of the applicant but also to seek explanation for lower proxy factors that themselves could reveal, independently, demonstrated potential for leadership and success."
The OU College of Arts and Sciences vowed to "Increase recognition programs that acknowledge contributions made to advancing diversity."
In addition, the school's Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost maintains a website of DEI resources, including a full page recommending articles supporting Critical Race Theory.
In total, the school's diversity report boasts of 78 separate diversity trainings and workshops, 44 campus climate change initiatives, six race-specific employee resource groups, and several diversity-centered scholarships.
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Christian focuses on investigative, enterprise and analysis reporting. He is the author of "1916: The Blog" and has spent time as a political columnist at USA Today, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and National Review Online. His op-eds have been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, City Journal, Weekly Standard and National Review. He has also been a frequent guest on political television and radio shows. He holds a master's degree in political science from Marquette University and lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

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Up until now, we have done them as a staff vote from players we recommend, but we notice that some people who are really helpful are slipping through the cracks! Due to this, we are trialing applications for the Trial Guide role. There is not a limit as to how many can be accepted, and you will not be fighting against others for limited Guide places at the end of your trial. Players with previous warns/mutes/bans will also be considered, depending on the severity. For those interested please fill out an application.
As promised, I am doing my best to keep pushing new exciting content. I am really excited to announce some of the changes coming in 3.1. As stated above, we are already starting on 3.1 A new developer should be selected in the next few days. Work on 3.1 should begin immediately after that. You can expect to see 3.1 in late March 2019. This is ASSUMING all goes well.
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*a constructor that instantiates the object with x and y coordinates.

*a method to draw the point on standard output.

*a method to draw a line between two given points.

*a method to compare the position of two points based on coordinates.

*a method to compute the slope between two points.

*an inner class extending Comparable interface that can be used to compare two points.
        The comparison is based on slope made by each point w.r.t a reference point.

PS - I am sorry if the question is a silly one but just wanted to be clear about things than shying back. Thanks in advance!

A: Well storing them in the memory will be the recommended option here, assuming that its a static text file(meaning that the points don't change when you are running the recognition ) as it will really speed up the whole process and 10000 points is not too large to be cached in memory.
Not to mention this point also depends on the fact which language and data structure you are using.

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Uzbekistan: International Pressure On Tashkent Mounts Over Andijon
September 30, 2005 13:11 GMT
By Bruce Pannier
Prosecutors in this month's trial against alleged organizers of the mid-May violence International pressure is mounting on officials in Tashkent over their refusal to allow an independent inquiry into the violence in Andijon in mid-May. EU diplomats say the bloc will agree on 3 October to impose an arms embargo and other sanctions on Uzbekistan. The steps come as trials continue in Tashkent for the first 15 people accused by the government of organizing the unrest. Where do international tensions over Andijon go from here? [Also see today's related story, Andijon Cover-Up Provokes EU Sanctions --> /featuresarticle/2005/09/56ae1a1c-486d-4b53-9f66-bc46b6123db2.html .]
Prague, 30 September 2005 (RFE/RL) -- The ghosts of Andijon have returned to haunt the Uzbek government. This time it is the European Union that has conjured up memories of what rights groups call the May massacre in eastern Uzbekistan.
EU ambassadors meetings in Brussels yesterday decided it is time for a public demonstration of the EU's unhappiness with Tashkent's for refusing to allow an independent international investigation into the events.
The EU ambassadors agreed to a set of sanctions against Tashkent that will be officially announced at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg on 3 October. The measures include a ban on exports of arms and military equipment to Tashkent and a reduction in EU aid.
A spokesman for the Uzbek Foreign Ministry, Ilhom Zakirov, told RFE/RL today that Tashkent has no official reaction to the EU move "insofar as a final decision has not yet been made and this matter is still being reviewed [by the EU]."
Alex Vatanka, the Eurasia editor of the London-based publication "Jane's Country Risk," described the impending EU sanctions as mainly symbolic but likely to have an effect on Tashkent's diplomatic relations.
"Uzbekistan, politically, has become such a headache for the European Union that they're likely to, now as we read, impose limited sanctions on Uzbekistan," Vatanka said. "I don't think necessarily that will change the mind or philosophy of the government of Uzbekistan but it is going to have implications for Uzbekistan's foreign policy."
The EU measure is the latest development in Uzbekistan's rapidly deteriorating relations with the West. Tashkent is already embroiled in a quarrel with Washington over its refusal to allow an independent investigation into the Andijon events.
Washington's criticism of Tashkent's actions in Andijon contributed to the Uzbek government's recent demand that the Americans leave an Uzbek air base by the end of this year. The air base had been used since late 2001 for operations in Afghanistan and was the cornerstone of Uzbekistan's role in the U.S.-led coalition.
The deterioration in U.S.-Uzbek relations has seen growing calls in the U.S. Congress for now breaking off any support for Uzbek President Islam Karimov.
Analysts say the increased Western pressure on Tashkent might not cause Tashkent to listen so much as to simply turn toward other allies who express less concern over human rights issues.
Congressmen Bill Delahunt (Democrat, Massachusetts) yesterday called on the U.S. administration to end Defense Department payments to the Uzbek government.
"In essence this is the culmination of a concern that I have shared for some time now and its an effort to bring to the attention of the Congress the conduct of Mr. Karimov, one of our partners in the so-called 'coalition of the willing,'" Delahunt told RFE/RL. "I think it's time that we be very clear, draw a very bright line, and disassociate ourselves from the Karimov government."
There are signs that the U.S. administration is also fast losing patience with Karimov. "The Washington Post" today quoted U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried as saying time is running out for Karimov to "respond to our message." Fried, who is touring Central Asia this week and already has visited Uzbekistan, said Washington is not interested in "six months" of diplomatic wrangling over Andijon.
But analysts say the increased Western pressure on Tashkent might not cause Tashkent to listen so much as to simply turn toward other allies who express less concern over human rights issues.
Vatanka said the cooling of relations with the EU and United States offers new opportunities to Russia and China to make gains in their rivalry with the West for influence in Central Asia.
"It will enable other states in the region, particularly Russia and China, to perhaps strengthen their support for the [Uzbek] regime and benefit from what is going to be a widening gap between Uzbekistan and the European Union," Vatanka said. "So far, since Andijon, all indications are that they're [Russia and China] more than happy to come in to the aid of Karimov in order to satisfy their foreign policy objectives in Uzbekistan and within Central Asia."
Both Russia and China have refused to criticize Karimov over Andijon since the beginning of the crisis.
"We, in fact, knew how all this was prepared [the events in Andijon], or at least we knew some of the elements [of the plan]," Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said of Moscow's position in June. "It's quite clear there was an external link. This helped us to take really an objective stance [on the events in Andijon] based on all circumstances of what had happened and [to avoid] any one-sided assessment which has only political considerations."
China's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Kong Quan, expressed Beijing's position very similarly just a month earlier -- in late May.
"About what happened in Uzbekistan recently, we think it's their internal affair, but we strongly support the government crackdown on separatists, terrorists, and extremists," Kong said. "We support Uzbekistan, together with other Central Asian countries, combining their efforts in order to maintain peace and development in Central Asia."
The dispute between the West and Uzbekistan is the over both how many people died in Andijon and how Tashkent handles domestic unrest.
Rights groups and witnesses claim hundreds of people, mainly unarmed protesters, were killed when Uzbek troops fired indiscriminately on protestors who had gathered in a central square in Andijon for an antigovernment rally on 13 May. The rally followed a violent jailbreak overnight.
A report by Galima Bukharbaeva of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) minutes after shooting started in Andijon gave an idea of the carnage.
"I was able to hide myself in an aryq (a small canal), and from there I saw wounded people being carried away from of the crowd," Bukharbaeva said. "I saw five men completely covered in blood being carried away in front of me. The people carrying them were also covered in blood. They said those people [being carried] were dead. They were just bodies; they didn't move. But I think some of them were wounded. There were five or maybe more people [wounded]. They were saying, 'Look, journalists, there are two or three dead bodies here.' But we couldn't look because the shooting continued."
The Uzbek government says 187 people were killed, most of them armed Islamic radicals and soldiers, police, and local officials. Karimov said two days after the event that radicals had sought to overthrow order in Uzbekistan.
"We have practically all the family names, and they are members of a current within Hizb ut-Tahrir that in Andijon are called Akramiya," Karimov said. "Their main purpose is to turn over the existing constitutional structure, to turn over the power in different places and found what is called a caliphate, that would unite all Islamites. The movement was categorically against all sorts of constitutional institutions, against a secular development of the events. That is their purpose."
(RFE/RL correspondent Robert McMahon contributed to this report.)
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Q: How to select text in gedit This only happens in gedit.
I am running Ubuntu. I am not able to left click and drag to select lines of text in gedit.
I can't copy or cut code I write in gedit to move it around.
I can right click and drag to select text from my web browser or the terminal and paste it into gedit.
I guess it must be a setting in gedit but I can't find anything that fixes the problem. How do I turn on the ability to left click and drag to highlight text written in gedit, so that I can copy and past desired text?

A: By killing the app and restarting it, the copy and paste started working again. I think it was a plugin fail.
I had the same issue, and most the solutions said it was something related to plugins (none of which I had changed). However, the solution above seemed to work for me. :)


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Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by Mikark, Feb 10, 2005.
Hi guys I'm new to the forum and I think it's great. My question is. Is there a program that will scan your hard drive and come up with all the serial numbers that your using on the hard drive. I'm using XP pro.
Thanks for the fast reply. I have used Aida 32 in the past but it only seems to find the windows SN#. I was hoping there was a programs to find ALL installed Serial numbers.
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use Commercetools\Core\Request\AbstractAction;
use Commercetools\Core\Request\Stores\Command\StoreAddDistributionChannelAction;
use Commercetools\Core\Request\Stores\Command\StoreAddProductSelectionAction;
use Commercetools\Core\Request\Stores\Command\StoreAddSupplyChannelAction;
use Commercetools\Core\Request\Stores\Command\StoreChangeProductSelectionAction;
use Commercetools\Core\Request\Stores\Command\StoreRemoveDistributionChannelAction;
use Commercetools\Core\Request\Stores\Command\StoreRemoveProductSelectionAction;
use Commercetools\Core\Request\Stores\Command\StoreRemoveSupplyChannelAction;
use Commercetools\Core\Request\Stores\Command\StoreSetDistributionChannelsAction;
use Commercetools\Core\Request\Stores\Command\StoreSetLanguagesAction;
use Commercetools\Core\Request\Stores\Command\StoreSetNameAction;
use Commercetools\Core\Request\Stores\Command\StoreSetProductSelectionsAction;
use Commercetools\Core\Request\Stores\Command\StoreSetSupplyChannelsAction;

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    private $actions = [];

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     * @link https://docs.commercetools.com/api/projects/stores#add-distribution-channel
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        $this->addAction($this->resolveAction(StoreSetLanguagesAction::class, $action));
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JOINT INITIATIVE FOR THE STUDY OF LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
August 11, 2011 in BECAS by Sascha
JISLAC
About JISLAC
Call for applications: Research and Seminar Grants
Regional Seminars and Conferences
Contact JISLAC
JISLAC is a body made up of the membership of the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS), theSociety for Caribbean Studies (SCS) and the Standing Conference of Centres of Latin American Studies (SC) (hosted by the Institute for the Study of the Americas). The purpose of JISLAC is to manage the activities of a jointly-held British Academy Learned Societies grant, which runs for five years, to support Latin American and Caribbean studies in the UK and Europe.
JISLAC supports postdoctoral research, regional seminars, two conferences, a web portal to aid communication, and travel bursaries and prizes, details of which are outlined below. The work of the grant began in April 2007 and is expected to finish in March 2012.
Four grants of up to £4,000 each are available to British-based postdoctoral scholars for projects that demonstrate a clear and direct link with Latin American or Caribbean studies.
Research must take place as soon as possible and be complete by 31 March 2012. Deadline for application is midday on 12 September 2011.
Further details, including the application form, are available here.
Eight grants of £2,000 are available to fund seminars on Latin America and/or the Caribbean with the aim of fortifying Area Studies in our fields, especially when there exists limited or no strong institutional support structure and where researchers are often spread across discipline-based departments.
Seminars must take place by 31 March 2012. Deadline for application is midday on 12 September 2011.
Enhancement or development of a range of web resources including:
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Portal (the Handbook)
SLAS website
Society for Caribbean Studies website
Directory of Latin American and Caribbean Library Resources in the UK
JISLAC has made the following research grant awards:
Theme one (Histories of migration from the Western hemisphere and patterns of settlement):
•Simon Smith and Jonathan Finch, Tracing the Contours of Settlement: Slavery and the Landscape of St Vincent, 1775-1833
•Michael Goebel, Immigration and marriage patterns in urban and rural Uruguay, 1880-1930
•Matthew Brown, European Migrants in Colombia and Venezuela, 1829-1860
•Kenneth Morgan, British Transatlantic Slaving across National Boundaries: Volume and Distribution in the Americas, 1660-1807
Theme two (The New Europe: legal and political conditions of contemporary Caribbean and Latin American diasporas in Europe):
•Anastasia Bermudez Torres, Political Mobilisation of Latin American Migrants in Spain
•Laurence Brown and Paulo Drinot, Racialisation and insurgent citizenship in the New Europe: A comparative study of Latin American and Caribbean migrants
•Mette Berg, Diasporic Cultural Politics after Castro
•Silvia Posocco, Fissured Legality and Affective States: Ethnographic Reflections on the 'International Adoption' Circuits between Guatemala and the United Kingdom
Theme three (The political economy of the contemporary relations between Europe and the Caribbean and Latin America):
•Paul Sutton, The Caribbean Overseas Territories and the European Union: Toward a New Policy?
•Diego Sanchez-Ancochea, Is the EU promoting development in Latin America? Central America and the negotiation of the Association Agreement
•Mahrukh Doctor, Business Impact on European Union-Mercosur Trade Policy: Past Failures and Future Mechanisms for Success
Due to cuts in the grant provided to JISLAC by the British Academy, no further research grants will be awarded.
Up to EIGHT SEMINARS on Latin America and/or the Caribbean are held each year in various parts of the UK. The seminars are planned with the aim of fortifying Area Studies in our fields, especially when there exists limited or no strong institutional support structure and where colleagues are often scattered across discipline-based departments. The aim is to achieve broad regional coverage, and applications to host a seminar are welcome. The general format for each seminar is three speakers and a dinner, and an allocation of £1500 is made to each event.
Forthcoming Seminars
5 May 2011: La Doble Moral: Constructing Sex work in Neo-liberal Latin America
Organisers: Megan Rivers-Moore and Kate Hardy
20 May 2011: Caribbean Research Seminar Series in the North
University of York, Berrick Saul Building on 20 May from 1:30 till 5:30
September 2011: Caribbean Research Seminar Series in the North
Oct/Nov 2011: Citizenship: changing state and changing status
University of Nottingham (Organiser: Tony Kapcia)
Jan 2012: Caribbean Research Seminar Series in the North
Feb 2012: JISLAC Closing Conference at the Institute for the Study of the Americas
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Installing double monitors for Linux Ubuntu.
2. Setting up development environment.
a. Installing double monitors for Linux Ubuntu.
tep 1. When the computer is started, at least at some stage of the start up process each of the monitors should display some start up information. If this does not happen then something is wrong with the hardware or the wire connections.
In case "c" these instructions are not necessary.
In case "a" proceed to next step.
The case "b" means that one needs to download and install the driver for the graphic card and Ubuntu (and possibly restart).
Step 3. After the case "a" is achieved, one needs to extend the workspace to the second monitor. The following session illustrates the procedure.
The first command "xrandr" displays the necessary information. The subsequent commands have to be modified accordingly. The second command "xrandr --output DFP1 --off" disables one of the monitors. It becomes black. The parameter DFP1 comes from the information displayed after the first statement. The third command extends the first monitor's workspace to the second monitor. At this stage the xrandr may complain. It may say that the limitation on the total workspace area is exceeded and refuse to extend the workspace. If that happens then edit the xorg.conf file (located in /etc/X11 for my ubuntu installation) as explained next.
The following is author's xorg.conf with added lines in bold. Note that the "Virtual" field is the double area of the "Modes" field. Also, the contents of the "Modes" field came from the above session.
After modifying the file, restart the computer and attempt the session again.


The fifth annual Digital Energy Conference explored the ways in which the oil and gas sector is embracing innovation and accepting technology's role in the industry's future.
DIGIT's fifth annual Digital Energy conference took place in Aberdeen this week. The two-day event captured an industry in the throes of change, where innovation, technology and data are becoming ever more critical to long-term success.
It's fair to say that the global oil and gas industry has had a tumultuous few years. The significant and long-term downturn in global oil prices marked an end to the business-as-usual approach of many companies, who had spent decades refining their organisational and operational efficiency based on a buoyant and stable market price.
For an industry driven forward by technology's ability to reach new reserves and access increasingly difficult areas, the oil and gas industry remains quite conservative in its approach to technology and notoriously risk-averse when it comes to disruptive innovation.
In the new global market however, the ability to utilise disruptive innovation is becoming increasingly more important to the long-term survival and success of companies within the industry. From understanding data, to embracing digital transformation, the oil and gas sector is finding that technology is no longer something for the IT department alone.
Digital Energy brought together some of the industry's most forward-thinkers and digital pioneers to highlight the ways in which the industry is embracing the interactive world.
The first day of the event explored the value of technology within the context of digital transformation. As we've learned from a number of other events and case studies in the recent past, real company-wide digital transformation requires a significant cultural shift in thinking and buy-in from the whole workforce. It cannot be a shot-term 'IT project' and technology is merely an enabler for strategic outcomes, not an end in itself.
For an industry such as oil and gas which has built up a significant global infrastructure and in which domain expertise and decision making across a vast range of disciplines are critical for safety, as well as success, this kind of cultural shift may not come easily.
Agility, which is one of the hallmarks of the digital technology sector, is far more difficult for larger organisations with stakeholders with decades of investment in a particular modus operandi.
The opening speaker of day one, Max Rowe, the Lead Energy Partner for GlenShore pointed out, the basis for competition has changed. The best long-term strategy for companies within the sector is to create and drive the change, rather than find themselves subject to unpredictable change coming from another source.
Angus Murray, the head of IT for TAQA went further and used the company's digital leaders project as a case study. Boldly stating that 'we failed', Angus admitted that his team 'were too busy being IT' going into the project and that the default position was 'shields up'. However, a focus on 'digital' rather than 'IT' and by using outcomes as goals and KPIs rather than technologies, the company is making real progress in moving forward as a digitally-fluent company.
Several speakers highlighted an appreciation and understanding of data of a key element for the sector as a whole. Many companies generate huge amounts of data, but few make use of it beyond improving efficiency. Chris McManaman, CGI's Director of Commodity Trading & Risk Management called for a smarter use of data to move beyond this and start to focus on data for predictive and indeed prescriptive analytics, allowing companies to make smarter, more informed decisions about future activity.
The use of data for modelling, the creation of 'digital twins' and prescriptive simulation was echoed by a number of speakers across both days of the conference. The oil and gas industry has huge amount of legacy data and is generating ever greater volumes of new data as it evolves. Utilising new technologies such as cloud-hosting, sensors through the Internet of Things (IoT) and enabling global accessibility can give companies far greater opportunities to make smarter use of their data moving forward.
All the data in the world however, is useless unless it can be understood and acted upon. Professor Nirmalie Wiratunga from Robert Gordon University, outlined the methods which can be used to reason with data and discussed exactly how data can be used to generate 'actionable knowledge'.
While handling such huge amount of data can seem intimidating, Gavin Mccance from CERN was on-hand to describe exactly how such enormous volumes of data can be handled, processed, saved, stored and actioned at one of the world's largest science experiments. Jaw-dropping was the only way to describe the volume of data and the ways in which it utilised.
The siloed nature of the oil and gas sector and a decision making process of 6-18 months within the industry was identified as a key challenge by Luke Johnson, the CEO and Founder of Cognitive Geology, along with possible solutions and shortcuts, including finding organisations pro-actively looking for innovation, or those with specific prototyping funds and projects.
Day two of Digital Energy picked up on day one's focus on data and drilled down into data security and cyber resilience, enabling companies within the energy sector to see how the wider world is understanding and addressing the need to protect critical infrastructure.
Mandy Haeburn-Little the head of the Scottish Business Resilience Centre and Eamonn Keane, detective inspector from Police Scotland, provided an introduction to the rapidly-evolving threat landscape and Scotland's position as a pioneer and leader in cyber security.
The rise of IoT devices and the ways in which they can be used and vulnerabilities secured within an industrial context was discussed by Bill Malik from Trend Micro, exploring how the 'attack surface' a company's infrastructure will continue to change. The following speaker, Tim Harwood of HSandTC, took a broader view, looking at the whole security issue from a business perspective and asked how companies can align their objectives with the requirements of good security.
As Tim pointed out, cyber culture normally embraces and supports innovation, flexibility and agility, all of which will help a company which is attempting to digitally transform itself, so the two should go hand in hand more often than they seem to.
Several speakers also focused on the value of leading with outcomes, so that a business can identify and focus on its goals at a strategic level, making technology an enabler. Angela Mathis from Think Tank Maths also summarised a point which almost every speaker and panelist made, that siloed team and siloed data leads to isolated programs, which do not advance the company as a whole in terms of effective utilisation of data and technology. Angela gave examples from multiple industries, from aerospace and healthcare, through to smart cities.
The last speaker of day two was Stephen Ashley, the Digital Transformation Solution Centre Manager for the OGTC. As an industry veteran, Stephen put the entire two days into context with a summary of the opportunities open to the industry, by engaging with technology and enabling the acceptance of new ways of working – and the challenges it faces if it fails to do so.
Digital Energy 2018 marked a sea change for the industry. The question is no longer whether technology can help the oil and gas sector, or whether innovation is important. The industry seems to have accepted change is inevitable – and valuable. The question now is how to make it happen, as quickly and effectively as possible.


We discovered a total of 36 deleted reviews for this product, with an average rating of 3.8. Even though deleted reviews don't affect the average rating, the fact that action was taken to delete reviews raises some red flags about the integrity of the reviews for the product as whole.
2 of the 4 reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. While this is more Brand Repeaters than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Brand Repeaters and non-repeaters isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
1 of the 4 reviewers has written multiple reviews but posted all of them on a single day. While this is more Single-Day Reviewers than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
2 of the 4 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. While this is more than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between these reviewers and reviewers who have a more unique product review history isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
We counted 4 reviews for this product over the span of 972 days, an average of 0.0 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 1 or fewer reviews on any given day. We didn't find any days exceeding this threshold.


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Q: Understanding how stack frames work in recursive function Python/CS newbie here, trying to understand how a particular recursive function works "under the hood" in terms of how the function's stack frames are operating and what values they're "holding."
I know a lot has been written/posted about recursive functions on here, and there are illustrative examples of how they work, but the concepts of recursion and how stacks work/what they do in a recursive function are a little tricky and I'm not finding any clear and concise explanations.
Let's say we have the following recursive function that reverses the characters in a string:
text = "hello"
def reverse_string(text):
        if len(text) <= 1:
            return text
        return reverse_string(text[1:]) + text[0]

which outputs: olleh
I'm thinking that the frames for the reverse_string(text[1:]) work as follows:
Global frame
text    "hello"
reverse_string

reverse_string
text    "hello"

reverse_string
text    "ello"

reverse_string
text    "llo"

reverse_string
text    "lo"

reverse_string
text    "o"

Return
value   "o"

But what happens after the value "o" is returned and the terminating base condition is met? How does text[0] work in the function to finally arrive at "olleh" ?

A: Just taking your example for a walk.
Once we reach the terminating condition, the remaining frames are pop'd in reverse order.
Suppose we reach the terminating condition in which case return text is "hit" and text = "o" is returned. Then in the previous frame we have reverse_string(text[1:]) + text[0] but this is just reverse_string("o") + "l" = "o" + "l" = "ol" = reverse_string(text[1:]), where reverse_string(text[1:]) is the call from the previous frame (the one for which text was equal to "llo"). Continuing this logic, reverse_string("lo") + "l" = "ol" + "l" = "oll".
We continue this same idea until we reach the "top" frame where we finally return "olleh".


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5 Tips To Create Amazing Content And Social Influence from YouTube Sensation and Makeup Mogul, Michelle Phan
Who is Michelle Phan?
Entrepreneur, YouTube Video Blogger, and Makeup Mogul
Over 8 Million YouTube Subscribers
1.1 Billion Lifetime YouTube Views
YouTube's Top 100 Channels of 2014 (#48)
2015 Forbes and Inc "30 Under 30" List
In 2015, took Ipsy from a $100 Million value to over $500 Million.
Michelle's Entrepreneurial Journey
Like many of us entrepreneurs, Michele has always been creative and driven.
In 2005, Michelle began personal blogging on Xanga, where she discussed and demonstrated different makeup tutorials. As she gained traction, she started to video blog on her YouTube channel taking on further requests for instructions on makeup applications and design.
Almost 5 years later, Michele finally went VIRAL when she was featured on BuzzFeed for two makeup tutorials on "How To Get Lady Gaga's Eyes". That helped her receive over 1,000,000 YouTube subscribers!
As she gained popularity and a following, Lancôme, a renowned makeup company hired her as their official video makeup artist. Shortly after she launched MyGlam, now Ipsy, a subscription based beauty product monthly service. She also launched her own cosmetic line, book, and partnership with Cutting Edge Group.
What can we all learn from Michelle?
In Michelle's sit down with Nathan Chan, Founder of Foundr, an Entrepreneur Magazine and Podcast, she shared her story, tips, and insight that all entrepreneurs can apply to their businesses and lives.
You MUST love what you do. When she started, she had no idea it would become what it is today. Many entrepreneurs chase money and get rich fantasies instead of their passions. If you are passionate about your niche, you will be able to do whatever it takes to become an empire.
You need to KNOW your audience/niche. Determine what your interests are and what you are passionate about. Start there and dig deeper. Don't chase other niches. Today, the Internet and social media give power back to the people, and a "niche" may very well be millions of people. Establish your niche, and own it.
Create GREAT content. You need to find creativity and innovation around you. Michelle draws creativity and passion from nature, international trends, surfing the web, and even her dreams. Experiment with different content methods like blogging, iMovie, YouTube, and Camtasia! The more you experiment the better you will be at defining your best methods for content creation.
Be a STORYTELLER. Sharing her story and offering guidance to others was her best way to create a passionate following. Being genuine and open with her audience allowed her to connect on a higher level. Keep communication as a two way street, and learn to interact and listen to your audience and their needs.
NEVER stop creating. As cliche as this may be, you need to continue to push forth through failure and success. Learn from your mistakes and always find new ways to make your successes even better.
To listen to Michelle's full sit down with Nathan Chan, listen HERE!
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Huawei launched the Huawei Mate 20, Huawei Mate 20 Pro, Huawei Mate 20 X, and the Porsche Design Mate 20 RS today in London.
A few days ago, the price of the Huawei Mate 20 series seemed to have surfaced online.
However both of Huawei's phones offer a full EMUI 9 experience. There's no word yet on Huawei Mate 20 or Mate 20 Pro price in India and release date. So, before going into the Huawei Mate 20 series details, let's know how you can watch the live stream of the event from London.
It appears the Mate 20 Pro could also follow tradition by launching in a colour similar to the hugely-popular Twilight finish that debuted on the P20 Pro, renders showed.
The Mate 20 Lite, which we saw at IFA 2018 in August, runs on the Kirin 710. The Mate 20 series is traditionally the highest-end offering from the Chinese OEM, featuring the year's latest-and-greatest technology. The size of the display is 6.53-inches, bigger than that of the iPhone XS Max and it is an LCD panel with a resolution of 2244 x 1080.
Most notably however it appears the Mate 20 Pro could feature wireless charging functionality that will allow it to not only receive power from a pad, but to also dish it out via its rear glass panel. Like the Mate 20 Pro, it will be powered by the company's latest HiSilicon Kirin 980 processor and come with 8GB of RAM. This setup consists of a primary 16-megapixel ultra wide angle sensor with f/2.2 aperture, a secondary 12-megapixel wide angle sensor with f/1.8 aperture, and a tertiary 8-megapixel telephoto lens with f/2.4 aperture; all of these coupled with LED flash and Super HDR.
You get a triple-lens camera on the Huawei Mate 20 Pro.
Further, the flagship smartphone features a 4,200mAh "safety certified" battery that Huawei says can charge up to 70 percent within 30 minutes.
Of course, you'll have to wait for our full Huawei Mate 20 Pro review to see how it stands up in practice, but based on the specs it should be a strong competitor to the Galaxy Note 9 - a phone that we already know is great.


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Q: Create a Crystal Report cross-tab 'header' label I'd like to create a 'header' label that 1) is centered over the cross-tab and 2) grows with it.  Unfortunately, CR 2008 (or earlier for that matter) doesn't have this feature.
In image (below), I've added a text field above the cross-tab, but I can't think of a way to get it to grow/shrink (horizontally) with it.

A: If you're able to calculate, say by a summary function, the number of columns you will have then you can do this:

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*In your crosstab, check to see the width of your columns. The columns should be set widths. Edit: The crosstab adds some padding, so you will have to figure out the column width by measuring in Crystal with another field and eyeballing until it's close enough to work

*Right-click on your label, and hit "Size & Position".

*Add a new formula for the "Width". The X,Y positions should stay the same.

*Use the summary function (You could create a SQL Expression or formula that only shows the month/year of your date fields and then distinctCount() them) to find out how many columns you will have multiplied by the width of each column. This will take some trial and error for sure, but I don't see why it wouldn't work.


If you're nevertheless upon the fence: seize your favourite earphones, head down toward a Ideal Purchase and inquire towards plug them into a Zune then an iPod and perspective which a single sounds far better toward yourself, and which interface generates oneself smile further more. Then you can expect to understand which is right for yourself.
Apple by now has Rhapsody as an application, which is a Wonderful start, nevertheless it is now hampered by way of the incapability in the direction of retailer regionally upon your iPod, and incorporates a dismal 64kbps little bit value. If this adjustments, then it will rather negate this usefulness for the Zune, nevertheless the Ten music per thirty day period will however be a large as well as in Zune Pass' favor.
The Zune concentrates upon staying a Transportable Media Player. Not a net browser. Not a recreation machine. Potentially in the future it will do even much better inside of people areas, however for already it is a Good route in the direction of organize and pay attention in direction of your audio and movies, and is devoid of peer in that regard. The iPod's benefits are its website viewing and applications. If people strong added persuasive, possibly it is your great determination.
Sorry for the huge assessment, however I'm truly loving the new Zune, and be expecting this, as effectively as the perfect assessments some other individuals comprise created, will assist on your own choose if it can be the instantly preference for your self.
Zune and iPod: Highest us citizens evaluate the Zune in the direction of the Contact, nevertheless immediately after seeing how slender and incredibly reduced and light it is, I look at it in the direction of be a very one of a kind hybrid that combines properties of possibly the Touch and the Nano. It is really incredibly colourful and gorgeous OLED show is a little scaled-down than the contact screen, yet the participant itself feels quite a bit scaled-down and lighter. It weighs more than 2/3 as a great deal, and is appreciably more compact inside width and height, despite the fact that getting only a hair thicker.
Apple now has Rhapsody as an app, which is a best commence, nonetheless it is at this time hampered via the lack of ability towards shop domestically upon your iPod, and has a dismal 64kbps bit cost. If this alterations, then it will to some degree negate this benefit for the Zune, however the 10 new music for every thirty day period will nevertheless be a large additionally inside of Zune Pass' favor.
Between me and my husband we've owned added MP3 avid gamers earlier mentioned the yrs than I can rely, which include Sansas, iRivers, iPods (classic & touch), the Ibiza Rhapsody, and many others. But, the past several years I've settled down to 1 line of avid gamers. Why? Mainly because I was satisfied toward locate how well-designed and enjoyment towards seek the services of the underappreciated (and commonly mocked) Zunes are.
If you happen to be however on the fence: seize your favorite earphones, head down towards a Best Invest in and request towards plug them into a Zune then an iPod and look at which a person sounds greater towards yourself, and which interface would make on your own smile further. Then you may understand which is specifically for on your own.
If you are continue to upon the fence: grab your beloved earphones, thoughts down toward a Simplest Get and inquire in direction of plug them into a Zune then an iPod and perspective which a single sounds far better in the direction of on your own, and which interface would make you smile even more. Then you may recognize which is specifically for your self.
Apple by now contains Rhapsody as an application, which is a fantastic start off, nonetheless it is already hampered through the incapability towards retailer regionally upon your iPod, and includes a dismal 64kbps bit price. If this changes, then it will fairly negate this comfort for the Zune, nevertheless the Ten tunes per thirty day period will nonetheless be a substantial furthermore in just Zune Pass' like.
The contemporary Zune browser is incredibly Great, however not as good as the iPod's. It works perfectly, still just isn't as prompt as Safari, and contains a clunkier interface. If yourself at times software on applying the world wide web browser that's not an issue, still if you happen to be creating in the direction of read the world-wide-web alot from your PMP then the iPod's much larger display screen and better browser may possibly be considerable.
The refreshing Zune browser is shockingly constructive, however not as positive as the iPod's. It works properly, nevertheless isn't really as instant as Safari, and includes a clunkier interface. If your self once in a while software upon using the website browser that's not an issue, still if you're designing in the direction of study the internet alot against your PMP then the iPod's much larger display screen and greater browser could be crucial.
This is having a bit additional subjective, but I a great deal favor the Zune Market. The interface is colourful, includes a lot more flair, and some great features including 'Mixview' that allow you out of the blue see similar albums, audio, or other consumers related to what you might be listening to. Clicking upon one of all those will center on that products, and another fastened of "neighbors" will occur into perspective, enabling on your own toward navigate about researching via very similar artists, songs, or people. Talking of customers, the Zune "Social" is as well great pleasurable, allowing yourself track down some others with shared preferences and turning into pals with them. You then can pay attention to a playlist created based mostly upon an amalgamation of what all your good friends are listening in direction of, which is furthermore exciting. These worried with privateness will be relieved toward comprehend on your own can stay clear of the community against observing your particular person listening routines if you so decide.