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conova deploys ADVA OLS solution for highly secure DCI connectivity
ADVA FSP 3000 with ALM monitoring technology and Layer 1 encryption protects high-capacity Fibre Channel services
ADVA (FSE: ADV) today announced that conova communications is using its technology for secure, high-capacity transport between data centers. conova, one of Austria's leading IT service providers, has deployed the ADVA FSP 3000 open line system (OLS) with ConnectGuard™ Optical encryption in response to booming demand from business customers for reliable and protected cloud services. The fully redundant infrastructure supports 100Gbit/s Carrier Ethernet as well as 32Gbit/s Gen 6 Fibre Channel, a key requirement for the most advanced enterprise storage services. Featuring ADVA ALM fiber assurance technology, the new DCI network also enables rapid repair times and improves performance. The solution was designed and implemented by ADVA's Elite partner dacoso, a German IT service provider focusing on connectivity, cyber defense and virtual networking.
ADVA's technology takes conova's DCI network to new heights
"In recent years, we've grown rapidly as our customers' businesses have expanded. ADVA's technology enables us to meet new levels of demand for high-security, high-availability cloud and storage services in a way that also supports further growth in the future. With the ability to transport the most advanced low-latency 32Gbit/s Fibre Channel services, our new network also empowers us to realize the full value of our state-of-the-art data centers," said Stefan Kaltenbrunner, CSO, conova. "Our new fully redundant network is key to our mission of delivering the optimal IT infrastructure for every business. It helps us provide our customers with fast access to their mission-critical data around the clock as well as the peace of mind that comes from knowing that it's safe and secure."
conova's new network is built on the ADVA FSP 3000 OLS, a high-performance packet-optical solution with low-power consumption and an extremely compact design. The infrastructure is protected by ConnectGuard™ Optical for network encryption at the lowest network layer. This is not only the most robust security method available, but it also maximizes throughput and ensures the lowest possible latency. The network is assured by the ADVA ALM fiber monitoring solution, which provides real-time information on fiber integrity for fast failure detection and short repair cycles. As the first platform on the market to achieve mainframe qualification for Gen 6 Fibre Channel transport, the ADVA FSP 3000 enables conova to make the leap to 32Gbit/s Fibre Channel and maximize the performance of flash-enhanced data storage in its facilities.
With the ability to transport the most advanced low-latency 32Gbit/s Fibre Channel services, our new network empowers us to realize the full value of our state-of-the-art data centers.
Stefan Kaltenbrunner, CSO, conova
"When it comes to data center interconnect technology that offers agility, security and speed, our portfolio and our team are second to none. We've provided conova with a network optimized for the fastest, most reliable SAN connectivity. Now its team is free to tackle soaring data demand using flash storage and other latest-generation technologies," commented Andreas Jelinek, senior director, sales, Eastern Europe, Russia and CIS, ADVA. "Today's enterprise customers need their data to be constantly available but also expect it to be fully protected. With our simple and effective technology, conova's customers can be assured that all data and control traffic is safe. What's more, as our ConnectGuard™ Optical encryption technology adds just 100ns of latency, total security comes at virtually no cost to performance."
"Together with ADVA, we've delivered the ideal DCI network for conova's specific needs. It's a future-proof solution that ensures excellent performance as well as robust protection of data integrity," said Christian Cehovin, country manager, Austria, dacoso. "We've worked very closely with ADVA on this project to ensure there could be no room for error. Together we've built up a formidable reputation for designing and installing solutions that provide low-latency, high-capacity transport for business continuity and disaster recovery. conova's solution is the product of ADVA's world-class technology, the energy and passion of our team and a wealth of combined expertise. And, with our ongoing maintenance and support, it's sure to provide value for conova's customers for many years to come."

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Q: How do I cancel a bid on an auction? This morning I encounted a rare occurance with the Diablo 3 auction house.
I had a bid on an item where I was winning with a few hours left to go.
During the course of my game playing I found an item that was better than what I was wearing AND better than the item that I had a bid on. I went to the auction house interface and could not find a way to cancel the winning bid I had on the item. Luckily for me, someone else bid and won the item before the auction ended so I recovered my gold.
The question is, am I able to/can I cancel my bid an item?

A: You cannot cancel your bid. The best you can hope for is to be outbid, or to be able to resell the item for more than you paid for it.

A: You cannot cancel your bid once it is placed. That is the risk with bidding on an item well before the auction is over. If you find something better, you're still stuck unless someone outbids you. This is why you can expect bids to come in much closer to the end of an auction than the beginning.

A: Short answer No you can't
This is a safety mode for the seller.
If you bid on something, you may avoid others bids. So if you canceled your bid, no one was gonna get the item.
It's work as a Real Auction house. If you bit on something, you must pay for it.

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THE CHERRY BLUESTORMS NEWS STORM – A Horse is a Horse of Course, of Course!
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This is a temporary home until we can sort out a domain etc.
Debian UK used to have a bank account with the Co-operative Bank to hold society funds. Over the course of a few years, we were hit by multiple incidents involving fraudulent Direct Debits being set up on the account. Despite calls to various people in the relevant teams at the Co-operative with them promising to permanently block all Direct Debit requests, they failed to manage this simple thing and could not explain why.
Due to this obvious incompetence, Debian UK is no longer a customer of the Co-operative Bank. It seems keeping bank notes in a sock would be a safer option for our money. There used to be details of the bank account here, but they have now been removed to stop anybody trying to use them in future. If you want to send money, mail me (Steve, details above).


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El carbó de coc o simplement coc és un combustible obtingut de la destil·lació seca de carbons bituminosos de baix contingut de cendres i baix contingut de sofre escalfats a temperatures molt altes (2.000 °C) en forns tancats i a la qual s'hi afegeix calcita per millorar la combustió, que l'aïllen de l'aire, i que només conté una petita fracció de les matèries volàtils que en formen part. És fruit de la descomposició tèrmica de carbons bituminosos en absència d'aire. Quan aquests carbons s'escalfen deprenen gasos que són molt útils industrialment; el sòlid que en resulta és el carbó de coc, que és lleuger i porós (densitat 0,77) i pràcticament amb una humitat nul·la.

Història

A la Xina del segle IX aC ja es produïa el carbó de coc. Durant la revolució industrial va substituir al carbó vegetal com reductor i font d'energia als alts forns, facilitant la siderúrgia (és important per a la fabricació del ferro i l'acer) que fins aleshores depenia de la llenya. En les llars del  es feia servir el carbó de coc, ja que no desprenia fums.

Producció
El coc es produeix en una bateria de forns de coc. El procés consisteix a posar-lo al forn de 10 a 24 hores. Els productes gasosos i líquids que s'obtenen tenen més importància econòmica que el sòlid o carbó de coc.

Coc de petroli
La varietat coc de petroli és un sòlid de densitat 1,2 obtingut refinant el petroli o per cracking del petroli. Serveix per fabricar elèctrodes de grafit artificial, abrasius, pigments i com a combustible.

Vegeu també
 Coc de petroli

Referències

Enllaços externs

 Coque metalúrgico
 Coque de petróleo
 El carbón en la vida cotidiana

Carbó i derivats

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Ijen
by Archie Hayes 2018-05-28, 8:58 PM updated 2018-05-28, 9:05 PM
The Ijen volcano complex is a group of stratovolcanoes, in East Java, Indonesia. It is inside a larger caldera Ijen, which is about 20 kilometers wide. The Gunung Merapi stratovolcano is the highest point of that complex. The name of this volcano resembles that of a different volcano, Mount Merapi in central Java, also known as Gunung Merapi; there is also a third volcano named Marapi in Sumatra. The name "Merapi" means "fire" in the Indonesian language.
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Tell us again about the drought of 1976. Go on. It changes just everything.
We could always burn the art.
And, sadly, that situation continues. However in a remarkable non sequitur the BBC commentator has posted this 'You can get your live cricket fix with updates from The Hundred at Trent Bridge.
Who, on earth among the spectators at Lord's thinks the 100 (otherwise known as the 16.4) has anything to do with live cricket?
Disagreed.
Donald Trump is an ominous treasonous traitor that violently attempted to overturn the election when he lost and is a threat to the American republic and to democracy itself.
Donald Trumperooni is treating him with the contempt and ridicule he so richly deserves.
Maybe it's a a UFOROONI.
He seemed impossibly long-serving when I met him in what must have been about 1995.
Wouldn't be allowed to call your independent party "Labouring for North Ward" now...
I'd say its convenient: much better to have a hosepipe ban on days when they aren't needed.
No, he sounds like a ridiculous clown. It works superbly
A rare AEP column which isn't insane.
Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here from somewhere else
They will again in the next backbench proposed amendment. Opposing abortion on demand is also not extreme, indeed the opposite
EROONI!
What language is this? Pray tell!
No point - you are not interested in genuine debate about global weather patterns versus climate change. You exist only to try to on certain posters, hoping for a response. Life is too short.
Thankfully since this is a conscience issue, you can't dismiss opposition party MPs from the numbers.
May this never become a party partisan issue and may Parliament keep putting loons obsessed with "infanticide" back in their box.
Fail. Yebbut 1976 is about as intelligent as my grandma smoked 80 a day and lived to 140. You got told this on twitter by your own account and were hoping for a better outcome here.
Until the alleged other 5 photos emerge, and preferably the negatives, I remain on the skeptical side of this. I've asked before, if this is from the alleged location, where are the hills?
How's yourself.
Does my f*****g head in.
Here's a really good and interesting "do at home" experiment showing why flooding in a drought is possible.
https://twitter.com/UniofReading/status/1557350976725581824
It is not infanticide to oppose abortion on demand up until birth for disabled babies and DIY abortion etc. Indeed if Badenoch or Rees Mogg became party leader it likely would be official party policy to oppose that
Lots of talk that the Americans used RAF Macrahinish and its 10,000 foot runway for "exotics". The US Navy handed it back to the MOD in 1995.
Citing a drought in 1976 is not about refuting climate change, which is not what I am trying to do. Suggesting that the latest drought is due to global weather patterns rather than hyperventilating about climate change is totally reasonable. Are you suggesting I am trying to deny climate change?
Thankfully the party saw fit not to elect those idiots then, eh?
Anyone who would end the idea of abortion being a "conscience" issue and chose to make it a "whipped" one wouldn't be fit to be leader, so thankfully that isn't happening. 👍
Despite being a total Luddite born in 1740, having daughters I had to resort to my Liddell and Scott to look up one word only (cray).
I had assumed it was shot 'upwards' as it were but the angles seem off. I'm really not sure. Still leaning towards a US bit of weird tech. Any aliens would seem to have little reason to be fuckung about at that level.
I'll admit I had the same thought as the top reply - that the situations with active vegetation change ease of air entry to the tumbler, which is important for water escape, but reasonably satisfied with the response.
I'd still prefer open-topped tubes to a sealed top (bottom) plastic tumbler.
Jeez, doing science day to day can ruin some of this fun simple stuff
They are partly hidden by low cloud and the photographers are looking up at quite an angle - which fits their eye witness testimony, shooting at the sky
Go back to the image and look along the fence at the bottom. You can just about make out the valley and the closer hills, as darker shapes
The pro photographer who analysed the image reached the same conclusion
For now, if Truss leads the party to defeat at the next general election then Badenoch would be amongst the favourites to succeed her as Tory leader and become Leader of the Opposition and Rees Mogg would also be in contention
She would likely get a higher percentage in New York and California than the red states
I think she should run as a 3rd party, taking just enough off Trump to keep him out of the WH.
Doubt she will though.
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In Wyoming her tactic was to get independent and Democratic voters to register as Republicans - there was an 11% increase in registered Republicans.
You only need to read her speech to see she's going to run; her first tactic would be to get enough votes in primaries to stop Trump winning but not enough to win herself, and if that doesn't work to go as a third party candidate. I got on her last week at 225-1, she's down I think to 120-1 now but with very little money in the market.
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And the Americans have form for using UFO stories to cover up what they are really working on.
Not to mention the fact of the MoD cover-up supports the hypothesis it was an American plane and not a production line model. Why would MoD want to hide a hoax?
Surely in this context Republican or quasi Republican votes in California or New York are immaterial. What is needed are enough quasi Republican votes in Florida, Texas and the like to let the Democratic candidate in.
Not really sure why you're calling people idiots on the basis of HYFUD idly surmising what their abortion policy would be.
Which eye-witness accounts though? The two walkers? Where are they? Are they dead? Do we have names?
Which MOD investigation? By who? I don't trust Nick Pope overmuch, as he now has a career based on talking about UFO/UAPs and his time at the MOD. I don't see how it can be concluded that its an object of significant size based on what we can see, which goes back to - where are the negs and other photos. What about the pilot of the plane - he would have seen it or perhaps been tasked to intercept.
I keep referring back to Gordon Faulkner and Warminster as a classic example of a one off photo of a UFO. Almost certainly a hoax.
news.bbc.co.uk/local/wiltshire/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8694000/8694729.stm
I am certain he does for some of his tricks. He is at heart a magician, and you forget that at your peril. No-one believed that Paul Daniels actually performed magic, yet people seem to think Brown has 'powers'.
Here are eye witness reports from Calvine and part of the MoD response (which appears to be legit, and has not been denied by the MoD)
https://twitter.com/WilsonStraiph/status/1558773564244910080?s=20&t=XIAvg0Bi7CE0DGFHL5x99g
One fascinating detail has been ignored. In their response the MoD say they have analysed the images and identified a Harrier jet, and also a SECOND aircraft also a Harrier (barely visible), alongside the Unidentified Large Object
Where is this second Harrier? I can't see it in this image. Which must mean it is in one of the other 5 images. So there were two planes there, buzzing the UFO
That also confirms that they REALLY examined the photos
Easy to read transcripts of the below
https://twitter.com/Arnfden0/status/1559358319151779849?s=20&t=XIAvg0Bi7CE0DGFHL5x99g
I just linked
Paul Daniels persuaded Debbie McGee to marry him though!
But I've seen him live, on stage
Threatened not to put her back together again.
What first attracted her to the multimillionaire Paul Daniels as Mrs Merton quipped?
Because it's idiotic to have any abortion policy.
Abortion is a conscience issue.
If someone tries to upend that and make something "party policy" then that is a stupid idea whether that be making it party policy to ban abortion, party policy to mandate it, or anything in between.
I don't know about his stage show, but I do know that on TV, they have hundreds of takes where people don't fall for his tricks.
There's one where he gets shopkeepers to accept worthless bits of paper rather than money. In real life, it worked one in three times. But you only see that one, and not the occasions where people say "eh, what the heck are you doing?"
I've no doubt you are right, but all I can say is: I've seen him live on stage and he is breathtakingly good in that set-up, as well, and he did not obviously/badly fail once, as far as I can remember - he may have fumbled, but his patter is good, and everything went on. He did some stunning tricks/illusions
I heartily recommend it, actually
Abortion being a conscience issue is a policy. And all countries (including ours) have policies surrounding it - it's not a free for all.
But that's beside the point, which is that HYFUD has made something up and you're swinging punches about his made up future. I am not sure of the need is all.
Isn't the Chancellor trying that now?
"Faced with a worrisome decline in Russia's population, President Vladimir Putin this week revived a Soviet-era award launched in 1944, to encourage Russians to supersize their families.
The "Mother Heroine" award published in a decree on Monday goes to women who bear 10 or more children, offering financial incentives and social kudos in a bid to spur population growth."
source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/17/russia-ukraine-putin-mother-heroine-award-children/
Be interesting to see if it has any effect.
Bank of England policy for decades.
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Mind you, you do have a stupendously high Credibility Quotient.
For anyone who needs the ultimate source of the Calvine eye witness reports and the MoD response, it is in here. Page 27-29
Released under FoIA
https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/UK/defe-24-2048-1-1.pdf
Tantalisingly, it shows that the negatives were returned to the Scottish Daily Record. Where are they?
You mean credulity, I think
It's not much of an incentive for having 10. .
Mrs Merton got to the heart of that illusion.
Visited the Tropical Butterfly House in Sheffield today.
Really nice little place some fantastic animals and birds and the butterflies are amazing.
They even have a Rishi Sunak for PM section complete with Black Swans
Play abandoned at Lord's. Possibly for the best, under the circumstances!
How hard for you.
It's a frickin alien
DISCLOSUREROONI
You SO want to believe don't you old chap! The truth is out there...... da da da da da da da da da
All I know about her is that she's a politician who stood by her principles and refused to lie unlike so many of her careerist colleagues in the Republican party. Ultimately that cost her. I think she deserves respect for that alone.
Sorry one too many "da"s
NHS leaders are increasingly wondering what is going to be the emblematic story that shocks people into realising what a state emergency care is in
"It is definitely going to involve an ambulance", one was saying to me only today
https://twitter.com/BBCCornwall/status/1559872336974815232
Truss has no idea what is going to hit her
She could have added the word "twat" after the word millionaire.
I think he must have done. Otherwise he would have said a stupendously low Credibility Quotient.
Lol yes!
I could blame autocorrect but I think the three pints of Piddle I drunk at the Gillingham and Shaftesbury show today is more to blame.
32 overs played so no refund for Kinabalu, but a lot of cricket packed into those 32 overs.
Ta-ra to the last da then.
The new image still looks like the top if a hill in a Loch with a chap in a rowing boat fishing.
Reminds me of the short story I read of an exploring alien ship that landed in Alaska and confronted a grizzly bear just out of hibernation, convincing them to explore elsewhere.


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Joan Vinyes Dabad, (20 de junio de 1969, Andorra la Vieja) es un piloto de rally andorrano que actualmente compite en el Campeonato de España de Rally. Ha competido en rally, montaña y turismos. Ganó la Supercopa SEAT León de Circuitos en 2002, fue campeón de España de Rally de Tierra en la categoría de dos ruedas motrices en 2001, Campeón de Rallyes de Andorra en 1999, Ganador Trofeo Citroën de Rallyes en 1998, Campeón de Andorra de Automovilismo en 1994, Campeón de Cataluña de montaña en 1991 además de subcampeón de España de Rally de Tierra en 2007, de España de Rallyes en 2004, de Europa de Montaña en 1993, entre otros. Su hermana, Amàlia, es una piloto también y ellos a veces competían juntos.

En , es uno de los dos (el otro es Manel Cerqueda) pilotos andorranos que cuentan con una licencia de la FIA.

Trayectoria
Debutó en el automovilismo a finales de los años 80 en la modalidad de Montaña, y en 1988 fue subcampeón de España Grupo N de Montaña con un Renault 5 GT Turbo. Hasta 1994 siguió compitiendo en montaña logrando varios campeonatos como: Campeón de Europa de Montaña Grupo N, Campeón de España de Montaña Grupo N y campeón de Cataluña de montaña en 1991 y campeón de España de Montaña Grupo North en 1990, logrando además los subcampeonatos europeos de montaña con una Osella BMW.

En 1994 se proclamó campeón de Andorra de automovilismo. Entre 1995 y 1996 compitió en el Campeonato de España de Superturismos y en 1998 se proclamó Campeón del Trofeo Citroën de Rally y al año siguiente se hace con el Campeonato de Andorra de Rallyes.

En 2000 finaliza octavo en el Campeonato de España de Rally, certamen que seguiría hasta la actualidad compaginándolo con otros campeonatos, como el Campeonato de España de Rally de Tierra, Campeonato de Cataluña de Rallyes de tierra y otras pruebas de circuito como la Copa de España de Resistencia (Seat León), 24 Horas de Barcelona (Seat León) o el Campeonato de España de GT´s.

En el año 2005 Vinyes sufrió uno de los peores momentos de su carrera, en el Rally de Avilés sufrió una salida cuando pilotaba a gran velocidad, golpeó contra un árbol y el vehículo terminó volcando y ardiendo. Vinyes logró salir a tiempo pero su copiloto Xavi Lorza tardó en hacerlo y por la ventanilla del piloto. Como consecuencia, Xavi sufrió varias quemaduras en la cara de grave consideración que lo apartó de la competición hasta la actualidad.

Resultados

Campeonato de España de Rally

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Campeonato de España de Rally de Tierra

Referencias

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 Sitio oficial.

Nacidos en Andorra la Vieja
Pilotos de rally de Andorra
Pilotos de Suzuki
Pilotos de Peugeot


It's like a scene from 'The Day After Tomorrow' Movie.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech AIRS Project.
The U.S. Midwest has been taken over by the lowest temperatures recorded in recent years.
It is so cold in the Midwest, that people have been suggested to stay inside, and avoid leaving their houses as the temperature plummets towards -50 Degrees Celsius.
The freezing temperatures have been caused by an unusually cold Arctic Air mass called a Polar Vortex.
The unusually cold temperatures are clearly visible in this visual model from NASA's Earth Observatory.
The image seen below represents temperature by color at 4 a.m. EST on Jan. 29 at 6.5 feet above the ground, according to a statement from the NASA Earth Observatory.
The model from NASA shown here below, allows us to see the polar vortex as it moves from Canada across the Midwest of the United States from Jan. 20 through Jan. 29.
In the GIF image, the purple color represents the coldest temperatures.
Image Credit: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech AIRS Project.
NASA used a combination of two instruments to create a "three-dimensional map of atmospheric temperature and humidity, cloud amounts and heights, greenhouse gas concentrations and many other atmospheric phenomena," according to a statement by the Space Agency.
The polar vortex is responsible for a number of deaths, disruptions to services, and energy outages in the affected areas.


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@interface IPABuddyTests : XCTestCase

@end

@implementation IPABuddyTests

- (void)setUp {
    [super setUp];
    // Put setup code here. This method is called before the invocation of each test method in the class.
}

- (void)tearDown {
    // Put teardown code here. This method is called after the invocation of each test method in the class.
    [super tearDown];
}

- (void)testListInfo{
    XCTestExpectation *expectation = [self expectationWithDescription:@"List Info"];

    [IPABuild buildInformationForProjectPath:@"/Users/darkcl/Documents/Workspace/friendzone-swift/"
                                     success:^(NSArray *targets, NSArray *configurations, NSArray *schemes) {
                                         NSLog(@"Targets: %@", targets);
                                         NSLog(@"Configuration: %@", configurations);
                                         NSLog(@"Schemes: %@", schemes);

                                         [expectation fulfill];
                                     }
                                     failure:^(NSException *err) {
                                         XCTFail(@"Should not fail %@", err.debugDescription);
                                         [expectation fulfill];
                                     }];

    [self waitForExpectationsWithTimeout:INT_MAX
                                 handler:^(NSError * _Nullable error) {
                                     XCTAssertNil(error);
                                 }];
}

- (void)testBuild{
    XCTestExpectation *expectation = [self expectationWithDescription:@"Build"];

    [IPABuild buildWithProjectPath:@"/Users/yeungyiuhung/Documents/Workspace/facesss-ios/Facesss.xcworkspace"
                            scheme:@"Facesss"
                            config:@"Release"
                            target:@"Facesss"
                        exportPath:@"/Users/yeungyiuhung/Documents/OTA Build"
                            domain:@"https://host/"
                         provision:@"Facesss App Developement"
                           ipaName:@"test-201604071151"
                           success:^{
                               [expectation fulfill];
                           }
                          progress:^(NSString *logs) {
                              NSLog(@"%@", logs);
                          }
                           failure:^(NSException *err) {
                               XCTFail(@"Should not fail %@", err.debugDescription);
                               [expectation fulfill];
                           }];
    [self waitForExpectationsWithTimeout:INT_MAX
                                 handler:^(NSError * _Nullable error) {
                                     XCTAssertNil(error);
                                 }];
}

@end


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Q: How to implement event method in JNI Android imported class to XE5 I am interested in implementation of event method in imported interface of JAVA class to Delphi XE5.
Example:
Imagine we want to use JBroadcastReceiver from Androidapi.JNI.GraphicsContentViewText. There is a event method:
procedure onReceive(context: JContext; intent: JIntent); cdecl;

Method is fired if a broadcast message is received as far as I know. Do you have any idea how to implement in a my own application?
In Java code new class extending BrodcastReceiver class. But in XE5 it is not possible. I think.
So how to enforce to call my implementation of this method. In this method should be some code to do and show a notification for user.
I persued it is possible. I have found the component but I cant to download it.
http://chuacw.ath.cx/blogs/chuacw/archive/2014/02/26/delphi-ide-broadcastreceiver-plug-in-for-android.aspx
Thanks

A: I will answer by myself.
I have found some example which is not absolutely written in Delphi. There is important to write some code in Java, but it is very simple.
Look at the:
http://www.gobookee.org/ebook/auto-start-a-delphi-xe5-android-app-after-boot-danny-wind-7q6nap/
Android background service in Delphi XE5
There is an example of BroadcastReceiver and Service also.


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Free Speech is not a Warm Blanket
Amendment 1 of the United States Constitution reads as follows:
This past weekend, a group known as Unite the Right decided to march in protest to the planned removal of a Confederate statute in Charlottesville, Virginia. The march ended in tragedy.
Unite the Right, a white supremacist group, along with other white nationalist groups, KKK affiliates, anti government militias, and neo-nazis, marched through the streets of Charlottesville and the campus of the University of Virginia, waving burning tiki torches and chanting about saving the White race. By Saturday morning, the groups were met by counter protesters and fighting began amongst them. The police responded without force. The fights escalated when a man drove his car through the crowd of counter protestors. People were hit and injured. A young woman died. The police managed to apprehend the driver and disperse the crowds.
President 45 took a while to respond. He did not tweet his response, but rather held a conference where he stated that he condemned the violence, "on many sides" and was saddened by the tragic loss of the young woman. He did not call them white supremacists. He did not say domestic terrorism. He did not acknowledge in any way, that this tragedy was the direct result of White terror. Nope. He cited violence "on many sides." The counter protestors were met with violence from the armed militia. They responded out of self defense. But let 45 tell it, there was violence "on many sides."
This tragedy brought out the discussion of the First Amendment. The ACLU of Virginia put out a statement saying even though they do not agree with Unite the Right, they have to respect the group's First Amendment rights because if that group's First Amendment rights are taken away, then so will the First Amendment rights of the marginalized groups that the ACLU works to defend. Under this logic, the ACLU and many individuals believe that the First Amendment has to protect all speech, even hateful speech, in order to preserve the First Amendment rights of society.
Well, we saw what happened when all speech is considered protected under the First Amendment. People were hurt and someone died. We can go as far back as the previous election cycle and see what happens when all speech is protected. A racist, xenophobic, womanizer wins the highest title in the land, and hate crimes against marginalized groups increase. But under this premise of "all speech is free speech" everyone should be able to say whatever they want right?
Contrary to popular belief, there is speech that is not protected under the First Amendment. The Newseum Institute listed nine categories of unprotected speech:
Defamation (libel and slander)
Incitement to imminent lawless action
True threats
Solicitation to commit crimes
The white supremacists took to the streets of Charlottesville, proclaiming their love for the Confederacy, hate of minorities, and need for a celebration of all things White because they felt they had a First Amendment right to do so. They believed that their right to free speech took precedence over the safety of those they deemed unworthy. Their freedom of speech was allowed to be exercised without question or reprimand because it always has been. They knew that the law was on their side and will always be. Three years ago in Ferguson, Black people took to the streets to protest the state sanctioned murder of Mike Brown. They were met with armed police officers in riot gear. They were pepper sprayed. They were arrested. They were called thugs, lawless, troublemakers. There was a curfew put in place. The National Guard was called in. Protestors were called rioters. The scene was compared to a war zone. Charlottesville did not get that treatment. White people were allowed to walk the streets carrying armed guns and holding Confederate and Nazi flags. There was no riot gear. There was no pepper spray. No curfews. There were only 4 arrests.
The President of the United States did not condemn these groups. He did not say they were thugs, miscreants, lawless, troublemakers, or losers. He did not call for a ban on all foreign White people entering the country. He did not say domestic terrorism. He did not say anything comparable to a condemnation because he knows these groups are who voted for him. He knows these Confederate loving, minority hating, Make America Great Again individuals put him in office. He knows he was supported and counseled by David Duke, he gave Steve Bannon and Jeff Sessions jobs in his Cabinet. White supremacy is why he is in office. White supremacy is why he wants to cut funds to education, roll back the Voting Rights Act, and end Affirmative Action. President 45 would not dare condemn the very people who put him in office. Nope. That must be someone else's job.
Throughout the weekend, there have been debates, Twitter arguments, and think pieces regarding the First Amendment right to free speech. Before Charlottesville, many people felt that all speech was free speech, whether they agree with it or not. Maybe some people still believe this. History teaches us differently. History shows that the belief that all speech is free speech has led to many deaths. This belief cost thousands of Jews their lives. This belief ignited fear in Black people throughout the South. This belief put LGBTQ individuals at risk of losing their lives. All speech is not free speech. You cannot say whatever hateful thing you want out of your mouth and think there will not be consequences. There are consequences. People die. History tells us that and Charlottesville showed that.
We say hate has no place here but America was rooted in hate. America thrives in hate. America was built on hate. Hate put President 45 in office. Hate and bigotry is allowed to have free reign in 2017. It is 2017 and despite those who want to believe #ThisIsNotUs, it is. It always has been. Until something truly changes, it will continue to be.
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Demand for Tesla Model 3 sedans is driving sales of electric vehicles to new heights in Norway. Here, a Tesla delivery site is seen in Lillestro, Norway.
Electric vehicles are now the norm in Norway when it comes to new car sales, accounting for 58% of all car sales in March. Tesla's mass market Model 3 was especially popular, accounting for nearly 30% of new passenger vehicle sales, the Norwegian Information Council for Road Traffic, or OFV, says.
Overall, 18,375 new passenger cars were registered in Norway last month, the OFV says. Of those vehicles, 10,732 were rated with zero emissions — a gain of around 100% from the previous March. And nearly all of those vehicles are electric (four are hydrogen-powered).


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Kobalt Music Signs Roddy Ricch to Publishing Deal
Kobalt today announced an exclusive worldwide agreement with American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer, Roddy Ricch. The deal offers Ricch full administration of catalogue, as well as publishing, creative services and synch for all of Roddy Ricch's future works.
Sam Taylor, EVP, Creative, Kobalt commented on the deal, "Roddy's versatility as an artist is one of a kind and allows him to successfully jump into any genre. He's incredible and fresh for the future of Kobalt!"
Roddy started his career in 2017 with the release of Feed tha Streets. In March 2018, Ricch released his EP, Be 4 Tha Fame and Nipsey Hussle brought on Ricch as his guest at a PowerHouse concert in Los Angeles. In July 2018 Ricch released "Die Young" as a dedication to XXXTentacion, which accumulated millions of streams. In November 2018, Roddy released the mixtape, Feed Tha Streets II, which peaked at #67 on the Billboard 200 and #36 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts respectively. Other notable works include, "Racks In The Middle" by Nipsey Hussle ft. Roddy Ricch and Hit-Boy, "Splash Warning" by Meek Mill ft. Future, Roddy Ricch and Young Thug, and "Project Dreams" by Marshmello & Roddy Ricch.
Roddy Ricch added, "I respect everything Kobalt's been doing with their artists they've signed and most importantly I felt like they had a genuine interest and support of me as an artist and my vision, which made the decision easy."
Roddy Ricch is currently playing U.S. shows and festivals for the rest of 2019. To learn more about show dates visit his website.


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7 Most Beautiful Mosques Around the World
In Muslim tradition, mosques are sacred places where all followers of Islam come for worship and prayers. Since Islam is one of the most spread religions in the world, mosques are built everywhere across the globe, one more beautiful than the other. Beyond their stunning architecture, these constructions have fascinating stories, not to mention wonderful interiors – of course, if you are lucky enough to be a Muslim, since non-Muslims are not allowed to enter them all the time. If you plan to visit one of these dearest structures, here are 7 Most Beautiful Mosques around the world you should consider.
Al Haram Mosque
Al Haram is the most monumental mosque in the world, located in the city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Surrounding the Kaaba, one of Islam's most sacred places, the Al Haram mosque is also the largest in the world, covering an area of 400,800 square meters of indoor and outdoor praying spaces, with a capacity of up to 4 million people. Established at the time of prophet Ibrahim, the Al Haram mosque allows both men and women to pray together, unlike most other mosques that are usually segregated. The mosque is opened to all visitors at any hour, and you should definitely consider visiting it during regular days, when no celebrations take place, unless you want it to be very crowded.
Kaaba and Al-Masjid al-Haram, Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Located in Medina, Saudi Arabia, the Al-Masjid an-Nabawi mosque is extremely popular due to the fact that it was built by Prophet Mohammad. Al-Masjid an-Nabawi is the second largest mosque in the world, and also one of the holiest worship places for all Muslims in Medina. What makes this structure so special is the tomb of Prophet Mohammad, which is conveniently located in the center of the mosque, also called the "Green Dome." The wooden cupola of the mosque has been built in 1279 over the tomb, and it was later reconditioned multiple times throughout the 15th century and once in 1817. If you plan to visit Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, consider doing this at night, when all lights and lamps are turned on.
Al-Masjid an-Nabawi at Saudi Arabia
Hassan II Mosque
Built in Casablanca, Morocco, the Hassan II Mosque is the 7th largest mosque in the world, and also the structure with the tallest minaret, at 689 feet high. Standing on a promontory, the mosque features glass floor that allows all visitors to look at the Atlantic Ocean while visiting it. What makes this structure really unique is its architecture, which features hand-made marble walls and retractable roof, as well. Having been completed in 1993, the Hassan II Mosque offers all visitors unique sights and opportunities, especially because its architecture is Arab-Andalusian, with a wonderful color scheme of green and ground brown. The mosque is especially beautiful to visit during spring and summer, when the ocean is calm and can be watched without potential dangers.
Hassan II Mosque at Casablanca, Morocco
Even though it is ranked only as the third most beautiful mosque in the world, the Al-Aqsa Mosque stands out among other mosques in the world due to the fact that it is part of the "Sacred Noble Sanctuary," also known as Al-Haram ash-Sharif, which is believed to be where the Temple of Jerusalem once stood. Initially built as a smaller prayer house, the Al-Aqsa Mosque was later rebuilt and expanded in 705 CE. The mosque has been constructed using precious materials, such as white marble, gold, limestone and stalactite, having an ancient appearance that lets the visitor wonder about its history. The mosque is opened to all visitors who come to Jerusalem, Palestine, and can be visited especially during various Muslim celebrations that take place throughout the year.
Al Aqsa Mosque at Jerusalem
Faisal Mosque, Islamabad
Shaped like a desert Bedouin's tent, the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad is the largest mosque in Pakistan, also recognized as world's largest mosque during 1986-1993, until the expansion of the Masjid Al-Haram. With four corner minarets, the structure has a unique architecture, corresponding to the contemporary Islamic style. This mosque has been recently built in 1986, which makes it stand out among the others. Even though it lacks the traditional domes and arches, the structure is still very popular in Muslim culture, with a concrete shell and mosaic pattern on the west wall. All visitors are welcomed to the Faisal Mosque throughout the entire year, but they are advised to dress accordingly to enter it.
Faisal Mosque at Islamabad, Pakistan
Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque
As a major landmark and tourist attraction of Brunei, the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque was completed in 1958, built according to the modern Islamic architecture. The mosque is extremely appreciated for its many lush gardens full of fountains, golden domes with courtyards and marble minarets, which will successfully compensate its small capacity. Moreover, the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque is surrounded by floral gardens and trees, which symbolize heaven in Islamic culture. The most notable feature of this mosque is its main dome, which is covered entirely in gold. For visitors who want to come to Brunei to visit this mosque, they will be certainly enchanted by the surreal views offered by the tallest minaret of the structure, which mixes both Renaissance and Italian architectural styles.
Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque at Brunei
Zahir Mosque
Located in Kedah, Malaysia, the Zahir mosque is recognized as one of the oldest and most famous structures of this type in Malaysia. Built by Tunku Mahmud in 1912, the Zahir mosque approaches a unique architectural style, which was inspired by the AZIZI Mosque in Sumatra, Indonesia. With five domes and several minarets, this place of worship is one of the most sacred in the whole Muslim world, particularly because the state's Quran reading competition is held here annually. When attempting to visit the Zahir mosque, be sure that you come when this event is held, to enjoy a unique, one-of-a-kind experience.
Zahir Mosque in Malaysia
These Mosques are undoubtedly some of the most remarkable constructions in the world, having beautiful architectures and styles that make all of them so different, yet very similar.
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A significant obstacle along the way has been the perceived economic challenges associated with building green. The vast majority of these challenges have been debunked or resolved, but understandably much of the dialogue around the topic of green schools still tends to focus on economics.
To be sure, economics are important, but too often overlooked in this dialogue are the myriad health benefits associated with green schools, which are every bit as important for us to understand, particularly because the primary beneficiaries are our children.
First, some definitions are in order. What, exactly, is a "green school?" All green school designs are based largely on the standards set forth by the United States Green Building Council's (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). A green building (be it a school or other construction) is one that is environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout its entire lifecycle. They are designed to reduce a building's overall impact on health and the environment by efficiently using water, energy and other resources; promoting occupant health and productivity; and reducing waste, pollution and environment degradation.
Clearly, the ability to promote health benefits is at the very heart of what makes a school "green." Given that there are approximately 55 million students in the United States today, and that the federal government's General Accounting Office estimates the air is unfit to breathe in as many as 15,000 of our schools, the health implications of green schools demand to be better understood, and factored into any plans to build new schools or renovate existing ones.
150 pounds of coarse particulate matter (which contributes to smog and causes respiratory illness).
There is a quickly growing body of scientific evidence documenting the precise health benefits that green schools bring to children, teachers and other occupants, but what we've learned already is quite compelling. Green schools have been shown to reduce teacher sick days, lower the emission of pollutants (due to reduced energy use and, therefore, fewer burned fossil fuels) and generally improve student performance.
Carnegie Mellon is responsible for much of our current understanding on green school health benefits, largely through its aggregation and assessment of numerous other specialized studies.
For example, the organization reviewed two studies examining the impact of improved air quality on colds and flu, and found an average reduction of 51 percent in buildings with improved air quality. Carnegie Mellon also reviewed five separate studies showing an average reduction of 38.5 percent in asthma in buildings with improved air quality.
Meanwhile, a 2005 Turner Construction survey analyzed two school districts in Illinois, finding that student attendance rose by five percent after incorporating cost-effective indoor air quality improvements. And a recent study of the cost and benefits of green schools for Washington State showed an approximate 15 percent reduction in absenteeism. Similar improvements in absenteeism were also found in a study of students moving into the Ash Creek Intermediate School in Oregon, a green school.
If one broadens the scope of health to include student performance, the findings to date are even more compelling. A study of Chicago and Washington, D.C. schools, for instance, found that better school facilities can add 3 to f4 percentage points to a school's standardized test scores, even after allowing for demographic considerations.
Further, consider children's futures: a 2005 International Monetary Fund study draws a direct link between mathematics performance and future earnings. As we now know green schools enhance academic performance, the future implication and benefit for students is clear.
We also need to consider that students spend the vast majority of their days — as much as 90 percent — indoors, with much of that time being in schools, where the prevalence of contaminants is typically higher than outdoors. Children are in the throes of physical development, and the more they are exposed to contaminants while in school, the greater the risk of health problems once they're adults — which comes with economic as well as grander considerations.
Better health. Better performance. Better economics. Ultimately, the case for green schools couldn't be a clearer one.
A principal of Spector Group, Marc Spector has played a key role in advancing one of the region's largest and most prolific architectural and master planning firms in the design of high-technology, sustainable, highly cost-effective projects, nationally and internationally. Learn more at www.spectorgroup.com.


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How can individuals be safeguarded against large scale of violations of their basic rights by their governments? The predominant answer so far has been to improve domestic protections by constitutionally limiting the power of the executive, strengthening individual rights and insisting on the separation of government powers. Due to various constraints, for large numbers of people living in oppressive regimes this is not a live option. Divided Sovereignty examines the question of whether international institutions are justified in constraining states when they commit abuses against their own citizens. Carmen Pavel argues that enhancing individual rights protection is possible if we develop a new understanding of sovereignty that permits a division of authority between domestic and international agents.
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George Young – 2010 Speech to Hansard Society
Below is the text of the speech made by Sir George Young to the Hansard Society on 18th March 2010.
Thank you, Peter, for that introduction – and thank you also to the Hansard Society for inviting me to speak to you this evening.
I've had the good fortune to be closely involved with the Society over many years, including as a former Vice President. Everyone who works in politics knows what a tremendous contribution it makes both to the public's understanding of Parliament and to the way Parliament works.
It not only monitors the health of our democracy – it's also on hand to prescribe the right medicine when the body politic is under the weather. We've seen that recently, with the unexpected but welcome progress that has been made introducing the reforms of the Wright Committee on the Reform of the Commons; issues on which the Hansard Society has been campaigning for many years.
I'm particularly delighted to be winding up this series of three talks on parliamentary reform. If you put all the speeches from the different parties together, you can see where we agree; where we disagree; and work out how, in the next Parliament, things might be different if the Conservatives win.
The last few weeks have seen the House of Commons make some big – and positive – decisions to change the way it operates. Given the disastrous year Parliament has endured, these are necessary reforms. The challenge before us is to implement them in the little time that remains before the election; and then to build on them in the next Parliament. The House has suffered something of a cardiac arrest; our task must be to revive it and ensure that it becomes the beating heart of democratic life.
What's gone wrong?
I'm not suggesting that there is a mythical golden age to which Parliament can return. I agree with Jack Straw that no such time ever existed. Governments of all colours and from all ages have sought to erode Parliament's authority and compromise its ability to assert itself. The enduring tension between the executive and the legislature lies at the centre of British politics.
But we risk looking at least complacent, at worst fully detached, if we fail to recognise that the current public mood relates to a widespread sense of dissatisfaction with the way Parliament does its job.
Trust – or the lack of it – plays its part. Last week, newspapers reported the headline finding from the Hansard Society's annual Audit of Political Engagement as "expenses scandal does not cause collapse in trust". MPs rushing to read the good news will have been disappointed. Underneath the headline was the depressing realisation that the 70 per cent who said they distrusted politicians 7 years ago haven't changed their mind. Suspicion has just hardened into cynicism.
What concerned me more was the indifference with which an increasing number of people appear to view Parliament. This message is strikingly conveyed by the finding that just one in five people think Parliament is one of the institutions that have the most impact on their lives – a sharp decline from previous years.
To borrow from Oscar Wilde, the only thing worse than Parliament being talked about, would be for Parliament not to be talked about. The House depends for its relevance on the strength of its relationship with the electorate. When it speaks to the concerns of the nation, the Chamber is lively and constructive; but when it retreats into itself, debate becomes ritualistic and purposeless. It is this sense of purpose which Parliament has lost. And in a moment I will outline our proposals to make it more relevant and effective.
Labour's record
It would be unfair to lay the blame for this state of affairs entirely at Labour's door.
I was shadow Leader of the House in their first term; and now I am shadow Leader in what I hope will be their last. This has given me a good perspective on their approach to reform. And it's not all been bad.
Under the banner of modernisation, real improvements have been made to the working practices of the House. Our sitting hours are more sensible and more reflective of the patterns of modern life. No one wants to return to all-night sittings to tramp the lobbies in their dressing gowns. We work now in a more balanced and professional environment. To prospective MPs who are women with young families, it will seem a less intimidating place of work.
There have been other successes. Westminster Hall – for which I was the sole and lonely cheerleader on Conservative benches – has opened up greater opportunities for backbenchers to raise constituency issues. Public Bill Committees are a considerable improvement on Standing Committees benefiting from formal evidence sessions before the detailed scrutiny.
The Prime Minister's appearance before the Liaison Committee twice a year is another welcome innovation, which has provided a more reasoned forum for scrutinising the Prime Minister than the hurly-burly of Question Time. Though I say in passing that they have not in my view reached their full potential. Two and a half hours interrogation of the country's Prime Minister by the country's top inquisitors should elicit more information than it has done to date about what makes Prime Ministers tick and, if it was more effective, it would get more coverage than it does at the moment. As a former participant, I take my share of the blame for this.
While Parliament needed modernizing, it certainly needed strengthening; and too often the measures that modernized it, weakened it. Lasting reform can only take place when there is agreement between the competing interests in the House – but too often the Government proceeded on the basis that what was good for it, was good for everyone. That has sadly not been the case.
The main vehicle for reform – the Modernisation Select Committee – initially managed to foster a sense of collaborative engagement. But instead of being chaired by a senior backbencher, to speak with the authority of Parliament, it has instead been led by a Cabinet Minister, who acts under the direction of the Government: a clear conflict of interest that we have promised to end. The Leader of the House is the member of the Cabinet charged with delivering the Government's legislative programme through the House of Commons. It is a constitutional affront that that same person should also chair the Committee which decides how the House of Commons will scrutinise that programme.
Inevitably, having such a powerful executive presence on the Committee has led to a divisive approach to reform. Instead of the process being owned by the House – as it should be – it has been at the whim of the Government. When it has suited the Government, reforms have made progress; when it doesn't, they don't.
We have seen how ready the Government are to push through unwelcome proposals, even using the casting vote of the Leader of the House to introduce the unpopular regional select committees – which we propose to abolish.
I witnessed this at first hand as a former member of the Modernisation Committee, when for the first time in my 35 years in the House the Government broke with all-party consensus to force through a report on programming. The minority report that I produced with my Conservative colleagues to protest against these changes was voted down. The Government simply deployed its majority both in the Committee, and then on the floor of the House, to introduce what was in effect an automatic guillotine on all Government legislation.
The then Leader of the House Margaret Beckett argued that the guillotine was a way to cut down on late sittings and allow MPs to invest more time in their families. But it was heartening last week to hear Jack Straw publicly accept that programming had undermined effective scrutiny. I hope that Labour will now follow my pledge to return to the more collaborative approach to timetabling business that existed before. As a seasoned campaigner for a stronger Parliament, you will forgive my scepticism.
Too often the Government offers words of support, and then fails to act on them. The initial spark of enthusiasm for one morning's good headline never seems to burn as brightly the following day.
You only have to look as far as Labour's flagship Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill to see the divorce between the rhetoric and the reality. In the week that Gordon Brown entered Downing Street in 2007, he announced plans for a "new British constitutional settlement"1 to thrust power into the hands of Parliament and the people. I welcomed his statement.
But what happened? A Bill was published in draft form; it was put before a joint committee for urgent consideration; the committee completed its work in haste at the request of the government by July 2008 – and then the Bill was lost without trace into the legislative Bermuda Triangle for a whole year. Having just about made it through the Commons low on fuel, it will now be glimpsed below the clouds by their Lordships at Second Reading on March 24 before being downed in thick fog in the remaining days of this Parliament.
There has been little or no progress on nine of the twelve areas where Brown pledged action – such as a Commons vote to trigger dissolution – to transfer power from the executive. Rather than strengthening parliamentary accountability, the Bill itself was so tightly programmed in the Commons that at least 28 clauses – about a third of the Bill – were not debated at all. And although this was designed to reinvigorate democracy, the last minute insertion of a referendum on AV was a pre-election stunt that serves only to undermine it.
This has not been, as the Prime Minister predicted, "an important step forward" – but rather, as the former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer pertinently called it, a "constitutional retreat".
Wright Reforms
The Government was also in headlong retreat on Commons reform – though I'm pleased to say they are now finally running, if you'll excuse the pun, in the right direction.
The vote on Wright was doubly significant because the proposals that the House overwhelming endorsed on 4 March were not dictated by the Leader of the House and pushed out by the Modernisation Committee. Instead, they were introduced by a committee whose chairman, Tony Wright, is a well-respected backbencher and whose members were elected by their peers, not nominated by the Whips. Instead of enabling the Government to break the consensus on reform – as it has previously done – a consensus in the House broke the Government.
Harriet Harman implausibly argued during the debates that the Government was always on the front foot. But while they have dragged their feet, it was the reformers, supported by the Conservatives, who have been pushing the pace of reform.
We opposed the Government's attempts to restrict the terms of reference, which would have strangled the House Business Committee at birth. We pressed them for time to debate the report after it was published. We forced them to give the House a vote on all of the proposals. We called for the establishment of the Backbench Business Committee at the beginning of the next Parliament – something even the Wright Committee appeared reluctant to see. And it was only after I threw our weight behind the creation of a House Business Committee that Harriet Harman conspicuously reversed her previously stated opposition and indicated that she would support it.
The Government failed to recognise that the harder they tried to resist, the more effectively their own actions made the case for the executive relinquishing its iron grip on the business of Parliament. As the Labour MP Martin Salter memorably put it, "The power of these shadowy forces at work behind the scenes demonstrates more clearly than ever why the Wright Committee recommendations need to be implemented in full, and that the clammy fingers of the whips and Government business managers are prised once and for all off matters that are for Parliament rather than for party".
Reformers from across the House should be delighted by the results of the votes a fortnight ago. It was a March Revolution – a definitive victory for Parliament over the executive. The decisions that the House took to elect select committee chairmen and members, create a Backbench Committee and lay the path towards a more collaborative way of handling our business were necessary and long overdue.
The challenge now is to put these sensible changes into practice. I was particularly struck by the words of Tony Wright during the debate when he warned that setting up new structures is easy, but it is more difficult to make them work. As he said: "In a way it is easy when we can blame the Government for everything, but from now on we shall have to attend to ourselves and take responsibility for ourselves. If we do not do that, this is not going to work; it will be sunk".
We now have just 9 or so days in the remainder of this Parliament to implement the decisions. There is no room for error within such a tight timescale.
Harriet Harman said today that she will find time to debate all of the necessary changes to Standing Orders. But there is a growing concern that this may not happen before dissolution. Such a delay would jeopardise the ability of the Backbench Committee to be up and running in time to set the first topical debate of the new Parliament.
The big question that remains is: what should happen next? Given Parliament's self-inflicted wounds, have we done enough to stop the bleeding?
My answer is emphatically, no. Parliamentary reform is not a single day's work. To many people, it may seem a painfully slow and arcane process, but when the circumstances are right – as they are now – it has the opportunity to transform not just Parliament, but the way we do politics as well.
I want to make it clear to you tonight that, if we win the election, the Conservatives will not rest on the achievements of the last few weeks. But we will use the momentum created by the Wright Report, build on the consensus that has been established and feed off the energies of a new generation of MPs.
Yes, there will be other big priorities for the next government – not least paying down the national debt. But we know that urgent action is needed to cut the democratic deficit too. Just as we will rebalance our finances to get growth back into the economy, we will also rebalance the power between government, Parliament and voters to bring confidence back to politics.
So let me outline a number of areas where we will help make Parliament more independent; increase its role in national debate; sharpen its tools of scrutiny; and strengthen its accountability to the people it serves.
Conservative proposals
Many of Parliament's current problems stem from the over-interference of the executive. The Government is formed from Parliament – it doesn't own it and it shouldn't have so much say over how the House is run. We are committed to abolishing the Modernisation Committee and will return its agenda to a revitalised Procedure Committee, chaired by a senior backbencher, elected by secret ballot of the whole House.
But the new rules on electing the heads of select committees will also lend new authority to the Liaison Committee – whose chairman should now take a greater lead than before in charting the direction of reform. Other than their landmark report "Shifting the Balance" in 2000, they have focused more on their evidence sessions with the Prime Minister than spelling out their vision for the House in greater detail. In the future, I believe they should do that.
To help them meet this challenge, we will break the monopoly on statements currently held by ministers and hand to the Liaison Committee a quota of 12 statements a year, which can be drawn on to enable select committee chairmen to launch their reports to the House and answer questions on them. So when select committees have got something important to say, such as today's report from the Defence Committee on the need for a comprehensive approach to securing peace after military operations, it won't be buried in a press release and relegated to a few columns in a newspaper; but broadcast live to the nation in prime time.
This will help the House become a platform for debating the issues of the day. And we'll go further. Too often the Chamber can seem like a sea of green benches, particularly during thinly attended Opposition debates. So we will allow the Opposition to trade the time allocated on those debates to force the Government to give topical statements on the issues of the day – again in prime time.
As the Wright Report observed, all too often MPs themselves do not see the point of making the House the primary focus on their activities. But our proposals will seek to transform this by replacing long and turgid debates with short and punchy statements that will get far greater air time. You only have to compare the amount of media interest that was shown in Tuesday's statement on BA with the equally topical but less gripping debate later that afternoon on higher education to understand the impact. Parliamentary theatre can be as gripping as the real thing – but we need to make better use of the stage.
Backbenchers aren't in Parliament just to talk – they're there to scrutinise legislation and improve the law. While we give them more of a voice, we must also sharpen their teeth.
Making law is a two-sided process: the executive should keep a handle on the volume of legislation that it tries to pass, while the legislature needs to have enough time to give proper attention to every part of every Bill. At the moment it's going wrong in both respects. There is currently too much legislation, produced too often, with too little effect. And while the Government churns out Bills like press releases, there has been no effort to give the Commons the time and the tools it needs to examine them in detail.
We all know what happens when our brains don't get enough oxygen. Time is the oxygen of Parliament. At the moment, the sheer volume of legislation is suffocating the House. We will give it the breathing space to be able to undertake its scrutiny in a measured and considered manner, without forcing it to hyperventilate.
We will start from the premise that there should be fewer Bills, more thought-through and better prepared for their journey through the House. I applaud the work of the Better Government Initiative in this area and their principles will inform our approach, should we win the election.
Legislation is too often drafted on the hoof; which forces Parliament to do the heavy lifting that should have been done at an earlier stage by officials. In the 2007/ 08 session, the Government tabled well over 5,000 amendments to its own Bills. It is absurd to expect the House to take the hit for inadequate preparation in Whitehall.
We'll abolish the automatic guillotine for Public Bill Committees, as I said earlier, which will give backbenchers more time for proper scrutiny. And we need to look closely at the Report stage of Bills where real issues of timing remain. I'm in favour of more split committee stages, where some of the committee stage is taken on the floor of the House, so that more backbenchers would have an opportunity to contribute at an earlier stage of the Bill – as well as stricter time limits on speeches so that some of the pressure is taken off timing.
More effective mechanisms such as these will help to make the Commons better at holding the Government to account – which in turn will build public confidence in what MPs do.
Lords Ministers in the Commons
The work of MPs has for decades stretched only as far as the Committee corridor and the Chamber of the Commons. But over the last three years, we have had to confront a new beast on the political landscape.
These stubborn, independent and wily creatures initially bred in great numbers – and in one case spent his time acquiring vast tracts of territory across Whitehall. But these animals are evasive too; and while they have been allowed to roam free and unrestrained, there is currently no means of bringing them to heel.
These are, of course, the Goats – those ministers appointed from outside Parliament to sit in the Lords and form Gordon Brown's famous Government of all the talents.
Since July 2007, there have been ten peerages awarded to individuals so that they can function as ministers including two secretaries of state: Lord Mandelson, who needs no further introduction, and Lord Adonis, at Transport.
This is not a new development – there have been nine secretaries of state sitting in the Lords since 1979. What is unusual is for their departments to be accountable to the Commons only through junior ministers. Under Conservative governments, there was typically another minister of Cabinet rank who handled departmental business in the Commons.
There is no such equivalent today. Lord Mandelson delegates Commons work to Pat McFadden; Lord Adonis to Sadiq Khan. Both are doubtless competent ministers.
But it is frustrating that at a time of economic fragility, with industrial strikes brewing, that the Cabinet Ministers with responsibility for industry and transport are unaccountable to the House.
I have made clear in a submission to the Procedure Committee that the current state of affairs must now end and a way should be found for Lords Ministers to be cross-examined, like the rest of their peers in the Cabinet, by MPs.
We should start in Westminster Hall, requiring ministers who sit in the Lords to respond to debates where responsibility for that particular issue rests with them. The Committee will publish their report on Monday; and I hope they will agree with me that it is time to tether the goats.
Cutting the size of Parliament
Our proposals will help to make Parliament a more formidable inquisitor of the Government; and a more relevant force for the public.
But we cannot start work on cutting the democratic deficit without acknowledging that the first priority of the new Government will be to tackle the financial deficit.
We all know that whoever is in power after May 6 is going to have to make some difficult decisions on spending. These won't just be taken by the Chancellor; or even the Cabinet; they will require the collective will of Parliament. And at a time when we are calling for restraint from the public and the private sector, it's vital that Parliament leads by example and does everything it can to search for efficiencies.
Over the last thirteen years, the cost of politics has doubled. But we haven't seen double the benefits. So just as we try to achieve more with less in the public sector, so we must in Parliament.
There are too many MPs. The House of Commons is the largest lower house of any major Western democracy. Even the world's largest democracy, India, makes do with 545 MPs. By comparison, the UK has 20 per cent more MPs but just 1/20th of their population.
This is why we have pledged to create a smaller House of Commons. If we win, we will introduce legislation to instruct the Boundary Commission to reduce the number of MPs by ten per cent in time for an election in 2014. By May 2015 the House of Commons could have 585 members – a cut of around 65.
These proposals will have the potential to save over £15 million a year. And it will give an even more valuable political signal during this time of fiscal restraint: that we are all in this together.
And on this, the public are right behind us.
Far from being anti-democratic, we will help reduce the inequities in the electoral system at the same time as we bring down the costs. At the moment, the electoral maths is skewed. In 2005, Labour polled seventy thousand fewer votes in England than the Conservatives, yet won ninety-two more seats.
Jack Straw has accused us of gerrymandering. It's a claim that's hard to swallow given their recent conversion to the Alternative Vote. If AV had been used in 2005, it would have delivered more seats for Labour than the first-past-the-post system, even though the party only secured 36 per cent of the popular vote.
What's more, leading academic experts have said that our proposals would make little change to Conservative representation.
On our direction, the Boundary Commission will ensure that every constituency is roughly the same size. This will address the disparities that exist between constituency populations – and give each vote an equal value. What could be more democratic than that?
I want to end on a broader reflection. Society has changed, but Parliament has not. As the constitutional expert Professor Vernon Bogdanor has said, power has not been handed to people, it has merely passed "between elites".
Our task now must be to drive much wider cultural reform in Westminster – not just cleaning up politics, but transforming it. That is why we are committed to a substantial shift of power from the centre down to the local; from Whitehall to communities; and from bureaucracy to democracy.
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A cowardly thief was scared away by a brave elderly couple in Hitchin.
A cowardly burglar claiming to be a police officer was scared off by a brave elderly couple in Hitchin after he broke in through a front window.
The man surprised two pensioners in their house in Kingswood Avenue around 6.15pm on Saturday.
The couple were watching TV in a back room when they heard a noise and went to investigate. They were faced with a man in their hallway.
He told her he was a police officer but the elderly woman screamed at him to leave. The would-be thief then ran away through the back of the house.
Police have confirmed nothing was taken.
If you have any information on this incident call 101 quoting crime reference G1/16/2816.


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Die Hysminai () sind in der griechischen Mythologie Personifikationen der Schlachten.

In Hesiods Theogonie sind die Hysminai Töchter der Eris, der Göttin der Zwietracht, ihre Geschwister sind ebenfalls Personifikationen von negativ besetzten Begriffen. Bei Quintus von Smyrna erscheinen sie in seiner Beschreibung des Schildes des Achilleus.

Hyginus Mythographus bezeichnet sie unter dem lateinischen Wort für "Schlacht" – Pugna – als Nachkommen des Aither und der Terra.

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 Hysminai im Theoi Project (englisch)

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Griechische Gottheit
Weibliche Gottheit
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An exciting new urban quarter comes to life
10,000 new residents and more than 30,000 jobs in an area the size of 160 football pitches, Frankfurt's Europaviertel is among the world's largest and most impressive urban developments. In combination with outstanding accessibility and transport connections, Europaviertel has already established itself as an ideal location for companies and investors in the heart of Frankfurt.
There's no doubt about it, Europaviertel is a one-of-a-kind development. Nowhere else in Europe is such a large, city-center area being so completely redeveloped. In 2005, construction began on this former freight station site. Within just a few years of the site's initial development, almost all of the building plots have been snapped up and numerous buildings have already been completed. An extension of Frankfurt's U5 subway line is also nearing completion, which means Europaviertel will soon be connected to the city's extensive (and efficient) public transport system. Even today, the location of Europaviertel in downtown Frankfurt simply can't be beaten. It's just a short walk to the central railway station, while the international airport is less than 15 minutes away via the nearby highway on-ramp.
Everything close at hand: retail, hotel and recreation
Exceptionally close to Frankfurt's city center and world-famous banking district, Europaviertel has already attracted a host of companies, hotels and retailers to fill the new buildings with life. One of Europaviertel's highlights is Skyline Plaza at the entrance to Europa-Allee, which has almost 130 attractive retail units and restaurants, together with unbeatable panoramic views of Frankfurt's skyline. Given its proximity to Frankfurt's trade fair and exhibition grounds, it's also no surprise that so many international hotel brands have flocked to Europaviertel, including Hilton, Mövenpick, Meininger and Motel One. In addition, a wide range of doctors and physiotherapists have opened practices across the new quarter. Fitness enthusiasts will perfectly at home in the Meridien Spa & Fitness and the EMS Lounge Frankfurt-Europaviertel. Then there's the attractive embankment along the Main River, which is within easy walking distance, as is the Rebstockpark with its indoor swimming pool.
Attractive for business
Europaviertel is also a coveted office location: Major companies and associations, such as Deutsche Bahn, DHL, the Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Hessen and the construction giant Züblin, have all taken up ultra-modern office space in Europaviertel. By the end of 2021, the consulting and service company Deloitte will be moving into the Zebra office building, which offers 17,500 sqm of Grade A rental space. Another major development scheduled for completion in early 2022 is the One high-rise, which elegantly combines hotel and office space.
Popular residential area
The seamless fusion of work, shopping and services also make Europaviertel an extremely attractive residential district. And with Grand Tower, Germany's tallest residential tower is about to be completed in Frankfurt's exciting Europaviertel. Then there's EDEN, a stunning skyscraper, that boasts the highest vertical garden in the world and will be ready to welcome its first occupants by the end of 2021. Frankfurt is certainly reaching for the skies: Praedium, another brilliant residential tower, has already been completed and fully marketed.
The new quarter's planners not only set themselves the task of creating a well-balanced mix of apartments, businesses and hotels, but also to green recreational areas. In fact, the master plan for Europaviertel received the German Sustainable Building Council's Gold award in the "New Mixed Urban District" category.
Well-balanced mix of uses and world-class architecture
It goes without saying that urban development of this size and magnitude is impossible without a certain level of disruption. Nevertheless, 15 years since ground was first broken, Europaviertel is rapidly coming to life: A completely new and cosmopolitan urban quarter that effortlessly combines the highest quality of life with a well-balanced mix of uses and innovative, world-class architecture.


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iFixit disassembles the new AirPods and… scores "repairability"
What happens when a new Apple product launches? That's right, iFixit rushes to get his hands on it to take everything apart and show us the technological guts created in the Cupertino basements. And that's what happened with the new (second generation) AirPods.
This work of iFixit stands out precisely in these cases as the AirPods, when the new product has a look almost identical to the previous but comes with internal news. Without further ado, let's get to the news!
Here's an X-ray of the AirPods, where you can see the tip of the coil responsible for wireless charging there. As we speak, visually almost nothing has changed; The case, however, was 2.3 grams heavier due to wireless charging.
Perhaps, as a way of differentiating the cases, the metal case of the wireless rechargeable case has a more brushed look; In addition, the pairing knob has been shifted higher (probably due to the new internal arrangement of the case components).
It's amazing, and that's not just Apple, but any manufacturer that makes wireless headsets this size as engineers can put so many components into something so small. For reference only, AirPods are identified by models A2031 (left AirPod) and A2032 (right).
Inside the case we can see the product model itself (A1938) and the indication of the case's battery capacity of 398mAh.
When opening one of the AirPods, we see flexible cables, antennas, microphones, the H1 chip, and everything more carefully fitted as a puzzle and glued.
As much as the case has wireless recharging capabilities (which increases the number of internal components), the battery used by Apple is exactly the same as found in the first-generation case A1596; 3.81V, 398mAh and 1.52Wh (higher than that found on the Samsung Galaxy Buds, 1.03Wh, and that used on the 42mm Apple Watch Series 4, 1.13Wh).
They noted that the logic plate, however, is a bit more "sticky," as if it were a coating likely to aid water resistance; the loading port remains modular; the sync button now has two additional solder points for the ends of the wireless charging coil; Speaking of which, the new coil is next to a thermal mat to keep the temperature under control.
Overall, iFixit commented that the case is slightly modified and has become more durable (especially on unexpected dives), which is different from repairable (something that is basically impossible on this product). The product is still disposable and, therefore, earned a score of 0 in terms of ?reparability? comparatively, the Galaxy Buds achieved an amazing new 6/10.
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Westshore Marina District is creating an urban living environment on the Gandy waterfront
Just off of Gandy Boulevard in Tampa — a busy stretch of highway dotted with drive-thru restaurants, big box stores and a sea of surface parking lots — a South Florida developer is bringing to life its vision of a walkable urban neighborhood, where residents might not need their cars much on evenings or weekends.
The mixed-use Westshore Marina District, which spans 51 acres at the intersection of Gandy and Westshore boulevards, will be home to more than 1,250 residential units, from apartments to condominiums to townhouses. It will also include nearly 60,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space:
22,050 square feet of storefronts in a town center-style development
10,000-square-foot multistory, dual-concept restaurant on the water along Gandy Boulevard
10,000 square feet of retail on the ground floor of the first condo tower, Marina Pointe
15,000 square feet of retail and office space on another parcel along Gandy Boulevard
It's the retail, executives at BTI Partners say, that will bring urban walkability to the district. BTI Partners is the district's master developer and will also build the condominium towers planned within the project. BTI is nearing deals with both restaurants and retailers, and while no deals have been finalized, there's more interest in the town center's storefronts than there are spaces available, said Beck Daniel, executive vice president of development for BTI.
"Young professionals and empty nesters love the idea of the walkability," said Noah Breakstone, managing partner of BTI. "The value of having restaurants, and a farmers market and not having to get back into your car to deal with traffic is a huge advantage."
BTI has converted the reservations on Marina Pointe, its first condo tower, to contracts, Breakstone said. That tower is 50 percent presold and slated to break ground in the first quarter of 2019.
"You can always imagine something and plan for it," Breakstone said, "but when it comes to fruition, it's great to see that the plan worked."
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