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Cars, Beers, Shennanigans
Posted on June 26, 2018 June 26, 2018 by markramsden
Yeah, I know, it's a bit of an automotive trope these days. But cars SHOULD have names. A4 is a piece of paper, not a compact sedan, 300 is my threshold for "I can buy this toy without discussion" not a fullsize sedan, and 124 is… someone who can't count?
So, I gotta give Ford/Lincoln some notable props for not only bringing names back to the line-up, but GOOD names. This comes on the news that the Lincoln MKC will no longer be the Lincoln MKC, but the Lincoln CORSAIR.
That's a proper fucking name for a vehicle.
Admittedly, it's a less proper name for a leather-and-chrome Ford Escape. But it's trying. Q5 (audi) and X3 (BMW) and the alpha-numeric salad that is a Mercedes compact Crossover? They say nothing to me. Corsair? Shit, that speaks to me. Like I said, it's not gonna be what I personally envision when I hear "Corsair" but dammit, they're trying. And good on 'em.
Once upon a time, cars had NAMES. The Germans, ever emotionless, really started this "numbers" game, and it became equated with luxury, as they themselves became equated with luxury. But Domestics, especially, had NAMES. "The Judge". "The Impala". "The MUSTANG". Even the Japanese got in on it, with the wonderfully descriptive "Fairlady" and others of the ilk – Super cars, especially Italians, have always had amazing names for their cars. Lamborghini's are named for fucking MURDER COWS. Even stoic Aston Martin and Jaguar had proper names – "Sovereign"; "Lagonda". Even the "DB" series of cars was initialized for the saviour of the company, David Brown.
Automotive fans talk a hell of a game about the "soul" of a vehicle, but it's hard for anything called the "x3mi" to have soul in it. That's the designation you give to an automaton.
The Lincoln line-up, despite being almost all gussied-up rebadges of Fords (with some notably sweet engines, to be sure) , have actual names, and, yeah, it's pretty sweet.
Corsair. Continental. Navigator. Nautilus. They're definitely getting there. There's a theme, and some evocative names there. There's a lot that's not worth learning from Lincoln, but their name-game is on fucking point.
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People of perfected faith who grasp the greatness, might and eternal wisdom of Allah, feel a "fear full of respect" for our Lord. Keeping in mind the verse of the Qur'an, "So have fear of Allah, as much as you are able to..." (Surat at-Taghabun, 16), they set no limit to their fear.
Every event they encounter, everything they see around them draw them nearer to Allah and deepen their faith and thus their fear.
As the above verse states, the fear of those who have a deep faith in Allah is intense and deep.
The fear of Allah that the people of perfected faith feel is very intense yet, by no means, distressing such as the false fears experienced by those who do not live by the values of the Qur'an. This is the kind of fear which is based on the profound respect and inner love that caused believers to be devoted to Allah, their Creator. This is a fear that gives man zeal, excitement and determination. This is, moreover, the kind of fear that makes man avoid any deed that would not please Allah. This is the fear that prompts believers to engage in good deeds, imbues them with the good morals prescribed by Islam and thus is a feeling that provides "spiritual satisfaction". This fear can be felt only through the deep love one has for Allah. People of faith love Allah as much as they fear Him. These two concepts remain side by side in a believer's heart and remain as two important signs of perfected faith.
What makes people of perfected faith apprehensive about their Lord is their proper appreciation of Him. Allah is al-Qahhar (the All-Conquering, the One Who, by His Might, has subdued everything He created to His Authority and Power), al-Mu'adhdhib (the Tormentor), al-Muntaqim (the Avenger), as-Sa'iq (He Who drives to hell), al-Muthill (the One Who debases or humiliates whomsoever He pleases). Believers, who are aware of these attributes of Allah, know that He can inflict any form of punishment on anyone at any time He wills. They are aware that only those who carry out their duty to Allah can be saved from this punishment. For this reason, they fear nobody but Allah, the Almighty.
The love of those who have perfected faith is as strong as the fear they have for Him. They know that Allah is the One Who has created them out of nothing and bestowed upon them countless blessings. They are also aware that He watches and protects them at every moment. They believe that all living things have come into existence solely by His permission, and that one day they will perish at His will. They know that He is the only Being Who will exist for all eternity.
As the verses state, the Prophet Ibrahim (as) is well aware that it is Allah Who gives him life, governs every event on earth, gives him food, causes illness and creates the means of recovery and that He is the only Ruler of the earth. So, he is attached to Him with love. This is the type of love felt for Allah that people of perfected faith take as an example.
The love the people of perfected faith have for other created beings is in direct relation with the love they have for Allah. the criterion for loving people depends on the extent to which they exhibit the good morals that please Allah. Believers nurture a great love for those people who pay attention to the commands and prohibitions of Allah and strive hard to live by good moral standards. the main reason why they love these people is the deep love they feel for Allah and their commitment to take Him as their sole friend.
True faith makes believers genuinely grasp that all beauty, wisdom and the faculties they see in this world belong to Allah. When believers meet a good-looking, wise and talented person, for instance, they derive great pleasure from these qualities, remembering that Allah is the Creator and Giver of all these traits. For this reason, the pleasure they take in these qualities is not a pleasure apart and distant from the love they feel for Allah. on the contrary, it is a source of profound love and respect for Allah.


I sent this gift basket for Canada Day to my dad, and, he absolutely was thrilled to get it!
I sent this gift basket for Canada Day to my dad, and, he absolutely was thrilled to get it! He said that it came with lots of varieties to choose from along with the red metal bin to compliment his gift. It was such a nice gift that had put a smile on his face! I have never been disappointed with any of Yorkvilles Gift Baskets selections, and, will continue to order from them!! Thanks again Yorkvilles Gift Baskets, for making my gift givings so easy!!!
We received this basket on our housewarming party and I really liked it. I was impressed then and there with the packaging, it looked very pretty. I was further impressed when we opened it. I liked what I saw; well presented and gourmet quality items. It really was a great hamper to receive it I would certainly keep it in mind to head straight for it when I need a gift for any friend or family.
I sent this gift to my Nephew's Wife who had just given birth to a new baby boy since she is a chocolate lover. She absolutely loved the gift and expressed that it was the best chocolate she had ever eaten and is still enjoying it. She said that the coffee is amazing to taste and is using to keep her awake with the all the new baby chaos. The flowers were fresh and beautiful. If you want to send a great gift to someone, for any occasion, you can't go wrong with this gift.


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Watermelon Jubilee registration deadline July 10
Published 12:00 am Saturday, June 25, 2005
July is right around the corner, which means the YMCA Watermelon Jubilee is only weeks away.
For those who plan to have a booth at the event, slated for August 13 and 14, the deadline for doing so is fast approaching.
&uot;We have a cutoff date of July 10 for vendors to sign up; we will accept no more after that. So we want to remind everyone to come in, or give us a call, so they can reserve their spot now,&uot; YMCA Director, Amanda Phillips, said.
As of Thursday afternoon, more than 30 vendors had already signed up. Phillips said the office had been fielding &uot;a ton of phone calls&uot; in response to a mass mailing on Jubilee that went out to various chambers of commerce.
&uot;We expect to have quite a few more vendors from that mailing,&uot; Phillips said.
Musical entertainment is being lined up for the two-day event, along with several fun contests, the Y director said.
&uot;We will have a seed-spitting contest, biggest watermelon contest, and this year, a watermelon coloring contest for the kids,&uot; she explained.
Watermelon Jubilee is slated to run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday.
For more information or to reserve a booth, contact the YMCA at 382-0550.

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Lessons for Democrats from the RNC
July 21, 2016 by DocJess 1 Comment
The most important takeaway is that the GOP is now Donald Trump's party. This may seem minor, but it's critical to understanding what will be necessary for the upcoming general election cycle: the rules are different.
You may have noticed that the mainstream media referred to the Republican National Convention as "Donald Trump's Convention" instead of "The Republican Convention" or "The RNC Convention." Next week is not "Hillary Clinton's Convention" — it is "The Democratic National Convention." No convention has ever before been personalized this way. The importance relates to how the cycle will be covered, and intimates that Donald will continue to be covered differently from anyone ever.
Note that the first night of the convention, while the mother of a soldier lost in Benghazi was speaking, Donald called into Fox, and they preempted her speech to speak with him.
Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore, Whig Candidates for for President and Vice President, respectively. (N. Currier, June 1848)
A cautionary tale for the party comes from more than 150 years ago. Read about Zachary Taylor. Seriously, read the link. Read it now. It's really important.
Welcome back. Now you know the future.
Plagiarism is not a big deal to the Trump campaign.
I don't blame Melania. She read off a teleprompter. She's likely done very little, if any, public speaking and thus the speechwriters had nothing to work from relative to inclusions or tone.
But they could have Googled the speech, line by line, to check it. Plagiarism will get you tossed out of school: it's a big deal. Intellectual property still matters.
The campaign is too green, too unprofessional to know any better. Then they spent 38 hours being unable to answer properly to the problem. Finally, they blamed an employee of the Trump organization.
If she was the one who wrote the speech, and she did it on company time, that's an FEC violation. Campaigns cannot commingle monies or paid personnel between a company and the campaign, nor political offices and the campaign.
Speaking of breaking laws…
New Hampshire State Representative Al Baldasaro said in an interview that Hillary Clinton "should be put on the firing line and shot for treason." The Secret Service is investigating. Baldasaro is a veterans' adviser to Donald, who in no way distanced himself from the quote.
There was a lot of Hillary bashing at the RNC, and very little "Donald-is-good-because-XYZ" (except from his kids!!!) or "I support Donald because he stands for ABC." The crowd in the arena, who are his voters, loved it. Going forward, this means they're for him, not his positions, nor his actions. It doesn't matter to them, which makes our job that much harder.
Ted Cruz isn't coming around.
Ted Cruz spoke, didn't endorse, and was booed. More importantly, Ken Cuccinelli had to walk Heidi Cruz off the floor because she was in danger of being physically assaulted. Shows you what kind of people are Trump supporters.
Only 23 people were arrested.
There are 5,500 law enforcement types around the convention, but only 23 people were arrested. This compares to the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia where over 300 people were arrested. This is probably due to the huge security area around the arena keeping people far away from cameras.
First, the Democrats are not running against the Republicans; they are running against Zachary Taylor, and that didn't work well for the good guys. (Except Millard Fillmore, who was a terrible president, but great in many other regards.)
It means every Jill Stein defection is a vote for Donald Trump.
It means they need to campaign differently up and down the ballot.
It means "I'm too busy" is not a valid excuse this September, October and November.
It means someone with no interest in running the country will end up running the country after having campaigned on no platform other than banning Muslims and building a wall.
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Melania Trump Says Jewish Journalist "Provoked" NeoNazi Trump Fans
June 21, 2016 by PJV Contributor Leave a Comment
After profiling Melania Trump in GQ, journalist Julia Ioffe received a deluge of anti-Semitic threats and comments. The article below, which was reprinted from The Daily Kos, describes Melania Trump's response to the verbal attacks on Ioffe.
Donald and Melania Trump
After dispensing with the obligatory statement that she disagrees with the vile antisemitic letters sent by her (and presumably her husband's) NeoNazi fans to a journalist, Melania Trump then went on to side with the same NeoNazis by saying that Julia Ioffe "provoked" the hateful antisemitic death threats in her profile of Melania Trump for GQ.
"I don't control my fans," Melania says, "but I don't agree with what they're doing. I understand what you mean, but there are people out there who maybe went too far. She provoked them."
You can see some of the disgusting hate mail and read about the death threats and phone calls Julia Ioffe has received. Ioffe's family came to the United States 26 years ago fleeing antisemitism.
By chance I read the profile of Melania Trump in GQ this weekend. It in no way provokes NeoNazi antisemitism, if that's even possible, which if so I personally can't understand. I challenge anyone to read the GQ article and defend Melania's disgusting views on this. Jewish people certainly don't provoke NeoNazi death threats by writing factual articles. If we applied Melania Trump's beliefs to all American journalists. . . I can't even process how vile this is. It also makes me very much doubt whether the first part of her statement is anything more than her saying what she feels she has to in a public forum.
Since this is evidently how Melania Trump really sees the world, I believe I now know exactly how she and Trump discovered they were soul mates.
Filed Under: News & Opinion Tagged With: Anti-Semitism, Daily Kos, Julia Ioffe, Melania Trump


We don't have much going on this weekend, and I'm pretty happy about it. Hoping to get one last trip to the pool in before it closes for the rest of the year....sniff sniff.
Hey girl! FINALLY, I made it to your party in a timely manner. It seems that lately I've been LInk #100-and-something. It's nice to be here on time! :) Thank you for hosting.
Hope you have a wonderful, wonderful Labor Day weekend! Do y'all have special plans?
Thanks for the fun party...have a fab Friday!
That porch is fab-u-lous!!! I always love this feature, Amanda. Introduces me to great new blogs.
The beach pictures are so beautiful! #5 was my favorite.
Thanks so much for hosting! Enjoy your holiday weekend! We are coming your way to the AG store this weekend. Ohh La La!
Hi Amanda! Thanks so much for hosting your party for us again! I haven't been able to do a blog post for weeks but I really wanted to come to your party today with an entry so I just made it a priority. I also need to take time to go see some of your posts that I have missed.
Great features Amanda! I need to stop by your post about what pix to get done of the girls, I never got a chance to yesterday. Have a great weekend! Hope the weather cooperates and you get a chance to hit the pool. : ) And thanks for hosting!
Have a fantastic three day weekend!! Thanks for always hosting!
I love your Weekend Bloggy Reading party! There are so many great ideas and such talented bloggers. I especially loved your post about the nice side of blogging... I can't wait till my little one is old enough for Barbie and American Girl dolls!
New follower and contributor to this fantastic link-up! I submitted some mouthwatering recipes I consider "food that wows." Looking forward to seeing everyone else's posts!
Thanks for the party, Amanda! We made it through two weeks of school and are ready for Labor Day weekend. Hope your sweet first grader is adjusting well.
P.S. I looked at all your pics the other day, loved them, but got completely stressed with choosing. I'm way too indecisive!
I love that porch. I think I'd live out there if it were mine!
Have a great 3 Day weekend! And thanks for hosting, Amanda!
Thank you for hosting. I enjoyed your post on the nice side of blogging. Very sweet. Your girls look beautiful in their petticoats on the beach.


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China Expected to Fail Its US Trade Commitments by Year's End
Sino-U.S. trade tensions could flare up again as it appears China will miss its obligations under a nearly expired agreement that emerged from a dispute during the administration of former U.S. President Donald Trump, analysts said.
The Economic and Trade Agreement signed by the two superpowers in January 2020 is set to end December 31. Trade observers say China has not complied with a clause that obligates it to buy imports of manufactured goods, farm products, energy products and certain services from the U.S. at a total of $200 billion more than the 2017 total. China purchased $186 billion in goods and services in 2017 before the trade war, according to U.S. government figures.
China has had trouble complying because of delays in Chinese aircraft orders from the U.S. and pandemic-related setbacks, said Matthew Goodman, senior vice president for economics with the Washington-based Center for Strategic & International Studies, a research group.
"I do think that the Biden administration is going to follow through on this agreement and hold China to account," Goodman told VOA. "I don't see any reason that they're going to change tack."
China had met just 62% of its import purchasing goal as of October, according to an analysis by Chad Bown, senior fellow with the Peterson Institute for International Economics, another research organization in Washington.
U.S. manufacturers may have lacked capacity as well to meet the demand for China-bound goods, said Bashar Malkawi, a University of Arizona law professor who specializes in trade. China's pandemic-era border closures further harmed U.S. exports, he said.
The nearly four-year-old trade dispute launched by Trump over the Sino-U.S. trade imbalance has placed tariffs on $550 billion worth of goods, including $350 billion originating in China. The dispute also led to a chill in broader two-way relations that would run through Trump's term.
"The environment between these two countries is toxic," Malkawi said. "Trade war and mistrust have been raging since 2018 and will not ease for the foreseeable future."
The U.S. trade representative's office did not reply to a query for this report asking whether China had lived up to the agreement. Its website does not indicate what might happen in 2022.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said in a speech at the Center for Strategic & International Studies in October that the U.S. government will discuss with China its "performance" and that under the agreement, China had made "commitments that benefit certain American industries, including agriculture, that we must enforce."
The U.S. side will "work to enforce the terms of phase one," she added, referring to the terms of the deal.
Tai indicated that the United States had yet to review the agreement.
China hopes the U.S. government "will create favorable conditions for the two nations to expand trade cooperation," Ministry of Commerce spokesperson Gao Feng said Thursday, as quoted by the China Daily news website.
Gao said China had "exerted strenuous efforts to offset negative impact from factors such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the global economic recession and the constraint of supply chain" to carry out the agreement, according to the website.
China is the largest goods trading partner of the United States, with $559.2 billion passing both ways in 2020, according to the trade representative's office.
U.S. goods and services trade with China totaled about $615.2 billion in 2020, with imports at $450.4 billion.
Expiration of the trade deal potentially gives China an opening to negotiate for buying the U.S. goods that it needs, said Song Seng Wun, an economist in the private banking unit of Malaysian bank CIMB. China traditionally buys U.S. foodstuffs, civilian aircraft and aircraft parts. Its tech firms depended on American supplies before the trade war as well.
"I suppose it always boils down to what China wants to buy and what the U.S. wants to sell," Song said. "China can be more selective in buying. Politics matters more at this point."
Chinese officials might consider asking to buy the U.S. goods that China needs most, possibly swapping out the ones in today's agreement, said Stuart Orr, School of Business head at Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia.
"I think China is probably going to have to try to renegotiate, and the reason probably motivating that will be the volume of supplies of some of the things that it actually needs," he said.
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La Fascist Defence Force (FDF) (en français : Force de défense fasciste) était la section paramilitaire de la British Union of Fascists. Elle a été créée en  par Oswald Mosley, après que la BUF eut acquis son siège principal, la Black House (anciennement The Whitelands Teacher Training College), à King's Road, à Chelsea. La force de défense fasciste comptait trois cents hommes; ils portaient des chemises et des pantalons noirs (leurs chemises, inspirées de la veste d'escrime de Mosley, s'apparentaient à des pulls à col polo), ainsi que six insignes et des rayures pour indiquer leur rang. Ils portaient également un brassard rouge avec le symbole de la BUF, le Flash and circle représentant "l'action dans l'unité".

Une unité d'élite au sein de la force de défense fasciste, la Brigade I, a servi de garde du corps personnelle à Mosley; ils portaient également des vestes d'escrime noires, mais avec des culottes et des bottes en cuir noir.

La Force de défense fasciste entretenait trente véhicules à moteur, y compris cinq fourgonnettes de transport rapide spécialement équipées de fenêtres grillagées et de plaques latérales de protection contre les missiles, chacune pouvant accueillir 20 personnes.

Eric Piercy, inspecteur spécial de la police et ancien agent d'assurance, commandait le FDF; son second était Ian Dundas, un ancien officier de la Royal Navy.

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Today i returned to Jogja after spending few days in Jakarta attending my sister's wedding party. I have a chance to visit her new house this morning with my family and other relatives before leaving to airport. It's located in a nice environment, but it's not yet finished yet. Some modifications are still needed to further make up the house.
My plane to Jogja was on time this time and my plane was quite big, since it just came from Singapore flight. I had a chance to talk with Yahya Kurniawan because we were on the same plane, (even though we were not in the same seat, but since the plane wasn't completely full, we changed our seat so we can have a chat). We took a different route to Jogja due to bad situation that relates to Merapi mountain and also, we used the different path to land in Jogja. No wonder i was a little bit confused with the environment when i was about to land in Jogja.
Just when Google has announced Google Chrome 8 in Beta version, Chromium, the open source project is now releasing Chromium 9. I think that means Google Chrome 8 will be released on Stable dev soon enough and then the focus will be on Google Chrome 9 which should be released probably early next year.
Two security updates has been released under Current and Stable which are glibc and Firefox. Glibc updates fixes more vulnerabilities described earlier by the same person who found the bug.
Firefox update fixed a zero-day exploit discovered yesterday.
Last night, i tried the new feature from Air Asia: Web Check In. The concept is simple. You can now print your own boarding pass up to seven days before your departure date from your house and you will have more time at the airport (mostly if you don't have any luggage since you don't have to queue).
I must admit that it makes easier for the users to have better flight experience, but in the other hand, if it's functioning, then it can make problems. This is what i experienced when trying Air Asia's Web Check In.
I'm leaving to Jakarta today with several of my family members and i'm planning to do a web check in in order to speed up things, but ended up with a split seats. I bought 6 tickets and i didn't choose to pick a seat (another paid feature from Air Asia which enables you to pick your own seat) because i think i can have the seat close to each other when doing the check in at the airport.
The problem arose when i tried to print the boarding pass after i selected all the passengers that were listed on the itinerary. Even though it listed all of them, but when i print the page, it will only print the first passenger and not the others. In the end, i have to re-print the boarding pass and i got a split seat for some of us.
If you are travelling with other people and want to have seat next to each other, don't use the web check in (until Air Asia fixed the printing problem).
Just now, i have upgraded to Firefox 3.6.11 on my Ubuntu, but 3.6.12 has been released to fix one nasty vulnerability discovered by Morten Kråkvik described on this article: Heap buffer overflow mixing document.write and DOM insertion.
Mozilla has done a great job of giving their user a better and safer experience in browsing the Internet with their products. That's why i sticked to Firefox even though Google Chrome is getting more and more interesting on each release.
After has been reported for few days, finally Merapi mountain have started to erupt this evening and the effect of dust rain has reached several places in Jogja. Some people were late to evacuate and they became the victim of a hot cloud (called Wedhus Gembel in Javanese language).
I started to watch Love or Bread, a Taiwanese drama with the main actor of Joe Cheng and Ariel Lin, the perfect combination to make you laugh and cry, just like what they did in It Started With a Kiss and They Kissed Again.
Last week, all Linux vendors were busy with glibc vulnerability that struck them after Tavis Ormandy published a report along with the working exploits. The patch were released quickly as it is considered a critical hole and people feel safe about it.
But hear this out. The saga is not yet over, as Tavis pointed that there might be another vulnerability that relates to the previous one. This is discussed on this thread. I think another fix will be released next week.
Another vulnerability that struck Linux is RDS Exploit reported by Dan Rosenberg. This fix has been included in the Linux Kernel committed by Linus, but i think it will be backported into -Stable kernel by Greg in the short time.
I'm doing a monthly backup for my Nokia E71 phone this morning. I should have done this in monthly interval, but since i was too busy last month and Nokia PC Suite is only available to Windows, i have to reboot to Windows or else i would have to use VMWare, which is very slow in operation to backup around 800 MB of my data.
Doing a backup is very important as it might saves months of works when your cellphone is stolen or gone. This happened to my sister who has just lost her BlackBerry in Jakarta. She didn't backed up her data to her laptop, so when the BB was gone, she had to ask for contacts to all of her colleague and business partners.
Is Windows is all about updates and reboot?
For some time, Pidgin users are left with bugs lurking on 2.7.3, but that will (hopefully) ends now, since Pidgin developers has released 2.7.4, the latest version which incorporates a bunch of bug fixes along with several security fixes that filled the Changelog.
Since it hasn't been released under -Current tree, i took an early step building it using SlackBuild from -Current and created the 2.7.4 for Slackware-Current. It works just as expected and i'm now running 2.7.4.
For those who have used Pidgin, please be patient as it will be released on -Current soon (hopefully with the next batch of updates).
Finally, after having a bit of delay with the last RC, Linus decided to give a go to the Linux Kernel 2.6.36 and leave the merge window open for new features that will be included in the next Linux Kernel 2.6.37 which should be released next year (or the end of this year if it make it on time, which i doubt).
Besides the above new features, there are some other changes, such as the drivers and architecture which now get a new separate page for it.
For me personally, i would like to test the new patch from Linus that resolves the desktop responsiveness on my laptop. It has been very slow, mostly when copying from/to USB devices, such as flash disks and portable hard disks.
I just checked in on Blogger Draft and i saw what has been my wishlist for some time, image positioning improvement on the Blogger Editor. I have posted about this long time ago, but i just realized that Google is now working to have this feature implemented.
So the problem with the current version of Blogger is that we can't position our images and it's always positioned on the left side. More over, when there's a text next to the image, it will mess up the design. I hope that this problem will be solved too when the feature has been released to the public.
OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 RC 1 has been released and after looking the Release Notes, it seems that there are a bunch of new interesting feature, such as increasing row size in Calc, better usability in Extension Manager, better PDF export feature by embedding 14 PDF Standard fonts, and support for better password compatibility with Microsoft Office files, even though only up to Word and Excel 97.
After the release of LibreOffice, people seems to start moving to LibreOffice, since it includes many features that were never get included in the main OOo trunk, such as Multimedia integration, better compatibility with Microsoft Office documents thanks to OpenXML filter, and many other which was the work of go-oo.
So, what's your future decision? Still using the old OOo which is now fully supported by Oracle, or moving to the new LibreOffice which is community-based and has more features?
Today i was leaving back to Jakarta after spending one night at Bandung to attend my cousin's wedding party. I was stuck in a heavy traffic jam in Bandung. I never expected that the traffic in Bandung would be so crowded compared to the last time i visited Bandung. It's worst than in Jogja since in some places, there are two sections that can use the roads, making it more complicated and jammed-prone.
The Purbaluenyi and Padalarang highway were not that crowded, but when we reached the inner-city highway, don't asked. Every car were like crawling with an average of 5 KM/hour. It's Monday and it's time for the people to go off the work, so no wonder about that.
If you are planning to visit Jakarta, don't go around 7-9 AM and around 5-7 PM, since it's the peak time in Jakarta where people go to their office to work and where people leave their office to go back to their house.
Before i left to China, there was a problem with the database of Indonesian Linux Forum and apparently, there was a miscommunication problem between me and the technical support people. I thought that he will fix the problem for me as i will leave to China and i wouldn't be able to fix the problem after i got there due to Internet connection.
The result was the forum was offline for almost more than one week because he thought the problem had been solved, while it wasn't. So after i got back to Jogja, i asked him again to restore the database and restore everything back. This includes the files, so all the MODs were gone in the progress (it was actually renamed to other directory and it was copied from a fresh phpBB files).
Before i left to Jakarta few days ago, i have finished adding all the MODs that were used in the past to the forum again so that all of the members can enjoy better discussion on that forum.
After half day tour in Jakarta, i can conclude that it's definitely clear that Jakarta has become more and more crowded from the last time i visited Jakarta. In the past, i could reach Blok M from the airport in less than one hour, but right now, it took me more than one hour to get there. Every road was jammed and the progress was so slow.
I think the government should think about this problem seriously. Also, think about the pollution that is caused by the growth of cars and motorcycles without reducing the old cars/motorcycles.
When i was in China, i saw that most of the people were riding electrical motorcycle. It was silent, pollution-free, and less accidents since they can only travel around 30 KM/hour. I wish that people should realize this and start working on more environmental solutions.
Only days after i arrived in Jogja, i have to leave to Jakarta again today. Actually i am going to Bandung to attend my cousin's wedding party, but since my sister is in Jakarta and we planned to go together, i had to fly to Jakarta first and then we will go to Bandung together.
I will come back at Tuesday from Jakarta again and by then, i will have some time before i have to leave again to Jakarta by the end of this month.
We left our hotel early in the morning. We got our morning call at 5 AM, one hour earlier than it used to be because we have a plane to catch and we were flying an international flight with a big number of people (around 95 people), which means we have to get an long imigration checking and that would take some time, so that's why the tour leader decided to go early.
We departed from China around 10 AM and we reached Jakarta at 4.30 PM. Next, we left to Jogja around 6.40 (it was 15 minutes delayed from the original schedule) and finally we arrived back in Jogja.
Our last day before leaving China was a free day. Some of us left to Shanghai Expo 2010, the biggest expo ever happened in China which will end in October 31 and it has been running for the last five months (probably the longest expo ever conducted) while the rest were free to go shopping as they like.
At night, there was supposed to be a farewell party, but it was cancelled due to some member of the group still hasn't came back from their activity and the other were too tired and they wanted to go to bed because we had to wake up early in the morning to catch the plane.
After breakfast, we left Hangzhou and we were heading to Xitang, the oldest water city in China. The last Mission Impossible 3 was filmed around this city too when Tom Cruise ran in a crowded street full of people searching for his wife which has a bomb wired on her body.
Once we had lunch at Xitang, we went to a knife factory before heading back to Shanghai. We had to switch to another bus due to some problem on our bus. We left to Shanghai and on our way, we visited the medicine factory. We arrived at the evening and we headed to a shopping mall which mostly sold replicated items from famous brands, such as IPhone, IPad, Blackberry, etc.
Around 6 PM, we headed to Oriental Pearl TV Tower to see Shanghai from 263 m above the ground. It was splendid. You can see most of Shanghai from it and you can even sit on top of a thick wall and see the ground (don't do it if you are phobia of height). It was scheduled on our first day of the tour, but due to time constraint, the trip to TV Tower was re-scheduled.
We came back to our first hotel when we arrived in Shanghai at day one and take our time to rest before having a free day at the last day in China.
After spending two days in Huangshan, we left to Hangzhou which is the hometown of Xiang Xiang, our tour guide in China. She told us a lot of stories that happened in Hangzhou, such as the famous White Snake Legend and Xi Hu Lake. Hangzhou was once described by Marco Polo as one of the most beautiful and splendid cities in the world and one of the US president in the past only wanted to visited three cities in China, Shanghai (Center of Economy), Beijing (Capital), and Hangzhou (due to it's beauty). It is considered the most green city around China. There were a lot of plants around the streets and the air was so breeze as it has less pollutions.
We had a busy schedule this day since we visited so many places while we were in Hangzhou, including taking a trip on a boat around Xi Hu Lake, Dragon Well Tea/Mei Jia Wu Village, watching Songjen Show (Romance of Song Dynasty) which described five stories that happened in Hangzhou in a splending laser and real man show. I recommend you to watch this show if you have time to visit Hangzhou. You will be amazed and you will not regret it even though the ticket fee is quite expensive (around 250 RMB for VIP seat).
Our trip in Hangzhou was ended with a shopping session in He Fang Street as usuall and we went to our hotel to rest.
We left Suzhou to Huangshan in our forth day in China using the same bus. We left our local tour guide because the regulation stated that we must take another local guide when we reached other place (Huangshan in this case). The same event happened each time we visited another cities. Xiang Xiang still accompanies us from the beginning until the last day because it was her who coordinated all the trip while we were in China. Our local guide in Huangshan was David (his English name) and he could speak English, so i'm a little bit happy to hear that, since i can't speak Chinese so fluently.
On our first day in Huangshan, we didn't climb the mountain yet, as the trip itself took about 5 hours. We arrived there at the evening and we only had some free session at night before we rest because on our fifth day, we were climbing the Huangshan mountain.
From our hotel, we left to pick up our another local guide in Huangshan area and we had to switch to mini bus since the road to the mountain was smaller, so our bus was not allowed to entered. When we reached the entrance, we got in into the cable car which took us to the top mountain before we had to walk in order to take a look around the natural beauty of Huangshan mountain. The cable car was so high and i couldn't imagine what would happened if the cable was loose. I don't think anyone can survive from that height.
I must say i'm very impressed with the beauty of Huangshan mountain. Everything was so natural and i don't think there's any other mountain that is as beautifull as Huangshan. You must see it by yourself if you don't believe what i said in this blog .
Even though the tour leader said that the temperature was supposed to be very cold, but after getting there, i didn't think it was colder that i thought. I didn't use my jacket while i was walking around the mountain. But, i still recommend that you should bring your jacket, hat, and glove just in case you can't take it.
We left the mountain before 4 PM because the cable car stop operating at 4 PM. We went down and have an early rest because next day, we were going to other city again. This time, we were leaving to Hangzhou.
Again, we our third day was started by a morning call at 6 AM and we left to Suzhou for another trip. We met a nice local guide tour and he could talk in Indonesian language more fluent than our Xiang Xiang since he has a wife which is Indonesian people and he had been a tour guide for 8 years.
Our first trip in Suzhou was in Lion Forest Garden (Shizilin) where we could see a man-made rock of mountains that symbolize the nine lion that was carved in a rock. We learned so many ancient cultures in this place.
We then left to Tiger Hill, where there was another leaning tower like in Italy (Pisa Tower). Local people said that this tower has an older history than in Italy, so they called it father of the Pisa Tower. Our local tour guide explained the history behind the tower and why it's called a tiger hill although there were no tigers around it.
Next, we went to silk factory in Suzhou. We saw how silk was produced from the beginning until it ended into a final product such as pillow or clothes. I bought one set of pillow from this factory as well .
Our second day started at 6 AM where we got our morning call from the hotel since we were going to leave to Wuxi and the trip took few hours. We had breakfast at the hotel around 7 AM and we left around 8 AM.
When we reached Wuxi, we visited some places, including the Three Kingdom Park where the Romance of Three Kingdoms movie was filmed. It was built by CCTV, one of the biggest TV station in China. We saw the Three Kingdom and it reflected the battle between the three heroes against Tsao Tsao.
Next, we visited Taihu Lake and we took a tour using an old war boat around the lake. We could still see the building used in the movie when we rode the boat. The trip took about half an hour before we left to teapot factory and Sanyang Square to have our shopping session before going to our hotel and rest.
My first day of the trip was my way to China. I left Jogja at 4.30 using Garuda Indonesia to Jakarta with all the group from Jogja and Solo and cities around Jogja, such as Kutoarjo and Klaten. We arrived in Jakarta one hour later and we went to Hoka Hoka Bento to have dinner together at International departure terminal (2 E).
Around 11 PM, we were asked to go to boarding room and we left Indonesia to China around 11:50 PM. The trip to China took us about 5.5 hours and we were heading to Pudong International Airport in Shanghai where Xiang Xiang, our local guide picked us up at the airport. She can talk Indonesian language after learning about 8 months, which i think is very fast. During our flight, i couldn't sleep since i'm not used to long flight. My longest flight was when i went to Manado and at that time, it wasn't as long as this flight and i never take a night flight as well, so this was my first experience.
Our first trip was having breakfast because we reached Shanghai around 7 AM (Shanghai is one hour ahead of Jakarta). From the restaurant, we went to one of the biggest shopping place in Shanghai in Nanjing Road. It's a crowded place where people around the world gathered there to buy many items. We didn't have time to get it covered since it's very big place and you might get lost if you didn't pay attention about the entrance and the sign.
Netx, we took a photo session across the TV Tower, one of the tallest building in Shanghai. Then we went to Bar Street where there were so many cafes filled with expatriate in that place since that place was originally made by the France people when they invade China in the past. After that, we took a walk in Shanghai for a bit before finally we rested in our hotel.
That completes our first day in Shanghai.
After about ten days in China, finally i'm back here in Indonesia. It was a wonderful trip to China and i have visited some cities in China, including Shanghai, WuXi, Suzhou, Huangshan/TunXi, Guangzhou, and XiTang). I never expected that China would be at this level even though i have known that they have a strong economic level and their growth are outstanding. Even a small city in China is way more ahead of Jakarta, the metropolitan city in Indonesia. I must say that China is probably 10-20 times ahead of Indonesia regarding the city/town management. They have a strong vision and a good long-term planning on building a city. In the coming years, they will introduce more and more facilities that would make people's life get easier, such as faster express train, more highways, and many more.
I will try to rewrite my trip in China in the next posts, but i think i need some sleep now as i didn't get enough sleep today and i spent most of my time on plane today. I had a 5.5h of flight from Shanghai to Jakarta and another 1 h to go to Jogja, my home town.
Plagiarism is a heavy sin in education world. You can get a maximum penalty of being expelled if the staff found an evidence that you conduct this act. Many education places have created a string rules about it and it was used effectively for each assignment. I also have done the same thing for my class.
Detecting plagiarism is not an easy task as it would take a lot of efforts and time when you have so many students taking your class. For paper work, you can use Turnitin service which i think is the best plagiarism checker available for now. It's not free, but i think it's worthed, mostly if you ask for your students to create a journal which will be published.
For code plagiarism, this is even more interesting as source codes are available on the Internet and all you need is browse on search engines and you will get a bunch of codes. Stanford has created a system which can help us to detect software plagiarism called Moss (Measure Of Software Similarity) and i'm using it currently. It has been developed since 1994 and it has been updated constantly with new algorithm and mechanism.
I am leaving to China tonight and spend some time there. It's just part of a holiday. I'm not staying there for months or so. It's because this week, the students will face their mid test exams and the lecturers are having some breaks so i took this chance to go somewhere else where i have never visited before.
This will be my first trip to China and i hope this will be an interesting adventure. I have heard so many rumors about China, both good and bad issues and let's hope i won't experience the bad ones. It will be my second abroad trip after i went to Singapore early this year and this time, it will take longer time.
I'm not sure whether i'm going to have Internet connection or not while i am in China, but let's just assume i can't get Internet connection there, so i will be off from the Internet for a while. You know what i mean. That means a delayed email responses, no updates on this blog (except when i have found a nice infor and i will set a scheduled post), pending membership requests on Indonesian Linux Forum, pending SlackBlogs updates, and i will definitely miss the Ubuntu release since i will be back in Indonesia around October 12. When i got back home, most of Indonesian mirror will have Ubuntu ISOs and that will ease me to update the UKDW ISO Center.
Since Ubuntu 10.10 is going to be released soon, i decided to try to upgrade to 10.10 Beta (it's still in beta at the time i was upgrading it) and it took me about one full day to upgrade (some package were missing and i left my laptop running at home while i was working at the office, so i resumed it after i got back from work).
But still it's far away from Slackware. I can do a full upgrade in less than 10-20 minutes using Slackware. But since i'm running -Current, i don't have to do any full upgrade any more. All i need is to follow -Current and i will be running the latest version of Slackware all the time, but that's another story.
Google saw that images take around 65% of the bytes transmitted on the web (what would a web could be without images?) and they think it's problematic to slow connection network, such in mobile network which is mostly slower than any wired connection. Therefore, an image with lower file size is a must while retaining the quality of the images itself.
After working with VP8, they have decided to release a new image format called WebP, which is a method of lossy compression that can be used on photographic images. A WebP file consists of VP8 image data, and a container based on RIFF.
So, when will this new format available to users? It depends on the browsers that will support them. Google Chrome will support it shortly (they are the official product by Google anyway). I think others will follow soon if they see that this will benefit the users (i don't see any objection of this).
For now, you can see the comparison between an original JPEG and WebP-converted image in the Gallery page.


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Letter of Administration: How to assume control of the estate of a deceased person (1) - Procedure of obtaining Letter of Administration in Nigeria - Law Firm in Nigeria - Lawyers in Nigeria.
If someone has died and has left behind money in the bank, landed properties or personal belongings, and you want to take over these assets, or want to administer, manage, distribute, or sell off the assets; the following is a guide on the procedure to obtain the letter of administration and assume control of the estate of the deceased.
The estate of the deceased is vested in the Chief Judge of the State. Before you can take over or assume control over the estate of someone who has died, you have to first obtain the letter of administration from the Probate Court to become the administrator of the deceased's estate. Without being appointed the administrator, meddling with the estate of the Deceased is illegal and you may face civil and criminal liabilities.
How long does it take to obtain letter of administration?
A letter of administration may be granted after 14 days, where the deceased died intestate (i.e. without leaving a valid Will); or 7 days where there is partial intestacy. Partial intestacy may arise where there is the absence of a residuary clause in a valid Will; or where the testator (the deceased) does not have executors to carry out his instruction as contained in the Will. Not having executor(s) may arise where the deceased made a Will without appointing executors; or the executors who he appointed had died; or the executors are underage; or the executors are resident abroad, have refused to act, or have renounced the probate.
Who Is Entitled to Obtain the Letter of Administration over the Deceased Estate?
Where the deceased had married his spouse under the Marriage Act (what in layman's term is known as "White Wedding" or "Court Marriage"), he is not subject to the traditional practice of inheritance or succession principle under his native law and custom. In other words, the distribution and inheritance of his property or succession to his estate will be based on the Administration of Estate Law, and not according to the local traditions and native laws and customs of the locality he hailed from.
6. Any specific legatee or devisee entitled on the happening of any contingency, or next-of-kin.
Children of the deceased or grandchildren of the deceased whose parent died during the lifetime of the deceased.
Father or mother of the deceased.
Half Brother(s) and sister(s) of the Deceased.
Grandfather or grandmother of the deceased.
Where the deceased died testate (with a valid Last Will), you need to consult a Solicitor to make an application on your behalf to obtain the Letter of Administration. The Solicitor shall satisfy the Probate Registrar about the reason for the absence of the executor that was appointed by the deceased in his Will. The Solicitor shall lead evidence to prove that the executor is dead, or he renounced his executorship, or he is an infant, or he is abroad and has appointed an attorney to apply for the grant, any of these facts must be proved by tendering the relevant documents. Thereafter, the Probate Registrar shall inspect the Will to ensure that it was properly executed and attested.
In some states, the law prescribes a minimum of 2 persons and maximum of 4 persons to administer the estate of the deceased, except predicated on a legal exception. Thus, if you and 1 or 3 other family members fall suitably amongst the persons listed above in their order of priority, what you need to do to obtain the Letter of Administration where the deceased had died intestate (without leaving a valid Last Will) is to consult a specialist Solicitor who will make an application to the Probate Registrar on your behalf.
What Documents Are Required for the Grant of Letter of Administration?
You will further provide the following details: Full names of the deceased; Date of birth of the deceased; Last known address of the deceased; Occupation of the deceased; Marital status of the deceased; Name of deceased' spouse and children (if any); Date and place of death of the deceased; Your name and the names of the other proposed administrators; Relationship between the deceased and you and other proposed administrators).
Authority to Act. After due consultation and evaluation of the documents and information you have provided, you'll need to sign the Solicitor's letter of authority to act on your behalf in connection with the subject matter.
Particulars of freehold/leasehold property left by the deceased.
Publication of Notice. Solicitor shall thereafter notify the general public by way of publication in a newspaper, a Notice of Application for the Grant of Letters of Administration over the deceased's estate in the name of the proposed administrators.
Court Representation. Where there is an objection to the Application for the Grant of Letters of Administration over the deceased's estate in your name or the other proposed administrators, Solicitor shall issue a Warning to the Caveator(s) and a writ for the Probate Court to determine the merit or otherwise of the caveat for the purpose of granting or refusing the grant of the Letter of Administration. Where at the expiration of the publication notice, there is no objection entered by way of caveat, Solicitor shall move the Probates Court to proceed to grant the Letter of Administration in favour of the proposed administrators.
Payment of Prescribed Fees. In the course of obtaining the Letter of Administration, Solicitor may be required to pay certain fees such as Publication Fee, Estate Fee, etc. as administrative charges and government taxes.
Collection of Letter of Administration. After due compliance with all the laid down requirements, the Probate Registrar shall direct a grant of Letter of Administration Order to be enrolled for the Chief Judge of the State to sign. Thereafter, the final instrument of the Grant of Letter of Administration is prepared and signed by the Probate Registrar for collection. Letter of Administration will be issued to you through the Solicitor. Armed with the Letter of Administration, you and other named Administrators shall have the legitimate power and authority to take over full control of the estate of the deceased, and have the power to manage, share, distribute, or sell the deceased's estate, or initiate or defend legal proceedings thereto.
It may interest you to know that even where you are one of the persons suitably entitled to obtain the letter of administration of the deceased's estate, the law does not make it automatic for you and other proposed administrators to meddle with the estate of the deceased in any manner without the Letter of Administration obtained. Doing so may cause you to be prosecuted for both civil and criminal liabilities. Letter of Administration will be granted through an Order of the Chief Judge of the State who is the head of the Probate Court.
Obtaining the Letter of Administration is, however, a very rigorous process and fraught with procedural and technical complexities. It is important you seek legal guidance and help from a Solicitor who will assist you to apply and obtain the letter with ease, devoid of the problems and frustration associated with that process. To get started on this and other related matters, request in-office consultations on – Telephone: +2348187019206, +2348039795959 | Email: edoabasi.udo@lexartifexllp.com | Website: www.lexartifexllp.com.
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Samsung Galaxy new M30 price in India may start at Rs. 15,000.
Shoaib Ahmed February 14, 2019 New Mobiles Upcomming
Samsung Galaxy M30 is prepared to be launched in Asian country this month and whereas it'll be the third smartphone within the recently launched Galaxy M series, the Samsung Galaxy M30 is anticipated to come back with additional premium options than the Galaxy M10 and Galaxy M20. Samsung on weekday told IANS that the Galaxy M30 can feature a triple rear camera setup and a buirdly 5000mAh battery. It more the Samsung Galaxy M30 can maintain sale ranging from the primary week of March in an Asian country, simply once the official unleashes in February. excluding this, the corporation didn't reveal something concrete, however, leaks have hinted on the opposite specifications and worth in Asian country of the Samsung Galaxy M30. The Samsung Galaxy M10 and Galaxy M20 were launched at a beginning worth of Rs. 7,990 and Rs. 10,990, severally, whereas the approaching premium smartphone within the M series is anticipated to be priced at Rs. 15,000. Considering the worth tag, Samsung Galaxy M30 might directly strive against the Xiaomi Redmi Note seven, which can even be discharged in February this year. The device is anticipated to come back during a half dozen.38-inch Super-AMOLED time V show with 2220x1080 pixels resolution. it'll be battery-powered by the Exynos 794 SoC plus 4GB/6GB of RAM and 64GB/128GB of storage, expandable via microSD card. Moreover, it'll pack a strong 5000mAh battery. For optics, the Samsung Galaxy M30 can sport a triple rear-camera setup that might embrace 13-megapixel primary device with f/1.9 aperture, a 5-megapixel depth device with f/2.2 aperture, and 5-megapixel optical lens with f/2.2 aperture. For selfie, it's imagined to arrive with a 16-megapixel device with an f/2.0 aperture. Further, it's possible to come back with a rear-fingerprint scanner and a face-unlock system.
Samsung Galaxy new M30 price in India may start at Rs. 15,000. Reviewed by Shoaib Ahmed on February 14, 2019 Rating: 5
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Once rebased, Kwacha will strengthen to 1964 levels, dreams minister Sichinga
A Zambian bank note at the height of poverty and socialism in 1984
GOVERNMENT says it will proceed with plans to rebase the local currency to strengthen the value to 1964 levels despite calls by some quarters to defer it.
Meanwhile, Government says it will ban firms exporting raw copper as a way of encouraging value addition to the commodity.
Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry Robert Sichinga said rebasing the Kwacha is necessary as it will lead to reduction in the cost of doing business; reduce inconvenience and risks associated with carrying large amounts of currency for transactional purposes.
Mr Sichinga said once the Kwacha is rebased, it is likely to become stronger against major convertible currencies, citing when the local unit traded at par with the British pound in 1960s.
"In 1964, our Kwacha and Malawian Kwacha were at par with a (British) pound. Exactly at K2 to a pound, this is because the currency was strong," he said.
Mr Sichinga was speaking at the eighth National Dove Payroll and Human Resources 2011 conference under the theme "Operational Excellence," at Lusaka's Mulungushi International Conference Centre yesterday.
He, however, said currently the Kwacha's value is weak trading in the K5,000 levels against the United States dollar while the Malawian Kwacha is trading at K167,000 against a dollar.
Mr Sichinga said rebasing the Kwacha will accrue huge benefits to everyone.
In January, Government approved the rebasing of the local unit and so far Bank of Zambia has commenced the process of procuring the rebased currency.
However, there have been calls by some stakeholders to suspend or hold the rebasing of the currency until next year due to uncertainties in the economy.
Some analysts have cited the rebasing of the Kwacha as partly causing the depreciation of the local currency, presently trading at K5,200 and K5,300 levels.
Commenting on the export of raw copper, Mr Sichinga said there is need for Government to promote value addition to copper, hence the move to stop the exportation of raw copper.
Mr Sichinga said Government is keen to meet one million tonnes of copper by 2015 with more jobs being created for the local people.
He said the country has abundant mineral resources such as emeralds, gold and cobalt and other semi-precious stones which require value addition and make meaningful contribution to the growth of the economy.
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The rate of ACL graft failure when combined with anterolateral ligament (ALL) reconstruction is significantly less than with isolated ACL reconstruction with B-PT-B or hamstring tendons. ACL+ALL is also associated with significantly greater odds of returning to the pre-injury level of sport. Clinical results at latest follow up show no evidence of increased complications or overconstraint.
Graft failure and low rates of return to sport are major concerns after ACL reconstruction. It is for this reason that there is currently great interest in the role of the anterolateral ligament (ALL) in controlling rotatory laxity and its ability to share load with the ACL graft. However, the vast majority of research relating to ALL reconstruction is laboratory based and its clinical role remains undefined. There are concerns regarding overconstraint of the knee based on historical experience with non-anatomical lateral extra-articular tenodeses.
To evaluate the role of combined ACL and ALL reconstruction in reducing graft rupture rates and improving return to sport in a high risk population of young patients participating in contact sports.
A prospective series of 502 patients who underwent primary ACL reconstruction with either bone-patellar tendon-bone graft (BPTB n=105), quadrupled hamstring tendons (4HT n=176), or combined hamstring tendon and anterolateral ligament reconstruction (HT+ALL n=221) was studied. Kaplan Meier analysis was performed to provide survivorship data that were analyzed in multivariate Cox regression models to identify prognosticators of graft rupture and return to sport.
The mean age was 22.4 ± 4.0 years (range 16-30), 364/502 patients (72.5%) were male. The mean duration of follow-up was 38.4 months (range 24-54). The mean post-operative subjective IKDC score was 84.4 +/- 11.6. There was no difference between groups with respect to the postoperative improvement in subjective IKDC (mean delta IKDC 27.0 +/-15.7, P=0.84) or the mean side-to-side laxity difference 0.5 +/-0.9mm (P=0.3879). The rate of graft failure in patients with HT+ALL grafts was 3.1 times less than with 4HT [hazard ratio, 0.327; 95% CI 0.13-0.758] and 2.5 times less than with B-PT-B [hazard ratio, 0.393; 95% CI 0.153-0.953]. There was no significant difference in the graft failure rate between 4HT and B-PT-B groups [hazard ratio, 1.204; 95% CI 0.555-2.66]. Overall, 93% of patients returned to sport at latest follow-up. Return to self-described pre-injury level of sport was 64.6%. The HT+ALL graft was associated with higher odds of return to pre-injury level of sport than 4HT [Odds ratio, 1.938; 95% CI 1.174-3.224] but not compared to B-PT-B [Odds ratio, 1.460; 95% CI 0.813-2.613].


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Boat Review: Yamaha 275E, Going Propless
You love the idea of running a jet boat, but you haven't yet seen one big enough to satiate your boating appetite? It's true that up until now most of the major jet manufacturers' boats topped out at 24 or 25 feet and an eight-foot, six-inch beam, but for 2019 Yamaha ups the ante with a 27-footer that stretches nine feet from gunwale to gunwale: the Yamaha 275E.
The 27-footer's loungers with sliding backrests take comfort right up to La-Z-Boy levels. Images courtesy of Yamaha
Like most of the other jet boats in the Yamaha line, the 275E is a bowrider—but there's a lot more of it. Two additional trim versions are also available: the 275SE (an upgraded version for watersports enthusiasts which adds in a wakeboard tower with an extended Bimini) and the 275SD (a luxury version with an expanded galley, electronic power steering, and a hard-top with skylights). In all of these cases the larger platform naturally accommodates items you simply can't shoehorn into a smaller boat.
For starters, check out the stern loungers. Yamaha's 24-foot former queen of the fleet does a pretty good job with the stern seating by molding in a backrest and adding a cushion to the step down to the swim platform, but the 27-footer's loungers with sliding backrests take comfort right up to La-Z-Boy levels. Even better is the addition of Yamaha's new "Swim Up" stern seating. These are like removable underwater seats that are supported by arms coming down from the bottom of the swim platform. They give you a place to park your posterior in a semi-submerged position. Added bonus: reverse the support arm so it points up into the air instead of down into the water, flip the seat over, and you'll have a small cocktail table with two molded-in cupholders elevated above the waterline. Nifty.
More advantages that come thanks to the boats' largesse include large center-facing settees in the cockpit in addition to the helm and passenger's chairs, bow filler inserts that allow for multiple seating and sunpad configurations, an expansive head compartment inside the portside console, and a mini-galley with a sink, drawer, and stowage compartment containing a pull-out cooler.
One unexpected perk is the standard-issue 12.3-inch Connex touch-screen display. This appears only on upgraded 24-foot models (a seven-incher is the base Connex), but is a standard feature on the 275s. Much like the touch-screens in many new automobiles, the Connex acts as your interface for navigation, stereo controls, digital switch control, and engine data display. In today's world of finger-tap technology, it makes taking control at the helm a whole lot more intuitive.
Yamaha's "swim up" stern seating gives you a place to sit in a semi-submerged position.
Speaking of taking control at the helm: on the jazzed-up SD model of the 275, if you take a closer look just below the Connex display, you'll see a pair of paddles protruding from the steering column. What gives? This is Yamaha's "DRiVE" system, which allows you to apply the throttle in forward and reverse with the left and right paddles. We tested it out when the 275 was introduced, and while it took a little getting used to (okay, some bumper-boat style docking may have occurred at first), it gives you a new way to control the boat at slow speed.
Y-A-W-N. Slow speed is so boring. So let's shift gears and talk about the one thing every jet boat owner loves: thrilling joy rides. The 275 models come with a pair of Yamaha's 1.8-liter supercharged SVHO engines under the hood. Yamaha doesn't publish a horsepower rating for this engine, but most insiders agree that they produce around 250 horsepower apiece. And with all those horses blasting water through 160 mm high-pressure pumps, the 275 can easily break the 50-mph barrier.
At slower speeds we felt the handling and turning radius weren't quite as impressive as usual for a jet boat—but then we hit the throttle. Like all jets the 275 depends on directed thrust to maneuver, and since this model's larger than the others, it needs oodles of thrust to shift into sporty-mode. So tell your passengers to hold on tight, keep those throttles pinned down as you whip the wheel around, and that thrill ride will be thrilling, indeed.
By Lenny Rudow
Yamaha 275E Specifications:
LOA: 27'0"
Beam: 9'0"
Draft: 1'10"
Displacement: 5050 lbs.
Max HP: 500
Water Capacity: 14 gal.
Beacon Light Marina, Middle River, MD, beaconlightmarina.com
Lynn Haven Marine, Virginia Beach, VA, lynnhavenmarine.com


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Q: React Native iOS app closed immediately after opening react-native-contacts During the app external testing, got a very strange report from a client.
The app was immediately closed(crash, but without red screen) after user opened contacts screen. Contacts were shown for a second and then the app closed. I've tried to reproduce the problem multiple times, but no success.
Also, there's a crash log:
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What can be the problem? Maybe a crash in RN core?

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