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bool jpegIsJPEG(const uint8_t * const in_JPEG_DATA) {
    const uint8_t magic[3] = { 0xFF, 0xD8, 0xFF };
    int result = memcmp(in_JPEG_DATA, magic, 3);
    return result == 0;
}

bool jpegDecode(uint8_t **out_image, uint32_t *out_width, uint32_t *out_height, uint32_t *out_numChannels, const uint8_t * const in_JPEG_DATA, const size_t in_JPEG_SIZE, const bool in_FLIP_Y) {
    struct jpeg_decompress_struct cinfo;
    struct jpeg_error_mgr jerr;
    cinfo.err = jpeg_std_error(&jerr);
    jpeg_create_decompress(&cinfo);
    jpeg_mem_src(&cinfo, in_JPEG_DATA, in_JPEG_SIZE);
    jpeg_read_header(&cinfo, TRUE);
    jpeg_start_decompress(&cinfo);

    JDIMENSION w = cinfo.image_width;
    JDIMENSION h = cinfo.image_height;
    uint32_t c = cinfo.num_components;
    uint8_t *image = (uint8_t *)malloc(w * h * c * sizeof(uint8_t));
    uint8_t *imagePtr = image;

    if (in_FLIP_Y) {
        imagePtr = image + w * (h - 1) * c;
    }

    size_t row_stride = cinfo.output_width * cinfo.output_components;

    while (cinfo.output_scanline < cinfo.output_height) {
        jpeg_read_scanlines(&cinfo, &imagePtr, 1);

        if (in_FLIP_Y) {
            imagePtr -= row_stride;
        } else {
            imagePtr += row_stride;
        }
    }

    jpeg_finish_decompress(&cinfo);
    jpeg_destroy_decompress(&cinfo);

    *out_image = image;
    *out_width = w;
    *out_height = h;
    *out_numChannels = c;

    return true;
}

bool jpegEncode(uint8_t ** const out_jpegData, size_t * out_jpegSize, uint8_t * const in_IMAGE, const uint32_t in_WIDTH, const uint32_t in_HEIGHT, const uint32_t in_NUM_CHANNELS, const uint32_t in_QUALITY) {
    struct jpeg_compress_struct cinfo;
    struct jpeg_error_mgr jerr;
    JSAMPROW row_pointer[1];
    unsigned long outsize = 0;
    uint8_t *outbuffer = NULL;
    cinfo.err = jpeg_std_error(&jerr);
    jpeg_create_compress(&cinfo);
    jpeg_mem_dest(&cinfo, &outbuffer, &outsize);
    cinfo.image_width = in_WIDTH;
    cinfo.image_height = in_HEIGHT;

    switch (in_NUM_CHANNELS) {
            case 1:
            cinfo.input_components = 1;
            cinfo.in_color_space = JCS_GRAYSCALE;
            break;

            case 3:
            cinfo.input_components = 3;
            cinfo.in_color_space = JCS_RGB;
            break;

        default:
            fprintf(stderr, "unsupported colorspace\n");
            return false;
    }

    jpeg_set_defaults(&cinfo);
    jpeg_set_quality(&cinfo, in_QUALITY, TRUE);
    jpeg_start_compress(&cinfo, TRUE);
    size_t row_stride = in_WIDTH * 3;

    while (cinfo.next_scanline < cinfo.image_height) {
        row_pointer[0] = &in_IMAGE[cinfo.next_scanline * row_stride];
        jpeg_write_scanlines(&cinfo, row_pointer, 1);
    }

    jpeg_finish_compress(&cinfo);
    jpeg_destroy_compress(&cinfo);

    *out_jpegData = outbuffer;
    *out_jpegSize = outsize;
    return true;
}

bool jpegRead(uint8_t ** const out_image, uint32_t * const out_width, uint32_t * const out_height, uint32_t * const out_numChannels, const char * const in_FILE_PATH, const bool in_FLIP_Y) {
    FILE * fp = fopen(in_FILE_PATH, "rb");

    if (fp == NULL) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Cannot open file \"%s\"\n", in_FILE_PATH);
        return false;
    }

    struct stat st;
    int fd = fileno(fp);
    int ret = fstat(fd, &st);

    if (ret != 0) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Cannot get file stats for \"%s\"\n", in_FILE_PATH);
        fclose(fp);
        return false;
    }

    size_t len = st.st_size;

    if (len == 0) {
        fprintf(stderr, "File \"%s\" is empty\n", in_FILE_PATH);
        fclose(fp);
        return false;
    }

    uint8_t *rawData = (uint8_t *)malloc(len);
    size_t bytes_read = fread(rawData, sizeof(uint8_t), len, fp);

    if (bytes_read != len) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Cannot read file \"%s\"\n", in_FILE_PATH);
        free(rawData);
        fclose(fp);
        return false;
    }

    fclose(fp);
    bool success = jpegDecode(out_image, out_width, out_height, out_numChannels, rawData, len, in_FLIP_Y);
    free(rawData);
    return success;
}

bool jpegWrite(const char * const in_FILE_PATH, uint8_t * const in_IMAGE, const uint32_t in_WIDTH, const uint32_t in_HEIGHT, const uint32_t in_NUM_CHANNELS, const uint32_t in_QUALITY) {
    uint8_t *data;
    size_t size;
    bool success = jpegEncode(&data, &size, in_IMAGE, in_WIDTH, in_HEIGHT, in_NUM_CHANNELS, in_QUALITY);

    if (success) {
        FILE *fp = fopen(in_FILE_PATH, "wb");

        if (fp == NULL) {
            fprintf(stderr, "Cannot open file \"%s\"\n", in_FILE_PATH);
            jpegFree(&data);
            return false;
        }

        size_t bytes_written = fwrite(data, sizeof(uint8_t), size, fp);

        if (bytes_written != size) {
            fprintf(stderr, "Cannot write file \"%s\"\n", in_FILE_PATH);
            fclose(fp);
            jpegFree(&data);
            return false;
        }

        fclose(fp);
    }

    return success;
}

void jpegFree(uint8_t ** const in_out_image) {
    free(*in_out_image);
    *in_out_image = NULL;
}

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Lately, we have been hearing a lot of news on the life on MARS. A movie, The Martian was also released last year on the existence of life in the Red Planet. In the movie you would see Matt Damon as botanist Mark Watney growing potatoes in 'The Martian'.
More than 10 different crops have successfully been raised in simulated Martian dirt by a group of scientists in Netherlands. One of the crops include potatoes as well, just like in the movie. An organic fertilizer was mixed with the extraterrestrial "earth". In the movie, the fictional Mark Watney played by Damon used human faeces to give his potatoes a start.
The Martian surface contains Arsenic, Mercury, Lead, Copper, Cadmium in addition to the high levels of oxidized iron.


It stretches from north to south - 620 km., From East to West - 520 km. Total area - 114,000 square kilometers.
According to statistics on 01.08.2006g. in Shymkent region is home to 2,333,568 people. Among them: the Kazakhs - 1551529, Uzbeks 355 69 -149 771 Russian, Azeri - 28159, Tajiks - 25702, Tatars - 21968, Turkmens - 20276, Koreans - 9858, Ukrainians - 9213, Kurds - 7 749, Germans - 3724, -3628 Uighurs, Iranians - 2626, Chechens - 2484, Greeks - 1506, Kyrgyz - 1390, Poles - 200, etc. - 8889.
In the region there are two mountain ranges: Karatausskaya - the highest point of Bes-saz (2,176 m); Zapadnotyanshanskie Ridges Karzhantaussky, Ugam, Pskem - the highest point Sairam peak (4236 m).
Significant rivers Syr Darya begins in Kyrgyzstan flows into the Aral Sea (2,137 km.) Inflows - p. Aris - starts at Chokpak gorge, taking a river. Dzhabagly, Ak-su (122 km.) Badam - (137 km.) Sairam-Su (172 km.), P. Keles (236 km.) - A tributary of the Syr Darya.
Chardarin Reservoir - 5.6 billion cubic meters water.
Bugunskoe Reservoir - 375 million cubic meters water. Badam Reservoir - 2 million cubic meters. m of water.
Researchers our region were such eminent scientists as: NA Severtsev, prof. Neustroev, Olga Knorre, Shishkin, Linchevskiy, Korovin. They found that the soil of our land, light and dark gray soils are very fertile, as this is the bottom of the ocean "Tethys".
They have divided our area by 6 floristic zones.
The reeds by Chu, on the Syr Darya was driven Turkestan tiger, the latter killed the reeds of the Syr Darya River in 1945 Earth - desert clay. Basically grow Artemisia: Artemisia endemic floral, betege viviparous, monument of the bulbous everywhere creates a green background, sedge desert, Sophora, acacia. Stretches pasture, are found antelopes and gazelles.
Sophora, sferofiza. In the valley. Chu - tugai.
West during the Syr Darya, the shifting sands, dunes, peskodrev, saksaul black and white, ephemera, of monuments, itsichek-anabasis, wormwood different, Echinops belostebelny (endemic).
Tsitvarnaya wormwood, psoralen kostyankovaya-bee plant (ak-Qur'an), anabasis leafless, it is harvested for chem. pharm. Plant. Anabasine sulfate, anabazodust exported to 60 countries, is sold for gold. Sophora lisohvostnaya - quarantine weed. Tamarisk - tamarisk - Jing is a beautiful shrub.
Syr-Darya poplar - turancha 5-6 m tall, silver goof (jida), sea buckthorn, Ching silver, tamarisk, narrow-leaved cattail, Susak umbrella, water pepper, vine - clematis east. Pheasants, wild boars, jackals. In the eighteenth century there were a tiger and deer - hangul.
2000 species of flowering plants. Tau ridge was an island of the Tethys Ocean. Evolution was a distinctive way, so there are many endemic species. The Caspian Sea, the Aral Sea, Balkhash - the remains of the ocean. In the gorge there Boraldayskom prints of marine fish. The deposits of white quartz sand and shark teeth in them.
West Tien Shan floristic area.


Welcome to the e-learning tutorial on collaborating and sharing resources online. This tutorial will review two tools that are available for little or no cost. They are easy to use and provide ways to share information via the web. The tools we will review today are: Google Apps (including Docs, Sites, and Groups), and ZohoWiki. Each has slightly different features, but each can help you harness the power of the web to collaborate and increase efficiency in your organization.
This tutorial will explore two tools for collaborating and sharing resources online.
This tutorial will give you a basic overview of two tools for collaborating and sharing resources online: Google Apps (including Docs, Groups, and Sites) and Zoho Wiki. Each offers its own advantages and disadvantages, but they each can help you use the web to share information and collaborate online.
Sharing information online can increase your efficiency.
These web-based platforms offer streamlined solutions for managing, sorting, and sharing information across your entire organization. They provide viable alternatives to "offline" resource-sharing, which too often includes digging through papers, old emails, or photocopied notes. The web eliminates the clutter and creates a centralized place to share resources and ideas.


Wine Wednesday: Wine ice cream | Grand Central Magazine | Your Campus. Your Story.
You read that right. Yes, wine ice cream – it's a thing.
Mercer's Wine Ice Cream is a Boonville, New York-based store that sells five percent alcohol-infused desserts for customers 21 years and older. Since 2006, the company has been mixing its dairy products with wine, creating an international sensation.
Mercer's currently offers eight flavors of ice cream: Peach White Zinfandel, Cherry Merlot, Strawberry Sparkling, Chocolate Cabernet, Red Raspberry Chardonnay, Port, Riesling and Spice.
The company keeps its ingredients local buy purchasing them from New York businesses. At 210-310 calories per half-cup, be sure to indulge in this delectable dessert in moderation.
Mercer's distributes its wine ice cream to any location in the United States. Suddenly, living in Mount Pleasant doesn't seem so bad, does it? Wine ice cream can be shipped by the pint, half-gallon, five-quart pail or three-gallon tub (because getting buzzed on ice cream is a good time).
What're you waiting for? Instead of buying a bottle of Champagne to celebrate the end of the semester, buy some wine ice cream instead. Your taste buds and stomach will thank you for it.
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Global-Minded Throws by a Former Fashion Designer, Inspired by the Swedish Archipelago (and Art Deco, Peru, and Portugal)
TextilesIssue 26 — Bright and Bold
Annie Quigley June 25, 2020
Were it permissible for me to acquire any more blankets (I wish it were, but it's not—I have more throws in my apartment than dinner plates), I'd order one from Johanna Howard's collection. Her throws are sustainable and fair-trade and have a classic-ness about them, yet they're also full of unexpected colorways and patterns and pleasing details—a whipstitched hem, a celestial scatter of dots—which, as it turns out, are nods at Howard's far-flung sources of inspiration, from Stockholm to Art Deco style.
"I was born and raised in Stockholm, surrounded by clean Scandinavian design, which shows in our geometric patterns," Howard told me over email. There, she spent childhood days in her mother's workshop watching her at work, making dresses by hand. "Then I came to the U.S. and worked as a fashion designer, tapping into the vibrancy of Los Angeles and New York," she continues (she designed for the likes of BCBG and Gap), "which shows in the color palette and attention to detail. And when I started working with artisans in Peru, their influences became my own as I infused my aesthetic with their traditional approaches to embroidery, weaving, and dyeing.
"But this isn't painting by numbers; it's a creative conversation," she says. "The triangular pattern bridges Scandinavia with New York Art Deco, the Peruvian embroidery connects to Swedish handcraft, and the rich indigo dye that was first invented in Peru evokes Sweden's coastline."
It's all threaded into the details of her effortless, statement-making throws. Take a look:
Above: The cotton Lagom Throw ($150, currently on sale for $140), shown here in chambray, tangerine, and taupe. "Lagom means just right/perfect balance in Swedish," says Howard. "The throw was inspired by nautical flags and the archipelago outside my hometown of Stockholm, Sweden."
Above: The Grinda Throw ($450) is named for what Howard calls one of the most beautiful islands in the Stockholm Archipelagos. A whipstitched hem adds finishing detail.
Above: Made in Portugal, the cotton, machine-washable Atlas Throw ($150, currently on sale for $140) can be used as a throw or outdoors as a picnic blanket. It's shown here in indigo, but it's also available in Caribbean blue, leaf green, spice, and pewter.
Above: We like the sunniness of the Apex Throw in goldenrod ($195, currently on sale for $185), though it's also available in such evocatively named colorways as sea pine and snow white.
Above: And the Deco Throw ($195, currently on sale for $175), inspired by bold Art Deco geometries.
N.B.: Howard carries more housewares, including pillows, scarves, and soy candles made by Howard's now-13-year-old daughter; take a look over at Johanna Howard Home and on Instagram @johannahowardhome.
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NATO Warns Moscow: Attack On Ukraine Would Be costly
Russia would pay a high price for any new military aggression against Ukraine, NATO and the United States warned on Tuesday as the Western military alliance met to discuss Moscow's intentions for massing troops on the border of the former Soviet republic.
The West has already shown that it can wield economic, financial and political sanctions against Moscow, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters ahead of talks of the alliance's foreign ministers in the Latvian capital Riga.
"There will be a high price to pay for Russia if they once again use force against the independence of the nation, Ukraine," Stoltenberg said. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to brief his 29 NATO counterparts on Washington's intelligence on what is going on at the alliance's eastern flank and in Ukraine, which is not a member.
"Any escalatory actions by Russia would be a great concern to the United States... and any renewed aggression would trigger serious consequences," he said at a news conference before the meeting. "We will be consulting closely with NATO allies and partners in the days ahead... about whether there are other steps that we should take as an alliance to strengthen our defences, strengthen our resilience, strengthen our capacity."
The Kremlin annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and then backed rebels fighting government troops in the east of the country. That conflict has killed 14,000 people, according to Kyiv, and is still simmering.
Two Russian troop build-ups this year on Ukraine's borders have alarmed the West. In May, Russian troops there numbered 100,000, the largest since its takeover of Crimea, Western officials say. Moscow has dismissed as inflammatory Ukraine's suggestions that it is preparing for an attack, said it does not threaten anyone and defended its right to deploy troops on its own territory as it wishes.
Britain and Germany echoed the NATO warnings.
"We will stand with our fellow democracies against Russia's malign activity," said British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said: "NATO's support for Ukraine is unbroken... Russia would have to pay a high price for any sort of aggression."
Adding to Western concerns, Belarus on Monday announced joint military drills with Russia on its border with Ukraine. While also a former Soviet republic, Minsk is an ally of Moscow. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, whom the West accuses of seeking to divide the European Union by sending Middle Eastern migrants to the border of NATO members Poland, Latvia and Lithuania, warned Minsk would not sit on the sidelines in case of war.
"It is clear whose side Belarus will be on," he said, referring to Moscow, whose financial and political backing helped him weather mass public protests in August 2020.
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NASA Video Shows Ancient Mars as Lush, Water World
By Tanya Lewis
An artist's concept of an ancient, habitable Mars capable of supporting liquid water on its surface 4 billion years ago. (Image credit: Michael Lentz/NASA Goddard Conceptual Image Lab)
Mars may be a desolate world today, but billion of years ago, the Red Planet was a warm, wet paradise of blue skies and lakes — a hospitable realm recreated in a stunning new video animation by NASA.
The video of Mars as an ocean world, which NASA released Wednesday (Nov. 13), shows the Red Planet's evolution from a lush land with water oceans to the barren, rocky world is today.
"The animation shows how the surface of Mars might have appeared during this ancient clement period," officials with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., wrote in a video description. "The artist's concept is based on evidence that Mars was once very different."
The animation begins 4 billion years ago with a flyover of a Martian lake. Blue sky and clouds ripple overhead. As the movie progresses, the landscape gets drier and the clouds shrivel up, showing the passage of geologic time. The lakes disappear and the sky turns to the familiar dusty pink and tan.
The video ends with NASA's new Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft, called MAVEN for short, in orbit around modern Mars. The MAVEN mission is slated to launch Monday (Nov. 18) to investigatehow the Red Planet lost its atmosphere.
NASA's Conceptual Image Lab at Goddard Space Flight Center, produced the video, which is one of the team's most complex animations, agency officials said.
The freezing temperatures and thin atmosphere of Mars make it impossible for liquid water to exist on the planet's surface today. But surface features and minerals suggest the red planet had a much denser atmosphere and surface liquid water in the past, NASA scientists have said.
An artist's concept of present-day Mars, showing the planet as a barren, cold, desert world. (Image credit: Michael Lentz/NASA Goddard Conceptual Image Lab)
Rocky channels on Mars — like those on Earth — suggest erosion by flowing water, and impact craters show signs of erosion and sedimentary layering. Also, minerals have been found on the planet's surface that could only have formed in the presence of liquid water.
To form these features, a layer as deep as 1,640 feet (0.5 kilometers) or more may have covered the planet, scientists estimate. If so, the planet's atmosphere would have been warmer and had a similar or greater pressure than that found on Earth's surface. Whether this balmy climate lasted long enough for life to emerge on Mars is not known, however.
Visit SPACE.com for the latest news on NASA's MAVEN mission to Mars.
Follow Tanya Lewis on Twitter and Google+. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on SPACE.com.
Tanya joined the LiveScience staff in 2013. She received a graduate certificate in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2012. Before that, she earned a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering from Brown University. She has interned previously at Wired.com, Science News, Stanford Medical School, and the radio program Big Picture Science. To find out what her latest project is, you can follow Tanya on Google+.
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Broadway Review: "Prince of Broadway"
August 30, 2017 / Christopher Peterson
OnStage Chief New York Theatre Critic
Some audience members attending the engaging "Prince of Broadway," currently running at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, might find themselves caught between the devil and the deep blue sea: either they are unforgiving musical theatre aficionados and find themselves constantly comparing the iconic musical numbers with the original Broadway production of the shows from which they come, or they have little knowledge of musical theatre and scratch their heads wondering what the context of the musical numbers might be? For the rest of the audience – the majority of those attending the performance I attended – this dilemma is diminished but not irrelevant and raises the question, "Is Hal Prince anywhere backstage where his majestic career began?"
Not unlike the Kennedy Center Honors, "Prince of Broadway" is a tribute to a worthy honoree with a history of "life achievements" presented live and on video. Here the life achievements are songs from sixteen Broadway musicals directed by Prince, each performed by one or more of nine veteran Broadway entertainers and each song delivered on an impressive set. The song or songs from one show move rapidly to the next with Beowulf Boritt's sets changing seamlessly. William Ivey Long's costumes create the perfect mnemonic palette that transports the viewer to the richness of the shows' histories. Howell Binkley's lighting conspires with sets and costumes to successfully counterpoint with the performances. This effort, though Herculean, leaves the audience wanting more.
The 'more' is the honoree himself. Mr. Prince has a rich past (and present) and the "Transition" monologues by the actors portraying Prince and sharing what amount to mere snippets about the director's life and work are simply not enough exposition to sate the palate of the audience member. It might have been more beneficial, for example, if each actor shared her or his memories about the musical or how the musical might have influenced their career.
That said, what "Prince of Broadway" does provide is two and a half hours of blissful entertainment, showcasing Hal Prince's iconic directorial career and the music of at least thirty-six of Broadway's best composers, lyricists, and book writers. There are notable highlights in the tribute. "Tonight" from "West Side Story" with Tony Yazbeck as Tony and Kaley Ann Voorhees as Maria are among those. Ms. Voorhees is one of the best Marias ever to play that role. The entire cast is together for "Beautiful Girls," Waiting for the Girls Upstairs," and The Right Girl" from "Follies." The two "older couples" are engaging and the actors – Emily Skinner (Phyllis), Karen Ziemba (Sally), Tony Yazbeck (Buddy), and Chuck Cooper (Ben) – deliver authentic performances that capture the unique traits of each character with sheer grace. Tony Yazbeck's extended tap routine is a masterful and energetic performance – he could have danced all night and the audience would still have wanted more. Kudos to Mr. Yazbeck and choreographer Susan Stroman.
Additional highlights are Emily Skinner's transcendent "Send in the Clowns" ("A Little Night Music") and "Ladies Who Lunch" ("Company") and Michael Xavier and Kaley Ann Voorhees's "The Phantom of the Opera," Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again," and "The Music of the Night." Brandon Uranowitz (George) and Bryonha Marie Parham (Amalia) bring pathos and ethos to "Tonight at Eight" and "Will He Love Me" from "She Loves Me." Janet Dacal (Sydney) and Michael Xavier (Clark Kent)breeze through "You've Got Possibilities" with convincing charm and wit from the lesser known "It's a Bird … It's a Plane … It's Superman."
"Prince of Broadway" is a rich recounting of the works of director Hal Prince. Perhaps you will not know more about him after the musical or garner more knowledge about the shows represented; however, the performances will surely pique your interest and introduce or re-introduce you to some of the best music to have played on the Great White Way.
The cast of "Prince of Broadway" features Chuck Cooper, Janet Dacal, Bryonha Marie Parham, Emily Skinner, Brandon Uranowitz, Kaley Ann Voorhees, Michael Xavier, Tony Yazbeck, and Karen Ziemba.
The creative team for "Prince of Broadway" features Beowulf Boritt (scenic and projection design), William Ivey Long (costume design), Howell Binkley (lighting design), Jon Weston (sound design), Paul Huntley (wig design), Angelina Avallone (makeup design), Fred Lassen (music direction), Tara Rubin (casting), and Jeffrey Seller (creative consultant). Production photos by Michael Murphy.
For the performance schedule, please visit http://princeofbway.com/. Tickets are available at Telecharge.com, by calling 212-239-6200, or by visiting The Samuel J. Friedman Theatre Box Office at 261 West 47th Street. Ticket prices are $89-$179. Running time is 2 hours and 30 minutes including an intermission.
Photo (L to R): Karen Ziemba, Emily Skinner, Chuck Cooper, and Tony Yazbeck. Credit: Matthew Murphy.
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module QuickCheck where

import Smart
import ActiveHs.Base (WrapData2 (WrapData2), TestCase (TestCase))
import Lang
import Result
import Logger
import Qualify (qualify)
import Hash
import Specialize (specialize)

import Test.QuickCheck hiding (Result)
import qualified Test.QuickCheck.Property as QC

import Data.Char (isLower)
import Data.List (intercalate)
import Control.Monad (join,forM,void)
import Control.Monad.Trans (liftIO)
import Control.Concurrent.MVar (newMVar, swapMVar, takeMVar)

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quickCheck
    :: String
    -> Hash
    -> Language
    -> TaskChan
    -> FilePath
    -> String
    -> [String]
    -> [([String],String)]      -- test cases
    -> IO Result
quickCheck qualifier m5 lang ch fn ft funnames testcases = do
    logStrMsg 3 (logger ch) $ "test cases: " ++ show testcases
    logStrMsg 3 (logger ch) $ "names to be qualified: " ++ show funnames

    case allRight $ map (qualify qualifier funnames . snd) testcases of
        Left err -> do
            logStrMsg 3 (logger ch) $ "Error in qualification: " ++ err
            return $ Error True err
        Right s_ -> do
            logStrMsg 3 (logger ch) $ "Qualified expressions: " ++ show s_
            interp False m5 lang ch fn "" $ Just $ \a ->
                do  ss <- forM (testcases `zip` s_) $ \((v,s1),s2) -> do
                      ts1 <- typeOf s1
                      ts2 <- typeOf s2
                      let [x1,x2] = map fixType [(s1,ts1),(s2,ts2)]
                      return $ mkTestCase (v,x1,x2)
                    let ts = "[" ++ intercalate ", " ss ++ "]"
                    liftIO $ logStrMsg 3 (logger ch) $ "Test cases: " ++ ts
                    liftIO $ logStrMsg 3 (logger ch) "Before interpretation"
                    m <- interpret ts (as :: [TestCase])
                    liftIO $ logStrMsg 3 (logger ch) "After interpretation"
                    liftIO $ qcs lang (logger ch) m

  where
    fixType (s,t) =
      case (specialize t) of
        Right (st,_) | t /= st -> unwords [s, "::", st]
        _ -> s

    mkTestCase (vars, s, s2)
        = "TestCase (\\qcinner "
        ++ unwords ["(" ++ v ++ ")" | v<-vars]
        ++ " -> qcinner (" ++ showTr vars s ++ ", " ++ parens s ++ ", " ++ parens s2 ++ "))"

    showTr vars s = "unwords [" ++ intercalate ", " (map g $ words s) ++ "]"  -- !!!
     where

        vs = concatMap f vars

        f = filter (isLower . head) . words

        g x | x `elem` vs = {- "\"(\" ++ -} " show " ++ x -- ++ " ++ \")\""
        g x = show x

qcs :: Language -> Logger -> [TestCase] -> IO Result
qcs lang log = foldM (Message (translate lang "All test cases are completed.") Nothing) (qc lang log)

-- test = qc $ TestCase $ \f (QCNat x) (QCInt y) -> f (show x ++ " + " ++ show y, min 10 (x + y), x + y)
-- test' = qc $ TestCase $ \f (QCInt x) -> f ("sqr " ++ show x, min 10 (x*x), x*x)

qc :: Language -> Logger -> TestCase -> IO (Maybe Result)
qc lang log (TestCase p) = do
    v <- newMVar Nothing
    let ff (s, x, y)
            = QC.morallyDubiousIOProperty $ do
                r <- res
                if hasError [r]
                  then do
                    void $ swapMVar v $ Just $ ShowFailedTestCase s r
                    return QC.failed
                  else return QC.succeeded
          where
            res :: IO Result
            res = do
                logStrMsg 4 log $ "compare: " ++ s
                compareClearGen lang "noId" $ WrapData2 x y
    _ <- quickCheckWithResult (stdArgs { chatty = False }) $ {- QC.noShrinking $ -} p ff
    takeMVar v

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allRight :: [Either a b] -> Either a [b]
allRight x = case [s | Left s<-x] of
    (y:_) -> Left y
    []    -> Right [s | Right s<-x]

foldM :: Monad m => r -> (a -> m (Maybe r)) -> [a] -> m r
foldM end _ [] = return end
foldM end f (t:ts) = do
    x <- f t
    case x of
        Just r -> return r
        Nothing  -> foldM end f ts


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Depending on the severity of you whiplash injury, soft tissue can take anywhere from 6-8 weeks to heal. The injured neck and spinal muscles can sustain long-term damage if the proper rehabilitation is not completed. At Physiotherapy Kingston and Spinal Rehab Centre, our first priority is to help reduce your pain, then evaluate where you may have restrictions in your spine from the injury. To avoid long-term injury, physiotherapy is recommended to recuperate the injured muscles, improve stability to the neck and spine, and help you recover to a normal pain-free state.
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Lead single "Just the Way You Are" was released on July 19, 2010, and topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four consecutive weeks, going on to become an international top ten hit. "Grenade" was later announced as the second single, and has charted in the top ten in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, as well as becoming his second consecutive number one in the US and UK. "The Lazy Song" was released as the third official single from the album in Spring 2011, peaking at #4 on the Hot 100 and becoming his third consecutive number one single in the UK as a solo artist.


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Companies under pressure: Oil and Gas and Technical Services in Europe
Posted by Titos Anastassacos | Jan 15, 2016 | News & Analysis, Strategy
The first couple of weeks of 2016 have seen a continuing crash in the oil price, increasing pessimism about China's economy and a corresponding bear market in stocks around the world. Oil is now trading at below US$ 30/bbl. leading to cuts in investments and lay-offs by oil producers (BP, Chevron, Shell, Total, Statoil and others) and suppliers to the industry, including service providers. Saudi Arabia is even considering partially floating Aramco to help finance its budget deficit, a major breach with the past
According to Wood Mackenzie, a research firm, oil companies have slashed investment by $200 billion for 2015 and 2016, leading to a drop in projects from 40-50 (what the O&G services industry can support in terms of capacity) to 5-10. As the price of oil is not expected to recover before well into 2017 (if at all that is -there are analysts who think it will never really recover and some are projecting a drop to $20/bbl.), the oil equipment and services industry is confronted with something akin to an existential crisis. In addition major industrials, such as GE and Siemens, increased their exposure to O&G over the past years and may need to rethink strategies.
GE made a series of O&G related acquisitions over the past 10 years turning this division into a major full service player in the industry, with an eye particularly on shale oil, including Vetco Gray (drilling and production systems, $1.9 bill., 2007), Hydril (drilling and production equipment and services, $1.12 bill., 2008), Dresser Inc (engines, valves and other equipment for oil and gas, $3 bill., 2010), Wellstream (piping, $1.3 bill., 2010), Wood Group's well support division ($ 2.8 bill., 2011) and Lufkin Industries (pumps, $2.98 bill., 2013) -among others. The division is now GE's third-largest manufacturing division and accounts for approx. $ 19 bill. or 12% of revenue and almost 20% of industrial sales, up from only 4% a decade ago. It could be that GE has enough clout to consolidate the equipment side of this industry (it has, for example, 30% market share in compression) while safeguarding margins at lower prices and volumes, nevertheless when plans are made with $100/bbl. price expectations and much bigger revenue streams this will be difficult. Focus on customer efficiencies through technology will be key (equipment standardization, rotating machine efficiencies, and, yes, the IIoT to improve productivity and yields while reducing costs).
Siemens, on the other hand, in a belated effort to catch up in O&G and also with an eye on shale, paid $ 7.6 bill. to acquire equipment maker (compressors) Dresser-Rand in 2014 at the top of the market (paying significantly more than GE in terms of profit multiples) and moved its Energy division HQ to Houston. When and if this acquisition pays off remains to be seen, the silver lining (of sorts) however is that 50% of Dresser Rand's revenues in 2014 were service related.
While smaller players across the O&G Services industry are trying to rationalize or restructure operations
Aker Solutions restructures Maintenance, Modifications and Operations Unit
Amec Foster Wheeler Plc slumped by the most on record after saying it will cut dividends by half as the plunge in oil prices erodes earnings
SNC-Lavalin, Canada's biggest engineering and construction company, rumoured to be considering a bid for Wood Group
what is happening at the top of the market is very interesting strategically:
One strategy is to consolidate the market and bulk up to reduce cost and protect pricing power, which is essentially the thinking behind the $ 34.6 bill. proposed merger between Halliburton and Baker Hughes. For the time being the antitrust authorities in both the US and EU have not approved the deal (the DoJ has rejected the proposed disposals of businesses to avoid undue concentration as insufficient and the EU has announced a full scale investigation until end of May, which in many cases leads to deals being rejected).
The other strategy is for a service provider to acquire an equipment manufacturer and create improved solutions offerings on a large scale, as Schlumberger is trying to do with its $ 14.8 bill. acquisition of Cameron International. Forbes had a good analysis of the rationale for the deal. This on the product/service strategy:
Offering Integrated Solutions
Cameron is the world's largest surface wellhead provider offering a vital set of valves, pumps, and blowout preventers which help to control the flow of oil from the underground reservoirs. The deal will allow Schlumberger to bundle its reservoir and well engineering and digital mapping technologies, with Cameron's surface, drilling, processing, and flow control technologies to offer an integrated "pore-to-pipeline" product to the global oil and gas industry. This will provide a first-mover advantage to the company and enable it to grow its market share in the long term… Further, the deal will enable Schlumberger to diversify further into the deepwater market and leverage Cameron's heavy-duty offshore drilling hardware such as gears and blowout preventers.
This is the chart from the Schlumberger / Cameron presentation -again from Forbes
A further interesting analysis by Forbes comparing the Halliburton and Schlumberger strategies, and favouring Schlumberger (which got unconditional approval from the US authorities). can be found here.
Nevertheless, as we have written in a previous article, whether it makes sense to compete as a solution provider depends on whether it is possible to integrate the elements of the solution in such as way that the total is more valuable than the sum of its parts
The example of the power industry shows that simple expansion in scope of supply –even to match customers' vertical integration- is not necessarily a winning strategy. In fact it is not obviously a solutions strategy at all –because a solution requires tight integration of the elements it consists of. The degree of integration of the elements of a "solution" differs significantly across companies and offerings. However it should be self-evident that if these elements are not tightly integrated so that the total creates more value than the sum of its parts there is hardly point to the solution at all and customers can rationally prefer to buy the elements individually. Once the commercial/technical logic of a "solution" is broken each element is subject to normal product competition or even commoditization with the associated margin pressure.
On that the jury will still be out for some time.
Meanwhile in the technical services and maintenance market in Europe, following its decision a few months ago to organize its business into two independent units -industrial and buildings/facilities- and sell its power plant services and water technologies divisions (approx. € 1 bill. t/o combined), Germany's Bilfinger announced that it has received a number of unsolicited bids for the buildings and facilities services business (the more profitable of the two). This development is probably not unrelated to the situation in the O&G markets and efforts by Bilfinger's main shareholder Cevian, a private equity group, to stem losses on its Bilfinger stake -given that the company's industrial service business has some significant O&G exposure.
When it announced its re-organization decision Bilfinger said that "in the course of its analysis, the Executive Board determined that there are no synergies between Industrial and Building and Facility". This of course is in contrast to what is happening in the rest of the industry where companies are growing footprints and scope by acquisition and integration of industrial and facilities services businesses. This is a scale driven business where size and cost leadership trump domain expertise or special skills, at least usually.
ISS acquires leading technical services business
Caverion : Deutsche Beteiligungs AG May Acquire Industrial Services Business of Voith for USD326.4 Million
Zech acquires most of bankrupt Imtech Germany (in German)
VINCI Energies has reached an agreement with bankrupt Imtech to acquire Imtech ICT
YIT acquires Caverion
WISAG takes over ThyssenKrupp Industrieservice
Coor makes acquisition in industrial services
Whether Bilfinger's industrial service division can be a viable stand-alone player remains therefore to be seen. In any case the restructuring/consolidation of the technical services market, following also the Imtech bankruptcy mid 2015, continues unabated.
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HID Global acquires ActivIdentity
HID Global announced that parent company ASSA ABLOY has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ActivIdentity.
ActivIdentity provides identity assurance solutions, helping commercial and government organizations to defend against security threats and meet compliance objectives, while eliminating duplicate infrastructure and simplifying the user experience.
The addition of ActivIdentity' strong authentication, credential management, security client, and authentication device products and technologies to HID Global's Identity and Access Management business will result in a portfolio of converged access solutions for HID Global and ActivIdentity customers.
ActivIdentity is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California with offices in France, UK, Germany, Sweden, Australia and Japan and employs over 200 people. Revenue for the year ending September 2009 was $62.0 million.
The transaction is expected to close in December 2010 subject to regulatory clearances and approval by owners of a majority of the outstanding shares of ActivIdentity.


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Marxism and the problem of keeping pace with what's new
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BY:Joe Sims| May 30, 2021
Joe Sims, CPUSA co-chair, gave the following presentation at the "Contemporary Marxism: Development and Innovation in Theory and Practice" conference in Beijing hosted by the CPC's International Department.
At its very heart, Marxism is a science of what is new and becoming. This conference, "Contemporary Marxism: Development and Innovation in Theory and Practice," therefore, could not be more timely and important.
Change today occurs with ever-blinding speed, oftentimes outpacing humanity's ability to consider its impact and consequences. Capitalism is constantly revolutionizing the process of production — adding, subtracting, destroying, and innovating — while bringing into being new processes in its drive for maximum profits. Artificial intelligence and big data, the internet, and social networks are taking these developments to new heights.
Keeping pace with these developments, anticipating their impact on the working-class and people's movement, is a mandatory requirement for the communist and workers' parties.
The 21st century has, on the one hand, brought with it an increasingly interdependent and interconnected world in which each and every increase in the productive forces brings the workers and peoples closer together, making more relevant by the day Lenin's call for the "workers and oppressed peoples of the world to unite." At the same time, transnational capital's production relations push mightily in the opposite direction. Adding to these are climate change, unprecedented health pandemics, and the arms race.
And through it all, the class struggle continues, uninterrupted. Indeed, it's no exaggeration to say that the class and democratic struggle grows with ever-increasing ferocity as imperialism and U.S. imperialism in particular seek to regain lost ground and resolve their crises at the expense of the poor and the oppressed.
In the United States, these interlocking crises have combined to create a new political moment, one filled with both great danger and opportunity. This danger is revealed by the growth of a neo-fascist mass movement led by the ex-president that attempted to retain power by illegal unconstitutional means, including inciting an insurrection on January 6th. But broad, all-people's anti-fascist democracy so far has proven more resilient and, driven by its own mass movement, elected a new governing coalition that is attempting to implement basic reforms in domestic economic and social policy.
But this process too is extremely contradictory, particularly with respect to foreign policy. Here it appears that U.S. imperialism, at least so far, retains its old features as it pursues a new Cold War against China and other countries ruled by communist and left parties, along with retaining its hostility toward Russia.
In the face of this, China continues to chart an alternative path, one of domestic growth, international cooperation, and mutual advantage. Its economic and social successes demonstrate the correctness of seeking a path to socialism based on China's unique culture and history.
In the U.S. we too seek a socialism based on U.S. conditions, history, and culture, founded on people's democracy and workers' struggle, one we call Bill of Rights Socialism. What is new in the U.S. today is that the socialist idea is growing in strength and is blossoming into a socialist moment.
It is our earnest hope that our unity of action be based on this new moment, that we adequately recognize its import and collectively nourish and strengthen it by focusing on the workers and people's need for real change.
We wish the participants in the conference every success.
With warm comradely greetings,
Joe Sims
Co-Chair CPUSA
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Neurala was recently honored to receive the 2017 TechConnect Defense Innovation Award at the Defense Innovation Summit (DITAC) in Tampa, Florida this October for its advancement of the Neurala Brain. This award highlights the potential positive impact that Neurala technology will have for national security, and recognizes the rate at which enhanced artificial intelligence is impacting the defense landscape today. The presented Neurala Brain enables enhanced automation for unmanned systems and data analysis. For unmanned systems, UASs and UGSs can sense and avoid, do not require full data pre-programming, can learn on the fly, and can perform in GPS denied environments while knowing its location. The Neurala Brain can also play a role in the counter-UAS mission or be used for a priori situational awareness for the warfighter before entering a new environment (tunnels, booby-trapped houses, etc). Enhanced data analysis can leverage the ability of the Neurala Brain to learn on-the-fly (commonly called "one-shot" learning) in support of the analysts for actionable intelligence.
Much of the tech behind the Neurala Brain was developed by collaborations between industry and academia (the founders of Neurala were Boston University faculty during Neurala's nascent stages), working with government agencies NASA, USAF and DARPA. These collaborations all required new levels of intelligence on limited hardware configurations. NASA, for instance, required the development of an advanced navigation system that could conduct accurate simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) on a Mars rover with only passive camera input, no human feedback, limited computed resources and tight power constraints. State of the art SLAM algorithms of that time were not able to handle such low computer, low power situations. Moreover, one of the critical mechanisms for creating accurate maps -- detecting key landmarks -- was especially challenging in the Martian environment, as much of the Mars surface is incredibly homogeneous.
The solution was to mimick the human brain, which operates on a measly 20 watts and is able to learn new objects almost instantaneously using high level features learned on-the-fly. At the time, neural networks and deep learning were not vogue terms -- indeed neural networks had been a dead field for close to 20 years and deep learning networks were untrainable (which would be remedied in 2012 by the advent of large datasets containing millions of manually labeled images). Nevertheless, while the advancements in classical neural networks (a scientific branch mainly presiding in statistics and artificial intelligence) had stagnated, advancements in computational neuroscience (a scientific branch mainly presiding at the intersection of neuroscience and computer science) were advancing rapidly. In the past two decades great strides have been made on how the brain processes visual information and creates rapid, short term memories. The solution delivered to NASA codified multiple advances in computational neuroscience into a single integrated framework that could handle a complex task.
Of note was the integration of a new human hippocampal model of memory consolidation, enabling the artificial brain the ability to implant novel objects into memory instantaneously, and then to transfer the knowledge of these objects into deep storage slowly over time. Details of this process were recently presented at GTC San Jose. This instantaneous learning utilized novel high-level features to solve the problem of learning and discriminating Martian landmarks within a low-power neural framework that perfectly met NASA's need.
It turns out that this same technology fits perfectly within the deep learning paradigm that has exploded within the last five years (indeed some of the deep learning methods so popular today were part of the NASA solution years earlier). The developed on-edge technology -- edge learning inside a light weight, powerful deep learning framework -- fits perfectly well within automating unmanned vehicles (both in the air and on the ground), enabling collision avoidance and mapping, and within enhancing user interaction, enabling machines to learn specific users on-the-fly and carry out user-specific actionable commands.
Deep learning and, more pertinently, edge learning are ripe to disrupt numerous industries in the next five years. Neurala is at the forefront of this technological trend, and is honored that this capability has been recognized for, and will be, a critical component of the national security services in the coming years.
Dr. Jeremy Wurbs is a lead research scientist at Neurala, specializing in neural principles and architectures for enhanced processing for embedded devices. Before Neurala he worked with NASA to pioneer autonomous drone flight using novel deep learning methods to enable continued online learning onboard during drone flight. Since joining Neurala he has worked to integrate and develop new technologies that enable tracking, detecting, classifying and segmenting objects on embedded platforms as well as enhance Neurala's proprietary on-edge learning technology suite. He has spoken at many academic and industry events about AI, including NASA, Vision Science Society, International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, AUVSI, Defense Innovation and MassTLC. Jeremy holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neural Systems from Boston University.


CPRE Bedfordshire's response to Bedford Borough Council's new Local Plan 2030 Draft for Submission Consultation.
Read CPRE Bedfordshire's response to Bedford Borough Council's (BBC's) new Local Plan 2030 Draft for Submission Consultation.
In line with the advice that we and all other consultees have received from BBC, our response covers the changes that have been made to the Local Plan 2035 Draft for Consultation which has now been withdrawn in favour of this new Local Plan 2030.
This CPRE response, which can be downloaded at the bottom of this page, should therefore be read in conjunction with our response to the Local Plan 2035 Draft for Consultation dated 7 March 2018 which remains valid. It can be found here.
1. The introduction of para 1.6b which states that BBC intend to undertake an "immediate review" of the Local Plan once adopted.
New Towns at Sharnbrook/Colworth, Twinwoods, Thurleigh Airfield and Wyboston remain open for consideration when the "review" takes place.
Local Democratic process undermined by BBC.
2. Period of Consultation of 6 weeks too short to allow the proper assessment of changes made compared to the Local Plan 2035. BBC did not provide detailed information on changes made. Note: there may still be significant changes that we are not aware of.
1. Policy 25 "Stewartby New Village (1,000 dwellings) – Brownfield Site". Just 100 new homes planned to be built by 2030.
2. Policy S3 "Amount and distribution of housing development". New allocation of 500 homes to Sharnbrook is too high representing a +50% increase in the size of the village.
3. Policy S3 "Amount and distribution of housing development". Excessive new contingencies incorporated into the housing numbers. Breakdown of Urban/Rural split is unsustainable – too many homes planned for the rural area.
4. Policy 94S "Transport Infrastructure and network improvements". Key East/West Rail developments excluded from the Local Plan. Situation regarding new Wixams station still unclear.


New! WW2 saw Swansea Town extensively bombed by the German Luftwaffe. At this time the Swansea Borough Police were also the Fire Service. The Borough Police requested the assistance of the adjoining Glamorganshire Constabulary. This request resulted in the secondment of Police Officers from 'H' Division of the Glamorgan Constabulary being deployed with Borough Officers in and around the Town of Swansea.
This video is an account of a Glamorgan Constabulary Police Officer involved in policing duties during the 3 nights blitz of Swansea.
Did you know that South Wales Police have a huge presence on Youtube?
You can view some of the collection of videos right here. Use the search words 'youtube south wales police' using Google to find many more!
Courtesy of Peter Hall - "Here is a link to a programme I was involved in filming for ITV Wales on the unsolved murder of Muriel Drinkwater at Penllagaer Woods in the 1940s. Retired Det Supt Roy Davies and Retired Det Ch/Supt Wynne Phillips are featured".
A video interview with retired PC Hubert Thomas talking about policing in the Swansea Borough Police and South Wales Constabulary between the years 1951 to 1982.
Police Officers on duty in Swansea.
Here is another further contribution sent to us by Peter Hall - January 2019.
The officer on point duty (about 1960's) (last pic) is a screen grab from a video outside High Street Station. A short 'silent movie' clip of this video can be viewed here.


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Disaster Upon Disaster: NJ's Emergency 'Email Voting' Scheme During Sandy Fell Apart
Rutgers finds Christie's unilateral, illegal voting experiment resulted in tens of thousands of unauthenticated votes in 2012...
By Brad Friedman on 10/27/2014, 3:01pm PT
In the run-up to the 2012 Presidential Election, as Superstorm Sandy was bearing down hard on the East Coast, we wrote quite a bit (both here and at Salon) about how flooding and, specifically, power outages in several states that rely almost exclusively on electronic voting systems, could cripple the integrity of elections in a number of them.
Ultimately, among the hardest hit of those northeastern states was New Jersey, which, shamefully, still forces almost all of its voters to cast their ballots on 100% unverifiable electronic touch-screen systems.
On the weekend before Election Day, as water was rising and power was out across much of the eastern part of the state, NJ's Gov. Chris Christie and Lt. Governor Kim Guadano issued an unusual, emergency order, allowing for the use of early voting to ease the crush on Election Day in areas where some polling places would be shut down to due flooding, and for the use of paper ballot voting in precincts where power was still likely to be out as of Election Day.
We applauded those emergency measures at the time, particularly as the chances for voters to actually have their votes counted accurately and transparently could only increase with the use of hand-marked paper ballots in a state which has had nothing but disasters over the years with their oft-failed, easily-manipulated touch-screen voting system.
However, at the same time Guadano was announcing those emergency measures, she also --- without bothering to consult with election officials around the state --- tossed in one other emergency order [PDF] which, as we warned at the time, was likely to be a terrible mistake.
Guadano ordered emergency Internet Voting --- of a sort --- by allowing for voters displaced by the storm (and it would be left up to election officials' discretion to determine which voters were or weren't "displaced") to cast their ballots via email or fax.
We now know, thanks to a new report from the Rutger's School of Law [PDF], that, indeed, NJ's experiment with voting over fax and the Internet was a disaster, one that led to tens of thousands of unauthenticated votes in 2012, and which hasn't hasn't been reported by the media...until now...
Steve Friess at Al-Jazeera America broke the story last night, with tremendous coverage, in advance of the release of the report today.
The short version is that while some voters were allowed to print out a copy of their ballot under the ill-considered emergency measures, to be scanned and sent in via email or fax along with a waiver releasing their right to a secret ballot, they were also required to send in a hard paper copy of that ballot via snail mail for verification later. Ballots sent via email or fax were not to be counted as part of the official tally unless and until they were compared days after the election with the mailed-in copy.
"That step exists to prevent hackers from easily intercepting email sent to a county address," Friess reports. "Since the emailed votes comprise two documents, the waiver and the ballot, cybersecurity experts say it's easy to replace the ballots with ones that show other vote choices. Unless voters mailed in their paper ballots to be compared, the board of elections would never know something was awry."
According to the Rutgers report, headed up by law professor and longtime NJ election integrity advocate Penny Venetis, in many cases, those hard copies were never actually compared with the original electronically delivered ballots. Worse, many of those hard copies never actually arrived at election headquarters, either because voters didn't realize they had to mail them in or for any other number of (potentially more nefarious) reasons.
The e-votes, however they arrived at election headquarters --- as cast by actual voters or not, who knows? --- were nonetheless counted as official votes and included in final results around the state anyway.
"In New Jersey, nobody has an exact count of how many votes were cast via email or fax --- which is only one part of the problem with what actually happened --- but everyone agrees the number is somewhere north of 50,000," Friess reports.
One election official at the time described the electronic delivery option as "simply a nightmare turned upside down, then inside out and dropped in our laps."
Chris Christie ultimately declared the "Internet Voting" experiment a "success" immediately following Election Day, even as tens of thousands of paper ballots had yet to be received by election officials via snail mail, and the results of dozens of races across the state remained "too close to call"...
More than 75 races were too close to call after Election Day. Yet for weeks, it was impossible for journalists to get an answer as to when or how the paper and electronic ballots would be reconciled.
The Rutgers documents show county officials openly admitting they disregarded this step. A Morris County official wrote in a letter to Venetis, of the Rutgers team, that hard copies of voted ballots "were not compared to faxed or email ballots for consistency of voting" and that "any ballot that was not received via hard copy ... was counted."
It may be impossible to tease out which races, if any, would have turned out differently had legions of votes been discarded for lack of the complementary paper ballots. In the immediate aftermath, with so much physical chaos in the state, almost nobody asked for recounts. Retired cop Rusty Chew, a 58-year-old first-time candidate for mayor of Cape May, was winning on Election Day but lost by 12 votes after the absentee votes were counted. He shrugged it off, returned that Friday to his post as a volunteer firefighter and spent the weekend bass fishing. Family and friends urged him to ask for a recount, but he says he "didn't want to seem like a sore loser." Also, he couldn't imagine any reason why the votes would have been miscounted. "You just trust that these things are done on the up-and-up," he says.
And, of course, as we have explained at The BRAD BLOG for years, there is never any reason to simply "trust" in election results. That's why transparent and public oversight of vote casting and, specifically, tabulation, is so crucial. Nobody should ever have to simply "trust" anything in regard to elections, as the very best election officials in the country will tell you, if you bother to ask them.
Friess goes on to note:
"There was mass confusion among county officials and voters alike," concludes the 83-page report, "The Perfect Storm: Voting in New Jersey in the Wake of Superstorm Sandy." "Emergency measures such as Internet and fax voting not only violated New Jersey law, but also left votes vulnerable to online hacking. Internet voting should never be permitted, especially in emergencies when governmental infrastructure is already compromised."
See Freiss' terrific report for more on that disaster, and for the continuing attempts by some, even now --- despite similar and worse disasters and continuing warnings from just about every independent computer scientist and security expert in the world urging against it --- to institute unsecure Internet Voting across the country, by hook...or by crook.
Perhaps such unilateral, and apparently illegal schemes are just one of the reasons, to quote Gov. Christie recently, he'd like to have Republicans in control of "voting mechanisms" in a number of key states during before the 2016 Presidential election.
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With a strong base of chemical, plastics and metal manufacturing and a robust healthcare industry, Northern Kentucky is the optimal location for life sciences companies to develop and move their product to market. Add to this a rapidly developing specialization in health informatics and research outcomes, which has attracted the attention of entrepreneurs and medical innovators from across the globe.
Education: Northern Kentucky University (NKU) offers the M.S. Health Informatics program, which applies technology to the community systems found in the healthcare industry. Xavier University offers the M.S. Health Economics and Clinical Outcomes Research degree program, developed directly with life sciences companies to meet their occupational demands. NKU opened its Health Innovation Center in 2018, and recently announced a medical campus in partnership with St. Elizabeth and the University of Kentucky, which is scheduled to open in fall 2019.


I awake as the morning sun flows across the room and pools on the concrete floor. My eyes, though unaccustomed, still welcome the light after a night of darkness. Darkness which was broken only by the piercing light of the torch I used to read. In a house without electricity sleep patterns become dictated by the movements of the sun and the high equatorial-moon. I brush the sleeps from my eyes and my morning routine begins.
The woman who helps the family I am staying with is away for a few days so I leave to get water from 'The Pump'. It's a rather sturdy metal gift of water supplied (as a plaque declares) by a Bulgarian University. Ironically, a country crippled itself by abject poverty and corruption. I then drag the hard-won water back to the house in thirty litre 'Gerry Cans', as I watch African women effortlessly balance said Gerry Cans on their heads. The whole ordeal takes about an hour – depending on the queue – of hard labour. At the end of which you've achieved what people in the developed world, and the rich of the developing, gain from merely turning the cold tap.
After such an hour my body is weary but my mind is active and sleepiness is a hazy memory. Now, however, the equally arduous tasks of washing myself and my clothes shadow the horizon. My shower – an icy bucket on the bathroom floor – has a diameter smaller than a foot.
The Musungu in me, spoiled by the luxury of a washing machine, becomes disheartened by the prospect that my clothes shall require the same washing vessel that my body employed moments before. I spend ninety minutes of washing under the direction of a four-year-old girl, who is much more adept in the art of washing clothes. After which I am free to admire my less-dirty (but far-removed-from-clean) creation.
As this three hour saga ends, I can't help but yearn for the days in Europe when the same routine would take me fifteen minutes.
Now that description is just a chip off the housework boulder which people have chained around their necks in Uganda. After these tasks, people would begin cooking, cleaning and getting the children ready – all much larger ordeals. Therefore, one must be left with a sense of awe knowing while doing all of this (and working!) many people still walk around not only with their spines intact but with warm smiles on their faces. I have to admire it because I know I could never emulate it.


ALBANY, N.Y. -- State regulators here yesterday extended the public comment period on a company's plans to expand a processing facility to allow for the heating of oil sands crude.
The Department of Environmental Conservation added another 60 days, to Aug. 1, to receive more public feedback on Global Companies LLC's application to heat petroleum products, including crude oil and biofuels, at its Port of Albany facility.
In doing so, the DEC in a statement cited recent train derailments related to the shipment and handling of crude, including a deadly accident in Quebec last year.
The DEC had already extended the public comment period to June 2after asking Global in a detailed letter to reveal what type of oil it intends to heat, whether it has enough liability insurance and more details on its emergency spill plans.
The company has also filed a separate permit application for a second such facility, to be located down the Hudson River from Albany close to Newburgh, N.Y.
In the statement on the delay, the DEC said Global had answered its letter in part, and agency officials are reviewing the information received. The statement did not say whether that information would be released directly to the public.
The extension follows increased scrutiny on Global's plans from prominent environmentalists, including 350.org's Bill McKibben, who last month pressed Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to intervene against any plans to import Canadian oil sands into the state to heat the product and barge it down the Hudson to refineries.
Writing alongside 10 other prominent environmentalists, McKibben said Global's application to possibly import and heat Canadian crude along the Hudson for the first time "has statewide, national and global significance." Their letter urged Cuomo to conduct a thorough environmental review of the concept and to ultimately reject it (EnergyWire, April 17).
The letter targets both permit applications from Waltham, Mass.-based Global. Both processing facilities would be capable of offloading rail shipments of crude from North Dakota and western Canada to send it by train or ship to demand centers and refineries in the New York City area and Philadelphia.
An extension is good but the DEC still needs to rescind the negative declaration they blithely gave to Global and require an environmental impact statement.


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Q: GRUB won't disable or it requires input I am running ubuntu 12.04 precise:
I am trying to stop the grub menu from displaying but here is the issue, it won't disable.
I have followed this link:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/111085/how-do-i-hide-the-grub-menu-showing-up-in-the-beginning-of-boot
but it does not work and I feel as if I may have the bug that it mentions but I am struggling to get around the bug.
I have set minus options on the timeout. True, false and adding GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true
but I am getting no where. I am truly stumped.

A: This is how I solved this issue and from searching the internet many had this issue:
There is a code block in /boot/grub/grub.cfg:
The code block is started by the statement:
terminal_output gfxterm #just below this line
if [ "${recordfail}" = 1 ]; then #this line is the start

Delete EVERYTHING within that if block, all sub ifs, everything.
then where the if statment was type (just below the gfxterm line):
set timeout=1 #or what ever number you want it to be

save file and reboot (do not update grub) and BOOM done.

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Eleni Stecopoulos
Dennis Tedlock (June 19, 1939 – June 3, 2016)
Charles Bernstein
image: Douglas Levere / UB
It is with great sadness that I learned of the death of Dennis Tedlock on June 3. I worked closely with Dennis during our time in the Poetics Program at SUNY-Buffalo. I greatly admired Dennis's work and was lucky to get to know him.
A review in turns of Eleni Stecopoulos's 'Armies of Compassion'
david wolach
Elizabeth Williamson
Elizabeth Williamson: Throughout Armies of Compassion, Eleni Stecopoulos dances with this premise: that our bodies can act in concert in ways that both attend to and reject a "national past" (69) and its re/production of nationalistic violence.
Somatics
Finding ecopoetics on the disability trail
Jonathan Skinner
Independence Trail, photo by dbtownsend
I'm back, with apologies for the long absence. The bad news is that I had to take a month break from these Commentaries due to a minor but temporarily disabling health issue, that pretty much knocked me out of commission, for anything but the day job. The good news is that I'm healed, my "tenure"here has been extended, and I'll be posting these Commentaries through November.
Last fall, on my trip across the country (mostly by rail) to visit the park spaces designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, I worked in a visit to one of the poets most readily associated with American space (though not urban space), Gary Snyder, at his residence high above the Yuba River, Kitkitdizze. I have yet to document that conversation (we spoke, amongst other things, of Gary's experience bivouacking in Central Park in the late 'forties, while awaiting his seaman's papers), which will happen, when I get around to it, on the Olmsted blog. After I left Gary, I stopped just on the other side of the Yuba River, to check out something called the Independence Trail. It turns out that the trail — occupying the site of old, abandoned hydraulic miner's ditch — was built in answer to a request to, "Please find me a level wilderness trail where I can reach out and touch the wildflowers from my wheel chair." It is a mostly level trail, shaded by oak and pine, that contours the slope of the undeniably wild Yuba River valley, with views to the river below. At the time, I did not know that this trail, the "First Wheelchair Accessible Wilderness Trail in America," had been created by one John Olmsted, a distant relative of Frederick Law. J. Olmsted worked to save hundreds of acres in what is now the South Yuba River State Park, as well as what is now Jug Handle State Nature Reserve on the Pacific Coast in Mendocino County, Goat Mountain in the Coastal Range, and the Yuba Powerhouse Ranch. He wanted to create a "Cross California Ecological Trail." Walking his Independence Trail helped me realize, yet again, how limited my conception of wilderness can be.
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Jennifer K. Dick's 'Lilith: A Novel in Fragments'
Alexander Dickow
Author photo (left) courtesy of Jennifer K. Dick.
Artifact, from the Latin arte, "by or using art," + factum, "something made." But an "artefact," in French, is also something accidental, a residual effect created by human beings that distorts observation of a natural phenomenon, like footsteps distorting a seismic measurement. Jennifer K. Dick's Lilith revolves in part around this ambiguous status between the accidental and the deliberately formed: the reader encounters a series of enigmatic textual objects that seem alternately laden with meaning.
[Rochelle Owens remains, as she has been for the preceding half-century, a necessary voice among the growing company of those American and world poets writing and performing at the limits. The work presented here is a follow-up to the first part of "Patterns of Animus" presented earlier on Poems and Poetics, and a harbinger of yet more works to come.


This is a beautiful 1981 Delorean DMC-12 Gullwing 2 door sport coupe in fantastic condition. Delorean Motor Company in Humble, Texas restored this Delorean from 2005-2007. The included binder from Delorean documents all repairs and replacement parts in the restoration with over $43,000 spent on the restoration.
Body: Brushed 304 stainless steel, no paint, gullwing doors.
Interior: black leather bucket seats; lighting upgraded to LEDs.
Engine: PRV 2.85 ltr. V6 with Stage II performance upgrade.
Brakes: 4 wheel power disc, 10" front, 10.5" on rear.
Suspension: 4-wheel independent with rack and pinion steering, coil overs on all four corners. Full Eibach upgrades.
Equipment: Power steering, tilt wheel, power windows, air conditioning, power door locks, power mirrors (extended convex mirrors), int. wipers, rear window defroster, tinted glass, Alpine AM-FM CD.
Wheels & Tires: Stock 14" Delorean alloys on front with 195/60R14 radials, stock 15" Delorean alloys on rear with 225/60R15 radials.
This car looks great, runs great, and is a pleasure to drive. When I purchased this Delorean, I flew to the car and drove it home from Oregon to Mississippi. The only issue I had during the trip was a sticking angle drive, which caused the speedometer to jump erratically for half of the trip and not work at all for the remainder. This angle drive was replaced as soon as I had a chance at which time I also upgraded all of the interior lighting to LEDs. I have driven it many times since and everything on the car is functioning flawlessly. In my travels, the car has averaged around 23 mpg so it not only looks cool and is fun to drive but it is also fairly economical to operate.
When I purchased the car (1417), it was showing 56,761 original miles. Since the angle drive controls both the speedometer and the odometer, I recognize that my mileage was not accurately recorded during my cross-country trek though the new angle drive corrected the mechanical issue. Based on mileage records, the odometer should now read approximately 60,000 miles but it currently reads 58,475 (subject to change due to driving several times each week). I couldn't in good conscious not divulge this issue even though everything is functioning correctly now that I replaced the broken angel drive tip. Runs like a top, all electronics functioning perfectly – took it to a classic car/historic aircraft event last evening and it was the star of the show.
Asking $35,000. Email me with questions, specific photo requests, and serious offers (Some room to haggle, my generosity depends on your attitude and how quickly you can complete the transaction. Checked this off my bucket list and now my next endeavor is awaiting the funds from this sale.) No trades; title is free and in hand.
Deal includes car, all restoration receipts and paperwork, Delorean Care Kit, DMC fitted cover, Flux Capacitor, Hoverboard (makes neat sounds but does not hover- maybe will on Oct. 21, 2015), 2 keys and remotes, and any other Delorean related stuff I have in the garage.
"I couldn't in good conscious...." should read "I couldn't in good conscience...."
FWIW it's sporting a Florida license tag.
When I purchased this Delorean, I flew to the car and drove it home from Oregon to Mississippi.
Two of the pictures show a Mississippi plate, and one shows an Oregon plate.
So the car weighs 2,212 lbs versus the 2,712 stock curb weight? Just curious how you managed to trim 500 pounds. That would certainly make the power-to-weight ratio more attractive, especially with your engine upgrades.
Color me interested. If DMCMW or another two sites do not pan out, where is this car located?
If you can wait until September, I'll look at it if its in TX (DMCH or FL DMC FL), because I have Chicago (DMCMW June, Kentucky July and a followup in Ohio late July to see first). Sorry!


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Russian state TV tells viewers to pack essentials for WW3 bomb shelters – including iodine to protect against radiation – MORE THAN WHAT THE US IS DOING, IN FACT, DO WE EVEN HAVE BOMB SHELTERS ANYMORE. AT LEAST RUSSIA CARES ENOUGH ABOUT THEIR OWN PEOPLE TO ADVISE THEM!!!!
The #1 Greatest Moral Failure of The Liberal Left – "As we know, the issue to the left isn't one of safety, it's one of disarming the public. They can't achieve their goal of a one-world socialistic government as long as the American public is armed. The only way that their plans can succeed is by redistributing the wealth of America and they can't do that, as long as patriotic Americans have the ability to resist the United States being absorbed into the one-world government. So they will continue to work on disarming us. But will that make us any safer? Not at all." – Bill White – EXCELLENT ARTICLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Famous figures who should immediately be banned by Facebook – "Don't hesitate. These persons are a danger to the community. Facebook should ban them immediately, before their dangerous word-viruses infect the brains of a billion users." – Jon Rappoport – GOOD ARTICLE FROM JON!!!!!
This Is A Slippery Slope – "First, does California State Senator, Richard Pan, hate the United States? He is sponsoring a Bill in California that would effectively censor the internet. Not withstanding fact that this proposed legislation stands in violation of Amendments 1, 5 and 14 of the United States Constitution, if passed it would impose State-sponsored censorship of the citizens of California." – Dave Kranzler – GOOD ARTICLE FROM DAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Barrage of misinformation: can't they read?
Has anyone actually read our application for a judicial examination of the national temperature record? Or the backgrounder we so thoughtfully prepared? Or seen our simple, spectacular graph?
Wow! What an explosion of nonsense.
Hearing some of the comments about our court action against NIWA, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Coalition was made up of stupid people.
But the stupid ones are those mouthing off a torrent of misinformation against us without reading what we've actually lodged with the High Court. I have time only for a couple.
I've been following [the Coalition's] rather weird obsession with the New Zealand temperature record very closely on the blog.
It's not a weird obsession, Gareth, it's a weird and impenetrable temperature record, which you would know by now if you had bothered to take a look at it.
… all that Bryan [Leyland] wants is already there. The raw data you can download from NIWA. The adjustments that are required have been listed by NIWA; the methodology for doing it is available in the peer-reviewed literature; it's incredibly non-controversial to climate scientists and meteorologists that you need to make adjustments.


bro moosang, my sis was referring that site and thought that she won in special, found out when she went to claim at magnum shop, really embarrassing haha.
How about this no : 3847 / 2316 /4075 / 4497 /1206 (Magnum). Please advise. Thanks !
Interesting.... don't mind sharing the link between Magnum & SGPools?
Pls check the particular number in other counters, you will find the link and also when will be the next hit.
Play the combination that has your lucky number/s in it.
Yeahh, that was the fake result, mistake made by that website.. Hopefully after this, we will not see the same mistake again.. I only think the link between that company.. So i do agree with you, perhaps the other site just copy buta2 without checking it first..
Today prediction, magnum only (perhaps can try in the other counter too)..
1) For today draw, i found too many number in my method, yet i'm still confusing now what number i want to choose..
2) Can bet direct or as backup plan, permutation is the best way to win some money..
3) I apologize if did not hit, but if you choose to bet, play at your own risks and play within your limit..
If you want to bet on multiple digit, choose multiple digit number then please check with your method and others method (members method here) then decide what best for you.. Ignore if you dont like.. Good Luck!
Yes, u r right, it does related to Magnum & SGPools. Thank, make my sequential methods simpler. Thanks.
Hope to see it strike tonite.
will buy ibet for the three numbers share.
How are u all....can anyone give prediction number will come out this sunday?
I like master sifu predic.., I will go to Damacai counter..6058.
Hope this number will be in podium today..
WHERE YOU COPY ..BRO PLEASE DON'T ACT LIKE A MASTER OR SIFU.
Take it easy yoyo.. And what the are you talking about?