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AG Ferguson files lawsuit against Trump over accelerated sale of National Archives in Seattle
December 7, 2020 | Callie Craighead
by Callie Craighead, SeattlePI Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced Friday that he will file a lawsuit against the Trump Administration to prevent the sale of the National Archives and Records ...
Congress wants Bush records to stay behind
January 8, 2009 | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Congressional Democrats have been fighting in court for months to get the documents from the administration, and they want to make sure they don't disappear into the National Archives. ... The 1978 Presidential ...
January 26, 2023 | COLLEEN LONG
The act states that any records created or received by the president are the property of the U.S. government and will be managed by the Archives at the end of an administration. ... Responsibility to comply with ...
Trump probe may be complicated by documents at Biden office
January 10, 2023 | ERIC TUCKER and JILL COLVIN
The National Archives and Records Administration obtained 15 boxes from the Palm Beach, Florida, property last January, contacting the FBI after discovering classified records. ... The National Archives and ...
Classified records pose conundrum stretching back to Carter
January 24, 2023 | ZEKE MILLER
Bush, told The Associated Press that "all presidential records — classified and unclassified — were turned over to NARA upon leaving the White House," referring to the National Archives and Records ...
EXPLAINER: Comparing Trump, Biden, Pence classified papers
January 24, 2023 | MEG KINNARD
PENCE: "A small number of documents bearing classified markings" were discovered last week at Pence's home north of Indianapolis, Pence's lawyer, Greg Jacob, wrote in a Jan. 18 letter to the National ...
Daily News Gallery - 3/20/2006
Susan Karren is a senior archivist at the National Archives and Records Administration office. The Sand Point building houses millions of records that reflect the federal government's Northwest ties.
Key dates in discovery of classified records tied to Biden
January 12, 2023 | The Associated Press
They notify the National Archives. — Nov. 3, 2022: The National Archives takes possession of the documents. — Nov. 4, 2022: The National Archives informs the Justice Department about the documents. — Nov. ...
National Archives films to be sold on Amazon.com
July 31, 2007 | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- The public will be able to buy copies of thousands of historic films and videotapes over the Internet under an agreement the National Archives has reached with Amazon.com Inc. ...
Inside a cold, gray building, history and life abound
March 19, 2006 | BRAD WONG
The federal archive holds stories about Northwest By BRAD WONG, P-I REPORTER Susan Karren remembers the day when a girl was chatting incessantly during a class field trip to the National Archives and Records ...
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Reginald Washington, the African American Genealogy subject area specialist of the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C., will be the guest speaker.
Biden 'surprised' government records found at old office
Special counsel to the president Richard Sauber said Monday that after Biden's attorneys found the records, they notified the National Archives and Records Administration — which took custody of the documents ...
DOJ reviewing potentially classified docs at Biden center
Sauber said the attorneys immediately alerted the White House Counsel's office, who notified the National Archives and Records Administration — which took custody of the documents the next day. "Since that ...
A side-by-side look at the Trump, Biden classified documents
In January 2022, the National Archives and Records Administration retrieved 15 boxes of documents, telling Justice Department officials they contained "a lot" of classified material. ... "Since that ...
Biden, Trump cases pull Justice Dept. toward politics
January 13, 2023 | ERIC TUCKER
Still another special counsel appointed during the Trump administration to investigate the origins of the FBI's Trump-Russia probe also remains at work. ... Trump representatives for months failed to give the ...
Secret CIA files released on Hitler, Nazi bigwigs
April 27, 2001 | PAULINE JELINEK
The files were released by the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working group first established in 1999 to coordinate a large-scale effort by U.S. agencies to find, declassify ...
What's the secret to declassification board's inability to function?
December 7, 2006 | REBECCA CARR
William Leonard, director of the Information and Security Oversight Office at the National Archives and Records Administration, said the board has suffered from bad timing. ... "What the executive branch calls ...
Time-worn Declaration of Independence still inspires
July 2, 2003 | LANCE GAY
"It was kind of awe-inspiring," said Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler, chief of the documentation laboratory at the National Archives and Records Administration, which is overseeing the project. ... The documents are ...
Korean War vets prove that patience has its awards
October 16, 2002 | LA MONICA EVERETT-HAYNES
National Archives and Records Administration received 83,000 medals requests from war veterans and their families. ... Shields, who lives in Magnolia, received three of four awards due him: the National Defense ...


Girls Just Want to Have Stamps: Color Challenge!
Wow! Twice in one week!!
OK, so here is this week's color challenge. The colors are Blushing Bride, Wisteria Wonder and Sahara Sand.
The card above uses the Sale-a-bration set Elementary Elegance. I also used the Friendly Words Jumbo Wheel. This is one of those straight foward stamps, paper and ink kind of cards. The only extra thing I used was some dimensionals and the curly label punch.
This next card uses Circle Circus and Thank you Kindly stamp sets. I also used some Wisteria Wonder bakers twine, Filigree brads and Ice circle brads. For this card I also used a sketch from my Stampin' Success, Demonstrator magazine. In the sketch there was another strip of paper going down the side. Since I only had 3 colors to work with, I used the small circle stamp to create the extra strip.
I have to say that I had some difficulty sticking with these colors. I really wanted some Whisper White or something. The Sahara was tough for me. However, that is what I love about these color challenges. They really make me go out of my comfort zone.


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The Clippers Outrage Should Be Everyone's Outrage: But Isn't It Better That We Know The Truth?
I can't say that I'm surprised. Last week it was Cliven Bundy, the 'outspoken' Nebraska cattle rancher who asserted that "Black people were better off as slaves, picking cotton" and this week it's Donald Sterling who was quoted as saying "You can sleep with them, just don't bring Blacks to my games." Now I wonder who will be the next person to make such ignorant statements publicly. It's official folks, President Obama may be in the Oval office but we are not living in a "post-racial" era.
If you haven't turned on your television lately or picked up a newspaper, I'll bring you up to speed: A couple of days ago, LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling, age 80, was outed as being a racist based on an audio tape that was "leaked" by his mistress, V. Stiviano, age 31. It appears as if Ms. Stiviano was trying to extort additional monies from Mr. Sterling, although he had already purchased over $2,000,000 worth of items for her including a duplex, Bentleys (yes, more than one) and paid for other high-end living expenses. For almost 10 minutes he went on & on about his personal feelings about minorities even though his very own mistress is of a mixed race heritage (African American & Mexican).
Now I'm not sure how Mr. Sterling was raised. It seems that he was raised by Jewish immigrants and lived in Los Angeles pretty much his entire life. He went to high school & college in the Los Angeles area, as well. So where did all of his disdain for African Americans come from? Did he have a bad experience growing up? Did some Black kids pick on him in college? California is such a liberal state (even back in his day) that it's hard to believe that someone from here could feel this way about the very people that have made him so rich.
This is not the 1st time that Donald Sterling has been in hot water for his personal feelings about minorities. A Justice Department lawsuit filed in 2006 accused Sterling's rental company of refusing to lease Beverly Hills apartments to African-Americans, refusing to rent to non-Koreans in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles County and turning away families with children from its properties. That case was settled in 2009, with Sterling agreeing to pay nearly $3 million but continuing to deny the accusations. In 2003, the nonprofit Housing Rights Center and a group of tenants who lived in Sterling's properties filed a federal lawsuit against Sterling, accusing him of "numerous discriminatory statements and housing practices," according to court documents. Those same documents allege that Sterling told building staff that he did not like Hispanic or African-American tenants and that he preferred Korean-American tenants and made "disparaging comments" about African-American and Hispanic tenants. Federal prosecutors accused his rental company of refusing to lease Beverly Hills apartments to African-Americans. And a group of tenants accused him of "numerous discriminatory statements and housing practices." Now when there are this many race-related incidents attached to a person's name, one has to wonder. What's the saying – If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck…..
It has been duly noted that Donald Sterling has donated some money to the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP, who in turn gave him a lifetime achievement award. However, they awarded him that honor in 2009, which is coincidentally the same year that his discrimination lawsuit was settled. It sounds to me like he started throwing money at minority groups after his discrimination cases began (remember, he had multiple cases). The NAACP was planning on presenting him with another award in May, 2014, however, they have rescinded the invitation to honor him again.
Let's take a look at the racial composition of the NBA. It's no secret that over 80% of all NBA players are African American, and that number is even higher within the Clipper organization at 85%. Basically everybody on that team with the exception of 2 players is African American, not to mention their head coach & assistant head coach. So if 85% of the people who have worked for you & made you rich (a billionaire to the tune of $1.9 billion, to be exact) are the very same color that you despise, what does that say about you? No one wants to feel like they are good enough to make you money, but not good enough to be seen in public with those that are supposedly close to you. They say that the unspoken mantra from white owners to black athletes is: "You keep the culture, we keep the capital." If they control your livelihood, they control your life.
Adam Silver, the newly installed NBA commissioner, certainly has quite a decision on his hands. It's expected that sometime this week a decision will be handed down about the fate of Mr. Sterling. Thus far Adam Silver is maintaining that Mr. Sterling should be given "due process" but what about all of the employees that have worked for him with his racist mentality for the last 30 years that he's owned the Clippers? Where is their "due process"? I believe that the NBA needs to act swiftly & justly. The National Basketball Association can choose to suspend Donald Sterling, fine him several millions or even enforce the NBA Constitution which dictates that the other NBA owners can vote to revoke his ownership.
What do I think should be done? Well, a dozen top sponsors of the L.A. Clippers have already suspended their support (thank you Red Bull, State Farm & Sprint!) but I certainly think that sanctions should be taken against Mr. Sterling. He needs to be hit where it hurts – in his wallet. You see, racism affects everyone in the NBA organization not just the players or the coaches. Can you imagine having to come to work every day knowing (and sometimes not knowing) that your boss or your boss's boss can't stand you just because of the color of your skin – something you can't do anything about? It's called the "plantation effect" and it's something that many of us African Americans face on a daily basis. We are denied jobs, promotions, bank loans, a second chance, etc. just because of our skin color. The only difference between Donald Sterling and all the other racist bosses out there is that his true feelings are no longer hidden. But what can you do when you work for someone who is clearly uncomfortable in your presence, prefers not to be alone with you or avoids small talk at all costs? The only positive thing that has come out of this is that those who didn't know where Mr. Sterling stood on the subject of race before know now.
Currently, the L.A. Clippers are #1 in the Western conference. Should they even bother winning this year's championship just so that Donald Sterling can take all the credit?
What are your thoughts or views on this Sterling/Clipper/NBA kerfuffle? Do you think NBA Commissioner Adam Silver should take swift action? Furthermore, should Donald Sterling be forced to sell the Clippers?
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Help Me Understand – You Get A Championship Ring Even If You Never Play?
With the NBA finals on television I have been trying to follow the games to the very end. I know that both teams are quite talented, which is how they got to the playoffs in the first place so either team deserves to win. But I do find it odd that even though only 5 basketball players can be on the court at one time, all 15 will receive a ring if they win in the NBA finals.
Not only do the players receive a ring but all members or employees of that team get a ring. This means that aside from the starting lineup, the coaches, management and staff also receive a ring. Even the mascot & cheerleaders of that team are eligible for a ring. You don't even have to get off the bench or set foot on an actual basketball court to get a championship ring. I can't believe it!
So when Stephen Curry makes the winning shot bringing the Golden State Warriors to victory James McAdoo & Justin Holiday, two players I've never heard of, will also receive a championship ring. What sense does that make? Why does everyone on the team get a ring when the only people that contributed to the victory are the star players and the coaches? Cheerleaders don't help basketball teams win games neither does the office staff.
Giving everyone on the team a ring is like saying every time I buy a Happy Meal from McDonald's I should get a tax write off because a percentage of my purchase will be donated to the Ronald McDonald House. Why shouldn't McDonald's give me a tax break? I am indirectly sponsoring their charity so if they donate because I buy their food, I should somehow be entitled to a tax deduction myself, right? To me this is the same illogic that the NBA uses when they "give out" their championship rings to every member of the winning team.
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The Quantum Internet: A Network for All?
Juljan Krause
May 11, 2021 Digital Transformation
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From optimizing production in manufacturing, to allocating hospital beds, to operating door entry systems of smart buildings, the internet has changed from being a communication network to an advanced control system that manages an ever-increasing number of interconnected devices. Today, critical national infrastructure such as power grids, traffic networks and hospitals depend on the internet to a degree that a loss of connectivity is simply not an option. However, the architecture and infrastructure of the internet is creaking and in urgent need of an update. With the rapid advancement of quantum technologies, the question arises, how will quantum networks change the internet that we so depend on?
The fundamental shift from communication to a complex command and control system presents vast opportunities for the internet to make things better for all: water supply can be managed more efficiently, and carbon emissions may be reduced by optimizing inner city transport routes. The Internet of Things (IoT), pushed by the rapid development of evermore sophisticated smart technologies, enables highly differentiated and dispersed network control not just for large-scale infrastructures but also in everyday life, e.g. smartphone apps that remote-control thermostats in homes or the notorious smart fridge that reorders groceries at its own discretion.
Yet the internet, that is now so ubiquitous, comes with considerable risks and challenges in terms of privacy, regulatory control and democratic oversight. Today, the IoT 'bleeds into the real world in ways that enhance life but also can compromise personal safety and security', Laura DeNardis, a prominent internet governance scholar warns. Companies are hungry for the enormous data trails that smart devices leave. And above all, inter-connectivity radically increases the attack surface for adversaries to launch significant cyber-attacks, the number and severity of which keep rising.
The internet as we know it is out of date
The internet, a network of networks, on top of which the World Wide Web sits as its single most important application layer, runs on decades-old technology – it simply wasn't built to accommodate smart grids, smartphones – and smart cyberhackers. To make the internet ready for the next wave of smart devices and autonomous systems, it requires an urgent update to its physical infrastructure, standards and protocols. Historically, many of the mechanisms that govern the internet are based on transparent, shared protocols and procedures that have emerged predominantly in multi-stakeholder negotiations. These usually involve representatives from various groups in society, including governments, corporations, civil society organizations, and researchers.
But now that the time has come to rebuild internet infrastructure to make it truly ready for the IoT, state actors are presented with a new opportunity to bend the internet to their will: states seem to want to have a much bigger say in the design and architecture of the internet of tomorrow. We are currently witnessing a 'turn to infrastructure' in internet governance by which states seek to extend their influence over the ways in which the internet functions. Principles of democratic oversight and transparency are not at the top of this agenda.
The quantum race
The emergence of new quantum technologies exacerbates this push towards state control. Key players, such as China and the United States, are currently engaged in competition to build rival versions of a future quantum internet. This has prompted some commentators to speak of a new quantum arms race between the two superpowers. Indeed, both countries have made much progress of late in developing component parts for a new internet that connects quantum computers over super-secure quantum communication channels.
Private sector giants such as Alphabet (the parent company of Google), IBM and Microsoft also run sophisticated quantum programmes. In February 2019, IBM presented IBM Q System One, the first "standalone" quantum computer. With no indication of a purchase price, the 3x3x3m glass cube is certainly not a household item and should rather be considered a symbol of IBM's claim to technology leadership in this space. Microsoft, on the other hand, was recently forced to admit that some of its recent claims about successes in quantum engineering were overstated.
What does quantum mean for the future of communication?
Quantum computers exploit quantum phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, to build machines that are hoped to perform considerably more operations than any digital computer that is available today. This would make them exponentially faster than digital computers whose processing power only grows linearly with the number of bits. This speedup would allow quantum machines to solve much more complex problems that are intractable even for our most advanced supercomputers, in particular in the domains of number crunching (which is important for encryption), simulating the behavior of molecules and finding solutions to complex optimization problems. Quantum phenomena can also be used to secure the exchange of information in a way that is, at least in principle, unbreakable.
Coupled with a quantum computer, quantum communication channels are set to form the backbone of the quantum internet of the future. The quantum internet is a hybrid network that connects quantum machines with digital legacy infrastructure. Conceptually, a quantum internet provides super-secure communication and cloud applications that are, in principle, unhackable. It provides quantum resources at scale that are widely considered to give IoT applications and autonomous systems a considerable boost in terms of scale and efficiency.
The first standalone quantum machines can be expected to enter the stage in approximately ten years from now. Significantly, the high performance of quantum computers will be able to crack encryption systems that secure much of our digital communication today; governments, security services, and the intelligence community, are naturally alarmed about this. In the majority of instances, confidential data, and top-secret intelligence, must be stored securely for many decades. Thus, because quantum machines will slowly become available over the next ten years, the quantum internet already poses a significant challenge today. Governments will need to work out relatively soon, how they can best secure their systems against attacks from state and non-state actors that have a powerful quantum computer at their disposal.
Precisely due to their vast potential and security sensitive nature, quantum hardware components and the architecture that holds them together are likely to exercise downward pressure on the principles of an open internet. For instance, European Union regulation states that 'internet traffic shall be treated without discrimination, blocking, throttling or prioritisation'. These principles will be difficult to uphold when security services are engaged in fighting off an adversary whose quantum capabilities allow for much more sophisticated and efficient disinformation campaigns than we see today, and increased opportunities for infiltrating highly critical infrastructure and systems that can't hold up against sophisticated quantum attacks.
Widening the digital divide
In the early stages, due to the large investments in R&D and purchasing costs of quantum devices, this new technology will likely be available to governments and large research facilities only. Given the risks associated with bad actors gaining access to quantum technologies, legislators and regulators face the dilemma to work out if, when, and how they should introduce this new technology to the general public. A staggered diffusion of quantum technologies may lead to a fragmentation of the internet among states, into several bundles and packages, where access to the internet fast lane comes at a significant premium. Such a breakup of the internet would only widen the digital divide even further.
There is a real risk that the quantum revolution will create a regulatory vacuum. Stakeholders in internet governance may be forced to play catch up with security services and military strategists who will want to push for maximum quantum leverage. The promises of quantum technologies may be too tempting for governments to impose robust restrictions on their development and application in cyber warfare, or to impose democratic control over their implementation. For advocates of an open, fair and transparent internet, the arrival of quantum technologies is likely to present a vast array of entangled problems.
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Indenrigsministerium er en betegnelse for det ministerium, som har med indenrigsmæssige affærer at gøre. I Danmark drejede det sig f.eks. om hospitalsområdet og det kommunale område. Indenrigsministeriets øverste politiske chef var indenrigsministeren, mens den administrative ledelse blev forestået af departementschefen.

I mange lande henhører også politi og sikkerhedstjeneste under indenrigsministeriet. I Danmark hører de under Justitsministeriet.

Indenrigsministeriet i Danmark

Det danske Indenrigsministerium blev oprettet den 16. november 1848 og havde frem til 2001 en selvstændig tilværelse.

Ved Regeringen Anders Fogh Rasmussens tiltræden i 2001 blev Indenrigsministeriet lagt sammen med Sundhedsministeriet og Lars Løkke Rasmussen blev udpeget til minister for det sammenlagte ministerium. Efter Folketingsvalget 2007 blev Indenrigs- og Sundhedsministeriet opdelt, og indenrigsdelen blev den 23. november 2007 sammen med blandt andet Socialministeriet lagt ind under Velfærdsministeriet. Navnet kom dog i brug igen allerede halvandet år senere, da Velfærdsministeriet den 7. april 2009 blev omdøbt til Indenrigs- og Socialministeriet samtidig med udnævnelsen af Karen Ellemann til ny minister.

Fra 21.januar 2021 er det danske indenrigsministerium en del af Indenrigs- og Boligministeriet. Nuværende og første indenrigs- og boligminister er Kaare Dybvad fra Socialdemokratiet.

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Onkyo and Sony are big names in the home theater system industry. Both have been producing various products that are needed to build a home theater system. You just don't underestimate their quality. You just don't. However, with all their greatness, choosing one product from all the options provided by both Onkyo and Sony can be confusing.
Most probably, if you are reading this article, you are confused in choosing between Onkyo TX NR656 and Sony STR DN1070 right now. The two are AV receivers available in a similar price range. The two also come with HDCP 2.2 for premium 4K content, and both come with two-year warranty. So, what are the differences between Onkyo TX NR656 and Sony STR DN1070? Which is the best AV receiver that brings the best value for the money? Which is the most suitable model for you? Find your answer below.
Both models are essentially black metal boxes; both have neat layouts. Onkyo TX NR656 comes with a display screen that is slightly wider. The text is displayed in a green font. The function and control buttons are lined under the display screen, whereas the control knobs are put on the left and right sides of it. On the front panel, you can find four ports that are very easy to access: the setup mic input, an HDMI input, an audio AUX input, and a phones output. As usual, the complete connectors can be found on the rear panel.
On the other hand, Sony STR DN1070 has a white font to show information on the display screen, and that perhaps looks more elegant and modern. The buttons are put neatly on a straight line under the display screen. There are two control knobs on the right part of the front panel, and also four ports: the calibration mic input, an HDMI input, a USB input, and a phones output.
Do you prefer to have AUX or USB on the front? This is no big deal, but if you often use a particular port, having it put on the front can ease your life a little.
These two receivers come with different connectors. Overall, Onkyo TX NR656 has more connectors than Sony STR DN1070, most notably the phono input. So, let's see the different connectors to make sure that you get what you need.
Both come with 1 audio-only input and 1 coaxial digital input. But Sony STR DN1070 only has 6 audio-video inputs, 1 component video input, and 1 optical digital input. There is no phono input for connecting a turntable directly. On the other hand, Onkyo TX NR656 comes with 8 audio-video inputs, 2 component video inputs, 2 optical digital inputs, and a phone input for connecting a turntable directly.
Both come with 2 HDMI monitor outputs, 2 subwoofer outputs, and 1 main speaker output pair. Sony STR DN1070 only has 6 HDMI inputs, whereas Onkyo TX NR656 has 8 HDMI inputs.
Both have built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Both come with Ethernet and USB, too.
In terms of features, the two receivers offer different advantages. You may want to choose Sony STR DN1070 if you want to set up multi-room audio and video. The model comes with multi-room audio and video outputs, allowing you to set up audio and video for different zones. On the other hand, Onkyo TX NR656 does not have multi-room video, though it has multi-room audio.
However, Sony STR DN1070 does not support Dolby Atmos and DTS:X. These two technologies are very trending right now. Dolby Atmos can create more immersive and realistic surround performance by introducing additional audio channels; these audio channels would create a height sound layer above the listeners. Meanwhile, DTS:X is a new surround sound format that utilizes powerful object-based processing to produce more lifelike sound.
Onkyo TX NR656 supports both Dolby Atmos and DTS:X, though you may need to update the firmware first in order to use the DTS:X technology. In addition, the receiver also comes with the ability to convert videos from composite/component to HDMI.
Both models, though, have the HDMI to HDMI upconversion feature. Both also come with HDCP 2.2, which is necessary in order to play premium 4K content. Both allow HDMI standby pass-through. Both are HDR-compatible.
Of course, Onkyo TX NR656 and Sony STR DN1070 come with different speaker calibration technologies. As always, Onkyo TX NR656 is armed with AccuEQ, whereas Sony STR DN1070 boasts the Advanced DCAC automatic speaker calibration. Even though Onkyo'sAccuEQ is pretty good, it is just not as good as Sony's Advanced DCAC. The AccuEQ tends to make flat sound. The sound is accurate, but not enjoyable because it takes the life out of music. On the other hand, the Advanced DCAC tends to create bright sound. The bass is good, but not exactly thumping. Great if you don't like heavy bass.
Both come with similar output power. They have a similar output rating, which is 100 Watts per channel (stereo RMS).
If you don't need the multi-room video, Onkyo TX NR656 is generally the best way to go. This is because it supports Dolby Atmos and DTS:X. You may also benefit from the phono input and component/composite to HDMI video conversion. However, it may require you to do manual calibration if you are really an audiophile. But, if you really need multi-room audio and video, you may want to stick with Sony STR DN1070. The Advanced DCAC is a great automatic speaker calibration tool.


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Q: Visual Studio WPF - QT Designer like grid layout Is there any way to layout grids in VS like in QT Designer? Like dragging and dropping in new elements, each automatically confined in its own cell, automatically alligned to the row / column the got dropped in etc.?
I see how I can achieve the same layouts like in QT in the end by manually specifing a bunch of column and row definitions, and additionally specifing by hand the positioning of each element in each cell, but it is like ten times the work it takes to layout the elements in QT designer and I cannot imagine VS being this bad in this aspect.
To give an example:

A grid like this, I can drag and drop together in QT in a matter of 2 minutes, with automatic adjusting column width, empty cells etc. In WPF, a uniform grid gets close to what I need, but it does not permit for empty cells (ok, I can place an empty label but thats kind of bad style), and the row widths are uniform, which does not work for me.

A: Write XAML directly, or if you must then use Blend.
The VS designer has always been garbage, i for one do not use any graphical designer; there simply is no need for that if you have clean markup like XAML and don't need to write some spaghetti code that imperatively creates the view.

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Islamic terrorists do not fear the "Boy King" Obama
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It is time to profile Muslim passengers
By Dr. Laurie Roth Tuesday, December 29, 2009
We are at war with Islamic extremists. They are peppered all over the world and throughout our country. These terrorists have proven to be represented by various nationalities, the latest was Nigerian and the attack was on Christmas day. The common theme between them all isn't that they were victimized by America or that they were all desperately poor, but that they were all committed to fundamentalist Islam, believing they were doing the will of Allah and would gain eternal blessings as martyrs.
If you look at who most of the Jihad killers have been since 9/11, they have been well funded, pampered and even wealthy. They are religiously committed to killing infidels. They don't believe they are getting away with wrong and criminal behavior but rather, they are doing the Holy will of Allah and will be greatly rewarded.
As a Christmas present to naive and ever so polite America, Abdul Farouk Abdul-Mutallab, a 23 year-old Nigerian national, whose Father was a former Nigerian official, tried to blow up flight 253 headed toward Detroit Metropolitan Airport from Amsterdam originally.
Abdul tried to explode a bomb attached to himself shortly before the flight was to land. Fortunately, no, miraculously, part of his attached bomb didn't work right but thankfully made enough noise as it was trying to explode to horrify and gather an immediate response from nearby passengers who pounced on him and stopped the process. All 238 passengers survived that day but will they next time? Al Quaeda taken credit and promised much more.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told CNN's "American Morning" that officials would 'review' how anti-terrorist watch lists are maintained. Obama dove into the fray from his vacation in Hawaii saying that security was immediately enhanced and more air marshals were assigned on international flights. Both said that things were being reviewed. Don't you feel safer now…..being 'reviewed'.
Well……review this, Obama and Napolitano
We are at war and we have to identify the enemy…..not Christian gun owners; not Republicans; not conservative talk show hosts and not our military. It is Islamic fundamentalists who are being recruited and trained to kill infidels worldwide. Though they are represented by many nationalities, they are mostly Middle Eastern and are being recruited in our prisons and trained in Islamic compounds across this country. These Islamic compounds have been exposed and investigated by Doug Hagmann and many are being watched by authorities.
While we wax ever so intimidated and insecure around CAIR and other Islamic advocacy groups, as they paint pictures of Islamic Imams and Jihadists as victims of racism and persecution, the next attack is planned. Just with our military alone we have seen numerous attacks on our soldiers by radicalized Muslim soldiers preparing to strike against the enemy……us. I reference you to the following, not that we want to remember. Most recently we were treated by Nidal Malik HASAN, who murdered 14 unarmed soldiers in a Jihad at Ft. Hood. Remember Muslim Sgt. Hasan Karim Akbar who murdered Army Captain Christopher Seifert and Air Force Major Gregory Stone and wounded 14 others? Then there was 23 year- old Muslim abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad who murdered two officers. It continues: Hassan Abujihaad actively provided Islamic terrorists with sensitive information about the location of Navy ships and their weaknesses and James "Yousef" LEE, former Muslim chaplain charged with espionage while serving at GITMO.
Then there are the plane moments with Islamics
We aren't allowed to notice or we are Islamaphobes and hideous racists but some of us in spite of ourselves have noticed suspicious behavior that continues on various flights.
We saw strange and suspicious behavior with a group of Muslim 'musicians' aboard Northeast Airlines Flight 327 back in 2004, witnessed by an eyewitness and profiled by Annie Jacobsen. There was also similar suspicious behavior exhibited by Muslim passengers aboard Air Tran Flight 297 back in November 2009 and Air Tran Flight 175 on January 1, 2009. Of course there is more. Certain Muslims are testing our airline security, intimidating and scaring our people and trying to hurt our Airline industry hoping for more victimization status and law suit action.
Of course how can we forget those special Imams in 2006 who had displayed frightening and suspicious behavior also on the plane and were reported by passengers. Naturally, since they were so religious and inspired they sued the passengers backed by the usual 'victim creation Muslim groups' (CAIR). They only just settled out of court and my favorite, Ibraham Hooper, their spokesman said it was 'a victory for civil rights.' Let's have a moment of silence.
It is time to identify the enemy and start profiling without apology
How many more suspicious events and outright attacks must we see by Islamic fundamentalists? How many more military personnel murdered by Islamic soldiers? How much more do we want to take as the enemy sets us up, messes with our lives and circles the wagons to kill us???
Where have we seen profiling and security that actually works on flights? El Al in Israel has the best security in the world and these events as described above simply don't occur. Don't think it is just the Gestapo with them either. They are known for their hospitality and gracious service aboard each flight. They just do REAL questions, cross referencing and take red flags and watch lists seriously. It isn't a popularity contest with them in letting folks get on planes, but people can actually enjoy the flight and stay alive.
I think there needs to be a whole other set of questioning and checks by anyone who falls in the realm of the following:
Has Arabic writing anywhere near them
Has a Koran with them
Once on the plane, any movement to a cell phone, getting up and changing seats or going to the bathroom, should mean immediate checking and/or consequences.
Loud prayers, chants and anti American or military statements….immediate denial to fly.
We must put MORE Muslim fundamentalists and their supporters on watch and do not fly lists, then train ALL of our security force to actually follow through on the list instead of minimizing or 'spacing' regarding it.
Remember, we are at war and there have been multiple dry runs and attempts at attacks on our planes since 9/11 and multiple murders of our troops by other Muslim soldiers. These people are organized, persistent, study our system, sensitivities, legal loop holes and play us like a violin. We must stop this madness unless we wish to die.
I would rather be rude and alive than polite and dead.
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Obama gives foreign cops new police powers in U.S.
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
A little-discussed executive order from President Obama giving foreign cops new police powers in the United States by exempting them from such drudgery as compliance with the Freedom of Information Act is raising alarm among commentators who say INTERPOL already had most of the same privileges as diplomats.
At David Horowitz's Newsreal, Michael van der Galien said the issue is Obama's expansion of President Ronald Reagan's order from 1983 that originally granted those diplomatic privileges.
Reagan's order carried certain exemptions requiring that INTERPOL operations be subject to several U.S. laws such as the Freedom of Information Act. Obama, however, removed those restrictions in his Dec. 16 amendment to Executive Order 12425.
That means, van der Galien wrote today, "this foreign law enforcement organization can operate free of an important safeguard against government and abuse."
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"'Property and assets,' including the organization's records, cannot be searched or seized. Their physical locations are now immune from U.S. legal or investigative authorities," he wrote.
Obama's order said he was removing the Reagan limitations on INTERPOL:
"AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER 12425 DESIGNATING INTERPOL AS A PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION ENTITLED TO ENJOY CERTAIN PRIVILEGES, EXEMPTIONS, AND IMMUNITIES
"By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and in order to extend the appropriate privileges, exemptions, and immunities to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983, as amended, is further amended by deleting from the first sentence the words "except those provided by Section 2(c), Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act" and the semicolon that immediately precedes them," he wrote.
At the ThreatsWatch.org website, authors Steve Schippert and Clyde Middleton gave their interpretation of the result.
"In light of what we know and can observe, it is our logical conclusion that President Obama's Executive Order amending President Ronald Reagans' 1983 EO 12425 and placing INTERPOL above the United States Constitution and beyond the legal reach of our own top law enforcement is a precursor to more damaging moves," they wrote.
"When the paths on the road map converge – Iraq withdrawal, Guantánamo closure, perceived American image improved internationally, and an empowered INTERPOL in the United States – it is probable that President Barack Obama will once again make America a signatory to the International Criminal Court. It will be a move that surrenders American sovereignty to an international body whose INTERPOL enforcement arm has already been elevated above the Constitution and American domestic law enforcement," they said.
"For an added and disturbing wrinkle, INTERPOL's central operations office in the United States is within our own Justice Department offices. They are American law enforcement officers working under the aegis of INTERPOL within our own Justice Department. That they now operate with full diplomatic immunity and with 'inviolable archives' from within our own buildings should send red flags soaring into the clouds," they said.
"Ultimately, a detailed verbal explanation is due the American public from the President of the United States detailing why an international law enforcement arm assisting a court we are not a signatory to has been elevated above our Constitution upon our soil."
Records show that the original order designated INTERPOL as a public international organization. Reagan had extended "appropriate privileges, exemptions, and immunities," but kept it subject to searches and seizures under appropriate legal circumstances.
Obama's decision, analysts have concluded, exempted Interpol from all restrictions.
"This international law enforcement body now operates – now operates – on American soil beyond the reach of our own top law enforcement arm, the FBI, and is immune from Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests," ThreatsWatch reported.
At the Patriot Room, it was explained there is a reason for a certain level of immunity.
"Before we get our knickers in a bunch, there is logic to this immunity. While we like our Constitution and laws, other countries like their Constitution and laws. It doesn't matter if the concept of personal freedom is more expansive here. If we expect immunity in their country, we have to extend it to them here."
But with Obama's change, "It means that we have an international police force authorized to act within the United States that is no longer subject to 4th Amendment Search and Seizure."
Anthony Martin at the Examiner noted the international agency now can operate in the U.S. will "full immunity" from U.S. laws and "with complete independence from oversight from the FBI."
At National Review Andy McCarthy asked, "Why would we elevate an international police force above American law? Why would we immunize an international police force from the limitations that constrain the FBI and other American law-enforcement agencies? Why is it suddenly necessary to have, within the Justice Department, a repository for stashing government files which, therefore, will be beyond the ability of Congress, American law-enforcement, the media, and the American people to scrutinize?"
At UNDispatch, which is a blog on the United Nations, Mark Leon Goldberg, who explained he worked at Interpol's headquarters in France in 2002, said there isn't much danger of INTERPOL agents whisking Americans off to jail. But he confirmed, "As to the specific reason why the Obama administration would decide, last week, to extend to INTERPOL the same suite of diplomatic privileges that are typically accorded to international organizations? I don't have a good answer for that. My sense is that it probably has something to with the accessibility of INTERPOL's secure criminal databases (on things like stolen passports and the like)."
But the Obama critics at the Obamafile weren't convinced.
"By this EO, Obama has conferred diplomatic immunity upon INTERPOL, exemption from being subject to search and seizure by law enforcement, exemption from U.S. taxes, and immunity from FOIA requests, etc. … Does INTERPOL have a file on Obama – or his associations?"
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This Guy Really Thinks Presidents Have Vacations
Economic turmoil, Al-Qaeda attacks, unrest in Iran, and our guy is looking for the chaise.
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Gitmo Grads Behind Crotch-Bomber
Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November, 2007, ABC News is reporting, quoting American officials and citing Department of Defense documents.
American officials agreed to send the two terrorists to Saudi Arabia where they entered into an "art therapy rehabilitation program" and were set free, according to U.S. and Saudi officials, ABC News reported.
Guantanamo prisoner #333, Muhamad Attik al-Harbi, and prisoner #372, Said Ali Shari (on right), were sent to Saudi Arabia on Nov. 9, 2007, according to the Defense Department log of detainees who were released from American custody. Al-Harbi has since changed his name to Muhamad al-Awfi.
Read more at abcnews.go.com
According to Politico, Obama is planning to send 80 more Yemeni terrorist detainees back home to Yemen from Guantanamo Bay — good plan Barry, just what Yemen needs, 80 more terrorists — now go take some sun, where you can do limited damage — besides, you're beginning to look a little pale — and we can't have that.
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Obama Administration Refuses to Brief Congress (Audio)
Obama administration refuses to brief House Intel Republicans on Ft. Hood and NW Flight 523, violating law. Rep. Pete Hoekstra tells Human Events editor Jed Babbin in radio interview. Click here to listen to audio from Fred Thompson Show.
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The Left's Blind Eye to the Obvious
By Jack Cashill
The approach of the new year might be an appropriate time to summarize what I have learned in researching the several books and articles that I have written this decade. That I came to own — or even break — many of the stories involved, although satisfying to me, should appall any ordinary citizen.
These stories were too big for a responsible media to miss. They became mine as a result of what I call the "ABETTO Syndrome." For at least the last generation, the left in general, and the media in particular, have been turning A Blind Eye To The Obvious — ABETTO. Here are some nuggets the media chose not to notice. These are all thoroughly and inarguably documented.
More than half of those incinerated during Janet Reno's tank attack at Waco on April 19, 1993 were ethnic minorities — 39 out of 74, to be precise. Six of them were Hispanic, six of Asian descent, and a full 27 of them black, ages six to sixty-one. They did not commit suicide.
About a third of the Jonestown dead did not commit suicide either. Three-year-olds typically don't know how. Authorities dumped the bodies of more than 250 of these children, most of them black, into a mass grave in Oakland's Evergreen Cemetery. There they lie to this day, unsung and unmourned because they serve no useful political purpose.
They serve no purpose because their killer, James Jones, was a self-professed "communist" in deep with a slew of leading Democrats — George Moscone, Harvey Milk, Willie Brown, Jerry Brown, and even Rosalynn Carter and Walter Mondale. Moscone appointed Jones to the Human Rights Commission and then to the chairmanship of the city's Housing Authority.
All witnesses who saw Timothy McVeigh on the morning the Murrah Building blew up saw him with a short, swarthy fellow. According to the Washington Post, a judge detained McVeigh without bail "after listening to four hours of testimony from FBI special agent John Hersley in which he described eyewitness accounts of a yellow Mercury with McVeigh and another man inside speeding away from a parking lot near the federal building."
Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, the so-called "field commander" of the Oklahoma City task force, played an even more aggressive role managing the TWA Flight 800 investigation a year later. The Clintons appear to have rewarded her for her steely performance with the vice-chairmanship of Fannie Mae, a job for which she had no known credentials.
Six years and about $25.6 million in salary and bonuses later, Gorelick responded to the call of duty once more and took one of five Democratic seats on the 9-11 commission.
By the FBI's own count, no fewer than 270 eyewitnesses gave formal reports to the FBI describing a red-tipped object with a smoky contrail striking TWA Flight 800. About a hundred witnesses tracked the object from the surface. Astonishingly, the New York Times would interview none of them.
Four weeks after the disaster, the Times' Don Van Natta would report, "Now that investigators say they think the center fuel tank did not explode, they say the only good explanations remaining are that a bomb or a missile brought down the plane."
Likely under White House pressure, and without any new evidence, the FBI immediately shifted its storyline away from a missile to a bomb, and a month later, from a bomb to a mechanical failure. The Times reporter who got the call to document both shifts was Andy Revkin, the same reporter at the center of the Climategate scandal.
Bizarrely, Richard Clarke, Clinton's anti-terror czar who knew next to nothing about aircraft technology, claimed to have discovered the official cause of the TWA 800 crash months, if not years, before the NTSB did.
Clinton Commerce Secretary Ron Brown was dispatched on his fatal plane flight that same election year, 1996, for no more noble a purpose than to broker a sweetheart deal between the neo-fascist president of Croatia and the Enron Corporation.
The Air Force concluded that the controlled descent of Brown's USAF plane into a Croatian mountainside was "inexplicable." The maintenance chief responsible for the airport's navigation system showed up with a bullet hole in his chest the day before his Air Force interview.
Brown's fatal head injury struck the forensic photographer and attending pathologist as having the size and shape of a gunshot wound. He was nonetheless buried (over the protest of the pathologists) without an autopsy. The photographer and three Armed Service pathologists would sacrifice their careers going public with their discontent. The major media reported close to none of this.
As the Nation of Islam plotted to kill "heretic" Malcolm X, Malcolm's wife Betty Shabazz approached the one person with the clout to dissuade Malcolm's fellow Muslims. "You see what you're doing to my husband, don't you?" she pleaded. Muhammad Ali blew her off, saying, "I'm not doing anything to him." Malcolm was gunned down shortly thereafter.
If a young Ali jeopardized his liberal chic by betraying Malcolm X, a reformed Ali risked it again when he publicly supported Ronald Reagan and even attended the Republican National Convention. Who would have guessed?
Alex Haley plagiarized his Pulitzer Prize-winning non-fiction bestseller, Roots, from a book written by white novelist Harold Courlander, who sued Haley for damages. Midway through the trial, the judge threatened to charge a dissembling Haley with perjury unless he settled, which he did for big bucks.
Sorry, Virginia, but there was no Kunta Kinte. Writing in the Village Voice, literary detective Philip Nobile would call Roots "one of the great literary hoaxes of modern times."
Speaking of the literary hoaxes, not a single one of the scores of mainstream book editors who reviewed Christopher Andersen's Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage chose to notice Andersen's most newsworthy revelation: "In the end, [Bill] Ayers's contribution to Barack's Dreams From My Father would be significant — so much so that the book's language, oddly specific references, literary devices, and themes would bear a jarring similarity to Ayers's own writing."
For the more explosive of these stories — the death of Ron Brown, the destruction of TWA Flight 800, the Ayers' involvement in Obama's Dreams — I made every effort to alert the mainstream media. I talked in person to many reporters and producers, including a few household names, and offered to share what I had gathered. To a person, they did not want to know.
I believe I was the first reporter even to request the USAF's twenty-two-volume report on the death of Ron Brown — this despite the fact that the New York Times lost a reporter in the crash. It was in the report that I learned about the Enron connection. Even after the Enron scandal broke, no one wanted to know about Enron's role in Brown's fatal mission.
One last nugget. When questioned by the Air Force, U.S. Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith observed that Zdenka Gast, the liaison between Enron and Croatia, had been scheduled to fly with Brown but thought better of it.
Said Galbraith, "There were problems in-in-in this…in concluding this deal where they wanted to sign a letter of intent, and so, rather than…than go on the Brown trip, she stayed with the Inron [sic] people to do the final negotiations."
"We've been looking for her," volunteered Air Force Capt. John Cairney. The Air Force was apparently not allowed to look too hard. Investigators conducted 148 witness interviews, but Gast's was not among them. A few years later, they could have found her at a White House wedding reception.
A Croatian language magazine named Gloria featured a photo of three smiling women at the reception, all linked arm in arm. In the middle is Zdenka, an attractive, full-figured redhead. On her left is the bride, Alexis Herman, who dispatched Brown on his fatal trip. On her right is none other than Hillary Clinton. Only forty people were in attendance, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, Al and Tipper Gore, and "several governors and senators."
I found this interesting. Plagued as they were by the ABETTO syndrome, the bright lights of the mainstream media failed to share my interest.
If only there were a vaccine.
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The States Can Check Washington's Power
By DAVID B. RIVKIN JR. AND LEE A. CASEY
For nearly a hundred years, federal power has expanded at the expense of the states—to a point where the even the wages and hours of state employees are subject to federal control. Basic health and safety regulations that were long exercised by states under their "police power" are now dominated by Washington.
The courts have similarly distorted the Constitution by inventing new constitutional rights and failing to limit governmental power as provided for in the document. The aggrandizement of judicial power has been a particularly vexing challenge, since it is inherently incapable of correction through the normal political channels.
There is a way to deter further constitutional mischief from Congress and the federal courts, and restore some semblance of the proper federal-state balance. That is to give to states—and through them the people—a greater role in the constitutional amendment process.
The idea is simple, and is already being mooted in conservative legal circles. Today, only Congress can propose constitutional amendments—and Congress of course has little interest in proposing limits on its own power. Since the mid-19th century, no amendment has actually limited federal authority.
But what if a number of states, acting together, also could propose amendments? That has the potential to reinvigorate the states as a check on federal power. It could also return states to a more central policy-making role.
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The Framers would have approved the idea of giving states a more direct role in the amendment process. They fully expected that the possibility of amendments originating with the states would deter federal aggrandizement, and provided in Article V that Congress must call a convention to consider amendments anytime two-thirds of the state legislatures demand it. As Alexander Hamilton wrote in The Federalist Papers of this process: "[W]e may safely rely on the disposition of the state legislatures to erect barriers against the encroachments of the national authority."
What the Framers did not anticipate, however, was the profound reaction to their own "runaway" convention in 1787. By junking the Articles of Confederation in favor of a new Constitution, they gave us strong and stable government. They also showed exactly what constitutional conventions can do. As a result, no similar body has ever been assembled, and even suggesting a new convention can freeze the marrow in constitutional lawyers.
The answer is to amend the Constitution to permit two-thirds of the states to propose amendments directly. To do so, of course, means that the states would have to first call for a constitutional convention—at which they could propose such a change.
What about the risk of a runaway convention? We think that risk is very small. In the first place, the Constitution is not the Articles of Confederation, which were ratified only six years before they were replaced.
By contrast, the American people are profoundly attached to the Constitution. It cannot and will not be replaced by an amending convention. In any event, nothing proposed at such a convention—including a change to the current amendment process—could be adopted without three-fourths of the state legislatures agreeing.
Even to propose such a course might seem imprudent—but then again, the Framers of the U.S. Constitution never thought the balance of powers between states and the federal government would ever get so profoundly distorted. James Madison dismissed claims that the new federal government could displace the states as "chimerical fears," assuring his readers in The Federalist Papers that "[t]he powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite." Indeed, the Framers considered a "vertical" separation of powers—between federal and state authority—just as important as guaranteeing the success of liberty as the "horizontal" separation of powers between the president, Congress and the courts.
True enough, re-establishing a proper balance—where, as Madison wrote in The Federalist Papers, Washington is responsible "principally [for] external objects" and the states for "all the objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties and properties of the people"—will not be easy.
The gain will be substantial. Although it seems that permitting the states to propose amendments is a small thing, especially because ratification would still require three-fourths of the states to agree, it would shift the power calculus—and create a potential for action that the president, Congress and courts could never ignore as they consider the proper boundaries of their own authority.
Moreover, the effort to enable the states to check Washington's power would provide a constructive outlet for much of the growing anger—specially evident in phenomena such as the "tea party" movement—toward the political elites of both parties. It is not a partisan proposal and is difficult to oppose. The purpose is to move significant authority closer to the electorate, but in a measured, "conservative" manner that is in no sense "populist."
Opponents would have no fig leaf. They would have to openly argue that any effort to limit Washington's reach is a bad thing. And that is an argument they are likely to lose.
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Томас Лонгман (; 1699 - 18 червня 1755) — англійський видавець, засновник видавництва Longman.

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Томас Лонгман народився у Бристолі, у сім'ї Єзекиїла та Сари Лонгман. У віці дев'яти років Томас втратив батьків, від яких успадкував значну кількість майна. У заповіті батько наголошував на гарній освіті сина. Тому з сімнадцяти Лонгман протягом 7 років навчався у Джона Осборна, продавця книг в Лондоні на  який згодом став власником компанії .

У 1724 році, після закінчення навчання, Лонгман придбав бізнес Джона Тейлора, відомого як перший видавець книги «Робінзон Крузо» та продавець книг на .

Через кілька місяців Джон Осборн уклав партнерські стосунки із Томасом Лонгманом, і вони торгували як «Дж. Осборн і Т. Лонгман». Вони були одними із перших акціонерів дуже успішної та прибуткової «Циклопедії мистецтв і наук» Єфрема Чемберса.

Зі смертю Джона Осборна, приблизно в 1734 році, Томас Лонгман став одноосібним власником бізнесу.

У 1740 р. Лонгман опублікував третій том першої праці Девіда Г'юма, «Трактат про людську природу».

У 1744 році він володів найбільшою кількістю акцій Циклопедії, маючи майже шосту частину усіх акцій. Він був одним із шести продавців книг, які уклали угоду із Семюелем Джонсоном на виготовлення англійського словника, «План» якого був виданий в 1747 році.

У 1753 році Лонгман уклав партнерські стосунки із своїм племінником Томасом Лонгманом. Після цього видавництво стало називатися T. and T. Longman.

Помер Лонгман 18 червня 1755 р.

Після смерті Лонгмана його компанію очолив племінник.

Особисте життя
У 1731 році Лонгман одружився із Мері Осборн, дочкою Джона Осборна. Дітей у пари не було.

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 Henry Curwen «A History of Booksellers, the Old and the New.» — Chatto and Windus, 1873—475.
 «Longman Tomas» Dictionary of National Biography. — London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885—1900.

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Q: Angular.js SPA security with ASP.NET MVC and WebApi I'm building a SPA using Angular.js and ASP.NET and I would like to know what is the best way to secure it.
Here is what I need :
I would like to use MVC framework to hide my application only to logged users. So the first thing that users will do before launching the SPA will be to log into the website using a simple login form.
When the Angular app will be launched, it will communicate with my ApiController using REST requests.
I also want my user to be logged out automatically after 20 minutes of inactivity.
I know that REST is supposed to be stateless... but I can't figure how to implement all I need without sessions...
But on the other side, I want to be able to use my WebAPI with a future mobile application. I will have to use Tokens for the authentication on this application.
What is the best way for me to achieve that kind of authentication?
Thanks for your time!

A: I developed an entire security layer with the same conditions as yours following those very well explained in this post here.
BTW, the token will expire automatically after 20 minutes because when you create it you will set it's expiration date immediately; every time you're going to make a request, the system will check the token exp date with the current date, refusing your token if the time passed. For example this a tipical oauth server configuration with token and refresh token settings:
internal static OAuthAuthorizationServerOptions GetAuthorizationServerOptions(IComponentContext scope)
    {
        OAuthAuthorizationServerOptions oAuthServerOptions = new OAuthAuthorizationServerOptions
        {
            AllowInsecureHttp = true,
            ApplicationCanDisplayErrors = true,
            TokenEndpointPath = new PathString(Constants.PublicAuth.OAUTH_TOKEN_PATH),
            AuthorizeEndpointPath = new PathString(Constants.ExternalAuth.AUTH_ENDPOINT),
            AccessTokenExpireTimeSpan = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(Constants.PublicAuth.TOKEN_EXPIRATION_IN_MINUTES),
            Provider = scope.Resolve<AuthorizationServerProvider>(),
            AccessTokenFormat = new CustomJwtFormat(),
            RefreshTokenProvider = scope.Resolve<SimpleRefreshTokenProvider>()
        };
        return oAuthServerOptions;
    }

The refresh token is also very useful, but you have to manage the token replacement by yourself; for example in our application we pass every API call through a single service that, if the server responds 401 (unauthorized), it will try to request a new token using the refresh token and then it will try the same call again. Only after the second failure you'll be redirected to the login page.
For example:
function executeCallWithAuth(method, url, payload, params) {
    var defer = $q.defer();
    debug.logf('{0}: {1}', method.toUpperCase(), url);
    $http({ method: method, url: url, data: payload, headers: createHeaders(), params: params }).then(
        function(results) { defer.resolve(results); },
        function(error) {
            if (error.status !== 401) defer.reject(error);
            else {
                debug.warn(`Call to: ${method}:${url} result in 401, try token refresh...`);
                auth.refreshToken().then(
                    function() {
                        debug.warn('Token refresh succesfully, retry api call...');
                        $http({ method: method, url: url, data: payload, headers: createHeaders() }).then(
                            function(results) { defer.resolve(results); },
                            function(errors) { defer.reject(errors); });
                    },
                    function(tokenError) {
                        debug.warn('Token refresh rejected, redirect to login.');
                        $state.go('login');
                        defer.reject(tokenError);
                    });
            }
        });

    return defer.promise;
}

and
    function createHeaders() {
    var headers = {
    };

    var authData = storage.get('authorizationData');
    if (authData) {
        headers.Authorization = 'Bearer ' + authData.token;
    }

    return headers;
}

Using Angular the best way to secure a route is "do not create a route". Basically, you need to load the user profile, and only after that you will create the routes only to the pages he can navigate to. If you don't create the route for a page you don't need to secure that page: Angular will automatically send the user to a 404.

A: I would secure your WebAPI calls with OAuth2 (you can even use the built in Identity 2.0 provider that comes baked in with it). Keep your WebAPI stateless, use SSL (consider a filter to force it), and use the [Authorize] tags to secure you services. On the MVC side, this will have to maintain state and you will want to have the login form get an OAuth2 token from your WebAPI layer and pass that down into Angular. Set the expiration on this to 20 minutes. You can also use the cookies authentication model here since it will need to be stateful on the MVC side, but all ajax calls made to the WebAPI layer by Angular will need to pass the OAuth2 token as a bearer token in the Authorization request header.


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Nele Guderian (* 12. Februar 1997) ist eine deutsche Schauspielerin.

Ihre erste Fernsehrolle erhielt sie 2009 als Emma Löffler in der SWR-Familienserie Tiere bis unters Dach.

Nele Guderian lebt in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Filmografie
 seit 2009: Tiere bis unters Dach (Fernsehserie)
 2012: Hanni & Nanni 2
 2013: Hanni & Nanni 3
 2013: Alarm für Cobra 11 (Fernsehserie)
 2013: Ein offener Käfig
 2015: In aller Freundschaft – Die jungen Ärzte (Fernsehserie, Folge Um jeden Preis)

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5 IITians Are Working On A Helmet That Won't Let You Drive If You're Drunk
Debashish sarkarUpdated on Apr 23, 2016, 17:43 IST
To make roads safer for motorcyclists, a team of five students from IIT Varanasi is working on a unique device. The team is developing a smart helmet connected with the motorbike that aims to prevent drunken driving.
The smart helmet makes it mandatory for the motorist to wear the helmet and have a permissible alcohol breath level to start the motorbike.
The IIT Varanasi team is lead by Naman Singhal and comprises Shubham Jaiswal, Rishabh Babeley, Devendra Gupta and Jagjeet Shyamkunwar.
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"The uniqueness of the solution being that a particular two-wheeler can only be switched on with a particular helmet and without which the two-wheeler cannot be started thus making it safe from theft also," explained a team member.
In case of an accident the helmet sends the location of the victim to the ambulance and family members. This is enabled through a cloud server which will process the data and provide immediate medical help to the victim.
"This instigates a feeling of protection in parents' minds about their children travelling on roads," they said.
The project is among the three winning projects of the second edition of Ericsson Innovation Awards India.
The 'smart helmet team' will be supported by Ericsson India financially to the extent of Rs 13 lakh towards incubation.


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In the world's forgotten borderlands, the drug trade helps people survive – but at a cost
Jonathan Goodhand, SOAS, University of London
When Jangul's* village on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan was bombed in the war between the Soviet communist regime and the Mujahedeen in the 1980s, it was some opium buried under his house that enabled him to build a new home.
Then, in the 1990s, when he was jobless and without means to feed his family, a friend's cousin offered him a good sum of money to smuggle heroin from Afghanistan to Moscow. It was a treacherous and risky journey, but one with a good pay out that allowed him to open a small shop at the bazaar.
Jangul's story is one of many gathered during our research in border regions of Afghanistan, Colombia and Myanmar. These testimonies demonstrate how illicit drugs and conflict have become deeply embedded in the daily lives and livelihoods of borderland communities.
A comic illustration of Jangul's story by Positive Negatives.
Kruttika Susarla via Positive Negatives
They also show how deeply flawed conventional assumptions are that illicit drugs are always counter to development and peacebuilding, or that economic and social development will automatically dismantle illegal drug economies and provide a foundation for peace.
In reality, illicit drugs can actually contribute to coping, survival and even social advancement. Meanwhile, government and international development efforts may push people into a closer engagement with the drug trade. Counter-narcotics programmes in some of these border regions may also actually undermine progress towards the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
In Colombia's borderlands with Ecuador, we heard stories of coca farmers and pickers using their coca income to access basic services, and to invest in education and community projects such as road or bridge building. As one farmer told us: "The state has abandoned us, and we survive with the coca bush because we have to."
In Myanmar's Kachin and Shan states on the country's borders with China and Thailand, we heard how drug consumption has grown in the wake of ceasefires and amid forms of state economic development. An elderly man in Kachin state pointed out:
After the ceasefire … road construction started, then the logging started in the area. The heroin started coming in when the area became more populated. Then the local youth started using different kinds of drugs.
Borderland blindness
The borderlands – which straddle two or more countries – are often the first areas into and the last out of protracted armed conflict. They're also transnational hubs for illicit drugs and activities, with relatively easy access to lucrative foreign markets. And they are home to some of the poorest and most vulnerable communities in each area we studied.
Yet development donors are often constrained by thinking that focuses their efforts on individual countries rather than those that border it too. Such approaches lead to what my colleagues and I call borderland blindness – a failure to sufficiently understand, appreciate and engage with borderland regions and the communities living there.
This can also lead to a failure to take into account the multiple forms of violence experienced in borderlands after peace accords have been signed. These range from continued large-scale violence involving government forces and non-state armed groups as in Afghanistan, to the violence associated with counter-narcotics policies and interventions in Colombia, to exploitative labour practices and extensive drug abuse in Myanmar.
Meanwhile, government efforts to rebuild states after war and boost economic development frequently find it hard to gain a foothold in the borderlands. And when they do, they can work to the disadvantage of borderland communities. For example, we found the insertion of oil companies in Colombia's borderlands and commercial agriculture in Myanmar's has been associated with land grabs and displacement of borderland communities.
Nonetheless, governments continue to frame better political and economic integration of borderlands as key to addressing illicit drug economies. But our research suggests that the drivers of the illicit economies in the borderlands are less about a lack of integration between the centres and the margins. Instead, the drivers are more about the ways forms of integration – through for example investments in infrastructure or border management – are imposed on the areas.
Win-win solutions are an illusion
The relationship between counter-narcotics, development aimed at moving people out of poverty, and peace-building initiatives is neither straightforward nor necessarily complementary. There are trade-offs between policy objectives and it may not be possible to design interventions that do no harm. A more realistic approach may involve mitigating harms and avoiding policies that directly lead to violence and poverty.
This can only be done by actively engaging with people living in the borderlands to understand why they engage in the drug trade. This could be done by building partnerships with social and political groups that represent or are composed of marginal groups – including those involved in the drug trade.
Like Jangul, many people involved in illicit economies in borderlands affected by drugs and conflict make really tough decisions every day. They make Faustian bargains in which short-term survival may come at the cost of long-term health and security. We must avoid policies and programmes that make these trade-offs even more difficult to manage.
* Names in this article have been changed to protect the anonymity of the research participants.
Jonathan Goodhand, Professor in Conflict and Development Studies, SOAS, University of London
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WILL IT DO?
by Kat Watt
BULGARIA SOCIETY
One-day-a-man-will-come-and-fix-everything is the best answer an expat can hope for in many situations in Bulgaria
Passing comment on workmen as they botched things together or attempted to lift heavy loads used to be a light-hearted joke. Tongue firmly in cheek, I would turn to my companion and jibe; "How many workmen does it take to dig a hole?" The answer - eight: one to dig; three telling him how not to dig; three, with folded arms, watching him dig; and one to keep the barbeque/fire going.
To elaborate though, it's not just houses and other constructions; it's an overall lapse in making and keeping things pretty. The fact is Bulgaria is a beautiful country. Its geographical position and wealth of topographical features make for some of the most attractive lakes, mountains, wetlands, beaches and caves in Europe. However, it's difficult to take in the beauty without noticing fly-tipped piles of rubbish, half-derelict ruins, and defunct power lines lay across fields. If an alien landed in the country, from its first glimpse of the flora and fauna of planet earth he would think there was a species of tree exclusive to Bulgaria that fruited plastic bags on each branch.
Once you begin to notice this lackadaisical way of life and work, you can't help but spot careless actions and notable blunders all over the place: a live cable hanging here, a doorway to nowhere there, a heavy load tied onto a work-Lada with frayed string, a dusty, disordered shop display. What's worse is I can feel myself slipping from time to time and getting sucked into this trap of apathetic responses to problems, tasks and issues. Fence broken? Just thread it up with bits of string; that'll do. Draughts from the window? A bit of expanding foam in the crack (and all around) will do the trick. My house and garden will look more and more like Frankenstein's castle if I don't nip this behaviour in the bud.
Here's another thing: Why won't my mechanic fix my car? It backfires, and there is clearly a problem with the way the fuel is feeding through to the engine. But it goes, says Vasi, even if it does jump like a kangaroo, so let it be. I can understand to an extent why the "If it ain't broke, don't try and fix it" mentality would be favoured in a country that was once predominantly poor, but surely ignoring a problem, particularly a mechanical one, will just make it worse in the long run?
There have been reports recently that have shown seemingly harmless instances of slap-dashery rearing their ugly heads some time later. In September 2006, part of a building fell down, killing two women who were driving by, then the following September, part of the wall of the National Art School in Ruse fell down just hours before local children passed it on their school route. So far this year, there have been three other reports of building collapses around Bulgaria, one of which resulted in the death of a 22-year-old student in Varna. There are also daily news reports on the latest unfinished or badly repaired road causing accidents, open manhole covers leading to horrible falls, and twisted ankles from wonky paving slabs.
Putting safety aside for a moment, what about aesthetics? In the UK, attractive and functional are qualities of equal importance. In Bulgaria, a house is a house; a place to live. Not a work of art. Families who have found their disposable income increasing in recent years have chosen not to have their outside walls rendered or leaky roof replaced. They would rather have a huge satellite dish mounted on a haphazard exterior wall, or a cinema system installed in the flaky living room.
Plus, there are times when a job not well done doesn't actually perform its function. My partner and I have a favourite restaurant that ticks almost all the boxes. The food is good, the service comes with a gratifying smile, the interior is nicely done, and there are even separate toilets for men and women. However, whereas I found my respective restroom satisfactory, bar the odd cracked tile or interesting pipework, my other half came back from one lavatory interval with some rather perturbing feedback. It turned out, that the little boy's room was fully functional if you were standing for the visit, but for any seated stops, the toilet was planted so close to the door that on sitting down, the door couldn't close past the knees.
After spending enough to have a carpenter build a decent bespoke wooden fence for our renovated property, we were still in need of driveway doors. We asked our Bulgarian friend where we might find a nice, classy gate and he took us to the friend of an uncle of a friend, who also happened to be a maystor (expert). The fellow in question owned a scrap metal yard and showed us an ancient, rusted door, heavy on the hinges, and told us that with a lick of paint it would be mnogo krasiva (very pretty). Try telling that to Charlie Dimmock.
Of course, this need for faultlessness is often seen as a western flaw. The no-nonsense Brits want everything "just so" and the Americans need everything to be the "best of the best". The Germans are so rigid in their desire for precision in a structured and ordered life that they are either poked fun at, or feared for their social and professional demarcation.
The further south and east you travel, what classes something as "correct" becomes increasingly vague and a laissez-faire attitude prevails. My father-in- law, a seasoned expat, spent six years teaching in the, at times, rather unyielding society of Vietnam. He moved from there to a country quite, quite different, where mañana prevails and signs with opening hours hold no more truth than the average British tabloid. In his new home of Spain, problems are regularly put off until the next day, workmen are often found kipping on the job and shops simply shut at an allotted time no matter what. Even if you're stood at the door, cash in hand, about to enter and make your purchases, when the clock strikes siesta time, the vendor will lock the door in your face and lope off for a snooze. Other countries such as Croatia and Greece also value their siestas highly, and post-lunch they will nap away, regardless of any tasks in hand or business to attend to.
To sum up, I think the attitude that "it'll do" is mainly harmless; it's just a little harsh on the eye. However, if the recently reported injuries and fatalities through botched building and repairs continue to increase, it will be a more serious matter than just the way things look.
Issue 20 Culture shock Living in Bulgaria
BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM AND ITS BULGARIAN CONNECTION
Where are the Bulgarian Oscars? For years this question – coupled with the notable lack of a Bulgarian Nobel Prize winner in anything – has troubled the Bulgarians, perhaps bespeaking a very deeply ingrained cultural inferiority complex.
ANGRY SOFIANITES
From job opportunities to entertainment options: living in Sofia, Bulgaria's largest city, has its perks. It also has its downsides.
IN THE EYE OF THE STORM
"Dimitrina?" I have not heard from her for more than a month, which is unusual. "Почина." "Po-chi-na?" I type the word phonetically in an online translation tool. "What?" "Почина. Me, Dimitrina sister. Bye."
ARRIVAL CITY
As an airplane is swooping over a field beside Sofia Airport, two horses and a donkey do not look up, but keep grazing among the rubbish. Shacks made of bricks, corrugated iron and wood encroach upon the field.
AMERICA FOR BULGARIA FOUNDATION CELEBRATES BULGARIAN SUPERHEROES
Everyday Superheroes was the main theme of the event, celebrating the efforts and the energy of ordinary Bulgarians who work in spite of the difficulties and the hardships to make Bulgaria a better place.
TRADITIONAL MUSIC AND DANCE
As you hold this book in your hands, a Bulgarian song travels in outer space. The song in question is "Izlel e Delyu Haidutin," a traditional Rhodope tune sung by Valya Balkanska.
WHEN A ROSE IS NOT EXACTLY A ROSE
Attar-bearing roses and beautiful girls in traditional attire picking them dominate the images that Bulgaria uses to sell itself to both Bulgarian and international tourists.
DECIPHERING BISHOP'S BASILICA OF PHILIPPOPOLIS
This May, for two days, historians, archaeologists, restorers and experts in other fields shared their findings and ideas about the Bishop's Basilica of Philippopolis at a scientific conference in Plovdiv.
VERY SUPERSTITIOUS
Once you start paying attention to Bulgarians, you will observe some inexplicable actions. Dozens of men and women wear red thread around their wrists. An old woman cuddles a baby, and then spits at it.
FOR A COUPLE OF LIONS' HIDES
Under GERB, Bulgaria's public has become accustomed to scandals of various magnitude that come and go about every second day, sometimes several times a day.
REMEMBERING 11/11/18
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month: 99 years ago, the moment when the Great War ended was perhaps chosen to be easy to remember.
LITTLE HEROES OF PIROGOV
Being laid up in hospital is never a particularly pleasant experience. Especially for children. Especially for children in Bulgaria.


In collaboration with the newly established Polar Film Lab, Kurant is pleased to present Scoreline, a performance by Greg Pope. The bar is open from 20:00, open end. Admittance is free.
Scoreline is a solo film-sound performance.
Equipment: 16mm projector, black film, contact mics, guitar pick-ups, engraving tools, , loop station, hobby grinder, scratch board, mixer, amplification, unspecified local materials.
Idea: The film projector as an instrument for visual and sonic broadcasting, an exploration of cinematic apparatus, ignoring traditional strategies to create a dynamic live event.
After dabbling in punk rock bands and absurdist performance, Greg Pope founded film collective 'Situation Cinema' (Brighton 1986) and 'Loophole Cinema' (London, 1989).
Working collaboratively and individually, Pope has made video installations, live art and single screen film works since 1996. These works include live cinema performance pieces as well as 35mm film productions and slide projection performances. His collaborations include working with sound artists Lee Paterson, John Hegre, Lasse Marhaug and Okkyung Lee and bands including Sult and Ich Bin N!ntendo.
Pope has performed at festivals and events in Europe, North and South America and Australia.