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Pre-election Militarization of the North American Homeland. US Combat Troops in Iraq repatriated to "help with civil unrest"
by Michel Chossudovsky
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The Army Times reports that the 3rd Infantry's 1st Brigade Combat Team is returning from Iraq to defend the Homeland, as "an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks." The BCT unit has been attached to US Army North, the Army's component of US Northern Command (USNORTHCOM). (See Gina Cavallaro, Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1, Army Times, September 8, 2008).
"Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.
It is not the first time an active-duty unit has been tapped to help at home. …
But this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities.
After 1st BCT finishes its dwell-time mission, expectations are that another, as yet unnamed, active-duty brigade will take over and that the mission will be a permanent one.
The command is at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., but the soldiers with 1st BCT, who returned in April after 15 months in Iraq, will operate out of their home post at Fort Stewart, Ga.,
The 1st of the 3rd is still scheduled to deploy to either Iraq or Afghanistan in early 2010, which means the soldiers will have been home a minimum of 20 months by the time they ship out.
In the meantime, they'll learn new skills, use some of the ones they acquired in the war zone and more than likely will not be shot at while doing any of it. (ibid)
The BCT is an army combat unit designed to confront an enemy within a war theater.
With US forces overstretched in Iraq, why would the Pentagon decide to undertake this redeployment within the USA, barely one month before the presidential elections?
The new mission of the 1st Brigade on US soil is to participate in "defense" efforts as well as provide "support to civilian authorities".
What is significant in this redeployment of a US infantry unit is the presumption that North America could, in the case of a natgional emergency, constitute a "war theater" thereby justifying the deployment of combat units..
The new skills to be imparted consists in training 1st BCT in repressing civil unrest, a task normally assumed by civilian law enforcement.
What we are dealing with is a militarization of civilian police activities in derogation of the Posse Comitatus Act.
The prevailing FISA emergency procedures envisage the enactment of martial law in the case of a terrorist attack. The 1st BCT and other combat units would be called upon to perform specific military functions:
Training for homeland scenarios has already begun at Fort Stewart and includes specialty tasks such as knowing how to use the "jaws of life" to extract a person from a mangled vehicle; extra medical training for a CBRNE incident; and working with U.S. Forestry Service experts on how to go in with chainsaws and cut and clear trees to clear a road or area.
Civil unrest resulting from from the financial meltdown is a distinct possibility, given the broad impacts of financial collapse on lifelong savings, pension funds, homeownership, etc.
The timing of this planned militarization is crucial: how will it affect the presidential elections scheduled for Tuesday November 4.
The brigade in its domestic homeland activities will be designated as the Consequence Management Response Force (CCMRF) (pronounced "sea-smurf").
What "Consequences" are being envisaged?
In a conference held under NorthCom last February, the mission of CCMRFF was defined as follows;
"How to protect communities from terrorist and biological attacks topped the agenda last week for more than 100 service members and civilians gathered at Joint Task Force Civil Support headquarters at Fort Monroe, Va.
The U.S. Northern Command Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and High-Yield Explosive Commanders' Conference, held Feb. 21-23, brought JTF-CS subordinate task force and unit commanders here to discuss common concerns regarding operational requirements of the CBRNE Consequence Management mission and to begin preparations for Exercise Ardent Sentry 2007.
"We're giving operationally focused briefs to our CCMRF ( CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force) units to help them prepare and successfully deploy for a CBRNE mission in the continental United States, its territories and possessions," said JTF-CS Current Operations Specialist Hawley Waterman, who helped organized the conference. "This is also an opportunity to get acquainted and establish better relationships with (subordinate commanders)."(NorthCom, March 2007)
What is envisaged is the possibility of a (false flag) terrorist attack on America, which could be used as a justification for retaliatory or preemptive military action overseas (e.g. Iran) as well actions on the domestic front. The ultimate objective of this deployment of 1st BCT is to apply combat experience in the Homeland:
"I can't think of a more noble mission than this," said Cloutier, who took command in July. "We've been all over the world during this time of conflict, but now our mission is to take care of citizens at home … and depending on where an event occurred, you're going home to take care of your home town, your loved ones."
While soldiers' combat training is applicable, he said, some nuances don't apply.
The operation officially has an emergency mandate to "help American citizens on American soil, to save lives, provide critical life support, help clear debris", but it also implies the running of military style operations. :in fact it would appear that the emergency tasks helping civilians is a cover-up. This is a combat unit, which is trained and equipped to kill people:
Some brigade elements will be on call around the clock, during which time they'll do their regular marksmanship, gunnery and other deployment training. That's because the unit will continue to train and reset for the next deployment, even as it serves in its CCMRF mission.
Should personnel be needed at an earthquake in California, for example, all or part of the brigade could be scrambled there, depending on the extent of the need and the specialties involved.
Other branches included The active Army's new dwell-time mission is part of a NorthCom and DOD response package.
Active-duty soldiers will be part of a force that includes elements from other military branches and dedicated National Guard Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Teams.
A final mission rehearsal exercise is scheduled for mid-September at Fort Stewart and will be run by Joint Task Force Civil Support, a unit based out of Fort Monroe, Va., that will coordinate and evaluate the interservice event.
In addition to 1st BCT, other Army units will take part in the two-week training exercise, including elements of the 1st Medical Brigade out of Fort Hood, Texas, and the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade from Fort Bragg, N.C.
There also will be Air Force engineer and medical units, the Marine Corps Chemical, Biological Initial Reaction Force, a Navy weather team and members of the Defense Logistics Agency and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
One of the things Vogler said they'll be looking at is communications capabilities between the services.
"It is a concern, and we're trying to check that and one of the ways we do that is by having these sorts of exercises. Leading up to this, we are going to rehearse and set up some of the communications systems to make sure we have interoperability," he said.
A national emergency could be triggered. "[H]orrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive [attack]" or a so-called CBRNE type scenario. One assumes that this is some form of domestic attack, allegedly by terrorists.
But at the same time, the Bush administration may be seeking a justification to establish martial law and intervene militarily within the USA.
"I don't know what America's overall plan is — I just know that 24 hours a day, seven days a week, there are soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines that are standing by to come and help if they're called," Cloutier said. "It makes me feel good as an American to know that my country has dedicated a force to come in and help the people at home." (Army Times, op cit , emphasis added)
"This type of planning and coordination and training is a priority both in our headquarters and at NORTHCOM, as we understand our responsibilities to be ready should the requirement arise, God forbid," (Army News Service Sept 15m 2008)
© Copyright Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, 2008
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Q: How to stop a terminal process running code including threading? I am using threading to run multiple functions at the same time with the purpose of pulling weather data from multiple websites. I ran these these programs through the Linux terminal, however am unable to cancel them by pressing ctrl C. I want to have them run for an indefinite amount of time, and as such do not want to add in a finish time, but would rather cancel them when necessary. Does anyone know why ctrl C is not cancelling them, and how to fix this?

A: Daemon Threads
It may be tempting to simply use daemon threads to solve this problem, a python execution will stop when only daemon threads are left, and will not allow them to clean up nicely. The docs call this out clearly:

Daemon threads are abruptly stopped at shutdown. Their resources (such as open files, database transactions, etc.) may not be released properly. If you want your threads to stop gracefully, make them non-daemonic and use a suitable signalling mechanism such as an Event.

Let's follow their advice and use an Event.
Using an Event
An event is a simple flag that can safely be set and read across threads. In this case, we will create an event in the main thread, spawn a new thread to do some work, and listen to that event flag in case it should stop working.
import threading

ended = threading.Event()

def do_work():
    while not ended.is_set():
        # Do your repeated work
        pass

# Let's create and start our worker thread!
new_thread = threading.Thread(target=do_work)
new_thread.start()

try:
    while not ended.is_set():
        ended.wait(1)
except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit):
    print("Cancelling")
    ended.set()

The try/catch block here runs in the main thread, listening for a KeyboardInterrupt or SystemExit exception. If it catches one, it will set the stopped flag, allowing the thread to complete its current loop iteration, and perform any cleanup it needs to.

A: *

*Use Ctrl + Break key combo.

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*If program also eats a lot of resources, you can use top command in a separate terminal to see the ID faster.

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Q: How do I declare an extended height Toolbar/Action Bar on Android Lollipop? I've seen extended height app bar's in the Google Design App Bar guidelines. How do I implement these in Android Lollipop?

A: Thanks for your question, its answer, and moreover for the implementation of the toolbar in the native and the supportlibrary :)
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The height is the ToolBar height, it's simple, every body understand, and the gravity acts according to that height.
The minimalHeight is more tricky and should not be at minimum 56dp. This minHeight is used to place the line of your menuItem. This line is at the midlle of your minHeight.
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Runnable toolBarAnimator=new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            if(postICS){
//                toolbar.setTranslationX(iteration);
//                toolbar.setElevation(iteration);
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                toolbar.getLayoutParams().height++;
            }
            uiThreadHanlder.postDelayed(this,16);
            iteration++;
            if(iteration>150)iteration=0;
        }
    };
    Handler uiThreadHanlder=new Handler();
    int iteration=0;

    @Override
    protected void onResume() {
        super.onResume();
        //launch the animation
        uiThreadHanlder.postDelayed(toolBarAnimator, 1000);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPause() {
        super.onPause();
        //stop the animation
        uiThreadHanlder.removeCallbacks(toolBarAnimator);
    }

Where toolbar is:
toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
When doing this you obtain:

but if you leave the animation continue you obtain:

This is why, setting your toolbar android:layout_height to wrap_content is a good option in most of the case, because the Toolbar will adapt its height according to its contents (and you can change the content at runtime :)
And this is also how you change your toolbar size at runtime.
Thanks Chris Banes for the amazing work you did on the actionbar.

A: You need to use the new Toolbar widget to achieve this. Toolbar has special handling for it's minimum height to declare the amount of space which is used for buttons (and actions).
In the example below, we're setting the height to be 128dp (which is 56dp + 72dp as defined in the spec), but keeping the android:minHeight as the standard actionBarSize (which is usually 56dp). This means that the buttons and actions are constrained to be positioned vertically in the top 56dp. We can then use android:gravity to position the title at the bottom.
<Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_height="128dp"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:minHeight="?android:attr/actionBarSize"
    android:background="?android:attr/colorPrimary"
    android:gravity="bottom" />

If you're using AppCompat, then change the declaration to use android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar instead and use it's attributes.


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Malami's controversial pastoralism commission
On the issue of herdsmen and what is to be done with them, many public commentators have talked themselves to ruin, while others have said just about the right things to smear themselves with a healthy coating of public approval. Even those who have operated outside the law have been celebrated as heroes, who have taken the bull by the horns; and anyone who has dared to oppose the outlaws has not been spared public opprobrium – governor and peasant alike. Examples are not hard to come by. Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State and Sheikh Mahmoud Gumi, Islamic cleric and now bandit whisperer, can tell. No one needed to be put wise that except necessary, it was generally safe to skirt the polarising issues of herdsmen and banditry, which have divided sentiments among even top Nigerians, than air any controversial opinions. Not Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who never shies away from controversy, perhaps even glorying in it.
Speaking at a lecture through the agency of a media aide on Tuesday, the senior advocate joined the ongoing battle of ideas on what should become of herdsmen and their business. Ideas that have preceded his include the expulsion of all herdsmen from the southwest, dialogue and amnesty, the Rural and Grazing Act (RUGA), speculatively the Water Resources Bill, banning of open grazing, ranching, and even boycotting of herdsmen and the products of their cattle. Everyone seems to have something to say about them and so it was understandable that despite the imminent danger and risk, Mr Malami was afflicted by a compulsion to throw in his legal sentiment. Many who have heard his opinion are convinced he did not think the matter through as well as he could and should have. A minority believes he knows the right thing, but has a special interest job to perform.
He suggested: "…It is not out of place for me to say that simply addressing farmer-herder crisis from purely theoretical perspectives often devoid of reality and without synchronization with the needs and aspirations of the involved stakeholders is not only counter-productive but inimical to the emergence and sustenance of a peaceful and prosperous Nigeria. It is against this backdrop that I proffer the following recommendations for the consideration of the symposium: The setting up of regulated grazing reserves to replace the 'Burtali' or 'Hurumi' pastoral system… Intensive enlightenment to livestock breeders on the need for sedentary farming and transhumance agriculture as complementary economic process to nomadic farming. Provision of water holes in remote grazing locations, subsidized veterinary care and mobile ambulatory services for surgeries and other medical interventions for livestock. Provision of infrastructure – social amenities, educational facilities and cattle markets at central locations to accelerate nomadic settlements… It is perhaps time to consider setting up of a commission for pastoralism regulated by law. This might provide recipes for resolving protracted farmer-herder conflicts. The commission may even engage in or facilitate in-depth analytical studies with a view to providing lasting solutions for the benefit of people and the country. Revamping of the activities of the Nomadic Education Commission with a view to complementing the efforts of government in resolving the farmer-herder clashes."
Until he began to talk about a pastoralism commission, it was easy to think that he was speaking altruistically. It is clear, however, that what he meant was that the government should take up the responsibility of setting them up. The Attorney-General may be idealising something that will not work, given the perennial failures of several federal governments since independence more than 60 years ago to administer resources for the greater good. That will not work, so Mr Malami needs to get his head out of the clouds.
The leniency and support the herders, whether criminal or honest, enjoy from the presidency make it appear as though these are excellent times to join their ranks. There are those among them who go about their business in all honesty, grazing their cattle nomadically and causing only environmental damage, but there are the infamous bandits and criminals among them who have diffused their trade with the criminal industry of kidnapping and murder. When a crime becomes organised and profitable enough for its perpetrators to procure enough arms to fight a national army, it has morphed into an industry. Sheikh Gumi, the government's self-appointed eyes and ears among the bandits, can testify to the strength of bandits' arsenal.
Although livestock has been identified as being responsible for a third of all agricultural GDP, there are reports that show that as at 2018, livestock was responsible for 18 percent more greenhouse gas emissions than transport. It does not get better, for livestock production is also responsible for conflicts, land degradation, loss of biodiversity, overgrazing and even deforestation. In a word, livestock has been putting in a spirited but unnoticed shift in global warming, and this is simply because the activities of herders have gone largely unregulated for decades and would have remained that way had things not come to a head in the Southwest.
Previous attempts at regulating grazing did not meet with as much success as they should have. There was the Grazing Reserve Law of 1975, The National Environmental (Watershed, Mountainous, Hilly and Catchment Areas) Regulations of 2009. Some states have also worked hard to regulate grazing by simply outlawing nomadic or open grazing. Benue State, in 2017, passed the Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law (2017), which restricted the free movement of cattle in the state and sought to vest the control of ranches for breeding cattle in the Department of Livestock, which is under the Benue State Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Ekiti, Taraba and now Ondo State also have legislations in place to regulate herders' activities. Livestock farming cannot, therefore, be banned outright, hence the calls for regulation of grazing. The government is not averse to the idea.
This circumspect opening was, however, exploited to excess by Mr Malami, who clearly believes that the departments of livestock in the various states and federal governments cannot do the job. He was expected to have been aware that one of the major political weaknesses of the Nigerian government is duplication of offices. As things stand, many offices and institutions in the federal structure are surplus to requirement and would have fared better if they had been merged with other structures. The cost of governance is already too high, and this is why politics has become a get-rich-quick green pasture for all sorts of people. With the establishment of the senior advocate's favoured pastoralism commission, expenses would be incurred. What then is the use of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development?
In Edo State, after media reports initially announced that the state government planned to create reserves for the herdsmen, the governor went on a security tour round the state and in a short while, Secretary to Edo State Government, Osarodion Ogie, debunked those reports, noting instead that the government would not cede any land for grazing, as it was a private economic activity, a private business. The federal government does not own the cattle, and it remains suspect if the herdsmen even pay taxes. They carry weapons that they are not licensed to own and some of them revel in crime and criminality as a second stream of income. Mr Malami does not, however, appear to appreciate these nuances on justice, fairness and equal distribution of resources. His position is that the federal government should spoonfeed the herders by creating a special commission for them backed by law, naturally to the redundancy of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
He was not altogether wrong though. Mutual tolerance between host communities and herdsmen remains a viable option, but only after criminal herdsmen and bandits have been brought to book. The wheat must be separated from the tares, while the tares are strictly regulated for continued coexistence with host communities. Mr Malami needs to appreciate the place of justice as he plots the expenditure from federal resources. He must ask himself how fair it is for national funds to be spent at the drop of a hat, especially for causes of dubious benefit to the federation. What is so special about livestock grazing or pastoralism that the federal government should spend so much nurturing the trade, as Mr Malami has suggested above, especially in an era of huge loans and the unending refrain of the shortage of funds for infrastructure in the country? Can the government even be trusted to develop a sustainable blueprint or legal framework for regulating herders' activities?
The federal government, despite its often inscrutable stance on herdsmen, will most likely regard the Attorney General's idea with as much attention as it accorded Sheikh Gumi and Governor Bala Mohammed – very little – though there are suspicions in certain quarters that he speaks, cabalistic style, as the mouthpiece of the presidency. But the country simply lacks the funds to bend to his prejudiced and incongruous suggestions. Although, Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, was quick to hop on the amnesty suggestion for bandits, he will remain quiet for now. He has other fish to fry, especially as youths in his state want to impale his political career on a pike of frustration and disappointment. They feel he has not represented them well, and he is unsure how many people probably agree with them and scorn his person and politics.
The tension surrounding pastoralism runs beyond the economy and has ramifications in ethnicity and politics. For all its impetuous policy-making and open grazing benevolence, the presidency may still be shamed to disavow Mr Malami's elegant and idealistic plans. So far, governors have been shuttling all over the country and making a show of taking control of the threat to internal peace that herdsmen tensions have triggered. However, there is no indication that the federal government could summon the depth necessary to address the issue with the decisiveness and equity needed, what with Mr Malami's, among others' idealising. But who knows, the presidency may yet welcome the innovative suggestions on grazing and insecurity by the Nigeria Governors' Forum (NGF), if it can find common purpose and attention to heed their advice.
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package eu.h2020.symbiote.security.listeners.rest.controllers;

import eu.h2020.symbiote.security.commons.SecurityConstants;
import eu.h2020.symbiote.security.commons.enums.ValidationStatus;
import eu.h2020.symbiote.security.commons.exceptions.custom.MalformedJWTException;
import eu.h2020.symbiote.security.commons.exceptions.custom.ValidationException;
import eu.h2020.symbiote.security.commons.jwt.JWTEngine;
import eu.h2020.symbiote.security.listeners.rest.interfaces.IValidateCredentials;
import eu.h2020.symbiote.security.services.CredentialsValidationService;
import eu.h2020.symbiote.security.services.helpers.ValidationHelper;
import io.swagger.annotations.Api;
import io.swagger.annotations.ApiOperation;
import io.swagger.annotations.ApiParam;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestBody;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestHeader;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

import java.security.cert.CertificateException;

/**
 * Spring controller to handle HTTPS requests related to the RESTful web services associated to credentials validation.
 *
 * @author Mikolaj Dobski (PSNC)
 * @author Piotr Kicki (PSNC)
 * @see CredentialsValidationService
 */
@RestController
@Api(value = "/docs/validateCredentials", description = "Exposes services used to validate tokens and certificates in given AAM")
public class ValidateCredentialsController implements IValidateCredentials {

    private final ValidationHelper validationHelper;
    private Log log = LogFactory.getLog(ValidateCredentialsController.class);
    private CredentialsValidationService credentialsValidationService;

    @Autowired
    public ValidateCredentialsController(CredentialsValidationService credentialsValidationService,
                                         ValidationHelper validationHelper) {
        this.credentialsValidationService = credentialsValidationService;
        this.validationHelper = validationHelper;
    }

    private String rebuildPEMStringFromHeader(String flatPEMString) {
        String PEMBEGIN = "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----";
        String PEMEND = "-----END CERTIFICATE-----";
        String certificateContent = flatPEMString.substring(PEMBEGIN.length(), flatPEMString.indexOf(PEMEND));
        return PEMBEGIN + '\n' + certificateContent + '\n' + PEMEND;
    }

    @Override
    @ApiOperation(value = "Responds with validation status of processed Validation request", response = ValidationStatus.class)
    public ValidationStatus validate(
            @ApiParam(value = "Token to be validated", required = true)
            @RequestHeader(SecurityConstants.TOKEN_HEADER_NAME) String token,
            @ApiParam(value = "used for Offline scenarios")
            @RequestHeader(name = SecurityConstants.CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_HEADER_NAME, defaultValue = "") String clientCertificate,
            @ApiParam(value = "used for Offline scenarios")
            @RequestHeader(name = SecurityConstants.AAM_CERTIFICATE_HEADER_NAME, defaultValue = "") String clientCertificateSigningAAMCertificate,
            @ApiParam(value = "used for Offline scenarios")
            @RequestHeader(name = SecurityConstants.FOREIGN_TOKEN_ISSUING_AAM_CERTIFICATE, defaultValue = "") String foreignTokenIssuingAAMCertificate) {
        try {
            // input sanity check
            JWTEngine.validateTokenString(token);

            // rebuilding PEMs from headers
            String parsedClientCert = (clientCertificate.isEmpty()) ? clientCertificate : rebuildPEMStringFromHeader(clientCertificate);
            String parsedClientSigningCert = (clientCertificateSigningAAMCertificate.isEmpty()) ? clientCertificateSigningAAMCertificate : rebuildPEMStringFromHeader(clientCertificateSigningAAMCertificate);
            String parsedForeignTokenCert = (foreignTokenIssuingAAMCertificate.isEmpty()) ? foreignTokenIssuingAAMCertificate : rebuildPEMStringFromHeader(foreignTokenIssuingAAMCertificate);
            // real validation
            return credentialsValidationService.validate(token, parsedClientCert, parsedClientSigningCert, parsedForeignTokenCert);
        } catch (ValidationException e) {
            log.error(e);
            return ValidationStatus.UNKNOWN;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public ResponseEntity<ValidationStatus> validateForeignTokenOriginCredentials(@RequestBody String foreignToken) {
        try {
            ValidationStatus status = validationHelper.validateForeignTokenOriginCredentials(foreignToken);
            return ResponseEntity.status(HttpStatus.OK).body(status);
        } catch (CertificateException | MalformedJWTException e) {
            return ResponseEntity.status(HttpStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR).body(ValidationStatus.UNKNOWN);
        }
    }
}

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Six social networks you forgot about
After 15 years, Friends Reunited announced this week that it was closing its doors for good. In fact, if you decide to give the site one last visit, you may be too late - it's already being locked down in certain browsers. It is the "sunset of an era" for the platform - having once been hugely successful it diminished quickly after the advent of Facebook. But, if we're honest, most of us had forgotten the site even existed - and it's one of many. So here are a few others that you might have let filter through to the dusty recesses of your mind:
Back in 2014 Ello sneaked onto the scene, promising to be the "Anti-Facebook". It was a simple premise: an ad-free platform that's not constantly shoving brand content in your face. Ello is a perfect example of a social network that took Facebook on and lost - possibly because it misjudged how much of the audience cared.
But there was also a contradiction in how the network was positioned. Ello was claiming to connect, a la Facebook, but it plans on having a freemium pricing model. How can you bring the world together if you're putting a price tag on it?
Ello is still active, but when was the last time you heard something about it? They refuse to disclose user numbers, and that probably means its days are numbered.
Meerkat was launched just under a year ago - and, like many in this list, was adorned with much media attention at the time. The app allows users to quickly and easily stream video from their phone. Sadly, for the creators, it was quickly overshadowed by a similar app, Periscope from Twitter. This led to some journalists predicting its death and it seems that they were right.
Research by Katch shows that Meerkat streams have been steadily decreasing. Meerkat also will not reveal user numbers, while Periscope has made audience numbers public on multiple occasions. And lastly, stats from analytics firm Wefi that tracks Android users in the United States show that Periscope is installed on 1 percent of all Android users' phones, while Meerkat is on just 0.07 percent.
Meerkat has continued to try and innovate, but has struggled to convince people to move away from the convenience that Periscope naturally provides.
Does anyone use Meerkat anymore I just hear about Periscope? #fb
— Darryl Thompson (@dylwthpn) October 2, 2015
Bebo was a classic example of a platform failing to evolve. AOL bought it out back in 2008 for $800 million - but despite investing financially, company insiders said that creativity was stifled. Whatever the reason, it failed to remain competitive. Users left in swathes and in a few years it went from the third largest network in the UK to being a non-entity.
The Guardian summed it up nicely: "Buying Bebo was an attempt to build on AOL's status as the world's first internet provider by bolting on a new audience, but internet users are notoriously promiscuous."
Interestingly, Bebo did relaunch as a messaging service in 2014 - but there's not been any suggestion of success.
It seems that every technology company has felt it necessary to dip its toes into social media - and Apple was clearly not going to be left out. Ping was their attempt at a music orientated social network. However, Apple misunderstood the social media landscape.
They got that sharing was important but decided to still limit it. Songs that were shared by users could only be heard in 90 second samples. This underscored the marketing aspect of the network, and wasn't helped by a proliferation of "Buy" buttons - something that put many users off.
The other major error was missing Facebook integration. Originally they were destined for a strong relationship, but cracks were created when Steve Jobs complained about their terms. Before long they went separate ways, and this meant that Ping wasn't able to exploit Facebook's huge audience.
Apple CEO Tim Cook commented on Ping a few years ago: "We tried Ping and the customer voted and said, this isn't something I want to put a lot of energy into. Some customers love it, but there's not a huge number that do, so will we kill it? I don't know. I'll look at it."
Then, they killed it.
Friendster is considered the "grandfather" of social networks. It allowed you to create profiles - and users could share videos, photos, messages etc. The problem was that it didn't get the balance between profile and social correct. Facebook's Newsfeed was a key difference that Friendster didn't react to. There were also technology issues - servers were slow and frustrated users.
Friendster was considered the top online social network service until around April 2004 when it was overtaken by MySpace in terms of page views. As strong connections within the network unravelled, so did the whole thing. Friendster has since redesigned itself as a social gaming platform.
OK, so this might be a bit premature - but I'm planning ahead. Peach was the talk of tech town just two weeks ago. It was getting press everywhere with headlines like "Peach App is the flavour of the month" or "Is Peach Going to Become the Next Snapchat?".
Peach is a mix between Facebook, Tumblr, and Snapchat. It is focused on quick chats, filled to the brim with emojis and gifs. To facilitate this concept Peach has command lines that are baked in, to allow easy access to a number of different features. For instance, you can just type "gif," and then randomly search for a topic.
But reviews since have consistently complained about it feeling empty - it seems that many users have already fallen by the wayside, and that's not good given it has already had its 15 minutes of fame. That said, if it manages to pick itself up again I'm willing to eat my virtual hat.
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Sierra Leone News
Sierra Leone Telegraph: Established 2009 – Serving the Diaspora – Rebranding Sierra Leone
[ January 21, 2020 ] Head of African Development Bank – Adesina speaks at the UK-Africa Investment Summit	Economy & Business
[ January 21, 2020 ] My government will diversify Sierra Leone's economy – says president Bio at London Summit	Economy & Business
[ January 20, 2020 ] African tech firms invited to join UK-led growth project	Economy & Business
[ January 20, 2020 ] British Prime Minister hosts first ever UK-Africa Investment Summit in London	Economy & Business
[ January 20, 2020 ] Her Royal Highness The Countess of Wessex visiting Sierra Leone	Politics
[ January 20, 2020 ] Female paramount chief in Sierra Leone subjected to horrific gender based attack	Politics
[ January 20, 2020 ] Rüdiger donates $100,000 to Sierra Leone at UK-Africa Investment Summit in London – will he invest?	Economy & Business
[ January 20, 2020 ] Ghana leads the way at the UK-Africa Investment Summit 2020 in London	Economy & Business
HomePoliticsSierra Leone's former head of immigration arrested by UK police
Sierra Leone's former head of immigration arrested by UK police
October 5, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas Politics 1
Sierra Leone telegraph: 5 October 2018:
Officials at the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) of Sierra Leone, yesterday told the Sierra Leone Telegraph that they are seeking the extradition of the country's fugitive former head of immigration- Mr Kholifa Koroma, who is alleged to have sold and unlawfully issued Sierra Leone passport in a fraud racket worth hundreds of thousands of dollars., if not millions.
According to reports, the UK Police yesterday arrested Kholifa Koroma on allegations of money laundering and amassing of unexplained wealth in the UK, but was released on bail and will appear in court at the end of the month.
The ACC Investigations into the illegal sale or issuing of passport by officials in the former APC government, reached its climax last month, when eight people were arrested, in a joint effort with the US Embassy to help combat corruption in Sierra Leone.
The ACC investigation has examined evidence involving dozens of people believed to have been issued with the country's diplomatic and ministerial service passports, which were then used to obtain travel visa to the US.
Last month's carefully planned and well executed raids and arrests by the ACC, took place at institutions were according to sources the illegal sale and or transfer of passports is believed to have been organised.
In August, the ACC issued an order for INTERPOL's arrest of the former head of the immigration service – Kholifa Koroma, which was diligently executed by London police yesterday
According to the ACC, an order for the arrest of Mr Kholifa Koroma was made after a government report published by the Governance Transition Team (GTT) recommended that "the issuance of Diplomatic passports be urgently reviewed and that the former Chief Immigration Officer, Kholifa Koroma, be investigated for his alleged complicity in the issuance of Diplomatic passports to hundreds of ineligible holders."
And that, "If sold to outsiders, the diplomatic passports could fetch millions of dollars. The former Chief Immigration Officer must be made to account for those passports."
In October 2014, Kholifa Koroma announced that 20,000 (Twenty thousand) passports had arrived in the country from the United Kingdom, and will be made available to the public
This is what the GTT report says about the illegal sale or issuing of the country's passport:
Passport Deals
In December 2013, the Government signed a new contract with Netpage, which purportedly represents the old British firm, Thomas de la Rue, to produce epassports for the GoSL.
Thomas de la Rue has been under contract with the GoSL since February 2000 to supply machine-readable passports and their associated issuing system for Sierra Leone.
Jamel Shallop, a Lebanese businessman, owns Netpage, which purportedly provides Thomas de la Rue's services in Sierra Leone.
The new contract was for the purchase of "passport issuing and personalization" from Thomas de la Rue to enable Sierra Leone to "migrate from readable passports to ePassports, and the design of new ePassports."
The total contract cost amounted to £2,195,360, of which the Government paid £1,680,641 upon signing the agreement. The other substantive terms of the contract are simply bizarre. All funds from the sale of the passports were to be given to Jamel Shallop and Co.
Netpage and the Government of Sierra Leone would earn only the Le 10,000 that citizens pay to obtain the passport application form.
The company, in other words, though paid for the service, benefits up to US $100 per passport fee that citizens' pay to actually obtain a new passport, and GoSL gets only about $1.25.
The GTT strongly recommends the contract with De la Rue and its supposed service provider company Netpage, be urgently reviewed.
Moreover, a verification exercise conducted by the GTT, of the issuance of 1,179 diplomatic passports, revealed that hundreds of ineligible citizens were granted diplomatic passports and that dozens of those passports could not be accounted for.
Two official directives – a 1998 Cabinet Conclusion and a 2007 declaration by President Koroma – restricted ownership of diplomatic passports to the President, Vice President, Speaker of Parliament, Chief Justice, cabinet ministers and deputy ministers, diplomatic representatives and Members of Parliament (this last category was added by President Koroma's Directive).
However, a list of diplomatic passport holders obtained by the GTT shows such luminaries as 'housewives' of senior APC leaders, their business associates and sundry other categories of persons holding diplomatic passports.
The GTT recommends that the issuance of Diplomatic passports be urgently reviewed and that the former Chief Immigration Officer, Kholifa Koroma, be investigated for his alleged complicity in the issuance of Diplomatic passports to hundreds of ineligible holders.
If sold to outsiders, the diplomatic passports could fetch millions of dollars. The former Chief Immigration Officer must be made to account for those passports.
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Corruption must be wiped out of Sierra Leone and so, all those involved must be taken to court and charged to account for anything they have done.
WITH CORRUPTION EVERYONE PAYS
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Whenever may Smith was actually presumably caught obtaining romantic with a female who's not his girlfriend, Jada, gossipers straight away hopped to accusations of an open matrimony.
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An upswing of Polyamory: What Exactly If Celebrities Posses an unbarred Marriage?
Tricia Romano
Will most likely and Jada Smith discovered themselves at middle of a scandal last week, whenever the tabloid celebrity journal allegedly caught Might canoodling with Margot Robbie, a 23-year-old celebrity and a costar of Focus, a motion picture he's shooting in brand-new Orleans.
The tabloid ran photos from a photo unit picture shoot of will likely and Robbie hamming it. In a single visualize they are baring their particular chests from the cam; an additional these are typically blinking serenity indicators; inside the 3rd, he's hugging the lady from after and putting the comfort sign. It appears quite chummy, if not always lascivious.
But Star's twist regarding the address facts might-be missing out on an integral component towards Smiths' marriage. While the cover blared: "Will & Jada: The photographs that'll Tear these Apart!" and so-called, "Will cheats with gorgeous 23-year-old in New Orleans," it's got for ages been reported that Smiths have actually an open commitment.
Robbie's currently taken up to Twitter to issue an assertion:
However in April, Jada Smith informed Huff blog post Live: "I've usually informed will likely, 'You may do whatever you decide and want if you will appear at your self inside the echo and stay okay. Because after the afternoon, Will is their own man," she said. "It is inspired by respecting that you're in a partnership hence also you include a specific at the same time."
Later on, she clarified in a myspace post: "Will and I also BOTH is capable of doing ANYTHING we would like, because we FAITH each other to accomplish this. This doesn't mean we have an open relationship…this means we've got a GROWN one."
Though they aren't totally fessing upwards, the Smiths aren't initial celebrity pair to manage open relationship speculation/rumors and available connection chat. Once the picture of Robin Thicke together with his give on Lana Scolaro's buttocks at a VMA afterparty is Instagrammed and Tweeted around the globe, the standard narrative of this celebrity scandal was upended. This time around, Thicke wasn't in some trouble together with girlfriend; she gotn't going to leave him; and then he wasn't obtaining dumped for being your pet dog.
Probably that features regarding Thicke's carefully cultivated—and fairly brand new— picture as a Lothario (read: "Blurred traces.") But in this narrative, his spouse, celebrity Paula Patton, is supposedly cool with-it all. Scolaro told the tabs that Patton was in another room, and didn't head. "the guy mentioned he and his spouse are cool. He was like, "Be great to the woman, she'll as you, she'll like your," she advised Life&Style.
And Thicke's interview with Howard Stern latest July furthermore appeared to imply that they'd an unusual union. "We've completed just about everything," the guy said. But the guy ended in short supply of claiming these people were in an unbarred relationships. "Out of regard on her, we just won't answer that certain."
Later, Patton's associate refuted everything: "It's simply a female trying to find some focus."
In the event the Smiths and Thicke and his partner have an extremely French arrangement, they willn't become by yourself. Polyamory and available affairs were getting prominence together with the market. From TV shows like Polyamory: committed and matchmaking to superstars like Mo'Nique coming out about being in an unbarred relationship, polyamorous (loosely understood to be adoring more than one individual at any given time) affairs have become most noticeable. If you should be on a dating website like OkCupid, then you've encountered someone who is in a relationship seeking spice things up.
"i internationalcupid profiles do believe a lot more people tend to be participating in available marriages and polyamory now than ever before," says Jenny Block, author of start: enjoy, Intercourse, and lifestyle in an Open relationship. "It's becoming obvious that heterosexual monogamous matrimony just does not benefit most people. And I imagine folks are sick of being unhappy and disappointed."
With 50 % of marriages finishing in divorce, monogamy might appear to be difficult perfect. "We cannot control our personal desires therefore we certainly cannot control the needs of people," claims Block, who has been in an unbarred relationships over the past 10 years. "You cannot determine people, 'Don't feel attracted to others. Don't want someone else.' You'll be able to state, 'If we're likely to be with each other, I want it to be monogamous.' However cannot manage another person's heart and head. The heart desires exactly what it desires."
A primary reason polyamory and available interactions aren't commonly recognized, per Block, is because of the cliche that it's only one big orgy for all present.
"The most significant false impression about poly/open marriages is the fact that they are a no cost for many hence no body cares about anyone else hence those who are involved include promiscuous whores. That's a load of bunk," Block says. "This is about caring for your lover adequate to discover all of them in general individual that has desires that deserve to be brimming. It's perhaps not about getting the stones down."
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Tag: germinating seed banked seeds
Can Frozen Seeds Survive for Centuries? We're Banking on It
In the race to save native plants like purple New England aster and fragrant American mountain mint, the Chicago Botanic Garden freezes seeds for future use—but will frozen seeds be able to grow after hundreds of years in storage? Researchers are trying to find out.
Environmental threats such as climate change have caused thousands of plants to become rare or endangered. The tallgrass prairie, which has lost 96 percent of its land to agriculture and other human activities, is one of the earth's most endangered habitats. By preserving seeds in the Garden's Dixon National Tallgrass Prairie Seed Bank, researchers are working to ensure that native species don't disappear in the wild.
Inside the seed vault at the Dixon National Tallgrass Prairie Seed Bank.
In winter 2015–16, two students from the Garden's graduate program, which is offered in collaboration with Northwestern University, helped with the Seed Bank's first germination trials. In the trial, a sampling of our oldest seeds was removed from deep freeze—a vault at minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit—and placed in favorable growing conditions to see if they would germinate after 13 years of dormancy.
Graduate student Alicia Foxx hard at work counting…
…and removing seeds that have germinated on an agar medium.
The results? Species such as New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae), water speedwell (Veronica comosa), and American mountain mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum) germinated well. Species such as enchanter's nightshade (Circaea lutetiana) and New Jersey tea (Ceanothus americanus) did not germinate; more research is needed to determine whether these seeds did not germinate because we were unable to figure out how to break their dormancy.
Seed sample sizes for trial were either 24, 60, or 75 seeds, depending on the number of seeds in the collection.
The results show that seed collection is an efficient and cost-effective way to preserve biodiversity for future generations; experts predict that many of our native seed can survive hundreds of years in a seed bank (we'll repeat the germination test in another ten years). Meanwhile, if you're interested in joining our team and helping with the critical work of seed collection or banking, contact us.
Download/read the full results here: Germinating Native Seeds from the Dixon National Tallgrass Prairie Seed Bank.
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Each monument represents the utmost in engineering, design and vision. They all stand as mighty symbols of American ingenuity, courage and sacrifice. Find out how these famous structures came to be, who conceived of them, whose sweat built them, and who dismissed them as fantasy. Find out why the Washington Monument took 100 years from conception to execution, why skeptics thought the Brooklyn Bridge wouldn't survive the first gale, and why it took until 2001 to erect the WWII Memorial. GREAT MONUMENTS OF AMERICA contains 8 acclaimed documentaries on 4 DVDs.


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UAA volleyball team swings into action with 4 matches in 3 days
Author: Beth Bragg
Updated: September 4, 2019
The UAA volleyball team returns to action Thursday at the Alaska Airlines Center. (Loren Holmes / ADN archives)
The word on this year's UAA volleyball team: Everything old is new again.
The Seawolves open the season Thursday night at the Alaska Airlines Center with a star middle blocker back on the roster after a four-year absence and two former players filling spots on the bench as assistant coaches.
Balancing those familiar faces are a host of new ones — nine freshmen, including three who were marquee players on Anchorage high school teams a year ago.
Guiding them all is Chris Green, who is back for his 12th season as UAA's head coach. Helping him this season are two of his former players — Stacie Meisner, one of Green's first recruits who was the team's libero in 2008 and 2009, and Brooke Pottle, an outside hitter in 2013 and 2014. Meisner served as the executive director of the Anchorage Sports Association from 2015-18, and Pottle was an assistant coach at Service High last season.
Also returning is Kayla McGlathery, a 6-foot middle blocker who played for the Seawolves in 2014. As a sophomore that season, she was named the Great Northwest Athletic Conference's Newcomer of the Year after leading UAA with a .313 attack percentage, a hitting efficiency that ranks seventh all-time among UAA's single-season leaders.
In last week's exhibition match against the UAA Alumni, McGlathery had a match-high two solo blocks to go with five kills and a .455 attack percentage. She hasn't played college volleyball since she left UAA, so she has two seasons of eligibility left.
Seven players are back from last season's 21-7 team, including two who were named to the GNAC's preseason all-conference team — 5-11 senior outside hitter Vanessa Hayes and 6-1 sophomore middle blocker Eve Stephens. Hayes is the team's lone senior.
Other top players back from last season are junior middle blocker Vera Pluharova, sophomore setter Ellen Floyd and junior defensive specialist Anjoilyn Vreeland.
Floyd emerged as UAA's No. 1 setter last season and is likely to share time with newcomer Emma Kleven, a South High graduate who joins the team after two seasons as a key player at Notre Dame de Namur, an NCAA Division II school in California. Kleven is a junior who spent last semester at UAA, so she's already familiar with the Seawolves.
Kleven, Stephens and Vreeland are among six Alaskans on the roster. The other three are freshman coming off successful high school careers — 6-1 outside hitter Mia Ekstrand and 5-5 defensive specialist Reilly Plumhoff were teammates on Dimond High's state championship team last season, and 5-6 setter/defensive specialist Julie Fetko was a first-team all-conference player for Service High.
The Seawolves will open the season by playing four matches in three days at the Seawolf Invitational. The five-team, round-robin tournament runs Thursday through Saturday at the Alaska Airlines Center.
Seawolf Invitational
Thursday's match
7 p.m. — UAA vs. Regis University
Friday's matches
9 a.m. — UC San Diego vs. Concord University
11:30 — Regis vs. Biola University
2 p.m. — UAA vs. Concord
4:30 p.m. — UC San Diego vs. Regis
7:30 p.m. — UAA vs. Biola
Saturday's matches
9 a.m. — Regis vs. Concord
11:30 a.m. — Biola vs. UC San Diego
5 p.m. — Concord vs. Biola
7:30 p.m. — UAA vs. UC San Diego
Beth Bragg
Beth Bragg is the sports editor for Anchorage Daily News. Contact her at bbragg@adn.com.


I wonder how they felt there perched on the edge, those men and women and little ones getting ready to put themselves between impossible walls of water. I wonder if that first step down the bank was hard, with the unnatural path ahead stretching long and dark. The line must have been slow, all those people and animals carrying everything they owned, plodding on through the night hours.
There was the pillar of fire back behind, a bright and terrifying promise of rescue from an army bent on their destruction, but up ahead all they could see were people's backs and a flood piled high on either side. Safety was still a long walk away.
That night the Israelites' faith looked like footsteps. They were scared and angry at Moses, not sure they believed that God was really rescuing them from the Egyptians. They could have turned back, could have given up and sat down, but when the water opened up they moved.
Each step a decision to believe enough for one moment. And those moments became minutes and then hours and then there they were all standing on the other side watching God overwhelm their enemies.
What made their footsteps firm wasn't their confidence or courage. It was the solid ground beneath their feet, a way forward that could have only been provided by God. They didn't have to know how it happened or how long it would hold, just that the next little patch of ground was still dry.
That's good news for me, friends. I can clearly see God's rescue behind us, ways that He's swooped in and placed Himself between my family and things meant for our destruction, and I can see that He's leading us forward into the next season of ministry. But this in-between path of building our financial partnership team… It's long and so much slower than we had hoped. We want with everything in us to be on the other bank, ready to launch into the important work that's waiting for us. The amount of our ministry budget that's still missing feels impossible some days, dollar signs moving at a snail's pace and looming walls of doubt and insecurity on either side.
And here we are forgetting that we walk a miracle road.
I don't have to see how we'll muster the energy to get from where we are to where we're going – in ministry, in parenting, in any area of life. I don't have to be holding onto enough faith to make it all the way to the other side.
Remember how God has provided.
Remember how He's been faithful.
Remember how this ministry, these kids of ours, these days ahead are really all His.
One moment of obedience leading into the next and the next. Every inch forward on miraculous ground. And then there we'll all be, standing and looking back at miles of second-by-second victories, just overwhelmed and grateful.
Am praying with you. The last figure I have is 75%. Has it climbed some? Love you guys!
It has! We're at 81% now. Thank you for praying!
I am praying for you guys, that you get your funding soon, or that my funds will increase so that I can help you more! Hope all is well, really enjoyed reading your blog about taking a step. It hit me right where I am now!
Just discovered your sight. Thank God for His leading. Going through a spell of trusting the Lord for several important things. I'm confident He will lead me through it all just as He did the Israelites and as He always has led me in the past. Just taking one step at a time. Thank you.


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Lou Williams rumors: Latest trade rumblings involving Thunder and Blazers
The Clippers may sell Lou Williams high in trade negotiations – [image credit: Ximo Pierto/Youtube]
Los Angeles Clippers guard Lou Williams is expected to draw multiple suitors as the NBA trade season officially commences.
by Onchie Ebriega Aguila (article) and Milos Kitanovic (video)
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There are many reasons why Lou Williams is among the top targets at the start of the trading season, but his calling card has always been 'getting buckets.' The dynamic combo guard is thriving in a starring role with the depleted Los Angeles Clippers, averaging a career-high 20.0 points on 45 percent FG shooting and 40 percent from behind the three-point line.
The Houston Rockets traded for Williams at last season's trade deadline for his explosive scoring ability, and his name will once again pop out in the rumor mill heading into the final days of the NBA trading period.
Here are the latest rumors concerning Williams and his potential trade suitors:
The OKC Thunder boasts one of the most talented offensive trios in the NBA, as Russell Westbrook (22.6 ppg), Paul George (20.3 ppg) and Carmelo Anthony (17.7 ppg) combined for almost 75 percent of the team's total point production per game.
However, OKC bench hasn't provided that much this year. In fact, it's been a while since the Thunder had a reliable scorer off the bench. Great Thunder teams in the past usually had James Harden and Reggie Jackson on their second unit to lean on. Right now, they don't have a clear-cut scorer off the bench.
The Skinny: Williams would dramatically improve the Thunder's offensive firepower. The question now is which players the Thunder are willing to give up in exchange for the former Sixth Man of the Year. Spanish guard Alex Abrines looks like an enticing trade bait. The same could also be said for rookie winger Terrance Ferguson, who never gets enough playing time because of the logjam at the wing spot.
The Portland Trail Blazers
OKC's situation is somewhat similar to the Trail Blazers' current ordeal.
Portland has one of the NBA's most explosive backcourt duo in Damian Lillard and C.J McCollum, but sorely lacks a spark from their bench. Evan Turner is a solid all-around player, though he has never been known for scoring the ball in bunches.
The Skinny: What the Blazers are missing is a high-caliber scorer like Williams. Terry Stotts' offense is predicated on the offensive ability of his backcourt.
Right now, the Blazers don't have a player who could emulate the impact Lillard and McCollum on the offensive end. Trading Williams would absolutely solve that problem. Of course, the Clippers aren't just going to give up Williams that easily.
The Blazers don't have much to use as trade bait. They can convince the Clippers to take Ed Davis' expiring contract worth $6 million along with a future first rounder.
Again, it's going to be a hard sell, and it may require the inclusion of another prospect (Caleb Swanigan or Noah Vonleh) in their package to seal the deal.
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Who would have thought on the 28th October 1998 when a young 17-year-old John Terry made a substitute appearance in the League Cup against Aston Villa, he will go on to achieve what would have been thought impossible at the time. Since then Terry has had some highs and lows, but through it all, Chelsea Football Club has been the constant.
Terry had only made 15 first team appearances before being shipped out on loan to Nottingham Forest, whereby he played 6 times and the team keeping 3 clean sheets. In this day and age, it would have been a perfect example of a Chelsea youth product out on loan and staying there for years on end, with the end product being sold to an inferior club. However, Johns return saw him named on the bench for Chelsea's F.A Cup success against the club he first appeared for the club; Aston Villa. Was this the start of Terry's hunger for success?
In the summer of 2004 Jose Mourinho made JT's appointment of club captain a permanent choice after Desailly leaving the club, and Terry was being selected for the National team on a regular basis. In a matter of 5 years John went from loanee to club captain and international footballer. JTs first season as Chelsea captain couldn't have gone any better with the club going on to win their first top flight title in 50 years and the League Cup. Chelsea's defence was the team's greatest weapon as well, keeping 24 clean sheets and only conceding 15 goals all year, Terry was the orchestrator at the heart of the Chelsea team. His fellow professional had also realised what a player JT had become, with John winning the PFA Player of the Year award and being named in the 'Best Defender in the Champions League' and being selected in the FIFPro World XI. Chelsea and John Terry went on to regain the Premier League the following season.
In the summer of 2006 John Terry was named England captain, succeeding David Beckham. The success just continued, with Terry leading the club to a domestic Cup double. During the League Cup final against Arsenal, Terry received a kick to the face whereby he was knocked out and was close to swallowing his tongue. Terry's ironman persona came shining through with terry returning to the Millennium Stadium to celebrate with his teammates. He even had stint in goal for Chelsea, with Cech and Cudicini both getting injured in the same game, JT took the gloves and played the final few minutes in goal; keeping a clean sheet.
That summer the man who gave Terry the captaincy left the club and was the start of many manager changes at the club, which saw John Terry be the leader throughout and continued to lead the club to major honours. Terry led the club all the way to the Champions League final; the one trophy missing from Terry's cabinet. A game which Terry says he still wakes up at night in shock about and a game that will live long his memory. JT took a decisive penalty in which if he scored Chelsea would have won the Champions League; Terry slipped on the penalty spot and his shot hit the outside of the post. Chelsea went on to lose the game.
Over the next 2 years Terry was playing under Ancelotti, again, leading the club to an F.A Cup in the first year and then regaining the Premier League the year later with another F.A Cup. Off the field however, terry was going through hard times and the England Captaincy was stripped from him for non-footballing reasons. Terry was reinstated as England captain, just over a year after it had been taken away from him. However, a year later Terry was stripped of the captaincy again against the wishes of then manager Fabio Capello, who resigned over the incident.
During the 2011/12 season saw a former Chelsea player who Terry once looked up, in Roberto Di Matteo. Together they created an atmosphere around the club and the feeling of something special could happen. Terry was able to put to bed the nightmares of Moscow by finally winning the Champions League in Munich. This fine achievement was added with another F.A Cup win. At the start of the next season, JT decided to retire from international duty, due to feeling his position was now untenable. The following year Terry went on to lift another European trophy, the Europa League.
Terry went just over 18 months without a trophy, the longest in a decade. But has recently led Chelsea to win the League Cup, and is currently set to be crowned Premier League champion again having a stunning campaign and producing performances of old. Terry had not long left on his contract which was due to expire this summer. On 26 March 2015, Terry signed one year extension to his contract, Terry said "after adding another major trophy to my collection this month I hope myself, the players and manager can continue to bring success to our club". Terry will be hoping to play for a few more seasons still to come, leading the club he loves and hoping to gain one more Champions League winners medal. John is now 3rd in Chelsea's all time appearance records and has led the club out onto the field more times than anyone else.


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Just like many others here, I am having the 'no cheats found' problem.
What's particularly messed up about this though is that other games work fine but the one I'm having trouble with, Final Fantasy XII, doesn't work.
What's even more weird is that it used to work!
It worked all day every day until I decided to copy the memory card file and the cheats file to bring it from work to home and home to work.
When I copied the saves and cheats to my home computer, I had the same problem with pcsx2 not being able to detect the pnach file.
But somehow I made it work and figured that it wouldn't be a problem copying it back to my work computer but now anything I try doesn't seem to work.
Does anyone have any idea what I could be doing wrong?
I've tried moving entire directories and even setting up pcsx2 from scratch.
Why did it stop working when all I had done was copy back and forth the memory card save file and the pnach file?
Lastly, I wanted to thank anyone in advance for the help since I know this support is free and I am very grateful to whomever is willing to put in the effort to help. Very grateful.
I recommend using the stable binary or use an SVN. All the folders including cheats are in one main directory. There was another user who had a similar problem a couple days ago, and reinstalling fixed the issue.
(06-04-2013, 08:45 PM)DaTankAC Wrote: I recommend using the stable binary or use an SVN. All the folders including cheats are in one main directory. There was another user who had a similar problem a couple days ago, and reinstalling fixed the issue.
I am not familiar with these terms, stable binary or SVN. Also, I have tried re-installing from scratch and I continue to have the same strangeness.
Thank you for the input though.
If anyone else has any ideas, I would greatly appreciate it.
It worked fine before! All the settings and information are the same! whyyyy???
How can simply copying over the memory card file and pnach file have caused this? Is it a bug?
I have no where else to turn! Save me PCSX2 forums! You are my last hope!
Go here and download latest SVN (in between the stable versions these are builds with changes in the code in between).
This will have everything you need in one main directory, including cheats folder. Copy all your memory card and other necessary files over. Run pcsx2, and don't forget to "enable cheats".
With the full installer there are sometimes permission issues related to "program files" directory. Plus full installer put additional files in documents directory.
Using SVN is much easier. The cheats folder is right there to use.
No good. I tried 3 different iterations of the Automated PCSX2 builds but I can't run any of them. I keep getting a "Failed to getnetadapter()" error and a windows send error report prompt.
As far as the cheats went...it detect the PNACH but loaded 0 cheats?
Remove the special characters in the pnach, or change it's encoding to utf-8 unicode. That's known problem with the parser dealing with regional ISO encoding.
this one is enough to make the log to show "no cheat codes loaded".
(06-05-2013, 05:41 PM)nosisab Ken Keleh Wrote: Remove the special characters in the pnach, or change it's encoding to utf-8 unicode. That's known problem with the parser dealing with regional ISO encoding.
All other codes start the address with 2 and they are already formatted as word. This last starts with 1 and crashes the emulator, let's make it 0 and hope it works... Oh, it worked!!!!
But it is wrong, the code is erasing what shouldn't with unforeseeable consequences. Possibly no serious consequences but still wrong.
Edit: The advice is changing the first digit at the address to 1 once again (just for the two last codes in the OP) and replacing "word" for "extended".
From now on the usage of "extended" should be strongly encouraged because it does not change the original code and no confusion comes from mistakes.
Wow, you even fixed the cheat that was ruining my life to work properly.
I'd give you another +rep if I could.


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CHICAGO, Oct. 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Conagra Brands, Inc.
The most recent short interest data was recently released for the 09/28/2018 settlement date, and Conagra Brands Inc is the #129 most shorted of the S&P 500 components, based on 4.55 "days to cover." There are a number of ways to look at short data, but one metric that we find particularly useful is the "days to cover" because it considers both the total shares short and the average daily volume of shares typically traded. The number of shares short is then divided by the average daily volume, to express the total number of trading days it would take to close out all of the open short positions if every share traded represented a short position being closed.
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Why bother with TSE? It's a core tell of the economy.
Stocks ended modestly higher Thursday, after giving back more than half of their earlier gains as investors digested the latest economic data and the Fed's rate hike.
The most recent short interest data has been released for the 09/14/2018 settlement date, and we here at Dividend Channel like to sift through this fresh data and order the underlying components of the S&P 500 by "days to cover." There are a number of ways to look at short data, for example the total number of shares short; but one metric that we find particularly useful is the "days to cover" metric because it considers both the total shares short and the average daily volume of shares typically traded. The number of shares short is then compared to the average daily volume, in order to calculate the total number of trading days it would take to close out all of the open short positions if every share traded represented a short position being closed.
A study of analyst recommendations at the major brokerages shows that Conagra Brands Inc is the #9 broker analyst pick among those stocks screened by The Online Investor for strong stock buyback activity. To make that list, a stock must have repurchased at least 5% of its outstanding shares over the trailing twelve month period.
Let's check out the charts again to see if we might break out of that long trading range.
Here's what you need to know now for Wednesday, July 18.
People need to eat and controlling what goes into their mouths is worth billions.
The markets look so sloppy. The CEOs of Conagra Brands and Chipotle are two executives on a mission - investors should like that. Meanwhile, Amazon continues to innovate.
Stocks closed sharply lower Wednesday, led by losses in tech shares on concern over Trump administration policy towards Chinese investments in U.S. companies.
Conagra Foods CEO explains why he is spending big to buy frozen food player Pinnacle Foods.
Health and convenience are boosting sales of frozen food including vegetable sides.
Trade war fears continue to weigh on stocks. Shares of chip player Nvidia have been creamed this week on those fears. Time to buy? Meanwhile, Conagra's acquisition of Pinnacle Foods could be a sign of more food deals.


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Q: Android Pjsip Video Call: Green screen before actual window renderred I am implementing Video Call using the Pjsip library and 80% it worked well.
I am facing one issue like when I initiate a video call, it first displays a green screen like below and then renders actual video streaming.

I am not getting any hint over here.
Can anyone please help me with this?


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The 2015 global monitoring report by UNESCO on education didn't bring some promising indicators and findings from Pakistan.
I had not read the above mentioned report if Rohayl Varind hasn't contacted me on social media.
Rohayl is the founder of Slum schools project, which started from Faisalabad. Yes, he is the same Rohayl, who started "Wall of Humanity", the crafted wall on which clothes and other basic essentials of life are hung as giveaways for the unfortunate people of Pakistan.
According to Pakistani media, "Wall of Humanity" project inspired India and they also adopted it there. This time, Rohayl has come up with the project for educating the children living in slum areas in Pakistan. According to Rohayl, the slum schools are established outdoor with a whiteboard and a committed volunteer teacher like Rohayl.
Rohayl's project reminded me Hasan and Shireen, two siblings started the street school in Karachi, where they teach more than 25 children, who sell flowers and other things on the streets.
Since Slum school's inauguration, which happened in December 2016, it has been teaching more than 35 children with the provision of food bags, books and stationary.
"I also ensure that all the children in the school get polio vaccination," says Rohayl.
He said that he is not only teaching the basic education but also the basic ethics and etiquette.
Rohayl runs the school five days a week with the help of two part time volunteers; Fiza Imran and Sabat Gillani, both are employees of private education sector. Rohayl has been doing the philanthropy for few years in the shape of providing ration to the needy people and projects like "Wall of Humanity" but what convinced him to start the idea slum school? According to him, the illiteracy is the root cause of the poverty. Therefore, spreading education among all will reduce the paucity in the country. Currently, Rohayl has no strong monetary support other than his close friends who share their part by giving him stationary and other needed stuff.
Rohayl said, "The main motive of this school is to bring basic knowledge and education, otherwise deprived children raised in the same situation would not be having even an inkling of or just meager knowledge or education otherwise".
In 2015, Rohayl won "World Summit Youth award" in Brazil for his project Voice of R. Rohayl has recently been selected as Juror member and ambassador of the UNESCO's Youth Summit award.
Some among us will find these projects inspiring, and these are rousing but I also see the failure of the Pakistani system here. According to the constitution of Pakistan, the basic education, which include elementary and secondary education, should be provided with no cost; then I see the collective failure of the system which couldn't bring the children to the doorstep of education.
There are many factors which include poverty, but I also see corruption. Corruption and inequality have eaten the society like termites. The weak democratic system which was developed with the collision of dictatorship and civil government could not bring the transparency in education system.
Rohayl Varind told me that he hasn't opened any bank account for Slum Schools and he is not accepting any donation for the project.
He said that his simple wish or idea is to expand the project to other parts of the country through other people or organizations. He wants others to adopt the project by going in the slum areas of their cities with a whiteboard and few books and start teaching the underprivileged of those areas.


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At the behest of several people in the other pak128 server thread I have created a server for the purposes of playing crafted scenarios.
Currently running r4359 (110.0.1 stable) with openpak128 nightly.
This server is accessible via both IPv4 and IPv6.
Thank you very much for making this server, Timothy! I think I speak for everyone that we are really enjoying it!
It does appear that it has crashed however (the usual never unpauses when a client joins).
Still needs some work, but thought I'd demonstrate what I'm working on at the moment.