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"Walking the Perfect Square" by Reed Farrel Coleman (Busted Flush Press, 2008)
More so than any other private detective I've ever read about, Moe Prager seems like a real human being. He's no crusading knight, action hero, or existentialist antihero. Nor is he just an "ordinary" guy set in "extraordinary" circumstances. The story of Walking the Perfect Square comes right out of our daily newspapers, and its characters are people we pass on the street everyday, sit next to on the bus, or live under our same roof. It would have been easy for Reed Farrel Coleman to concede to genre, to make compromises with his story just because certain things are "accepted" in mystery fiction. Instead, he tries to ensure that the gravity of real life is felt in every gesture, in every plot twist, and in every line of dialogue. He's skilled enough a storyteller than he can tie up loose ends without necessarily resolving the tensions felt by the characters. For, if anything, the circumstances of Walking the Perfect Square continue to haunt not only the characters, but also the readers, long after the book is over.
When a dying man he has never met calls him to his bedside to hear a secret, Moe Prager is sent thirty years into the past to relive his first ever case as a private investigator. It is 1978, and he has just been laid-off from the NYDP during an economic slump. Still recovering from an un-heroic slip on a piece of paper that left his knee badly injured, Prager takes a job as a private investigator in a missing persons case involving a young college student that disappeared after a night at the bar. The more Prager searches, however, the more he is convinced that not only does the kid not want to be found, but that his family might not want him found either.
Originally published in 2001, Walking the Perfect Square was reprinted by Busted Flush Press in 2008 in a great new edition with a foreword by Megan Abbott (Edgar-winning author of Queenpin and other excellent books) and an afterword by Coleman in which he discusses the creation and evolution of Prager's character. Abbott's introduction, in particular, is an invaluable companion to the book, helping to place Coleman within the context of the private eye genre, and pointing out where he diverges from tradition and forges his own path. "Betrayals can and do occur, but Prager's relationships—romantic, familial, collegial, fraternal—are as central to this novel as [Phillip] Marlowe's are to his," Abbott writes. This sense of Prager being firmly a part of, and product of, his community is something missing from Hammett, Chandler, Spillane, and many of the foundational writers. Those detectives are loners, marginal characters that can't exist within the world as it exists. They have to be a force for change, whether it is actualized or not. Prager, on the other hand, is subject to the forces at hand. Like the rest of us, he's trying to get by. He's not happy with what he sees, but he knows he's not a superhero. He does what he can, and lives with the consequences.
Perhaps Moe Prager is best summed up in this one line: "No, Mr. Beaman. I'm not smart. I just have a conscience."
And lest you get the impression that Coleman lacks a sense of humor – well, he doesn't. In fact, he's pretty damn funny. As you'll see, some of my favorite lines in the book are full of Coleman's warm, perceptive wit. If you'd like to sample more of Walking the Perfect Square, head over to Busted Flush Press where you can purchase the book, or download this PDF that includes a lengthy excerpt of the novel, as well as both Megan Abbott and Coleman's new essays.
And now—on with the quotes!
"The answer I give as to how I hurt the knee is inversely proportionate to the amount of alcohol I've consumed. Sober, I tell them I was hit by a flaming arrow shot by some schizophrenic junkie from a housing project roof in Queens. Two drinks, I tell them I injured the knee catching a baby thrown from a burning building by its frantic mother. Shitfaced, I tell the truth: I slipped on a piece of carbon paper in the squad room."
"He wasn't impressed by my powers of deduction. He wasn't the type to be impressed by much. Maybe, I thought, if I pulled a silver dollar from behind his ear…"
"Pooty's was the kind of place where people were encouraged to gouge their initials into the tables with keys. Old poets went there to die."
"When I walked in even the flies yawned. So much for High Noon."
"His ears were so littered with studs, safety pins and dangling razor blades that if he were to stand between two strong magnets his face would peel off."
"Eating ribs on a second date takes nerve. It's difficult to look suave gnawing on dead pig bones and licking red goo off your fingers. And scraping sinew out from between your teeth always drives 'em wild."
"I suppose it's a scientific impossibility, but sometimes it just seems that, like a rug or silk tie, the atmosphere can be permanently stained."
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Preview: Southwest Show 2020
VinceH February 13, 2020 February 13, 2020 Comments Off on Preview: Southwest Show 2020
It is now just over a week until the first show of the calendar year takes place – the RISC OS Southwest Show – so why not sit back, relax, and look ahead to who will be there, and what they'll be showing you?
And if you're one of the exhibitors, after reading this, you can go into a full blown panic as you realise just how close we are to the show, and how much preparation you still have to do!
Last year saw the show move to a new venue, after a couple of decades of taking place in the old one. The organisers received positive feedback about the new location from both visitors and exhibitors, and coupled with the show having been considered a success in that venue, it is to play host once again. So your destination on Saturday, 22nd February, is:
Arnos Manor Hotel,
470 Bath Road,
Arnos Vale,
BS4 3HQ.
Conveniently located, the Arnos Manor Hotel is easy to reach whatever your mode of transport. There are bus stops close by, with Temple Meads Railway Station only a short bus ride away, and for those coming by car it's only a short drive from junction 3 of the M32, which runs into Bristol from M4 junction 19. And if you want to see what some common driving routes to reach the hotel look like, look no further than these directions, put together with dashcam still frames.
The doors will be open from 10:30am until 4:00pm, and once you've gained entry in return for a fiver, here's a taster of what you can expect to see:
Given that the show is organised by Andrew Rawnsley and Richard Brown, of R-Comp and Orpheus Internet respectively, and also both of RISC OS Developments, that's three companies you should encounter as you wander around the hall. A particular highlight of the R-Comp stand will be the ARMbook – an ARM-based laptop with RISC OS running natively – and you can probably expect updates to a number of the company's software products. Meanwhile, RISC OS Developments will be the stand to visit if you want to hear about the latest developments with Impression (which they acquired last year), what their plans are for RISC OS (which they acquired the year before), and news of the web browser developments (the reason the company was formed in the first place).
Wi-Fi Sheep will be at the show – and it's no coincidence that I've mentioned them straight after RISC OS Developments. The two companies are working together on a video series, and a RISC OS distribution for the Raspberry Pi, both under the banner RISC OS Direct.
When are either of these likely to appear? That's anybody's guess, but even if neither is launched at this show, I'd be surprised if there isn't some early preview for visitors to see – after all, this is the show organised by two of the directors of one of the companies in the collaboration!
But back to Wi-Fi Sheep, who will also be trying something new at the show: a live broadcast of the event, streamed via their YouTube channel. According to Tom Williamson in this Wi-Fi Sheep video from late last month, they will attempt to broadcast for the whole duration of the show, and – if it works – viewers can expect to see a mixture of things; interviews with other exhibitors, a look at the various stands, and so on. Even if it doesn't work, and can't be watched live, Tom says the video recording will be made available on the Wi-Fi Sheep channel as soon as possible afterwards, so keep a close eye on the channel.
This year will see the welcome return of MW Software, with Martin Wuerthner once again flying in from Germany to be there – his first appearance at a UK show since 2018, when he appeared at both the Southwest a Wakefield Shows.
AMCOG Games will be showing off yet another new title to an ever growing range – this time submerging the player in dihydrogen monoxide (er, that's water by the way) in a game called SCUBA Hunter. If you ask AMCOG's Tony Bartram nicely, he might also tell you about other titles in the works, such as Hair Rush and Haunted House.
RISCOSitory is late – as ever – setting up the RISC OS Awards poll for 2019, so depending on stand space (and whether the poll is actually up and running by the time of the show) if you pop along to the Soft Rock Software stand, it might be possible to cast your votes there – though this isn't yet certain. Another possibility could be paper forms that can be completed at any point during the day and handed in at the stand.
The Soft Rock Software stand will also have information about the local user group – Bristol RISC OS Users (BRU) – and three other user groups will also be represented at the show: Andrew Conroy will be representing the Southampton RISC OS User Group (SROUG) – able to do so because he doesn't have to work on the CJE Micro's stand, since the company isn't attending. Bryan Hogan will have a stand for those who want to find out about the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL), and Rob Coleman will be representing the Acorn and BBC User Group, as well as showing off his own projects, such as his port of Doom to the BBC Micro.
And all of that amounts to less than half of the number of exhibitors set to appear at the show – so why not come along and see what else there is?
Shows Bristol, Show, Southwest
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CPNHS COVID-19 pandemic update
Published by CPN Public Information Office at June 3, 2020
By Dr. Adam Vascellaro, D.O., CPN Chief Medical Officer
I would like to share an update regarding the coronavirus/SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic. This crisis is real and has dominoed its way to Oklahoma, including Oklahoma City, Pottawatomie County and finally to Citizen Potawatomi Nation Health Services. We have been serving a few COVID-19 patients since March of 2020. Most were evaluated and diagnosed in mid-to-late March, but their symptoms had started in early March, meaning COVID-19 was in Oklahoma even as CPN and CPNHS began their proactive preparations.
Again, CPNHS was well prepared to handle COVID-19 patients in the safest way possible. Our safety protocols for patients, employees and coworkers have proven highly successful and are still in place. This includes COVID-19 pressurized tents, requiring all that enter our clinics wear a surgical/cloth-type mask, continued telehealth, drive-thru pharmacy pickup, screening and temperature checks at the doors, restrictions on visitors, multi-layered social distancing, increased cleaning and disinfecting protocols, drive-thru Title VI meal pickup and many other measures.
CPNHS has a relatively small sampling of COVID-19 patients, around two per 1,000, but it has been enough to make it palpable, educational and eye opening. I have personally talked and continue dialoge with all our COVID-19 patients that I'm aware of. It has impacted mainly CPN tribal members and their families. One early observation that is clear is when one member of a family or household gets infected, most members of the household get infected as well. Due to this and federally encouraged "contact tracing," CPNHS has started offering lab testing to not only patients but also their first-degree contacts in the household, usually family, who are eligible. This includes initial and follow-up COVID-19 nasopharyngeal polymerase chain reaction testing combined with COVID-19 IgG antibody testing. An algorithm using the two tests is applied to get a reasonable determination of susceptibility, early infection, late infection and immunity. It's not perfect. There are too many unknowns still, but it is the best we have at present.
Typically, COVID-19 patients I've spoken with share the history of flu-like illness: fever, cough, shortness of breath, loss of taste or smell, scratchy throat, bad headache and chills. A few get gastrointestinal symptoms, including vomiting and diarrhea. Some just get a mild cold or allergy symptoms. Loss of smell and taste has become a hallmark symptom of this disease. If you are a CPNHS patient with the previously mentioned COVID-19 symptoms, current or previous COVID-19 infection or exposure, please call your medical provider/clinic first and notify them of the situation. You then will be given appropriate guidance.
Most patients have been treated symptomatically at home, but we have had a handful hospitalized and a couple need ventilator assistance. We have had a couple develop pulmonary emboli (blood clots in their lungs) after infection. Due to this increase risk of blood clots, CT imaging studies with contrast are now indicated sooner if you develop shortness of breath in the recovery phase of the disease. Many have residual shortness of breath, fatigue, shakiness and mental confusion even after entering recovery from a lab perspective. Any diagnosed patients that develop worsening shortness of breath must go to the hospital for probable admission, close observation, and/or symptomatic treatment including oxygen and breathing assist devices. CPNHS has not yet had a confirmed primary COVID-19 patient death.
Although things have been constantly changing, progressing and dimming since February, recently the Light has started to shine through, and needed hope is growing.
Symptomatic, primarily respiratory, support is working for most patients and local hospitals, and ICUs and their ventilators have not been saturated with coronavirus patients. COVID-19 nasopharyngeal PCR testing has improved to the point of real time, in-house results if symptomatic and two to three days for those non-symptomatic. COVID-19 IgG antibody testing has been a valuable addition, but it is best used in combination with PCR testing. Gilead released the promising intravenous medication Remdesivir, which is not in Oklahoma yet, but it will soon make its way to regional hospitals for use on the sickest patients. Convalescent plasma transfusion is gaining traction for early use after hospitalization. Vaccine development and clinical trials are happening at a breakneck pace with a huge positive announcement by Moderna on May 19, 2020, indicating the probability of an effective, safe and mass-deployable COVID-19 vaccine by the first of next year.
CPNHS has formulated its "Gating Criteria and Phased Comeback" plan under the leadership of Dr. Kassi Roselius, medical professional director and public health coordinator. These are the plans to taper off COVID-19 safety and get to a "new normal" currently estimated for Aug. 1, 2020. Once we get there, things will stay that way until herd immunity to COVID-19 is reached either by 80 percent of people becoming infected or getting immunized. The latter is much preferred and the probable route. My estimation for herd immunity to this coronavirus and getting back to a true normal is January of 2021.
I'll end with how proud I am of over 200+ dedicated CPNHS employees who are taking real risks at work but still working hard and safely during this crisis. Most are still working on the front lines in the clinics and the rest are supporting via telework from home. Thus far, no CPNHS employees have contracted COVID-19 while performing their health care related duties at CPNHS.
My initial fear of the coronavirus pandemic has turned more to a healthy concern. I've prayed more than usual these past few months. Many of our patients have let us know they are praying for us. We are very thankful, and I ask you to please continue to do so.
Language update: January 2021


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10. That dressage judge screwed me, my coach told me I put in the winning test.
9. It's totally unfair that I have to compete against Olympians.
8. Those unlucky four rails cost me a ribbon.
7. As if the jump judge called that a stop, it only took me three minutes to kick my dumb horse off that drop.
6. I might be dead last but at least I work a 'real' full-time job.
5. His horse is so nice, it's a shame he cannot ride because I know I'd win a four-star on it.
4.The cross-country course designer is too soft. If it was tougher clearly I would've been the only rider to jump a double clear.
3. If I had as much money as her I would be winning this thing too.
2. She's winning because she slept with the dressage judge.
1. If I didn't fall off at the first fence on cross-country I would've won.


There are two Charles. One reads a lot and writes. The other plays all sorts of games. Both are contemplative and love to strategize. They seldom exist in the same space however. The first Charles could spend years devoting himself to fiction with nary a thought when it comes to games. When the latter emerges, however, there is this overwhelming desire to be the best: why bother pursuing something if you're not going to excel in it?
Writing and reading scratches a different itch: the more I write, the more I become aware that I'm lacking in a lot of areas. And that's not necessarily a bad thing: I think style and voice is important for writers, and if you compensate for your weaknesses too much, you might end up with a diluted narrative. Which isn't to say we can't evolve or become better as writers; but the more you develop as a writer, the more evident your shortcomings become.
Gaming is different. I love games which have a high skill ceiling and there's much room for growth. In recent years, games that I've become obsessed with include Starcraft II, Dota 2, Eclipse, and Mage Wars. While I may never completely master these games, there's an immediate payoff after a short amount of research, training, and practice: you objectively become better playing these games. While writing and critical reading can be subjective (and some writers are plagued with the inability to judge their own writing: what others consider as their talent is crap to them and vice versa), there are definite goals and rewards in games.
Both endeavors, however, require time and effort. It's why I seldom manage to juggle both at any one time (and why extra-curricular activities are sacrificed for the sake of your corresponding passions).
For the past few months, the aspect of myself obsessed with games is what's surfaced. In many ways, it's the me that looks for escape, a distraction from everything else. I have my feedback loop: I'm getting better at this, and other people should acknowledge me for my skill.
Recently though, I've been facing an emotional slump, and reading-writing is what I eventually fall back upon. It's art, and all the complexity that entails: art can be touching, gripping, and relevant to the challenges I face. But on the other hand, it can also be elusive, abstract, and shrouded in Mystery. There are no fixed rules, roles, or goals in life and fiction for me mimics that. I dislike the statement that writers are liars: for me, they articulate truth, even if it's not necessarily what we immediately perceive as reality.
This is me picking up the pieces, rediscovering who I am, rekindling my passion for stories, and coming back to what's meaningful.


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Q: Android's equivalent to CoreText We have an App for iOS that renders an enormous amount of text: http://itunes.apple.com/br/app/biblia-sagrada/id370178518?mt=8
We use CoreText to render text and give the user the ability to change formatting, font-size and font face.
We are trying to port it to Android but I'm not sure if there's a substitute for CoreText in Android.

A: The equivalent to iOS' CoreText in Android is the drawText APIs, part of the Canvas class,  Canvas.drawText(), Canvas.drawPosText(), etc. see javadoc for Canvas for more detail. These graphics APIs use Skia underneath.
The functionalities that these graphics APIs provide are not the same as those in iOS, say there's no CTFramesetter equivalent that helps you layout text and handle line breaks for you. With the drawText APIs, you can only draw one line at a time, you will have to handle line breaks yourself, It is like using CTTypesetter in iOS. For laying out text, see Paint.breakText and Paint.measureText.
For changing font size & font face, you can set related attributes in the Paint object, which is passed as the last parameter to the drawText APIs.
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Note: The coordinate system used in the Android drawText APIs is from left-top corner.

A: TextView can handle "the ability to change formatting, font-size and font face", via spannable strings. See the android.text.style package for the various effects that you can apply.
In terms of "enormous amounts of text", wrap the TextView in a ScrollView.
You can always fall back to using WebView, which gives you full WebKit capabilities to render HTML, if needed.

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The Lady Spartans played three games today. They fell to Coppell, 0 – 2, went 1 – 2 with Chapin, and ended the day with a win over Sam Houston, 2 – 0. Molly McCalla had several solid hits, and Maddie Hutchins was a blocking machine. All-in-all, it was a great effort by the Lady Spartans today and we look forward to seeing what they do tomorrow. They will start the day off with Brewer, then play Timberview, and end the day with L. D. Bell.


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Q: Azure B2C user flows - accessibility issues on screen readers We currently have issues to make the B2C user flows accessible from a screen reader perspective.
All the DOM ingested by the MS user flows in junction with our html/css UI files makes impossible for a screen reader to don´t crash or work with normality.
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How can I stop my 18mth springer from barking at the vet?! Its very embarassing,he barks constantly, I cant even be heard!! Help!!
I can sort of understand your springer, usually when they go to the vets they get jabbed or prodded and she is letting know she doesn't like it.
You shouldn't be embarrassed the vet will be used to it.
Sadly I cannot offer any advice to help stop it.
It sounds like its a form of stress. One of ours used to get worried at the vets, so we used to just 'pop in'. We'd sit for a while, talk to the staff & then go. The association with the vets & pain was removed and each time the stress barking reduced.
Might help. Best of luck.
Many thanks for your comments on how i can stop Diesel barking at the vets.
I have tried treats and toys and have walked him before going.
This has taken me by surprise as i have never had a dog like this.Diesel has been twice to the vets in the last month because he keeps eating stones. He wears a cage muzzle when he is in the garden,which is where the problem is. The vets have said that they will have to put him out next time to check him over,because he is that bad. He is such a sweetie otherwise it is such a shame he has this phobia.
Does your springer have a favourite toy or ball to take to the vet to keep his focus more on something really great? Some really yummy treats might work to if he is more food oriented. My springer is very ball oriented so I play ball and she can have it when she behaves. It's a hard one to stop because they are communicating as well. Good luck.
Do you make sure she is as tired as it is possible to get a springer before you take her to the vet (I know you can't tire a young spaniel easily!). If it is within walking distance I would walk her there and back. I would take her into the vets when she is having nothing done, sure they won't mind. Sit in the waiting room, give her treats and then get up and leave. She may then associate vets with treats, not being prodded and poked. Worth a try, if you explain to the staff what you are doing I am sure they will be supportive.
Our 2 year old springer Ruby talks alot. And barks while laying or wanting our attention. And won't stop until she is happy. Not sure if this helps. But they are just trying to communicate with you. They thrive on lots of attention.


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Leanne Ross
Dogs on the sofa, 2020
42 cm x 30 cm (unframed)
Edition of 80, work comes with a signed COA by the artist
The price of the edition increases as the edition sells out.
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About the Edition
Leanne Ross works on a project called KMAdot.com (Kiss my Art) - KMAdotcom is an artist studio based in Mayfield, Midlothian where artist's with and without learning disabilities work together. KMAdot.com are fourteen artists who produce artwork inspired by their interests and personalities. The studio is a space to experiment with ideas, materials and processes.
Ross has been involved in KMAdot.com for over five years. Her 'shout out' poster paintings are snippets of her conversations in the studio. Ross' words are matched with colours which she meticulously journals throughout the year. Although Ross' language is personal to her, whenever she exhibits, her words resonate loudly with others. Simultaneously poetic and brutal, echoing techniques seen within concrete poetry.
Envy would praise his beauty, 2020
France-Lise McGurn
Dream bod and Bronco, 2020
Phyllida Barlow
pointer, 2020
Ain Bailey and Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski
Remember to Exhale, 2020
Aaron Angell
Ten frogs for Tomi Ungerer
Dickon Drury
The Who's Who of Whos, 2016
Sophie Von Hellermann
Candide, 2019


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The wonderful thing with the PC game is that while the huge firms always stick around – unless they're bought by another – smaller ones tend to come and go, which keeps the industry relatively fresh faced; at least in certain areas. One that sees a revamp every now and again is the chassis market; which is important, as innovation can often be hard to come by.
Today I'm looking at a product from a company that's certainly new on my radar, Cubitek, with their Tattoo case. Let's see how long they deserve to be on screen for.
Great review I must say, very structured and thought out.
I'm considering buying this for my new rig!


I am writing today to let you know about my next pattern release and Quilt Along following a couple of weeks after.
Flower Shop is a big block quilt that consists of three types of blocks - square, half square triangle, and curved (drunkards path). This is fun as a single block which finishes at 24" x 24" square - perfect size for mini quilt / large pillow, or as a throw - bed sized quilt.
I am having so much fun making samples of the new quilt I thought it might be fun to host my first Quilt Along featuring one of my patterns! I know many of you might be a bit turned off by sewing curves but I promise with a little practice you can ace it in no time - and I will be there to help you out!
The first email will go out on April 8th - pattern release day - and will include a discount for the pattern for a limited time. I will not burden you with a ton of emails - just once a week with tips and links to any blog posts sharing information on that weeks assignment. We also have some very exciting giveaways lined up!
Once you sign up for the newsletter you will receive an email - just click on confirm subscription and you will be all set! I want to make sure you do not miss out on the first email that will contain your discount and a chance at a really amazing giveaway!
Sign up with your email address to receive a discount on the Flower Shop pattern on April 8th and weekly QAL updates with tips, tricks and special giveaways.
Until then I will be getting the schedule and the coloring sheets ready for planning out our quilts, cannot wait to share more with you soon. Happy Sewing!


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FCC Blocks Chinese Company's Bid For International Phone Services In The U.S.
By Sasha Ingber
Published May 9, 2019 at 4:43 PM MDT
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai said Thursday that the commission has rejected China Mobile USA's application to provide phone services between the United States and other countries because of national security risks.
The Federal Communications Commission has blocked a Chinese company from providing international phone services in the United States, citing national security concerns as tensions persist between Washington and Beijing.
China Mobile USA, though a Delaware corporation, is ultimately owned and controlled by the Chinese government, according to the FCC. The company filed an application in 2011 to provide international communications services.
"There is a significant risk that the Chinese government would use China Mobile to conduct activities that would seriously jeopardize the national security, law enforcement, and economic interests of the United States," FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said.
"Among other things, if this application were granted, the Chinese government could use China Mobile to exploit our telephone network to increase intelligence collection against U.S. government agencies and other sensitive targets that depend on this network."
China Mobile USA does not provide domestic services in the United States, an FCC spokesperson says.
If the application had been granted, the company would have been able to connect to the U.S. network, receiving greater access to telephone lines, cellular networks, fiber-optic cables and communication satellites — heightening the risk of communications being monitored, degraded and disrupted.
In 2018, the U.S. Department of Commerce communicated with the company and the U.S. intelligence community before recommending the application be denied. Last month, the FCC indicated that it intended to follow through with that recommendation in a draft order.
Thursday's announcement came after a unanimous 5-0 vote from the FCC's Republican and Democratic commissioners.
After the vote, Pai said the agency was also examining authorizations that had been previously granted to two other Chinese firms, China Telecom and China Unicom.
China Mobile USA is a subsidiary of China Mobile Limited, which did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment.
Lawyers representing China Mobile USA said the drafted order to reject the company's application was guided "more by tensions in the bilateral U.S.-China relationship than an absence of effective mitigation options."
The denied application is the latest indication of a growing rift between the United States and China. Amid a trade war, the Trump administration has insisted that Chinese telecom company Huawei has ties to the government and that its equipment could be used to spy on people or commit economic espionage.
Congress has banned government agencies and contractors from buying Huawei equipment, prompting Huawei to sue the U.S. government.
Reuters reported that for more than a year, President Trump has also been considering an executive order that would block American companies from using equipment manufactured by Huawei and its competitor, ZTE.
In March, U.S. authorities warned allies in Europe to ban Huawei from their 5G communication networks or face the possibility of receiving less intelligence from U.S. agencies. Germany declined to exclude the company.
Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei denied the alleged links to Chinese intelligence and said the company would refuse government requests to share customer information.
A FCC spokesperson told NPR that ownership of China Mobile USA traces to the China Mobile Communications Corporation, which is "subject to the supervision of the State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission," a part of the Chinese government managed under the State Council.
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by Marquis Who's Who ModeratorPosted on September 19, 2022
Title: Registered Nurse and Operating Room Supervisor
Company: Baylor University Medical Center
Location: Mansfield, Texas, United States
Wendy Michele Spearman, operating room registered nurse supervisor at Baylor University Medical Center, has been recognized by Marquis Who's Who Top Nurses for dedication, achievements, and leadership in the health care industry.
Leveraging over 30 years of experience, Ms. Spearman has cultivated a career of excellence in the field of nursing. Since 2021, she has operated as a registered nurse and operating room supervisor at the Baylor University Medical Center, having originally joined as an operating room registered nurse in 2015. She also serves the institution as a weekend chaos coordinator. Prior to her current appointment, she was the director of surgical services at the Dallas Regional Medical Center from 2013 to 2015. Having operated as a nurse with various hospitals and clinics over the course of her career, Ms. Spearman originally began her career in 1990, working as a charge nurse at the San Angelo Community Hospital until 1996.
As part of her vocational journey, Ms. Spearman pursued a formal education at Texas Woman's University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in nursing in 2009 and a Master of Business Administration in 2012. Furthermore, she became a fully licensed registered nurse in 2015, and she remains affiliated with the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN). She is also certified in pediatric advanced life support and advanced cardiac life support. In the coming years, Ms. Spearman hopes to earn a veterinary degree and become a full-time nursing assistant.
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Originally sentenced in 1973 to a one-off stretch under the alias Prisoner and Escort, in a series showcasing the inimitable character acting skills of veteran star Ronnie Barker, entitled Seven of One, co-creators Ian La Frenais' and Dick Clement's inspired comedic concept was granted an extended term of servitude by the BBC in 1974, under its more notorious moniker of Porridge.
Porridge cell-mated millions of appreciative viewers with the brilliant comic creation of Barker's wiley old lag, Norman Stanley Fletcher, a middle-aged habitual offender vainly trying to bide his time, serve his term, and score a few points against the rigid prison system in the process.
The majority of Fletcher's 'little victories' were achieved at the expense of arch nemesis Mr. Mackay, embodied in a superbly regimented and unbendingly authoritarian form by Scots actor Fulton Mackay. Aiding, abetting, (and occasionally hindering) these twin titans of comic incarceration, was a supporting cast of incomparable talent amongst which such characters as Brian Glover's brain-dead Mr. "I read a book once-green it was" Heslop, Fletcher's young and naive cell mate Lenny Godber, (the talented and much missed Richard Beckinsale), weak-willed Warder Mr. Barrowclough (Brian Wilde), and perhaps most portentously of all, Barker's protege and co-star from another hugely successful Seven of One spin-off: Open All Hours, David Jason.
Sadly for us, Fletcher's term of imprisonment ended in 1977. We revisited him in 1978 to witness his life on the outside in Going Straight, however, the loss of confinement had also signalled the loss of the original concept's magic. A feature film version allowed us one final hark back to Fletcher's glory days behind the high Victorian walls of Her Majesty's Prison Slade in 1979, before the unwelcome combination of Beckinsale's untimely death and Barker's opting for early retirement, ended the series chances of continuing forever.
Porridge may be no more, but rest assured, Norman Stanley Fletcher will continue to serve an indefinite and on-going sentence at his admirers pleasure.
Published on January 21st, 2019. Written by SRH (1999) "I'm only in prison because of my beliefs. I believed the night watchman was asleep." for Television Heaven.
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For the next six hours you can guide a robot through a web of miniature Reddit-themed escape rooms
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Something weird is about to happen on Reddit.
Starting at 10 a.m. PT on Tuesday, an AI-powered robot the size of a computer mouse will star in a live event that's part reality show, part interactive puzzle and all an homage to the internet's premier repository of dank memes.
The, uh, thing (event? live stream? brand activation?) is known as "Cozmo Lost in Reddit" and it's a collaboration between consumer robotics company Anki and legendary ad agency Wieden+Kennedy to promote Anki's popular tiny, mighty consumer robot.
As you might have gleaned, this dollhouse-scale interconnected journey through escape rooms is difficult to describe. It features crowdsourced gameplay, like Twitch Plays Pokemon, but with IRL puzzles. It's whimsical, sudden and Reddit-specific, but it doesn't completely evade description or provoke existential despair like The Button. There's a strong case that it's just an incredibly intricate device demo strewn liberally with meme-filled easter eggs. All told, it's strange, self-referential and kind of exactly what you'd expect from the team that crafted an operational rare soylent marketplace on the dark web.
An army of Cozmos readies for Reddit in a Portland warehouse
Small robot, strange journey
To show off Cozmo's skills — and the little bot has many — Anki's collaboration will attempt to woo the Reddit community with an IRL recreation, in miniature, of seven specific subreddits. The Cozmo unit will have to navigate and solve these actual physical spaces, escape room-style, on a live broadcast, guided by the greater Reddit hivemind.
If you've never interacted with Cozmo, the robot operates via a Wi-Fi tether to an app and boasts a pretty impressive range of sensors, actions and animations that allow it to interact with and map the environment.
Cozmo can pick up blocks, scan and learn faces, flip itself right side up, pout and bark like a dog, to name a few. Because the star of the show is just a few inches long, the sets Cozmo will navigate are mostly the size of a dining room table. Cozmo is hard not to love and even harder to not anthropomorphize — even for a reporter with a healthy fear of the singularity.
The dungeon map
Prior to launch, TechCrunch toured the elaborate mini-set on which Tuesday's events would play out in an industrial corner of northwest Portland. We also spoke to many people involved in the honestly pretty weird undertaking about how the whole thing came to be and the 8,784 ways it can and probably will go totally off the rails.
Over the course of the event's six hours on-air, Redditors will be able to explore:
r/hailcorporate: A self-aware nod to Reddit's brand hate hub
r/memeeconomy: Buy and sell memes, complete with a bronze shibe
r/gaming: The game within a game…
r/rarepuppers: Real live pupperonis! Seven pups are adoptable through Portland's Pixie Project and we were told one has a mustache
r/showerthoughts: An entire year of questionable insights, scraped from the subreddit, chewed up and spit back out by a machine learning algorithm
r/shittyrobots: A Simone Giertz-esque experience centered around a cool shark with hands
r/whatcouldgowrong: Self-explanatory
A shitty robot
Insert doges
These rooms are split into two types: experience rooms where players grind XP and challenge rooms where they need to spend that XP. Breadcrumbs lead to and from the rooms, some of which players will revisit, but there's a ton of variability when it comes to the room order and what happens within rooms. According to the creators, the game does indeed feature a win state in which whoever is playing along at home frees Cozmo and a lose state in which they fail to do so.
From set designers to on-air talent to the camera crew and Cozmo's keyboard-wearing puppeteers, 85 people will come together on set to make the weird dream in miniature a reality. And yes, of course they brought in esports announcers to narrate the action.
Make the weird dream in miniature a reality
r/memeeconomy IRL (that shibe is a few inches long)
Speaking to Paulo Ribeiro and Nilesh Ashra from Wieden+Kennedy's interactive tech spin-off W+K Lodge, it's clear that the team understands just how thin a tightrope they'll be walking. There are a ton of moving parts: a live tech demo, a streaming broadcast, a branching, playable choose-your-own-adventure book and a love letter to Reddit, all packaged up to make it palatable to the most fickle online community in existence.
"It shouldn't be a surprise that there are a lot of Redditors on the team," Ashra told TechCrunch.
The design team is eager to see what Reddit makes of its ode. They've designed for the unexpected — robots getting launched off-set, the game stalling out in the /r/rarepuppers room, et cetera — but it's impossible to know what will happen in the wild.
"We'd be fools not to think some things are going to go wrong," Anki Chief Marketing Officer Craig Rechenmacher said.
r/hailcorporate with crew feet for scale
A place to have small shower thoughts
The experience understandably steers clear of Reddit's more unsavory and controversial corners, opting to focus on clever subreddits with a "vivid culture" that designers could visualize: /r/memeeconomy as a stock trading floor, /r/hailcorporate as an oppressive art deco dystopia, /r/shittyrobots as a maker's garage and so on.
"There is so much nuance to the culture in these communities, and with this campaign being the first to bring these subreddits to life in the physical world, we knew we needed to find genuine connection points with the communities," Reddit Senior Brand Strategist Joe Federer said.
If you still don't really know what's going on after 900 words of flailing description, I wouldn't blame you. Luckily, by now the whole thing has gone live, so you've got six hours to figure it out along with the rest of the internet. Why are you still here?


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Georgian Youth Folkloric Ballet "Egrisi" was established on March 13, 1995 in Tbilisi, Georgia. The founder of the company: Vladimir Pilishvili, former leading soloist of the National Ballet Company of Iliko Sukhishvili. The Art leader and the Choreographer: George Pilishvili, the leading soloist of the State Folk Dance Group "Mamuli" of Ministry of Defense.
Since its establishment "Egrisi" has been involved in various creative activities, in the festivals, competitions and other cultural events not only in Georgia, but also around the world including Turkey, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus and Greece, Oman and etc.. It has also presented in Doha in several occasions including the 15th Doha Asian Games in 2006 and the Doha Capital of Arab Culture in 2010. The folk group has gained many diplomas and was several times given an official honor of laureate for the successful creative achievements that was highlighted by TV and radio in the native country as well as abroad.
The ensemble performs a wide range of Georgian folk dances reflecting the lifestyle of Georgians in the past. They look stately in their beautifully ornate costumes accentuated with fabulous head dresses.
The dances of the ensemble impress the audience with their complicated dance numbers involving graceful hand movements and swift amazing tricks of toes and knees.


Looking for a low-cost Chrome OS laptop? You can find models with prices as low as $149. Want a model with an IPS display with wide viewing angles? You typically have to pay a lot more.
But CTL has just introduced the first Chromebook with an IPS display and a starting price of less than $200.
The CTL J4+ Chromebook for Education is basically a variation of the J4 Chromebook that launched earlier this year. The main difference is that the new model has a higher-quality display.
Other features are largely unchanged — including the $199 price tag… Although the version without the IPS screen should be getting a $10 price cut soon.
The laptop features a Rockchip RK3288 quad-core processor, 4GB of RAM, and 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display. It has 16GB of eMMC storage, 802.11ac WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, stereo 1.5 watt speakers, two USB 2.0 ports, a microSD card reader, a headset jack, and an HDMI port and CTL says you should be able to get 9 hours of battery life from the laptop's 3,400 mAh battery.
The CTL J4+ Chromebook for Education measures about 11.4″ x 8″ x 0.8″ and weighs just under 2.5 pounds.
As the name suggests, the laptop is aimed at education customers, but it'll be available for anyone to purchase from the CTL website. It's already available for pre-order, but the J4+ Chromebook won't ship until October.
I prefer Chrome OS or any Linux distro over Windows. The only thing worse than Windows is Mac. That's the absoulte pits.
What's the problem with OSX? All OSX is UNIX with a very good desktop enviroment. You can use a terminal emulator and package manager just like in Linux.
Most linux application doesn't work or with lot of problems on osx. That's really not a good choice on that point at least. The other bad thing is the one mouse button only that really limit ergonomy.
For me I was able to find that the majority of linux programs I use on OSX or just as good alternatives.
I find the OSX desktop environment very limited and inefficient. It may be good for not-too IT savvy people but a well-configured Linux desktop in the hands of an IT professional eats it for dinner in most workflows (obviously not meaning stuff like audio editing, Photoshop and alike, for which Mac OS X is purposefully honed).
A well configured Linux desktop like what? I feel OSX is better to use than most Linux desktop enviroments because of it's great trackpad support and scaling. Its faster to do things with a trackpad than a mouse.
That really depends on what you use it for, scaling and trackpad doesn't do anything for programmers or scientific tools.
And trackpad is really more clumpsy and really slower than keyboard shortcuts. Too clumpsy for drawing, graphic tablet is a far better choice, and too slow and clumpsy to change window, keyboard shortcut do this faster in 90% cases.
Windows has supported multi touch gestures too but the problem is that windows multi touch support always completely sucked compared to OSX's. It wasn't until windows 10 that windows multi touch gestures finally got good.
One button trackpad or external mouse that is not really convenient on laps (that's a laptop ?). And pay five time the price to a fewer working time… The unconvenient menues always at top of the screen, as in first popular (for richest) desktop, 25 years ago… Instead of that you have lot of really fast keyboard shortcuts and lot of 100% customizable convenient tools on linux based desktops.
If people are going to spend more money to buy a windows machine it better have more ram and speed to match the applications that it can run, not browsers.
At that end of the market, an almost 15% difference in the price makes a big difference to a lot of people, especially when you add in the psychological effect of breaking under the $200 barrier.
If ChroneOS is capable of what you intend to do then it is vastly superior to Windows as an OS.
Good to see IPS screens on low cost laptops. Given the $10 price difference, its makes you scratch your head on the $100 price difference on other devices.
Nice. I'm considering buying this to replace my venerable HP Mini 100 as a "beater" laptop to carry everywhere. I know it's easy to install a native Linux OS on several Chromebooks; does anyone know if that's the case for this one?
As specs are really similar to Asus c201, where debian or archlinux arm already works, I suppose that shouldn't very q big problem.
I don't think this is true. I have used my Samsung Chromebook (the firs ARM chromebook) with Ubuntu for a while and the speed was acceptable. It is a bit worse than with ChromeOS but not much.
Now, these newer ARM machines are WAY stronger than my venerable Sammy. This model has twice the RAM and 2-2.5 times the computing power (2xCortex-A15@1.7Ghz vs 4xCortex-A17@1.8Ghz and the A17 has higher IPC) than my Sammy.
It should run ChromeOS or any desktop Linux with a browser just fine.
Suffice to say that someone who uses "donkey slow" in their "critique" is likely not to be well informed.
This used to be true, but has gotten muddy. The RK3288 devices are awful fast for ARM, while the Atom-based Bay Trail stuff has gotten weaker. It's a pretty close matchup for speed now.
Who cares? Both camps field chips that are fast enough for the sort of work a Chromebook is suited to, even repurposed to a full Linux distro.
No, what matters is if it is open enough TO repurpose. Some Intel chips have good free driver support, some don't. Some ARM based SoC vendors supply fair support, most don't and none support the video; advantage Intel. Battery life is still generally better, other specs held equal, on ARM though so if you are keeping ChromeOS on it advantage ARM.


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Cover crops are more effective than insecticides for pest control, a study shows
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University Park, PA — Promoting vegetation at the beginning of the season, mainly through the use of cover crops, may be more effective in reducing pest density and crop damage than insecticide applications, according to a team from the University of Pennsylvania.
In a newly published study, researchers say the best pest control results can come when farmers promote biological control – in the form of natural enemies of pests – by planting cover crops and avoiding broad-spectrum insecticides as much as possible.
The use of cover crops and other conservation farming practices can help reduce erosion and nutrient loss, improve soil health and improve pest management, said study co-author John Tucker, a professor of entomology at the College of Agricultural Sciences. Penn State. Although acceptance of such methods has increased, he said, pesticide use continues to grow in the United States and around the world, potentially killing non-target, beneficial species and reversing the benefits of pest management from the use of conservation farming tactics.
"The vegetation cover that cover crops create can provide habitat for populations of natural enemies of pests," Tucker said. "Winter cover crops, for example, can house predator populations outside the growing season of the main crop. Once the cover crop is terminated to allow the main crop to grow, the remnants of the cover crop remain on the soil during the growing season and improve the habitat for predators.
"Studies have shown that cover crops reduce the insect pest epidemic by increasing the abundance of predators, but to preserve these benefits, it is crucial to protect these predatory species," he said.
The aim of this study was to examine how conservation farming practices – cover crops, uncultivated planting and crop rotations – interact with two pest management strategies that use insecticides. These strategies are pest management, in which growers plant seeds treated with a systemic insecticide to control pests in the early season; and integrated pest management, which includes pest research and the use of insecticides only when the number of pests exceeds economic thresholds and only when non-chemical tactics are ineffective.
Predatory beetles peek out of their hole at an experimental plot at the Russell E. Larson Center for Agricultural Research at Penn State. These beetles are responsible for much of the predation observed during the study, but they are mostly nocturnal, the researchers note. Credit: Elizabeth Rowan. All rights reserved.
"We hypothesized that increased vegetative cover at the beginning of the season, provided by winter or spring cover crops, would benefit predator populations and increase their biological control potential," said lead author Elizabeth Rowan, a former PhD student. Tucker's laboratory, which is now an assistant professor of entomology at the University of West Virginia.
"In contrast, we expected that preventive seed coatings, despite reducing the number of early seasonal insects, would also reduce the abundance of predators and release non-insect pests such as snails from biological control," she said. "Furthermore, we thought that Integrated Pest Management (IWM) would be as effective as preventive seed coatings for pest management, but with less disruption to the predator community and biological control."
Researchers set out to study these scenarios by setting up two unprocessed experimental fields at the Russell E. Larson Center for Agricultural Research at Penn State to test the effects of pest management and planting fine-grained cover crops for three years in soybeans. corn-soybeans and rotations corn-soybeans-corn. This experiment was part of a larger project examining the interaction of pest management and cover crops on soil quality, weeds, insecticide movement and pest pressure.
The team divided each field into sections, with six treatments repeated six times in each field over three years. While crop species change annually with rotation, each plot receives the same treatment each year. The researchers looked at three pest management strategies with and without cover crops: preventive seed coatings, IWM and non-pest management.
For the IWM strategy, the researchers studied the IWM insect pest areas and compared the pest populations with economic thresholds to determine if insecticide applications were needed. They used an insecticide – a single application in the furrow of granular pyrethroid – only in the second year of the study.
Researchers who recently reported in the journal Ecological Applications found that the use of each insecticide provided a little reduction in soybean damage, but no yield benefit. The results show that in maize the vegetative cover at the beginning of the season is key to reducing the density of pests and damage.
Cover crops were planted on a farm near Spring Mills, Pennsylvania, in March 2020. Researchers say their new study shows that roof crops may be more effective in pest management than insecticides. Credit: Michael Hautz, College of Agricultural Sciences. All rights reserved.
An unexpected result, the team said, is that the IWM strategy, which requires only one application of insecticides, is more destructive to the predator community than preventive pest management, possibly because the pyrethroid administered is more toxic to a wider range of arthropods than neonicotinoid seed coatings.
"With a single use of an insecticide in IUD treatment, non-target effects persist for more than a year after application, without reducing plant damage or white larvae density, the target pest," Rowan said. "This pyrethroid also indirectly reduces soybean yields on IWL plots more than a year later, perhaps due to fewer plant protection predators.
The researchers concluded that planting cover crops and promoting natural enemy populations protect corn and soybeans from damage and that promoting early season coverage is more effective at reducing pest and damage densities than any strategy based on intervention.
"But because cover crops can also leave major crops vulnerable to some sporadic pests, growers need to be careful about choosing the best cover crops for each situation and research regularly for pests in the early season," Rowan said. "In addition, maximizing the benefits of cover crops for biological control requires sparing use of insecticides, as preventive use of selective insecticides and reactive use of broad-spectrum insecticides can reduce predator activity without guaranteeing pest control or higher yields. . "
Other researchers who have contributed to the study include Kirsten Piercens, a former doctoral student in entomology, Penn State; Richard Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resources and Environment, University of New Hampshire; and Kyle Vickings, Associate Professor, Department of Entomology, Cornell University.
The National Food and Agriculture Institute of the United States Department of Agriculture supported this report.


Alina Production was created in 1998 in Romans-sur-Isère and specializes in warping and weaving.
Its rare know-how is that of the warping of extremely varied materials and sizes of yarns: knotting, passage of knots, stitching of combs, warping with repair of broken threads, beaming the warp. Most of the skills and time are focused on the process of weaving width and repair in case of breakage of threads on the one hand, and the ability to warp very different compositions and threads.
The company works with several clients such as Porcher, Mermet, Hexcell, Chomarat who subcontract to Alina for technical reasons or lack of capacity. They are the only company capable of producing viscose weaves certified for the aerospace sector.


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Giants Host Newtown Students at Season Finale
More than 400 Newtown residents took the field before the Giants-Eagles game Sunday.
By Tom Canavan
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ - DECEMBER 30: Family members of Sandy Hook Elementary School stands on the field for the National Anthem for the game between the New York Giants against the Philadelphia Eagles at MetLife Stadium on December 30, 2012 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)
Carrying signs to express their gratitude and their choice of love over violence in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, approximately 400 residents of Newtown, Conn., attended the New York Giants-Philadelphia Eagles game Sunday.
The residents, including about 200 students from the school system, formed a gantlet to welcome players from both teams before the game. They then held hands and ringed the field as the national anthem was played at MetLife Stadium.
Players on both teams exchanged high-fives with the residents, who the Giants said included the family of Jack Pinto, the 6-year-old fan of the Giants who was buried in a No. 80 jersey of Victor Cruz, his favorite player.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell also greeted the people in a tunnel at the stadium.
Giants spokesman Pat Hanlon said there were a few families in attendance who lost children in the attack earlier this month. The families arrived in nine chartered buses.
The team did not allow access to the residents, saying they just wanted to attend the game and enjoy themselves.
There were at least a dozen hand-made signs in the stadium, with the most poignant a green-and-white one that said, "Sandy Hook: We Choose Love."
Eagles coach Andy Reid and Giants coach Tom Coughlin each walked the gantlet slowly and said hello to as many people as they could.
The Giants defeated the Eagles 42-7, but were still eliminated from playoff contention.
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