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Facebook censors advertisement on war crimes whistleblowers
This 11 August 2010 video from British daily The Guardian says about itself:
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange – 'There appears to be evidence of war crimes'
Iraq war: 10 years on
Thousands of leaked US military papers from Afghanistan contain evidence of possible war crimes that must be urgently investigated, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says at press conference in London.
By Alex Lantier in France:
Facebook blocks ad for PES meeting in Paris to defend Assange
On Thursday morning, members of the Parti de l'égalité socialiste (PES) received an email from Facebook, stating that it was suspending a paid advertisement for the June 23 PES meeting in Paris calling for freedom for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and whistleblower Chelsea Manning.
PES members campaigning for the meeting have met a warm response among workers, youth and "yellow vest" protesters in Paris. By Thursday, over 700 people had clicked "interested" on the meeting event page, a common form of expressing political solidarity with or support for an event. This points to the broad popular support in France for the courageous journalist and principled whistleblower, who have played central roles in exposing imperialist war crimes in Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond, amid growing working class opposition to President Emmanuel Macron.
Last week, Facebook had approved the purchase by PES members of advertising for the meeting's Facebook page, which made the meeting's page appear on the Facebook feeds of users who have expressed relevant interests. Yesterday, Facebook reversed course, blocking further purchases of ads for the meeting.
The notice from Facebook stated: "We have reviewed your ad more closely and have determined it doesn't comply with our Advertising Policies. This ad will not be active any longer until you edit it to comply with policy." This would require creating an authorized account, a process that can take 48 hours, during which time the advertising has been cancelled.
Under Facebook's Advertising Policies, adopted after Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 US presidential elections, anyone posting a political ad is required to undergo an onerous authorization process. This includes submitting images of a state-issued ID, verifying their address and providing further personal information.
These events underscore that the fight to free Assange and Manning and prevent Assange's extradition to the United States, where he faces 175 years in prison and threats of further charges carrying the death sentence, is the focal point of a campaign to defend the democratic rights of working people internationally against the growing danger of capitalist police-state rule.
Facebook now censors and manipulates posts of its billions of users around the world. Under orders from Zuckerberg to Facebook to push its users to have "personal moments" not political discussion, including by demoting "viral videos" because they are not "good for people's well-being and for society", a vast censorship campaign is underway. Facebook Artificial Intelligence algorithms and its army of thousands of "content reviewers" now scour social media for content to remove and report to police and intelligence agencies.
Apart from the US government itself, the French government is among the most closely tied to Facebook censorship. Last November, as "yellow vest" protests against social inequality began in France, Macron hailed France's World War II-era fascist dictator Philippe Pétain as a great soldier and launched an unprecedented collaboration on social media censorship with Facebook. Countless "yellow vest" social media posts have been deleted since, as police detained over 7,000 protesters in the largest wave of mass arrests in metropolitan France since the Nazi Occupation.
On May 10, Zuckerberg personally met with Macron to review six months of this collaboration, in which French officials are invited directly into Facebook "content moderation" offices to monitor and examine posts culled from Facebook users' feeds. The French state also issued a social media report co-written by Google France executive Benoît Loutrel, denouncing "unacceptable content" and "individuals pursuing political or financial objectives", and calling for "struggle against content that is damaging for users and for social cohesion."
Shortly after Zuckerberg's visit to France, the 350,000-member France en colère (Angry France) "yellow vest" Facebook page was frozen for a day, during the European elections.
The decisions leading Facebook to reverse its approval of the PES meeting ad are shrouded behind a veil of corporate secrecy. But what is clear is that the company works intimately with the intelligence agencies of the US government who are seeking to destroy Assange and Manning. As for the French regime, it is so terrified of the workers that it sees all criticism of the despised "president of the rich", including of its own acquiescence to US persecution of Assange and Manning, as a mortal threat to "social cohesion"—that is, to its enforcement of the banks' austerity diktat.
The meeting organized by the PES is part of a worldwide campaign to free Assange and Manning and mobilize the vast social opposition in the working class against austerity and the growing threat of authoritarian danger and war. The PES appeals to its supporters to share the announcement of its meeting and its material in defense of Julian Assange and Manning, as well as the "yellow vests," to discuss these issues broadly in workplaces and schools, and to attend its meeting in Paris:
Sunday, June 23, 3 p.m.
AGÉCA
177 rue de Charonne, 75011, Paris
Métro: Charonne, Alexandre Dumas.
The author also recommends:
For a worldwide campaign to prevent Julian Assange's rendition to the US!
[20 June 2019]
Last Thursday, lawyers for the courageous whistleblower Chelsea Manning issued a legal challenge to punitive fines that were imposed upon her by a federal district court judge last month. Her legal team has warned that the unprecedented financial penalties threaten her with imminent bankruptcy: here.
Last Thursday, without notice or explanation, Twitter arbitrarily suspended the account of @Unity4J, a platform dedicated to circulating information and advocacy for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. As of this writing, the account has been gone for two days: here.
FACEBOOK has been accused of censorship for deleting posts on social media platform Instagram that show support for assassinated Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani. Users of the Facebook-owned platform reported the removal of posts sympathetic to Gen Soleimani, who was killed by a US drone attack at Baghdad airport in January. At least 15 Iranian journalists have had their accounts suspended, according to the International Federation of Journalists: here.
In a major escalation of online censorship, Google, Facebook and Twitter have deleted accounts and removed social media posts on multiple platforms that are opposed to the criminal assassination of Iranian General Qassem Suleimani by the Trump administration in a drone missile strike on January 3. There are indications that these censorship moves have been carried out at the direction of the US government: here.
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petrel41 on June 22, 2019 at 2:15 pm said:
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Crazy how FB is softer on mass murderers than people who expose war crimes.
petrel41 on July 5, 2019 at 6:36 pm said:
Yes, and the Dutch open Hitler admirers of the NVU are welcome on Facebook, while anti-fascists are censored:
https://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/2018/08/02/facebook-censors-united-states-anti-nazis-opponents-of-trumps-xenophobia/
That's sick. I also remember a story where a Black woman had a hashtag of #SupportBlackBusinesses and got the FB jail treatment for a week or two on her account. However, there was that Portland stabbed guy who killed 3 people who was part of an Alt-Right hate group that didn't get vetted online.
Thanks! i did not even know that, but it is in line with other cases.
Yes, it was only a few years ago when it happened and I was disgusted by the clear double standards.
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Global supplier of open, disruptive, and hyperscale networking solutions for service providers and web-scale Internet operators, Coriant, and Prodea, provider of IoT managed solutions and technologies, have announced that they have joined forces. Through Coriant's new Multi-Sided Platform Partnership Programme and Prodea's new IoT Service X-Change platform and ecosystem this partnership will accelerate global adoption of IoT services by simplifying go-to-market deployment across multiple vertical markets.
Enabling monetisable and scalable services, rather than just technology components.
Through Coriant's Multi-Sided Platform Partnership Programme, the two companies offer a new approach to solving the challenge of IoT service deployment and monetisation by employing a value-driven business model to deliver end-to-end IoT solutions - meeting the needs of many markets including healthcare, consumer products, governments, SMEs, and others.
"While service providers, enterprises, and other organisations have been working to bring profitable IoT services to market, the full potential of these services has not been realised. In most cases, the challenge has been less about technology and more about optimal approaches to business models, specific verticals, and ecosystem partners," said Homayoun Razavi, Chief Customer Officer and Executive Vice President of Global Sales & Digital Marketing, Coriant.
"We chose to partner with Prodea not only because of their technology innovation, but also because their IoT Service X-Change can form the basis for our Multi-Sided Platform Partnership Programme's distribution of IoT services from ecosystem partners to customers worldwide. We believe this brings together all the right go-to-market ingredients, enabling service providers and enterprises to accelerate monetisation of IoT services," continued Razavi.
Prodea's IoT Service X-Change provides end-to-end service enablement and uniform management of delivered solutions. The platform incorporates a set of comprehensive tools to facilitate service deployments that allow operators to access new revenue streams without large upfront investments, strengthen existing client relationships, increase ARPU, and easily pursue multiple new market opportunities. Prodea's IoT Service X-Change with Coriant's Multi-Sided Platform Partnership Programme enable service providers to offer their clients a convenient and efficient one-stop shop, with the best pricing options, and education on the services available for their industry.
Prodea's IoT Service X-Change will be showcased along with Coriant's Multi-Sided Solutions at MWC in Barcelona 26th February to 1st March 2018.


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XDINinja-swing
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XDI-enabled standalone client application using Java Swing UI framework.

Requirements:

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Build:

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Run:

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### Walkthroughs and Diagrams

 * [Request Connection to Profile](https://github.com/projectdanube/XDINinja-swing/wiki/Request-Connection-to-Profile)
 * [Invite Connection to Profile (Manual)](https://github.com/projectdanube/XDINinja-swing/wiki/Invite-Connection-to-Profile-(Manual))
 * [Invite Connection to Profile (Auto)](https://github.com/projectdanube/XDINinja-swing/wiki/Invite-Connection-to-Profile-(Auto))
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We have a word of warning to all Fallout 4 players on Xbox One now, as Bethesda has given advance notice that Fallout 4 mods will be down today, September 27 for surprise maintenance.
Bethesda hasn't said what the maintenance is for, but did say that fans should 'stay tuned for updates' following on from maintenance which is intriguing.
As you can see above, one PS4 user wasted no opportunity into simply asking Bethesda 'so what should I do'? The reason for this of course is that Fallout 4 mods on PS4 have been blocked by Sony and as a result, millions of players have been left out of the party.
You can see the full exchange here with other frustrated PS4 users asking Bethesda every day for a status update. What is the reason for the maintenance though?
Bethesda has said that mods should be back up today at 11.30am Eastern Time, so let us know if they still don't work after that.


Quick synopsis of book number five of 2016.
I really enjoyed this book and felt like it was a light read for anyone wanting to do one thing: one year without a purchase. Scott Dannemiller begins telling you that a crazy goal like this can be possible, just read their story!
He entertains well and has many one-liners that had me snickering and thinking of my own dad's jokes. He was a good writer, no complaints about incorrect grammar or long sentences. I felt like it fell short on showing you exactly how-to do a year without a purchase; of course, you can read their story and relate to it, but it does not come with detailed instructions as a self-help book would. But that was my fault in reading the title through that perspective.
For more on my reading list and quick review, go to my Goodreads.
I am moving along, slowly, but surely, on my 2016 book challenge! How many books have you read this year? What kind of books/genre are you reading?


Henry Cuellar's Policy Preferences Could Destroy the World. But Then Again, He's a Really Nice Guy.
January 19 2019, 12:00 p.m.
Two competing values are at work in a coming primary challenge against oil-and-gas-backed Democrat Henry Cuellar, announced last week by Justice Democrats, the group that recruited Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., to run for office. On the one hand, a new report concluded that if the U.S. proceeds on its current course of drilling — which Cuellar has emphatically supported — humanity will crash through its remaining climate guardrails and risk lurching into apocalyptic warming scenarios.
On the other hand, Cuellar is a really nice guy, and primaries are awfully divisive.
Cuellar's extreme popularity among his House colleagues is widely known. But the role U.S. reserves of oil and gas could play in future warming scenarios has been less well-established. A new report from Oil Change International, or OCI, however, alters the equation. Examining projections developed by Rystad Energy, an independent oil and gas consultancy, the new report looks at projected oil and gas development in the United States over the next several decades, and what consequences it holds for the planet.
The authors find that, if allowed to continue with projected new fossil fuel projects, U.S. oil and gas production could account for 60 percent of all new oil and gas production through 2030, making the U.S. the world's largest new source of oil and gas and outpacing expected growth in the next largest producer, Canada, 4 to 1. All of this would happen during the period when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said that countries should begin stripping fossil fuels out of the global economy as rapidly as possible.
The climate costs of such development are massive, with new drilling set to unleash 120 billion tons of Earth-warming carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by 2050, the equivalent of what nearly 1,000 coal-fired power plants would burn throughout the lifespan of their operations. It would be the single largest burst of new carbon dioxide emissions to enter the Earth's atmosphere over that period.
The report's main takeaway isn't complicated: The United States can either stop digging up new troves of fossil fuels, or take a sledgehammer to the world's chances at a livable future.
"At exactly the time scientists say we need to begin reducing fossil fuel emissions, the U.S. oil and gas industry is gearing up to expand rapidly," says Kelly Trout, a lead author on the report and a senior research analyst at OCI.
The majority of new development is slated to come in the form of new fracking in the Permian Basin, spanning Texas and New Mexico, and the Appalachian Basin, with most of its reserves in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. By 2029, OCI found, companies operating in the Permian Basin alone could be extracting nearly as much oil as Saudi Arabia does today, much of it for export. Other new extraction sites include the Western Gulf, Anadarko Basin, and Alaska's North Slope.
Meanwhile, burning through just existing reserves of oil and gas around the world would be enough to make limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius impossible, OCI finds. Add coal reserves to that, and we very nearly miss our chance at staying below 2 degrees. Staying below either, in other words, means not only stopping any new production, but also closing down some portion of existing coal, oil, and gas production early.
"Every decision around a new fossil fuel lease, permit, subsidy, or setback," report authors write, "is an opportunity for U.S. politicians to stop fossil fuel expansion and champion a just transition to an economy powered by clean energy." The U.S. spends some $20 billion a year propping up the fossil fuel industry through generous tax breaks and below-market leases. A study in Nature from researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute has found that as much as half of all new crude oil development through 2050 could be unprofitable without such giveaways.
To prevent the last two scenarios and encourage the first, Trout says, "we can't just leave this to the markets." Report authors recommend a managed decline in fossil fuel production, including an end to new leases and permits for fossil fuel projects, phase-outs of existing mines and drill sites, an end to fossil fuel subsidies, and a Green New Deal, to ensure a just transition to 100 percent renewable energy, particularly for communities that would be hardest-hit by industry closures. The report further underlines that the U.S. needs to phase out coal production by 2030 at the latest in order to meet the goals laid out in the Paris Agreement.
Emissions, of course, know no borders, and there's only so much greenhouse gas that can be spewed into the atmosphere before catastrophic outcomes become a certainty. Scientists describe this as a global carbon budget, and every new drill site or power plant takes a bite out of it, no matter where it's built. New production in just the Permian and Appalachian basins through 2050 would burn through nearly 10 percent of the world's carbon budget to keep warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. The longer the U.S. waits to scale back emissions, the bigger risk we run blowing past that mark, and the greater the burden that will fall to countries with fewer resources to fund such a transition and less responsibility for the crisis writ large.
So long as Donald Trump remains in office and Republicans control the Senate, there's not much hope for passing the kinds of policies OCI recommends at the federal level or doing emissions reductions at any scale. Should Democrats retake one or both come 2020, Republicans will of course continue putting up a fight, although it could ultimately get overridden. In such a context, resistance is also likely to come from within the party — and no less so than from Democrats who've take hundreds of thousands of dollars from the fossil fuel industry.
That's where Henry Cuellar, the ever-likable Democratic congressman from Texas, comes in.
Cuellar has voted 69 percent of the time with Trump. In the 2018 cycle, he accepted $145,000 from PACs linked to oil and gas corporations and has taken $711,627 from the industry over the course of his career.
"Taking on someone like Henry Cuellar, who is one of the largest recipients of big oil and gas money in the Democratic caucus, is a way to drive the Green New Deal conversation forward in the Democratic Party and begin to drive home that climate can be an issue that you can lose your seat over if you're a Democrat," says Waleed Shahid, Justice Democrats' communications director. "He does not have a plan to tackle climate change. He has a plan to continue receiving money from his wealthy donors. … You can't take money from [the fossil fuel industry] and then try to hold them accountable. It just doesn't work." The select committee for a Green New Deal proposed by Ocasio-Cortez would have barred House members who accept donations from fossil fuel companies from participating. That provision, along with several others, was left out of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ended up creating.
While renewables have become cheaper and more widespread over the last several years, fossil fuel usage has continued to grow. So have emissions. If massive investments in scaling up zero-carbon energy are one part of the equation, phasing out dirty energy is another.


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The Police Department of West Bengal has invited online application for its vacant posts of Sub Inspector in West Bengal Police Department. Currently, there are total 1527 vacant posts of Sub Inspector in the Police Department of West Bengal. It is pleasant news for all the applicants of West Bengal Police SI Recruitment Exam 2018 the West Bengal Police Recruitment Board abbreviated as WBPRB. So eligible candidates whether they are male or female should apply as soon as possible as the application process is going to start very soon for the West Bengal Police SI Recruitment. In this article we have provided all the necessary information related to the eligibility criteria, important dates, steps to apply, official website etc. of West Bengal Police Bharti 2018.
A candidate applying for West Bengal Police SI Recruitment must be minimum 20 years old. The candidates of reserved categories like SC/ST are also given relaxation in the upper age limit as per the reservation policy of Government Norms.
The applicant of the West Bengal Police SI Recruitment must be able to speak, read and write the Bengali language. However, this provision will not be applicable to the persons who are permanent residents of hill sub-divisions of Darjeeling and Kalimpong Districts. (ii) For the applicant of hill sub-divisions of Darjeeling and Kalimpong District, the provisions laid down in the West Bengal Official Language Act, 1961 will be applicable.
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Gorkhas, Rajbansis, Garwalis and Scheduled Tribes 160 cm 76 cm with a minimum expansion of 5 cm 52 kg.
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Gorkhas, Rajbansis, Garwalis and Scheduled Tribes 163 cm 81 cm with a minimum expansion of 5 cm 54 kg.
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Gorkhas, Rajbansis, Garwalis and Scheduled Tribes 155 cm — 45 kg.
1. Male candidates for the post of Sub-Inspector of Police (UB) and Sub-Inspector of Police (AB) in West Bengal Police 800 metres run within 03 (three) minutes.
2. Female candidates for the post of Lady SubInspector (UB) in West Bengal Police 400 metres run within 02 (two) minutes.
The candidates who get selected in this recruitment process will be given salaries as per the policy of the Government. The same for the post of West Bengal Police Constable is Rs. 7100 – 37600/- (i.e. Pay Band-2) + Grade Pay Rs.3900 /-.
The Physical Measurement Test (PMT) as specified under para 3(F) above relating to height, weight and chest of the candidates qualified in the preliminary examination shall be taken followed by the Physical Efficiency Test (PET) of the eligible candidates as specified under para 3(G). Qualified candidates in the PMT only will be eligible to appear in the PET. The PMT & PET shall be conducted by the West Bengal Police Recruitment Board at the venues selected by the Board for the purpose. Only qualified candidates of both PMT & PET shall be eligible to appear in the Final Combined Competitive Examination.
a)Paper-I :- General Studies and Arithmetic for 100 marks ( 50 marks for General Studies, and 25 marks for Logical & Analytical reasoning and 25 marks for Arithmetic) of 2 (two) hours duration.
b)Paper-II:- English of 50 marks of 1 (one) hour duration.
c)Paper-III:- Bengali/Hindi/Urdu/Nepali of 50 marks of 1 (one) hour duration.
For the West Bengal Police SI Recruitment, the written examination for all the above three papers of the Final Combined Competitive Examination shall be held on the same day at selected centres to be decided by the West Bengal Police Recruitment Board. The question paper for Paper – I (General Studies and Arithmetic) of Final Combined Competitive Examination will be set in three languages (English, Bengali and Nepali). The candidate may answer in any of these languages but all the answers must be in one and the same language. The syllabus for final combined competitive examination shall be as mentioned herein after. The West Bengal Police Recruitment Board shall have the discretion to fix qualifying marks in all or any of the three papers and also in the aggregate of three papers in the final combined competitive examination.
A candidate will have to first of visit the official website of West Bengal Police SI Recruitment Board http://policewb.gov.in/.
Later on you have to click on the direct link to the Recruitment tab.
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In my dissertation, I examine terrorist literature: contemporary American and British writings that incorporate representations of Muslim terrorists and that evoke the events of September 11, 2001. In these texts, the fictional Muslim terrorist arguably occupies a place of belonging and non-belonging, located outside and within Western society. In an attendant process, the terrorist is at once demonized and humanized, as the texts create a tense bond of hospitality/hostility in configuring the terrorist's encounter with the West. Terrorist literature accesses the terrorist's mindset, displaying his ordinariness, but it also perpetuates a rhetoric of difference and of a clash of cultures, pitting guest against host.
The selected primary texts include novels by Sherman Alexie, Andre Dubus, Don DeLillo, Jarett Kobek, and John Updike, short stories by Alexie and Martin Amis, and a play by Allan Havis – in addition to a poem by Tom Clark and a short story by Updike. Aside from studying intersections and differences between these texts as well as investigating strategies of explicating the violent act, I focus on renderings of the Muslim perpetrator's consciousness, employing narratological theories by Alan Palmer and Dorrit Cohn. These reproductions of imaginary emotions and beliefs often impose on the characters the authors' Orientalist perceptions of Islam.
Terrorism appears in the analyzed texts as based in part on the – actual and perceived – incompatibility of cultures. Besides identifying this relational facet of terrorism, most of terrorist literature associates violence with conflicts emerging within an Islamic sphere. The male Muslim perpetrators experience an internal struggle generated by a restrictive religious and socio-cultural environment. This struggle is expressed via the characters' emotional or physical suffering, linked to their challenged sexuality and masculinity. To carve out the queering, feminizing, and othering of Muslim terrorists in contemporary literature, I place, for example, Michael Kimmel in conversation with Jasbir Puar.
The reader of terrorist literature is asked to draw a vector from individual beliefs and pathologies to a perpetrator's actions. The violent act is usually prefigured as the culmination of the texts, and it is the task of the reader to trace the thread that binds together the protagonist's experiences, emotions, and actions. An analysis of terrorist literature thus hinges on matters of hermeneutics and epistemology. The terrorists, some of them entirely fictitious, others fictionalized versions of actual hijacker-pilots, endeavor to understand their own tenuous place vis-à-vis the West and the terrorist plot. For readers, the apprehension of the fictional perpetrator's movements and motivations – the reconstruction of his trajectory – encompasses the integration of contemporary discourses on Islam and terrorism with the narrative's perspectives, but it also includes the braiding of specific plot elements with the terrorist act. Drawing on Paul Ricoeur, I demonstrate the retrospective and yet anticipatory process of sense-making or emplotment, a process that configures, from narration and dialogues, the imaginary Muslim terrorist's path.


One of my Fedora becomes unresponsive if left idle for few hours, how to fix this?
I have set the power-options to never sleep or power-save in settings, and set it to use a screen-saver after 16 minutes. I have four Fedora 21's but this only happens on one and only after the last kernel update. Before, everything was smooth.
Description: I leave the computer idle for some hours and when I come back to it then the screen is turned off and I can't get it to respond to anything I do. I have to turn it of via the power button and restart.
This is still happening, once every 24 hours, when the system is idle except sometimes Amarok running playing music.... Fedora goes to sleep or something and I can't wake it up, the monitor is black and no reaction to user input. I can ssh into the system but only 1 out of 6 times can I reboot the machine from there, usually I have to power off with the power button.
This is still happening as of kernel-3.19.3-200.fc21.x86_64. Really annoying. System is totally unresponsive and I have to use the power button to shutdown/reboot.
If your a mod reading this, would you please open the question again as the problem still persists..... I was to positive when it didn't appear for some time... but I wasn't using the system so.. again please re-open.
Done! I'm not sure why it was closed, because it's about the current version of Fedora. Before closing this again, please add a comment explaining why.
@alfC I've updated my question with the hardware info.
I think I fixed it, not the problem as such but I re-installed Fedora 21 and the problem has not re-appeared in three days. I'll update the answer when I know for sure.
This was fixed by re-installing Fedora 21. This hasn't happened since. Today is 26 April 2015. Also note that I suspect it had something to do with kmod-Nivida/akmod-Nvidia package and I haven't installed that again but that was installed on the system before the re-install.
@alfC Yea it's annoying. I have multiple systems with Fedora and I have this problem with one of them. Hasn't happened since the re-install. I seen someone suspecting the NVIDIA module from rpmfusion and this system had that, I haven't installed it on the re-install.
fyi...I've had 3 installs get unstable after using rpmfusion kmod-Nivida/akmod-Nvidia package in attempt to get steam operating. The last crash came soon after the package install, before I installed steam.


She goes on, but in brief summary, this was the original use of that (clearly misquoted) "rose by any other name" slogan.
Though poetic, my goal in the next several hundred word is to prove the idea fallacious and innacurate beyond all reckoning.
A name, to the skeptic who reads covers and not books (or magazines, or newspapers, or Google results, the latter of which applies to the vast majority of us searchers), is all that matters. Beyond that, hearsay and hunches are the only tools he or she has to judge it with. In that sense, the rose is never seen until someone hunts it down for its notoriety, and its name. It keeps its secrets hidden deep within its jacket (as do drug dealers, albeit more literally).
News publications, in the beginning, were general. Every Times, Post, Journal, Tribune and Review could stick the name of a state at its beginning (or the road that is home to the New York Stock Exchange, in the third case), and stand with that alone. The publication was guaranteed to be read, if it was sitting on the stand with that week's headline.
Then the printing presses diversified. With the general news covered, and a decent economy able to get cheap paper and stamp (or type) words upon it, every quizzical corner and interest group in society had a magazine to accompany it. "Arts & Architecture," "Good Housekeeping," "Commando." The diversification meant something for the millions who consumed them: countless splits in American society in the aftermath of a unifying war.
More importantly: it meant that with the increasing number of publications, a paper had to either get big fast or find a niche.
Then that darn thing the Internet happened. Not only has it spend the last fifteen years digging its cruel rugged blade of free-publication into the once-great industry of paper-Journalism as we know it, it multiplied the number of published authors by approximately a Google.
Now each and every rose is buried in a flower bed so thick that the only way to find one is through the sea of millions. Their smell, touch and perhaps even taste are each intangible, unless someone should wade through the knee-high fields, paths already leading to the best known by the thousands who trod there, and should see just one and pick it out.
That, dear readers, is why a rose by any other name wound not retain that dear perfection that it owes. That rose must be the most unique in the garden, whether it would smell as sweet, or as tangy or chalky or minty or quaint. Without that title, it is only another rose.
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THAIS RUSSOMANO SPACE DOCTOR
About Thais
Why space?
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Troubles ahead for the ISS program?
The possibility has emerged that the International Space Station (ISS) may be left unmanned for a period of time if launch problems with the Russian Soyuz rockets cannot be rectified soon.
Earlier this month, 24th August 2011, saw the crash soon after launch from Kazakhstan of an unmanned Soyuz carrying food and fuel to the ISS, following the failure of one of the booster rockets. The Russian Space Agency Roscosmos has delayed the next manned mission by at least a month to allow time for safety checks to be carried out, and it is likely that at least two test launches of an unmanned rocket will be conducted before sending anymore astronauts up.
The delay means that replacement crew will not go to the ISS until late October at the earliest, assuming that all goes well with the testing. The station is currently manned by a team of 6, with 3 likely to return to Earth in mid September and a decision needing to be made about the remaining crew.
Alexei Krasnov, head of manned flights at Roscosmos recently indicated that: 'If for any reason we will not be able to deliver the crew before the end of November, we will need to review all possibilities including leaving the station unmanned.'
The ISS has been continuously manned for more than a decade. It can in fact be flown without a crew if needed, though this is not an ideal situation as repairs can be made and problems fixed faster with crew members onboard, reducing the possibilities of major damage occurring.
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Military marches
A renewed Russian military build-up could be a prelude to more fighting
EuropeNov 15th 2014 edition
DONETSK, KIEV AND MOSCOW
EVEN as Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, was heading to the G20 summit in Brisbane, Australia, tensions in Ukraine were escalating. Scores of tanks, lorries and artillery, unmarked and stripped of licence plates, were snaking along Ukrainian roads. Kiev accused Moscow of sending in more troops; Russia denied it. The ceasefire that never worked is close to being outright non-existent.
This time the build-up began days before elections in eastern Ukraine's separatist republics. Independent observers, including an OSCE monitoring mission, noticed large military convoys around Donetsk. On November 12th NATO's senior commander, Philip Breedlove, said the alliance had seen Russian equipment, primarily tanks, artillery, air-defence systems and combat troops entering Ukraine. Ukraine's prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, spoke of red lines being crossed.
Russia never abided by September's Minsk peace accords that demanded a withdrawal of its troops from the region, because it insisted it had none. But the latest escalation looks like a deliberate affront. It may partly reflect Mr Putin's way of negotiating with the West. Escalating a conflict and then agreeing not to go any further in exchange for concessions has long been one of his favoured tactics. "Putin likes to open talks by putting a knife on the table first," notes Kirill Rogov, a political analyst in Moscow.
The West has all but dropped Russia's annexation of Crimea as an issue, turning it into a fait accompli. Mr Putin is keen to show that Russia is not intimidated by sanctions. Dmitri Trenin, head of the Carnegie Moscow Centre, also suggests that Ukraine may be tempted to try to recapture more rebel territory—in which case Russia might respond by trying to overthrow the government in Kiev.
While the fighting has become heavier, its contours have remained broadly the same—so far. No new territory is changing hands. The battles are confined to specific areas, such as around Donetsk airport, which a ragtag group of Ukrainian soldiers have held against all odds. Meanwhile, in the city centre, mothers push buggies down the central boulevard as the shelling rumbles, ever louder, in the distance.
The EU's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, has declared that if the peace process completely breaks down, it will be "extremely difficult, if not impossible, to start again." Ukraine's UN ambassador has warned that Russia is planning a full-scale invasion. Government forces have been redeployed eastward in preparation. President Petro Poroshenko is under pressure to hold the line. One commander of a volunteer battalion has threatened a military coup if the government cedes anything else to the separatists.
Unfortunately, no amount of Ukrainian reinforcements can stop a Russian offensive, if one is indeed coming. The OSCE has reported that "high-grade military-specification jamming" is being used against its monitoring drones, suggesting an influx of more sophisticated kit into the region. And along the border, Russia still has thousands of troops.
A rebel-led push remains more likely. Mr Putin has built up his separatist proxies specifically to torment Ukraine. The separatist leaders were not picked for their ability to govern. Alexander Zakharchenko in Donetsk used to be an electrician; another separatist leader, Denis Pushilin, once helped to run a Ponzi scheme. Fighting is their raison d'être.
Russia is probably not interested in annexing the Donbas, an unattractive coal region in the south-east of Ukraine that would land it with responsibilities but no obvious benefits. Yet nor was it ever likely that Russia's aggression in Ukraine would simply stop. Mr Putin keeps talking about Novorossiya—a region that in Tsarist times included Nikolaev and Odessa.
Mr Putin's recent public comments confirm that he considers Ukraine to be an artificial and inherently unstable geographic concoction whose future existence within its current borders is uncertain. An economic collapse of Ukraine (see page 79), followed by a division of the country between the West and Russia, still appears to be one of the Kremlin's favoured scenarios. So another wave of bloody violence before the onset of winter remains all too possible. And it is not clear that the West can do anything to prevent it.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline "Military marches"


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Screening of the film "The Pilot. A Battle for Survival" was held at the FPCS
On May 05, 2022, at the Foreign Promotion Center of Russian High-Tech Companies and Presentation of Investment Projects in Singapore, established on the basis of RSBC with the support of Rostec State Corporation, a demonstration of the film "The Pilot. A Battle for Survival" took place.
The event was organized by the Russia-Singapore Business Council in cooperation with the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Singapore and Rossotrudnichestvo representative office in the Republic of Singapore with the support of Rostec State Corporation.
The Chairman of Russia-Singapore Business Council, Mr. Nikolai Volobuev, delivered a welcome speech: "The 9th of May is a sacred day for each of us and a national holiday. The USSR, China and Southeast Asian countries made millions of sacrifices during the Second World War. Courage, valour, fervent feeling of love for the homeland - these qualities were shown by our soldiers, commanders of the Soviet army, who defended our country during the Great Patriotic War and are an example for all of us".
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Singapore Nikolay Kudashev, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Republic of Singapore Arken Arystanov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the Republic of Singapore Kakhramon Shakirov attended the event. The event was also attended by representatives of authorities, cultural institutions and business partners.
The "The Pilot. A Battle for Survival" is not just a war movie, but also a movie about love - it was the thought of loved ones and relatives that helped the main character, Nikolai Komlev, to overcome his ordeal. The action takes place in December 1941. Nikolai Komlev, a military pilot, comes under fire on his Il-2 attack aircraft. The hero manages to land the plane on a clearing and escape, but the ordeal does not end there. In spite of everything Komlev continues to fight for life in order to return to his beloved and to take to the skies again.
Currently, Russia-Singapore Business Council continues its active work. Foreign Promotion Center of Russian High-Tech Companies and Presentation of Investment Projects in Singapore is the main venue for cultural and business events, as well as a permanent showroom for Russian hi-tech products in the South-East Asia region.
Sponsor of the event is JSCB "NOVIKOMBANK".


I am 46 years old, and I think I can tell you that I'm just about over having crushes. The thing with Prince remains eternal, but I've accepted in my heart that we could never be together. I've believed since I was 15 years old that our heights made us compatible, but the truth is that by all reports, the man's a (really beautiful) lunatic, and really, I think that would be exhausting to live with. I've never been the sort of person to lose my mind over a rock star, I didn't have a poster of Duran Duran, and I (mostly) don't feel faint when I run into the occasional famous person. I've just never been the type. Joe and I have had lots of conversations with our kids about whether or not most of the celebrities they have crushes on are really probably all they're cracked up to be. We talked with them a lot about how being good looking, or really popular, without any sort of evidence that they're a good person trying to do good things shouldn't be enough to get you to toss that much emotional energy their way – and a jerk is still a jerk, and being "a personality" isn't a job, no matter what it pays and no matter how many TV shows you get to be on.
If there had been time *** or if I hadn't been so busy being the biggest dork in the world I would have told him that I didn't really have a crush on him. I would have told him that I was just so impressed with him, not just for what he's done, but for how he's done it. Chris Hadfield lived for six months in space, and that whole time, and ever since he's been back, he's done his best to show us all what it was like, and frame it all in a way that we could share in the miracle of the whole thing. He tweeted from space, he talked to kids who won science challenges and did their experiments for them, he answered questions, (knowing that kids really want to know some gross stuff) he recorded music, he took part in concerts, he's celebrated being Canadian, and more than anything else, he made it so, so cool to be smart.
Chris Hadfield is exactly who I want everybody crushing on, because there are billions of people on earth, and only 216 of them have ever, ever been to the space station, and out of all of those, only 81 people have been there twice, and he's one of them, and I want so badly to know what he knows, and to feel what he's felt, and to see what he's seen, and I'm so grateful to him for making it seem like he takes as much joy in finding ways to tell us about the experience as we take in hearing it. He's done such a remarkable thing, and so elegantly, and so creatively, while still making it clear that this all happened because he did his homework, worked hard, and stuck with something he cared about a lot. In a world that frequently debates twerking, and who should be famous for it, I'm getting behind this instead.
* I didn't tell him what I really believe, which is that how someone approaches the odd moment in their life, moments like being asked to hold a sock for no good reason, really says a lot about their character, or lack thereof. I didn't want to pressure him.
** I know. I called Commander Hadfield Chris. I can't believe it either. He called me Steph.
****Ok. So I don't know him well enough to know for sure that's he's a nice guy, but I find it hard to believe that they'd lock you up in the Space Station twice if you were a huge jerk.
*****Actually, the dorkiest thing about today is that when I realized I was going to meet the man, I started a whole new sock, just so that the one I got him to hold could be knit from yarn called "Dark Side of the Moon." I didn't tell him that part. The dork factor was already super high.
Is it procrastination if I call it research?
Here I am poppets, writing to you from the lounge at the airport in Toronto, getting ready to head off to Texas for the DFW Fiber Fest. I'm mostly writing to you to procrastinate on something that I really, really can't procrastinate on anymore, and that's finishing the talk I'm going to give tomorrow night at the Event. I've been working on it for quite a while now, and it's starting to be crunch time, and all I can feel about it is anxiety.
A) Are doing something new.
B) want to do a really good job.
C) Will not know if they have done a good job until they stand up in front of several hundred people with a microphone and give it a whirl.
D) Are running out of time before A, B and C will happen and are still procrastinating although that is super stupid.
For the record, it is probably C that is the bad one. C is probably the reason that I'm doing D. I hate new talks. Once I've given it a go a few times and I know it works, then I can relax a little bit (if by a little bit, you understand that I mean that I stop thinking actively that I might die, and settle down to a generalized sense of nausea) but new ones? I feel like the first time I step out in front of an audience with a new one, anything could happen. ANYTHING. People could laugh. (Hopefully for the right reasons) people could cry (again, hopefully not out of a great and terrible pity brought about by my enormously public humiliation) or… they could yawn. They could be bored. It could be a terrible talk, and I feel like there's no way to know if it's any good until I get up there, and that seems like such a really hugely crazy way to test it out that I can't believe I'm going to do it.
Now, I am not a stupid person. I mean, I do stupid things all the time, but mostly I learn from them and I'm quick to catch on a lot of the time, and I knit pretty well, so I feel good about saying that I'm not stupid. With that established, I wish we could work out what else might be wrong with me, because I can't believe that it could be the reasonable response of a person who is not stupid to avoid working on this talk – somehow thinking that failing to generate it would somehow prevent the day the talk has to be given from coming? I am 46 years old. What the H. E. Double Hockey Sticks am I thinking?
It's gotten bad enough – the procrastination, that today as I was standing in line in the airport to check my bags, I actually thought about checking my knitting so that I would have nothing to do except for work on the talk. Think about that. I might have actually done it too, except for I remembered that I have Candy Crush Saga on my phone and I bet I could avoid the talk that way, and so I'm taking the knitting because this is going to hinge on willpower, good sense, and the knowledge that I've actually worked really, really hard on it, and I think it's pretty good, and I am probably qualified to know that, and it's happening tomorrow anyway. It is going to get finished, and it's going to be the best job that I can do, and I'm just going to have to settle down and wrap it up.
I'll do that too, as soon as I finish blogging, and finish reading all the charming comments from the other day (thank you!) and check Twitter and Instagram, and anything else I can think of before the plane takes off, and I spread out the papers, and I write, and edit, and hold the pen in my hand, and shuffle parts around, and run my hands over the words, and think about what I really want to say, and take a bunch of deep breaths, and remember that tomorrow will come and go whether I am amazing or not, and that at the end of that day, the next day will come anyway.
No pictures today, because there's nothing to see here.
Yesterday was a special day. It passed with no fanfare, and nobody remembered and nobody sent flowers or congratulated me and there was not a party. I thought about telling someone what day it was, but I thought they might think it was stupid, and so when they didn't answer their phone I was sort of glad. I was a Juno widow this weekend, Joe was off doing his music thing, and so I didn't even talk about it with him. The whole thing went unnoticed, except by me.
To be fair, I didn't think that anyone would remember, or call – I mean, it was the anniversary of something very, very big in my life, but it's not I like I thought anyone would have marked down the date, so when nobody remembered, and nobody said anything, I wasn't surprised. I celebrated alone, quietly marking the occasion in my heart, and when I woke up this morning, I decided to tell you.
Ten years ago yesterday, I held the first book I'd ever written in my hands for the first time. March 15th, 2005 was the official publication date for At Knit's End, and I sat there and held the little book in my hands and I didn't even know what to do with myself. It was amazing. I started to write about all of the things that happened after that, but then I deleted it all, there's too much to try and tell you, and besides you've been along for the ride.* I will simply say thank you for liking that little book, and for making it at home in your life. Ten years later it is still in print, and on Kindle, and there's an Audiobook, and there are seven other books, and it all started that day, and with you, and I can't describe how much that has meant to me without getting really mushy, and Mondays make me sort of fragile anyway, so let's skip it. Instead, let me tell you about two things that happened after that day – both times that I had to write in that book. The first time was that day. I knew that at some point I'd be taking the book out in public, and to events, and that I would sign at least a few of them, and that there would be other copies, and all in that moment I didn't want to ever lose track of which one was mine, my first one, and I took a sharpie, and I opened the book and I wrote the words "Author Copy" on the inside. It was a profound moment for me, and one that I haven't ever forgotten the feeling of. I have done it with the first copy of each of my books since then – and besides it feeling like a properly ceremonious thing to do, it's come in handy. One time during the last tour I was on, I read from the book, did the signing, and then went to leave, being reminded by the clerk to pay for my book as I went out the door. Only the words "Author Copy" on the inside saved me $14.99.
The other time was at the first book signing I ever did. I was having such a profoundly bizarre out of body experience that I couldn't think straight. It was like floating while being struck by lightning multiple times, and I was awed, frightened and thrilled all at once. A knitter stepped up and I greeted her, and asked her name, and proceeded to write it in the book. Her face shifted awkwardly, and I realized I'd done something wrong. Book signing lesson number one: The question "What's your name?" should be followed by "Shall I make this out to you?" The knitters name was Judy, but it was a book for her friend, and while it would have been great it her friends name was also Judy, it totally wasn't, and here I was, at my first book signing, and I'd defiled her book with the wrong name. I was so upset and embarrassed that I took the book, put it under the table while exclaiming that it was nothing, grabbed another one, and apologizing profusely, re-wrote the inscription. When the signing was over, I paid for the book because I couldn't see why the shop owner should have to pay for the fact that I was an idiot.
I have owned a copy of this book for ten years now, with this written in it.
It's time to let go. If your name is Judy, and you'd like a copy, drop me a line. The first Judy wins and I'll mail it to your house.
*I like to believe, in moments like this, that The Blog is made up of the same knitters it was that day. I know it's not true. The Blog is ever amorphous and shifting, although it's not all that perceptible from here. I know there are some gone, and some new though, because last week two of you wrote me to tell me that you think I'm good at this, and should consider writing a book.
In our family, when people say goodbye at the door, it's "See you later alligator" and back comes the reply "In a while, crocodile." It's always been this way. I don't know why, and I can't remember when it started. I know I did it with the girls when they were little, and it's still the way I say goodbye to Hank, and even though he's a great big almost 15 year old, he still answers me the way he always has. Over the last year or so it's been accompanied by some eye rolling, but he does it, and I love it. I've been trying to teach it to Luis for a good long time now, but I'm starting to think it's not going to take. Something in his nature, maybe the fact that he's bilingual? Who knows, but he's absolutely not got the hang of it. I'll chirp out "See you later Alligator!" and mostly he ignores me, or pretends not to speak English. (A favourite ploy of bilingual kids everywhere, I'm sure.) This last weekend, he was over for a visit, and we did all the fun things he loves. We made homemade pizza in the shape of a tractor.
After that we whipped the cream for the fruit crumble (I am on a perpetual search for desserts that you can put whipped cream on, so great is his passion for both the mixer, and the cream.) It was all going so well, and he seemed so big and grown up to me, and he is. He's a proper big boy, and so when the time came to say goodbye, I tried again. "See you later alligator!" Nothing. A blank stare. I tried a prompt. "I say, see you later alligator, and you say "in a while crocodile!" Nada. I showed him how it worked with Joe, Joe patiently parroting back the response we wanted, making it look like so much fun – how could Luis resist!
I feel like the window on that game might have slammed right shut with that one. He's getting too big, and too…. Luis. I was thinking about it this morning as I sewed the buttons on his latest sweater.
This one is to celebrate his third birthday, just past, and I was looking at the size of it, and thinking of the size of him, and imagining that soon he won't be any part a baby. It made me sad a little bit. I like him so much where he's at now, and I wouldn't trade making tractor shaped pizza and reading stories for anything, but I miss the wee baby days, and rocking him to sleep, and…. well. I think Katie and Carlos miss it too, because guess what?
They're making me another one.
It would appear that my celebratory BOOM DONE, might have been a little premature yesterday. This morning I got up and sat at my desk, and promptly realized that there's a whole stealth project for River City Yarns that I have to finish. In a move that was totally classic for me, I guess I finished knitting that with my mind, and took it off the list. It's not done, and I'm not showing it to you, so shall I amuse you with pictures of finished things? Behold, the socks for Ken's birthday*, all done, and charming I think.
I started these socks thinking they'd be a good, simple knit, except for the part where I didn't check the yardage on the yarn I chose. It's Patons Kroy Socks Jacquards 4ply (colour is "Slate Jacquard") and it's got 152m per ball, and I had two balls, and darned if I didn't think that would be enough. It wasn't.
When I ran short just a few rounds from the end of the toe, I had to get creative. I decided to to a black toe to contrast, and then on a whim I tossed in those few rounds of red.
Now I'm actually glad I ran out, because I like them even better with the snazzy toes than I would have if they were plain. I think they're freaking adorable – I mean… manly. Manly and sophisticated.
Sam was good enough to reprise her role as the worlds top knitwear model this morning, and she wants you to know she takes it seriously.
*Have I mentioned to you that Ken's doing the Aids LifeCycle this year? It's a much longer, harder ride than the rally, and he's having a hard time. I keep saying encouraging things to him, but really – dude's in a rough spot. He signed up to do it with some friends, bought the flights and started training, only to realize three things. First, this ride comes so early in the year that Toronto isn't out of the grip of winter soon enough for him to train outside, and he's been on the accursed indoor trainer all winter. It's nasty. Second, fundraising for this one will be hard, although he has a modest goal… This on top of the Bike Rally later in the summer is a lot of work. Third (and I know there are other introverts out there who are just going to get the worst kind of cramp when they read this) the friends that he signed up to do it with cancelled. Our lovely Ken is going all the way to San Francisco to do this, and he's going to do it alone. Seven days on his bike, riding and sharing a tent (!!!) with strangers. I'm really proud of him for staying the course, even though it's turned out to be a lot harder than he thought. Right now there's really only one way I can help him, other than the socks, and that's by spreading the word about the fundraising. If you're so inclined, his pledge page is here.
And with that, she was caught up.
Two projects, blocking (sort of) on the table. Now, I can knit anything I want.
Sorry for radio silence pets, but man, did the last few days ever get on top of me. I got home Tuesday night – no, that's inaccurate. I left Mexico on Tuesday night, but thanks to an ice storm here in Toronto, I didn't actually arrive home until about 5am on Wednesday morning, and as you can imagine, the rest of that day was a total washout. I managed to get to a Bike Rally meeting that night where I was probably the stupidest person in the room, and collapsed in a heap shortly thereafter.
Yesterday then, was the first real day for taking stock, and boy, is there stock. As much fun as that holiday was, and as grateful as I was for the sunshine, warmth and time with my mother, there are consequences to self-employed people taking holidays, and those consequences are stacked up on my desk a mile high. Also, apparently I'm slightly cursed in a knitting way right now. How so? Here's three pieces of evidence.
Isn't that a pretty sock? You bet. I love it. I spent quite a bit of time working on it while I was holiday making, and I guess I relaxed way too much, because as soon as I finished this sock, I realized that it absolutely will not fit the intended recipient. It's way too skinny for him, and I probably knew that the whole time, but everything seems fine if you're warm on a beach. I kept thinking "is this a problem?" and then some voice in my head would say "problem? YOU'RE ON A BEACH. YOU HAVE NO PROBLEMS" and then I'd sigh and keep knitting this too-small sock. When it was done, I couldn't lie to myself anymore, and since a need a pair of socks on a deadline, I didn't pull it back and start again. I set it aside, I went to my suitcase, got other sock yarn, and made a fresh start.
Ten rounds before the end of the toe, and it's screwed. I think the only way out is to pull it back and use something contrasting for the whole toe – and for the record, the voice of my inner knitter warned me about that too, but I couldn't hear it over the ocean.
This little sweater should have been done by 7pm tonight. It's not going to be. I knew I needed to pick up the pace on that too, but the beach beckoned, and something about a warm wool sweater just didn't seem that important while I was warm. It's crystal clear now though. I should have been knitting faster. I see that now.
Truth is, everything has a price, and apparently, I relaxed way, way too much. I relaxed so much that I knit like an idiot.
It was still worth it. If you need me, I'll be over here, excavating my desk, and fixing a whole lot of knitting.


There are many necessities for hiking: Appropriate footwear, food, water, rain gear, flashlight, an extra layer of clothes, and maps. Want to look for a new trail to hike? Pull out a map and look for trails you haven't done yet. Are you out on a trail and want to know where the next intersection is, or want to know the name of that big mountain in front of you, or even how steep the rest of the hike is? Pull out your map.
There are many maps to choose from. Almost all state, regional and local parks have maps either at a the visitor center or via a website. But these maps are inconsistent from park to park. Some show only the barest of details — they may or may not have distances shown on them — and often do not include much of the surrounding area. These maps work for the park they're made for, but not much else.
If you're looking to hike outside of a park, such as in a national forest or a national park, you'll want a more detailed map, and there are plenty of choices. For easy-to-read maps that cover the Pikes Peak Region with turn by turn directions, the locally produced Pocket Pals maps are hard to beat. I personally carry most of these maps in my car.
The venerable and iconic Pikes Peak Atlas is a map almost everyone has. It's still available in stores, though, it hasn't been updated in a number of years, which means it's not quite as accurate as it was in the past. Trails have been closed, re-routed, or have become overgrown from lack of use, but they're still on the map. Still, The Pikes Peak Atlas is more right than it is wrong. I still carry mine.
Trails Illustrated maps, made by the National Geographic Society, seemingly cover every square mile of Colorado's public lands. The 250 assorted maps cover most of the rest of the U.S., almost all national parks and monuments, and other countries, too. As for their ease of use, they fall between the Pocket Pals maps and the Pikes Peak Atlas. They are also updated regularly, ensuring that they'll stay somewhat accurate. I have lots of these maps, and find them to be quite useful.
But if you want to get really deep into maps, look for official U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maps, the most detailed and presumably accurate topographical maps around. They're not the easiest to get your hands on, but now two websites offer the ability to view, customize and print USGS maps from your home computer. The customization options are many, so you'll want to spend time on the websites www.natgeomaps.com and caltopo.com to get a feel for how they work.
The USGS doesn't update maps very often, so be aware that they may not always have the most up-to-date information. Reading a detailed topographical map isn't very easy, and can be confusing. Take the time to develop your map reading skills, especially when using the USGS maps.


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Event parking will be in the field by the skate park. Enter the event through the east doors to the gyms by the ice arena.
Child care is available through APEX for the first 50 kids --- so register early! Register HERE!
Purchase tickets early as we are expected to sell out!
Tickets purchased online will receive an email confirmation. Please print the confirmation email with the QR code or display it on your mobile device for entrance into Taste of Arvada.
Tickets can also be purchased at the Arvada Chamber of Commerce located at 7305 Grandview Ave. in Arvada.
New this year - mobile ticketing! Print or display your confirmation email on your mobile device to enter the event.
More than 60 Denver Metro and Arvada restaurants, craft breweries and non-food vendors will display their finest culinary bites, sips and offerings from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. In addition restaurant and bar vendors will compete for coveted prizes in their categories, voted on by attendees. Tickets to the event include all the samples from both food and drink vendors. Please bring your photo ID if you plan on sampling alcoholic beverages.
General Admission Tickets are $20 ($25 the day of the event) and Children's tickets (ages 3-12) are $10. Kids 2 and under are free. Strollers are not permitted inside the event.
"Taste of Arvada is a wonderful opportunity for Arvada and Denver Metro community members to get a 'taste' of Arvada cuisines and learn about new restaurants, bars and businesses in the area," said Arvada Chamber President, Kami Welch. "It allows businesses to showcase their finest culinary dishes and show Arvada natives and visitors the best dining our city has to offer."


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Q: how do you pass a image file to ashx also give a error Could not create type 'uploader' I have an aspx page which has an iframe inside that iframe i have an ascx page
code example
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            <asp:fileupload runat="server" cssclass="btnSml" id="uploadPhoto" width="155px" />
            <asp:button runat="server" cssclass="btnSml" id="btnUploadPhoto" text="Upload" />

    </form>

my question is, how do i pass the data to an ashx control so i can save the file?
public class UploadHandler : IHttpHandler
{
    public class Upload : IHttpHandler {
   public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) {
     HttpPostedFile oFile = context.Request.Files["Filedata"];
     string sDirectory = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("uploads");
     oFile.SaveAs(sDirectory + oFile.FileName);
   }
   public bool IsReusable {
      get { return false; }
   }
}

}

Thank you in advance

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A new addition to our Flak collection, this interchangeable lens design offers benefits from performance eyewear, delivering unrivalled innovation to those who want to see the difference technology makes in a full range of activities. Features: Swap out the lenses when light changes, and take full advantage of High Definition Optics with ANSI Z87.1 standards of clarity and impact resistance. The wide peripheral view stays sharp with XYZ Optics while the contouring improves side protection against sun and wind. Unobtainium nosepads increase grip with perspiration for a no slip grip. Three-Point Fit holds lenses in precise optical alignment while eliminating pressure points. Available in Asia Fit and with Oakley Prizm Sport & Oakley Authentic Prescription Lenses. Plutonite Lenses offer top UV Protection filtering 100% of all UVA, UVB, UVC and harmful blue light up to 400nm. O Matter stress-resistant frame material is both lightweight and durable for all-day comfort and protection.


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Борис Михайлович Марков (народився 8 березня 1977 в місті Дніпропетровську, нині Дніпро) — український керівник вищого рівня, науковець, благодійник, голова ради директорів, генеральний директор Корпорації «АТБ».

Життєпис

У 1998 році почав кар'єру в ПП «ВМК» з посади заступника директора. З вересня 1998 – начальник юридичного відділу ТОВ «АгроТехБізнес».

Здобув вищу юридичну освіту в Дніпропетровському держуніверситеті (1999). В тому ж році призначений начальником юридичного департаменту ТОВ «АТБ-Маркет». З 2001 – директор ПП «Юридична компанія «Атланта-Консалтинг», з 2004 генеральний директор корпорації «АТБ».

Другу вищу освіту здобув за фахом «економіка підприємств», закінчивши економічний факультет Дніпропетровського університету економіки та права ім. А. Нобеля (2006).

З 2010 року й по теперішній час - голова Ради директорів, генеральний директор корпорації «АТБ».

У 2014 захистив у Дніпропетровському університеті економіки та права ім. А. Нобеля кандидатську дисертацію на тему: «Антимонопольне регулювання у сфері роздрібної торгівлі продовольчими товарами в Україні»за спеціальністю 08.00.03 - економіка та управління національним господарством і отримав науковий ступінь кандидата економічних наук.

У 2019 закінчив Києво-Могилянську бізнес-школу (kmbs) за програмою «Школа стратегічного архітектора», у 2020 – закінчив TheAspenInstitute (м. Київ) за курсом «Бізнес і суспільство».

2020 року захистив у Міжрегіональній академії управління персоналом докторську дисертацію на тему: «Стратегія управління роздрібними торговельними мережами в умовах трансформації внутрішньої торгівлі України»за спеціальністю 08.00.03 - економіка та управління національним господарством і отримав науковий ступінь доктора економічних наук.

У квітні 2021 закінчив семінар «Відповідальне лідерство-22» від The Aspen Institute (м. Київ).

Одружений. Має двох доньок.

Благодійна діяльність
Є співзасновником Благодійної організації «Всеукраїнський благодійний фонд «Здорова дитина».

Відзнаки
Борис Марков входить:
 в ТОП-25 найкращих керівників України згідно з рейтингом видання Forbes.Ukraine (2020);
 в ТОП-5 найбільш успішних керівників в українському рітейлі за версією видання Delo.ua (2020).

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Посилання

Українські підприємці
Українські меценати

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Escaping Poverty and Becoming Poor: Who Gains, Who Loses, and Why?
As I researched the back story on Babajob, I learned that the main inspiration for Sean Blagsvedt (Babajob CEO) was a Duke University research study. The study [Escaping Poverty and Becoming Poor: Who Gains, Who Loses, and Why?[PDF link], authored by Dr. Anirudh Krishna in 2004, looked at data from 35 villages in Rajasthan over a period of 25 years and concluded that households' escape from poverty is assisted by one set of factors, but an entirely different set of factors is associated with households' decline.
Methodology: This study was conducted in 35 villages in five districts of Rajasthan . Poverty in Rajasthan has declined from 46% in 1973 to 27% in 1993, according to official statistics, which makes it one of the top five states in India in this regard. State GDP in Rajasthan has grown much faster than the national average during 1980-98. Education has also expanded rapidly in villages of this state, and 70% of villagers less than 25 years of age have five or more years of school education. Villages in the selected districts have an average population of 1,100 persons. More than 90% of village residents have agriculture as their principal occupation. Landholdings are however, quite small, less than half of one acre per capita on average; the land yields almost nothing in three years out of five because of scanty rainfall; and drought is a frequent visitor
to this region. Village selection was purposive, including large as well as small villages, those located close to major roads and others more remotely situated. Villages where a single caste group is dominant were included along with others that have more diverse populations, including scheduled tribes and Muslims. A team of 16 field investigators, men and women in equal numbers and mostly themselves village residents of this area, trained together for three weeks at the start, and together we developed a preliminary methodology, which was pilot tested in nine villages and later refined and implemented in the 35 selected villages.
Establishing a shared understanding of what constitutes poverty was done using a Stages-of-Progress exercise. The first four stages of progress were common to different villages and are, in order:
buying food to eat,
sending children to school,
possessing clothes to wear outside the house, and
retiring debt in regular installments
The Gainers: 11% of households escaped poverty during the 25 year period – Category B. Diversification of income sources is the single most important reason associated with households' escape from poverty in these villages. Of the 499 households of category B considered for this part of the analysis, diversification of income sources is a principal factor in 349 cases (70%).
Diversification requires taking up some other activity in addition to agriculture, and successful diversification has in most cases required building a bridge to a city. Some villagers have taken up a trade or a job in a city, while others remain in the village and produce goods for sale in cities. But comparatively few households escaping poverty have done so relying on resources and markets contained entirely within their rural area.
Personal capability and enterprise have counted much more in these cases of successful escape, and relatives' help is also significant in many cases; however, direct assistance from government departments, NGOs, political parties and other outside agencies is comparatively much less important. Personal capability and enterprise figure prominently in 271 of 499 cases (54%). Help from relatives or friends is a principal reason in 208 cases (42%). But, assistance from government or other sources (including NGOs and political parties) figures as a contributing cause in only 7.5% of successful escape. Despite the operation of various anti-poverty schemes almost continuously for the past 25 years, less than 10% of successful escapes from poverty in this region can be attributed even in part to assistance programs operated in this region over the past two decades.
Some villagers have taken up additional activities but many more have sought new sources of livelihood in cities and they have gone as far a field as Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Pune, several hundred kilometers away, to work as carpenters, cooks, ice cream vendors, laborers, masons, plumbers, sign-painters, tea stall assistants, truck drivers, and waiters. Mostly younger males move to the city for this purpose, and in nearly all of these cases they travel by themselves, leaving their families behind in the village. The positions they occupy in the city are hardly very secure and it is both more reliable and cheaper to have one's family remain stable in the village.
Contacts providing information are critical for most cases of successful diversification. In 198 of 309 cases of successful diversification (64%), the availability of an external contact, a friend or more often a relative already established in the city, was critical for a households' successful break from poverty. It is a sorry fact that even as the government in India has pledged itself increasingly to supporting market-led economic growth, it has not at the same time made market-based information easier to access by ordinary citizens. Instead, citizens rely mostly on kinship-based channels; those who are lucky enough to have relations in cities are the ones who are most able to diversify and break out of poverty.
The Losers: No single factor is associated with a household's decline into poverty. Most often, a combination of factors is at work, pushing a household downward from nonpoverty into poverty. In more than 85% of all cases of decline into poverty, three principal factors are at work. A combination of health and health-related expenses, high-interest private debt, and social and customary expenses constitutes the major reasons for decline in the vast majority of cases.
Health problems and heavy expenses on healthcare (usually of poor quality and often with disastrous results) were included within the principal reasons for decline by a majority of households. Between one-half to two-thirds of category C households in every single village mentioned illnesses, accidents, and health-related expenditures among the four principal reasons contributing to their downfall. No matter if a village is very remotely situated or if it is located close to a big city (and a major hospital), health and expenses on healthcare figure prominently in more than half of all cases of households' decline into poverty.
Debt is incurred when households in these villages need to make large and unexpected expenditures, especially on healthcare. Private moneylenders, and less often, relatives and friends, constitute the only available source of consumption credit. Private lenders' rates of interest are almost invariably high, and they impose a severe burden, particularly upon poorer villagers.
Death feasts constitute the principal item of social expenditure in most villages of this region. Marriages also involve quite heavy
expenditures, particularly for the bride's family, and in about one-third of all these category C households, heavy expenditure on marriages constituted a principal reason for decline.
Key Recommendations from Research: Three elements – high healthcare costs, high interest consumption debt from private sources, and social expenses on deaths and marriages – together form a chain that leads many households into abiding poverty. Breaking the chain at any one of these three links can help rescue many thousands of households from falling into poverty each year. Villagers in the five districts studied here are all served by government-funded clinics and hospitals, but several reasons limit villagers' use of these subsidized facilities. Reforming social practices and making reliable and affordable healthcare available will go a long way toward reducing the risk of households falling into poverty. In addition, and even separately by itself, making consumption loans available at a reasonable rate of interest will also help.
Arresting decline will be assisted by these measures, while promoting escape from poverty will require a different set of policy instruments. Diversification of income sources is critical in this respect, and information and contacts matter critically for a household diversifying successfully. It is through arranging for the provision of high-quality information that government agencies and NGOs can play the most effective roles in this region. Money currently spent to subsidize asset purchase by poor farmers is much better spent, in my view, by supplying information about disease control, about water tables, about opportunities in the city, about the means to hold state officials accountable, and about the methods that villagers can use to obtain gainful access to markets.
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The MATEIS laboratory has a wide range of machines for characterising the mechanical or dielectric properties of materials (mechanical and dielectric spectrometers, mechanical, shear, traction torque compression testing machines etc. and micro- and nanoindentors). It is also possible to study the mechanical response of polymer-based materials in a wide range of loading frequencies/rates, temperatures and deformations. The PVMH team has made characterisation by mechanical spectrometry (cf figure below) and dielectrics, its specialty.
Regarding microstructural characterisation, lthe laboratory also has all the quipment necessary to characterise the microstructure from the macroscopic to the nonometric scale (T.E.M., E.S.E.M, A.F.M., X-ray diffusion bench W.A.X.S. and S.A.X.S…) and relies on a team performant in microscopy (SNMS team). The SNMS guarantees leading edge research in the development of tools for characterising materials using electron microscopy, applied in particular to polymer materials. The laboratory's most recent advances in this domain have been concerned with observing materials using electron tomography, enabling us thus to carry out three-dimensional microstructural characterisation on a nanometric scale (pertinent for nanocomposites).
This technique supplements X-ray tomography, on a micrometric scale, also available in the laboratory and particularly useful for charaterising foam and micronic composites. Another one of the laboratory's well-known activities (cf. Figure 3) is the development of the microstructural characterisation of materials during loading (in a microscope, by tomography or using X-rays).


I've been to Yellowstone 12 times, thought I knew the park pretty well till I read this book [Yellowstone Treasures]. Looking forward to going back and taking some of the hikes listed here. Great info, easy read. Highly recommend to anyone going to Yellowstone.