What will John Brennan do, Suspend his operations?
This image — captioned, "President Barack Obama talks with CIA Director John Brennan, center, and Chief of Staff Denis McDonough in a West Wing hallway of the White House, May 10, 2013" — may officially be my new favorite official White House photograph.
In other words, John Brennan was speaking to Obama and the Chief of Staff about CIA's complaints about the SSCI Torture Report on May 10. And White House photographer Pete Souza had framed the event amidst reflections and dark lighting that would make even James Jesus Angleton weep.
I'm fond of the photo, too, for what it shows.
As you recall, SSCI's torture report was completed last December. CIA was initially supposed to respond to SSCI about the report by February 15, but that got held up, in part, because of Brennan's confirmation, during which he appeared to avoid reading the report to avoid saying anything about it before being confirmed. Almost immediately after Brennan was confirmed, the CIA started leaking about how much they didn't like it (even while claiming they still hadn't finished reviewing the document). It turns out those leaks were factually incorrect. On April 11, Brennan was still stalling about the content of the review and completely ignoring any possibility it would be released publicly (though had spoken with Dianne Feinstein and Saxby Chambliss earlier that week about it). On May 1, Mark Udall got shrill, advising the President he could "excise the demons" of torture by releasing the report. On May 7, CIA was still compiling its "defiant" response to the report; National Security Council Spokesperson Caitlin Hayden told me the White House was still reviewing the document. Also on May 7, a collection of human rights organizations called on the White House to appoint someone to oversee the release of the report.
3 days later, Brennan was in the White House with a report on CIA's complaints about the report, all written up.
But here's the thing: that meeting was May 10. It was almost 7 weeks later before Brennan would present that report (again with leaks about how inaccurate millions of CIA cables are) — in the company of Joe Biden — to Dianne Feinstein and Saxby Chambliss (though there were reports that they ended up discussing other issues instead).
CIA has had its complaints all typed up for over two months now. And the only sign of any discussion about declassifying the report that describes how many lies CIA told about this program is Feinstein's request to Jim Comey in his confirmation hearing that he would read it, why by itself seems a concession that we all won't get to.
So did the White House decide not to release the report two months ago and just never tell us all?
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Guess you'll just have to wait for the Conclusions and recommendations of the Committee against Torture.
They were hoping you wouldn't notice that.
Thank you White House, for the dramatic photo of torturers, plotting how to conceal their torture. A camera can be a deadly weapon, as in "Collateral Murder", July 12, 2007.
No, no — this photo is the meeting at which they decided upon the release date. Which is "when hell freezes over." So, yes they'll release it but no, not yet.
Minor quibble: the James Jesus Angleton I knew, thought by all in McLean to be a retired African-violet grower, puttering in his greenhouses day and night, never wept. Never.
Which report would that be ? Feinstein's report or Brennan's report on Feinstein's report ? The CIA is still rendering, torturing, and executing, right ?
03 July 2013: A U.S. drone strike killed at least 17 people in Pakistan's restive border region early on Wednesday, Pakistani security officials said, in the biggest such attack this year, and the second since Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif took office.Most of those killed were fighters for the Haqqani network, according to three Taliban commanders and security officials.Two missiles hit a house near the main market in Miranshah, the provincial capital of the tribal region of North Waziristan. The region is considered a Taliban stronghold.
Hey! Hey! Obama-fay! How many kids didja kill today?
@Teddy: Not even from ecstasy?
T.S. Eliot and Eno, the monsoons have struck a rhythm in the Sangre de Cristo, I like the ambiance being used to present this stunning portrait of the nuanced postures in the deliberations of power arising of the Obama White House. The rain just began.
Has Pete Sousa been rendered to Gitmo yet?
Feeling sorry for the Obama crew in the photo and for the photographer taking it. Probably went through 12 takes, and they still can't approach "JFK and RFK contemplating the Cuban Missile Crisis". The bar's too high on subsequent occupants of the White House, must cause lots of anguish.
I no longer feel surprise and the disdain that Obama, the executive branch, and the legislative branch feel for the American people so this revelation is more confirmation than consternation.
But I want to complement you Marcy on this piece. This is an excellent, incisive and cutting. It is a great piece of writing about a terrible subject.
@JohnT: It would be a pretty long list (I hope) of Presidents acting Presidential in WH photos before "Obama and Brennan plan to bury CIA 'analysis' of torture report", and I'm confident the photo of JFK you have linked ranks higher. Then again, I'm pretty sure the photo you linked was taken three minutes after the one I mentioned — it's just that JFK dropped his gum and it rolled under the desk, where RFK is trying to find it while his brother (gingerly nursing a bad back) watches. Still more inspirational than our subject photo in this post, though.
funny that my tho't on viewing the picture was that they were meeting in the hall with the hope that general alexander's booz allen minions wouldn't overhear them.


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Q: How does Koa help avoid "monkey patching" and how "Hapi" or "Express" don't do the same? I have hard times understanding why people preach Koa as solving the "monkey patching" problem (whereas one needs to modify prepackaged code).  (see https://www.quora.com/Should-I-learn-Express-js-or-Koa-js-for-node/answer/Yvan-Scher?share=1 or http://blog.onclickinnovations.com/koa-js/).
How is Koa special in that regards? How isn't Hapi or Express the same in that regards?

A: Having done Koa for 2 years, and some express.js recently, I ran into 1 big example of this.
Say you have a controller that emits a response, and you want to intercept that response and do something with it (e.g.: gzip it, or convert it to some other format).
This works easily natively with koa because you can just do something like this:
function myMw(ctx, next) {
   await next();
   ctx.response.body = gzip(ctx.response.body);
}

The above is a fictional example, but you get the idea.
With express your code for this looks like absolute garbage. Easy to see in the express gzip middleware:
https://github.com/expressjs/compression/blob/master/index.js
This has to do with the fact that express middlewares provide direct access to the HTTP socket for writing responses (with send()).
I'm suspecting this is where this sentiment comes from. Frankly I don't understand why people still use Express. Mostly habitual and the vast amounts of tutorials I reckon. Express was great, but it's painful today.

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Read this USA Today interview with Tom Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie (Jack Reacher), and watch MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE ROGUE NATION when it hits theaters July 31.
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Jumpstart: Mustang Most-Viewed Vehicle of 2017
January 19, 2018 • by Staff
Media, insights and marketing solutions provider Jumpstart Automotive Media named the Ford Mustang the most-viewed vehicle of 2017. The Mustang has held the top spot since 2014, but as an outlier: Jumpstart's analysts found Americans' love for trucks, SUVs and crossovers remained on full display during 2017.
The Ford F-150 saw 33% growth year-over-year, ranked second for three of the past four years, and was the only truck in the top 10. (The Chevrolet Silverado ranked 11th and RAM 1500 fell out of the top 25). Trucks, SUVs and crossovers held 60% of the top 20 most-viewed vehicles across Jumpstart during all of 2017. The percentage of SUVs/CUVs in the top 10 has increased 50% since 2014.
In addition to the Mustang and F-150, the Honda Accord and CR-V, Jeep Wrangler, Chevy Corvette, Honda Civic, Chevy Camaro, Jeep Grand Cherokee and Toyota Camry also made the top 10. The Camry, which debuted a major redesign in 2017, saw a 62% lift in share of interest (the second-highest growth among top 100 vehicles) and jumped 20 spots to rank 10th.
The redesigned 2018 Honda Accord, which recently took home "North American Car of the Year" honors, saw a 37% lift in shopper interest, moving it up seven spots to rank third.
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I will likely upset a lot of people with this article.
For the record, I did not vote for Trump. If I had a daughter, which I don't, I wouldn't let him near her. I wouldn't ask for his advice on my personal life.
He's neither a socialist (left) nor a neo-con (right). Trump is a pragmatist. No guiding ideology is shaping his decisions. Frustrates true believers in both blue and red camps. Like a lot of older guys, he has grown more conservative in his sensibilities with age. It will happen to many of today's leftish college students too. Not inevitable, but it's typical.
For the first time in a long time, we have a non-career-politician (most of them were also lawyers) as president. We're not used to that.
Eisenhower was the last president before Trump who had not held elected public office previous to becoming president. But even he was a high-ranking government official (the general in charge of D-Day and the supreme allied commander in World War 2).
Populist–loves big crowds and the spotlight.
Talks (way too much). Chronic overstatement.
Boastful. Big ego. Alpha male.
Split his own party. Neither of them is a typical Republican.
In my lifetime, only Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton have enjoyed the presidency as much as Donald Trump. The rest of the seven dwarves were humbled and fatigued by the weight of the office. Those still alive are working off vocational PTSD.
Starting with Clinton, and amping up more and more with each new president, there has been a crescendo of ad hominem anti-presidential hatred (from the left or right– depending on the president's party) reaching new heights with Trump. Trump Derangement Syndrome should be in the DSM.
Barack Obama did not have an easy ride either. There are still (!) "birthers" going after him. Like the "Russians Stole the Election" conspiracy, it never dies. Conspiracies are, by definition, impossible to disprove.
Trump holding NATO's feet to the fire is one of the best things he has done. European member states have been letting us pay for their defense since 1945. These are among the richest societies on earth and can easily pay 2% on defense. He scolds them every time they meet. Good for him.
Not sure that NATO is necessary anymore anyways (Gasp! Can he say that?). It was designed to deter Russian aggression during the Cold War. With the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, we had a chance to end all the atomic weapon foolisheness, but have convinced ourselves we still need to hate the Russians.
Truth is, we have a lot in common with the Russians.
We are both huge continental powers.
We, together, have 90% of the world's nuclear weapons.
We run the Inernational Space Station together, and all of our astronauts get a ride up to it in one of their rockets. No other country is even close to the two of us in space technology.
Islamic terrorism, for both of us, is a very real threat.
We are both major oil and gas producers.
We have highly developed aerospace sectors with generations of experience.
Both of us would benefit from China better (and more fairly) opening their markets to our manufacturing.
Both of us would love to see the Korean peninsula settle down. Russia actually shares a border with Korea.
Together, we virtually wiped ISIS from the map in the last few years. You don't hear about that but it's true.
There is a lot most Americans don't understand about Russia.
Their friendship with Syria runs much deeper than any of our relationships with any factions in that country. They have a very strategic naval base there (unlike us, most of their other naval bases are ice bound for much of the year, or hemmed in by narrow entry passages). They know a lot more about Syria than we do. We have the foolish notion that we should fight against BOTH factions in Syria. They choose one side.
Ukraine has areas that are virtually entirely Russian, where the citizens don't want to be Ukrainian. Russia has made no moves to control Ukrainian-speaking parts of Ukraine. Ukraine has had Western-leaning and Russian-leaning regions for literally 1,000 years. Virtually no American military or diplomatic people understand this, yet we have opinions on it. We hit them with sanctions for wanting to include the Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine in Russia. Some things are just none of our business–especially if we carry heavy ignorance into the mix.
Crimea has always been ethnically Russian. Back when the whole region (including Ukraine) was part of one USSR, Khrushchev gave Crimea (without asking the people who lived there) to Ukraine as a gift to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Ukraine's becoming part of the Tsardom of Russia. The equivalent of giving Upper Michigan to Wisconsin. It was all within the USSR at the time, so it didn't really affect anyone. Now the Crimeans want to be back inside of Russia. So what? Why is that our business?
The truth is, many people (and nations), psychologically, need a bogeyman on which to project their "stuff," in order to shore up self-esteem. Both Putin and Trump fit the bill.
He often gets criticized for not trusting his advisors or the CIA, FBI, State Department, or whatever.
This is genuine; he really does not seem to trust them. The bureaucracy has one incentive–to protect and grow the bureaucracy. To maintain the status quo. Trump has no interest in coddling that mentality. Good for him.
And there is good reason to mistrust bureaucratic advisors, in general. They often are incentivized to overstate minor threats, and this causes them to take their eyes off the ball and miss real threats like 9/11 (which they all missed).
Education advisors will always tell us that we need to spend more money on education and hire more people like them.
Intelligence advisors will always tell us that everyone is spying on us.
Homeland Security will always tell us that there are terrorists mixed in with immigrants.
Police officials will always tell us that crime is "spiralling out of control." Never mind that violent crime has reached lower levels than any time in the last 30 years, or that it (statistically) has never been safer to be a child in America.
The FDA will always tell us that salmonella is about to kill us all, and without them we'd be doomed.
The State Department will always tell us that we need months of negotiations before national leaders can meet, get to know each other, and work things out.
As a free market guy, I disagree with Trump's tariff threats. I also don't like sanctioning other countries (which is an act of war, in my mind) without a congressional declaration. Sanctions don't hurt the leaders of other countries–they hurt the regular citizens who are just trying to get by. He doesn't seem to have the economic background to understand Friedman, Mises, Hayek and others who explain why tariffs and sanctions are economic poison.
Trump does not have a real plan for immigration reform. The only president in my lifetime to have a vision for sensible immigration reform was George W. Bush, but he was shot down by neocons in his own party (and by Senator Barack Obama, who was receiving a lot of union money at the time, and unions don't like immigrants).
Also, it's very clear from the constitution (look it up yourself), that CONGRESS is responsible for immigration and naturalization policies. Not the president. Not the Supreme Court. Not the States. Not Sanctuary Cities.
Our immigration laws are a mess and no one in congress (for a couple of generations now) has the courage to fix these laws.
Many politicians get elected by stirring up fear of immigrants, riding to victory on "no amnesty" platforms. They keep doing it because it keeps working. Fear sells.
Right wingers just saying "follow the laws" ignore the fact that our immigration laws, like alcohol prohibition and the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit simply don't work, don't benefit the country, aren't fair on a human or legal level, and are not realistically enforceable.
The truth is, we need immigrant labor, much of it currently undocumented, especially for agriculture, gardening, house cleaning, and child care. There simply aren't enough of us to cover these things. There is no way for this labor (if we followed the current laws) to be supplied. So the laws are ignored, with only token enforcement. Many if not most of the congressmen and -women, many of whom decry "amnesty," benefit directly from such labor, much of it in their own households.
Same holds true for highly skilled labor. There are amazingly gifted and educated people who can't get a work visa to come here. Some of them even got their advanced degrees at US universities! Foreigners getting an advanced STEM degree in the US should get a green card with their diploma.
Amnesty is wise sometimes. We pardoned the entire Confederacy after half the country took up arms and led (treasonous) armed rebellion against the government (!), leaving the country in a smoking crater. It was wise to pardon them all. Robert E Lee ended up a university president, and had tea at the White House. But amnesty is only a temporary measure, it does not solve the structural problem. We need to upgrade the immigration laws so that we don't need amnesty in the first place.
So I am not optimistic about immigration reform, Trump or no Trump. That would take congressional leadership at a whole new level, which I don't see out there anywhere.
The corporate tax cuts will make your life better for a half generation, at least. Our corporate tax rates were absurd; we had the dubious honor of leading the world in this category, along with having a regulatory state to rival anyone's.
Everyone talks about the little rich countries in Europe (Scandinavia, Holland, Switzerland) as being "socialistic." But in reality, their markets are more "laissez faire" than ours. Granted, they lead the world in providing a social safety net, but these countries have some of the lowest corporate tax rates and way less regulation that we do. Their (freer than ours) markets can afford to pay for their safety net. But most Americans don't know that it's way easier to start a new business in Sweden or the Netherlands than it is to do so here at home in the USA.
The debt (and yes it's way different than the deficit). Keynes once said that "In the long run, we're all dead." Seems to be Trump's mantra on the Mount-Everest-sized US debt mountain. Like W and Obama, he seems powerless or (in his case) perhaps disinterested in doing anything about it.
There hasn't been any serious work on balancing our budget and building down the debt since Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich gave us several years of surpluses.
Military spending on things that don't make us safer, and may actually endanger us (e.g. Interventionism).
Social Security for half of our retirees who simply don't need it.
Medicare for half of our retirees who can afford health care on their own.
There you have it. Still not a Trump fan, but I applaud him when he does things that work and criticize him when he doesn't.
I don't get passionate about him one way or another.
One of the great benefits of believing in God and getting older.
I believe that there is a higher power in charge, and my faith that "life goes on" has never been disproven….
I find this reflection thoughtful and helpful. I have a much darker view of the implications of this presidency. And unlike my friend, Pastor Householder, I have changed my mind on what motivates Mr. Trump. I used to believe he was ultimately a pragmatist, and that gave me mild hope after the election. I am increasingly convinced that he is driven by narcissism rather than pragmatism, for the simple reason that many of his moves do not suggest to me concern about practicality, but always reflect concern about his ego. That narcissism, in my view, makes him way too vulnerable to manipulation by the flattery of some really sinister people. Nonetheless, I am always grateful, in today's climate, for a reasonable stepping back from the emotional brink upon which we are balancing.


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Большо́й Сен-Берна́р (, , ) — перевал в Альпах, через который со времён Римской империи проходил главный путь, соединявший Север Италии с центральной Европой.

Высота перевала 2469 м над уровнем моря.

В 1905 году через перевал была построена дорога, которая связывает итальянскую Аосту (, ) с швейцарским Мартиньи (). В зимний период, с октября по май, дорога, как правило, закрыта.

Ниже перевала, на высоте 1915 м проходит тоннель одноименного названия (), который был открыт в 1964 году.

В 1050 году Святым Бернардом из Ментона на перевале был основан монастырь, при нём горный приют, которые, как и перевал, получили его имя.

19 июня 1805 года, по желанию Наполеона, в часовне был похоронен французский генерал Дезе.

Здесь была выведена порода собак сенбернар, которые были обучены поиску людей в лавинах.

Велоспорт
Перевал Большой Сен-Бернар был задействован на Гранд-турах 11 раз: 6 раз на Джиро д'Италия и 5 раз на Тур де Франс. Последний раз в 2009 году. Известные велосипедисты первыми поднимались на перевал в ходе гонки как на Джиро, так и Туре.

Детали подъёма
 Северный
Начинается в швейцарском городе Мартиньи, расположенного ниже Коль де Ла Форкла. Подъем на перевал составляет 41,5 км в длину со средним градиентом 4,8 % (максимальный до 10 %) и перепадом высот 1980 м. Кроме того, он достигает высоты 2473 метров, являясь одним из самых высоких в Альпах. Благодаря этим данным северный подъём считается колоссом Альп и одним из самых сложных перевалов в Европе.

 Южный
Этот маршрут начинается в итальянском городе Аоста и столь же труден как и северный маршрут. Подъем на перевал составляет 33,1 км в длину с постоянным градиентом 5,7 % и перепадом высот 1874 м. На этом как и на противоположном склоне, снег является обычным явлением.

Джиро д'Италия

Тур де Франс

Галерея

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Перевалы в Альпах
Перевалы Швейцарии
Перевалы Италии
Вале
География Валле-д'Аосты
Велосипедные подъёмы в Швейцарии
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– Demonstrated strong ability to co-ordinate and manage relationships with customers.


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The National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places also recognizes key locations associated with African American history. Their travel itineraries,We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement and Aboard the Underground Railroad, provide details on more than 100 significant sites.
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Blood on the Comic Opera 104
February 15, 2010 in Afghanistan by craig
At the Nuremberg trials, it was deliberately decided that those selected for the visible judgement on aggressive war would represent a cross section of the Nazi leadership, including each branch of the Armed services. It was thought very important to include a representative of the journalists who had whipped up the hatred.
I think that was wise. I do not suspect we will ever see a war crimes trial, despite Polanski's best efforts. But there are so many arch propagandists for the war in Iraq that it would be hard to know who to pick. Aaronovitch, Cohen, Phillips?
But I think possibly the worst offender is our old friend Frank "Goebbels" Gardner. Yet again his grave but reassuring features have been delivering smooth propaganda, this time from the comic opera re-re-re-re-re-re-re-reinvasion of parts of Helmand – an operation which is costing the UK taxpayer £2 billion this month, and the US taxpayer very much more.
I rather like the comic opera Afghan General they have fronting the operation, to restore the "Legitimate authority" of electoral fraudster Karzai. The "Taliban" have of course sensibly melted away. There are however plenty of civilians still around for the Americans to blow up. Twelve at once is unusual, but they are being killed all the time.
One of Gardner's favourite tricks is to call ordinary Afghan courtyard houses "Taliban compounds". It is not a compound, it is a house. Perhaps Afghans don't live in things we would recognise in Acacia Drive – but they are their homes.
Anyway, let's all get out the bunting and celebrate a great national victory over some empty houses and cowering civilians. Let today be known forever as Frank Gardner day. Gentlemen of England now abed are really missing out on this one.
Meanwhile the Afghan resistance will avoid pitched battles and pick off our poor troops slowly and patiently, until the day we can't afford it any more and leave. Karzai will leave too, to live in Geneva and count his cash. Alistair Campbell will tell us how much better life has become for the people of Afghanistan.
Sir Jock Stirrup (a real comic opera name) has just told us that the missile killing twelve civilians was a setback, be we would get over it.
The twelve won't get over it, of course.
Probably some social misfit of unstable mind somewhere in England has been nudged towards a violent response. All for the good – that will help keep the whole ultra profitable security behemoth rumbling on.
104 thoughts on "Blood on the Comic Opera"
eddie February 15, 2010 at 10:01
I agree with you Craig. Let's get out and leave the Afghans to their own devices. They can go back to the medieval theocracy that they had before, where women are mere chattels, denied an education and stoned if they have the temerity to look at a man. Bring back the middle ages eh? Seriously, I agree with you. We should get out. Afghanistan is not a nation and never has been.
Ruth February 15, 2010 at 10:15
Well, I'd be really happy if the Afghans could come over here and free us from the corrupt government we have; a government that systemmatically imprisons people to hide its crimes.
Yes, we have elections but elections mask the reality that whoever is elected is subservient to the permanent unaccountable government.
mary February 15, 2010 at 10:25
It took the execrable Eddie just half an hour from the time Craig put on this fine piece to come up with that vile paragraph.
1971Thistle February 15, 2010 at 10:32
I'm glad you said that about Frank Gardner; I thought it was just me…Aaronovitch is an unpleasant piece of work, though
Tony February 15, 2010 at 11:07
My son and I sat down and watched Dr. Strangelove last evening and it was shocking how little progress American foreign policy has made since 1963/4. Same talk of acceptable quantities of deaths, so long as they are predominantly the deaths of designated Axis of Evil 'foreigners'. Same deranged ignorance of and paranoia towards foreign nations having a right to their own self-determination. It was those damn Russky commies making everyone red in the face in the 1950's and 1960's, now it is those damn towel-heads.
Will American foreign policy (for that we must include British and Israeli) ever grow up? Will bankruptcy be the only thing which stops us. There is a permanent state of denial, and smarmy propagandists like Gardiner don't convince me. He is just one or two links down in the Alastair Campbell food-chain. As for Miliband's repeated denial about British policy towards torture – give us a break. These characters belong in a Dickens story.
What do Cameron and the Tories have to say about any of this? Nothing. They are too busy taking 7 million pound donations from Hedge Funders http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1f4600ba-19d1-11df-af3e-00144feab49a.html so for sure we can't expect any change in policy towards the fat cats in the banks. Chances are other big-time donors will make sure we stay in the Middle East.
The problem is that Parliament has negligible power in decision-making which is left to the executive who are more than influenced by party donors.
Vronsky February 15, 2010 at 11:24
From 1984, and disturbingly reminiscent of recent BBC bulletins and the commentary of Gardner.
"He could hear just enough of what was issuing from the telescreen to realize that it had all happened, as he had foreseen; a vast seaborne armada had secretly assembled a sudden blow in the enemy's rear, the white arrow tearing across the tail of the black. Fragments of triumphant phrases pushed themselves through the din: 'Vast strategic manoeuvre–perfect co-ordination–utter rout–half a million prisoners–complete demoralization–control of the whole of Africa–bring the war within measurable distance of its end–victory–greatest victory in human history–victory, victory, victory!'"
mrjohn February 15, 2010 at 11:47
I thought your article was going to be about this from the Independent at first
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/bruce-anderson/bruce-anderson-we-not-only-have-a-right-to-use-torture-we-have-a-duty-1899555.html
Craig February 15, 2010 at 12:01
interesting how they waver between denying they do it, and saying that it is justified
Johan van Rooyen February 15, 2010 at 12:03
Totally agree – Frank Gardner is an especially odious tool!
Carlyle Moulton February 15, 2010 at 12:17
The Americans are absolutely useless at winning hearts and minds. If they were not they would realize that while the death of one of their soldiers is a tragedy, the death of a non-combatant civilian as "collateral damage" is a disaster.
I question whether they actually want to win hearts and minds, perhaps their real goal is to keep the insurgency and hence the war going, enabeling the shoveling of large amounts of money from the taxes paid by poor Americans into the pockets of the owners of armaments firms and military contractors.
dreoilin February 15, 2010 at 12:19
Is that link above from 'mrjohn' to Bruce Anderson?
http://tinyurl.com/y9qhub7
It's utterly disgusting.
I don't usually agree with eddie but in his first post above I think he is actually 100% correct. Nothing that we have done by invading the country has improved the status of women in Afghanistan. The warlords in Karzai's corrupt government are every bit as much gynophobic misogynists as the Taliban were.
If the West can do anything to improve the lot of girls and women in Afghanistan it will not be by splattering a fair number of them over the landscape as collateral damage in air strikes designed to kill Taliban commanders in order to prop up the other lot of corrupt drug barons we have chosen to run this poor country.
anno February 15, 2010 at 12:35
The FG report mentioned an initial policy of not using bombs, but twelve people were killed at one time by a rocket. Sounds like a bomb to me. The public is shielded from the overwhelming destructive power of modern weapons, which are given the names of 18th century weapons. The report looked more like a moon-walk than warfare. The British army were behaving like US film-stars at the Oscars, bashfully presenting themselves as kind, patient heroes in a brilliant screen script.
Our troops have machine guns which automatically spray a wide screen of bullets, virtually continuously. That's a rifle. I went to my wife's citizenship ceremony the other day. Two solid hours of patriotic Rule Britannia type music before the ceremony took place.
Makes you wish you were Afghani or anything but British. One day, inshallah.
Shoot-from-the-hip-Eddie, if you were up with the times you would be showering your opponents with bullets, and when you looked up you wouldn't find any audience to argue with any more. Same old, same old. Except instead of persecuting our neighbours like Scotland, Ireland and France, we have the technology to assassinate half the world.
This day, 15 February, in 2003, global protests against war on Iraq occurred in more than 600 cities worldwide. Estimates from 10 million – 20 million made this the largest day of protest in the history of humankind.
Jon February 15, 2010 at 12:37
It is unsettling that Bruce Anderson thinks we live in a culture where the following is acceptable to propose:
"After much agonising, I have come to the conclusion that there is only one answer to Sydney's question [how to extract information from an alleged plotter in a ticking bomb scenario]. Torture the wife and children."
I kid you not: read the article. Disgusting, as @dreoilin says, and worrying too, in equal measure.
Anonymous February 15, 2010 at 12:48
The status of women in Afghanistan is immensely higher than the status of women in the UK, who frequently go out, get drunk, get raped, take the morning after pill, spread HIV, and go back to work on Monday morning thinking of themselves nearly equivalent to the Virgin Mary.
Stick to designing bikes Mr Moulton, you seem to know more about them than Afghan women.
Jon. People need promotion. Worry about the intended audience more than the speaker.
Chris Dooley February 15, 2010 at 12:59
I too wonder about the change of heart from the military. Why do they feel the need to now pronounce civilian deaths ?
They have NEVER bothered before.
Winning hearts and minds by telling the truth ?
MJ February 15, 2010 at 13:14
"They can go back to the medieval theocracy that they had before"
As I'm sure eddie is perfectly aware, the Taliban were installed by the US. In the first half of the 20th century, during a brief respite from being fought over by global colonial powers because of its strategic importance, Afghanistan was indeed left to its own devices. Under leaders such Amanullah Khan, Nadir Shah and Zahir Shah Afghanistan pursued largely reformist policies that stressed, among other things, education and women's rights.
I'm sure that if left to its own devices once again Afghanistan will do just fine. In fact it won't do fine until it is left own devices.
The Taliban are civilians, except in the minds of USUKIS forces, who label them the enemy from their own fundamentalist, religious, interfering in a foreign country, illegal point of view.
Regarding the Independent piece again, there's an excellent comment that follows it which asks whether Anderson would have the same views in the roles were reversed.
The hypothetical scenario is an external aggressor is about to invade a Gulf state, contrary to international law, and torturing the wife and child of the British Ambassador to that Gulf state might produce information prior to a bombing raid that would save thousands of civilian lives. It's a good question – would neoconservatives of his ilk be so in favour then? Or is torture "awful but necessary" only if "we" do it?
@anon at February 15, 2010 12:48 PM: "…the status of women in the UK, who frequently go out, get drunk, get raped, take the morning after pill, spread HIV…"
Anon, I am not sure of the point of your response to Carlyle Moulton actually is – do you think education for girls is a bad thing?
I worry too about the tone of your criticism. This is veering OT, but I am wary to say the least of people who believe that raped women should blame themselves, given the "lifestyle choices" they made. Care to clarify what you meant, exactly?
algernon February 15, 2010 at 13:52
On Anderson's torture article, he sounds like he's trying to push the boundaries of the argument, making statements that are utterly disgusting, such as the torture of wives and children.
I suspect that what this creep is hoping is that by pushing the threshold of debate on this subject will perhaps make issues like "girlie-man's torture of water-boarding" easier for the public to accept and thus get his sociopathic friends in the intelligence industry off the hook.
At this present time, UKUS forces are striking against a Reformist group in Afghanistan. I was reminded of the UK's protestantisation by Henry VIII by last night's Dimbleby history programme.
Thank God Henry persevered in removing Papal control and publishing the Gospels in English.
The Reformation of Islam is 100% opposed by its enemies like the UK who have spent the last thousand years trying to disrail it. One pathetic excuse for fighting the Taliban is that their view of women is unacceptable. If you had lived with the UK victim of teenage rape and experienced the mind-boggling effects of sexual abuse in this country, you would know where I am coming from.
There is a vocal, mad, hardcore of feminists who like the status quo of abuse in this country, like old colonels who say that the harsh public school system they were brought up in never did them any harm.
On the contrary Islam protects women. The USSR invasion that preceded the current UKUS invasion of Afghanistan had resulted in an over-protective situation, which was in the process of being relaxed by the Taliban. People like Carlyle Moulton who try to justify the invasion of Muslim countries on the thread of feminism have the suffering of women and orphans on their blood-soaked hands. Crap is crap.
It's bad enough the Frank Gardner's colonial crap without the loony feminist crap.
Muslim women enjoy many advantages in their stable societies, or as my gym master at school said.' I've got muscles in places where you haven't even got places.' Women in Islam enjoy benefits which western women can't even imagine, including the tranquillity of practising a faith that will take them to heaven.
Anon February 15, 2010 at 15:11
You do know who Frank Gardner is, correct? I'm not sure if he was ever officially MI6, but he's as near in as makes no difference.
Look him up. Damn fool got his photographer killed too.
Mark Golding - Children of Iraq February 15, 2010 at 15:25
My mind is focused not on this propaganda war in Southern Afghanistan, but the wider robotic assassination program conducted by the CIA.
The agency's operatives are recruiting anyone with a desire to make money from hand-outs to feed information into the system that the drones are killing terrorists.
Leon Panetta has said the program is, "the only game in town' and that is meant to reinforce the belief that the world's last great military power can still control this war. In fact behind General Stanley McChrystal 'corner' when turned, might have it's own unpleasant surprises.
Anon "The status of women in Afghanistan is immensely higher than the status of women in the UK, who frequently go out, get drunk, get raped, take the morning after pill, spread HIV, and go back to work on Monday morning thinking of themselves nearly equivalent to the Virgin Mary."
Whereof you cannot speak thereof you should be silent. Are you lot going to let this pass without comment? How low ye have fallen.
If I understand you correctly, what you are saying is that the USUK strategy that destroyed indigenous opposition to the invasion of Iraq, will not work in Afghanistan. Control of Iraqi oil necessitated a less destructive approach, because UKUS need an infrastructure to deliver the oil. In Afghanistan UKUS have tuned up the propaganda lies, and cranked up the destruction,if that is possible,to far higher levels even than Iraq.
Thank you for reminding us what is going on. Bush has already succeeded in uniting the Muslims of Middle East. If Obama goes on to unite the Muslims of the Middle East with the Muslims of Asia, it will definitely have consequences beyond MacChrystal's battered copy of T E Lawrence's manual on how to screw Islam. I wouldn't like to be in Obama's pyjamas when the unintended consequences start to appear.
Eddie,
Sounds like a bitter man, not even worth a comment.
Eddie, causing more trouble I suppose – hopefully you'll have the good grace to feel silly when you realise I've already criticised that. Your comment about people here "falling low" is typical of your Blairite desperation: pro-torture and pro-war is not looking good these days, and you have a lot of work to do to get your position popular (indeed, if it ever was).
Your earlier sarcasm was unhelpful too. Some people here are opposed to UKUS forces killing civilians – surely you can accept that? The question of how to deal with extremist groups – aside from putting them into power in the first place of course – is actually a good question. But people will not want to discuss things with you if you behave like a troublemaker.
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If you do however find an error or anything distorting with my creations, please.. send me a message so that I can repair this error and insure there is not one of the same in the future. Not all computer systems render the same look. Depends on your graphic cards etc.
I create for you and your game play. Not for myself, so its important to me that what you download is correct.
I do take some requests depending on my time frame and the detailing of your request. Some meshes ( meshes are the shape of the clothing, long sleeves that extend from the lower arm, gathering of the waist for belts, raised collars etc.) may take longer to create then a simple dress. It's all in the time it takes to create meshes and hand drawing the details. ( Meshing isnt simple nor is it easy. Drawing and shading is NOT simple either).
You may use any of my meshes, but please give credit. Do not use my textures or reupload as your own. Thanks!
Hair will be linked under the recommend tab on the download page. I only list the hair that is created by our fine artist here at TSR. If I use a hair that is not from TSR, then that link will not be shared.
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I enjoy creating vintage to modern clothing as all our tastes are different.
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This post first appeared on Wandeleur.com. A lovely and inspiring lifestyle site based in Chicago, where I occasionally contribute design focused features.
Luxury interior design services may be out of reach for some of us, at the moment at least, but that doesn't mean you can't access high-end designers and their impeccable style. Well-respected designers often take their eye for interior design into product development, especially home décor, and if you know where to look and shop, you'll up your decorating game in no time.
If you're clueless about top interior designers, I recommend heading to Amazon and searching through best selling interior design books. If a designer has authored a book, there's a higher likelihood that they are working with brands on products too. Google the names of designers you respond to and look for inspiring imagery of their spaces. See if they have any product lines available to the masses. If they do, start browsing online and save products images/links that you love.
Yes, of course there is always Pinterest, but a hardcover interior design book full of amazing photography and tips from the designer him/herself is so much better. When you can view multiple spaces designed by the same person, and "hear" their voice you get a much clearer idea of their design style and aesthetic. Designers have authored these books to help and inspire you, take their professional advice and see what resonates!
Now that you've determined the designer whose style you love most, find a few of their home décor products/lines to build the foundation for your new "look." Maybe it's geometric bedding by Nate Berkus from Target, Candice Olson's transitional area rugs for Wayfair, or Kelly Wearstler's china for Pickard to re-vamp the dinning room. Use these item/s as a starting point to create a space that you love, and that has some serious high-end taste! It's almost as good as going shopping with Nate, Candice or Kelly by your side.
I've picked three designers I personally admire (one that I'm interning for this summer!), each with their own product lines, to illustrate what to look for and where to find inspiration for your own space. With a little thoughtful planning, Internet research and a few quick steps you can discover a new decorating style that you love, and may very well be achievable within your budget.
Nate Berkus was a regular design contributor to The Oprah Show, and went on to have his own talk show; "The Nate Berkus Show." He has authored two books "Home Rules" and "The Things That Matter." He has a home décor line available at Target, fabrics available through Jo-Ann's and Calico Corners, and you can shop his personal antique picks on 1stdibs. Images via nateberkus.com and Target.com.
L.A. based designer, Kelly Wearstler, is known for her distinctive sophisticated style. A branding virtuoso, Wearstler has branding and product deals with a large variety of companies and her own line of products. Her brand's flagship store is located on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, and she has published four coffee table books: Rhapsody, HUE, Domicilium Decoratus, and Modern Glamour: The Art of Unexpected Style. View all Kelly's Collaborations. Images via http://www.kellywearstler.com.
Candice Olson is best known as a TV personality for HGTV's Candice Tells All, Divine Design and as a judge on HGTV Design Star. She has authored more than five books and in 2005 she launched "The Candice Olson Collection" – a brand of home décor products such as wallpaper, lighting, rugs, bedding and more. Images via www.candiceolson.com and www.wayfair.com.
Which designer's style appeals to you most here? Who are some of your other favorite high-end designers? Let me know if you got any leads on affordable decor products with high-end style!


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Dobrotvir (; ; ) è un comune urbano ucraino nell'oblast' di Leopoli. La sua popolazione era di  abitanti nel 2013.

Geografia fisica
Dobrotvir è bagnata dal Bug Occidentale, che si allarga formando la riserva di Dobrotvir. Si trova 50 km a nord-est di Leopoli e 13 km a nord di Kam"janka-Buz'ka, il centro amministrativo della regione di cui fa parte.

Storia
La costruzione di Dobrotvir iniziò nel 1951 come parte del progetto della centrale termoelettrica di Dobrotvir. Un lago artificiale fu costruito sul Bug Occidentale. La prima turbina venne attivata nel 1956. La centrale termoelettrica di Dobrotvir era allora la più potente dell'Ucraina occidentale. In epoca sovietica, era conosciuta con il nome di "Stroidetal" (). Con 1.690 dipendenti, l'impianto produce carbone e gas naturale ed esporta metà della sua produzione in Polonia.

Infrastrutture e trasporti
In treno, Dobrotvir si trova a 48 km da Leopoli attraverso la linea ferroviaria Leopoli-Kovel'. Su strada, si trova a 13 km da Kam"janka-Buz'ka e 51 km da Leopoli.

Altri progetti

Centri abitati dell'oblast' di Leopoli


Izzy finished pre-school on Friday. She is looking forward to going to 'big school' in September and she is definately ready for it – although she is going to miss her teachers. Luckily all her pre-school friends are going to the same infant school. I can't believe how much she has grown since starting there two years ago – now she is a crazy, confident, outgoing 4 year old!
She looks so different compared to her first day!
To celebrate their last week the kids wore fancy dress on Thursday (Izzy went as Anna from Frozen) and then went to the soft play for a party on Friday. We let Izzy chose where she wanted to go afterwards for lunch and unsurprisingly she chose McDonalds!
We've already started shopping for school uniform for September, putting away a few things here and there to save a mad dash later in the holidays. Asda have some great stuff – I got 2 white tshirts for £2 for PE, and a checked summer dress for £4. Shoes will have to wait until the week before term, as no doubt Izzy's feet will grow two sizes if I buy them now.
As crazy as it is that I have a child who is old enough to go to school, it feels even crazier that I'm putting away her uniform ready for Clara to start pre-school next year! I don't know where the time is going!


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Council Seat To Remain Vacant Until After Nov Election
Council seat to remain vacant until after Nov. election
Dalondo Moultrie The Seguin Gazette
Seguin City Council appears headed toward operating short-handed for months following one council member's resignation and the others in talks to leave the vacant seat open until the next uniform election day.
District 7 Councilwoman Penny Follis resigned in December after moving into a home outside city limits and the city charter requires council members to live in the city, City Attorney Andy Quittner said. The charter also precludes council from appointing a replacement.
Council needs to call a special election to fill the seat but hasn't the ability to run its own election and it's likely too late to get the measure on the upcoming primary ballot, Quittner said.
"The direction I've gotten so far is I think they're just going to wait until that term would've expired in November when it was going to be on the ballot anyway," he said. "The problem is we don't do our own elections. We have no ability to do elections. We have to contract with the county and the county's busy with primaries."
In a recent regular meeting, Quittner presented information on procedures Council has to follow regarding Follis' resignation. To hold a special election, city staff would need to ask Guadalupe County leaders to run the election and the county is too embroiled in running the upcoming primary to schedule the city's special election, Quittner said, adding that he had spoken with no one from the county to confirm his assumption.
The Guadalupe County elections office is prepared to run an election in May for any local political subdivision that needs one, Elections Administrator Lisa Hayes said.
"As an elections administrator for Guadalupe County, we always accept contracts for uniform election dates," she said. "That would be May 7, Nov. 8, for these election dates that are required by law to have elections held on them."
She is required to contract to do elections for entities within the county that wish to contract, Hayes said. Her office is accepting contracts and has been in contact with several local jurisdictions for the May date, she said.
However, there's more to Seguin's issues than simply going forward with contracting for a May election, Mayor Donna Dodgen said.
City Council by consensus decided to leave Follis' vacated seat open for additional reasons, the mayor said. Redistricting plays a major factor in the decision against holding a special election, Dodgen said.
The city of Seguin recently hired an attorney to help with redistricting, a process that is expected to last well into May and possibly June.
"That could mean that if we do that and have a special election, (the winner) may be in that seat two or three months or maybe four months and they may not live in that district (after redistricting) and may not be able to run again," Dodgen said.
Also, cost is a deterrent to holding a special election, she said. On top of it all, there is a timing issue involved that includes fairness to candidates interested in filling the seat, Dodgen said.
"The other thing is that if they even sat there for two or three months, via our charter, that's considered a full term," she said. "So, even if they were eligible by where they live, they would only be eligible for one more term."
Citizens by city charter are limited to only two terms on Seguin City Council.
With the seat remaining open, some District 7 residents might have concerns about being represented during the upcoming redistricting process. Council appointed a District 7 resident to the citizen committee to speak for the district.
And, District 7 residents needn't worry about being represented on the council as a whole, Dodgen said. She and past-Mayor Don Keil both live in the district and are able to speak for their neighbors, the current mayor said.
Besides, Seguin City Council governs as a unit on behalf of all, not the few, Dodgen said.
"Officially, I think our council does extremely well by representing the whole city," she said. "I do not think that any of the council members — even though there are single-member districts — think in a silo. They represent the district but overall we represent the city in total. … I don't want any citizen to ever feel they can't call and contact any of us to tell us their thoughts."
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Category: news, City Council, City of Seguin
SEDC annual report provides rosy picture of local economy
Local high school students to experience careers today through job shadow program
Data shows more people, jobs coming to Seguin
Employers prepare to offer jobs during Seguin's Winter Job Fair this Thursday
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Magic Grading the grading system on CodeHS that helps save teachers hundreds of hours over the course of a school year. As students work through exercises, they receive Instant Feedback to let them know whether their program runs or not. With Magic Grading, teachers spend less time grading, and students receive more of the feedback they need on their exercises.
Code Review allows teachers to manage a queue of student submissions and help questions. From the Code Review Dashboard teachers can access different grading tools such as Grade Mode, Fast Grade and Queue Settings.
Grade Mode takes teachers from one submission to the next in their queue, allowing them to run student programs and grade from the Help tab. Grade Mode is a Pro tool.
Fast Grade allows teachers to review student code side by side with solution code and grade much more efficiently. Fast Grade is a Pro tool.
Queue Settings allows teachers to choose exactly what exercises should, and should not be sent to their queue. Teachers can control this on a course, module, lesson or activity basis. Queue Settings is a Pro tool (on Free plan all exercises are automatically sent to the queue).


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Via di Francesco Nord
The St Francis trail is not a pilgrimage route in the proper sense of the term. As a matter of fact, until a few years ago there were never pilgrims retracing St Francis steps. This trail simply links the places that were important in St Francis life.
Francesco, known for his humble and simple way of life, is nonetheless a revolutionary figure in the history of Christianity; in a time when the Church of Rome was the center of the Papacy's temporal power – and known to amass huge riches, conspire duplicitous plots and abide corruption, he preached poverty and fraternal love towards every creature of this world.
The example set by St Francis' life and a message was probably the inspiration for the new Pope to chose to be called Francis I.
You will start in La Verna Monastery, the place where St Francis is supposed to have received the « Stigmatas, » and end in Assisi, where he was buried. Along the way, you will pass several smaller monasteries and abbeys where the Saint stayed while travelling, as well as where legend says he accomplished miracles such as the taming of a ferocious wolf in Gubbio.
Via di Francesco Sud
The southern part of the way starts in Roma, seat of the papacy, and ends in Assisi.
We choosed to reverse the itinerary in order to allow to follow all the stages consecutively from La Verna to Roma.
Beyond the spiritual value, this itinerary walks through beautiful scenaries, rich in history and architectural masterpieces; hermitages in the middle of nowhere, and wonderful abbeys. In short, a journey between nature, art and history that will fascinate you.
A journey, an adventure, a trek, a pilgrimage, a life experience?
St. Francis' Way


Spent some time to investigate "gnome session: Must ask twice to lock the screen": for the moment I had to move it back to the backlog because I'm not able to reproduce it.
Fix label alignment in g-c-c power panel.
Updated gnome-software in Disco to 3.30.5.
Rebuilt gnome-software bionic SRU to fix broken bug tracking.
Investigated maximum title size in GNOME Software, fixed wide titles breaking promotion banner.
Diagnosed why Snaps with large GIF screenshots cause huge memory/CPU usage in GNOME Software.
Working on memory efficient GIF animation support in gdk-pixbuf.
Switched tracker & tracker-miners to build with meson. tracker-miners doesn't have as many meson options as it did for autotools. Previously, we were able to build-depend on universe libraries and disable the universe features in debian/rules. So for now, I've gone back to disabling the Build-Depends. It would be nice to add the options we need to the meson options so that we could sync tracker-miners from Debian again.
Spent time trying to fix up Debian's ndctl package so that it could be used by a new libblockdev plugin (in Debian NEW queue).
Lots more work cleaning up libgnome and rarian reverse dependencies. There are only a handful left. I'll post a Debian list soon.
Uploaded recent librsvg to Debian Unstable (& Disco), making some people upset with the impact on unofficial Debian architectures. I worked on a proposed solution but I need a ports person to prepare the initial upload for it. The librsvg packaging work was mostly done by Tim Lunn & Simon McVittie. I just did the part that involved upsetting people and trying to make those people less upset.
Proposed a cosmic SRU for the high CPU regression that the gnome-shell leak fixes in 18.04 caused.
Updated in response to fresh upstream code reviews.
Merged upstream into mutter master (3.32), which was quickly Phoronixed.
Backported to 3.30, at least as a convenient place to maintain the patch for 3.30.
Proposed as a patch to Debian.
Reworked the geometric picking optimization that lowers CPU/GPU usage of all mouse movements. Fixed conflicts, added more error checking, documented some fresh performance figures.
Revised the big multimonitor/nonblocking optimization and fixed conflicts.
The existing mouse optimizations (1, 2) work at 1000Hz, but it's a case of you don't get back any CPU cycles from optimizing. Instead you get increased event resolution (less are dropped now?), if enabled.
My particular mouse isn't properly supported. Fix landed in systemd.
The exciting input latency fix when combined with 1000Hz input reveals new bottlenecks so those will need to be fixed first.
Wrote a new performance fix specific to the icon grid. Although it was only a recent regression introduced in 3.32 so won't need backporting.
Briefly distracted tracking down a couple of mutter regressions (1, 2).
A lot of testing of various local build of rootfs and ISOs : ubuntu-desktop layered, ubuntu-desktop classic, ubuntu-desktop ubiquity-ng, ubuntu mate, lubuntu, ubuntu-server live to ensure we don't regress other projects.
Nothing pending on me rls-bug-wide side.
@khurshid-alam pinged me today about some of the dropped unity patches. They will propose a patch to fix up some of them.
Proposed fixes (1) (2). The second one of those spawned an extensive discussion, which resulted in some code. Hopefully we'll get around to a solution there soon.
Packaged up and uploaded to experimental.
Some SRU reviews and sponsoring.
cups-filters: Released version 1.24.4, mainly to prevent cupsd taking all CPU when cups-browsed is hammering on it, by correcting cups-browsed's way to handle timeouts. Fixes in pdftopdf and the PPD generator for driverless printing to avoid duplicate application of multiple copies options by both the filter and the printer. Code updates to build with newest versions of Poppler.
cups-filters: Further code fix to make it build with Poppler 0.71.0.
cups-filters: Tests for correct multiple-copy printing.
updated mozc to not recommends the -gui binary but only suggest it, allowing to demote an extra toolkit!
Continued working on implementing D-Bus service activation for snap services.
PR #5822 (systemd user unit support) is passing with against head. I ended up needing to disable the new spread tests on CentOS 7, since the method I was using to start the user systemd doesn't work with the old version shipped with that release.


Some new Modern Warfare scans coming to the 3dscanstore. We've scanned 30 of these in various load outs. These are low res scans [750k meshes with a low res 4k map] rendered in Modo. Final models will have high res ZTL and OBJ with 16k colour maps.
Modern Warfare scans. RAW data rendered in Modo. We've done 30 of these with various configs. So there is a lot of cleanup work ahead.


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2018 in TVTelevision & radio
The 50 best TV shows of 2018: No 5 – Succession
The year's guiltiest pleasure was an engrossing prestige TV melodrama that cannily critiqued end-times capitalism
Best TV of 2018
Best culture of 2018
Gilded awfulness … Jeremy Strong and Brian Cox in Succession. Photograph: HBO/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock
Gwilym Mumford
Fri 14 Dec 2018 01.00 EST
Last modified on Fri 10 Dec 2021 13.24 EST
A scene in the first episode of Succession neatly encapsulates the destructive callousness of its central billionaire dynasty, the Roys. During the family's annual softball game, youngest son Roman Roy – played with terrific smarm and snark by Kieran Culkin – invites the child of a Latino groundskeeper to play. Hit a home run, he tells the boy, and he will give him a million dollars. He even signs a cheque there and then to prove it. It could be a gesture of benevolence from a member of the super-rich to people tasked with cleaning up after them, but things don't play out that way: the Roys cruelly run the boy out at third base and Roman rips the cheque up in front of him. Later, a Roy employee gets the Latino family to sign a non-disclosure agreement, another underling quietly tidying up their mess.
When Succession debuted last spring, some critics wondered whether anyone would want to watch a fictional representation of an extremely wealthy, predominately male family behaving monstrously when there were so many real-life examples to observe instead. Others asked if it the show's display of gilded awfulness was really what we needed now. It soon became clear that what we needed and what we wanted were very different things, and Jesse Armstrong's comedy-drama quickly became the year's guiltiest pleasure on the small screen, an engrossing prestige TV melodrama of squabbling and secrecy that doubled as a canny critique of bloated end-times capitalism – and one of the year's funniest show to boot. (Also, the theme tune is unquestionably a banger).
Terrific smarm … Kieran Culkin in Succession. Photograph: Peter Kramer/AP
Its premise was unapologetically familiar, with heady notes of King Lear and The Lion in Winter. Brian Cox plays formidable family patriarch Logan Roy, a broadcast magnate who has dominated the media landscape for decades, but is now showing signs of decline. The plan seems to be to hand over the family business to his first-born, Kendall (Jeremy Strong), who is a recovering addict and has little evidence of leadership qualities, aside from his knowledge of a few business buzzwords. Just as press releases are being buffed and the media is being briefed, Logan – sensing his son's unsuitability for the role – announces he will stick around a little longer. Then promptly has a brain haemorrhage, which doesn't kill him but leaves him physically frail and mentally erratic, at a time when the company's future is looking similarly shaky. Cue a tug of war for power between the ailing paterfamilias and the son who is clearly not cut out for the fight.
If Succession was merely a two-hander it would be engaging enough, but Armstrong and his writing team constructed a universe of watchable grotesques: Roman, a Loki in pinstripes; his sister Shiv (Sarah Snook), the family's token lefty, who might be the most power-hungry of the lot; anarcho-capitalist Connor (Alan Ruck), Logan's eldest son from his first marriage, who was busy buying up water ahead of the apocalypse; perpetually stoned, idiot cousin Greg (Nicholas Braun). Perhaps best of all is Matthew Macfadyen as Shiv's social climber husband Tom, a man both gleeful and terrified at the the prospect of entering elite society. At a time when every Hollywood A-lister seems to be slumming it on television, the show's hidden strength was its lack of a marquee name hogging the limelight. This was a ensemble show in the best sense of the term.
It helped that this cast was being fed some cracking one-liners, with Armstrong delivering perhaps his most acid bon mots since the days of The Thick of It. ("I can promise you that I am spiritually and emotionally and ethically and morally behind whoever wins.") Yet beneath the bluster and game-playing, there was something pitiable about the Roys. For all their designs on power, they seem to have no idea what to do with it when they get it. They're paralysed by their own dominance, with no one to confide in, because to reveal a hint of weakness would mean disaster.
The 50 best TV shows of 2018: 50-7
But Succession wasn't meant to be studied – it was meant to be gorged in one sitting. This was prestige TV's answer to a night-time soap like Dynasty, Dallas or Empire, full of twists and turns, showdowns and power-grabs. Its last five episodes, in particular, ramped up the drama to operatic levels, culminating in an utterly devastating finale that managed to ruthlessly clear the chessboard in anticipation of its second season. We've got at least six months to wait for its return. In the meantime we'll just have to make do with watching the real-life terrible elites instead.
2018 in TV
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Animalkind : remarkable discoveries about animals and revolutionary new ways to show them compassion
Newkirk, Ingrid (author.). Stone, Gene, 1951- (author.). Bialik, Mayim, (author of the introduction.).
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Physical Description: 294 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary, etc.: "From the co-founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone comes Animalkind, a book that offers both a tour of the wonderful world of animals and a guide to simple ways in which we can reduce the harm we cause them in our everyday lives"--
Subject: Animal welfare
Ingrid Newkirk founded PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), the largest animal rights organization in the world, with affiliates in eight countries, in 1980. She is the author of Save the Animals! 101 Things You Can Do, Kids Can Save the Animals, The Compassionate Cook, and several other books available in multiple languages.
Gene Stone has written, cowritten, or ghost-written more than forty-five books on a wide variety of subjects, including the bestsellers Forks Over Knives, How Not to Die, Living the Farm Sanctuary Life, and The Engine 2 Diet.
Mayim Bialik, PhD, is perhaps best known for her lead role as Blossom Russo in the 1990s television sitcom Blossom, and she starred on the top-rated comedy The Big Bang Theory. Bialik earned a BS from UCLA in 2000 in neuroscience and Hebrew and Jewish studies, and a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA in 2007. She designed a neuroscience curriculum for homeschoolers in Southern California, where she also teaches middle and high school students. Married to her college sweetheart with two young sons, Bialik is also a Certified Lactation Education Counselor. Visit her at MayimBialik.net.


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Abitare Habitat Historical heritage
The Via Francigena near Piacenza
The Piacenza section of the Via Francigena will be revived thanks to a regional tender won by six municipalities. The project includes physical works and a design competition
Only a few monuments in the world have been able to survive centuries and massive change while remaining key urban landmarks. One of these is the Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome, which may soon be returning to the centre of that city's life
San Miniato's first thousand years
The basilica of San Miniato, masterpiece of Florentine Romanesque style, celebrates its founding in 1018
Open House in Rome
The OpenHouse Worldwide format provides free access to jewels of architecture and architecture studios not usually open to the public: a few tips about what to see in Rome during the two-day event in May
The Biggest Church in the World
The construction of St Peter's, in the heart of Christendom, is the story of the creation of a great work of architecture in which some of the most extraordinary masters of the past, from Bramante to Raphael to Michelangelo to Bernini, played a part. But its secret lies in the humble...
Faith in the Alps
Dedicated to the Holy Land and popular devotions, the Sacri Monti of Piedmont were built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They are now the focus of a campaign of restoration and promotion.
Good Practice at Herculaneum
In the management of an archaeological site in Campania, public and private funds and governance have been brought together, leading to streamlined procedures, and producing one of the few examples of good practice on the peninsula. Among the projects underway there is a new museum
The Whale Experiment
The visionary architect Vittorio Giorgini built this fanciful dwelling in the 1960s by casting concrete over arc-welded mesh, a new technique at the time. Recently restored, the house is now part of a fascinating cultural route along the "Etruscan Coast"
Endless Building
Rather than a work of architecture, Milan's Cathedral is a process. For over six hundred years it has acted out the part of a great Gothic church, with the same types of workers, the same required skills and even the same logistics in terms of the main raw material, marble, apart...
In the Heart of France
The Bibliothèque Richelieu in Paris, one of Henri Labrouste's masterpieces, has recently reopened to the public and is now a strategic centre for education and national culture. The architect responsible for its restoration, Bruno Gaudin, explains the logic behind his adaptation...
The Heritage of the Earth
Three women – in Pakistan, Morocco and Bangladesh – have been working silently for years to guard (and preserve) ancient traditions and building techniques that are dying out, improving local economies and the life of the community in the process
Tricks of Rhetoric
The story of an Italy devoted to beauty and art is a fascinating and comforting one, but it doesn't reflect reality. Italians like to luxuriate in their historical, artistic and scenic heritage, but are less willing to assume responsibility for it. There is an enormous amount of work...
The passion for Rome
In Roma Alda Fendi and her foundation have restored ancient treasures of inestimable value to the public and carried out experimental research to promote culture
The Mathematics of Villa La Rotonda
A model of absolute beauty and ideal proportions, this is the building that more than any other epitomizes Palladio's style and it inspired many later buildings. Today the custodian of this masterpiece is a noble family from the Veneto, who care for it with passion (and considerable...
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Phoenix Landlords Celebrate as Companies Move to City From Costlier Markets
Article originally posted on CoStar on January 10, 2020
Economic developers and office and industrial landlords can bask in another stellar year for Phoenix-area corporate expansions. An abundance of prestigious corporate job announcements over the past 12 months underpin a positive outlook for Phoenix's maturing employment market and economic viability.
More than a decade ago, Phoenix was synonymous with cheap labor and land that attracted call centers and back-office operators. Fast forward to the present day and the companies that Phoenix is attracting has evolved, with the metropolitan area becoming increasingly recognized as a hot-bed for technology and a growing financial hub.
Technology, finance and manufacturing firms announced the creation of thousands of new jobs in 2019, in addition to millions spent in capital investment, numerous build-to-suits and hundreds of thousands of square feet in industrial and office leases. Over the year, CoStar tracked more than 50 company announcements, through sources including Greater Phoenix Economic Council and Arizona Commerce Authority, that tally to the projected creation of roughly 11,000 high-paying jobs. The job commitments are just the tip of the iceberg; only a fraction of expanding companies publicly announce the number of jobs they expect to add over the next several years.
Many of the firms that are expanding their footprints are California-based and are looking to Phoenix for a large and highly trained workforce, business-friendly regulation, a lower cost of living for employees and comparably affordable real estate and labor.
CoStar data estimates office rents in Phoenix average $25.72 per square foot, which is about 20% below the National Index. The rent gap widens when compared to competing markets, such as San Francisco ($69.30), Los Angeles ($40.56) and Austin ($38.86). Moreover, firms who want to attract top talent in the cities mentioned above, areas with extremely tight labor markets, need top-tier space to compete for labor. Four-and-five star rents in San Francisco average $76.38 per square foot. Alternatively, companies can occupy some of the best in class space along Tempe Town Lake for approximately $38 per square foot.
Numerous firms were sold on the Greater Phoenix value proposition this year, which will translate into future quarters of quality job creation and net absorption. Below is a sample of notable corporate announcements that captured headlines in 2019:
· San Francisco-based DoorDash leased the 345,800-square-foot Grand II near Tempe Town Lake. The company will occupy its new space in the second quarter of 2020. New Jobs: about 500.
· San Francisco-based Opendoor is moving and expanding from Scottsdale to The Watermark, which is currently under construction in Tempe. The company will occupy 100,800 square feet beginning in the second quarter. New Jobs: about 750.
· Maryland-based hospitality chain Choice Hotels International, will double the presence of its technology division when it moves into a planned 150,000-square-foot build-to-suit at Cavasson in North Scottsdale. The company expects to move into its new space late next year. New Jobs: about 500.
· San Francisco-based financial services company Silicon Valley Bank will occupy the remainder of the 200,000-square-foot Hayden Ferry Lakeside I in Tempe later this year. New Jobs: about 300.
· San Mateo, California-based WageWorks committed to 150,000 square feet of space at the proposed Union at Riverview in Mesa. The employee benefits administrator will move from its existing office in Tempe to its new space in early 2021. New Jobs: about 500.
· Microsoft is in various stages of building three data centers in the West Valley: One in El Mirage (254,000 square feet), and two in Goodyear at Indian School and Perryville Road (500,000 square feet) and PHX-10 at Broadway Road and Bullard Avenue in Goodyear (244,670 square feet). New Jobs: combined more than 110 jobs.
· Nike purchased the 900,000-square-foot Lincoln 40 Logistics industrial building in Goodyear to manufacture sole cushioning for its athletic shoes. New Jobs: 500.
· Red Bull, in collaboration with Ball Corporation and Rauch Fruit Juices, will open a 700,000-square-foot canning facility in Glendale upon completion of the industrial building in early 2021. Jobs: 140.
· Fairelife, a milk distributor, will move into a 280,000-square-foot industrial building that is currently underway in Glendale and slated for completion late this year. New Jobs: 140.
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