Traveling is one of those things that I have an extreme passion for, but seldom seem to get to do. Between constantly working and oh yeah, more working, it's often hard to find the time to travel. But Drew and I decided to take a mini vacation a few weeks ago to Detroit. Drew had that Friday off, so we knew we'd be able to make a long weekend out of it, and the Texas Rangers (our home team) were playing the Detroit Tigers (baseball - for those of you who hate sports). It would be the only time the two teams would meet in Detroit this season; so a road trip seemed serendipitous!
If I'm being honest, Detroit isn't somewhere I ever imagined myself visiting. All you never hear is how Detroit is in turmoil and that the city is a scary, wasteland of empty buildings and people everywhere are in poverty. I don't know about you, but would that sound like a fun place to vacay? I don't think so. But after going...I found this description of the city to be anything but true. Sure, there are rough areas, but that's how it is with EVERY city you visit. Heck, I live in Chicago; I should know. I couldn't believe how clean, fun, and inviting the city was! It's clear that Detroit is on a revival right now, and it's catering to young professionals. Between the nightlife and kitchy shop filled surrounding neighborhoods...they sold me on the city!
I mean seriously, how stunning are these parks? They were filled with trees and flowers everywhere. Not a bad view for walking around all day.
Isn't he so handsome? I just love this guy! The city in the background is actually Canada! It's just on the other side of the water from Detroit so you can see it easily. Actually, while we were walking along the water, I got a text from AT&T telling me that I was now using international rates...wtf! I was still in America, AT&T! I was just LOOKING at Canada. Geez.
Of course, I wouldn't be me without finding an amazing place to have coffee. This chai from Roasting Plant was so delicious! Plus this crazy machine shoots your beans directly to the barista when they are ready so that they are constantly as fresh as possible. Drew was losing his mind over the technology (pfft...engineers...eye roll).
Our first food stop was brunch at Townhouse! Can we please just talk about the decor please? Not only were their murals on the wall, but we sat inside an atrium. It was unbelievably stunning outside while we were there, and they even started to remove the rooftop while we were eating. It truly felt like we were staying in a botanical garden.
I posted on my Instagram that I was looking for recommendations for places to eat in Detroit (because we basically ate our way through the city...I'm not kidding. 99% off what we did was eat. Food, food, food, baseball, and more food); and one of them suggested the Astoria Pastry Shop in GreekTown. It was waaaaaaay too delicious! I had triple chocolate cheesecake and proceeded to immediately fall into a sugar coma.
We ended up spending quite a bit of time in a neighborhood called Ferndale. It was an extremely cute little suburb outside of the city filled with locally owned shops, restaurants, and art. If you know me at all, you know that I'm constantly on the lookout for the perfect donut. I could seriously eat donuts for every meal, but then I'd have to workout like 20 times a week....so I don't.
We ended up eating donuts at this perfectly pink covered restaurant called The Daily Dinette. Not only was the decor all a shade of blush pink perfection, but the donuts were insanely good! I had a Samoa flavored one...yes, like the Girl Scout cookie! It was even better than you are currently imagining.
One of the things I loved the most about Ferndale was all of the street art. It was everywhere! On the side of the buildings, in the alleys, INSDIE the stores...colorful perfection! This one that says "Remember You're Beautiful" was my favorite. It was next to a small record store we stopped by (and ended up leaving with 3 new records). We ate at so many other places in Ferndale. Honestly, if you're on the street where The Daily Dinette is, you will have your pick of so many delicious and locally owned places to eat.
Our final stop (and the whole reason we came) before leaving Detroit was Comerica Park; to see a baseball game! Imagine my delight when I found out that Comerica has a merry-go-round INSIDE of the stadium! The cutest part is that all of the animals are Tigers (because they are the Detroit Tigers!). I didn't get to ride it because it was packed with children, but I loved just standing there; watching it. I'm always amazed by the adorable things that various sporting teams put inside their stadiums to make them unique. The Texas Rangers ended up winning (by a lot); so it ended on the perfect note. I hope I get to go to Detroit again sometime to see all of the things we didn't get to during our weekend stay, such as all the museums and maybe the opera house.
Where will my adventures take me next? I'm not sure! But I hope it's somewhere fabulous!


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Q: Javascript - How to stop pinch zoom, multi touch input attacks? Current Google chrome stable version stopped manually blocking pinch zoom, which was possible in older versions with following settings:
chrome://flags/#enable-pinch

I am getting attacks in my kiosk from some random pinch zoom/multi touch inputs.
How to tell JavaScript to disable pinch zoom/multi touch? (to protect the kiosk)
I tried following but nothing is stopping the kiosk from ignore pinch zoom attacks.
$(document).ready(function() {

  $(document).bind('contextmenu', function()  {
    console.log('NO NO NO. STOP!!!');
    window.location.reload();
    return false;
  });

  $(document).mousedown( function() {
    console.log('NO NO NO. STOP!!!');
    return false;
  });

});

EDIT:
chrome://flags/#enable-pinch - never works anymore in Google chrome. Google should not have removed it and community should have protested to not have it removed.

A: This is how you prevent zooming in Chrome:
document.addEventListener("touchstart", function(e){
e.preventDefault();
},{passive: false});

Maybe except of some element
document.getElementById('someelement').addEventListener('touchstart', function(e){e.stopPropagation()}, false);

A: Assuming you are running the kiosk on a PC, there is no way to do this programmatically from a web application.
You have to disable the multi-touch gesture support either in your touch device driver settings or in the operating system setting. Here is a good example - Windows 7 touch screen - disabling multi-touch gesture not working

A: This was the best solution for me:
document.addEventListener('touchmove', e => {
  if (e.touches.length > 1) {
     e.preventDefault();
  }
}, {passive: false})

A: I don't know if this counts as a full answer but I don't have the rep to comment.
One option is to set a handler for touch events
window.addEventListener("touchstart", touchHandler, false); and then write a touchHandler function
function touchHandler(event){
    if(event.touches.length > 1){
        //the event is multi-touch
        //you can then prevent the behavior
        event.preventDefault()
    }
}

Here is some more info about developing with touch events
https://mobiforge.com/design-development/html5-mobile-web-touch-events
You will have to set the handler for a different touch event to prevent the default pinch zoom behavior depending on the browser.
A list can be found here: http://www.quirksmode.org/mobile/default.html
I don't know if this will work for you but it might be worth a try.

A: You should be able to prevent users from zooming in by adding this meta tag to your <head>:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, user-scalable=no">

My version of Google Chrome Version 51.0.2704.84 (64-bit), respects this setting when I test it using its touch emulation in the developer tools.
For example:

*

*A website that is zoomable by pinching: Hacker News
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">

*A website that is not zoomable by pinching: Designer News
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, user-scalable=no">
I would like to comment that allowing your users to zoom in and out shouldn't be considered an "attack". Zooming in is very important for people with bad eye sight (or the visually impaired, I'm not sure what the correct and polite English term would be).
If you disable the natural zoom behavior, you should take full responsibility for the readability of your web page.

A: hi here is my suggestion .Try making it sense if there is multiple inputs and the make it average them out for exaple finger one is at (10,20) and finger two is at (20,10) it is averaged to (15,15).Sorry i could only suggest ideas and not code thank you

A: Fanky's answer works for me (Opera in kiosk mode), except that I use touchmove instead of touchstart. And to keep sliders working, add a specific listener on it as indicate by Fanky.

A: None of above worked for me, in React JS 7.x
hacking index.html and add a listener seems to be overriden by React.
This below however, did the trick in index.js, (note, rootElement is already there in standard React projects)
..... Code omitted for brevity
     noResize = (e) => {
    if (e.touches.length > 1) {
        e.preventDefault();
        console.debug('cancel touch')
    }
}
componentWillUnmount() {
    rootElement.removeEventListener('touchstart', this.noResize);
}
componentDidMount() {
    rootElement.addEventListener('touchstart', this.noResize)

A: html {
  height: 100%;
  touch-action: pan-x pan-y;
}

This will safely prevent pinch zoom. Well, so far with my experience. <meta content="user-scalable=no" /> did not work for me. Js solution is a hacky way and can interfere with the normal event.

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Art-n-facts: "Winning Streak" 1888 Design Necklace
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~Lightning Bolt~
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~Ace of Spades~
It's been said that those who identify with this card are able to detect truth & dishonesty better than most. A handy trick if you happen to be a gambler. Those who associate with this symbol are also known to have a stronger drive succeed than normal, in both matters of the heart & the wallet.
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In astronomy and planetary science, a magnetosphere is a region of space surrounding an astronomical object in which charged particles are affected by that object's magnetic field. It is created by a celestial body with an active interior dynamo.

In the space environment close to a planetary body, the magnetic field resembles a magnetic dipole. Farther out, field lines can be significantly distorted by the flow of electrically conducting plasma, as emitted from the Sun (i.e., the solar wind) or a nearby star. Planets having active magnetospheres, like the Earth, are capable of mitigating or blocking the effects of solar radiation or cosmic radiation, that also protects all living organisms from potentially detrimental and dangerous consequences. This is studied under the specialized scientific subjects of plasma physics, space physics and aeronomy.

History

Study of Earth's magnetosphere began in 1600, when William Gilbert discovered that the magnetic field on the surface of Earth resembled that of a terrella, a small, magnetized sphere. In the 1940s, Walter M. Elsasser proposed the model of dynamo theory, which attributes Earth's magnetic field to the motion of Earth's iron outer core. Through the use of magnetometers, scientists were able to study the variations in Earth's magnetic field as functions of both time and latitude and longitude.

Beginning in the late 1940s, rockets were used to study cosmic rays. In 1958, Explorer 1, the first of the Explorer series of space missions, was launched to study the intensity of cosmic rays above the atmosphere and measure the fluctuations in this activity. This mission observed the existence of the Van Allen radiation belt (located in the inner region of Earth's magnetosphere), with the follow up Explorer 3 later that year definitively proving its existence. Also during 1958, Eugene Parker proposed the idea of the solar wind, with the term 'magnetosphere' being proposed by Thomas Gold in 1959 to explain how the solar wind interacted with the Earth's magnetic field. The later mission of Explorer 12 in 1961 led by the Cahill and Amazeen observation in 1963 of a sudden decrease in magnetic field strength near the noon-time meridian, later was named the magnetopause. By 1983, the International Cometary Explorer observed the magnetotail, or the distant magnetic field.

Structure and behavior
Magnetospheres are dependent on several variables: the type of astronomical object, the nature of sources of plasma and momentum, the period of the object's spin, the nature of the axis about which the object spins, the axis of the magnetic dipole, and the magnitude and direction of the flow of solar wind.

The planetary distance where the magnetosphere can withstand the solar wind pressure is called the Chapman–Ferraro distance. This is usefully modeled by the formula wherein  represents the radius of the planet,  represents the magnetic field on the surface of the planet at the equator, and  represents the velocity of the solar wind:

A magnetosphere is classified as "intrinsic" when , or when the primary opposition to the flow of solar wind is the magnetic field of the object. Mercury, Earth, Jupiter, Ganymede, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, for example, exhibit intrinsic magnetospheres. A magnetosphere is classified as "induced" when , or when the solar wind is not opposed by the object's magnetic field. In this case, the solar wind interacts with the atmosphere or ionosphere of the planet (or surface of the planet, if the planet has no atmosphere). Venus has an induced magnetic field, which means that because Venus appears to have no internal dynamo effect, the only magnetic field present is that formed by the solar wind's wrapping around the physical obstacle of Venus (see also Venus' induced magnetosphere). When , the planet itself and its magnetic field both contribute. It is possible that Mars is of this type.

Structure

Bow shock

The bow shock forms the outermost layer of the magnetosphere; the boundary between the magnetosphere and the ambient medium. For stars, this is usually the boundary between the stellar wind and interstellar medium; for planets, the speed of the solar wind there decreases as it approaches the magnetopause.

Magnetosheath

The magnetosheath is the region of the magnetosphere between the bow shock and the magnetopause. It is formed mainly from shocked solar wind, though it contains a small amount of plasma from the magnetosphere. It is an area exhibiting high particle energy flux, where the direction and magnitude of the magnetic field varies erratically. This is caused by the collection of solar wind gas that has effectively undergone thermalization. It acts as a cushion that transmits the pressure from the flow of the solar wind and the barrier of the magnetic field from the object.

Magnetopause

The magnetopause is the area of the magnetosphere wherein the pressure from the planetary magnetic field is balanced with the pressure from the solar wind. It is the convergence of the shocked solar wind from the magnetosheath with the magnetic field of the object and plasma from the magnetosphere. Because both sides of this convergence contain magnetized plasma, the interactions between them are complex. The structure of the magnetopause depends upon the Mach number and beta of the plasma, as well as the magnetic field. The magnetopause changes size and shape as the pressure from the solar wind fluctuates.

Magnetotail
Opposite the compressed magnetic field is the magnetotail, where the magnetosphere extends far beyond the astronomical object. It contains two lobes, referred to as the northern and southern tail lobes. Magnetic field lines in the northern tail lobe point towards the object while those in the southern tail lobe point away. The tail lobes are almost empty, with few charged particles opposing the flow of the solar wind. The two lobes are separated by a plasma sheet, an area where the magnetic field is weaker, and the density of charged particles is higher.

Earth's magnetosphere

Over Earth's equator, the magnetic field lines become almost horizontal, then return to reconnect at high latitudes. However, at high altitudes, the magnetic field is significantly distorted by the solar wind and its solar magnetic field. On the dayside of Earth, the magnetic field is significantly compressed by the solar wind to a distance of approximately . Earth's bow shock is about  thick and located about  from Earth. The magnetopause exists at a distance of several hundred kilometers above Earth's surface. Earth's magnetopause has been compared to a sieve because it allows solar wind particles to enter. Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities occur when large swirls of plasma travel along the edge of the magnetosphere at a different velocity from the magnetosphere, causing the plasma to slip past. This results in magnetic reconnection, and as the magnetic field lines break and reconnect, solar wind particles are able to enter the magnetosphere. On Earth's nightside, the magnetic field extends in the magnetotail, which lengthwise exceeds . Earth's magnetotail is the primary source of the polar aurora. Also, NASA scientists have suggested that Earth's magnetotail might cause "dust storms" on the Moon by creating a potential difference between the day side and the night side.

Other objects
Many astronomical objects generate and maintain magnetospheres. In the Solar System this includes the Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Ganymede. The magnetosphere of Jupiter is the largest planetary magnetosphere in the Solar System, extending up to  on the dayside and almost to the orbit of Saturn on the nightside. Jupiter's magnetosphere is stronger than Earth's by an order of magnitude, and its magnetic moment is approximately 18,000 times larger.
Venus, Mars, and Pluto, on the other hand, have no magnetic field. This may have had significant effects on their geological history. It is theorized that Venus and Mars may have lost their primordial water to photodissociation and the solar wind. A strong magnetosphere greatly slows this process. The magnetosphere of an exoplanet was detected in 2021.

See also
Geospace
Plasma (physics)

References

Geomagnetism
Ionosphere
Planetary science
Space plasmas
Concepts in astronomy
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Polar Bears Storm Camp, Take Arctic Researchers Hostage
Arctic researchers in northern Russia have been taken hostage after five polar bears surrounded their weather research station.
"People living in the Arctic must be prepared to face with a polar bear," researcher Viktor Nikiforov said in a statement. "However, the station staff have no weapons. In addition, employees are not provided with stripping, and the station area is not fenced."
The World Wide Fund for Nature in Russia (WWF) has been monitoring the situation. According to CNN, the researchers have been unable to scare the polar bears away. The only thing they have at their disposal to scare the bears are flares. Attempts to use the flares, however, have been unsuccessful. The research base is located on a small island off the northern coast of Russia.
"Yesterday came the bear is near the house," one researchers said in a statement. "Three times a mechanic fired a signal of the hunter (a small rocket launcher), as the bear did not even scared. Flare was able to drive away, and the close. "
The two meteorologists and engineer on the research team have been unable to perform their duties. This includes walking several hundred meters to the sea to measure water temperatures. The bears spend all their time around the station. They sleep there and even fight with one another.
WWF has been appealing to the Russian government to provide the researchers the necessary equipment and means to scare the polar bears away. The Daily Mail Online reports the Russian government has pledged to help. According to CBS News, encounters by polar bears has increased recently do to global warming.
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Cosmin Gîrleanu (born 3 June 1999) is a Romanian boxer. He competed in the men's flyweight event at the 2020 Summer Olympics., as well as winning a gold medal at the 2015 Junior World Championships.

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1999 births
Living people
Romanian male boxers
Olympic boxers of Romania
Boxers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Hunedoara
Southpaw boxers
European Games competitors for Romania
Boxers at the 2019 European Games


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A memorial created to commemorate four Mounties killed in the line of duty is in need of repair.
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Red light put on 'blacklisting'
By Diane Frank
| April 9, 2001
Federal contracting officers and industry contractors last week got a sign from the Bush administration that ? at least for now ? they won't have to worry about a government requirement that agencies consider vendors' ethics when making awards.
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"Vendor ethics rule halted?for now"
"Firms say "blacklisting' regs still onerous"
Federal contracting officers and industry contractors last week got a sign from the Bush administration that—at least for now—they won't have to worry about a government requirement that agencies consider vendors' ethics when making awards. The Federal Acquisition Regulation Council has officially put on hold the rule it calls "the most controversial ever published by the FAR Council."
The council published the final contractor responsibility rule, better known to industry as the "blacklisting" rule, on Dec. 20, 2000, and it went into effect Jan. 19. It requires that agency contracting officers consider a vendor's record of business integrity and ethics, including its record in legal matters such as employment, environmental, antitrust and consumer protection.
The council suspended the rule for 270 days to reassess its advantages and disadvantages, according to a Federal Register notice published April 3.
The council said it received almost 1,800 comments before the Dec. 20 publication, while the typical FAR rule generates about 1 percent of that number. Almost all said that "the rule is not in the best interest of industry or the government, the way it is written," according to the notice. The comments continued even after several agencies started incorporating the rule into their contracts in January. The suspension follows another move to delay the rule by the Civilian Agency Acquisition Council. Recognizing comments received by the FAR Council from government and industry, the CAAC sent a memo Jan. 31 to agency heads recommending that they delay implementing the rule until July 19.
President Bush made it clear since taking office that he intended to rescind the rule, and the White House applauded the move by the FAR Council.
"We believe that that rule was overly broad and onerous, so now it is going through a review so we can determine the best step to take as we move forward," said Scott McClellan, a White House spokesman.
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The wedding bells are ringing, the lights are up and the preparations are in full swing. We're finally close to the D Day of actress Sonam Kapoor who is set to tie the knot with her boyfriend and business man, Anand Ahuja on May 8th, 2018.
Sonam will be walking the red carpet at Cannes Film Festival and resume shooting for Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga alongside her father Anil Kapoor, Rajkummar Rao and Juhi Chawla. She will end the year The Zoya factor.
All luck and wishes to the bride-to-be!


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Voted the best smartwatch to buy in 2022
The editors of the Gizchina portal selected the three best models of smartwatches recommended for purchase in 2022.
The watch from the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 series took the first place. The only drawback of the watch is replacing the bracelet, which may seem like a difficult task at first for some users. The bright AMOLED display and light sensor work, the Wear OS operating system with the One UI Watch shell, and the wide functionality of the system were noted as the advantages of the device. The high autonomy of the watch, which reaches two days, is emphasized separately.
Second place in the rating went to last year's Apple Watch Series 7, which differed from the eighth generation only in the absence of a body temperature sensor. The main advantage of the 2021 version is called a bright and borderless screen. Some users may not like the 24-hour battery life of the Apple Watch 7, but 20W fast charging makes up for it.
Closes the top Huawei Watch 3, which runs on the basis of proprietary firmware HarmonyOS. According to experts, the watch from Huawei turned out to be large, and this may not suit people with thin wrists. The watch was praised for its bright display, wide dial options and temperature measurement function. On average, the watch will run for about three days on one charge. A small selection of third-party apps for HarmonyOS is a major drawback.
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Recently I faced a situation where I had to conduct password spraying attack for a client. The login page didn't have any Captcha, and all it had was a heavy Background image, a logo and a simple login form consisting of two input fields and a submit button. Looks easy. That is what I thought. However, soon I realised that there were other hidden input fields and even the parameter names of the visible input fields were changing. There were several HTTP requests involved in one single login.
Since I had a deadline, I decided to give selenium a go. Till this point I had only heard of selenium and never actually used it.
A quick Google search of How to submit a form using selenium gave me a boilerplate to start with.
The next problem statement was, how to detect if the login was successful. This was pretty basic. Single Google search revealed that the HTTP response can be played with using driver.page_source after the submit button was clicked. A simple if "incorrect" in driver.page_source" condition did the trick.
At this point, all that was left to do was wrap the initial code in a function definition and run it in a loop after reading through my list of email address.
The final code looked something like this.
Within a few hours it exhausted the username list and gave a few positives to work with.


I'm looking for recommendations on a powered ethernet repeater to be used in potentially life and death situations. We're using cat5e shielded cable and we'd like to achieve runs up to 2000', but we'll take what we can get. We have all the tools to make our own shielded cables to achieve whatever lengths are needed. It's a data only connection. And it'd be highly beneficial if it can run on 12V, because we'd like to put it in a Pelican type case with a dedicated battery system for field deployment.
I'm at work right now, but I'll respond to questions as fast as possible.
A cisco 4948 switch would be my recommendation. They do 120v 220v and do have DC power supply options. If you are talking about running it off a vehicle power outlet, that probably isn't feasible with a 4948.
Running gigabit or 10 gigabit at 1000 feet would only be reliable with fiber instead of copper.
I'm not dealing directly with the gear involved, but I'd be fairly confident that it's probably running 10/100Mbps. Its a signal line for a portable X-ray scanner.
Are you using portable X-ray generators or do you have 120v at both locations? Also, line of sight?
The right way to do this is with fiber optic converters.
I'm currently running four 3MP IP Cameras off the remote end of this. So far VERY reliable with no noticeable latency. The extender is completely transparent to the network.
ETA if this really is life or death there are more expensive versions of this same idea that might be more robust but you'll have to Google it. I'm on my phone.
It's an X-ray plate that goes on one side of target and a source that goes on other. Both have self contained battery systems. Not always line of sight.
What kind of distances can be achieved via this route?
What about durability/ruggedness? This will see frequent use, often in harsh environments.
What's your opinions on this?
NVM, it looks like it wouldn't gain much.
how about an ethernet ->fiber adapter?
you'll probably want to armor the cable, but that should give you all the speed and distance you require.
This adapter runs off 12v, either wall wart or it wouldn't be difficult to direct-wire to a battery. looks like it has no moving parts to fail as well.
If it's in a very rugged environment, i believe Netgear has a line of products made for .mil applications that have no moving parts and are supposed to be resistant to high temps (ie. desert use).
desmando, said it first.. 500m, looks durable, weak point will be the cable. a tough sheathing or metal conduit would be my choice. if it's conduit, you could delink the sections you need per each application, blow a stringer through with a shop vac or something, then pull the amount of fiber cable you need through it pretty easily, even with bends in the conduit.
It seems fiber (like every other cable) comes in 1000' foot spools. Could I get a 2000' run by doing this: device> 6 inch ethernet>Fiber adapter>1000' fiber> what goes here? >1000' fiber>adapter> 6" ethernet>device.
I can get fiber optic cable in any length you want. Distance is equipment dependent.
You will probably need line of sight though.
Even comes with the SFPs. Just make sure you get LC connectors on whatever fiber you get.
you could also buy a spool of cable the distance you need, your local Graybar should be able to cut you a length of whatever you need pretty easily and put whatever ends you want on it.


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10 International NWSL Players to Watch in the World Cup (Non-USWNT / CanWNT)
4 min read • by Lindsay Eanet
All aboard the World Cup hype train! We are leaving the station and barreling excitedly towards June 7th.
In sort of an inverse of our look at the USWNT's top snubs who we were looking forward to seeing in domestic league play during the tournament, we wanted to celebrate 10 of the dozens of NWSL players who will be lighting up the World Cup. And since this is, after all, an international tournament, we wanted to show some love to players wearing shirts beyond the United States and Canada.
We know there are many more that could have made this list, and we encourage you to watch for your favorites at the tournament and share them with us at @thevictorypress.
10. Abby Erceg, North Carolina Courage / New Zealand
Abby Erceg joins the Football Ferns' World Cup roster for the fourth time after coming out of international retirement. She's coming off her best season ever with the NWSL and even with the Courage in flux right now, has shown no signs of stopping. She's played a full 90 for every single Courage match so far, nailing 24 clearances and even one cheeky goal.
She's a tough, persistent center back who has some big challenges ahead as the Kiwis face Canada, Cameroon and the Netherlands in the group stage, but if anyone can take 'em, it's Abby.
9. Estelle Johnson, Sky Blue FC / Cameroon
First of all, if there is a better team name than The Indomitable Lionesses, we have yet to find it. Johnson, a veteran defender who joined Sky Blue this season after several years with the Washington Spirit, is still very new to Cameroon's squad. She'll bring experience and backline depth (and killer slide tackles) to a squad that is a perennial contender in the African Women's Cup of Nations, and play alongside another Sky Blue alumna, Paris FC forward Michaela Abam. Cameroon had a thrilling run in the 2015 tournament, advancing past the group stage, and we can't wait to see how Johnson will contribute to their efforts this year.
8. Andressinha, Portland Thorns / Brazil
Brazil has a handful of wonderful players in the NWSL, but we're particularly excited about the possibilities of what Andressinha will bring to As Canarinhas in this campaign. In a Thorns shirt, Andressinha has demonstrated an impressive ability to connect with her teammates, including on often tricky long balls and won favor for her creative abilities as a playmaker. Plus, she sometimes does things like this.
7. Rumi Utsugi, Reign FC / Japan
The Nadeshiko squads of the last two World Cups, where they were the winners and runners-up, respectively, were defined by longtime veterans of that generation – Homare Sawa, Yuki Nagasato, Aya Miyama. The squad entering this year's tournament features a host of relatively newer faces to the national team. As part of a defense alongside veteran Aya Sameshima, expect Utsugi to provide consistent experience and guidance as this new crew continues to assert its identity and prowess on the pitch.
6. Rachel Daly, Houston Dash / England
Like Crystal Dunn on the USWNT, Rachel Daly is another example of The Curious Case of Coaches Playing a Natural Attacker as a Fullback. Tough and precise in front of the goal, she contributed to the Three Lionesses' victory in the SheBelieves Cup earlier this year. It would be great to see Phil Neville playing her in her natural position, but we're excited to see her anyway.
5. Hayley Raso, Portland Thorns / Australia
The NWSL is full of fan favorite Matildas, and we could dedicate even more prose to A+ teammate Elise Kellond-Knight or Steph Catley, to name two more. But Hayley Raso went from being unsure she would ever walk again following a broken back last summer to scoring for her side in the Cup of Nations earlier this year to preparing for the World Cup. We haven't seen much of her for the Thorns so far this season and given that recovery is always daunting but especially from such a serious injury, who knows how much we'll really get to see of her in the tournament. But her setting foot on the pitch at all, making such an incredible leap from one of the most devastating situations for a professional athlete, will be a feat, and we're not crying, you're crying.
4. Cheyna Matthews, Washington Spirit / Jamaica
The Reggae Girlz make their Women's World Cup debut this summer (here's some good background), have steadily improved in CONCACAF competition and currently hold their highest ever FIFA ranking. After taking a year off from the game due to pregnancy, Matthews is back and contributing to a resurgent Washington Spirit, netting some fancy-footwork goals like this one. Matthews in an attack formation with the likes of Jody Brown and Khadija "Bunny" Shaw is a possibility that makes us go all dreamy-eyed. If Bunny successfully recovers from her injury during Tuesday's friendly against Scotland (prayer circle, everyone!), Jamaica's attack will have other teams in night sweats.
3. Rachel Corsie, Utah Royals / Scotland
Scotland is yet another exciting side to debut in the 2019 World Cup, and all eyes will be on their skipper, Utah Royals defender Rachel Corsie. Corsie has had a strong start to her NWSL season for the first-place Royals alongside Becky Sauerbrunn, and with a pairing like that, it makes sense why Utah's only conceded three goals so far and kept three clean sheets. But Corsie's role extends beyond stoppages and tackles on the pitch – as Scotland's captain and best-known player, she's an ambassador for the women's game in her country, and has contributed to its growth. Getting to lead her team to the World Cup is a wonderful step in that trajectory.
2. Marta, Orlando Pride / Brazil
One name to rule them all. Imagining the women's game without Marta is like imagining The Great British Bake-Off without irrepressible charm. It just doesn't make sense. The six-time (!) FIFA Women's Player of the Year has had a rough start to the season at a winless, languishing Orlando Pride, but wearing the yellow and green is when she shines brightest. She holds the record for most goals scored at the World Cup, and unless Christine Sinclair goes on an absolute tear, there's no one that can catch her.
1. Sam Kerr, Chicago Red Stars / Australia
You were expecting someone else? 55 goals in the NWSL, 64 goals in the Australian W-League, backflips for days. Kerr is a dream of a player, a consummate entertainer, always an absolute blast to watch, the platonic ideal of an antidote to every goober in your mentions who talks about how "sOcCeR iS bOrInG" but will willingly watch golf. Beyond being a natural striker, Kerr has demonstrated leadership on and off the pitch, including taking part in the Matildas' 2015 boycott demanding better play and conditions for players.
(Photo: Jamie Smed/Flickr)
Filed under: nwsl; soccer; 2019 women's world cup; sam kerr; marta; rachel corsie; team australia; team brazil; team scotland; team jamaica; hayley raso; cheyna matthews; rachel daly; team england; team japan; rumi utsugi; andressinha; team cameroon; estelle johnson; team new zealand; abby erceg
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Takasago Army — шестой студийный альбом тайваньской симфоник-блэк-метал-группы Chthonic, выпущенный в августе 2011 года в Европе и 6 сентября 2011 года в США. Название отсылает к добровольцам Такасаго в Императорской армии Японии, набранным из аборигенов Тайваня во время Второй мировой войны. Альбом получил в основном положительные отзывы от критиков. Takasago Army стал лучшим мелодик-блэк-метал-альбомом 2011 года по версии сайта Metal Storm.

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Тайваньская версия
 «冥河島» — 2:15
 «殘枝» — 4:21
 «皇軍» — 4:19
 «震洋» — 3:44
 «南十字星» — 3:53
 «薰空» — 5:38
 «玉碎» — 5:43
 «歸根» — 1:24
 «大黑天» — 4:02
 «鎮魂醒靈寺» — 5:18

Английская версия
 «The Island» — 2:15
 «Legacy of the Seediq» — 4:21
 «Takao» — 4:19
 «Oceanquake» — 3:44
 «Southern Cross» — 3:53
 «KAORU» — 5:38
 «Broken Jade» — 5:43
 «Root Regeneration» — 1:24
 «MAHAKALA» — 4:02
 «Quell the Souls in Sing Ling Temple» — 5:18

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Topological insulators are unique states of matter that – despite an insulating bulk – harbor topologically protected surface states. We are working to realize a related interacting magnetic state, the axion insulator. This is a theoretically proposed, but heretofore unrealized state of matter that is similar to a topological insulator in that both possess band inversion. However, axion insulators break time reversal symmetry and will exhibit a very large and intrinsic magnetoelectric response. For materials that preserve inversion, the magnetoelectric response is expected to be quantized. Such systems are 3D analogs of the 2D quantum anomalous Hall effect systems and should show a quantized Kerr rotation for the inversion symmetric case and a measurable (and large) dc magnetoelectric response for the inversion symmetry broken state. We have identified a very large class of potential materials and are bringing to bear the large suite of experimental tools available at IQM to realize and probe this state of matter.


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Dietary adherence in the women's health initiative dietary modification trial
Women's Health Initiative Study Group
This article describes adherence to a low-fat dietary pattern (less than 20% energy from fat, five or more fruit/vegetable and six or more grain servings daily) in Years 1 and 5 of the Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial, which was designed to examine the effects of a low-fat dietary pattern on risk of breast and colorectal cancers and other chronic diseases in postmenopausal women. Participants were randomly assigned to a low-fat dietary intervention arm (40%, n=19,542) or a usual diet control arm (60%, n=29,294). Women in the intervention arm completed 18 group sessions during the first year, followed by quarterly annual maintenance sessions. Adherence was assessed as control minus intervention (C-I) group differences in percent total energy from fat as estimated by a food frequency questionnaire. Based on these self-reported dietary data, mean C-I was 10.9 percentage points of energy from fat at Year 1, decreasing to 9.0 at Year 5. Factors associated with poorer adherence were being older, being African American or Hispanic (compared with white), having low income, and being obese. Group session attendance was strongly associated with better dietary adherence. There are many limitations of self-reported dietary data, particularly related to social desirability and intervention-associated bias. Nonetheless, these data indicate that long-term dietary change was achieved in this clinical trial setting and reinforce the potential of the ongoing trial to answer questions of public health importance.
Journal of the American Dietetic Association
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jada.2004.01.014
Published - Apr 1 2004
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Tesla's still bleeding money and now its stock is dropping too
New York (CNN Business)Even after delivering a record number of cars in its second quarter, Tesla (TSLA) is still bleeding money. Tesla said Wednesday that it lost $408 million during the three months ending in June, far worse than Wall Street had expected. Shares of Tesla fell more than 10% in after hours trading following the earnings report.
The loss was slightly less painful than the previous quarter, in which Tesla lost $702 million. The company attributed its performance to record vehicle delivery numbers of more than 95,000 cars. That was up nearly 5% from the previous record in the fourth quarter of 2018.
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A look at Pink Dot (and Singapore's) development: Part 1
26 Jun 2020 — 14 min read
It's Pink Dot day tomorrow, but for the first time in their history, there won't be a gathering in Hong Lim Park (thanks, Covid-19 outbreak). Instead, they're starting a livestream programme from 6:30pm, so please tune in!
To mark Pink Dot 2020, I'm sending all of you a longread I wrote for New Naratif at the beginning of this year about Pink Dot and civil society activism in the Singaporean context. They were originally published as two separate long pieces, and I'm sending you Part One today. Part Two will arrive in your inboxes tomorrow.
Growing a Movement in Activism-Averse Singapore
The crowd was already pumped when Pink Dot's spokesperson, Paerin Choa, took over the microphone. The sun had set over an afternoon of enthusiastic pink-clad picnicking. Performers—from popular local rappers and indie bands to glamorous drag queens—had built the atmosphere up to one of euphoria and excitement. The climax of Singapore's annual LGBT rights rally—the formation of a huge pink "dot", to be photographed from a height—was about to begin.
But first, Choa had a message to convey. Something was different from the rallies of previous years. On that June evening in 2019, Pink Dot—a fixture in Singapore's civil society calendar known for its family-friendly branding and soft-touch activism—had acquired a harder, angrier edge.
Choa began by addressing the comments made by Singapore's prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, just days before. The premier had claimed that, while the government has consistently refused to repeal a statute that outlaws sexual intercourse between men, the country's LGBT community hasn't been "inhibited" from living.
"Prime Minister Lee [Hsien Loong], because of Section 377A, we are made invisible," Choa yelled, referring to the law that effectively criminalises gay men.
"Because of Section 377A, we continue to be marginalised and we lead incomplete lives. Because of Section 377A, we deal with discrimination every day."
He took a deep breath as the crowd roared its approval. "Please, Prime Minister Lee, lead us. Prime Minister Lee, tear down this law!"
He began to chant, and the thousands crammed into the park followed his example. "Tear. Down. This. Law! Tear. Down. This. Law!"
A decade ago, this would have been unthinkable. Over the course of 11 years, Pink Dot has become Singapore's most successful civil society effort in terms of consistent turnout. Its evolution from an earnest, fluffy gathering to an explicit protest can be said to reflect shifts in the country's political climate. Yet its failure to get rid of a controversial law also highlights the limits of grassroots activism in a city-state with an authoritarian streak.
In this two-part series, we trace the history of Pink Dot, the questions its successes and failures throw up about advocacy and activist strategies in a difficult political landscape, and the limitations of Singapore's civil society activities.
One activist's beginnings
Choa hadn't always been a slogan-chanting protest organiser. Sitting down to an interview with New Naratif, he describes his former self as a "gay party boy"—someone who'd enthusiastically attend parties catering to gay men, but who hadn't been particularly politically aware, much less involved in anything that could have been described as activism. Today, away from the rally stage, he's a corporate lawyer, working out of a stylish private members' club not far from Singapore's Central Business District.
The catalyst for Choa's transformation came through a series of events that rocked the city's tiny civil society in 2009. That year, a group of conservative Christian women, uncomfortable with the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE)'s stance on LGBT issues, organised to take over leadership of the gender equality organisation. Registering as new members of the NGO, they attended its annual general meeting and proceeded to nominate, then vote, their own candidates into the committee.
Nine out of 12 seats on AWARE's executive committee were won by these new members. This "new guard" accused AWARE of promoting lesbianism and homosexuality, making it clear that there were going to be changes under their watch. It later emerged that they'd been guided by Dr Thio Su Mien, a co-founder of TSMP Law Corporation—where, at that time, Choa was embarking on his legal career.
"The AWARE saga, it affected me in a way that I never was affected before," he recalls. "It was very offensive, it was very close to home in a way, because literally it was, like, building this in my own backyard."
In May 2009, the "old guard" of AWARE—former leaders of the organisation—called an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) to try to wrest control back. That period of controversy threw up discussions of religion and secularism, activism, LGBT rights, and civil society governance. The dramatic seven-hour EGM, which ended in triumph for the "old guard", has since been referenced by numerous members of Singaporean civil society as a moment of political awakening.
"Never before had a single event ushered so many issues into the public sphere for such a rare display of political pluralism so often cloaked by the aegis of a one-party state," wrote sociologist Terence Chong in the introduction of the book The AWARE Saga: Civil Society and Public Morality in Singapore (published in 2011).
Choa hadn't been immune to this groundswell of empowerment: he remembers calling up many of the women he'd attended law school with, urging them to become AWARE members so they could vote in the EGM. But he didn't stop there. This newfound motivation also brought to mind another opportunity: an idea he'd previously been approached with. An idea called "Pink Dot".
"I pooh-poohed the idea initially. Me being the shallow, gay party boy then, I was like, 'Siao, ask me to go wear pink, who wears pink in the middle of the day, and form… what stupid idea is this?'" he says.
"But the whole AWARE thing got me so riled up that I not only decided to go for Pink Dot, I actually called and volunteered and I said, 'I'll do anything, anything you want me to do.'"
He was such an enthusiastic volunteer that year that he was not only asked to return in 2010, but was also offered a spot on the committee. He's been an active member ever since.
"We couldn't say that it was a protest"
Pink Dot is by no means the first instance of LGBT activism in Singapore, nor was it the only queer space in the country at its inception. But it was the first time people mobilised so publicly and openly for the cause.
Thinking back on those early years, Choa says everyone had tread very carefully. "When I was being briefed in the first year as a volunteer and all, we were very careful that we couldn't say that it was a protest," he recalls. "We didn't want to come across as angry. We didn't want to alienate Singaporeans back then."
They weren't just being paranoid. While Singapore had an active and vibrant civil society in the 1950s and 1960s—including the leftist anti-colonial movement that swept the now-ruling People's Action Party (PAP) into power—the Singapore of 2009 was not a city with a protest culture. (It still isn't today.)
Demonstrations and other forms of direct action have been so demonised that people tend to see them as disruptive and generally undesirable, equating protests to riots. Speakers' Corner was established in Hong Lim Park in 2000, allowing Singaporean citizens to give speeches without first having to apply for a licence; in 2008, the regulations were changed to allow demonstrations too. Public assemblies for a cause are outlawed everywhere else on the island, unless one obtains a permit from the police—unlikely for many civil society causes, particularly for contentious issues like LGBT rights. Under public order laws passed in 2009, even solo protests have been criminalised.
Given how new and unfamiliar such an activity—an outdoor rally! about LGBT issues!—was to society, the Pink Dot team was well aware of the challenge that lay ahead. (The very convening of their group had in fact been a reaction to a gay activist declaring his intention to stage the country's first Pride parade. Believing that this would not go down well with the protest-averse population, they'd quickly got together to organise something they thought would have a higher chance of success.)
"Back then, even gay people didn't want to go to Pink Dot, because before Pink Dot, every gay event, every LGBT event, was a party held behind closed doors, or a ticketed event," Choa explains. "And that was kind of a safe space, it was our space. Being out in the open, without tickets, without doors, was very scary for a lot of people."
In fact, Choa says that earliest Pink Dot had been actively geared towards attracting participation from straight Singaporeans, so as to reassure nervous LGBT people that the act of attendance wouldn't be a de facto public outing of their sexual orientation.
"I remember the day before the first Pink Dot, there was a strange SMS going around saying, 'If you go to Pink Dot, you will be photographed, your photos will be splashed around newspapers, you might lose your job, your family might find out'," Choa says.
"So I remember, even when I asked my friends to go for the first Pink Dot, it was like, 'you know, you don't have to be scared, it's not necessary that you're out, there are so many straight people going.'"
Trying not to be "anti-government"
Despite a push for the repeal of Section 377A via a parliamentary petition in 2007, that first Pink Dot—and the next three iterations, for that matter—made no mention of the law at all. Apart from addressing social anxieties about public demonstrations, there was also a political angle to Pink Dot's early strategy.
"We wanted to make the messaging very family-friendly, very universal and not political at all," Choa says. "We just didn't want people to think that doing this is going against government, which people were scared to do at that point in time."
While Singapore has free elections every five years, it's still effectively a one-party state. The PAP has won a supermajority in Parliament in every election since coming to power in 1959. The party is dominant in multiple aspects of Singaporean life, spanning from control over what Singaporeans study in schools through to the public housing estates they live in and the mainstream news sources they consume.
In a context where the lines between political party, government, and state are blurred, divergence from the hegemonic establishment narrative can often be all it takes to be seen as "anti-government". As the law academic Lynette Chua wrote in her 2014 book Mobilising Gay Singapore: Rights and Resistance in an Authoritarian State: "In authoritarian Singapore, to speak out is to mount the first act of resistance, regardless of how it is carried out and what it concerns."
Being "anti-government"—or even the perception of it—comes with its own baggage. Activists, opposition politicians, and critics of the PAP and its government have faced repercussions ranging from ruinous defamation suits to stints in prison to detention without trial. It's not an experience many Singaporeans care to sample for themselves, which is why "politics", or "being political", is often viewed as a risky business to be avoided. If Pink Dot wanted ordinary citizens to participate in their inaugural rally, they would first have to convince Singaporeans that their activity was legitimate and safe.
Pragmatic resistance
In any case, Pink Dot's goals were more open-ended back in 2009. "We never really saw ourselves as an advocacy group in the early years. We always saw ourselves as the interface between the mainstream Singapore and the LGBT community. When we first started doing things, what we wanted to change, really, was the narrative," Choa says, pointing out that positive, or even neutral, representations of LGBT relationships are still censored from the local mainstream media. When queer Singaporeans aren't even able to be present in local media narratives, it's much more difficult to get people to accept their community as a part of society.
Pink Dot adopted what Lynette Chua describes as "pragmatic resistance"—a strategy of operating carefully within the boundaries of both the law and sociopolitical norms. The idea is to garner and preserve as much legitimacy as possible, while finding more subtle ways to push the limits.
It paid off. About 2,500 people showed up at that first Pink Dot—a significant number for Singapore. In her book, Chua analysed this first rally as a case of pragmatic resistance. Noting that the organisers were "meticulous about obeying the law", she also pointed out that choices like creating photo-friendly formations allowed the group to stretch their reach beyond physical confines.
"By capturing the Pink Dot formations on photos and videos and using the Internet to distribute the images, activists creatively push through the physical constraints of the park and legal rules and nudge the political boundaries outward," she wrote.
When is pragmatic resistance just self-policing?
Yet the choice to play strictly by the rules can have its own drawbacks, especially in a context where laws are overly broad or restrictive. Within some pockets of Singaporean civil society, Pink Dot has been criticised as being too conservative, its pragmatic resistance seen as a euphemism for playing respectability politics (where, instead of confronting injustice head-on, a marginalised group polices its own members so they can appear more acceptable to the dominant group).
An example of an early Pink Dot decision that drew such criticism was their initial reluctance to include Project X, an advocacy group working for the rights of sex workers, within their line-up of local LGBT groups exhibiting in the park. Although not all sex workers identify as queer, a significant number of transgender Singaporeans are or have been sex workers because of social policies and attitudes that leave them more vulnerable to rejection and discrimination. The refusal to allow Project X a presence at Pink Dot came across to some as an attempt to cut off a less "socially acceptable" segment of the LGBT community.
Thinking back, Vanessa Ho, then-project coordinator of Project X, says she'd first brought up the idea of the organisation having a booth at Pink Dot when she bumped into Paerin Choa at a fundraiser. "So after I explained the situation of transgender sex workers very briefly, I think he had a knee-jerk reaction that was like, 'oh, you know we got corporate founders to report back to, we want to brand ourselves as a family-friendly event, and even [Action for AIDS] cannot give out condoms during Pink Dot'," she recalls.
When asked about this decision, Choa says it had more to do with a lack of clarity over how rules would be applied, and how he had interpreted these vague regulations. "In the law governing Hong Lim Park, you can't have signs that are obscene or lewd or whatever," he explains.
"I don't know what 'obscene' or 'lewd' means, but in that first year there was a family-friendly thing, there was also this sign [at the entrance of the park, listing all the regulations] and we didn't know what the police thought… There was a lot of second guessing. We knew that [the police were] there watching, but they left us pretty much alone. So we wanted to show in a way that you can silently fight and ask for rights in a very Singapore manner, that Singaporeans will come [attend]."
The organisers ultimately changed their mind and allowed Project X a booth that year. But Ho says that they'd also asked to see the flyers that she was planning on distributing beforehand: "[In] summary they said, 'Can [distribute flyers], but you show it to us first.' So censorship lah, right? You tell me that you're not assimilationist, then you censor me for what? Their reason was that they didn't want haters to come in, take photographs of my collaterals and be like, 'oh Pink Dot is promoting promiscuity and immorality.'"
Today, Project X runs a booth every year; people help themselves to fans and buttons and stickers, or write comments on boards expressing solidarity for sex workers' rights. Their presence is now uncontroversial, and they fit right in alongside all the other LGBT or allied organisations.
It's an example of the tightrope that Pink Dot has, from the very beginning, been trying to walk. It's a complicated, tricky activity, requiring thought and balance.
"[Over the years, we realised that] the progressives are also on a spectrum; some will progress a lot faster. And some are still really very moderate. And at the same time [that] we want to keep those, we want to get more and more moderates and conservatives to come over," Choa says, waving his hands in a gesture that brings to mind the idiom "herding cats".
"So we're also targeting the conservatives to come over, and keeping the moderates, and then we also realised that we're slowly losing this far [progressive] end also."
The need for more complexity and diversity
As people milled about Hong Lim Park on Pink Dot day in June 2019, volunteers for IndigNation—Singapore's month-long LGBT Pride season, organised every August—approached attendees near their booth. They had a question: "What issues does Pink Dot not address for you?"
"Our aim was not just to get people to talk about what issues they wanted Pink Dot to address but also issues that they felt the LGBTQ community as a whole did not talk enough about," says Stephanie Chan, a volunteer with IndigNation.
"The aim was to find gaps and needs to spark discussions within the LGBTQ community and find out what people in the community wanted to talk [about], and eventually organise larger meetings and discussions around these issues."
According to Chan, IndigNation received a "huge amount of responses", with concerns ranging from accessibility for people with mental health issues or disabilities, to issues of racism, misogyny and ageism, to feedback about diversity and representation.
"One of the major criticisms against [Pink Dot] is that their committee is not diverse," Ho says. "So I think over the past 10 years they have tried very hard to include, to have, diverse representation."
But diversity isn't just about ticking off the L, G, B, and T in the LGBT movement, nor is it only about racial and gender balance. The existence of intersectionality—which refers to the interconnectedness of identities and social categorisations—means that many aspects need to be considered simultaneously.
For Jolovan Wham, a gay activist who works on issues related to civil and political rights, such issues need to be addressed within the movement even as it tries to appeal to the wider population. "It has to be a mix of both [catering to straight and queer people]; changing the mindsets of those who are straight means engaging and featuring them in publicity materials but at the same time, it is important to centre the voices of those who are marginalised. Within the LGBTQ community, there's also a lot of racism, sexism, classism and transphobia. These issues need to be part of the movement in order for it to be as inclusive as possible."
Ho thinks that the issue of class is one that Pink Dot—a largely middle class movement—is struggling with. "The language of resistance they have will be very different from the language of resistance that transgender sex workers have, and [the workers' language] is still not the 'respectable' way, right? So they can keep saying, 'these transgender people don't want to step forward and be part of the committee', but I'm like, 'they don't see a point to be part of your community and they don't feel an affinity with your community because you have no intention of switching up the way you talk and being in the spaces that they are in.'"
Despite critiques of Pink Dot's approaches, activists like Ho, Chan, and Wham all attend Pink Dot regularly.
"I personally do not feel like Pink Dot's messaging represents my own community, identity or point of view. At the first few Pink Dots I attended, this was disappointing to me," Chan tells New Naratif. But she also says that she eventually "came to understand where Pink Dot was coming from and why they had the messaging that they had and how it was a part of their larger goal."
"Now I still attend Pink Dot anyway because I can and because, as a queer person who is able to access Pink Dot, I think it is important to show up and support it, because I do believe in their long-term goals."
"I will not sit out [of Pink Dot]; I will just be really uncomfortable and I will deal with my own discomfort in my own ways and do my own thing," Ho says. "[We have] different ways of doing things, and [we'll] see who can get to the finish line first, right? All of us have the eye on the finish line. We don't know which is the answer right now… maybe it's them, maybe it's us, maybe it's a combination, who knows? And yah lor, we just have to jiayou [cheer on, or express support] for each other."
And that's Part One—keep an eye out for Part Two in your inboxes tomorrow! Remember to wear pink for the day anyway!
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Q: Proof check: Is this a valid step using limits of a sequence random variables? Let $B(t)$ be a Brownian motion on $[0,T]$. Let $V(B)$ be the total variation of this Brownian motion:
$$V(B) = \lim_{\Delta \to 0} \sum_{i=1}^{n} |B(i\Delta) - B((i-1)\Delta)|$$
where $n = T/\Delta$.
I want to prove the following statement:
With probability $1$,
$$\lim_{\Delta \to 0} \Delta^{\frac{1}{2}} \sum_{i=1}^{n} |B(i\Delta) - B((i-1)\Delta)| = c$$
where $c$ is some positive finite constant.

My attempt:
Let
$$V_n (B) = \sum_{i=1}^{n} |B(i\Delta) - B((i-1)\Delta)|$$
Now, since the increments $B(i\Delta) - B((i-1)\Delta)$ are I.I.D normal, it follows that
$$E[V_n(B)] = \sqrt n c_1$$ and $$Var(V_n(B)) = c_2$$
which means
$$E[\Delta^{\frac{1}{2}}V_n(B)] = c_3$$ and $$Var(\Delta^{\frac{1}{2}}V_n(B)) = \Delta c_4$$
for some positive constants $c_1,c_2,c_3,c_4$. Hence it follows (I think?) that for any $\epsilon > 0$, we have
$$P\left(\bigg|\lim_{\Delta \to 0} \Delta^{\frac{1}{2}} \sum_{i=1}^{n} |B(i\Delta) - B((i-1)\Delta)| - c\bigg| > \epsilon \right)    (1)$$
$$= \lim_{\Delta \to 0} P\left(\bigg|\Delta^{\frac{1}{2}} \sum_{i=1}^{n} |B(i\Delta) - B((i-1)\Delta)| - c\bigg| > \epsilon \right)    (2)$$
$$= \lim_{\Delta \to 0} P\left(\bigg|\Delta^{\frac{1}{2}} V_n(B) - c\bigg| > \epsilon \right) (3)$$
$$\leq \lim_{\Delta \to 0} \frac{\Delta c_4}{\epsilon^2}    (4)$$
$$= 0    (5)$$
where we use Chebyshev's inequality, proving the result

The part I'm unsure of is going from (1) to (2). Is it valid to interchange limits and probabilities like this?

Edit: So I showed it converges in probability. Now, I'm not sure if it converges almost surely. I tried applying Borel-Cantelli theorem with no luck. Any tips?

Edit2: Having thought about this more, I'm now of the opinion that it does not converge almost surely, but only in probability. My thinking being that to converge almost surely, it must be different than $c$ only a finite number of times, but every time we increase $n$ we split $B(i\Delta) - B((i-1)\Delta)$ into two new normal random variables, scaled up. This seems to contradict that it is different than $c$ a finite number of times.

A: Well, I suspect that there is a sequence of $\Delta_k$s that actually allow this to converge almost surely. That is because if $X_n$ converges to $X$ in probability, then there is a subsequence that converges almost surely. Without knowing how you are going to zero with the deltas, I cannot say much. (I suspect since you defined it as $n = T/\Delta$, you are letting $n$ go to infinity in the "usual" sense, and thus concluding delta is going to 0, in which case, I would assume that this is in probability.)
Also, it can only be different from the limit finitely many times in almost sure convergence is actually wrong. The deterministic sequence $X_n = 1/n$ converges almost surely to 0 (for every event, it converges). What has to happen is that for any epsilon, it can only be away from that epsilon ball around the limit finitely many times (which follows from Borel-Cantelli).

A: For 1) implies 2) you can use Fatou's Lemma: $\{(limsup |f_n|)>\epsilon\}$ is a subset of  $liminf \{|f_n|>\epsilon\}$ and Fatou's Lemma followed by your calculation  now shows $P\{limsup |f_n|>\epsilon\}=0$.