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Is Courtney Barnett's new album around the corner?
The Australian singer-songwriter wants you to tell her how you really feel.
By Salvatore Maicki
It seems as though Courtney Barnett is back. And though it really hasn't been that long since we've gotten music from the Australian artist— she dropped a groovy collaborative record with Philly rocker Kurt Vile last year— it feels as though ages have gone by since the racous wit of her last LP, 2015's Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit.
Today, Barnett tweeted out a teaser video titled "Tell Me How You Really Feel" that seems to confirm that a new record is just around the corner. The clip follows Barnett around the studio as she tries out various different instruments for good measure, testing out a few new lyrics along the way. It ends with a thrashing snippet of a new song titled "I'm Not Your Mother, I'm Not Your Bitch." Barnett's website— which is asking fans to write 250 words or less on "how they really feel"— promises more this Thursday, Feb. 15. How's that for a belated Valentine's Day gift?

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Advanced Nutrients Overdrive. It's 100% guaranteed to give you rewarding harvests.
That's because Overdrive contains a unique set of powerful ingredients that stimulate plants to increase their bloom productivity. Overdrive is a really special formula that does something that used to seem impossible.
Even if you're feeding them the best basic bloom fertilizer we make, all plants naturally peak and then go downhill. That's how Nature intends it, and that's what happens in most gardens.


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With "Angels and Demons," Dan Brown's novel about secret societies and ancient rites, on the big screen, talk has turned to which shadowy organization the best-selling author will train his sights on next. Rumors have placed him in the District, scoping out sites related to the Freemasons.
The Masons are a natural choice for Mr. Brown. Freemasonry, perceived by many to be a secret society, is an organization with deep ties to American history - 14 presidents have been confirmed as Freemasons, including George Washington; nine signers of the Declaration of Independence were Freemasons, including Benjamin Franklin and John Hancock; and 13 signatories to the Constitution were Freemasons - leading conspiracy theorists naturally to assert the group had some sort of unholy influence over America's institutions.
But the biggest impact the Masons have had on America is no real secret, and it can be discovered simply by walking into the temple on 16th Street Northwest (Washington, DC) and asking a few questions.
"The Masons spend over $3 million a day, over a billion dollars a year, in philanthropy," Brent Morris says when asked about the impact of his organization's charitable giving. Mr. Morris is the managing editor of the Scottish Rite Journal and author of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Freemasonry." During a recent tour of the museum and library at the temple, Mr. Morris went into greater detail about the organization's charitable work.
"The main philanthropy of the Scottish Rite, the Southern jurisdiction, is speech pathology," he explains. "We've got a network of 170 clinics, while the Northern jurisdiction has 35 or 40 clinics up there." "We provide speech and language training and intervention for children of all ages, usually at no cost or at a modest cost," he says.
"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do!"
Being a Freemason has always been about helping and giving to others (in one way or another) and Charity is one of the principal tenants of Freemasonry. Charity can happen in many ways: through the contribution of money, through the contribution of time, through visitation programs, through showing caring concern for others, by helping your brother, your neighbor or the widow or child of a Brother of the fraternity. Or, by just being a supportive friend and a Brother when one is needed.
The list on the right page is a small representation of some the good work that Freemasons do - it certainly does not list all of the charitable acts that Freemasonry and their Appendant Bodies accomplish on a daily basis. Most of what Freemasonry does to help others is not known. Freemasons, as a general rules, do not look for or expect recognition for their acts. They only hope for an societal awareness of their good work so that other interested, like minded individuals, might join their ranks in their efforts to help others. It's what we are all here for - after all.
We are always looking for a few "Good men" - to make them "Better". No one will ask you to join. Freemasons do not solicit membership in their fraternity. To be one of us, you must have a genuine interest in the fraternity and you must ask to join. You must want to help others to be a part of one of the oldest fraternities in the world (with a legacy that extends through history for centuries). We encourage you to have the strength and courage to be one of us. Freemasonry will make a difference in your life and in the lives of others.


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Q: How to make a query that automatically create another column and convert date format? I  have a date column attribute in my calendar_table where I store my date, I want to add another column date_name and then populate all of them automatically like below.
date: 2017-07-28 to date_name 28 July, Friday
Currently using heidiSQL (MySQL)
I tried queries below but it say that there are syntax error
SELECT [date],
DATENAME(day, [date]) + ' ' + DATENAME(month, [date]) + ', ' + DATENAME(DW, [date])
FROM [dbo].[DatesTable]( -- current month calendar table
DATEADD(dd,1,EOMONTH (GETDATE(), -1)),
EOMONTH (GETDATE())
)

 Select cd.date
 from calendar_table as cd
 INSERT into cd.date_name values (
 CAST(DATEPART(DAY,DateTime) AS VARCHAR(2)) + ' ' + CAST(DATENAME(MONTH,DateTime) AS VARCHAR(12)) + ','+ CAST(DATENAME(DAY,DateTime) AS VARCHAR(8)))

A: If you want to convert a date from default format yyyy-mm-dd (example: 2017-07-28) to any other text format like 28 July, Friday you have to use DATE_FORMAT(date,format) function.
Example:
SELECT @dt:=CAST( '2017-07-28' AS DATE ) AS dt
     , DATE_FORMAT( @dt, '%d %M, %W' ) AS formatted_date_string

Output will be in the following format:
+------------+-----------------------+
| dt         | formatted_date_string |
+------------+-----------------------+
| 2017-07-28 | 28 July, Friday       |
+------------+-----------------------+

You can use same or similar format in your transactions.
But my suggestion is not to store formatted date strings into database but only date and times in their default formats. You can apply formats on those fields for views and prints.

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I've been talking a lot about how wrong it is to ignore our gut flora, and I've tried to make a list of things we can do to optimize our gut flora. Something I have omitted is the talk about probiotics.
Although I am taking my own supplement, it's quite frankly a very unregulated area - something I intensely loathe! As you may have noticed, I like my facts to be evidence-based!
This post, however, is about a list of probiotics that have been studied for the treatment of various gastrointestinal (GI) issues and their level of evidence.
Although it is an American list, I think it gives an insight on which strains are useful for which ailment.
Have a look over HERE! If you are from the US, you may recognize some names. And some indeed are international so even we get them here in the UK.
Do you take probiotics? Is there a special disease, condition you would like to deal with by taking probiotics?


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Vol. 3 Issue 20 | May 19, 2017
Three Things This Week
1. Thank You, Scott
What it is: An SNL sketch that uncomfortably satires slacktivism and clicktivism.
Why it's important: Though some believe clicktivism can be used to create real change, for most of us slacktivism replaces real action, meaning we're totally willing to do what we can...as long as it can be done on our iPhones. Especially for digital natives, slacktivism has become the way to ameliorate the sad/guilty feelings we experience when we become aware of an injustice in the world. But does it actually spark change? Or does it just spark a lot of shares, likes, and reblogs? Talk with your children about what it means to "look after orphans and widows in their distress" and to be the salt and light of the world. Then make time to solve real problems as a family.
2. The Tech-Wise Family
What it is: A new book by Andy Crouch about how to put technology in its proper place in your home.
Why it's great: As Crouch said in this interview, many parents feel like it's much harder to raise kids now than in any other generation because of the omnipresence of technology. But it goes beyond that: This generation of parents is the first to deal with technology on this scale, so there wasn't wisdom from older generations to fall back on and learn from. This book changes that, offering biblical principles and practical ways to reclaim your home and bring it back under God's dominion, rather than the accidental dominion of technology.
3. This Week in Snapchat
What it is: You know Snapchat, the image-based app your teens use to send and receive pics or videos that "disappear". But did you know it is also becoming the new teen newsstand, as publications like Cosmo and Buzzfeed promote daily stories aimed directly at the teen market?
Why it's important: Snapchat is sexually discipling the next generation. Just this week, luring and unfiltered articles titled "What it's Like to be a Celebrity with Big Boobs", "What Guys are Thinking Before They Get a Bl*w Job", and "What Does it Mean to Be Pansexual?" are making it nearly impossible for teens to resist exploring these topics out of mere curiosity. Snapchat is creating the time and place for these conversations, are you? Let us help! In our encore presentation of Axis' Parenting Teens Summit, Dr. Juli Slattery provides practical ways to sexually disciple the next generation. Get your free ticket here!
#StatusOfMind
Instagram ranked #1 as the most harmful social media site among 14 to 24 year olds for causing feelings of anxiety and inadequacy, with seven out of ten saying the platform made them feel worse about their body. On a deeper level, apps like Instagram or Snapchat appeal to and shape the ego (a person's self-esteem or self-image), which is "that part of the self that wants to be significant". The ego tends to only know itself by comparison, feeding the temptation toward self-rejection when my life doesn't live up to the people I see on Instagram. Thomas Merton called this the "false self". It's inherently insecure because it is mostly a projection of the person you desire others to think you are. Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung once said, "The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you." Which is exactly the reason why social media is so appealing to, and often harmful to teen identity.
If students admit social media is detrimental to both their mental health and positive identity formation, why the addiction? Like Pavlov's dog returning to his vomit, their developing brains are hardwired for the almost intoxicating effect of all those "likes". Social media appeals to their ego where it is most vulnerable, in the continual search for significance. And, if we are honest, everyone is susceptible to this craving for validation, attempting in vain to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts. Yet, this "infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object: in other words by God Himself."
Talk with your students about the true source of their identity (made in the image of God). Help them drown out the voices on social media shouting that they are not skinny enough, or pretty enough, or smart enough, so they can hear the small, sacred voice of God calling them His "beloved". The truth is, our kids are the chosen children of God, always and forever precious in His sight. Identity matters. Because "When you get your, "Who am I?' question right, all of your, 'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves." Here are five ways to help your teen feel comfortable in their own skin.
Less than 2 weeks until the encore presentation of our virtual Parenting Teens Summit begins. To get practical tips and biblical wisdom about how to disciple your teens from thinkers like Tim Keller, Ravi Zacharias, Kara Powell, and more, reserve your free spot now!
Editor's Note: Axis links to many different sources within this e-newsletter; a link does not equal an endorsement. We cannot guarantee the content of each site (especially its ads). Please be forewarned. Also, we highly recommend something like AdBlock.


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Q: Alexa Rank: No Data I own a domain and host for more than 2 years. I get No Data in alexa rank.
I claimed my website in alexa for more than a month. But I still get No Data.
Should I use a special technique to have my website indexed in alexa?

A: Running Google Analytics on your site shouldn't have any impact on whether you're listed on Alexa or not. Listing on Alexa is entirely a measure of traffic quantity over a 90-day period. If your website doesn't generate significant traffic, it will not be listed.

A: Just thought to share an answer that I was able to discover to start ranking in
Alexa's radius. Some of the blogging wizards say that follow three steps to get
your site/blog recognized by Alexa-

A) Install Alexa toolbar into your Firefox and Chrome browsers.
B) Install a Alexa Rank Plugin or Add Alexa Ranking code into your
Blog or site.
C) Do something to drive traffic to your website or blog.

If someone finds a better idea, kindly do share it. I just followed the above
three, and waiting for Alexa to rank my blog. I did add a Text Widget to my blog
and embed the Alexa Rank HTML code. If you like, can check it from
TechBeamers.com.

A: No data by Alexa usually means they have not recorded (or estimated) little or no traffic or visits for the last 3 months. This is what Alexa says about the same -

Alexa's traffic rankings are based on the past three months of global
  traffic measured from our global traffic panel and are updated daily.
  An overall traffic ranking of "No data", or "No rank" in the Toolbar,
  indicates that none of our sources show visits to the site in question
  during the past three months (as of our last update).

Do you have any analytics deployed? If yes, do you record any traffic (excluding your own)?


New Flash: processed meats are high in salt. Another news flash: fresh unprocessed meats are not high in salt. When researchers compared intake of processed vs. fresh meat to heart disease risk they discovered that, lumping all "meat" together isn't a good idea. Apparently processed meat intake is linked to increased risk for heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Consumption of unprocessed red meat is not.
By the way, these processed meats are also higher in other things like nitrites, flavors and fillers. But the study authors focused on the salt content, which is about 4 times higher in processed meat products than in fresh beef or pork. High sodium intake is a national problem, and is linked to high blood pressure.
There is growing evidence that it's not which nutrient we eat, but the type of foods we eat that is important……We have to get away from trying to micromanage nutrients and look at the health quality of foods.
Absolutely true. But thanks to this type of single-focus study, we'll just get more manipulation of sodium in processed foods. Diets won't be healthier. They'll just be lower sodium.
So which is the better choice for people who enjoy processed meats?
A healthy diet, full of fruits, vegetables, whole grain foods and fresh meat, fish and poultry, with the occasional hot dog.
A diet that's heavy on low sodium processed meat products and lots of other processed foods, with few fruits or vegetables and no whole grains.
Hopefully you already know the answer to that question. Here's another tip: the study compared very modest portions of processed vs. red meat: 2 oz vs. 4 oz. If you think this study gives you permission to gorge on giant 1 pound steaks and triple burgers, think again. A 4 oz portion of red meat is about the size of a deck of playing cards. It could fit in the palm of your hand.


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ChromeOS, sometimes styled as chromeOS and formerly styled as Chrome OS, is a Linux-based operating system developed and designed by Google. It is derived from the open-source ChromiumOS and uses the Google Chrome web browser as its principal user interface.

Google announced the project in July 2009, initially describing it as an operating system where applications and user data would reside in the cloud. ChromeOS was used primarily to run web applications.

All ChromiumOS and ChromeOS versions support progressive web applications (such as Google Docs or Microsoft Office 365), as well as web browser extensions (which can resemble native applications). ChromeOS (but not ChromiumOS) from 2016 onwards can also run Android applications from Google Play. Since 2018, ChromiumOS/ChromeOS version 69 onwards also support Linux applications, which are executed in a lightweight virtual machine with a Debian Linux environment.

The operating system is now usually evaluated in conjunction with the hardware that runs it.

History
To ascertain marketing requirements, developers relied on informal metrics, including monitoring the usage patterns of some 200 machines used by Google employees. Developers also noted their own usage patterns.

ChromeOS was initially intended for secondary devices like netbooks, and not as a user's primary PC. Google has requested that its hardware partners use solid-state drives "for performance and reliability reasons" as well as the lower capacity requirements inherent in an operating system that accesses applications and most user data on remote servers. In November 2009, Matthew Papakipos, engineering director for the ChromeOS, announced that ChromeOS would only support solid-state storage (i.e. not mechanical hard-disks), and noted that ChromeOS only required one-sixtieth as much drive space as Windows 7. Ten years later, in 2019, the recovery images Google provided for ChromeOS were still only between 1 and 3 GB in size.

On November 19, 2009, Google released ChromeOS's source code as the ChromiumOS project. At a November 19, 2009 news conference, Sundar Pichai–at the time Google's vice president overseeing Chrome–demonstrated an early version of the operating system. He previewed a desktop which looked very similar to the desktop Chrome browser, and in addition to the regular browser tabs also had application tabs, which take less space and can be pinned for easier access. At the conference, the operating system booted up in seven seconds, a time Google said it would work to reduce. Additionally, Chris Kenyon, vice president of OEM services at Canonical Ltd, announced that Canonical was under contract to contribute engineering resources to the project with the intent to build on existing open-source components and tools where feasible.

Canonical was an early engineering partner on the project, and initially ChromiumOS could only be built on an Ubuntu system. In February 2010, the ChromiumOS development team switched to Gentoo Linux because Gentoo's package management system Portage was more flexible. The ChromiumOS build environment is no longer restricted to any particular distribution, but installation and quick-start guides use Debian's (and thus also Ubuntu's) apt syntax.

Early Chromebooks (2010)
In 2010, Google released the unbranded Cr-48 Chromebook in a pilot program. The launch date for retail hardware featuring ChromeOS was delayed from late 2010 until the next year.

On May 11, 2011, Google announced two Chromebooks from Acer and Samsung at Google I/O. The Samsung model was released on June 15, 2011, and the Acer model in mid-July. In August 2011, Netflix announced official support for ChromeOS through its streaming service, allowing Chromebooks to watch streaming movies and TV shows via Netflix. At the time, other devices had to use Microsoft Silverlight to play videos from Netflix. Later in that same month, Citrix released a client application for ChromeOS, allowing Chromebooks to access Windows applications and desktops remotely. Dublin City University became the first educational institution in Europe to provide Chromebooks for its students when it announced an agreement with Google in September 2011.

Expansion (2012)

By 2012, demand for Chromebooks had begun to grow, and Google announced a new range of devices, designed and manufactured by Samsung. In so doing, they also released the first Chromebox, the Samsung Series 3, which was ChromeOS' entrance into the world of desktop computers. Although they were faster than the previous range of devices, they were still underpowered compared to other desktops and laptops of the time, fitting in more closely with the Netbook market. Only months later, in October, Samsung and Google released a new Chromebook at a significantly lower price point ($250, compared to the previous Series 5 Chromebooks' $450). It was the first Chromebook to use an ARM processor, one from Samsung's Exynos line. To reduce the price, Google and Samsung also reduced the memory and screen resolution of the device. An advantage of using the ARM processor, however, was that the Chromebook didn't require a fan. Acer followed quickly after with the C7 Chromebook, priced even lower ($199), but containing an Intel Celeron processor. One notable way Acer reduced the cost of the C7 was to use a laptop hard disk rather than a solid-state drive.

In April 2012, Google made the first update to ChromeOS's user interface since the operating system had launched, introducing a hardware-accelerated window manager called "Aura" along with a conventional taskbar. The additions marked a departure from the operating system's original concept of a single browser with tabs and gave ChromeOS the look and feel of a more conventional desktop operating system. "In a way, this almost feels as if Google is admitting defeat here", wrote Frederic Lardinois on TechCrunch. He argued that Google had traded its original version of simplicity for greater functionality. "That's not necessarily a bad thing, though, and may just help ChromeOS gain more mainstream acceptance as new users will surely find it to be a more familiar experience." Lenovo and HP followed Samsung and Acer in manufacturing Chromebooks in early 2013 with their own models. Lenovo specifically targeted their Chromebook at students, headlining their press release with "Lenovo Introduces Rugged ThinkPad Chromebook for Schools".

When Google released Google Drive, they also included Drive integration in ChromeOS version 20, released in July 2012. While ChromeOS had supported Flash since 2010, by the end of 2012 it had been fully sandboxed, preventing issues with Flash from affecting other parts of ChromeOS. This affected all versions of Chrome including ChromeOS.

Chromebook Pixel (2013)

Until 2013, Google had never made their own ChromeOS device. Instead, ChromeOS devices were much more similar to their Nexus line of Android phones, with each ChromeOS device being designed, manufactured, and marketed by third-party manufacturers, but with Google controlling the software. However, in February 2013 this changed when Google released the Chromebook Pixel. The Chromebook Pixel was totally different from previous devices. Not only was it entirely Google-branded, but it contained an Intel i5 processor, a high-resolution (2,560 × 1,700) touchscreen display, and came at a price more competitive with business laptops.

2013 to present
By the end of 2013, analysts were undecided on the future of ChromeOS. Although there had been articles predicting the demise of ChromeOS since 2009, ChromeOS device sales continued to increase substantially year-over-year. In mid-2014, Time magazine published an article titled "Depending on Who's Counting, Chromebooks are Either an Enormous Hit or Totally Irrelevant", which detailed the differences in opinion. This uncertainty was further spurred by Intel's announcement of Intel-based Chromebooks, Chromeboxes, and an all-in-one offering from LG called the Chromebase.

Seizing the opportunity created by the end of life for Windows XP, Google pushed hard to sell Chromebooks to businesses, offering significant discounts in early 2014.

ChromeOS devices outsold Apple Macs worldwide for the year 2020.

Since July 2021, ChromeOS's embedded controller was changed to be based on a Google maintained fork of Zephyr, a real time operating system.

Pwnium competition
In March 2014, Google hosted a hacking contest aimed at computer security experts called "Pwnium". Similar to the Pwn2Own contest, they invited hackers from around the world to find exploits in ChromeOS, with prizes available for attacks. Two exploits were demonstrated there, and a third was demonstrated at that year's Pwn2Own competition. Google patched the issues within a week.

Material Design and app runtime for Chrome
Although the Google Native Client has been available on ChromeOS since 2010, there originally were few Native Client apps available, and most ChromeOS apps were still web apps. However, in June 2014, Google announced at Google I/O that ChromeOS would both synchronise with Android phones to share notifications and begin to run Android apps, installed directly from Google Play. This, along with the broadening selection of Chromebooks, laid the groundwork for future ChromeOS development.

At the same time, Google was also moving towards the then-new Material Design design language for its products, which it would bring to its web products as well as Android Lollipop. One of the first Material Design items to come to ChromeOS was a new default wallpaper, though Google did release some screenshots of a Material Design experiment for ChromeOS that never made it into the stable version.

Features

Functionality for small and medium businesses and Enterprise

Chrome Enterprise
Chrome Enterprise, launched in 2017, includes ChromeOS, Chrome Browser, Chrome devices and their management capabilities intended for business use. Businesses can access the standard ChromeOS features and unlock advanced features for business with the Chrome Enterprise Upgrade. Standard features include the ability to sync bookmarks and browser extensions across devices, cloud or native printing, multi-layered security, remote desktop, and automatic updates. Advanced features include Active Directory integration, unified endpoint management, advanced security protection, access to device policies and Google Admin console, guest access, kiosk mode, and whitelisting or blacklisting third-party apps managed on Google Play.

The education sector was an early adopter of Chromebooks, ChromeOS, and cloud-based computing. Chromebooks are widely used in classrooms and the advantages of cloud-based systems have been gaining an increased share of the market in other sectors as well, including financial services, healthcare, and retail. "The popularity of cloud computing and cloud-based services highlights the degree to which companies and business processes have become both internet-enabled and dependent." IT managers cite a number of advantages of the cloud that have motivated the move. Among them are advanced security, because data is not physically on a single machine that can be lost or stolen. Deploying and managing cloud-native devices is easier because no hardware and software upgrades or virus definition updates are needed and patching of OS and software updates are simpler. Simplified and centralized management decreases operational costs.

Employees can securely access files and work on any machine, increasing the shareability of Chrome devices. Google's Grab and Go program with Chrome Enterprise allows businesses deploying Chromebooks to provide employees access to a bank of fully charged computers that can be checked out and returned after some time.

From Chromebooks to Chromebox and Chromebase
In an early attempt to expand its enterprise offerings, Google released Chromebox for Meetings in February 2014. Chromebox for Meetings is a kit for conference rooms containing a Chromebox, a camera, a unit containing both a noise-cancelling microphone and speakers, and a remote control. It supports Google Hangouts meetings, Vidyo video conferences, and conference calls from UberConference.

Several partners announced Chromebox for Meetings models with Google, and in 2016 Google announced an all-in-one Chromebase for Meetings for smaller meeting rooms. Google targeted the consumer hardware market with the release of the Chromebook in 2011 and Chromebook Pixel in 2013, and sought access to the enterprise market with the 2017 release of the Pixelbook. The second-generation Pixelbook was released in 2019. In 2021 there are several vendors selling all-in-one Chromebase devices.

Enterprise response to Chrome devices
Google has partnered on Chrome devices with several leading OEMs, including Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung. In August 2019, Dell announced that two of its popular business-focused laptops would run ChromeOS and come with Chrome Enterprise Upgrade. The Latitude 5300 2-in-1 Chromebook Enterprise and Latitude 5400 Chromebook Enterprise were the result of a two-year partnership between Dell and Google. The machines come with a bundle of Dell's cloud-based support services that would enable enterprise IT managers to deploy them in environments that also rely on Windows. The new laptop line "delivers the search giant's ChromeOS operating system in a form tailored for security-conscious organizations." Other OEMs that have launched devices with Chrome Enterprise Upgrade include Acer and HP.

With a broader range of hardware available, ChromeOS became an option for enterprises wishing to avoid a migration to Windows 10 before Windows 7 support was discontinued by Microsoft.

Hardware

Laptops running ChromeOS are known collectively as "Chromebooks". The first was the CR-48, a reference hardware design that Google gave to testers and reviewers beginning in December 2010. Retail machines followed in May 2011. A year later, in May 2012, a desktop design marketed as a "Chromebox" was released by Samsung. In March 2015 a partnership with AOPEN was announced and the first commercial Chromebox was developed.

In early 2014, LG Electronics introduced the first device belonging to the new all-in-one form factor called "Chromebase". Chromebase devices are essentially Chromebox hardware inside a monitor with a built-in camera, microphone and speakers.

The Chromebit is an HDMI dongle running ChromeOS. When placed in an HDMI slot on a television set or computer monitor, the device turns that display into a personal computer. The first device, announced in March 2015 was an Asus unit that shipped that November and which reached end of life in November 2020.

Chromebook tablets were introduced in March 2018 by Acer with their Chromebook Tab 10. Designed to rival the Apple iPad, it had an identical screen size and resolution and other similar specifications, a notable addition was a Wacom-branded stylus that doesn't require a battery or charging.

ChromeOS supports multi-monitor setups, on devices with a video-out port, USB 3.0 or USB-C, the latter being preferable.

On February 16, 2022, Google announced a development version of ChromeOS Flex—a distribution of ChromeOS that can be installed on conventional PC hardware to replace other operating systems such as Windows and macOS. It is similar to CloudReady, a distribution of ChromiumOS whose developers were acquired by Google in 2020.

Software
The software and updates are limited in their support lifetime. Each device model manufactured to run ChromeOS has a different end-of-life date, with all new devices released in 2020 and beyond guaranteed to receive a minimum of eight years from their date of initial release.

As of Version 78, the device's end-of-life date for software updates is listed in "About ChromeOS"-"Additional Details".

Applications
Initially, ChromeOS was a pure thin client operating system that relied primarily on servers to host web applications and related data storage. Google gradually began encouraging developers to create "packaged applications", and later, Chrome Apps by employing HTML5, CSS, Adobe Shockwave, and JavaScript to provide a user experience closer to a native application.

In September 2014, Google launched App Runtime for Chrome (beta), which allowed certain ported Android applications to run on ChromeOS. Runtime was launched with four Android applications: Duolingo, Evernote, Sight Words, and Vine. In 2016, Google made Google Play available for ChromeOS, making most Android apps available for supported ChromeOS devices.

In 2018, Google announced plans for ChromeOS support for desktop Linux applications. This capability was released to the stable channel (as an option for most machines) with Chrome 69 in October 2018, but was still marked as beta. This feature was officially released with Chrome 91.

Chrome Apps

From 2013 until January 2020, Google encouraged developers to build not just conventional Web applications for ChromeOS, but Chrome Apps (formerly known as Packaged Apps). In January 2020, Google's Chrome team announced its intent to phase out support for Chrome Apps in favor of "progressive web applications" (PWA) and Chrome extensions instead. In March 2020, Google stopped accepting new public Chrome Apps for the web store. According to Google, general support for Chrome Apps on ChromeOS will remain enabled, without requiring any policy setting, through June 2022.

From a user's perspective, Chrome Apps resemble conventional native applications: they can be launched outside of the Chrome browser, are offline by default, can manage multiple windows, and interact with other applications.

Integrated media player, file manager
Google integrated a media player into both ChromeOS and the Chrome browser, enabling users to play back MP3s, view JPEGs, and handle other multimedia files without connectivity. The integration also supports DRM videos.

ChromeOS also includes an integrated file manager, resembling those found on other operating systems, with the ability to display directories and the files they contain from both Google Drive and local storage, as well as to preview and manage file contents using a variety of Web applications, including Google Docs and Box. Since January 2015, ChromeOS can also integrate additional storage sources into the file manager, relying on installed extensions that use the File System Provider API.

Remote application access and virtual desktop access
In June 2010, Google's software engineer Gary Kačmarčík wrote that ChromeOS would access remote applications through a technology unofficially called "Chromoting", which would resemble Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection. The name has since been changed to "Chrome Remote Desktop", and is like "running an application via Remote Desktop Services or by first connecting to a host machine by using RDP or VNC". Initial roll-outs of ChromeOS laptops (Chromebooks) indicate an interest in enabling users to access virtual desktops.

Android applications
At Google I/O 2014, a proof of concept showing Android applications, including Flipboard, running on ChromeOS was presented. In September 2014, Google introduced a beta version of the App Runtime for Chrome (ARC), which allows selected Android applications to be used on ChromeOS, using a Native Client-based environment that provides the platforms necessary to run Android software. Android applications do not require any modifications to run on ChromeOS, but may be modified to better support a mouse and keyboard environment. At its introduction, ChromeOS support was only available for selected Android applications.

In 2016, Google introduced the ability to run Android apps on supported ChromeOS devices, with access to Google Play in its entirety. The previous Native Client-based solution was dropped in favor of a container containing Android's frameworks and dependencies (initially based on Android Marshmallow), which allows Android apps to have direct access to the ChromeOS platform, and allow the OS to interact with Android contracts such as sharing. Engineering director Zelidrag Hornung explained that ARC had been scrapped due to its limitations, including its incompatibility with the Android Native Development Toolkit (NDK), and that it was unable to pass Google's own compatibility test suite.

Linux apps
All Chromebooks made since 2018, and many earlier models, can run Linux apps. As with Android apps, these apps can be installed and launched alongside other apps. Google maintains a list of devices that were launched before 2019, which support Linux apps.

Since 2013, it has been possible to run Linux applications in ChromeOS through the use of Crouton, a third-party set of scripts that allows access to a Linux distribution such as Ubuntu. However, in 2018 Google announced that desktop Linux apps were officially coming to ChromeOS. The main benefit claimed by Google of their official Linux application support is that it can run without enabling developer mode, keeping many of the security features of ChromeOS. It was noticed in the ChromiumOS source code in early 2018. Early parts of Crostini were made available for the Google Pixelbook via the dev channel in February 2018 as part of ChromeOS version 66, and it was enabled by default via the beta channel for testing on a variety of Chromebooks in August 2018 with version 69.

Architecture
Google's project for supporting Linux applications in ChromeOS is called Crostini, named for the Italian bread-based starter, and as a pun on Crouton. Crostini runs a virtual machine through a virtual machine monitor called crosvm, which uses Linux's built-in KVM virtualization tool. Although crosvm supports multiple virtual machines, the one used for running Linux apps, Termina, contains a basic ChromeOS kernel based on Gentoo and userland utilities, in which it runs containers based on LXD.

Architecture
ChromeOS is built on top of the Linux kernel. Originally based on Ubuntu, its base was changed to Gentoo Linux in February 2010. For Project Crostini, as of ChromeOS 80, Debian 10 (Buster) is the default container base image. In preliminary design documents for the ChromiumOS open-source project, Google described a three-tier architecture: firmware, browser and window manager, and system-level software and userland services.

 The firmware contributes to fast boot time by not probing for hardware, such as floppy disk drives, that are no longer common on computers, especially netbooks. The firmware also contributes to security by verifying each step in the boot process and incorporating system recovery.
 System-level software includes the Linux kernel that has been patched to improve boot performance. Userland software has been trimmed to essentials, with management by Upstart, which can launch services in parallel, re-spawn crashed jobs, and defer services in the interest of faster booting.
 The window manager handles user interaction with multiple client windows (much like other X window managers).

Security
In March 2010, Google software security engineer Will Drewry discussed ChromeOS security. Drewry described ChromeOS as a "hardened" operating system featuring auto-updating and sandbox features that would reduce malware exposure. He said that ChromeOS netbooks would be shipped with Trusted Platform Module (TPM), and include both a "trusted boot path" and a physical switch under the battery compartment that activates a "developer mode". That mode drops some specialized security functions but increases developer flexibility. Drewry also emphasized that the open-source nature of the operating system would contribute greatly to its security by allowing constant developer feedback.

At a December 2010 press conference, Google declared that ChromeOS would be the most secure consumer operating system due in part to a verified boot ability, in which the initial boot code, stored in read-only memory, checks for system compromises. In the following nine years, ChromeOS has been affected by 55 documented security flaws of any severity, compared with over 1,100 affecting Microsoft Windows 10 in the five years to the end of 2019 and over 2,200 affecting Apple OS X in 20 years.

Shell access
ChromeOS includes the Chrome Shell, or "crosh", which documents minimal functionality such as ping at crosh start-up.

In developer mode, a full-featured bash shell (which is supposed to be used for development purposes) can be opened via VT-2, and is also accessible using the crosh command shell. To access full privileges in shell (e.g. sudo) a root password is requested. For some time the default was "chronos" in ChromeOS and "facepunch" in ChromeOS Vanilla and later the default was empty, and instructions on updating it were displayed at each login.

Open source
ChromeOS is partially developed under the open-source ChromiumOS project. As with other open-source projects, developers can modify the code from ChromiumOS and build their own versions, whereas ChromeOS code is only supported by Google and its partners and only runs on hardware designed for the purpose. Unlike ChromiumOS, ChromeOS is automatically updated to the latest version.

ChromeOS on Windows
On Windows 8, exceptions allow the default desktop web browser to offer a variant that can run inside its full-screen "Metro" shell and access features such as the Share charm, without necessarily needing to be written with Windows Runtime. Chrome's "Windows 8 mode" was previously a tablet-optimized version of the standard Chrome interface. In October 2013, the mode was changed on Developer channel to offer a variant of the ChromeOS desktop.

Design
Early in the project, Google provided publicly many details of ChromeOS' design goals and direction, although the company has not followed up with a technical description of the completed operating system.

User interface
Design goals for ChromeOS' user interface included using minimal screen space by combining applications and standard Web pages into a single tab strip, rather than separating the two. Designers considered a reduced window management scheme that would operate only in full-screen mode. Secondary tasks would be handled with "panels": floating windows that dock to the bottom of the screen for tasks like chat and music players. Split screens were also under consideration for viewing two pieces of content side by side. ChromeOS would follow the Chrome browser's practice of leveraging HTML5's offline modes, background processing, and notifications. Designers proposed using search and pinned tabs as a way to quickly locate and access applications.

Version 19 window manager and graphics engine
On April 10, 2012, a new build of ChromeOS offered a choice between the original full-screen window interface and overlapping, re-sizable windows, such as found on Microsoft Windows and Apple's macOS. The feature was implemented through the Ash window manager, which runs atop the Aura hardware-accelerated graphics engine. The April 2012 upgrade also included the ability to display smaller, overlapping browser windows, each with its own translucent tabs, browser tabs that can be "torn" and dragged to new positions or merged with another tab strip, and a mouse-enabled shortcut list across the bottom of the screen. One icon on the task bar shows a list of installed applications and bookmarks. Writing in CNET, Stephen Shankland argued that with overlapping windows, "Google is anchoring itself into the past" as both iOS and Microsoft's Metro interface are largely or entirely full-screen. Even so, "ChromeOS already is different enough that it's best to preserve any familiarity that can be preserved".

Printing
Google Cloud Print is a Google service that helps any application on any device to print on supported printers. While the cloud provides virtually any connected device with information access, the task of "developing and maintaining print subsystems for every combination of hardware and operating system—from desktops to netbooks to mobile devices—simply isn't feasible." The cloud service requires installation of a piece of software called proxy, as part of the ChromeOS. The proxy registers the printer with the service, manages the print jobs, provides the printer driver functionality, and gives status alerts for each job.

In 2016, Google included "Native CUPS Support" in ChromeOS as an experimental feature that may eventually become an official feature. With CUPS support turned on, it becomes possible to use most USB printers even if they do not support Google Cloud Print.

Google announced that Google Cloud Print would no longer be supported after December 31, 2020, and that the online service would not be available as of January 1, 2021.

Link handling
ChromeOS was designed to store user documents and files on remote servers. Both ChromeOS and the Chrome browser may introduce difficulties to end-users when handling specific file types offline; for example, when opening an image or document residing on a local storage device, it may be unclear whether and which specific Web application should be automatically opened for viewing, or the handling should be performed by a traditional application acting as a preview utility. Matthew Papakipos, ChromeOS engineering director, noted in 2010 that Windows developers have faced the same fundamental problem: "Quicktime is fighting with Windows Media Player, which is fighting with Chrome."

Release channels and updates
ChromeOS uses the same release system as Google Chrome: there are three distinct channels: Stable, Beta, and Developer preview (called the "Dev" channel). The stable channel is updated with features and fixes that have been thoroughly tested in the Beta channel, and the Beta channel is updated approximately once a month with stable and complete features from the Developer channel. New ideas get tested in the Developer channel, which can be very unstable at times. A fourth canary channel was confirmed to exist by Google Developer Francois Beaufort and hacker Kenny Strawn, by entering the ChromeOS shell in developer mode, typing the command  to access the bash shell, and finally entering the command . It is possible to return to the verified boot mode after entering the canary channel, but the channel updater disappears and the only way to return to another channel is using the "powerwash" factory reset.

Reception
At its debut, ChromeOS was viewed as a competitor to Microsoft, both directly to Microsoft Windows and indirectly the company's word processing and spreadsheet applications—the latter through ChromeOS' reliance on cloud computing. But ChromeOS engineering director Matthew Papakipos argued that the two operating systems would not fully overlap in functionality because ChromeOS is intended for netbooks, which lack the computational power to run a resource-intensive program like Adobe Photoshop.

Some observers claimed that other operating systems already filled the niche that ChromeOS was aiming for, with the added advantage of supporting native applications in addition to a browser. Tony Bradley of PC World wrote in November 2009:
In 2016, Chromebooks were the most popular computer in the US K–12 education market.

By 2017, the Chrome browser had risen to become the number one browser used worldwide.

In 2020, Chromebooks became the second most-popular end-user oriented OS (growing from 6.4% in 2019 to 10.8% in 2020). The majority of growth came at Windows' expense (which fell from 85.4% in 2019 to 80.5% in 2021).

Relationship to Android
Google's offering of two open-source operating systems, Android and ChromeOS, has drawn some criticism despite the similarity between this situation and that of Apple Inc.'s two operating systems, macOS and iOS. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO at the time, accused Google of not being able to make up its mind. Steven Levy wrote that "the dissonance between the two systems was apparent" at Google I/O 2011. The event featured a daily press conference in which each team leader, Android's Andy Rubin and Chrome's Sundar Pichai, "unconvincingly tried to explain why the systems weren't competitive". Google co-founder Sergey Brin addressed the question by saying that owning two promising operating systems was "a problem that most companies would love to face". Brin suggested that the two operating systems "will likely converge over time". The speculation over convergence increased in March 2013 when ChromeOS chief Pichai replaced Rubin as the senior vice president in charge of Android, thereby putting Pichai in charge of both.

The relationship between Android and ChromeOS became closer at Google I/O 2014, where developers demonstrated native Android software running on ChromeOS through a Native Client-based runtime. In September 2014, Google introduced a beta version of the App Runtime for Chrome (ARC), which allows selected Android applications to be used on ChromeOS, using a Native Client-based environment that provides the platforms necessary to run Android software. Android applications do not require any modifications to run on ChromeOS, but may be modified to better support a mouse and keyboard environment. At its introduction, ChromeOS support was only available for selected Android applications. In October 2015, The Wall Street Journal reported that ChromeOS would be folded into Android so that a single OS would result by 2017. The resulting OS would be Android, but it would be expanded to run on laptops. Google responded that while the company has "been working on ways to bring together the best of both operating systems, there's no plan to phase out ChromeOS".

In 2016, Google introduced the ability to run Android apps on supported ChromeOS devices, with access to Google Play in its entirety. The previous Native Client-based solution was dropped in favor of a container containing Android's frameworks and dependencies (initially based on Android Marshmallow), which allows Android apps to have direct access to the ChromeOS platform, and allow the OS to interact with Android contracts such as sharing. Engineering director Zelidrag Hornung explained that ARC had been scrapped due to its limitations, including its incompatibility with the Android Native Development Toolkit (NDK), and that it was unable to pass Google's own compatibility test suite.

See also

 Comparison of operating systems
 Google Fuchsia
 List of operating systems
  for information on typing diacritics (accents) and special symbols
 Timeline of operating systems

Notes

References

External links

 Official website
 Official blog
 Release blog
 ChromiumOS project page

 Official announcement
 Google Chrome OS Live Webcast; November 19, 2009
 Chrome OS Flex

2011 software
ARM operating systems
Computer-related introductions in 2011

Google operating systems
Google
Mobile operating systems
Tablet operating systems
Operating systems based on the Linux kernel
Linux distributions without systemd
X86 operating systems
Proprietary operating systems
Linux distributions
Gentoo Linux derivatives
Rolling Release Linux distributions

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I can remember the struggle of the merger between the two associations, though. Whenever there is a merger, each group loses something, and this one was no different. The converged group became THE South Carolina Education Association.
While the Palmetto Education Association lost its name in the process, the pride of being an educator was never erased for those who had been members of the group.
Each year teachers were required to attend the state teachers' meeting in Columbia. Each teacher carried a card that had to be stamped as proof of attendance. Columbia Township Auditorium was the meeting place with the best place of parking at Cate-McLaurin Tire Store. Teachers became the students on that day.
The merger of the two professional groups was to be marked with a celebration in Columbia. The theme was "Stronger Together." My friends Hattie Brown, Beverly Dore, Maggie McFadden and I were excited as the date drew closer.
We left early for the event so that McFadden and I could meet up with other educators who were affected by the struggle that was the merger.
Being a member of the professional organization allowed teachers to share experiences and help each other find solutions. It allowed us to strive for higher heights in the most noble profession there is.
We Palmetto Education Association teachers were all too familiar with the obstacles faced by teachers in segregated schools at that time. We had old books, very few supplies and the dual system of "separate but equal" to contend with. These barriers to learning needed to be erased and so many of us worked so hard to make things better for our students.
Though many of the teaching methods have changed, an educator's mission has not. Teachers still seek to challenge the minds of students in South Carolina. It is this mission that bonds us as educators.
There weren't many places for us to eat when we went to Columbia for our association meetings. Columbia's Alben, Pig Trail Inn, College Inn, Read Street Grill were the only dining places available. But because I am a native of Columbia, there was always a place at Mama's table, and this is where my co-workers and I would go when we were in town.
Mama was a part of this mutual admiration society. She was proud to have a daughter who was a third generation teacher, just as I was proud to have her as my mama.
Today I share her salad recipes.
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Combine all ingredients and spoon into an 7-inch square pan. Freeze for several hours or overnight. To serve, cut in squares or slices and arrange on crisp greens.
Cut cucumbers and tomato in small pieces. Mix all ingredients together while linguine is still warm. Then chill and serve.


Kat did two great reviews Sunday: "Kat's Korner: Pretenders' last classic" and "Kat's Korner: When (Cloud) Nothings Matter" -- so be sure to check them out.
Stan and I reviewed "Noah" in "Noah" and "Noah -- the flood, the earthquake."
If you haven't seen it, make a point to because you will love it -- whether you're a believer or not.
This is a film with strong visuals.
Also check out the "TV roundtable" we did at Third Estate Sunday Review. It covers a lot of TV shows and a lot of issues.
Monday, March 31, 2014. Chaos and violence continue, US Senator Patty Murray calls out the latest VA scandal, the NSA leaks it on itself (I believe we call that "piss") and no one notices that the NSA is lying because apparently no one in the press thinks about Iraq anymore, US President Barack Obama wants to keep arming thug Nouri al-Maliki, 2 Iraqi children are dead today and that's on Barack because he supplied the weapons and because he provides the 'intel,' Sattar Sa'ad won The Voice Arabia competition, and much more.
(Washington D.C.) – U.S. Senator Patty Murray, a senior member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, on Thursday introduced emergency legislation that would reverse a sudden and largely unexplained Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) policy change that has restricted homeless veterans' access to housing and services. Senator Murray's bill, The Homeless Veterans Services Protection Act (S. 2179), reverses a new VA policy by allowing community organizations who receive funding through the VA's Grant and Per Diem (GPD) Program to once again count veterans who don't meet certain length of service or discharge requirements when calculating the federal GPD allotment that often allows these facilities to operate.
Just two weeks ago, a VA memo went out to these programs forbidding them from counting new homeless veterans who didn't serve for two years or were given certain "other than honorable" discharges from service. That instruction meant that community organizations in many instances had to begin denying homeless veterans housing, and reversed the standard that VA and these providers have used for two decades. No contingency plan was given to provide for the veterans who would be turned away.
The change also affects the critical Supportive Services for Veteran Families program, which allows VA to award grants to organizations that assist very low income families living in or transitioning to permanent housing by providing them with a range of supportive services.
UPDATE: Monday morning VA announced that they would temporarily place a moratorium on the policy change after Senator Murray introduced legislation to reverse it. However, the VA has indicated that change is only temporary until a final legal opinion, which is expected to reaffirm this ban, is issued.
It would appear the VA doesn't grasp concepts like accountability or transparency. This is a huge change they made and they did so without informing Congress. As Senator Murray notes, this impacts a significant number of veterans.
Along with hiding it from Congress, the VA hid the move from the public. The last time the VA felt the need to inform the public about the issue of homeless veterans was in the January 14th press release entitled "Grant Program One of Many VA Initiatives to End Veterans' Homelessness." The Secretary of the VA Eric Shinseki is quoted in the release, "Those who have served our Nation should never find themselves on the streets, living without hope. These grants play a critical role in addressing Veteran homelessness by assisting our vital partners at the local level in their efforts. We are making good progress towards our goal to end Veterans' homelessness, but we still have work to do."
I'll be frank, when I arrived, uh, there were a number of people telling me this was simply not executable. It wasn't going to happen. Three August was going to be here before we could have everything in place. Uh, to the credit of the folks in uh VA, I, uh, I consulted an outside consultant, brought in an independent view, same kind of assessment. 'Unless you do some big things here, this is not possible.' To the credit of the folks, the good folks in VBA, they took it on and they went at it hard. We hired 530 people to do this and had to train them. We had a manual system that was computer assisted. Not very helpful but that's what they inherited. And we realized in about May that the 530 were probably a little short so we went and hired 230 more people. So in excess of 700 people were trained to use the tools that were coming together even as certificates were being executed. Uhm, we were short on the assumption of how many people it would take. We based our numbers on the Montgomery GI Bill which is about a 15 minute procedure. The uh chapter thirty-three procedures about an hour on average, maybe an hour and 15 minutes. So right off the bat, we had some issues with assumptions. Uh, we are still receiving certificates of enrollment. This week alone, we received 36,000 certificates of enrollment coming from schools who are working through the process and we put them into the execute of providing those checks -- three checks.
Get it? He was told there were problems, he then hired a consultant who said the same thing. But he refused to tell Congress, he refused to tell the public. Some veterans were still waiting in December and those with a child or children noted repeatedly that since they were still waiting for the checks they should have received the previous August or September, there would be no Christmas for their kids.
And in all the subsequent scandals we've heard Shinseki do the Accountability Comedy Routine. That's when a government official says, "I take accountability." They say that -- and here's the joke -- then they don't resign and they're not fired. "I take accountability" really just means, "I'm bored, let's move on."
General Eric K. Shinseki (Ret. USA), Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), has continuously failed our Military Veterans, including failing to file and execute disability claims in a timely manner and to provide quality healthcare and housing for disabled homeless Veterans, particularly in Los Angeles where there's already a National Veterans Home established 125 years ago, but the buildings are vacant and rat-infested while the land is misappropriated for non-Veteran use.
It's well-documented that nationwide the VA has a shameful back-log of over 900,000 disability claims with Veterans waiting up to 650 days to get necessary healthcare care and disability benefits.
During a recent Senate Hearing, members of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee demanded the VA turn over its internal performance data to give Congressional lawmakers direct insight as to why the agency is so dysfunctional.
Consistent with the VA's modus operandi, Allison Hickey, the VA's undersecretary for benefits, was evasive, vague, dismissive, non-cooperative and refused to turn over requested data.
Think about it: If the VA openly and defiantly stonewalls the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and denies them pertinent information, what must it be like for lonely disabled Veterans in the isolated office of intimidating and confrontational VA bureaucrats?
Shinseki, Kathleen Sebelius and so many others think it's hilarious to stand up in public and perform the Accountability Comedy Routine because they long ago realized that no one gets fired in the current administration. Even Lois I'm-a-public-servant-but-I-plead-the-5th-and-refuse-to-testify-to-Congress-about-the-work-I-did-work-the-taxpayers-paid-for Lerner was allowed to retire when she should have been fired.
But no one gets fired.
FT. MEADE, Md. — In nearly nine years as head of the nation's largest intelligence agency, Gen. Keith Alexander presided over a vast expansion of digital spying, acquiring information in a volume his predecessors would have found unimaginable.
In Iraq, for example, the National Security Agency went from intercepting only about half of enemy signals and taking hours to process them to being able to collect, sort and make available every Iraqi email, text message and phone-location signal in real time, said John "Chris" Inglis, who recently retired as the NSA's top civilian.
The overhaul, which Alexander ordered shortly after taking leadership of the agency in August 2005, enabled U.S. ground commanders to find out when an insurgent leader had turned on his cellphone, where he was and whom he was calling.
"Absolutely invaluable," retired Gen. David H. Petraeus, the former U.S. commander in Iraq, said in an interview as he described the NSA's efforts, which led to the dismantling of networks devoted to burying roadside bombs.
John "Chris" Inglis just revealed to the world that the NSA was–is?–intercepting every single email, text message, and phone-location signal in real time for the entire country of Iraq. Obviously, the fact that the NSA has this capability, and used it, is Top Secret. What authority did Chris Inglis have to disclose this? Should a Department of Justice leak investigation be commenced? The Post, last July, described Alexander's "collect-it-all" mission in Iraq which then morphed into his approach on U.S. soil ("For NSA chief, terrorist threat drives passion to 'collect it all,' observers say"), but did not confirm the full-scale collection capabilities the NSA had actually developed.
The above should lead to outrage and to answers. We'll get to what everyone's missing in terms of Iraq today but let's note what they're missing in terms of 2005 and 2006.
What liars. I mean Petraeus can't keep it in his pants and refused to stand up for himself because he was threatened with losing his military pension.
This is what they're selling?
We ignored this crap when the Los Angeles Times ran it because it's written by a stooge and clearly there were no editors around. Alexander Zavis, where were you? If you didn't look at it before it was published, you should have noted it when it was.
What's wrong with this 'reporting'?
It was so valuable was it? Starting in August of 2005? Letting ground commanders find insurgent leaders?
I'm sorry then why was the 'surge' needed?
If was so valuable, why was Sahwa needed?
To combat rising violence, Bully Boy Bush 'surged' (sent more US troops into Iraq) and the military cultivated Sahwa.
Today The Petraeus & Crocker Variety Hour took their act on the road. First stop, the Senate Armed Services Committee. Gen David Petraeus and US Ambassador Ryan Crocker are supposed to be providing a status report on the Iraq War. They didn't. In fact, Petraeus made clear that the status report would come . . . next September. When the results are this bad, you stall -- which is exactly what Petraeus did.
The most dramatic moment came as committee chair Carl Levin was questioning Petraeus and a man in the gallery began exclaiming "Bring them home!" repeatedly. (He did so at least 16 times before he was escorted out). The most hilarious moment was hearing Petraeus explain that it's tough in the school yard and America needs to fork over their lunch money in Iraq to avoid getting beat up. In his opening remarks, Petraues explained of the "Awakening" Council (aka "Sons of Iraq," et al) that it was a good thing "there are now over 91,000 Sons of Iraq -- Shia as well as Sunni -- under contract to help Coalition and Iraqi Forces protect their neighborhoods and secure infrastructure and roads. These volunteers have contributed significantly in various areas, and the savings in vehicles not lost because of reduced violence -- not to mention the priceless lives saved -- have far outweighed the cost of their monthly contracts." Again, the US must fork over their lunch money, apparently, to avoid being beat up.
How much lunch money is the US forking over? Members of the "Awakening" Council are paid, by the US, a minimum of $300 a month (US dollars). By Petraeus' figures that mean the US is paying $27,300,000 a month. $27 million a month is going to the "Awakening" Councils who, Petraeus brags, have led to "savings in vehicles not lost". Again, in this morning's hearings, the top commander in Iraq explained that the US strategy is forking over the lunch money to school yard bullies. What a [proud] moment for the country.
Crocker's entire testimony can be boiled down to a statement he made in his opening statements, "What has been achieved is substantial, but it is also reversible." Which would translate in the real world as nothing has really changed. During questioning from Senator Jack Reed, Crocker would rush to shore up the "Awakening" Council members as well. He would say there were about 90,000 of them and, pay attention, the transitioning of them is delayed due to "illliteracy and physical disabilities."
Here's the conventional wisdom about the U.S. troop surge in Iraq: By 2006, Iraq was in chaos. Many Americans called for the U.S. to get out. Instead, President Bush sent in 30,000 additional troops. By the end of 2007, Iraq started to stabilize, and the move took on an almost mythic status.
Bowman then spoke to the New American Foundation's Doug Ollivant who stressed Sahwa and how he believed it drove down the violence.
Now whether you go with one or the other or both, you have to wonder why they were needed if the NSA had this miracle cure in August 2005?
Of the disclosure of the NSA spying program in Iraq, Glenn Greenwald writes, "This demonstrates how brazenly the NSA manipulates and exploits the consultation process in which media outlets are forced (mostly by legal considerations) to engage prior to publication of Top Secret documents: They'll claim with no evidence that a story they don't want published will 'endanger lives,' but then go and disclose something even more sensitive if they think doing so scores them a propaganda coup."
He'x exactly right, this disclosure was propaganda.
But someone needs to point out that if it was so amazing -- it wasn't -- that's part of the propaganda, why, almost two years later, was the US paying Sahwa and sending 30,000 more US troops into Iraq (while also extending the stay of service members already in Iraq)?
A real reporter -- Ken Dilanian isn't one -- would have thought to question that. The editors of the paper should have caught it.
The program clearly didn't work. Possibly that was due to it sucking up more information than the NSA workers could go through in an average day of work. That would jibe with what intelligence officers in Iraq stated throughout the Iraq War. It would also demonstrate that the NSA failed, their program was a failure. Since clearly they have been caught lying -- had the program worked from August 2005 forward, there would have been no need for a 'surge' or for Sahwa, the press should be all over them.
Instead, no one's calling this nonsense out.
Let's move over to something more current with regards to the NSA's actions in Iraq.
In 2012, protesters were being tracked by their cell phones and their calls were being listened in on. By 2013, a new 'trick' emerged, cell phone and net communication was being shut down. This also happened in the lead up to encircling Falluja and Ramadi earlier this year. Where was prime minister and chief thug of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki getting this techonology? Or was the NSA executing these attacks on behalf of Nouri?
Nouri's assault on Anbar Province hasn't brought peace. It has killed a number of civilians. It's around 400 now just from Nouri shelling residential neighborhoods in Falluja. Today, for example, NINA reports Nouri's shelling left 2 children dead and two more injured.
When Nouri bombs these neighborhoods of home, we are aware -- aren't we?, that he's getting 'intel' from the United States. That's the deal he walked away with November 1st.
So the US government is telling him where to bomb. Like today when Nouri sent helicopters to bomb "Zuwbaa in the south east of Fallujah."
So the US government and Nouri killed 2 Iraqi children today.
That blood's on Barack's hands. And Press TV notes, "The United Nations says about 400,000 people have been displaced this year due to the ongoing violence in the western Iraqi province of Anbar."
In 2011, as finance minister, al-Issawi warned of the risks of providing arms to a sectarian army.
Janabi accused Maliki and the security forces of disproportionately targeting Sunnis, who make up the majority of the population of Anbar.
In Iraq today, security means lawlessness and the rule of law means the rule of sectarian militias, especially the US-trained Special Forces now attached directly to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's office.
The familiar scenario for victims of arbitrary arrests goes like this: First, they are accused of being terrorists, so they are detained at a secret prison whose existence is denied by the Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Human Rights. Then, they are tortured to obtain forced confessions, held for months without trial mostly with the aim of extortion from families; then, sentenced to either long-term imprisonment or death penalty, based on the forced confession or information supplied by secret informants.
In some ways, this is a reproduction of how the US and other powerful states view human rights and international law.
Violence continues. National Iraqi News Agency reports an Adhamiya sticky bombing left one police member injured, Baghdad Operations Command announced they killed 16 suspects "west of Baghdad," a Mosul car bombing claimed the life of 1 Iraqi soldier while leaving five more injured, 1 person was shot dead in eastern Baghdad, 1 person was shot dead in Basra, a Zammar roadside bombing left 1 Iraqi soldier and 1 civilian dead with ten more people injured, a Hit roadside bombing left 3 Iraqi soldiers dead (and one injured), 1 police officer was shot dead in Hit, 2 Iraqi soldiers were shot dead at a western Mosul military checkpoing (al-Yarmouk district), 1 Iraqi soldier was shot dead at another western Mosul checkpoint (al-Meshairfar area), federal police announced they killed 1 person in the Waziriyah area of Baghdad, a car bombing "northwest of Hilla" left 6 Iraqi soldiers dead, 1 corpse was discovered dumped in southern Baghdad, and the corpse of 1 gas station guard was discovered dumped in Husseiniya.
There has been much controversy over the Iraqi cabinet's approval of a draft Shi'i Personal Status Law [Arabic], applicable exclusively to the Shi'a in Iraq. The draft law purports to bring the regulation of personal status--encompassing family law, wills and inheritance--in conformity with the religious rules articulated by Shi'a Islam's premier juristic authorities. The cabinet has sent the draft law to the Iraqi legislature for its consideration and potential enactment.
The criticisms of the draft law that have appeared in the press concerning women's rights are broadly correct. However, the focus of this article will be to demonstrate that the draft law is also sloppily drafted and poorly organized, so much so that the prominent Shi'a juristic authorities themselves have sharply denounced it. It is thus probably best described as a political stunt, cobbled together hastily and endorsed by Shi'a politicians on the eve of national elections merely to burnish Islamist credentials rather than actually pass meaningful legislation.
Parliamentary elections are supposed to take place April 30th in Iraq. Yesterday, All Iraq News, citing Independent High Electoral Commission deputy chair Kate' al-Zawbae as the source, reported the Board of Commissioners of the IHEC have withdrawn their resignations. Which might have been seen as progress. Last Tuesday brought the news that the entire board of the Independent High Electoral Commission was submitting their resignations.
1) Parliament passes some form of immunity that would bar the commissioners from being prosecuted for their decisions regarding who can run for office.
2) The election law itself can be modified.
3) The elections can be cancelled.
Apparently, there was a fourth option the commissioners didn't consider: Withdraw their resignations.
But on progress? Another pot hole appears to have emerged on the street to progress. All Iraq News reports today, "The employees of the Independent High Electoral Commission in Siniya district of nothern Tikrit have resigned due to the threats of the armed groups."
Aired by satcaster Middle East Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), The Arab version of "The Voice" wrapped with Saad draped in an Iraqi flag on stage receiving the trophy from his coach, Iraqi pop music sensation Kadim Al Sahir.
Saad's victory, which sparked celebrations in the streets of Baghdad, earned him a record contract with Universal Music Group.
Gulf News notes, "Following his crowning, he expressed his joy, thanked his supporters and coach who he said believed in his talent from the start." Al Arabiya News notes:, "The show, which featured 100 participants from across the Arab world, had its contestants receiving training and supervision from some of the region's big music stars." Click here to stream him performing on Saturday's broadcast.


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Competency assessments are without a doubt one of the most useful tools in any HR department's toolbox, helping to attract and keep the best employees for the job at hand. Not all companies have the same approach when it comes to deciding when & how competency testing should be done however. Some prefer to focus their efforts purely on pre-employment testing. Others don't bother much beyond the interview process, preferring to test after hiring is done. Then you have companies that opt to test at various points of each employee's time at the company. In order to determine which approach will provide the best level of competency, you need to consider one of the most important factors that govern competency in the first place… motivation. Employee motivation comes down to what drives each employee, and how much motivation they have. There are a number of different things that motivate people to work: money, the need to serve, creative drive, power and thirst for knowledge. These motivations can and should be determined before and after the hiring process – the amount of motivation however often differs between the pre and post hiring phases.
If you had to think about just about any job role for which an applicant is tested for, knowing their underlying motivation will give a great deal of insight into what sort of role they would be best suited to. For instance, someone who is motivated by money would naturally be drawn towards a sales type position that rewards with incentives and commissions. On the other hand, someone who feels the need to serve is well suited towards customer relation roles, as they are inclined to feel empathy and care towards people. How do you benchmark testing during the pre-employment phase though, and how will motivation help with this? It's simple – select your top performing employees to take the pre-employment test, and use the results to get an idea of the type of employee you hope to attract. Ideally, you want to find employees who have the same motivations that your high performing employees also have.
What about Regular 'On the Job' Competency Assessments?
Once you have begun to hone your hiring strategies in order to attract 'super stars', you may feel that you can rest easy from here on out. But even if you are sure of the work motivations that are present when hiring, that doesn't mean motivations will remain the same for all of time. What on the job testing does is help determine that employees are happy, performing at their best and meeting basic goals set forth by company policies. In short, are your people still the stars they seemed to be when you shook hands and welcomed them to the company? You will of course be testing any number of criteria, depending on your specific policies, the industry, the employee track record and even whether or not they have any disciplinary action set against them. By including motivation in your on-going testing, you will be able to check that employees are still thriving in their designated roles, or whether they may not be harbouring the same ideals and drive. Once you understand the things that drive your employees, you will soon see how much further insight competency assessments can give you into the work patterns and abilities of your employees too.


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Gingoog City: The city of good luck in Northern Mindanao
May 31, 2012 April 30, 2014 by Mindanaoan Irene
Gingoog City is a 74, 400 – hectare chartered city nestled in the northeastern coast of Misamis Oriental. It is a peaceful and simple city that is between two other cities: Cagayan de Oro City (122 kilometers) and Butuan City (74 kilometers).
Gingoog City is bounded on the north by the Gingoog Bay; on the east by the municipality of Magsaysay and the province of Bukidnon; and on the south by the municipality of Claveria. The abundant agricultural harvest, favorable climate, thriving industries and warm people of the city are testimonies to how rousing the good luck of the city is.
The Manobo tribesmen were the first to settle in the area. They cultivated the land, established a common trading center and set up the early social structure of the area. Later, they grew in number and widened their settlement from the present day Barangay Daan Lungsod to the Gahub-Mangiskis area. With a system of leadership involving a brother and sister team of Bingue-Binguela, the settlement developed into a pueblo in 1868. With the introduction of the Jesuit missionaries in the pueblo, the Christian doctrine also spread among the townspeople; marking the era of Christianity in the pueblo. As in all other Northern Mindanao areas, the pueblo was put to test by and contended series of battles with the Spanish colonizers, Japanese occupants and American forces throughout history. With the efforts of the local officials, Gingoog became a municipality in 1903 and finally, a chartered city in 1960.
Literally, the Manobo term Gingoog means good luck; thus the city is known as the City of Good Luck. True enough, there is good fortune in the city. With a booming agricultural and tourism industry, a peaceful and simple lifestyle and globally competitive facilities, good fortune is always at hand.
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The most widely spoken languages and dialects in Gingoog City are Cebuano, Higa-onon, Ilongo, Tagalong, Chinese and English. The weather and climate condition are just like its people, warm. The climate is characterized by long periods of indefinite dry seasons and pronounced rainfalls. The temperature is moderate, with an annual average of 26.8 degrees centigrade.
The best places to see when you're in the city are its grand waterfalls. Gingoog City is home to six majestic waterfalls: Libon-awit Falls, which share the same stream with three other waterfalls; Tiklas Falls, which has a 120-meter drop and a 30-meter diameter pool; Kilubag Falls, which is the most famous waterfall in the city; Bangbang Falls, which is overlooking the panoramic Gingoog River; Bakid-bakid Falls, which is 100 meters high; and Malubid Falls, which is ideal for picnics and retreats. Aside from its abundance of natural water formations, the city also has historical sites like the old city hall where the first seat of government was established and the Daan-Lungsod where the first settlement of the natives was situated.
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Good Interpersonal Skills, Excellent Team Player and superior communication skills are must have traits of this role.
Excellent hands on in Agile methodologies, agile centre and artefacts like user story, Kanban board etc.
Good understanding of AML, Sanctions.


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Q: Is it possible to add an event to the calendar in Outlook with a webpage form submit in C#? Is there a way to add a event to outlook, exchange, from a webpage. I would like to add an event to a particular calendar on submit, on the server side with .NET.
The scenario is as follows:
an employ orders coffee for a meeting. An event is created on the cafeteria calendar with the details.

A: It is also possible to do this by constructing an iCal request through code and then emailing that to the cafeteria calendar account.  If there is somebody managing the cafeteria calendar then at least they will see and acknowledge the request first rather than it appear directly into the calendar.
There is probably some managed library somewhere for constructing an iCal file (see this question).  In the past, I've simply saved a calendar request to my desktop, opened it up in notepad and then used that as the basis for my meeting requests.  I then have the code replace the relevant bits when it comes to sending the request out.

A: I believe this is possible using Collaboration Data Objects.


The United States' flag has had some tough times lately.
Colin Kaepernick caused an uproar among many conservatives when he began to kneel during the national anthem. Kaepernick claims he kneels for patriotic reasons. The flag symbolizes "freedom and justice for all." He kneels to bring attention to the fact that systemic racism means that not all people in the United States experience freedom and justice.
But as mimetic theory teaches us, accusations are imitative. When one person accuses someone of a sin, you can be sure that person will soon be accused of a similar sin.
And that's exactly what happened to Donald Trump last week when he met with Kim Jong Un in their historic summit. Time will tell if President Trump is a daring peacemaker or a fool who has simply given a dictator a more prominent place at the world-wide table.
As Trump and Kim shook hands, the US and the North Korean flag stood side by side in the background. The flags look very similar. They are both red, white, and blue. Both have stripes. And both prominently display the star pattern.
A summit is not an accomplishment for the American President…It is a major accomplishment for Kim Jong Un. In fact, the spectacle of seeing the American flag along with the DPRK flag as the backdrop for that handshake is really jarring actually to see, to witness. In fact, I would say it's somewhat disgusting. It is actually a debasement of the American flag. This is a despotic regime that murders its own citizens and so we're putting him on the same stage as the American president.
Let's not forget the big picture here…which is [that] the United States is the most important bastion of freedom in the world. North Korea is the most important bastion of repression. It is a prison state. It is a police state. And we have elevated that police state. We have elevated that dictator by putting him on the same stage as the America president.
I want to be clear that I love the United States. I love my country's ideals of freedom, liberty and justice for all. But Bash is wrong. If Americans were to take a long look at ourselves, we would see the uncomfortable truth that we accusation, Colin Kaepernick, donald trum, Kim Jong-un, prison industrial complex, united states' flag have more in common with North Korea than we would like to admit.
The prison industrial complex has increased dramatically in the last ten years. Just a decade ago there were only five private prisons with a total of 2,000 inmates. Today there are 100 private prisons with 62,000 inmates. That dramatic increase in private prisons has occurred while the number of violent crimes in the United States actually fell 48% from between 1993-2016.
The private contracting of prisoners for work fosters incentives to lock people up. Prisons depend on this income. Corporate stockholders who make money off prisoners' work lobby for longer sentences, in order to expand their workforce. The system feeds itself.
The prison industrial complex is the American form of repression and NFL players are rightly protesting. The American flag isn't being desecrated by standing next to the North Korean flag. The American flag is desecrated by the racism of the prison industrial complex. Like Bash, we can accuse North Korea of being repressive against its own people. But to accuse North Korea of its atrocities should not blind us to our own similar repressive practices against our own people.