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Flash Ludo is an example of a brain teaser and puzzle-like game that will really challenge the patience and strategy as well as luck of the players engaging with this game. This is created by FreeOnlineGames.com and was released in 2005. It has been offering tremendous entertainment that a lot of people love up to this day.
There are two reasons why you should play this game. One is because of the involvement of dice and counters that will really excite you. Second is because of the opponents that you have to defeat. You will be given four counters with the color of your choice. You will roll the dice and move one counter with the corresponding number that you will get from the roll. If you get another six, you can move another counter on the board. Your main goal is to reach the home triangle with all four counters in it ahead of everyone.


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Something that I've found is that there are no MFI certified USB-C to lightning cables on the market other than the ones you can get from apple. Does apple not allow MFI partners to make these, or are they just not made becuase companies don't see enough of a market for them yet?
I'd totally buy a USB-C charger if I could get a 2m MFI certified USB-C to lightning cable for less than the $35 apple charges.
Apple has not released the licensing for other manufacturers to make usb c to lightning cables nor have they been able to be certified. Apple likes to keep all the money to themselves, so it cost a rediculous amount of money to get them certified.
Don't where your from but i found this https://www.bestbuy.com/site/apple-6-6-usb-c-charge-cable-white/5596719.p?skuId=5596719&cmp=RMX&extStoreId=114&ref=212&loc=1&ksid=b35845f4-65cd-4089-8dca-b38df7cb4dc6&ksprof_id=3&ksaffcode=pg269399&ksdevice=m&lsft=ref:212,loc:2&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIyYyzqtKe2QIVy2x-Ch3RVAD6EAQYASABEgIjMvD_BwE
Never mind wrong product
Yep I am waiting for the same cable @AnkerTechnical did mention once Apple has authorised third party to make them Anker will do!
i bought a legit apple one used (refurb) or whatever on Amazon for $17. It was brand new, i figured someone bought it by mistake and returned it. There are some on ebay for $15 right now
Yeah, as long as we get the authorization from Apple, we will make it!
Now that the new iPhones have fast charging capabilities and anker already has USB C power banks and wall chargers, will we see a USB C to lightning cable anytime soon?
Check out this thread from a few days ago to see the response from the official Anker account - I think we will relatively soon, but Anker needs clearance/licensing from Apple to do it.
Oh I see, Apple knows that companies like Anker are gonna make a way better product and they won't make is much money at first haha
It looks like this may change in the near future!
According to this....Third-party MFi accessories that include Lightning ports are able to offer passthrough charging, but Apple's new specifications do not allow the USB-C port built into an accessory to be used for passthrough charging or syncing of an iOS device.
What's the point in allowing others to make this product but not fully use it to its capability, shame on Apple
I'm a little confused as to what this means? Lighting ports can be used for charging of accessories but not USB C for Apple devices?
Not a big deal for me. Anker will probably never do passthrough charging anyways and I rarely sync with iTunes, so an adapter would be fine in those cases. I'm just excited we will finally be able to get some USB-C to Lightning cables from Anker!
Same here! Durable and better priced!


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- Open your accounting software (QuickBooks or Peachtree) and company file.
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You're sneezing. Your nose is running. Your eyes are watering. And you're feeling run down. Is it a cold, allergies, or something else?
When you've got the sniffles, it's important to be able to distinguish between the causes of your symptoms so that you know which treatment to seek, whether or not you're contagious, whether you should see your health-care provider, and how to prevent your symptoms from coming back.
Colds and allergies, quite obviously, have very different causes. Although the symptoms of both ailments occur when your body's immune system reacts to a foreign body, in the case of colds, this foreign body is a virus, while for allergies, the culprit is generally something benign, such as dust mite particles or pollen. When exposed to allergens, your body recognizes the foreign substance as harmful, so it creates an immune response as if you were sick. So how do you tell the difference?
This chart, from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, shows the differences and similarities between symptoms of colds and allergies. Note that the chart describes common symptoms of allergies to airborne particles only, like dust, pollen, mold spores, and pet dander, not necessarily to food or drug allergies, which can present very different symptoms. Note that the three most distinguishing factors to pay attention to are body aches, itchy eyes and a sore throat.
So You Have a Cold?
The treatment of a cold focuses primarily on symptom management while the immune system fights off the infection. Common measures include over-the-counter pain relievers such as Tylenol, throat sprays, lozenges, and chicken soup. Support your immune system by eating healthy foods, such as fruits and vegetables, getting ample rest, drinking enough fluids, and managing your stress levels. There is no cure for the common cold, and antibiotics won't help because they don't kill viruses.
According to the National Institutes of Health, if you have a cold, you are most contagious and should stay at home for the first 2 to 3 days, and you are usually not contagious by days 7 to 10. Colds usually last from 3 to 14 days. To prevent cold reoccurrence, wash your hands often, stay away from people who are having cold symptoms, and support your immune system.
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The treatment of allergies focuses primarily on avoidance of the allergen, and on symptom management. To prevent allergies, talk with your health-care provider to try to determine your triggers, and take measures to avoid them. You may also want to ask about allergy medications, if your symptoms are constant or unmanageable. In contrast to the common cold, allergies are not contagious, so as long as your symptoms are manageable you don't need to stay home.
In most cases, you don't need to see a doctor if you are having symptoms of a cold or allergies, unless your symptoms become unmanageable, if breathing becomes difficult, if your symptoms get worse, or if you don't start to get better within 7 to 10 days.
Is it a Cold or an Allergy? from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.
Common Cold, from Medline Plus.
Was Grandma Right? Chicken Soup's Health Benefits, from the Office of Research Services of the National Institutes of Health.
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Ms. Smith brings her heretofore secret sister act to town this Saturday
By Kendra Hendren
Special to the Rappahannock News
Do you know what your neighbor has been up to? Specifically, your neighbor Megan Smith. Well? Do you?
You think you know a gal. Megan and her late husband, Proctor Jones, moved to Rappahannock in 2000 following many weekends spent at a friend's house in Sperryville. I've read articles she's written as a contributor to the Rappahannock News. I've benefited from her tireless hours of volunteer work with the RAAC film festival, artists' tour and community theater productions.
And now this!
Apparently, it all started 35 years ago. The Smith Sisters, aka Debi and Megan, became a country-folk musical duo. As Debi tells it, she didn't even know her little sister could sing until Megan came home from college and joined her in a duet. The first song they ever performed together was a song Debi wrote called "Hello, Mister," which Megan says "we later made fun of behind closed doors, changing the words to 'Hello, Mister, would you like to buy my sister? I'll sell her to you cheap, 'cause she is a real creep!'"
Since then, this local folk act has shared billing with artists like Emmylou Harris, Kathy Mattea, Ricky Skaggs, Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, Chet Atkins and Loretta Lynn. Megan said the great thing about being "on the road" is not only the performing, but the off-time touring around the country. "We saw almost every nook and cranny of this beautiful country of ours — much more than most U.S. citizens — and actually retired not one but two vans with over 200,000 miles on each," she says.
Emmylou Harris! Loretta Lynn!
Debi sings lead vocals, plays guitar and bodhran (Irish hand drum) and generally plays straight man to Megan, the duo's electric bassist. Between the two of them, the sisters play more than a dozen instruments. The Smith's warmth and humor shines through a blend of original, traditional and country-folk tunes brilliantly. But it is the sound of their voices in harmony that makes fans like Garrison Keillor "weep," the renowned NPR host told his audience.
Garrison Keillor! (Okay, I'll shut up. . .)
Megan and Debi have played at The Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap Farm Park, Epcot Center, The Bottom Line in New York, the Philadelphia Folk Festival and the Birchmere (tonight, actually). They've even appeared on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," "Mountain Stage," "Prairie Home Companion," "Radio Smithsonian," "Voice of America" and Country Music Television (CMT).
For years, they toured with their mother and father, David and Vivian, and even with Debi's son Lee when he was a baby. It is this family unity that endeared the Smith Sisters to another family act, the legendary Doc and Merle Watson. Merle, who was a mentor to the Smiths before his untimely death in 1985, produced the duo's first two albums.
Since 1994, Debi Smith has been performing at theaters and concert halls around the U.S. with the musical group The Four Bitchin' Babes, with whom she's recorded seven albums. Megan Smith is a filmmaker and president of WayMark Productions, and is currently producing a documentary film on alternative cancer therapies. Debi lives in the D.C. metro area, while Megan lives right here in Rappahannock County.
Megan added that they want to thank Nancy Raines for having Debi and her at the Theatre. "It slipped out one day that I used to sing and tour, and she was on me like mud on a whistle pig to get them a CD! Guess the postage paid off; we're thrilled to play in Little Washington, with Grammy-winning guitarist Al Petteway."
So now you know what your neighbor's been up to. . .
"Like the best sibling groups, the Smiths have been singing together for so long that their voices merge in effortless and graceful harmony." — The Washington Post
Better pick up a ticket for the show this Saturday (Sept. 24, visit littlewashingtontheatre.com for details). Gotta keep an eye on your neighbor . . .


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U.S. Protecting Chinese Activist?
Under cover of darkness, a blind Chinese lawyer and dissident is believed to have escaped house arrest Friday and begun a journey that ended in Beijing, where he is thought to be in hiding at the U.S. Embassy. In 2005, Chen Guangcheng took up a campaign against officials who forced couples into having late-term abortions and sterilizations. Since then, the Chinese government has confined Chen to his home in a secluded village. Chen was convicted of criminal charges in 2006 in a trial that Chinese legal experts widely felt made a sham of the Communist country's judicial system.


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This coming week, we will launch the Official ChrisCrossmedia Shop! With that said, we are wondering what you guys are looking for when we launch our shop? Are you guys interested in t-shirts, hoodies, sweaters, mugs, hats? What is it that your interested in buying? We have about 20 designs in mind that we will have made into products in the future. But for next weeks launch, we plan to only release 3 designs! By clicking the title of this blog, YOU can leave a message/comment! We would love to hear what you guys have to say! So look foward to CCM's Official Shop next week! Also remember that CCM Forum 2.0 will also be launched then!! We can't wait to show you guys what we have!
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HOUMA — Eric "Hank" Rau, a 13-year-old skater and biker, said he and his friends want a public place to practice their tricks in Houma.
"It'll make us better, and there's not really a lot of street space here," Rau said.
"Except downtown, and we can't really go there," said his friend, Alex Lawrence, 10, as some of their buddies jumped off a home-built ramp outside a home on Versailles Drive Wednesday afternoon.
Because Terrebonne Parish has laws against skateboarding on public property, kids like Lawrence and Rau face the possibility of fines for stretching their legs on streets and sidewalks.
The nearest skate park in New Orleans charges a fee. To go to a public park means a trip to Baton Rouge or Hammond.
To bring a public, concrete park closer to home, Terrebonne Parish officials are leveraging a $10,000 donation left by the late Bayou Cane Fire Chief Jerry Gautreaux, who was an advocate for youth skateboarders. They plan to seek grants, private donations and some public money to pay for the construction.
Artist renderings of a 3-acre skate park and green space were presented to the Parish Council Wednesday night. All nine members voted to ask the parish administration to create a plan in 90 days on how to build and pay for such a park, which would be called Fireman's Skate Park. More than 20 children and adults attended in support of the plan.
Though the proposed 3-acre site off Valhi Boulevard near Valhi Lagoon Court is being considered now, the plan is not final and could change. Digital drawings were made, free of charge by Duplantis Design Group, to help move the project forward. They include a concrete park taking up about 1.9 acres, but that's something the park could grow into.
"This is a just a very quick vision to spark everyone's imagination, to begin to dream about what could be, to also provide imagery that might assist in applying for and acquiring grants," said architect Kyle Domangue.
Kids and adults would use the park, said Chris Pulaski, a 38-year-old with two stepsons and a child on the way. The goal is to have a park open from sunrise to sunset, surrounded by a gate with a lock that's near the street so police can easily patrol at night.
The parish wouldn't have any responsibility for injuries either as long as the park is kept public and unmanned. State law was amended in 2001 to include skate parks in the same category as playgrounds and ball fields, meaning governments that build them are generally free from liability.
Since Hammond opened its public skate park five years ago, no suits have been filed. In California, there are 350 skate parks and 1.5 million skateboarders and never a lawsuit, as of last year, according to the Tony Hawk Foundation.
The foundation, which has contacted local parish officials about Houma's plans, estimates that there are 9.3 million skateboarders in the country, and 1 in 6 youths are skateboarders. There are about 3,000 skate parks nationwide, and the foundation estimates that because of limited options, about 80 percent of skaters practice in streets.
Councilman Kevin Voisin, who has helped spearhead the initiative with Council Chairman Clayton Voisin over the past year, said the area is ideal, but he's open to relocating it if a better place is found. The 3-acre site is away from homes, reducing the chance of disruptive noise, and will be part of an outdoor hike-and-bike trail system the parish is already planning on the land.
"It's going to create a great recreational center," Voisin said, adding that parks and things that improve residents' quality of life are important along with essential needs like levees and drainage systems. "We don't want just a lot of people in Houma; we want a lot of people with great lives in Houma."
Staff Writer Naomi King can be reached at 857-2209 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Skateboard enthusiasts optimistic about park plans
HOUMA — Eric "Hank" Rau, a 13-year-old skater and biker, said he and his friends want a public place to practice their tricks in Houma.


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Maria Elena Durazo, Donald Wilson, other boycott supporters and me
I attended the Banquet in the Streets put on by Local 11 of UNITE HERE to call attention to the fight for justice in Los Angeles' hospitality industry. The workers of L.A.'s hotels have called a boycott until the companies sign a fair contract that protects wages and health insurance and allows the union to bargain with a national voice—which seems right, considering that the companies they are bargaining with are no longer local businesses but are multinational names. At the banquet, supporters dined in the middle of the street outside the Century Plaza Hotel as a group of workers, organizers and supporters served salad and sparkling cider. It was a unique and festive alternative to the picket line. Support the boycott!


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I just love this piece! I haven't been able to find the name of it… but I am sure it will turn up eventually. I will make sure to update this when it does.
These are some of the images from the slides I had scanned recently. A couple of the slides have the date of June 1985 on them. So, I believe my Grandma, Rachel, wove this piece in the spring/summer of '85.
Above, you can see that she wove this piece on a tapestry loom, using a building technique to create the design. With this technique, she was literally building up (weaving) one shape in the design at a time. This can be an easy way to approach weaving curves.
You can see Rachel's love for light and natural colors in this tapestry.
This last picture, also from the recently scanned slides, is one of many taken in this space. I think this may have been an artist coop here in Taos back in the 80's. I will be posting more images of this place and will include the name when I figure it out.
I hope you find this tapestry as inspiring as I do! Enjoy!


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Victoria Beckham has revealed that she thinks that her "personality is more suited to America".
The former Spice Girl moved back to Britain last year with husband David Beckham and their four children, Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz and Harper.
Speaking to The New York Times, she said: "I am very career-minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mum."
In June, reports suggested that the family may move back to Los Angeles permanently because of homesickness.
The 39-year-old confessed that she wants to "reach as many women throughout the world" as she can through fashion.
Speaking about expanding her fashion empire, she said: "There are more categories that I want to enter into. I have five categories at the moment.
"But at some point I would love to do shoes, I would love to do fragrance, I would love to do make-up, I would like to do underwear. There are so many things I want to do."
She also explained that she doesn't smile because it "look[s] a little daft" in paparazzi photos.
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Weezer debuted their new single "Feels Like Summer" onstage with a goofy, celebratory performance Tuesday on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Singer Rivers Cuomo alluded to the song's warm weather themes by wearing a large sun costume. The singer moved between a borderline-rap delivery and a chirpy falsetto. His bandmates matched the summery vibe with shouted backing vocals and joint whistling. Bassist Scott Shriner took on additional instrument duties, performing drum and sample pads on the verses.
Weezer issued "Feels Like Summer" last week as a preview of their upcoming 11th LP, due out later this year. The band will kick off a North American tour April 2nd in Winnipeg, Canada. In October, they will head to Europe for their first dates there since 2005.
Last year, the band released their fourth self-titled album, commonly known as "The White Album," and a deluxe version featuring four new tracks. Cuomo also joined electronic duo Zeds Dead on their track "Too Young."


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I was in Joburg for 4 days last week. I went up to help Carle run her yarn stall at the International Quilters Convention ( yes there really is something like that) I am not a quilter but it was fascinating to see how huge the following is. Some use yarn in their designs but there were a lot of knitters too. What does this have to do with driving fast cars I hear you ask?
Well a good friend of ours let us use her car for the 4 days. She said it was her run around car but it was the fanciest car I have ever driven. It was a Peugeot 607. I am not a big car person usually and they can all start looking the same to me hence not usually being fascinated. This is a picture of what I think it looked like
It was an automatic, it has been about 10 years since I last drove a, much crummier, automatic when I worked in London. It was the Doctor on Call car, that I used when my car was broken. It no where near as fancy as this, in fact it was on the other end of the fancy scale, it just had a simple thingy to put it in Drive and Park etc (see I don't even know what these car parts are called, is it still a gear lever in an automatic?). So when we got into this car I was a bit nervous the gear/drive/control stick thingy looked different from the one I had used before. This would not have been a problem if I had a few minutes to gather my nerves and then work out how to drive this thing in my own time, but we had to follow our friend straight away as she had arranged to get her sister to take her back to work but they would show us the way to the B&B first. So it was get in an go.
There was much laughing and swearing and hilarity as we tried to work out what to do with the stick thing that looked like a key slot. Me desperately trying to remember when you use N, and if you can just stay in D, and if it is possible to stall an automatic. All of this while trying hard not to send us flying through the windscreen when braking too hard on the sensitive brakes or slamming my foot into the empty space where the clutch should be and try to 'change gear' with the fancy key slot thingy in the middle of driving along.
The hilarity was made funnier by the fact that Carle's passanger seat chair was horrizontal when we got in so she was lying down next to me trying to work out how her posh seat worked, while I flapped and panicked about how to drive this big car, and keep up with the car I was following, and panic about if it was possible to stall an automatic or if I would just be the first person in living history to do so.
Now all of this does not sound like a post made by someone who wants to drive fast cars. See I am not the usual confident petrol head. I like to be driven and I don't usually make a fuss of cars, BUT who knew when you had an open stretch of road on a Sunday morning that it is so much fun to drive a smooth quiet comfortable car? They don't tell you this on car shows, they blather on about car-ish type mumbo jumbo. It was not my car and my friend was so kind to lend it to me, that I never drove it as fast as I wanted to, I was very good. Her kindness meant we could get around and also that I could go see my Dad in Pretoria who just had a triple heart by pass the day before we landed, so I was not about to abuse that. But now I want to drive nice cars fast!
They turn their lights on a off for you, the beep when you reverse, they just seems to automatically do things that are awesome and left me going 'oh wow' a lot when it locked the door automatically, 'oh it does automatic temperature control', 'hee hee the boot closes itself it you push a little button' ( yes I was easily amused and like a kid in a candy store)
Whoo hoo it is such a cool feeling, yes I know I don't get out much as a mom of 3, so maybe this is just my thrill seeking, but it was awesome. I don't care about the car blather stuff, I just want to drive for fun and see how different cars feel. It is like having short love affairs but it is totally okay to try out as many as you like. Maybe I am a car slut.
I can now, due to my extensive 4 day practice, do the automatic thing, but I really want to try fast manual cars. I seem to be a control freak when I drive – again who knew. Look if they had to be automatic I am not going to moan. But it must be fun to change gear too.
Okay so that is the end of my little dream, A pink hair mom who knows nothing about cars is hardly the one people are going to ask to try out their fancy new model of car. But this is going on my bucket list – Drive lots of fast cars!
Do you like cars? What is the best car you ever drove?


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Akoya Capital LLC (Financial Services) is a financial advisory firm in Chicago, Illinois. This financial advisor is listed on Financial Advisory Firms under Financial Advisory Services - Financial Services.
You can reach us on phone number (312) 604-3940, fax number or email address . Our office is located on 625 N Michigan Ave, Ste 2100, Chicago, IL,
For full contact details to this financial advisor have a look at the the column to your right (or scroll if you're viewing this on a mobile device.)


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During the month of October 2016, #Dysturb has done a residency at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia to develop some exciting projects.
As part of a residency program with the University Nacional de Colombia and in preparation of the 2017 cultural exchange year between France and Colombia, we've installed five images in the campus of this university, four images in la Candelaria, and one in la Macarena at the OjoRojo documentary center in Bogota.
The participating photographers are Christian Rodriguez, David Maurice Smith, Felipe Jacome, Joao Pina, Matilde Gattoni, Robin Hammond, Sarah Blesener and Sebastian Liste.
Installed in Bogota, Colombia
Photo: Benjamin Petit @bendophoto
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This question already has an answer here:
I want to disable scrolling for my webpage, but completely, not just disable scrollbars so
overflow: hidden
will not work.
Also this workaround does not apply on Macs due to the "soft-scroll" on edges. It will show a terrible shaky animation:
window.onscroll = function () {
Is there any other method to disable scrolling completely?


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Barbara Fusinska
Barbara is a Machine Learning Engineer with strong software development background. While working with a variety of different companies, she gained experience in building diverse software systems. This experience brought her focus to the Data Science and Big Data field. She believes in the importance of the data and metrics when growing a successful business. Alongside collaborating around data architectures, Barbara still enjoys programming activities. Currently speaking at conferences in-between working in London.
She tweets at @BasiaFusinska and you can follow her blog.
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Talks I've Given
Natural Language Processing with TensorFlow
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Natural Language Processing offers a variety of techniques to get insight from and generate text data. Going beyond simple representations and taking advantage of Deep Learning and RNNs, the models can use document context to perform more accurately. With the help of libraries like TensorFlow,...data natural-language data-science odsc
Machine Learning with R
Featuring Barbara Fusinska
Data Science and especially Machine Learning are the topics that recently have gained in popularity. R is an open source platform that offers numerous libraries and implementations of machine learning algorithms. The tutorial walks the audience through the process explains how to use R as a tool...functional datanalysis machinelearning datascience
Handling 1st line technical support with a chatbot
Featuring Barbara Fusinska
1st line of the technical support is frequently providing answers to FAQ and pre-assembled conversations for operators to follow. With the enhancements in A.I. and Machine Learning, how much of this task could be supported with the aid of software? While this raises many questions and challenges,...ai machine-learning chatbots natural-language-processing data-science-fest
London Dot Net and FullStack Bytes Festive Edition
Featuring Chris O'Dell, Dylan Beattie, David Whitney, Sebastien Lambla, Sam Elamin, Barbara Fusinska and Christian Heilmann
Together with some of the great speakers you've seen this year at Full Stack, London.NET and the Progressive.NET tutorials, we'll look back at what's happened in the developer community in 2016 - and ahead to what's coming up in 2017. With .NET Core running on Mac and Linux, bash....net javascript fullstack functional-programming frontend backend web-apps mircoservices linux swift windows
Predicting the future as a service with Azure ML
Featuring Barbara Fusinska
Everyday we are noticing that applications are becoming more intelligent. They can predict your online shopping preferences, movies you want to watch or interesting articles. Actually nowadays it's hard to imagine a successful business that is not making profit from some data forecasts.azure machine-learning


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Please welcome Evenworse to Tanzbär Records (and other news)
28. July 2011 - 23:48
Evenworse have been added to our roster:
Not only is the hardcore/punk act EVENWORSE from Schweinfurt/Germany from now on a five piece, but they've also recorded their new EP "Resignation Day".
News about this gem will be posted soon, so watch out. Meanwhile you can listen to one of the tracks which will also appear at the 7″ and the tape on EVENWORSE's bandcamp.
New home to Tanzbär Records:
"… This is the only place I feel I truly belong. …"
So we've decided to give our shitty blog a new face, a proper web address and last but not least a real online store.
Thanks to Michael, who has worked his ass off, the homepage is from now on officially up and running – you see what you get.
To celebrate these news the pre-order for our first t-shirt is starting right now.
They will ship in mid to late November.
Blackstone are streaming their whole 7″ "The Devil's Crown":
BLACKSTONE from Regensburg, whose 7″ "The Devil's Crown" has been released earlier this year, are streaming the whole EP on bandcamp now. Give it a try. If you like what you here, get the 7″ at our store!


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Recently I woke up horribly after a terrible dream occurred. It started off strangely as this scene was a familiar set for family guy. Stewie beats up Brian (which may be because I saw family guy earlier that day) but then Louis comes in screaming and the first part of the dream ends there. I return to my normal rem sleep, but then I dreamt I was in a lit house of some kind, but my dream was light. The slightest thought of waking up would make my eyes heavy. In that instant my lower portion of my body started to shift and crawl. I am skinny for a 13year old, and this may be why I experienced that instant. As my skin crawled my ears rang screams. I approached the entranced to another room. There it was dark and i reached for the light switch, but when I turned it on, a similar terrifying orchestra of violins played like in a horror movie, and lying there was a, horrible deformed figure that was black and had a trunk like neck cut off. It was also bleeding bright red blood. In the background I saw a strange figure with 2 big eyes staring into my soul. I woke up screaming, as anyone would. I've been awake since 4am, it's 6am now. Even when I think of that moment, tears pop up. It's disturbing and just plain horrible! This actually happened. Luckily it was just a dream.
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text: After reading the recent Motor Trend X75D Review (link below), the listed 0-60 time caught my eye: 5.5s. It's listed this way inside the review itself and on the specifications below the core text. On the Model X order page it's listed at 6s. Has this been tested independently elsewhere? Have any 75D owners noticed this? Perhaps it's just an error in the review, but it'd be nice to know for sure. 2016 Tesla Model X 75D First Test Review - Motor Trend


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A few years back, I was sitting in a small Japanese house in rural Tottori, Japan. My sister (above) said, "You should totally get into Salesforce! This is totally your kind of thing." Well, it took me awhile to finally come back to the United States. Since then, I've acquired my Salesforce Certified Administrator Certification ( ADM-201). Feel free to contact us if you need administration services or have any questions!
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text: Each year the Festival publishes a catalogue and bulletin, the publications which provide a review of the current Festival. The catalogue is published right before the Festival while the bulletin is published in four issues, one issue every other day starting from the opening day of the Festival. Both publications are distributed free to participants, guests and audience. The Festival also prepares relevant publications on the occasion of the exhibitions organized each year and a special place among them belongs to the artist's monograph Mijo Mijuskovic – Stone Sculptures published in 2008 on the occasion of the exhibition of sculptures by the prominent Montenegrin sculptor Mijo Mijuškovic under the title Stone Puppets Also Have a Soul. Mijo Mijuškovic's sculptures are presented as awards at the Festival.


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On Friday June 17th, exactly 40 years after President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs," Internet activists organizing from the social news and activism website, Reddit.com, called the White House en masse to demand an end to the War on Drugs, calling it a "trillion dollar incarceration machine" with a measurable failure to reduce drug use, or harm from drug use.
The original posting on Reddit came earlier this week and quickly rocketed to the website's front page, receiving nearly 2000 votes from the social media website's users. Referred to affectionately by its users as "the hive mind," Reddit allows its community to vote on content in order to determine which news and stories– ranging from the offbeat and not safe for work, to this week's serious political activism– are most important, featuring these on its front page.
While only the White House knows exactly how many people called in Friday to demand an end to the War on Drugs, there's one strong clue as to the numeric power of Internet activists working from Reddit to send a message to the White House about the War on Drugs. Just last month, a similar posting on Reddit, which garnered 1300 votes from the community, launched a campaign of letter writing on WhiteHouse.gov's contact page that may have shut down the site for "temporary maintenance."
The user who made that posting is a marijuana legalization activist based in Washington DC, and he published an article last month claiming that during his viral, Reddit-based, letter-writing campaign, the White House's website was displaying error messages to visitors, saying: "We are performing system maintenance and upgrading our website. Unfortunately, this requires this page to be offline for a short period. Please check back later to submit your message." It could have been a coincidence, but it's certainly possible that Reddit's thousands of readers unintentionally shut down White House servers as a result of the unexpected rise in traffic.
This Friday, the Internet activists calling in to the White House were counseled by their fellow users to be polite and courteous, and to stick to facts like America's startling incarceration rate, the enormous cost of the War on Drugs, and the percentage of Americans who favor liberalizing drug policy. Their act of political engagement comes at a time when many of the world's leaders and former leaders are beginning to voice concern over the failures of the War on Drugs.
Just this Thursday, former President Jimmy Carter published an op ed in The New York Times calling for an end to the global drug war, indicating that persuading an occupant of the White House as to the harms and unintended consequences of the War on Drugs may not be so far-fetched.
Edit (12:32 pm 6/20/11): the last sentence in paragraph four has been modified to remove the term "DDoS." As many commentators have noted, that term is a poor and misleading choice of words, even when qualified with the word "unintentional." I agree. As the rest of the article can attest, this was hardly a hit piece on Reddit. My choice of words actually was revealing, though ironically in a way exactly opposite of how they were interpreted. While, as commentators below have correctly argued, many people see DDoS in a negative light as a form of terrorism, that interpretation didn't even occur to me as I wrote because of my own bias: I don't see how DDoS is a form of terrorism any more than 1960s sit-ins were a form of terrorism (which they were decidedly not), and I consider that analogy remarkably apt.
Ever the activists, thank you for voicing your opinion in the public sphere and to us here at CAIVN. -Wes Messamore


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VAXON Biotech develops innovative immuno-therapeutic products to treat cancer.
VAXON Biotech is a private company, located in Paris – France, that was founded in 2004. The company develops innovative therapeutic vaccines for the treatment of cancers including lung, gastric, prostate, breast, renal, liver and colorectal cancers, using its proprietary technology of optimized cryptic peptides.
Vaxon Biotech's vaccines are intended to treat existing cancers (therapeutic vaccines) by stimulating the immune system to recognize and attack human cancer cells without harming normal cells. These vaccines target antigens overexpressed in a very large variety of tumor cells while present in very low quantities in normal cells (universal tumor antigens).
VAXON has a pipeline of tumor vaccines which cover major HLA-I to treat most cancer patients.
The most advanced vaccine, Vx-001, has completed a « proof of principle » Phase I/II clinical trial. Vx-001 has shown good tolerance and elicited a strong immune response in most patients, with a very significant clinical activity in patients with advanced cancers, especially Non Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC), breast cancer and HepatoCellular Cancer (HCC). Vx-001 entered a randomized multicentre phase IIb study in NSCLC in August 2012.
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Fundamentally Christian?
In yesterday's edition of the Independent, Tom Hodgkinson wrote a positive and thoughtful review of his experiences at the Occupy London Stock Exchange camp, and came to the conclusion that the Occupy protest was a fundamentally Christian one.
While it is easy to see how one might come to this conclusion, one must ask, does Christianity have the right to hold sole claim to morality in this way? Does any religion, in fact, have this right? Are we really in a society that has become so blinkered by our own cultural preconceptions and stereotypes, that we can no longer tell the difference between religion and morality? A society that believes that people are moral because of who they are, and not because of what they do?
Many people have struggled to put a simple definition or label on what the Occupy movement is all about. The reason for this is because the definition is not simple. There is not a single term that can define the Occupy movement that doesn't ultimately end up alienating some aspect of the movement. The movement is made up of diverse individuals concerned about a lot of complex issues, which ultimately come back to one simple thing. It's about people. The Occupy movement is about humanity.
When people like Tom Hodgkinson use phrases like "fundamentally Christian" to describe the Occupy movement, regardless of their intent, they often forget to take into account all the people that are being excluded by such a phrase. What about those of other faiths, such as Muslims, Hindus, and Pagans, amongst the many different diverse faiths that are present in the UK. What about non-religious supporters, be the hard-line Atheists, or simply Humanists or Existentialists?
Evidence shows that there is in fact a diverse cross-section of faith within the Occupy movement, and it is only because of the local issues with St. Paul's that Anglicanism has reached such high profile within the Occupy London Stock Exchange protest itself. Far from being "fundamentally Christian" or even "fundamentally religious" the focus of the Occupy movement is on something much more meaningful that few people have a hard time arguing with, and therefore are wanting to spend more time trying to hide under as many different labels as they possibly can.
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Occupy Boston Potential Future Tactics Analysis
By Josh Sager
NOTE: This is draft 1.2
With the eviction from the Dewey Square site, the occupiers of Boston must consider how to continue the movement through the winter and beyond. This document is not official in any way, neither is it an attempt to coopt the decision-making process of the movement; it is merely an analysis of our possible actions in regard to cost and effect. All of the below protest tactics are possible but they do have pros and cons; as there is little empirical data on the effects of protest tactic utilized by the occupations, all pros and cons are qualitative rather than quantitative.
There is no way to analyze every possible protest tactic, as there are virtually unlimited methods of protest available to the occupations; however, anybody who wants to add a tactic or discuss the below tactic can contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com. (I will only talk about non-violent tactics and civil disobedience.)
Table of Contents
1. Physical Occupations/Sit-ins
a. "Occupy Our Homes"
b. Re-occupying after a raid
c. Occupying political offices
d. Occupying banking offices
e. Blockading political/economic institutions
2. Marches
a. City-wide protest marches
b. Targeted marches to a significant location
c. Specialized marches
3. Economic Protests
a. Boycotts
b. Economic blockades
c. Re-direction of economic activity
4. Non-Traditional Protests
a. Flash mobs
b. Light projections onto buildings
c. Micro-occupation
d. Symbolic funerals
e. Symbolic weddings
f. Rewritten manger scenes
g. Mic-checking political/economic leaders
h. Living theater protests
5. Messaging
a. Solidarity symbols
b. Poster campaigns
c. Outreach to artists
d. Buying media ad time
e. Proposing model bills to politicians
f. Passing model legislation through the general assembly
g. Letter writing campaigns
6. Education
a. Running educational seminars
b. Distributing informational pamphlets
7. Political Actions
a. Voter registration
b. Running an "occupy" candidate
c. Endorsing candidates
d. Operating as a PAC for issue promotion
e. Petitions
f. Pledges
8. Miscellaneous
a. Hunger Strikes
b. Banner Drops
Physical Occupations/Sit-ins
Re-occupying after a raid (Framed for Occupy Boston)
Description: It is possible to pick a new location in the city for the occupation to build a new "occupy" camp after the raid; this action has been done at other occupation such as Occupy San Francisco.
Positive: The new location could assist the homeless who were evicted from Dewey when it was raided. The physical presence of the occupation acts as a symbol for those who follow the movement as it is one of the signature tactics of the 99% Movement.
Negative: As the judiciary has ruled that there is no right to occupy, the police would rapidly crack down on this site and it would be shut down very quickly. This option wastes resources and would not accommodate the transition to the second stage of the 99% movement. As was demonstrated with the Dewey Square occupation, there are numerous problems with occupations that would likely detract from the message of the group; this tactic has also diminished in its effectiveness and likely would not survive the winter.
"Occupy Our Homes"
Description: Several occupations across the country have adopted a strategy of occupying foreclosed building in protest of the actions of the bankers and the waste of allowing buildings to remain empty where there are homeless. In several cases, citizens facing foreclosure have been given support in the form of a small occupation on their lands; in most of these cases, the banks have neglected to force eviction while the occupation is on site.
Positive: Helping average citizens retain their homes is an effective and positive protest method; with the level of public discontent over the current housing crisis at a peak, the occupiers can show themselves as helpers of the middle class. As the protestors are not squatting on public land, there is little chance that their detractors will accuse them of blocking public use of that land. As the mortgage problems are so widespread, the tactic of helping people who are evicted would likely garner large levels of support from the public; it is non-aggressive and it is seen as a public service rather than a nuisance.
Negative: If this practice were to become widespread, the banks would likely fight aggressively against these occupations; arrests would eventually begin to increase due to top down pressure on authorities. This tactic disproportionately helps those in middle class areas because their properties would be more able to accommodate a significant occupation, while those living in lower class areas would simply not have the physical space (house versus apartment).
Occupying Political Offices
Description: Staging small scale, temporary, occupations at political offices, campaign offices, and lobbying offices is a tactic that can be used to demonstrate discontent with the actions of the occupied group. Politicians whose headquarters were occupied would have a constant reminder of the existence of the occupiers and what they stand for. Political campaign headquarters and lobbying offices which were occupied would have their operations impeded and potentially stopped in the short term.
Positive: This tactic can be used to target specific candidates or groups and obstruct their actions without impeding the public. In addition to targeting the operation of specific groups, it is virtually impossible for the politicians to ignore the occupiers when the occupiers are waiting in the next room. If the area occupied is considered public space, such as a political office, the owners have little standing to evict the occupiers until the end of business hours; these areas are indoors and would be able to accommodate long term, daytime protests. As the areas occupied are small, there are low requirements for the number of occupiers to cause an obstruction.
Negative: If the area occupied is private property, such as a campaign or lobbying office, those occupying them would be arrested and charged with criminal trespassing and potentially disturbing the peace. In many cases, the occupation of an area will not obstruct the operations going on there enough to have an impact. The areas occupied in these actions are often small or otherwise less visible than a public thoroughfare, thus the visibility of these actions is entirely dependent upon the media.
Occupying Banking Offices
Description: Staging small scale occupations of banking institutions and banking offices could be used to obstruct the operations of banks. As one significant focus of the occupy movement is protesting the actions of the bankers, any disruption of major banking operations would fall in line with "occupy" values and goals.
Positive: If significant disruption of the bankers was achieved, it would send a message to the banks that people are not only angry with them, but are willing and able to demonstrate their discontent.
Negative: The actions of the occupiers would likely only interfere with the lower level operations of the banks as the higher level banking operations are usually located in secured buildings; likely such disruptions would only inconvenience the customers and lower level bankers, neither of whom are the targets of the occupier' protest. The occupiers of banking buildings would be subject to arrest for trespassing and potentially disturbing the peace.
Blockading Political/Economic institutions
Description: Instituting physical blockades of buildings containing protested businesses is a very effective way to disrupt businesses. As seen in environmental, labor and pro-life protests, simply refusing to allow entry into a contested business is a direct and immediate way to shut down operations of a business.
Positive: Simply blockading an institution is both overt and extremely disruptive. Even a short term blockade of lobbying offices, banks, or the capitol would make huge news headlines.
Negative: This tactic is very risky towards the protesters, both in terms of public opinion backlash and legal consequences. The blockaders would be subject to arrest immediately and this tactic might be seen as overly aggressive by some in the public (and occupations). With the rise of internet communications, many operations (political and banking institutions included) require much less of a physical presence; it would be unlikely that the targeted operations would be shut down completely.
City-Wide protest marches
Description: The political protest march is one of the staple tactics utilized by political/social protests for decades. Marches through the city streets, coupled with signs and slogans, is used to make people pay attention to an issue that the marchers care about; these are used to mobilize support and act as a physical show of support for an idea.
Positive: Marches are very noticeable and can be used to raise awareness of a political/social movement. In most cases, marches are legal and protected speech, thus the likelihood of arrest at a peaceful march is less likely than many other tactics (occupations, sit-ins, etc.). Marches have been proven to be effective over years of protests in the USA and the world.
Negative: Marches obstruct traffic and can often irritate people who could otherwise be swayed to support the cause. Marches are common and thus garner less interest than other, more innovative and new tactics. Unless there is are significant numbers of protesters, a march is easily overlooked and thus ineffective in conveying its message.
Targeted marches to a significant location
Description: Targeted marches are identical to city-wide marches, but have specific routes and locations visited so as to target the effect of the march upon the focus of the protest. Banks, political offices, selected businesses, or other focus points of 99% protest are march locations in order to show these groups the level of opposition to their actions in a tangible form; often this is used to obstruct traffic to a target or to compel it to change its actions in the face of massive discontent.
Positive: Targeted marches focus the effects of a march on a specific target, increasing the impact on several specific locations, while decreasing collateral obstruction of the public.
Negative: Targeted marches operate at specific locations rather than large swathes of the city, thus the visibility is focused on a much smaller area (More focus, less spread).
Specialized marches
Description: Specialized marches are marches that have a unique theme or defining characteristic; candle lit marches, costume marches, and dance marches are three examples of ways that marches can be altered to garner more visibility.
Positive: Marches with unique themes are much more notable to the public than a generic march. Anything that is unique tends to draw attention in the public eye more so than something that people have seen before.
Negative: See either City-Wide marches or Targeted Marches.
Examples: Giving everybody in the march a common and symbolic costume or theme (bankers, zombies, etc…); using candlelight to light the march; utilizing a band or musical theme to draw attention to the march (brass band parade); having everybody in the march dance down the street; etc…
Economic Protests
Bank Transfer days
Description: Large, coordinated, removals of money from the top 5 banks into smaller credit unions is a potential protest tactic; this was done earlier in 2011 and was one factor that led to the retreat of the banks in the $5/month checking account charge.
Positive: Transferring money from the big 5 banks and into credit unions both makes a point to the bankers and could have potential to disrupt bank activities. When a significant number of people leave the big banks, they will have a decreased, although still significant, control over the wealth of the USA. Transfers to smaller banks help them, while harming the large banks that caused the recent economic crisis, making it an effective and highly targeted protest tactic.
Negative: Due to the very nature of this protest, there is a very high level of attrition. Since people cannot remove their money from banks multiple times, more people must constantly be drawn in for this type of protest to have any repeatability. Due to the concentration of wealth at the top, the banks will still function while the rich citizens and corporations keep their money in the system.
Description: Boycotts of goods and services is a method of protest that harms a group where it hurts; it's pocketbook. By refusing to patronize a certain business, a group can register discontent with the business's practices or goods.
Positive: Boycotts are virtually without cost, as they are by their very definition the foregoing of buying certain goods. The only costs incurred in a boycott are the costs of buying alternative goods (generic V. name brand) and services and the costs of transportation (where there are travel differences).
Negative: Unless a significant number of people or businesses sign onto and follow the boycott, it is completely ineffective.
Economic Blockades – Wise Father
Description: Occupiers can stall a business from the inside through clogging up internal operations. Protesters select an inexpensive good which to buy and then stall the checkout line for as long as possible; they can also return said good and stall customer service. Help lines can be mass called in order to clog up the service board, thus disrupting operations. This tactic is essentially a physical version of a Denial of Service attack.
Positive: This tactic is not illegal and can disrupt the internal working of a business without the protesters risking arrest.
Negative: The vast majority of people inconvenienced by this tactic will be low level workers and patrons of the business; usually middle class workers. The business must be carefully selected to minimize the collateral disruption to those who are not the target of the protests (Ex. Tiffany's).
Redirection of Economic Activity
Description: Rather than instituting large scale boycotts, protesters can redirect economic activity from big businesses to smaller ones in the area. An example of this tactic would be to stand outside of Bank of America and attempt to redirect people to a local credit union; giving them reasons to switch, directions and contact information.
Positive: By giving an alternative to the boycotted good or service, the occupiers can both financially harm a targeted business, but at the same time support a local small business. Unlike a boycott or financial blockade, this tactic is not disruptive to the average citizen, nor does it cause disruption to the low level workers inside of the store.
Negative: Depending upon the situation, this tactic could be illegal and expose protesters to trespassing charges.
Non-Traditional Protests
Flash mobs
Description: There are numerous types of flash mob, but they are almost a gathering of people at a predetermined location/time who act in concert for a short amount of time and then disperse. Flash mobs are extremely flexible and can act in a way similar to a march but condensed into a small area and time period; people quickly gather, act out a routine, and disperse.
Positive: A well planned and timed flash mob can be very eye catching and thus an effective method of conveying a point. There is an extremely high level of flexibility in a flash mob's utility due to the varied types of actions and protests that can operate through such mobs. There is a small chance of being arrested at a flash mob because police rarely mobilize in time to deal with the crowd.
Negative: By their very nature, flash mobs are short term and localized, thus they cover a small number of people when compared to more lengthy and spread out protests. Flash mobs require perfect timing and planning to be effective.
Light projections onto buildings
Description: As pioneered by the Occupy Wall Street protestors, the use of a high powered projector, a computer, and a mobile power source can be adapted to create large projections onto buildings.
Positive: Light projections are not illegal nor do they leave any damage that would need to be cleaned up by low level workers (unlike standard graffiti).
Negative: The equipment required to create a strong projection is relatively expensive and difficult requires some expertise to set up. Projections are only feasible at night and on certain buildings (due to space, reflections, and light absorbing materials).
Micro-occupation (untested)
Description: A micro-occupation would involve a small scale, symbolic occupation. By creating hundreds of brightly colored, small scale (1 Foot * 1 foot) tents stamped with the 99% symbol, we could hand out a new type of political sign. People who support us would hang these tents outside of their houses or apartments in a show of support for the movement. Using these tents in leu of actual tents allows for the idea of an "occupation" to persist while removing the camping during the winter time and the risk of arrest.
Positive: This protest tactic is cheap, and simply requires money for materials and that occupiers/supporters have locations to hang the mini-tents. As these tents are essentially lawn ornaments, there is virtually no risk for arrest or police harassment.
Negative: This protest tactic is untested and could lack the visibility of other protest methods.
"Replying" to credit card offers with notes – Kate
Description: In all credit card offers and other bank solicitations there is a pre-paid envelope; postage on this envelope is only charged to the banks when it is sent back to the banks from the sender. In leu of simply discarding the offers, a protester can reply to the bank offers by putting notes or other junk mail into the reply envelope to be returned to the banks. The banks will essentially be paying for the protester's postage and will be obligated to open the letter because it could be a legitimate reply.
Positives: This tactic is legal and without any cost to the protester. As every envelope must be opened by the banks, it is potentially expensive and time consuming to them if a significant number of protesters use this tactic.
Negatives: This tactic is only available to those who have consistent mailing addresses
Symbolic funerals (untested)
Description: Holding imaginary and symbolic funerals for concepts such as "The American Dream", the 1st Amendment, or fair elections, is a potential protest tactic. These funerals would be conducted on public land in a manner virtually identical to a standard march.
Positive: The staging of a funeral for a well-known and liked idea is a powerful image. This tactic can be used to convey concern over an issue while at the same time informing people to the values of the movement as a whole. Mock funerals are a new tactic and thus would draw attention from the public more effectively than a common march.
Negative: This protest is untested, but it is essentially a themed march. See specialized march negatives above.
Symbolic weddings – Joshua Eaton
Description: Conducting symbolic weddings between institutions in protest of corruption, collusion and corporate personhood. Examples of two institutions that this tactic could apply to are the Federal Reserve and the big five private banks.
Positive: Same as symbolic funerals
Negative: Same as symbolic funerals
Rewritten Manger Scenes – Joshua Eaton
Description: Staging manger scenes with an occupy theme; using tents as the structure and altering the scene to support the narrative of the occupations. Carols and Christian themes can be adapted to support ideas such as unionizing carpenters, helping the poor, and raising awareness of those without homes.
Positive: This tactic is new and would draw attention to the protests just out of novelty. If conducted with proper permitting, these protests would be legal and conductible on public grounds.
Negative: Many religions Christians could misinterpret the use of the Manger scene in the context of the occupations as a slight towards Christianity.
Mic-Checking political or economic leaders
Description: The mic-check is a signature tactic of the occupations. The occupiers use this method of sound amplification instead of electronic means during meetings; over time, it has adapted to use in protests, particularly during political meetings/speeches. When used in a protest, the mic-check is essentially a type of flash mob.
Positive: There is no material requirement for this protest tactic, nor does it require a large crowd to execute. Mic-checking is very specific and causes a high level of disruption in the speech/meeting but only a minimal level of collateral disruption.
Negative: As with all protests on private property, there is a chance of arrest that the protesters must assess. While disruptive, this tactic is only viable in short bursts at a political rally due to security shutting down the "mics". For other negatives, see the flash mob entry.
Living Theater Protests
Description: By acting out a scene or skit in public place, occupiers can push an agenda and promote information among the viewers: imagine a scene where four people: 2 police, 1 robber, 1 banker; get together to discuss the theft of public money. The police arrest the robber and let the banker go, all while a narrator describes why the banker gets away free even though they stole more. The possible situations are virtually endless, and draw attention of the public onto vital issues.
Positives: These skits could be informative and amusing, making them easily digestible informational seminars. Having spontaneous and random scenes acted out and filmed in the streets would be unique and would probably draw significant attention; it would also be amusing and would allow occupiers to protest in an entertaining and non-threatening manner. The risk of arrest in these actions is minimal, just as long as the actors don't obstruct traffic or trespass during the protest.
Negatives: None
Solidarity Symbols
Description: By creating an easily recognizable and mass produced sign of solidarity (Ex. A tent with 99% on the side) which can then be adapted into signs, stickers and other goods, the occupiers can allow people to easily and cheaply show support to the occupiers.
Positives: This tactic is cheap and easily done. By allowing people to show support simply through bumper stickers or house signs, the occupiers can get some of the less motivated supporters to show their support; as shown in political campaigns, simple signs posted on lawns can allow supporters to passively support their candidates. If enough people show their support, people will be more likely to take the occupations seriously, simply due to the inertia of positive support (Argument ad populum).
Negatives: This tactic is not likely to sway significant numbers of people to the cause quickly nor would it impact those who actively oppose the occupations.
Poster Campaigns
Description: Utilizing posters and wheat based glue, the occupiers could spread information quickly and cheaply across the city. Posting numerous posters on well-traveled routes (Ex. Boston Common area, major transportation hubs, etc) would allow the occupiers to spread information about the movement and the ideals behind it.
Positive: There is a much lower cost to a poster campaign than an official ad campaign; the only requirements are an industrial printer, a paste, and volunteers. Posters can be posted everywhere and can be replaced quickly if removed. A large variety of posters can be printed and thus a rotating/varied set of posters can be used to inform people over a wide range of issues.
Negative: In many cases, placing posters on private property is considered trespassing and can cause the distributor to be arrested. Oftentimes, the poor or lower middle class workers of an area are the ones who are left to clean up the results of any poster campaign.
Outreach to artists
Description: There are numerous artists, whether visual or audio, who support the occupations, thus hosting art shows and music festivals is a potential method of drawing in support. By drawing people to the occupations through art, music, and food, the occupiers can increase awareness of issues and entice people to support the ideals of the movement, even if the viewer would otherwise be unlikely to seek out the protests without the draw of amusement.
Positives: Music, art and food are all draw that can entice people to attend events that they know little about. If the occupiers make a good case for their cause while the festival is going on, those who attend would likely be swayed to support the cause of the occupations.
Negatives: The space, materials, and equipment required for these festivals would likely be expensive for the occupations. In some locations, the occupiers would have a hard time getting a permit for the event.
Buying media ad time
Description: The occupations could use mass media, whether print, radio, or television, in order to promote their cause. Ads are a staple of most political movements and have been shown to be effective in swaying public opinion at the margins of support.
Positive: Ads raise awareness of the occupations and the issues that the occupiers support. Ads are a well-established form of information spreading and have a proven positive effect when utilized correctly.
Negative: Ad space is expensive and it is unlikely that the occupations could compete with the opposition to the occupations in terms of ad purchasing. As shown in a leaked letter, lobbying groups are willing to spend far more money than we can raise in ads, thus attempting to compete with them is directly is ineffective. A lot of people inside of the movement are opposed to the idea of spending money for an ad buy, thus the occupations risk a split if they spend significant money for ad time.
Proposing model bills to politicians
Description: It is possible that the occupiers could write their own legislation to present to a sympathetic politician for sponsorship in the legislature. Groups such as ALEC and the Chamber of Commerce have been utilizing this method of pushing public policy for years; while the occupiers don't have the level of money that these groups do, a high enough level of human support can push politicians to act on suggested legislation (such as in the civil rights struggle).
Positive: There is no more direct method of affecting public policy than to write the actual laws which are passed by the legislature. If the bills are kept, virtually un-amended, the ideals of the occupation could be formed into law (For the closest example to this, look at the recent decision in CA which stated that corporations are not people in a non-binding resolution).
Negative: Many occupiers have little faith in the current political system. It is unlikely that any "occupy" proposed bills and amendments could pass the currently gridlocked legislature.
Passing model legislation through the general assembly
Description: The occupations could use their "General Assembly" process to create and pass legislation as a statement of values and demands. By creating and "passing" sample legislation, the occupations could both propose reforms to politicians and at the same time make their views on issues known. If a concrete statement of values in the form of a sample law passes out of the occupation, it directly combats the major criticism of the occupations; that they are unfocused, ill-informed, and have no central values.
Positive: This tactic is without cost or risk to the occupiers; it is an effective way of demonstrating a set of values/goals for the occupiers (likely a populist set of values that benefits the middle class) and is an exercise in pure democracy. By "passing" legislature as a occupy community, the occupiers can live the values of pure democracy that they would prefer the country to adopt.
Negative: Getting consensus on a proposed bill would be very difficult; it would also require people with strong writing skills and knowledge of civics to create a realistic bill for people to support. With the decentralized nature of the occupations, any sample legislation would need to be highly specific to the location and not infringing upon the right of the other occupiers.
Letter writing campaigns
Description: Writing letters to political representatives is a well-established method of pushing a political agenda.
Positive: Letter writing campaigns appeal to the older demographics in the 99% movement, thus such a campaign would allow those uncomfortable with social media to participate in the movement. The only costs of a letter writing campaign are those of writing materials, postage, and time.
Negative: There is a high level of time investment and writing skills required for this to be effective. It is entirely possible that big money would eclipse any letter writing campaign; money has replaced constituent voices in many politicians' decisions while they are in office.
Running educational seminars
Description: Educational seminars such as the FSU or the Zinn lecture series can be used to raise awareness for issues that matter to the occupiers. While not a direct protest method, increasing awareness on vital issues can increase support to the occupation, just as long as the occupiers have a defined solution to the discussed problems.
Positive: Teaching people about the issues vital to our country has a long term effect on their views. Those who are better informed on the issues are more likely to be able to act in their own self-interest and thus support the 99% over the 1%.
Negative: Informing small (relatively) groups of people on issues has little direct effect on elections or policy. People self-select themselves when they attend the seminars, thus those who are unwilling to show initiative are not affected by this tactic.
Distributing informational pamphlets
Description: Written articles, graphs, and informational diagrams can be mass printed and handed out during marches and around occupations. These pamphlets would inform readers of issues facing the USA as well as the goals/ideals of the occupations.
Positives: Spreading information on the issues benefits the occupations, as many situations facing the average citizen are unfair but not well known; consider the bank bailout and the shadow bailout. There is little risk of arrest from handing out pamphlets on the street and there is little risk that the information distributed would harm the occupations.
Negatives: Writing and distributing informational pamphlets is a time intensive process that requires dedication. This tactic is not likely to be effective until a central series of demands or complaints is decided upon within the occupy movement because without consensus there would be no central narrative to the information handed out.
Political Actions
Voter Registration
Description: The occupations could hold large scale voter registration drives at their events so as to ensure that everybody who supports the ideals of the occupation votes. As those who are registered have self-selected themselves to attend the occupy events, they would likely support the values of the occupation when voting.
Positives: Voter registration is sorely needed due to recent restrictions on voting (Voter registration laws) and apathy of the population; by supplying the registration to the people, a more democratic model of governance can be promoted. Politicians are dependent upon votes, thus a large uptick in voter registration is an effective way of swaying politicians to listen to the people.
Negatives: Many people in the occupy movement don't support the current political system, thus they would not likely support the widespread enrolment of people into a system that they believe fundamentally broken. Depending upon the location, voter registration laws can open the groups doing the registration to civil liability (See: Florida).
Running an "occupy" candidate
Description: Many third parties and independent candidates have run for office over the years, thus one potential tactic that the occupations can utilize is to select, fund, and support a candidate/candidates to run in any number of elections. If the person who is running as the "occupy" candidate gets elected, it puts a foot in the door for the occupiers to effect policy from within the system.
Positive: This tactic could lead to political legitimacy for the occupations in our current system; look at what the Tea Party did with the Republicans (regardless of your views on their beliefs), running a large number of candidates in the 2010 election. By using a similar model, the occupations could potentially gain power inside of the system which could then be used to push an agenda.
Negative: Many within the occupations don't believe that the current system is salvageable and thus resist becoming involved in it; this belief is strong enough in some that it could potentially split the movement. With the increase in money in politics there is a real likelihood that the corporate entities that the occupiers protest could drown the campaigns in money, thus reducing the chances of this tactic being possible to implement.
Endorsing candidates
Description: By endorsing a candidate, the occupations could promote certain politicians who are ideologically in line with the occupiers. This tactic assumes that there is a defined set of beliefs for the occupiers and that there are politicians who hold the same views.
Positive: By simply endorsing friendly candidates, the occupiers gain many of the advantages of running their own candidate with a decreased monetary and time based burden. It is easier to support existing candidates within the two-party system than to create a third party to compete with both of the entrenched parties.
Negative: There is little assurance that any politician would keep their promises to the occupiers once they entered office. As with running an "occupy" candidate, this threatens movement cohesion by splitting those who believe in reform from those who believe in a reset.
Operating as a PAC for issue promotion
Description: Rather than endorsing a specific candidate, there is potential that the occupations could engage in pure issue advocacy.
Positive: By pushing an idea, not a person, issue advocacy is far more flexible and adaptable than supporting a specific candidate. Acting as issue advocates, the occupiers could affect policy indirectly and without losing internal cohesion; the occupation would not be directly buying into the political system, rather supporting an ideology, thus those who don't wish to perpetuate the current political system and those who wish for reform could work without conflict.
Negative: By removing themselves from involving themselves with politicians, the occupiers reduce the direct effect on individual electoral races.
Description: Citizen petitions to show support for ideals can be drafted, distributed and given to politicians. The occupations could, once they decide upon central issues, draft petitions in support of the values of the occupations and gather large levels of support. While the petitions are non-binding, they can be used to compel politicians to act in conformity with them out of fear of losing their next election (See: Wisconsin recalls)
Positives: This tactic is an effective way to show support for a cause while at the same time informing people to the beliefs of the occupations. This tactic is low risk and low cost, but very labor intensive.
Negatives: This tactic requires consensus among the occupiers as to beliefs and proposed solutions to problems in the country. If those who believe the system to be completely corrupt are correct, petitions are meaningless because money has taken power over politics.
Description: Pledges can be drafted, passed through the general assembly and presented to politicians as a sign of solidarity with the occupations; the clear exchange would be the support of the occupations in exchange for the politician's commitment to act a certain way when in office.
Positives: Politicians are always looking for support from groups, thus giving pledges for politicians to sign would allow the occupiers a foothold in the USA political process. Groups such as the Tea Party (I hate the comparison, but it is apt) have massive power over politicians due to pledges, demonstrating the potential for the occupations to gain similar power.
Negatives: Many citizens consider political pledges to be contrary to a democratic process and thus this tactic would be very controversial within the occupy movement. By pledging allegiance to a group other than the citizens of the USA, there is a conflict of interest that can potentially have dire consequences (Case in point: Grover Norquist). There is no enforcement mechanism preventing the politician from reneging upon receiving support from the occupations.
Hunger Strikes – Joshua Eaton
Description: One potential tactic for the occupiers would be to institute a mass hunger strike; such a strike would draw attention and demonstrate dedication to the cause.
Positive: Hunger strikes, whether political or social have been shown to draw the attention of the public; as a hunger strike is self-destructive rather than aggressive, others are unlikely to be irritated or obstructed by the tactic (in comparison to marches, which obstruct traffic).
Negative: Hunger strikes are dangerous and there are those who are simply unable to participate due to health issues. While a hunger strike sends a message, those in power may simply not care enough for it to be a valid tactic (The bankers drank champagne from the balconies of New York and taunted the protesters.)
Banner drops – Joshua Eaton
Description: Covering the sides of buildings with roll-down banners dropped from the roofs is a visible and large scale tactic that can be used in leu of smaller posters. A single large poster, dropped down the side of a building could potentially reach thousands of people directly and more if the media covers it.
Positive: This tactic is extremely visible and would likely draw large amounts of attention; look at the 99% projection on the Verizon building as a model of what the media/public response could look like. The banner would not cause damage to any building nor would it require significant cleanup.
Negative: Unless the building owners were to give permission to the occupiers (an unlikely possibility), the banner would be illegal; those setting it up would be arrested for trespassing and potentially other, more serious, crimes such as breaking and entering. A banner that could be dropped down the side of a building is expensive and would be lost quickly to the police or the building owners.


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The big DUB Show LA with lots of cool cars and models!!www.wheelsandheelsmag.com / W&HM Staff * Please forward any requests or questions to email@example.com
The set up of this year's DUB LA show is pretty impressive. In the past long lines were guaranteed and waiting could be more than an hour. However, this time, the organizer has gotten well with the convention center security as well as LAPD to set up a great array of security checks and police presence. This does make the show goers feeling much safer after a couple of year's ago's incident.
Enerting the DUB LA show in the big convention center, you would immediately feel the throbbing music vibes as well as shiny and gleaming metals all around you.
It goes without saying, the DUB show is always about lifestyle cars that boast the swags, the shiny chromes, and larger than life loundess. They all show in the cars at the venue.
As for the models, we are super thrilled to see some of the models that we have not seen for a long time, or recently, as we always love to see them.
From the top the double cover model team, Annelise Marie and Elizabeth Velasquez for Heavy Hitters right at the front and center of the show floor. Anybody entering the show would immediately see a line in front of them for a chance ot have their autographed posters.
Then our cover model Constance Nunes showed up gorgeously in her very green gown for LRG wheels. We also were super happy to see Lisa Lee Marie again after a long period of hiatus. Totally awesome! Also the cover model Carolina was at the show too. This is too cool! Then Cecilia showed up again, also after a long while from the scene. Also Sarah Marie, the most sunniest model that we've work with!! It's like a magazine retro reunion!!
Of course, the DUB show has many many models that we probably missed along the way, as it's such a big space to fill and so many spots to visit. Here are the highlights of the DUB show LA 2016!
(At the writing, we are still compiling the names of the models that we collected. They will be published in an update to this article as well as the subsequent articles.)


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Infinite member Hoya has decided to not renew his contract with Woollim Entertainment.
Hoya's contract with Woollim officially ended on June 9th and he's been negotiating with the company ever since. Hoya decided to not renew his contract so that he could pursue his dreams.
The remaining six members have decided to continue with the group, and a Woollim Entertainment spokesperson has told that the record label is working on re-organizing the group.
They also said that they hope the fans will support the group and the ex-member's new pursuits in the future.
Hoya Leaves Infinite
news - 08.30.2017 10:14
source: Soompi
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Discussion: AD vs. (or with) eDirectory
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Here's an excerpt from a recent Forum discussion on the pros and cons of mixing eDirectory and Active Directory.
Question 1:
"I have an issue where this application must run on a Windows box, but I really do not want to manage both an eDir and a AD. Setting up a workgroup doesn't offer security and manageability I need. I know DirXML will sync passwords, but I do not believe it will sync users (I could be wrong)."
"Anyway, I would like to be able to manage all the users and file access rights from eDirectory. Can eDirectory do this, or what's the best solution?"
Answer A:
No, eDirectory can't replace AD, but it can complement AD. Without using DirXML or another solution between eDirectory and AD, eDirectory on Windows is actually nothing more than a LDAP directory and replica place holder.
Yes, DirXML (Identity Manager 2) will sync users, groups, and passwords. However, you can't manage file access rights on NTFS partitions from eDirectory. You must use the Microsoft-supplied tools to do that.
Answer B:
DirXML/Identity Manager can synch pretty much any object to pretty much any other database, application or directory.
The best answer for your situation depends on the application you're considering. If the app "requires AD", then you need AD - eDirectory doesn't emulate AD (yuk! :-). You could also use DirXML to have eDirectory feed AD. That way you wouldn't have to administer AD - you could do it all from eDirectory.
If the app requires more, the solution could change - it really depends on the app and its level of integration with AD. I've seen apps that "required AD" but only used it for an LDAP authentication. Note that eDirectory (or any LDAP-compliant DS for that matter) can do that with no problem. As I said, it depends on the app and what it needs.
Answer C:
Well, Identity Manager will do that for you. Depending on the app's complexity, you'd just need to have IDM create the users and put them in a specific AD group (based on a group in eDirectory) that could give them access to the app.
But that does not mean you have to administer users and file rights on Windows. You have to administer users in SQL ...
Question 2:
"At our company we have just the DirXML starter pack. A software vendor that we use has decided to move off the pervasive engine onto MS SQL. I just do not want to have to manage two systems. All I want is to create and modify objects in eDirectory, such as file access, user creation, and basic management. I don't want to have to create a user in eDir then have to create that user in AD."
Answer A:
If you're doing MS things, you're likely going to have to manage two systems. Consider it a hidden cost that this vendor is passing along to you. It becomes a cost of the product, in terms of higher and more expensive maintenance costs (ongoing) in addition to the deployment and training costs (one-time).
If you're trying to do everything via eDirectory on Windows, you likely won't get what you want. DirXML will help you (the starter pack will do, you don't need IDM2 for this) by managing the users and groups. You'll have to deal with the file system via the MS tools, though you can probably set this up with groups then just manage group membership in MAD via DirXML.
Answer B:
As for following the vendor, is it time to select a different one?
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