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Dead Wrong (Remix)
[Puff] Bad Boy baby
[Big] Yeah.. yeah..
Junior M.A.F.I.A., yeah..
[Puff] Yeah.. B.I.G. 2000
B.I.G. 2000 Born Again.. c'mon..
Chorus: Notorious B.I.G.
The weak or the strong, who got it goin on
You're dead wrong
The weak or the strong, who got it goin on
You're dead wrong
[Notorious B.I.G.]
Relax and take notes, while I take tokes of the marijuana smoke
Throw you in a choke - gun smoke, gun smoke
Biggie Smalls for mayor, the rap slayer
The hooker layer - motherfucker say your prayers
Hail Mary full of grace.. smack the bitch in the face;
take her Gucci bag and the North Face
off her back, jab her if she act
funny with the money oh you got me mistaken honey
I don't wanna rape ya, I just want the paper
The Visa, kapeesha? I'm out like, "The Vapors"
Who's the one you call Mr. Macho, the head honcho
Swift fist like Camacho, I got so
much style I should be down wit the Stylistics
Make up to break up {*singing in background*} niggaz need to wake up
Smell the indonesia; beat you to a seizure
Then fuck your moms, hit the skins til amnesia
She don't remember shit! Just the two hits!
Her hittin the floor, and me hittin the clits!
Suckin on the tits! Had the hooker beggin for the dick
And your moms ain't ugly love; my dick got rock quick
I guess I was a combination of House of Pain and Bobby Brown
I was "Humpin Around" and "Jump-in Around"
Jacked her then I asked her who's the man; she said, "B-I-G"
Then I bust in her E-Y-E (Yo Big, you're dead wrong)
Chorus 2X + "I don't care what nobody say" sample (4X at start)
[Notorious B.I.G.]
When I get dusted, I like to spread the blood like mustard
Trust it, my hardcore rain leaves you rusted
Move over Lucifer, I'm more ruthless, huh
Leave your toothless, you'll kibbitz, I'll flip it
Tears don't affect me, I hit 'em with the tech G
Disrespect me - my potency is deadly
I'm shootin babies, no ifs ands or maybes
Hit mummy in the tummy if the hooker plays a dummy
Slit the wrist of little sis
After she sucked the dick, I stabbed her brother with the icepick
because he wanted me to fuck him from the back
but Smalls don't get down like that
Got your father hidin in a room; fucked him with the broom
Slit him down the back and threw salt in the wound
Who you think you're dealin with?
Anybody step into my path is fuckin feelin it!
Hardcore, I got it sucked like a pussy
Stab ya til you're gushy, so please don't push.. me
I'm using rubbers so they won't trace the semen
The black demon, got the little hookers screamin
Because you know I love it young, fresh and green
with no hair in between, know what I mean?
Chorus 2X + "I don't care what nobody say" sample (4X at start)
[Puff] Ladies and gentlemen..
There's several different levels to Devil worshippin: horse's heads,
human sacrifices, canibalism, candles and exorcism,
Animals havin sex with 'em; camels mammals and rabbits
But I don't get into that, I "kicked" the habit - I just,
beat you to death with weapons "and" eat through the flesh
And I never eat you unless the fuckin, meat looks fresh
I got a line in my pocket, I'm lyin, I got a nine in my pocket
and baby I'm just, dyin to cock him
He's ready for war, I'm ready for war
I got machetes and swords for any faggot that said he was raw
My "UZ's", heavy as yours, yeah you met me before
I just didn't have "this" large an arsenal of weapons before
Marshall "step's" in the door, "I"ll" lay your head on the floor
With your body spread on the bedspread, red on the wall
red on the ceiling, red on the floor, get a new whore
met on the second, wed on the third,
"and" she's dead on the fourth - I'm dead wrong
Chorus 2X + "I don't care what nobody say" sample (4X at start)
Chorus repeats to fade..
[Puff Daddy]
Uh-huh, and we won't stop, because we can't stop
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Most fire departments don't send out ladder trucks to rescue cats off of roofs anymore. But this morning, bright and early, I could hear the thrum of a heavy duty diesel somewhere here in our apartment complex. But Austin being what it is, someone decided to rescue a cat that's been moaning and bitching over the last few nights. Most of us know that any cat will eventually surrender and climb back out of the tree. In fact, the cat is still there, unhappy as hell. Where's Norman Rockwell when we need him.
But the tenants enjoyed the morning's activities. They sent a guy up a ladder that cleared the third floor roof of our building, and that gentleman gave his best effort, so until the cat surrenders, we'll have to put up with kitty's misery.

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Underrated Cheap Trick: The Most Overlooked Song From Each Album
Cheap Trick and "underrated" kind of go in hand.
The quartet from Rockford, Ill., is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — but it took nearly 15 years of eligibility to achieve what should have been a slam dunk honor. Perhaps too ubiquitous for their own good, Cheap Trick have been, quite wrongly, easy to overlook amidst the hard touring, opening and package slots, and the noble feat of just being dependably around for some 48 years.
And they've been productive: 20 studio albums (plus EPs) during that time, with platinum or better five times over. Yes, it took a live album, 1978's Cheap Trick at Budokan, to put them over the top. But this is a group that never, er, surrenders — and certainly knows what to do when the red light is on, as this deep dive into their catalog reveals.
"Hot Love"
From: Cheap Trick (1977)
Track one from Side A (as opposed to side one — it had both) is a blazing rocker that attacks with punk rock speed and garage-y grit. It's more power than pop, truly Cheap Trick at their most raw, but we'll argue that it's all the better for that lack of polish.
From: In Color (1977)
In Color gave us "I Want You to Want Me," and with producer Tom Werman Cheap Trick found a comfortable, trademark-making fit for three consecutive outings. "Downed" is one of the band's most sophisticated arrangements, a prototypical '70s AOR ebb and flow built on Rick Nielsen's chiming guitars and a soaring, airy chorus of vocal harmonies. An early career favorite that's settled below the radar during subsequent decades.
"How Are You?"
From: Heaven Tonight (1978)
Nielsen and bassist Tom Petersson teamed up on this bouncy, jovial and eccentric pop gem that blends a little bit of bit of Mersey with its Sparks-like whimsy. Put the headphones on 'cause there's a lot going on inside the mix, from the playful piano licks to blink-and-you-miss-it quoting of the Lord's Prayer. Sly devils, they are.
"Way of the World"
From: Dream Police (1979)
This propulsive, lushly produced rocker was a U.K. single — and one of the first tracks credited to Nielsen and Robin Zander as a songwriting team. It also popped up as a B-side for "Everything Works if You Let It" in some countries. Fans certainly noticed, but it paled in the wake of Dream Police's title track and the hit power ballad "Voices."
"Can't Stop It But I'm Gonna Try"
From: All Shook Up (1980)
Throw this one on and few are going to guess it's Cheap Trick — at least the first time through. All Shook Up, produced by George Martin, was all about pushing parameters, and in three and a half minutes here Cheap Trick ventures into glammy hard rock, with Zander channeling the likes of Mick Jagger and Roger Daltrey into his performance.
"One On One"
From: One On One (1982)
With new bassist Jon Brant in tow, Cheap Trick got back to basics — albeit with Roy Thomas Baker, not necessarily known for sonic restraint, in the producer's chair. "If You Want My Love" and "She's Tight" made their way into the band's legacy oeuvre, but One On One's title track is every bit as good: a pumping, melodic rocker that could hang with the New Wave thanks to Bun E. Carlos' four-on-the-floor kick drum beat.
"Next Position Please"
From: Next Position Please (1983)
Another title track that didn't really get its due. The muscular anthem actually dates back to Dream Police, but its message about working class ambitions and frustrations may have been even better suited for the complicated economic times of the early '80s.
"This Time Around"
From: Standing on the Edge (1985)
Cheap Trick was back with first album producer Jack Douglas, though his intention to return to the raw days of '77 were subsumed by Tony Platt's lavish mix. The shimmer certainly benefits this track — a Zander showpiece — from its sinewy dynamics right up to its emotive chorus.
"Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)"
From: The Doctor (1986)
Cheap Trick tried a little too hard to get back on the charts, and radio, with The Doctor, which made for a challenging and at times painful listen. "Good Girls..." got it mostly right, though; Steroid drums aside, it's got a solid melody and super fun, sly chorus that merits a spot on the group's A list.
"Never Had a Lot to Lose"
From: Lap of Luxury (1988)
Cheap Trick were hot again thanks to "The Flame," although some fans were disconcerted by the power ballad. "Never Had a Lot to Lose," which Zander wrote with the returned Petersson, was the album's under-appreciated fourth single, an aerobic power pop prototype of what we've loved about Cheap Trick since day one.
"I Can't Understand It"
From: Busted (1990)
Swagger restored, Cheap Trick continued to embrace co-writers throughout their 11th album — including Foreigner's Mick Jones, Diane Warren and Taylor Rhodes. But Nielsen and Zander are responsible for this big-beat anthem themselves, which — like Lap of Luxury's "Never Had a Lot to Lose" — showcases a self-aware Cheap Trick doing exactly what they do best.
"You're All I Wanna Do"
From: Woke Up With a Monster (1994)
A committee wrote this little-noticed second single from ...Monster, with Nielsen, Zander and Petersson teaming with Illinois homeboy Jim Peterik, British rock vet Terry Reid and Julian Raymond. The lusty rocker stays true the power pop side of Cheap Trick's roots, with just enough gloss — blessedly steering away from the era's grunge obsession — courtesy of producer Ted Templeman.
"Carnival Game"
From: Cheap Trick (1997)
A sense of renewal and new era greeted Cheap Trick's second eponymous album, 20 years after their debut. "Carnival Game," the set's third single, is grown-up Cheap Trick, a melodically solid pop song with overtones of '70s solo John Lennon and just a hint of Tommy James. Nielsen's neat wah-wah guitar break and the vocal arrangement during the final chorus only boost the track's stock value.
"Too Much"
From: Special One (2003)
After a six-year gap, Cheap Trick re-emerged and made Special One as a self-contained unit, eschewing the co-writes of the previous decade and a half. With its chiming acoustics, "Too Much" is as pretty as you'd want, with enough dynamic build and rock muscle to get the punters on board. It's the kind of song that makes you feel like a mature Cheap Trick is perfectly acceptable, even exciting.
"All Those Years"
From: Rockford (2006)
Home is where the heart is, and naming an album after their home town — and writing most of the songs as a four-piece band unit — certainly worked in Cheap Trick's favor. Sentiment hasn't always been the band's strong suit, but this easy-tempoed pop paean, dripping with hooks, is a lyrical and sonic celebration — and a testimony to the group's resilience.
"Everyday You Make Me Crazy"
From: The Latest (2009)
One of the shortest Cheap Trick tracks ever at just 1:17 (and therefore easy to overlook), this blast of pure energy started life as a Pepsi ad during the mid-'90s. It gets in, does its bit and gets out without overstaying its welcome — although another verse or chorus would just be more of a good thing.
"Blood Red Lips"
From: Bang, Zoom, Crazy...Hello (2016)
You can't go too wrong with a big beat (courtesy of new drummer Daxx Nielsen) and a little lust, which this track has in abundance. You can slide this one into any point of a set list, or onto a house party mix, and have everyone bouncing along with unconscious glee. Absolute pop perfection.
"Listen to Me"
From: We're All Alright (2017)
Are we back on the Sunset Strip during the mid-'80s? Cheap Trick certainly play the part, without the spandex, on this gritty, full-throttle rocker, blazing from the first riff to the chorus call and response. Absolutely alright.
"Merry Christmas Darlings"
From: Christmas Christmas (2017)
Cheap Trick reach full Spector-ian glory on the opening track from their first holiday album — one of three originals they wrote for the 12-song set. An effervescent trifle that's better than another holiday tie or sweater.
"Final Days"
From: In Another World (2021)
The jury's still out on what will be truly appreciated or underrated on Cheap Trick's latest release. Just a hunch here that this rare dip into the blues — featuring Wet Willie's Jimmy Hall on harmonica, some of Nielsen's most ferocious playing and biting social commentary — will wind up on the overlooked list, which would be a mistake.


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Sharpening video can be a bit trickier than sharpening photos. The process is the same of course… increasing the contrast around edges which creates the perception of sharpness.
However, because you're dealing with 30fps instead of a single image some additional challenges are introduced:
1- Noise is more of a problem.
2- Video is frequently compressed more heavily than photos, so compression artifacts can be a serious problem.
3- Oversharpening is a problem with stills or video but can create motion artifacts when the video is played back that can be visually distracting.
4- It's more difficult to mask out areas like skin that you don't want sharpened.
These are problems you'll run into regardless of the sharpening method. However, probably unsurprising, in addition to discussing the solutions using regular tools, we do talk about how our Samurai Sharpen plugin can help with them.
Noise in Video Footage
Noise is always a problem regardless of whether you're shooting stills or videos. However, with video the noise changes from frame to frame making it a distraction to the viewer if there's too much or it's too pronounced.
Noise tends to be much more obvious in dark areas, as you can see below where it's most apparent in the dark, hollow part of the guitar:
Using a mask to protect the darker areas makes it possible to increase the sharpening for the rest of the video frame. Samurai Sharpen has masks built-in, so it's easy in that plugin, but you can do this manually in any video editor or compositing program by using keying tools, building a mask and compositing effects.
Compression Artifacts
Many consumer video cameras, including GoPros and some drone cameras heavily compress footage. Especially when shooting 4K.
It's difficult, and sometimes impossible to sharpen footage like this. The compression artifacts become very pronounced, since they tend to have edges like normal features. Unlike noise, the artifacts are visible in most areas of the footage, although they tend to be more obvious in areas with lots of detail.
In Samurai you can increase the Edge Mask Strength to lessen the impact of sharpening on the artifact (often they're in low contrast) but depending on how compressed the footage is you may not want to sharpen it.
Sharpening is a local contrast adjustment. It's just looking at significant edges and sharpening those areas. Oversharpening occurs when there's too much contrast around the edges, resulting in visible halos.
Especially if you look at the guitar strings and frets, you'll see a dark halo on the outside of the strings and the strings themselves are almost white with little detail. Way too much contrast/sharpening. The usual solution is to reduce the sharpening amount.
In Samurai Sharpen you can also adjust the strength of the halos independently. So if the sharpening results in only the dark or light side being oversharpened, you can dial back just that side.
Sharpening Skin
The last thing you usually want to do is sharpen someone's skin. You don't want your talent's skin looking like a dried-up lizard. (well, unless your talent is a lizard. Not uncommon these days with all the ridiculous 3D company mascots)
Especially with 4K and HD, video is already showing more skin detail than most people want (hence the reason for our Beauty Box Video plugin for digital makeup). If you're using UnSharp Mask you can use the Threshold parameter, or in Samurai the Edge Mask Strength parameter is a more powerful version of that. Both are good ways of protecting the skin from sharpening. The skin area tends to be fairly flat contrast-wise and the Edge Mask generally does a good job of masking the skin areas out.
Either way, you want to keep an eye on the skin areas, unless you want a lizard. (and if so, you should download are free Ugly Box plugin. ;-)
Wrap Up
You can sharpen video and most video footage will benefit from some sharpening. However, there are numerous issues that you run into and hopefully this gives you some idea of what you're up against whether you're using Samurai Sharpen for Video or something else.


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Virginia State Police pulled over Derrick Thompson in 2019 outside Washington for an expired inspection tag.
Trooper Charles Hewitt ordered Thompson out of the car after, according to police, Hewitt smelled pot and realized Thompson was driving on a suspended license.
Thompson, video recording the traffic stop in plain sight, refused to get out.
"You're gonna get your ass whooped in front of f---ing lord and all creation," Hewitt says. "Watch the show folks!"
The camera does not capture what happens next.
Thompson says Hewitt forced him to the pavement, cutting and scraping his face and left leg.
"How do you like that motherf---er, how do you like that?" Hewitt is heard yelling.
After the video was shared widely on social media, Hewitt was "terminated for cause" by Virginia State Police.
You might think his name would show up on a national list of police misconduct.
It doesn't.
Virginia law at the time said Hewitt's actions were not enough to decertify him from working in the state again.
Being decertified is the only way to end up in the country's main registry of police disciplinary action.
It's called the National Decertification Index.
"It's just a way of background checking to see if an officer had problems in a previous state," said Roger L. Goldman, a law professor at Saint Louis University.
The list has always only included police whose misconduct got them decertified by a state.
It does not name those such as Hewitt who lose their job but keep their license to work as an officer.
"Let's suppose the officer had been involved in excessive force but had not been decertified," Goldman said. "That wouldn't appear on the database."
After four decades the registry contains more than 30,000 actions against police, but does not contain entries from four states that do not decertify officers: California, Hawaii, New Jersey and Rhode Island.
It also does not have any names from Georgia, a state that does not report decertifications to the database.
There's another issue we discovered.
When hiring, police departments don't always query the database.
There are 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the U.S., but only 4,000 people approved to search the index.
"That is another shortcoming that ought to be mandatory for both the state licensing agencies as well as law enforcement agencies to check that database," Goldman said.
Now Congress is considering the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, legislation President Biden supports.
It would create a new national misconduct registry.
Unlike the decertification index, it would log complaints against police, termination records, lawsuits and settlements.
Virginia's Office of the Attorney General represented now former trooper Hewitt in a civil case brought by Thompson and settled out of court.
The attorney general's office did not respond to multiple requests to get Hewitt's side of the story.
He remains eligible to work as an officer in Virginia, according to the state Department of Criminal Justice Services.


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October 2004
For Immediate Release
Office of the First Lady
October 18, 2004
Mrs. Bush's Remarks to the International Lion of Judah Conference
Washington Hilton Hotel
Washington, D.C.
MRS. BUSH: I always like being introduced by somebody who has the same accent I do. (Laughter.) Thank you very much, Esther. Thank you for your kind words, and thank each and every one of you for the very warm welcome. And special thanks to Susie Stern, to Sandy Cahn, and to Janice Stolar, and Michele Rosen for organizing this impressive gathering of women. And thanks to Mark Wilf for his leadership of the United Jewish Communities.
I'm happy to be a part of this dialogue -- and, standing backstage, I realized this really is a dialogue. (Laughter and applause.) And to be here with so many smart, savvy, powerful women. You have to wonder what the guys are doing without us right now. (Applause.)
As prominent women in business and philanthropy and public life, I imagine that all of us have been subject to a few stereotypes. I was reminded of that recently when I received some letters from a group of kindergarten students. Their teacher had asked them to write about what they thought my responsibilities were every day.
A little girl named Shelby wrote that I "help the President with his paperwork and then help him clean his office." (Laughter.) "I take care of him when he's sick and put cold cloths on his head." I didn't have to say that was only after the first debate. (Laughter.)
But Shelby wasn't the only child to be concerned about the President's health. Megan said that as First Lady, "I feed the dogs and I plant the daffodils and I do the President's speeches when he isn't feeling well."
On the other hand, Todd -- who seems to have an eye for fashion -- thinks that there's more manual labor involved in my job. He wrote that I "wear pretty suits and I shovel the snow and feed the birds." (Laughter.)
Of course, what I really get to do are events like this, where I get to meet remarkable Americans who are changing our world. President Bush and I appreciate all that you do to make a difference in your communities and our country. The sisterhood of the Lion of Judah is one of the most influential groups in philanthropy. You teach us that although one person alone can't do everything, 1,400 strong can do anything. (Applause.) And you show the world exactly what women can achieve with faith, with hard work, and a whole lot of chutzpah! (Laughter and applause.)
This year, all of America commemorates the rich history of the Jewish people and the many contributions Jewish Americans have made in shaping our nation. Three hundred and fifty years ago, Jewish families first arrived in our young country. Many of these early settlers were women. And as they established new homes, they also established a community rich in the traditions of their faith. They embraced their new freedoms, but they never forgot their heritage.
We've all benefited from the women who blazed a trail before us. Women like Rebecca Gratz, who established the first Hebrew Sunday School, which was run entirely by women. She devoted her entire adult life to the under-privileged of Philadelphia, especially to the women and children. Or author Emma Lazarus, who wrote powerful essays arguing against anti-Semitism and for the rights of immigrants. Her words -- "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" -? have become America's call to those seeking freedom from around the world.
And Emma inspired women leaders like Henrietta Szold, the founder of Hadassah, which remains the first and the largest women's Zionist organization. And women like Sally Preisand, who despite her classmates' claims that she was studying to become the wife of a rabbi, went on to become the first woman rabbi in America. While Shoshana Cardin went from being president of her Zionist youth group to being the first woman to head the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. (Applause.) She summed up her success this way -? "I didn't do it because I thought that's what women did; I did it because that was where I thought I could make a difference."
Generations of strong Jewish women have made a difference for all Americans and for all women. And today, the Lions of Judah continue that legacy. We're inspired by Lions like Joan Beren, who's been a part of United Jewish Communities for nearly 50 years. (Applause.) As the first woman President of the Mid-Kansas Jewish Federation, Joan has led efforts to register women voters and to ensure that women have a voice in politics. And like Henrietta Szold and generations of her ancestors, Joan helps Russian immigrants settle in America. She finds apartments and jobs for families in Kansas and she takes them to the dentist and the grocery store. She has become the first and most enduring friend to countless new Americans.
Service is nothing new for Joan. Some of her earliest memories are of sharing her home with refugees from the Holocaust. And throughout her life, Joan has done everything she can to help repair the world. Joan says, "I live my life by the saying, 'From those to whom much is given, much is expected.'" And I think it must be the same for each and every one of you in this room. Joan, thank you for all you do to strengthen our nation. (Applause.)
Empowered women are vital to democracy. And this is even clearer to all of us today as we look around the world and we see what happens in countries where half of the population is left out. The struggle for human rights is a story of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. And today, I'm proud that the women of Afghanistan are writing an exciting new chapter in their long struggle.
Just a few years ago in Afghanistan, women weren't allowed to even walk outside their doors without a male escort, and they were beaten and executed in sports stadiums. They couldn't work outside the home, and little girls in Afghanistan were forbidden to be educated. Today, Afghan women are working again as teachers, as lawyers, as businesswomen. Women head two cabinet posts, and many more serve throughout government. Several women helped draft the country's constitution, which is one of the most progressive documents on women's rights in the Muslim world.
I'm proud that nearly 5 million Afghan children, including more than 2 million girls, are in school. And now they talk about their future, and about rebuilding their country. One young girl said, "I want to become a lawyer, because I want to bring justice and freedom to Afghanistan, especially for women."
And just last week, millions of Afghans voted in the first free presidential election in the history of their country. And they achieved this milestone even after so many critics said that Afghanistan couldn't have free elections, because it would be inconsistent with their history. But they proved the critics wrong. Voters lined up at three o'clock in the morning. And in one part of the country where a bridge was blown up by terrorists, people found a ford to cross the river so they could vote. A woman cast the very first ballot. Nineteen-year-old Moqadasa Sidiqi said, "I cannot explain my feelings, just how happy I am. I would have never thought I would be able to vote in an election."
The people of Afghanistan showed the world that democracy can flourish anywhere when people are given the chance to be free.
The Afghan people still face many challenges in strengthening their young democracy. But Afghan women are making great progress in exercising their freedoms. And the women of Afghanistan can be an inspiration to women in other parts of the world. In Iraq, after three decades of brutal dictatorship where women were punished with rape and torture, women are participating in the reconstruction of their country. Three women helped draft the Transitional Administrative Law that is a model for women's rights. During the signing of their interim law, Iraqi women marched together and many spoke publicly for the first time after years of oppression. Six women ministers serve in the Cabinet and nearly 100 women serve in Iraq's national police force. Several Iraqi women are also among the first Fulbright students to study in the United States in 14 years.
We'll continue to help the women of Iraq in securing their rights and rebuilding their country. The presence of a democratic, stable Iraq at the heart of the Middle East will be a powerful beacon for freedom, an example of hope in that vital region. (Applause.) Our work is part of a broader effort to support women across the Middle East. We know that without women, the goals of democracy and peace cannot be achieved.
Freedom is also at the heart of the President's approach to bringing peace between Israel and the Palestinian people. My husband is strongly committed to the security of Israel as a vibrant Jewish state. (Applause.) Our first visit to Israel in 1998 left a deep and lasting impression on both George and me. Israel is not only a land of rich history and faith, but also one where people of all races and creeds live together in a diverse democracy. During a helicopter ride above the country, the President saw firsthand how precarious Israel's security situation is. And that's why President Bush has been so supportive of Israel's right to defend itself. (Applause.)
We want to help the Palestinian people establish a democratic and viable state of their own. But before there can be two states, all parties must renounce violence and fight terrorism. (Applause.) Terrorists are the enemy of freedom. And they seek to destroy more than our institutions of democracy and freedom, like our schools or places of worship. They want to destroy our very way of life. We see this in Iraq where the terrorists attack young men and women who are hoping to sign up for the police force. We see this in Russia, where they kill innocent school children to make a political point. And we see this in Israel, where Israelis are attacked in pizza parlors, on buses on their way to work, or while shopping in supermarkets. And we saw this on a quiet September morning when terrorists attacked Americans at work in cities that have always symbolized freedom.
Like fascists and totalitarians before them, terrorists try to impose their radical views through threats and violence. The Jewish people know too well the devastation of such hatred. My father also knew this devastation -- he saw it firsthand. He served in World War II for three years in Europe, and his Army Company -? the 104th Infantry, helped to liberate Nordhausen, a concentration camp. (Applause.) My father is no longer living, but I used to ask him about that time, and he couldn't bear to tell me about it. I think in retrospect, he couldn't bear to tell his precious child that there is evil in the world.
There's much we know about the Holocaust, but when President Bush and I visited Auschwitz last summer, I realized there are things textbooks can't teach. They can't teach you how to feel when you see prayer shawls or baby shoes left by children being torn from their mothers, or prison cells with the scratch marks of attempted escape. But what moved me the most were the thousands of eyeglasses, their lenses still smudged with tears and dirt. It struck me how vulnerable we are as humans, how many needed those glasses to see, and how many people living around the camps and around the world refused to see. We see today and we know what happened and we'll never forget. (Applause.)
We set aside a day each year at the United States Capitol to remember the Holocaust and to honor those who lost their lives, and to pray for the survivors, to keep their memories alive. On this day, and everyday, we must also renew our efforts to destroy anti-Semitism wherever it exists. (Applause.)
When the World Conference on Racism in Durban, South Africa became a theater for anti-Semitic expression, President Bush ordered the United States delegation to walk out in protest, and I'm glad he did. (Applause.) He also sent a delegation led by former Mayor Koch to a conference on anti-Semitism sponsored by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The United States was instrumental in negotiating a strong statement condemning anti-Semitism and promoting practical ideas to fight it.
And just two days ago, on Saturday morning, the President signed the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act of 2004. (Applause.) This law commits our government to keep a record of anti-Semitic acts throughout the world, and also a record of the responses to those acts. It establishes a new office and a special envoy in the State Department to do just this. President Bush will make sure that our nation keeps watch, and that the ancient impulse of anti-Semitism never again finds a home in the modern world. (Applause.)
We know that hatred prepares the way for violence, and that is why President Bush is committed to defeating terror and spreading freedom. My husband believes that together we can build a safer and stronger world where all of our children and grandchildren can grow up in peace.
We too can contribute to the spread of liberty by teaching our children tolerance and respect for all people. We must teach them that hate is always wrong, and life is valuable. Through education, we can engage the fortitude of the next generation. And we'll ensure that our own children and all the world's children have a better chance of living in peace.
Women are vital to the struggle for freedom and the preservation of peace. Each of you demonstrates your power as mothers, as community leaders, as activists -? and also as women. And like your ancestors, your greatest power is the ability to inspire a new generation of women and girls. (Applause.) Joan Beren's daughters, Amy and Julie, like to joke that they were born with UJC pledge cards in their hands. (Laughter.) Throughout their lives, they've been inspired by their mother's commitment to her community and her faith. Today, Amy is the first woman president of her synagogue and Julie is the major gifts chair for the Jewish Federation of greater Los Angeles. (Applause.)
They both support education programs for children in their communities, and both support their own children's aspirations to help others. Julie said, "My children understand that service is their responsibility. We all have a responsibility to care for one another. My life has been blessed and I am so lucky to be in the position to give back." Julie, thanks to you, your sister, and your mother for inspiring the next generation of Lions. (Applause.)
And thanks to each one of you for inspiring women around the world -? especially younger women like my own daughters. You should be incredibly proud of the work you've accomplished, the network you've built, and the legacy you've sustained. I'm reminded of the Hebrew saying, "Know before whom you stand." In all that you do, you stand before your family, your community, and before God. And through acts of faith and love, you stand up for freedom, and for a better world for all of God's people. Thank you all very, very much. Thank you so much.
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The time required to failover depends on how long it takes to manually promote the replica and redirect traffic. The average time ranges between 20-30 minutes.
Promoting a replica does not automatically set up replication for existing appliances. After promoting a replica, if desired, you can set up replication from the new primary to existing appliances and the previous primary.
If the primary appliance is available, to allow replication to finish before you switch appliances, on the primary appliance, put the primary appliance into maintenance mode.
Put the appliance into maintenance mode.
To use the management console, see "Enabling and scheduling maintenance mode"
You can also use the
ghe-maintenance -s
command.$ ghe-maintenance -s
When the number of active Git operations, MySQL queries, and Resque jobs reaches zero, wait 30 seconds.
Note: Nomad will always have jobs running, even in maintenance mode, so you can safely ignore these jobs.
To verify all replication channels report
, use theghe-repl-status -vv
command.$ ghe-repl-status -vv
On the replica appliance, to stop replication and promote the replica appliance to primary status, use the
command. This will also automatically put the primary node in maintenance mode if it's reachable.$ ghe-repl-promote
Note: If the primary node is unavailable, warnings and timeouts may occur but can be ignored.
Update the DNS record to point to the IP address of the replica. Traffic is directed to the replica after the TTL period elapses. If you are using a load balancer, ensure it is configured to send traffic to the replica.
Notify users that they can resume normal operations.
If desired, set up replication from the new primary to existing appliances and the previous primary. For more information, see "About high availability configuration."
Appliances you do not intend to setup replication to that were part of the high availability configuration prior the failover, need to be removed from the high availability configuration by UUID.
- On the former appliances, get their UUID via
cat /data/user/common/uuid
.$ cat /data/user/common/uuid
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Sales Transactions
What is a Sales Order?
A sales order is a financial document that confirms an impending sale. It details the exact quantity, price and delivery details of the products or services being sold. Perform the simple operations mentioned below to create and manage your Sales Orders.
Guide Layout:
Creating Sales Orders <–> Managing Sales Orders <–> Additional tools that aid sales <–> Invoices <–> Packages <–> Shipping <–> Sales Persons <–> Multi-warehouse Operations
Sales Order Workflow Diagram
Creating Sales Orders
- Creating a New Sales Order
- Creating Sales Orders from Contacts
- Importing Sales Orders
- Generating Online Orders
- Creating a drop shipment
Managing Sales Orders
- Status of a Sales Order
- Sending a Sales Order to your Customer
- Converting a Sales Order from Draft to Confirmed Status
- Converting a Sales Order to Purchase Order
- Converting a Sales Order into an Invoice
- Sales order to Packages
- Packaging to Shipping
Additional tools that aid sales
- Exporting Sales Orders
- Attaching Files to Sales Orders
- Editing a Sales Order
- Cloning a Sales Order
- Printing a Sales Order
- Saving a Sales Order as a PDF document
- Mailing a Sales Order
- Deleting a Sales Order
- Voiding a Sales Order
- Quick Boxing of composite items from sales transactions
- Status of Invoices
- Invoice Workflow Diagram
- Creating a New Invoice
- Importing invoices
- Exporting invoices
- Send Invoices to Customers
- More Actions with Invoices
- Editing an invoice
- Saving an invoice as a PDF
- Printing an invoice
- Voiding an invoice
- Writing off an invoice
- Attaching a file to an invoice
- Deleting an invoice
Invoice payments
- Recording Payments
- Payments Received
- Details on a payment receipt
- Managing your payment receipts
- Importing and exporting invoice payments
- Prerequisites
- Package Workflow Diagram
- Creating packages
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- Status of packages
- Managing your packages
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- Creating shipments
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Periscope – Python module searching subtitles on the web
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This is done by using as much info as available from your file and on the websites. Some websites allow you to use hash of the files, the size/length of the video or the exact file name.
As a python module, periscope should be easily integrated in many projects that allow plugins to be written in python. The fact that the plugin is shared between all the applications means that separate application and their plugin (file browser, video player, media center application, ...) don't have to maintain the code to search, parse and download subtitles and the user preference about languages.
The subtitles websites are handled as plugins and currently support :
* OpenSubtitles.org
* SubtitleSource.org
* Subscene.com
* Subtitulos.es
* Addic7ed.com
* TheSubDB.com
Install Periscope in ubuntu 10.04/9.10
Open the terminal and run the following commands
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:patrick-dessalle/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install periscope-gnome
Nautilus Integration
A Nautilus plugin exists to integrate periscope in Nautilus.
Preparing your system
Open the terminal and run the following command
sudo apt-get install python-nautilus python-notify
Copy the periscope-nautilus.py script into the ~/.nautilus/python-extensions.Now open the terminal and run the following comamnds
cd ~/.nautilus/python-extensions
wget http://periscope.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/bin/periscope-nautilus/periscope-nautilus.py
If you want to change the default languages, run periscope once, a file named "config" will be created under ~/.config/periscope. Update this file to reflect your prefered languages. They can be separated by comas, so:
lang = en
lang = en,fr
are valid. The first one saying that you want to search subtitles in english, the second, in english and if not found, in french.
Restart nautilus otherwise it does not take into account the newly added scripts by typing in a terminal nautilus -q
Open nautilus and go to a location where you have video files. Right-click on a video and wait for the notification to see if a match was found.


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The Ten Polished Toyo R/T 295/50R22
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#Justice4Cecily Responds to @TheDailyShow Coverage
Posted 10 years ago on May 7, 2014, 4:59 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
Daily Show,
Police Brutality,
Cecily McMillan
Dear Jon Stewart,
The #Justice4Cecily team appreciates the attention you showed to Cecily McMillan's case last night on The Daily Show, and we agree with your message of Justice for Some that resounds throughout the show. It has become more than abundantly clear since the financial crisis that there are two sets of laws in this country: one for Wall Street and the 1%, and another one for Occupy Wall Street and the 99%.
Unfortunately, your scoreboard of the number of arrests for both of these groups – "Wall Street: 1 - OWS: 1", however in jest you presented it – gives the impression that somehow justice has been served for Cecily and for the millions of Occupy activists and supporters across the country and around the world. And with this we must respectfully disagree.
For Cecily, justice has most definitely not been served. Cecily was violently, and sexually, assaulted in Zuccotti Park on the 6th month anniversary of OWS in March, 2012. She sustained bruises on her right breast, ribs, arms, legs and back, underwent a seizure, had to be hospitalized, and still suffers from PTSD originating from the incident. The more than two-year delay in her criminal case has put her bright academic and political career on complete standstill.
Furthermore, the jury trial that convicted Cecily was rife with juridical missteps: suppression of key evidence, gag orders on Cecily's attorney, and clear bias on the part of Judge Zweibel, who is well known as 'a prosecutor in robes.' Even the jury that convicted Cecily regretted their decision upon learning post-trial of the potential sentencing length. One juror told the Guardian:
"They felt bad. Most just wanted her to do probation, maybe some community service. But now what I'm hearing is seven years in jail? That's ludicrous. Even a year in jail is ridiculous."
Just as important is the lack of justice for the almost 8,000 Occupy activists who have been arrested in the last three years for peacefully protesting wealth inequality and corporate corruption of our democracy, and for the millions of people who have fallen into the 700% prison population increase of the United States since the 1970s. Cecily has been privileged to have good counsel and a support network of people to make her case for innocence, but countless others haven't been so fortunate.
You have an important opportunity, Mr. Stewart, with this case to make a powerful statement about the need for reform of our justice system in order to serve all people fairly and blindly. Rather than leave your audience with an ambiguous answer to the question of Justice for Some? We kindly ask that you correct the record on your next show or invite a member of our team to appear and correct it ourselves.
Thank you, again, for standing up for the 99% and for justice for all.
In solidarity, The #Justice4Cecily Team
PS – We are demanding a pardon for Cecily. Please consider signing both our petitions that have started to catch fire, Change.org and Whitehouse.gov.


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I had the idea for this jumper a couple of Valentine's Days ago and wore it when I attempted to kiss Anne Diamond on TV-am for no less than three minutes and five seconds. I wanted to break the record for the longest screen kiss currently held by Jane Wyman and Regis Toomey whose osculatory marathon is the high point of the 1940 film You're In the Army Now, Anne and I might have made the record books had our attempt not been abruptly interrupted by live coverage of President Brezhnev's state funeral in Moscow.
- Gyles Brandreth -
100% lambswool crewneck sweater, made in Portugal from the highest quality yarns. Dry clean only.
US sizing. This men's sweater runs true to size.
See our men's size guide here.
Gyles Brandreth -- a writer, entertainer, broadcaster, and sometime Member of British Parliament -- is also a former European Monopoly champion and founder of an award-winning teddy bear museum. In addition to all of these endeavours, he is also well-known throughout Britain for the colourful knitwear he has worn on television for more than forty years. In the early 1980s, he teamed up with George Hostler -- an artist and sculptor turned legendary knitwear designer -- to create a range of unique jumpers featuring bright colours, original designs, witty words, and trompe l'oeil images. Over the years, Gyles and George conjured up scores of individual jumpers – worn by personalities as varied as Elton John and Diana, Princess of Wales – and produced three books featuring their free-spirited and wholly individual patterns.


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Imagine two identical cars. Same make, model, mileage and operating conditions. Car #1 is taken to a mechanic once a year for maintenance - more often, if serious problems arise. Car #2 has a mechanic who rides along every mile, looking, listening and anticipating problems that could affect performance—before they become problems. As a result, Car #2 performs better, has fewer problems and costs less to maintain.
This is the principal behind continuous commissioning, a new approach to equipment maintenance made possible by the technology of the Panoptix® platform from Johnson Controls.
When equipment is new, it undergoes general commissioning- a process that ensures that it is installed and set up to perform at its best. Over time, wear and tear take their inevitable toll, and performance begins to slip. Performance reductions might be barely noticeable at first, but they almost always degrade further, which can adversely affect both occupant comfort and energy efficiency.
Maintenance schedules provided by manufacturers help, but often buildings need to undergo retro commissioning, a general overhaul designed to return systems to optimum performance. Retro commissioning can expensive, and is sometimes an unwelcome intrusion into the lives of building occupants.
Continuous commissioning offers a better option. Sometimes called "predictive commissioning," it's a process in which systems are constantly monitored for deviations from optimal performance. These deviations are called faults. They're the early warning system that predicts future problems and allow facility managers to address those problems before they occur.
Fault Detection and Diagnostics is one of the requirements of continuous commissioning, and it is proved by the Panoptix® Continuous Diagnostics Advisor (CDA) app from Johnson Controls. CDA automatically collects and analyzes building data, as opposed to the manual processes required in the past. When you combine its capabilities with those of another Panoptix app called Custom Analyzer (CA), you have the foundation of continuous commissioning.
Together, these apps identify and investigate faults and prioritize them according to their impact on operations. Or budget. Or occupant comfort. When equipment life is extended and facilities are running at peak performance- you save energy, money, and valuable work hours.
Sounds great, right? But does it work in real-life situations? Ask Mark Peterson, Senior Controls Engineer at the University of Minnesota, who used CDA and CA apps on campus to achieve 6.5% energy savings in one building and 8% in another. These savings were attributed entirely to his facility team having addressed faults identified by Panoptix.
Talk to Mickey Rochelle, Facilities Manager for the Town of Wake Forest, NC, who used Panoptix CDA and CA apps to troubleshoot problems in an under-performing building. A new town hall was built in 2010 with a priority on energy efficiency and sustainability. In fact, it received a U.S. Green Building Council LEED® Platinum Certification, yet was using more energy than the 1970s era building it had replaced. It's an on-going process, but so far, Panoptix apps have uncovered a number of issues that have led to significant savings and prevented larger expenses from occurring.
Listen to Dale Dyer, Plant Operations Manager at Western Kentucky University, whose staff members had been trying to manually track campus-wide energy usage since 2007, but were limited because the effort was too labor intensive. So Dale used Panoptix apps for continuous commissioning. Within 120 days, CDA had detected numerous building faults, which his staff was able to quickly address, heading off problems before they impacted the bottom line. In less than six months, his Panoptix investment had paid for itself.
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What Is a 1035 Exchange?
Named after Section 1035 of the Internal Revenue Code, a 1035 exchange allows life insurance policy owners (and annuity contract owners) to exchange an old policy (or contract) for a new one from a different insurance company without tax consequences. Of course, the exchange must meet the requirements of Section 1035 in order for the transaction to be tax-free. This strategy can be especially beneficial to a person who purchased a life insurance policy or annuity contract many years ago that has less favorable contract stipulations than those available today.
A 1035 exchange applies only when it involves the same contract holder and the same type of contract. It gives the contract owner the flexibility to find another contract that features lower costs, a higher death benefit, or more investment choices. The cost and availability of insurance depend on factors such as age, health, and the type and amount of insurance purchased. Before surrendering your "old" life insurance policy, it would be prudent to make sure that you are insurable.
Investors can also do partial 1035 exchanges for a portion of the total contract amount. In this case, the transferring company should notify the new company of the exchange amount that is investment versus gain, because any gain is subject to ordinary income taxes when withdrawn. Some companies do not recognize partial 1035 exchanges for tax reporting purposes. A tax professional should be consulted to properly track these amounts in the contract.
Nonetheless, a 1035 exchange can be an effective tool for contract holders who want to exchange older contracts for current, more useful ones.
The rules governing 1035 exchanges are complex, and you may incur surrender charges from your "old" annuity contract or life insurance policy. In addition, you may be subject to new sales, mortality and expense charges, and surrender charges for the new contract or policy.
Annuities have contract limitations, fees, and charges, which can include mortality and expense risk charges, sales and surrender charges, investment management fees, administrative fees, and charges for optional benefits. Annuities are not guaranteed by the FDIC or any other government agency; they are not deposits of, nor are they guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank or savings association. Any guarantees are contingent on the financial strength and claims-paying ability of the issuing insurance company. Withdrawals reduce annuity contract benefits and values. The investment return and principal value of an investment option, also called subaccounts, are not guaranteed. Because variable annuity subaccounts fluctuate with changes in market conditions, the principal may be worth more or less than the original amount invested when the annuity is surrendered.
Variable annuities are sold by prospectus. Please consider the investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses carefully before investing. The prospectus, which contains this and other information about the variable annuity contract and the underlying investment options, can be obtained from your financial professional. Be sure to read the prospectus carefully before deciding whether to invest.
The information in this newsletter is not intended as tax, legal, investment, or retirement advice or recommendations, and it may not be relied on for the purpose of avoiding any federal tax penalties. You are encouraged to seek guidance from an independent tax or legal professional. The content is derived from sources believed to be accurate. Neither the information presented nor any opinion expressed constitutes a solicitation for the purchase or sale of any security. This material was written and prepared by Broadridge Advisor Solutions. © 2024 Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.


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One woman who worked hard to ensure that the wheels of global trade kept turning, even in the midst of the global financial crisis, was Bonnie Galat, global head of business development for trade and supply chain at the World Bank Groups International Finance Corporation.
In January the trade finance veteran retired from her position at the World Bank, but during her time at the helm she spearheaded key developments in support of global tradespecifically, the development of the IFCs Global Trade Finance Program (GTFP) in 2005, which poised the institution to respond quickly to the economic crisis unfolding in 2008 by launching the Global Trade Liquidity Program, which supported trade in developing markets. Last year the GTFP guaranteed a record $7 billion in global trade. A further $1 billion was committed under other trade programs.
But Galats departure from the IFC and the World Bank comes at a time when trade finance faces one of its biggest challenges in decadesthe impact of regulations such as Basel III and Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations.
Given the current regulatory and KYC compliance constraints and the growing associated costs, the banks are centering their efforts on top-tier, large-volume markets and clients, explains Galat.
As banks de-risk, the IFC, which relies on partner banks to ensure that funds get to where they are most needed, faces a conundrum.
If the banks find KYC for particular markets too costly and cannot get the compliance people to agree to a credit line for a particular country, the IFC trade finance guarantee will have limited impact, Galat explains.
She hopes rational behavior will prevail and a discussion with regulators will begin so that the unintended consequences of de-banking the most vulnerable markets and clients as required by anti-money-laundering/KYC requirements will be addressed.
We need data to show the G20 what the effect of the current regulatory environment is on trade, particularly the aspect of the shrinking network of global counterparties to facilitate flows. It is now up to Galats successor to steer the IFC and the GTFP through this next challenging phase in its development.


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Database industry veteran brings enterprise expertise to new role as SVP of product development
Mountain View, CA – October 10, 2012 – Couchbase, the leader in NoSQL database technology, today announced the appointment of Rahim Yaseen as senior vice president of product development. A 20-year database industry veteran, Yaseen joins Couchbase from Oracle where he served as vice president of engineering, leading the efforts to develop Oracle's Core Fusion Customer Relationship Management (CRM) framework, including the technology to support the product's SaaS -based model.
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- Former Oracle Vice President Rahim Yaseen has joined Couchbase, Inc., the leader in NoSQL database technology and the company behind the Couchbase open source project. NoSQL is an emerging class of data management software that is optimized for the needs of interactive web applications, providing better scalability, performance, and a more flexible data model than relational database technology.
- In his new role with Couchbase, Yaseen will lead the company's product development, including the company's flagship NoSQL database offering, Couchbase Server.
- While at Oracle, Yaseen was responsible for the Core Fusion CRM framework, the industry's most modern, standards-based, scalable and extensible technology platform to address the specific challenges of sales organizations, which includes the Fusion CRM SaaS programming model for extensibility; the mobile, Outlook and predictive analytics frameworks; the contact center framework; and the customer center and order management applications.
- Previously in his career, Yaseen held executive engineering positions at SAP, Siebel and CMGI/AdForce.
- Working in the office of the CTO, Yaseen led the technical and strategic direction for SAP's Next Generation Architecture and Platform.
- Yaseen led the development of Siebel's BPM framework including workflow architecture and platform, rule engines and tools, and compilers for scripting languages.
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- Yaseen holds six technical patents spanning the areas of database, workflow, and mobile focused on platforms and frameworks.
- Yaseen earned a Ph.D. (EE/CSE), specializing in database systems, from the University of Florida.
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- "We are thrilled that Yaseen has joined Couchbase. As a technical visionary with expertise in database development and cloud computing, he adds breadth and depth to our management team, and will be a significant force in extending our technology leadership." – Bob Wiederhold, CEO of Couchbase
- "A recognized NoSQL technology leader, Couchbase is trusted by a rapidly growing number of high-profile companies to ensure the high performance, easy scalability and always-on availability of their interactive web applications. Couchbase is well positioned to accelerate enterprise adoption of NoSQL technology and I couldn't be more excited to join the company and contribute to making Couchbase a dominant player in the database market." – Rahim Yaseen, SVP Product Development, Couchbase
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London, UK / February 08, 2022 / SEAPRWIRE / Cyberk Dev, a full-service incubation and development company, has announced the launch of its platform. Delivering all users' decentralized finance [DeFi], NFT, Gaming, and DAO needs in one place, Cyberk is committed to building projects right from their infant stage down to the finish line. Integrating a team of well-trained and seasoned members, CyberK aims at offering key solutions to all crypto development problems.
Comprising members who have managed, previously, several projects from the ground down to the completion stage, CyberK will guide projects via the introduction of specifically tailored campaigns and ideas that will drive growth right from the drawing board to the official launch.
Besides the integration of an experienced team, CyberK Dev offers a plethora of features—smart contract development, mobile and web development, and subsequently decentralized applications [DApps]. These deliverables will make the company a one-stop shop for all crypto development and launch needs.
Prioritizing users through its unique offerings, CyberK Dev has launched a full development catalog displaying, in glaring form, its unprecedented development facets, each designed to suit the needs of almost every crypto or blockchain-based project.
Yet another impressive feature of this company is the inclusion of anonymity, the foremost feature on which crypto projects are built. As the crypto market continues to grow at an exponential rate, there is a growing need for the safety of crypto project developers who are, most of the time, easy targets for criminals and others with equally malicious intent. Addressing this major sticking point, CyberK Dev hopes to introduce anonymity—ensuring that the personal information of these founders is not doxxed.
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Bank Of America And Billionaires Funded Republican & Democratic Conventions
OpenSecrets.org, one of the best sites for tracking money in politics, just tallied up the major funders of the Republican and Democratic national conventions, and their findings are revealing.
No surprises with the Republicans — the ones they are beholden to for having funded their extravaganza are mostly billionaires and huge corporations.
The biggest revelations came from the Democratic Party tally. As some anticipated, unions came up short for Obama's Convention this year. Having shelled out $8.3 million in 2008, they gave nearly 30% less.
But not to worry, Obama had taken care of one moneyed interest group who was all too happy to step up. Bank of America practically self-funded the event, underwriting approximately 1/3 of its entire expense. And just to be sure they covered their bases, Bank of America also tossed the GOP $1.1 million for theirs in Tampa.
This may provide a clue as to why bankers, whose fraudulent activities brought down the entire world economy, still seem to enjoy an unspoken immunity from any criminal prosecutions.
Small donors, incidentally, contributed a mere .00002% — not joking — of the RNC's funds. And only 6 people — you read that right — donated between $200 and $500. Hands-down, the RNC is an event entirely funded by the wealthiest few individuals and corporations in the nation.
The Democratic Party did better with small donors, as they provided 2.5% of the DNC's funds. And they did much better with donors contributing between $200 and $500: 1,558 contributed. Though the Democrats are still lopsidedly dependent on influence-peddlers, when compared to the Republicans' donor list they might actually tout these numbers.
Money Behind The Two Parties' Parties
The Republican Party, which held its 2012 convention in Tampa, FL, raised $55.8 Million. The following were some key contributors:
- Sheldon Adelson (Las Vegas casino mogul, fanatically pro-Israel) : $5 million (9% of total)
- Bill Edwards (CEO of Mortgage Investor's Corp.): $4.6 million (8.24%)
- AT&T (in addition to $3M, gave in-kind donations for phone service): $3 million (5.4%)
- American Petroleum Institute: $2 million (3.6%)
- Microsoft: $1.6 million (2.9%)
- Bank of America: $1.1 million (2%)
- David Koch (billioinaire Koch brother): $1 million (1.8%)
- Paul Singer (Elliott Management): $1 million (1.8%)
- Robert Mercer (of hedge fund, Renaissance Technologies): $1 million (1.8%)
- Paulson & Company (hedge fund run by John Paulson): $1 million (1.8%)
- James S. Davis (chairman of shoe company New Balance): $1 million (1.8%)
- Florida Power and Light: $1 million (1.8%)
- United Health Care Services: $522,000
- American Indian tribes (2 tribes contributed): $450,000
- America's Natural Gas Alliance: $400,000
- New York Yankees: $150,000
- Small donors (Total unitemized contributions of $200 or less): $1,200 (.00002%)
- Number of donors giving between $200-$500: Six donors
The Democratic Party, which held its convention in Charlotte, NC, raised $35 Million. The following were some key contributors:
- Bank of America: $10.9 million (31.14% of total)
- Unions: $5.9 million (17%)
- Duke Energy (lobbied H.R.910 to keep EPA from regulating emissions of green house gases): $1.5 million (4.3%)
- American Indian tribes (4 tribes contributed): $400,000
- James Rogers (Duke Energy CEO): $339,000
- Tides Foundation (partially funded by Soros' Open Society Institute) : $310,000
- Small donors (Total unitemized contributions of $200 or less): $866,000 (2.5%)
- Number of donors giving between $200-$500: 1,558 donors


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GENEVA – Glaciers in Antarctica are melting faster and across a much wider area than previously thought, a development that threatens to raise sea levels worldwide and force millions of people to flee low-lying areas, scientists said Wednesday.
Researchers once believed that the melting was limited to the Antarctic Peninsula, a narrow tongue of land pointing toward South America. But satellite data and automated weather stations now indicate it is more widespread.
The melting "also extends all the way down to what is called west Antarctica," said Colin Summerhayes, executive director of the Britain-based Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.
"That's unusual and unexpected," he said.
By the end of the century, the accelerated melting could cause sea levels to climb by 3 to 5 feet — levels substantially higher than predicted by a major scientific group just two years ago.
Making matters worse, scientists said, the ice shelves that hold the glaciers back from the sea are also weakening.
The report Wednesday from Geneva was a broad summary of two years of research by scientists from 60 countries. Some of the findings were released in earlier reports.
In Washington, as part of an overall update on global warming, top researchers on Wednesday sounded a similar warning to the U.S. Senate about rising temperatures in the Antarctic.
The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group set up by the United Nations, told lawmakers on the Environment and Public Works Committee that Earth has about six more years at current rates of carbon dioxide pollution before it is locked into a future of severe global warming.
For years, the continent at the bottom of the world seemed to be the only place on the planet not experiencing climate change. Previous research indicated that temperatures across much of Antarctica were staying the same or slightly cooling.
The report Wednesday was compiled as part of the 2007-2008 International Polar Year, an effort by scientists to conduct intense Arctic and Antarctic research over the past two Antarctic summers.
The big surprise was exactly how much glaciers are melting in western Antarctica, a vast land mass on the Pacific Ocean side of the continent that is next to the South Pole and includes the Antarctic Peninsula.
The biggest of the western glaciers, the Pine Island Glacier, is moving 40 percent faster than it was in the 1970s, discharging water and ice more rapidly into the ocean, said Summerhayes, a member of International Polar Year's steering committee.
The Smith Glacier, also in west Antarctica, is moving 83 percent faster than in 1992, he said.
The glaciers are slipping into the sea faster because the floating ice shelf that would normally stop them — usually 650 to 980 feet thick — is melting. And the glaciers' discharge is making a significant contribution to increasing sea levels.
Some people "fear that this is the first signs of an incipient collapse of the west Antarctic ice sheet," Summerhayes said. "If the west Antarctica sheet collapses, then we're looking at a sea level rise of between 3 feet, 4 inches, to nearly 5 feet."
Together, all the glaciers in west Antarctica are losing a total of around 114 billion tons per year because the melting is much greater than the new snowfall, he said.
"That's equivalent to the current mass loss from the whole of the Greenland ice sheet," Summerhayes said.
Looked at another way, it's more weight than 312,000 Empire State Buildings.
"We didn't realize it was moving that fast," he said.
Summerhayes said sea levels will climb higher than predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
A 2007 report by the IPCC predicted a sea level rise of 7 to 23 inches by the end of the century, which could flood low-lying areas and force millions of people to relocate.
The group said an additional 3.9- to 7.8-inch increase in sea levels was possible if the recent, surprising melting of polar ice sheets continues.
New research published this month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters found that melting glaciers will add at least 7 inches to the world's sea level — and that's if carbon dioxide pollution is quickly capped and then reduced.
Far more likely is an increase of at least 15 inches and probably more just from melting glaciers, the journal said.
Until recently, scientists debated whether Antarctica was warming.
But a January study in the journal Nature found that Antarctica's average annual temperature has increased by about 1 degree Fahrenheit since 1957, but is still 50 degrees below zero.
The report also determined that autumn temperatures in east Antarctica were cooling over the long term.
International Polar Year researchers found that the southern ocean around Antarctica has warmed about 0.36 degrees Fahrenheit in the past decade, double the average warming of the rest of the Earth's oceans over the past 30 years.
Antarctic Glaciers Melting Faster Than First Thought
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Cooperative optimization of traffic lights outside of cities improves traffic flow:
Progressive traffic signal systems save time and fuel
In cities, the uniform and low speed levels simplify the setup of synchronized traffic signals. Outside urban areas this is a bigger challenge: The travel speeds vary more and the distances between the traffic lights are often much larger. Researchers at the Technische Universität München, the BMW Group, the TRANSVER GmbH and the Supreme Building Authority in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior have presented the results of their investigation into how progressive traffic systems can also be set up on arterial roads outside of cities.
As test tracks they selected a section of the federal road B13 in the north of Munich and a section of the state road 2145 near Regensburg. A first major challenge was to integrate the traffic lights on the test tracks, which were up to 20 years old and supplied by different manufacturers, into a unified communications and control structure. From the data obtained in the analysis of traffic flows on these routes, the researchers then developed different control concepts, a fixed-time control and a demand-responsive coordination.
Although the test route in the north of Munich is only five kilometers long, the intelligent traffic light control scheme developed in the project reduces the travel time by about a minute. The best results are achieved by a dynamic, traffic-actuated model. Due to a reduction of stops at signalized intersections, the mean waiting time is reduced from about one minute to seven seconds. An optimized fixed-time control nevertheless still reaches a saving of 30 seconds, thus halving the waiting period. The intelligent control increases the share of intersections that can be passed without stops from about 60 percent to almost 100 percent.
In addition to the intelligent traffic light control, the researchers developed a driver information system. The traffic lights transmit their data via mobile network to the headquarters of TRANSVER GmbH, where a computer processes the data and sends information on signalization to the vehicles. A vehicle's on-board computer or an application on a smart phone indicates whether the vehicle is moving with the appropriate speed in order to reach a green light at the next intersection. The range of possible speed recommendations is shown by means of a "green carpet" on the smartphone's or on-board computer's display. "This is especially helpful when approaching the first traffic light, but also animates to adjust the driving speed," says Michael Krause of the Institute of Ergonomics at the TU München. "Particular care was also taken to ensure that the additional information does not distract the driver."
Staff and volunteers traveled thousands of kilometers in the simulator and on the test tracks to test the effects of different control options. "Rigid programs allow a very good forecast of traffic signal timings. This is a good foundation for the driver information system," says Dr.-Ing. Alexander Dinkel, project manager at TRANSVER GmbH. "However, a dynamic traffic control takes into account the variability and dynamics of traffic not only in the main direction but also of the cross traffic. Overall, the intelligent approach produces the best results. "
With a trick, the researchers succeeded in combining the advantages of both systems: They defined a core area, symbolized by a green band on the display. Based on the static signal timings it shows the time interval in which a green light will reliably be reached. The dynamics take place only in adjoining areas, allowing the system to respond to different traffic loads on the main track and the cross traffic.
Prof. Dr. Klaus Bengler
Institute for Ergonomics
Technische Universität München
Boltzmannstraße 15, 85747 Garching, Germany
Tel +49 89 289 15404 – Fax +49 89 289 15389
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