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So to start things off i just want to add that its been a while since i was trying to find a good solution to play movies on my 360.First i tried tversity but i wasn't able to get subtitles to work at all.I tried again and again all sorts of things but nothing worked.Eventually i found the ps3 media server which had subtitles "out of the box" but the problem with it is that it wasn't all that good for the 360; it worked, but it was sluggish.So i decided to give tversity another go.
So googled quite a few hours and eventually found this : http://forum.tversity.com/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=10517.
So let me describe my situation.I have Windows 7 and i had klite codec pack installed.So this is what i did :
1. Uninstalled everything that was related to codecs : klite codec pack, ffdshow, avisynth, etc . I simply uninstalled everything i found that had something to do with video conversion or codecs.2. Ran Advanced System Care 3 and cleaned my registry.3. Restarted my pc.4. Added a password to my main windows user account (the one i use). VERRY IMPORTANT (IT SEEMS THAT THIS IS THE ONE I MISSED THE OTHER TIMES I TRIED TO MAKE SUBS WORK)5. Downloaded CCCP http://www.cccp-project.net and installed it with the following items UNSELECTED : - FFDShow Tryout - Haali Media Splitter - VSFilter6. Installed FFDshow-tryouts http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net with the default settings.7. Download and install MatroskaSplitter . http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Haa ... litter.htm8. Started the services manager (Start- Run - "services.mcs", hit enter) Went to the tversity service , went into properties, log on tab, selected "This Account" and selected my account, and entered the password for it.9. Went to : Start > All Programs > ffdshow > Video Decoded Configurations ,scrolled down to subtitles and checked subtitles and then made sure these are CHECKED : - Accept Embedded subtitles - Accept SSA,ASS, ASS2...... - Decode closed captions
10. Open Tversity, make sure the service is running , add movies and the go to settings and make sure these are set : - General : - Media Playback : Autodetect - Transcoder : - When to transcode : "Always" - Windows Media Encoder : i had checked "Use Directshow ....."and "Windows Media Video 9" selected in the comboEDIT : When u install TVERSITY MAKE SURE U DO NOT INSTALL THE DRIVERS included.
I finally went to the 360 and voila : subtitles .
this doesn't work for me
my problem seems to be that ffdshow isn't used for mkv files. the try icon isn't there and i checked this by turning on OSD, if i watch an ogm i get the OSD and the subs work, but not with an mkv file. and this isn't even on the xbox itself, i already have this issue when i play the videos on my pc. do you have any ideas?
btw i think i have a solution to the password issue, but first i want to get it running (just to make sure i'm using a password for my account atm)
edit: i'm running windows 7 home premium x64
edit2: ok, i got it working now, somehow, i don't know how but i won't touch it anymore. I still don't have subtitles (or the ffdshow try icons) when playing the files with media player, but they work on the xbox (and when running the file using tversity). If i want to watch something on my PC i'll just use VLC so i won't have to touch my codecs anymore
The only way I have been able to get subtitles to work is to hard code them in using Videora Xbox 360 Converter.
My pretty simple guide.
Hope it helps ya,
hi mister,
i am running win7 home edition, having TVersity and Xbox360 Elite and i have tried your setup, it didnt work and also i have tried setup of your source dealing with Vista but in case that i didnt install TVersity codec, it didnt played mkv at all, not sure about other formats.
has anyone veeery detailed tutorial how to run subtitles on Xbox using TVersity?
i am not happy that TVersity developers didnt launch any information how to run it, all i can see r the tips and hints how to run it seeing that many of them wont work. anyone?
Transcoder is still there. You need to scroll...
Finally got subtitles to work thanks to this thread!
I don't understand why part 4 was needed (Added a password to my main windows user account (the one i use). VERRY IMPORTANT (IT SEEMS THAT THIS IS THE ONE I MISSED THE OTHER TIMES I TRIED TO MAKE SUBS WORK)) But thats what got it to work!
CAn I use this guide on windows xp too?
Hey fxandrei. I followed each step that you have taken and for some reason any video that I choose to watch now I get the following error after at the top of my TV screen the bar appears and says opening, then it says:
Unplayable ContentCan't play this content because it may not be supported.Status code: 69-C00D36C4
This happens now to all of my videos, even the ones without subtitles which worked fine before I followed the steps you listed.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I have registered in this forums to say this:
You're my hero men really!!! I tried this and it works everything!!!! Avis with srt subtitles and also MKV movies!!!!
Thank you so much!!!!
Great. I also need to mention that i had help from here http://forum.tversity.com/viewtopic.php ... dd9792b47e .
Before I make this a sticky, can someone else verify its value?...
i just wanted to mention one thing .i tried quite a few time to make subs work in tversity, but never could.this time it worked.and it works great.the only real drawback is the fact that it transcodes everything, even stuff it can read natively (like wmv), but its ok .
With no subtitle support built into the 360, you HAVE to transcode and include them...
u should check if u have set to always transcode and check if u have the neccesary codecs.mind u that i tried quite a few time before it worker, but maybe it was because i hustled every time and i forgot about some setting or the codecs.try to do all those steps again.it really should work.
Step 6 fails for me with "The service did not start due to a logon failure."
And of course I'm sure user name and password are correct, otherwise I could not even logon to my PC.
Command style is same thing:
OK, looks like a step is missing, as found in event viewer:
OK, so first you run Secpol.msc from start > search or start > run.
Then open Local Policies > User Rights Assignment > Log on as a service
Click the "Add User or Group..." button. Then click the "Advanced..." button and then the "Find Now" button and find your account listed and click the "OK" buton. Then "OK" again. Then "OK" once more.
Then lastly start the TVersityMediaServer service. Will start just fine now.
Oh yeah, it's there.. Just needed to make the window larger (Feeling a bit stupid!)
Just wanted to add another confirmation. By following these steps as described in the first post, I also got the subtitles working!I've been trying numerous other similar guides and the only thing that seem different is the user login part for starting the service.
I'm running Win 7 Pro 64-bit and it's working like a charm!
Thanks a bunch for sharing!
Following the instructions in this thread, I was able to get subtitles to work with an external .srt file only. I've confirmed that the transcoding is using ffdshow (and my current account's settings) by turning on OSD with a couple things shown. The OSD is present when I watch the files in MPC, WMP and when I stream to my 360. The embedded subs are there (and will go away if I turn off subs in the ffdshow config) when I watch the files in MPC and WMP, but are not present when I stream to my 360.
Any ideas?
Edit: A bit of additional information in case it's important: I'm running Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit.
About the password issue:
I wrote a little guide concerning how you can make it work without a password. But i suggest you first get it running using a password and then remove the password restriction. I'm posting it here so that people who use this guide to get the subtitles working also find the way how to remove the password
Here is the guide: http://forum.tversity.com/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=49148
I tried like everything.. but even this is not working...I performed every step in this tutorial.. but it is not working
I can get video's (not MKV files) but i just cant figure out how 2 get the subs in there...
Can someone please help me out! u can pm me or put it in this threat


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|Jul 31, 2015
Scientists study 'peanut-shaped' asteroid near Earth (w/video)
|(Nanowerk News) A mile-long asteroid that raced past Earth July 25 at about 45,000 miles per hour at a safe distance of 4.5 million miles was imaged by radar telescopes so that astronomers like Cornells Sean Marshall could discern its precise orbit and physical shape.
|Radar data of asteroid 1999 JD6 revealed the object is a contact binary consisting of two lobes. The data was collected over seven and a half hours on July 25, 2015, when the asteroid was about 4.5 million miles (7.2 million kilometers) from Earth.
|Using NASAs Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California, and the National Science Foundations Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, the space agencys scientists bounced radar signals off the passing asteroid named 1999 JD6 to produce images of the peanut-shaped celestial body as it zipped by Earth. The Goldstone radar signal was transmitted toward the asteroid, and the Green Bank Telescope received the radar echoes.
|Marshall then used the National Science Foundations Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico on July 29 to re-examine the asteroid in further detail.
|Im interested in this particular asteroid because estimates of its size from previous observations at infrared wavelengths have not agreed, said Marshall, a Cornell doctoral student in the field of astronomy. The radar data will allow us to conclusively resolve the mystery of its size to better understand this interesting little world.
|Radar images of asteroids gathered from millions of miles away in some cases have resolutions as small as 12 feet, with 1999 JD6 at about 30 feet.
|All of these images will allow us to determine its size and shape and measure its rotation rate no other Earth-based observations can match the resolution of the radar, said Marshall. The only way to get a better shape model would be with a spacecraft flyby.
|NASA places a priority on protecting Earth by detecting and tracking asteroids. In fact, the robust detection program has discovered more than 90 percent of the large near-Earth asteroids.
|The orbit of asteroid 1999 JD6 swings past Earth, Venus and Mercury. It comes within 4.4 million miles of Earth about 18.6 times the distance of the moon from the Earth. The next time the asteroid gets this close to Earth will be in July 2054.
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Slowed-down Europe. Equal and more equal. Megapenalty.
There can hardly be a single week without at least one funny Eurocratic idea. We informed you some time ago about the idea to install speed limiters to all cars. Those limiters would brake cars according to passing traffic signs (politicians' cars would be excluded, of course). Caring protectors of our health, happiness and good mood have recently brought up another idea. They are suggesting that every car (the old ones as well as the new ones) should have speed limiter set on 115 km/h. According to them, this is supposed to decrease the amount of accidents and emissions.
However, it is possible this kind of regulation will not be necessary any more. To drive fast could become an unreachable luxury for Europeans. The brakes of the European economy are on for last couple of years. In Greece, which has been hit by the crisis in the worst way, the intensity of car transportation was lowered by 40% in years 2010 and 2011. Greeks are switching their cars for bikes, because they do not have money for operating them.
In Spain the number of registered unemployed decreased by 2,475 people. This positive news could seem less impressive if we take a closer look on the unemployment chart. Eventually, if we read the news about IKEA, which launched online recruitment of 400 employees for its new shop and in 48 hours, its online system collapsed because of 20,000 applications.
The Netherlands has lost the highest possible rating in the Standard & Poor's agency. Thus, only three Eurozone countries still have AAA rating: Germany, Finland, and the small Luxembourg. Some countries are applying brakes more, some countries less, but the first ones are looking some way how to slow down also the others. It is much more difficult to excuse own failures to voters if neighboring countries prosper. Related to this, France has invented a new term called "unfair social competition".
Frenchmen consider unfair the fact that Germans do not have a universal minimal wage (however, they are probably going to have it soon). (Not only) thanks to this, France has the highest unemployment rate since 1997, while Germany has the lowest one since the unification and twice as low as France. If Germany introduced the French minimal wage, approximately 8 million Germans could lose their jobs.
There are also other reasons why is the system of social security now an actual topic. In the UK, the debate on Eastern-European immigrants and their access to social security system is taking place. A German court has decided that the Romanian couple, who was unsuccessfully trying to find a job for one year, has a right to participate on the German social security system. This decision caused a public indignation. Public is willing to be social, but only to people, who has the "right" country in their passports. Similar opinion is wide-spread also in France, where people are starting to suggest a restriction of the social security system, which is supposed to be available only for Frenchmen. But gentlemen, we can hardly build the European superfederation this way!
The banking sector has one piece of good news. The Irish government has successfully sold some Irish banks' stocks for 580 million euro. It is only a drop in the ocean of losses (tens of billions euro are owed by Irish taxpayers) but at least it indicates the existence of some investors' trust in Irish banks.
On the other hand, in Slovenia the trade with bank stocks was completely stopped until the results of ongoing stress-test will be known. It is being approven, that Slovenian large banks will need approximately 5 billion to survive. Banks posses 8 billion in bad loans and because they are mostly owned by the government, they do not have foreign partners, who could provide them with needed capital.
Six European banks got 1.7 billion euro penalty for cartel formation in relation with the famous scandal of LIBORgate (manipulations of the LIBOR interest rate). Even though this is unprecedentedly tough penalty, we should not crack a bottle yet. Banks have received bailout money reaching tens of billions euro.
European Union law is now composed of 34,000 legal acts, or 100,000 acts, court decisions, standards, and international treaties altogether. Tens of thousands of hard-working bureaucrats in Brussels office complexes are busily working on keeping this legal act growth smooth. The old rule "ignorantia juris non excusat" cannot be used any more without the taste of irony. For example, in cases of Bulgaria, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Greece, and Austria, the Commission has decided that bi-lateral treaties on South Stream construction are against EU law, thus negotiations have to start from the very beginning. All the money spent on cold buffets during negotiations was wasted…
Would you like to have a new branded jeans, but you cannot afford them thanks to your economic situation? You do not have to go to a second hand store. Poor Europeans can lease them now. Good jeans can now cost you not 100 euro in cash, but only 20 euro deposit and monthly payments of 5 euro. After the year you can decide, whether you want to buy them, change them for different ones, or return them to the merchant.
Splendid idea! Maybe even the ECB will accept jeans leasing as collateral. With wishes of not needing jeans leasing
Martin Vlachynský
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Old Gaol
The Old Gaol is an important part of the view approaching Abingdon from the south. Nowadays it is shielded by trees, but when it was first built the construction was stark and unusual. It was the first prison to have three wings from a central tower.
A brief History of this Grade II listed building
* 1811 the Old Gaol was opened as a prison (built by prisoners during the Napoleonic wars)
* 1868 it ceased to be a prison
* 1874 it became a grain store
* 1975 it was sold to the Vale district council and opened as a leisure centre
* 2002 closed on opening of the new leisure centre.
NOT USED SINCE. But there have been various initiatives
A consultation began looking at 3 options ranging from the people's favorite:
a 420 seat theatre and cinema, library, museum, and exhibition space, pub / restaurant / bar
to the least favourite option - commercial use with no community space.
A first report suggested that option 1 was feasible. A second report after a further years work showed it would be too expensive for all the partners, and the report was pessimistic about getting lottery funding.
So now the Vale District Council is looking for commercial developers
The selection procedure has 2 stages.
On 13th July up to 8 developers plans could be shortlisted by the Vale. The plans need to meet certain Vale criteria to go through to stage 2 of the selection process:
These are:
* contribute to visual look of area
* encourage access to the courtyard, ground floor and riverside gardens
* make good use of the central riverside location and historic building
* be good value for money in terms of sale price, and if housing is included, it should have a mix of affordable housing
The second phase will involve further-developing the plans and putting in a formal 'money' bid to the Vale
Community meetings have taken place over the last 2 years to see whether a community scheme could run the Old Gaol.
Since March, when the Vale sought expressions of interest from developers, a group called COG (Community in the Old Gaol) has been formed to act as a pressure group to try to ensure:
* the freehold and public ownership is retained
* public access to the river frontage
* some community space
COG express an interest in working together with developers. COG have a petition with about 3,500 signatures that continues to grow. There is also a Cog Blog.
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John O'Shea grabbed a last-minute equaliser for the Republic of Ireland against Germany last night to blow Group D wide open in the Euro 2016 qualifiers.
It turned out to be a fairytale night for O'Shea – who marked his 100th cap in the finest way possible, ruling out Toni Kroos' fine opening strike for the Germans.
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Group to watch
The group itself has quickly become the one to watch with just three games played. Germany would have been expecting to top the group with nine points at this stage, but having lost to Poland and now drawing at home to the Republic, a challenging task lies ahead for Jogi Löw's side.
Irish fans would have been disappointed to see Poland beating Germany at the weekend. Not only did it make the Poles favourites for second place, it also made the Germans "wounded animals," as Roy Keane described them in the build-up.
The home side were certainly wounded last night, but they didn't come out fighting as we expected. Apart from when Erik Durm's stunning effort from 25 yards hit the crossbar after five minutes, the world champions offered little to trouble the Irish defence. Ireland's back four of Meyler, Wilson, O'Shea and Ward held firm until the 71st minute – when Kroos was allowed a couple of yards on the edge of the box and scored via the post.
Forde heroics
Huge credit for this result must go to the away goalkeeper David Forde. With Shay Given returning to the Ireland set up Martin O'Neill may have been tempted to give Irish legend more games. However O'Neil stood by Forde and it paid off last night. Apart from a nervy moment dealing with a Marc Wilson backpass in the second half, the 34-year old fully justified his position as No.1 with some important saves – including a key stop when Mario Götze tried to loft it over him from close range.
O'Neill was adamant his side were coming to Gelsenkirchen looking for a result and wasn't interested in any "moral victories".
"There's great credit due to the players. It's a fantastic effort by the team. We could have [conceded a second] but what's the point in sitting back? I don't mind losing a second goal if we're looking for an equaliser. I don't want moral victories. I want us to compete. The response from the players after going behind was terrific," - Martin O'Neill
This result, which adds to recent defeats against Poland and Argentina as well as a poor display against Scotland, means an inquest will begin from the German media. With key players like Philipp Lahm, Per Mertesacker and Miroslav Klose retiring after the World Cup, Löw's men are finding the initial period of transition difficult. Of course the fact Bastian Schweinsteiger is injured until the new year doesn't help, but with talents like Julian Draxler coming through, more is expected from this gifted side.
Low reaction
"From our point of view it's extremely annoying not to have won the game," Löw told the press. "Ireland had one single chance in the very final second and managed to equalise. On the other hand, if anybody is to blame it can only be ourselves".
"We lost possession far too easily in the final stages and there were too many misplaced passes."
"We also passed back to [Manuel] Neuer too often and he then just kicked them back. We showed a lot of nervousness in the final five minutes of the game and conceded too many chances to let them rise again."
Irish belief
For the Republic, this result will give fans a great deal of belief in the O'Neill project. Under Giovanni Trapattoni results like this were few and far between. You would have to go back to Bari in 2009 when Ireland clinched a late equaliser through Robbie Keane – drawing 1-1 with then world champions, Italy.
Ultimately, Ireland's fate will rely on results against Poland and Scotland but this result will certainly give them a lot of confidence going into those games.


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American knife and tool maker Ontario Knife Company continues to roll out its previously announced capital investment project with more exciting news—the dramatic expansion of its manufacturing portfolio to include plastic injection molding, tool and die making, and precision machining capabilities. The new processes are part of a recently established division, Jericho Tool, and both support existing operations and provide OEM manufacturing services for a wide range of products and industries. The enhanced capabilities facilitate the development of new products and allows OKC to fabricate plastic handles and sheathes in-house.
Along with the launch of the new division, OKC is excited to report the hiring of veteran industry executive David Fenske as Sales Director and head of Jericho Tool. Fenske is responsible for a sales portfolio including the business development of the Jericho Tool division, working in tandem with the sales & marketing, operations, engineering, and manufacturing teams at OKC. Fenske reports directly to Deneb Pirrone, OKC's Vice President of Sales & Marketing.
"Ontario Knife continues to invest in the resources and people needed to grow the business," said Kenneth Trbovich, President and CEO of Ontario Knife Company. "The Jericho Tool division gives OKC the scale to manufacture our products more efficiently and the scope to reach a wide range of new markets and customers."
The equipment secured for the Jericho Tool division includes a wide range of injection molding presses from 44 ton to 220 ton, RAM EDM and CNC milling machines, sonic sealing and assembly capabilities, lathes, presses, grinders, and other manufacturing equipment along with OKC's new fully equipped quality assurance lab. The equipment is located at OKC's newly expanded Franklinville, New York facility. The co-location will allow OKC to combine Jericho's engineering and quality assurance functionality with the broad scope of OKC's existing manufacturing capabilities to build and maintain molds in house as well as perform contract machining of plastic and metal components as an OEM.
"Jericho Tool is taking Ontario Knife Company into new and exciting directions," said Fenske. "The metal and plastic fabrication capabilities of the Jericho division now produces everything from machined components to molded products for the consumer, commercial, food service, military, and aerospace markets."
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ONTARIO KNIFE COMPANY® INTRODUCES THE BLACK BIRD SK-4 The Award-Winning Black Bird Line Welcomes a Compact Addition Building on the success of the Black Bird line, Ontario Knife Company (OKC®) is proud to introduce the OKC Black Bird SK-4. Every experienced outdoorsman knows the importance of saving as much weight and space as possible; to that end, the new SK-4 provides a compact variant on an already award-winning design. "In keeping with my design ideals of simplicity and pure function, the SK-4 employs the same materials, blade geometry and smooth radius handles as its bigger brother, the SK-5. Scaling it down by removing an inch of blade and an inch of handle allows the tool to be more at home in lightweight applications like backpacking and bug out," said Paul Scheiter, designer of the Black Bird series. "The blade itself is also slightly thinner, which translates to easier carving. If there's one thing you'll miss when comparing it to the SK-5, it's the generous blade length for batoning. That said, the SK-4 retains 90% of the capability while going to a much more compact tool." The fixed blade, full-tang Black Bird SK-4 has an overall length of 8-inches with a 4-inch blade, compared to the 10-inch overall and 5-inch blade of the original SK-5. Scheiter's design features a spear-point profile that is sleek and exceptionally resistant to breakage. The ergonomic shape of the handle is complimented by mildly textured G10 scales that deliver comfort during prolonged use. Hunters will like the size of the Black Bird SK-4 for its versatility as a field dressing knife and a survival tool. The sharp edge allows for precision work while the 154CM stainless steel will stand up to hard use and exposure to the elements. For the bushcraft and camping crowd, the SK-4 excels at carving, food preparation and creating feather sticks for a fire. The 90-degree angle on the spine also excels at striking ferrocerium-based fire starting devices. "For me, the Black Bird line symbolizes high quality and superior functionality," observed Deneb Pirrone, Vice President of Sales & Marketing for OKC. "The Black Bird SK-4 is an outdoorsman's everyday carry." The Black Bird SK-4 includes a MOLLE compatible nylon sheath with a solid snap to keep the knife firmly in place until it is needed. Like all knives in the Black Bird line, the Black Bird SK-4 is proudly Made-in-the-USA and backed by OKC's lifetime warranty. Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) is $229.95. Founded in 1889, the Ontario Knife Company® is an award-winning knife, cutlery, and tool manufacturer operating out of Upstate New York for over 125 years. OKC® produces a wide range of tools, including cutlery and kitchenware, hunting and fishing knives, machetes, survival and rescue equipment, science and medical tools, and tactical knives. OKC has a long tradition of building knives and tools for the U.S. military, producing high quality equipment that has seen continuous service since WWII. In addition to being a major supplier to the U.S. Armed Forces, OKC leverages a network of distributors, dealers, and major commercial retailers to sell its products nationwide and internationally to over 35 countries. OKC's custom manufacturing division Jericho Tool®, advances capabilities including a broad-spectrum of injection molding, tool and die, and machining operations to provide white label and OEM manufacturing services for consumer and industrial goods. Collectively OKC's product lines and manufacturing services reach the house wares, sporting goods, tactical, security, law enforcement & first responders, education, science & medical, and industrial & agricultural industries.Continue Reading
Just in time for Ontario's 125th Anniversary Celebrations, the Bushcraft Field Knife Secures OKC its Second "Best of the Best" Award in Four Years
Every year Field & Stream expert field testers evaluate hundreds of the best new outdoor products in several categories, narrowing down the list to the equipment that stands apart as the "Best of the Best." For the second time in the past four years, an Ontario Knife Company product has been selected for this great distinction, with the Bushcraft Field Knife designed by OKC's Blademaster-in-Residence Dan Maragni chosen for 2014's survival knife category.
A Versatile Update on an Iconic Design
No outdoorsman is prepared without a top-quality machete and the new Ontario Knife Company ® Bushcraft Machete is world class. Featuring a timeless design and classic, rugged materials; the OKC Bushcraft Machete is sure to be your go-to blade whether you need to enhance your camping experience or survive in the wilderness.
The Ontario Knife Company (OKC) teamed with award-winning blade designer and craftsman Dan Maragni to build a machete blade that was both strong and simple in design. Maragni's update on the legendary Collins Machete takes a proven blade-pattern and adds key features demanded by the bushcraft community. The high carbon 5160 steel blade is hardened to 53-55 HRC, strong enough to handle the toughest chopping tasks without being too hard to sharpen in the field. The 16-inch blade is designed to avoid getting stuck when chopping wood.Continue Reading


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I started a blog to share my favorite restaurants, books, places. It turns out to be a place where I want to inspire people with what I write. Be it about trying something new or to wonder about life, I hope it gives something to you. A thought. A wish. A smile.
I used to live in Jakarta, Indonesia where I worked as a digital strategist. Then I moved to LA, California following my spouse. That is until he decided to become an Air Force Officer and we moved to Panama City, Florida prior to being stationed here in Oklahoma City.
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America is a tune. It must be sung together.
—Gerald Stanley Lee
Yeah; about that, Mr. Lee: it only works if it is sung together. I'm thinking more of Johannes Ockeghem, who will be quoted at the end.
It has been months since my last blogpost. For me, this has been a killer semester; most of the writing and editing of our (Halina Goldberg's and my) book Chopin and His World, the companion volume to the 2017 Bard Summer Festival of the same name, has had to be done in the last couple of months. Moreover, I had a pile of guest lectures and other papers to write, and a residence at another university. I hope to take it easier this semester, though whether or not I actually manage that is always an open question.
Anyway, that's where I've been, and that is not what this blogpost is about.
Following the Electoral College vote, we now know that there will be no Deus ex Machina, and that those of us who do not practice hatred as a recreational pastime are in for a long four years (regardless of potential impeachment; look at VPEOTUS and the Congress). Many of us are dispirited, but we imagine ourselves to build a Resistance by sending worthless crap around on the internet: Leonard Bernstein's infuriatingly over-quoted "This will be our answer to violence" pablum, jokes about the President-Elect's hair, wives, etc. Remember the W-Looks-Like-A-Chimp garbage from 2000, after that election also was stolen? That did us a lot of good. Andy Borowitz and The Onion provide some dark levity. Those of us of the liberal persuasion, true to our nature, have been spending some time—stupidly, pointlessly, infuriatingly—scolding and blaming ourselves. We somehow should have reached out to low-information voters in gerrymandered districts, had more respect and empathy for people who like open carry and beating minorities and LGBT people to a pulp because they've—y'know—had enough, and reached out to those who hate "elites" with a bitter passion while being unable to spell or think clearly. Yeah, sure, had the Democratic nominee not run such a "bad" campaign, had so many insiders/outsiders/Huma Abedins/X chromosomes, it would have gone differently…
I'm also seeing lots of doomsaying. Maybe it's excessive, maybe it's real, but God knows it doesn't help me at all. I see pieties from the mass media, who gleefully, as Les Moonves unctuously admitted, gave the PEOTUS hours and hours of free coverage, to the advantage of the shareholders and no one else. I will not dignify their hangdog fingerpointing and "sober" handwringing with attention or acknowledgment. Finally, I see dozens of E-Mails schnorring for money from all the progressive organizations, the Democratic party, etc.
This isn't about any of that, either.
What interests me, currently, is the idea of survival, psychological and physical. As a tenured guy with white skin, I may be in a more privileged position than others, and so be in a better position to ride this out. However, absolutely nothing is a given because there are no relevant precedents; I've always been a public Jew (this very day, the targeted Jew-hating is to be found in Whitefish, MT), and I cherish all kinds of people and would act to protect them, so I might well not enjoy much in the way of privilege. The extent to which we will see real fascism, or more benign (?!) corporate plunderigarchy, or once-and-for-all Dr. Strangelove on 1/22/17 is all up in the air.
How do we stay alive? I don't mean how do we continue unchanged, I mean how do we stay alive? After, I mean, upping the regular donations to the ACLU, PP, SPLC, and the local food bank. No, I'm not looking for your favorite worthy charities, thanks; don't add them in the comments. The human race, the glorious American polyglot, gets a Fail on this one, and I'm not interested in sending more money other places.
Some ideas, and your mileage may vary:
1) We might think very, very carefully about where we travel. Are there places in the U.S. where the open presence of military-grade weapons, hateful rhetoric, or a particular brand of religious culture would make one uncomfortable? In many places in the U.S., the prevailing environment is now one where people gleefully jeer and threaten individuals from marginalized groups ("Trump's in now; you'd better get lost")—and that is happening everywhere, including my university campus in a blue state—and so I will think carefully about travel, what gigs I accept, and how I get there. Would I drive through a state in which I feel unsafe, spending my money in that state's economy, to get to a gig? Maybe it's better to fly, or just say no. If that sounds unfriendly to my fellow American citizens, gosh—y'know, we have to draw the line somewhere, and your state gleefully f—ed the nation, so …. Taking as an example firearm safety an control (one issue among dozens): the will of the NRA and their legislative toadies and dogsbodies is a threat to my personal safety, and I am forced to conclude that the areas most in support of the firearms industry and culture clearly do not need my help or involvement in any way. That includes taking an interest when you become Aleppo. Do feel free to produce an exegesis on the Second Amendment while you're huddling in your basement wondering, increasingly hysterically, if your children will make it home safely.
2) More locally: my current feeling is that Learning About Others Different From Me isn't a good reason to leave a comfort zone/neighborhood anymore. Sure, they can always load up and come find you, but I don't think that looking for trouble, or delusionally denying it's there and believing that "you'll probably be all right" is all that great an idea. The people who not only brought this on themselves, but on everyone? I'm not the person to speak for them, and it remains to be seen if shootin' lib'ruls or other wrong-thinkers is going to rival Fantasy Football as far as entertainment for the general populace. Regardless: I don't want to be, and I certainly don't want anyone I love to be, the subject of some public official's hypocritical post facto "thoughts and prayers." So, it's bad in many places? Few jobs, many opioids, everybody is angry and frustrated and just striking out and easily manipulated?
Actually, no, I don't have to sympathize. It's clear how those people voted, those that did, and the only possible conclusion is that they do not want help, or infrastructure, or even respect, or medical care, or a safety net, or environmental protections, or safe food standards, or Medicare, from the invasive U.S. government which they find so threatening. Well, this was a matter of choice, after all, and there is nothing I can offer a place like that. So I won't try.
3) I realize on some level—a deeply suppressed level—that malediction does not make for a healthy diet. Those of us that teach need to cling to that—it will be an increasingly rare opportunity, in these dark times, to be able to light a light every day. We constantly encounter people who need what we have, so to be able to nourish them—with liberal doses of cynicism, idealism, and above all critical thinking—may do us, our souls, as much good as it does them. One thing about teaching is that you never have to wonder if you're making a difference, if what you do is of value, if you're leaving the world a better place. Sappy idealism? Yeah; come at me, Bro. We teach your children things you can't, we ignite the curiosity, and we awaken the parts of their lives that will get them through depressions, break-ups, the deepest insecurities. That's what we do, every day. God knows that in the dark hours, in the midnight of the soul, that's a pretty good thing to know and fall back on.
4) So how to make it through? The only possible solution is to find something we believe in with our entire being, and do it—it may benefit others, but we have to do it for us, because to go-along-get-along, to cave to the amorality of the Culture of Lies (they call it "post-truth culture," and I'll none) is—we know to our very core—death. Alcoholism, then death. It is not available to us, nor should it be.
For the love of God, hold tight. "Now traitors have the season," as the text from "Les Desléaux," a Renaissance chanson by Johannes Ockeghem, has it. And perhaps there will yet be light, as Thomas Jefferson wrote:
A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt… And if we feel their power just sufficiently to hoop us together, it will be the happiest situation in which we can exist. If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake.
–Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Taylor, June 4, 1798 in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson p. 1050.
We certainly hope. Last word from the Boss:
No retreat, baby, no surrender.—Bruce Springsteen


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I'm sure there are plenty who will agree that the Kingdom Hearts (KH) series was one of great significance growing up (well, at least for the millennial generation). This was a time where the two pinnacles of entertainment, Final Fantasy and Disney, held large spots in our hearts. When the two finally teamed up and created a universe full of action, fantasy, and friendship, it seemed as though the heavens sang just for us. Since then, a significant amount of time has passed. Not only have people grown up, but so have their tastes. With Kingdom Hearts III still in development, one begins to wonder… should we still care?
It has been ten years since Kingdom Hearts II released and we have seen four KH games since then. Although the spin-offs were meant to be separate from the main plot line, it seemed as though Square-Enix tried to satiate KH fans with smaller, less iconic installments. Sure, among these four additions lie some incredible storytelling, but the fact that these games were peripheries to the core, still remains. That being said, has Square-Enix beaten the Kingdom Hearts series to a bloody pulp? And if not, is there simply too much lore for the casual gamer to grasp when they finally dive into Kingdom Hearts III?
Of course, there are dedicated KH fans who would be outraged at the thought of their favorite series being recognized as anything but significant, but you can't help but question: if Square-Enix didn't prioritize this game, then why should we still care? We have been promised time and time again that Kingdom Hearts III would be released at "this time" and then to "this date" or the classic, "let's add another year of production" and once that year has flown by, they hit us with "we're aiming for XYZ year."
Aside from the blatant procrastination in regards to the game's development, just how relevant is Kingdom Hearts III? Those who were once 10-18 years old when Kingdom Hearts II released are now 20-28, going to college, living on their own, or some of them have started their families (you know, typical "adulting"). Are these original fans still part of the fan base? Will they still enjoy Donald's quacking, Goofy's dilly dallying, and Sora's high pitched screams? Although we would hope that we would still enjoy it, it still raises the question of whether or not a new KH game would be as fun to play as it was ten years ago. To put it simply, has our maturity surpassed that of the very light and youthful KH series?
Although Kingdom Hearts III seems to have upgraded many core functions since the second installment, it still utilizes many similar features. We all remember the clunky button mashing KH experience of running up to a giant heartless and tediously pressing your DualShock in a spastic-like fashion on the stationary body until suddenly… CUT SCENE. This all seems to be featured in III as well. Although we haven't seen much of its gameplay, we still see the same repetitive actions full of hack and slashing, quick time events, spell firing, and funky, wide-legged jumps. After playing so many games in the last ten years which have caused our gaming skills to grow, will it be too easy?
Regardless of the ten year gap, the countless spin-off games, Square-Enix's procrastination, and the low difficulty level of the series' predecessors, Kingdom Hearts I and II were both game changers (no pun intended). Who knows, perhaps the release of III will prove to be easily accessible to casual gamers, have better gameplay, and a more mature plot line, but then again… let's not get our hopes up.


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For the last 6 years Central New York's Super Group – Off the Reservation-has been thrilling audiences with their powerful vocals, dynamic harmonies and technical musicianship. Their live stage shows and energetic presence blend to give audiences the true "Arena Rock Experience" that first inspired them to pick up an instrument.
Each member has been performing in CNY and abroad for over 25 years, paying their dues and cutting their teeth in different bands on some the largest stages and festivals around. Since their inception they have quickly become a well-known and respected name across all of New York State. For this band of brothers being from a small town hasn't stopped them from leaving a big impression everywhere they go. Off the Reservation is a musical juggernaut that cannot be stopped.
The 5 members of the band have graced the Largest Stages and Festivals of New York throughout the years in various different acts and as solo performers including: Frost Bit Blue, Doctor Boogie, Kat Tale, The Bufftones, Jolly Roger just to name a few.
Off the Reservation will take the Budweiser Lakeview Stage at Breitbeck Park on Saturday, July 28, at 10 p.m. The band's appearance at Harborfest is sponsored by Harbor Eye Associates.


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Starting today, you can download Android Studio 3.2 Beta. Previewed at Google I/O 2018, the latest release of the official Android IDE is focused on helping onboard you to all the new features launched around Google I/O -- Android JetPack, Android P Developer Preview, and the new Android App Bundle format. There are also several other exciting new features included in Android Studio 3.2 to accelerate your app development, such as Emulator Snapshots and the Energy Profiler.
As the usage of Android Studio has grown in the 3.5 years since version 1.0, we have also become increasingly obsessed with quality. We continue to invest in quality because we know that millions of app developers spend almost everyday in Android Studio and need a reliable set of tools. Stability, build times, and other quality work will be the primary focus for our next release once we finish Android Studio 3.2. We also did not want to wait, so we have made checkins to address memory leaks and performance issues as well as fixed more than 450 bugs. Thank you for the continued feedback and please keep it coming so we can focus on the areas you care about most in the next version of Android Studio. If want to try out the latest features, and assess the improvements in quality, you can download Android Studio on the beta release channel.
What is inside of Android Studio 3.2
Building on the canary release of Android Studio 3.2, the Beta release includes:
Build Android App Bundle
Android Emulator Snapshots
Energy Profiler
Check out the full write-up of all the major features organized by development flow listed below and on the canary blog:
Sessions at Google I/O '18
With the release of Android Studio 3.2 at Google I/O '18, the Android Studio team also presented a series of sessions about Android Studio. Watch the following videos to see the latest features in action and to get tips & tricks on how to use Android Studio:
An overview of all the recent features in Android Studio for Android app developers. The session includes demos and a tour de force presentation of relevant features that will accelerate developers' workflow on the latest Android APIs.
A deep dive into the new features of the Android build system.
This session covers the new features in ConstraintLayout 2.0, as well as the latest functionality added in Android Studio design tools, highlighting how to effectively take advantage of them for designing, prototyping, and building a graphical user interface application.
This talk demonstrates how to diagnose and troubleshoot performance problems with your app using Android Studio Profilers. It covers examples of how to use the CPU, memory, network profilers, and highlight what's new.
This session discusses in-depth what is happening to the various compilers used in Android: Java 8 language feature desugaring, the new dexer (D8) and shrinker (R8), and work done on the Kotlin compiler for Android use.
This session discusses how to use the Navigation Editor in Android Studio, XML or the Java API to define your navigation graph, and how that simplifies navigating around your app and handling deep linking.
Download & Feedback
Download the latest version of Android Studio 3.2 from the beta channel download page. If you are using a previous versions of Android Studio, make sure you update to Android Studio Beta 1 or higher. If you also want to maintain a stable version of Android Studio, you can run the stable release version and beta release versions of Android Studio at the same time. Learn more.
To use the mentioned Android Emulator features make sure you are running at least Android Emulator v27.3+ downloaded via the Android Studio SDK Manager.
Please note, to ensure we maintain product quality, some of the features you saw in the canary channel like Navigation Editor are not enabled by default. To turn on canary release channel features go to File → Settings → Experimental → Editor → Enable Navigation Editor.
If you find a bug or issue, feel free to file an issue. Connect with us -- the Android Studio development team ‐ on our Google+ page or on Twitter.
Posted by Wayne Piekarski, Developer Advocate for IoT +WaynePiekarski @WaynePiekarski
We're releasing a client library to make it easy to use Google Cloud IoT Core from Android Things devices. With just a few lines of code, you can easily connect to the IoT Core MQTT bridge, authenticate the device, publish device telemetry and state, subscribe to configuration changes, and handle errors and network outages.
Cloud IoT Core is a fully managed service on Google Cloud Platform that allows you to easily and securely connect, manage, and ingest data from millions of globally dispersed devices. Cloud IoT Core, in combination with other services which make up Google's Cloud IoT platform, provides a complete solution for collecting, processing, analyzing, and visualizing IoT data in real time, to support improved operational efficiency, compliance, or revenue management. Android Things is designed to support everything from collecting telemetry data to powerful computer vision, audio processing, and machine learning applications, all on device, and using Cloud IoT Core, push your data into Google Cloud Platform for further analysis.
The Cloud IoT Core client library was designed to enable Android Things developers to get started with just a few lines of code. The client library handles the networking, threading, and message handling, implementing best practices for authentication, security, error handling, and offline operation.
Cloud IoT Core maintains a device registry that keeps track of approved devices, and each device uses a public key to authenticate with the server. Android Things provides many features to support secure IoT applications, including a hardware-backed Android Keystore that ensures cryptographic key material is protected. The client library supports both RSA and ECC keys, and implements the generation of JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) for authentication with Cloud IoT Core.
Once the connection is established, devices can publish their telemetry data to one or more buckets in the telemetry topic, as well as report their internal state to a separate device state topic. The device state is intended to store information such as software versions or the number of working sensors. The telemetry messages are for all other data from the device, such as actual sensor measurements. Devices can also subscribe to configuration changes published from Cloud IoT Core.
Because IoT devices operate in the real world with poor wireless conditions, the client library provides extensive support for handling errors, and for caching and retransmitting events later. For developers requiring custom offline behavior, the library's queue is configurable and even replaceable. This provides detailed control over which events to save and the order in which they are sent when back online.
The Cloud IoT Core client library is part of our overall vision for device provisioning and authentication with Android Things. To learn more about this, watch the video of our presentation from Google I/O 2018:
Getting started with the Cloud IoT Core client library is simple. You can simply add the following to the build.gradle file in your Android Things project:
implementation 'com.google.android.things:cloud-iot-core:1.0.0'
The library is also available as open source on GitHub if you prefer to build it yourself. We also have a sample that shows how to implement a sensor hub on Android Things, collecting sensor data from connected sensors and publishing them to a Google Cloud IoT Pub/Sub topic.
It is easy to start using the client library in your own code. The following Kotlin example demonstrates how to create a new configuration and client based on your project.
var configuration = IotCoreConfiguration.Builder().
.setRegistry("my-device-registry", "us-central1")
var iotCoreClient = IotCoreClient.Builder()
Next, you can publish telemetry information or device state, using the following Kotlin examples.
private fun publishTelemetry(temperature: Float, humidity: Float) {
// payload is an arbitrary, application-specific array of bytes
val examplePayload = """{
|"temperature" : $temperature,
|"humidity": $humidity
val event = TelemetryEvent(examplePayload, topicSubpath, TelemetryEvent.QOS_AT_LEAST_ONCE)
private fun publishDeviceState(telemetryFrequency: Int, enabledSensors: Array<String>) {
// payload is an arbitrary, application-specific array of bytes
val examplePayload = """{
|"telemetryFrequency": $telemetryFrequency,
|"enabledSensors": ${enabledSensors.contentToString()}
You can learn more about building for Android Things at the developer site. For more information about getting started with Cloud IoT Core, visit the information page and documentation. Finally, join Google's IoT Developers Community on Google+ to let us know what you're building with Android Things and Cloud IoT Core!
Posted by Vishwath Mohan, Security Engineer
To keep users safe, most apps and devices have an authentication mechanism, or a way to prove that you're you. These mechanisms fall into three categories: knowledge factors, possession factors, and biometric factors. Knowledge factors ask for something you know (like a PIN or a password), possession factors ask for something you have (like a token generator or security key), and biometric factors ask for something you are (like your fingerprint, iris, or face).
Biometric authentication mechanisms are becoming increasingly popular, and it's easy to see why. They're faster than typing a password, easier than carrying around a separate security key, and they prevent one of the most common pitfalls of knowledge-factor based authentication—the risk of shoulder surfing.
As more devices incorporate biometric authentication to safeguard people's private information, we're improving biometrics-based authentication in Android P by:
Currently, biometric unlocks quantify their performance today with two metrics borrowed from machine learning (ML): False Accept Rate (FAR), and False Reject Rate (FRR).
In the case of biometrics, FAR measures how often a biometric model accidentally classifies an incorrect input as belonging to the target user—that is, how often another user is falsely recognized as the legitimate device owner. Similarly, FRR measures how often a biometric model accidentally classifies the user's biometric as incorrect—that is, how often a legitimate device owner has to retry their authentication. The first is a security concern, while the second is problematic for usability.
Both metrics do a great job of measuring the accuracy and precision of a given ML (or biometric) model when applied to random input samples. However, because neither metric accounts for an active attacker as part of the threat model, they do not provide very useful information about its resilience against attacks.
In Android 8.1, we introduced two new metrics that more explicitly account for an attacker in the threat model: Spoof Accept Rate (SAR) and Imposter Accept Rate (IAR). As their names suggest, these metrics measure how easily an attacker can bypass a biometric authentication scheme. Spoofing refers to the use of a known-good recording (e.g. replaying a voice recording or using a face or fingerprint picture), while impostor acceptance means a successful mimicking of another user's biometric (e.g. trying to sound or look like a target user).
We use the SAR/IAR metrics to categorize biometric authentication mechanisms as either strong or weak. Biometric authentication mechanisms with an SAR/IAR of 7% or lower are strong, and anything above 7% is weak. Why 7% specifically? Most fingerprint implementations have a SAR/IAR metric of about 7%, making this an appropriate standard to start with for other modalities as well. As biometric sensors and classification methods improve, this threshold can potentially be decreased in the future.
This binary classification is a slight oversimplification of the range of security that different implementations provide. However, it gives us a scalable mechanism (via the tiered authentication model) to appropriately scope the capabilities and the constraints of different biometric implementations across the ecosystem, based on the overall risk they pose.
While both strong and weak biometrics will be allowed to unlock a device, weak biometrics:
These measures are intended to allow weaker biometrics, while reducing the risk of unauthorized access.
Starting in Android P, developers can use the BiometricPrompt API to integrate biometric authentication into their apps in a device and biometric agnostic way. BiometricPrompt only exposes strong modalities, so developers can be assured of a consistent level of security across all devices their application runs on. A support library is also provided for devices running Android O and earlier, allowing applications to utilize the advantages of this API across more devices.
While applications can hook into BiometricPrompt directly for Android 9 and higher, developers should use the BiometricPrompt library to support the widest range of devices.
The API is intended to be easy to use, allowing the platform to select an appropriate biometric to authenticate with instead of forcing app developers to implement this logic themselves. Here's an example of how a developer might use it in their app:
Biometrics have the potential to both simplify and strengthen how we authenticate our digital identity, but only if they are designed securely, measured accurately, and implemented in a privacy-preserving manner.
We want Android to get it right across all three. So we're combining secure design principles, a more attacker-aware measurement methodology, and a common, easy to use biometrics API that allows developers to integrate authentication in a simple, consistent, and safe manner.
Acknowledgements: This post was developed in joint collaboration with Jim Miller.
Posted by Larry Yang and Angela Ying, Product Managers, Google Play
Subscriptions on Google Play continue to see huge growth, with subscribers growing over 80% year over year. At I/O 2018, we announced several improvements we're making to the user experience to reduce barriers to subscription sign-up, and more tools to let you manage your business the way you want to.
While users derive a lot of value from their subscriptions, our research shows their fears of being "trapped" in a subscription without the ability to cancel or worry they'll lose track of how much they're spending create a hindrance to users signing up for your subscription apps. To address these fears, we recently launched a new subscriptions center, a one-stop shop for users to manage their subscriptions on Google Play.
Through the subscriptions center, users can:
In addition, if a user cancels a subscription, we will now trigger a cancellation survey to give developers feedback as to why the user is cancelling. Currently you can see the data from the cancellation survey by querying our server side API.
The new subscriptions center also has a "Get Started" link in the empty state that lets users discover subscription apps through curated and localized collections.
With the launch of the subscriptions center, we're also launching new deep links you can use to direct your users to manage their subscriptions from your app, over email or via the web. To implement, use the package name and SKU to construct the deep link, and then add the deep link as a button or link from anywhere in your app. View the Android Developers website for more information.
In addition to creating a better experience for users, we're also rolling out new tools that give you more flexibility in managing your business. One of the features we've heard requested most is price changes. Coming soon, you can easily ask users to accept a price change via the Google Play Console without having to set up a completely new SKU. Google Play will notify users of the change via emails, push notifications and in-app messaging, and if by renewal date the user hasn't agreed, we'll cancel their subscription. Sign up here if you are interested in participating in the early access program.
Other features we launched at I/O that help you better manage your subscription business include the ability to:
This is in addition to faster test renewals and flexible intro pricing we announced earlier this year.
To easily implement all of these, make sure you are using the Google Play Billing Library, which launched version 1.1 at I/O. The billing library is an abstraction layer on top of the AIDL file, and API updates are automatically picked up when you update your build dependency file the next time you compile your app. Price changes and upgrade/downgrade with the same expiration date are only available through the billing library. This will be the case for future launches as well.
We strongly believe that by building a great user experience, we build a high quality subscriber base. And by giving you tools and insights to better manage your business, you have the flexibility to do what is best for your business and your customers.
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In December last year we announced that we would be making updates to app security to help verify product authenticity from Google Play. We are now adding a small amount of security metadata on top of APKs to verify that the APK was distributed by Google Play.
One of the reasons we're doing this is to help developers reach a wider audience, particularly in countries where peer-to-peer app sharing is common because of costly data plans and limited connectivity.
In the future, for apps obtained through Play-approved distribution channels, we'll be able to determine app authenticity while a device is offline, add those shared apps to a user's Play Library, and manage app updates when the device comes back online. This will give people more confidence when using Play-approved peer-to-peer sharing apps.
This also benefits you as a developer as it provides a Play-authorized offline distribution channel and, since the peer-to-peer shared app is added to your user's Play library, your app will now be eligible for app updates from Play.
No action is needed by developers or by those who use your app or game. We're adjusting Google Play's maximum APK size to take into account the small metadata addition, which is inserted into the APK Signing Block. In addition to improving the integrity of Google Play's mobile app ecosystem, this metadata will also present new distribution opportunities for developers and help more people keep their apps up to date.
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Posted by Patricia Correa, Director, Developer Marketing, Platforms & Ecosystems
The Android developer ecosystem is made up of exceptional individuals with different backgrounds, interests, and dreams. To celebrate the people who make up our community, starting today, and over the coming months, we'll be meeting with developers, founders, product managers, designers, and others from around the world to hear more about their passions and discover what they do when they step away from their computers.
Watch stories featuring adventurer Niek Bokkers from Polarsteps (Netherlands), artist Faith Ringgold from Quiltuduko (USA) and chair restorer Hans Jørgen Wiberg from Be My Eyes (Denmark). You can also read more about them and their apps on g.co/play/imakeapps.
We'd love to hear from you too. Use the hashtag #IMakeApps on your social channels, sharing the app or game you work on, your role in its creation, and an image that best depicts who you are outside of work. We will regularly select and share some of our favorites on our channels.
If you also want to get featured in an upcoming #IMakeApps film, tell us more about yourself and your app or game, by completing this self-nomination form.
Stay tuned for more #IMakeApps stories by following us on Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn.
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Posted by David Brazdil and Nicolas Geoffray, Software Engineers
In Android, we care immensely about providing the best experience to our users and our developers. With each OS release, new features enable you to provide amazing experiences for users; however, we noticed that some app developers have been using non-SDK interfaces, which leads to increased crashes for users and emergency rollouts for developers. We want to do better and need your help to ensure that Android is stable with each new OS.
Three months ago, we announced our plans to start restricting the usage of non-SDK interfaces in Android P. We know these restrictions can impact your release workflow, and we want to make sure you have the tools to detect usage of non-SDK interfaces, as well as time in your planning for adjusting to the new policies and for giving us feedback.
In the Developer Preview and Beta 1, we have provided ways for you to see the impact of these restrictions on your app. In the Developer Preview, use of restricted APIs show up in logs and toast messages, and in Beta 1, we provided a StrictMode policy that allows you to programmatically find these restrictions and do your own logging. For example:
We understand there can be multiple reasons apps want to use non-SDK interfaces, and ensuring your app will continue to work in Android P is important to us. Many of you have explained your use cases through our issue tracker (thank you!), and for most of these requests, we have lifted the restrictions on specific non-SDK interfaces for Android P by adding them to the greylist. In addition, our team has conducted static analysis on millions of apps and processed thousands of automated reports from internal and external beta testers. Through this analysis, we have identified additional non-SDK interfaces that apps rely on and added them to the greylist. For everything on the greylist, we will be investigating public SDK alternatives for future releases. However, it's possible we may have missed some non-SDK interface uses, so we have made the majority of them available for apps whose target SDK is Android Oreo or below.
In summary, apps running on Android P will be subject to restricted usage of non-SDK interfaces. If you are targeting Android P, the greylist shows the non-SDK interfaces that will still be available, while all other non-SDK interfaces will not be accessible. If you are targeting Android Oreo or below, most restrictions will not apply, but you will get logcat warnings if you are accessing non-SDK interfaces that are not in the greylist (note that users don't see such warnings).
Try out our new Beta 2 release and use StrictMode to detect your non-SDK interfaces usage. You should expect Beta 2 to closely match what the final release will implement for restricting non-SDK interface usages. Also, please take a look at our new FAQ, which we hope will answer any questions you have around the feature. If not, let us know!


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In Lord Rama's name – GE 2019by Opinion Express January 9, 2018 0 comments
Kapil Sibal's plea before SC to defer Ayodhya hearing a blunder or masterstroke for Congress in GE 2019?
Newly anointed Congress President Rahul Gandhi has the formidable task of rejuvenating the grand old party from its rather run- down present state into a lean, mean fighting machine in next few months. As it is the task is difficult but his political quirks make it even more daunting. For one, he still functions in the political paradigms of the 1980s. His politics remains tied to his grandmother's apron strings. He still swears by 80s style failed socialist policies, reviles big businesses and indulges in homilies to pose as messiah of the masses. Rahul's 'killer blueprint' of resisting BJP involves doing an extensive temple run in Gujarat and blocking the temple run in Ayodhya – a contradiction that the BJP has been quick to latch on. The impossibility of this position may not have occurred to the dynast but in any case a Congress leader shall always be around, ready to be martyred in the larger cause of saving a Gandhi if matters get out of control. Sibal appears to be the 'chosen one' this time. Let us examine whether this is a superficial view or there is more to it than meets the eye. Could it be that the seasoned legal eagle, known both for the sharpness of his intellect and of his tongue, was prepared to lose the immediate battle in order to prepare well for the decisive war ahead – GE 2019?
Congress' biggest problem is that of bankruptcy of ideas: A failure to find an ideological space or a political positioning. Consequently, it tries to occupy all sorts of spaces—liberal, conservative, subaltern, casteist, classist, rural, pro-minority or majoritarian—and often the inherent tension between these spaces makes its position untenable.
It is evident that Rahul felt the need to delve in soft-Hindutva ahead of Gujarat elections and went out of his way to do a round of temples and pose as a Brahmin poster boy.
Once Gujarat is over, however, Congress's need for a soft-Hindutva positioning is exhausted, and it even becomes counter-productive ahead of the Ayodhya verdict where its ambiguity contrasts unfavourably with BJP's clarity on Ram Temple. Hence Sibal's submission in court that Ram Temple verdict should be postponed till after 2019 general elections. Two motivations prompted this act. First, deny Narendra Modi ahead of GE 2019 the fruits of Hindu vote bank consolidation that will inevitably result from any Supreme Court decision either way. If it is in favour of the temple the Hindu masses, irrespective of caste distinctions, will shower him with their votes out of gratitude; if not, then their frustration and angst will make them rally even more unitedly behind him. Second, buy time to decide on Congress's own political position depending on the unfolding scenario.
Sibal has since issued statements that are easily refuted and are at odds with his stature as a senior, seasoned lawyer. He claimed that he never represented the Sunni Waqf Board in court. He told ANI: "The Prime Minister did not check the fact that actually I never represented the Sunni Waqf Board in the Supreme Court. And yet he thanked Sunni Waqf Board for a statement on the basis that I represented them. I request the prime minister to be a little more careful."Documents widely available in public domain clearly show that he was, in fact, representing the Sunni Waqf Board in Supreme Court. Other documents also surfaced that demolished Sibal's defence that he wasn't appearing for the Sunni Waqf Board. The events took a curious turn a day after when Zafaryab Jilani, convenor of the Babri Masjid Action Committee (BMAC), threw his weight behind Sibal and claimed: "Whatever Sibal has said has been stated with prior consultation with all advocates including leaders of the Muslim Personal Law Board. Sibal had discussed this. With full confidence, we can say that we completely endorse what Sibal said."
The ANI report also quoted Haji Mehboob, who now seemed to be back- tracking from his earlier statement. "If Jilani saab is saying that what Kapil Sibal said yesterday was right, then I agree with him. I don't want to say any- thing else."Finally on Thursday, the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Board chairman Zufar Ahmed Farooqi claimed Sibal wasn't representing them. He was "representing one of the private parties involved in the suit."
It is not difficult to imagine what may have conspired behind the scenes within a span of 24 damaging hours for the Congress. The protestations and denials issued since are designed to absolve Sibal of all responsibility for his statement, leading one to wonder whom exactly was the senior lawyer representing while making that submission.
However, the political script in the court drama can tremendously boost Congress chance to take on omnipotent BJP led by Narendra Modi, RSS and Mumbai club. On ground zero, Congress party led by newly elected Rahul Gandhi has limited chance to reclaim the lost territory. The political map is dominated by saffron and regional parties today because Congress's biggest problem is that of bankruptcy of ideas: a failure to find an ideological space or a political positioning. It is evident that Rahul felt the need to delve in soft Hindutva ahead of Gujarat elections and went out of his way to do a round of temples and pose as a Brahmin poster boy. This is after all is merely the cloning of BJP's winning formula of Hindutva, albeit in a much milder form. But even then it has the ingredients of what it takes to alienate the Muslim vote bank that has traditionally been the party's mainstay. It is precisely to preempt this dangerous circumstance that Sibal's request to defer the case beyond GE 2019 was designed. In short, the compulsions of Gujarat assembly elections 2017 made Rahul Gandhi go on around of the temples; similarly, the compulsions of Lok Sabha GE 2019 made Sibal seek postponement of the case hearings. Congress can ill afford to lose its Muslim supporters which would have been inevitable in the event of a court verdict on the Ayodhya case.
Now the master stroke of Sibal has the potential to revive the party from being on the ventilator to racing on high speed motor track by strategically attracting pan India 15% minority vote that can be the launching pad for RaGa's quest to power for GE 2019 with his newly acquired soft hindutva persona. In a single action, the political landscape of the country can be altered but with a better political articulation. RaGa Congress can be revived when the Congress party can snatch minority votes from the regional outfits namely SP, BSP, RJD, RLD, NCP, YSR Congress, TMC etc and it can be clubbed with soft hindutva narrative to mount a serious challenge for Modi led BJP. The optimum polarization is possible by aggressive approach and strategic narrative and the same is brilliantly provided by Kapil Sibal on platter to Congress party. The roadmap to GE 2019 is scripted with brilliance and the pursuit of success will test the political acumen of the newly elected Congress president. Soft Hindutva with Sibal's taking up cudgels for the Muslim minority in the Ayodhya case can turn out to be the winning bet for the ailing Congress party in GE 2019.
(PRAKHAR MISRA: Writer is Political Editor – Opinion Express )


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It's the first Monday of May, and that means there are some new factory images and OTAs for Google's Nexus line. These are the monthly security patches include bug fixes and optimizations and are released on a monthly cycle. Google has posted the security bulletin to explain the major risks that have been fixed in the May release.
Starting this month the name of the security bulletins was changed from Nexus to Android to lessen the confusion and keep the message of updates for all Androids and not just their Nexus line. New criteria for evaluating severity levels has been adjusted accordingly and this month the latest security update addresses 6 critical, 12 high, 6 moderate, and 1 low-level issue.
Download the factory image page to download the updates for your devices, or sit back and wait for the OTAs to roll out over the next week or so.


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Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q314435 contains:
This step-by-step articles describes how to apply security patches by using Task Scheduler.
A member of the administrators group will have already identified and downloaded the security patches and created a script to run the patches that are referred to in this article.
A member of the administrators group on a computer that is running Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server will complete all of the following procedures.
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Create a Security Patch .MSI Package
For this procedure, Windows Installer is used to convert the .exe patch file to an .msi file. You can install Windows Installer from your Windows 2000 installation CD-ROM, VALUEADD\3rd Party\MGMT\WINSTLE\Swiadmle.msi file.
- Click Start , point to Programs , point to VERITAS Software , and then click VERITAS Discover .
- Click Next , to continue.
- In the Specify the name of the application for which you are building the installation box, type the name of the patch or a general label, for example, Security Patches .
- In the Specify the Path and filename for the data file where the information on this installation will be kept box, type the path to where you want the new package to reside and the name for the new package. For example, c:\AdminPackages\Securitypatch.msi . Click Next to continue.
- Click the drive that will store the temporary work files for Windows Installer, and then click Next .
- Under Available Drives , click the drive where the file will be installed and affected, click Add , and then click Next .
- Accept the defaults, and then click Next .
- The program takes a snapshot of your computer, and depending on the size, it may take several minutes. When it is complete, click OK to continue.
- In the Look in box, locate the .exe file that is being converted, click the file, and then click Open .
- The .exe file runs its installation, and you must not restart your computer. Instead, click Reboot Later , and then run Windows Installer again.
- Click Start , point to Programs , point to VERITAS Software , and then click VERITAS Discover .
- Accept the default Perform the 'After' snapshot now setting, and then click Next .
Windows Installer takes the after snapshot, and creates the new .msi file in the location you specified.
NOTE : If there are difficulties with the conversion, the system will tell you so, and it may be necessary to go through this procedure again to convert the .nai file to an .msi file.
Set Up the Scheduled Task
- Click Start , point to Programs , point to Accessories , point to System Tools , and then click Scheduled Tasks .
- Double-click Add Scheduled Task , and then click Next .
- In the Scheduled Task Wizard, click Browse , locate the script that will run the .msi package that you created in the first task in the Look in box, click the script file, and then click Open .
- Under Perform this task , click the increment in which the script will be ran, and then click Next .
- Select the time, day, and start date for the script to be ran, and then click Next .
- In the Enter the user name box, type the administrator logon name ( domain name \Administrator, type the password, confirm the password, and then click Next .
- Click to select the Open advanced properties for this task when I click Finish check box, and then click Finish .
- To change the run as option, on the Task tab, in the Run as box, type the new administrator logon name, click Set password , type the password, confirm the password, and then click OK .
- Any modification to the time and date the task is scheduled to run on the Schedule tab.
- You can modify task settings on the Settings tab, and to add users and modify permissions, click the Security tab.
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Former Virginia congressman Stan Parris dies
Stan Parris, 80, who served six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from Northern Virginia, died Saturday of heart disease at his home in Mathews County.
Parris, a Republican, served on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and in the Virginia House of Delegates, was secretary of the commonwealth and ran for governor twice.
Read today's full obituary by Post reporter Matt Schudel.
In a statement, Gov. Bob McDonnell said Parris's contributions to the state can best be seen in his home region of Northern Virginia.
"He played major leadership roles in the creation of the HOV lanes on I-395, the Torpedo Factory in Old Town Alexandria and the Four-Mile Run Flood Control Project,'' McDonnell said. "He was an original member of the Board of Trustees of George Mason University. He led the way in the effort to close Lorton prison. His legislation ended blackouts of sold-out NFL games, ensuring the Redskins would be on the television screens of grateful Virginians on Sunday afternoons."
Pat Mullins, chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia, called Parris a "close personal friend."
"I came to know Stan during his first run for the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, and I was immediately struck by his sense of humor and optimism, summed up in his first campaign slogan -- 'Parris in the Springtime,' " he said. "His dedication to public service was matched only by his tenacity. Most freshman members of Congress would walk away from public life after suffering an electoral setback as serious as the one that befell Congressman Parris in 1974. But Stan came back, fought hard, and retook the 8th District, and held it for the GOP for another decade."
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I'm glad he's finally dead and can't terrorize us as an office holder again. He did much to cause suffering for Virginians as part of the Republican delegation in Congress.
Posted by: rmg4369 | March 29, 2010 2:09 AM | Report abuse
Speaking as a liberal Democrat, I didn't agree with Stan Parris about much and probably would not have voted for him if I had the opportunity (I did not live in his district when he lost his House seat back in 1990), but he was an honorable public servant, a veteran who served his country, and from all accounts a gentleman. I would urge folks on here to show the man, and more importantly the family he left behind, some respect. There is too much vitriol out there - and it is just as bad coming from the Left as the Right.
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Fab Lab Berlin, Prenzlauer Allee 242, 10405 Berlin, Berlin
Come and do some hardware and software hacking with your favourite electronic devices like Raspberry Pi / Arduino / ESP or you name it. From early beginners to magic black belt hackers / makers all types of interested people are highly welcome.
Beside the electronic you can also use all other great tools and machines in the FabLab like the 3D printers, laser cutters or CNC mills.


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SCL Health System and Providence Health & Services Finalize sponsorship agreement for Saint John's Health Center: agreement expands access to quality, compassionate care to patients and families in Southern California.
SANTA MONICA, CALIF. (September 16, 2013) – Providence Health & Services, Southern California, and SCL Health System announced today they have reached a definitive agreement for Providence to assume sponsorship of Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif.
The definitive agreement is the culmination of months-long discussions between the two Catholic not-for-profit healthcare groups to chart a sustainable future for Saint John's Health Center in the era of comprehensive health reform. Providence will assume oversight of clinical programs and day-to-day operations of Saint John's. In addition, the agreement ensures that Saint John's will continue its Catholic mission to provide compassionate health care services to those in Santa Monica and surrounding West Side communities, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.
"For decades, Saint John's has stood for quality and compassionate care, a leader in our industry and respected nationally," said Michael Hunn, senior vice president and chief executive of Providence Southern California. "We are both humbled and honored that SCL Health chose Providence to continue this tradition of excellence and look forward to working with the physicians, the staff, the foundation and the community to ensure that legacy is sustained."
"This agreement ensures Saint John's is brought into the fold of one of the most advanced and connected health networks in Southern California, while retaining its Catholic identity," said Michael Slubowski, FACHE, FACMPE, president and chief executive officer of SCL Health System. "Providence's commitment to Saint John's will expand patient access to clinically excellent care delivered through a highly integrated physician network."
In May, SCL Health and Providence began exclusive discussions for the proposed sponsorship transfer because of Providence's tremendous expertise in managing Catholic hospitals and its extensive physician network. Providence operates five acute care hospitals and an array of ancillary healthcare facilities across Los Angeles County. The definitive agreement is subject to review and approval by the California attorney general. The transfer of canonical sponsorship to Providence Ministries is subject to approval by the Archbishop of Los Angeles and the Holy See.


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