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The data from the current study for the first time demonstrated increased serum polyglutamylated DNAJC7 as a potential biomarker for renal cell carcinoma early detection
ubiquitin-proteasomal regulation of CCRP and HSP70 are important contributors to the regulation of cytoplasmic CAR levels, and hence the ability of CAR to respond to PB or PB-like inducers
these findings strongly suggest that DnaJC7 participates in p53/MDM2 negative feedback regulatory pathway, and thereby enhancing the stability and activity of p53.
TPR2 exhibited strong interaction with glucocorticoid receptor and progesterone receptors.
TPR2 combines two TPR domains and a J domain to regulate the Hsp70/Hsp90 chaperone system.
Data show that Tpr2 associates with Hsp90 and Hsp70 complexes, promoted the accumulation of Hsp70 in PR heterocomplexes in the presence of Hsp90. Thus, Tpr2 has the potential to regulate PR chaperoning.
In CCRP knockout (KO) mice CCRP regulates CAR at multiple steps in activation of the cytochrome 2b10 gene in liver: nuclear accumulation, RNA polymerase II recruitment and epigenetic modifications.
cytoplasmic constitutive active/androstane receptor retention protein mediates the retention of PXR in the cytosol and modulates the activation of PXR in response to Pregnenolone Carbonitrile treatment
This gene encodes a member of the DNAJ heat shock protein 40 family of proteins that is characterized by two N-terminal tetratricopeptide repeat domains and a C-terminal DNAJ domain. This protein binds the chaperone proteins heat shock proteins 70 and 90 in an ATP-dependent manner and may function as a co-chaperone. Pseudogenes of this gene are found on chromosomes 1 and 6. Alternate splicing results in multiple transcript variants.
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I guess this one doesn't need any introduction. Since it's release in 2000, the Volcano is the most wanted device on the market and it is still until today. If you know about vaporizers generally, I'm sure you will know about the Volcano by german company Storz & Bickel, as well.
Further I would say, that without the Volcano, vaporizing wouldn't be so popular today. Their invention made vaping much more social and shareable than before through the new and revolutionary balloon-system.
This system was copied a lot in the following years, but honestly non of these devices I've tested so far perform like the original! The main differences are the devices amazing quality, the vapor quality and taste as well as its performance speed. The last fact surprised me the most. While other devices take several minutes to fill a balloon, the Volcano does the job in just a few seconds! You really can't empty a bag as quick as a new one gets filled. So you probably have to use all five bags from your easy valve kit at once, since one filling of herbs (depending on its potency) can easily fill 3 – 5 entire balloons. If you've a solid valve system, make sure you'll make a very big bag with your balloon tube (3m included), because with just one moutpiece included you also just can fill a single balloon per session, of course.
Today, there are two types of the Volcano, a classic edition and a digital one, as well as the two balloon kits mentioned above, you can choose from.
The classic edition differs from the digital volcano through the temperature scale only. The digital one comes with a display you can set the temperature degree-accuracy with, while the classic edition has a simple scale with a range from 1 – 9. However, this scale is very well defined and you will also be able to set the temperature pretty exactly. Both can reach a max. temperature of 230°C (or 446°F) btw.
At all, I don't think the digital display is really mandatory and I'm sure you'll be amazed by the Volcano classic, as well, if you're planning to buy one of these. It's deinitely nice to have a display and being able to follow the heating status eaxctly, but honestly I could live without this function in order to save some money.
The Volcano is very senior friendly, which I appreciate a lot. For example: The numbers on the display and all buttons are very big, so really everyone can see them. Also it's so easy to use! Simply set the temp with the two green buttons on the left and right side of the display and push the red one to let the device heat until it has reached the desired temperature. Than put some herbs in the filling chamber and place it on the top of the heating element. Now, also place the valve on the filling chamber and wait a minute or two before you finally hit the transparent green button.
Congratulations, you've filled your first bag! Once, you've found the perfect vaping temp for your needs, you'll be even able to operate the whole Volcano entirely with just the two transparent buttons. Easy isn't it? It is! Although my operating instructions above doesn't match with the one by Storz & Bickel, described in the manual, but I get much better results doing it my way!
The vapor is smooth, effective, tasty, clean, dense… and there is plenty of it! Without any doubt, the best I ever had.
The bag cools down the vapor a lot and it's much more pleasent than any direct inhalation! However, there are lots of people that give their vapor a extra cooling by attaching the bag to their waterpipes. You can easily do this by simply pushing the mouthpiece of your valve system on the head of your chillum, or even better: get a special waterpipe adapter for your easy valve system. A lot of shops have these on stock and you can enjoy the real waterpipe experience with your Volcano.
Imho, this device is totally worth its money and you'll get what you'll pay for: A first class vaporizer made in Germany with amazing medical qualities. Most likely, the best there is. If you can afford it, go for it! I mean it. All the legends are true…
get your Volcano Digit here
Vapor: 4.5/5.0
Quality: 5.0/5.0
Mobility: 1.0/5.0

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+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #613085 +++
Description of problem:
This isn't really a bug with sssd. Just an implication of using sssd (or a limitation if you like)
sssd is not supposed to be used with nscd (generates warning in sssd logs).
If using Network Manager (especially in a corporate setting with Spanning Tree and not portfast), it takes a while for the interface to come up. In the meantime services will start. These services will be reading an incorrect or empty resolv.conf (which they never seem to reread).
Formally (on older Fedora and RHEL) starting nscd would cause the applications resolving to now be correct (as it sits between the app and the base libc resolver functions). Any network changes can be handled by nscd dynamically for all running programs.
The services that this really breaks for us here are the nfs ones:
Jul 9 15:21:33 localhost rpc.statd[1067]: No canonical hostname found for 10.110.45.10
Jul 9 15:21:33 localhost rpc.statd[1067]: STAT_FAIL to navar for SM_MON of 10.110.45.10
Jul 9 15:21:33 localhost kernel: lockd: cannot monitor tay
Jul 9 15:21:33 localhost rpc.statd[1067]: No canonical hostname found for 10.110.45.10
Jul 9 15:21:33 localhost rpc.statd[1067]: STAT_FAIL to navar for SM_MON of 10.110.45.10
So NFS locking is broken on this machine (unless the service is manually started).
Workaround I'm trying is to only enable caching for hosts in /etc/nscd.conf.
I guess this may fix when Ticket #357 "SSSD should replace NSCD" in the upstream:
Above info add and pushed.
9275f51..8e161a2 master -> master
Verified. 220.127.116.11.3. Problems with NFS and NSCD.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve
the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed
with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the
solution does not work for you.


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GULALAY disappeared as soon as we got into Chaman, and within three hours Zahir and I were in a long-cab Toyota pickup headed for Quetta. While the driver played a cassette of a fanatic-sounding mullah, I stared dully at the hilly void between Chaman and Quetta. I felt burnt out.
Amid greetings and expressions of relief at the Nothilfe hospital in Quetta, my spirit was almost palpably withdrawing into some inner shell, but Hakenberg had to have a full explanation of events without delay.
When I'd finished, he told me what happened to them. When Qajir and I were attacked, he and Wahidi happened to be crossing a stretch of gravel on foot; Zahir was riding alone out in front. At the sound of gunfire, they tried to conceal themselves in the scrub off the road. After the firing stopped, they decided to continue in the same direction. Toward the sound of firing…? Hakenberg waved away my second-guessing impatiently. They figured they could make it through. After a short distance, they came across the motorcycle, abandoned but with the key still in it. There was no sign of their driver, Zahir.
Still they continued in the same direction, Hakenberg pushing the motorcycle. When they rounded the curve above the river, they were fired on from the right. He said he didn't realize what was happening until a bullet bounced off the bike. They took off running with bullets flying all around them and threw themselves to the ground. The firing stopped, they looked around: silhouettes of the soldiers were coming toward them. Wahidi heard them talking and didn't recognize the language. Wahidi and Hakenberg bolted, there was more firing, they hit the deck, crawled. The firing finally stopped, and they crawled and then ran again and finally escaped into the night. The next day they ran into a guy whose work it was leading groups into Pakistan, so they got back to Chaman a day and a half before I did.
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WASHINGTON — A great deal of controversy has surrounded the Washington Redskins' nickname in recent years, but it has really heated up over the last several weeks as President Barack Obama and several others have thrown their take on the matter into the public arena.
NBC's Bob Costas often likes to use his time during halftime of the Sunday Night Football game to give his two cents on the NFL's hot button topics. Last December, he ruffled more than a few feathers when he gave a polarizing speech on gun controlfollowing a murder-suicide involving former Kansas City Chief Jovan Belcher.
In Week 6, he again used his platform to call for the elimination of the Washington Redskins' nickname during the broadcast of the Redskins' game against the Dallas Cowboys.
The term "Redskins" has been considered offensive to Native Americans for quite some time, and the push for Washington's NFL franchise to change its name has gained plenty of steam as of late. Costas' halftime segments are always thoughtful and eloquent, and that was certainly the case on Sunday.
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Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
86400 Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia
Phone: +60-07-453 7428
E-mail: email@example.com
Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), is one of the public universities in Malaysia primarily focusing on Engineering and Technology. UTHM is strategically located in green sub-urban environment in Batu Pahat, Johor which is about 3 hours drive to Kuala Lumpur and 1.5 hours to Singapore via North-South Expressway (NSE).
Currently the university has more than 15,000 students including international students from 22 countries all over the world. University has been awarded overall 3-star by QS Stars University Ratings with 5-Star in Teaching, Facilities and Innovation.
- Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM)


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In the Foundation Stage and Key Stage One we have recently introduced the 'Read, Write, Inc Phonics' scheme which supports our children in their reading, writing and spelling.
In Key Stage Two our children are now also using 'Read, Write, Inc Spelling' which is a 15 minutes a day programme for children in Years 2 to 6 to get every child spelling effortlessly.
Useful Phonic & Spelling Websites
In school we have reading stages from stage 1 to 14 then children move onto free readers. The scheme is a mix of Oxford Reading Tree books and real books to give the children a wide range of reading material.
Useful Reading Websites


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Nuclear 911 credits on the
IMDB: (cast your vote for the movie while you are there)
Since 1950, there have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents, known as "Broken Arrows."
A Broken Arrow is defined as an unexpected event involving nuclear weapons that result in the
accidental launching, firing, detonating, theft or loss of the weapon. To date, six nuclear
weapons have been lost and never recovered. Now, recently declassified documents reveal the
history and secrecy surrounding the events known as "Broken Arrows".
There have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents since 1950. Six of these nuclear weapons have been
lost and never recovered. What does this say about our defense system? What does this mean to our
threatened environment? What do we do to rectify these monumental "mistakes"?
Using spectacular special effects, newly uncovered and recently declassified footage, filmmaker
Peter Kuran explores the accidents, incidents and exercises in the secret world of nuclear weapons.
Narrated by: Adam West
Music Performed by: Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Directed by: Peter Kuran, the award winning creator of
Trinity & Beyond
Run Time: 52 minutes
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Part 2 of this series ended by suggesting that Marissa Mayer's acquisition of Tumblr for Yahoo in mid-2013 may carry its own ethical baggage, and that like Yahoo itself, Tumblr notoriously brushes off harassment complaints from women and minorities.
According to Business Insider, "a TON of Tumblr's traffic and usage is thanks to porn hosted on Tumblr blogs. When Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion, Mayer addressed the porn issue, saying: 'I think the richness and breadth of content available on Tumblr — even though it may not be as brand safe as what's on our site — is what's really exciting and allows us to reach even more users.' … Dailymotion is … also full of porn and a company that Yahoo tried to buy."
At NewYorker.com, Caitlin Kelly satirizes the Yahoo-Tumblr corporate romance with a series of mock love letters between Mayer and Tumblr founder David Karp. Her last letter reads: "You left your iPad here in San Francisco after your last visit. I accidentally turned it on and it just loaded up Tumblr and, well…we need to talk about your porn problem."
Lots of LULZ — but let's take a serious look at what happens when people complain to Tumblr. In Tumblr thinks harassment is cool, freelance cartoonist Koriander documents what it felt like to be stalked and threatened, only to receive an apparent form letter from "Danii" at Tumblr Support telling her to simply ignore the (public) shaming because "In order to maintain freedom of expression, we won't remove that material right now." On the form letter itself, Koriander wrote: "Ignoring does not mean the rest of the world isn't watching." She then wrote on Blogspot:
"No, Danii. This is NOT acceptable. You have failed to do your job. The TOS agreement for Tumblr expressly says that you are not to use the site to harass, belittle or post hate against anybody for any reason. Yet that is just what these people have done. And yet the Tumblr team didn't think that this was worth their time. That it's 'freedom of expression' for total strangers to name-call and ask people to kill themselves…. This complacent attitude, when suicides are on the rise due to cyber stalking and harassment, is NOT acceptable. What would it take, Danii? A few more suicides from the harassment? A lawsuit against Tumblr? Would you like it if people trolled you like this? How much is too much? At what point as a society did we start to mollycoddle and accept stalking, slander, harassment and threats as 'innocent bullying'? This is as bad as when a cop ignores a spouse who's been beaten, and says 'Meh, domestic dispute' and refuses to take into custody the criminal. … Enough. I hereby urge people to drop Tumblr like the bad habit it is. If you have tweens/teens order them to do the same. Flood their inbox with your concern over this blind acceptance of hate. We need to make a change."
Lest you think this a one-off, here's another: In Information about Tumblr, cyberbullying, and the law, a blogger struggles to make sense of the yawning chasm between Tumblr Terms of Service and Tumblr reality. Like Koriander, she's concerned about the connection between online harassment and teen suicide. She wrote to Netsafe, a nonprofit organization concerned with cyberbullying:
"I am a New Zealand resident who would like to report cyberbullying and harassment that is taking place on the Tumblr.com website in direct violation of Tumblr's Terms of Service. I have already contacted them, and they responded by saying that they support 'freedom of speech,' as if that is somehow relevant to my complaint."
"This person told me twice to kill myself. She told another person that she wanted them to get raped with a fish hook. She stated that children who commit suicide due to cyberbullying are just carrying out natural selection. She is a danger to the very people and children who are susceptible to suicide, as she finds victims, stalks, and harasses them. Tumblr is not enforcing its own Terms of Service. I have attached screenshots of the offending comments…"
She went on to itemize contradictory portions of the Tumblr TOS. Netsafe wrote back to her:
"Thank you for your email. This kind of content on any site is distressing and disturbing. Tumblr is a site which is quite transparent about the lack of responsibility it takes regarding content. You have quite correctly copied from their terms and conditions…"
"Tumblr is quite clear that they don't guarantee that they will do anything about any content. Unfortunately when you accept the terms of Tumblr in signing up you have agreed to this. Most people (myself included) don't read the terms of a website before they sign up and we do need to get better at doing this. What this means practically is that it would be advisable not to use Tumblr because in doing so you are exposed to harassment or worse with basically no recourse. It is quite awful, however they are clear about their message. I know this doesn't seem like it is much help, however it is the reality of many sites on the internet and we all need to be aware of this."
She wrote back to Netsafe:
"Many of the people I associate with on Tumblr are abuse survivors. I was hoping Netsafe could do something since Tumblr is too busy spouting their 'free speech' rhetoric to care about at-risk victims. Are you saying that if Tumblr chose to do something completely illegal, there is no outside force that could do anything?"
Netsafe replied with suggestions of making a report to local police, and getting a Court Order so Tumblr would take down some of the offensive material. Netsafe also wrote:
"I looked up some of the laws in the US and found the following: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act immunizes website from any liability resulting from the publication of information provided by another. This usually arises in the context of defamation, but several courts have expanded it to cover other sorts of claims as well. Thus, if a user posts defamatory or otherwise illegal content, Section 230 shields the social network provider from any liability arising out of the publication."
"The difficulty is that Tumblr have put in place a lot of disclaimers so unless the Tumblr users complain sufficiently to convince them to take action, it is very difficult. For example Facebook has certainly become more conscious of providing a better service to its users as a result of dissatisfaction expressed to them. On the internet it is often the community of users that drive change."
That saga doesn't quite make the economic connections and seems to end in puzzlement for the end user. In truth, companies like Yahoo and (now subsidiary) Tumblr have their TOS written by lawyers and marketing/PR people. Yes, there are huge inconsistencies and the disclaimers typically take away any rights you might think you have. But meditate well on the actual purpose: To make the service look safe (by announcing a no-harassment policy) when it is in fact not safe (because the policy is not implemented). It's like trying to play poker with someone who holds all the cards while you have none. As noted above, Section 230 gives all the rights to the site owner, who can make the site sound really safe without expending any resources to help people who are being horribly harassed. You don't like it? As feminist law professor Ann Bartow characterizes Yahoo's response to victim Cecilia Barnes: Go pound sand!
Again, it's helpful to keep refocusing on the economic underpinnings: Spectacle draws eyeballs leading to increased ad revenues, so don't be surprised if your complaint to Yahoo about serious harassment receives a polite brush-off couched as a paean to Free Speech. Oh, what crocodile tears they do shed! We'd love to help you, but Section 230 says we don't have to, and anyway we believe in Free Speech. Now genuflect three times and disappear! They're crying all the way to the bank (or the Vogue photo shoot).
Sadly, in some cases this is corporate women (e.g. Marissa Mayer, Anne Hoge) screwing over women affected by corporate policies. I sometimes wonder if class is not thicker than gender, and dollar signs are the only emoticons certain isolated women understand. Marissa Mayer's net worth is estimated to be about 300 million dollars. That's no reason to hate her, but it is reason to wonder whether she considers the end users that Yahoo royally screws to be faceless proles, possibly lacking cashmere boleros.
Over at Jezebel.com, Dances With Squalor writes:
"I co-mod a fairly popular blog on Tumblr about male privilege, and have received countless rape and death threats as a result. The founder of the blog was driven off Tumblr completely when a group of detractors doxxed her, posting not only her full name, address, and other details, but pictures of the outside of her house. These pictures were accompanied by threats of firebombing. It's actually not as bad now as it used to be, but there was a point when there were dozens of hate blogs devoted to mocking our blog/ specific moderators. Another of our mods was repeatedly doxxed, and has also left Tumblr as a result. It's frightening how effectively they were silenced. Both of them left genuinely fearing for their lives, which is horrifying. Even talking about this is frightening, because I do worry that the detractors will come for me one day."
On the same page, Michelle H writes of her cyber-harasser:
"I stopped geotagging photos and locked down all of my other social media accounts. I became paranoid & anxious. I had difficulties sleeping, because I lived on the first floor in a garden condo, and I was worried he would try to break in at night. At one point I went to Tumblr with screenshots of his messages despite my repeated requests for him to 'Please stop contacting me.' They actually refused to do anything. I remember feeling stunned — This was a community that I had loved and trusted for years, and they just didn't give a sh*t that someone was harassing me there. I hope they've improved their policies, because when this happened about 2 years ago they didn't take it seriously at all, and there were very few controls to stop someone from harassing you."
There's a petition directed at Tumblr which highlights in stark terms the difference between having a (non-binding) policy and actually doing something. (Suppose our murder laws were merely aspirational?) The petitioner writes:
"The site is rather nice, as are the functions. But the staff and their utter carelessness and lack of empathy/protection for their userbase is deplorable and unprofessional. They are letting illegal activity happen on their site, and no one is getting helped. Little is being done about it. Even if tumblr has a large userbase, the staff should be able to handle cases like this. It is happening more frequently because support is allowing harassers and stalkers to get away with it. … I have frequently emailed tumblr support for help only to be told that being encouraged to self harm and KILL MYSELF is 'freedom of speech.' Having my posts reblogged by a user and having them say 'go harass this person' is apparently 'freedom of speech' according to support. Freedom of Speech is NOT meant to harm others. TUMBLR ENCOURAGES THE USE OF ITS SITE TO CYBERBULLY WITH THESE POLICIES. THIS CANNOT CONTINUE."
See also Racial Abuse on Tumblr Goes Ignored by Support Staff, where Dion Beary writes:
"Rape threats. Violent death threats. Racial slurs. It's all just become a part of the experience of using Tumblr, particularly for people of color, and especially for women of color and queer people of color. I've encountered users who have received relentless violent messages for days on end. [examples of hate messages] Of course people who think and speak like this exist, but what's worse than the messages is Tumblr support staff's flippant reaction to the abuse. … It looks like everyone on Tumblr's support staff failed basic Civics and Economics, so let me tell you how freedom of speech works. Your freedoms end where mine begin. You may have the right to blog all you want about Neo-Nazism and Culturalism, but the moment you enter someone else's space and threaten them, you have violated their freedom. Tumblr explicitly places the rights of white supremacists, Neo-Nazis, and violent racists over the rights of black and brown people who've committed no other crime than talking about their daily lives."
A Mother Jones article on harassment vs. free speech includes a potent quote from Jaclyn Friedman, executive director for Women, Action and the Media, a nonprofit that advocates for gender equality: "The idea that a social-media network should be entirely neutral is a myth… Neutral platforms are only neutral for straight white dudes. These companies need to make a decision: Do I want to be making money off of a platform where abusers and harassers feel more comfortable than the abused and harassed?"
At Jezebel.com, catsarethebest10 recounts this story:
Oh, I have a good one. Remember Yahoo! games? Where you could play checkers and ask people a/s/l [age/sex/location] all day long?
I was an avid checkers player and naturally began chatting with people. I was probably 13 at the time, a kid, and thought it was harmless. Turns out it wasn't. The guy I began chatting with regularly eventually asked for my phone number. We had plans to meet up (although I have no idea how it would happen because I was 13. But oh wait, he's older and has a car–should have been a red flag).
Then all of a sudden he went quiet. He wasn't playing games anymore. Wasn't on MSN Messenger anymore. No longer texted. Just gone.
Turns out, he was convicted of 3 counts of sexually assaulting a child and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
To me, this underscores the fact that Yahoo's TOS has always been incredibly deceptive with its combination of marketing language and legalese. It basically takes away with the left hand what it gives with the right. As a result, kids and parents are hornswoggled into thinking Yahoo is a safe place to play when it certainly is not!
People who aren't sophisticated about media see the Yahoo brand and all sorts of straight news stories popping up in close proximity to user-generated content. Some hate groups have even begun to capitalize on this by making vile claims about women and minorities, while prefacing them with "As reported on Yahoo…" The Yahoo-ABC News partnership only increases the danger that anything branded with the Yahoo logo will seem like news to kids, non-college grads, or anybody who hasn't learned to clearly distinguish between the different types of content that Yahoo aggregates. On Yahoo, hate speech ends up looking like just another form of infotainment. This is what I've referred to elsewhere as "the mainstreaming of hate."
The blogger at The Rogue Feminist lists steps for Defending Yourself Against Harassers on Tumblr, but many of the measures involve making your Tumblr blog increasingly invisible or even deleting it. This final measure presumably dovetails with the intent of the harassers, who want to drive women and minorities offline — especially those active in bringing problems to light. See The Feminist Fangirl on Sexism, Cyber Harassment and Gaming Culture: The Kickstarter Incident.
The fact that some of these posts about cyberharassment are published on Tumblr itself raises an issue worth disposing of: Many site owners/lawyers/lobbyists complacent about online harassment have four automatic responses:
1. The problem is really not that bad.
2. Ignore the trolls.
3. Cure bad speech with good speech.
4. Don't change existing laws giving total immunity to site owners, or the Internet as we know it will cease to exist.
Without getting too didactic or legal-geeky, I think many readers can spot how self-serving these responses are. Most of these companies make their money by running paid ads over free content supplied by users. Hate speech is free content; complaints about hate speech are more free content; and the furor raised by the controversy draws more eyeballs, justifying higher ad rates — all good if you're a site owner. What victims of online harassment (and their advocates) are increasingly saying is:
1. The problem is that bad.
2. Women and minorities shouldn't accept death threats etc. with complacency. (Neither should men, for that matter.)
3. Not all bad speech can be cured with good speech.
4. The Internet as we know it won't cease to exist if the laws are tweaked so that site owners are required to take complaints from victims more seriously.
Ergo, the fact that some feminists blog on Tumblr doesn't mean that Tumblr doesn't have ongoing problems with harassment. The presence of some civil discourse doesn't negate the problem of threats to rape or kill.
In Part 4, we'll talk more about how intellectual discourse and threats of violence are not equivalent (as site owners often claim). We'll tackle cyberspace idealism vs. cyberspace reality, fueled by law professor Mary Anne Franks' excellent Idealism And Discrimination In Cyberspace. We'll also discuss how Section 230 has the effect of giving companies like Yahoo carte blanche to practice blatant discrimination during the complaint resolution process (if any), turning victims of online harassment into abject supplicants who can only hope or beg that the company might be willing to lift a finger to help them. We'll look more closely at the harassment of micro minorities and "low information groups."
On a conciliatory note, we'll also consider that people like Marissa Mayer who opt for personal success that comes equipped with blinders and tunnelvision might one day become great humanitarians — but only after the bubble bursts. Thus, to realize what a sh*tty company Yahoo is might ultimately have a salutary effect. 🙂
History provides us with certain irresistible focal points, like Nero fiddling while Rome burns, or Mayer voguing while Yahoo festers.


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|Head of the Federal Customs Service of Russia Vladimir Bulavin took part in the international forum «One belt - one road» in Beijing
In the period from May 13 to May 15, 2017, the delegation of the FCS of Russia headed by the head officer Vladimir Bulavin visited the capital of the People's Republic of China - the city of Beijing to participate in the «One Belt - One Road» international forum.
At the thematic session of the forum "Trade without Borders" Vladimir Bulavin made a report on multilateral projects that the FCS of Russia is implementing jointly with the General Administration of Customs of China (GAC of China). The main attention was paid to the multilateral project of mutual recognition of the customs control results with the participation of the customs services of China, Kazakhstan, Finland and Mongolia. According to the FCS of Russia, its implementation in the future will allow to reduce the costs of participants in foreign economic activities related to the movement of goods on the new "Silk Road" by one third.
On the fields of the forum Vladimir Bulavin met with the head of the GAC of China Yu Guangzhou. The parties discussed topical issues of bilateral cooperation between the customs services of Russia and China, in particular the expansion of the project on mutual recognition of the customs control results at the Zabaikalsk-Manchuria border crossing point, new projects of customs services of Russia and China on cooperation in risk management and the exchange of images taken with X-ray inspection complexes, as well as issues of regional interaction.
1. Central Customs Directorate (CTU)
2. Siberian Customs Directorate (STU)
3. North Western Customs Directorate (SZTU)
Kaliningrad Customs Directorate
4. Southern Customs Directorate (JTU)
5. Privolzhsky Customs Directorate (PTU)
6. Urals Customs Directorate (UTU)
7. Far Eastern Customs Directorate (DVTU)
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It's nearly Spring Break. I needed to access the roadmap on this blog so I decided to check in as well. It seems like a Tale of Two Courses this semester. The Preservation Management course is fun and engaging but flies at a fast pace. It is difficult to keep up at times. I have two starting working on Project 3 and Project 4 nearly at the same time. The final project, #4, being one that will need time to pursue.
The Advance Search class is slow. Units can range over 2-3 weeks. Sometimes project will sneak up on me because I was concentrating on the Preservation class. I have homework searches and a short presentation due this week and before Spring Break.
This semester seems to be dragging along. Can't wait to finish it and my degree. I am learning a lot from the Preservation class that I can use at work to improve our archive.


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I'm a Christian and scientist and have spent most of my life struggling with the fact that science and faith are so often at odds with one another. The way I see it, there are many ways to observe "Truth". Studying microbes at my bench gives me one sort of insight into truth, and my faith gives me another. My favorite way to explain this is to imagine several blindfolded persons touching different parts of an elephant – each individual could give wildly different descriptions of the elephant, yet they are all describing the same beast.
I can see where most of the struggle between science and religion comes from, however. Too many people refuse to understand that nobody has ownership of "God" or "Truth". I especially see this from religious leaders on TV, in books, and from the pulpit. On the other hand, I've heard many colleagues of mine deride all religious persons as ignorant, oppressive, or self-righteous. And, yes, religion has started many wars; but are we to assume that wars would go away with the elimination of faith?
Working in science has given me the gift of interacting with individuals from diverse faiths and views of the "Divine". I respect all of these views and often find they share much similarity with my own Christian beliefs. Faith provides me with a sense of balance, prayer a chance for meditation, and worship a time for introspection. It reminds me that I am not my own, but belong to something bigger than myself. My responsibility to this larger purpose requires me think of others as my neighbor, take care of my planet, and maintain integrity in all aspects of my life. Can one get to the same place without religious faith? I'm sure they can, but this is what works for me.


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"It made me feel so childish, but I suppose that's really what all parents want," the 16-year-old honour student from Overland Park, Kansas, wrote.
"I've been trying... to make them smile, make them feel better, take Esmie off their list of worries and concerns."
Ten days later, she stabbed her mother to death with a knife in an incident that apparently took the mother and daughter through several rooms of their home.
The killing stunned the comfortable middle-class, Middle American community where the Tseng family lived.
Esmie was ranked among the best classical pianists of her age in the state. She got top marks in school. She competed in athletic meetings and was on the debating team.
She was - in the words of local father Jacob Horwitz - "a kid any parent would be proud of".
Impossible standards
Mr Horwitz first heard of her the night she was arrested, 19 August 2005, he says.
His son and daughter had attended summer camp with her, he learned, after seeing on the evening news that she had been detained in connection with the death of her mother, Shu Yi Zhang, 55.
"They couldn't believe it was the same person they had met: a great kid, easy to get along with, very sweet. My kids don't hang around people who are generally in trouble," he told the BBC News website.
"I spent the next three or four hours reading her site. From the moment I finished reading, I felt there was much more than you saw on the news."
Esmie had for years been wrestling with her feelings for her parents, Chinese immigrants who, she said, held her to impossibly high standards.
They had threatened to sell her piano if she did not win a state-wide competition, she wrote.
She said they had grounded her for scoring only 96% in an exam.
And, when she disappointed them, she said they had forced her to stand naked in a corner.
Like many teenagers with diaries, she had written of her hatred for them, especially her mother.
"My God," Jacob Horwitz remembers thinking when he read her weblog, "it's a shame that another parent didn't see this yesterday. It's a cry for help."
Treated as adult
He was stunned when Johnson County District Attorney Paul Morrison pushed successfully for Esmie to be tried as an adult rather than a juvenile.
"Our society recognises that children are developmentally different. They are kids and that's why we have a juvenile justice system in place," he says.
Prosecution and defence have agreed to recommend a sentence of 100 months - just under eight-and-a-half years - at her sentencing trial on Wednesday. The judge is not required to accept the recommendation.
Esmie is likely to be sent to the Topeka Correctional Facility for Women to serve her sentence, the Kansas City Star reported, after research found she was not eligible to be placed in a juvenile detention centre because she was over 15 at the time she committed her crime.
Mr Horwitz says that would make her the youngest prisoner there, and he has fears for her safety.
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District Attorney Paul Morrison says he does not.
"Given her capacity to be violent... one could certainly argue that she is the one to be feared," he told the BBC.
"Hacking somebody to death with a butcher knife is about as serious as it gets. Even though everybody agrees she had been cruelly treated by her mother, it does not remotely excuse the level of violence."
He pressed for the teen to be tried as an adult in order to guarantee she spent "significant" time in prison, he says.
"In juvenile [court], there was no guarantee she wouldn't be released in six months. With the adult system, it's different. She has to do 85% of what she is sentenced to."
He says "a lot of time and thought" went into agreeing an appropriate sentence.
Increasing incarceration
But human rights campaigners say it is inappropriate that the case was ever moved to the adult court system in the first place.
"Juveniles who commit crimes, while they may commit a crime just as violent as an adult's, should receive treatment appropriate to their age and their culpability," says Alison Parker, a senior researcher in the US programme at Human Rights Watch in New York.
While she is not familiar with the specifics of the Esmie Tseng case, she says an increasing number of minors are being tried as adults in the US.
The New York Times has reported that about 9,700 Americans are serving sentences as adults for crimes they committed as minors.
"They are still children. Our laws define them as children. They can't sign legally binding contracts, they can't vote, they can't smoke, they can't drink," Ms Parker says.
"It is not that they shouldn't be punished, but the punishment should be commensurate with who the offender is," she argues.
She says Human Rights Watch has documented cases where minors in the adult correctional system suffer abuse - particularly in the case of girls, because there are comparatively few in the system.
Rick Buehler, head of staff training at the Topeka prison where Esmie is likely to serve her time, says there are no separate facilities for minors there.
She would not be the youngest person ever sent there, he says, but the staff "would be concerned about somebody so young".
Right sentence?
Mr Horwitz is certainly concerned.
"There are truly hardened people there," he says of the prison.
"If you were to sit down with this girl for five minutes, you would know she is not in any way, shape or form a threat to society. This was a domestic issue with tragic results."
But the district attorney remains steadfast in the face of such arguments.
"People have to remember that she committed an incredibly heinous crime. I refuse to buy into this thing that she is a babe in the woods who is going to get victimised."
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DeLay aide sentenced to 20 months in Abramoff lobbying scandal
Friday, February 11, 2011; 6:01 PM
A federal judge sentenced a onetime media aide to former House majority leader Tom DeLay to 20 months in prison Thursday, crediting him with serving as a key government witness in the unraveling of the corruption scandal surrounding the congressman and lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Michael P.S. Scanlon, 40, a communications director for DeLay (R-Tex.) who became a top partner with Abramoff, also was ordered to repay $20.2 million to five Native American tribes whom he defrauded in a kickback scheme with Abramoff's lobbying firm.
"I am so very sorry and so very remorseful," Scanlon told U.S. District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle in the District. "I hope that my cooperation and the things I've done to make amends show how remorseful and sorry I am."
Huvelle acknowledged Scanlon's help to prosecutors. "Your cooperation, I think it's fair to say, has been extraordinary and extensive," she said. However, the judge added, Scanlon took part in a years-long scandal that undermined public confidence and exposed widespread corruption.
"The money that you got fueled the corrupt scheme," Huvelle said.
Scanlon, a former Rehoboth Beach lifeguard who became a wealthy public relations consultant and real estate developer after working with DeLay, was the last leading figure of the Abramoff scandal to face sentencing.
In November 2005, Scanlon became the first person to strike a plea deal and cooperate with prosecutors in the public integrity and fraud sections of the Justice Department's criminal division.
Eventually, the investigation exposed how Abramoff worked at the center of a lucrative network of lobbyists from 2000 to 2005, showering lawmakers, congressional aides and executive branch officials with lavish gifts, golf trips, luxury meals and tickets in exchange for millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded projects, legislative favors and other benefits.
The Abramoff scandal prompted DeLay to step down in 2005 and helped Democrats win control of Congress the next year, decrying Washington's "culture of corruption."
In addition to Abramoff, who recently completed a four-year prison sentence, former congressman Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio) was sentenced to 21/2 years in prison, and former deputy interior secretary J. Steven Griles received 10 months.
Overall, the case led to 21 convictions - a 100 percent success rate of those charged - and prosecutors credited Scanlon's early, detailed cooperation.
"Without Mr. Scanlon's cooperation, the investigation would have taken much longer," prosecutor Nathaniel B. Edmonds said in court. "It may not have been able to reach Mr. Abramoff or others."


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Does anyone have any idea whether the new Kaby Lake HP Spectre x360 support any active stylus. I'm getting conflicting info from various sources. If not, can anyone suggest any passive stylus that is usable?Read other answers
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Hello, As I've learned the "NEW" 2016 HP Spectre x360 13-w000 (Kaby Lake) does not have a digitizer built-in and thus does not support any Active Pen/Stylus. The only option available is to use some capacitive one. I have a Wacom Bamboo Stylus which performs horribly on my x360. Do you guys have any good suggestion for such a capacitive stylus, which is precise enough for occational note-taking, document marking, etc? Thanks!
Hello crackjackx, Please go through the below compatibility list : http://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c05166879 Hope this helps, for any further queries reply to the post and feel free to join us again **Click the White Thumbs Up Button on the right to say Thanks**Make it easier for other people to find solutions by marking a Reply 'Accept as Solution' if it solves your problem. Thank You,GBL84I am not an HP EmployeeRead other 2 answers
Has anyone seen / heard information regarding a possible ETA for the new Kaby Lake based Spectre x360 variants in the UK? It's exactly what I'm looking for, and I was really excited about the October release date, only to be disappointed when it came and went and yet it's still not available in the UK I've customized the spec that I'm after on the US store: 13", 1920x1080, Core i7-7500U, 16GB RAM, 512GB NVMe SSD, Win 10 Pro x64 - except of course it's lacking the UK keyboard. Any idea how much longer I have to wait before I can replace my ancient 8+ year old laptop with this laptop of my dreams? Thanks,AlexRead other answers
Any sugessions/avaliability of skins for HP Spectre x360 Kaby Lake? I have tried looking into dbrand but they dont seem to provide one.Read other answers
The computer was purchased on December 10 2016, and on February 11 2017 I presented the fan system error 90B.
The error appears and disappears, I update the BIOS but it is still happening. The equipment is impeccable, so I discard dirt. Also the fan seems to work, and I have monitored the temperature and it has not changeda, although it has warmed considerably since I bought it. But the error still appears. The equipment has warranty but I buy it in USA and I am from Costa Rica.
I was running an emulator to see if my computer can halndle the output, and now I am here. My screen suddenly went black through some gameplay and will not turn back on. My laptop was charging and I had a USB Type C dongle/ hub connected to it. After my screen went black, I tried pressing the power button to power it back on, but it didn't work. I unplugged all other peripherals and tried the power button again, nothing. I don't mind performing a hard reset, I just need help turning my laptop back on for school. The LEDs don't even turn on when I try to reconnect the charger and the same goes for the LED on the power button. Please help. ThanksRead other answers
On the US HP store, the Spectre x360 with the 7th Gen Intel chipset is already available for purchase.I tried calling your sales rep who said he does not know when the new laptops will arrive.Does anyone have any info on when the laptops will be available for purchase?I saw you can already buy the Envy and Pavilion laptops with Kaby Lake, but not the Spectre x360.Any info would be greatly appreciated.Read other answers
Multiple pages on HP's website show the new x360 (Kaby Lake) being used with a stylus. I purchased an active stylus and after being unable to get it to work was told by tech support that the stylus is not supported with the new 13inch Spectre? Are the advertising pages on shop.hp.com incorrect or is there a stylus which works with the new Spectre? The footnotes say that not all hardware works with the Spectre however it seems to be pushing the envelope a little to show someone using the stylus, when apparently none work with this laptop?Read other answers
Hello, I got my 2016 HP Spectre x360 (Kaby Lake) laptop a week ago, and it seems the battery life is very underwhelming. I get around 4 hours from mixed usage (browsing/productivity/media). I had the previous gen. Spectre and almost similar tasks got me 8hr+ battery life. I've tried battery testing/calibration etc. suggested in the support pages. Anyone else having similar problems? I want to give the laptop some chance before I replace/return it.Read other answers
Battery issues in laptop.I recently bought a spectre x360 kaby lake which claims battery life upto 15 hours.So i was expecting a minimum battery life of 8-9 hrs.But in real life it is very very poor.It gives battery life of 2.5hrs-3hrs.I am very much dissapointedRead other answers
Hello,I would like to buy 2017 model of Hp Spectre x360 15. However, I would like to add Arabic letters to the keyboard.How can I do that?
Hi, I don't know which one you plan to buy but in general, machines will have (pre-built) one of the following keyboards For use in Canada 841266-DB1For use in France 841266-051For use in Germany 841266-041For use in the Netherlands 841266-B31For use in Saudi Arabia 841266-171For use in Switzerland 841266-BG1For use in the United Kingdom and Singapore 841266-031For use in the United States 841266-001 Please wait when machines are available in your country. Regards.Read other 2 answers
I recently purchased an Hp Spectre x360 from BestBuy. The laptop ran great and gave me no issues until I hooked the laptop on a 4K monitor. There are two thunderbolt 3 ports on the machine, one actually works fine connecting to the external display. However, the other thunderbolt 3 port does not project anything on the external display. In addition, the internal display blacks out. I know for a fact that both thunderbolt 3 port should be able to project to an external display (even multiple) but that is not the case for me. In need of technical support or guidance.Read other answers
Hi, So having a bit of a frustrating experience finding a working dock for the new Spectre X360 (Kaby Lake). I need something with PD (power in), HDMI/DVI or DP out (two ports if fine, one up to 4k), and a few USB ports. I've tried a cheap aukey one and though HDMI works it's buggy. I'm now looking at this guy P5Q54UT - HP Elite Thunderbolt 3 Dock 65W but not entirely sure if it'll work. A few pluggable docks specifically mention that HP is not supported or claim HP doesn't support alt-mode (for USB C) and PD 2.0 spec. Any guidance is appreciated.Read other answers
Will the spectre x360 13-w0xx Kaby Lake model ever get an active pen or stylus? After buying this product and having it for over 3 months, I do not see the reason you would make this a convertable laptop and not have it pen-supported. Also, is it possible to pair a bluetooth enabled pen to this specific laptop model?
Hi, Please check the following list first http://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c05166879 Regards.Read other 5 answers
I'm having trouble with super scratchy/distorted audio on the newest (Oct 2016, 7th gen i7) Spectre x360 (X7V22UA) and am wondering if this is just inherent to the design or if my machine has a hardware problem. When my machine was brand new out of the box, it sounded like the speakers were blown out when playing certain frequencies such as the Windows 10 notification tone. I did the standard troubleshooting, a HP representative asked me to send it in for repair, allegedly the speakers were replaced, but the replaced unit is just as bad. When audio plays at even modest volumes (right now I have it at 36/100), I can feel the laptop vibrating and rattling.I know this is a laptop and I'm not expecting the world's greatest sound, but the distortion is really annoying. Is this just inherent to the new x360s or am I just unlucky with my RMA? I've tried updating drivers, BIOS, etc. and the problem persists. Headphones are fine. It's definitely the external speakers on this laptop that are vibrating around.Steps to reproduce:Right click on sound in system trayChoose "Playback devices"Choose the only option, "Realtek High Definition Audio (SST)"Click "Configure"Click the "Test" button that plays three chimes in each speaker.Listen to it rattle.Is this happening to anyone else? Seems like it's identical to the symptoms of this problem, but that's for an older model of the x360 and this new model has different hardware. Also, the old problem was never resolved.&... Read moreRead other answers
Hi, I just got the new Kaby Lake (Intel's 7th gen) Spectre x360 and ran it through its paces. It seems to be a solid machine, but there's one serious issue so far - external displays flashing on and off, at least when hooked up with a USB-C Thunderbolt 3 to DisplayPort adapter (this one from CableMatters: http://amzn.to/2gKQrVR. What happens when I connect external monitors (1 or 2-3 via DisplayPort MST) is sometimes they work fine.Sometimes, if I disconnect and reconnect, they start flashing on and off.Sometimes, the whole laptop freezes upon connection (happened twice today so far).And finally sometimes the externals are not working at all - the system detects them, but selecting Extend or anything in multi-monitor mode just reverts back to Single.Oh, and this happens once: http://i.imgur.com/Su9zInD.png http://i.imgur.com/qG9K8yC.png - the external display got stuck in a 640x480 generic mode and would not turn on.As you can see, it's a [email protected]$%*. Here's a video of the flickering/flashing (case #2 above): https://youtu.be/OkngFs_h2xk. Both the laptop and the 7th gen Intel chip are relatively new, so I haven't been able to find a thread discussing potential culprits, or fixes from HP. Here's a similar issue with EliteBooks http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/External-Dual-Monitors-and-Lapt..., but I don't know if they're related. I do have a buddy with the same system who's gone through seve... Read moreRead other answers
To put the comment in context i originally posted this in the "Battery drain when shut-down" forum. Ok, trying to figure out how to get rid of the last 2-4% overnight drain i went through device manager and checked for outdated drivers, i then noticed that the driver for the NVME storage controller was a generic windows driver from 2006, tried to search for a update via device manager and hp's support page but no luck. Then i rememered that back in the old days i used to use driver update tools to fetch the latest drivers for my computer, so i installed iobit driver booster 4 (free) and gave it a spin. Guess what, it gave me a samsung driver from august 2016. Did a reboot and just to make sure it was working as it should, i fired up ATTO and CrystalDiskMark and ran benchmarks. I know what numbers the SSD got before and what reviewers of this machine have gotten, which was about 1700mb/s read and 600mb/s write. This is what i get after i replaced the generic nvme controller driver with the one from samsung:3000mb/s read and 1200mb/s write!!! Im not sure how the new driver will affect battery life or anything, but i figuered i'd let you guys know, i mean that is almost double the performance of the generic windows driver. Try it out if you want guys, run a couple of SSD benchmarks before you install the new driver so that you have something to compare the after results with PS! Don't blame me if your computer explodes or breaks down in any ... Read more
Yes the driver update is likely the Samsung NVMExpress driver update 2.1: http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/download/tools.html I installed it in my Spectre 13 Pro and it updated the Microsoft Standard NVME driver from 2006 to the Samsung NVME dated 12/8/16. Unfortunately my speed increases were not as dramatic but there was an improvement....about 10% on both read and write side. I have the Samsung MZVLV256 aka SM951..M.2 disk and read is about 1500 and write is a bit over 500. I did the same upgrade to my Zbook G3 MWS which has the 512 gig SM951 and this one is giving me fits...read is about 1300 but write shows up as an appaling 9 mbps. Has to be something wrong. Results are just about the same with or without the Samsung NVME driver. Still the Zbook "feels" very peppy. Boot time is good and everything seems to run fine. So not sure whether I should be concerned or not.Read other 1 answers
Was a new version of the Kaby Lake 13.3 Spectre x360 convertible released around April 2017 that supports the stylus? I have an original Kaby Lake 13.3 x360 purchased Feb 2017 and couldn't get the active stylus to work. Tech support said that the 13t-wx00 product W9A93AV doesn't support the stylus. Now I see that a stylus is furnished free with what appears to be the exact computer I purchased. I have been unable to get an answer from technical support as we have difficulties communicating. Does anyone know if the stylus is supported on my Spectre? I returned my original HP active stylus after tech support said they don't work even though the advertising at the time showed people using a stylus. Now they are giving one away free and I don't understand???? Can I update my convertible to work with the stylus? It's frustrating as I purchased the unit thinking the stylus would work and now feel cheated! I guess that's what I get for buying a brand new product.Read other answers
Hello I just bought a new HP Spectre X360 with a elite thunderbolt 3 65w dock. After installing all the drivers everything is working when i connect the laptop to the dock. But the only thing that i cannot get to work is the power button on the dock. It doesnt light up in any colour like it says in the manuel and when i press it, it does nothing. I went to search for thunderbolt options in the bios but it seems there are none there. I updated to the latest bios (f.11) btw. Hope someone can help me with a solution kind regards JelleRead other answers
Hello,I've followed some posts on this support forum, regarding if the new Spectre x360 Kaby Lake (Product# W9B13AV_1 http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/Laptops/hp-spectre-x360-convertible-laptop-13t-touch-w9b13av-1) supports or not an active pen.What we've learned is that this laptop doesn't work with HP Active Pen (Product# T5E12AA#ABL http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/accessories-88342--1/hp-active-pen-t5e12aa-abl) and HP Active Stylus (Product# J4R51AA#ABL http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/accessories-88342--1/hp-active-pen-j4r51aa-abl), based on some answers from the support team on previous posts, and based on the information contained in this page: http://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c05166879.Some early online reviews stated that there is no support for active pen, Lisa Gade from MobileTechReview said: "The one feature missing from the previous generation is the active digitizer for the optional HP Active Stylus (a Synaptics pen technology). Given how heavily HP has advertised this feature in the previous generation, I'm surprised they removed it. And yes, it's really gone--there's no active digitizer listed in device manager, and I tested both Synaptics pens and Wacom and N-Trig pens just in case they'd switched to a different pen technology. That means you can use your finger or a capacitive stylus like those made for the iPad Air, but not a precise pen with pressure levels and palm rejection."http://www.mobiletechreview.com/notebooks/HP-Spectre-x360-Late-2016.htmSo, Is HP Spec... Read moreRead other answers
Has anyone tried to update to Windows 10 Anniversary update? It's not listed by HP as supported (http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05195282), though it's a NEW model. I tried it once before, and that created issues with the HP Recovery Manager, and I reverted back. A few days ago, I got a BIOS update with the "Anniversary Update Comapatibility fix", however HP is yet to update their compatibility list. The incompetent phone support is again proved worthless as they don't seem to have any idea . I don't want to go through with all the hassle of updating and downgrading again, so I'd like to know if anyone has successfully got the anniversary update. Thanks!Read other answers
Considering this new revision has been out for about a couple months now, I am really surprised that no one has posted about this yet. My question is simply exactly as the title says. Does the newest HP Spectre x360 13-w0XX that has the new Kaby Lake i7 support two 4k displays? I know that because of having Thunderbolt 3 ports, it has the right connections to support it. I guess the real question is can the Intel Graphics 620 support that? I know it can support one 4k display, but not seen anything about dual 4k displays. I just recently purchased this lap top, and I love it so far. However 1 of the main reasons I bought it was because it was 1 of very few lap tops on the market with Thunderbolt 3. I think the only Windows laptop that had not only 1 but 2 of them. So if this laptop has the ports to support dual 4k without a graphics card that can, then that will be incredibly disappointing.Read other answers
Hi, I received my laptop today and ever since I first switched it on the fan has been running. I checked the bios setting and fan constantly on is disabled, I downloaded the latest bios update and also the latest Intel thermal management drivers and applied them both in that order but neither stopped the fan. The system itself is running very cool, but as I said it has been running since I received it. I have googled and seen other reports of similar issues that all seem to involve returning the system for a replacement, but I'm thinking that can't be the only solution, can it? Thanks, Nadia
Try ctrl alt delete to open task manager look for running processes and check HP Support Solutions Framework and see if it is hogging up CPU cycles. If so, stop it and your CPU load should drop to single digits and the fan should kick off. When the Support Assistant goes out and tries to get updates it can lock that Solutions Framework on and eat up 40% of the CPU causing the fan to come on.Read other 1 answers
So I just got this laptop, and I noticed that it would make a soft but noticeable clicking sound sometimes when I tap it lightly or when I'm scrolling with two fingers. Is this normal or should I exchange it? Thanks!Read other answers
I have Ubuntu 16.10 installed on Hp Spectre x360 Kaby Lake, I have noticed that on suspending the machine isnt exactly saving power - the battery discharge rate seems to be stable at the idle discharge rate?Morover I have also noticed that the machine was a bit warm after a few hours, which makes me think that the machine was actually on but only the screen was off.Any sugessions on how I can get the same suspend features as in Windows 10?Read other answers
I was noticing severe battery drain on my one month old spectre x360 i7 7500 ssd 512 GB variant. the laptop was taking more than 3 hours to charge and the charge was not holding for more than two and half hours for normal web browsing. It was also discharging at an unacceptable pace while completely turned off. I had updated my BIOS firmware to F.10 and also applied the Sphinx fix as described [url ="http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/Battery-drain-when-shut-down-HP...] in post 79 by Senchronize. However, the problem persisted. I decided to do a complete factory reset. Backed up my data and created a USB recovery using the HP support assistant software. However, while applying the factory reset, after the formatting of hard drive stage was completed the programmed returned an errors message "HP recovery manager failed error code=0xEFFFFF23". I tried doing it again and it would return the same error. I did a hardware diagnosis from BIOS and it does nothing. Tried loading a fresh Operating system through an OS bootable USB. The system prepares for install. But when it is ready it install, it fails to see any hard drive at all. I checked the HP support page for this machine to find if there is a SSD driver that I can load during the OS installation. However, I couldn't find the SSD drivers associated with this machine. I bought this machine in USA and currently in India. Will not be going back for few months. I wonder if the warranty will be ava... Read moreRead other answers
So i recieved my spectre x360 in the mail last weekend and it occurd to me at one point that the f9, f10 and f11 function keys (the previous, play/pause and next keys) were not working. I do not remember if they worked before or that they were broken from the beginning They do not work with any music app that is running in the background: spotify, groove music or windows media player. I realy would appreciate any help at this point because this problem has driven me nuts over the last two days.Read other answers
Hello, I purchased a new spectre x360, w013dx model number, from best buy on Feb 11 2017 and I seem to be having an issue that has popped up on this forum, YouTube, and various other Google searches, namely the loose, or more appropriately, the overly noisy and clicky touchpad. I am wondering A) is this a condition that becomes worse, progressively that is, or does it get better over time as the touch pad and other components get "broken in" so to speak, and mate together better, like using lapping compound on machine parts? B) If this is considered an issue, is there a fix for it if I send it in to HP? It is moderately bothersome to me, and in haven't really experienced it before on other laptops. I really like to use the 2 and 3 finger swipes and scroll features, and when I push down on the touchpad without clicking it, it feels loose and there is an audible click when I press down on it. I am coming from and Acer laptop that had an extremely smooth and oversized glass track pad so I may be overly aware because I got used to that one and it was very solid. I do not want to return it and plan to keep it because otherwise it is fantastic, but I have seen other people say this and I will echo it here, this is a 1200 to 1400 dollar device and I want to make sure it is in peak condition because I plan to keep it for at least 2 to 3 years. If someone from HP could respond I would appreciate it. Thank you.Read other answers
Hello guys.Sorry for my english but im italian ...I bought the new HP Spectre 13 Refresh with Kaby Lake.I have the model with i5-7200U, 8 GB RAM and 256 GB SSD.But the computer is really slow, i see from the Task Manager that the cpu go to 100 % very often and use min 4-5 GB of RAM.Even web browsing is frustrating ( with 3-4 tab open ).I noticed also that the cpu work from 2.50 Ghz to max 2.71 Ghz, when should be from 2.70 Ghz to 3.10 Ghz.Read other answers
Hi, Can someone please provide or direct me to information on the wifi details for a spectre x360 w/ kaby processor; mfg, model, etc.? Thank youRead other answers
Not sure if i'm in the right area but it's worth a try. I recently purchased the Spectre x360 w/ Kaby lake i7 and have encountered some difficulty loading Ubuntu. Specifically, no wifi or sound present. Is anyone familiar w/ a means to recognize these functions? ThanksRead other answers
Which stylus devices are known to work with this model (HP Spectre x360 X7V20UA#ABA ) and BIOS Level Thank you.[System Summary] Item Value OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Version 10.0.10586 Build 10586 Other OS Description Not Available OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name xxxx System Manufacturer HP System Model HP Spectre x360 Convertible 13-w0XX System Type x64-based PC System SKU X7V20UA#ABA Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7500U CPU @ 2.70GHz, 2904 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s) BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. F.10, 10/26/2016 SMBIOS Version 2.8 Embedded Controller Version 94.45 BIOS Mode UEFI BaseBoard Manufacturer HP BaseBoard Model Not Available BaseBoard Name Base Board Platform Role Mobile Secure Boot State On PCR7 Configuration Elevation Required to View Windows Directory C:\windows System Directory C:\windows\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.10586.589" User Name SHORTER\arw Time Zone Eastern Standard Time Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB Total Physical Memory 15.9 GB Available Physical Memory 5.26 GB Total Virtual Memory 18.8 GB Available Virtual Memory 7.30 GB Page File Space 2.88 GB Page File C:\pagefile.sys Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions Yes Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions Yes Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware Yes Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection YesRead other answers
I have the Spectre model X7V20UA#ABA and based on this answer bought an HP Active Pen. I cannot get teh machine to acknowledge the pen in any way. I've followed what instructions I could find (basically have the pen near the computer when you turn the computer off and then back on) and it will nto use it in One Note. Is this an incompatible device?Read other answers
Can someone suggest any third party USB chargers that can work with the new Kaby Lake spectre x360. I need a multi port usb charger from which I can charge both the laptop and my smartphone.Read other answers
Hello HP I would like to know the diferences between Apollo Lake and Kaby Lake which are Driver versions and is expressed on Driver Download Page.
This is all about the installed processor. If your notebook has the Apollo lake processor, install the apollo lake driver. If it has the Kaby lake processor installed, the you should install the kaby lake driver. Intel Apollo Lake specifications and discussion Intel 7th Gen Kaby Lake processorsRead other 1 answers
Hi, just ordered the Spectre x360 after a lot of googling around about it's active pen support. I haven't been able to find the official "HP Active Stylus" in my country (Norway), which I've read quite a bit of negativity about anyways, however I found one named "HP Pro Tablet Active Pen" (K8P73AA) which according to a reply by an HP employee in an older thread (http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Software-and-How-To-Questions/Spectre-x360-Active-Pen-Stylus-C...) is supposedly supported by the Synpatics digitizer in the x360. The official documentation however, has no mention of this. I've also read an overwhelming amount of feedback that a recent firmware update disabled the support for the Dell stylus which many apparently found success in, so this is another reason I am uncertain. Could this update have disabled the support for the other HP styluses as well? Before i go out and spend a lot of money on this pen I was wondering whether someone has tried the HP Pro Tablet Active Pen themselves on the x360, or whether any HP employee could confirm this compatibility. Again, this is the black stylus (K8P73AA) (http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/tablets/product-detail.html?oid=7530365) im looking at, not the silver/white one found here: http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-active-penThe lack of synaptics-supported styluses (and documentation thereof) was almost a real deal-breaker for me since im going... Read moreRead other answers
Hi, Does the HP Spectre Pro x360 G2 have palm rejection/active digitizer? If so, what is the best stylus to use? Thanks
Hi, The following one may help: http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/accessories-88342--1/hp-active-pen Regards.Read other 3 answers
I have an HP Spectre x360 Convertible with Product Number K8P19LA#ABM. I want to use it as a drawing and sketching tool. I have read several reviews from other x360 owners and decided that my best option was to buy a Dell Active Pen PN556W to use. Similar qualities as the HP Active Pen (which are not sold on my country) but with better reviews. I have had no opportunity to use my pen, as it is not recognized in any way by the screen.I have also installed the Anniversary edition of Windows 10 with better Pen Support and it still doesn't recognizes my pen. My configuration is:Windows 10 ProPen and Touch Support with 10 Touch Points
Hi, Is Dell stylus support HP machines mentioned on its specs ? You are asking HP to support another vendor's product here. From my view: No HP won't support other vendor's products unless HP does not have equivalent products.Dell may be very happy for HP (or other competitors) to support its products, it will sell more and laughing to the bank.Regards.Read other 1 answers
I have just bought a HP Spectre x360 - 15-bl000na and was wondering which Stylus I can use? It is the 15 inch 4k screen. Cheers.Read other answers
I recently purchased Spectre Pro x360 G2 V1B04EA and now I'm looking for a compatible stylus.Thank youRead other answers
I need a pen/stylus for my HP Spectre x360. I know that my computer will be able to use one. What pen or stylus is suggestsed?Read other answers
Attempting to use a stylus HP active pen with my computer bought in May 2016. My computer is a Full High Definition (FHD) displays (resolution is 1920x1080):The bluetooth connection work perfectly but it's impossible to right on the screen.There is no response to the stylus.I thought this occurs because the touch controller firmware needs to be updated.Unfortunatly I'm not able to find the appropriate firmware.Could you please Help Best regards PatrickRead other answers
Dear HP support / communityI entered university a while ago and for several reasons, purchased a HP spectre x360 13-4290nz. Possibly the most important one being able to take notes digitally (typing would lessen the learning effect). Therefore I am very dependent on stylus support.Now, I wasn't able to find evidence which confirms that pens will not work with my model (except for my experiences of course). I have tried various styli (like the active pen for Windows surface or the Dell active Pen, which works fine with other spectre models (as stated in some forums). The PC Tablet Settings show a "Limited Touch Support" for this convertible and according to the HP assistant, my PC is fully updated.The piece that is missing here - as far as I was able to understand the conversations in several forums / threads - is the firmware, which recognizes pens. Some days ago (I think around Nov. 26, 2016), I saw that some other models of the newest HP series got a firmware update on their support page and some users wrote, that this fixed the problem and they were able to use the pen from this point out. I have checked the support page for my model and wasn't able to find a firmware update or something in this direction at all (http://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/HP-Spectre-13-4200-x360-Convertible-PC/10862116/mode...).Now my main questions would be if the firmware is indeed the problem and if there will be a update that will enable sytlus support in the future or if there ar... Read moreRead other answers
Good morning , I have a HP Spectre x360 13 4003dx , I would like to know which pen stylus model is compatible and works better with this computer . Thank you. FlorenciaRead other answers
Hi! I have the new HP Spectre x360 AC-series that comes bundled with a pen. I've been using it for about a month and I've been satisifed with the pen performance, but I JUST NOW realized that the pen tip is REPLACEABLE! That's a "wow" moment to me; I never knew the tip could be removed. One minor thing I noticed when I first got the pen was that the stylus tip is hard plastic, which doesn't give a ton of friction with the screen. It's not a dealbreaker, but I owned a Surface Pro 4 in the past and I really dig the additional friction of the Surface Pen to the screen with its soft nib. I don't think shelling out $50 for the Surface Pen was worth it though, but instead, are there replacement tips available for the bundled Spectre x360 pen? Or, can someone tell me if the $10 pack of Surface Pen replacement tips is compatible with the Spectre pen? Thanks a lot!Read other answers
I received my HP Spectre x360 - 13t-4200 CTO one week ago as well as a new HP Active Stylus. I purchased both directly from HP. I have tried four times with tech support to help me get the stylus to work. Despite being assured that the stylus in indeed compatible with this laptop, they have not gotten it to work. The only solution they have come up with is to reset the computer to factory settings wiping out everything I have spent hours doing to migrate to this new laptop. In asking them what doing the reset will resolve, they do not know, but that is the fallback answer. I have received so much conflicting and silly information from tech support staff who actually are not famililar at all with the problem. They have updated the Intel video drivers and attempted to install firmware for the 15" Spectre but still no success. Does anybody know the steps to getting the stylus setup? Thanks very much.Read other answers


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One in two believes what they learn in school is not enough for their future.
If the new survey by Glints - JOS is anything to go by, then Singapore millennials are seeing learnings from schools inadequate for their future.
According to the study, more than half of the 1,000 respondents believe that what they are learning in school is not enough for them to land jobs after graduation. Consequently, 78% of them have actively searched outside of school for opportunities like competitions, internships, and projects to gain skills for their future jobs. Further, 82% of the youths are even willing to sacrifice personal leisure time and social time to participate in these opportunities.
Christian Paolo Garaga, a second-year electronics and computer engineering student at Ngee Ann Polytechnic, shared that he would sacrifice study time to grab on opportunities such as the JOS Innovation Awards, a competition for polytechnic and university students to brainstorm ideas through using technology to solve modern problems.
"I would sacrifice my study time for such opportunities. With the changing landscape of the workforce, getting these skills are more important than just learning through the books. Skills taught outside of school is more valuable these days," Garaga stated.
Glints COO Looi Qin En commented on the results of the survey and said, "Times have changed and relying on the school alone for career preparation is no longer enough. We are seeing an increasing number of youths who proactively pursue opportunities outside of their schools to prepare themselves for their careers. Being industry ready is not just about resume and interview preparation workshops, but having real experiences through internships, competitions and projects. This is the new norm."
With this, Looi noted that many companies are changing the way they recruit young talents by offering more skills development opportunities to engage millennials.
"We are seeing a shift of mindset from traditional companies who used to hire graduates directly. These companies are beginning to create opportunities for students to develop and showcase their skills, while using these opportunities as avenues for talent attraction and employer branding," he said.
As such, JOS group human resources senior manager Carmen Chan noted that they organised the inaugural JOS Innovation Awards in Singapore, a competition for polytechnic and university students with the aim of using technology in coming up with ideas to solve modern-day problems.
"We received an overwhelming response from the polytechnic and university population. Initially setting an ambitious target of receiving 50 submissions, we ended up receiving over 80 submissions with representation from all 5 polytechnics, all 5 public universities, and various private tertiary institutions," Chan shared.
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The earliest known record of Castlecary comes from 1304 when a writ was sent from St Andrews to the sheriff of Stirling by King Edward I. It contained orders for the sheriff to bring all of the forces under his command to 'Chastel Kary' where they were to obey the orders of Sir Thomas de Morham, the eldest son of the laird of Dunipace, and Alwyn de Kalentir, laird of Callendar. There is place-name evidence for the existence of a motte and baillie there which would have been, in all likelihood, the fortalice of these lands at that time. The lordship of the estate lay in the hands of Lothian families from the fourteenth century but from the middle of the fifteenth we find a branch of the Livingstons resident there. First mention of these comes from 1450 when Robert, son of Henry Livingston of Manerstoun (near Blackness) was described as 'the late'. This record mentions that Robert had suffered forfeiture of the lands of Castlecary and Walton for 'high treason and the crime of les majestie'. Nevertheless, it is evident that a Livingston connection was re-established as Henry Livingston of Middilbyning (?Binns) had a dispute with several people regarding the lands in 1473. When Henry and his wife granted Castlecary and Walton to their son Patrick in 1491 the confirmation charter from the Crown contains the phrase: 'and also with a tower and fortalice and mansion to be newly constructed by the said Henry in the lands of Weltoun (Walton). This is the present castle and Patrick is the first encountered to be overtly titled 'of Castlecary'. Archibald Levyngstoun of Castlecary, on record in 1530 must have been the son or grandson of Patrick. Sometime soon after he invested Archibald Fawup as chaplain of the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Linlithgow, he was 'slaughtered' by John Kerr who, subsequently, was beheaded for the crime. The family remained as the lairds there for several generations; the last to be designed 'of Castlecary' was Harry Livingston who died sometime in or around 1657. He was survived by his son John but he doesn't appear to have retained the lands. They came into the possession of the Baillie family; Patrick Baillie of Shirhill was there in 1685. This family remained until the early eighteenth century when the castle and lands were acquired by James Dundas when he married Bethia Baillie. James was then designed 'of Castlecary'. He belonged to the family of Dundas who held the estate of Kerse and were to become the Earls of Zetland.
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A joint legislative task force met recently to discuss the safety of Alaska's highways.
Two panels – the House Transportation and Judiciary committees – focused their attention on the Seward Highway. Eight people have died in crashes on the road since May, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
Even with the problems along the 127-mile route from Anchorage to Seward, the number of fatal crashes on highways throughout the state could actually be down this year.
Among the contributing factors identified as safety concerns by the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities on the Seward Highway are increased traffic volumes, difficult travel conditions during the winter, "a diverse mix of roadway users" combined with a lack of passing opportunities and driver distraction.
Transportation and public safety department officials say the root of the problem is the number of vehicles using a highway meant for 2,000 vehicles a day. Officials say the highway routinely carries about 20,000 vehicles on a normal day.
To help combat safety issues, lawmakers are looking into implementing more no-passing zones, lowering the speed limit, and putting up barriers on the shoulders.
Critics of the passing restriction say it can lead to aggressive driving and increase the likelihood of wrecks. DOT officials say a better option is to install "rumble strips" in the center lane and shoulder of the highway. Reflective markers on curves also are planned, as well as low-cost spots to build turnouts for slow-moving vehicles.
Another change in place since the summer has more state troopers patrolling the highway than in past years. Lawmakers were told the unit no longer has too many vacant positions.
– By Keith Goble, state legislative editor
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