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I consider myself a decent judge of character.
For better or for worse, I'm often able to discern what certain people's strengths and weaknesses are, how to read their expressions and body language, why they act certain ways in certain situations, and even sometimes their thought process in particular scenarios.
In 2013 I employed this capability to the race to succeed Mayor Tom Menino who had announced in March of that year that he would not seek to prolong his tenure as the longest serving mayor in the history of Boston. Leveraging my then-embryonic role as a news writer covering my first election of any kind, I was able to compile an informative foundation upon which I built my unprejudiced rationale for my candidate of choice.
I'll freely admit that I cast my ballot for the incumbent Mayor of Boston, Marty Walsh.
One week removed from the 2016 Massachusetts primary, I regret it wholeheartedly.
Since his inauguration in 2014, Mayor Walsh's administration has been a torrent of ill-fated actions all too frequently encroaching, if not bypassing, the line of unlawful.
At first it was tolerable, little more than the growing pains of a former state legislator now taking the executive reins of a national metropolitan power.
But his latest misstep, parading around in cahoots with former President Bill Clinton to support former Secretary of State and Senator Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee for President, has left a bitter taste in my mouth that, at a moral level, will prohibit me from supporting Marty for any office at any level.
Bill Clinton campaigning with Mayor Walsh in Boston for Hillary Clinton. #NECN pic.twitter.com/e7lSUyvpjy
— John Moroney (@JMoNecn) March 1, 2016
At the time this was written 99% of Massachusetts precincts reported their primary results, tipping the candidate scale in Hillary's favor over Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders by a painfully narrow 50% to 49%.
Had Hillary dominated Bernie like Michael Phelps dominated swimming in Beijing in 2008, I would gladly keep my thoughts to myself and maybe even applaud her for a performance well done. But because her edge was so slim, because there was even the slightest semblance of controversy, because I champion a system of democracy, something must be done here.
As mayor, Marty Walsh stands at the vanguard of municipal policy and accountability. As mayor of the largest city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the state's socioeconomic driver, Marty stands in the shadow of only the governor in this same regard.
For that reason, Marty should be held responsible for when, according to the New York Times, "Mr. Clinton stopped at a bake sale at the entrance and then shook hands with poll workers."
Massachusetts Secretary Bill Galvin told the Times, "We had to remind some of our poll workers that even a president can't go inside and work a polling place."
I don't think it's inconceivable that the tag team of Marty and Bill schmoozing the inside of a West Roxbury polling station may have helped nudge Hillary to victory. That Bill went on to work more Bay State crowds in the likes of Newton and New Bedford only bolsters that notion.
Bill Clinton, Mayor Marty Walsh, and a voter at Holy Name in West Roxbury posing with a ballot. #SuperTuesday pic.twitter.com/3E9gIrGM9B
— Kyle Clauss (@KyleClauss) March 1, 2016
After all Boston is, to borrow an obnoxious though befitting cliche from the local startup community, an "influencer."
Massachusetts law blatantly states "Within 150 feet of a polling place…no person shall solicit votes for or against, or otherwise promote or oppose, any person or political party or position on a ballot question, to be voted on at the current election."
This is exactly what Bill's presence and accompanying message constituted. And lest we forget, Marty previously served as a state Representative — a sentinel of this law.
Together, Bill and Marty executed a sleazy maneuver that would bring tears of joy to the eye of Ted Cruz and make his chest swell with political pride.
But because Hillary's triumph was razor thin, and the only foul stench seemed to stem from Marty and Bill, I can't help but wonder what the results would've been if the tandem hadn't broken the rules. Would Bernie have won? I'm not suggesting any kind of recount or consolation in Bernie's favor, but I demand an equal playing field for all candidates.
Somehow, someway something must be done to fade this stain on #mapoli.
In the meantime, here's hoping this proves to be the final shovelful of dirt cast on the political grave of Marty Walsh. He's stockpiled an arsenal of dubious motives and moves that prove to me that his Boston thermometer reads the warmest when something's in his favor.
I'll happily elaborate.
Frequently since he was sworn into office, Marty's been too cavalier with initiatives that, when overlooked, have the ability to strike a fatal blow to Boston residents.
Marty brought Everett's Wynn casino ordeal to Boston's backyard when he "lost his grip on the process, failing to sign a surrounding-community agreement with Wynn and refusing to engage in arbitration," according to the Boston Globe.
The same Globe piece notes further that "Walsh quickly evacuated more than 350 homeless men and women," from the homeless shelter on Boston Harbor's Long Island "but he deliberated for weeks while trying to find a site for a new shelter, settling first on a vacant plot of city-owned land along the Southeast Expressway, only to switch suddenly to a different site in the Newmarket district."
That was just his first year.
For Marty, 2015 was marred by the Boston 2024 Olympic bid which unleashed a deluge requests for public records and information in hopes of shedding light on backroom deals that led to Boston being tapped as the U.S. host city contender.
As was the case with Wynn, Marty initially opposed a referendum and subjected his administration to a contract which strictly forbade any bad-mouthing about the bid in general.
Residents of Boston railed against Marty and his Boston 2024 establishment, comprised of developers, moguls, politicians and financiers, and continuously asked for concrete evidence that taxpayers would not be responsible for Olympic cost overruns, infrastructure shortcomings and the pricing out of residents as a byproduct of Olympics development.
Olympics advocates systematically eked out more iotas of information and redacted documents but when it became apparent that they'd continue to harbor the consequential details, and subsequently when the United States Olympic Committee prepared to rescind its support for Boston in favor of a city whose climate was more favorable towards the shadiness of Olympic dealings, Marty held a press conference to preemptively wash his hands of the entire prospect under the guise that public opinion was his heartfelt priority.
This year began with a whimper for Marty as it became clear for many local parents and children that the Boston Public Schools system is woefully inadequate. Protesters gathered at his 2016 State of the City Address, at City Hall in February and, most recently, staged a 1,000-plus person walk out on March 7 to demonstrate against a $50 million budget deficit for Boston Public Schools. The dire budgetary circumstances mean reduced staff, reduced resources and reduced possibilities for students moving forward.
Everyday, BPS students see @marty_walsh gentrifying Boston at their expense. #BPSwalkout https://t.co/OZmp2yxr6A pic.twitter.com/dUBXKJjy6S
— No Marty 2017 (@chipgoines) March 7, 2016
All the while, Marty's team has failed to gain any traction lobbying Beacon Hill for improved late night hospitality services (extended operation hours, liquor license reform, laxer live entertainment regulations, etc.).
He's further proven himself backward-minded when it comes to medicinal and recreational marijuana, which is proven to combat opioid and alcohol dependency– a fact that seems lost on Marty, whose 20-plus years on the wagon might've opened his eyes to progressive ways to treat rampant addiction. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, though, is thankfully moving that needle in Congress on our collective behalf.
And, most detrimental of all, Marty has failed to curtail the housing crises which has eaten away at the city like gangrene. Since taking office, housing prices have risen meteorically and despite soliciting ideas from the public, from higher-educational institutions and from constituent politicos, Walsh has been unable to lend a hand to stopping this cost hemorrhage.
Under Walsh's Boston Redevelopment Authority, innumerable luxury apartments and condos have sprang up in and around Downtown Boston while cost relief has been strikingly absent in the city's outer, residential neighborhoods. Like how NASA physicists were able to record a ripple in space-time, so too is a ripple of unaffordability oscillating out from the center of Boston.
To his credit Marty did sign an executive order back in December but it doesn't go nearly far enough. In essence, the order only really bolsters two aspects of the Inclusionary Development Policy:
First, developers who won't include the required 13 percent of units in an on-site development as affordable have the option to build them off-site, though that number spikes gently to 18 percent in neighborhoods downtown, on the waterfront (Zone A) and Allston, Brighton, Charlestown, Jamaica Plain, Mission Hill, and part of South Boston (Zone B). In Dorchester, East Boston, Hyde Park, Mattapan, Roslindale, Roxbury, and West Roxbury (Zone C), affordable units built off-site must constitute 15 percent of all units.
Second, developers can donate a minimum of $200,000 to the Inclusionary Development Fund per housing unit. This jumps to $380,000 in Zone A and $300,000 in Zone B.
Translation: Developers who don't want to build affordable housing units on-site have to build a slightly increased number of affordable units off-site, or they can simply throw a hefty lump sum at the City as a placating alternative.
It's a bandage for a bullet wound, designed to keep luxury developers interested in breaking ground in Boston but not to deter them from building more for the under-resourced.
This is not to say Marty's achieved nothing of merit.
He's advocated strongly for Boston's public art, taken steps to reinforce the startup community, christened the new Bolling Building in Dudley Square, pushed for an encompassing Master Plan
50-years in the making, open-sourced public data, taken steps to revitalize City Hall Plaza, made City Hall gender-neutral, charted a roadmap for women and minority business owners, streamlined licensing and permitting, and strongly supported crowdsourcing ideas from Boston's collective brainpower.
In January 2015, I even wrote favorably of Walsh and his vision.
These wins, though, pale in comparison to the losses. They're dwarfed by gaffes which are more overarching than his small-time, street-level gains.
How many times must he bumble stubbornly and tone-deaf into an issue (à la Wynn, Boston 2024, affordable housing, Bill Clinton, etc.), only to realize that he's either not read the fine print, or that it's directly problematic for residents, or that it's generally not in the best interest of the city at present and in the future, or that he flirts with unlawfulness, before we stop cutting him breaks?
Marty's a seasoned politician who should by now be able to accurately feel the pulse of Boston, but that pulse grows fainter under his tutelage.
In the next mayoral election, we must all consider that Marty does more damage to Boston than good despite his best intentions.
You had your chance, Marty. Not only are you continually in the wrong, but it doesn't seem you're learning from your mistakes.
I am absolutely willing to support a leader who may encounter a few speed bumps. But I also want a leader who will face these shortcomings head on, learn from them, adapt with them, and apply them and their solutions to issues he or she may face imminently thereafter.


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Cameron said on Thursday that he had heard about "police officers being dragged off police horses and beaten". The PM then suggests that protestors that damage property should face "full force of the law".
The reality is very different. The footage of how the un-mounted police officer sustained his injuries is being circulated and as you will see the officer was not beaten by protestors but steppen on by his horse. Meanwhile the police can be seen hitting a protestor in the background.
Perhaps the police horse should face the full force of law? Alfie Meadows did. Having been beaten by police he sustained a brain injury requiring surgery, yet on arrival at hospital the police apparently tried to prevent him receiving treatment. Those officers should be proscuted.
When the police are facing cuts will they be this violent towards their own colleagues?


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Understanding The Importance Of High Quality Garage Doors
Your garage is something that does more than to keep your vehicle safe, so it deserves a high quality door. Overhead door plays a significant role in a home's overall curb appeal. These doors are critical to home security. When it comes to buying the best door for your garage, not everyone understands their significance.
Whether need a garage door for your new home or the old one has fallen into disrepair, there is a good chance to buy a high quality and stylish overhead door for your home. An overhead door is more than just a shelter for your belongings and car. It helps to enhance the value of your property and also add curb appeal to your house as well as the security and safety of your premises. Here are a few reasons to invest in the right and a high quality overhead door.
- Security: Security is the first thing that every homeowner consider before investing in the largest moving part of the home. Most of the homeowners keep their valuables and vehicles in the garage. If you have a low quality door, it will offer you low or no protection. Investing in a good quality door is a good idea, because these doors have terrible locking mechanisms that are often enough to deter opportunist intruders and thieves.
- Insulation: Making a decision to buy the right door will help you to save bucks on utility bills. Nowadays, modern doors come with several qualities and insulation is one of them. An insulated door helps to keep a garage cooler during the summer season and warmer when it is cold outside.
- Safety: If you have pets and kids in your house, you want to provide safety to them when it comes to mechanism doors. Modern doors, especially automatic doors have a number of built in safety features. These features are helpful to minimize the potential for injuries or accidents.
- Soundproofing: Whether you use your garage as a playroom, gym or work place, you may want to prevent unwanted sound coming in and out. The soundproofing garage door is dampening any sounds to the bare minimum.
- Added value and curb appeal: Choosing the right door can enhance the value of your property and add the curb appeal to your home. If you are thinking about to buy a new door for your house, it is good to talk with a professional or get references from your colleagues, friends and neighbors. There are a number of stylish doors available in the market and you can choose any one of them as per your budget.
For any homeowner or business owner, security is the biggest concern. A garage door with various features provide security for your commercial and residential property. A mechanism door may be one of the first things that your visitors notice. That is why it is essential to have a stylish, good looking and high quality door. For more information, you can talk with our professionals at Vancouver Garage Door Service.


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Gods on the Move: Architecture and Ritual in the South Indian Temple.
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Review by George Michell, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies:
The "late" period of religious architecture and art of South India, especially of Tamilnadu, has until recently been a much neglected subject. While there is no shortage of studies on Pallava and Chola temples and sculptures (sixth-thirteenth centuries), for example, the Vijayanagara and Nāyaka eras (fourteenth-seventeenth centuries) have not attracted serious attention from art historians. The appearance of this volume signals a major change in focus, since it is for the most part concerned with the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. As the author argues, it was only from the middle of the sixteenth century, once Tamilnadu had achieved autonomy from the Vijayanagara emperors who had dominated the region from the end of the fourteenth century, that artistic production once again resumed on a major scale. The revival of temple building in the second half of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries may be judged from the large number of splendidly appointed and grandiosely scaled religious monuments that date from this time. Though this period was marked by political instability there was nonetheless a sustained investment in Hindu architecture, sculpture and the related arts on the part of the Nāyaka rulers of the Gingee, Tanjavur (Tanjore) and Madurai kingdoms, as well as their successors. The temples that were substantially expanded or newly founded by these figures are the principal focus of the work under review here. Illustrated by a generous selection of photographs and measured architectural plans, many of which are published here for the first time, the author's discussions constitute a welcome contribution to the subject that should be of particular interest for scholars, students and even travellers to Tamilnadu.
- Acknowledgements, List of illustrations, Maps, Colour illustrations
- Approaching the Tamil temple
- From Vijayanagara to Nāyaka: patronage and the South Indian temple
- Gateways to God: the development of the temple city in Tamilnadu
- Sacred architecture, sacred sites: continuity and change in the Tamil temple tradition
- Gods on the move: festival architecture and ritual
- Expanding from: architectural sculpture in the Tamil temple
- The royal presence and portraiture in the Tamil temple
- Conclusion
- Glossary; Bibliography; Index.


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Help Aria Venom slay Draithor the Drill.
Here is why I changed my mind and told the internet.
- Permission: This is the main reason I changed my mind. Recently, I was given official permission by several members of the ArenaNet Team to release this information. Multiple developers not only read my blog, but took the time to find out and inform me that it was fine to share this news. How it is that these amazing people are not only still paying attention to the blog, but have time to stop bug-squishing their three-day-old game is simply mind-boggling to me. I appreciate it and have told them so. One of the reasons I didn't just say before what event I created was that I am incredibly terrified to break the trust ArenaNet has bestowed upon me by letting me see their game so early. If I wasn't supposed to tell, I just wouldn't. With their permission, though, I feel comfortable telling the world about Draithor, Aria, the beach, and the Black Lion Trading Company.
- Pride: I am so proud of what we did that day. I know that for the staff of ArenaNet it was just another day at work, but this event is the single coolest thing I have ever helped create. I think everyone who read my last post knew I wanted to tell my family, friends, and total strangers about the epicness of Draithor's Demesnes. I was bursting and this is just beginning to let it out.
- Human Knowledge: I fundamentally believe that the internet should be a compilation of the vast sum of all human knowledge. If somebody knows it, they should write it down because it stays indefinitely. Whether I write another word or not, I know that as long as this blog lives so does all the knowledge I put on it. I want to put down as many of my stories as I can. The story of my event is one of the coolest ones I haven't told. So here it goes.


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The Sony NEX-5 and other NEX cameras has a neat built-in HDR mode that makes it easy to create decent looking HDRs. Unfortunately, the user interface around this feature had some issues and frustrated me quite a bit. The good news is I stumbled on a workaround that makes using this feature a whole lot easier for me, so I wanted to share this information with you.
First, a little background. For those of you who do not know. HDR is short for High Dynamic Range photography which combines 3 or more photos of the same scene at different exposure levels to produce an image that give more detail and color than a typical photograph. This popular technique is a bit of a pain to do manually, requiring you to not only get the right settings in camera but requires a lot of post processing knowledge to do well. The NEX's HDR mode does all this for you, so it is a quick and easy way to make HDRs. Unfortunately, there were a few interface issues that made accessing this mode a pain in the neck for me. Consequently, I didn't use it as much as I wanted to. I wrote about this frustration in my detailed Sony NEX-5 review. I shoot my NEX-5 in RAW to get the highest possible quality. The built-in HDR function only works in JPEG — you can not even access the HDR settings when you are in RAW mode. Previously, I had so switch from RAW to JPEG, then get into the HDR mode, shoot the picture in HDR, then switch back to RAW again for my regular shots. Later on, when I wanted to shoot another HDR, I had to go through the same cumbersome process. After a while, I just didn't bother.
So here is the work around. First start in JPEG mode. Click the menu button. Select "Image Size" from the menu. Scroll down to "Quality". This is where you can set RAW or JPEG. I set my JPEG to Fine, which is the highest quality for JPEGs. Then I set the HDR mode. Hit the menu button again and this time select "Bightness/Color". Under this submenu, select "DRO/Auto HDR", and then select HDR. You can also adjust the level of HDR in this mode, which took me a while to find, the first time. Click the "options" button to the left and below the scroll wheel. This will allow you to choose from Auto-HDR to 6EV HDR modes by turning the scroll wheel. Choose the level of HDR you like. You can experiment with the level you personally like. I keep mine usually on Auto-HDR. Now, if you choose to shoot in JPEG all the time, then you are all set. Life is easier to do HDRs since you don't have to switch back and forth between JPEG and RAW. I like to shoot in RAW, so I switch back to RAW through the "Image Size" menu. Here is the key part of the work around. When you are in RAW and what to take an HDR, just switch to JPEG. The camera remembers that you have set the HDR mode in JPEG. When you are finished, switch back to RAW.
The following "bug" has tripped me up, which probably added to the frustration.. When you are in RAW and you happen get into the "DRO/Auto HDR" menu, if you change the scroll wheel dial at all, even if you hit the cancel button, this takes the camera out of HDR mode in JPEG. If this happens you have to repeat all the steps above to get your camera back into HDR mode. So, as long as you don't touch the scroll wheel, you are OK and can switch back and forth between JPEG HDR mode and normal RAW mode. I originally programmed my custom button as a short cut to the DRO/Auto HDR feature. This makes it easy to access HDR but also makes it easy to change the setting accidentally which unknowingly took me out of HDR mode. I've removed the HDR option off my custom button to prevent accidental changes. I wish I can program this custom button switch between RAW and JPEG but this is not available on the NEX-5.
I played around with a NEX-5n and a NEX-C3 and noticed that they act differently. Unfortunately, while there are a lot of improvements in the 5n, the switching behavior between the JPEG HDR mode and RAW is worse. Unlike the NEX-5, on the 5n, even when you set the HDR mode in JPEG, the act of switching to RAW will make use lose the HDR mode. All is not lost, however. The option button is more flexible in this newer model so that you can program on the buttons to quickly switch between JPEG and RAW. The net effect is that the behavior is different but the user interface pain level is about the same. The NEX-C3 seems to have a similar behavior as my NEX-5, though the options button is not nearly as flexible as its bigger brother.
I hope I explained this well enough so that you can follow along. The Sony menu interface is sill far from ideal but this workaround makes it better. I didn't get a chance to test all the NEX models so please tell me what your experience is, especially if you have a NEX-7.
Here is a sample of my work using the Sony NEX-5. I've posted them on my one-photo-per-day photo blog, mostlyfotos. There are a lot of images so click the << Previous Photo link to see more. You can also hover over the photos to see the exposure information.


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The Lake Forest Park Garden Club holds its monthly business meeting at 9:30, and a public program with a guest speaker at 10:30.
This month's topic is "Go Bold with Bulbs" featuring speaker Trevor Cameron.
Trevor ran Wights Nursery for 20 years and is currently GM at Sunnyside Nursery for 7 years. A "plantophile" with special addictions to Japanese maples, heucheras, hostas, hellebores, dwarf conifers and of course bulbs. President of Evergreen Arboretum and Gardens at Legion Park in Everett, he loves teaching classes at the nursery, arboretum, and at garden clubs.


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Bitcoin Global News (BGN)March 12, 2019 -- ADVFN Crypto NewsWire -- Early last year the EU formed the Blockchain Observatory & Forum to produce deep research on the blockchain technology industry overall. The broad scope of their research has been reigned in for a preliminary 29 page report outlining the state of the technology at this time, some of the common misconceptions about the inner-workings of the technology, and the "likely future state" of the blockchain technology industry.
The group tailored their incite to incorporate a range of important blockchain themes vital to the functioning of the European Commission and based on input from its Working Groups and other stakeholders. Input of a number of different stakeholders and sources included:
'Blockchain scalability, interoperability and sustainability' by Arthur Gervais – an
academic research paper prepared by the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – an academic partner of the EU Blockchain Observatory & Forum. Available online at www.eublockchainforum.eu/reports
'Scalability, interoperability and sustainability' workshop held in Berlin on 2 October 2018
Secretariat of the EU Blockchain Observatory & Forum (which includes members of the DG CONNECT of the European Commission and members of ConsenSys)
Blockchain's Future State
The research group envisions the first wave of blockchain adoption as a large number of permissioned, purpose-built blockchain platforms geared towards a specific use case or user base. This situation is essentially growth of what is currently happening in the industry. With development of more diverse technology and growth of these networks, they will inevitably begin to work in tandem.
"Just as TCP/IP and the rest of the Internet stack became the open, freely accessible backbone of the Web of Information, we think that a small number of global blockchain networks will also emerge as the backbone of a Web of Value."
In a progressive look at the new financial technology, the report does not cite security issues as a major problem preventing growth of the industry. They express much of the already available information and incites that were developed following the huge market cap surge of the cryptocurrency market in 2018 in a clear and concise manner. Instead the three main issues highlighted are:
Scalability - handling large volumes of transactions at high speeds
Interoperability: exchanging data with other platforms, including those running different types of blockchains, as well as with the off-chain world
Sustainability: running a large-scale blockchain platform or decentralised application in an environmentally responsible, and regulating projects, platforms and the core technology in such a way that they remain viable over the long term
The report end with suggested goals of public services for blockchain networks and construction including:
Create an environment and a set of foundations conducive to the development
of an innovative, world-class blockchain
ecosystem in the EU.
Make it easier and cheaper for public and
public/private initiatives to design, test and deploy projects based on blockchain technology.
Establish interoperability standards that make it possible for individual projects to communicate with each other easily and securely, with no leakage of sensitive data.
Facilitate knowledge transfer between projects.
By: BGN Editorial Staff
From Jun 2019 to Jun 2020
Sunday 7 June 2020
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How to Put Something on Google Docs on a Jump Drive
Keeping data "in the cloud" is increasingly common and important. It lets you easily access your information from any online computer, and it can greatly simplify collaboration with others. Google Docs, now Google Drive, is a good choice for cloud storage, but sometimes you may find the need to download your files or even to transfer them to another device on a jump drive. This process is easy in Google Drive, and when you download the document, you have multiple options for file types to make compatibility as simple as possible.
Insert your jump drive into an available USB port on your computer. If the AutoPlay window appears, you can close it.
Access Google Drive and open the file you want to put on your jump drive.
Click the "File" drop-down menu within Google Drive and hover your cursor over the "Download as" option.
Select the file type you prefer. You'll have different options depending on what type of Google document you're viewing. All document types have the "PDF" option, which is a good choice for read-only files since the file will appear identically on other computers, but you won't be able to edit it. Good editable options are ones compatible with productivity software like Microsoft Office or OpenOffice. A good choice for a "Document" file is "Word" or "RTF;" a good choice for a "Spreadsheet" document is "Excel" or "OpenOffice;" a good choice for a "Presentation" document is "Microsoft PowerPoint."
Navigate to your jump drive in the window that appears. It will be listed as a drive connected to your computer, such as your "C:" drive and your DVD drive.
Click "Save" to put the Google Drive file on your jump drive. Once the save completes, the file will be on the drive and ready for transferring.
- You can also download your file from the main Google Drive file list if you prefer. You only need to check the box beside the file, click the "More" drop-down menu above the file list and select "Download." This option does not always have as many download options, but you can check multiple files to download them all at once in a ZIP file.
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CompTIA Stackable Certifications demonstrate that you've earned multiple CompTIA certifications, and map to the CompTIA Infrastructure Career Pathway or CompTIA Cybersecurity Career Pathway. When you achieve the combination of CompTIA certifications that comprise CompTIA Stackable Certifications, you'll be granted the respective stackable certification(s) automatically.
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Your stackable certifications can be found on the Stackable Certifications tab on your certification account. Click the Logo link to download the stackable certification logo for your personal use, and click on the Download PDF link to download a PDF version of your stackable certification. There is no verification link for stackable certifications as there are with individual certifications.
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SAV Comment – This very morning we have had to sit and endure Junker telling the EU Parliament how the UK is going to suffer when it leaves the EU (Brexit). This is from 'Mr EU' – the official EU clown who has 'EU Regulations' on paper but does nothing to ensure that they are actually enforced. He has help with the non enforcement of the regulations from others in his circle like Mr Van Goethem – or Mr "I can do nothing" as he is much better known throughout the EU. He and Junker make a fine pair – BOTH useless to the very end. If and When other nations in the EU have the guts to follow the UK lead and exit the Union, then they can take back their own legislative control and start enforcing their own new national laws to stop live animal transport.
Above – Mr Junker and Mr Van Goethem – two useless EU peas from the same pod.
Photo – VC.
This morning, people around the world are uniting around a single idea; an end to the long distance transport of animals. Campaigners from at least 25 countries are taking action; from Australia, to the USA, to Israel this truly is a global movement to end the cruelty of the live transport trade.
We're thrilled that so many Compassion supporters in the UK are staging events today or at the weekend. It isn't too late to join an event but, if you can't be with us in person, you can still make your voice count.
Take Action:
UK Environment Secretary, Michael Gove has suggested that Britain may end the cruel UK live export trade after Brexit.
Please email him today, welcoming this suggestion and urging him to act.
Now is the time
Compassion's investigators have just arrived back from the Turkish/Bulgarian border, where they have been documenting the condition of animals in transit. What they found was shocking and appalling, but sadly not surprising.
Time and again we see evidence that animals suffer during long distance transport, but nothing is done. Brexit gives the British government an opportunity to take a stand. We must ensure the global trade in animals for fattening or slaughter is dismantled, a UK ban would be a historic first step.
Let's make 13th September 2017 the date when the public stood against the cruel live export trade.
Each year the EU exports over two million cattle and sheep to the Middle East, Turkey and North Africa. Packed into overcrowded trucks the animals are sent on long road journeys to Turkey or sea ports in southern Europe. From the port they are shipped to the Middle East and North Africa.
In the Summer 2017 Compassion In World Farming investigators went to the Turkish/Bulgarian border to document the conditions for animals being transported out of the EU. They found devastating suffering.
Read the investigator's account here.
You can find our briefing on EU live exports here.
Investigations into slaughter in the Middle East, Turkey and North Africa have shown that animals are subjected to extremely rough handling and inhumane, incompetent slaughter while they are fully conscious.
These slaughter practices are in breach of the international standards on welfare at slaughter of the OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health). The long journeys often breach a judgment of the European Court of Justice. The Court ruled that EU law on welfare during transport applies even once a live export truck or ship leaves the EU – it applies right through to the destination in the importing country.
But the European Commission and the traders often ignore this ruling.
This cruel trade is also in breach of the EU Treaty. Article 13 recognises animals as "sentient beings" and requires the Commission and the Member States to pay "full regard" to welfare in formulating agriculture and transport policy. Sending animals on very long journeys to countries where they may be slaughtered with immense brutality is not paying full regard to their welfare.
Please call on the Commission to take action to stop the export of live animals from the EU to non-EU countries. Email the head of the European Commission, Mr Juncker, and the Commissioners for Trade and Agriculture and Rural Development. Tell them that the trade in live animals leaving the EU must stop.
Investigating Live Transport
Our courageous investigators spent 10 days at the Bulgarian/Turkish border in August 2017, documenting the conditions of the animals passing through. Please note, this account contains images and information which some may find distressing.
During the ten days, our investigators witnessed huge volumes of animals passing through the border. In temperatures above 30°, the animals were suffering from poor health. This was a result of the filthy and dangerous conditions on the trucks; the complete disregard for laws; and the apathy of those who were supposed to protect them.
Our investigators were able to provide us with a wealth of information, which we have passed to the authorities involved. Along with other animal welfare organisations we are making a concerted effort to get the European Commission to take action to end long distance transport of live animals.
A gruelling journey
Before the cattle and sheep had even reached the border, they had already endured gruelling journeys, measured in days rather than hours1.
Our investigators witnessed trucks loaded with sheep or cows, several tiers high. The ceilings of each tier were so low that they touched the animals' backs2. Not only does this mean that they could not raise their heads adequately, but it left the animals uncomfortably trapped, unable to see clearly, and made it harder for them to maintain their balance.
In the middle of August, in southern Europe, the outside temperature was already high. Inside the trucks – many with broken ventilation systems – with animals pressed in on all sides, the temperature reached in excess of 35°C3.
Often the watering systems were not functioning, leaving animals dehydrated in the unbearable heat. Even when the watering systems were working, not all animals were able to access them due to the cramped conditions4.
The animals were not just at risk of injury from being crushed or walked upon by others. Some of the trucks had partitions with dangerous gaps in which the animals' legs could become trapped. Others had sharp edges which could inflict nasty cuts on the animals unfortunate enough to fall into or be pressed against them5.
Many of the vehicles had no straw or other bedding materials provided for the animals. The animals were forced to lie in a deep layer of faeces and urine on the hard floors of the truck. Where bedding was used, it was often sparse, sodden, and filthy6.
From the dreadful conditions the animals were forced to endure, it was no surprise, but still deeply upsetting, to find some animals underweight, and others coughing and showing signs of injury and illness7. On some trucks, animals had died8, and those still alive were unable to avoid the decomposing bodies of their dead companions.
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Being A .NET Developer For A WeekEndZürich, Switzerland
Even if I learnt C# and the .NET platform at school, I really started playing with all these Microsoft things a few weeks ago. My job is sort of related to the .NET platform, so I decided to look at this ecosystem.
To be honest, I had tons of preconceived ideas about Microsoft and its programming technologies. One of them was the fact that you can certainly build open source software in .NET. And many do. But it never feels natural. It never feels right. […] It is just not a native part of the Microsoft .NET culture to make things open source, especially not the things that suck.
However, I always considered Visual Studio as the best IDE ever. It integrates everything you need while programming. And it just works (as much as I love vim, it's not an IDE).
The Plan
I decided to rewrite TravisLight, a weekend project I covered in a previous "Being a X Developer For A WeekEnd" article. My goal was to learn Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), the Model-View-ViewModel design pattern, and to become familiar with a few Microsoft tools.
The project name is: TravisLight.Net. It is released under the MIT license, and publicly available on CodePlex, the Microsoft's open source project hosting web site. CodePlex could be seen as a GitHub for .NET developers. It offers Git and Team Foundation Server (TFS) repositories for your .NET Open Source projects.
Team Foundation Server
TFS is not only a source code management system but also a complete collaboration platform including an issue-tracking system, a build server, and so on. To me, it looks like SVN with superpowers. Yes, it's a centralized version control system!
I decided to give it a try. Ok, this was a bad idea. I missed the Git staging area, and the disconnected mode. Creating beautiful changesets is not easy. And locking files in order to edit them is a pain. By the way, a "changeset" in TFS is a "commit" in SVN. Oh, and we don't "commit" in TFS, we "check-in".
Most activity in Team Foundation Server revolves around a work item. It is (more or less) like an issue or a bug in your favourite issue tracker. For each changeset, you can attach one or more work items. This is actually cool.
The next step was to know how to organize my code. I decided to follow the MVVM pattern.
The Model - View - View Model (MVVM) design pattern helps you separate the business and presentation logic of your application from its user interface. Both the Model and the View layers are the same as in the Model - View - Controller (MVC) design pattern. However, the View is not aware of the Model, and vice-versa.
The ViewModel layer acts as the glue between the Model and the View. The ViewModel also exposes methods and/or commands that help maintain the state of the View, and manipulate the Model as the result of actions on the View.
The View and the ViewModel rely on data-binding and commands to communicate. Data binding is the process that establishes a connection between the user interface and business logic. When the data changes its value, the elements that are bound to the data reflect changes automatically.
I created a solution with one project per layer. Visual Studio provides two containers to manage your code. A solution is a container for projects, and a project can be seen as a component of your application. It seems like a good idea to have a project for each layer as it ensures the separation of concerns.
Now, let's go back to the application itself. TravisLight.Net is a port of TravisLight. It is a desktop application that displays build statuses from Travis-CI. This service provides a REST API that returns JSON data.
To sum up, I needed a library to manipulate JSON data, and a way to perform requests. I googled these terms, and found something really awesome: NuGet.
Introducing NuGet
NuGet (pronounced "New Get" and not "Nugget") is a fantastic Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to install and update third-party libraries and tools. Yes, a package manager for .NET developers. There are more than 11600 packages, including the Microsoft libraries!
I decided to use NuGet without committing packages to source control which seems to be a good idea. Visual Studio will automatically download the missing packages before building your project, just like you would do in Ruby, PHP, etc.
Now that I have introduced some tools and concepts, let's focus on some implementation details.
Working With JSON
I chose Json.NET, a powerful JSON framework for .NET, to manipulate JSON data. And to be honest, deserializing data could not be easier.
DeserializeObject() method takes a string as argument, and returns an
object. This is a generic method so you can specify the object's type you
want to get:
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using TravisLight.Model.Entity;
List<Repo> repositories = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Repo>>(json);
Json.NET automatically maps a key in the JSON to a property in the C# class. If
you want to define your own mapping, you can add a
JsonProperty annotation to
your properties. In the following code, the
Id property is automatically
mapped to an
id entry in JSON, and the
LastBuildResult property is
explicitely mapped to a
last_build_result entry in JSON:
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using System;
namespace TravisLight.Model.Entity
public class Repo
#region properties
public int Id
public Nullable<bool> LastBuildResult
These two code snippets above are enough to deserialize the following JSON content:
{ "id": 123, "last_build_result": null },
{ "id": 123, "last_build_result": "2012-06-21T12:00:59Z" }
The Nullable Type
You may have noticed the use of a
Nullable<T> type, did you? The API may or
may not return a value for the
last_build_result entry. If a value is
provided, it is a
boolean, otherwise it is
null. The Nullable
type allows to either
have a value or none.
if (LastBuildResult.HasValue)
return LastBuildResult.Value ? Status.Failed : Status.Passed;
As you can see in the example above, it is really expressive. It is worth saying the C# language is feature-rich: generics, extension methods, reflection, LINQ, lambda expressions, asynchronous programming, and a lot more!
LINQ And Lambda Expressions On Collections
Language - INtegrated Query also known as
LINQ extends powerful
query capabilities to the language syntax of C#. This works with
DataSet, XML
and objects such as
I used LINQ to sort the
according to a rank (i.e. according to the build statuses, the failing projects
come first) in the
return repositories.OrderBy(repository => repository.Rank).ToList();
In the code above, the
=> sign represents a lambda expression which is also
known as a closure (an anonymous function with a context).
Meet The Layers
I only covered the Model layer until now, let's talk about the View and the ViewModel layers.
The View has been written in XAML. It is a declarative markup language with a large set of components to build graphical user interfaces.
In TravisLight.Net, there is a single window (
MainWindow) that displays a
single UserControl named
This view renders the list of repositories with their status thanks to the
ListViewModel receives an instance of
IRepository as constructor's
argument, and creates an
containing the repositories. This ViewModel is also responsible for refreshing
this collection, using a timer for now.
## Dependency Inversion Principle
By following the MVVM pattern, you ends up with a well-decoupled application, and it is worth using programming to the interface as well as a Dependency Injection Container. It is particularly useful for testing, and we will see that part later on.
Microsoft provides a library called Unity that is a lightweight, and extensible Dependency Injection Container. You can configure this container either in XML, or C#.
A common pattern using MVVM seems to be the use of a Bootstrapper, a class that triggers the container in order to start the application. Mine looks like this:
namespace TravisLight.Main
class Bootstrapper
#region attributes
private IUnityContainer container = new UnityContainer();
public Bootstrapper()
container.RegisterType<IRepository, ApiRepository>();
container.RegisterType<ListViewModel, ListViewModel>();
container.RegisterType<ListView, ListView>();
container.RegisterType<MainWindow, MainWindow>();
public void Run()
Application app = new App();
static void Main()
Bootstrapper bootstrapper = new Bootstrapper();
As you can see, it also contains a
Main() method which is the entry point
of the application (it is not a web application here). Unity is configured
in the constructor, and the
Run() method just passes the
MainWindow to the
Unit Testing
Microsoft provides MSTest, its own unit testing framework. As usual, it is well-integrated in Visual Studio, TFS, and so on. It looks good. Well, which unit testing framework isn't cool anyway?
However, I don't like its syntax, it is not really expressive. Fortunately, there is another unit testing framework called NUnit that is really expressive:
namespace ViewModel.Test
public class ListViewModelTest
private IUnityContainer container;
public void TestFixtureSetUp()
container = new UnityContainer();
container.RegisterType<ListViewModel, ListViewModel>();
container.RegisterType<IRepository, Mock.Repository>();
public void TestRepositoriesProperty()
ListViewModel listViewModel = container.Resolve<ListViewModel>();
Assert.That(listViewModel.Repositories, Has.Count.EqualTo(1));
Assert.That(listViewModel.Repositories, Has.All.InstanceOf<Repo>());
As you can read, it is really close to a real sentence:
Assert that [the] repositories [collection] has count equal to 1.
In the code above, you may have noticed the
TestFixtureSetUp() method I used
to inject a mocked instance of
IRepository instead of the
I enjoyed playing with all these new toys. It was a great experience as I learnt a lot, and I must admit, Microsoft has interesting tools/technologies these days. I am not fan of using a PC with Windows to develop though…
I should probably look at Mono, but there is no support for C# 4.5 yet. I have tons of other things to explore such as Entity Framework, or the Stack Exchange Open Source projects.
- Avoid TFS, prefer Git instead
- Use NuGet, always!
- MVVM is a great pattern
- Use Unity or MEF
- Prefer NUnit over MSTest
- The Microsoft world is quite cool actually!


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Office Object Model References on MSDN
On an internal alias, I recently got asked a question that had come from a customer:
"I wouldn't have harassed you like this, except that I've done heaps of searching and can't locate what I need.
My company has a new CIO, a consequence of which is the need to now embrace all things Microsoft. We are currently doing some investigation on .NET stuff and Office 2007, but I'm having difficulty finding some concise documentation on Object Models. I've trawled through MSDN and managed to find a few things out, but what I was really wondering was if there are any one or two page Object Model posters, similar to the ones you use to get in Notes? I can't see anything useful on MSDN and was wondering if you had access to anything."
I wasn't able to find any posters, but there is a great set of hyperlinked object model diagrams available. Here are a few:
- Access 2007 Object Model Map
- Excel 2007 Object Model Map
- Outlook 2007 Object Model Maps
- PowerPoint 2007 Object Model Reference
- Word 2007 Object model Maps
In general, I started at the Office Developer Centre and clicked on the Library tab. I navigated using the treeview to get to the 2007 Microsoft Office System node and then chose the various products, the Developer Reference and then the Object Model reference.


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Thursday, March 24, 2016
Springwood Manor
This spring signals a big transition, as Melissa and I begin our first year in Troy, NY. We enjoyed a very sweet life in Durham, and I mostly built my building career there, but I've always wanted to return home to New York. We found the perfect spot for a new start on an old homestead in the upper hudson, a place called springwood manor, in Troy.
Here are a couple old Polaroids John found to help illustrate the beauty up here. We've found ourselves quickly at home, putting a wood stove in the house, cleaning up the barn, making garden beds. I'm looking forward to finding my niche in the ecological building community, and have a few little projects in the works.
We are lucky in spring to witness the burst of rebirth and luckier still if we have the sense to recognize out place in it and imbibe in a little of the seasons eternal optimism... Let's see what we can come up with this year.. :)
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April is STRESS AWARENESS MONTH. Did you know we have a month for "stress" now? What to do? It's a fitting time to take advantage of a girls pampering night out, or how about a spa date night with your honey? Girls, if you'd like to come to a Girls Night Out on 4/19/19, we are holding one from 5:45-9:00 p.m. in Murrieta. For only $10.00 prepaid you will get: eyebrow waxing, mini chair massage, Olive Garden catered dinner, and a Mary Kay makeover! What a deal. Sorry, guys. For the ladies only.
Now back to business. With the runway shows done, we can finally sit back and examine what the spring/summer 2019 color trends will be. While it does seem like many of the fashion trends were all about mixing up colors and prints, the colors are notable as well, with pastels making a recurrence, along with rich, warm shades that actually felt a little autumnal. Maybe we're not quite ready to embrace spring?
The other color families that stood out include various shades of pink, and some gorgeous blues. Below are the top spring/summer 2019 color trends from Pantone, selected to induce "playful professionalism" and "encourage an unrestrained and experimental approach to color." It's a great description for the myriad of hues that certainly caught the eye and brought some fun into the equation.
Fiesta – a warm, friendly, and utterly exciting approachable red.
Jester Red – an intense, deep red that adds a classier, professional air.
Turmeric – The spice is a life-giver, and brings new life to the fashion world.
Living Coral – warm, with a golden undertone and softer edge.
Pink Peacock – a fun pink that you can't get enough of. Beckons attention.
Pepper Stem – Think of nature with bountiful fields and green pastures.
Aspen Gold – a golden mustard shade, with warmth and grace.
Princess Blue – deep blue that glistens and simply radiates royalty.
Toffee – warm and sweet and rather woody. Chocolate/coffee combined.
Mango Mojito – in the yellow-orange family, brings a comforting warmth.
Terrarium Moss – deep Pepper Stem. Pairs naturally with yellows/greens.
Sweet Lilac – Celebrates the life of a person in a blushing pink shade.
Pressed Rose – a pastel rose color that inspires romance/sentimentality.
Lemon Verbena – a bright zesty neon touch, sunny, vibrant and cheerful.
Soybean – warm but tangy neutral which pairs well with all the brights.
Eclipse – super dark neutral. Portrays the night sky with its dark navy hue.
Sweet Corn – cool, golden variation to white with a buttery softness.
Brown Granite – a classic brown which is grounded, timeless and earthy.
Please contact Sandie Fuenty with any questions on the above or to learn more. Sandie is an Advanced Skin Care and Color Consultant with Mary Kay and has been with the company for over 27 years. She can be reached at:


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About this time last year I had an idea for an iOS app – one that allowed you to browse through the world of coffee. Of course, it isn't groundbreaking but it's still something I'm proud of – Affogato, affogato.visioa.com.
Starting out in the world of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch app development can be a somewhat daunting experience for even the most seasoned developer, and it's easy to get confused along the way.
Before I started working on my app I invested in three iOS development books, and each one proved itself invaluable. They are: Programming in Objective-C 2.0 by Stephen G Kochan, Programming iOS 4 by Matt Neuburg, and Beginning iPhone 4 Development by David Mark. These will provide you with a solid foundation, though nothing compares to putting what you learn into practice. As the old adage goes: "Practice makes perfect."
Once you feel you have a good, solid understanding of key concepts and can competently create a range of apps, you can start to plan out your app's functionality, what it will look like, and how the user will interact with it. It's a good idea, and I cannot stress how important this is, to physically draw the elements of your app on a piece of paper.
When starting out on a new Xcode project you're provided with a number of templates
Firing up Xcode to actually start developing your project is always satisfying. At this moment your app is nothing, and it has its whole development cycle ahead of it. Remember that at times things will go wrong, but always keep your goal in mind. Savour the moment when you create and open your Xcode project for the first time, and relish the fact that your app, regardless of its functionality, is bug-free and works properly.
Once you've finished coding and designed your app – it took me around two months to design and code Affogato – you'll be faced with the task of distributing your efforts to a team of beta testers. This in itself can be tedious and irritating, but must be done nonetheless.
Personally, I love TestFlight (www.testflightapp.com) as it provides everything you'd ever want from a beta-testing program. There are, of course, other options, such as sending the .ipa to all your testers via email; however, I cannot recommend TestFlight enough. During the development of my app it was a real boon.
It's a good idea to give your beta testers sufficient time to provide good, insightful feedback, and improve you app accordingly. Obviously, the length of your beta testing is relative to the complexity of your app, but around three weeks should be enough. Once you've gathered all the feedback, acted upon it and redistributed numerous beta builds, it's time for the most stressful part of the development cycle – getting your app approved.
All your hard work will be worth it once you see that your app is available on the App Store
Apple's App Review Team is notorious for being controversial, and has caused its fair share of uproar among the development community. Handily, it recently posted a document that explains what you can and can't include within your app. Conform to this and approval shouldn't be a problem.
After uploading your app to iTunes Connect, you'll have to wait for it to be reviewed and published to the App Store. This typically takes one week for new apps, and most of the time its status will read: 'Waiting for Review'. Once your app has been published, you can look back on a job well done and reap the rewards.


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This website is produced and maintained by the Nelson History Roundtable, an informal group of citizens.
While the initial focus of this site was the town's 250th anniversary celebration in 2017, the site is intended to be an ongoing and ever-improving resource for local history.
If you are interested in participating in the group, or if you have an article or photos that you'd like to submit for publication on this website, write to:
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How to: Unlock your iPhone with SAM
How to: Unlock your iPhone with SAM
I thought the IMSI unlock saga is done and dusted but apparently there are more to it. All credit goes to Loktar_Sun from weiphone.com who pursued an earlier lead that many, yours truly included, have gave up as a viable exploit.
What do you need: A jailbroken iPhone that can be activated in iTunes (that is, not officially blacklisted), a computer with the latest iTunes installed and working internet connection. You will also need to know the carrier that your iPhone is locked to.
1. Step one: Install Sam Bingner's SAM (Subscriber Artificial Module) package. I recommend that you get it from repo.bingner.com since older versions have a different interface and may not work for this purpose.
2. Enter SAM by either going through the settings menu or find the SAMPrefs icon on your springboard. You will need to have the SIM card you intend to use in your phone.
3. Go to utilities and select "De-Activate iPhone", your ActivationState under "More Information" should now be "Unactivated"
4. With SAM enabled, choose "By Country and Carrier" in "Method"; find your carrier, for some carriers operating more than one Carrier ID you may need to select "SIM ID"; easy to tell since iTunes will not activate if the wrong IMSI is selected.
5. Go to More Information", copy or write down the IMSI in "SAM Details", then tap "Spoof Real SIM to SAM".
6. Go back to the main SAM screen and change your "Method" to manual. Paste or enter the IMSI string we saved in Step 5.
7. Connect your iPhone to your computer and allow iTunes to do its job (namely re-activating your phone), double click "Phone Number" parameter at the main device screen and make sure that the ICCID matches that of your SIM card. If not you need to start over from Step 1.
8. Unplug your phone, close iTunes.
9. Disable SAM. The source article says to uninstall SAM and delete your lockdownd folders; it's unnecessary.
10. Connect your phone to iTunes again, you should get an error saying that your phone cannot be activated. This is normal. Just close iTunes and open it again.
11. You should see signal bars in a short time, congratulations.
12. Push notifications may stop working after this procedure but can be easily restored with "clear push" utility in SAM followed by connecting to iTunes.
Your phone will work normally with your SIM card and that SIM card ONLY since we have tricked iTunes to think that ICCID is one of the intended carrier's. The phone can be rebooted and connected to iTunes freely without losing the "unlock", at least for now.
Since it does not involve emergency numbers or IMSI spoofing it will not have any of the issues associated with SIM interposers. Tested working on iOS 5.01 but should work with tethered 5.1 too.
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Roof Coating/Sealing
Do you have a plan to renovate your home and aiming at the roof to start with? Then in this case roof coating and sealing is the best option to go with. It not only prevents any kind of leakage but also improves the appearance of the roof. So, don't be late to take this double advantage of durability and aesthetic look by getting your roof coated and sealed. Renovaten offers you a platform where you can hire professional contractors through its unique lead generation process.


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Grants are awarded on the basis of financial need and do not require repayment. Frequently called gift aid, grants are available through federal and state governments and private sources. To apply for aid in any of the federal programs, you must be a citizen of the United States or intend to become a permanent resident, or be otherwise classified as an eligible noncitizen.
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Yesterday we attended the 50th birthday party of our friend, Mary. We've known Mary and Gordie for about ten years. They are members of the camping club we belong to. We saw some other friends we haven't seen in a while. It was great catching up with everyone.
Two years ago Mary and Gordie bought a house in Grafton. We hadn't seen it yet. What a beautiful home and lot they have. We're very happy for them. They've also had a few grandchildren born in the last few years. Mary comes from a large family so there were many people there including lots of children.
It was fun watching everyone have a good time. There was a piñata for the kids. This thing was virtually indestructible. The kids really worked hard for their goodies :)
Apparently, there is some kind of tradition between Mary and her sisters where they dress each other up in old clothes for their birthdays. Here's Mary in the get up. Notice the bra on the outside. By this time she had had a few cocktails and was enjoying the festivities immensely!
We didn't do too much last week. On Thursday we had our annual meeting with our financial advisor. He's doing a good job with our investments considering the crazy economy. He helped me fill out the paperwork for my pension. I'm very happy to report that starting next month I will begin collecting my pension! Yippee!!
I didn't realize all those years I worked as a public employee in schools what a great benefit my pension would be. When I turn 55 next month, I can begin collecting. There is an accelerated option where I can collect the estimated amount of my social security at age 62 from my pension beginning at age 55. That means I will be getting about $1,100 per month for the 7 years before I reach 62. At that time I can begin collecting my social security, and my pension will drop to about $300 per month.
Also, if I die before Kevin, he will continue to receive 75% of my pension. I am so very grateful for this benefit. And, I heard some very good news on the radio the other day. They were talking about state pension funds across the country, and how some of them are really in trouble. Wisconsin is number one in the health of its state pension fund. So, no need to worry that my money will not be there for me.
A few days ago the southern part of Wisconsin was declared to be in a severe drought. Friday and Saturday some thunderstorms rolled through parts of that area. We only had some minor sprinkles. The rain basically evaporated the minute it hit the ground.
We will be under a heat advisory again on Monday and Tuesday with highs near 100* and high humidity. I have always been a sun lover, but I am ready for some relief!
Don't wish upon a star – Reach for one!


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Saturday, July 13, 2019
Simon Trakinski (z''l) - Escaped from the Vilnius (Vilna) Ghetto and fought as a Jewish partisan - Born July 13, 1925
Simon Trakinski was born in Vilna, Lithuania, in 1925. Like many others, his family fled to the east when the war began in 1939, and sought refuge in the Russian village of Smorgon. The Germans invaded Russia in 1941, occupying Smorgon, and forcing all Jews into the ghetto.
Around this time, rumors started to circulate about escaped Soviet POWs and their partisan activities. When Simon's family was transferred out of the Smorgon ghetto to Oszminian, he took with him the guns that a sympathetic German officer gave to his friends, telling them armed resistance is "the way of honest individuals these days."
Unfortunately, he never saw those guns again after he gave them up to a man connected with the underground in Oszminian. Soon after, the Trakinski family was taken out of Oszminian and transported to Vilna, where Simon was assigned to a work brigade building trenches.
In Vilna, Simon joined up with the United Partisans Organization, a resistance group headed by Abba Kovner. In early September 1943, the Nazis locked down the ghetto, and the FPO realized the Germans were getting ready for its destruction. Simon took part in FPO's failed uprising in the ghetto, but later escaped with the rest of his group when the Nazis blew up their headquarters with dynamite. They regrouped outside the city, hoping to join Markov's all-Jewish brigade, which had ties with the FPO. Simon, like many of his partisan peers, left his family behind in the ghetto.
By this time, the partisans were a formidable presence in the area and controlled the woods. Simon initially fought with the Markov Brigade, an all-Jewish otriad organized by a Russian partisan leader named Fyodr Markov. However, the Germans soon began a blockade of the swamps where Simon and the partisans were hiding. Simon escaped, but in the ensuing chaos, Markov's all-Jewish brigade was disbanded and Simon was on his own again.
On his way to a relative Simon hoped would provide safe harbor, he ran into a Soviet partisan unit. Luckily, the unit was in need of locals familiar with the area, and Simon was accepted into their ranks. The unit was part of the regular Soviet army. They took orders from Moscow by radio and received air-dropped supplies towards the end of the war. Simon worked as a spy and a saboteur, gathering information about troop and supply movements, which his group used to effectively mine roads and blow up bridges. His group was especially active in disrupting the Berlin-Moscow rail route, which the Germans used for supplies. On one of the missions, Simon's otriad attacked the rail line with several thousand other partisans, blowing up miles of tracks. The Germans guarding the tracks were so overwhelmed by the attack that they fled from their bunkers into the woods instead of fighting back.
As the war continued, Simon left the partisans to work for the Soviet government as a schoolteacher in a remote Russian village. When the war ended and the "iron curtain" began to descend across Eastern Europe, Simon returned to Poland and smuggled himself into the West. He spent three years in Austria attempting to immigrate to the U.S., before finally being allowed to enter in 1948.
Simon died on January 2, 2009, surrounded by his loving family at his home in New York. Visit www.jewishpartisans.org for more about Simon Trakinski, including seven videos of him reflecting on his time as a partisan.
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
"Resist, resist, to our last breath!" - Abba Kovner (z''l) and Vitka Kempner (z''l) galvanized resistance in the Vilnius Ghetto
In honor of their shared March 14th birthdays, JPEF highlights Abba Kovner and Vitka Kempner, partisans from the Vilnius Ghetto who eventually married.
Abba Kovner was born in 1918 in Sebastopol, Russia. His family eventually emigrated and he spent his high school years in Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania — the preeminent center of Jewish culture and learning at the time, often referred to as the "Jerusalem of Europe" — where he joined the Ha-Shomer ha-Za'ir youth movement and attended the University of Vilna as an art student.
Exactly four years younger, Vitka Kempner was born on the same day in the Polish town of Kalish, located near the Polish-German border. As a teen, Vitka joined the militarist Betar movement, later switching to Ha-Shomer ha-Za'ir at the behest of her friends.
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Kalish fell and Vitka escaped to Vilna with a number of other youngsters, including her younger brother. Vilna was still a free city, and served as a hub for the various Zionist youth movements searching for passage to Palestine, away from the troubles of Europe.
Then, in 1941 Germany attacked the Soviet Union, occupying Vilna and forcing its Jews into a ghetto. Abba Kovner, who watched through his window as Nazi soldiers tore an infant from a mother's arms and smashed it against a wall , had no illusions about the intentions of the occupiers. Hearing rumors of killings and mass graves in Ponar1, Kovner and his youth group friends realized that armed resistance was the only possible course.
With these rousing words, spoken at a soup kitchen on December 31, 1941, Kovner galvanized the youth movements and the United Partisan Organization, or FPO (Fareynigte Partizaner Organizatsye) for short, was formed. Their first commander was Yitzhak Wittenberg. Their only objective was armed resistance – anything else was seen as a waste of time. They snuck out of the ghetto to execute sabotage missions, manufactured bombs, trained fighters, set up illegal printing presses, and acquired weapons that were smuggled into the ghetto in false-bottomed coffins or through the sewers.
Vitka Kempner was responsible for the FPO's first act of sabotage; smuggling a homemade bomb out of the ghetto and blowing up a Nazi train line. The Germans did not even suspect Vilna's Jews – organized partisan resistance simply wasn't on their radar yet.
The FPO continually pleaded with the Jews of Vilna to join the partisans in a popular uprising, but the majority of the Jewish population actually considered the rebels a liability and a danger to the ghetto's survival. The Germans reinforced this notion with pressure on the local Judenrat. Finally, after some skirmishes with the FPO, the Germans threatened the ghetto with total liquidation, which led to Yitzhak Wittenberg's voluntary surrender; he was then promptly tortured and killed by the Gestapo. Before he surrendered, however, Wittenberg appointed Kovner as the new leader of the FPO.
The Germans liquidated the ghetto anyway, deporting its 12,000 remaining inhabitants. The FPO evacuated hundreds of fighters out of the city through the sewers, as Kovner and others briefly fought the Germans from atop abandoned buildings. Vitka herself led the last group of fighters – including Kovner – out of the city to the Rudnicki forests. The FPO was thus transformed into a partisan unit, naming themselves Nakam, or "The Avengers."
Abba Kovner (center) and Vitka Kempner (right) with fellow partisan and life-long friend Rozka Korczak.
The couple saw Vilna liberated in 1944, entering the city with Soviet troops. Gathering the surviving members of their old youth group, Kovner helped organize the Beriha2 movement, which helped smuggle hundreds of thousands of Jews from Eastern Europe into British-mandated Palestine. Kovner and Kempner also organized a secret revenge unit, which sought to poison German POWs at a Nuremberg camp (the accounts on the effectiveness of this mission vary, though hundreds of POWs fell ill and had to be hospitalized).
Eventually, Kovner and Kempner were smuggled into Palestine, where they married. During the Israeli War of Independence, Kovner went on to lead the Givati brigade, and wrote 'battle pages,' which contained morale-boosting essays and news from the Egyptian front.
He went on to testify at the Eichmann trial in 1961, play a major role in the construction and design of several Holocaust museums, and write several books and poems that recount his experiences, for which he won the 1970 Israel Prize in Literature. He lived on a Kibbutz with Vitka and other survivors from the underground until his death in 1987 from cancer.
Though she initially had a hard time adjusting to the Kibbutz life, and suffered from health problems, Vitka found her calling when she started helping children with their studies, and eventually turned to the field of special education. At age 45, she went on to study clinical psychology, receiving a degree from Bar Ilan University and developed a new form of non-verbal color-based therapy. She passed away on February 15, 2012, on the Kibbutz she called home for more than fifty years.
Abba and Vitka are survived by four grandchildren and leave behind a proud legacy of survival and resistance.
2. Jewish partisan Allen Small credits the Beriha with helping him escape from the Soviet Army.
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Remembering Jewish Partisan Vitka Kempner Kovner (z''l)
Born in the town of Kadish on the Polish-German border in 1922, Vitka Kempner Kovner escaped to Vilna after Germany invaded Poland in 1939. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union and turned Vilna into a ghetto, Vitka joined up with poet and future husband, Abba Kovner to organize the United Partisans Organization (FPO) – a Jewish armed resistance movement. Vitka committed FPO's first act of sabotage when she blew up a Nazi train line with a homemade bomb.
When the Nazis gave orders to liquidate the ghetto in 1943, she helped evacuate much of the Jewish population to the forests following a failed uprising. Vitka continued her work in the resistance with the "Avengers," an all-Jewish partisan brigade formed from the ashes of the FPO and led by Abba Kovner.
After the war, Vitka and her husband helped hundreds of European Jews immigrate to Palestine, the land that would eventually become the Jewish state of Israel. They both followed in 1946, settling at Kibbutz Ein Hahoresh, where Vitka passed away on February 15, 2012. She was survived by four grandchildren and left behind a proud legacy of survival and resistance.
For more information on Vitka, including seven videos of her speaking about her experiences, please visit her profile on the JPEF website and view the short film Women in the Partisans. Vitka is now featured on the websites of both Facing History and Ourselves and the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum through their collaborations with JPEF.
May Vitka and Abba's memories be a blessing.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Featured Jewish Partisan - Rachel Margolis
Rachel Margolis was born in Vilna (Vilnius), Lithuania, in 1921. In 1941 Nazi Germany invaded Lithuania and Rachel was sent to live in hiding with a Christian family. A year later, she decided instead to move to the Vilna Ghetto; a ghetto so terrible that over the two years of its existence, the population fell from 40,000 to only a few hundred. During her time in the Vilna Ghetto, Rachel joined the Fareinikte Partisaner Organizatzie (the United Partisan Organization), headed by Abba Kovner.
When the ghetto was liquidated in 1943, under the orders of Reichsführer of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, Rachel and her future husband escaped to the surrounding forests. Although they faced the constant threat of starvation and disease – not to mention capture by their oppressors – the partisans actively fought back by blowing up Nazi lines of communication.
The sole Holocaust survivor in her family, Rachel went on to gain a Ph.D. in biology and worked as a teacher until the late 1980s. In 2005, Rachel found and published the diary of Kazimierz Sakowicz, a Polish journalist who witnessed the Ponary massacre of 1941 to 1944, which killed up to 100,000 people, the majority of whom were Jews. In a turn of events that astonished the international community, the Lithuanian authorities sought to question her in 2008 for her role in alleged war crimes. The motivation behind this is an ongoing historical revisionist movement that seeks to equate Soviet occupation with the Nazis and the Holocaust by describing it as a 'double genocide'. In 2010, Rachel published her own memoir, A Partisan from Vilna, chronicling her early life and battle to survive Nazi oppression during World War II.
Friday, April 11, 2014
Scholastic Publishes Partisan-Inspired Elementary School Thriller
Author Lauren Tarshis recently released an exciting edition to her I Survived series, published by Scholastic. Subtitled The Nazi Invasion, 1944, this short yet dramatic tale perfectly suits educators who wish to introduce elementary school students to the subject of the Jewish partisans.
The story centers around 11-year-old Max Rosen and his younger sister, Zena: newly orphaned inhabitants of the Jewish ghetto in Esties, Poland during the Nazi occupation. Tarshis expertly uses age appropriate language and content to paint a vivid picture of the children's adventure as they escape from the ghetto and are taken in by a group of partisans in the forests of Loda.
The author bases the characters in the book on the life stories of a number of partisans she learned about during her research: Leizer and Zenia Bart, Miriam Brysk, Leon Kahn, Ben Kamm, Vitka Kempner, Ruzka Korczak, Abba Kovner, Miles Lerman, and Shalom Yoran.
More information about these individuals is available at www.jewishpartisans.org/partisans.
I Survived: The Nazi Invasion, 1944 provides an intriguing and exciting account of the experiences of the largely unrecognized efforts of Jewish resistance to the Nazi regime of WWII. As a supplemental resource for the study of the Holocaust, Max and Zena's tale of escape, hiding, and battle, provides a personal and relatable viewpoint for students. The historical fiction genre, when approached with the care and accuracy of Lauren Tarshis, can provide an informative and engaging tool on which to build classes, projects, and plays.
For more on this book, visit www.scholastic.com/ISurvived. For recommendations on other material related to the Holocaust and Jewish partisans, visit the author's website at www.LaurenTarshis.com.


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The Incident Commander (IC) is brand new. He has spent the last three years as a sergeant in the Property and Evidence section. He was promoted to sergeant four years prior and spent one year running a squad before being transferred to Property and Evidence. Two months ago he competed for and was ultimately promoted to lieutenant.Read More >
"I'm telling you now man, if y'all do anything foolish, these people are gonna get hurt," Mike said after taking 12 people hostage during a botched robbery. Our being there meant that we wanted him to surrender peacefully. In other words, we wanted Mike to say, "Yes." His utterance was an emphatic "No."Read More >
Differences in the personality types of hostage-takers (HTs) you may encounter should also be considered when planning the appropriate intervention technique. Different people have different sensitivities, needs, and goals. Your ability to influence the HT's behavior and ultimately the incident's outcome is significantly dependent upon the ability to address the personality type.Read More >
Which elements need to be assessed as the event unfolds? It starts with determining which type of event we are asked to manage. The degree to which the person on the other side has prepared for the event speaks volumes about his intent and determination and gives a pretty good indication of the challenges we will face as we move toward resolution.Read More >
Negotiators are the people on whom the on-scene commander relies to provide an analysis of the behavioral and contextual factors at play during an incident in order to help the development of a strategy for resolution. Get it right and we will get little recognition. Get it wrong and the blame will be at our feet.Read More >
Sam Felder (not his real name) had barricaded himself in his home. Suffering from hellacious migraines and post-traumatic stress, he told his wife he could not take it anymore. Sam loaded his handgun and told her to leave. She complied, ran to a neighbor's house, and called the police. Police attempted to negotiate with Sam for close to 10 hours. It was the end of June and sweltering out. The agency managing the incident elected to cut power to Sam's home. It was done, I was told, because Sam had been using power tools to barricade himself into the basement of the home with planks and 2x4s. Not sure if it was a move I would have made based on the circumstances but it was done. The managing agency reached out to my team for mutual aid support.Read More >
Last month I wrote about how law enforcement should dispatch negotiations teams to active violence/shooter events noting that many believe there is no role for us to play. I have been latently criticized for such thinking. In the article, I posed the question, what are we to do when the event transitions from dynamic to static? On June 12, 2016, in Orlando, Florida, we learned.Read More >
I had a conversation with a veteran SWAT operator not too long ago about how we would respond to Beslan-styled attack at a local community college. He posed a question "would I favor negotiations in such an attack?"Read More >
A woman calls 911, hysterical. She tells the call taker that her boyfriend, a military vet, is despondent and threatening to commit suicide by way of a handgun in his home.Read More >


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