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Its all about Semantics. When a search engine crawls your site, you want to make sure that are using the best HTML elements that will describe the content within them.

hello and welcome!

tobyITguy commented: Thank you JorgeM :) +0

Apply will apply your changes without closing the window. OK will apply the changes and also close/exit the window.

First, you need to establish that is actually the IP of your router. Open a command prompt on your computer (if running Windows) and type IPCONFIG, then hit the enter key. Look at the default gateway IP address. This is going to be the IP of your router.

I assume it is because you mentioned that you get an error logging in which indicates that you are getting to the login page. If you dont have the login credentials, you should be able to reset the router to defaults (there should be a button somewhere on the router) and if you look at their documentation, the default userid and password should be there.

A while back, I was working on some web pages that required a tabbed menu at the top of the content. In addition, the requirement was that the page should not perform a post back when the user clicked on the individual tabs. It was very important to have a simple, clean, and responsive look and feel. I could have used one of the countless examples found on the Internet, but I wanted to use implement something that was very minimal, clean, and simple. I was not happy with what I found out there. So this is what I came up with. I used some basic HTML, CSS, and jQuery, although the JavaScript I used could have been written without the help of jQuery. My pages already included jQuery so I decided to leverage it.

The code works and renders the same across modern versions of Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Firefox.

You can see a working demo on

Here is a screenshot of what the HTML markup and Styling produces...

If you find it useful, feel free to use it for your own projects.

You can see it using the "Internet Archive Wayback Machine".*/

Assuming that all of your hardware is OK, are you sure there isnt a task scheduled to shut the system down after 15 min? maybe malware that is doing it?

To rule out software, i'd boot the system to a bootable linux distro and let it run and see if it shuts down after 15 min. if it does, the problem would definately lead to something hardware related.

rubberman commented: Good suggestion Jorge! +13

I am developing a software which will connect to the same database as another application. Is there a term for that?

I cant think of a techincal term, but in any case, this is that uncommon. Databases are generally built to allow multiple connections from various sources/clients.

You should be checking to see if the user is logged in and if the user is an admin.

What i would recommend is that when a user logs into your system and you check the credentials and roles, you should be storing some information in session variables. Then on the admin page or any other page that requires security, check the session variables to see if the 1) user is logged on AND 2) is the user an admin. If both are NOT true, then redirect the user to the login page.

i was very fortunate that i had over 15 years experience when i was working on my BA and MS degree. I think working on your education and in your field at the same time is definitely more effective than doing either individually.

Good luck with your study group but you shouldnt have to limit yourself to your city. There is enough technology out there where you can collaborate and even connect your labs over the internet without too much difficulty.

"Foto" in spanish, italian, catalan, etc.. means Photo. The OP refers to image therefore, the assumption is that we are talking about uploading a picture.

it could be a picture of goat cheese though.

Just build the link and include a query string parameter that you can retrieve on the target page. For example..

 echo "";

On the target page, retrieve the value passed.

I have seen several posts through the years with questions about navigation menus. Menus can be built using different approaches. This example is easy to build and simple to integrate with your site. The menu is built only using HTML and CSS so you don't have to have a lot of web development experience, and still enjoy a nice and clean navigation menu on your site.

A working demo can be found on

With some minor updates, you can easily change the size and color of the items.

DaveAmour commented: Excellent and so muhc better than all that nasty JavaScript +8
diafol commented: Nice example with useful fiddle +15
AleMonteiro commented: Simple and useful +8

definately keep it as an integer. to add pritaeas suggestion, you can display it as a string by adding the leading zeros..

int num = 1;
Label1.Text = String.Format("{0:00000000}", num);

Yes, i'd use those two variables. THere are more if you want to try to collect other info..

im not really php developer, more like a php noob, but this is how i basically collect the same info in

mattyd commented: Thank you! +8

You need to enclose your style values in quotes.

@wojciech1 - nothing else better to do than post this nonsense? Having a good time trying to irritate other people?

hello and welcome.

I wouldnt recommend saving the zip code as an interger either. The information in a zip code isnt going to be used in any type of arithmetic. The zip just happens to be using numbers as its characters. I'd store the zip in char (if you are absolutely sure of the length) or varchar (if you are collecting zip codes from different regions that may have different lengths) as well. I dont think that the benefit of storing it as an integer (space and handling) justifies the use of integer here.

With regards to displaying the 5 digits, you can pad it with leading zeros either by your SQL statement or in php.

For example, if you are using MySQL, your SQL statement could look like...

SELECT LPAD(zip, 5, '0') as zipcode FROM table;

When users interact with your web page and processes, it is important to provide them with continuous feedback. Without the feedback, a user is left wondering if you page is actually processing work, frozen, or just not working. This is especially true when incorporating Ajax requests that take more than a few seconds for the process to complete successfully.

For this reason, you will find that "spinners" or "progress bars" are used to display what seems to be the browser performing some work in the background. In reality, all that is really happening behind the scenes is that the web page is displaying some type of animation. Once the process is completed, the animation should be hidden on the page.

In many cases, you will find that if you use an animated GIF, the animation can encounter "freezing". There are some options you can implement to try to adress the freezing, but I have been using a better solution for quite some time. Rather than using a image based spinner, I now incorporate a JavaScript based spinner instead. Actaully, what I call a JavaScript spinner is a combination of JavaScript, and CSS leveraging Keyframes. This JavaScript spinner is also very consistent across the most common browsers being used. I've found that it is a "hit or miss" when using an image based spinner.

Fortunately, there is a great project availabe called spin.js which makes it very easy to incorporate this type of spinner in your web pages. You can even ...

cereal commented: nice! +13
DaveAmour commented: Looks good +5

Instead of using display:inline you can use float:leftso you are able to adjust the size of the width. by using display:inline, you are essentially telling the browser not to treat the element as a block element. inline elements do not have a width. So, try a variation such as this...

#box1 {
   border:1px solid blue;
   margin:50px auto;

#menu ul li {
   font-weight: bold;
   padding: 10px;
   border-radius: 10px 10px 0 0;

#menu ul li a:hover {

sorry for not being more specific. there is no need to create a div, nor are you creating a class called "html". The purpose here is to apply the overflow-y style of scroll to the html element. You can do that using 3 options... inline style, internal style, or external style. Since you already have an external style sheet & we want this to apply to all pages, just open up your file called style.css. On line 14, just add this...

html { overflow-y: scroll }

That's it. I already tested it on live site and it works as expected. I also found this while browsing your page using the browser's dev tools..

you have some other resources not loading (see items in red)...

showman13 commented: Great simple solution - thanks +3
mattyd commented: Thank you. +0

Yes your CSS. Apply styling of overflow-y to the HTML selector as shown above.

mattyd commented: Thank you. +0

What i have gotten used to doing for sites that may have some pages that will fill more than just the screen (vertically) is to just show the scroll bar for all pages. This way, no matter what page you visit, you will not have that "bumping" to the left effect.

If you add this style to your  element, it should take care of hte problem.

html { overflow-y: scroll }
mattyd commented: Thank you +8
diafol commented: never thought of thaat +15

Maybe this would be of some help. put this together very quickly and i know that using tables for this purpose is not optimal but i find that it works well.

.box {
   display: block;
   margin: 0 2em 1em 0;

Name:
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" class="box" />

Email:
<input type="text" name="email" id="email" class="box" />

     City:
     <input type="text" name="city" id="city" class="box" />
     State:
     <select name="state" id="state" class="box">

produces this...

mattyd commented: Thank you. I shall look into this as an option. +8

Ok so all of that code wasnt really necessary...

I thought you meant dropdown as in a select element. Now i understand that you were asking about a navigation menu.

In any case, there are several ways to handle this. A quick look at your CSS and I beleive one easy way is to apply a higher (could be any number, but higher than the z-index of the container) z-index property to the
 element for the second level of your menu. For example,

#nav_wrapper ul li ul { z-index: 9999 }

That results in the following...

If ticket_id is unique in that table, you'd only be able to update one record. If there are multiple records that have the same ticket_id, then yes, you'd update "all tickets at once".

We cant possibly know how your application works, we dont know you your db schema so its very difficult to provide you with proper guidance.

Do i necessary need to attach the normalize.css ?

That is totally up to you. If you are asking this question, it could be because you are not sure what this css file is for. If you take a look at it, it is known as a CSS "reset" which means that it sets styles for many html elements so that when your uses use different browsers, the various users will see the same result regardless of what browser they use. The reason is because browsers have their own "default" styles. If you dont apply a style to an element, the browser uses the default setting. Different browsers have different defaults. Therefore, to get a consistent view, you apply a css reset.

This should be the first stylesheet. in your case, it isnt. If you keep it, i'd recommend that you move it up in your markup (in the head section of your pages) because CSS is applied in order. You currently have 4 stylesheets. I recommend you have 2 if possible.. 1) your css reset and then 2) your stylesheet. having fewer external files to load will also improve the loading time on your pages although your files are small so you may not see an actual improvement, but its good development practices.

Yes, its defined in your css file, workbg.css

html, body{
    /*background:url(simplebg.jpg); */
    margin-top: 0;
    margin-left: 0;

Even though i've done very well in my career (last two decades), which primary revolves around supporting and teaching MS operating systems, applications and web dev (, i definately feel like i've missed the boat when it comes to working with real operating systems and development in the world of unix.

Slavi commented: You could also try Elementary OS(It is based on ubuntu but has OS X-like desktop environment) +6


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Released darktable 1.1.2

Dear all,

we just released darktable 1.1.2, a point release (so nothing too fancy) with a couple of bugfixes and better camera support. Additionally it comes with an updated usermanual which is available here:

The tarball can be found here:

and a new disk image for Mac users is provided as well:

The various packages for your favourite distro are already on their way. The Ubuntu PPA should be updated already for example, and the opensuse package is available from and will be included in the upcoming opensuse 12.3 thanks to Togan Muftuoglu.

  • Fix export resolution rounding issue (as in previous version it could be off-by-one)
  • Correctly set output dimension in exif instead of passing the raw resolution verbatim
  • Local average green eq. was fixed (it now works on high ISO images as well, and should no longer produce hot pixels)
  • Use ordered arrays in XMP files
  • Disable export parallelism for flickr/picasa export
  • Don’t enter tethering mode when there is no camera attached (this made darktable look as if it was hung, even though that wasn’t the case)
  • Bring back the pin for map thumbnails
  • Improved TIFF support
  • Vignetting now has a dithering option (to mitigate occasional banding)
  • Read Nikon subject distance properly
  • Assorted FreeBSD fixes
  • Various OpenCL fixes
  • Usermanual updates

Support for the following camera’s with either preliminarily added or updated:

  • Canon EOS 6D
  • Canon PowerShot s110
  • Canon PowerShot g15
  • Canon PowerShot sx50 hs
  • Nikon 1 v2
  • Nikon D600
  • Nikon Coolpix P7700
  • Olympus E Pl5
  • Olympus E PM2
  • Olympus XZ 2
  • Panasonic DMC GH3
  • Panasonic DMC LX7
  • Pentax K5ii
  • Samsung EX2f
  • Sony RX1
  • Sony NEX 6
  • Sony SLT A99
  • Sony NEX c3 blackpoint/greenshift fix

White balance preset updates:

  • Canon EOS 550D
  • Canon EOS 5D Mark III
  • Olympus XZ 1
  • Sony NEX C3
  • Sony SLT A57
  • Sony nex 5N
  • Panasonic DMC GH3

This stable release was mostly brought to you by Pascal says the hall-of-fame script:

  • 30 Pascal de Bruijn
  • 29 Ulrich Pegelow
  • 13 parafin
  • 6 Tobias Ellinghaus
  • 5 johannes hanika
  • 4 Pascal Obry
  • 4 Jean-Sébastien Pédron
  • 2 Roman Lebedev
  • 2 Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
  • 1 tatica
  • 1 Simon Spannagel
  • 1 Roland Riegel
  • 1 Richard Tollerton
  • 1 Richard Levitte
  • 1 Olivier Tribout
  • 1 Michal Babej
  • 1 Ger Siemerink
  • 1 Chris Mason
  • 1 Boucman

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  1. Great stuff!

    It is great to see also that documentation keeps track with darktable development, I think this is key to wider adoption.

    Thank you!
  2. Hello's.
    First just wanted to say thanks to the entire team for your work with Darktable, it is a great piece of software.
    I am new to Darktable (and photography in general) and was wondering if you might be planning a selection tool (or have I just not found it ?) and layer support. Corel's Aftershot Pro has this feature, and I thought it is a really useful tool for allowing the user to edit just certain area's of the photo rather than the whole thing, for example selecting the sky area that might be dull, and just bringing this to life without having a knock on effect to other zones. Here is an example :

    Many thanks
  3. Unfortunately that's not easy to do. Many people request that and there were some messages from devs that they have some ideas about it :) I think that now we have to wait (and use DT/GIMP combo)...
  4. Thx Redi44,
    It would be an exciting feature to have. I can appreciate it's not such an easy thing to implement (am learning Python coding at the moment, C being a lot more low level and complex), fingers crossed :)

    Are the mail lists interesting/worth signing up to or just full of requests like mine?
  5. An UB version will be welcome, still working on a PPC Mac with pleasure.
  6. Hi,
    I shot in RAW and JPEG with Pantax K-30. Afterwards, I opened DNG and JPEG files in darktable and copied the history stack from the JPEG file to the DNG file. However, the DNG file still did not looked the same like JPEG. Would it be possible to get this feature, because it would help newbie to understand quicker how to work with RAW files.

    It would be nice to double click on one of the entry in darkroom's history and jump straight to settings of the entry. Would it possible to switch off or to delete an entry in darkroom's history by additional icons next to the entry?

    When I shot in burst mode I switched off Raw, because with only jpeg I have no worry about that buffer get to full and I miss the action. However, I have to modify the pictures in GIMP like whitening teeth, remove pimple etc. I thought to convert the JPEGs to Tiff in the following way:
    convert IMGP0084.JPG IMGP0084.tif
    convert IMGP0084.JPG exif:IMGP0084.exif
    mogrify -set profile exif:IMGP0084.exif IMGP0084.tif
    However, in Tiff I lose most of the Exif entries like e.g GPS information. Are any plans to support exif files? Or how other user working around that problem to modify pictures?

    Thank you in advance.
  7. I cannot authenticate and grant permission to darktable when trying to export images to a flickr album. This is the url generated from darktable:

    frob is null so flickr cannot grant access.

    I could export to facebook and picasa (google+) with no problem at all.
    Is there anything I could do to solve it or to help solving?
  8. We rely on the presence of SSE instructions, so it won't even compile for PPC. Plus first supported OS X version by our DMG package is 10.6, which already doesn't support PPC. So what you ask won't happen.
  9. Selective blending is what you are looking for. You select things not by painting a mask/layer on the image. Instead you define defining the parts of the image you want to be affected by your changes by their Lightness, hue, or position in Lab colour space.
    It's far less work than masks and immensely powerful. Try it! :-)
  10. to point 1:
    a jpeg is a very different animal than a raw image and copying a raw's history stack to it will always look different.

    If this were not the case, then there would be no advantage in taking raw images, would there? :-)

    point 2 is actually two points:
    creating a shortcut to an items's settings seems superfluous to me, you will quickly know where to go for each module in darkroom

    The option of removing individual items I would very much like. This has been requested before. please see the issue tracker at

    item 3:

    you may want to read up on image file formats. :-)
  11. This is a fantastic program. Very professionally done! One minor bug I may have found is that the focus distance always reports 0.00 Canon EOS6D with 24-105 f/4L IS.
  12. The problem is that Canon is not reporting (in general) the focus distance in their cameras. They decided that the information was not accurate enough. So we can't do anything about it. Other different question is if the 6D has that feature back. Can you try with exiv -pa file.CR2 and see if there is some distance in the generated output? (If so, please send an email to darktable-devel list)
  13. There is a problem with Flickr exporter. They dropped the old authentication method last year, and now they are using oAuth 1.0, which is not quite friendly for non-web apps. Nobody has really gone through it to update it.

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 We would like to welcome you to the Darlington Carmel website.

At Darlington Carmel we are offering a taste of the Carmelite Spirituality as well as the items we sell. As part of an Order which has different branches, we keep in contact with the Friars (many of whom are priests), and our Secular branch which meets here every month.

We have added a short history of the lives of some Carmelites, thanks to the connection to other web sites which give this information. The Irish OCarm website is very good in giving little summaries of all the saints and blesseds connect with both their part of the Order and ours.

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Home Blockchain What are the different types of DLTs & how they work?

What are the different types of DLTs & how they work?

Let me clarify from the get-go that although both the terms DLT (Digital Ledger Technology) & Blockchain are used interchangeably, there is a certain differentiation between the two that needs to be understood to clear any misconceptions. The 700-year old paper-based double entry system (debit/credit) which originated in Italy was prevalent everywhere till the invention of Computers & Internet. Although the idea of Blockchain gained relevance & fame after the launch of Bitcoin in 2008, the idea had been conceptualized as far back as 1991 when Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta with their work on cryptographically secure (tamper proof) chain of blocks of data with the associated timestamps.

DLT is a wider term used to encompass the digital database technology which has different implementations in the ecosystem, of which the Blockchain is the most popular one. DLT consists of nodes on the underlying network which employ different agreement processes to reach a common conclusion. Thus the DLT not only digitized the whole ecosystem but provided the functionalities of dynamism, immutability, security & decentralization.

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The simplest and most common example of the DLT is the Blockchain in which blocks of data are connected to each other via data identifiers which start with a hash. There are about 4 stages to every transaction in this example where someone has to initiate a transaction, which needs to be verified by the nodes on the network through an agreement (e.g PoW consensus in Bitcoin). The consensus mechanism verifies whether the transaction occurred as it is claimed to be, before storing the transaction amount & the digital signatures of the sender and the receiver. One last step before storing the information on the block is assigning the data code which also contains information of the predecessor block thus maintaining the chain of blocks. Depending on the types pf DLT blockchains, the other people may or may not be able to see the transactions.

  1. Federated — Most restrictive, Limited access, Much better scalability, transparency & privacy e.g. A Central bank or R3 consortium
  2. Permissioned/Private — Access can be public or private but verification or audit permission for a few only, simplified compliance & data handling e.g. Bankchain
  3. Permissionless/Public — Open source Public network, transparency with anonymity as no third-party involved, minimum costs with no need for maintenance. However, results in slow processing e.g. Bitcoin
  4. Hybrid — A combination of Public/Private network with partially restricted participation, Offers flexibility with what data is kept private & what is stored on the public ledger. Better scalability with consensus not required from every node on the network e.g. Hyperledger

The most popular blockchains are of the Cryptocurrencies Bitcoin & Ethereum. However, the drawback with “Blockchain-DLT” is limited transactions per second (TPS) or lack of scalability with miners having the power to postpone or cancel the transaction altogether. Having said that, different consensus mechanisms can be employed to verify the transactions.

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Although Blockchain & Hashgraph serve a similar purpose with the underlying DLT – a peer-to-peer transparent monetary system which does not require a central regulatory authority, there are some fundamental differences in how Hashgraphs go about accomplishing this, thus improving on the limitations of the Blockchain-DLT. Hashgraphs solely rely on consensus mechanism to verify transactions on their network. The consensus is achieved via Virtual Voting & Gossip techniques, which bring higher scalability & lower storage requirements. Unlike Blockchain, multiple transactions can be stored in a parallel stack in the hashgraph ledger within a single timestamp called an “Event.” The major difference between the two DLT implementations is the consensus mechanisms.

While Blockchain gives too much power to miners with the authority to choose which transaction to verify & when, Hashgraph, on the other hand, verifies the transactions in the order they are received reducing the transaction time significantly. Once an “event” is initiated, every node on the network chooses a neighboring node randomly using the gossip protocol to transmit the information to other nodes. The whole network knows about the transaction as the information is spread across the network within a few minutes. Finally, every node validates the transaction through virtual voting before adding it to the ledger. Since the transaction validation is achieved solely through consensus and no “Proof of work” is required for validation, making Hashgraph much less computation-intensive. Since all the nodes know about the transaction and can make the changes accordingly & than discard the transaction – which basically means you don’t have to keep the transaction record indefinitely on the Hashgraph ledger lessening the storage requirements as well.

The Hashgraph technology is the invention of Leemon Baird, the co-founder and the CTO of Swirlds – which has been available for public use since August 2018. The other noticeable player is the Hedera hashgraph platform which allows highly scalable & secure applications to be developed just like the pioneer Swirlds. The white paper of Hadera claims speeds of 200,000 TPS up to 500,000. Practical applications built on top of these platforms should be able to confirm this claim – you can test the Hedera main net by creating a profile on their website.

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Directed Acyclic Graph or (DAG) is another highly scalable alternative to Blockchain-DLT, which uses a different data structure for its highly efficient consensus mechanism. One of the biggest advantages of the DAG-DLT is the ability to offer fee-less Nano-transactions. In simpler words, the more transactions take place on the network, the faster it becomes. All the nodes on the DAG have the dual function of not only validating a transaction but also represents a validated transaction as well. Any node can initiate a transaction but to validate, it has to verify two previous transactions on the ledger too. The sequence of transactions is called a branch – longer a branch of a validated transaction by a person, the more weight it carries. Keep in mind though that an algorithm selects randomly two previous transactions to validate. NXT is the first platform to utilize DAG when it came out in November 2015. The other two noticeable implementations are IOTA Tangle & ByteBall.  Two more advantages of DAG implementation provides is the Quantum-resistance Winternitz One-Time signature scheme acting as a firewall against a break-in attempt by quantum computers – and second is the Masked Authenticated Messaging (MAM) which allows secure & encrypted communication between two nodes.

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The company Holochain prides itself in presenting the next frontier of Digital Ledger technology. The most visible change the platform has provided is moving away from the data-centric to an agent-centric approach. The avoidance of a global consensus protocol gives Holochain-DLT virtually limitless scalability. Whereas Blockchain seeks to decentralize the transactions on the network, Holochain intends to make the interactions between the individual nodes decentralized as well. Each individual node on the network runs a chain of their own where they have the independence to operate on their own network while being part of the bigger network consisting of thousands of other similar nodes. Users can store data in what’s called a distributed hash table (DHT) by using specific keys – this data storage also stays distributed in different locations around the globe.

This true decentralization of the network at every level gives Holochain-DLT the ability to achieve millions of TPS. Validation at the micro level relieves the traffic congestion on the network completely. Since every node has its own ledger, it is identified by a specific value identifier called the “DNA.” If the other nodes received a message using the specific node DNA, they would transmit it to the rest of the network, but if there is a malicious attempt to add false information to the network, the transaction would be rejected & the failed attempt would be reported to the rest of the network to avoid this in the future. This is a pretty bulletproof security feature of the Holochain.  Whereas in Blockchain, the computational burden adds up with the addition of blocks, the addition of nodes on a Holochain means more room for computation. Also the transactions fees are non-existent since there is no need for miners which makes it so energy-efficient as well as no hardware equipment is required. Individual nodes can not only process transactions brought to them but provide an infinite space for the development of dApps.

Figure 2: Ownership Transfer

Another relatively new entrant to the DLT space is Radix. This innovation lets you create a Tempo distributed ledger without the blockchain for public & private networks alike, which doesn’t require any modifications. The implementation is extremely lightweight as you don’t need any hardware components. The Radix-DLT also offers time stamps apart from other functionalities described below.

  • Every instance on the Ledger in known as the Universe & every event therein is called an atom
  • Global Ledger is distributed among the cluster of nodes – any node can choose to carry a subset of the ledger called shards – this redistribution increases the scalability manifold
  • All the shard carrying nodes are given a unique ID
  • Special algorithms are used for time stamping events on the Ledger
  • Nodes use the gossip protocol to broadcast & synchronize their shards
  • The nodes use Logical Clocks to validate transactions, which is accomplished by remembering the sequence of transactions to reach consensus

The project is still in very early stages of development but shows great potential. At the time of writing, the platform was recording 1700-1800 TPS with 20 nodes & and a finality time of less than 5 seconds. To summarize the project, in their own words:

“Radix can run on almost any device, is API driven, has its own low volatility token, and it is scalable enough for the entire world to use it simultaneously.”

The comparison between the DLTs goes to show that we have already come a long way in this digital revolution. Projects like Holochain & Radix are taking the idea of decentralization to the next level which has the potential to disrupt the ecosystems in ways we can’t even imagine. As the DLT finds more use cases across varying sectors & industries, it is only helping to fuel this revolution even further.

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There is no hotter field right now than Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. DataRobot is at the forefront of this trend, having established market leadership in a category called Automated Machine Learning. We’re Boston-based and we’ve raised $124M to fuel our expansive ambitions. We are growing quickly and need talented, motivated people to join the team. Our software helps organizations gain a competitive edge with AI. We’ve transformed how data science is done at the highest level, and we’re looking to extend that disruption.

What you’ll do

  • Alongside the Product and Engineering groups, you’ll apply strategic thinking to design and deliver innovative end-to-end user experiences that optimize user needs, business goals, and technological realities
  • You’ll help to solve previously unsolved problems within a new, hot, and growing market
  • You’ll take fuzzy ideas and turn them into realizable visions through effective iteration and compelling communication with internal leaders, stakeholders, engineers, and customers
  • You’ll help drive the design process by leading design-oriented conversations, collecting feedback, and applying/influencing change
  • You’ll learn from functional groups with a vast array of backgrounds in data science, software engineering, product management, marketing, sales, and business
  • You’ll work with cutting-edge technology, world-class teammates, and learn how organizations are using their data across nearly every vertical
  • You’ll apply your design experience to help build team-focused processes that boost productivity, reduce waste, improve communication, and aid in our ability to scale
  • You’ll use your amendable leadership skills to arrive at the best possible outcomes, resulting in others learning from you, and inspiring others to want to work with you

What will make you successful

  • You have 3+ years of digital interface and product design experience in delivering high-volume, high-profile or award-winning products; preferably experience with enterprise SaaS
  • You have strong knowledge and experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes while working collaboratively with customers and cross-functional teams including engineering, product management, and user research
  • You’re seasoned in the many development and delivery frameworks (and you can be successful within them)
  • You’re proficient in a variety of methods to convey ideas, collaborate, and collect feedback (e.g. storyboards, wireframes, prototypes, etc)
  • You have a proven track record in distilling a vision for great user experiences, negotiating with and inspiring others to get behind the vision, and ultimately delivering products that are known for their delightful experience and customer success
  • You’re organized, self-directed, efficient, and able to manage multiple complex projects in a timely manner
  • You have expertise with modern design suites like Figma, Sketch, Framer, InVision, but you also know when and how to use a whiteboard
  • You have strong familiarity with web technologies and their impact on the feasibility of design solutions; you’ll preferably have some coding experience
  • You have experience working with and visualizing data; data science and machine learning knowledge is a huge plus
  • You have examples of your strengths as a proven digital product designer

The DataRobot product team is tasked with understanding user problems and behaviors, defining the product roadmap and vision, and driving agile software development teams. Critical to customer success is understanding how AI, an undelivered promise until now, can be of value to mainstream business. DataRobot Product is directing our machine learning development into a direction that transforms business outcomes.


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This property SOLD for $360,400. The property was built in 1950.  The house features 2 bedrooms 1 bathroom with approximately 822 square feet of living space on a large corner lot that measures over 6500 square feet. The home has a detached 2 car garage with access via an alleyway.

I would like to thank Robert Sandoval, from Malibu Funding, for providing the financing. I also want to thank Vickie Gosnell from Gosnell Realtors for her cooperation on the listing side of the transaction.

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Ottawa in the news

It is interesting to observe — in oneself — the power of media to implant false impressions on a lazy mind. I noticed this from listening to a television speech by Stephen Harper, after the terrorist event in Ottawa, yesterday. (Harper has now been Canada’s prime minister for almost nine years.) He was described as “shaken” by several of the websites I had consulted for news, and in quickly reviewing the tape of his short talk, I formed that impression myself. It was only when an American correspondent, who had perhaps missed this Canadian media prep, told me Harper did not look shaken to him, that I went back and watched the video again, this time paying close attention to his delivery in both English and French. I realized he was not shaken at all; that his pauses and swallows were characteristic, and would not have been noticed by anyone had he been speaking on any other subject.

Now, Harper’s genius, as a power-seeking politician, is the opposite of Obama’s (the once popular USA president). He carries the “Conservative” label, of a party slightly to the right of the others in our Parliament. Therefore he has most of the liberal media machinery against him. Obama, as perhaps we all know, has enjoyed until recently a compliant and fawning media, that do not criticize their darling, nor hesitate to suppress news that would be unfavourable to him. Obama’s tactic has been to draw attention constantly to himself. He has something to say on every subject, empty of content, but dramatically insistent in its repetition of the first person singular. By contrast, Harper goes out of his way to distract attention from himself, and when he can’t, to avoid vehemence of any kind, or anything resembling drama.

This is not to say he isn’t ruthless, as a political operator, and backroom settler of scores. Anyone associated with Christian causes, such as the defence of human life, will know how he rules his pro-life backbenchers. His intention is to keep the party “on message,” with a message that will not excite media attention, so he can get on with normal administration. His strength is his reputation for management: he has not, like Obama, made a hash of everything he has touched. The Canadian budget is actually in surplus, and while our cumulative debt is substantial, and we face the same unfunded welfare liabilities to an aging population, we have not the bottomless debt and fiscal chaos into which Obama and other irresponsible politicians have delivered the United States. (Notwithstanding, when they crash, it will be right on top of us.)

But of course, this is a “democracy,” and the great majority of our population, as those in all other countries, are almost entirely ignorant of public affairs. Like children, they get bored with good government, but unlike children they have, collectively, the power to do something about it.

At the next election a young political huckster, who happens to be the son of the late Pierre Trudeau, and enjoys something of his father’s winning ways with the women, and a matching cynicism, is likely to win. Young Justin Trudeau is unlike his father, however, in having little in the way of an agenda, beyond power and prestige for himself. Like Obama, he is not an ideologue, only a typical product of our public universities: a mind half-baked with “progressive” platitudes and clichés. He has no discernible discernment, and there is still a chance that the electorate will see him for what he is. Nevertheless, he can already count on the protection and support of our liberal media, which, like musk-oxen detecting a threat, instinctively form a stomping circle around the little fellow, knowing he will be unable to defend himself.

(The situation is complicated by the existence of a socialist party, which itself displaced the Liberals in opposition at the last general election, thanks to a demagogue at their head, who knew how to pander to Quebec. This man has since died, but the party may still be attractive enough to split the opposition vote. In the past, Harper has been rather good at playing the two parties slightly to his left against each other, but after years of isolation in the prime minister’s office, he may have lost his edge.)

What impressed me, was how easily I fell for the “media narrative” on Harper’s speech, simply by paying insufficient attention. At the back of my mind I was assuming there must be some truth in it, when I ought to be aware that the media specialize in analyses which contain no truth at all. When I am paying attention, with the benefit of my own long experience within the media, I am able to identify the game, and understand what the players are up to.

It is important to understand that, except a few, the journalists are not ideologues. They are, once again, typical products of our drive-in universities, and journalism schools which have, if possible, even lower intellectual standards. They know no history, nor anything much about the topics on which they write, and can be easily mesmerized by a narrative they have themselves written, by rote. Such is the nature of promotion within what has become a niche of the entertainment industry, that those of independent mind and moral fibre are quickly weeded out.

I’m inclined to use the term “progressive” rather than dwell on Left and Right wings, for there is some contrast between, say, MSNBC and Fox in the USA, between CBC and Sun News up here. There is a growing Right — an opposition within the media to itself — but it is not a significant improvement on the monotony that preceded it. The idea that, as a form of entertainment, news coverage should aspire to “tabloid” conditions, and avoid subjects which require knowledge, governed the rightwing impresarios from the start. The Right is fresher and feistier than the Left, and by its Pavlovian habit of reacting to Left agendas, sometimes traps itself in a principled position; but this is a random, not intended effect. Both sides continue to share the post-Christian worship of abstract “liberty,” “equality,” and material “progress.” They clash on who can deliver these empty buckets quicker. But the battle is fought from both sides with the same weaponry — platitudes and clichés — in a kind of unending spiritual Verdun. “Progress” invariably emerges as the victor.

“Democracy,” or populism, has always delivered the Nanny State — which to my understanding is something more than a centralized bureaucracy. The Communists tried to deliver it by force, but politicians in our parliamentary free markets advance it by appealing to the lowest common denominator. The two systems — falsely contrasted “socialist” and “free market” ideologies — are animated by the same Enlightenment ideals. Both claim to speak for the mute and anonymous “little man”: to stuff him with material goods, and inflate him with rhetorical gases. Both play, directly and indirectly, on the envy in that little man, and his resentment of his betters. Both are thus effectively in opposition to the natural hierarchical ordering of society (which made and would make most politics unnecessary). Both promise, as a matter of course, what the serpent offered to Eve and Adam: the fruit that will make the little men “like gods.”

The purpose behind this is not to build the bureaucracy, as an end in itself, but bureaucracy as the means towards moral debilitation. The excellence of bureaucracy, from the diabolical point of view, is that it reliably punishes the good, and rewards bad behaviour. Its weakness remains an inability to predict that human behaviour, including sudden manifestations of the “hostile inflexibility” mentioned in my last post.

For there is in nature something besides the original sin that felled our first parents, and has been the trickster of history ever since. There is also a positive, which I’m inclined to call “human decency,” or in its most extreme and inflexible form, Love. This cuts across all diabolical intentions, and in moments of grace even faces them down. It should be said that the free market approach to moral debilitation leaves rather more scope to this human decency, though it tends to draw the line at Love. Violent tyranny leaves no scope at all, but as a consequence of plugging every vent, triggers the response of pent-up forces. At some point, the signal from a fracture spreads, and in a kind of earthquake, Berlin Walls come down. The genius of the rival consumer democracy is that it releases the pressure, one riot at a time.

But democracies, too, are fated — like every material aspiration on this earth, to die and leave no traces. When they deny the immortal dimension of man, the unchanging reality of creature and Creator, they become dry husks. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and in every direction the dry husks are scattered away. Only by God is the living implanted, and only on God’s terms will it grow. That jealous God, who will have no other gods before Him; against Whom we have, in truth, opposed our little “democratic” pie-in-the-sky.

Returning to Ottawa, by way of virtual reality, I note the media headlines this morning. The lockdown is lifted from the middle of the city, and led by their progressive elites, Canadians are congratulating themselves on their “defence of democracy.” In fact the credit should go entirely to Parliament’s Sergeant-at-Arms, in his wonderfully quaint neo-mediaeval costume; and to his 9mm pistol. He was fortunately pitted against only one Muslim psychopath and, laudate Dominum, had a good angle.

Thanks to such events, the mental lockdown of “political correctness” is also lifted, if only for a moment, allowing people to see what they can see. Muslim fanatics are running successful social media operations, recruiting openly in our prisons, and grooming terrorist hitmen in the mosques. To this I would add the phenomena of our universities, where many of the young have discovered it is “cool” to identify with the latest, Islamic, revolutionary cause. The old New Left are converting, or when not, at least giving their lip service to Hamas, Hezbollah, or any other enterprising group who will promise carnage. Indeed, direct anti-Semitism has come back into vogue among our cutting-edge progressive intellectuals: you’re considered a wimp if you say “Israeli” when you mean “Jew.” But these are people who all along have been, quite obviously, inhabited by devils, and as a Catholic friend observed, it is a great pity we have bishops in our Church who have never performed exorcisms.

“Our dear old bag of a democracy” (Auden’s charitable description) believes it has faced another challenge down. One editorial is headed, “Nothing will be the same again”; another declares, “After the attack, we’re still Canada.” These are two ways of saying the same thing, which could be combined as, “Everything will be the same again.” For we live in an age which gathers records, and stores them carefully away, but has no sense of historical time; when it is almost illegal to note that, for instance, “this sort of thing has been going on since the VIIth century.”

Our opponents are not after our dear old bag. “Democracy” is not relevant to their intentions. If we think it is, we have entirely missed their point. Our enemy is after us, body and soul; wants us enslaved, converted, or dead; and does not share in our nice sentimentality. I would further observe, that against such an enemy, platitudes and clichés are ineffective; that his will has embodied a demonic force; that it is encountering no spiritual resistance, whereas: we are going to need God on our side to defeat it.


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If you have a Star Wars fanatic in your life, these are your best bets this gifting season. The fact that s/he loves Star Wars means that you have already won Best Gift Giver of The Year. Take a look:

For the ones who want to proclaim their love of Star Wars everywhere they go:

Star Wars Galaxy Far Away Graphic Tee, $15.90

Star Wars Graphic Tee, $14.90

The coolest lamp you will ever own:

BB-8 Desktop Lamp, $39.99

How unbelievably awesome would it be to see THIS under your car’s windshield?

Star Wars Accordion Sunshade, $14.99

We all have that one friend who loves to take selfies. And loves Star Wars.

Star Wars Lightsaber Selfie Stick, $19.99

Let R2-D2 keep your brew cold!

R2-D2 Mini Fridge, $79.99

For the couple of Star Wars lovers:

Star Wars Han and Leia Hand Towels, $19.99

For the family of Star Wars lovers!

Star Wars Family Car Decals, $14.99

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Piedmont wine region

The Piedmont region of Italy is famous not only for its wines – the likes of Barolo, Barbaresco and Roero – but also its food.

The town of Alba is renowned for its truffle market, and the nearby town of Bra is home of the Slow Food movement, founded by Carlo Petrini in the 1980s.

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Piedmont is situated in north-eastern Italy. The alps form a prominent backdrop here, bordering the region to the north and west.

It’s a hilly region that’s renowned for its fog (or ‘nebbia’, from which the grape variety took its name).

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Piedmont’s vineyards in Barolo and Barbaresco have been the subject of intense analysis, and in 2010 the Consorzio approved the MGAs laid out by cartographer Alessandro Masnaghetti, in consultation with many of the winemakers.

This pioneering work for the region delineates the best sites in much the same way as the Burgundian cru system.
The most famous grape variety of the region is the thick-skinned Nebbiolo, however other red varieties include Barbera and Dolcetto.

Muscat is used for Moscato d’Asti, Cortese for Gavi, and Arneis for the whites of Roero and beyond.

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Fist Fights on Black Friday, Favorite Foods & Family! [Thanksgiving w/ The DeFranco’s]

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0:00 – Joe & family test out the new podcast audio equipment

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6:00 – Joe recalls a Black Friday “altercation” involving his dad, a baseball bat, and a gun!

15:00 – The time George D. went “back to high school” to discipline a disrespectful student

20:25 – Ashley reveals what Joe does with his “down time”

24:40 – George calls out his son for doing something that annoys him

25:50 – Did Joe’s parents ever doubt his career choice?

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38:20 – How was the first meeting between Ashley & Joe’s parents?

47:35 – George tells the story of when a young Joe D. got arrested

56:15 – Joe reveals the dumbest thing he’s ever done in his life

1:00:40 – Ashley & Joe’s favorite foods to eat on Thanksgiving

1:04:15 – Plumbing problems in the DeFranco household #TMI

1:07:50 – Joe’s dad gives his thoughts on “fat cops” and overweight people calling themselves “handicapped”

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Indian Railways renamed Train 18 as Vande Bharat Express

Indian Railways renamed Train 18 as Vande Bharat Express: On Sunday, the Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said that the Indian Railways has titled the indigenously manufactured Train 18 as Vande Bharat Express.

Indian Railways’ fastest Train 18 named Vande Bharat Express: Piyush Goyal

The train is going to run in the middle of Delhi and Varanasi at a full speed of 160kmph. In the meanwhile, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to flag off the train shortly.

The train is an Indian semi-high speed express 16-coach electric multiple unit. It was designed and manufactured by Integral Coach Factory (ICF) Chennai, Rae Bareli in a span of 18 months under the Indian government’s Make in India inventiveness. It is also considered as the first locomotive less train in the nation.

The unit budget of the first project was set as ₹100 crore (US$14 million), however the unit price is anticipated to go down with following manufacture and construction. At the original expense, it is likely to be 40% less expensive than a related train bring in from Europe.

The train is scheduled and planned to inaugurate its amenity in January 2019 by this date an additional unit will have been manufactured and prepared for service. The completely air-conditioned train will rest at Kanpur and Allahabad and will have two exclusive chair cars. Accepting the fact that it is made in India, it was retitled as ‘Vande Bharat Express’ on 27 January 2019.

The outside look of the train has been related to that of a bullet train, with a sleek constricting of both end of the train. At each end of the train, it has a driver coach letting for faster reversal at both end of the line. The train has 16 passenger cars, with a seats capability of 1,128 travellers. The centre two sections are first class compartments that has seat capacity of 52 each, with the rest coach compartments seating capacity of 78 each.

Another unit of the train is scheduled for manufacture and construction over the next year, along with four added units in the subsequent year that makes a total number of six. The Railway Board has demanded that ICF complete two of the latest units by May 2019. The two of those units is going to be combine sleeper cars into the design.

The Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said, “It is completely made in India and various names were suggested by the general public but we have decided to name it Vande Bharat Express. A gift on the occasion of the Republic Day to people. Will request the prime minister to flag it off”.


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Chesapeake: A Journalism Collaborative

The Chesapeake Bay is America’s largest estuary, with a watershed that spans 64,000 square miles, touching on six states. It’s an economic engine to two of those states, a source of food for many and close to the hearts of millions. Five public radio organizations—WYPR in Baltimore, Virginia Public Radio, Delmarva Public Radio at Salisbury University, Delaware Public Media and WESM at The University of Maryland Eastern Shore are collaborating to produce reports examining a broad spectrum of issues affecting the Bay and its watershed.

Chesapeake: A Journalism Collaborative is funded with grant support from the Clayton Baker Trust, The Bancroft Foundation, Michael and Ann Hankin, The Jim and Patty Rouse Foundation, The Rob and Elizabeth Tyler Foundation, and the Mid-Shore Community Foundation.

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For as long as there’s been a Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel at the mouth of the bay, there’s been a gift shop and restaurant perched on an island in the middle of it all. But now that Virginia has broken ground to add a parallel tunnel, the restaurant is about to become history.

Reese Lukei

Osprey, like bald eagles, are a comeback story.

Their eggs were destroyed by the pesticide DDT, until it was banned in 1972, when there were only about 1,400 breeding pairs of osprey around the bay. By the late 1970s scientists began seeing osprey in southeastern Virginia, according to Reese Lukei, who monitors osprey nests in that region, along with Chrystal Matthews for the William and Mary Center for Conservation and Biology and the Virginia Aquarium.

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Tourists visiting the Chesapeake Bay region have plenty of options: boating, fishing, dining and more.

But one particular type of tourism that has grown over the last five years gets those visitors thinking about the natural environment around them: Ecotourism.

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A group of anthropology majors from Washington College in Chestertown has spent the summer not at the beach, but as research assistants roaming the Eastern Shore, talking to residents about the risks of flooding and projected sea level rise. They’ve traveled through Talbot, Dorchester and Somerset counties talking to local residents about their communities, changes and their experiences with flooding.

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Earlier this summer, we started hearing reports of dolphins in Chesapeake Bay. Some thought it was unusual; others said it was no big deal.

So Joel McCord went searching for them for Chesapeake: A Journalism Collaborative.

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In 2009, President Obama signed an executive order recognizing the Chesapeake Bay as a national treasure. That began a federal-state partnership to restore and protect it, including a plan to revive the wild oyster population through sanctuaries on restored reefs in Maryland and Virginia.

But President Trump's proposed budget eliminates funding for that plan, further complicating an already complicated effort to restore the reefs gutted by a century of overfishing, disease and pollution.

Pamela D'Angelo reports for Chesapeake: A Journalism Collaborative.

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President Donald Trump’s proposed budget eliminates all of the Chesapeake Bay Program’s $73 million and reduces or eliminates several other funds used to clean up the Bay and its watershed.

On Thursday, leaders from the six states in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed — who together form the Chesapeake Executive Council — signed a resolution calling on Trump and Congress to replace that money in the budget and urging federal agencies to remain active participants in Bay restoration efforts.

Pamela D'Angelo

The Chesapeake Bay's crab, oyster and bait industry has been losing its American workforce since the late 1980s, as the old hands retire and younger workers seek better paying jobs.

The packing houses turned to foreign, seasonal workers to fill the gaps, but the visa program Congress established for that, dubbed H2B, quickly reaches the 66,000 worker cap. And that’s forcing some seafood processing plants to shut down.

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Much to the horror of environmentalists, President Donald Trump has proposed zeroing the EPA’s Chesapeake Bay program out of the federal budget. Congress recently passed a spending measure that keeps money flowing to it, but that’s only good until September.

With that in mind, reporters for Chesapeake: A Journalism Collaborative decided to see what that would mean in practical terms for the Bay clean-up.

Joel McCord, from WYPR in Baltimore, starts with a look at stream restoration efforts.

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The Delmarva Peninsula lies under the Atlantic Migratory flyway, a path waterfowl migrate through. As Europe deals with recent outbreaks of a severe strain of Avian Influenza, some local poultry growers worry that just one infected bird passing through the region could contaminate and kill whole flocks of chickens.

That’s why poultry growers across Delmarva take precautions to avoid the possibility of the virus traveling from outside of the farm to the respiratory systems of their chickens. And research is being done that could help farmers better understand waterfowl patterns so they can prepare for when the virus surfaces.


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Brazilian Pecan-Cinnamon Truffles

Christina Bhan and Paula Barbosa of My Sweet Brigadeiro ( make 20 different versions of these chewy Brazilian candies, including traditional Rich Chocolate and Pecan-Cinnamon.

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1 can sweetened condensed milk
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1 tsp. salted butter
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  1. In a medium nonstick saucepan, combine the condensed milk with the white chocolate and 1 teaspoon of butter. Cook over moderately low heat, stirring constantly, until shiny and very thick, 15 to 18 minutes. Spread the mixture in a shallow dish and let cool for 15 minutes.
  2. Arrange 30 paper candy cups on a baking sheet. In a shallow bowl, mix the pecans with the cinnamon. Rub your hands with butter. Scoop up rounded teaspoons of the candy mixture and roll them into balls. Roll the candy in the pecan mixture and set them in a paper cup. Repeat to form the remaining candies. Serve slightly chilled or at room temperature.
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The Bayside South golfers competed in the final day of the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association State Championship, as Stephen Decatur finished in ninth in the states, with a team score of 661.

Decatur's Matthew Kristick and Danny Parker each finished with a two-day score of 159, tied for 31st. Brooks Holloway finished with a combined score of 170 and a tie for 69th. On the girls side, Delaney Iacona finished with a total score of 173 and a 14th-place finish.

"With the change in terrain, going from the Eastern Shore, which lacks elevation, to the University of Maryland Golf Course, which had plenty of hills, I thought our golfers performed well and I am really proud about their performance," Seahawks head coach Jim Krall said.

Ayden Whitehead, from James M. Bennett, and Tyler Joven, for Wicomico, each finished with a combined score of 165, and finished in a tie for 54th. Jakob Keidel, from Parkside, rounded out the Bayside South performers with a two-day score of 179, and placed 78th in the tournament.


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“This is History”: People’s Climate March Organizer Bill McKibben on 400,000-Strong Turnout

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Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org and a lead organizer behind Sunday’s People’s Climate March and global day of action, joins us to reflect on the historic protest. “There hasn’t been a political gathering about anything this large in this country for many years,” McKibben says. “And I think what it demonstrates is that climate change is at the absolute tip now of people’s consciousness.”

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AMY GOODMAN: But right now, to lay out the scope of what’s taking place today in this historic moment is Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, one of the organizations that has organized this mass march today. Bill McKibben, welcome to Democracy Now!

BILL McKIBBEN: Amy, thank you so much for being here and for documenting what’s going to be a pretty remarkable day. I think what you said was right. There hasn’t been a political gathering about anything that’s this large in this country for many years. And I think what it demonstrates is climate change is at the absolute tip now of people’s consciousness.

AMY GOODMAN: I also wanted to ask you about this announcement that Mayor de Blasio, the new mayor of New York, has made around New York City’s commitment to dealing with climate change and how significant it is. It’s today on the front page of The New York Times. Maybe someone’s got that paper. I think I see it right over there. I’m going to see if I can get a copy. It says, “In a sweeping effort to reduce its environmental impact, New York City is planning to overhaul the energy-efficiency standards of all its public buildings and to pressure private landlords to make similar improvements.”

Now, it’s a pretty interesting number. “The initiative is part of a pledge, to be announced before … the [U.N.] Climate Summit … Tuesday, to decrease greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050 from 2005 levels. The [U.N.] has pointed to that rate of decrease as a desired target for developed countries to mitigate the effects of climate change.” And the significance is New York would become the largest city in the world to make the commitment, according to Mayor de Blasio.

BILL McKIBBEN: It strikes me that we should have marched a long time ago. This is a good sign about what happens when people get together and ask for things. And, you know, it’s a good thing to have a mayor like de Blasio who takes that seriously and goes to work on it, and I’m really glad to hear it. The real point of this is that we—if we assemble enough people and enough movement, then we can match the money that the fossil fuel industry has. That’s all they have. They lost the argument 20 years ago about climate change, but they’ve won the fight because they have all the money. We don’t have money, so we better assemble what we do have, which is warm bodies. And there’s a lot of them out here today.

AMY GOODMAN: You said the Koch brothers, together, are the richest person on Earth?

BILL McKIBBEN: They’re the richest person on Earth. And not only that, they are more than willing to spend some percentage of that wealth making sure that nothing ever changes. There was one study that said that if the Keystone pipeline got built, they’d make another $100 billion, the two of them.

AMY GOODMAN: You’re from Vermont, Bill.

AMY GOODMAN: We have just talked to Senator Sanders, who may run for president. But you also come from a state where there will be scores of buses that are coming here.

BILL McKIBBEN: Yes. No, we heard there’s more than a thousand Vermonters heading down. I heard there were 23 buses, and we’re hearing people filled the trains and everything else. Vermont’s definitely in the house. But there’s—you know, the Climate Train arrived from California yesterday full of people. There are buses coming from Wisconsin and Minnesota. And, I mean, it’s going to be mildly chaotic here on Central Park West for an hour or two, so people just got to be calm and cool and collected. But if you’re listening to this anywhere near New York, you should be here, because this is history today.

AMY GOODMAN: Now, the Vermont governor, Shumlin, has just said he may consider divesting the state from fossil fuels. It’s something you have been demanding.

BILL McKIBBEN: Absolutely. And, you know, we’ve got universities and pension funds, but Vermont Governor Shumlin is the first governor to say he’s going to divest his state from fossil fuels.

AMY GOODMAN: What does that mean?

BILL McKIBBEN: That would be a very big boost to what’s already the fastest-growing divestment movement ever. States and universities and churches should not be invested in companies that are wrecking the planet. It’s financially unwise, because if we ever do anything about climate, they’ll be out of luck, but it’s morally impossible. You can’t complain about the fact that Hurricane Irene is wrecking Vermont if you’re also investing in the companies that are bringing you Hurricane Irene.

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In Echo of Arab Spring, 1000s Protest in Morocco After Garbage Truck Fatally Crushes Fish Seller

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In Morocco, thousands of protesters flooded cities across the country after a fish seller was crushed to death in a garbage truck trying to retrieve fish confiscated by police. The death of Mouhcine Fikri in the northern town of Al Hoceima on Friday drew widespread anger on social media. Sunday’s rallies were called by activists from the February 20 movement, which organized demonstrations during the Arab unrest of 2011. His death drew parallels to that of a Tunisian fruit seller in 2010 which helped spark the Arab Spring uprisings. We speak to Nadir Bouhmouch, a Moroccan activist and filmmaker. He participated in the protests in Marrakech on Sunday.

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AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!,, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, as we turn to Morocco, where thousands of people have been protesting across the country after a fish seller was crushed to death in a garbage truck trying to retrieve fish confiscated and thrown out by police. The video circulating online appears to show Mouhcine Fikri jumping into the back of a dump truck, of a garbage truck, to rescue his swordfish, before being crushed to death by its compactor. According to local reports, Moroccan authorities prohibit the sale of swordfish at this time of year.

Activists have accused police officers of ordering garbage men to crush Fikri in the garbage truck. His death in the northern town of Al Hoceima has elicited widespread anger on social media and in the streets. The weekend’s rallies were called by activists from the February 20th movement, which organized demonstrations during the Arab unrest of 2011. Fikri’s death drew parallels to that of the Tunisian fruit and vegetable seller, Mohamed Bouazizi, in December of 2010 which helped spark the Arab Spring uprisings. Morocco’s King Mohammed has ordered officials to visit Fikri’s family. The ministries of interior and justice have pledged to conduct an investigation.

To talk about what’s happening, we’re going to go directly to Morocco, to Marrakech, where we’re joined by Democracy Now! video stream by activist and filmmaker Nadir Bouhmouch. He participated in the protests in Marrakech on Sunday.

Welcome to Democracy Now!, Nadir.

AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about what has taken place and what you understand happened to this fish seller?

NADIR BOUHMOUCH: Essentially, what happened was that the fish seller was leaving the port with swordfish, which, you already said, it’s illegal to fish swordfish at this time of year. And the fish was confiscated by the police, then thrown into the trash. And then he went in after it desperately. And the police officer ordered the garbage truck men to grind him, or, as we say in Darija, طحن_امو, tahan-amu, which is now the hashtag that we’re using for this—in these protests.

AMY GOODMAN: And what happened in the community where he was killed first?

NADIR BOUHMOUCH: People reacted immediately. Al Hoceima is in the Rif, and the Rif is known to react quite fast to these—to these types of situations. It’s not the first time that it’s happened there. People were out on the streets. There were demonstrations throughout the city, eventually gathering in the center of the city. And then, right after, people started calling for demonstrations elsewhere in the country.

AMY GOODMAN: Talk about the political climate in northern Morocco, the significance of Al Hoceima.

NADIR BOUHMOUCH: The Rif is known for its history of resistance since—since the Spanish and French colonized Morocco. They held a very strong resistance, led by Abd el-Krim al-Khattabi, and they called for—and actually, at that time, there was a secession from the colonial state called the Rif Republic. And the memory of the Rif Republic, the popular memory of the Rif Republic, is something that is in Riffian minds, and it’s something—it’s definitely an element that kept the region marginalized, because the idea of a Rif Republic went against the ideals of the monarchy that was upheld by the colonial state. And then, when the monarchy came into power, after the French and the Spanish left, the Rif continued to resist. And that’s why we see in 1958 a rebellion that was brutally crushed by the Hassan II regime. So, this is something that happens again and again in the Rif. And so, this is why we don’t—we don’t believe the state, the regime, when they say that they will investigate this death, because they haven’t investigated the 1958 massacres. They haven’t apologized or even recognized them. They haven’t investigated the 2011 death of five February 20th protesters, who were essentially thrown into a bank, and then they had it set on fire, as a way of sabotaging the February 20th movement.

AMY GOODMAN: Now, let me ask you about some of the signs we were following in social media, like one, a woman holding up a sign that says, “Welcome to COP 22. We grind people here.” Democracy Now! will be headed to Morocco for the U.N. climate summit, which is being held in Marrakech this year. Talk about the climate in your city and what these protests mean. Are they continuing? This is the earliest U.N. COP. It’s going to be right after the election here in the United States. We’ll be broadcasting from Marrakech.

NADIR BOUHMOUCH: So, ahead of the COP 22, there has been a growing environmental movement that’s linking climate injustice and environmental injustices to class issues in Morocco. And so, there’s already a sort of discussion about greenwashing, about how the state is using this conference to greenwash its abuses, to greenwash the economic, social and environmental injustices that the people of Morocco face. So, these types of signs are meant to draw attention to this greenwashing that the state conducts at the COP 22.

AMY GOODMAN: The COP begins, actually, next week in Marrakech. Do you expect these protests to continue right through?

NADIR BOUHMOUCH: It’s not clear right now. There was discussion last night at the demonstration, afterwards. We were talking about perhaps keeping up the pressure until COP 22, because it is the moment when the international media will be focusing on Marrakech. And so, if we can keep up the pressure until then, then we can definitely expose this greenwashing discourse that we see. But it’s not clear yet.

AMY GOODMAN: Here in the United States, the email controversy is enormous, released by WikiLeaks, and also the whole issue of the presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s private email server. But among the latest leaks from WikiLeaks that came from the account of John Podesta, the chair of Clinton’s presidential campaign, was a set of emails that revealed that Hillary Clinton had secured a $12 million donation to the Clinton Global Initiative in 2015 from the king of Morocco, on the condition that she speak in Marrakech. It was right before she was announcing for president. People thought that wasn’t a very—the optics of that were not very good. And so, Bill Clinton, the former president, and Chelsea Clinton, their daughter, came to Marrakech to speak. What’s the significance of this, of your king, of the Moroccan king, giving $12 million to the Clinton initiative?

NADIR BOUHMOUCH: The significance is basically that he is trying to, and the entire regime is trying to, buy an image, create an image of democracy, using figures, Western figures like Hillary Clinton, who supposedly are politicians in a democratic state—but, of course, we know the United States is not very democratic. So, this is part of creating this image of importance of how Morocco is this great country, where we host great conferences, and that we are an environmentally friendly country, a democratic country. It’s about building this facade, which has been created since the 2011 cosmetic changes after the February 20th movement protests.

AMY GOODMAN: [inaudible] about what happened in 2011, in the time of the Arab Spring? I mean, what has happened to the fish seller in Al Hoceima has been compared to Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia in December, so frustrated by authorities harassing him, taking his scales—he was selling fruit and vegetables—the he set himself on fire, which was very much the spark of the Tunisian revolution, which then led, of course, to what happened in Egypt. Can you talk about what happened in Morocco?

NADIR BOUHMOUCH: In Morocco, there were the February 20th movement youth. It was largely youth who first called for the protest, and then political groups joined in afterwards. It was a very interesting moment in Moroccan history, because we saw the unification of all sorts of political groups who are opposed to the regime. I mean, we’re talking about from Islamists to communists, anarchists to liberals, etc., etc. So, it was a very important moment. The king reacted by promising a constitution and then eventually appointing a committee to draft the constitution. Of course, we wanted a committee—an independent committee, not one that was appointed by the monarchy. Basically, the king took advantage, the monarchy took advantage, of the Syrian and Libyan uprisings and the war that ensued there to say, “Well, look. Look how violent this situation has become. You don’t want that here, so just take what we give you.” But, once again, these are cosmetic changes. They’re not practiced whatsoever.

AMY GOODMAN: Is there anything else you’d like to add, Nadir, for people to understand what’s taking place right now in Morocco, from the north, from the Rif, to Marrakech, to Rabat, the capital?

NADIR BOUHMOUCH: This is a much bigger issue than just the death of Mouhcine Fikri. I mean, Mouhcine died with an empty stomach, according to the medical examination. This is about a people that is hungry, that is being what we call hogra. The protests are about hogra, which is a sort of trailing oppression, an oppression that comes from the top and goes all the way down to the roots of the regime, which are the daily officers, the bureaucracy, everything that is lined up against the people, who are seeing an increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of the rich, and of austerity and privatization, the neoliberal pull that’s destroyed what these people—the needs of the people. So, when we go out and protest about this, about Mouhcine Fikri’s assassination by the police, we are actually out to talk about a lot of issues, because when we see these images, and in recent popular memory, we are seeing this image of Moroccans in a garbage truck, when the floods, and the climate change-induced floods, in the south a couple of years ago, when tourists, white tourists, were taken in helicopters and saved from the floods, while Moroccans were left to die and thrown into garbage trucks, transported. So this is something [inaudible] ask ourselves: Do we, as a people, live in dignity? And that’s what these protests are about. It’s about dignity.

AMY GOODMAN: Well, I want to thank you so much for being with us. Nadir Bouhmouch is a Moroccan activist and filmmaker, speaking to us from Marrakech, Morocco. And we’ll be broadcasting from Marrakech from November 14th to 18th covering the COP 22. That’s the U.N. global summit on climate change. I’m Amy Goodman. Thanks for joining us.

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Broncos, Briefly: Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019

[Shelby] Harris is a restricted free agent for the Broncos, and it's unclear at this point just what roles the team's new coaching staff sees for many of the Broncos' veteran players, Harris included. However, if the team keeps to the 3-4 scheme as expected under Vic Fangio, there will likely be a place for Harris. Former coach Vance Joseph and former defensive coordinator Joe Woods mentioned more than once over the past season how close Harris came to being released in his first offseason with the team -- in 2017. But Harris, who had been released six times by a combination of three different teams before he signed with the Broncos in January 2017, has since carved out a role as a versatile role player who makes the most of the snaps he receives.

After the season that running back Phillip Lindsay had, it's easy to forget just how much he overcame.

In addition to host James Brown and analysts Phil Simms, Boomer Esiason, Bill Cowher and Nate Burleson, CBS will have a pair of current NFL players joining as guests analysts. Denver Broncos linebacker, and Super Bowl 50 MVP, Von Miller, and Seattle Seahawks quarterback, Russell Wilson, will join the guys at the desk to break down the matchup between the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams.

John Elway's Broncos are another team likely to improve in 2019, as they were ravaged by injuries along the offensive line and still managed to post a 7.4 Pythagorean expectation, leaving Denver comfortably ahead of its 6-10 record. By DVOA, the Broncos ranked 13th in the league, ahead of playoff teams like the Eagles (15th) and Cowboys (21st).


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The McNichols Building in Civic Center started as the Carnegie Library in 1910 and later became offices for the municipal government. Now its owner,the City of Denver, wants to transform it into an event space that could serve as the cornerstone of a revived public park.

Denver has always expected more from Civic Center park than any park could possibly deliver.

Even the way we maintain it today — no playground or tennis courts, trees in neat rows — shows how we expect it to be some sort of supernatural magnet for the citizenry just because it exists. The hard reality: It is inaccessible and a bit boring for today’s recreation. Most of us think of it as a drug bazaar and steer clear.

Nothing symbolizes the park’s distance from contemporary Denver more than the shuttered McNichols Building, placed there in 1910 as the Carnegie Library. A sturdy rectangle fronted by 14 formal columns, it is a noble wonder.

But a stone-cold Greek Revival Temple at the crossroads of the great American West? The whole concept now feels stiff and particularly un-parklike. The building, the gift of an out-of-state philanthropist with a habit of handing out libraries, McNichols has been a questionable fit here since the 1950s, when library operations moved elsewhere. Desperate efforts to maintain it as a practical

municipal office space have failed.

It is important to keep this in mind as the city embarks on a gallant effort to resurrect the building, joyfully, practically, finally: McNichols is full of potential, but it is no longer precious.

It does not hold a place in the hearts of most Denverites. And though it does have an important social history, marking a time when planners had high and beautiful ambitions for urban green spaces, it was never a particularly original piece of architecture and, arguably, never offered the warm connection to nature a park building ought to deliver.

McNichols will have to change dramatically if it’s to become “a parlor for the city,” as Cultural Affairs director Erin Trapp puts it. And Denver will have to decide how much of it to preserve and how much it can change.

Surely significant alterations are in the air. And the (very) preliminary plans the Cultural Affairs Office unveiled last week prove that.

There are ideas you’d expect: Re-create the grand stone stairway that originally stood in front, taking visitors directly to the library stacks on the second floor. It was demolished in the 1950s, and currently, the main entrance is a sunken (and depressing) pit on the ground level.

There are unexpected ideas: Install a giant, 4,000-square-foot open terrace wrapped around the back at the second level. Here, workday lunchtimers could picnic, couples might get married, a visiting pope or president could address a throng gathered on the green space below.

There are things that must get done: Refurbish the mosaic floors; finish opening up the giant windows that were, for some reason, partially blocked off during past renovations.

At the back of the building, where McNichols bumps out of its rectangular shape, planners propose attaching new stairways and elevators. This, in effect, moves some public access from the north side to the south. Building, meet park. And after all these years.

Then what?

So how to change the building’s image and get people inside?

That’s as easy as offering public restrooms for park users, and that’s one idea collected from public forums on the building. Others: Rent it as event space, install some kind of museum, put in a police station or a comedy club, host live theater, rename it after someone more revered than former Mayor Bill McNichols. It all remains on the table.

But here is what is shaping up as practical, after preliminary studies, meetings and the start of $2 million worth of structural work in progress:

  •  The first floor could house a restaurant or cafe that opens onto the park. There would be enough space left over (each floor is roughly 10,000 square feet) for community rooms where classes or kids’ activities could take place.

  •  The entire second floor could be opened up for event space. Flexible walls would allow up to three events to go on simultaneously. If all goes well, it could end up as one of the biggest, swankiest party places in Denver.

  •  The best spots on the third floor would remain public, but about two-thirds could be available as private office space, rented out at market rates to help pay the approximately $2 million a year in maintenance.

    Finding ways to draw revenue is key. Trapp says the building must be self-supporting. While the park surrounds it, technically McNichols is not in the boundaries of Civic Center, so city rules against for-profit ventures in parks do not apply. Trapp is looking at the Denver Performing Arts Complex as an operational model. It adds revenue to city coffers, thanks to rent paid by theater, opera and dance companies, Similar long-term partners at McNichols could keep the place busy and the bills paid.

    Obstacles exist. There is virtually no parking adjacent to the building; the current small lot to the south blocks the park and will go. Also, the building would need a major public-relations push, a marketing campaign that will be sparked when McNichols — just its shell, really — will host a month-long art exhibit during July’s Biennial of the Americas.

    And there’s the matter of raising $25 million, one estimate on the complete renovation.

    Does it go far enough?

    Financial realities dictate some restraint in the plans for McNichols, and so does decorum. The building was the cornerstone of Mayor Robert Speer’s forward-thinking plans for a landscaped civic center between the Colorado Capitol and the soon-to-be Denver City and County Building.

    But years of renovation, neglect and outright failure invite creative thinking. For some buildings, precise historical renovation is the right move; for others, it would be a stifling gut reaction to natural decay. This building has had six decades of second chances. Isn’t it time to do something drastic? Something transformative?

    The current ideas — and remember, they are just ideas — straddle the preservation/innovation line. In essence, the facade would lean historic with its elegant stairway replaced; the back moves forward with a new terrace.

    But both need to be justified.

    Is it smart to reconstruct the grand-stairway entrance to the second floor in an age when people rarely walk up two flights, especially people in bridal gowns? Might the building not be better served with some sort of inviting, contemporary entrance that scoops people inside and sets a more exciting tone? Could we rethink the front door as a set of glass elevators or escalators that are practical and still let the classical elements shine through and define the building?

    Could the back terrace be something richer than a second-floor balcony? What if it doubled as a stage for free Shakespeare in the park? What if it contained a swimming pool?

    The notion of adding glass and steel to older, formal structures is always a challenge to preservationists, but it can be winning. Want a few examples? Google I.M. Pei’s 1989 glass pyramid entrances at the Louvre in Paris, or James Polshek’s sleek 2004 pavilion addition to the front of the Brooklyn Museum, another classically inspired building. Take a quick look at Steven Holl’s lighted 2007 addition to Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

    These modern designs all brought new vitality to old buildings. More importantly, they connected people to the existing architecture in fresh ways. McNichols needs that.

    There are plenty of good ideas on the table, thanks to the city’s open process. Few municipal projects begin with such a casual discussion of the possibilities, and the suggestions have flowed. That opens the door to bigger thinking at the next step, and this city’s creative design community is capable of coming up with some grand schemes. Firms big and small need to be invited to dream — students, too.

    Now that we have an idea of where to go, could we hold a design competition, show off the results in a way that continues the public process? Then appoint a panel of neighbors, historians, designers, academics and possible funders to pick the best one?

    Civic Center isn’t just any park. It was designed as a giant lawn for cramped turn-of- the- century urbanites to gather upon. These days, people have their own lawns and green spaces flourish. Playgrounds and tennis courts may not be the answer for this sacred ground, but something needs to draw today’s residents there.

    And a renewed McNichols may be just the thing.

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