Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Trump s Russia Denials Are Falling Apart As Steve Bannon Is Removed From The NSC
Trump s Russia Denials Are Falling Apart As Steve Bannon Is Removed From The NSC
Breaking News: Steve Bannon Removed from National Security Council
Trumps Russia denials just fell apart as after months of denying that they knew Mike Flynn had Russia connections, White House officials admitted that they knew Flynn had problems which is why Steve Bannon was on the NSC.
Rosie Gray of The Atlantic tweeted:
sr WH official tells me Bannon was only on NSC to keep an eye on Flynn & "de-operationalize NSC from Rice" & that he never went to a meeting
Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) April 5, 2017
Same official says the president made the decision, this was the deal from the beginning, and "we all knew Flynn had issues"
Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) April 5, 2017
The White House claimed that Flynn was let go because he lied to Vice President Pence, but it turns out that this wasnt true. Bannon was named to the National Security Council on January 29, so the Trump administration knew about Flynn, and they were worried enough to send Steve Bannon in to keep an eye on him.
The Trump administrations Russia denial continue to be contradicted by facts. What is clear is that the White House is going to try to change the subject from their potential collusion with Russia during the presidential campaign to Susan Rice. If the Susan Rice distraction doesnt stick, they are going to throw Mike Flynn under the bus.
Trump hasnt been telling the truth about Russia, and the removal of Steve Bannon is another crack in the administrations wall of denial.
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Source: http://www.politicususa.com/2017/04/05/trumps-russia-denials-falling-steve-bannon-removed-nsc.html
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Monday, September 4, 2017
Ubuntu 16 10 Available For Download See What s New
Ubuntu 16 10 Available For Download See What s New

Unity / Compiz changes in Ubuntu 16.10
Unity and Compiz changes in Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak):
- low graphics mode improvements:
- reduced animations in the window switcher, launcher and menus (in some cases to zero);
- disabled blur and fade in/out;
- reduced shadows;
- Also, even if youre not using the low graphics mode, theres now an option to to skip animation in the Expo, Scale, and Show Desktop Compiz plugins;
- More about the improved low graphics mode in Unity 7, HERE.
- bottom launcher:
- properly decorate launcher/panel when the launcher is at the bottom;
- Expo and Scale Compiz plugins now support buttom offsets, fixing some issues that were occuring when the Unity launcher is used at the bottom of the screen, such as the Workspace Switcher icon switching workspaces;
- the top panel and launcher now have an outline in spread mode;
- middle-clicking an app icon in the switcher now closes the app window
- properly partially unmaximize a window when middle/left clicking in the restore button on the Unity panel;
- scrolling on indicators should now work when Expo is active;
- HiDPI fixes: the switcher detail view is now properly scaled and the xy_offset is now also scaled to make sure the switcher and launcher dont overlap;
- re-added Animations Experimental, Animations Plus, Simple Animations, and Animations Addon Compiz plugins (these are available with the "compiz-plugins" package, not installed by default);
- various other improvements and bug fixes.



Ubuntu 16.10 Defaults
Changes in GNOME 3.20 include:
- a shortcuts window was added to some GNOME applications (apps that support this include Files, Videos, etc. );
- Files (Nautilus) uses revamped search filters, a faster and more responsive search, a new, more compact preferences dialog, and more;
- dconf Editor now uses a header bar, with a standard search design, redesigned entry editor, and other improvements;
- GTK+ CSS theming has had a major overhaul, which should result in easier theme writing and more dynamic interfaces;
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For a complete GNOME 3.20 overview, see THIS page.

- Linux 4.5 (more information: KernelNewbies | Phoronix):
- experimental PowePlay support for the amdgpu driver for discrete GPUs Tonga and Fiji, and integrated APUs Carrizo and Stoney;
- initial i915 DRM graphics support for Kabylake hardware;
- Linux 4.6 (more information: KernelNewbies | Phoronix):
- initial acceleration support for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 900 Maxwell (Nouveau driver);
- support for runtime power management of the AHCI controllers;
- Dell and Alienware laptop support improvements;
- Linux 4.7 (more information: KernelNewbies | Phoronix):
- Microsoft Xbox One Elite Controller support;
- new "schedutil" governor for the CPUFreq scaling driver;
- Nouveau now has Nvidia GM108 Maxwell support;
- Linux 4.8 (more information: KernelNewbies | Phoronix):
- initial NVIDIA Pascal support for Nouveau;
- amdgpu OverDrive support, allowing overclicking AMD GPUs using the open source driver;
- Broadcom BCM2837 SoC support (this is used by the Raspberry Pi 3);
- Microsoft Surface 3 touch-screen support.
Download Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak)
Important: all non-LTS Ubuntu versions are only supported for 9 months. Ubuntu 16.10 will be supported until July 2017.
Official release notes and download links for Ubuntu 16.10 desktop flavors:
- Kubuntu: release notes | download
- Ubuntu MATE: release notes | download
- Xubuntu: release notes | download
- Lubuntu: release notes | download
- Ubuntu GNOME
- Ubuntu Studio
- Ubuntu Kylin
Originally published at WebUpd8: Daily Ubuntu / Linux news and application reviews.
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Sunday, September 3, 2017
U S Mission China Adjudicated More Than 1 Million Visas Visitors Add More Than 5 Billion to US Economy
U S Mission China Adjudicated More Than 1 Million Visas Visitors Add More Than 5 Billion to US Economy
Ambassador Gary Locke announced that the U.S. Mission to China adjudicated more than one million U.S. visas for Chinese applicants during fiscal year 2011. The U.S. Embassy in Beijing and Consulates in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenyang and Chengdu all contributed to this accomplishment, which represents a 34 percent increase over last year.
Ambassador Locke stressed the significance of this achievement, �The U.S.-China relationship is profoundly important, and welcoming Chinese visitors to the United States strengthens our cultural and commercial ties. I am very pleased at the success we have had in significantly reducing wait times for visa appointments this year.�
According to the Department of Commerce, more than 801,000 Chinese visited the United States in 2010. These visitors added more than $5 billion to the U.S. economy.
The U.S. Mission to China will continue to invite Chinese tourists, students, and businesspeople to visit the United States, a premier destination for travelers from around the world. The Mission will continue to reduce visa interview wait times to the greatest extent possible by adding staff and eliminating inefficiencies wherever possible.
I have a feeling that this is going to be the start of the "counting beans" era at our overseas posts. Consular posts overseas already are under pressure to keep the visa interview wait time, not that it makes a difference to Havana which now has 999 days wait time for visa interviews. Posts may now be asked to calculate (or obtain the numbers elsewhere) on how much their visa applicants contribute to the U.S. economy.
So far, no one has posted readily available information on how much the U.S. Treasury is earning from visas and consular services collected at our posts overseas. I was told once that States Consular Bureau does not like advertising that. Note that state.gov already post statistics of visa issuance but not visa applications. In 2010, our consular posts worldwide issued 6,422,751 nonimmigrant visas. Even at a regular tourist visa fee of $140, thats $899.2 million in US dollars. Some type of visas like the petition based categories and investors/intracompany transferee visas cost more. And since a lot more applicants are refused, that $899.2 million is probably only about a third of a whole bucket.
For some, even the money generated by the visa application fees would not be enough. There have been calls on and off about reforming the visa system to make it more "traveler-friendly." Expect to hear more about the visa system and how it could generate more American jobs. As two Seattle-based CEOs put it, "winning back our share of the global long-haul travel market to 2000-2001 levels would create 1.3 million new American jobs by 2020 and add $859 billion in economic output."
In the meantime, well be in the lookout for bean-counter pressers from our posts overseas. Too early to tell if this is a trend.
Related articles
- Boost Washington jobs by reforming U.S. visa system (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
- U.S.-China Trade Gap Widens (online.wsj.com)
- U.S. ambassador urges China to lower trade barriers (huffingtonpost.com)
- Ambassador Gary Locke Urges China to Open Wider to Investment (nytimes.com)
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Monday, August 28, 2017
UConn women s basketball team has even former pro coaches impressed
UConn women s basketball team has even former pro coaches impressed
UConn Women"s Basketball vs Albany Highlights
STORRS >> For seven days earlier this month former WNBA coach Dan Hughes had a front-row seat for not only five postseason games played by the four-time defending national champion UConn womens basketball team, but also practices and shootarounds.
Hughes, who retired as the San Antonio Stars head coach and general manager after the 2016 season, was part of the broadcasting crew for both the American Athletic Conference tournament and the first two games in the NCAA tournament. His gig gave Hughes, who won 237 regular-season games in the WNBA, a chance to check out UConn coach Geno Auriemma and his staff preparing the Huskies for a run at an unprecedented fifth consecutive national title.
Hughes coached his WNBA teams to the playoffs 10 times in his 17 seasons, including San Antonios run to the championship series in 2008, so he has a different take on things than many of those who have been color commentators on UConn games over the years.
I think they do an incredible job of putting together the pieces from a teaching standpoint, hughes said. They do a great job of player development, they do a great job of conceptual team things and then they also teach the players to be adult-like in their maturity in the game. They kind of understand it is not just providing information, it is getting them to own the process. They do as good as a job as I see on those different things, so whatever they chose to do comes out in a very mature way.
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Auriemma has often said his teams play its best when it is running offense instead of executing plays. Rather than slowing his players down by demanding that they run things a particular way, he asks them to read what the defense is giving them and act accordingly.
It is one thing to say, I want you to go here, and I want you to be here, and do this, Hughes said. They teach it in a way that the players know why they are going there more than some. It is not just you go here and do this, they kind of have to own the totality of why they are going there and they do that really well as teachers.
Hughes had been on the committee which selected the U.S. womens national teams when Auriemma was the national team coach. It gave Hughes a glimpse into the way Auriemma runs practices and also how he holds his players to a certain expectation level.
I kind of knew they did it, Hughes said. Where I got a good appreciation was being with USA Basketball for the last eight years, watching Geno doing it in short pieces with them. The other thing that is really great is Chris Dailey. I have dealt with her a lot over the years. I dealt with her a lot of the time when the kids are going from college into the pros, and she has been so reliable and understanding that process and the players have been so mature. When I got them they were so mature as teammates, they were mature in how to practice and I didnt have to do a lot, they came in ready.
Hughes coached Jen Rizzotti from 2001-03 when he was the head coach of the now defunct Cleveland Rockets. He came full circle when he was able to work with former UConn point guard Moriah Jefferson, who was selected by San Antonio with the second overall pick in the 2016 WNBA Draft.
Many years Jefferson would have been named the WNBA Rookie of the Year, but with her former UConn teammate Breanna Stewart on the scene, she had to settle for being a member of the All-Rookie team.
Hughes is rather certain that will not be the final honor bestowed on Jefferson in the WNBA.
I believe at some point she will be the best player at the point position in the WNBA, Hughes said, She reminded me of me coaching Becky Hammon, she reminded me of me coaching Jen Rizzotti, Dawn Staley, Suzie McConnell-Serio and yet she is 22 years old. It was so much fun for me to have somebody who looked at the game intelligently, was tough, but highly skilled. If you cant get energy from coaching Moriah Jefferson then you are dead. If you have any pulse going, she just makes you want to be there. She was fun.
Source: http://www.nhregister.com/sports/20170321/uconn-womens-basketball-team-has-even-former-pro-coaches-impressed
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Thursday, August 24, 2017
U S B Disk Security Free Download Full Version
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Saturday, August 12, 2017
Ubuntu 15 04 Available For Download See What s New
Ubuntu 15 04 Available For Download See What s New

Under the hood, the most important change is the replacement of upstart with systemd as the default init system.
Lets take a look at whats new in Ubuntu 15.04 Desktop!
Also see whats new in: Ubuntu MATE 15.04 and the other Ubuntu flavors.
Changes in Ubuntu 15.04 Desktop (Vivid Vervet)




Other Unity and Compiz changes include:
- Dash, HUD and the logout dialogs now work over fullscreen windows;
- tweaks to animations for faster startup and shutdown experiences;
- fixes for various problems that occur with the nVidia proprietary driver (mostly blank or black windows);
- many bug fixes and small improvements.

And finally, heres the new Ubuntu 15.04 default wallpaper:


Also, Upstart continues to control user sessions.
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Its also worth mentioning that Ubuntu Make (previously called Ubuntu Developer Tools Center) is now available in the official repositories. This is a command line tool which makes it easy to install various developer tools such as Android NDK and Android Studio, various other IDEs such as IDEA (ultimate and community editions), PyCharm, WebStorm, RubyMine, PhpStorm and Eclipse, Golang compiler, Firefox developer edition, Dartlang editor and Stencyl game development platform.
The tool automatically installs all required dependencies and does everything you need to run the tools listed above, including automatically adding the IDEs to the Unity Launcher for easy access.
Download Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet)
Also see whats new in: Ubuntu MATE 15.04 and the other Ubuntu flavors.
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Friday, August 11, 2017
U S A Naturalization Civics Test Wins 2nd Place
U S A Naturalization Civics Test Wins 2nd Place
I am pleased to announce that my latest homebrew release U.S.A. Naturalization Civics Test for DS came second in the App category of this years Neo Retro Competition! The rest of the results are here. Thanks to the reviewers, everyone who has downloaded the app and given it a go, and most importantly the Neoflash team for running the competition.
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Thursday, August 10, 2017
U S B Disk Security Free Download Full new Version
U S B Disk Security Free Download Full new Version
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Sunday, August 6, 2017
U S Consulate General Basra Dangerously Exposed but Under Iraqi Protection
U S Consulate General Basra Dangerously Exposed but Under Iraqi Protection
Ted Koppel recently had a piece on our "exit" from Iraq for NBCs Rock Center. In an interview with NPR, Ted Koppel noted that all our troops will soon be out "save 157 who will be guarding the embassy, and a few hundred U.S. military trainers."
In his interview with Ambassador Jeffrey, Ted Koppel asked the ambassador what happens if our folks there come under direct attack. The ambassador responded that this is the responsibility of the Iraqi government. When pushed if he was confident that the Iraqis would respond, Ambassador Jeffrey said "yes." Of course, can we really expect our ambassador there to say "no" on teevee? I am having a really bad tummy ache over this.
I posted the opening of U.S. Consulate General in Basra in this blog last July. The clip below talks about ConGen Basra with 1320 people (apparently also known as Fort Apache), which is rocketed two or three times a week. Also piece here on Shalamcha, Iraq�s southern border crossing into Iran, a stone throw from Basra:
Here are the rest of the clips from NBCs Rock Center:
No Exit: US military leaving Iraq but presence remains
No Exit: Iraqs oil and Irans influence
No Exit: Ted Koppels reflect on Iraqs future
Related articles
- Iraqis unable to defend their borders as US exits (worldnews.msnbc.msn.com)
- U.S. bases remaining in Iraq dwindles to four (news.blogs.cnn.com)
- Signs of looming US troop drawdown abound in Iraq (sfgate.com)
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Saturday, August 5, 2017
U S House Hearing on Smart Cards and Health Care Fraud
U S House Hearing on Smart Cards and Health Care Fraud
Whats changed across the nation in terms of health care cybersecurity since the 1990s? Malware spreads by USB sticks and IP networks rather than 3.5" disks. Medical devices depend much more on networks and software. There are now so many layers of software dependencies, its hard to even inventory whats in the trusted computing base.
I still have the wooden shoe presented to the staff who helped "go live" with this clinical computing system in Holland. Stored on a shelf right above my IHTFP propeller hat.
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Tuesday, August 1, 2017
U S A Naturalization Civics Test for DS
U S A Naturalization Civics Test for DS

- Fully-voiced questions from the official U.S.A. Naturalization test
- Up-to-date list of elected officials (as of August 2011)
- Bonus content including a Presidents Gallery and U.S. State Capitals quiz
- Music including "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "Hail to the Chief"
- Rumble Pak support
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Monday, February 23, 2015
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Saturday, February 21, 2015
2012 Paris Suzuki S Cross Concept Previews Upcoming Compact Crossover
2012 Paris Suzuki S-Cross Concept Previews Upcoming Compact Crossover
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| 2012 Paris Suzuki S-Cross Concept Previews Upcoming Compact Crossover |
2012 Paris Suzuki S-Cross Concept Previews Upcoming Compact Crossover
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2012 Paris Suzuki S-Cross Concept Previews Upcoming Compact Crossover
A bold character line just below the greenhouse contributes to the S-Cross concept’s bold look. LED headlights flank a mesh front grille up front while LED taillights and the rearward swooping roofline provide a muscular feel. The tough look is enhanced by a front skidplate, flared wheel wells, and 20-inch wheels. At just under 170 inches long with a 102.4-inch wheelbase the Suzuki S-Cross concept is smaller than the Mazda CX-5 SUV, but larger than the Mini Countryman and Nissan Juke.










