For those who still think aborting special needs babies is necessary in order to spare them, and the parents, burden, pain, and difficulty, Hartman had this to say:
Here’s what I can tell you: Many times people speak about special needs as being a negative and I’ve seen it as nothing but a positive. My daughter and I are much closer than we would have ever been because of her special needs. Morgan is someone who has taught in a very positive way not just my wife and myself and our family, but also other people about the importance of life.
And because Morgan was the spark that inspired Gordon Hartman to create a world where she belonged, other special needs children and their families now have a place of belonging and welcome too.
On arrival at Kenya's biggest seaport, Mombasa, the container is loaded onto a ship for a voyage to Europe of around 30 days. Despite their lengthy journey, they will still be sold to European shoppers with a vase-life of about a week.
So, how is this possible?
"The flowers will be kept at a temperature of 0.5 degrees celsius throughout the journey," says Elizabeth Kimani, the manager of quality and standards at Sian Flowers.
As well as controlling the temperature, the atmosphere system in the container reduces the oxygen level from 20% to 4%, while increasing the carbon dioxide level from 0.4% to 4%.
This technology is all part of the elaborate process of preserving the blooms for as long as possible. //
But flowers destined for such a long voyage need extra attention to prepare them, as soon as they are picked.
"We harvest them early in the morning, when it's still cool and they will be the first to go into the cold room," explains Linda Murungi from grower, Sian Flowers.
Freshly-harvested roses, for instance, are then dipped into a chemical mixture to protect them from the fungus, botrytis.
After that, the stems are put into buckets to absorb a hydration solution so they can survive the thirty days without water. They are also put in a solution that curbs the growth hormone, ethylene, which causes the ageing of the flowers.
Once that process is completed, the flowers are then packed into cartons with holes in the top and bottom, which allow air from the container's system to circulate. //
Kenya has become one of the world's biggest flower exporters thanks to its equatorial location, high altitudes and relatively cheap labour, it competes for dominance in the market with Colombia and Ecuador.
For years, the two Latin American countries have been exporting about 10% of their flowers by sea freight to North America and Europe.
As these flowers are at sea for a much shorter period of time, firms exporting from Latin America do not use controlled atmosphere, or post-harvest treatments.
Kenyan exporters however, have to be extra-careful. There is no direct shipping route in to Europe, instead, containers are transferred in the Middle East from smaller vessels to much larger ones.
Too often, managers feel the best way to add value is by fixing someone’s problem. “I know the answer, and I need to tell them,” we say to ourselves. But over-relying on fixing constrains our ability to lead and robs our team members of growth opportunities. //
But if they aren’t aware of it, most managers default to a single approach. Daniel Goleman, a psychologist and leadership author, studied 3,871 executives and identified six leadership styles: Commanding, Visionary, Affiliative, Democratic, Pacesetting, and Coaching. What he found was that the most effective leaders didn’t over-rely on a single style; they had mastered multiple styles and could skillfully match the right style to a situation.
The film, Created Equal: Clarence Thomas In His Own Words was released in 2020, and offered a unique glimpse into Justice Clarence Thomas’ life and judicial philosophy. Since his 1991 confirmation hearings, the legacy media has delighted in poisoning the well with lies, smears, and racist tropes about the Justice. With the assistance of documentary filmmaker Michael Pack, Mark Paoletta decided to dig a new well, one that allowed people to draw their conclusions from Justice Thomas’ own life, words, and writings.
Pack spent 25 hours filming Justice Thomas, and six additional hours with his wife Ginni — a voluminous amount of discourse that was reduced to a two-hour documentary. Sadly, this left a prodigious amount of information on who the Justice is as a person, as well as his writings and viewpoints, unexplored. So, Paoletta decided that a book of the same name was in order. //
I sat down with Paoletta for an hour, and he stated that he is making it his life’s mission to present a true, candid, and unadorned portrait of this consequential jurist.
It’s a fascinating conversation that gives a glimpse not only into Clarence Thomas the United States Supreme Court Justice, but into Clarence Thomas the man and the humanitarian.
Find a List of Logged In Users
You can use the "who" command to find a list of users currently logged into the system. Using the -u (--users) option will also display the PID (process ID) of the users shell session.
End the Users Shell Process
When you are ready to kick the user, send the SIGHUP to the users shell process. A SIGHUP signal is the same signal the process would receive when the controlling terminal is closed.
sudo kill -HUP 9940The number at the end of the above command is the process ID of the users shell. We found the process ID using the who command above.
Sometimes there is a process that hangs. In that case we can send a SIGKILL (kill -9) to the PID. This is exactly what it sounds like. It will immediately terminate ANY process, so be careful.
sudo kill -9 9940Halibut: yet another free document preparation system
Halibut is a documentation production system, with elements similar to TeX, debiandoc-sgml, TeXinfo, and others. It is primarily targeted at people producing software manuals.
What does it do?
Halibut reads documentation source in a single input format, and produces multiple output formats containing the same text. The supported output formats are:
- Plain ASCII text
- HTML
- PostScript
- Unix man pages
- Unix info, generated directly as .info files rather than .texi sources
- Windows HTML Help (.CHM files), generated directly without needing a separate help compiler.
- Windows WinHelp (old-style .HLP files), also generated directly.
- Other notable features include:
- Hypertext cross-references are ubiquitous where possible. In particular, the HTML and PDF output both have hyperlinks in every reference between sections, and throughout the index and contents sections. (It seems daft to me that so many PDF documents fail to have this; it's one of the most useful features of PDF.)
- Support for international characters via Unicode, with the ability to fall back to an alternative representation. For example, you can write \u00F6{oe}, and in output formats that support it you will see ‘ö’ whereas in those that don't you will see ‘oe’.
- Comprehensive indexing support. Indexing is easy in the simple case: as you write the manual, you just wrap a word or two in \i{this wrapper}, and those words will appear in the index.
- More complex indexing is also supported, such as
adding references to things you never explicitly said
rewriting the appearance of index entries for a consistent style
duplicating index entries to several places because you don't know which concept they'll be looked up under
merging references to several things into one combined list. - Portability. The Halibut source code is portable ANSI C (apart from a dependency on having at least a 32-bit platform), so it should run without change on Unix, Windows, BeOS, MacOS, VMS, or whatever other (non-16-bit) OS you fancy. (Well, you might have trouble outputting PDF under VMS, due to file typing issues. I dunno.)
- Configurability. Each output format supplies configuration directives, so it is easy to tailor the HTML output (say) to contain a standard header with links to other parts of a site, or to use a style sheet, or whatever.
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“I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.”
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
“The bitterness and hate ... would have long since been obliterated in this state, were it not for some unprincipled men who would keep alive the bitterness of the past, and inculcate a hatred between the races, in order that they may aggrandize themselves by office, and its emoluments, to control my people, the effect of which is to degrade them.”
Senator Hiram Revels (1827-1901)
Farewell of a hero
Last living World War II Medal of Honor recipient dies at 98
The last living Medal of Honor recipient from World War II — a hero who fought enemy forces with a flamethrower in Iwo Jima — died Wednesday morning in West Virginia. He was 98.
Hershel “Woody” Williams, a former Marine corporal who earned the military’s highest decoration for his bravery in the Battle of Iwo Jima, died peacefully at a veterans medical center, according to The Woody Williams Foundation.
a few things were obvious about Trump as a candidate and president.
First, he didn’t have strong political beliefs. Many, including one former writer here a RedState, used to get what seemed to be sexual gratification from calling Trump a “New York liberal.” But, as a salesman, he knew what was important to those who voted for them. To this day, I’m not terribly sure what Trump believes, but I’m also sure that it doesn’t matter.
Second, he didn’t hold Americans in “fly over country” in contempt. I think Trump connected with conservative Americans in a way that no candidate since Ronald Reagan has managed to do because he wasn’t laughing at us to his rich liberal buddies at cocktail parties.
Third, in the words of my Old Man, “ya dance with them what brung ya.” When Trump was sworn in, he had a choice to make. He could stay true to the people who voted for him or yield to the siren call of Washington’s social life. In a singular act of political courage, he chose loyalty to his supporters.
One of those signs of loyalty was Trump’s overt embrace of the Pro-Life Movement. I’m not sure that Trump had ever spent ten consecutive seconds thinking about the issue of abortion. From his life and lifestyle, I’d not be surprised to find that he didn’t have a personal problem with this horrific practice. Unlike President George W. Bush, whom I admired, Trump was not ashamed of us. President Trump became the first president to personally appear at the March for Life rally since its inception in 1974. Neither Reagan nor Bush, all of whom talked big talk about being pro-life, ever made an appearance, but a New York City playboy cared enough to show up. When it came time to appoint justices, Trump delivered three whose records indicated they were pro-life and conservative.
Unsurprisingly, people who made a career out of being “Never Trump” are trying to rewrite history to take credit for something that happened despite their best efforts. //
A pause here for a brief fact check. The famous lists of possible Supreme Court nominees were developed inside the Trump White House by a team led by Don McGahn. The Federalist Society executive vice president Leonard Leo was an adviser. The selections were not by any stretch of the imagination “delegated.” In fact, it was Conservative, Inc. insiders who howled as loudly as the Washington Post editorial board about how the proposed justices would scare moderate voters. //
Sure, George W. Bush gave us Samuel Alito. But, do you know who else he gave us? John Roberts. Roberts is the guy whose concurrence in Dobbs tells the majority that included all three Trump-appointed justices that they were completely wrong in their decision. In a weird way, we are lucky to have John Roberts. We were saved from much worse because Bush couldn’t find enough inbred senators willing to foist Harriet Miers off on us. I agree that Clarence Thomas is a treasure. But do you know who else George H. W. Bush put on the bench? David Souter. Souter wrote the opinion in Casey that sought to forever lock in abortion as a Constitutional right. He voted with the majority in the Lawrence vs. Texas decision that changed or placid “slouching towards Gomorrah” posture into the Usain Bolt-style sprint that put us on the glide path to codifying a cheap simulacrum of actual marriage as the law of the land. //
The Gospel Matthew (21:28-32) contains the Parable of the Two Sons. The story is that a father asks his two sons to go work in the vineyard. One tells his father “no,” but then relents and goes off to work. The other tells his father, “yes,’ and doesn’t go. The question is, who actually did their father’s will? I’m not trying to make a theological argument defending Trump; I am merely using this well-known (at least I hope) Bible reading as a point of departure for a comparison. Trump spent his entire life never giving much thought to governance. Yet once he was president, he governed more conservatively than any president in the past 20 years. Not only on Life but the economy, neutering Iran, the Abraham Accords, and, I’d contend, bullying the freeloaders in NATO into starting to meet their obligations. In essence, he said “no” at first but ended up doing the hard work in the vineyard.
On the other hand, we had “conservatives” who were elected, pledging to defend life. When it came down to nut-cutting time, they still agreed to fund Planned Parenthood, ignore the Pro-Life Movement outside of election year photo-ops, and appointed judges who, to this day, continue to support abortion and anything else the administrative state desires. They are the ones who said “yes,” and decided they liked being invited to the cool parties and maybe moving out of the conservative punditry ghetto more than fighting for causes. So who was actually the more conservative?
Donald Trump won in 2016. He won because he likes to win and because he knows if you aren’t a winner, you are the other thing…that would be a loser. //
There is a place inside the conservative tent for thinkers as well as for doers. What there isn’t a place for are people who fought tooth and nail to keep abortion legal by supporting Hillary Clinton…and Joe Biden…and then claim the Dobbs victory for themselves and their fellow travelers because they had wonderful thoughts and wrote erudite articles.
PuTTY for Windows saves all sites and configuration in Windows Registry.
Batch file to export sites and configuration from Windows Registry to a .reg file:
@echo off
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:: export putty sites in ANSI mode
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regedit /ea "o:\my documents\.ssh\putty-ini.reg" HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTYTo later import, right-click on putty-ini.reg and select "import" or "merge".
Many email messages are being sent from PHP scripts on a server. How to find domains on which these scripts are running if Postfix is used?
The domain name in the email address is fairly irrelevant. The name used in the MX record doesn't really matter either. ISPs will often use something like mail.customer-domain.com in MX records, all pointing to one server whose real name is obviously not mail.customer-domain.com. What does matter is the servers actual hostname.
When talking via SMTP, your server will identify itself in the SMTP conversation using its full hostname, in this case 'server.example.com'.
The A record for 'server.example.com' should point to the IP of your server, and the PTR record for this IP address should match the hostname.
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A Secret Service source told me earlier: “FYI, I’m calling bullshit on the Secret Service story. You think none of us would have never heard of this as an internal rumor? No fucking way.”
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🚨 A source close to the Secret Service tells me both Bobby Engel, the lead agent, and the presidential limousine/SUV driver are prepared to testify under oath that neither man was assaulted and that Mr. Trump never lunged for the steering wheel.
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New: Source close to the Secret Service tells @PierreTABC to expect the Secret Service to push back against any allegation of an assault against an agent or President Trump reaching for the steering wheel.
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So, it would seem that that story didn’t even make it a day without imploding — must be a new record for fake, anti-Trump stories.
This should do in any credibility that the Jan. 6 Committee had left, if any. How can you not do the simplest thing and check with the agents and the other people before you throw these stories out there before the world? The answer is they didn’t care–they just wanted to skewer Trump and the truth didn’t matter, yet again. Why does anyone believe these liars anymore after all the lying they have done, not only over this but over Russia collusion and so many other things.
But even as the lie was falling apart, that didn’t stop Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) from trying to push the claim on CNN on Tuesday, with what little time he has left to push it before everyone figures out that it’s nonsense.
Erin Burnett asked him if he was able to corroborate Hutchinson’s claim with any of the agents, like Tony Ornato or Bobby Engel — the two agents Hutchinson named.
So, how did Schiff respond?
“I can’t comment on other testimony before the Committee,” Schiff claimed. Why not? You’re doing plenty of commenting on Hutchinson’s testimony. The reason he can’t is that he knows he doesn’t have testimony from the agents that backs this whole ridiculous story up. Yet even now, on CNN, as the story was falling apart, Schiff still was trying to work it and deceive the public, and tap dance on the answer. It was disgraceful.
Burnett asked Schiff if he had any concerns that the story wasn’t true, and he said he believed Hutchinson. //
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Of course the J6 committee is not going to corroborate a witness. The witness was saying what they want to hear. They are going to run with it. They follow the principle "Don't ask a question that you don't want to hear the answer."
Thought experiment story of someone who lost everything in a house fire, and now can’t log into anything:
But to get into my cloud, I need my password and 2FA. And even if I could convince the cloud provider to bypass that and let me in, the backup is secured with a password which is stored in—you guessed it—my Password Manager.
I am in cyclic dependency hell. To get my passwords, I need my 2FA. To get my 2FA, I need my passwords.
It’s a one-in-a-million story, and one that’s hard to take into account in system design.
This is where we reach the limits of the “Code Is Law” movement.
In the boring analogue world—I am pretty sure that I’d be able to convince a human that I am who I say I am. And, thus, get access to my accounts. I may have to go to court to force a company to give me access back, but it is possible.
But when things are secured by an unassailable algorithm—I am out of luck. No amount of pleading will let me without the correct credentials. The company which provides my password manager simply doesn’t have access to my passwords. There is no-one to convince. Code is law.
Of course, if I can wangle my way past security, an evil-doer could also do so.
So which is the bigger risk?
- An impersonator who convinces a service provider that they are me?
- A malicious insider who works for a service provider?
Me permanently losing access to all of my identifiers?
I don’t know the answer to that.
Those risks are in the order of most common to least common, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they are in risk order. They probably are, but then we’re left with no good way to handle someone who has lost all their digital credentials—computer, phone, backup, hardware token, wallet with ID cards—in a catastrophic house fire.
I want to remind readers that this isn’t a true story. It didn’t actually happen. It’s a thought experiment. //
Kent Brockman • June 28, 2022 11:04 AM
Any plan should take into account the possibility of memory loss (permanent or otherwise) due to shock or physical injury from an incident (car crash,fire, etc.,etc.) which would render moot a passphrase, plan, etc. unless written down and distributed to others (trusted implicitly, of course). This is to my mind at least, possibly the largest risk to even a well thought out scheme.
Ape • June 28, 2022 4:01 PM
It seems to me that the impact of the thought experiment resides in this: we have evolved backwards. Rather than insisting that it is robots who have to prove they are humans, we have evolved into a situation where humans have to prove they are not robots. Whatever happened to cognito ergo sum? It is now: I exist because the robot says I exist. If the robot says I don’t exist, I don’t exist. There is probably some fancy Latin way of saying it. So the heart of the problem is not “code is law”. The heart of the problem is that we have devolved law to programmers. Not just law, either, but the reality of our lives.
Now let’s imagine a different thought experiment. One where a person physically exists so they have an identity. In that cultural reality the question is not a question of token verification but a question of “Who is this person?”. They must be somebody. So we go about deciphering who they are. It is humans who have control, not the code, not the programmers, not the token. Maybe we even decide that the person is not the person who he was before the house burned down. Does it matter if the victim cannot regain his old identity if we give him a new one? Why the need for convergence on the old, on perpetuation?
It is time to regain control of our own identity.
Security Sam • June 28, 2022 11:25 AM
For safety the security abhors
With a mutually exclusive rule
Just like the set of double doors
Located in every bank vestibule.
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Rather than confront the energy crisis head on, Biden and his administration have apparently decided to a) demand censorship of their critics, b) scapegoat the only people who can end the energy crisis, and c) lie about their own role in creating the crisis. It is a transparently counterproductive strategy, one which is antagonizing the energy industry, worsening investor confidence, and alienating voters.
Biden’s is a strategy that makes him look like a child and oil and gas executives like grown-ups. Wrote Wirth, “we need an honest dialogue… We can only meet these challenges by working together.”
But if Biden’s strategy is so counterproductive, why does he keep pursuing it?