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Taekwondo Officer Guards Korean President

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South Korean’s President, Yoon Suk-yeol. September 23, 2022 (NYC)–Taekwondo Officer Guards Korean President.  The United Nations General Assembly took place this week in NYC.   Among the visiting international representatives visiting the United States was South Korea’s current President, Yoon Suk-yeol. During United Nations’ week security is extremely heightened.  There is a massive coordination…

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A list of the hundreds of publicly uncovered neonazis in the German police system in 2020. Politicians, police and media in Germany have spent decades pretending Nazi infiltration in the police didn’t exist and was left-wing paranoia, and now that they are being actually uncovered they keep insisting these are only “Einzelfällen“/Bad Apples. ACAB is international.

Okayish google translation under the cut:

A list of events from 2020.

January 6, 2020

A 29-year-old police officer who moved from Hessen to Berlin sends right-wing extremist content in a group chat . He is suspended from duty in February .

January 9, 2020

Police officer Stefan K. is standing in front of the Tiergarten district court in Berlin because he is said to have attacked a 26-year-old Afghan out of racist motives while traveling with other football fans. It turns out that K. was a member of the Berlin investigators group right-wing extremism. He was also allegedly involved in the Neukölln attack series , in which private individuals who campaign against right-wing extremism and for refugees were injured by arson attacks. Disciplinary proceedings against K. are ongoing.

February 6, 2020

Three trainees at the Saxon Police College in Rothenburg shouted right-wing extremist slogans with the window open in an apartment in Bautzen . All three commissioner candidates are then dismissed from the university , and they are under criminal investigation.

February 21, 2020

The administrative officer Thorsten W., who was deployed in the traffic commissioner of the police headquarters in Hamm, is said to have financially supported the right-wing terrorist cell "Group S" . He had previously attracted colleagues' attention from the Reich war flags on the balcony and other hints. Apparently the agency did nothing. Since then, W. has been in custody and has been suspended from duty.

February 29, 2020

"Sieg-Heil" shouts are heard over the radio from a police car in front of a synagogue in Aachen . They come from the TV series "Hunters". In a chat group that was subsequently uncovered, investigators found messages with anti-constitutional symbols. Two police officers are eventually suspended from duty. Against three other police officers from the uncovered chat group there are proceedings for incitement to hatred and the use of anti-constitutional symbols.

March 2020

During a mission in an antique warehouse, two Berlin police officers are said to have bought an antique radio with a swastika depicted on it. A witness reports that the officers were explicitly interested in the apparatus because of the swastika. The State Security Department of the State Criminal Police Office is investigating whether disciplinary proceedings are being initiated.

March 23, 2020

Police officer Julius H. from Hamm is suspended on suspicion of sedition, and criminal and disciplinary proceedings are ongoing against him . H. is the former deputy spokesman for the AfD in Hamm.

April 24, 2020

The policeman and AfD politician Steffen Janich calls for a demonstration against the corona measures in Pirna, Saxony. Mouth and nose protection is reportedly not worn by many participants at the gathering. Meanwhile, Janich spreads anti-Semitic conspiracy stories on Facebook. He is suspended from duty and disciplinary proceedings are ongoing. Janich is nominated as an AfD candidate for the federal election in 2021.

April 27, 2020

In Bavaria, 67 police officers are suspended and charges are brought in 25 cases, among other things because of belonging to "Reich citizens" and because of possession of drugs and child pornography. Penalties were issued against seven police officers.

July 2020

Several threatening emails with the signature "NSU 2.0" are sent to politicians and artists. Personal data are said to have been accessed on police computers in Wiesbaden and Frankfurt. Several police officers have been suspended, but the authors are still unknown today. Research by the taz leads to a Hessian police officer . In 2018, more than 400 proceedings were initiated nationwide due to unauthorized data queries by police officers.

20th July 2020

According to taz research, the chairman of the German police union Bodo Pfalzgraf was extensively networked in the right-wing extremist scene in the 1990s . He is also said to have been a founding member of the "Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben-Bildungswerk", a "cover organization for events by right-wing extremists and neo-Nazis" according to the protection of the constitution. In 2006 the association dissolved. Pfalzgraf is still on duty.

July 22, 2020

Disciplinary proceedings are opened against two police officers from Brandenburg. You had made data queries without any business connection . Both were members of the Uniter association, which the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies as a test case . The public prosecutor's office was asked to examine the behavior of the officers for criminal relevance.

September 16, 2020

North Rhine-Westphalia is investigating 31 police officers who are said to have racially hounded in chat groups. The NRW Constitutional Protection calls shared images "hardcore right-wing extremist material". 200 officers search 34 police stations and private homes. 31 police officers are suspended. Secured data carriers are still being evaluated.

September 18, 2020

Two police officers from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania are suspended because of right-wing extremist messages in a chat . 17 officials are under investigation. According to the then Interior Minister Lorenz Caffier, there was no evidence of a network. Caffier resigns two months later because he bought a gun from an alleged right-wing prepper.

October 1, 2020

More than 25 Berlin police officers are said to have networked in a right-wing extremist chat group . Research by “Monitor” (WDR) shows that a manager was informed but did not want to know what was shared in the group. In an email he is said to have asked the officials not to share any criminally relevant content. Criminal and disciplinary proceedings are initiated against the police officers.

October 1, 2020

Investigators search the workplace and the apartment of a Bielefeld chief inspector . He is suspected of having shared right-wing material in a chat group with 50 police officers. The ID card was withdrawn and the conduct of official business was prohibited.

5th October 2020

At a neo-Nazi demonstration in Berlin, a police officer wears a patch that shows a Spartan helmet. In the right-wing extremist scene, the helmet symbolizes the fight against alleged "Muslim invaders". The Berlin Police are initiating disciplinary proceedings.

5th October 2020

An officer of the Dresden Police Department has spoken to a chat group of security employees: inside racist and right-wing extremists. He is suspended from duty, disciplinary proceedings are ongoing and he is to be released from duty.

October 12, 2020

Several officers of the state riot police of Saxony-Anhalt are said to have called a snack bar operator based on the Magdeburg police property as a "Jew" since the 1990s . An anonymous whistleblower wrote by email that “the entire department” knew about the case and that no disciplinary or criminal proceedings had been initiated. The interior minister, Holger Stahlknecht, who has since resigned, finally announces a special commission to investigate institutional anti-Semitism in the Saxony-Anhalt state police.

October 14, 2020

Several new students in the Berlin police are said to have exchanged racist and anti-Semitic messages in a chat group . Swastikas, for example, and Shoah denials. The public prosecutor's office is investigating seven suspects and disciplinary proceedings are also initiated. Six of the police students then have to leave the University of Law and Economics.

October 2020

A detective in Traunstein, State Security Department, had swastikas, an SS rune and pictures of Hitler hanging in his office. He did not initiate proceedings against a colleague who wrote racist messages in a chat. He was given eleven months probation for thwarting punishment and using Nazi symbols .

3rd November 2020

20 alleged right-wing police officers from Berlin are to be dismissed from service . They had rushed against refugees in chat groups.

3rd December 2020

Anonymous whistleblowers accuse the head of the police station in Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt, of anti-Semitism. Andreas Krautwald is said to have not only tolerated the designation "Jew" for a takeaway owner on the police property in Magdeburg. He is also said to have expressed himself anti-Semitic to the man . In a statement, he describes the allegations as baseless . A newly established special commission is to deal with the incidents.

December 14, 2020

The scandal surrounding right-wing extremist suspected cases with the police in North Rhine-Westphalia is expanding. Now more than 200 officials are under suspicion . The suspensions of seven officers have been lifted, currently 25 officers are still suspended. NRW Interior Minister Reul is meanwhile sending 5,000 large-format calendars with articles from the Basic Law to all police stations in the state .

December 16, 2020

Four officers from the Schleswig-Holstein state police are said to have exchanged right-wing extremist ideas in a chat group . According to the investigators, sentences such as “Everyone on the wall - ready!” Can be found in two cases, even ammunition was seized. Criminal, service and disciplinary investigations are ongoing.

December 29th

The apartments of officials in Emsland and the county of Bentheim are searched. According to the Osnabrück Police Department, three active and one retired police officers are said to have exchanged numerous pictures and videos, some with references to Nazi symbols and xenophobic depictions. The active officers are temporarily suspended. According to the current status, there is no common chat group or a common network, it was said at the time of going to press.

As of December 29, 2020 for all information

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hello sorry this is probably Slightly weird but a while back (like, six months ago i think!) you posted a meme about felix klare wanting sebastian to cheat on his wife with his best friend? and i was wondering if there's a story or a quote or something behind that because... sir?

aahahah dw I can explain, it refers the Tatort Stuttgart episode “Scherbenhaufen” where Sebastian and Thorsten discuss Sebastian’s fake background story before he goes on his undercover mission. (”I ended up cheating on her with my best friend” “huh I thought I were your best friend?” “yes exactly!!” “ahaha keep dreaming”)

and also to this interview with Felix where he says he wouldn’t have minded to have a gay detective couple since Sebastian is divorced now, but “Richy didn’t want to”

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Bohren & Der Club of Gore — Patchouli Blue (Ipecac)

A saxophone emerges from the velvet blackness; plaintive notes stretched, sustained, saddening the night above a barely brushed hi-hat and snare. Reverberating bass, shimmering keyboards, the pace slow, building tension. Christoph Clöser (saxophones, piano, Fender Rhodes electric piano, vibraphone, drums), Morten Gass (organ, synthesizer, mellotron, Fender Rhodes electric piano, eight-string bass, vocoder, drums) and Robin Rodenberg (acoustic and electric bass, drums) emerged from Germany’s hardcore scene in the mid- 1990s with a sound diametrically opposite to that from whence they came. Death Jazz, Jazznoir, Detective Jazz, Loungecore: call it what you will but after a six-year absence and having lost foundation drummer Thorsten Benning, Bohren & Der Club Of Gore are back with Patchouli Blue, a riveting addition to their discography.

Clöser has Dexter Gordon’s ability to play within the melody of a ballad, to physicalize every note, lingering for full effect. The self-control with which he, Gass and Rodenberg play is central to Bohren’s method. At times you wish they’d just let go, smash the keys, bash the drums, scream and squawk but that is not their way. It is not politesse, it’s a measured, deliberate approach that wants the listener to hear and feel each beat and breath, every sustained chord and all the keystones and buttresses in the vaulting space of their cathedral of sound. Subtle details abound, the machine rhythm and deep organ swells in “Vergessen Und Vorbei” which approaches a dramatically decelerated techno, a vibraphone on the title track, Rodenberg’s short upright bass solo in “Sollen Es Doch Alle Wissen”, the otherworldly romanticism of the mellotron and always the haunted saxophone, distant but inviting.  

Patchouli Blue is at once the perfect background for a Chekovian dinner party and the soundtrack for a particularly intricate torture session. The smooth veneer covers a multitude of sins and ecstasies, tension builds like a dysfunctional Thanksgiving reunion, all whispers, innuendos and sidelong glances simmering with emotion and all the unsaid with which people tear themselves and others apart. Bohren & Der Club Of Gore play the beauty of all that feeling yearning for expression with immaculate music that pierces the darkness with pinpoints of light. Put your sunglasses on and venture forth.  

Andrew Forell

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Congratulation to the A MAZE. Award 2019 Nominees and Honorable Mentions

“The A MAZE. is a place of inspiration for game makers, digital artists, and creatives who are exploring playful systems for their future projects. In this sense it is important to us to present an artistic and forward-thinking exhibition of playful media as a whole, that includes games, immersive experiences and narratives, interactive art installations, and other mind-boggling projects on the fringe of play.“, says artistic director Thorsten S. Wiedemann

The submitters’ work ranges from all kinds of playful media, which underline the A MAZE. Awards categories. 25 games will compete in the following 6 categories:

Most Amazing Game Award Human Human Machine Award Long Feature Award Digital Moment Award Explorer Award
 Audience Award

THE NOMINEES:

:THE LONGING: by STUDIO SEUFZ

0_abyssalSomewhere by Nonoise

A_DESKTOP_LOVE_STORY by Alienmelon

Anyball by Team Anyball

Be B:E:R:N:D by  MASO HfS Ernst Busch

Bird Alone by  George Batchelor, Eli Rainsberry, Allissa Chan 

Blabyrinth by  Sleeping Beast Games

Consume Me by Jenny Jiao Hsia & AP Thomson

Fantastic Fetus by Fantastic Humans

The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature by La Belle / ARTE France

HanaHana Full Bloom by Mélodie Mousset

Horses by Andrea Lucco Borlera

Kassinn by Huldufugl

Locus Solus by Dream Adoption Society

macdows 95 by  Yunus AYYILDIZ

Mundaun by Michel Ziegler

Operation Jane Walk by Leonhard Müllner, Robin Klengel

STATIC by  Elijah Cauley and Amit Rai Sharma

Sticky Cats by The Bones Brothers

The Game: The Game by Angela Washko

The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game by Grace Bruxner, Thomas Bowker, Dan Golding

To Call a Horse a Deer by Yuk-Yiu Ip

VM - Virtual Materialism by Jens Isensee & Rico Possienke

WORLD4 by Alexander Muscat

Wrong Box by  Molly Soda and Aquma

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

After HOURS by  Team after HOURS

Haunted Garage by Games For Ghosts

Laser Mazer AR/VR by Mighty Coconut

Mosh Pit Simulator by Sos Sosowski

Pixel Picasso by Happy Volcano

Small Talk by Pale Room

The Book Ritual by Alistair Aitcheson

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Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Taekwondo Demo at One Police Plaza

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Taekwondo Demo at One Police Plaza @NYPDnews @NYPDKSewell #AsianAmericanPacificIslanderHeritageMonth #marczirogiannis

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Taekwondo Demo at One Police Plaza May 31, 2022 (NYC)-Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Taekwondo Demo at One Police Plaza.  On May 31, 2022 to mark the close of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month Grandmaster YH Park joined the NYPD for a Taekwondo Demo at One Police Plaza. Korean American Detective James “Miyung-sun” Thorsten, a 3rd…

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Uncovered: 1,000 phrases that incorrectly trigger Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant

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As Alexa, Google Home, Siri, and other voice assistants have become fixtures in millions of homes, privacy advocates have grown concerned that their near-constant listening to nearby conversations could pose more risk than benefit to users. New research suggests the privacy threat may be greater than previously thought.

The findings demonstrate how common it is for dialog in TV shows and other sources to produce false triggers that cause the devices to turn on, sometimes sending nearby sounds to Amazon, Apple, Google, or other manufacturers. In all, researchers uncovered more than 1,000 word sequences—including those from Game of Thrones, Modern Family, House of Cards, and news broadcasts—that incorrectly trigger the devices.

“The devices are intentionally programmed in a somewhat forgiving manner, because they are supposed to be able to understand their humans,” one of the researchers, Dorothea Kolossa, said. “Therefore, they are more likely to start up once too often rather than not at all.”

That which must not be said

Examples of words or word sequences that provide false triggers include

Alexa: “unacceptable,” “election,” and “a letter”

Google Home: “OK, cool,” and “Okay, who is reading”

Siri: “a city” and “hey jerry”

Microsoft Cortana: “Montana”

The two videos below show a GoT character saying “a letter” and Modern Family character uttering “hey Jerry” and activating Alexa and Siri, respectively.

Accidental Trigger #1 – Alexa – Cloud

Accidental Trigger #3 – Hey Siri – Cloud

In both cases, the phrases activate the device both locally, where algorithms analyze the phrases; after mistakenly concluding that these are likely a wake word, the devices then send the audio to remote servers where more robust checking mechanisms also mistake the words for wake terms. In other cases, the words or phrases trick only the local wake word detection but not algorithms in the cloud.

Unacceptable privacy intrusion

When devices wake, the researchers said, they record a portion of what’s said and transmit it to the manufacturer. The audio may then be transcribed and checked by employees, in an attempt to improve word recognition. The result: fragments of potentially private conversations can end up in the company logs.

The risk to privacy isn’t solely theoretical. In 2016, law enforcement authorities investigating a murder subpoenaed Amazon for Alexa data transmitted in the moments leading up to the crime. Last year, The Guardian reported that Apple employees sometimes transcribe sensitive conversations overheard by Siri. They include private discussions between doctors and patients, business deals, seemingly criminal dealings, and sexual encounters.

The research paper, titled “Unacceptable, where is my privacy?,” is the product of Lea Schönherr, Maximilian Golla, Jan Wiele, Thorsten Eisenhofer, Dorothea Kolossa, and Thorsten Holz of Ruhr University Bochum and Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy. In a brief write-up of the findings, they wrote:

Our setup was able to identify more than 1,000 sequences that incorrectly trigger smart speakers. For example, we found that depending on the pronunciation, «Alexa» reacts to the words “unacceptable” and “election,” while «Google» often triggers to “OK, cool.” «Siri» can be fooled by “a city,” «Cortana» by “Montana,” «Computer» by “Peter,” «Amazon» by “and the zone,” and «Echo» by “tobacco.” See videos with examples of such accidental triggers here.

In our paper, we analyze a diverse set of audio sources, explore gender and language biases, and measure the reproducibility of the identified triggers. To better understand accidental triggers, we describe a method to craft them artificially. By reverse-engineering the communication channel of an Amazon Echo, we are able to provide novel insights on how commercial companies deal with such problematic triggers in practice. Finally, we analyze the privacy implications of accidental triggers and discuss potential mechanisms to improve the privacy of smart speakers.

The researchers analyzed voice assistants from Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Deutsche Telekom, as well as three Chinese models by Xiaomi, Baidu, and Tencent. Results published on Tuesday focused on the first four. Representatives from Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The full paper hasn’t yet been published, and the researchers declined to provide a copy ahead of schedule. The general findings, however, already provide further evidence that voice assistants can intrude on users’ privacy even when people don’t think their devices are listening. For those concerned about the issue, it may make sense to keep voice assistants unplugged, turned off, or or blocked from listening except when needed—or to forgo using them at all.

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Guía de series: Estrenos y regresos de noviembre 2019

Noviembre es el mes de la llegada de Apple TV+ y Disney+. Veréis que estos nuevos servicios nos traen la mayoría de estrenos, cuyos episodios llegarán semanalmente.

¡Feliz noviembre!

Leyenda:

Verde: series nuevas.

Rojo: series de las que haremos reviews semanales.

Negro: regresos de otras series.

Naranja: miniseries o series documentales.

Amarillo: tv movies, documentales, especiales o pilotos.

Morado: season finales.

Púrpura: midseason finales.

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Calendario de series

1 de noviembre: 

Jack Ryan (2T completa) en Amazon

See (1T), The Morning Show (1T) For All Mankind (1T), Dickinson (1T) y Ghostwriter (1T) en Apple TV+

Hache (1T completa), Atypical (3T completa), Wir Sind Die Welle (1T completa), Holiday in the Wild, American Son y The King en Netflix

Temple (1T finale) en Sky One

3 de noviembre: 

His Dark Materials (1T) en BBC One

The Affair (series finale) y Power (series finale) en Showtime

5 de noviembre: 

The End of the F***ing World (2T completa) en Netflix

The Little Mermaid Live! en ABC

Mayans (2T finale) en FX

7 de noviembre: Britannia (2T completa) en Sky Atlantic

8 de noviembre: Green Eggs and Ham (1T completa) y Let It Snow en Netflix

10 de noviembre: 

Shameless (10T) en Showtime

Rick and Morty (4T completa) en Adult Swim

11 de noviembre: 

The Young Offenders (2T) en BBC One

Motherland (2T finale) en BBC Two

12 de noviembre: 

Diary of a Female President (1T), The Mandalorian (1T),  High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (1T), Lady and the Tramp y Noelle en Disney+

The Cockfields (1T) en Gold

14 de noviembre: The Cockfields (1T finale) en Gold

15 de noviembre: 

The Man in the High Castle (4T y última) en Amazon

Dollface (1T completa) en Hulu

Earthquake Bird y Klaus en Netflix

La peste (2T) en Movistar+

17 de noviembre: 

The Crown (3T completa) en Netflix

Ray Donovan (7T) en Showtime

The Sleepers (1T) en HBO

20 de noviembre: Mad About You (8T) en Spectrum

21 de noviembre: 

No Activity (3T) en CBS All Access

Hernán en Amazon

The Knight Before Christmas y Mortel en Netflix

22 de noviembre: 

Alta mar (2T completa) en Netflix

Ready For War en Showtime

27 de noviembre: 

The Irishman en Netflix

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (14T finale) en FX

28 de noviembre: 

Servant (1T) en Apple TV+

Upright (1T completa) en Sky Atlantic

Holiday Rush en Netflix

29 de noviembre: 

I Lost My Body y Atlantics en Netflix

Harley Quinn (1T) en DC Universe

Room 104 (3T finale) en HBO

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Estrenos de series

See (Apple TV+)

La raza humana perdió el sentido de la vista por culpa de un virus en muchas ocasiones mortal. Siglos después, dos gemelos nacen con la capacidad de ver y su padre (Jason Momoa; Aquaman, Game of Thrones) tendrá que proteger tanto a los niños como a su tribu de una poderosa reina (Sylvia Hoeks; Blade Runner 2049, Berlin Station) que busca destruirlos. Completan el reparto Alfre Woodard (Luke Cage, Desperate Housewives), Yadira Guevara-Prip (Supernatural), Nesta Cooper (Travelers, Heroes Reborn), Archie Madekwe (Hang Ups, Les Misérables), Christian Camargo (Penny Dreadful, Dexter) y Hera Hilmar (Da Vinci's Demons, Anna Karenina). Escrita por Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) y dirigida por Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games). Ocho episodios. Ya está renovada por una segunda temporada. Estreno: 1 de noviembre

The Morning Show (Apple TV+)

Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston; Friends, Cake) presenta un popular programa matinal con grandes audiencias. Cuando su compañero Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell; The Office, Crazy Stupid Love) es despedido tras un escándalo, Alex lucha por mantener su trabajo, y así nace la rivalidad con Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon; Big Little Lies, Walk the Line), una periodista que busca ocupar su puesto. Con Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Black Mirror, Miss Sloane), Nestor Carbonell (Lost, Bates Motel), Mark Duplass (Togetherness, The Mindy Project), Billy Crudup (Almost Famous, Spotlight), Karen Pittman (Luke Cage, Yellowstone), Jack Davenport (Smash, Why Women Kill), Bel Powley (Informer, Mary Shelley), Victoria Tate y Desean K. Terry. Escrita por Jay Carson (House of Cards, The Front Runner), basada en una idea original de Michael Ellenberg, productor de The Letfovers; y tomando ideas del libro 'Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV' de Brian Stelter (2013). Diez episodios. Ya está renovada por una segunda temporada.

Estreno: 1 de noviembre

For All Mankind (Apple TV+)

En esta realidad paralela, es la URSS la que llega antes a la Luna y la NASA queda devastada, pero no se rinde y reta a los rusos una segunda vez intentando enviar a la primera mujer. Protagonizada por Joel Kinnaman (Altered Carbon, The Killing), Michael Dorman (Patriot, Wonderland), Sarah Jones (Damnation, The Path), Shantel VanSanten (Shooter, One Tree Hill), Wrenn Schmidt (The Looming Tower, Person of Interest), Jodi Balfour (Rellik, Quarry), Colm Feore (House of Cards, The Umbrella Academy), Nate Corddry (Mom, Mindhunter), Matt Battaglia (True Detective, Queer as Folk), Chris Bauer (The Deuce, True Blood), Chris Agos (Chicago P.D.), Rebecca Wisocky (Devious Maids, Heathers), Eric Ladin (Six, Shooter) y Arturo del Puerto (The Bridge, Fear The Walking Dead). Creada, escrita y producida por Ronald D. Moore (Outlander, Battlestar Galactica), Matt Wolpert (Fargo) y Ben Nedivi (American Crime Story: People v. O.J. Simpson). Diez episodios. Ya está renovada por una segunda temporada. Estreno: 1 de noviembre

Dickinson (Apple TV+)

Comedia sobre Emily Dickinson (Hailee Steinfeld; Pitch Perfect, Ender's Game), la poeta del siglo XIX, que explorará las restricciones de la sociedad, el género y la familia con un tono moderno desde la perspectiva imaginativa de una escritora en ciernes que no encaja en su propio tiempo. Con Jane Krakowski (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, 30 Rock), Toby Huss (Halt and Catch Fire, Carnivàle), Anna Baryshnikov (Good Girls Revolt, Superior Donuts), Adrian Enscoe (Seeds), Ella Hunt (Cold Feet), Matt Lauria (Kingdom, Friday Night Lights), John Mulaney (Mulaney, Saturday Night Live) y Wiz Khalifa. Creada por Alena Smith (The Newsroom, The Affair). Diez episodios. Ya está renovada por una segunda temporada. Estreno: 1 de noviembre

Ghostwriter (Apple TV+)

Reboot de la serie de los años 90 con un nuevo enfoque (un argumento totalmente distinto, concretamente). En esta ocasión, cuatro niños deberán devolver a su lugar a los personajes literarios que se están escapando de los libros de una librería del barrio. Protagonizada por Amadi Chapata, Justin Sanchez, Isaac Arellanes, Hannah Levinson y Jay Santiago. Escrita y dirigida por Luke Matheny (Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street, The Dangerous Book for Boys). Veintiséis episodios. Estreno: 1 de noviembre

Hache (Netflix)

Thriller ambientado en Barcelona en los años 60 que nos muestra el ascenso de una mujer llamada Helena (Adriana Ugarte; El tiempo entre costuras, La señora) dentro de una organización de narcotraficantes liderada por Malpica (Javier Rey; Fariña, Velvet), a quien conoce en un club nocturno. Les acompañan Eduardo Noriega (Tesis, Abre los ojos), Ingrid Rubio (El pueblo, Pulsaciones), Marina Salas (El barco, La zona), Pep Ambròs (Matadero), Séanín Brennan (The Fall), Àlex Casanovas (El cor de la ciutat), Josep Julien (Sé quién eres, Cuéntame cómo pasó), Marc Martínez (Abuela de verano; Luna, el misterio de Calenda), Tony Zenet, Andrew Tarbet y Tonia Richardson. Creada por Verónica Fernández (Cuéntame cómo pasó, El comisario) e inspirada en hechos reales. Ocho episodios. Estreno: 1 de noviembre

Wir sind die Welle (Netflix)

Inspirada en la película Die Welle (2008), basada en hechos reales, nos muestra cómo un grupo de jóvenes que sueñan con un futuro mejor deciden, liderados por un nuevo compañero, comenzar una revuelta idealista con resultados más que dudosos. Protagonizada por Luise Befort (Club der roten Bänder), Ludwig Simon (Beat), Michelle Barthel (Tatort), Daniel Friedl, Mohamed Issa (Dogs of Berlin), Christian Erdmann, Bianca Hein (SOKO München), Béla Gabor Lenz (Dark), Leon Seidel (Under sandet, Freundinnen) y Milena Tscharntke (Druck). Escrita por Jan Berger (The Physician, Wir sind die Nacht), Ipek Zübert (Ein Atem, Dogs of Berlin) y Thorsten Wettcke (Tatort) y dirigida por Anca Miruna Lazarescu (Hackerville) y Mark Monheim (About a Girl). Seis episodios. Estreno: 1 de noviembre

His Dark Materials (BBC One)

Adaptación de la trilogía de novelas de Philip Pullman ambientada en un mundo alternativo donde los humanos tienen acompañantes con forma animal que representan su alma y su personalidad. Allí, una niña huérfana de once años (Dafne Keen; Logan, The Refugees) busca a un amigo desaparecido y descubre una serie de secuestros y su conexión con un peligroso secreto que envuelve a Lord Asriel (James McAvoy; X-Men, Split) y Marisa Coulter (Ruth Wilson; The Affair, Luther). Con Lin-Manuel Miranda (Mary Poppins Returns), Andrew Scott (Fleabag, Sherlock), Clarke Peters (The Wire, Treme), Ariyon Bakare (Rogue One, Life), Ruta Gedmintas (The Strain, The Tudors), Amir Wilson (The Letter for the King), Ian Peck (Peaky Blinders) y Georgina Campbell (Broadchurch, Krypton) y las voces de Cristela Alonzo (Cristela, The Laundromat), Helen McCrory (Harry Potter, MotherFatherSon), David Suchet (Poirot, Press), Kit Connor (Rocketman, War & Peace) y Joe Tandberg. Escrita por Jack Thorne (This Is England, National Treasure) con la ayuda de Michael y Paul Clarkson (See) y dirigida por Jamie Childs (Doctor Who, Lucky Man) o Tom Hooper (Les Misérables, The King's Speech). Ocho episodios. Ya está renovada por una segunda temporada. Estreno: 12 de noviembre

Diary of a Female President (Disney+)

Comedia sobre las idas y venidas en la vida de Elena (Tess Romero), una niña cubanoamericana que se convertirá en la Presidenta de Estados Unidos (Gina Rodriguez; Jane the Virgin, Annihilation). Con Selenis Leyva (Orange Is the New Black, Maniac), Charlie Bushnell, Michael Weaver (Here and Now, Ouija: Origin of Evil), Carmina Garay, Harmeet K. Pandey, Sanai Victoria (The Paynes, No Good Nick), Avantika Vandanapu, Nathan Arenas, Tiernan Jones y Connor Falk. Creada por Ilana Peña (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) y escrita por Robin Shorr (The Middle, Galavant). Producida por Gina Rodriguez (Carmen Sandiego). Diez episodios.

The Mandalorian (Disney+)

Formando parte del universo Star Wars, sigue la odisea de un lobo solitario (Pedro Pascal; Game of Thrones, Narcos) proveniente de Mandalore, el planeta de Boba Fett, tras la caída del Imperio y antes de la fundación de la Orden. Completan el reparto Gina Carano (Deadpool), Nick Nolte (Cape Fear, The Thin Red Line), Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad, Once Upon a Time), Emily Swallow (Supernatural, How to Get Away with Murder), Werner Herzog, Carl Weathers (Rocky, Colony), Omid Abtahi (American Gods, Those Who Kill) y Ming-Na Wen (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Street Fighter). Creada, escrita y producida por Jon Favreau (The Avengers, Revolution). Ocho episodios. Ya está renovada por una segunda temporada. Estreno: 12 de noviembre

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (Disney+)

Veremos a los estudiantes del East High que se presentan al casting del musical High School Musical. Protagonizada por Joshua Bassett (Stuck in the Middle), Olivia Rodrigo (Bizaardvark), Matt Cornett (Life in Pieces), Sofia Wylie (Andi Mack), Kate Reinders (Work It), Frankie Rodriguez (Modern Family), Dara Renee (Black-ish), Julia Lester (Mr. Student Body President), Larry Saperstein y Mark St. Cyr. Creada por Peter Barsocchini (High School Musical) y escrita por Oliver Goldstick (Pretty Little Liars, Popular) y Tim Federle (Ferdinand). Diez episodios. Ya está renovada por una segunda temporada. Estreno: 12 de noviembre

The Cockfields (Gold)

Simon (Joe Wilkinson; After Life, Rovers), en su cuarenta cumpleaños, se lleva a su novia Donna (Diane Morgan; After Life, Rovers) por primera vez a la Isla de Wight a pasar el fin de semana y conocer a su familia y la casa donde creció, pero será difícil llegar al domingo manteniendo la calma y tal vez también a la novia. Con Sue Johnston (Rovers, Hold the Sunset), Sarah Parish (Broadchurch, Trollied), Bobby Ball (Not Going Out, Mount Pleasant), Nigel Havers (Chariots of Fire), Maggie Steed (Chewing Gum, Stella), Ben Rufus Green y Jeff Mirza. Escrita por David Earl (Rovers) y Joe Wilkinson (Rovers) y dirigida por Steve Bendelack (Little Britain, Friday Night Diner). Tres episodios. Estreno: 12 de noviembre

Dollface (Hulu)

Cuando su novio de toda la vida rompe con ella, Jules (Kat Dennings; 2 Broke Girls, Thor) debe lidiar con su propia imaginación para volver literal y metafóricamente al mundo de las mujeres y retomar la relación con las amigas que dejó atrás. Con Brenda Song (The Suite Life of Zach and Cody, Station 19), Shay Mitchell (Pretty Little Liars, You), Esther Povitsky (Alone Together, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Beth Grant (The Mindy Project, One Mississippi), Connor Hines y Goran Visnjic (Timeless, ER). Creada por Jordan Weiss, escrita por Ira Ungerleider (Friends, Angie Tribeca) y dirigida por Stephanie Laing (I'm Sorry, Wayne). Producida por Margot Robbie (I, Tonya). Diez episodios. Estreno: 15 de noviembre

The Sleepers (HBO)

En 1989, tras doce años exiliados en Londres, una violinista (Tatiana Pauhofová, Horící ker) y un disidente político (Martin Myšička, Cerní baroni) creen que ha llegado el momento de volver a Checoslovaquia, donde el régimen comunista da los últimos coletazos, y piden la amnistía. Recién llegados, son atropellados por un coche, y cuando ella despierta en el hospital, él ha desaparecido. Con Jan Vlasák (Hostel, První republika), Martin Hoffman (The Zookeeper's Wife), Lenka Vlasáková (Labyrint), Petr Lnenicka (Cesty domú), Kristýna Podzimková (Ohnivý kure), Jevgenij Libeznuk (Hotel), David Nykl (Arrow, Stargate: Atlantis) y Hattie Morahan (The Bletchley Circle, My Mother and Other Strangers). Escrita por Ondrej Gabriel y dirigida por Ivan Zachariáš (Pustina). Seis episodios. Estreno: 17 de noviembre

Servant (Apple TV+)

Thriller psicológico que sigue a Dorothy (Lauren Ambrose; Six Feet Under, The X-Files) y Sean Turner (Toby Kebbell; RocknRolla, A Monster Calls), una pareja de Philadelphia que contrata a una joven (Nell Tiger Free; Game of Thrones, Too Old to Die Young) para que cuide de su bebé recién nacido. Con Rupert Grint (Harry Potter, Snatch). Creada y escrita por Tony Basgallop (Berlin Station, 24: Live Another Day) y producida por M. Night Shyamalan (The Village, Unbreakable). Diez episodios.

Estreno: 28 de noviembre

Upright (Sky Atlantic)

Lucky Flynn (Tim Minchin, Californication) lleva años sin hablarse con su familia. Arruinado y dañado, se entera de que su madre está a punto de morir y, decidido a despedirse, comienza un viaje por carretera desde Sydney hasta Perth acompañado de un viejo piano vertical, su posesión más valiosa. En el camino, conocerá a Meg (Milly Alcock, Pine Gap), una divertida y dura adolescente tan dañada como él. Creada por Minchin y dirigida por Matthew Saville (Please Like Me, The Slap). Ocho episodios. Estreno: 28 de noviembre

[kamounlab]

For the latest on plant-microbe interactions, you must check bioRxiv.

Some of the best work in the plant-microbe interactions field find its way on bioRxiv first. Check this amazing list of e-prints/preprints published just this last month on bioRxiv:

CRK2 and C-terminal phosphorylation of NADPH oxidase RBOHD regulate ROS production in Arabidopsis Sachie Kimura, Kerri Hunter, Lauri Vaahtera, Huy Cuong Tran, Aleksia Vaattovaara, Anne Rokka, Sara Christina Stolze, Anne Harzen, Lena Meißner, Maya Wilkens, Thorsten Hamann, Masatsugu Toyota, Hirofumi Nakagami, Michael Wrzaczek bioRxiv 618819; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/618819

An N-terminal motif in NLR immune receptors is functionally conserved across distantly related plant species Hiroaki Adachi, Mauricio Contreras, Adeline Harant, Chih-hang Wu, Lida Derevnina, Toshiyuki Sakai, Cian Duggan, Eleonora Moratto, Tolga O Bozkurt, Abbas Maqbool, Joe Win, Sophien Kamoun bioRxiv 693291; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/693291

BSU1 family phosphatases mediate Flagellin-FLS2 signaling through a specific phosphocode Chan Ho Park, Ji-Hyun Youn, Shou-Ling Xu, Jung-Gun Kim, Yang Bi, Nicole Xu, Mary Beth Mudgett, Seong-Ki Kim, Tae-Wuk Kim, Zhi-Yong Wang bioRxiv 685610; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/685610

Emergence of the Ug99 lineage of the wheat stem rust pathogen through somatic hybridisation Feng Li, Narayana M. Upadhyaya, Jana Sperschneider, Oadi Matny, Hoa Nguyen-Phuc, Rohit Mago, Castle Raley, Marisa E. Miller, Kevin A.T. Silverstein, Eva Henningsen, Cory D. Hirsch, Botma Visser, Zacharias A. Pretorius, Brian J. Steffenson, Benjamin Schwessinger, Peter N. Dodds, Melania Figueroa bioRxiv 692640; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/692640

Effector prediction and characterization in the oomycete pathogen Bremia lactucae reveal host-recognized WY domain proteins that lack the canonical RXLR motif Kelsey Wood, Munir Nur, Juliana Gil, Kyle Fletcher, Kim Lakeman, Ayumi Gothberg, Tina Khuu, Jennifer Kopetzky, Archana Pandya, Mathieu Pel, Richard Michelmore bioRxiv 679787; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/679787

Plant mixed lineage kinase domain-like proteins limit biotrophic pathogen growth Lisa Mahdi, Menghang Huang, Xiaoxiao Zhang, Ryohei Thomas Nakano, Leïla Brulé Kopp, Isabel M.L. Saur, Florence Jacob, Viera Kovacova, Dmitry Lapin, Jane E. Parker, James M. Murphy, Kay Hofmann, Paul Schulze-Lefert, Jijie Chai, Takaki Maekawa bioRxiv 681015; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/681015

A generalist pathogen view of diverse host evolutionary histories through polygenic virulence Celine Caseys, Gongjun Shi, Nicole Soltis, Raoni Gwinner, Jason Corwin, Susanna Atwell, Daniel Kliebenstein bioRxiv 507491; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/507491

Oligomerization of NLR immune receptor RPP7 triggered by atypical resistance protein RPW8/HR as ligand Lei Li, Anette Habring, Kai Wang, Detlef Weigel bioRxiv 682807; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/682807

A receptor for herbivore-associated molecular patterns mediates plant immunity Adam D. Steinbrenner, Maria Muñoz-Amatriaín, Jessica Montserrat Aguilar Venegas, Sassoum Lo, Da Shi, Nicholas Holton, Cyril Zipfel, Ruben Abagyan, Alisa Huffaker, Timothy J. Close, Eric A. Schmelz bioRxiv 679803; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/679803

Genome assembly and characterization of a complex zfBED-NLR gene-containing disease resistance locus in Carolina Gold Select rice with Nanopore sequencing Andrew C. Read, Matthew J. Moscou, Aleksey V. Zimin, Geo Pertea, Rachel S. Meyer, Michael D. Purugganan, Jan E. Leach, Lindsay R. Triplett, Steven L. Salzberg, Adam J. Bogdanove bioRxiv 675678; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/675678

Improved control of Septoria tritici blotch in durum wheat using cultivar mixtures S. Ben M’Barek, P. Karisto, M. Fakhfakh, H. Kouki, A. Mikaberidze, A. Yahyaoui bioRxiv 664078; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/664078

In-field detection and quantification of Septoria tritici blotch in diverse wheat germplasm using spectral-temporal features Jonas Anderegg, Andreas Hund, Petteri Karisto, Alexey Mikaberidze bioRxiv 664011; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/664011

Follow the latest bioRxiv plant-microbe interactions papers on the biorxiv Twitter feeds for Plant Biology, Microbiology and Genomics. You’ll also find some of the latest bioRxiv papers on the Scoop.it pages Plants and Microbes and  Plant Pathogenomics.

Learn more about preprints/e-prints at #ASAPbio.

[scitechman]

New Security Procedures Secure the Intelligent Factory

New Security Procedures Secure the Intelligent Factory

At the Hannover Messe from April 24 to 28, 2017, Fraunhofer researchers will present two new procedures for the protection of Industrie 4.0 production facilities (Hall 2, Booth C16/C22): here, a self-learning system recognizes security incidents in manufacturing facilities without knowledge of the underlying system architecture. Hardware-based securitymodules report manipulation tests on machines…

[celebritiestemple]

The Bold and the Beautiful Spoilers: Week of March 26 Update – Detective Sanchez Turns On Quinn, Ridge Vows to Protect Her [via celebdirtylaundry]

The Bold and the Beautiful (B&B) spoilers update for the week of March 26-30 tease that some shockers and shakeups are brewing. First, let’s talk about the case against Ridge (Thorsten Kaye). Carter (Lawrence Saint-Victor) will encourage Detective Sanchez (Jeremy Ray Valdez) to be reasonable. He’ll do his best to convince Sanchez that he’s thrown the wrong person in the slammer. Detective Sanchez…

[amazestuff]

A MAZE. Awards 2017 - Our Nominees and Honorable Mentions.

It’s time again to reveal the most AMAZING list of games for the 2017 year. We’re excited, enthralled and amazed to share our selection for the A MAZE. Awards nominees for 2017 with you. We had over 200 entries from 30 countries,  and selecting from such an excellent pool of works wasn’t easy:

“We had this year so many amazing submissions and to be honest, we had lots of discussion in the committee when making this A MAZE. selection. Now we are very happy and excited to see those 25 nominees competing in our 5 new categories. In order to express our devotion to the visions of the developers we’re going to have this year 12 honorable mentions out of competition, and giving them a spotlight in our festival exhibition. Thank you to all submitters and congratulation to all the nominees and honorable mentions of the A MAZE. Awards 2017. The team and I can’t wait having you in Berlin.” Thorsten S. Wiedemann, Festival Director

The process our 160 strong selection committee had each game being reviewed by the committee, before a smaller pool was reviewed by the A MAZE. / team and works were finally selected as nominees. It will be up to our 2017 judging panel to decide which games contest each category, and ultimately, which game wins the section.

Without further ado...

The nominees of the A MAZE. Awards at A MAZE. / Berlin 2016 - 6th International Independent Games and Playful Media Festival are:

The Nominees:

A Short History of the Gaze by Molleindustria (United States of America)

Bokida - Heartfelt Reunion by Rice Cooker Republic (France)

Bucket Detective by The Whale Husband (United States of America)

Everything Is Going To Be OK by Nathalie Lawhead (United State of America)

Everything by David O´Reilly (United State of America)

Far from Noise by George Batchelor (United Kingdom)

Future Unfolding by Spaces of Play (Germany)

Flat Heroes by Parallel Circles (United Kingdom)

FRU by Through Games (Netherlands)

Flippaper by Jérémie Cortial + Roman Miletitch (France)

GNOSIS by Fathomable Ltd (Ireland)

Karambola by Agata Nawrot (Poland)

Manual Samuel by Perfectly Paranormal AS (Norway)

Noodles by zerbamine | Erwin Kho (Netherlands)

Oἶκοςpiel Book 1 by David Kanaga (United State of America)

Orwell by Osmotic Studios (Germany)

Panopticon by Katherine Louise Boehm (United State of America)

SENS VR by Red Corner (France)

SIHEYU4N by We Are Müesli (Italy)

SOLITUNE by Rat King (Germany)

Tick Tock: A Tale for Two by Other Tales Interactive (Denmark)

The Fallen by gold extra (Austria)

VR Pidgeons by Simone Pivetta (Germany)

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine by Dim Bulb Games (United States of America)

Word After Word by Jonah Warren (United State of America)

The Honorable Mentions:

Frog Climbers by TeamCrew (Sweden)

Fugl by Team Fugl (Norway)

Keyboard Sports by Triband (Denmark)

Long Distance Caller by Olivié Keck and Free Lives (South Africa)

OCTA VR by oCtA aka Thomas F (Germany)

One Night Stand by Kinmoku (Germany)

Ooooo by polysoul (Germany)

Phone Home by Superglue Games / Katharina Tillmanns (Germany)

The Berry Garden by Menno Stas (Netherlands)

The Wild Eternal by Ilsanjo (United State of America)

vinylOS by Josef Who? & Jonas Bo! (Austria)

Whisper by crdmrn (Germany)

More infos about the awards, ticketing and the program. Please follow the www.amaze-berlin.de #AMaze2017

[hudsonespie]

EU Sends Team to Assess "Significant Damage" From X-Press Pearl Wreck

A UN-backed team has arrived in Sri Lanka to help local officials estimate the extent of the environmental damage from the burning and sinking of the container feeder X-Press Pearl, which went down earlier this month off Colombo. The sinking released tonnes of plastic pellets and burned debris into the marine environment, prompting a massive shoreline cleanup operation on pristine local beaches.

"An environmental emergency of this nature causes significant damage to the planet by the release of hazardous substances into the ecosystem," said UN Resident Coordinator in Sri Lanka Hanaa Singer-Hamdy. "This in turn threatens lives and livelihoods of the population in the coastal areas. Our efforts are intended to support assessment of the damage, recovery efforts and ensure prevention of such disasters in the future."

This photo story bears testimony to the effort being taken by #srilanka_navy to restore the previous condition of coastal belt spanning Kepungoda-Sarakkuwa. #lka #SriLanka #defence #beachcleaning pic.twitter.com/j1qf0VlpnX

— The Sri Lanka Navy (@srilanka_navy) June 17, 2021

The team is providing technical advisory support to the Sri Lankan experts on oil spill contingency planning, clean-up operations and environmental impact assessment, drawing on international best practice. They will work closely with Sri Lankan counterparts from the Marine Environment Protection Authority, Ministry of Environment, Central Environmental Authority and other agencies. 

The delegation is sponsored by the European Union, and it includes Dr. Stephane Le Floch and Dr. Camille La Croix from the France National Oil Response and Research Centre (CEDRE) and Mr. Luigi Alcaro from the Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA). "I’m pleased to announce that the EU, in collaboration with the UN, is able to deploy environmental emergency experts to support Sri Lanka in addressing, and more importantly limiting, the impact of the MV X-press Pearl disaster,” said Thorsten Bargfrede, chargé d’affaires at the Delegation of the European Union to Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

The Eu has also provided satellite imaging support for spill detection through the EU Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), plus a donation of about $240 million to pay for cleanup gear and PPE. 

Separately, the UK government’s Centre for the Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) is providing laboratory services to analyze water monitoring samples and advise teams on the ground in Sri Lanka. 

X-Press Feeders, the vessel's operator, confirmed last week that the wreck is now resting fully on the seabed at a depth of about 21 meters. Until recently, the bow was still afloat, creating challenges for the salvage response. Caretakers salvors are on site on a 24-hour watch to address any possible debris and report any spill, should one occur. 

A grey sheen is still coming from the vessel, the operator confirmed, and discoloration of the sea in and around the wreck is still present. This change in color has been visible since the vessel went down on June 2, but has not been formally classified as a "spill." 

According to local media, at least 30 turtles have washed up dead since the sinking, and fish filled with plastic granules (nurdles) from the cargo have been found on shore. Last week, one dead whale beached in Jaffna, on the island's northern tip; additional study will be required to determine which (if any) of these fatalities are related to the vessel casualty. 

from Storage Containers https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/eu-sends-team-to-assess-significant-damage-from-x-press-pearl-wreck via http://www.rssmix.com/

[t-baba]

Ionic 4 beta, the Web Beacon API, and some golden oldies

#396 — July 27, 2018

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JavaScript Weekly

If you've not ventured to the end of an issue of JavaScript Weekly recently, you'll be missing some of the bonus links or 'golden oldies' we've been running — this issue has a set of 4 older posts we've been seeing getting some fresh love on social media recently, so check those out.

Also, if you want to submit articles or libraries for us to consider use this submissions form or just hit reply :-) Thanks! — Peter Cooper, editor

Logging Activity with the Web Beacon API — The Beacon API is a Web API (supported by all major browsers) that provides an efficient way for data to be asynchronously sent from a page back to a server for logging purposes.

Drew McLellan

Ionic 4 Beta Released: Build Native Apps with Web Tech — The beta release of Ionic 4, a framework for building native apps and PWAs with Web technology, has just landed. 4.0 marks the first version to completely embrace modern Web APIs such as Custom Elements, CSS Variables and Shadow DOM, plus it’s framework-agnostic at its core.

Ionic

Developer Tools for Every Customer Session – New in FullStory — Your browser developer tools are now available for site sessions other than your own. Easily understand performance issues thanks to page speed metrics, network analysis, downloadable HAR files, and comprehensive stack traces on all your visitors’ sessions.

Fullstory sponsor

JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures — JavaScript examples of many common algorithms (e.g. bit manipulation, Pascal’s triangle, Hamming distance) and data structures (e.g. linked lists, tries, graphs) with explanations. (We linked this a couple of months ago but it has been substantially improved since then.)

Oleksii Trekhleb

ndb: An Improved Debugging Experience for Node — Run your Node code with ndb and get extra, powerful Node debugging features right in Chrome’s DevTools including editing files and setting breakpoints before modules are loaded.

Google Chrome Labs

Build a State Management System with Vanilla JavaScript — Redux, MobX and Vuex can make managing cross-component state trivial, but what would it take to write one for yourself?

Andy Bell

GitHub Finishes Removing jQuery From Its Web Frontend — And they’ve replaced it with.. no specific framework, but judicious use of querySelectorAll, custom elements, polyfills, etc.

Mislav Marohnić on Twitter

SimpleDataTable: A Simple Data Table Control with No Dependencies — Examples. Significantly lighter than the TUI Grid we linked last week.

Piotr Kowalski

💻 Jobs

Lead Engineer (Boston) — Work with smart devs and designers to solve meaningful problems for great clients. React, Vue, Gatsby, WordPress, Craft, and more.

Upstatement

Find A JavaScript Job Through Vettery — Vettery specializes in developer roles and is completely free for job seekers.

Vettery

📘 Tutorials and Opinions

Redux vs. the React Context API — How the new context API in React 16.3 works compared to Redux and why you’d choose one over the other. More like this in today’s React Status newsletter.

Dave Ceddia

Adding Particle Effects to DOM Elements with Canvas — A neat tutorial showing how to create a striking HTML-to-particle effect.

Zach Saucier

A Crash Course on Serverless APIs with Express and MongoDB — A really detailed look at running Express (the Node.js webapp library) in a serverless context.

Adnan Rahić

Want to Know More About Ubuntu 18:04? DigitalOcean Can Help — DigitalOcean offers tutorials, projects and answers to your questions about Ubuntu 18:04.

DigitalOcean sponsor

Hello Vue: A Quick Tutorial on Getting Started with Vue — A quick tutorial on getting started with Vue that includes the use of a component from the Kendo UI library of Vue UI components.

John Willoughby

Building 'Renderless' Vue Components

Samuel Oloruntoba

Crafting a Better User Experience During API Requests

Ryan Baker

Why the New V8 is So Darn Fast

Thorsten Lorenz

Free Video Course: How to Upgrade Cordova Applications to Native

NativeScript sponsor

A Comprehensive Guide to Working with Dates in JavaScript

Flavio Copes

Flow Control in Modern JS: From Callbacks to Promises to Async/Await — One for beginners/learners.

Craig Buckler

🔧 Code and Tools

Vuestic Admin: A Vue.js Admin Dashboard — Built on Bootstrap 4. Live demo.

Epicmax

StealJS 2.0: The 'Futuristic' Dependency Loader and Builder

Matthew Phillips

JSInspect: Detect Copy-Pasted and Structurally Similar Code — A tool for finding those duplicated code smells in your codebase. Supports ES6, JSX and Flow.

Daniel St. Jules

Application Stability Monitoring with Bugsnag — Make data-driven decisions on whether you should be building features, or fixing bugs to stabilize your app.

Bugsnag sponsor

jsQR: A Pure QR Code Reading Library — Live demo. It’s incredibly fast.

Cosmo Wolfe

Angular 6.1 Released — A minor release that’s a drop-in replacement for Angular 6.0. TypeScript 2.8 and 2.9 support has been added.

Stephen Fluin (Google)

excel4node: An Excel Spreadsheet (XLSX) Generation Library — Conforms to the ECMA-376 OOXML specification 2nd edition and the examples in the documentation are quite thorough.

Nathan (Nater) Jorde

Unswitch: An Event Handler for Nintendo Switch Controllers on the Web — Based on the Gamepad API.

Colin van Eenige

☀️ Some Summery JavaScript Golden Oldies

JavaScript Scope and Closures: A Useful Primer/Explainer — A true golden oldie if you want to nail down your knowledge of scope and closures.

Zell Liew

Debugging Tips and Tricks for Front-End Developers — A fantastic round-up of concepts, tools, and things to consider.

Sarah Drasner

Modern JavaScript for Ancient Web Developers — “Doing is learning. Doing it badly? It’s still learning. Learning modern JavaScript these days can feel like a futile exercise in WTF.”

Gina Trapani

Babel Time Travel: See Babel Transformations Step by Step — Click “Compile” on the right then skim along the bottom.

Boopathi Rajaa

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German prosecutors probing hack of energy firm last year

BERLIN (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors are investigating a cyber attack on a subsidiary of German energy firm EnBW (EBKG.DE) by unknown hackers last summer, the prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday.

The Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported on Tuesday that hackers had breached the networks of NetCom BW last summer, but did not gain access to the computer system it uses to control energy supplies. The hack was not publicly disclosed at the time.

Germany’s BSI federal cyber agency on Wednesday said it had assessed the incident and that there was no evidence to suggest that the company’s operations had been affected.

“The Chief Federal Prosecutor has opened a preliminary investigation in connection with the incident,” it said, without naming the company involved or providing additional details.

A spokesman for the prosecutor’s office confirmed the investigation was underway but gave no further details.

A spokeswoman for EnBW confirmed the incident in a statement, but said it was detected early and caused no damage.

“Unknown people attacked the telecommunications network of the EnBW subsidiary NetCom. The attackers breached the network by hacking the the portal used by an external service provider and had access to a limited portion of the internet traffic for a period of a few minutes,” she said.

“No damage was caused as a result,” she said, adding that the company immediately notified government authorities.

Reporting by Andrea Shalal and Thorsten Severin in Berlin and Christoph Steitz in Frankfurt; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky

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