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Their great hits - "Abandon Hope," "Smithereens," "Mona Lisa Sings the Blues" - propelled Utopia Avenue from seedy Soho clubs to Top of the Pops, and then America in the enchanted times of bell bottoms, the Beatles, drugs, sex, and street protests. Griff on the drums - who didn't love gruff Griff? And of course, the peerless Jasper de Zoet, shredding, I mean shredding the guitar. All in all a strong start to 2021’s reading list.Remember Utopia Avenue? Elf, their keyboardist and singer - a voice from the clouds. I enjoyed reading about the exploits of Utopia Avenue, I liked the characters and the era it was set in. Is the greatest novel I’ve read about music? No, as I’ve said many, many times, you’ll have to do a lot to take that title from High Fidelity, but nevertheless it was fun. It’s a great story, it kept me entertained, it kept me on edge waiting for the inevitable downfall – the book’s blurb gives us a clear idea that the wheels are going to come off – I didn’t see how that would happen until it became clear and I was gutted. ![]() “’In fifty years,’ said Jasper, ‘or five hundred, or five thousand, music will still do to people what it does now’”. What it means to them and what it means to fans, how music has the power inspire and move us. Throughout it all there’s one thing that keeps the characters together, their enduring love of and desire to make music. The relatively fast rise of Utopia Avenue and their modest success doesn’t automatically bring happiness, they still have to deal with the same things as the rest of us, family problems, love, loss and grief. We’re reminded of the old fashioned and bigoted attitudes, from Elf’s father reminding her that the bank he works at won’t employ married women to the sign Dean’s landlady, having turfed him out on to the street, props in the window a sign that reads “BLACKS & IRISH NEED NOT APPLY”. I’m also a realist and know that the ‘swinging sixties’ were not a reality for everyone and there’s hints of this throughout. It was a time when younger generations were trying to break free from what was expected and, in the case of Utopia Avenue, were chasing their dreams despite being told constantly “to get a real job”. It’s a period in time that I find interesting, the idea that there was so much change happening across world, music played a role in that. I know some people absolutely hated them, accused them of being lazy and clumsy, they made me smile as did the characters reactions to these meetings let’s call a spade a spade, if I’d been plucked from obscurity and suddenly found myself at a party with David Bowie I too would say, “fucking hell, you’re David Bowie”. There’s cameos littered throughout, there’s David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Mama Cass, Syd Barret and John Lennon. The story charts their rise from seedy Soho clubs and ballrooms in Brighton to appearances on Top of the Pops and eventually America. The book’s set out in three parts – each an album – with each chapter told from the perspective of one of the characters, usually Dean, Elf and Jasper, perhaps that’s a comment on how drummers are (criminally) usually forgotten, what with being sat at the back of stage and all. Griff is the only band member who isn’t dealing with a back catalogue of issues, he’s from Hull, blunt and steady. It’s a kind of psychosis he’s dealt with since a teenager, as ‘knock knock’ threatens to return, Mitchell takes us in to Jasper’s mind and some bizarre, imagined worlds. He also suffers from aural hallucinations, something he’s called ‘knock knock’. Jasper is a guitar genius, he’s autistic, though that’s not said explicitly, he often doesn’t know what’s required of him in social situations and struggles to work out how people feel and how to react to that. ![]() She’s also experimenting with her sexuality and what it is to be a woman in an age where on the one hand you’re told there’s more opportunity while at the same time being reminded by older generations that there are still certain expectations. ![]() He’s still dealing with trauma from his childhood.Įlf is from a traditional middle-class background, she’s had her heart broken by her gobby Australian boyfriend, who she happened to be in an act with. Utopia Avenue are folksinger Elf Holloway, blues bassist Dean Moss, guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet and jazz drummer Griff Griffin – they’re brought together by manager Levon Frankland and create a unique sound, in fact “they might be the most curious British band you’ve never heard of”.ĭean is seen as the heartthrob, he’s a bit of a playboy, finds himself in trouble and is from a large working-class family (how his accent is written does get annoying as the book goes on). * If you do not receive an e-mail with your username and password, or are unsure of your account information, you can use the Account Lookup link by clicking the button below to verify your username and reset your password to the default above, or you can visit the welcome desk (Student Center, B Building) or contact the Call Center at (708) 456-0300, Ext. Following the password instructions, create your new password and press the change password button to apply the change. A small screen will display which prompts you for the new password. El portal no está adaptado al navegador que estás utilizando. Si continúas consideraremos que aceptas su uso. Forgot Username/Password Change Password. Once the arrow is clicked, a menu will display, navigate to the "Change Password" option and click. With myPortal you get easy access to services, platforms and applications of participating companies of the TÜV SÜD Group. Esta web utiliza cookies para facilitar la navegación y ofrecer un mejor servicio. Please click and sign in with your University network account. Navigate to the upper right-hand corner and click the arrow displayed next to your name. Once you log into the portal for the first time, you should change your password. The password will be reset to the default setup.įirst name + Last example: John Smith would be that if the username is already in use, a number may be added or a shortened version may be provided use the username exactly as it appears in the e-mail.įirst letter of your first name + first three letters of your last name + birth date in a six digit month, day, year formatįor example: John Smith’s birthday is on July 1, 1990, so his password would appear as jsmi070190 If you would like to continue, to reset your password you must select an e-mail address from the drop down menu and then click submit. If you just want to confirm your username without resetting your password, you can stop there. Upon clicking submit, your username will display. ![]() Username/Password Format (and other First-Time User Information) My Portal takes care of all of this for you, allowing you to manage all your different policies from your various insurers and brokers. 123121234) or if you know your colleague ID, you may enter that number in the Colleague ID field We know that managing all your different insurance policies can be hard work, especially if you have different insurers, renewal dates, documents, contact details and more. His Majesty The Yang Di-Pertuan Agong Prime Minister of Malaysia.
![]() ![]() ![]() This is to cover the yearly fees that app stores impose on developers.įeedly has been around since 2008, though it wasn’t until 2013 ( when Google Reader was discontinued) that the platform picked up some serious pace. You can download and compile it from the source yourself, but if you get it from one of the app stores – there is going to be a small fee attached to the app. The Lite version is built on the back of Flutter and has almost all the same features as the Desktop version. Additionally, Fluent Reader supports syncing with external services like Feedbin, Inoreader, and others.įluent Reader does have a mobile version, also. One of the key features for me was the ability to import OPML files from other services, thus saving me time from needing to reenter feeds manually. It’s also built with a familiar stack Electron, React, and Fluent UI. And because it has a clean UI with some nifty features (privacy-friendly) – it’s easily my top pick. In most cases, if you don’t start monitoring tens of thousands of feeds at once – a free plan should suffice for basic needs.Īs I spend so much time on my Desktop anyway – I don’t mind using standalone software such as Fluent Reader. The list includes crowd favorites like Vercel, Netlify, and others. One last thing, if you decide to use one of the self-hosted solutions and don’t want to host it on your own device – I have compiled a separate article on free hosting solutions for developers. If you’re working on an open-source RSS reader and it’s not on this list – feel free to ping me on Twitter or email me, and I’ll see what I can do. I’m also going to talk about a few open-source projects that you can fork yourself and implement new features as needed. The advantage of a Browser-based RSS reader is that you can also use it on your mobile device. I’ve put together a varied mix of both Browser and Desktop-based readers. The goal of this blog post then is to provide a concise list of free-to-use RSS readers. That said, this post is focused primarily on free software, with a few exceptions where appropriate. On top of that, many popular (premium) RSS Readers provide additional features included in the cost. What’s the deal with RSS readers charging money, anyway? The most simple answer to this question is that fetching RSS feeds all day long for thousands of users has a significant cost in terms of data storage and server capabilities. And if you think you can keep up with 100+ content feeds with only social media or a bookmarking site – you’re sorely mistaken. It is to this day the best method for keeping up with the latest news and blog posts from a large subset of sources.Įven if a blog/website/publisher doesn’t have an RSS feed ( very unlikely) – you can use something like The RSS Bridge to generate one. The fact of the matter is, that RSS never went anywhere. One day, someone is talking about the “revival” of RSS, the next – someone tries to justify why RSS is still a thing, or why it’s a must-use service. Thanks to Mac OS X's preference for setting a default news reader, I can do just that - even if the preference setting is in Safari instead of System Preferences.The funny thing about RSS is that it is always a topic of discussion. I follow over 100 news and blog RSS feeds every day, so I wanted an application that gave me more control over how I organize and view articles than Safari offered. Set your default news reader app in Safari's RSS preference tab. Choose the reader application you want to use from the Default RSS reader pop-up menu.I use NetNewsWire, but there are plenty of others to choose from. Install the RSS reader you want to use on your Mac.To change your default RSS reader application from Safari, do this: Since life is all about choices, however, you might want to use a different application as your default RSS reader, and the setting to change which app you use isn't exactly intuitive to find. Apple included more than one way to keep up on what's new at your favorite Web sites thanks to its built-in RSS support in Leopard's Safari and Mail applications. ![]() But they ought to be putting on the package that there are tools and techniques that can open these locks in 30 seconds or less,” he says. “You read the packaging and yes they are certified as grade-one. He added that Kwikset’s locks have “passed the most stringent lock-picking standard.”īut Tobias says that the standards are part of the problem, since they don’t test for many real-world lock-cracking techniques. Kwikset spokesman Brent Flaharty said in an e-mail statement that the company couldn’t respond to the researcher’s claims without seeing a video of the hack. Ironically, Kwikset’s packaging for the lock includes a statement that says, “All you need is a screw driver.” The slogan refers to installing the lock, but “either way,” says Tobias, “it is essentially a very true statement.” “The entire security of this system rests on tiny little sliders that are being warped in this process,” says Tobias, noting that the crack doesn’t take any expertise to conduct. They put the blank into the lock, inserted a screw driver to push the blank into the chamber, then used a small vice grip to turn the screw driver and open the lock. The researchers, however, were able to crack the lock with only a key blank cut to a specific depth and a screw driver. The lock’s packaging touts it as certified at grade-one security level - the highest for residential locks. The smartkey technology allows someone to easily program the lock with a reset tool to accept specific keys, making it popular with apartment building owners who can re-program the lock when a tenant moves out. The researchers also tackled a smartkey deadbolt from Kwikset, which makes some of the most widely used locks in the U.S. “This is an absolute perfect example of insecurity engineering,” Tobias says.īiolock did not respond to a request for comment. In two seconds, the researchers were able to open the lock. The mechanical lock, which uses a bypass cylinder, can be easily thwarted with a paperclip inserted in the keyway to depress a pin that engages the latch. A paperclip inserted in the Biolock's key chamber (hidden behind a flip door) is used to push an internal pin and unlock the door, making the fingerprint reader superfluous. ![]() HTML help has a more attractive appearance and includes many usability improvements. WinZip 9.0 makes it easier than ever for you to find the WinZip information you need by presenting help information using the newer Microsoft "HTML Help" facility.It may also not be compatible with some other Zip file utilities. ![]() Note: WinZip versions prior to 8.1 will not be able to extract files compressed with the "Maximum (enhanced deflate)" method. The compression methods are now "None", "Super Fast", "Fast", "Normal" (the default), "Maximum (portable)", and "Maximum (enhanced deflate)" selectable from the WinZip "Add" dialog box. This compression method provides greater compression for many types of files and reduces the size of your Zip files, saving you data transmission time and valuable disk space. WinZip 9.0 now both zips and unzips files with the "enhanced deflate" compression method. Note: Zip files that are created using the 64-bit Zip file extensions require a Zip utility, such as WinZip 9.0, that supports this format in order to open these Zip files. WinZip uses the 64-bit extended format only when the limits of the original format are exceeded. WinZip remains fully compatible with the original file format and uses the original format whenever possible. Using the extended format, the member file size, Zip file size, and number of member files you can add to a Zip file are limited only by your system's resources. For all practical purposes, the 64-bit extended format eliminates all these restrictions. The original Zip file format limited the number of member files in a Zip file to 65,535, and the maximum size of both the Zip file itself and any member file to 4 gigabytes. The extended format lets you store all the data you need in Zip files of virtually unlimited size. In addition to supporting the original Zip file format, WinZip 9.0 also supports the 64-bit extensions to the Zip file format. We have published the full specification for creating WinZip-compatible AES-encrypted Zip files, and we expect that other Zip file utility vendors will provide support for the format. Note: Recipients to whom you send AES-encrypted Zip files must have a compatible Zip file utility in order to decrypt the files. The most noticeable of these enhancements is the ability to easily encrypt the files that are already in a Zip file previously, files could be encrypted only while they were being added to the Zip file. In addition to the new AES encryption technology, WinZip 9.0 provides a number of usability enhancements that make it easier for you to use encryption. WinZip's AES encryption is just as easy to use as traditional Zip 2.0 encryption: all you have to do is select the encryption strength and specify your password. When properly implemented as a key component of an overall security protocol, the AES permits a very high degree of cryptographic security, yet is fast and efficient in operation. government, private businesses, and individuals. WinZip 9.0's advanced encryption (FIPS-197 certified) uses the Rijndael cryptographic algorithm which, in 2001, was specified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publication 197 as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).Īfter a three-year competition, the AES was announced by NIST as an approved encryption technique for use by the U.S. WinZip 9.0 supports 128- and 256-bit key AES encryption, which provide much greater cryptographic security than the traditional Zip 2.0 encryption method used in earlier versions of WinZip. ![]() Now, click on the Databases, you should see all the databases in the following page: You will be redirected to the PhpMyAdmin dashboard in the following page: Provide your MySQL root username, password and click on the Go button. Mysql -u root -proot-password -e "drop database test2db" Delete MySQL Database with PhpMyAdminįirst, open your web browser and access the PhpMyAdmin web UI. You can also remove the MySQL database named test2db without log into the MySQL console as shown below: Next, exit from the MySQL console with the following command: Next, delete the MySQL database named test1db from the above list with the following command: Next, list all available databases with the following command: Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. Other names may be trademarks of their respective Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or itsĪffiliates. Once login, you should see the following output: mysql: Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure. You can also drop the MySQL database after log into the MySQL console.įirst, log into the MySQL console with root user with the following command: You should see the following output: Dropping the database is potentially a very bad thing to do.Īny data stored in the database will be destroyed.ĭo you really want to drop the 'testdb' database yĭelete MySQL Database within MySQL Console ![]() Mysqladmin -u root -proot-password drop testdb Next, delete the database named testdb from the above list by running the following command: You should see the following output: mysqlshow: Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure. Mysqladmin is a MySQL command-line utility that can be used to perform some basic MySQL tasks including, creating and deleting databases, checking MySQL processes, Setting root password and many more.īefore deleting any database, list all available databases in your system with the following command:
![]() Robert Maxwell ’43 Visiting Scholar Series provides the Washington & Jefferson College community, including students, faculty, staff and interested citizens, access to a wider array of viewpoints, opinions and practices from distinguished and influential leaders. Robert Maxwell ’43 Visiting Scholar SeriesĮndowed in 2010, the J. Robert Maxwell ’43 Visiting Scholar Series.Ībout the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Book Award, the American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award, and the NASW Science in Society Journalism Book Award.įink’s visit was sponsored by the J. Five Days at Memorial was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for nonfiction, the Ridenhour Book Prize, the J. Her first book, War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival (PublicAffairs), is about medical professionals under siege during the genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Her story “The Deadly Choices at Memorial,” co-published by ProPublica and the New York Times Magazine, received a 2010 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and a National Magazine Award for reporting.Ī former relief worker in disaster and conflict zones, Fink received her M.D. I thought it would be a great lecture for our students and the community.”įink is a correspondent at the New York Times, where her and her colleagues’ stories on the West Africa Ebola crisis were recognized with the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, the George Polk Award for health reporting, and the Overseas Press Club Hal Boyle Award. ![]() “I knew right away that I wanted to bring her to W&J because of our strong pre-health and pre-law programs and her focus on ethical issues, which is something we encourage our students to think about. “She really connected the events to the ethical issues, like who should be evacuated first in a disaster, how doctors and nurses can care for terribly ill patients without electricity and air conditioning, and what kind of choices people make when they are exhausted and desperate,” Harding said. said she wanted to bring Fink to campus after hearing her speak at a conference. ![]() W&J Professor of English Jennifer Harding, Ph.D. Her reporting on the issue raised questions and started national conversations about what constitutes an ethical response during disaster scenarios. The book is about choices made in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as medical personnel worked to care for patients with failing and limited resources. 21, 2019, giving a talk, “Five Days At Memorial: Triage, Medical Ethics, and the Law in Disasters,” that focused on the topic of her New York Times bestselling book, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Crown, 2013). 15, 2019) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Sheri Fink spoke at Washington & Jefferson College on Oct. Isabella and Darren are stopped by the police. It seems like nothing can bring Isabella’s family together again-until the worst happens. ![]() What does it mean to be half white or half black? To belong to half mom and half dad? And if you’re only seen as half of this and half of that, how can you ever feel whole? Her dad is black, her mom is white, and strangers are always commenting: “You’re so exotic!” “You look so unusual.” “But what are you really?” She knows what they’re really saying: “You don’t look like your parents.” “You’re different.” “What race are you really?” And when her parents, who both get engaged at the same time, get in their biggest fight ever, Isabella doesn’t just feel divided, she feels ripped in two. And she’s is beginning to realize that being split between Mom and Dad is more than switching houses, switching nicknames, switching backpacks: it’s also about switching identities. Isabella feels even more stuck in the middle, split and divided between them than ever. And now that her parents are divorced, it seems their fights are even worse, and they’re always about HER. ![]() The next week she’s Izzy with her mom and her boyfriend John-Mark in a small, not-so-fancy house that she loves.īecause of this, Isabella has always felt pulled between two worlds. Draper.Įleven-year-old Isabella’s parents are divorced, so she has to switch lives every week: One week she’s Isabella with her dad, his girlfriend Anastasia, and her son Darren living in a fancy house where they are one of the only black families in the neighborhood. ![]() Eleven-year-old Isabella’s blended family is more divided than ever in this thoughtful story about divorce and racial identity from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Out of My Mind, Sharon M. ![]() The Kyoto paper suggests that the typewriter keyboard evolved over several years as a direct result of input provided by these telegraph operators. However, the operators found the alphabetical arrangement to be confusing and inefficient for translating morse code. Early adopters and beta-testers included telegraph operators who needed to quickly transcribe messages. Rather, the QWERTY system emerged as a result of how the first typewriters were being used. They conclude that the mechanics of the typewriter did not influence the keyboard design. The researchers tracked the evolution of the typewriter keyboard alongside a record of its early professional users. The layout changed often from the early alphabetical arrangement, before the final configuration came into being. Rather, it formed over time as telegraph operators used the machines to transcribe Morse code. ![]() The QWERTY keyboard did not spring fully formed from Christopher Sholes, the first person to file a typewriter patent with the layout. But Jimmy Stamp over at Smithsonian points to evidence released by Japanese researchers that, in fact, the story is bunk. So many times, I had assumed it was true. Since then, I've heard this story repeated a thousand times. The modern keyboard, I was told, was a holdover of the mechanical age. You see, in the olden days, mechanical typewriters could jam if people hit the keys too quickly, so they had to put the common letters far apart from each other. That layout was called QWERTY, he explained, and it had been created to slow typists down. Ward took me aside (or maybe he told the whole class, it was a long time ago) to tell me about the wonders of Dvorak, a different keyboard layout that was scientifically designed to be more efficient than the standard layout. The first time I heard the lie, I was in fifth grade. |
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