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Whoops, I get a warning about the partitions which are going to be overwritten by this installation. I have to acknowledge this before the installation actually starts.
Even this warning is not quite accurate, however. Although it says that it is going to format the swap area, it does not do that. This is only significant if you have other Linux distributions installed already, because they most likely mount the swap partition by UUID, and if it gets reformatted the UUID will change, and those other distributions will lose track of it - and in the case of PCLinuxOS and a couple of others, it will then take a minute or more longer to boot, while they wait for the swap to fail to mount. This is a problem with Debian, which really does format the swap area, so I am pleased that Ubuntu does not... although I wish it wouldn't say it is going to.
This is about as simple as it gets. No questions about GMT/Local time for the hardware clock, or about NTP (network time) synchronization. Unfortunately the text bar is not a drop-down list of possible values, and poor little Switzerland is particularly difficult to click on in the middle of that map. But eventually I found that if I started typing the name of the time zone, a matching list would be shown that I could choose from. The only trick is remembering if it is known as "Switzerland Time" or "Zürich" (with or without accent) or whatever.
Ubiquity will make an educated guess at the keyboard map based on your Time Zone input, and it will have already set that keymap at the time this screen comes up. There is a space where you can type in characters to see if the map is correct. For some cheap fun, try the 'Detect Keyboard Layout' function.
The last input screen is to specify the User Account and computer name.
Ubiquity enforces some simple rules about the login name and computer name so that you don't create anything that is impossible to use. Note that there is nothing about a root account or root password here, because of Ubuntu's preference for sudo rather than root login.
After you finish the Account screen, you will join the installation in progress.
Here you will get the usual propaganda slide show, with the installation progress bar running across the bottom of the screen.
Ok, a few general words about the release. I have installed it so far on two systems, one MBR boot (Lenovo T400) and one UEFI (Aspire E11). Both installed and worked without incident. The Aspire is the one with the cranky Broadcom wi-fi adapter. I went through the Ubuntu 'Additional Drivers' function, and installed the proprietary Broadcom driver.
That's a lot easier than some of the other distributions I have on that laptop. Other than that, I still don't care much for Ubuntu, or specifically for the Unity desktop, so I don't have anything else to say.
Showers and thundershowers likely this morning with a shower or two possible during the afternoon. High 59F. Winds WNW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 80%..
Monique and Steve Forrester of LaPorte said their neighbor allegedly ran over their dog, Kenzie, on purpose. Kenzie is pictured above with one of the Forrester's grandchildren.
A LaPorte couple are seeking criminal charges against their neighbor after he allegedly ran over their 20-year-old black Labrador on purpose.
Steve Forrester, of LaPorte, said he watched in shock as his neighbor allegedly parked his vehicle in his driveway, got out, saw the dog sitting in his yard, got back into his vehicle and ran over the 80-pound dog.
The dog, Kenzie, had been a member of the family for more than 15 years and was a former guard dog at the state prison in Westville, Monique Forrester said. Kenzie, though a senior dog, was described as lively and loved playing with the couples' grandchildren and taking golf cart rides.
According to a LaPorte County Sheriff's report, on Friday afternoon police were called by the neighbor who told police it was an accident.
The LaPorte County Sheriff's office said whether the man will be charged is being discussed between the case detective and prosecutor.
According to the report, the neighbor initially called police saying he ran over his neighbor's dog on accident and his neighbor was threatening him.
When the police arrived on scene, Steve Forrester told authorities that he went outside and saw that his four dogs were in the neighbor's yard and called them back to his property according to the report. Kenzie, who was deaf because of age, stayed sitting in the neighbor's yard.
It was then that Steve Forrester said the neighbor, who pulled into the driveway, allegedly saw Kenzie sitting in the grass, got back into his vehicle, backed up and drove forward on top of Kenzie with his left front tire.
Steve Forrester said he never threatened to shoot the neighbor, but did “invite him to the driveway to settle our differences,” according to the police report.
When Monique Forrester found out about the situation from her husband on the phone, she drove her car over the neighbor's wire fence causing damage, which she admitted to police once they arrived.
She also allegedly admitted to police to doing a "donut" in his yard.
Monique Forrester was charged with property damage, according to the police report.
After the incident, the couple took Kenzie to the vets and the dog was euthanized because of her injuries.
A Valparaiso police officer reportedly shot a dog during a burglary investigation Sunday.
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — As the Cavaliers wandered around posing for silly photographs, reading radio promotions and doing interviews, everything felt different.
This media day was nothing like the past four. Cleveland heads into the season with very little buzz, zero drama and low expectations. The spotlight, which has illuminated the Cavs in recent years, is pointed elsewhere.
LeBron James left and it all went with him.
“I’m still here,” coach Tyronn Lue said, laughing.
The Cavs began life without James in earnest on Monday, taking their first steps since the superstar signed with the Los Angeles Lakers this summer and promptly ended the greatest run in franchise history.
Without James, Cleveland has tumbled from an elite team and title contender to one many believe isn’t good enough to make the playoffs. However, Lue doesn’t believe the Cavs are starting over.
The Cavs likely won’t regress to where they did when James bolted for Miami in 2010, but it could be a long time before they’re competing for a championship.
“When you have the best player in the world who has dominated this game for the last 12 or 13 years in LeBron, it’s always tough to lose a player like that,” Lue said. “But moving forward, talking to (owner) Dan (Gilbert) and how he sees us building and approaching this season of being a playoff team.
That’s easier said than done, but Cleveland still has some talent led by All-Star forward Kevin Love, who signed a four-year, $120 million contract extension this summer and is now the Cavs’ best player and No. 1 offensive option.
It’s a new, yet familiar role for Love, who was Minnesota’s franchise player before he was traded to Cleveland and joined forces with James and Kyrie Irving. Four years ago, Love stood side by side with James and Irving on media day as the Cavs’ “Big Three” were introduced to the world before embarking on a journey that led to a title in 2016.
That run seemed more of a distant memory on Monday as Love smiled and posed next to Lue and rookie guard Collin Sexton. And perhaps as a nod to his former teammate, Love wore a pair of James’ signature sneakers.
He certainly won’t try to fill his shoes.
Love, like all the Cavs, will have to adjust his game now that James isn’t around. But that doesn’t mean Love will revert to being the bruising big man he was with the Timberwolves.
Kyle Korver feels refreshed. Following a personally challenging season, which included his younger brother’s death, the 37-year-old walked out of Quicken Loans Arena following the Game 4 loss to Golden State in the Finals unsure of his future.
While James is gone, reminders of him hang inside Cleveland Clinic Courts, where one wall is lined with Central Division and Eastern Conference championship banners.
There’s also one to commemorate the ’16 title, which ended the city’s 52-year championship drought.
It might be some time before the Cavs contend for another, but while he may have lost the best player he’ll ever coach, Lue isn’t convinced there’s a better team in the East.
“We haven’t lost yet, have we?” he said.
He was trying to bust a move but ended up busting a cap.
An off-duty FBI agent dropped his gun doing a backflip on the dance floor of a Denver bar — then accidentally shot a fellow reveler while scrambling to pick up the piece, according to a report.
The unidentified G-man was dancing up a storm at the Mile High Spirits bar around 12:45 a.m. Saturday, when he pulled off a backflip, video obtained by ABC 7-Denver shows.
As the limber lawman landed the flip, his gun went flying out of his holster onto the floor, the clip shows.
The agent pounced after the weapon, but while picking it up accidentally squeezed off a single round.
The shot struck a male onlooker in the lower leg, as the agent tucked the gun into his pants, threw up his hands, and walked out of frame, the video shows.
The victim was treated at an area hospital for a non-life-threatening injury, according to ABC – 7 Denver.
The agent was taken to Denver Police Headquarters, and eventually released to an FBI handler, the network reported.
CLOSING roads cuts traffic, according to a report due out next month. The study, commissioned by London Transport and the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, suggests that the computer models used by urban transport planners produce the wrong answers.
The report is also bound to lead to calls for the British government’s White Paper on transport, due later this year, to include a radical programme of pedestrianisation and expanded public transport.
Computer models used by transport planners effectively assume that closing one road moves traffic elsewhere, causing congestion. But researchers led by Phil Goodwin of University College London, the government’s adviser on transport policy, found that this is not what happens. The team analysed 60 cases worldwide where roads had been closed-or their ability to carry traffic significantly reduced.
Goodwin’s draft report shows that on average 20 per cent of the traffic that used a road seems to evaporate after it has been closed. In some cases up to 60 per cent vanishes. The examples studied by Goodwin’s team were mostly in urban areas. However, the same arguments may also apply away from major cities.
“There is more scope for traffic restraint,” says Steve Atkins of London Transport, who was involved in commissioning the study. He described the results at the Institution of Highways and Transportation in London earlier this week.
The report is the logical extension of the finding that building new roads generates traffic, accepted in 1994 by the government’s Standing Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment. “If extra road capacity generates more traffic, then the closure of roads is bound to cause less traffic,” says Keith Buchan, a London-based transport consultant who advises the government on traffic forecasts.
One of the best documented cases is London’s Hammersmith Bridge, which has been closed to all traffic except buses and cyclists since February 1997 after routine tests found that the bridge was not strong enough to cope with its load of 30 000 vehicles a day. London Transport surveyed people using the bridge a few days before it closed, and were able to contact the same individuals in the following weeks. Of the commuters who drove to work across the bridge at the beginning of 1997, 21 per cent no longer drive to work (see Figure). Again, congestion in neighbouring areas has not markedly increased.
But where does the traffic go? The report reveals that the commuting habits of individuals can vary enormously, even when their journeys are not disrupted by road closures. On different days, the same person may drive, use public transport or work from home. This flexibility allows people to cope with road closures.
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The applicant – who had been made aware made aware of the possibility that S might have been his father – therefore sought the consent of the deceased’s next of kin for testing of this DNA sample. S’s mother (one of the respondents in this case) refused.
The applicant argued, inter alia, that his rights to autonomy, bodily integrity and family life under Article 8 entitled him to know his true paternity and exposure to disease risk.
(3) if so, whether testing should be ordered.
The judge considered the Human Tissue Act and the Family Reform Act, and found that the testing of DNA post-mortem fell outside the scope of both. There was clearly “a legislative void” in relation to that issue, and no indication that Parliament was likely to turn its attention to it at an early date. That gave rise to the possibility of an indefinite period during which individuals would be left without a remedy, and therefore it was incumbent upon the court to properly deploy to direct scientific testing to provide evidence of parentage in these circumstances.
First, the judge addressed the arguments under Article 8. There is not a great deal of Strasbourg case law on the point, and the decision in one case against Switzerland was to reject it on grounds that it was manifestly ill-founded. Here, a the estate of a deceased person had challenged a ruling of the Swiss Supreme Court that his body could be exhumed for DNA testing. In rejecting the case the Court effectively implied that the right to privacy under Article 8 could not prevent someone from calling for DNA of a deceased person to be tested in order to establish his parentage. (The Estate of Kresten Filtenborg Mortensen v Denmark [App No 56581/00, May 15 2006]).
(1) There was no statutory power to make the direction sought. The Family Reform Act did not apply for various reasons, largely because it only governs the taking of samples from living people and makes no provision for samples being taken after death. In any event it does not provide for the testing of DNA itself, but of bodily fluid or bodily tissue.
… the great safety net which lies behind all statute law and is capable of filling gaps left by that law, if and insofar as those gaps have to be filled in the interests of society as a whole. This process of using the common law to fill gaps is one of the most important duties of the judges. It is not a legislative function or process – that is an alternative solution the initiation of which is the sole prerogative of Parliament. It is an essentially judicial process and, as such, it has to be undertaken in accordance with principle.
As Peter Jackson J observed, inherent jurisdiction is plainly a valuable asset, “mending holes in the legal fabric that would otherwise leave individuals bereft of a necessary remedy.” The present case (DNA testing) might be said to fall between the court’s inherent powers to protect the vulnerable or strike out claims for want of prosecution. In fact, we have posted on a previous case not dissimilar to this one: in CM v The Estate of EJ EWHC 1680, a passing doctor went to the aid of a dying woman who had fallen from a building. Fearing that she might have become infected with a blood-borne disease, the doctor began to take antiretroviral medication that had significant side-effects. She wished for the deceased’s blood to be tested to clarify any medical risks. A sample taken during the post-mortem examination was held by the Coroner, but the approval of the court was requested as the legal situation was thought to be unclear. Cobb J considered the provisions of the Human Tissue Act 2004. He found that a cousin was capable of giving the requisite consent and had done so; however, to put the matter beyond doubt, he also went on to authorise the use of samples under the inherent jurisdiction.
On the other hand, this present application was not without its difficulties. There were sound policy reasons for the absence of any statutory power to permit testing in the circumstances of this case.
DNA testing is an interference of the highest order with the subject’s right to confidentiality and the privacy of their known family members whose genetic relationships will also be revealed by such testing. If the court allows post-mortem DNA testing in the absence of consent, this is likely to discourage patients from providing DNA during medical treatment and encourage those in Mr Spencer’s position to defer making applications until after the death of the alleged father so as to circumvent the absence of consent.
there is no indication that Parliament has turned its attention to the situation that arises in the present case, or that it is likely to do so at any early date. This gives rise to the possibility of an indefinite period during which individuals would be left without a remedy.
…Knowledge of our biological identity is a central component of our existence. The issue can have consequences of the most far-reaching kind, perhaps above all for those who do not know or are not sure of their parentage. Within our lifetimes, DNA testing has made the truth available. At the same time, it has made all other kinds of evidence almost irrelevant. While it remains possible to reach a conclusion about paternity without scientific tests, the practical and psychological consequences are different. A declaration made without testing is a finding, while the result of a test is a fact.
Taking all these considerations into account, and the relevant case law, the judge concluded that the High Court does possess an inherent jurisdiction that it can properly deploy to direct scientific testing to provide evidence of parentage in circumstances falling outside the scope of the Family Law Reform Act.
If the court was unable to obtain evidence of this kind, severe and avoidable injustice might result. Awareness of the implications of ordering testing without consent and of the wider public interest does not lead to the conclusion that the jurisdiction does not exist, but rather to the realisation that it should be exercised sparingly in cases where the absence of a remedy would lead to injustice.
It is an interesting coincidence that only a couple of days ago the German constitutional court published a judgement in a somewhat similar case, where a woman wanted to compel a man (who she thinks is her father) to undergo DNA testing. In that case the court held the man’s right to privacy higher than the woman’s right to know her parentage.
The Russian president wants more than anything for his country to be seen as an equal of the United States.
He has “disturbing similarities to a real-life Bond villain,” Vox writes. He’s an “international macho man of mystery,” said the Boston Globe, and last year he pulled off the “crime of the century,” the Washington Post reported, destabilizing American democracy in the process.
Others have tried and failed. Terrorists can destroy buildings, President George W. Bush once insisted, but "they cannot touch the foundation of America.” Today Vladimir Putin is widely described as a man who did just that.
But is Putin really an evil mastermind? He’d certainly love for you to believe so, and he’s been working on the brand — if not the underlying product — for a long time.
He’s getting results. When Mitt Romney famously called Russia “our number one geopolitical foe,” the key word for Putin was “number one.” In his eyes, being a real-life Bond villain is a fitting role, and his vision — to make Russia great again, Cold War-style — is only validated through Russia becoming the US's prime enemy, and therefore its equal.
But Russia can’t afford a full-scale war or even a serious worldwide presence comparable to what the USSR had. What it can afford is a media campaign that magnifies Russia’s actions, and Putin with them.
Sometimes, it doesn’t even have to pay for it. Russia has become a necessary segment of every newscast, a social media trend, and a B-plot in more TV shows than ever before. The American public is getting used to Moscow's new image as an enemy state run by the ultimate global bad guy. That image has been shaped by the media, and while it represents some truths, it completely misrepresents the scale of his menace.
No one is happier about that than Putin himself.
His Bond-villain status also serves a deep American need, because a nation that sees itself as the greatest force of good in the world needs a worthy foe. Who’s more worthy than an international supervillain? After all, the strength of your enemy is a testament to your own might. The authoritarian ruler of the largest country on earth fits the bill nicely, and with anyone else, we’d simply be selling ourselves short.
Compared to lesser foes like ISIS, Iran, and North Korea, Putin has always wanted to be an equal. And in a way he’s accomplished that. He’s not seriously trying to destroy democracy and take over the US — he’s struggling to conquer parts of eastern Ukraine. Instead, he’s in it for the highly publicized rivalry, which puts Russia and the US on level footing.
Even the claim that Putin wants to undermine our democracy requires a serious misunderstanding of his worldview. After all, how can you try to destroy something you don’t believe exists? At the top levels of the Russian government, democracy is seen as nothing but a hoax used to fool people into voting for candidates handpicked by shadowy elites.
Putin, from the depths of cynicism unknown to most Americans, is obviously wrong in his assessment of our political system, and on a larger scale, we’re wrong about just how much damage he can really do. Save for sensationalist headlines, Russian intelligence was never smart enough, or organized enough, to pull off an active measures campaign so effective it would get their candidate elected. And the American public was never smart enough to avoid electing Donald Trump.
In Putin’s ideal world, the US and Russia aren’t wiping each other off the face of the earth. They’re old foes who’ve learned to respect each other, even if they occasionally exchange jabs. When push comes to shove, they’re always ready to come together to fight off the Nazis or ISIS — even if they both know that alliance ends the moment they’re done saving the world.
Andrew Ryvkin is a screenwriter and journalist who shuttles between Los Angeles and Moscow, covering international politics with a focus on Russia.
Contact Andrew Ryvkin at andrey.ryvkin@gmail.com.
IT'S a shame that there are no support groups for aging household icons -- the Mrs. Butterworths of the world who seem either charmingly anachronistic or somewhat out of the loop. Not every icon is like Betty Crocker, who has gone through seven face lifts since 1936 in order to stay contemporary.
Fortunately, there is co-branding to enhance an icon's popularity. Co-branding is the marketing version of killing two birds with one stone by, say, placing the fictional Colombian coffee grower Juan Valdez and his donkey on American Airlines.
Co-branding often pairs a sentimental favorite with something new. Do you remember Mr. Clean, he of the spotless white T-shirt and jeans, and the can-do smile? Mr. Clean turns 40 this year. But Procter & Gamble's strong man -- known variously as Don Limpio in Spain, Mr. Propre in France and Mastro Lindo in Italy -- seems to be handling midlife without a crisis. In fact, he's never been more visible, thanks to a new advertising campaign.
Arms folded confidently, he stands in front of a stylish white Accord. The tag line is: ''The new LEV Accord. Drive one, and see what the neighbors call you.'' The new campaign is Honda's first venture into co-branding.
Paul Sellers, Honda's national advertising manager, explained that Mr. Clean's cameo was the result of a barter, rather than a money-based licensing agreement. Honda pulls off a visual pun, using the retro appeal of an old consumer icon, and Procter & Gamble gets to expose its brand identity to a new demographic.
''The only contract we have with Procter & Gamble is based on outlines of what Mr. Clean does and does not do,'' he said.
A similar instance of quid pro quo advertising has added dimension to Kellogg's Snap! Crackle! Pop! -- three elves who have maintained an unrelentingly chipper attitude for more than 60 years. Until recently.
Messrs. Snap! Crackle! Pop! have appeared in the clever ''Got Milk?'' campaign. Rather than gamboling around the breakfast table, this time the elves are distinctly downcast. The reason: a full bowl of Rice Krispies and not a drop of milk in sight.
The Honda and ''Got Milk?'' ads are small potatoes, however, compared to Burger King's new multimillion-dollar campaign hawking the superiority of the company's improved french fries over McDonald's product. The star and ''official spokespud'' for the ads is Mr. Potato Head, the 46-year-old Hasbro toy.

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