Roland TD-20 Drum Machine with faded screen:
- bought one with a dead screen. Fixed temporarily by putting pressure on relevant input ribbon cables into screen. After reinsertion of the relevant ribbon cables it worked fine
Roland td-20 teardown
https://www.vdrums.com/forum/general/the-lounge/16245-the-td-20-problems-repaired-thread
https://www.vdrums.com/forum/advanced/diy/980755-display-td-20-display-repair
https://www.roland.com/us/support/by_product/td-20/
https://www.vdrums.com/forum/general/products/1209736-roland-td-20-fading-lcd-screen
https://www.vdrums.com/forum/advanced/diy/980755-display-td-20-display-repair
How to Fix The Roland TD-12 VDrum LCD Screen for FREE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Cr3UQOTw0
https://www.youtube.com/@Sciencenme
Nintendo Gameboys with lines on screens:
- you can fix by strategic pressure via pieces of cardboard of blu-tac/play-doh or else reflow which looks completely insane but actually works. You can replace screens but they're often expensive so not worth it in many cases
Easy Fix: Nintendo GameBoy with lines in the screen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8uwzqzO3As
https://www.youtube.com/@PghGameFix
How to FIX Vertical Lines on a DMG Gameboy Screen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OEXhxoTIvY&t=8s
https://www.youtube.com/@KyleAwsm
how to fix vertical line gameboy pocket issue
https://www.reddit.com/r/Gameboy/comments/8asm77/help_needed_gameboy_pocket_has_vertical_lines/
https://classicgamesblog.com/repair-and-modding/how-to-repair-gameboy-common-problems/
nintendo gameboy horitzontal line
https://www.reddit.com/r/Gameboy/comments/72xgj6/repairing_gameboy_dmg01_screen_with_horizontal/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Gameboy/comments/75ibwy/how_i_have_fixed_the_horizontal_dead_lines_on_dmg/
https://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/18976/successful-horizontal-line-repair/
https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/931161/screen+displaying+a+horizontal+line+after+I+changed+the+polarizer+film
get rid of gameboy dmg horizontal line
https://www.instructables.com/Fix-Lines-In-Your-Gameboy-Screen/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Gameboy/comments/72xgj6/repairing_gameboy_dmg01_screen_with_horizontal/
https://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/18976/successful-horizontal-line-repair/
https://www.valoroso.it/en/how-to-repair-gameboy-monitor-vertical-lines/
Ender 3 V3SE 3D Printer with multiple problems:
- bought a 3d printer online for cheap whose owner said it created more problems then it was worth. Ironically, it was due to modifications that they had made to it which caused it to become unreliable
- first error was fixing a CR touch error which was showing up constantly after re-calibration. Replaced with a spare BL-Touch I had lying around and all errors went away
ender 3 v3 se cr touch error
https://www.reddit.com/r/ender3/comments/18c9wke/crtouch_error_please_contact_customer_service_on/
- next error was black filament blobs which would show up periodically. Turned out that the original hotend was replaced with one that was designed for the Ender 3 V3KE which didn't quite fit perfectly. After replacing it with the ooriginal nozzle for the Ender 3 V3SE it worked fine
Hotend Upgrade For Creality Ender 3 V3 and V3 Plus Printers (Micro Swiss FlowTech™)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNGZXczccEo
https://www.youtube.com/@ModBotArmy
Service Tutorial Ender 3 V3 SE Replacement hotend kit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-HNS4-mfLg
https://www.youtube.com/@crealityafter-sale5706
Nintendo DS Lite with white screen issue:
- bought a cheap DS Lite that wasn't working. F1 and F2 fuses were blown so replaced them. The next problem was that there was nothing on screen. Found out that simply bending the ribbon cable worked to get the screen going again. I found out something interesting in my investigation. The BIOS is stored on the Wifi card so replacing that will often fix this same problem too
nintendo ds lite stylus stl file
https://www.printables.com/model/154829-nintendo-lite-ds-stylus
Nintendo DS Lite Stylus Pen
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:172284
nintendo DS Lite just black screen most common reason
https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/45455/Low+Screen+and+Upper+Screen+are+Blank
https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/47554/DS+Lite+won't+turn+back+on+after+replacing+bottom+screen.
https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Nintendo_DS_Lite_Troubleshooting
why would both fuses blow on nintendo ds lite
https://gbatemp.net/threads/ds-lite-blown-fuse.325804/
https://www.freemansgarage.com/index.php/2011/01/20/nintendo-ds-lite-repair/
circuit-board pen
https://www.reddit.com/r/diypedals/comments/1mxdtqg/is_a_conductive_pen_usable_on_a_blank/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskElectronics/comments/196gr51/how_to_mark_a_pcb_with_a_pen_so_that_it_doesnt/
https://www.auselectronicsdirect.com.au/silver-conductive-pen
nintendo ds lite just green light nothing on screen
https://www.reddit.com/r/consolerepair/comments/g8x9sl/is_it_possible_to_repairreplace_the_wireless/
https://www.reddit.com/r/nds/comments/10c4a98/ds_lite_will_show_green_light_but_no_sound_or/
what is stored on nintendo ds lite wifi card
https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoDS/comments/1h3ap33/is_there_a_reason_there_isnt_more_modding_done_on/
https://www.reddit.com/r/nds/comments/ea6l39/use_dsi_without_wifi_card/
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Nintendo+DS+Lite+Wi-Fi+Board+Replacement/4758
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Wi-Fi_Connection
https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/nintendo-ds/
only white on top nintendo ds screen
https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/39992/My+ds+top+screen+is+white+bottom+screen+works+perfect
https://www.reddit.com/r/consolerepair/comments/ukq6ns/swapped_my_ds_lite_shell_and_now_the_speakers/
https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/856697/Top+screen+flashes+white+when+I+try+to+turn+my+DSi+on
Dell Latitude 7450 with semi faulty keyboard:
- keyboard was basically working for most keys but not some. Possible with expensive equipment to make new cable by scanning and etching things basically. You need backing, abrade and then solder. Unrealistic and overly expensive for most repair shops. I normally just try and use a blunt pointed pen, pencil, or screen driver to bridge the connection of whatever is left over of the broken connection and then use tape to keep it in place and get things working again. Replacement of cable is obviously possible too but is ironically very expensive
how to fix broken ribbon cable
Damaged ribbon cable - is it possible to repair?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blzp7SZVbUA
https://www.youtube.com/@SpareTimeRepair
How I Fixed A Broken FLEX CABLE INSTANTLY! | Mr Biomedical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozY_WNWXKbY
https://www.youtube.com/@MrBiomedical
Flexible flat cable FFC cable repair methods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXEfidsHGNA
https://www.youtube.com/@chazj1976
Film Kablo Tamiri - Flexible Flat Cable Repair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNOzbpfSpec
https://www.youtube.com/@TberbatT
Broken Flex Repair #mobilerepair #electronics #microsoldering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNcNoYCAVMA
https://www.youtube.com/@idealinstitutealigarh
Playstation 3 Game Controllers with various issues:
- if you repair controllers watch out for quality of repair parts as you'll be in a cycle of failure if they are of low quality, Keep a multimeter handy as battery replacement can often help deal with lots of issues. Keep the inside clean especially when dealing with membranes as this can cause intermittent contact issues
https://www.ifixit.com/Device/DualShock_3
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+Fix-Prevent+Joystick+Drift+on+a+DualShock+3/151813
https://www.ifixit.com/Device/DualSense
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/PS5+Controller+Trigger+Teardown/158397
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+Fix+Stick+Drift+for+a+PlayStation+Dualsense+Controller+V1/168202
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/DulaShock+4+CUH-ZCT2+Potentiometer(s)+Replacement/168194
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+Repair+a+Water-Damaged+DualSense+Controller/144876
- drift issues can generally be dealt with via cleaning or replacement of the actual potentiometer
How to Fix Analog Drift or Analog Stutter on PS3 / PS4 / PS5 Controller (Cleaning Solution)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LePBsn3vkA
https://www.youtube.com/@alexjbeezy
ps3 controller potentiometer knob stuck positions
https://www.reddit.com/r/Controller/comments/1lly9wn/my_original_ps3_dualsocks_ls_stuck_in_leftright/
- you can use basic tools to test controllers via USB even you don't have a game console lying around
jstest-gtk
evtest
- bought one with a dead screen. Fixed temporarily by putting pressure on relevant input ribbon cables into screen. After reinsertion of the relevant ribbon cables it worked fine
Roland td-20 teardown
https://www.vdrums.com/forum/general/the-lounge/16245-the-td-20-problems-repaired-thread
https://www.vdrums.com/forum/advanced/diy/980755-display-td-20-display-repair
https://www.roland.com/us/support/by_product/td-20/
https://www.vdrums.com/forum/general/products/1209736-roland-td-20-fading-lcd-screen
https://www.vdrums.com/forum/advanced/diy/980755-display-td-20-display-repair
How to Fix The Roland TD-12 VDrum LCD Screen for FREE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Cr3UQOTw0
https://www.youtube.com/@Sciencenme
Nintendo Gameboys with lines on screens:
- you can fix by strategic pressure via pieces of cardboard of blu-tac/play-doh or else reflow which looks completely insane but actually works. You can replace screens but they're often expensive so not worth it in many cases
Easy Fix: Nintendo GameBoy with lines in the screen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8uwzqzO3As
https://www.youtube.com/@PghGameFix
How to FIX Vertical Lines on a DMG Gameboy Screen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OEXhxoTIvY&t=8s
https://www.youtube.com/@KyleAwsm
how to fix vertical line gameboy pocket issue
https://www.reddit.com/r/Gameboy/comments/8asm77/help_needed_gameboy_pocket_has_vertical_lines/
https://classicgamesblog.com/repair-and-modding/how-to-repair-gameboy-common-problems/
nintendo gameboy horitzontal line
https://www.reddit.com/r/Gameboy/comments/72xgj6/repairing_gameboy_dmg01_screen_with_horizontal/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Gameboy/comments/75ibwy/how_i_have_fixed_the_horizontal_dead_lines_on_dmg/
https://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/18976/successful-horizontal-line-repair/
https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/931161/screen+displaying+a+horizontal+line+after+I+changed+the+polarizer+film
get rid of gameboy dmg horizontal line
https://www.instructables.com/Fix-Lines-In-Your-Gameboy-Screen/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Gameboy/comments/72xgj6/repairing_gameboy_dmg01_screen_with_horizontal/
https://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/18976/successful-horizontal-line-repair/
https://www.valoroso.it/en/how-to-repair-gameboy-monitor-vertical-lines/
Nintendo Gameboys that would intermittently turn on:
- dry soldering issue combined with battery acid leakage. Had to clean up latter and resolder former to fix
Ender 3 V3SE 3D Printer with multiple problems:
- bought a 3d printer online for cheap whose owner said it created more problems then it was worth. Ironically, it was due to modifications that they had made to it which caused it to become unreliable
- first error was fixing a CR touch error which was showing up constantly after re-calibration. Replaced with a spare BL-Touch I had lying around and all errors went away
ender 3 v3 se cr touch error
https://www.reddit.com/r/ender3/comments/18c9wke/crtouch_error_please_contact_customer_service_on/
- next error was black filament blobs which would show up periodically. Turned out that the original hotend was replaced with one that was designed for the Ender 3 V3KE which didn't quite fit perfectly. After replacing it with the ooriginal nozzle for the Ender 3 V3SE it worked fine
Hotend Upgrade For Creality Ender 3 V3 and V3 Plus Printers (Micro Swiss FlowTech™)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNGZXczccEo
https://www.youtube.com/@ModBotArmy
Service Tutorial Ender 3 V3 SE Replacement hotend kit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-HNS4-mfLg
https://www.youtube.com/@crealityafter-sale5706
Nintendo DS Lite with white screen issue:
- bought a cheap DS Lite that wasn't working. F1 and F2 fuses were blown so replaced them. The next problem was that there was nothing on screen. Found out that simply bending the ribbon cable worked to get the screen going again. I found out something interesting in my investigation. The BIOS is stored on the Wifi card so replacing that will often fix this same problem too
nintendo ds lite stylus stl file
https://www.printables.com/model/154829-nintendo-lite-ds-stylus
Nintendo DS Lite Stylus Pen
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:172284
nintendo DS Lite just black screen most common reason
https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/45455/Low+Screen+and+Upper+Screen+are+Blank
https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/47554/DS+Lite+won't+turn+back+on+after+replacing+bottom+screen.
https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Nintendo_DS_Lite_Troubleshooting
why would both fuses blow on nintendo ds lite
https://gbatemp.net/threads/ds-lite-blown-fuse.325804/
https://www.freemansgarage.com/index.php/2011/01/20/nintendo-ds-lite-repair/
circuit-board pen
https://www.reddit.com/r/diypedals/comments/1mxdtqg/is_a_conductive_pen_usable_on_a_blank/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskElectronics/comments/196gr51/how_to_mark_a_pcb_with_a_pen_so_that_it_doesnt/
https://www.auselectronicsdirect.com.au/silver-conductive-pen
nintendo ds lite just green light nothing on screen
https://www.reddit.com/r/consolerepair/comments/g8x9sl/is_it_possible_to_repairreplace_the_wireless/
https://www.reddit.com/r/nds/comments/10c4a98/ds_lite_will_show_green_light_but_no_sound_or/
what is stored on nintendo ds lite wifi card
https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoDS/comments/1h3ap33/is_there_a_reason_there_isnt_more_modding_done_on/
https://www.reddit.com/r/nds/comments/ea6l39/use_dsi_without_wifi_card/
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Nintendo+DS+Lite+Wi-Fi+Board+Replacement/4758
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Wi-Fi_Connection
https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/nintendo-ds/
only white on top nintendo ds screen
https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/39992/My+ds+top+screen+is+white+bottom+screen+works+perfect
https://www.reddit.com/r/consolerepair/comments/ukq6ns/swapped_my_ds_lite_shell_and_now_the_speakers/
https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/856697/Top+screen+flashes+white+when+I+try+to+turn+my+DSi+on
Dell Latitude 7450 with semi faulty keyboard:
- keyboard was basically working for most keys but not some. Possible with expensive equipment to make new cable by scanning and etching things basically. You need backing, abrade and then solder. Unrealistic and overly expensive for most repair shops. I normally just try and use a blunt pointed pen, pencil, or screen driver to bridge the connection of whatever is left over of the broken connection and then use tape to keep it in place and get things working again. Replacement of cable is obviously possible too but is ironically very expensive
how to fix broken ribbon cable
Damaged ribbon cable - is it possible to repair?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blzp7SZVbUA
https://www.youtube.com/@SpareTimeRepair
How I Fixed A Broken FLEX CABLE INSTANTLY! | Mr Biomedical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozY_WNWXKbY
https://www.youtube.com/@MrBiomedical
Flexible flat cable FFC cable repair methods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXEfidsHGNA
https://www.youtube.com/@chazj1976
Film Kablo Tamiri - Flexible Flat Cable Repair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNOzbpfSpec
https://www.youtube.com/@TberbatT
Broken Flex Repair #mobilerepair #electronics #microsoldering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNcNoYCAVMA
https://www.youtube.com/@idealinstitutealigarh
Playstation 3 Game Controllers with various issues:
- if you repair controllers watch out for quality of repair parts as you'll be in a cycle of failure if they are of low quality, Keep a multimeter handy as battery replacement can often help deal with lots of issues. Keep the inside clean especially when dealing with membranes as this can cause intermittent contact issues
https://www.ifixit.com/Device/DualShock_3
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+Fix-Prevent+Joystick+Drift+on+a+DualShock+3/151813
https://www.ifixit.com/Device/DualSense
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/PS5+Controller+Trigger+Teardown/158397
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+Fix+Stick+Drift+for+a+PlayStation+Dualsense+Controller+V1/168202
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/DulaShock+4+CUH-ZCT2+Potentiometer(s)+Replacement/168194
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+Repair+a+Water-Damaged+DualSense+Controller/144876
- drift issues can generally be dealt with via cleaning or replacement of the actual potentiometer
How to Fix Analog Drift or Analog Stutter on PS3 / PS4 / PS5 Controller (Cleaning Solution)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LePBsn3vkA
https://www.youtube.com/@alexjbeezy
ps3 controller potentiometer knob stuck positions
https://www.reddit.com/r/Controller/comments/1lly9wn/my_original_ps3_dualsocks_ls_stuck_in_leftright/
- you can use basic tools to test controllers via USB even you don't have a game console lying around
jstest-gtk
evtest
WikiReader which showed only black screen on start:
- turns out a resister blew off/up off of the PCB when overcharged batteries were inserted. Once re-soldered everything worked fine
Hand Vacuum Cleaner that wouldn't turn on:
- dry soldering issue on switch that had to be soldered. Once fixed, worked fine
Traktor X1 MK1 with liquid damage and some non-functional keys:
- liquid damaged normally has white powdery substance around it. Had to clean up liquid damage using isopropyl alcohol on the Loop A In/Out buttons. It is repairable in spite of what some people say
Lenovo P16s Gen 2 no power, not charging - How a coil can ruin your laptop
Hp 17-cn004na board repair - Nearly fooled me :D ...very tricky
will ultrasonic clean in distilled water clear corrosion
will ultrasonic clean in isopropyl water clear corrosion
- had clear up some dry soldering issues in the same rough area before it would work fine
- tested via aseqdump Linux CLI based utility and some bridging utilities which converted the signals back into MIDI compatible signalling. You may need to run cd traktor_x1; sudo ./virtual_x1 first and then disconnect and then run cd x1-mk1-usb2midi; sudo cargo run afterwards for it to work properly. For some reason it just doesn't work well/properly from out of the box on my version of Linux
traktor kontrol x1 mk1 used under linux
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- But the truth is murkier than just Pakistan meddling in neighboring Afghanistan and the US’ kid-gloves treatment of the former. As part and parcel of the anti-Taliban counter-insurgency, American occupation forces in Afghanistan patronized a variety of local warlords, private militias, paramilitaries and ethnic entrepreneurs who were extremely brutal, abusive and lawless.
According to a forensic accountant cited in the Washington Post, out of $106 billion worth of US Defense Department contracts given out, “about 40 percent of the money ended up in the pockets of insurgents, criminal syndicates or corrupt Afghan officials.” To boot, the investigator specified that “18 percent of the contract money went to the Taliban, Haqqani, other insurgent groups.”
On one hand, there were American diplomats and military personnel attempting to shore up the fledgling Afghan state and ward off the jihadist threat of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, but on the other hand was the war economy in Afghanistan and the mindboggling corruption wherein elements of the American state structure enabled warlords who kept the Afghan state weak and incapable of governing the whole country.
As the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) mildly rebuked in 2016, “the US government should limit alliances with malign powerbrokers and aim to balance any short-term gains from such relationships against the risk that empowering these actors will lead to systemic corruption.”
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/493759-us-russia-afghanistan-taliban/
- With education a suggested solution to issues surrounding Aboriginal incarceration rates, it begs the question; how is one supposed to succeed in a world that treats their identity like a secondary source?
With children still taught in school that European explorers "discovered" this wonderful nation, how are these children expected to thrive in a society where the history books do not even acknowledge their existence?
As the old African proverb goes, "The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-03/in-my-blood-it-runs-indigenous-youth-detention-child-removal/12416462
- Beasley said today 821 million people go to bed hungry every night all over the world, a further 135 million people are facing "crisis levels of hunger or worse," and a new World Food Program analysis shows that as a result of COVID-19 an additional 130 million people "could be pushed to the brink of starvation by the end of 2020."
https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/world-on-brink-of-a-hunger-pandemic-20200422-p54lzc
It’s my judgement – and I am not alone in thinking this – that many elites in the FBI have committed serious crimes. FBI Director James Comey lied to FISA judges by signing several FISA warrants when he knew these warrants contained outrageous unsubstantiated claims. Comey used these FISA warrants to weaponize the FBI against Hillary Clinton's political opponent.
Comey, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page illegally spied on Americans, including Trump and those involved in his 2016 presidential campaign, and then lied about it in a cover-up more extensive than Nixon’s Watergate one. Many others in the intelligence services were involved in this attempted coup d'état of Trump, such as James Clapper and John Brennan.
While many more were involved, all roads point to Hillary Clinton, and the trail of breadcrumbs, via Susan Rice (Joe Biden's likely VP hopeful should Michelle Obama reject Dementia Joe’s advances), goes all the way to Obama's desk. Some of these people will likely face indictments from US Attorney for DC John Durham later this summer.
This is not unique to America. The same “one size fits all” attack is happening around the world, which just goes to demonstrate how our ruling elites say anything to get elected for four years or longer, only to do the opposite. The politicians screw the voters who elected them while selling out to the highest corporate bidders. At the same time, most of the mob remains hypnotised, watching the shiny objects dangled by the fake news media pundits.
Just remember: the liberal left are inclusive, diverse, tolerant and accepting – UNTIL you offer an opposing viewpoint, at which point they become part of the violent, intolerant mob.
Mob rule never ends well, and this time will be no different. The takeaway: Never trust legacy politicians, and no matter what the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, a civil war in America is likely.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/494087-new-york-blm-civil-war/
- For racing, human jockeys were once used, but as technology evolved and camel racers became aware of the dangers associated with riding, the switch was made to robots that now sit atop the camel as it runs.
Camels, like horses in the West, can go for a hefty sum for quality animals. Sale prices can range from $2,700 to around $815,000, the New York Times reported. Females tend to sell for more as they are faster, with CNN reporting that the Crown Prince of Dubai Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed paid $2.7 million for a female race camel at a beauty pageant.
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/gulf/2020/07/08/Largest-camel-hospital-in-the-world-opens-in-Saudi-Arabia
The two batteries of Russian-made S-400 air defense systems are deployed at the Myurt airbase. They were tested at least three times on American stealth fighters. AviaPro news agency indicates that not only F-35 aircraft, but also more classified F-22s appeared in the detection range of systems.
The “targeted” American fifth-generation fighters were sent to rotation in the Middle East through the Black Sea and directly Turkey. Their route ran approximately 170-200 kilometers from the Turkish Air Force Airbase of Myurt. Therefore, the Turkish side had a great opportunity to test its S-400s for aerodynamic purposes. This was not the first test of Turkish S-400 over American fighter: in November 2019, video footage appeared showing the testing of the S-400’s radar on F-16s and F-4E Phantoms. So, Turkey has crossed ‘another red line’ by starting tests of the radar detection system it purchased from Russia as part of the S-400 missile defense system, U.S. Senator for Maryland Christopher Van Hollen said.
The United States wanted to buy S-400 missile systems from Turkey to exit the impasse regarding the participation of Ankara in the program for the production of F-35 Lightning II. Turkey declined the offer, to the relief of Russia.
https://armyrecognition.com/defense_news_july_2020_global_security_army_industry/turkey_has_tested_its_s-400_missile_system_to_track_f-22s_and_f-35s.html
- Chou Tzu-yu (born June 14, 1999), known mononymously as Tzuyu, is a Taiwanese singer based in South Korea. She is the youngest member of Twice, a K-pop girl group formed by JYP Entertainment.[1][2][3]
In 2015, a televised appearance in South Korea in which she was shown holding the flag of Taiwan sparked controversy in China. A video of Tzuyu apologizing for the incident, subsequently released by JYP Entertainment on January 15, 2016, sparked further public outrage in Taiwan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzuyu
- Professor Gregory believes a lack of focus on unemployment in the recovery after 1991's recession drew out the process. That mistake shouldn't be made again.
"Some things recovered quick, like the share market, but other things took a long time to unwind," he recollects.
"So, what we were doing in year one was having implications for employment in year three, four."
That recession hit male full-time workers particularly hard. Many never worked again. This downturn is culling jobs and industries dominated by women, including retail and tourism, and part-time work.
The evidence is clear: women have been hit hardest by the COVID-19 recession, with the lowest paid and most insecure workers bearing the brunt of the downturn.
Australia moved out of recession quickly in 1991. But the recovery took years as businesses, spooked by the crash, didn't take on workers. A persistently high unemployment rate created its own problems in the housing market and through crushing consumer confidence.
"If I go back to '91 and '92 we peaked at 11 per cent (unemployment). But it took us 3 years to get back to 8.3 per cent. And that in itself, there's a big difference.," says Mr Samuel.
The Australia Institute's Richard Denniss said there's no 'snap back' coming. At best, with the problems we'd accumulated before the coronavirus, it's going to be a claw back.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-08/1990s-recession-shows-there-is-no-quick-road-to-recovery/12431398
Some numbers suggest that food may be as addictive as drugs, and in some cases more so. About 30% of people who try heroin become addicts; the same goes for about 16% of cocaine users. One study published in Frontiers in Psychology found that, when the definition of addiction is explained to obese or overweight subjects, up to 29% of them describe themselves as addicted to food. That takes its toll: more than 40% of Americans who are obese and the overall 71.6% who are overweight—which suggests at the very least an unhealthy dependency on food is common in the U.S.
https://time.com/5718798/food-addiction/
- So what’s the secret? If this version of the Japanese diet has positive effects, it might be down to how meals are prepared as well as any particulars of nutrients, Tsuduki points out. Meals are made up of several small dishes, providing a variety of flavours. Ingredients are more often steamed or simmered than fried. As well, they are seasoned with small amounts of intensely flavourful substances, rather than excess salt or sugar.
In short, it may be that the benefits of the Japanese diet are not due to some magical quality of seaweed or soy sauce, but rather a focus on eating a variety of foods cooked in healthy ways in moderation, along with an emphasis on vegetables and legumes. Advice, in other words, that anyone can use.
But modern Japan has its own problems following this advice. Rates of diabetes have risen in recent years, in part because of a greying population, but also because of rising obesity. It is possible that Japan’s days as the home of the most centenarians are numbered.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200626-should-we-eat-more-like-the-japanese
- A duel is an arranged engagement in combat between two people, with matched weapons, in accordance with agreed-upon rules. Duels in this form were chiefly practiced in early modern Europe with precedents in the medieval code of chivalry, and continued into the modern period (18th to late 19th centuries, if not beyond) especially among military officers.
During the 17th and 18th centuries (and earlier), duels were mostly fought with swords (the rapier, and later the small sword), but beginning in the late 18th century in England, duels were more commonly fought using pistols. Fencing and pistol duels continued to co-exist throughout the 19th century.
The duel was based on a code of honor. Duels were fought not so much to kill the opponent as to gain "satisfaction", that is, to restore one's honor by demonstrating a willingness to risk one's life for it, and as such the tradition of dueling was originally reserved for the male members of nobility; however, in the modern era it extended to those of the upper classes generally. On occasion, duels with pistols or swords were fought between women.[1][2]
Legislation against dueling goes back to the medieval period. The Fourth Council of the Lateran (1215) outlawed duels,[3] and civil legislation in the Holy Roman Empire against dueling was passed in the wake of the Thirty Years' War.[4] From the early 17th century, duels became illegal in the countries where they were practiced. Dueling largely fell out of favor in England by the mid-19th century and in Continental Europe by the turn of the 20th century. Dueling declined in the Eastern United States in the 19th century and by the time the American Civil War broke out, dueling had begun to wane even in the South.[5] Public opinion, not legislation, caused the change.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duel
Laos has not fully recovered from the impact of the U.S. bombing of the country: 2.5 million tons of U.S. bombs dropped on Laos between 1964 and 1973, with the soil in many parts of the country polluted for generations.
http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2020/07/laos-has-tackled-covid-19-but-it-is.html
- The Navy has a history of bringing back to life warships that have been badly damaged by enemy attacks, but it is rare that vessels that have burned extensively from non-combat-related fires can be rebuilt so they are battle-ready, according to experts.
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/chief-of-naval-operations-to-visit-san-diego-to-talk-about-fire-on-uss-bonhomme-richard/2367440/
- Canadian entrepreneur Herb McDonald is credited with launching the first 24-hour all-you-can-eat buffet, called the Buckaroo Buffet, in the 1940s in Las Vegas.
A flyer advertising the restaurant boasts that for only one dollar, a patron can eat "every possible variety of hot and cold entrees to appease the howling coyote in your innards".
McDonald's model was quickly replicated up and down Sunset Strip as every hotel and casino strove to offer a buffet to tourists.
The appeal of all-you-can-eat food, with no waiter there to judge your food pairings or quantity, led the Washington Post this month to describe buffets as an "offer [of] public gluttony at an affordable price".
But despite the new precautions, most analysts agree it will be quite a long time before Americans can return to the buffet line for seconds (or even thirds... who's watching?).
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53410931
- US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is fond of shooting his mouth off, castigating this nation and that, or this company and that, in his bid to show that the US can dictate terms of behaviour to the rest of the world.
One of his recent over-the-top statements was about the Communist Party of China breaking its Paris climate Agreement commitments and also violating its promises about not militarising the South China Sea.
The issue was raised at the daily Chinese Foreign Ministry briefing on Thursday by the Global Times which was probably not prepared for the blast that came back from spokeswoman Hua Chunying.
"Actually, I don't want to comment on this. I don't want to turn our MFA [Ministry of Foreign Affairs] press conferences into special briefings debunking Pompeo's lies," Hua replied.
"But since he made these comments, I have to respond to them. I have noted his intensive remarks in the past few days attaching and smearing China. China's position on climate change and the South China Sea is crystal clear. As he's been talking about China violating international law or treaties, I think it might be interesting to see how many groups the US has withdrawn from."
And with that introduction, she embarked on what seemed to be a never-ending list of broken promises by Washington, without even pausing to draw breath.
"In 1982, to maintain its maritime hegemony, the United States refused to sign the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), of which it is still not a party," Hua said.
"In 1984, the United States formally withdrew from UNESCO, dissatisfied with the gradual erosion of its cultural control by developing countries. After returning to the organisation in 2003, it once again withdrew in 2017 on the so-called ground of saving funds and urging reform.
"In 1985, the United States refused to recognise ICC's compulsory jurisdiction the United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ)after Nicaragua complained that US armed intervention violated its sovereignty.
"In 1995, the United States withdrew from the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation and refused to pay arrears by claiming domestic budgetary constraints.
"The United States has refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol since 2001, saying it was not in its national interest to meet relevant environmental obligations.
"In 2001, the United States withdrew from the United Nations World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance after failing to prevent discussion of Israeli military action against Palestinians.
"In 2001, to strengthen its military advantage, the United States formally withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty signed by the United States and the Soviet Union in 1972.
"In 2002, the United States withdrew from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, citing unfavorable terms for American soldiers, diplomats and politicians.
"In 2017, the United States announced its formal withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) because it believed that multilateral trade agreements were not in its best interests and hindered its "America First" policy.
"In 2017, the US government announced its withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, believing that it hindered the economic development.
"In 2017, the United States withdrew from the United Nations Global Compact on Migration, and cast votes against the UNGCM at the UN General Assembly.
"In 2018, despite the fact that the IAEA confirmed Iran's fulfillment of its JCPOA commitment and that the United States had no clear evidence to show Iran conducted nuclear tests in breach of the deal, the United States withdrew from the JCPOA, which has been endorsed by the United Nations Security Council, and imposed economic sanctions against Iran.
"In 2018, the US announced its withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council claiming it failed to effectively protect human rights.
"In 2018, the United States withdrew from the Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes relating to the jurisdiction of the ICJ in order to avoid a Palestinian complaint filed legitimately to the ICJ.
"In 2019, the United States withdrew from the INF Treaty to develop short- and medium-range missiles without restraint.
"In 2020, under the pretext of alleged Russian violations of the Open Skies Treaty, the United States announced steps to exit the Treaty.
"In 2020, the US government, looking for scapegoats for its botched response to COVID-19, announced its withdrawal from the World Health Organisation. It should be noted that the United States still owes more than US$200 million in assessed contributions. Will it pay it off before exiting?"
Hua was not done yet. "Before criticising other countries of failing to comply with international law and treaties, the US should first reflect upon its own record of exiting at every turn whenever its interests are not served," she added.
"It exposes its hypocrisy, stark hegemony and double standards. Will the US rejoin these treaties and groupings before attacking China? I hope the US can act like a truly responsible major power and honour international law and treaties it has joined like small and medium countries."
Ouch!
https://www.itwire.com/open-sauce/pompeo-gets-a-dose-of-his-own-medicine-from-chinese-foreign-ministry-spokeswoman.html
- Another relationship is possible. To realise it, Western capitals need to discard any lingering assumptions that Moscow views the world in the same way they do. Accepting this does not necessarily mean greater hostility is inevitable. One lesson from the Cold War – and this is not a new Cold War – is that it is possible for Moscow and the West to view the world differently while coexisting. But the reality is that Western values and interests are not reconcilable with those of the Russian state.
Until our decision-makers acknowledge this and begin to grapple with the difficult policy choices that follow, there is no reason to suggest that the West’s response to the poisoning of Navalny – like so many international crises before it – will fundamentally change anything. And this means more Russian aggression and hostility in the future.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2020/09/its-time-for-the-west-to-ditch-its-russian-playbook/
- The dissolution was followed by a severe drop in economic and social conditions in post-Soviet states,[60][61] including a rapid increase in poverty,[62][63][64][65] crime,[66][67] corruption,[68][69] unemployment,[70] homelessness,[71][72] rates of disease,[73][74][75] demographic losses,[76] income inequality and the rise of an oligarchical class,[77][62] along with decreases in calorie intake, life expectancy, adult literacy, and income.[78] Between 1988/1989 and 1993/1995, the Gini ratio increased by an average of 9 points for all former socialist countries.[62] The economic shocks that accompanied wholesale privatization were associated with sharp increases in mortality. Data shows Russia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia saw a tripling of unemployment and a 42% increase in male death rates between 1991 and 1994.[79][80] In the following decades, only five or six of the post-communist states are on a path to joining the wealthy capitalist West while most are falling behind, some to such an extent that it will take over fifty years to catch up to where they were before the fall of the Soviet Bloc.[81][82]
In summing up the international ramifications of these events, Vladislav Zubok stated: "The collapse of the Soviet empire was an event of epochal geopolitical, military, ideological, and economic significance."[83] Before the dissolution, the country had maintained its status as one of the world's two superpowers for four decades after World War II through its hegemony in Eastern Europe, military strength, economic strength, aid to developing countries, and scientific research, especially in space technology and weaponry.[8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union
- Mr Skinner told the hearing on Monday that when he made a mistake at work, his boss would clap at him even though he told her it was inappropriate.
"She was trying to get my attention and trying to yell at me," he said.
He said the role was affecting his anxiety and his psychologist decided to accompany him to work, which angered his boss.
"That night, I had a mental breakdown and I was admitted to hospital because of what happened that day by the boss," he said.
Mr Skinner left soon after because of the wages and the way he was treated, and now has his own business running workshops and teaching AUSLAN to businesses.
Inclusion Australia CEO Catherine McAlpine told the hearing about segregated employment through Australian Disability Enterprises where people with intellectual disability only work with other people with intellectual disability.
"Unfortunately there are well polished pathways from segregated education into segregated employment," she said.
"We hear too often of people who are in special schools, who either never get work experience, never talk about work at all, or if they do, they go only to an Australian Disability Enterprise because it is presumed that is the only place they will ever work."
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/an-employee-with-disability-was-unaware-his-job-paid-11-per-hour-until-after-several-shifts-inquiry-told
- Anand Giridharadas has years of practice criticising billionaires and philanthropy.
In fact, he wrote the book on it.
His "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World," from 2018, documented what he described as the "charade" of the highest-income people donating to the very inequities they may have helped create, and its themes have resonated stronger and stronger since. A self-described "flamethrower by temperament," he recently made waves when he criticised the work (and inaction) of attendees at the National Association of Corporate Directors' annual summit, leading some to threaten to cancel their memberships and "rage quit" the organisation.
Once a consultant at McKinsey, Giridharadas used his subsequent platform as a journalist and fellow at the Aspen Institute to give a provocative keynote speech in 2015, where he said the elites in the audience had never been called upon to do less harm. That speech became "Winners Take All," which was reviewed favourably in The New York Times by the Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and has led to a multiyear run of Giridharadas as a general billionaire scourge.
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Well, we don't need the richest and most powerful people in the society to give more. We need them to take less. We don't need them to make a difference. We need them to stop making a killing at the society's expense. We don't need them to increase their generosity. We need them to reduce their complicity and injustice.
We don't need them to talk about changing the world. We need them to change themselves so that they stop exploiting the world. So the most important thing any ultrawealthy reader of Business Insider reading this, with bulging eyes and minor shivers, is to think about â€" instead of asking what you can do or how you can step up and contribute â€" to ask what you've been doing, how does your company pay people?
What investments do you have, and how do those investments potentially fuel climate change or assist the theft of wages and increasing precariousness visited upon workers? How is your money complicit in the rigging of the power structure of this country, through campaign contributions and lobbying, so that you end up with bottle-service public policy, where you and your friends get public policy that's good for them, but it doesn't benefit most people?
We've seen companies put black squares on Instagram in what frankly amounts to corporate blackface, while refusing to actually pay Black people or any other people more than they do now, while refusing to pay proper taxes into the kind of programs that benefit Black people and all people. We've seen companies make a big spectacle about COVID donations, and food-pantry donations, while using this pandemic to shed workforces.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/inequality-flamethrower-anand-giridharadas-on-why-billionaires-shouldn-t-exist-and-his-hopes-for-the-biden-administration/ar-BB1bK4lM?%25253Bocid=spartanntp
- The truth is not easy to find, but federal sources do provide an answer: No. According to Freedom House’s rating system of political rights around the world, there were 49 nations in the world, as of 2015, that can be fairly categorized as “dictatorships.” As of fiscal year 2015, the last year for which we have publicly available data, the federal government of the United States had been providing military assistance to 36 of them, courtesy of your tax dollars. The United States currently supports over 73 percent of the world’s dictatorships!
https://truthout.org/articles/us-provides-military-assistance-to-73-percent-of-world-s-dictatorships/
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/List_of_authoritarian_regimes_supported_by_the_United_States.html
- Chief executive Elon Musk has begun his testimony in a class action brought against him by Tesla investors with a stunning attack on Wall Street, claiming “sharks” in the trading world wished his EV manufacturer would “die”.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/wanted-tesla-to-die-elon-musks-shock-claim-in-tesla-class-action/news-story/3fea435f07fa1b2860123ab5a0b3c4d3
Paul Haskell-Dowland, an expert in computing and security from Edith Cowan University, said the filter would work like the ones that sift spam from your email inbox.
"It will look at volumes of messages to see if thousands of messages are originating from one mobile phone number," he said.
"And it will look at the content of the message and determine whether it's a format it's seen before and classified as spam."
Messages that prove hard to automatically classify may be manually checked, he added.
If that happens, Telstra said, "the details of the recipients will remain masked".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-04-07/telstra-rolls-out-scam-message-filter-surge-dodgy-texts/100973582
