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First You can adjust the settings for your mouse, if you're not happy with things like the speed it goes across your screen. To adjust your mouse settings, bring up your Settings screen. A shortcut for this is to hold down the Windows key on your keyboard (in between the CTRL and ALT keys on the left-hand side). With the Windows key held down, press the letter i on your keyboard. On the settings screen, select Devices: The screen will then look like this: Select Mouse &Touchpad from the list of items on the left. You'll then see these options appear: There's not a great deal of options to change on this screen. But if you're left handed, you may want to change the primary mouse button. The primary mouse button is the one you use most often, and is clicked when selecting things. Click the dropdown box and you'll see that this can be changed from Left to Right. To see a wider range of mouse settings, click the link below Related Settings, where it says Additional mouse options. You'll then see a dialogue box something like this one (yours may be different, depending on the mouse you have and the software that was installed with it): Button Configuration is the first one. If you click the box where it says Switch primary and secondary mouse buttons then the right mouse button will be used for selecting things. This is just like the settings screen Select your primary button, and is useful for left-handers. If your Mouse Properties dialogue box has a Pointer Options tab at the top, click that one to set the speed of your pointer: Click on the slider under Motion to set the speed that your mouse pointer moves. Move the slider left to slow the pointer down, and right to get a fast speed. If you need to see trail of the mouse pointer, select the checkbox next to Display pointer trails. You can set the trail to be short or long, depending on where you move the slider. Another thing you can do is to change your mouse pointer. Click on the Pointers tab at the top to see a screen something like this one: Click the dropdown list at the top to see some Scheme options (the default is none): Try some of them out and watch the Customise list change at the bottom. Here's the options for Windows Black (large) (system scheme): There's lots more cursors you can choose from by clicking the Browse button, in the bottom right of the image above. You'll then see these options: Use the scroll button on the right to see more cursors. Click the Open button if you see one you'd like to use. When you're happy with your choices, click the OK button on the Mouse Properties dialogue box.

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Suzuki's Alex Rins won a spectacular British MotoGP race, taking the lead in a brave move on the last corner to beat championship leader, Marc Marquez, by just 0.013 seconds. Rins and Marquez pushed each other all the way to the end of the race, trading places several times in the last two laps, with Rins eventually coming out on top, moving his factory Suzuki machine up the inside in the final turn. Completing the podium was the factory Yamaha of Maverick Vinales, who took third spot on the podium ahead of teammate Valentino Rossi. French rookie, Fabio Quartararo, had a disastrous race, crashing out on the exit of turn one and taking Andrea Dovizioso with him. Quartararo eventually walked away in some discomfort, with Dovizioso stretchered to safety before getting to his feet. In the aftermath of the crash, Rins moved himself up to third place and started to break away with race leader Marquez and the pursuing Rossi, who had high hopes for the race after qualifying second. Rins took the lead for the first time with 12 laps to go before Marquez managed to find his way back past. Rossi fell another place to fourth behind teammate Vinales and remained there for the rest of the race. British rider, Cal Crutchlow finished in sixth place after a crash in Q2 on Saturday left him starting from ninth place on the grid. Down the field, Johan Zarco’s tricky season got worse when on the ninth lap he made a lunge up the inside of Tech 3 KTM man, Miguel Oliveira, making contact with the Portuguese rider and taking them both out of the race. Other fallers consisted of LCR rider Takaaki Nakagami, who low sided at turn 16, before remounting to finish seventeenth. Aprilia's Aleix Espargaro retried after one lap, after muscling his machine into Q2 yesterday.

One of the first thing you might want to do with Windows 10 is to change the desktop picture, which tends to be quite awful by default. To do that, click with your right mouse button anywhere on the desktop, except the taskbar at the bottom, or an icon. You'll then see the following menu: Select Personalize from the list and you'll see a screen appear like this one: Make sure Background is selected on the left hand side. The Background dropdown menu is showing "Solid Colour" for us. If you like a solid colour for your desktop background, select one of the available colours. If you prefer to have an image, click the dropdown to some choices: The choices are Picture, Solid Colour, and Slideshow. If you select Picture, you'll see some images and options appear underneath the dropdown box: If your picture is not big enough for your screen, click the dropdown beneath Choose a fit: To select your own pictures, click on the Browse button, the one just above Chose a fit. You'll see an open file dialogue box appear. This one: These types of screen are call dialogue boxes. You'll see a similar dialogue box when you want to save some work. The idea is that you place individual pieces of work (files) inside of folders. The area on your left is for navigating your own computer, and whatever storage devices you have attached to your computer. The area on the left is really a list of folders. Under the Quick Access heading, you'll see folders for: Desktop, Downloads, Documents, and Pictures. Click on the Pictures folder to see if you have any suitable background images there. If you're not sure where you saved your pictures or files to, try the Documents folder first, as this is the default location when you save things. If you have download images from the internet, then try the Downloads folder. The Camera and Photos items on the list (at the bottom, in the image above) are interesting ones. If you plug your camera or phone into your computer with a USB cable, and then click the Camera icon, you will be able to view all the images on your camera or phone. You can then use one of these for your desktop background. The Photos item lets you select folders on your computer where you have saved images to. You can then access them all from one location by clicking the Photos icon. Once you have found a suitable image, click the Choose Picture button at the bottom right of the dialogue box. You'll then see your desktop background change.

Despite being billed as “Super Saturday,” a special parliamentary session in the House of Commons offered little detail on when, or even if, Britain will finally exit the European Union. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was thwarted by a cross-party group of politicians who voted to postpone the “meaningful vote” on his new divorce deal and force him to ask Brussels for an extension to the current Oct. 31 Brexit deadline. The developments in Parliament set up a complicated week with just 11 days left until the U.K. is still due to leave the world’s largest trading bloc. Will there be a deadline delay? Johnson grudgingly asked for an extension to the deadline late on Saturday night, but EU leaders don’t necessarily have to accept it. Some have ruled out giving Britain more time, piling pressure on U.K. lawmakers to accept the current deal. But it’s unlikely they would want a no-deal scenario and the potential economic hit it could mean for both sides of the English Channel. Brussels could offer a technical extension of a few weeks in the hope of passing the agreement they recently thrashed out with Johnson. Or they could accept what Johnson was obliged to ask for on Saturday night and push the date back to January 31, opening the door to a U.K. general election — which itself could lead to a renegotiation or a second referendum. They could also push it out until June 2020 when the next cycle of EU budgets begins, but this is seen as unlikely with the Brexit fatigue that has set in across the whole of Europe. EU leaders are expected to take their time with a response, but it could come as early as Monday

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Out of the two models available on launch, the Honda Africa Twin Adventure Sports is certainly the one to opt for if you are a road rider who wants a mile-muncher and has limited interest in off-road riding. Related: standard 2020 Honda CRF1100L Africa Twin review The new engine injects a welcome boost in performance that while not R1250GS topping, is certainly a noticeable improvement. The lower seat height and narrower waist mean it feels less intimidating at slow speed and the electronic suspension delivers a plush ride quality. The dash is a disappointment, but overall it delivers on its promise and will offer a sterner test for the BMW R1250 GS – not to mention being a chunk cheaper. Showa’s Electronically Equipped Ride Adjustment (EERA) is linked to the six-axis IMU as well as stroke sensors and has three road settings and an off-road setting and can have its shock’s preload adjusted while the bike is stationary to suit two-up or riding with luggage. On the road the system responds extremely well with a noticeable difference in damping between settings and a feeling of compliance. While lacking any self-levelling function, it delivers a plush ride quality and is a worthy addition. The Sports’ lowered seat height (dropped 50mm for 2020) and narrower waist makes it more reassuring at slow speed as your feet are planted on the ground and the five-way adjustable screen gives good shelter. Overall, the Sports has more than enough comfort levels to let you see off its claimed 300-mile range from its 24.8-litre tank. Early Africa Twins suffered badly from rusty spokes, however a new design of tubeless wheel on the Adventure Sports alongside stainless steel spokes should banish this concern. It feels and appears very solidly built, so we don’t expect any issues.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump, facing bipartisan condemnation over Turkey's invasion of Syria, defended his handling of the matter on Wednesday as "strategically brilliant" and downplayed the U.S. alliance with the Kurds, whom he repeatedly described as "not angels." "It's not our problem," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, hours before Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are set to travel to Turkey to try to negotiate a ceasefire and avoid a humanitarian crisis. In remarks throughout the day,Trump dismissed mounting criticism on Capitol Hill and from other allies in the region while further questioningthe Kurds, many of whom fought alongside U.S. troops against ISIS.The House is set to vote Wednesday on a bipartisan resolution condemning Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria. During an East Room press conference with Italian President Sergio Mattarella, the president welcomed reports that Russian troops had entered regions once occupied by a small number of U.S. special forces – a stance that ran counter to the views of many lawmakers who expressed concern about Russia's involvement. "Frankly, if Russia is going to help the Kurds that’s a good thing," Trump said. The president's latest remarks came days after he appeared to diminish the U.S.-Kurd alliance by saying the group is "fighting for their land" and noting thatthe Kurds had not fought with Allied powers in World War II. Trump said one group of Kurds, the Kurdistan Workers' Party was "more of a terrorist threat" than ISIS. "They're not angels," Trump said Wednesday. "Go back and take a look." The U.S. considers the Kurdistan Workers' Party – or the PKK – a terrorist organization. The U.S. allied with an offshoot of that group, the People’s Protection Units – or YPG – to fight ISIS in Syria. The alliance with YPG had raised concerns from some U.S. officials at the time.

These are glory days for anyone seeking small-displacement sporty bikes with budget-friendly price tags. The Yamaha YZF-R3 has filled that niche since 2015. Now the R3 is redesigned for ’19 with sleek new bodywork that makes it look like its bigger, more powerful siblings. A redesigned fuel tank should help riders nestle in behind a more aerodynamic front fairing. There’s a clean new LCD dash pod, too. Power comes from the same sweet 321-cc twin-cylinder engine, backed by a six-speed. Yamaha improved the R3’s suspension with an inverted KYB front fork that is said to dole out a smoother ride and increased capability on tight corners. Like most small bikes, the R3 is a great one for shorter riders thanks to its 30.7-inch seat height. The Yamaha R3 is an entry level sport motorcycle, designed to compete with rivals in 300 cc sector, such as the Kawasaki Ninja 300, Honda CBR300R, and KTM 390 series. It is designed as a well-balanced sport motorcycle, with some design similarity to R25, such as engine (which is bored out). With a low seat height, the windscreen sufficiently deflects the wind overhead. The 321 cc performance-oriented engine is lightweight, powerful, and has a wide power band. Most of the power can be found from 7,000 rpm to redline (12,500 rpm approx.). The engine uses a downdraft induction fuel injection system and the 10-spoke cast aluminum wheels reduce unsprung weight. The cylinders are all-aluminum. For 2017, the YZF-R3 offers optional ABS. The 2018 Model has dual channel ABS and is EURO IV compliant.

Former national security adviser John Bolton was so disturbed by the efforts to get the Ukrainians to investigate President Donald Trump’s political opponents that he called it a “drug deal,” former White House official Fiona Hill reportedly told Congress on Monday. Hill, the former top Europe expert in Trump’s White House, testified that Bolton told her he wanted no part of the effort that involved acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, a person in the room for Hill’s testimony told NBC News. Bolton also was said to have referred to Rudy Giuliani as a "hand grenade." Giuliani has acknowledged in recent interviews that he had asked a Ukrainian prosecutor for information about former Vice President Joe Biden. The New York Times first reported details of Hill's testimony Monday night. Bolton was fired by Trump in September. Hill testified that Bolton told her to report the situation to the top lawyer at the National Security Council, John Eisenberg, according to the person in the room for Monday’s closed-door hearing. Hill told lawmakers she considered what was happening to be a clear counterintelligence risk to the United States, the individual in the room for Hill’s testimony told NBC News. Giuliani said that he was disappointed to learn about Bolton's reported comments. "I always liked and respected John," the president's personal attorney said after hearing about the testimony. "I’m very disappointed that his bitterness drives him to attack a friend falsely and in a very personal way. It’s really ironic that John Bolton is calling anyone else a hand grenade. When John is described by many as an atomic bomb."

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Richard and Shirley Reel, both in their 80s, left their Porter Ranch home with little time to spore Thursday evening, barely getting out before their house was fully engulfed in flames. The couple fled shortly before 11 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, before mandatory evacuation notices were announced in their neighborhood. They said they took less than 10 minutes to leave as flames from the Saddleridge fire ignited a palm tree in their backyard and fierce winds sent embers into their back window. “We started to go out the backyard and it was like it was raining fire,” said Richard Reel, 87. They returned Saturday to see the what was left of their home, the only one on the block on Eddleston Drive that was fully destroyed by fire. The timbers still stood but the inside of the two-story home was completely charred in almost every room. Two burned sofas smoldered on the sidewalk. Both were still wearing the clothes on Saturday that they left wearing on Thursday because the couple didn’t even have time to grab a change of clothes. Shirley Reel said she just carried her purse with some medicine. “We had to make a decision,” Shirley Reel said. “My husband said we got to get out of here and that’s what we did.”

About digital representations of assets moving towards an era where every physical object has a digital representation in a database. This can be in the form of a certificate, a simple entry in a database or another form of digital footprint. In the past, this used to be the paper trail associated with the purchase of a car, a painting or any other type of asset. Today, digital is slowly replacing analog in most aspects of our life. Thanks to advances in cryptography, we are reaching a point where even ownership claims of a specific object don’t need to be a signed paper certificate anymore. This allows digitization to move to a new level. BigchainDB as a solution is suited perfectly to act as a digital asset registration and tracking tool. Using the example of the digital registration of a famous painting you own, in this tutorial you will learn how to register an asset on BigchainDB and how to digitally transfer the ownership of this asset to someone else. The example is for illustrative purposes. For a real life application, there would be additional components that would need to be included. Let’s get started! Setup Start by installing the official BigchainDB JavaScript driver, Python driver or Java driver: Bash: # JavaScript driver npm i bigchaindb-driver Bash: # Python driver pip install -U bigchaindb-driver Xml: <!-- Java driver, in pom.xml for Maven users --> <dependency> <groupId>com.bigchaindb</groupId> <artifactId>bigchaindb-driver</artifactId> <version>1.0</version> </dependency> Then, include that as a module and connect to any BigchainDB node. Js: const BigchainDB = require('bigchaindb-driver') const API_PATH = 'https://test.bigchaindb.com/api/v1/' const conn = new BigchainDB.Connection(API_PATH) Python: from bigchaindb_driver import BigchainDB conn = BigchainDB('https://test.bigchaindb.com') Java: BigchainDbConfigBuilder .baseUrl("https://test.bigchaindb.com/").setup(); Creation of a key pair: Before starting, you need to create a user in BigchainDB. In BigchainDB, users are represented as a private and public key pair. In our case, a key pair for Alice will be created. Alice will be the owner of the painting, and she will be the only one able to make changes to the digital representation of the painting. Using her public key, anyone can also verify that Alice is the owner of the painting. You can generate a key pair from a seed phrase using the BIP39 library, so you will just need to remember this particular seed phrase. The code below illustrates that. Js: const bip39 = require('bip39') const seed = bip39.mnemonicToSeed('seedPhrase').slice(0,32) const alice = new BigchainDB.Ed25519Keypair(seed) Python: from bigchaindb_driver.crypto import generate_keypair alice = generate_keypair() Java: net.i2p.crypto.eddsa.KeyPairGenerator edDsaKpg = new net.i2p.crypto.eddsa.KeyPairGenerator(); KeyPair alice = edDsaKpg.generateKeyPair(); Digital registration of an asset on BigchainDB: Now, let’s assume that Alice is extremely lucky and gets to acquire the famous painting Las Meninas by the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez at a fantastic price during an auction held by the Spanish museum museo nacional del prado. Now, she wants to ensure that she can digitally certify that she is the owner of this painting. For this reason, she wants to register the painting as an asset on BigchainDB to have an immutable claim. This corresponds to a CREATE transaction in BigchainDB. Using her key pair, Alice can create an asset on BigchainDB. In your case, the asset will represent an object in real life, namely the painting Las Meninas. This asset will live in BigchainDB forever and there is no possibility to delete it. The first step required is the definition of the asset field that represents the painting. This field contains the data about the asset that is immutable. It has a JSON format: Js: const painting = { name: 'Meninas', author: 'Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez', place: 'Madrid', year: '1656' } As a next step, you need to generate a CREATE transaction to link the defined asset to the user Alice. There are three steps to post this transaction in BigchainDB. First you create it, then sign it and then send it. There are different methods for each step. Here, we are illustrating one of them: Js: function createPaint() { // Construct a transaction payload const txCreatePaint = BigchainDB.Transaction.makeCreateTransaction( // Asset field { painting, }, // Metadata field, contains information about the transaction itself // (can be `null` if not needed) { datetime: new Date().toString(), location: 'Madrid', value: { value_eur: '25000000€', value_btc: '2200', } }, // Output. For this case we create a simple Ed25519 condition [BigchainDB.Transaction.makeOutput( BigchainDB.Transaction.makeEd25519Condition(alice.publicKey))], // Issuers alice.publicKey ) // The owner of the painting signs the transaction const txSigned = BigchainDB.Transaction.signTransaction(txCreatePaint, alice.privateKey) // Send the transaction off to BigchainDB conn.postTransactionCommit(txSigned) .then(res => { document.body.innerHTML += '<h3>Transaction created</h3>'; document.body.innerHTML += txSigned.id // txSigned.id corresponds to the asset id of the painting }) } Now Alice has digitally registered her painting on BigchainDB. Alice’s public key appears in the output, specifying that she is the owner of the painting. txSigned.id is an id that uniquely identifies your asset (your asset id). Note that the metadata field is used to record values along with the transaction (e.g. the price of the painting). This is a field that can be different in every transaction (as every transaction can have different metadata, because e.g. the price of the painting changes). Once a transaction ends up in a decided-valid block, it’s etched into stone. There’s no changing it, no deleting it. The asset is registered now and cannot be deleted. However, the usage of the metadata field allows you to do updates in the asset. For this, you can use TRANSFER transactions (with their arbitrary metadata) to store any type of information, including information that could be interpreted as changing an asset (if that’s how you want it to be interpreted).

More than a million Californians remained without power early Thursday after the state’s largest utility shut off electricity in an attempt to prevent windblown power lines from sparking devastating wildfires. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. began cutting power to customers shortly after midnight Wednesday in counties around Sacramento. The utility continued to cut power overnight into Thursday morning, affecting 234,000 customers in Alameda, Alpine, Contra Costa, Mariposa, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Stanislaus and Tuolumne counties. By early Thursday, PG&E had restored power to about 125,000 customers across the state, including 74,000 in Humboldt County. By sunrise, 600,000 customers were without electricity. That number was less than the projected 800,000 the utility had anticipated would lose power in the widespread outage. However, more areas could lose power during the day, depending on weather conditions. The utility is still considering cutting off about 4,000 customers in the southern portion of its coverage area in Kern County. Morning brought fierce winds to several counties in Northern California, the kind that bends treetops and causes cars to swerve. The National Weather Service on Thursday issued a red flag warning for much of the region, signaling northerly winds between 15 and 30 mph, with gusts up to 50 mph, and very low daytime humidity. The warning is in effect through Friday. The high winds and dry weather create ideal fire conditions, authorities warn, with the potential to transform a spark into a raging inferno. PG&E fears windblown electrical lines could spark fires if power is not cut. The utility has warned that some customers may be in the dark for up to five days, even after the winds subside, as the utility checks equipment and repairs fallen lines before restoring electricity. The PG&E blackout marks the largest power shutoff to date as California utilities attempt to reduce the risk of wildfires that have charred thousands of acres, caused billions of dollars in damage and spurred cries for widespread change in how electricity is delivered over the state’s aging grid. Equipment malfunctions have been tied to some of the state’s most destructive and deadliest fires, including the 2017 wine country blazes and last year’s Camp fire, which devastated the town of Paradise and killed 85 people. In January, PG&E filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, anticipating multibillion-dollar legal claims stemming from the Camp fire, which also destroyed nearly 14,000 homes. A month later, officials at the utility acknowledged that its equipment probably sparked that blaze. At a news conference Wednesday evening, PG&E officials signaled that these types of massive shut-offs during fire season might be the new normal. Sumeet Singh, vice president of PG&E’s community wildfire safety program, said customers should anticipate similar shutdowns in the future until the utility has finished its wildfire safety plann “unless the weather changes significantly and the vegetation condition and the fuel-loading condition, and land and the forest management changes significantly within the state.” “We understand that this power shutoff is difficult for our customers and communities. Please check on your neighbors, friends and family and know that we will work safely, and quickly as possible, to restore power across the region,” Singh said. The power shut-offs have prompted backlash, with some residents saying they create a whole new set of dangers as they try to keep up with news about fires. Critics worry that communications and evacuations will be hampered when the power is out, especially if traffic signals don’t work and cellphone service is affected. There also is concern about how those with health issues who rely on electrically powered medical equipment to stay alive will cope without power. Sen. Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo) said Thursday he sent a letter to the state Public Utilities Commission asking the panel to conduct a review of how PG&E decided which areas should lose power and how the blackouts were implemented. “Many questions remain unanswered as the state reels from the consequences of this decision by PG&E, chief among them why is PG&E alone in making this decision?” Hill wrote to the commission. The outage prompted UC Berkeley to cancel classes for a second consecutive day. School officials say some buildings are running on generator power for “life safety, animal care and support of critical research infrastructure.” However, the generators cannot power the entire campus. The Oakland Zoo also remained closed after the region lost power overnight. The zoo had closed ahead of the planned blackout, and staff rushed out to purchase additional generators to power exhibits for animal safety. The gas they have will power the generators for about four days, Darren Minier, assistant director of animal care, told the San Francisco Chronicle. In Southern California, residents have anxiously watched how the power shut-downs have affected other parts of the state, wondering if it was a glimpse of what was to come for them. Southern California Edison said Thursday that it still was considering preventive power outages across its service area. Given the strong Santa Ana winds forecast for the area, the utility said, power could be cut off to more than 173,000 customers in parts of nine counties in Southern and Central California: Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange, Ventura, Kern, Tulare, Inyo and Mono. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power said there were no plans to shut off power to residents in L.A. because the city is highly urbanized, with fewer wildfire-prone areas and an “extensive fire-suppression infrastructure.” Times staff writers Anita Chabria and Patrick McGreevy contributed to this report.

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An intentional shut-off by Pacific Gas & Electric, the largest utility in the state, could affect as many as 800,000 customers. Large swaths of central and Northern California were expected to be without electricity on Wednesday as the state’s largest utility planned to cut power as a safety precaution. The utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, said that around 800,000 customers would be affected in stages, from the doorstep of Silicon Valley to the foothills of the Sierra. Extreme winds are expected on Wednesday and Thursday. Peak wildfire season has arrived in California, with a combination of high winds and low humidity creating conditions for potentially catastrophic fires. Pacific Gas & Electric says it is proactively shutting off power to prevent its equipment from sparking a blaze. The company has been found responsible for dozens of wildfires in recent years, including the state’s deadliest, an inferno in and around the town of Paradise last November that killed 86 people. Over the summer the utility turned off power to less-po[CENSORED]ted areas in Northern California, but this is by far the most extensive shut-off the company has carried out, affecting large parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. More than half of all counties in California — 34 out of 58 — are expected to be affected by the power cut, according to PG&E, one of the country’s largest utilities. PG&E anticipates that it will begin turning power back on starting Thursday, when winds subside, But re-energizing power lines is a tricky process, even after the winds subside. Sumeet Singh, a PG&E vice president, said in a briefing Tuesday night that technicians will need to inspect “every inch” of line before restoring power. That could take as long as five days, he said. Shoppers emptied supermarket shelves of batteries, water and other essentials on Wednesday while power was still on. The East Bay Municipal Utility District, a water utility, said its pumping capacity would be affected by the shut-off and urged its customers to minimize water use and turn off their irrigation systems. Cities are positioning traffic officers near large intersections to direct traffic. In Oakland, all police officers were ordered to report for duty on Wednesday. Officials said they were concerned about older residents with conditions that required medical equipment. Stores in Northern California reported higher-than-usual sales of gasoline generators over the summer. PG&E established around 30 facilities stocked with bottled water and outlets to charge electronic devices.