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0%66°37°Night - Clear. Winds W. The overnight low will be 42 °F (5.6 °C).Sunny with a high of 66 °F (18.9 °C). Winds variable.
5%67°41°Sunny today with a high of 67 °F (19.4 °C) and a low of 41 °F (5.0 °C).
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2019-04-19T21:38:33Z
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather/austria/carinthia/rosegg-540352
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$2,950 for a team of 5 to attend 4 full-day sessions!
The RIISA Middle Grades Network is a consortium of schools and school districts. The mission of the RIISA Middle Grade Network is to prepare and support administrators, teachers and school counselors to address teaching and learning issues particular to students in grades 4-8.
Extended Content Coaching & Implementation Assistance can be added to a school/district contract.
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2019-04-26T12:15:47Z
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http://riisa.gse.rutgers.edu/init/middle-grades-network
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The cell. Whatever is there?
Now! Or a flattened death!
Shouts loudly over the noise.
To Cairo International Book Fair.
So she is in Roxi!
Laila Neihoum is a journalist, poet, editor and translator. She was the first Libyan author to join the International Writers Program at the prestigious University of Iowa Writing Program. She edits and contributes to a number of Libyan journals and newspapers and has published a short-story collection and compiled a collection of poems by young Libyans.
Dr. Mohamed Hassan, born in 1950, is a Libyan teaching staff member in the department of English, Garyounis University. He is a researcher, an editor, and a translator of Arabic/English/Arabic literature works. He contributes to journals and newspapers in Libya and outside.
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2019-04-19T00:56:31Z
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https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article/butterflies-of-meaning
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Holy crap. VirginMobile is having a presale on Lady Gaga's upcoming US tour, the San Jose (not SF! well, ok.) show is not yet sold out, but the VirginMobile website is not recognizing my email address! Why aren't they asking me for my phone number??
I wonder if Lady Gaga would be swayed by eccentric poetry.
Can I go with you? Or to the show in Vegas, Portland or Tacoma. I can get crash space for those.
Alas. The shows are all sold out. I assumed the San Jose show had tickets available because it was the only one on the West Coast with a clickable link for buying tickets but I guess I was wrong.
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2019-04-25T04:50:19Z
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https://eriktrips.livejournal.com/1113543.html?thread=3157447
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ucdavis
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Connect one-on-one with admissions director Jessica Moon. Have your questions answered in person, over the phone or through Zoom. Gain an insider’s perspective on your application, program costs, student life, next steps and career outlook.
Are there no upcoming events? Contact Jessica with two available dates/times.
Consultation time slots are generally available Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. PST; a 24-hour notice is required.
For more admissions tips and information join the Admissions Team on Facebook.
We encourage prospective MBA candidates to visit to the School to discover first-hand the special qualities of the UC Davis MBA program and our community.
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https://gsm.ucdavis.edu/admissions-consultation/personal-consultation-phone-or-zoom
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duke
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Gastrostomy in oropharyngeal cancer patients with ERCC4 (XPF) germline variants.
PURPOSE: ERCC4 (XPF) plays a role in both recombinant DNA repair and nucleotide excision repair, which involve repairing radiation-induced genetic damage. We hypothesized that two ERCC4 single-nucleotide polymorphisms are associated with normal-tissue toxicity in patients treated with radiotherapy for oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC). METHODS AND MATERIALS: A retrospective review of the medical records of 130 patients with OPSCC who were prospectively recruited into a molecular epidemiologic study was performed to determine whether a long-term percutaneous feeding gastrostomy (LPFG) tube (a tube required for more than 180 days) had been used during and after definitive radiotherapy. We determined the genotype of the ERCC4 G1244A and T2505C polymorphisms using standard polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment-length polymorphism techniques on DNA extracted from peripheral blood lymphocytes. RESULTS: Of 130 patients, 100 (77%) were evaluable for the ERCC4 G1244A polymorphism in exon 8, and 122 (94%) were evaluable for the ERCC4 T2505C polymorphism in exon 11. The ERCC4 G1244A polymorphism was associated with a decreased need for LPFG, but this was not statistically significant (adjusted odds ratio = 0.53; 95% confidence interval, 0.10-2.78). Sixteen (32%), 9 (14%), and 1 (10%) of patients with the wild-type homozygous TT genotype of ERCC4 T2505C, the heterozygous TC genotype, and the homozygous CC polymorphic genotype, respectively, required LPFG. These results suggest that the ERCC4 2505C allele was associated with a reduced need for LPFG (adjusted odds ratio = 0.20; 95% confidence interval, 0.06-0.67). Furthermore, the need for LPFG was reduced by having more than 1 ERCC4 2505C allele and further for having both the ERCC4 1244A and 2505C polymorphic alleles, but this was not statistically significant. In addition, the actual time of gastrostomy dependence was associated with the T2505C polymorphism based on the Kaplan-Meier method (p = 0.03). CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that the ERCC4 T2505C polymorphism may be associated with improved recovery from radiation treatment toxicity in patients with OPSCC. Further study with larger sample sizes and prospective measure of radiotherapy-induced toxicity is warranted.
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2019-04-21T02:51:05Z
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https://scholars.duke.edu/display/pub1115735
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Scope and Contents This collection contains awards, publicity material, songs, articles, speeches, and photographs that once belonged to College of William and Mary professor Leslie Cheek. The bulk of the material is from 1936 to 1938, and most of the material relates to the various exhibits put on by the Department of Fine Arts. The photographs are from theatre productions, dances, and exhibits at William and Mary.
Scope and Contents The collection contains minutes, by-laws, correspondence, and subject files from Arts and Sciences. Included in the collection are Faculty Minutes from 1926 to the present; American Culture Cluster lectures; by-laws; and material from various committees. Also present in the collection is correspondence from the Dean, as well as subject files on degree requirements, the Sharpe Community Partnership Program, and other topics.
Scope and Contents This collection contains a copy of "Portraits in the President's House," an essay Snell wrote for Fine Arts 306. The text of the essay is interleaved with copies of the portraits being discussed. Acc. 2011.671 contains notes from various classes Snell took at the College of William & Mary, including English, History, and French classes. There are also notes from courses Snell took at Boston University.
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2019-04-24T08:26:53Z
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https://scrcguides.libraries.wm.edu/repositories/resources?q%5B%5D=%2A&op%5B%5D=&field%5B%5D=title&from_year%5B%5D=&to_year%5B%5D=&limit=resource&sort=title_sort%20asc&filter_fields%5B%5D=published_agents&filter_values%5B%5D=College+of+William+and+Mary.+Dept.+of+Fine+Arts
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Councillor Jonathan Bullock, a member of the Cabinet of Kettering Borough Council and former Conservative Parliamentary and European Candidate, has today resigned from the Conservative Party and joined UKIP.
Cllr Bullock said “After considerable thought over some time I have joined UKIP, as they are articulating the right policies for the future of our country, particularly on Europe, Defence and Home Affairs. I remain committed to the KBC conservative manifesto, of which I was the principal author, and on which I was elected at the Borough Elections in 2011. This manifesto is entirely consistent with UKIP policies, so I will remain serving as a Ward Councillor and will continue to represent my Ward, and the views in that manifesto, at the Council”.
Notes: Councillor Jonathan Bullock lives in Geddington , Northamptonshire and was first elected in 2007 for the Queen Eleanor and Buccleuch Ward of Kettering Borough Council. He was re-elected in 2011 with an increased majority.
Councillor Bullock can be contacted on 07774 832868 for further comment.
The EU is getting so silly that I think they will actually land some crashing blows on the Coalition at exactly the right time – just before the next election. It could well be that Councillor Bullock and you have made a very astute decision.
Welcome aboard Councillor Bullock, may many more follow in your footsteps.
To raise the Conservative party “out of the ruck”, you need to restore Conservative values in the top leadership. With David Cameron, that’s never going to happen. As Cllr Bullock has found, the only way to maintain his personal and political integrity was to join UKIP. In a sense, the steamship Tory has floated away into the wilderness and the nuclear battleship UKIP has sailed in to rescue the stranded (bad ship analogies I know, but …).
When the Conservative Party is lead by a Europhile deception artist intent on pursuing centrist policies; taking those who tend to believe in policies closer to those offered by UKIP for granted & belittling & insulting even those in his own party who advocate policies that most of his party’s potential voters want; perhaps its more honest to follow a party that offers policies you agree with & with leadership that believes in something, rather than just saying whatever they think their current audience wants to hear.
I salute your loyalty and perseverance, but we need change. If enough Tories like Jonathan vote with their real feelings and move to UKIP then we really could do something stunning. It’s not an easy ride, but the prospects for change are getting better all time.
If more people like you were also to move then we really can give the Tories something to think about.
The people of this country have been constantly let down by this ‘Conservative’ Government. Promises;promises;and yet more promises, have all been broken; the biggest one of all was David Cameron’s ‘Cast-Iron’ Guarantee to have a Referendum on In-Out of Europe. Finally people are saying, loud and clear, “Enough Is Enough”! UKIP is a breath of fresh air.
For what it’s worth, I struggled for years with this conundrum: political principle versus tribal loyalty. For years I believed that we sceptics could change the Tory Party from within. But Cameron broke his “Cast Iron Promise” on a referendum — he even whipped his MPs against a referendum, and declared that we wouldn’t have a referendum because he believed we were “Better Off In”.
Add to that a thoroughly perverse position on energy, which threatens to leave the lights going off and our grandchildren in poverty. A social engineering approach to university admissions. Failure to support the armed forces, while squandering billions on foreign aid. I reached the point when I could not in good conscience remain in the Conservative Party. I guess the same goes for Jonathan.
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2019-04-18T13:30:12Z
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https://rogerhelmermep.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/jonathan-bullock-joins-ukip/
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livejournal
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I work in IT Security for a living. Therefore, I am not on Facebook.
the new trend is to create a separate anonymous profile on fb. one is your real name, real pic but innocuous: flowers and sunshine stuff for your grandma or employers. the anon one has no pics of you, no personal info (or false), and locked down privacy settings.
I know what Facebook actually does to make money. Therefore, I am not on Facebook.
The problem is that most people (not the author of the article) will blame the app and its creators, not the "services" that allow you to broadcast your life or the people stupid enough to actually do so.
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2019-04-25T14:55:30Z
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https://dantheserene.livejournal.com/486651.html
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WFSU speaks with community leaders helping students transition into the workforce. This path might be taken in different ways: vocational schools, two or four-year college programs, or straight from high school graduation. There are many resource in our area to help students find the best fit for them.
Jim McShane of CareerSource discusses career readiness in students.
Education and community leaders discuss alternate pathways to a high school graduation.
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2019-04-22T02:38:32Z
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http://americangraduate.wfsu.org/television-features/career-readiness/
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Few drivers could imagine owning a car these days that did not come with air bags, antilock brakes and seat belts. But 50 years ago motorists went without such basic safety features.
That was before a young lawyer named Ralph Nader came along with a book, “Unsafe at Any Speed,” that would change the auto industry. It accused automakers of failing to make cars as safe as possible. Less than a year after the book was published, a balky Congress created the federal safety agency that became the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration – an agency whose stated mission is to save lives, prevent injuries and reduce crashes.
Today, even some of the book’s harshest critics acknowledge its impact.
If anything, he said, the regulations that followed leveled the playing field among automakers.
“It sets ground rules where everybody has to do something and nobody has to worry” about being at a competitive disadvantage, Lutz said.
Nader’s book was long in the making. He started researching automotive safety in 1956 as a second-year student at Harvard Law School and kept at it intermittently. He was inspired by books that prompted change, including Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” which highlighted the dangers of the pesticide DDT to the environment.
“I aspired to the level of getting a law through, getting an agency to implement it,” he said.
Then Nader was approached by Richard L. Grossman, a New York publisher, who had read an article in The New Republic detailing Nader’s concerns about automotive safety and his assertion that the Chevrolet Corvair was “inherently dangerous.” He asked Nader to write a book, although he had doubts about its sales potential.
“The issue about marketing that book always was, even if every word in it is true and everything about it is as outrageous as he says, do people want to read about that?” Grossman said in “An Unreasonable Man,” a 2007 documentary about Nader. Grossman died in 2014.
The first chapter was aimed at the 1960-63 Chevrolet Corvair compact. Nader argued the rear-engine car had a suspension defect that made it easy for the driver to lose control and sometimes roll the car over. To this day, some Corvair enthusiasts dispute that assertion, although GM did make significant suspension changes starting with the 1965 model.
But most of the book focused on a long list of neglected safety issues ranging from brake performance to drivers’ being impaled by non-collapsible steering wheels and poor crash protection. The sharp-edged theme was that there was a “gap between existing design and attainable safety” and the auto industry was ignoring “moral imperatives” to make people safer.
Nader said he culled his information from years of research with resources including lawsuits and depositions, congressional hearings and reports, engineering journals, discussions with auto industry engineers, whistle-blowers and sometimes the U.S. Patent Office.
Among those who greeted Nader’s success with dismay was Edward N. Cole, who was the general manager of Chevrolet when the Corvair was being developed in what was seen as a bold and innovative move to offer a more fuel-efficient small car. One of the people driving a Corvair was his son David.
“I don’t think he would ever had me driving a 1960 Corvair if he had any inclination there was a safety issue,” said David Cole, former director of the University of Michigan’s Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation and currently the chairman of the nonprofit AutoHarvest Foundation.
In a telephone interview, David Cole said his father – who died in 1977 in a plane crash – thought Nader did not understand the complexity and trade-offs of automotive engineering and that the book encouraged people to sue the auto industry.
“That book was one of the key factors that ignited this whole litigious thing,” he said.
In September 1966 – about 10 months after the book was published – President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act, requiring the adoption of new or upgraded vehicle safety standards, and creating an agency to enforce them and supervise safety recalls.
Suddenly, what consumer advocates saw as an unfettered auto industry was facing much stronger federal oversight.
A host of new or stronger safety requirements led – often after stiff opposition – to new technologies like air bags, antilock brakes, electronic stability control and, recently, rearview cameras and automatic braking.
Indeed, the death rate has dropped strikingly. In 1965, there were about five deaths for every 100 million miles traveled, according to the traffic safety agency. In 2014, the most recent year available, there was one death for every 100 million miles.
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2019-04-21T08:45:56Z
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https://www.pe.com/2015/12/04/50-years-ago-ralph-naders-unsafe-at-any-speed-shook-the-auto-world/
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zdnet
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The leaders of Samsung Electronics and SoftBank met in Seoul late Thursday to discuss cooperation in future technologies, according to reports.
Leaders of South Korea's Samsung Electronics and Japan's SoftBank met in Seoul late Thursday to reportedly discuss cooperation in future technologies.
Samsung vice chairman Lee Jae-yong, also known by JY Lee, met with SoftBank chairman Masayoshi Son at the Korean tech giant's office in Seoul, and discussed cooperation in artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors, and the Internet of Things, according to local media.
Samsung confirmed the meeting but declined to comment on what they discussed.
Son also met South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Friday, who asked Samsung's chairman to invest in the countries, especially in areas such as new energy and AI.
Heir-apparent Lee has been the de facto chairman of Samsung since his father Lee Kun-hee's hospitalization following a heart attack. Earlier this month, he was nominated to the board, amid the company's global recall of the Galaxy Note 7 following battery explosions.
SoftBank recently acquired UK chip firm ARM, which licenses its core architecture for processors used by Apple, Qualcomm, and Samsung, for $32 billion. It is likely that more processors for new Internet of Things devices will use the design.
Processors and high-memory capacity are all a must for the realization of more Internet of Things tech.
Samsung, in turn, is the world's largest memory chip maker.
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2019-04-19T12:25:20Z
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/bosses-of-samsung-softbank-discuss-iot-ai/
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Dr. Moch Nur Ichwan shares preliminary findings from his research with Arskal Salim in the Authority, Identity, and Community Indonesia working group. His essay examines the frontier areas in which multiple religious traditions interact in Aceh, Indonesia, and identifies patterns of exclusion generated by a “host/guest” citizenship model.
Although Indonesia is not an Islamic state, it uniquely granted the province of Aceh permission to officially implement sharia law in 2001. This was an effort to win over the Aceh people, who are known to be deeply religious Muslims, against the Aceh Liberation Movement (which had no sharia agenda). Since then sharia has become the “master signifier” which defines all other aspects of life in the region. All other legal sources—customary laws, national laws, and international conventions—are interpreted according to, and should not contradict, sharia. The Quran and prophetic traditions are the major sources of legal authority and take precedence over the state constitution and national laws in all local qanuns (bylaws). The thing is, although Muslims are a majority (98.19% according to the 2010 census), non-Muslims live in Aceh too, albeit a small minority. They are citizens, just like their Muslim counterparts, and should technically have equal rights.
How, then, do local Islamic establishment politics and illiberal citizenship affect interreligious relations, sources of authority, and how individuals define their identity, especially in Aceh’s ethnically and religiously mixed border areas?
Map of Aceh Province in tan, with North Sumatra Province in pale yellow.
The Aceh-North Sumatra border is interesting in terms of religious identity and ethnicity. The neighboring province, North Sumatra, is home to a significant number of Christians (31% Protestants and Catholics), although Muslims are still the majority (66.09%). Migration of Batak Christians and others from North Sumatra to the border areas of Aceh is common practice, usually for work in palm oil plantation factories. Due to this migration, the number of Batak Christians living in Aceh’s border areas has been increasing. As a result, unlike most other parts of Aceh, the east border areas are more religiously and ethnically pluralistic. Although Muslims are still the majority, the Acehnese ethnic group are mostly a minority. Here live ethnic groups that are identified as Muslim, such as the Acehnese, Alas, Tamiang Malay, Boang, and Minangkabau; those identified as Christian, such as the Toba Batak and Karo Batak; and those associated with multiple faiths, such as Pakpak (Protestantism, Catholicism, Islam, and Pambi [a local religion]), and Javanese (Protestantism, Catholicism, and Islam).
These border areas also have the highest number of churches in Aceh. In Southeast Aceh there are 124 churches operating (only 38 are officially recognized by the government); in Singkil 24 churches (of which four are official); in Subulussalam four churches (only one church is legally recognized); in Tamiang there was one church, but it was closed by the government, and three Buddhist temples (vihara); in Langsa one church and one Buddhist temple shared with Hindus. Most of the churches belong to Batak and Pakpak people.
Since the implementation of sharia in 2001, the identity marker that indicates a group is the “host”, or “insider”, has become religious (Islamic) rather than ethnic. The Muslim ethnic groups hold dual “hosthood”, that is, they are ethnically and religiously hosts, such as Acehnese in Langsa; Alas is Southeast Aceh; and Tamiang Malay in Tamiang. Meanwhile in multi-religious ethnic groups, Muslim and non-Muslims compete with each other internally, and externally the Muslim members align with Muslims from other ethnicities to form a pan-Islamic “hosthood”. Multi-religious Pakpak and Muslim Boang have shared “hosthood” in Subulussalam and Singkil for a long time, but since 2001 the Boang and Muslim Pakpak have allied with other Muslims such as the Acehnese, Minangkabau, and Muslim Javanese, claiming the “hosthood” of Subulussalam and Singkil.
Aceh’s Muslims and the Aceh provincial government have at times viewed the heterogeneous and pluralistic nature of the border areas as a “threat” to the Muslim faith and Aceh’s identity as the “land of sharia”. The growing number of churches and rumors of “Christianization” of the border areas frequently generate concern for local authority as well as Muslims. Responding to such a “threat”, the Aceh government issued Gubernatorial Decree on Building Places of Worship in 2007. At the national level, the Joint Decree between the Minister of Religious Affairs and the Minister of Home Affairs in 2006 requires a place of worship obtain the support of 90 congregation members and 60 neighbors, complete with copies of their ID cards. But locally, the Aceh government’s 2007 Gubernatorial Decree makes the requirement even stricter. A place of worship must be supported by 150 congregation members and 120 neighbors. This has made it almost impossible for minority religions in Aceh to build their places of worship.
Islamic Center in Aceh Tamiang Regency.
In addition, the provincial Sharia Office, which operates within the gubernatorial office, established a “frontier preachers” (da’i perbatasan) program which has been operating since 2002. About 150 to 170 preachers were sent to border areas to teach Islam to Muslims. To bolster the program, the government also established “frontier Islamic boarding schools” (dayah perbatasan) and Islamic centers. The main aim of these endeavors is to protect the Islamic identity of the border areas, and prevent Muslims from being targeted by Christian missions.
The above policies cannot be separated from three government institutions: the Sharia Office, Council of Ulama Deliberation (Majelis Permusyawaratan Ulama/MPU), and Aceh Religious Treasury Council (Baitul Mal Aceh/BMA). They exist at the provincial, municipal, and regency levels. While the Sharia Office drafts sharia derived legislation and manages sharia related policies, the MPU gives religious opinions (fatwas) and advice to the government concerning policies and regulations, as well as giving or not giving permission for public events. In this respect, many non-Muslim religious and social events cannot be conducted because they fail to receive the MPU’s permission. The BMA collects Islamic charity (zakat, infaq, sadaqah) and manages them for poverty alleviation and for supporting programs of sharia implementation. No similar institutions exist for non-Muslim citizens.
The only institution shared by Muslims and non-Muslims is a state-supported Forum for Harmonious Relations among Interreligious Communities (FKUB). It is in this forum that interreligious issues and social problems are discussed. It is also in charge of giving letters of recommendation for building places of worship. However, in most cases Muslim biases dominate the forum because, in most regions, the number of Muslim representatives in the forum is double or even triple that of other religions. Committee members are selected proportionately from the local community and Muslims tend to be the overwhelming majority. Non-Muslims have no choice because it is the only government-supported interreligious forum. So far, there are no civil society NGOs working specifically on interreligious issues, although there are individuals striving for religious freedom. On the contrary, there are Islamist movements—Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), Islamic Ummah Forum (FUI), and Youth for the Care of Islam (PPI)—which have successfully organized people against any increase of churches in Singkil, burned a church, and pressured the government to close others.
The host-guest model of illiberal citizenship is also the framework through which the Aceh government and Muslims perceive tolerance of non-Muslim citizens, which can be called “asymmetric tolerance”. As host, the argument goes, they have given their non-Muslims “guests” the right to perform their beliefs and religion, but within the bounds set by the host. In return, the guests should respect the tradition, beliefs, and regulations of the host. Such favoring of a particular religion, seen through the perspective of liberal citizenship, is nothing but legal, political, and social exclusion. As such, the demand for equal citizenship has been emerging among academics, intelligentsia, NGO activists, and those who struggle for religious freedom in Aceh, although their voices have so far not affected the mainstream adherence to illiberal citizenship.
Dr. Moch Nur Ichwan holds PhD degree in Religious Studies and Islamic Politics from Tilburg University (2006) and is currently coordinator of doctorate program at the Graduate School of the Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. His most recent publication is “Neo-Sufism, Shari‘atism, and Ulama Politics: Abuya Shaykh Amran Waly and Tauhid-Tasawuf Movement in Post-Conflict Aceh,” in C. van Dijk and N. Kaptein (Eds.), Islam, Politics and Change: The Indonesian Experience after the Fall of Suharto, Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2016.
Photo Credit: Moch Nur Ichwan. Featured image: Youth Christmas in Tamiang (2016). The Christmas ceremony was planned to be held in an open space, but moved to a parishioner’s home because of the rain. The congregation could not use their church because they failed to receive the government’s permission.
Ichwan, Moch Nur. “The Politics of Shari‘atisation: Central Governmental and Regional Discourses of Shari‘a Implementation in Aceh,” Michael Feener and Mark Cammack (eds.), Islamic Law in Contemporary Indonesia, Harvard: Islamic Legal Studies Program, 2007, 193-215.
Feener, R. Michael. Shari`a and Social Engineering: The Implementation of Islamic Law in Contemporary Aceh, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Kloos, David, R. Michael Feener, and Annemarie Samuels (eds.). Islam and the Limits of the State: Reconfigurations of Practices, Community and Authority in Contemporary Aceh, Leiden etc.: Brill, 2015.
Salim, Arskal. Contemporary Islamic Law in Indonesia: Shari`a and Legal Pluralism, Edinburg: Edinburg University Press, 2015.
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2019-04-25T09:54:14Z
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http://sites.nd.edu/contendingmodernities/2017/02/22/faith-ethnicity-and-illiberal-citizenship/
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I have been fascinated for years about the way the brain has a way of freezing our experiences through our senses into a fine reference point. If I smell transmission fluid starting to burn it takes me back to my first car that was faulty with it and my first baby was going to need secure travel for a delivery within a month. My clients in addiction recovery may have slammed heroin with a best friend with a rare shirt. They see it at the grocery store and it takes them to three years ago and they have a craving. If I hear “I Got You Babe” I think of courting my wife and hearing it then.
But what about the brain, senses and faith? There are rituals that come with most religions even if some do not see it. Often there is a context of learning by doing. If we look at early and consistent traditions and teachings of Christianity we can see such cerebral contexts spread through the limbic system.
One example is in baptism. Jesus did not see the baptism practice to entirely go into the dust bin of history but wanted it to be universally applied.
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age (Matthew 28:18-20).
This was to be a ritual but by no means empty.
“Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. What is born of flesh is flesh and what is born of spirit is spirit (John 3:3-6).
In the Didache, written between 50-110 AD, there is much detail is given beyond the Great Commission baptism reference (Matthew 28:18-20) too much for it to be just a symbol.
Concerning baptism, baptize thus: Having first rehearsed all these things, “baptize, in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost,” in running water; But if thou hast no running water, baptize in other water, and if thou canst not in cold, then in warm. But if thou hast neither, pour water three times on the head “in the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.” And before the baptism let the baptizer and him who is to be baptized fast, and any others who are able. And thou shalt bid him who is to be baptized to fast one or two days before (Didache Chapter 7).
It is full of context on the nature of the Trinity and allows for the integration of physical hunger which can mirror spiritual hunger, physical cleansing which mirrors spiritual cleansing and being prepared holistically to take the meaning in. And for water to touch the body as a sacred thing is in one manner of speaking more than once. In many traditions of Christianity one can walk into the sanctuary, touch ones forehead with water, make the sign of the cross and reaffirm the Blessed Trinity and the relation of this connection to ones baptism.
We do damage to the context of scripture and ancient tradition if we see this as only ceremony. Baptism is an experiential reference point for the person and the surrounding Christian community. But it needs to be understood in context of the big picture of all of God’s plan for the covenant people in Christ and a heavenly source. If we miss seeing it as heavenly and Christ centered, we miss what is meant to both symbolize and, most importantly, substantively connect: God’s kingdom has come as one Lord, one faith and one baptism (Ephesians 4:5). It is to be known as a united sacrament for what is called the mystical Body of Christ. Such is a reason that many times in the book of Acts Christians were first referred to as “followers of the Way”. Christians are people who are born again in Christ by both water and spirit and in such matter and form can be born again to the divine and human natures of Christ.
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2019-04-26T02:57:16Z
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https://jembenjamin.wordpress.com/2018/07/08/kingdom-of-light-entering-the-light/
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Baldness is a condition that is usually associated with men. However, women also fall victim to this condition. In women, baldness is typically associated with hormone changes that come about because of menopause, pregnancy, and other life changes. Just like it happens in men, baldness has also been found to occur in different cycles. At first, women detect thinning of hair until baldness ensues.
The effects of baldness in both men and women can be very devastating especially to one’s self-confidence, self-esteem, body image, and sexuality. Many people are embarrassed to have bald spots and thinning hair. Consequently, this has made them seek out cures for baldness in their endeavor to cope with this condition. Since the effects of this condition are psychologically challenging especially for women, it is important to correct the issues early enough. There are so many ways that can delay this condition, which includes standard medication, hair transplantation, and scalp micropigmentation. In this piece, we will look at what hair transplantation is and a few insights about scalp micropigmentation.
Hair transplantation is a cosmetic process that is used to help people get hair that they lost. In a nutshell, hair transplantation is all about creating new and healthy hair strands and then planting them into the balding areas. Traditionally, hair transplant surgeons had to get several hair locks from other areas where there was hair and then transfer them to bald or thinning areas.
Hair transplantation works because of the idea that like plants, human hair follicles also reproduce. This means that when you split a hair follicle twice, you will get two pieces of hair that will emerge successfully after the process when the available technology is used for culturing and growing the hairs. When this technology is used properly to develop, it can clone the follicles and replicate them for a thousand or millions times. Finally, it will come up with uncountable hair strands which can then be used to fill the scalp areas.
It is important to note that not all women are ideal for this procedure. This procedure cannot resolve some women's balding issue. In such scenarios, it the doctor should decide who can undergo the process and who is not eligible. Women who are likely to undergo the procedure include those who have diffuse balding and those who have high hairlines. Diffuse balding is a type of balding that is not only limited to the scalp’s top. In this scenario, balding can be on the sides, on the back and the top of the head. With diffuse balding, it is possible to harvest hair from areas with plenty and their transplant to the bald areas. On the other hand, women with high hairlines usually have very stable patterns of hair growth. They also have a hair supply donor that is very strong making it possible to transplant.
Those who are suffering from hair loss have very high chances that they may have tried to hide it as much as possible. You can use hoodies, caps and other things to cover your head so that people don’t see what is happening on your head’s top. However, all this solution will not help you as such because they are just temporary. Your head doesn’t have enough hair, and sooner or later those people who are around you will realize what is going on.
This is where scalp micropigmentation comes in handy. The process of scalp micropigmentation makes you look like you shaved your head recently or opted for a buzz-cut. The overall will be that your head will look convincing as this process will make it neat as well as stylish, especially when this is complemented with something like a short stubble. Scalp micropigmentation involves applying dots to your head that mimics your hair follicles on the bald area to give it hair follicles illusion. There are various pigment colors, needle angles, penetration depths and needle thickness which can be applied in one session to accomplish this.
In retrospective, it is worth the mention that there are many benefits associated with hair loss treatments. The bottom line is that people’s motives of carrying out either process are the appearance of hair in the scalp areas that look beautiful and natural.
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2019-04-25T12:26:03Z
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https://scalppigmentation.weebly.com/hair-loss-treatment-solutions.html
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AMES, Iowa – An innovative way to cool buildings using 3D-printed ceramics has earned an Iowa State University architecture team an award in masonry design and construction.
A team of four faculty and staff from Iowa State’s architecture department submitted a project in the inaugural Joan B. Calambokidis Innovation in Masonry Competition. Shelby Doyle, assistant professor and Daniel J. Huberty Faculty Fellow in Architecture; Leslie Forehand, lecturer; Nicholas Senske, assistant professor; and Erin Hunt, computation and construction lab associate, won in the young architects and engineers category.
Their project, “Mashrabiya 2.0,” is a 3D-printed ceramic façade that can be integrated into a building’s mechanical system to control light, airflow and privacy while offering evaporative cooling. The team was inspired by Arabic lace screens, replacing the traditional wood with 3D-printed ceramics.
The façade comes in three modules or shapes. Woven patterns on the screen wall create “micro-pores” that help ventilate and cool the space as air passes through.
Doyle, Forehand and Senske founded Iowa State’s computation and construction lab, which combines computational design and digital fabrication. CCL is housed in the Communications Building.
The $10,000 award recognizes Calambokidis, who retired last year as president of the International Masonry Institute. Renowned architects and leaders in the masonry industry served on the competition jury. Entries were submitted by architects, engineers, students, academics and firms from across the United States and Canada.
"It is a great honor to receive this award," Forehand said. "The computation and construction lab at Iowa State University connects developments in computation to the challenges of construction through teaching, research and outreach. Often our work feels very experimental, so it was amazing to be acknowledged by trade industries that understand the market and think our idea is viable."
Rendering of the shading applied to a standard storefront window. Contributed by International Masonry Institute.
Leslie Forehand, lecturer of architecture, and Erin Hunt, computation and construction lab associate, pose with the award they and their team at Iowa State — which includes Shelby Doyle and Nicholas Senske, both assistant professors of architecture — won at the inaugural Joan B. Calambokidis Innovation In Masonry Competition on Tuesday, March 6, in Miami, Florida. Contributed by International Masonry Institute.
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2019-04-23T14:19:47Z
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https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2018/03/08/architecture-masonry?c=news
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You already know the headline – more chaos at the Trump White House. But what the shakeup at the White House communications shop indicates is a return to order.
Anthony Scaramucci made President Trump choose between him and Gen. John F. Kelly, the new chief of staff, when he insisted he continue to report directly to the president.
He gave the president no choice. He challenged both Trump’s authority and that of Gen. Kelly. Poor choice unless he wanted out all along.
This is not chaos. This is closer to the opposite, as people who operate in the business world recognize.
Corporations frequently bring in people to make change and then remove the change agent. The change agents themselves are unpopular and can’t operate, so they are dismissed. But the changes they brought live on, and the successor is well received because he isn’t the guy everyone hated.
Scaramucci will not be missed, but he played his role perfectly.
The media will have a field day with Trump. Nothing new there. And the White House, under this Marine, will become much less exciting but much more effective.
Will that mean dismissing what remains of the poisonous neverTrump brigade within the White House? Will Trump have only actual supporters in his White House? This has not happened in a timely fashion; maybe now, with Gen. Kelly on board, it will.
Trump needs loyal troops in all White House positions, particularly in the communications shop. Who will be next?
Reince Priebus was too cold. Scaramucci was too hot. Who is just right?
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2019-04-22T18:21:04Z
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https://www.aim.org/guest-column/white-house-shakeup-means-a-return-to-order/
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Our member, Marilynne Bradley was accepted in the Southern Watercolor Society Exhibit showing now in Madisonville, KY. Marilynne is spending the weekend there and was happy to meet Chen-Khee Chee. Her entry is Liluma, a restaurant in the Central West-end here in STL. This painting is 11″ x 15″, but Marilynne says future entries should be larger, so she plans to paint larger for this show in the future.
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2019-04-26T03:42:51Z
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https://stlws.org/2010/03/28/marilynne-bradley-in-southern-watercolor-society-exhibit/
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The college has an arrangement with Bay State Envelope (BSE) for ordering envelopes, business cards, letterhead, or other printed material. BSE has an easy-to-use website where your templates can be stored for easy access and re-ordering. If you would like to be set up on their website, contact Bob Harris at ext. 2145.
Below are the suggested, standard, approved templates for use at the college. These will be used by BSE or you can give them to other local vendors to use.
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2019-04-24T18:44:29Z
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https://guides.williams.edu/purchasing/stationery-business-cards/
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http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Just what is it that so earnestly motivates those who zealously want Terri Schiavo's feeding tube to be removed? While there are plenty of exceptions, I dare say that most people in this camp are not driven by constitutional concerns, despite their hollow protests to the contrary.
As my brother Rush cogently noted, it is easy to understand what drives those who want to save Terri's life: the human urge to protect and save the life of another human being. The motivation of those fighting with equal fervor to remove the tube is not so self-evident.
The more I read about this case, the more it weighs on me the more a creeping feeling of horror sweeps over me. If, in fact, Terri Schiavo wants to live and is going to be denied that right, the prospect of a court-ordered removal of her feeding tube is no less horrifying than that of a person being buried alive.
If Terri truly wants to live as a lawyer visiting with her when her feeding tube was removed avers how could any caring person wish death upon her? The question is not whether we think we would want to live in Terri's state, but whether in fact she wants to. Are those advocating Terri's death allowing themselves to consider that this woman truly wants to live just like they do?
I doubt that I'll ever be able to understand, much less relate to, the sympathies of certain people. Generally speaking, they seem to feel more compassion for wildlife than animals, more for animals than human beings, more for guilty human beings than innocent ones, more for Communist dictators and tyrannical thugs than freedom fighters, and more for the vindication of an abstract principle devaluing human life than for an actual human being like Terri Schiavo, who, though severely disabled, may truly want to live.
How can we possibly view in a favorable light the position of those who protest to save the lives of convicted killers on death row and who bend over backward to believe their most incredible stories of innocence, but won't lift a finger in support of Terri Schiavo and won't even momentarily consider that Terri wants to live? Where are the "Free Mumia" chanters when Terri needs them?
I realize that some believe that many advocating for Terri's life are using her for their own political purposes and that even Terri's parents, the Schindlers, are putting their own selfish wishes to keep Terri alive above those of Terri herself.
But do we actually believe that loving parents parents who would eagerly trade places with Terri in an instant would place their own comfort above their daughter's? If not, how can we possibly believe they would fight to prolong her suffering? In examining this case from a distance, isn't it much easier to believe Terri's parents' assessment of her desire to continue living than that of her adulterous husband, whose conflict of interest should disqualify him from guardianship in this case and participation in this decision?
And isn't the essential argument of those wanting the tube removed that Terri's wishes ought to be honored? Since Terri left no legal document directing her death in these circumstances, shouldn't the system require clear and convincing evidence that Terri indeed would want to die in these circumstances? Yet the court is relying on the hearsay evidence of Terri's estranged husband, Michael.
The question is whether as a society we want to resolve these very difficult, doubtful cases in favor of death.
I detect more than a bit of intellectual dishonesty among many favoring Terri's death. They are claiming they merely want to honor Terri's wishes, yet they rely on her tainted husband, callously discount the testimony of her loving parents, blindly accept the disinformation that Terri is in a purely vegetative state, and ignore multiple firsthand accounts, including from examining physicians and nurses, that Terri is responsive, sometimes animated, and definitely wants to go on living.
Could it be that something besides Terri's wishes motivates many of the death-soldiers, such as an allegiance to the culture of death, or some abject, inhumane resentment that we spend so much money keeping severely disabled people alive? I've received appalling e-mails from people complaining about the financial burden on society in keeping Terri alive.
I'm not pointing fingers at anyone specifically, because I know that many who want the tube removed are motivated by their perceived compassion for Terri and even honoring Terri's wishes. But I fear that many arguing for tube removal are doing so with complete disregard for Terri's actual wishes in this case. To the extent that is going on, we are witnessing up-close the face of evil.
We must fight on � More prayers for Terri.
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2019-04-20T01:48:47Z
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http://jewishworldreview.com/david/limbaugh032205.php3
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England: London and West Brom, 25 Dec 2012 – 04 Jan 2013.
Today’s shot is from my last trip to England. I really love the composition–it’s one of my favorite shots I took while over there this year. The converging lines, different angles, and slight tilt to the frame all contribute to a sense of something being not quite right. The hand on the left being cut off from the person also make the viewer seems slightly uneasy. The pigeon in the center of the frame, seemingly the subject, is doing nothing of interest, but is the key to the composition of the entire shot. The more I look at this, the more I like it.
I also have to say that I really like the look of this Ilford Delta 3200 (though I exposed it at 1600) a lot. It isn’t nearly as muddy an soft as some people said it would be, but part of that has to do with exposing it in decent light. Most of the time this fast film gets used in light so low that it makes the film look worse than it ought to…if that makes sense.
Just a quick post today, since blogging has been tough lately. I have been ridiculously busy with work, and living in a hotel room on my own has meant that I’ve spent a lot of time away from the computer, traveling around the East Coast area when I can. I’ve been to Washington, DC, twice now, and took a day trip to Gettysburg, PA, just this past weekend. I plan to get out to Baltimore, DC, and hopefully New York City, Philadelphia, and the Atlantic Coast. Additionally, I’m hoping to get to see some more Civil War battlefields as well–there are a lot in this area–since I enjoyed Gettysburg so much. I’m going to head out this weekend and see a few more if I can.
I’ve been in the DC-area now for a month almost. I didn’t bring any digital cameras along, and I don’t have the means to process or scan film while I’m here; that means that I won’t have any new shots to show until this summer. I’ll be back home at the end of May, so there won’t be anything new to show until June sometime. I know that seems a long way away, but I really prefer to let my work sit for a while before looking at it anyway. In fact, this enforced break might actually be good for me in the long run.
I’m not as obsessive about leaving film untouched after exposing it as Gerry Winogrand, who famously would let film sit for a year or more before processing it, and left hundreds of rolls behind after he died suddenly at an early age. I like to leave shots for a few months, as I have said before. It allows me to get a distance from my images so that I can more objectively view them.
Recently, I returned from my (now annual) trip to England with my father to watch football. Over the past 6 years, this has become sort of a tradition, and I figured I’d make a blog post about one of the biggest reasons for the trips: football.
As regular readers know, my father and I have something in common in terms of the clubs we support–the borough of Fulham. My father supports Fulham FC, and I have been supporting Chelsea FC. Over the past year my loyalties have been wavering, however. The outrageous ticket prices charged at Stamford Bridge, as well as some decisions taken by the club, have turned me off a bit. The atmosphere at Craven Cottage is excellent, prices are reasonable, and the club is run with some semblance of a long-term strategy rather than the whims of a billionaire. As Simon Kuper (the author of the book Soccernomics) explains very well, clubs are no longer community-based clubs; they have virtually no connections to the local area, and we are not supporters, but rather consumers. As a consumer, I can choose to follow or unfollow any team I wish (and the author argues that this is even more the case with Americans, who have been trained to not have strong allegiances in the same way many Europeans have a history of supporting clubs).
Back to the matches we saw this year. As always, a Fulham-heavy schedule beckoned. This year we saw two games at Craven Cottage, one road game at the Hawthorns, and we went to Stamford Bridge to see the European champions take on the league-worst Queen’s Park Rangers. Last year, we saw an amazing string of results for the Cottagers–at home and away–and this year’s team couldn’t match it. The squad is weaker than last year’s iteration, and the games we saw bore that out.
The games were no less enjoyable. The atmosphere was as good as ever, and traveling with the away fans on the team coach was a really good experience too. Both of us agreed that this was the way we’d travel to future away games as well. It’s easy, fast, and affordable. If anyone else is interested in traveling that way, I can recommend it–at least with Fulham.
For the second year in a row we saw a series of successive games with Fulham. Last year we both enjoyed seeing several games in a row–this gave us a better view into the first eleven, the squad rotation, team tactics, etc. After doing it this way last year, we opted to do it again and were both glad to have done so.
The big star of this year was the new addition Dimitar Berbatov. By any standard of measure, he has been Fulham’s central player this season, and it showed on the field. He is pure class, although also incredibly frustrating for fans. It’s not hard to see sometimes how previous clubs’ fans might have tired of him, however. He can be aloof and can wear on the fans’ patience at times. He gets easily frustrated with his teammates–sadly, it’s often easy to see why.
Next year, we can only hope that the trip and the matches are as good as they were this year. One thing is for sure–the company never disappoints.
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2019-04-25T15:45:21Z
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GET THE GOODS TO MAKE NIFTY GARDEN PROJECTS IN A QUICK TRIP TO THE HARDWARE STORE.
THERE ARE EASIER WAYS TO RETIRE THAN GROWING ORGANIC LAVENDER ON A REMOTE ISLAND IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. BUT FOR THIS WASHINGTON COUPLE, LIFE HAS NEVER SMELLED SO SWEET.
A SEATTLE COUPLE TRAVELS THE WORLD-- COLLECTING TREASURES ALONG THE WAY-- BUT FINDS THAT THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE IN THEIR OWN BACKYARD.
UNDAUNTED BY ITS LACK OF CURB APPEAL, A CALIFORNIA COUPLE PRACTICED IN FIXING UP OLD HOUSES TURNED THIS CONCRETE CUBE INTO A CHARMING FAMILY HOME.
IN A SHADY, SLENDER WEDGE OF GARDEN BEHIND A PHILADELPHIA ROW HOUSE, THE SOUND OF FALLING WATER IS MUSIC TO RELAX BY.
NO LONGER LIMITED TO BEACH COTTAGES OR NURSERIES, WHITE FURNITURE TODAY HAS INHERENT ADAPTABILITY THAT SUITS OUR ECLECTIC INTERIORS.
THE SUBTLE, CLEAN LINES OF NEW PATIOS, WALLS, AND ARBORS CREATE PRIVACY AND SPACE IN A HILLY, EXPOSED BACKYARD IN OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.
UPDATING THEIR 1950S DALLAS RANCH, THE BONICKS SHOWERED THEMSELVES WITH WATER AND LIGHT FOR A HOME THAT IS END-OF-THE-DAY RELAXING.
ON THEIR WEDDING DAY, ROCCO BORGESE CARRIED HIS BRIDE JENNI OVER THE THRESHOLD OF THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOME HE FINISHED REMODELING JUST IN TIME.
ON A PARCHED HILLSIDE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, PATRICK ANDERSON LANDSCAPES WITH ALOES, AGAVES, AND OTHER PLANTS THAT LIKE IT HIGH AND DRY.
DIVE RIGHT IN! OUR JUNE, JULY, AND AUGUST ISSUES FEATURE FUN-FILLED, FACT-PACKED GUIDES TO CELEBRATING THE SUMMER OF 2003. JUNE OFFERS 16 BIG IDEAS (AND LOTS OF TASTY TIDBITS) GUARANTEED TO MAKE THE BEST LAID-BACK, DO-IT-ALL, FLOWER-SCENTED, THIRST-QUENCHING, CRICKET-CHIRPING, FIND-A-BARGAIN, BIG-JUICY-TOMATO SUMMER EVER!
A MINIATURE VERSION OF THE MAIN HOUSE, THIS SAN DIEGO CHARMER IS A PLACE TO PLAY FOR THIS LITTLE GIRL-- AND HER TWO BROTHERS WHEN THEY ASK HER NICELY.
BETTY KEYSER CULTIVATES TRANQUILLITY IN HER SHELTERED, SHADY BACKYARD. SOOTHING GREEN, FROM THE MOSSY BRICKS TO THE TREETOPS, SETS A SERENE MOOD.
Entertain in style this summer with these smart products. Our lattice table and chairs are perfect for porch or patio. Create a casual look on your table with our clear glass dinnerware combined with raffia place mats. A metal bucket keeps beverages cool, while the glass drink dispenser serves up iced tea or lemonade. Enjoy!
KIDS MAY OUTGROW THEIR PEDIATRICIAN, BUT THEY STILL NEED A PHYSICIAN. HERE'S HOW PARENTS CAN HELP THEM CHOOSE A PROVIDER THEY WILL TRUST.
RVs OFFER FAMILIES HASSLE-FREE ADVENTURE-- MONEY SAVINGS TOO.
FOR YEARS, COMIC BOOKS HAVE BEEN DISMISSED AS THE LOWEST FORM OF ENTERTAINMENT. NOW PUBLISHERS AND CREATORS ARE TURNING COMICS INTO TEACHING TOOLS.
HOW SAFE IS THEIR SUMMER JOB?
TEACHING KIDS TO SPOT UNSAFE WORK SITUATIONS-- AND TO SAY "NO" WHEN NECESSARY-- IS THE FIRST JOB OF PARENTS.
WITH THE ARRIVAL OF A FOURTH CHILD, A CHICAGO FAMILY'S HOME HAD TO CHANGE. ALL FORMALITY WENT OUT THE BACK AND THROUGH THE ROOF.
ON BAINBRIDGE ISLAND IN WASHINGTON, VERTICAL ELEMENTS PUNCTUATE AN ARTIST'S GARDEN LIKE SO MANY ARCHITECTURAL EXCLAMATION MARKS.
A CALIFORNIA COUPLE WARMS UP THEIR COOL CONTEMPORARY HOUSE WITH A SOULFUL INJECTION OF COLOR AND PATTERN.
LOOK FOR STANDARD INDUSTRY CUT NAMES ON MEAT LABELS. HERE ARE A FEW CLUES FOR CLARIFICATION.
SECOND OPINIONS AREN'T JUST FOR LIFE-AND-DEATH CONDITIONS ANYMORE.
In the latest evidence that there is a God, researchers at the University of California at Davis have reviewed a number of studies and come to the conclusion that chocolate is good for your heart.
GETTING AND STAYING IN SHAPE REQUIRES LITTLE MORE THAN A MERRY SPIRIT, A WILLING PARTNER, AND ACCESS TO SOME OF THE TRAPPINGS OF YOUTH. IF YOU'RE A PARENT, YOU'RE ALREADY SET.
Shortly after she turned 28, Nitza Matos began seeing dizzying numbers on her bathroom scale. The Pennsauken, New Jersey, mother of two had two reactions: The first was to panic. The second was to start taking a daily walk.
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2019-04-19T08:44:58Z
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https://archive.bhg.com/issue/2003/6/
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Chevron's gains have beaten out rival ExxonMobil, but the energy giant hasn't kept up with the Dow. Find out why.
Energy giant Chevron (NYSE:CVX) has enjoyed a strong 2013, giving investors a solid 18% positive total return for the year and easily outpacing the 13% return that rival ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) has had this year. But the Dow Jones Industrials (DJINDICES:^DJI) have performed even better, with the average soaring almost 23% so far in 2013. What's behind Chevron's mixed performance, and how can it keep up its competitive position more effectively in the future?
Chevron stands out from most of its peers not for what it has done but for what it has not. Rather than following the lead of many rivals by breaking up into component upstream exploration and production and downstream refining and marketing arms, Chevron and ExxonMobil have both remained integrated oil giants. By doing so, Chevron hopes to reap the best of both worlds, but its sheer size makes sustaining production and finding growth opportunities a constant challenge. Let's take a closer look at what moved shares of Chevron in 2013.
Chevron Total Return Price data by YCharts.
What's behind Chevron's results in 2013?
As you can see above, Chevron has had an up and down year, following the Dow's downdrafts fairly closely. Yet in October, Chevron's returns disconnected from the Dow's bigger rise, and lagging Exxon posted a big comeback that eliminated half of the gap between its returns and Chevron's.
One of the big issues that Chevron has faced all year has been the geopolitical situation around the world, especially in the Middle East. With the Syrian conflict ramping up throughout the year amid allegations of chemical-weapons use, the U.S. found itself on the brink of military action. But a diplomatic solution brokered by Russia to have Syria destroy its chemical weapons assets helped prevent oil prices from moving sharply higher. Just this past weekend, a preliminary agreement to the long-standing dispute about suspected Iranian nuclear-weapons activities sent oil prices plunging, as the easing of sanctions against Iran could resolve supply concerns. That might be good news for the economy, but it could lead to continued pressure on Chevron's revenue going forward if prices keep weakening.
For Chevron specifically, though, continuing to find lucrative opportunities for production growth remains the biggest challenge. Chevron has generally done a better job than Exxon in making and developing major finds, with Australia being its major standout for massive natural-gas fields that it hopes to use to drive exports of liquefied-natural-gas to energy-hungry markets in India, China, and the rest of the geographically convenient Asia-Pacific region. Chevron also has eyed West Africa, the Gulf of Mexico, and South America for further development, as well as keeping a production presence in Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
Chevron has looked beyond its traditional oil and gas business for opportunities. Like Exxon and Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron expects to invest heavily in its refining and chemicals businesses, hoping to take advantage of cheap feedstocks from independent oil and gas producers and diversify their overall exposure to the energy business. In particular, efforts to produce more ethylene and polypropylene could help Chevron serve the plastics manufacturing industry. As long as cheap energy is available, Chevron has the opportunity to take on these massive projects that are too large for small oil and gas companies.
Finally, Chevron's ongoing legal battle over environmental contamination in Ecuador has been a multibillion-dollar distraction to its core business. Although Chevron managed to get an Ecuadoran court's original $19 billion verdict cut in half, the true test for the oil giant involves its U.S. federal court case alleging that the entire verdict should be nullified on the basis of fraud.
Overall, Chevron stock has held up quite well given the less-than-perfect conditions in the energy industry over the past year. As long as Chevron can keep making global finds that are big enough to move the needle on its already huge business, it should be able to keep up with or surpass its Big OIl peers.
Click here to add Chevron to My Watchlist, which can find all of our Foolish analysis on it and all your other stocks.
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2019-04-21T05:32:32Z
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https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/11/25/why-chevrons-solid-returns-have-lagged-the-dow-in.aspx
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Bojana Naceva works as Senior Education Specialist, based in Skopje, Macedonia. Ms. Naceva specializes in education, gender issues, and social policy and social development.
Ms. Naceva works on projects related to education, labor market and social policy issues in Macedonia. Namely, she is Task Team Leader for the Conditional Cash Transfer Project and Skills Development and Innovation Support projects in the country.
Ms. Naceva also works on the Roma Education Fund Monitoring and Evaluation technical assistance, the Montenegro Higher Education, Research and Innovation for Competitiveness Project, and Serbia Inclusive Early Childhood Education and Care.
Ms. Naceva holds a Master’s Degree from the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Pedagogy, Ss. Cyril and Methodius, University of Skopje, in the area of National Large Scale Assessment, and a Bachelor’s Degree from the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Pedagogy, Ss. Cyril and Methodius, University of Skopje.
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2019-04-18T22:26:53Z
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http://blogs.worldbank.org/ru/team/bojana-naceva
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This entry was tagged Linda Eastman, Mike McCartney, Paul. Bookmark the permalink.
Hi, ‘The Long Haired Lady’ was my cousin Val.
Thank you so much! It means a lot to me. And I won’t publish anything private unless authorized. All this is certainly so so lovely!
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https://applescruffs2.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/long-haired-lady/
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Formatting a block quote may seem daunting, but it’s actually quite easy. How you format the block quote depends on which style you are using: Modern Language Association (MLA), American Psychology Association (APA), or Chicago Manual of Style (Chicago). All 3 styles format block quotes in similar ways, although there are slight differences between each one.
Use a block quote for quotations longer than 3 to 4 lines. When using MLA format, a block quote should be used if the material you are quoting is longer than 3 lines of verse, such as in a poem. Use a block quote if the text is longer than 4 lines of prose, such as in a novel.
For example, if you are quoting the first stanza from Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” you should use a block quote, because it is longer than 3 lines.
Another example might be if you are quoting a paragraph from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. If the paragraph is more than 4 lines, use a block quote.
"Roland Barthes sought to understand the difference between cinema and photography:"
"In his novel White Jacket, Herman Melville argues,"
My interest in photography took a more cultural turn. I decided I liked photography in opposition to the Cinema, from which I nonetheless failed to separate it. This question grew insistent. I was overcome by an "ontological" desire: I wanted to learn at all costs what photography was "in itself."
Indent the quote 1⁄2 inch (1.3 cm) from the left margin. The entire quote should be indented so that it looks like a “block” of text separate from the rest of the paragraph. To do this, highlight the whole quote and press the “Tab” button on your keyboard. You can also move the tabs on the ruler above your word document 1⁄2 inch (1.3 cm) to the right.
If you are quoting more than one paragraph, indent the first line of each paragraph another 1⁄4 inch (0.64 cm).
Keep the quote double-spaced. MLA format calls for double-spacing throughout the main body of the paper. Keep this spacing for the block quote.
"I was overcome by an "ontological" desire: I wanted to learn at all costs what photography was "in itself." (Barthes 3)"
Continue your own writing on a new line. Once you have finished the block quote, press enter to start a new line. If you are continuing in the same paragraph, remove the indentations and keep your normal margins. If you are starting a new paragraph, indent the first line of that paragraph by 1⁄2 inch (1.3 cm).
Use block quotes for quotations that are 40 words or longer. APA style dictates that you use a block quote based on the number of words. Count the words in your quote to determine if it has more than 40. If so, use a block quote.
On a word processor like Microsoft Word, you can highlight the quote and click “Word Count” under “Review” or “Proofing.” This will tell you how many words are in the quote.
For example, if you are quoting a long paragraph from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, you should use a block quote.
Indent the quote 1⁄2 inch (1.3 cm) from the left margin. Start the quote on a new line. Highlight the quote and press tab once. Alternatively, move the tabs on the ruler above the document over 1⁄2 inch (1.3 cm). The entire quote must be indented. You do not need to use quotation marks for the quote.
If you are citing multiple paragraphs, indent the first line of the quotation by an additional 1⁄2 inch (1.3 cm).
Make the quote double-spaced. In APA style, your entire paper should be double-spaced, including your block-quotes. To double-space the quote, highlight the quote. Click on the paragraph formatting button, and choose “double” or “2.0” line spacing.
Put the citation in parentheses at the end of the quote. Depending on how you introduced the quote, you may need to put the author, year, and page number of the quote. Separate these by commas, and put a "p." before the page number. Put this citation after the closing punctuation of the last sentence in the quote.
Return to normal margins once the quote is finished. Press enter to start a new line. If you want to keep writing in the same paragraph, make the quote flush left by removing the extra indentation. If you are starting a new paragraph, indent the first line of that paragraph by 1⁄2 inch (1.3 cm).
Use a block quote for text longer than 5 lines or 100 words. This rule is generally used for prose. If you are quoting poetry, block the quote if it is more than 2 lines.
For example, if you are quoting a 7 line paragraph from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, you should use a block quote.
Introduce the quote with a signal phrase. This sentence might state who said the quote or provide an argument for why the quote is important. End the quote with either a colon or comma.
Start the block quote on a new line without quotation marks. After you’ve introduced your quote, begin the quote on a new line. This sets the quote apart from the other text.
Indent the quote by 1⁄2 inch (1.3 cm) from the left margin. For most computers and writing applications, you can achieve this indent by highlighting the quote and hitting the “tab” button. You can also slide the tabs on the ruler 1⁄2 inch (1.3 cm) to the right.
Make the quote single-spaced. Even if the rest of the paper is double-spaced, the quote should be single spaced. Highlight the quote. Go to paragraph formatting on your word processor and click "single" or "1.0" spacing.
If you are citing multiple paragraphs, indent the first line of the quotation by an additional ¼ inch (0.64 cm). Indent the first line of each successive paragraph the same way.
Add a footnote or parenthetical citation to the end. Place the footnote or parenthetical citation after the closing punctuation of the last sentence of the quote.
Peterson, Mary. Effects of Smoking on the Body. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Start a new line to continue writing your paper. When the quote ends, start a new line to keep writing your paper. If the same paragraph continues, remove the extra indentation to return to your normal margins. If you are starting a new paragraph, indent the first line of that paragraph by 1⁄2 inch (1.3 cm).
I'm using a note with a salutation and a closing with one line of text in between the body and the closing. How do I use the block quote in this case?
Keep the original formatting, just like you would with a poem. Type out the quote using the spacing given in the note, with distinct lines for the salutation, body, and closing.
How should I make it indented if I'm not using Microsoft Word? Do I hit the space bar 8 times?
You should hit the space bar 5 times to indent to 1/2 inch (1.27 cm). You can also use the tab button on your keyboard.
What is the font for block quotation?
Use the same font that you used for the main body of your paper. You should not use a different font for block quotations.
Do I have to block a regular conversation between two people in my novel?
Generally, no, unless you are using the conversation in a formal piece of writing such as a literary analysis. If you write a conversation in an informal piece of writing, such as a short story, then you shouldn't block it.
To format a block quote in MLA, start by introducing the quote with a short sentence that ends with a colon or comma. Then, insert the quote on a new line without quotation marks. After you insert the quote, indent the entire block of text so it's 1/2 an inch from the left margin. The block quote should also be double-spaced like the rest of your paper. At the end of the quote, add the author's last name and the page number in parentheses. To learn how to format a block quote in APA and Chicago Style, scroll down!
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https://www.wikihow.com/Format-a-Block-Quote
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Since brand, as an intangible asset can create customers’ loyalty and build emotional bonds, the author intends to understand factors influencing brands which values are recognizable internationally. Relations, which tie consumers values, create marketing chains which can lead to competitive advantage. Aim of this article is to find answer to the question if it is possible to create exceptional value through the brand. If yes, would this value be recognizable internationally as equal and what would constitute the variance in different countries?
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http://psjd.icm.edu.pl/psjd/element/bwmeta1.element.psjd-61824a7d-0280-423e-b42f-da3d0193b4ae
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Bwahahaha, just what thugby rugby needs! A former All Black captain hit a Hurricanes teammate with a handbag and made him cry. I love it!
[Edit] The handbag has sold for $22,800.
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2019-04-24T04:57:28Z
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https://vilakins.livejournal.com/195450.html
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Migrations are maintained in files stored in the db/migrate folder. Each file contains one more-or-less discrete set of changes to the underlying database. Unlike most of the code you write, migrations are not automatically run when you start up Rails, instead waiting for an explicit command from the rake tool.
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2019-04-24T01:31:50Z
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https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-rails-live/9781449383251/ch10s02.html
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In II Peter there is a most wonderful salutation! Peter graciously shares his enthusiasm to those who share a like Faith! As stated: “Grace and Peace be yours in ABUNDANCE through the KNOWLEDGE of GOD and of JESUS OUR LORD…” Peter warns us of the internal problems and informs us of and inside attack and the evil motives of false teachers! Faith is an action word. As the Word says; “Faith without works is dead!” Knowing of God, is not the same as knowing Him through His WORD!!! It is evident that the Pharisees knew the scriptures but they could still not recognize JESUS! This should help us to know that what is important is knowing the Lord for yourself and encouraging others to do so as well! It’s about being so sure of who HE is, that nothing or no one can make you doubt who He is!
In the times in which we live loyalty is becoming increasingly vague. Many Christians have become complacent and are spiritually malnourished. They have what I call “spiritual eating disorders.” They suffer from an unhealthy consistent unbalanced diet of healthy spiritual food! Many only eat once a week! Quite often a false teacher will give just enough to fill you emotionally but not enough to sustain a person where by the FRUIT of The SPIRIT can flourish in their lives… They will also tell you what you want to hear and undermine what is clearly stated in the Word! This way one stays dependent and unable to grow spiritually… God never meant for our minds to be controlled by anyone. He allows us the freedom to choose! Guided by His Holy Spirit, Yes! False teachers attempt to control you into a group think mode which is cultic! There is often resistance to you having a different opinion. Or if you do it is quite possible you will be labeled rebellious! Although there are some wonderful small, large, mega and grand cathedrals and church buildings! We the people are “GOD’S CHURCH!!!
I am most thankful that the Lord has allowed my husband and I together as co laborers for the Lord together, to see a lot of this world that was spoken into existence through Jesus Christ! I remember that as we approached to St. Peter’s Square and entered St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome Italy what it felt like. It is a wonderful majestic cathedral. There were so many people within and without! Of a plethora of different Colors and cultures! As everyone entered they were checked to see if they were properly dressed! (Knees and shoulders must be covered) How interesting! According to history, Apostle Peter was martyred in a circus and buried here is said to be are his bones. St. Peter’s Basilica is built over his gravesite. Construction started in 1506 and was completed in around 1615! It is thought to be the largest Church in the world! What is most impressive to me is the architecture the time, natural resources and workmanship that went into erecting such a regal edifice with no modern technology! The details are fascinating simply remarkable! The dome is built by Michelangelo !
St. Peter’s Basilica is a beautiful memory of a wonderful spiritually fulfilling journey the Lord allowed us to experience! It is a symbolic reminder to me of an example that somehow in spite of all their disagreeing many people over a long period of time were able to come together and erect a monument in honor of the Lord! It is not at all so much about the building itself. It is what it represents the invaluable memories it holds! This tells me that it is humanly possible to work together and achieve a seemingly insurmountable goal … Remember this is where the Apostle Peter is buried. Despite whatever religious denominational differences many from all over the world gather here! “There is only ONE TRUE GOD!” Here stands a world recognized edifice that confirms the TRUTH of God’s WORD! Peter lived to defend His FAITH! We must continually take personal inventory and not lose sight of who we are in JESUS CHRIST!
We are assured in II Peter that the Lord’s return is evident! God designed time as something that we operate in. It gives us constructive boundaries in which we operate and live out life! God’s timetable is not the same as ours. “With the LORD one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years but one day. The Lord is not slow in keeping HIS PROMISE, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting any to perish, But everyone to come to repentance.” It is in this passage of Scripture one discovers just how Loving , Patient and Kind the Lord really is! Take a moment and just think; we are to live as though the Lord will return at any moment! Not in fear and despair but with excitement and joyous trepidation! God knows right where each of us are!!! It really is not about what someone else thinks. It is about what GOD KNOWS! How are you living every day? Peter is aware that he is soon to shed his tent, his body and return to the Lord! Therefore he wants to be certain that we understand and are aware what to look out for!
Developing Christian character is an ongoing process! To not be led astray you must commit to studying and applying God’s Word! Rest assured you can count on God’s promises! God’s Word is not for any private interpretation! When you are truly being led by the Holy Spirit know; the Lord will not lead you to do anything that goes against His WORD! This applies no matter who you are or what your position may be!
Remember, false teachers twist the scriptures to get you to follow them instead of Jesus! “But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies even denying the Lord who brought them and bring on themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their destructive ways…” II Peter encourages us to get to know the Lord better and better and reassures us of the evident return of Jesus Christ! We CAN ALWAYS TRUST GOD & HIS WORD! "GOD IS MORE THAN ABLE!"
Prosmentor, Thank you for your words of encouragement! II Peter is a wonderful Epistle! I am so glad that you enjoyed this! Thank you for taking the time to visit and share, Blessings!
My Dear, you have done a wonderful work. I enjoyed every bit of this awesome article.
James A. Watkins, I am humbled by your words. I believe that you can sense what I am attempting to relay here! Yes I truly do Love the Lord! God is Awesome! I am forever most appreciative of what He has allowed…. Our experiences good and bad are to bring us ALL just that much more closer to Him! To see Him more clearly… Yes we can appreciate what we see. Yes we can appreciate one another. Life is about continuously learning to put things in their proper perspective!
What is most important is that we get to know God and live in excited expectation of Jesus Christ and His returning!
Yet another outstanding essay, doctor! Your love of the Lord and love of Scripture surely shines through the words on this page. Your spiritual discernment is truly a great gift and how wonderful it is that you are sharing it with us on HubPages.
I have been to the Vatican and I agree with you that the architecture (and the art) are simply incredible.
Thanks for a great Hub. Lord knows, there are false teachers everywhere today. Mostly in the old main line denominations that have discarded the Word in order to be fashionable.
Judah’s Daughter, I always enjoy your insight! It really is wonderful how the Holy Spirit helps us to acknowledge TRUTH! I so agree we are one through Jesus Christ! Praise God!
The WORD will always reveal what is not of God! Right again a true prophet speaks the TRUTH! Amen!
As you stated: “ we must take rightly dividing the Word of Truth and teaching that Word seriously, for James 3:1 states, "Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment."
Blessings to you my sister and may the Lord continue to use you to boldly speak His TRUTH in LOVE! May He bless you from the treasure of His Blessings as you seek His WILL and WAY above ALL others! Be encouraged He has promised to supply ALL our Needs! In His Love & Blessings!
Philipo, I am so glad that you are inspired! It is really quite interesting. You are welcome! Thank you for stopping by, Blessings!
Peacenhim, Thank you! Many thanks for taking the time to share and visit, Blessings!
It's really neat that those in the Spirit don't contradict each other, for when we read, we just know it's TRUTH! We should always write in such a way that our very work can be tested and tried by the Word of God and each other, for the "spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets", amen! What a sign of unity in Christ!
I love Paul's attitude toward a sorcerer, which false teachers are just as bad, if not worse ~ in Acts 13:9: "But Saul, who was also known as Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fixed his gaze on him, and said, 'You who are full of all deceit and fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to make crooked the straight ways of the Lord?'" A true prophet speaks the truth of God's Word and does not contradict it. A false prophet is of the devil, for he speaks lies and what's more of an abomination is to do it in the Name of the Lord!
As I wrote on brother Unchained Grace's hub, we must take rightly dividing the Word of Truth and teaching that Word seriously, for James 3:1 states, "Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment."
Truly, we are always to "test the spirits (prophets)" by the Word of God!! Our faith is under attack, and faith comes by hearing the Word of God! May we be rooted deeply in it!
I have never given the book of 1 Peter a deep thought. Thanks for the inspiration. Remain blessed.
Wonderfully expressed!! "The need to partake in a healthy spiritual diet of the Word is a reoccurring happening! This is an excellent deterrent from being pulled in by false teachers." Great words of wisdom and excellent Hub!! His Truth speaks through you!! Blessings and many thanks for your insight!
Creativeone, You are quite welcome! Yes I agree, you are so right! God will NEVER lead us wrong! We must be willing to submit to HIS WILL and HIS WAY! "Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world" I thank the Lord for HIS Spirit of discernment!
godpreacher, Blessings to you Bro! It is important that we speak forth the TRUTH of GOD'S WORD! It is becoming increasingly clear that the spiritual warfare is rampart as we look all around us! It is my desire to continuously seek to be in HIS WILL To GOD BE THE GLORY!
I pray that the LORD continues to proclaim HIS WORD through you! May those who come to Worship & Praise HIM with you increase in numbers and be inspired to grow in His Grace and knowledge! May He Bless you in ALL that you do to share and bring others to Jesus Christ! In His Love & Blessings!
Itakins, It really is marvelous how the Lord works! I am glad that you are inspired! I must say it is mutual, I thank the Lord for you because you also inspire me! I look forward to reading your hub!
Thank you for visiting and sharing your comments they are always welcome. In His Love & Blessings!
Rev Lady, Thank you again for taking the time to stop by and share your comments as always they are appreciated! II Peter has a fountain of wisdom on dealing with false teachers.
GOD IS REAL! For many the Bible and the people were for way back then... It is my prayer that we seek to bring EXCITEMENT FOR the MESSAGE of the GOSPEL of JESUS CHRIST ALL YEAR LONG! JESUS IS COMING SOON!
It is important that we seek to bring to LIGHT the TRUTH of GOD'S WORD even at the risk of being misunderstood! Peter did not compromise His dedication to the LORD!
Thank you for visiting and sharing, In His love & Blessings!
Unchained Grace, There are some serious things going on that we need to be mindful of... Praise GOD for discernment! I pray this is helpful I will visit your hub as well. It is really important to be prayerful there is much going on to deter, prevent and derail us as God's people!
II Peter is a wonderful book that exposes false teachers and teaching! Peter tells us the importance of developing a personal relationship with the Lord~ Be encouraged !
I am so grateful that the elect of God are speaking out against false prophets. I continue to pray that the eyes of God's people will be opened by a word from on high. Continue to allow God to use you for his purpose in this hour, and to lead his people to all truth.
How the Lord works! I have been working on a hub with regard to Christian unity today-and I have received the necessary inspiration to go and finish it as I was reading this wonderful hub.God Bless you.
RevLady, ever notice we end up on the same Hubs? God is truly working among a select group of Hubbers.
Well, you have done it again sister DeBorrah. I love the way you brought out the vital and pertinent points of 2 Peter and interweaving your spiritual journey to Italy.
"The more time we spend developing a relationship with the Lord, the better we get to know Him! Regardless as to where we are in our spiritual growth there is always so much more to learn... As long as we are in this world we will always need to ask for the infilling presence of the Holy Spirit! "
We can never think we have arrived, for if we do, surely Satan has deceived us. Our spiritual advancement continues until God calls us home.
Thank you for confronting us with God's truth and encouraging our steadfast allegiance to God. The closer we are to our Lord, the greater our spiritual discernment ability. Blessings always!
DeBorrah, when I saw the announcement for this Hub come through my email, I hadda see it. Last night, I posted "How Not To Prophesy" and your Hub is a perfect confirmation. So much so that I am going to go back and kick a link over to this Hub as I deem it required reading for all Christians myself included.
You were directly on point when you stated "When you are truly being led by the Holy Spirit know; the Lord will not lead you to do anything that goes against His WORD! This applies no matter who you are or what your position may be!"
This also speaks to the validity of a vision. Validity meaning whether or not it came from God or alluded to come from God and put forth for the sole purpose of deception for an underlying self-serving purpose.
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https://hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/II-PETER-A-Case-Study-In-Exposing-FALSE-TEACHERS
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Lisa Valentine has been named editor of the View Neighborhood Newspapers. She replaced editor Ginger Meurer Feb. 1.
Centennial Hills resident Lisa Valentine has been named editor of View Neighborhood Newspapers.
Lisa Valentine has been named editor of the View Neighborhood Newspapers. She replaced Ginger Meurer Feb. 1.
Valentine, a Centennial Hills resident, has served as assistant editor of the Views since May. She has been with the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s weekly community newspapers for eight years.
Meurer plans to freelance from home in an effort to spend more time with her children. She will continue to oversee View’s literary coverage.
With a combined circulation of more than 589,000, View reaches more readers than any publication in Nevada.
Valentine, a Michigan native, relocated to Las Vegas in 2006. She is a graduate of the Department of Communication and Journalism at Oakland University in Rochester, Mich. Prior to joining the View staff as a copy editor, she was a general assignment reporter for a weekly newspaper in Michigan, covering everything from local government and the police/fire beat to high school sports before being promoted to editor-in-chief of that publication.
Over the years, she has taken top honors in headline writing and design in the Nevada Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest. She also is a recent graduate of the Review-Journal’s leadership training program.
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2019-04-25T21:55:28Z
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https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/downtown/view-neighborhood-newspapers-names-new-editor/
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Celebrate the Dead's final exclamation point on the legendary Spring '77 tour, all captured here from start to finish, in pristine HDCD audio. TO TERRAPIN catches the guys at the top of their game, unleashing a slew of new tunes that would "officially" debut two months later as part of TERRAPIN STATION.
Standout tracks include an especially sweet "Sugaree" that clocks in at over 21 minutes of bliss. The explorations inside the transitions are magical throughout, and one particularly mind-blowing moment comes between "Not Fade Away" and "Wharf Rat."
There's something very special about the energy level here. It stays high from the moment they hit the stage, to clear through the encore. It's no wonder so many Dead Heads will point to this night in Hartford as one of the "best EVER!"
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https://store.dead.net/music/to-terrapin-hartford-77-cd.html
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Artistic expression appeared in the Upper Paleolithic: The Venus of Dolní Věstonice figurine, one of the earliest known depictions of the human body, dates to approximately २९,०००–२५,००० BP (Gravettian).
↑ १.० १.१ Groves, C. (2005). Wilson, D. E., & Reeder, D. M, eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd संस्करण). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. . ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=12100795.
↑ Human evolution: the fossil evidence in 3D, by Philip L. Walker and Edward H. Hagen, Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved April 5, 2005.
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2019-04-18T12:36:27Z
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https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8
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offers predominantly South Indian street food, served in a clean space by helpful and friendly staff. Be sure to try the fried idli, pani puri, khasta kachori, and the chole samosas.
The authentic North Indian vegetarian menu here changes every day. Order an entrée and a side at the counter, and one minute later it arrives with rice and roti or paratha alongside. The aloo sabzi is available every day.
This ethnic fusion spot offers traditional Indian fare as well as Chinese-inflected dishes. Wok cooking blends well with Indian spices – you'll find plenty of vegetarian options.
The visible assembly line makes it easy to create your own wraps and bowls. It also brings spinach pakora to a more familiar, Americanized setting. Try the curry paneer platter. Thumbs up.
We like the goat combo on rice and lentils with a side of decadent rice pudding. But the hara bhara, or "green" chicken served with a thick, spicy sauce, is worth your while as well.
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2019-04-21T20:44:34Z
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https://www.austinchronicle.com/restaurant-guide/cuisine:indian/price:under-ten-dollars/
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As crazy as the design of the world is, Zootopia ends up feeling like a genuine place. There's a vibrancy to it that runs through everything from the pace of the storytelling to the background details of the world in which the story takes place.
The world that Zootropolis creates is intelligent and fascinatingly detailed – it feels more like a movie by Disney-owned Pixar than a straight Disney film.
Thankfully the creators of this expansive adventure, a crime-solving saga starring a bunny who wants to be a cop, have a bit more in mind than the usual strains of aww-dorable humor and frenetic action.
The movie’s message about tolerance and not pre-judging others sings, and the many chases, interrogations (a weasel ably voiced by Alan Tudyk) and narrow escapes pay off.
Zootopia proves a successful amalgamation of disparate influences, much like its eponymous city.
Zootopia delivers the genre’s requisite barrage of quick-hit puns and pop culture riffs.
It is, in short, a city that only the Mouse House could imagine, and one that lends itself surprisingly well to a classic L.A.-style detective story, a la “The Big Lebowski” or “Inherent Vice,” yielding an adult-friendly whodunit with a chipper “you can do it!” message for the cubs.
Though it never gets too preachy, the film delivers its message about the dangers of stereotyping quite clearly and draws parallels with instances of everyday racial prejudice among humans.
Heavy with pop allusions and references to other crime underworld movies, including The Godfather and Chinatown, Zootopia is impressive in its visual conception and scope: At once straightforward and densely layered with wit and incident, it manages a lively clip and the odd fresh joke.
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2019-04-19T18:22:57Z
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https://akas.imdb.com/title/tt2948356/criticreviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt
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1. “Inflows of Portfolio Investment to Indonesia: Anticipating the Challenges Facing the Management of Macroeconomy,” ISEAS Working Paper on Economic and Finance, No. 2, March 1996.
2. “An Empirical Examination of the Stock Market Returns in Selected Asia-Pacific Economies in the Pre- and Post-Financial Reform Period,” ISEAS Working Paper on Economic and Finance, No. 1, March 2001.
3. “A Survey of Financial Integration in East Asia: How Far? How Much Further To Go?” (with T. Cavoli and R. Rajan), the Center for International Economic Studies Working Paper, 04-01, the School of Economics,University of Adelaide,Australia, January 2004.
4. “Interest Spreads and Mandatory Credit Allocations: Implications on Bank Loans to Small Businesses in Indonesia,” the Center for International Economic Studies Working Paper, 04-02, the School of Economics,University of Adelaide,Australia, January 2004.
5. “Exchange Rate Policy and Foreign Exchange Reserve Management in Indonesiain the Context of East Asian Monetary Regionalism,” (with R. Rajan), the Center for International Economic Studies Working Paper, 04-03, the School of Economics,University of Adelaide,Australia, August 2004.
7. “Incidences of Speculative Attacks on Rupiah during the Pre and Post-1997 Financial Crisis,” Center for International Economic Studies Working Paper, 05-04, theSchool ofEconomics,University of Adelaide,Australia, May 2005.
8.“Models of Equilibrium Real Exchange Rates Revisited: A Selective Review of the Literature,” (with R. Rajan), Center for International Economic Studies Working Paper, 06-04, the School of Economics,University of Adelaide,Australia, April 2006.
9. “Intervention Index and Post-Crisis Exchange Rate Regimes of Selected East-Asian Economies,” (with V. Pontines), June 2008.
10. “Economic Shocks and the Role of Exchange Rate in Indonesiaand Thailand,” (with S. Goo), The SEACEN Centre Staff Paper, no. 72, September 2009.
11. “Effectiveness and Commitment To Inflation Targeting Policy: Evidences From Indonesia and Thailand”, (with S. Goo), The SEACEN Centre Staff Paper, no. 73, September 2009.
12. “The Role of Central Banks in Sustaining Economic Recovery and in Achieving Financial Stability”, (with Lim C.S., Vincent), The SEACEN Centre Staff Paper, no. 74, February 2010.
13. “The US Sub-prime Crises and Extreme Market Pressures in Asia,” (with V. Pontines and N. M.Hussain), The SEACEN Centre Staff Paper, no. 75, June 2010.
14. “Flexible Exchange Rate under Inflation Targeting Regimes: Evidences from Four East and Southeast Asian Countries”, ( with V. Pontines), The SEACEN Centre Staff Paper, no. 77, August 2010.
15. “Asymmetrical Exchange Rate Policies in East and Southeast Asia: The Role of Chinese Reminbi,” (with Victor Pontines), The SEACEN Centre Staff Paper, no. 78, October 2010.
16. “Living with Macro-financial Linkages: Policy Perspectives and Challenges for SEACEN Countries (with Lim, C.S. Vincent), The SEACEN Centre Staff Paper, no. 79, January 2011.
17. “Post Global Financial Crisis: Issues and Challenges for Central Banks of Emerging Markets” (with Lim C.S. Vincent and Victor Pontines), The SEACEN Centre Staff Paper, no. 80, February 2011.
18. “The Concepts of Equilibrium Exchange Rate: A Survey of Literature”, The SEACEN Centre Staff Paper, no. 81, April 2011.
19. “Cross-border Bank Lending to Selected SEACEN Economies: An Integrative Report” (with Victor Pontines), The SEACEN Centre Staff Paper, no. 82, June 2011.
20. “Real Sector Propagation of the Recent Global Financial Crisis: An Integrative Report” (with C.S. Lim, Vincent), The SEACEN Centre Staff Paper, no. 83, July 211.
– Associate Editor, Singapore Economic Review, since May 2002.
– Member of International Board of Referees, Journal Ekonomi & Bisnis Indonesia (Journal of Indonesian Economy and Business), Faculty of Economic and Business, University of Gadjah Mada, Indonesia, since October 2008.
– Council Fellow, the East Asian Economic Association, since April 2005.
– Research Associate, the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), the Australian National University, since November 2005.
Finance & Trade; and Applied Time-Series Econometrics.
Honours (School of Economics): 1). International Finance; 2). International Trade; and 3). Topics in Time-Series Econometrics.
Graduate (School of Economics and Graduate Business School): 1). Money and Banking; 2). Managerial Economics for MBA program; 3). East Asian Economies; and 4). Challenges Facing Economic Policy Makers.
Nominated by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the National University of Singapore for the Outstanding Educator’s Award of 2000-2001.
1). Si Wei Goo: “Issues on the Monetary Policy and the Exchange Rate Policy of East Asian Countries during the post-1997 financial and currency crisis”, awarded in August 2008. Present position: Economist at the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Canberra, Australia.
Office for Asia and Pacific (Canberra: September 4-5, 2000).
7). Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore (January 13, 2003).
Implications for Indonesia, Jakarta (5 August 2003).
Institute for Monetary Research, Hong Kong SAR, September 22, 2003.
Commonwealth Treasury, Canberra, 15-16 April 2004.
University of Paris I – Pathéon – Sorbonne, Paris, June 30 – July 2, 2004.
Singapore Management University, in Singapore, 14-15 October 2004.
Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan on July 30-31, 2005.
Fund, Washington, D.C., October 19, 2005.
Australia, Sydney, April 20-21, 2006.
National University of Singapore, October 27, 2006.
University, Singapore, March 28, 2007.
27). Conference organized by the SCAPE of the National University of Singapore and EBER of the Australian National University, October 2007, Singapore.
28).Monetary and Financial Issues in Economic Integration in Asia, conference organized by the school of Economics, University of Adelaide, the Centre for Regulation and Market Analysis, University of South Australia, and the Heinz School of Canergie Mellon University, Australia, 4 August 2008, Adelaide, Australia.
29). Asian Economic Panel Conference on ‘The World in Crisis: National Strategies in an Interdependent World’, Jakarta, Indonesia, March 22-23, 2009.
30). Stimson Center-Singapore Institute of International Affairs Workshop on Global Economic Crisis: Consequences and Responses in Asia and the Middle East, October 8-9, 2009, Singapore.
31). Linkages between Real and Financial Aspects of Economic Integration in East Asia, research project funded by the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) and held at the Crawford School of Public Policy, the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, November 30, 2009.
32). ERIA Workshop Program, “Linkages between Real and Financial Aspects of Economic Integration in Asia”, Singapore, February 28th – March 1st, 2010.
33). Banking Regulation and Financial Stability in Asia Emerging Markets, organized jointly by the Asian Development Bank Institute, the Brookings Institution, the International Monetary Fund and the China Banking Regulatory Commission in May 26, 2010, Beijing, The People’s Republic of China.
34). The 30th anniversary of Taiwan Academy of Banking and Finance (TABF) —as one of the Key Note Speakers — inTaipe, Taiwan, June 29, 2010.
35). Macroeconomic and Financial Stability in Asia Emerging Markets, organized by Bank Negara Malaysia and the Asian Development Bank Institue (ADBI), in Kuala Lumpur, August 4, 2010.
36). The 12th International Convention of the East Asian Economic Association, Convention Theme: “Asia and the Global Economic Recovery”, Seoul, Republic of Korea, October 2-3, 2010.
1. The URG Research Grant from the School of Economics, University of Adelaide, February 2005.
2. The URG Research Grant from the School of Economics, University of Adelaide, May 2004.
3. Teaching Assistant Scholarship from Department of Economics, Brown University, from September 1991 to May 1992.
1. “How Should We Bank with Foreigners? An Empirical Assessment of Lending Behaviour of International Banks to Six East Asian Economies”, Intrenational Review of Economics and Finance, (with V. Pontines), 29, pp.552-568.
2. “Do Asian Countries Fear Appreciation Against Renminbi?” (with V. Pontines) in eds. by J. Corbett and X. Ying, Rebalancing Economies in Financially Integrating East Asia, Routledge. (forthcoming).
3. “International Bank Claims to East Asian Economies: Stabilizers or Destabilizers” (with V. Pontines) in eds. by J. Corbett and X. Ying, Rebalancing Economies in Financially Integrating East Asia, Routledge. (forthcoming).
1. “Managing Global Banks amidst Market Uncertainties”, Bao Review, No. 4, April, pp.50-51.
2. “Inflationary Implication of Gold Price in Vietnam”, (with Thi Kim Cuc Nguyen), CAMA Working Papers 2013-20, Australian National University, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, May 2013 (http://cama.anu.edu.au).
3. “Living with Interconnected Banking Sectors during the Period of Global Financial Market Uncertainties: Experiences of East and Southeast Asia”, Journal of Advanced Studies in Finance, Vol. IV, Issue 1 (7), Summer, pp. 32-61.
1. “Fear of Appreciation in East and Southeast Asia: The Role of the Chineses Renminbi”, Journal of Asian Economics, 23 (2012), pp. 324-334 (with V. Pontines).
2. “Flexible Exchange Rate under Inflation Targeting Regimes: Evidences from Four East and Southeast Asian Countries”, Review of International Economics, (with V. Pontines),Vol. 20, No.5, pp. 893-908.
3. “How Should We Bank with Foreigners? An Empirical Assessment of Lending Behaviour of International Banks to Six East Asian Countries”, (with Victor Pontines), Center for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) Working Paper No.4, the Australian National University, February 2012 (http://cama.anu.edu.au).
4. “Exchange Rate Appreciation, Capital Flows and Excess Liq uidity: Adjustment and Effectiveness of Policy Responses”, edited by V. Pontines and R. Siregar, The South East Asian Central Bank (SEACEN) Research and Training Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
5. “Episodes of Large Exchange Rate Appreciations and Reserve Accumulations in Selected Asian Economies: Is Fear of Appreciation Justified?” (with V. Pontines), in eds. by V. Pontines and R. Siregar, Exchange Rate Appreciation, Capital Flows and Excess Liquidity: Adjustment and Effectiveness of Policy Responses, The South East Asian Central Bank (SEACEN) Research and Training Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
6. “How Should We Bank with Foreigners? An Empirical Assessment of Lending Behaviour of International Banks to Six East Asian Economies” (with V. Pontines), in eds. by V. Pontines and R. Siregar, Exchange Rate Appreciation, Capital Flows and Excess Liquidity: Adjustment and Effectiveness of Policy Responses,The South East Asian Central Bank (SEACEN) Research and Training Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
7. “Trade Financing and Export Performance: Experiences of Indonesia, Korea and Thailand”, in eds. Shandre A. Thangavelu and Aekapol Chongvilaivan, Real and Financial Integration in Asia, Routledge, UK.
8. “Export Credit and Export Performance: The Experience of Indonesia” (with Anton H. Gunawan), in eds. Shandre A. Thangavelu and Aekapol Chongvilaivan, Real and Financial Integration in Asia, Routledge, UK.
1. “Macro-Prudential Approaches to Banking Regulation: Perspectives of Selected Asian Central Banks”, in Masahiro Kawai and Eswar Prasad (eds.), Asian Perspectives on Financial Sector Reforms and Regulation, Brookings Institution Press , pp. 101-137, Washington, D.C., USA.
2. “International and Cross-Border Bank Lending and Implications in SEACEN Economies: Balance Sheet Perspective”, Reza Y Siregar and Victor Pontines (eds), The South East Asian Central Bank (SEACEN) Research and Training Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
3. “Real Sector Propogation of the Recent Global Financial Crisis”, Reza Y Siregar and C.S. Lim, Vincent (eds), The South East Asian Central Bank (SEACEN) Research and Training Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
1. “The Role of Central Banks in Sustaining Economic Recovery and in Achieving Financial Stability”, (with Vincent Lim), Journal of Advanced Studies in Finance, Vol.1, Issue 1(1), pp.83-99.
2. “Determinant of International Bank Lending from the Developed World to East Asia”, (with Choy Keen Meng), the IMF Staff Papers, Vol. 57, No.2, pp.484-516.
3. “Effectiveness and Commitment to Inflation Targeting Policy: Evidences from Indonesia and Thailand”, (with Siwei Goo), Journal of Asian Economics, Vol.21, pp.113-128.
1. “In the Midst of Global Financial Slowdown: The Indonesian Experience”, (Willeam Wiranto), the Indonesian Quarterly, Vol.37, No.4, pp. 399-421.
2. “Navigating Policy Responses at the National Level in the Midst of the Global Financial Crisis: The Experience of Indonesia”, (with M.C. Basri), Asian Economic Papers, vol. 8(3), pg.1-35, October.
3. “Sample Period, Heteroscedasticity Assumption, and Contagion Measurement: MS-VAR Application on DCC Procedure”, (with Victor C. Pontines), Applied Financial Economics, vol 19, Issue 9, May, pp. 745-752.
4. “Survey of Recent Development”, (with Anton H. Gunawan), Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Vol.45, No. 1, April, pp.7-36.
5. “Examining the Case for an Asian Reserve Pool”, (with Graham Bird and Ramkishen S. Rajan), in ed. Ramkishen S. Rajan, Exchange Rates, Currency Crisis and Monetary Cooperation in Asia, Palgrave MacMillan, New York, pp.193-214.
1. “Outward Investment Surge in the Midst of Weak Inward Investment: Perspectives from the Indonesian Experience during the post-1997 Financial Crisis” (with Anton H. Gunawan), in. R. Kumar, R. Rajan and Nicola Virgill (eds), New Dimensions of Economic Globalization: Surge of Outward Foreign Direct Investment from Asia, World Scientific Press, May, pp.285-314.
2. “Fundamental Pitfals of Exchange Market Pressure-Based Approaches to Identification of Currency Crises” (a lead article with Pontines, V), International Review of Economics & Finance, vol.17, no.3, pp.345-365.
3. “Inflation Targeting Policy: The Experiences of Indonesia and Thailand”, (with Siwei Goo), Center for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) Working Paper No.23, the Australian National University, July 2008 (http://cama.anu.edu.au).
1. “The Yen, The US dollar and The Trade-Weighted Basket of Currencies: Does the choice of anchor currencies matter in identifying incidences of speculative attacks against selected key Southeast Asian currencies?” (with Pontines, V), Japan and the World Economy, Vol. 19, Issue 2, March, pp. 214-235.
1. “The Yen, The US dollar, and The Speculative Attacks Against the Thailand Baht”, (with Victor Pontines) in ed. Vandana Shajan, Foreign Institutional Investment: Issues and Challenges, the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts (ICFAI) University Press, India, December, pp. 152-181.
2. “Identifying and Dating the Episodes of Speculative Pressures against the Singapore Dollar”, ( a lead article with Pontines, V.), Singapore Economic Review, Vol. 51, No. 2, pg. 113-133.
3. “Designing Financial Safety Net Structures in Indonesia: Selected Lessons and Challenges”, (with William, E.J.), ASEAN Economic Bulletin, Vol. 23, No.1, April, pp 98-113.
1. “Interest Rate Policy and Its Implication of the Banking Restructuring Programs in Indonesia during the 1997-financial crisis: An Empirical Investigation”, in F. Sjoholm and J. Tongzon (eds), Institutional Change in Southeast Asia, Routledge Press, pp. 72-90.
2. “Sources of Variation Between the Inflation Rates of Korea, Thailand and Indonesia During The Post-1997 Crisis”, (with Rajaguru, G), Journal of Policy Modelling, Vol. 27, Issue. 7, October, pp. 867-884.
3. “Examining the Case for Reserve Pooling in East Asia” (with Bird, G., and Rajan, R), Asia Pacific Journal of Economic and Business, Vol. 9, No.1, June, pp. 21-39.
4. “Base Money and Exchange Rate: Sources of Inflation in Indonesia during the Post-1997 Financial Crisis”, (with Rajaguru, G), Journal of Economic Integration, Vol. 20, No. 1, March, pp.185-215.
1. “Centralized Reserve Pooling For the ASEAN + 3 countries” in Monetary and Financial Integration in East Asia, (with R. Rajan), McMillan Press for the Asian Development Bank, pp. 285-329.
2. “Misalignment of the Baht and its Trade Balance Consequences for Thailand in the 1980s and 1990s”, (with Rajan, R and Sen, R), The World Economy, Vol. 27, Issue.7, July, pp. 985-1012.
3. “Impacts of Exchange Rate Volatility on Indonesia’s Trade Performance in the 1990s”, (with Rajan, R), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol. 18, Issue 2, pp. 218-240.
1. “Estimating Singapore’s Natural Equilibrium Exchange Rate in the 1990s” in R. Rajan (ed), Sustaining Competitiveness in the New Global Economy: A Case Study of Singapore, (with R. Rajan), Edward Elgar (UK), pp.251-266.
2. “Singapore and The New Regionalism: Bilateral Trade Linkages with Japan and the US”, (with Rajan, R. and Sen, R.), The World Economy, Vol.26, Issue 9, September, pp. 1325 – 1356.
3. “Why Was There A Pre-Crisis Capital Inflow Boom in Southeast Asia?” ( a lead article with Rajan, R and Sugema, I), Journal of International Development, Vol.15, 3, pp 265 – 390.
1. “Private Capital Flows in East Asia: Boom, Bust and Beyond”, in Gordon. De Brouwer ed., Financial Markets and Policies in East Asia, (with R. Rajan), Routledge Press, pp. 47-81.
2. “Sustainable Exchange Rate Policy Management in Singapore: 1983-1998” in Chng Meng Kng, Hui Weng Tat, Koh Ai Tee, Lim Kim Lian and Bhanoji Rao eds., Singapore Economy in the 21st Century: Issues and Strategies, (with D. Lu), McGraw-Hill Book Co, pp. 425-442.
3. “Post Crises Exchange Rate Regime in Southeast Asia: to Peg or Not to Peg”, in M. Ikhsan, C. Manning and H. Soesastro (eds), 80 Tahun Mohamad Sadli; Ekonomi Indonesia di Era Politik Baru , PT Kompas Media Nusantara (June).
4. “Choice of Exchange Rate Regime: Currency Board (Hong Kong) or Monitoring Board (Singapore)?” (with Rajan, R), Australian Economic Papers, Vol.41, No.4, December, pp.538-556. —This paper was the fourth downloaded most frequently from the Australian Economic Papers in 2004.
5. “Exchange Rate Volatility, Trade & “Fixing for Life” in Thailand”, (with Rahmatsyah, T., and Rajaguru, R), Japan and the World Economy, Vol 14, No.4, December, pp.445-470.
6. “Hong Kong, Singapore and the East Asian Crisis: How Important Were Trade Spillovers?” (with Rajan, R and Sen, R), The World Economy, Vol 25, No.4, April, pp 503 – 537.
1. “Singapore and Free Trade Agreements: Economic Relations with Japan and the United States”, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, (with R. Rajan and R. Sen).
2. “Survey of Recent Developments”, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Vol. 37, No.3, pp. 277-303.
3. “Economic Fundamentals and Managed Floating Exchange Rate Regime in Singapore”, (with Choo, L.Y), Journal of Economic Development, Vol.26, No.1, June, pp.133 – 148.
1. “Monetary Shocks and the Fundamental Determinants of the Real Exchange Rate under the Hong Kong Currency Board”, (a lead article with Walker, C), Asian Economic Journal, Vol. 14 (1), March, pp.1-21.
1. “Management of Macroeconomic Policies in Vietnam” in Rising to the Challenge in Asia: A Study of Financial Markets, Volume 12, Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, Asian Development Bank, pp. 1-17.
2. “Empirical Properties of the Indonesian Rupiah: Testing for Unit-Roots, White-Noise, and Structural Breaks”, Journal of Economic Development, Vol.24, No.2, December, pp.163-176.
3. “Real Exchange Rate Targeting and Inflation in Indonesia: Theory and Empirical Evidence”, Applied Financial Economics, Vol. 9, No. 4, August, pp.329-336.
1. “Inflation and Exchange Rate Management in Indonesia”, in Richard Hooley and Zainal Abidin Mahani, eds, Research in Asian Economic Studies, volume 8, JAI Press, Greenwich, Conn, USA, pp.95-112.
1. “ASEAN and KOREA: Trends in Economic and Labour Relations”, (with Singh, D), Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore.
2. “Stimulating Investment and Export through the Exchange Rate and the Monetary Policy”, in The Indonesian Economic Almanac 1997, PT. Khasanah Ekonomi Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.
1. “The NATREX Approach to Analyse the Real Exchange Rate Movements, a case of Indonesia”, in Richard Hooley, Anwar Nasution and Mari Pangestu, eds, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation: Theory and Policy, Volume 7 (Part B), JAI Press, Greenwich, Conn, USA, pp.297-321.
2. “Indonesia: Setting the Stage for Soeharto’s Re-election”, (with Sebastian, L), Southeast Asian Affairs 1996, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, April, Singapore.
1. “ASEAN and KOREA: Emerging Issues in Trade and Investment Relations”, (with Singh, D), Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore.
2. “Manejo de las tasas de cambio en Indonesia”, ASIA PACIFICO 1995, El Colegio De Mexico, April.
3. “Integrasi Tingkat Bunga Domestik dengan Pasar Internasional: Kebijaksanaan dan Implementasi (Integration of Domestic Interest Rate with the International Market Rate: Policy and Implementation)”, Jurnal Keuangan dan Moneter (Journal of Monetary and Finance), Vol.2, No.2, Ministry of Finance, Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta, April.
1. “APEC and Macroeconomic Policy Coordination”, in Indonesian Perspectives on APEC and Regional Cooperation in Asia Pacific, edited by Hadi Soesastro, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta, November.
2. “Sustaining High Economic Growth”, The Economic Bulletin, Singapore International Chamber of Commerce, November.
3. Book Review on Indonesian Assessment 1993 – Labour: Sharing in the benefits of Growth. Edited by Chris Manning and Joan Hardjono. Canberra: Australian National University, 1993, ASEAN Economic Bulletin, Vol. 11, No.2, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, November.
– Director of Research and Learning Contents, The South East Asian Central Banks (SEACEN) Research and Training Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 2009 – October 2011.
– International Economic Consultant, the International Monetary Fund – Singapore Regional Training Institute, Singapore, August 2006- July 2009.
– Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor at the North American Universities) at the School of Economics, University of Adelaide, Australia, since January 2005-December 2007.
– – Associate Editor, Singapore Economic Review, 2002 – 2009.
– Director of the Centre for International Economic Studies (CIES), School of Economics, the University of Adelaide, October 2004-July 2006. (http://www.adelaide.edu.au/cies/).
– Member of Executive Committee (Associate Head) at the School of Economics, University of Adelaide, Australia, January 2005-July 2006.
– Member of Post-Graduate Coursework Program Committee at the Faculty of Professions, University of Adelaide, February 2006-July 2006.
– Coordinator for Master of Applied Economics (and International) at the School of Economics, University of Adelaide, Australia, October 2002-July 2006.
– Member of International Committee at the Faculty of the Professions, University of Adelaide, Australia, March 2004 – July 2005.
– Lecturer at School of Economics, University of Adelaide, July 2002 – November 2004.
– Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, May 1999 – May 2002.
– Deputy Director of the Econometrics Study Unit, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, May 2001 – May 2002.
– A member of Graduate Programme Committee, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, May 2001 – May 2002.
– Economist, the Economic Development & Resource Centre, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila, Philippines, June-1997 – February 1999.
April 1994 – April 1996.
– Advisor, the Exchange Rate Policy Evaluation Project, the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, D.C., May 2006 to July 2006.
– Visiting Scholar, the Asia Pacific Division of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, D.C., September 2005 to January 2006.
– Visiting Scholar, the Centre for Central Banking Studies at Bank Indonesia, Jakarta, in August 2005.
Indonesia, Jakarta, February1999 – May 1999.
University of Maryland at College Park, USA, March 1997 – May 1997.
– Visiting Scholar, the Centre for Pacific Basin Monetary and Economic Studies, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, California, USA, May 1996 – February 1997.
– The International Economic Journal; the Journal of Asian Economic; Singapore Economic Review; ASEAN Economic Bulletin; Asian Development Review; World Economy; Japan and the World Economy; Journal of Comparative Economics; Australian Economic Papers; Australian Economic Review; Applied Economics; Applied Financial Economics; International Review of Economics & Finance; Economic Record; Geneva Papers; Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money; Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy and Journal of International Money and Finance.
Consultancy works for international agencies: Asian Development Bank (Manila, Philippines); Asia Foundation (Jakarta, Indonesia); USAID (Jakarta, Indonesia); World Bank (Washington, D.C., U.S.A); and International Monetary Fund (Washington, D.C., U.S.A)).
and Pacific Department of the World Bank, Washington, D.C., (May 2006).
Kharas, the World Bank, 2006.
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Tarek El-Tayeb, 25, had always hated Christians. He was known among his friends as Tarek “El-Salafi” as he followed the ultraorthodox school of Islam.
"I joined the Salafist school of Islam when I was 13 years old," remembers El-Tayeb. "According to my ideology, Christians were heretics and being a friend with any of them was a grave sin."
All of this changed when he met Coptic Christian activist Mina Danial.
The two bumped into each other in Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square during last year’s 18-day uprising.
They met the morning after the 28 January "Friday of Rage", when Hosni Mubarak’s security forces fired tear gas, rubber bullets and live ammunition at protesters. Danial had been shot in the leg.
"Are you injured?" asked El-Tayeb.
"Yes," laughed Mina. "But it's not a big deal."
"No, it's not ok," responded El-Tayeb. "You need to clean that wound."
El-Tayeb insisted and took Mina to the nearby Qasr Al-Eini Hospital. After that, the two, became inseparable.
"Mina and I didn’t go through the normal stages of friendship," remembers El-Tayeb. "After the first few minutes we became like brothers."
Despite the closeness of the two, El-Tayeb still struggled to overcome his discomfort at having a Christian friend.
"I never told him how I felt about Christians," says El-Tayeb. "He would sometimes tell me that he loved me and I would respond by saying that I hate him. It was just hard for me to get rid of these fanatical ideas all at once. It took time."
Since becoming a Salafist, El-Tayeb made sure he was civil to his Christian neighbors and colleagues, however, being friends with a Christian was simply out of the question. Danial was different.
"I just could not hate him. For the first time in my life, I found that I could not hate a Christian. I could not put this barrier of religion between me and him," El-Tayeb explains, "The emotions I felt towards him destroyed all of these shackles. I didn’t understand it then and I still don’t understand it now. What is it about Danial that made him have this impact on people?"
Mina was special, his friends say, unique, charismatic and impossible to hate. He was a cheerful young man, who was always smiling and had the uncanny ability to win people over.
Mina, the youngest of seven, was born in the town of Sanabo in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Assiut. He was raised mainly by his sister Mary, 21 years his senior. He was so close to Mary that he called her "mum."
"He was born at ten in the morning,” recalls Mary, who looks strikingly similar to her brother, smiling at the memory. "He was such a beautiful child. For me, he was a son and not a brother."
The Danials were the only Christian family in a street of Muslims.
Life was good initially, Muslims and Christians got along well, says Mary.
However things changed in the mid-1980s when sectarian tension began to spread throughout Egypt, as ultraorthodox Islamic groups gained influence. Life for Christians changed forever.
"I remember we were a group of seven girlfriends living in the same street. We were very close," Marry says. "Then one day, I walked to the bus stop as usual to meet them and I noticed that they turned their backs on me and wouldn’t say hello. Fundamentalist groups had succeeded in filling people’s minds with hate."
Slowly, the gap between Muslims and Christians increased, Mary says.
Attacks on Christian homes became common. The Danials were not spared: several members of the Danial family were attacked. Mary recalls stones being hurled at her when she walked to church.
One day, a member of the Danial family got into a fight with an Islamist, after the latter demanded that he turn off the Christian Mass that was playing on the radio. The fight escalated and the family went to lodge a complaint at the local police station.
They were shocked when the police responded by arresting nine members of the Danial family instead.
"The fact that they arrested us just because we complained, opened my eyes and made me realise that the regime was collaborating with these fanatics," explains Mary.
By the time Mina was born in 1991, the damage to Muslim and Christian relations had already been done.
The Christians now lived in what Mary called "Church isolation."
"The church became a state within a state," says Mary. "It ran supermarkets, hospitals, clubs, picnics, lectures, everything. Our whole life became centered around the church."
The violence continued. When Mina was two years old, the family decided to pack up and head to Cairo.
They settled in the suburb of Ezzbet El-Nakhl, where Mina lived until his death.
A quiet child, he spent most of his time with his sister Mary, who used to take him, along with his other sister Sherry, who was four years older than him, to church.
"Everyone at church envied me for having him. He was so quiet and sensitive. He never whined and would not ask me to buy him anything because he would worry that I would not have enough money."
Proud of his Pharaonic heritage, Mina dreamed of studying archeology one day but his results were not good enough. He opted for a Bachelor of Commerce instead.
"He wasn’t very happy though and always dreamed that one day he would find a way to enroll in the college he wanted," Mary says.
In his teens, Mina slowly began to get involved in politics.
He started frequenting downtown Cairo, the popular haunt of Egypt's political activists. He developed an interest in Argentine Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.
Physically, he copied Guevara; the hair and clothes were styled after his hero. Politically, he leaned towards the left. He felt that socialism was the solution to Egypt’s poverty.
However, it was Guevara’s quest for social justice that gripped Mina the most. His close friend, Ramez Sobhy, says that Mina was impressed by the revolutionary leader's struggle to help the poor.
"Mina always used to say that Egypt’s poor were like a football constantly kicked between the Islamists and liberals," says Sobhy. "People always think of Mina as a Christian martyr but that is not true. Mina was a martyr of the poor. It was the plight of the impoverished that concerned him the most."
It is not difficult to understand why. The misery in Ezzbet El-Nakhl, where Mina lived, Cairo is devastating. Roads that lead to Mina’s house are dusty and broken; the buildings are rundown.
A few roads away from his house, young children play on a swing, precariously balanced over a titanic pile of rubbish and rubble.
Mina was not looking for a way out for himself only, he wanted a collective solution that would benefit all of Egypt’s poor.
He began encouraging his friends to go on trips to Egypt’s underprivileged areas to talk to the people and discuss possible solutions for their problems. He attended meetings held by various political movements in Egypt but none satisfied him.
"Mina did not trust these political groups. He felt that the solution was in the hands of the poor," explains Sobhy. "He felt that Egypt’s poor should unite and help each other and fight for their rights."
After the 2010 Nagaa Hamadi attack, during which armed gunmen killed eight Christian worshippers as they were emerging from a Christmas Mass in the Upper Egyptian city, Mina’s activism amplified.
He joined the Justice and Freedom Movement, a youth group that was calling for change.
Despite being heartbroken over the deteriorating situation for Christians in Egypt, friends say, Mina did not have sectarian tendencies. He always believed that the Christian problem was part of the bigger Egyptian problem.
"Whenever sectarian problems take place, he would ask me, why do they always happen in poor places, why do we never hear of Muslims and Christians fighting in rich areas like [Cairo's central district] Zamalek?" Sobhy adds.
Mina resented Christian-only protests and sit-ins. He would tell his friends that carrying crosses and chanting Christian slogans might discourage Muslims from participating. He believed that unity was the key.
In one incident that Sobhy recalls, the residents of Cairo's working-class district Bulaq clashed with Christians who were protesting against discrimination. Mina went to talk to them.
"He told them, why are you fighting each other? Both Muslims and Christians are poor, both can’t find proper housing, both are suffering," says Sobhy. "In the end, the Muslims joined the Christians in the protest. Mina had that kind of charisma. His effect on people was monumental. When he talked, people listened."
Tragedy struck again on New Year’s Eve in 2011, when a bomb exploded in the Two Saints Church in Alexandria minutes after midnight, killing 25 civilians. That night a distraught Mina drove to Alexandria.
"He saw the shredded bodies; he saw a human scalp hanging on an iron rod," remembers Marry. "He was in shock. He refused to eat for a week after that."
When the January 25 Revolution took off, Mina and his friends joined the mass sit-in on Tahrir Square.
Mina was renowned for being fearless: he would often be seen fighting the security forces on the front lines. As a result, he was repeatedly wounded. He was shot in the leg with a live bullet and suffered countless other injuries across his body.
When Mubarak stepped down on 11 February, Mina, who had gone home to change his clothes, rushed to the flashpoint square and danced with his sister.
However, the situation in Egypt did not improve.
On 9 March, just weeks after the military council assumed power, the army forcibly dispersed a Tahrir Square sit-in. Churches were attacked and torched.
Egypt's political dialogue began to change. Islamists, denouncing Christians as heretics, gathered support. However, Mina was an eternal optimist, his friends said.
"Whenever we felt demoralised or sad, we would call him," says Sobhy. "He would give us an energy boost."
He continued to attend all the post-uprising protests, which demanded the fulfillment of the revolution’s demands.
Early April, he joined a mass protest calling for ousted president Mubarak, who at the time was still free and living in the Red Sea resort Sharm El-Sheikh, to be put on trial. This is where Mina met the love of his life, Katherine.
The petite brunette, 29, has not spoken to the media since Mina died. She finds it hard to talk about him, without breaking down, she says.
Katherine, like Mina, came from a conservative Upper Egyptian Christian family. She works as a tour guide and lives in Cairo. The nine-year age difference was a big problem for their families.
"I was shocked when I found out how old he was," smiles Katherine, "but Mina didn’t care. He was not concerned with how old you are, or what your political ideology is. These barriers that humans put against each other were insignificant to him."
A few months after they met, Mina told Katherine of a nightmare he had. He dreamed that black dogs were attacking him, trying to kill him.
The dream occurred on 9 October, 2010. Mina died on 9 October, 2011.
"I knew that Mina was going to die and so he did," says Katherine. "We both felt it."
Attacks on Copts escalated and several sit-ins protesting the increased discrimination towards the Christian community were violently dispersed.
Finally, on 9 October last year, activists decided to hold a peaceful protest.
The march was to begin in the central Cairo's Dawaran Shubra Square and would then head to Egyptian state media headquarters, Maspero. There was no plan for an open sit-in that day. The goal was to reach the radio and television building, make their demands heard and then leave.
People began gathering in Shubra at 4pm. There were many activists but just as many women, children and elderly people. That day, Mina had lunch with his sister and Katherine, before heading to the protest.
He and Katherine walked at the front, while Mary remained at the back. The march continued peacefully for an hour until unknown assailants began hurling stones at the protesters.
At that point, a panicked Mary tried to call her brother repeatedly. Finally, after several attempts, he picked up.
"He told me that he was ok and not to worry," says Mary, "that was the last conversation we had."
Katherine, who was with Mina at the frontline, says that he was in a really good mood.
"The closer we got to Maspero, the better his mood became," Katherine recalls.
However, once the march reached Maspero, the army attacked the demonstrators, using an unprecedented level of force.
Tear gas and live ammunition were fired. Army trucks ran over protesters, mutilating and killing those in the way.
Mary, who had also reached Maspero, described the horror scene.
"To say they were brutal would be an understatement," she says. "I remember that an army truck was trying to run us over. We ran onto the pavement in an attempt to escape them, so the truck driver drove over the pavement in order to get us."
The injured and the dead began to fill up the nearby Coptic hospital.
Katherine, still with Mina, could no longer control her terror.
"My legs began to shake with fear," she says. "So Mina told me that if I was that scared then I better leave. He carried me out of the Maspero area and took me to my father. He told us to take care of each other and left."
Fifteen minutes later Mina was gunned down. He was shot in the shoulder with a single bullet. He was just 20 years old.
His friends informed his sister and fiancé of his death.
Mary visited her brother’s body at the Coptic hospital where the dead were laid out and was surprised that even in death, he was still smiling.
"The fact that he was still smiling made me believe that Mina is not dead. That his dreams will never die."
She kissed him, soaked a cloth in some of his blood and left.
It was El-Tayeb who refused to leave Mina’s body.
"I sat beside him for two hours and held his hands," El-Tayeb says. "I wouldn’t leave until a mutual friend of ours dragged me out."
After his death, Mina became one of the icons of the revolution.
His face has become a common feature in most revolutionary murals. Demonstrators wear masks of his face or hold aloft placards of his image during marches.
Both President Mohamed Morsi and his rival regime-figure Ahmed Shafiq used Mina’s image as part of their presidential electoral campaigns.
His sister Mary has become as familiar a figure as her brother. Revolutionaries seek her presence in their protests and marches to give them credibility and to gain public attention.
"Maybe I have become a symbol of the families of the martyrs, who are still struggling for their rights. Or maybe I remind them of Mina," smiles Mary.
She is also active online. She has 5000 Facebook friends and laughingly adds that she has 1000 more pending friend requests.
However, Mary insists that her main purpose in life now is to get justice for Mina. To date, no one has been found responsible for the deaths of the 27 protesters, killed on 9 October.
Mary is determined to continue Mina's quest for social justice.
"I want to see the day when no one is sleeping on the pavement. The day where no one is living in the tombs or searching for food in the garbage," says Marry. "This is what Mina wanted."
Some of Mina’s friends however, feel that politicians abuse his name for their own benefit.
"The Muslim Brotherhood, for one, are all hypocrites," fumes El-Tayeb. "On a personal level they call Mina a heretic, but publicly, they claim that he is a martyr."
El-Tayeb has abandoned Salafism since Mina’s death. He now considers himself a "moderate Egyptian Muslim." He is proud that he now has many Christian friends.
"Mina opened the door for me. He taught me what humanity meant," says El-Tayeb. "He opened my eyes and I finally saw Christians as they really are: good people, kind, charitable and not corrupt as the extremists claimed."
As for Mina, everyone loved him.
"How can a man win so many hearts, unless God loves him?" asks El-Tayeb. "There is only one Mina."
Translate this into Arabic please.
This is a very touching story and explains a lot more than what people really understand. I highly recommend that you translate this into Arabic, so many people could have access to it. Thank you very much.
Thank you so much for this article, so heartfelt and human; Mina's journey- elements we need to be reminded of today. Thank you.
Beautifully written and very moving. Thank you so much for this article. Egypt has lost a very special person.
Thank you for a sensitive and comprehensive profile of Mina Danial, the icon and the man. The story brings out many aspects of the Coptic dilemma and moves beyond the usual anti-sectarian polemics. Thank you Yasmine Fathy for a job well done, and for bringing up the bigger issues behind the plight of the Copts, indeed the many issues that made Mina's life meaningful.
That's a great articule Yasmine. The revolution continues and Mina beside all martyrs will remain in our hearts. The humanity didn't forget Guevara, also we will not forget our Guevara.
Thanks for sharing. RIP Mina. Mina, you are now in my heart as well. I believe what he believed and I hope more come to believe what he believed, its going to take a lot of Minas to make Egypt what it should be. The only way it will change is if the Mina's of the world step up, use there voices and influence others to the fact that we are all just people.
Tragic story, which makes me very angry, especially when it comes to the point, who is profiteering most from the fight of those brave young people like Mina... The biggest advantage goes to religious extremists, to the Muslim Brotherhood and other ones who have done nothing for the Revolution and who cannot be said to stand for the aims of the revolution. Egyptian youth, go on fighting for your aims and be aware, that your dream will not get destroyed and that Freedom and Justice are not just empty words or the name of a party. Otherwise the death of Mina and many other brave ones would have been for nothing and this would be heartbreaking.
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2019-04-20T14:47:53Z
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http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/55044/Egypt/Politics-/Egypts-Mina-Danial-The-untold-story-of-a-revolutio.aspx
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"... In this paper, the average bit error rate (BER) performance of square M-level quadrature-amplitude modulation (M-QAM) with imperfect channel estimation via LMMSE under Gaussian-error model is addressed with maximal-ratio combining (MRC) and equal-gain combining (EGC) schemes. The channels are modell ..."
"... Abstract:- In this paper, we investigate the performance of a novel diversity combining technique, termed root-mean-square diversity combining (RMSGC), for OFDM transmission over flat Rayleigh fading channels in MIMO systems in the presence of co-channel interference (CCI). Prior published results o ..."
"... In wireless communication systems antenna diversity is an important technique to combat multipath effects of fading to improve the system performance and to increase the channel capacity. This paper explores receiving antenna diversity issues for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) in ..."
"... In this paper, we analyse the error performance of transmitter/receiver array free-space optical (FSO) communication system employing binary phase shift keying (BPSK) subcarrier intensity modulation (SIM) in clear but turbulent atmospheric channel. Subcarrier modulation is employed to eliminate the ..."
"... Abstract:- Antenna diversity has been shown to improve mean signal strength and reduce signal level fluctuations in the fading channel. Combinational techniques such as Maximum Ratio Combination (MRC) or Equal Gain Combination (EGC) use the multiple signal branches that exist in the wireless channel ..."
"... AbstractPerformance of a L-branch predetection equal gain combining receiver has been analyzed in independent Hoyt fading channels with arbitrary fading parameters applying classical probability density function (PDF) based approach. An approx-imate but highly accurate PDF of the sum of independent ..."
"... We introduce a novel soft antenna selection approach for multiple antenna systems through a joint design fo both RF (radio frequency) and baseband signal processing. When only a limited number of frequency converters are available, conventional antenna selection schemes show severe performance degra ..."
"... Abstract—In this paper, we propose a novel communication scheme for real-time video transmission over wireless sensor network based on the virtual multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) and the network coding technology. According to the distinctive characteristic of real-time video data, the video t ..."
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https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/search?q=Low+complexity+MRC+and+EGC+based+receivers+for+SC-FDE+modulations+with+massive+MIMO+schemes
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That was the promise of Toronto’s police chief less than a year ago. At the time, Chief Bill Blair was hailing the Police and Community Engagement Review (PACER) report. According to Blair, the report was a “comprehensive review.” It was written by the police and made recommendations on how to eliminate racial profiling and bias from policing in Toronto.
While many felt that the report did not go far enough, Blair echoed the sentiments of Professor Atiba Goff of the Los Angeles Centre for Policing Equity, who said that PACER “is about as good as you can ask for.” The chief signalled his and the force’s intention to implement the recommendations of the report, including one that required officers to issue “receipts” to those residents (disproportionally young black or brown men) whom they stopped and questioned, even if they were not linked to an offence, i.e. the practice of so-called carding.
But in the 10 months since Blair wrote those promising words in a Star opinion piece, the police have reverted to denial and resistance. Inexplicably, the chief and his bosses on the Police Services Board, including Toronto’s new mayor, participated in a closed mediation. The result: the PSB is now set to vote on a policy that is meek, offensive and insidious. This new policy not only eliminates the requirement to issue receipts, but it takes us back even further than we were a few months ago.
Is this the wish and the legacy of the chief who once said, “Good enough won’t cut it” when addressing racial profiling? Is this going to be the legacy of a mayor who ran for “One Toronto?” Is this the direction of an oversight body and a civilian boss, the PSB, that was once committed to diversity and fair treatment?
Dyanoosh Youssefi is a legal studies professor, social justice advocate and writer.
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2019-04-21T17:11:52Z
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https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2015/04/14/toronto-police-set-to-embrace-institutionalized-racism.html
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Scott Brown has revealed it will be a month before medics decide whether he requires an operation on his injured knee.
The Celtic skipper sat out Thursday night’s defeat by Ajax – the first game in period of recuperation that could see him sidelined for up to three months.
Speaking for the first time about the full extent of the injury sustained in the weekend stalemate with Kilmarnock, the 30-year-old revealed his anguish at realising he’d miss a major chunk of the season – as well as his hopes that surgery can yet be avoided.
‘I was a bit devastated,’ Brown said. ‘When I woke up in the morning, I had a wee feeling it was my ligament.
‘I had hoped it was a wee strain but it was a bit more serious than that.
‘I will be on crutches and my leg will be in a brace for four weeks and then after that I will see how it’s healing.
‘If it’s healing well, I won’t need an operation. If it’s not, I might have to go down the operation route.
‘It’s always hard being injured. Coming back from an injury, playing 90 minutes and then being out for possibly three or four months is difficult, but I’ve had these blows before in my career and I will get over it – I will get through it no problem.
Brown was in the dugout at Livingston on Wednesday as Celtic’s UEFA Youth League side earned a 3-0 victory over Puskas Akademia to seal a 3-1 aggregate triumph.
Calvin Miller bagged a brace for the Bhoys, with Theo Archibald also on target as the young Celts booked a placed in the last 32 of the prestigious tournament.
And as Brown recovers from injury, he will spend more time honing his coaching skills with the club’s young players under the guidance of Academy Manager Tommy McIntyre.
‘My big focus over the next couple of months will be helping out Tommy as much as he wants in whatever he needs done,’ he added.
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2019-04-20T14:31:59Z
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3335281/Celtic-s-devastated-captain-Scott-Brown-hoping-avoid-knee-operation.html
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In case you didn’t know – and I’ve been bleating on about it enough recently so you should – Herald of the Storm hits shelves in the UK on the 25th April. Already there have been some glowing reviews and this week is no exception.
First, Elloise Hopkins at the British Fantasy Society reviewed it here. Then Craig at Galaxy Bookshop in Australia thinks I’m ‘As good as Abercrombie’ when you click the reviews tab over here (apparently referring to some chap known as ‘Joe Abercrombie’ – never heard of him, personally). And Erik Lundqvist, who really liked my debut, Kultus, says Herald of the Storm ‘surpassed his expectations’ over here.
Add to this the fact the novel now has its very own tie-in coffee mug, and it’s been a pretty good week all in all.
Violent, Vicious and Darkly Funny… OH YEAH!
Doug Smith has posted his review of Herald of the Storm over on Wilder’s Book Review. I’m pleased to say, he liked it! Go read it – and show him the love!!
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2019-04-25T23:44:48Z
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https://richard4ord.wordpress.com/2013/03/
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Last week I had a Tate weekend - Britain on one day, and Modern the next. Tate Britain has a fantastic nineteenth-century collection - an expansive Turner wing, and all the Pre-Raphaelites you can think of in one room. There were some really great paintings there, but seeing them all together I was suddenly overpowered by the structures of disenfranchisement oozing out of the art. In this case, I was mostly distracted by their sexism, thanks to the Pre-Raphaelite obsession with depicting women of and in the legendary past. They presented a very particular and predominating view of 'history' and 'femininity.' (I'm using 'scare quotes' because these 'words' are fraught with 'meaning.') As art historians we're taught to examine the ways art reflects the culture in which it is made, but the discriminatory attitudes of earlier periods usually get written off with a shrug. Those cultures feel too distant, too different. The more modern works hit closer to home because they still seem in some ways remarkably similar to today.
"The Awakening Conscience," William Holman Hunt, 1853. Ugh. Even the title.
If you know what I'm talking about, great! Let's go change the world. If you'd like the artistic analysis, I'll offer "The Awakening Conscience" as an example, because I just can't bring myself to get into the one titled "Woman's Mission: Companion of Manhood." The work above is meant to be read as a morality tale about a young woman who has been seduced into a lifestyle of 'sin,' who, becoming aware of it, desires redemption. There are a lot of problems with this in the modern world: how does one define sin, or right and wrong when it comes to sexuality? Why is the woman represented solely as an instrument of pleasure or didacticism, rather than as a fully-embodied person? Her conscience may be awakening, but it is at the behest of the artist. She is trapped in a system that not only labels her status (as a "fallen woman") untenable, but also uses her self-actualization to further reinforce that system (follow the patriarchal codes or you'll suffer too!).
Sometimes I worry about art history's irrelevance, but then I find moments of value like the above - it helps (me, at least) to look deeper at our history and culture and expectations. You learn how society is made and can be unmade - sometimes quite literally. The "Conflict-Time-Photography" exhibit at the Tate Modern covered photographs of major conflicts over the last two centuries, focusing on different moments of the aftermath. Lives and homes and landscapes were completely unmade. It made me want to cry, punch the wall, and throw things. I have been embarrassed by American stereotypes before but I have never wanted to rip off my nationality like a skin so much as when I was looking at the pictures of Hiroshima. I don't think there's a logical reaction to suffering, only a visceral one.
I go to these kinds of exhibits not because I am a masochist, but because I can't not go. It relates in some way to that George Orwell quote I left at the start: you have to know what society and history are about before you can do anything to change them. You walk out stunned, thinking, what now, what next? How do we stop this from happening again and again? How do we stop people from killing and oppressing on every level of society?
I said thinkable, not answerable.
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2019-04-24T06:16:43Z
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http://loveannie.weebly.com/blog/thinkable-art-and-conflict
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Pison electrum, a new species from Baltic amber characterized mainly by a notched mandible and second recurrent vein ending on a submarginal cell III, is not closely related to any of the extant species.
Antropov, Alexander V. and Pulawski, Wojciech J., "A New Species of Pison Jurine from. Baltic Amber (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)" (1989). An. Paper 20.
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2019-04-23T20:58:11Z
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https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/bee_lab_an/20/
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The 2013 Branford Boase Award shortlist has been announced. The award is given to a debut author of an outstanding first novel for young people; the editors are also honored.
Works of genre interest on the shortlist include After the Snow by S.D. Crockett, edited by Emma Young (Macmillan); Daylight Saving by Edward Hogan, edited by Mara Berman (Walker); and Black Arts by Andrew Prentice & Jonathan Weil, edited by Simon Mason (David Fickling). The winner will be announced at a ceremony July 11, 2013 in London.
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2019-04-25T14:16:21Z
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https://locusmag.com/2013/05/branford-boase-award-shortlist/
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Does your Snapchat photo really disappear?
By Emily De Vito SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News) – People have been calling it “the Snappening.” Social media app Snapchat is known for its disappearing photos and videos.
Users are told after 10 seconds of sending them to their friends, they’re gone forever.
But this week a third-party called Snapsaved.com caused one of the biggest hacks related to Snapchat with 100,000 photos being leaked.
Snapsaved allowed users to store photos they’ve taken before they disappear. Snapsaved has now been taken offline.
Kevin Du, a professor of mechanical engineering and computer science at Syracuse University, said that sharing photos is something the younger generation has grown up with.
“They get so used to this technology and it’s so convenient for them to share and not realize there is going to be a side effect if it is something you really don’t want everyone to know,” said Du.
While people trust social media sites such as Snapchat or Facebook with their photos or personal information, part of the problem is that they don’t understand what’s going on inside these devices such as their iPhone or iPad.
“Technology has limitation. It doesn’t matter how well we do our job. The hacker is always going after that or finding a loophole in your system and there is no perfect system out there,” said Du.
Tori Cedar, a freshman at Syracuse University, said she doesn’t believe her photos disappear so she uses the app with caution.
“These thing can haunt you for the rest of your life for jobs or grad school,” said Cedar.
Du said the best way to protect what you put out on social media is to make a decision.
He said you have to accept the risk that a photo could come back five years from now in another hacking case.
The Technology Takeover: Should We Be Worried About Our Children’s Future?
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2019-04-25T04:22:19Z
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https://nccnews.expressions.syr.edu/2014/10/22/younger-generations-may-be-unaware-of-cybersecurity-risks/
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The repayment would begin in 2015 and continue for 15 years. The company would get 45 percent of the property tax increase and the city and county would collect 55 percent.
The Synthetic TIF application will be included in the rezoning request for the park, said Ned Curran, president of Bissell Companies.
The zoning hearing before City Council is set for July 18.
Curran said he hopes to have the Synthetic TIF approved by fall to allow road construction to begin as soon as possible.
"The reason we decided to apply for the STIF is because we knew it was the best way to get things done quickly," said Curran. "With the fiscal challenges of the government, we thought it would take a while to process and (road) improvements might not happen for at least a decade."
Bissell Companies will only be repaid if the tax value of the corporate park increases.
Curran said he understands the company stands to risk more than the city and county but feels confident the tax value will increase.
"In this case, you have an organization that's willing to gamble that the tax space is going to grow," said Curran. "But if it doesn't, we won't get repaid, and we understand that. We are motivated to keep the property well maintained to help with property values."
Curran said he believes the road improvements will be a welcomed addition to the area.
Although the improvements will take place on corporate park property, many of those roads are used frequently by the public.
Improvements include connecting the two sections of North Community House Road and installing a bridge over Interstate 485, an additional right turn lane on Ballantyne Commons Parkway onto Johnston Road and lane expansion on John J. Delaney Drive.
The improvements are meant to help traffic on Johnston Road, which is used by 55,000 cars a day, according to Curran.
"These types of road improvements will benefit the entire southern portion of the county," said Curran. "Our traffic experts said once North Community House Road is completed, over 80 percent of the traffic will be cut-through of people who don't have anything to do with the park."
Warren Cooksey, District 7 city council representative, said Synthetic TIFs are "somewhat" high profile because the public perceives it as a government hand-out to big businesses.
"In this case, though, Bissell is investing its own money before receiving any contributions from the city or county," he said. "Because the STIF is being done as a repayment, the risk is higher for the company than there typically is with these. Usually the risk is more on the public side, but this situation is unique."
Cooksey said he is not always in favor of using Synthetic TIFs to finance private projects. He said he has seen jurisdictions overuse Synthetic TIFs and "hollow out" the city and county's general fund.
"If you do too many of them, you don't have the tax revenue needed to fund services that come with growth," he said. "Things like police and fire come from the general fund and if we are paying for capital projects with the tax revenue, we won't have the money for those services."
Cooksey said one way Charlotte has guarded against the potential problem is to cap the number of Synthetic TIFs they approve every year.
Currently, the cap on Synthetic TIFs is three percent of all city property tax levies generated each fiscal year.
According to Cooksey, the city has a payout cap of $10-11 million every year.
"As far as the Bissell STIF goes, they are helping the city out considerably by stretching the $11 million repayment over 15 years," he said.
Cooksey said he can't comment on how he will vote on the expansion and Synthetic TIF until he hears the proposal during the rezoning hearing.
Curran will discuss the Synthetic TIF and the expansion of the corporate park at the Ballantyne Breakfast Club Meeting on June 11.
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2019-04-20T00:38:31Z
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https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/community/south-charlotte/article9060296.html
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Welcome to CEOHP! We hope you will find information that is useful in your teaching. These lesson plans and other materials can inspire pre-college and undergraduate teachers for how to incorporate the CEOHP interviews into their teaching. A general information page about these materials is also included in the CSTA's Online Repository of K-12 Computer Science Teaching and Learning Materials.
If you develop teaching tools that incorporate material from this site or further adapt the materials already here, please consider sharing your ideas so we can adapt them and include them in our offerings.
Our set of teaching materials, in the form of lesson plans, have been designed to fit with CEOHP and encourage students to explore the interviews. So far, we include a jigsaw activity (small group work), a flash card activity, and plans for how to use the interviews as inspiration for essay questions (also discussed below).
We have summarized statements from the interviews as the basis for essay questions that encourage students to think deeply as they write about particular issues.
For each interview, we have collected a set of statements that amused us, intrigued us, or made us think. Our summary of notable quotes provides a great jumping-off place for browsing the interviews.
Many interviewees mentioned literary references, including books read for fun or used in teaching, as well as films used in class. Browse these references for ideas you can adapt for your own use in the classroom.
Word clouds and tag clouds provide a way to represent meanings and themes from the interviews in a creative manner. We have summarized this work-in-progress and encourage teachers to adapt these techniques in their own teaching.
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2019-04-21T18:21:30Z
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http://ahab.southwestern.edu/departments/mathcompsci/OHProject/index-educators.html
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Arts
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Reference
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apple
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Instantly create hilarious movies to share with friends. Choose any face — photos of friends, celebrities, politicians or yourself — and record videos replacing their mouth (or entire face) with yours. Adjust the pitch of your voice and add music to complete your movie. Make any picture talk and share the laughs with friends.
Step 1: Choose a face... Any face!
Step 2: Cut out the mouth (or face) and add music and voice effects.
Step 3: Record your movie and share the laughs with friends.
Minor fixes. Did FMM make you laugh? Tell us why in your review!
I love this app and I’ve been using it to make my friends laugh for years, but I would love to be able to make videos longer than 30 seconds. A minute would be fine, just want a bit more time! Also, as others have pointed out, the area that I cut out sometimes is not in the right place and I have to do it over and over. Eventually it’s okay. Hey, I’ll give you 99 cents for unlimited recording time!
I love this app don’t get me wrong. But there is one tiny but annoying problem and that is when you set the mouth or face cut somewhere or change it's angle it tends to stretch the spot farther than it's sit which is annoying when you want to make the thing good. Other than that it’s an easy to use app and very simple. Some of the good features cost money but are usually cheap at the lowest of 99 cents.
This app is TERRRRRIIIIBBBBLLLLEEEEE!!!!!! And I mean it!!! There is no tutorial, it’s doesn’t let me use the cutting tool, microphone, and anything else is just boring! You can only use 6 presets and everything else is bought by the in-app purchases. They don’t even have a decent microphone sync ability. Now just to be clear, for someone else this could be the best app in the App Store, but this is just my opinion: This app was a waste of my battery and time. Just a suggestion, you might want to look to other comedy apps for help. Thanks for reading.
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2019-04-24T09:17:56Z
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https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/funny-movie-maker-fmm/id430623298?mt=8
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Arts
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Arts
| 0.097566 |
weebly
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Dimensions: Width 39.37 inches (100 cm), height 39.37 inches (100 cm), thickness 0,79 inches (2 cm).
By creating pictures artist reaches her and yours soul. It is a way for her to create a relationship with Nature and Spirit. The environment in which she live's and work's is inspired and inspired by her shapes, lines and colors. Most of these works of art are monumental in nature, made up of lines and shapes of structural rhythms and interchangeable proportions that help to emphasize the playfulness and dynamics of the works.
Geometric shapes and lines helps her explore the compliance of an exquisite image with my inner senses. Particularly endangered boundaries between the medium, shape and color attract and attract the observer in their creative spirit.
In order to create a festive impression and mood, the motives of nature, their form, she chooses the colors specifically so that she could visualize the states of people more clearly through the images.
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2019-04-23T06:08:42Z
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https://artduart.weebly.com/store/p82/the_%2C%2CUnion%22.html
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Arts
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caltech
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My name is Bill Green, and I serve as Manager of the SIRTF Science Center. My job involves leading the team of people who are responsible for the design, development and operation of computer programs, computer systems, and networks, that support all the activities at the Science Center. The Science Center is led by the Director, a scientist named Tom Soifer, and a Deputy Director, George Helou. The Directors establish the overall requirements for our systems, and select the scientists who will get time on the Observatory. It's my job to make sure that all the capabilities required to support their requirements are in place and well tested before launch and operations. I am also responsible for deciding how many different operations teams we need, and how many different people with different skills are required to do all the things the scientists want to do with the Observatory and the instruments to further their scientific research. I have been here five years and really enjoy the opportunity of learning about all the exciting scientific discoveries that SIRTF will produce, and working with all the research scientists here. It has been a real challenge to build the team that is capable of developing and operating this complex system. We have produced and tested over a million lines of code and now have an operational data system running that code in over 90 different processors, all networked together. We have run lots of tests with simulators and the flight hardware, and we are now ready to start supporting science operations following the launch in April.
As a kid, I was always interested in science, especially Chemistry. I enrolled as a Chemistry Major at UCLA and guess what — I nearly flunked out of college because I wasn't able to deal with college level Chemistry courses. At UCLA you had to take a lot of Physics courses if you were a Chemistry major, and I was getting good grades in Physics and enjoyed it a lot, so I switched majors and graduated with a degree in Nuclear Physics. When I graduated, there were not a lot of job openings for science majors, so I took a job offer from Douglas Aircraft company. They were short of computer programmers and put new hires into an 8-week course to learn how to program computers in assembly language. From that point on, computers were part of my life, and I used computers to model how light travels in the atmosphere, and how remote sensing camera systems worked. I also went back and got a Masters in Engineering from UCLA in Nuclear Engineering. After working in industry for a while, I got a chance to come to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. I had watched the Ranger missions transmitting live images on TV as they crashed into the moon, and I thought that it was amazing to see pictures coming back from the moon. At JPL, I became responsible for leading teams of people who worked on developing software to process the pictures from spacecraft that went to Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. I also got to help produce the pictures sent back by the Viking Mars Landers during the Bicentennial year, and later on the pictures sent back from the Mars Pathfinder mission. Today, all kinds of people are processing pictures from digital cameras and scanners on their home computers, but when I started work at JPL only a few of us were doing digital image processing with computers. It's fun for me to see how far that technology has gone, and to now hear all my friends discussing pixels and image processing programs at social events. It's also great to be able to distribute the results of these missions almost immediately on the internet now. I feel very lucky to have been able to work on all these amazing missions, with some incredible scientists and the engineers who produce the systems required to support all the science activities on all these missions. Five years ago, I transferred from JPL to Caltech, and I am now enjoying working on this very exciting mission. After working on missions within our solar system for many years, I now had the opportunity to work on a mission that will extend our knowledge of the universe that lies beyond our solar system.
Outside of work, I am involved in all kinds of activities with my family, including my wife, children, children's spouses, and five grandkids. I make sure I send them the latest news on all the activities here via email, and they are well equipped with mousepads and posters for their walls at home. In addition, I love following UCLA athletics, I do some writing (I've had three books published), enjoy traveling, enjoy music of all kinds and opera, and am involved in a lot of community work.
NOTE: Bill Green retired in March 2003.
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2019-04-19T22:42:55Z
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http://legacy.spitzer.caltech.edu/features/p_billgreen.shtml
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Arts
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Computers
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sensesofcinema
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Urgency was the key word for the 10th anniversary of DocLisboa. The urgency of the state of the world around us; the urgency of finding new ways to translate it into moving images; the urgency of showing people documentary filmmaking is essential to understand that world. All noble sentiments. But this urgency to be a festival of its time meant DocLisboa’s anniversary edition lost sight of the bigger picture, resulting in an undoubtedly enticing but sprawling and somewhat directionless program.
For the second year in a row, the festival found itself under “new management” – this time the all-female quartet of Susana de Sousa Dias, Cíntia Gil, Cinta Pelejà and Sara Jordão, veteran members of the festival team. They made a visible course correction, attentive to the popular movements that have risen in response to the current global recession, and to the many possible ways of recording these for posterity. Hence a new sidebar, Urgent Cinema, presenting a series of topical objects shot in many different formats, originally designed to be seen and shared online and through social networks. As usual with DocLisboa, this sidebar made a smart counterpoint to the more traditionally structured main competition, as well as to the lengthy retrospective sidebar United We Stand, Divided We Fall, curated by Federico Rossin. This was a look back at much of the collective political cinema made from the 1960s to the 1980s, combining renowned classics and rarer pieces from collectives such as Medvedkine, Dziga Vertov, Winterfilm Collective, Cinema Action or the Poster Film Collective.
But, as a friend says, programmers may program, it is the juries who choose. And if you wanted to find out about DocLisboa 2012 – whose attendance held steady from last year at 27,500, even in a year of budget reductions and economic crisis – the awards would give you a skewed vision of the event. With Chinese veteran Wang Bing’s tale of Chinese provincial poverty San Zimei (Three Sisters), justly winning the top prize, its more austere take on documentary as vérité portraiture stood apart from a selection rife with formal and stylistic experimentation. Conversely, Salomé Lamas’ first-person testimony of a mercenary’s life, Terra de Ninguém (No Man’s Land), winner of the Portuguese competition, was one of the few daring objects in an otherwise conventional selection. And while both films more than deserved their prizes, these awards seem strangely unrepresentative of the challenges the organisation wanted to highlight, and also sidestep some of the most exciting experiences presented this year.
A good example was the competition entry Vers Madrid! (The Burning Bright), French political filmmaker Sylvain George’s latest attempt at harnessing the energy and urgency of contemporary social protest. Shot during the “Indignados” street protests in Madrid over the past 12 months, Vers Madrid! is the latest iteration of the director’s fondness for “variable geometry filmmaking” – films that he keeps refining and screening publicly until arriving at a definitive edit. The director’s previous work, Qu’ils reposent en révolte, had five successive versions of different lengths (the second of which presented in the 2010 competition), and Vers Madrid!, submitted for consideration in a 75-minute version, was shown in a two-hour edit. Though in many ways it wasn’t yet a finished film, it was a good example of the convergence between formal experiment and topical subject matter the festival has been exploring; a convergence extended this year to the newly-introduced Passages sidebar, presenting gallery works by noted directors Chantal Akerman (also honoured with a retrospective of her documentary work) and Pedro Costa.
On that artistic note, the official competition brought to the spotlight interesting films signed by visual or multimedia artists experimenting with cinema as yet another formal outlet. In some cases, like Louidgi Beltrame and Elfi Turpin’s highly conceptual but stunningly enveloping Franco-Brazilian short Cinelândia, the result is a dreamy, atmospheric essayist mood-piece whose connection to documentary is, at best, tenuous. In others, there is an actual fresh pair of outside eyes that allows the form to be interrogated and reset with a twist. British-based art collective The Otolith Group’s meditation on the Fukushima disaster, The Radiant, works simultaneously as a thoughtful work of art commissioned by the 2012 Documenta and as a self-standing film that quietly questions and deconstructs the public facade of the nuclear power industry.
French artist Éric Baudelaire’s melancholy L’Anabase de May et Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi et 27 années sans images (The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years without Images) is a conceptually off-centred documentary that works as counterpoint to Terra de Ninguém. Both films explain just how much the traditional ideas of documentary representation repose on a notion of trust between the filmmaker and the viewer that can be very quickly abused by either and asks the viewer to think carefully and critically about what they are viewing.
The Anabasis… applies newly-shot footage to the voiceover telling of the stories of May Shigenobu and Masao Adachi, and their connections to notorious 1970s radicals the Japanese Red Army. She is the daughter of the group’s leader Fusako Shigenobu, who grew up on the run; he is a filmmaker who abandoned his career to join the group as their spokesperson and documentarian. Baudelaire’s work highlights the fact that they are the sole witnesses of the events they’re testifying about, since there is no surviving footage either of May’s growing up or of Adachi’s stay with the group. Terra de Ninguém asks how even the traditional device of having someone tell their story for a camera can be trusted when the truth of what is being told is ultimately unknowable. The film records in a minimalist manner the tale of Paulo de Figueiredo, a former combatant in the Portuguese colonial wars turned mercenary who was convicted and jailed for collaborating with the Spanish death squads of the early 1980s, but whose story cannot be independently verified for truthfulness.
This is, in fact, the same question being asked in João Pedro Rodrigues’ and João Rui Guerra da Mata’s A Última Vez que Vi Macau (The Last Time I Saw Macao). While Baudelaire and Lamas’ films can reasonably still fall within the traditional category of documentary – at no point they are anything other than records of these people’s views of their life experiences – The Last Time I Saw Macao, made by two filmmakers who have until now worked mostly in fiction, describes itself openly as a documentary of the mind: a fantastical look not at the real Macao, but at the heightened Macao Guerra da Mata invented for himself as a schoolboy living in the then-Portuguese colony with his father, a military officer. Tying a loose thriller plot to documentary footage shot in Macao, The Last Time I Saw Macao was a defying statement as the festival’s official opener, underlining its commitment to new forms and new directions, but its openly uncategorisable nature meant it was always going to be an outlier in the competitive sections of a festival that has mostly preferred its winners more based in reality.
Not surprisingly, some of the most sophisticated projects were presented out of competition – like A Story for the Modlins, Sergio Oksman’s stunning 30-minute tale of movie extra turned mystical recluse Elmer Modlin; winner of the Vila do Conde international competition earlier in the year, it’s another extraordinary example of how the naturally reliable storytelling instincts of the documentary can be twisted to fictional effect.
The fact that some of these films are borderline experimental is not lost in a festival that has always welcomed the stretching of borderlines, with the parallel sidebar Riscos (New Visions) instrumental in exploring the connections between fiction and documentary, art and film. This year, both the sidebar and the entire festival were dedicated to the memory of the late trio of Stephen Dwoskin, Chris Marker and Marcel Hanoun. Dwoskin and Hanoun’s final films, Age Is… (2012) and Cello (2012), were shown, along with the latest works by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Ashes and Mekong Hotel), Jay Rosenblatt (Inquire Within), Ben Rivers (Two Years at Sea) or Jean-Claude Rousseau (Saudade), as well as Pip Chodorov’s charming, enticing documentary introduction to experimental cinema, Free Radicals.
Another trend in this year’s edition was a rise in the number of films interested in recording traditions and ways of life about to disappear. In the Portuguese competition alone there were three such films – Franco-Portuguese director José Vieira’s Le Pain que le Diable a pétri (The Bread the Devil Knead), Cláudia Alves’ Sobre Viver (Living On) and Júlio Alves’ O Regresso (The Return). All three fell prey to an idealisation of rural living as either a primitive paradise we can learn much from, or a past gone never to return, its memory something to be treasured and recorded; none added much to the rather large number of pre-existing ethnography films, all raised many questions about what exactly its directors were aiming at – though Vieira and Alves’ films were undertaken out of personal relevance, looking at the present of the regions their parents came from. Another disappointing ethnography piece in the international competition was Libbie Dina Cohn and J. P. Sniadecki’s much talked about People’s Park, an intriguingly leisurely ramble through a Sunday afternoon at a public park in the Chinese city Chengdu, shot (like Aleksandr Sokurov’s Russian Ark) as an 80-minute non-stop single-shot. In between some revelatory moments you sense that sustaining the visual gimmick is often the film’s single raison d’être.
The best in this ethnographic strand came from fiction/documentary hybrids, a form with form in the festival’s past. More on the documentary side: in the entrancingly sensory Arraianos, Galician director Eloy Encino Cachafeiro weaves a magical realist universe out of rural traditions meshed with the writings of local playwright Jenaro Marinhas del Valle. More on the fictional side: Mexican director Yulene Olaizola shot Fogo in the namesake Canadian island off Newfoundland, using local non-pros and locations to create an eerie, quasi Herzogian fantasy of quiet apocalypse.
After ten days of stumbling between an almost impossibly rich program (and we’ve not even scratched the surface of parallel sidebars such as the Heartbeat music documentary section, this year the biggest it’s ever been), DocLisboa’s anniversary edition came to an end with the premiere of Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Berlin winner Cesare Deve Morire (Caesar Must Die), a stunningly modern example of documentary as a form of its time yet timeless. This look at a staging of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in an Italian high-security prison speaks to our time without speaking of it, and blurs the artistic borders of both documentary and fiction into one single entity – cinema – without ever losing its distinct affiliation as a record of a moment in the life of its actors/prisoners. That is an ability exclusive to the documentary and one that remains and survives beyond any urgency of the moment – and a welcome ending for a festival that affirmed, as best it could, the importance of documentary to the world we live in.
Jorge Mourinha is a film critic at Lisbon's daily newspaper Público and maintains film review blog The Flickering Wall.
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2019-04-26T13:56:28Z
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http://sensesofcinema.com/2012/festival-reports/a-state-of-urgency-the-2012-doclisboa-international-documentary-film-festival/
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Arts
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Arts
| 0.79981 |
waikato
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Maxwell, T. K. (2013). Kirihaehae. Accepted for performance at the Mātaatua Kapa Haka regional Competition in Ruatoki 2016.
A haka composed about moko. My grand aunt Tangiwai took the moko chin tattoo so when the man from Tauranga, Kōraurau Te Kani that she had been betrothed to arrived at Whitianga Bay on the East Coast of the Bay of Plenty, he would readily recognise her his intended bride to be. This haka was composed for Te Kapa Haka o Tūtawake. This composition will be performed at the Mātaatua Kapa Haka regional Competition in Ruatoki 2016.
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2019-04-18T22:24:41Z
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https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/9859
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Arts
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Arts
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wordpress
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1/ Our Nations will now get the honestly educated workforce they need!
2/ Our Children will have their childhood restored, happiness rekindled!
3/ Our Children’s talents will ALL be fully recognized / appreciated!
4/ Our children (and their families) will never again be made Unhappy by School!
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2019-04-23T16:54:08Z
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https://georgemeegan.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/look-no-further/
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Arts
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Kids
| 0.984598 |
gvsu
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Course will focus on several qualitative and quantitative research designs used in studies in the field of occupational therapy. The most common designs will be selected, with intent to focus on most appropriate designs using mixed qualitative and quantitative methods together in a single research study. Offered spring/summer and fall semesters.
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2019-04-23T23:55:05Z
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http://catalog.gvsu.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=46&coid=83876
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Arts
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Reference
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npr
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December 3, 2014 The government has set up a female lumberjacks program, part of a wider effort to fuel growth after long-term stagnation. But critics say it does little to tackle fundamental problems.
November 16, 2012 Japanese prime minister Yoshihiko Noda dissolves the lower house of Japan's parliament and calls elections; polls suggest neither of the main parties will win a parliamentary majority in Dec. 16th vote.
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2019-04-21T03:36:47Z
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https://www.npr.org/tags/165268834/japan-elections/archive?date=6-30-2016
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Arts
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News
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livejournal
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Author's Note: Just something that hit while watching Dr. Who today. Unbeta'd, so please forgive any mistakes made. All feedback is welcome and appreciated naturally.
Someone on the asteroid had talked, sent a signal out on sub-space, just under a leviathan’s range of hearing. The entirety of the rock’s occupants was composed of geniuses. Geniuses warped and cowed down enough to want to do anything to please their master(s), there would be no way to trace which had sent word.
No one knew that Moya could, or would, starburst so suddenly, at the first sign of the command carrier, leaving two of her guests behind.
The Peacekeepers marched through the narrow corridors, quickly putting a stop to more of NamTar’s research, his staff relieved that his subterfuge and rule over their lives was at an end.
The two left behind were swiftly taken aside and detained until the Captain could arrive and be presented with his missing prize. Separated by soldiers, the human, screaming his companion’s name and demanding to be released until a sharp blow to the back of his head silenced him, disappeared aboard the docked marauder.
Captain Crais stood alone with the creature that had once been a Sebacean such as him, gloved hand caressing her cheek and speaking softly in her ear (making sure not to touch her) before ordering what used to be Officer Aeryn Sun to be escorted back to the small room to the rear of the lab.
He may have lost the leviathan that would ensure his continued rise through the ranks, but now – now he has something that will guarantee it. A creature born to Peacekeeper discipline and capable of commanding the sometimes roving spirit of the living ships under their control and without the need of a control collar.
Oh, what a brilliant AU! I was just watching DNAMS the other day, too.
*tap dances* Ya know you love me.
Oooh, neat twist, and frighteningly plausible, at that!
Now that makes me happy to hear. Thank you!
Dear, I love your brain. Sweet twist.
Thank you! Means a lot coming from you.
didn't you hear? Evil is the new cool. Your brain is as evil as they come. I love the way you think! It's rather scary at times but always brilliant!
Excellent writting, if too short.
Oh you wicked, wicked woman.! I squish you so.
This was good.... I want Aeryn's side now.
I want Aeryn's side now.
I'm going to repeat what everyone else said: You are evil. And I love it.
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2019-04-21T02:39:59Z
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https://kazbaby.livejournal.com/565672.html
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Arts
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Arts
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mi2n
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Judy McGrath, Chairman and CEO of MTV Networks, today announced key executive appointments. Van Toffler, formerly President, MTV, MTV2 and MTV Films, has been named MTV Networks Group President, responsible for MTV, MTV2, VH1, CMT and LOGO. Brian Graden has been named President, LOGO. He is also being named President, Entertainment, MTV Networks Music Group including, MTV, MTV2, VH1, and CMT, reporting to Toffler. Graden will also serve as a creative liaison for MTV's international operations, working with them on development efforts, reporting to McGrath. Toffler will report to McGrath and joins Herb Scannell and Bill Roedy as part of McGrath's senior management team. Doug Herzog, President, Comedy Central, will also report directly to McGrath. Christina Norman, President VH1 and Brian Phillips, Executive Vice President and General Manager, CMT, will also report to Toffler.
Along with the naming of Brian Graden, President, LOGO, it was also announced today that Matt Farber will take on a broader consulting role for MTV Networks developing additional media and entertainment opportunities for the LGBT audience as well as other underserved groups. Farber will have the LOGO Founder title.
McGrath also announced that she's tapped Denmark West, formerly of Microsoft, to take on the role of Executive Vice President, Strategy and Business Development. West will be focused on future growth for the division, with an emphasis on fostering new media platforms.
Finally, McGrath announced that she's convinced Larry Divney, most recently retired President, Comedy Central, to return to MTV Networks as COO, Ad Sales.
"Van Toffler is one of the few executives who lives successfully and comfortably in the music, television, film and business worlds. His passion for our culture helps us maintain the rich creative mix the audience has come to expect from all things MTV. Under Van's leadership MTV has achieved record ratings and revenue, MTV2 is enjoying tremendous growth as an emerging brand, and MTV Films has a great slate ahead. With the additional oversight for VH1, CMT and LOGO, Van will surely have the dream portfolio, and a great brand platform for new things."
Van Toffler has played an essential role at MTV Networks since joining the company in 1987 in business affairs for VH1 and Nickelodeon. Since that time, he has held a succession of positions, culminating in his appointment in 2000 as President, MTV: Music Television, MTV2 and MTV Films. Toffler's outstanding, creative leadership has been an indispensable ingredient in making MTV: Music Television the number one rated cable network for 12 to 24 year olds for the 30th consecutive quarter. He oversaw the launch of MTV.com in 1995 and the launch of MTV2 in 1999, and most recently, the re-branding of CTN into mtvU. Under his direction, MTV Films has produced and released a string of diverse, original and critically acclaimed feature films, including "Varsity Blues," "Election," and "Napoleon Dynamite." Toffler's previous roles at MTV Networks include time as General Manager, MTV; Executive Vice President, MTV Productions; Senior Vice President, Programming Enterprises; and Vice President, Business Management, MTV. Prior to joining MTV Networks in 1987, Mr. Toffler was an associate with the law firm of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays and Handler.
McGrath said about LOGO, "I'm so thrilled to tap into Brian's creative strength for LOGO -- and to extend his programming expertise to CMT and our international channels, as well. Brian has brought innovation and an unprecedented number of hits to MTV. He has been instrumental in the reinvention of VH1, which has never been hotter, and he's already played a key role in the development process at LOGO. With Brian at the helm, I am confident that LOGO will be successful and will have an authentic voice that will resonate with its audience."
McGrath added, "I will be forever grateful to Matt Farber for bringing us the concept for LOGO and for all of his incredible work in the pre-launch and development process. I look forward to continuing to be able to tap into his passion and great entrepreneurial skills for our future businesses."
Graden joined MTV in July of 1997 as Executive Vice President, Programming. In January of 2000, he was promoted to President, Programming MTV & MTV2 and was named President, Entertainment MTV and VH1 in 2002. His amazing eye for talent and unflagging creativity are evidenced by the string of hits he's brought to MTV, including "The Osbournes," "Newlyweds," "Punk'd," TRL and "Jackass," as well as by the terrific turnaround success of VH1, which is currently experiencing record ratings with hits like "I Love the 90s" and "Surreal Life." Graden was formerly Executive Producer of Comedy Central's hit animated series, "South Park." Prior to that, Mr. Graden ran Foxlab, Fox's home for new and experimental projects, where he oversaw an array of programming initiatives.
McGrath said about West, "Denmark will be a fantastic addition to my team. He brings us a unique and strong skill set from his years at Microsoft where he collaboratively worked on projects across all their divisions. As our businesses change and as our audiences embrace our brands in new ways, it is a great time for us to broaden our thinking and to have a new and fresh perspective on how we can continue to grow - Denmark brings us all of that."
Denmark West has a proven track record of formulating winning strategies, investments and partnerships. He was most recently the Manager of Strategic Planning and Investment Governance and acting Chief of Staff for the Windows Client Division at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, WA. In that position, West supported the both the head of the Windows Client Business Group and its CFO, and played central roles in the analysis of investment opportunities and long range planning development. In his career at Microsoft, spanning six years, he held a number of positions in which he helped to drive a numerous of strategic initiatives, investments and partnerships to help Microsoft expand into and grow within new consumer avenues including console gaming, digital media and interactive TV. Prior to his work at Microsoft, West worked in Distressed Securities trading in the Fixed Income Division at Goldman, Sachs and Co. Prior to his work at Goldman, West worked in Investment Banking focused on Entertainment, Communications and Technology for Brenner Securities Corporation and Smith Barney. He received both an AB and an MBA from Harvard University.
McGrath said about Divney, "In addition to our great creative success, MTV Networks is having an incredible year on the sales side. There is no one better to help keep the momentum going and to take it to the next level - than Larry. We're bringing him back to his ad sales roots and I am confident that with his expertise we will exceed the phenomenal growth we've seen this year. And, aside from the fact that we were really missing him, I think he realized that farming is way overrated."
An integral part of Comedy Central since its inception in 1991, Larry Divney retired his post as President, Comedy Central in June, 2004. During his time as President of Comedy Central, the network added nearly 30 million subscribers to end 2003 with 85 million subs and doubled total revenue during his tenure. Divney entered the fledgling cable industry in 1981 when he joined MTV as its first vice president of advertising sales. Over his career, he also worked at the Cable Health Network (now Lifetime) as the vice president of market development and sales, CNN as vice president national sales manager for CNN and CNN Headline News and A&E as SVP Ad Sales. Before cable, Divney spent 15 years in the radio business in various sales and management capacities.
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2019-04-21T05:22:04Z
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http://www.mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=72281
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Arts
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Business
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wordpress
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I was at a KFC in Yerevan the other day when an Iranian tourist approached the young woman at the counter and said, “Excuse me, please, can I have one changal?” The lady smiled and said, “Yes, changal,” and gave him the fork he requested.
How wonderful was that exchange? The setting: a multi-national fast food chain. The actors: two members of neighboring nations. The language: yet a third, as it were universal, entity, sprinkled with one word from let’s say a formerly universal language of communication.
I thought it was very telling—an example of the global nature of Armenian culture.
We all live in bubbles, don’t we? No matter who we are, where we are, we have our own circle of friends, family, community, work or school, maybe a club of this or an association of that. We create an immediate society around us, which forms part of society taken more broadly. I guess problems arise when the immediate circle becomes impervious – a more rigid, opaque bubble, divorced from broader society.
Living in Yerevan, I am very conscious of the bubble in which I find myself. It is often Diasporan, English-speaking, shared with people with disposable income. Not exclusively so, but more often than not that is the case. Spending free time in cafés and shopping malls, it is not hard to pretend to be in some other part of the world. Even though I find this to be expected – and, in fact, I am happy to note this kind of development in the country – I also find it bothersome to sense that I am at a remove from broader society in Armenia.
Not too long ago, I had an “e-mail fight” with someone I don’t know. To call it a “fight” would be an exaggeration. Rather, we had a heated discussion back and forth via e-mail, having found each other through a mutual acquaintance who wisely slipped out of the conversation.
The issue was Eastern Armenian and Western Armenian – specifically, whether or not there are two separate Armenian languages, or whether they are both versions of one language. There are other possibilities, and it could be the case that one may characterise Eastern and Western Armenian in more than one way at the same time. My correspondent was very confident toinsist that there is only one Armenian language. My own position is to refer to the two as “sister languages”.
I am a member of the Facebook group that the Repat Armenia Foundation maintains. I am, in fact, a fan of that organization, which provides assistance to Armenians who wish to move to the Homeland, whether in terms of technical or legal information, employment, or some guidance on housing. It’s the sort of function that one would have wished the state to perform, that one might have expected the Ministry of the Diaspora to take on, via Armenian embassies or otherwise. To be fair, we are talking about a big deal, highly resource-heavy in realization, and also ideologically and philosophically heavy in its own right.
The issue of moving to Armenia has been in focus in recent years, even celebrated, both because of the alarming numbers of emigrants from Armenia, and also because of the influx of Armenian refugees from Syria. The latter group has indeed been given some support both by the state and otherwise, but a significant part has moved on to a third country, or has returned to Syria.
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2019-04-22T18:40:54Z
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https://naregseferian.wordpress.com/category/essaypostnote-%D5%B7%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%A4%D6%80%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%AB%D6%82%D5%B6/
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Society
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Breaking a game into scenes is a flexible way to incorporate all kinds of mechanics into the game. Scenes could be game levels, short animations, or rooms in a dungeon. They help break a complex game into manageable chunks, like separate mini games that you can build one at a time.
To organize your game into scenes, you’ll write a completely new SectorFive class, but in it you’ll reuse much of the code from the old one. You won’t change your sprite classes at all. In the new SectorFive class, you’ll create separate update and draw methods for each scene. Most of the code you wrote in the past few chapters goes into the methods for the game scene.
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2019-04-26T02:32:46Z
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https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learn-game-programming/9781680501537/f_0047.html
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Arts
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Games
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rottentomatoes
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Based on Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Empty House, this "Sherlock Holmes" entry finds Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) trying to solve the case of the "Finger Murders". Several beautiful women have been found slain, all with their right forefingers severed from their hands. The police are prepared to write off the killings as the work of a madman, but Holmes deduces that there's a sane motive behind it all. Sure enough, the trail of evidence leads to Holmes' perennial nemesis Professor Moriarity (Henry Daniell), who is in league with lissome female criminal Lydia (Hillary Brooke). Though it isn't sporting to reveal Moriarity's nefarious scheme here, it can be noted that The Woman in Green comes to a nailbiting conclusion as a hypnotized Holmes wanders precariously along the ledge of a penthouse!
Superior entry in the delightful Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce series.
It's one of the best in the series, partly because it strays from formula and partly because it summons some genuine mystery.
A solid entry in the Holmes series.
I love the Sherlock Holmes films with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce quite a bit, but The Woman in Green is a slight step back to me in terms of story quality. For one, the emphasis turns out to be mainly on Moriarty's use of hypnotism, instead of the more intriguing 'modern day Jack the Ripper' plot thread that turns out to be a red herring of sorts. I'm not saying that Moriarty shouldn't have been involved with the story, but this one feels a little bit forced, and doesn't seem to flow as well as some of the others. It's still enjoyable, but not quite fulfilling enough.
Interesting but placing a lot of the blame on hypnotism was a bit sill. Glad that Moriarty was mainly responsible though.
I found this review by dhetteix rather useful: "this particular outing for Holmes is a bit of a letdown. To be sure, the themes of Hypnotism and serial-killing are out-and-out Doyle, but the inclusion of Moriarty, seemingly included for effect, merely softens the plot by introducing a major character for a somewhat brief caper. The film starts strong, yet ends predictably, with none of Holmes' deductive reasoning being revealed. Whilst strong in all other ways, the movie thus forgets the first rule of a Mystery plot: to remain mysterious."
The illustrious Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce never falter in their acting, although this particular outing for Holmes is a bit of a letdown. To be sure, the themes of Hypnotism and serial-killing are out-and-out Doyle, but the inclusion of Moriarty, seemingly included for effect, merely softens the plot by introducing a major character for a somewhat brief caper. The film starts strong, yet ends predictably, with none of Holmes' deductive reasoning being revealed. Whilst strong in all other ways, the movie thus forgets the first rule of a Mystery plot: to remain mysterious.
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2019-04-24T04:20:06Z
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https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sherlock_holmes_and_the_woman_in_green/
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Reference
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When Seth Rudetsky commands “Dish!” to Broadway legend Patti LuPone, it’s clear we’re not going to get some hagiographic career retrospective. Instead, we get a light, revealing and often hilarious conversation, interspersed with performances plucked from a career full of some of musical theatre’s strongest female roles.
Opening the evening by deconstructing a selection of his favourite video performances – from Florence Henderson to Andrew Rannells and LuPone herself – Rudetsky cheerfully points out the ludicrous elements of the genre he loves. It sets the tone for the whole evening – affectionate, but not too reverent, which filters through to his interviewing style.
LuPone is an open interviewee, happy to talk about the major incidents in her theatrical life – originating Les Miserables at the Barbican, auditioning for Evita, her anger and frustration over the role of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. But rather than choosing to dwell on her career low points, she instead delivers a number of beautifully expressed musical numbers.
The informality of the evening seems to filter through to the song selection, with LuPone often scrabbling through song sheets to find the number Rudetsky decides they are to perform. From Sondheim to Herman to Lloyd Webber’s Eva Peron, LuPone demonstrates that while she and Rudetsky form a dynamic duo, it is her voice that is the one true star.
Climaxing with a barnstorming rendition of Rainbow High, it is clear that London, for one week only, is in the presence of more than a little touch of star quality.
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2019-04-24T09:54:29Z
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https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/2013/patti-lupone-review-at-leicester-square-theatre-london/
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yahoo
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Mobs torched and looted scores of foreign-owned factories in Vietnam following a large protest by workers against China's recent placement of an oil rig in disputed Southeast Asian waters, officials said Wednesday.
The unrest at industrial parks close to Ho Chi Minh City is the most serious outbreak of public disorder in the tightly controlled country in years. It points to the dangers for the government as it tries to manage public anger at China while also itself protesting the Chinese actions in an area of the South China Sea it says belongs to Vietnam.
Police said 440 people had been detained over the violence. Tran Van Nam, vice chairman of the Bing Duong government, said Chinese, Taiwanese and South Korean factories that hadn't already shut down had been asked to do so temporarily for the sake of public order. He said the "situation was now under control."
Taiwanese-owned athletic shoe manufacturer Yue Yuen, which makes shoes for Nike, Adidas and Reebok, said it had closed its three complexes close to Ho Chi Minh City as a precautionary measure. "We believe that this should be solved very soon, that somehow ultimately it will be up to the government authorities to guide the overall sentiment," company spokesman Jerry Shum said.
"The whole industrial zone looks like it was just smashed by a typhoon," the guard said.
Another executive said many foreign-owned factories were putting banners on the gates of the factories saying, "We love Vietnam" and "Hoang Sa, Truong Sa - Vietnam," using the Vietnamese names for the Paracel and Spratly islands claimed by both Vietnam and China.
The government said the protests were initially peaceful but were hijacked by "extremists" who incited people to break into the factories. It said at least 15 factories were set alight and hundreds more vandalized or looted.
China's Foreign Ministry and its embassy in Hanoi issued warnings to Chinese citizens and urged Vietnam's government to protect them. The embassy's website said it saw no end to attacks by what it called anti-China forces and urged Chinese to take safety precautions and avoid unnecessary travel.
In 2013 Chinese invested $2.3 billion, a sharp rise from the previous year, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment. The country is also Vietnam's biggest trading partner, exporting billions of dollars of materials each year for factories producing goods including clothes, shoes and smartphones.
China has shown no signs of backing down, and accused Vietnam on Wednesday of "hyping" the issue.
"We urge Vietnam to stop all provocative actions, come to their senses, and stop all acts intended to create disturbances," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said.
The standoff underlines China's aggressive pursuit of its territorial claims despite complaints from smaller nations such as Vietnam and the Philippines, which also claim parts of the waters. The United States, a treaty ally of the Philippines, has called the latest Chinese action "provocative."
Last month, the Philippines protested China's efforts to reclaim land in a disputed reef in the South China Sea after surveillance aircraft took pictures of dredging by Chinese vessels at Johnson Reef in the Spratly Islands, which the Philippines says violates a regional non-aggression pact, Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said.
Del Rosario told The Associated Press that it's not clear what China intends to build on the reef, which Manila claims as part of its western province of Palawan, but one possibility is an airstrip. Another official said China could also build an off-shore military base.
Associated Press writers Gillian Wong in Beijing, Kelvin Chan in Hong Kong and Jim Gomez in Manila, Philippines, contributed to this report.
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2019-04-24T18:19:12Z
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https://news.yahoo.com/factories-torched-anti-china-protest-vietnam-022832254.html
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Hi everyone. We will be having a clean-up and redecoration weekend coming on March 25-26 at the museum. Primary focus will be getting the Museum Store cleared out, cleaned and then repainting the floor and touching up the walls. We will also be working on the Diesel Shop and some other areas.
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2019-04-23T12:15:32Z
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https://frrs.wordpress.com/2017/03/15/start-of-season-work-session/
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msnbc
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A voter marks a ballot for the New Hampshire primary inside a voting booth at a polling place, Feb. 9, 2016, in Manchester, N.H.
At first glance, Republican control of the Senate appears fragile. After all, the GOP majority is currently down to 51 seats, which means the party has little margin for error. With signs of a possible “blue” wave building, a net gain of two Senate seats for Democrats hardly seems outrageous.
Many campaign watchers can probably sketch out the dynamic from memory: Dems may be able to flip seats in Nevada and Arizona, but they’d also have to find a way to hold onto a series of seats in states where Donald Trump won, including Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan, West Virginia, Ohio, and Florida.
With a map like this, Democratic voters hoping to see the chamber switch hands have to hope the party can pull an inside straight.
But what if there were a way to expand the map a bit, turning seats that looked like safe Republican victories into competitive contests? The Tennessean, for example, had this report this morning out of the Volunteer State.
The poll, released Thursday, found 45 percent of 600 registered Tennessee voters said they would choose Bredesen, a Democrat and former Nashville mayor, if the election were immediately held. Blackburn, a Brentwood Republican, netted 35 percent, with another 17 percent of respondents saying they were not sure.
To be sure, all of the usual caveats apply: this is only one poll; campaigning is still getting underway; the election is still seven months away, etc.
But the point is, up until very recently, neither party looked at Tennessee – a state Donald Trump carried by 26 points in 2016 – as a state that could host a competitive Senate contest. And yet, there’s at least some evidence to suggest that’s exactly what’s happening.
What’s more, it’s not just Tennessee. In Texas, Sen. Ted Cruz (R) was thought to be a shoo-in for a second term, right up until Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D) raised $6.7 million in the first quarter of this year, suggesting he’ll have the resources to run a real statewide campaign against a controversial incumbent.
Even in Mississippi, where Sen. Thad Cochran (R) has given up his seat for health reasons, there are some observers in both parties who believe the race is winnable for Democrats, and some high-profile Dems are launching candidacies.
This isn’t to say that Democrats are going to take back the Senate. In fact, the odds are still against it. But what’s interesting to me is the fact that many of us – including me – were too quick to assume that this year’s map was settled. There’s some fluidity to these contests, which should probably be the source for some Republican anxiety.
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2019-04-24T04:48:24Z
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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-2018-midterms-the-senate-map-may-be-expanding-unexpected-ways
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Arts
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Reference
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cmu
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Our multi-disciplinary approach is geared towards tackling the unique computing challenges of our time.
The past decade has seen a tremendous increase in both the breadth and the complexity of computational systems society has come to rely on. This increase in turn is giving rise to a number of new and challenging societal, management and policy issues, which themselves often call for new technological innovations. Examples include privacy rights management, data privacy, electronic market mechanisms and automated negotiation, dynamic network modeling, online dispute resolution, and platform-based product ecosytems.
Attacking these new problems requires profound understanding of computation and the interplay between the managerial, personal and policy networks in which technology operates. Current degree programs in traditional disciplines such as computer science, policy and management fail to provide the kind of multi-disciplinary curriculum needed to train tomorrow’s leaders in these emerging areas. Today’s demand for integrated expertise far exceeds supply; and as it continues to grow, it becomes increasingly important to offer a PhD program that fills the void.
"Attacking these new problems requires profound understanding of computation and the interplay between the managerial, personal and policy networks in which technology operates."
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2019-04-22T06:40:25Z
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http://sc-web.isri.cmu.edu/program
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Computers
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nih
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Nutrients. 2016 Nov 4;8(11). pii: E698.
Chemopreventive Agents and Inhibitors of Cancer Hallmarks: May Citrus Offer New Perspectives?
Cirmi S1, Ferlazzo N2, Lombardo GE3, Maugeri A4, Calapai G5, Gangemi S6,7, Navarra M8.
Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Messina I-98168, Italy. scirmi@unime.it.
Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Messina I-98168, Italy. nadiaferlazzo@email.it.
Department of Health Sciences, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Catanzaro I-88100, Italy. gelombardo@unicz.it.
Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Messina I-98168, Italy. maugeri.alessandro@gmail.com.
Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphofunctional Imaging, University of Messina, Messina I-98125, Italy. gcalapai@unime.it.
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina I-98125, Italy. gangemis@unime.it.
Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems (ISASI), National Research Council (CNR), Pozzuoli I-80078, Italy. gangemis@unime.it.
Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Messina I-98168, Italy. mnavarra@unime.it.
Fruits and vegetables have long been recognized as potentially important in the prevention of cancer risk. Thus, scientific interest in nutrition and cancer has grown over time, as shown by increasing number of experimental studies about the relationship between diet and cancer development. This review attempts to provide an insight into the anti-cancer effects of Citrus fruits, with a focus on their bioactive compounds, elucidating the main cellular and molecular mechanisms through which they may protect against cancer. Scientific literature was selected for this review with the aim of collecting the relevant experimental evidence for the anti-cancer effects of Citrus fruits and their flavonoids. The findings discussed in this review strongly support their potential as anti-cancer agents, and may represent a scientific basis to develop nutraceuticals, food supplements, or complementary and alternative drugs in a context of a multi-target pharmacological strategy in the oncology.
Basic chemical structure of Citrus flavonoids.
Structural formula of some flavonoids isolated from Citrus fruits and their chemical substituents.
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2019-04-22T23:56:28Z
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27827912
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Arts
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wordpress
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We all fear beauty – don’t we?
It’s good but it would have been better if it followed some poetic meters.
This was so damn honest and profound. And that ending..woah!
Thanks a ton, means the world coming from you!
Brilliant. Your afflatus is unmatched really. MashaAllah.
Keep penning, God willing. Eat healthy.
Thank you so, very much!
Pleasure is mine. Some great poems come out as a free verse. Keep writing God willing.
Pleasure always 😊 dear !!
Wow. So stunning and powerful. You are a great philosophical poet. Great work.
You are most welcome dear friend.
The last stanza woke me. You described the melancholic spirit beautifully.
I love how you end it…it made my heart skip a bit..
This was such a beautiful read.
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2019-04-21T23:02:06Z
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https://nameeraeverafter.wordpress.com/2019/01/11/we-all-fear-beauty-dont-we/
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Arts
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Arts
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chapman
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Like many people her age, Elizabeth Fiacco ’12 cut her video gaming teeth playing Nintendo’s Super Mario Brothers on her Gameboy, guiding the now-iconic little plumber through a host of jumping, fire-shooting and princess-rescuing fun.
Now Fiacco is the game designer for an interdisciplinary crew of computer science and digital arts students that won first place at the inaugural Intercollegiate Computer Game Showcase hosted in April at Chapman University. The Axle team bested teams from universities throughout Southern California with a game reminiscent of good old Mario.
The award-winning game, Axle, features a perky little yellow gear by the same name in what gamers know as a platform game, which typically requires the player to jump to and from a series of platforms to collect points, elude an enemy or win a race. In this case, Axle navigates a steamy, grinding and gear-crushing toy factory.
Fiacco said team members knew from the start that they wanted to work with the classic platform style.
“A lot of game designers are still using the same genre. It’s extremely popular, and even though that’s an old platform, we’re doing something new with it,” says Fiacco, who graduates this month with a major in digital arts from Dodge College of Film and Media Arts and a minor in game development from the School of Computational Sciences at Schmid College of Science and Technology.
The interdisciplinary crew of computer science and digital arts students combined diverse talents to create a colorful steampunkish world with precisely meshed gears. The story line is that Axle was created by a kindly toymaker and developed a knack for repairing broken things. This Pinocchio-like guy is soon on a mad dash through a toy factory, jumping from switch to switch to repair machinery before he gets crunched. That’s where the programming came into play, as the designers had to create complex software to perfect the movement and timing of the toy factory gears.
Contest judges, who included industry leaders like Matt Findley, president of inXile Entertainment and others, were impressed by the game’s market readiness, says Michael Fahy, Ph.D., associate dean, School of Computational Sciences.
He cited the interdisciplinary environment at Chapman as a key element to the team’s success.
“It’s special. At Chapman, in particular, we’re focused on the concept of doing things in a collaborative, interdisciplinary way. This is just another example of being able to do that,” he said.
Such interdisciplinary connections will continue this summer. The Axle team, which includes seniors Lauren Gragg, Jessica Kernan, Alex Solano and Bryson Thill, was selected to participate in the Argyros School of Business and Economics’ eVillage business incubator program this summer. Their short-term plans involve polishing up the game for release. And in the long term?
“We want to start a game and app studio,” Fiacco says.
Sounds like the gears are already rolling.
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2019-04-19T18:15:14Z
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https://news.chapman.edu/2012/05/11/digital-arts-science-students-power-up-to-land-first-place-at-game-design-contest/?utm_source=ThisWeek&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ThisWeek
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Arts
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Games
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typepad
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This Easter we're staying home and having our traditional Easter dinner as a little family of 4. Although there are no guests to impress, I still try and make the meal and table memorable and special in some way. Otherwise, it just sort of feels like any other day. Holidays should feel special no matter how intimate or elaborate the gathering may be.
and a set of vintage monogrammed napkins.
I quickly made these little nest-like table decorations from artificial Peonies and malted milk chocolate eggs.
Then I got out my hatbox of feathers. Feathery fluff was flying everywhere!
Nestled inside are all sorts of feathers and plumes, both new and old.
I so love these pretty plumes from an old hat.
On Saturday, Chef Mario and I will bake a bunny cake and decorate it with way too many candies, I'm sure. And we still have to dye our eggs and get a few other Easter tasks finished before Sunday. I love all the planning and pastel prettiness this time of year brings.
that all sounds so sweet Andrea...i hope you and your family have a wonderful Easter!!!
Super cute!! I agree-holidays should be a break from the ordinary. Even if it's just your family!
Such pretty ideas you come up with. Your paper dolls are adorable and i love the toleware below. I love your blog because you have such a discerning eye for vintage shabby beauty.
I raised boys, but they always appreciated my holiday displays, no matter how fluffy and foofy and girly it was. Those boys like seeing that I was making the day special. I'll bet your boys appreciate your feathery fun too.
everything is lovely, andrea! we, too, will have a quiet but festive day.
pull out a chair and set another place, I'm on my way!!!
We are doing the same. I asked Gorgeous Girl what she'd like me to make for Easter Lunch, apparently she'd like Salmon!!!!!
I love that I can always rely on your blog for some calming, pastel-y pictures to improve my mood! Your table is going to be beautiful. Have a happy Easter!
That china is beautiful! It's perfect for Spring.
I must say ~ I think I'm a teeny weensy itsy bitsy bit envious of all of your feathery fun!!!
soooo beautiful and fun for the entire family!!
What a fabulous mom you make!!
Am so happy I visited your blog today. It is just what I needed, a little shot of inspiration.
Oh boy do I love your pretty table.
Looks like fun. Happy Easter to you and your family!
Wishing you and your family a blessed holiday! I have the exact set of dishes from my best friends grandma! many pieces! The feathers just scream Spring and Easter, very adorable! Gee I wish you lived near, I didn't get to hang any eggs on my tree,I could have hired your little helper!!!
Have a beautiful Easter-I love your table.
It's amazing and i wishing you a happy Easter..
everything sound so wonderful. I sure love the eggs in laying on the feathers. So dreamy.
You have the most creative ideas! I love the malted milk eggs nestled in the flower. Your collection of pastel colored feathers is lovely. Feathers are so popular right now, aren't they? I hope your family had a memorable and enjoyable Easter holiday.
Ooh this is such a lovely idea!
Pretty, pretty, Andrea! The plumes from the old hats... so yummy! And your great Grandmother's china... she had wonderful taste!
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2019-04-24T02:54:23Z
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https://velvetstrawberries.typepad.com/andreasingarella/2010/04/a-feathered-feast.html
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Arts
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Kids
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usatoday
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Less than two weeks after Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast, gusty winds are again whipping the coast line from North Carolina to southern New England.
Forecasts called for 3 inches of snow in Philadelphia and up to a foot in parts of New England.
Still navigating the harrowing destruction of Superstorm Sandy, much of the Northeast was hunkering down for a nor'easter barreling up the East Coast, ushering in snow, sleet, rain, strong winds and cold temperatures through Thursday.
National Weather Service forecasters say the storm doesn't have the destructive power of Sandy — which killed more than 110 in the U.S., cut power to 8.5 million homes and flooded the New York metropolitan area and New Jersey coast. But it's still dangerous, threatening potential storm surges to coastal areas recovering from Sandy's flooding onslaught.
Nearly 60,000 customers in New York and New Jersey who lost power because of Sandy lost it all over again with the nor'easter, utility companies told the Associated Press. Con Ed, which serves New York City, said the storm knocked out power to at least 11,000 customers Wednesday evening. Tens of thousands more were likely to lose power overnight.
New York and New Jersey airports had already canceled more than 1,700 flights through today, causing a ripple of travel disruptions around the country.
Strong wind gusts prompted the halt of construction work in New York City — which also closed parks because of the threat to falling trees.
"We're petrified," said James Alexander, who lives in the hard-hit Rockaways section of Queens. "It's like a sequel to a horror movie."
Up to 5.5 inches of snow blanketed parts of New York, New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania and Connecticut by Wednesday night. Weather Channel meteorologist Jon Erdman said several more inches could fall in the Poconos, Catskills and western Connecticut.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg urged residents of flood-prone neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island to evacuate Wednesday night.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which set up assistance centers in New York and New Jersey last week, closed some facilities in still-reeling Staten Island, Coney Island and the Rockaways to protect emergency staffers.
In New Jersey, where recovery workers were building up badly eroded beach dunes, a fresh round of evacuations was ordered for some coastal communities.
Christie warned heavy, wet snow inland could reverse some power restored to 2.76 million New Jerseyans who lost electricity last week. About 370,000 remain without power.
"We're doing what we need to do to prepare for this, just like we did for Hurricane Sandy," Christie said. "We're prepared."
Road crews and utility workers in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Rhode Island were preparing for snow, power damage and potential flooding. Delaware Transportation officials are focusing on potential flooding near vacation town Bethany Beach.
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2019-04-25T11:49:54Z
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/11/07/noreaster-storm-east-coast/1688625/
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Arts
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News
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boingboing
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The "Hidden Mother" is a type of 19th century photo where a child is photographed sitting in his or her mother's lap. Later, the photo is matted or framed to hide the mother, leaving just the calm child in view. To make the cropping less obvious, the mother was sometimes wrapped up in fabric. Remove the frame or matte though and you're left with a delightfully creepy photo.
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2019-04-20T12:58:33Z
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https://boingboing.net/2010/12/30/hidden-mother-tintyp.html
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Arts
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Kids
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forbes
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By not updating his will to cover all his children, the renowned actor Philip Seymour Hoffman left their grieving mother in a potentially costly conundrum.
On the face of it, that shouldn't matter. As widely reported yesterday Hoffman, who died Feb. 2 of an apparent drug overdose at the age of 46, left everything to his longtime companion Marianne O'Donnell, who is the children's mother. But that's not the end of the story. In fact it’s only the beginning.
First a little background. Since O'Donnell and Hoffman weren't married, she doesn't get any of the estate tax breaks that are available to spouses. You can give an unlimited amount to your spouse, during life or through your estate plan, provided he or she is a U.S. citizen, with no federal or state tax applied. It's called the marital deduction.
Hoffman's estimated net worth at the time of his death was $35 million. Federal law provides an estate tax exemption on the first $5.34 million, but then levies a tax of up to 40% against the excess. In addition, New York has its own estate tax, of up to 16%, on the assets left to non-spouses, but only provides a $1 million exemption. All totaled, Hoffman's estate would owe combined estate tax of more than $15.1 million, says Paul S. Lee, a wealth manager with AllianceBernstein. And since the marital deduction does not apply, any assets that remain when O'Donnell dies could get taxed again.
The will left open the possibility of using Hoffman’s exemption amount another way. It gives O'Donnell the right to disclaim (turn down) all or part of her inheritance and have it go into a trust. Such provisions are designed for flexibility – allowing her to make an informed decision based on her finances and the latest federal and state estate tax laws. Any assets that go into the trust bypass her estate, so would not be taxed when she dies.
Here's where the problem arises: The trust referred to in the will only mentions Cooper, not his two younger sisters who were born after the will was signed. It provides that he'll get half the trust principal when he reaches age 25, and the other half when he turns 30.
This is an example of what estate planners call the “after born child” problem. The law of most states, including New York, protects children from disinheritance if a parent forgets to update the will – subject to some ifs, ands or buts. Still, there's a good argument under the meandering New York law that if O'Donnell disclaims, the other children can share equally in the trust, says William P. LaPiana, a trusts and estates professor at New York Law School.
One thing that could foul things up is if Hoffman made other provisions for them – for example, by making them the beneficiaries of retirement accounts, custodial bank accounts or a life insurance policy (none of which are covered by a will), he adds. In that case Cooper could wind up with a whopping trust, while the other two have relatively little and O'Donnell could spend the rest of her life trying to make up the difference. Her lawyer, Susan Witkin, an estate tax expert with Blank Rome, declined to comment.
The first step, LaPiana says, is for O'Donnell, who is the executor under the will, to ask the Surrogate’s Court to appoint a guardian ad litem to represent the two sisters, and apply the very tangled New York law on the subject to the facts at hand.
Had there not been a provision in the will for disclaimer, O'Donnell could have disclaimed with fewer restrictions. In that case, according to New York law, the three children would have automatically shared equally in the assets. But under that scenario the funds could not have gone into a trust and the kids would have gotten the money at age 21.
The postmortem on Hoffman’s estate plan bears an eerie resemblance to that of Heath Ledger, another actor who died young, of a drug overdose. By not updating his will he nearly disinherited his daughter, Matilda Rose, who was 2 when Ledger died in 2008.
Ledger’s three-page will, signed five years earlier when he was 24, probably seemed sufficient at the time. It called for the bulk of his estate to be put into a trust and divided into two parts. Half would go to his parents, Kim Ledger and Sally Bell, and the other half would be split equally among his three sisters – Kate and Olivia Ledger and Ashleigh Bell. But Ledger’s life changed. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in the 2005 film “Brokeback Mountain” and had a child with Michelle Williams (who played his wife in the film). They never married and split up shortly before he died. Ledger had not amended his will to mention either Williams or their child.
The situation raised a thicket of legal issues about whether his child was entitled to an inheritance. The answer depended on where Ledger’s domicile, or legal home, was. He was a citizen of Australia and signed his will there, often worked in California and died in his New York apartment. His domicile would determine which law applied.
Fortunately, Ledger’s parents and siblings avoided what could have been years of courtroom wrangling. Nine months after Ledger died, they relinquished their whole inheritance, reportedly as much as $20 million, to Matilda, who was approaching her third birthday. That may or may not be precisely what Ledger would have wanted. By updating his will after Matilda was born to make his wishes clear, he could have eliminated the guesswork and set up a trust for his daughter’s benefit. Under many state laws, the child’s mother could petition the court to put the inheritance in a trust.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahljacobs/2014/02/20/philip-seymour-hoffmans-will-raises-legal-problems/
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The backers of a new open-source CRM (customer relationship management) application called Zurmo are hoping to stand out in a crowded field via the use of gamification, the notion of applying game-like design principles in an effort to make users engage more closely with a product.
Now in beta, Zurmo is written in PHP and made available under the GPLv3 open-source license. A release candidate is slated for availability in July, with a "general audience" release scheduled for September.
Its core CRM features cover contact management, deal tracking and activity management, while the gamification elements include the use of points and badges that users receive based on the actions they take, both in terms of sheer use as well as "business-related milestones," such as garnering a certain number of sales leads.
As users build up these points, they can achieve higher levels. The best performers jockey for space on a "leaderboard" inside the application, with the idea being to spur competition.
"We made the decision to go with gamification about six months ago,"said Zurmo's community manager, Stafford McKay. "We could either continue on and do the normal enterprise functionality like everybody else, or do something different."
The company is seeking contributors to the open-source project. Right now, five internal developers and about eight committed external contributors are involved.
Zurmo is using test-driven development practices to create the software, which makes the process slower but avoids buggy code.
It would probably be possible to reach general availability earlier than September but Zurmo wants to make sure the initial release has "a nice baseline of functionality," said co-founder Ray Stoeckicht.
Gamification is a key philosophical focus of the product but not the only one, he said. In addition, Zurmo intends to deliver a "pure" open-source product, with all features available for download at no charge, rather than offering more basic editions at no cost and charging more for additional functionality, as is often done, he said.
Zurmo's backers have previous experience in running an open-source CRM business. Stoeckicht and McKay both work for Intelestream, a firm that offers consulting and services for SugarCRM and its own Intelecrm application, which is a fork of the SugarCRM community edition code. Zurmo's lead architect and co-founder, Jason Green, was an early SugarCRM employee and founded Intelestream, where he serves as CEO.
Intelestream and Zurmo are completely separate companies, and Zurmo has its own codebase, according to McKay.
Zurmo hasn't made final decisions on how it will make money off the software, but will probably look toward support and customization services, as well as building out a channel model, Stoeckicht said.
Hosting is available for the software from Zurmo and a few partners, but right now most deployments are on-premises, he said. In terms of customers, Zurmo is targeting small and medium-sized businesses.
Zurmo's success or failure may rest on how it executes the gamification components.
"Gamification is most effective when it employs rewards in exchange for actions," said analyst Ray Wang, CEO of Constellation Research. "Sometimes the reward isn't pay, it's personal pride," he added. "Really good gamification mechanisms take advantage of non-monetary rewards."
For example, reaching a certain point threshold might earn a user a dinner with the boss or a preferred parking space, Wang said. "It's something that's valuable to them. That's what motivates people."
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GAC Student Author Smith, Carson A.
Description In comparison to other major cycles such as those of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycles, the silicon cycle is less well understood. In this research, we quanified the amount of biogenic silica (ASi), that Phragmites australis sequesters in the form of phytoliths or other siliceous particles. The biogenic ASi content in surface sediment samples for five stands of Phragmites, three stands of willow, and three unvegetated sandbars was taken in the Platte River, Nebraska, which is located on the Great Plains in the Midwestern United States. Our data show that Phragmites has a significant impact on the uptake and storage of silica in comparison to willow and unvegetated sites. Phragmites sequestered 18,500 tons of silica in sediment over ~18,00 acres, while comparable areas of willow or unvegetated sediments would sequester, 4,625 and 1,541 tons, respectively.
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"Their (the researchers') expectations subtly changed the way that the experimenters touched the rats, and then, in turn, the way that the rats behaved," wrote Simstrom in the story, which was produced by "Invisibilia," a podcast from NPR. When the experimenters thought that the rats were smart, they felt more warmly toward them and touched them more carefully.
Later in the second set, "Williams lost her serve at 3-1 up and demolished her racket — an automatic code violation. ... Mr. Ramos, effectively, had no choice but to dock her a point.
"It was here that Ms. Williams really started to lose the plot. She and Mr. Ramos were, in effect, talking past each other. She was insisting that she doesn't cheat — completely believable, but besides the point — while he was making a call over which he, at that point, had little discretion."
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https://www.creators.com/read/jackie-gingrich-cushman/09/18/yes-no-good-bad-how-to-increase-your-chances-of-getting-the-right-call
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A hip-hop remix album of Radiohead’s In Rainbows is being put together by California-based DJ/Producer Amplive.
Amplive, one half of backpack hip-hop duo Zion I and beat-maker for the likes of Akon and Talib Kweli, plans to release Rainydayz Remixes on the 10th of January. The eight-track accoutrement features contributions from Too Short, Zion, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien among others.
By now anyone with a decent brain will probably hear legal bells ringing – looks like no such worries. The record will be available only as a freely downloadable zip file and you’ll have to prove you bought In Rainbows from Radiohead’s official store W.A.S.T.E. if you want it at all.
How? If you did buy the record the way Thom intended you’ll have no doubt received a few emails from W.A.S.T.E. – forward one of those to amplive@onesevensevensix.com to receive your hi-res artwork and 320kbps wad of sound; the full tracklisting and contributors list of which will be announced on the 4th of January.
Find a couple of the tracks here, at Amplive's MySpace.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A settlement "may be imminent" in a lawsuit brought against the government by former Energy Department nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee, according to his lawyers.
The word of a possible settlement came in a filing to the U.S. Supreme Court, which five reporters are asking to intervene in their refusal to reveal sources in the FBI probe of Lee, who was investigated and later cleared of espionage involving missing nuclear research files.
The scientist claims officials anonymously leaked damaging information about him to the press during the probe in 1999. He later filed suit, seeking damages against the government.
Lee attorney Brian Sun told the Supreme Court in a recent letter to the clerk "that there have been recent settlement discussions with the government in the underlying case, that resolution of the entire case may be imminent, but that there is not yet a final agreement."
Calls to Sun's office in Los Angeles, California, and the Justice Department were not immediately returned.
The Supreme Court put off consideration of the reporters' appeal Monday, apparently because of the negotiations between Lee and the Justice Department.
If the civil case is settled, the larger constitutional questions before court would be left unresolved.
At issue is what First Amendment privilege journalists may have, if any, to reject subpoenas in civil lawsuits demanding they reveal their sources of reporting.
If if does move forward, the case could serve to clarify conflicting legal standards over how the press deals with sensitive information it obtains.
Among the reporters fighting the subpoenas is Pierre Thomas, who was CNN's justice correspondent in 1999.
Thomas reported extensively on the government probe of Lee, a onetime Energy Department scientist who worked at the federal nuclear research facility in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Government officials, including then-Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, publicly named Lee as a target of a probe into the alleged theft of highly secret documents from the lab, and investigators suspected he was spying for China.
Lee was later cleared of espionage and nearly all the other serious charges.
After his release from prison, Lee sued the government under the Privacy Act, alleging officials leaked false and incriminating information to several reporters, including Thomas, who now works at ABC News.
Thomas and four other reporters were subpoenaed in 2002, and a federal district court ordered them to testify or face contempt charges.
A federal appeals court upheld the subpoenas against Thomas, James Risen of the New York Times, Bob Drogin of the Los Angeles Times, and H. Josef Hebert of The Associated Press. A similar subpoena against Jeff Gerth of the New York Times was dismissed.
In its ruling, the appeals court noted Thomas "refused to reveal the names or employers of the sources who gave information about the progress of the FBI investigation into Lee."
It concluded, "This evidence is plainly sufficient to support the district court's holding of contempt."
Thomas and CNN then decided to file a separate appeal with the Supreme Court.
In a brief for CNN and Thomas, attorney Theodore Olson said the case "comes at a time when an unprecedented number of reporters face subpoenas demanding they reveal their confidential sources under penalty of fines or imprisonment."
Lee's attorney, Sun, said private citizens have a right to defend their good name from government officials who would hide behind a shield of anonymity.
"We do not consider this to be any type of assault on the First Amendment but rather seeking justice on behalf of Dr. Lee," he said earlier this year. "We believe he is entitled to this information under the law."
In a brief filed with the Supreme Court, Lee's lawyers argue that under the federal Privacy Act, "Reporters are not and should not be empowered to extinguish the protections that Congress provided the nation's citizens by means of a de facto immunity to be conferred on government leaders by reporters through an unpierceable promise of confidentiality."
Free press advocates have rallied behind the reporters, fearing a "chilling effect" in the future on officials who want to inform the public about government wrongdoing.
This case is different from the high-profile investigation into whether White House officials deliberately leaked the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame to reporters.
In that case, the government has indicted former top White House aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Other indictments may be pending.
The federal investigation seeks to learn whether Plame's secret identity was revealed as retaliation to discredit Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who publicly disputed evidence the administration used to go to war with Iraq.
Unlike that criminal probe, Lee's case is a civil lawsuit brought by a private citizen and involves whether he has the right to learn what officials might have told reporters.
Lee is a 66-year-old Taiwan-born U.S. citizen who now lives near Sacramento, California.
He was indicted in late 1999 on 59 counts of stealing nuclear weapons data from the Los Alamos facility. He was jailed, denied bail, placed in solitary confinement and labeled a national security threat.
Months later, he walked free on time served after the government's case collapsed. All but one count was dismissed, and Lee pleaded guilty to mishandling classified material, a felony.
The federal judge overseeing the case sharply criticized the prosecution's case, in particular "top decision makers in the executive branch ... who have embarrassed our entire nation and each of us who is a citizen."
Then-President Clinton issued a public apology to Lee over his treatment.
Three-decade-old federal rules of evidence have extended the privilege of confidentiality -- in some cases -- to spouses, to priests and other clerics, to psychologists and psychiatrists, and to journalists.
Most states differ from the federal government over whether the press has clear, consistent statutory protection. Many state and federal courts have been at odds over the issue as well.
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Hope all of you are staying toasty & safe during the snowy weather this week! Here are a few more useful resources for coping with severe weather.
http://www.seattle.gov/ Press releases & up-to-date information from the City of Seattle.
http://takewinterbystorm.org/ Winter weather preparedness tips, checklists & many other resources.
http://www.rpin.org RPIN, Regional Public Information Network – road conditions and alerts from other communities in our region, as well as from Seattle.
http://westseattleblog.com/ Most of you already know about the West Seattle Blog… but here’s where we look for local up-to-date information about weather-related impacts.
Lastly, the following flyer from the Seattle Office of Emergency Management has additional resources.
Click here, Real-time Alerts and Web Resources (.pdf format ), for a .pdf version that has active links and is better for printing.
This entry was posted in Announcements and tagged Seattle Office of Emergency Management, severe weather resources, West Seattle emergency preparedness. Bookmark the permalink.
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https://westseattlebeprepared.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/useful-resources-for-severe-weather/
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Not everyone is required to be a first responder. Or even to respond to every crisis. That’s simply not possible. But, as the body of Christ, we’re all called to respond.
Houston is devastated. But, even as the flood waters recede, the crisis is far from over. The people of Houston need our help, prayers and material assistance.
So, before I get to the subject of this post, here’s a link to the best relief organization I know. Convoy of Hope has been on the ground in Houston from the very start, and they consistently have a “Best Of” rating by every group that keeps track of such agencies. SEND YOUR MONETARY GIFTS to Convoy of Hope at this link.
Now to today’s blog post.
There were dozens, maybe hundreds of churches in Houston that didn’t open their doors to help flood relief victims last week. But you only heard about one, didn’t you?
Joel Osteen and Lakewood Church were the subject of a lot of nasty rumors that, at best, were only partially true, if at all. Not because they’re the only Houston church that didn’t respond with aid or because they were late in responding – in fact, they are responding on a massive level.
Lakewood and Osteen were the villains-du-jour because they’re the most visible church in town – maybe in the country. All it takes is one person with a smart phone, an agenda and selective editing to make any of us look guilty of almost anything. It's especially easy if they're trying to make us look guilty of not doing something.
Joel Osteen is not above criticism. If you enjoy the spotlight when times are good, you have to take the heat when things go bad.
But that criticism needs to be three things: fair, true and helpful.
No matter how big, how wealthy, how famous or even how wrong someone may be, no one deserves to have lies told about them.
In his article, Some Christians Hate Joel Osteen More Than They Love The Truth. And That's Wrong.,my fellow CT blogger and teller of uncomfortable truths, Ed Stetzer correctly pointed out the hypocrisy of Christians being far too willing to believe falsehoods about someone just because they disagree with them.
The glare of the megachurch spotlight may seem wonderful when thousands are showing up for church, millions are watching on TV, and your books are on bestseller lists, but it can quickly become a searing indictment on every flaw. Whether those flaws are small or large, real or imagined.
The reason we don’t know the names of the other churches or pastors in Houston who haven’t opened their doors yet is because, unlike Lakewood Church, those other churches are small. They fly under the radar all the time.
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https://www.christianitytoday.com/karl-vaters/2017/september/joel-osteen-houston-downside-megachurch-spotlight.html
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Susan Graves is a project and program management leader with more than 15 years of experience in PMO development and project portfolio oversight.
also includes software upgrades, software implementation, sales support, consulting, and support services.
A private, nonprofit health system that includes hospitals, outpatient clinics, home health services, and hospice care.
and managing the organizational change across the revenue cycle for all facilities and clinics.
millions in lost revenue. Methodology included detailed process and data analysis, documentation, and tools implementation.
implementations, client relationships, risk mitigation, client staff training, and organizational change.
the United States with over 7 million members.
by planning, tracking and analyzing time and activity information about employees.
resource utilization based on pipeline estimates and current workload.
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2019-04-23T16:40:03Z
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https://www.scribd.com/document/269363890/Director-Program-Project-Management-in-San-Diego-CA-Resume-Susan-Graves
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YouCam 5 is the ultimate webcam software, providing you all the tools and features you need to get the most out of your webcam.
PowerDVD18 is the No.1 media player for home entertainment systems. Enjoy the best video quality in Ultra HD 4k, HDR, Blu-ray or DVD, HEVC and 360 VR.
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2019-04-21T13:51:41Z
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Don’t you find that some words, through endless public repetition, become grating and almost meaningless? Take for example “offshore processing”. Haven’t we all had a gut-full of hearing that term?
I got a bit like that with “stakeholder”, hearing it bandied around in all sorts of circles, whether intelligently or not. But the concept of stakeholder is an important one in governance, and particularly so in the not-for-profit world where I often work. So I sought the advice of my language expert and PR guru Belinda to find an alternative term.
However, even her in-depth research couldn’t turn up another viable word, so you will just have to bear with me while I flog a possibly dead linguistic horse. Because if you want to govern your organisation effectively, you really should know who your stakeholders are, what their stake is, and who in the organisation is managing it.
The concept of stakeholder is important in the not-for-profit world because there is not usually a simple answer to the question “Who are we governing for?” (or as Belinda would have it, more correctly, “For whom are we governing?”) In the commercial world the answer invariably given is “the shareholders”, since the primary objective is maximising shareholder wealth.
This, of course, is an over-simplification, because even commercial organisations have other parties to whom the firm’s success is vital. But for NFPs, the lack of such an easy starting point can cause much confusion, unless some thought is given to which are the parties who have the primary interests in the outcomes of an NFP’s operations.
It is a relatively simple process to map who are the stakeholders in your organisation, if you reflect on the definition above. Sit down with your senior management team, or your board, or preferably both, and brainstorm who might affect or be affected by what the organisation does or aspires to do.
Depending on the nature of your organisation’s operations, there will be a range of other potential stakeholders. Where the organisation has some tax-free or tax-preferred status, the ATO is one of your important stakeholders. Other players in your sector may also have stakes in what you do – in the medical research field, for instance, the associated scientific community. The local communities in which your operations are conducted might also have an interest in your organisation.
My experience in helping organisations develop stakeholder maps is that, when you turn your mind to it, there will always be some people, group or body whom you have not previously recognised as having a stake in what you do, but who are worthy of inclusion on the map.
Taking those steps should give you a stakeholder management action plan, an impressive development in anyone’s language. You should also end up with more clarity around that fundamental question about whom you are governing for.
So I will stop stressing about the term “stakeholder”. But the likes of “mandatory detention” and “pre-commitment technology” will continue to glaze me over and switch me off.
You can be facing a tough audience when you are presenting to a board of directors. Since the board sits at the top of the hierarchy, the directors get to make their own rules and run their own timetable. So if you are presenting to the board, you have to fit in with their rules and their agenda.
Do the same for the slides which you will be using in the meeting.
Be prepared, and have a second version of the presentation up your sleeve which is half the length of the scheduled one. That way, if you are squeezed you will still be able to get your desired message across without having to rush, or make decisions on the run about what you will leave out. If you end up with more than half your time, it is easier to add things back in than decide what to chop.
If you find yourself outside the board room with your allotted time ticking away, don’t sit there fretting. Stay calm and, each 5 minutes or so, mentally work out which of your slides you will skip, so you can have a presentation which will fit comfortably into the remaining time.
Boards generally meet no more than once a month, or even less frequently. Each director has at least one other job, and often sits on one or more other boards. They probably don’t keep previous board papers (and arguably they shouldn’t). It is no surprise that they may not be able to keep mental track of all the relevant issues for your organisation.
Always start with a re-cap of what has previously happened in relation to the issue, and what the current state of play is. Everyone will then be at the same point from the outset.
Don’t be concerned if it sounds to yourself that you are stating the bleeding obvious. I can pretty much guarantee that at least one director will remember nothing, or remember it differently and incorrectly.
If you have done these 3 things, have a good grasp of your material, and have plenty of illustrative examples for your important points in your pocket, you will be able to present confidently, and greatly increase your chances of getting your desired outcome. And you won’t kick out on the full.
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Jon is an alternative 80's music fan.
Jon is a long-suffering, die hard, Boston Red Sox fan.
He's played drums at CBGB's.
His favorite movie is The Big Lebowski.
See what Jon's been working on.
Jon likes to get his hands dirty and mix it up with clients and customers to design great experiences.
Jon collaborates with clients to strategize how Cooper can meet their goals.
Jon shares all of his design tricks and tools as a lead teacher in this foundational class.
He holds a design patent for a networking patch panel assembly.
Jon has taught a course on Information Architecture at NYU.
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What should I start with? Oh, yes… who I am. I am someone who sometimes wander around in Glasgow. This year, I live in Glasgow, Scotland. So far, I feel lonely. I need to meet people, but I don’t know how. I am not British, nor a native English-speaker. Glaswegian accent is very difficult. I need to practise it.
Well, my problems with English is boring. I will avoid this stuff.
Welcome to Into Oblivion. I will come back.
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Today, we are proud and humbled to announce that Scribd has been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a 2011 Technology Pioneer Award winner. The Technology Pioneer Award is one of the highest honors that any tech company can receive, with recipients chosen based on their "potential for long-term impact on business and society, visionary leadership, long-standing market lead, and proven purpose." Scribd was honored for breaking down barriers to information with our HTML5 reading technology which makes important books, documents, and materials accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. Scribd is home to many of the world's leading businesses, think tanks, governments, media, and non-profit organizations.
Scribd founders Trip Adler, CEO, and Jared Friedman, CTO, will be honored at the Annual Meeting of New Champions in Tianjin, China in September and at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland in January, 2011. Trip and Jared talk about technology innovation and the Technology Pioneer award in our new video.
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Greater Mauville Holdings (Japanese: ダイキンセツホールディングス Dai Kinsetsu Holdings) was a company based in Hoenn. It was involved in the construction of Mauville City, New Mauville, and Sea Mauville. Many years after the company's demise, few remember anything of it beyond the name Mauville, which remains associated with each of its three chief projects.
The company had ambitious plans that included urban redevelopment, the creation of a Infinity Energy as a new energy source, and the extraction of deep-sea natural resources, but its ventures ultimately failed. New Mauville, a power plant slated to be expanded into a massive underground city, was shut down after it was found that wild Pokémon had begun using it as a habitat. This subsequently led to the closure of Sea Mauville, which also became a Pokémon habitat, and the dissolution of the entire company.
In Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, Mauville City's redevelopment (an initiative that is said to have been abandoned in Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald) has been completed and the town was transformed into a large, indoor complex modeled after Lumiose City. Mauville City stands as Greater Mauville Holdings' only successful project.
The chief executive of Greater Mauville Holdings is not identified, though Wattson is known to have been a project leader in the company.
This page was last edited on 17 January 2017, at 08:05.
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Never fear, I will find you! I have mad librarian research type skillz, don't forget!
Find her Precious, find her!
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2019-04-25T18:39:15Z
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Why Comcast Business in Allendale, Michigan?
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2019-04-19T11:00:25Z
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https://business.comcast.com/local/michigan/allendale
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Arts
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Business
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youtube
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Welcome to The Disney Den!
Welcome to my channel! Click subscribe for Disney College Program advice, Disney park adventures, vlogs, and much more!
Disney College Program Vlogger Tag - Duration: 4 minutes, 53 seconds.
Update: I'm Alive!! - Duration: 4 minutes, 49 seconds.
Sara Squared Dazzles Disneyland - Duration: 3 minutes, 26 seconds.
Disney College Program FAQ - Duration: 10 minutes.
Welcome to The Disney Den! - Duration: 49 seconds.
DCP Reunion - Part 5 - ANIMAL KINGDOM - Duration: 3 minutes, 39 seconds.
Easter Egg Hunting in Disneyland! - Duration: 2 minutes, 57 seconds.
DCP Reunion - Part 4 - EPCOT - Duration: 4 minutes, 52 seconds.
I'M PUBLISHED! (+Giveaway) - Duration: 4 minutes, 25 seconds.
DCP Reunion - Part 3 - HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS - Duration: 3 minutes, 7 seconds.
DCP Reunion - Part 2 - MAGIC KINGDOM - Duration: 4 minutes, 17 seconds.
DCP Reunion - Part 1 - DIAGON ALLEY - Duration: 5 minutes, 43 seconds.
DCP: Choosing Roommates - Duration: 6 minutes, 27 seconds.
My Disney College Program Experience - Duration: 11 minutes.
My DCP Review - Duration: 9 minutes, 8 seconds.
Disney College Program Phone Interview! - Duration: 10 minutes.
DCP: Quick Service Food and Beverage - Duration: 12 minutes.
DCP Phone Interview Advice & Study Guide - Duration: 5 minutes, 47 seconds.
Sara Squared DCP: Patterson Apartment Tour - Duration: 8 minutes, 15 seconds.
Sara Squared DCP: Packing! - Duration: 11 minutes.
Sara Squared: Disney Acceptance! - Duration: 6 minutes, 44 seconds.
Sara Squared Makes Dole Whip - Duration: 5 minutes, 55 seconds.
Disney College Program Application! - Duration: 10 minutes.
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2019-04-19T07:03:04Z
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https://www.youtube.com/user/52weekend
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Arts
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Recreation
| 0.334862 |
ufl
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Dr. Mohandas’ main research interest is in the contribution of bone marrow derived progenitor cells to the vascular calcification and accelerated atherosclerosis that accompanies chronic kidney disease. His research seeks to elucidate novel pathways and key regulatory elements which can be potential therapeutic targets. He is also interested in the seasonal and diurnal variations in endothelial function and how this is modulated by chronic kidney disease.
Please click here for a list of Dr. Mohandas’ industry relationships.
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2019-04-25T18:52:05Z
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https://nephrology.medicine.ufl.edu/about-us/patient-care/rajesh-mohandas/
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Arts
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Science
| 0.939448 |
nd
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In a campaign characterized by lofty ideas, Eduardo Luna and Haley Coleman promise pragmatism. As a team, the two juniors seem to balance one another.
14 The number of games the women’s basketball team has won away from home — including neutral-site contests — this season.
Though we live in a country that has never seen a female president, we are lucky to attend a school in which we look to a female student president and vice president duo for leadership.
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2019-04-20T00:43:55Z
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https://scholastic.nd.edu/issues/authors/daphne-saloomey/
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Arts
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Sports
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wordpress
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FSA launches new phase in Operation Euphrates Shield to liberate Aleppo’s Al-Bab.
FSA freed the villages of Sussian and is less than 3 kms far from alBab. Hazwan not confirmed in the final statement.
Within the scope of Operation Euphrates Shield, which began on Aug. 24 to rid Syria’s northern border area of terrorists, a total of 24 Daesh targets were eliminated — including shelters, defensive positions, command centers, weapons and vehicles. In a statement, the Turkish Armed Forces said in northern Syria’s Al-Rai town six residential areas — Hadji Qusah, Halise Shakira, Halise, Talca Shaqiyah, Hajar Abyad and Al-Shuayb — were cleared of Daesh.
Two opposition fighters were martyred in clashes.
In the last five days, Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army forces (FSA) arrived within eight kilometers (five miles) of the Al-Bab district in Syria’s Aleppo province.
Turkish-backed Syrian opposition forces have taken control of six more residential areas from Daesh, according to an army statement on Sunday. FSA fighters recently took control of five villages in Mare, northwest of Al-Bab, and Manbij, east of Al-Bab.
Almost 1,600 square kilometers (617 square miles) of land in northern Syria have been cleared of Daesh terrorists as part of Operation Euphrates Shield so far.
Al Bab LCC announces that FSA freed the villages of Dana and Ulan too.
Air strkes on Daesh positions and barriers. Daesh set firre to tyres.
Al Bab LCC announces that FSA freed the village of Qadiran.
Turkish artillery pounding alBab has began.
Daesh deploys barrier inside the town of alBab and does not allow civilians to leave the town, and all shops have closed.
Sejjari says FSA is 3 kms far from alBab.
Sham Legion says 2 kms far from alBab.
FSA freed the Hekmat Shahabi farms at the outskirt of alBab.
FSA freed Jabal alDeir from Daesh.
FSA freed Qubbat alSheikh and alHadath Nth of alBab.
Daesh attacks FSA in alNa’man.
Amaq: suicide bomb attack against TR Army tanks at the outskirts of Hazwan.
Mustafa Sejari : Our forces have reached the outskirts of alBab and the town is within their range of the artillery fire.
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2019-04-25T20:06:22Z
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https://yallasouriya.wordpress.com/2016/11/13/syriaeuphrates-shield-382nd-day-update/
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Arts
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News
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treehugger
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The more I look at this Livermore Lab graph, the more I realize that it is all about design.
Every year the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory produces these Sankey Diagrams of energy flows, which are “single-page references that contain quantitative data about resource, commodity, and byproduct flows in a graphical form.” I have called them The Chart that Explains Everything because you can actually see where our energy is coming from and where it is going.
Superficially, this year's graph shows some improvements over 2016; solar power is up yugely, from .587 quads to .775 quads (a quad is a trillion BTUs). Still tiny, but growing almost 40 percent in a year! Wind is way up too, while both coal and natural gas are down slightly. If Livermore still did carbon graphs (their last was 2014) it would show a slight decarbonizing of the electricity supply. But we are still burning more energy in total, and the increase in petroleum use is greater than the reduction in coal and gas consumption.
For years I claimed that the big honking green bar at the bottom was our biggest problem -- our dependence on petroleum for cars. However, the biggest consumer of energy is still electricity generation, and most of that is going into buildings. Last year I figured out that I had been wrong and that from a CO2 point of view, buildings were our biggest problem.
And I was wrong again, because you have to look at this as one big picture. We live, work and shop in buildings, still the biggest generator of CO2, and that big green bar represents people driving between those buildings. This graph is a model of our urban design: driving inefficient cars and moving stuff between crappy, leaky buildings.
The fact is, people are getting in their cars to go from place to place, not drive in circles for fun. We have to make it possible to survive without the car, and that means greater density and local shopping. It does NOT mean everyone has to live in New York and high rise buildings; many of our small towns, suburbs and cities are eminently walkable.
2. Demand radical building efficiency right now.
3. Do everything possible to promote bikes, electric bikes, mopeds, buses, light rail, subways, anything that moves more human and less iron. More scooters!
Gasoline is problem 1 and Electricity is problem 2. Anything that moves more human per unit of energy is an improvement. Anything that reduces the distance a human has to move, such as increasing density, working from home, promoting main streets and supporting local business, is also an improvement. Any alternative to the car, even those dockless electric scooters, should be promoted and encouraged. Seeing how bad the electricity generation picture still is, I am not convinced that electric cars are a big part of the solution.
4. Move to Cleveland. Or Buffalo.
Cities with rail and canals and water and hydro power and moderate climates that don't need as much air conditioning. The northern cities may well be the only ones that are habitable in a few years.
Less really is more. Smaller cars, smaller houses on smaller lots, apartments instead of houses, smaller fridges; you can only increase efficiency so much, but you can consume less.
Am I reading too much into one silly chart? I don't think so, it's all right there in front of our face.
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2019-04-25T17:25:04Z
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https://www.treehugger.com/energy-policy/latest-lessons-chart-explains-everything.html
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Arts
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Science
| 0.462616 |
umaine
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Results demonstrated that these membranes are capable of binding adequate Fe to produce measurable shifts in the UV-VIS and have a theoretical detection limit of 0.24 nM Fe. This detection limit is suitable for the quantification of Fe in coastal waters and further optimization is suggested to enhance the detection limit for use in measuring iron in open ocean surface waters.
Helm, Zachary, "Determining Oceanic Iron Concentrations Using a Siderophore Based Sensor" (2013). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2019.
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2019-04-23T02:14:40Z
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https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/2019/
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Arts
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Science
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livejournal
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Try to cook something every day that makes the house smell good. This can encompass a lot of things, from chili to bread to cookies to (if you want the simple option) popcorn. Today I chose Lazy Irish Beer Bread.
I used this recipe, which I've shared before as an inclusion in my best recipes of the year. You can use pretty much any type of beer, and any type of flour instead of self-rising, as long as you add 2 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder and 1/4 teaspoon of salt. Bread tip: letting the dough rise for a little while on the counter, though not strictly necessary, makes a tastier finished product.
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2019-04-19T04:16:29Z
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https://mollyringle.livejournal.com/220571.html
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Arts
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Home
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wordpress
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This entry was posted on January 23, 2019 at 1:05 pm and is filed under Linux, Networking, Virtualization, VM OS Install, VMWare, Windows, Windows 2016, Windows 2016, Workstation. Tagged: Active Directory, All-In-One, Virtualization, VM Ware, vmware, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 2016. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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2019-04-21T12:20:19Z
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https://smudj.wordpress.com/2019/01/23/setting-up-an-all-in-one-windows-ad-test-environment-vmware-workstation-edition/
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Arts
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Computers
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berkeley
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I will present my current research on peer-to-peer file sharing of media content, which is labeled piracy by the media industries. My spouse, Benjamin De Kosnik (a C++ senior engineer and data artist) and I are currently working on a data science/digital humanities project called alpha60, which is an investigation into global media piracy using a data scraping and visualization tool that we have developed, with funding from a BCNM Faculty Seed Grant.
The media industries constantly characterize media piracy as theft that robs creative workers of their rightful income. However, scholars from postcolonial and critical legal studies, such as Lawrence Liang, Kavita Philip, and Ramon Lobato argue that unauthorized file sharing is how millions of Internet users in the Global South access the cultural output of the Global North and achieve full participation and fluency in the media literacies of technological modernity. While media corporations have established strict "windows" of content distribution, which typically result in the U.S., Canada, and Western European nations accessing new content months or years earlier than those in developing nations, piracy enables people around the world to access and experience content (including films, television series, software, books, music, and video games) in a synchronous way. Lobato writes that many users understand media piracy not as an immoral act, but as a "banal, quotidian activity practiced in a context where legal alternatives do not exist."
Our research shows that piracy is rampant in the Global South, but also reveals that the Global North is not exempt from illegal downloading. While U.S. copyright defense organizations such as the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) point to Russia and China as the major perpetrators of piracy, alpha60 maps show that piracy takes place in every region of the U.S. as well as throughout Canada and Western Europe. Institutional barriers to access of media content, such as the rising cost of cable subscriptions and paywalls on online portals, adversely affect users all over the world, not only those in impoverished zones. Piracy therefore can be said to operate as a universal, rather than localized, hack for access.
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2019-04-21T16:34:13Z
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http://events.berkeley.edu/?event_ID=111059&date=2017-09-08&tab=academic
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Arts
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Computers
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livejournal
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Hello everyone! I'm back with a little ficlet I wrote for the lovely jennchii, for all the kind support she's shown my work. I hope you enjoy!
LEGAL JUNK: Don't own, never will, but boy it would have been fun!
SUMMARY: Donghae and Hankyung watch the feathers fall.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Written as a gift fic for jennchii, I wanted to write her something gentle since she's so supportive of my work, I hope you enjoy! Inspired by the beautiful song "Angels" by Robbie Williams.
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2019-04-20T18:40:03Z
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https://community.livejournal.com/miracle------/tag/ot3%3A%20eeteuk%2Fhangeng%2Fdonghae
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Arts
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Arts
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psu
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"... It is well-known that the Σk- and Πk-levels of the dot-depth hierarchy and the polynomial hierarchy correspond via leaf languages. We extend this correspondence to the ∆k-levels of these hierarchies: LeafP (∆L k) = ∆p k. The same methods are used to give evidence against an earlier conjecture of S ..."
"... By definition, the class B1 of dot-depth one languages is the Boolean closure of the class B 1=2 of languages that can be written as finite unions of u0A + u1 A + un , where u i 2 A . So dot-depth one languages can be described by Boolean combinations of patterns (u0 , u1 , ..., un ) in words which ..."
"... : In this paper we pursue the study of the decidability of the dot-depth hierarchy. We give an e#ective lower bound for the dot-depth of an aperiodic monoid. The main tool for this is the study of a certain operation on varieties of finite monoids in terms of Mal'cev product. We also prove the ..."
"... We propose a new higher-dimensional mechanism for solving the hierarchy problem. The weak scale is generated from a large scale of order the Planck scale through an exponential hierarchy. However, this exponential arises not from gauge interactions but from the background metric (which is a slice of ..."
"... Like the sequence of the classes of the dot-depth hierarchy the sequence of classes given by the n-fold iterated block product of DA has the class of starfree regular languages as its limit. It is shown that this DA-block-product hierarchy grows more slowly than the dot-depth hierarchy: in fact alre ..."
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2019-04-20T16:39:23Z
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https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/search?q=A+Reducibility+for+the+Dot-Depth+Hierarchy
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Arts
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Science
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