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ISRAELI LIFE
The Poor Ye Will Always Have With You
Israel's recent economic prosperity is hardly shared by everyone living here. Sadly, the poverty rate has actually grown this decade as the stock market and financial compensation for most chief executive officers (CEOs) roared ahead.
David Dolan
You've Come A Long Way, Israel
Israel may be small, but it ranks high when it comes to education. Such regard for learning is rooted in Scripture. Nehemiah 8:8 states, "They read distinctly from the book, in the Law of God…
Steve Herzig
Zvi May/Jun 2008
Not long ago I was out walking, and four ultra-Orthodox men stopped me on the street. "Do you recognize us?" one asked. "I am not sure," I replied. "We had a long conversation with you…
Zvi Kalisher
Religion and Politics: Who's in the Game
An interesting contest seems to be heating up as the world paves a road to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The religious left has felt compelled to issue a series…
Israel in the News Mar/Apr 2008
January was one of the worst months for Kassam attacks in Sderot. Arutz-7 reported many straight days of more than 40 hits per day. Parents keep their children home from school…
Zvi Mar/Apr 2008
I live in a neighborhood in Jerusalem where many Russian immigrants live. I have lived in this home 34 years, but many of them arrived recently and do not go to synagogue…
Now They Call Me Infidel
Israel has been the object of constant terrorism—a barrage of 9/11s all through its history. As a percentage of their total population, Israel has lost far more lives to terror…
Israel in the News Jan/Feb 2008
ARUTZ-7—The Jewish state's first Arab minister, Raleb Majadle, has declared that Israeli sovereignty over the Temple Mount is nonexistent and that he will always give his allegiance to Islam over Israel…
Zvi Jan/Feb 2008
Our Muslim neighbors are doing all they can to begin a new war. If they succeed, it will not be the first time. I have lived in Israel 60 years…
Eye on the Middle East Nov/Dec 2007
A recent report out of the Middle East could provide a formula for how not to run a war. Following the cease-fire that interrupted the battle between Hezbollah and Israeli forces in Lebanon…
Elwood McQuaid
Pulling the Plug on Christian TV in Israel
When Israelis turn on their televisions, they can choose from a sophisticated array of programming: educational, live political debate, ESPN and FOX sports, the History Channel, home shopping, and much more. But if one…
Craig Parshall
Israel in the News Nov/Dec 2007
Intense rocket fire from Palestinian Gaza into Jewish Sderot has led Defense Minister Ehud Barak to declare a state of emergency in the western Negev communities, thereby transferring authority over local councils…
Zvi Nov/Dec 2007
In my lifetime I have had many surprises. But the greatest surprise came a few months ago. As most of you know, all of my family died during the Holocaust of World…
Kissing Freedom Goodbye
For years realists on Middle East affairs said a Palestinian state would become a platform for radical Islamist terror and that the most dangerous merchants of death would populate the ministate…
Israel in the News Sep/Oct 2007
Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel must learn from Hamas's takeover of Gaza. "Every piece of land that we unilaterally evacuate becomes a place where rockets are deployed against us. We must ensure…
Zvi Sep/Oct 2007
I have lived in Israel almost 60 years, and I have never heard a good word spoken about those of us who believe in Christ. Usually, people here oppose us all…
From Bill Sutter's Desk Jul/Aug 2007
Zionism is belief in and support of Israel as the God-given homeland of the Jewish people. As Christians, we understand that our Zionist beliefs are firmly rooted in the Bible…
Bill Sutter
Eye on the Middle East Jul/Aug 2007
A tired old motto makes its appearance in every political campaign. It goes something like this: "Politics: the art of the possible." However, in many cases the reality is more…
Israel in the News Jul/Aug 2007
Former Knesset member Azmi Bishara faces allegations that he sold intelligence information to Hezbollah for several hundred thousand dollars during Israel's Second War in Lebanon last summer. He is also suspected of stealing millions…
Zvi Jul/Aug 2007
Where had they gone? For many months I had not seen the ultra-Orthodox from the Chabad-Lubavitch movement who were trying so hard to convince people that their late leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson…
The Faithful Remnant
To most people, the word remnant means something that is left over. Leftovers aren't usually thought of positively. One thinks of leftover food, a sock that missed the laundry, or screws…
It seems that people come to Israel from the ends of the earth. We have many Arabs in our area of Jerusalem and also many Jewish people who consider themselves…
Eye on the Middle East Mar/Apr 2007
Speaking in December 2006 at a Holocaust memorial ceremony in Berlin, Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said: We have learned and memorialized the lesson: the weak and defenseless are doomed. Doomed…
'People Just Want Nice.' Oh, Really?
When will we learn that some people don't care about "nice" and that annihilating Israel is merely the warm-up to something far more nefarious?
American rifles supplied to the Palestinian Authority (PA) may be used against Israel if PA President Mahmoud Abbas has his way. WorldNetDaily's Aaron Klein reported that Abbas has called on Arab…
Many people are preparing for the coming days of Passover, April 2 through 10. For them it is most important to cleanse their homes of leaven and bring home much special…
From Bill Sutter's Desk Jan/Feb 2007
Our attention never wavered as Maway Ananya told her dramatic story recently at The Friends of Israel headquarters in New Jersey. Born in 1982 into an Orthodox Jewish family in Ethiopia…
Is Israel an Apartheid State?
Even before the State of Israel was established, Jewish leaders consciously sought to avoid the situation that prevailed in South Africa. As David Ben-Gurion told Palestinian nationalist Musa Alami in 1934…
In a move presented as an effort to counter the growing strength and influence of Hamas, the United States has been arming and training Fatah fighters, headed by Palestinian Authority…
Here in Israel, many people have no peace. Not only are we the victims of shootings and terrorism, but we are surrounded by countries that want nothing more than to destroy…
From Bill Sutter's Desk Nov/Dec 2006
Fallen Israeli Sgt. Michael Levin, 22, was buried in August on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem amid an outpouring of mourners, the likes of which are usually reserved for persons of great fame. Thousands…
The late Yasser Arafat and his Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) cronies made a big mistake years ago when they chose to line their own pockets with the loot garnered from the benevolent West, rather…
On December 15, as it grows dark, our family will gather around the dinner table to light the first candle on a nine-armed candelabra and sing Maoz Tzur Yeshuati: "The Strength of My Rock…
Brigitte Gabriel Conclusion
When the Palestinians started fighting in Lebanon [in the 1970s], the war took on such savagery that it was inconceivable. They would massacre the Christian cities. City after city. A signature Palestinian way…
The father of an Israeli soldier abducted and killed in 2000 says he has proof the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) filmed the kidnapping, sold the film to Hezbollah, and then denied…
Living in Israel, we know what it means to fight for our lives. For 2,000 years my people dreamed of returning to Eretz Yisrael; and in the 1948 War of Independence, God answered our prayers…
Eye on the Middle East Sep/Oct 2006
Over a year ago, in a good-faith attempt at conciliation to Palestinian and international demands, Israel left the Gaza Strip. Eight thousand to 10,000 Israeli citizens were expelled from their homes…
To Build or Not to Build: Jerusalem's Housing Controversy
Concrete jungle or luxury high-rise? The million-dollar digs going up in Jerusalem mean different things to different people.
The Lowdown on Hezbollah
Hezbollah makes no secret of its objective, namely, the destruction of Israel. It committed an act of war by crossing the international border and attacking soldiers in Israel and kidnapping two…
As we approach the great High Holiday of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, I like to go to the ultra-Orthodox section of Jerusalem to speak to the people there. As one who believes…
A senior Palestinian Authority (PA) religious leader has said on a PA-affiliated Web site that Christian Zionists worship "Satan as God." So reports Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). The author of the PMW article…
I have lived in Israel 58 years now. And in Jerusalem, particularly in the ultra-Orthodox quarter, men do not speak with women or girls. Men must speak with men, and women with women, especially when…
Eye on the Middle East May/Jun 2006
In a world overrun by head-scratching contradictions to anything resembling common sense, here's one more. Israeli Brig. Gen. Aviv Kochavi has been forced to cancel plans to study…
They Cry in Silence May/Jun 2006
The accusation is often leveled that The Friends of Israel is anti-Palestinian and, therefore, without sympathy for Palestinian Christians. This is in no sense the case. These accusations usually come…
Israel in the News May/Jun 2006
The Palestinian Authority's ruling Hamas terror group has launched a Web site for children, using cartoons and children's stories to preach the moral desirability of being a suicide terrorist. The Hamas-run Al-Fateh.net…
Many years ago new immigrants moved into our neighborhood in Jerusalem. One family in particular became special to us because they spoke about the faith. Yet they did not like people who believed…
When Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon, was stricken with a devastating, career-ending stroke in January, an era came to an end. Sharon was the last of the giants who have fallen…
As the government declares "war" on unauthorized Jewish communities, Arabs, funded by the Palestinian Authority (PA), are deciding Israel's future borders through unhindered illegal building. Unauthorized Arab building…
We are approaching the great days of Passover, which begin April 12. This holiday brings unity to our nation, as we give thanks for all that God has done for His Chosen People Israel. For those…
What a Difference a Flag Makes
Some people have integrity; others don't. Now is a good time to consider what flag you want flying over Jerusalem.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) wants the United States to pressure Israel into allowing PA polling stations and campaigning in Jerusalem, enabling the Hamas terrorist organization pledged to Israel's destruction to campaign…
From time to time I go to the Orthodox to bring them the good news of the Lord. With them, you cannot finish a conversation in a few minutes. They are suspicious…
Myths/Facts: Israel & the Middle East Nov/Dec 2005
In Gaza, Israel's intent was always to withdraw completely, and no settlements were viewed as vital to Israel for economic, security, or demographic reasons. The situation in the West Bank is completely different.
Never Miss an Opportunity
Was Gaza enough? Not on your life. Now Abbas is beating the drum for a move on Jerusalem, while archaeologists uncover something wonderful.
Israel: Inside the International Pressure Cooker
Years ago, few thought Ariel Sharon would ever give up Gaza. The reasons for his dramatic U-turn, however, aren't that difficult to understand.
They Must Start Over—Again
Nisanit was the second largest of the 21 Gaza Strip Jewish communities destroyed in August. The oldest was Kfar Darom, erected in 1946, two years before Israel became a state.
The New Wall of Jerusalem
A top Jerusalem Post writer gives you an insider's look at Jewish life in Israel's City
of Gold and what many feel is the only viable way to protect it.
Elliot Jager
Traveling the Fence Route
On a hot, dry, Friday morning in July, my wife, Lisa, and I traveled the entire length of the route of the fence that will envelop metropolitan Jerusalem. Starting in Gilo, we headed east toward…
What I'd Tell My Dad
I've never known a time when there was not an Israel. As a child I'd look up at the big map on my Hebrew School wall and knew it was the country that belonged to…
Lorna Simcox
Jordan's Disengagement Connection
As the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in August forcibly evacuated Jewish settlers and their families from the communities where they had lived, many of them for more than 30 years…
Jimmy DeYoung
The Staggering Cost of Disengagement
The cost of family relocation alone is estimated to be nearly $1 billion of the country's annual $59 million state budget. In addition, the Israel Defense Forces will spend some $500 million to remove military…
For Israelis, Gaza is history—it's over. The tears have been shed, and lingering, bitter memories still distress many of the displaced. For example, the evacuees from Kfar Darom will not forget the heavy price exacted…
ARUTZ-7—As the Israeli flag was being lowered over Gaza to mark the end of Israel's 38-year-presence in the area, teenaged Arabs threw rocks at Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops near the demolished Neveh Dekalim community.
This time of year Christians think about the birth of the Messiah. We know what the Bible teaches, and we understand who He is. But in Israel there is great confusion about the Messiah.
Slated for Destruction: Life in Gush Katif
When Israel abandons Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip, it will walk away from 21 communities that house schools, businesses, farms, and 900 acres of high-tech hothouses that yield nearly 70 percent of all Israel's…
In the quest for peace and survival in the Middle East, a little history and a few questions may be to our benefit. Following Britain's defeat of the Muslim Ottoman Turks in 1917, the Mandatory…
ARUTZ-7—An outstanding issue in the ever-so-complicated disengagement/expulsion is what to do with the residents' property. "What-ever we can fit into two large containers, we will take," army Brig.-Gen. Guy Tzur told the people of Gush…
In Deuteronomy 31 it is written, "Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the Lᴏʀᴅ your God, He is the One who goes with you.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: "May they prosper who love you. Peace be within your walls, prosperity within your palaces" (Ps. 122:6–7). Jerusalem. The very word stirs the hearts of Jews and Christians alike.
A Hand of Help for Gaza
Although the context is far removed from the essence of that ancient encounter, if you have ever ventured into the Gaza Strip you have likely thought something similar. On my last visit…
The Flip Side of Disengagement
Israelis are being expelled from the land they worked so hard to cultivate. Will this bring peace to the region? You be the judge.
Police detectives searched the IDF soldier's vehicle after they deemed his behavior suspicious. Heroin was found, and he was arrested. During his arrest, the soldier told the police officers that he was a neo-Nazi…
It is written in Deuteronomy, "You shall not pervert justice;…You shall follow what is altogether just" (16:19–20). What organization on Earth should be the best example of this command? The biggest organization: the United Nations…
Two sisters who had not seen each other since the start of World War II have been reunited through the Yad Vashem database. Hannah Katz, 78, and Klara Blire, 81, were separated in 1939…
In today's upside-down world, right looks wrong, wrong looks right, and the good guys are getting the short end of the stick. If you don't believe that, read this.
The Children Who Remain
My friend brenda Giles is no stranger to suicide bombings. An evangelical christian who spends about as much time on her knees as she does on her feet, brenda lives in the Jewish neighborhood…
Israeli security figures show that Palestinians nearly doubled the number of Kassam rockets they fired from Gaza after the Israeli cabinet approved the disengagement plan. And their smuggling operations have netted them a Strella missile…
In Proverbs 13:3 it is written, "He who guards his mouth preserves his life, but he who opens wide his lips shall have destruction." Today so many people curse at one another.
As services at the Jerusalem Assembly in Israel came to a close recently, I realized that those of us in attendance had witnessed the compelling truth of Galatians 3:28: There is neither Jew nor Greek…
Myths/Facts : Israel & the Middle East Jan/Feb 2005
Israel is not a theocracy. However, it is governed by the rule of law as drafted by a democratically elected parliament. It is informed by Jewish values and adheres to many Jewish religious customs…
As Palestinian mortar shells and rockets continued to pound the Jewish settlement of Gush Katif at the rate of over three per day, destroying homes and sending people to the hospital…
Wherever you go in Jerusalem these days, you see many pictures of the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel schneerson of New York City, who led the lubavitch movement of Hasidic (ultra-Orthodox) Judaism for forty-four years.
If oil is properly termed black gold, then one would suppose water could properly be termed liquid gold. Today the search is on for…
"The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists are Muslims!" So writes Abdulrahman al-Rashed, general manager of AI-Arabiya television, in his…
From Bill Sutter's Desk Sep/Oct 2004
Thus reads the headline on the brochure from Volunteers for Israel (VFI). Since VFI's inception in 1982, more than a hundred thousand people from thirty countries have volunteered their time and energy to immerse themselves…
Targeting Hamas
The goal of Hamas is clear. As stated in the organization's covenant, the Islamic Resistance Movement "strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine." No negotiations or compromises are possible.
An Israeli toddler being dropped off at nursery school by his mother was killed when a Palestinian Kassam rocket exploded in the heart of Sderot in the Negev. More than 20 others, including youngsters…
But to my regret, this is not so. From time to time I visit the ultra-Orthodox at their synagogues, which they call "holy of holy." But when I arrive there, even though I am Jewish…
The family finished their evening meal and gathered in the living room to sing and enjoy a relaxing time exchanging pleasantries and stories. Later Esther put four of their young children to bed…
The Courage to Fight On
Yoni was two years old when Israel was created. He was born on March 13, 1946, less than a year after the most extreme and horrendous attempt—out of a long, almost unending line of attempts…
Myths/Facts: Israel & the Middle East Jul/Aug 2004
ARUTZ-7—The United States has determined that Yasser Arafat approved the terrorist attack on a U.S. embassy convoy in which three Americans were killed in October 2003. Middle East Newsline reported in the name of U.S.
Everyone talks about the "road map" to peace. They say, "Peace, peace; when there is no peace" (Jer. 6:14). And there will be no peace until the Prince of Peace comes.
The Cell Phones Wouldn't Stop Ringing
A friend of mine who lives in Jerusalem was on his way to work on the morning of January 29. He was suffering the usual heavy morning traffic, three cars behind an Egged bus…
Goose-Stepping Americans?
An influx of Muslim immigrants is changing the face of Europe. Suddenly, Americans are being called the new Nazis; and Bush, the new Hitler.
Islam's Suicide Solution
As if it were not already enormous, the gulf between Islam and Christianity grew even greater in January when Reem Rayashi, a 22-year-old Palestinian mother of two, blew herself up at the Erez Crossing…
Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opposed the deal, saying it was too expensive. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, however, said that the importance of the deal surpasses merely the water issue and affects the strategic relationship with…
Psalm 81 is a nice chapter in the Word of God. It begins, "Sing aloud unto God, our strength; make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob" (v. 1). Unfortunately, many of the people who…
From Bill Sutter's Desk Mar/Apr 2004
In traveling to Israel recently on a solidarity tour with representatives of our nearby Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Jewish community, we prayed that our lives as Christians would reflect both our commitment to the Bible…
Only in Israel!
For example, in November 2002 a suicide bomber boarded an Israeli bus in Jerusalem that was so packed with Jewish schoolchildren no one noticed him. He waited until the bus was full, then exploded himself…
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Almeidella is een geslacht van vlinders van de familie nachtpauwogen (Saturniidae), uit de onderfamilie Ceratocampinae.

Soorten
A. almeidai Oiticica, 1946
A. approximans (Schaus, 1920)
A. corrupta (Schaus, 1913)

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I love that the Circle K Kiwanis Club at Colorado Mesa University and project Linus took the time to make blankets for children that have been hospitalized for one reason or another.
I remember when my son got meningitis years ago. The pain and trauma he went through during that time of his life broke my heart but one thing that seemed to calm his little heart was his blanket.
The project is intended to bring a safe feeling of home to the children by having a soft blanket to comfort them.
Many children have been traumatized by being in the hospital and these blankets provide a sense of security.
According to KKCO Channel 11, the president of the Circle K Club, Sydney Klumb has had the opportunity to see both the giving and receiving side with this project.
Her brother was blessed with a blanket while he was at Children's Hospital. Klumb stated, "that her brother still has his blanket and that it was really awesome."
I think it's really awesome too and my son even though now grown he still has his blanket on his bed as well.


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Q: Can't access google cloud run service from Firebase Hosting Basically what the title states. I'll be replacing the service name with 'xyzservice' and the region name with 'xyzregion' but everything else is exactly as is.
I have a firebase hosting app where I want to access a service running on Google Cloud Run. As per documentation, I'm using a rewrite rule:
{
  "hosting": {
    "public": "public",
    "ignore": [
      "firebase.json",
      "**/node_modules/**"
    ],
    "rewrites": [
      {
        "source": "/api/**",
        "run": {
          "serviceId": xyzservice,
          "region": xyzregion
        }
      },
      {
        "source": "**",
        "function": "app"
      }
    ]
  }
}

I can confirm that I see xyzservice is part of my project when I run gcloud beta run services list
Despite this I keep getting this error:

HTTP Error: 400, Cloud Run service xyzservice does not exist in region xyzregion in this project.

I can't seem to find any information about this error online. Anyone know how I might resolve this?
Thanks in advance!

A: Same here. Are you using a region other than us-central1? In my case, changing the region from asia-northeast1 to us-central1 works. I'm not sure if it's a spec change or a failure.

A: Firebase Hosting deployments with rewrites to Cloud Run services located in europe-west1 were broken between 24. - 26. August 2020. I reached out to Google Firebase support. They acknowledged the bug and told me on the morning of 26. August that the issue is now resolved. The configuration above should now perfectly work (as long as the service actually exists).
(It was Firebase Support Case 00080862)

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Microwave each burrito on HIGH for 1 to 2 minutes or until thoroughly heated. If desired, serve with salsa and shredded lettuce.


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Notice how the lettering on this pic taken in Photo Booth is a mirror image.
But what Photo Booth won't change is Junior Mints delicious chocolate and mint flavor.
This is something to keep in mind when you are considering which hand you want a character holding something (right or left) – but also for smaller details like how clothes are buttoned.
Note: For those unaware, men and women's clothing generally button differently.
Pic taken with Photo Booth.
To rectify this, Photo Booth has a pull down menu under Edit where you can flip all the photos selected.
Okay – glad I got that out of my system.


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From Sprocket to Pixel
We Chose the Milky Way
Cosmic Glitter
by Alice Michaud-Lapointe Volume 24, Issue 8-9-10 / October 2020 6 minutes (1296 words)
This text is presented as part of the CRITIQUES series, organized and presented by VISIONS, in collaboration with Hors champ and Offscreen.
Translated from the original French by Olga Montes
In a Copenhagen suburb, sixteen-seventeen year old teenage girls don false eyelashes, cream-colored fake nails and hair extensions. They vape while sprawled on sofas, casually take selfies, pet white bunny rabbits, ride limousines to parties, then fall asleep to trance music or tranquilizers. They take pride in their bling, discuss their melanin injections very seriously ("only 2 ml or 1 ml," one recommends, while another states that "with a solarium, you reach a point where you can't get any darker"). This world of rhinestones, silicone and bright screens could easily be judged by some and given derogatory epithets. These girls could be said to perpetuate superficiality, vulgarity and obscenity; such a statement would not be surprising. However, Eva Marie Rødbro offers another perspective in We Chose the Milky Way (2015). The filmmaker instead focuses on the truth behind these young Generation Z girls' experience as well as their views and the specifics of their lifestyle. While Rødbro films the Danish teenage girls with an assumed anthropological approach, what gives this subject its unusual dimension and unique freshness are the parallels she draws with astronomy and metaphysics. Who are these girls? What rules, rituals, conventions make up the world in which they have chosen to flourish? If we suddenly drift away from earthly realities and experiences, if we allow ourselves to drift gently, far away, perhaps even towards the Milky Way, how can we examine the very specific microcosm of this youth culture?
By framing her subject within the confines of the infinitely small and the infinitely vast, Eva Marie Rødbro succeeds in bringing new life to a tired topic (how vacuous and superficial young girls can be) and in questioning the outlines of this concept of vacuity. What is vacuousness? Triviality? The meaning of the chosen family? Glamour? Do these concepts hold any meaning when their scope of interpretation is shifted and brought back to what they in fact are: abstractions, human perceptions? We Chose the Milky Way asks these questions indirectly, and the title of the film, it must be pointed out, is an amusing bias in itself. If these teenage girls are daughters of the galaxy, beings born of the Milky Way, what could the Earth possibly offer them if not to send them back to a kind of cosmic fluffy dream? Rødbro expands on this idea through a documentary staging that draws on generic hybridity. We Chose the Milky Way is therefore difficult to classify on a formal level. Is this a documentary inspired by the aesthetics of found footage, a docufiction, an anthropological allegory… a mix of all these? Rødbro skillfully combines different types of visual effects with a variety of traditions: night vision and low-resolution shots for found footage aesthetics, hands dancing in slow motion to trance music suggesting music videos and/or raves, fixed shots of the full moon and predominantly pink light to highlight both the "outer space" atmosphere and the pop aspects of the film. This composite design leaves it up to viewers to decide which reality (or science fiction chronicle) they prefer to believe in when watching the film. Rødbro's refined skills are evident in her way of highlighting the inherent peculiarity of the very common sets she films. The claustrophobic and blinding interior of the tanning booths are made to look like small spaceships. The distant lights from Copenhagen's buildings, as seen from the suburbs, become a poetic constellation and her use of night vision to film the group of girls in a forest–giving them a greenish complexion and glassy eyes–makes them seem to have emerged from an undiscovered "planet".
Here, this planet is a home, a claimed territory, and Eva Marie Rødbro takes the time to film it as such. In doing so, she gives the language of these young girls and their arcane sisterhood a space and the time to unfurl. However, the anthropological perspective underlying the film's subject matter takes on too much emphasis, and even brings with it a certain uneasiness, when African percussion sounds (djembes, dununs, small drums?) are added to the scenes of the girls putting on make-up. This sequence lasts only one minute, but the offset suddenly feels heavy, the metaphor over-emphasized.
Although teenage girls have often been the subject of her other film projects–for example, the short I Touched Her Legs (2010) and the mini-documentary series Prinsesser fra Blokken (2016), whose theme is similar to We Chose the Milky Way –Rødbro here attaches much importance to rhythm. When used to create harmony rather than contrast, the rhythm is very effective (as opposed to the scene that uses percussions). The often elliptical and non-chronological editing of We Chose the Milky Way embraces the fast-paced lives of the teenage girls, who jump from one topic to the next, scarf down McDonald's and toss it out, take a selfie, forget about it, take another, and move on to something else. The activities that form part of their evenings (make-up, dances, games) seem perfectly thought out and logical within their world, and yet appear as a series of infinite impulses, a disturbing cycle because it is imperturbable. The montage suggests that the partying is endless (Is it yesterday? Tomorrow? Daytime? Night?), that they go on and on until at last there are sighs and silence in a taxicab. The moment when the teenage girls no longer speak, when the fluorescent colours and fuzzy textures fade into the night, is somewhat intriguing. Where do these girls go once the party is over? With We Chose the Milky Way, Eva Marie Rødbro explores their escape from reality which, although not a celestial ascension, opens up to an elsewhere where daydreaming and artifice coexist with the slightest hesitation.
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VISIONS is a series of monthly screenings devoted to experimental documentary cinema and artists specializing in moving images. Curated by Benjamin R. Taylor in Montreal since 2014, VISIONS presents these films in various venues and in collaboration with local festivals such as the Cinémathèque québécoise, la lumière collective, être, Ex-Centris, RIDM, FNC, POP Montreal and Cinéma moderne. Filmmakers always attend screenings and we help them travel to/within Canada by organizing screenings, workshops and tours. Films are always presented in their original format. VISIONS also takes part in several international festivals and exhibitions and helps bring creators and the public together.
The online program CRITIQUES is a consequence of VISIONS' postponed programming activities. Starting from a selection of works initially programmed for the 2020 season, the idea is to bring them into direct conversation with a local writer who is asked to reflect, refract, retrace and reinterpret the work in question. The collected texts are first published in a special edition of Hors champ. Then, each week, a selected work is shown on the new virtual-pandemic-proof screening platform of the local microcinema la lumière collective, together with the text.
Each iteration invites a guest writer to establish a dialogue with the images in his or her own way, with the aim of renewing ideas, provoking conversations, establishing new discourses. At a time when online broadcasting is abundant and boundless, CRITIQUES offers something to read and think about. Something to take with you until we meet again.
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Roots of Resistance: A Few Notes on Prop Roots and Thoughts from Below
Kathryn Michalski
Embracing Fantasy to Better Reflect Reality: El Mar la Mar (Joshua Bonnetta and J.P. Sniadecki, 2017)
Charlotte Selb
When Nature Makes Cinema: The Power and Beauty of Phenomena in Wilderness series by Karel Doing
Charlotte Brady-Savignac
Not Moldova, 1937 by Madi Piller: Flickering Memory
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3 miejscowości w Polsce:
 Zboiska – wieś w woj. mazowieckim, w pow. żyrardowskim, w gminie Radziejowice
 Zboiska – wieś w woj. podkarpackim, w pow. krośnieńskim, w gminie Dukla
 Zboiska – wieś w woj. podkarpackim, w pow. sanockim, w gminie Bukowsko
Ukraina:
 Zboiska – dzielnica Lwowa
 Zboiska – wieś w obwodzie lwowskim, w rejonie radziechowskim


Upper: Doha, Qatar. Arabian Gulf. 2nd February 1979, 12 metres, Approx 2.5mm long. Photo: Tony Reavill. Lower: Khawr Fakkan, 12m. Gulf of Oman, United Arab Emirates. Photo: Carole Harris.
The mantle is creamy white with large wine-red or purple rounded patches scattered over the mantle and forming a broken band around the edge. There are usually a number of smaller orange-yellow spots, of variable size, in each purple patch. In the case of the purple patches around the mantle edge, the yellow spots form a submarginal mantle band. Sometimes yellow spots occur on white parts of the mantle but this is rare. The rhinophore pockets have a raised sheath which sometime bears a purple patch with smaller yellow spots. The gills and rhinophores are translucent white with opaque white edging. The photos I have seen of this animal show only the mantle so the colour of the animal and foot is unknown.
Previously known on Forum as Chromodoris sp. 15. See also C. tumulifera and C. kitae.
• Gosliner, T.M. & Behrens, D.W. (2004) Two of New Species of Dorid Nudibranchs (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia) from the Indian Ocean. Proceedings of the Californian Academy of Sciences, 55(1): 1-10.


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Russian-backed militants to postpone their pseudo-elections until 2016
Such a decision was made after the Paris talks in Normandy format, October 2
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"We would like to report on our agreement on the postpoping elections in Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (LPR and DPR)," stated the representatives of the self-proclaimed republics, TASS. The elections on the eastern territories not controlled by Ukrainian government were appointed by October 18 and November 1, and according to the official statement of the Russian-backed militants, they are to take place the next year.
It is also reported that such a decision was made after the Paris talks in Normandy format, which gathered leaders of Germany, France, Ukraine, and Russia, October 2.
"The proposal of LPR to postpone the Donbas election until February 21, 2016 would be available on condition that the Kyiv political fulfill the political demands of "Minsk-2", which were taken into account by Norman Quartet. We have studied the statements and recommendations of Frau Merkel and Monsieur Hollande on the results of the Paris summit of October 2. Conducted in Minsk consultations with representatives of the OSCE and Russia," stated the representatives of LPR and DPR.
They also claim that during this time, Ukraine will be obliged to fulfill all the obligations of the Minsk protocol. Namely: to grant Donbas with a special status, prevent the prosecution and punishment of persons in connection with the events that have taken place in some areas of Donetsk and Luhansk. And, of course, revote for the Constitutional amendments, which would be agreed by the militants.
Related: Russia is sending signals to militants to postpone elections in Donbas
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Related: Alliance members will not recognize elections in uncontrolled Donbas areas - Stoltenberg
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The Unintended Consequences of Test-Optional College Admission Policies
The University of Chicago's recent announcement that it will no longer require student applicants to submit ACT or SAT scores for admission made news headlines. It also spurred discussion about test-optional admission policies, making this an ideal time to examine such policies—and the unintended consequences those policies can have on students.
The Admissions Landscape
Nearly all colleges use a holistic or comprehensive admission process, basing their decisions on a combination of many different factors and indicators. For the large majority of colleges, admission test scores are one of those key factors.
These colleges rely on ACT/SAT scores because they provide a standardized measure of student readiness that serves as a level playing field on which to compare students from different schools, cities, states, and backgrounds.
A number of institutions, including the University of Chicago, have moved to a test-optional policy under which students are not required to—but may if they like—submit ACT/SAT scores. Many of these institutions have cited increasing access and opportunity for traditionally underserved students as a primary motivation for adopting test-optional policies.
ACT understands that the policies that govern how institutions make admission decisions are as unique as the institutions themselves, and we recognize their right to make those decisions in a manner they deem most appropriate. However, when colleges adopt a test-optional policy they have eliminated a valuable source of information from their decision process. Hundreds of studies have consistently shown that admission tests provide additional validity in predicting college success for all groups of students.
This is an obvious unintended negative consequence of test-optional policies but there are other consequences that are less obvious.
One is that test-optional policies introduce a new level of strategy into the admission process: students must determine whether it is in their best interest to submit test scores or withhold them.
Colleges with test-optional policies seem to assume that students and their parents fully understand the dynamics of this decision. However, there is relatively little guidance available on the issue.
Data continue to suggest that the large majority—approximately 80 percent—of students admitted to test-optional colleges actually do submit ACT/SAT scores when they apply for admission. Overall, only about 1 percent of the nation's first-year college students enroll in four-year institutions without submitting test scores.
Test-optional colleges have avoided reporting basic data that could make the process more transparent and easier to navigate. Colleges regularly report the high school GPA, class rank, demographic background, rigor of coursework, and national scholarships attained by their applicants and enrollees.
Test-optional colleges could easily break down these same data by whether or not applicants submitted admission test scores. Such information would help high school students and families compare their profiles to these two applicant groups.
The absence of these basic data can create an uneven playing field for students, especially those from traditionally underserved populations who are more likely to lack insights into institutional admission processes.
Test-optional policies also create two admission tracks: one for students who submit test scores and another for those who don't. Colleges can certainly make informed decisions without test scores, but when they lack test scores they must place increased reliance on other available academic measures such as high school grades, rigor of coursework, and quality of high school attended.
It's important to examine the potential impact on students when these factors gain added importance without a standardized metric of academic readiness against which to balance them. There is of course no perfect measure of academic success, and while the limitations of test scores have been appropriately reported, much less attention has been paid to the limitations of these other factors when used exclusively to predict future academic performance.
Indicators of high school quality can include factors such as the percent of graduates who enroll in college, gain admission to highly selective colleges, complete AP courses, or are recognized as national scholarship recipients. Individual students, however, have no influence or control over these metrics.
It is difficult to see how placing greater weight on indicators of, say, school quality or rigor of coursework helps underserved populations or increases fairness when these factors have been shown to relate largely to where a student's family lives.
As mentioned earlier, high school grades alone have been shown to be the second-best predictor of college grades: second to the combination of high school grades and test scores. When test scores are absent, high school grades take on increased importance—in many instances, determinative importance.
The fact that grades are inflated more today than in the past has been widely reported. On average, high school grade point averages (HSGPA) are about 0.60 points higher than first-year college grade point averages (FGPA) for the same students.
Grades differ across teachers, courses, and subjects within the same school let alone across different schools, cities, and states. Some teachers grade more leniently, others more harshly, and research shows that grades given in math and science are often far lower than grades in other fields.
Of greater concern is the consequence for individual students when grades are relied upon as the sole or primary factor used to judge achievement or predict future success.
Today, nearly 40 percent of students taking an admission test have an A average in high school, and yet a sizable number of these students do not meet college readiness benchmarks on either the ACT or the SAT. And they perform more poorly when they go to college.
To illustrate how such differences in high school grades can impact individual students, we examined a sample of schools in a large state that had administered the ACT to all juniors for several years. The table below showcases seven schools in the state with a large number of 2017 ACT test takers.
Students with a HSGPA of 4.0 (A) or higher in one large state
You can see large differences in the average ACT scores for students with an identical "A" average in high school courses: ACT Composite scores range from a high of 30.2 to a low of 23.0 in these schools. In addition, the third column shows that nearly one in four students at school C are likely to have an A average compared to only 2% in schools D and G.
Those results were replicated in a second large state, showing even larger differences when comparing schools across the state.
These data suggest that students from some schools would benefit while those from other schools would be disadvantaged if grades were given the greatest weight in admission decisions.
Most important of all, while many institutions cite increasing access and opportunity for traditionally underserved students as a primary motivation for adopting test-optional policies, the data on the impact of those policies seems to indicate that they don't always produce the expected results.
A 2015 study by Belasco, Rosinger, and Hearn at the University of Georgia found that, on average, while institutions with test-optional policies received increased numbers of applications, they also enrolled a lower proportion of Pell Grant recipients and traditionally underrepresented minorities than did institutions that were not test optional.
The researchers also found that, on average and after controlling for characteristics that would naturally vary with time, test-optional policies did not increase the proportions of low-income or minority students enrolling at the colleges that adopted the policies.
With the unintended consequences arising from test-optional policies, then, the result is greater subjectivity and less transparency in college admission at test-optional institutions, and greater confusion and potential inequity for applicants, instead of the greater fairness and access to a college education that the institutions so often claim as the rationale for their policies.
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Shawnee Co. opens new COVID-19 test site, changes quarantine protocol
By Kimberly Donahue
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Shawnee Co. Health Officials provided some reassuring data regarding COVID-19 at their virtual news conference Thursday.
The number of new reported cases to the Health Department the week of November 22 was an 11 percent drop from the week before, to 936 cases.
"It is still an enormous amount of cases in one single week for a county like Shawnee a county of our size," County Health Officer Dr. Gianfranco Pezzino said.
"We still have a long way to go before we can say this outbreak is under control.
Officials also said the amount of cases reported during the month of November was more than all the cases reported between March and October.
3,760 cases were reported last month compared to 3,717 cases in the seven months prior.
Officials from Topeka's hospitals also reported a lower amount of COVID-19 patients Thursday than they have had in recent days.
In an effort to expand the county's fight against the virus, county health officials announced the health department is expanding their test sites.
The county will launch a free COVID-19 test site at Hummer Sports Park beginning Friday which will last through the end of December.
It will be open to anyone who wants to get tested for the virus, whether they have symptoms or not.
"We're excited to have this going on , we're excited to see how this goes to get more people tested who want to be tested to be tested," Health Department spokesman Craig Barnes said.
Additionally, the the county adjusted its quarantine protocol.
People exposed to a person who tests positive may be released after 10 days instead of 14, however, symptoms need to be monitored for the following four days.
It is in line with new CDC guidelines, but the county will not adopt a second part of the recommendations - shortening quarantine time to seven days with a negative test.
Pezzino said that would further strain testing services.
"The current demand does not include the addition of potentially thousands of new tests done on people in quarantine so they would be released early."
The testing site at Hummer Sports Park can accommodate up to one thousand people a day.
An appointment is preferred, but not required.
To schedule an appointment, visit gogettested.com, provide a cell phone number and follow the instructions to select the Hummer testing site.
The site will be open Monday through Saturday 9:00 am to 5:30 pm.
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Severed head greets new troops in Mexico drug war
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Drug cartel members dumped a severed head outside a military base in the Mexican port of Veracruz to warn newly arrived troops of more violence in an escalating war on drug traffickers, authorities said on Saturday.
"We found the head of a man on Friday night with a message warning the army not to mess with the drug cartels, to expect a fierce battle," said an official at the Veracruz state attorney general's office, who declined to be identified.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon sent hundreds of soldiers and federal police to Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico on Friday night after gunmen on Thursday killed four Mexican policemen who worked as bodyguards for the family of a senior politician.
Authorities suspect the powerful Gulf cartel or a rival breakaway gang, "Gente Nueva" (New People), were behind the beheading and its message.
In Mexico's western drug-producing Michoacan state, where heavily armed troops fought drug gang members this week, federal police arrested the state's investigative police chief on Saturday for possible links to drug cartels, authorities said.
Drug violence in Mexico has spiraled since the start of the year as the Mexican army and police try to end a war between a coalition of gangs on the Pacific coast and the Gulf cartel -- based just south of Texas -- for dominance of smuggling routes to the United States.
At least 800 people have been killed this year.


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life in pixels Oct. 22, 2018
Nick Clegg Isn't Leaving the World of Politics, He's Reentering It
By Max Read@max_read
Nick Clegg. Photo: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images
What do you do after you've been the deputy prime minister to the United Kingdom? Historically, the answer is usually "retire" or "become prime minister." For Nick Clegg, former leader of the Liberal Democrats and deputy prime minister between 2010 and 2015 under David Cameron, the answer is "move to Palo Alto, California, to work for Facebook." "Instead of the gothic splendour of Westminster, I will be surrounded by the gleaming glass and steel of Silicon Valley," he wrote in a Guardian op-ed officially announcing his new position on Friday. "Instead of the clout of the state in Whitehall, I will now experience the dynamism of the private sector in Palo Alto."
"Vice-president of global affairs and communications" — Clegg's new title — might lack the magisterial ring of "prime minister," but it's certainly better compensated. Indeed, it's easy to read the move as Clegg cynically trading political principle and public service for a higher salary and a more glamorous position. As the Observer's Carole Cadwalladr asks, "If you're on the side of democracy, Nick Clegg, why are you going to work for Facebook?" GQ UK puts it quite directly: "Nick Clegg's Facebook job shows he loves power more than progress."
These are versions of the same dark joke that haunts any announcement of a political figure moving to the tech industry: It's a promotion! The idea being that, say, a Facebook executive is more powerful than, say, a deputy prime minister — a sentiment that isn't wrong, exactly, but doesn't quite get at the exact relationship between government and the tech industry.
The trend of advisers and wonks and politicians moving from politics to the tech industry is real, but isn't just a product of those individuals' personal ambition or desire for power. It's also a reflection of their political principles, and those of the companies they turn to. The ideology of Clegg's Liberal Democrats — centering around the economic liberalism of free trade, free markets, and the free movement of people — has fallen deeply out of favor in electoral politics in the U.K., as it has in most of the rest of the world, but it's still the main political current in Silicon Valley — and at Facebook especially. The center of power for technocratic, market-focused liberalism is no longer in Westminster or Washington, but in Palo Alto. Why waste your time on the unreceptive world of electoral politics when platform politics welcomes you with open arms?
Clegg is known best for his, let's say, transformative leadership of the Liberal Democrats. After taking over the party in 2007, he promoted what he described as "politics of the radical center," and what others tend to deride as "neoliberalism": social liberalism combined with policies that sought solutions in free markets, trade, and individual choice. This message appealed to enough voters in the elections of 2010 to deliver the Lib Dems their best-ever results, and to hand Clegg the deputy prime ministership of a coalition government.
But it was a losing formula for, well, ever since. Clegg's partnership with Cameron was disastrous for Liberal Democratic priorities, and he led the party to its worst-ever results five years later. The Liberal Democrats were reduced to only eight seats in the House of Commons, and Clegg resigned as leader. Things did not really improve from there. In 2016, he campaigned loudly against Brexit (we know how that one went); last year, he lost the election for his own seat to the Labour Party candidate.
An impressive capsule biography like that does raise the question: Why, exactly, would Facebook want a man best known for a string of failures to run its "global affairs"? The obvious answer lies in the E.U., and Clegg's relationship with it: Europe is Facebook's second-most-profitable market after North America, but also, between its expansive new digital-privacy protections and its aggressive antitrust stance, its biggest regulatory headache. Clegg, a former member of the European Parliament, is well-positioned to help the company reset its relationship with skeptical European regulators and politicians, not to mention with governments around the globe. (Maybe a pithier way of putting this is that "global affairs" at Facebook have reached such a nadir that not even Nick Clegg can make them worse.)
Arguably, though, the reasons for that string of failures are exactly why Clegg and Facebook are such a natural fit. Since the financial crisis, Clegg's 2010 victories notwithstanding, the public appetite for free markets and free movement has dramatically declined. In the U.K., the left-liberal leadership of Labour has been supplanted by the stalwart socialism of Jeremy Corbyn, while the liberal wing of the Conservative Party was embarrassed out of power by the victory of the xenophobes and nationalists backing Brexit. Clegg's electoral defeats reflect a changed political landscape as much as they do his specific failures as a politician and leader (numerous though they may be). He no longer has a viable political home — in U.K. politics, at least.
But while the left-liberal vision of an "open society" has increasingly failed to move voters over the last decade, over that same period of time it's been an animating principle of one of the world's largest and most powerful companies. Facebook may be used around the world to stoke nationalism and populist anger, but its ostensible guiding values are remarkably similar to those of the Liberal Democrats. One imagines that Clegg, a longtime proponent of the open society — with its premium on "the sharing of knowledge and information," its "internationalist outlook," and its belief that "all are free to rise" — might have looked at Facebook and seen a group of ideological fellow travelers. More to the point, doesn't it seem likely that Clegg, examining the dire state of the Liberal Democrats in the U.K., might see in Facebook a better political partner for the pursuit of his goals? In that sense Clegg isn't leaving politics for tech so much as exchanging one form of politics — the ballot box — for another — the platform. If you can't win at the polls, win in the app store, maybe.
Granted, Facebook's value system is not a one-to-one match to the ideals of Clegg's Liberal Democrats. It's difficult to square, for example, the open-society value of "dispersed power in politics, the media, and the economy," with Facebook's outsized clout on the internet. It's similarly hard to see the democratic values implied in the Lib Dems' name in Facebook's top-down corporate structure. Clegg has been a strong advocate for the kinds of civil liberties that privacy activists regard as being threatened by Facebook. He may want to talk to WhatsApp's Brian Acton, who left Facebook last year over user-privacy concerns, about how those kinds of principles tend to work out at the company.
But if there's one thing Clegg has made clear, it's that he's willing to compromise if he sees a clear benefit. And he sees the benefit in Facebook. As he himself wrote last year, "Social media has its downsides — all means of communication do — but it nonetheless enables billions of people to access information and connect with each other on a scale and at a velocity never seen before." To Clegg, at least, that must seem worth compromising for. And once you've formed a coalition with David Cameron, how bad can one with Mark Zuckerberg really be? I'm sure this one will be more successful.
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Historical accounts suggest that the Moon disappeared completely in 1110. Here are the new theories. Credit: Sean Ryan/Republic
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1110, The Year When the Moon Disappeared From the Sky
Scientists have found new evidence about what caused the Moon to disappear.
Vladislav Tchakarov Send an email December 31, 2020Last Updated: January 3, 2021
In 1110, it was almost impossible to see the Moon in the sky of the Northern Hemisphere. According to historical evidence that has survived to our times, our natural satellite was hidden behind an impenetrable cloud of volcanic ash. Until recently, it was believed that the moon disappeared as a result of the eruption of the volcano Hekla, but now scientists have found out that the matter is in another volcano.
There is a hypothesis that the eruption of the volcano Hekla in 1104 led to the appearance of a colossal amount of volcanic substances in the atmosphere, which literally made the moon disappear from the night sky.
New studies, however, have shown that the Hekla volcano simply could not throw out enough ash to hide the moon. This was indicated, in particular, by the analysis of ice cores from layers from 900 years ago.
Paleoclimatologist Sebastien Guillet from the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and scientists under his leadership studied all the available materials and decided that the disappearance of the Moon in Europe, observed from 1110 to 1120, was due to the eruption of the Mount Asama volcano in Japan.
Asama was the culprit behind the severe cold snap that began in Europe in 1109 and lasted for several years. However, scientists do not exclude that there could be other volcanic eruptions that contributed to the cooling and disappearance of the moon.
After all, can you imagine a single volcano eruption of this magnitude that would make the whole Moon disappear for a prolonged period of time? Perhaps, this eruption was part of a long series from around the world that has not been mentioned in the historical records.
There have been numerous massive volcanic eruptions in the time since 1110 but few had a similar effect on life on Earth as the one evidenced by the words of witnesses from 900 years ago.
This seems to be the case as the actual scientific report has been named "Climatic and societal impacts of a "forgotten" cluster of volcanic eruptions in 1108-1110 CE". Even to this point, finding evidence was extremely difficult and as you can tell, the most important details and information have apparently disappeared.
The scientific team had to follow several different approaches in finding the most promising evidence that would link the disappearance of the Moon in 1110 with volcanoes.
In their research of Medieval records, they found a total of 13 mentions of the terrible conditions in Europe around 1110 that include crop failure and famine.
These factors suggest that the cause could have been a series of volcanic eruptions. However, the only eruption they were able to connect to the case was that of Mount Asama in Japan. And still, Japan is more than simply far away from Europe in order to cause such climatic changes for years to come.
Additional research was conducted on similar cases from the centuries after the 1110 Moon disappearance. Scientists suggest that this has happened on other occasions after major volcanic eruptions like the 1600 Huaynaputina or the 1883 Krakatau.
In the end, the most constructive evidence came from ice cores and tree rings from that same period. For now, scientists will stick to the theory that Mount Asama caused the disappearance of the Moon in 1110 or at least it could have given the beginning of a series of eruptions. However, if these occurred, why were they never mentioned in historical accounts.
Practically everything was being documented in the Middle Ages but why is there no mention of such a devastating series of events apart from the aftereffects that include failed crops and long-lasting famine.
The capabilities of modern science are outstanding when you consider that all this we now know was deducted mainly from the ice core layers from 900 years ago. It is absolutely unimaginable what scientists nowadays do to fill all the small knowledge gaps in history piece by piece and who knows what curious events will be uncovered in the future.
• Dockrill, P. (n.d.). In 1110, The Moon Vanished From The Sky. We May Finally Know Why.
• Guillet, S., Corona, C., Ludlow, F., Oppenheimer, C., & Stoffel, M. (2020, April 21). Climatic and societal impacts of a "forgotten" cluster of volcanic eruptions in 1108-1110 CE.
• Specktor, B. (2020, May 15). Moon's mysterious disappearance 900 years ago finally gets an explanation.
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Q: Server redirect malware I have a linux packaged server (is that right?) that I run for a coworker. It has recently been hacked and I've been trying for the last few days to get rid of the malware. It now redirects most of my sites to http://gator65.hostgator.com/~db905/tds/out.php?s_id=1. What can I do?

A: Wipe the drive. Reinstall from known-good backup.
There are plenty of ways you can miss something that's installed and hidden on a server that's been rooted.
Unless you had hashes of all your files/binaries, you can't even tell if you're running the correct applications on your server. For all you know you're running altered system binaries that are specifically tailored to hide the malware. Your logs could be hiding information, and your system could be hiding network connections to spam/malware sites, and your system is distributing more warez/malware. Take it offline, restore it, fix the security holes and do all updates, and make sure your backup is from pre-rooting.


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Exclusive: Nirvana "Nevermind" tribute album to feature Murder By Death, mewithoutYou
Annie Zaleski Published: July 20, 2011
On October 11, 2011, Reimagine Music will be releasing Come As You Are: A 20th Anniversary Tribute To Nirvana's Nevermind. Produced by Jim Sampas, who has also worked on tributes to the Beatles' Rubber Soul and Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska, the album features mewithoutYOU, Murder By Death, Anthony Raneri, Hawthorne Heights and others covering songs from the seminal album. The full tracklisting for the Spindle/RED-distributed album is below. More details will be available on this in the very near future.
Tracklist for Come As You Are: A 20th Anniversary Tribute To Nirvana's Nevermind:
1. Brent DeBoer and Courtney Taylor-Taylor (of The Dandy Warhols) "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
2. mewithoutYou "In Bloom"
3. Civil Twilight "Come As You Are"
4. Story Of The Year "Breed"
5. Hawthorne Heights "Lithium"
6. Finger Eleven "Polly"
7. Will Dailey "Territorial P*****gs"
8. Maps and Atlases "Drain You"
9. Murder By Death "Lounge Act"
10. Pitty "Stay Away"
11. The Album Leaf "On A Plain"
12. Margot and the Nuclear So and So's "Something In the Way"
13. Anthony Raneri (of Bayside) "About A Girl"
Filed Under: anthony raneri, mewithoutyou, murder by death, nevermind, nirvana, tribute album


Minister for Energy, water resources and irrigation Barshman Pun has laid the foundation stone for 37-MW Trishuli 3B hydroelectric project in Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts, today.
The project is designed to be built in Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) model and expected to be completed within next two years.
Sichuan NHI Hydroelectric Engineering of China has been assigned to build the project, according to officials.


Experts from Macquarie University and James Cook University are calling for scientists, engineers and planners to work together to manage the burgeoning growth of new construction on Australia's coastline.
Dr Nathan Waltham is a Senior Research Scientist from the Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research (TropWATER) at JCU.
He said 10 percent of the coastline adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef is now affected in some way by development and 'business as usual' is no longer an option, with the altered coastline fracturing natural habitats.
"While we know a lot about the impact of coastal urban development, less is known about potential strategies to manage these impacts," he said.
"There is an urgent need for scientists, engineers, and planners to consider together the challenge of managing our coastal footprint, and balancing that with outcomes that are positive for the environment," he said.
Dr Waltham has co-edited a special edition of the journal Ecological Engineering. It features a collection of studies from ecologists, eco-economists and geographers from around the world focusing on how infrastructure can be "eco-engineered" for better outcomes.
Dr Katherine Dafforn is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University and co-editor of the special issue.
"We have 12 papers in this special issue that collate eco-engineering ideas and new knowledge contributed by researchers from around the world," said Dr Dafforn.
Dr Dafforn said there is a need for early integration of eco-engineering insights in the design of new coastal development projects, but opportunities to retrofit existing marine structures are also possible.
"As a science community, we are optimistic that the science of ecological engineering is progressing rapidly, but there needs to be more funding directed towards eco-engineering research to meet the pace of coastal development," said Dr Waltham.
The Special Issue Ecological engineering in the coastal seascape appeared in the journal Ecological Engineering. It is available from Dr Waltham or Dr Dafforn.


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Government agrees funding for academic to investigate MPs who challenge China
30-Nov-2021 Intellasia | The Telegraph | 5:02 AM
The government has agreed to pay more than GBP 80,000 for an academic to write a thesis expected to accuse MPs of spreading "moral panic" about China.
The taxpayers' money will support the researcher to criticise the China Research Group (CRG) of Tory MPs, and the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), which is made up of legislators from across the political spectrum in multiple countries.
The groups campaign against Chinese human rights abuses, such as Uyghur oppression, as well as seeking to highlight economic and infrastructure threats posed by the regime to the west.
The formal proposal for thesis describes the CRG as having played "a major role in the social and political construction of China as the new "international pariah"".
It will also explore "the potential role of the CRG in the construction of a new international political moral panic focused on China".
The proposal to the Economic and Social Research Council, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), places the CRG "in the context of similar groups that have emerged internationally such as the Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC) in the US, and the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC)".
'How incompetent and ludicrous'
The University of Birmingham academic, Rong Wei, is due to receive GBP 20,892 plus inflation annually for the next four years.
On Saturday night, Iain Duncan-Smith, a British IPAC member, called for an investigation into how the grant was awarded.
"It is unbelievable that a British government can sponsor a research project whose purpose is to denigrate legitimate parliamentary research, in IPAC's case across 22 countries, both on the left and the right," he said.
"How incompetent and ludicrous that they should use taxpayers' money for that purpose."
Chaired by Tom Tugendhat, who also chairs the influential Foreign Affairs Committee, the China Research Group was established in April 2020 in the wake of controversies over the origins of the pandemic and the Huawei debacle.
In March this year, Tugendhat and Duncan-Smith were two of nine UK individuals and four organisations placed under sanctions by Beijing.
In response, the Chinese Ambassador to London was banned from stepping foot in the Palace of Westminster.
'Appalling violations'
Several countries, including the US, Canada and the Netherlands, have accused China of committing genocide in respect of its treatment of the Uyghur population, with allegations of mass incarceration and the forced sterilisation of women.
Dominic Raab, when foreign secretary, said the treatment amounted to "appalling violations of the most basic human rights", while in April, Parliament declared that China was committing genocide in Xinjiang.
UKRI is a non-departmental public body that is funded through the science budget of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
Earlier this month, The Sunday Telegraph revealed that it was paying more than a quarter of a million pounds to improve productivity on caged chicken farms in China.
Duncan-Smith is preparing to table an urgent question in Parliament this week about this latest UKRI grant.
"The British Parliament has banned the Chinese ambassador from its precincts because of its sanctioning of these people, yet they [UKRI] have ignored that," he said.
A UKRI spokesman said: "This project is a studentship awarded by the Midlands Doctoral Training Partnership, which is a consortium led by the University of Warwick. The University of Birmingham is one of the partners in the consortium.
"ESRC funds Doctoral Training Partnerships to enable research organisations to make decisions about how to invest in postgraduate studentships in ways that best suit their institutional strategies and support for doctoral training."
Alicia Kearns, who sits on the steering committee of CRG, said: "The China Research Group was set up to share knowledge and fresh thinking about how Britain should respond to the rise of China. I'm pleased that the University of Birmingham recognises our impact on shaping the UK's foreign policy toward China.
"Taxpayers may be surprised that their money is funding research which has as its base assumption that the threat of China has been exaggerated.
"The CRG will continue to publish research which analyses the challenges and opportunities associated with China's industrial and diplomatic policies."
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/government-agrees-funding-academic-investigate-164328914.html
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Sam Skinner Rugby Player, height, wife, family, net worth, and more
March 17, 2022 By Sport World
Sam Skinner is an international Scottish professional rugby union player. His full name is Samuel George Skinner. His playing position is Lock / Back Row.
Also, Stuart Hogg, Finn Russell, George Turner, Ali Price, Darcy Graham played in Scotland's national rugby team.
Skinner was born on 31 January 1995, now his age is 28 (as of 2022) and his birthplace is Exeter, Devon, England. His height is 6 feet 5 inches or 1.96m.
Skinner's wife or girlfriend
Skinner is not dating any girl (as of 2022). Also, we believe that he keeps his love and personal relationship secret. Turner is at the present single. When he will start a relationship then I update the post-obligation.
We will see here Sam Skinner's biography details, net worth, salary, and family details.
Actually, Skinner is a Scottish Rugby Union player who has a net worth of $1.5 million USD.
Skinner's Rugby Union career, and National career
Skinner made his professional career with the Taunton Titans. In the 2014-15 seasons, he played 10 games at the National League Two South.
He contracts an academy with Exeter Chiefs during his studying. Skinner captained Exeter at the 2016 BUCS Championship.
The Exeter allowed him to join to increase 10kg at the tour of Premiership and international.
Skinner made his international debut on 14 November 2014 against Gloucester in the LV Cup.
In February 2017 he made high scored against Newcastle Falcons, Chiefs won in a 36-14.
The Daily Telegraph announced 'performance of the weekend' for his debut.
Skinner was selected to play World Rugby Under 20 Championship 2015 in England Under-20 squad against Wales.
Skinner was named in Scotland's senior squad in October 2018 at the Autumn Internationals.
He made his senior professional debut on 10 November 2018 at the Murrayfield Stadium against Fiji.
Skinner injury news:
Skinner received the honor of Man of the Match award. But he hasn't participated world cup tour because of his hamstring injury.
Sam Skinner biography, family, and Rugby career details
Sam Skinner's biography, height, net worth, salary, wife, rugby career, and more
His Height, weight, age, and religion
Full name Samuel George Skinner
Nickname Skinner
profession Rugby Union player
Height in m or cm 196cm or 1.96m
Height in feet 6 feet 5 inches
Weight in Ibs 256 lb
Weight in kg 116 kg
Haircut Middle
Date of birth 1995-01-31 00:00:00
Nationality Scottish
His house Exeter, Devon, England
His Rugby union career, team, and news
career start date 2013
Positions Lock / Back Row
Career in club Taunton Titans 2013-14, Exeter Chiefs 2014-present
Apps and Points in the club Taunton Titans 24 in 25 Points, Exeter Chiefs 91 in 70 Points.
National team career England U20 2015, Scotland 2018-present.
Apps and Points in national team England U20 Apps 9 Points 10, Scotland Apps 15 Points 0.
British and Irish Lions N/A
Education and wages
School Torquay Boys' Grammar School
University/College University of Exeter
Net worth $1.5 million USD
His Family and favourite things
father Peter
mother Unknown
Brother Unknown
Sister Unknown
girlfriend Unknown
Favourite color Blue
Favourite animal Dog, and Cat
Favourite song Unknown
Hobbies Swimming and playing video games
Favourite games Football, and Rugby
People also ask:
Is Sam Skinner leaving Exeter Chiefs?
It's not clear but Skinner agrees and said that "I played for Exeter Chiefs".
What position does Sam Skinner play?
The Scottish rugby athlete Skinner's playing position is Lock / Back-Row.
Is Sam Skinner Scottish?
Sam Skinner was born on 31 January 1995 in Exeter, Devon, England. But he played for in the Scotland national squad.
Filed Under: Rugby, Rugby World Cup


The rose quartz crystal has an energetic healing ability to open the heart chakra and encourage every type of love: self-love, family, platonic, romantic, and unconditional.
The amethyst and quartz stones are selected in a range of beautiful colours and hand cut in Mexico City.
Each stone and crystal is cut by hand and therefore may differ slightly in colour shade and size, but this accentuates their unique and artisanal quality.
This crystal cross pendant looks great on our gold chains and are the perfect gift for friends and familly members whose love you wish enhance.


It would be nice, I also think. But to get one working like in FB (how many likes, list of who liked it) would be a piece of work. It's my understanding that the BBS software that Skoolie.net is running on has reached end-of-life and is no longer supported by anyone, either a vendor or an open source community. The local admins are keeping it on life support by fixing reported bugs themselves, but unless I'm wrong nobody's ever going to improve it.
So it needs an upgrade for BBS software. Does it make money from these ads?
BUT while a like button isn't on the horizon, we have a nifty new "thanks" button on every post. The Thanks button is a nice way to show agreement or appreciation for a good post.
Each time you click, you have the opportunity to leave a comment (sent via PM) which the post author can read.


There is a costly disconnection between sales and marketing efforts on LinkedIn. This should come as a surprise to pretty much no one since lack of cooperation between technology marketing and sales teams has been a widely known problem for at least a decade. But LinkedIn offers its own opportunity to see and fix the disconnection – and allow both teams to deliver results that get noticed in the boardroom.
I'm going to give you an example of what can be accomplished when you create a cohesive sales and marketing LinkedIn strategy. But first let's look at what's generally happening now. The more active your company is on LinkedIn the bigger this missed opportunity is likely to be for you.
Right now the world's best technology sales teams are using LinkedIn to research prospects, make connections and generate opportunities for initial phone calls and product demos. Our own anecdotal evidence indicates immediate success rate increases as high as 50% are normal when sales prospectors switch from cold calls to LinkedIn. This is happening even though most prospectors are using blanket messages and spending little time trying to develop a lead before asking to schedule a call.
Meanwhile, on planet marketing, these teams are steadfastly focused on brand maintenance. They post regular updates to personal profiles and company pages, join some groups and occasionally post comments on discussions. LinkedIn tells us the vast majority of technology companies are in brand maintenance mode.
Sales teams are finding success on LinkedIn relative to cold calling and emailing, but they're using the same old approach. They're not taking full advantage of a network that allows them early access to buyers.
Marketing is conducting brand maintenance activities that are important, but they're roughly the equivalent of the old brochure-style website. They provide a needed presence for the company, but don't directly help generate leads for the sales team.
Now let's take a quick look at a tech company with an integrated LinkedIn sales and marketing effort. For privacy's sake, I'll call this company Yikes Enterprise Solutions.
Yikes began their program development by first reaching an agreement between sales and marketing teams on definitions of a) target prospects, b) program objectives and, of course, c) sales-ready leads. Reaching this agreement helped Yikes turn a bunch of independent operators into a continuously improving team.
Marketing focuses on the target audience in large numbers (relatively speaking), identifying groups where prospects are likely to be found — joining, monitoring, starting and participating strategically in discussions as subject matter experts and problem solvers. Their efforts are focused on creating industry awareness, building credibility and getting prospects to know, like and trust the company enough to want to talk with a sales person.
Many of the Yikes marketing activities are intended to drive qualified traffic to their blog and to various landing pages where prospects are encouraged to exchange contact information for gated content of considerable value. A conventional lead nurturing program follows from there.
One of the most effective of all their LinkedIn efforts, Yikes marketing is building a custom LinkedIn group. They are reaching out to high-level decision makers and creating a community – sponsored by Yikes – where a mouthwatering collection of potential future customers is gathering.
The Yikes sales team, for its part, locates individual prospects on LinkedIn and reaches out to connect directly with them. These sales pros build rapport with prospects by inviting them to the custom group and using content provided by the marketing team to nurture the relationship. They also use the Yikes group as a pool to locate warm prospects they haven't previously connected with – prospects that have been invited and nurtured by the marketing team.
Since they have direct one-on-one contact with prospects, the sales people are able to provide marketing with valuable feedback about the effectiveness of different messages and content, allowing marketing to fine tune and add to the content and messaging inventory.
While the above example may sound like a pipe dream to you, it's not. It may take working outside the boundaries of marketing and sales silos, but decision makers who fund the program will agree it's worth the effort.
Traffic from LinkedIn to the Yikes website and landing pages has increased 30% and continues to grow while the conversion rate is also going up. Inside sales people produce an average 45% increase in appointment setting rates. Sales management and executives report meeting with high level prospects they have not been able to reach previously.
LinkedIn offers both marketing and sales people an opportunity to deliver "sit-up-and-take-notice" results, and when the two teams collaborate everybody wins. The opportunity is waiting for you to take advantage of it. If you need some help getting your LinkedIn efforts coordinated and off the ground, check out our list of LinkedIn services.


Express Gifts are a leading mail order company providing bargain gifts and fashion products to the credit orientated consumer. We have delivered powerful e-commerce functionality that provides personalisation, differing methods of product presentation and management of their fast moving product lines in addition to providing creative, rich media content and marketing services. A greater proportion of Express Gifts customer base now shop online more frequently. Express Gifts are a Redfish commerce platform client.
Over the last seven years Redfish have helped us develop and build our online business from 7% of sales to just over 40%. They always make decisions based on our businesses best interests and while working closely together have been instrumental in helping our website deliver an above average conversion rate.


Our highly experienced team strives to meet your lifestyle needs and financial goals, all while making every possible effort to exceed your expectations.
We invite you to contact us with any of your home remodel needs or questions. We are here to serve you and provide you with the best building services possible.
Be sure to check out our pages for updates and specials!


The Women in Law Empowerment Forum has awarded McCarter & English its Gold Standard Certification for the fifth consecutive year. WILEF's Gold Standard program certifies law firms that promote women into positions of top leadership and compensate and empower women within the legal profession.
Nationwide, McCarter was one of only 19 firms to receive the certification for five consecutive years.
"McCarter's consistent success in meeting – and exceeding – the criteria set by WILEF for Gold Standard certification testifies to the firm's commitment to securing opportunity for women and empowering them through leadership at the firm's highest levels," said Simone Wilson-Brito, co-chair of the firm's Women's Initiative Steering Committee and a member of its Diversity Committee.


To many people collecting scaled down plastic groceries is a baffling, pointless, environmentally pig-headed waste of our short time on this beautiful planet. But not to us at The Project! Why, when it comes to the Coles Mini Shop range of stupid little collectable things, we're positively buzzing with micro madness!!
Anyway, enough about us and things that definitely happened in real life. There are big things afoot in mini land. And those big things that are afoot, ironically, are small and a hand. Hundreds of small red hands, to be precise.
Of all the teeny tiny items in the Coles miniverse it's the small red hands that are the most desired. Not only are they the most scarce, they also come with a $100 Coles voucher (not a tiny voucher, a full size one). And Coles has just shared the news that there are still seven hundred (from the original one thousand) of the blighters still to be got.
So, whether you're a child with an eye for whimsy, or an adult with nothing else in their life, why not go out there and grab yourself a hand, today!


WHAT: The Market Shops, located at the entrance to Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort, presents the 2019 Winter Concerts. The two concerts will take place on January 19 with David Seering and February 16 with Ron Adams. The Winter Concerts are free and open to the public. They will take place on The Market Shops' main lawn from 1 to 3 p.m. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own chairs and blankets to enjoy the show.


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Q: Sending email with php in wordpress I am sending an email from php, but nothing is being sent, this worked at one time, and now just stopped working out of the blue:
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