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Olya's story
POVERTY AND DESPAIR FORCED OLYA TO JOIN THE ARMY
At the end of an exhausting cold winter day, Olya has returned to her tent. She lights a small oil heater which radiates precious little heat, but it felt so good to get out of the biting cold wind and away from potential sniper fire of Russian troops 400 meters away.
She spent some time sipping hot tea and reflecting on the events of the day – then pulled several blankets over herself and settled in for a typical restless night's sleep.
Her mind wandered, and for a few joyful moments, she was at home with her daughters Maria and Ilona, giving them a hug and kiss good night. Like on so many nights before, fatigue took over as she began praying for them, and she soon drifted off to sleep in God's presence and protection.
On the opposite side of the country in Western Ukraine, Olya's mother was deep in prayer herself, pleading with God for her daughter's safety and ultimately her return home.
Olya's mother is endearing grandmother who has lived a sad, heartbreaking life. Her husband died while she was still a young mother with two little children.
Her daughters grew up, but unfortunately, they didn't marry well, and consequently, both were divorced, each with two daughters.
Tragedy struck again, with the death of her eldest daughter (Olya's sister). The family was so poor they had to take out a loan to pay for the funeral and burial, which was the equivalent of more than a year's salary.
Neither Olya nor her mother could find a decent job in their town to support four young children and pay off the debts from the funeral. It was a distressing time for both of them.
For Olya, it was unbearable to watch her mother cry each day and see the look of desperation in her eyes. Poverty and despair forced her to make a radical decision.
She summoned all her courage and enlisted in the military to serve in the war zone in Eastern Ukraine, where the fighting was still raging, and people were dying almost every day.
Olya was prepared to risk her life to improve the financial situation for her mother and the four girls.
LIFE ON THE FRONT LINES
Thus far, Olya has been serving on the so-called 'second' line as a cook for the soldiers. Although it may not sound dangerous, Olya is constantly at risk of bombs and snipers.
It is incredibly demanding to be on the move, changing locations frequently and setting up a new kitchen to cook for the soldiers each day.
Often, she and her unit live in abandoned, half-destroyed buildings or outside in military tents. In the buildings, they try to hook up electricity and cook on electric stoves, whereas they must cook on open fires when they are outside.
On days when any kind of shooting starts, Olya and the other cooks are expected to get their guns and become regular soldiers, who are there to protect themselves and their country.
When Olya left for military training, her mother was shocked and scared. She was terrified of losing her second daughter too. But equally daunting was the task of raising four young girls.
ANSWERED PRAYERS AND TRANSFORMED LIVES
However, this dreadful situation led the grandma to a local Baptist Church (invited by a friend) where she would plead with God for help in her despair.
He answered her prayers through the church and HART's Child Sponsorship Program. Olya's daughter, Maria, now had a sponsor from Saskatchewan.
The church members welcomed and accepted this family with warmth and understanding. They're even trying to help fix up their home, a dilapidated old, two-room house. It has been a slow process because literally every corner of the house needed renovations.
At the same time, the Child Sponsor Program has provided the family with food packages and a Christian caseworker who took a personal interest in the grandmother, and her family situation.
God's answers to her cry for help were life-changing, as the grandmother soon became a Christian and was recently baptized. Her grand kids also started attending church and its Sunday school programs.
EPILOGUE: Olya has one more year of military service left. After completing additional training, it's now expected that she will be sent to the front lines to serve. Is Olya scared? Yes, she admits this. But after accepting Christ, she's learned to put her trust in God completely. This has given her courage and helped her overcome the difficulties of military service.
And today, with Russia at Ukraine's gates, this war could escalate at any time, placing Olya, along with thousands of other Ukrainian troops, in great danger.
Please pray for peace in this region of the world, and please pray for God's protection on Olya's life and that He will bring her home to her mother and daughters soon!
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EU funds new project to build the world's fastest supercomputer by 2023
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EU industry ministers have signed off on a €1 billion project to build the world's fastest computer by 2023 in an effort to compete with China, the US, and Japan.
By Siobhán Dunphy - 02.10.2018
Can big data help small farmers and reduce hunger in the world's poorest countries?
A new project announced on 24 September plans to aid developing countries in gathering data on small farms in an effort to promote rural development and reduce hunger, according to
Blockchain: a strong link to rebuild confidence in the agriculture of the future?
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In recent years, blockchain has frequently hit the headlines in the banking and finance sector, which have seen crypto-currencies multiply and strengthen their role as outsider options. The commonly accepted
By Jean-Paul Oury - 25.09.2018
"Anti-Cambridge Analytica" text: the European Commission on the right side of the "truth"?
As we have just heard that the European Commissioner for Justice, Věra Jourová, is heading up a draft text intended to protect European elections from a scandal like Cambridge Analytica,
Deep learning offers more accurate predictions of earthquake aftershocks
A new model based on machine learning can predict the location and timing of earthquake aftershocks with more precision than the standard method, known as the Coulomb failure criterion. The
The two-qubit chip: one step closer to quantum computing
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Quantum Computing is still many years away, however, a new paper published on 20 August in Nature Photonics has just made a huge leap towards turning the concept into reality
Tech is saving lives in Syria: mobile app warns civilians about imminent airstrikes
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A technology called Sentry is offering civilians in Syria a crucial window of opportunity to escape imminent air strikes. The full story was published in Wired on August 16. The app
Why any law on Fake News will inevitably be harmful
Overnight from 3rd to 4th July 2018, the two new laws proposed by the French government to tackle Fake News were adopted by the National Assembly. This nocturnal discussion, during
By Marc Rameaux - 13.08.2018
Google fined record €4.3 billion by European antitrust regulators
Google is yet again in the spotlight. The company is being investigated this week for trying to assert its dominance in the smartphone arena and according to a press release on
EU countries sign new agreements on AI, blockchain and 5G
The European Union announced several new digital initiatives on Tuesday in Brussels, including agreements on artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and 5G, as well as a new venture capital investment fund.
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The High Court Hands Down its Judgment in the FCA Test Case on COVID-19 Business Interruption Insurance
By Emily Thomas
In a landmark decision handed down on 15th September 2020, the High Court has ruled that the majority of businesses who held business interruption insurance and were forced to close due to the COVID-19 pandemic are entitled to be indemnified by their insurers and that, subject to the limits of their policies, this compensation should return them to the position they would have been in had the pandemic never happened.
The FCA had decided earlier this year that, due to the uncertainty in the market, it would seek court declarations as part of a fast-tracked test case, aimed at resolving the contractual uncertainty around the validity of many business interruption claims. The Court considered 21 lead sample wordings from eight insurers and although different conclusions were reached in respect of each wording, the Court found in favour of the FCA on the majority of the key issues.
Insurers' had declined to meet claims for losses caused due to not being able to trade because of the COVID-19 pandemic, even where businesses had purchased extensions to their policies that provided cover if trading is disrupted by, for example, an order from a public authority for a business to close because of an outbreak of an infectious disease. The position of insurers was that their policies were not intended to cover pandemics and were limited to local or isolated disease outbreaks. Whilst the terms of the precise policy wordings will be relevant, the Court rejected the insurers' arguments that this must mean that only a local outbreak is covered.
According to FCA estimates, the findings could affect as many as 370,000 policyholders and each successful claim could potentially run to tens of thousands of pounds.
The FCA said policyholders with claims could expect to hear from their insurers shortly. However, due to the fact that the decision might be subject to appeal, the final resolution of the case may not be until later this year or even early 2021. In fact, the parties have already agreed that they will explore the possibility of a 'leapfrog' appeal directly to the Supreme Court without the need to be first heard by the Court of Appeal.


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As your baby grows, you will want to change the direction that his car seat faces and how he sits in it — and you may need to guide a brand new seat. Once you've decided on the perfect car keeping in mind the age, weight, and height of your toddler, your look out in marketing baby car do offer greater or much less poisonous car seat. You must take a look at the manual to deciding on child car contain a reduced quantity of poisonous particles.
Because their bodies are still growing, babies who spend many hours in vehicle seats are especially susceptible to the effects of flame retardants in dirt and fumes. Young children also breathe in extra air and are exposed to a greater amount of dirt particles relative to body weight than adults. Infants and toddlers constantly put their hands in their mouths, which also can increase exposure.
Researchers examined 15 toddler and baby car seats from a selection of manufacturers for flame retardants and different poisonous chemical substances. Flame retardants have been discovered in all vehicle seats examined. Brominated chemical compounds – which are generally persistent, bioaccumulative, and are often poisonous – have been discovered in 13 out of 15 vehicle seats. Chemical compounds detected covered carcinogens and hormone disruptors.
EWG staffers and supporters clipped samples of foam from vehicle seats and different kids' merchandise. Checks determined chlorinated Tris, a fire retardant known to cause most cancers in lab animals, and other quite poisonous chemical compounds.
EWG has long advocated for the elimination of unnecessary and poisonous chemicals from consumer products. Flame retardant chemical substances are normally useless and exposures could damage fitness. A chain of EWG studies has documented better concentrations of numerous flame retardant metabolites in kids compared to their moms.
No matter those alarming findings, there is good information: car seat producers have made development in doing away with the worst chemicals. These 12 months, for the first time, because the Ecology center started out testing car seats in 2006, none contained chlorinated Tris. This must and have to be because youngsters play on the floor and stick their palms, or other gadgets, to their mouths.
Before shopping for a toddler's car seat, responsible dad and mom will carefully assess safety ratings for the handfuls of manufacturers and fashions on the market. But they should also look closely at the usage of toxic chemicals.
What necessary actions can parents take?
Review the document and search for a suitable car seat with fewer flame retardants.
Arms and into their mouths.
Wash your and your baby's arms often to lessen toxic residues that get into our bodies through dust – especially for babies whose normal manner of exploring is to position their hands and different items in their mouths.
Vacuum your automobile and your infant's car seat regularly.
While most baby products now not contain flame retardant chemicals, federal policies nonetheless require car seat producers to conform to strict flammability standards. In the 44 years when you consider that this law exceeded, the countrywide toll road site visitor's safety management has found no evidence that adding flame retardant chemical compounds to car seats protects children in automobile fires.
The Ecology middle cautions mother and father that vehicle seats provide important crash protection and that, no matter chemical danger, they should use them for babies and young kids. but some seats are more healthy than others. The Ecology center maintains a database of 355 vehicle seats screened for poisonous chemical substances. So you need to go by the lesser evil theory until nontoxic car seats are introduced.


The Branch Academy of Cell and Gene Engineering was founded in the late 1980s as one of nine research branches of the Academy of Sciences. Any connections to the North Korean program are unclear, but according to North Korean media reports, this branch conducts a number of research and development projects on cellular biology and genetic engineering. The branch reportedly has been involved specifically in the manufacture of human growth hormone, restriction endonucleases (enzymes used in genetic recombination techniques), snake-venom derived anticoagulant ("Atroxofilis"), genetically modified crops, and some vaccine-related research. As of 2002, Ms. Lee Yŏng Su was a section chief (실장) and a large percentage of the staff at this facility is female.
* In 1996, part of Pyeongseong City (평성시) was incorporated into Pyongyang. This Section was named Unjeong-kuyeok, and this administrative district includes areas where the Academy of Sciences and other institutes are located. However, many sources still mistakingly identify the location of the organizations and institutes as P'yŏngsŏng.
 Lee Chae Sŭng, Pukhan'ŭl Umjig'i'nŭn Technocrat (Seoul: Ilbit, 1998), pp. 44-45.
 Yi Mi-hwa, "Restriction Endonucleases Develop," P'yongyang Times (sic), 23 March 2002.
 "Gene-Recompounding Makes Growth Hormone," Korea Today, 1 November 2001.
 Kim Yŏng Shik, "[Pukhan] Saehaedŭlŏ Kim Jong Il Hyŏnjijido Ŏmmuganhwa," Segye Ilbo, 21 January 1999.


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Measures 8 1/2″ x 6 1/2″ and includes 50 pieces of blank paper.
For my Antique Book Journals I've selected books that are at least 100 years old. I'm looking for unique and wonderful subject matter and illustrations. I'm also using some beautiful 24lb weight ivory granite paper that is 50% post consumer recycled. This paper has a great feel and better matches the nice aged original pages from the books.


HomeHumor on Thursdays. Cause we NEED IT!!!
Humor on Thursdays. Cause we NEED IT!!!
A little fun for today. Why? BECAUSE WE NEED IT!!! We've blogged too much already!!! LAUGH A LITTLE!!!!
And now here is your laugh for today. Enjoy.
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Very humorous Ron. Tell me is Jack Daniels assisting with the haiku reviews again this week?
Ha, ha, ha!! We needed that!
Nothing's better than a good stand-up comic; such an art! My favorite is Ron White, ever heard of him? He's the irreverent Texan with the perfect rolling accent who stands on stage drinking whiskey from a highball the entire time. Thanks for the share, Ronovan.
Never heard of him. But have you ever heard of Tater Salad? Now that guy's funny.
I'm proud to report that I've seen Ron White perform in person twice. The bit he does about going hunting in the woods with his redneck cousin is the funniest. I think he's in a league of his own.
I think calling people redneck is profiling and profiling is wrong. I didn't want to be redneck in PubLic. I wanted to be redneck in my cousins bedroom. My uncle through me into PubLic.
Tim Hawkins is great, love his stuff.


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With the dawn of the New Year and President Maithripala Sirisena's third year in office, the government seems to instill more hopes into the people by launching its development plans, despite it sustaining a heavy blow with the defeat of the Development (Special Provisions) Bill in eight out of nine provincial councils at the end of the just concluded 2016.
Apart from the ambitious development plans that are being placed before the country, the government hopes to introduce a new Constitution during the year through a Constitutional Assembly process mainly in order to democratize society, rid the polity of corruption and bring in reconciliation in the country that had been ravaged by a thirty year ethnic war. However, the government has to continue this process with a damaged credibility in the light of many incidents that occurred during the first two years of the President's rule.
Interestingly, Sri Lanka has brought in either total or partial Constitutional changes whenever it was able to muster the two thirds Parliamentary power. However, the last three Constitutional amendments, namely the 17th, 18th and the 19th amendments, in a way, were forced down into some of those voted for them in the Parliament. Hence, some politicians who supported the institution of independent commissions through the 17th Amendment to the Constitution ludicrously voted for the 18th Amendment to abolish those very commissions and the 19th Amendment that reinstituted them.
With Britain granting Independence to Sri Lanka along with many of its past colonies, the country had seen three new Constitutions – in 1947, 1972 and 1978- for the past 68 years, whereas America and India saw only one each for the past 219 years and 65 years respectively.The short lives of the Sri Lankan Constitutions could be attributed to the efforts by the Sri Lankan Constitution makers to address the immediate needs of the incumbent rulers rather than to plan the future governance considering the evolution of the local and international political, economic and cultural situations.
The 16 amendments to the second republican Constitution of 1978 by the J.R. Jayawardene government in just ten years until that government lost its two thirds majority power clearly points to the shortsighted handling of the basic law of the country by its rulers.
The 1947 Constitution that was drafted by the colonial rulers in line with their outlook and future plans had been a major grievance cited by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) during its insurrection in1971. That in turn was a main factor that prompted the United Front government of former Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike to introduce a new Constitution in 1972, severing all political and judicial ties with Britain and not attempting to address any other issue in that Constitution.
Although the closed economic policies of the United Front almost ruined the country's economy, there had been a very strong ideology against the open economy proposed by the United National Party (UNP) in 1977, while the trade union movement affiliated to the old left parties that championed the closed economy rules the roost among the working masses then. Hence, Prime Minister J.R. Jayawardene who came to power in 1977 with five sixths of Parliamentary power wanted to bring in a powerful and somewhat dictatorial executive president and the proportional representation (PR) system in elections with a view to introduce his open economic policies through a stable government. Accordingly, he adopted the 1978 Constitution. Therefore, it is clear that all three new Constitutions implemented after Independence had been meant for the addressing of immediate requirements or ambitions of the incumbent rulers.
The current discourse on the new Constitution is also no different. It all started after the announcement of the last Presidential election by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa in October 2014. It was purely an upshot of power politics and not a genuine craving for "good governance" as professed by those who stood against the Rajapaksa regime.
The high-handed administration by Rajapaksa created a muster shed for all anti-Rajapaksa groups and those who had been harassed by his executive powers who simply agreed to abolish the executive presidency under a future government.The announcement of Maithripala Sirisena as the common Presidential candidate of the Opposition political parties for the 2015 January Presidential election on November 21, 2014 came along with that promise. They were also given another popular slogan on corruption by the frauds and corruption rampant during that regime.
There had already been an opposition against the current PR electoral system and a consensus on a mixed system had been arrived at through a ten year Parliamentary select committee process. In the meantime, Rajapaksa had chased away all minority ethnic and religious groups from his camp with his inaction against the communal rabble rousers which amounted to a covert support of them. In fact, things happened in a manner that minority communities suspected Rajapaksa or his siblings were behind the attacks against the minorities and were compelled to repose hopes on those who challenged him at the Presidential election.
Therefore, all these anti-Rajapaksa sentiments were used as the basis for the promise given by the current rulers during the last presidential and general elections on a new Constitution. However, what the people experienced during the past two years gives rise to many doubts on the genuineness of the rulers with regard to this very promise. For instance, in spite of Maithripala Sirisena, the common candidate predicting during his first press briefing on November 21, 2014 that a referendum on the abolition of the executive presidency would have to be conducted, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was adopted by his government in April, 2015 with the partial pruning of executive powers of the President, on the grounds that a referendum was needed for the total abolition of the system. Besides, while questions are being raised on the legal immunity conferred on the President,the government recently presented the Development (Special Provisions) Bill with provisions for immunity conferred on certain authorities.
As far as the much hyped anti-corruption drive of the new government is concerned, the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) Chairman and JVP Parliamentarian Sunil Handunnetti recently said that the the government had been captured by the very thieves whom they had promised to capture. In fact, the President himself recently pointed out that the major corruption cases were being swept under the carpet, while the government has been accused of one of the largest ever frauds in the country- the Central Bank bond issue.
On the ethnic front, even the Cabinet spokesman, Minister Rajitha Senarathna said this week that he had a problem accepting the verdict in the Raviraj murder case. Citing the outcome of this case and the case on the Kumarapuram massacre, TNA spokesman and Paliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran said these verdicts vindicated the demand for foreign judges in the proposed accountability mechanism. On the other hand, the President and some other leaders of the government, after cosponsoring a UNHRC resolution which provided for the involvement of foreign judges in the process, had backtracked on the matter later. And the government has failed to break the stalemate that prevails for more than thirty years in the discourse on issues such as an unitary state, federalism, devolution of power, north-east merger etc. Not a single person- Tamil or Sinhalese- seems to have changed his stand which was taken purely on ethnic lines on these issues during these three decades. Besides, some leaders of the government seem to have accepted the right of some sections of society to be above the law.
Hence, it is the onus on the part of the government to alleviate the doubts on the genuineness of the government in general and some leaders in particular, before continuing the Constitutional reforms, especially if it intends to go for a referendum on the matter.


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It is not a base model. It has similar equipment to the Premium Luxury models.
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is this going to last for more than 36k miles?


The Executive Director of Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), Godfrey Mutabazi, has identified careful regulation as key to risk mitigation in this era of data revolution in Africa, reports ITRealms.
Speaking recently at the 2018 Global Symposium for Regulators (GSR) in Geneva, Mutabazi, he pointed out that telecom space in the fourth industrial revolution, hence driven by data.
"To plan and execute any program now, you need a lot of data," he said, stressing that regulators cannot afford to be heavy regulation or light regulation.
"We have to look for a compromise," he declared.
Data, he said, shapes planning in fields including manufacturing, agriculture and education, is also behind everything from national identity cards to passport registrations to birth registration.
He posited that given the prevalence of data in society, regulators must address the issue of data protection to increase trust.
"Data protection, and the way it is expanding, is causing a lot of problems now. It's a big issue all over the world and in Uganda in particular," he said.
ITRealms gathered that Uganda currently has several agencies that manage data but is working to harmonize these efforts with one data communication bill that would regulate the use, collection and dissemination of data.
On the 5G era, Mutabazi said Uganda is working to deploy 3G within three to six months, and 4G by the end of next year, emphasizing that the country is already looking forward to take advantage of the benefits of 5G with regard to connectivity and employment.
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I'm pretty sure we just posted how much we love the Eolia Mansion, and the park that surrounds it, for so many reasons. Vicki and I had the opportunity to head back up there for another really cool session, the vow renewal of Christine & Ray! Not only was it absolutely glorious in terms of the light there, but the garden where they exchanged vows for their 5 year wedding anniversary was still in full bloom, and it created the perfect backdrop for the ceremony. The rest of the time we spent with them was just as amazing, as we had the opportunity for a little "urban decay", as well as time around the mansion itself. We think they look pretty amazing themselves, and we had a great time getting to know them better, and photograph a sacred ceremony that we truly feel special to have documented . Without further adieu, on to the pictures!
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Maratonul Messier este o competiție între astronomi, mai ales amatori.  Scopul este observarea, cu ajutorul unui telescop, într-o singură noapte, a unui număr cât mai mare de obiecte din Catalogul Messier.Catalogul Messier a fost compilat de astronomul francez Charles Messier, la sfârșitul secolului al XVIII-lea și este compus din 110 obiecte relativ strălucitoare de pe cerul profund (galaxii, nebuloase și roiuri de stele).

Istorie
Maratonul Messier a fost inventat, în mod independent, de mai mulți astronomi din America de Nord (între care Tom Hoffelder, Tom Reiland și Don Machholz) și de astronomi amatori din Spania, în anii 1970.

Cel dintâi care a reușit această probă a fost astronomul amator Gerry Rattley, în noaptea de 23 spre 24 martie 1985. Acesta a completat lista cu cele 110 obiecte Messier într-o singură noapte, în Dugas, Arizona. O oră mai târziu, astronomul Rick Hull a raportat și el acest succes, din Anza, California.

Definiție
În a doua jumătate a lunii martie - începutul lunii aprilie, este posibil să fie văzute toate obiectele Messier, în cursul unei singure nopți. Acest fapt a dat loc unei competiții amicale, între astronomi (amatori și, de ce nu, profesioniști) cunoscută sub numele de Maratonul Messier, care are ca temă observarea totalității obiectelor din catalog într-o singură noapte, în condiții cât mai apropiate de cele pe care le avea Messier în secolul al XVIII-lea. Trebuie evitate dispozitivele GoTo și reperajele prin coordonate, întrucât Messier nu dispunea decât de un mic instrument fără astfel de facilități.

La latitudini joase din nord, în special în jurul latitudinii de 25° N, este posibil să se observe toate obiectele din catalogul Messier într-o singură noapte, în timpul unei "ferestre" de câteva săptămâni de la mijlocul lunii martie până la începutul lunii aprilie. În această perioadă, nopțile întunecate din jurul fazei de Lună Nouă sunt cele mai bune pentru un Maraton Messier.

Desfășurare
În practică, o noapte de maraton se descompune în mai multe perioade de intensitate inegală. Este mai întâi sprintul de plecare, veritabilă cursă contra cronometru, pentru a găsi obiectele cele mai la vest în timpul crepusculului astronomic, înainte ca acestea să dispară sub orizont. Obiectele cele mai dificil de reperat sunt galaxia M110, alături de M31 (galaxia Andromeda), și de M33 (galaxia Triunghiului).

Următoarele două ore servesc la observarea unui număr de vreo douăzeci de obiecte dispersate de la Pupa la Cassiopeia, admirarea unui număr de vreo cincizeci de obiecte, îndeosebi galaxii.  Faza finală a maratonului constă în observarea unor zeci de roiuri deschise și globulare și nebuloase.

În perioada desfășurării maratonului, pe cerul de dimineață al teritoriului României, nu poate fi observat roiul globular M30. În consecință, cel puțin pentru observatorii aflați în România, Maratonul Messier se reduce la 109 obiecte.

Alte perioade posibile
Un Maraton Messier incomplet poate fi efectuat și în alte perioade ale anului. În special, există o scurtă fereastră din jurul echinocțiului de toamnă, când cele mai multe obiecte Messier pot fi văzute.

Organizare
În mod obișnuit, Maratoanele Messier sunt organizate de cluburi astronomice locale sau de societăți astronomice, cel puțin o dată, în fiecare an. Cluburile / societățile organizatoare eliberează certificate de participare sau pentru reușirea găsirii unui anumit număr de obiecte Messier.

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Bibliografie
 Stephen James O'Meara, Deep-Sky Companions: The Messier Objects, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 304 pagini, ISBN 0521553326
 Don Manchholtz, The observing guide to the Messier Marathon. A Handbook and Atlas, Cambridge University Press, 2002, 172 de pagini, ISBN 978-0521803861

Vezi și
 Catalogul Messier

Legături externe
 Trouver les objets du catalogue Messier  (în română: "Găsirea obiectelor din Catalogul Messier")
 The Messier Marathon
   Maratonul Messier 2010
  Maratonul Messier 2013
  Maratonul Messier 2014
  Asociația Astronomică Astroclubul Borealis, Maratonul Messier 2016
  Stargazer Online's, Guide to the Messier Marathon
  Don Machholz, The observing guide to the Messier Marathon; A Handbook and Atlas, Cambridge
   Astroclubul București, Clubul Messier

Astronomie observațională
Concursuri de astronomie
Obiecte Messier

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Coma Fogle, 37, left, and Kelvin Whitehurst, 31, were charged with first-degree assault, conspiracy to commit first-degree assault and second-degree breach of peace in connection with an October assault in Shelton. (Shelton Police Department)
SHELTON — Shelton police said they have arrested two people in connection with an October assault that seriously injured a man.
Coma Fogle, 37, of Waterbury, turned himself in Wednesday on charges of first-degree assault, conspiracy to commit first-degree assault and second-degree breach of peace, police said.
Kelvin Whitehurst, 31, of Derby, was arrested on the same charges on Nov. 20.
Fogle posted $50,000 bail after his arraignment in Superior Court in Derby Wednesday, court records show.
Whitehurst remained in custody on $50,000 bail at the Bridgeport Correctional Center Thursday, according to correction records.
The attack severely injured a man on Oct. 12, police said. Officers called to 159 Center St. at 1 a.m. found the victim lying on the sidewalk, unresponsive and covered in blood.
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Abu Ya'qub Ishaq ibn Ahmad al-Sijistani () or al-Sijzi () was a 10th-century Persian Ismaili missionary active in the northern and eastern Iranian lands. His life is obscure, but he was a prolific writer, who played a crucial role in the infusion of Neoplatonic ideas into Isma'ili theology.

Life
Al-Sijistani's life is obscure, as references to him are found mostly in isolation in hostile Sunni heresiological works, while Isma'ili sources usually do not provide any details about him. He was given the nickname 'cottonseed' (Arabic: , Persian: ) in several near-contemporary non-Isma'ili works that mention him, but the origin and significance of it are unknown. What can be gleaned from the sources is that he was a senior missionary () in the Iranian lands of the eastern Islamic world.

Nizam al-Mulk reports that a certain Ishaq succeeded Abu Hatim al-Razi as chief  at Rayy upon the latter's death on 934, while Ibn al-Nadim mentions a certain Abu Ya'qub ase chief  at Rayy in . This Abu Ya'qub was also in charge of the missionary movement () in Upper Mesopotamia and Iraq, with the brothers Abu Muslim and Abu Bakr ibn hammad in Mosul and Ibn Nafis in Baghdad as his agents. This is likely to have been the same person as al-Sijistani, as it agrees with a statement in one of al-Sijistani's works that he was in Iraq in 934. Earlier opinion among scholars was that he was executed along with Muhammad al-Nasafi in 943, but this is now disproven. In reality, he was al-Nasafi's successor, both as chief  in Khurasan, as well as in continuing the development of al-Nasafi's theological ideas. Other sources maintain that he was active in Sijistan (whence his ), both during and after al-Nasafi's tenure.

The movement he headed was not initially affiliated with the Fatimid Caliphate, but at some point, during the caliphate of al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah (), he accepted the Fatimids as the legitimate imams, and many of his views were taken over by the Fatimid-sponsored . According to Rashid al-Din Hamadani, al-Sijistani was executed by the Saffarid emir of Sijistan, Khalaf ibn Ahmad (). Al-Sijistani's work Kitāb al-iftikhār was written around 971, this provides a terminus post quem for his execution. The introductions to two of his other works indicate they were written during the reign of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (), but they are likely later interpolations. Al-Sijistani died in 971.

Works
Several of al-Sijistani's works survive, having been copied and studied by the Tayyibi Isma'ili communities of Yemen and India. However, as they are regarded as "highly esoteric and restricted", they have been slow to be studied by modern scholars and published in critical editions. Furthermore, as the historian Paul Walker comments, "[a]s they exist now, it is in some cases difficult to determine the original form of the texts", as many survive only in translations or paraphrased summaries. Some works are only known by title or in fragments, being cited or quoted in other works.

Kashf al-mahjub
The  ('Unveiling of the Concealed'), was the first of al-Sijistani's works to become available to scholars. It only survives in a Persian translation, or even paraphrase, of the Arabic original, produced in the 11th century. It comprises seven chapters, each further divided into seven parts. The aim of the work is to 'unveil' divine knowledge (, ), and deals with the concepts of the Oneness of God (), the stages of creation, the nature of prophethood, and resurrection (). Based on its containing passages supporting the idea of metempsychosis, it likely belongs to the early phase of al-Sijistani's career, before he accepted Fatimid orthodoxy.

Excerpts of the work were first published by Mahdi Bayani in 1938 (, Tehran, Shirkat-i Chāp-i Khudkār). The Persian text was published with a French commentary in 1949 by Henry Corbin (Tehran, Institut Franco-Iranien & Paris, A. Maisonneuve). Corbin also published a full French translation in 1988 as  (Lagrasse, Verdier). A partial English translation was published by Hermann Landolt (Kashf al-maḥjūb, Unveiling of the Hidden) in S.H. Nasr and M. Aminrazavi (eds.), An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, Volume II (Oxford,  Oxford University Press, 2001).

Ithbat al-nubu'at
The  or  ('Proofs of Prophecies'). In its seven sections, al-Sijistani "puts forward a variety of proofs for the necessity of prophecy (), also explaining different prophetic eras". According to Paul Walker, it shows signs of later editing, and all available manuscripts are missing the final two sections.

The work was published in Arabic in 1966 by Arif Tamir (Beirut, al-Matba'a al-Kathulikiyya). According to Walker, this edition "contains errors, faulty readings, pages out of order, and extraneous passages".

Kitab al-iftikhar
The  ('The Book of Boasting'), is likely the last of al-Sijistani's works, being written around 971. As its title suggests, it is "strikingly polemical and strikingly defensive and apologetic" work; Walker describes it as "an exceedingly frank confession of the points of difference between himself and the Ismaili , on the one hand, and the intellectual, religious world all around him, on the other". For Walker, it is perhaps the "[best] place to look for a definition of [Isma'ili Shiism] in its fourth / tenth-century manifestation", while Farhad Daftary, points out that it "presents a summary exposition of Ismaili doctrine and preserves remnants of the mythological cosmology propounded by the early Ismailis, including the spiritual beings called ,  and  which mediated between the spiritual and the physical worlds".

The work was first partially published by Mustafa Ghalib in 1980 (Beirut, Dar al-Andalus), but "suffers from inaccuracies and serious omissions". In 2000 a "definitive" edition with an English commentary was published by Ismail K. Poonawala (Beirut, Dar al-Gharb al-Islami).

Al-Yanabi
The  ('Book of the Wellsprings/Sources [of Wisdom]'), was written around 961, and extensively paraphrased by the 11th-century  Nasir Khusraw in his own  . The work is a collection of treatises on about forty themes or 'wellsprings'. According to Daftary, the work's primary theme is "the wellsprings of human knowledge and spiritual life in each era of religious history", while Walker emphasizes that "portions of this work are purely Neoplatonic in the tone and in the content of its teachings; other sections bring these concepts in line with the author's Shiite interpretation of religious knowledge and its purveyors".

The work was first published in a critical edition, with a partial French translation () in Henry Corbin's 1961 Trilogie Ismailienne (Tehran, Département d'Iranologie de l'Institut Franco-Iranien and Paris, A. Maisonneuve). An Arabic edition was published by Mustafa Ghalib in 1965 (Beirut, al-Maktab al-Tijari), and an English translation by Paul Walker in 1994 as part of The Wellsprings of Wisdom: A Study of Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani's Kitab al-Yanabi (Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press).

Al-Maqalid
The  ('Book of the Keys'), comprises seventy chapters. According to Walker, it is of exceptional importance as it is "relatively late and by any account the most comprehensive" of al-Sijistani's works, but remains unpublished.

Al-Nusra
The  ('Book of the Support/Defence'), is no longer extant, except for extensive quotations in Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani's . The work is one of al-Sijistani's earlier writings, composed as a defence of his predecessor and teacher, Muhammad al-Nasafi, against the accusations of antinomianism by Abu Hatim Ahmad ibn Hamdan al-Razi.

Sullam al-najat
The  ('Ladder of Salvation') survives only in an incomplete form. In it, al-Sijistani gives a summary of the Isma'ili doctrine (). According to Walker, these can be summarized as "faith in God, His angels, His books, His emissaries, the last day, salvation after death, and paradise and hellfire".

Its Arabic text was published by Muhtadi Mustafa Ghalib in 2002 (Salamiyya, Dar al-Ghadir). An English translation is part of a 1983 doctoral dissertation by M. Alibhai (Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistānī and Kitab Sullam al-Najāt: A Study in Islamic Neoplatonism, Harvard University).

Epistles
The epistle  expounding on Isma'ili doctrine was published by Arif Tamir in  and reprinted since in  in March/April 1967, and in Tamir's .

The epistle  was published by Boustan Hirji in 1992 (, Vol. 7), with a Persian-language translation by Abdallah Nurani. An English-language translation was published as part of B. Hirji's doctoral thesis A Study of al-Risālah al-Bāhirah (McGill University, 1994).

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 Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Capital One Discloses Massive Data Breach, Hacker Arrested
By John P. Mello Jr.
July 31, 2019 2:28 AM PT
Capital One Financial Corporation on Monday announced a data breach affecting some 100 million people in the United States and another 6 million in Canada. The FBI arrested the alleged perpetrator of the breach in Seattle.
Capital One on July 19 discovered someone had accessed its data stored online and obtained personal information of credit card customers and people who had applied for credit card products.
No credit card account numbers or log-in credentials were compromised in the breach, which is believed to have lasted for nearly five months — from March 12 to July 17, the company said.
However, the intruder accessed 140,000 Social Security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers belonging to secured credit cared customers. Secured credit cards are issued to people who have no-credit or low-credit ratings.
Based on its analysis to date, Capital One believes it is unlikely that the information was used in any widespread attacks.
"It appears that the breach was discovered before the alleged hacker had a chance to widely disseminate the information for exploit," said former FBI agent Leo Taddeo, now CISO of Cyxtera Technologies, a secure infrastructure platform provider based in Coral Gables, Florida.
"So, if no additional hackers had access to the same entry point, there is a chance the breach was contained," he told TechNewsWorld.
Affected people will be notified through a variety of channels, the company said, and free credit monitoring and identity protection services will be made available to everyone impacted by the event.
The company expects to incur costs related to the breach of US$100 million to $150 million in 2019.
"While I am grateful that the perpetrator has been caught, I am deeply sorry for what has happened," Capital One CEO Richard D. Fairbank said. "I sincerely apologize for the understandable worry this incident must be causing those affected and I am committed to making it right."
Hacker Captured
While Fairbank was apologizing for the data breach, the FBI was busy arresting Paige A. Thompson, 33, a former Amazon software engineer, for the Capital One breach.
Thompson was identified as the alleged perpetrator after she bragged on GitHub about stealing Capital One's data, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Seattle. GitHub is the largest website in the world for developers.
Thompson said she accessed the data by exploiting a misconfigured firewall set up to protect the data stored in the Amazon Web Services cloud.
A GitHub user who saw Thompson's comments alerted Capital One. Capital One alerted the FBI, which obtained a search warrant for Thompson's residence. There the agents seized electronic storage devices containing a copy of Capital One's data.
Thompson will face charges of computer fraud and abuse, punishable by up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
In this case, Capital One appears to have been lucky.
"This attacker was careless and boastful. Most hackers trying to promote their own skills will get caught," said Satya Gupta, CTO of Virsec, an applications security company in San Jose, California.
"It's more disturbing that the hacker was not noticed by either Capital One or AWS, who employed her. They had no clue until after the fact," he told TechNewsWorld.
"For Capital One, it was fortuitous that the individual who alerted them to the breach seems to have been one of 'the good guys.'" Cyxtera's Taddeo added.
Nevertheless, there still may be cause for concern, noted Arjun Sethi, apartner and vice chair of the digital transformation practice at A.T. Kearney, a global strategy and management consulting firm based in Chicago.
Regarding the vulnerable Web app, "we don't know if that vulnerability was compromised by prior intruders, or if the data exposed in the current attack was left open for others to leverage," he told TechNewsWorld.
A Common Snafu
Botching a firewall setup is a frequent issue in network security, noted Usman Rahim, digital security and operations manager at The Media Trust, a mobile and website application security company in McLean, Virginia.
"Companies routinely manipulate firewall configuration in order to achieve the desired results at any legitimate point where the Web application can be accessed. However, in the process they run the risk of misconfiguring the firewall," he told TechNewsWorld.
"Sophisticated attackers know full well how services operate in the cloud, including the common mistakes around firewall configuration," Rahim said.
The misconfigured firewall permitted unauthorized access to Capital One's data, but the inability to detect the issue for months also was an issue, observed Terence Jackson, chief information security officer at Thycotic, a maker of enterprise password management software based in Washington, D.C.
"Dwell time has been an issue in other high-profile breaches as well," he told TechNewsWorld. "Companies must continuously audit configurations of these cloud services to ensure gaps like these are closed."
From a technical point of view, Amazon's cloud is very difficult to breach, noted Taddeo.
"Nearly all breaches where AWS is involved are a result of human error or intent, rather than a technical exploit," he said.
"Based on what we know, I'd wager the firewall misconfiguration was more likely a result of malicious insider action — the alleged hacker taking advantage of privileges she shouldn't have had," Taddeo speculated. "Still, if it's a result of a true misconfiguration, the fact remains that we're all still vulnerable to the mistakes that people can make, even skilled security practitioners."
No Gloom for Cloud
Critics of cloud migration may use the Capital One breach to bolster their position that the public cloud is unsafe for critical data, but that would be a mistake, asserted Richard Gold, head of security engineering at Digital Shadows, a San Francisco-based provider of digital risk protection solutions.
"This isn't a doom-and-gloom scenario for the cloud," he told TechNewsWorld.
"Attacks like this underscore the need to know your cloud environment very well, but the misconfiguration that the attacker took advantage of was probably preventable, the result of human error," Gold continued,
"The ability of Capital One to respond so quickly was partly due to the instrumentation provided by AWS," he said. "People need to be proactive about checking their cloud environments to ensure that security groups, networks, and so forth are configured in the way that they are expected to be."
Consumers also may want to be proactive, in light of the Capital One breach. It's a good idea to review password usage and avoid using passwords more than once. Monitoring credit and financial transactions for a while also might be a valuable exercise.
"The No. 1 thing consumers should do to protect their identities is to freeze their credit by contacting Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. It's free, quick and easy. You can do it online or over the phone," advised Ted Rossman, industry analyst at Creditcards.com in Austin, Texas.
"This is the best way to prevent a criminal from opening an unauthorized account in your name," he told TechNewsWorld. "Unfortunately, only about one in four U.S. adults have frozen their credit."
John P. Mello Jr. has been an ECT News Network reportersince 2003. His areas of focus include cybersecurity, IT issues, privacy, e-commerce, social media, artificial intelligence, big data and consumer electronics. He has written and edited for numerous publications, including the Boston Business Journal, theBoston Phoenix, Megapixel.Net and GovernmentSecurity News. Email John.
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DBasia.news – Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger gave his comments about the European Super League. He considered, the European Super League will have a bad impact on the Premier League competition.
A number of European clubs took the initiative to create a new competition called the European Super League. In this competition, the giants from Italy, Spain, France, England and Germany will compete with each other in a league format.
Reportedly, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool and Manchester United are the six Premier League clubs that have the opportunity to compete.
Even though it sounds interesting, Wenger has a different view. Wenger does not want the Premier League clubs to enter the European Super League trap.
"The Premier League has advantages. The project wants to strengthen superiority," Wenger said as reported by the Liverpool Echo.
"Other leagues are trying to destroy the advantage that the Premier League has. For them, the best thing to achieve that is to create the European Super League."
Wenger believes, apart from destroying the Premier League, the European Super League is made to reap huge profits.
"So, it's tantamount to destroying the Premier League. If they get approval from the big Premier League clubs, it will happen," he continued.
Recently, the president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, confirmed that he is not interested in supporting the European Super League. For him, the most appropriate competition is the Club World Cup.
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