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ABC Australia: Why misogyny and feminism are on the rise
Here is an excerpt of an essay I wrote for the ABC Religion and Ethics column in advance of my NCJW Scholar-in-Residence tour of Australia that commences next week: There are some strange things happening around the world when it comes to gender. And I'm not just referring to the Queen of England driving around the Saudi prince in a Range Rover, just to prove that women can drive. I'm talking about the American presidential elections. The current American campaign is likely to be a race between the Neanderthal and the feminist, or between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. In this bizarre reality, there currently seem to be roughly the same amount of people who believe that it is time for a woman to be president as there are those who believe that women are merely valued for the perkiness of their breasts. It is difficult to reconcile this dual reality, what I call the Clinton-Trump paradox. How can it possibly be that two completely oppositional views about the status of women have equal weight in the public mindset? Yet, this is the reality not just in the United States but in many places around the world. These two trends seem to coexist - one being a drive to advance women's economic and political opportunities, and the other a drive to send women back to the Playboy mansion. Inequality in Israel I see this paradox here in Israel, where I have been conducting research on gender issues in society for over a decade. On the one hand, there have been some interesting strides towards gender equality. The Knesset has a record 32 (out of 120) women legislators - a steady increase over the past 20 years - including many powerful feminists who are dedicated to advancing gender equality. Israel has had a female Supreme Court justice, a woman heads the Bank of Israel, and Israel was one of the first countries to have a female prime minister (although that was in 1969 and hasn't been repeated). The army, a notorious bastion of militaristic male machismo, has opened up many interesting roles for women - and in fact remains the only country in the world where all 18 year old young men and women have mandatory conscription. Israel has some of the most progressive feminist legislation in the world: mandatory 14 week parental leave, free state-funded child care from age three, a prohibition against firing pregnant women, and far reaching laws against sexual harassment. And interestingly, to its shame and credit, Israel is the only country in the world where a former president is sitting in jail for crimes of rape. It's a shame that a president can be a rapist, but enormous credit that he was caught, tried, convicted and treated just like every other sexual predator. On the other hand, many indicators show Israeli women falling behind. Women make a paltry 66% of what men make - a figure that hasn't moved significantly in over thirty years, placing Israel at seventy-first in...
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Q: Clone Existing SP2007 Site to New Environment For Testing and Staging I am currently working on a large SP2007 site for a client. This site was initially built from a VS solution and some of the components of the solution can still be deployed to production if code changes are needed. However, some of the elements of the site have been edited in production (not by me!) I am talking about .ascx controls and inline code (cringe!) Also, the site has a huge content database and unfortunately a custom Membership provider based on Commerce Server (FBA) and there is also a tie with that into Avectra. The main issue is there is no development environment that mirrors this setup and the system is having issues with users not staying authenticated. I need to debug the site and cannot fathom how to do this hence the question. We are trying to recommend an upgrade, but I would like to know the feasibility of copying the system and users over to a development environment so that I can debug if possible. Any thoughts are appreciated.

A: Before you go to those lengths, verify that the load balancer that is out front is actually configured to use 'sticky' sessions as not having that set can cause this exact behavior.  have them physically check the box, not refer to some documentation.  I've seen cases where people 'fixed' load balancing by switching to Round Robin and not telling anyone.  It would also be a good idea to verify that session expiration is set properly on all WFEs

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You would find that a lot of people across the globe own pets. This is because there are many good things that one gets to experience when one has one. One of the main things that you get from a pet is joy and happiness from its presence. Pets such as cats and dogs are highly capable of being sweet and loyal to the people who own them and that is such a delight to witness. For those who have pet dogs they can attest to this fact because their dogs look forward to their coming home each day.
Now if you have a pet there are various responsibilities that you have to fulfill in order to take good care of it. Some of the responsibilities that pet owners have to their pets is the responsibility of feeding it and bathing it as well. Now just like with people it is not enough anymore to just keep pets fed. If what you want for your pet is to enjoy a life that is full of health and vigor then you won't be content with him or her just taking in pet food. You need to give your pet something else like CBD oil.
Have you heard about CBD oil? In the recent past CBD oil has gained a lot of popularity. This is because it has been found to have a lot of medical benefits for people and those who have taken them have reported great results with it. Now it has been shown that not only can humans benefit from it but pets as well specifically cats and dogs.
Now if you are convinced that it is indeed a good idea to get your pet CBD oil how do you get one? Well of course you don't just buy the first CBD oil that you see. You have to make sure that you are buying the best CBD oil for pets. But how do you know if they are any good? There are certain factors that you have to look for in their CBD oil to know.
First and foremost you need to check if their oil is made from purely organic hemp. See also that it contains no pesticide or chemical residue. Check also if the CBD oil is independently tested for its purity and quality.


Some articles I found recommended the southern islands around Singapore as they are largely undeveloped and one can find solitude there. Escaping hustle and noise was my goal. Yes and yes, please! The day arrived and I excitedly packed my things. There are no facilities on the islands for food or water, so my gear included ample provisions. Then I headed out to Marina South Pier to catch a ferry.
Once the adventure began, I realized just how long it has been since I have been truly alone. It unsettled me a bit…here I am new to the country, husband's away for work, and no one but the children knew where I was going. For the first time, I had misgivings about my grand plan.
Those who love me overlook many things; one of which is my dogged determination (aka stubbornness). This quality serves me well in many endeavors, but it also invites more trouble than I desire, particularly when heading out on one of my adventures. I didn't know when I could find another empty day and I craved time away. So, I reassessed the risks and charged ahead feeling somewhat assured that I would return home safely.
Marina South Pier welcomed me with helpful signs to the ticketing office and in no time, I was boarding a ferry to the southern islands. The ferry makes a round-trip from Singapore to the islands twice on weekdays. First stop is St. John's Island, then on to Kusu Island. Mid-afternoon, the ferry returns. If you miss the ferry, you enjoy a night of unsheltered sleep on whichever island you unwisely chose to linger. If you are interested in the geography, check out our Maps tab!
My plan was to disembark at St. John's and traverse the causeway to undeveloped Lazarus Island for the day. St. John's typically has some facilities, a trail, and houses a marine museum. Unfortunately, all of these are under construction until the end of 2018. If you plan to visit, you might want to wait a bit. With nothing to do on St. Johns, I strolled over the causeway to Lazarus Island.
A short walk later I found one of the beaches, stretched out my towel in the shade and spread out my days' activities. There were a few other people around, but the quiet breeze and distance between us lent all the ambiance I needed to relax.
Dipping into the water refreshed me after lounging in the sun. The beach offers great relaxation and safe swimming in the cove.
Feeling rested, it was time to walkabout. The sparse trails and road around the island take you to some memorable places. My favorite was this hut nestled inside a coconut grove. Deliciously, I had it all to myself.
Lazarus Island is home to a colony of feral cats. One in particular took a liking to me. I enjoyed a few sweet moments with his company before dashing back to the boat. As a last surprise, I came across a family of monkeys. The father was persistent in trying to steal some food from other visitors until they weaponized their umbrella. It was a comical scene and a happy ending to my time on the island.
There was one last treat for me. The ferry stops at Kusu Island before returning to Singapore. Rain pelted travelers as we disembarked, but brave souls still ventured into the rain. After a bit, the rain broke enough to allow some pictures. I hope to visit again and do a more complete post about Kusu, but here are some shots of the Chinese temple and the tortoise sanctuary there.
So…no disasters, I made the ferry, and I enjoyed some beautiful sights. Stubbornness for the win this time! Here's a parting pic to satisfy curious souls wondering how a stressed, midlife expat appears after her first solo adventure.
I'm keeping this pic: she looks a little sassy.
Reading this, I can imagine wandering the islands with you! So happy you got some rest, adventure, and beauty. You do look a little sassy and a lot beautful. Until I can join ya….hugs from Texas!
I cannot wait to share it all with you. Hugs and love!


Russian rider Natalia Belova won two prizes at CSI2* Ebreichsdorf last week with her quality horse Quick Shine (Numero Uno x Heartbreaker). In the final of the Diamond Tour (1m45) they jumped two wonderful clear rounds in a time which led them to the fourth prize. On Thursday they already had a fortunate clear in the 1m45 class (10th prize).


WHEN it comes to pure jaw-dropping, can't-believe-your-eyes, outrageously beautiful scenery, there's nowhere to match the Hebrides .
The Hebrides are split into two main groups: the Inner and Outer Hebrides.
The Outer Hebrides, 30 miles off the north west coast is an idyllic island chain that sits on the edge of Europe. Picture a paradise of powder white beaches and Atlantic waves, dark moorland and rugged mountains, amazing wildlife and a rich and vibrant culture.
South of Skye, Scotland's Inner Hebrides are a true haven for wildlife. You will be amazed by the rich cultural heritage, stunning seascapes and beautiful castles found around these unique, unspoilt islands.
But don't just take our word for it: allow yourself to whet your appetite with these stupendous pictures... then arrange to visit this wonderful part of Scotland as soon as possible.
OUR nation's stunning scenery can often be overshadowed by our dreich weather, but these amazing images prove there is nowhere quite like Scotland.
Scotland's gorgeous islands: Wouldn't it be nice to go and live on one?


1. SSH into your instance.
2. Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and set PasswordAuthentication to yes.
One way to do this is to enter the command nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config, then scroll down toPasswordAuthentication. Change the no to yes. Then press Ctrl+X, and press the Y key to save and quit.
4. Set your password if you haven't already, with the passwd command.
Note: This was tested with SUSE Linux. Directory and file names may be slightly different depending on your flavor of Linux.


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Q: Php shows html codes instead of render it on mac and IOS I have a live site http://secure.lowendticket.com/ having issue with it shows proper output on other platform like windows,linux(chrome,firefox) , But it shows HTML codes and tags on iPhone ,iPad and other apple devices .
you can show meta tags using source-code.
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Q: Getting a modal to pop up when validation is false I'm trying to create a page that when you click on add product button a modal pops up with a form that gets filled out.
What I'm trying to do is after you've submitted the form and there are errors then I would like for it to redirect back
and have the modal popup with the error messages.
Here is my code
My controller
public function  addProduct(Product $product)
{
    $validator = Validator::make(request()->all(), [
        'title' => 'required'
    ]);

    if($validator->fails())
    {
        return redirect()->back()->with([
            'errors' => $validator->errors()
        ])
    }
}

My blade file
<button type="button" class="btn btn-sm btn-success" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#addProductModal">
     Add Product
</button>

@include('admin.product.add-product')

and this is my modal

Add a Product

                <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close">
                    ×
                </button>

            <form action="{{ route('admin.product.addProduct') }}" method="post">
                @csrf

                        Name
                        <input type="text" name="name" class="form-control">

                    <button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary" data-dismiss="modal">Close</button>
                    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-success">Save changes</button>

            </form>

A: You can achieve that using sessions.
I'm using Form Requests for validation, and in my CreateCategoryRequest I added:
public function withValidator($validator)
{
    if ($validator->fails()) {
        \Session::flash('create_category_error', 'Create category validation failed!');
    }

}

In blade:
@if (session('create_category_error'))

@endif

Yes it's that simple :P
Happy coding!

A: You can use this also.

@if($errors->getBag('default')->first('name') != '')

@endif


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package rx.operators;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;

import rx.Observable;
import rx.Observable.OnSubscribeFunc;
import rx.Observer;
import rx.Subscription;
import rx.subscriptions.CompositeSubscription;

/**
 * Propagates the observable sequence that reacts first.
 */
public class OperationAmb {

    public static <T> OnSubscribeFunc<T> amb(Observable<? extends T> o1, Observable<? extends T> o2) {
        List<Observable<? extends T>> sources = new ArrayList<Observable<? extends T>>();
        sources.add(o1);
        sources.add(o2);
        return amb(sources);
    }

    public static <T> OnSubscribeFunc<T> amb(Observable<? extends T> o1, Observable<? extends T> o2, Observable<? extends T> o3) {
        List<Observable<? extends T>> sources = new ArrayList<Observable<? extends T>>();
        sources.add(o1);
        sources.add(o2);
        sources.add(o3);
        return amb(sources);
    }

    public static <T> OnSubscribeFunc<T> amb(Observable<? extends T> o1, Observable<? extends T> o2, Observable<? extends T> o3, Observable<? extends T> o4) {
        List<Observable<? extends T>> sources = new ArrayList<Observable<? extends T>>();
        sources.add(o1);
        sources.add(o2);
        sources.add(o3);
        sources.add(o4);
        return amb(sources);
    }

    public static <T> OnSubscribeFunc<T> amb(Observable<? extends T> o1, Observable<? extends T> o2, Observable<? extends T> o3, Observable<? extends T> o4, Observable<? extends T> o5) {
        List<Observable<? extends T>> sources = new ArrayList<Observable<? extends T>>();
        sources.add(o1);
        sources.add(o2);
        sources.add(o3);
        sources.add(o4);
        sources.add(o5);
        return amb(sources);
    }

    public static <T> OnSubscribeFunc<T> amb(Observable<? extends T> o1, Observable<? extends T> o2, Observable<? extends T> o3, Observable<? extends T> o4, Observable<? extends T> o5, Observable<? extends T> o6) {
        List<Observable<? extends T>> sources = new ArrayList<Observable<? extends T>>();
        sources.add(o1);
        sources.add(o2);
        sources.add(o3);
        sources.add(o4);
        sources.add(o5);
        sources.add(o6);
        return amb(sources);
    }

    public static <T> OnSubscribeFunc<T> amb(Observable<? extends T> o1, Observable<? extends T> o2, Observable<? extends T> o3, Observable<? extends T> o4, Observable<? extends T> o5, Observable<? extends T> o6, Observable<? extends T> o7) {
        List<Observable<? extends T>> sources = new ArrayList<Observable<? extends T>>();
        sources.add(o1);
        sources.add(o2);
        sources.add(o3);
        sources.add(o4);
        sources.add(o5);
        sources.add(o6);
        sources.add(o7);
        return amb(sources);
    }

    public static <T> OnSubscribeFunc<T> amb(Observable<? extends T> o1, Observable<? extends T> o2, Observable<? extends T> o3, Observable<? extends T> o4, Observable<? extends T> o5, Observable<? extends T> o6, Observable<? extends T> o7, Observable<? extends T> o8) {
        List<Observable<? extends T>> sources = new ArrayList<Observable<? extends T>>();
        sources.add(o1);
        sources.add(o2);
        sources.add(o3);
        sources.add(o4);
        sources.add(o5);
        sources.add(o6);
        sources.add(o7);
        sources.add(o8);
        return amb(sources);
    }

    public static <T> OnSubscribeFunc<T> amb(Observable<? extends T> o1, Observable<? extends T> o2, Observable<? extends T> o3, Observable<? extends T> o4, Observable<? extends T> o5, Observable<? extends T> o6, Observable<? extends T> o7, Observable<? extends T> o8, Observable<? extends T> o9) {
        List<Observable<? extends T>> sources = new ArrayList<Observable<? extends T>>();
        sources.add(o1);
        sources.add(o2);
        sources.add(o3);
        sources.add(o4);
        sources.add(o5);
        sources.add(o6);
        sources.add(o7);
        sources.add(o8);
        sources.add(o9);
        return amb(sources);
    }

    public static <T> OnSubscribeFunc<T> amb(
            final Iterable<? extends Observable<? extends T>> sources) {
        return new OnSubscribeFunc<T>() {

            @Override
            public Subscription onSubscribe(final Observer<? super T> observer) {
                AtomicInteger choice = new AtomicInteger(AmbObserver.NONE);
                int index = 0;
                CompositeSubscription parentSubscription = new CompositeSubscription();
                for (Observable<? extends T> source : sources) {
                    SafeObservableSubscription subscription = new SafeObservableSubscription();
                    AmbObserver<T> ambObserver = new AmbObserver<T>(
                            subscription, observer, index, choice);
                    parentSubscription.add(subscription.wrap(source
                            .subscribe(ambObserver)));
                    index++;
                }
                return parentSubscription;
            }
        };
    }

    private static class AmbObserver<T> implements Observer<T> {

        private static final int NONE = -1;

        private Subscription subscription;
        private Observer<? super T> observer;
        private int index;
        private AtomicInteger choice;

        private AmbObserver(Subscription subscription,
                Observer<? super T> observer, int index, AtomicInteger choice) {
            this.subscription = subscription;
            this.observer = observer;
            this.choice = choice;
            this.index = index;
        }

        @Override
        public void onNext(T args) {
            if (!isSelected()) {
                subscription.unsubscribe();
                return;
            }
            observer.onNext(args);
        }

        @Override
        public void onCompleted() {
            if (!isSelected()) {
                subscription.unsubscribe();
                return;
            }
            observer.onCompleted();
        }

        @Override
        public void onError(Throwable e) {
            if (!isSelected()) {
                subscription.unsubscribe();
                return;
            }
            observer.onError(e);
        }

        private boolean isSelected() {
            if (choice.get() == NONE) {
                return choice.compareAndSet(NONE, index);
            }
            return choice.get() == index;
        }
    }

}

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The development and interest in mindfulness is rapidly growing and training processes are therefore becoming more structured. However, within the UK and Spain there are currently no formal or official qualifications/certification processes which regulate competency in teaching mindfulness-based approaches. This requires those of us working in this developing field to inquire deeply into our own practice, our integrity, our intentions and the boundaries of our skills, competencies and understandings. To meet these recommendations and as a professional Teacher Training School we exceed the Educational Standards required by the Yoga Alliance and follow the UK Network for Mindfulness-based Teacher Trainers Best Practice Guidelines.
These guiding principles have been developed to promote good practice in teaching mindfulness-based courses. Mindfulness courses are intended to teach people practical skills that can help with physical and psychological health problems and ongoing life challenges. The main approaches used in the UK are Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and the Breathworks Mindfulness Based approaches to Pain and Illness (MBPI), all of which are normally taught over eight 2-3 hour sessions.
MBSR is a group-based programme developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre, Centre for Mindfulness (CFM) for populations with a wide range of physical and mental health problems (www.umassmed.edu/cfm/home/index.aspx).
MBCT is an integration of MBSR with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. It was initially developed by Zindel Segal, Mark Williams and John Teasdale to help recovered recurrently depressed participants and has been recommended by NICE for this group. MBCT is evolving to be taught to a broader range of people based on psychological understandings of what causes human distress and in a range of settings (e.g., health service, schools, forensic settings).
The Breathworks MBPI course is a development of MBSR, specifically for people with chronic pain and / or other long-term (physical) health conditions (www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk). Developed by Vidyamala Burch, it combines key elements of MBSR and MBCT with particular approaches to mindfulness in daily life and mindful movement that are suitable to this population. It also includes compassion meditation as a core component.
1. Familiarity through personal participation with the mindfulness-based course curriculum that they will be learning to teach, with particular in-depth personal experience of all the core meditation practices of this mindfulness-based programme.
2. Completion of an in-depth, rigorous mindfulness-based teacher training programme or supervised pathway over a minimum duration of 12 months.
1. A professional qualification in mental or physical health care, education or social care, or equivalent life experience, recognized by the organization or context within which the teaching will take place.
2. Knowledge and experience of the populations that the mindfulness-based course will be delivered to, including experience of teaching, therapeutic or other care provision with groups and/or individuals, unless such knowledge and experience is provided to an adequate level by the mindfulness-based teacher training itself. An exception to this can be when teaching with the help of a colleague who knows well the population to whom the course will be delivered and has a relevant qualification. They would also need to have an understanding of mindfulness-based approaches.
3. If delivering MBCT, knowledge of relevant underlying psychological processes, associated research and evidence-based practice, unless these are provided to an adequate level by the mindfulness teacher training programme.
ii. Receiving periodic feedback on teaching through video recordings, supervisor sitting in on teaching sessions or co-teaching with reciprocal feedback.
3. A commitment to ongoing development as a teacher through further training, keeping up to date with the evidence base, recording and reflecting on teaching sessions, participation in webs forums etc.
4. Adherence to the ethical framework appropriate to the teacher's professional background and working context.


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Feb 13, 2013 (CIDRAP News) – A male family member of a British man hospitalized with a novel coronavirus (CoV) infection has also been hospitalized with the same virus, pointing to another instance of human-to-human spread, UK and international health authorities reported today.
The newly confirmed CoV case is in a UK resident who is being treated in an intensive care unit at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, the country's Health Protection Agency (HPA) said today in a statement. The patient has a preexisting medical condition that increases susceptibility to respiratory infections. The case raises the world's number of confirmed CoV cases to 11, including 5 deaths.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said today that the patient is a male family contact who was hospitalized on Feb 9 after a short history of respiratory symptoms.
An earlier case from the same family was hospitalized in Manchester on Jan 31 with a severe lower respiratory tract infection, and tests revealed that he was co-infected with CoV and the 2009 H1N1 (pH1N10 influenza virus, according to previous reports. The 60-year-old man started having symptoms 10 days after a trip to Pakistan, then Saudi Arabia.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement today that the relative who is sick did not have any recent travel history outside the United Kingdom, indicating that the patient was infected locally, which suggests human-to-human spread. So far evidence of such transmission has been limited, and based on current data the risk of sustained person-to-person transmission appears to be very low, the WHO said.
The agency urged countries to continue surveillance for severe acute respiratory infections (SARIs) and to carefully analyze any unusual patterns. The WHO added that any SARI clusters or SARIs in healthcare workers should be thoroughly investigated, "regardless of where in the world they occur."
So far three CoV cases have been detected in Britain. The first patient, a 49-year-old man from Qatar, was hospitalized in England in September. A spokeswoman from the HPA told CIDRAP News that the man is still hospitalized in London.
Earlier reports on the man's condition said he had renal impairment, a complication that has affected some of the other CoV patients. Another patient from Qatar was hospitalized in Germany in November with a CoV infection but has since been released.
John Watson, MB BS, MSc, head of respiratory diseases with the HPA, said in the agency's statement that although the new case provides strong evidence of person-to-person transmission, the risk of infection in most circumstances is still very low.
"If novel coronavirus were more infectious, we would have expected to have seen a larger number of cases than we have seen since the first case was reported 3 months ago," he said. "However, this new development does justify, the measures that were immediately put into place to prevent any further spread of infection and to identify and follow up contacts of known cases."
The ECDC also said the HPA is in contact with an airline to follow up on passengers who may have been exposed to the virus while flying with the first patient.
In another development related to 60-year-old man's infection, Ziad Memish, MD, Saudi Arabia's deputy minister for public health, yesterday suggested that health experts reconsider the current CoV case definition, according to his post on ProMED-Mail, the online reporting system of the International Society for Infectious Diseases.
He wrote that although the HPA emphasized the patient's travel to the Middle East, the incubation period and the appearance of symptoms are ambiguous enough to warrant a more cautious statement. "…it remains unknown where and when this patient became infected," he wrote.
Memish also urged caution about interpreting the pH1N1 co-infection until the test results are confirmed by an independent source. He said a thorough search hasn't turned up any similar dual infections in Saudi Arabia.
Surveillance for SARIs in Saudi Arabia is ongoing, tests on 300 sick Hajj pilgrims found no coronavirus cases, and personal communications with French and Egyptian health officials have also revealed no CoV infections, Memish wrote.
He pressed for an expanded search for more cases. "Thus far it is less associated with focused or even regional outbreaks than it is with sporadic disease in widely separated locales. Unless and until SARI investigations are expanded, our understanding of its epidemiology and disease spectrum will remain limited. An urgent discussion of the current case definition is needed.
The WHO's Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO) issued a statement today saying it continues to investigate the novel coronavirus. It noted that it held a technical meeting in Cairo on Jan 14 and 15 to discuss what is known about the natural history of the disease, the sources of infection, the mode of transmission, transmissibility, pathogenicity, and lab testing capacity. It said the meeting included health officials from the three countries in the region that have reported cases and key partners from WHO collaborating centers and headquarters.
Feb 11 CIDRAP News story "Novel coronavirus case in UK raises global total to 10"


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How to approach design differently
By Beren Neale
We get a sneak peek of one of Us By Night's many talks.
(Image credit: Ben Boliau)
As co-creative director at Antwerp's design studio Mirror Mirror (opens in new tab), and teacher at St Lucas Antwerp, Ben Boliau has developed some interesting ideas about his work, and the design industry as a whole.
Set to make his second appearance at the third Us By Night (opens in new tab) event this 22-24 November, he promises to offer his audience a singular experience. What will attendees be able to take away from his lecture? "Hopefully they'll be inspired to think a bit differently, be really passionate and dead serious about their profession, but at the same time not be too uptight about graphic design."
Ahead of lecturing, Boliau shared four insights that he'll be covering in his Us By Night talk...
01. Passion is no guarantee
Mirror Mirror's came back to rebrand the Creative Club of Belgium last year, seeing "a return to the essence of the award ceremony: Gold fever, and all the necessary glamour and glitter that comes with it."
"Finding your niche in the design industry can certainly earn you some happy dollars," says Boliau, "and if you can correlate that with actually getting paid real money, you've hit the jackpot." But it's not as easy as that, warns the designer. "Passion is not a guarantee to reach that blissful double whammy – yet without it, you're certainly never going to get there either.
"If you're into designing solely to satiate your own passion, it may nog be enough," he says. "I believe one's passion should never be the goal in itself. Passion should be a motor of sorts. All too often designers use a client's brief (and budget) as an outlet to showcase their own personal style and authorship, or passion, instead of really reflecting on the actual brand or message they should be representing."
02. Desperation and envy can be useful
Although a main part of design events like Us By Night is to inspire creatives, and you can sometimes come away from them thinking, 'everything is awesome,' Boliau is adamant that just looking at the positives is not always helpful. "I would say the whole graphic design event circuit keeps both my love and hate for design and creativity alive," he tells us, "and I believe there is such a thing as too much inspiration. It can, in my case, lead to desperation and envy... But that's totally cool. It's supposed to be that way."
If people only look at the positive in their careers, how will they ever learn from their mistakes? If you don't embrace the despair of not working on projects that inspire you, how will you push yourself to eventually do so? "I think it's really important to be supportive," Boliau says, "but also to be honest and critical of stuff as well."
03. 'Wrong design' isn't always wrong
Boliau's talk will be dominated by his passion for '90s Houston TX studio Pen & Pixel Graphics, "and their outlandish album cover artwork"
In Boliau's talk this November, he'll be covering his fascination for the '90s Houston TX studio Pen & Pixel Graphics and their "outlandish" album cover artwork. It's an ongoing love of his, and he details how it's influenced his own practice. "It's great, weird stuff that totally ignores the rules of what design should be. I love it," he says.
It's Boliau's hope that some attendees will be inspired enough to think a bit differently about their own approach to design, and he's not too fussed that this style just happens to be the latest trend. "We've reached a time when everything is dated and timeless at the same time," he says. "This whole '90s style has been a popular fad for a while, and it just so happens that the typographic conventions of that era have been 'my thing' for years. I'm not going to stop loving or working with disproportionally scaled type because it has become a trend."
04. Design events aren't just for designers
Ben worked on the sixth edition of the Integrated conference, which was subtitled 'Between Creativity and Criminality: The Art and Design of the Civil Domain'
With a lot of small design agencies, and two major arts and design colleges pumping out a slew of talented students each year, Antwerp's design scene is a "small pond with lots of fish," says Boliau.
As with other cities, its design community runs the risk of being, "a little bit too internally focused. We all like to show each other what we're doing," says Boliau, "but much of the initiatives to promote local creativity just amount to circular inbreeding."
So how to freshen things up while also attracting global clients? "I think the way Us By Night is set up goes a long way in opening up our hermetic design community to the client side," says Boliau. The event's unique focus on evening talks, markets and fun activities means it's "an event you can bring a brand manager to without boring him to death. It promotes our respective professions in such a dazzling way. If I were a client looking for a new agency to work with, I'd secretly go window shopping at Us By Night."
More speakers at Us By Night
Ben Boliau will be lecturing at Us By Night in Antwerp, Belgium, which runs from 22-24 November 2018. The full speaker lineup includes artists, designers and various creatives from around the world, including:
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Speed sensors failed in 2009 Air France crash
By Laurence Frost Paris
May 25, 2011 — 12.00am
THE Air France flight that plunged into the Atlantic slowed to a stall after its airspeed sensors failed while the two co-pilots were at the controls, two people with knowledge of the investigation said.
The chief pilot, Captain Marc Dubois, was not in the cockpit when the Airbus A330's sensors malfunctioned, causing the autopilot to disengage over the Atlantic Ocean, said the sources, who declined to be identified because the investigation is confidential.
Flight 447's last automated transmissions logged faulty readings from airspeed sensors. Credit:Reuters
A low-speed stall occurs when an aircraft slows to the point where its wings suddenly lose lift, an incident pilots are trained to overcome.
Flight 447's last automated transmissions logged faulty readings from airspeed sensors that caused the autopilot to shut down in bad weather, minutes before the June 1, 2009, accident in which all 228 passengers and crew perished.
''To get out of a stall, you stick the nose down and wait for gravity to speed up the aircraft,'' said David Learmount, a former British Royal Air Force pilot and safety editor at Flight International. Pulling out can be straightforward, ''providing you realise you're in one'', he said.
Air France spokesman Jean-Charles Trehan said the company had no comment on early findings. France's BEA air-accident investigation bureau, which also declined to comment, said it plans to issue a statement on May 27 on preliminary findings.
Nelson Marinho, who represents families of the Brazilian crash victims, said the group would wait for more information before commenting. ''We're rather concerned about this rush to blame the pilots,'' he said.
''They are dead and cannot defend themselves.''
Investigators say they are making progress after maritime search experts retrieved the flight data and cockpit voice recorders this month from a depth of 3900 metres. Captain Dubois's body was among those recovered from the sea in the weeks after the crash.
The failure of the Thales SA airspeed sensors, or Pitot tubes, occurred while the plane was cruising at about 35,000 feet, four hours after takeoff from Rio de Janeiro. At that stage in the Paris-bound flight, the captain usually takes a rest break and leave the co-pilots at the controls. The Airbus A330 has a small sleeping compartment where pilots can recline on long-haul flights.
''All members of the flight crew have the same technical skills and qualifications,'' France's SNPL pilot union said in a statement. It criticised what it described as ''deliberately selective reports that cast suspicion on the crew.''


Never keep 2 antivirus applications together on the same machine as they can clash and actually admit malware as a result. One + something like Malwarebytes Free or SuperAntispyware or similar is fine as those don't have the real-time antivirus component.
See the last link in my signature for a few suggestions.
The first weapon when something untoward strikes is a) don't click anything at all, b) power off completely, c) reboot into Safe Mode and initiate System Restore to before it all happened.
If successful turn System Restore off and back on again to delete the infected restore point and don't forget that everything may need updating afterwards. That is an invaluable escape machanism.
I used CtrlAltDel to try to access the task manager and shut FBI Scam Screen down but instead the FBI Scam screen came back. I did CtrlAltDel again and logged off. That worked and I logged on as a guest. I was able to run system restore by providing my admin password. Once restored the scam was gone.
You said "If successful turn System Restore off and back on again to delete the infected restore point and don't forget that everything may need updating afterwards." Not clear what happens when you turn system restore off and on. Why does it remove latest restore points?
By temporarily turning it off it will delete the infected restore point, along with all the others of course, but at least the machine will be rid of it. Then turn it back on to start creating normal restore points once again.
i am suffering with trojan virus. my pc is not working normally. some time it is open many aplications automatically. how i removw this virus.
Here are the steps i got from tech support to manually deal with this.
If infection is active – reboot computer to Safe Mode with CommandPrompt.
Use GetSusp/Autoruns if you're having trouble locating the infected file.
Reboot the computer to Normal Mode.
The first thing to do when one of these hits is DO NOT CLICK ANYTHING not even the 'X' to dismiss any popups. Power down immediately, reboot into Safe Mode by tapping F8 repeatedly while booting up.
From there intitiate System Restore to before all this started.
Or simply read through this entire thread for multiple choices for dealing with this.
I took the hard drive out and put it in a case with USB connector and plugged it into another compiuter. I ran Malware, Superanti Spyware, Kapersky and McAfee. It got rid of the malware I think because the second time I ran all the above it did not find anything. When I put it back into the computer I ran all that again and it found some more stuff.
At least I got to safe mode and regular mode. Before that no matter what I did I could not get to a screen where I could do anything. I did notice the hang time that you were talking about. If it happens again I will try that.
This morning the virus checkers ran again ad they are still finding stuff but nothing that has interfered with starting the system. It has to be hiding really well.
Hi i am brand new and i had the fbi money pak scam happen to me I deleted the user but am still getting virus messages Iam completewly lost and have no idea if since i bought my macafee tonight if it took all the registry and trojans when I ran it / It said one of my reg files was replaced by malware how can i know if its off my puter/?????
first I would restore back to a point before you gopt it. Do this in safe mode as mentioned above post 44.
Of all the methods of removing the FBI MoneyPak Scam malware, starting the infected PC in SAFE MODE WITH NETWORKING seems to be the easiest. However in my case this did not work because when I tried this my PC reverted back to normal mode all the time. Nothing gained.
I see reports from others that have hardware skill where a hard drive or thumb drive was added to boot from, some anti-malware software and malware removal proceeded from there. This also did not work for me. I even tried installing my McAfee on the clean boot drive to see if it would detect and remove the FBI Scam from the infected drive now listed as drive D. It did not.
The method I used, and hope you might try, involved no hardware skill or starting in SAFE MODE.
I noticed there was a time lag of about 10 seconds from when my Windows desktop appeared until the FBI Scam screen appeared. I thought that the virus application was starting during this time period.
I rebooted my PC and as soon as my desktop appeared I pressed Ctrl, Alt and Del keys to get the Windows Windows Task Manager to appear. The Task Manager acted normally and immediately started showing the latest application that was starting up. I just randomly started clicking End Process within the Task Manager in an attempt to stop the virus from proceeding. Within about 5 reboots I got lucky and the FBI Scam did not start.
From this point I downloaded and ran a free trial version of Malwarebytes software. Malwarebytes found the malware and removed it. I have had no trouble since.
If you try this and it works please report back.


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2012 U.S. WJC Camp: USA Sends Eleven Players Home
Posted on August 7, 2012 by Chris Peters
With just three days to impress Phil Housley and his staff in the camp setting, the players at the U.S. National Junior Evaluation Camp had to be on from the beginning. With such tough competition in camp and so many good players, these decisions couldn't have been easy, but USA Hockey announced its camp cuts today.
Photo: Bill Hall
In the end, 11 players were cut from the camp today, including six defensemen and five forwards. I was a little surprised to see USA Hockey decided to keep 34 players in Lake Placid, but based on what I've seen and heard so far, it was warranted. Keeping 34, including all four goalies, leaves more time to have direct contact with these players and more evaluation, particularly for some of the lesser-known guys.
"The first three days of camp have been impressive and we have been pleased with the players' level of competition," said Jim Johannson, Team USA's general manager, in a statement. "The players being released today are still among those being evaluated for the team in the coming months. For the players retained, this week's upcoming international games in Lake Placid give us an oportunity to further assess their skills."
Like Johansson said, just because a guy got cut at this point doesn't mean he's out of the mix. There are guys that didn't even make the camp that could push for spots in December.
Keep in mind, USA Hockey will hold a pre-tournament camp, which will serve as another evaluation period for 28-30 players just prior to the event in Ufa, Russia. So there's still a long way to go between now and then.
The guys that remain in camp are going to have some extra opportunities to impress and position themselves well heading into the season. A good performance at this camp gives players a little more leeway if they struggle in the first-half of the season. Proving what they can do against the European squads goes a long way in developing a comfort level for the coaches and administrators, so these next few days remain crucial.
It will be with this roster that USA Hockey will go into the final three games of the camp, with two tilts against Finland and one against Sweden.
Coming up after the jump a brief look at those cut and the guys who are breathing a little easier this morning…
I'm sure this group is disappointed not to have made it to the next round of the camp, but I think the list of guys they sent home is only indicative of how good the talent in camp has been, particularly on defense. When two first-round draft picks are among the first cuts in camp, that's all the proof you need to know how tough it actually has been.
Here's who's headed home:
Alex Broadhurst — I thought Broadhurst might have saved himself with some solid play, but if he makes the team it's as a third- or fourth-line center and he might not have the size to do it. Broadhurst could go into London in the OHL next year and have a really strong season as a 19-year-old and that could change things for him, but for now, he's the odd-man out in a log jam at center.
Brian Hart — The big Harvard-bound forward never really made enough of an impact at his size to stick in camp. It's important to remember that he's coming out of the prep ranks and the gap from prep to similar-to-WJC-level hockey is pretty large. If he learns to use his body better, he could have a shot, but there's room to grow for Hart.
Logan Nelson — It was always going to be an up-hill battle for Nelson who had a lot of competition for that energy-line type player. He's known as a two-way forward and I don't know if that ever really materialized in camp. I don't think he played poorly, but I think he was a step behind guys like Tyler Biggs, Blake Pietila and Nic Kerdiles.
Adam Reid — I really liked how Reid played in yesterday's game against Finland, but the big forward apparently didn't impress enough. If he were to make the team, it's likely as a defensive specialist, but there are several guys that can play a more balanced game and I think that's why Reid is on the outside looking in. Regardless, Northeastern fans can be glad to have him.
Henrik Samuelsson — It's not often you see a first-rounder bow out in camp, let alone two, but Samuelsson was sent home. He has the size and strength, but footspeed is what Samuelsson lacks in comparison to his competition. There are a lot of power-forward types in camp, and pretty much all of them are better skaters than Samuelsson. That said, he's only a 1994-born player. He has time to grow and work on things and I wouldn't count him out just yet. He could have a big first half with the Edmonton Oil Kings and be right back in the mix.
Connor Carrick — There were certainly moments where Carrick flashed his offensive abilities and good skating, but his size disadvantage was evident. One of the knocks on Carrick is his risky decisions with the puck and I think that materialized in camp a little bit. He's only a 1994-born, so he'll have another shot at this next year, but I just don't know if he's ready for the WJC level just yet.
Brian Cooper — I only got to see Cooper in Monday's action and I came away a little concerned about his ability to play with the pace that he has to at his size at this level. Cooper is a pretty gifted skater, but I don't think he ever got his legs under him against the speedy Swedes. Questionable decisions with the puck compounded the issues. I think Cooper could have a really strong year at UNO, but with this tough D corps to crack I don't see him in the mix down the road.
Mike Paliotta — The big defenseman looked OK in camp, but seemed to struggle against Finland, getting caught out of position a few times, at least one of which led to a goal. There are certainly some nice tools there, I just don't know if Paliotta's game is ready for the pace of the WJC. He's going to be a big part of Vermont's D corps, so we'll see how he progresses in the first half.
Robbie Russo — I was only a little surprised to see Russo get cut. He showed really good puck-moving ability, but there are a lot of good puck movers in camp. His struggles in the D-zone were noticeable, particularly against Sweden. He's a guy I think they'll keep an eye on because he really is a solid PP quarterback. I just don't know if there's room for a guy who they might envision as a specialist. Still think he'll be watched closely the entire first half.
Joakim Ryan — The often smooth defenseman wasn't much of a factor good or bad in the game against Sweden. I think he had a tough time adjusting to the pace, despite the fact that he was very familiar with Team Sweden as he spent time with that group last year. I think there's some serious upside to Ryan, but there's a long way to his ceiling. Unfortunately, the WJC isn't about potential, it's about what you can do right now.
Jordan Schmaltz — If there was one real surprise among the cuts, I think Schmaltz is it. I would say I'm moderately surprised, but not shocked. The one thing that I thought Schmaltz could do to separate himself was show flashes of his sometimes elite-looking offensive game. It didn't materialize in the game against Sweden and I think Schmaltz struggled with the pace and skill of the opposing forwards defensively. If the offense isn't clicking, I don't know if his defensive ability is enough to compensate. I think Schmaltz could have been a victim of expectations, as he was riding high coming in thanks to his USHL playoff performance and first-round selection by St. Louis. Schmaltz was also a victim of his comparables in camp really raising their game. Shayne Gostisbehere and Mike Reilly were two of the best Dmen so far and that likely edged Schmaltz out of the picture. When a first-rounder gets cut, there might be reason for fans of that team to scratch their heads or maybe prematurely panic. Don't. Schmaltz has a very high upside and has a long way to go to get to his ceiling. Thing about the WJC is that players aren't picked based on what they can do in two or three years, they're picked on their ability at the present. A strong first-half from Schmaltz will keep him in the WJC conversation. I know they'll be keeping a close eye on him.
Here's a look at some guys who are breathing a big sigh of relief this morning:
Steven Fogarty — The big two-way centerman has had an OK camp, but I think the reason he stays is that he shows flashes of what he's really capable of and if he can put it together, there's a chance Fogarty could be a force at center in a bottom-six situation. I think he'll need to show better the rest of the way, but his physical tools are going to give him a longer look.
Nic Kerdiles — I think the Anaheim second-rounder has had a lukewarm camp and has a lot of competition. Kerdiles, a natural center has been playing the wing, which should free him up for a little more offense. His size and strength are assets, but I think to make the team he's going to have to produce a little bit more.
Garrett Haar — I actually thought Haar played pretty well, particularly late against Finland. Only reason I think he's breathing easier is because of how stiff the competition was. He comes in as one of the less-heralded guys and really held his own.
Jake McCabe — The Wisconsin sophomore struggled mightily against Sweden, but I think he stays because he's one of the few defensemen in camp that can be, when he's at his best, a shutdown defenseman. The offensive aspects of his game are kind of minimal compared to his ability to play smart and play physical. McCabe might have been sweating a bit last night, but he lived to play another day.
Jimmy Vesey — After having a really strong game against Sweden, in which he began generating chances, I think Vesey started showing that he can adjust to the pace. Coming from the EJHL to this level is a huge jump. I think it took him a little while to adjust, but he's getting there now. Good sign.
Jon Gillies — The big netminder has an .814 save percentage and 5.39 GAA so far. I think it was wise to keep all four goalies however. They're getting a lot of one-on-one coaching with Joe Exter, formerly USA Hockey's national goaltending coach and three-time assistant at the WJC. No goaltender outside of John Gibson really established himself, so keeping all four makes sense. Gillies is another guy where you can see the tools and see the upside, but it's uncertain if he's at the level he needs to be just yet. He gets a few more tries to prove that wrong.
The full U.S. squad will be back in action Wednesday against Finland at 4 p.m. EDT. That game will be available live on FASTHockey.com.
With 34 players in camp, they'll still probably dress 22 per game just like IIHF regulations allow, meaning 12 scratches per game. The guys that need to be evaluated the most will play the most, more than likely, so don't read too much into scratches. The players still in camp are there because they earned the opportunity to get a longer look, so they'll all get one.
There is a ton of great hockey left to be played in Lake Placid. For a full schedule, click here.
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Just a thought, why would USA feel the need to keep players like Trouba, Jones, Miller, and even Galchenyuk (granted his mediocre play) who are all virtual locks to make the team? Is it necessary to keep these players in low profile games during the summer? You seem to stress about the players adapting to the pace of the game, if they were able to keep 4 or 5 more guys who were on the bubble, they would be given a chance to adapt. I do understand that Sweden and Finland have brought their go to guys, and USA would like to play tough with them. Once again it's just a thought, but i really doubt Trouba, Jones, and Miller have nothing to prove, USA officials are pretty familiar with them.
Chris Peters says:
I think that's a fair thought. While it is an evaluation camp and they know a lot of these guys well already, you keep the best players for two reasons.
First: There has to be some element of competition in the camp. The best players are rewarded for their play and the ones who aren't making the cut are cut. It keeps the camp honest that way.
Second: These guys won't play together much before the WJC, so it's a chance to familiarize themselves with each other. Just as a hypothetical D pairing, Seth Jones is in the WHL, Mike Reilly is at Minnesota, so they'll never play with or against each other outside of this camp, the pre-tournament camp and the actual tournament. So you give them more reps together to see if it will work in Ufa and get them familiar with each other.
That's just one example.
Also, now that cuts have been made, Housley will start implementing his systems more so these guys can get familiar with him.
Every player in the age group with a hint of an opportunity to make this team will be scouted throughout the year by USA Hockey, but you brought up a great point.
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of biblical Hebrew contrast with many other languages.
1) The first word begins with be-, a preposition 'in'. Hebrew, like English, has prepositions before the nouns they govern. Other languages have postpositions, the equivalent of saying '(the) beginning in'.
2) In biblical Hebrew the standard word order in a sentence is verb, subject, object. Thus: verb 'created', subject 'God', object 'the heavens and the earth'. Other languages generally place the verb in the middle (as in English) or at the end (as in Turkish).
5) Hebrew, like other Semitic languages, is based around roots consisting of consonants, usually three in number. Normally vowels and affixes distinguish related meanings. Thus the root špṭ produces šāpaṭ 'he judged', yišpōṭ 'he will judge', šōpēṭ 'a judge', and mišpāṭ 'judgment'. In some other languages the root is followed by a series of morphemes that string together to mark different components of meaning. This is called an 'agglutinative language' (like Turkish). In other languages additions are made to the root (inflections) to mark noun cases and verbal conjugations (like in German or Latin).
6) Hebrew nouns have two grammatical genders— masculine and feminine. Adjectives also have separate masculine and feminine forms. Greek adds a neuter gender, but some language families such as Turkic and Kartvelian do not distinguish gender at all. Hebrew also distinguishes gender in the second person of the verb, which many other languages do not do.
Which combination of these and other features was employed in the original language is indeterminable, but now we can only marvel at the diversity present in the world's languages.
No wonder the peoples of the world after Babel were confused!
Many inhabitants of the Old World are aware that such well-known produce as potatoes and tomatoes19 are examples of New World products being borrowed by the Old World—a process that is sometimes called 'cultural borrowing'. As peoples come into contact with plants, animals, substances, materials, or objects that were hitherto unknown to them the default position, it would seem, is to borrow the names by which they were already being called. It is not surprising then that one would expect to find examples of cultural borrowing too in the pages of the Hebrew (and Aramaic) Bible. A classic case is the list of musical instruments, written in Aramaic, repeated several times in Daniel 3, where the majority of instruments are clearly of Greek origin. So if Hebrew words can be shown to be cognate (representing the same original word or root) with words in other languages what does that tell us of the history of the words used in the Bible?
This brief study looks at nine examples of what may be cultural borrowing in the Hebrew Bible. All the examples are nouns and have been chosen because cognates can be clearly traced in other languages or other language families. Thus there are: two plants or plant products— 'apple' and 'vine/ wine'; four animals—'horse', 'camel', 'elephant', and 'lion'; two metals— 'iron' and 'gold'; and a single manufactured article—'ship'.
It is of course possible that as speakers of Hebrew came into contact with plants, animals, substances, materials, or objects that were hitherto unknown to them that they borrowed such terms from the languages around—as English did with 'potato' and 'tomato'. However, as we have remarked earlier, the fact that Genesis 2: 19 specifically states that Adam named every living creature gives the first man the mandate of naming the living creatures all around him.


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Nationalism Will Benefit From Surpassing "White Nationalism"
by Brett Stevens on April 11, 2017
The two major threats to conservatism are religion and racialism, not because they are bad, but because they will be incorrectly implemented and thus lead us down rabbit trails to failure. These pillars are one of many, but in the hands of the emotionally incontinent, they become the sole focus, and thus the bigger point is missed.
In the current year, we face a struggle for our existence. If we continue down the path of the last few hundred years, we destroy ourselves through slow erosion of all that makes us what we are. If we leave that path, we must pick a path that is both sufficiently different and holds true to what we have learned over the past 6,000 years.
Our greatest threat in this question is that we will replace the goal of leaving that path with one of the lesser tasks that are a means-to-an-end of that goal.
For example, white nationalists want us to replace civilization renewal with racial exclusionism. There is nothing wrong with racial exclusionism, but when it becomes our sole ideal, it displaces the larger goal of resurrecting civilization, and we end up with the cuck idea that "everything is fine" so long as we exclude other races.
In other words, racism becomes a crutch for not having an answer to the problem of civilization restoration, and it becomes proportionately fanatical to how much remains undetermined in that restoration. This leads to it adopting aspects of a cult: actual solutions are ignored, symbolic solutions adopted, and only those who acknowledge this reality-replacing outlook are accepted.
This leads to utter travesties like the recent murder in New York:
Overcome by hate, police said Jackson admitted he took a bus from Maryland to Manhattan last week for one reason — to kill black men.
"It's well over 10 years he's been harboring these feelings of hate towards male blacks," NYPD Chief of Manhattan South Detectives William Aubry said this past Wednesday.
…"I had been thinking about it for a long time, for the past couple of years," he said. "I figured I would end up getting shot by police, kill myself, or end up in jail."
White Nationalism focuses on a single attribute of the problem and turns it into a religion, which in turn leads to an unhealthy fixation on enemies who are symptoms and not causes of our decline. This can only end one way: through attrition warfare.
It is not, as the Left says, that people like James Harris Jackson are bad or stupid. In fact, they tend to be more intelligent and generous than on average. However, they have convinced themselves that the solution is race war, because through the fallacy of White Nationalism, they have come to believe that they can put a band-aid on a gaping wound.
It makes more sense to admit what has been lost. Western Civilization has collapsed again. You should burn your American flag, throw away any patriotism that is remaining, and remove the concept of identities in our modern societies. All that exists is Western Civilization, strewn across multiple nation-states and surrounded by Others who wish to destroy it. White Nationalism cannot resurrect it.
The problem is not blacks; it is us. We chose individualism, became egomanics, and chose systems like democracy so that our egos were not challenged by reality. This in turn made us weak, and in the name of protecting the least successful among us, we made weakness into a virtue. It is no surprise our society is failing; the pretense of human altruism has infested it like AIDS.
We can see a similar attack in Sweden, where again someone confuses removing a symptom for making a healthier state out of the whole of civilization:
The incident occurred in the Swedish capital of Stockholm over the weekend. The Swedish man, who has not been named by media or the police, is said to have approached the Muslim women who were wearing Islamic veils on a train while he was eating bacon and dangled the bacon in front of their faces, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
According to the report, the women got up to find seating elsewhere and the man followed them with his bacon. He is alleged to have called them derogatory names and made racist comments, though neither the police nor the court has specified what was said during the incident.
The prosecutors allege he then used racial epithets on another woman in the train station after getting off the train. He faces charges of incitement to racial hatred.
Obviously he should not be persecuted because any society where people cannot handle disagreement to their faces is a society dying through lack of fortitude. The ability to disagree and harass each other is part of the essential economy of ideas to any human group. While he is not wrong to do this, he also has missed the point.
The problem is not Islam; it is us. We chose individualism, and it manifested in class warfare, which led to diversity. Currently diversity is one of our enemies because it is paradoxical in logic and can never work, yet most of the voters get dewy-eyed and think it is a good idea, so they pound that button again and again. The problem is us.
Because our society is dying, groups from all over the world flock here to take advantage of the giveaway. It's like a fire sale: we are collapsing, so have some social welfare and good feelings, because those keep the voters in happy oblivion so they keep going to working, shopping and consuming media.
We could get rid of the problem of diversity overnight by eliminating those giveaways in the form of social benefits, entitlements and civil rights programs. We would then still face the problem of having to rebirth our society, cutting away the bad and nurturing the good.
Even the best possible Other, such as the high IQ and well-behaved Japanese, is not welcome here. Do you get it, yet? Diversity is replacement with a mixed-race group, which means your culture and ideals are destroyed. In fact, you do not remain, because that which replaces you thinks differently. It is genocide.
Diversity is doom because even those "good" minorities work against you because it is in their self-interest to conquer you. Witness this "model minority" judge working in favor of low-IQ third world immigrants:
Cautioning that "the rule of law is being challenged," California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye on Monday urged the state to "persevere in our values in times of upheaval" to protect equality and diversity.
"We must remember our past, both good and bad, to fight the forces of fear and prejudice," Cantil-Sakauye said during her annual State of the Judiciary address to the Legislature. She contrasted a 2013 law allowing undocumented lawyers to practice in California with the World War II internment of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, including her in-laws, who were in attendance at the speech.
Will white nationalism stop this? No, it will just downgrade it from "other races" to "other ethnic groups," replacing Western Europeans with a mixture of Southern Europeans and Eastern Europeans, at which point the genetic root of the West, the Western Europeans, will be genocided just as surely as if we had bred them with African-Americans.
White Nationalism also compels people to step back from seeing this broader issue, and the even broader issue of the collapse of Western Civilization, and instead to offer them an easy answer like the salesman promising that his cleaning product can "erase even the stubbornest of stains." He wants you to fixate on the symbol, and forget the real challenge before you.
We do not need a movement that concludes that our problem is limited to race, and our solution is limited to racial discrimination. Of course the other must go back to their homelands; this is not rocket science and has become flamingly apparent over the past weeks. But we need more. If we stop at race alone, we miss the real goal that stands before us, and become bigots in the process.
Nationalism presents a better principle than White Nationalism. Nationalism simply says that nations are formed of ethnic groups. This means that we can have a Western European nation, but not a mixed Western/Southern/Eastern one. Instead, we need to reserve the right to separation for ourselves by guaranteeing it for all ethnic groups.
Contrast this to White Nationalism. For WN, the other races are the enemy; for nationalists, the policy of internationalism, also called diversity and multiculturalism, is the enemy. The solution is not to harm others, but to strengthen ourselves, in part by sending everyone else home and then by asserting our own standards as iron, immutable law.
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In the Sanctuary of the Holy, chant the Lord's Name.
Through the True Guru's Teachings, one comes to know His state and extent.
Remain in your own home, O my foolish and ignorant mind.
Meditate on the Lord - concentrate deep within your being and meditate on Him.
If you forget Him, the Messenger of Death will catch sight of you.
All peace will be gone, and you will suffer in pain in the world hereafter.
Chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har, the sweetest essence.
As Gurmukh, see the essence of the Lord deep within.
Speak the Guru's Word, and the Name of the Lord.
In the Society of the Saints, search for this essence.
Bathe at the sacred shrine of Truth, and sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.
Reflect upon the essence of reality, and lovingly focus your consciousness on the Lord.
The True Guru, the Primal Being, the Great Giver, is all-knowing.
Whoever has Truth within himself, merges in the Word of the Shabad.
The body is formed from the union of the five elements.
Know that the Lord's jewel is within it.
Abide in truth and contentment, O humble Siblings of Destiny.
Hold tight to compassion and the Sanctuary of the True Guru.
The faithless cynics are stuck in falsehood and deceit.
Day and night, they slander many others.
The faithless cynic is not rid of his fear of death.
The Messenger of Death's club is never taken away.
Tell me: without the Guru, what faithless cynic has been saved?
Acting egotistically, he falls into the terrifying world-ocean.
No one can erase the Guru's blessings.
The Lord carries across those whom He forgives.
Those who forget the Guru come and go in reincarnation.
They are born, only to die again, and continue committing sins.
Pleasure and pain are the consequences of the actions of past lives.
The Giver, who blesses us with these - He alone knows.


We're still waiting for the EOS-1D X, but while we do Canon have announced the 1D C.
Yes, I know this is fairly old news but quite significant and I wanted to put a reference into our blog. This DSLR will be available in October 2012 and will retail for around $15000. Canon tell us that they have been in discussions with Hollywood and other filmmakers to ensure that they have added the features that they need. This machine will capture 4K video at 24p. It will also capture 1080p at 50/60 fps and output it uncompressed over it's HDMI connection. The 1D-C will also share some features of the C300, such as it's Canon Log Gamma to give a flat image that is easily cut with footage from other cameras.
Canon say that the 1D-C is quite significantly different to the 1D-X as the internal components had to be re-worked due to overheating issues caused by transfering the huge amounts of data required for 4K video.
4K video is not quite widespread yet (although Adobe CS6 and Final Cut Pro X support it), but there is no harm in archiving for the future.
Nice review, thoguh I think maybe a little bias towards Canon S95. Firstly, start up time is the same, its just a question of setting the camera up properly. Secondly the look and feel is subjective, I prefer a finger strip on the camera for better grip, and the Nikon construction is first class. For me the only area S95 wins is the bigger sensor. Otherwise very little in it except in the UK canon costs a3320, Nikon a3220. I chose Nikon, faster lens and 35% cheaper.
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Jon Lester and offense deliver a bit extra in 11-inning victory over Reds
CINCINNATI — The arm strength and sharpness were what the Cubs envisioned in the winter.
Now if Jon Lester can find a way to solve Billy Hamilton, the Cubs can feel even better about their high-priced ace.
The speedy Hamilton's two hits, three stolen bases and two runs scored were almost the only blemishes on Lester's performance Friday night. He was long gone when Jonathan Herrera hit a tiebreaking single in the 11th that sparked a four-run rally for a 7-3 victory over the Reds.
David Ross provided insurance with a two-run double near the top of the wall in right-center.
The Cubs had missed a chance to go ahead in the ninth off flame-throwing Reds closer Aroldis Chapman after pulling off a double steal with one out. Starlin Castro struck out on a 101 mph shoulder-high fastball, and Ross hit a feeble foul pop to third.
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Facing the Reds for the second time in as many weeks, Lester was more effective, even though he weaved in and out of traffic in three of his first four innings. Relying on a 93 mph fastball and a sharp breaking pitch, Lester struck out a season-high 10.
Any lingering questions about the "dead arm" phase Lester experienced in spring training were diminished as he threw a season-high 104 pitches in six innings. He retired the final nine batters he faced, including four of the final five on strikeouts.
Lester worked out of a jam in the first by striking out Brandon Phillips and Jay Bruce in succession, and he whiffed both on off-speed pitches in the sixth.
Because the Cubs are short-handed on the bench while carrying 13 pitchers, Lester batted in the seventh (and struck out) before being pulled before the bottom half.
The only lingering issue is Lester's inability to prevent stolen bases since switching to the National League. He tried to disrupt Hamilton's timing by holding the ball longer from the stretch position, but Hamilton stole second on the first pitch to Joey Votto in the first and ended up scoring on a grounder after advancing to third on a wild pitch.
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After singling in the third, Hamilton stole second and third before scoring on a grounder by Phillips.
Fortunately for Lester, he escaped without a decision when Chris Coghlan led off the seventh with a game-tying home run on an 0-2 pitch from Reds starter Mike Leake, who struck out nine in seven innings thanks to a tailing fastball to both corners of the plate.
Leake retired the first nine batters before the Cubs broke through on Anthony Rizzo's game-tying two-run homer in the fourth.
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The Cubs missed a chance to add more when Hamilton robbed Castro of a go-ahead extra-base hit by making a running catch in right-center to end the fourth.
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The role of GIS has been evolving since the concept of computer aided mapping and spatial analysis was conceived in the 1960s. Given the vast number of online mapping tools and interfaces available today, and the rapid embracing of the notions of smart communities, open government and the Internet of Things (IOT), it may seem like GIS has reached its zenith. Join Chris North, Director of Industry Solutions, as he explores the pivot points of technological advance that have driven the growth of GIS and spatial analysis. Chris will share his vision of the path forward for GIS and make the case that a fundamental shift is needed in the way we deploy, use and even think about GIS.
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Syria – Chemical attack – Declassified French Intel Report
"The perpetrators of the Khan Sheikhoun atrocities and other chemical attacks will be held accountable for their criminal acts, not only in the courts but also the history books."
Jean-Marc Ayrault — French Minister of Foreign Affairs
Paris, 26 April 2017 — Jean-Marc Ayrault, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development, spoke following the restricted meeting of the Defense Council at the Elysée on April 26. He presented the national evaluation providing evidence of the use of sarin gas and the Syrian regime's responsibility in the chemical attack carried out in Khan Sheikhoun on April 4. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY
[NOTE: This report is far from convincing. The logic is clearly circular. And it does not address the serious issues raised by MIT Professor T. Postol.]
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Chemical attack of 4 April 2017 (Khan Sheikhoun) — National Evaluation
This document is based on declassified intelligence from France's own sources.
On 4 April 2017, air strikes against civilians in the city of Khan Sheikhoun killed more than 80 people. According to our experts, the symptoms observed immediately afterwards (pupil contraction, suffocation, bluing of lips, white foam on faces, convulsions), the high number of deaths, and the fact that certain responders and medical staff suffered secondary contamination are consistent with the use of a highly lethal neurotoxic agent. This has now been confirmed scientifically.
These strikes come in the context of continuous use since 2013 of chemical weapons or chemical agents in Syria, particularly during air strikes, including after the Syrian regime committed to dismantling its chemical weapons arsenal on 25 October 2013. France has collected biomedical and environmental samples and munitions and pieces of munitions in Syria on several occasions, and has been able to confirm the use of chlorine and sarin several times. The attached table lists France's evaluations.
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1. – Technical analysis of the chemical attack on 4 April
a) France has deployed the required resources to obtain its own samples from the alleged sarin attack on 4 April 2017 in Idlib Governorate.
b) The analyses carried out by French experts on the environmental samples collected at one of the impact points of the chemical attack at Khan Sheikhoun on 4 April 2017 reveal the presence of sarin, of a specific secondary product (diisopropyl methylphosphonate – DIMP) formed during synthesis of sarin from isopropanol and DF (methylphosphonyl difluoride), and hexamine. Analysis of biomedical samples also shows that a victim of the Khan Sheikhoun attack, a sample of whose blood was taken in Syria on the very day of the attack, was exposed to sarin.
France therefore independently and categorically confirms that sarin was used on 4 April. The United States, the United Kingdom, Turkey and the Director-General of the OPCW have also established that sarin was employed on the basis of analysis of biomedical samples.
c) According to the intelligence obtained by the French services, the process of synthesizing sarin, developed by the Scientific Studies and Research Centre (SSRC) and employed by the Syrian armed forces and security services, involves the use of hexamine as a stabilizer. DIMP is also known as a by-product generated by this process.
d) This intelligence on the process used by the regime, which is a sign of its responsibility in the attack on 4 April, is based notably on the analysis of the content of an unexploded grenade which was used with certainty by the Syrian regime during the Saraqib attack on 29 April 2013. That mid-afternoon, a helicopter arriving from the north-east flew over the city of Saraqib at high altitude. Three unidentified objects, emitting white smoke, were dropped on neighbourhoods to the west of the city, on a north-south trajectory.
According to France, only the Syrian armed forces had helicopters and could therefore be responsible for dropping these three objects.
At the first point of impact, there were no victims. At the second point of impact, one person was killed and about 20 injured. An exploded grenade was found in the wreckage. Analysis of biomedical and environmental samples collected by the French services revealed the presence of compounds consistent with exposure to sarin. This analysis was confirmed by the United Nations in December 2013.
At the third point of impact, an unexploded grenade was found in a crater on a dirt track. This munition was very similar in appearance to that found at the second point of impact.
Once the French services were sure of the traceability of the grenade, analyses were carried out.
The chemical analyses carried out showed that it contained a solid and liquid mix of approximately 100ml of sarin at an estimated purity of 60%. Hexamine, DF and a secondary product, DIMP, were also identified. Modelling, on the basis of the crater's characteristics, confirmed with a very high level of confidence that it was dropped from the air.
e) The presence of the same chemical compounds in the environmental samples collected during the attacks on Khan Sheikhoun on 4 April 2017 and on Saraqib on 29 April 2013 has therefore been formally confirmed by France. The sarin present in the munitions used on 4 April was produced using the same manufacturing process as that used during the sarin attack perpetrated by the Syrian regime in Saraqib. Moreover, the presence of hexamine indicates that this manufacturing process is that developed by the Scientific Studies and Research Centre for the Syrian regime.
2. – Militarily analysis of the tactical situation around 4 April 2017
a) The 4 April attack came after the Syrian armed forces and security services and their supporters launched a counter-offensive in the sector of Hama, responding to the progress of armed groups and Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham in the north of Hama since 22 March.
On 23 March, Syrian elite forces, the Qawat Al-Nimr, along with Hezbollah and the Iranian Quds Force, were redeployed to the area. Syrian and Russian air support has also been focused on this sector. On 2 April, the Syrian armed forces and security services and their supporters pushed back the front line, although Damascus failed to fully win back the territory captured by the armed groups in March. Since then, the regime has largely regained territory in the Hama sector and continues to pressure the opposition: further conventional bombing has been observed in the Hama region.
b) The French services are aware in particular of a Sukhoi Su-22 bomber which took off from the Shayrat Airbase on the morning of 4 April and launched up to six strikes around Khan Sheikhoun.
c) As regards the general organization of the command chain, the French intelligence services assess that only Bashar al-Assad and a few of the most influential members of his inner circle are authorized to give the order to use chemical weapons.
3. – Analysis of the presence of armed groups in Hama and of their capabilities
a) While it has been confirmed that mustard gas attacks have been carried out by Daesh in Syria since 2015, France assesses that the theory of an attack by the armed groups using a neurotoxic agent on 4 April is not credible. France has no information confirming the possession of sarin by these groups.
1. Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) was born from the merger of several radical factions with the Al-Qaeda movement Jabhat Fatah al-Sham after the fall of Aleppo. Pragmatic coordination between HTS and other armed groups present in the Hama sector was observed in late March. To the knowledge of the French services, none of these groups has the capability to employ a neurotoxic agent, or the air capacities required.
2. The theory of an attack perpetrated by Daesh is not plausible either, as Daesh is not present in the sector of Hama. Moreover, the French intelligence services have not observed that Daesh has sarin or air capacities.
b) Neither do the French services assess that the theory of a staged attack or manipulation by the opposition is credible, particularly because of the massive influx in a very limited time towards hospitals in Syria and Turkey, and the simultaneous, massive uploading of videos showing symptoms of the use of neurotoxic agents.
4. – Continuation since 2013 of a clandestine Syrian chemical weapons programme
a) In a previous declassified national report in 2013, the French services laid out their knowledge of the Syrian chemical weapons programme and chemical attacks perpetrated by the regime. They noted that sarin was principally used in binary form: a mixture of methylphosphonyl difluoride (DF), a key precursor in the manufacture of sarin, and isopropanol produced just before use.
France informed the OPCW that Syria's explanations on the quantities of DF declared – approximately 20 tonnes – as having been used in tests or lost in accidents were exaggerated. Moreover, France has observed since 2014 Syrian attempts to acquire dozens of tonnes of isopropanol. The Declaration Assessment Team (DAT) from the Technical Secretariat of the OPCW has been unable to obtain any proof of the veracity of Syria's declarations. The OPCW itself has identified major inconsistencies in Syria's explanations concerning the presence of sarin derivatives on several sites where no activity relating to the toxin had been declared.
b) On the basis of the conclusions of the DAT and its own intelligence, France assesses that major doubts remain as to the accuracy, exhaustiveness and sincerity of the decommissioning of Syria's chemical weapons arsenal. In particular, France assesses that Syria has maintained a capacity to produce or stock sarin, despite its commitment to destroy all stocks and capacities. Lastly, France assesses that Syria has not declared tactical munitions (grenades and rockets) such as those repeatedly used since 2013.
c) The Damascus regime has continued to employ chemical weapons against its population since Syria's accession to the CWC on 13 October 2013. There have been over 100 allegations of such use, concerning chlorine as well as sarin.
Since 2014, the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) has published several reports confirming the use of chemical weapons against civilians in Syria. The UN-OPCW Joint Investigation Mechanism (JIM) has investigated nine allegations of chemical weapons employment. In its reports in August and October 2016, the JIM attributed three cases of employment of chlorine to the Damascus regime and one of mustard gas to Daesh.
Based on this overall evaluation and on reliable and consistent intelligence collected by our Services, France assesses that the Syrian armed forces and security services perpetrated a chemical attack using sarin against civilians in Khan Sheikhoun on 4 April 2017.
End of Report
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Chemical Attack in Syria – National Evaluation presented by Jean-Marc Ayrault following the Defense Council Meeting (26 April 2017) — France Diplomatie
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XAVC é um formato de gravação que foi introduzido pela Sony em 30 de outubro de 2012. XAVC é um formato que é licenciado para empresas que queiram fazer produtos XAVC.

Detalhes técnicos
XAVC usa nível 5.2 do H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC, que é o nível mais alto suportado por esse padrão de vídeo. XAVC pode apoiar a resolução 4K (4096 × 2160 e 3840 × 2160) em até 60 quadros por segundo (fps). XAVC suporta profundidade de cores de 8 bits, 10 bits e 12-bits. O sampleamento de imagem pode ser 4:2:0, 4:2:2 ou 4:4:4. O Formato de Intercâmbio de materiais (MXF) pode ser utilizado para o recipiente de formato digital. XAVC permite uma ampla gama de produção de conteúdo, incluindo intra gravação de quadros e longo grupo de imagens (GOP) de gravação.

Ver também
 O H.264/MPEG-4 AVC- O padrão de vídeo que é utilizado por XAVC
 SxS- Um padrão de memória flash usada pela Sony
 AVCHD - Um formato de gravação que utiliza um nível inferior de H.264/MPEG-4 AVC

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2018 PG-13 1h 53m Blu-ray / DVD
A deep-sea submersible filled with an international research crew lies disabled at the bottom of the Pacific after having been attacked by a massive shark previously thought to be extinct. With time running out, expert deep sea rescue diver Jonas Taylor is recruited by a visionary Chinese oceanographer to save the crew—and the ocean itself—from this unstoppable threat: a pre-historic 75-foot-long shark known as the Megalodon. What no one could have imagined is that years before, Taylor had encountered this same terrifying creature. Now he must risk his own life to save everyone trapped below...bringing him face to face once more with the greatest and largest predator of all time!
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