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News, Politics and Current Affairs
Russia warns humanity at risk ( Possible Nuclear War ) if West seeks to punish it over Ukraine
By Grim Reaper 6,
July 7, 2022 in UK and Europe
Knob Oddy
2 hours ago, Katniss said:
And are you going to go into Russia and arrest him if he gets convicted? If you do, while you are at it, travel over to North Korea and arrest Kim Jong-un for his convicted crimes against humanity to. Good luck!
Edit; corrected word usage.
Sorry- what is your point?
Putin is locked in a purpose made bunker right now. Biden has said he wants putin to be removed as leader of Russia.
I imagine Putin is very worried about his safety and even false alarms may lead to him pulling the trigger on his trump card. Or was there some other "peaceful" way to remove Putin?
Created Jul 7
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Nuclear Wessel 9 posts
Tatetopa 8 posts
Katniss 11 posts
Grim Reaper 6 22 posts
Tatetopa
To punish an aggressive bully is absurd? Anybody know what happens when you let a bully get away with it?
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I was almost going to comment ... so here goes. Someday, there'll be a settlement of the war, and it will include war crimes - "punishment?" we'll see. But Russia's long-term costs aren't only go
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Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said attempts by the West to punish a nuclear power such as Russia for the war in Ukraine risked endangering humanity, as the near five-month conflict leaves c
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13 hours ago, Katniss said:
True. But irrational people do not often continuously makes threats for long periods of time. They lose their patience very soon an shoot or stab without very little warning. I don't see him taking the risk, because after he lost taking over Kyviv an failed killing the Ukraine leader, I think he would have launched nukes in the Ukraine by now, but he wants to obviously preserve land and get what he thinks is Soviet lands back.
I won't bother believing it or be worried about it. It's all talk as far as I'm concerned. Bluffing.
Honestly I could care less either way, my expiration date expired in the 1990s I am not suppose to be alive I am living in barrowed time so what's ever left is cool and it were to happen I will die with my only love so what's better than that we have had full lives!
My only concern is what we leaving behind for the next generation, it's a horrible fricken mess. This is my only worldly regret!
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15 hours ago, Nuclear Wessel said:
The problem with that, joc, is that we are inferring probability from a standpoint of rationality. We assume that Putin is rational enough to not actually do it, and we assume that each and every one of the nuclear commanders would reject orders to launch nukes. Based on Putin's actions and rhetoric, there is a marked decline in rationality, and am increase in aggressive and rash behaviour.
I have been saying this since February 24th - we can not look at Putin from an angle of rationality anymore. He is not that rational persona that he projected to the world - he is a narcissistic personality who also seems to be displaying traits of psychosis, slowly. His paranoia is increasing, and he is becoming more isolated. This, to me, increases the chances of him initiating a nuclear strike.
You actually do make a very good point. The point is, Don't ever underestimate your enemy. Another good point is, never 'assume' anything.
My bad is that I am assuming something I have no way of knowing...the mental framework of a madman. And anyone that would just do what Putin has done in Ukraine in this day and age and think he can just do it consequence free is a mad man.
So, I am assuming ...never assume anything. Another point is that if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. When someone threatens the world with nuclear destruction for crimes they are committing in front of the world, blatantly...what else can you call that except delusional and psychotic.
The problem too is that left alone...he might start throwing nukes for no other reason than paranoia...and anything anyone at this point does to deter his plans will only feed that paranoia. And if he is that paranoid...he is a very dangerous man even to his own inner circle...and we know what deranged psychopaths do to their inner circles when they become paranoid. Look no further than North Korea.
But on a brighter side. What is the point of worrying about a nuclear war? It's not like if there isn't one you aren't going to die. And you don't know when and you don't know how. You might find yourself on a bank of a river in Purgatory thinking, well we didn't have a nuclear war but...gee whiz...I wish I had known that steak was full of salmaonella....
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4 hours ago, Knob Oddy said:
They have enough evidence against Kim Jong-un to convict him of crimes against humanity, but they can't get him and they probably never will. So it will probably be the same for Putin and I imagine he is smart enough to know that. So the point is, who the heck is going to go into those two heavily armed massive countries and arrest them to bring them both before a international court to be convicted of their crimes? You? Me? The E.U.? The U.S.? I don't think so.
And it doesn't matter what Biden said. He is talking for political virtue, but knows it won't happen, because they can't even get Kim Jong-un.
4 hours ago, Manwon Lender said:
Umm, yes, please don't take this the wrong way, Manwon, but I think making this thread may be causing some members on UM strong anxiety. I'm not sure you should have posted this.
4 hours ago, joc said:
Once I ate undercooked chicken, and I got really bad salmonella poison from it. I felt like I was in purgatory, bathroom toilet purgatory.
17 minutes ago, Katniss said:
I believe your correct, however I also don't believe in living in a sound proof bubble! There is nothing posted that doesn't accurately reflect the current situation in the World at this moment and true fear / anxiety come from a lack of information not from facing the current situation, adjusting to it and living every moment of our lives with all we have.
By not facing this situation, a special phone call may never be made, or someone may never tell another they love them because they never realized how short our time on Earth may actually be. So please don't take my comments the wrong way, until you have faced your possible expiration date and walked away from it you will never know how valuable, precious and short life actually is!
As far as my posting this thread no one is chained to this thread just don't participate in it if someone is bothered by it that much! Then be sure to turn off the news, the TV, your computer and especially your cell phone because sincerely this thread is about reality as it stands right now and by listening to any of those devices above will certainly insure that they are exposed to the same information that is being disseminated in this thread!
Sincerely have a wonderful day or evening where ever you are Katniss and there is no disrespect intended to anyone reading these comments, and Katniss thanks for your thoughts on this subject!
No he certainly is not locked a bunker right now, because I can see him as we speak through my sight!
You seem to miss the entire point of what's going right now, settle down! The entire point of this is not have the West remove Putin, but to have his own Government take him out, that's the Peaceful manner in which to remove Putin! Also I have no idea what trigger your talking about, but if you think he has a trigger where he can launch Russias Nuclear ☢ Weapons it doesn't work like that there is no trigger! The Nuclear use authority belongs to no single individual, it takes small groups of people to launch a countries Nuclear Arsenal this is not Hollywood my friend!
Oh and by the way, if one individual in one of those small groups doesn't do his assign task the Thermal Nuclear Missiles and thrum warheads don't launch!
Edited July 8, 2022 by Manwon Lender
18 hours ago, spartan max2 said:
Humanity has always been doomed if sanctions is all it takes to trigger nuclear war
Your spot on my friend, but it's much more than sanctions! Because of his failure in the opening days of the battle and his continued personal and equipment loses he has lost face on a global level. This is almost as bad to many Russians as 1989-1990 when the Soviet Union collapsed, and Putin is one those Russians. He wanted to be the next Stalin, and now he nothing but a has been dictator and we all know how countries dispose of failed has been dictators, with a loud bang in the back if the head, or some Nerve Agent would also be fitting either way it will come from his own people and that's best!
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I don't know where you are seeing this "strong anxiety". Perhaps some of these posts are invoking some kind of anxiety within you?
Edited July 8, 2022 by Nuclear Wessel
27 minutes ago, Nuclear Wessel said:
I suspect that may be true!
This song goes out to everyone who may sincerely have fear or anxiety from this thread listen to it and read the lyrics it may help you focus on what's really important in times like these!
18 minutes ago, Manwon Lender said:
I can certainly understand why some people would experience anxiety, around these topics - to confront one's mortality, especially when you have no control over it, is not exactly a pleasant prospect.
There is no point in being anxious about things that are not in your control, though. Control the controllables.
Just now, Nuclear Wessel said:
Well with the mass murder in the US and Genocide occurring around the world may a Nuclear ☢ exchange on small scale will bring sanity back to the Human race, something needs to and fast. The Doomsday Clock is at 18 seconds to midnight and it's never been there since it was first started!
1 hour ago, Manwon Lender said:
Which doomsday clock are you referring to? The one that I looked at shows 100 seconds to midnight.
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Don't particularly want nukes to be used but I do think our species could do with a cull tbh. Sounds horrible but we haven't reached global overpopulation yet there's just mess everywhere.
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A few thoughts that may reduce anxiety - or just skip right to the last sentence, it all comes down to that one last sentence:
Russians who make decisions know that their own, Russian propaganda is a lie. They know the West wouldn't be helpless and annihilated with unstoppable nuclear force that would destroy entire continents, they know there absolutely would be retaliatory strike by the West, no matter how successful or not successful Russian initial strike turns out to be.
(Russian propaganda for domestic use keep boasting with Russian ability to destroy half of the world and they never mention any consequences for Russia. Westerners misunderstood that Russians are being prepared to die in nuclear fire. They're not. They are being told that Russia can incapacitate the West, thus preventing retaliatory strike. But those who create propaganda and make decisions know it's bull**** and they'd burn worse than West, in case they start a nuclear exchange.)
So the Russian propaganda, which you can read in this site too, aims at creating fear of "mighty" Russia, which can end your life as it pleases. It can't. Russia can attempt to kill you and get leveled with the ground in retaliatory strike. They're shameless manipulators to the point of sounding insane, but they're not insane, they are simply trying to manipulate you by fear.
Russian nukes are indeed more numerous, but their functionality is dubious. One of the reasons why war against Ukraine was a gigantic mistake is that we all saw that Russian propaganda image has nothing to do with the true state of their military, in every segment (no brains, no logistics, no truly modern weapons, no motivation... ).
Also, not every Russian is a putlerian moron. There are plenty of kind and sane Russians, who have to stay silent in order to stay alive and out of prison. It's impossible to know how many Russians in key positions are actually normal people who wouldn't do their part of procedure for launching nuclear weapons.
Some people are simply responsible individuals and they take nuclear anything, especially threats, seriously. I can't object to that.
But they can relax. Besides propaganda screeching, there was no sign so far that Russians are actually preparing a nuclear attack. Maybe such sign wouldn't be publicly advertised, but the West would let Russians know they've been noticed and the response is ready.
As long as Russians know there will be the response they won't even try. (If western stance regarding Ukraine was limp, then there would be an actual chance for Putin to nuke Kyiv or something.)
I see this as a possible opportunity for change and the inevitable resistance to change from those benefitting most from the current world order.
The current world order seems based on authoritarian states with authoritarian leaders that can threaten and dominate weaker neighbors. It is dominated by the we versus them attitude that has brought internal cohesion to conquering nations throughout history. The evangelical radical right seems well content with this order of things.
Now we have smaller weaker nations standing together and saying, "Not this time" to the big authoritarian bully. If they prevail, it does change the world. I am glad the US supports their efforts, even if it is for our own political reasons.
5 hours ago, ThereWeAreThen said:
I don't think you can reduce population without challenging authoritarian states and their supporters.
Individuals may decide not to have more children than they desire or can afford, That may be none in some cases. Many individuals, especially among the young are aware of the effects of humanity on climate, and may want a smaller more sustainable population.
Authoritarian states need women to be brood mares because they need more soldiers.
Mega-corporations that control so much of the world economy need population growth to keep demand for their products and the stock market growing.
Change would upset the apple carts for authoritarian states, mega-corporations, and mega-churches. They will use every trick they can to stifle or delay it. That includes engendering fear and anger in the populace of many nations.
DAILY UPDATE FROM THE NUCLEAR ☢ REGULATORY COMMISSION
LOSS OF NATIONAL WARNING SYSTEM TOWER
"On 7/7/2022, at 0740 CDT, the National Weather Service reported to Cooper Nuclear Station that the NAWAS [(National Warning System)] radio tower near Shubert, Nebraska would neither transmit nor receive. The Shubert Tower transmitter activates the EAS [(Emergency Alert System)]/Tone Alert Radios used for public notification. Additional information from the National Weather Service received 7/7/2022 at 1601 [CDT] determined that the Shubert Tower transmitter is non-functional and would not likely be repaired within 24 hours. The backup notification system has been verified to be available throughout this period.
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International Atomic Energy Agency Update
Nuclear Proliferation and the IAEA's Indispensable Job Bolstering International Security in a Changed World: IAEA Director General Delivers 2022 John Gee Memorial Lecture:
Mr Grossi delivered the 2022 John Gee Memorial Lecture, speaking about the past and present proliferation tendencies. He also spoke about the IAEA's work in the areas of nuclear safety and helping countries to prevent, detect and respond to acts and threats of nuclear terrorism; the role of nuclear power in avoiding emissions that cause climate change and air pollution, and the life-saving benefits of nuclear science and technology.
Mr Grossi gave an overview of the ways in which the IAEA is assisting Ukraine's nuclear facilities operator and regulator, both remotely through its Incident and Emergency Centre and through on-the-ground missions in the country. The lecture was organized by the Australian National University in honour of the late Australian diplomat John Gee. Watch the recording here. Mr Grossi's presentation was followed by a question and answer session, which begins at the 26-minute mark of the 40-minute video.
https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/nuclear-proliferation-and-the-iaeas-indispensable-job-bolstering-international-security-in-a-changed-world-iaea-director-general-delivers-2022-john-gee-memorial-lecture
THE RISK OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Despite the end of the Cold War over two decades ago, humanity still has an estimated 13,410 nuclear weapons. Some of these are hundreds of times more powerful than those that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and they may be able to create a decade-long nuclear winter that could kill most people on Earth. Yet the superpowers plan to invest over a trillion dollars upgrading their nuclear arsenals, which many experts believe increases the risk of nuclear proliferation, nuclear terrorism, and accidental nuclear war.
What do the experts worry about?
Common concerns span the spectrum from a nuclear terrorist attack against a single city, potentially killing millions of people, to all-out global nuclear war, potentially killing billions. Most experts agree that the average person is more likely to succumb to nuclear war than nuclear terrorism. Nuclear war can potentially kill 1000 times more people than a nuclear terrorist attack (billions rather than millions), but it is certainly not 1000 times less likely than nuclear terrorism. Plus, given the many near-misses that have already occurred, a nuclear war is more likely than many people realize.
How many people would all-out nuclear war kill?
Scientists continue to discover new lethal effects of nuclear war, so it is hard to be confident that we now know them all. First, the radiation risks were underestimated. Victims in the US have received over $2 billion in compensation for radiation exposure that resulted from nuclear testing and uranium handling. Then it was discovered that the electromagnetic pulse from a high-altitude detonation could potentially damage electronics and power grids across thousands of kilometers. A 1979 report by the US Government estimated that all-out war would kill 28%-88% of Americans and 22%-50% of Soviets (150-450 million people with today's populations), but this was before the risk of nuclear winter was discovered in the 1980's.
See link for more information: https://futureoflife.org/background/the-risk-of-nuclear-weapons/
Shadow of the bomb: Russia's nuclear threats
After Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin declared on 24 April that Russia needs to be weakened to the point that it could not bully its neighbours, President Joe Biden wrote in the New York Times that the US would not use the war to inflict more damage on Russia than was necessary to halt the invasion. This prompted widespread speculation about whether the war aims of the White House differed from those of the state and defence departments.
Fear of nuclear escalation is even more apparent in some western European capitals than in Washington. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stated in April that "there must not be a nuclear war" as a defence of his reluctance to supply Ukraine with heavy weapons. He decided that Germany would only deliver certain systems – main battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles – to its eastern European allies so that they could provide Soviet-era systems to Ukraine. Militarily, these swap deals make no sense, as they only delay assistance to Ukraine and provide it with inferior materiel!
However, these fears are unjustified. Nuclear warfare against Ukraine makes no sense. A single nuclear strike would not alter the military balance in the war. The use of multiple nuclear weapons would do so, but would also inflict huge and lasting damage on Russia. Nuclear attacks on a NATO country would begin escalation that Russia could not control. And the Russian military would be unable to respond to any other contingency, because it would be bogged down in Ukraine. Russia could only respond to retaliation for a nuclear strike with further nuclear escalation – which would be suicidal. Putin is certainly not concerned with morals or ethics, but he is far from crazy or suicidal.
One could always have anticipated that Putin would use a nuclear scare to influence the West's position. However, it is surprising how successful his approach has been. This is the first time a state has used the threat of nuclear weapons to engage in a colonial conflict or a war of expansion. France did not threaten to use nuclear weapons against states that backed Algerian nationalists or the Viet Minh. Nor did the United Kingdom threaten Argentina in this way during the Falklands war. The Soviet Union did not resort to nuclear threats during its Afghanistan campaign. Nor did the US in Vietnam, Iraq, or Korea. None of the diplomats who negotiated the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) – be they Western, Soviet, or non-aligned – appeared to consider that a state would use nuclear threats as cover for expansion into the territory of a non-nuclear state.
see the link fir further information: https://ecfr.eu/article/shadow-of-the-bomb-russias-nuclear-threats/
Global Peace Needs a Clear U.S. Reply to Putin's Nuclear Threat
Ideas for ending Russia's Ukraine war must sustain deterrence against nuclear or chemical attack
As signs increase that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is failing to achieve President Vladimir Putin's goals, he has hinted menacingly at using a chemical or nuclear weapon. This leads some western analysts to suggest offering Putin a face-saving exit from his crisis. That would be a simplistic answer to a complex challenge, rather than the finely balanced response that is needed. Worse, it would be dangerous, signaling to governments worldwide that armed aggression — especially with weapons of mass destruction at hand — is a sure path to wielding international power.
Some U.S. analysts worry that humiliation for Putin will lead to Russian use of chemical or nuclear weapons — and so the West should allow him a face-saving way out of his predicament. While diplomacy should as always avoid any needless risk of escalating conflict, the reality is that Russian use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine remains unlikely. Despite Russian rhetoric, CIA Director William Burns assured Congress last month that the United States was seeing no "practical evidence" suggesting Russia is preparing nuclear weapons for imminent use.
It is unclear what Russia would actually gain by using nuclear weapons. The Kremlin is arguing at home that it is fighting to protect the lives of Russian-speakers in Ukraine. Russian forces are fighting in the areas Russia has indicated it wants to annex. Using a nuclear weapon on that battlefield would threaten the very lives Russia says it is defending.
Russia could seek to intimidate Ukraine and its supporters by detonating a small nuclear weapon. But indications suggest that Putin's saber-rattling already is frightening Russians themselves. A "demonstration strike" in Ukraine poses a risk to Putin of further alarming, and dividing, the Russian elites via which he exercises power. Finally, Russian military and nuclear doctrine limits a Russian use of nuclear weapons to two situations: responding to the use of a weapon of mass destruction against Russia or its allies, or when conventional warfare threatens Russian nuclear command and control or the existence of the state itself. The war in Ukraine presents no such case.
See link for more information: https://www.usip.org/publications/2022/05/global-peace-needs-clear-us-reply-putins-nuclear-threat
Russia to send Belarus nuclear-capable missiles within months, as G7 leaders gather in Germany
Russia will deliver missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads to Belarus in the coming months, President Vladimir Putin has said as he received Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko.
"In the coming months, we will transfer to Belarus Iskander-M tactical missile systems, which can use ballistic or cruise missiles, in their conventional and nuclear versions," Putin said in a broadcast on Russian television at the start of his meeting with Lukashenko in St Petersburg on Saturday.
Putin has several times referred to nuclear weapons since his country launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February, in what the west has seen as a warning not to intervene. Lukashenko said last month that his country had bought Iskander nuclear-capable missiles and S-400 anti-aircraft anti-missile systems from Russia.
The development came on the eve of a meeting of G7 leaders in Germany on Sunday, to be hosted by Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the Bavarian alps, which is set to be dominated by Ukraine and its far-reaching consequences, from energy shortages to a food crisis.
The G7 leaders are expected to seek to show a united front on supporting Ukraine for as long as necessary and cranking up pressure on the Kremlin – although they will want to avoid sanctions that could stoke inflation and exacerbate the global cost-of-living crisis.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/26/russia-to-send-belarus-nuclear-capable-missiles-within-months-as-g7-leaders-gather-in-germany


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How Porto made a champion of Pepe
UEFA Champions League winner Pepe gives Porto credit for his having won the world's top club competition three times.
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Pepe won three league titles, two Spanish Cups and three UEFA Champions Leagues with Real Madrid, but having returned to the club he first served from 2004–07, the defender maintains that Porto were the making of him.
LIVERPOOL V PORTO BUILD-UP
The Brazilian-born centre-back actually started out with Marítimo on the Portuguese island of Madeira but blossomed after joining Porto, winning two Ligas to earn Madrid's attention. Now 36, he spoke to UEFA.com ahead of Porto's meeting with Liverpool, hoping he might have more huge achievements to look back on once his playing days are over.
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"[I have already won the UEFA Champions League three times] and this season it's going to be four, God willing! We know we have a very difficult task, against a strong team [Liverpool] who play in the style of their coach. But we have to be ourselves, we have to be the same team we have been in this Champions League campaign, a cohesive team that fight for everything, looking for a positive result, looking to score goals – being ourselves. We have to respect Liverpool, who are a great team, but we are going to do our job.
"I'll always say it was football that gave me everything in life – lots of friends, the chance to make my dreams come true. Returning to Porto was also my dream – to come back to the club where I was so happy. This is a team that taught me a lot and made me the player I am today.
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"The first time [I joined] was difficult because I'd left a small island to come to the mainland. I had to adapt very quickly because this was just after Porto had won the Champions League. Yet I identified strongly with the club, the people at the club made me feel very comfortable and provided the best working conditions for me.
"Porto improve every single player because this is a very demanding club. Porto prepared me really well and this didn't go unnoticed in Spain, as before I went to Real Madrid the club were known as a graveyard for centre-backs. They had amazing centre-backs that had failed there. I came from a league viewed by many as not as competitive as others, but I played [at Madrid] for ten years and won many trophies.
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"Now I'm back here with Porto, with a lot of [other] good central defenders. Defenders who, in my opinion, could very well be playing for a club like Real Madrid because they've a lot of quality. So much so that [Éder] Militão was bought by Madrid, right?!
"I moved to Beşiktaş [in 2017] primarily because I wanted to experience a new culture. I really enjoyed my time in Turkey – I'm always going to feel warmth for the people there who always treated me very well, and I'm always going to have a place in my heart for Beşiktaş, who then gave me the chance to [rejoin] the club that own my heart, Porto."
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As students and the accreditation bodies that regulate colleges and universities demand direct-evidence of student learning, being able to connect learning outcomes to assessments is increasingly important. ExamSoft, the leading provider of intelligent embedded assessment solutions, today announced updates to its platform that will help faculty members and institutions get information in real time and intervene earlier with students. Built for faculty, the new release offers simpler navigation, streamlined question creation, the ability to blueprint exams by learning outcome, and easier student management and report creation.
"In this article, we describe an easily adoptable and adaptable model for a one-credit capstone course that we designed to assess goals at the programmatic and institutional levels." (p. 523) That's what the authors claim in the article referenced below, and that's what they deliver. The capstone course they write about is the culmination of a degree in political science at a public university.
Anyone with a 3-year-old knows one of their favorite words is "Why." As it turns out, asking "why" is a good way to examine your assessment goals and how they align with your institution's core values.
"My favorite assessment question is 'Why' and I ask it over and over again," said Linda Suskie, president at the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
In the mid-1990s, college faculty members were introduced to the concept of classroom assessment techniques (CATs) by Angelo and Cross (1993). These formative assessment strategies were learner-centered, teacher-directed ongoing activities that were rooted in good teaching practice. They were designed to provide relatively quick and useful feedback to the faculty member about what students did and did not understand in order to enhance the teaching and learning process.


The NEII Environmental vocabulary service provides a mechanism to create, curate and publish environmental vocabularies making them accessible to computers, systems and people.
The NEII vocabulary service uses the Australian National Data Service's (ANDS) Research Vocabularies Australia (RVA) platform as the backbone; an NEII hosted instance of the CSIRO SISSVoc Linked Data Application Programming Interface complements the ANDS capability to support additional customisation and system redundancy.
All vocabularies will be discoverable through www.neii.gov.au and RVA.
A vocabulary can be defined as a list of words or phrases and corresponding definitions that are defined, governed and maintained by knowledge domains. For example the follwing represents a simple flat term list with accompanying definitions.
More complex variants of vocabularies also exist including for example, thesauri and synonyms. Vocabularies, their terms and the respective relationships across vocabularies and terms can be described using standard methods for example through the use of the Simple Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS).
Environmental vocabularies underpin environmental management, environmental research and for the NEII, environmental information systems. For example, maintaining a publically accessible central point of truth for a national vegetation species classification ensures systems such as databases or smartphone applications and people including field teams and scientists have access to the most current terms and definitions for that species. This in-turn ensures a consistency in data description that enables more effective data discovery, access and re-use by users.
What is a vocabulary service?
In the NEII context an environmental vocabulary service provides the ability to create new vocabularies, to manage and curate these and to publish content through open data principles such as through APIs. A vocabulary service can also provide different views into terms, for example through ordered lists like a dictionary or glossary.
It is also possible to then separately define the relationships between that term and other terms. Once defined these terms and relationships can then be exploited to expose different views (or queries) on the information e.g. a hierarchical view, or a domain view, or a thesaurus-like view, or a taxonomy. So a vocabulary service can potentially be used to provide any of dictionary, thesaurus, taxonomy etc.
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Daniel Coghlan takes a peek at the vintage designs for this classic play.
"TIME: EARLY EVENING. THURSDAY. 31 AUGUST 1939."
And so the stage is set for His Girl Friday, the fast-paced newsroom comedy based on the play The Front Page and its resulting 1940 film His Girl Friday. The cast for this classic play is the biggest we've had this year, which means it's been as busy as any newsroom here at MTC HQ for the past month. Cast member John Leary recently posted this picture of the cast's mugs on Instagram – it's no wonder we have to wait a little longer
for our coffee in the morning!
One of the exciting things about any show set in yesteryear is the opportunity to buy and create vintage costumes. A sneaky peek in the wardrobe department revealed the team are hard at work sourcing and recreating pieces for each character that match Chicago's 1939 fashion trends. Here are some exclusive behind-the-scenes pictures of the costume designs providing a glimpse of what audiences can expect:
As you can see, the costume for Hildegard "Hildy" Johnson (to be played by Pamela Rabe) includes a jacket dress; a popular staple of late 1930s women's workwear. In fact, we found a Best & Co advertisement for a similar outfit in the New York Times from the day the play is set which describes it as "a 'uniform' with scores of smart young women … They love the new look of its hour-glass waistline and tiny flaring peplum. Ideal choice for your first days back in town." So it seems our Hildy will be bang on trend!
With the arrival of the Great Depression the bright and colourful clothes of the Roaring 20s gave way to more subdued tones. Browns, greys and blacks became common in every day wear, and this is reflected in the His Girl Friday designs – especially in the courthouse journalists' outfits:
However, the era's colour palette wasn't all sepia-toned. In fact, just like in The Wizard of Oz (which was released six days before His Girl Friday is set), there were bursts of colour as well. Costume Designer Tracy Grant Lord has added a range of more colourful options in addition to the browns, blacks and greys.
You can see the full spectrum of vintage designs live on stage when His Girl Friday begins at Arts Centre Melbourne, Playhouse, on 11 August.
All costume designs copyright Tracy Grant Lord 2012


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Exciting news at Community Energy Project (CEP). CEP as leading energy experts since 1979, knew we should pivot to providing Home Energy Scores when they became required in Portland. Now into our second year and we couldn't be happier to continue this service but now at a lower rate!
Our staff members Peter Kernan, Roc Aiken, Jackie Zusi Russell, and Geoff Fey, comprise our assessor team. Their backgrounds in the energy field assure an abundance of knowledge and continuity. Having multiple members to CEP's team allows an increased capacity to perform Home Energy Score assessments and enables realtors and home buyers alike, flexible scheduling. If you don't see a day/time that is preferred please email advisors@communityenergyproject.org or call 971.544.8704 x 7004.
As of 2018, Portland homes require a Home Energy Score if they are going on the real estate market. CEP now offers Home Energy Score Workshops! They are perfect for homeowners looking to sell their home, new home buyers, or realtors.
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More Proof That Happier Workers Produce More
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By Knowledge@Wharton, Knowledge@Wharton
Burned out from the experience of starting and running two entrepreneurial ventures, David Niu decided he need to recharge. He coined a new word to describe the journey that he, his wife and his 10-month-old would be taking: a 'careercation.' During the trip, he also interviewed 30 entrepreneurs to gain more insight into his own experience and to try to understand what he wanted to do next.
Knowledge@Wharton recently spoke with Niu about his book, which chronicles the experience: Careercation: Trading Briefcase for Suitcase to Find Entrepreneurial Happiness. "'Careercation'" is a bit of a play on words: career plus vacation," he explained. "I did not want to wait until I was 67-and-a-half and getting Social Security and having a lot of time on my hands, but not a lot of help [to travel].
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"I thought, Instead of taking the traditional route that society expects of me, I am going to break out my retirement throughout my career and take longer vacations to really recharge and refresh and get different perspectives instead of saving it for my old age."
Knowledge@Wharton: Where did you go your first careercation, and what was it that you hoped to accomplish?
David Niu: My wife, my then 10-month old daughter and I sold everything we owned. We stuck the rest of our belongings in storage, and we bought one-way tickets to New Zealand. In 2012 we ended up going to Australia, Korea, China, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan and then back to the United States.
Before my trip, I had two basic goals. One was to create some amazing shared family memories with my young family. I had just gotten married and had a baby daughter in really quick succession. They say that kids grow so quickly, so I really wanted to enjoy that part and make some great memories. The second part was, I had created two companies prior to the careercation. In the second one, I was feeling really, really burnt out. Wherever we went, I wanted to interview CEOs and entrepreneurs about best practices when it came to running their business, but in particular around leadership, culture and managing people.
Knowledge@Wharton: You ultimately spoke to 30 entrepreneurs. What themes arose?
Niu: When I was talking to entrepreneurs, I would talk about best practices. When it came to culture and managing people, one theme that really popped out — regardless of size, location and industry — was that managing people is hard. I started out in some countries with Western management philosophies, such as New Zealand and Australia, so I was really interested to go to Korea and China to see if they had that same type of challenge. And they did.
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The second corollary was that the companies that had the best culture [were those where] the CEO or the entrepreneur who I was interviewing was the happiest. The ones complaining the most usually had a really poor culture and a lot of difficulties they wanted to work on. It was really interesting to see how they were interrelated. Not only did it make sense to me intrinsically that with a great culture, you have better retention — you also have happier people and more productive people — but, ultimately, it also makes the CEO or the manager happier to go into work when they see people who are happy.
Knowledge@Wharton: One of the biggest pain points for the leaders of these organizations, you found, is the performance review. What did you see there?
Niu: Everyone seemed to have a different way of doing performance reviews. When most people started a company, they had usually [worked at another company before that], and they would borrow whatever performance reviews they had from their prior company. When people do these performance reviews once a year, it is really hard for them to gauge how people are feeling throughout the year.
People's emotions change all the time. Their performance changes all the time. The company's performance changes, too. It was just really lacking in terms of being able to get more of an ongoing sense of how people were doing not only performance-wise, but also how they were fitting within the company culture.
Knowledge@Wharton: Tell us about the launch of your organization.
Niu: At the end of every interview, I would close with one question: Can you tell me one pain point you have when it comes to managing people that if I took away you would gladly pay for? Different people would give me different answers, and I would make mental sticky notes as I was interviewing these entrepreneurs. Only when I got sufficiently far away, in both time and distance, could I do something revolutionary. Call it listening. No cell phones, no emails, no text messages. [I could ask myself] what are these people telling me? Are there any trends? And there were.
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Regardless of where people were located, one of the most haunting feelings is when a key employee gives two weeks' notice out of the blue. Usually people [ask], "Why did I not see that coming? Where are you going? Can I save you? Do I want to save you?"
Then the other shoe drops, which is: "Oh my gosh, I have to backfill this really critical role, and I hope that this person is an isolated incident, and there is not more of a cultural issue going on…." That became the inspiration for TINYpulse, my current company. We help companies like Hubspot and LivingSocial get a pulse on how happy, frustrated and burnt-out their employees are at work, so that the managers get a pulse of what is going on before they get two-week notices coming at them.
Knowledge@Wharton: What do you hope readers take away from Careercation?
Niu: In society, there are a lot of expectations that are heaped on us as individuals. When I was doing research, [I came across the writing of a] palliative care nurse who interviewed people on their death beds. She asked them, "What are your greatest regrets in life?" The number-one regret for these people, whose days were dwindling down, was that they did not have the courage to live the life that they wanted to live.
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Instead, they were living the life that other people expected of them and what society expected of them. When we told people that we were going to take this careercation and start traveling with my young family, most people thought we were crazy, including my sisters and my friends. But at the end of the day, it was not that bad at all. We had a fantastic time, and we redefined what we wanted to do and what we wanted to get out of life.
That was a really critical lesson for me. A lot of other people who get stuck in a rut may want to try something different. It is okay to do something that other people might [not support], and through that silver lining, you are going to learn a lot, push yourself and grow.
The second thing is that managing people is hard. It does not matter what your culture is or where you are located. It is okay to acknowledge that managing people is hard. But there are different ways of approaching managing people.
Nowadays when I ask CEOs what is one of the most important advantages that you have for your organization to succeed versus your competitors, the answer would probably be that people and culture would probably be very, very high. Then I ask the following question: If people and culture are very high, what do you do to measure and improve that? We know we cannot manage what we do not measure. They will say we do these annual surveys or we do biannual surveys.
The following question is, how often do you look at your finances or your accounting or product or strategy? There may be weekly meetings or monthly meetings about that, which is the total opposite, because they just told me something was more valuable, but they measure it less or they can improve less. There is definitely a sea change coming, in terms of how people want to acknowledge that people and culture are really important. There are different approaches — be it TINYpulse or other philosophies — that can help them improve the productivity and retention of their folks, and at the end of the day, they are going to be happier as well.
This article originally appeared at Knowledge at Wharton.
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Minoan Civilization (Crete)
The Minoan civilization existed in the II millennium BC, centered on the island of Crete. It was the first great civilization on European soil, the forerunner of the culture of ancient Greece.
Crete is located in the Mediterranean Sea 100 km south of mainland Greece. It is a narrow, mountainous island stretched from west to east with a climate favorable for agriculture, fairly fertile soil and excellent shallow harbors along the deeply indented northern coast. Here, having originated about 4000 years ago, the civilization now known as the Minoan civilization developed, flourished and died out.
The Minoans were a seafaring people, with a highly developed and complex system of religious worship and stable trading traditions. In the era when the Minoans reached their maximum power, their fleets sailed from Sicily and Greece to Asia Minor, Syria, Phoenicia and Egypt. Minoan artisans produced not only household goods, but also ceramics with amazing paintings, and an extremely diverse variety of carved gems for religious purposes and decorations, they built magnificent palaces, and painted the walls with exquisite frescoes.
The archaeological discovery of the Minoan civilization took place only in 1900 AD, despite the fact that Greek myths and literature were filled from the very beginning with tales of the wealth and power of Crete. In Homer's The Iliad at the dawn of Greek literature mentions King Minos, who ruled in the city of Knossos for several generations before the Trojan War.
According to Greek myth, Minos was the son of the Phoenician princess of Europe and the god Zeus, who, turning into a white bull, kidnapped her and brought her to Crete. In that era, Minos was the most powerful sovereign. He forced Athens to pay tribute to him regularly, sending young men and girls who became the food of the bull-headed monster Minotaur. Athens was freed from this obligation after the hero Theseus killed the Minotaur with the help of Minos' daughter Ariadne. Minos was served by the cunning master Daedalus, who built a maze where the Minotaur got caught.
In the 19th century, few serious scientists believed that these legends had any historical basis. Homer was a poet, not a historian, and it was believed that big cities, wars and heroes were entirely a figment of his imagination. However, in 1873 Heinrich Schliemann discovered the ruins of Troy in Asia Minor just at the place where Homer placed Troy, and in 1876 he repeated the same thing in Mycenae, the city ruled by King Agamemnon, who led a united Greek army against Troy.
Schliemann's discoveries inspired the wealthy English antiquarian and journalist Arthur Evans, who decided that since Troy really existed, Knossos could also exist. In 1900 Evans began excavations on the island. As a result, a colossal palace and an abundance of paintings, ceramics, jewelry and texts were discovered. However, the discovered civilization was clearly not Greek, and Evans called it Minoan, after the legendary king Minos.
Very little is known about the religion of Crete of the III-II millennia BC. Presumably there was a worship of the mother goddess identified with nature - archaeologists found figurines of goddesses holding writhing snakes in their hands. Female cults reflected the special position of women in Cretan society. The mother goddess had companions - creatures with animal heads and human bodies. Such a semi-animal was the Minotaur, the legend of which originates in the cult of the bull. Image of a bull's head made of stone found in Knossos; this cult was associated with special religious ceremonies held in Crete, for which there were special sites. A bull and an acrobat came out to meet each other on them. The bull had to run with his head low, and the acrobat, having managed, grabbed his horns and threw himself on the animal's back, where he made various passes, and then jumped off. Sacred games with bulls required great technique from people, which was achieved by long training. This is not bullfighting or sports: acrobatic stunts were associated with religious ceremonies, possibly imitating human sacrifices. Subsequently, when they were borrowed by the inhabitants of Mycenaean Greece, the games acquired the character of ordinary sports and lost their internal content. In Crete, the bull was revered as a sacred animal, so no everyday objects were made from its horns. The snake was revered as the keeper of the house and embodied wisdom, there were cults of the dead, which can be traced to tombs, clay sarcophagi and vessels in which the dead were buried. No developed religious cult is known in Crete, no large temples or temple complexes have been found.


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But I have an answer you might not have heard.
Myth: There is a right way to publish a book.
Truth: There is NO one right way to publish a book.
In fact, there are usually a FEW viable, responsible, potentially profitable publishing options for each person who is writing a book.
Publishing is a business. The people who make a living publishing books are like the people in any industry. Some are operating out of integrity, and they value your best interest as well as their own. And others…well, not so much.
Sadly, some prominent publishing experts and companies use underhanded tactics, sneaky contracts, and outright lies to sell you on their particular approach to publishing or helping you to self-publish your book.
Not everyone who tells you this is out to get your money or pulling one over on you. Some people genuinely believe there is only one "right way" to publish.
The truth is that you CAN find the right way to publish YOUR book among a few reasonable options you can narrow down.
You CAN find reliable sources of information and data.
You CAN find people of integrity to work with you, coach you, and shepherd you through the process.
And in the end, your book will land in the hands of the people who need it most. Isn't that the goal, after all? To help people with your words, to raise your level of impact, and to make a difference in the world.
But that will never happen if you sit on the book inside you and don't let it out because you're confused about what to do with it.
The people who need to read your book will never reap the benefit of your experience, struggle, triumph, and wisdom if you allow the complexity of the publishing industry to keep you silent.
If the publishing details are your reason for stalling your book, let's clear some of that up now. I advise clients to go into the publishing search armed with facts about your book, your readers, and your business.
What is your main goal with your book?
How do you want to sell your book?
How do you want to use your book in your business?
How much do you want to be involved in the creative process?
Don't overthink these. Just go with your first thoughts for now.
By answering these questions, you'll have a clear idea of the basic parameters of your book strategy. Knowing those will guide you to make choices around publishing that work for you and your goals specifically.
You want to write a nonfiction, self-help book about your experience and expertise in the health coaching field.
Your main goal is to help others avoid the suffering you experienced and to share your 7-step process for achieving optimum wellness.
Your audience are health-conscious professionals who get most of their health information online.
You want to sell your book on Amazon only as an e-book and in print.
You want to use your book to elevate your standing in your industry, create a marketing funnel that builds your email list, and attract ideal clients to your business.
You want to have final word on the cover design, marketing, and other creative choices.
You see that a small, self-publishing team—sometimes called hybrid publishing—would do all the work for you, still give you creative control, publish your book in print and e-book on Amazon, and help you with marketing ideas.
You also see that you could hire freelancers yourself and maybe save a little money, so that's another viable option. As is traditional publishing with a smaller house (since you don't have a huge platform of followers yet), who would professionally publish, do a bit of marketing for you, and might be willing to give you a bit more creative control than the big dogs.
You can then take those three options, identify reputable companies, and interview them. Find out what feels right to you, what would be too difficult with your schedule, or what sounds like it fits with your overall brand image.
You CAN do this publishing thing. You have the ability to figure this out—with help and a little time.
Don't allow the fear of the unknown around publishing stop you from moving forward with your book writing dream. It can be simpler than you think.
What's really holding you back? Not knowing how to publish or not trusting yourself to figure it out when the time comes?
I believe in your ability to figure it out. I don't think you'd be running a business if you didn't have the intuition, the intelligence, and the discernment to bring your book to the world.
But you DO have to write it first.


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Assisting and Supporting Roles
Commonly considered low-status and admin-heavy, combining monotony with high pressure, assisting and supporting roles are all too often unrecognised for their potential as valuable and strategic platforms from which to build a career in the art world. For some, assisting roles are a stepping-stone into a more senior or more specialised role, whilst for others, they can be the basis of a long and fruitful career in executive management. In this blog, we look beyond the Devil Wears Prada stereotype and consider the reality of PA and EA roles in the art world.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an art world professional at director level or above, must be in want of an assistant. With most senior figures in the industry supported by at least one employee, there is an extensive and active market for PAs and EAs – roles that are open to both junior and senior candidates and that do not always require specialised experience. Assisting positions exist in every kind of art world business, from commercial galleries, auction houses and advisories to artist studios and family offices and provide an excellent entry-point into any of these contexts.
Sometimes the titles are used interchangeably: 'PA' generally refers to positions centred on administration and organisation and can often entail supporting a team rather than an individual; 'EA' positions usually involve working for just one or perhaps two people, and tend to require a more strategic approach to business and project support. EAs often stand in for and act on behalf of their boss when it comes to client liaison, representing the business and even sales, and thus usually require a greater level of professional experience. Candidates from a PA background are the ideal applicants for EA roles, and can usually make a straightforward transition to a senior supporting role once they have 3-5 years' experience under their belt.
Within larger commercial galleries and auction houses, senior directors will often have more than one role supporting them. Configurations vary, but in many instances consist of a dedicated client liaison or client developer, a senior EA and a more junior PA. Such set-ups don't tend to offer the same breadth as most EA or PA roles, but they do offer the structure and support of working within a team and sharing responsibilities. Other principals will divide duties between a personal life assistant who oversees household, staff and family matters, and a business assistant whose duties are limited to their professional life. In such instances, both assistants are usually required to work closely together, but with two quite different remits.
Both PA and EA positions will involve managing complex diary and travel schedules, fielding correspondence and maintaining data resources. Many will also balance such administrative duties alongside other duties that would not be expected of those at a similar level in non-supporting roles. Working in close proximity to senior figures not only offers the opportunity to be mentored by someone with excellent industry experience, it also means being privy to their contacts and business developments, allowing unique and privileged insights. There are instances of PAs to artists who have become crucial to their employers' creative output, and of assistants who develop such strong relationships with clients and industry contacts that they take over responsibility for all dealings with them. Equally, there are PAs and EAs who are fast-tracked into a sales capacity due to their work supporting a sales-focussed principal.
Assistants who earn trust and go the extra mile to nurture a good relationship with their boss can become life-long confidantes. A good PA is prized, and is often fiercely guarded by their employer, who will offer excellent benefits and remuneration in order to maintain their loyalty. This is not to say that assisting roles necessarily lack career progression beyond becoming a high-flying EA. Assisting a Sales Director is a fantastic basis for building one's own career in sales, much as assisting a Senior Manager or Director can lead to a role in business or operations management.
PA and EA roles hone skills that are translatable across all sectors and provide an excellent insight into the workings of any art world business. These roles are widely available and, as discussed above, are often much more interesting and rewarding than they are usually given credit for. Moreover, they can lead to a long, secure and lucrative career in executive management or provide an excellent springboard for more specialised and senior positions. Yes, you might be asked to pick up some dry-cleaning on occasion – or even on a regular basis – but the pay-off may be that one day you end up in a senior role yourself, hiring your own PA or EA – and occasionally asking them to do the same for you!
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El Carrara Stadium (por razones de patrocinio llamado Metricon Stadium), es un estadio ubicado en la ciudad de Gold Coast, en Queensland, Australia. Es utilizado principalmente para la práctica del cricket y el fútbol de reglas australianas, y en ocasiones para el fútbol y rugby. El estadio será sede de los Juegos de la Mancomunidad de 2018 (Commonwealth Games), en donde albergara las ceremonias de apertura y clausura, además de las competencias atléticas.

Inaugurado primeramente en 1986, el estadio fue reconstruido totalmente entre 2009 y 2011, aumentando su capacidad de 18 000 a 25 000 asientos (con la capacidad de albergar un adicional de 15 000 asientos temporales). El recinto es utilizado desde 2011 por el club de fútbol australiano Gold Coast Suns de la Australian Football League.

El 15 de marzo de 2011, el club Gold Coast Suns anunció que el grupo constructor Metricon firmó un contrato de A$3 millones para hacerse con los derechos de nombre del estadio por un periodo de 5 años. En marzo del año 2016 la empresa Metricon firmó un acuerdo de extensión de 5 años con los Suns hasta el 25 de marzo de 2020 para los derechos del nombre del estadio.

Véase también
 Anexo:Estadios de Australia
 Anexo:Estadios de fútbol en Asia y Oceanía

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 austadiums.com - Metricon Stadium
 Sitio web oficial

Estadios de rugby de Australia
Estadios de críquet de Australia
Fútbol australiano
Estadios de la apertura de los Juegos de la Mancomunidad

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Every parent wants the best for their children. They want to see them succeed as educated members of society with strong values of parental respect. My parents were no different. From a very young age, I watched closely as my father, Jyoti Prakash, instilled in me, through his personal example, the values of helping the least fortunate in many ways, including paying for the education and marriages of women who were not financially able to do so.
I watched as he taught everyone he came across, respect for the environment by educating them on the importance of utilizing pesticide free farming practices to ensure a healthy humanity. I watched as he encouraged sustainability by discouraging the removable of trees and vegetation to encourage improvements in air quality. These tremendous examples and these seeds of respect taught to me by my parents have inspired me to create an institution with core values of respect for parents, all humanity and the environment in to a world class education.
Throughout my life, I have been deeply influenced by the values and cultural heritage of Indian and European traditions alike. My regular travels to abroad provide me with a world-wide vision for the best education to be provided by HIS. The HIS, is a culmination of my vision to merge the finest in Indian and European educational practices.
I selected this beautiful and serene campus setting, free from the pressures of urban life, in order to develop in the boys and girls a sense of self-assurance and self-reliance.
Education should be all encompassing. Respect for people and culture is the part of the school's belief, Equal opportunity is given to all in HIS. There is no discrimination whatsoever on the basis of religion, community, race, ethnicity or gender. I hope that the school will provide happiness and fulfillment for generations of young people.


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A judge has just vacated the execution date for two convicted rapists and murderers. Why? How did these two convicts form a plan to stall or possibly stop their executions in Texas? Is one of the men innocent of the crimes?


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Instapundit continues to back away from the wreckage of Malkin's book, which just two days ago was an "audacious" conversation starter. He writes that Muller's latest post "seems to make Malkin's thesis regarding MAGIC intercepts as the basis for federal action look shaky..."
Watch Insty carefully now...he puts his hands in his pockets, whistles, turns away, and -- YES -- he's changing the subject! "....though it doesn't make FDR look very good, either."
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Muller v. Malkin is turning into a pre-publication fisking of epic proportions.
"OK, enough about research methods and terminology and book covers. Let's get to the meat of Michelle's claim, shall we?," writes Muller. He then invokes authority and begins to whack Malkin around the ring with it.
The authority is a leading scholarly expert on internment, Greg Robinson, who seems to decisively rebut Malkin's central thesis about internment -- that it was justified by decrypted Japanese communications, and that these decoded messages (known as MAGIC) were the rationale for locking people up on the basis of their ethnic background.
Robinson makes the case that Malkin's primary source on MAGIC was unreliable. Then: "Since there is nothing new in the author's case for MAGIC, my rebuttal will be brief...
"Let me divide it into three parts: first, that the MAGIC cables do not present the image of a Japanese American spy network; Second, that the people who pushed the case for evacuation would not have had access to the MAGIC excerpts in any case; thirdly, that those who did have access to MAGIC did not base their decision on it."
Other than that, I think he liked it okay.
The book is due out on Monday.
Hoggard emails to suggest a quick weblog conference in Greensboro, sparked by the uptick of interest in Internet campaigning by local candidates. Sounds good to me.
Ideas: Free. Open to all. Not a lecture program, but folks with hands-on experience can guide conversation. Might could do it here in the conference room of my office building on a Saturday morning. Invite Mat Gross. Build a blog in real time.
With the Florida state primary less than four weeks away, some veterans of the presidential primaries are at work for rival Democratic aspirants for the US Senate. Former Kerry campaign CTO Sanford Dickert is working for Senate candidate Peter Deutsch, while ex-Graham campaign staffer Joe Jones is working for frontrunner Betty Castor, who has a Deanesque site complete with blog, MeetUp page, and Get Local function.
Muller comes out punching on motive and method, before beginning a substantive review of content.
"I can't imagine how Michelle--or, indeed, anyone--could have done the primary research necessary to understand the record, let alone 'correct' it in the manner the book attempts to do, in five or six years, let alone in one."
Instapundit seems to be backing away just a bit from his earlier support of Malkin, reiterating his opinion that internment was wrong and saying again that he really wants to focus on current immigration policy. Maybe if Muller shows the book Glenn calls "audacious" in his first post to be scurrilous instead, Instapundit will admit that there are better ways to "get the discussion going."
Sam Hieb has moved his Guilford County blog to a new address. As a reader, I found his old Blog Studio software to be fairly unwelcoming, this is an improvement.
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Eric Muller vs. Michelle Malkin in a big summer smackdown, kicking off at Volokh. I got my money on Muller.
Bonus: Photoshop spin begins.
Jeff Thigpen: "Let's talk! This Blog is my PERSONAL INTERACTIVE PLATFORM for Thigpenfordeeds.com!"
Hoggard mentioned a tutorial of some kind for political bloggers -- a great idea, I'd be happy to participate.
A new Greensboro blogger, Jay Ovittore, on the latest terror warnings: "Thank you Howard Dean for finally saying what has needed to be said."
Onion: CIA asks Bush to discontinue blog.
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Koreans eat so much of this super-spicy condiment (40 pounds of it per person each year) that natives say "kimchi" instead of "cheese" when getting their pictures taken. The reddish fermented cabbage (and sometimes radish) dish—made with a mix of garlic, salt, vinegar, chile peppers, and other spices—is served at every meal, either alone or mixed with rice or noodles. And it's part of a high-fiber, low-fat diet that has kept obesity at bay in Korea. Kimchi also is used in everything from soups to pancakes, and as a topping on pizza and burgers.
Why to try it: Kimchi (or kimchee) is loaded with vitamins A, B, and C, but its biggest benefit may be in its "healthy bacteria" called lactobacilli, found in fermented foods like kimchi and yogurt. This good bacteria helps with digestion, plus it seems to help stop and even prevent yeast infections, according to a recent study. And more good news: Some studies show fermented cabbage has compounds that may prevent the growth of cancer.
What to do with it: There's no need to make your own; just pick it up in the refrigerated section of your grocery store or an Asian market for around $4 per 32-ounce jar (Sunja's is one popular brand). You can wake up your morning by scrambling eggs with kimchi, diced tomatoes, and mushrooms. Use it as a wrap filling or to top a baked potato. Or try Spicy Beef and Kimchi Stew, which won our test kitchen's top rating.
This recipe is high in sodium (due to the soy sauce and the kimchi), so if high blood pressure is a concern for you, omit the soy sauce, which will bring the sodium down about 200 milligrams.
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Q: Mouse wheel not working only in browsers on Win 10 My mouse wheel sometimes stops working until Windows restart.
It does NOT work in browsers (all of these: Chrome, Firefox, Edge - the Chromium one), but works fine in any other program.
However, zooming in/out with mouse wheel works fine even in browsers.
I use Windows 10, Logitech Options, everything is up-to-date.
The issue is quite old so I am not sure, but I believe it appears with any mouse and computer I have used (Logitech mice, bluetooth, infra, wired) with Windows 10.
Obviously, I cannot find anything reasonable using Google, because my issue is specific and there are tons of other mouse-wheel issues coming up in search results (like not working only in Chrome etc.).
2021-03-08 Update
I have just realized I am no longer experiencing the issue. Lucky me!
Unfortunately I do not know what happened that made it go away. :-(
The only thing that I know of is that I uninstalled Logitech Options software from all my computers (which solved all connection issues I had with Bluetooth devices, but that is for different topic).
I myself think that some underlying bug has been solved in the meantime (whether in Firefox, mouse driver, or Windows I do not know).

A: If you have a Logitech mouse, try the "Restore Defaults" option from Logitech Options; it worked for me, after experiencing the same symptoms that you get (no scroll wheel on any browser, but works fine everywhere else).

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A hot topic in the legal profession during the past couple of years involves the subject of "spoliation" of evidence. Spoliation (not "spoilation") is defined as the destruction or withholding of critical probative evidence resulting in prejudice to the opposing party. Spoliation occurs when a party to a legal dispute (or a third party) fails to preserve evidence which is the subject of or related to the dispute.
Parties to a lawsuit are permitted to engage in "civil discovery" which allows them to gain access to and inspect evidence relating to the dispute which is in the hands of the other party or a third party. This could include, for example, a piece of equipment which failed and caused injuries or the destruction of other property. It could also involve documents or electronic communications (such as e-mails) relating to a legal dispute.
Parties to a legal dispute are required to take action to preserve evidence which is related to that dispute. This includes tangible physical evidence, and correspondence and other documents, and electronically stored information such as e-mails.
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Preservation of documents and electronically stored information, such as e-mails and text messages, presents unique problems, because this type of information is often deleted or destroyed through the routine application of a document retention system that destroys data on a scheduled basis. The leading case involving the preservation of electrically stored information is Zubulake v. UBS Warburg, LLC (which was decided in the State of New York). The court in Zubulake made it clear that once a party reasonably anticipates litigation, it must suspend its routine document retention/destruction policy and impose a "litigation hold" to preserve documents and electronically stored information.
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