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Q: An implementation of Sharir's or Aurenhammer's deterministic algorithm for calculating the intersection/union of 'N' circles The problem of finding the intersection/union of 'N' discs/circles on a flat plane was first proposed by M. I. Shamos in his 1978 thesis:
Shamos, M. I. "Computational Geometry" Ph.D. thesis, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT 1978.
Since then, in 1985, Micha Sharir presented an O(n log2n) time and O(n) space deterministic algorithm for the disc intersection/union problem (based on modified Voronoi diagrams): Sharir, M. Intersection and closest-pair problems for a set of planar discs. SIAM .J Comput. 14 (1985), pp. 448-468.
In 1988, Franz Aurenhammer presented a more efficient O(n log n) time and O(n) space algorithm for circle intersection/union using power diagrams (generalizations of Voronoi diagrams): Aurenhammer, F. Improved algorithms for discs and balls using power diagrams. Journal of Algorithms 9 (1985), pp. 151-161.
Earlier in 1983, Paul G. Spirakis also presented an O(n^2) time deterministic algorithm, and an O(n) probabilistic algorithm: Spirakis, P.G. Very Fast Algorithms for the Area of the Union of Many Circles. Rep. 98, Dept. Comput. Sci., Courant Institute, New York University, 1983.

I've been searching for any implementations of the algorithms above, focusing on computational geometry packages, and I haven't found anything yet. As neither appear trivial to put into practice, it would be really neat if someone could point me in the right direction!
Perhaps a constructive solid geometry (CSG) package would have a surface-area feature for overlapping circle primitives?

A: I've spent some time looking at the algorithms for computing the union of a set of balls - as you mention, it is done by using generalized Voronoi diagrams.
The CGAL library has a package that implements a union of balls.  This is one dimension higher than what you're interested in, and it doesn't handle intersections. so probably no cigar.
If you're working in 2 dimensions, the problem is equivalent to finding a convex hull in 3 dimensions.  You could use the convex hull stuff from CGAL or another package.
If you're looking for implementations of the specific algorithms you've mentioned, I can't help you.  But if you just want to find the power diagram that allows you to easily compute unions and intersections, it might be easier than you think to roll your own using a 3D convex hull algorithm.
Sorry for the half baked answer, but we may as well start somewhere and see how much flexibility you have.
Edit: There's also a CGAL package for 2D power diagrams: http://www.cgal.org/Manual/last/doc_html/cgal_manual/Apollonius_graph_2/Chapter_main.html.
Also, @RGrey has found a CGAL library for calculating 2D booleans for generalized polygons, including circles at http://www.cgal.org/Manual/3.5/doc_html/cgal_manual/Boolean_set_operations_2/Chapter_main.html.

A: There is no 2D power diagram implementation in CGAL. The link suggested above (http://www.cgal.org/Manual/last/doc_html/cgal_manual/Apollonius_graph_2/Chapter_main.html) is for the additive weighted Voronoi diagram, which uses the euclid + weight, instead of euclid^2 + weight (as Power Diagrams do).

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© Dreamstime/Dreamstime/TNS Judge orders Minnesota woman to visit grave of motorist she killed while distracted by cellphone.
MINNEAPOLIS — Visiting the church cemetery grave of the woman she killed in a distracted driving crash is part of a Dakota County judge's sentence for a Minnesota woman.
Lori J. Hoefs, 57, of Oronoco, was sentenced Friday in connection with the collision in Hampton Township in 2016 that killed 78-year-old Brenda K. Travis of Rochester and seriously injured her brother, Glen Travis.
Along with making two visits to the Bear Creek Lutheran Church cemetery northeast of Grand Meadow, Minn., where Travis was laid to rest, Hoefs was sentenced by Judge Jerome Abrams to six months in jail and put on probation for two years. If she qualifies, Hoefs can serve part of that time on work release.
She also must perform 30 hours of community service, where she is required to speak about distracted driving, attend a driving improvement clinic and pay $1,429 in fines and fees.
Hoefs was charged in June 2018 with felony counts of criminal vehicular homicide and criminal vehicular operation. Her plea agreement called for those charges, which likely would have resulted in prison time upon conviction, to be dismissed in exchange for admitting to the lower-level counts.
Glen Travis, who suffered rib fractures and a broken pelvis, told the Star Tribune last fall that terms of the plea deal were satisfactory to the family. He said he didn't want the sentence to cost Hoefs her license as a registered nurse, which she has held for more than 35 years and continues to hold.
Hoefs told authorities immediately after the crash that she had the phone on speakerphone but was holding it while talking to a friend as she drove west on County Road 88 into the intersection at Hwy. 56, the criminal complaint read.
She passed a sign warning her of the stop sign ahead at the intersection and drove over pavement painted with the words "STOP AHEAD," the complaint added. Her SUV struck the passenger side of the Travis' car.
Brenda Travis received an education degree from St. Olaf College in Northfield and a master's degree from the University of Minnesota before embarking on a teaching career that lasted decades and covered several continents.
After teaching high school for two years in Morgan, Minn., Travis taught business for 32 years through the Department of Defense Overseas Dependent Schools. In that role, she worked in Germany, Turkey, Morocco, Japan and the Philippines.


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China: Qin's Africa tour right after his inauguration aims to deepen traditional friendship
Updated 21:27, 11-Jan-2023
The seven-day Africa tour of Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang right after his inauguration shows that China highly values the traditional friendship with African countries and it aims to tighten that ties, a Chinese official said on Wednesday.
According to China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin, 2023 marks the 33rd year since China's foreign minister visits Africa at the beginning of a new year.
Qin was appointed on December 30 and started his tour on Tuesday, with his first stop being Ethiopia.
Ethiopia is an important and influential African country, China's comprehensive strategic cooperative partner in Africa and an important participant in China-Africa joint construction of the "Belt and Road Initiative," Wang said, adding that Qin's visit to the country hopes to enhance the mutual understanding reached by the two heads of state, deepen traditional friendship and political mutual trust, and advance cooperation in all fronts.
During his visit to Ethiopia, Qin met with the country's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen, and reached a series of important consensus.
Qin also updated the progress of "Outlook on Peace and Development in the Horn of Africa" in Ethiopia, and said that China has put forward the idea to support countries in the region to seek strength through unity and achieve prosperity and stability.
China, Ethiopia to strengthen synergy, expand cooperation
Qin Gang's Africa visit: Deepening partnerships, boosting cooperation
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In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the release of Smalltalk-80, the Computer History Museum is proud to announce a collaboration with Dan Ingalls to preserve and host the "Smalltalk Zoo."
From the Collection, Software History Center
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The Earliest Unix Code: An Anniversary Source Code Release
In celebration of Unix's 50th anniversary, the CHM Software History Center is delighted to make publicly accessible for the first time some of the earliest source code produced in the Unix story.
Math Miracles for Missileers: The Aerospace Industry, Computer Programming, and the Rise of IBM
Robert W. "Bob" Bemer - who worked at Lockheed's Missile Systems Division in Van Nuys and who would become its IBM 650's power user - carefully cut out the article and placed it into a scrapbook. In 2018, through its Access to Historical Records grant from the National Archives' National Publications and Records Commis
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If Discrimination, Then Branch: Ann Hardy's Contributions to Computing
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Meeting Whirlwind's Joe Thompson
The photograph was dated 1950, a date when a now unimaginably small number of humans had ever beheld a computer, no less touched one, and when unabashed racism and discrimination was endemic on the American scene. Who was the young African-American man who nevertheless sat at the controls of this storied machine? What
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An Inflection Point in the History of Multimedia: Video Ethnographies of Visual Almanac and News Navigator
CHM's Software History Center has been conducting "video ethnographies" to record and preserve the experience of running historical software. Over the course of 2018, the center has conducted two video ethnographies surrounding a key moment at the end of the late 1980s and early 1990s, the birth of multimedia. Watch an
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Navigating the Quantum Computing Frontier
Perhaps you are like me: You've aware that quantum computing is a hot topic today but have a nagging feeling that you don't really have a good picture of what it's all about. Sure, you know it has something to do with the unintuitive behavior of the world described by quantum mechanics—cats in boxes that are blends of
2018 Museum Fellow Dov Frohman-Bentchkowsky: Silicon, Science, Memory & Survival
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EMU can be found in Ypsilanti, MI, a public college which focuses on only a select few programs offered. The students enrolled at EMU number nearly twenty six thousand per year, and is one of the largest universities in the state.
Students can report either the SAT or ACT exam scores to EMU. A score within the range of 1330 to 1680 on the SAT exam, or 19 to 24 on the ACT exam is among the 25th - 75th percentile range among admitted students. By applying sampled GPA data from over 150 schools, we are able to estimate that the Eastern Michigan University (EMU) average GPA ranges from 2.98 to 3.33 for accepted students. 64% of all those students that apply are admitted to EMU, from which 35% choose to attend. Using acceptance rate data from previous years, we can project that the Eastern Michigan University (EMU) acceptance rate in 2015 is going to be around 63%. You can get more information from the admissions office website at emich.edu.
The overall acceptance rate for Eastern Michigan University was reported as 64.0% in Fall 2012 with over 11,900 college applications submitted to EMU. Both in state and out of state applicants are included in these figures. We do not have data on transfer acceptance rates currently.
How Hard Is It to Get into Eastern Michigan University?
The applicant selectivity of Eastern Michigan University is about average, as determined by collecting standardized test scores e.g. ACT/SAT and high school average GPA ranges of students who were granted admissions from previous years.
The historical trend chart shows acceptance rates from the previous years, from which we have projected the acceptance rate for the 2019-2020 school year. The overall acceptance rate trend for Eastern Michigan University has been slowly getting lower over the recent years.
How Does Eastern Michigan University (EMU) Compare?
The acceptance rate for Eastern Michigan University is fifteen percent higher than the national average of all colleges which is around 55.5%.


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2. Actually read the invitation. What names are written on the inner envelope? Unless children are named on the envelope or the invitation is addressed to you "and family," you should not plan to bring your children. The bride and groom must pay for every guest that attends the reception. If your children were not specifically invited, it is considered rude to bring them. And don't cleverly write their names on the response card if they were not invited! This puts the hosts in a very awkward position.
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How SGN is reducing emissions and creating a zero-carbon gas grid
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Britain's homes and businesses are set to benefit from an emissions reduction bonanza over the next 12 years as a result of gas network company investment, according to figures by ENA. As part of that, we're showcasing some of the work our members are doing to do their bit as part of the programme.
The figures show that by 2032 investment in replacing old iron mains gas mains pipes with new hydrogen-ready pipes will have reduced emissions from the country's network of gas pipelines by the equivalent of the carbon emissions of 526,433 cars since 2014, through the Iron Mains Risk Replacement Programme.
SGN runs the local gas network in the South of England and in Scotland, and it plans to reduce leakage from its networks by the equivalent of 171,300 tonnes of CO2 in the GD2 period of 2021-26. GD2 is the next period in which gas network companies deliver investment that is approved by the energy regulator, Ofgem. Like all gas network companies it has submitted its GD2 plan to Ofgem, which is currently awaiting approval.
Throughout this case study, we use the phrase 'ktCO2e' which stands for the equivalent thousands of (kilo) tonnes of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas that we need to reduce to tackle climate change.
How does SGN identify and prioritise the right pipes for replacement?
In the last seven years, SGN has become the first gas network to use predictive data analytics to prioritise pipes for replacement based on leakage volumes. In the next price control it plans to extend its analysis to identify leakage 'hotspots' on gas services. It has also led the industry in the use of robotic technology to repair large cast iron main joints, completing repairs to approximately 15,000 joints using this technique since 2013.
Its GD2 plan details the additional reduced leakage opportunity through speeding up its delivery of the Iron Mains Risk Reduction Programme, and by increasing the rate at which it replaces steel pipes. If supported by Ofgem, these two approaches would save a further 2.2ktCO2e each year (11.2ktCO2e over GD2).
By targeting its accelerated programme in areas that are more likely to be early converters to hydrogen, SGN would also facilitate the creation of a hydrogen-ready network sooner, which would enable more substantive reductions in carbon emissions in the future.
What is SGN doing to reduce damage to gas pipes from others?
SGN is targeting a 15 percent reduction in 'third party' damage to its network in GD2, which will contribute to its leakage reduction programme and reduce gas emissions to the atmosphere. Third party damage is damage to gas pipelines that is caused by other people or companies, such as construction companies digging in the ground.
Its education programme and digital tools are designed to improve awareness of where its pipes are located for people working on the land.
It also provides a tailored self-service website, 'LinesearchbeforeUdig,' to provide instant online access to its mapping data. It has experienced a significant 43 percent drop in unplanned interruptions caused by third parties in the first year of use.
It has also focused on education programmes for the agricultural community through its partnership with Scotland's Rural Colleges network. And, it has also developed training about pipeline safety which is now being delivered across all six rural colleges, educating future landowners about pipe risk, and is being rolled out across other land-based courses in colleges across the UK.
What role is innovation playing?
New innovations such as stent bags or the high-volume gas escape toolkit will reduce emissions of methane into the air, but these benefits will not be picked up in modelled leakage figures. However, SGN estimate that these innovations could help to reduce leakage during a gas escape by 4.7ktCO2e in GD2.
What's a stent bag?
The stent bag is the remote insertion of a sealing stent system into the gas main at a distance from the gas escape. The stent bag is then pushed to the point of the leak and expanded to temporarily seal the leak while a repair is undertaken. SGN's tests have demonstrated that by using more of these, leakage could be vastly reduced or stopped without disrupting the gas flow.
What's a high-volume gas escapes toolbox?
High volume gas escapes carry considerable risk, so SGN has been exploring alternative methods to reduce the volume of released gas. It has developed sealing tools and plugs to physically stop the gas from escaping, along with an increase in monitoring sensors to aid rapid identification of escapes.
How can changing the pressure of gas in the pipelines help?
Reducing the gas pressure in the network can reduce the leakage. However, the gas pressure needs to be maintained at a sufficient level to meet customer demand. Active pressure management techniques enable SGN to profile gas demand patterns and optimise the right pressure in the pipes to meet customer demand and minimise leakage to the lowest possible levels.
During GD2, SGN plans to further refine its active pressure management regime and continue to reduce its leakage through smarter network control and remote management. It will pilot this active pressure management innovation in its southern network leading to an anticipated leakage reduction of 7.4ktCO2e. At the same time, it is proactively discussing assured pressure levels with independent gas transporters to understand whether they can be reduced.
What does this all mean in terms of numbers?
Pro-active steel: - 7.6 ktCO2e
Pressure managemrnt: -7.4ktCO2e
Innovation (HGV/stent bag): -4.7ktCO2e
Accelerated repex: -3.6ktCO2e
About Energy Networks Association
Energy Networks Association (ENA) is the industry body representing the electricity wires, gas pipes and energy system in the UK and Ireland.
ENA helps its members meet the challenge of delivering electricity and gas to communities across the UK and Ireland safely, sustainably and reliably.
Its members include every major electricity and gas network operator in the UK and Ireland, independent operators, National Grid ESO which operates the electricity system in Great Britain and National Grid Gas which operates the gas system in Great Britain. Its affiliate membership also includes companies with an interest in energy, including Heathrow Airport and Network Rail.
What are energy network operators?
Energy network operators manage and maintain the wires, pipes and other infrastructure which delivers electricity and gas to your home, business and community. They are private companies which are regulated by Ofgem and employ around 40,000 people in Great Britain.
Map of energy network operators in the UK and Ireland
Learn more about how the energy networks operate


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Let me start by congratulating us all for the feats that we were able to achieve as a university in 2018. Our attainment as a Africa Centre of Excellence amongst other outstanding achievements are products of our synergy, hardwork and commitment. On behalf of our Governing Council and Management, i say thank you.
It is also very heartwarming to acknowledge the expressions of appreciation from colleagues in respect of payment of the end-of- the year bonus for 2018. Like every other Institution in the country, our University is also hard - hit by the dire financial situation. Notwithstanding, we as a Management have been greatly encouraged by the selfless passion of our staff and students to sustain peace in our University and also push the frontiers of excellence. We recognise your resilience . As a Management, it is our desire to do more. Our commitment is to continue to do all within our means to ensure that the welfare of our staff and students is sacrosanct. As i always say, what is inadequate today will soon be in abundance if we steadily keep at it as we are doing now.
From all of us in the Management, IT IS A STANDING OVATION that we give to our staff and students for the year ending 2018.
We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019.


Is that singing noise the same typical noise a generator makes [the making and collapsing of the electrical fields] or the leather belt sequel under the tension?
Wow what an amazing model/s Pavel!
Hi Pavel, very impressive. You should be very proud of it.
Hi Pavel, a beautiful model and amazing workmanship down to the smallest details. It has been most interesting to follow along.
That's amazing! I am also surprized by the generator noise and like it.
Incfedible attention to detail. Everything is so precise and well done.
I have been following your posts on this and I knew if would be worth the wait.


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QDOS is the multitasking operating system found on the Sinclair QL personal computer and its clones. It was designed by Tony Tebby whilst working at Sinclair Research, as an in-house alternative to 68K/OS, which was later cancelled by Sinclair, but released by original authors GST Computer Systems. Its name is not regarded as an acronym and sometimes written as Qdos in official literature (see also the identically-pronounced word kudos).

QDOS was implemented in Motorola 68000 assembly language, and on the QL, resided in 48 KB of ROM, consisting of either three 16 KB EPROM chips or one 32 KB and one 16 KB ROM chip. These ROMs also held the SuperBASIC interpreter, an advanced variant of BASIC programming language with structured programming additions. This also acted as the QDOS command-line interpreter.

Facilities provided by QDOS included management of processes (or "jobs" in QDOS terminology), memory allocation, and an extensible "redirectable I/O system", providing a generic framework for filesystems and device drivers. Very basic screen window functionality was also provided. This, and several other features, were never fully implemented in the released versions of QDOS, but were improved in later extensions to the operating system produced by Tebby's own company, QJUMP.

Rewritten, enhanced versions of QDOS were also developed, including Laurence Reeves' Minerva and Tebby's SMS2 and SMSQ/E. The last is the most modern variant and is still being improved.

Versions
QDOS versions were identified by numerical version numbers. However, the QL firmware ROMs as a whole (including SuperBASIC) were given two- or three-letter alphabetic identifiers (returned by the SuperBASIC function VER$).

The following version of QDOS were released (dates are estimated first customer shipments):

 0.08: the last pre-production version.
 1.00: corresponded to the FB version QL ROMs, released in April 1984.
 1.01: corresponded to the PM version ROMs. This was faster and had improved Microdrive support.
 1.02: corresponded to the AH ROM version released in June 1984. This fixed many bugs and was the first ROM version to be produced in quantity.
 1.03: included in ROM versions  JM and TB; a minor bug-fix release issued in late 1984.
 1.10: corresponded to the  JS and JSU (US export version) ROMs, released in early 1985. This was the last version used in QLs manufactured for the UK market.
 1.13: corresponding to the MGx series of ROM versions for European export markets. Included a significant number of bug fixes.  The following localised versions of the MG firmware are known to exist:
 MGE: Spanish
 MGF: French
 MGG: German
 MGI: Italian
 MGS: Swedish

The localised versions of QDOS were identified by the "." in the version number being replaced by the ROM version suffix letter used to identify the territory, e.g. the MGE ROMs contained QDOS version 1E13. All MG firmware versions shared the same bottom 32 KB ROM chip. Qdos 1.13 was also reported to be included in a Greek localised ROM version, known as ΣFP (marked on the ROMs as EFP).

Notes

References
 Andrew Pennell (1985). The Sinclair QDOS Companion: a guide to the QL operating system. London: Sunshine Books.
 Simon Goodwin. "Bugging the ROM", Sinclair QL World, August 1987
 QL History FAQ: Firmware

External links
 The official SMSQ/E site Source Code, binaries and documentation
 QDOS Internals Dokuwiki established by Norman Dunbar
 QL ROM versions list by Dilwyn Jones
 QL/E The QL runtime Environment
 Amiga implementation

Disk operating systems
Discontinued operating systems
Sinclair Research
Assembly language software
1984 software

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Hi there. Thanks for stopping by to visit. I love communicating online, don't you? You meet so many nice people from all over the world.
It's interesting to me that I enjoy it so much, when I don't enjoy phone conversations at all. In fact, I go out of my way to keep them to a minimum. But, frankly, I can sit at my computer with one of my blogs on the screen and talk to friends from around the globe all day.
Of course, that's a "no-no," because if I spend too much time writing to people, I can't spend as much time writing for them, and that's where my heart is. If you read my "Welcome" page, you already know that I've been writing since I was in elementary school, and that I come from a family of writers.
I guess you'd say I'm one of those people who literally can't keep from writing. Nor can I keep from reading. No matter where I am or why I'm there, I inevitably find myself reading something. I can be standing in front of someone's desk, and before I know it, I've glanced down at the desktop and started reading whatever written matter is lying there — even if I have to read it upside down. I suppose some people would consider that a character flaw, but I figure it just goes along with my love of the work I do.
Writing isn't my only occupation. I'm an ordained minister, a school teacher, and a professional musician. My love for the Lord Jesus Christ is the most important thing in my life, and I've realized that, no matter which career hat I'm wearing at any given time, I generally try to use it to help people get to know the Lord better and help them receive the blessings He wants to give them.
My inspirational novels are focused strongly on that goal. I trust that the stories I write will help make God real to everyday people in their everyday lives. My non-fiction books are aimed at teaching the great truths from God's Word on a level that is very easy to understand, and my devotional books are an effort to give folks a little lift even when they don't have time to read anything lengthy. Even when I was a newspaper reporter, my favorite assignments were human interest stories where I could help show the readers something excellent or something hopeful in the stories I wrote.
Occasionally, I write pieces that are not necessarily "Christian" in nature. Most of those are works that help hone my craft or let my imagination have room to grow in different directions. But, hopefully, even a lot of those help give readers a positive experience, even it its just allowing them to focus on something outside their own daily problems and aggravations.
Besides this author's website, which has it's own blog, I also have two ministry blogs that you may enjoy: "Hangin' Out With God," and "Healing From Jesus." Besides those, I have created a special Christmas blog — because I love, love, love(!!!) Christmas. If you enjoy Christmas a lot, be sure to visit my "Merry Christmas World" site. And then — believe it or not — I have another online site, but this one isn't for promoting my own writing or my own whims. I teach creative writing at the college and adult level, and I have created an online magazine to feature work by my creative writing students. So if you'd like to check out some work by a few brand new authors who are just learning how to hone their craft, visit the Debut Writers Journal.
I'm hoping you'll enjoy your visit here and that you'll keep coming back often enough to get a good sampling of everything. If you'd like more information about my books, the easiest way to obtain it is from my Amazon Author's Page. A couple of my Christian teaching books are currently offered for free reading on the ministry sites as well.
That's about it, folks. Hope to have an opportunity to chat with you often via our "Comments" sections. Thanks again for stopping by.
Don't worry I will return!
Oh, I will DEFINITELY check out your songs. I doubt that I would make any effort to put mine online though. Just have so many irons in the fire already. They are primarily worship songs, but I do have about 5 that are the score for a Christian musical. If that musical gets off the ground, I might seriously think about posting those songs. But the audio recording to post to the websites is one phase of technology that is still a big mystery to me.
About my books, yes they are in some bookstore and specialty gift stores. I think I mentioned in one of our communications about the Smokies that the lodge featured on the front of those books also sells them. You can find them online, but the best prices at this point are on the publisher's website. We are actually working on getting several of them formatted for digital readers, and if we do, those will be on Amazon. Right now Amazon takes way too big a slice of the money for the printed books to make using them practical. It's ridiculous. I've had some problems with them personally anyway. They posted one of my books that came out several years ago on their site without my permission, and because they couldn't get any into their stock, they have it listed as "out of print." I waged a battle to get that removed, but there's no one who will stand with me in any government office to get the job done. So I just gave the book a brand new title, and we have published a new edition of it. It is now marketed under a completely different title, so that what Amazon says will not hinder sales at other places.
And as I see that so many authors are offering their stuff in digital format for as low as $.99, I am even more impressed to offer more of mine for free reading. So many people can be helped by them who can't afford to just buy all the books they want. So if you think you want to read more, you may just want to wait until I post another one online. Most of the books also have their own Facebook page that gives more details and links back to the publisher and allows visitors to read excerpts free.
By the way, if you do end up liking "Set Free" well enough to finish it, you might give me your opinion about what I should post next. I'm trying to decide whether to post the second book in that series on this blog site — or whether I should post "Quenton's Honor," which includes more intrigue, espionage, and angelic visitations. I'd like to keep a free novel going on this blog, so I'm praying about what to post next. But then, of course, there's the "anti-witchcraft" novel (that my friend was so surprised about), and a lot of people feel that has really important points that people need to know. Of course, I feel it has a lot of important stuff, but after all, I'm like any other mother. That book is my baby, so of course its the greatest thing to be born in the past decade!
http://cobbies69.wordpress.com/page-of-honour/ a link to a new page honour all you wonderful friends. And Sandra you are my first. hope you like and any other ideas please leave a note. Again Thank you.
Yes, I got both of your messages, and I went to visit the page. Very nice. Thank you for letting me be the one to sort of "kick it off." I left you a more involved note on that page. Let me know if it did not post all right.
Thank you for taking the time to visit and comment. I have to leave for work right now, but as soon as I have a little time, I will come by and visit your site.
You have a beautiful blog with a big generous heart.!
Thank you so much. It's very kind of you to say that.
Thank you so much for your kind words — and kind thoughts. I will receive the award with pleasure. I don't know how well I will do at following all the instructions, but I'll give it my best effort.
Have to get ready to leave for an appointment right now, but will hop over there soon and get the details. Thanks again.
I am so glad to find another Christian to correspond with. Sometimes you need the qualified opinion of one with a similar focus to cut down on the preliminary explanations of why you ask a certain question. I look forward to reading your work and building our friendship.
Thank you so much. And thanks for your comment on the Friday Fictioneers piece. I'm still trying to make it around to everyone's site. I think I have only about half of them done.
I know what you mean about appreciating other Christian voices on here. There are two other people with sites here that you may enjoy. I'll give you the links in case you haven't discovered them yet.
Also, you're welcome to visit two other blogs that I have, both of which are primarily ministry blogs (as compared to this site, which centers more around my own writing.) I'll include the links to them as well just for convenience's sake.
I'll also try to get over to read your story before the day's over.
You're exactly right – it's a pay phone with just one part of the actual phone left. I found this thing when I was waiting to get lunch in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was freezing cold (I think it was sometime after Christmas) and I had not much else to do but watch the world go by. So I kept looking at this incredible relic and eventually pulled out my camera and took a couple of shots specifically for Friday Fictioneers. That's about it for backstory. Pay phones are obsolete, and I'm sure this thing's days are numbered. I'm just glad I got a photo!
By the way, Rochelle did not mention this, but I've licensed the photo as Creative Commons – with Attribution. It means anyone can use this photo (even commercially) as long as they acknowledge that I took it. Feel free to use it in your class if you like!
You're perfectly welcome to borrow my blog title for your creative writing class. I would love it if the word "glossarch" got thrown around, or even entered regular usage. As far as I'm concerned, treat it as any other word. You can say I coined it, of course, but I claim no copyright or any other rights whatsoever on it.
Hey, thanks so much for the information, Danny. And I'm excited to share with students about your invention of the term "glossarch" because one of the things I want to emphasize in this summer's course is that we as writers really do have "control" over words — and therefore have power through those words to create and even "control" things and people. It's a huge responsibility to be a writer because how we control words can make or break lives.
I am looking for a Thursday Phto challenge…found your blog…..but it seems the Thursday challenge is no longer. Please correct me if I am wrong.
If you look in her navigation bar at the top of her blog, you will see the link to the Thursday challenge. Hope you enjoy it.
Nice to see a picture of Shakespeare & Co. which used to be one of my favourite haunts.
That has to mean you lived in Paris for a while. Do you still live there?
I'm sure I'd love spending hours there myself, simply because I'm that way about almost any well-stocked bookstore, but I've never been close enough to stop by.
My sister loves Paris, and this picture is one she took when there a couple years ago. She just got back Friday from a visit there, and I think she'd really like to live there. If she could pack up the kids and grandkids and take them with her, I think she'd change addresses today.
Yes, I lived in and around Paris and in Normandy, for over 10 years. Returned 2010. I love France, but would not go back to live there.
Glad to meet you. Did I see in your little profile blurb that you live in Illinois? I do too.
Sandara, your blog has been selected by me for the Dragon's Loyalty Award. Your poetry prompts are inspiring! Even if you prefer not to accept this award, please accept this as a compliment and an indication of appreciation for your creative work. The philosophy of the award is: "The Dragon's Loyalty Award is an award for the loyal fan/commenter, whether the recipient is a fellow blogger or just someone who follows and comments regularly." Congratulations!
I entered the blogging world two years ago because I found photographic forums extremely stressful. I belonged to a dozen of them and in each case people were not kind to each other, overly opinionated and downright rude.
Two separate friends suggested blogging as a method to avoid all that testosterone. Males tend to dominate the photographic sites. I gave it a try and the rest is history. I pulled out of every forum, as peacefully as I could. I have met a few good people there, one encouraged me to blog.
Hey, thank you for the kind words, Bob. I think you know I feel the same about your contribution to the blogging world. By the way, I posted your photo and a note about you on my Facebook page — in connection with the upcoming new book. In fact, I just retired my original personal Facebook page and created one that was intended to offer only my original stories (Called Sandra Conner's Storybook).
It did not work right, so I now have a new "Author" page as well that lets people connect with the Storybook page (Oh the wonders of technology that doesn't work right!!!!) Anyway, I included the link to the Ungawa blog in that note, so I hope that sends a lot of other people to check out your Ungawa blog.
I nominate you for The Versatile and Very Inspiring Blogger Awards.
But, again, I thank you sincerely for thinking of me and making me feel good about the work I do here.
Please consider my nominations as tokens of my appreciation.
Thanks for letting me know you understand.
Nice to meet you, Sandra. Wow, that's a LOT of blogs to maintain!
A little thank you to you Sandra for your interesting and nice comments over some time now – much appreciated. I hope you are well.
You are very welcome, Dennis. They are sincere. I haven't been reading — or writing — a lot lately. Just too busy trying to make money. Hopefully, I'll get back to some regular interaction on here before long.
And I'm so glad you posted your comment on this page, because I came over here and realized that no one can read the words. I had changed the text to white when I had a dark background on another theme (and this text didn't change the way it was supposed to). But when I came back to a white background, I forgot that I had manipulated the color. I'll get that corrected before I leave this page.
Hey, Sandra, Check it ou now. Think I got it. You can erase this after you read it.
When I have my page on my screen set at 75%, I see the whole title the way you want it to look. If I boost the page size (by holding down "Control" and clicking the + sign) anything larger than 75% still separates the letters into odd arrangements. And going down in size does the same thing. But that happens to text on a lot of blogs. I'm not sure how to solve that problem — other than putting the text on a picture as I mentioned. Then the whole picture changes size, so the relationship between letters stays the same. But, of course, then you have to go to the trouble of embedding the image into your sidebar.
I figured out which theme you're using, and I created a sample of your title as a picture. It's not exactly the same color of gold though. But if you want to see what it would look like — assuming we could get the exact color — you can follow this link. I put it on my Test Blog only, and no one can see it except me — or you if I send you this link.
The theme says the left sidebar will not show on small screens — like mobile phones I guess. But I took my screen size down to 50%, and it still shows up.
The other negative is that I don't think you can get the title to sit right at the top of the sidebar. It sits about an inch down from the very top. At least you can see what I'm talking about, and that will give you another possible option. But if you experiment on different screen sizes, with the one you've just done, and it doesn't change too much on your screen, you may want to just keep that one.
Anyway, feel free to check this out if you want to. Everything on that page is a test of some kind that I've done over the past several months, so I don't even remember what all is on there, but we're only concerned with your title.
Okay, I just figured out how to get the picture of the title to sit at the top. I loaded it in as the header– instead of your original picture of the birds.
So you could use it in that space, and let it be your title, or you could use it in a little larger size a little ways down (the second one) and still use your other picture as your header.
You don't have to decide about this today. I can leave this on here a while because no one else even knows it's here — except WordPress. You can just let me know if you decide to use one of these, and I can e-mail you the pictures. We can also make it a little darker gold if you want to.
But you may decide not to use these, and that's totally fine. I had a little time this morning, so I just decided to see if we could make something work. One of my jobs is as graphic artist for a small publishing company, so I like doing this kind of stuff instead of housework.
Wow! Thanks for all your work. I managed to play with the fonts and found one that would let me fit the words in. The biggest problem was every time I shrank the main title, the blog titles got smaller also. Some of the fonts made them totally unreadable. I'll look at what you did. Just sent a request to see it.
Clicking on that link should take you right to the page that shows the two styles of your title. The one on top is in the header photo spot, and you wouldn't be able to put a small picture there. The second one is in the second spot on that sidebar, so it is bigger, and you could still use a picture above it. The color needs to be a little darker gold to look like what you had, but that's pretty easily fixed. But now if you don't care for either of those, please feel free to say so. I won't be the least little bit offended. I just thought it was worth a try. I do this kind of stuff all the time, and sometimes it ends up being a success and sometimes not.
Also, Lee, when you're on that page of my test blog, play around with changing the size of the page on your screen (by clicking Control and the + sign at the same time — or Control and minus.) That way you'll be able to see if the titles stay the same even when the page changes.
Hi Sandra, I've nominated you to take part in "Love in10 Sentences". I hope you feel like sharing the love! Here's the link.
Hey, Jane. Thanks for thinking of me. I actually told another blogging friend last week that I would try to do this, but I just haven't had the time. However, your nomination has reminded me again, and I will try to find the time soon. I have four blogs — two of them for the ministry that I do — and I work three jobs, so just keeping up with what I would normally blog is sometimes a big challenge. I almost didn't get a couple of the poetry course assignments done on time, but I squeaked by just under the wire. That was a lot of fun.
I read your blog, and realised how busy you are, but you're the right sort of person, and i thought it was worth a try. I'm sure you're busy spreading love everywhere anyway, and that's what is really important. No problem if you can't manage it.
I'm still going to try to get it in this week. Thank you for making the effort to let me know about it.
thank you for agreeing to try to do it.
Well, now, this is the third prompt I've had about this challenge, and I think I'm just going to have to do it. I won't be nominating other people because I don't want other blogging friends to feel pressure about it. (That's why I never participate in blog awards that include rules anymore either). But I will encourage my readers to take the challenge as well. Thanks for thinking of me.
I passed this on to you because I have enjoyed your writing and thought perhaps you might enjoy the challenge!
Wonderful "about" Sandra. Even without one of those deep quotes…I am so impressed with your fantastic journey in becoming a published author as well as your upbeat life attitude. I too love to write and have written many short humorous stories on my blog, primarily about my lovely mother and father. Perhaps if you have time you might enjoy "Whisked Away" "Please Mom May I've Some More" or "In The Company of Women" all brief and in my monthly archives. My first love is writing but I have lately been addicted to the one word photo challenges wherein I can combine a creative photo coupled with a few accompanying words to make me feel like I am writing! One of these days I hope to write a book containing a collection of short stories about my one of a kind Irish mother. Just not sure where to start. Have great evening.
[ Smiles ] I wanted you to know that you have a fantastic blog here.
I hope that you never lose the inspiration to blog!
Thank you, Renard. I really do appreciate your visit and your encouraging words. I'm also thrilled to have a visitor from Blogger. I tried a couple blogs on Blogger a couple years ago and visited many other sites and left comments on pieces I especially enjoyed. But, for some reason, not one blogger I visited ever even responded to my comments. Nor did anyone ever visit and comment on anything I posted. So I gave up on that blogging network and focused on WordPress. In general, the WP bloggers all love to interact. But I'm glad to know that there really are some on Blogger who feel that way as well.
[ Smiles ] Oh, I know the feeling all too well.
Unfortunately, a lot of people on Blogger are not into reciprocating.
I am different though; I support other bloggers; even those who are not on my own blogging platform.
And, thank you for checking out my blog!
I'll come back and visit more when I have more time.
[ Smiles ] I would love that and I do hope that you remember my blog's URL.


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Le sel de Seignette ou sel de Rochelle, est le nom commun du tartrate double de sodium et de potassium. Il a été découvert entre 1648 et 1660 par le pharmacien huguenot Elie Seignette (1632–1698). Ce sel double est un additif alimentaire (numéro ) utilisé comme antioxydant et régulateur de pH. Jusqu'à la synthèse des céramiques piézoélectriques au cours des années 1940, le sel de Seignette a aussi été utilisé pour ses propriétés piézoélectriques, ainsi que pour se débarrasser de l'aluminium présent dans le milieu de réaction après une réduction par LiAlH, car il forme des complexes avec cet aluminium, ce qui le piège.

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On obtient ces sels en versant du tartre blanc dans une solution de soude jusqu'à disparition des émissions d'acide carbonique. Après évaporation du filtrat, on obtient de beaux cristaux rhomboédriques, dont on préservera la transparence en évitant de les faire sécher trop rapidement.

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 Elie Seignette

Régulateur alimentaire de pH
Antioxydant alimentaire
Composé du potassium
Composé du sodium
Sel tartrique
Hydrate
Matériau piézoélectrique
Matériau ferroélectrique
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Q: Jquery To change according to browser width I want the Div tag to be empty if the browser width > 760 px and less than 980 px but it looks like i am doing something wrong
    (function($){

  //detect the width on page load
  $(document).ready(function(){

    var current_width = $(window).width();
     //do something with the width value here!
    if(current_width < 980 && current_width > 760){
       $('#chwd').empty();
    }
  });

  //update the width value when the browser is resized (useful for devices which switch from portrait to landscape)
  $(window).resize(function(){
    var current_width = $(window).width();
   //do something with the width value here!

    if(current_width < 980 && current_width > 760  ){
         $('#chwd').empty();
    }
    else{
        $('#chwd').html(

Cash On Delivery

        );}
  });

})(jQuery);

Any Help would be Appreciated
Thanx

A: Use outerWidth instead of width, it includes padding and border. You also need to wrap the div's in "" otherwise the html() will assume it's a variable.

A: Your script is fine, the problem lies on how you construct the $('#chwd').html()
Javascript handles the new line differently. Unlike PHP or other language which allows you to continue putting new line as long it is wrapped with a quote / single quote. In Javascript everytime you do a new line, you will have to wrap it with '' and + (See my code)
This is acceptable
'Lorem' +
'Ipsum'

This is not acceptable
'Lorem
 Ipsum'

Try this:
 (function($){

  //detect the width on page load
  $(document).ready(function(){

    var current_width = $(window).width();
     //do something with the width value here!
    if(current_width < 980 && current_width > 760){
       $('#chwd').empty();
    }
  });

  //update the width value when the browser is resized (useful for devices which switch from portrait to landscape)
  $(window).resize(function(){
    var current_width = $(window).width();
   //do something with the width value here!

    if(current_width < 980 && current_width > 760  ){
         $('#chwd').empty();
    }
    else{
        $('#chwd').html('
'+
'
'+
'Cash On Delivery'+
'
'+
'
');
    }
  });

})(jQuery);

A: Change you else to this:
else{
   $('#chwd').html('

Cash On Delivery

');
}

A: Try this in else statement:
else
{
    var divString = '

'+
                    'Cash On Delivery'+
                    '

';
    $('#chwd').html(divString);
}

Hope this helps.


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I recently wrote about the rumored Chase card with a 100,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards point sign-up bonus that's expected to have perks similar to the AMEX Platinum and Citi Prestige cards.
And now, via Doctor of Credit, we know more about the new Chase Sapphire Reserve card!
100,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards Points Is Enough for 4 Round-Trip Coach Tickets Within the Mainland US or Canada. So It Could Be Time to Take Your Loved Ones to Miami!
Folks have been speculating about the perks of the new Chase Sapphire Reserve card. And now multiple sources say it will be available August 21, 2016, with a 100,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards point sign-up bonus after spending $4,000 on purchases within the first 3 months of account opening.
The card will have a $450 annual fee that is NOT waived the first year. But the sign-up bonus, Global Entry or TSA PreCheck statement credit, and $300 annual credit for travel purchases, will make this card worth it for lots of folks.
And just like the Chase Sapphire Preferred and Ink Plus, you'll be able to transfer the Chase Ultimate Rewards points you earn with the Chase Sapphire Reserve to lots of great travel partners at a 1:1 ratio.
Plus, you'll get even more from your Chase Ultimate Rewards points when you redeem them through Chase Ultimate Rewards travel portal.
Chase Ultimate Rewards points are worth 1.25 cents per point when used for travel on Chase's travel portal if you have the Chase Sapphire Preferred, Ink Plus, or Ink Bold (no longer available).
But the points from the Chase Sapphire Reserve will be worth 1.5 cents per point! Meaning the sign-up bonus alone is worth $1,500 when used on travel purchases through the Chase Ultimate Rewards travel portal!
That's great for folks who prefer the simplicity of booking on nearly any airline without blackout dates, while earning airline miles at the same time.
Note: It's not known if the Chase Sapphire Reserve will be included under Chase's tighter application rules. That is, if you've applied for ~5+ cards from any bank (except these business cards) in the past 24 months, it's unlikely you'll be approved for most Chase cards.
This is all very exciting news. And we'll keep you updated as we learn more!
With all of these great perks, do you plan on getting the Chase Sapphire Reserve?
there's a bit in the terms and conditions that says current or past cardmembers with the same rewards program may not be eligible for the bonus… have you ever heard of that happening?
got the sapphire preferred <2 years ago — given the short(ish) time does it sound like i'd still be able to get the bonus?
@Mike M0 – It most likely will be per calendar year, but the details aren't official yet. We'll keep you posted as we learn more!
@Adam – I'm excited too!
@Becky & @Anthony Tseng – Those details aren't official yet, but stay tuned because I'll post everything I find out!
@Chris – Yes, because the Chase Sapphire Preferred and the Chase Sapphire Reserve card are considered different card products.
@Darwin – It definitely could be!
I'm curious as well about the airline credit. Hopefully it's like AMEX plat.
Is the $300 airline credit for actual plane tickets, or is it strictly for things like baggage fees?


Hello, I need help. Today I turned my cintiq on and I noticed a white/yellow spot on the right side of the screen. It is very noticeable and it BLINKS when I'm using the cintiq. A friend says this might be dead pixels (the screen dying or possible bleed?). Hereby, I attach a link to a dropbox folder so that you can see how it looks) I've had this Cintiq for over 1 year and four months. I've treated the device kindly and had taken good care of it.
This month I've been using the cintiq every day and TODAY I noticed this problem.
I still can reclaim the warranty, so it'd be of great help if you can enlighten me as to what is going on here. I really use my device to work and wouldn't want to keep on using it if the screen is going to keep on getting worse. It would be great to have a heads up as to what this is, before I get in touch with wacom.


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ISRAELI ACTION AGAINST SO-CALLED FREEDOM FLOTILLA
According to the British Broadcasting Corporation, the so-called Freedom Flotilla carrying humanitarian supplies to Gaza, which was intercepted by the Israeli Navy in international waters on May 31,2010,consisted of three cargo ships and three passenger ships.
2.Most of the casualties were reported on Mavi Marmara, a passenger ferry, one of three ships provided by Insani Yardim Vakfi (IHH), a Turkish humanitarian organisation,which is also known as the Humanitarian Relief Foundation, The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedom and Humanitarian Relief –IHH. It is banned in Israel, which accuses it of links to Hamas and Al Qaeda. The other ships were organised by the Free Gaza Movement, an international coalition of activist groups
3.The ships were reportedly carrying supplies including cement, wheelchairs, paper and water purification systems. The flotilla's nearly 700 passengers were mainly Turkish, but also included nationals of the US, the UK, Australia, Greece, Canada, Belgium, Ireland, the Swedish author Henning Mankell, two Australian journalists and three German MPs.
4.According to reports from Pakistan, there were also some Pakistanis on board the IHH ferry. The Pakistani authorities were trying to enquire what happened to them. While the Israeli authorities were prepared to allow the humanitarian supplies to reach the people of Gaza after inspecting them at a port designated by them, the organisers of the flotilla were opposed to any inspection of the cargo by the Israeli authorities.
5.Israeli fears over the passengers on board the ships and over their contents were understandable because of strong suspicions nursed by the intelligence and security authorities of many countries over the background of the IHH, which came into existence in 1992 ostensibly to provide humanitarian assistance to the Muslims of Bosnia. Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Iran, with the connivance of the Bill Clinton Administration then in power in the US, helped the Bosnian Muslims in their fight against the Serbs.
6.Many Bosnian Muslims were brought to Pakistan for being trained in the camps of the Markaz Dawa Al Irshad (MDI) as the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD), the political wing of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET,) was then known and then taken back to Bosnia. There was considerable flow of money and arms and ammunition to the Bosnian separatists. Many Pakistanis from Pakistan itself as well as from the Pakistani diaspora in the UK were trained by the JUD and taken to Bosnia for participating in the jihad against the Serbs. Some Indian-origin Muslims from Saudi Arabia were also taken to Bosnia.
7.All these activities for the provision of volunteers, money and arms and ammunition to the Bosnian separatists were allegedly co-ordinated by the IHH, under the cover of a humanitarian organisation, with the collaboration of the MDI. Amongst the Pakistanis who played an active role in organising assistance for the Bosnians through the IHH and the MDI were Lt.Gen.(retd) Hamid Gul and Lt.Gen (retd).Assad Durrani, former heads of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Qazi Hussain Ahmed, the then Amir of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI, and Prof.Hafeez Ahmed Sayeed, who was then the Amir of the MDI. Lt.Gen. Assad Durrani, who was posted as the Pakistani Ambassador to Germany by Mrs.Benazir Bhutto, the then Pakistani Prime Minister, co-ordinated the assistance from the Ummah to the Bosnians.
8.All these Pakistanis frequently used to visit Bosnia. Mrs.Benazir herself made a joint visit to Bosnia along with Mrs.Tansu Ciller, the then Turkish Prime Minister, in February 1994. Among Pakistani volunteers from the diaspora in the UK who allegedly worked for the IHH in Bosnia was Omar Sheikh, who is now in jail in Pakistan after having been sentenced to death for his role in the kidnapping and execution of Daniel Pearl, the US journalist, in Karachi in January-February,2002. He has appealed against the death sentence.
9.All indications from reliable Pakistani and other sources were that the IHH's role in Bosnia was not solely humanitarian. The humanitarian cover was allegedly used for keeping alive the Bosnian jihad and enabling it to succeed against the Serbs. The IHH allegedly played a similar role in Chechnya by helping the local Muslims in their jihad against the Soviet and then Russian troops. It then turned its attention to helping the Kashmiris by funding refugee camps for Kashmiris set up by the MDI and other Pakistani jihadi organisations in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK). These refugee camps also became training centres for training Kashmiri and Pakistani jihadis for fighting against the Indian security forces.
10.The IHH also played an active role, in collaboration with the JUD, in organising humanitarian relief after the devastating earthquake in the POK in 2005. The flow of money and other assistance from the Muslims in other countries for the quake victims was co-ordinated by the IHH.
11.The IHH has also been contributing funds to the International Islamic University in Pakistan, which has been providing ideological motivation to the jihadis fighting in Afghanistan. Amongst other Pakistani organisations with which the IHH has allegedly been collaborating are the Al Rashid Trust, which was designated by the US and the Terrorism Monitoring Committee of the UN Security Council after 9/11 as an organisation allegedly funding terrorism, and the Khubaib Foundation, which reportedly runs a network of orphanages. The Foundation frequently organises visits by IHH delegations to the POK and Gilgit-Baltistan.
12.The Israeli authorities have valid reasons to be concerned over the links of the IHH with the Hamas. One cannot find fault with their decision to stop the Flotilla in order to prevent its cargo from reaching Gaza uninspected. Any intelligence agency worth its salt would be concerned over the dangers of arms and ammunition and weapons of mass destruction material like material for dirty bombs being smuggled into Gaza along with the humanitarian cargo. It would have been the height of irresponsibility to have allowed the cargo to proceed to Gaza without being inspected.
13.It is tragic that there were casualties among the passengers of the ferry hired by the IHH, which was boarded by Israeli commandoes following resistance put up by the passengers of the ferry, but this could not have been helped. Israel exercised its right of self-defence to protect the lives of its citizens from any dangerous cargo carried by the ships. India should refrain from criticising Israel for its action. ( 2-6-10)
( The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, and Associate of the Chennai Centre For China Studies. E-mail: seventyone2@gmail.com )
BLEEDING LAHORE
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR---PAPER NO 656
In a daring attempt to free a captured terrorist Moaz alias Amir Muavia, who was undergoing treatment for injuries in the Jinnah Hospital of Lahore, a group of at least four terrorists wearing police uniforms raided the hospital on the night of May 31,2010, and killed three policemen guarding the terrorist and a woman. The police claim that they could not succeed in freeing the injured terrorist and withdrew from the hospital after an exchange of fire lasting about 90 minutes with police reinforcements, which were rushed to the hospital. The terrorists managed to flee from the hospital in an armoured personnel carrier belonging to the police. After driving the APC for some distance, the terrorists abandoned it and escaped on foot.
2. Moaz alias Amir Muavia, whom they wanted to free, belonged to two groups of terrorists which had raided two mosques of Ahmadis on May 28 during which they killed over 80 Ahmadis praying in the mosques. Moaz, believed to be a Pashtun, was injured and was captured by the police. Another terrorist, reported to be a Punjabi, was also captured, but he was not admitted in hospital as he did not sustain any injuries. On coming to know of the admission of Moaz in the Jinnah Hospital, the terrorists raided it, but could not succeed in freeing him, if the police version is to be believed.
3. Even if the raid did not achieve the objective of the terrorists, the fact that they were able to get information about where the injured terrorist had been admitted for treatment, organize a raid within three days of his admission, engage the police in an exchange of fire and escape in an APC captured from the police speaks disturbingly of the high level of motivation and training of the terrorists and the poor motivation and training of the police.
4.Talking to pressmen before the incident in the hospital, Mr.Rehman Malik, the Interior Minister, had blamed the so-called Punjabi Taliban for the massacre of the Ahmadis and talked of a possible military action in Southern Punjab, which is their stronghold, in order to neutralize the growing threat from them.
5. When he talked of the Punjabi Taliban, he meant the Sipah-e-Sahaba (SES), the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LEJ) and the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JEM). He did not speak of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET), the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HUM), the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI) and the 313 Brigade of Ilyas Kashmiri as part of the Punjabi Taliban.
6. The SES and the LEJ are Sunni extremist organizations which have been attacking the Shias for over 20 years and have now been operating jointly with Al Qaeda and the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). They have shifted their bases from Southern Punjab to North Waziristan in the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). The JEM was born in 2000 as the result of a split in the HUM. It used to be close to the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), but fell out with the Pakistan Army because of the support extended by Gen.Pervez Musharraf to the US. It was suspected of involvement in the two unsuccessful assassination attempts on Musharraf in Rawalpindi in December,2003. After the raid into the Lal Masjid in Islamabad by commandoes of the Special Services Group (SSG) of the Pakistan Army in July 2007, it has started operating jointly with the TTP. It has also shifted its bases from southern Punjab to North Waziristan.
7. Though these three organizations now operate from North Waziristan, they continue to get a regular flow of Punjabi volunteers and funds from the mosques and madrasas controlled by them in Southern Punjab. They also get sanctuaries in these mosques and madrasas whenever they organize attacks in Lahore and other places in the Punjab.
8. The Government of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) of Mr.Nawaz Sharif, which has been in power in Punjab under the Chief Ministership of Mr.Shabaz Sharif, a brother of Mr.Nawaz, has allegedly not been co-operating with the federal Government in Islamabad headed by the Pakistan People's Party of President Asif Ali Zardari in taking action against the elements of the Punjabi Taliban which have been collaborating with Al Qaeda and the TTP.
9. One is seeing a situation similar to what one had seen between 1988 and 1990 when Mrs.Benazir Bhutto was the Prime Minister of Pakistan and Mr.Nawaz Sharif was the Chief Minister of Punjab. The anti-Shia terrorists against whom Mrs.Benazir sought to take action were given shelter by the Punjab Special Branch allegedly on the orders of Mr.Nawaz Sharif. It was during that period that the LEJ evolved into a dreaded anti-Shia organization without any action being taken against it by the Punjab Police. Though there is no evidence of any nexus between the JEM and the PML (N), there has been a long history of nexus between elements in the PML (N) and the LEJ. It is suspected that this nexus continues even now and that is how the LEJ is repeatedly able to operate in Punjab with impunity.
10. The FATA comes under the direct control of the federal Government, which is able to undertake military operations there without having to rely on the consent from any local administration. The federal Government has to depend on the consent and co-operation of the PML(N) Government in Lahore for undertaking any major operation in Southern Punjab. It is alleged that this co-operation has not been forthcoming in adequate measure.
11. Mr.Zardari's efforts to strengthen the role of the police and the Intelligence Bureau in internal security matters have made some headway in Sindh, but not in Punjab where the local police, controlled by the PML (N), has frustrated the efforts of the IB to develop a good network of agents capable of collecting intelligence about the Punjabi Taliban.
12. The result: Punjab in general and Lahore in particular continue to bleed ( 1-6-10)


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Q: How to restrict iOS devices which are not support airdrop feature? I want to install my iOS application only on devices with the airdrop feature.
How can I restrict devices without the airdrop feature?

A: There isn't any public API that tells you whether a device supports AirDrop. To use AirDrop, the device needs to be one of the following or newer models:

*

*iPhone 5 or later

*iPad (4th generation)

*iPad mini

*iPod touch (5th
generation)

You could check the device model directly using UIDevice: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uidevice
But an easier way would be to just change your app's minimum deployment target to be at least iOS 10 or higher as devices earlier than those in the list don't support iOS 10+.
https://www.avanderlee.com/workflow/minimum-ios-version/


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BECK ALBUM TRACKS APPEAR ONLINE
Tracks from the much-delayed new BECK album have leaked onto the Internet. The follow-up to 2002's 'Sea Change' was originally due for release in October, but has been put back, with sometime March 21 or 28now being mooted as the release date. But 13 tracks have turned up online. Track titles include 'Guero', 'Go It Alone', 'E-Pro', 'Brazilica' and 'Summer Girl'. The new tracks, produced by The Dust Brothers, revert back the 'classic' Beck sound of 'Mellow Gold' and 'Odelay' after the largely acoustic 'Sea Change'. The star's label has yet to comment on whether the leak will cause the release to come forward. Last year the release of labelmate Eminem's 'Encore' LP was brought forward amid similar circumstances.
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