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SubTopic Infrastructure management
Virtual desktops can clean house but move cautiously
There are lots of ways to virtualize a desktop, and vendors are stitching together individual products to make a complete story.
Margie Semilof, Editorial Director
Like most young industries, the desktop virtualization tools business is a free-for-all. And with all the corporate consolidations, product promises and twisting terminology, IT managers must wade in at their own peril.
But, in truth, most IT managers look at a bigger mess every day when they face the job of bringing order to the chaos of their enterprise desktops and laptops. It makes perfect sense that so many are pinning their hopes on desktop virtualization and on application virtualization as potential sources of welcome relief.
Virtualization and the changing Windows desktop
Virtual PCs and SaaS force IT to rethink Windows desktop
Who should use desktop virtualization or SaaS?
Why SaaS is not a desktop replacement
There are a few basic ways to virtualize the desktop. One way is the shared remote desktop, where all changes are made on a server by an administrator. Also known as thin-client computing, this approach has been in use for years. End users have to be online to access the desktop.
An end user could possibly log in even for only one time, and the system can generate a profile, email and application access for that person. When they log off, all of their information is deleted. Technologies like Citrix's Presentation Server and Microsoft's Terminal Services offer this model.
"For us, you never have to worry about protected healthcare information because you can't save anything in that profile," said Rich DeBrino, CIO at Compass Health Inc. in Everett, Wash., adding that it's great for people who have the same computers.
Laptops are another story because end users tend to futz around with them more by doing things like adding software and changing configuration settings. Also, they tend to travel with their PCs, so they are occasionally offline. So, for this crowd, it makes sense to run a virtualized operating system in a virtual machine on an end user's own PC.
In another type of virtually hosted desktop model, end users can connect to a server to get a single remote hosted desktop. This model requires a delivery infrastructure and a connection broker. A connection broker is used to authenticate the user and find the correct desktop.
Some IT shops may also elect to have blade PCs host individual sessions for end users.
IT managers eye streaming and application virtualization
Application virtualization and streaming are two related technologies often associated with desktop virtualization. Application virtualization is when an application is encapsulated in a virtual container on the operating system, thereby avoiding management conflicts and upgrade problems associated with installing applications directly on the operating system.
Everything we talk about today is real, but if you want virtually hosted desktops, you need Vendor A plus B and C.
Brian Madden
Streaming is when the application, though not necessarily all of the application, is packaged and streamed to the client. Citrix's Project Tarpon streaming technology, which is now a feature in Presentation Server, is an example of this. Altiris Inc.'s SVS and Microsoft's SoftGrid are examples of application virtualization products.
Dave Driggers, desktop team leader at Alabama Gas Co. in Birmingham, Ala., said he is interested in Microsoft's SoftGrid application virtualization technology to prevent the need to patch applications on every desktop. Using that technology, end users can work in an offline situation. "We would only have to worry about the OS, and it would be pristine," Driggers said.
Another reason to run an application in a virtualized environment is when that application isn't available any other way. For example, Michael Cherry, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft, a Kirkland, Wash.-based consulting firm, said, "Microsoft never made a version of Visio for the Mac, so I run VMware's Apple product, which allows me to run a licensed copy of Visio."
Today there are lots of individual products to virtually host desktops that in many cases sit side by side with server virtualization technology. Vendors are working hard to compile a suite that is completely integrated.
"Everything we talk about today is real, but if you want virtually hosted desktops, you need Vendor A plus B and C," said Brian Madden, a Washington, D.C.-based consultant.
More options from VMware and Citrix
Citrix Systems Inc. and VMware Inc. are two vendors with expansive toolsets. Citrix released in April its Desktop Delivery Server that lets end users download desktops on demand. The company recently acquired XenSource Inc., which provides the virtual machine infrastructure. Citrix owns application streaming technology through its acquisition of Ardence Inc. in December.
VMware sells its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for server-hosted desktops. The company acquired Propero, a New York.-based connection broker, for $25 million in June. The company also sells ACE, a client technology used to give end users a virtual computer running on their own hardware. You can also use ACE to run multiple virtual machines with different operating systems within a desktop.
Former Citrix partner, Provision Networks Inc. in Reston, Va., has a broad suite of software that combines server virtualization and virtually hosted desktops into one. But unlike VMware and Citrix, the company does not have a hypervisor -- the virtualization platform that lets multiple operating systems run on a single piece of hardware. For that piece, Provision has a partnership with Virtual Iron Inc. in Lowell, Mass., which has a hypervisor based on open source Xen technology.
More options for virtual hosted desktops appear every day. IT shops need to think long and hard about exactly what it is they are trying to do before they jump in, particularly if they're looking to reduce their work load and control costs.
"My fear is that, yes, you may reduce the work done on a per-desktop [basis] and it may be more efficient," Cherry said. "But you're not likely reducing the work -- only moving it to another place where it still has to be done," he said.
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Best time to visit, weather and climate Netanya
Best time to visit Netanya, Israel
The best time to visit Netanya in Israel is from march until november, when you will have a pleasant or warm temperature and none till limited rainfall. The highest average temperature in Netanya is 31°C in august and the lowest is 17°C in january. The water temperature is between 19°C and 29°C. The weather and climate of Netanya is suitable for a sun vacation.
The average climate figure for Netanya is an 8,9. This is based on various factors, such as average temperatures, the chance of precipitation and weather experiences of others.
Netanya has 2 types of climates prevailing, namely the semi-arid climate and mediterranean climate. If you want to know what the average temperature is in Netanya or when most precipitation (rain or snow) falls, you can find an overview below. This way, you are well prepared. Our average monthly climate data is based on data from the past 30 years.
Climate Netanya per month
All climate data from Netanya
Netanya in brief
Place in Israel
Area 1.289 km²
Currency Israeli new shekel
14 day weather forecast Netanya
The weather for Netanya in Israel will be 14° till 18° degrees in the next 14 days with several days chance of light rain showers till heavy rain.
14°C 13°C 25 mm 95% 0 cm 5m/s 2
12°C 9°C 14 mm 95% 0 cm 3m/s 2
13°C 9°C 1.0 mm 50% 0 cm 2m/s 2
13°C 8°C 0 mm 0% 0 cm 3m/s 3
8°C 2°C 15 mm 95% 0 cm 2m/s 2
18°C 11°C 0 mm 0% 0 cm 4m/s 1
Climate Netanya
Netanya has 2 types of climates prevailing, namely the semi-arid climate and mediterranean climate. The average annual temperature for Netanya is 25° degrees and there is about 280 mm of rain in a year. It is dry for 263 days a year with an average humidity of 63% and an UV-index of 6.
Day 17°C 18°C 20°C 23°C 26°C 29°C 30°C 31°C 30°C 28°C 24°C 19°C
Night 12°C 12°C 13°C 15°C 18°C 21°C 23°C 24°C 23°C 22°C 18°C 14°C
Precip 64
days 13 11 10 7 4 2 1 1 2 5 8 12
per day 6 7 8 12 12 12 12 12 10 10 7 7
Climate Netanya january
On average, it is maximum 17° in january in Netanya and at least around 12° degrees. The sea temperature is around 20° degrees. In january there are 13 days of rainfall with a total of 64 mm and the it will be dry 18 days this month in Netanya.
Climate Netanya february
On average, it is maximum 18° in february in Netanya and at least around 12° degrees. The sea temperature is around 19° degrees. In february there are 11 days of rainfall with a total of 52 mm and the it will be dry 17 days this month in Netanya.
Climate Netanya march
On average, it is maximum 20° in march in Netanya and at least around 13° degrees. The sea temperature is around 19° degrees. In march there are 10 days of rainfall with a total of 33 mm and the it will be dry 21 days this month in Netanya.
Climate Netanya april
On average, it is maximum 23° in april in Netanya and at least around 15° degrees. The sea temperature is around 20° degrees. In april there are 7 days of rainfall with a total of 14 mm and the it will be dry 23 days this month in Netanya.
Climate Netanya may
On average, it is maximum 26° in may in Netanya and at least around 18° degrees. The sea temperature is around 24° degrees. In may there are 4 days of rainfall with a total of 7 mm and the it will be dry 27 days this month in Netanya.
Climate Netanya june
On average, it is maximum 29° in june in Netanya and at least around 21° degrees. The sea temperature is around 27° degrees. In june there are 2 days of rainfall with a total of 2 mm and the it will be dry 28 days this month in Netanya.
Climate Netanya july
On average, it is maximum 30° in july in Netanya and at least around 23° degrees. The sea temperature is around 29° degrees. In july there are 1 day of rainfall with a total of 0 mm and the it will be dry 30 days this month in Netanya.
Climate Netanya august
On average, it is maximum 31° in august in Netanya and at least around 24° degrees. The sea temperature is around 29° degrees. In august there are 1 day of rainfall with a total of 0 mm and the it will be dry 30 days this month in Netanya.
Climate Netanya september
On average, it is maximum 30° in september in Netanya and at least around 23° degrees. The sea temperature is around 29° degrees. In september there are 2 days of rainfall with a total of 2 mm and the it will be dry 28 days this month in Netanya.
Climate Netanya october
On average, it is maximum 28° in october in Netanya and at least around 22° degrees. The sea temperature is around 28° degrees. In october there are 5 days of rainfall with a total of 10 mm and the it will be dry 26 days this month in Netanya.
Climate Netanya november
On average, it is maximum 24° in november in Netanya and at least around 18° degrees. The sea temperature is around 26° degrees. In november there are 8 days of rainfall with a total of 27 mm and the it will be dry 22 days this month in Netanya.
Climate Netanya december
On average, it is maximum 19° in december in Netanya and at least around 14° degrees. The sea temperature is around 22° degrees. In december there are 12 days of rainfall with a total of 68 mm and the it will be dry 19 days this month in Netanya.
Weather experiences Netanya
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Vacation Netanya
Accommodations Netanya
Hotels and apartments in Netanya
If you do not want to book a package tour, you can use Booking.com for the cheapest hotels, apartments and other accommodations in Netanya
Flight tickets Netanya
Flight tickets to Netanya
The 3 nearest airports to Netanya you can fly to are:
Sde Dov Airport (25 km)
Ben Gurion International Airport (36 km)
Haifa International Airport (56 km)
Through our partners below you will find the cheapest flight tickets for Netanya. Click on a logo to visit the website or take a look on Skyscanner for the cheapeast flight tickets from all the airline companies.
About Netanya
Netanya lies in Israel in the province Central. If you want to call Netanya you have to use +972 or 00972 before the phone number without the first 0 in the original phone number (if it occurs). If the normal number is 05012457809, for example, you can remove the first 0 and call +9725012457809 or 009725012457809.
Netanya is in a straight line at 3.541 km distance from London. From London-Heathrow the flight time is about 5 hours30.
The coordinates of Netanya, Israel are latitude: 32.332915 en longitude: 34.859918
Time difference Netanya
In Netanya it is now 14:57 o'clock in the afternoon on sunday 19 january 2020. That is 7 hour later than in United States. The time zone of Netanya is Asia/Jerusalem and the Greenwich time is UTC+02.
Currency Netanya
In Netanya the Israeli new shekel is used to pay.
Exchange rate Israeli new shekel (ILS) 19 january 2020
1 Israeli new shekel = 0,29 United States dollar
100 Israeli new shekel = 28,95 United States dollar
1 United States dollar = 3,45 Israeli new shekel
100 United States dollar = 345,47 Israeli new shekel
Vaccinations Netanya
These vaccinations may differ per person and / or be advised on the basis of the stay in Netanya.

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News / Music
Niva The Soul Diva 2013 Release Motivational Anti Violence Music
Independent R&B Rock n Soul artist Niva the Soul Diva has released her first new track and music video for 2013.
The track is an inspirational and motivational song called 'Stop the Violence', an attempt to bring awareness to rampant gun violence in urban communities in cities where youth have a culture of guns and violence. The song features Spoken word HipHop poet Kamal Supreme and guitarist Johnny Guitar Watson jr who adds rock flavor to many of niva's tracks. According to Niva she originally wrote the song when she was in her hometown of Houston Texas before she came to new york city to pursue her dream of being a recording artist and performer. Niva stated, "I'm so sick and tired of turning on the news and seeing another innocent child get killed by stray bullets".
The video for the song was produced by Brother Jonathan and took three months to produce, all of the footage is actual footage taken on the streets of brooklyn new york including the ingersoll and walt whitman public housing projects. The song is available as a free download on soundcloud, audiomack and reverbnation with a HQ Audiophile download available on newblackmusic.net.
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNLPwO451rs
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Starting an online business for the sake of the independence and freedom of self-employment can be an exciting initiative. You don't have to worry about seeking funding to open a brick-n-mortar location and the accompanying facilities and other start-up expenses. However, there are pros and cons that need to be carefully considered.
Despite the cons, there are thousands of online business that make six figure incomes. Just consider Amazon as one of the major businesses.
Success comes via smart, intelligent marketing of unique products or services that are in super high demand. Many individuals with outstanding gifts and talents, including woodworking, personal fashion, celebrity, info-products and affiliate websites which target the needs, wants and curiosity of site visitors and keep them coming back.
Who is an Online Business for?
Anyone who desires to avoid opening a brick-n-mortar store or anyone who desire the thrill of selling products and services on the internet. If you have a business idea and desire to reach a considerable number of people across the world, then try starting an online business.
Before you begin an online business, you must create a website. It starts by purchasing a domain at one of the leading domain providers, including Go Daddy, Host Gater or Blue Host. These are the most popular and least expensive as well as quality domains.
The remarkable thing about the above domain providers is that they also offer hosting packages. In other words, they will host your website so that it can be viewed on the internet. without a domain and host for that domain, you cannot create a website.
Another good thing about Go Daddy, Host Gater or Blue Host is that they will walk you through the entire process of purchasing a domain and setting up your website. This is a godsend, especially for a beginning without much money to high a designer.
Decide the type of product or service you desire to offer consumers. You must have the passion to reach and change the lives of a specific target market. You want to solve a problem or improve the quality of people lives.
A mistake is to ignore the needs of your potential site visitors and focus on generating revenue for you own self-betterment. Your online website will give visitors an indication of your sincerity about understanding their needs and wants. Customers search websites and look for the best products and services.
Research your competition and find out what customers are buying and how frequently they are buying what you have to offer.
Whatever you are selling, you must create a marketing strategy for making your brand known. This is highly important. If know one knows that you exist on the internet, you will seldom get enough online buyers to break even.
Social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and Pin Interest are social media sites by which you can reach your target market.
Google AdWords advertisements, though expensive, can give your website a strong introduction into the market place. However, you need to have sufficient monetary resources to run a successful Ad campaign via google AdWords.
A Bing Ad campaign is a close alternative to that of google. It's cheaper and can reach millions of viewers. Other alternatives include Chitika and Infolink's ad campaigns, although such campaigns don't have the same market recognition as does google and Bing ad campaigns.
Nevertheless, you must develop a habit and routine of marketing a constant basis to get your website known. In fact, due to the continual emergence of new competition, online marketing must become a lifestyle if you desire to experience longevity.
Operating an online business requires an optimum understanding of search engine optimization (SEO) if you are going to effectively compete against the big wheels of online website mastery. Your site will compete against hundreds if not thousands of other e-commerce or affiliate sites which are trying to reach customers the same as you are.
Therefore, you must possess a great deal of SEO knowledge. Your website must provide a pleasant experience for visitors. Such experience means that your website must possess an attractive view for visitors.
All content, as well as products, must be in order. A disorganized website will send potential customers to other, simpler or aesthetically designed sites of your rivals.
If you are unsure of how to create a well-designed website, you can outsource this task to a skilled web designer who can create a website design that will make visitors stop and stare, and of course, make a purchase.
If you are selling your own products, make sure they are of the highest quality. Online shoppers look for quality merchandise. The appearance of products on your website will determine how many conversions if any, you will get.
If you want to receive tons of sells, you must get the price right from the beginning. To help you decide on a reasonable price, check out the competition and see how much they are charging and determine how much consumers will be willing to pay for your product or service.
Starting an online business can be a lucrative initiative, especially with challenging work and dedication, as well as the help of online marketing experts who are always studying the condition of the online market. Initially, it will take patience and persistence to reach a level in which you can rely solely on your online business for making a living.
Nevertheless, you will eventually become successful as are thousands of others who have chosen the path of operating a lucrative online business.
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Low: It is understood that the verification tool only detects the underlying problem in some of the supported languages/frameworks but not all, or it can only detect certain aspects of the problem but not all. A requirement that with no identified weaknesses in a scanner import yields a verification status of "Partial Pass".
High: It is understood that the tool can identify instances of the underlying problem in most circumstances with few false negatives. A requirement that with no identified weaknesses in a scanner import yields a verification status of "Pass".
These "requirement - weakness" mappings are in CSV format and stored on the SD Elements server. With a text editor it is possible to modify the mapping to match your organization's processes, scanner configuration and customized set of security requirements. Customized mappings can be stored such that they will survive upgrades. Details below.
- Weakness ID - The value used in scanner results to identify a flaw or weakness. It is generally used to map scanner issues to the associated Task ID.
- Weakness Title - The value used in scanner tool documentation to describe a flaw or weakness. The integration with "App Scan Enterprise" uses this value instead of the Weakness ID during the mapping process. For all other tools this is treated as informational only.
- Confidence - The value "low" or "high". The meaning of this column is described above.
By defining values for each of the columns listed above, each row in the file represents a mapping between an SD Elements task and a scanner weakness.
Follow the steps below to customize an existing mapping file on your SD Elements onsite instance.
The list below outlines where the mapping files are located on an SD Elements server.
The mapping files stored in the media directory are now active. Make any desired customization to these files. To revert back to the standard mappings or to deactivate your mapping customization - remove the change to local_settings.py and restart Apache.
Make a copy of the mapping file before making any changes. It is safer to make changes to the file on your desktop computer and check that it is formatted correctly first, and then copy it to the server.


Hi there and welcome to our round-up of tracks discovered in the underground this August. This month we have stumbled upon some producers that create sounds from electronic building blocks, but also have the knack of injecting a human feel to the music.
Ocean by Alwin Brauns opens with wiry modulated synths that holler a mellow riff echoed only by faint beeps. The drums are lazy and lolloping, and all together the arrangement is reminiscent of early down-tempo Royksopp. This young German producer is churning out tracks rapidly, so catch up on his stream here.
Digital Pop by Jixu starts with a gritty synth bass cut up only by a swinging gate, which gives the whole track its head-nodding hip hop shuffle. The track continues to bend whistling timbres and trills until it descends into granular synths and dynamic side-chains. This is an experimental crossover of glitch instrumentation with the swing of hip hop, which is a combination that works brilliantly, even if this particular example ends a wee bit abruptly.
Finally, we found a gold mine of tracks by Shugmonkey. It's hard to single out a preferred track from this prolific stream, but That Girl is a good enough place to start. This wonderland of infectious free-form hip hop staggers between heavy beats and sampled grooves which exude unique and mellow jazz. There are shades of Avalanches and DJ Food here; but under the moniker of Agents of Rush, Shugmonkey also produces synthwave electro all the way through to faithful drum and bass. Get over to Bandcamp now to download anything by Shugmonkey or Agents of Rush!


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 Степанов, Александр Михайлович (1893—1941) — советский военачальник, генерал-майор.
 Степанов, Александр Михайлович (1923—1943) — Герой Советского Союза.

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Kindle $5.99
What We See In The Smoke
Ben Berman Ghan
40 ratings16 reviews
The world we know is coming to an end. How will we connect in the strange and frightening one that's coming to take its place?
What We See in the Smoke twists the genres of realism and science fiction to tell the future history of Toronto, a story that stretches from this millennium to the next. The novel leaps across the boundaries of time and space, as present and future Torontonians search for meaning, connection, and love in a city that grows more beautiful and frightening as its familiar characteristics fade away.
A musician is caught in an endless time loop unable to reach those he loves, two broke and desperate men plan a heist of a cannibal auction, a detective with sinister proclivities hunts for a criminal who is stealing dreams, and a college student searches for his brother in the hours before a nuclear war. All of these and more lead to a world where only rich cyborgs or the homeless remain, where teleportation has made crime impossible, and where city-sized spaceships are maintained by strange creatures while planet Earth itself is left behind.
Ben Berman Ghan spins a web of these lives and many more, blending the familiar with the surreal until both give way to the story of ordinary people in extraordinary times.
GenresShort StoriesScience FictionCanada
First published May 30, 2019
4 books14 followers
Ben Berman Ghan is the author of several books, including the fix-up novel What We See in the Smoke, and the novella Visitation Seeds.
He has served as an editor on such journals as The Spectatorial, The Hart House Review, The White Wall Review, and Terse Journal. He is currently a prose editor for the Wrong Publishing Chapbook series.
His fiction, non-fiction, and poetry have been published in such venues as Clarkesworld Magazine, The Temz Review, Strange Horizons, and Abyss and Apex.
Ben received his HBA from The University of Toronto, and his MA from The Toronto Metropolitan University. He is now a PhD student in English Literature and Creative Writing at the university of Calgary. His next book, The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits, is forthcoming with Wolsak and Wynn for Spring 2024.
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> Ensure a function is only called once

When called multiple times it will return the return value from the first call.

*Unlike the module [once](https://github.com/isaacs/once), this one isn't naughty and extending `Function.prototype`.*

## Install

```
$ npm install onetime
```

## Usage

```js
import onetime from 'onetime';

let index = 0;

const foo = onetime(() => ++index);

foo(); //=> 1
foo(); //=> 1
foo(); //=> 1

onetime.callCount(foo); //=> 3
```

```js
import onetime from 'onetime';

const foo = onetime(() => {}, {throw: true});

foo();

foo();
//=> Error: Function `foo` can only be called once
```

## API

### onetime(fn, options?)

Returns a function that only calls `fn` once.

#### fn

Type: `Function`

Function that should only be called once.

#### options

Type: `object`

##### throw

Type: `boolean`\
Default: `false`

Throw an error when called more than once.

### onetime.callCount(fn)

Returns a number representing how many times `fn` has been called.

Note: It throws an error if you pass in a function that is not wrapped by `onetime`.

```js
import onetime from 'onetime';

const foo = onetime(() => {});

foo();
foo();
foo();

console.log(onetime.callCount(foo));
//=> 3
```

#### fn

Type: `Function`

Function to get call count from.

## onetime for enterprise

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May an FHA mortgage have a second lien? According to the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, the Federal Housing Administration is the world's biggest state mortgage underwriter. The FHA has various mortgage assurance programmes, most of which allow for second mortgage loan facilities, which occupy a collateral location opposite the FHA-insured first mortgage. The second lien is also generally known as subordinated lien, subordinated lien, piggyback lien, subordinated mortgage or just second mortgage.
Indefinite or indefinite. The difference between a HELOC and a loan is that it contains a drawdown amount. The amount you pay each month will vary according to what you have loaned. Sealed credits include the taking up of a flat-rate amount at once. Usually they come with a firm payout on the basis of the amount of capital and interest due.
As a rule, the redemption periods for second mortgages range between 15 and 30 years. Secondly, pledges serve as additional funding for the house owner. Borrowers also owe the remainder of their second pledge in excess of the amount of the FHA-insured mortgage. The FHA does not cover second pledges and the collateral can come from another creditor - not necessarily the first mortgage creditor.
A second pledge can help in paying for the purchase of the house. Borrowers can also obtain a second pledge to use their income for emergency purposes or to repay debt. The second pledge always remains in the second - or lower - location to an FHA-insured first mortgage. His or her secundary role is important because he or she decides when he or she must be fully remunerated.
If, for example, a debtor is selling or refinancing his house, he must first disburse the FHA mortgage, then the second one. When there is not enough money to cover the first and second pledge, the second pledgee bears the losses or has to await further payments. The FHA insures a first mortgage that has a second pledge if the collateral comes from a state, provincial or municipal authority.
Selected non-profit organisations - those linked to the authorities - may grant second pledges in the shape of advance aid credits. Known as DAPs, these programmes help borrower to finance the acquisition of their home by offering low-interest and sometimes "soft" or "silent" second credits to meet down payments and sometimes closure charges, says HUD.
Hidden seconds are credits that do not demand monetary settlement, but are due in full when the house is sold or refinanced. The FHA will not allow all types of alternative funding when purchasing or refinancing. Thus, for example, it forbids second mortgages with ballon repayments (loans which are amortised over a certain maturity but mature in full within a short space of time) or advance fines (fees due to the creditor for the repayment of the credit before a certain maturity).
Borrowers must be able to pay the first mortgage of the FHA, the second mortgage and other house charges such as tax and insurances on a per month basis.


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Q: JQuery: nested dialogs positioning Is there a simple way to automatically position the overlapping nested dialog like this (suppose the blue dialog is created first, then the red one, then the yellow one), each time the dialog is created:

A: You can do this by figuring out how many dialogs have already been created, before creating the new one, then using a multiplier on the left and top margin to correctly position the new dialog.
var currentDialogs = $("div.Dialog").length;

Next, when you create the new dialog, use the value to position it correctly:
$("
").css({ 'margin-top': (currentDialogs * 20) + 'px', 'margin-left': (currentDialogs * 20) + 'px'}).appendTo("#theParentDiv");

A: Create your nested div structure

Then create a class that shifts however much you want each box to shift.
.shift{
    left: 20px;
    top: 20px;
}
.a, .b, .c{
    position: absolute;
}

Then with jquery add that class
$('.b').addClass('shift');
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Home InDepth Op-Eds Is Political Islam Declining in the Middle East?
Is Political Islam Declining in the Middle East?
Prof. Hillel Frisch
23 Tishri 5780 – October 22, 2019
{Originally posted to the BESA website}
Few live images were more dramatic than the collapse and death of former Egyptian president Muhammad Morsi, the first-ever Muslim Brotherhood head of state, in a transparent glass cage on June 17, 2019 during his seemingly never-ending trial proceedings in Cairo.
No one outside Egyptian officialdom questioned the severe conditions of Morsi's incarceration since the day special forces surrounded the presidential home and placed him under arrest in July 2013, paving the way for his minister of defense, Abdel Fatah Sisi, to rise to the presidency in his stead.
For all the human drama of Morsi's death, it prompted barely a whisper among the Egyptian public. It elicited protests by hapless exiled Muslim Brotherhood leaders, a predictable tirade by Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and some ineffective criticism from Qatar's al-Jazeera, which shares Erdoğan's antipathy to Sisi and sympathy for the Brotherhood.
When Egyptians took to the streets three months after Morsi's death, their chants – "Down with Sisi's tyrannical regime" – had nothing to do with Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood, or Islamist ideology.
The same can be said of the months-long protests that are taking place in Algeria and Sudan, which have been described as the stirrings of a new "Arab Spring." Their common denominator is the marked absence of political Islam in the protesters' messages.
In Algeria, the second most populous Arabic-speaking state, the issue revolves around negotiations to achieve a full democratic transition after 67 years of army-dominated one-party rule since Algerian independence. The protests resulted in the removal of senile president Abdelaziz Bouteflika in April 2019.
The protesters address a variety of unifying issues – social justice, the plight of the periphery, youth unemployment – and some over which there is considerable contention, such as the position of the Berbers, the country's indigenous population, and the status of the Amazigh languages. Noticeably absent in the discourse are issues of mosque and state – the bread and butter issues of political Islam.
To anyone familiar with recent Algerian history, the change is dramatic. Just one generation ago, in the 1990s, the country was beset by internecine war between the Algerian "deep state" – the FLN and the army it supported – and the Islamist parties, groups, and militias. It is estimated that between 50,000 and 100,000 were killed in massive acts of terrorism and massacres as both sides accused towns and villages of betrayal and destroyed them in retribution. Eventually, the state gained the upper hand after the largest faction, the Front of Islamic Salvation, gave up the fight in return for amnesty.
Even more striking is the fading of political Islam in Sudan. As in Algeria, the protesters managed to remove their head of state, General Omar Bashir, after 30 years in power. But unlike Algeria, where the regime was never Islamist, Bashir, in his rise to power, had made common cause with the National Islamic Front and imposed sharia law on the country. That move fueled the many insurrections that beset the huge nation and culminated in the secession of the newest state in Africa, the Republic of South Sudan.
Notably, the latest wave of mass protests in Sudan was organized mainly by a professional body, the Sudanese Professionals Association. It is delegates from that organization, not the leaders of more veteran Islamic parties, who are negotiating with the army, which is headed by the commander of the rapid deployment force responsible for brutally suppressing the protesters. The fear is that in both Algeria and Sudan, the army is using negotiations to buy time until the mass movement behind the negotiators fizzles out, at which time the army will send the negotiators to jail or into exile.
Even in Iraq, where religious conflict between Shiites and Sunnis dominated politics and fueled enormous waves of violence following the removal of Saddam Hussein, one sees a waning of the political importance of religion. Protests over the past two years in the south of Iraq, an area exclusively populated by Shiites, is taking place against a Shiite-dominated government. Once again, the issues are youth employment, inadequate public services, and the massive drain on public resources caused by wide-scale corruption. Nary a word on religion and state or Sunni-Shiite relations.
When these Shiite protesters do point an accusing finger, it is no longer at the Sunnis in the north. It is against Iranian intervention in Iraqi affairs and the economic costs of such involvement. Such a state of affairs would have been unthinkable only five years ago, when Sunni-dominated ISIS threatened predominantly Shiite Baghdad.
Recent elections in Tunisia also reflect (albeit less dramatically) the waning of political Islam. In the first round of presidential elections after the decease of a 92-year-old president, the candidate endorsed by the Nahda, a reformist Islamic party, came in a distant third, making him ineligible for the second round.
Though political Islam's power might have waned, it can hardly be pronounced moribund. Two powerful states in the region, Iran and Turkey, are led by determined fundamentalists.
The future of political Islam will depend on the extent to which the protesters achieve their goals through effective organization and prove able to persuade reluctant militaries to give up their power. Failure to achieve these results might resurrect a more hardened political Islam.
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Prof. Hillel Frisch is a professor of political studies and Middle East studies at Bar-Ilan University and a senior research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies.
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Translation, Transference and Responses
My Voice,.A decade of poems from the Poetry Translation Centre,
ed. Sarah Maguire, ed. (382pp, �, Bloodaxe)
and you, Helen, Deryn-Rees Jones (hb, 88p, �.99, Seren)
The conditions in or under which a poet writes are very various across cultures; perhaps the poem spoken or read in public is primary, perhaps there are political risks or social sensitivities, there may be differing cultures by age - of poet and audience - and within or across any of the boundaries one can think of, not least gender. The language spoken or 'heard' off the page will have subtleties based on a common understanding or on one that challenges it.
Translation is carrying over now from far beyond European culture. This book has none from the latter but (to quote from the back cover) is from 'Somali, Afghan, Sudanese and Kurdish poets (26 countries are represented)', with the added shifts, including possible cross-cultural influences, the poems are from 'the rich poetic traditions of the UK's recent immigrant communities.'
And while wondering about transferences, the back cover lists some of the translators: Jo Shapcott, Sean O'Brien, Lavinia Greenlaw, W.N.Herbert, Mini Khalvati and Nick Laird. The commentaries by some of these and by others, along with the editor's introduction, provide not only ways into thinking about these translations but set the scene: the book has 'a decade of poems from the Poetry Translation Centre's meetings in London.' The Editor makes the bold assertion, 'All revolutions in English poetry have occurred via translation,' and backs this up with specific instances. Worth a discussion.
It would be unbalanced to quote from any one translation; I think I am correct in observing that there is one poem only from each poet, though some are sequences, and they are printed, in their original language and as carried over, from page 21 to 339. This is a lot of poets and poems, and it has made me wonder, if my work was to be represented by one poem, which might it best be?
As if this was IT. But of course one's poems appear singly in magazines and anthologies; the encouragement, recognition and not least the ties of friendship represented by this book are to be wondered at - to bless us even.
An important extension of the book - or vice versa - is the Translation Centre's web site, where there is more of the process. A significant 'more' because, where there has been such, you will find (not all or not all yet) the crib translation by the person acting as go-between, where the final translator does not have the original language. Sometimes the crib is as it were a scatter of words and phrases, with alternative possibilities, and sometimes the go-between has made what I suppose might have been called a rough draft. And in some cases - of only a sampling of them - I have liked the draft better than the 'real' poet's final version.
This is only - or perhaps not insignificantly - to say that translation has always accomodated to the fashions of the time; even one's own poems, as well as translations, can fall foul of habit.
While engaged with this book, along with sampling the web site, I thought, how lovely it would be if, for a start, every Sixth Form College, every University English department, every grouping of poets, had a copy.
It was a surprise to receive from Seren a book very different in size, style and purpose from its customary paperbacks. This hardback has a visually striking dust cover that says in every way, this is special, which I think it is. 'and you, Helen' with its lower case and is written thus in contrast to and partnering Edward Thomas's 'And you Helen', which opens the book in type and in Thomas's own hand. The book has responsive poems and an essay by Deryn Rees-Jones 'with images by' Charlotte Hodes. The book was commissioned by the Ledbury Poetry Festival.
Edward Thomas died in the battle of Arras in March 1917, a year to the day after he wrote the poem to his wife. Now, a hundred years after the start of that war, 'we' the nation are in some uncanny condition of remembrance. It should be so, however awkward it is or far away now for most of the population. This book opens to what perhaps can be recalled of love.
The Ledbury connection is the group, the Dymock Poets; in some uncanny way the festival there seems to play host to those ghosts - no, not as ghosts but as lost-found-lost human beings, all men (one says 'of course' here?) and, while the book isn't about them, the connection is made and the book's account of homeliness opens that war-time to us as if familiarly.
It wouldn't be right to tag on at the end of this review mention of the visual aspects of the book: they are essential to it; there are some sepia family photographs, but what lights the book up in the present moment is the work by Charlotte Hodes, collages and drawings that risk difference and make the book as it were a brightening gift to the reader, so alive with invention arising from the book's essential truths - and eluding easy interpretation.
Deryn Rees-Jones' poetry and prose are gentle, empathetic. One of the sections begins:
He has gathered her up in his old great coat.
Can he carry her, she wonders, like the girl she was,
in his officer's coat, with his freshly razored hair.
In this collaboration, Deryn Rees-Jones' engagement with a poetry of fragmentation that wants to hold together the lives of Helen and Edward, and not least to bring into focus Helen's long life after Edward's early death, allows space that may let the reader in. Her prose is both sensitive to their lives, to lives as well in her own family history, and a joy to read, as it finds its own engaging way through what could easily have been, and isn't, a formality. It invites us in differently.
� David Hart 2014


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AAJA Asia to host Debate with leukemia victims and Samsung reps
For the first time, senior Samsung officials to confront victims for a debate over the
disputed workplace safety of Samsung's semiconductor plants
SEOUL – (Feb 15, 2016) AAJA ASIA will host a debate with Samsung officials and leukemia victims at 10am on Feb 16 (Tuesday) over the disputed workplace safety of semiconductor plants. It will be the first time for Samsung to confront leukemia victims in front of the media for a debate.
Baik Soo-ha, a vice president at Samsung, and Samsung spokesman Kim Sun-beom will attend the rare event as speakers along with four victims that have spearheaded negotiations with the world's largest memory chip maker.
From left are Baik Soo-ha, a vice president at Samsung; Samsung spokesman Kim Sun-beom; Hwang Sang-ki, father of late ;Samsung factory worker Hwang Yu-mi Kim Si-nyeo, mother of Han Hye-kyeong who diagnosed with a brain tumor; Song Chang-ho, head of the Family Committee over the Leukemia Issue; and Kim Eun-kyung, former Samsung worker suffering from suffering from lymphoma.
Samsung has officially declared it has officially completed its negotiations with victims over the compensation, an apology and preventive measures but some of the victims disagree. The event will take place at the office of Newsbacker, a crowdfunding platform for journalism, in Insadong, Jongno. English interpretation will be available. For more information, visit newsbacker.com.
Press Contact for the Seoul Sub-chapter of AAJA Asia:
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About AAJA:
Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) is a nonprofit educational and professional association with more than 1,700 members across the world. AAJA members are staff, reporters and freelance journalists for digital, print and broadcast media.
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Q: How to use a host and port for a SQL Server connection I was given a host and a port to connect to a database using SQL Server Management studio. I usually create a new connection using the server name which I do not have this time. I tried to write "host, port" in the box of the server name but the connection failed. Does anyone know how to solve this issue? Thanks

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I tried to write "host, port" in the box of the server name but the connection failed.

That's the correct format.  So you're on to network troubleshooting.  eg in powershell
 Test-NetConnection -ComputerName [host] -Port [port]

A: I use the next format to connect by SSMS:
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In addition to confirming that Grand Theft Auto V had shipped 70 million copies, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick also discussed Mafia III's review scores and remasters during an earnings call today.
On the subject of Mafia III's review scores, Zelnick said scores were lower than what the company hoped for. But at the same time, he remarked that the title is selling very well, noting that it shipped 4.5 million copies in its first week to set a new record for 2K Games.
"In terms of the reviews and scores, it was sort of an odd anomaly," Zelnick explained. "The scores were lower than we would have liked. But there are a lot of stellar reviews. I think the most prominent reviewers really loved it and recognized that what we're doing here, from the story, art, character, and excitement perspective is really unmatched in the marketplace. So I think we and our competitors are seeing some anomalies in the review system, but we take them as they are and we don't argue with it."
Also during the call, an analyst asked Zelnick for his thoughts on possibly releasing more remasters. Is that something Take-Two would consider, following the launch of BioShock: The Collection?
"Potentially yes," he replied. "Any time we have something that goes well or doesn't go well it definitely informs our decision making, but we don't have anything specific to announce... The good news is we have a rich trove of intellectual property and there are definitely more things that will be brought to the market in the future, but nothing that we would announce on today's call."


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"You are worse than spies"
International Christian Concern (ICC) has recently learned that police in Astana, Kazakhstan have been aggressively intimidating and harassing members of the beleaguered Grace Protestant Church. The church's 67-year-old pastor, Bakhytzhan Kashkumbayev (Pastor B.K.), was detained by Kazakh authorities in May as part of a nationwide crackdown on religious minorities.
According to ICC sources, the church's membership has radically decreased since Pastor B.K. was arrested on trumped up charges of "harming the health" of a church member. "They are scared to go to church," said ICC's contact, who wishes to remain unnamed for security reasons. "His church keeps getting smaller and smaller."
After collecting information on all of church's regular attendants, police reportedly began calling and harassing past and present parishioners. Police also demanded that congregants give statements alleging Pastor B.K. forcibly coerced church attendance and monetary gifts from members, reports ICC's contact.
When one congregant asked the police why they have been calling and harassing the members of the church, an officer reportedly responded, "You are worse than spies. You bring Kazakhs to Christ."
Pastor B.K. was briefly released to house arrest on October 9th; however, just minutes after his release, he was re-arrested on charges of "extremism." He is in very poor health, and has continually been denied necessary medical attention. The charges against Pastor B.K. carry a potential prison sentence of three to seven years.
Corey Bailey, ICC's Regional Manager for Central Asia said, "Christians and people of faith in Kazakhstan live in constant fear. One example of why is the treatment of Pastor Kashkumbayev, which is completely unacceptable. Soviet-era mental torture, denial of medical attention, incarceration in an insane asylum, and attempts by the police to intimidate citizens to give false testimony are just a fraction of what has gone wrong in this case. Kazakhstan claims to be a country of religious freedom, yet in the last five years, and especially since the religion law was introduced in 2011, all we have seen in this country is a steep rise in the denial of basic human rights for the freedom of religion of its citizens. The International community should be outraged and must defend Pastor Kashkumbayev by demanding his fair treatment and release from prison."
Contact Kazakhstan Embassies to demand Pastor Kashkumbayev's immediate release.
Please read Nigeria: Boko Haram Attacks Increase in the North at Religion Today.
"Heavily armed militants, suspected members of Boko Haram, attacked Damaturu, the capital of Nigeria's Yobe state, last Thursday, Open Doors USA reports. It appears that hundreds of members of the Muslim terrorist sect took part in the surprise offensive in an area that hosts government institutions but is also dominated by Christians. According to the BBC, the militants also attacked a hospital, stole drugs and drove off in ambulances. The death toll of the gun battle between the militants and the army, which lasted several hours, has not been confirmed."
On October 8, Adnan Masih's life was radically changed when Abid Mehmood, a Muslim man, entered a police station in Lahore, Pakistan and filled a case against Adnan accusing him of making blasphemous remarks against Muhammad and the Quran. Like all Christians accused of blasphemy in Pakistan, Adnan and his family are now forced to live in a state of constant fear. Pursued by both the police and Islamic extremists, Adnan has gone into hiding fearing for his own life and the lives of his family.
In an interview with ICC Ilyas Rehmat, a Christian human rights activist, shared the details of the case. "Irfan Masih, a Christian, and [Adnan's accuser], Mehmood worked at a glass and aluminum shop together for the past year."
Mehmood has been described as a fundamental Muslim and reportedly has connections with the Islamic extremist organization Jamaat-ul-Dawat, which has been banned in Pakistan. According to reports, Mehmood kept a copy of the book "I Asked the Bible Why Qurans were Burnt," at work, which is full of unauthentic and biased religious points of view against Christianity. According to ICC's sources, both the book and the author are supposed to be banned in Pakistan.
"On the day of the incident, Adnan Masih, a Christian pastor trained at the United Pentecostal seminary, covered a shift for his brother, Irfan Masih, at the glass and aluminum shop," Rehmat said. At the shop, Adnan discovered the anti-Christian book and began reading it. Due to its anti-Christian perspective and Adnan's background as an Evangelist, Adnan wrote comments in the book arguing against the anti-Christian viewpoints using Bible verses to support his arguments.
These comments enraged Mehmood, so he took the book with the written comments into a local police station in Lahore and filed a case against Adnan, accusing him of writing blasphemous remarks against Muhammed and the Quran on different pages of the book. Mehmood also contacted members of Jamaat-ul-Dawat and reported the incident.
Upon discovering the accusations against him, Adnan fled Lahore and went into hiding. Those closest to Adnan say that he fears that he will be murdered by Jamaat-ul-Dawat or executed the Pakistani government if he is discovered.
When police were unable to arrest Adnan, they arrested three other Christian men in connection with the incident including Mushtaq Masih, the Christian owner of the glass and aluminum shop where the "blasphemy" occurred; Irfan Masih, Adnan's brother; and Kamram Masih, another relative of Adnan. The police are now using these arrests to pressure Adnan, who remains in hiding, to turn himself in as soon as possible.
When news of this incident spread, the local Muslim community reacted with violence. "Hundreds of Muslims carrying weapons and sticks were provoked and led by clerics to attack Christian houses [near where the incident occurred] on October 11, after Friday prayers," a local Christian human rights activist shared with ICC.
"They stoned the houses, broke the doors and windows and shouted slogans against the Christian community and faith. [Fortunately,] the mob was controlled by the police, otherwise we would have seen another 'Joseph Colony incident' in Lahore. Dozens of Christian men and women were reported injured during this attack," the local activist added. The attackers reportedly demanded that Adnan be hanged publically as they rampaged through the Christian neighborhood.
"All the Christian families have fled from the area to unknown safe places. We are worried for our lives, property, and belongings," the local activist said. "We want to go back to our homes, safely, as soon as possible."
In an interview with ICC, Hahira Mushtaq, wife of Mushtaq Masih, described her desperation now that her husband has been arrested and imprisoned in connection with this incident. "We have not slept properly for a single night since [the arrest], due to fear of being attacked." Holding her youngest daughter, Tahira said, "I have no more excuses or answers for Sitaish to calm her and keep her from waiting for her father to come home."
"I beg Jesus to set him free as soon as possible," she prayed as she wept for her husband in prison.
Adnan remains in hiding and out of the custody of both the police and the Jamaat-ul-Dawat extremist group. The three Christian men who have been arrested in Adnan's place remain in prison, and tensions in Lahore remain high. Several Christian organizations have attempted to help bring about a peaceful resolution to this most recent blasphemy accusation against a Christian, but many fear this incident could be the prelude to another indecent of communal violence against the Christian community of Pakistan.
The terrorist attack on a wedding service at a church in the Al-Warrak suburb of Cairo on Sunday, Oct. 20, is the latest evidence of the seriousness of the situation in Egypt. Violence against Egypt's minority Christian community has shown no sign of abating following the dramatic increase in tensions since the ouster of former Muslim Brotherhood president Mohammed Morsi. In the aftermath of the Al-Warrak attack there has been a distinct shift in tone, however, as many in the country are coming to see these attacks, and the Islamist agenda, as dangerous for Egyptian society as a whole.
Sunday evening, the Church of Saint Mary and St. Michael was the site of huge celebration. Inside the church, a wedding that had started at 8 p.m. was about to conclude. Outside, friends and family of bridegroom, Ramzy Khalifa, and his fiancée, Catherine, were gathering for their wedding ceremony at 9 p.m to begin.
It was 8:45 p.m. when the attack happened, Ayad Zakhary, a servant in the church, told ICC. "Two armed masked Muslim terrorists riding motorcycles and carrying automatic weapons opened fire randomly on the people who were in the front of the Church," Zakhary recounted.
Zakhary recognized that the casualties could have been much worse. The time of the attack was just before the finishing of the wedding ceremony. "Many guests were still in the church and the wedding prayer hadn't finished yet," Zakhary told ICC. Only a few guests who left the church were outside with those waiting for the next wedding to begin. He said that if the attack were at 9 p.m. exactly, the victims would have been increased.
Father Dawood Ibrahim, head priest of the church, told ICC about the impact the attack has had on the community. "All of us are surprised about what happened," said Fr. Ibrahim. "We felt the insult, indignity, and sadness. It was like a shock for us. It was terrible, the wedding converted to sorrow. All the people, Muslims and Christians, in Al-Warrak are very sad about what happened last Sunday. [The terrorists] aim is to destroy Egypt."
Since the removal of Mohammed Morsi in early July, Egypt's Christians have come under devastating attacks. As ICC previously reported, the violence is at a level unseen for centuries. Most of the attacks have occurred outside of the Egyptian capitol, though there have been some attacks in Cairo as well.
Fr. Ibrahim explained to ICC that the attack on his church highlights the lack of security for Christians. "They choose our Church because they made sure that there are no police protecting the church, and they carried out their plan easily," he told ICC.
Authorities have begun investigating the security forces who were supposed to be responsible for providing protection in the area of Al-Warrak. Ahram reports, "The investigation has revealed that security forces stopped protecting the church in mid-August due to a lack of weapons."
As attacks have repeatedly happened with seeming impunity, some have begun to voice complaints that "the state deliberately fails to fulfill its role towards the protection of the property and the churches of Copts," coming from a statement by the Revolutionary Socialists movement on Tuesday.
This latest attack on a church in Cairo seems to have struck closer to home for political leaders in Egypt, and may be a catalyst to finding some real solutions to bring an end to the violence.
According to MidEast Christian News, the Prime Minister himself, Dr. Hazem el-Beblawi, visited the victims in the hospital, many of whom are in critical care. "Such heinous acts will not succeed in driving a wedge between the Christian and Muslim nation's fabric, and the government is watching carefully the miserable and desperate attempts to sow seeds of discord among the nation's children," Beblawi added in the statement.
Fr. Ibrahim has been encouraged by the support the church has received. "All the community has stood beside us after this attack and all the Egyptian people condemn this bad terrorist attack on the church," he told ICC.
The church is calling for increased security for churches. "The attacks on the Christians have been increased after the removal of Morsi," Ibrahim told ICC.
While increased security is the first step, it cannot be the only step taken if there is to be an actual decrease in the violence. Ziad Akl, writing for Daily News Egypt, said "The attack on the Church [Sunday] presents us with two facts: first, the terrorism threat Egypt is facing is certainly progressing very rapidly and second, the strategies put forth to counter this threat are clearly not effective." Akl continued, "So far, the strategies used to counter terrorism are solely security-based. The political, economic, religious and cultural aspects of countering terrorism remain out of strategic focus until today."
The international community has a role to play in assisting Egypt in finding strategies that do work. Leaders around the world have condemned the attacks and are calling for the Egyptian government to find a way to protect its citizens. Canadian Ambassador for Religious Freedom, Andrew Bennett, said, "The attacks against the worship places in Egypt are unacceptable," in a statement released on Tuesday.
A group of U.S. Senators, including Bob Corker (R-TN) and Roy Blunt (R-MO), have also issued a call for greater protections for Christians and urged Secretary of State John Kerry to provide a "clear response from the U.S." This incident highlights the importance of the now vacant office of Ambassador-at-Large for Religious Freedom and the proposed Special Envoy for Religious Freedom, in working to address issues of violence against religious minorities.
Read Iran: Four Christians Sentenced to 80 Lashes for Drinking Communion Wine, by ICN, at persecution.org.
"An Iranian court has sentenced four Christians to be whipped as a result of drinking wine during the Lord's Supper. The four Christians have a limited timeframe to appeal the sentence. This step is just the latest in a long line of abuses of basic rights to religious freedom in Iran."
Pakistan, by Ecumenical News, at persecution.org.
"One month ago, over 100 Christians were killed in a twin suicide attack on All Saints Church in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar. This attack marks the single most deadly attack on Christians in Pakistan's history. Outside of a church in Lahore, Christians and Muslims together demonstrated against religious intolerance by forming a human chain around the church while mass was being conducted inside."
Please read Christian Leader Dies After Attack on Tanzanian Church and other news of persecuted Christians around the world in Religion Today's Newsletter.
"A mob attacked worshippers at an overnight service at the Gilgal Christian Worship Center in Pansiansi, Mwanza City, northern Tanzania, around 1 a.m. on Tuesday, Open Doors USA reports. 35-year-old Elia Lunyamila, a youth leader, died. Two other worshippers sustained serious machete wounds and were taken to a hospital in Mwanza district. The motive for the attack is not known, but a robbery has been ruled out. The Mwanza police commander confirmed the incident and said police were investigating."
Please read For Saeed Abedini's Wife and Family, Year-Long Imprisonment in Iran Takes Its Toll, by Grace Thornton, Baptist Press, at Religion Today.
" "Be patient and endure." From an Iranian jail cell, Saeed Abedini penned those words in a letter to his daughter Rebekka for her seventh birthday this year. But as the American pastor marked a year in Iran's brutal Evin Prison with no hint of a coming release, "enduring" is taking a toll on wife and two children in Boise, Idaho.
"Rebekka and her brother Jacob, 5, know they're growing up without their father present to mark milestones or sing to them at bedtime. Abedini's wife Naghmeh -- who hates flying -- keeps an intense travel schedule speaking and lobbying for her husband's release, according to WORLD Magazine.
"To a degree, she's seeing some payoff. On the heels of President Obama expressing concern for Abedini during in a Sept. 27 phone call with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, the European Parliament called on Iran's government Oct. 10 to release the pastor and seven other prisoners. Human rights lawyer Attieh Fard also addressed the issue of Iran's mistreatment of Christians at a Sept. 24 meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council, urging Rouhani to release 42 Iranian Christians in prison and 45 awaiting trial, according to World Watch Monitor, a religious liberty advocacy organization."
Please read Christian Pastor's Wife: Obama Asked Rouhani to Release My Husband, by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, at persecution.org.
"The wife of Iranian-American pastor Saeed Abedini who has been sentenced to eight years in prison, said that during the September 27 telephone conversation between Barack Obama and Hassan Rouhani, the release of her husband was discussed. Saeed's case is one of the most visible of the many human rights abuses committed by the Iranian regime, which works to silence views contrary to its own both politically, and, as in Saeed's case, religiously."
Read Two Pastors Killed in Kenya's Coastal Area, by Morning Star News, at Religion Today.
"Christians at Vikwantani Redeemed Gospel Church in Mombasa, Kenya arrived for worship Sunday morning (Oct. 20) only to learn that their pastor had been shot to death in their building the night before. Those attending the service began to weep as a church member described what he and others found when they went to the church building late the previous night: the body of pastor Charles Matole slumped in a plastic seat, a Bible in his hand, blood streaming from his head.
"Sunday night (Oct. 20), another pastor was killed in Kilifi, 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Mombasa. Ebrahim Kidata of East African Pentecostal Church appeared to have been strangled and left in some bushes, authorities said. He had been riding his motorcycle, which was stolen.
"The murders come on the heels of rioting in Mombasa by Muslims enraged at the killing of sheikh Ibrahim Omar and three others on a road near Mombasa (see Morning Star News, Oct. 7). A church leader in Mombasa said Muslims have accused churches of being "quiet" about the murders of Omar and his predecessor."


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Out-of-character meaning
(idiomatic) Inconsistent with one's personality, disposition, or usual expected behaviour.
The burst of anger was out of character for the normally placid boy.
(idiomatic, drama) Not in character; not successfully performing within the mindset of a given character in a theatrical performance. See also break character, drop character.
I was out of character for most of the first act because those people in the third row wouldn't stop chatting.
(idiomatic, drama, role-playing games) Not acting; not "on"; behaving within one's natural personality rather than that of a character, or taking actions entirely outside the fictional context.
After watching him perform so energetically, it is a bit of a trip to hang out with him when he's out of character. In real life, he's really mellow.
Susan asked the GM, out of character, whether she was able to sense magic in the room.
(idiomatic) In a manner inconsistent with one's usual and expected personality or behavior.
(idiomatic, drama, role-playing games) Away from the mindset, personality, or behavior assumed for a role that an actor is rehearsing or performing, or that a player is playing.
He has the uncanny ability of getting in and out of character within a split second.
The comedian stepped out of character to mug directly to the audience.
Out-of-character Sentence Examples
There is one thing I still don't understand – it's out of character.
Mrs. Lincoln mellowed into his lap, as out of character as a clown at a wake.
There is one thing I still don't understand – it's out of character.
Handing out compliments seemed to be out of character for him, but hadn't he always been honest and direct?
It seemed totally out of character.
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If you are a face-mask junkie (like yours truly), chances are you already have more face mask than what is considered normal. However, sometimes a face mask crossed your path and you just automatically found reasons to add it to your exponentially-growing collection. I know that feeling so well, comrades.
My reaction? Why, I have to try it of course.
As if I needed more reason to buy this mask, this mask's name reminded me of Legolas Greenleaf. I cannot resist anything Legolas Greenleaf. Thus, into the shopping cart it goes.
Identity Crisis : Face Mask or Face Scrub?
The packaging said 'Face Scrub'. Utama Spice official website put it in 'Face Mask' category. The instruction said to mix it with fresh water (or boost it with rose water, as I prefer) to form a light paste and apply evenly on face, let dry, then rinse by softly massaging the skin.
So the answer is : Both! How convenient (if both face-masking and scrubbing are your things)!
This product is basically dried, finely grounded guava and jackfruit leaves, plus rice powder. It is like the raw vegan option for your skincare woes.
On the packaging, the face mask/scrub claim is to brighten and exfoliate the skin. The product description on Utama Spice official website added "treating acne" to the mix. I think the brightening would be due to rice powder, which is widely used in Asian natural products as skin lightener. I think "exfoliation' means the physical exfoliation from softly massaging the mask while rinsing it off. So…what are the roles of guava and jackfruit leaves, then?
Research indicates that aqueous extract obtained from guava leaf has antifungal and antibacterial properties. This research by Richard, Joshua, and Philips (2013) found that it is effective to prohibit the growth of organism responsible for skin disorders such as fungi Microsporum gypseum and Trichophyton mentagrophytes, and bacteria Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis. I have not found any research about its effect towards Proprionibacterium acnes (which -surprise, surprise- is mainly responsible for acne), but I am wishing hard it prohibits their growth too.
In addition to its antifungal and antibacterial properties, guava leaf extract also shows possible whitening, antioxidant on skin exposed to UV damage, and anti-wrinkle, as indicated in this research by Yang, Kim, and Park (2008). The full research paper is in Korean, though, so I haven't gotten the full story.
It smells like burned sun-dried leaves of Mirkwood. Not particularly pleasing, but considering the ingredient list literally consists of dried leaves and rice powder, it would be unnatural if it does have sweet fragrance in it, wouldn't it? Besides, if you do not like the smell, you can always mix it with rose water for enhanced masking experience. My rose water of choice is the cheapo Mustika Ratu Air Sari Mawar Putih (reviewed here, in Bahasa).
It is even messier than Temu-Temu Face Mask. Since it is a bit clumpy, it does not adhere to face as well as I wanted it to be. Of course I can make it more runny, but then it would drip down to my clothes, leaving a green stain. The green stain is very easy to remove, but still. It is definitely not my choice for mid week quick-masking session.
For face mask products, I think the experience is very important. The texture of this as a mask is kinda okay-ish, I am also not complaining about the burned dried leaves smell, but ohhh God I don't like that no matter how gentle I tried to remove this, it still felt like I was scrubbing my face. Sure it does not feel like a rough, jagged apricot scrub or something, but…face scrubbing is not really my thing.
However, I like that it delivers immediate brightening after just one usage. Long-term result should only be expected if the product is used regularly and accompanied by daily skincare usage (AND SUNSCREEN). The potential benefit of this mask is pretty awesome though.
Would I repurchase again? Yes, but the probability is low. I am not aversed to this product (as I said, the potential benefit is pretty awesome) but the face-scrubbing part is not one I really looking forward to do in my weekly masking session. Face scrub fans might love it way more than I do.
This mask is a bit difficult to source compared to other Utama Spice products I used. Utama Spice official website carries this (of course) and it might be available in brick-and-mortar stores selling Utama Spice products, which you can check in Utama Spice Store Locator. At the time when this review is written (June 2017), the Green Leaf Face Mask and Scrub is available in 50g jar and retailed for Rp 60.500.