Things are still good, the winds come through and feel like they have wrecked the place, then you give it a few days and ski the right aspect and BAMM its good.
We have talked about Terminal direct to the Vaux for awhile but never linked it up. Today we headed up the Pearly rock trail and up the south side of Terminal. We were trying to stay in cell service in case Jeff got a call from Becky. They are two days passed their due date and ready to have a kid at any point. So the second we wrapped to the south side of Terminal Jeff put the burners on and ran up to the ridge so as to be back in service.
It was a pretty long tour up to that point, we all seemed to be feeling it, probably the 8 km and 6000+ feet. Getting down to our line we wrapped a large rock with a 7mm prussic and tied our two 30 m rando ropes together. We could have skied directly in but the top part was rocky and rotten so we all took the security of the rope. It was also blowing really hard on the ridge and we didn't want to dilly dally.
This part of the line was steep and decent skiing, with a little unknown bottom. It worked out pretty well and we were soon on the Vaux glacier.
I have dreamed about skiing past this glacial bulge for years and wondered how it would all work out. It was incredible how well this did work out, the roll in was perfect settled powder. Great confidence inspiring turns to start the second part of the line.
From there the line was smooth and playful gullies led us downward. A tiny wrap around and BAM a new line skied. How many years will I be able to keep skiing new lines, I wonder? It will tap out at some point but for now it still remains endless.
Nice work! So envious, but glad you guys got it. Such a nice line with some nice fall line vert. Tried for it awhile ago, but were turned around on the ridge…might have to try again in March when it's more filled in!
Greetings from Greece, your style and courage are incredible! Keep on the great job.


The NSW Golf Open Championship returns to Penrith over four days next month and, once again, residents can take advantage of free tickets to the event.
Twin Creeks Golf and Country Club will host the Championships, from Thursday 8 - Sunday 11 November and residents can drop into the Penrith Civic Centre or one of our library branches to pick up a free four-day pass.
The NSW Golf Open attracts some of Australia's best players and gives golf lovers and sports enthusiasts plenty of chances to get up close and personal with sport stars.
Penrith Mayor Ross Fowler OAM said Council was proud to bring yet another major sporting event to the City.
"Penrith attracts a wide range of events and as a sponsor of the 2018 NSW Open Championship, Council is delighted to have delivered another thrilling and unique sporting event for locals to enjoy," Cr Fowler said.
"Events like the NSW Open Championship not only give residents the opportunity to experience world-class sport right here in Penrith, they also provide a welcome boost to the local economy."
"I encourage all sports fanatics, golf lovers and families looking for something new and fun to do, to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to see the pros of the PGA tour of Australasia play right here in Penrith."
Visit the Penrith Civic Centre or one of our library branches before 28 October to pick up your free four-day pass.


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It's Not "Presidents' Day"
A sign for store windows printed before the Uniform Monday Holiday Act of 1968. (Library of Congress)
Are we really celebrating Millard Fillmore and Warren Harding today? Not according to federal law. Today's national holiday is "George Washington's Birthday." That's the simple answer. The full answer is complicated: It's not actually his birthday today. The holiday actually never falls on Washington's real birthday. Moreover, we use a different calendar today than we did when he was born. Yet another complication is that in several states it is also "Presidents' Day."
Washington was born on February 11, 1731…under the Julian Calendar. This was the old calendar established under Julius Caesar. Pope Gregory moved the Catholic world to a more accurate calendar in 1582, but Protestant England, under Queen Elizabeth, wasn't bound by the change. Leap year differences put Britain and the America colonies eleven days behind the rest of the western world. Moreover, New Year's Day was March 25 under the old calendar, not January 1. Consequently, when the British Empire finally changed to the Gregorian Calendar in 1752, Washington's birthday changed from February 11, 1731 to February 22, 1732. Both dates are correct, but the proper way to note the Julian date is "February 11, 1731 (O.S.)." The abbreviation stand for "old style."
Washington's Birthday was declared a holiday by Congress in 1879. Many people don't realize that Congress has no authority to declare holidays (days off) for anyone other than federal employees and residents of the District of Columbia. States, however, followed the federal government's lead and Washington's Birthday was celebrated for decades on February 22. Abraham Lincoln's birthday was never a federal holiday, but was celebrated by many states on February 12—just ten days before Washington's birthday. In the 1950s, there was an effort to establish a third holiday, President's Day, to honor "the office of the presidency" on March 4 – the original day of quadrennial inaugurations. Though some states adopted the new holiday, Congress declined to in the belief that three holidays in rapid succession were too many.
In 1968, Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, guaranteeing three-day weekends for Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, and Veterans Day. A proposal to also replace Washington's Birthday with a generic "President's Day" was specifically rejected. However, because the holiday was set to be celebrated on the third Monday in February, it was guaranteed to always fall between Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays yet never on either. This invited use of the generic term "President's Day (with the apostrophe sometimes after the "s.") Advertisers are usually blamed for popularizing the term.
Though the federal holiday is Washington's Birthday, it is state law that determines days off for most Americans. Only seven states celebrate Washington alone on the third Monday in February. Virginia calls it "George Washington Day."Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Louisiana, and New York call it "Washington's Birthday." Twenty-two states celebrate "President's Day" (with varying punctuation). The rest of the states name the holiday after Washington and someone else, most often Lincoln, but also Jefferson (Alabama), civil rights activist Daisy Bates (Arkansas), and all presidents (Maine and Arizona).
The grave of 8th Virginia captain and major Jonathan Clark indicates that he was born under the Julian calendar. (author)
Under our present Constitution, the United States has had forty-five presidents. Some have been great and some have not. Reputations have waxed and waned as attitudes change and new biographies are written. Celebrating "President's Day" seems to make no more sense that celebrating "Congress Day" or "Supreme Court Day." In the fact, the notion of a "President's Day" has vaguely monarchist overtones. Surely, we can all think of several presidents who don't deserve the honor. Washington, however, stands high above the rest. He is rightly known as the father of the country. He effectuated a great break with the past, establishing durable and free government in part by repeatedly declining to cling to power. Only one other president rivals his claim to greatness.
Holidays have always been the subject of civic activism. Veterans Day was moved back to November 11 in 1975 to align with the World War I armistice. Columbus Day has been replaced by "Indigenous People's Day" in Florida, Hawaii, Alaska, Vermont, South Dakota, New Mexico, and Maine. If you live in a place (such as, believe it or not, Washington State) that celebrates "President's Day," you might want to call your state legislator and point out that Chester Arthur doesn't belong on the same holiday stage as George Washington.

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Cheddar Gorgeous and Simone French host MIF Matchmakers
Cheddar Gorgeous and Simone French host MIF Matchmakers to help local artists find their dream collaborative partners
With the creative community seriously affected by the COVID-19 crisis, Manchester International Festival (MIF) has been hosting regular online Artist Drop-Ins to offer support and provide a space for creatives of all kinds to keep in touch and share experiences. Guest speakers have included Manchester-based creatives Pawel Paniczko, Jessica El Mal, and Adam Szabo, as well as international artists Hélène Binet, Lola Arias and Huang Ruo.
Next week's Artist Drop-In, on Thursday 20 August, will see Theatre-maker Simone French and drag legend Cheddar Gorgeous, host 'MIF Matchmakers' which will connect artists who are looking to start a new collaboration whilst in solitary confinement.
Cheddar and Simone say "MIF Matchmakers is a creative date-line to help local artists find the perfect collaborative match and also make all of us a little bit more aware of the amazing talent that we have here in the city. This is about growing connections between artists and organisations like the Festival. Each artist will talk about themselves, their practice and what they are looking for in a dream collaborative partner, or partners… no judgement here!"
Known for her unicorn, alien, and other fantastical drag performances, Cheddar Gorgeous is one of the UK's most celebrated drag queens with over 112,000 online followers. The 'drag daddy' of the Family Gorgeous, Cheddar is one of the driving forces of Manchester's Home of Fabulous, Cha Cha Boudoir, an infamous and inclusive late-night club cabaret for spectacular creatures. More recently, Cheddar is one of the stars of Channel 4's new hit show Drag SOS.
Her project 'Hero Worship', developed through a recent Remote Residency with MIF, is a series of nine photographic portraits showcasing unique drag 'looks'. Each 'look' is made up of specially-designed makeup design and costume pieces that pay homage to a different group of key workers serving our communities during the COVID-19 crisis.
Emphasising strong female voices, Simone French is an unconventional theatre-maker, performer, vocalist and arts community facilitator. She is Co-Artistic Director of TomYumSim - an outrageously absurd performance duo, known for queer participatory theatre and transforming unusual spaces into bespoke theatrical worlds.
Whether longing to connect with someone who shares your specialism, looking for help with a particular practice, or just up for seeing how an unexpected collaboration might unfold, MIF Matchmakers wants you to get involved.
Feedback from previous pairings "It was a match made in heaven. These were the first people I've got to meet in lockdown, I found this queer friendly space and matched with an artist that is so exciting."
"Probably one of the best ways to meet new artists."
MIF's Artist Drop-Ins take place every Thursday at 2pm and are free. Following MIF Matchmakers will be a session with renowned and award-winning poet, playwright and performer Louise Wallwein alongside artist, writer and director Scottee, on Thursday 27 August, 2pm.
Go to mif.co.uk/whats-on/ via the link below to learn more
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The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer
Iranian Arab soccer pitch emerges as flashpoint in Saudi-Iranian proxy war
Police action in Awamiyah in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province
A soccer pitch in the Iranian city of Ahvaz, home to Iran's Arab minority, has emerged as a flashpoint of anti-government protest at a time of rising Arab-Iranian tensions over the status of Shiite Muslim minorities in the Arab world, the crisis in Yemen, and the outlines of a multilateral agreement that would curb Iran's nuclear program and return the Islamic republic to the fold of the international community.
Soccer fans clashed with security forces last Friday after a match between state-owned Foolad FC and Teheran's Esteghlal FC in Ahwaz, the capital of the Iranian province of Khuzestan for the second time is as many weeks, according to the National Council of Resistance in Iran, a coalition of opposition groups dominated by the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, a group that lost much of its credibility after it was expelled from France in 1986 and moved its operations to Iraq at a time that Iraq was at war with Iran.
The protest was sparked by mounting anger among ethnic Arabs in oil-rich but impoverished Khuzestan that constitutes part of Iran's border with Iraq. Ethnic Arabs have long complained that the government has failed to reinvest profits to raise the region's standards of living.
The World Health Organization (WHO) identified Ahwaz in 2013 as Iran's most polluted city. Authorities distributed in February tens of thousands of surgical masks and more than 26,000 gallons of milk in Ahvaz, a city of more than 1 million, when it was hit by a severe sand storm that forced the closure of schools and offices, the cancellation of flights, and prompted scattered protests.
In a sign of where Iranian Arab loyalties lie, environmental activists blamed Iraq rather than the Iranian government for the degradation of Khuzestan that they said was a consequence of Iraq's failure to prevent the loss of marshlands and the spread of desert terrain.
Iranian Arabs nevertheless charge that they are being discriminated against because of Iranian government suspicions that they are susceptible to foreign Arab influence. That suspicion is rooted in Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's bloody eight-year war against Iran that ended in 1988. Saddam falsely expected at the time that Iranian Arabs would welcome the opportunity to gain independence from Iran.
The Iranian Arab refusal to side with Saddam failed however to earn them the credit they deserved. They have since often framed their criticism of government policies in ethnic and nationalist terms that have served to strengthen government distrust amid multiple proxy wars between Saudi Arabia and Iran on the battlefields of Yemen, Syria and Iraq; Gulf accusations of meddling by Iran in their backyard by supporting the rebel Houthis in Yemen, fuelling protest in majority Shiite Bahrain and the oil-rich, predominantly Shiite Eastern Shiite militias in Iraq battling the Islamic State, the jihadist group that controls a swath of Syria and Iraq.
A policeman was killed and 30 protesters injured on Saturday when police allegedly attacked the Shiite village of Awamiyah in the Eastern Province amid reports of a planned demonstration against the Saudi military intervention in Yemen, according to the Saudi interior ministry and activists. Shiites, who assert that they suffer from discrimination in employment and education, account for up to 15 percent of the kingdom's population. The government has repeatedly rejected allegations of discrimination and claimed that it was confronting an armed uprising in the Eastern Province.
In a recent article in the English-language Saudi newspaper, Arab News, UAE businessman Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor called for the liberation of the five million Arabs in Khuzestan which the writer described as Arabistan. Mr. Al Habtoor asserted that the Arabs were "struggling to survive under the Persian yoke in an Arab region bordering Iraq and the Arabian Gulf."
He charged that "although Arabistan provides Iran with 80 percent of its oil requirements as well as half of its gas, its sons are exploited and oppressed; their human rights tramped upon, their very identity in danger of being obliterated. Iran's policy of ethnic discrimination combined with its Persian resettlement endeavours has resulted in turning the Ahwazi Arabs into an economic and social underclass.
Numerous Arab villages are without schools and those 'lucky' enough to attend school are educated in Farsi. Some 80 percent of Ahwazi Arab women are illiterate as opposed to 50 percent of Ahwazi men. Over thirty percent of the under-30s are unemployed in this heavily industrialized region, primarily because Persians receive priority and jobs often advertised outside the governorate," Mr. Al Habtoor said.
"Thousands are without access to drinking water, because rivers have been diverted to arid Persian provinces. Their streets open sewers; many are deprived of electricity and gas… It's no wonder that Ahwazi Arabs are now driven to protest against such blatant discrimination," he added.
Friday's soccer protest followed a similar incident two weeks ago during an Asian championship League qualifier between Ahwaz's Foolad FC and Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia. Fans defiantly expressed support for Al Hilal and burnt pictures of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the late spiritual leader who spearheaded the 1979 Iranian revolution that toppled the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and his successor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Fans also sported banners emphasizing the Arab character of Ahvaz.
Unrest in Ahwaz has been long simmering. The popular revolts of the Arab world in 2011 that toppled the autocratic leaders of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen reverberated in Khuzestan where protesters commemorated anti-government demonstrations in 2005. Activists who called in April 2011 for a 'day of rage' in Ahwaz were confronted by security forces who reportedly killed and wounded scores.
Habib Jaber Al-Ahvazi, a spokesman for the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz (ASMLA), a group that demands independence for Ahvaz and is believed to be responsible for a series of bomb attacks in the city in 2005, 2006 and 2013, last month told online Arab nationalist Ahvaz.tv that the soccer protests were part of an "ongoing confrontation between demonstrators and the forces of the Persian occupation."
Iranian analysts suspect Saudi Arabia of instigating the soccer protests in Khuzestan as part of an effort to destabilize and dismember Iran. The analysts note that ASMLA operatives have maintained contacts with rebels fighting Syria's Al Assad regime. ASMLA has also expressed support for insurgents in Iran's Baluchi and Kurdish provinces whom the government in Tehran sees as part of US and Gulf Arab covert operations aimed at weakening it.
Iran's Press TV appeared to counter reports of the soccer protest by reporting the same day that hundreds of protesters in Tehran, Ahwaz, Ardabil, Mashhad and Tabriz had demonstrated against the Saudi military campaign in Yemen.
James M. Dorsey is a Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, co-director of the University of Würzburg's Institute for Fan Culture, a syndicated columnist, and the author of The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer blog
Esteglal Tehran Iran Saudi Arabia
Dear Dr. James
This article is good and excellent assessment of the situation now, and my own view is that behind all the events in the region are Iran and Saudi Arabia in order to protect their own interests in order to keep open to them in order to trade and steal their wealth by stirring up sectarian strife in those countries by the markets of these countries mercenaries and weaken the regular armies.
The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer April 6, 2015 at 10:01 PM
Ali, thanks for your comment. Rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia certainly plays a role but I would not downplay the local and domestic issues
Certainly local and domestic issues play an important role, which is being exploited by these two countries to interfere with other countries, they interfere with the pretext of religion, or protect its borders and others.
The core issue is domestic. One can only exploit if there is a problem. Attacking the symptoms without treating the issue risks escalation
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Ukraine may force Middle Eastern rivals to upgrade their toolkit
By James M. Dorsey Struggling to remain on the sidelines of the 21 st century's watershed war in Ukraine, Middle Eastern nations are discovering that they may be fighting their battles with an outdated toolkit. As a result, the Ukraine war could saw off the legs from under the table of Middle Eastern détente that already are built on shaky ground. For the past 18 months, Middle Eastern rivals – Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Turkey, Iran, and Israel – have sought to hedge their bets by diversifying their relationships with major powers, the United States, China, and/or Russia. Increasingly, the rivals are finding out that the Ukraine conflict threatens to narrow their ability to hedge. The conflict has, irrespective of the outcome of the war, reduced not only big power competition to a two- rather than three-horse race but also opened the door to a Cold War-style international relations based on the principle of 'you are with us or against us.' Even if por
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The history of software configuration management (SCM) in computing can be traced back as early as the 1950s, when CM (for Configuration Management), originally for hardware development and production control, was being applied to software development.  The first software configuration management was most likely done manually.  Eventually, software tools were written to manage software changes.  History records tend to be based on tools and companies, and lend concepts to a secondary plane.

Timeline
 Early 1960s or even late 1950s: CDC UPDATE and IBM IEB_UPDATE.
 Late 1960s, early 1970s: Professor Leon Pressor at the University of California, Santa Barbara produced a thesis on change and configuration control.  This concept was a response to a contract he was working on with a defense contractor who made aircraft engines for the US Navy.
 Early 1970s: Unix make.
 By 1970 CDC update was an advanced product.
 Circa 1972: Bell Labs paper describing the original diff algorithm.
 1972, with an IEEE paper in 1975: source code control system, SCCS, Marc Rochkind Bell Labs. Originally programmed in SNOBOL for OS/360; subsequently rewritten in C for Unix (used diff for comparing files).
 1970s: Lisle, Illinois-based Pansophic Systems offered PANVALET, which was an early source code control system for the mainframe market.
 1975: Professor Pressor's work eventually grew into a commercially available product called Change and Configuration Control (CCC) which was sold by the SoftTool corporation.
 Revision Control System (RCS, Walter Tichy).
 Early 1980s: patch (around 1985, Larry Wall).
 1984: Aide-de-Camp
 1986: Concurrent Version System (CVS).
 2000: Subversion initiated by CollabNet.
 Early 2000s (decade): distributed revision control systems like BitKeeper and GNU arch become viable.

Background
Until the 1980s, SCM could only be understood as CM applied to software development. Some basic concepts such as identification and baseline (well-defined point in the evolution of a project) were already clear, but what was at stake was a set of techniques oriented towards the control of the activity, and using formal processes, documents, request forms, control boards etc.

It is only after this date that the use of software tools applying directly to software artefacts representing the actual resources, has allowed SCM to grow as an autonomous entity (from traditional CM).

The use of different tools has actually led to very distinct emphases.

 traditional CM for Software, typically around Change Management (examples: Continuus, CVS or ClearCase UCM)
 line oriented management, based on patches or Change Sets
 focused on Derived Objects and Build Management (example: Base ClearCase/clearmake)

See also

 Revision control

References

Version control systems
Software configuration management

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We invite you to explore the dramatic landscape of spring in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. This workshop provides a great opportunity to develop your personal style, enhance your creativity, refine your photographic vision and improve your technical proficiency as we set out on an adventure into the vast wilderness of slot canyons, wrinkled badlands, blooming wildflowers and endless vistas.
Some of our locations will include Pinyon Wash teaming with booming wildflowers, Butterfield Ranch with of huge collection of old farm equipment, Canyon Sin Nombre narrow slot canyon, amazing overlooks of Borrego Badlands from Fonts Point, Pumpkin Patch globular sandstone concretions, and Blair Valley's Indian pictographs and morteros grinding holes.
Day 1 - Sunday: Meet at the Borrego Springs Visitor Center at 3:00 p.m, please arrive promptly. We will get acquainted over dinner followed by an orientation and our first lecture.
Day 2 - Monday: We leave at 6 a.m. for our sunrise shoot of blooming spring flowers in Pinyon Wash and Narrows Earth Trail then return to Borrego Springs for breakfast and break. At 11:30 a.m. meet for our second lecture followed by a break for lunch. We will leave at 2:00 p.m. for our afternoon and sunset shoots at Butterfield Ranch, Canyon Sin Nombre and Carrizo Badlands Overlook.
Day 3 - Tuesday: Our sunrise shoot leaves at 5:45 a.m. for the Pumpkin Patch, then returns to Borrego Springs for breakfast and break. At 11:30 a.m. we meet for our third lecture, followed by a break for lunch. At 2:00 p.m. we travel to our afternoon and sunset shooting in lovely Blair Valley to discover an old Indian camp with moteros grinding holes indented into the granite. An easy two mile round trip hike will lead us to an amazing pictograph covered boulders.
Day 4 - Wednesday: We leave at 5:30 a.m. for our sunrise shooting at Truckhaven Rocks, then return to Borrego Springs for breakfast and break. At 11:30 a.m. we will share a Print Review of participants' work followed by a lunch break. Our afternoon shoot leaves at 2:00 p.m. on Buttes Pass Road through The Slot. We will enjoy sweeping vistas of the Borrego Badlands from Fonts Point and Vista del Malpais.
Day 5 - Thursday: We begin our day at 6:00 a.m. with a sunrise shoot off Di Giorgio Road to the Desert Gardens, then return to Borrego Springs for breakfast and break. At 11:30 a.m. we continue with our Print Reviews or begin processing your images, followed by a lunch break. At 2:00 p.m. we visit Elephant Tree Discovery Trail for a one mile loop hike. We follow this by a two mile round trip hike to the Wind Caves.
Day 6 - Friday: We will meet for breakfast at 8:00 a.m. followed by a morning of editing and processing of your images. After lunch, at 1:00 p.m. we will travel to the Mud Caves for an exploration of extensive caves and slot canyons.
Day 7 - Saturday: We will leave for Galleta Meadows at 6:30 a.m. to visit and photograph the huge steel welded sculptures of prehistoric animals that once lived in the area. The workshop will conclude after our farewell breakfast.
Our workshops emphasize field work, however we feature a balance of field work, classroom-based sessions, critical review of your work as well as ample time to answer your questions. This workshop features 6 hours of classroom instruction, 2 hours of reviewing workshop participant's images and 5 hours of processing time.
Day 1: 7:00-9:00 p.m Tools - mastering your system - The session begins with an overview of light, color and perception. It is followed by new approaches to designing a photograph using the FAST methodology, using camera controls effectively, selection of lenses, depth of field and exposure.
Day 2: 11:30-1:30 p.m Art - taking your photography to art - The session begins with the interaction of aesthetics, art and technology: how to use and break the rules effectively. CTF2 - composition, color, tone, texture, form and frame: a model for thinking about your work.
Day 3: 11:30-1:30 p.m Craft - workflow and presentation of your work - The session begins with a tour of "workflow" and we present a simple approach to processing your images. It is followed by a review of using color management effectively and a discussion about preparing your images for presentation on displays, the web and the "fine art" print.
Day 4: 11:30-1:30 p.m Review - what makes a great photograph? - During this session we review and comment on your work. Please bring 3 prints of your 'best' work for evaluation, critical review and sharing with the group.
Day 5: 11:30-1:30 p.m Processing - editing and processing your images - During this session we will work with you to edit and process your images. Please bring your laptop, card reader and favorite image editing software.
Day 6: 9:00-12:00 p.m Processing - editing and processing your images - During this session we will work with you to edit and process your images. Please bring your laptop, card reader and favorite image editing software.
The weather in Borrego Springs in March should be mild and beautiful. Temperatures range from the high 70's F in the day to 50 F in the evenings. Most of our locations are below 1,000 feet.
The key is to be prepared for a wide range of weather conditions and temperatures, bring layers and protection from the sun. Hiking boots are the best choice for footwear. Bring plenty of water and snacks during our location shooting. Consult our gear checklist to learn what we bring and recommend.
Workshop participants are responsible for their own lodging, meals and transportation. The town of Borrego Springs features many lodging choices that can be found at the Lodging in Borrego Springs. We will often eat meals together, however you are free to join us or eat independently.
The cost of this workshop is $1,495.00. The workshop is limited to 12 participants.


Children's personal enquiry into faith will be cultivated, but the journey remains theirs.
The pupils of Parson Cross undoubtedly have enquiring minds. One of the activities offered to older pupils invited them to 'ask God a question'. Questions surfaced around life after death, fears, futures, war, jobs.
Linking to this half term's school value of 'thankfulness', some activities invited pupils to give thanks, with younger pupils using playdough, and all pupils thinking about food and family. Drawing on the schools vision of 'Believe, Achieve, Celebrate', one activity encouraged children to celebrate their strengths, hoping to re-enforce self-belief, by inviting pupils to create pom-pom monsters on which they could write prayers of thanks for their God-given gifts and talents. Other activities invited participants to explore themes of forgiveness, hope and compassion – for example through lighting (LED) candles and writing prayers for the world. Students engaged well across all year groups – reading some of the prayers, questions and comments was both humbling and insightful.
The success of the prayer space benefitted greatly from staff engagement, modelling enquiry and an openness to engage with the prayer activities, in ways which may be quite different from their own tradition or experience. A number of Governors were able to come and assist, notably with the Reception pupils, and in the after-school sessions offered to parents and carers alongside pupils. Strengthening parental appreciation of the Christian values of the school was highlighted in our previous SIAMS report as an area for development. I was pleasantly encouraged by the number of parents who participated in the prayer space – they were by no means all 'regular attenders at church on a Sunday morning'. One such parent notably enquired as to whether this 'would be happening every week'?!
Ultimately the prayer space could not have happened without the support of the senior leadership team of the school, and their willingness to prioritise this event within the life of the school community.
Phil Goodacre, Prayer space host.


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Licensing at the Wikimedia Foundation
2 November 2012 by Michelle Paulson
Wikipedia is an indispensable tool used to explore the threads of our collective cultural and intellectual fabric. It has also become a part of that fabric itself.
Producers and distributors of information and popular media are increasingly recognizing that Wikipedia is a normal (yet extraordinary) part of people's daily lives. This realization has led to the integration of Wikipedia into movies and television shows; into textbooks teaching kids how to actively participate in their own education; and into the framework of technologies that allow people to access the world's collective knowledge more freely than ever before.
It is important to spread the word about Wikipedia and the free knowledge movement, but it is equally important to accurately depict Wikipedia, the movement and the community of contributors who write and maintain it. To protect the Wikimedia trademarks is to protect the reputation, goodwill, and hard work of our global community. Ensuring against misuse is a responsibility that the Wikimedia Foundation takes very seriously through the careful management, enforcement, and licensing of the Wikimedia trademarks.
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The Wikimedia Foundation receives approximately 200 trademark license requests per year, from members of the Wikimedia community, authors, movie production companies and telecommunications companies, to name a few (in the last 12 months we had 220 requests, of which we approved 52). A cross-departmental trademark team at the WMF reviews requests and determines which ones illustrate or further the Wikimedia movement. The team considers a number of factors in deciding whether or not to grant a license, such as whether the use is for profit or not; whether the use accurately depicts how Wikipedia would be used and reflects actual Wikipedia customs; whether the use depicts the nature of the projects and how to use them accurately; and whether the use is generally in the spirit of our movement.
Trademark requests cover a wide range of interesting uses of the Wikimedia marks. They demonstrate how Wikimedia projects touch the daily lives of people around the world and exemplify the tremendous impact of the work done by our community. Here are just some of the uses that were approved in the past year: an episode of the Australian TV show "Who Do You Think You Are?" featured actor Vince Colosimo, who was depicted searching for information about his grandfather on Wikipedia; the Taghreedat Initiative, which used the marks in an online survey in conjunction with seminars in the Middle East to teach people how to contribute to the Arabic Wikipedia; the character Conrad Knox, who used Wikipedia to research Hiroshima in the HBO series "Strike Back;" and the use of our marks in Wikipedia Zero mobile partnerships the Foundation has launched to provide access to Wikipedia without data fees in developing countries.
Seeing Wikimedia projects in the textbooks you read, the movies you watch, the mobile apps that you use, and in your local community not only acknowledges and advances the mission, but it gives people a peek into the Wikimedia world. It can teach them how to find the etymology of a word on Wiktionary; it can show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia; it can explain the values and importance of the movement; or it can even help them discover a whole community of people who are even more into 19th century heraldry than they are.
Why does the Foundation need to grant licenses if Wikipedia content is free?
An example of alleged trademark misuse by a third party website
Whether we like it or not, trademarks are ingrained into our lives. How long does it take you to identify the organizations that have the following symbols: (i) golden arches; (ii) a "swoosh" check mark; (iii) a puzzle globe? These symbols invoke and represent the organizations behind them and, for better or worse, the quality of the products and services those organizations provide. Wikimedia trademarks represent even more than that: they embody the hard work and dedication of a global community of contributors and editors–every corrected comma, every citation, every new tidbit of shared knowledge.
Requiring third parties to enter into licensing agreements to use Wikimedia trademarks allows the Foundation to protect that work. Just as the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License places restrictions on the reuse of Wikipedia content to ensure that the content is used in accordance with the free-license terms, our trademark licenses ensure that third parties use the Wikimedia trademarks only in ways that are consistent with the Wikimedia movement.
Strong licenses also increase the strength of trademarks, so in the event that the Foundation needs to enforce the trademarks against an infringer (like a mirror site with ads or a phishing site masquerading as a Wikipedia survey), we will be more likely to prevail.
Wikimedia trademarks are symbols of the work done by the Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia Foundation is proud to promote their use in support of our mission and will continue to protect them against misuse.
For more information on how to use our trademarks, please read our Trademark Policy. If you have questions about the Trademark Policy or would like to request a license to use any of the Wikimedia trademarks, please email trademarks wikimedia.org.
Michelle Paulson, Legal Counsel
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Their importance cannot be ignored owing to their civilisational links.
Rivers are the life of this very nation. Bharat has essentially grown along the banks of its major rivers. The great civilisations like Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa were born along rivers, and they died in the course of meandering of the rivers. We owe our very own existence to our rivers.
Rivers in India, like the Ganges, have strong presence within the Indian ethos and civilisation and are considered the backbone of activity. From ancient days, the people who lived alongside riverbanks believe the river to be sacred and holy, and many go on pilgrimage to cities like Varanasi and Allahabad to wash away their sins in the holy water.
It is this vitality of the Ganges that makes it one of the most powerful epicentres of spirituality which continues to draw millions of people to visit and understand its culture and history. The agro-ecological stretch of the Ganges provides food for most parts of this nation.
Many great civilisations took shape on the banks of these holy rivers. Early river-valley civilisations include the Indus Valley Civilisation, Ancient Egypt (the Nile), Mesopotamia (along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers), and the Chinese civilisation along the Yellow River. Most of these civilisations are agrarian societies.
However, one of the major challenges confronting rivers today is climate change and the situation is alarming. Today our rivers are depleting at such a rate that they will become seasonal in 20 years. In the last 10 to 12 years, we have witnessed a dozen rivers going dry across the nation. Today, some of the most significant rivers of south India, the waters of the Cauvery, Krishna and Godavari flow to the oceans only for a few months in a year.
Recently concluded research on 'Impacts of climate change on Indian rivers' by professor AK Gosain of IIT Delhi has also observed that the majority of river systems show an increase in precipitation at the basin level.
This is not only true for big basins such as the Ganga, but also for smaller basins such as the Cauvery, Pennar, Luni, and Indus. It was also observed under climate scenario for 2021–2050, MC, that there is a general increase in flow dependability for many river systems such as the Indus, Ganga, Brahmaputra, Tapi, Godavari, Narmada, Mahanadi, etc., whereas under long-term (2071–2098, EC) studies suggests that parts of Krishna, Cauvery, Brahmaputra and Ganga show a decrease in flow.
The same study also goes on to reveal that under different greenhouse gas (GHG) scenarios, the conditions may deteriorate, and this can be in terms of severity of drought in some parts of the country while they may enhance the intensity of floods in the other.
However, it acknowledges the fact that there is a general overall reduction in the quantity of the available run-off under the present GHG scenario. Luni, along with rivers of Kutch and Saurashtra, which occupy 25 per cent of the area of Gujarat and 60 per cent of the area of Rajasthan, shall also face acute water scarcity conditions.
The report further predicts that the river basins of Mahi, Pennar, Sabarmati and Tapi shall also face water shortage conditions along with the river basins of Cauvery, Ganga, Narmada and Krishna facing seasonal or regular water-stressed conditions. On the other hand, river basins of Godavari, Brahmani and Mahanadi are predicted to face severe flood conditions.
The importance of rivers cannot be ignored owing to their civilisational links. The significance of the river was first noticed in the Rig Veda, which considered the river Saraswati, one of the lost rivers in India, to be the mother of the seven seas.
There are 45 hymns in which the Rig Veda eulogises it. Even the Ramayana refers to it as Ikshumati, that is, Brahma's daughter. The Mahabharata too has references to the holy river. But the story does not end here: there is strong archaeological evidence that apart from the Indus, the Sarasvati was also the lifeline of the Indus Valley Civilisation, thus prompting many scholars to call it the Indus-Sarasvati Civilisation.
Renowned archaeologist Michel Danino of IIT Gandhinagar has also referred to it in his book The Lost River: On the trail of Saraswati. Not only this, the Indus Valley Civilisation was also mapped by British archaeologists about 200 years ago and was believed to be located on the dry beds of Ghaggar Hakra.
One of the early explorers of ancient civilisations, Colonel James Tod goes back in time to trace the reasons for the depopulation of the northern desert and credits it to the absorption of Caggar (sic) river.
Almost 200 years ago, a French scholar named Vivien de Saint-Martin, too, had argued that all the streams that flow from the west to the east, namely Ghaggar, Markanda, Dangri, Sarsuti and Chautang unite into a single bed and that is the bed of Rig Ved's Sarasvati.
Apart from French, a Hungarian-British archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein too referred to Ghaggar as the eastern most tributary of Sarsuti, a corruption of Sarasvati.
Travelling forth from ancient to modern scholars, they too believe Ghaggar is a strong contender for the mythical Sarasvati. Science too supports their belief, as satellite images of the region show that Ghaggar, in other words Sarasvati, had its significance not only during the Vedic times but also during the Harappan age. An examination of 1,400 Harappan sites shows that almost 75 per cent of these were along the Ghaggar-Hakra channel.
It is the civilisational, cultural, spiritual and geographical importance of these rivers that made them the lifeline of our ancient civilisations and the lifelines of modern society as well. Even today, 80 per cent of our population is dependent on 14 major rivers for food and livelihood.
More than 400 million people live along the banks of the Ganges alone, and thus depend on it for their subsistence. An estimated 20,00,000 people take a dip in the Ganges, on a daily basis. Yet, the society is disconnected from the environmental importance of these rivers. More than 200 million litres of untreated human sewage flows into the Ganges from Varanasi alone.
There is an alarming disconnect among the youth today, as they seem to be disconnected with this civilisational and natural heritage. The uninterrupted flow of these water bodies is being taken for granted and thus, the society is nearing its end.
The society today fails to realise that threats to our rivers will lead to major challenges to food security and finally to the very existence of our civilisation. It is this disconnect that has to be bridged, to be able to pass on the gift of this great heritage to the generations to come.
The author is a senior research fellow at India Foundation and author of 'Bharat Sutra'.


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package org.andorp.quicky.random;

import org.andorp.quicky.IRandom;
import org.andorp.quicky.IRandomGen;

public final class CharacterRandomGen implements IRandomGen<Character> {

    public Character random(IRandom random, Character lower, Character upper) {
        // TODO: Implement it! //
        return null;
    }

}

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#include <random>

#include "Player.h"
#include "Symbols.h"
#include "Events.h"
#include "Map.h"
#include "Console.h"
#include "Music.h"
#include "Menu.h"
#include "EntityManager.h"
#include "MapLoader.h"

const int WIDTH{ 80 };
const int HEIGHT{ 45 };
using FrameTime = float;

namespace Game {

  constexpr int PLAYER_START_X = 25;
  constexpr int PLAYER_START_Y = 25;
  constexpr auto DEFAULT_MAP = "Default";
  constexpr auto DEFAULT_SONG = "Default";

  class World {

  public:
    World() :
      _player(Console::PLAYER, { PLAYER_START_X, PLAYER_START_Y }),
      _map(std::string{ DEFAULT_MAP }, _entities),
      _needsRedraw(true), // Initial map draw
      _playerPaused(false)
    {
      _map.load();
    }

    bool isPlayerAlive() const { return _player.isAlive(); }

    std::vector<Event> handleEvents(std::vector<Event>& events);

    void update();

  private:
    Player _player;
    Map _map;
    EntityManager _entities;

    bool _needsRedraw;
    bool _playerPaused;
    int _selectedTile = 1;

    void handlePlayerMove(Console::Position newPosition);
    void handleInsert(Console::Position position);

    void interactWithNPC(const Console::Position& pos);
    void handleEvent(Event e, std::vector<Event>& toSchedule);
    void draw();
  };

}


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Dr. Adam Alter
Adam Alter is an Associate Professor of Marketing at New York University's Stern School of Business, with an affiliated appointment in the New York University Psychology Department. Dr. Alter is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces That Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave, which examines how features of the world shape our thoughts and feelings beyond our control. He has also written for the New York Times, New Yorker, Atlantic, WIRED, Slate, Huffington Post, and Popular Science, among other publications. Adam has shared his ideas at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, and with dozens of companies, including Google, Microsoft, Anheuser Busch, Prudential, and Fidelity, and with several design and ad agencies around the world. He is working on his second book, which asks why so many people today are addicted to so many behaviors, from incessant smart phone and internet usage to video game playing and online shopping. Dr Alter's academic research focuses on judgment and decision-making and social psychology, with a particular interest in the sometimes surprising effects of subtle cues in the environment on human cognition and behavior. His research has been published widely in academic journals, and featured in dozens of TV, radio and print outlets around the world. He received his Bachelor of Science (Honors Class 1, University Medal) in Psychology from the University of New South Wales and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from Princeton University, where he held the Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Honorific Dissertation Fellowship and a Fellowship in the Woodrow Wilson Society of Scholars.
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'''The [[establishment]] is extremely [[anti-Zionist]], and borderline [[anti-Semitic]]. Establishment [[globalist]]s hold a deep-seated hatred and vitriol for the State of [[Israel]], which is the only [[Jewish]] State.''' This is despite the claims of some extremists on both the left and the fringe right that the establishment is controlled by [[Zionist]]s, and that Zionists and globalists are the same<ref>https://phdn.org/negation/gravediggers/gom-1996-zionist_conspiracy.html</ref><ref>https://www.infowars.com/alex-jones-admits-hes-an-israeli-shill/</ref> (see [[Essay:Zionists and Globalists Are Not the Same People!]]). For instance, [[George Soros]] is a radically anti-Zionist [[self-hating Jews|self-hating Jew]] who has extreme contempt for [[Israel]] and those, especially in [[America]], who support it.<ref>https://www.georgesoros.com/2007/04/12/on_israel_america_and_aipac/</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/georgesoros/status/753531034185109504?lang=en</ref> [[Laura Loomer]], who is hated both by the establishment and fringe [[white nationalist]]s, wrote an article for Big League Politics about [[Facebook]] banning [[Benjamin Netanyahu]]'s son for criticizing [[Islam]].<ref>https://bigleaguepolitics.com/facebook-bans-israeli-prime-minister-netanyahus-son-for-criticizing-islamic-terrorists/</ref> The [[Wall Street Journal]], which has ironically accused [[PewDiePie]] of anti-Semitism<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-severs-ties-with-youtube-star-pewdiepie-after-anti-semitic-posts-1487034533</ref> and gotten him severed from [[Disney]],<ref>https://www.spiked-online.com/2017/02/22/pewdiepie-is-not-an-anti-semite/</ref> asserted that Facebook, "removed inauthentic accounts," owned by a company named Archimedes Group based in [[Tel Aviv]].<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-bans-israeli-firm-over-fake-political-activity-11558030115</ref> The establishment ''[[The Guardian|Guardian]]'' has run several pro-"Palestinian" articles.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/mar/07/debunking-myth-that-anti-zionism-is-antisemitic</ref><ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/16/israel-palestine-protests-american-jewish-groups</ref><ref>https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/14/bds-boycott-divestment-sanctions-movement-transformed-israeli-palestinian-debate</ref> The [[United Nations]] has become increasingly hostile to Israel.<ref>https://www.un.org/press/en/2019/sc13895.doc.htm</ref><ref>https://www.prageru.com/video/is-the-un-fair-to-israel/</ref> [[Amnesty International]]<ref>https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa/israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/</ref> and [[Human Rights Watch]]<ref>https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2018/country-chapters/israel/palestine</ref> are also anti-Israel. The [[mainstream media]] frequently sides against Israel.<ref>https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/aren-europeans-calling-israel-apartheid-state-190410081102849.html</ref><ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/antisemitisim-jews-israel-labour-party-bds-jewish-coalition-palestine-a8458601.html</ref><ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/things-palestinians-cant-do_n_586554d4e4b0eb58648895bc?ri18n=true</ref> According to the Left, Israel does not even have the right to exist.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jan/03/comment.israelandthepalestinians</ref><ref>https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/19/why-israel-should-not-exist/</ref><ref>https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/03/15/why-israel-has-no-right-to-exist/</ref> [[Big Tech]] "platforms" [[Facebook]] and [[Instagram]] have banned [[Zionist]]s [[Alex Jones]],<ref>https://www.infowars.com/alex-jones-admits-hes-an-israeli-shill/</ref> [[Milo Yiannopoulos]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKEeEEi_Jk</ref> and [[Laura Loomer]]<ref>https://israelunwired.com/laura-loomer-and-avi-abelow-investigate-is-israel-an-apartheid-state/</ref> from their websites.<ref>https://www.wnd.com/2019/05/muslims-cheer-facebooks-ban-of-milo-alex-jones-laura-loomer/</ref> [[Twitter]] banned pro-Israel<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2017/03/11/exclusive-gavin-mcinnes-in-israel-womens-strike-stupidest-moment-in-american-history-trump-has-balls-to-move-embassy-to-jerusalem/</ref> Gavin McInnes,<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/08/twitter-bans-conservative-gavin-mcinnes-but-david-duke-hamas-antifa-farrakhan-islamists-and-black-lives-matter-hate-groups-still-have-accounts/</ref> who has been intensely critical of [[white nationalism]].<ref>https://www.therebel.media/most_alt_right_leaders_seem_like_regular_dudes_fbi_agents</ref><ref>https://www.therebel.media/who_is_really_to_blame_for_charlottesville</ref><ref>https://officialproudboys.com/proud-boys/we-are-not-alt-right/</ref> [[Amazon]] appears to have a bias against Israel.<ref>https://unitedwithisrael.org/amazon-removes-pro-israel-book-continues-selling-pro-palestinian-apparel/</ref> [[Fox News]] republished an anti-Zionist article from the leftist [[Associated Press]] ahead of the 2019 Israeli election.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/world/benjamin-netanyahu-career-israel-election-benny-gantz</ref> Trey Yingst implied that Benjamin Netanyahu had made "conspiratorial" or "[[racist]]" statements toward [[Arab]]s.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVI64CATtHE&t=33s</ref> The [[Occupy Wall Street]] movement, which has been endorsed by the [[American Nazi Party]] and the [[Communist Party of the United States of America|Communist Party USA]],<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/10/figures-nazi-party-throws-support-behind-occupy-wall-street-movement/</ref><ref>https://www.yahoo.com/news/red-white-angry-communist-nazi-parties-endorse-occupy-044626630.html</ref> claimed that [[Barack Hussein Obama]] is a [[capitalist]], [[Zionist]] shill,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RTP9pXatUA</ref> much like how 2020 Democrats later criticized Obama.<ref>https://blackchristiannews.com/2019/07/2020-democrats-are-starting-to-turn-obamas-legacy-against-biden/</ref> However, Obama was an incredibly anti-Zionist politician who repeatedly attacked the State of Israel.<ref>https://www.huffpost.com/entry/barack-obama-the-most-ant_b_782627</ref><ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2015/03/20/a-complete-timeline-of-obamas-anti-israel-hatred/</ref> In fact, later in the year the video was released, Obama refused to veto an anti-Zionist bill in the United Nations.<ref>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/12/28/obamas_attack_on_israel_132657.html#!</ref><ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/27/obama-refusal-israel-vote-most-anti-semitic-2016/</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/obamas-disgraceful-and-harmful-legacy-on-israel</ref> The dedicated pro-Israel group [[Jewish Defense League]] is an [[SPLC]]-designated hate group,<ref>https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/jewish-defense-league</ref> and the [[ADL]] has repeatedly smeared defenders of Israel.<ref>https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-says-pastor-hagees-remarks-criticizing-president-obama-offensive-and</ref><ref>https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-sharply-criticizes-huckabee-comment-suggesting-obama-is-leading-israel-to</ref><ref>https://zoa.org/2018/04/10377948-zoa-to-adl-stop-attacks-on-pro-israel-groups-leaders-who-combat-radical-islamists-anti-semites-dont-promote-groups-hostile-to-israel/</ref><ref>https://zoa.org/2018/12/10380734-zoa-to-adl-apologize-retract-adls-abhorrent-attack-against-pro-israel-cong-gohmert/</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Zionism]] [[Category:Liberal Deceit]] [[Category:Anti-Semitism]]
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February 16, 2017: Russia is the latest nation to adopt the American practice of creating aviation units with helicopters equipped and crews trained for special operations missions. These units concentrate on special operations missions and answer only to special operations commanders. But rather than putting all the special operations helicopters in a few large units the Russians are creating a training program to prepare experienced helicopter pilots to use existing transport helicopters equipped with the special equipment that enables them to fly at night and in bad weather. These pilots and their helicopters will be assigned to ten or more detachments of "special operations aviation" that will be stationed around the country to support special operations units that are similarly dispersed. Many other countries, like Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Italy and Japan created units similar to the American 160 th Aviation Regiment. So has the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy, mostly for combat rescue missions they are called on to perform.
American commandos and Special Forces have had their own air force; the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, since 1981.The 160th began by converting the aviation brigade of the 101st Airborne Division. This involved adding night flying gear to most of the helicopters and later additional electronics and special weapons. By 2001 the 160th had 1,600 personnel and over a hundred manned and unmanned aircraft. They were nicknamed the Night Stalkers and had proved so effective that after 2001 the army (to which the 160th belongs) doubled the size of the unit. That was mainly accomplished by adding additional battalions to the regiment. By 2006, the 160th had over 3,000 personnel and more a billion dollars was spent on this expansion. In the last decade number of personnel shrank by at least ten percent but new aircraft (like a dozen of the new large MQ-1C UAVs) and equipment upgrades were added. The 160th has nearly 200 helicopters and UAVs.
The Night Stalkers are so named because their helicopters are equipped for night flying, and the crews spend a lot of time training at night. The pilots of the 160th are also expert at long range operations. Thus the larger choppers, like the 37 MH-47D Chinooks can refuel in the air. The size and capabilities makes the MH47s makes them very popular so they are being upgraded to the MH-47G standard and another 50 are on order. More MH-60 Black Hawks will also be bought.
The new equipment on the MH-47G includes a radar that shows terrain below and allows safer flight in all weather and at night. New cockpit controls and displays that reduce pilot workload and make it easier to keep on top of things. A new and improved forward-looking infrared radar (FLIR). A 7.62mm six barreled machine-gun (a Gatling gun type) that can fire up to 66 rounds a second. The MH-47G has structural and equipment improvements that increase chances of surviving attack or a crash. There are also larger fuel tanks.
The Russian and American approaches are not that different because the American special operations aircraft operate usually operate in small detachments while supporting operations all over the planet. But the rest of the time the components of the 160th are based in three locations in the United States, which is more efficient for training, maintenance and morale.


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The purpose of the Network is the establishment of a permanent forum for interchange scientific and technical information among people involved in these activities at different levels (research, transfer of technology and olive and olive oil production and distribution).
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2) Reinitiate the publication of Olea as an essential tool for communication among scientists, technicians and olive growers and industrials of both Networks. During 2006 and 2007 two Issues of Olea (25 and 26) have been published and distributed to more than 360 readers of 20 countries.
3) To promote applications of joint R+D projects by participants of different countries to international funding agencies. Two applications to the Cost Actions (2005 and 2006) to fund an specific Project on Genetic Resources and Breeding did not succeed.
4) In 2009 with the financial support of FAO REU and technical support of FAO HQ, a new server has been set up in Rome to serve as common technical background for the AgroWeb CEE Network, ESCORENA and the Thematic Knowledge Networks operational in the framework of ESCORENA in the region, including the ESCORENA Olive Network.


Since the flow is written in XML which is then converted to Java, there are some things to look out for, but also some convenient tricks that the flow compiler allows for.
XML does not allow less-than-brackets (<) in expressions. Either reverse the expression (> is allowed), or use the XML entity < instead. Although ">" is allowed, it is also possible to use > instead.
Since & is reserved for XML entities, you cannot directly write && for Java "and". You can write &&, but it doesn't look very pretty. Therefore the flow compiler allows you to use the words "and" and "or" which will be transformed to && and ||.
Within XML attributes (such as cond), you cannot use double quotes (") for strings, use single quotes (') instead.
You cannot compare for example strings in Java with ==, you should use the equal() method instead. However, this may result in a NullPointerException if the object is null. There is a convenient way of testing equality that avoids this - you can use the static method eq(A,B) instead, which allows for null values.
name The name of the flow. It should match the name of the file (without the .xml extension).
package The Java package where the flow is located. Must match the folder structure.
Variables can be declared on three levels: flow, state or as an action to assign a value.
Parameters can be either flow-level or state-level. Parameters are also variables, but they are assigned when instantiating the flow or state.
The <param> tag contains the same attributes as the <var> tag (see above). The "value" attribute then defines the default value (which can be omitted).
How state-level parameters are used when calling or going to a state is described further down.
This way, the flow can access the "chess" object in for example <exec>, <expr> and "cond" attributes.
static Whether the state is static (Boolean, default false). Static states cannot access any flow variables or refer to non-static states.
public Whether the state is public (Boolean, default false). Public states can be accessed from external flows.
By extending a state using extends, it is possible to define generic event handlers in one parent state and then reuse them in states that extend it. Thus each time an event is processed by the flow, first all event handlers of the leaf state are checked, then the event handlers of the parent state, and then the event handlers of that parent's state, and so on.
For the use of "static" and "public", please refer to Advanced Topics.
cond A condition that must also be satisfied for the event handler to trigger. Note that Java expressions should not contain double quotes (since they will conflict with the attributes quotes). Use single quotes instead, and they will be replaced in the compilation process.
event The event object, which is of type Record (see further down and the Javadoc). This is useful if you want to check the event parameters.
count The number of time this event handler has triggered while being in this state. It is set to 1 the first time the event handler matches (or is about to match), and then reset if the flow transitions with a <goto>.
Actions in the <onentry> event handler are executed when the state is entered, either through <call> or <goto>, or when the <reentry> action is issued.
You can also access the "count" variable, as described above.
Actions in the <onexit> event handler are executed when there is a transition to another state (either through <call> or <goto>). Note: The <onexit> event handler should not contain any instructions that changes the flow execution or that will take up time, such as <call>, <goto> or <wait>.
interval Triggers several times at a certain time interval (in milliseconds). The time interval can either be a random interval, for example "1000-3000" (the time changes after each trigger), or a fixed interval, such as "2000".
afterentry Triggers after some time has passed since the state was entered (unless the state is exited before that). Expressed in milliseconds, for example "2500".
Issues an immediate transition to another state. Thus, there is no point in having more actions afterwards in the same event handler, which means that <goto> should always be placed last. The name of the target state is given with the state attribute. You can also provide any number of custom parameters using the p: namespace prefix (iristk.flow.param), however these must match the parameters that the target state accepts.
This example will make the system say "Hello Peter".
Issues a call to another state (similar to calling a function in any programming language) as part of an execution and then continue the execution when the called state issues a <return>.
When a state is called, the calling state will pause. In the example above, the SayHello state will send an "action.speech" event to the speech synthesizer. When the speech synthesis is done, the state will catch the "monitor.speech.end" event and issue a <return> to the calling state (Start), which will then continue with the next action (another call to SayHello). Thus, the system will first say "Hello Peter" and then "Hello Susan".
Note: the parameter hello is enclosed in single quotes. If it were not, it would be treated as a variable. Note also that when <raise> is used, the event will not be placed on the event queue. Instead, relevant event handlers will be triggered immediately, before any more actions are taken.
This will copy all parameters of the "event" object and add (or overwrite) the parameter "text".
delay The number of milliseconds that should pass before the event is dispatched.
forgetOnExit Can be set to true (default is false), which means that the event will not be dispatched if the state is exited before the delay time has passed.
The <reentry> tag will make a reentry into the current state, triggering the <onentry> event handler again.
The <repeat> tag will repeat a block of actions.
getPosition() Returns the current position (starting from 0).
getLength() Returns the length of the iteration. Returns -1 if a while-iteration is being used.
getItem() Returns the current item, if a list-iteration is being used.
isFirst() Returns true if at the first position.
isLast() Returns true if at the last position.
The <random> tag will make a random choice between one of the children and perform that action. In this example, the system will randomly go to either state1, state2 or state3.
deck The options are treated as a deck of cards that is randomized the first time. Then the order of the cards is preserved across iterations.
deck_reshuffle Same as "deck", but the deck is reshuffled after each iteration (i.e. when the deck is empty).
deck_reshuffle_norepeat (default) Same as "deck_reshuffle", but it is also guaranteed that there will be no repetitions when the deck is reshuffled.
dice Completely random choice with no memory.
dice_norepeat Same as "dice", but it is also guaranteed that there will be no repetitions.
nonrandom Like a "deck" but with no randomization (the options are taken in the order they are provided.
weight An integer that puts a weight on the block for the random choice. For example, if one block has weight 1 and another weight 2, the second block will be chosen two times out of three.
cond A guard condition (see <catch> above) that must evaluate to true for the block to be a candidate for selection.
The <exec> tag can contain any Java code that is to be executed. It does not have to end with ";", but you must use ";" to separate multiple instructions.
The <propagate> tag will instruct the FlowModule to continue to match the event against other event handlers (i.e. it is not consumed).
Pauses the flow execution. During the pause, events are still checked for. Thus, if an event causes a state transition, the pause will be aborted.
p:param="'text'" // The string "text"
p:param="'true'" // The string "true"
p:param="'0'"    // The string "0"
event:text           // Access the field "text"
event:sem:direction  // Access the nestled field "sem:direction"
If the value is null, these methods will also return null (except for asBoolean, see below), otherwise they will do their best to return a value of the right type (converting strings to numbers, etc).
// Copies all fields of "event" to "newEvent"
// Store the Integer 30 in the field "age" of the record "person"
// not already contain a Record, it will be created.
// Kleen stars (*) are allowed in the has() method.


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Q: php problem for view images from blob mysql I had created 2 PHP files, 1 is uploading images to MySql database and 1 is display images from MySql. The problem is that when I submit the images contain size > 730 KiB to MySql Blob then the display page can't view that images from Blob Type(But the display page can view only image size <= 730 KiB from Blob MySql).
This is my PHP Upload File(upload_donation.php)
                       <?php
                        $fileSize =  $_FILES['file']['size'];
                         if (isset($_POST['submit']) && $fileSize > 5000000) {
                          echo "Your image is too large, Please resize it!!!";
                          ?>

 ←  Go Back

                          <?php
                          die();
                         }

                      else if (isset($_POST['submit']) && $fileSize <= 5000000){
                        $file = ($_FILES['file']);
                        //print_r($file);
                        // print_r($_FILES['file']);

                      $fileName =  $_FILES['file']['name'];
                      // $fileSize =  $_FILES['file']['size'];
                      $fileTmpName =  $_FILES['file']['tmp_name'];
                      $fileError =  $_FILES['file']['error'];
                      $fileType = $_FILES['file']['type'];

                      $imgData = file_get_contents($fileTmpName);

                      $imageProperties = getimageSize($fileTmpName);

                      $fileExt = explode('.', $fileName);
                      $fileActualExt = strtolower(end($fileExt));

                      $allowed = array('jpg','jpeg','png');

                      if (in_array($fileActualExt, $allowed)) {
                           if ($fileError === 0) {
                               if ($fileSize <= 6000000) {
                                   $fileNameNew = uniqid('', true).".".$fileActualExt;
                                   $fileDestination = 'wp-content/themes/flatsome/donation_images/'.$fileNameNew;
                                   move_uploaded_file($fileTmpName, $fileDestination);

                                    $data = array(
                                    'products_category' => $_POST['products_category'],
                                    'proname' => $_POST['proname'],
                                    'mime' => $imageProperties['mime'],
                                    'image_name' => $fileNameNew,
                                    'image' => $imgData,
                                    'products_size' => $_POST['products_size'],
                                    'quality' => $_POST['quality'],
                                    'proprice' => $_POST['proprice'],
                                    'donate_to' => $_POST['donate_to'],
                                    'donorname' => $_POST['donorname'],
                                    'donorphone' => $_POST['donorphone'],
                                    'donate_date' => $_POST['donate_date']

                                  );
                                  $table_name = 'wp_donation_list';

                                  $result = $wpdb -> insert($table_name, $data, $format=null);

                                  if ($result ==1){
                                      echo "Your donation was saved!";
                                      ?>

 ←  Go To Donations List Now

                                      <?php

                                  }else{
                                    echo "";?>

 ←  Go Back

                                     <?php
                                  }

                                   ?>

                                  <?php

                               } else{
                                  echo "Your file is too large!";?>

 ←  Go Back

                                  <?php
                               }
                           }else {
                              echo "There was an error uploading your file!";
                              ?>

 ←  Go Back

                                  <?php
                           }
                              }else {
                           echo "You cannot upload files of this types!";
                          ?>

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                                  <?php
                                }

                               }
                ?>

And This is my PHP Display File(view_donations_template.php).

                     ID
                    Category
                    Product
                    Image
                    Size
                    Quality
                    Price
                    To
                    Donor
                    Phone
                    Date
                    Status

              <?php
                $connection = mysqli_connect("localhost","","");
                $db = mysqli_select_db($connection ,'');

                $query = "select * from `wp_donation_list`";
                $query_run = mysqli_query($connection, $query);

                while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($query_run))
                {
                 ?>

                     <?php echo $row['id']?>
                     <?php echo $row['products_category']?>
                     <?php echo $row['proname']?>
                     <?php echo '';?>
                     <?php echo $row['products_size']?>
                     <?php echo $row['quality']?>
                     <?php echo $row['proprice']?>
                     <?php echo $row['donate_to']?>
                     <?php echo $row['donorname']?>
                     <?php echo $row['donorphone']?>
                     <?php echo $row['donate_date']?>
                     <?php echo $row['status']?>

                 <?php
                }
                ?>

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#pragma once

#include <string>
#include <vector>

#include "mediafire_sdk/http/shared_buffer.hpp"
#include "mediafire_sdk/http/headers.hpp"
#include "mediafire_sdk/api/response_base.hpp"

#include "boost/date_time/posix_time/ptime.hpp"

namespace mf {
namespace api {
/** API action path "file" */
namespace file {
/** API action "file/copy" */
namespace copy {
/** API path "/api/1.3/file/copy" */
namespace v1_3 {

/**
 * @class ResponseData
 * @brief Response data from API request "file/copy"
 *
 * This data is only available if the API request was successful.
 */
class ResponseData
{
public:
    /** API response field "response.new_device_revision" */
    boost::optional<uint32_t> new_device_revision;

    /** API response field "response.new_quickkeys" */
    std::string quickkey;
};

/**
 * @class Response
 * @brief Response from API request "file/copy"
 */
class Response : public ResponseBase
{
public:
    /** Parsed API response on successful parse. */
    boost::optional<ResponseData> response_data;
};

class Impl;

/**
 * @class Request
 * @brief Make API request "file/copy"
 */
class Request
{
public:
    /**
     * API request "file/copy"
     *
     * @param quickkey API parameter "quick_key"
     */
    explicit Request(
            std::string quickkey
        );

    /**
     * Optional API parameter "folder_key"
     *
     * @param target_parent_folderkey Set parameter "folder_key" in API request.
     */
    void SetTargetParentFolderkey(std::string target_parent_folderkey);

    // Remaining functions are for use by API library only. --------------------

    /** Requester/SessionMaintainer expected type. */
    using ResponseType = Response;

    /** Requester/SessionMaintainer expected type. */
    using ResponseDataType = ResponseData;

    /** Requester/SessionMaintainer expected type. */
    typedef std::function< void( const ResponseType & data)> CallbackType;

    /** Requester/SessionMaintainer expected type. */
    void SetCallback( CallbackType callback_function );

    /** Requester expected method. */
    void HandleContent(
            const std::string & url,
            const mf::http::Headers & headers,
            const std::string & content
        );

    /** Requester expected method. */
    void HandleError(
            const std::string & url,
            std::error_code ec,
            const std::string & error_string
        );

    /** Requester expected method. */
    std::string Url(const std::string & hostname) const;

    /** Requester optional method. */
    mf::http::SharedBuffer::Pointer GetPostData();

    /** SessionMaintainer expected method. */
    void SetSessionToken(
            std::string session_token,
            std::string time,
            int secret_key
        );
private:
    std::shared_ptr<Impl> impl_;
};
}  // namespace v1_3

}  // namespace copy
}  // namespace file
}  // namespace api
}  // namespace mf


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About the Daniel Langlois Foundation
The Daniel Langlois Foundation Collection
Publications by the Foundation
Projects Funded by the Foundation
CCA LABoratory (2000)
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Foundation & Center for Contemporary Art (F&CCA)
CCA LABoratory
(Prague, Czech Republic)
The Foundation and Center for Contemporary Art - Prague (F&CCA-Prague) was founded in 1992 as part of a larger network of non-profit organizations established by the New York philanthropist George Soros. The former Soros Center for Contemporary Art was transformed into the F&CCA-Prague in 1998 after the Soros Foundation decided to reduce the funding it granted to the 20 Soros Centres in Eastern Europe.
Now independent, the F&CCA-Prague is working to establish strong educational, residency and exhibition programs to reflect the contemporary-art community in the Czech Republic. Among recent projects, the centre has participated in Café 9 , an initiative linking seven of the nine European Cultural Capitals 2000 to the Internet. Cafés were set up where people could use the Internet to communicate with one another and take part in projects organized by all seven cities.
The F&CCA-Prague has also assisted a public art project called The Night-Watchman (fall 2000) by artist Milan Cais. The project consists of a series of computer-controlled light projections. Installed atop a domed roof of a building in central Prague, the projections act as eyes overlooking the city.
The LABoratory for New Media Art, which F&CCA-Prague set up in 1998, was designed to facilitate communication between artists and interactive software and hardware designers. The LAB provides Czech artists working on media and multidisciplinary projects with free access to technologies and technical assistance. Software and hardware have been purchased and upgraded thanks to support from the Daniel Langlois Foundation. Several projects have already sprung from work in the LAB, and exhibitions of these new media works are planned.
In addition to the LAB, CCA-Prague also houses a library for contemporary art and a gallery space (the Jeleni Gallery). Finally, the centre is cultivating many international partnerships to further develop its role in the new media art community.
Angela Plohman © 2004 FDL
F&CCA :
http://cca.fcca.cz/
Foundation and Center for Contemporary Arts - Prague:
http://www.fcca.cz/
ArtLab Jeleni:
http://cca.fcca.cz/index.php?option=com_co...
Foundation and Center for Contemporary Arts - Prague
ArtLab Jeleni
Instruments (Machines / Softwares)
The Night-Watchman
Night-Watchman, The


In most cases, hearing loss is gradual and often goes unnoticed for many years. Hearing loss sufferers often put up with not hearing clearly and start avoiding situations where communication becomes more difficult, usually family and social gatherings. Hearing loss sufferers often blame the way people speak. Their friends and family members are usually the ones to first notice their hearing difficulties.
A hearing evaluation which involves a battery of audiometric tests will show whether there is a hearing loss. A comprehensive audiological evaluation will identify the degree and nature of the hearing problem and advice will be given as to whether the hearing loss is treatable in which case a further examination by an Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) specialist will be organised.
Where hearing aids are recommended, we perform a hearing aid evaluation and advice is given as to suitable hearing instruments and / or assistive listening devices. Private as well as government funded hearing services are provided through HEARLINK.
You may be eligible for free hearing services including hearing aids provided through the Commonwealth Government''s Office of Hearing Services Hearing Services Voucher Program.


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Lecture Notes: PennDesign Faculty on Solar Energy, Urban Ecology, America's Unbanking and the Bulldozer
Lisa Servon at a book talk for Unbanking America: How the New Middle Class Survives
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On January 30, Assistant Professor of Architecture Daniel Barber is among the panelists talking about "Environmental Histories of Architecture" at PennDesign in conjunction with the publication of A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War (Oxford University Press, 2016). Barber is joined by Penn's Etienne Benson, PennDesign's Daniela Fabricius, Boston University's Sophie Hochhausl, and Columbia's Mark Wasiuta, and Anna Vallye.
Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning Francesca Russello Ammon continues to lecture widely about her recent book, Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape (Yale University Press, 2016). Ammon will give a talk on February 6 as part of the Landscape Studies Speakers Program at Smith College, and she will participate in a lunchtime colloquium at Harvard University Graduate School of Design on February 27. This past fall, she spoke at Labyrinth Books in Princeton, New Jersey, with Aaron Shkuda of the Princeton-Mellon Initiative, Urbanism, and the Humanities, which sponsored the event. She also delivered the Halverson Lecture on the History of American Architecture at Wellesley College and gave the Emerging Voices lecture and colloquium at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
PennDesign Dean and Paley Professor Frederick Steiner, co-editor of Nature and Cities: The Ecological Imperative in Urban Design and Planning (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2016), was a featured speaker at "Analyzing the Wild, Designing the Garden," the 28th Annual Landscape Design Symposium co-hosted by Connecticut College and Montgomery County Community College on January 12 and 13. The event was sponsored by New Directions in the American Landscape, Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania, and Connecticut College Arboretum. Dean Steiner's talk considered the work of pioneering landscape architect Ian McHarg and explored design practices grounded in ecology.
Professor of City and Regional Planning Lisa Servon has made several appearances to discuss her recent book, The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017). She was a guest on NPR's Fresh Air (aired in Philadelphia on WHYY-FM) on January 10, and gave talks at Politics and Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse in Washington, DC, on January 16, and at Community Bookstore in Brooklyn, New York, on January 18. On February 6, she's scheduled to speak at NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge.
Announcement University of Pennsylvania Set to Receive Funding to Evaluate the Impact of Emergency Rental Assistance on Evictions January 25, 2023
Story Spring 2023 Lectures Series Opens January 18 January 9, 2023
Story 'Disrupt the Reflection' Competition Winners Announced December 15, 2022


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