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Leigh Whannell, the co-creator of the Saw franchise, unleashes a new terror in this updated reboot of a Universal classic.
After suffering an abusive relationship at the hands of her boyfriend, Cecilia Kass has decided enough is enough. She sneaks out of the house and with help for her sister Emily, leaves him for good. Two weeks has passed and Cecilia is staying with friend and local detective James and his daughter Sydney. She learns that Adrian, her boyfriend, had committed suicide and despite the relationship going south, Cecilia is getting a stipend of five million dollars as long as she doesn't commit any crimes.
For once, Cecilia becomes happy and decides to use some of the money towards Sydney's college fund. However, things soon begin to unravel as Cecilia finds herself stalked by an unseen force. At first, she brushes it off, but soon things begin to amp up. Knowing Adrian was an expert in optics, she becomes convinced that he is not dead and has found a way to make himself invisible in order to get even with her. When a series of shocking discoveries leads to Cecilia going to an institution, she is determined to learn the truth and put an end to the misery that has plagued her for years.
Hot off the heels of the crumbled Dark Universe thanks to the overbearing failure of the Mummy reboot with Tom Cruise, Universal had decided to just make their own takes on some of their classics and given them a contemporary reboot with no connection whatsoever. This film, written and directed by Leigh Whannel, is seen as a psychological thriller with the horror overtones that made the original a classic. Of course, there have been many adaptations of the "invisible man" character, but this film really takes the cake as one of the best.
Elisabeth Moss is perfectly cast as Cecilia, a woman who finds herself in a constant state of abuse, with only temporarily bouts of happiness. The opening moments see Cecilia using all of Adrian's tricks to escape from the house. The film shows that while Cecilia had temporarily found happiness thanks to the support of Aldis Hodge's James and Storm Reid's Sydney, she still fears that her boyfriend will return for some sort of revenge. The film takes the stalker genre to a whole new level as we see Cecilia go on the brink of madness, with those surrounding her thinking she is not over the fear of her accomplishment in leaving Adrian, played by Oliver Jackson-Cohen.
Of course, with the film's title, it is easy to assume that Adrian has found a way to become invisible due to his expertise in optics and science. From just over the mid-point on, things get extremely twisty and it helps amps up not only the film as a whole, but especially as we see Cecilia get another shocking twist to her story. This shocking twist just results in ramping up Cecilia's confidence level and she goes from scared and insane and strong and determined to get the truth and even goes on a sort of Sherlock Holmes-style deduction that leads to a heck of a finale.
The Invisible Man is an amazing contemporary update on the classic horror film, with Elisabeth Moss giving it her all in both the action and emotional aspects of the film. This is a film that takes stalker to a whole new level.
Universal Pictures presents a Blumhouse/Goalpost Pictures production in association with Nervous Tick Productions. Director: Leigh Whannell. Producers: Jason Blum and Kylie Du Fresne. Writer: Leigh Whannell; based on the novel by H.G. Wells. Cinematography: Stefan Duscio. Editing: Andy Canny.
Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid, Michael Dorman, Harriet Dyer, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Benedict Hardin.
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Asad Ali
Full name Asad Ali
Born October 14, 1988, Faisalabad
Major teams Pakistan, Faisalabad, Faisalabad Wolves, Punjab Stallions, Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited
Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast
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Last First-class Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited v Habib Bank Limited at Karachi, Dec 4-8, 2018 scorecard
List A debut Habib Bank Limited v Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited at Karachi, Feb 11, 2006 scorecard
Last List A Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited v Khan Research Laboratories at Rawalpindi, Oct 24, 2018 scorecard
T20s debut Karachi Dolphins v Faisalabad Wolves at Karachi, Dec 21, 2006 scorecard
Last T20s Lahore Whites v Faisalabad at Rawalpindi, Nov 29, 2017 scorecard
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1/9, 1, 1/22 Sui Northern v Lahore Blues Karachi 13 Nov 2018 FC
13*, 0/38 Sui Northern v Khan RL Rawalpindi 24 Oct 2018 LA
0/67, 0*, 4/57, 6 Sui Northern v Habib Bank Faisalabad 11 Oct 2018 FC
0/70, 10 Sui Northern v Peshawar Faisalabad 30 Sep 2018 LA
2/26, 1*, 2/34 Sui Northern v Peshawar Faisalabad 25 Sep 2018 FC
1/13, 2/33 Sui Northern v Islamabad Islamabad 16 Sep 2018 FC
11*, 2/66, 1/26 Sui Northern v FATA Abbottabad 8 Sep 2018 FC
4*, 0/60 Sui Northern v Habib Bank Karachi 9 Jan 2018 LA
31*, 1/93, 0, 0/0 Sui Northern v Lahore W Hyderabad (Sind) 9 Dec 2017 FC
Asad Ali isn't the fastest bowler going around in Pakistan, but what he lacks in out-and-out pace he makes up with his persistent line and length, and his ability to move the ball both ways. A right-arm seamer, Asad Ali has a smooth run-up and action, generally bowls in the mid-130s kph, and is the go-to man for Misbah-ul-Haq in the first-class team SNGPL and Faisalabad Wolves.
Hailing from Sargodha, a city in Punjab, Asad started his first-class career at the age of 17 for Faisalabad against Sialkot in 2005. Asad was always a consistent performer in the domestic competitions, but his performances in 2011-12 and 2012-13 were so impressive that the national selectors couldn't ignore him. In those two seasons he took 102 wickets at an average of less than 20. He was named in the squad that toured India for an ODI series in the winter of 2012, but he couldn't make into the XI.
With Umar Gul's knee injury ahead of the ICC Champions Trophy, he was called up again for the tour to Ireland and Scotland, and also for the Champions Trophy. He only managed to play one ODI, against Ireland, and in that game he made a fine debut, returning figures 1 for 22 in eight overs. He was given another chance in the Champions Trophy warm-up match against South Africa and he did his reputation no harm, picking up AB de Villiers with an outswinger and ending with figures of 3 for 30 in ten overs. He didn't get to play any of the Champions trophy matches, but is clearly one for the future.
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Earlier in this year 2014, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) had filed a suit against Samsung Electronics claiming that not only did the South Korean manufacturer owe $6.9 million in form of damages to the tech giant but was also late in paying $1 billion which was meant as royalty. The vice-versa happened on Thursday when Samsung Electronics filed a lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), accusing the latter of breaching an agreement pertaining to business collaboration.
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Case Studies Describe Best Practices Of Two Successful Western Massachusetts Charter Public Schools
Schools are affiliated with, use approach developed by SABIS, an education management organization
BOSTON – The reasons why two western Massachusetts charter public schools that contract with a for-profit education management company consistently outperform their surrounding school districts are made clearer by a pair of new case studies published by Pioneer Institute.
In Massachusetts Charter Public Schools: Best Practices Using Data to Improve Student Achievement in Holyoke and Massachusetts Charter Public Schools: Best Practices Using Data to Improve Student Achievement in Springfield, author and Pioneer Institute Senior Fellow Cara Stillings Candal profiles the Holyoke Community Charter School (HCCS) in Holyoke and the SABIS International Charter School (SICS) in Springfield.
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Nearly 90 percent of students at the high-performing K-8 HCCS are Hispanic and the overwhelming majority are low income. As of March 2015, there were 574 students on the school's waitlist. During the last school year it retained 93 percent of its students, which is above the state average. Only a small number of students enter after kindergarten, since so few of the school's students leave.
US News & World Report has named the K-12 SICS among its top high schools for five years running. The school was among Massachusetts' 14 original charter schools when it opened in 1995. Every graduate of the school has been accepted to college. Seventy-five percent of the school's students qualify for free and reduced-price lunch. Students at the school perform better on MCAS than their peers in the surrounding Springfield district.
Both schools contract with SABIS and use the company's data-driven educational approach.
"These SABIS charter schools use test data to drive improvements in student achievement that results in closing achievement gaps," said Cara Stillings Candal. "In chronically underperforming urban districts like Holyoke and Springfield, underserved student populations need more, not fewer, of these kinds of higher quality charter schools."
Both schools administer tailored weekly assessments, which drive instruction by identifying gaps in knowledge or misunderstandings that students might have. Assessment results are available the following day, and students conference with teachers to discuss their results and formulate plans for academic growth. The system prevents students from being "passed along" through a curriculum without demonstrating an understanding of essential concepts.
A web portal designed to engage parents is updated on a daily basis. It tells parents where their children are succeeding and struggling and generates a list of concepts, individualized for each student, that he or she can practice at home.
SABIS provides a range of services that include:
Highly detailed curricula aligned to state frameworks
SABIS-authored textbooks
Management services that include help with budgets, school finances, auditing and compliance with regulations in areas ranging from facilities to special education
Prescribed but locally tailored assessments
Curriculum is also tailored to local needs. For example, at the request of parents, SABIS integrated additional history lessons from Puerto Rico, where many of the school's families are from. HCCS is also moving those students out of the English language learner category faster than the surrounding district.
SABIS' approach creates a framework for how the schools operate, but school leaders make the day-to-day decisions.
A 2010 state law raised the cap on charter schools in low-performing school districts but required that any new schools in those districts above the previous cap be operated by "proven providers." Despite the outstanding performance of three SABIS-affiliated Massachusetts charter schools, six proposed charters that planned to contract with SABIS have been rejected by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.
"For two decades, SABIS charter public schools have proven to be among the best schools at closing achievement gaps for the Bay State's urban schoolchildren," said Jamie Gass director of the Center for School Reform at Pioneer Institute. "Nevertheless, since 2008, the Massachusetts Department of Education has treated SABIS in an arbitrary, discriminatory, and disgraceful way."
The 2008 rejection of a proposed Brockton-area school was the most egregious. The state commissioner of education recommended that the board approve the school, but then-board chair Paul Reville raised questions about SABIS' special education practices at SICS. Officials from the proposed school had information about a letter from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) that said all material issues had been corrected, but Reville refused to allow them to speak. The proposal was subsequently rejected and it remains the only Massachusetts charter proposal ever to be rejected by the board after being recommended for approval by the commissioner. Once again in 2012, the DESE rejected the proposed SABIS charter for Brockton, while just this winter the department rejected a proposed SABIS charter for Fitchburg.
The prejudice against the SABIS model is especially troubling because SABIS is one of the national charter networks best equipped to replicate in cities outside Greater Boston.
Among Candal's recommendations are lifting the state cap on charter schools, authorizing charters that take a range of approaches to improving student achievement, the creation of better platforms for high-performing charters to share best practices with struggling schools and leveraging best practices from high-performing charters in "turnaround" districts, as has been done in Lawrence.
Cara Stillings Candal is an education researcher and writer. She is as senior consultant for research and curriculum at the Center for Better Schools/National Academy for Advanced Teacher Education, an adjunct professor at the Boston University School of Education, and a senior fellow at Pioneer Institute.
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Arkansas Baptist College
Arkansas Baptist College (ABC) in Little Rock (Pulaski County) is a four-year historically black liberal arts institution accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and affiliated with the Consolidated Missionary Baptist State Convention of Arkansas. In its quest to be a voice for the underrepresented student, ABC provides a quality education without charging out-of-state tuition fees. The vision of Arkansas Baptist College is thus: "To see our community, state, and nation positively influenced through the integration of academic scholarship and Christian principles to address issues having a detrimental effect on society." Arkansas Baptist College was founded in 1884 by the Colored Baptists of the State of Arkansas. The school opened in November …
Arkansas State University (ASU)
Arkansas State University (ASU) is the only four-year public university in northeast Arkansas. While grounded in a heritage of service to the region, the influence and impact of ASU's teaching and research extend throughout the state and nation. Arkansas State University had a humble beginning. On April 1, 1909, Governor George W. Donaghey signed Act 100, creating four district agricultural schools, culminating an initiative inspired by the Arkansas Farmers Union. On March 28, 1910, the trustees of the First District Agricultural School selected a farm just east of Jonesboro (Craighead County) as its location. Recruiting a leader to translate legislative authorization into educational reality, the trustees hired Victor C. Kays to be the school's first principal. Although only twenty-eight, Kays …
Arkansas Tech University
Arkansas Tech University is a public, coeducational, regional university located in Russellville (Pope County). The university offers programs at both baccalaureate and graduate levels. The institution that became Arkansas Tech University had its origins in an early twentieth-century program known as the Country Life Movement. Designed to reverse the decline in rural life in America, the movement was part of the larger Progressive movement. The driving force for the establishment of agricultural schools in the state was the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union, a more moderate heir to the Populists and associated agrarian organizations of the late nineteenth century. Spurred on by the Farmers' Union, the Arkansas legislature in 1909 passed Act 100 to establish a "State Agricultural School" in …
Central Baptist College
Central Baptist College in Conway (Faulkner County) is the only institution of higher education in the state affiliated with the Baptist Missionary Association of Arkansas. It complements the mission of sister schools in Texas (Jacksonville College), Mississippi (Southeastern Baptist College), as well as the disbanded Midwestern Baptist College in Oklahoma. Central Baptist College opened in 1952 in Conway under the name of Central College for Christian Workers, as the educational ministry of the North American Baptist Association (NABA), which was later renamed the Baptist Missionary Association of Arkansas (BMAA). The college began as an extension of Jacksonville College in Texas, holding classes in the Temple Baptist Church facilities in Little Rock (Pulaski County). Soon, however, the denomination purchased for the …
Ecclesia College
Ecclesia College describes itself as a Christian "work learning" college located in Springdale (Washington and Benton counties). Founded in 1975 by Oren Paris II as a training center for young missionaries, Ecclesia was accredited as a four-year college in 2005, with a strong emphasis in Christian faith and character, work ethic, mentoring, and service. In 2017, the college became embroiled in a scandal regarding the redirection of General Improvement Fund (GIF) money by state legislators to the small college. Ecclesia College is a branch of the "Ecclesia Network." Ecclesia, the parent organization, was incorporated in 1976 and has participated in Christian service worldwide through ministries such as Youth With a Mission (a one-year training program), Twila Paris Productions, Bibles for the …
Harding University, a private Christian university associated with the Churches of Christ, is located in Searcy (White County), occupying some 200 acres just east of the center of the city. It is the largest private educational institution in Arkansas. The motto of Harding University is "Developing Christian Servants." The school was founded in Morrilton (Conway County). In April 1924, the boards of two struggling Christian junior colleges, Arkansas Christian College of Morrilton and Harper College of Harper, Kansas, agreed to combine their assets and create a single four-year institution. Adlai S. Croom was president and founder of Arkansas Christian College (1922), which had a faculty of ten, while John N. Armstrong was president of Harper College with a faculty of …
Henderson State University (HSU)
Henderson State University (HSU) is a public, co-educational university located in Arkadelphia (Clark County). HSU is Arkansas's only public liberal-arts school and is the second-oldest publicly funded university in Arkansas, after the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville (Washington County). HSU was founded in 1890 as Arkadelphia Methodist College. The name was changed in 1904 to Henderson College to honor Charles Christopher Henderson and to Henderson-Brown College to honor Walter William Brown in 1911. After thirty-nine years of Methodist control of the institution, the state convention decided to close the institution and combine it with Hendrix College in Conway (Faulkner County). The student body of Henderson-Brown strongly opposed the idea, as did most of the administration and local citizens. After negotiations with …
Hendrix College
Hendrix College is an independent, liberal arts college located in Conway (Faulkner County) and affiliated with the United Methodist Church. In its 2007 "America's Best Colleges" guide, U.S. News & World Report included Hendrix in the top tier of the nation's liberal arts colleges; it was the only college or university in Arkansas to be listed. The Reverend Isham Lafayette Burrow established a school in 1876, then known as Central Institute, in Altus (Franklin County) with an initial enrollment of twenty students. In the 1881–82 school year, the name was changed to Central Collegiate Institute. In 1884, Burrow appealed to the Methodist Church for financial help. The following year, the conferences raised funds to purchase the school and elected Burrow …
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Shorter College in North Little Rock (Pulaski County) is a two-year institution of higher learning with a liberal arts curriculum that has expanded to include para-professional programs. Founded as Bethel Institute in 1886 by the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) to educate former slaves and to train teachers, the college occupies three and a half blocks at 600 Locust Street, east of Interstate 30. A thirty-three-member board of trustees, chaired by the bishop of the AME's Twelfth Episcopal District in Arkansas and Oklahoma, oversees the school. Classes were first held in the basement of Bethel AME Church at 9th and Broadway in Little Rock (Pulaski County) on September 15, 1886. Rising enrollment led to acquisition in 1888 of a two-story frame building …
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University of Arkansas at Little Rock is a member of the University of Arkansas system, which includes four other major campuses and the Clinton School of Public Service. UALR began in 1927 as Little Rock Junior College (LRJC), housed in the Little Rock High School Building (later Central High School) under the administration of the Little Rock School Board. It became Little Rock University (LRU) in 1957 and moved to University Avenue. LRU became the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) after it merged with the University of Arkansas system in 1969. In January 2017, the chancellor announced that the shortened form of the school's name would be UA Little Rock rather than UALR. The university is a metropolitan university that …
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The University of the Ozarks is a fully accredited, private four-year college that offers baccalaureate degrees in twenty-seven liberal arts and pre-professional programs. Enrollment in the twenty-first century has ranged between 600 and 650 students, primarily from Arkansas, but with significant numbers from Texas, Oklahoma, and Central America. Students participate in a wide range of extracurricular activities and organizations. Men's and women's varsity athletic teams, the Eagles, compete in six different sports in the American Southwest Conference of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III. Located on a thirty-acre campus in Clarksville (Johnson County) and affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), the university builds on a longstanding mission of social inclusiveness, academic rigor, and spiritual edification. The origins of the …
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Best paper award: Gender attitudes in the Arab region
by UNU-MERIT
awards, gender equality, MENA
Two researchers from UNU-MERIT have won this year's Best Paper Award from the Journal of Economic Psychology. The winning article, 'Gender attitudes in the Arab region – The role of framing and priming effects' was co-authored by among others Micheline Goedhuys and Eleonora Nillesen.
Using survey data to study sensitive topics can lead to biased results. For example, direct survey questions on non-sensitive information, including ownership, already present the challenge of random and systematic measurement errors. But the picture becomes even more complex when dealing with sensitive issues such as political, racial or gender attitudes. Subtle changes in wording, response options, question order and context can affect how individuals respond to a question. Yet, surveys continue to be the main tool for data collection in development studies.
The award-winning paper addresses this issue and examines how attitudes about gender equality and domestic violence depend on question framing and context, using two survey experiments conducted in Tunisia. The authors found that gender attitudes appeared more progressive when the questions were put in a more 'gender-equal' frame. They also found that an informational audio primer, giving facts and figures about domestic violence in Tunisia prior to the survey question, reduced men's tendency to justify domestic violence. However, these effects differed, depending on the interviewer's gender and perceived religiosity. Overall, the paper warns against sole reliance on survey data to study sensitive topics, (given these contextual influences), and advocates for the use of additional objective measures to get unbiased results. The authors take up that issue in a related paper.
"This award is a great recognition for the work that we did in Tunisia in the past four years which was extremely challenging at times but also very rewarding and led, next to academic outputs, to new research opportunities and great friendships," said the authors. "It also demonstrates that clever survey experiments may be a fruitful way to get the most out of your primary data collection efforts."
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Jean Lepautre (parfois Le Pautre ou Le Paultre), né à Paris en 1618 et mort à Paris en 1682, est un dessinateur et graveur français.

Biographie
Il est le frère aîné d'Antoine (1621-1679 ou 1691), architecte, et le père de Jacques (?-1684) et Pierre (1648 ou 1652-1716).

En 1640, il effectue avec son maître, chez qui il se forme, Adam Philippon, « menuisier et ingénieur du roi », un voyage à Rome pour étudier sur place les monuments antiques.

Il effectue sa première gravure en 1643. Il sera le principal graveur du recueil que Philippon publia en 1645 : Curieuses Recherches de plusieurs beaux morceaux d'ornements antiques et modernes tant dans la ville de Rome que autres lieux d'Italie.

Il s'adonna à la gravure et durant sa longue carrière produisit près de quinze cents planches à l'eau-forte et au burin, des décorations architecturales, frises, plafonds, vases et ornements de toutes sortes.

Œuvres

Annexes

Bibliographie
  Cornelis de Bie, Het Gulden Cabinet, 1662, p. 495

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Dessinateur français
Graveur français du XVIIe siècle
Aquafortiste français
Buriniste
Membre de l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture
Naissance en 1618
Naissance à Paris
Décès en février 1682
Décès à Paris


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The Stranger King theory offers a framework to understand global colonialism. It seeks to explain the apparent ease whereby many indigenous peoples subjugated themselves to an alien colonial power and places state formation by colonial powers within the continuum of earlier, similar but indigenous processes.

It highlights the imposition of colonialism not as the result of the breaking of the spirit of local communities by brute force, or as reflecting an ignorant peasantry's acquiescence in the lies of its self-interested leaders, but as a people's rational and productive acceptance of an opportunity offered.

The theory was developed by Marshall Sahlins in the Pacific region and is described by David Henley using the North Sulawesi region in Indonesia as his prime case study. The Stranger King theory suggests similarities and divergences between pre-colonial and colonial processes of state-formation enabling to build with insight on the historiography of the colonial transition in the Asia-Pacific part of the world.

Theory
The Stranger King theory argues that many indigenous people accepted the imposition of foreign colonial influence, i.e. the Stranger King, as a means of conflict resolution. In doing so, the Stranger King theory challenges binary oppositions of 'tradition versus modernity' and 'nationalism versus imperialism' paradigms and it places state formation by colonial powers within the continuum of earlier, similar but indigenous processes. The theory particularly builds on the English seventeenth-century political philosopher Thomas Hobbes' depiction of traditional indigenous societies existing in a state of 'Warre', envy, and conflict.

The theory was developed by the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins in his analysis of Pacific communities, such as Fiji. He argued that indigenous societies in a state of 'Warre' would tend to welcome the arrival of an impartial and strong Stranger King capable of resolving conflict, since his position outside and above the community would give him a unique authority. Consistent with this theory, scholars such as Jim Fox and Leonard Andaya have emphasized parallels between (east) Indonesia and the Pacific world, while David Henley has applied the Stranger King concept on North Sulawesi.

The Stranger King in Sulawesi
The Dutch East India Company and before them the Spanish provided a Stranger King solution to the central political dilemma of northern Sulawesi's fractious and litigious indigenous communities. Old Dutch narratives often depict indigenous (e.g., Minahasa) stakeholders as grateful for intervention when their own political institutions were incapable of providing the security and stability necessary for the pursuit of prosperity. While these historic accounts validate the Stranger King concept, they are obviously controversial due to their source and have always been easily dismissed as colonial propaganda. Henley's study, however, provides proof (Chapter XI, 'Patterns and Parallels') that it is not just European sources that suggest recurring uncertainty and conflict within indigenous societies and the indigenous societies' strategy to embosom a Stranger King to break the status quo. Henley in fact presents abundant indigenous (e.g., Bugis and Makasarese) chronicles and accounts collected by anthropologists that explain, and legitimize, the process of pre-colonial and later colonial state formation in similar terms, and not just in the Minahassa or Southeast Asia, but worldwide.

The Stranger King theory argues against the theory that the centuries-long colonisation process was a non-stop process of indigenous resistance against aggressive military occupation. Notwithstanding the fact that the Stranger King's merchants, military, civil servants and missionaries had their own motives and agenda, the colonists achieved authority not just on the basis of military power, but also through political alliances, diplomatic collaboration and by providing a relatively impartial mechanism for arbitration. Colonial courts, rather than solely being instruments of oppression, also provided indigenous people with an access to justice, less subject to local bribery and patronage.

Without minimizing the arrogance or self-interest of colonial stakeholders, Henley states:

"We will not understand the nature of those societies better if, whether out of embarrassment, disbelief, or lack of interest, we choose to ignore either the ease with which they were often brought under colonial control, or the evidence that 'Stranger-Kings' were perceived as fulfilling useful functions among them."  David Henley in Jealousy and Justice (p. 89)

The Stranger King in Sri Lanka
In her thesis Schiller accepts the Stranger King concept as a political means to channel factions in Southeast Asian political entities in early modern times and applies it to the political situation in the Kingdom of Kandy in the eighteenth century. She argues the outsider status was essential for a Kandyan king to maintain the balance of power in the small Kingdom, and sheds a light on the political process that led to the transfer of power over the Kingdom to the British in 1815. Moreover, she argues that the Stranger King strategy applies to both European and Asian foreign entities.

Within three years the nobles had come to realize that they had lost too much power under the British regime, and they intended once more to install a South Indian Stranger King named Dore Swami. Their 1818 rebellion, however, was crushed by the British and led to even tighter control over the Kandyan provinces and a sharp curtailment of the Kandyan nobles' autonomy.

Academic usage
The Stranger King theory is used as an analytical tool to understand and re-construct the history of interaction between Europeans and Asians in Southeast Asia and proposes alternative frameworks of understanding colonialism. In 2007 a panel called "Re-thinking colonialism in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean, 18TH to 19TH Century" chaired by the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) the concept was employed to gain insight into the dynamism of the role indigenous peoples had during the process of colonialisation and the complexity of the relationship between coloniser and colonised.

Historical and social science are developing a new alternative discourse, where not only the old nationalistic Euro-centric scholars, but also the later Asian-centric academics and nationalistic revisionists, look at history from the perspective of mutual heritage.

"Southeast Asia has come within the fold of a single world civilization with a single universal history and all that is meant by Asian-centric history is a history in which the Asian, as a host in his house, should stand in the foreground…" (Smail 1961: 76, 78).The concept of the stranger king has been applied to Viking Age Scandinavia to account for the House of Knýtlinga dynasty in Denmark, as well as to account for the annexation of Iceland by the Norwegian King in 1262.

Notes

References

Bibliography
 Gibson, Thomas "From Stranger-King To Stranger-Shaikh" (Indonesia and the Malay World, Volume 36, Issue 105 July 2008) pp. 309–321
 Henley, David "Conflict, Justice, and the Stranger-King Indigenous Roots of Colonial Rule in Indonesia and Elsewhere". (Modern Asian Studies, 38, 2004) pp. 85–144
 Sahlins, Marshall "The Stranger King" (Indonesia and the Malay World, Volume 36, Issue 105 July 2008) pp. 177–199

External links
 JSTOR website with online KITLV publication. Retrieved 27 February 2011.

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by Shelby Davis
Aunt Courtney kissed my head and called me her little mouse for five minutes when we were reunited in Wassenaar in The Netherlands. It was sometime before 9 a.m. on a midsummer morning. We hadn't seen one another since a vacation elsewhere seven years prior. She lived in a suburb of The Hague with her husband. When they learned I would be studying abroad in Italy for the summer, they offered to put me and two friends from the program up for a long weekend.
My friends and I boarded a flight to Amsterdam. During the short flight, I found myself thinking of my grandmother, Grandmurai, who had loved The Netherlands deeply.
Grandmurai was an artist, a mother, a taxi driver, and a world traveler, among many other things. Some may have accused her of being eccentric. Her love affair with The Netherlands began in the late 1970s, when she befriended a famous artist, known as Viktor IV by the Dutch, who was best known for his floating structures in the Amsterdam canals.
The two of them corresponded for more than a year during the early stages of Grandmurai's art career, during which she would visit twice. In 2012 Grandmurai took a final trip to Wassenaar to celebrate Thanksgiving — a trip, my aunt says, they knew would be her last. She passed away in December 2013, in San Francisco, the city she called home for more than 30 years.
During my own visit, Courtney showed me a corner of the house where she had a few of her mother's works hanging. Courtney told me she meditated there to feel close to Grandmurai. She would speak to her mother, "sometimes just to catch her up."
One afternoon we picked up my cousin, Jade, from her college in Leiden. Jade was a medical student and worked for a company coordinating organ transplants. During a tour of their house, I noticed in her room a small painting of a pink elephant done by Grandmurai. In my bedroom, halfway around the world, I had one of her pink elephant images hanging as well.
That night, Jade offered to cook a family dinner. She proposed something "super Dutch" — a meatball dish, served with potatoes and gravy. Gehaktballen is a comfort food I have since seen associated with both winter and grandmothers in online recipes. While it was not wintertime, it seemed fitting.
A true family meal that was created by two generations of women from two continents.
My friends helped set the table. My aunt, cousin, and I chopped shallots and potatoes, and mixed nutmeg, mustard, ground pepper, and bouillon into the meat before shaping it into somewhat consistently sized spheres.
We discussed our travels, the accomplishments of our family members, and school, before sitting down to the meal. It was the type of dish that stuck to your ribs. Food that left you feeling full, warm, and happy.
It only took one glass of wine before the Grandmurai stories began to flow. Handmade coats. Multi-colored hair. Paint-stained hands. She traveled the world alone and never stopped attending school. She always endeavored to learn more about life and the world. Grandmurai lived life on her own terms, never once adhering to society's expectations of her.
Grandmurai once said Viktor IV "sparked a desire to embrace life as an art form." Sometimes this is easy to find in, say, a sunset boat ride down the Amsterdam canals, or in the rows and rows of spring tulips on the Dutch countryside.
Sometimes, the art lies in forming meat into balls and laughing over old memories, and a spilled glass of wine with people you love.
Shelby Davis has called Minneapolis home for seven years. She is a recent graduate from The College of Charleston in South Carolina, with a BA in Creative Writing. She is pursuing a writing career, focused on food and travel. When she is not writing, she's serving at Ramen Kazama or sailing on Bde Maka Ska.
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Klopp gives injury update on 'very important' forward
Jurgen Klopp has given an update on Liverpool forward Takumi Minamino, who will be 'very important' for the Reds throughout January.
Minamino made his first appearance in over two weeks during Liverpool's 4-1 FA Cup win over Shrewsbury Town on Sunday. He came off the bench at half time to gain some important minutes following an unknown injury.
The Japan international, 26, could start in the Premier League and Carabao Cup as Klopp is without Mo Salah and Sadio Mane due to the Africa Cup of Nations.
The German needs Minamino to step up alongside Roberto Firmino and Diogo Jota.
When asked about Minamino, Klopp told reporters: "Taki was injured. Nothing serious but serious enough that he couldn't play.
"It's not the longest rehab in his life hopefully – or maybe it was the longest rehab hopefully.
"But he is back and very important for us, very, very important – especially when we have a lot of games coming up and we know that two of our main guys up front are not here.
"It's good. I liked Taki a lot when he came on (as a substitute). He's actually in a really good shape but, of course, the injury interrupted it slightly.
"But now he's back, it's good and we need him desperately."
Klopp has also provided an update on Spanish midfielder Thiago. The 30-year-old has been out with Covid in recent weeks but is also struggling with an injury.
Klopp said: "It is something around the hip. That is the situation – he needs time. He didn't train this week but we expect him to start rehab from Monday.
"It's not the case that he is out until the end of season."
Newcastle fans hoping Kieran Trippier's top-flight return is more Lineker than McManaman
Liverpool coach tips player to leave Anfield
Meanwhile, Loris Karius could leave Anfield in January, according to Liverpool coach John Achterberg.
The keeper has spent the last three seasons away on loan, at Besiktas and Union Berlin respectively.
He is back on Merseyside but is behind Alisson, Adrian and Caoimhin Kelleher in Klopp's plans.
During an interview with The Athletic, Achterberg said of Karius: "In the end it's down to him, his agent and the club to try to find a solution. Hopefully there will be one this month.
"It doesn't help anyone to sit for another six months without the feeling that you are really fighting for something. That's not going to improve him.
"He needs to use his quality to make a career now. Loris has a lot of good qualities."
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"Management of diversity is the key to business success in the Asia Pacific Region."
David James is president of Business Strategies International (BSI Corporation), a consulting and venture development firm in San Francisco, California, founded on the premise that management of diversity is the key to business success in the Asia Pacific Region.
Mr. James served as an executive of three international corporations active in the region: Dillingham Corporation, Crown Zellerbach Corporation, and Texasgulf Inc.
He was the chairman of the business programs at the East-West Center, Honolulu, honorary consul of Malaysia in Hawaii, and a senior partner of Arnstein & Lehr, a prominent Chicago-based law firm. He is a graduate of Harvard University, the University of Chicago Law School, and Stanford Business School's Executive Program. In 2021-2022, he was president of the Harvard Club of San Francisco.
Mr. James is the co-author of The New Asia: Business Strategies for the Economic Region That Is Shaking Up the World (Praeger Books, 2013) and the author of Doing Business in Asia (Betterway Books, 1993) and The Executive Guide to Asia-Pacific Communications (Kodansha International, 1995). He is also the author of many articles on business, legal and technology issues. His technology articles have appeared in Upside Magazine and Nokia's TheFeature.
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After I tried logging to my host's cpanel today, I got the safe browsing warning, about the site "redirecting users to harmful websites".
Each subdomainXX is a different VPS providing by the host company.
The address subdomainXX.host.com isn't used for anything else other than the cpanel access (afaik). Indeed, searching for it in Google using the site: operator returns 0 results.
This answer seems to suggest that it has happened before, but it's just a guess, with no authoritative documentation.
Does Google flag all subdomains for malware/phishing if one is infected? (source/documentation if possible) If yes, how can a host be protected from such (mis)use?
Longer answer: It seems Safe browsing is using some threshold, which is not told. Usually, such flag happens against minor domain owner to force them to fix their website. For bigger web services provider, normally the sub-domain will get away from complete flagging and only specific confirmed bad subdomain(s) will get flagged.
You can't. What you can do is submit a false positive request(make sure you clean them up or use a patched CRM, etc) to safe browsing and wait for them to change the rules to flag bad subdomain explicitly. If you get the domain from others, it is important to inspect the infection track record from virustotal, don't be careless like those character that moved into haunted-house in horror movie. The good news is, unlike horror movie haunted house, safe browsing will remove the flag after it find out bad content has been removed.
Safe Browsing FAQs will give you some idea how GSB flag the web contents. If you want to learn how it is responses to the various scenario, you need to create your own honeypot to gather bad URL and measured it against google safe browsing. Or you can use data from phishing or malicious URL report site like phishtank to "gauge" the google safe browsing response.
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Why did Google sign every auxiliary app inside "Google Chrome.app" (OS X version) except for one?
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However, after speaking with a customer service rep, I get the impression that the transition may not be a smooth or complete one, and so I'm hoping to get some answers (some of which you may have answered hundreds of times already).
Since we have the bonded Fusion service, that means we have two hard-line POTS circuits, both of which we use, and both of which we will want to keep. However, it appears the fiber service only offers one VOIP voice line. How is this normally handled?
I currently have static IP with my Fusion service (it's a teensy-weensy /29), and I have a registered DNS name pointing at it. No matter where I am, I can 'ssh' in to the machines sitting on my desk and check on stuff. I am informed that static IP is not available at all on the fiber service. I find this astonishing. Is this because of the shortage of IPv4 addresses? How do you meet this need with businesses?
Keep in mind I'm an existing, happy customer, but it looks like I might lose some critical functionality if I switch completely over to fiber. Realistically, what are my options here? Should I convert only one line to fiber and keep the other copper line running as plain DSL/POTS? How have you transitioned other customers in the same or similar situation?
How many hard lines can the ONT drive ring voltage on? More than one (i.e. will I have to unplug phones)?
What happens to the voice service during a power outage? Does the ONT have its own battery backup, or will I have to get a UPS for it?
I have a pfSense box at the end of my DSL line that runs all my firewalling and NAT (the Zyxel modem is configured as a dumb bridge; thank you Sonic tech support). Based on what I've read so far, it looks like I can keep this setup by just plugging the pfSense box directly into the ONT, and eschewing the usual home router. Is this correct?
Thank you very kindly for any solutions you can offer.
Sonic does not offer static IPs for their FTTH service, not even the small business variant, a number of their customers have been asking for one, even at extra charge to no avail. If all you are looking to do is have easy access to your home machines you could handle that with a dynamic DNS service, basically a service that tracks your current IP and points it to a static IP. Its typically not ideal for web hosting or anything that needs 100% uninterrupted downtime as there may be short periods where the IP has yet to be refreshed on their end but it will work for your needs.
You will need a UPS for the ONT, sonic does offer one that they can install at the same time as the ONT but I would recommend getting your own as they overcharge quite a bit for it.
Yes, this is correct. I have my pfsense router plugged directly into the ONT.
So, one day soon-ish, a person carrying a spool of glass will come walking up my driveway to install gigabit fiber, and s/he will need to... What, exactly? How should I prepare for a fiber install?
Should I have some sort of approval paperwork from my landlord? Where will they want access? What, if anything will they want to attach to the wall? (Inside? Outside?) Should there be nearby power outlets? How many? How close?
What do they do once the ONT is in place and running? Do they also pull Cat.6 through the house to the gateway, or is that my job? Will the existing Fusion DSL remain up and running? For how long? I imagine the POTS cutover is a little tricky; how does that usually happen?
About how long does the physical process take? Should I plan to stay home from work that day?
Regarding landlords and renters: you have a right to the telecommunications provider of your choice, so landlords cannot bar you from obtaining Sonic service. But, we recognize their totally appropriate interest in the work we are doing, particularly as to any holes we'd be drilling in the property. Generally speaking we will take a similar path to the one that existing phone/cable lines take, and the new fiber will have lesser or similar impact. For example, the box on the outside of the premises is smaller than typical Cable or Telecom boxes, because fiber is smaller. And the fiber cables themselves are smaller. Sometimes we can re-use existing holes to enter, but sometimes we must drill new ones - it varies. We cannot remove any existing phone/cable wires, as we do not own those, FYI.
Fiber is the future, and it's a positive development for tenants and building owners alike. The availability of fiber increases the value of homes and the rent-ability of apartments. It's a win/win, for everyone, when fiber is deployed.
I hope these items help!


Overview: Based on Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, this is the story of a man who travels to Count Dracula's isolated home in Transylvania in order to sell him a house, unfortunately discovering along the way that he's a plague-carrying vampire.
Max Schreck. He plays a weirdo, an eccentric recluse, and a hideous, twisted vampire. Without him, Nosferatu: Symphony of Horror quite possibly may never have stood the test of time. Direct spin offs and remakes include Shadow of the Vampire, a story about how Max Schreck the actor was an actual vampire, a fantastically updated Nosferatu The Vamypre (1979) by Werner Herzog, with Klaus Kinski as the wretched beast, the failed show "Kindred: The Embraced" had a clan of vampires named 'Nosferatu' who all looked exactly like Orlock... Hell even Weekly World News gave proppers to the pasty-white grown up bat boy. I'll admit even I'm partial to that cute old bald freak, given that he's my #9 favourite dude on screen. Sadly the other players in Murnau's Horror melodrama aren't nearly as impressive, though our gitchy fly and spider eating Cobblepot-looking madman did recently earn a few laughs for his copious eyebrows.
The story opens up cheery and almost comically fluffy, until we are introduced to the Count on his carriage. The film then takes a dramatic turn to the creepily dismal. With plague-infested rats and Shreck's haunting eyes, long shadows and haunting images abound. You will be impressed, yes sir. Max is a great vampire, period. I mean just LOOK at him!
Admittedly this 1922 telling of Dracula is plentiful in gaps. Those familiar with Stoker's work may find themselves disappointed with scenes and characters entirely omitted or questions unanswered, though there are some fresh twists to make up for the shortcomings, you know, like how Orlock is a hideous rat-faced freak instead of an intimidatingly beautiful man.
But after all is said and done, the atmosphere-rich ending, short as it may be, is more than memorable, it's iconic. You know Nosferatu is a classic, and you won't be disappointed.
Shreckin' it to the Max!
Having Nosferatu at #234 on IMDb's Top 250 is still a bit of a boost to get the common man out to see a silent film. After having seen this film in a crowded theatre obviously new to Silent cinema, it's clear that time has worn away the edges of Nosferatu: Symphony of Horror, as it elicits occasional laughter rather than terror from time to time, but Nosferatu is still short and sweet, and definitely one of the 20's most timeless films.
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die | 1920-1929 | 70-82% | F.W. Murnau | German | Horror | International | Silent Film | Thriller | Vampire Submitted by Squish on May 1, 2009 - 4:18pm.


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Битва под Ладыжином (также Битва под Кнутом) произошла  года, во время польско-турецкой войны 1672—1676. Состоялась на правом берегу реки Южный Буг неподалеку от горы Кнут и посёлка Кнут (ныне село Четвертиновка Тростянецкого района Винницкой области).

В начале июля в 1672 году гетман Правобережной Украины по турецкой версии Петр Дорошенко, имея 7 тыс. казаков, а также свыше 10 тыс. татар и турок, перешел в наступление. Брат гетмана Григорий Дорошенко во главе авангардных сил окружил отступающий от Бершади казачий полк Перебийноса (1,5 тыс.), который спешил в лагерь верного Речи Посполитой гетмана Правобережной Украины Михаила Ханенко. Ханенко решил спасти своих казаков из трудного положения.

Имея при себе только 4 тыс. казаков, Ханенко попросил помощи у региментаря К. Лужецкого, который имел около 2,5 тыс. конных и драгун. После встречи в ночь на 18 июля из городка Ладыжин Ханенко и Лужецкий двинулись лагерным боевым порядком на Четвертиновку. Войско было построено в традиционном порядке, то есть пехота (казаки Ханенко) шла лагерем в центре, на крыльях была польская конница. Драгуны небольшими отрядами (таборами) шли позади. По прибытии на место утром 18 июля польско-казацкому войску удалось отбросить армию Дорошенко за Буг недалеко от городка Кнут и вывести из окружения казаков.

Ободрённая успехом конница двинулась за противником, который за рекой перешел в контратаку и нанес польской армии значительные потери. Заподозрив ловушку, Ханенко отправился в Ладыжино. Когда казацкий лагерь Ханенко отошел к Ладыжино, Дорошенко переправил свои силы за реку и разбил несколько драгунских отрядов. Остальная конница отступила к Ладыжино.

Ханенко и Лужецкому удалось освободить окруженных товарищей, но это была пиррова победа, поскольку польские войска в результате неосмотрительности понесли бесполезные и сильные потери, особенно среди офицеров.

Петр Дорошенко, дождавшись подхода крымского хана Селим-Гирея, отправился в город Каменец, куда со своим войском следовал турецкий султан Мехмед IV .

Литература
 Leszek Podhorodecki, «Chanat Krymski i jego stosunki z Polską w XV-XVIIIw.», Warszawa 1987, ISBN 83-05-11618-2, str. 214
 Наталья Яковенко, Очерк истории Украины с древнейших времен до конца XVIII в. Раздел V. КАЗАЦКАЯ ЭРА — § 2. Руина (1658—1686) — Андрусовское располовинивание
 Смолий В. А., Степанков В. М. Украинская национальная революция XVII в. (1648—1676 гг). — (Сер. Украина сквозь века) Т.7. — М.: Альтернативы, 1999. — 352 с. ISBN 966-7217-26-4
 ДМИТРИЙ ДОРОШЕНКО ОЧЕРК ИСТОРИИ УКРАИНЫ 1966 Издательство «Днепровская Волна» — Мюнхен / «ГЛОБУС» Киев 1992 Том 2, глава 4
  Летопись Самовидца. издание подготовил Я. И. Дзира. — Киев: «Наукова думка», 1971. — 208 с
  Летопись гадяцкого полковника Григория Грабянки / Пер. с староукр. — М.: Т-во «Знание» Украины, 1992, — 192 с
 Величко С. В. Летопись. Т. 1. / Пер. с книжного украинского языка, в ст. статья, коммент. А. Шевчука; Отв. ред. А. В. Мишанич. — М.:, 1991. — 371 с.; Летопись. Т. 2. / Пер. с книжного украинского языка, коммент. А. Шевчука; Отв. ред. А. В. Мишанич. — М.:, 1991. — 642 с.

Южный Буг
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Июль 1672 года
Польско-турецкая война (1672—1676)
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One year ago, a micro-light airplane crash-landed in New-Zealand. The pilot of the airplane, Rod Vaughan, who also happens to be a journalist, had implied that a drone was to blame for the accident. At the time, the mainstream media ran with the story and continued to paint drones as the culprit. In this video, Bruce, also known as XJet on YouTube, explains how an investigation report from the Civil Aviation Authority of New-Zealand (CAA) now proofs his theory right. A drone did NOT bring down Vaughan's airplane but a failed windscreen, due to prolonged exposure to high UV levels in New-Zealand, was to blame.
The post Drone did NOT bring down Vaughan's airplane in New-Zealand appeared first on DroneDJ.


AJ Thramer Bamboo Rod Co.
I am not accepting any orders until I complete those on my retirement build list which is completely sold out. All gone. None left. After that my rodbuilding will be confined to what I want to build if and when I want to build anything. I will be a hobbyist. If you want to know if I build something you need to send an E-MAIL. No phone calls please, I no longer have the time to return them all due to the volume and because of my new (somewhat unexpected) employment. I am quite happy to answer questions about used rods and let you know what is in my inventory both used and new but only via e mail. I am still here and love rods, rodmaking, flyfishing and those who enjoy cane rods but I simply have encountered unexpected restraints on my time. Some production rodbuilding equipment and supplies will be sold off. If there is a specific request let me know. Off to the rivers, streams and lakes I will go.....hope to see you there.
Since learning the craft of cane rod building in the early 1980's I have had one goal, to supply the highest quality bamboo rods to the bamboo community at a fair price. The goal has always included innovation in efficient construction methods and cutting edge taper design. Since 2000 I have combined this with new methods of hollow bamboo rod construction that has dramatically improved their performance envelope.
The result of this continuing pursuit of refining my craft has yielded rods that offer value, performance and beauty.


We believe Genetically Modified Food is one of the biggest global threats to our environment and sustainable living. Please take the time to watch this excellent video on the dangers of GMO food.
The battle for keeping GMO food out of Costa Rica is moving forward. Even though it is currently outlawed to sell GMO crops in Costa Rica; the countries food supply is still overloaded with GMO. Virtually all the processed packaged food in Costa Rica that contains corn or soy contains GMO.
On January 21st 2013 Monsanto which has been rated many times as the most evil corporation on the planet, was granted permission to plant GMO corn in Costa Rica. Although they were only given permission to plant a couple of hectares of GMO corn; they now have their foot in the door and Costa Rica's native corn is in danger of contamination. Currently there are approximately 500 hectares of genetically modified crops in Costa Rica, the vast majority are cotton and soybeans, but there are also GMO pineapples, bananas and now GMO corn growing in Costa Rica.
Although GMO is starting to make inroads into Costa Rica, months of protests by different activist groups opposed to genetically modified food have been able to dramatically impact the local level, and as of March 2013 there are 22 Cantons in Costa Rica that have so far declared themselves to be GMO Free Zones.
Costa Rica has made a pledge and is on track to become the world's first carbon neutral country.
Globally only six countries have even tried to make a commitment to become carbon neutral, and Costa Rica's target date of 2021 which also represents the 200 year anniversary for the country is by far the earliest target date.
A key aspect on the road to carbon neutrality and sustainability for Costa Rica is the ability to be able to measure Costa Rica's current carbon footprint, and find ways to track the progress in carbon reduction. To meet this commitment it is necessary to measure emissions from both the public and private sectors for transportation, industry, energy production and other sources.
In order to measure the carbon footprints of the various industries it is important to have a certification body that tracks results.
On April 16th, 2013 Costa Rica chose Emeryville, California based SCS Global Services for carbon footprint verification and certification.
Globally Costa Rica is known as a world leader in placing natural capital at the center of development. Costa rica was rated as the "greenest and happiest" country in the world for by the New Economics Foundation, and is the only country considered a "BioGem" by the National Resource Council. Costa Rica is also the only tropical country to boast that over half of its territory (52%) to be covered in forests.
The World Banks Partnership for Market Readiness (PMR) recently granted Costa Rica $3 million to help further develop its local carbon market. Costa Rica is a leader in moving towards carbon neutrality and the country pledges to be carbon nuetral by 2021.


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Q: Forgot my basic math... So a younger (college student) asked me for my help to solve a basic math question, and to my surprise, I've forgot some basic math rules, rendering me unable to answer the problem.
According to online math-generators the answer should'nt be what I'm getting.. And I am unable to follow the auto-generated steps... I hope this forum can be of help, as I actually really do like maths, (but obviously have been neglecting it)
The problem is a reduction problem, and is as follows:
$\left(\frac{1}{2}\right) \times\left(\frac{2}{2a}\right)+\frac{\left(\frac{2a}{6}\right)}{\left(\frac{6}{5}\right)}$
What I do is this:

$$\left(\frac{1}{2}\right) \times\left(\frac{2}{2a}\right)+\frac{\left(\frac{2a}{6}\right)}{\left(\frac{6}{5}\right)} $$

$$=\left(\frac{2}{6a}\right)+\frac{\left(\frac{2a}{6}\right)}{\left(\frac{6}{5}\right)} $$

$$=\left(\frac{1}{3}\right)+\frac{\left(\frac{1a}{3}\right)}{\left(\frac{6}{5}\right)} $$ (I fear this may be wrong?)

$$=\frac{\left(\frac{4}{4a}\right)}{\left(\frac{6}{5}\right)} $$

$$=\left(\frac{4\times5}{4\times6a}\right) $$

$$=\frac{20}{24a} $$

$$=\frac{5}{6a}$$

A: $$(\frac{1}{2}) \times(\frac{2}{2a})+\frac{(\frac{2a}{6})}{(\frac{6}{5})}$$
$$=(\frac{1}{2a})+(\frac{2a}{6}) \times (\frac{5}{6})$$
$$=(\frac{1}{2a})+(\frac{5a}{18})$$
$$=\left(\frac{9+5a^2}{18a}\right)$$

A: You did two careless mistakes and one thing I simply don't understand.
1) 2nd line:  $\frac 1 2 \times \frac 2 {2a} = \frac 2 {4a}$ not $\frac 2 {6a}$
2) 3rd line:  "$\frac 2 {6a} = \frac 1 3$.  The $a$ has disappeared into the ether.
so you should have $(\frac{1}{2a})+\frac{(\frac{1a}{3})}{(\frac{6}{5})}$ which is reducible.
What I don't understand is how you jumped from $ (\frac{1}{3})+\frac{(\frac{1a}{3})}{(\frac{6}{5})} $(sic) to $ \frac{(\frac{4}{4a})}{(\frac{6}{5})} $.

A: Small mistake from step 1 to step 2. Notice that:
$$ \left(\frac{1}{2}\right) \times \left(\frac{2}{2a}\right)  = \left( \frac{1\times 2}{2\times 2a} \right) = \left(\frac{2}{4a} \right) = \left( \frac{1}{2a} \right).$$
You will then end up with
$$ \left( \frac{1}{2a} \right) + \frac{\left(\frac{2a}{6}\right)}{\left(\frac{6}{5}\right)}.$$
You can simplify $\frac{2a}{6}$ to $\frac{a}{3}$, leaving you with
$$ \left( \frac{1}{2a} \right) + \frac{\left(\frac{a}{3}\right)}{\left(\frac{6}{5}\right)}.$$
From here, simplify $ \frac{\left(\frac{a}{3}\right)}{\left(\frac{6}{5}\right)}$ using the fact that
$$ \frac{\left(\frac{A}{B}\right)}{\left(\frac{C}{D}\right)} = \left(\frac{A}{B}\right) \times \left(\frac{D}{C}\right).$$
Once you do that, find a common denominator to add the fractions.


Hardly any commentators dispute that Isaiah 9:6 is about the Messiah, Christ who is also the Immanuel of Isaiah 7:14.
Yet, there are some things about this verse that make some commentators uneasy.
You see, in this verse, the prophet Isaiah, under inspiration, gives us 5 names of Christ—(1) Wonderful, (2) Counsellor, (3) The mighty God, (4) The everlasting Father, and (5) The Prince of Peace.
The first two names are straightforward.
The third name is a little problematic for some. Christ is called the "Mighty God." Those who do not believe in the deity of Christ have a problem with that. They try to weasel out of the problem by saying that Christ is 'Mighty God', but not 'Almighty God.' But as we saw, it is clear that Almighty God is also known as Mighty God in the Scriptures. The deity of Christ is indisputable and this verse simply adds to the plethora of verses that attest to this principal doctrine.
This evening, we are looking at the fourth name, the 'Everlasting Father.' Now, this name is a little problematic for some of us who believe in the deity of Christ as well as the doctrine of the trinity.
You see, there is a heresy amongst those who believe in the deity of Christ known as Sabellian Modellism or Patripationism. This heresy essentially teaches that there is only one person in the Godhead. God is not triune. The Father is the Son, the Son is the Father and the Spirit. Sometimes, He reveals Himself as the Father, sometimes as the Son, and sometimes as the Spirit. It is kind of like: I am a father, and a son and an uncle at the same time. So according to this heresy, it was the Father who died on the cross, thus Patripationism.
Well, we know from clear passages in the Scriptures such as the account of the baptism of Christ that the Father is neither the Son nor the Holy Spirit; nor is the Son the Father or the Holy Spirit. The three persons in the Godhead are distinct. They have fellowship with one another. And we know that the Father sends the Son and the Holy Spirit; and the Father and the Son sends the Holy Spirit.
The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are distinct persons in the Godhead, though they are same in substance, and equal in power and glory.
But why then is Christ called 'the Everlasting Father' and how should we respond to this name of Christ?
1. Why is Christ called 'the Everlasting Father'?
Well, in the first place, like the name 'Mighty God,' this name 'Everlasting Father' brings us immediately to a realisation that Christ is God.
However, this name does not imply that Christ and God the Father is the same person. Why? Because the doctrine of the Trinity was not yet fully revealed in the Old Testament! It is not at all clear that the name 'Father' in the Old Testament refers to the first person of the Trinity. In all probability, whenever God is referred to as the Father in the Old Testament, the reference is to the Triune Godhead rather than specifically to the first person of the Trinity.
So we may say that here in Isaiah 9:6, Christ is being equated with the Triune God rather than with the Father.
But why is He called the everlasting Father? We can think of three reasons.
First, He is eternal because He is God. He is from everlasting to everlasting. He is the Alpha and Omega. John says: "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God" (Jn 1:1).
So thirdly, He is called everlasting Father, because of His fatherly love for us. We must not be so caught up with the idea that He is our elder brother that we forget His greatness and glory. Christ is indeed our elder brother, but He is like a brother who is old enough to be our father. If you like, He is a brother, who loves us like a father. He sympathizes with us as a brother who was tempted at all points like as we, and at the same time, He is compassionate toward us as a father is towards his own children.
I believe that the Word of God is not to be read merely like a history book or a book of facts. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works (2 Tim 3:16).
As such, all Scripture should evoke a response from us. This is especially so in significant passages such as Isaiah 9:6. In particular, I believe that every name of Christ given in this verse is given for our sanctification.
So, if Christ is the everlasting Father, what should our response be?
First of all, I believe, we must response with love and gratitude. We must love Him and seek to please Him gratefully as we would do to our father in the flesh.
Indeed, we should give Him more love and honour than we give our fathers. Our Lord Himself says, "He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me" (Mt 10:37). And He has every right and reason to say that—for unlike our earthly fathers, Christ our Lord is perfect in His love for us.
He is not a father who has nothing to do with us most of the time; nor is He an unprincipled and inconsistent doting father who spoils his children.
He is with us always. He promises never to leave us nor forsake us. And He guides us consistently by His spirit and His Word so that we are not left wondering how we should conduct ourselves to please Him.
Secondly, if Christ is the everlasting Father, let us find comfort and solace in Him in times of perplexity and grief. I know that being in the Asian culture, most of us would have very little experience of having a father to turn to in times when we feel afraid or perplexed.
But in our heart of hearts, we all desire to have someone to turn to, to share our burden and sorrows and fears, don't we?
God understands, and this is perhaps the reason why He goes to such an extent to assure us of His fatherly love. The first person of the Trinity reveals Himself to us as the heavenly Father. The second person of the Trinity, God the Son, has also revealed to us the everlasting Father. And the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit works in our heart to enable us to cry unto God as our Abba Father.
What a blessing! Let us beloved brethren, not fail to exercise this great privilege of enjoying and resting in this triple blessing of fatherly love.
Thirdly, if Christ is the everlasting Father, let us rest assured that He will always be there for us. He is not like our earthly father who, however, kind and good to us, cannot be with us always. He has to leave us one day. But Christ never leaves us nor forsakes us.
We find ourselves depending less and less on our earthly father as we grow older; and some of us may even begin to find it very strange to go to him as father. Indeed, even if we do not feel estranged, our father would leave us as he goes the long home.
But Christ never leaves us. He is ever with us. He is with us as we grow in maturity. He is with us through thick and thin. He is with us comforting us even when we pass through the valley of the shadow of death. He never changes in His compassion and love for us for Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever (Heb 13:8).
We must conclude. Christ is the everlasting Father. He shows us the Father, even His Father and our heavenly Father. But He reveals Himself as our everlasting Father too.
May the Lord grant us that we may indeed respond with love and gratitude with respect towards Him!
May we find comfort and solace in Him through all the fears and temptations that assault us each day!
May our reliance upon Him be unshakable, for He is the everlasting Father! Amen.