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Why should we make such a big deal about copyright protection?
By Terry Modica
It's a misunderstanding, usually. Many readers wonder why I would want to squash the sharing of the Good News by insisting on copyright protections for my work. I don't, though — really!
Copyright Cat explains:
"Copyrights are important to any writer or artist or publisher. Articles and reflections that are sent by email should be treated as professionally as if they were printed in a book put out by a publisher.
"I haven't been to one of your people schools, but I've heard that when you were a kid, your teachers taught that when writing papers for homework, it was wrong to plagiarize; you were punished with an F or zero if you turned in someone else's work as if it were your own. You were taught that when quoting sources, you needed to give credit to that source or else you'd get a lower grade. But today the internet has made it so easy to plagiarize; it's now called sharing — which sounds nice, because sharing is a very nice thing to do
"Of course, the right way to share is to link back to the source, but many humans copy and paste and neglect to include a link back to the source, and the original source gets lost in the shuffle. Sharing in this case is plagiarism, but the world has lost sight of that. It's a form of stealing that's become socially acceptable.
"Most humans don't see the harm, but authors and artists and publishers do in fact lose opportunities and money when their work is stolen. Being unaware of the harm does not mean that there is no harm."
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[ePalestine] Souciant: Home and Garden (by Mitchell Plitnick)
The Harper's article mentioned in this article may be found here:
http://mitchellplitnick.com/2011/11/29/avishai-abrahams-children-toward-a-right-of-return-for-palestinians/
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Geographies / Near & Middle East
by Mitchell Plitnick on Nov 30, 2011
This week, Iceland became the first European country to recognize the State of Palestine. The declaration had a curious clause: "Iceland recalls also the right of Palestinian refugees to return to former homes in accordance with numerous UN resolutions."
To be sure, this carries little weight; Iceland is a country of less than 320,000 people. It's a political maverick, frequently charting its own course, and is not a member of the EU. While it's unlikely that other European states will follow Iceland's lead, the fact remains that a first world country has formally endorsed the return of Palestinian refugees.
Coincidentally, the issue of the Palestinian Right of Return (RoR), made some waves a few days earlier when the noted Zionist dove, Bernard Avishai, published a piece in Harpers (print only, but available here) which took on the issue directly and tried to find some resolution to it that both Israelis and Palestinians can live with.
This was no small task Avishai took on. For the overwhelming majority of Israelis, including most of the Israeli left, Right of Return is nothing more than code for the end of Israel as a Jewish state. For most as well, this has connotations of mass expulsions or fleeing the country at best, violent dangers at worst. Thus, even among most supporters of peace and withdrawal from all the Occupied Palestinian Territories, RoR is anathema to Israelis.
For Palestinians, the Right of Return is not just a negotiating point. It is the very heart of their nationalism, the focus of their historical claim to lands from which they were driven. It is both a national right, which can be negotiated by their leaders, but also an individual right, which cannot. It is at once the key elderly Palestinians still keep with them to the homes from which their families were driven more than 60 years ago; it is also the grievance they feel must be addressed, the fact of that expulsion, if there is ever to be reconciliation between Palestinians and Israelis.
In more than a decade of activism, including many visits to Palestinian towns, cities and refugee camps, I have spoken with Palestinians from all parts of the political, cultural, religious and economic spectrum. I have heard many views regarding the implementation of RoR. But not a single man, woman or child has ever said they would give it up.
Except for the tiny minority of Israeli Jews who support the Right of Return, the mere mention of the idea casts a pall of terror across their faces. Many Israelis will withdraw from the West Bank, abandon the settlements and in smaller numbers, share Jerusalem. But RoR is an absolute non-starter.
It is little wonder, then, that there has been virtually no serious discussion about the Right of Return, in or outside of Israel/Palestine. There have been repeated declarations by both sides of the heartfelt, and absolutist, stances, but little real discussion. In peace proposals, the "refugee issue" is left to vague wording that promises nothing to the Palestinians, yet still raises Israeli anxiety to a boiling point. For this reason, both Iceland's declaration and Avishai's article are extremely important.
The Icelandic statement is a reminder to the West that this issue cannot be skirted around. The well-worn cliché about the only resolution being negotiations between the parties conducted in a fair and balanced atmosphere (that is, one where outside parties strive to balance the skewed power dynamics between the regional superpower, Israel, and the occupied, stateless and powerless Palestinians) is absolutely true in this case.
But instead of taking that on, the United States, Europe, and all the other major players have tried their best to avoid it. Frankly, this is absurd, and always has been.
No peace deal yet devised has ever taken a real look at RoR. Discussions ensue about what "the people" will accept, and it is usually, if quietly, assumed that the Palestinian position is so weak that they will swallow forgoing the Right of Return in order to end the occupation and build their state. Those making that assumption have never bothered to talk to an actual Palestinian. Whether in a café in Ramallah, a workshop in Gaza City, a refugee camp in Lebanon or an organizers' meeting in Paris, they would have gotten a clear message that RoR must be seriously addressed if any peace proposal is to garner even moderate Palestinian support.
Avishai, who has come under some justifiable criticism for an approach to this issue reflective of his privileged Israeli position, must be applauded for finally bringing this question into mainstream US discourse.
It is the discourse, in the US, Europe and most of all in Israel and the Occupied Territories that has been missing for all these years. On all other issues, there have been the stated demands on both sides and then public discussion, within and across borders, about how to reconcile pragmatism with ideology, historical wrongs with present-day realities. But on RoR, there has been only the tense exchange of absolutism.
Avishai's proposed solution may not seem realistic to many. However, the solution isn't the point right now. Opening a discussion about this, allowing Palestinians to make their case in a public forum, and Israelis and their advocates to respond, like every other issue, is the task at hand.
Already, Avishai's piece stirred up intense debate on the very nature of Zionism and the Jewish State. And that is precisely the discussion that Right of Return is going to provoke. Instead of running away from that discussion, it should be embraced.
More than any other issue, RoR both challenges the status quo and stirs serious legal and ethical questions of history. Until they are grappled with, we are likely to see a continuation of the polarization we have seen in recent years and an ongoing stalemate which only leads to more violence and insecurity.
The Right of Return is the very heart of the conflict, the definition of Palestinian dispossession and the cause of the fear, born (for the many Israelis of conscience) of historical guilt in Israel. Resolving it in a manner that both sides can live with is indispensable. Who knows. Maybe Avishai is right, and the road to resolving it, whether on his path or some other, contains the key to resolving the conflict as a whole.
- Jaffa tanner's home portrait courtesy of gnuckx. Published under a Creative Commons license.
Source: http://souciant.com/2011/11/home-and-garden/
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[ePalestine] NEWSWEEK: Moshe Dayan's Widow Ruth: Zionist Dream Has Run Its Course
"We move from war to war, and this will never stop. I think Zionism has run its course." ~Ruth Dayan
Moshe Dayan's Widow Ruth: Zionist Dream Has Run Its Course
By Rula -Jebreal
These startling words were uttered last week in Tel Aviv by 95-year-old Ruth Dayan, widow of one of Israel's founding fathers
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/10/30/moshe-dayan-s-widow-ruth- zionist-dream-has-run-its-course.html
[ePalestine] Rafeef Ziadah - 'We teach life, sir', London, 12.11.11
RAFEEF ZIADAH is a Canadian-Palestinian spoken word artist and activist. Her debut CD Hadeel is dedicated to Palestinian youth, who still fly kites in the face of F16 bombers, who still remember the names if their villages in Palestine and still hear the sound of Hadeel (cooing of doves) over Gaza.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKucPh9xHtM&feature=colike
[ePalestine] bitterlemons.org: The Quartet facade (By Sam Bahour)
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The Quartet facade
Israel and the United States have perfected, almost to a science, the management of international players who dare to intervene in trying to advance peace in the Middle East between Palestinians and Israelis. The most recent political configuration to serve this purpose is the "Quartet on the Middle East", better known as just "the Quartet", a self- appointed foursome of nations and international and supranational entities involved in mediating the peace process in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Quartet is comprised of the United Nations, United States, European Union and Russia. The group was established in Madrid in 2002. Given that the United States dominates the Quartet, one does not need to be a political scientist to conclude that the entire setup merely serves as a facade for continued American unwillingness to uphold its legal obligations, under international law, to hold its strategic ally, Israel, accountable for maintaining an unlawful four-decade military occupation of Palestinians.
In the opening paragraph of their first joint statement in Madrid on April 10, 2002, the Quartet members stated that, "We reviewed the escalating confrontation in the Middle East and agreed to coordinate our actions to resolve the current crisis." Note the timing of their actions and their focus. The Quartet emerged in an attempt to negotiate a ceasefire between then- Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat and Israel, the occupying power, who at the time had re-invaded all Palestinian cities and surrounded Arafat's Ramallah headquarters with tanks. Also interestingly, their scope of work--as defined in their own statement--was aimed to "resolve the current crisis" and not necessarily bring about a lasting peace among the parties, even as the same statement paid lip-service to a supposed peace process that would lead to the end of the conflict.
This poor excuse for a balancing act between maintaining an Israeli security agenda while assuming to advance peace has been the mantra that the Quartet has become known for. Fast forward to the Quartet's most recent statement, issued on September 23, 2011, the same day Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas submitted an application to the secretary general of the United Nations for full membership for Palestine. In this statement, the Quartet called for "an agreement within a time frame agreed to by the parties, but not longer than the end of 2012". What they have failed to advance, one iota, for over more than nine years, they now want to do in a single year, utterly ignoring that their repeated failures, purposeful or not, have caused serious damage on the ground: they have allowed for not only the total collapse of any serious resemblance of a peace process, but more importantly allowed Israel to continue building more facts on the ground, such as tripling the Jewish-only settlement enterprise in the West Bank, as well as building the internationally-condemned Separation Wall cutting deep into Palestinian lands and communities. This is not to mention the Quartet turning a blind eye to the ongoing onslaught by Israel on Gaza and continued siege of the Gaza Strip.
As if the Quartet itself was not enough, the group has created another layer of the facade of being genuine mediators by creating the Office of the Quartet and appointing high-profile envoys to this office. The current envoy is the United Kingdom's ex-prime minister Tony Blair, who succeeded James Wolfensohn, the former president of the World Bank who resigned from his post at the Quartet in disgust with American hegemony and unwillingness to allow the Quartet to play a real role in making peace.
Much has been reported about the office of the Quartet representative and its style of leadership, but this is all a sideshow. The core of the matter is political, not personal. Regardless of who the special envoy is, the parties to the Quartet are political and have a political role to play. They cannot shed their political responsibility--and legal one, too--by laying blame on the envoy.
In an extended interview with Haaretz more than a year after he resigned from his 11-month ordeal as Quartet special envoy, James Wolfensohn said it best: "I feel that if anything, I was stupid for not reading the small print. I was never given the mandate to negotiate the peace." Haaretz noted in reporting the interview that, "The mandate he received, he says--which is identical to the one Tony Blair has now been given--was solely to try to improve the economic situation in the territories and to improve the Palestinians' situation in general, whereas he naively thought that this included intervention to advance peace."
Sadly, it is not surprising that the nation states represented in the Quartet would play along with this sham. What is unacceptable is that the United Nations itself, the body tasked with holding nations accountable for their actions, would accept to play along. The history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will reveal much more than how the Holy Land was torn apart; it will also feature how the Palestinians' struggle for freedom and independence became the Achilles' heel of an international system of governance that has become broken beyond repair.-Published 31/10/2011 © bitterlemons.org
Sam Bahour is a Ramallah-based management consultant.
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French President Francoise Hollande and Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi in commiseration embrace. 14 November 2015.
Observing the aftermath of both the Paris and now latest Tunis attacks from the vantage point of the southern shores of the Mediterranean throws into sharp relief what is generalizable and interconnected about neoliberal national security. Much of the recent discussion entailing such comparison has revolved around the inequalities in "mournability" exposed by uneven political and media responses. However, a broader comparison may reveal even more profound and wide-reaching inequalities, as well as their "global" and "local" connections.
Thinking through the Paris attack in relation to the ways in which counter-terror policies in Tunisia have shaped the contours of sociopolitical possibility following the 2011 uprising may shed light on how these connections contribute to the unequal production of (in)security. In other words, it may help us to understand how the accumulation of security for some may be enabled by, and even dependent upon, the production of insecurity for others.
For many Tunisians, the horror that unfolded on the streets of Paris on November 13 had multiple dimensions. In addition to that of human tragedy, there was the personal—the fact that so many Tunisians have family members and friends who live in or regularly visit the city. There were the frantic moments of panic before confirming loved ones were safe, and, in some cases, the shock of discovering that they were not.
Yet for some Tunisians, the trauma also took on a more political dimension. Photos of President Beji Caid Essebsi in a cordial, commiserating embrace with President Francois Hollande of France, Tunisia's former colonizer, provoked cynical reactions. The photos of Essebsi's visit were released after news had broken that a gruesome terrorist attack, in which a sixteen-year-old shepherd, Mabrouk Soltani, was beheaded, had occurred on Tunisian soil hours before the Paris attacks.
Though an attempt was made to correct the initial underwhelming official response—the Interior Minister visited the site of the shepherd's murder in the poor and historically marginalized governorate of Sidi Bouzid—the damage was already done. The minister's visit was met by angry protests, with Soltani's family demanding to know why it had taken until Saturday afternoon for government authorities to secure the area.
As Essebi's Paris visit demonstrates, the lines and gestures of the global memorial performance are now well-rehearsed by state actors on both sides of the Mediterranean, as well as further abroad. There was the Charlie Hebdo "anti-terror rally" in Paris in January 2015, followed by a similarly staged rally in "solidarity" with the European tourists targeted in the March 2015 Bardo Museum attack in Tunis, and then again most recently following the summer attack on tourists at the Sousse beach resort.
Some have pointed to a glaring absence of global, and sometimes even domestic, government solidarity with Tunisia's own victims of political violence. In addition to Soltani and the thirteen presidential guards killed in recent attacks, there have been sustained attacks across Tunisia's interior and border regions over the past several years, which have claimed the lives of dozens of Tunisian soldiers, mostly conscripted from the country's poor and neglected communities. Crucially, there are also the hundreds of victims of state violence from the 2010-2011 uprising against the western-backed rule of Ben Ali, whose "bodies…both vulnerable and demanding" were vital to establishing Tunisia's current political and institutional order, but who have yet to receive their own global performance of commemoration.
Focusing in on the way power operates at the ontological level may enable us to ask, and perhaps even answer and act upon, deeper questions not only regarding disparities in mournability, but also the economy of distinctions made between those lives deemed worth securing, and those viewed as perpetually threatening and expendable. Examining the interface between political and legal structures in relation to the production, distribution, and consumption of resources, such an approach shines light on the intimate relations between security, power and wealth. It also enables us to think through the relationship between security and racialization, a form of power forged through slavery and colonial rule that operates, as elaborated by Ebony Coletu, to "exploi[t] labour, justif[y] degraded forms of citizenship, and mar[k] boundaries of humanness," in a way that responds to the needs of capital.
Perhaps because of its links to the more tangible practices of security, political economy approaches to security tend to focus on consumption, or the mobilization of state resources and private capital in a way that enables the creation of new markets and capital flows in the global (in)security market. Such analyses generally entail a dizzying array of shocking statistics—the trillions spent on the "war on terror"; billion-dollar weapons deals signed by "merchants of death" and a range of repressive governments; the amount of money invested in military research and development; and so on. Most recently, there were the macabre statistics showing a leap in stock prices for weapons manufacturers in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, reinforcing the notion that (in)security is profitable, at least for some.
In addition to its impact on civil liberties, the counter-terror response has facilitated the further militarization of security forces, as well as a program of mass incarceration targeting largely poor, or "surplus populations." Over one hundred thousand people, or one percent of the Tunisian population, were arrested in the seven months following the Bardo attacks. In the aftermath of the recent attacks on security forces, there have been numerous aggressive raids, arbitrary searches and house arrests. The government has announced that an additional 6,000 security agents would be recruited beginning in 2016, and an additional 500 million dinars have been earmarked in the government's proposed budget for the "fight against terrorism." Though it claims a commitment to reducing "insecurity," Tunisia's standard counter-terror response has funnelled resources away from state projects that might actually enable a more equitable distribution of security.
In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, the French government passed similarly intrusive anti-terror legislation criticized by many activists as France's "Patriot Act." Under the new law, a "range of motives [can] be invoked to engage in intelligence collection include[ing] industrial and scientific espionage" as well as "monitoring social movements." In response to the recent attacks, Holland evoked racialized tropes of "our values" to justify more violence abroad, as well as a range of legislative measures designed to enable targeted structural and institutional violence at home.
Hollande has also vowed to increase the allocation of state resources spent on policing and carceral technologies, suggesting there would be five thousand more police and soldiers on the payroll by 2017, 1000 more border staff (presumably to keep out refugees, as well as manage the promised increase in "expulsion" of citizens with dual nationality deemed "threatening" to the state), and 2500 new prison staff. Less obvious are the mechanisms by which widespread public consumption of affective security discourses enables this channeling of resources towards (neo)colonial interventions and technologies of discipline and control in a way bound to (re)produce the inequalities of (in)security.
When thinking through the production of (in)security, we may ask what kinds of labor practices get reinforced through counter-terror responses. There is the labor of undocumented workers and other vulnerable communities that gets driven further underground by the enhanced policing of the counter-terror response, which exacerbates the insecurities and anxieties of those already living on society's margins. Further exclusion from public and economic spheres contributes to the downward spiral of wages and increased opportunities for exploitation and surplus extraction. The militarized counter-terror response may also reinforce unspoken linkages between the "informal" and "formal" economies.
As with other aspects of the economy, neoliberal forms of security also increasingly entail a shift of responsibility for well-being away from the state. Along with marketization, the production of security entails a process of individualization. Now everyone, especially the most vulnerable among us who feel least empowered to challenge dominant modes of power, is expected to become her/his own policeman, regulating her/his own communities, watching over her/himself, as well as over one another. Atomization becomes a key mode of national security governance, facilitating social and political control.
The geography of uneven security illuminates the segregation of public space in cosmopolitan cities like Paris, established through racialized security and reinforced by the practices of capital. Through what David Harvey describes as the "mobilization of the spectacle (and splendor)", consumption in the wealthy city center works "to mask and disguise the fundamentals" of both class and race relations in public space. The state-private nexus ensures the expansive and speculative nature of the national security state, with constantly expanding "borderlands"—the interstices where marginal citizen identities are situated.
Though the "liberal state" derives its legitimacy from claims to blind justice, the law itself often functions to institutionalize an unequal distribution of (in)security, whether through differential sentencing or the delineation of criminality that only effects specific communities. Likewise, in times of "crisis," when citizens are asked to accept, in the words of Hollande, a "temporary restriction on our freedoms," not all of society is expected to bear the brunt of circumscribed liberty equally.
Yet similar to other colonial powers, France honed its "state of emergency" practices in its colonies. First introduced into law on May 3, 1955, the "state of emergency" (distinct from a "state of siege," which entails martial law) was designed to facilitate within the framework of the law and civilian governance, France's violent repression of the Algerian independence movement. These practices would soon return home to be deployed against colonial diasporas within the metropole. In a gruesome display of naked force by the French security apparatuses, hundreds of Algerians were murdered—with many bodies dumped in the Seine—for their defiance of the state of emergency in a brave act of peaceful protest on October 17, 1961.
The state of emergency, like the sovereign's other national security prerogatives, has often functioned to depoliticize and thereby place limits upon the kinds of political claims that can be made against the state: from demands for independence and recognition (and redress) for past crimes and suffering inflicted on colonial subjects, to pleas for an end to the structural exclusions and institutional racism experienced by France's post-colonial communities, les indigenes.
The legislative, administrative and policing practices through which colonial France guaranteed an unequal distribution of security, in particular those associated with the "state of emergency," would have long-lasting implications for Tunisia, a French Protectorate from 1881-1956. From the 1978 "Black September" crackdown on trade unionists across the country, to its recent invocation by the government to quell labor strikes in Gabes, the post-colonial Tunisian state has often relied upon the "state of emergency" as a useful tool for managing problematic populations.
Pray for Paris, All Lives Matter, or Black Lives Matter?
In the face of an overwhelming focus of the media and political establishments on the French attack, the impulse to stress the importance of all life by reminding of the suffering of Yemenis, Palestinians, Nigerians, Syrians, Kenyans, Tunisians and other (deliberately) underreported victims of violence across the globe is certainly understandable. Yet, in pointing out the inequalities of mournability, we are also reminded to think critically about the potential implications that the conflation of human suffering may have on our capacity to develop sound political analysis in a way that enables action. While recognizing the horror of each instance of suffering, such analysis requires that we distinguish between different forms of political violence (state and non-state, colonial, imperial, and others), but also make explicit the overlaps, imbrications and interconnections where they exist.
In this sense, there are certain lives that should be highlighted over others, precisely because they have been systematically and structurally undervalued for so long. This, I believe, is a central point made by the Black Lives Matter movement. Taking it seriously—in Tunisia and France—requires more than an acknowledgement of the inequalities of mourning and differentially produced and distributed (in)security. It requires an acknowledgement of the historical dimensions of this inequality, and a politics of redistribution to redress it.
Dr. Corinna Mullin is currently based in Tunisia, where she is Visiting Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Tunis. Prior to this, she held a two-year Lectureship in Comparative and International Politics of the Middle East in the Politics and International Studies department at SOAS, University of London, where she also spent one year as an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Postdoctoral Research Fellow. She holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics (LSE). In addition to her academic publications, Dr Mullin has contributed analysis to a wide-range of online media outlets, including: Jadaliyya, Sada, Al Jazeera, Huffington Post, Foreign Policy in Focus and openDemocracy.


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On this episode of the Hyper Room, I welcome one of the legends of modern action figure sculpting and toy design: Jerry Macaluso – he started three of the most iconic US collectibles companies in history: Plastic Fantasy, SOTA Toys, and Pop Culture Shock.
Together Jerry and I will take you behind the scenes of his career starting in special effects on movies like The Toxic Avenger to teaming up with Jenna Jameson on a line of adult film star action figures then surprising the market and his peers with an incredible line of Street Fighter action Figures and then taking the high-end statue market to new detailed heights with Mortal Kombat and Masters of the Universe.
Jerry has worked on brands like Duke Nukem, Crash Bandicoot, Tomb raider, Chronicles of Riddick, and his Now Playing series where he brought the monsters from Legend, Land of the Dead, Pumpkinhead, The Thing and even Killer Klowns from Outer Space into action figure form –
This is an amazingly detailed behind the scenes look at the action figure market in the late 90s and early 2000s – this was an amazing conversation especially for fans of Jerry's work and want to know how he started and became one of the most celebrated sculptors of our time.
This conversation deep-dives into just the beginning of an amazing career – so strap yourselves in and join me and Jerry Macaluso inside The Hyper Room:
Plastic Fantasy
Jenna Jameson on Wikipedia
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The use of photonics in data communication and numerous other industrial applications brought plenty of prospects for innovation and opened up different unexplored market opportunities. This is a major driving force for the fabrication of micro-optical and micro-mechanical structures and their accurate alignment and integration into opto-mechanical modules and systems. To this end, we present Deep Proton Writing (DPW) as a powerful rapid prototyping technology for such micro-components. The DPW process consists of bombarding polymer samples (PMMA or SU-8) with swift protons, which results after chemical processing steps in high-quality micro-optical components. One of the strengths of the DPW micro-fabrication technology is the ability to fabricate monolithic building blocks that include micro-optical and mechanical functionalities which can be precisely integrated into more complex photonic systems. In this paper we comment on how we shifted from using 8.3 to 16.5 MeV protons for DPW and give some examples of micro-optical and micro-mechanical components recently fabricated through DPW, targeting applications in optical interconnections and in optofluidics. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


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The Tower of Babel and Evolutionary Thinking
By Cowboy - September 09, 2019
Many sciences are infested with the bedbugs of evolutionary thinking, including anthropology and archaeology. People who work in these fields assume deep time and evolution for the interpretation of data. Those of use who presuppose the truth of the biblical timeline watch as they are frequently surprised by their discoveries.
De "Weinig" Toren van Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1563
When discoveries are made that conflict with the current dogma, they send a telegram to the hands at the Darwin Ranch near Deception Pass and have them get to work on the problem. (In fact, they are having a retreat at Biden's Eye, famous for its red color at this time of year, to discuss the problems.) Darwin's disciples fudge the data by redating this, that, and the other thing to accommodate new findings. Or they let the ancient aliens folks with their evolutionary thinking saddle it up and gallop away with the facts.
Humans were not stupid creatures who hadn't yet shaken off their simian ancestry. Instead, they were created fully human, and fully intelligent. The discovery of a civilization with advanced building techniques, a semblance of religion, languages, commerce, and more would not startle and threaten biblical creationists. However, archaeology and anthropology, when correctly interpreted without Darwinian shackles, support the biblical timeline all the way back to Babel — and beyond.
The story begins in the southern region of ancient Mesopotamia where 30 massive structures have been discovered that archeologists describe as towers of worship. These huge structures resemble flat top pyramids and were masterfully constructed of bricks made of clay. These buildings had stairs and ramps leading to the highest elevation where a platform was built for the worship of idols.
These temples have been identified as ziggurats. They were designed with equal sides representing the shape of a square. They ranged from 20 meters (65 ft.) to over 90 meters (295 ft.) high, and they were tiered with the roof being a place for the gods to dwell and receive man's adoration. These towering edifices, dating from the 3rd millennium BC, demonstrate an amazingly high degree of masonry craftsmanship. These structures have never been found before this time and, more importantly, they demonstrate the sudden emergence of human civilization. The advanced level of engineering, architecture and community discovered around these ziggurats is contrary to what evolutionists believe with regard to the development of man.
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Anthropology ApologetiX Archaeology Bible Creation Evolution History
Homology and Design Features
Lucy and her kin are Still Extinct Apes
The Culture of Death and the Climate Change Cult
Evolution and Learned Behaviors
Evolutionists Stoking the Fires of Censorship Again
More Dinosaur Soft Tissues, More Excuses
When Killer Bees Evolve into Pussycats
Space Aliens and Worldviews
Another Alleged Earth-Like Planet Discovered
Two Oceanic Critters and Evolution
Mica in Sand Thwarts Secular Geologists
Astrobiology, a Pseudoscience Without Evidence
Engineered Nanobot Evolution
Damage Response Machine for DNA
Neglected Abundance of Food
How Humans are also Animals
Animals Do Not, But We Do
Limits of the Intelligent Design Movement
The Perplexing System of Pluto
Facing Up To Faces
Evolution, the Disreputable Girlfriend of Science
The Beginning of Multicellular Organisms
Loss of Flight Claimed as Evidence for Evolution


On the morning of the 4th of February, the Genelec family lost one of its dearest members when Jarmo Masko passed away.
Born in Finland, but moving to Sweden at an early age, Jarmo had been a key part of the Genelec team for almost 20 years, and had spent the majority of his working life in professional audio. In the late 1970s Jarmo joined Elfa Studio – one of the first pro audio distributors in Sweden – working with iconic brands including Studer, Neumann and Dolby.
In 2001 Jarmo joined Genelec as Area Sales Manager for Europe, and this was a role he fulfilled with great passion, enthusiasm and humour. Jarmo was always looking for ways to improve how we did business, but unfailingly went about his work with a smile on his face, and this made him much-loved by his work colleagues and Genelec's business partners and customers.
Jarmo played a huge role in the development of our extensive accessories range – realising early on that the ability to mount our loudspeakers in a wide variety of locations was going to help our customers no end. He was right, and whether it was a wall mount, table stand or floor stand Jarmo would have played a big part in its design.
Jarmo also had a particular passion for Italy – the people, the weather, the food and the wine. We all imagined and hoped that Jarmo might enjoy many sunny Italian days in his future retirement enjoying a leisurely meal with friends and family. Sadly this wasn't to be, but we will always fondly think of him this way.
As well as a fantastic work colleague, Jarmo was a loving husband, father and grandfather and our sincere condolences go to his wife Karin, children Jenny, Mikael and Joel, and his grandchildren Leo, Alicia & Lovika.
We have so much to thank Jarmo for. To say that he will be missed is a huge understatement.


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SUMMARY: Now that Mars is closer than ever, amateur astronomers with regular backyard telescopes can see incredible details on the planet's surface. On July 1, astronomers were able to see a dust storm in the Hellas Basin; four days later it was 1,800 kilometres wide, obscuring nearly a quarter of the planet. Two years ago a similar storm grew in the same region and ended up obscuring the entire planet for months. Earth and Mars will reach their closest point in 60,000 years on August 27, 2003, and the Red Planet should offer up some tremendous views.
That depends on what qualifies as a backyard telescope.
For I have just a little 65 mm refractor scope, and it doesn't show any detail of the Martian surface yet. Of coarse it would help if I had a properly working Barlow lens, but I would think you would still need at least a good 8 inch reflector to see that kind of detail at this point. Although in the next few weeks, it will likely be that even good binoculars will see a storm which takes up a 1/4 of the planets surface.
From what I've heard the storm is visible in a telescope as small as 6 inches, but you should be able to see the polar ice caps okay with your scope.
Boy, your'e telling me about T storms. Last week we a an F2 tornado strike less then 1/4 mile from where I live. Close enough we could hear it.
Took the whole roof from several houses, and the entire 2nd floor of one house.
35,000 people lost power including me, and it took more then four days to get everyone's power back. But so much for that.
It's not likely the closeness of Mars is affecting our weather.
We have Venus you know which is about 15 million miles closer then Mars, and it doesn't seem to affect weather.
making it unusually hot in the midwest, and possibly Canada too.
The jet stream which brings moisture from the gulf and Pacific hits this high and the moisture splits and goes around it coming back together on the western fringes of tornado alley were it develops and brings havok to the east.
As for Mars hearoding the birth of Christ, I never heard that one before, but in the 12th chapter of Revelation refers to an astronomical event which pin points the birth of Christ.
That event is Virgo being endued by the Sun and the cresent moon under Virgo's feet.


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Professor Peter Lodge
FRCS, MD
General Surgery, Transplant Surgery
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Professor J Peter A Lodge has been a consultant surgeon in Leeds since 1992, following on from training in the Yorkshire region and working at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA.
He was awarded his Chair in Surgery in 2004 in recognition of his significant contributions to advances in surgical technique. Professor Lodge performs laparoscopic gastric bypass/weight loss surgery. He is an active member of the British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society.
Most recently, following intensive training in Copenhagen, Professor Peter Lodge has introduced modern Scandinavian techniques for this challenging surgery, with an emphasis on rapid recovery.
Professor Peter Lodge is recognised internationally as one of the world's most experienced liver surgeons. He has created a major hepatobiliary service, taking referrals from all around the UK and from abroad, including other major hepatobiliary centres. He provides a service for difficult liver tumours, often taking on cases considered to be inoperable elsewhere, and also deals with complex biliary strictures and injuries to the liver and bile ducts, often laparoscopically.
Professor Peter Lodge's NHS and private patient programme has grown from six hepatic resections and two bile duct cases in 1992 to 350 major resections and up to 80 complex bile duct operations each year by 2010. He is frequently asked to lecture abroad, particularly about his work on liver cancer.
As a biliary specialist Professor Peter Lodge welcomes routine gallstone cases.
In addition to a busy clinical programme he runs a laboratory, actively researching to improve results in modern surgical techniques. Prof Lodge has also featured in Tatler magazine and Dr Christian Jesson's magazine, 2015. €
Professor Peter Lodge specialises in the following treatments, tests and scans at Nuffield Health Leeds Hospital:
Bile duct resection
Liver surgery
Weight loss (bariatric) surgery including sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass
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Hepatobiliary surgery (surgery for diseases affecting the liver, gallbladder and bile ducts) and Bariatric (weight loss) surgery
Professor Peter Lodge was married in 1985 and he and his wife have 3 children and a springer spaniel. Peter also enjoys cooking.
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John Niyo: Darrell Bevell quarterbacked Wisconsin's turnaround. Can he do it for the Lions?
By John Niyo, The Detroit News on Dec 3, 2020
Published in Football
Maybe it's not the way he would've drawn it up, but for Darrell Bevell, the Lions' interim head coach, that's nothing new.
Not for a man whose football career took a detour designed by his faith 30 years ago, one that ultimately led him to a starring role in Wisconsin's first- Rose Bowl triumph. And not for a coach whose two decades in the NFL have run the gamut of emotions, from Super Bowl glory and grief to a year of unemployment and now this latest awkward twist of fate, after a post-Thanksgiving purge in Detroit gave him a fourth-quarter shot at the job of a lifetime.
One that had him on the phone with one of his coaching mentors last weekend, shortly after Lions owner Sheila Ford Hamp made it official, firing both general manager Bob Quinn and head coach Matt Patricia and elevating Bevell, who was in his second season as the Lions' offensive coordinator, for the remainder of the season.
"I saw the news break on Saturday and I texted him and said, 'OK, now you get a chance to sit in the big chair,'" laughed Brad Childress, the former Minnesota Vikings coach whose history with Bevell dates back to the late 1980s. "Bev called me back a half-hour later and said, 'Geez, it's kind of a whirlwind here. You got any pointers for me?' We talked for a while, but I told him, 'You just gotta be yourself and do what you believe. You're not gonna turn everything around in five games. But you can put your stamp on it.'"
Childress would know, because he's seen Bevell do this before, turning awkward first impressions into lasting memories. Now 64 and recently retired from coaching, Childress was the offensive coordinator at Northern Arizona who'd recruited Bevell, an all-city quarterback at Chaparral High in Scottsdale, where his father, Jim, was the coach. He was also the one back then who, oblivious to the tenets of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, didn't understand why a redshirt freshman quarterback in line for the starting job wasn't on campus in the summer of 1990.
"I called at the beginning of the summer and talked to his dad, and he said, 'Well, he got the call, Coach," Childress recalled in a phone interview this week, as he drove from Chicago — where his son, Kyle, is on the Bears' coaching staff — to his winter home in Bonita Springs, Fla. "I said, 'I don't really know what call he got, but the call I'm making is I'm the offensive coordinator and I'd like to get him up here.' And he's like, 'No, Coach, he got the call to go on his mission. He's had a mission piggy-banked since he was a little boy.'" More confusion followed, but eventually Childress understood.
And soon after, Bevell was off on a two-year missionary trip, sharing the gospel in inner-city Cleveland instead of throwing touchdown passes in Flagstaff, Ariz. A life-changing experience, to be sure. Yet when he returned home in the fall of 1991, Bevell's father got another call. Childress was on the phone again, this time from Madison, where he'd taken a job on Barry Alvarez's staff at Wisconsin. They needed help at quarterback, and wondered if "Elder Bevell" was ready to play football again.
He was, in fact. But shortly after arriving on campus, some surely wondered if this was the right idea. Here was a devout member of the LDS Church on a decidedly liberal campus, a teetotaler at a party school — "He was the designated driver I don't know how many times for the offensive linemen," Childress chuckled — and what's more, a quarterback who hadn't thrown a football or lifted a barbell in 18 months or more. Alvarez remembers the Badgers' strength coach being aghast at Bevell's conditioning level, and as Childress, the assistant who'd gone to bat to bring him on board, recalls those early workouts, "He said the only running he'd done in two years was to get away from dogs and people with guns. And, I mean, he takes his shirt off and you're like, 'Oh, God, put your shirt back on.'"
"Everybody was like, 'Who is this guy? Where did this guy come from?'" laughed Michigan State coach Mel Tucker, who was part of Alvarez's first recruiting class at Wisconsin in 1990. "But next thing you know, he's leading us to the Rose Bowl."
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Caterpillar in Africa
Africa has been home to many of the fastest growing economies in the world – creating a need for new buildings, houses and roads, as well as access to abundant energy and clean water.
Caterpillar's connection to Africa spans more than 100 years. Our dealers cover over 50 countries with a presence in nearly 150 cities, plus more than 15,000 employees combined between Caterpillar and our dealers. It's a key continent for us and we are proud that together, with our partners, we are helping our customers in Africa to build a better, more sustainable world.
The Caterpillar Foundation has invested more than $65 million since 2010 in Africa. These investments have benefited hundreds of thousands of people with access to education, clean water, sanitation and microfinance.
At Caterpillar, we consider our customers' success as our own. With an aftermarket parts distribution center in Johannesburg, South Africa, our district offices, family of brands, and independently owned Cat® dealers provide customers in Africa with localized, value-added solutions that help meet current and future needs.
Our customers supported many of the largest projects conducted throughout the continent, including building the Inga Dam, widening the Suez Canal and constructing rail lines through the middle of the Congo and Nafud Desert. Our first product sale, a Holt steam tractor, occurred in 1903 in what is known today as Mature, Zimbabwe. Our first dealer was appointed in Tunisia in 1926. Get to know more of our history in Africa below.
Together with our dealers, we continue to support customers today in mining, energy and infrastructure.
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Skilled operators are a must for the healthy development of the construction industry in Africa. To address the massive infrastructure shortages in Africa, we need an educated local workforce to help answer the call for better roads and access to electricity; a workforce that can help meet the challenge of peaceful and sustainable development and contribute to progress in the region.
Investing in education is just as important as investing in infrastructure. Caterpillar provides the "Technicians for Africa," an online learning platform to provide the basic technical skills required to pursue a career in machinery maintenance, operation or another role in the construction industry.
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Explore our History in Africa
First Holt product sold in Africa, 1903. Almost from the beginning as a company, Caterpillar machine sales and aftermarket parts services were managed by dealers – and, one of these dealers, Parenin (today known as M.T.I Cat) in Tunisia is the oldest. Parenin introduced the first Holt Caterpillar gasoline powered track-type tractor into Africa in 1912.
Holt 60 tractor pulling a Holt Combine Harvester in North Africa, 1912.
Caterpillar 2-ton tractor pulling a plow in North Africa, 1925.
Caterpillar tractors exported to Africa, 1926. By the 1920s, Parenin was selling Holt Caterpillar track-type tractors and combine harvesters across Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria. Leading up to that time, Caterpillar and the dealer were busy supporting customers with the first gasoline powered Holt Caterpillar tractors in Port Natal, South Africa (1913) and farmers who used our mahcines on their South Africa farms by May 1914.
First Caterpillar diesel tractor sold in Africa, 1933. The first Caterpillar diesel dozer was sold in Africa in 1933.
The first Caterpillar D4 tractor being unloaded at the port of La Goulette near Tunisia, 1938.
Our customers use Cat products to help construct the Managil Dam, 1957. Starting in 1957, Cat machines begin work on the construction of the Managil Irrigation Project. Eighty-eight Caterpillar machines and three Caterpillar engines helped construct a 160-mile canal from the Blue Nile to turn 300,000 acres of desert land into fertile fields.
Cat dealer providing onsite services for a customer's D8H dozer in Cameroon, Africa, ca. 1975.
A Caterpillar D7 tractor with a pipelayer attachment in North Africa, 1950.
Cat D8 tractors and No. 80 scrapers were used to widen the Suez Canal, 1956.
In 1959, Cat machines help construct a railroad through an African jungle to open up mining opportunities in the region. Fifty-six new Cat machines - including D8s, D9s, DW20 Wheel Tractors with No. 456 Scrapers, No. 12 Motor Graders, and No. 463 Scrapers - joined a fleet of older Caterpillar machines on a 180-mile railway construction project through a jungle in the Republic of the Congo, parts of Gabon, and the Central African Republic. Many of these machines were used later to mine manganese in the region.
Cat machines help construct the Kainji Dam in Nigeria, 1964.
Cat 789C Off-Highway Truck, 2000. Working in a mine in South Africa.
307E Mini Excavator in working application in southern Africa, 2000s.
We are proud of Caterpillar's significant role in helping to improve the lives of people on the Africa territory.
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MARK Bailey has described the ankle injury which has kept him out of action since October as the biggest blow of his career so far.
The former Lincoln City full-back has been out of action since turning his ankle during the 1-1 draw with Cambridge United, but now faces a scan on Saturday to discover the true extent of the injury, which has not responded to treatment.
"Ités probably the biggest disappointment of my career if Iém honest," Bailey told Express Sport.
"I came to the club and settled, I was playing well and the fans seem to have taken to me - then all of a sudden I go for a one-two and felt something snap in my foot.
"Four or five weeks later and Iém still in the same situation. They donét know what it is, and the only way to find out is to go in for a scan."
Bailey signed in the summer from Sincil Bank and looks likely to miss playing against his old team-mates when the sides meet on December 7.
"If I miss that game, and it looks like Iém going to, it will be a massive blow for me," admitted Bailey. "I donét want to even think about it at the moment, it just gets me down.
"The physio staff at the club are great, Lakeyés been brilliant, and always try to keep you staying positive, but all I want to do is play and get out there on the field."
Even with Paul Harsley capably filling the right wing-back slot over the last few weeks, Bailey said it has been difficult to watch his side.
"I canét watch my own side, because I canét do anything about what's going on.
"I donét mind watching a bit of football on the telly, but when your team-mates are out there, and particularly if they are getting beat ités very hard to watch."
Bailey made 16 starts for the Silkmen before his injury - scoring one goal which proved to be the winner against Darlington.
Some Macc fans have sent emails to the Macc Express to pass on their best wishes to Bailey and fellow long-term absentee Steve Payne, and the news came as a welcome boost.
"Iéd like to thank the fans for that, it is really nice of them.
"Hopefully I can concentrate on bouncing back from this and becoming a better and stronger player for it."


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Советинское сельское поселение — муниципальное образование в Неклиновском районе Ростовской области.

Административный центр поселения — слобода Советка.

История
По легенде, в деревне Совет однажды был сам Пётр Первый. 27 августа 1696 года Петр I на мысе Таганий Рог основал крепость Троицкую. Затем Пётр проплыл с флотом по реке Самбек, которая впадает в Азовское море, чтобы потом перетащить его волоком в реку Тузлов. В нескольких десятках километрах от места новой крепости он остановился на совещание со своей свитой в маленькой деревушке. Утверждается, что эту деревню по его приказу и стали затем называть Совет.

Однако официальная версия основания другая: утверждается, что село Совет было основано подполковником артиллерии Ф. И. Ивановым на земле, приобретённой им 25 января 1793 году у таганрогского коменданта И. П. Каспарова. За прошедшие после этого десятилетия менялись владельцы земель.

По данным от 18 мая 1896 года, село Совет входило в 8-й заседательский участок Таганрогского округа Области Войска Донского. В селе на тот момент насчитывалось 84 двора, 282 мужчины и 267 женщин. В селе была церковь, народное училище, здесь же располагалось волостное правление, сельское правление и прочие учреждения.

В 1922 году в селе образовалась коммуна, в 1930 году она была реорганизована в сельскохозяйственную артель и объединилась с Советинским колхозом «Страна советов».

В 1932-1934 годах была построена больница и аптека.

На данный момент статус и границы муниципального образования Советинское сельское поселение определяются областным законом «Об установлении границ и наделены соответствующим статусом муниципального образования «Неклиновский район» муниципальных образований в его составе».

Административное устройство
В состав Советинского сельского поселения входит:
 слобода Советка;
 село Александровка 1-я;
 хутор Головинка;
 село Горская Порада;
 хутор Копани;
 хутор Кузьминка;
 хутор Любовка;
 хутор Мелюзовка;
 село Новостроенка;
 хутор Приют;
 хутор Садки.

Население

Примечания

См. также
 Административное деление Ростовской области
 Населённые пункты Ростовской области

Сельские поселения Ростовской области
Муниципальные образования Неклиновского района

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NOTE: This will be available Early Access 1.99.421+ and Beta version 1.4.1630+.
We've released the new and expanded version 3 of all the ad provider demos. If you already have an earlier version, delete your downloaded copy from %localappdata%\GameMaker-Studio\demo and follow these steps to get the new versions.
NOTE: If you are still on the Standard version of GameMaker: Studio, you can still download the extensions as before from the Demos Tab when you start up GameMaker. The testing and use procedures are the same as those mentioned below from "Inside The Demo" onwards.
These changes were made to enable faster updating of the core APIs and SDKs as the companies that produce them add new features and change how they work. The previous method of having them integrated within the GameMaker: Studio IDE meant that when one has been changed, you would have to wait for a full update to GameMaker to get the fix, which can sometimes be several weeks. Now, however, with this change to an extension based system, these updates can be pushed out far quicker for you to download and integrate into your game, and you can get examples of use direct from the Marketplace.
As you can see, selecting any ad provider will prompt you to install it, and if you select "Yes" you will be directed to the Marketplace to download it ready for installing in your project.
IMPORTANT! It is only the extension itself which is downloaded, with no extra files or demo of how to use. To get the demo - which contains example code as well as setup instructions - you can click the link next to the advertiser - in the Global Game Settings - and it will take you to the specific Marketplace listing where you can download them. It is recommended that you do this first if you have never used ads to get an idea of how they work, and the rest of this article will explain a bit more about these demos.
NOTE: If you have not already created a YoYo Account, then one will be required to get access to the Marketplace, and even if you have one, you may be requested to log in before the download will proceed.
Once you have chosen to download the extension it will be added to your Marketplace library, and you can then add it to your project from there.
If you've never used the Ads extensions before, then you'll have downloaded the demo from the Marketplace. The demo file contains all the functions for the extension as well as example code and comments explaining how to use them, and there is also an included Help file - this can be opened by going to the Included Files section and double clicking on the file (as mentioned above, you can get the demos by clicking the link beside the provider in the Global Game Settings Advertisers tab for the platform).
Note that functionally between ads providers is as similar as possible so as to make setting up and using them as easy as possible, so while this tutorial covers Google, the other ads providers should be more or less exactly the same to set up and use. There are of course still differences (as some ad providers don't do interstitials, or Ad Colony only do interstitials and not banners, etc.) but where there is an overlap in what the provider allows we've kept the setup the same. This means you could change from one ad provider to another very easily in your game just by dropping in the new extension and then replacing the provider name before the _ in all function names and that would be the only change you'd likely need.
As you go through each demo, please see the readme action in objControl's Create event for more information, plus the various comments throughout the demo. Always start by reading the readme thoroughly, as it will explain if there are any build requirements or obvious pitfalls to be aware of - it also covers the results of our own testing. For more detailed information you can also open the included Help file, as explained above.
Once you've had a read of the readme, run the app on your device and have a press of the buttons. You will find ads load and can be moved, removed, rewards are gained, etc., just fine. If you wish to test using your own ad provider settings the instructions for doing this will be covered in the readme, but for almost all of the providers you would be changing the keys written in that Initialise action in the above image.
As mentioned above and shown in that last image, you will now receive Social Asynchronous events when banners and interstitials change state. In this way you can reposition banners, track rewards, fire a push notification, promote an IAP, or whatever you want. However, be advised also that some providers do not have a system where the ad size is always supplied upfront and in these cases you must use the Social system in order to reposition your add before it becomes visible to your player, otherwise it will always appear at 0,0 - the providers which do this are explicitly covered in their demo.
If you want to see exactly how the extension is made up, or you wish to customise any of the functionality (or add new stuff - the demo is done now and we've matched and even exceeded what GGS and the in-built functions offer on other platforms, so if you want something extra you'll likely have to write it yourself using the provider's own SDK documentation), you will need to explore the source code.
Inside those folder you will see the structure for the extension, plus the source code itself. Understanding the new languages is far too large a topic to go into here, but you will see Android extensions use Java .java files and iOS uses Objective-C .h header files and .mm implementation files. Feel free to have a read through the code and make changes if you wish.
Once you're happy with testing the demo and you've understood what's going on with the code, you can export the extension out for use in your own project, mainly as backup but also incase you need to add them but can't access the marketplace for whatever reason. To do this, you must use the new-style "Studio v1.3" .gmez format, not the legacy GameMaker .gex extension type.
This will give you a save dialogue, so pick a location and your new file will be written out. Locate the file and you'll be ready for the next stage.
Here is a really simple test project to try out yourself, which should give a solid idea of how to use the extensions. Create a new project, then create one object and add it into an empty room.
Add your extension as explained above from the Marketplace (Global Game Settings > Advertisers > Check Provider > Download > Add to project).
Make an executable of that project and it will toggle between showing two ads of different sizes and different screen locations quite nicely. You will also notice that loading one banner closes any existing banner and frees up the memory used.
So now you've had a look at the demo, figured out how it works, and seen a quick example of how to integrate an extension into a new project. You should hopefully be able to quite quickly drop any of the ad providers into your own game. Note that it's perfectly fine to include multiple ad providers as extensions in one project - iAds for your iOS release, Google for your Android version, for example - as they use unique function names.
On Android you must make an .apk via Create Executable - the runner won't do extensions (ADB will be telling you it can't find your extension class).
On iOS you can use any of the three build methods, as your runner is generated custom to the project. You would want to have the iDevice plugged into the Mac when doing this to ensure that your runner updates correctly with each extension code change, rather than using the wifi web server.
Making the app live on any given marketplace has nothing to do with if the ads work or not, apart from that Apple will only serve you test iAds if your project version is not live, then will only serve you real iAds if you're running the published version of your game.
You should really be using at least v1.4.1568 now for any ad provider testing, and will require the next EA release to use the above new features for downloading.
If you're stuck with your Android extensions never being found in an .apk, then you might have the EA97/v1344 bug detailed above. Your code will have been imported to the location shown here, when it should be inside the Java folder in order to work in v1344+. Depending on the GM version you started this project in, you may not even have a Java folder and would need to create it manually first - early EA builds wouldn't even have an AndroidSource folder.
You may want to just collect your source code files somewhere else for a moment and then make a new extension and re-import the code, rather than fixing manually.


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Q: How to migrate documents between Notes databases I have a Notes application where we have a Live version and Development version.  Something strange is occurring on the Live version and I wish to export the affected documents from Live to Development with the aim of using these for a work around.  Is there an easy way to do this?

A: Use copy/paste:

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*select the documents in question in the live version

*choose Edit - Copy

*go to the development version

*choose Edit - Paste

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Cathie Adams has been involved in Eagle Forum since the mid-1980s. She currently serves on the national board as 1st Vice President, Editor of the Eagle Forum Report (successor to the Phyllis Schlafly Report) and is the International Issues Chairman (www.eagleforum.org). She served as the President of Texas Eagle Forum from 1993-2015. She was elected Republican National Committeewoman for Texas in 2008 and stepped down after being elected Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas from 2009-2010. She was named by Campaigns and Elections magazine's August 2010 issue as one of the top 50 Republican influencers in Texas.
Eagle Forum's mission is to enable conservative and pro-family men and women to participate in the process of self-government and public policy-making so that America will continue to be a land of individual liberty, respect for family integrity, public and private virtue, and private enterprise.
Cathie has been an election judge, a member of the district, state and national resolutions/platform committees; and a delegate to six Republican National Conventions. She especially enjoyed serving on the Republican National Platform Committee in 2000, 2004 and 2008.
Capitol Inside 5-16: Cathie Adams. The longtime Texas Eagle Forum leader's support has been in big demand by conservative candidates here for most of the past two decades. That didn't change after a stint as the Texas GOP chair ended after less than a year with a loss at the state party convention six years ago. Adams set the standard for Texas conservative long before the tea party's inception as a political movement.
Cathie has been an observer of major UN conferences since 1995, she attended the Women's Conference in Beijing, China; the Housing Summit in Istanbul, Turkey; the Food Summit in Rome, Italy; and a number of Climate Change meetings in Kyoto, Japan, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Bonn, Germany, The Hague, Netherlands, Poznan, Poland, Cancun, Mexico, Durban, South Africa, Doha, Qatar, Warsaw, Poland, Lima, Peru, Paris, France and Marrakech, Morocco. When the International Criminal Court was created in Rome in 1998, Cathie was there. She also attended the 2000 Millennium Summit in New York City, the Global Taxing Summit in Monterrey, Mexico, and the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa. She traveled to Hong Kong for a Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization and to Paris, France for a UNESCO meeting.
Cathie has been involved in other civic activities as well. She was a member of the Dallas Human Services Commission and has testified before the State Board of Education as well as several Legislative committees in Austin, Texas. The news media frequently calls her for the "conservative" side of their reporting.
Mrs. Cathie Adams is a full-time volunteer. She has been married to Dr. Homer Adams for 48 years and they have five grandchildren. Their son and daughter-in-law are both Texas A&M graduates.


Riskified is the world's leading eCommerce fraud-prevention company, trusted by hundreds of global brands – from luxury fashion houses and retail chains, to gift card and ticket marketplaces. The rise of eCommerce has revolutionized how we shop, as stores and products come to us.
Unfortunately, it has also revolutionized the way that fraudsters steal. Today's thieves shop online and use sophisticated techniques to try to fool retailers into believing that a fraudulent order is genuine. That's where Riskified comes in. We leverage advanced machine-learning algorithms to weed out fraudulent orders while enabling merchants to fulfill a higher percentage of legitimate orders. And we guarantee our work. Our all-in-one eCommerce fraud-prevention solution includes a 100% chargeback protection guarantee on every order we approve, allowing our merchants to sell with confidence. Merchants working with Riskified see increased revenue and protection from loss, while their customers have a seamless experience without rejection.


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(Video + Photo) Two Police Officers Shot In Ambush Style Pennsylvania Shooting
News Photos Video
This is NOT Donald Trump or protest related. But two officers were shot in an ambush after responding to a domestic call in PA.
Frankie Zing
Two officers responded to a domestic situation at a home in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania around 3:15 a.m. earlier this morning. As they approached the front door they were ambushed by a man with a gun who shot both officers, one officer succumbed to his injuries later in the hospital, the other officer was shot in the stomach and was flown to the ICU.
The man who shot the officers, inflicted a self gun shot to the head and committed suicide after the killing. He was identified as Michael Cwiklinski. The woman who lived inside of the home was reportedly two months pregnant and had a Protection From Abuse order against the suspect in the shooting. Rest in peace to the officer in service:
ambush style pennsylvania shooting two police officers


The first meeting of the Parents' Forum was held on Friday 13th January. The purpose of the forum is for the school to work more closely with parents as we work together on providing the very best educational experience possible for the children.
Below are some key documents.
All parents are welcome and invited to any of the meetings. The next meeting will take place on Friday 3rd March at 1.30pm in the Old Hall. We look forward to seeing you then.


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Q: HAproxy mysql failover I try to set up a HA cluster with Percona xtraDB Cluster for MySQL replication and HAproxy for load balancing.
HAproxy works really good with apache, when apache crash or if it's not responding, HAproxy switch on another node.
My problem start with MySQL, I set up also MySQL in the same HAproxy but when when MySQL is not responding, HAproxy don't switch on another node. However HAproxy sees that MySQL does not respond cause when I check in HAproxy stats MySQL server is down.
My question is, is it possible to set up two resources in HAproxy ? Can he check if apache is up and switch on another node if not AND check if MySQL is up and switch on another node if not ?
HAproxy.conf:
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frontend redmine
    bind 192.168.7.149:80
    reqadd X-Forwarded-Proto:\ http
    default_backend redmine

frontend redmineS
    bind 192.168.7.149:443 ssl crt /etc/ssl/private/quipment.fr.pem
    reqadd X-Forwarded-Proto:\ https
    default_backend redmine

backend redmine 192.168.7.149:80
    redirect scheme https if !{ ssl_fc }
    mode http
    balance roundrobin
    option http-server-close
    timeout http-keep-alive 3000
    option forwardfor
    cookie PHPSESSID prefix
    cookie SRVNAME insert
    server xtra1 192.168.7.151:80 cookie x1 check
    server xtra2 192.168.7.147:80 cookie x2 check
    server xtra3 192.168.7.152:80 cookie x3 check

listen mysql-cluster 192.168.7.149:3306
    mode tcp
    balance roundrobin
    option  httpchk
    server xtra1 192.168.7.151:3306 check port 9200 inter 1000 rise 3 fall 1
    server xtra2 192.168.7.147:3306 check port 9200 inter 1000 rise 3 fall 1
    server xtra3 192.168.7.152:3306 check port 9200 inter 1000 rise 3 fall 1
[...]

A: Your HAProxy is not testing for MySQL health as on your MySQL section you are telling to do tests for http (with the line option  httpchk), you should use option mysql-check so it should read as
listen mysql-cluster 192.168.7.149:3306
    mode tcp
    balance roundrobin
    option  mysql-check user a_test_user
    server xtra1 192.168.7.151:3306 check inter 1000 rise 3 fall 1
    server xtra2 192.168.7.147:3306 check inter 1000 rise 3 fall 1
    server xtra3 192.168.7.152:3306 check inter 1000 rise 3 fall 1

And you should have in your MySQL database the user a_test_user allowing connections from HAProxy.


retired Fire Fighter Bob and the Railroad police.. By the way thank you for the patch.. love it Thank you..
Look at the leaves were are already changing. It's getting cold..
We also ran into another Football Penn state.. Jillian kicking the field goal and Mr. Wise throwing a ball Bob is enjoying.
A train is comming get out of the way. lol.
we have had trouble with the web page .
This is the view after climbing out of free port..
Lou and Jillian.. Lou was amazing. It was an honor to have met you.
Jillian and Lou. Lou and Bob taking pic of each other.
Another hero signs Big Bertha. Thank you for your services..
A hero signs Big Bertha. Thank you.
What a beautiful nice clean truck.
Bob and Jillian with the town Hero's. Thank you for your services.
Betty signs Big Bertha. Thank you for all you do.
Butler/Freeport Community Trail DErailleur Bikeshop Cafe.. Thank you for the shirts..
Thank you for the wonderful lunch. It was amazing.
This is the Trail we road down. How beautiful..
The scene and the trail was amazing.
Check out the old bridge..
Now we do some night riding.. it was a great ride.
Buffalo Creek Route. What an amazing Trail..
Jillian and Dustin. We got the honor to ride 25 miles with him on the trail..


Summerhill Kitten Farm: Bug Hunt!
The boys went on a bug hunt tonight.
Unfortunately, the bug was hiding in the light over the kitchen sink.
Both boys tried to jump on the (off limits) kitchen counter chasing the bug, including Billy, who jumped across the kitchen from the onion bin (next to the wastebasket) to the counter which had two full glasses of milk on it. He slid right into one, which sloshed badly but didn't spill.
This was attempted literally under my nose, or more precisely under my arm which was holding a Mist of Doom waiting for Whitey, on the floor, to jump up. Needless to say, the Mist chastised Billy instantly.
Whitey did go for the gold five minutes later, making it all the way up to the cabinets over the frig. He got chastised as well, and retreated.