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Middle East Balance, Perception at Issue at Columbia
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/9530/middle-east-balance-perception-at-issue
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Disagreements in academia are nothing new, but at Columbia University, arguments have reached a boiling point over Middle East politics. On one side are allegations that pro-Palestinian professors have intimidated and harassed students who hold pro-Israeli views. On the other side, charges that outside political pressure is threatening academic freedom on the Ivy League campus. Anthony Brooks reports.
ANTHONY BROOKS reporting:
This controversy at Columbia dates back years and it provokes intense feelings on all sides. This is how Hamid Dabashi, a professor in Columbia's Middle East studies department, sees it.
Professor HAMID DABASHI (Columbia University): Our university is now haunted. There is an atmosphere of fear and suspicion. That's the problem.
BROOKS: At issue are allegations by a small group of pro-Israel students against Columbia's department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Culture, which is known by the acronym MEALAC. The students say a handful of MEALAC professors, including Dabashi, push a one-sided anti-Israel agenda on campus, and they charge them with stifling debate and silencing students who disagree with them.
SOUNDBITE FROM "COLUMBIA UNBECOMING"
BROOKS: The controversy has burst into public view lately because of this film entitled "Columbia Unbecoming." The film was produced by a pro-Israel student group called Columbians for Academic Freedom. It's a 30-minute collection of testimonials from students, only six of whom identify themselves, about alleged abuses by MEALAC professors; among them, Columbia graduate Lindsey Shrier. In the film, Shrier says that during a debate outside the classroom, Professor George Saliba pushed the argument beyond academic bounds.
Ms. LINDSEY SHRIER (Student, Columbia University): And he looked right into my eyes and he said, `See, you have green eyes. You're not a Semite.' He said, `You have no claim to the land of Israel,' as if I'm not really a Jew because I have green eyes. I was stunned and never approached him after that, and that's exactly what he wanted to do. He wanted to intimidate me and keep me quiet.
BROOKS: Professor Saliba declined to be interviewed for this report, but a written statement on his Web site says he doesn't recall the encounter, and if it did take place, he says, Shrier might have misunderstood him. Another allegation comes from Tomy Schoenfeld, an Israeli student. Schoenfeld says he attended a public campus lecture by Professor Joseph Massad on Middle East politics. Afterward, he tried to question the professor, but he says Massad refused to answer and instead demanded to know if the student had served in the Israeli army.
Mr. TOMY SCHOENFELD (Student, Columbia University): I said, `Yes.' So his next question was, `How many Palestinians have you killed?' I was shocked, and he said, `No, it's relevant and I demand that you answer. How many Palestinians have you killed.'
Mr. ARIEL BEERY (Student, Columbia University): If students aren't respected, if they're outright harassed because of who they are, what they look like and what they believe in, that's not OK.
BROOKS: That's Ariel Beery, a political science major and a member of Columbians for Academic Freedom. Beery says over the years, he's heard similar complaints from some two dozen students, but he says most of them won't speak publicly.
Mr. BEERY: You know, these students are still afraid. I mean, to be called a Zionist here is basically your resignation notice to be cool at Columbia and you don't need that. I was a peace activist in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and yet I'm called the voice of the right here just because I believe the state of Israel has a right to exist. That's how crazy things have gotten and that's the problem.
BROOKS: For his part, Professor Joseph Massad, a Jordanian-born Palestinian, denies that he ever asked a student how many Palestinians he killed.
Professor JOSEPH MASSAD (Columbia University): I don't know who this person is. He has never taken any classes with me. He is not my student.
BROOKS: And you don't recall actually saying that to anyone in a classroom setting?
Prof. MASSAD: Never.
BROOKS: And he doesn't recall saying that to anyone outside the classroom either. Massad doesn't deny that he espouses a pro-Palestinian position. He says that's one way he prods his students to think critically about the Middle East, but he says the allegations against him are part of what he calls a McCarthyite campaign.
Prof. MASSAD: I think I'm simply part of a witch-hunt targeting a large number of professors across universities and campuses in the country that do not espouse a kind of party line on American foreign policy and more specifically about Israeli policies. It is really about suppressing academic freedom.
BROOKS: Massad is troubled that the film "Columbia Unbecoming" was funded by an outside Boston-based pro-Israel political group, the David Project. So was Andrew Nathan, who chairs Columbia's political science department.
Mr. ANDREW NATHAN (Columbia University): You can't hold faculty to the standard of not making students feel intimidated because students, first of all, how they feel is the product of a lot of different things other than how the faculty person behaves, and I don't think it allows academic freedom and allows good classroom interchange when professors are being scrutinized by forces outside of the faculty governance process.
BROOKS: But Charles Jacobs says that process isn't working at Columbia. Jacobs is the president of the David Project and says he became involved at the behest of Columbia students, and for good reason.
Mr. CHARLES JACOBS (President, David Project): Columbia University is a private institution, and if it wishes to have an anti-Zionist Middle East studies department, it certainly has the right to do so. It doesn't have the right to say, `This is liberal arts education where all views are balanced and with an open mind.' They don't have that in the MEALAC department at Columbia. What they have is partisan. So if they want to have that, they should say that.
BROOKS: Critics of Columbia's Middle East studies department say out of 21 full-time professors, just three are regarded as sympathetic to the Israeli perspective. On the other hand, their complaints focus on just three pro-Palestinian professors. Among the difficult questions here are: Is political balance an academic value? And how do you balance student sensitivity with a professor's right to academic freedom? Columbia's president, Lee Bollinger, says he will not permit outside pressure to influence scholarship, but he also says the student complaints are serious and will be investigated.
Mr. LEE BOLLINGER (President, Columbia University): What we cannot have is behavior that cuts off the participation of students because of a particular viewpoint. That really cuts to the core of a university's values. So you really must take them very seriously, and I do.
BROOKS: The controversy has gone well beyond the campus walls. It prompted the Israeli ambassador to the US to cancel an appearance at Columbia and a US congressman to demand that Professor Joseph Massad be fired. Massad says he has stopped teaching his course on Palestinian-Israeli politics because of harassment. And Professor Hamid Dabashi, also a critic of Israel, has stopped speaking publicly because of a rash of threatening phone calls that go way beyond academic arguments.
Unidentified Woman: (From phone) You have 64 old messages.
Unidentified Man: Mr. Dabashi, I read about you in today's New York Post. You stinking terrorist Muslim pig. I hope the CIA is studying you so it can kick you out of this country back to some filthy Arab country where you belong, you terrorist bastard.
Prof. DABASHI: This is not the US that I immigrated to.
BROOKS: Professor Hamid Dabashi.
Prof. DABASHI: There is something happening in this country so visceral, so ugly, so vicious that is simply unrecognizable.
BROOKS: Columbia has set up a faculty committee to investigate and report on the students' complaints by the end of March, but it seems that nobody is satisfied. The pro-Israel students say the committee is tainted because its members are too close to the Middle East studies department, while the professors under scrutiny accuse the university of caving in to outside pressure. For NPR News, I'm Anthony Brooks.
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Antoni Bryła, ps. Tom (ur. 8 sierpnia 1908 w Kątach, zm. 1968) – polski prawnik, działacz ruchu ludowego, komendant obwodu Biłgoraj Okręgu Lublin Batalionów Chłopskich, podpułkownik.

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Urodził się jako syn Franciszka i Anastazji. Przed wybuchem II wojny światowej uzyskał wyższe wykształcenie prawnicze.

W 1940 włączył się w działalność podziemną i był współorganizatorem struktur podziemnego ruchu ludowego w powiecie biłgorajskim. Należał do SL "Roch", Straży Chłopskiej i Batalionów Chłopskich (jako kapral podchorąży). Równocześnie był pełnomocnikiem BCh przy komendancie Obwodu Biłgoraj AK, komendanta powiatowego Państwowego Korpusu Bezpieczeństwa oraz zastępcy Delegata Rządu na powiat biłgorajski. Należał do tzw. piątki politycznej SL "Roch" w podokręgu Zamość. Został awansowany przez Komendę Główną BCh do stopnia podpułkownika. Był także członkiem Związku Walki Zbrojnej.

Po zajęciu Lubelszczyzny przez Armię Czerwoną ujawnił się wraz z pozostałymi członkami Delegatury Rządu i został aresztowany przez NKWD. W dniu 11 sierpnia 1944 drogą powietrzną ze Świdnika przewieziony do Kijowa, a później do łagrów w Diagilewie i Borowiczach. Do Polski powrócił w październiku 1947. Pracował w różnych firmach w Lublinie. Ostatnia jego praca miała miejsce w wydziale architektury tamtejszego Urzędu Wojewódzkiego.

W 1968 zmarł na zawał. Pochowany został na cmentarzu we Frampolu.

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Członkowie Związku Walki Zbrojnej
Wojskowi związani z Lublinem
Oficerowie Batalionów Chłopskich
Polscy prawnicy
Polscy zesłańcy w Związku Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich 1944–1991
Polskie ofiary represji stalinowskich
Urodzeni w 1908
Więźniowie Obozu NKWD nr 179 w Diagilewie
Więźniowie obozu NKWD nr 270 w Borowiczach
Zmarli w 1968
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However, as in traditional silicon electronics, the operation of these devices relies predominantly on electronic carriers, while ions are neglected. I will draw on two examples to illustrate the advantages that can be gained and the penalties that must be paid when, in addition to electronic carriers, ions are also employed. The first one is electroluminescent devices based on ionic transition metal complexes. These materials, studied for years by electrochemists and spectroscopists in solution, can now yield efficient solid-state electroluminescent devices that are considered for display and lighting applications.
Materials issues that need to be addressed for these devices to succeed in applications will be discussed, and emphasis will be given on modeling and understanding the device physics. The second example is electrochemical transistors based on conducting polymers. These devices act as converters between ionic and electronic current, providing a powerful interface between the worlds of biology and electronics.
Their applications in sensors will be discussed, with emphasis on understanding device operation. George Malliaras is the Lester B. He serves on the board of directors of Infotonics, a MEMS fabrication facility designed to provide a rapid pathway to commercialization, is the chairman of the editorial board of the Journal of Materials Chemistry, and serves on the editorial board of Sensors.
Malliaras' research interests span several aspects of organic electronics, including structure and morphology of organic thin films, their processing and patterning, charge transport and injection in organic semiconductors, device physics, and applications of organic devices in biosensors. Tris 8-hydroxyquinoline aluminum Alq3 is the archetypal small molecular weight amorphous semiconductor. There is a substantial amount of data describing its charge transport characteristics as a function of thickness, injection contact, temperature and electric field.
We briefly summarize this data and focus on two issues: charge injection into Alq3 and the electric field dependence of charge carrier mobility in Alq3. We present an analytic description of mobility by considering non-equilibrium carrier distributions within a percolation framework. He received his B. Electrical Engineering from the University of Sydney in with first class honors and university medal, and his M.
He joined MIT in His Ph. Research interests include electrical and exciton transport in organic materials, energy transfer, metal-organic contacts, heterogeneous integration of biological materials, and mechanical transistors. I propose a computational protocol to predict the absolute mobility of molecular semiconductors without adjustable parameters. The system dependent parameters are computed using a combination of classical molecular dynamics simulations and quantum chemical methods. The model used to connect the computable quantities with the observable temperature dependent mobility takes into account the effects of molecular reorganization energy and the fluctuation of the transfer integral due to thermal motions.
The absolute value of the hole mobility, computed for the case of rubrene, is in excellent agreement with the experiments. The possibility of using computational chemistry methods to improve the theoretical models of charge transfer will be discussed in some detail. The predictive capabilities of the model presented in this work will be further validated considering the recent THz spectroscopy measurements performed by R. Alessandro Troisi received his PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Bologna with a thesis on the charge transfer reactions in condensed phases.
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We present statistical modified mean-media approach MMMA and transport path distribution approach. Within MMMA approach we succeed to reproduce effective heating effect predicted by numerical experiments on hopping transport on the manifold of energetically disordered hopping sites. Using MMMA approach we reveal the dependence of recombination on field and charge carriers concentrations. Transport path distribution TPD approach used for description and analysis of current transients in organic semiconductor devices.
We present analysis of experimental results using this method. Yevgeni Preezant was born at He had got B. Recently he is a doctoral fellow in polymer semiconductor group of Prof. Nir Tessler in the Technion. Research interest of Mr. Yevgeni Preezant include both experimental ,theoretical and simulation aspects of polymer semiconductors field. Skip to the navigation. Skip to the content. Workshop on Organic Electronics.
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by Newsweek Pakistan May 29, 2017
Saul Loeb—AFP
Pakistan must rethink its foreign policy
Dan Coats, director of National Intelligence in the Trump administration, thinks Pakistan has been regionally isolated due to India's rising global status and its "deepening ties with the United States." He also opined that "Islamabad has failed to curb militants and terrorists in Pakistan and, because of this failure these groups will present a sustained threat to the U.S. interests in the region." President Trump too, during his recent visit to Saudi Arabia, depicted India as the wronged party facing cross-border acts of terrorism.
Anyone in Pakistan will tell you that the country is isolated in the region. One reason the recent Arab-Islamic-American Summit in Saudi Arabia was negatively viewed in Pakistan was that it appeared to place Islamabad in opposition to neighboring Tehran, exacerbating the already lonely feeling aroused by India's growing strategic relationship with its neighbors to its west. Even the infamous "Dawn leak" was presumably meant to inform the Pakistan Army that advocacy of Pakistan's policies at the international level was hampered, if not killed, by its diplomatic isolation.
Pakistan has traditionally viewed its neighbors—Iran and Afghanistan—from the frozen perspective of its strategic opposition to India. Because of a lack of lateral thinking in the face of a changing regional balance of power, Pakistan has trailed behind the other contending powers, especially India. Even its close friend China has been more nimble-footed in its dealings with South Asian and Middle Eastern states. Offending Saudi Arabia to save relations with Iran is no solution to this India-induced solitude. Rather, it is Pakistan's India policy that needs a radical overhaul—notwithstanding the media self-flagellation over Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's recent "private" meeting with an Indian business tycoon in Murree—including but not limited to resolving the Kashmir issue with India.
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Faheem Akhtar May 29, 2017 - 7:30 pm
This is his personal opinion. Might I write it is of no value at all. Relations with Afghanistan have never been good due to Afghan black-mailing attitude towards Pakistan. Iran has its own grudge towards Pakistan due to centuries old Iranian anti-Arab attitude. India is trying to save Jammu & Kashmir it has occupied by force and imposed Hinduism in a pre-dominantly Moslem state. Furthermore what is US interest on Afghan land as so-called CIA-fed terrorists named Al-Qayeda as been allegedly eliminated. If US is not backing RAW in spreading terror in Pakistan then why is it clinging to barren part of land. He has clear facts to hide. A whole batch of CIA-funded terrorists was eliminated this week from Afghanistan. US is spreading terror and giving a bad name to our country.
NoFrills May 30, 2017 - 2:10 am
Who said, Newsweek? " Anyone in Pakistan will tell you that the country is isolated in the region" It seems "Newsweek Pakistan" has become a mouth piece of India. Newsweek need to clarify that what Trump said was not correct. It is Pakistan who is a victim of major terrorist attacks not India.


About 10 months ago (March 2018) I finally took the plunge and went and got lip fillers for the first time! I've had them done one more time since then in August of last year. And I'm still so happy with how they look! I did a post about this after I'd had them done the first time (you can read it here), so I thought it was about time to give a little update on how everything lasted, how I'm feeling now so many months later etc.
When I first had them done alll those months ago I was pretty nervous and even though I'd spent endless nights googling there was still a lot I was unsure about.
What was the healing process like? How long does it last? Does it hurt? What does it feel like afterwards? Do your lips feel lumpy? Can you still wear lipstick and do everything as normal? Basically a whole bunch of question marks around everything.
I had read that the first time you get them done your body breaks the filler down faster so you'll need them done again within the first 3-6 months I think. Then after that (unless you want fuller lips that need building up) it should last anywhere from 9 months to over a year.
After having 1ml the first time, initially I was surprised how much fuller they were, but a lot of that was due to swelling. Which went away as they healed. So I ended up wishing they were just that little bit fuller, like they were when they were swollen.
Now it's been about 10 months and I'm still so so happy with how they look! After the first time the filler did seem to be disappearing a little quicker but now after the second time, it's now 6 months later and I don't feel like they've changed so much size-wise. I'm not planning on getting them touched up for another few months yet.
I have learnt so much over the past few months and most of the answers to my questions I only found out through experience. So I thought I'd answer my own questions for anybody who's still unsure whether to take the plunge and get lip fillers!
What was the healing process like? I personally seem to be pretty prone to bruising. Both times (as you could see in the pictures) I got pretty visible bruises. But it was nothing that hurt. It was mostly just uncomfortable with the swelling and keeping them well moisturied. I would recommend getting them done when you have a few days off, especially if you work somewhere with a lot of people.
How long does it last? I kind of answered this already, but the first treatment I don't think counts under the regular lasting times people and clinics state. But after the second treatment I'd say they can last anywhere up to a year and still look amazing!
Does it hurt? Obviously the actual stabbing of the needle can hurt a bit and it does feel strange when the fillers being injected but I mean if you've had piercings or tattoos in the past then I can't see you having any major problems!
What does it feel like afterwards? Strange. Not necessary painful, maybe a little uncomfortable but just a little strange. For the first few months you can actually feel it in your lips, I know that sounds strange but it's just an unusual sensation. But definitely nothing that's uncomfortable or painful!!
Do your lips feel lumpy? Mine did for a little while the first few months, but now when everything's settled I don't feel any lumps at all! I do know if it's not injected properly then you can get lumps and other strange things. Which is why you should always go to a trained professional!
Can you still wear lipstick and do everything as normal? Yes!! I still wear lipsticks, lipgloss, liquid lipsticks and use lip scrubs all as normal! So this is nothing to worry about!!
I also can't say how much I recommend SysterStephanie in Olofström Sweden. My experience with her has been absolutely amazing and I won't be going anywhere else! Even when half my top lip became swollen and I started to stress like a crazy person, she was so reassuring and helpful! (Who knew that after being ill your lips can swell up and that's totally normal?!) So if you're in the area then I 100% recommend you checking her out on Instagram or Facebook!
As always if you have any questions I'd be more than happy to answer them!


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Q: is there a panorama or pivot UI control on android similar to the ones on windows phone 7? does anyone know if there is a UI widget out there for android that is like the windows phone 7 panorama or pivot controls? if not, is there any tutorial that would guide me down the right path in implementing my own?
any help is appreciated. thanks.

A: Yes, I was interested in the Pivot controls also.
Here's the best working resource I've found for Pivot-like functionality: http://viewpagerindicator.com/
Or, if you would like to see the official Android Developers' Guide about this, called ViewPager: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/app/FragmentPagerAdapter.html

A: Not sure I entirely get what you want, but looking at this Pivot really is just tabs: take a look at the Tab Widget tutorial. Panorama is a bit more tedious: you can try embedding the View you want to pan into a HorizontalScroller. If it is wider than the screen it will let you scroll around horizontally. To get vertical panning as well wrap that with a ScrollView.


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Do socio-technical systems cognise?
Olle Blomberg
Proceedings of the 2nd AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy (2009)
How to Share a Mind: Reconsidering the Group Mind Thesis.Thomas Szanto - 2014 - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 13 (1):99-120.details
Standard accounts in social ontology and the group cognition debate have typically focused on how collective modes, types, and contents of intentions or representational states must be construed so as to constitute the jointness of the respective agents, cognizers, and their engagements. However, if we take intentions, beliefs, or mental representations all to instantiate some mental properties, then the more basic issue regarding such collective engagements is what it is for groups of individual minds to share a mind. Somewhat surprisingly, (...) this very issue has not received much attention in the respective debates and when it has, typically the outlook has been skeptical or outright negative. In this paper, I argue that it is epistemologically possible for a group of individuals to literally share a single mental unit. In particular, I will put forward and defend what I shall call the zombie conception of group minds. (shrink)
Practical Knowledge and Acting Together.Blomberg Olle - 2018 - In J. Adam Carter, Andy Clark, Jesper Kallestrup, Orestis Palermos & Duncan Pritchard (eds.), Socially Extended Epistemology. Oxford University Press. pp. 87-111.details
According to one influential philosophical view of human agency, for an agent to perform an action intentionally is essentially for her to manifest a kind of self-knowledge: An agent is intentionally φ-ing if and only if she has a special kind of practical and non-observational knowledge that this is what she is doing. I here argue that this self-knowledge view faces serious problems when extended to account for intentional actions performed by several agents together as a result of a joint (...) decision. This suggests that practical and non-observational knowledge is not essential to intentional action as such, since a theory of intentional action ought to be able to make sense of such paradigm cases of joint intentional action as well as cases of singular intentional action. Existing attempts to extend the self-knowledge view to joint intentional action face an unfortunate trilemma. These attempts must (i) require that participants have non-observational knowledge of each other's non-observational knowledge, which in turn requires that the participants are either really one and the same agent, or that they are, for all relevant purposes, clones of each other; (ii) limit their explanatory scope to intentional actions performed by groups with a single decision maker at the top of an organisational hierarchy, which arguably are not really shared or jointly performed; or (iii) require that the intention of the group is the result of a public representational act that the group members will have observational knowledge of in a way that is incompatible with a core commitment of the self-knowledge view. I argue that each of these options is unacceptable given a self-knowledge view of intentional action. (shrink)
JFGI: From Distributed Cognition to Distributed Reliabilism.Kourken Michaelian - 2014 - Philosophical Issues 24 (1):314-346.details
While, prima facie, virtue/credit approaches in epistemology would appear to be in tension with distributed/extended approaches in cognitive science, Pritchard () has recently argued that the tension here is only apparent, at least given a weak version of distributed cognition, which claims merely that external resources often make critical contributions to the formation of true belief, and a weak virtue theory, which claims merely that, whenever a subject achieves knowledge, his cognitive agency makes a significant contribution to the formation of (...) a true belief. But the significance of the role played by the subject's cognitive agency in distributed cognitive systems is in fact highly variable: at one extreme, formation of a true belief seems clearly to be significantly creditable to the subject's agency; at the other extreme, however, the subject's agency plays such a peripheral role that it is at best unclear whether it should receive significant credit for formation of a true belief. The compatibility of distributed cognition and virtue epistemology thus turns on what it takes for a contribution to the formation of true belief to count as significant. This article argues that the inevitable vagueness of this notion suggests retreating from virtue epistemology to a form of process reliabilism and explores the prospects for a distributed reliabilist epistemology designed to fit smoothly with distributed cognition. In effect, distributed reliabilism radicalizes Goldberg's recent extended reliabilist view by allowing the process the reliability of which determines the epistemic status of a subject's belief to extend to include not only processing performed by other subjects but also processing performed by non-human technological resources. (shrink)
Empirical Arguments for Group Minds: A Critical Appraisal.Robert D. Rupert - 2011 - Philosophy Compass 6 (9):630-639.details
This entry addresses the question of group minds, by focusing specifically on empirical arguments for group cognition and group cognitive states. Two kinds of positive argument are presented and critically evaluated: the argument from individually unintended effects and the argument from functional similarity. A general argument against group cognition – which appeals to Occam's razor – is also discussed. In the end, much turns on the identification of a mark of the cognitive; proposed marks are briefly surveyed in the final (...) section. (shrink)


Gregor Scott set up Grow to Work in 2012 to provide land-based employment and training opportunitites for school leaver with autism and learning disabilities. Grow to Work is based in the central Scottish Borders, and occupy six acres of farmland at Thorynylee. Gregor was nominated as an Autism Champion by one of his colleagues.
As parents of a young man with Autistic Spectrum Disorder, we were faced with making the decision as to what provision would be most suitable when our son left school in summer 2013. Our son wishes to be a farmer, but we accept that this is not possible in the traditional sense.
Having taken our sons needs into consideration and discussed his future with him, he told us that he "wants to live at Thornylee" (our home). This killed our preferred option of sending him to a service provider in Edinburgh.
The decision to establish our own provision for Callum was not an easy one and initially our very well-meaning friends did all they could to dissuade us. The obvious fact, that no one else provided the kind of service that we believed was needed, was the over-riding factor in convincing us that we had to lead by example.
Based on our visits to existing providers of supervised employment we planned our activities, based on what we think will fit with the abilities of people with special needs/learning disability.
The simplest solution would be to establish a work programme just for our son, but this would certainly condemn him to live a life of exclusion and isolation. As our plans began to form, it was decided by my wife and I that we wanted to involve any young person with a learning disability, or any one leaving school without formal qualifications. We would have equal numbers from each group, they would work in pairs (buddy system) and it would be a real world working environment with a commitment to providing full time employment opportunities, either within the enterprise or in the private sector.
We were introduced to the Social Enterprise Chamber at an early stage and received encouragement and advice on establishing a social enterprise. In looking for a business model, I had found many charities and social enterprises aimed at providing employability and was given much encouragement and introductions to people who might be able to help us establish our enterprise. I spent a considerable time (months) sounding out others involved in this sector, before deciding that a Community Interest Company would be the right structure for our enterprise. As more people learned of our plans, we received many offers of help and from these helpers, two of the most committed volunteers agreed to become directors of the proposed company. Diane Leckie taught my son for 5 years and took early retirement last year. She brings a wealth of teaching experience, not to mention an Edinburgh address book with contacts to die for. James Macfarlane is 18 and a second year business studies student at Heriot Watt. James is practically working full time on this project.
It was James who registered the company Grow to Work CIC and set up our bank account with Co-op bank. Due to the time spent researching and consulting with those who are operating similar services, we encountered no problems with either of these tasks.
While James registered the company, I was busy taking advice and preparing a bid for funding from Firstport (Scotland Unltd). Through my contacts, I was introduced to a professor of social policy, who not only gave advice by phone but met with me twice during visits to Edinburgh. Social policy, outcomes, funding agencies, were all completely new to me and I began a very steep learning curve. Using this advice and having carried out a thorough investigation into the need for our service, the numbers involved, the social benefits and matching to the national outcomes, I prepared the Firstport bid. The bid was submitted, I was invited to interview and the case was presented to the awards panel. We were not successful, as the project would not benefit as many people as other applicants.
Despite this disappointment, we continued to develop the project and began to examine how we would recruit trainees.
We contacted four of the local secondary schools, initially to obtain school leaver statistics, but they immediately perceived the significance of what we proposed. We were invited to meetings with senior staff and now find overwhelming demand for our service, but in a way that we had not envisaged. Our plan was to recruit school leavers directly from school (why wait for 6 months unemployment to qualify?), and to offer work placements to pupils in S4. Schools have asked us to provide our services to pupils in all years, as they can identify pupils for whom classroom learning is not appropriate. So instead of providing employability training to a universe of 148 unemployed youngsters, we are looking at a potential trainee population that could run to hundreds.
Establishing a social enterprise was not difficult. The motivation to do so, was very personal. The commitment to the project, is partly personal, but is also about our desire as a family to give something back, for all the effort and enthusiasm that has been invested by so many individuals in our son's education. And now, as we are about to take on our first trainees, it is about demonstrating the benefits that will flow from giving disadvantaged young people the best chance to lead an independent life: safe, secure and above all happy.


Will the Stars make a move to bolster the offense while Seguin recovers? Absolutely, and here's why.
First, Tyler Seguin will be sidelined anywhere from 3-6 weeks. He injured his right knee when Dmitry Kulikov upended him Friday night with an illegal"Clipping" hit.
Seguin is 3rd in the NHL in points (59) and has more than twice as many goals (29) as his teammates (with the exception on Benn 19 and Cole 15). He leads the club in PP goals, GWGs and is 2nd among Stars forwards in ice time. Perhaps the most underrated area that Seguin has excelled at this season is the faceoff dot. While in Dallas, Seguin has transformed into an excellent faceoff man, as evidenced by his 53.1% success rate in 2014-15. He's 2nd on the team behind Jason Spezza (54.8%).
Often times NHL teams find a way to rally when faced with adversity or injuries. Sometimes the additional ice time is just what a younger player or perceived role player needs to prove himself. However, most times the rally is just that and doesn't sustain over the long haul. Sitting back without making a move, would be banking the rest of 2014-15 on the rally factor. If we are talking 3 weeks it might work but is still very risky. If we are talking closer to the 6 week range I don't see it happening.
The first area Nill upgraded when he took the job was the center ice position. He quickly added Seguin, Rich Peverley and Shawn Horcoff to the roster. Nill learned the management side of the business as an Assistant General Manager with Detroit. He knows firsthand how important it is to have a Steve Yzerman or Pavel Datsyuk type centering the first line. Sure Spezza can probably hold down the fort but that leaves a gaping hole at 2nd line center and top 6 forwards in general.
Nill doesn't sit back and wait for things to get worse. He swapped Brenden Dillon for Jason Demers in November to shake up his defense. After initially being patient with Anders Lindback as the 2014-15 backup, Nill struck again moving Lindback for a more seasoned veteran goalie in Jhonas Enroth.
Nill has the trade chips available to facilitate a move to bring in a top forward. In order to get something you have to give something up. To me the only players not on the table would be Jamie Benn, Jason Spezza and John Klingberg. That means players such as Valeri Nichushkin, Colton Sceviour, Brett Ritchie, Jryki Jokipakka, Jamie Oleksiak, Curtis McKenzie and Ryan Garbutt could all be in play. I don't see where moving Cody Eakin or Antoine Roussel makes sense and I don't see them moving a veteran defenseman (i.e. Trevor Daley and Alex Goligoski) as the blue line is already pretty thin. It will most likely take a combination of players and prospects/Draft picks to return a top forward.
Last season marked the first time Dallas had been back in the playoffs since 2008. Much like this season, the Stars started slow but came on strong at the end. There was a buzz about the team and a real sense of good things to come. In the Stars glory days of 1998-00 the team's success led to Dr. Pepper Arenas popping up all over the Metroplex. DFW loves to support a winner. However, if the Stars aren't winning it's bad for business and you tend to see a lot of fans wearing opposing team jerseys throughout the barn.
The players, coaches, management and ownership want to continue to build on last season's improvement. At the start of 2013-14, Stars ownership and management changed the uniforms, the logo, added a mascot and a new mantra (A New Star Is Rising). Therefore, missing the playoffs would be a significant step backwards.


Adyen risk expert Attila Dogan weighs in on high-tech scams and offers tips for merchants on how to combat them.
It's a whole new era in payments fraud, and criminals are stepping up their games.
For years, fraudsters sifted through the dark web and other shady domains to get their hands on what seemed to be a holy grail: compromised credit card numbers. But these days, compromised cards may be the least of a merchant's worries.
What's scarier, for both consumers and companies trying to sell to them, is that more critical, personal information – social security numbers or your mother's maiden name, for example – could live on the internet in places where criminals can find it.
Adyen's Head of RevenueProtect, Attila Dogan.
For companies, new flavors of fraud have become bigger headaches, as the plots to steal money become more elaborate and the tools used more technologically sophisticated. Online marketplaces and other ecommerce sites are increasingly popular. But they can be particularly rife with scams, as both buyers and sellers are susceptible to fraudulent practices.
Below, a few of the latest types of fraud and tips for merchants on fraud prevention.
As consumers buy more and more on the internet, criminals have learned that too many shoppers use the same login and password in every part of their life. Is your email password the same as your bank account password and the same for all your shopping sites? Look out. Thieves know that once they get one login and password combo, they can try those same details on many platforms until they strike pay dirt.
This is not a new type of fraud, but it has lately gotten a technological twist. The basic premise behind card testing: criminals obtain large batches of compromised credit cards on darknets that they need to validate before they commit crimes (stealing goods and services they plan to sell at a profit later). To speed up this process, fraudsters increasingly rely on automated tools that send trustworthy-looking orders in small amounts to unsuspecting merchants. The massive scale of these attempts sometimes resembles distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) that cause real harm to the businesses in question, driving up costs and harming their payment conversions.
Refund fraud happens on the customer end of an order placed over the internet. This is also called "friendly fraud" or "buyer liars." All a customer has to do is claim they didn't receive a package or product, and the business is likely to eat the cost. A customer may also claim that a product was damaged in some way and demand a refund, another loss for the business. To be sure, a handful of such losses is expected for any business. But at scale, thousands of fraudulent refunds can cost online marketplaces millions of dollars.
Money laundering – a very old type of fraud indeed – gets a new life in today's online marketplaces. When the buyer and seller of an item or service are indeed the same person or work together, traditional KYC (Know Your Customer) processes might find this hard to detect. Given money laundering is often tied to the drug trade and financing terrorism, legislators do hold all actors accountable and criminals target a vast number of different international businesses.
Choose a payments partner with a long track record of dealing with fraud, and a partner with extensive ecommerce experience. If you're running a marketplace, make sure your KYC and AML screening processes are airtight and ideally upgraded through the use of a robust fraud management solution designed for this type of fraud.
Device fingerprinting. Once seen as the silver bullet in fraud prevention, traditional means of device fingerprinting are losing their value proposition in today's world of strong browser configurations that allow users (friend or foe) to anonymize their online persona. Choose a partner that solves this by going beyond the traditional device fingerprint by creating virtual identities that dynamically link all attributes of a potential attacker.
Check in frequently with your customer. Send alerts at nearly every step of the buying and delivery process. Is the person aware that they have bought the item? Or that it shipped? Rather than being annoying, the alerts are best practices that ensure a purchase is legitimate and a customer is who they say they are. It's also a failsafe against the merchant losing money.
Invest in the right technology and ideally build some experience in-house. Sometimes, perception is half the battle. Creating awareness around your anti-fraud measures is key, since fraudsters will at least try to attack every business that is somewhat customer-facing.
To be sure, not all fraud is preventable. But choosing the right payments partner can help you cut down on risk. Adyen's unique fraud prevention tools take a data-driven approach to fraud detection, reducing manual work and helping you gain full visibility into your payment transactions.
Learn more about Adyen's fraud prevention system here.


The NZ Transport Agency says an event held this morning at Taneatua marked the completion of the State Highway 2 realignment project.
Attending the completion of works morning tea were Whakatane District Council Mayor Tony Bonne, Taneatua Ward Councillor Andrew Iles and local iwi elders from Tuhoe, says the Transport Agency.
The works to realign a section of State Highway 2 (SH2) near Taneatua Road started in November last year and involved removing the Taneatua Rail Over Bridge, upgrading a temporary road (that had been in used since early last year) around the Taneatua Rail Over Bridge and upgrading the SH2 and Taneatua Road intersection.
The SH2 and Taneatua Road intersection was realigned around the Taneatua Squash courts and the intersection was widened to improve safety at this location by providing greater site distances for drivers.
Mr Brett Gliddon, the NZ Transport Agency's Highways Manager, says improving safety and the movement of heavy vehicles along this section of road are some of the benefits this project will offer to the local community and the wider Eastern Bay of Plenty region.