We need to meet the varying needs of all of our patrons while keeping the network truly open to the public.
We need to ensure access to our online resources for remote users (online catalogs, databases, etc.).
We need to do more with less bandwidth.
We need a solution that's low cost, low maintenance, and easy to set up.
We need a solution that will grow with our network.
In this article, we'll talk about how the NetEqualizer has been used to solve these issues for many libraries around the world.
Patrons who come into the library have a variety of needs for computer usage. Some want to just surf the web, send email, or hold an online chat session. Others may need to download files or watch YouTube videos.
The concept of NetEqualizer "fairness" enables your network to continue providing quick response times to the majority of your users while restricting the network hogs. Low bandwidth users, such as email, surfing the web, or online chat do not have to share the pain of a slow, congested network with the bandwidth-intensive applications, such as downloading a large file or watching a YouTube video. Your patrons expect email and web surfing to be responsive, and with equalizing, they will be.
In this example, if your trunk is saturated, the NetEqualizer would add latency to the YouTube and downloading file streams (since they are the most bandwidth intensive), leaving all the other streams alone. So instead of having your network crash completely, a few YouTube videos would break up for a few seconds, and a few downloads would take slightly longer to complete, and then when conditions abated, they would be allowed to run. The impact of network congestion is limited to 5-6% of your patrons, freeing up bandwidth for 95% of your patrons, instead of slowing down the network for everyone.
Notice that the exact allocations per user do not matter. We do not try to hit fixed allocations, we just put delay on the nastiest "hog" traffic until the bandwidth usage overall drops back to 85 percent (or the setting you choose). This quickly takes the delay away until your network is no longer congested. The value is that you get the best possible usage of your network bandwidth without having to micro-manage your network.
To learn more about our thoughts on YouTube, please review our blog posting How Much YouTube Can the Internet Handle?
The NetEqualizer not only will improve the Web-user experience of patrons on-site, but also remote users. Freeing up the network from patrons using bandwidth-intensive applications in-house will ultimately enable better access to all patrons of the library's online resources.
The NetEqualizer reviews bandwidth utilization for both inbound and outbound traffic, utilizing its "fairness" rules to reduce network congestion for all patrons on your network.
NetEqualizer's built-in rules-based, application-level traffic-shaping technology dynamically controls traffic based on current network usage. When the network is congested, the "fairness" algorithm favors business class applications, including VoIP, Web browsing, chat and email, at the expense of large file downloads. This approach allows network managers and operators to maintain high levels of customer satisfaction without having to purchase additional bandwidth.
Put simply, the NetEqualizer is a "plug-and-play" solution. Once you put the NetEqualizer in place, it immediately and effectively handles traffic shaping automatically around the clock. You simply need to define the size of your network pipe, establish the level of total bandwidth usage (default is 85%) at which you want shaping to kick in, make sure that the defaults are "on," and that's it.
In general, the NetEqualizer is installed between your Router and your Switch, acting as a transparent bridge once in place. It will reside passively in your network until bandwidth shaping is needed, and when the set level of congestion is reached, it kicks in to smooth your network traffic.
There are additional parameters that you can set to customize your NetEqualizer implementation. However, many of our customers find that they do not need to make any changes to the default settings in order for their network performance to improve dramatically.
The NetEqualizer is not licensed per user. Rather, the NetEqualizer license is tied to the size of your network pipe. It can be updated as the size of your pipe is increased, typically by purchasing a NetEqualizer license upgrade. Also, unlike other solutions on the market, you pay a one-time license fee for the NetEqualizer, and then only a small yearly support fee to cover software upgrades and support questions.
So, you can size your network to support your anticipated number of patrons, and then purchase the NetEqualizer that matches your network pipe size, knowing that you have the option of a license upgrade for more users later on. For more details on our sizing recommendations, see our contention ratio blog post Can Your ISP Support Video for All?, which specifically addresses the needs of administrators.
Furthermore, if you need to architect your network to support full redundancy, you can buy a second NetEqualizer and put it in place as either a cold backup or in hot swappable mode.
Although we've covered a few of the most pressing issues libraries face, we understand that everyone's situation can be different. So, to learn more about how the NetEqualizer might specifically help your library, please contact us at sales@apconnections.net or call us at 303.997.1300, extension 103.


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Александр Яковлевич Ляпунов (1839—1895) — генерал-майор, герой русско-турецкой войны 1877—1878 годов.

Биография
Родился 27 марта 1839 года, сын полковника Якова Ивановича Ляпунова (род. 1807 г. в Выборге у майора Ивана Ляпунова).

Образование получил во 2-м кадетском корпусе, из которого выпущен 16 июня 1859 года прапорщиком в армейскую пехоту. 30 мая 1860 года был произведён в поручики и 22 мая 1862 года был переведён в лейб-гвардии Московский полк с переименованием в прапорщики гвардии.

В Московском гвардейском полку Ляпунов получил чины подпоручика (17 апреля 1863 года) и поручика (19 апреля 1864 года), после чего в течение десяти с лишним лет командовал ротой; находясь на должности ротного командира он 16 апреля 1867 года был произведён в штабс-капитаны и 16 апреля 1871 года — в капитаны. В 1874 году награждён орденом св. Станислава 2-й степени.

Накануне начала русско-турецкой войны он был назначен командиром 2-го батальона лейб-гвардии Московского полка, 27 марта 1877 года произведён в полковники. Во время этой кампании он сражался на Дунайском театре.

В сражении у Горного Дубняка 12 октября он был контужен. 30 марта 1879 года Ляпунов был награждён орденом св. Георгия 4-й степени

21 ноября 1877 года Ляпунов с отличием действовал против Арабконака и 11 апреля 1878 года был удостоен золотой сабли с надписью «За храбрость». Среди прочих наград за эту кампанию Ляпунов получил ордена св. Владимира 4-й степени с мечами и бантом, св. Анны 2-й степени с мечами и св. Владимира 3-й степени с мечами (все в 1878 году).

23 мая 1885 года Ляпунов был назначен командиром 139-го пехотного Моршанского полка. 8 июня 1892 года он был произведён в генерал-майоры и получил в командование 1-ю бригаду 40-й пехотной дивизии. С 16 февраля 1894 года командовал 1-й бригадой 2-й гренадерской дивизии.

Скончался в Москве 6 ноября 1895 года, похоронен на Ваганьковском кладбище.

Источники

 Волков С. В. Генералитет Российской империи. Энциклопедический словарь генералов и адмиралов от Петра I до Николая II. Том II. Л—Я. М., 2009. — С. 80. — ISBN 978-5-9524-4167-5
 Исмаилов Э. Э. Золотое оружие с надписью «За храбрость». Списки кавалеров 1788—1913. М., 2007. — С. 310, 516. — ISBN 978-5-903473-05-2
 Список высочайшим особам, генералам, штаб- и обер-офицерам состоявшим и числящимся в лейб-гвардии Московском полку с 7 ноября 1811 года по 2 января 1900 года. СПб., 1899. — С. 38
 Список генералам по старшинству. Составлен по 1 сентября 1894 года. СПб., 1894. — С. 791
 Старчевский А. А. Памятник Восточной войны 1877—1878 гг. СПб., 1878. — С. 222.

Александр Яковлевич
Выпускники Второго кадетского корпуса
Генерал-майоры (Российская империя)
Участники Русско-турецкой войны (1877—1878)
Кавалеры ордена Святого Георгия IV класса
Кавалеры золотого оружия «За храбрость»
Кавалеры ордена Святого Владимира 4-й степени
Кавалеры ордена Святого Владимира 3-й степени
Кавалеры ордена Святого Станислава 2-й степени
Кавалеры ордена Святой Анны 2-й степени
Похороненные на Ваганьковском кладбище

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King David was appointed and anointed by Samuel as king, Solomon succeeded him. David did commit adulteryand he had a few wives only. But Solomon had 700 concubines and 300 wifes. In my timechart of biblical History, Kind David was born 1085 B. So the best is he was about 50yrs of age. What is the difference between a king and California king? The Eastern King size mattress comes with twin box springs that fitside-by-side for easy transportation. The width of this bed willrequire triple standard pillows or two extra large pillows.
Theonly potential drawback of the Eastern King size mattress is thatit is the same length as a queen bed, which may be too short fortaller adults. The California King, or Western King, is the longestbed on the market.
At 84 inches long, it is a full 4 inches longerthan the Eastern King and a good choice for people six foot tall ormore. Like it's wider cousin, it comes with two half-width or twinbox springs.
The only drawback of this mattress is that it is 4inches narrower in width than the Eastern King. Eastern Standard King Size Mattress: Western California King Size Mattress: What did King Solomon do?
He had fabulous wealth and traded a great deal with other nations. He also sinned by accumulating many wives which turned him against God to their heathen worship practices. How old was David when Solomon was made king? Before David dies, he appoints as king his son Solomon, who is 12years old at the time, with these words: You shall be strong, therefore, andshow yourself a man, and keep the charge of the Lord your God towalk in His ways, to keep His statutes and His commandmentsand His testimonies.
As it is written in the Law of Moses, that youmay prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn. Simply because David and God chose him. He was the son of David's favorite wife, Bathsheba. Why was King Solomon a good king? He loves Jehovah, and he follows the good advice that his father David gave him. Jehovah is pleased with Solomon, and so one night he says to him in a dream: At this Solomon answers: So give me the wisdom to rule your people in a right way.
Jehovah is pleased with what Solomon asks. But I will also give you what you did not ask for, both riches and glory. A short time later two women come to Solomon with a hard problem. Then one night her baby died. But while I was asleep, she put her dead child next to me and took my baby.
When I woke up and looked at the dead child, I saw that it was not mine. At this the other woman says: The living child is mine, and the dead one is hers! The dead child is yours, and the living one is mine! What will Solomon do?. He sends for a sword, and, when it is brought, he says: Give it to her!
Give him to the first woman. She is the real mother. When the people hear how Solomon solved the problem, they are glad to have such a wise king. During the rule of Solomon, God blesses the people by making the soil grow plenty of wheat and barley, grapes and figs and other foods.
The people wear fine clothes and live in good houses.
There is more than enough of everything good for everybody. In the fourth year of his rule, Solomon begins building the temple, and it takes seven and a half years to finish it. Tens of thousands of men work on the temple, and the building costs lots and lots of money.
This is because so much gold and silver are used in it. The temple has two main rooms, just as the tabernacle had. But these rooms are twice the size of those in the tabernacle.
Solomon has the ark of the covenant put in the inside room of the temple, and the other things that were kept in the tabernacle are put in the other room.
When the temple is finished, there is a big celebration. Solomon kneels in front of the temple and prays, as you can see in the picture. But, O my God, please listen to your people when they pray toward this place. When Solomon finishes his prayer, fire comes down from heaven. It burns up the animal sacrifices that have been made. And a bright light from Jehovah fills the temple. This shows that Jehovah is listening, and that he is pleased with the temple and Solomon's prayer.
The temple, rather than the tabernacle, now becomes the place where the people come to worship. For a long time Solomon rules in a wise way, and the people are happy. But Solomon marries many women from other countries who do not worship Jehovah. Can you see one of them worshiping before the idol?
Finally his wives get Solomon to worship other gods too. Do you know what happens when Solomon does this? He no longer treats the people kindly. He becomes cruel, and the people are not happy anymore. This makes Jehovah angry with Solomon, and he tells him: I will not do this in your lifetime, but during the rule of your son.
But I won't take all the people of the kingdom away from your son. What is king Solomon? He reigned some time during the periods of 970 to 931BC.
Solomon was born in Jerusalem and was the son of King David. Compare the accomplishments of king david and king solomon? During Solomon's time, the Israelites enjoyed unequaled prosperity 1 Kings 4: Where was king Solomon from? King David was born from Jesse, whos father was Obed. Hope this is helpful. One of the things King David did is that he dominated the territorybetween Syria and Sinai peninsula and made Jerusalem the Capital.
King Solomon also dominated the territory between Syria and Sinai,he built diplomatic relations, and he wrote proverbs. King Solomon built the First Temple. The Psalms Tehillimwhichwe might call the soul of the Jewish people, express the a comparison of the rulership of king solomon and king david King David and of the entire nation to be close to God.
They areone of the foundations of our prayerbook to this day. He succeeded in all his endeavors 1Samuel 16: The First Temple is actually considered the accomplishment of Davidhimself Rashi commentary, Berakhot 18asince it existed in hismerit Sefer Torat Chaim, commenting on Talmud, Shabbat 30a. Together with the prophet Samuel, helocated the spot where the Temple would be built Talmud, Zevachim54b ; and he dug the foundations for the Temple Talmud, Sukkah53a.
Was king Solomon a good king? King Solomon is King David's son. King David wanted to build the temple but God did not allow it. In the end King Solomon built the temple, but put false idols inside of it. King David was a righteous man before God.
He remained faithful until his death. He praised God through many songs called Psalms.


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H. Raghav Rao, Ph.D
AT&T Distinguished Chair in Infrastructure Assurance and Security
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hr.rao@utsa.edu
Ph.D. Purdue University
MBA Delhi University
B Tech Indian Institute of Technology
Co-editor in chief, Information Systems Frontiers
Dr. H.R. Rao was named the AT&T Distinguished Chair in Infrastructure Assurance and Security at The University of Texas at San Antonio College of Business in January 2016. He also holds a courtesy appointment as full professor in the UTSA Department of Computer Science. Prior to working at UTSA, Professor Rao was the SUNY Distinguished Service Professor at the University at Buffalo. He graduated from Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University.
Professor Rao was inducted into the UTSA Academy of Distinguished Researchers in 2019. His interests are in the areas of management information systems, decision support systems, e-business, emergency response management systems and information assurance. He has chaired sessions at international conferences and presented numerous papers. He also has co-edited four books, including Information Assurance Security and Privacy Services and Information Assurance in Financial Services. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 technical papers, of which more than 125 are published in archival journals.
Professor Rao was the inaugural recipient of The Bright Internet Award for his contributions to the information systems discipline by KMIS, the Korea Society of Management Information Systems. In 2018 Professor Rao was awarded the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Outstanding Service Award for significant service contributions to the field of information systems and information systems security. In November 2016, Professor Rao received the prestigious Information Systems Society Distinguished Fellow Award (Class of 2016) for outstanding intellectual contributions to the information systems discipline.
Rao's work has received best paper and best paper runner up awards at ISR, AMCIS and ICIS. He has received funding for his research from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense and the Canadian Embassy. He also received the Fulbright fellowship in 2004.
Rao is a past chair of IFIP WG 8.11/11.13, the working group for Information Systems Security Research. He is co-editor in chief of Information Systems Frontiers, advisory editor of Decision Support Systems, associate editor of ACM TMIS and senior editor at MIS Quarterly.
He has placed Ph.D. students at Sogang U, UNCG, ASU, USF, FAU, MSU, OK State, FSU, Penn State, University of Warwick and others.
Rao was ranked No. 3 in publication productivity internationally in a 2011 Communications of the Association for Information Systems study. In March 2019, Rao's h-index was 59 and his i-10 index was 165. He is a graduate of the FBI Citizens Academy.
Emergency response management systems
Information assurance
Moore, J. C., H. Raghav Rao and A. B. Whinston, "Information Processing for a Finite Resource Allocation Mechanism." Economic Theory, 1996.
Rao, H. Raghav, A. Chaudhury and M. Chakha, "Modeling Team Processes: Issues and a Specific Example." Information Systems Research, 1996.
Nam, K., A. Chaudhury and H. Raghav Rao, "A Mixed Integer Model of Bidding Strategies for Outsourcing." European Journal of Operational Research, 1995.
Rao, H. Raghav, V. S. Jacob, and F. Lin, "Hemispheric Specialization, Cognitive Differences and Their Implications for Decision Support." MIS Quarterly, June 1992.

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I don't think that Tom will do that.
I don't think Tom will do that.
Не думаю, что Том это сделает.
Nemyslím si, že to Tom udělá.
I don't believe Tom will do that.
Я не думаю, що Том це зробить.


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Hełmogłowik czarny, skoczek hełmiasty (Chiroxiphia galeata) – gatunek małego ptaka z rodziny gorzykowatych (Pipridae). Występuje w centralno-wschodniej Ameryce Południowej – w środkowej i południowej Brazylii, wschodniej Boliwii i wschodnim Paragwaju. Nie jest zagrożony wyginięciem.

 Taksonomia
Gatunek ten, wraz z hełmogłowikiem białym (Chiroxiphia bokermanni), często umieszczany jest w odrębnym rodzaju Antilophia. Nie wyróżnia się podgatunków.

 Środowisko
Lasy galeriowe, rosnące w strefie sawanny wzdłuż rzek.

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Długość ciała wynosi 15 cm, masa ciała 20–25 g. Występuje wyraźny dymorfizm płciowy. Gatunek ten cechuje długi ogon. Samiec jest całkowicie czarny, z wyjątkiem czerwonego pasa ciągnącego się od pleców aż po czoło, zakończonego na czole pędzelkowatym pękiem piór. Samica jest jednolicie oliwkowozielona, lecz również posiada czub.

 Zachowanie
Podobnie jak inne gorzyki, żywi się owocami i owadami. Odzywa się donośnie i gardłowo.

 Lęgi
Okres lęgów przypada na porę deszczową. Buduje czarkowate gniazdo z gałązek i liści, umieszczone na wysokości do 10 m. Samica składa 2 jaja. Według wyników badań przeprowadzonych w 2004 roku okres inkubacji wynosi 20–22 dni, lecz biologia tego gatunku jest słabo poznana. Prawdopodobnie budową gniazda, inkubacją i opieką nad lęgiem zajmuje się jedynie samica.

 Status
IUCN uznaje hełmogłowika czarnego za gatunek najmniejszej troski (LC, Least Concern) nieprzerwanie od 1988 (stan w 2021). Liczebność populacji nie została oszacowana, ale ptak ten opisywany jest jako dość pospolity. Trend liczebności populacji uznawany jest za spadkowy ze względu na utratę siedlisk.

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Understanding Communities by Visiting Them
March 28, 2022 by OTSTeam
Understanding Communities by Visiting Them "As important as our classroom work is, the only way to really understand other communities is to visit them," says Rabbi Dr. Yakov Nagen, director of OTS's Blickle Institute for Interfaith Dialogue and Beit Midrash for Judaism and Humanity, whose fellows set out to meet people of other faiths and …
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January 1, 2005 | Information Technology
Insect-Inspired Flight Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Relatively simple sensory and computing systems would generate remarkably effective control in flight to allow close-up approach to hard terrain.
Flight-control and navigation systems inspired by the structure and function of the visual system and brain of insects have been proposed for a class of developmental miniature robotic aircraft called "biomorphic flyers" described earlier in "Development of Biomorphic Flyers" (NPO-30554), NASA Tech Briefs, Vol. 28, No. 11 (November 2004), page 54. These form a subset of biomorphic explorers, which, as reported in several articles in past issues of NASA Tech Briefs ["Biomorphic Explorers" (NPO-20142), Vol. 22, No. 9 (September 1998), page 71; "Bio-Inspired Engineering of Exploration Systems" (NPO-21142), Vol. 27, No. 5 (May 2003), page 54; and "Cooperative Lander-Surface/Aerial Microflyer Missions for Mars Exploration" (NPO-30286), Vol. 28, No. 5 (May 2004), page 36], are proposed small robots, equipped with microsensors and communication systems, that would incorporate crucial functions of mobility, adaptability, and even cooperative behavior. These functions are inherent to biological organisms but are challenging frontiers for technical systems. Biomorphic flyers could be used on Earth or remote planets to explore otherwise difficult or impossible to reach sites. An example of an exploratory task of search/surveillance functions currently being tested is to obtain high-resolution aerial imagery, using a variety of miniaturized electronic cameras.
The control functions to be implemented by the systems in development include holding altitude, avoiding hazards, following terrain, navigation by reference to recognizable terrain features, stabilization of flight, and smooth landing. Flying insects perform these and other functions remarkably well, even though insect brains contains fewer than 10-4 as many neurons as does the human brain. Although most insects have immobile, fixed-focus eyes and lack stereoscopy (and hence cannot perceive depth directly), they utilize a number of ingenious strategies for perceiving, and navigating in, three dimensions. Despite their lack of stereoscopy, insects infer distances to potential obstacles and other objects from image motion cues that result from their own motions in the environment. The concept of motion of texture in images as a source of motion cues is denoted generally as the concept of optic or optical flow. Computationally, a strategy based on optical flow is simpler than is stereoscopy for avoiding hazards and following terrain. Hence, this strategy offers the potential to design vision-based control computing subsystems that would be more compact, would weigh less, and would demand less power than would subsystems of equivalent capability based on a conventional stereoscopic approach.
These control loops for stabilizing attitude and/or holding altitude would include optoelectronic ocelli and would be based partly on dragonfly ocelli-simple eyes that exist in addition to the better-known compound eyes of insects. In many insects the ocelli only detect changes in light intensity and have minimal observable effect on flight. In dragonflies, the ocelli play an important role in stabilizing attitude with respect to dorsal light levels. The control loops to be implemented would incorporate elements of both dragonfly ocellar functions and optical flow computation as derived from principles observed in honeybee flight.
On Earth, bees use sky polarization patterns in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum as a direction reference relative to the position of the Sun. A robotic direction-finding technique based on this concept is more robust in comparison with a simple Sun compass because the ultraviolet polarization pattern is distributed across the entire sky on Earth and is redundant and hence can be extrapolated from a small region of clear sky in an elsewhere cloudy sky that hides the Sun.
A bee tends to adjust its flight speed to maintain a constant optical flow (that is, a constant angular velocity of the image of the environment) over its compound eye (see figure). Consistent with this strategy, a bee utilizes the following simple control laws when approaching a landing site on a flat surface:
The optical flow of the surface is held constant throughout the descent.
Forward speed is held proportional to vertical speed throughout the descent.
This simple combination of control laws enables a smooth landing with minimal computation. The forward speed and rate of descent are reduced together, and are both close to zero at touchdown. No knowledge or measurement of instantaneous speed or height above the ground are necessary. This combination of control laws can readily be modified for a biomorphic flyer, which has a nonzero stalling speed.
This work was done by Sarita Thakoor of Caltech for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and by G. Stange, M. Srinivasan, and Javaan Chahl of Australian National University and Butler Hine and Steven Zornetzer of Ames Research Center for the NASA Intelligent Systems Program. For further information, access the Technical Support Package (TSP) free on-line at www.techbriefs.com/tsp under the Information Sciences category. NPO-30545
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In Gaza Strip, fish farms bring relief to seafood lovers of long-blockaded territory
Fares Akram, The Associated Press June 9, 2015
KHAN YUNIS, Palestinian Territories – The Gaza Strip, with a 40-kilometre (25-mile) Mediterranean coastline, was always known for its seafood until Israel restricted the fishing area.
As a result, Palestinians have begun importing fish and other seafood from Israel or Egypt and building fish farms.
Israel imposed a blockade on Gaza in 2006 after Hamas militants captured an Israeli soldier and tightened the closure the following year after Hamas seized control of the territory. Israel says the restrictions are needed to prevent Hamas, a militant group sworn to its destruction, from smuggling weapons into the territory. The sides have fought three wars since the Hamas takeover.
At times of heightened tensions, the fishing zone was barely three nautical miles. Today, it is six miles, still half of the pre-blockade distance.
The fish farms have helped bring down prices of the popular sea bream fish. But another popular item, shrimp, remains extremely expensive, costing up to $25 a kilogram ($11 a pound).
Rezek al-Salmi, who worked at an Israeli fishery for 20 years, is trying to change this. He has built Gaza's first shrimp farm in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
In 2014, Gaza fishermen caught only two tons of fish from the sea, meeting a small fraction of Gaza's needs, said Walid Thabet of Gaza's Agriculture Ministry. There are four commercial fish farms in Gaza, most of them producing bream. Last year, they produced 220 tons, Thabet said. Other fish is imported from Israel.
Fish Fresh, the largest grower of bream in Gaza, serves everyday people and restaurants.
"This place is a wonderful alternative to the sea for fresh fish," customer Ibrahim Moussa said.
Rafah restaurant owner Abu el-Amir Zurob said rough seas can limit catches. "Sometimes there is no fish for five days, so there is nothing but these farms to get the fish. They helped us so much."
But not everyone is welcoming the farms. "When there is a lot of fish, when the farms produce so much, its price goes down," said Sami al-Hessi, a fisherman.


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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, 5 October 2018 – Ford and its local distribution partner, Sime Darby Auto Connexion (SDAC), once again hosted a safe driver training programme to corporate partners and members of the public through the long-standing Ford Global Driving Skills for Life (DSFL) programme.
The training sessions were held at the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang (MAEPS) where more than 50 licensed drivers – including corporate partners, participated in two half-day workshops.
According to the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS), nearly 81 percent of road accidents in Malaysia are caused by driver error, such as unsuitable speed management or impaired driving.
Therefore, the Ford Driving Skills for Life programme aims to educate licensed drivers of all ages how to drive safely through practical, hands on experiences, provided free-or-charge, helping them become safer, more aware drivers.
The DSFL workshops addresses various driver risks, such as dealing with unexpected scenarios, speed and space management as well as raises awareness on distracted driving caused by mobile phone use or drowsiness.
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"Road safety is a very serious issue and a top priority for us at Ford and SDAC. Apart from ensuring that our vehicles continue to comply with and exceed safety standards, we also consider it our responsibility to implement public awareness initiatives to promote safety. We are proud to be part of this programme and continue to help reinforce best practices for safe driving among Malaysian motorists," said Syed Ahmad Muzri Syed Faiz, Managing Director, Sime Darby Auto Connexion.
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The DSFL safety training workshop has successfully reached over 100 Malaysian licensed drivers this year alone, with scheduled workshops taking place since August. Participants comprised inexperienced young drivers and professional drivers from various private companies.


In their second year trying out Canadian mixed doubles, Wilfrid Laurier curling alumna Kerilynn Mathers and fifth-year lead Fraser Reid were the first team on the waiting list.
The pair played together during the Ontario Curling Association Mixed Doubles Challenge, where they made it to the quarter-finals in the event. By doing so, and with all of their other points they accumulated this year, the team placed 33rd in the country. With the top 32 teams getting an invite to the 2016 Canadian Mixed Doubles Championship, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan from Mar. 31 to Apr. 3, Mathers and Reid are the first team on the waiting list.
After taking a one-year hiatus from the sport, Reid and Mathers decided to take the alternative to the traditional curling game more seriously this year. Reid said it's a nice change from constantly playing curling with four players.
Mixed doubles is an addition to the game of curling, but with some minor changes to the traditional four-person game. Instead of each team throwing eight rocks, only five rocks are thrown and two rocks are already in play. The team who has hammer has a rock in the house whereas the team without hammer starts with a guard. There aren't any hits until halfway through the game either — each team must throw five rocks before any rocks can leave play.
And of course, the teams are only pairs.
Mathers said that now that curling is transitioning from more of a social environment to an Olympic sport, teams are putting a lot more emphasis on the game and trying to figure it out to gain an advantage.
This was also an opportunity for the partners to curl together.
Reid and Mathers played together two years ago when mixed doubles was first introduced, but they only played for fun and used the time to try and learn the new sport. Last year, they took a break from it because their schedules didn't sync up.
Mathers said one of the difficulties of mixed doubles is how much more mental preparation goes into it. She said that when she misses a shot, she has three teammates that could pick her up. But mixed doubles are a little different. When she's in the hack by herself, she has to be able to rebound as quickly as possible without that support of teammates right away.
During the mixed doubles event, the duo discovered some things about each other that wasn't as prevalent before — like Mathers' competitive spirit.
"I have a really competitive personality so, I had to put that aside a little," she continued.
Mathers continued that there were a lot of times that Reid had to save her during an end, but they found what works for them with Reid having a background in playing lead and skip and Mathers having a background in playing second and vice.
"I like to say I was, but there was a lot of times where he had to save me, so no, especially because one player throws the first and fifth stone and one player throws the middle three, we found what works best for us in Fraser throwing one and five and me throwing two, three and four," she said.
So out of the two, who shoots better? Reid puts it this way — he understands the strategy better, but Mathers throws harder.


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Cal women's basketball advances to next round of Pac-12 Tournament with 66-63 win against Utah
Kevin Cheung/File
By Kapil Kashyap | Senior Staff
Cal women's basketball seeks 4 wins at Pac-12 Tournament to secure bid for NCAA Tournament
Cal women's basketball loses regular season finale, 54-44, to No. 7 Oregon State
Cal women's basketball posts strong win over Oregon at home, 65-54
When freshman Kristine Anigwe, Cal's leading scorer, fouled out with one minute and 51 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter, things looked bleak for the Bears. Anigwe carried the team's offense through much of the fourth quarter, and with the score tied, Cal would need to dig deep to pull out a victory.
Fast-forward 20 minutes, and the Bears have possession with less than 20 seconds left in overtime. The game is tied 63-63. The inbounds pass goes to sophomore forward Mikayla Cowling, who steps back and launches a mid-range jumper as the shot clock expires. Cowling's shot crashes through the bottom of the net, giving Cal a 65-63 lead with 17 seconds left. On Utah's next possession, freshman MaAne Mosley picks off a pass to seal the game for the Bears.
Third time's the charm.
After losing both regular season contests against Utah, the Bears pulled out a thrilling 66-63 overtime victory Thursday against the Utes when they needed it most. With the victory, Cal will be moving on in the Pac-12 Tournament, and its postseason hopes stay alive.
The matchup between the Bears and Utah started off as a back-and-forth battle in the first quarter. After Utah's leading scorer Emily Potter scored the first points of the game with a jumper, Anigwe responded with a bucket of her own on the ensuing offensive possession. Even though the Utes led for most of the quarter, the Bears never let the game get away from them, and closed out the period with the game tied 13-13.
Cal claimed its first lead of the game in the second quarter when Cowling hit her first, and only, three-pointer of the game to put the Bears up 18-13. With three minutes left in the quarter, the Bears led 22-20 until an offensive barrage from Utah put it up 30-22. After the Utes' 10-0 run, junior forward Courtney Range hit a pair of free throws to end the half for the Bears 30-24.
The Bears trailed for most of the third quarter but began to bridge the deficit in the fourth quarter. Anigwe, with four fouls, was forced to sit out early in the period, so Cal needed to look to other players for offensive production. The Bears held Utah scoreless for a critical three-minute stretch with a strong defensive effort in Anigwe's absence. Once Anigwe returned to the floor, she drew fouls on two consecutive offensive trips, converting all four free-throws. Soon after, however, she committed her fifth and final foul of the game.
Anigwe fouling out was a huge loss for the Bears, but several players stepped up in her absence. Sophomore forward Penina Davidson collected nine rebounds and finished the game with three blocks, including a crucial block on Utah's Malia Nawahine in overtime. Arguably, the Bears' top defensive player of the game was Gabby Green, whose length and ability to play the passing lanes were essential to Cal's victory. Green finished with three steals, all in the fourth quarter and overtime at pivotal junctures of the game.
On a night when their postseason dreams depended on it, the Bears delivered. The road to the March tournament still requires three victories over tough Pac-12 opponents, but the Bears' resilience in this game and their ability to execute in crunch time has to be a huge confidence boost for the team.
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All voters in San Diego County will be asked to weigh in on Measure A on their Nov. 8 ballots. It would tax cannabis businesses in unincorporated areas specified amounts, generating an estimated $2.9 million to $5.6 million a year. Here two essays argue either side of a measure that the San Diego County Board of Supervisors placed on the ballot.
Barnett is the former executive director of the San Diego County Taxpayers Association and president of TaxpayersAdvocate.org. He lives in Pacific Beach.
In 2016, San Diego County voters overwhelmingly legalized the sale and consumption of cannabis for adults under California Proposition 64. These voters helped create the opportunity for cities and the county of San Diego to develop procedures for permitting, inspection and enforcement of how many and where retail cannabis sites could be located. In addition, local government was given the ability to tax cannabis stores.
Unfortunately, while the city of San Diego and several cities in the region created processes for permitting, regulating and taxing legal cannabis dispensaries, until recently, the San Diego County of Board of Supervisors, for ideological and political reasons, refused to implement state and local voters' wishes. Ironically, past board opposition to permitting legal cannabis stores resulted in scores of illegal pot shops opening, often near schools, parks and churches.
All voters in San Diego County will be asked to weigh in on Measure A on their Nov. 8 ballots. It would tax cannabis businesses in unincorporated areas specified amounts, generating an estimated $2.9 million to $5.6 million a year.
Between now and early October when voting gets underway, The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board is planning to publish dozens of candidate Q&As and nearly two dozen commentaries connected to a handful of San Diego city ballot measures and seven state propositions on the Nov. 8 election. Keep checking back as we fill in this voter guide.
Sheriff's raids of these illegal facilities — in retail centers and residential neighborhoods — have uncovered drug dispensaries often run by organized crime and gangs. Law enforcement officers have seized pot laced with dangerous chemicals and automatic weapons, and uncovered money-laundering operations.
This unregulated environment forced local governments to divert tens of millions of law enforcement dollars from other law activities — such as firefighting, auto theft, robbery and violent crime — to investigate, stake out, raid and prosecute these criminal organizations. Instead of effective, planned and budgeted operations, local law enforcement has often been forced to play whack-a-mole in reacting to these illegal pot shops.
The election of 2020 resulted in the seating of a progressive board majority, led by Supervisor Nathan Fletcher, who, along with Supervisors Terra Lawson-Remer and Nora Vargas, supported the permitting and placement of legal cannabis stores, with a clear community-based approval process. At the same time, newly elected East County Supervisor Joel Anderson has indicated his support of retail cannabis locations, but only after his board colleagues agreed to provide several million dollars annually for the Sheriff's Department and District Attorney's Office to close down illegal pot shops and prosecute the criminal operators. Illegal pot shops, including ones in Spring Valley and Lakeside, were shuttered.
After years of dithering, the new San Diego County Board of Supervisors finally started taking a comprehensive approach to cannabis.
Measure A on the Nov. 8 ballot advances safe, regulated and legal adult cannabis dispensaries, promotes social equity and taxes the cannabis businesses. This tax will only impact the county's unincorporated region — excluding the city of San Diego and the 17 other incorporated cities. To be clear, existing cannabis stores within any city in the region, including cities which already impose a tax (San Diego, Oceanside, La Mesa, Lemon Grove and Vista), will not be affected by these taxes.
Measure A tax is not a sales or use tax on cannabis users. The taxes will be paid solely by cannabis business owners, including retail businesses. It will not be charged directly to the consumer. And unlike sales taxes, which go to the state of California with a small portion returning to San Diego, Measure A's tax revenues will stay within San Diego County, being deposited directly into the county's general fund.
These general revenues proposed in Measure A can be used for parks, fighting fires, roads, homeless services and sheriff's enforcement, and these new tax revenues will allow the Board of Supervisors to fully fund the permitting, regulation and inspection of legal cannabis stores.
And most importantly, there will finally be a steady funding source for law enforcement and prosecutors to shut down illegal pot shops, and to arrest and prosecute organized drug and gang operations.
Measure A is fiscally responsible. By imposing a tax on cannabis businesses, the county's budget will be protected from any new costs associated with cannabis regulation, protecting resources for investment in our communities, public health and social equity programs.
Measure A is bipartisan. Urban progressive Democrats, joined by an East County conservative Republican, will allow for safe, regulated and legal adult cannabis markets in San Diego County. It is finally time to fulfill the will of state and San Diego County voters. Vote "yes" on Measure A.


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Her talk is at 2 p.m. Thursday at The Loft in the Price Center. There are snacks! Register to attend here — it's free — and I may see you there.
Participation! If you attend, tell us about it. How does her perspective align with ours? How does it differ — what can her art and activism add to our discussions?
Yesterday I attended Art Power's event at the loft featuring Favianna Rodriguez. She is a pioneer in arts and activism who is shattering stereotypes in gender, race, art, food, sexuality, politics, and mental health. Her AMAZING, abstract art is blowing up and with that recognition comes more tolerance and acceptance for her message. In spite of lack of tools from parents, Favianna told us how art was her way out. She talked about the power of storytelling through film, art, fashion, sports, music, food and music as a means to creating social movement. It was inspiring to hear about the history of activism the past decade and the increasing dialogue in the past couple of years with "Me too," "Times Up," and "Black Lives Matters," movements. Although political change may happen at a slow rate, I was reminded by Favianna that culture has in-fact shifted, and there is no turning back. The power is in hidden in the story of the people. Creativity and culture is the most effective medium for bringing about awareness and social change. I would highly reccomend checking out her amazing artwork and content in her website link!
I attended Favianna's presentation yesterday and it was very interesting! Unfortunately, I had to leave early because I had class but I truly learned so much and felt very empowered and inspired by her! Favianna talked about how she started creating art in order to funnel and express her anger of the discrimination and abuse of brown and black Americans in Oakland and the United States overall. She is a big supporter and believer in equality in all aspects of life including eco-feminism, LGBTQIA+ and sexual freedom. She first became an activist when her high school campus was not allowing posters of Cesar Chavez to be put up and that's when she had enough and wanted to make a change. She discussed how culture shapes our imaginations and how it's the backing behind what's wrong economically and politically. She described how we can change culture through our storytelling, so we can show the problems in our environment. She also talked about how art allows us to see the bigger picture, can bring diverse thinkers and speakers together, as well as inspire and bring communities together. Something that really resonated with me from her talk was she explained how before Oakland became completely taken over by gentrification, when graffiti was everywhere in the 90s, there was one graffiti art that stated "Oakland is proud" and she said that she saw herself as a reflection of that and that's what helped shape her identity. Though Favianna has a passion for art and we are more focused on music, music and art still go hand-in-hand and I believe her art and activism definitely brings a lot to the table for us. She uses both the transmission and ritual view by getting her message across of equality for all and taking a stand against the white man in power through her art and brings together ritual in communities of people that also have a passion to art in whatever form that may be that maybe also want their voices to be heard and haven't known how to express it before. She demonstrates supplementation by taking ideas she has always had and the ideologies she values and putting it towards action which is allowing others to further hear her message and evoke the same response. Favianna demonstrates her protest through her art. Some final thoughts that I could leave us on are her statements of how "in the space of action we are about the (no)" and she asked us "what does my yes look like and how do I make that happen?" And another question of hers that I believe kind of ties into our class pretty well and life in general is "how do we show the world what we want and not just what we're against?"


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Another 'Hot Jupiter' found – a giant 'inflated' planet orbiting a star bigger than our Sun
Astronomers Have Discovered An Alien World Habited By One Of The Most Inflated Giant Planet Which Is Orbiting A Star, 2.4 Times Larger Than Our Sun. A Giant Exoworld That Expands In Size When Its Parent Star Is At The End Of Its Life Is Called Inflated.'
News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Bindiya Bhatt | Updated on: 23 Aug 2016, 03:52:01 PM
Astronomers have discovered an alien world habited by one of the most inflated giant planet which is orbiting a star, 2.4 times larger than our Sun. A giant exoworld that expands in size when its parent star is at the end of its life is called "inflated." The exoplanet designated KELT-12b was spotted by a team of researchers led by Daniel Stevens of the Ohio State University in the US.
The newly found alien world is orbiting a mildly evolved, 2 billion-year-old star KELT-12 that is about 2.4 times larger than our Sun and has a mass of about 1.59 solar masses.
The planet orbits in just five days and is less massive than Jupiter, having about 0.95 the mass of the solar system's gas giant, 'Phys.org' reported.
However, its radius is much larger than astronomers have expected - about 1.79 Jupiter radii. This relatively large radius, combined with an extremely low density at a level of just 0.21 grammes per cubic centimetre indicates that KELT-12b is an inflated exoplanet.
This inflation process is very often seen in the so-called "hot Jupiters" - gas giant planets similar in characteristics to the solar system's biggest planet, with orbital periods of less than 10 days.
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Kim Kardashian went to Wyoming to tell Kanye that 'their marriage is over'
Kanye West, Kim Kardashian
"Sources close to Kim Kardashian" have been talking to People Magazine quite consistently for the past two weeks, starting right after Kanye West's "campaign stop" in South Carolina a few weekends ago. Because of those People stories, we know that Kim and Kanye were not in a good place even before his current manic episode, and we know that they were already talking about separation and divorce. I've been saying for months now that Kim and Kanye live separate lives and that their marriage only seemed to function when they were truly separated. Page Six confirms that Kanye absolutely sees Wyoming as his home and his base, while Kim has been staying in LA like always. Now People Mag has another story about how Kim is contemplating divorce because she feels trapped:
Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West's future remains unclear. The couple reunited for the first time in person on Monday after Kardashian flew to Cody, Wyoming, to visit the rapper, whose behavior in recent weeks has been increasingly erratic, including divulging deeply personal details about his family and marriage. In photos, the reality star, 39, was seen crying in the car with West, 43, and a source tells PEOPLE she "feels that she has tried everything."
"She isn't getting back what she needs from Kanye," says the source. "She was to the point that she flew to Cody to basically tell him their marriage is over and to say goodbye."
According to the source, it seems West still wants to work on the marriage — he recently apologized to his wife on Twitter — but hasn't yet taken steps to repair the relationship. The two share four children: daughters North, 7, and Chicago, 2, as well as sons Saint, 4, and 14-month-old Psalm.
"He doesn't seem to get what she is saying," the source says. "He hasn't changed anything that she told him needs to change."
"Kim is very torn," the source adds. "The last thing she wants is to be divorced with four kids. She knows that she will be fine financially, but her concerns are the kids and the partnership. She is moving towards a divorce, but who knows if she will actually sign papers."
[From People]
"He doesn't seem to get what she is saying. He hasn't changed anything that she told him needs to change." Yeah but he's literally in a manic state right now. Again, I have no doubt that Kim is frustrated and worn out, but she knows well enough that Kanye is in the throes of a manic episode. She's seen it many times before. She can tell him what she needs and she can tell him what changes he should make to keep their marriage intact, but… it's probably like talking to a brick wall at this point.
That's the larger conclusion she'll have to come to – that she doesn't have the strength to support him emotionally and do everything else, like raise their four children and manage her businesses, etc. Kim is spent. And yes, I do think she'll file for divorce in the next few months. My guess is that she'll wait because she doesn't want to serve him with papers while he's in the middle of a manic episode, and I also think she's legitimately worried that she could trigger an even worse episode.
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41 Responses to "Kim Kardashian went to Wyoming to tell Kanye that 'their marriage is over'"
Watson says:
I just feel so sad for their kids. Mental health issues playing out on a public scale makes my stomach turn.
Katrine Troelsen says:
Yeah its sad for the kids. My mom is mentally ill and thats ok, the real issue is help thats there but being refused. thats what hurts. I hope Kanye gets help if not for himself, for his kids.
TBH these kids are doomed already. You just can not recover from your mother being Kim K., your father Kanye W. and your grandmother Kris J.
What are they "doomed" to? Growing up rich and having every possible opportunity available to them?
the biggest delusion yet: that growing up rich and having every possible opportunity available equals good parenting.
Ennie says:
I don't know about "doom", but what is "every opportunity"? They all (Kardashian-Jenners apparently had every opportunity growing up And they ended up wanting to be famous for nothing, wanting to be girlfriends Or side pieces of famous men, getting opportunities derived from a sex tape, disliking studying.
I understand that some women want this as a way to improve their lives, like some of those who have raised from performing in clubs and now are entrepreneurs, but these women (and the brother) had other chances in life.
Plenty of rich people with shallow aspirations.
Escondista says:
Many of the people I grew up with who had extreme wealth and every opportunity afforded to them crashed their BMWs and got injured and died of overdoses of expensive drugs or were seriously cripplingly depressed. Their parents were constantly buying them things rather than spending genuine and joyful time with them. Is this true of all wealthy families? Nah. Do I feel sorry for them? Only a little. But the K crew strikes me as likely to have disconnected and sad children.
MM2 says:
Lots of kids grow up in non-healthy environments & grow up to be resilient, kind, wise people. Saying young children are doomed & they cannot recover is pretty sick. It's not honesty, it's just gross projection onto a young child.
I don't think they're doomed, but I hope as they grow up they get to see a path outside of their "family business" and are able to decide for themselves what they want to do and what's important to them. That family, for everything they have, doesn't seem to value much beyond fame, money, and physical appearance, so I hope the kids move beyond that.
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Amber says:
I don't think that's fair to Kim. I'm not saying she's mom of the year or anything but I believe she loves her children and has been doing all she can to protect them from Kanye's problems. And yes they were born to wealth and privilege. That doesn't mean they will turn out lazy or depressed. That's like saying that children born in poverty are all automatically resilient and stoic and hardworking. That's not true either. The quality of their relationships with caregivers, the broader support system available to them, their own ingrained personality traits–all of these things impact the way a child turns out. People are just taking the opportunity to pile judgment and shame onto Kim while she's facing a legitimate crisis in her life. Just like they did when she was robbed in Paris.
Jaded says:
@Mac – growing up rich with everything handed to you on a silver platter does not guarantee happiness. Look what happened to Benjamin Keough. All the Kardashian offspring seem to have had unstable, chaotic relationships with the people they got romantically involved with and had families with. Not a good start to life for their children to be raised around that kind of instability, it can create a whole host of problems as they grow up.
@Mac: Donald Trump grew up rich with his dad being a sociopath and his mother being absent. Now guess how that turned out. He might have become just half the incompetent a-hole he is if his parents were more loving.
You can't force someone to get help who doesn't want help. He refuses treatment even when he's not in a manic episode, so at some point Kim has to decide to keep fishing or cut bait.
I agree. When anyone who has been through it before refuses to take meds, it's putting the entire family through hell.
Mia4s says:
Ah yes, Source Kardashian. The lost Kardashian sister. 🙄
I get it, she's laying the groundwork for when she files. The reality is though she's got 18 years minimum of issues and a connection to Kanye at his best and worst to come; because he is the father of those kids. Even if he has no interest in being a present father, he is certainly not going to suddenly become a private person. This is not going to be the usual Kardashian eye-roll worthy scandal. It's going to be very sad, mostly for those kids.
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cisne says:
you got it right!!!☝👍
KellyKellyKell says:
I hope she gets out ASAP for herself and the kids. If he says the shit he say about Kim to the media/twitter, he's probably said some horrific things to her face and maybe even the kids. My mom choose to stay with my dad for a long time and he was very verbally abusive to me and my brothers & her main excuse was she thought he would get better with his depression and addiction to self medicating with opioids but me & my brothers suffered. Idk about Kim & Kanye but I can just imagine he probably told North to her face once about the whole abortion story. I get wanting to help him, but he doesn't want to help himself or see the harm he's causing other. It's just selfish behaviour along with mental health.
Merricat says:
If you think you can't be brilliant without your illness, that's your illness talking. Has he produced some brilliant art while manic? Maybe. Has every manic episode delivered genius? Nope. I hope Kanye realizes what he's sacrificed unnecessarily in the name of art. Also, thank you for using the word "throes" correctly.
SpiritedMisfit says:
As a nurse specializing in mental health, having cyclothymia (a step below true bipolar), and also having an unmedicated bipolar SO, I feel for her. It can be extremely difficult, especially emotionally. I'm sure part of her conversation with him was that he needs to get on medication(s) and get his mood stabilized. At the same time, I understand where Kanye is coming from. The medications make you feel numb, and like you're on autopilot all the time. You don't truly feel much. Marriage aside, for the sake of their children, he really needs to. A balance can be found so that his manic episodes aren't so intense, and he's not so erratic. I have no doubt he loves their children. But in the throws of a manic episode, he's a danger not just to himself, but them as well. I believe that's something Kim knows very well, which is why she and Kanye seem to live separate lives. His manic episodes appear to be too frequent, and exceptionally intense. I don't blame her if she files, and waits until this current episode subsides in order to do so. She needs to do what's best for their children. At least within a divorce, she can have Kanye' mentally evaluated, and stipulate he be medicated if he's going to be around their children, for their safety and well-being. While I'm not a Kardasian shipper, or a fan of hers in the slightest, I do believe she truly loves her children, and puts them above all else.
BayTampaBay says:
I hope Kim takes all her Yeezy clothes out into her backyard and has a bonfire.
minx says:
OMG I was just going to say the same. Those clothes are an eyesore.
Sparkle says:
Same! I loved Kim's original style. Interested to see what her style will be without Kanye's FUG Fashion influence
Sparkle, just less tacky. Still tacky AF.
Very tacky, she has no idea how to dress.
Buttons2122 says:
Exactly! she has made all the friends she needed in the fashion world so it is now time to cut the ties for those who don't fall in line.
enike says:
why magazines keep referring to Saint as a boy? Isnt she a girl? Its like the second time I saw it, so I got confused
North and Chicago are girls, Saint and Psalm are boys.
From left to right in the photo with her 3 kids and baby on the hip it goes North, Kim, Chicago, Saint. Psalm is not pictured.
Kayleigh says:
Imagine your dad having a worldwide platform to tell the world that your mother considered aborting you, and that your grandmother is the devil. As stated by @MIA4S, no matter what, Kanye is still going to be their father, present in their lives or not, and he will still be a public figure. If he continues this way, married to Kim or not, the things he says to the world about their family, still has to impact the kids.
His behavior as a father is atrocious at this point. The way he speaks about aborting his daughter and trashing the mother and grandmother of his children all the while abandoning his small children to be "creative" and unmedicated states away during a pandemic is shameful. Kanye's priority is Kanye. Whatever his personal problems are with Kim and Kris he should keep his mouth shut for the sake of his children who love their mother and their grandmother.
Forget Kanye no wonder Kim is considring divorce
Sounds like he has moved out and lives separately in Wyoming. Long distance husband and long distance "father" is no partner at all.
I don't blame her for not moving to Wyoming on Kanyes whim. Her career is in California as is her family and her children's schools etc. Kanye acts like everything should revolve around him and his need for "creativity" in Wyoming when he hasnt had a hit song in years and his fashion line is a laughing stock. Does he even care to visit his kids? He abandoned them to be "creative" and un medicated in Wyoming. Thats all on him. What a crappy father to bail out on his kids like that. Spent more time with Justin Beiber This month than his own kids
He must be so hard to live with and deal with even when living states apart.
Lwt00 says:
She is laying the groundwork for a custody case. CA is a default 50/50 state, and it takes a lot to get the court to change that. These visits, likely text condos, etc. are what she will need to fight for full or majority custody. And she should; he's clearly not capable of taking care of himself, much less children.
I imagine the "things that need to change" are he needs to commit to medication and therapy, both of which probably hamper his creativity, so he won't do either.
If we think the terrible things he's said up til now are bad, just wait for the actual divorce. He's always had an incredible ego. He's going to go after her viciously, whether he's conscious of it or not.
nicegirl says:
"As if I didn't know that, as if I didn't know my own bed" Paul Simon
Lala11_7 says:
Kim needs to decide if she wants to spend the rest of her life on THIS roller coaster…because THIS is how it will be…
I wish her luck with that decision…Me and my first husband (high school sweetheart 💕) ultimately divorced because he had bipolar and schizophrenia on BOTH sides of his family and his Mama was OFF. THE. CHAIN with her bipolar diagnosis…she would stay on her meds for 9 months of the year which coincided with him being in school…but by the end of MAY…it was HELL TOWN until August when she would go back on her meds..on one hand…I understood because the meds made her feel dead inside…but the horror of her actions when she was off the meds…left us ALL decimated…I told him at age 17 that we couldn't have kids because I had ALREADY seen his cousins and aunts and they ALL had serious psychological issues…I said we could adopt…he agreed at 17…but changed his mind by the time we were 21…I couldn't do it…and ultimately we divorced…he did finally have children…..and no…they weren't spared from his family's legacy…
When I think about it…I STILL want to cry…
Jensies says:
That's so sad, Lala11_7. Thank you for sharing. What a tough decision.
coolspray says:
No comment on their marriage, but my GOODNESS, their children are so BEAUTIFUL!
MariaKate says:
Oh poor poor multi-billionaires, get a divorce and get over yourselves.
Trying to stay current during the pandemic on their private jets and vacations!
Most Americans trying not to get sick with the Covid, they are making us sick.
This is SO sad. They both live and die by their egos, and the Twitter trash-talk had to've been the one unforgivable thing for her. "I've gotten it all my life from everyone around me, but from YOU? We're supposed to be on the same side!" It's horrible. He isn't in his right mind.


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A professor of Jewish history and the Head of the Institute for the History of Polish Jewry and Israel-Poland Relations at Tel Aviv University, Dr. Dreifuss also serves as the Director of the Center for Research on the Holocaust in Poland at the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, Israel. Her path-breaking research deals with various aspects of everyday life during the Holocaust, including the relationship between Jews and Poles, religious life in light of the Holocaust, and Jewish existence in the face of extermination. Dr. Dreifuss' "We Polish Jews"? The Relations between Jews and Poles during the Holocaust – The Jewish Perspective (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009) made a critically important contribution to the ongoing public and scholarly debates over the Shoah in German-occupied Poland. Her latest book, on which the talk will be based, The Warsaw Ghetto - The End (April 1942 - June 1943), just won the Shazar Prize for the Study of Jewish History.
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I cannot seem to find any installation instructions on this. Does anyone have any info how to do this?
Does the latest Native Connector from the download site 1 work for my old version of JBoss?
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A: 0)  Stop jboss
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In-car applications and wireless connectivity are a boon to hackers who take aim at cars.
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As more cars come with wireless connectivity and in-car apps, more of them will be vulnerable to potentially dangerous hacking, two well-known researchers warned at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
In a study of nearly 20 different vehicles, Charlie Miller, a security engineer with Twitter, and Chris Valasek, director of vehicle security research with security services firm ioActive, concluded that most control systems were not designed with security in mind and could be compromised remotely. The pair created cybersecurity ratings for the vehicles, which will be published in a paper later this week.
"When you are looking to buy a car, you can pick up a magazine and it will tell you, 'Here are the safety features of this car,'" Valasek said. "Why can't we, as the security industry, start making reports that say, 'These cars have good cybersecurity and these cars don't have good cybersecurity'?"
As the automotive industry has added more digital control systems and embedded computers, vehicles have become easier to hack. In 2011, researchers from the University of Washington and the University of California San Diego analyzed a midpriced sedan, discovering that it could be compromised via either a disk inserted in its CD player, the diagnostic equipment used by mechanics, or a cellular connection.
Since then, other research groups have studied car security and demonstrated ways to take control of brakes, acceleration, and other functions. High-end vehicles often have computerized control of the brakes and acceleration, for collision prevention and intelligence cruise control, and automated steering to allow self-parking and the ability to remain centered in a lane.
Attacks on automotive control systems involve three steps, according to Valasek and Miller. An attacker must first find a way to exploit a vehicle system, then use that vulnerability to send a command to the electronic control unit (ECU), and finally get the ECU to execute the command.
Because of the proliferation of wireless access in vehicles, especially Bluetooth and cellular connectivity, remote execution is increasingly possible. The feasibility of sending commands to the electronic control units that manage different vehicle functions depends on the design of the car.
Car companies need to design their systems to detect exploitation attempts and prevent security from being compromised, Miller said: "You want to make each of these three steps harder for the attacker."
But with car manufacturers competing on features, the addition of in-car applications from navigation to streaming music could leave more vehicles vulnerable, Miller added. "In-car apps and desktop-like features pose huge upcoming threats," he said.
Designing security into vehicles is especially important because applying software patches is problematic. Updating the software in a car means bringing the vehicle to a dealer for service, a step that most owners will not take.
"When you get [recall] notices in mail, you ignore them," Valasek said. "It is going to be really hard, if a real live exploit comes out, to patch the problem."
by Robert Lemos