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Thursday, March 19, 2015, 07:00 AM
Mehdi Hasan has published a critique of the article by Graeme Wood in the Atlantic ("What ISIS Really wants"), How Islamic is Islamic State? in the New Statesman this week, with the rhetorical implication that it is really not Islamic at all (Mehdi's byline, "The conventional wisdom suggests a violent reading of the Quran is at the heart of Islamic State's political violence – but it's wrong."). When the Atlantic article appeared, I described it as important because it highlights the aspects of ISIS that appeal to its potential recruits. However Mehdi Hasan considers that Wood's article is intended to support the illiberal view that the problem with ISIS is actually a problem that the West has with Islam, and that it is poorly researched. My endorsement of Wood's Atlantic article is that the key information he does present, does demonstrate ISIS's use of millenarian and faux-Salafi theology. Mehdi Hasan points out that in reality ISIS is a cobbled together allegiance of AQ splinters, former Ba'athists and organised criminal gangs, not a theological movement. He is probably right, but Ba'athism doesn't have a following in the West, and organised crime is, one might say, a law unto itself. The arguments, rationale and propaganda that draw Western Muslims to ISIS, are very much a theological problem that Muslims must face down, and which ISIS has manipulated intelligently.
I would probably agree with much of what Mehdi Hasan has written elsewhere, and the citations he makes in this New Statesman article include ones that I would strongly endorse. Mehdi Hasan expresses strong scepticism of Wood's assertion that ISIS's violence has theological roots: he quotes Wood, "The religion preached by its most ardent followers derives from coherent and even learned interpretations of Islam.". Yes, Mehdi Hasan is right insofar as ISIS's theology is not congruent to mainstream Sunni Islam, nor even to Salafi theological representations. But Graeme Wood's article, or the one I cited by Hassan Hassan of a similar nature, is important because ISIS's audience is not mainstream Sunni scholars, it is those who are already deeply distrustful of the Muslim establishment. It is a big audience, it comprises, in every masjid in Britain, educated second or third generation young Muslims who despair of the kindergarten level of instruction that is the limit of what their local imam can provide. It is the idealistic convert who has been sold an idea of Islam as the pure way of life, achievable by strict adherence to easily accessible translations of Qur'an and Hadeeth, and corrupted by tribalistic politics of elderly Asian mosque committees. In France, it is an audience of autodidactic religious revivalists who are repulsed by highly secularised North African elders that are sycophants of a populist culture that rejects them.
The rationale that ISIS communicates through its acolytes to potential recruits is couched in religious terms, with references to Islamic sources: the Qur'an, Hadeeth and the Seerah of the Salaf as-Saliheen. So if they are to be won back, the potential recruits deserve, and are in desperate need of, firmly rooted Islamic rebuttals. Those rebuttals need to come from the mimbars of their masjids in Tower Hamlets and Saltley, and from their peers and elders in UK schools and colleges, not in some wholesome but obscure and dismissive intellectual reasoning from Al Azhar or Cambridge. Those attracted to ISIS from European and especially UK cities, not only do not have the depth of classical, orthodox Sunni, theological learning, they are actually deeply sceptical of its purveyors, and their local imams and alims have the poorest record imaginable of being able to communicate such knowledge. On the other hand, throughout the UK, and actually throughout Europe for slightly different reasons, those same newer generations, neophytes and converts to Islam, have had two or three decades of exposure to home-grown theology, from varying Salafi and proto-Salafi advocates, Hizb-ut-Tahrir propagators, vociferous catch-me-if-you-can militants in the very pliable Muhajiroun mould, and actually, including numerous purveyors of an ultra-lberal Islam that find Islamic justifications for khutbah in vernacular and female imams at Jumu'ah, and all those who thumb through books of knowledge to find justifications for their own gripes against their own local Muslim 'establishment'. All these people and their audiences, are completely familiar with the methods of propagation that ISIS uses. They are familiar with the doomsday warnings for the non-compliant, the extraordinary depth, range and co-optability of Islamic sources, the morbid dwelling on the state of Muslims in 'the final days', and the possibility that ISIS might be part of that showdown.
All ISIS needs to do, and has done, is to put forward more cogent arguments in their own favour, in a format and with sources that the recipients are familiar with, for numbers, on the periphery, small but steadily growing and very significant, to be persuaded that ISIS is on their side, that the horror and fear expressed by popular media is evidence of ISIS's robust stand against a West that despises Islam. In our academic and analytical comfort we can state the obvious about ISIS's cynicism, its manipulation, its internal contradictions and sheer mendacity. But for young Muslims especially, and those who are troubled by the dischordant clash between their own lives, the ideals of a simple Muslim way of life, the corruption and decadence of the society they are growing up in, and especially the compromises and hypocrisy of their own parents, the ISIS message offers a resolution.
Mehdi Hasan's first point is about the lack of religious knowledge among ISIS's groundlings, 'According to François, "It was more hammering what they were believing than teaching us about the Quran. Because it has nothing to do with the Quran." And the former hostage revealed to a startled Amanpour: "We didn't even have the Quran. They didn't want even to give us a Quran."'
Mehdi Hasan is scathing of Wood's sources: "Bernard Haykel of Princeton University, the only scholar of Islam whom Wood bothered to interview, described Muslims who considered Isis to be un-Islamic, or anti-Islamic, as "embarrassed and politically correct, with a cotton-candy view of their own religion", and declared that the hand-choppers and throat-slitters of Isis "have just as much legitimacy" as any other Muslims, because Islam is "what Muslims do and how they interpret their texts". Mehdi Hasan and others should disagree with this insofar as orthodoxy by definition is that which places its authority in a widely accepted and long maintained corpus of religious material. The problem is, as I stated in my endorsement of the Wood article, that ISIS has been very successful at recruiting the unorthodox, radical, militant dissenters: not the intellectual dissenters but the unfulfilled ones. It has done so by exploiting the methods that Salafis have been practising among Islam's western diaspora for nearly three decades, and which are therefore familiar, challenging, methods of discourse for their recruits. They were methods that succeeded in the original wave of Salafi revival two or three decades ago, precisely because they challenged orthodoxy, they called out the traditional scholars of islam, the imams and alims of innumerable masjids away from the centres of Islamic learning. And the Hanafi, Shafi'i, even Hanbali imams and alims had no training in standing up for orthodox Sunni Islam, whatever its preferred flavour, Deobandi, Bareilvi, al Azhar, or even the rigidly conforming Saudi-employed scholars of orthodoxy.
Now that Islamic orthodoxy has been seen to fail to counter the challenges thrown down in reasonable matters by reasonable Salafis, the field is wide open to anyone, faux-Salafi, who can use the same methods to drive rather more fantastic demands. Their usually young, often disaffected, too often dissatisfied convert, audiences know that orthodox alims and imams are mute. If they weren't already mute from the absence of counter arguments, they are most certainly muted by governments and media hounds for whom any discussion of anything but the "politically correct, ... cotton-candy view of their own religion" is tantamount to endorsing extremism.
Hasan's first witness is Mark Sageman. "Few experts have done more to try to understand the mindset of the young men and women who aspire to join the blood-drenched ranks of groups such as Isis and al-Qaeda than Sageman. [...] in his acclaimed works Understanding Terror Networks and Leaderless Jihad, [that] closely analysed the biographies of several hundred terrorists." I agree.
Hasan on Sageman: '"Religion has a role but it is a role of justification," he tells me. "It's not why they do this [or] why young people go there."' [If I quoted much more of Sageman here I would be pirating Hasan's work, but ... ] 'For converts to Islam in particular, he adds, "Identity is important to them. They have . . . invested a lot of their own efforts and identity [...] They see other Muslims being slaughtered [and say], 'I need to protect my community.'" Hasan again: "(A recent study found that converts to Islam were involved in 31 per cent of Muslim terrorism convictions in the UK between 2001 and 2010.)" Indeed, a fact that MuslimsInBritain.org continues to stress till we hyperventilate!
More essential wisdom from Sageman, quoted by Hasan: '"You don't have the most religious folks going there," he points out. Isis fighters from the west, in particular, "tend to have rediscovered Islam as teenagers, or as converts"; they are angry, or even bored, young men ..."' and crucially, referencing 'the Lebanese-American former FBI agent Ali H Soufan, "I knew far more of the Quran than they did [...] the limits of their knowledge enabled me and my colleagues to use their claimed piousness against them."' This is exactly MuslimsInBritain's point about why a cogent, comprehensive and cross-factional theological rebuttal is desperately needed. It isn't coming from our supposed 'alims and imams, they only know why, as Deobandis, the Bareilvis are 'qabr pujaris', or why, as Bareilvis, the Deobandis are 'ghustaq-e-Rasool', and anyone who isn't a Bareilvi is a 'Wahabbi' and in the pay of Saudi Arabia's Waqf Ministry. (Actually the most potent and well presented sectarian Salafi literature is written by mother-tongue English converts and published in the UK.) If the rebuttal of ISIS ever comes, it must be one hundred percent clear that it is uniform across Islam and that its authors can and will argue it through to every Muslim malcontent in the land. If instead it simply becomes a line of division, the polarisation of the Muslim community will actually and substantially increase support for ISIS.
Hasan's next witness is Restricted, who revealed him/her/itself to the Guardian in 2008, probably because it was a vital message that needed to be understood in public, and is still not understood by much of the media or even the security commentariat (probably because they would no longer be able to justify their sometimes idiotic and usually wrong pronouncements made for jackpot consultancy fees). This time I will quote Hasan quoting the Guardian:
"Far from being religious zealots, a large number of those involved in terrorism do not practise their faith regularly. Many lack religious literacy and could . . . be regarded as religious novices." The MI5 analysts noted the disproportionate number of converts and the high propensity for "drug-taking, drinking alcohol and visiting prostitutes [...] A well-established religious identity actually protects against violent radicalisation." Quite right, if I say so myself! Again, that is actually why the Graeme Wood article, and the Weiss and Hassan study, are so important: Orthodox, mainstream Muslim alims and imams continue to fail to provide anything more than primary-school madrassah, learn-by-rote instruction in Islamic belief and practice. For converts and neophytes, the field is wide open and well populated with offers of instruction, help and guidance from anyone with a soapbox to exhort from. A very few of these are managed by a very few of the larger mosques, but even these are hidebound by the mosque's own approved sectarian allegiances. The internet provides a more accessible and readily available medium. What are now known as self-radicalisation and on-line radicalisation, and which is now recognised to be the norm for most European-based Muslims undertaking an extremist action, are actually subsets of the process of radicalisation I have been describing continuously for the twelve years that I have been contributing to analysis and understanding of violent extremism among Muslims. The Security Service document makes plain that those motivated to extremist violence are not able to be profiled through common, objective characteristics. The concepts of self- and on-line radicalisation undermine the security establishment's notion of a conveyor belt to extremism or an underground network of recruiting agents. The missing factor in European Muslim radicalisation is the one that I have continually been expounding, the 'push' factor, which is far stronger than the 'pull' factor, and it consists of disaffected neophytes' repeated and deep-felt rejection of and by, the European Muslim mainstream.
Mehdi Hasan's next witness illustrates this perfectly: "... Mohammed Ahmed and Yusuf Sarwar, the two young British Muslim men from Birmingham who were convicted on terrorism charges in 2014 after travelling to fight in Syria, bought copies of Islam for Dummies and The Koran for Dummies from Amazon prior to their departure. Religious novices, indeed." They had grown up in traditional, Punjabi/Kashmiri communities in Pakistani-migrant Birmingham, and their orthodox education in Islam was so deficient that they had to start again as self-declared 'dummies'. What Hasan's anecdote does not explore, is what was it that made them decide not to take advice from the well-entrenched Muslim establishment. Handsworth's Muslim landscape is evenly divided between the two mutually loathing Bareilvi and Deobandi factions, both mainstream (8 mosques, 4 of each). It is because that well-entrenched Muslim establishment was too busy pronouncing takfir against each other based on an obscure 19th century quarrel, to have time to study the needs of their own children.
Hasan returns to Sageman, and again the point Hasan makes is right, and his conclusion from it is wrong. "Sageman ... says we have to locate terrorism and extremism in local conflicts rather than in grand or sweeping ideological narratives ..." He is referring to the roots of the ISIS crisis in Iraq and Syria, but what matters for our own safety and Muslims' future in Europe, is the faux-Salafi Islamic theology medium that ISISuses to attract its most potent operators from relatively comfortable London, Birmingham or Marseilles communities. It is the local conflicts there which matter, and the local conflicts in Handsworth and Tower Hamlets, in Sparkbrook and Beeston, in Derby and Dewsbury, is between disaffected Muslim youth and converts, and the complacent, self-satisfied Muslim establishment.
Mehdi Hasan cites MI6's Richard Barrett, again the focus being on the support for ISIS from within Syria and Iraq, and again while it is undoubtedly true that their motivations are often far from religious, "Acting in the name of Islam means that, for the ignorant at least, the groups have some legitimacy for their actions . . . They can pretend it is not just about power and money." And again, for those signing up to ISIS from Europe, it most certainly isn't about power and money, it is about the perception of a legitimised jihad.
Hasan does turn to the orthodox Muslim establishment personified by the widely respected convert scholar, Abdul Hakim Murad in Cambridge. Unfortunately, Murad is a caricature of the distracted, idealistically liberal Muslim scholar that couldn't be more distant from the street-corner Islam that informs ISIS's recruits. Abdul Hakim Murad rightly differentiates between theological Salafi-ism and those who use the Salafi methods to perpetuate and deepen discord. 'Salafists tend to be apolitical, whereas groups such as Isis are intensely political. Even the traditionalist Murad, who has little time for what he has deemed the "cult-like universe of the Salafist mindset", agrees that the rise of extremism within the movement is a consequence, rather than a cause, of violence and conflict.'
Probably the strongest of Mehdi Hasan's arguments is one of the points made by militant-turned-Sufi, Canadian Mubin Shaikh, who argues that, 'it is dangerous to grant Isis any kind of theological legitimacy amid efforts to formulate a coherent "countering violent extremism" (CVE) strategy in the west. "It is quite possibly a fatal blow in that regard because, essentially, it is telling Muslims to condemn that which is Islamic." It is, he says, a "schizophrenic approach to CVE which will never succeed".' But that is rather different from what MuslimsInBritain.org is asking for. I am not asking to counter theology with theology: that would be as polarising (and therefore defeating) as trying to define 'moderate' ('good') from 'radical' ('bad') Muslims. MuslimsInBritain.org wants to see 'alims and imams formulate between them, across their sects, a clear and comprehensive, wide-ranging debunking of ISIS's millenarian cult theology and have that propagated to every local mosque, madrassah, school and informal gathering. The material must unpick sectarian differences and not be weakened by the highest common factor on which sects currently agree. Crucially, those who use the confrontational devices that Salafis exploited in challenging the hegemony of village Islam in the UK's masjids, must recognise the damage those methodshave done and the way they are successfully exploited by ISIS. And equally crucially, the material must be accompanied by a determined effort to educate the two thousand or more alims and imams in the UK who currently are unable to propagate anything beyond madrassah basics and the Deobandi/Bareilvi/"Wahabbi" rant.
Hasan turns to the pollster, Dalia Mogahed and asks, 'What about Haykel's claim that Isis fighters are constantly quoting Quranic verses and the hadith, or traditions from the life of the Prophet, and that they "mug for their cameras and repeat their basic doctrines in formulaic fashion and they do it all the time"? Why do they do that if they don't believe this stuff – if it isn't sincere? "The Quran [and] hadith according to whom?" she responds. "As interpreted by whom? As understood by whom?"' Rhetorical question in reply, but it has an answer all the same: according to those who have legitimised this manner of discourse that popularises challenges to mainstream Sunni orthodoxy: the street-corner preacher, the disaffected neophyte, the alienated convert. Precisely the people who deserve a response in terms they understand. '"Islam's authorities have loudly and unanimously declared Isis un-Islamic." Because of this, "Making a claim that violates normative principles of a philosophy, as defined by those with the authority to decide, is illegitimate."' Pious words, but they merely strengthen the self-righteousness of the disaffected. 'For Mogahed, ... "a violent reading of the Quran is not leading to political violence. Political violence is leading to a violent reading of the Quran."' Clever wordplay, but I would extend it, "Political violence [in Syria and Iraq] is leading to a violent reading of the Qur'an [on Commercial Road, E1]."'
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Indeed a horrible election season. Watch the Hillary nutcrackers come out of storage and go on sale again. And the elephant in the room is that Hillary gets trashed because she is not good-looking–unforgivable in a woman. And now old too–also unforgivable in a woman. So watch those all those right-thinking lefties get on the bandwagon for Bernie, the candidate of Cool, successor of Barak the Cool. Old doesn't disqualify you for Cool if you're male. So it's not misogyny in the sense of women as such, but the worse, more insidious kind–hatred of women who aren't young and pretty. And this means that Hillary-haters can believe that they're perfectly good feminists because they love Elizabeth Warren (good-looking) and that they aren't age-predjudiced because they adore Bernie (male–old is ok for me). So how's that admittedly cynical analysis?
Harriet, I don't think there's that much overlap between Obama fans and Sanders fans. Those of us who are excited about Sanders mostly found Obama way too centrist, hawkish, and business-friendly from the start, and we find Clinton the same. I don't see one as the successor of the other at all. Clinton seems to me the obvious successor to Obama, politically, and I am hoping for no more of that.
Also I was doing work and donating money to support Sanders back in the early 90s when I taught in at Middlebury College Vermont. He has been the real deal for decades. For me at least there is definitely no bandwagon-jumping.
Anyhow I am just one person but there are real, deep ideological and institutional differences between Sanders and Clinton so I would rather not let some discourse that it's a fashion choice go unchallenged.
Also as for the OP there is plenty of evidence that people are pretty piss-poor at knowing the contents of their own minds on exactly topics such as these.
But you, Rebecca, are more politically sophisticated and reflective than the average Obama supporter—at least more than the Obama groupies I knew. Back when they were all gaga about how wonderfully leftist he was, and how clean and pure. This was more or less along the lines of their views about the classification of food as liberal and conservative: meat vs. kale.
And then…and then…he got in and the groupies were appalled that he didn't usher in the millennium. That, if he could have gotten away with it he'd of appointed Larry Sommers as chairman of the Fed. They were almost as shocked as when they discovered that the CEO of Whole Foods was a big contributor to Republican politics.
Moi, my leftism is one-dimensional: purely in terms of big-government welfare state socialism and massive government interference, including aggressive affirmative action with hard quotas and economic redistribution. I suppose I'm a Stalinist. I'm a hawk. I'm ok with guns. And, as an act utilitarian, have no problem at all with corruption. My hero was Lyndon Johnson—I made a pilgrimage to Johnson City. As far as alternative history, just imagine how much better the world would be if Hubert Humphrey had been elected!
So, just saying, let's just hope Bernie isn't the spoiler. I have faith, or at least hope, that The Donald will cancel out any spoiling effect. So…Hillary for Prez, and O'Mally for VP.


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In termodinamica la condizione a diluizione infinita riferita ad un componente di una miscela corrisponde ad una concentrazione di soluto così bassa che ogni molecola del soluto stesso ha una probabilità nulla di interagire con altre molecole dello stesso tipo, ovvero interagisce solo con molecole di solvente.

Il concetto di diluizione infinita è una condizione fisica al limite e non va confusa con la condizione di concentrazione nulla, anche se spesso vengono indicate alla stessa maniera.
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Nepal plane crash: ATR aircraft's black box found, rescuers continue search operations for missing victims
Nepal plane crash claimed the lives of at least 68 out of the 72 people onboard, including five Indians, it crashed into a river canyon as it was making an approach to the recently completed airport in the resort city of Pokhara. On Monday, Nepalese rescuers began their search for the four individuals still missing and found the black box of the plane, as per Sher Bath Thakur's statement to ANI. It is to be noted that the black box will play a major role in the investigation of the crash.
Yeti Airlines' 9N-ANC ATR-72 aircraft took off from Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport at 10:33 am and crashed on the bank of the Seti River between the old airport and the new airport minutes before landing, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN). The bodies of people who died in the air crash will be handed over to their respective family members on Monday, MyRepublica newspaper reported.
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The report added that the Assistant Chief District Officer (CDO) of Kaski, Anil Shahi said that the bodies that have been identified will be handed over to the respective families after completing due procedures.
Assistant CDO Shahi said that the remaining bodies could not be pulled out of the gorge due to the difficult topography of the crash site. The rescue work in the Seti gorge was withheld due to geographical constraints last night and has resumed this morning, Shahi said.
According to Tek Bahadur KC, Kaski Chief District Officer, security personnel from the Nepal Army, the Armed Police Force, and the Nepal Police, and locals are attempting to pull out the bodies, The Kathmandu Post reported.
"A hearse and an ambulance are on standby to hand over the bodies. The bodies of foreigners, deceased from Kathmandu, and unidentified bodies, will be sent to Kathmandu," said KC.
Sixty-eight passengers and four crew members were on board the aircraft. The five Indians, all reportedly from Uttar Pradesh, have been identified as Abhisekh Kushwaha, 25, Bishal Sharma, 22, Anil Kumar Rajbhar, 27, Sonu Jaiswal, 35, and Sanjaya Jaiswal.
Of the five Indians, four were planning to participate in paragliding activities in the tourist hub of Pokhara, a local resident who travelled with them to Nepal, said. The runway of Pokhara International Airport is 45 metres wide and 2,500 metres long, and its designation is 12-30. The ill-fated plane commanded by Captain Kamal KC, an instructor pilot, made the first contact with the Pokhara control tower from nearly 110 kilometres away.
"The weather was clear. We allocated Runway 30, which is the eastern end. Everything was fine," Anup Joshi, spokesperson for Pokhara International Airport, was quoted as saying by the Kathmandu Post newspaper. He added that no problems had been reported.
"At 10:32 am, the plane took off from Kathmandu. It was scheduled to land at Pokhara at 10:58 am. I was in continuous contact with Pokhara Tower. The landing clearance of that plane had also been obtained. The weather was also fine. Everything was fine then how the accident happened is a matter of investigation," said Premnath Thakur, General Manager, Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu.
"A high-level investigation team has been formed. Any conclusion can be drawn by checking its voice recorder and other circumstances," Thakur said. The flight captain later asked for permission to switch to Runway 12, which is the western end. "We were not sure why. Permission was granted, and accordingly, the aircraft started its descent," said Joshi, who is also a senior air traffic controller.
The government has formed a five-member probe committee to investigate the crash. The probe panel headed by former aviation secretary Nagendra Ghimire has been asked to investigate the accident and submit its report within 45 days, said government Spokesperson and Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel on Sunday.
Pokhara, the tourist hotspot, lies between two rivers, the Bijayapur and the Seti, which makes it a perfect habitat for birds. Excellent for sightseers, of course, but a terror for pilots. Flight tracking website FlightRadar24 claimed that the Yeti Airlines aircraft was 15 years old and equipped with an 'old transponder with unreliable data.'
According to Nepal's civil aviation body, 914 people have died in air crashes in the country since the first disaster was recorded in August 1955. The Yeti Airlines tragedy in Pokhara on Sunday is the 104th crash in Nepali skies and the third biggest in terms of casualties.
Nepal has had a fraught record of aviation accidents, partly due to its sudden weather changes and airstrips located in hard-to-access rocky terrains. According to data from the Aviation Safety Network, Sunday's accident was the third-deadliest crash in the Himalayan nation's history.
The only incidents in which more people were killed took place in July and September 1992. Those crashes involved aircraft of Thai Airways and Pakistan International Airlines and left 113 and 167 people dead, respectively.
The last major air accident in Nepal happened on May 29 when all 22 people on board, including four members of an Indian family, were killed as a Tara Air plane crashed in Nepal's mountainous Mustang district.
In 2016, all 23 people aboard were killed when a plane of the same airline flying the same route crashed after takeoff. In March 2018, a US-Bangla Air crash occurred at the Tribhuvan International Airport, killing 51 people on board.
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Center for Council, or simply Council, is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization that trains practitioners in using council to promote wellness and resiliency and utilizes the practice of council to advance social justice and restorative justice and foster resilient and thriving communities.

Overview
Council is a codified practice, derived from ancient traditions, that involves bringing individuals together in a council circle, under the guidance of a trained facilitator, for a candid and heartfelt conversation. Within the circle, the opportunity to talk is offered one-at-a-time, with the intent to speak from one's personal experience rather than opinion. Participants are encouraged to speak authentically when it's their turn, and to listen deeply, without comment or judgment, while others are speaking. Intention is focused on the common stories, values, fears and aspirations that make one human, encouraging taking the perspective of the other and finding common ground. Council is a compassion-based attentional practice that fosters greater awareness of self and others and capacity for cultivating skillful communication, respectful relationships and ethical action.

Center for Council founder and executive director, Jared Seide described Council practice as follows:

History
For over 30 years Center for Council existed as a program of The Ojai Foundation. In 2014, Center for Council restructured to become its own independent organization, fiscally sponsored by Community Partners. The organization is an outgrowth of the practices and ideals codified in Jack Zimmerman and Gigi Coyle's book The Way of Council.

Programs
Center for Council offers programs and trainings within the social justice, educational, law enforcement and health care systems, and in partnership with businesses and community based organizations. Its programs are intended to support mindfulness, social and emotional learning and creative problem-solving and the development of skillful communication, cooperation, leadership and compassion. Programs are structured in a "train-the-trainer" format, where participants learn skills to facilitate circles for their peers and community. Programming is built on the premise that sharing stories in a respectful and intentional way leads to healing and community well-being.

Center for Council's "Prison Council Initiative" (formerly the "Inmate Council Program") is a six-month intervention where prisoners are trained to facilitate council sessions for other prisoners. This program has been expanded to 22 California prisons. The Prison Council Initiative was awarded the 2020 "Innovations in Corrections Prize" by the American Correctional Association. Through the Prison Council Initiative, participants learn and teach council-based convening and communication skills to support healthy and productive perspectives and behaviors. The program has been found by corrections staff to help shift culture within the prison and provide inmates with tools for success upon their release.

Following the expansion of Center for Council's work with prison inmates, the California Office of the Inspector General released a special report on High Desert State Prison in December 2015 that recommended implementing a council-based "Wellness and Resiliency Skills Training" program for law enforcement and correctional officers as an antidote to the "entrenched culture" of racism and violence there. The organization created "POWER Training" (Peace Officer Wellness, Empathy & Resilience Training), a mindfulness-oriented council programs for law enforcement officers in Southern California, including the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD); its programs for officers are certified by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (C-POST) and focus on skills for improving wellness, interpersonal communication and de-escalation. Graduates of the first cohort of the POWER Training program were featured in a documentary, "Cops & Communities: Circling Up", which also highlighted the work the organization has brought to community activists and formerly incarcerated participants.

Center for Council's "Organizational Wellness Project" (formerly the Social Justice Council Project) provides staff at social justice and social service organizations with training to more effectively engage with constituents and provide services, while also helping foster more cooperative and supportive work environments. Current and past participants include: Homeboy Industries, Anti-Recidivism Coalition, The Actors' Gang, TreePeople, Heart of LA, Brotherhood Crusade, Para Los Niños and many other community based organizations. Additional programs include the "School Community Enhancement Project", the "Trainer Leadership Initiative", and "Compassion, Attunement & Resilience Education (CARE) for Healthcare Professionals".

Research conducted by University of California and RAND Corporation found that Center for Council's programs result in "significant positive outcomes" involving reductions in aggression, anger and hostility, as well as increases in empathy and resilience.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Center for Council began offering online programming, including "Social Connection Councils", for the public, as well as "Essential Worker Councils" and an online learning course called "The Bridge".

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TX Passes 'Save Chick-fil-A' Law To Shield Chain From Backlash Over Anti-LGBTQ Donations
HOLLYWOOD, CA - AUGUST 01: The Chick-fil-A at the 'Chick-Fil-A Is Anti-Gay!' PETA and LGBT community protest at Chick-fil-A on August 1, 2012 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Tibrina Hobson/FilmMagic)
Texas governor Greg Abbott (R) signed the "Save Chick-fil-A" bill into law on Tuesday, which would bar a state government agency from punishing a company for supporting or donating to religious organizations, including anti-LGBTQ groups.
The bill was named after Chick-fil-A, a fried chicken chain that came under fire for donating over a million dollars to anti-LGBT groups in 2017 despite promising to stop making such donations in 2012.
Republican lawmakers created the bill after the San Antonio City Council blocked Chick-fil-A from opening a restaurant in San Antonio International Airport on the basis of the chain's donations to groups like Fellowship of Christian Athletes, which bans "homosexual acts."
Members of the Texas legislature's first-ever LGBTQ Caucus slammed the bill, saying it would permit discrimination.
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Rookie Club Series, Book 3
By: Danielle Girard
Narrated by: Rachel Dulude
Series: The Rookie Club Series, Book 3
Categories: Crime & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Fifteen years ago, the Rookie Club began as a tight-knit band of female cops struggling for respect. Jamie Vail was one of them. So was Natasha Devlin, the woman Jamie caught in bed with her husband. When Natasha Devlin turns up dead, Jamie can't bring herself to care. She's got enough on her plate, hunting a sexual predator who preys on female officers. He leaves them alive, but brutalized. But when the MO of the Devlin murder matches the MO of the perp in Jamie's case, she's brought in on the homicide investigation and back into the Rookie Club she has been avoiding.
Staccato Narration
By danny curtis on 22-07-19
Dr. Schwartzman, Book 1
Narrated by: Shannon McManus
Dr. Annabelle Schwartzman has finally found a place to belong. As the medical examiner for the San Francisco Police Department, working alongside homicide detective Hal Harris, she uncovers the tales the dead can't tell about their final moments. It is a job that gives her purpose - and a safe haven from her former life at the hands of an abusive husband. Although it's been seven years since she escaped that ordeal, she still checks over her shoulder to make sure no one is behind her.
By Erica's Little Welsh Garden on 19-10-16
Say You're Sorry
Morgan Dane, Book 1
By: Melinda Leigh
Narrated by: Cris Dukehart
After the devastating loss of her husband in Iraq, Morgan Dane returns to Scarlet Falls, seeking the comfort of her hometown. Now, surrounded by family, she's finally found peace and a promising career opportunity - until her babysitter is killed and her neighbor asks her to defend his son, Nick, who stands accused of the murder.
An enjoyable Who-done-it?
By Tanny on 03-10-19
A Criminal Profiler Novel
By: Mary Burton
Narrated by: Bailey Carr
FBI special agent Zoe Spencer uses skeletal remains to recreate the faces of murder victims through sculpture. Though highly scientific, the process is also sensitive and intimate; she becomes attached to the individuals she identifies, desperate to find justice for each. As Zoe examines old remains, she sees a teenage girl looking back at her - the victim in a cold case from over a decade ago. Zoe wants nothing more than to tell this young woman's story and to bring her killer to justice.
What You Did
By: Claire McGowan
Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt, Karen Cass
It was supposed to be the perfect reunion: six university friends together again after twenty years. Host Ali finally has the life she always wanted, a career she can be proud of and a wonderful family with her college boyfriend, now husband. But that night her best friend makes an accusation so shocking that nothing will ever be the same again.
Disappointed as had a very intriguing premise
By Murder Mystery Thriller Fan on 19-01-20
By: Damien Boyd
Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
Rock climbers can't afford to make careless mistakes. But Detective Inspector Nick Dixon's former climbing partner, Jake Fayter, died doing just that. Or so it seems. Dixon suspects foul play, but his only leads are unreliable accounts of something odd happening in Cheddar Gorge seconds before Jake fell.
Average story, dreadful narration
By MRS FFION M WORTHINGTON on 17-11-17
Chasing Darkness
Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
A tough special agent with the Department of Justice and a dedicated single mother to her orphaned nephews, Samantha Chase is unbreakable. Until two women, both from the shadows of Sam's past, are discovered strangled. For Sam, the most unnerving detail is the eucalyptus branch tucked behind the victims' ears - the signature of a notorious serial murderer already convicted and executed for his crimes.
By: Mark Edwards
Narrated by: James Langton
Gemma Robinson comes into Elliot's life like a whirlwind, and they marry and settle into his home. When she asks him if her parents can come to stay for a couple of weeks he is keen to oblige - he just doesn't quite know what he's signing up for. The Robinsons arrive with Gemma's sister, Chloe, a mysterious young woman who refuses to speak or leave her room. Elliot starts to suspect that the Robinsons are hiding a dark secret.
Be careful who you invite to stay!
By SandraL on 05-09-19
Crime on the Fens
DI Nikki Galena, Book 1
By: Joy Ellis
Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
DI Nikki Galena: A police detective with nothing left to lose, she's seen a girl die in her arms, and her daughter will never leave the hospital again. She's gotten tough on the criminals she believes did this to her. Too tough. And now she's been given one final warning: make it work with her new sergeant, DS Joseph Easter, or she's out.
poor narrator
By Diane Walmsley on 28-12-18
By: Pete Brassett
Narrated by: David McCallion
Detective Inspector Munro is a burly Scottish policeman who doesn't suffer fools gladly. Detective Sergeant West is an intelligent young woman, new to the force, with a lot to prove. When a missing person case lands on their desks, Munro is skeptical there is much to it. But their investigation soon comes to some strange findings, and before long a body is found. With a serial killer on their hands, they must act fast to trace a woman placed at the scene of the crime. Yet discovering her true identity, let alone finding her, proves difficult. And as the plot thickens they realise the crime is far graver than either of them could have imagined.
Worst book I've ever come across
By JulieB on 17-02-19
The Body Reader
By: Anne Frasier
Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
For three years, Detective Jude Fontaine was kept from the outside world. Held in an underground cell, her only contact was with her sadistic captor, and reading his face was her entire existence. Learning his every line, every movement, and every flicker of thought is what kept her alive. After her experience with isolation and torture, she is left with a fierce desire for justice - and a heightened ability to interpret the body language of both the living and the dead.
By Mrs T T on 15-02-17
Run and Hide
Eva Driscoll Thriller Series, Book 1
By: Alan McDermott
Narrated by: Angela Dawe
Eva Driscoll is used to chasing down bad guys, but now the bad guys are chasing her. She knows they won't stop until she's dead. After her brother is killed in a faked suicide, Driscoll teams up with ex-soldier Rees Colback, the one person who can help her find answers. Together they're determined to uncover why members of his Special Forces squad are dying in mysterious circumstances. But with every agency in the country in hot pursuit, their only choice is to flee. The clock is ticking. They can't run forever. It's time to make a choice: kill or be killed...
Narrated by: Christina Traister
Special Agent Macy Crow is a survivor. After a vicious hit-and-run nearly kills her, she gets right back to work, and now she's gunning for a spot on the FBI's elite profiling team. As an audition, she offers to investigate the recently discovered bones of Tobi Turner, a high school girl who disappeared fifteen years ago. While investigating with local sheriff Mike Nevada, a former colleague and onetime lover, Macy discovers a link between Tobi's case and several others that occurred around the same time as her disappearance.
By Yvonne fruin on 27-04-19
The Shape of Lies
By: Rachel Abbott
Narrated by: Lisa Coleman
Yesterday, Scott was dead. Today, he's back. And Anna doesn't believe in ghosts. Scott was Anna's boyfriend. She loved him, but he ruined her life. When he died, she should have been free, but today Scott is on the radio, threatening to spill her secrets. Anna is a mother, a wife, and head teacher of a primary school. And she's a good liar. She made one mistake, and now she is having to pay for it. Scott is the only person who knows the truth about her past, but how can he be alive?
Dark, Intense and Velvety Smooth!
By Simon on 16-04-19
Her Last Word
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Fourteen years ago, Kaitlin Roe was the lone witness to the abduction of her cousin Gina. She still remembers that lonely Virginia road. She can still see the masked stranger and hear Gina's screams. And she still suffers the guilt of running away in fear and resents being interrogated as a suspect in the immediate aftermath. Now Kaitlin has only one way to assuage the pain and nightmares—by interviewing everyone associated with the unsolved crime for a podcast that could finally bring closure to a case gone cold.
No stunning twists
By Dr. J. E. Cast on 16-12-18
Little Girls Sleeping: An absolutely gripping crime thriller
Detective Katie Scott, Book 1
By: Jennifer Chase
Narrated by: Lisa Rost-Welling
Length: 8 hrs
An eight-year-old girl, Chelsea Compton, is missing in Pine Valley, California, and for Detective Katie Scott it's a cruel reminder of the friend who disappeared from summer camp 20 years ago. Unable to shake the memories, Katie vows she won't rest until she discovers what happened to Chelsea. But as Katie starts to investigate, the case reveals itself to be much bigger and more shocking than she feared. Hidden deep in the forest she unearths a makeshift cemetery: a row of graves, each with a brightly colored teddy bear.
Compelling read
By Marie Powell on 08-11-19
Narrated by: Hollis McCarthy
He's looking for the perfect woman. Someone who won't disappoint him, like so many have before. Someone who'll love him. Someone who won't have to die for her mistakes. Give up, little darling. FBI agent Mary Cantrell has been called to Minneapolis to hunt down a killer. It's shaking her to the core, and reviving dreadful memories. Years ago, her best friend was murdered. Now the man convicted of the crime, Gavin Hitchcock, is free - and Mary's own sister Gillian, a local cop, has befriended him.
Lola Is Missing
By: Alison James
Narrated by: Jan Cramer
Six-year-old Lola Jade Harper is taken from her bedroom. Her mother is distraught. She is convinced her estranged husband, Gavin Harper, has abducted their daughter. Detective Rachel Prince is leading the investigation but is soon out of her depth as she searches for the most high-profile missing child in the country. To uncover the truth about Lola's disappearance, Rachel must untangle the Harper family's complicated web of secrets and lies.
By KAREN on 28-05-18
Cameron Cruz feels like she'll never recover when her lover, Diego, is killed during an undercover assignment - leaving her pregnant with his unborn son.
Back from maternity leave, Cameron is ready to rejoin her Special Ops team and works to shut down a human trafficking operation. But when she witnesses a fellow officer shot, she can hardly believe her eyes. Because the shooter is someone she trusted. Someone she loved. Someone she thought was dead...
Diego.
The evidence against him mounts. Evidence that he's guilty of kidnapping and imprisoning the very people he's sworn to protect and serve. Guilty of betraying their teammates and the entire police department. Guilty of betraying her.
Despite what she's seen, Cameron's love for Diego is as alive as he is. She believes he's innocent - she just has to prove it. But the closer she gets to the traffickers, the closer her investigation comes to her department's front door. Suddenly, she must question who she can trust. And who is willing to risk it all to send her - and the truth - to the grave.
©2016 Danielle Girard (P)2018 Tantor
Cold Silence
Girl in Trouble
Gods and Demons
Excellent dark detective mystery!
DARK PASSAGE is even better than my 4 star rating likely indicates, but I could not find a way to justify 5 stars, maybe 4.5 stars. It is yet another novel about human sex trafficking. Special Ops detective Cameron Cruz is the likable protagonist. The plot is realistic. Suspense is terrific. Rachael Dulude's narration is superb. The publisher's summary sets up the plot well, but may go a bit far. Like the two earlier novels in The (women's) Rookie Club series, DARK PASSAGE is a very worthwhile listen.
enjoyed the series of books. I hope there will be more. it is interesting reading about police investigations through the eyes of a woman. great books and a great author


Washington will play Natalie Certain, a respected statistical analyst. Fillion is Sterling, a brilliant businesscar who runs Rust-eze Racing Center, one of the most successful elite training facilities in the country. DeLaria is Miss Fritter, a local legend at the Thunder Hollow Speedway demolition derby. Formula One world champ Lewis Hamilton is also aboard as the voice of Ramirez's built-in voice command assistant.
Last year, Washington signed an overall deal with ABC Studios for her newly launched production company Simpson Street (named after the street where Washington's mom grew up in the Bronx). Under the two-year agreement, Simpson Street will develop broadcast, cable and digital projects exclusively for ABC Studios and ABC Signature. Washington is also executive producing ABC drama project Patrol, about four female LAPD officers, which is written by Chitra Elizabeth Sampath. Simpson Street's first movie was the HBO film Confirmation, in which Washington starred as attorney and academic Anita Hill, and she is currently developing the upcoming TriStar film, The Perfect Mother and will produce Universal's 'City Of Saints & Thieves'.


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By Aleksandra Dukovska
New wave of protests happen in Republic of Macedonia after the document called Tirana's platform influenced the post-election period in the country and process of the government formation. Shortly after President Gjorgje Ivanov received the 67 signatures of parliamentarians submitted by Zoran Zaev, president of SDSM, protest erupted in Skopje. Peaceful gatherings aimed refusal of Tirana's platform and preservation of unitary character of the state.
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Protest of opposition, members of NGO's and residents in Skopje with requests to the government and Constitutional Court in Macedonia.
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Two activists throw with the paint balls toward the facade of the Triumphal Arch "Macedonia" in Skopje. Gate "Macedonia" is part of the project "Skopje2014," which created disagreements in the society.
Colorful Revolution Protests in Skopje
The photographs document the protests of the opposition and members of civil society in Skopje against the measures of the government. Part of the protest include expression of public anger with throwing paint to facades of the state institutions.
Members of the "Colorful Revolution" celebrate and dense on the street after police did not allow their movement toward the police station to protest for police questioning of the activists.
Members of the opposition, activists cheer in support of throwing paint balls toward building of the Assembly with an improvised slingshot.
Members of the "Colorful Revolution" and their supporters celebrate during the protests in Skopje against the government.
An activist with a mask prepares to throw an improvised slingshot with a paint ball during the protests in Skopje.
An activists pulls back an improvised slingshot with a paint ball from a sieve during protests in Skopje.
An activist paints facade of the Ministry of Justice building in Skopje during the "Colorful Revolution," protests.
A person waves the flag of the "Colorful Revolution" protests, while the protesters march on the boulevard in Skopje.
Idomeni Refugee Camp 13
Idomeni
By Francesco Pistilli
Bilal,13, from Syria, is a self-described geek. He wants to study and learn English and German, but he needs new books and wants to reach Germany as soon as possible to go to school and learn more about the world. He sits on an abandoned car while translating verbs from Arabic to English.
In Limbo in Idomeni Refugee Camp
Idomeni, Greece
This collection of photos documents daily life in the Idomeni camp where refugees live in limbo on the border between Greece and Macedonia. Some refugees who were photographed are identified by an initial because they did not want their names used.
R., 32, from Syria kisses her nephew. They live in an abandoned train at Idomeni railway station in Greece, at the border with Macedonia. Some 12,000 refugees live in small tents and the ruins of an old railway station in Idomeni.
A night shot of the border fence between Greece and Macedonia at the Idomeni camp.
Raha, 41, from Syria, is in Idomeni with two sisters. She waits to reach her two sons, aged 15 and 20, who arrived in Germany months ago. Raha is still stuck here after two months.
A Kurdish girl spends an evening playing with a recycled table football game at Idomeni refugee camp, a makeshift camp on the Greek-Macedonian border where thousands of refugees are stranded.
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Macedonia Protests (w/ VO)
By AleksandraDukovska
Protests in Skopje continued in a sixth day in a row on April 18th, 2016 after turbulences in recent political crisis in the Republic of Macedonia.
Protesters March in Macedonia
Video shows people demonstrating as protests in Skopje continued in a sixth day in a row on April 18th, 2016 after turbulences in recent political crisis in the Republic of Macedonia.
Panagiota Vasileiadou, also called "the Idomeni refugees' grandmother" is a 82 year-old Greek woman who houses five Syrian refugees in her home.
In a improvised cinema, refugee children watch a cartoon movie at the makeshift camp of Idomeni, in Greece. Movies keep refugee children entertained, despite all the sorrow and trials they face.
A Pakistani group of between 50 and 70 refugees live in an abandoned hotel building close to the Greek-Macedonian border in Idomeni, Greece.
Syrian refugees have dinner along the railway at Idomeni camp. The railway connection has been blocked for a month by refugees who are protesting Macedonia's decision not to let them through. Police have tried to clear the tracks but refugees still resist and occupy the railway while waiting for an European solution.
Asif, 23, from Pakistan, is living in an abandoned building with about 50 people along the highway that runs close to the border with Macedonia.
S. is from Pakistan and he lives in an abandoned building along the highway that runs close to the Greek border with Macedonia. He shares a little room with four to six other "travel mates". They have been waiting and surviving here for two months without electricity, windows, doors and bathrooms.
Macedonia Demonstration
Opposition supporters demonstrated in Skopje, Macedonia on April 12 and 13 demanding the resignation of President Gjorge Ivanov after he issued pardons to 56 members of the ruling party and opposition linked to a wiretapping scandal.
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"Prison"; "Prison"
00:40 Woman (Macedonian)
"If someone ask you, 'who are you defending?' "I am clean, I am defending the Constitution of Republic of Macedonia."
M., 24, from Aleppo, shows shocking evidence of torture in Assad's prisons. He says he was arbitrarily jailed and tortured for 4 months. M. is living in the ruins of an old railway station in Idomeni, Greece.
Around 12.000 refugees live in small tents and the ruins of an old railway station in Idomeni at the Greek border with Macedonia.
A Kurdish boy sits by a fire in a railway repairs hangar where thousand of refugees have set up their tents at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni.
Refugees queue daily for food in Idomeni, a railway station in Greece at the border with Macedonia.
People protest after mouldy food was given to a group of refugees in Idomeni camp, Greece. Part of a meal distributed by a Greek NGO was delivered rotten and was soon thrown out, leaving people very angry and exhausted.
Kurdish families have dinner along the tracks in an abandoned hangar of Idomeni railway station near the Greek border with Macedonia.
Idomeni railway station at night. More than 10,000 refugees are living in small tents and the ruins of an old railway station in Idomeni, Greece. The camp stretches out for hundreds of meters along the railway tracks that cross the border between Greece and Macedonia.
A veiled woman walks during the misty dawn at Idomeni refugee camp, on the Greek border with Macedonia.
A Muslim woman prays in the early morning at Idomeni refugee camp at the Greek border with Macedonia.
About 12.000 refugees are living in small tents and the ruins of an old railway station in Idomeni. The Idomeni camp stretches out for hundreds of yards along the railway track that crosses the border, and for hundreds of yards on either side. The vast majority sleeps in camping tents set directly on the muddy fields, or the coarse gravel of the railway tracks.
Migrants sit in the cold light of the early morning at Idomeni refugee camp at the Greek border with Macedonia.
"Hotel Hara" is a makeshift refugee camp on the forecourt of a petrol station near the Idomeni refugee camp, on the Greek-Macedonian border.
Refugees and Migrants At Tabanovce
Tabanovce
Overcrowded refugee tents at the transit center for refugees in Tabanovce, Macedonia. About 1000 people are in the refugee camp after closing of the Balkan route. Some of them are waiting more than 21 days stranded at the transit center.
In the Balkan Mud
Stranded refugees walk in the mud field on a rainy day close to the transit center for refugees in the village of Tabanovce in Macedonia. About hundred refugees or migrants live at least four days in the green fields after the European Union said that Balkan route has come to an end. After Balkan countries close the borders, some of the refugees and migrants are stranded in the border zones and they can neither return to Serbia nor enter Macedonia in the refugee camp in Tabanovce.


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Professor in the Practice of Public Affairs, Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs
The Slow But Steady Progression Toward Environmental Sustainability
12/27/2017 10:58 am ET Updated Dec 27, 2017
As 2017 ends and 2018 begins, many of us reflect on the year that has past and think about the year to come. In the United States we have had a year filled with disappointment but sparked by hope. We have a president without a shred of understanding of the nature of the global sustainability crisis who operates as if he is in a time warp stuck in 1975. He is in the process of deconstructing the U.S. EPA, shredding environmental regulations and enforcement, opening up natural treasures to exploitation, discouraging immigration and global trade, and debasing the dignity of his office tweet by tweet.
Last week the New York Times' Lisa Friedman, Marina Affo and Derek Kravitz reported that:
More than 700 people have left the Environmental Protection Agency since President Trump took office…Of the employees who have quit, retired or taken a buyout package since the beginning of the year, more than 200 are scientists…Nine department directors have departed the agency as well as dozens of attorneys and program managers. Most of the employees who have left are not being replaced.
The headline on their piece was: "E.P.A. Officials, Disheartened by Agency's Direction, Are Leaving in Droves." The news from EPA is no different than the news from the Department of the Interior. Yesterday, Ted Mann of the Wall Street Journal reported that:
Regulators in the Trump administration are proposing to roll back safety measures put in place after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a revision that would reduce the role of government in offshore oil production and return more responsibility to private companies.
Why worry about fatalities, injuries, and billions of dollars of environmental damage, when there's money to be made? But while the president and his pals are doing their best to loot and pillage the natural world, a counterforce has been set in motion that may be more powerful than the one that narrowly elected Donald Trump as president. Some of this is America's almost natural reaction to government power. Presidents nearly always lose support in mid-term elections. But something else is happening throughout America. The grass roots support for a clean and safe environment continues to grow and find expression. People may not like regulations that tell them what to do, but they don't want their children exposed to lead in their drinking water, or poisons in the air they breathe. The same conservative impulse that opposes regulation, generates the anti-development Not in My Backyard Syndrome (NIMBY).
While the U.S. federal government is trying to resist the growth of renewable energy, our state and local governments, corporations and homeowners are buying in anyway because energy efficiency and renewable energy save money and make our businesses more competitive. Even if our federal government is trying to wish away the facts of climate change, the French are hiring our climate scientists, the Chinese are moving to dominate the solar and wind business, and nearly everyone is working to improve battery technology. As renewable energy and battery technology continue to improve, the fossil fuel business will slowly but surely fade into a no longer air-polluted sunset. By pulling America out of the Paris Climate Treaty, Donald Trump had the effect of mobilizing the rest of the world behind the treaty. American states, cities, companies and institutions, led by Michael Bloomberg, demonstrated that America could meet our greenhouse gas reduction targets, without the cooperation of the White House.
It is sad to see our own national government as a reactionary, negative force opposing environmental protection. We've seen this before, typically at start of Republican Administrations. The first two years of the Reagan Presidency, and the start of George W. Bush's reign, saw efforts to reduce the vigor of environmental regulation and enforcement. But each time, the broad and deep support for a clean environment pushed back and successfully resisted attempts to dismantle these protections. As a result, America's environment today is far cleaner than it was in 1980. We have successfully applied technology to reduce the impact of power plants and autos on our air quality and the discharge of effluents into our waterways. We are recycling more, and slowly learning how to pay attention to our impact on the natural world we live in.
But it is a long slow process. Our biodiversity and oceans are threatened, and in the developing world the intense need for economic growth and the absence of effective environmental rules causes massive levels of pollution. No one should underestimate the complexity and difficulty of the challenge ahead. We don't really understand enough about the damage we are causing, and so additional basic environmental science must be funded and carried out to advance our knowledge. The only way we can mitigate the damage we cause is to understand it. The U.S. federal government needs to dramatically expand its funding of environmental science, and of the environmental engineering needed to reduce the damage we learn about through our science. Our best hope of continued progress is to learn more about the planet and to get more sophisticated and clever in drawing the resources we need from the planet to ensure our welfare.
Over the past several decades I have seen countless examples of human ingenuity applied to the reduction of the complex causes of environmental damage. From catalytic converters in cars, to scrubbers in the smoke stacks of power plants; from Tesla's battery to the application of nanotechnology in solar cells. Planting a million trees in New York City and reforesting tropical woodlands. Taking old industrial land and turning it into vibrant public spaces: Building the High Line Park in New York and the Canal Park in Washington D.C. I've seen improved water management, crop management and closed system manufacturing that recycles most of what it used to dump into our air, land and water.
Perhaps most important and ultimately transformative has been the growth of solar and wind power. Fossil fuel extraction and burning is a clear and present danger to the planet's ecology and climate. Energy is central to every aspect of our economic life. The transition to renewable energy is critical to our future and the future of our children and grandchildren. Despite the efforts of President Trump, and his EPA and Department of Energy chiefs, renewable energy continues to advance in this country and around the world. It's not a question of if they will drive fossil fuels from the market, but when. The transition to renewables continued to gain momentum in 2017 and these gains will continue into 2018.
The U.S. federal government's actions on energy and environment are so out of sync with reality that they have had the paradoxical effect of reinforcing the need for continued action. It is difficult to be apathetic or indifferent to the noises made by this president. The result is mobilization. We see it with the battle against sexual assault and harassment. We saw it on race relations in the wake of Trump's comments following the Charlottesville protests. We've seen it with immigration in protests against the Muslim ban and the effort to deport the "dreamers". And we have seen mobilization in the aftermath of this president's attacks on public lands, climate science, greenhouse gas reductions and environmental regulations.
What gives me the greatest hope when I assess environmental sustainability is the growing awareness of the importance of these issues by the American public. Young people, more than old people, understand the planet's environmental challenges. Poll after poll demonstrates this as do their actions when they enter the world of work and challenge their employers to build the organizational capacity to ensure sustainability while performing the organization's core mission. We see this all over the world. It may be hard to address these problems, but people know they exist. They know that environmental degradation can make them sick and harm their children. This awareness leads to cultural and social change. Cultural and social change leads to new behaviors in the economic marketplace, and ultimately to political change.
If I thought that the only way to protect the environment was to reduce economic growth, I would be worried about the planet. But I strongly believe that we can build a high throughput, renewable resource based economy that can bring material plenty to the world's people without destroying the planet. We just need to learn more and apply what we learn. Despite the negatives that are obvious and real, I believe the tide of history is behind the drive for environmental sustainability. Progress is slow, but it is steady.
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Радован Лукавский (; 1 ноября 1919, Прага — 10 марта 2008, там же) — чешский актёр и театральный педагог.

Биография
Радован Лукавский родился в Праге. Окончил среднюю школу в Чески-Брод. Он учился на философском факультете Карлова университета, когда началась Вторая мировая война, затем работал железнодорожным телеграфистом. Актёрское образование получил в театральном отделении Пражской консерватории, которую окончил в 1946 году; в 1947 году окончил Карлов университет. В 1946 году получил свою первую актёрскую роль.

Лукавский играл в различных театрах Праги, в том числе в «Театре Власты Буриана», «Театре на Виноградах» и Национальном театре. За пределами театра, Лукавский на протяжении всей своей карьеры работал на телевидении и в кино. Кроме того, он был автором нескольких книг по актерскому мастерству. С 1945 года был преподавателем Академии музыкального искусства в Праге. Умер в Праге, похоронен на Ольшанском кладбище.

Избранная фильмография
  — Мужчины без крыльев / Muži bez křídel
  — Немая баррикада / Němá barikáda
  — Тайна крови / Tajemství krve
  — Против всех / Proti všem
  — Дедушка-автомобиль / Dědeček automobil
  — Король Шумавы / Král Šumavy
  — Высший принцип / Vyšší princip
  — Крепость на Рейне / Pevnost na Rýně
  — Человек первого века / Muž z prvního století
  — Икар-1 / Ikarie XB 1
  — Колокола для босых / Zvony pre bosých
  — Дело для начинающего палача / Případ pro začínajícího kata
  — Чёрный волк / Černý vlk — ''капитан Хайек
  — Эликсир дьявола / Die Elixiere des Teufels / Elixíry ďábla
  — Секрет племени Бороро / Akce Bororo
  — Тридцать случаев майора Земана / Třicet případů majora Zemana
  — Русалочка / Malá mořská víla
  — Как надуть адвоката / Jak napalit advokata
  — Зелёная улица / Zelená vlna
  — Странствия Яна Амоса / Putování Jana Amose
  — Скальпель, пожалуйста / Skalpel, prosím
  — Мой грешный муж / Můj hříšný muž
  — Цирк Умберто / Cirkus Humberto
  — Ожерелье / Náhrdelník
  — Жандармские истории / Četnické humoresky

Признание
 Медаль «За заслуги» 1 степени (2000).

Примечания

Ссылки
 Актёр на сайте csfd.cz

Выпускники Пражской консерватории
Выпускники Карлова университета
Преподаватели Академии музыкального искусства (Прага)
Почётные доктора Академии исполнительских искусств в Праге
Похороненные на Ольшанском кладбище


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Devon MP interrupted at debate on mobile phones in prison – by mobile phone
MP for Torbay Kevin Foster was speaking in the House of Commons as part of a debate on blocking the use of mobile phones in prisons, when he was interrupted by a ringtone
Zoe StevensReporter
A Devon MP was interrupted when talking in a debate about blocking the use of mobile phones in prison – but someone's mobile phone going off
MP for Torbay Kevin Foster was speaking when John Bercow, speaker at the House of Commons had to stop him to bring order to the room after the mobile phone went off.
Radio star helps turn Tiverton cul-de-sac into a winter wonderland for the Devon Air Ambulance
The debate was held at the House of Commons on December 1, and was about blocking the use of mobile phones by criminals in prisons.
MP Kevin Foster resumed his speech after the interruption, and said: "It is ironic that that would happen in this of all debates—we have a debate on where it is inappropriate for a mobile phone to be used being interrupted by a mobile phone left on the Benches.
South Hams Council to consider increased charges and cuts to services
"I suspect the Member whose phone it is will be finding the Deputy Chief Whip of our party wanting to talk to them about her views on where mobile phones are not appropriate. It is not just in jails, but in the Chamber."


We welcome all doulas in Singapore who are certified with or currently studying with internationally renowned institutions like CBI or DONA.
This is to ensure that our doulas fulfil certain requirements with regards to knowledge and skills necessary to serve their clients.
If you are certified, but have trained with a different school, you're welcome to submit your application which will be reviewed by a dedicated team within the executive committee.
Members of our society must adhere to our philosophy and abide by our Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics. Download full document here.
Please be aware that it is a prerequisite for all aspiring members to attend a Doula Briefing Session before you can take clients and become a member. These briefings are held four times a year.
If you would like to join, please email info@doulasofsingapore.com.
We invite all independent doulas of Singapore to become a part of our community. We offer mentorship for trainee doulas and ongoing support and development for certified doulas.
THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL only allowS access to doulas who are a member of Doulas of Singapore. It is expected that other hospitals will follow suit.
Monthly group meetings which allow for reflective practice and continued learning.
Mentorship for trainee and newly qualified doulas.
Access to the most up-to-date information regarding hospital standards and procedures.


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On July 12, 2019 By upstateasbIn Nonfiction, True Crime
Now just hold your horses, all you obsessed, bloodthirsty, thrill-seeking ladies out there. This title would have you devouring the pages of the book, ripping at them with fang and claw…..drooling. 'Fraid not. This is sociology, my friends, and, according to the sociological theorizing in Rachel Monroe's book, it is the ladies who are obsessed with true crime. Maybe, but it does make interesting reading, and the true stories of four women are cited as examples of cultural archetypes – Detective, Victim, Defender, Killer.
The unlikely Detective is Frances Glessner Lee, a wealthy heiress, who, in the Forties, constructed Nutshells, exquisitely detailed miniatures of crime scenes as training tools for law enforcement….how to see and analyze a crime scene. Arguably, Ms. Lee's work could be called the beginning of forensic science, introducing a thread that continues throughout the book. Many of Ms. Lee's Nutshells still exist and have been exhibited as art.
The Victim is Patti Tate, younger sister of Sharon Tate. She inherits her mother's fight for victim's rights. The Defender, Lorri Davis, marries incarcerated Damien Echols of the West Memphis Three and works tirelessly for his eventual freedom, one of many women who befriend and, eventually, love imprisoned men, investing them with a bad boy sexiness or a mysterious uniqueness. The Killer is a very young Lindsay Souvannarath, and her James, internet buddies/imaginary lovers involved online with admirers of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Mostly chatter and bravado, but Lindsay and James actually make plans to shoot up a mall in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he lived. Unrealistic plans. Neither had ever fired a gun, and she insisted on wearing heels.
These four women are springboards for broader discussions, a sociological mash-up that tries to cover the waterfront and is only more or less successful. A Sisyphean task, either in search of a point or adrift in a sea of them, so don't obsess over it. Just leave your savage appetites in the basement and nibble thoughtfully on this one. Here's the thing. Without reference, I named Sharon Tate, Damien Echols, the West Memphis Three, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold , and you know who they are. Don't you?
Savage Appetites takes aim at bookstores on August 20, or thereabouts. Pre-order here from your local indie bookstore.
Full Disclosure: A review copy of this book was provided to me by Scribner via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I would like to thank the publisher, the author and NetGalley for providing me this opportunity. All opinions expressed herein are my own.
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A worker should never blame their tools. To ensure that doesn't happen it's really important to constantly review the tools, apps and processes on a regular basis to ensure you're able to keep doing what they do best.
Sometimes I get a requests from people who would like to know what I use for a project, so I've gone ahead and made a small list that i'm sure will change on a regular basis.
Having been a mac user for around 15 years for a wide variety of projects. Besides the beautiful design & well thought out UX, The fact I can just throw the Macbook Pro in my bag ensures full mobility. When I'm in my home office, I'll normally hook up my computer to some additional screens with countless amount of apps open at once, it allows for a better workflow. Maybe one day, I'll be able to jump over to an iPad pro but we're still some time away from that happening.
Communication is key to ensure each project goes to plan and whilst email is a really handy tool it has it's limitations. Since its launch in 2013, Slack has been catapulted into the spotlight with many huge companies integrating slack into their workflow. Slack offers a wide variety of additional integrations, which helps improve the communication whilst adding a rich experience for any clients or team members.
With 100's of content management systems on the market, all varying in prices, features and code base, it's very important to find the right one. Craft offers a very accessible pricing structure, a very extensive documentation, constantly updated, super fast and it allows developers to craft the right setup for your project. Whilst there are free options out there, it's worth remembering that most of those free services are trying to make something work for the masses and whilst that's helpful for some projects it's worth remembering that having a site that is as unique as your project/ business will help you stand out amongst the rest.
I create bespoke websites from the ground up and to do that I chose to use what I believe to be the most popular text editor around. Sublime Text has been around for a long time and with a wide variety of plugins, I've created a workflow within sublime text that has saved me a lot of time.
Some of you reading this could be potential clients and I'm aware that my choices might be different to yours and that's totally fine. Let's grab a coffee or beer and start a conversation and see if we can create something exciting together.


Heather (she/her) joined Nothing Without a Company in 2018. You may have seen her as a hummingbird in Nothing Without a Company's Down the Moonlit Path, or as a ghost or cowgirl in their 2016 and 2017 24-Hour Play Festivals. She is excited to partner with Nothing Without a Company and see how they will challenge her next! Other credits include: Nanay (Free Street Theatre), Six Characters In Search of an Author (Ghostlight Ensemble), King Lear (Eleusis Collective), Patria Libre (Prologue Theatre Company), The Benchmark (StepUp Productions), Women's Theatre Alliance (WTA) Juried Showcase, Gideon's Knot. Heather is a proud alumnus of Black Box Acting Studio, The Second City Training Center, The Annoyance Theatre, and iO Chicago. She has also had the pleasure of studying at L'Ecole Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq and the summer conservatory at RADA.


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Q: Installing libhoudini (ARM emulation) on Android 4.2.2. Emulator After about 3 days trying and trying I'm giving up.
I've tried to install libhoudini (http://android-x86.sceners.org/en/?p=536) on android 4.2.2 emulator. I need that for a project.
I know about the existence of Genymotion and AndroVM but I don't need a virtual box image I need a emulator running on intel x86 with ARM emulation.
I also tried to create yaffs2 images from a running Genymotion distrubition and migrate that to android-sdk\system-images\android-17\x86. Unfortunately that doesn't work.
So I hope that someone can help me out and/or point me in the right direction. So what I need: a rebuilt of system-images\android-17 folder content with a rooted device and libhoudini installed.
I don't know if SO is the place for this questions but I'm willing to pay someone to create this for me because it's very important for a commercial project.
Update 14-10: Still not a step further. Any ideas?

A: Well I don't know why you have something against Genymotion but you can try using the Flashable ZIP I made for setting up libhoudini in Genymotion v2.0. It works there but I have no idea how good your mileage will be with using it for a Android-x86 install. It might depend on what kernel is being used. It's just a normal Flashable ZIP so you can use whatever recovery method you have, or manually copy each file to their correct folders and set their permissions. You can find the download on my XDA guide:
[GUIDE] Genymotion | Installing ARM Translation and GApps - XDA-Developers

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41st Annual Take Back The Night Rally To Highlight Disability Justice
KLCC | By Aubrey Bulkeley
Published April 24, 2019 at 6:00 AM PDT
Fatima Roohi Pervaiz
The 41st annual Take Back the Night rally will be held this Thursday at the University of Oregon.
Keynote speaker Lydia X. Z. Brown will address disability justice. Organizers chose to highlight this community because it's often left out of the sexual violence conversation.
Organizer Olivia Rodriguez says her eyes were opened through planning this event. She realized how common words like crazy, dumb and stupid are used in everyday language.
"Even we're implementing that into the women's center to avoid words like that and go with bananas, which is our personal favorite," Rodriguez says.
Women's Center Director Fatima Roohi Pervaiz shares why the event continues after so many years.
"Until we no longer need things like self-defense classes, until we no longer need awareness raising campaigns," says Pervaiz. "Until that education and that social climate shift happens, we will continue to do these kinds of educational events."
Credit Kiva Hanson
Take Back the Night rally will begin with speeches followed by a march. The night will end with a survivor-centered time of sharing called Speak Out. This year's focus on Disability Justice is unique to the Eugene event.
The rally begins at 6pm at the EMU Amphitheater. More information can be found here.
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Aubrey Bulkeley
Aubrey Bulkeley joined KLCC in January 2019. She co-created FLUX podcast, a three-part series to accompany award-winning UO School of Journalism and Communication publication, FLUX Magazine. Bulkeley finished her Master's degree in Journalism at the University of Oregon in June 2019.
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The Domestic Violence Clinic at the University of Oregon was awarded $500,000 by the U.S. Department of Justice. The funds will be used to expand services…
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This week marks the 40th anniversary of "Take Back the Night". The event highlights awareness and prevention of sexual assault and domestic violence. And…
Exhibit Symbolizes Extent Of Murdered Or Missing Indigenous Women Across North America
A traveling exhibit that's at Lane Community College this week features single-sided earrings. As KLCC's Brian Bull reports, the unusual collection…


My apartment is in the center of Tel-Aviv near the beach. I have small bedroom but cosy with dubble bed, large and beautiful living room. Bathroom and kitchenette. Nice entrance to the building with plants and flower.
Iove to explore countrys; art, architecture, culture, folklore, nature. I haven't done exchange before, but very exciting to see your country, as you see my.
My home is in nice area, near everythings- good restaurantes, pubs, cafes, shopping streets around. By foot- beach 7 minute, 25min'museum, 10 min' park (ayarkon) for jogging, running, resting, picnic, more. By car or bus- 50 min' the holiness Jeruslem, 2 hour to the dead sea and Mazada. 1 hour Haifa and Carmel mountain. From Haifa-25min'to old akko, 30min' to Nazarat, 45 min' to Tiberiea. My country is small and beautiful, with warm people. She is safety in any pleace.


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Hey Dreamers! It's been a fantastic Kickstarter campaign for Yooka-Laylee and the Kracklestone! The campaign ends this Friday at 11:30am Pacific / 2:30pm Eastern. That means we only have a few days left in the campaign! If you've been meaning to pledge support, time's running out!
With your help we can still hit our first stretch goal which will unlock a gorgeous holographic foil and sculptural debossing effect on every copy of the book! Trust me… this is an amazing effect that will ensure the book really stands out.
This campaign is pivotal to the success of Dreamprism Press. It's a testing ground of sorts. Yooka-Laylee will pave the way for more projects in the future, including the first Dreamside book! It's for this reason I'm asking you, the original supporters of my work, to consider backing the campaign.
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Some call Xi Jinping a Chinese Putin. Others a 21st-century Mao.
On Wednesday morning he was China's Hugo Chávez, testing his comrades' eyelids – and their bladders – with a three-and-a-half hour, 65-page sermon in which he outlined his brave new vision for the Communist party, and the world.
"The Chinese dream is a dream about history, the present and the future," Xi declared towards the end of his unexpectedly long-winded address to the opening of China's 19th party congress. By the conclusion of this eastern answer to Aló Presidente! more than a few of Xi's audience appeared to have entered a dreamlike state.
Why is corruption such a problem in China's Communist party?
China's president, Xi Jinping, called corruption the greatest threat to the Communist party's survival in his opening speech to the week-long congress meeting on Wednesday. However, the problem is largely a product of the one-party political system he leads.
Three decades of breakneck development has produced vast wealth in China - and much of this is controlled directly or indirectly by the party. That means there are eye-watering money-making opportunities for cadres looking to supplement their modest salaries by cashing in on their positions and their contacts.
At the same time, the party's stranglehold on the media means that independent reporting that might expose high-level corruption is all but non-existent, unless authorised by the party itself. Impunity, therefore, has traditionally been almost guaranteed. Xi now hopes to change that with his war on graft.
Xi's soliloquy began shortly after 9am in the Great Hall of the People, a vast scarlet-carpeted theatre in Tiananmen Square that is the ceremonial heart of Communist party rule.
The party's 64-year-old general secretary, who is celebrating the end of his first five-year term, strolled calmly out on to the dais, followed by a cluster of besuited party elders, and took his place at a wooden lectern beneath a giant golden hammer and sickle.
Over the next 203 minutes Xi waxed lyrical on a miscellany of themes, from housing to Hong Kong independence; soil erosion to the South China Sea; rural poverty to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation; cyber-security to corruption; Marxism to military modernisation; global governance to global warming.
Finally, after more than three hours, Xi became a moral beacon. "We must foster values like loyalty, honesty, impartiality," he pronounced. Double-dealing and "unprincipled nice-guyism" were out.
Five years ago, at the opening of China's last such congress, Xi's dour predecessor, Hu Jintao, gave a 90-minute lecture in which he poured cold water on any hopes of political reform and warned that corruption could put an end to Communist party rule.
But after 90 minutes of Xi's talkathon, the end was nowhere in sight and through binoculars it was possible to see party officials beginning to flag.
Jiang Zemin, who was general secretary until 2002 and is now 91, yawned, dozed and occasionally grappled with a large white magnifying glass in an apparent effort to stay awake. Every so often he peeled back his left sleeve to check a wristwatch before turning his gaze back towards Xi and pouting. To Jiang's left, one of the party's few female leaders, Liu Yandong, scribbled furiously on to her copy of Xi's tract with a red pencil.
As the minutes, and then hours went by, a succession of senior leaders wandered off stage through a golden curtain, as biological necessities began to speak louder than political loyalty.
Up in the press gallery there was fidgeting too. Black-clad security guards amused themselves by posing for photographs. At the two-hour 15 mark, a text message flashed up on the Guardian's mobile phone from another spectator: "Jinping Castro," it said.
However, as delegates streamed out of Xi's far-reaching declamation there was nothing but admiration for the thoughts of a man increasingly seen as China's most powerful – and feared – leader since Mao.
"It wasn't long, it wasn't long – it was absolutely wonderful," beamed Wang Wenxia, a teacher from Hebei province, one of the 2,280 Communist party delegates attending this year's congress.
There was foreign applause too.
Robert Kuhn, an American writer and investment banker who is reporting on the event for the party's English-language channel, said he had been struck by the scope of Xi's vision. "The ambition was enormous," said Kuhn, the author of How China's Leaders Think, as he stepped out of the Great Hall into the lunchtime drizzle.
Others found themselves literally unable to react to Xi's mammoth monologue.
Xi Jinping: what is behind the Chinese president's power grab?
Xi wants to be his country's 'unrivalled helmsman' but what does this mean for China and the rest of the world?
Xi Jinping: has China's strongman forgotten the perils of power?


The sanctuary's geological formation and structure adds alot to its beauty. River Panam originates from within the sanctuary. All of these great natural wonders give the sanctuary the potential of widening people's sensitivity towards wildlife in general.


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Q: How to acheive drawing an border for a set of cells in javafx table view I have a sample table. I need to show a border for a set of table cells based on the input as shown in the following picture :

The key is, the border location is dynamic and it based on the input to the table. My table data can be large and it can hold 25 columns and 500 rows. The information i have is the row index and column index of the start cell and the end cell.
I cannot use updateItem() function as updateItem() will not be called for cells which is not shown in the tableview. I am unable to access the tablecell object after the table is loaded.  Is there a way to dynamically setStyle to the tableCells after the tableview is loaded ?

A: Thanks to the comments which gave a different insight.
I solved the issue like this,
calculated the left top indexes and right bottom indexes for which i need to draw the border. And used those values in the updateItem() method of table cell like this,
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