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What gets YOU up in the morning? By Vassar Byrd - April 4, 2017
At a recent conference, one of the big questions the keynote asked of us was what makes you get up and go to work in the morning? (And do you know why your staff do the same?). The first thing that popped into my mind was the Rose Villa Life Guard Corps. No, they aren't the only reason but they are an example of the kind of cool, buff, rock star activities that the people who live here do on a regular basis. It sprang up and made me smile and think, YES, THE POSSIBILITIES!
That's it, though. There's no lid on this thing! I work in an environment that is rich with possibility. The wide open throttle of what an engaged community can do, and the creativity and power that brings forth is astonishing. Equally energizing to me is the opportunity to develop great co-workers into leaders of depth and magnitude. It's not that I know very much, it's just that sometimes I have the sense to get out of the way and give people the resources to make some magic. It's my job to nurture a collaborative culture, to ask a lot of questions, to cheerlead, sometimes to drop the hammer, always to tell the truth, yes, but all of that is in the service of making the dance floor just as big as it can be to give the people who live here and those who work here as much space as possible to BRING IT.
Thanks for getting me to work each morning.


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My Sexy Poe – Guest Blog from Lynn Cullen
October 7, 2016 Comments 3
Lynn Cullen first made us swoon with her novel MRS. POE, in which she showed us the famous Father of the Detective Story in a new and romantic light. October is Poe Month, and today is the anniversary of his death, so we thought our readers would enjoy this repost…or should that be "Re-Poe-st"?
Close your eyes and think, "Edgar Allan Poe."
Did the image of a gloomy, possibly deranged, definitely unattractive, individual float through your mind? With an industrial-strength forehead and baggy, mismatched eyes, maybe? A face that would make you scurry for the "not now" button if attached to a friend request on Facebook?
You can thank Poe's archenemy in real-life, Rufus Griswold, for planting that unsavory picture in your head. As Poe's literary executor, he waged a smear campaign against Poe that started the day Poe died. He lovingly crafted a venomous portrait of his rival that was so effective that we believe it to this day. It fits the daguerreotypes that we so often associate with Poe, pictures which were taken when he was unwell, in the last days of his life.
Let me replace that image.
EA Poe, ladykiller?
This lithograph shows Poe as viewed while he was in his prime. Far from being thought of as creepy, the ladies swooned over him. This was how he was described by his contemporaries:
"His face is a fine one, and well gifted with intellectual beauty" (Thomas Dunn English, The Aristidean, April, 1845.)
"Poe, himself, is a very good looking fellow" (William Gilmore Simms to the Southern Patriot, July 15, 1846.)
"Poe had a remarkably pleasing and prepossessing countenance, what the ladies would call decidedly handsome" (William Gowan)
"I distinctly recall his face, with its ample forehead, brilliant eyes, and narrowness of nose and chin; an essentially ideal face, not noble, yet anything but coarse, with the look of oversensitiveness which when uncontrolled may prove more debasing that coarseness. It was a face to rivet one's attention in any crowd; yet a face that no one would feel safe in loving. . . ." (Thomas Wentworth Higginson)
I think this last description goes straight to the core of his appeal. Sure, Poe was conventionally attractive, but what made him irresistible was that he seemed to be just barely controlling a volcano of emotions that was always threatening to erupt.
It didn't hurt his dangerous image that he wrote coldly cruel reviews of work that he didn't respect. And he respected little. He carried himself with an air of mystery that was only deepened by his darkly emotional stories and poems. He radiated his powerful need to be loved–a need that grew from being orphaned and then rejected by his foster family from early childhood, a need that was only underscored by his efforts to control it—yet he stood firmly aloof. He was, as Margaret Fuller says in Mrs. Poe, "cool and hard and smart, with a river of passion running underneath. Women just want to dig down to that river."
In short, Edgar Allan Poe was a nineteenth-century Bad Boy heartthrob.
So where did I look for inspiration as I wrote about him? I didn't have to search far. I drew from my own favorite nineteenth-century Bad Boy: Heathcliff, in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. (A book written and published, coincidentally, in the years during which Mrs. Poe takes place—1845-1847.)
Heathcliff, too, was orphaned and later rejected by his foster family. Heathcliff was also driven to prove himself, in his case, by becoming the richest man in the district. Heathcliff, too, became cold and hard to overcompensate for being too loving and vulnerable in his center. He had been crushed; now he'd do the crushing, lashing out like the wounded animal that he was.
Enhancing my vision was Ralph Fiennes's Heathcliff in the 1992 BBC version of Wuthering Heights.
Ralph Fiennes as Heathcliff…Rrrawr!
I enjoyed this vision. A lot. I rounded it out with Colin Firth in the roles in which he struggles under great self control, with a dollop of Johnny Depp's cool glibness in The Pirates of the Caribbean, and then filled it in with my own observations of real-life men whom I find inexplicably appealing. Not all research for a novel is unpleasant.
So now we have our sexy Poe, who was much more like the real Poe than the eerie figure that has come down to us through time. No wonder he was a celebrity heartthrob in his day. A wounded bad boy is always in vogue.
LYNN CULLEN is an avid traveler and historian, and the author of numerous award-winning children's books and adult novels, including The Creation of Eve and Reign of Madness, and the highly acclaimed young adult novel, I Am Rembrandt's Daughter. Visit her at www.lynncullen.com
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by Lynn Cullen
Frances Osgood finds herself embroiled in a passionate affair with the rakish--and married!--writer...but dallying with this master of horror may be more dangerous than she could ever imagine.
Undine July 20, 2013
Oh, no, not another novel perpetuating that horribly insulting (and completely baseless!) myth that Poe had an affair with Frances Osgood…
Well, Griswold, wherever he is now, should be pleased that people are still carrying on his work.
Brandi October 15, 2016
Interesting take on the history of Poe. I never thought of him as a bad boy of history.


Todd Jennings began his move toward becoming a beer snob in 1990, when someone foisted a bottle of craft beer into his hand at a Brooklyn house party. A couple of years of craft beer and home-brewing later, he turned up his nose on all big beer (i.e BudMillCoors) for good, and he still lives in the land of "beer snobbery" to this very day.
Besides chasing after well-concocted fermented malt beverages, he also has a hand in the running business, having created an interesting series of events called the Brewery & Pub Races. These combine the sport of running with the love of beer in a yearlong schedule of races that Todd describes as "less competitive, and really more about the beer". He also produces adventure-style races called the Long Path Races, sending runners off into the woods for many hours at a time, hoping they make it to the finish line without being too much worse for the wear, and where they will very likely also find themselves enjoying a fresh malt beverage as a reward for their effort.
Follow Todd's journeys around the Hudson Valley in pursuit of all things craft beer, and maybe one day you will become a beer snob, too. And don't forget to tip your publican generously.


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Last fall, Lawfare published a piece by Ian Levy and Crispin Robinson of GCHQ entitled Principles for a More Informed Exceptional Access Debate. Our organization, the Open Technology Institute, has worked alongside other people and organizations to coordinate a response from an international coalition of 47 signatories, including 23 civil society organizations that work to protect civil liberties, human rights and innovation online; seven tech companies and trade associations, including providers that offer leading encrypted messaging services; and 17 individual experts in digital security and policy. Our coalition letter outlines our concerns that the GCHQ proposal poses serious threats to cybersecurity and fundamental human rights including privacy and free expression. We shared our letter with GCHQ officials on May 22, and we are now releasing it to the public as an Open Letter to GCHQ.
In their Lawfare piece, Levy and Robinson set forth their proposal for "silently adding a law enforcement participant to a group chat or call." This proposal to add a "ghost" user into encrypted chats would require providers to suppress normal notifications to users, so that they would be unaware that a law enforcement participant had been added and could see the plain text of the encrypted conversation. Levy and Robinson state that they offer their proposal in an effort to have an "open and honest conversation" about how law enforcement can gain access to encrypted communications. We appreciate this call for a discussion and have organized our coalition in response. Lawfare has already published other pieces addressing the GCHQ proposal here and here.
Our letter explains how the ghost proposal would work in practice, the ways in which tech companies that offer encrypted messaging services would need to change their systems, and the dangers that this would present. In particular, the letter outlines how the ghost proposal, if implemented, would "undermine the authentication process that enables users to verify that they are communicating with the right people, introduce potential unintentional vulnerabilities, and increase risks that communications systems could be abused or misused." If users cannot trust that they know who is on the other end of their communications, it will not matter that their conversations are protected by strong encryption while in transit. These communications will not be secure, threatening users' rights to privacy and free expression.
Our letter concludes by urging GCHQ to abandon the ghost proposal and any other approach that would pose similar risks to digital security and human rights, and by noting that we would welcome further dialogue on these important issues. The Open Letter to GCHQ is available here.
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What would actually happen to the moon at the end of the movie Iron Sky?
I have to start by saying that, from a scientific perspective, there are a couple of really major problems with this scenario, before we even get to the physics of the energy required to make such a crater.
The first is that looking at the picture above, the moon is blocking out the sun, and yet, a quarter of the surface is illuminated. This is geometrically impossible; the sun illuminates the surface of the moon that faces the sun - there's no way for sunlight to be reflected off the surface facing away from the sun.
Secondly, the way the crater appears, it looks like the moon is a flat disk that had a notch bitten out of it, like a cookie. The same is true if you watch the clip of the actual explosion, where they shoot a hole in the horizon so that they can see the Earth. The problem with this is that the moon is a sphere, not a disk, so any divot like that would have to be a cylindrical trench in the surface of the moon, not a spherical one like normal craters make. This cylindrical hole would only appear as a semicircular divot from a few positions in space, so that final shot would not see the chunk taken out of the moon as so clean a semicircle, since it's looking from a different angle than the original firing.
To figure out what kind of damage the creation of a crater like this would do to the moon, I had to make a couple of simplifying assumptions. The major one was that the depth of the hole we see in the final shot is the depth of the crater, and that the width was equal to the width of the crater. I also assumed that the crater was round, and not a tunnel, since the explosion looked round in the clip. (It's really hard to make cylindrical holes without a lot of prior planning.) With this information, I could calculate the volume of the crater, and using the average density of the moon, I can find the mass of the moon that had to be removed to make the crater. The above picture of the moon was very useful for this calculation, since I could measure the scale of the crater relative to the entire moon, which allowed me to work out that the crater is 1390 km wide, and 463 km deep. With the assumption of the crater being spherical, and the average density of the moon of 3.34 grams per cubic centimeter, this leads us to a total mass removed from the moon of 1.347 x 10^21 kg. This seems like a huge amount of matter (and it is), but since the entire moon weighs 7.348 x 10^22 kg, this is only a removal of about two percent of the total mass of the moon.
Since the final shot of the moon is some time after the explosion, and there's not a lot of debris hanging around, I worked out the amount of energy required to both lift that much mass, and the amount required to fling that much mass permanently away from the moon. It's a lot of energy. In fact, it's more energy than could be generated by the entire world's nuclear stockpile detonating at once, by a factor of a billion (10^9) - and that's just to lift it. To permanently remove the mass, the current world nuclear stockpile is a factor of a quadrillion (10^15) too weak. The Götterdämmerung only fires two bullets - we can safely say that these bullets are physically impossible.
As far as whether the moon would eventually become a sphere again, the answer here is yes, it would, but it would do so in a way that's very different from what's depicted in the film. The film essentially depicts this massive detonation as resulting in what's called a "simple" crater. A simple crater is just a bowl shaped cavity on the surface of a planet or moon, and the moon has plenty of them already. But when a large amount of energy is injected into the surface of a planet, a lot of the energy is lost into heating up the rock; that heat will temporarily liquify the surface. The surface will ripple, and then cool down, resulting in a series of rings and (often) a central peak - this is called a complex crater. This liquefaction and rippling means that the craters are not as deep as they would be if every crater was a simple one. The bottom of the crater, being a liquid, rebounds up towards what would have been the surface, and a lot of the material that could have been thrown out of the crater would stay on the surface as a liquid. These events are still quite destructive, and a large amount of material would be thrown out of the crater, but the moon would never have become quite as non-circular as it was depicted.
One of Saturn's moons, Mimas, has a really massive complex crater on its surface that earned it the nickname the Death Star Moon. Mimas was thought to have been nearly shattered by this impact, and has a bunch of what is technically called "weird terrain" on the exact opposite side of the moon. Weird terrain is where the seismic shock waves from the impact all meet up and collide on the opposite side of the object, releasing their energy. This fractures the surface in a particularly chaotic way, and can trigger volcanism if the planet or moon has magma hanging around under the surface. Mimas doesn't, and our moon only has a small molten core, but an impact like this would certainly jumble the surface at the antipode of the moon.
The moon's orbit would be remarkably not affected by this. The material thrown out (as shown in the film) from the moon is one fiftieth the mass of the remaining moon - and the laws of momentum tells us that an object fifty times larger is fifty times harder to move. Assuming that the material blown off the moon reaches escape velocity, the rest of the moon will receive a kick of 44.5 m/s. If the material doesn't make it to escape velocity, the kick will be weaker. The moon's average orbital speed is a touch over 1 km/s, which means that this additional velocity is only an alteration of 4% to its speed. However, we have to consider the geometry of the situation here - if the moon had been hit along the direction of travel, it would gain or lose speed in its orbit around the earth, and that might change the distance of its orbit by a small amount. But the hole is in the "top" of the moon, which means that the velocity boost to the moon is pointed "down". This won't change the distance of the moon's orbit, but will make the orbit slightly more tilted. Only slightly, though, since the velocity kick still isn't very strong.
Overall, this crater would not dramatically change the orbit of the moon, though it would make it more tilted, and if this had happened in the real universe, a lot more of the energy would have gone into melting the surface of the moon, and a lot less into making a crater.


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The production of handicrafts continues to be our mainstay both in terms of activity as well as its source of income. To date, the Centre has been exporting to 36 countries all over the world. Some of the traditional items are Tibetan carpets, thankas, wood carved items like folding tables, frames, wall hangings, metal items like bronze and copper pots, prayer wheels and leather items such as gents and ladies boots and shoes. Tibetan apparel such as woolen coats, jackets, caps, chuba, pullovers, mufflers, socks, gloves, ladies aprons, shawls, blankets are some of the other items made here. Besides, Buddhist utility articles and other items of daily use are sold from our Show Room located in the premises. From time to time, we experiment in testing new ideas incorporating traditional Tibetan motifs which would find a ready market both here and abroad.
Among the successful items are footwear and coats which, while keeping the traditional Tibetan styles, are nevertheless modified for suitable modern wear. The immense popularity of these items along with numerous letters of praise and encouragement we receive from all over the world has proved the success of this venture. In this connection, we would like to thank our friends who extended useful advice and invaluable suggestions.
In traditional Tibet, the market for fine handicrafts was generally limited and hence master craftsmen, who had to undergo long periods of apprenticeship were few. Even fewer have managed to escape from Tibet and it was of the utmost importance for the survival of Tibetan handicrafts that the ancient skills and expert knowledge of these masters should be passed onto a new generation of workers. Thus, right from the initial stages, the Centre laid great emphasis on training new workers.
This strategy was guided by three considerations. First, on an individual level, the Centre seeks to give useful and marketable skills to refugees who would otherwise have to earn a precarious livelihood living as coolies or unskilled labourers. Secondly, without a sufficient number of skilled craftsmen and trained workers, the Centre would not be able to produce and sell handicrafts, which provides its main source of income. Finally on a wider level, the training programmes at the Centre ensure that the skills and expertise of the few master craftsmen are passed on to a new generation of workers and thus ensuring the survival and growth of traditional Tibetan arts and crafts.
The production and sale of our high class carpets with their traditional and intricate motifs continue to be our forte. Demand outstrips supply and the normal waiting period for each Carpet order received is one year; a trend that is unheard of and unique in today's highly competitive global market. However, we repeatedly receive letters from grateful customers that the year-long wait was worthwhile after all.
During its 46 years of existence the Centre has been able to train 1800 persons in various crafts of which 1000 to 1200 persons have left the Centre to set up their own enterprises. All of them are now fully self-supporting and several of them are doing very well.
Although the production of handicrafts forms the main activity of the Centre and its primary source of income, the Centre was not planned to be and has never been solely a business concern. From its beginning the Centre has undertaken the task of helping orphans, the aged, the infirm and the needy among the refugees. For example, out of the total population of 650 the Centre accommodates 90 old, infirm and needy persons who are entirely dependent on the Centre.
The Centre provides free housing, food and rations, medical care, pocket money for children, clothes, uniform and stationary. This program consists of the bulk of the Centres expenses and has been carrying on ever since its inception.
The Centre has cared for almost 400 orphans till date. Most of them have been sent to various schools around the country and several have been sponsored for study abroad. These orphans have no relatives or any one to care for them and thus rely wholly on the Centre. With the generous help of several individuals scattered all over the world, the Centre has not only been able to feed and clothe them but also to give them an education thus laying the foundation of their future.
Great stress is also laid on adult education. Classes are held every morning to teach the workers at least the rudiments of reading and writing. As a result we now have 70% literacy, whereas only a dozen or so refugees could read or write when they joined us. The refugees are also taught some basic knowledge of Hindi and English in the morning classes to help them get by in interacting with others in their daily lives.
We have many less fortunate people in our Tibetan community in this area, who have problems in supporting themselves. Many are single parents whose partners have died through illness, leaving behind young children. The Centre takes in many families and helps the children receive an education and at the same time teach the surviving parents a handicraft skill to support the family.
We also have a growing number of old and infirm members who have spent their entire lives here. For them we have a programme where the skilled craftsman and women amongst them teach the younger workers so that traditional skills are preserved for posterity. The Centre has been very lucky to have the kind help of the organisation, HelpAge U.K. and HelpAge India, who have very kindly granted funds for a 2 storey building for an Old People's Home in the Centre. We now have twenty rooms to house the aged, which in turn has led to more living space for the other members of the Centre.
Tibetans by nature are deeply religious. We have built a monastery fulfilling a long cherished desire of our workers and their families for their spiritual needs. Alongside the pantheon of Buddhist deities and Thankas made of silk and brocade, a throne has been placed, as in all Tibetan monasteries, for His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Spiritual and Temporal ruler of Tibet. A suite too, has been constructed for His Holiness in the rare event of an overnight sojourn. His Holiness graced the Centre with His Divine presence in May 1975, November 1981 and again in February 1993 and blessed our chapel, the Centre and its people.
As an offshoot of the monastery's activities, our late Founder-President in her foresight, initiated an arrangement with the famous Drepung Loseling Monastic Institution, Mundgod in South India, whereby the latter would send to the Centre, a Geshe – equivalent to a doctorate in Buddhist Philosophy, Theology and Metaphysics; to take charge of all religious ceremonies during important and auspicious days in the Tibetan almanac. The present Geshe la is especially active and under his tutelage and active interest, a Tsechu Association was formed in September 2002 consisting of the more religiously inclined staff, workers and students of the Centre.
Besides gathering for prayers on auspicious days every month, this group numbering 60, also converges at the house of a recently deceased person to recite prayers for the peaceful rest of the departed soul. During the monthly prayer sessions, people voluntarily offer tea and food to the group. Tsok (blessed cake made of barley flour, butter, sugar and nuts) which is distributed at the conclusion of each session. Under Geshe la's guidance, the members have become adept at chanting various Tibetan prayers and reciting verses from religious texts. At times, a terminally ill worker of the Centre requests the group to visit their home to recite from the sacred scripts. Such gestures give peace of mind to the patients and helps them to contemplate and reflect on their lives.
Just recently, fifty large Copper Prayer Wheels have been installed outside the monastery and Workshops for the benefit of the Centre people. This was made possible as a gesture of remembrance and gratitude by the children of one of the workers who, as with most other people here, spent the better part of their lives serving the Centre and making it their second home.
Another important field of welfare work undertaken by the Centre is its health programme, which benefits not only the refugees of the Centre but hundreds of surrounding local people. The hospital was established in 1961 through the American Relief Services. It has grown from a small infirmary to a 20 bedded hospital today staffed by a well-qualified and highly experienced doctor, two nurses, an overseas volunteer and some helpers.Every year, thousands of patients are treated in the Infirmary. Apart from normal consultation and treatment, the Hospital also carries out blood test and grouping, screening for TB and follow-up medication and care, vaccinations, pre and post natal care, home visits to patients and old people too weak to come to the hospital etc. The overwhelming majority of those who avail of the medical facilities themselves are very poor. But for the services provided by the Centre, they might have had to go without any medical care.
In spite of the loyal services of our medical programme we are seriously faced with the possibility of closing or at least drastically cutting down the programme. It is nearly 50 years since the original organization, AECTR largely responsible for financing the programmes had ceased to exist and none of the other relief organisations engaged in Tibetan projects are in a position to take its place. The Centre's consistent policy of issuing heavily subsidized and free medicines including consultation to all its patients is a big drain on its resources and finances.We therefore welcome contributions in whatever form for our hospital such as medicines, equipment or cash so that we can continue this humanitarian service not only for our people, but to the locally deprived people who live in and around Darjeeling.
With the establishment of a pathological laboratory and X-Ray Clinic in the office premises, the Centre's medical services were greatly enhanced. This expansion was warranted out of the need to provide a more professional touch to the growing clientele of people needing immediate and personalized attention. Also, the need was felt for a well equipped laboratory investigation unit. Our x-ray clinic consisting of a small unit along with the requisite generator was set up by a grant given to us by the government of West Bengal through the Hill Affairs Branch Secretariat, Darjeeling.The Laboratory and clinic have proven a great success and a boon to the local people. It is entirely staffed by trained personnel who have graduated from the Cochin School of Paramedicals in South India. We have been regularly sending batches of students for this one year intensive training course after which they are absorbed in our Clinics often filling the vacancies left by senior colleagues who have left of their own accord. Without doubt, both ventures are running successfully.
A more recent addition to the Centre has been the dental clinic, opened in October 2000. It is also based within the head office complex in town and treats people from the Centre and surrounding communities in and around Darjeeling. It has a full range of dental equipment at its disposal. This unit was set up from the Centre's internal resources as a natural complement of services already on offer. The venture was also partly aided by Dr. Simon Idelman of France.
So far we have had 9 French dentists working for short stints voluntarily mostly arranged for by Chagpori, France. We thank Dr. Idelman and all the French doctors who have made special efforts to volunteer their time and money to work in our Clinic. Not only the members of the Centre but the general public at large have benefited from their skillful hands. At the same time we hope that more dentists from France and other countries will continue to devote their time and impart their skill to our apprentices. In the long term, we intend to send seriously dedicated students for further apprenticeships in dentistry. These steps would ensure the continuance of services to the patients long after the doctors have left.
Future plans for the clinic include allied services and expansion but at the moment we are still integrating the clinic into the facilities provided by the Centre. Once all the activities are streamlined, we hope to provide a complete dental package that will be the envy of Darjeeling.
n June 1960 the Centre started a small Nursery School. Within a short span of time, the school grew into a full-fledged primary school. The present enrolment in the school is 45, which includes many children from nearby Tibetan settlements. As aforementioned, the children are not only provided with free education but also free meals, besides textbooks, stationery, uniform and shoes and pocket money. This facility carry's on right till college. The primary school follows the syllabus of the General Tibetan Schools Administration and caters up to KGII. It is a source of great pride to the Centre and especially to the teaching staff that the children who later join other schools for higher classes regularly receive good reports both in study and general behavior. The staff consists of four teachers and house parents and until recently, 2 volunteer teachers from GAP based in England.
We have constructed an indoor playground for our small children with well-equipped games as well as a Basketball court for the older students. In addition, there is a library with educational books, magazines, periodicals and daily papers for both the children and adults. Students who excel in study are encouraged to follow their chosen stream during college. Specialized and technical training is sponsored by the Centre for potential candidates too. Presently, we have around 250 junior and senior students attending different higher secondary schools and colleges in and out of Darjeeling.
Life is, fortunately, not only work and study and the Centre has tried its best to provide a wide variety of recreations and entertainment. These include a recreation room with indoor games, Cable TV and video shows. Cultural programmes are organised and performed by the Centre's people themselves. The staff, workers and students of the Centre have formed a Sports Club, which provides opportunity to learn different games and participate in local tournaments. The club has its own artistes who stage different historical dramas and traditional cultural shows for the entertainment of the Centre people as well as the general public, thus raising funds for maintenance of the club. These events never fail to draw a big crowd including many foreign tourists.
The most popular Tibetan festivals are 'Losar' or Tibetan New Year, Birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on 6th July, Foundation Day on 2nd October, Children's Day on 14th November and Commemoration of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to His Holiness on 10th December. These are eagerly awaited holidays which can range from one to five days. Traditional butter tea and specially prepared Tibetan food not forgetting the ever popular 'Chang' or Tibetan beer is lavishly served and the merry making continues from early morning to late evenings. Games of dice, dominoes and playing cards have their aficionados. Sometimes, fairs are also held for which local people make a beeline to the Centre.
In order to generate more income and as part of its policy of adapting to the times, the Centre has diversified its activities and started a new offset printing press in town. The printing unit was started with one Heidelberg T-Offset machine with the later addition of one bigger Heidelberg GTO 52 machine along with Printing Down Frame, latest computer equipment for desktop publishing, state of the art German cutting and book binding machines, stitching machine and other accessories. Since its beginning in 1994, the jobs have included printing of letter heads, circulars, certificates, text books, invitation cards, coloured calendars, magazines, flyers etc.
It is managed and run by the Centre's own personnel who have been trained at the press and have hands-on knowledge of the whole printing sequence. The operation has so far been successful in meeting the printing needs of Darjeeling and at the same time, opens an avenue for a career in this field. As a community service, we also print a bi-lingual newsletter detailing news and events concerning Tibet and the Tibetan diaspora.
We are proud to mention here that with the introduction of the T-offset and GTO Heidelberg Printing machines in Darjeeling, we have pioneered into uncharted territory by introducing the hitherto unknown concept of Quick Print Jobs, large quantities of printing at high speeds, high quality colour jobs etc. The success of this venture can be gauged by the fact that apart from satisfied and repeat customers, we regularly receive jobs from other printing presses and DTP units as well, based in and around Darjeeling.
In its quest for expansion as well as improvement of facilities for better administration and delivery of services, the Centre has embarked on an ambitious health and educational program. The immediate beneficiaries would be the Centre's children and members and the general public at large. Under the aegis of our incumbent President Mr. Khedroob Thondup who charted this course, the undertaking would be achieved with the active participation and support of the International Cooperation and Development Fund (ICDF) based in Taiwan. ICDF has launched a few projects in the Centre such as Mobile Clinic, Computer Centre and Chinese Language and Twaekondo Classes which are running smoothly.
The donation of a custom-built Mobile Clinic has been a major boon to the Centre as well as to the people of this region. It has given a new dimension and changed the horizon of medical facilities available thus far in the Darjeeling hills. The Mobile Clinic encompasses Ultrasonography, Radiography, Clinical Pathological Laboratory, Electro-Cardiography (ECG), Dentistry, Pharmacy, Consultancy services etc. The extended facilities involve electronic mass Public Health Education and uninterrupted power supply from its onboard captive power plant.
With its introduction, the Mobile Clinic carries out regular camps at remote towns and villages that do not have access to adequate or proper medical facilities. It serves those economically backward patients too poor to come to Darjeeling for proper medical attention. The consultancy and service charges are either waived or heavily discounted according to the economic status of the patients. We are proud that the inauguration of this Mobile Clinic was done by none other than the Defense Minister of India Mr. George Fernandes in October 2003 and before that by the Chairman of the ICDF himself a few months earlier.
In February 2004, again with the help of ICDF, 10 new computers with printer were installed at the Centre for the benefit of the staff and students. 24 hour Internet facility has been set up so that users have instant connectivity with the outside world and also keep in tune with the latest developments. Computer lessons are imparted by an ICDF volunteer to the children and staff on a rotational basis.
A third activity made possible by the ICDF is the conduct of Chinese language and Twaekondo classes for the staff and students of the Centre. These classes are conducted by an ICDF volunteer too.
The present set of ICDF volunteer nurse, computer instructor and Chinese language and Twaekondo teachers are well qualified and passionate about their responsibilities. ICDF has promised to send more highly qualified teachers and volunteers in the future.
The Centre has also embarked on expansions in other fronts such as total computerization of office and factory. All important departments are linked by LAN network for instant access of reports and status by the President and the administration. 24-hour internet access has also been set up as an added facility.
With the help of the Department of Health, Central Tibetan Administration Dharamsala, a new Bathroom cum Toilet block has been constructed on the western fringe of the Centre. This addition incorporates the flush system and improved water supply which has greatly mitigated the problems faced by the people from this most essential but neglected sector.
Likewise, in 2004, many of our boys and girls who are well settled in New York but still having strong ties with the Centre have collectively donated US$6537.00 for the renovation of the Community Kitchen, construction of additional toilets cum bathrooms as well as renovating the small path leading to the Nursery School and adjoining family quarters. Other well wishers also living in New York but still having strong ties with Darjeeling have contributed wholeheartedly for the amount collected above.
Again, the Department of Health along with Dr. Pema Gyalpo and Dr. Tamdin (former students of Centre now practicing in Japan) have been instrumental in donating a fully equipped ambulance jeep which was a long felt need to complement our medical services.
With the lofty vision of providing medical diagnosis and treatment services by specialists to the general public on a professional scale, the Centre has opened on 14th March, 2006 the TRSHC Diagnostic Clinic in a newly opened block within the office complex in town. This would provide easy and convenient access to different specialists under one roof – more on the lines of a Combined Diagnostic Facility. With the elaborate medical facilities and trained personnel already available on hand, it is proving to be convenient for the visiting doctors to refer further examination and tests to us thereby saving time and expense for the often harried patient.
In any society, children are regarded as its future citizens and some among them are nurtured to take over the mantle of responsibility and leadership. The Centre has right from inception, invested liberally on its children and now is in the process of reaping the benefits. The 1st and 2nd generation children are happily married adults and successfully working in different organizations, schools, businesses and the like. A few have served the Centre giving back in service what they had got in education and direction in life. Lately, children who have graduated from college or technical schools are harnessed and encouraged to share part of the responsibility and man the various departments of the Centre as assistants and trainees. This solves two issues; one that the Centre seldom sees shortage of highly motivated staff and two, the opportunity to work gives them the much needed stimulation of experience by practicing what they have been trained to do. Overall, it gives them a sense of responsibility and belonging to work at a place where they have been born and brought up and in the process, be prepared to face the harsh realities of life.


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Gustavianum Historical Collections
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The Department of Information Technology and Update Computer Club
Update Computer Club has a comprehensive collection of computers and related equipment. A majority of the objects are from the 1970s and 1980s. The entire computers in the collection are mini-computers, ie computers that did not occupy an entire room.
Most of the computers were manufactured by the US company Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), whose products were widely used in research institutions in the 1980s. One of the collection's star attractions is Digital PDP 12, which was specially built to meet the needs of a laboratory environment. It was purchased by the Psychology Department in 1968. This model was made in 1925-1972 in 725 copies, and today there are only twenty known well-preserved copies.
The most space-consuming item is a DECSYSTEM-2060 from 1984. It was purchased for more than four million Swedish crowns by the then Computer Engineering Department and attracted people to the Computer Club because members received access to the computer. The system consists of 15 interconnected sections that occupy an entire corridor wall.
In addition to complete computers, the collection includes are a variety of spare parts and computer accessories of all kinds, including a large number of printed circuit boards. Unlike today's computers where the processor consists of a single chip, the processor in a mini-computer is constructed of modules that can be easily replaced or repaired all the way down to component level. Therefore, the computer came with a diagnostic program, as well as detailed drawings and flowcharts for troubleshooting. Many DEC computers in the collection can therefore be repaired.
Update Computer Club
Update was founded in 1983, and soon acquired the Club's first computer, a PDP-8 / i. The purpose of the Club is to promote interest in, and broaden knowledge about, computer science in students and employees who are interested in computers at Uppsala University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. In matters where the association is considering acquiring, or alternatively disposing of, objects, members give their opinion about the object's interest value. Whether the machine is functional is an important factor. Most of the objects come from the University's institutions. The importance of computers for early digital science can hardly be overestimated, and although the collection is not formally part of the University, it is of great value and should be protected.


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Ink (2009)
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Amazon's premium membership program includes access to the streaming platform Prime Video, more commonly referred to in this publication as simply "Amazon Prime."
If you live in the US, the UK or Germany, you have the option between paying a yearly or monthly subscription fee for an Amazon Prime account, which comes with a bulk of other retail and delivery services. People in other countries where Amazon is not operating may be able to access it from a browser only.
In addition to on-demand streaming, you can rent or purchase TV shows that are not on the service for an additional fee. As well as Amazon devices, the app is available on any mobile device, including iOS, Android, or Windows. The app also works on Apple and Windows computers, on a wide range of TVs, mobile devices, and games consoles.
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Filmzie offers its viewers worldwide high-quality content that is free. Its aim is to spotlight overlooked films in our history and support filmmakers and creators in so doing. If you're someone who feels ethically motivated to support filmmakers and prefers not to have to pay to be entertained, this is the streaming service for you. It's updated regularly with popular and current content. Filmzie was launched in 2021.
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Pantaflix is an internet-based, video-on-demand service that lets you pick and watch what you want among its wide variety of offers, which includes films, documentaries, TV shows, and children's entertainment. This is for the viewer who wants to stream but would rather rent individual content rather than pay for a full-blown subscription. Pantaflix boasts no commitments and guarantees easy access to content you like. The service was launched in Germany in 2016.
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Screambox as its name would indicate is a horror-themed streaming service that offers up a selection of chilling titles to keep you entertained through the darkest nights. They try to offer a mix of indie and classic movies and shows.


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So if the average human age is only about 60 to 80 years old, then the animals listed below can be aged hundreds, up to thousands of years. Some even claimed to reach eternal life. Wow!
This species of jellyfish is probably one of the animals in the world that has truly achieved immortality. This is caused by its life cycle from the adult stage to the stage of immature polyp and then repeated again, there may be no limit from the life span. By eternity this is, individual jellyfish species are very impulsive.
This creature from the Antarctic Ocean has a very slow growth rate and it also does not move, this may be caused by the very low temperatures of the Antarctic Ocean itself. There is an estimate that the oldest age ever found from this animal is 1,550 years old.
Animals known for their age and hard shells are indeed animals that have the longest life in the world. One of them is the Galapagos Tortoise with the name Harriet. Harriet died of heart failure at the age of 175 years in June 2006. There is also a giant tortoise Aldabra who has also died with the name Adwaita 250 years old.
Animals with the Latin name Artical Iceland is a shell that can be used commercially. Age of these shells can be seen from the dark color on the shell. Some specimens collected are estimated to have lived more than 400 years and are still alive.
This animal is known by the name of the Arctic Whale. The Pope Akrtik is an amazing mammal, because the whale has been found with the tip of an ivory spear still in their flesh, the spearhead is a failed attempt to capture from 200 years ago. The Arctic whale is also by far the world's longest living mammal. Can live up to 211 years.
This animal is also known by the name of a worm tube, which has colorful traits and lives along the sea floor hydrocarbon vents. They are known to live up to 170 years, but many scientists say they can live up to 250 years.
Animals are also used as a pet ornamental pet can live more than 200 years. The oldest Koi fish ever found is a koi fish from Japan under the name Hanako who died at the age of 226.
Franciscanus Strongylocentrotus or Red Sea urchin that can only be found in the Pacific Ocean. Life in shallow waters, up to 90 meters of low tide, but outside the bumpy area, and sometimes live in rocky areas. These crawling animals can live for more than 200 years.
This animal is one of the animals that once lived in the era of dinosaurs that still exist. It has lived and developed since 200 million years ago. The tuatara can live up to 200 years.


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Aviation Litigation
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Austin Bartlett
Emily A. Chen
Southwest Airlines Flight 1380: An Illustration of the Personal Jurisdiction Puzzle in Airplane Accident Litigation
Published by Austin Bartlett on May 25, 2018
By: Austin Bartlett, BartlettChen LLC
In the wake of Daimler AG1 and Bristol-Myers Squibb2, plaintiffs are confronted with a daunting jurisdictional hurdle when deciding where to file suit. Commercial airplane accidents frequently involve a mix of defendants, ranging from the airline to the airframe manufacturer to component part manufacturers and others. It is exceedingly rare that all of these entities will be deemed "at home" in the same state, such that general jurisdiction exists in a single forum. It is also increasingly difficult to show that each defendant's contacts with the forum state have a sufficient connection to a plaintiff's claims to establish specific jurisdiction. Southwest Flight 1380 is illustrative of the personal jurisdiction puzzle that aviation attorneys must try to solve in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent personal jurisdiction rulings.
Factual Background
On April 17, 2018, Southwest Airlines operated a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight, SWA 1380, from LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York to Dallas Love Field in Dallas, Texas. Southwest's aircraft, a Boeing 737-7H4, registered as N772SW, was powered by two CFM56-7B engines. There were 144 passengers aboard from all over the United States, including New Mexico, Texas, New York, Louisiana, and elsewhere.
At approximately 11:03 Eastern time, at an altitude of 32,000 feet, the left engine failed. According to the NTSB, the number 13 fan blade (there are 24 total) separated at the hub and portions of the engine inlet and cowling broke off.3
Shrapnel from the engine inlet and cowling struck the aircraft's wing and fuselage and knocked out a passenger window (seat 14). This caused the aircraft to rapidly depressurize and pull the passenger seated next to the window, Jennifer Riordan, partially out of the aircraft. As a result, she tragically died.
The pilots conducted an emergency descent and diverted to Philadelphia International Airport. In addition to one fatality, eight other passengers were injured, and several other passengers reportedly suffered emotional distress.
Based on the above sequence of events, potential defendants may include one or more of the following: the airframe manufacturer (Boeing); the engine manufacturer (CFM International, a company jointly owned by General Electric Company and Safran of France), engine component part suppliers (identity unknown), and the airline (Southwest Airlines).
The next question, of course, is where passengers may properly file suit.
General Jurisdiction
Historically, the general jurisdiction analysis focused on whether defendants were "doing business" within a state by having "continuous and systematic general business contacts with the forum state." But the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Daimler AG. v. Baum, created a seismic shift in the general jurisdiction analysis. Eschewing the prior "doing business" standard, the Court held that a corporation can only be subject to general jurisdiction when it has such pervasive connections with a state that it is essentially "at home" in that state.4 The U.S. Supreme Court further circumscribed the general jurisdiction analysis by suggesting that a corporation's "home" is generally limited to two jurisdictions: one, the state where the corporation's principal place of business is located and, two, the state where it is incorporated.5 While the U.S. Supreme Court hinted that a "third jurisdiction" may exist in an "exceptional case,"6 such as when a corporation's contacts with a state are "so substantial and of such a nature as to render the corporation at home in that State," the majority of cases decided post-Daimler have tried to close this narrow opening.7 We can expect that the contours of the "exceptional case" will continue to be litigated.
In light of the above, the general jurisdiction analysis generally comes down to this: Where is a corporation incorporated and where is its principal place of business? Applying the general jurisdiction rule to Southwest Flight 1380 yields the following results:
Table 1 – Southwest Flight 1380 "General Jurisdiction" Forums
Jurisdiction 1
(State of Principal Place of Business)
(State of Incorporation)
Safran, S.A.
Safran Aircraft Engines
Courcouronnes, France
(50/50 Joint Company of GE and Safran)
See GE and Safran above
As illustrated in Table 1, the potential defendants' principal places of business and states of incorporation are not located in the same forum. In practical terms, this means that a passenger may not be able to establish general jurisdiction against multiple defendants arising out of the same accident in a single forum.
But what about the "third jurisdiction" the U.S. Supreme Court spoke of in Daimler? Chicago-Midway Airport, for example, is Southwest Airlines' busiest airport in the nation with up to 259 daily departures to 69 cities. And, Southwest has been operating out of Chicago-Midway Airport for 33 years. Given the duration and intensity of these contacts with Chicago, would a court find that they are "so substantial" as to warrant the exercise of general jurisdiction? Before Daimler, a court would likely find general jurisdiction based on these "systematic and continuous" contacts. Post Daimler, this is an open question, and the answer may very well depend on which court is called upon to decide it.
Specific Jurisdiction
In Daimler's wake, most jurisdictional skirmishes will now be fought over specific jurisdiction. Unlike general jurisdiction, which is "all purpose" jurisdiction and allows any lawsuit to to be brought against a defendant in its "home" state, specific jurisdiction requires a connection between a defendant's suit-related conduct and the forum state. As the U.S. Supreme Court made plain in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., specific jurisdiction only applies when there is a connection between the forum and the specific claims at issue.8 In other words, it is "case-linked" jurisdiction.
Following Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., courts have further constricted the specific personal jurisdiction analysis, including in airplane accident litigation. In at least two reported decisions, Hinkle v. Continental Motors, Inc. and Montgomery v. Airbus Helicopters, Inc., courts found that specific personal jurisdiction was lacking against a product manufacturer even though suit was brought in the state where the crash occurred.9 One of these courts went on to declare that the "totality of the contacts" and "stream of commerce" tests were now dead.10
While the U.S. Supreme Court has formulated clear rules for deciding whether general jurisdiction exists (e.g., PPB or state of incorporation), the specific personal jurisdiction analysis remains murky. What is clear, however, is that a court must examine the relationship between a plaintiff's claims and the defendant's conduct in that forum. If there is not a clear connection between a defendant's forum-related conduct and the specific claims at issue, then the court will likely dismiss the case for lack of personal jurisdiction.
Applying Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. to the Southwest Flight 1380 accident thus requires an evaluation of the connection between each defendant's conduct in the forum and the plaintiff's specific claims. In the Southwest Flight 1380 accident, the potential defendants fall into two primary groups: the product defendants (Boeing, GE, Safran, and others) and the airline defendant (Southwest Airlines).
With respect to the product defendants, the claims will likely center on defects in the design and manufacture of the engines and inadequate testing and inspection procedures, which prevented the discovery of metal fatigue of the fan blade. And for Southwest, the claims will likely relate to inadequate maintenance and inspection of the aircraft engines, including the fan blades.
Given that the engine failed in Philadelphia, passengers were injured in Philadelphia, and the aircraft was diverted to Philadelphia, it is logical that some passengers will bring suit there. Indeed, the only suit filed to date, Chavez v. Southwest Airlines, Inc., et al., 18-cv-1769, was brought in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. From a review of that complaint, it appears the plaintiff is asserting that the court has both general and specific jurisdiction over the defendants.
In assessing whether specific jurisdiction exists in Chavez, the court will need to analyze the connection between each defendant's conduct in Pennsylvania and the specific claims asserted. The fundamental question is how broadly the court should interpret the claims in plaintiff's complaint. With respect to the product defendants, is the failure of the engine in Pennsylvania and the resulting injuries sufficient to give rise to specific personal jurisdiction, or must the engine also be designed, manufactured, and inspected there by the product defendants? Similarly for Southwest Airlines, is it sufficient that the engine failed in Pennsylvania and injured Southwest's passengers in that forum, or must the engine also be maintained and inspected by Southwest in Pennsylvania? After Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., the answer to these questions is not clear-cut and may vary depending on the jurisdiction.11
But the Chavez case illustrates another point. That is, irrespective of the merits of a personal jurisdiction defense, it may not always make strategic sense to pursue it. If General Electric were to pursue such a defense in the Chavez case, for example, it may be sued in New York state court, its state of incorporation, and end up trading a federal forum for a state one due to the forum defendant rule.
Like most other commercial aviation accidents, Southwest Flight 1380 involves parties that are scattered throughout the United States and abroad. In light of recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions in personal jurisdiction cases, this poses significant difficulties for the parties and the judiciary. While the U.S. Supreme Court has created a clear set of rules in general jurisdiction cases, by restricting general jurisdiction for a corporation to only the states of incorporation and its principal place of business, the Court has made it difficult to pursue multiple defendants arising out of the same accident in a single forum. The U.S. Supreme Court's specific personal jurisdiction rules are not nearly as demanding as general jurisdiction, but they too have made it more difficult to pursue multiple parties in one forum. The practical effect of these rulings is a multiplicity of lawsuits, which results in litigation inefficiencies, potentially inconsistent rulings, discovery schedules, and fault allocations, and issue and claim preclusion problems. While these problems may be felt most acutely by plaintiffs, they likewise pose problems for defendants who may wish to press a cross-claim for contribution or would prefer to have a plaintiff take the fight to a co-defendant due to longstanding business relationships. As a practical matter, in order to avoid protracted jurisdictional briefing and to achieve the efficient handling of multi-party litigation, counsel should consider engaging in a frank dialogue with each other and attempt to reach agreement on a forum acceptable to all.
1. Daimler AG v. Baum, 517 U.S. 117 (2014). The Court reinforced its point regarding general jurisdiction in BNSF Railway Co. v. Tyrell,137 S.Ct. 1549 (2017).
2. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court, 137 S.Ct. 1773 (2017).
3. See NTSB Investigative Update on Engine Failure (May 3, 2018) at https://goo.gl/bJCGdo.
4. Daimler AG, 517 U.S. at 138-40.
5. Id. at 137. See also BNSF Railway,137 S.Ct. at 1558.
6. Daimler AG, 517 U.S. at 139, n. 19; BNSF Railway,137 S.Ct. at 1558.
7. BNSF Railway,137 S.Ct. at 1558; Brown v. Lockheed Martin Corp., 814 F.3d 619, 629-30 (2d Cir. 2016).
8. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., 137 S.Ct. at 1781.
9. Hinkle v. Continental Motors, Inc., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 168591, at *10 (D.S.C. Oct. 12, 2017); Montgomery v. Airbus Helicopters, Inc., 2018 Okla. LEXIS 17 (Okla. Mar. 6, 2018).
10. Montgomery, 2018 Okla. LEXIS at *24-25.
11. Compare Montgomery v. Airbus Helicopters, Inc., 2018 Okla. LEXIS 17 (Okla. Mar. 6, 2018) with Russell v. SNFA, 987 N.E.2d 778 (Ill. 2013) and Kowal v. Westchester Wheels, Inc., 89 N.E.3d 807 (Ill. App. Ct. 2017).
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package icewolf;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import javafx.event.ActionEvent;
import javafx.scene.control.Button;
import javafx.scene.control.Label;
import javafx.scene.control.Tab;
import javafx.scene.control.TabPane;
import javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane;
import javafx.scene.layout.HBox;
import javafx.scene.layout.Priority;
import javafx.scene.web.WebView;

public class IWInternetTab extends Tab
{

    private Label searchLabel;
    private WebView tabWebView;
    private IWSearchBox searchField;
    private IWURLField urlField;
    private Button newTabBtn;
    private HBox hbox;
    private BorderPane bPane;

    public IWInternetTab(String webAddress, TabPane tabPane)
    {

        searchLabel = new Label("Search: ");

        tabWebView = new WebView();
        //textProperty().bind(tabWebView.getEngine().titleProperty());
        this.setText("Empty Tab");

        tabWebView.setStyle("-fx-pref-width: 780; -fx-pref-height: 1530;");

        searchField = new IWSearchBox(tabWebView, 0);
        searchField.setOnAction((event) -> {searchField.search();});
        searchField.setStyle("-fx-pref-width: 260");

        urlField = new IWURLField(tabWebView, false, this);

        urlField.setOnAction((event) -> { urlField.loadPage(); });

        urlField.setText(webAddress);

        urlField.loadPage();

        urlField.setStyle("-fx-pref-width: 300");

        tabWebView.getEngine().locationProperty().addListener((observable, oldURL, newURL) ->
        {
            urlField.setText(newURL);
            downloadFileIfAvailable(urlField.getText());
        });

        newTabBtn = new Button("New Tab");

        newTabBtn.setOnAction((ActionEvent event) -> {
            Tab newTab = new IWInternetTab("www.smsu.edu", tabPane);
            tabPane.getTabs().add(newTab);
            tabPane.getSelectionModel().select(newTab);
        });

        hbox = new HBox(6);
        HBox.setHgrow(urlField, Priority.ALWAYS);
        hbox.setStyle("-fx-padding: 10px;-fx-alignment: baseline-center;");
        hbox.getChildren().addAll(newTabBtn, urlField, searchLabel, searchField);

        bPane = new BorderPane();
        bPane.setTop(hbox);
        bPane.setCenter(tabWebView);
        setContent(bPane);
        setClosable(true);
        setOnClosed((event) -> {onTabClosed();});
    }

    private void onTabClosed(){
        tabWebView.getEngine().load(null);
        System.gc();
    }

    private void downloadFileIfAvailable(String pageURL)
    {
        try
        {
            HttpURLConnection httpConn;
            URL url = new URL(pageURL);
            long contentLength;
            String fileName = "";
            InputStream inputStream;
            httpConn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
            int responseCode = httpConn.getResponseCode();
            if (responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK || responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_FORBIDDEN)
            {

                contentLength = httpConn.getContentLength();
                if(contentLength == -1)
                {
                    httpConn.disconnect();
                    return;
                }
                String contentType = httpConn.getContentType();
                if(contentType.contains("text/html"))
                {
                    httpConn.disconnect();
                    return;
                }
                String disposition = httpConn.getHeaderField("Content-Disposition");
                if (disposition != null)
                {
                    System.out.println("Dis = " + disposition);
                    int index = disposition.indexOf("filename=");
                    if (index > 0)
                    {
                        fileName = "";

                        for(int i=index+9; i<disposition.length();i++)
                        {
                            if(disposition.charAt(i)==';')
                            {
                                break;
                            }
                            else if(disposition.charAt(i)!='"')
                            {
                                fileName += disposition.charAt(i);
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    fileName = pageURL.substring(pageURL.lastIndexOf("/") + 1,pageURL.length());
                }
                if(Math.abs(fileName.lastIndexOf(".") - fileName.length())> 4)
                {
                    httpConn.disconnect();
                    return;
                }
                if (!IWApplicationHelper.getInstance().getUrlQueue().contains(fileName)
                        && !contentType.contains("text") && fileName.contains(".") && contentLength > 1)
                {
                    IWApplicationHelper.getInstance().getUrlQueue().add(fileName);
                    // System.out.println(contentType);
                    // Download File
                    File file = new File(System.getProperty("user.home") + "/Downloads/IWDownloads/");
                    try
                    {
                        if (!file.exists())
                        {
                            file.mkdir();
                        }
                        File download = new File(file + "/" + fileName);
                        inputStream = responseCode == 200 ? httpConn.getInputStream() : httpConn.getErrorStream();

                        new IWDownloadBox(url, contentLength, file, fileName, inputStream);
                    }
                    catch (Exception e)
                    {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    httpConn.disconnect();
                }
            }
            else
            {
                System.out.println("Response is " + responseCode);
            }
                /*else
                {
                    fileName = pageURL.substring(pageURL.lastIndexOf("/") + 1,pageURL.length());
                }*/
                //System.out.println(contentType);

        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {

        }
    }

}

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Clements Loudspeakers >
Model: 208di Clements Loudspeakers >
$295 Original Price: $1000
Clements Loudspeakers was quite the extraordinary speaker manufacturer in the 90's and early 2000's that produced speakers that had really ridiculous price tags (and by that we mean they were priced too "cheap"). Their flagship reference speaker barely cost more than $4,000 retail and for the sound quality, stage presence and the technology that went into it – they were running on a combination of regular cone drivers, ribbon and horn tweeters, made them a steal at that price. The 208di is a 2-way speaker that spots a single 8″ woofer and a 1″ horn tweeter in a floorstanding cabinet configuration that stands at 32″ tall, 11″ wide and 11″ deep. Each speaker barely takes up more square footage than a typical monitor speaker on stands would take. But there ends the similarities. We don't have the exact specs but these speakers throws out an incredible soundstage (the "di" in the model is an abbreviation for "dynamic image"), controlled and tight bass, crystal highs and an overall smooth sound that can make some speakers that cost two or many times more pale in comparison. For under $300 now, these are incredible buys for the audiophile who wants the best sound he/she can get for $300. Speakers are designed such that when the spikes are installed, the speakers are tilted backwards at an angle for time delay coherence between the drivers.
Cosmetically, the speakers look good. Some minor scuff marks/ dings from use but nothing major. We don't have the original boxes but can securely pack them for safe shipping. Local pickup from our store can be arranged.


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My friend gave me a Transcend 2 GB (JF V30) pen drive. It was infected with virus. My antivirus suite (bit defender total security 2015) scanned and found 18 viruses,worms etc in total.


Mr. Giampapa is a co-founder of Ianieri, Giampapa & Co., PC which was formed in November of 1990.
Mr. Giampapa has over 35 years of experience in providing tax, accounting, auditing, and consulting services. His experience includes special investigations, contract compliance, audits and construction claims audits involving highway/bridge projects. His construction audit responsibilities have included verifying cost accounting methods, assessing the reasonableness of claimed damages, interpreting accounting data, and verifying standards of practice. Mr. Giampapa has headed several construction audit teams across a wide range of transportation and infrastructure projects.
Mr. Giampapa is active in general practice and provides accounting, auditing and tax consulting services to privately owned companies and their executives. In addition, he counsels clients on financing and development programs for their businesses. Mr. Giampapa also lectures professional peer groups on many tax issues and performs Defense Contract Audits.
Prior to co-founding Ianieri, Giampapa & Co., PC, Mr. Giampapa was Tax Manager with Margolis & Company, where he was responsible for the firm's entire Tax Department. His responsibilities included tax planning and compliance for engagement clients and interfacing with owners and top management.
As Tax Manager with Mahoney Cohen & Co., PC, Mr. Giampapa was responsible for tax planning and compliance for engagement clients and interfacing with owners and top management.
Mr. Giampapa received a B.A. degree in accounting at Queens College, City University of New York, in 1980. He is a member of the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Mr. Ianieri, President, is a co-founder of Ianieri, Giampapa & Co., PC which was formed in November of 1990.
Mr. Ianieri is active in general practice and provides accounting, auditing and tax consulting services to privately owned companies and their executives. In addition, he counsels clients on financing and development programs for their businesses.
Before co-founding the Firm, Mr. Ianieri was an auditing and accounting manager at Margolis & Company, PC, a Philadelphia medium sized CPA firm for over ten years. His responsibilities involved a number of small to large clients in a variety of businesses, as well as supervising numerous jobs which included audits, reviews and compilations reporting, and has performed Defense Contract Audits.
Prior to that, he was a Controller with Mass Brothers, Inc., of Pennsauken, NJ, for a period of seven years - a regional wholesale distributor of health and beauty aids. His responsibilities included managing the staff which performed all financial activities for the company including accounting and administrative duties.
Prior to Mass Brothers he was employed by a variety of regional Certified Public Accounting firms, to which he provided a full range of services to closely held businesses, for period of eight years.
Mr. Ianieri received a B.A. degree in accounting at Philadelphia College of Textile, in 1970. He is a member of the Pennsylvania State Society of Certified Public Accountants.


Digital painting for a composite bird design.
Concept piece for a beetle based on the Sydney Opera House.
Biro sketch for a tired Santa character design.
Digital painting of a bird house.
Experiment for a bold design incorporating text.
Character design derived from leaves.
Digital painting exhibited as the entry for 'Word' week in the 52 Week Illustration Challenge.
Digital painting of a suave giraffe.