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<?php

namespace Teon\Sitemap\Generator\BruteForce;

# use Teon\Sitemap\Generator\BruteForce\Crawler;

use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface;

class Crawler // extends Command
{
    /*
     * Console output object
     */
    protected $consoleOutput = NULL;

    /**
     * Set console output object to use
     *
     *
     */
    public function setConsoleOutput (OutputInterface $consoleOutput)
    {
        $this->consoleOutput = $consoleOutput;
    }

    /**
     * Output to console if applicable
     *
     * If consoleOutput is set, use it to write output to console, otherwise silently drop it
     */
    protected function consoleWriteln ($text)
    {
        if (NULL != $this->consoleOutput) {
            $this->consoleOutput->writeln($text);
        }
    }

    public function crawlAndGenerateUriList (Uri $BaseUri, UriList $UriListSeed = NULL)
    {
// DEVELOPMENT FIXME REMOVE
//        $tmp = unserialize(file_get_contents(__DIR__ ."/../FIXME-UriListFound.ser"));
//        $tmp->sortByUri();
//        return $tmp;

        // Generate initial list of URIs that need to be visited
        if (NULL == $UriListSeed) {
            $UriListToCrawl = new UriList($BaseUri);
        } else {
            $UriListToCrawl = $UriListSeed;
            if (!$UriListToCrawl->hasUriTheSameBase($BaseUri)) {
                throw new Exception("Base URI mismatch: $BaseUri");
            }
        }

        // Loop through list of URIs that already exist
        // When new links are encountered, append it to UriListToCrawl
        $this->consoleWriteln("Starting crawl at: ". $UriListToCrawl->getBaseUri()->getFullUri());
        $UriListFound = new UriList($BaseUri);
        while ($UriToCrawl = $UriListToCrawl->getNext()) {
            $this->consoleWriteln("Processing URI (". $UriListToCrawl->getPosition() ."/". $UriListToCrawl->getCount() ."): $UriToCrawl");

//            $this->consoleWriteln("  Status returned: ". $UriToCrawl->getStatusCode());
//            $this->consoleWriteln("  Content size:    ". $UriToCrawl->getContentSize() .' bytes');

            // Store body into a file
            file_put_contents("./FIXME.html", $UriToCrawl->getContent());

            // Extract relative URIs from this URI, and only those with the same URI base
            $relativeUrisWithoutLeadingSlash = array();
            $cmd = "
cat ./FIXME.html \
| lynx -dump -listonly -stdin -hiddenlinks=ignore \
| grep -E '^[ ]*[0-9]+\. ' \
| sed -e 's/^[ ]*[0-9]\+\. //' \
| grep '". $BaseUri->getFullUri() ."' \
| sed -e 's@". $BaseUri->getFullUri() ."@@' \
| sort \
| uniq
            ";

            $retValue = 0;
            exec($cmd, $relativeUrisWithoutLeadingSlash, $retValue);

            // Cleanup
            unlink("./FIXME.html");

            if (0 != $retValue) {
                throw new Exception ("Command returnd non-zero exist status: $cmd");
            }

            // Add
            if (!$UriListFound->doesUriExist($UriToCrawl)) {
                $UriListFound->add($UriToCrawl);
            }

            // Process these relative URIs
            $i = 0;
            foreach ($relativeUrisWithoutLeadingSlash as $relativeUriWithoutLeadingSlash) {
                $relUri = "/$relativeUriWithoutLeadingSlash";
                $absUri = $BaseUri->getAbsoluteUri() . $relativeUriWithoutLeadingSlash;

                // Does it have to be ignored?
                if (preg_match(Config::get("ignoreRegex"), $relUri)) {
                    continue;
                }

                $NewUri = new Uri($absUri);
                if ($UriListToCrawl->doesUriExist($NewUri)) {
                    //$this->consoleWriteln("  Already scheduled: $relUri");
                } else {
                    $i++;
                    $this->consoleWriteln("  Scheduling for crawl ($i): $relUri");
                    $UriListToCrawl->add($NewUri);
                }
            }

        }

        // Development FIXME REMOVE
        //file_put_contents(__DIR__ ."/../FIXME-UriListFound.ser", $UriListFound);

        // Return newly generated URI list
        return $UriListFound;
    }
}


– was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, to Polish war refugees. She graduated from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C with a history major from the School of Foreign Service in 1984. She was a recipient of the Lady Davis Scholarship at the Hebrew University (1990-91), where she studied with Prof. Moshe Rosman (Bar Ilan University). She was the recipient of Fulbright, IREX, and Stefan Batory grants for archival research in Poland, Russia, and Belarus. She received her PhD from Georgetown University in 1998 under the mentorship of Prof. Andrzej Sulima Kamiński for her dissertation on the Polish-Muscovite War of 1654. Together with Prof. Karin Friedrich she co-edited Citizenship and Identity in a Multinational Commonwealth, a Festschrift dedicated to Prof. Kamiński and published by Brill Academic Publishers. Pendzich was a volunteer throughout the 1980s at the NSZZ "Solidarność" Coordinating Office Abroad headed by Jerzy Milewski in Brussels, Belgium. She was deputy director of the Institute for Civic Space and Public Policy at the Lazarski University in Warsaw. Pendzich worked in various capacities with the Bente Kahan Foundation in Wrocław in 2010-2017. She is currently working with the Department of Jewish Studies as an affiliated scholar.


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FIAT Plans to Double Market Share, Open 80-100 Dealerships in 18 Months
Soon after its split up with TATA, FIAT has started doing things they should have done a little before. Very recently did they launch a lifestyle showroom FIAT Caffe in Pune, it's second in India. At the same occasion the company also launched a Limited Edition of its premium hatchback car, Punto Sports.
FIAT's Past:
In an over 2 million strong Indian market, all FIAT could garner were a miniscule 18,000 units for the whole of 2011-12 which transforms into a paltry market share of 0.7%. The biggest gripe is that it has got almost everything right with respect to its products – people just do not fail to admire them, their build quality, performance, reliability etc. However, it's the sad sales and service network which is hampering its sales big time.
FIAT's Plans:
After the breakup, FIAT seems to be considering things with open wings.
The Italian major plans to have 80-100 total dealerships in the next 18 months
These dealerships would be spread across 35 Indian cities
FIAT also plans to double its market share in the coming 2-3 years
FIAT is also working on a new product portfolio with its global partner Chrysler for India.
FIAT is also planning to drive in the lifestyle JEEP brand to India
To build its own infrastructure, FIAT has confirmed 23 TATA dealers out of the 40 they approached
It would be interesting to closely follow and observe how FIAT would bring back the laurels. What we feel is that FIAT should identify correct products for India and they could well be doing good business here.
Saad Khan
Editor MotorBash
Source: Economic Times
Sanjay July 26, 2012 at 1:10 pm
Just visited Fiat caffe in Pune. Really impressed, finally Fiat has got its way…

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The Creator Speaks: Rohrer On Chain World
News by Alec Meer Contributor
In the beginning, there was a GDC presentation. Just a quiet little talk between developers, and a what-if experiment wherein a one-off, modded version of Minecraft was personally passed by Passage/Sleep Is Death/Inside A Star-Filled Sky creator Jason Rohrer to a curious audience member, who would then be the only person to see what Rohrer had built inside the game. The rules: you do not talk about Chain World. You do not keep on playing Chain World once you die in it. You then pass it on to someone who has 'expressed interest,' and to no other.
That was the plan, anyway. Then this secret world's first inheritor, Jia Ji, came up with his own, rather different plan: a philanthropic auction, which closed at $3,300, and a promise to later send Chain World on to gaming luminaries Jane McGonigal and Will Wright. He told us why he did that earlier today, as well as why he offered RPS a copy (the temptation was you-would-not-believe strong, but we ultimately declined). So how did Rohrer feel about his quiet attempt at founding a digital religion being so quickly turned to a new, and very public, belief system? Did he even intend for this to become a talking point that's infuriating as many people as it's exciting? Were those rules he made actually designed to be broken all along? And if this is a religion, who is its god? Let's ask him.
Incidentally, if you haven't already done so, I very strongly urge you to watch the first 15 or so minutes of this video, wherein the Chain World concept is introduced. A fair few people have lobbed bile at the project and its creator without actually witnessing the casual cheer with which it was first pitched. If you're at all tempted to snarl about how this is arch posturing and pretension (which admittedly text-based summations can be guilty of making it appear to be), watch this first and you might be extremely surprised.
You've watched it, yeah? You're not allowed to read the below interview until you have.
RPS - Chain World has almost immediately headed off down a different path than the one you originally suggested for it. How do you feel about this? Is charity and celebrity to the good or ill of the project?
The moment I sent USB stick out into the world, it became totally out of my control. That was, in part, the point---each person in the chain does her part, but has no control---or knowledge---of what happens after she passes. Those mechanisms invest your one, personal play through the game with an extreme amount of gravity. This is it, my one chance. As I said during my talk, the one Chain World game that I played ended with the most heart-breaking death in my entire video game life. I was left with a deep sense of loss over what I had failed to accomplish, but I was somewhat comforted in the knowledge that others might carry on where I left off. In other words, it was a sense of beautiful loss.
So, I suppose each person will have the tendency to think very carefully about what they want to do with their own moment in Chain World. I think it's safe to say that Jia Ji went overboard in a weird direction that no one was expecting. He emailed me a few times when he was setting this all up---I didn't put my foot down or tell him not to do it (not that I really could have anyway). I mostly just sat quietly and watched it all unfold.
I'm not particularly interested in the charity that he's chosen, nor am I in favour of tying celebrities to the whole thing. Playing my part in the meta-game-religion around the whole thing, I've encouraged people to break Jia's rules just as he broke mine. Why should the person who won his eBay auction feel forced to send the stick onto someone that Jia chooses?
RPS - How much, if at all, would you agree with the argument that fragmentation and breaking of the rules makes it even more akin to how religions have traditionally evolved?
Yeah, I guess I couldn't have set a better religion in motion on purpose than what I seem to have set in motion by accident.
RPS - Are your rules designed to be broken and evolved - i.e. are they the 10 Commandments or are they the Bible?
Wait, which one of those examples is designed to be broken and evolved?
In the case of Chain World, all of this really depends on the fundamental limits of digital technology. There is no such thing as an "original" digital file. The rules of Chain World are included on that USB stick as a simple ASCII text file. People who read the rules from this file have no way of knowing that what they are reading are my original rules. In fact, there's no way to verify that they are playing an unmodified, true instance of Chain World. I spent some time making the USB stick itself rather unique, and I'm pretty sure that I could identify a fake, but I'm the only one in the world who knows for sure what the original physical object looked like. Also, someone could modify the stick!
The point is, while I didn't design the rules to be broken or evolved, the way that the rules are delivered does not prevent people from breaking and evolving them.
RPS - Have you been in discussion with Ji, McGonigal or Wright? And leading on from that, how invested are you in shaping the project's future now it's out of your physical hands?
Jia emailed me a few times in the beginning as he was setting things up, but I mostly stayed quiet and didn't get involved in any discussions. Jane emailed me about borrowing some of my slides for PAX, but we had no discussion either. We later had some email exchanges after the twitter-scape directed its collective anger at her. No, I'm not mad at Jane! I've never in my life communicated with Will Wright, though I hope to someday, because I've enjoyed his games and his talks.
I'm not invested in shaping the project's future at all. I sent it out in the world---that was my part. Though I am watching the events unfold.
RPS - What do you expect to happen in the near future, and what did you predict would be its status around about now had Mr Ji not been such a force of chaos?
Well, I'm waiting to see what the eBay winner does with the stick, if anything. Will Jia fork off more copies and hold additional auctions? Will the whole thing just die down and disappear?
If Jia had not stirred things up the way that he did, it would probably be passing quietly from hand to hand, and there would be no news story at all.
RPS - More generally, were you braced for this becoming something of an online sensation when you made the pitch at GDC? Indeed, how much was that the point?
Absolutely not. In fact, the way I designed it made it sort of an anti-sensation. No online presence. No way of tracking the location of the stick. Something that disappears from public view forever, immediately after my talk, and makes everyone wonder about it after that. A secret practice, of sorts. And a secret practice doesn't make headlines.
RPS - One thing that hasn't been written about much is the fact that this has Minecraft at its heart, as much as the concept of the secret hand-me-down world. While admittedly I can't think of all that many other games that would have fit so neatly (although now I think of it Sleep Is Death could have had wonderful results), why Minecraft? Anything to do with the fact that there are elements of the religious cult around it/Notch in the first place, or am I just wildly reaching here?
Yeah, sticking one of my own existing games in the middle of a "new religion" would have felt way too much like self-promotion.
I actually wanted to design a new game to fit into the chain model, but as I tried to envision one, my mind kept circling back to Minecraft. I'd start with some other simple core design, but to make it feel right, I'd add this feature and that feature, until what I had was essentially Minecraft. After going through that process several times, I eventually just conceded to the most obvious solution and used Minecraft.
And, it was a perfect fit, because it's also a game that has created quite a few spiritual feelings in me already. There's already something like a Chain World phenomenon happening on the multiplayer servers (if you're clever enough to gain access to one)---you wander around and wonder about all these object that others have constructed and left behind. You think carefully about what you build and how others that come after you will perceive it. Then the server admin installs an upgrade, forcing a world reset, and all that collective work is lost!
And if there's a god of Minecraft, it's certainly Notch. He set the algorithms in motion that sculpt the raw, natural form of the world. He's the one who picked the number 128.
RPS - Thanks for your time.
Jason Rohrer's latest game is tactical shmup Inside A Star Filled Sky, which we gave some initial impressions of here. We'll be writing more about it at some point soon.
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Alec Meer
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Jumbos enter final stretch looking strong
Delaney Tantillo
Junior Sarah Perkins, races in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the NESCAC Championship on April 28. Alina Strileckis / The Tufts Daily
As the No. 17 Tufts women's track and field team prepares for the final meet of its season, the NCAA Championships, it can reflect on a season replete with strong performances up and down the roster, stretching all the way back to the middle of March.
The squad kicked off the 2018 outdoor season with a training trip to Jacksonville, Fla., during which it competed in the Spring Break Invitational at the University of North Florida on Mar. 23. While there was no team scoring at this meet, it was a good opportunity for the Jumbos to get back into the swing of outdoor meets following their three-month indoor season.
Upon returning to campus, Tufts hosted the Snowflake Classic on March 31, at which the team finished first out of the 22 teams competing. The Jumbos won seven events that day in their 187-point effort. Individual highlights from the event included graduating senior co-captain Brittany Bowman winning the 10,000-meter race in a time of 34:51.07 to break her personal and school record, as well as rising senior Kelsey Tierney winning the 5,000-meter race in a time of 17:46.43.
April proved to be a busy month for the Jumbos as they competed in four meets, culminating in the NESCAC Championships. On April 7, Tufts hosted No. 13 MIT, Bates and RPI for a meet in which the Jumbos earned second place. The following weekend, Tufts traveled to Conn. College where they participated in the two-day Silfen Invitational, finishing second of the 19 teams competing. Graduating senior co-captain Annalisa DeBari had a standout performance on the weekend, winning both the 100-meter hurdles and the 200-meter dash. In their final meet before NESCACs, the Jumbos hosted and won the Sunshine Classic on April 21.
On April 28, Tufts traveled to Trinity for the NESCAC championship meet. The Jumbos turned in a solid showing, finishing second — behind only the Williams Ephs — to earn their best finish at this event since 2015. DeBari and Bowman led the way for the Jumbos as they both recorded individual victories. In the finals of the 100-meter hurdles, DeBari bested Colby rising senior Sophie Stokes Cerkvenik by 0.04 seconds, as she recorded a time of 14.33 seconds.
Meanwhile, Bowman ran her signature event, the 5,000 meters, in 17:13.59, nearly three full seconds ahead of Middlebury rising senior Kate MacCary. Bowman narrowly missed a second victory in the 1,500-meter run, finishing just behind graduating Bowdoin senior Sarah Kelley. The Tufts 4×400-meter relay team, made up of DeBari and rising juniors Julia Gake, Nehalem Kunkle-Read and Raquel Whiting, earned a second-place finish with a time of 3:54.71.
Highlights from the field events included rising senior Evelyn Drake's first-place finish in the hammer throw, graduating senior Jennifer Sherwill's third-place result in the discus throw and rising sophomore Nkem Aduka's fourth-place finish in the shot put.
After last season's disappointing sixth-place finish at NESCACs, the meet was a major point of focus for the team this year.
"This year, our big goal of the outdoor season was to go after [NESCACs] as a team and just do our best, so we accomplished that, which was amazing," Sherwill said. "At the meet there were a ton of amazing performances and personal bests, so that really helped the team score some points."
The following weekend, Tufts attended the New England Div. III Championships held at MIT, where it finished 10th of 33 teams. After that, the Jumbos competed in two more qualifying meets in preparation for next week's NCAA Championships in La Crosse, Wis.


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A famous late-night television host takes part of his show on Friday nights to write out his weekly thank you notes—complete with some "thank you note writing music." It's part of his routine and essentially a tradition. When I still lived with my family in New York, one of my own traditions was watching that skit with my brother every week.
It appeals to me because I've also always been quite fond of the tradition of a handwritten thank you note. There's something about writing one that makes me feel like I'm showing just a little bit of extra appreciation and feels more personal than just writing "thank you" in an email.
Taking a bit of inspiration from all of these traditions and in the spirit of this season of Thanksgiving, I thought I would take some time to write a few thank you notes of my own.
First, thank you to all the FEMA staff who are currently deployed. Thank you for spending your holiday away from your families to help disaster survivors and their communities recover. You've travelled a long way and may be in cities you've never been before or ones you've seen a thousand times. You all serve important roles and your hard work goes far from unnoticed.
Next, thank you to all the first responders and military personnel that have been working day in and day out to keep us all safe. Your job is never done, never easy, and incredibly important. We are always grateful for all you do. It's our pleasure to work with you every day and help you be sure you can do what you do.
Last (and most definitely not least), thank you to our families. I don't just mean the federal family, whose collaboration, expertise, and assistance have been incredibly valuable and appreciated through many disasters this year.
I also mean the parents, siblings, spouses, children, and extended family members of all of us who work at FEMA.
Disasters don't only happen during regular business hours. They definitely don't keep bankers' hours. They certainly don't care about weekends or holidays.
Thank you, family members, for knowing and understanding this. For sticking with us. For being supportive and flexible through early mornings, late nights, deployments, and everything else that comes with a disaster response and recovery. We all appreciate it and truly wish to thank you.
I think that about does it. Writing thank you notes might be a little old-fashioned, but I think a good one can really go a long way.


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Martin Peretz/ March 1, 2011
New York Journal
The Qaddafi family didn't lack for Western allies.
The fact is that almost everyone has dirty hands. Everyone: politicians (even "statesmen"), banks, governments, international organizations, newspapers, universities, scholars—they are now mortified to (have to) admit that they made common cause with Muammar Qaddafi and his favored son Saif.
Thursday's Financial Times carries a half-page article by Michael Peel on some of Qaddafi's intimates: Tony Blair, the London School of Economics (LSE) and Political Science, the Carlyle Group (America's most politically wired investment ensemble), the great revolutionary democrat Hugo Chavez, etc. Sir Howard Davies, the director of the LSE, identified by Peel as "a former unpaid adviser to the Libyan Investment Authority," was quoted as having "shared the students' revulsion at the recent violence and gross violations of human rights in Libya" and regretting "the association of the school's name with [Saif Al Islam, the colonel's son and an LSE alumnus] and the actions of the Libyan regime." Saif had paid down £300,000 of a £1.5 million pledge to the institution's North Africa program.
Sir Howard is not a very alert person if it is just now that he has recognized how bloody and tyrannical were the circumstances under which the people of Libya have lived for decades. He is a liar caught in a trap of his own making.
LSE, which used to turn out African dictators educated in the dogmatics of socialism (it was Pat Moynihan who observed that the undeniable failure of the newly independent African states can be traced to the school's socialist professors), is now a center of yet another political fashion, and it is Islamism. London is the intellectual capital of the worldview in Europe. But taking money from the Qaddafis might have been thought of as an almost anti-Islamist act since the clan rules with an unmistakeable hostility to religious authority. Actually, quite like the way Saddam Hussein governed in Iraq—until, that is, he needed Mohammed's faithful to protect him from the Americans.
We've already seen how, only a year ago, Stephen Walt played the patsy for Colonel Qaddafi, writing in Foreign Policy that his "own view (even before I visited) is that the improvement of U.S. Libyan relations is one of the few (only?) success stories in recent U.S. Middle East diplomacy..."
And further:
Overall, the remarkable improvement in U.S.-Libyan relations reminds us that deep political conflicts can be resolved without recourse to preventive war or "regime change." One hopes that the United States and Libya continue to nurture and build a constructive relationship, and that economic and political reform continues there. (I wouldn't mind seeing more dramatic political reform—of a different sort—here too.) The United States could use a few more friends in that part of the world.
Walt's grasp of political and social realities has not heightened since he wrote that paean to Qaddafi's Libya. On January 16, Walt wrote also in Foreign Policy about "Why the Tunisian revolution won't spread."
In fact, the history of world revolution suggests that this sort of revolutionary cascade is quite rare, and even when some sort of revolutionary contagion does take place, it happens pretty slowly and is often accompanied by overt foreign invasion. … The velvet revolution in Easter Europe are a partial exception, but mostly because the Soviet Union's Eastern Europe satellites were all dependent on the threat of Soviet invasion to keep their artificial regimes in power. Once the common keystone of Soviet power was no longer credible, however, all of these dominos could in fact fall down in a row.
But that's not the case in the Arab world. Although most Arab governments are authoritarian, they are also all independent and depend on a slightly different mix of political institutions and measures to keep the rulers in power. The fact that Ben Ali ultimately mismanaged a challenge and was driven from power does not mean that other Arab leaders won't be able to deflect, deter, or suppress challenges to their rule.
There are three other reasons why the Tunisian example is unlikely to lead to similar upheavals elsewhere. First, as Timur Kuran and others have shown, the actual revolutionary potential of any society is very difficult to read in advance, and a rising revolutionary wave often depends on very particular preferences and information effects within society. Put differently, whether a genuine upheavel breaks out and gathers steam is a highly contingent process. Second, Tunisia is an obvious warning sign to other Arab dictatorships, and they are bound to be especially vigilant in the months ahead, lest some sort of similar revolutionary wave begin to emerge. Third, Tunisia's experience may not look very attractive over the next few weeks or months, especially if the collapse of the government leads to widespread anarchy, violence and economic hardship. If that is the case, then restive populations elsewhere may be less inclined to challenge unpopular leaders, reasoning that "hey, our government sucks, but it's better than no government at all."
Smart man, this Walt! But spread, the revolution did, to Egypt even before it went elsewhere, which now makes it almost everywhere in the Arab world. Barely a month later, Walt had to admit in Foreign Policy, the journal that routinely carries his enormous mistakes in fact and in judgement, "What I got wrong about the Arab revolutions and why I'm not losing sleep over it." But his was not just an evaluative error. It was a basic misunderstanding of Egyptian realities: "I underestimated the degree of internal resentment" in Egypt, which is the basic fact about Egypt, isn't it? This is like a doctor saying, "I thought it was a common cold. I'm sorry; it turned out to be pneumonia." The physician, if a person of conscience, however, did lose some sleep over his bungle, as Walt is proud to tell us he did not. Apparently, Arab life is cheap not only to the collapsing regimes but also to this Kennedy School professor. One thing is for sure, and it is that there's no wisdom in taking his classes.
Joseph S. Nye, a Harvard colleague of Walt's at the K-School (and a sort-of former colleague of mine), earlier this month published an insightful piece in TNR Online weighing the extent to which Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and other Internet forums affected events in Egypt. Nye is an expert on "soft power," and he argues that "some aspects of the information revolution help the small, but some help the already large and powerful. Size still matters." He is right on this.
And sometimes he is wrong, very wrong. His previous appearance in the magazine (December 10, 2007) was in a "Tripoli Diarist" after sitting with Qaddafi in his big tent. Actually, I hadn't remembered that Nye had written for TNR ever until someone called to my attention an article in Mother Jones last Friday, written by Siddhartha Mahanta and David Corn, in which Nye said that he had been paid to travel to Libya by a consulting company working for the Libyan government. (In fact, my guess is that I'd never known or noticed that he had been in our pages. He's not exactly part of our intellectual crowd, and we're not part of his. And, anyway, I don't think "soft power" is such a big idea.)
In his 2007 piece, Nye fell for Qaddafi's con and tried to push it in our columns:
Where once he had tried to bully and even overthrow governments to his south, now he is hosting peace talks on Darfur. Where once he sought weapons of mass destruction, now he has abandoned his nuclear program … Qaddafi, in other words, seems to have become interested in soft power—the art of projecting influence through attraction rather than coercion … And the fact that he took so much time to discuss ideas--including soft power—with a visiting professor suggests that he is actively seeking a new strategy.
Notice also his rapture about the dictator's sudden interest in soft power.
But there's more. And this relates to Saif Al Islam Al Qaddafi, the heir apparent to the bloody dictator's seat of power. Just to remind you, here are a few choice quotations from his father:
"There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet."
"Those inciting are very few in numbers and we have to capture them. Others have to stay at home. They have guns, they feel trigger-happy and they shoot especially when they are stoned on drugs."
"There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights. "
"All African nations look up to Libya, all the rulers of the world look up to Libya. Protesters are serving the devil, they want to humiliate you."
"Muammar Gaddafi is the leader of the revolution, I am not a president to step down. This is my country. Muammar is not a president to leave his post, Muammar is leader of the revolution until the end of time."
Of course, these have nothing to do with Nye, or with Saif's LSE doctoral dissertation which, so to speak, stands alone. Finished in 2007, it is titled "The Role of Civil Society in the Democratization of Global Government Institutions: From 'Soft Power' to Collective Decision-Making?" Do you want to read it? Here it is in its entirety, all 429 pages of it. I haven't read it all. In fact, I've read maybe 90-100 pages spread throughout the volume, so not that much, but quite enough to say that this was not written by Saif Qaddafi. And, if it was, I'll eat my yarmulke. As it happens, I know a scholar of Arab politics and history who was courted by one of Saif's minions to do what needed to be done. My informant was repelled, and repelled the request, which came with an offer. The thesis is richly inspired by Joe Nye's work. This I know from the hour and a half I spent with it. This could be an instance of schizophrenia: one life scholarly and portentous; another criminal, mass murder criminal.
This trend over the past decade toward collective decision-making approaches has been particularly evident in the development of multi-stakeholder partnerships in the UN system. I argue that this development reflects the failure of governments and existing IGOs to deal with the new challenges of managing global issues which are deeply interconnected and impact a range of stakeholders across multiple borders. …
This new environment is characterised by fundamental changes in the international system, heightening the demand for democratic reform of global governing structures. The first change is the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc countries, leading to questions regarding the appropriateness of a UN shaped by post-World-War practicalities and sensibilities. The second is the emergence of the United States as the single dominant world military and economic power, and the argument that there is a growing influence of 'Westernisation' and 'Americanisation' embodied in the political and economic aspects of global governing institutions. Third, there are the universal globalisation processes in the world today that lead to a huge convergence of economies, cultures and civilizations. Globalisation calls the existing state-centric conception of world politics into question … There are new challenges, enemies, and threats that the current system of governance is unable to cope with. The new dilemmas that we are experiencing today require a new approach. …
In this thesis, I present for discussion the Collective Management approach in which the three sectors of society—government, business and civil society—are allocated equal and formal decision-making rights through voting, and that these three sectors work together in a multi-level system of governance at the national, regional and global levels. The three sectors of the tripartite, multi-level system would then share responsibility for three important activities of global governance: 1) setting the criteria of global governance, i.e. the codes and standards of conduct, 2) implementing these standards, and 3) supervising this implementation, which includes the evolution of enforcement mechanisms. This results in what I term the '3x3=3' system of international governance.
Anyway, Dr. Qaddafi also thanks Nye profusely:
I would also like to acknowledge the benefit from comments I received on early drafts of the thesis from a number of experts with whom I met and who consented to read portions of the manuscript and provide advice and direction, especially Professor Joseph Nye.
Now, parents are not axiomatically responsible for their children, so teachers are certainly not axiomatically responsible for their students. In contrast to the extravagant thanks from student to teacher, Nye admitted to Mother Jones that he'd read only one chapter of the dissertation and "found it intelligent." What's very clear is that Nye has not behaved at all intelligently or, for that matter, ethically in his dealings with Libya. But perhaps there is a saving grace: Unlike Walt, Nye strikes me as one who would lose sleep over his rehabilitation labors for Qaddafi and Son, gangsters extraordinaire.
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The World is Flat
Friedman Thomas
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How the World Became Flat
ONE: While I Was Sleeping
To Matt and Kay and to Ron
Your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians, and princes who love and promote the holy Christian faith, and are enemies of the doctrine of Mahomet, and of all idolatry and heresy, determined to send me, Christopher Columbus, to the above-mentioned countries of India, to see the said princes, people, and territories, and to learn their disposition and the proper method of converting them to our holy faith; and furthermore directed that I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that anyone has gone.
–Entry from the journal of Christopher Columbus on his voyage of 1492
No one ever gave me directions like this on a golf course before: "Aim at either Microsoft or IBM." I was standing on the first tee at the KGA Golf Club in downtown Bangalore, in southern India, when my playing partner pointed at two shiny glass-and-steel buildings off in the distance, just behind the first green. The Goldman Sachs building wasn't done yet; otherwise he could have pointed that out as well and made it a threesome. HP and Texas Instruments had their offices on the back nine, along the tenth hole. That wasn't all. The tee markers were from Epson, the printer company, and one of our caddies was wearing a hat from 3M. Outside, some of the traffic signs were also sponsored by Texas Instruments, and the Pizza Hut billboard on the way over showed a steaming pizza, under the headline "Gigabites of Taste!"
No, this definitely wasn't Kansas. It didn't even seem like India. Was this the New World, the Old World, or the Next World?
I had come to Bangalore, India's Silicon Valley, on my own Columbus-like journey of exploration. Columbus sailed with the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria in an effort to discover a shorter, more direct route to India by heading west, across the Atlantic, on what he presumed to be an open sea route to the East Indies-rather than going south and east around Africa, as Portuguese explorers of his day were trying to do. India and the magical Spice Islands of the East were famed at the time for their gold, pearls, gems, and silk-a source of untold riches. Finding this shortcut by sea to India, at a time when the Muslim powers of the day had blocked the overland routes from Europe, was a way for both Columbus and the Spanish monarchy to become wealthy and powerful. When Columbus set sail, he apparently assumed the Earth was round, which was why he was convinced that he could get to India by going west. He miscalculated the distance, though. He thought the Earth was a smaller sphere than it is. He also did not anticipate running into a landmass before he reached the East Indies. Nevertheless, he called the aboriginal peoples he encountered in the new world "Indians." Returning home, though, Columbus was able to tell his patrons, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, that although he never did find India, he could confirm that the world was indeed round.
I set out for India by going due east, via Frankfurt. I had Lufthansa business class. I knew exactly which direction I was going thanks to the GPS map displayed on the screen that popped out of the armrest of my airline seat. I landed safely and on schedule. I too encountered people called Indians. I too was searching for the source of India's riches. Columbus was searching for hardware-precious metals, silk, and spices-the source of wealth in his day. I was searching for software, brainpower, complex algorithms, knowledge workers, call centers, transmission protocols, breakthroughs in optical engineering-the sources of wealth in our day. Columbus was happy to make the Indians he met his slaves, a pool of free manual labor.
I just wanted to understand why the Indians I met were taking our work, why they had become such an important pool for the outsourcing of service and information technology work from America and other industrialized countries. Columbus had more than one hundred men on his three ships; I had a small crew from the Discovery Times channel that fit comfortably into two banged-up vans, with Indian drivers who drove barefoot. When I set sail, so to speak, I too assumed that the world was round, but what I encountered in the real India profoundly shook my faith in that notion. Columbus accidentally ran into America but thought he had discovered part of India. I actually found India and thought many of the people I met there were Americans. Some had actually taken American names, and others were doing great imitations of American accents at call centers and American business techniques at software labs.
Columbus reported to his king and queen that the world was round, and he went down in history as the man who first made this discovery. I returned home and shared my discover)' only with my wife, and only in a whisper.
"Honey," I confided, "I think the world is flat."
How did I come to this conclusion? I guess you could say it all started in Nandan Nilekani's conference room at Infosys Technologies Limited. Infosys is one of the jewels of the Indian information technology world, and Nilekani, the company's CEO, is one of the most thoughtful and respected captains of Indian industry. I drove with the Discovery Times crew out to the Infosys campus, about forty minutes from the heart of Bangalore, to tour the facility and interview Nilekani. The Infosys campus is reached by a pockmarked road, with sacred cows, horse-drawn carts, and motorized rickshaws all jostling alongside our vans. Once you enter the gates of Infosys, though, you are in a different world. A massive resort-size swimming pool nestles amid boulders and manicured lawns, adjacent to a huge putting green. There are multiple restaurants and a fabulous health club. Glass-and-steel buildings seem to sprout up like weeds each week. In some of those buildings, Infosys employees are writing specific software programs for American or European companies; in others, they are running the back rooms of major American– and European-based multinationals—everything from computer maintenance to specific research projects to answering customer calls routed there from all over the world. Security is tight, cameras monitor the doors, and if you are working for American Express, you cannot get into the building that is managing services and research for General Electric. Young Indian engineers, men and women, walk briskly from building to building, dangling ID badges. One looked like he could do my taxes. Another looked like she could take my computer apart. And a third looked like she designed it!
After sitting for an interview, Nilekani gave our TV crew a tour of Info-sys's global conferencing center-ground zero of the Indian outsourcing industry. It was a cavernous wood-paneled room that looked like a tiered classroom from an Ivy League law school. On one end was a massive wall-size screen and overhead there were cameras in the ceiling for teleconferencing. "So this is our conference room, probably the largest screen in Asia-this is forty digital screens [put together]," Nilekani explained proudly, pointing to the biggest flat-screen TV I had ever seen. Infosys, he said, can hold a virtual meeting of the key players from its entire global supply chain for any project at any time on that supersize screen. So their American designers could be on the screen speaking with their Indian software writers and their Asian manufacturers all at once. "We could be sitting here, somebody from New York, London, Boston, San Francisco, all live. And maybe the implementation is in Singapore, so the Singapore person could also be live here... That's globalization," said Nilekani. Above the screen there were eight clocks that pretty well summed up the Infosys workday: 24/7/365. The clocks were labeled US West, US East, GMT, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia.


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Director's Notes: A New Classicism
Michael Crabb
The National Ballet of Canada's Karen Kain
On a sunny fall morning, in a large, bright studio filled with Tchaikovsky, Karen Kain sits intently watching rehearsal. Now in her fifth season as artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada, Kain has an eagle eye. When it comes to the company's opulent production of Rudolf Nureyev's Sleeping Beauty, the Russian classic that catapulted her to international stardom more than 35 years ago, Kain knows the importance of style, detail and nuance—and she's not willing to settle for anything less than excellence.
Meanwhile, in another studio, it's the music of a leading contemporary Russian composer that's driving the rehearsal. Aszure Barton has chosen Lera Auerbach's re-arrangement of Dialogues on Stabat Mater (after Pergolesi) for Watch Her, the Canadian-born choreographer's first work for NBC, the company with which Barton performed as a young dancer.
Although often perceived from abroad as a troupe dedicated to the full-length classics, NBC's reality is very different. Alongside its impressive repertoire of 19th-century full-lengths and 20th-century masterworks, NBC has a long history of commissioning works from both established and emerging choreographers. In a daring program last season, it presented an evening of all new works by young Canadian choreographers. Says Kain: "This institution exists to develop talent."
During the artistic directorship of Canadian choreographer James Kudelka, 1996–2005, there were times it seemed that new work—a lot of it by Kudelka himself—took precedence. Kain has made no secret of her belief that the company, as well as the dancers, had tilted too far from classicism.
"I look for incredibly versatile dancers, but they need to have a solid classical foundation," she says. "I also look for commitment and openness. You can keep learning through your entire career, and there are always new ways of looking at things."
Interestingly, Kain is not so insistent on the perfect body: "If a dancer has a kind of magic, I can forgive a less-than-perfect physique. The spirit of a dancer and their versatility is more important to me than whether they have perfect legs and feet."
Although nearly half of NBC's 60 dancers are Canadian, there is a sizeable U.S. contingent: 10 this season. Some have been hired directly from the U.S. Others, like Providence, Rhode Island–born principal Greta Hodgkinson, trained at Kain's alma mater, the independently operated National Ballet School of Canada.
Historically, NBS has been a major source of talent for the company, but far from the only one. Kain is emphatic: "I'm interested in the best dancers who want to be here, regardless of where they trained or were born. I'm looking for people with a commitment to what we're doing."
And Kain has found such dancers as far afield as Australia, China, Japan, Romania, Russia and South Africa. Some come to Toronto for the company's annual winter open audition, but Kain is willing to review applications throughout the season. Another entry point is the 10-member YOU dance/RBC Apprentice Programme. (YOU stands for Youth, Outreach and Understanding.) Now in its third season, it is a collaborative enterprise between NBC and NBS. Under the direction of former Dutch National Ballet and New York City Ballet principal Lindsay Fischer, YOU dance aims to bridge the sometimes difficult transition from academy to company, student to professional.
The main company presents an impressive 80 hometown performances each season in Toronto's elegant new opera house, the 2,000-seat Four Seasons Centre, but tours much less, even within Canada, than it did in the days when Kain was its prima ballerina.
Unlike Montréal's 35-member Grands Ballets Canadiens and the 24-member Royal Winnipeg Ballet, NBC's scale makes the cost of touring almost prohibitive. A plannedSleeping Beauty tour of Western Canada scheduled for last September had to be cancelled because of the increased risk at the box office due to the economic climate.
It's a situation Kain wants to change, although she acknowledges there's no easy solution. Along with
the cost, there's also the issue of an increasingly globalized repertoire, which has tended to reduce the distinctiveness, and thus attractiveness to potential presenters, of big classical
ballet companies like NBC.
"Only if you have something unique that no one else has," says Kain, "by a choreographer everyone wants to see, are you going to get those invitations any more. It's something that I'm working on."
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at least that was me tonight.
I stared at that alphabet and silently threatened it. "I will beat you," I kept thinking to myself.
It's my own fault. I waited till the night before we start our school year to try to make a new alphabet poster. So, maybe that is part of my frustration. Since most of our school supplies are going to be stored in our foster care bedroom, I want the decor to be some what educational but still really cool and fun.
I saw this alphabet poster at Ikea earlier this summer, and I just loved it.
I loved the simplicity and that the vowels were in red. The only thing was it's a Danish alphabet and it doesn't have the lower case letters, which are important to a new writer. So, I used it as my inspiration tonight to try to create my own.
Attempts 1, 2, and 3 did not work. The stencil was too fat, the free hand was too ugly, and the cards were too "school room" type. I angrily stomped to the computer where I decided I would just google and buy a simple looking poster. I. Could. Not. Find. One.
There were no cute, simple alphabet posters with the capital and lower case letters (with out cartoon images and letters being thrown all over the page in a twisted out-of-order way).
I was stuck trying to figure this out. So, I browsed dafont.com and downloaded a whole bunch of new fonts. I am sure you will be seeing them in coming posts, but here are a few of my new favs, in case you want to download them too!
I decided I would go with a font that I already had, and created this poster.
Why did I have to make that when it's such a simple idea!? I do not know, but now it's out there. I am gonna blow this sucker up. Stick it in a frame. AND try to pretend this project did not hurt my crafter's ego.
Hopefully, this school prep project is not a foretelling sign of our school year!
HA HA HA that is great! Looks so cute. Matthews preschool taught only lowercase first because they said that kids see more lowercase than uppercase letters therefor the learn the lower case letters faster. Makes Sense!
Thank you! GREAT point Kelley!
Very cute! Don't you hate it when things don't work out in real life how you see them in your head? So frustrating! But I think your poster will be perfect when you have it printed!
Thanks Erin! I hope so! I'm already debating changing the font again 🙂 oh the life of a DIY-er!
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MQM-P concerned over countrywide breakdown
Man kills daughter for 'honour'
Water supply system collapses
Dhabeji pipeline bursts, supply also disrupted from Hub Dam, Gharo, Pipri
Our Correspondent January 24, 2023
The major power breakdown across the country has disrupted the water supply system of metropolis.
There could be a shortage of 84 million gallons per day (MGD), Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) have appealed to the citizens to use water carefully as it might take two to three days to restore normal supply.
Supply from pumping stations such as Dhabeji, Hub Dam, Gharo, NEK, and Pipri was stopped due to the power outage, they said.
Pressure of built up in the pipeline coming from Dhabeji pumping station caused the 48 inch pipes to burst and it could take 48 hours to repair the damages.
Dhabeji pumping station sends over 44MGD water to the city.
Meanwhile, the Hub Dam pumping station which supplies 10MGD water to the city also collapsed due to power breakdown.
Owing to the power outage, the supply of water from NEK, Pipri pumping station was also stopped and more than 30MGD water could not be supplied to the city till late night which deprived different areas from the blessing of water.


Gisborne resident Mōrehu Nikora (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Rongowhakaata, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki) was awarded Te Pakiwaitara i te Reo Māori Award for Best Short Story written in Māori for his work He Reta mā Taku Huia Kamanawa. Judge for the category Julian Wilcox of Māori Television noted Nikora's work was 'warm, invigorating, enlightening and engaging'.
Tina Makereti (Tūwharetoa, Te Āti Awa, Rangatahi, Moriori) from the Kapiti Coast took home the Short Story in English Award for Skin and Bones, wowing judges with a contemporary twist on the birth of the earth mother Hine. Tina says Skin and Bones is part of a collection of stories in which she wonders what the gods might be like if they were only human.
The award for Best Novel Extract was given to A Song for Jimmy by Porirua resident K-T Harrison (Ngāti Pāoa, Ngāti Hauā). K-T grew up in Tokoroa and has lived in South Auckland and Waikato. K-T has five children and fifteen grandchildren.
Urban Wellingtonian Nathaniel Hinde (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Porou) was awarded Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga Award for Best Short Film Script written in English for his work Ten Cent Life.
Judge for the category Rhonda Kite praised Nathaniel's script as 'clever, amusing and warm hearted'.
'This year's recipient spoke in an absorbing and compelling way through his character,' she said.
Judges from Huia Publishers found it was particularly difficult to identify a winner in the secondary school category as many of those shortlisted were of high distinction. However, the winning entry Got Your Back, Bro by Tylar Edwardson (Te Whakatōhea, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) from Kawerau was one that stood out from the rest.
'Loyalty was a strong theme in many of the secondary school stories, but we found this story in particular had an engaging imagery and style that encapsulated the true essence of writing from a rangatahi perspective,' said Te Mihinga Komene of Huia Publishers.
The Pikihuia Awards for Māori Writers are held every two years. The thirty-two best short stories and novel extracts from this year have been published in Huia Short Stories 8, released in conjunction with the awards night at Te Papa.
The Pikihuia Awards for 2009 were proudly sponsored by Huia Publishers, Toi Māori Aotearoa, Te Puni Kōkiri, Te Waka Toi, New Zealand Film Commission, Te Ohu Kaimoana, Astra Print, D'signNation and New Zealand Post Group.


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Trained graders could be used to monitor patients with stable diabetic eye disease
Kathy Laura
A UK study found that trained graders were able to accurately assess whether eye disease had reactivated
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A UK study has investigated the effectiveness of using trained ophthalmic graders rather than ophthalmologists to monitor stable diabetic eye disease patients.
The Emerald (effectiveness of multimodal imaging for the evaluation of retinal oedema and new vessels in diabetic retinopathy) diagnostic accuracy study involved trained graders monitoring patients who have previously been treated for complications of diabetic eye disease and are now stable.
The research revealed that the ophthalmic grader pathway was found to achieve satisfactory results when compared to standard care where an ophthalmologist would evaluate patients in a clinic.
This new pathway could also save £1390 per 100 patients, as well as freeing up ophthalmologists' time.
Professor Noemi Lois, of Queen's University Belfast, noted that currently ophthalmologists need to evaluate all patients – even those who are stable after treatment.
"NHS hospitals eye units are under significant pressure given the extremely high number of people that need to be examined and treated and given the insufficient number of ophthalmologists in the UK," she said.
"Emerald showed trained ophthalmic graders are able to determine whether patients with diabetic macular oedema or proliferative diabetic retinopathy previously successfully treated remain stable or if the disease has reactivated," Lois added.
Consultant ophthalmologist at Bristol Eye Hospital, Clare Bailey, shared that the study has increased the number of patients who are able to be seen through the imaging/grading pathway.
"This has hugely increased our follow-up capacity, whilst allowing ophthalmologists' time to be directed to the people with diabetic retinopathy who need treatment or further assessment. This has helped us to deal with the capacity pressures as a result of COVID-19 as well as the longer-term capacity demands due to the increasing prevalence of diabetic retinopathy," she said.
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A Florida motorist said she suffered from a "medical condition that makes her age faster" when a suspicious cop questioned her claim that she was 22, according to a police report.
Upon spotting a Ford Ranger with inoperable tail lights, an Indian River County Sheriff's Office deputy pulled over the pickup Saturday night and asked the driver for her license, vehicle registration, and proof of insurance. The woman "said she did not have her license because she forgot her purse," according to a police report.
The 43-year-old Crosby, pictured above, was then arrested for driving on a suspended license and providing a false name. The Vero Beach resident was booked into the county jail, where she remains locked up in lieu of $4000.


My tribute to my fave hobby - cross stitch! Gallery of my stitching, photocharting, floss converter, links to online cross stitch contests/competitions, cross stitch award, guestbook, etc. Happy stitching!
Here at Jan's you'll find hand-sculpted Folk Art Santa creations with a charm and personality all of their own! Custom order inquiries are always welcome!
Find free printable party invitations at invitations-and-more. We have baby shower invitations, wedding shower invitations and birhtday party invitations. You can also find printable chocolate favor wrappers and shower games.
A personal site about myself, family and friends. Plus my hobby which is cross-stitching!
Free Box Kite Patterns and Plans, How to build or make a box kite, Free design plan for your box kite construction, Instructions for making Box Kites, Square or planes, Cody box kites.
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This is the rare Marvel Legends Icons 12 inch Spider Man action by Toybiz. This is the Unmasked variant figure with 30 points of articulation. Pretty much the last in the great line of Toy Biz action figures (Hasbro now owns all licenses and rights to toys). Includes exclusive "Evolution of an Icon" comic book. This figure is in MINT condition and has never been removed from the package. Comes in deluxe window box packaging.
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This week's announcement that two wealthy individuals have bought their way into what could be the first lunar mission involving humans in 45 years couldn't have been better timed for Jaroslav Kalfař. Not only does his debut novel lean heavily on the romance of the mid 20th century space race, but it transplants it to an era in which big capital, rather than state investment, is powering cosmic ambition.
"Spring of 2018. On a warm April afternoon, the eyes of the Czech nation gazed from Petrin Hill as space shuttle JanHus1 launched from a state-owned potato field." So begins the story of Jakub Procházka, who informs us he was destined for a simple life of service to a world united in socialism before "the Iron Curtain tumbled with a dull thud and the bogeyman invaded my country with his consumer love and free markets".
Jakub – or "skinny human" as his travel companion calls him – is an astrophysicist, who is fired into space on a mission to solve the mystery of a strange cosmic dustcloud. Jakub is both man and superman: the angsty only son of a disgraced Soviet enforcer and a projection of his nation's ambitions to perform on the world stage. The mission is to be streamed live to the world, its every component financed through strenuously flagged product placement.
But its controllers back on earth were reckoning without his uninvited companion - an extraterrestrial spider with 34 eyes, lipstick-red lips, smoker's teeth and a passion for Nutella, who (and despite his arachnid form, Hanus is most definitely a who) is on his own mission to investigate the strange two-legged creature, full of fear, grief and sexual frustration, that is Jakub.
Spaceman of Bohemia is certainly one of the most outlandish yarns to be spun so far this year, but it is also funny, humane and oddly down-to-earth in ways that its scenario cannot possibly convey.
Kalfař, now 28, gained his Master of Fine Arts from New York University where it's no surprise to find that his supervisor – and a formative influence – was Jonathan Safran Foer. Reading Spaceman of Bohemia reminded me of the thrill of unearthing Everything is Illuminated from the mound of entries to the Guardian first book prize in the early noughties.
Apart from a common interest in central European history, Kalfař's writing has the same hyperactivity, the fidgety contempt for generic boundaries, as that of the young Safran Foer. Part space opera, part folk tale, his novel is also a love song to the city of Prague, where he spent his early years with his father after his parents divorced and his mother emigrated to the US.
In [the Czech Republic]... there are people who fetishise the communist years.
Though ostensibly set in the future, one of the tricks of the novel is to use deep space as an arena in which to play out the hangups of a society still grappling with its communist past. Modern patriotism collides with old conspiracy theories among the detritus of abandoned missions.
But the struggle is also firmly anchored to the earth by the story of Jakub's family. His grandparents are peasant farmers whose pig-killings are a social highlight of their small village.
But his relationship with his father was "complicated", he says, darkly. "I know what it's like to be disappointed by one's father and to be tricked into believing something." At 15, he followed his mother to Florida, where she had found work as a hotel cleaner. He dropped out of high school after a year and paid his way through community college with casual jobs as a waiter, a Target cashier and a photo-lab technician, before landing a place at the University of Central Florida to study English literature, with a minor in philosophy.
He began to write short stories and won a place to do his MFA in New York, where The Spaceman of Bohemia started to take shape – initially as a story about an American astronaut whose wife asks for a divorce while he's in orbit. But though Kalfař had by then become a US citizen, he couldn't resist the draw of the place he continues to regard as his homeland. "I wanted my first book to be about my people, my country," he says.
"What if our existence itself is a field of study in probability conducted by the universe?" wonders Jakub. Such questions have something in common with the comic inquiries of Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and inevitably some early reviewers have classified the novel as speculative fiction. "If you can interpret speculative fiction as writing that is curious about many things then I'll accept the label, but basically I wholeheartedly disagree." says Kalfař, who has no time for distinctions between literary and genre fiction.
Spaceman of Bohemia is published by Hodder and Stoughton on 9 March, and is available from the Guardian bookshop at £9.74.


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1:13 pm on 10 July 2019
Dozens of Bangladeshi trafficking victims in Vanuatu have left the country, as the government works to strengthen immigration laws.
Bangladeshi human trafficking victims in Vanuatu Photo: Supplied
Of the 101 men who were under government care in Port Vila, just 25 remain after several groups were flown out in recent weeks.
A representative for the migrants, Shahin Khan, said a group of eight men left this morning.
The rest will stay as key witnesses in the Supreme Court case against their alleged traffickers.
Vanuatu's Internal Affairs Minister, Andrew Napuat, said the government needs to know more about people coming into the country.
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Loyalty Islands province lodges complaint over Ouvea incident
Bangladeshi trafficking victims leave Vanuatu
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IOM confirms Bangladeshi men trafficked to Vanuatu
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Defendants in Vanuatu human trafficking case lose lawyer
Two people charged in connection with one of Vanuatu's biggest human trafficking cases have lost their legal counsel.
Repatriation efforts underway for Bangladeshis trafficked to Vanuatu
Efforts are underway in Vanuatu to repatriate dozens of Bangladesh migrants who say they were trafficked there. Audio
Alleged human traffickers in Vanuatu denied bail
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ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Hawks guard Kris Dunn will rest his right ankle for two weeks after having arthroscopic surgery to remove loose cartilage.
Dunn, who has not played this season, will be placed in a walking boot and his status will be updated following the two weeks.
The Hawks said Thursday he had surgery Tuesday at the Hospital of Special Surgery in New York.
Dunn developed the ankle soreness while compensating for torn cartilage in his right knee. He signed a a $10 million, two-year contract with the Hawks in the offseason.
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A child today is just as likely to play with a stick they've picked up off the ground as a specially made toy. The painting Children's Games by the Dutch artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder shows this was also the case in 1560. It is an extraordinary record of the types of games and playthings children used and made, depicting over 250 children taking part in 80 different activities. Many did not use specially made toys, instead the children have made up games using objects they found.
Many of the toys presented in this section, such as the hoop and stick, are also shown in Pieter Bruegel's painting.
Toys can never provide a full picture of children's play. Games such as leapfrog or stick fights leave no trace. The toys in this case were made by adults. They are robust and so more likely to survive. Others were kept and saved by adults for sentimental reasons, sometimes for generations.
Children's Games (Kinderspiele) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1560.


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Q: Swift 3 CoreBluetooth Background data receive I am trying to receive some data from an Arduino which is emitting some data when I push a button.
Now I've noticed that it does not receive after a while. I did not kill the
app yet. How come? I've already added
<key>UIBackgroundModes</key>
<array>
    <string>bluetooth-central</string>
    <string>bluetooth-peripheral</string>
    <string>external-accessory</string>
</array>

My devices are both paired.
EDIT:
I am trying to do the same as the Tile App, it works really well there.
EDIT 2:
I instantiate my manager like this:
centralManager = CBCentralManager(delegate:self, queue:nil)

A: you need to initialize your CBCentralManager by passing in the option parameter your restore key identifier.
let central = CBCentralManager(delegate: self, queue: nil, options: [CBCentralManagerOptionRestoreIdentifierKey: "yourkey"])

Where "your key" can be anything you want and it is useful for you just to understand that your app was awaken to handle a BLE message. If the app was killed by the system when a new BLE message will cause it to be resurrect in your app delegate didFinish launching this key will be passed in the options parameter.
To make it work properly you'll have to implement the delegate method
optional public func centralManager(_ central: CBCentralManager, willRestoreState dict: [String : Any])

this will be called in case of app killed by the system (or by a crash.. not by the user by the way) in order to notify you that a new BLE event happened. In the will restore state dict you will have all the info you need to restore your BLE session.
Here you will find all apple's recommendations to work with the BLE in background.
Remember that the connection with your peripheral will always be severed if the user performs any actions that voluntarily causes the connection to go off, such as app killed, Blueetooth disabled. iOS will continue to awake/resurrect your app in case of crash, app in background and then killed by the system.
The events that will cause the app to be awaken are notifications from registered notifying characteristics, new peripherals discovery, read of a characteristic. (basically any callback of the CoreBluetooth delegate)
Keep in mind that a scan operation while in background has limitations.
From apple's documentation linked before:

Although you can perform many Bluetooth-related tasks while your app is in the background, keep in mind that scanning for peripherals while
  your app is in the background operates differently than when your app
  is in the foreground. In particular, when your app is scanning for
  device while in the background:

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*The CBCentralManagerScanOptionAllowDuplicatesKey scan option key is
  ignored, and multiple discoveries of an advertising peripheral are
  coalesced into a single discovery event.

*If all apps that are scanning
  for peripherals are in the background, the interval at which your
  central device scans for advertising packets increases. As a result,
  it may take longer to discover an advertising peripheral.

Happy coding.

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The Panzerkampfwagen III/IV (PzKpfw III/IV) was an experimental medium tank project undertaken by Germany during World War II. The tank was designed to use components of both the Panzer III and Panzer IV, in an attempt to integrate the two projects.
The project was cancelled with only the blueprints developed, and no units were ever built.

Development
Due to the technical construction of the Panzer III and Panzer IV having strong similarities, in September 1941 there was consideration to create a new tank based on the chassis of the two tanks to create a perfectly uniform vehicle. By having uniform designs, it was anticipated that there would be cost reductions in production, supply, training and maintenance.

On 4 January 1944, the Panzerkomission approved of the PzKpfw III/IV, with a combination of the PzKpfw III and PzKpfw IV chassis. The Maybach HL-120TRM was selected as the engine for this new project, and was connected to the SSG-77 transmission. The most striking change was the use of a box drive with large wheels, with a hydraulic pivoting device tower. The vehicle was designed to be equipped with 50mm armour all-round, with 60mm thick armor plates on the front part of the body having a 60 degree vertical inclination on the top and 45 degrees vertical inclination at the bottom. Driving wheels of the PzKpfw III were used with the addition of reinforced output shafts, along with 540mm wide symmetrical tracks with a central ridge. The chassis had six semi-detached rollers 660mm in diameter on the leaf springs. The turret used was a modified variant of the PzKpfw IV Ausf. J, and used flexible electrical cable instead of using rotary electrical contacts at the base. The traverse angle of the turret was limited to 270 left and right longitudinally.

Full production of the vehicle was planned to commence in June 1944 at Krupp-Grusonverk, however on 12 July 1944, the PzKpfw III/IV project was cancelled because the vehicle did not meet the new requirements for armament capability and armor protection as a result of Soviet tanks encountered on the Eastern Front.

Tanks of comparable role, performance and era

 Medium Tank M7

References

World War II tanks of Germany
Medium tanks of Germany
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BUZZFEED BEATS DEFAMATION SUIT OVER TRUMP DOSSIER
Steven T. Lowe
On December 19, 2018, U.S. District Florida Judge Ursula Ungaro ended Russian tech executive Aleksej Gubarev's defamation suit against BuzzFeed, ruling the website's publication of a dossier alleging ties between Russia and President Trump is protected by the fair reporting privilege.
Judge Ungaro granted BuzzFeed's motion for summary judgment after determining that the publication had satisfied its burden under the fair reporting privilege- which protects journalists reporting on official proceedings- of showing that the dossier was subject to official action by the government. She explained that the average reader would have concluded that the dossier was subject to official action because the BuzzFeed story about the dossier included a blue hyperlink to a CNN article that described the intelligence briefings to the outgoing and incoming presidents (then-president Barrack Obama and now-President Trump). However, Evan Fray-Witzer, Gubarev's attorney, said his client disagrees that the hyperlink was enough for the average reader to believe that BuzzFeed was reporting on an official action. Moreover, he argued that nothing in the court's ruling suggests that the allegations against Gubarev or his companies were true.
Gubarev argued that in order for BuzzFeed to prevail on the fair reporting privilege defense, BuzzFeed needed to show the particular statements about him and his companies- included in Report 166, the last of the 17 memoranda that make up the dossier- were all subject to "official proceedings." Instead, the Judge agreed with BuzzFeed that New York law, which applies in this case, does not require that level of "granularity."
Judge Ungaro explained, "To go line-by-line to determine if official action existed with respect to each statement in Report 166 would not impose on BuzzFeed a duty to faithfully recount official proceedings, but instead, would impose on BuzzFeed a duty to investigate extensively the allegations of the dossier and to determine whether the government was investigating each separate allegation…Defamation law does not impose that requirement on the press." The judge added that this type of line-by-line review would curtail the scope of the privilege and restrict the press' ability to serve its basic function.
Gubarev, who is the CEO of XBT Holding SA, an internet hosting and web development company based in Luxembourg, filed the defamation suit against BuzzFeed and Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith in February 2017, shortly after the publication of the 35-page dossier authored by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.
His complaint centered on a portion at the end of the dossier asserting that XBT and Florida-based subsidiary Webzilla had been transmitting viruses, planting bugs, stealing data and generally conducting "altering operations" against the Democratic Party's leadership. According to the complaint, the dossier mentioned Gubarev specifically, calling him one of the "significant players" in the operations.
BuzzFeed stated, "As we have said from the start, a document that had been circulating at the highest levels of government, under active investigation by the FBI, and briefed to two successive presidents, is clearly the subject of 'official action'…Moreover, its publication has contributed to the American people's understanding of what is happening in their country and their government."
Judge Ungaro's decision came one day after she ruled that Gubarev is not a public figure which increases BuzzFeed's obligations in connection with its defense, because there is a higher standard a plaintiff must meet when he is a public figure for the purposes of the defamation suit.
Gubarev and his companies are represented by Evan Fray-Witzer of Ciampa Fray-Witzer LLP, Brady J. Cobb of Cobb Eddy PLLC, and Valentin D. Gurvits and Matthew Shayefar of Boston Law Group PC.
BuzzFeed is represented by Katherine M. Bolger, Adam Lazier and Nathan Siegel of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, and Roy Black and Jared Lopez of Black Srebnick Kornspan & Stumpf PA.
The case is Gubarev et al. v. BuzzFeed Inc. et al., case number 0:17-cv-60426, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
* Lowe & Associates ("The Firm") is a boutique entertainment and business litigation firm located in Beverly Hills, California. The Firm has extensive experience handling cases involving entertainment law, having provided top quality legal services to its clients since 1991. The Firm is recognized in multiple publications for its many achievements and high ethical standards, including Martindale-Hubbell and Super Lawyers.
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