Five easy steps to building greater self-confidence.
We watch the star athlete calmly make the final shot, score the winning goal, or lead his team for a touchdown in the final minute of the game. We marvel at their talent and their determination, but what we value and admire most is the supreme confidence they display - they know they will succeed.
Confidence is an attribute that is alluring, attractive, valuable, desirable and contagious. Most everyone aspires to greater levels of it, even if they feel confident most of the time. It is a trait that will help us create greater results for ourselves and when leading others. Any trait with this much benefit is one worth developing. And yes, you can develop and strengthen your confidence.
Consider these five steps as the building blocks for greater confidence in any part of your life.
1. Remind yourself of past successes.
Confidence builds on past success. Since you have had success before, you can (and will) have it again. We strengthen our confidence in any activity when we review or remind ourselves of past successes. If you are trying to build confidence in a new area, past success can still help us strengthen our confidence. For example, if you have had success in doing something new in the past, review those experiences when trying something else new - even if it is in an entirely different part of your life.
2. Read and listen to positive materials.
Fill your mind with positive and affirming words, ideas and stories. Read things that enhances your skills or knowledge in the area in which you want to build your confidence. Read materials that are generally uplifting and affirming, and read biographies of successful people. You will find that many of them had troubles in life, came from tough situations and still succeeded. If you have ever thought, "Well, if they can do, I could too." Then you realize that we can build our confidence by reading about others stories. Reading and listening to positive materials is about reinforcement, encouragement, and learning. All three of these components are needed for greater confidence.
3. See your future success.
Olympic athletes, corporate executives, and successful people in all sorts of endeavors visualize future success. Confidence will grow when we see ourselves succeeding. Think about it, if you know you will succeed, your confidence will soar, right? Visualizing future success does that very thing for us. Our minds cannot tell the difference between something real and something vividly imagined. So vividly visualize your success. What will it look like, smell like, and taste like to have succeeded? Who will be with you, what will you be hearing and where will you be? How will you be feeling at that moment? Putting this much detail into your vivid picture improves the likelihood of success, and supports greater confidence!
Thomas Edison spent a long time trying to create an incandescent light bulb - to create light from electricity. He is attributed with saying, "I have not failed, I have discovered twelve hundred materials that don't work." 1,200! Perhaps you feel you can reframe your failures as learning experiences - as a chance to find out what doesn't work. But would you be able to do so 1,200 times? Know that failures will occur - and your confidence won't be as shaken when they come. Use the failures as an opportunity to learn. Realize that every failure puts you that much closer to success. When we reframe our failure as a learning experience we reduce our fear and increase our confidence.
You wanted confidence to help you try and succeed in new ways, right? So get out there and get at it! You have to put your confidence to the test. You have to practice. And, while you are taking action, make it confident action! Remember that if you act confident, you will be more confident. Review the other steps you have been taking to build your confidence. If you are driving towards your new action step, remind yourself of past successes, again. Visualize the successful outcome, again. Build your confidence at every step of the way, but remember it all must lead to action.
These steps are a regimen for strengthening and building your confidence in any life situation. Use these steps and I am confident, you will be more confident.


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2. Scheduling criteria
3. Critical review of psychoactive substances
3.1 Critical review
3.2 Amfepramone (INN)
3.3 Amineptine (INN)
3.4 Buprenorphine (INN) Substance identification
3.5 Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol
3.6 Tramadol (INN)
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4.1 Ketamine (INN)
4.2 Zaleplon (INN)
4.3 Zopiclone (INN)
4.4 Butorphanol (INN)
4.5 Oripavine
4.6 Khat
5. Terminology used in reporting abuse-related adverse drug reactions
Annex Terminology used in reporting abuse-related adverse drug reactions
Tramadol, chemically (+/-)trans-2-dimethylaminomethyl-1-(3-methoxyphenyl) cyclohexanol), is available as either the free base (CAS 27203-92-5) or as the hydrochloride salt (CAS 36282-47-0). It is marketed under over 100 trade names.
Tramadol was pre-reviewed at the twenty-eighth meeting of the Committee at which time critical review was not recommended (9); however following pre-review at the thirty-second meeting, critical review was recommended (4).
Similarity to known substances and effects on the central nervous system
Tramadol has been found to be an opioid agonist with selectivity for the μ-opioid receptor but with some weak affinity for the k- and δ-opioid receptors. The affinity for the μ-opioid receptor is approximately 10-fold less than that of codeine and 6000-fold less than that of morphine. The O-desmethyl metabolite (ODT or M1) of tramadol has a 200-fold greater affinity than the parent compound for the m-opioid receptor. In addition to its actions on brain opioid receptors tramadol is an inhibitor of serotonin reuptake (+ isomer) and of noradrenaline reuptake (-isomer). Tramadol induces analgesia, but is associated with less respiratory depression than other opioids and has no significant cardiac effects. It has been found to reduce the seizure and sweating thresholds but reduces postoperative shivering. Tramadol has been noted to have some effects on the central nervous system, notably dizziness; sedation; headache and, to a lesser extent, euphoria; central nervous system stimulation (e.g. tremor, agitation, anxiety and hallucinations); dysphoria and seizures. In the 1% of patients who suffered seizures, they were found to be linked to a predisposing factor such as epilepsy, alcohol or drug withdrawal or antidepressant therapy. Toxic effects can be produced directly by the drug and these effects may be exacerbated by the presence of monoamine antidepressant drugs or central nervous system depressant drugs. Overdose has been reported to result in bradycardia, convulsions, respiratory depression and coma.
Dependence potential
Animal studies have indicated that tramadol produces little tolerance, has mild withdrawal symptoms and a lower abuse potential than codeine and pentazocine. Nevertheless, together with the rapid increase in the medical use of tramadol worldwide, there have been reports of dependence and abuse, particularly in opioid-dependent individuals. The actions of the drug on brain monoamine systems must also be considered in relation to its abuse potential.
Actual abuse and/or evidence of likelihood of abuse
Of the 103 countries that responded to the WHO Questionnaire, 88 indicated the medical use of tramadol. Of these, 21 reported some abuse and illicit traffic. The reported cases of abuse originated primarily from Europe and the United States. Deaths from overdose were reported from France and the United States. In a few of these countries, abuse of tramadol has led to regulatory actions such as temporary suspension of marketing registration or the use of special prescription forms. However, the assessment of its abuse liability is made difficult by the scarcity of quantitative data and considerable differences in the experiences of individual countries. In Germany where the drug was developed and has been on the market for 25 years without additional controls other than prescription requirements, the data from the drug abuse warning system suggest that tramadol has lower abuse liability than buprenorphine and pentazocine. The data from the drug abuse warning network of the USA, on the other hand, suggest that its abuse potential may be roughly comparable to that of codeine or dextropropoxyphene in the USA. The regulatory authorities in the USA required that the sponsor of tramadol set up an independent group of scientists to conduct post-marketing studies of abuse of and dependence on tramadol. These studies found that the rate of abuse in the year following the introduction of tramadol to the market was 2-3 cases per 100 000 patients. Subsequently, this rate declined to one case per 100 000. The adverse drug reaction reports related to abuse of tramadol collected by the international drug monitoring programme indicate larger numbers of case reports of abuse, dependence and withdrawal syndrome for tramadol than for any other analgesic, except butorphanol, which ranks first in the list of drugs for which "drug dependence" has been reported. Many of these reports originated from the USA, where the consumption of tramadol has been increasing rapidly since it was first marketed in 1995, a situation conducive to higher rates of reporting adverse events.
Therapeutic usefulness
Tramadol is used as an analgesic agent for the treatment of moderate to severe pain. It became available in Germany in the 1970s and was subsequently marketed in Africa, the Americas and Asia, and is currently used in 104 countries. It is however difficult to judge whether the rapid increase in its medical use reflects the recognition of its therapeutic usefulness. The absence of international control may be a contributing factor.
Pharmacologically, tramadol is more complex than prototypic μ-opioid receptor agonists, but one of its metabolites is a potent μ-opioid receptor agonist. This is consistent with its pattern of abuse which is similar to that of opioids by opioid abusers, as well as its opioid-like analgesic effects. The likelihood of abuse of tramadol appears to vary between countries, depending on the prevalence of opioid dependence, types of marketing strategy and other factors. The information available is not sufficient for the Committee to recommend international control of tramadol, but is adequate to recommend that WHO keep the drug under surveillance.
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Obviously you want to get weird on New Year's Eve, but weird shouldn't also equal broke. There's no need to spend $150 on an open bar that you'll end up forgetting about anyways. From an insane fireworks show to Grand Park's three-stage concert, these eight LA New Year's Eve events are just as great as that open bar, but will leave you with a little bit more money to tip your bartender. Because they're all absolutely free.
By far LA's biggest free party (and maybe LA's biggest party, period) is Downtown's rager at Grand Park, which includes, food, photo booths, art, and three stages of live music (including Hunter Hunted, Gavin Turek, and Louis Vivet).
There won't be a cover charge on NYE at this super-friendly neighborhood bar, plus they've got decent specials: $3-$4 cans and $6-$7 drafts (including brews from the brand-spankin'-new Mumford Brewery).
One New Year's toast not enough for you? Big Bar has your back, as they will be ringing in the New Year in 10 different time zones. Show up at 3pm to kick off 2016 with a Star-Wars-appropriate Tai Fighter or a show up at 8pm for a delicious on-draft AleSmith brew. Or just join 'em for all 10 toasts since no cover is worth cheersing to.
Sometimes simplicity is the best, and that is exactly what Marina del Rey has locked down for December 31st. Head to the harbor around 7pm to catch a live stream of the New York ball-drop, followed immediately by a giant, 10 minute fireworks show.
Skip the imbibing at #Boom!
If you're of the drug- and alcohol-free persuasion, #Boom! in West Hollywood will be partying all night with a DJ, dancing, food, games, and what they're predicting to be over 700 guests. The shenanigans kick off at 8pm.
Though Moonshadows will be dazzling their paying guests with pre-fixe menus, the Blue Lounge will be wide open and free of any cover charge (plus, views of the ocean!).
Angel City will be kicking off a big-time fiesta for the third NYE party in a row. Get ready for food (from Kai Kai Dumplings, Market Burgers, and Peaches' Smokehouse!), live music from Naked Walrus, J.U.I.C.E., and Dirty Lingo, a midnight toast, party favors for the first 150 guests, and, obviously Angel City brews. You can get down with them starting at 4pm, which probably means, let's be honest, you're falling asleep before the ball drops.
Villains will be chillin' hard all night with no cover, no reservations, happy hour until 9pm, and even a complimentary champagne toast at midnight. They'll also have specials on drinks (and punch bowls, so, see ya later) as well as a ton of NYE party schwag. Moonlight Graham and DJ Doc Skulley will ring in 2016 with you as well, so let them do all the work for ya. No need to be a hero (get it???????).
Wilder Shaw is a regular Thrillist contributor who will be locked away in a cabin in the mountains for NYE. Miss his beautiful face on Twitter at @WilderShaw and Instagram at @wildershaw.


NKILI Architecture presents East Eight with Nicole Bremner. Please join us for an evening of networking, canapes and drinks at Kensington Pavilion. You will enjoy a presentation from Nicole Bremner on her property development company East Eight followed by a Q&A session. You will meet likeminded professionals in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Canapes and wine are included in the ticket price. Professionals from within the industry will attend this event including architects,property developers and investors, interior designers, building services, chartered surveyors, construction, engineers, plus other companies that have an interest in the sector.
Property developer Nicole Bremner knows no bounds. Originally from Australia, she worked in banking and funds management for 12 years across London and New York before discovering a talent for property development. Today, she continues to buy, renovate, sell and rent high-end residential and commercial spaces, either working solo, alongside her joint-venture partners or with outside investors. She will join us and give an update on her current projects, what she is currently investing in and also her view on where the market is heading.
Some of her current projects include: Hackney Road, a former B1 commercial recording studio with planning pemission to demolish and rebuild the current building enlarging the footprint to just over 10,000 sqft of residential and office space. She raised a record-breaking £1.55 million of equity investment for this project last year via crowdfunding and the build has commenced.
The development 'Paintworks'; a former art supplies shop in nearby Hoxton which is currently being developed into a 11,000 sqft mixed commercial and residential building via a phased planning process. They successfully raised equity investment for this project via crowdfunding attracting an incredible £1 million in just 4.5 hours. East Eight has sold the commercial space and works are near completion on the residential apartments.
Her site in Dalston Lane which has been home to St Matthias' Boy's Club since 1984. Her plan is to increase the footprint from 4,300 sqft to 13,000 sqft via a two-phase planning application, the first of which has already been granted. She successfully raised £1.4 million of equity investment via online crowdfunding for this development.
The event will be hosted by NKILI Architecture an architecture and urban design practice based in west London.
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Knowledge of the most important terms in international trade is crucial for mutual understanding. For example, one of the most common terms is "certificate of origin." What is this document, and how to obtain it?
What is the Certificate of Origin?
Generally speaking, a Certificate of Origin is a document that proves that the goods in a particular export shipment have been wholly obtained, produced, manufactured, or processed in a particular country. The name can be abbreviated to C/O or COO.
Why is a Certificate of Origin needed?
The origin of goods is essential for tax and tariff authorities (for example, duty is applicable when buying goods in country A but not in country B). For instance, while many Chinese products are exempted from duty, there are still some categories in which the target market uses duty as a protection tool. It is mainly used in cases of exporting:
products of animal origin
mineral products.
Types of COO
Generally, there are two types of Certificates of Origin.
Non-preferential Certificate of Origin
Non-preferential Certificate of Origin specifies the place of production, but the goods do not qualify for any exceptional treatment.
Preferential Certificate of Origin
Preferential Certificate of Origin means that the goods were manufactured in a country that has some trade agreement with the destination country (it refers, for example, to trade within the Commonwealth of Nations). Other special trading areas include the European Union, ASEAN, and NAFTA.
Who issues a Certificate of Origin?
Usually, the Certificate of Origin should be delivered by the Chamber of Commerce/customs administrations from a particular country. For example, for the goods exported from the USA, Certificates of Origin can be obtained from the US Chamber of Commerce.
You can obtain preferential and non-preferential certificates for a product, but you cannot get two original copies of one CO type.
How to get a Certificate of Origin in China?
In China, only a company with an export license is eligible to file the application for CO. The person who wants to obtain a Certificate of Origin should apply to:
Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau (General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China, AQSIQ) – preferential COs
China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) – non-preferential COs.
The application should be submitted at least five days before the shipment departs from China.
Chinese Certificate of Origin form A
Goods listed on Form A can get a tariff reduction if they comply with the GSP rules of origin of the recipient country. 39 destination countries have granted China GSP treatment: Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Ireland, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Romania, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Turkey.
Chinese CO, form A: Generalized System of Preferences Certificate of Origin
The importance of electronic Certificates of Origin (eCOs) will grow in the future. The United States Council has already adopted this method of issuing documents for International Business (USCIB), and other organizations will follow for sure.


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In this 30-minute Vinyasa class, recover and prepare for your next athletic endeavor. This restorative sequence is designed to relieve muscle tension and sharpen mental focus for optimal performance off the mat. Take this class to improve body awareness, prevent sports injuries, and soothe sore muscles.


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Q: Product Variants - how to model? Not EAV hopefully? Given a product, a product may have variations (e.g. size: Small, Medium, Large or color: White, Black). If a product has more than one variation, then the total variations is the combination of the individual variations (e.g. Small White, Small Black, Medium White, Medium Black, Large White, Large Black). Each combination of variations will be assigned its own SKU, price, stock level, etc. Each variation will also be associated with general product details (e.g. product name, product description, etc.).
What's the best way to model product variations when you don't know what the variations can be? I'm thinking it may be EAV, but I've had problems with that in the past. Wondering if there is a better way.
UPDATE 1:
This is not a duplicate of How to design a product table for many kinds of product where each product has many parameters.
After reading the accepted answer, I'm still at a lost. It seems like my reluctance around EAV is well founded. So maybe I stay away from that solution. Furthermore, if I were to use EAV, what about attributes that are always there, such as price, SKU, and stock levels? I know those must always exist -- and, as such, they don't need the flexibility of EAV.
@Bill Karwin says that his first choice would be to use Class Table Inheritance. I'm not sure if that'll work for me. I need to store tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of records. I do not know upfront what the variants are going to be (my code will know as it parses XML feeds and spreadsheets on the fly -- but no sooner). So, trying to predict at this point what other tables I'll need is impossible.
So - I'm still lost. How do I model product variants?

A: I'm no defender of EAV, but in some cases it's necessary, and it sounds like yours is one of those cases.  If you don't know what attributes you will need at design-time, your options are fairly limited.
Using a schema-less design might be an option now that NoSQL is growing more mainstream, but will still involve the oddity of allowing objects/documents that have n dynamic attributes.
If it meets your needs, also consider simply having a BLOB or XML column that described the dynamic part of each product.  This would simplify your solution quite a bit over EAV, but also limits your options for data retrieval (depending on your requirements).

Furthermore, if I were to use EAV, what about attributes that are
  always there, such as price, SKU, and stock levels?

I would absolutely recommend that you model as much as you can explicitly, and isolate your solution (XML, EAV or whatever) to the areas that require it.  No reason to limit yourself more than you have to.

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Detroit Institute of Arts millage renewal could appear on 2020 ballot
Michigan Radio | By Caroline Llanes
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Inside the Detroit Institute of Arts
The Detroit Institute of Arts is asking officials in Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne County to put a renewal of the museum's millage on the March 2020 ballot. This request comes earlier than expected: the millage was first passed in 2012, and it was not set to lapse until 2022.
Dave Woodward is the chairman for the Oakland County Board of Commissioners. He says the DIA was transparent about their reasons for wanting the proposal pushed up to the 2020 election.
"It is a statewide election. Things at the top of the ballot pay for the election, so it's an election that's already paid for, that will draw a lot of attention. And so, it seemed like an appropriate time to place a renewal question on the ballot," he says.
The proposal will have to be approved by both the Oakland County Board of Commissioners and the Oakland County Art Institute Authority. The Wayne County Art Authority and the Macomb County Art Institute Authority will each have to vote to approve the proposal in order for it to appear on their counties' respective 2020 ballots. Woodward says he anticipates a lot of support for the millage.
"I think the public overwhelmingly supported it, I think we're getting incredible community benefit from it, and I think the voters are going to approve it. So, I am very optimistic that we are going to approve placement on the ballot, I expect my neighboring counties to do the same, and continue on the success that we've already been making with this effort," he says.
Salvador Salort-Pons is the director of the DIA. He says when the museum's management received the millage in 2012, they didn't know two things.
"One was that the city of Detroit was going to go bankrupt, and after that situation, the museum would come up independent from the city of Detroit, and now we own the collection, we own the building, we own the grounds, and therefore we own our destiny," he says. "The second thing that they didn't know is that this millage, with its service agreement, was going to change the culture of the organization. In the past, the DIA was a museum that, generally speaking, was looking inwards. Today, we are an organization that is looking outward. We're going beyond the walls of the museum and serving the counties and their residents."
Woodward says the millage has allowed county residents unprecedented access to arts education.
"When you look at what it costs the average homeowner in Oakland County, about $20 a year, and it comes with free admission, free transportation for kids and seniors, millions of dollars of investment in community partnerships to advance arts and culture, and professional development to help supplant and support arts and cultures in our schools. It is well worth the investment, and I think it's an asset we can all cherish and be supportive of," he says.
According to Salort-Pons and Woodward, the millage program has allowed for free field trips for more than 62,000 students from 700 schools from the three counties, free transportation for both students and seniors, unlimited free admission, and has allowed the DIA to increase its operating hours, including adding an additional hour to the daily schedule so school groups can arrive early.
If officials in all three counties vote to approve the proposal, the millage will appear on the March 2020 ballot. The Oakland County Board of Commissioners will vote on November 20, and the Art Authority will vote on November 21. There is no date scheduled yet for a vote for the Macomb and Wayne County art authorities, but they will have until December 17 to vote on the proposal.
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Mean Doses, 130 Tory Street, Te Aro
130 Tory Street, Te Aro
K and D Sessions Limited
Description of proposal
K and D Sessions Limited, 8 Terawhiti Terrace, Karori has applied to the District Licensing Committee in Wellington for the Renewal of an off licence for the premises situated at 130 Tory Street, Te Aro.
The general nature of the business conducted (or to be conducted) under the licence is Bottle Store
The days on which and the hours during which alcohol is (or is intended to be) sold under the licence are:
Monday to Sunday 10:00 am to 9:00 pm.
Application extract and Plans (354KB PDF)
The application may be inspected during ordinary office hours at the office of the Wellington District Licensing Committee, Arapaki Library and Service Centre, 12 Manners Street.
Any person who is entitled to object and who wishes to object to the issue of the licence may, not later than 15 working days after the date of the publication of this notice, file a notice in writing of the objection with the Secretary of the District Licensing Committee at PO Box 2199, Wellington 6140.
Object to an Application
Objecting to the issue of new licence: No objection to the issue of a licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in section 105(1) of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012.
Objecting to the renewal of an existing licence: No objection to the renewal of a licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in section 131 of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012.
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Luis Ortega Douglas (Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes; 25 de junio de 1911-Houston, Texas; 25 de agosto de 1980) fue un ingeniero civil y político mexicano. Se desempeñó como gobernador de Aguascalientes de 1956 a 1962 y como Presidente Municipal de Aguascalientes de 1948 a 1950

Biografía
Nació el 25 de junio de 1911 en la ciudad de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, hijo José Guadalupe Ortega Romo de Vivar y Adela Douglas Valencia y hermano de Edmundo, Alfonso y Rafael. Su abuelo materno John Douglas procedente de Bury, Inglaterra llegó a establecerse en Aguascalientes.

Estudió la educación primaria en el Colegio Alcalá y la secundaria en el Instituto Autónomo de Ciencias, el bachillerato en Colegio de San Ildefonso y sus estudios profesionales en el Colegio Nacional de Ingenieros de la UNAM.

Gobernador del Estado
Durante su administración como gobernador de Aguascalientes se fomentó la construcción de infraestructura urbana. Concluyó la Avenida Adolfo López Mateos, perfiló el primer Anillo de Circunvalación y la avenida Héroe de Nacozari, construcción del segundo Parián, electrificación de Calvillo, Tepezalá, San José de Gracia y Asientos además del servicio de agua potable mediante la perforación de pozos.

Véase también
 Elecciones estatales de Aguascalientes de 1956
 Elecciones estatales de Aguascalientes de 1947

Nacidos en Aguascalientes (ciudad)
Ingenieros civiles de México
Políticos de Aguascalientes
Gobernadores de Aguascalientes
Miembros del Partido Revolucionario Institucional
Miembros del PRI de Aguascalientes
Alumnado de la Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Fallecidos en Houston
Presidentes municipales de Aguascalientes (municipio)

Referencias

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Eighteen-year-old Lucy doesn't remember how she died or why she's haunting Springett Hall in Victorian England. One thing is certain: she was trying to fix a terrible mistake—one she must set right before oblivion reclaims her. As she pieces together the mystery of her death, shadows try to drag her into a dark abyss, and she struggles against the commands of a disembodied voice.
None of the living notice Lucy haunting them, except a servant named Philip whose memories are as fragmented as hers. They find evidence they were involved in a necromancer's scheme to cheat death: a spell that went awry. Lucy also suspects Philip, for whom she's developing an impossible attraction, may have been one of her enemies.
The more Lucy learns, the less she wants to remember. The necromancer's work isn't finished, though, and his influence is consuming the minds and wills of everyone in the house, living and dead. To have any chance of making a happy ending out of their mistakes, Lucy and Philip must face the truth about their past and free the residents of Springett Hall from a curse that reaches beyond death.


Indie rock 5-piece Said The Whale has crossed country for a surely epic show at St. Matthew's tonight. The internationally recognized Vancouver band has a new album out (which is wicked) and are on a big ol Canada-wide tour. JUNO winners and energetic stage performers, these kids are going to kill it and are a welcome upbeat addition to the recent shows at St. Matthew's. Get yo tickets, fools!


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The Evolution of Terrorism Financing: Disrupting the Islamic State
by Daniel L. Glaser
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Daniel Glaser is a former assistant secretary for terrorist financing in the Treasury Department's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.
Watch a conversation with the Treasury Department's top coordinator for combating terrorist financing as he explains how Washington is countering the Islamic State's wealth and fundraising.
On October 13, Daniel Glaser, the Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing in the Treasury Department's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, delivered the latest address in The Washington Institute's long-running Stein Counterterrorism Lecture Series. The following is a rapporteur's summary of his remarks.
The Treasury Department faces a unique challenge in countering the finances of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). While traditional counter-terrorist financing focuses on cutting terrorist financiers off from access to the global financial system and isolating terrorist organizations from their major source of funding, ISIL's ability to finance itself internally presents a qualitatively different challenge that requires a qualitatively different approach.
ISIL's wealth mainly comes from three sources. The first of these is the oil and gas in its territory, the sale of which generated about $500 million in 2015, primarily through internal sales. The second is taxation and extortion. As a territory-holding entity, ISIL levies various taxes and fees on the population under its control, equaling about $360 million in 2015. Third, when ISIL captured Mosul in 2014, it was able to plunder more than $500 million in cash from bank vaults. This, however, was a nonrenewable source of financing. In all, the vast wealth that ISIL has raised from these sources far outweighs external financing and other illicit activities.
Given the significance of territory to ISIL financing, the problem lends itself to a military solution. The Global Coalition to Counter ISIL launched an air campaign in November 2015 named Tidal Wave II, which targets ISIL's ability to extract, refine, and transport oil and gas. This campaign has substantially decreased ISIL's oil profits from its territory.
As ISIL loses access to territory, and thereby oil, it is increasing taxes on the local population. Yet its ability to generate revenue through taxation is also limited because the funds flowing into its territory are limited. For some time, the Treasury Department has been working with the Iraqi government to reduce liquidity in ISIL-held areas. About a year ago, Baghdad stopped sending government salaries into these areas, instead holding them in escrow. Previously, it had been sending about $2 billion per year into ISIL territory. Even with conservative estimates of a 10 percent tax rate, that represented significant income for ISIL. The coalition has also conducted airstrikes on ISIL bulk-cash sites, destroying untold millions of dollars.
These measures are having an impact -- the group has been experiencing financial distress. In late 2015, ISIL leaders in Raqqa, Syria, reduced the monthly salaries of all fighters in the province by 50 percent, and they certainly were not the first to be affected by the group's belt-tightening efforts. Internal corruption is also on the rise, spurring leaders to launch anticorruption campaigns. Arbitrary fines have increased as well, and taxation has become heavier. All of these developments are clear signs of distress as the group scrambles to make up the money it has lost.
Nevertheless, ISIL's coffers will never be completely emptied, so Treasury is continuing its efforts to prevent the group from moving and using its money. This effort starts with the Iraqis. Treasury has been working very closely with the Iraqi government, which is taking the issue quite seriously. Approximately ninety Iraqi bank branches were operating in ISIL territory when the group first took control, but Treasury has worked with the Iraqis to cut these branches completely off from their headquarters, making it more difficult for ISIL to access the financial system.
Yet the main concern in Iraq is ISIL's exploitation of exchange houses, of which there are around 1,900 -- far too many to effectively regulate. In the long term, Iraq needs to shrink this sector to bring the number of exchange houses down to a level that can be reasonably overseen. The challenge in the short term is what to do about exchange houses within ISIL territory. The Central Bank of Iraq has released a public list of more than a hundred such institutions, and Treasury has established active information-sharing arrangements with Iraqi officials to alert them of any suspicious exchange houses. Entities can be added to or removed from the list as territory is liberated. Financial institutions around the world need to consult this list to avoid doing business with any of the blacklisted exchange houses. Thus far, the Central Bank has blocked such houses from accessing millions of dollars, a clear sign of Iraq's commitment to the issue.
The Central Bank has also taken steps to improve the regulation of Iraq's financial system, adopting money-laundering and counter-terrorist financing laws and issuing regulations to implement them. In addition to taking extraordinary steps to ensure that banks in Baghdad are appropriately regulated, it has sent teams out to places such as Kirkuk in the Kurdish region to make sure there is a uniform anti-money laundering system in place. Going forward, the Iraqi government must make this more than just a Central Bank effort; law enforcement, the Finance Ministry, the Justice Ministry, and the security services all need to be involved. To encourage this all-of-government approach, the Treasury Department helped create the U.S.-Iraq Committee to Counter Terrorist Financing, which includes all of these stakeholders.
Although this work starts in Iraq, it certainly does not end there. Syria is a completely different issue set. Yet because the Syrian financial sector has been cut off from the international system for some time, it is a less attractive jurisdiction for ISIL to move funds. Informal financial networks connect Syria to its traditional regional trading partners, and Treasury engages with them about associated concerns. The Assad regime has also benefited ISIL through gas deals based on an exchange of services.
As Treasury continues to work closely with regional partners to ensure that ISIL does not gain access to local or global financial systems, it is crucial to note that military success will only increase the relevance of this work. As ISIL becomes less state-like and more of a dispersed global organization, it may become more reliant on the international financial system to raise and move money. The question then becomes: does it turn to external financing? There is no level of external financing that can make up for the billion dollars or more that ISIL can make while controlling territory like it does in Syria in Iraq. Even so, the move to a so-called "post-Caliphate" existence obliges the coalition to make an even greater effort to ensure that ISIL cannot rely on more traditional methods of terrorist financing such as foreign donors and exploitation of charities.
Outside Syria and Iraq, ISIL's various branches do not have the ability to generate their own resources the way ISIL does in its core territory. ISIL in Libya is not making money from oil there; it is focused on destroying the country's oil infrastructure rather than financially benefiting from it. There is also less wealth within the branches themselves -- for example, while Mosul's bank vaults held half a billion dollars in cash, ISIL forces in Sirte, Libya, have found only around $4 million. This is a qualitatively different problem. ISIL branches are able to self-finance to a degree through crime and extortion of the local population, and they still receive money from the ISIL core.
Other terrorist organizations operating in Iraq and Syria require close attention as well. Al-Nusra Front -- essentially al-Qaeda in Syria -- is a dangerous organization that poses a threat to the United States. It can extract a certain amount of wealth from the territory it controls, but not to the same extent as ISIL. This gets to Treasury's classic toolbox: working with partners to make sure terrorist organizations do not have access to the financial system. A lot of progress has been made toward this end in countries such as Qatar and Kuwait, but individual financiers continue to operate in the Gulf region, and this issue needs to be addressed urgently. Qatar's recent efforts to undertake criminal prosecutions of terrorist financiers are a real sign of political will to deal with this problem.
Other groups of concern include Hezbollah, which has Iran as its chief financier. Treasury strives to isolate Hezbollah from the global financial system, and it applauds Lebanese banks for their good work since the passage of the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2015 (HIFPA). The group's access to the Lebanese financial system has been challenged in a way many never thought possible. On this matter, it is critical to differentiate between Lebanon and Hezbollah. HIFPA and the ensuing American enforcement measures are not an attack on Lebanon, but rather a move to counter Hezbollah financing. Yet Hezbollah receives the majority of its wealth from Iran, a revenue stream that is difficult to disrupt. In its dealings with Tehran, the Financial Action Task Force will likely continue to reject exceptions to its terror-financing laws, as it has in the past.
This summary was prepared by Maxine Rich.
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Think of an image of 800 x 600 pixel and 24 bit of color (8 bit per each RGB component). Its trivial binary representation is a sequence of 11520000 bits (800 x 600 x 24) and we can think of each picture as being a natural number.
Imagine now that we write an computer program that generates all these pictures one by one, incrementing the natural number by one in each round.
Warning: don't do this at home unless you can wait for some billion years between each pair of interesting pictures you would get!
Still, it's interesting to realize that you can compress all the world's information to a short and trivial program, all you have to do is add enough useless data to it!
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Except that it won't actually contain any information. If it generates all possible pictures, it encodes the same information as if it generates none.
I will use only gray-scale to make it quicker. However, we still will wait quite long.
Anyhow, it is a cool idea. It is like having enough monkeys typing in writing-machines; they eventually would write The Lord of the Rings.
I am interested in building this, not to generate every image, just to allow people to interact, by turning a wheel, and progress through the billions. It's all about the trip being just as fun as any real result. Any ideas?
Nice to hear about your interest in this post!
this can actually be quantified using Kolmogorov Complexity.
In other words, if you navigate freely through the space of images, you will basically always see random noise. Perhaps this is already cool?!
I don't know, I let it to your creativity!
And let me know if you did something fun to try!
Another interesting thing is that we can have a program that generates all possible programs and runs them all. It's a really simple scheduler with quadratic decay.
Now, just code this. When skynet wakes up we probably will notice it somehow.
You say billions of years. Why? We could do it in much less time.
Let's say we do 800 x 600 at 24 bits per pixel.
8053063680000 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 7.35 terabytes (roughly). So only a few thousand dollars of storage.
Let's assume the NSA has funded us, and we have an array of 1000 8 core computers, each capable of generating 1000 bits worth of images per second (this is probably a really slow estimate).
8053063680000 / 1000 / 1000000 / 60 / 60 / 24 / 365 = 0.25 years.
In fact, this is so fast, that we ought to up our resolution. We could use 3 megapixel images, for example, or even larger. If we had say a $100 million dollar budget from Google, for example, we could probably complete the project in 10 or 15 years.
The real problem is searching the database—it would have to be stored in some sort of search tree based on a content-aware calculation (shape recognition, perhaps—store all the face-shapes separate from the word-shapes, etc.) Organizing it in this database might significantly slow down the storage speed, extending the project.
But with enough systems working in parallel and a given input that we would like to find things that were similar to it, we could probably discover many interesting things (the schematics of new and unthought weapons systems and technologies.
But isn't this a project worth a century? It would contain within it the whole of the future. Every frame of a movie of the future, in fact, a movie shot from every viewpoint of every human living and also every human not living—except also a finite yet large number of counterfeit futures, from counterfeit perspectives.
Indeed, "science" could be reduced after this project to a database search. We could employ millions of people in the simple task of searching a single segment of the database for intriguing images, sending them to specialists who would study them for their possible application to increasing the store of human knowledge and human possibilities. Images of the future could be sorted according to their probability, a service of a new class of specialists who would rightly be called seers of the future.
Although the possibilities are endless, the database is finite.
In fact, what's so intriguing to me about this is that it's identical to the story in Borges' Ficciones, "The Library of Babel" (which is based on a fantastic picture from Leibniz's Theodicy). In both Borges and Leibniz, the library contains books of /infinite/ pages—the search is then interminable, the book of your life can never be found.
Here the search database is not only a finite size, but by contemporary standards, it's not even that large.
Honestly, I have no idea what we're waiting for.
And the (800*600) inside the exponent *really* makes it impractical!
Except you could never do this with a pseudo random number generator like the ones used in programming. The algorithm will repeat itself at some point due to it's mathematical nature and finite set of data it uses to generate pseudo random numbers.
The chance of not getting any recognizable picture using a program is astronomically higher than the chance of getting one.
After all it took the universe billions o years and uncountable permutations over a enormous data set to randomly position atoms into a structure that is your face.
How could a mere pseudo random generator using 128 or 256 or 512 bits or more of input and some basic mathematical formula have a chance of recreating that ?
@Pop Catalin: Yes, generating an image at random has *extremely* high probability of showing nothing of interest. However, in the thought experiment I describe in my post, we generate the set of *all* possible images one by one. But of course, as mentioned several times in the discussion, this is just completely unfeasible.
The idea cannot work for all your samples.
If we define the 800×600 Image as "information", then we cannot obviously get "all the information in the world", but only "2^(24 * 800 * 600) pieces of information".
An information needs to be interpreted, in order to have some "meaning", and interpreting images is very different from interpreting text/music.
So, for images, we could get all images recognizable as 800×600 (so, almost all 4:3 pictures/paintings in the world, at low resolution), but we would never "recognize" a picture of the whole sky map.
For texts we need to define how we translate "pixels" to "characters". If we translate images to text as we read it, we would get all texts writable in a 4:3 screen (about anything you could write in a A4 paper). Even with the best possible conversion (1 pixel = 24 bits = 3 UTF-8 chars) we would get all possible texts shorter than 2^(3 * 800 * 600). I don't know if Dante's works would fit.
since there is 2^(24 * 800 * 600) pictures at 800 * 600 reselution, there is posible to give every picture at 800 * 600 a number. it woud be cool to make a program where you could type the number and get that picture.
There is a way of inputting a number and getting a particular image, but the number only tells the program when to stop during its cycle, so in order to get that cycle number, yes, you must already have the image. I thought of a system for doing this, but tell me if I made a mistake. First, I thought that if you had an 800*600 grid where each cell can have 1 of 24 states, that the sum of total configurations would be 24^(800*600). Are pixels different from a simple grid, or did I miss something else? Anyway, so the program would systematically go through every possible state of the first cell. Once it went full cycle it would reset and then increment the next cell over by 1, and so on like this so that every cell over would go full cycle 1/n times as fast as the cell before, where n = the total number of possible values. In two dimensions, once the last cell of a row completes its cycle, the next increment happens at column 1 and down a row. Now at every cycle the full state of the grid can be assigned a number based on whatever cycle it is currently on so that the images are organized numerically, but the numbers get huge eventually so why try to store them all. However, there is a way of taking the state of a preexisting set (for instance, a set of ascii characters which make an image) and based on the value at and coordinates of a each individual cell, determine at which cycle of the aforementioned method that image appears.
First, assigning each possible value of a cell, v, a numerical value from 1 to n total values.
Then, assign each cell a numerical value, p.
Now solve for the values v and p in in this equation: (v-1)n^(p-1)+1 = c = cycle at which value makes first singular appearance.
Sum all the results, and then subtract n from the result. Now you have the label of that particular image, which you can now use to tell a program such as the one described above when to stop cycling, and it would land on that image. This however would be cool only because you actually would get to see the computer stopped on an image of yourself, but of course it would only be the exact same image you already had to solve for c in the first place.
Yes, but the input number is the image itself!
Sometimes when I think about this, and I've been thinking about it for some time (as my first comment was posted here in 2008, I wonder if it isn't the wrong question we are asking. Isn't it true that what we are really looking for is a function the generates useful images and nothing more? Perhaps it's not brute force (generating all the images and sorting them) that we should be focused on but instead trying to write code that would never generate noise, but how do we do that? We would have to figure out (or rather clearly define) what makes a "good" or "worthwhile" image. After all, won't many of the images actually be photos of grains of sand or moon dust? We MUST FIRST establish a class of images that we find interesting.—- Let's do this, what are the fields of study that are working on these kinds of ideas? Are there books, or fields of mathematics that would help?
It seems interesting, because the author has an understanding of statistics / manifolds / kolmogorov complexity.
There's an even more interesting fact about the set of all possible images at a given resolution: time.
Although the number of images would be incredibly high, they *must* depict every subject *in time*.
Yet, the number of images is "finite", while time is tought to be infinite – or it's not ?
Is there a website where something like this has been done? I find it so intriguing to think of the possibilities, and who's to say we need a database to search all these images? Why not just get volunteers to look through all the images generated? I'd be more than willing. If you were to only glance at all the images you know are rubbish, like ones with solid block of colour or nothing more than a mess of it then surely you'd quickly be able to find useful images.
Actually, it wouldn't even be that painstaking. If you had a program that cycled that states of each pixel systematically and very fast so that one pixel changes per image, you wouldn't have to worry about a cohesive image going by too fast. It would take just about as long for the image to be completely reduced to noise as it probably took for it to appear. for quite some time you'd be staring at the image of a face let's say, for quite a while, as the pixels at the upper-left would be flickering at a mad speed, without even effecting the rest of the image.
Wow, I've been thinking about this lately.
I'll try to do it just to see how it progresses.
The resulting number of images would be finite because we're only generating all possible images in finite dimensions.
As you keep incrementing numbers, you can get all sorts of weird images(like bill gates with a body of an alien and the mirror-image of the IBM logo on his forehead, selling cannon-ball sized peanuts in a region like Antarctica).
I think it would take 1.125…* 10^3467857 years to see all those images at a rate of 10 images per second.
Why does it have to be in color?
My idea is to use only black and white, and images of size 100*100. I've calculated that you could generate a total of about 2e3010 images in total. It's an awful lot, and 100*100 images are rather small, adding to the fact that it's only black and white.
I'm not ready to saturate my computer with a zillion of meaningless images, but I'm really interested in programming this, just for fun.
My idea is to just let the computer generate for about a day, then every night erase the ones that are not interesting.
I've been doing this recently aswell. I'm using the GMP library. I can process a single 50x50x16 images in seconds but a 300x200x256 took about 10minutes to generate What I'm also doing is given an image (which im assuming is grayscale) is converting it to its index value (key) and then trying to plot it on a graph of all posible keys jsut to see if there is a specific range of keys that mean something. It would also be good to distiguish between true images and fake one. I'm also trying to find a formula so I can upscale a key from a smaller set to a larger set. Could be useful for improving grainy CCTV image or something. Or just for archivings stuff. I was wondering if there was a relationship between keys (say you find the index for a pic of someone then a pic of them years later, could this difference in the keys to applied to someone elses picture to see how they would age? also a similar thing with image sequences of lottery tickets?) Although it does feel like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Might be an interesting reading as a follow up of this blog post.


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My intellectual and academic career has focused on the encounter between people who live in rural regions and expanding, industrializing states and societies. My ethnographic and historical research focuses on rural North America, particularly the region included within the Mississippi Delta - from Southern Illinois southward.
This work has resulted in three books and numerous articles, with another book in preparation.
In 2000 I began a long-term project on peoples' memories of, and judgments about, the massive transformations of the post-World War II period in the lower Mississippi Delta. With my husband, photographer D. Gorton, I have returned to Mississippi, where we participated in the Freedom Movement in the 1960s. We are using digital video to interview and film in the field. We are authoring the material on the World Wide Web as well as in conventional print and video media.
Our work is featured as a "Profile in Success" by Apple Computer.
I am also a member of a team that has been studying watershed planning in the Cache River watershed in southernmost Illinois.
With special topics on gender, social movement theory, religion, nationalism, and the formation of the modern nation state.
2007 Ethnography of Rural North America . North American Dialogue: Newsletter of the Society for the Anthropology of North America . V. 10 (2):2-6.
2006. Confederate Lane: Class, Race, and Ethnicity in the Mississippi Delta. American Ethnologist 33(2):288-309.
2004. Watershed Planning in Watersheds Dominated by Multiple, Largely Private Owners: The Cache River of Southern Illinois. by Steven E. Kraft, Jane Adams, Timothy T. Loftus, Christopher L. Lant, Leslie A. Duram, and J.B. Ruhl. In Integrated Resources and Environmental Management (IREM): The Human Dimensions. Alan Ewert, Doug Baker, and Glyn Bissix, eds. London: CABI Press International.
2004 "Southern Trauma:" Revisiting the Indianola, Mississippi, of John Dollard and Hortense Powdermaker American Anthropologist. 106(2):334-345.
2003 Proposal for a Model State Watershed Management Act, J.B. Ruhl, Christopher Lant, Steven Kraft, Jane Adams, Leslie Duram, and Tim Loftus. Evironmental Law, 34(4, December):929-947.
Ecological Restoration in Multiple-Ownership Watersheds: The Case of the Cache River in Illinois - Social and Economic Issues. Jane Adams, Jeffrey Beaulieu, David Bennett, Leslie Duram, Steven Kraft, Christopher Land, Tim Loftus, John Nicklow, and J.B. Ruhl. Illinois Water Resources Center Special Report No. 27. Pp. 161-75.
"Modernity" and U.S. farm women's poultry operations: farm women nourish the industrializing cities 1880-1940. Paper presented at the international conference, The Chicken: Its Biological, Social, Cultural, and Industrial History: From Neolithic Middens to McNuggets. May 17-19, 2002, Yale University, Program in Agrarian Studies.
2000. Farm Women, Class, and the Limits of Nostalgia. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society.
1999 "Changing Farm Women's Roles" Feature article for Illinois History Teacher 7(1):2-6.
1999 "Many Sides to Relevance," Anthropology Newsletter 40(4):14.
1996 (with Margarita Bolanos) Aproximacion historico al desarrollo de la antropologia norteamericana en Centroamerica: 1930-1990. In: Carmen Murillo (Editor). Antropología e identidades en Centroamérica. Colección de Libros del Laboratorio de Etnología. Departamento de Antropología. Universidad de Costa Rica.
1997 Quiesence Despite Privation: Explaining the Absence of a Farm Laborers' Movement in Southern Illinois. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 39(3):550-571.
1995 Individualism, Efficiency, and Domesticity: Ideological Aspects of the Exploitation of Farm Families and Farm Women. Agriculture and Human Values 12(4):2-17.
1994 Government Policies and the Changing Structure of Farm Women's Livelihood: A Case from Southern Illinois. in The Economic Anthropology of the State, edited by Elizabeth M. Brumfiel. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
1993 Resistance to "Modernity": Southern Illinois Farm Women and the Cult of Domesticity. American Ethnologist 20(1):89-113.
1992 1870s Agrarian Activism in Southern Illinois: Mediator Between Two Eras. Social Science History 16(3):365-400.
1992 "How Can a Poor Man Live?" Resistance to Capitalist Development in Southern Illinois, 1870-1890. Rural History: Economy, Society, Culture. 3(1):87-110.
1991-2 "A Woman's Place Is In the Home": The Ideological Devaluation of Farm Women's Work. Anthropology of Work Review xii(4) and xii(1):2-11.
1990 The Cobden Peach Festival. Illinois Historical Journal 83:97-108.
1988 The Decoupling of Farm and Household: Differential Consequences of Capitalist Development on Southern Illinois and Third World Family Farms. Comparative Studies in Society and History 30(3):453-482.
1987 Business Farming and Farm Policy in the 1980s: Further Reflections on the Farm Crisis. Culture and Agriculture 32:1-6.
1986 Farmer Organization and Class Formation. Canadian Journal of Anthropology/RCA 5(1):35-42.


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In februari 2012 kwamen bij een brand in de Nationale Gevangenis van Comayagua in Honduras  359 gevangenen en bewaarders om het leven. De brand ontstond op dinsdagavond 14 februari, vermoedelijk door kortsluiting. Vele andere gevangenen zouden ontsnapt zijn, volgens persbureau Reuters. Veel slachtoffers zijn zo ernstig verbrand dat ze niet meer te herkennen zijn.

Honderden familieleden van gedetineerden hebben op 15 februari de uitgebrande gevangenis bestormd. De nabestaanden van de omgekomen gevangenen waren wanhopig, omdat ze niet te horen kregen wie er waren omgekomen door de brand.

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USA Archery Wraps 2017 Indoor Nationals with Highest Participation in History
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado - Over 4,500 archers competed nationwide over the last few weeks at USA Archery's 2017 JOAD National Indoor Championships and U.S. National Indoor Championships, making it by far, USA Archery's largest event in history. Spread out over 13 locations, archers' scores were compiled and the events culminated yesterday, finally crowning new Indoor National Champions.
Pending verification, several new national records were shot and even a new world record as the level of competition continues to rise in America. Brady Ellison's 1192 put him 13 points into first for the senior recurve men's division just ahead of 2016 U.S. Olympic Archery Teammates Jake Kaminski and Zach Garrett. In fourth was Paralympian Eric Bennett, scoring an 1173 shooting with just one arm.
Olympians Mackenzie Brown and Khatuna Lorig finished on top for the senior recurve women's division. Collegiate archer Eliana Clapps and cub archer Casey Kaufhold, scored the third and fourth highest scores of any recurve women in the competition with an incredible 1144 and 1135 respectively.
World Field Champion Steve Anderson capped an impressive indoor season with an 1189 to top the compound senior men's division. Jacob Pettit was the leading scorer for the compound junior men with an 1187, while Eli Hughes' 1184 put him on top of the compound cadet men's division further showing that talent in USA archers knows no age restrictions.
Erika Jones is back on top of the compound women's division, scoring an 1179 to earn the National Champion title. Michelle O'Donnell took gold for the crossbow senior women with an 1181, while Tom Holland's 1188 was the best score for the crossbow senior men's division.
John Demmer III continues to lead the barebow senior men in the U.S. with an 1103 win. Fawn Girard won the barebow senior women's competition with a 1036 while Jennifer Stoner scored a 1044 to take the win for the barebow masters women.
USA Archery congratulates all of our Indoor Nationals participants and medalists on an incredible few weekends of archery and an awesome indoor season. We look forward to seeing everyone in the outdoor season!
Complete results from all divisions are available on www.usarchery.org. The U.S. National Indoor Championship results are available here and the JOAD National Indoor Championships results are available here. For photos from the events, follow USA Archery on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Photo by Tristan Huynh.
Note: Article was updated March 16th.


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Two hospitals bombed in rebel-held Aleppo
Date created : 28/09/2016 - 16:23 Latest update : 29/09/2016 - 11:30
Georges Ourfalian, AFP | Syrian pro-government forces stand in the rubble in Aleppo's Farafira district on September 28, 2016, on the same day two hospitals were bombed in the city.
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An air strike and artillery fire hit the two largest hospitals in rebel-held parts of Syria's Aleppo on Wednesday, in what rights groups said was a deliberate strategy of targeting civilian infrastructure.
President Bashar al-Assad's forces and his ally Moscow have carried out a barrage of air strikes on opposition-controlled eastern Aleppo since Syria's regime announced a bid last week to retake all of the divided city.
Dozens of civilians have been killed, residential buildings have been reduced to rubble and residents of eastern districts -- already suffering under a government siege -- are facing severe shortages of food and medical supplies.
The latest bombardment of the city has been some of the worst in Syria's five-year civil war, and comes after the failure of a short-lived ceasefire brokered by Russia and the United States earlier this month.
The two hospitals were struck just before dawn, with the M10 facility hit in an air strike and the M2 facility hit with artillery fire, said Adham Sahloul of the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), which supports both hospitals.
The attacks put both facilities temporarily out of commission and left only six hospitals operational in the eastern parts of the city, Sahloul said, calling the attacks "deliberate".
"Stop bombing hospitals. Stop bombing health workers. Stop bombing patients." @JoanneLiu_MSF speech #UNSC #NotATarget
— MSF International (@MSF) September 28, 2016
It was unclear who had carried out the bombings.
"I am in the M2 hospital now. I was inside when the entrance to the emergency room was hit. Three of my colleagues were hurt," said Aref al-Aref, a medical assistant trapped inside.
"Everyone is terrified and scared today. We are afraid that we will be today's victims," he told AFP.
'Death warrant for hundreds'
Sahloul warned of devastating consequences if the hospitals remain closed and violence spiked as it did with heavy strikes over the weekend.
"With these two hospitals gone, if today there is another offensive like Saturday or Sunday, this is signing the death warrant for hundreds of people," he told AFP.
The World Health Organization on Tuesday warned that medical facilities in the city's east were on the verge of "complete destruction".
The UN body called for "an immediate establishment of humanitarian routes to evacuate sick and wounded from the eastern part of the city."
More than 170 people have been killed in east Aleppo since Syria's army announced its operation to retake the city, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group.
On Wednesday, at least six civilians died in artillery fire by regime forces near a bakery in the opposition-controlled Maadi district, the Observatory said.
A hospital in the government-held west also reported two people had been killed and 10 injured in rebel fire on the Aziziyeh district.
Clashes also continued inside Aleppo's Old City for a second day, the Observatory said, after pro-government troops seized control of the Farafira district northwest of Aleppo's historic citadel on Tuesday.
'Will answer before God'
Once Syria's commercial hub, Aleppo has been ravaged by fighting since 2012 and is divided between government forces in the west and rebels in the east.
An estimated 250,000 people still live in the eastern districts, which have been under devastating siege by government forces since early September.
Rights groups and the opposition accuse the Syrian government and its allies of using sieges and deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure to pressure civilians to flee.
"There is no objective to attacking these hospitals other than adding to the suffering of civilians, destroying infrastructure so that civilians are left with no hospitals and are then forced to leave," said Diana Semaan, Syria campaigner at Amnesty International.
In announcing its operation, Syria's army urged civilians to flee to government-held territory, but residents of the east fear passing through regime-held districts.
The head of the White Helmets volunteer rescue force, which operates in opposition-held territory in northern Syria, told AFP that under current conditions civilian facilities in eastern Aleppo would no longer be able to provide services within a month.
"The civilians there would seize any opportunity to escape, to go wherever they could go," Raed Saleh said.
"But nothing is available to provide safety and protection for those civilians. We are worried that they are facing massacre or the kidnapping or the arrest of many of them."
Pope Francis on Wednesday called for the bombing to stop.
"I appeal to the conscience of those responsible for the bombardment, who will have to answer before God," the pope said at his weekly address in St Peter's square, without naming Syria or Russia.
(AFP)
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