Sugarcane aphid numbers are increasing rapidly in the Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley and appear to be moving into corn as well.
Sugarcane aphid numbers are increasing rapidly in the Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley and appear to be moving into corn as well, according to several Texas AgriLife Research and Extension reports.
"We saw damaging populations of the sugarcane aphid in grain sorghum late in the season last year, but we didn't see any major problems in the head, where the grain is produced," Villanueva said. "We were hoping it was a one-time event or only a late-season event, or that it wouldn't affect the head.
"But it's now obvious that is not the case. We started seeing very high populations three weeks ago, about the time plants were putting out their grain heads." Without treatment, the insects migrate from lower leaves to the head, the "cash crop" area of the plant, Sekula-Ortiz said.
Regardless, if growers don't treat before they migrate to the head, serious crop losses can occur.
The yellow sugarcane aphid affects the lower leaves of plants, Villanueva said. Because it is present only during a plant's early stages, its populations are kept in check by seed treatment and do not pose a problem.
Currently, no treatment threshold exists for sugarcane aphids since it is a new pest in sorghum in Texas and the nation. "We are recommending that you do not let infestation levels exceed 30 percent to 50 percent since they are hard to control," Sekula-Ortiz said.
Once aphids migrate to the head of the sorghum plant, yields are reduced because grains don't mature; they fail to grow to normal size or numbers, Villanueva said.
Because of its subtropical climate, Lower Rio Grande Valley growers typically plant a second, much smaller crop of about 50,000 acres in August, which they typically harvest in December.
Aside from the Rio Grande Valley, the sugarcane aphid has also been reported this year in Mexico, Corpus Christi and Beaumont. Both Villanueva and Sekula-Ortiz believe populations will continue moving north as they did last year when they migrated as far as Oklahoma.


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Will Smith and Tyra Banks Re-Create Their 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' Scene 30 Years Later
Will Smith and Tyra Banks recreate their iconic "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" scene three decades after it aired, giving fans a blast to the past.
"The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" is still considered to be one of the best TV shows of all-time, and is known for launching Will Smith into the A-list actor that he is today. Its actors and actresses continue to keep the show close to their hearts, even after it ended in 1996.
Banks appeared on "Will From Home," a series that Smith created amid his self-quarantine efforts.
A THROWBACK TO DECADES AGO
Now, Smith and Banks, who appeared on the show for eight episodes, decided to re-do one of their scenes together while in the comfort of their own homes amid their social distancing efforts.
During the show, Smith and Banks were schoolmates at Los Angeles University, and grew up together in Philadelphia. However, Banks became frustrated when Smith stopped talking to her after he moved to Los Angeles.
REMEMBERING THEIR ROLES
Smith went on to pretend that he was the father of his nephew, which Banks was disappointed at. The two then had an epic rant, which ended up becoming one of the most iconic scenes in the show.
Banks appeared on "Will From Home," a series that Smith created amid his self-quarantine efforts. The series is a partnership with Snapchat, and the two recreated the scene which amazed Smith, as his co-star still remembers the lines, word for word.
"Yo it's 30 YEARS LATER and [Tyra Banks] still has this scene memorized!! Love that! Our full episode of "Will From Home" in my bio."
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Ultimately, Smith and Banks' characters never got together, and instead, Nia Long played Will's girlfriend on the hit show, beating Jada Pinkett Smith for the role. Although Will and Jada almost got together as an on-screen couple, the part was given to Nia Long.
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While Pinkett-Smith didn't get the job, she and Will hit it off quite fast and the two began dating. According to Long, her getting the role was no big deal in the end, and the two even have actresses even have an inside joke about it - while Long got the role, Pinkett got the husband.
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"We Apologise for Nothing" és el segon senzill extret del segon àlbum de Fightstar, One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours. Va ser lliurat el 17 de setembre del 2007 i va ser acompanyat amb un vídeo musical i un lliurament de CD, juntament amb dos vinils.

Llista de pistes
CD Single:
 "We Apologise for Nothing"
 "Gracious"
 "99" (Vídeo)
 "We Apologise for Nothing" (Vídeo)

Edició limitada de 7-polzades Gatefold:
 "We Apologise for Nothing"
 "Hold Out Your Arms (Acústica)"

Edició limitada de vinils de 7-polzades colorejats:
 "We Apologise for Nothing"
 "In Between Days" (Cover de The Cure)

Exclusiva d'iTunes:
 "Abuse Me" (Cover de Silverchair)
 "Breaking the Law" (Cover de Judas Priest)

Vídeo
El vídeo mostra a la banda tocant en el conegut "vestit negre" (elecció de vestits i camises negres amb llaços vermells). Es mostren en la realització d'un teatre buit, encara que hi ha diversos trets (escenes que de sobte apareixen) d'un públic aplaudint a Technicolor. Més d'una vegada, podem veure fotos de persones que mostren signes d'estar treballant en el teatre (per exemple, una actriu es prepara a si mateixa a la seva sala de maquillatge), a mesura que avança el vídeo, a aquestes persones se'ls hi apropa la càmera i els seus ulls es tornen completament negres. A mesura que el vídeo va arribant a la seva fi, aquestes persones comencen a desaparèixer, igual que els segments de l'audiència. El vídeo finalitza amb el tancament de les cortines, i una vella imatge apareix, en ella hi ha la banda de peu al voltant d'un certificat de reconeixent que han exercit en el teatre. Aquesta és una possible referència a la finalització de The Shining, on acaba la pel·lícula i el personatge principal es mostra en una imatge que va ser presa dècades abans que ell va suposadament néixer.

Posició a les llistes

Personal
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 Dan Haigh — Baix
 Omar Abidi — Bateria, Percussió

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 Vídeo musical de We Apologise for Nothing a Youtube

Cançons de Fightstar
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Q: Vdiff at input of op-amp I have a basic circuit consisting of two buffers and one differential amplifier (kind of a instrumentation amplifier) .
It is powered by +5V and -5V (dual supply).

When I turn on the power I get a ~3.6V at input of these op amps. I've tried to disconnect the feedback just to have an other point of view and is still the same.
Measure at TP1 : 3.6V
Measure at TP2 : 3.6V
Measure at TPE2 : 4.6V
Any clue about why I'm getting those voltages at the input when I only power them? I don't even connect a signal
UPDATE
I've connected signal to the input of the buffer and now the DC voltage at the inputs is gone, as well as the output. I've could see the signal.
As well, I noticed that measuring with oscilloscope gives me 1.6V and with multimeter those 3.6V that I've mentioned.
I'm wondering now, how could i solve the problem of the DC voltage at the output when is not signal connected to the op amp ? Could I use a pull down resistor ? and if yes, should be greater than the input impedance of the op amp right ? Thanks a lot for your help !

A: The OPA1664 (datasheet) is a bipolar amplifier with an input stage based on PNP transistors. It has an input bias current of about 600nA.
Since you do not have it connected to anything other than the meter that bias current will flow into the meter causing it to indicate the voltage you see.
Your circuit will not operate correctly unless you provide a path to a suitable bias voltage, such as ground. That may be provided by a resistor or the previous stage

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I don't even connect a signal

That's the problem. The behavior of an op-amp with open inputs is generally considered unspecified. The op-amp can do whatever - it solely depends on the details of its design and of the semiconductor process used.
The solution is simple: do not expect op-amps with floating inputs to do anything particular. They will do something, and what you see is what they do. They are "free" to do anything (within bounds of natural laws, of course). Accept what they do.
Then connect the inputs and move on :)

I get a ~3.6V at input of these op amps.

You're connecting the 10MΩ DC impedance, along with parasitic capacitances to mains, of the voltmeter, across a very high impedance input (much higher than 10MΩ). The op-amps will do their best at "buffering" this rather poorly controlled input signal, which may even be outside of the supply voltage limits and is very likely to be turning on the input protection diodes inside the op-amps.
Measuring the voltage at the input of the op-amp requires that:

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*The input actually is driven by something else.

*The impedance of the measuring instrument is much higher than the driving impedance, all the way from DC to the end of the bandwidth of interest.
If the op-amp is driven by high impedance sources, e.g. 1MΩ, you'll need another op-amp to buffer this input voltage to measure it using a regular voltmeter, or you'd need to use a FET preamplifier - and the measurement techniques that entails.

A: This can be due to the ac coupling of the instrument, this cause an almost total insulation between BJT input and the ground, remember then if the input is not connected to anywhere you can't bias the bipolar input BJT.
When, even a big resistive load is connected between input and ground (also 1 MOhm) you will see immediately your input voltage goes to zero thanks to the small bias current flowing throw the base.
Try to check the coupling method of your instrument, also the probes and try to avoid capacitive coupling

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Sugar Is Your Enemy
Fat to Skinny: Fast and Easy (Sterling 2008)
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See Doug's last appearance on The 700 Club.
Doug Varrieur: Fat to Skinny
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Fat to Skinny author Doug Varrieur, 53, recalls struggling with his weight ever since he was a little boy. In 1968, at the age of 12, Doug says he was wearing husky-size jeans. A year later, he ballooned to a size 38 pant.
At 17, Doug earned the name "Porky." Using diet pills and starvation diets, Doug's weight yo-yo'd up and down the scale. By middle age, Doug weighed 260 pounds and suffered a near-fatal heart attack! Then Doug decided to make a conscious decision to make it his life's work to discover the answers to weight gain and weight loss.
When Doug's 71-year old mother, who had also struggled with her weight, dropped 40 pounds in six months, he asked her how she did it. She said two words: SUGAR CONTROL. She had gotten a recommendation from her doctor to try a low-sugar diet. "If you are constantly battling your weight, then you are consuming too much hidden sugar," says Doug.
Doug started eliminating sugar from his diet, and after four months, he lost 50 pounds. He watched his carbohydrate intake and kept it to 20 grams each day (the body metabolizes 4 grams of carbs the same as 1 teaspoon of sugar, so take total carb intake and divide by 4). In another four months, Doug lost 50 pounds.
Doug, who weighs 170 pounds today, says sugar is what is making this country overweight. Refined sugar is found in processed foods, soda, candy, cookies, ice cream, etc., and is a simple carbohydrate. The body turns it into fuel before burning anything else by turning it into glucose (blood sugar).
"What we don't use, the body stores as fat," says Doug. "When it comes to weight loss, fat doesn't make you fat." Excess blood sugar equals fat and can lead to diabetes. "We have a generation of people who will live a shorter life span because of obesity and diabetes."
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Americans consumed 158 pounds of sugar per person per year. Sugar is hidden in countless foods. In a typical fast-food meal, Doug says there are 12 teaspoons of sugar in an order of fries, 14 teaspoons in a soda, 6 teaspoons in the hamburger bun, and 11 teaspoons in an order of peach pie. That's 43 teaspoons in one meal which is equivalent to almost 1 full cup of sugar (48 teaspoons).
A DIVINE MISSION
In 2007, Doug felt an uneasy heartburn sensation in his chest. After several tests including a nuclear stress test, doctors discovered that Doug had major blockage in the left anterior descending artery, the major artery in front of the heart providing blood to the pump. The doctor said he was inches from death and needed immediate surgery. His wife Sherri drove Doug to the emergency room and was prepped for surgery the next day. His only regret was that Fat to Skinny had not gone to press at the time.
Fully awake and unsedated through the operation, the doctor attempted to insert a stent in Doug's artery three times. If the doctor tried again, there was a possibility that the artery could split and Doug could die of a massive heart attack. Doug was filled with peace and told the doctor to continue. Then the stent miraculously slipped into place! Doug says even though he had lost 100 pounds, the high triglyceride counts which were formed by high levels of blood sugar had already done the damage years ago. Within a week of the surgery, copies of his book were on order and his mission to tell the world about the hidden perils of sugar began.
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Daytona team hopes to score at America's oldest road course
Godwin Kelly
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There's an ongoing argument among competitors about which race is tougher on man and machine — the Rolex 24 At Daytona or Saturday's 12 Hours of Sebring.
Daytona is twice as long, but part of Sebring's 17-turn, 3.74-mile course makes life miserable for WeatherTech SportsCar Championship drivers and mechanics alike.
Sebring International Raceway is America's oldest road racing track, with over six decades of storied history.
The legendary circuit evolved from Hendricks Field, a World War II airbase used to train B-17 combat crews.
"Turns 16 and 17 are still concrete and extremely bumpy," said Visit Florida Racing team owner Troy Flis. "You have to have a really good shock setup for Sebring, because it's more like a street course."
The Flis machine, the No. 90 Gibson-powered Riley Mk. 30 which is prepared in a shop in downtown Daytona Beach, finished third behind two Cadillac DPi Prototypes in the Rolex 24.
Since the series opener, IMSA has knocked some of the speed out of those Cadillac machines.
"The Cadillacs were pretty strong," Flis said. "I know they have been given another adjustment by IMSA and I'm hoping we find some more speed in our car.
"With them being turned down a little bit and us finding a little speed, hopefully we can be close to being competitive."
Flis has his Sebring checklist in this order: win the race, get a podium or at the very least, finish in order to score valuable Prototype-class championship points.
"We're still learning about this car and we're not there yet speed-wise and so we just need to focus on having a clean and trouble-free race which is tough to do here," driver Marc Goossens said.
Goossens will share the No. 90 entry with Renger van der Zande and René Rast.
As for the 24 vs. 12 arguments, Flis summed it up.
"They are both pretty tough," he said.


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babbling, creativity, dreams, writing
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The Shepherd's Dream by Johann Heinrich Füssli
Yesterday morning I awoke with a jolt. After a moment's thought, I clambered out of bed and plodded my way round the upstairs of the house, looking for pen and paper. In the depths of the previous night's sleep, I had had An Idea.
This was not a particularly amazing idea; no cure for cancer or solution the world's energy crisis here. No, it was just An Idea for a short film. Short enough to be a sketch, really. It was a simple, one-scene film with a lighthearted tone and a sweet ending. Best of all, it made sense.
Most ideas that come from dreams seem amazing to the sleeping mind. Widly creative and endearingly wacky, you're sure that they'll set the world ablaze in all their original glory. You wake, and from the moment you wake the dream starts to fade, as dreams are wont to do. Slowly but surely, vital elements begin to fade away like Marty McFly's family photograph. Soon it is gone. All that remains is a niggling feeling that there was something you dreamt that was good, but what? Something about aardvarks? Car parks? Bard wargs? What was it?
Even worse, though, you could capture the idea, wrestle it down and trap it on paper. There, spreadeagled and naked before your scrutiny, you can see it for what it really is: a mess. An utter farce of an idea. Point C doesn't follow on from points A and B at all, and why does the protagonist suddenly become a Volkswagen made out of cheesestrings halfway through? Dream logic has little in common with that of the everyday world, and the sad truth is that when lifted straight out of a dream and inspected closely, dream ideas are a bit pants really.
But dreams can provide inspiration. A haunting phrase, a persistent image, a recurring location. There are elements that can be taken and woven into a tapestry. James Cameron reckons that ideas for The Terminator and Aliens came straight out of his nightmares. Paul McCartney allegedly dreamt the tune for Yesterday. They are not alone.
My dream idea is no Terminator or Yesterday, but it got me up, got me moving, got me writing. In the end, that can only be a good thing.


Today's news of slowing job and wage growth has mortgages in retreat from another run towards 7 percent, and the 10-year T-note down to 5.01 percent from a 5.2 percent May high. A Fed pause at its June 29 meeting is again a medium probability.
The employment numbers provide substantial support for Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke. In the last month he made plain his belief in a soon-ahead inflation-dampening economic slowdown, and his desire not to overdo the Fed's 2-year, 16-hikes-so-far campaign. For his pains he has been widely criticized as an inflation-fighting pantywaist.


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EUROVISION SONG CONTEST after Tel Aviv: a contest of coexisting regions, instead of a platform for competing nations
Posted in Beyond the Middle East, National propaganda, tagged #metoo, Eurovision Song Contest, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, nationalism, Netta Barzilai, West Bank on May 17, 2019| 1 Comment »
– contest not in Jerusalem as some were hoping in 2018 but in Tel Aviv (*) –
All selected artists/groups for Tel Aviv Eurovision Song Contest – which is it's original name – have been invited to produce before the contest a short video-clip (video post-cards), clips used in the live broadcats of the event. …. These clips were set and filmed in different parts of Israel… whatever territory might entail… so I saw a few (I do not watch the Eurovision thing normally, but now it has enough other meanings to do so when Isarel becomes a part of Europe)… in the clips I saw beautiful fields, beaches, townscape (no fences and walls in sight) – all without an actual mapping of the location… I became under the impression that there was no 'video shot' fired in the West Bank, let alone in Gaza… so public relation managers must have advised prime minister Netanyahu not to use the occasion of Eurovision to showIsraeli occupied/liberated enclaves within the West Bank as Israeli landscape background for these clips.
This screen shot is taken from: "ISRAEL21c is a non-partisan, nonprofit organization and the publisher of an English-language online news magazine recognized as the single most diverse and reliable source of news and information about 21st century Israel." The'ABOUT' section states also this: "ISRAEL21c was founded in 2001, in the wake of the Second Intifada, to broaden public understanding of Israel beyond typical portrayals in the mainstream media. The organization's founders – Israeli-American technology executives – understood the great power of the Internet and developed a first-of-its kind online product with global appeal and reach."
The mash-up video giving flashing fragments of several of the 'Israel postcard video clip series made for the Eurovision Song Contest 2019.
There are several small nations included the city state of San Marino (*), very new ones also, like the latest version of Macedonia, BUT I could not find anything related to a young or old nation called by the name of Palestine… REASON ENOUGH TO REPOST MY SONG CONTEST PICTURE made in 2018… which shows the spectacular swirling tear gas cartridges thrown from helicopters and hand swung pyromatic objects by people unhappy by what goes under the name of the state of Israel.
Meanwhile I keep wondering since when Australia (that participates in the song contest) is considered an European nation or country? Certainly they did any tradition aboriginal dances and songs in Tel Aviv. 21st century nationalism often comes in disguise like the Polish ladies performing in what is supposed to be some kind of national costume… covering all the body parts that need to be covered when the Pope would be the dressmaker… I will try to make later an analysis of the song that brought Israel the first price last year…. with the fat lady doing her stage stampede with skinny boys and girls that emanate a non Jewish state expression of gender roles… this because of the tourist campaigns of the city of Tel Aviv proposing itself as a pro-gay community paradise..
Alas, I am waiting for the day that Tel Aviv becomes a city state (like San Marino) which also gets rid of all nationalistic devides and a twofold or even threefold city state of Jerusalem (something like Brussels) where orthodox jews, secular pro Palerstinian jews and orthodox Palestinian nationalists all have their own quarters… They can then all participate in the Eurovision Song Contest, making that device into an liberating machine for mankind: A PLATFORM OF CONTESTED NATIONS.
The winning Israeli song of 2018 had a #MeToo theme with the song "I am not your toy boy", which is a good thing in a gender emancipatory sense. The #MeToo theme needs to be expanded to other phenomenon of repression and rape… to 'the rape of nation states'.
No nation state can deny that its history is based on the favouring of one group of people over another one and what is presented as its sacred history is nothing more than a constructed myth about a past that never existed the way it is represented now. Of course a myth tends to have some traits of reality that existed in the past, it is not all imagination, but as the nation state proposes it's unique identity, this can only be done by neglect or discrimination of elements that are excluded.
The landscapes of Israel shown in the song contest video-clips prove my point… the reality of occupation, of unwanted settlement in territories that do not belong to Israel according to established international law, was excluded from the Eurovision Song Contest broadcasted visuals. No fences, no walls, no road blocks, no Gaza, no West Bank.
What kind of Eurovision we will see in the future with the split up of national states on the one hand and a further integration of European nations on the other? Will it become a contest of regions? Will the number of participating regions and even city-states make it into an event with over one hundred contesting 'national or cultural entities'? Welsh, Scottish, Norther Ireland, Catalan, Basque, Occitania, Flanders, Wallonia, Limburg, Friesland, Sachsen, Transylvania, Liechenstein, Rutania, name it… Will it be something smeared out over a song-contest season taking several months… and most important will we then get a more idiosyncratic regional cultural impact on melody, text,language and choreography of the contesting singers, musicians and dancers? As it stands now diversity of the stage acts is dwindling by the year and with participants from the other side of the globe we may ask if this is more due to a globalising than an europeanising cultural effect, with less and less unique cultural species around.
A Eurovision Song Contest of regions could counter the melting pot effect of styles… or am I here proposing a xenophobic renaissance of autochtone tribalism and is the fusion of all national styles into three theatrical prototypes – as we witness now – something we should welcome as a positive outcome of peaceful coexistence?
The total neglect and exclusion of the Palestinian nation in the year 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Israel shows that such a development may take many decades before it can becomes a reality. At least I like to propose it as something to strive for, utopian as it may seem today.
(*) The New Yorker had this picture and comments on the choice of Eurovision city and the failed attempts to boycot the 2019 Israel Eurovision event:
The host city is often a country's capital, but this year the European Broadcasting Union, which produces Eurovision, nixed Jerusalem. The city has hosted the event twice before, in 1979 and 1999, but those were times when Jerusalem's future seemed more open-ended, and Israel's claims on it more ambiguous. Barzilai won the event, last year, during the same week that the Trump Administration moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, and more than sixty Gazans were killed at the border with Israel. If the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Donald Trump were going to try to settle the fate of Jerusalem by fiat and force, the executives of the European Broadcasting Union, apparently, were not going to be party to it.
So Tel Aviv was swapped for Jerusalem, Israel's état réel for its état légal, a decision that rightist pundits called "a win for the B.D.S. movement"—the Palestinian-inspired movement of Western activists advocating for boycott, disinvestment, and sanctions—although any hard feelings caused by the flap quickly dissipated. In the end, no country backed out of the contest. Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, a B.D.S. supporter, had called on artists to shun the event, particularly Madonna, who was considering making an appearance. But Madonna, an acolyte of Kabbalah—a Jewish mystical tradition—confirmed that she will perform at the closing event, on Saturday night. Israelis will settle for that.
Caption of the New Yorker: "Left-wing Israelis protest the Eurovision Song Contest, which this year is being held in Tel Aviv.Photograph by Menahem Kahana"
(**) There is a very interesting andwell documented Wikipedia page on the Eurovison Song Contest and the participating countries, explaining how the odd definition of Eurpean works according to the EUROVISION broadcats association as well as listing those 'countries" that tried in vain to participate (Liechtenstein, Lebanon, Catalonia, Kosovo, Qatar, Scotland, Wales, Soviet Union, Tunesia).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest#2010s


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Truth Commission Reveals History of Korean War — Eric Struch | Information Clearing House
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Truth Commission Reveals History of Korean War
U.S.-South Korea carried out massacres of civilians
By Eric Struch
May 16, 2017 "Information Clearing House" – June 29, 2008 – As told by most history textbooks in the U.S., the Korean War started with a June 25, 1950, invasion from the communist north and the freedom-loving U.S. came to the aid of the besieged democratic Republic of Korea in the south. The reality was very different.
Not only did the RoK's dictatorial, fascist-like regime of U.S. puppet Syngman Rhee make the first move, it had prepared for it for more than a year in advance. These preparations included using paramilitary fascist organizations and the regular army for cross-border raids on northern villages to test the defenses of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Domestically, the preparation meant carrying out large-scale executions of suspected communists, leftists and anyone who opposed the neo-colonial rule of the U.S. in the south. The majority of these massacres took place throughout the summer of 1950, but thousands of civilians were executed by RoK military and police throughout the war.
The U.S. military—which had operational command of the RoK army—not only was aware of the massacres, but assisted and even directed many of the executions.
That these massacres had occurred was common knowledge among people both north and south. Due to the repressive anti-communist National Security Law, which threatened penalties of decades in prison, no one in the south dared to speak up until recently.
A half century of official silence finally began to end after the hard struggle of the pro-democracy movement in the 1980s created a political space. Even those who fled to the U.S. to escape the repression couldn't speak up. They were dependent on established Korean-Americans for jobs, housing and loans, and these privileged elements often had ties to the right-wing Grand National Party or the Korean Central Intelligence Agency.
One voice through the decades spoke the truth to the world about the mass murders. The press in the DPRK constantly tried to bring these crimes to the attention of the world. Because Washington's racist anti-DPRK propaganda was all-pervasive, the truth never gained any traction in the corporate mass media around the world.
Today in the RoK, a government-funded Truth and Reconciliation Commission headed by Ahn Byung-ook is investigating 1,200 incidents of mass executions in addition to 215 cases in which the U.S. military was directly involved in the executions. Of the more than 150 mass graves unearthed so far, the commission has the physical evidence, documentation and eyewitnesses to officially confirm two mass executions at Ulsan and Cheongwon.
The RoK government now acknowledges that its military, national police and fascist paramilitaries killed over 100,000 civilians at that time, when Korea's population was 20 million. Kim Dong-choon of the TRC called these government estimates of the human cost of this bloody anti-communist paroxysm "very conservative."
The numbers may be as high as 200,000 people, with some sources putting it as high as 300,000. These numbers do not even include the extra-judicial executions during the war of those RoK puppet troops deemed to be sympathetic to the liberation forces from the DPRK.
Rightist ideologues, both in Seoul and Washington, point to alleged massacres carried out by the Korean People's Army, while denying that the actual proven murders perpetrated by the southern puppet forces even took place. In reality, according to a CIA study dated July 19, 1950, cited by Korea scholar Bruce Cumings, during the occupation of the south by the KPA "North Korean officials ran a tight ship but without a lot of bloodshed."
In another CIA report from 1950, a "large percentage" of trade unionists and union leaders joined the KPA only 10 days into the war. DPRK President Kim Il Sung had given a radio address calling on people in the RoK to organize themselves. People's Committees were formed and went about seizing Japanese and RoK government property as well as that of the rich.
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KPA units in the south distributed rice to the people and emptied the jails of political prisoners, who then turned on the cops and the fascist youth groups. KPA troops, in alliance with the poor peasantry, carried out democratic land reform as they swept southwards. Even in the chaos of war, the KPA maintained its discipline. Cumings says that "captured North Korean documents continued to show that high-level officials warned against executing people."
The same cannot be said of the RoK puppet forces. Before the war even began, the RoK government created the National Guidance League, a fascist-inspired "re-education" corps for people the Rhee dictatorship claimed were communists. By 1950, more than 300,000 people were forced to join the League.
Kim Dong-choon says the police or the military executed many of the League's forced inductees. National Police under Korean Military Advisory Group supervision executed 7,000 people in Yangwol (near Taejon) from July 2-6, 1950.
U.S. oversaw exterminations
Alan Winnington of the British Daily Worker in an article entitled "U.S. Belsen in Korea" reported that 20 witnesses observed that truckloads of cops arrived on July 2 and immediately made people dig six pits of about 200 yards each. Executions went on for three days, by both machinegun and, when the bullets ran out, decapitation by sword. According to eyewitnesses, U.S. officers oversaw everything while sitting in their Jeeps. The U.S. Embassy in London then had the chutzpah to call Winnington's findings a "fabrication."
The U.S. military, through its operational command over the RoK army, was involved at the highest level in the executions. New York Times correspondent Charles Grutzner talked about "the slaughter of hundreds of South Korean civilians, women as well as men, by some U.S. troops and police of the Republic."
Keyes Beech, in a July 23, 1950, Newark Star-Ledger article wrote: "It is not the time to be a Korean, for the Yankees are shooting them all."
Donald Nichols, a former Air Force intelligence officer, wrote in his 1981 memoir of witnessing an "unforgettable massacre" of "approximately 1,800" at Suwon during the war.
In addition, an investigation made by RoK lawmaker Park Chan-hyun in 1960 during the (relatively) democratic interlude of Chang Myon's Second Republic revealed that an estimated 10,000 people were executed in Busan.
RoK dictatorship was shaky
What these horrible, inhuman atrocities reveal is that the puppet RoK dictatorship knew its power rested upon a profoundly shaky foundation. As another quite frank CIA report cited by Cumings noted, the rightist RoK leadership "is provided by that numerically small class which virtually monopolizes the native wealth and education of the country…. Since this class could not have acquired and maintained its favored position under Japanese rule without a certain minimum of 'collaboration,' it has experienced difficulty in finding acceptable candidates for political office and has been forced to support imported expatriate politicians such as Rhee Syngman and Kim Koo. These, while they have no pro-Japanese taint, are essentially demagogues bent on autocratic rule."
Rhee's venal clique knew that his planned drive north depended upon drowning the patriotic and communist elements in the south in blood. Pockets of communist guerrillas who had fought the Japanese occupation were still active in the south as late as 1950.
According to KMAG commander Gen. W.L. Roberts, the RoK puppet army killed 6,000 communist guerrillas from November 1949 to March 1950. Of the attacks on northern border villages carried out by the army and the fascist Northwest Youth paramilitaries that took pace in 1949, Gen. Roberts said that "each was in our opinion brought on by the presence of a small South Korean salient north of the (38th) parallel…. The South Koreans wish to invade the North."
Despite the staggering scale of the mass murders carried out by the Rhee puppet regime, patriotic feeling still ran so deep among the Korean people that even in the RoK National Assembly, 48 members declared their allegiance to the DPRK at the end of July 1950.
The issue of the mass execution of civilians still divides those who are subservient to U.S. neo-colonialism and those who want an independent Korea. Former RoK president Roh Moo-hyun apologized in an official capacity for the 870 confirmed murders at Ulsan, calling them "illegal acts." In stark contrast, current president Lee Myung-bak, already deeply unpopular, has threatened to cut funding for the TRC.
Seven years ago, the U.S. government finally admitted part of its own guilt, that its soldiers had killed hundreds of innocent civilians in the South Korean township of Nogun-ri shortly after the start of the Korean War in 1950. President Bill Clinton himself expressed "deep regret" in a public statement on Jan. 11, 2001.
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Originally published in Volume II, Issue 3 on 25th October 1995 by Observer Reporter. Senior figures in society committees of the last three academic years have provided the University Observer with evidence that three particular balls have repeatedly had money misappropriated from them by students running the event. The most serious abuse brought to life was the printing of one hundred extra tickets for one society ball by two committee members, without the rest of the society's committee members being told. The individuals in question made a substantial profit after selling tickets without informing the committee of their existence.It is apparently not uncommon that members of certain societies help themselves to a number of tickets, which they distribute cut price to friends,or sell at full price, without any money returning to the society running the event. The University Observer has also established that bouncers for society balls are frequently paid excessive amounts of money, and that some augment their income by letting in at the door for a bribe of £10. Franchises for looking after various aspects of the event are often awarded to friends of the committee members at inflated rates. One ex-auditor told the Observer: "If you decide to take some of the cash, the likelihood is that you won't get caught. If you decide to cover up, it is very hard for a senior treasurer to spot any discrepancies, unless they follow every step, which most senior treasurers don't have time to do." "In the past there have been discrepancies between the money taken in at the ball and the accounts at the end of the year. This could possibly be down to poor accounting in some cases or it could indeed be something more serious."The senior treasurer system has already come in for criticism over the past number of years as being an inadequate safeguard to prevent fraud in society accounts. Rossa Fanning, Law Society auditor and an incoming member of the Student Consultative Forum's Finance Committee, proposes that accounts for large society events be more carefully scrutinised; "At the moment, you have to rely on the honesty and integrity of the incumbents. One proposal is that societies should be obliged to submit to the Finance Committee an itemised account for any event with more than a hundred people attending with receipts included that could be scrutinised by the committee." "The current situation is quite lax in that there is no scrutiny of the accounts of balls or other social events run by larger societies. A middle man could easily anything up to £1000 on a large ball." "The Law Ball has never really been relied on upon us as a source of income because we have around three hundred and fifty people. Our policy is to give the committee one free ticket each and very few others good free, with the exception of a few tickets for newspapers, chaplains and lecturers." According to Societies Officer, Paddy O'Flynn, there are two main safeguards against financial fraud in societies. One is the fact that each cheque a society writes has to be signed by the Senior Treasurer, who must be a permanent member of UCD's staff. This safeguard is circumvented by the fact that dealings for the balls are entirely in cash. The other safeguard is that societies must submit accounts to the Students Consultative Forum's Finance Committee if they are to receive a grant for the following year. Mr O'Flynn said in a letter printed in our second issue that; "These accounts must contain details of finances of the society including money received from membership fees, sponsorship, admission receipts and any grants which were given by the committee in the preceding year. On receipt of these details, this committee decides on the appropriate level." However, there is no obligation on societies to publish these accounts, nor are they obliged to produce accurate accounts or receipts on income and expenditure relating to society balls or other society events.
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Saint Paul, Minnesota State's capital, is a second-most populous city and the 16th largest metropolitan area of the U.S. The city is situated on east bank of the Mississippi River at the junction with Minneapolis, its largest city. Minneapolis–Saint Paul form the Twin Cities that boasts fabulous riverside metropolitan with endless beautiful historic places and cultural festivals to see and experience for your trip.
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1- Landmark Center: Downtown Saint Paul serves as a cultural center with galleries, function rooms and performance spaces for music and arts.
2- Twin Cities Minneapolis-Saint Paul with numerous of unique experience include the visits to Adventure Seaplanes, Anoka Aquatic Center, National Sports Center and museums.
3- Victorian houses on Summit Avenue: Countless red-brick beautiful mansions built in 19th century.
4- Como Zoo and Conservatory: Discover wildlife with indoor and outdoor exhibits and a beautiful medley of bonsai trees and sansui gardens.
5- Fort Snelling: A rich history site built 18th century which played a vital role during colonial time displaying various artifacts on-site. as well as providing contextual information like maps, artwork, and early photos. Among these buildings are the commandant's house, barracks, a sutler's house and a hospital.
6- Cathedral of Saint Paul: A historic landmark with one of the most prominent icon in the city, known as the jewel of all Saint Paul attractions.
7- Minnesota Centennial Showboat: Docked on the banks of the Mississippi River with its century-old interior, vaudevillian entertainment and timeless tales.
8- State Capitol Buildings: A marble dome neo-classical architecture which is the second-largest in the world. The furnishing and decorative art are one of the kind.
9- Candyland: indulge with Chicago best-mixed pop corns & treats.
10- The Minnesota Children's Museum: A fun, educational experience for younger children. Highlight is the Dinosaur Train, where kids can take a turn as the engineer while learning about fossils. The four-story play ground encourages children to get active and climb, slide, and shimmy their way through.
11- Chankaska Creek Ranch and Winery: A fantastic food and wine all in one place.
12- Mall of America: Located on the outskirts of St. Paul, in the suburb of Bloomington with more than 500 shops and dozens of restaurants, the facility includes theaters, hotel accommodation, and other amusements.


At this point autumn is getting close to our part of the world. Days are noticeably cooler and trees are starting to change the color. Alёna has got her pretty festive sweaters out from the storage — she's ordered them while she was pregnant and couldn't even try them on before. I really like them. So here she is exactly 10 days after birth.
October 7, 2013. Staten Island.


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Lab updates Terms of Service
Posted on December 1, 2015 December 3, 2015 by Inara Pey
Update, December 1st: Following my line to the Lab, the ToS was re-issued with Section 10.1 corrected to reference Section 11.5 instead of the incorrect Section 10.2, which had been removed with the original December 1st update. This article has been amended to reflect the update.
On Tuesday, December 1st, 2015, Linden Lab issued an updated Terms of Service (ToS) covering their Second Life and Blocksworld products – and for the first time, at least in recent updates, outline the specific changes which have occurred within the ToS, defining them as:
Removal of references to Desura (sold to Bad Juju Games in November 2014) and the Linden Dollar Authorised Reseller programme (discontinued as of August 2015)
Explicitly addressing the Lab's intolerance of harassment of Linden Lab employees
Clarifying of the arbitration provision in accordance with applicable Californian law.
In addition, and in light of the formation of Tilia Inc., the Lab's virtual currency subsidiary, the Terms of Service have been expressly expanded to define "the terms on which Linden Research, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries ("Linden Lab") offer you access to its interactive entertainment products and services."
The alterations to reflect the fact the at the Linden Dollar Authorised Reseller programme is no more can seen in the massively foreshortened Section 4.7 of the revised Terms of Service, which once again make it clear that the only point of reference for the exchange of Linden Dollars for physical world currency may not occur anywhere outside of the LindeX, nor may Linden dollars be purchased other than via the LindeX.
The update to reflect the Lab's intolerance of staff harassment can be found in a revision to Section 6.1. iv, to whit:
(iv) Post, display, or transmit Content (including any communication(s) with employees of Linden Lab) that is harmful, threatening or harassing, defamatory, libelous, false, inaccurate, misleading, or invades another person's privacy; [my emphasis]
There has been speculation this relates to certain personal attacks directed towards Ebbe Altberg through the likes of Twitter. However, it would seem more likely (I would hope) that this section is intended to address similar attacks which have been made through the Lab's own forums, etc., over which they have full jurisdiction.
Section 10 contains the changes to the arbitration process, with section 10.1 being greatly streamlined in content and focused directly on the requirements of the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association ("AAA").
While I am not a lawyer – and so the following statement is purely speculative on my part – it would appear that included in these changes is an attempt to prevent class action suits from being bought against Linden Lab as a part of the arbitration process:
Should either you or Linden Lab elect to resolve the Dispute by way of binding arbitration, the arbitration shall proceed in accordance with the then-current Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association ("AAA"), except that in no event shall the arbitration proceed as a class or representative action. [my emphasis]
One error with these latter updates is that they still reference section 10.2, which has in fact been removed from the ToS as a part of the updates; something that has been raised with the Lab. Section 10.1 now correctly references Section 11.5.
A further change, not mentioned at the head of the ToS can be found in Section 4.1, where the final paragraph has been revised to read:
You may not sell, transfer or assign your Account or its contractual rights, licenses and obligations, to any third-party (including, for the avoidance of doubt, permitting another individual to access your Account) without the prior written consent of Linden Lab.
[my emphasis]
This raises an interesting question around the subject of shared accounts – often used by groups where an account might be used by more than one person for administrative purposes, etc. While the sharing of account passwords has always been frowned upon, the revision to section 4.1 tends to suggest that these accounts could now be deemed as a violation of the ToS unless the Lab's written consent is granted. I've written to the Lab on this point and am awaiting a reply.
Those hoping this update might see a further improvement to the wording in Section 2.3 relating to IP rights will be disappointed. The section is untouched and remains as much a mess of a word salad now as it did following the "clarification" of July 2014.
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Black Dragon 2.4.4.4: Jelly babies and graphics presets
On Sunday, November 29th, NiranV Dean released Black Dragon 2.4.4.4 (or 4.0.0.36527, depending on your personal preference). This release incorporates three significant features from the Lab, as well as Niran's own nips, tucks, tweaks and changes.
First among the changes inherited from the Lab is the latest update to the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) implementation which is intended to provide modern media support (HTML 5.0, WebGL).
Of possible greater interest to the vast majority of users is the addition of the Avatar Complexity rendering and the graphics presets, as found in the Lab's Quick Graphics RC viewer. I've previously provided two overviews of these, in August and June of 2015, so what follows is a brief summary and examination of Niran's implementation, starting with the graphics presets capability.
Graphics presets, a capability contributed by Jonathan Yap (see STORM-2082), allows users to create, save and use sets of viewer graphics options designed to meet a specific requirement, with the intent to help with viewer performance, and which can be used by any account logging-in to SL using the viewer on which the presets have been created.
This means, for example, you can create a sets specifically for indoor use, limiting your draw distance, reducing levels of detail for things like terrain and sky and water reflections and so, boost your system's performance when visiting stores, etc., while having another preset with all the bells and whistles enabled for photography. Then with a couple of mouse clicks, you can swap between these and any others you create to meet your needs as you travel Second Life, all without the need to fiddle with settings or relog.
An issue with the official viewer's implementation of graphics presets is that it requires the use of two rather clunky floaters which eat screen real estate. Niran avoids this by neatly integrating the core preset options (Save, Load and Delete presets) into the foot of the Display tab in Preferences. In doing so, he also makes creating a simple top-down flow through the Display tab options.
The new Graphic Presets Save and Load options can be found at the bottom of the Display tab in the Preferences floater. Simply add a name for the options you've set in the text box (arrowed) and click Save. To load a preset group when the floater is open on the Display tab, enter the name for the preset in the text box and click Load
This means that creating a new preset is simply a matter of running through the Display options, making sure those you want active are checked and those that you don't need are unchecked, and that all relevant sliders are correctly adjusted. Then, when you've done so, enter a name for the preset group in the text box at the foot of the tab (arrowed above) and click the Save button – then repeat as required.
You can also load an establish preset group from here by typing the name into the text box and clicking Load. Any unwanted presets can be removed by entering the name and clicking the Delete button.
The Presets icon allow you to easily access your graphics presets
When it comes to swapping back and forth between preset groups, however, the quickest way to do so is via the Presets icon located in the top right of the viewer window. Hovering the mouse over this displays a list of all presets you've created; just click the name of the one you wish to activate.
This list also include a button which will open the Preferences floater at the display tab, allowing you to quickly set-up a new preset or modify and existing preset (just make your changes and save to an existing preset name to overwrite it).
As avatars can often be the single biggest impact on the viewer in terms of rendering, particularly in crowded places, Avatar Complexity has been introduced by the Lab as a mean by which those on lower specification systems can set a limit within their viewer for rendering particularly complex avatars (i.e. those with a lot of very high-resolution textures on them and their accessories, or using a lot of high-impact mesh and sculpt attachments etc). Any avatar exceeding this limit will then be rendered as a single, solid colour, vastly reducing the processing load on the user's system. Because they are rendered as a solid colour, such avatars have been nicknamed "Jelly Babies" after the sweet (candy) of the same name.
Within the official viewer, the control for Avatar Complexity is a single slider (Maximum Complexity) which controls avatar rendering. Within Black Dragon, Niran control is seemingly split between three sliders, Derender Objects > Kb, Derender Surfaces > m2, and Derender Avatars > AR. and some juggling between them may be required to achieve optimal results, if you play with all of them.
Avatar Complexity in Black Dragon
Avatar Complexity in the official viewer is still not perfected; this is reflected by the fact that avatars can often remain Jelly Babied even when Maximum Complexity is set to No Limit – you have to disable avatar imposters to get avatars stuck like this to render correctly (or relog). Black Dragon didn't seem to exhibit this problem when I was fiddling with it,
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Edward III was the eldest son of Edward II and Isabella of France, was born at Windsor in 1312, and succeeded to the throne, on the deposition of his father, in 1327. Although a regency was appointed, the chief power was held by the queen and her paramour, Roger Mortimer, Earl of March. In 1328 Edward was married to Philippa, daughter of William III, Count of Holland and Hainault, and two years later he assumed the government, had Mortimer seized and hanged, and imprisoned Queen Isabella. In 1333 Edward invaded Scotland, which had been nominally subjected to England byEdward Baliol; besieged Berwick, and defeated the regent at Halidon Hill. The greater war with France soon withdrew his attention from Scotland. He assumed the title of king of France, invaded the country from Flanders, but without any successful result, renewed the invasion in 1340, when he defeated the French fleet at Sluys, besieged Tournay, and concluded a truce. The war was renewed and another truce made in 1348, to be broken the following year.
In 1846 he won the great victory of Crecy, took Calais in 1347, and concluded another truce. During Edward's absence in France the Scots invaded England, and were defeated at Nevil's Cross, David II. being taken prisoner. Edward aimed at the acquisition of Flanders, hoped to get his son Edward, the Black Prince, made Earl of Flanders by the aid of Philip van Arteveldt and the free towns; but Philip was murdered in an insurrection at Ghent. In 1356 Edward, the Black Prince, invaded France, and gained the victory of Poitiers, taking the French king and his son prisoners. The king was released after four years on the conclusion of the peace of Bretigny. David of Scotland was released for a heavy ransom in 1357. War broke out again with France in 1369, and in 1378 John of Gaunt marched without resistance from Calais to Bordeaux. The long wars of Edward III., though almost fruitless of practical result, appear to have been popular; and his numerous parliaments granted liberal supplies for carrying them on, gaining in return confirmations of the Great and other charters, and many valuable concessions. His victories raised the spirit and also the fame of his country, and with the evident military power of England grew also her commerce and manufactures. In this reign John Wickliffe began his assault on the church of Rome; the order of the Garter was instituted, and the Round Tower at Windsor was hastily built by command of the king, to receive the round table for the new knights (1344): cannon began to be used in war; and the first English gold coin was struck. Edward died at Shene, now Richmond, June 21, 1377. By his queen Philippa, he had six sons and five daughters.


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These three conversations will help you gather information to understand different jobs and industries as well as potential paths for a career transition. However, before you take a big step like changing careers, it's a good idea to speak with human resources or your boss. Perhaps there are things they can do to help your use your best skills and reach your full potential. Look for steps you can take that do not require a 180 degree shift in your career all at once. Consider an in-between jump that will set you up for that next role.
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Education of a nation is not conducted class-rooms, but through sensational events that attract public attention. A Turkish football team's first time European championship is creating a widespread excitement and happiness. It is very important to examine the management philosophy underlying this success and to take a lesson from it, in order to reach similar achievements in other fields and to make them lasting.
First and foremost, we have to understand that success, especially the sustainable one, cannot be reached by chance. Besides all the national cups it has won, Galatasaray's UEFA Championship is a result of a management philosophy adopted for several years. This understanding of management is based on mutual trust. The mutual trust that the Board, the coach, the team members, and professional have for each other.
Recently, Faruk Süren, Chairman of GS Board, adamantly objected to the criticisms that Fatih Terim has recently become too high-profile. He defines the duty of the Board as chosing the manager most appropriate for the institutional goals and monitoring the results. He emphasizes that Board's duty is to support to the managing director rather than getting jeaolous of him and interfering with his management. This definition does not only emphasize the need of trust in people, but also the need of trust in organizational structure. "Corporate governance", which has began to be a popular concept in business management, is basically defined as having a corporate structure that wins the trust of all stakeholders, rather than basing this trust to the qualities of the individuals. In that sense, the relationship between the shareholders, Board of Directors, and top management requires independence and transparency as well as clear control principles. This is the kind of modern management GS is putting into practice, ensuring continuity and unity of understanding.
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Success can be only be achieved if there is a sound infrastructure and a well-structured preparation period. GS prepares itself for succes using scientic methods in the selection of players, in the training, and even in the briefings given after the match. In setting the objectives and in benchmarking global, not local, criteria are used. Perhaps most important of all, knowledge is combined with faith. GS team puts its heart as well as mind and skills to the game.
If we are not content with merely rejoicing over the success of GS, and instead, make every effort to promote the management understanding of GS throughout all organisations Turkey, including private and public sector enterprises and non-governmental organisations, we may create the opportunity of rejoicing many more international successes.


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Acrylonitrile capacity stood at 6.8 million tons in 2011, 74,000 tons more from last year. All of this has come up in Asian region shared between China and Taiwan. With this, Asia now controls more than 50% of global acrylonitrile capacity.
In 2011 acrylic fibers accounted for only 38% of total acrylonitrile consumption, down from 43% in 2007 and nearly 48% in 2004. Acrylic fibers have been experiencing strong inter fiber competition, especially from polyester fibers. In the United States, acrylic fiber production stopped in 2005, and in Europe it has been declining for many years. Both these regions have been suffering under increasing competition from Asian imports of both fibers and finished goods. During 2008 a large drop in demand for acrylic fibers was also registered in Asia. Although some recovery has been seen since 2009, demand for this end use is expected to improve only gradually.
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complex - a rational or a complex.
complex returns a number whose real part is realpart and whose imaginary part is imagpart.
If realpart is a rational and imagpart is the rational number zero, the result of complex is realpart, a rational. Otherwise, the result is a complex.
If either realpart or imagpart is a float, the non-float is converted to a float before the complex is created. If imagpart is not supplied, the imaginary part is a zero of the same type as realpart; i.e., (coerce 0 (type-of realpart)) is effectively used.
Type upgrading implies a movement upwards in the type hierarchy lattice. In the case of complexes, the type-specifier must be a subtype of (upgraded-complex-part-type type-specifier). If type-specifier1 is a subtype of type-specifier2, then (upgraded-complex-element-type 'type-specifier1) must also be a subtype of (upgraded-complex-element-type 'type-specifier2). Two disjoint types can be upgraded into the same thing.


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