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What Viagra? New Spray Increases Male Performance Time
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We know that sex typically lasts anywhere from 3 to 13 minutes—though it can be as short as a few seconds. About 40 percent of men suffer from premature ejaculation at some point in their lives—and the usual treatment for it involves counseling and anti-depressants. European researchers at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast developed a spray to treat the problem directly—and they've achieved stunning results. Men who used the spray could perform six times longer, upping their time in bed from mere seconds to as long as four minutes.
The love potion is a topical anesthetic called PSD502, made of 7.5 milligrams of lidocaine and 2.5 mg of prilocaine. By "reducing the heightened sensitivity of the glands penis with topical anesthetics," the drug improves performance time without affecting the "sensation of ejaculation."
To test it, the researchers recruited 300 men who had a history of lasting only a minute (or less) in bed.
Two hundred of the men used the spray, while 100 of them received a placebo. For three months, all of the test subjects had to spray the drug mixture on their penises five minutes prior to sex. The men then logged their intercourse times with a stopwatch. (During the trial, the men couldn't masturbate, and could only have sex once a day). Ninety percent of the men using the PSD502 spray were able to perform for at least a minute, and 74 percent of the men using it lasted a full two minutes.
There weren't serious side effects other than complaints of occasional loss of erection—for the men, that is. For their partners, there was the little matter of a "burning sensation of the vagina." Which leads to another question: Does the spray make sex at all desirable for the other person?
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Russian oligarch met with Michael Cohen at Trump Tower during transition
By Shimon Prokupecz, Kara Scannell and Jeremy Herb (CNN)
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A Russian oligarch who was questioned by special counsel Robert Mueller and recently sanctioned by the US visited President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen in Trump Tower during the presidential transition in January 2017, according to video reviewed by CNN.
The January 9, 2017, Trump Tower appearance by Viktor Vekselberg, which was also reported Friday by The New York Times, adds to the questions swirling over the payments to Cohen, which Mueller's team questioned Vekselberg about after the FBI stopped his private jet at a New York-area airport earlier this year.
Vekselberg, chairman of Russian asset manager Renova Group, was accompanied at Trump Tower by Andrew Intrater, who is Vekselberg's cousin and head of Columbus Nova. Vekselberg is Columbus Nova's biggest client.
A person familiar with the meeting told CNN that Vekselberg and Intrater met with Cohen and discussed improving US-Russia relations. The meeting was brief, the person said, and Vekselberg was not originally expected to attend.
An attorney for Cohen did not respond immediately to a request for comment. A representative for Vekselberg also did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
Intrater's firm, Columbus Nova, paid $580,000 to Cohen for a consulting contract starting in January 2017.
Since the payments have become public, Columbus Nova has attempted to distance itself from Vekselberg, denying Vekselberg used Columbus Nova as a conduit to pay Cohen. Columbus Nova recently removed references to Renova Group from the biography of its partners. It has stated it's a "management company solely owned and controlled by Americans," and that it hired Cohen after Trump's inauguration.
But the newly discovered video shows that Vekselberg and Intrater were meeting with Cohen before that, and they were just steps away from the President-elect during the transition.
Vekselberg was questioned by FBI agents working with Mueller earlier this year about the Columbus Nova payments to Cohen, as well as more than $300,000 in donations made by Intrater to Trump's inauguration and the Republican National Committee, sources said.
Intrater was also questioned, the sources said. Intrater's lawyer, Richard Owens, said, "Columbus Nova has cooperated with all requests for documents and information from federal authorities."
The questions asked of Vekselberg suggest that Mueller's team has been examining some of Cohen's business relationships as part of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Cohen's home and office were raided last month as part of a criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in Manhattan. In court documents, the prosecutors said at least part of their inquiry stemmed from a referral from Mueller's office.

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A balanced diet should always include the three major food groups (carbohydrates, proteins, and fats).
Carbohydrate-rich foods are the body's main source of energy, giving you the fuel you need to carry out your daily activities. The brain also runs on carbohydrates, so this includes mental, as well as physical, energy. Healthy carbohydrate food sources like whole grains and vegetables are also a key dietary source of fiber, vitamins, and minerals.
Choosing the right type of carbohydrate is important; the ones that should be avoided are the refined carbs, including white bread, white rice, white flour products and anything with added sugar.
Healthy high carb foods include sweet potatoes, brown rice, navy beans, chestnuts, lentils, bananas, oatmeal, milk, raisins, and healthy snacks like brown rice cakes. The current daily value (%DV) for carbs is 300 grams.
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MDC wants govt compensation extended to former farm workers
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By Leopold Munhende
MDC Alliance says government should extend its new compensation policy on farm workers who also lost property during the country's chaotic land grab period initially targeted at a tiny minority white landowners in the past two decades.
Speaking at a press conference in Harare Thursday, party spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere said there were over four million former farm workers who are now living in abject poverty as a result of losses incurred during Zimbabwe's Land Reform Programme which started in 2000.
This comes after the Emmerson Mnangagwa led administration has inked a US$3.5 billion compensation deal with commercial farmers representative groups.
The amount will cover improvements made on seized farms by the former white landowners.
However, the country's main opposition feels the compensation regime was skewed towards one section of the victims of the violent land grab policy while ignoring farm workers.
Mahere said government should consider the welfare of the farm workers too.
"Adequate and fair compensation is necessary to ensure viability and national stability," she said.
"Section 295 (4) of the Constitution expressly requires that the compensation payable must be assessed and paid in terms of an Act of Parliament," said Mahere.
"As a social democratic party, we emphasise that the measures in the Land Policy must include labour, the labour that was affected by the Land Reform Programme, the four million former commercial farm workers and a 150 000 seasonal farm workers that have been totally ignored in the correctional phase of the Land Reform Programme.
"We call for urgent attention to be given to their plight and for the concerns to also be taken into account."
Mahere said although there was need for government to publicise names of those who stood to benefit, how the US$3.5 billion was arrived at and where the money was coming from, it was important that Zimbabweans know the processes was unconstitutional.
She added: "That effort to reach out to farmers is completely unconstitutional, there cannot be a valuation or methodology outside the province of an Act of Parliament.
"The secret process that is taking place is not only unilateral but it is unconstitutional."
A disgruntled section of the Zimbabwe Liberation War Veterans Association (ZLWVA) Wednesday also told journalists they were disappointed by Mnangagwa's decision to pay white farmers for land they said was violently taken from their ancestors.
They demanded compensation on behalf of their ancestors.
Another group has approached the courts to stop the disbursement of the funds.
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Neighbours organize day of presentations
By: Jordan Ross
Steinbach Neighbours for Community will hold a free come-and-go event this weekend designed to advance ongoing local dialogues about sexuality and diversity.
Connecting Neighbours: Exploration and Conversation takes place this Saturday, Feb. 24, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Pat Porter Active Living Centre in Steinbach.
Five presenters will address a range of topics, including biblical reception, transgender experience, sexual identity awareness, scientific perspectives on intersex people, and sexuality in the animal kingdom.
Some presentations will involve storytelling and humour, while others will use the critical tools of theology, social science, and biology.
"We just wanted to bring more information to the table," said Val Hiebert, a Neighbours spokesperson and one of the day's presenters.
"Conversation remains so central to us as Neighbours."
Refreshments and a light lunch are provided, and time for questions and conversation will be interspersed throughout the day. Donations are welcome.
Hiebert said she hopes the material presented will be useful to attendees mulling questions of sexuality, culture, and the Bible.
"A lot of the feedback we've gotten in previous events indicates that people have a lot of questions about everything surrounding human sexuality," Hiebert observed.
"We recognize there's a lot of information that people don't have, and thought maybe it would be a good idea to create a resource-type day where we just offer people information that's relevant to the issue."
Saturday's presentations follow several Neighbours events over the last 18 months, including a pair of theatre productions and a film screening.
"We've had a whole range of different ways of trying to bring people into conversation with each other on these issues," Hiebert said.
"We hope it continues to broaden the conversation, to help people to have more tools as they…work through this issue in their families, their workplaces, and their churches."
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Shadowlands Patch 9.1.5 Hotfixes for November 4th – 2 min Cooldowns Reset, Queen's Conservatory Stack Size
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The latest patch for the MMORPG World of Warcraft is now live and includes a number of hotfixes. The most important change, however, might be that 2-minute cooldowns have been removed from Queen's Conservatory stacks. The "shadowlands patch notes" is a website that keeps track of all the major updates …[Read More]
Into the Shadowlands: Catching Up at 60 Blog Post
With the release of World of Warcraft's full expansion, Battle for Azeroth, I've had a lot more time to play around with my druid. Though initially hesitant to join the game again after its split from Hearthstone and Overwatch, I'm glad that Blizzard has brought back one of WoW's most …[Read More]
Solo Queue for Island Expeditions is here!
Blizzard has introduced a new system, in which players are matched against other solo-queue players. This is the first step into giving the player more control over their experience with keeping away from public matches that can be frustrating or difficult to navigate through. The "how to unlock island expeditions …[Read More]
Shadowlands Patch 9.1.5 Now Live on US Realms
The new update for Shadowlands, Patch 9.1.5, is now live on US realms and with this patch comes a slew of changes including the addition of an in-game economy that allows players to purchase items using gold coins or real money! Check out what's next for the game below!. The …[Read More]
Deadmines Mini-Set – Hearthstone Visits the VanCleefs
The Deadmines is one of the most famous dungeons in all of Warcraft. For those who don't know, it's a four player dungeon set near Ironforge that has some gnomes and their inventions running around. The VanCleefs are just another group trying to get rich quick and if you're able …[Read More]


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Lockheed Martin's Space Division started in the production of missiles and later ICBM's in the 1950s. Their TITAN missile system was used for 12 Gemini spacecraft and the Voyager probes. They have worked largely in collaboration with NASA on many of their probes, landers, and spacecraft, and hope to play a key role in NASA's return to the moon in 2024.
The Viking 2 mission was part of the American Viking program to Mars, and consisted of an orbiter and a lander essentially identical to that of the Viking 1 mission. The Viking 2 lander operated on the surface for 1316 days, or 1281 sols, and was turned off on April 11, 1980 when its batteries failed. The orbiter worked until July 25, 1978, returning almost 16,000 images in 706 orbits around Mars.
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Blackbaud Demonstrates Continued Growth and Momentum of High-Impact Solutions for Higher Education
A year after introducing the Cloud Solution for Higher Education, Blackbaud continues to drive innovation and introduce solutions to manage the complete student lifecycle
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Categories: Academia, Corporate Social Responsibility
Posted: Dec 16, 2019 – 06:05 PM EST
CHARLESTON, S.C., Dec. 16 /CSRwire/ - Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB), the world's leading cloud software company powering social good, continues to transform the higher education technology landscape and demonstrate growth just a year after introducing its comprehensive Cloud Solution for Higher Education. Blackbaud, which powers 24 of the top 25 private U.S. colleges as ranked by Forbes with its solutions, has been the trusted technology partner for higher education institutions for decades. Today, with its most comprehensive solution to manage the complete student lifecycle—from admissions to alumni engagement—Blackbaud is increasing revenue, driving efficiency and deepening engagement for colleges and universities.
"A year ago, when we introduced our Cloud Solution for Higher Education, we knew it was just the beginning," said Tim Hill, president and general manager, Blackbaud Higher Education Solutions. "Since then, we've been on the ground with institutions to understand their evolving needs and how we can continue to innovate to help them thrive in the rapidly changing higher education landscape. As a result, we're introducing new capabilities like talent management and seeing greater adoption across institutions."
Key outcomes and enhancements for the Cloud Solution for Higher Education, include:
A growing number of Blackbaud CRM™ customers are leveraging the power of Microsoft Azure's worldclass cloud service to support their advancement needs. To build stronger relationships, expand campus-wide collaboration and develop the infrastructure needed to support future growth, institutions such as Georgia Tech Foundation, University of New Hampshire and University of Western Ontario have gone live on Blackbaud CRM. Other institutions such as Baylor University have recently selected Blackbaud CRM to meet their complex needs.
Blackbaud recently introduced its talent management capabilities, providing institutions like University at Buffalo and University of Maryland College Park Foundation, the first online performance tracking tool for fundraising leaders and managers, enabling transparency, proactive management and peer officer benchmarking.
Institutions, including University of Delaware, University of Maryland College Park Foundation and Villanova University, have selected Blackbaud Fundraiser Performance Management™ to improve the effectiveness of their fundraising programs through a tailored approach that includes custom predictive models, peer benchmarking, pipeline management and purpose-built gift officer tools.
Blackbaud Guided Fundraising™ is enabling annual giving teams at institutions, including Ball State University, Dordt University, Goshen College and Lewis University, to scale their multi-channel, person-to-person fundraising strategy.
Blackbaud Stewardship Management™ is transforming donor relations for many institutions of all sizes by making it seamless to collect powerful impact statements from award beneficiaries to the donor—providing personalization and connectivity at scale to simplify a formerly time‑consuming process.
In addition to its momentum and growth with large and mid-size institutions, Blackbaud is seeing continued adoption of its education management solutions for small institutions. Blackbaud's education management portfolio has helped institutions like Williamson College of the Trades to integrate each facet of their operations, from back-office processes to student engagement, to deliver a better experience to students, faculty and staff.
For more information about Blackbaud's Cloud Solution for Higher Education, visit www.blackbaud.com/highered.
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Q: How to disable Combobox by dynamic property which is present inside the datagrid I am unable to disable the combobox which is present inside the WPF datagrid in mvvm.
I have tried to achieve this by setting the property IsHitTestVisible to "false" in viewmodel, but it is not working.
Here is my code in XAML :
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Could you please look into it and help us in solving it.
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A: Instead of IsHitTestVisible use IsEnabled.

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Velike Lipljene (; ) is a settlement in the Municipality of Grosuplje in central Slovenia. It lies in the hills south of Grosuplje on the road from Šent Jurij to Turjak. The area is part of the historical region of Lower Carniola. The municipality is now included in the Central Slovenia Statistical Region.

Cultural heritage
Part of a Roman period burial ground has been discovered near the settlement.

Attractions

Mayor Cave () is located on the northern edge of the settlement's territory. It was discovered by the local mayor, Josip Perme, in 1926. It is also known as Tabor Cave () after Tabor Hill (493 m), about  north of the cave. It was opened as a show cave in 1927 and outfitted with electric lights after the Second World War.

Mass grave
Velike Lipljene is the site of a mass grave associated with the Second World War. The Velike Lipljene Mass Grave () is located on the west side of the village on the slope of Medvejca Hill. It contains the remains of undetermined victims.

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External links

 Velike Lipljene on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Grosuplje

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What Israel Must Learn from President Obama
Filed under: 2016 Elections,Amalekites,Appeasement,Arab World,Civilization,Demolitions,Government,IAEA,IAF,Iran,Iranian Military,Iraq,Iraqi Military,Islam,Israel,Military Option,Mohammed,North Korea,Nuclear Scientist,Nuclear Weapons,Pentagon,Politicized Findings,Politics,Saddam Hussein,Secretary of Defense,Secretary of State,Syrian Military,Threat of War,United Nations,United States — qwertster @ 3:13 AM
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Lord Palmerston is reputed to have stated that, "Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests." The truth is so rarely touched upon between politicians and especially leaders of nations. All too often two nations bond over a perceived mutual threat, real or imagined, as there be little difference in the end, and this arrangement continues for sufficient amount of time for many Prime Ministers, Presidents or even monarchs to pass through under the calm of the arrangement. Eventually the day comes when either their mutually perceived enemy is vanquished or under new leaders who alleviate any threat perceived or actual and the two presumed friends no longer have that binding fear. This allows for future minor annoyances to rise to some critical moment or prove to be a permanent wedge between the leaders over time eventually having one side or both deciding to end their "special relationship" and go their separate ways. All too often this kind of relationship has a senior and a junior party under which the senior party having greater resources had wooed the other with promises of weapons systems, troops, nuclear umbrella or other aid upon which the junior party becomes reliant. When they part quickly due to a radical change in leadership and views of the populace on the side of the senior partner, the dependent partner may find themselves without the necessary military or political insurance which they had grown dependent upon. This is even more true today with single weapons systems such as submarines, aircraft, naval vessels and other military necessities. This is the lesson the former strong and dependent allies of the United States need to take away from the Obama Presidency if nothing else. President Obama proved the United States to be less than trustworthy particularly for her former friends in the Middle East and especially to those who had attached their militaries to use and interface with the United States military equipment.
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This, it turns out, is particularly true for any nation which plans on integrating the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Jet as their staple fighter/bomber in the future. This was well described by Caroline B. Glick in her article The IAF's Achilles' heel. What Ms. Glick described was the dependency of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the aircraft Israel has based their future air superiority upon, has a serious compromising systems requirement in that it is required by its design and software to be constantly interfaced and updated before and after every flight via the internet with United States command and control systems which then decided whether the aircraft may safely continue in service. The implications of this are enormous but can be made so simple a child could grasp the problem. The United States can ground any particular craft or an entire fleet of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters which would simply make them so much extremely expensive aluminum scrap metal. One has to wonder whether there exists a kill code which could take each aircraft out of the air mid-flight leaving the pilot with, hopefully, a still functioning ejection system so he too had not just been shut down, or shot down as there is little difference. Caroline Glick also implied that many of the United States next generation anti-missile and other advanced systems have a similar ask before use interfaces giving the United States actual veto over even self-defensive systems which would be traumatic and very vital thing to know before deploying any United States weapons systems. What is interesting is the choice of referring to the F-35 as the "IAF's Achilles' heel" by Caroline Glick as we used that same terminology, "Achilles Heel of the IDF" in our December 22, 2013 article Time for Israel to Diversify her Relations in the World particularly referencing the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter specifically and all other armaments as well. We proposed Israel seriously relent on purchasing any future weapons systems and instead develop our own technology and weapons systems as I was as sure then as I remain today that Israeli designed and built weapons system would become the standard bearer in every industry.
That was why we referred to "the Merkava Main Battle Tanks are a blessing in so many ways as it is a fully capable modern main battle tank comparable to any other currently fielded or in production and the older models have been repurposed as personnel carriers and armored field ambulances thus providing systems necessary for the type of warfare Israel may face and supplying superior defenses when compared to other systems used by other nations, especially the armored field ambulances." Even earlier, November 22, 2010, we had a short article, Israeli Best Hope for Air and Military Superiority, sometimes the best articles are short ones, where we advised Israel develop her future air force to be drones rather than piloted aircraft as using drones flown from stationary simulators or active but relaxed simulators which gave some referential feedback as to direction turned but not equal G-force as a drone can make a fifty-G turn while a piloted craft would render its pilot unconscious before fifteen-G and dead at fifty-G. As might be readily obvious, we saw the problem but so have many military advisors and a few rare gems of the political class. Just for argument's sake, we would like to wager that people who saw this dependency thing as a problem would also believe in simply annexing the lands of Judea and Samaria and inviting the hard core members of the terror groups which includes the security forces of the Palestinian Authority to kindly take their troubles elsewhere. But the problem right before us is this new attached United States oversight which has the power to cripple any and all systems of any nation so blinded by low cost defensive weapons would face should make any nation shudder, let alone one as dependent on its military for its survival as Israel. If the United States is insisting on training operational readiness and through such systems riding shotgun on every mission including actually holding the keys to the kingdom in their hands by being able to, by a few key-strokes, turn off the majority and the best of the Israeli Air Defense is completely unacceptable. We should press IAI and RAFAEL to immediately start using the airframe of the Lavi fighter which was what started the United States air dependency as the United States saw the Lavi as a direct and worthy fighter aircraft system which they preferred not to face as a competitor in the sales to the world so they initiated a sweetheart deal of F-16s and F-15s and the guarantee that Israel could depend on the United States for all future fighter aircraft. Could we now? Not with the strings which the F-35 apparently carries with it.
Even if the F-35 JSF did not provide the United States with basically mission review before the aircraft could take flight as the F-35 JSF requires programmed specifics for each flight to optimize its systems or who knows what else without access to the code to decipher, and there is no manner to gain the code, the fact that it needs to transmit over the Internet to United States servicing systems is a real problem. Let's take a look at an actual sortie flown over Syria a while back. The Israeli intelligence informed Washington that the Syrians were building a nuclear plant which was almost an exact copy of a North Korean nuclear weapons plant and the United States basic reply was not to be so paranoid and there was no way such could take place without the United States knowing about it. Israel gave them the exact position and even sent them pictures of the two sites and still the United States, particularly the state Department dismissed the allegations out of hand. Israel, over United States directives against and great threats should Israel continue in such a brutal and aggressive manner, sent squadrons of aircraft while shutting down the necessary Syrian air defense systems and radars and bombed the plant out of existence. It was after IAEA inspections that it became evident that the system actually was a nuclear facility and that it had a drawing of its water from over a mile distant just as Israel had described when the United States held that no such plant could be built that far from the closest water supply. So, now that ISIS would have gained control of the nuclear facility that the world should be ever so grateful that Israel removed what would have been an existential threat from over the world's head. One little set of unusual events followed the removal of the Syrian reactor complex, complete and total silence from the Syrians and a complaint to the United Nations, likely the IAEA, over their loss of five nuclear scientists attending a summit in Syria.
Syrian Reactor Chamber and Support Structures
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Being Overseen by North Korean Nuclear Scientists
Before and After Bombing
Imagine the results if the Israeli Air Force F-15s and F-16s had been equipped with systems which were required to give their flight plans and mission intents to the United States CENTCOM at the Pentagon and over at Foggy Bottom and the State Department. It would have been a race between the Pentagon, State Department and CIA to see who would get the privilege of hitting the kill switch and turning off the entire Israeli Air Force. With such oversight the Iraqis would have kept their nuclear plant and had nuclear weapons by the time of Operation Desert Shield (August 2, 1990 – January 17, 1991) and Operation Desert Storm (January 17, 1991 – February 28, 1991) and these would have proven impossible as Saddam Hussein not only would have threatened and actually, at the first strike by the United States, would have nuked Tel Aviv, Israel and the Saudi Arabian oil fields and the Capital of Riyadh plus every last palatial domicile of the Saudi Arabian Royal Family and whatever else Saddam Hussein decided was involved with any assault on his sovereign nation. Imagine the Syrian Civil War with Bashir al-Assad and the Iranians with nuclear weapons. Imagine any conflict in the Middle East with one or both sides equipped with nuclear weapons and your view of the entire world changes. Guess what, that will soon become a reality and when that time comes, Israel cannot be reliant on Washington's providing approval and also not warning the recipient of any Israeli airstrike. Iran would have had nothing to fear as first off they would have been nuked back to the age before Mohamad as soon as Saddam Hussein had decided the Iran-Iraq War was too costly and he was not winning, which would have been very early in what resulted ultimately in a decade long struggle. The world would be very different with Sadden Hussein ruling over the lands which we include today as Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, The Gulf Coast States, Yemen, and virtually anything other than Israel. Israel would have likely been forced to solidify her borders which would have included all of Judea and Samaria and there would have been no Palestinian Authority and almost everything across the Middle East would have been different if Saddam Hussein had developed nuclear weapons in the mid-1980s. Can the world really survive a Middle East where Israeli wings can be easily and readily clipped by whoever in Washington is second guessing them on that day? We doubt it and doubt it very seriously.
What the IAEA Closure of Their Iran Investigations Really Meant
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Tags: Britain, China, Civilizational Jihad, Clean Bill of Health, Director General Yukiya Amano, France, General Assembly, IAEA, IAEA Official Surrender, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Iran Nuclear Inspection, Israel, Jihad, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons Proliferation, Russia, Security Council, Threat to Israel, Throwing Hand Up Paking and Getting Out of Town, United States, Veto Power, Western States
Perhaps we should be starting with the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Director General Yukiya Amano statements which pertained to the IAEA's verification of Iranian nuclear research and development including answers to previous questionable activities and current activities including possible secretive research into weapons production.
We realize that you played that ten, fifteen, thirty times and still he said almost nothing other than we wash our hands of the Iran issue and give them a clean bill of health and for more read our nice, dry and hard to read report, if he said that much. So, you ask hoping we have read the report and you will not need to read the report, all sixteen pages, what did it all say? Well, we could answer off the top of our heads, as probably all of you could, it will say Iran is clean now though they may not have been completely honest in the past; we believe them completely now and there is almost nothing to worry about unless they are lying; but we don't think they are lying, like we would admit we did even if we were sure they were lying, but you will have to trust that we trusted them. Oh, you really want us to go through the report and take out the pertinent parts, FINE! We'll do so! Trust there is more article after the summary which can wait until you have the time and nothing more interesting to do. Scroll down and we'll put a nice picture separating the final writings there to flag you down, so look for the flags.
The following were the actual quotes which may or may not clarify their findings and positions, but we figured that was their intentions.
"From 2002 onwards, the Agency became increasingly concerned about the possible existence in Iran of undisclosed nuclear related activities involving military related organizations, including activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile. Reports by the Director General identified outstanding issues related to possible military dimensions to Iran's nuclear programme and the actions required of Iran to resolve these."
The information indicated that Iran had carried out activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device. The information also indicated that prior to the end of 2003, these activities took place under a structured programme, and that some activities may still have been ongoing.
There was mention that their information came from a wide number of sources, another way of saying not to blame them, but just in case there was anything brilliant in the report they said that some came from their own efforts, and then another disclaimer which has to be quoted, "from a number of Member States, including Iran itself." From here on it is quotes unless in {} or obvious commentary by us. And it will be obvious.
"Between January 2012 and May 2013, the Agency and Iran held ten rounds of talks in Vienna and Tehran, aimed at reaching agreement on a 'structured approach'…no concrete results were achieved during those talks. …"
Framework for Cooperation
On 11 November 2013, the Agency and Iran signed a 'Joint Statement on a Framework for Cooperation.'
{We could now quote a whole load of legalese describing their agreement and all the trust and measures and validations and verifications and our eyes started crossing and glazing over.}
On 20 July 2015, the Security Council adopted resolution 2231 (2015), in which, inter alia, it reaffirmed that Iran "shall cooperate fully as the IAEA requests to be able to resolve all outstanding issues, as identified in IAEA reports."
Implementation of the Road-map
More Gobbled-y-Goop
Area Assessments
Gobbled-y-Goop but here it is in case it might be important, like FoR ReAL!
As previously reported, the Agency has focused its analysis of Iran's nuclear programme on an acquisition path involving high enriched uranium (HEU). Based on indicators observed by the Agency in connection with Iran's nuclear activities, the Agency's work has concentrated on an analysis pertinent to the development of an HEU implosion device.
Past Resolutions of the Board of Governors and the Security Council
The United Nations Security Council has affirmed that the steps required by the Board of Governors in its resolutions are binding on Iran. Between 2006 and 2010, six Security Council resolutions… In particular, in its resolution of June 2010…concerns about the possible military dimensions to Iran's nuclear programme… all sites, equipment, persons and documents requested by the Agency.
Following the issuance of… essential for Iran and the Agency to intensify their dialogue… providing clarifications regarding those issues.
Further to the Director General's report of August 2012, the Board of Governors, in its resolution of September 2012… restore international confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear programme.
Efforts to address the Agency's concerns since November 2011
Structured Approach
Between January 2012 and May 2013, the Agency and Iran held ten rounds of talks in Vienna and Tehran… a new approach aimed at ensuring the exclusively peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear programme should be developed.
On 11 November 2013, the Agency and Iran signed a 'Joint Statement on a Framework for Cooperation'… proceed with such activities in a step by step manner.
Within the Framework for Cooperation… practical measures and technical discussions had been held with the Agency concerning the other two.
On 14 July 2015, the Director General and the Vice-President of Iran and President of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran… strengthen their cooperation and dialogue aimed at the resolution, by the end of 2015, of all past and present outstanding issues that had not already been resolved by the Agency and Iran. The actions agreed under the Road-map are listed in Annex I. {Great, now we need to read Annex I}
In the Road-map, the Agency and Iran agreed to aim to…the Agency had assessed to be "overall, credible", as well as information received…which further contributed to the analysis contained in that Annex.
As agreed in the Road-map, on 15 August 2015, Iran provided to the Agency its explanations in writing and related documents, on past and present outstanding issues. On 8 September 2015, the Agency submitted questions to Iran on ambiguities regarding the information provided…as a basis for seeking clarification; the Agency's review of information available…any implications regarding the indicators; and the Agency's questions.
To remove the ambiguities regarding the information…particular locations of interest to the Agency…15 October 2015.
On 20 September 2015, the Director General and Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards visited the particular location at the Parchin site of interest to the Agency.
All the activities in the Road-map were implemented in accordance with the agreed schedule and, on 24 November 2015, the Agency and Iran held a "wrap up technical meeting" in Vienna.
In November 2011, the Agency provided its "analysis of the information available to it in the context of relevant indicators of the existence or development of processes associated with nuclear-related activities, including weaponization." Since November 2011, the Agency has acquired more information through activities under the Framework for cooperation, including the Road-map and the JPA, through the Agency's own efforts, and from Member States, including Iran. As additional information has become available to the Agency, the Agency has been able to refine its analysis of possible military dimensions to Iran's nuclear programme.
In order to perform the final assessment, the Agency has analyzed all the information available to it in relation to each of the 12 areas, as set out in the 2011 Annex. The Agency has also used the same information to gain an understanding of the whole picture through consideration of the nature, amount and coherence of the information over time.
As previously reported…concentrated on an analysis pertinent to the development of an HEU implosion device.
Programme management structure
{Iran was using multiple agencies and departments and other subterfuges to conceal their real purposes which we recognized sort of; spread over four tedious paragraphs}
Procurement activities
As previously reported, Iran has stated that the AEOI encountered difficulties with procurement… {poor babies} …Ministry of Defence Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL), thereby disguising the final user.
The Agency also had indications of instances of procurements and attempted procurements of items with relevance, inter alia, to the development of a nuclear explosive device. The Agency does not have information regarding any such procurement attempts after 2007.
During discussions with the Agency…Iran confirmed its earlier statements that…made a procurement enquiry about a specific high speed camera, the camera had been for a conventional purpose and, ultimately, Iran had not purchased it. Iran also reiterated its earlier denial that a named company had attempted to acquire high-speed switches.
The Agency has not received additional information on this topic since the 2011 Annex.
Nuclear material acquisition
{Technical garbles which is too rich to summarize as the claims and counters are simply beyond belief and other beyond credulity and the rest far too technical}
Nuclear components for an explosive device
{More technical garbles}
Detonator development
Initiation of high explosives and associated experiments
{More technical garbles which only one of us understands}
Hydrodynamic experiments
Modelling and calculations
Neutron initiator
{Technical garbles but you have to love discussions about nuclear physics}
{Technical garbles and as it said, it's just a test, a physics test}
Integration into a missile delivery vehicle
{Technical garbles all about miniaturization and the rest is nuts and bolts}
Fuzing, arming and firing system
{Technical garbles and no there is nothing about detonation-cord}
This overall assessment results from the analysis of all the information available to the Agency in relation to each of the 12 areas, as set out in the 2011 Annex.
Political and technical Gobbled-y-Goop
Let's Run Them Up Any Flag Pole
and See Who Salutes Them Smartly
Showing Your Love of Freedom
and Feel Free to Add Your Flag
if the Moment Grabs You as You
See This Pair of the Flags for Freedom
Much of the reports have centered on that the IAEA has found no indications of diversions or of extraordinary mining in or near known uranium mines and that there probably has been no developmental steps taken beyond feasibility and assuring of having acquired the technical ability to produce nuclear weaponry of the nature and suitability the Iranians desired, whatever all that really means. Anyone who expected an arm of the United Nations run largely by third world officials and nuclear physicists whose highest desire was to travel around the world either inspecting third world nuclear sites or attempting to inspect nuclear weapons programs of nations who would just as soon kill as look upon their own people, so you can guess what the worth of an IAEA inspector is worth. The IAEA is also heavily political and not exactly all that enamored with the Western States or Israel and likely more guided by the membership of the General Assembly than the five permanent members in the Security Council. Further, if the people working for the average large city are fairly incompetent and state officials make the city workers look like geniuses, while Federal employees are legendary for their lack of ability, of course all of these have exceptions such as any government worker reading BTC, so you can imagine what any world employees can be in the competence department. The one thing which can be said is the United Nations workers for all of their agencies have some of the most difficult and dangerous jobs when working out in the world as they are often not exactly appreciated by the governments of the nations where they are assigned and often face threats of death simply for attempting to serve others unselfishly and many probably get abuses which they do not deserve. Imagine attempting to distribute aid and food and other sustenance to the people under a dictator who would just as soon see them dead and wants to steal the food supplies and distribute it to his security forces and army which keep him in power and then it becomes no surprise that often the aid is simply unloaded from the ship or aircraft and then left for the dictator to distribute as he desires because it is not worth being murdered in a futile effort. There are reasons that the United States sends troops with their aid shipments. It is true that the United States military should not be used for meals on wheels but sometimes they may be necessary for those performing the meals on wheels distribution to be allowed to actually move the aid. The world is a far from perfect place, something many of us forget or would rather not face as long as it does not affect us and may we continue to live where life is not endangered just because we hold an opinion which others are willing to kill us over.
Going to another set of thoughts, something we do here often and what else can be said about an IAEA report we all knew would be a whitewash of the Iranian nuclear program anyways and that is what we likely got. The hope now is that we never reap the ill rewards which are possible should Iran produce and use nuclear weapons or that ever there should come a nuclear war which encompasses a number of nuclear armed nations and a general exchange of nuclear weapons causes a runaway ecological disaster having planetary effects which could only result in consequences too horrid to imagine. Such an event would make most of those post apocalypse movies appear optimistic with the likely exception of "On the Beach" depicted. That was presumably what the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) was designed to prevent and the reason for the IAEA was originally enacted and initiated, but that was when the United Nations member nations were restricted.
That was before the fateful decision to allow all nations to enter the United Nations as all nations were equal and should have an equal vote in such a body and the General Assembly was opened to every nation and dictator who desired equal footing with every other nation. Fortunately the original nations who were tasked with fashioning the United Nations kept veto power in the Security Council for the five nuclear powers of the time, or their closest allies thus the United States, Russia, China, Britain, and France were given veto power in the Security Council, the only body which could order the use of military force. That too will soon be surrendered as the world will decide there is nothing special about those five nations and everybody has to be equal. Once the veto for the permanent members has been erased then the seats on the Security Council will be expanded and the fixed memberships will either be expanded beyond reason or abolished making all nations equal in all things and then the United Nations will devolve into chaos and soon will disintegrate under its own equality as the more equal numbers of dictators vote the democracies out of existence under threat of war, of course, after they have demanded and received nuclear technology including weaponization because all nations are of equal value so they should have equal military power and technologies. We will learn that merit has value but it will probably be learned too late. Equality only works between nations who agree on the sanctity of life, have similar value systems and have a free and open society; otherwise you end up with almost two hundred nations who agree on nothing except that there are well over one hundred who wish to drag the wealth from the most wealthy nations even if it destroys the geese with the golden eggs because they want all the golden eggs for themselves in the name of equality. Such a United Nations will be the igniter for a terrible conflagration. Let us pray that the nations with dignity of the human spirit to protect realize their special place and realize it is not rubbing elbows in equality in the putrid bog where leaders disregard or enslave their populations as in such a swamp all sink into the teeming cauldron of inhumanity and such can only work to the detriment of the world as there is enough heartlessness in the world that without freedom loving nations mutually protecting those values all human value will be lost. That is the number one reason for the free world to realize their precious gift and the value of going to whatever lengths required to protect the freedoms from those who would denigrate all human life trampling underfoot the freedoms which by the grace of all that is holy came from the values which have flourished in the Western World and a limited set of other nations who must remain free at all costs. Freedom once lost is almost never regained and especially if it dissolves from the entire planet in a swarming over the free world of a demographic explosion initially necessitated due to a demographic implosion largely fueled by a loss of faith in Hashem.
Iran Deal Delivers Donations for Disaster in Death
Filed under: Absolutism,Administration,Amalekites,Anti-Israel,Anti-Semitism,Anti-Zionist,Appease Islamic Interests,Appeasement,Appointment,Ayatollah Khamenei,Ayatollahs,Binding Resolution,Blood Libel,Breakout Point,Cabinet,Calaphate,Civilization,Conflict Avoidnce,Coverup,Defend Israel,Dhimmi,EMP Device,Equal Responsibility,Equal Rights,Equal Treatment,Equality,European Historic Anti Semitism,European Union,Executive Order,Fascism,Foreign Funding,France,Germany,Government,Government Controlled Media,Great Britain,Hassan Rowhani,Hate,History,IAEA,ICBM,International Politics,Intifada,Iran,Iranian Military,Iranian Pressure,Iraq,Islam,Islam,Islamic Pressure,Islamist,Israel,Israeli Interests,Jewish Leadership,Jewish State,Jews,Jihad,John Kerry,Leftist Pressures,Mainstream Media,Media,Michigan,Middle East,Military,Military Advisors,Military Option,Missile Attacks,Mohammad Javad Zarif,Munich Accord of 1938,Muslim Expansionism,Muslim Invade Europe from the East,Muslim Invasoin of Europe from the West,Muslim World,Neville Chamberlain,Nuclear Program,Nuclear Sites,Nuclear Weapons,Nuclear Weapons,P5+1,Plutonium Production,Politicized Findings,President Obama,Remove Sanctions,Russia,Russian Pressure,Samantha Power,Sanctions,Saudi Arabian Pressure,Secretary of State,Secular Interests,Shiite,Smiling Cheshire Man,Sunni,Supreme Leader,Susan Rice,Syria,Taqiyya,Terror,The Twelfth Imam,Threat of War,Threat of War,Tribe,Troop Withdrawal,Turkey,Twelvers,United Nations,United Nations Ambassador,United Nations Presures,United States,Uranium Enrichment,Valerie Jarrett,Weapons of Mass Destruction,WMD,World Opinion,World Pressures,World Without Zionism or America,Zionism,Zionist — qwertster @ 2:08 AM
Tags: Ambassador to the United Nations Power, Cheshire Cat Smiling Man, IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Lead Negotiator Zarif, National Security Advisor Rice, NPT, Nuclear Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Permits Iran Nuclear Weapons, Potentially Make Iran Recognized Nuclear Power, Power, President Obama, President Rouhani, Presidential Security Advisor Susan Rice and Special Advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett whose assistance in such matters is unmeasurable as she was Iran born and speaks Farsi and thus may be the, Result of Run Away Government Powers, Secretary of State Kerry, Super Secret Deal, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini, Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, United States, Unknown Ramifications
The one-hundred-fifty-billion dollars of unfrozen funds which will near instantly over-fill the coffers beyond their capacity and even beyond Iran's wildest imaginations. Oil and pistachio sales will assist in keeping those coffers healthy with a steady influx of monies. Proof of the extents to which this sudden wealth has provided Iran becomes obvious with the sales of arms made viable to Iran even before the ink dried on the papers. The set of sales, when taken at their entirety, reveals that Iran has just purchased the equivalence of an entire Air Force minus pilots. This set of deals comes replete with one-hundred tanker aerial refueling aircraft, one-hundred-fifty sophisticated air-combat jet fighters with Israeli avionics and finally the two-hundred-fifty highly-advanced heavy-fighter-bombers already set for delivery to Iran by Russia and China. Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Iran herself will suffer from the results of this deal. All the predictions of gloom and doom are purported to be in this deal come from the publically released deal. As horrific as the realities of the publically declared sections of this deal have proven to be as their ramifications are flushed out and deciphered may be, these predicted disasters are simply the results of the publically released Iran Nuclear Agreement 7/14/2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, yet there exists another wholly secreted away part of the Iranian deal made without Secretary of State Kerry's knowledge or participation and has been secreted from review yet will be put into enforcement simply as a result of the signatures placed on the publically revealed deal. How many more disastrous consequences will come into review as our focus becomes fixated on the inferences, implications and machinations resultant on the secreted deal which for all we know will include as yet undetermined and yet to be decided terms left to be fulfilled as the needs arise and simply left to Iran or the IAEA to make future decisions independent of review. If we are to be honest, the reality is that we have absolutely no idea of exactly the deal made with Iran defines and what restrictions on inspections or implications which make even developing nuclear weapons immediately and while remaining a member of the NPT (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) as the secret deal might even permit Iran to have their determination altered and defined as a Recognized Nuclear Weapon State Acceders, with equal or potentially superior rights to China or France, within the framework of the NPT definitions pertaining to nuclear powers.
The reality is that the revealed and awful deal we and even the members of Congress, the Ambassadors of the nations in the Security Council of the United Nations, the other sitting members of the P5+1, and even the negotiating team from the United States including the Secretary of State, very likely the State Department and everybody other than the selected leadership of Iran and whoever was the negotiator of the secret treaty and a remote possibility President Obama actually know what is included in the super-secret deal made with Iran. Now for our little bit of conjecture; this editorialist, if forced to make a guess, suspects that United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, Presidential Security Advisor Susan Rice and Special Advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett whose assistance in such matters is unmeasurable as she was Iran born and speaks Farsi and thus may be the only people from the United States Administration of President Obama and only person outside of Iran and the top members of the IAEA, if even them, who knows what was included in what we suspect is a massive giveaway super-secret agreement with Iran which will remain concealed with portions becoming known as their results are felt. Beyond altering the standings of Iran pertaining to the NPT there is likely little which could have further reaching ramifications, but that prediction too is made while in complete ignorance of the actual terms which are hidden within this ancillary section of the treaty which the world is discussing despite the unknowns of the hidden agendas and stipulations. It is entirely possible that the secretive parts of the agreement actually nullify the publically released portions and that the only knowledge Secretary of State Kerry has about the treaty equals yours or mine. The briefing that Secretary Kerry received may have been simply telling him he would be better off not knowing and that he had no determined need and that for security reasons he was not to be trusted with such knowledge and Secretary Kerry would interpret that as being an in depth discussion of the secret treaty of which he knows little to nothing.
General Amano, IAEA Secretariat, Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, President Rouhani aka Smiling Cheshire Man, Lead Negotiator Zarif and Da Bomb from Dr Strangelove
In all honesty, the unknown and concealed dealings between some Administration official or team who have President Obama's complete trust, some official or officials from the IAEA and the Iranian leadership reached and somehow is tied to and included in its entirety to the P5+1, Iran deal thus receiving ratification alongside the P5+1, Iran nuclear agreement. All of this is performed despite being without any discussion except for those discussions before the United States Senate where its secrecy and existence were stated, and nothing more, with Presidential Security Advisor Susan Rice, who testified to have read, if not assisted in shaping, and Secretary Kerry, who claims he has been told of its existence and has been briefed but is either unable or unwilling to share his extent of knowledge on the secret agreement. The concept of secretive agreements in which most of either government and next to none of the nations' peoples have any knowledge or are thought to even have the need to know or right to know is anything but an original concept. This situation was the norm in all the history of nations where the people even having rights without title was also unknown until quite recent times. Most of the world today lives under governments which operate in just this manner and it is appearing that none exist where such is not the case.
What sets the United States apart is that the people have the right to insist to be included and be knowledgeable of all the workings which take place within the government with the exception of those limited items deemed so sensitive that the people may be kept in the dark for the time being but even those items come into the light eventually. What may be found distressing is that the United States, the supposed bastion of freedom and citizens' rights has slowly but inexorably been sliding down that slippery slope to the bottom where all the dealings of the government beyond the dictates of laws imposed on the people are kept in secret as the people are deemed of such limited capabilities that they are better off allowing their bettors, those in the government and working as enforcement officers for the government to run things and take care of the weighty issues that the government and only the government is permitted to be privileged. Should this be continued to progress and the United States fall into the darkness of tyrannical governance, then what hope does the rest of the world have where tyrannical governance has been the norm for as long as history had been written and before? There is one simple reason such a state of affairs takes hold of governance, and that is size of government. Apparently when any government reaches a certain size it then expands its scope and domain, often at the expense of lower decentralized governances such as the individual states of the United States. As the central government grows and assumes more and more powers the state, municipal, and local governments suffer and eventually become enforcers for the central government and nothing more. This is where the every size fits all governance becomes the norm and anybody who has resided in one of the major metropolises such as Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Dallas or the others and also lived in a small, and I do mean small town such as Paw Paw, Mich; Emmetsburg, MD; Loveland, Colo; or any of the hundreds of thousands spread blanketing the United States knows, one size never works well in the smallest of places where some of the best and nicest people live and where most people actually know their neighbors. We can only hope that the flame which when it shines brightest allows the individual person to have rights and the government to be at their beck-and-call and never looming over the 'little people' as in a true and good governance there are no little people, only little government, as little as proves to be absolutely necessary. Nowhere has such existed successfully where there are sufficient people spread over an area such that they know not those who run their governance and many have become so dejected and separated from their governance and believe it to be beyond any real and actual control that they do not participate or care who their representatives may be. There were stipulations in the original government set up by the constitution of the United States which need being returned as with this modern age such is actually and finally doable and perhaps such could be an article coming to you soon right here at Beyond the Cusp. Until them, hang in there friends.


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I met Fred Malone at one of the Southwest Founders Conferences. He was very nice and nicely autographed my copy of his excellent book on baptism. Paedobaptists hate this book and spew forth much vitriol against it without ever actually tackling the arguments. I think it's out of print now, but buy it if you can. You can't have mine, though.
I have the privilege of sitting under his teaching at our Founders Fraternal meeting, he is a wonderful man!


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Join the CSF data revolution webinar tomorrow!
COMMUNITY SYSTEMS FOUNDATION – EST 1963
data-driven sustainable development
Embracing a Culture of Monitoring and Evaluation in FGM Programming
Menna El Shiati, Advisor - Gender and FGM, Community Systems Foundation
Seth Davis, Communications Officer, Community Systems Foundation
Since 2008, the UN Global Joint Programme (JP) on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has supported "more than 3.2 million girls and women in 17 countries" [1] The JP, a partnership between The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and UNICEF has assisted with provision of appropriate and quality services, increased community-led engagement, legal and policy frameworks, government ownership and increased access to accurate and timely data. At the same time, the JP seeks to measure the progress, quality and success of FGM programming. This is done by focusing on planning, reporting, monitoring and evaluation.
To better understand and visualize these focus areas, the FGM JP has adapted the Data For All toolkit, a set of open-source tools, designed and implemented by CSF, to produce reliable and timely data for programme planning, service delivery, transparency and accountability.
Through DFA Monitoring, CSF supports the UNFPA-UNICEF JP on accelerating the abandonment of FGM. It does so by leveraging standards and technology to monitor programme activities and measure progress against targets and indicators at the national, regional and global levels. DFA tools help identify areas were the JP is exceeding expectations in its goals and where accelerated progress is required to meet targeted commitments. At the same time, CSF believes that applying DFA tools can strengthen planning processes along with the statistical systems that provide evidence and insights to monitor progress.
To advocate at the community level, the FGM JP assesses many indicators. One of which is the Number of individuals involved in public declarations of abandonment of FGM. [2] This is an important indicator as public declarations can create a sense of collective change, which can help empower families to abandon FGM and encourage others to follow. When public declarations are made, this suggests that a sufficient number of individuals have declared to abandon FGM, which can further promote broad-scale abandonment. Through quarterly data entry into DFA Monitoring, counterparts monitoring the JP were able to see the second phase of this target exceed its goal, globally. By utilizing the DFA toolkit to monitor this indicator, UNFPA and UNICEF were also able to identify successes and challenges of the JP and change activities to continuously improve.
Recently, CSF supported UNFPA and UNICEF Regional and Country offices in the Arab States region through a training on the Use of Data for Analysis and Evidence-based Planning and Advocacy on FGM. This provided opportunity for country offices to reflect on programme performance and to better utilize data for advocacy and planning purposes with partners and stakeholders.
Through the DFA toolkit, UNFPA and UNICEF facilitate the critical element of collaboration in the implementation of the joint programme. At the same time, the organizations remain accountable and transparent at all levels to the donors who support this important initiative.
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[1] UNFPA. "UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme to Eliminate Female Genital Mutilation: The FGM Joint Programme achievements at a glance." February 2018. Accessed at: https://www.unfpa.org/unfpa-unicef-joint-programme-eliminate-female-genital-mutilation
[2] UNFPA-UNICEF. "Performance Analysis for Phase II. UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation: Accelerating Change." August 2018. Page 33. Accessed at: https://www.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/UNFPA-UNICEF-Phase2Performance_2018_web_0.pd
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Revealed: Fox News built 400-page dossier on reporter writing book about Roger Ailes
Arturo Garcia
Fox News combed through reporter Gabriel Sherman's real estate records and his Internet history as part of a 400-page "opposition research" document, CNN reported on Friday.
"I don't take it personally," said Sherman, whose 2014 book The Loudest Voice In The Room focused on former CEO Roger Ailes' tactics leading the conservative network. "As I report in my book, Ailes was determined to control his story. This appears to be more evidence of that."
The findings regarding Sherman were distributed in a Jan. 5, 2012 memo titled "to interested parties." It included 41 pages' worth of tweets from Sherman, as well as a New York Times article about his wedding and blog comments about him. It also contained a "hit list" compiling Sherman's reporting on Fox News personalities and GOP "power brokers."
Fox News public relations head Irena Briganti denied the allegations in a statement.
"The Fox News PR department was never involved in conducting or executing any opposition research against Gabe Sherman," she said. "It's been widely reported that there was a separate team not associated with PR which conducted extensive operations unbeknownst to anyone whose official job was to deal with the press."
Earlier this month, Politico reported that Ailes boasted that he could hire someone to "beat the sh*t" out of Sherman, who reported extensively on both the sexual harassment allegations against Ailes and an office Ailes maintained to "spy" on reporters and smear them to the public.


Foucault's later work. 2 recently published books: Foucault and his interlocutors (ed.
classicist the allegedly turned Foucault onto the greeks in the first place.
fundamentally un-moder, concerned with the aesthetic tranformation of the self and so on.
text, published in philosophy as a way of life, which specifically addresses foucault.
reason of the cosmos. In short, hadot sees less individuality and hedonism that foucault.


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NTS Selects Ellisys Protocol Test and Analysis Solution for SuperSpeed USB Programs
Tools Address Testing Requirements for Rapidly Expanding USB 3.0 Product Ecosystem
Geneva, Switzerland — March 21, 2011 — Ellisys, a worldwide leader in protocol test and analysis solutions, today announced that National Technical Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: NTSC) (NTS), a leading provider of engineering services, has selected the Ellisys Explorer™ 280 protocol test, analysis, and compliance system for use in the company's SuperSpeed USB test and characterization programs. The widely deployed Ellisys Explorer 280 system, the industry's first SuperSpeed USB protocol analyzer/generator system, provides deep-featured protocol and bus analysis, port emulation, and compliance testing for SuperSpeed USB hosts, devices, and hubs.
"We're pleased that NTS has chosen our Explorer 280 SuperSpeed USB protocol analyzer/generator system to serve the test and characterization requirements of its SuperSpeed USB customers," stated Mario Pasquali, Ellisys president. "This full-featured system will enable the NTS team to provide its customers with a detailed understanding of their product's performance and adherence to requirements mandated by the USB 3.0 specification and related compliance requirements."
Providing a Complete USB 3.0 Solution
The Ellisys Explorer 280 SuperSpeed USB protocol test, analysis, and compliance system brings developers the industry's most flexible and comprehensive solution for performance characterization, analysis, and compliance testing of USB 3.0 systems, silicon, and related products. With the industry's only fully hardware-enabled compliance test suite, Examiner™, users can verify adherence of device or host operation to major portions of the USB 3.0 specification in just seconds. The Explorer's powerful, script-based generator provides the heart of the automated Examiner compliance test suite, and also delivers the industry's most capable port emulator, typically used for characterizing a design's robustness, error handling, and performance capabilities. An intuitive and easy-to-use protocol analyzer completes the major feature set, and includes popular Ellisys features such as InstantTiming™ and stream-to-screen captures.
"NTS has a long history of providing best-in-class compliance and test services for USB developers worldwide," said Osman Sakr, NTS CTO. "SuperSpeed USB brings about several major technology changes from previous USB specifications, including increased physical layer, electrical, and protocol complexities. The Ellisys Explorer 280 will enable us to meet the testing challenges presented by these changes and to provide our customers with superb characterizations of their SuperSpeed USB designs."
The Ellisys Approach in USB Test and Analysis
Ellisys prides itself on innovations and technology leadership within the test & measurement industry, adopting a philosophy to avoid the pitfalls and redundancy of "me-too" design approaches, opting for an independent approach to tools development, always in close collaboration with our developer-customers. Since 2000, Ellisys has placed thousands of USB, Wireless USB, and SuperSpeed USB protocol test and analysis products with satisfied customers in more than 40 countries. Ellisys protocol analysis tools employ a highly configurable and intuitive multi-pane and spreadsheet approach, desired by most developers. Ellisys USB and SuperSpeed USB traffic generation tools, designed to emulate hosts and devices for purposes of compliance, performance, and corner case testing, are widely regarded as the most flexible and powerful available on the market.
Explorer and Examiner Availability, Product Photos, and Information
The Explorer 280 SuperSpeed USB Protocol Analyzer/Generator system (model EX280) and the Examiner compliance test suite (model EX280-EXAM) are available from Ellisys directly or through a worldwide distribution network.
For more information, including software downloads, please contact superspeed@ellisys.com.
A high-resolution photo can be downloaded from: www.ellisys.com/archive/images/usbex280.png
A screenshot of the Analyzer software is available at: www.ellisys.com/archive/images/usbex280a_soft.gif
A screenshot of the Examiner software is available at: www.ellisys.com/archive/images/usbex280e_soft.gif
Additional information can be found at: www.ellisys.com/products/usbex280/
About National Technical Systems
National Technical Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of engineering services to the aerospace, defense telecommunications, automotive and high technology markets. Through a world-wide network of resources, NTS provides full product life-cycle support, offering world class design engineering, compliance, testing, certification, quality registration and program management. For additional information about NTS, visit our website at www.ntscorp.com or call 800-270-2516.
Ellisys is a Test and Measurement company committed to the design and timely introduction of advanced protocol analysis, test, and compliance solutions for USB, SuperSpeed USB 3.0, WiMedia/UWB/Wireless USB, and Bluetooth wireless technology. More information is available on www.ellisys.com.
World Class Protocol Test Solutions for USB, SupeSpeed USB, Wireless USB, WiMedia, Bluetoothtechnology
The Bluetooth word mark and logo are registered trademarks and are owned by the Bluetooth SIG, Inc.
Ellisys, the Ellisys logo, Better Analysis, USB Explorer, USB Tracker, WiMedia Explorer, Bluetooth Explorer, and Examiner, are trademarks of Ellisys, and may be registered in some jurisdictions. All other trademarks, product and company names, are the property of their respective owners.


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