In today's world when we come across lace in a fabric store we are often find the same synthetic machine made lace, floral pattern and cheap sheen that lacks the richness you'd like to expect. In mass produced garments this is the type of lace you would normally find. Once you come across beautiful high quality and if you a lucky hand made lace you can easily be drawn to its' intricate yet delicate web and imagine how it could have possibly been created by hand. This beautiful craft is based on traditional and time consuming bobbin lace technique which produces this alluring and luxurious textile which has been adorned by every royal court in Europe for centuries. Surviving the ever evolving fashion trends and popularity there is nothing that is more feminine than lace. What's happened to bobbin lace making today? If you have any European lineage you may have had a grandmother or a great grandmother who practices lace making as I have. Is this craft still being passed on from generation to generation? Perhaps I have attached a romantic notion and curiosity to the intricate art of lace making that has lead to my interest and wonder of what lead to its' industry decline. The effects of machine made lace and the impact it had on fashion and the textile industry. Also I will look at the role it had with women's labor in rural areas. Within this discourse looking into the introduction of machine lace around the industrial revolution to the First World War. I will be focusing my paper on the struggle that hand made lace has had once machine lace was introduced, the social and economic impact it had on Britain and it's attempt to spread the importance and knowledge of handmade lace as a craft.
The start of lace can be traced to ancient Egypt and Greece (Palliser history of lace) but the start of bobbin lace as we know it today got it's start in Italy but some debate it was also started Flanders around the 1500's. Lace is an "open work fabric where the combinations of open spaces and dense textures form the design" (Bobbin Lace Kiliot) produced with the use of many thread wound bobbins, pins and a pillow. Historically lace has been a commodity mainly bestowed to the upper class and produced by the lower class. Yet it took great talent and skill for one to become a great lace maker. The women who would continue producing lace often passed the knowledge on the their daughters. Lace styles changed along with fashion as did the popularity of techniques from certain countries and designs would become preferred. This caused the lace industry to go through high and low periods of demand. In England they owe much of what they have learned about lace to the Flemings who shared their talents in lace making with the British after several emigrated. In 1768 John Heathcoat invented the bobbin net machine which was painted in 1809. (bobbin lace kliot) The machine allowed a net like lace called Brussels net which was used as a base where lace can be appliquéd and hand embroidered on.(lace ancient and modern) The industrialization of lace was in full effect by 1840 replacing the skilled with the less skilled workers. (lace the elegant web) Skilled lace workers were shocked as these machines could produce thousands of yards of lace that was whiter that the lace they had been forced to produce.
This sort of remarks actually gave an added value to bobbin lace. (lace ancient and modern) With fashion styles changing at a quicker pace machine lace manufactures were worried about making the wrong style of lace as it took time to set up the machines and the time it to make they ran the possibility of producing the wrong type of lace. The designer Charles Worth was the first to use machine made lace and considered as an acceptance for the product. During this time the number of hand made lace workers has fallen from hundreds to a few dozen per village in England. Around 1870 it created a market for trading antique lace as machine lace lacked in creative design. Also around the same time growing interest in peasant lace begun which was lace made in rural areas across Europe.
In the late 18th century a revival of hand made lace industry started taking place. Lace making was also re introduced in some schools across England and Europe. It had been recognized that hand made lace was an art that had to be taught as there were not very many left during lace's period of instability. While men operated the machine lace industry women retained to take back hand made lace production. Hand made lace industry took place in the home "outworkers" and women were able to take care of their families and while they worked. They would follow designs given to them by the manufacturers and when they would bring the finished lace back it would be assembled by a group of workers.(harpers bazare) Lace making for these women provided a supplementary income as usually their farms mainly provided most of their important family needs lace making was a little extra comfort for the home.(european women and pre industrial craft) It is fortunate that these women continued to make lace and were able to earn their own wages at a time when so few women worked at all. Also in doing so they were able to keep the hand made lace-making tradition alive and also helped them keep up with the demand. Although it seems that these women were not paid very well for the long hours they spend over their bobbin pillows, as they had to provide the materials and supplies themselves. (rural women workers) Machine lace trade had forced these workers to produce the lace and a cheaper price. The First World War brought on the collapse of the lace industry from 1914-1918. All lace production was halted, as lace was a luxury and not a necessity. This was the case for both hand made lace and machine. For the first time women were involved in the war effort which gave them a taste to take on new roles in society.(lace a history) The lace industry slowly started up again in the late 1920's (lace a history) Unfortunately only to decline once again with WW2. After the war Hand made lace production had no choice but to end. Even though hand made lace was no longer produced as an industry it still continued onward as a craft. Professionals and amateur lace makers still practice.
From all my research I can definitely say that the 20th century was the ultimate decline in women who produce hand made lace. The machine made lace; the 2 World Wars are the main reasons for its depression. Women mainly produced the lace and in the 20th century many changes occurred for women. Women became educated earned the right to vote and went out into the world and got jobs. While this was happening hand made lace was not looking very appealing. While this is the reason in the decline in popularity of hand made lace making it doesn't mean has not continued. Lace guilds and centers are present all over the world. According to Lace the elegant web it features 64 lace centers from Europe, Japan and North America. These are also several amateur lace makers who make lace as a hobby. Although hand made lace production has not been able to become part of the industry there are some contemporary lace makers who make and sell their crafts to individual's collectors and also museums. For example Silvia Ferdorova creates wearable items like boas and wrist cuffs by using traditional bobbin lace technique. She uses unconventional materials such as copper wire, plastic bags and fishing wire. Her works become contemporary lace art pieces. The lace industry has been though an incredible rollercoaster of struggle with industrial revolution and war but as a craft I do believe it still resides and is a respected craft that will continue to be passed on as generations will continue to be seduced by it's intricate beauty.
2) Montupet, Janine. Lace the elegant web Machine made lace Bibliography Beebe, C.D. Lace, Ancient and Modern. New York: Sharps Publishing company, 1880. Browne, Clare. Lace from the Victoria and Albert Museum: V & A Publications, 2004. Freegood, Elaine. "Fine fingers": Victorian Handmade lace and Utopian Consumption: Victorian studies, Vo. 45, No. 4 Summer 2003. 625-647 Felkin, William. A history of the machine-wrought hosiery and lace manufactures. Cambridge: W. Metcalfe, Trinity street, 1867. Kliot, Kaethe and Jules, Bobbin Lace, New York: Crown Publishers, inc, 1973. Lefebure, Ernest. Embroidery and Lace; their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present day. London: H Grevel and Co. 1888. Levey, Santina. M. Lace A History: Victoria & Albert Museum: Great Britain: W.S. Maney & Son Limited, 1983. Montupet, Janine. Lace the elegant web. New York : H.N. Abrams, 1990. Palliser, Mrs. Bury. History of Lace. London: W. Clowes, 1865. Verdon, Nicola. Rural Women workers in ninteenth-century England: gender, work and wages. Great Britain: The Boydell Press, 2002. (p146) Wright, Thomas. The Romance of the Lace Pillow. Olney, Bucks: H. H. Armstrong, 1919.


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WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE THE MEMES
by Kevin Hadsell
• September 11, 2021 September 29, 2021
A Look Back at the Trump Era
On the morning of January 20, 2021, I found myself watching Joe Biden's inauguration on the CNN livestream. I recall the distinct feeling of reemerging from some subterranean enclave in which I had spent the past four years of my life, along with many of my fellow Americans, like a nation of mole people coming to the surface to squint up into the sunlight. And with a vague sense, too, of having been through something together, some ordeal, whatever it was. It's probably too early to say what historians will make of the Trump era, but they will likely be guided by the same artifacts that we ourselves, the People Who Live Online, have created to shepherd us through this time in our history. I speak now of what we have entered, wittingly or not, into the historical record for posterity. I speak now of the memes.
By now the meme has become the internet's primary vehicle for discourse. Typically a simple image overlaid with text, a meme is ideally suited for viral spread across social networks. Taken together, they form a near-perfect conduit for understanding our life and times, like a weird mosaic reconstructed from pieces of the cultural subconscious. Our memes will tell our stories, whatever they are, whether we want them to or not. Our memes will outlast us.
A few of the highlights from the past four years, in no particular order:
The split-screen photo featuring Trump's windblown hair on the left panel, and a tasselled corncob on the right, with the caption, "Who wore it best?" straddling the divide.
SUPERVILLAIN
The entire President Supervillain Twitter account, which superimposed Trump's actual words, many lifted directly from his tweets, into speech bubbles uttered by Red Skull, the villain of the Captain America comics. There was always a certain uncanny element to this one that struck me as both hilarious and uncomfortable at the same time, not unlike being hit in the funny bone.
TRUMP DRAWS
The Trump Draws Twitter account taking GIF images of Trump holding up newly signed executive orders for the camera, with the order itself replaced by a childish drawing that often referenced something in the recent news that Trump had been going off about on Twitter.
BOND VILLAINS
A Twitter thread begun by history professor Kevin Kruse, matching each member of Trump's cabinet with a corresponding Bond villain, with a few too-close-for-comfort parallels (admittedly not a meme in the singular, but rather a multipart, semicollaborative meme running over the course of several posts).
SYMBOL OF ROT
There were also the vice presidential debates on October 7, 2020, which proved notable not for anything said by either of the candidates but rather for the fly that landed on Mike Pence's head, inspiring a flurry of memes across social media. These ranged from the puerile ("Flies love BS," "Actual footage of a fly on shit," etc.) to the fairly obvious (all of those "pretty fly for a white guy" memes making the rounds on Facebook) to the uncomfortably topical (a photo of Ruth Bader Ginsburg with a caption reading, "I sent the fly.") The one meme that managed to stay with me, however, was one I saw on Twitter, retweeted by someone in my feed. It featured a screenshot from an online reference page, reading: "The Hidden Symbolism of Insects in Western Painting: Fly – symbol of rot, wasting away, decay, death, melancholia. A fly hovering over a church official or nobleman indicates disfavour with the king or corruption and dereliction of duty." It was paired with a frozen frame of the Pence photo from that night's debate replacing the original photo. It struck me as clever at the time, the sort of uncanny parallel that hints at something deeper running beneath the surface. I scrolled on and didn't really think much about it. Then, three months later, a crowd of angry Trump supporters gathered outside of the US Capitol building in an attempt to halt the official vote count, chanting "Hang Mike Pence!" Disfavour indeed.
While no meme can predict the future, memes can, perhaps, tell us something about our present moment. The relentless, almost feverish pace of meme activity during the Trump years suggests a kind of collective discomfort with the administration, what I have come to think of as our "crisis of narrative." Since Trump took office – indeed, since he announced his candidacy for the presidency in the first place – there has been a collective sense of discomfort at what this means for the way we understand ourselves and the country we live in. The memes, in this sense, can perhaps be read as our attempt – consciously or otherwise – to grapple with the meaning of a world we thought we knew. Many of the most effective and haunting memes have been those – like the Pence/fly art symbolism meme, or President Supervillain, or the Bond villain/cabinet official Twitter thread – that grapple with the symbolic meaning of the American presidency since 2016.
And it is no secret that the Trump administration itself had been plagued by a crisis of narrative from the very beginning. In short, nobody – from the press secretary to cabinet officials to President Trump himself – knew how to explain its actions to the rest of us in a way that made sense. This crisis of narrative was further compounded by a revolving door of press secretaries, i.e., the people hired to create a coherent public narrative for the White House. And it was further compounded by the way that the Trump administration seemed to embody, to an uncomfortable degree, the dystopian narrative arc of Back to the Future II, with President Trump standing in for Biff Tannen after altering the past to accumulate wealth and power.
This crisis of narrative surfaced in the traditional media, too, as noted by countless hand-wringing op-eds about "the new normal." The memes responded in kind, filling the narrative void with whatever materials lay at hand. And as we bid farewell to an era that the noted historian Ron Chernow once called "a surreal interlude in American life," I do wonder if the golden age of the meme is behind us. This combination of surrealism and collective, existential discomfort on a mass scale seems to have been a unique by-product of the Trump years. It is not likely to occur again in the same potency, at least while Biden occupies the Oval Office.
If nothing else, these memes remind us of a time when many of us required a sort of narrative prosthesis to make sense of the world, in the form of images merged with text replicated endlessly through the internet like a hall of mirrors. Though the presidency has returned more or less to "normal," there is something that still feels not quite real about the past four years, something about the Trump administration that we still seem to be trying to wrap our heads around. I think of the press conference debacle at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, a moment in itself that launched a thousand memes. The incident – in which Rudy Giuliani, Trump's then-attorney, hosted a press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping about the campaign's legal challenges to the Pennsylvania ballot count – seemed to mark the end of the Trump era in some vaguely symbolic way. Perhaps in retrospect, this was the only way the Trump's era could have ended: with a press conference at a landscaping company on the outskirts of Philadelphia, located between a sex shop and a crematorium, with Rudy Giuliani yelling into the void about the media and phantom voter fraud. It was as if some fourth wall had finally broken and we were at last able to see ourselves watching the whole thing play out in real time: a real-life meme containing ourselves and everyone we knew, live on TV. The symbolic resonance alone provided a certain novelistic sweep to the whole scene. Who among us, after all, is not tending to their own garden, in the imperfect and slightly sketchy liminal space between our biological urges and the shadow of death?
As an English teacher, I can assure you that this is top-shelf symbolism, a metaphor for the ages. That the establishment itself shares its name with a famed luxury hotel called the Four Seasons – located just five blocks away from where the ballots were being counted and which we all just sort of assumed would be the location – somehow makes it all the more poignant. This moment, now immortalized in the annals of cyberspace, will be with us forever. It is now up to the historians of the future to piece these events together and make sense of it all. Who knows – they might one day find a satisfying narrative arc for the Age of Trump. It may even provide us with something like closure.
Kevin Hadsell
Kevin Hadsell is a writer and teacher living near Portland, Oregon, teaching dual-credit English and social studies at Metro East Web Academy. He has published with McSweeneys Internet Tendency, The Portland State Vanguard, and Euphemism, an online literary journal, and holds an MA in English from Portland State University.
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Page title: You and Whose Army?
nicosia—Sector 2, in the middle of Cyprus's 180-kilometre-long buffer zone, is what they call the "tricky" sector. It cuts through the capital city's booby-trapped heart, separating—by mere feet in places—Greek Cypriot from Turkish Cypriot soldiers. After forty-five years of post-independence strife, forty-one of them overseen by UN peacekeepers, these two armies have become bored and undisciplined, and they are forever trying to one-up each other by advancing their ceasefire lines, inches at a time, without getting caught. This game often escalates into a small violation of UN rules (lobbing a rock at the other side will do it), which can build to a serious incident (firing back a round), which results in the odd casualty, which, if not managed just right, can erupt into an international crisis.
There are many curious things about the Cyprus buffer zone: it shares its unofficial name, the Green Line, with the border between Israel and Palestine; it is home to a fleet of some fifty brand-new 1974 Toyota Corollas, trapped by circumstance and now frozen in time, in a dealer's garage; and a pungent scent of eucalyptus, from moisture-sucking trees first planted in the arid desert terrain by British colonial administrators in the 1950s, hangs over the crumble. Maybe most curious of all, though, is the Canadian contingent. I am riding up front with him in a white Mazda 626.
After thirty-nine years, more than 25,000 troops, and twenty-eight fatalities, the mission known as Op Snowgoose has come down to this: a thirty-five year-old, steady-as-she-goes Montreal Canadiens fan, born in Ottawa and raised all over Canada. Beneath his blue UN beret, his glasses conjure up Clark Kent. But it's not just the glasses: Captain Dan Zegarac emits such mild-mannered competence that he preempts whatever "me, myself, and I" joke you might make at his mission's expense.
We pass Nicosia International Airport, which the airlines abandoned in 1974 after an attack by the Turkish army. A Cyprus Airways jet sits on the tarmac, still fit enough to make a getaway in were it not for its shrapnel-pocked tail. Zegarac is explaining his objective in Cyprus, arguably the most famous peacekeeping mission in Canadian history. "We're here to maintain the status quo," he says. Yes, he says we.
There is something inescapably absurd about this mission. It smacks of an underfunded military's tokenism. When UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan visited Prime Minister Paul Martin in March 2004, he hinted that Canada was coasting on its reputation, and referred specifically to our commitment here. Cyprus was once a point of pride for Canadians. Now, not so much.
This is Zegarac's second tour in Nicosia. In 1993, he was part of the battalion that ceded control of the buffer zone's central region—now part of tricky Sector 2—to the British after two decades of nurturing. They left behind only a handful of personnel on the island, who eventually gave way to a single soldier, who became Zegarac in July 2003.
It's difficult to overstate the effect Canada has had on Cyprus since our troops first arrived in 1964. Cypriots speak matter-of-factly of little towns in Saskatchewan, and Canadians are revered, by Greek Cypriots in particular, for defending the airport from the advancing Turks in 1974, when the conflict was at its apex and the Green Line was just a chinagraph pencil stroke on a map.
Journalists aren't allowed inside the Green Line, but because the British officer in charge, Captain James Holland, admires our military's old-school peacekeeping style, I was able to get a tour. We marched along a narrow patrol path, past wrecked Ottoman mansions bound by several decades' worth of overlapping razor wire, sandbags, and wriggly tin fence. As we walked, he recounted a story about the Canadian approach to the game of inches. "A Canadian commander came down here in his armoured vehicle, same route they used to take every morning," he said, indicating a very narrow road between the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot positions. "However, on this morning his driver crashed into the side of this Turkish bunker. He gave the driver a good bollocking, then he looked out and realized they were butted up along his side of the vehicle as well." The vehicle was wider than the passage. The Turkish bunker had been extended a few inches that night—a fact the Turks vigorously contested. Eventually, the Canadian asked everyone to get out of the bunker. He backed the armoured vehicle up several feet, plowed through the illegal extension, and continued on his patrol. Status quo maintained.
Sector 2 teems with such lore. Hometown names of departing troops, from Cape Breton to Prince Rupert, are etched into the sandstone along patrol routes named Rogers Pass (echoing a scenic point on the Trans-Canada Highway) and Patricia's Way (after Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry). There's a derelict school called Beaver Lodge and a barracks named Maple House. Zegarac grimaces whenever the Slovak peacekeepers who patrol Sector 4 refer to "Camp Burger," the troop house named after Jean Claude Berger, a twenty- one-year-old private from Rimouski, Quebec, who was one of two Canadian soldiers killed in combat in 1974.
Soldiers stationed in Cyprus often refer to the experience as "peacekeeping at its lowest level," and indeed Zegarac spends much of his time charting patterns in the low-level game of inches. "Every week there's easily a few hundred violations that occur," he says. "Each one of them has to be recorded, and if there's a pattern being established, then we see if this is something deliberate." The solution may not be ramming an armoured car through bunker walls, but a Canadian will be there to improvise a fix. The status quo will be maintained. The mission will go on.


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Q: VBA excel macro to parse blocks of data in excel I'm brand new to VBA for excel (like a few hours ago new) and not really a programmer, so bear with me.
I have an excel data set, all in one column (column A) that is structured like this:
Data
Data
Data

Data
Data
Data

Data
Data
Data
Data
Data

Data
Data

That is, the data blocks are separated by blank rows, but not at regular intervals. I'm trying to write a macro that will go through the file and Group (the specific excel command) these blocks of data together. So far I have this:
Set firstCell = Worksheets("627").Range("A1")
Set currentCell = Worksheets("627").Range("A1")

Do While Not IsEmpty(firstCell)
    Set firstCell = currentCell

    Do While Not IsEmpty(currentCell)

        Set nextCell = currentCell.Offset(1, 0)

        If IsEmpty(nextCell) Then
        Range("firstCell:currentCell").Select
        Selection.Rows.Group
        Set firstCell = nextCell.Offset(1, 0)

        Else
            Set currentCell = nextCell

        End If

    Loop

Loop

I'm sort of stuck, having particular trouble with the logic of moving to the next block of data and initiating.
Any help would be appreciated!

A: How about something like this:
Option Explicit

Public Sub tmpTest()

Dim i As Long
Dim lngLastRow As Long

With ThisWorkbook.Worksheets(1)
    lngLastRow = .Cells(.Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row
    For i = lngLastRow To 1 Step -1
        If .Cells(i, 1).Value2 = vbNullString Then
            .Range(.Cells(i + 1, 1), .Cells(lngLastRow, 1)).EntireRow.Group
            lngLastRow = i - 1
        End If
    Next i
    .Range(.Cells(1, 1), .Cells(lngLastRow, 1)).EntireRow.Group
End With

End Sub

A: Here ya are. You just need to pull addresses in your range instead of trying to refer to the object. You also need to reset both current and first cell in your if statement.
Sub test()
Set firstCell = Worksheets("test2").Range("A1")
Set currentcell = Worksheets("test2").Range("A1")

Do While Not IsEmpty(firstCell)
    Set firstCell = currentcell

    Do While Not IsEmpty(currentcell)

        Set nextcell = currentcell.Offset(1, 0)
        If IsEmpty(nextcell) Then
          Range(firstCell.Address, currentcell.Address).Select
          Selection.Rows.group
          Set currentcell = nextcell.Offset(1, 0)
          Set firstCell = nextcell.Offset(1, 0)

        Else
            Set currentcell = nextcell

        End If

    Loop

Loop

End Sub

A: First of all, your code goes wrong when it says
Range("firstCell:currentCell").Select

You are trying to select the range named "firstCell:currentCell" instead of
selecting range from first Cell to currentCell
You should change it to
.Range(firstCell,currentCell).select

Try using below code and see if it does what you want it to do
Dim GROUP_LAST_CELL As Range

With Worksheets("627")

    LAST_ROW = .Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row

    I = 1

    While I <= LAST_ROW
        Set GROUP_LAST_CELL = .Cells(I, 1).End(xlDown)
        .Range(.Cells(I, 1), GROUP_LAST_CELL).Rows.Group
        I = GROUP_LAST_CELL.Row + 2
    Wend

End With

A: According to what i understood from the question, i think what you want to do is to loop across all the elements in a particular column, skipping all the blanks.
You can do so by

*

*Calculating the lastrow of the column

*Looping across from the first row count to the calculated lastRow count

*Applying a condition within the loop to only print the non-empty cells

Code Block
Sub test()

Dim j As Long, lastRow As Long

lastRow = Cells(Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row

For j = 1 To lastRow

    If Cells(j, "A").Value <> "" Then
        MsgBox (Cells(j, "A").Value)

     End If
Next j

End Sub

I Hope this helped!

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The UN's immorality and UNIFIL's counter-productivity
Posted on 24 December 2018 by anneinpt
I have written countless times about the UN and its various institutions and their depraved, insufferable bias against Israel.
Last week we saw it all in action once again as the UN found it impossible to condemn Hezbollah – Hezbollah! One of the world's most violent and vicious terrorist organizations – despite the ample evidence provided by Israel of attack tunnels leading from Lebanese territory into Israel itself, and despite Israel's asking for help from the UN in destroying the tunnels on Lebanese territory. From the ToI link above:
The United Nations failed to take action during a special Security Council session Wednesday against cross-border attack tunnels that Israel says were dug by Lebanon's Hezbollah terror group.
IDF soldiers around the opening of a hole that leads to a tunnel that dug by the Hezbollah terror group across the Israel-Lebanon border, near Metulla, on December 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
Ahead of the meeting, Israel had urged the council to condemn the Iran-backed Hezbollah and designate it a terrorist organization.
Though the council took no action on the Israeli request, several members sided with Israel and expressed concerns over Hezbollah's violation of a UN Security Council resolution that ended a 2006 war between the bitter enemies.
Israel's Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon displays a map showing the location of Hezbollah tunnels
Israel has previously urged the UN's most powerful body to condemn Hezbollah, but has never succeeded because of divisions in the council, and there was no move Wednesday to circulate a draft resolution on the tunnels. A key reason for the lack of council action is that some members would insist that alleged Israeli violations of the 2006 resolution also be included in a resolution.
Here is the IDF spokesman talking about the tunnels, and PM Binyamin Netanyahu's press conference before the UN debate:
WATCH LIVE: Statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the UN Security Council discussion of Hezbollah's terrorist tunnels which violate Israeli sovereignty and UNSC Resolution #1701https://t.co/e8jPocDstj
— PM of Israel (@IsraeliPM) December 19, 2018
Hillel Neuer, the remarkable head of UN Watch, posed an awkward but obviously rhetorical question to the UN:
2018 UN General Assembly Condemnations:
🇮🇱 Israel – 21
🏴☠ Hezbollah – 0
Standing by Hezbollah terror tunnels at Israel-Lebanon border, I asked if the UN would adopt 1 resolution on this flagrant violation of international law, UNSCR 1701, the UN Charter & the Geneva Conventions. pic.twitter.com/oDPHgw8VwG
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 20, 2018
Vivian Bercovici, the former Canadian Ambassador to Israel, took the UN's peacekeeping force UNIFIL to task for looking away from Hezbollah's aggression:
Since August 2006, UNIFIL has been mandated, pursuant to UNSC Resolution 1701, to ensure that all militia forces are kept behind the Litani River in south Lebanon, which flows four kilometres north of the border with Israel at its closest point. In other words, 1701 intends for a reasonable buffer to be maintained separating Hezbollah and IDF forces.
The Lebanese villages of Kafr Kila and Ramya are a literal stone's throw from the Israeli border. A small, ordinary structure in Kafr Kila, said to be a "cement block factory" turned out to be anything but. There was significant and unusual activity for an agricultural village of 10,000.
With airborne devices, the IDF noticed an awful lot of heavy truck traffic going to and from the little factory. They all arrived empty and left loaded with dirt. Israel knew what it was looking at — the site of a major tunnelling operation.
All this busy work seems to have gone unnoticed by the approximately 10,500 UNIFIL soldiers working in the area. To suggest that this strains credulity is putting it mildly. What it also clearly does is raise the issue of the neutrality of the UN force.
This particular tunnel had reached 600 meters from Kafr Kila, burrowing very close to the northernmost Israeli town of Metulla. A beautiful village where 2,000 Israelis reside, Metulla is perched at the tip of a narrow jut of land, "the finger," it is sometimes called, and surrounded on three sides by Lebanon. (It is also home to the only indoor regulation-size hockey arena in Israel, named Canada Centre.)
The view inside a Hezbollah tunnel
Israel's northern reaches have experienced horrific incidents too often. Among the more surreal were two brutal terrorist operations that infiltrated Israel through the Lebanese border and targeted civilians: in 1974, terrorists from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine took hostage more than 115 schoolchildren and murdered 25; and in 1980, when Kibbutz Misgav Am was attacked by commandos from a radical splinter group under the Palestine Liberation Organization umbrella, who took hostage infants and babies with their caregivers, murdering two. An IDF soldier died in their ultimate rescue.
The 2018 version of Misgav Am and Ma'alot is far more sophisticated, engineered and financed by Iran and its proxy, Hezbollah. Apparently, the plan was to have hundreds of fighters emerge from numerous tunnels (to date three have been exposed but the IDF states that there are more), ambush and encircle Metulla and distract IDF attention and response from the regular Hizballah forces that would then, according to Nasrallah, surge the border and conquer northern Israel.
Operating within Israeli borders, the IDF has neutralized tunnels exposed thus far with explosives, but clearly intends further action. Residents in the villages hosting Hezbollah operatives have received repeated warnings from the IDF since Sunday urging them evacuate their homes, clearly signalling an imminent intention to destroy the structures used as bases for tunnel construction.
In his meeting with Maj. Gen. Del Col, IDF Chief Eisenkot made it very clear that Israel considers the tunnels to be a blatant violation of UN Resolution 1701. Based on official statements, UNIFIL's response seems to have been a flurry of meetings with Lebanese and other officials. What UNIFIL has yet to do is explain, at all, how such significant Hezbollah military activity could continue, presumably for years, unnoticed, right under more than 10,500 noses.
Incredibly, UNIFIL seems to be questioning the obvious — whether Hezbollah is responsible for the tunnels. Following a meeting yesterday with Lebanese President Michel Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri, Maj. Gen. Del Col issued a statement regarding the seriousness of the tunnel situation, but tempering it with a peculiar warning: "At the same time rumours and speculations should be avoided." Presumably, this somewhat cryptic admonishment invokes the Israeli claim that Hezbollah operatives dug the tunnels.
For the UN, it would appear, Hezbollah's culpability is anything but certain. It's an absurdist denial and, regrettably, exactly why Hezbollah has become so entrenched in south Lebanon in spite of Resolution 1701.
This is no whodunnit. It will be interesting to see what alternate theory of reality UNIFIL suggests as to who, other than Hezbollah, might have the resources, motivation and tenacity to burrow through hard rock from Lebanon into Israel.
UNIFIL, far from being a neutral player and peacekeeper between Israel and Lebanon/Hezbollah, has shown itself to be at best cowardly and acquiescent towards the terrorists and at worst an active party to the terrorists' activities.
The blogger "Daled Amos" at the Elder of Ziyon provides us with a detailed description of UNIFIL's mandate, saying that UNIFIL has forgotten its mandate:
So, according to Tenenti:
o UNIFIL's job is limited to monitoring;
UNIFIL has no mandate to disarm Hezbollah;
UNIFIL is not allowed to search private property
That was on September 3.Three weeks later, Pellegrini gave an exclusive interview to The Jerusalem Post:
In his first interview to an Israeli paper since the war in Lebanon, Pellegrini revealed that last week a Syrian weapons convoy on its way to Hizbullah was intercepted by the Lebanese army near the Lebanese-Syrian border. While the new rules of engagement set by the UN allowed the new UNIFIL force to open fire in order to implement resolution 1701, Pellegrini said he would not automatically order his troops to open fire on Hizbullah guerrillas if they werespotted on their way to the Blue Line to attack Israel. The job of the new multinational force, he said, was to assist the Lebanese army and not to disarm or engage Hizbullah or even to prevent its attacks.
Pellegrini's admission that UNIFIL is allowed to use force to implement Resolution 1701 contradicts Tenenti's claim that UNIFIL's role is just to monitor. That Pellegrini goes on to turn around and then claim that their role is to assist the Lebanese army and not to disarm, engage or prevent attacks is puzzling.It also contradicts the text of Resolution 1701, which:
authorizes UNIFIL to take all necessary action in areas of deployment of its
forces and as it deems within its capabilities, to ensure that its area of operations is not utilized for hostile activities of any kind, to resist attempts by forceful means to prevent it from discharging its duties under the mandate of the Security Council, and to protect United Nations personnel, facilities, installations and equipment, ensure the security and freedom of movement of United Nations personnel, humanitarian workers and, without prejudice to the responsibility of the Government of Lebanon, to protect civilians under imminent threat of physical violence;
Again, this assigns to UNIFIL more than just a monitoring role.Now, what about a mandate to disarm Hezbollah?Back to the text of Resolution 1701, which:
Requests the Secretary-General to develop, in liaison with relevant international actors and the concerned parties, proposals to implement the relevant provisions of the Taif Accords, and resolutions 1559 (2004) and 1680 (2006), including disarmament…
Again, instead of maintaining just a monitoring mode, UNIFIL does have a mandate to search homes when there is evidence of violations. More than that, the text clearly states that when the illegal presence of weapons is detected, UNIFIL not only has the authority to search but also to act "with all means available" — meaning that it can disarm.There is, in fact, a documented case of UNIFIL doing a search of private homes in 2010, using sniffer dogs and resulting in villagers retaliating by grabbing the weapons of a UNIFIL patrol, throwing stones at them and blocking the road.In this case, it was UNIFIL that was disarmed.The bottom line is that clearly, the role of UNIFIL was not intended to be as
passive as Tenenti claims, limited to monitoring.
o UNIFIL is allowed to use force
o The issue of disarming Hezbollah is a hot potato everyone is trying to avoid, but there is no clear indication that UNIFIL cannot disarm Hezbollah in specific circumstances "to prevent hostile activities"
o UNIFIL is allowed to do searches when there is evidence of a violation
The fact that Hezbollah was able to dig multiple tunnels into Israel is just one more reminder of UNIFIL's failure to do its job.
UNIFIL not only fails to do its job, as detailed above, but Evelyn Gordon argues that it interferes in the political domain as UNIFIL deters the EU from banning Hezbollah:
It's no secret that UNIFIL, the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, has never done the job it's supposedly there to do. But this week, we learned that UNIFIL isn't merely useless; it's counterproductive. By the very fact of its existence, the organization deters the European Union from listing Hezbollah as a terrorist organization—something which, unlike UNIFIL, would genuinely impede Hezbollah's operations.
This dirty little secret came out after Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini called Hezbollah "Islamic terrorists" during a visit to Israel on Tuesday. The Italian Defense Ministry promptly issued a press statement blasting Salvini for "embarrassing" Rome by calling a spade a spade. "These statements obviously put in a very difficult position our men who are deployed on that southern border," the statement warned, referring to the Italian contingent of UNIFIL deployed along Lebanon's border with Israel.
UNIFIL Commander Maj. Gen. Stefano Del Col (centre) is shown a tunnel entrance by IDF Northern Command Chief Maj. Gen. Yoel Strick (right)
It doesn't take an Einstein to realize that if Italy's Defense Ministry fears repercussions to its troops from a single minister daring to call Hezbollah "terrorists," it would be terrified of the consequences should the EU ever formally declare Hezbollah a terrorist organization. Thus, Italy's significant involvement in UNIFIL—it currently contributes over 10 percent of UNIFIL's manpower, including its commanding officer—constitutes a major deterrent to consenting to such a step.
It's no coincidence that the major contributors to UNIFIL also oppose listing Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist organization. The only EU country that does blacklist the entire organization is Holland, which has exactly one soldier in UNIFIL.
The EU and its other member states blacklist only the military wing, not the political wing. And that's fine by Hezbollah because, as the organization itself admits, any distinction between its political and military wings is purely fictitious. Thus as long as the political wing is legal, Hezbollah can still fundraise and recruit freely in Europe.
To be fair, expecting UNIFIL to stop Hezbollah was never realistic. As a senior Israeli official acknowledged this week, few countries would be willing to contribute troops to a mission that actually involved fighting Hezbollah.
What's inexcusable, however, is that UNIFIL has never even reported any of Hezbollah's activities to mobilize international action against the organization. On the contrary, whenever Israel complains, UNIFIL insists it has seen no sign of hostile activity.
This might even be true because UNIFIL has learned not to look anywhere Hezbollah doesn't want it to look. Back in 2010, after a French unit made the mistake of actually trying to do its job by conducting searches and using sniffer dogs, Lebanese "civilians" clashed with UNIFIL troops, seized their weapons and threw stones at them until UNIFIL's commander forbade such searches. Today, the UN confines itself to meaningless statements about how "allegations of illegal arms transfers … warrant serious concern" and would violate Resolution 1701, but "the United Nations is not in a position to substantiate them independently."
And even when turning a blind eye becomes impossible—like when Israel took UNIFIL officers on a guided tour of the cross-border tunnels—the organization is careful never to blame Hezbollah. As the blogger Elder of Ziyon reported last week, UNIFIL's press statement about the tunnels didn't accuse anyone of responsibility; it never mentioned Hezbollah at all. In fact, the post continued, "the UNIFIL website has not mentioned the word 'Hezbollah' or 'Hizbollah' since the 2006 war!
In contrast, UNIFIL has no problem making accusations against Israel. The same November report that couldn't "substantiate" Hezbollah's arms transfers declared that UNIFIL had recorded 550 Israeli violations of Lebanon's airspace and demanded their "immediate cessation."
The conclusions from all the above are obvious:
So the international community is spending $500 million a year on a "peacekeeping" force that hasn't stopped Hezbollah's military buildup … To call this a waste of money is a colossal understatement. And it's not likely to change, given that efforts to reform UNIFIL have repeatedly failed.
The better solution would be to dissolve UNIFIL, put those $500 million to some better use, and focus instead on getting the EU to blacklist Hezbollah. Admittedly, that might not happen even if UNIFIL disappears. But it definitely won't happen as long as UNIFIL exists.
But I'm not holding my breath waiting for the world to come to its senses.
(This post was also shared on Jews Down Under)
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DP-PT says:
My suggestion is simply for Israel to refuse to renew UNIFIL's mandate the next time it comes up. Accompany that with some renewed warnings that at the first sign of trouble Israel will reduce Lebanon to the Stone Age by destroying its infrastructure – Airports, Bridges, Motorways, Ports, Power Stations, Cellular Towers, Central Bank, Parliament Buildings, Army HQ, etc. This might concentrate some minds at the UN on the price of (always) letting Israel down.
anneinpt says:
Nah. The UN will blame Israel for war mongering and aggression


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The Rosedale Residence is a ground up 6,000 sf house on the last available site adjacent to the historic Rosedale Conservancy, located in Cleveland Park in northwest Washington, DC. The Conservancy dates back 280 years into Washington history and is home to one of the oldest private residences in the area. Over the years, the neighborhood grew up around the estate as lots bordering the three-acre, conserved green space were sold off. The lawn is now open to the public and serves as a dog park for the community. The last available lot near the conservatory, 3/4 acre, was purchased by a young family interested in building their dream home on these grounds.
KUBE Architecture worked with the homeowners and an array of organizations to design an approved set of plans that pays homage to the site's rural past while delivering a comfortable, modern structure stacked into two stories and configured as two offset rectangles.
The plans were approved and applauded by the Historic Preservation Review Board, the local ANC, the Cleveland Park ARC and the Rosedale Conservancy Board. The concept is a "modern barn," which nods toward the rural history of the site and successfully unifies the new house with the adjacent historic farmhouse. The project includes a swimming pool and straddles a small slope in the rolling landscape. Consultants on the project include landscape architects Campion Hruby, structural engineer, JZ Structural Consulting and civil engineer, CAS Engineering. Custom millwork is by Mersoa Woodwork and Design.


Server virtualization is the computing wave of the future, with virtual machines taking the place of larger server rooms and streamlining the resource management process. Virtualization has been around for quite some time but it's becoming increasingly popular in the enterprise, so now is the time to get on board before you get left behind. Recently, I decided to really start learning how to work in a Linux virtual machine environment so that I can learn more about cloud security. As a result, I ended up buying a more powerful laptop, which is why I decided to help you find the best laptops for virtualization so that you can have an easier time than I did.
Virtualization let's you do some cool things, so with that said, let's get into what you'll need to get started.
Virtualization is one of the most computationally-intensive processes that you can engage in on your new machine. If you're going into security like I am, you'll need programs like Kali Linux for penetration testing and when you're doing this, a multi-core machine is integral. While you won't get any more cores than four on a laptop today, this is generally enough for most virtualization needs.
As a general rule, with two cores or so, you'll also have a harder time distributing your processing abilities across your virtual machines. Remember, when you are running a series of virtual machines, they are pooling their individual resources to benefit the entire server structure, so the more cores on each node, the more processing and computational power you'll have to work with.
A good choice for a mobile processor will be an i7 or greater CPU. You can select a sixth/seventh generation i7-6700HQ or i7-7700HQ and be pretty good to go on your virtualization laptop.
Since you'll be shooting for multiple cores, you'll definitely need a lot of RAM so that your access times aren't bottlenecked by memory limitations. While VMware suggests 4 GB of RAM, I feel that 8 GB of RAM is better or more. In fact, outside of heavy duty encrypting or Hadoop work, virtualization is one of the few fields where it's perfectly reasonable to have a machine with 64 GB of RAM.
While outright capacity isn't the most important factor in purchasing a virtualization machine, you should have at least a terabyte drive to manage your shared storage framework. One of the chief considerations that you should make when considering your storage is what kind of drive you want. For my money, solid state drives have some key advantages over traditional mechanical hard drives. The chief one is the fact that solid-state's access times are lightning fast in comparison, which means that your virtual machines will boot much faster.
Also, when it comes to solid-state drives, for virtualization, an M.2 PCI-E NVMe SSD is slightly better than a SATA-based SSD. In fact, NVMe SSDs run significantly faster than the other type but are also a bit more expensive than SATA as well.
If you want to do some virtualization, then you're going to need a larger machine. Not only do larger laptops have larger displays, which is advantageous when running programs and security applications, but they also tend to have num pads, which are also useful when you have to do some programming.
Additionally, larger machines are also more friendly for upgrading. Need more RAM? A larger laptop is more apt to have upgradeable memory and storage. Since you'll be running some component intensive processes on this new laptop, a larger system will also benefit you because larger systems don't cut down on cooling. Simply put, with a more robust structure, a larger system simply will handle the stress much better than the thinner systems that are popular today.
In all honesty, this is probably the least important component of a virtualization-ready laptop. That being said, if you plan on doing any gaming on your new laptop, shoot for the current gen Nvidia Pascal 1000-series GPU. Additionally, systems with these kinds of chipsets can actually benefit your virtual machine by providing CUDA technology that can actually add a bit of computational power to your virtual environment.
Over the years, one thing I've learned is that in most situations, powerful processors and graphics cards will greatly hinder your overall battery life. It's for this reason that gaming laptops tend to only last a couple of hours when not plugged in. Despite this, the Lenovo IdeaPad 700 is very impressive. Its Intel i7 6700HQ is a fairly powerful processor from the last generation that has a quad-core architecture. Somehow, Lenovo was still able to build this laptop to last about six hours under mild load, which is an impressive feat.
As the most budget-conscious of the laptops that I'm featuring here, this IdeaPad has some great features including a two-drive setup that combines a 250 GB SSD for booting and programs and a 1 TB HDD for file storage. The biggest caveat with this system, in my opinion, is its soldered-on battery, which can't be replaced when it goes.
With 32 GB of RAM, the ASUS ROG STRIX GL553VD-DS71 has a lot of memory for what is effectively a gaming rig. Add to this its very impressive Intel i7-7700HQ, its spacious dual-drive setup, and its Pascal 1050 GPU and you've got a fairly performant machine here that doesn't cost a whole lot.
Its i7-7700HQ is current generation, which means that you'll get robust performance. It has four computational cores, a max turbo frequency (clock speed) or 3.80 GHz, and a 6 MB cache. Put this processor together with the Nvidia GTX 1050 GPU and you've got a lot of computational power thanks to Nvidia's CUDA technology. Of course, as a gaming-oriented machine, you can also expect to sacrifice a bit of battery life with this; it only lasts about four hours or so.
Despite this limitation, the combination of the fast processor and the 32 GB of RAM means that this laptop will have the ability to host more virtual machines and work faster.
As we get into the big leagues, it's important to note that a few of these machines, like the last one, can be considered "gaming laptops." While you might not see the convergence between virtualization and gaming, these machines are typically very powerful, which makes them definitely ready for the virtual machine environment. The MSI GS43VR is definitely built for gaming, but its excellent components make it great for just about any processor-intensive application, which definitely includes virtualization.
It has the same Intel i7-7700HQ as our previous machine, but its Nvidia GTX 1060 and its CUDA computational enhancements are what will make this a great machine for your virtual machine configuration. Additionally, this laptop has an in-plane switching (IPS) display that is crystal clear and has great brightness and contrast. Add to this the presence of a half-terabyte solid state drive and 32 GB of RAM and you've got a fairly speedy machine. It only falters, in my opinion, in its size; it's only a 14-inch laptop, which can fit your needs or be a hindrance.
The Omen 17 is a powerhouse system that incorporates a ton of space (a half terabyte PCIe SSD and 2 TB of HDD storage), an exceptional GPU (Pascal 1070), and loads of RAM into its stylish interior. Also powering this gaming-oriented machine is the same i7-6700HQ that we covered in our first machine. If you're looking to run a Hadoop node for big data and virtualization, then there aren't many machines that are more capable than this one. It has a good processor with a great GPU so that you can leverage CUDA computational power as well.
While its battery life is fairly disappointing as it only lasts for about four hours, I really like the fact that you can actually upgrade the RAM and the solid-state drive in this machine in the future. That being said, you can't replace the battery and the Omen 17 doesn't incorporate a USB 3.1 C into its design.
Whew! We are finally here, the "cream of the crop" so to speak. At $3,000, you can expect the Lenovo Thinkpad P50 to be a very high-performance laptop. In fact, Lenovo has something of a reputation for providing some great machines for enterprise level IT specialists. You simply can't knock the build quality of this machine and with its top-notch components, you'll be happy using this in your virtual machine environment.
One of the reasons why I like this so much is because it is more of a mobile workstation rather than a traditional laptop. It has a professional-grade Nvidia Quadro M2000M graphics processor with 4 GB of video RAM, a powerful quad-core i7-6820HQ, and it also has a full 64 GB of memory. It even has a two terabyte solid-state drive. It's a bit dim and its speakers aren't the greatest, but it's still a very impressive machine.
It's definitely time to consider virtualization; it's the wave of the future and it's only going to grow in its vitality in business. Each of the machines that I covered here is excellent for virtualization, so review each again and decide which works best for your needs. If you ever need additional feedback or have any questions, pop a comment down below; I'll be sure to get back to you.
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Кристиан Едуардо Сапата Валенсия () е колумбийски футболист, играе като централен защитник и се състезава за италианския Дженоа.

Клубна кариера

Удинезе
Сапата подписва с италианския Удинезе от Депортиво Кали на 31 август 2005 г., заедно със съотборника си Абел Агийяр. На 18 септември 2006 г. подписва нов договор с клуба, увеличавайки заплатата му. През тзи сезон изиграва 35 мача за клуба. През октромври 2007 г. подписва нов договор заедно с Андреа Досена, Роман Еременко и Симоне Пепе. През 2008 г. получава тежка контузия и е извън игра 6 месеца.

Виляреал
След сезон 2010/11 медиите съобщават, че много клубове се борят за подписа на Сапата. На 12 юли 2011 г. Сапата подписва договор с испанския Виляреал.

Дебютът си за Виляреал прави на 17 август 2011 г. срещу датския Оденсе в мач от квалификацииите за Шампионска лига.

Сапата се превръща в титуляр още в дебютния си сезон за Виляреал, но не успява да помогне на отбора си, който завършва на 18-о място в Примера дивисион и изпада в по-долното ниво.

Милан
На 8 август 2012 г. Виляреал съобщава, че Сапата преминава в италианския вицешампион Милан под наем за един сезон. От Милан съобщават, че има фиксирана цена и имат опцията да го закупят след края на сезона. Сапата ще играе с номер 17 в Милан.

Дженоа
На 2 юли 2019 г. Сапата подписва двугодишен договор с клубът от Серия А "Дженоа" за безплатен трансфер. След пристигането си той става първият колумбийски играч, който подписва с "Дженоа".

Национален отбор
Сапата е основна част от състава на Колмбия до 20 години на първенството през 2005 г., но достигат само до осминафиналите, губейки от Аржентина.

Дебютът си за  прави през 2007 г. До този момент е изиграл 15 мача с националната фланелка.

Външни препратки
 Профил в официалния сайт на Милан
 Профил в Sportal.bg

Колумбийски футболисти
Футболисти на Милан
Футболисти на Удинезе
Футболисти на Дженоа

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Alps avalanche alert after off-piste skiers killed
The dangers of off-piste skiing were laid bare on Tuesday when two skiers were killed in the Savoie region of the French Alps when avalanches swept them to their deaths.
Published: 6 January 2016 08:41 CET
A 37-year-old Spanish skier died near the resort of Val d'Isere when he was swept away by a wall of snow.
A French skier was left seriously injured in another avalanche near the resort.
On the same day a 30-year-old skier from the Czech Republic was killed at Saint-Colomban-des-Villards as he skied off-piste near the resort of Sybelles.
The risk of avalanches have increased after heavy snow falls in recent days were followed by strong winds. That has led to unstable formations of snow high up in the mountains.
The specialist French mountain police at the resort of Courchevel were called out to eight separate avalanches on Tuesday alone.
Authorities in the Alps have called on those practicing winter sports to take the necessary precautions so as not to put their lives in danger.
"The recent and significant snow falls, which will continue for the rest of the week, covered a blanket of very snow meaning the risk of avalanches is high – level four out of five – around the whole of the Savoie area," said the local authority in a statement.
The deaths come just days after two Lithuanian mountain climbers were killed in an avalanche in the French Alps.
Emergency responders said the avalanche happened at an altitude of some 3,200 meters (10,500 feet) above Argentiere at around 1200 GMT.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve was forced to release a statement urging "everyone to take the utmost precaution because of a high avalanche risk".
AVALANCHEALPS
Dad's 'miracle escape' after being buried by avalanche in French Alps
British ski instructor can give lessons in France after winning 7-year legal battle


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Growing Up in Working Class Youngstown — William H. and Mattie Kilcawley
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Kilcawley House through the trees. Photo: Robert C Trube © 2010
I probably spent more time in Kilcawley Center as a student, and later for a time in the 1980's as a campus minister at Youngstown, than any other place on the Youngstown State campus. I had several good friends who lived in Kilcawley Dorm (now Kilcawley House) and attended a Bible study group there. I went to various meetings in meeting rooms, listened to music in the music listening room, where I first heard the classic Buckingham-Nicks album, used to love all-the-spaghetti-you-could-eat Wednesdays, bought books in the bookstore, typed papers on typewriters (and had textbooks stolen from me), went to free movies, and probably bought beer from Ed O'Neill in the Pub.
I never knew until writing this post that I had William H. and Mattie Kilcawley to thank for this gathering place. I learned that they had a close connection to two other families whose names appear on Youngstown State buildings. In 1914, William H. Kilcawley joined Leon A. Beeghly and William E. Bliss in forming the Standard Slag Company. Slag is a stony or glass-like by product resulting from the smelting or refining of iron ore. At first glance, this sounds like waste material, but there are a number of uses of slag in concrete, road bases, railroad ballast, waterway construction, and even for soil amendments in agriculture. Obviously the steel industry of the Valley furnished an ample supply. Kilcawley was the secretary-treasurer of the company.
In 1945, the Kilcawleys bought Red Gate Farm, a 290 acre property at US Route 62 and Leffingwell Road. Previously, they lived at an estate called "Raccoon Acres" on Raccoon Road, and in a home on High Street in Canfield. The Kilcawleys raised sheep and cattle on the farm. Their agricultural interests also led to William's involvement as president and treasurer of the Canfield Fair, and one of the gates to the fair is named in his honor after William died in 1958. The Kilcawleys had one daughter, Anne, who married Byron Christman. They lived in Illinois until returning to the farm in 1967, raising pigs, sheep, and grain. Anne was involved on the board of the Butler, and a trustee of the Stambaugh Auditorium Association. Anne and her husband had no children and she died in 2002.
Mattie was a member of the Youngstown State Board of Trustees. It was in this capacity that she arranged a $300,000 gift from the family trust for the construction of Kilcawley Center. She never saw the full complex, dying in 1972 before the second phase of its construction. The William & Mattie Kilcawley Foundation has give over $1 million to Youngstown State as has the Anne Kilcawley Christman Foundation.
Since the 1970's students have gathered to eat, study, meet, and relax at Kilcawley Center. All this goes back to a successful company that processed a waste product of the steel industry, and the generosity of the wife of one of its founders, Mattie Kilcawley. Thank you, Mrs. Kilcawley for all those great memories from times at student center that bears your name!
Joseph G. Butler, History of Youngstown and Mahoning Valley, Ohio, Volume 2 (Chicago: American Historical Society, 1921), pp. 192.
"History Red Gate Farm," The Vindicator, May 18, 2003.
"Notable Giving Societies," Youngstown State University
Susan Tebbe, "Canfield Still Paying for Redgate Farm, Despite Lack of Development," The Vindicator, March 27, 2013.
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Wichita State tops national rankings for aeronautical R&D
Dec. 5, 2019 -- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has released updated rankings for university research and development (R&D) expenditures, and Wichita State has held its position as the top university in the country for industry-funded aeronautical R&D with a total of $39 million in fiscal year 2018.
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Dec. 5, 2019 -- A class project brought color to the sky above Wichita — and helped one student land a job.
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WSU creates new School of Digital Arts
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Nov. 8, 2019 -- The Wichita State Opera Theater and the WSU Symphony Wind Ensemble will present the North American premiere of "The Path to Heaven" later this month. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17, in Miller Concert Hall, Duerksen Fine Arts Center.
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MANILA -- Outside a sardine cannery in Manila's port district, a shanty serves as a makeshift headquarters for disgruntled employees who launched a strike in July.
"They have been treating us unfairly all these years!" Sonia Gabato, a 54-year-old worker at the cannery, said on Oct. 6. She and a colleague had just completed a handwritten testimony detailing allegations against their employer, which will be submitted to the Department of Labor and Employment.
Across town, in the capital's Bonifacio Global City business district, maintenance workers declared a hunger strike on Oct. 5 outside the posh condominium where they had toiled for years. "We will fight until the end," said 58-year-old Abdulatip Tambungalan.
Under President Rodrigo Duterte, who championed labor rights during his campaign, such protests are more frequent than they used to be. The strikes and looming legislation meant to address worker frustrations risk clouding the outlook for some businesses and are making international investors think twice.
In 2016, the year Duterte took office, the number of strikes shot up to 15. Not only was that three times the previous year's count, it exceeded the total number of stoppages since 2011. Workers staged nine strikes in 2017, but the number has surpassed double digits again this year as workers emboldened by the president's rhetoric grow impatient.
"[Workers] feel more protected under this administration and they have a wider avenue to stage a strike," Benjo Benavidez, the labor department's acting undersecretary, told the Nikkei Asian Review.
Duterte, who once described himself as a "socialist," has unleashed a wave of activism with his passionate promises to end contractual or temporary work, which critics say deprives millions of people of job security.
"I'm telling this to you. ... You choose: Stop contractualization or I kill you," Duterte told businesses in early August 2016, in a televised speech a month after he was sworn in.
Aiming to end a decadeslong communist insurgency, Duterte appointed Communist Party nominees to key government posts -- including in the labor department. Radical worker groups, meanwhile, galvanized unions. The strikes at the sardine cannery and condominium were instigated by groups associated with the political left, according to organizers.
Things were different under Duterte's predecessor, Benigno Aquino, who showed little tolerance for labor unrest. In 2011, Aquino warned striking workers at Philippine Airlines that they could be charged for "economic sabotage." In 2013, the country saw only one work stoppage.
Now, Benavidez suggested workers know Duterte is on their side. "If I have a president like Duterte, who would shame employers in public, my confidence as an employee will be boosted," the acting undersecretary said.
In July, during a state-led mediation process, contract workers fighting for permanent jobs at food producer NutriAsia clashed with security personnel. The following month, Mexico's Coca-Cola Femsa decided to leave the Philippines, after a move to lay off workers triggered a large strike.
Though some protests have turned ugly, Benavidez said the strikes have been manageable.
Edgardo Lacson, chairman of the Employers Confederation of the Philippines, or ECOP, said the increased labor activism is not ringing alarm bells just yet. "If [affected companies] are involved in essential services like banking, telecom, transport, or are of national interest -- that would be alarming," Lacson told Nikkei.
It is anyone's guess how long the critical industries he cited will remain stoppage-free.
In September, a union at PLDT, the largest telecom company, filed a strike notice. Call center agents at Alorica made a similar move, the first in the $24 billion local outsourcing industry. At both companies, job security was the primary demand, according to reports.
Lacson sees the protests as mere "noise" and stressed employers face a bigger danger.
Early this month, three major business groups -- ECOP, the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the Philippine Exporters Confederation -- joined forces to oppose a bill they say would essentially ban contractual labor.
The legislation in question is Senate Bill No. 1826, also known as "The Security of Tenure and End of Endo Act of 2018." Endo refers to "end of contract," or the practice of hiring and replacing workers every five months to skirt a law requiring regularization after six months. This keeps labor costs low, since regular employees are entitled to benefits like paid leave.
Duterte in September asked congress to fast-track the bill.
"It is important that we pass this into law, to finally put an end to work schemes like 'endo' and labor-only contracting," said Senator Joel Villanueva, the bill's principal author. The legislation would benefit 1.9 million workers in the private sector alone, he said.
The bill in effect bans all job contracting, even outsourcing of seasonal workers, opponents argue.
"To ban all forms of job contracting will be disastrous, particularly to micro, small and medium enterprises," the business groups said in a joint statement. "Higher cost of doing business plus lower productivity rates shall give a lot of our [smaller employers] no choice but to close shop or retrench employees."
Small enterprises make up 99% of Philippine businesses.
Legislators have put forward other pro-labor bills, too, ahead of midterm elections next year. Proposed measures include expanding maternity leave from two to three months, giving workers two months of extra pay annually, and mandating a nationwide daily minimum wage of 750 pesos, from up to 512 pesos depending on the region.
Evangeline Daquilanea, a senior consultant at Willis Towers Watson, said these bills increase anxiety among foreign companies that have already suspended expansion plans, wary of another proposal to curtail income tax holidays to pave the way for a corporate tax cut.
"These are the things that companies are actually quite antsy about -- if [business in the Philippines] will be sustainable at all," she said.
At stake is the country's competitiveness. Corporate investors "may look at other countries" with fewer labor headaches, PCCI President Alegria Sibal-Limjoco warned.
For now, Duterte's pro-labor approach looks like a victory for the working class. An unprecedented 303,000 employees have been made permanent since he took office, according to Benavidez. Workers have reaped around 2.5 billion pesos ($46.4 million) worth of monetary benefits from voluntary arbitration, the labor department says.
Japanese electronic parts maker Murata Manufacturing felt the impact this year, when it was ordered to make over 400 workers regular employees in just two weeks. This meant the company was obliged to extend benefits like food allowances. Murata says its personnel costs surged 20%.
But companies with shrinking profit margins cannot expect much sympathy from workers hit by near-decade-high inflation.
"To ban all forms of job contracting will be disastrous, particularly to micro, small and medium enterprises"
The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines, the largest moderate labor group, said at least four member unions have asked their employers to renegotiate collective bargaining agreements due to rising commodity prices.
The Trade Union Congress on Oct. 22 petitioned for a 334-peso increase in the daily minimum wage on top of the current 512 pesos in Metro Manila.
Lacson said employers could absorb only a 20-peso daily hike. "We have one of the highest minimum wages in ASEAN already," he said.
Still, Lacson is optimistic the Security of Tenure bill will reflect the interests of businesses in its final form. "We don't bother the president with this," he said. "We talk to the economic managers, who advise him on what to do."
There are even some signs that Duterte is starting to rethink his labor populism.
In September, he blamed strikes organized by a leftist group called the Kilusang Mayo Uno, or May First Movement, for factory closures. This month, he fired Labor Undersecretary Joel Maglunsod, a former leftist labor leader, amid friction with the Communist Party.
Lacson said Duterte's recent moves are encouraging. "We hope he would eventually see the light," he said.
Benavidez also said the government will favor "regulation" of contractual labor "rather than prohibition." But Trade Union Congress spokesman Alan Tanjusay said Duterte must follow through and abolish contractual labor.
Rising living costs, worsening traffic and perennial flooding are all eating into take-home pay, Tanjusay said. The barely growing wages, he said, are a "recipe for social upheaval."
"Right now, Duterte's popularity rating is still high, but when it comes to a point when it is difficult to [appease] people, Mr. Duterte will have a problem," Tanjusay said.
Protecting the interests of both workers and investors is always a tough balancing act, especially in a country where a fifth of the population is poor and many live on the minimum wage.
In December 2016, a study by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies, a state think tank, warned against banning contract work. "It appears that the need for immediately ending endo is overblown and could significantly impede achievement of inclusive growth," researchers at the institute said, arguing that such jobs "play valuable roles in keeping the Philippine economy efficient, competitive and inclusive."
Some ordinary workers say being on a regular payroll is not everything.
Rica, 19, became a permanent staff member at a fast-food company in June after working on contract for over a year. "But what's more important for me is to have a steady job, a workplace where people aren't fighting ... and a company that does well."


Stagecoach London driver, William Bradford, has been crowned UK Bus Driver of the Year 2015 at the competition's national final in Blackpool. Aged just 22, he is thought to be one of the competition's youngest ever winners, receiving the first prize of £1,500. He succeeded against over 118 other competitors. He received trophies and cash prizes after being named the competition's overall winner as well as the best driver in England, the highest ranking London bus driver and the highest rated Stagecoach driver.
Second place was Tomasz Jagiello from McGill's Buses, who received a £1,000 reward. Taking third place was Ipswich Buses' Leon Wells, winning £750. Luke Towey from First South Yorkshire came fourth, taking a £500 prize. Winning £250 was the Oxford Bus Company's David Cameron-Young, who came fifth.
There are also prizes for the best Driver CPC Knowledge and Highway Code test results, the best newcomer, the best driver from an English, a Scottish and a Welsh depot respectively, for the driver who has competed in the most consecutive National Finals and both the oldest and youngest competitors.
In addition, trophies are awarded by the major bus groups and TfL with a cheque for £500 to the best placed driver, and £250 for the runner-up, from one of their companies or a London Buses' contractor. The ALBUM Trophy plus £500 is awarded to the highest placed finalist from a company in membership of the Association of Local Bus Company Managers and the Wrightbus Trophy goes to the best competitor from an independent company.
The competitors had to qualify in regional heats before competing in the national finals. The entrants took part in a series of driving tests in an attempt to win, including driving on a simulated route. It is completed on both private and public roads and drivers are required to keep to schedule. All competitors also need to complete a combined written test on the Highway Code and Driver CPC Knowledge. The winners also receive cups and trophies sponsored by leading suppliers to the bus industry. Every finalist receives a Certificate of Attendance, subsistence money and gifts presented each year by sponsors and the BDoY Board.


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Coffeeshops In Amsterdam Red Light District
Coffeeshops in Amsterdam are big part of the Dutch culture because they represent the liberal thoughts of the Dutch.
Did you know that Mellow Yellow was the first (cannabis) coffeeshop in the world? It was founded in 1972 in a former bakery on the Weesperzijde street in Amsterdam. The name comes from a song by Donovan, which refers to a time when it was said that you could get high from smoking banana peels. The 2nd coffeeshop in the world is Rusland (translated: Russia), which was founded in 1975. It's located on a street called Rusland in Amsterdam. A few months later coffeeshop The Bulldog opened its doors, the first of many coffeeshops in the Red Light District. The first bulldog is still located at the Oudezijds Achterburgwal, in the legendary Red Light District. The first coffeeshop in the world – Mellow Yellow – doesn't exist anymore, as it got destroyed by a fire. Did you know that there are currently 164 coffeeshops in Amsterdam? In 1995, the Dutch capital still had 350 (cannabis) coffeeshops.
Nowadays it is still illegal to produce weed in the Netherlands, except for personal use. Coffeeshops are therefor forced to buy their weed supplies from criminal drug gangs because of the large quantities they need. The Netherlands has been known internationally for decades for its flexible soft drugs policy. The new Dutch cabinet is planning for the partial legalisation of weed production. The new government weed will be produced locally and then spread among six to ten municipalities. It is a test to see if the legal production of weed decreases crime and if the weed can contain less harmful substances. Municipalities can sign up for the experiment. The intention is that mainly medium and large Dutch cities participate. One organisation is given a government license to grow weed.
In this list you can find coffeeshops in the Red Light district, and other parts of Amsterdam.
Coffeeshop Voyagers
Coffeeshop The Jolly Joker
Coffeeshop Rusland
Coffeeshop Het Gelderse
Coffeeshop Greenhouse Effect
Coffeeshop Hunters
Coffeeshop High Time
Coffeeshop Grey Area
Coffeeshop Baba
De Koffieschenkerij
Coffeeshop Bulldog The First
Metropolitan Pastry in Amsterdam
Quartier Putain Coffee Shop
Hofje van Wijs
The Dampkring
Coffeeshop Easy Times
Coffeeshop Dutch Flowers
Coffeeshop Dolphins
Homegrown Fantasy
't Ooievaartje
Coffeeshop Babylon
Coffeeshop The Old Church 2
Coffeeshop The Bushdocter
Coffeeshop Happy Feelings
Coffeeshop Basjoe
Coffeeshop Barney's
Coffeeshop Amnesia
Coffeeshop Abraxas
Coffeeshop La Tertulia
Dunkin Donuts Amsterdam


Oblique aerial photograph of Port Charlotte, Islay, taken from the SE.
Port Charlotte, Islay. Aerial view from North East.
Port Charlotte, Islay. Aerial view from East.
Oblique aerial view centred on the village with the farmstead adjacent, taken from the SSE.
Port Charlotte Hotel, Islay. View from South.
Oblique aerial view centred on the village with the farmstead adjacent, taken from the S.
General oblique aerial view looking across the village towards Loch Gearach, taken from the ESE.
Oblique aerial photograph of Port Charlotte, Islay, taken from the ESE.
Achnamara and adjoining house, Rathad Na Rainne, Port Charlotte, Islay. General view from street front.
Port Charlotte Hotel, Islay. View from North-West.
Oblique aerial photograph of Port Charlotte, Islay, taken from the N.
Oblique aerial photograph of Port Charlotte, Islay, taken from the NE.
Oblique aerial view centred on the village with the farmstead adjacent, taken from the SE.
General oblique aerial view centred on the village, taken from the S.
General oblique aerial view centred on the village, taken from the SW.
Oblique aerial photograph of Port Charlotte, Islay, taken from the NNE.
Oblique aerial photograph of Port Charlotte, Islay, taken from the E.
Bruthach An Doillair, Port Charlotte, Islay. General view from front.
General oblique aerial view looking along the E coast of the Rinns of Islay with Port Charlotte in the centre, taken from the SSW.
General oblique aerial view centred on the village, taken from the N.
Oblique aerial view of the village of Port Charlotte, taken from the E.
Oblique aerial view of the village of Port Charlotte, taken from the ESE.
General oblique aerial view centred on the village, taken from the W.
Sraid A' Chladaich, Port Charlotte, Islay. View from South East.
Police Station and Lochview, Rathad Na Roinne, Port Charlotte, Islay.
General oblique aerial view of Port Charlotte, looking W.
Old Blacksmith's House, Rathad Na Rainne, Port Charlotte, Islay. General view from street front.
General oblique aerial view centred on the village, taken from the NNW.
situated further to the W.
floor of one of the low-level houses on the E side of the main road is reached directly by a bridge, and a building with an external forestair stands near the shore at the S end of the village.


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The three Serra sculptures in this gallery were conceived and built for this room.
They were brought in through a 40-foot door that opens onto the empty lot next to the Museum and each weighs between 100 and 200 tons.
This one, called Band, snakes horizontally for more than 70 feet.
This piece unfolds its curvature in a new template.
It has nothing to do with any of the pieces that have come before. It's a totally different vocabulary.
What I'd like you to do is walk the entire piece.
You can walk inside and outside continuously if you like and never stop.
There are 4 volumes that move in and out, the piece moves in and out.
There's a shift between inside and outside that seems continuous and there are some spaces, when you go into, you think you've been in before, but you realize you haven't.
You sense that they're similar, but they're all dissimilar.
It's difficult to tell one space from the other.
The entire sheet of steel, as it undulates through the space, changes continuously, and its interior/exterior is continually exchanging.
(announcer) Serra says that the sculpture creates new spaces within the architecture of the room.
(Serra) If this room were empty, it's like a field of space bounded by these walls.
But then when you walk into a piece like this, you're just dealing with sculptural volume, not the volume of the architecture of this room.
(announcer) Serrra worked out Band in a series of inch-to-a-foot-scale lead models.
(Serra) I built Band in models for about 3 years and then I built it in a steel mill, and then I went to look at it.
It was definitely a new experience, and I didn't know what to make of it for a couple of days.
It wasn't a question of quality, I didn't understand the space of it and that surprised me.
(announcer) Finally Serra felt he had a grasp of this sculpture and its newly-created form.
(Serra) I thought it was better than I thought it was.
If you're looking at 40 years of work, you make distinctions, and I think this is as interesting as anything else in the show.
(announcer) Serra was asked if Band would lead him in new directions.
(Serra) I think it already has, yeah.
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The three Serra sculptures in this gallery were conceived and built for this room.발음듣기
They were brought in through a 40-foot door that opens onto the empty lot next to the Museum and each weighs between 100 and 200 tons.발음듣기
This one, called Band, snakes horizontally for more than 70 feet.발음듣기
This piece unfolds its curvature in a new template.발음듣기
It has nothing to do with any of the pieces that have come before. It's a totally different vocabulary.발음듣기
What I'd like you to do is walk the entire piece.발음듣기
You can walk inside and outside continuously if you like and never stop.발음듣기
There are 4 volumes that move in and out, the piece moves in and out.발음듣기
There's a shift between inside and outside that seems continuous and there are some spaces, when you go into, you think you've been in before, but you realize you haven't.발음듣기
You sense that they're similar, but they're all dissimilar.발음듣기
It's difficult to tell one space from the other.발음듣기
The entire sheet of steel, as it undulates through the space, changes continuously, and its interior/exterior is continually exchanging.발음듣기
(announcer) Serra says that the sculpture creates new spaces within the architecture of the room.발음듣기
(Serra) If this room were empty, it's like a field of space bounded by these walls.발음듣기
But then when you walk into a piece like this, you're just dealing with sculptural volume, not the volume of the architecture of this room.발음듣기
(announcer) Serrra worked out Band in a series of inch-to-a-foot-scale lead models.발음듣기
(Serra) I built Band in models for about 3 years and then I built it in a steel mill, and then I went to look at it.발음듣기
It was definitely a new experience, and I didn't know what to make of it for a couple of days.발음듣기
It wasn't a question of quality, I didn't understand the space of it and that surprised me.발음듣기
(announcer) Finally Serra felt he had a grasp of this sculpture and its newly-created form.발음듣기
(Serra) I thought it was better than I thought it was.발음듣기
If you're looking at 40 years of work, you make distinctions, and I think this is as interesting as anything else in the show.발음듣기
(announcer) Serra was asked if Band would lead him in new directions.발음듣기
(Serra) I think it already has, yeah.발음듣기
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