Klima-Therm's Circlemiser range of chillers incorporates Turbocor compressors and is 'believed to be the most efficient dry-air-cooled chiller in the world'. Circlemiser delivers improvements of up to 15% on the company's Turbomiser's EER (Energy Efficiency Rating).
The key innovations behind this significant improvement in performance are the replacement of traditional flat coils by special cylindrical condensers and the use of flooded evaporators in a cascade system. By packing more active heat-exchange surface into a given space, the heat-exchange capacity of the cylindrical micro-channel condensers is increased by 45% compared to traditional condensers.
The cascade system with its flooded evaporators helps reduce the ∆T between evaporating temperature and the outlet temperature of the chilled water.
This increase in evaporation temperature further reduces energy consumption.
Comparing like-for-like performance of Circlemiser with standard air-cooled Turbomisers at AHRI/EUROVENT conditions, with the same number and model of compressors) demonstrates an increase in EER of up to 9.5% with one compressor and up to 15% with multiple compressors.
The highest EER achieved is 4.35, giving Circlemiser an equivalent efficiency to Turbomiser chillers with enhanced adiabatic evaporative systems (at 50% RH) but without the additional cost and complication of installation and maintenance associated with such systems.
Circlemiser chillers are available for R134a and HFO-1234ze, which has a very low global-warming potential.


A rare gem! Bald Head Island, North Carolina is just two miles from the mainland yet far from the maddening crowd. This little island has golf carts and bicycles for transportation and no cars allowed. Miles of beaches and sand dunes with privacy prevailing. There are no franchises, no honkeytonk, and 'nothing to do' but enjoy the beauty and nature that is in full supply. An old lighthouse, miles and miles of trails and unobstructed views. This is not for everyone, it is for me!! It was a gift and a privilege to spend three days on Bald Head Island!


"Acrostic" jewelry first appeared in the early 1800s as a way to convey secret messages through jewelry. Each letter in the alphabet was assigned to a different precious stone, and the so-called "language of gems" emerged. Wear your love's first initial or line up a few rings to spell a word. The triangles nest together perfectly.
Age: contemporary. Made by hand in our Brooklyn studio.
Materials: 14k yellow gold, gems.
Measurements: Triangle settings measure about 1/8" on each side. Bands are 1mm. Stones are either cabochons or faceted gems measuring 2mm.
Lead Time/ Terms of Sale: Please allow 6 weeks for us to build this ring to your exact specifications. While it can be resized in the future (for an additional fee of $90), it is considered a special custom order and therefore is FINAL SALE. It is non-returnable and not eligible for exchange.
Acrostic jewelry was beloved by the sentimental Victorians. Using precious gems, jewelers concocted all kinds of phrases, including ones with political messages ("REPEAL") and French-made memory rings ("SOUVENIR"). Jeweler Jean-Baptiste Mellerio famously made a "J'adore" ring for Marie Antoinette, and Napolean commissioned acrostic pieces for his beloved Josephine.


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Another reversal
Following up on my posting about problems with converses and directionality, Chris Lance wrote this morning to ask about substitute 'replace', as in this Bizarro cartoon from a couple of years ago:
I've written about this case at some length on the American Dialect Society mailing list, over several years, but now see that it hasn't turned up on Language Log. So here's a very brief account of the phenomenon.
For details of the various uses of substitute and their history, I refer you to a paper by David Denison, still in press but available in .pdf format on his website.
According to Denison, the development comes in three stages. In a nutshell:
1. standard substitute: substitute NEW for OLD (i.e., substitute a fried chunk of your left buttock for the pork chop) -- vs. replace OLD with/by NEW (i.e., replace the pork chop with/by a fried chunk of your left buttock). Note: the prepositions are important.
2. encroached substitute: substitute OLD with/by NEW (i.e., substitute the pork chop with/by a fried chunk of your left buttock). The verb substitute encroaches on replace by taking on its argument structure (with the result that the order of the two arguments mirrors the sequence of the two denotata in time and their information status, in both cases old before new). But standard substitute continues in use; the two meanings are usually distinguished by preposition choice -- though to judge from comments in my e-mail, this is a subtlety that escapes many people. Encroached substitute has been around since the 17th century, and as MWDEU notes, despite having been condemned by many commentators, it's been appearing in standard writing on both sides of the Atlantic for a long time (and has been recognized as a standard variant in Merriam-Webster dictionaries since WNI2 in 1934).
3. reversed substitute: substitute OLD for NEW (i.e., substitute the pork chop for a fried chunk of your left buttock, as in the Bizarro cartoon). This one -- a blend of standard and encroached substitute -- is genuinely recent, apparently becoming widespread in the U.K. only about twenty years ago, though now spreading to the U.S., as in the cartoon (the cartoonist Dan Piraro is American). Denison argues that the vector for its spread in the U.K. was the language of sport, in particular football/soccer: the spread of reversed substitute beginning in the mid-80s follows the institution of tactical substitution in soccer in the 1966-67 season. As Chris Lance put it in e-mail to me:
If a manager makes a substitution during the course of a game, then the player taken off is said to have been substituted. From there, it's a small step to say that the player taken off has been substituted for the player who replaced him. This usage now seems to have spread to other contexts.
Understandably, many speakers have trouble interpreting reversed substitute, which functions as the converse of the standard verb. You have to rely on context to figure out which meaning is intended.
Plenty of detail, documentation, and discussion in Denison's paper.
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Hot on the heels of its duo of low-cost, 4G Harrier smartphones, EE has launched a complementing tablet to prop up its affordable onslaught on the mobile devices industry.
The EE Harrier Tab sports an 8-inch full HD display, 1.5GHz octa-core processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, microSD slot and a 4650mAh battery. Oh, and it obviously has superfast 4G capabilities too.
It's taking over from the Huawei-made EE Eagle which launched last year, inheriting its £199.99 PAY G price tag, while pay monthly deals start at £18 per month for 10GB of data if you want the Harrier Tab for free.
You'll find Android 5.1 Lollipop on board, while for camera fans a 2MP front snapper is joined by an 8MP rear facing option.
All this means it stacks up surprisingly well against the iPad mini 3 (starting at £319) which boasts a 7.9-inch 1536 x 2048 display, 1.3GHz dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM, although it does sport larger internal storage options and a sizable 6470mAH battery.
If you're tempted by the EE Harrier Tab it's on sale now in store and online.


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380 amusement, gambling and recreation industries in North Carolina have between five and nine employees in 2016
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There were 380 amusement, gambling and recreation industries in North Carolina that had between five and nine employees in 2016, according to County Business Patterns (CBP) statistics provided by the United States Census Bureau.
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The Golden Age of Light Music: Charles Williams & The Queen's Hall Light Orchestra
Item No. GLCD 5107
During the 1940s and 1950s, the Chappell Recorded Music Library was the world's leading provider of quality background music. Radio and television signature tunes often had their origins in this library, and Chappell could call upon the talents of many of the finest composers working in light music. Much of it was performed by the legendary Queen?s Hall Light Orchestra, and for the first few years it was Charles Williams who waved the baton. He also wrote a wide variety of works to cover the needs of films, radio and particularly wartime newsreels. But there was also plenty of other tuneful music committed to 78s, as this collection spanning the years 1942 to 1945 surely proves.
01 London Calling Eric Coates QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 2:45
02 Morning at Bibury Charles Shadwell QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 2:33
03 Frontier March John Holliday QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 2:55
04 The Future Charles Williams QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 2:43
05 Dancing On The Green Percy Fletcher QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 2:46
06 Mirage Eric Coates QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 2:43
07 Moon In The Sky Billy Reid QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 3:00
08 Minuet in F Sinclair Logan QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 2:44
09 Empire Jubilee March Denis Wright QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 2:21
10 At The Court Of Cleopatra Percy Fletcher QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 2:50
11 Beachy Head Overture Frank Tapp QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 2:58
12 Lulworth Cove Charles Shadwell QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 2:59
13 Virginia – A Southern Rhapsody Haydn Wood QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 3:18
14 Overture to an Irish Comedy John Ansell QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 2:41
15 Hillside Melody Montague Phillips QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 3:23
16 Naval Splendour Clive Richardson QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 1:35
17 Manx Rhapsody Haydn Wood QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 2:57
18 Forest Melody Montague Phillips QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 3:10
19 Seaford Head Charles Williams QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 1:46
20 May Day at Helston John Holliday QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 2:46
21 Marianne Charles Williams QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 2:47
22 Rhythm on Rails Charles Williams QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 2:27
23 Witches' Ride Charles Williams QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 1:28
24 Tom Tom The Piper's Son Charles Williams QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 2:53
25 Always Kenneth Leslie Smith QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 3:13
26 Summer Garden Charles Williams QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 2:35
27 Mulberry Kenneth Leslie Smith QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 3:05
28 The Glass Slipper – Overture Clifton Parker QUEEN'S HALL LIGHT ORCHESTRA Conducted by CHARLES WILLIAMS 2:52
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Blue Wiggle Says Yellow Wiggle Was "Gone" After Cardiac Arrest
The Wiggles star Greg Page is reported to have been released from the hospital Tuesday and is on the road to a full recovery after suffering a heart attack late last week. But the Yellow Wiggle's collapse at a recent reunion benefit concert appears to have left his bandmates shaken. In an emotional statement Blue Wiggle Anthony Field said the Yellow Wiggle was "gone" after going into cardiac arrest following his heart attack.
"He was gone, really," Field told 7News Sydney of his bandmate's initial condition following his collapse offstage on Friday. "He came off stage and collapsed and there was no pulse, there was no breathing."
Thankfully, multiple people jumped in to perform life-saving first aid on Page. "Luckily, we have our wonderful drummer Steve Pace and [band staff member Kimmy Antonelli]. They came and they knew CPR," Field said. "They really brought Greg back. There was a nurse in the audience who put the defibrillator on him and they brought him back."
Field said hospital staff had put a stent in Page and that the Yellow Wiggle was doing "really good" since. "He's doing a lot better than I am," a visibly emotional Field joked. "The guy's amazing, he's such a positive man."
Forty-eight-year-old Page collapsed immediately after walking off stage Friday, suffering a heart attack before going into cardiac arrest, according to ABC. At the time, the popular Australian children's music group had been performing a reunion concert at Sydney's Castle Hill RSL to raise money for bushfire relief efforts.
On Tuesday, The Wiggles announced that Page had been discharged from the hospital and would now "begin a journey of rest and recovery at home." They then said Page's family had asked for privacy going forward so that Page might be able to focus solely on his recovery. "Your thoughts and prayers for Greg have meant the world to him and his family, but moving forward, they ask for some privacy so Greg can focus on his recovery," the band said in a statement shared on social media. "Out of respect for Greg and his wishes, we won't be sharing any more updates. Thank you."
Field told 7News Sydney the incident had inspired him to go and re-learn CPR. "I did CPR training 30 years ago and it's all changed and so I've made a vow that I'm going to go and learn CPR again," Fields said. "I'm so glad those people were there and able to do that." CPR performed immediately after the heart stops beating can double or triple an individual's chances of surviving cardiac arrest, according to the American Heart Association. With odds like that, more people should follow Fields' lead and get certified.


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Peacekeeping Contributor Profile: Zimbabwe
Author: Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa, Rhodes University, South Africa (gadzinesa@gmail.com)
Last updated January 10, 2015
Active armed forces[1] Helicopters & fixed-wing transport Defense Budget UN Peacekeepers UN Contribution Breakdown Other Significant Deployments
Global rank: (size): 80
Army: 25,000
Air force: 4,000
Plus 21,000 paramilitary 18
Attack helicopters: 6
Multirole 10
Transport (medium): 2 2014: $368m (est)
2013: $356m
(3.24% of GDP)
(2.1% of GDP)World Ranking (2016): 88 85
(35 women)
Ranking: 73rd (30th largest contributor in African Union) UNAMID 10 (5 police, 4 milex, 1 troops)
UNISFA 4 police
UNMIL 33 (31 police 2 milex)
UNMISS 36 police
UNOCI 2 milex Police:
Lesotho (SADC Observer Mission)
Defense Spending / Troop:[2] US$12,276 (compared to global average of approximately US$70,000)
Part 1: Recent Trends
Zimbabwe was born in 1980 with the pivotal assistance of a Commonwealth Monitoring Force under "Operation Agila." This was during the Cold War and the UN was deliberately excluded as Britain, the decolonizing power, wanted to control and influence a short transitional period between December 1979 and April 1980.[3] From being one of Africa's post-Cold War peacekeeping powerhouses in the 1990s, over the past decade Zimbabwe's contributions to UN peace operations have been modest. Zimbabwe's first UN deployment came in 1991 in the UN Verification Mission in Angola (UNAVEM II). The good performance of the Zimbabwean detachment earned the country a credible reputation that led to further UN requests for its personnel. Since then, personnel from the country's uniformed forces, including the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPS), have participated in UN missions including Angola, Côte d'Ivoire, East Timor, Eritrea, Kosovo, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan and South Sudan.
There was a surge in Zimbabwe's troop contributions for UN-led operations in the 1990s until the country's contentious troop deployment to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from 1998 to 2002, supposedly as part of a Southern African Development Community (SADC) initiative. The basis for the initiative code-named "Operation Sovereign Legitimacy" was the collective self-defense of President Laurent Kabila's regime. Zimbabwe subsequently downscaled its troop contributions to UN missions against a backdrop of socioeconomic decline. Its contributions have ranged from the provision of troops and police to correctional services and civilian personnel.
Significantly, women's representation in Zimbabwe's peacekeeping forces continues to increase. In 2011, 31% of the Zimbabweans in peacekeeping forces were women, and this increased to 42% in 2012.[4] The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) was particularly close to the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) target of 20% female representation; as of 2012, 18% of the peacekeepers from the police were women.[5] As of December 2014, roughly 41% of Zimbabwean peacekeepers are female.
Zimbabwe has also provided personnel to non-UN missions in Africa. In 2014, Zimbabwe contributed police officers to SADC's observation mission in Lesotho to assist in maintaining peace and security after political tension erupted in that country. In late 2012, elements of the army were deployed to the border of Mozambique in preparation for possible operations against Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) fighters. Zimbabwe had earlier in the 1980s deployed troops to support the Mozambican government against RENAMO and to safeguard the transportation corridor running to Beira port in Mozambique, which is an economic lifeline for the landlocked country. Zimbabwe's single largest international deployment since the Mozambique operation was its dispatch of approximately 10,000 personnel to DRC between 1998 and 2002. This was part of the controversial military intervention launched in partnership with fellow SADC states, Angola and Namibia, into DRC in support of the Kabila regime. Zimbabwe also provided a police commissioner for the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).
Part 2: Decision-Making Process
Zimbabwe's 2013 constitution states that two major stakeholders should play important roles in determining Zimbabwe's participation in peace missions – the Executive and the Legislature. This is in sync with the national defense policy.[6] The key role players from the Executive include the President's Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Justice. The decision on whether to provide troops and/or police and corrections officers remains the prerogative of the President, who is the Commander-in-Chief of the ZDF according to Article 213(1) of the constitution.
The Multilateral Affairs (Political) department within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs coordinates Zimbabwe's participation in international peace missions. This includes chairing a political-military committee whose task is to: i) consider the ability to support the proposed commitments; ii) examine the peace missions' mandate; and iii) consider the availability of resources to meet the missions' requirements. According to the constitution, the President is obliged to inform Parliament "promptly and in appropriate detail" of any deployment. The constitution notionally empowers Parliament to review the decision of the President to deploy Zimbabwean forces in peace missions.
Zimbabwe has an opaque procedure for the vetting and selection of peacekeepers for assignment to UN operations. It is alleged that nepotism, corruption and favoritism affect the selection of personnel to be deployed on UN peace missions. This is due to the handsome recompense offered by involvement in UN peace missions. Furthermore, the selection process is sometimes based more on political loyalty than operational competence.[7]
Part 3: Rationales for Contributing
Political rationales: Zimbabwe's involvement in peace missions is linked to its membership in international and regional organizations such as the UN, the African Union and SADC. Zimbabwe contributes to peace missions in fulfillment of its commitment to international and regional peace, stability and development. Zimbabwe has not expressed a preference to provide peacekeepers to AU operations over other types of peace support operations. Indeed, it has tended to deploy more in UN and SADC missions. Politically, participation in peace missions offers Zimbabwe a mechanism to assert influence in regional affairs and enhance its image and standing in the international system. The role played by Zimbabwe's uniformed forces in peace missions in Africa, both UN and SADC-sponsored, has placed Zimbabwe firmly in the Pan Africanist foreign policy camp. This is particularly significant as Zimbabwe sees its own success as bound with the African continent.
Economic rationales: Economic rationales, both at the national and individual levels have been a major reason behind Zimbabwe's deployments to peace operations. Some analysts believe that Zimbabwe has deployed personnel, including correction officers, as a money-making scheme for the country and its security services in times of economic problems.[8] Individual personnel have benefitted financially from the generous compensation offered by the UN. However, the Zimbabwe government has a record of taking a slice of the UN monthly allowance entitled to each soldier, in addition to his or her normal pay at home.
Security rationales: Zimbabwe participates in peace missions in line with its constitution. This provides for: i) defending national security or national interests such as those mentioned above in the case of the Mozambique intervention and ii) defending the country's territorial integrity from a foreign country. Zimbabwe's 1998 intervention in the DRC alongside Angola and Namibia was officially portrayed as a principled response – through the SADC Organ, which was then chaired by Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe – to a formal request by a member state to help it preserve its sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Institutional rationales: Zimbabwe's government has expediently used participation in peace missions to portray a favorable public image for the country's maligned security services. For example, continued participation in peace missions has become a convenient cover whenever the police forces are criticized for domestic human rights abuses. Authorities identify Zimbabwe's record in peace missions as testimony to the trend towards professionalism and discipline of the security services. Participation in peace missions has also served as an avenue for the country's uniformed forces to acquire valuable external experience and training. Deployment has exposed Zimbabwean peacekeepers to international norms and standards.
Normative rationales: Zimbabwe's commitment to international and regional peace, stability and development has been an underlying rationale for providing peacekeepers. But this has been shaped by an explicitly normative preference to support Pan-Africanism and the related "African solutions to African problems" mantra.
Part 4: Barriers to Contributing
Alternative institutional preferences for crisis management: Zimbabwe has been prepared to deploy through regional organizations (SADC in Lesotho), alliances (SADC's Operation Sovereign-Legitimacy in DRC), or unilaterally (Operation Butterfly in Mozambique). The choice to deploy depends on considerations of defending national security or national interests and assisting troubled countries in the region.
Financial costs: Zimbabwe's economic decline since the late 1990s has meant that the country has found it difficult to bankroll participation in UN operations from limited national resources due to the high startup equipment costs and time lag between deployment and receipt of UN reimbursements.
Difficult domestic politics: The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions and some pro-democracy activists have in the past called on the UN not to request Zimbabwe's military and police personnel arguing that their human rights record at home renders them unfit for international peace missions. The army and the police have been accused of participating in institutionalized political violence and intimidation. These calls do not appear to have deterred Zimbabwe's participation in UN peacekeeping. The controversial military deployment to the DRC from 1998 to 2002 was unpopular among the public in Zimbabwe for the unconfirmed number of casualties and its contribution to socio-economic problems in the country, due to unbudgeted expenditure on security.
Damage to national reputation: Zimbabwe's participation has been seen as an asset by the Zimbabwean government, with officials using it as a tool to enhance the image of the country's security personnel.
Legal obstacles: Zimbabwe's participation in peace missions is supported by Article 213 (3) of the 2013 Constitution of Zimbabwe (see above) and the country's defense policy that provides for meeting legal international obligations.
Part 5: Current Challenges and Issues
The Zimbabwe government laments that sanctions, particularly an arms embargo, imposed on the country by the European Union, the United States, Australia and New Zealand since 2001 has forced the ZDF to review its participation in international peacekeeping missions due to its depleted resources and other logistical constraints. The country has only managed to undertake limited procurement of defense equipment mainly from China in recent years.[9]
Part 6: Key Champions and Opponents
The Executive has consistently supported deploying the country's uniformed personnel in international peace missions. The ZDF, ZRP and ZPS have also proved willing to undertake such deployments. Zimbabwe National Army commander General Philip Sibanda, a former UNAVEM III Force Commander and member of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations (2000), constantly stresses the importance of maintaining Zimbabwe's deservedly high reputation for competence in international peace missions. Zimbabwe's decision to send its troops to DRC from 1998 to 2002, which resulted in an unconfirmed number of casualties and negatively impacted on the country's economy due to unbudgeted expenditure on security, proved unpopular with the public inside Zimbabwe. However, the operation was lucrative for some Zimbabwean leaders who, according to various UN Panels reports, benefited from plundering DRC's natural resources.[10]
Part 7: Capabilities and Caveats
Zimbabwe hosts the SADC Regional Peacekeeping Training Centre (SADC-RPTC) located in Harare, which has played a decisive regional security role. The RPTC provides training to prepare civilian, police and military personnel from SADC states for potential deployment in peace missions. These personnel are expected to form part of SADC's contingent of the African Standby Force. The SADC RPTC has contributed significantly to regional peace mission exercises such as Exercise GOLFINHO in South Africa and Namibia in 2009, Exercise Blue Crane in South Africa in 1999 and Exercise Blue Hungwe in Zimbabwe in 1997.
Zimbabwe is one of the few countries in the world where the number of female peacekeepers from the police force meets the UN DPKO recommendation of at least 20% female representation. The country's prison and correctional services officers have participated in UN peace missions including in Liberia and South Sudan. Zimbabwe has limited modern military capabilities such as strategic airlift/sealift, vehicles, suitable and serviceable weapons and communication equipment needed to contribute to UN peacekeeping. The country's economic decline has negatively impacted the procurement of military assets. China has been the only source of defense equipment for the limited procurement that the country has been able to undertake.[11] Zimbabwe's armed forces have taken part intermittently in multinational training exercises.
Part 8: Further Reading
Knox Chitiyo, The Case for Security Sector Reform in Zimbabwe (London: Royal United Services Institute Occasional Paper, September 2009).
Knox Chitiyo and Martin Rupiya, "Tracking Zimbabwe's political history: The Zimbabwe Defence Force from 1980–2005," in Martin Rupiya (ed.), Evolutions And Revolutions: A Contemporary History of Militaries in Southern Africa (Pretoria: ISS, 2005), pp.331-64.
Ulf Engel, "Challenges of foreign policy and international dimensions" in Martin Rupiya (ed.), Zimbabwe's Military: Examining its Veto Power in the Transition to Democracy, 2008-2013 (Pretoria: The African Public Policy & Research Institute, 2013), pp.80-105.
SADC Gender Protocol 2013 Barometer, "Zimbabwe," pp.109-113.
[1] Unless otherwise stated, data is drawn from IISS, The Military Balance 2014 (London: IISS/ Routledge, 2014).
[2] Defense Spending/Troop is the total defense budget (in US$) divided by the total number of active armed forces. Uses latest figures available from IISS, The Military Balance 2014.
[3] See Susan E. Rice, The Commonwealth Initiative in Zimbabwe, 1979-1980: Implications for International Peacekeeping, (D. Phil thesis, New College, Oxford University, 1990), pp.67-68 and Jeremy Ginifer, Managing Arms in Peace Processes: Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, (New York: United Nations, 1995), p.2.
[4] See SADC Gender Protocol 2013 Barometer, "Zimbabwe," p.109 and "ZRP Continues to Shine in Peacekeeping Missions," Daily News, 30 May 2014.
[6] See Government of the Republic of Zimbabwe, National Defence Policy (Government Printers, Harare, 1997).
[7] Knox Chitiyo, The Case for Security Sector Reform in Zimbabwe, Royal United Services Institute Occasional Paper, September 2009, p.15.
[8] Email correspondence with Martin Rupiya, Executive Director, The African Public Policy Research Institute,
[9] IISS, The Military Balance 2014, p.468.
[10] See UN Security Council, Final Report of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, S/2003/1027, 23 October 2003; UN Security Council, Report of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of
Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, S/2001/357, 12 April 2001; UN Security Council, Addendum to the Report of the Panel of Experts, S/2001/1072, 10 November 2001.
[11] IISS, The Military Balance 2014.


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Q: Something to trace http request to and responses from server We've having a problem at production (IIS + asp.net web forms, a form with devexpress callback panel - kind of a substitute to microsoft's updatepanel), when sometimes server won't respond to a callback - the updatePanel just waits for a response forever.
This occurs from time to time without a stable scenario and we have never encountered such problem on our testing environments.
So, obviously, the reason is something with configuration. I've added some logging and that's what I see:

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*customer reports this 'timeout' (lets call it so) at, say, 12:00

*I see in logs that a request was received by server and successfully processed in ~0.5sec (i.e. time from page creation to unload)

*For some reason response did not reach the client.

They say it happens about 8-10 times each working day for each operator. They also say there are no firewalls or other software that may block responses. I'm stuck.
Probably there's an instrument I can ask to install on production environments that will trace and log all http request and responces from server with useful diagnostic information that I can inspect later to see where the blocking occurs?
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Ohanaeze fumes, alleges injustice as Tinubu declares presidential bid
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation Ohanaeze Ndigbo has described the declaration of Tinubu to contest the Presidency in 2023 as against the rules of natural justice and unfortunate.
It regretted that the former Lagos State Governor had chosen to add to the crisis of Nigeria instead of joining hands with patriots to save the corporate existence of the country.
The spokesman for the Igbo apex body, Chief Alex Ogbonnia, who spoke to one of our correspondents while reacting to the Tinubu's formal declaration, said, "It is an assertion rooted in history and experience that any project that is not supported by justice and equity will not succeed.
Ogbonnia said Tinubu knew that he was doing the wrong thing, embarking on a project that was not rooted in equity, justice and fair play.
See also Kaduna Assembly declares ex-Speaker's seat vacant, extends members' suspension
He said "It is a project that is dead on arrival. Because God is a universal entity that he is always interested in truth, fairness and equity. So for anybody embarking on anything that is not rooted in equity and justice will not succeed and this is a countervailing force that has sustained this world from the beginning.
"So Tinubu knows that he is embarking on a cause that has no foundation in anything: foundation in equity and justice, and of course is a project that will not succeed."
Ohanaeze spokesman, however, said it was very unfortunate that Tinubu had decided to add to the crisis in Nigeria, adding "because there is this collective conscience that has been guiding this country. The collective conscience is to culturally determine what is right and what is wrong and to pursue the one that is right and ignore the one that is wrong.
See also 2023: I pity APC without Buhari, says ex-aide
"But all the same, those who have really gone against the convention has often lost, you know at a point General Sani Abacha wanted to continue but he lost; Goodluck Jonathan ran against the current he lost any other person that tries to go against the convention and the current will always lose it. Mr Tinubu is working across purposes with the foundations of this country – foundation rooted in equity and justice.
"He knows that this is the turn of the Igbo and instead of supporting for the Igbo to emerge for peace to reign, for the corporate existence of Nigeria to remain intact, he decided adding to the problem and crisis. So for one to succeed as a matter of facts, patriots should consider the collective interest – the group interest more than self-interest. But in this case now Tinubu is more interested in self-interest. He considered self-interest above group interest or corporate existence of Nigeria. And that is selfishness at its height and any country that has such people is always in problem.
See also Nigeria attractive to bandits from Chad, Mali – Gov Masari
"Ohanaeze's position is that Tinubu knows that he is doing the wrong thing. He is embarking on a project that is not rooted in equity, justice and fair play, and is against the common current of the conscience of the people and to that extent he will surely lose."
2023: Why Jonathan will fail as Nigeria's next President – Okon
2023: Ambition for Reps position lands Enugu Commissioner in trouble


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How much has the MPs expenses system cost the UK taxpayer?
As the UK MPs expenses system continues to come under severe pressure and focus from the authorities there are concerns as to how much the whole system has cost UK taxpayers over the last 20 years. When you consider that literally millions upon millions of pounds of expenses claimed over the last five years have caused so much heartache and concern in the UK, how is this situation looking over the last 20 years?
The sad fact is that we are unlikely to see details of any MPs expenses prior to 2004 and can only guess about the millions upon millions of pounds which have been claimed by politicians on all sides. Even though the likes of Gordon Brown and David Cameron have now risen to support UK taxpayers, nobody from any political party has come out of the situation with their heads held high. Even though many have claimed they were "acting by the book" the sad fact is that the book of expenses regulations in relation to MPs and the House of Commons is fatally flawed.
It has taken four years to get the information we have today so what else lurks under the surface and how much money has been wasted on the UK political system?
Wind power delay for UK government
Despite yesterday claiming that up to 50% of UK homes will have their electricity supply originating from wind power by 2020, the UK government has been forced to admit that this particular plan is ambitious to say the least. Aside from the fact that the 6,400 new wind farms, which will be located offshore, will take longer than first expected to arrive there is also the problem of transferring th... Read More
Have Royal Bank shares been oversold?
A report from Exane BNP Paribas today sheds a whole new light on Royal Bank of Scotland with the broker expressing an opinion that the shares have been oversold after being ignored by many during 2009. The broker believes that things can only get better for Royal Bank of Scotland in 2010 and while a planned disposal in Pakistan has collapsed due to regulatory issues it appears that investors are n... Read More
MPC dove predicts rapid inflation fall
Inflation will fall to the two per cent target by the summer, monetary policy committee (MPC) member David Blanchflower believes.In a speech last night at the University of Stirling, the MPC's leading dove indicated his continued commitment to fighting the next rate hike, widely expected to take place during the next quarter.The Bank of England's MPC has voted to raise interest rates three times i... Read More
Will we see a reduction in the number of UK building societies?
As further news regarding the West Bromwich building society continues to hit the markets there is a growing consensus that the building society sector we have today will be very different in 12 months time. While the West Bromwich is by far and away the most serious of the current issues ongoing, there are many other smaller operations who are struggling to make ends meet. So where can they go fr... Read More
$50 billion fraud hits Wall Street
As if the situation in the financial sector was not bad enough it has been reported that a $50 billion investment fund run by Bernie Madoff has collapsed and been revealed to be nothing more than a pyramid scheme. However the marketing of the fund was such that investment banks and investors from all around the world were literally queueing up for slice of the action and have all taken severe hits... Read More
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Head of Exceptional Experience for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC), Charlene Foley is responsible for helping drive the company's enterprise strategy and ensuring that it forges and follows a sustainable long-term path. In this role, Charlene's work is focused on leading methodical consumer experience (CX) practice to benefit nearly 4 million Blue Cross NC members and key stakeholders. Charlene knows firsthand that this business discipline requires orchestration and influence across many areas of the company. Head of Experience is both a tactical and strategic role that drives customer-centricity across the entire business to create the unified voice for all experiences created by an organization. Since joining the Blue Cross NC in 1997, Charlene has held a wide variety of leadership roles including director of community relations where she headed the company's statewide corporate citizenship initiatives and director of marketing, where among other things, she was responsible for ensuring flawless execution of large scale business events.


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CRC's Green Roof Certified
The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) has certified the green roof on the front entrance to the Christian Reformed Church's Grand Rapids office as a national wildlife habitat.
In order to become certified, a property must provide the four basic elements that all wildlife need: food, water, cover and places to raise young.
In addition to providing for wildlife, certified habitats conserve natural resources by reducing or eliminating the need for fertilizers and pesticides which ultimately protects the air, soil and water.
There are more than 100,000 certified national habitats, but this is one of the first certified green roofs.
Replete with plants, bushes and grasses native to West Michigan, the roof was designed and installed in late 2011 by Advanced Green Architecture (AGA) in cooperation with Weather Shield Roofing Systems.
The roof covers the triangle-shaped overhang above the entrance to the Christian Reformed Church office.
"Over 20 different varieties of plants, varying soil depths, perching structures, and gravel swaths were installed on the green roof to promote wildlife habitat," said Jeremy Monsma, a green roof designer at AGA that specializes in biodiverse green roofs.
"The higher diversity in plant species has the potential to produce higher diversity in bird and insect species found using the roof."
The majority of the NWF certified sites represent the work and commitment of individuals and families providing habitat near their homes, but the wildlife organization has also certified more than 3,000 schools and hundreds of business and community sites.
Now, NWF has certified the green roof in Grand Rapids.
"We at the Christian Reformed Church in North America are very proud of the green roof that was installed in 2011 over the main entryway to our headquarters building in Grand Rapids," says John Bolt, director of finance and administrator for the CRC in Grand Rapids.
"The CRCNA has a keen interest in creation care and we have tried to demonstrate our commitment through the management of our facility."
In 2008, the CRC embarked on a mission to greatly improve the the amount of carbon emissions from its building with new heating and cooling systems as well as new lighting and water management programs. "The green roof was a logical continuation of this effort," says Bolt.
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World Renew Names Interim Director
Ken Kim, director of International Disaster Response, has accepted the position of interim director of World Renew-Canada.
Travel and Global Citizenship
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There are a lot of reasons why people use blogs for an income generating site. If you want to use blogs for your business, then it's a great idea to understand how to use them most proficiently. There is certainly quite a bit that goes into developing a blog that succeeds with bringing in some kind of cash. But obviously there are a lot of possible problems all over the place. Each little thing you get wrong can certainly make its own unique contribution to your lack of good success. We will mention some of the more widespread mistakes we see with commercial blogs.
There exists something in particular I have noticed on very many blogs. When a blog won't load in a few seconds, I usually accurately guess there are a ton of advertising on it. That is like advertising on optimism instead of on testing for what is proven to work. If you have ever observed something like that, then consider how others may experience it. The resolution seems somewhat obvious to me, and so something has to be done about it. Test ads and discover what converts the best, after which have a minimal number of ads on your blog. You are capable of doing much better with sales if you only have a negligible number that convert well.
Here are simply a couple of items you need to remember for SEO. It should not be said, but it is crucial to write for your visitors and offer high quality content. The key to writing for any industry is to get to know them, and you achieve that with market research. It is likewise imperative that you include optimization for your keywords and key phrases. You will alienate your audience if you only write with SEO as the primary goal because it will not read well. Try to be very specific with each bit of content you write because that will assist you with your search engine rankings. Focus within the theme and terms you are optimizing every page for, and after that write for your visitors.
Many men and women have a tendency to approach the area of getting site visitors in ways that are not necessarily healthy. Actually, very many techniques can be found to produce traffic to any site. That spells opportunity, but a of people use the incorrect approach which we will explain. The soundest and most profitable way to use all those approaches is to make one method happen before moving forward to the next. You can get traffic insurance if you have multiple methods in place, and each one is helping you. Pick about three or four of the most trusted and useful strategies and use all of them.
You must keep in mind that the net is very dynamic, and what can work today can be long gone the next day. That is the main reason you should employ plenty of strategies as possible and thus insulate your business and earnings from fluctuations. You could lose one or perhaps two sources of traffic, and two is improbable, and you can still survive and find another method.


There are several new features in RDiscount 2.1.6. My favorite is fenced code blocks.
RDiscount now has feature parity with the latest Discount release.
:no_superscript - Disables superscript processing.
:no_strikethrough - Disables strikethrough processing.
License changed from 4-clause BSD to the more-permissive 3-clause BSD.
Fix -- and --- to be converted to – and — correctly.
Fix handling of tables that have leading and trailing pipe characters.
Fix generated table of contents to be valid HTML.
Handling of special characters in headings is also improved.
Fix recognition of HTML tags that contain - or _.
Release notes for the previous release of RDiscount.


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Epimelitta ornaticollis is een keversoort uit de familie van de boktorren (Cerambycidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1973 door Zajciw.

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Spotlight TV first launched as a fully-independent channel on Monday 25 January 2016, originally under the name Keep It Country TV. At the time, it filled a major niche in the broadcasting industry by catering for the growing popularity of country music.
Keep It Country was Europe's first dedicated country music television channel, covering all types of country music from modern American artists to classic Irish country.
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For years, it was evident that there was a growing demand for more country music on television, but for years the mainstream media outlets turned a blind eye.
The launch of the channel proved an instant success, with viewing figures soaring beyond the predictions and expectations of industry experts. It was perhaps something of an eye-opener for the mainstream channels, who swiftly moved to increase their country music content both in terms of television and radio output.
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In 2019, in response to viewer demand to expand the channel's portfolio to incorporate other genres of music, additional programming and brand new shows were introduced. This expansion was accompanied by a change of name to Spotlight TV – reflecting the inclusion of additional genres.
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In the last part, we used the device orientation plugin to create an app that shows the degrees the top of our device is relative to the North. Now we'll use the canvas component of HTML5 to draw an arrow that always points to the North and we'll have a much more intuitive compass.
I've based the drawing code on a nice example that draws a rotating arrow using canvas given here.


Distributor Arrow Electronics is building a new unit to take advantage of Sun's growing storage presence since the vendor's acquisition of StorageTek in 2005.
Distributor Arrow Electronics is building a new business unit around Sun Microsystems' storage solutions.
This move takes advantage of Sun's growing storage presence following its acquisition of StorageTek last June, Arrow officials said.
The distributor also announced on Feb. 13 a deal with Sun to move the vendor's StorageTek line of tape storage solutions through its MOCA unit of Sun resellers.
"The idea is to get a robust infrastructure in place to support the entire Sun line and to get the StorageTek legacy resellers who don't already have an affiliation with Sun engaged to sell the entire Sun [storage] line," said Kevin Powell, vice president of Enterprise Software for Arrow's Enterprise Computing Solutions.
"This is a great opportunity for both groups. StorageTek resellers will add to their product portfolio and Sun can leverage a StorageTek footprint, where there is no Sun footprint," Powell said.
Arrow, based in Melville, New York, is adding eight new employees, including a field director for Sun storage sales, as well as storage specialists on the engineering and sales side, to "beef up" its current Sun storage resources.
Click here to read about Sun's "try-and-buy" program for its new Sun Fire T2000 system.
The as yet unnamed unit will be led initially by Bill Page, currently senior vice president of MOCA's services business and an Arrow veteran.
Arrow's first task, Powell said, is to convince StorageTek resellers to sign on as Sun resellers. Once on board, StorageTek legacy VARs will receive an orientation and training in the balance of the Sun line, he said.
Sun acquired the tape storage provider in June 2005 for $4.1 billion to fill out its nascent storage practice and round out the portfolio as the Santa Clara, Calif., company prepares to compete with EMC, Hewlett-Packard and IBM for position in the data center market, where bundled servers and storage are the foundation of the grid computing concept.
Sun also announced plans the week of Feb. 6 for an OEM business unit, which officials said it created to take advantage of the continued migration in data centers away from proprietary hardware and software and toward more open- and industry-standard products.


To provide a rich customer experience, websites and mobile solutions increasingly depend on third-party technology/components. Web services enables technology integration and bridges decoupled systems across various platforms and applications. As a result these integrations introduce a new level of complexity and challenges. The increase of communication paths and the complexity of composing such services compounds the task of testing and monitoring the health and performance of your systems.
With no application graphical user interface, testing and monitoring the performance of your web services without the right tools is a challenge. Commercial API testing tools generally support the creation and verification of tests, however lack real-time performance monitoring and trending capabilities. TestPoint has developed a simple and powerful SoapUI Extension to its VSAM platform which enables real-time performance monitoring and trending capability of your web services both within and outside your network.
TestPoint's VSAM SoapUI Extension delivers real-time visibility of your web services performance early within your build/development phase through to production monitoring. VSAM allows organisation to proactively identify and monitor problems before real users are impacted to expedite problem resolution, reducing the business impact and cost of web services defects.
VSAM SoapUI Extension ensures you meet your business requirements providing advance performance monitoring and clear KPI dashboards.
The extension compliments your existing SoapUI or SoapUI Pro investment, enabling a centralised performance and synthetic monitoring solution without having to change your tool or redevelop existing scripts. With little effort you can extend SoapUI into a complete end to end solution across any environment, build or location centralising performance metrics, functional test results and meaningful responses in real-time using your TestPoint VSAM cloud dashboard.


Today Untethered Jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1 for iPhone 4,iPhone 3GS, iPod 3G, iPod 4, iPad, & Apple TV2G were released by Dev-Team on two different Tools. Redsn0w0.9.6RC9 and PWNAGE Tool, Soon after the release Sn0wbreeze was also updated. The tutorials for Redsn0w 0.9.6RC9 are posted before.
With this Sn0breeze version you can do many things like Enable Multi-Tasking Gestures, Preserve the baseband, Untethered Jailbreak on all the iDevices running iOS 4.3.1.
Those who rely on Unlock should Stay Away from this Update and Jailbreak. Ultrasn0w might not be working on old basebands.
**Till now the Known issues are WI-FI issues. People are facing WI-FI issues via baseband preservation method.
Below are the steps to activate all these things.
It is up to you which option to select. Three options will be only showed for iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS. For iPod and iPad only 2 Options will be shown.
If you want to Hacktivate and Enable-Multi Touch Gestures, so only follow this Step.
After doing the above Steps proceed next and Select Build.
When you will proceed next your Custom Firmware will start to cook in Sn0wbreeze.
Once done it will show you a message Done!
This is nothing to worry about. All you have to do is what it says. Put your Device into DFU mode using this guide.
When it will be done it will show a message and then you can open iTunes and do Custom Restore and Enjoy the Untethered Jailbreak with a lot of new features.


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Egypt, Looting, Kemet and Dhu'l Nun
'Egypt Protests See Cairo Museum Looted as Artefacts and Mummies Are Damaged'
With the unrest in Egypt continuing over the weekend, the Egyptian Museum in Cairo is now "under military guard" (AP) in response to an attempted looting late Friday.
According to reports, nine men infiltrated the museum, decapitating two 3300-year-old mummies and damaging about 100 other artifacts. When the men were apprehended later that night, they were allegedly still carrying the skulls and a statue of Isis (TIME). Ultimately, nothing was stolen, but damage to the artifacts is still being assessed.
It's hard not to question the mentality of Arabs or muslims who
historically treat the civilizaton of Ancient Kemet with such disrespect.
Is it Islam that does this? As black people we can't be mislead by broad labels and generalizations.
Islam as we know it today is often confused with the spirituality of Muhammad and the prophets, a spirituality undefined and unable to be confined by religious law, tradition and dogma. (Keep in mind that the same ruling Umayyad forces that conquered Egpyt in 639 A.D., also killed the Prophet Muhammad's beloved grandsons, poisoning one and mutilating the body of another.)
Whethe r this attitude exists as a matter of orthodox faith or ethnic pride is difficult to determine, however it does not follow that an appreciation or understanding of Islam (peace) is or should be at odds with appreciating and understanding the spirituality of Kemet.
It is also necessary to know the history of Arab or islamic contact with Egpyt as well.
For the most part the early Islamic inhabitants in Egpyt admired the accomplishments of the great civilization they saw. A report that the Alexandrian library was burned by the Arab invaders during the 640s has been regarded as spurious by modern scholars. The fiction cannot be traced earlier than circa 1200, at a time when the trends in Islamic learning were changing for the worse, and the anti-scientific and anti-philosophical tendencies were mounting. The early administration of Islamic Egypt preserved the literary heritage of the country, including what had survived from the Alexandrian library, whose contents had been committed to the flames centuries before the coming of Islam.
The Abbasid Caliph (r. 813- 833)Al-Mamun genuinely patronised learning, and he perhaps wished to gaze upon the fabulous maps of celestial spheres said to exist in a secret chamber. Though his men were able to force their way into the "King's Chamber," of the Giza Pyramid, the monarch was evidently disappointed with the result.
Archaeologists have viewed Al-Mamun as commencing the habit of pillaging the Pyramids. Ancient monuments became a source for quarried stone, and the Giza Pyramids eventually lost their protective casing of limestone blocks, after an earthquake loosened the blocks. Those architectural components at Giza were appropriated by subsequent regimes and reused to construct the palaces of Mamluk and Ottoman Cairo. However, that was far in the future in the time of Dhu'l Nun, and he appears to have been genuinely concerned to understand the meaning of the resplendent architectural survivals visible along the banks of the Nile.
As once mentioned by late historian John Henrik Clarke, black people need to be in control of their own spirituality - no matter what form it takes.
Dhu'l Nun was a prime example of such a man.
He was born at Akhmim (Ikhmim) in Upper Egypt, an ancient town on the east bank of the Nile. In Pharaonic times, Akhmim was a temple center of the fertility god Min.
The Egyptian Muslim Dhu'l Nun traveled as an ascetic in Arabia, Palestine, and Syria. Dhu'l Nun was opposed by the Maliki jurists of Egypt prior to 829 CE, being condemned as a heretic for teaching on the subject of mystical experience.
According to Professor R. A. Nicholson, he "was a Copt or Nubian". His father Ibrahim was a Nubian who had converted to Islam, becoming a master (mawla) among the Quraysh tribe from which Muhammad himself descended. In brief, Dhu'l Nun was one of the Egyptian mawali, a native of the Nile valley who learned Arabic culture and language under Quraysh auspices.
Whatever the precise details of his parentage, his background milieu was substantially Coptic, and also featured architecture from the pre-Christian period. Akhmim had a history going back to the Pharaonic Old Kingdom era some three thousand years before. It is likely that Dhu'l Nun spoke Coptic in addition to Arabic. The Coptic language represented the final stage of Old Egyptian, being written in the Greek alphabet. The Copts were descendants of the dynastic Egyptians that later became converts to Christianity. The Pharaohs and their religion had blurred in the Coptic memory since the fifth century CE. (The French scholar Jean Francois Champollion (1790-1832)celebrated as the first man to decipher the hieroglyphic system, achieved this feat as a consequence of studying a granodiorite known as the Rosetta Stone. The knowledge of Coptic possessed by Champollion has been deemed the key factor in penetrating the phonetics of ancient Egyptian.)
Masudi (d. 957), an early Arab historian provides the first extant historical account of Dhu'l Nun, deriving information from the inhabitants of Akhmim during a visit made by the historian to this township. Masudi wrote:
"Dhu'l Nun al-Misri al-Akhmimi, the ascetic, was a philosopher who pursued a course of his own in religion. He was one of those who elucidate the history of these temple-ruins (barabi). He roamed among them [the temples] and examined a great quantity of figures and inscriptions." Dh'ul Nun was apparently not content with the conventional Arab disdain for the ancient "idol-worshippers". He found it evident that the inscriptions on ancient monuments were an index to the sciences of antiquity.
In the time of Dhu'l Nun, an ancient temple devoted to Min still existed at Akhmim. (Khem or Min, was the neter of reproduction; as Khnum, he was the creator of all things, "the maker of gods and men". As a god of fertility, he was shown as having black skin to reflect the fertile black mud of the Nile's inundation.) That edifice seems to have been of substantial size and in a good state of preservation; it may even have been as large as the Karnak temple complex so famous today. The Akhmim temple was not destroyed until the fourteenth century, the stone being used for local buildings.
The Tarikh al-Hukama (History of the Philosophers) is a compendium of Al-Qifti, and this states:
"He [Dhu'l Nun] professed the art of practical chemistry and alchemy and belongs to the same class as Jabir ibn Hayyan. He devoted himself to the science of the secrets (hidden phenomena -ilm u'l batin) and became proficient in many branches of philosophy (Hikma -wisdom). He used to frequent the ruined temple (barba) in Akhmim. And it is said that knowledge of the mysteries therein was revealed to him by the way of righteousness."
It has been noted by historian Reynold A. Nicholson that "Sufism has always been thoroughly eclectic," he observed, "absorbing and transmuting whatever 'broken lights' fell across its path, and consequently it gained adherents amongst men of the most opposite views." The sources credit Dhu'l Nun with a large number of disciples in tasawwuf (Sufism).
He was once asked "What is the end [objective] of the mystic?" The answer came: "When he is as he was, where he was, before he was."
Dhu'l Nun al-Misri remains one of the most fascinating figures in early Sufism.
* There is a recent claim that no mummies were actually harmed in the protests that have overwhelmed Egypt. Officials in Cairo said on Monday earlier reports that a pair of 2,000-year-old mummies had been damaged by looters were incorrect. "They were not mummies," Egypt's top archeologist Zahi Hawass told the BBC. They were just "two skulls taken outside from the CT scan machine." Daily News, 2/07/11.
Read more on Dhu'l Nun in "Inner Civilization: Redeveloping Black Culture and Civilization in America."
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The Chinese company Unihertz is preparing to release a second model of a miniature smartphone. At the end of spring last year, the manufacturer successfully launched Jelly, now a tiny but serious in terms of functionality protected Atom smartphone.
The gadget will receive a 2.45-inch display, 4 GB of operative and 64 GB of internal memory, NFC, support for 4G and much more. To protect user data, a fingerprint scanner is built into the device. The smartphone runs on Android 8.1 Oreo.
The manufacturer guarantees that with the help of Atom you can shoot movies even under water on its 16-megapixel camera.
The miniature smartphone has already passed testing, and experts highly appreciated its assembly and technical characteristics.


Shirley R. Jasmin, 52, of Waipahu died in Aiea. She was born in San Diego. She is survived by sons Jeremy J. and Jensen J. Duque, daughtersJennifer J. and Julianne Marie J. Duque, mother Juliana Crisologo, brother Cedric Jasmin, companion Miguel Ibarra and five grandchildren. Visitation: 5:30 p.m. Thursday at Mililani Mortuary-Waipio, mauka chapel. Services: 6:30 p.m. Burial: 1 p.m. Saturday at Mililani Memorial Park. Flowers welcome.


Coal rod extrusion machine applied the principle of screw extrusion to extrusion mixing adhesive coal powder, make into a certain strength of circular or quincunx coal rods. Alternative serious meager coal resources in our country, widely used in chemical industry, metallurgy and other industries, is the ideal equipment for various production enterprise efficiency improvement.
Coal rods machine make matching and retting coal powder sent to the feeding tube, by use of screw extrusion principle, press coal powder into round or quincunx section coal rods with certain mechanical strength.
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Intensity of coal rods New coal rods drop from 2m, 80% can't break.


"This is my body which is broken for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
Is anyone sick among you? Let them bring the priests of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing them with oil .
But Moses stood up and helped the 7 daughters of Jethro and watered their flocks.
This beautiful service helps prepare us to receive Christ our Lord as the Bridegroom of the Church.
Therefore he set taskmasters over them to afflict them in their works; and they built for Pharaoh strong cities.
But as you meant evil against me; God meant it for good, to save many people.
For God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth, and to sustain you as a great remnant.
Christ the Sun of Righteousness has risen from you, Bride of God and shining Dawn.
And Abraham said, "My son, God will provide for Himself the Lamb.
Lord of the Powers, be with us.
Then God said to Abraham, "Keep My covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.
You welcomed into your womb the Logos. You held in your arms the One who holds all things.
Go to a land I will show you and I will bless you and make you a great nation and you shall be a blessing. .
Praying with the Theotokos on behalf of our beloved children.
Now Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
So Noah went out, along with his wife and his sons and their wives.
Then Noah entered the ark because of the flood waters.
Bishop Neofitos will speak about the Orthodox Christian work of evangelism in Kenya.
The Table symbolizes you, who held the Lord, the Bread of life.


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Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co., Ltd. — китайская государственная компания, осуществляющая поставку продуктов и услуг для видеонаблюдения и контроля доступа.

Деятельность
Dahua насчитывает около 16 тыс. сотрудников по всему миру. Решения, продукты и услуги Dahua используются более чем в 180 странах и регионах. Компания имеет 54 зарубежных филиала, охватывающих Азиатско-Тихоокеанский регион, Северную Америку, Европу, Африку и другие регионы.

Критика
В сентябре 2016 года с помощью ботнета была проведена крупная DDoS-атака на ресурс американского журналиста Брайана Кребса KrebsOnSecurity.com..По данным интернет-провайдера Level 3 Communications, наиболее часто заражаемыми устройствами в этом ботнете являлись камеры и видеорегистраторы Dahua. Около миллиона устройств этой компании были заражены вредоносным ПО BASHLITE. Большинство камер Dahua позволяли «любому получить полный контроль над базовой операционной системой Linux устройства, просто набрав случайное имя пользователя со слишком большим количеством символов». С помощью этой уязвимости вредоносное ПО было установлено на устройствах, что позволило использовать их как в «DDoS-атаках, так и в кампаниях по вымогательству с использованием вымогателей».

В марте 2017 года во многих камерах и видеорегистраторах Dahua был обнаружен бэкдор. Он позволял получать удаленный доступ к устройству и удаленно загружать базу данных с именами пользователей и паролями через веб-браузер без авторизации. Компания выпустила обновление прошивки для исправления уязвимости в 11 своих продуктах.

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Writers and dealing with people..
I want to be a stay at home author and journalist in the future. I have to have a job though so I can make money to afford college. I thought I would end up staying at my first job, but it did not happen at all. I got let go thanks to not being funded anymore. No problem I will get a job somewhere in that field with no luck at the end of trying to find a job in another department.
I instead applied to jobs that deal with people since it was a better option to me then working in restaurants or fast food. I landed a job that deals with people not having any experience, and not knowing what I was really in for. It turns out after a year I found out there are lessons to learn there that I can use to make me a more successful writer.
How to deal with people. I have never dealt with the general public before, and authors have readers with all kinds of personalities, and they have to deal with agents, editors, and publishers too. It prepares you for getting used to their opinions, and sometimes how to deal when it clashes with your personality.
It teaches you certain business skills you will need for the future. Skills like counting money, and what people like and don't like. What people can improve on, and sometimes what not to do when it comes to certain situations.
It teaches you how to solve problems and think critically. You have no idea how to solve an issue unless you face it head on. Like trying to solve a reader issue is one example, and people related jobs prepares you to solve issues when they arise. Sometimes you have to solve it on your own without help.
You get to see a side of people you have never seen unless you are on the other side.
It teaches you how to be patient. Writing can take a very long time in the process from idea for a book to published in the stores. Jobs that deal with people allow you to develop patience when dealing with certain customer or reader interactions.
It can teach you lessons like treating the ones behind the counter or ones that have to obey the companies rules. Considering people related jobs like retail, mall ones, and restaurant people take a lot of flack from the general public like being yelled at because of a little issue easily fixable if they would stop yelling at you and allow you to solve it. People complain about policies to you when there is nothing you can do about it, and they should take it up to the people in charge instead. I just wish the general public would stop treating people that work in stores better too.
Those are some of the lessons and what about you have you learned lessons to take away from the job that you work at? Ones that apply to real life?


In 2011 Lajka entered the Swedish music scene. Multilayered and on the borders of sensuality, their music travels across time and places to borrow styles and energies both far from and deep within their own backgrounds. All three band members have Swedish roots, in their growing up as well as in their folk music core giving repertoire and compositions a solid grounding and direction, though not limiting the music to traditional sounds and tunes. Keeping the strands together are the personal playing styles and the complex yet playful linking of melodic fragments where no single instrument dominates. With bold use of cross genre elements and original rhythmic accompaniments they make a sound that is its own. It is Lajka.