Oregon- Situated in the Willamette valley we are central to the emerging cider market on the West Coast. We now stock over 200 types of cider apple and pear trees, with 12 different rootstock options.
make these long-ago favorites worth bringing back- and their great flavor makes them ideal for juicing. After selecting rootstocks and grafts from antique orchards, we are proud to reintroduce these heirlooms varieties to a brand new audience.
Connecticut- offers untreated cider for making hard (alcoholic) cider. You can drop off your own container, barrel, or carboy, and we will fill it with fresh cider. The best apples for making hard cider usually ripen in late October thru early November such as Winesap, Baldwin, Northern Spy, Golden Russet, and Yellow Delicious. We also offer 5-gallon carboy starter kits which include a carboy filled with cider and a water seal. Fifty gallon used whiskey barrels are also sometimes available. Please call ahead for availability.
the middle of Michigan. We presently have an amazing mixture of over 1400 varieties of antique and heritage apples. Check us out!
growing and selling high-quality organic produce, free-range pastured eggs, flowers, apples, and persimmons. Our roots run deep with apples, we have a passion for growing and preserving heirloom varieties. We currently grow over 13 different varieties of apples. Some of our trees are over 70 years old, although we have planted most over the past 10 years. Because we do this all fresh and during season, our apples and ciders are available from August through the end of December of course depending on the weather and season!
licensed non-pasteurized cider making facility in Hood River County. Throughout the season the cider will have slightly different flavors such as tartness and sweetness.
California- is open mid-August through January with the picking season ending in late November or early December. Our orchard yields about 50 tons of apples. Another 15 tons of juice apples are purchased from Sebastopol. "We make close to 10,000 gallons of cider a year." Heating and pasteurizing changes the flavor of cider. Cider purchased at the site of pressing is not required to be treated. Nothing is added to the cider, making it an all natural product, which is hard to find these days. Don't believe the labels: Pasteurized apple cider is not true cider. The moment cider is pasteurized it becomes apple juice.
orchard and get the work done with a small, but capable staff. There's a small section of the orchard devoted to antique Fench and English apples grown for traditional hard cider blends. They have great names like Brown Snout, Foxwhelp, Fillbarrel, Magog Redstreak, etc. They're not for eating fresh, but for great hard ciders they're the best.
Indiana- We produce over 60 varieties of cider apple trees in our nurseries. From custom bench grafts, we nurture the growth of our trees to ensure that they will reach their maximum potential in your orchard.
As one of the largest fruit marketers in the Eastern United States, BelleHarvest Sales' commitment to deliver high quality, consistently superior products hasn't waivered since day one.
perfect for high quality, firm apples with good shelf life. With over 22 varieties of apple trees, there's a taste and variety for everyone. Favorite ways to enjoy our apples are our fresh apple cider, cider slushes and, of course, our apple cider donuts.
and Delicious Orchards in the heart of the majestic North Fork Valley of Colorado. This tiny mountain valley with high elevation, crisp, thin air, Rocky Mountain water, cold nights and warm days produces some of the finest fruits in the world. Big B's Fabulous Juices produces a full line of organic and local apple juices and ciders from organic Western Slope fruit.
Iowa- is the headquarters of Seed Savers Exchange.
family owned fruit growing operation. We are located in Williamson, NY, 25 minutes east of Rochester, NY, about three miles off the shores of lake Ontario. Our farm is now over 450 acres, consisting of many different fresh and delicious fruits including many varieties of apples, cherries, pears, peaches, prunes, plums, and most recently, raspberries.
of growing with over 800 varieties of fruit trees, berries, unusual edibles, ornamentals & supplies for the American Gardener. Shipped directly to your home since 1972.
apple-planting by storm in the last few decades: dwarf apple trees and "disease-resistant" apple varieties. There are many popular misconceptions about both.
Cider Apples, Trees, Juice- The Cyder Market links for cider equipment and supplies including apples, trees and juice.
growing a wide variety of apples perfect for cider, baking, and eating. Our family-owned and operated farm and cidery offers unique apple varieties, sweet cider, and hard cider. Our heritage apples are prized by home-brewers for their exquisite taste!
apple juice for customers interested in making their own hard cider from the sweet cider of our apples with the yeast naturally present in our orchard.
freshly pressed apple cider, jams, jellies, apple butter and more! Fresh sweet cider available daily during the season! Our cider is flash pasteurized to provide our customers with the safest product possible while maintaining our specially blended Old Fashioned Flavor!
cider making facility in Hood River County. Throughout the season the cider will have slightly different flavors such as tartness and sweetness.
with several varieties of delicious pears and blueberries. Try our gourmet apple cider. We have the only pasteurizing facility in the area, and also make cider for other growers in neighboring counties.
The Heirloom Orchardist has compiled a list of classic apple tree varieties, and teamed-up with our sponsor e-commerce sites to make them available to you. And here, The Heirloom Orchardist presents our list of recommended pear trees. Again, we take advantage of internet commerce to make these pears available to you at great prices.
and farm products using management practices that encourage a sustainable orchard environment. Through careful and minimal use of pesticides, applied only when needed, we provide customers with healthy and good tasting fruit and cider.
of apples are blended to produce delicious, 100% natural Yates cider. Yates takes pride in selecting the best balance of apples to give you the very best, balanced flavor of sweet and tart you can find anywhere.
Glenmar Farm partnership. There are over 7,000 apple trees and 300+ peach trees planted on approximately 45 acres. These trees are replanted on a 20-year cycle. The Applehouse (retail store) is open August through April and carries 30 apple varieties.
We ship 400 varieties to backyard growers and professional orchardists. We sell disease-resistant and region-specific apple, peach, pear, apricot, plum, and cherry trees.
Obtaining the best Cider-Making Apples, Pears and Juice is the first and arguably most important challenge for the cider maker- whether as a home fermenter, an artisan/craft maker or an industry leader in cider sales. The quality, blend and many other key characteristics of the apple or pear establish the foundation for all that is to come in expressing the maker's artistry. Because so many of the great cider making apple varieties in the USA were lost during Prohibition finding them today requires a concerted effort coupled with luck and timing. Fortunately recent increased demand has revitalized interest in growing heirloom cider apples thus the future looks brighter.The producer/grower examples provided here are apple and pear orchards and juice producers who typically grow and use a wide range of apple types, as well as those producers that believe they have the best heirloom apple and pear types selected specifically for the cider maker.
Note: the Cyder Market, LLC does not endorse any of the products, producers or retailers shown; these are simply examples of some starting point items to assist in your search. The Cyder Market, LLC is not responsible for the content on external web sites. Images are the property of Cyder Market, LLC or screenshots courtesy of the cited webpage.
Colorado- is a U-Pick-It Apple Orchard located in Boulder County. A historic century-old farm, specializing in heirloom apples, offering family oriented activities and practicing organic methods.
apple and pear varieties. Our orchards are located on the Front Range of Colorado, where warm days and cool nights are ideal for outstanding apples and pears. We have over 150 different varieties of apples and pears.
is a comprehensive resource and listing of links for apple varieties and orchards in the USA Canada and internationally.
Organic farm located in the ideal fruit growing climate of Sebastopol, California. The Farm features 8 varieties of Asian Pears, several varieties of Apples, Fuyu Persimmons, Lavender, Plums and many sorts of berries. Gabriel Farm is the definition of a traditional "family farm". This is where we live, work and raise our family. As organic farmers, we are devoted to the idea of sharing the process of raising our fruit with the folks who ultimately will eat our fruit.
since 1977 and have earned a spot on the Kansas Historical Society website. We buy our apples from commercial growers, mostly just north of us here along the Missouri River from about St. Joseph to Waverly. The apples arrive in large wooden crates weighing about a thousand pounds apiece.
Michigan- Our cider is fresh pressed and unpasteurized. As the time of the year comes and goes so does Klein Cider Mill's fresh produce and unpasteurized Apple Cider! Be sure to stop in frequently to see what is fresh and in season! Our produce is grown on our farm in Sparta, Michigan. And our fresh apple cider is pressed onsite in our Cider Mill.
everything we produce at The Gilcrease Orchard but our cider is our signature item! The naturally sweet, robust flavor comes from the variety of apples we grow ourselves. Every year about 80 tons of apples are harvested for our apple cider. We use our gala, yellow gala, an early red variety and a touch of Granny Smith to temper the sweetness. Absolutely NOTHING else is added.
Washington- has grown to become an independent processor and global supplier for the industrial food ingredient, beverage manufacturing and health and wellness markets. Milne utilizes innovative, state-of-the-art technologies and rigorous quality controls to provide customers with 100% all-natural fruit and vegetable products to meet the needs of food regulators and diverse consumer demands.
The farm is located six miles north of Decorah, Iowa. Nestled among sparkling streams, limestone bluffs, and century-old white pine woods, the 890-acre farm is a living museum of historic varieties. Thousands of heirlooms are grown in certified organic fields. Historic Orchard- The vast majority of apple varieties that were around in 1900 are now extinct or steadily dying out. In an attempt to halt this constant genetic erosion, SSE has obtained all of the pre-1900 varieties that still exist in government collections and large private collections. SSE has developed a diverse public orchard, where hundreds of different varieties of 19th century apples are on display. SSE's Historic Orchard also contains many old grapes, including more than 100 breeding lines from the collection of famed grape breeder, Elmer Swenson.
Washington- exists to connect apple growers with cider makers. We make frozen, unfermented juice available to craft fermentors around the country. Samples from each batch of juice are analyzed before the auction, allowing cider makers to choose the right juice (tannins, acid, brix) for their cider.
Wisconsin- the oldest active orchard in Waukesha, were established in 1935. The family-operated orchards have supplied the public with historic apple varieties for over 60 years. The orchards cover 16 acres with more than 700 trees and over 100 varieties with dates varying from the Calville Blanc d'Hiver (1598), Gravenstien (1600) to the Wolf River (1881) and Pink Pearl (1944). Weston's Orchards work to conserve these antique apple varieties from extinction. We have bench grafts on semi-dwarf rootstock available for most of the apple varieties grown at the orchard.
Nebraska- Apples have been grown at Kimmel Orchard for nearly 90 years, and today the orchard produces a wide selection of 26 types apples that appeal to a variety of tastes and needs.
Washington-offers high quality, 100% natural fruit products.
The Cyder Market Links For Cider Equipment And Supplies INCLUDING APPLES, TREES AND JUICE.
California- Spend a day with your family at our family ranch and breathe in the fresh air and countryside atmosphere. Pick your favorite fruit of the season right off the tree or vine; then, picnic among the apple trees and the hills. Take home a jug of award winning apple juice!
Virginia- Late every winter we sit down next to an old wood stove and put a new edge on our grafting knives. 80 to 100 of our favorite varieties of apples and pears are chosen to be bench grafted onto a variety of rootstocks and planted out in our nursery alongside the peaches and plums that will be bud grafted in the field come spring. We sell our trees either as one year whips, perfect for espalier, or more mature two year trees. All of our trees are sold bare root, which limits their availability to the dormant season. Our nursery typically opens in the second half of November and remains open through the end of March. You can find the full inventory of available trees by opening our online catalogue.
Virginia- The Blue Ridge mountains have long produced fine apples. Queen Victoria so prized Newtown Pippins from Bent Mountain and central Virginia that she removed the export tax from this spicy aromatic apple. The orchards at Foggy Ridge Cider continue this tradition of well grown apples, carefully selected for flavor and hardiness.
Washington, remains committed to our co-op's small town roots and rural values. Since 1960, we've been producing delicious fruit products and ingredients. Regardless of whether we're producing strawberry or peach puree, dried apples, premium 3 Apple Blend juice, or one of hundreds of other fruit ingredients or products, our dedication to quality and craftsmanship is the key ingredient.
New Hampshire- Apples are purchased from a local orchard, wash, ground and pressed each Saturday. You can come view the pressing and sample cider right off the press. Our cider is all natural, no additives and unpasteurized to make the freshest tasting cider around.
ble on many rootstocks. For a good apple crop you will need a different variety other than your choice for pollination. Boyer has over 60 apple varieties for sale, and an (A) indicates that the apple is an antique or heirloom variety.
the Garber brothers were operating a dairy farm and making small batches of cider from local apples in their barn. The cider was such a hit that they gave up the dairying life and started full time in the orchard and cider business.
list of the best apple varieties for cooking, baking and cider production.
Washington- provides sustainable nursery trees, cider-making supplies and organic juice for folks who want to make their own delicious hard cider.
nursery located in the remote high mountains of Ashe County, North Carolina. We specialize in the collection and propagation of antique and heirloom apple varieties of the Appalachian Mountains as well as many other apple varieties of the world.
pressing our own apple cider for 30 years now. We're confident it's the best you'll ever taste! Made fresh on the farm each week and throughout the year with our own, homegrown apples. When supply allows we also press pear cider! NO added sugar. NO added water. NOT pasteurized. UV-treated. Also over 72 varieties of apples for sale as you-pick and larger orders.
Our extensive product line offers our customers the ability to obtain innovative, high quality, and naturally healthy ingredients... all from one source. Our product line is described below and currently includes Fruit Juices, Purees, Concentrates & Blends, Fruit Essences, Fruit Extracts, Fruit Fibers & Powders, Fruit Seeds, and Fruit Seed Oils.
Indiana- Open mid-August through mid-November, our u-pick apple orchard, located in Northern Illinois, offers family fun & entertainment in a beautiful 120 acre setting. We have over 16,000 apple trees including 30 varieties of apples with new varieties being planted each spring.
Pennsylvania, Our Premium Apple Juice is made from 100% fresh-pressed American grown apples, not from concentrate. Contains 120% daily value of vitamin C, and is available with added calcium. Celebrate the fall harvest with our refreshing Musselman's Apple Cider. It's 100% juice. Available filtered or unfiltered.
Utah- Stray Arrow Ranch planted Utah's first commercial cider apple orchard in 2012. We are located in Torrey, Utah, the gateway town to Capitol Reef National Park. Our community has a rich apple-growing heritage extending back to the Mormon pioneer era and the historic orchards of Fruita, which are now part of the national park.
Illinois- We are a family-owned business working to preserving genetic varieties of heirloom fruits for future generations to enjoy. Many heirloom varieties are being bred out of existence and once extinct they are gone forever. We are passionate about fighting this so future generations can enjoy them.
fresh fruit from as far as the eyes can see. A day at Walters' Fruit Ranch is truly an assault on the senses that can't fully be described without a visit to the rolling foothills of Eastern Washington. We grow cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots, 21 varieties of apples, pumpkins and Christmas trees.
Wisconsin- We are in the business of providing apple scionwood and climatized varieties of apple trees, pear trees, and plum trees. We specialize in antique apples which are propagated at our nursery in Northeastern Wisconsin. Our hundreds of varieties antique apple trees include Ashmeads's Kernel, Calville Blanc d'Hiver, Cox Orange Pippin, Esopus Spitzenburg, Hudson's Golden Gem, Pitmaston Pineapple, Roxbury Russet, and Pink Pearl to name a few. For those who do their own grafting, we sell scionwood of most of our antique apple tree varieties.
Michigan- family business producing for Retail Companies and Food Service Distributors. To complement our outstanding selection of food products we proudly offer a variety of Organic and Kosher Certified items. Burnette Foods, Inc. evolved from the purchase of a cherry farm in Northern Michigan in the mid 1950's to become a significant provider of shelf stable fruit and vegetable products through internal innovation and strategic acquisitions.
and plums. Although organic farming requires a little more work on our end, we wouldn't do it any other way. It is our pleasure to produce delicious, healthy, and chemical free fruits and contribute to the health of our environment. We also have unpasteurized apple juice available for those interested in making hard cider.
rivers in central Washington. The long days, cool nights and fertile soils craft exceptionally great tasting apples, pears, cherries and apricots. Our newest plantings are 40 plus varieties of Heirloom and Cider apples. Cider apples are an integral part of making a balanced and complex cider.


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Jaime Escudero Etxebarria, né le  à Bilbao (Pays basque, Espagne), est un footballeur espagnol qui jouait au poste d'attaquant.

Biographie
Jaime Escudero est un joueur doté d'une grande finesse et de beaucoup de classe, passionné par le football mais encore plus par la médecine, chose rare parmi les footballeurs.

Il joue une saison avec l'Athletic Bilbao. Il débute en première division le  face au Real Oviedo (victoire 3 à 0).

Escudero joue ensuite deux saisons au FC Barcelone (1950-1952). Il dispute la finale victorieuse de la Coupe Latine de 1952.

Avec Barcelone, il joue 19 matchs et marque 12 buts.

Après avoir joué avec le "Barça des Cinq Coupes", il profite de son incorporation à l'Institut Pasteur pour jouer en France au Red Star.

Son frère Rafael Escudero Etxebarria est aussi footballeur.

Palmarès
Avec l'Athletic Bilbao :
 Vainqueur de la Coupe d'Espagne en 1950
 Vainqueur de la Coupe Eva Duarte en 1950

Avec le FC Barcelone :
 Champion d'Espagne en 1951
 Vainqueur de la Coupe d'Espagne en 1951 et 1952
 Vainqueur de la Coupe Latine en 1952
 Vainqueur de la Coupe Eva Duarte en 1952
 Vainqueur du Trophée Martini & Rossi en 1952

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Footballeur espagnol
Joueur de l'Athletic Bilbao
Joueur du FC Barcelone
Joueur du Red Star
Naissance en février 1923
Naissance à Bilbao
Décès en février 2012

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Q: Grid like data querying in database I have a set of girds in my database, each grid consist of four points and each point have the coordinate of (x,y), while each grid can be located by its row and col.
To avoid the redundant of the points in the db, I save just the coordinate of the point at the bottom,left in the gird, like this:

Now for a given point with coordinate(x1,y1) I have to find the grid which the point reside in, that's to say find a gird say it is g that
g.left <= x1 <= g.right && g.bottom <=y1 <= g.top

Since the grids are continuous(excluding the grids at the edge), so the  question is changed to:
g.left <= x1 <= top_right_grid.left && g.bottom <= y1 <= top_right_grid.bottom

Where the top_right_grid have to meet this:
top_right_grid.col  - g.col = 1,  and top_right_grid.row - g.row = 1
So I use this to find the result:
SELECT g.*, top_right_grid.left,top_right_grid.bottom
FROM gis_grid g,gis_grid gd1
WHERE   top_right_grid.row - g.row =1 AND
        top_right_grid.col - g.col =1 AND
        g.left <=x1 AND
        top_right_grid.left >= x1 AND
        g.bottom/1e8 <= y1 AND
        top_right_grid.bottom/1e8 >= y1;

However I meet a problems now, for the point p1, I will get one gird which is right, but for point p3, there should be two grids meet the requirement, but I got only one. For point p2, I can not get the result, since the top_right_grid does not exist in the database.
So I wonder if there is any better idea for modeling this kind of data, or make the querying as fast as possible?

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My first project at V2_Lab! DataCloud 2.0 is a dynamic webapplication and research project with it's focus on "information spaces" and "data visualisation".
Users can add media objects (pictures or texts etc.) and add comments to them. These media objects are visualized as spheres in a 3D space, and they can be reorganized based on their metadata.
When DataCloud 1 was finished the makers started wondering about a 3 dimensional space. The idea was that it would enable them to show more relations between the objects. Also the visualization of the DataCloud information space would benefit from the way we perceive things in the real world: You see more detail of objects close to you, than of those at a larger distance.
A lot of effort went into trying to implement Lenno's beautiful design! It has this sort of sketchy look and I really like the transparant layers, but this also meant that all the 2D screens and buttons etc. had to be implemented in the 3D world, causing me many learning moments.
3d object overlapping a 2d element While working on DataCloud you have to wonder about the usefullness of 3D. Is it really usefull or is it just fun? How 3D is 3D if it is projected on a 2D screen? Do users need different tools for interaction and navigation at different distances. Do they really need a floor and shadows to experience space? Will it be different for them kids that grow up playing doom and flying in flight simulators?
Reorganization enables the user to look at theit data in another way. The user could define a cocktail of parameters. According to this cocktail affinity values are calculated between the media objects. These values cause either a pull or push force, and this way objects that are similar will end up close to each other, forming clusters, while objects with less in common will be placed further away.
Though it worked correctly, there were some flaws. The clusters that occurred seemed to provide useful information at a large distance, but from up close the user would be confronted with quite an initimidating "wall" of spheres. Also I didn't like the idea of mapping the objects on the surface of a sphere. In my mind they ought to be mapped in a volume to really use the space.
The DataCloud 2.0 project was a huge challenge to me in many ways and I learned a great many things! The project offered me more problems than I could handle, but most of them were problems I didn't mind thinking about. A lot of the ideas that came up in the project reoccurred in other projects, which I interpret as a good sign :-).
The DataCloud 2.0 project was continued by the DataCloud 2.5 project.


AFI FEST has added another world premiere to its slate: "I Am the Night," the upcoming limited series from "Wonder Woman" director Patty Jenkins. Following the true-life story of a woman named Fauna Hodel who was given away at birth and began looking into her own past as a teenager, it joins Chuck Lorre's "The Kominsky Method" as the Hollywood festival's only TV programming. Chris Pine and India Eisley star in the limited series from TNT.
This year's festival runs from November 8–15.


The 'official' pro nuclear industry version of events surrounding the Fukushima disaster, makes it sound like Fukushima was just a minor event with radiation releases that total no more than 10% of Chernobyl, and that no one died, no one will die due to the very low amount of radiation released. The 'official' story is that the #3 building explosion was a pure hydrogen explosion like all of the rest of the buildings, and nothing radioactive got out of containment. In addition, the official story is that no spent fuel pools or equipment pools caught on fire or melted out. That is the 'official' mantra repeated by just anyone inside of the closed nuclear club.


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Prawo Little'a – twierdzenie mówiące o tym, że średnia liczba rzeczy/klientów w systemie jest równa iloczynowi średniego czasu przebywania w systemie oraz średniego tempa ich przybywania.

Prawo to jest elementem teorii kolejek – dziedziny matematyki będącej częścią badań operacyjnych.

Historia
Prawo Little'a zostało po raz pierwszy sformułowane w 1954 przez Alana Cobhama, jednak nie zostało przez niego udowodnione. W 1958 roku Philip Morse przedstawił je w postaci algebraicznej. W 1961 profesor Massachusetts Institute of Technology John Little przedstawił dowód na to, że prawo to obowiązuje w każdym systemie kolejkowym, jeśli obserwuje się go odpowiednio długo.

Opis
Prawo Little'a jest wyrażone wzorem:

L = λW

gdzie:

L  =  średnia liczba rzeczy/klientów w systemie/kolejce;

λ  =  średnie tempo przybywania (intensywność napływu zgłoszeń);

W  =  średni czas przebywania w systemie

Przykład: jeżeli oddział banku odwiedza średnio 10 klientów na godzinę (λ) i klient przebywa w nim średnio 1 godzinę (W), to średnia liczba klientów znajdujących się w oddziale (L) wynosi 10.

Zastosowanie
Prawo Little'a, po przekształceniu jego postaci algebraicznej, może zostać wykorzystane do estymowania średniego czasu przebywania w systemie. Znajduje to zastosowanie m.in. w:
 obliczaniu czasu oczekiwania w kolejce w sklepie w zależności od długości kolejki i liczby znajdujących się w niej osób,
 obliczaniu średniego czasu spędzanego przez pacjenta w szpitalu,
 w tworzeniu i analizie rozwiązań just-in-time oraz ograniczaniu pracy w toku (ang. work in progress) w koncepcji lean management
 analizie wielkości zapasów wyrobów gotowych,
 w analizie procesów usługowych.

Prawo Little'a w tworzeniu oprogramowania
Prawo Little'a jest wykorzystywane przy tworzeniu oprogramowania m.in. w celu obliczenia pracy w toku, czyli liczby zadań, nad którymi pracuje zespół. Jest ona odpowiednikiem średniej liczby rzeczy/klientów w systemie. Z kolei czas cyklu (ang. cycle time), czyli średni czas potrzebny do zakończenia jednego zadania, jest odpowiednikiem średniego czasu przebywania w systemie. Przepustowość systemu (ang. throughput) określa, ile zadań zespół wykonuje w jednostce czasu:
 Praca w toku =  czas cyklu x przepustowość systemu
Przy zastosowaniu w tworzeniu oprogramowania metody kanban prawo Little'a jest używane do analizy limitów pracy w toku.

Przypisy

Inżynieria oprogramowania
Lean management


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Sherwin Siy on digital copyright
by Jerry Brito on August 13, 2013 · 0 comments
Sherwin Siy, Vice President of Legal Affairs at Public Knowledge, discusses emerging issues in digital copyright policy. He addresses the Department of Commerce's recent green paper on digital copyright, including the need to reform copyright laws in light of new technologies. This podcast also covers the DMCA, online streaming, piracy, cell phone unlocking, fair use recognition, digital ownership, and what we've learned about copyright policy from the SOPA debate.
Sherwin Siy, Public Knowledge
What the DMCA cell phone unlock ban means to you, Reardon
Why The Library Of Congress Has A Lock On Your Phone, Henn
Adam Thierer on cronyism
by Jerry Brito on July 9, 2013 · 5 comments
Adam Thierer, Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center discusses his recent working paper with coauthor Brent Skorup, A History of Cronyism and Capture in the Information Technology Sector. Thierer takes a look at how cronyism has manifested itself in technology and media markets — whether it be in the form of regulatory favoritism or tax privileges. Which tech companies are the worst offenders? What are the consequences for consumers? And, how does cronyism affect entrepreneurship over the long term?
A History of Cronyism and Capture in the Information Technology Sector, Thierer
Video: A History of Cronysim and Capture in the Information Technology Sector, Thierer
Adam Thierer Biography, Mercatus Center
Adam Thierer on Anti-Tech Grump Evgeny Morozov, Thierer
Patrick Ruffini on the defeat of SOPA
Patrick Ruffini, political strategist, author, and President of Engage, a digital agency in Washington, DC, discusses his latest book with coauthors David Segal and David Moon: Hacking Politics: How Geeks, Progressives, the Tea Party, Gamers, Anarchists, and Suits Teamed Up to Defeat SOPA and Save the Internet. Ruffini covers the history behind SOPA, its implications for Internet freedom, the "Internet blackout" in January of 2012, and how the threat of SOPA united activists, technology companies, and the broader Internet community.
Patrick Ruffini, Engage
Patrick Ruffini, Huffington Post
Hacking Politics: How Geeks, Progressives, the Tea Party, Gamers, Anarchists and Suits Teamed Up to Defeat SOPA and Save the Internet, Goodreads
Declan McCullagh on the NSA leaks
by Jerry Brito on June 18, 2013 · 0 comments
Declan McCullagh, chief political correspondent for CNET and former Washington bureau chief for Wired News, discusses recent leaks of NSA surveillance programs. What do we know so far, and what more might be unveiled in the coming weeks? McCullagh covers legal challenges to the programs, the Patriot Act, the fourth amendment, email encryption, the media and public response, and broader implications for privacy and reform.
Snowden: NSA snoops on U.S. phone calls without warrants, McCullagh
Snowden: Feds can't plug leaks by 'murdering me', McCullagh
Feds: Power grid vulnerable to cyber threats, McCullagh
Cato's "Deepbills" Project Advances Government Transparency
by Jim Harper on May 21, 2013 · 0 comments
It's not the culmination–that will come soon–but a major step in work I direct at the Cato Institute to improve government transparency has been achieved. I'll be announcing and extolling it Wednesday at the House Administration Committee's Legislative Data and Transparency conference. Here's a quick survey of what we've been doing and the results we see on the near horizon.
After president Obama's election in 2008, we recognized transparency as a bipartisan and pan-ideological goal at an event entitled: "Just Give Us the Data." Widespread agreement and cooperation on transparency has held. But by the mid-point of the president's first term, the deep-running change most people expected was not materializing, and it still has not. So I began working more assiduously on what transparency is and what delivers it.
In "Publication Practices for Transparent Government" (Sept. 2011), I articulated ways the government should deliver information so that it can be absorbed by the public through the intermediary of web sites, apps, information services, and so on. We graded the quality of government data publication in the aptly named November 2012 paper: "Grading the Government's Data Publication Practices."
But there's no sense in sitting around waiting for things to improve. Given the incentives, transparency is something that we will have to force on government. We won't receive it like a gift.
So with software we acquired and modified for the purpose, we've been adding data to the bills in Congress, making it possible to learn automatically more of what they do. The bills published by the Government Printing Office have data about who introduced them and the committees to which they were referred. We are adding data that reflects:
– What agencies and bureaus the bills in Congress affect;
– What laws the bills in Congress effect: by popular name, U.S. Code section, Statutes at Large citation, and more;
– What budget authorities bills include, the amount of this proposed spending, its purpose, and the fiscal year(s).
We are capturing proposed new bureaus and programs, proposed new sections of existing law, and other subtleties in legislation. Our "Deepbills" project is documented at cato.org/resources/data.
This data can tell a more complete story of what is happening in Congress. Given the right Web site, app, or information service, you will be able to tell who proposed to spend your taxpayer dollars and in what amounts. You'll be able to tell how your member of Congress and senators voted on each one. You might even find out about votes you care about before they happen!
Having introduced ourselves to the community in March, we're beginning to help disseminate legislative information and data on Wikipedia.
The uses of the data are limited only by the imagination of the people building things with it. The data will make it easier to draw links between campaign contributions and legislative activity, for example. People will be able to automatically monitor ALL the bills that affect laws or agencies they are interested in. The behavior of legislators will be more clear to more people. Knowing what happens in Washington will be less the province of an exclusive club of lobbyists and congressional staff.
In no sense will this work make the government entirely transparent, but by adding data sets to what's available about government deliberations, management and results, we're multiplying the stories that the data can tell and beginning to lift the fog that allows Washington, D.C. to work the way it does–or, more accurately, to fail the way it does.
At this point, data curator Molly Bohmer and Cato interns Michelle Newby and Ryan Mosely have marked up 75% of the bills introduced in Congress so far. As we fine-tune our processes, we expect essentially to stay current with Congress, making timely public oversight of government easier.
This is not the culmination of the work. We now require people to build things with the data–the Web sites, apps, and information services that can deliver transparency to your door. I'll be promoting our work at Wednesday's conference and in various forums over the coming weeks and months. Watch for government transparency to improve when coders get a hold of the data and build the tools and toys that deliver this information to the public in accessible ways.
Land Rights, Bottom Up, Using GPS and Satellite Data
by Jim Harper on May 9, 2013 · 2 comments
Check out how tribal villagers in parts of India are establishing a basic right that we take for granted. Using GPS and satellite imagery, they're marking out the plots of land that they have lived on, unrecognized, for decades, and they're making it their property.
The project is described here, and you can noodle around and find plots that they've mapped out here.
President Obama's New E.O.: Open Data, Not Government Transparency
by Jim Harper on May 9, 2013 · 1 comment
There's a powerful irony lurking underneath the executive order and OMB memorandum on open data that the White House released in tandem today: We don't have data that tells us what agencies will carry out these policies.
It's nice that the federal government will work more assiduously to make available the data it collects and creates. And what President Obama's executive order says is true: "making information resources easy to find, accessible, and usable can fuel entrepreneurship, innovation, and scientific discovery that improves Americans' lives and contributes significantly to job creation." GPS and weather data are the premier examples.
But government transparency was the crux of the president's 2008 campaign promises, and it is still the rightful expectation of the public. Government transparency is not produced by making interesting data sets available. It's produced by publishing data about the government's deliberations, management, and results.
Today's releases make few, if any, nods to that priority. They don't go to the heart of transparency, but threaten to draw attention away from the fact that basic data about our government, including things as fundamental as the organization of the executive branch of government, are not available as open data.
Yes, there is still no machine-readable government organization chart. This was one of the glaring faults we found when we graded the publication practices of Congress and the executive branch last year, and this fault remains. The coders who may sift through data published by various agencies, bureaus, programs, and projects can't sift through data reflecting what those organizational units of government are.
Compare today's policy announcements to events coming up on Capitol Hill in the next two weeks.
On Thursday next week (May 16), the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will host a "DATA Demonstration Day" to illustrate to Congress and the media how technology may cut waste and improve oversight if federal spending data is structured and transparent. (That would include my hobby-horse, the machine-readable federal government organization chart.) We'll be there demo-ing how we at Cato are adding data to the bills Congress publishes.
On May 22nd, the House Administration Committee is hosting its 2013 Legislative Data and Transparency Conference. This is an event at which various service providers to the House will announce not just policies, but recent, new, and upcoming improvements in publication of data about the House and its deliberations. (We'll be there, too.)
The administration's open data announcements are entirely welcome. Some good may come from these policies, and they certainly do no harm (barring procurement boondoggles–which, alas, is a major caveat). But I hope this won't distract from the effort to produce government transparency, which I view as quite different from the subject of the new executive order and memorandum. The House of Representatives still seems to be moving forward on government transparency with more alacrity.
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Andy Greenberg on WikiLeaks and cypherpunks
by Jerry Brito on April 9, 2013 · 0 comments
Andy Greenberg, technology writer for Forbes and author of the new book "This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information," discusses the rise of the cypherpunk movement, how it led to WikiLeaks, and what the future looks like for cryptography.
Greenberg describes cypherpunks as radical techie libertarians who dreamt about using encryption to shift the balance of power from the government to individuals. He shares the rich history of the movement, contrasting one of t the movement's founders—hardcore libertarian Tim May—with the movement's hero—Phil Zimmerman, an applied cryptographer and developer of PGP (the first tool that allowed regular people to encrypt), a non-libertarian who was weary of cypherpunks, despite advocating crypto as a tool for combating the power of government.
According to Greenberg, the cypherpunk movement did not fade away, but rather grew into a larger hacker movement, citing the Tor network, bitcoin, and WikiLeaks as example's of its continuing influence. Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, belonged to a listserv followed by early cypherpunks, though he was not very active at the time, he says.
Greenberg is excited for the future of information leaks, suggesting that the more decentralized process becomes, the faster cryptography will evolve.
This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information, Greenberg
WikiLeaks' 'PLUS D' Aims To Digitize America's Secret Diplomatic History, Greenberg
A Different Approach To Foiling Hackers? Let Them In, Then Lie To Them., Greenberg
WCITLeaks, Greenberg
Marvin Ammori on Internet freedom
by Jerry Brito on March 12, 2013 · 1 comment
Marvin Ammori, a fellow at the New American Foundation and author of the new book On Internet Freedom explains his view of how the First Amendment applies the Internet through the lens of constitutional law and real world case studies.
According to Ammori, Internet freedom is a foundational issue for democracy, equivalent to the right to vote or freedom of speech. In fact, he says, the First Amendment can be used as a design principle for how we think about the challenges we face as Internet technology increasingly becomes a part of our lives.
Ammori's belief in a positive right to speech—that everyone should have access to the most important speech tools in society and be able to speak with and listen to any other speaker without having to seek permission— translates to a belief that Internet should be made available for everybody, without restrictions aside from those placed on offlinet speech.
Ammori goes on to explain why he thinks SOPA threatened to infringe upon free speech while net neutrality protects it, suggesting that allowing ISPs to control bandwidth usage is tantamount to forcing internet users to become passive consumers of information, rather than creators and content-spreaders.
On Internet Freedom, Ammori
Freedom Boxes, Freedom Voices, Ammori
The Next Big Battle in Internet Policy, Ammori
If You've Ever Sold a Used iPod, You May Have Violated Copyright Law, Ammori
Legislative Data and Wikipedia Workshop—March 14th and 15th
by Jim Harper on February 26, 2013 · 0 comments
In my Cato paper, "Publication Practices for Transparent Government," I talked about the data practices that will produce more transparent government. The government can and should improve the way it provides information about its deliberations, management, and results.
"But transparency is not an automatic or instant result of following these good practices," I wrote, "and it is not just the form and formats of data."
It turns on the capacity of the society to interact with the data and make use of it. American society will take some time to make use of more transparent data once better practices are in place. There are already thriving communities of researchers, journalists, and software developers using unofficial repositories of government data. If they can do good work with incomplete and imperfect data, they will do even better work with rich, complete data issued promptly by authoritative sources.
We're not just sitting around waiting for that to happen. Continue reading →

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Vetle Walle Egeli (born 2 February 2004) is a Norwegian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Sandefjord.

Club career
Born in Larvik, Egeli spent his youth career with the academies of Nanset IF and Sandefjord. After the Sandefjord squad was hit with injuries, Egeli was given the chance in the first team.

International career
Egeli has represented Norway at under-17 and under-18 level.

Personal life
Egeli is the brother of fellow professional footballer Sindre Walle Egeli.

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2004 births
Living people
People from Larvik
Norwegian footballers
Norway youth international footballers
Association football midfielders
Norwegian Fourth Division players
Eliteserien players
Sandefjord Fotball players


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-Forest Health
+Forest Taxation
FOREST HEALTH: GIANT ASIAN DODDER
An exotic parasitic plant known as giant Asian dodder has recently been introduced into Texas and threatens a variety of trees and landscape plants in Houston (Fig. 1). Giant Asian dodder (Cuscuta japonica Choisy) is often cultivated in Asia for medicinal products and may have been intentionally introduced into Houston for similar purposes. The problem is that it has recently escaped and invaded street trees and landscape plants in several Houston neighborhoods. First detected by City of Houston crews in August 2001, dodder has since been found in half a dozen neighborhoods, primarily in southern residential districts of the city.
Giant Asian dodder is a yellow-green vine that resembles spaghetti (Fig. 2A, B). It is able to parasitize a wide range of hosts including many agricultural crops (alfalfa, tomatoes, and onions, among others). Giant Asian dodder has been observed parastizing 20 host plants in southern Texas ranging from herbaceous plants to woody ornamentals (such as live oak, crape myrtle and Ligustrum).
Dodder is usually considered an annual plant, but in Texas, especially in the southern regions, dodder is believed to survive for more than one year. Dodder plants are hardy to a temperature of 9oF. Temperatures below 9oF will effectively kill the dodder plant. Temperatures in southern Texas rarely reach 9oF, though frosts do occur. When these frosts take place, the exposed foliage of the dodder plants is affected, but the entire plant is not killed. As a result, it will be able to continue to grow and parasitize its host when warm weather returns.
Dodder is yellow in color and lacks chlorophyll, thus it requires a living host in order of obtain the nutrients needed for survival. The dodder plant obtains nutrients from the host plant by producing specialized structures called haustoria (Fig. 3), which attach themselves to the host plant. The dodder withdraws sugars, amino acids and certain nutrients from the host at the site of contact. This parasitic action drains the host of vital resources needed for healthy growth and may weaken and eventually kill it.
Giant Asian dodder grows at a rate of 6 inches per day and can rapidly spread from one infected plant to another nearby host (Fig. 4). It can spread to a new area by two other methods. One method of spread involves seed production. In the spring, the dodder plant produces flowers and, if fertilized (usually by self fertilization or, rarely, by wasps or other insects), the flowers yield an abundant amount of seed.
Giant Asian dodder seeds are the size of coffee grains and have thick seed coats that are impermeable to oxygen and water. This allows the seed to remain viable until suitable conditions are present for germination. Dodder seed can remain viable in the soil for a period of 10-20 years. Usually most seed that is produced will germinate the following year.
Dodder seedlings have been reported to emerge from depths of 4 inches in the soil, although usually most seedlings originate from seeds located at a depth of ½ inch or less. Once the dodder seeds germinate, a rootless and leafless seedling is produced. The seedling absorbs water initially from the soil, in a manner similar to a root. The seedling uses the soil as an anchoring point for finding a nearby host to parasitize. Giant Asian dodder seedlings can survive for a period of several weeks without a host plant. In this time period, the seedling extends in length and rotates counterclockwise, seeking a host for a source of nutrients and water. If the seedling does not find a host within a few weeks, it dies.
The second method of overland spread is by fragmentation. This occurs when sections of the dodder vine itself are removed from the main plant and become established on another host. Haustoria are produced from these fragments, establish a connection to the host to obtain necessary nutrients, and continue to grow.
The methods used to control or eradicate dodder consist of post-emergence herbicides, pre-emergence herbicides, injected herbicides, roguing, and eradicative pruning.
Pre-emergent herbicides are used to prevent dodder seeds from germinating and seedlings from parasitizing available host plants.
Post-emergent herbicides may be used in conjunction with roguing infected plants, removing host material, and eradicative pruning. The post-emergent herbicides effectively kill the dodder in place, so the potential for spread of the parasite during host plant removal and transport is minimized. When utilizing eradicative pruning, such as in managed landscapes, a barrier treatment should be implemented as well. When possible, remove plants that are within 10 feet of the dodder-infected plants in order to create a host free barrier.
Herbicides injected into infected host plants are used in some locations when large trees are being attacked by the dodder or other unique difficulties are posed in safely dealing with the disease. A large tree will increase the likelihood of fragmentation and dispersal of the parasite while the host is being felled and cut for transport. Therefore, trees injected with systemic herbicides will rapidly kill the tree and the attached parasite.
Using the control methods described above, efforts are currently underway to eradicate giant Asian dodder from known sites in Houston, before this invasive plant can become established over a wider area.
+ Figures: Giant Asian Dodder
Photos and figures of Giant Asian Dodder
Figure 1: This is an Arizona ash in south Houston that is being aggressively parasitized by giant Asian dodder.
Figure 2A, B: The giant Asian dodder strands seen to the left are typically yellow in color. This type of strand, if in contact with a suitable host, will produce viable haustoria and effectively parasitize the new host.
Dodder strands growing
Figure 3: An example of haustoria of Giant Asian dodder penetrating into the host plant. The haustoria are the protrusions seen coming out from the vine and entering the host.
Figure 4: This is an example of giant Asian dodder spreading from a hedge of wax leaf Ligustrum up into a crape myrtle in south Houston.
If you find giant Asian dodder within the City of Houston, contact the Integrated Pest Management Coordinator with the Houston Parks and Recreation Department (Phone: 713-742-1413).
For more information on dodder and its control, contact Jim Houser, Texas A&M Forest Service, Austin, Texas (e-mail jhouser@tfs.tamu.edu).


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Notes on Inherit the Wind
Film is art, not science. So the rhetoric is not determined by scientific protocol.
"Inherit the Wind" is a phrase from Proverb 11:29 He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind.
The play on which the film is based uses different names for the real people in the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial in Tennessee. Other facts of the case are changed in the play and movie. Hence, the authors are not presenting this as history or documentary. The title (troubles his own house) refers to the personal lives portrayed, and hence a major thrust of the film are the personal stories of the characters caught in the debate. Wikipedia has good background on the Scopes Trial, and some of the variations of the play and movie from the actual events.
The opening music- Old Time Religion- is an African-American spiritual converted by Charles Tillman in 1889. It was used in the 1941 patriotic film Sargeant York- in which a conscientious-objector (Gary Cooper) is convinced to serve his country with a rifle. Hollywood has never been afraid to tangle with social issue. Film uses many means of story-telling to inform and convince us. Rhetoric. One common method is to show how someone who is uncertain is led by events or arguments to change their mind or confirm their beliefs.
For modern people of faith in a scientific world, Old Time Religion is often not good enough for us, and we have found other basis for faith. Many people in the sciences are as amazed and awestruck by their understanding of scientific knowledge in the same why people claim to feel God's presence looking to the Grand Canyon or in a quiet forest glade. I have personally written about the beauty of natural selection as an elegant means of creating species. So the opening hymn may be a depiction of anti-science fundamentalism, but is not necessarily a parody of faith.
Stanley Kramer directed a lot of big name stars in good and great movies. He is always on the list of great directors. The year before this film, he directed On the Beach with Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire, Ava Gardner, and Anthony Perkins (Psycho), about the world dying off from radiation after a nuclear war. In 1955 he gave us Not as a Stranger with Robert Mitchum, Olivia DeHavilland, Frank Sinatra, and Harry Morgan, about a man and woman struggling to make a difference in the medical field. In 1961 he made Judgment at Nuremburg with Spencer Tracy, Richard Widmark, Judy Garland, Monty Cliff, Maximillian Schell, and Marlene Dietrich about the trials of the Nazis after World War II. In 1979 he made Runner Stumbles about a priest (Dick Van Dyke) who falls in love with a nun. Almost all Stanley Kramer's films are social commentary (rhetoric- saying what's wrong and suggesting solutions), with the notable exception of the star-studded frenetic It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), which simply shows people at their greediest in hysterical comedy. These stars may not be names you know, but they were the preeminent film actors of their era. Kramer is not heavy handed with his message, though he often beats up his characters, letting their flaws kill them even. But his methods of making his points are not subtle, so his actors must work to be human in the face of outlandish situations.
Spencer Tracy was one of the greatest actors ever. He had a wry sense of humor, and a great conscience. Perfect for rhetoric.
Frederic March- playing the William Jennings Bryan character- politician and orator supreme- was from the same era- playing with Humphrey Bogart and all the big stars.
Gene Kelly plays the part of the obnoxious reporter, parallel but not a portrayal of H L Mencken in the real trial. In case you do not know, aside from his acting talent, most people rate him right up there with Fred Astaire as one of the two best male dancers in film. He did Singing in the Rain, American in Paris and more, and also TV.
In the opening scene, note blind justice. In the credits note that they had a Reverend as a "technical advisor"
Action is set in fictional Hillsboro, and often the small-town country ways are contrasted with big city values. From ancient time, the people in the hills are often portrayed as morally superior to the decadence and temptation of life in the valley, where cities often grow due to water, traffic etc. " I lift up mine eyes to the hills…." No sign of hills in the movie lot. By the way, the heat WAS so oppressive, and the crowd so large, the trial was "staged" outside. In fact, evidence suggests the trial was more of a publicity stunt for the town of Dayton than an actual science versus religion contest.
Note the men portrayed setting up the trial: Mayor, preacher, prosecutor, restauranteur, etc, all squawking until the banker speaks and everyone listens.
Note the sense of fair play through-out, and the portrayal of respect even friendship for adversaries.
"Let me out of jail and lock up my mind"
"I may be rancid butter, but I'm on your side of the bread" Obnoxious writer to "Scopes" fiancé.
The job of a preacher is to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
Women are not portrayed strongly in this film, expect the politician's wife is as decent and wonderful as they come. This may be because women are viewed as champions of religion. In Kramer's other films, he has some great women, as we shall see in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
Rhetoric: How does each character try to convince people of their point of view? How is Kramer trying to convince us? Is this film going to change anyone's mind about religion and evolution? Probably not. But is this film going to change anyone's mind about the humanity of the people who hold strong opinions and those who are not so sure. For all the heavy-handed anti-religion and pro-evolution rhetoric in the film, the real rhetoric is about how people respond when caught in such as battle. One man eats himself to death. Another looks like he is starving himself to death. One seems to have preserved himself in vinegar to be immune. How do Kramer and his cast show you THAT message, that an unfair fight in not only unjust but damaging?
Often rhetoric comes in layers which have different purposes. In John Irving's famous and hilarious book The World According to Garp, we see Garp telling a story to his youngest. The action stops and we hear this unrelated story about a cat teasing a dog. Garp's wife is upset, because it is the older child who should be hearing this story about the evils of teasing. But the surprise ending of the story makes it a tale directly suited to the youngest- never run into the street. Irving slaps us with one of the oldest rhetorical tricks in the book- we are off on a tangent, we think we know the punch line, the message, and so we are caught unaware and undefensive to a different message.
A major theme of many films, novels, and plays is nonconformity. It is a natural theme in our melting pot country and world. We see it here, held up as a value to treasure. Today we call it diversity, and if there is a small group with a tradition of nonconformity, then it's OK. Sarcasm- being sarcastic, bringing you into our shared opinion about overbearing authority, I drag you into agreeing with me. A short version of gaining your confidence first. Whenever I see nonconformity raised up as a value, I ask myself- what is the value of nonconformity? Is it just our right to be different? Or is nonconformity often the front edge of social change? Or is it just as often the minority who have not changed with the progress of humanity. Believing that the world is flat is nonconformist, now. Believing in slavery. How about spanking kids- are you a believer, and opponent, or an agnostic?
Another theme is certainty versus doubt. This is a perennial theme in religion and many fields. The importance of knowing what you know, believing what you belief, but having doubts and an open mind that maybe we are wrong on some pretty important stuff.
Like a good book deserves several readings, a good film deserves several viewings. Try to enjoy the first viewing, especially if you cannot watch it more than once. But please take a few notes as you go, especially on how arguments are made. If you do not understand courtroom procedure, never mind or ask and I will explain. Again, the evolution versus religion is presented rhetorically as one-sided. But people's reaction to that debate, and how they cope with their reaction, that is being manipulated for your viewing. See if you can see that process as well as the courtroom rhetoric. Facial expressions. Sympathy between people. Anger. Fear. Standing up to help a person not just a cause (the scene of Bryan stopping the preacher from word that are hurting his own daughter is almost unbelievable, like stopping a train too fast). Apparent disloyalty of cause because of loyalty of friendship or principle. After all, the title is about what you will inherit if you do not keep peace in your family. If that's the message, how have we been convinced of that?
By the way, you could also say that Proverbs 11:29 simply means if you make trouble with your family, you will be cut out of the will and inherit thin air.


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Q: Sending and receiving fax with sharepoint my clients expressed the need to be able to send faxes from sharepoint.
So they would open up a web page somewhere on the intranet, they would then select another company and click on a send button. This would send a fax to the said company using a template already in sharepoint.
But they would also like to get notified when they get fax responses.
I started looking around and i saw that MS already as a a small fax library, FaxComLib. I just need to know if its possible to implement FaxComLib with a fax server to be able to get notification of incoming faxes and sending some.
I also need a fax server, is there some way i can rent either a fax server or some web services i can call to get it to work ???
Thanks alot :)

A: have you looked into GFI Fax Maker?
or for a full solution and to change yourself you could use:
http://www.concordfax.com/microsoft/sharepoint.aspx
http://developer.concordfax.com/
also another two big companies that are used alot are Viscendo, biscom fax servers.
I think someone wanted to do somthing similar to you aswell:
http://www.linkedin.com/answers/technology/enterprise-software/TCH_ENT/472044-37931110
As for faxconlib i wouldnt know tbh but there is the documentation here if you got the time :) http://www.interfax.net/en/dev/faxcomexlib
hope this is some help to you :)


Omni-people....any chance at all of using your amazing programming skills to FINALLY give us old ACT! for windows users a mac CRM with a real customer workflow?
Omniplan-omnifocus are so close...just a few tweaks and you could be there.


The departure of a key aide reflects turmoil within the administration and Mr Trump's growing dissatisfaction with his staff.
Sean Spicer's best moments. PERIOD!
Sean Spicer has resigned as White House press secretary after a disagreement over a new communications director.
Financier Anthony Scaramucci was offered the job by Donald Trump on Friday morning.
The New York Times said that Mr Spicer "vehemently disagreed" with the appointment, telling the President it was "a major mistake".
After resigning, Mr Spicer tweeted that it had been "an honor & a privilege" to serve under Mr Trump, and that he would continue working through August.
Mr Spicer has been carrying out the communications director role alongside his duties as press secretary since Mike Dubke left in May.
In an on-camera White House briefing, deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, read out a statement from the President in which he said he was "grateful for Sean's work".
The President's statement also made mention of what he called Mr Spicer's "great television ratings".
Referring to the appointment of Anthony Scaramucci as his new director of communications, the President said he was an "important addition" to his team, and went on to take a swipe at the press saying "the good news is that the people get it even if the media doesn't".
Mr Scaramucci then took to the podium for his first public appearance in front of the White House corps, announcing Ms Huckabee Sanders promotion to the role of press secretary.
Mr Scaramucci then praised Mr Spicer as "a true American patriot", saying "I hope he goes on to make a tremendous amount of money".
Seen by some as the face of the Trump administration, Mr Spicer's briefings have often been tetchy, echoing his boss's dismissal of the "mainstream media" as peddlers of "fake news".
The tone was set in his debut in the role, as the press secretary clashed fiercely with the media over the size of the crowd in Washington for Mr Trump's inauguration ceremony.
Later he drew widespread criticism for comparing Syrian president Bashar-al Assad to Hitler and for telling veteran White House correspondent April Ryan to "stop shaking your head" after accusing her of pushing her own agenda.
Could Trump lose his job over Russia?
Mr Spicer, who served under former Republican president George W Bush in a public affairs trade role, had seemed to be safe from President Trump's notoriously short patience.
Mr Trump was reported as telling people: "I'm not firing Sean Spicer. That guy gets great ratings. Everyone tunes in."
But he stopped appearing at briefings after taking on the role of communications director after Mr Dubke's departure in May and Mr Trump was said to be pleased with the performances of his deputy, the equally combative Ms Huckabee Sanders.
Sky News US Correspondent Amanda Walker said: "What we know about Donald Trump is that he really favours loyalty… Spicer never lost his loyalty to Donald Trump, sometimes it was misguided, but it was always fierce and committed.
"It is an incredibly difficult job to get up there and speak for this maverick, unpredictable President. Very often what he said on that podium would be completely contradicted by Donald Trump in a single Tweet, so much so that his catchphrase became 'The Tweet speaks for itself'."
Ultimately Mr Spicer may be best remembered for spawning a scathingly funny impersonation of him by comedian Melissa McCarthy on Saturday Night Live, where she mocked his short fuse, bombastic temperament and fondness for chewing gum alongside Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump.
Mr Spicer's departure reflects turmoil in Mr Trump's legal and communications teams, whom Mr Trump blames for the administration's inability to break free from the Russian election hacking story that has dogged his time in the Oval Office.
On Thursday, the President hit out at long-time ally and attorney general Jeff Sessions over his decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation, saying he would'n have appointed him to the role if he had known Sessions would do so.
And in a separate report, Mr Trump was said to be considering trying to limit the powers of special counsel Robert Mueller, appointed to oversee the investigation into whether Moscow contributed to the Trump campaign's victory.
Next week, his son, Donald Jr, son-in-law Jared Kushner and former campaign manager Paul Manafort will testify before senators over their meeting with a Russian lawyer last summer at which they were promised damaging information on opponent Hillary Clinton.
Mr. Scaramucci, who met Mr Trump and his daughter Ivanka for more than 30 minutes at the White House on Thursday, is one of the president's most trusted loyalists and a key defender of his on television.
Mr Spicer's first post-resignation interview will be with Sean Hannity on Trump-friendly platform Fox news on Friday night.
Anthony Scaramucci and White House chief of staff Reince Priebus will also appear on the show.


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Could the twin towers have been saved?
How many alarms was 911?
Did anyone climb down the World Trade Center?
What is the highest floor someone survived 9 11?
What happened to the bodies that jumped from the World Trade Center?
Did any firefighters survive 9 11?
What floor did the plane hit Tower 2?
Did anyone survive top floors Twin Towers?
Was there a daycare center in the Twin Towers?
Which tower came down first on 911?
What time did the twin towers collapse?
How many firefighters lost their lives on 911?
How many people jumped from the Twin Towers?
Were any bodies recovered from Flight 11?
How much money did World Trade Center victims get?
Who was the youngest firefighter to die in 9 11?
Improved security screening Despite being scanned with a hand-held detector, the hijackers were passed through.
Security camera footage later showed some hijackers had what appeared to be box cutters clipped to their back pockets.
Box cutters and similar small knives were allowed on board certain aircraft at the time..
Even in the uncontrolled blazes, the two towers showed a remarkable resilience that certainly saved many lives, the report concludes. "The ability of the two towers to withstand aircraft impact without immediate collapse was a direct function of their design and construction characteristics."
September 11 was on the order of five five-alarm responses, involving more than 214 FDNY units—112 engines, 58 ladder trucks, five rescue companies, seven squad companies, four marine units, dozens of chiefs, and numerous command, communication, and support units.
Stanley Praimnath (born 1956) is a survivor of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. He worked as an executive for Fuji Bank on the 81st floor of the South Tower (WTC 2), the second tower struck that day. He was one of only 18 survivors from the plane's impact zone.
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200 peopleAt least 200 people are believed to have jumped from the Twin Towers after planes struck the towers in an attack that claimed more than 2,600 lives.
During the recovery effort at the World Trade Center site, workers recovered and identified dozens of remains from Flight 11 victims, but many body fragments could not be identified.
Feinberg personally presided over more than 900 of the 1,600 hearings. At the end of the process $7 billion was awarded to 97% of the families.
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I shot ARA last year and used a Von Ahrens one-piece rest. Rogers rest has the vertical and horizontal adjustment knobs towards the rear of the rest. I was able to move between bulls (sighters or record) quickly and precisely. The range of motion was PLENTY to move anywhere on the card and even way off either side or top or bottom. I emphasize the "precisely" part. Meaning it was easy to move right to the POI that I wanted and I didn't have to reach far forward to do it.
Well this year it looks like I'm gonna be shooting IR 50/50. So it's time for a two-piece rest solution. For me one of the hardest things to do is to decide what "piece of equipment" is "for me" without actually having one to try. I try to think out all of the pros and cons that I think I will find, I ask lots of questions, but in the end I think equipment selection is a real personal thing. What you like, and what I like, may be the same and visa versa.
So ... first off I'm trying to decide between a coaxial front rest or a knob turning front rest. Here's are some of my thoughts/questions.
What's it like to move exactly to your desired POA? With knobs I've found that they are very precise and finite and very easy to get that exact POA, I'm concerned that with a coaxial rest I'll find myself moving back and forth and up and down trying to find that exact POA moving all around it and passing over it. What are your experiences?
When you chamber another round does it move where you were aiming? And along those lines, if you adjust the tightness so that it doesn't move, have you now made it harder for precise adjustments?
I'm reading that coaxials have enough horizontal range but not enough vertical range for an IR 50/50 target ... and you have to use a vertical knob, that just like the knob rests you have to reach forward for, how does this affect the convenience of using a coaxial rest?
I think my biggest concern with these is that I've never had to reach forward to get to the adjusting knobs. With my 1 piece I could use two hands (if I had to), one on the vertical knob and one on the horizontal knob, and "FLY" precisely to my next POA. It seems that it would be kinda hard to reach forward with two hands to be able to adjust both knobs at the same time and it would not be as fast moving one hand between horizontal and vertical knobs to get to the exact POA. Is it?
That's kinda it .... at least until I think of some more questions based on the answers.
I've read in a couple of posts that the Farley Coaxial people offer a money back gaurantee ... that you can use it for 30 days and you can return it for a refund, no questions asked if you don't like it .... is that true? That might be the way to go.
That was one of the "Knob Rests" that I was looking at ... and I already have the Tom Sink pictures that you brother posted awhile ago. Thanks ... I'm still missing the "hands on" on though .... and no-one near me has one.
Like I said ... THANKS .... Fred.
Thanks for the input and Picture ... decision made.
Big macky: Would you please be so kind as to let me know the cost of the Fulghum rest. garrisone.thank you.
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Delme – miejscowość i gmina we Francji, w regionie Grand Est, w departamencie Mozela.

Według danych na rok 1990 gminę zamieszkiwało 681 osób, a gęstość zaludnienia wynosiła 134 osób/km² (wśród 2335 gmin Lotaryngii Delme plasuje się na 492. miejscu pod względem liczby ludności, natomiast pod względem powierzchni na miejscu 1004.).

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Elizabeth Tudor was born on September 7, 1533, daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn, at Greenwich Palace, London, England. As a child, she received the rigorous education normally reserved for male heirs.
Her situation was precarious during the reigns of her brother Edward VI and her half sister Mary I. After the Wyatt rebellion of 1554, she was imprisoned for treason but later released.
On November 17, 1558, on Mary's death, she acceeded to the throne and was greeted with public jubilation, becoming Queen Elizabeth I, sometimes nicknamed "Good Queen Bess", and she was crowned Queen on January 15, 1559. She assembled a core of experienced advisers, but zealously retained her power to make final decisions.
Important events of her reign included the restoration of England to Protestantism, the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, and England's defeat of the Spanish Armada. She lived under constant threat of conspiracies by British Catholics.
She was known as the Virgin Queen, wedded to her kingdom, as she never married. Many important suitors came forward, and she showed signs of romantic attachment to the earl of Leicester, but she remained single, perhaps because she was unwilling to compromise her power. She had another suitor, the earl of Essex, executed in 1601 for treason.
Though her later years saw an economic decline and disastrous military efforts to subdue the Irish, her reign had already seen England's emergence as a world power and her presence had helped unify the nation against foreign enemies (her reign is often called the Golden Age of England).
She died in Richmond Palace on March 24, 1603 and was succeeded by James I, son of Mary Queen of Scots and her second husband, Elizabeth's cousin Lord Darnley.
First, in "The Ghost of the Grotto", it is said that a long time ago, there was a ship sailing to England, carrying Spanish gold for Good Queen Bess, which crashed against the Carribbean reeves. The only survivor, the captain, hid in a cave with the treasure, wainting for Sir Francis Drake. But he didn't come, and when the now old captain thought he wouldn't be able to protect the treasure anymore, he kidnapped a little boy so that he can protect it. This way, every 50 years, the same day, the protector of the treasure was changed , which created a great fear into town. In 1947 (the date of this story), the actual guardian, who thinks Drake is still alive, has to choose his successor and kidnaps Dewey Duck, who is eventually saved by Donald and his brothers.
Then, in "Back To Long Ago!", Scrooge and Donald learn that their past incarnations, Matei McDuck and Pintail Duck, were sailors of Good Queen Bess and that they had hidden a treasure chest on a desert island.
In "The Wax Museum", a wax statue of Elizabeth can be seen.
In "His Majesty, McDuck", we learn thanks to an engraved copper plate found by Scrooge that the land Nova Albion, discovered by Sir Francis Drake on June 17, 1579, in name of Queen Elizabeth of England, is in fact located in Calisota, and that Drake founded here, on a hill (later known as Killmule Hill, and later as Killmotor Hill), his settlement, Drake Borough. In 1818, it is renamed Duckburg by Cornelius Coot.


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Beryl (Be3Al2(Si6O18)), a silicate mineral containing 12–13.5% beryllium oxide (BeO) is one of the main sources of the lightweight metal beryllium.
World mine production is about 240 tonnes (2013), mainly from the United States of America. A further 20–25% of consumption is from recycling.
South Australia's total recorded production of 136 t was mined between 1941 and 1963 from 34 pegmatite bodies in Willyama Supergroup rocks in the Olary district, mainly as a hand-picked by-product of feldspar mining.
Crooks AF and Abbot PJ 2004. Beryl in South Australia. South Australia Department of Primary Industries and Resources Report Book 2004/25.
Olliver JG and Steveson BG 1982. Pegmatites in the Olary Province. A review of feldspar and beryl mining north of Olary and the results of reconnaissance sampling of feldspar. South Australia. Department of Mines and Energy. Report Book, 81/74.


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Q: Using Html/CSS, how to display overlapped/composed UNICODE characters (without using diacriticals marks)? Currently, I search to display 2 characters equivalent to |< and >| where
< = 0x2BC7 ⯇
> = 0x2BC8 ⯈
| = 0x6C (letter 'l')
On first message, I requested that vertical is represented by | = 0x2503 unicode character, but this character, in Arial, is not defined correctly on Chrome and on Edge Chromium.
When HTML code and style are following
div.std > span.char
    {
    font-family: Arial;
    font-size:80px;
    background-color: lightgreen;
    }

     l⯇
    ⯇
    ⯈
    ⯈l

On Chrome browser, I get following output

The 2 left characters must be composed so that | character is linked to left point of triangle.
The 2 right characters must be composed so that | character is linked to right point of triangle.
How can I do ?
This display is use to define 4 buttons to allow navigation in a list.
For this reason, it is important that

*

*all buttons have same height

*button |< and >| have same width

*button < and > have same width

*all characters are centered in green rectangle

*alls gaps between 2 successive buttons have same width

It is also important that solution proposed works on any browser.
PS: centered means that left and right paddings are equal for all characters and top and bottom paddings are also equal for all characters.
For example in this question, 2 things are not correct.

*

*in first and last bloc, bar and triangle characters are not linked together

*left padding of first bloc is too large (not= right padding)

*right padding of last bloc is too large (not= left padding)

A: Use a font that will always render the same and rely on letter-spacing to remove the unwanted space:

.uni {
  font-family: 'Inconsolata', monospace;
}

.uni span:first-child,
.uni span:last-child {
  letter-spacing: -0.3em;
}
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inconsolata:wght@600&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

  ┃⯇
  ⯇
  ⯈
  ⯈┃

  ┃⯇
  ⯇
  ⯈
  ⯈┃

  ┃⯇
  ⯇
  ⯈
  ⯈┃

Or simply use CSS to build the shape and you can easily control everything:

.arrow-1 {
   width:50px;
   height:50px;
   margin:0 5px;
   display:inline-block;
   border:15px solid yellow; /* control the padding*/
   padding-left:5px; /* control the width of the bar */
   background:
     linear-gradient(#000,#000) left,
     linear-gradient(to bottom right,transparent 49.5%,#000 50%) top    content-box,
     linear-gradient(to top    right,transparent 49.5%,#000 50%) bottom content-box,
     yellow;
   background-size:
    5px 100%, /* same as padding-left */
    100% 50%,
    100% 50%;
   background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
.arrow-2 {
   width:50px;
   height:50px;
   margin:0 5px;
   display:inline-block;
   border:15px solid yellow; /* control the padding*/
   background:
     linear-gradient(to bottom right,transparent 49.5%,#000 50%) top   ,
     linear-gradient(to top    right,transparent 49.5%,#000 50%) bottom,
     yellow;
   background-size:100% 50%;
   background-repeat:no-repeat;
}

A: In using only CSS, I have obtained following result

This can be done using following code

span.bar-triangle
 {
 display:inline-block;
 width: 1.82ch;
 }
span.bar-triangle > span.bar
 {
 position:relative;
 padding-left:10px;
 background-color: transparent;
 }
span.bar-triangle > span.triangle
 {
 background-color: transparent;
 position:relative;
 left: -0.40ch;
 }
span.triangle-bar
 {
 display:inline-block;
 width: 1.82ch;
 }
span.triangle-bar > span.triangle
 {
 padding-right:0.24ch;
 background-color: transparent;
 }
span.triangle-bar > span.bar
 {
 position:relative;
 left: -0.60ch;
 background-color: transparent;
 }
div
 {
 font-family: Arial;
 line-height:452%;
 font-size:20
 }
div > span.char
 {
 background-color: yellow;
 font-size: 80px;
 }

    l⯇
    ⯇
    ⯈
    ⯈l

span.bar-triangle
    {
    display:inline-block;
    width: 1.82ch;
    }

This code fix width of bar-triangle rectangle.
Changing display to inline-block is necessary to fix the width.
span.bar-triangle > span.bar
    {
    position:relative;
    padding-left:10px;
    background-color: transparent;
    }

This code move bar character to the right so that left space is more large.
Parameter background-color is set to transparent because background's color is set in bar-triangle rectangle.
span.bar-triangle > span.triangle
    {
    background-color: transparent;
    position:relative;
    left: -0.40ch;
    }

This code shifts triangle's character to the left until left angle touch vertical bar.
span.triangle-bar
    {
    display:inline-block;
    width: 1.82ch;
    }

As for bar-triangle, this code fixes width of triangle-bar rectangle.
span.triangle-bar > span.triangle
    {
    padding-right:0.24ch;
    background-color: transparent;
    }

This code increment right padding to that left-paddind and right padding are equal and composed character continue to be centered in triangle-bar rectangle.
span.triangle-bar > span.bar
    {
    position:relative;
    left: -0.60ch;
    background-color: transparent;
    }

This code shifts vertical bar to the left so that right's angle touches vertical bar.
div
    {
    font-family: Arial;
    line-height:452%;
    font-size:20
    }

This code set font's family.
The line-height parameter is used to grow composed character rectangle height.
The font-size parameter is used to fix gap between yellow rectangle.
div > span.char
    {
    background-color: yellow;
    font-size: 80px;
    }

This code set backgroung's color of button's rectangle and size of character displayed in rectangles.
If line-height parameter is not used, we obtain following result

There exists perhaps another solution to avoid to use line-height but I don't find it.
Another possibility, is to replace  by
.


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The launch of "ShanghaiTech-Esquel Joint Lab" fosters innovative university-industry collaboration
Esquel Group is delighted to unveil a Joint Lab with ShanghaiTech University (ShanghaiTech), marking the beginning of an exciting 5-year project that will serve as an innovative research platform for university-industry collaboration.
The inauguration ceremony was held on December 4 at ShanghaiTech. It was officiated by the President of ShanghaiTech Minheng Jiang, Party Secretary of ShanghaiTech and Vice President Ruxin Li, Vice President and Provost Jie Yin, together with Esquel Group Chairman Marjorie Yang and Head of Research and Development Yugao Zhang, and joined by representatives from ShanghaiTech faculty and Esquel.
The Joint Lab is dedicated to exploring innovative solutions for traditional manufacturing enterprises in the course of transformation. Driven by Esquel's vision of "Making a Difference", the Joint Lab will combine Esquel's technological edges in the textile and apparel industry and ShanghaiTech's unique position in people development and academic research.
In her speech, Ms. Yang said advanced technology such as artificial intelligence has radically shaped the industrial landscape, and Esquel Group must brace for future challenges. The collaboration with ShanghaiTech represents an immense opportunity to exchange innovative ideas and seek technological solutions. Esquel's manufacturing facilities will serve as a base for ShanghaiTech's research applications.
President Jiang acknowledged huge significance in the University's collaboration with Esquel Group. "Esquel will be an important platform for us to foster research applications and student development. We will also offer tailor-made technological solutions for Esquel. The productivity boost could benefit Esquel and the industry as a whole."
Esquel Group and ShanghaiTech also announced they had agreed on the Joint Lab's short-term objectives and action plan.
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Symphony Ventures wins prestigious Scale-up/High Growth Team of the Year award
Home > News > Symphony Ventures wins prestigious Scale-up/H…
Congratulations to Symphony Ventures on winning the Scale Up/High Growth Team of the Year Award from the UK Business Angels Association.
The prestigious award recognises Symphony's use of equity investment to achieve significant growth and scale over the past 18 months and the firm's ability to demonstrate strong leadership, innovation, and team work.
We backed the global Robotic Process Automation (RPA) services firm in 2017 with a £3.5m Series A investment.
Led by CEO David Poole, chief strategy officer Ian Barkin, chief client officer Pascal Baker and COO David Brain, Symphony was founded in 2014 and provides Intelligent Automation consulting, implementation, hosting and managed services to enterprises looking to achieve game-changing digital transformation. Symphony's founders have been at the forefront of work innovation for two decades as former Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO) executives and established Symphony based on a vision that successfully designing and executing a Digital Operations strategy is the new corporate imperative.
We invested to support Symphony in accelerating its already rapid growth – doubling its global team, increasing delivery capacity and enhancing product development. In less than a year, Symphony has made major strides on all counts, including global expansion into Latin America and India. In addition, Symphony established Symphony Labs, focused on expanding the firm's cognitive toolkit, including a GDPR solution. The Labs has also advised the UK Parliament on the implications of AI on industry and education. A Consulting Hub was established in Dallas, TX, a Client Advocacy & Experience Practice was launched, and vendor and strategic partnerships were expanded with Blue Prism, eNate, Thoughtonomy and UiPath.
Symphony also appointed a CFO, Brian Southward, in March of this year, and welcomed Brian and two additional members to its Board of Directors: Henry Alty of Livingbridge, and Bill Thomas, managing partner of Acresis, a founder advisory firm that has supported Symphony in their growth and equity strategies.
CEO David Poole said:
"Ten months ago, we made the strategic decision to take on PE financing to accelerate growth and help us capitalize on this rapidly expanding industry. We've surprised even ourselves at the scale and speed of our progress in under a year."
Henry Alty commented:
"We saw a tremendous opportunity in Symphony with their unrivaled leadership expertise, world-class delivery team, unique service offerings, and a strategic vision to meet the exploding need in the marketplace. We congratulate the founders and the whole team for this recognition."
The Scale Up/High Growth Team of the Year Award follows recent recognition for Symphony by the Financial Times as UK Leading Management Consultants 2018, as well as the nomination for 'Outstanding Contribution to Industry Analysis or Strategy' at the CognitionX CogX 2018 event alongside McKinsey & Company and Accenture.
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Executive Director of the Geneva Centre: "The pursuit of economic gains from war, armed conflict and human suffering remains the 21st century's greatest injustice"
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GENEVA, Apr 9 2019 - Illegal arms exports and human trafficking adversely affect the enjoyment of human rights across the world including in the Arab region, the Geneva Centre's Executive Director Ambassador Idriss Jazairy said at a panel debate held at the United Nations Office in Geneva (UNOG).
The conference entitled "Impacts of Illegal Economic Activities in Conflict Areas on Human Rights" was jointly organized on 9 April by the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Azerbaijan to UN in Geneva and by the UN University for Peace.
In a recent report by the UN Secretary General expressing concern about the "global protection crisis" which prevails currently, Ambassador Jazairy stated that the Arab region is a telling testimony to this situation.
"Armed conflict and internal upheavals in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen have resulted in the displacement of millions of people. Insecurity has thrown Arab countries into endemic poverty and unprecedented social decline," the Geneva Centre's Executive Director said.
With regard to illegal or undercover arms exports to countries experiencing armed conflict in the MENA region, Ambassador Jazairy stated that this exacerbate social instability and violence. "When arms end up in the wrong hands" – he noted – "they can have a destabilising effect on nations. Irregular and black-market arms trade have weaponised extremism in the Middle East."
Referring to statistics from UNODA, Ambassador Jazairy remarked that the countries that are furthest from achieving the SDG targets are in, or emerging from, armed conflict and violence. In this regard, he appealed to governments and arms traders to commit to respecting and to fulfilling the provisions set forth in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
"Peace and stability and not weapons are over time the best investments in human rights," the Geneva Centre's Executive Director said.
In relation to the adverse human rights impact of human trafficking, Ambassador Jazairy highlighted that illegitimate or illegal economic activities fuel the growth of human trafficking networks and the unprecedented rise of people on the move.
"Human trafficking originates where and when denials of human rights are prevalent. It is the modern form of slavery," he said.
In relation to the MENA region, Ambassador Jazairy underlined that the "fragile situation mainstreamed by the arms trade has allowed human trafficking networks to exploit vulnerable and economically marginalized people." In the case of Libya, more than 300,000 migrants and refugees have been exploited by smuggling networks and the value of human smuggling has reached USD 346 million per annum, it was remarked by the Geneva Centre's Executive Director.
In this connection, he said that restrictive and over-securitized migratory policies further aggravates the vulnerability of people on the move. He deplored the recent decision by the EU to stop maritime deployments for Operation Sophia as it arrived "at a time when migration flows had been brought down to a trickle as compared to 2015."
"The recent building of embattlements at Europe's borders runs counter to basic human rights which 'Fortress Europe' advocates with a straight face at the HRC. High-level European officials accusing NGOs of complicity with human traffickers when saving lives of people drowning, express this ultimate degree of callousness," Ambassador Jazairy said.
In conclusion, the Geneva Centre's Executive Director urged the world society to restore peace and stability and a climate conducive to the development of, and the respect for, human rights.
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