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Microsoft Publishes Documents on Implementing Zero-Trust Networks
By Kurt Mackie
Microsoft this week described the launch of a so-called "Zero Trust Deployment Center," which essentially is a Web page landing point for accessing Microsoft documents on its zero-trust security approach.
Zero trust is a conceptual approach for networks, and Microsoft claims that its identity and security products will lend organizations a helping hand toward achieving that end. Microsoft's definition of zero trust involves adopting an assumed-breach stance for networks. As part of that assumption, "every access request is fully authenticated, authorized, and encrypted before granting access."
In addition, Microsoft's zero-trust concept involves implementing least-privileged access practices to block so-called "lateral movements" by attackers who may have gained a network foothold. Microsoft also insists that zero trust involves harvesting "signals" data to detect and respond to threats "in real time."
Such details can be found in Microsoft's definition of zero trust, which is published at its zero-trust marketing site.
A Microsoft white paper on zero trust, available for download from the marketing site, traced the zero-trust concept back to the Jericho Forum of 2004, a U.K.-based coalition that aimed to reshape the traditional perimeter-based security mindset adopted by organizations. The Jericho Forum's 11 "Commandments" (PDF) included ideas like "access to data should be controlled by security attributes of the data itself." It sounds similar to what Microsoft implemented with its Azure Active Directory Conditional Access service and data loss prevention solutions.
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The Center offers a step-by-step way for organizations to implement zero trust, per Microsoft's announcement.
"The Zero Trust Deployment Center breaks down deployment guidance into plain-language objectives across each of the technology pillars, providing an actionable list of steps needed to implement Zero Trust principles in your environment," the announcement explained.
Microsoft also has a "Zero Trust assessment tool," which appears to be a survey instrument that requires completing a form to use. The Zero Trust assessment tool is there to "help measure your current maturity and identify possible next milestones and priorities along with technologies" regarding implementing zero trust, the announcement explained.
Kurt Mackie is senior news producer for 1105 Media's Converge360 group.

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Extracting Castro from the Demonization
December 6, 2016 • 21 Comments
The mainstream U.S. news media often lacks historical perspective, a problem most acute when the subject, like Fidel Castro, has faced Official Washington's geopolitical demonization, as Lawrence Davidson explains.
By Lawrence Davidson
There was something both sad and disturbing about popular American reactions to the death of Fidel Castro on Nov. 25. According to The New York Times, news of his death caused much of the Cuban American population of south Florida to "fill Miami's streets with song." Those were songs of "rejoicing" rather than dirges. We will examine why these celebrations occurred later in this analysis. However, first we want to give Señor Castro his due.
Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
Fidel Castro was the man who led the successful effort to overthrow the brutal and reactionary dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista – a dictatorship that had the backing of the U.S. government. The Castro-led victory of 1959 began a long period of transformation for Cuba, raising the country from a starkly poor Third World condition to a modernizing socialist state. Here are some of that country's achievements under Castro's leadership:
— The expansion of nationwide public education, which uplifted the Cuban population from being largely illiterate to being mostly literate.
— The introduction and development of a modern and accessible public health care system, which all but eliminated death from curable diseases and greatly reduced the infant mortality rate.
— The expansion of services, such as the electric grid, sewage systems, and a reliable water supply, into the countryside.
— The establishment of programs of sustainable development as the nation's economy diversified according to environmentally safe guidelines. This did involve redistribution of large landed estates to over a quarter million peasants.
— A significant reduction of both racism and sexism through education and new laws.
— A considerable reduction of economic disparities.
There was, of course, a price to be paid for these advances. All of this and more was made possible by instituting a socialist economy and a one-party government. This alienated much of the country's upper and middle classes. Resistance brought varying degrees of repression. Over time many of those whose economic lifestyles were compromised learned to resent and indeed hate Castro. Tens of thousands of them fled to the United States.
If the socialist road was, predictably, going to divide Cuba in such a drastic way, why did Castro decide to go this route? It was not, as popularly believed, because he came to power a convinced communist. His move to the left was in direct reaction to the policies adopted by the U.S. government.
A Fateful Visit
In April 1959, at the invitation of the American Association of Newspaper Editors, Castro paid a visit to the United States. The trip provided an opportunity for consultations with the U.S. government, although U.S. officials only begrudgingly met with Castro. There was a lot of annoyance at his early, if short-lived, declaration of neutrality when it came to the Cold War. President Dwight Eisenhower showed his displeasure with Castro by opting for a game of golf. But Castro did manage to get a three-hour audience with Vice President Richard Nixon.
President Richard Nixon
It seems that the meeting did not go very well. Castro refused to promise swift new elections in Cuba. He was convinced that the nation's priorities were economic and not political. And although Castro protested that he was not a communist, Nixon was suspicious. After the meeting he concluded that Castro was "either incredibly naive about communism or under communist discipline – my guess is the former."
Subsequently, the U.S. government refused any economic assistance to the new Cuban regime. Worse yet, a decision was made to institute "punishment politics." In March 1960, President Eisenhower set up funding for the overthrow of Castro. A year later the Kennedy administration carried out the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion. It was against this background that Castro and his advisers quickly turned to the Soviet Union for the economic and military assistance necessary for their survival.
Rejecting Sacrifice
Do those who jumped for joy in Little Havana on Nov. 25 understand this history? Most of them are the descendants of individuals who rejected Castro's socialist ideals. Their own loyalties were not to Cuban society as a whole, but rather to family and/or a restricted economic community that was being forced to sacrifice for the greater good. Yet, for many Cubans of means, the notion of the greater good proved too threatening to be identified with their local interests.
Thus, the rejoicers' immediate ancestors fled to the U.S. with their portable wealth and formed the political lobby (based, by the way, on the strategy and tactics of the Zionist lobby) that kept the U.S. government scheming against Cuba for over 50 years. Is it any wonder that their children should have a biased view of history?
Cuban leader Fidel Castro speaking at the Jose Marti Monument in 2003. (Photo credit: Ricardo Stuckert/ABr.)
The Cuban Americans are not the only ones to express a one-sided view of things. Members of the American conservative elite also rejoiced at Castro's death. Here a representative voice is that of George Will, a political commentator whose columns appear in The Washington Post and other newspapers.
Will's column on Castro's death appeared on Nov. 28 under the title "Cuba a Tomb of Utopianism." It is a historically incorrect judgment by virtue of the fact that Cuba's achievements under Castro's leadership, some of which are listed above, are not utopian at all, but rather quite real. But Will cannot see this any more than the celebrants of Little Havana. For him Castro is nothing more than a "charismatic totalitarian" whose life was "nasty" and whose "regime was saturated with sadism." He goes on to compare Castro to Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini.
What is his evidence for these morbid exaggerations? Well, the Cuban government imprisoned some of its opponents, though they allowed many more of them to emigrate out of the country. Between 500 and 700 of Batista's henchmen were tried and executed. Over time the regime manifested increasing authoritarian tendencies largely due to relentless U.S. efforts to destroy the country's economy and overthrow its government.
In other words, the United States created an ongoing wartime situation for Havana. Under such circumstances the historically usual reaction is for a government – any government – to become more controlling. George Will takes no notice of this.
The Cuban American rejoicing at Castro's death, and George Will's misreading it as the a sign of a "dead utopianism," are both disturbing manifestations of historical narrow-mindedness.
In the case of the celebrants, this attitude is no doubt connected to pent-up anger over the fact that something had been taken from them, or from their relatives, as part of an effort to remake a society that, prior to 1959, had only enriched the wealthy and impoverished the poor.
George Will's attitude is a function of his conservative worldview. He gives no credit at all to the economic and social achievements of Fidel Castro because he can't get past his ideologically driven interpretation of the political steps taken to realize them.
And neither of the above will admit to the truth that the Cuba policy of the United States over more than 50 years contributed strongly to the road Castro took.
Lawrence Davidson is a history professor at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. He is the author of Foreign Policy Inc.: Privatizing America's National Interest; America's Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood; and Islamic Fundamentalism.
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21 comments for "Extracting Castro from the Demonization"
dhinds
In other words, Not only has US Foreign Policy created large numbers of terrorists, communist governments have also been created in reaction to it. The hostility directed toward Cuba by the USA drove it to seek shelter in the Socialist Camp.
All I'm getting from you is that the US compelled Castro to act as he did which is reasonable. But the Castro regime, like the US, is not worthy of sainthood as our myths would make us believe and so I'd like to see an evenhandedness, some objectivity in these retrospectives including, of course, Castro's accomplishments but also his failings. Because while the article above is somewhat factual it is not the truth. I mean, c'mon, how many people were executed, fled, were imprisoned, led okay lives under the Batista regime? A lot. But their lives are painted over, dismissed with a blindness that only a dogmatic following of an ideology can bring.
Yes, a close look always reveals wrongdoing on all sides. But the similarity of categories of victims does not argue that progress was not made, or that some nicer means to the inevitable progress would have worked. An article contrary to mass media propaganda is not merely contrary propaganda, and can be valuable without exploring the downside simply to find regrettable cases resembling the far more numerous cases against the deposed government.
Northern Observer
All the anti-colonial liberations are called into question when one looks at where those nations went, politically and socially after "liberation" Bourgeois freedom is nice to make fun of, but when the next best things brings little but arbitrary state power, death and poverty a life of unequal ironies doesn't seem so bad. I get why people refuse to see it, life is hard without illusions and religion has become less accessible to most minds, especially intellectuals.
It is difficult to compare the immediate results of anti-colonial revolutions with life in the colonial power, which was never the alternative except for the comprador class in the colony. Yes, revolutionists seem to overestimate the immediate gains, even when not plagued with instability for generations, due to
1. the damage of war: social, physical, demographic, and cultural,
2. the overestimation of resources to be distributed or economic gains to be made,
3. adverse circumstances of isolation, regional instability, and other historical problems, and
4. their delayed progress in building national unity, a coherent economy, professional class, and basic services.
One cannot blame revolutionaries for the slow results. In modern times the colonial states have also often penalized the newly independent states economically, or deliberately added to the instability to create a bogus argument against their effectiveness.
Most revolutions must use techniques almost as bad as their oppressors in order to win, producing a result only somewhat better than what it replaced. Things were better for England, the US, and even India, in that the powers thrown off by revolution were not so terrible. Many had a measure of "bourgeois freedom" immediately, whereas Russia and Latin America still had generations to go. They were not rebelling against mere "unequal ironies."
Drew Hunkins
Fidel's one of the greatest humanitarian leaders the Western Hemisphere has ever witnessed. History will indeed absolve him!
Would not denying a new election after the Batista overthrow give the US a good enough reason to do what it did? While this site cites the righteousness of the vote in Crimea as good enough to make Russia's annexation acceptable, an election in Cuba might have gone some way to make 1959 Cuba a better neighbor to the US. Or it might not. Nonetheless, I like elections. Would I have been jailed or exiled for having this opinion? I'm also troubled to read how blithely the author says Castro had executed 500-700 Batista regime members. Did US actions force him to do that? And I wonder if each one was given a fair trial. I have been listening quite a bit recently about how adhering to an ideology has deadly consequences. While Castro's achievements were considerable he made that bed and with a country as forceful as the US only 90 miles away, lying in it would naturally be uncomfortable. Now if a Bernie Sanders had led the revolution …
Several interesting points here (please see my comment above):
1. The US killed over 2000 in its 1898 Cuba takeover vs. a similar total casualty count in the Castro revolution. The fury that causes revolution usually results in some bloodletting of the obvious cases of exploiters of the poor.
2. The usual rightwing counter-revolution after Latin America coups necessitated a one-party state.
3. The move toward more open democracy was prevented by continuous US efforts to overthrow their government.
Part of the US problem with Latin American politics is its pretended ignorance of the effects of economic oligarchy. This is because US oligarchy does not in fact believe in democracy, but rather a fake democracy controlled by money, which the Repubs claim to be a "republic." So in fact whenever it can the US replaces democracy with a dictator because he is "our son of a bitch." So you may prefer what you call elections, but they would have allowed only what they call elections. A communist state was closer to democracy than what the US calls democracy.
In principle, Cuba could set a good example for the US by implementing a democracy in which economic power is carefully isolated from political power, as I have suggested to them several times. But in fact the US would use every opportunity to overwhelm any such controls and turn it back into an oligarchy. So yes, the US is the problem, all the way, until it too is reformed.
Very well said, Sam F
Sam F,
Republicans calling themselves republican, if they did (they advocate democracy and call themselves democratic), would not make them republican. The Constitutional United States is a republic. It is because the Constitution defines principles for the nation to adhere to, which, if adhered to, would maintain a government system working for and providing for, as specified, The People, meaning the public. Democracy is a means for making decisions. It is not, properly, a system of government, because without external controls democracy is uncontrollable. Without external controls (e.g., via principles, as the Constitution embues with controlling authority) democracy devolves to mob rule, with manipulators manipulating mobs emotionally for the manipulators' purposes, and invoking divisions to divide deciders into more and more bodies, or camps, to facilitate decision-making with fewer and fewer deciders (two sides require 51% in democracy, three camp decisions require only 34%, and down, with discouraging and impeding, unless interdicted by outside authority, reducing the overall decider numbers advantageously). Thus, democracy is a sham and lends itself to, in fact evolves to, scam. Money, and force, manipulate democracy. Education is a necessity for democracy: To make electorate decision-making work decision-makers must be able to inform themselves, and, to make democracy work for a faction (or for outsiders inserting themselves) the faction (or outsiders) must control education, to bias electorates to impose the faction's bias.
In Cuba principles were defined by the revolutionaries, and building a government depended on their implementing, with popular help, those principles. Among the principles was common education. Until the population was commonly educated democratic forms could not be utilized, since uneducated are susceptible to manipulation by biased education. In addition, Cuba was, after the revolution, still at war (has been to today), its adversary sponsored, and financed, by the United States. So for the entire duration of the Castro Era in Cuba the nation has been a nation at war, with wartime economic conditions. Even the U.S., 1941-45, curtailed democracy, and imposed restrictions. It persecuted and even jailed citizens on suspicions, curtailed rights to trial, habeus corpus and other rights (as much as it could, and jailed on bogus suspicions and allegations, even imprisoning a whole ethnicity in concentration-camps. And after, in the Nuremberg Trials the Allies curtailed fair trial rights and suspended legal protections (e.g., ex post facto) to coerce illegal "example" convictions.
Those who deprecate what Castro, and the other revolutionaries, did in Cuba, and have done in the years since their revolution, because their governing was for the benefit of all, or as much as possible of the population, not a privileged few, show themselves to be selfish, means-spirited, arrogant and elitist, "aristocrats" (in their own self-opinions) who place themselves above others and have no consideration for others, and who would tread others down and would deny others opportunities to achieve more and improve themselves (and their nation). This makes those ones pretty much scum by any measure except their own.
We agree on Cuba and Castro. I know that democracy and republic are synonymous, except that the later Roman republic was not democratic. In the early US the business party were the Whigs and denounced their oppsition as "those democratic Republicans." But the later Repub party replaced the Whigs.
I may misread your statements about democracy. "Without external controls (…the Constitution …) democracy devolves to mob rule." I would suggest that a functioning democracy includes structures specified by a Constitution to prevent mob rule, to avoid the tyranny of demagogues against whom Aristotle warned, the Repubs favorite scare of "mob rule." Those are internal controls, not external.
I would clarify the idea that "to make democracy work for a faction …the faction …must control education, to bias electorates." Democracy does not work well for any faction unless it works for all factions: it becomes a war of intransigents that can degenerate into civil war, as in Iraq and Ukraine and in the US Civil War. It is when factions seek to control mass media or education "to bias electorates" that democracy fails. Instead we must seek rational debate and unbiased public information, and that requires getting the influence of factions out of mass media, education, and election funding.
"Democracy" is simply "majority rule". There are no controls in democracy, the majority decides and the decision, whatever it is, dictates to the minority. It is the "re publica", the "for the public", the people as individuals (the people as "a whole", meaning the majority making a whole, carrying minorities along, willing or unwilling, is socialist, which is democracy in application) that introduces the controls, and so makes a republic a republic. The primary republic control is individual liberty (responsibility) in the individual sphere. Secondary control is the restriction of the individual sphere imposed by the individual's sphere being among others (thus the responsibility, to keep ones own sphere within ones own sphere).
The lynch-mob examples democracy at its most near to perfect, since in the mob the majority agreement is 100%, with only the victim(s), the minority in the situation, dissenting, lowering the agreement from the 100% ideal (a lynch-mob with a suicidal victim would example perfect democracy). In a republic legal processes exist to provide control, to safeguard the minority (accused). The jury system is a republican decision-making system, its composition neighbors to those accused, its function to determine, where a conflict has occurred, whose individual sphere interfered, and whose was interfered with.
The U.S. political parties just adopted the terms, so their names have nothing to do with the concepts the words reference. Jefferson started the Democratic-Republicans and Jackson created the Democrats from it when his group split off after the 1824 "corrupt bargain" fiasco. The Republican Party was created in the late 1850s as a split-off abolitionist party. They became radical and, when they came into money, from the plundering of the South in Reconstruction, became the party of the plundering,hence, the business and money party. Today the Democratic party has evolved to the money party, mostly through becoming the party of the money-elite and war-industry globalizing machine, and the Republican party appears to be evolving into the radicalized remnants of the ex-midle-class. Both seem to be touting 'democracy', because both want control, and don't want to be restricted by self-controls, which the principles republicanism require all to respect, including those in positions of power, who their controls restrict and chafe, instead of protect and make secure.
Democratic decision-making, kept under control, is the best way to defend against power impositions, by oligarchies and aristocracies, who, as we see today, are always working angles to undermine the principles that restrict them, and their "democratic", "laissez-faire", "natural", "god-given", etc. " rights".
Now if a Bernie Sanders had led the revolution …
He would very likely have surrendered to the US oligarchy. If not then, he would not have fought the CIA at the Bay of Pigs. Bernie talked a good game, but he was no David when it came to tackling Goliath.
I'm also troubled to read how blithely the author says Castro had executed 500-700 Batista regime members.
In the best of all possible worlds violence like that would not occur, but Castro may have seen this as a continuation of his rebellion. Then again, if we fast forward 30-some years there were the sanctions maintained against Iraq by the Bill Clinton administration that cost an estimated half million Iraqi children their lives of which his former secretary of state Madeline Albright said, "We thought it was worth it." "We" would have included Bill and Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, many members of the Clinton administration and Congress supported by mobs of pundits and neocons. How about the Bush-Cheney-Blair war on Iraq that resulted in millions of dead, maimed and displaced Iraqis? Many of the perpetrators of that crime remain among that nation's "elite" promoting more wars.
Before Iraq there were a couple of thousand people killed in Panama when George H W Bush invaded and somewhere between 1.5 and three million Vietnamese killed by American forces.
If you ever want to understand why non-white people are so disgusted by white privilege, go to Miami sometime, and hang out in a Cuban neighborhood. It will let you experience what people of color experience every day.
You will quickly see why Cuba is better off without them.
Relatives in Florida have already explained to me how insular the inhabitants of Little Havana are. If you don't speak Spanish forget this area. Come to think of it, the traffic all around Miami is so atrocious there is much to be said for bypassing the whole area.
In the absence of international and large-state regulation of foreign economic and political manipulations, it is unrealistic to fault small states for what would otherwise be excessive control. And impossible to tell whether they are defending autonomy or autocracy.
In Cuba and Latin America, it was US failure to address the poverty, malnutrition, disease and injustice there, US support of endless dictatorships there, US training of violent subversives and repressive police, and US aggression to subvert the inevitable socialism, that led inevitably to rejection.
These are not consistent errors, they are the work of a profoundly corrupt oligarchy that systematically propagandizes its own people to believe that they have a democracy, and somehow act to further democracy elsewhere. Nothing could be further from the truth: US elections and mass media are owned by economic concentrations that have completely destroyed democracy here, leaving an empty suit of armor for its oligarchy.
Economic force is a primary weapon of modern warfare. Those who use that weapon to control US elections and mass media make war upon these United States, the definition of treason in our Constitution. The economic oligarchy will always be the greatest threat to democracy.
Peter Loeb
A balanced and excellent analysis by Professor Davidson.
While it did refer to Cuba under Batista (pre-1959), it would have
benefited from a paragraph or so about the lives of US gangsters in
Havanna and the role the Cubans were forced to play for their…
"entertainment".,(= name names, give examples etc.—
it is a few months back to that period and many so easily forget!)
—-Peter Loeb, Boston, MA, USA
Dr. Frans B. Roos, Ph.D.
The below will give you what you are looking for, at least I hope so.
http://www.mondialisation.ca/50-verites-sur-fidel-castro/5363387
Thank you for this link to an excellent timeline of Fidel Castro's life.


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Hume KI
Brink M
Basner M
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night noise guidelines
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Year : 2012 | Volume : 14 | Issue : 61 | Page : 297--302
Effects of environmental noise on sleep
Kenneth I Hume1, Mark Brink2, Mathias Basner3
1 Centre for Aviation, Transport and the Environment, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, M1 5GD, United Kingdom
2 ETH Zürich, D-MTEC Public and Organizational Health, WEP H17, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
3 Division of Sleep and Chronobiology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Kenneth I Hume
Centre for Aviation, Transport and the Environment, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, M1 5GD
This paper summarizes the findings from the past 3 year's research on the effects of environmental noise on sleep and identifies key future research goals. The past 3 years have seen continued interest in both short term effects of noise on sleep (arousals, awakenings), as well as epidemiological studies focusing on long term health impacts of nocturnal noise exposure. This research corroborated findings that noise events induce arousals at relatively low exposure levels, and independent of the noise source (air, road, and rail traffic, neighbors, church bells) and the environment (home, laboratory, hospital). New epidemiological studies support already existing evidence that night-time noise is likely associated with cardiovascular disease and stroke in the elderly. These studies collectively also suggest that nocturnal noise exposure may be more relevant for the genesis of cardiovascular disease than daytime noise exposure. Relative to noise policy, new effect-oriented noise protection concepts, and rating methods based on limiting awakening reactions were introduced. The publications of WHO's ''Night Noise Guidelines for Europe'' and ''Burden of Disease from Environmental Noise'' both stress the importance of nocturnal noise exposure for health and well-being. However, studies demonstrating a causal pathway that directly link noise (at ecological levels) and disturbed sleep with cardiovascular disease and/or other long term health outcomes are still missing. These studies, as well as the quantification of the impact of emerging noise sources (e.g., high speed rail, wind turbines) have been identified as the most relevant issues that should be addressed in the field on the effects of noise on sleep in the near future.


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Cristiano Ronaldo's Manchester Utd Exit Plan Confident As His Retirement Date Has Upheld
By Ilsa Shafi September 29, 2022 Updated: October 3, 2022 Entertainment No Comments4 Mins Read
Dolores Aveiro, Cristiano Ronaldo's mother, has reiterated her desire for the family to return to Lisbon. Cristiano Ronaldo is still determined to leave Manchester United.
Credit: Man Utd
Dolores Aveiro, the Cristiano's mother, has talked about his plans to retire and confirmed that he will be leaving Manchester United.
The 37-year-old Ronaldo declared earlier this month that his "journey is not over" at the highest level. After only one season at United following his high-profile return from Juventus last year, the forward intended to leave the Red Devils this summer, but he remained at Old Trafford.
In his 189 caps for Portugal, Ronaldo has scored 117 goals, making him the highest-ever goal scorer in international football. He hopes to play in at least one more major international tournament during his career, and he will serve as captain of his nation during the World Cup finals this year.
This World Cup marks his tenth appearance in a major final. He first made an impact for Portugal at the Euro 2004 tournament. He also played a key role in Portugal's victory at Euro 2016 – the first time they had ever won a major international trophy – and in their first Nations League victory in 2019.
He now wants to win the World Cup for the first time. Portugal is one of the outsiders, but they have a lot of talent, like Bruno Fernandes, Bernardo Silva, Ruben Dias, Joao Felix, Diogo Jota, and Rafael Leao.
After each player at Man United had their weekly wages reduced by 25% as a result of the club's failure to qualify for the Champions League, Ronaldo was "upset" to see his pay reduced. But he couldn't leave because no team would pay him what he wanted or give him regular football.
Dolores confirmed to Nova Genta that plans exist to bring the Portugal international back to Sporting CP, which was his first senior club and where he developed before joining United for the first time in 2003.
Ronaldo's mother elaborated: A return to sporting activities is a possibility, but not right now. This was not the year to do it, but maybe next year. If God wills it, this will occur this year or next! He already knows what I mean: Son, I would like to see him once more in the Sporting shirt before I die.
"His son, Cristiano, will arrive if Ronaldo does not."That will be his fate. He is playing better than his father for his age! Cristiano will succeed Cristiano. If they both went, it would be my dream to live in Lisbon and play for Sporting. He has already stated that he wants to do both.
When asked about Cristiano's retirement plans, his mother continued, He has a strong desire to play until he is 40 and continue."That would keep the striker in the game until the end of the 2024/25 season, making it 23 seasons at the highest level of football.
When discussing his plans for the future, Ronaldo stated earlier this month at the Quinas de Ouro Awards: I hope to remain a member of the international Portuguese team for a few more years. I'm motivated, and I have high goals. I want to compete not only in the upcoming European Championships but also in the World Cup. I am in a team with young people.
The striker has only appeared in one Premier League game for United thus far, and he has been left out of the starting lineup for each of the team's four league victories. He has played from the very outset in the Europa Association conflicts against Genuine Sociedad and FC Sheriff, the last option of whom he got against from the spot.
Ronaldo, upon receiving his award, commented, "Amid doubts regarding his long-term future at Old Trafford: I am honoured to have received such a significant award. I never imagined I could accomplish it. Although the road has been long, I would like to emphasize that my journey is not yet over. Cristiano still has a little bit of him left.
Ronaldo, who does not currently play a lot of football for United, had been anticipating the January transfer window. However, Red Devils football director John Murtough refuted the notion that there will be first-team moves this winter, indicating that the forward will not be leaving the club.
Ronaldo has scored 699 goals in club football and 816 goals in his senior career, and he is still determined to add to the 31 major honours he has already won.
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The Strange Politics of Street Renaming
BY Sydney Beveridge
In New York City, celebrity sightings happen on street corners and even on street signs. You can play a tune on Duke Ellington Boulevard or read the headlines on Peter Jennings Way. In Champaign Illinois, you can rock out on REO Speedwagon Way, and in Augusta, Georgia, you can find your soul on James Brown Boulevard.
In their book Brooklyn by Name: How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges and More Got Their Names, Leonard Benardo and Jennifer Weiss write that, "Street names function as a barometer of social values at a given time, and as such have historical significance that goes beyond a name."
That's exactly why sometimes cities have to undo their street renamings. In Brooklyn, Corbin Place was named after Austin Corbin who was a longtime Brooklyn developer and the president of the Long Island Rail Road for 15 years. Corbin was also a member of the American Society for the Suppression of Jews and once said "If this is a free country, why can't we be free of the Jews?"
To cover over Austin Corbin's reputation without confusing pedestrians or drivers, residents worked to name the street after another famous Corbin—Revolutionary War heroine Margaret Corbin. The Corbin exchange has enabled locals to revise history without forcing residents to change their addresses.


– With an average life expectancy of a carbon monoxide alarm ranging between 5 to 7 years, it's important to understand the reasons on why they are needed in the home as well as what is required by law. While each state has separate requirements for these alarms, Massachusetts has required them in residences since 2006.
Known as the invisible killer, carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas that has no visible color, odor or taste. When exposed to carbon monoxide by breathing it in, one can feel dizzy, nauseous, fatigued or have a headache. Commonly mistaken as flu symptoms, this type of poisoning can go undetected. The effects of exposure to this gas are that you can find it difficult to think clearly and it slowly suffocates you by removing oxygen in the blood stream. This gas is more common than you think. As an example, in the first quarter of 2013 Massachusetts fire departments responded to nearly 20,000 incidents. Of this large number, 5,000 cases of this poisoning were confirmed. The largest number of reported carbon monoxide incidents occur between the cooler months of November through February since this is primarily when homes need to be heated.
How Does Carbon Monoxide Get Into The Home?
The leading source of these incidents comes from heating equipment. But it can also be from a fireplace, barbecue grills, gas stoves or dryers, hot water heaters and gasoline powered items running in the garage (generator, car, lawn mower, snow blower, etc.).
The average level of this gas in a home without a gas stove will vary from 0.5 to 5 parts per million (ppm). Homes that have gas stoves show levels between 5 to 15 ppm on average and a poorly adjusted stove may show levels of 30 ppm or higher.
The passing of Nicole's Law in Massachusetts was made to protect against this danger (ultimately to protect against carbon monoxide related injuries and deaths). Nicole's Law requires that a carbon monoxide alarm is installed on each level of a home, which also includes habitable portions of the attic or basement. Carbon monoxide detectors should be installed within 10 feet of bedroom doors. Under the law, landlords are also required to both install and maintain these alarms in every residence that has a source of this gas.
To mitigate exposure to this gas, you should ensure that all gas appliances are properly adjusted. If you have a gas stove, then installation and use of an exhaust fan that is vented to the outdoors is recommended. When using a fireplace, the flue should be left in the open position. Vehicles and other gas powered motors that are running within a garage or other space should have proper ventilation. It's also important that a home have a correctly sized wood stove that is certified to meet EPA emission standards. Central heating systems should be inspected annually by a professional to ensure there are no leaks.
Because this gas is impossible to see, taste or smell, many people don't detect the toxic fumes and, thus, there are many deaths across the United States each and every year from this poisoning in the home. Make sure you and your family are not at risk for exposure to this potentially deadly gas.


Even though present-day Afghanistan flies under the news radar, it remains to be the longest military quagmire in US history. Aside from troops still occupying the country, thousands of private contractors are on the ground that the Pentagon can't even account for. Considering how Obama's foreign policy strategy has been to replace ground troops with drone strikes, the administration's logic behind continuing the occupation remains unclear.
War has always been about resources and control. Alongside the supposed surprise discovery of Afghanistan's $1 trillion wealth of untapped minerals, the Taliban had successfully eradicated the opium crop in the Golden Crescent before the US invasion. Now, more than 90% of the world's heroin comes from the war torn country.
Wow, that's a lot of opium – and a lot of money being made. So, who is reaping the spoils?
Many people outright dismiss the notion of the CIA overseeing the trade of illegal drugs as crazy talk. However, history shows that it's crazy not to entertain such a notion, especially during times of war profiteering.
These are far from isolated incidents. During the eighties, the CIA financially and logistically backed anti-communist contras in Nicaragua who also happened to be international drug traffickers.
Circumstantial evidence aside, there is no conclusive proof that the CIA is physically running opium out of Afghanistan. However, it's hard to believe that a region under full US military occupation – with guard posts and surveillance drones monitoring the mountains of Tora Bora – aren't able to track supply routes of opium exported from the country's various poppy farms (you know, the ones the US military are guarding).
In today's globalized world of rule-for-profit, one can't discount the role that multinational corporations play in US foreign policy decisions either. Not only have oil companies and private military contractors made a killing off the occupation, big pharmaceutical companies, which collectively lobby over 250 million dollars annually to Congress, need opium latex to manufacture drugs for this pill happy nation. As far as the political elite funneling the tainted funds, the recent HSBC bank scandal exposed how trillions of dollars in black market sales are brazenly being laundered offshore.
Multinational corporations are in it for the long haul, despite how low public support is for the war. A little mentioned strategic pact has already been signed that will allow a US troop presence to remain in Afghanistan until 2024.
The unwinnable nature of the war becomes more apparent when learning that the US government was paying Taliban insurgents to protect supply routes and "switch sides" in an attempt to neutralize the insurgency. The logic of funding both sides of the war to "win" is too incomprehensible a concept to grasp. Clearly, this war is meant to be sustained.
Baseless rhetoric aside, here's the hard, hypocritical truth: this government is fighting a multi-billion dollar 'War on Drugs' worldwide, resulting in thousands of deaths every year and millions of nonviolent drug users rotting away in prison. Yet, the US is at the very least protecting the largest source of the deadliest and most addictive drug on the planet. If not for the obvious, then why?
Angus, this is at least some evidence.
I know you are not reading this anyway because you are a small minded idiot!


Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], Aug 1 (ANI): At least eight people were arrested with arms and ammunition from Jharkhand's Kulburu and Khunti district in a joint operation by state police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on Wednesday. The troupe of 94 battalion CRPF has recovered one Carbine (country made) along with one magazine and five rounds of bullets as well as one country made double bore gun along with two live rounds of bullets. All suspects were apprehended in the early hours of this morning and they have been handed over to the police for further investigation. Search operation is still on in concerned districts. Further details in this matter are awaited.


With innovative skin-care products and cosmetics like BB creams, sheet masks, and cushion compacts, it's no wonder we're obsessed with all things Korean beauty. But, as more and more new products and formulas are introduced into the Western world, things can get a bit blurry.
Case in point: the difference between serums, ampoules, emulsions and essences. If you have no clue what an emulsion or an ampoule even is and are still not sure whether or not you need a serum or an essence, keep reading. We help to clear things up, below.
In most skin-care routines, serum is the step after cleansing, but before moisturizing. And, while these lightweight, concentrated formulas have consistency in common, the benefits vary. From serums formulated with antioxidants to layer under your sunscreen during the day to anti-aging serums to press into your skin before bedtime, serums may have a lightweight texture, but when it comes to skin care benefits they pack a major punch. Think of a serum as a sheer film that covers your face while it's concentrated formula works to target your skin-care concerns. Of course, while serums being lightweight and sheer is a nearly universal quality you can expect from them, beyond that they're becoming more diverse. In addition to the thin gels you've likely used before, more watery serums — ones that require a dropper — are rising in popularity.
Lighter than a cream or lotion and thicker — and less concentrated — than a serum, an emulsion is like a watered-down, lightweight facial lotion. If you have dry skin, you may be wondering what the point is, but hold your judgement. Emulsions are often the perfect product for those with oily or combination skin, as their formulas can hydrate and moisturize the complexion and allow the skin to breathe at the same time. However, emulsions aren't reserved for only certain skin types. If your skin needs more moisture, an emulsion can work for you, too. In fact, emulsions are perfect for adding an extra layer of hydration to your routine — just use a face cream on top.
Finding products that don't irritate and upset sensitive skin is often nothing short of a challenge, especially if you're searching for products in a category that isn't nearly as saturated as "moisturizer" or "face wash." Thankfully, sensitive skin types don't have to worry about tracking down an emulsion that's safe for their skin. This emulsion meant for sensitive skin soothes and hydrates.
Emulsions can be an essential anti-aging step, too. Formulated with niacinamide, this comprehensive daily emulsion helps to correct early symptoms of photoaging for a reclarified tone and retightened surface.
It used to be that essence was the lighter, less concentrated version of serum but the roles have since reversed. Just like serums are changing and becoming lighter and more watery in texture, essences are changing and being made into creamy or gel-like formulas. No longer will you need to waste cotton pads sweeping liquid essences over your skin, you can simply pat on these slightly thicker formulas. Essence is considered to be the heart of the Korean skin-care routine and is meant to be used after skin has been prepped through cleansing and using a hydrating facial toner.
It's likely that you may have heard of serums before, but maybe less likely you've heard of ampoules. An ampoule is like a serum, except it typically has a higher concentration of one active ingredient. Ampoules are great ways to target specific skin concerns like dark spots, obvious signs of aging or even dry skin. They can also be used in addition to anything else you put on your skin — a friendly skin-care companion that gets along with anyone!
Now that you know all about the differences between serums, emulsions, and essences (plus our product picks for each), you're free to add them into your skin care routine. And you don't have to play favorites, you can use them all — as long as you know when to apply them.
Here's the deal: Out of the four, essences should be applied first, as they're the thinnest. Apply your essence of choice directly after using a toner — or a cleanser, if you prefer to skip toner. Next, it's time for your serum. That means an emulsion should come last in your routine. Should you want to give your skin an added boost, apply an ampoule to top everything off. In-between each of these steps, be sure to give the product a minute or two to sink in, then keep layering. And just in case, if you need any help remembering the order in which to apply, it's almost always correct to start with the thinnest formula and work your way up.
Tiffany's note: There's no rule saying you have to use all three at the same time. You can also choose to split up your serum, ampoule, emulsion and essence between your morning and night routines — it's up to you.


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Go Ahead, Move Over Scorsese, That Next Oscar's Mine
Some of you may know that in a former life I was a broadcast journalism major at Boston University. I mastered the fine art of 10-word sentences, one minute packages, and supers flying across the screen. I even worked for WCVB ABC Boston as an evening news intern—nobody could hand out scripts like I could. And who knew all that training was preparing me to one day edit my very own BOOK TRAILER!
Oh, yes. I busted out the vacation video I shot in Puerto Rico last fall—from the fort in Old San Juan to my dad's old church in Utuado. Then I headed over to Suburban Square Shopping Center on Monday to take some photos and video deep in the heart of the Main Line. I also promptly Googled "royalty free production music" to download some killer tracts to lay across my images (and who says elevator music can't be awesome?). And, of course, I wouldn't be a film producer if I didn't have a script—so I banged one of those out too.
Then I spent about fifteen minutes reading the "Help" menu on Windows Movie Maker (did you know this comes free with your laptop? I had no idea until I checked 'Start' and 'Programs.' Go look, it's there.). Turns out it's a pretty easy program to use—granted there was a time when I could edit footage on professional news equipment. But trust me, this is way easier than adding "color bars" to a VHS tape before you can lay down the voice-over audio. However, I do now wish I owned a Mac. I was limited in the transitions I could use, and I couldn't change the timing of those transitions or lay graphics over video (other than plain text). So, Santa if you're reading this, an iMac would make an excellent stocking stuffer.
Thus, without further ado, here it is….my directorial debut! All shot on location in Puerto Rico and the Main Line—by the author! (So I guess that makes this my cinematography debut as well.)
Ladies and gentleman please rise for…. Amor and Summer Secrets, THE BOOK TRAILER!
Well, what'd ya think? Did you like it? Send me a comment and tell me your thoughts!
Also, it's on YouTube (though the quality there isn't as good, it looks like it got distorted during the compression process). But if you've got a YouTube account and you'd like to rate my video and give me wonderful feedback, CLICK HERE!
POP-CULTURE RANT: Beach Volleyball
So, as you know, my watching of the Olympics has reached addictive levels. I think there is a part of me that always wanted to be on a Wheaties box—though I sucked at sports (wait, does cheerleading count?). Anyway I was watching beach volleyball, and I noticed that in between every play the "stadium" blares music at unusually loud decibels considering that there are only four people on the court. And their song choices are hysterical even if they were playing in an arena football stadium. But somehow watching the Olympics in Beijing and hearing "Kung Fu Fighting" after a serve seemed particularly odd. So was "Walk Like an Egyptian" after a spike. And "Fight for the Right to Party" after a block. How are the players expected to "Go for Gold" with that as their theme music? At least play the Rocky anthem or something. Go USA!
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posted by Diana Rodriguez Wallach at 11:50 PM
C. Leigh Purtill said...
That's great stuff, Diana! I love the music...many congrats and I hope it gets readers excited about the book.
Btw, I was a grad student at BU in the film program! I wonder if we were at COM at the same time! :)
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Diana Rodriguez Wallach's debut young adult novel, Amor and Summer Secrets, is the first in a three-book series published by Kensington Publishing in 2008 and 2009. In addition to writing, Diana is a pop-culture junkie: everything from primetime to soaps, ew.com to The Soup, The Hangover to Slumdog, and Gossip Girl to Jane Austen. She's loves it all and loves to rant. Enjoy!
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Into History and Nature
By audrey
I think one of the best parts of exchange in DC is the access to national parks that are within driving distance whether in Virginia, West Virginia or Maryland. Being located in such a prime location on the east coast meant that hiking the Appalachian Trail is possible for a day trip and without the added cost of camping and plane tickets.
So on Saturday, the 5 of us rented a car and took a day trip to Harper's Ferry and Shenandoah National Park. Aiming to cover 2 destinations in a day was really ambitious, and to top it off, it rained while we were at out first destination so we could not do much. That being said, we decided to head off to Shenandoah National Park ahead of schedule and it was probably the best decision made that day.
Harper's Ferry is situated at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers where Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia meet. It is the easternmost town in West Virginia. Driving in, you will be greeted with the sight of a quaint historical town that very much resembles colonial days and this is probably because it was an important site of the American Civil War. We took a break there from an hour's drive and treated ourselves to some food and ice cream.
While I recommend hiking up the Maryland Heights trail, we were simply not blessed with good weather.
Next stop, we drove for another hour to Shenandoah National Park via the Thornton Gap Entrance (There are four entrances but this is the nearest from DC and also intercepts the Skyline Drive halfway). With national parks, cellphone reception is always a problem so I do recommend downloading the park's map before you enter for ease of navigation (unless you're an expert at reading analog maps, which we found out that we were inept at a little too late).
Shenandoah Park is filled with many wonderful viewpoints and waterfalls but due to time constraints, we chose to do the Hawksbill Trail, which led us to the highest point in the park. Man, the view was all sorts of spectacular despite the cold and unrelenting weather - I managed to get some pictures but the cloudy backdrop didn't do it justice.
Kudos to the drivers who survived the nearly 6-hour drive, it was really not easy for them while us non-drivers simply snacked and napped at the back!
Published on May 9, 2017 Author AdminTags appalachian trail, audreyguijy, day trip, DC, east coast, Exchange, food, George Washington, GW, Harpers Ferry, Hawksbill Trail, hiking, Learning @ GW, Life @ GW, Living @ GW, Maryland, road trip, Shenandoah National Park, sightseeing, Sophie, Study Abroad, travel, usa, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia
Spring Break – continued
Fresh off our Yosemite hike, we immediately drove back to LA where we took a well-needed rest for our next adventure - traversing through the canyons. We planned on visiting Bryce Canyon, Antelope Canyon and the Grand Canyon over the next 3 to 4 days and combined, it was one heck of a drive.
Situated in Utah, Bryce Canyon is known for its crimson-colored hoodoos, or spire-shaped rock formations. We drove to sunset point, which as the name suggests, is famed for its aerial views during sunset of the canyon. As we had time to spare, we actually chanced upon another lookout point called Cedar Breaks National Monument and I reckoned this was my favorite spot in Utah not simply because of its picturesque views, but also because of its coincidental nature on our trip. Of a high altitude and bordering a ski resort, we were not dressed for this - half of us were wearing shorts because of the 90 degree AZ weather while we were driving in. Nonetheless, as we clawed knee deep into powdery snow and as the winds blew our ears numb, the view and the ensuing pictures were worth the effort.
Next up was Antelope Canyon. Do note that you'll need to engage a tour when visiting Antelope Canyon as private campers or visitors will be barred. This formation was surreal - it actually looked like something out of Lord of The Rings or Game of Thrones; I half imagined Orcs to be marching behind us as we descended into the Lower Antelope Canyon. The tour guides were really helpful, constantly pointing out the different shapes and creatures morphed by the rock formations (although I didn't understood like half of them, it was still fun to hear).
The final one is perhaps the most famous of all - Grand Canyon. The rock formation in Grand Canyon is unique due to the many layers of red rock, revealing the conditions it has weathered through millions of years. While we did not have much time at our last stop, the scenery was indeed breathtaking; I also managed to mail out several postcards from the gift shop right outside one of the lookout points.
Oh and since Horseshoe Bend was a 20 min drive away - it didn't hurt! I mean, what is 20 min more of driving when we've been driving for weeks, am I right?
Many of my friends back in Singapore chose Europe as an exchange destination because they felt it had more to offer in terms of nature. After traversing 4 national parks in a week, I don't think I've been more humbled by what Mother Nature has to offer - I've definitely made the right decision in coming to the United States and using Spring Break to get away from city life and into the arms (literally, in Bryce Canyon) of Gaia.
I'm thinking of doing part of the Appalachian trial in West Virginia before the semester ends. Anybody interested? (Hint: I need a driver though)
Back to the daily grind for now.
Published on March 28, 2017 Author AdminTags Antelope Canyon, appalachian trail, Audrey, audreyguijy, Bryce Canyon, Canyon Traversing, Cedar Breaks National Monument, DC, Exchange, Grand Canyon, GW, hiking, Horseshoe Bend, Learning @ GW, Life @ GW, Living @ GW, Spring Break
Backpacking on the Appalachian Trail – Shenandoah
Author AdminPublished on October 27, 2016
By itsmaggiegwu
From Rural King (Front Royal) to Thorton Gap. 4 days, 3 nights, 31 miles (~50km) and 0 showers later, we finally made it through (a portion of) Shenandoah!
Fall break was the perfect time to take a break from the hustle and bustle of D.C. and immerse in the great outdoors. With 6 GW Trails Guides and 11 students, we were ready to commence a 4-day hike that would push us mentally and physically to the extreme.
We arrived at Front Royal. About an hour drive from D.C. sits a town that was just outside of the start of the Shenandoah Trail. The guides shuttled hikers in Enterprise vans. The wind was cold, but the sun compensated by its warmth. There was a couple with their Blue Heeler that had just finished the hike and told us it was going to be a cold day. We stopped for lunch on the side of the trail. We had food spread amongst the packs we had on our back. Tortilla, summer sausage and cheese with a hint of Sriracha sauce never tasted so good. It was the first time I'd ever backpacked. I've done hiking and camping, but never the both combined. It's a different experience. First off, you have to carry a heavy pack that will have the minimum amount of equipment to keep you warm. A sleeping back, sleeping pad, change of clothes and toiletries were pushed and shoved inside the 55L pack borrowed from Trails Gear (a place that rents out gear for free if you're going on a Trails trip). With only 6 miles to be completed today, we arrived promptly at the first shelter. The shelter was a three sided wooden structure with a deck out front. There was a privy nearby, which made me appreciate the modern toilet a whole lot more. Dinner was quesadilla which served as a hand warmer and food. The wind was howling by this point and everyone was miserable. Starting a fire in this kind of wind was difficult but once it was started, the warmth lured us like moth to the light. Camp fire stories were told and eventually it was time for bed. Sleeping in a tent with 5 people that was meant for 3 was cozy but the roaring wind was the thing that kept everyone awake.
The next two days were faced with difficult hikes but albeit better weather conditions (sunny with very little wind). 10 miles on Sunday and another 13 miles on Monday. By that time we were somewhat comfortable with the routine. We woke up at 7:30am and aimed for a 9am start. Lunch was served at around 12:30pm somewhere along the trail. Apples, clementines kept us hydrated and the trail mix from Trader Joe's kept us motivated. By the end it was a matter of putting one foot in front of the other that pushed us through to the end. Great friendships were made as we bonded over the fires and the making of s'mores which made it all the more sad when Tuesday came. It was back to reality, to the homework and classes. But I'm sure that there will be more hikes to come - maybe GW Trails to Mary's Rock?
Published on October 27, 2016 Author AdminTags appalachian trail, backpacking, Exchange, hiking, itsmaggiegwu, Learning @ GW, Life @ GW, Living @ GW, Maggie, shenandoah


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Home / News / Paramount Ruler of Owo, Oba Folagbade Olateru Olagbegi Dies At 77
Paramount Ruler of Owo, Oba Folagbade Olateru Olagbegi Dies At 77
The Olowo of Owo kingdom, Oba Victor Folagbade Olateru-Olagbegi is dead. Oba Olateru-Olagbegi died at the age of 77.
The late monarch who was installed in 1999 by the Owo kingmakers was a lawyer and received his first degree in law from London, UK.
He attended Nigeria Law school, in 1968 before practising Law under the tutelage of late Fatai Williams and rose to the peak of his career as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.
He was a lecturer in the Nigerian Law School, where he retired as a reader in 1999 and he was appointed as Chancellor of University of Benin (Nigeria) in 2005 and later University of Abuja. He is currently the Chancellor of the University of Jos, a federal university in Nigeria.
He is married to Ololade Olateru-Olagbegi, a barrister and law lecturer at Ondo State University, and they are blessed with children.
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YouTuber Mirror Panel-3 spent four years creating an anime on Flipnote Studio 3D for the Nintendo 3DS.
Titled Flipnote Warrior, the 34-minute anime will be released on December 4, and is about a young girl's life that forever changes thanks to an unexpected encounter on a Nintendo 3DS. According to Mirror Panel-3, all the animation was done in Flipnote Studio 3D but it was then colorized and edited on PC.
Flipnote Studio was a free downloadable app for the DSi, and still is for the 3DS, that allows players to create their own flipbook animations, with sound.
Below are the new animation's opening and title credits. There's even a theme song!
Here is another scene from Flipnote Warrior.
Back in 2014, Mirror Panel-3 released an hour-long Mario-themed original Flipnote Studio animated movie.
The original 2D Flipnote Studio is no longer available for download since the Nintendo DSi Shop shuttered in 2017.


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HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1970s → 1971 → April 1971 → 22 April 1971 → Commons Sitting → HOME DEPARTMENT
§ 7. Mr. St. John-Stevas
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will make a statement of policy concerning Northern Ireland.
§ 12. Mr. Rose
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will make a further statement on the current situation in Northern Ireland, so far as Her Majesty's Government is responsible.
§ Mr. Sharples
I have nothing to add to the statement made by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on 22nd March and to what my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary said in the debate on 6th April.
In view of the alarming rumours circulating about plots to kidnap members of the Armed Services and hold them to ransom, can my hon. Friend assure the House that precautions are being take to protect them and public officials in Northern Ireland?
I can assure my hon. Friend that the necessary precautions are 1344 being taken to deal with any threat about which we know.
§ Mr. Rose
Will the hon. Gentleman make a statement on the efficacy of attempts to find unlicensed arms? Will he also take into consideration the more than 70,000 licensed arms in Northern Ireland and the more than 80 rifle clubs, many of which have been joined by former members of the B Specials and are connected with U.V.F.? Will he look into this matter, which is an equal cause of concern as extremists on the other side?
The Northern Ireland Government have initiated a check with all holders of firearms under certificate in Northern Ireland to see whether it is necessary for them to possess the weapons. The R.U.C. is undertaking these checks.
§ Mr. Lane
Does my hon. Friend agree that there is very wide public support and admiration for the policy of firmness coupled with restraint under which the Army is carrying out its disagreeable task?
I am grateful to my hon. Friend and entirely agree with what he said.
§ Mr. Dell
Can the hon. Member say whether the policy embodied in the Industrial Development Bill introduced at Stormont yesterday, which enables the Stormont Government to take equity holding in private industry, has the approval of Her Majesty's Government and whether Stormont will be recommending Her Majesty's Government to do the same thing in development areas in this country?
All that the Stormont Government do in these matters is for the Stormont Government. They have responsibility for the action they take.
§ Mr. Kilfedder
Will my hon. Friend persuade the Prime Minister to visit Northern Ireland next month, because the Ulster Festival '71 will open next month and its success will help to restore the economy of Northern Ireland to normal and perhaps will help to reduce tension.
I understand that a later Question on this matter is addressed to my right hon. Friend the Prime 1345 Minister. If my hon. Friend catches your eye, Mr. Speaker, it will be possible for him to raise that point then.
§ Mr. Kaufman
Can the hon. Gentleman say what progress has been made in tracking down the murderers of the three young soldiers, as the Catholic community, in particular, in Northern Ireland is anxious that the perpetrators of this filthy crime should be discovered?
I cannot report on the progress being made. The hon. Gentleman will understand that this is a matter for the police. However, the whole House shares his sentiments.
Back to Civil Defence
Forward to Mr. Abbie Hoffman


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*Ross Colton played at PDS his freshman (2011-12) and sophomore (2012-13) years. He committed to the University of Vermont in June of 2014, and played for Cedar Rapids in the USHL 2014-2016. He was a fourth round pick in the 2016 NHL draft.


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Update: I've used something I found in the wiki but still unable to format it correctly as it gives me the message about not subscribing to any events.
The $twcweather data cannot automatically trigger a piston. You have to actually query it to see what it is for your location. So, for example, you can query every hour, and then the following line can check to see if it is '12' before doing stuff.
@WCmore you're always such a big help thanks! How would I do something like that? Use a timer? If so how would I implement it? Another question I can't figure out is how do set it up so it checks for weather the next day? I read this but it just confused me more than anything. Thanks again.
The tricky part is the shifting times as mentioned in the wiki you quoted.
@WCmore when does the time shift? It mentions 3 pm and am but don't know how to interpret that? So at 3 pm it switches to the next day's forecast? So if I run the action at 2 pm on Monday for next day it'll give me Tuesdays forecast but if I do it at 3:30 pm on Monday for next day it'll give me Wednesday's forecast?
when does the time shift?
At about 3:00PM on Tue, then the daytime data for Tuesday vanishes.
We can blame The Weather Channel for their convoluted API.


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Greta Garbo retrospective and Pantheon movie of the month - NINOTCHKA (1939) - Garbo laughs!
NINOTCHKA is a marvellously spiky satirical romance that manages to mock capitalist decadence and communist dogma in equal measure, as well as giving us Greta Garbo's most versatile performance. She stars as a dour Soviet agent sent to Paris to castigate her three comrades who have so completely failed in their mission of selling confiscated jewellery to raise hard currency for the state. The irony is that the harder than hard Ninotchka is seduced, just as her comrades have been seduced, by fine wines, beautiful clothes, and yes, laughter and love. The seduction comes in the form of Count Leon (Melvyn Douglas), a Parisian rogue, who discovers something finer in himself when he meets Ninotchka and is even willing to go to Russia to get her back. Ninotchka discovers love through laughter rather than melodrama, just as we see the absurdity of dogma through satire. It's a wonderful mix and absolutely pitch perfect, from Billy Wilder's scabrous script through to Garbo's silly hat and the fascinating cameo by Bela Lugosi as the Commissar. But, ultimately, as much as the dialogue shines, it's Garbo's deadpan delivery that kills us - her willingness to send up her cold, unapproachable beauty and to deaden her endlessly expressive face in the early scenes only to truly laugh at herself and her love of champagne as the movie builds.
Ninotchka: We don't have men like you in my country.
Leon: Thank you.
Ninotchka: That is why I believe in the future of my country.
Ernst Lubitsch (TO BE OR NOT TO BE, THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER) was famous for directing sophisticated comedies for Warner Brothers, and brought his famous "Lubitsch touch" to MGM in the 1930s, typically directing comedy musicals. Given his facility with comedy, he might've seemed a perfect fit for Billy Wilder's scabrous, satirical script, and for the movie marketed as "Garbo laughs!", but he was actually drafted in as a replacement for George Cukor, who had gone off to direct GONE WITH THE WIND. At any rate, no matter how he came to the project, he certainly gave it that wonderful mix or wry humour and genuine warmth. NINOTCHKA feels like it lives in a strange half-world - not quite real but not completely absurd either. It feels like emotions and politics are heightened - lifted above the floor by an inch or two, thanks to the sheer charisma of the cast and genius of the script. The real-unreality reminds me of one of my favourite plays, Peter Ustinov's satirical comedy Romanoff and Juliet. The play is set in a surreal fairy-tale land somewhere between the Cold War and reality and is told with a wry detachment but subtle understanding that, I feel, only comes from the cultural cosmopolitan. Maybe it's pushing it a little too far, but I can't help but wonder whether there's something in both Ustinov and Lubitsch being Russian émigrés, with that outsider's ability to look coolly at the folly of different political regimes.
That cool urbanity runs through every scene of the film and is part of its central concept. NINOTCHKA feels modern - post-modern even. It takes one of the most beautiful romantic leading ladies in Hollywood - a woman famous for the deathbed romance of CAMILLE - and made her play against herself. Without make-up, suppressing her innate charisma, refusing to be romanced, Garbo subverts her natural place in the Hollywood movie. That subversion - that brilliant daring - is what keeps NINOTCHKA fresh and captivating today.
NINOTCHKA was released in 1939 and was nominated for Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Story. It lost to Gone With The Wind in the first three categories, and to Mr Smith Goes To Washington in the last.
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Living in Weston
Weston is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 71,166 people and nine constituent neighborhoods, Weston is the 38th largest community in Florida.
Weston home prices are not only among the most expensive in Florida, but Weston real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.
Weston is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 90.09% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Weston is a city of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Weston who work in management occupations (19.90%), sales jobs (15.15%), and office and administrative support (10.88%).
Also of interest is that Weston has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Weston telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.87% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Because of many things, Weston is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Weston a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The city's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Weston has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Weston's overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
One downside of living in Weston is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Weston, the average commute to work is 31.89 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Weston, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Weston is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 61.67% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Weston in 2018 was $42,952, which is wealthy relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $171,808 for a family of four. However, Weston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Weston is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Weston home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Weston, accounting for 53.64% of the city's residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Weston residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Weston include Italian, German, Irish, Russian, and Polish.
In addition, Weston has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (46.17%).
The most common language spoken in Weston is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Portuguese.
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