I want to thank those who gathered on the steps of the capitol Monday morning for our counter protest. WE successfully changed the conversation!
People are coming together and the coalition is growing, despite challenges. I want to thank those who participated. We learned that Senator Mike Johnston and Senator Owen Hill would be leading the Charter rally this past Thursday. By Friday, Stefanie Fuhr had created a sign up for protesters to register. Our goal was twenty people. Thanks to organizers across the state, like Don Perl, Jim Sickafoose, Betty Harris, Ed Augden, James Bailey, Peg Robertson and many others, who helped extend the invitation to thousands of people. On Monday THIRTY people stood side by side on the street of the capitol holding signs; thank you Diane, Jen and Heidi. Connie drafted a press release and Patrick sent it out. And a week later the conversation that was intended to promote charters throughout the media circuit was instead talking about poverty! Well done.
Please read the articles below as well as the comments that follow.I encourage you to keep this conversation going by exercising your VOICE. Share some of these great articles below and "comment" elsewhere.
Photos from Monday's protest can be found here.
Colorado Public Radio is producing ongoing coverage of children in poverty, and we're looking to find adults who grew up in poverty to share their experiences.
I wasn't crazy about the KDVR FOX news coverage either. Talking over the traffic made it appear as though I were yelling. The quote below is from the blog of a Voucher fan. His words were the best compliment!
But when you see a news story interchange the general idea of school choice with Denver's "School Choice" enrollment system and the state education department's school choice support unit, and suggest that open enrollment allows families to access private schools, you begin to wonder if the protesters at the event wrote and produced the news story.The Fox 31 News story on the School Choice Week rally was painful to watch.
The 1202 task force did not listen to parents, teachers, or students who SAID loud and clear on surveys, in public, you do not value state mandated tests. **** read the report *** that several task force members created/signed onto…this report is LEFT OUT of the 1202 final report. Email your legislator today, if you put in your zip code, it goes right to your legislator. Do this NOW, before the 1202 task force presents on Wednesday morning.
The link also provides you with additional supporting documents and space to personalize with your own comments. Please share the link widely!
Also, please mark your calendars for February 3 at 9:30 AM for a SPEAK lobby day at the Capitol. We will meet in the basement and will pair up people with experience lobbying with those who are new to the process. We will be done by 11 AM.
If you are interested in testifying, Senate Education will likely hear testimony on February 5. Time TBD.
House Education will hear bills on February 16. One of the bills on the calendar for that day to reduce testing and return assessment decision making to our district is written by Cherry Creek parent and freshman Representative Jack Tate. We are hoping to have a large crowd or parents, educators and kids that day as there is no school.
More info to follow shortly on these opportunities…Thanks, and please email with any questions!


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August 16, 2018 | Part Of American Artifacts: Baseball in America
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Motivated by NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission and Ground Validation objectives, the System for Integrating Multi-platform data to Build the Atmospheric column (SIMBA) has been developed as a unique multi-sensor precipitation data fusion tool to unify field observations recorded in a variety of formats and coordinate systems into a common reference frame.
Through platform-specific modules, SIMBA processes data from native coordinates and resolutions only to the extent required to set them into a user-defined, three-dimensional grid. At present, the system supports several ground-based scanning research radars, NWS NEXRAD radars, profiling Micro Rain Radars (MRRs), multiple disdrometers and rain gauges, soundings, the GPM Microwave Imager and Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar on board the Core Observatory satellite, and Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor quantitative precipitation estimates. SIMBA generates a new atmospheric column data product that contains a concomitant set of all available data from the supported platforms within the user-specified grid defining the column area in the versatile NetCDF format, with key parameters for each data source preserved as attributes.


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#define AMULET_FROM(elemName, ...) (AMULET_FROM_INDEX, elemName, (__VA_ARGS__))
#define AMULET_LET(name, ...) (AMULET_LET_INDEX, name, (__VA_ARGS__))
#define AMULET_WHERE(...) (AMULET_WHERE_INDEX, (__VA_ARGS__), )
#define AMULET_SELECT(...) _AmuletMonadType::fromValue(__VA_ARGS__)
#define AMULET_REFERRING(...) \
  (AMULET_REFERRING_INDEX, AMULET_ADD_AMPS(BOOST_PP_VARIADIC_TO_LIST(__VA_ARGS__)))

// returns reference-removed decltype of expr
#define AMULET_GET_TYPE(expr) typename std::remove_reference<decltype(expr)>::type

#define AMULET_LIST_ENUM_PREFIX_COMMA(list) \
  BOOST_PP_COMMA_IF(BOOST_PP_NOT_EQUAL(BOOST_PP_LIST_SIZE(list), 0)) \
  BOOST_PP_LIST_ENUM(list)

// if (index, arg1, arg2) = (AMULET_FROM_INDEX, x, xs)
//   xs.flatMap([=, captures...](const auto &x){
//     using _AmuletMonadType = AMULET_GET_TYPE(xs);
//     return tail;})
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//   [=, captures...](const auto x){return tail;}(y)
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//   (tail).filter([=, captures...](const auto &){return expr;})
#define AMULET_DO_FOLDER_IMPL(index, arg1, arg2, captures, tail) \
  BOOST_PP_IF( \
    BOOST_PP_EQUAL(index, AMULET_FROM_INDEX), \
    arg2.flatMap([= AMULET_LIST_ENUM_PREFIX_COMMA(captures)](const AMULET_GET_TYPE(arg2)::value_type & arg1) { \
      using _AmuletMonadType = AMULET_GET_TYPE(arg2); \
      return tail; }),\
    BOOST_PP_IF( \
      BOOST_PP_EQUAL(index, AMULET_LET_INDEX), \
      ([= AMULET_LIST_ENUM_PREFIX_COMMA(captures)](const AMULET_GET_TYPE(arg2) & arg1){ return tail; }(arg2)), \
      BOOST_PP_IF( \
        BOOST_PP_EQUAL(index, AMULET_WHERE_INDEX), \
        (tail).filter([= AMULET_LIST_ENUM_PREFIX_COMMA(captures)](const AMULET_GET_TYPE(tail)::value_type &){return arg1;}), \
      ) \
    ) \
  )

#define AMULET_ADD_CAPTURES_OP(d, data, elem) \
  BOOST_PP_LIST_TO_TUPLE((data, BOOST_PP_TUPLE_TO_LIST(elem)))

#define AMULET_ADD_CAPTURES(list, captures) \
  BOOST_PP_LIST_TRANSFORM(AMULET_ADD_CAPTURES_OP, captures, list)

#define AMULET_DO_FOLDER(d, tail, head) \
  (AMULET_DO_FOLDER_IMPL( \
    BOOST_PP_TUPLE_ELEM(4,1,head), \
    BOOST_PP_TUPLE_ELEM(4,2,head), \
    BOOST_PP_TUPLE_ELEM(4,3,head), \
    BOOST_PP_TUPLE_ELEM(4,0,head), \
    tail))

#define AMULET_DO_REVERSED_LIST(reversed_list, captures) \
  BOOST_PP_LIST_FOLD_LEFT( \
    AMULET_DO_FOLDER, \
    BOOST_PP_LIST_FIRST(reversed_list), \
    AMULET_ADD_CAPTURES(BOOST_PP_LIST_REST(reversed_list), captures) \
  )

#define AMULET_DO_LIST(list) \
  BOOST_PP_IF( \
    BOOST_PP_EQUAL(BOOST_PP_TUPLE_ELEM(3,0,BOOST_PP_LIST_FIRST(list)), AMULET_REFERRING_INDEX), \
    AMULET_DO_REVERSED_LIST( \
      BOOST_PP_LIST_REVERSE(BOOST_PP_LIST_REST(list)), \
      BOOST_PP_TUPLE_ELEM(3,1,BOOST_PP_LIST_FIRST(list)) \
    ), \
    AMULET_DO_REVERSED_LIST(BOOST_PP_LIST_REVERSE(list), BOOST_PP_NIL) \
  )

#define AMULET_DO(...) \
  AMULET_DO_LIST(BOOST_PP_VARIADIC_TO_LIST(__VA_ARGS__))

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GBPUSD failed to break above the falling trend line on the 4-hour chart, suggesting that the pair remains in the downtrend from 1.3174. As long as the trend line resistance holds, the bounce from 1.2475 could be treated as consolidation for the downtrend. Another fall towards 1.2475 would likely be seen in the coming days. Only a clear break above the trend line resistance could signal completion of the downtrend.


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ACTION Response to Metra Comments on …
by Opinion Writer • June 4, 2018
The following letter was sent on June 2, 2018, to Mr. James M. Derwinski, CEO/Executive Director of Metra from ACTION in regards to Metra comments on the Chicago-Milwaukee Hiawatha Corridor Environmental Assessment (EA)
Dear Mr. Derwinski,
On behalf of the Lake Forest Citizens for ACTION (Alliance to Control Freight Impacts on Our Neighborhoods), I am writing in response to Metra's letter of May 18, 2018 withdrawing its original recommendation for a Third Track from south of IL Route 60 in Lake Forest to Route 176 in Rondout. While we appreciate Metra's conclusion that the Lake Forest three-mile siding track is not needed for Metra's "current operations," ACTION and its supporters overwhelmingly oppose any freight-related expansion project at any time on this Metra corridor, regardless of how it is marketed, be it a "siding extension" or a "third main track."
Metra's "long term vision of creating a three-track corridor" would create serious safety, health and environmental hazards from the inevitable increase in dangerous and volatile freight traffic for the thousands of residents and sensitive wildlife enclaves from Lake Forest to Glenview.
ACTION supports enhanced commuter and passenger service to meet the needs of your area including many communities like Lake Forest. We believe that reducing freight traffic on this highly congested shared corridor would allow for any such expanded services by Metra and Amtrak.
A third main track that increases hazardous and harmful freight capacity along this rail corridor is in direct conflict with Metra's On Track to Excellence Strategic Plan to "provide safe, reliable, efficient commuter rail service that enhances the economic and environmental health of northeastern Illinois." As an alternative to constructing a costly third rail on the Metra District North (MD-N) Line, ACTION would strongly support exploring alternatives that separate commuter and freight traffic as a more permanent and safer solution than constantly trying to push more mixed use traffic through an already congested rail corridor.
ACTION would work with Metra to accomplish the safe, reliable, efficient commuter service your mission promises, recognizing the importance of securing adequate State level support to sustainthis goal. However, funding passenger rail improvements by way of expansion of freight traffic on the Milwaukee District North Line would come at the expense of the welfare of the very
passengers the mission seeks to protect.
JoAnn Desmond
Lake Forest ACTION/President
CC: Robert Lansing, Mayor, City of Lake Forest
Jim Patterson, President, Village of Glenview
Harriet Rosenthal, Mayor, Village of Deerfield
Frank Rothing, President, Village of Bannockburn
Sandra Frum, President, Village of Northbrook
Randall Blankenhorn, Secretary, Illinois Department of Transportation
Beth McCluskey, Director, Office of Intermodal Project Implementation, IDOT
Kirk Dillard, Chairman, Regional Transportation Authority
Leanne Redden, Executive Director, Regional Transportation Authority
Editor's note: Letters to the Editor represent the writers' opinions and not necessarily those of Daily North Shore. We encourage readers to post Letters to the Editor — please use this link to do so.
Edward Sachs, Jr says
Superintendent. Inclusion, transparency, and balanced, thoroughly researched issues are her forte. I have known Joanne for two years while working to improve West Lake Forest development and then as a result upgraded commercial zoning. After two years, I hope for her ward (I do not reside in Ward 3) and for all of Lake Forest that she wins. Independence will help Lake Forest create trust, financial strength, better zoning, and better financial management. It will be an inviting feature of public discourse, which we sorely need. In my view Caucus tends to breed out these import contributions to our City. I can't speak highly enough of Joanne's intelligence, integrity, and public interest. Selflessness is a rare commodity today from Main Street to Washington. Please look at what Joanne is saying. She can be the difference in Lake Forest as development and traffic pressure mount.
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Never before have we needed to become part of a community again. Not a virtual one, but a real, tangible, close, human community. If holidays are a moment of sharing, then supporting each other within our community is the best way to start again together, after such a challenging time. Through the accomplishment of this project, Arvi is now supported by a small but great community made up of local producers, artisan realities, men and women who every day dedicate their passion and efforts into the creation of quality and prestigious products: excellence that honors our territory. Our greatest «thank you» goes out to them.
AZIENDA AGRICOLA BIANCHI
"Azienda Agricola Bianchi" was founded in 1998 by Marcy and Alberto Bianchi in Arogno. Since the beginning, the philosophy has been to work as close as possible to nature and in fact all the products made are certified Bio Suisse, in particular wine, honey and derivatives. The company is family-run and now the two sons, Martino (graduated winemaker) and Gabriele (engineer winemaker), continue the work started by their parents. In 2017, the winery was built, which has allowed them to vinify all the wines according to the principle of gravity. The honey they produce is the result of a long and meticulous work that goes from harvesting to honey extraction and potting. Alberto's passion for bees was born when he was a child and it has been accompanying him for a whole life.
"Bottega Rapelli" is an incomparable gastronomic universe created by Mastri Salumieri with the unmistakable atmosphere and joie de vivre of Ticino. Mario Rapelli, the first Mastro Salumiere, started his business in 1929 in Ticino, in the picturesque village of Stabio. He mastered the art of charcuterie like no one else and created typical products with special care using the best local ingredients. Even today Rapelli is a symbol of the true culture of the Bottega: the flavors of Ticino's gastronomy and the passion to share the good things in life. In the looks and gestures of the Master Salumieri, one can still see the love for the territory, the pride in the art of aging and the constant search for perfection that characterized their predecessors. For the refinement of Prosciutto crudo Pioradoro - an excellence of our territory with a sweet and delicate aroma - the Mastri Salumieri have chosen an exclusive location: Alpe Piora, the largest and most renowned alpine pasture in the Canton of Ticino
ERBE TICINO
The "Erbe Ticino" project is a story of integration between different realities of the territory and activities in the socio-professional field. Social responsibility is at the heart of the project not only for economic sustainability, which concerns the protection of local producers and the intention to hire local staff, but also for social and environmental sustainability. In fact, the project is active in the socio-professional field thanks to the collaboration with the foundations Diamante, La Fonte, OTAF, San Gottardo and Caritas Ticino. At the same time, an important part of the Erbe Ticino project is represented by environmental sustainability, given primarily by the authenticity of the products: all the farmers with whom they collaborate, in fact, are Bio Suisse certified. Valuable synergies that give extra value to the project and the Erbe Ticino brand
MACELLERIA PIN
"I Salumi del Pin" was born from the inheritance of the Salumificio Brenni, a historical salumificio dating back to the 1920s located in the heart of Mendrisio. In 1996 Angelo Valsangiacomo took over the business and so "I Salumi del Pin SA" di Brenni -Valsangiacomo was established, which in 2006 was entirely taken over by Angelo Valsangiacomo. In 2007, the store moved to a modern and functional space in order to expand its potential, also offering a gastronomy and catering service. The products from "I Salumi del Pin" stand out for the very accurate craftsmanship, which follows ancient recipes handed down from generation to generation. The meats used all come from animals bred in respect of the species.
HOMEBAKER
Homebaker.ch is a large marketplace of flours and related products dedicated to all baking enthusiasts. The Homebaker project is supported by the passion and experience of the millers of Mulino Maroggia who, now in their fifth generation, have focused on renewal, embracing the future without ever forgetting their origins and the tradition of this ancient art. Homebaker wants to meet the demands of customers more and more interested and expert about the world of cooking and baking, offering the best products for baking, in handy formats and light weight, suitable for home consumption. Attention to the product goes hand in hand with a commitment to spreading the culture of baking and cooking. Homebaker, in fact, offers the best raw materials for kneading, but not only: every week with courses and new recipes help fans to have fun kneading directly in their laboratory or at home.
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This video is from the Christ Central Pres Church (http://christcentralsf.com/) and Christ Central Southern CA (http://christcentralsc.com/) short-term that served with us from August, 14th-19th. We appreciate their time and preparation in serving our family and the students in the ministry here.
This video was made by the Eternal Life Ministries Short Term Team (http://www.yselm.org/). From the 2:14 minute mark to 4:14 is about our ministry. They served with us on August, 12th and 13th. We are grateful for their help and encouragement.


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But since I set both dimensions of the background to match_parent, the header is not visible.
How can I achieve what I want?
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We are a Viking "brew & bed" & interactive dinner theater, making this Inn, one of the most unique stays you'll ever have. Located near the Cuyuna Lakes Trail system in Crosby, MN.
the Nordic Inn Brew & Bed is where history comes alive!
In Viking history, Jarl's were the top level of a three-tiered social structure and considered chieftains that were in charge of their community, or kindred. He would prefer a rich and decadent feel to his quarters, and the Jarl's Den is the perfect bed and breakfast room at the Nordic Inn for that feeling of excess. This spacious and luxurious bed and breakfast suite features a large King Size bed, personal TV and VCR, and a breath-taking stained-glass window depicting Viking Mythology. The Jarl's Den also features a private bathroom and complete Viking decor. The centerpiece to this suite is an extra-large private Jacuzzi, which is completely surrounded by stone. As one of the most lavish bed and breakfast rooms at the Nordic Inn, this suite is truly fit for a Jarl.
If Freya "The Goddess of Love" was more at home with frills and fluff, then this would be the bed and breakfast room for her. A Queen bed, private Jacuzzi and bidet would be enough for even Odin himself to succumb to.
Placed in the bell tower of the church, this cozy pauper's room has some outstanding qualities for either a romantic bed and breakfast evening or a fantasy for the kids.


Lin, Hequan (1997) Prediction of separated flows around pitching aerofoils using a discrete vortex method. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.
A surface shedding discrete vortex method has been developed for stimulating incompressible flows around pitching aerofoils. The method is able to predict both attached and separated flows, the latter typified by the formation and transport of large vortices. The structures of dynamic stall flow are well captured without the need for other means to predetermine the separation points. In contrast to most other vortex methods, the method presented herein can perform quantitative analysis. Throughout a wide range of incidence, the pressure distributions are smooth and the normal force and pitching moment are in good agreement with experimental data. The method is also able to predict the flow with external constraints for simulating the effects of wind tunnel blockage. In this regard quantitative results and flow structures have been obtained which are consistent with those expected.
Following the review of previous work presented in the introduction, the mathematical formulation of the method is expounded. A velocity expression is theoretically derived for flows with both a moving inner boundary (aerofoil) and fixed external constraints (wind tunnel walls). To maintain both no penetration and no slip conditions, it is concluded that an external constraint parallel to the free stream can be modelled by placement of a constant vortex sheet along the boundary, and the introduction of distributed vortices next to the constraint to represent the boundary layer. The vortex sheet strength is equivalent to the free stream velocity while the strength of the vortices can be calculated in the same manner as for the internal boundary. This conclusion avoids the necessity of employing mirror vortices and iteration techniques in traditional models.
The aerodynamic loads are computed from the pressure distribution. For the computation of surface pressures, the relationship between the pressure gradient and the rate of vorticity creation on the surface has been developed for a moving boundary.
Vezza, Dr. M. and Coton, Dr. F. and Galbraith, Prof. R.A.McD.


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South African National Jewish War Memorial: West Park Cemetery. Johannesburg
Border War, Cemetery, Concentration camps, Heritage, Johannesburg, ROH, War Museum Johannesburg, World War 1, World War 2
Another little known Memorial in West Park Cemetery is the South African National Jewish War Memorial. The Memorial is situated within the Jewish Cemetery and is very close to the Holocaust Memorial. It is also very close to the Jewish Military Plot in the Cemetery at West Park. It is a quiet corner that I have missed seeing for a number of years.
The memorial covers both World Wars, the Border War, Defence of Israel, The Unknown Soldier, and the Six Million Martyrs.
It is possible that many of the names from the World Wars are also on the Jewish Guild War Memorial at the Museum of Military History in Saxonwold.
Google Earth co-ordinates are: 26° 9'56.47″S, 27°58'56.48″E. Images of the individual plaques are available on request.
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Tags: Jewish Guild., Johannesburg, South African National Jewish War Memorial, War Museum, West Park Cemetery


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Suleiman: The CIA's man in Cairo
Al-Jazeera reports:
Suleiman meets with Israeli president Shimon Peres in Tel Aviv
On January 29, Omar Suleiman, Egypt's top spy chief, was anointed vice president by tottering dictator, Hosni Mubarak. By appointing Suleiman, part of a shake-up of the cabinet in an attempt to appease the masses of protesters and retain his own grip on the presidency, Mubarak has once again shown his knack for devilish shrewdness. Suleiman has long been favoured by the US government for his ardent anti-Islamism, his willingness to talk and act tough on Iran - and he has long been the CIA's main man in Cairo.
Mubarak knew that Suleiman would command an instant lobby of supporters at Langley and among 'Iran nexters' in Washington - not to mention among other authoritarian mukhabarat-dependent regimes in the region. Suleiman is a favourite of Israel too; he held the Israel dossier and directed Egypt's efforts to crush Hamas by demolishing the tunnels that have functioned as a smuggling conduit for both weapons and foodstuffs into Gaza.
According to a WikiLeak(ed) US diplomatic cable, titled 'Presidential Succession in Egypt', dated May 14, 2007:
"Egyptian intelligence chief and Mubarak consigliere, in past years Soliman was often cited as likely to be named to the long-vacant vice-presidential post. In the past two years, Soliman has stepped out of the shadows, and allowed himself to be photographed, and his meetings with foreign leaders reported. Many of our contacts believe that Soliman, because of his military background, would at least have to figure in any succession scenario."
From 1993 until Saturday, Suleiman was chief of Egypt's General Intelligence Service. He remained largely in the shadows until 2001, when he started taking over powerful dossiers in the foreign ministry; he has since become a public figure, as the WikiLeak document attests. In 2009, he was touted by the London Telegraph and Foreign Policy as the most powerful spook in the region, topping even the head of Mossad.
In the mid-1990s, Suleiman worked closely with the Clinton administration in devising and implementing its rendition program; back then, rendition involved kidnapping suspected terrorists and transferring them to a third country for trial. In The Dark Side, Jane Mayer describes how the rendition program began:
"Each rendition was authorised at the very top levels of both governments [the US and Egypt] ... The long-serving chief of the Egyptian central intelligence agency, Omar Suleiman, negotiated directly with top [CIA] officials. [Former US Ambassador to Egypt Edward] Walker described the Egyptian counterpart, Suleiman, as 'very bright, very realistic', adding that he was cognisant that there was a downside to 'some of the negative things that the Egyptians engaged in, of torture and so on. But he was not squeamish, by the way'. (p. 113).
"Technically, US law required the CIA to seek 'assurances' from Egypt that rendered suspects wouldn't face torture. But under Suleiman's reign at the EGIS, such assurances were considered close to worthless. As Michael Scheuer, a former CIA officer [head of the al-Qaeda desk], who helped set up the practise of rendition, later testified, even if such 'assurances' were written in indelible ink, 'they weren't worth a bucket of warm spit'."
Under the Bush administration, in the context of "the global war on terror", US renditions became "extraordinary", meaning the objective of kidnapping and extra-legal transfer was no longer to bring a suspect to trial - but rather for interrogation to seek actionable intelligence. The extraordinary rendition program landed some people in CIA black sites - and others were turned over for torture-by-proxy to other regimes. Egypt figured large as a torture destination of choice, as did Suleiman as Egypt's torturer-in-chief. At least one person extraordinarily rendered by the CIA to Egypt — Egyptian-born Australian citizen Mamdouh Habib — was reportedly tortured by Suleiman himself.
Suleiman the torturer
In October 2001, Habib was seized from a bus by Pakistani security forces. While detained in Pakistan, at the behest of American agents, he was suspended from a hook and electrocuted repeatedly. He was then turned over to the CIA, and in the process of transporting him to Egypt he endured the usual treatment: his clothes were cut off, a suppository was stuffed in his anus, he was put into a diaper - and 'wrapped up like a spring roll'.
In Egypt, as Habib recounts in his memoir, My Story: The Tale of a Terrorist Who Wasn't, he was repeatedly subjected to electric shocks, immersed in water up to his nostrils and beaten. His fingers were broken and he was hung from metal hooks. At one point, his interrogator slapped him so hard that his blindfold was dislodged, revealing the identity of his tormentor: Suleiman.
Frustrated that Habib was not providing useful information or confessing to involvement in terrorism, Suleiman ordered a guard to murder a shackled prisoner in front of Habib, which he did with a vicious karate kick. In April 2002, after five months in Egypt, Habib was rendered to American custody at Bagram prison in Afghanistan - and then transported to Guantanamo. On January 11, 2005, the day before he was scheduled to be charged, Dana Priest of the Washington Post published an exposé about Habib's torture. The US government immediately announced that he would not be charged and would be repatriated to Australia.
A far more infamous torture case, in which Suleiman also is directly implicated, is that of Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi. Unlike Habib, who was innocent of any ties to terror or militancy, al-Libi was allegedly a trainer at al-Khaldan camp in Afghanistan. He was captured by the Pakistanis while fleeing across the border in November 2001. He was sent to Bagram, and questioned by the FBI. But the CIA wanted to take over, which they did, and he was transported to a black site on the USS Bataan in the Arabian Sea, then extraordinarily rendered to Egypt. Under torture there, al-Libi "confessed" knowledge about an al-Qaeda–Saddam connection, claiming that two al-Qaeda operatives had received training in Iraq for use in chemical and biological weapons. In early 2003, this was exactly the kind of information that the Bush administration was seeking to justify attacking Iraq and to persuade reluctant allies to go along. Indeed, al-Libi's "confession" was one the central pieces of "evidence" presented at the United Nations by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell to make the case for war.
As it turns out, that confession was a lie tortured out of him by Egyptians. Here is how former CIA chief George Tenet describes the whole al-Libi situation in his 2007 memoir, At The Center Of The Storm:
"We believed that al-Libi was withholding critical threat information at the time, so we transferred him to a third country for further debriefing. Allegations were made that we did so knowing that he would be tortured, but this is false. The country in question [Egypt] understood and agreed that they would hold al-Libi for a limited period. In the course of questioning while he was in US custody in Afghanistan, al-Libi made initial references to possible al-Qa'ida training in Iraq. He offered up information that a militant known as Abu Abdullah had told him that at least three times between 1997 and 2000, the now-deceased al-Qa'ida leader Mohammad Atef had sent Abu Abdullah to Iraq to seek training in poisons and mustard gas.
"Another senior al-Qa'ida detainee told us that Mohammad Atef was interested in expanding al-Qa'ida's ties to Iraq, which, in our eyes, added credibility to the reporting. Then, shortly after the Iraq war got under way, al-Libi recanted his story. Now, suddenly, he was saying that there was no such cooperative training. Inside the CIA, there was sharp division on his recantation. It led us to recall his reporting, and here is where the mystery begins.
"Al-Libi's story will no doubt be that he decided to fabricate in order to get better treatment and avoid harsh punishment. He clearly lied. We just don't know when. Did he lie when he first said that al-Qa'ida members received training in Iraq - or did he lie when he said they did not? In my mind, either case might still be true. Perhaps, early on, he was under pressure, assumed his interrogators already knew the story, and sang away. After time passed and it became clear that he would not be harmed, he might have changed his story to cloud the minds of his captors. Al-Qa'ida operatives are trained to do just that. A recantation would restore his stature as someone who had successfully confounded the enemy. The fact is, we don't know which story is true, and since we don't know, we can assume nothing. (pp. 353-354)"
Al-Libi was eventually sent off, quietly, to Libya - though he reportedly made a few other stops along the way - where he was imprisoned. The use of al-Libi's statement in the build-up to the Iraq war made him a huge American liability once it became clear that the purported al-Qaeda–Saddam connection was a tortured lie. His whereabouts were, in fact, a secret for years, until April 2009 when Human Rights Watch researchers investigating the treatment of Libyan prisoners encountered him in the courtyard of a prison. Two weeks later, on May 10, al-Libi was dead, and the Gaddafi regime claimed it was a suicide.
According to Evan Kohlmann, who enjoys favoured status among US officials as an 'al-Qaeda expert', citing a classified source: 'Al-Libi's death coincided with the first visit by Egypt's spymaster Omar Suleiman to Tripoli.'
Kohlmann surmises and opines that, after al-Libi recounted his story about about an al-Qaeda–Saddam-WMD connection, "The Egyptians were embarassed by this admission - and the Bush government found itself in hot water internationally. Then, in May 2009, Omar Suleiman saw an opportunity to get even with al-Libi and travelled to Tripoli. By the time Omar Suleiman's plane left Tripoli, Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi had committed 'suicide'."
As people in Egypt and around the world speculate about the fate of the Mubarak regime, one thing should be very clear: Omar Suleiman is not the man to bring democracy to the country. His hands are too dirty, and any 'stability' he might be imagined to bring to the country and the region comes at way too high a price. Hopefully, the Egyptians who are thronging the streets and demanding a new era of freedom will make his removal from power part of their demands, too.
Lisa Hajjar teaches sociology at the Uiversity of California - Santa Barbara and is a co-editor of Jadaliyya.
(This article first appeared on Jadaliyya.)
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Chilmark voters made quick work of their annual town meeting warrant Monday, at the Chilmark Community Center. In less than two hours they approved a long list of spending items that included $220,000 for a new fire tanker, $32,000 for a new four-wheel drive police vehicle and a $7 million operating budget for fiscal year 2012.
A total of 107 voters, or 12 percent of the town's 858 registered voters, agreed to all spending articles on the warrant including the operating budget for the new fiscal year that begins on July 1, a 3.4 percent increase.
And while the spending articles passed with almost no debate, a pair of proposed bylaw changes — one regulating the construction of new swimming pools and another establishing a new human resources bylaw — passed only after considerable discussion and debate.
The meeting opened with the customary town reports, during which selectman Frank Fenner gave voters an update on plans to renovate the historic Tea Lane farmhouse at the corner of Tea Lane and Middle Road.
Mr. Fenner is a member of a three-member committee appointed last fall to oversee renovations to the farmhouse. Voters were given a handout giving a brief overview of the plans, which provided an estimate of $500,000 for the repairs.
"We worked very hard trying to make sure that from the main road there would be very little visual change; we tried to make this building so it would be as energy-efficient as possible, and also tried to keep the costs down," he said.
Mr. Fenner said the committee will hold a series of public hearings in the coming months to gather input on the plans. As expected, Mr. Fenner later moved to postpone an article seeking $150,000 in Community Preservation Act (CPA) money to fund the renovations of the farmhouse.
The final plans will return to voters at a future town meeting, he said.
Warren Doty, chairman of the selectmen, then gave an update on plans to rebuild the town pier destroyed during the fire in Menemsha last July that destroyed the Coast Guard boathouse. Mr. Doty said selectmen recently received a report on the cause of the fire.
The report, Mr. Doty said, raised more questions than answers.
"It took a long time for the Coast Guard and the state authorities to complete their investigation, and their investigation was inconclusive," Mr. Doty said.
"We have a report that says the fire could have been caused by faulty electrical wiring in the Coast Guard building, or a cigarette that could have been thrown onto the dock or faulty wiring coming from the town running under our dock," he added.
Last September, voters agreed to spend $1.5 million to replace the old wooden car-way with a new connecting pier reinforced with steel pilings and concrete planks. The town is now applying for state and federal funds for reimbursement of a portion of the cost of the project.
Mr. Doty said the town received $200,000 from the Seaport Advisory Council, and will once again ask that council for more money for the project in September or October.
He said the contractor, C. White Marine of Danvers, had already driven 64 piles for the pier and was on schedule to complete the project by June 1. He said the town has changed its insurance coverage to include all the wooden docks in Menemsha.
When voters turned to the $7,047,286 FY 2012 budget, former town treasurer Judy Jardin noted the budget included a 2.6 percent cost of living adjustment (COLA) for employees, the highest on the Island, as well as regular step increases.
Ms. Jardin asked why employees were receiving raises when those in the private sector were doing without.
"I think we are way out of line with what we are doing. I don't think this is realistic . . . the recession is far from over. You have to keep in mind there are people in this room trying to live on a fixed income," she said.
Ms. Jardin also questioned why information on the COLA and step increase wasn't broken off into a separate warrant article. "I don't really understand why we don't have more information about this," she said.
Mr. Doty said employees deserve the COLA.
"Last year we had zero percent, and we felt 2.6 percent was appropriate this year . . . It's not hard to see the cost of fuel and food is going up," he said.
Despite the tough questions from Ms. Jardin, the budget passed unanimously.
Voters then approved a series of spending articles with hardly any discussion.
In less than thirty minutes they approved $220,000 for a new fire tanker truck, $32,000 for a new Ford Expedition for the police department, $10,000 for new metal stairs at Squibnocket Beach and $30,000 to rebuild the town dock at Hariph's Creek.
Voters also agreed to spend $100,000 to continue to fund the town's share of post-retirement benefit obligations, $24,465 to purchase new software and training for the accounting department and $9,000 for engineering and repair services for the Chilmark Community Center.
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The article that generated the most discussion called for an amendment to the bylaw regulating swimming pools and tennis courts. Among other things the proposed change would set restrictions on where tennis courts and pools are located, and allow heated swimming pools as long as they use energy-efficient heating systems.
Under the new bylaw, swimming pools and tennis courts would be allowed through a special permit issued by the zoning board of appeals, and would require a homeowner to live in a dwelling for two years before applying for a permit.
Sculptor Jay Lagemann questioned a provision requiring property owners to install standpipes in new pools that allow firefighters to tie-in during an emergency. He said the foundations of some swimming pools will crack if they are drained too quickly.
He said the provision could create hardships for homeowners and proposed an amendment to strike it from the article. "It seems absurd to me," he said.
The amendment was defeated handily; and voters approved the bylaw change.
Voters also approved a new human resources bylaw, which addresses employee classifications, definitions of temporary and year round employees, recruitment and hiring practices, and vacation and sick pay.
Ms. Jardin objected to the changes, arguing the new bylaw would not give voters a chance to review proposed changes in employee classifications and pay grades. "For some reason [those changes] aren't coming to us, and it used to," she said.
Executive secretary Tim Carroll said the current bylaw allows the personnel board to make changes to the employee classifications.
Mr. Fenner noted the personnel board worked on the bylaw for the last six years, and urged voters to ratify the plan.
"This is a vast improvement for all of our employees and I hope you support it," Mr. Fenner said.
The article passed by an almost unanimous vote.


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Dilan, Brandon and Juan David: the realities poor youth face in Colombia
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The tragic deaths of Dilan Cruz, Juan David Rojas and Brandon Cely, who committed suicide after he announced his support for the national strike and was accused by his superiors of "extremist leftism" and of being "manipulative," are an example of the realities that impoverished youth face in Colombia.
The murder of Dilan Cruz, who died after he was struck by a projectile launched by an officer of the National Police's riot control unit, is only the latest of a string of acts of police brutality that have proved lethal. There are also other cases of fatalities during the protests that have not gained much media attention. Juan David Rojas, a 7th grade student was killed on Nov. 22 during a protest in the Bogotá neighborhood of Bosa.
According to Willie Carmona, a professor in Bosa, Rojas was not killed by a police officer but rather a common criminal. Still, his death occurred within the context of the demonstrations and have not attracted as much media attention as the death of Cruz although both were marching to demand their rights.
"The news hasn't had as much of an echo because it seems that they are trying to frame this murder to appear like that of many others in the country and not within the context of the strike," said the professor. "This case is the product of an economic model that excludes many layers of people and in particular, youth that does not have guarantees to employment, health, recreation or dignified housing and they end up immersed in contexts where common crime and micro-trafficking prevail."
There aren't guarantees for youth in the Army
Another example of the difficult reality youth face in Colombia is the recent cases of two soldiers of the National Army that expressed their support for the strike and their right to education. The first, 21-year-old Brandon Cely, dreamed of becoming a doctor but never had the economic conditions to access higher education. After he was stigmatized within the Army for supporting the strike and criticizing the institution, he committed suicide.
The second case is of that of the soldier Juan Sebastián Mendieta, who made a video supporting the strike and who was transferred by his superiors to Bogotá once he announced he would not erase the video. "In practice, the only thing that an 18-year-old from a poor neighborhood can count on is military service, which does not apply to youth from upper classes who have other possibilities," said the professor.
Lack of opportunities for youth
Carmona said that in Colombia, people between the ages of 18 and 24 are the ones that have the most difficulties finding well-paid work. In Bogotá, only 4% of the population that graduates from public high schools have access to higher education. Such was the case of the high school student Cruz and Cely, who were both barred from going to college because of their economic circumstances.
"When one grows up, one clashes with a social reality in which they is no employment, social security nor the possibility to continue your studies and where aggression and stigmatization happen every day in the rural regions. What opportunity does a youth have in this country?" the professor said.
Although the realities of these three, young men are that of thousands in the country, the professor underlined the other reality that is beginning to unfold: during the days of strikes and protests, most of those that have flooded the streets are youth. "We have hope that this youth will wake up from the lethargy. These are the two sides of the coin," said Carmona.
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On Saturday (Nov. 19), DJ Esco and Zaytoven hosted the latest episode of Drake's OVO Sound Radio on Beats 1 Radio. Esco is Future's DJ, so he took the opportunity to premiere two new songs from the Wizard—"Ain't Tryin" and "Poppin Tags." Listen to 'em both below.
"Ain't Tryin" is the stronger of the two, though the synths work in Future's favor on the latter song, as do things like the way he says "Goyard on" and mentioning Jaffe Joe.
Just the other week, Future debuted a surprise new song and video called "Used to This" with Drake. It debuted in the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 14, proving fans are hungry to hear more from the Atlanta rapper. The single is said to be from his upcoming Beast Mode 16 project with Zaytoven. A release date hasn't been announced yet, but seeing how the song was a surprise drop, the project might follow in the same fashion.


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Zeta Distribution (Zipf Distribution)
Probability Distributions > Zeta Distribution (Zipf Distribution)
What is the Zeta Distribution?
The Zeta Distribution (also called the Zipf distribution, after American linguist George Zipf) is a member of the family of general exponential distributions, used to model the size or ranks of randomly chosen objects from certain population types. In general, it's used to show the relative popularity of a small subset of a population.
The zeta distribution comes from Zipf's law, which states that, given a list of the most frequent words in an arbitrary book, the most frequent word will appear twice as often as the second most frequent word, which will appear twice as often as the third most frequent, and so on. In its simplest form, Zipf's law is the same as the power law.
It can also be used to model a variety of phenomena where there is a large step down from the top (or bottom) to the next level. For example:
Corporation sizes; large conglomerates tend to be many times larger than their immediate neighbors,
Income rankings; the top 1% holds most of the wealth, with significant drops down to the 99%,
Library books: a handful of bestsellers tend to be the most popular in a library.
The probability density function for the zeta distribution is:
n is a positive integer and
α (the shape parameter) is equal or greater than zero. This single parameter determines the shape of the distribution.
Zipf Distribution with a shape parameter (α) of 3.
X ∼ Zipf(α,n) indicates the random variable X has a Zeta distribution with parameters α and n.
This distribution is also called:
Discrete Pareto Distribution,
Joos Model,
Riemann Zeta Distr.,
Zipf-Estoup Law,*
Zipf law.*
*Technically not correct as the distribution was derived from these laws; these laws themselves result in the distribution but are not the actual distributions.
Johnson, N. and Kotz, S. (1969) Discrete Distributions. Houghton Mifflin.
Johnson N. L., Kotz S., and Balakrishnan N. (1993) Univariate Discrete Distributions, 2nd ed. New York: Wiley.
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Information Communications Technology has in recent years been at the forefront of teaching and learning at Emmaus College. In a world where students are expected to have the necessary ICT skills for employability and functioning as effective citizens, the College realises that ICT needs to be embedded in every area of the curriculum.
Over the two campuses, seven computer labs have been in full operation for classes in every Learning Area. Installed in all classrooms are either data projects and/or interactive whiteboards. These collaborative resources increase student interactivity and understanding.
In the early 2000s an intranet known as "The Portal" was introduced for students to access digital resources provided by teachers. In 2009 this system was replaced by a Learning Management System, Studywiz.
With changing technologies, at the end of 2015, the college decided to change to Schoolbox. This online platform allows for many multimedia activities, online resources, and interactivity with many Web 2.0 tools. The Schoolbox software allows for customisation to suit the college's needs. One area for customisation is the name of the new LMS, Portal and Intranet. Through a student competition, the name Emmlink was chosen.
The portal function of Emmlink provides parents and students with up to date information on timetables, college news and events.
2018 saw the start of Continuous Reporting using Emmlink across all classes.
The focus of Continuous Reporting is to provide immediate, targeted feedback to students around the time of submission of major assessment tasks. Teachers upload marks, results and suggestions for improvement continuously throughout the year encouraging students to take on the advice provided.
Teachers were provided with laptops in the early 2000s to prepare digital resources for students and improve their own skills. In 2011 teacher laptops were provided with high specification tablet computers to further improve teaching and learning outcomes. With this increase in technology, teachers have undergone extensive professional learning in not only using technology but also understanding how deeper learning can be facilitated.
Teachers laptops also improve work flows and curriculum delivery for a variety of learning styles. The college realises that teachers need to not only access digital resources but also understand digital skills to prepare students for the world of work.
Further to this, in 2010, it was decided that integral to our Y9@E program, there would be an introduction of netbooks to each Year 9 student, provided by the college through The Federal Government Digital Education Revolution Funding. The netbook program began in earnest in 2011 and has continued with success at the Burwood Campus. Now with the introduction of iPads and BYOD policy at Years 11 & 12, the 1 to 1 ratio of technology has further enhanced opportunities for instance access to information and contemporary tools for learning.
In 2016 all Year 10 students were required to have a notebook/laptop computer to enhance their educational experience. After significant consultation with teachers and students, and an investigation of contemporary research into the effective use of ICT in schools, Emmaus College will be mandating the use of Notebook/Laptop computers for senior students.
Research indicates that senior secondary education requires students to complete more complex tasks. Notebook/Laptop computers have high end capabilities which enable more timely and efficient completion of assessment tasks. From an educational perspective, there is also the need for students to understand communication, collaboration, creativity and problem solving using digital resources. These important skills will be beneficial in virtually all professions once students enter the workforce.
After consulting extensively the Emmaus community in 2017, a decision was made that all year 7 students will have a Windows laptop which has been sourced by the college. There was a realisation that students need to be exposed to more complex software skills of manipulating data and digital file managment strategies at the beginning of their secondary schooling.
With the construction of a state of the art building at Vermont South in 2011 for senior students, the College needed to upgrade much of the wifi network. A full audit of both campuses took place and the Wifi network was extensively expanded and improved over both campuses. This was also to facilitate the use of mobile technologies.
In 2014, the wifi network has keep up with improved technologies and upgraded to the new AC standard. This ensures a faster and more efficient wifi experience.
The latest trend in ICT is the use of mobile devices to access online information. This has had a profound effect on education. Indeed much of the research in "The Horizon Report 2012", which can be accessed at; http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2012-horizon-report-HE.pdf discusses and predicts the effects that changes in technology will have on education. The prediction that mobile apps and tablet computing will be the next "big" thing in education has eventuated. The allure to these new technologies is the immediacy, ease of use and portability in these "Maxwell Smart" type devices! In 2013, IPads were implemented at Years 7 and Year 9. This strategy has continued in 2014.
The 205, 2016 & 2017, Horizon Reports discuss the need for schools to embrace the BYODD (Bring your own designated device) policies to assist student access to information & learning. This policy also personalises the learning as students are able to select a device that suits their preference and learning styles. This policy was introduced at Emmaus at the end of the 2013 academic year.
In the last few years, the number and types of mobile ICT devices have significantly increased.
The widening use of digital text books & novels further enhances the use of ICT mobile devices.
The Horizon Report also discusses new ICT trends like wearable technology and suggests that these will be influential in shaping education over the next 4 to 5 years. It will be interesting to see how this translates in a school environment.
The 2018 report discusses many aspects of new technologies. The rise of STEM learning, Coding as a Literacy, Computational thinking, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and the changing roles of teachers and students are just some of the challenging topics ahead.
The Emmaus community of students, parents and teachers have embraced many changes over the years with much positivity and optimism.
We look forward to the many challenges ahead!
Have fun learning with ICT!


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Q: How to provide idle session time out in spring boot application using oauth I need to provide security to my spring boot application so i used OAUTH, but how to set idle session time out?
Example : if the user is logged in access token generated, based on access token every request authorized , but when the access token is expires user again need to login, to over come this process i want to set idle expire time out in my spring boot application.
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We have all been there, right? A head full of dreams and promises in your heart, thinking you can conquer the world. You think that you're still capable of burning the candle at both ends like you did when you were a 20-year-old college kid, but we have bad news for you. You can't.
At some point, you gained weight, added a decade or three and life has exhausted you. You reach a point where you have no idea who you are anymore, what you want, or how to get it.
You don't want to ever find yourself in this position, however, if you do it's important that you know you have options in digging yourself out of it. The best way to manage these situations is by taking care of yourself better in the first place.
It's shocking to think how many of us are suffering simply because we don't practice self-care, it impacts your confidence and ability to love yourself, but it can also prevent you from achieving your goals.
When you start to focus on yourself you will see everything start to change and fall into place.
We are more likely to treat our bodies badly in a bid to get them into the shape we want, but how is depriving yourself going to help matters? Treat your body will love and respect. Eat food that will nourish her and exercise to keep her fit and in shape. Start noticing all of the ways your body is beautiful and she will give back and made you feel like a goddess, and you won't need to worry about burning out prematurely.
Any pregnant woman can tell you that by taking care of her own needs and herself she is doing the best by her unborn baby. When you invest in self-care, you are ensuring that you have the energy, love, and time to give to everyone around you, too.
When you invest in self-care, you are giving yourself the opportunity to let your light shine bright, but in doing that you are empowering others to do the same. Your energy can be inspiring to those around you! Of course, there's also that old adage about beauty coming from within and failure to practice self-care is likely to dampen your inner glow.
You can have it all and do it all as evidenced by the many modern superwomen in the world. However, that doesn't mean that you can do everything all at once! You don't need to succumb to the pressure to juggle that successful career, as well as your marriage, children, home, friends, and body. Don't even try to do everything all at once, you'll simply burn yourself out.
When you think of your energy account being much like your fuel tank or your bank account it's a bit easier to understand just how terrifying it can be to drain it. You see the needle approaching the big red E on the gas gauge and you drive to the gas station to fill the tank, otherwise, you risk running out and being stranded.
When it comes to your bank account you don't spend more than what you have and if you do, you may pay a fee for overextending yourself. If you open a credit card and max it account and you can't pay it back you have destroyed your credit and made it impossible to borrow from any credible lender.
Your body is the credible lender and if you continue drawing too much out of it, it will give up on you. You need your health to maintain all of the activities that you do, so take time now to practice self-care instead of risking a burnout.


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Calgary shelters have space available for those seeking shelter, meals, and access to resources
Edited: December 10, 2020
As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Calgary and the rest of the province, local homeless-serving agencies are doing everything they can to provide safe beds, meals, housing support, and social isolation space for Calgarians who have no fixed address.
"More than I've ever seen, Calgary's homeless-serving agencies have been deeply collaborative to ensure those who are experiencing homelessness are being looked out for," says Joy Bowen-Eyre, CEO of The Alex.
Currently, Alpha House has 44 beds available each day/night in their main shelter, as well as 44 overnight spaces at a satellite shelter. The Mustard Seed's emergency shelters have space for 225 people per night. The Calgary Drop-In Centre (the DI) can accommodate up to 380 people in their main shelter, and based on recent occupancy rates of about 250 per night, there is still space for additional people with appropriate physical distancing measures in place.
All shelters are following Alberta Public Health safety protocols and are providing 24/7 care to ensure that anyone seeking help has a safe place to stay, as well as providing meals, clothing, and essential services.
"We are balancing our response to COVID-19 and the need for access to shelter and services," says Sandra Clarkson, executive director of the DI. "We have installed plexiglass barriers in select sleeping quarters, are providing free face masks, and have arranged the shelter to promote physical distancing."
As per Alberta Public Health, Alpha House, the DI, and the Mustard Seed are among the many outbreak sites in Calgary. In response, all COVID positive clients are promptly referred to The Alex's Assisted Self-Isolation Site (ASIS), which provides care to the individual and helps reduce the spread to other clients and staff. The ASIS program operated by The Alex is for people experiencing homelessness who test positive for COVID-19, are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19, or have been in close contact with someone with COVID-19. The program has capacity to expand to accommodate up to 100 people and is currently supporting approximately 60 individuals. The number of people supported by ASIS fluctuates daily based on continual intakes and discharges as people complete their self-isolation period.
In compliance with Alberta Health Services guidelines, all shelters continue to operate as safely as possible and none of the shelters are at a point where they have to turn anyone away from their doors.
"We're working to the best of our ability to ensure every precaution and measure is taken to protect each individual coming through our doors," says Bill Nixon, Managing Director Calgary of The Mustard Seed. "We recently increased the capacity of our own Isolation Centre to 24 people. This allows us to continue helping those who need our services while also keeping symptomatic people away from the general shelter population."
Additional shelter space also continues to be sought out in partnership with the Calgary Drop-In Centre, City of Calgary, and Government of Alberta.
"As a community, it is our responsibility to ensure everyone who needs it has a safe place to stay," said Kathy Christiansen, executive director of Alpha House. "We will continue to collaborate across the sector to respond to the needs of those experiencing homelessness and to provide services as safely as possible."
If you see someone who looks to be in danger due to intoxication or being out in the cold, you are asked to please call Alpha House's DOAP (Downtown Outreach Addictions Partnership) Team at 403-998-7388. The DOAP Team are available 24/7 to help vulnerable Calgarians access shelter and other resources.
For media inquiries or more information, please contact:
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About Alpha House:
Alpha House Society provides shelter, detox, housing, and street outreach services to men and women whose lives have been impacted by alcohol or other drug dependencies. We work across a continuum of services to support client's individual needs and help them improve their circumstances.
About Calgary Drop-In Centre:
The Calgary Drop-In Centre (the DI) is more than an emergency shelter. We provide essential care as well as health services, employment training, and housing supports to people who need help. Our programs and services connect people to permanent housing that meets their individual needs.
Rooted in community and fueled by kindness, the DI proudly serves as part of the Homeless-Serving System of Care. For more information on how to volunteer, donate or otherwise make an impact, visit www.calgarydropin.ca.
About The Mustard Seed:
The Mustard Seed is a Christian non-profit organization that has been caring for men, women, and children experiencing poverty and homelessness since 1984. The Mustard Seed provides a supportive haven where we help the whole person through delivering basic services, housing, health and wellness services, employment programs, and partner with the community to address the root causes of poverty. TheSeed.ca
About The Alex Community Health Centre:
The Alex provides thoughtful, comprehensive health and social care to Calgarians facing poverty, trauma, food insecurity, housing instability and addiction, and helps them on their journey from crisis to wellness and from challenge to change.
Calgary Drop-In Centre's Free Goods Program welcomes all people in need, including those new to Canada
Outcomes of the DI's Housing and Resource Day


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Another major development planned for West Chiswick area
West Chiswick and Gunnersbury Society urge local residents to send objections to the new development on Power Road immediately
Members of the local amenity group, the West Chiswick and Gunnersbury Society were shocked to discover that a nine storey development was being planned on the north corner of Power Road and Gunnersbury Avenue.
The planning notice was published in a local newspaper and notifications were sent to a handful of local residences, but many people living in the vicinity did not become aware of the development until after the official deadline for making comment. Planning officers have extended the deadline to allow for late objections. Local residents intending to make a comment on the development should contact planning officers as soon as possible. Details of how to do so are on the link at the end of this page.
The application is to demolish existing two storey structure and construct a car showroom with associated car parking on ground and mezzanine floors, with basement car parking area; 60 two bedroom flats and 169 one bedroom flats. It is listed as a six storey building but the local residents' group believes that the building will be the equivalent of nine storeys high.
The residential units will be for key workers in the National Health Service.
The West Chiswick and Gunnersbury Society is urging people to object to the development. A spokesperson for the society has said. "We're not objecting to its mainly residential use but the size and scale of the development dominating the local area." The society has prepared a list of reasons to object to the application compiled by chairman Terry Thorn.
Objections were supposed to be received by 13th January but Ian Draper of Hounslow Council's planning department has advised the society that objections received now would be considered. He said that notice of the development was only sent to a limited number of properties considered to be directly affected by the plans.
Information from West Chiswick and Gunnersbury Society on the development


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Austin Jenkins (born July 5, 1989) is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the NXT brand under the ring name Adam Cole. He is the leader of The Undisputed Era, alongside Bobby Fish, Kyle O'Reilly, and Roderick Strong.
In WWE, Cole is the first-ever NXT North American Champion and a former NXT Tag Team Champion; he held both titles concurrently in April 2018, making him the first double champion in NXT history. He is also the co-winner of the 2018 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic with O'Reilly. On June 1, Cole won the NXT Championship, where his reign became the longest in the promotion's history at 403 days; winning the title also made Cole the second NXT Triple Crown Champion.
Before signing with WWE in 2017, he was mostly known for his eight-years tenure with Ring of Honor (ROH) where he became the first-ever three-time ROH World Champion. In addition, he is a one-time ROH World Television Champion, and the winner of the 2014 ROH Survival of the Fittest tournament. Cole has also wrestled for several independent promotions, including Chikara, Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), where he is a former CZW World Junior Heavyweight Champion, and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), where he was a former PWG World Champion; he holds the records for longest reigns for both titles. He also worked in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he was part of the Bullet Club stable.
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Witnesses told deputies the man had assaulted a woman inside the house.
LEXINGTON COUNTY, S.C. — Lexington County deputies were involved in a shooting incident Saturday night with a man who they say barricaded himself inside a home with a shotgun after a civil dispute.
No one was struck during the gunfire inside a home in the 100 block of Mooring Lane, according to officials.
Deputies say they were trying to detain the man, identified as 61-year-old James William Level, after witnesses said he had assaulted a woman inside the house.
The man was transported by EMS for medical treatment. He's now been charged with pointing a firearm at a person and second degree assault and battery.
Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon has asked the S.C. Law Enforcement Division (SLED) to take the lead on the shooting investigation.
The shooting was the 17th officer involved shooting in South Carolina in 2019, according to SLED, and the first this year involving a deputy of the Lexington County Sheriff's Department. In 2018, there were 43 officer-involved shootings in South Carolina; three involved the Lexington County Sheriff's Department.


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Q: Slow-Roll: What is the energy of a scalar field transformed to due to Hubble friction? So, I've lately been reading about the Slow-Roll approximation of scalar fields. However - since I don't really know that much about cosmology - I have some trouble regarding the understanding of the Hubble friction term. If I understand it correctly, the scalar field dissipates energy due to Hubble friction which is caused by the expansion of the universe. But what I'm wondering about now is since there should be energy conservation: What is the energy being transformed to if the scalar field "loses" it?

A: As already explained in other answers and comments in General Relativity (GR) energy is not conserved. Some people and physicists say it is, it simply gets lost by the matter-energy and gained by the gravitational field, or viceversa; this is more pleasing to our sense of conservation of something, but it has problems in that the gravitational energy, is not defined covariantly, so it can change in different coordinate systems. The caveat is that you still can define a conserved energy when there is time symmetry (in GR, a timelike Killing vector), and you can define the total energy (but not energy density at each point in spacetime) for a spacetime that is asymptotically flat (the Bondi and ADM energies, ADM includes the gravitational energy, Bondi separates out that of gravitational waves). Since for most practical purposes you can approximate an isolated object as being in an asymptotically flat spacetime, you can calculate.
The phi dot term you ask about involves a dissipation of energy term that is in fact like that. As phi goes down its potential energy slope it looses energy and provides it to the universe's expansion. The meaning of Hubble friction is that it goes slower than it would without it, and it does that because the universe's fast expansion slows down the roll down. Like any friction, it slows things down: in the cases of the scalar field you wrote about it slows the fast roll it would normally do in a potential valley (down it to the minimum) to a slow roll, making the inflation (predicated on that scale field) take the amount of time needed to expand the universe by about 60 e foldings, as needed to explain its size and uniformity, which is what inflation explains. This was the change made by Linde as 'new inflation', that made inflation theory consistent. You could say it gave that energy up to gravity by expanding the universe, but that's what GR purists would rather you did not say, and you would just say that the the process created energy in the universe's expansion. It matters less the exact words, more that the math and predictions are the same either way. The fact is that it works ok in the equations if phi does what you have, and the universe's size increases exponentially. The friction is a little of a misnomer, it does slow the roll down, but as phi goes down the curve of potential energy to its minimum it gives up that energy towards the expansion.
In cosmology there are other cases of energy being gained or lost. Note that the cosmological spacetime is described, in the big, by the Roberston Walker metric, and it is not time symmetric, nor asymptotically flat, so energy is not (in the purist sense) conserved. Other cases: in the expansion of the universe the photons that make up the cosmic microwave background incur a red shift, where there are (roughly) the same number of photons, but each has a lower frequency, and this less energy. They lost energy. Similarly for any other radiative field. In Newtonian mechanics we'd say the gravitational potential energy picked up the kinetic energy given up by the photons. In GR the purists say energy was lost, others may say the gravitational field picked up the energy. Similarly for photons radiated as Hawking radiation from near a black hole, as they travel further away they get more and more red shifted, loose energy.
The important points are: careful with energy in GR, though it can be a physically powerful help also; and the scalar field as it slow rolls down its potential slope seems to be the best explanation we have for inflation and the symmetries of the observed universe.


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Sobyanin Likely to Be Inaugurated in 11 Days
Newly-elected Mayor Sergei Sobyanin could be inaugurated as soon as Sept. 20.
Moscow's charter states that an elected mayor must be inaugurated within 10 days of the election results being confirmed, an unidentified City Hall official told Interfax on Monday.
"If the Moscow City Elections Commission officially finalizes the election results on Tuesday, Sept. 10, then the inauguration will take place no later than Sept. 20," the official said.
The results will be finalized as soon as documents from all 127 territorial elections commissions have been received, the chairman of the Moscow City Elections Commission's said.
Asked for a specific date, the chairman said that the results would probably be finalized on Tuesday.
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Could Switzerland be a pioneer on Business and Human Rights?
Posted on April 29, 2015 by bslfaculty
The Swiss Amnesty International General Assembly took place this weekend in Lucerne and I was there with Elizabeth Umlas, as we are both members of the Swiss Business and Human Rights group. The central focus of the GA was on the regulation of multinational corporations (MNCs) and the popular initiative discussed in this article I wrote last week.
You will remember that the Swiss Coalition for Corporate Justice (SCCJ), with the involvement of more than 60 NGOs, asked the Swiss Federal Council to create the legal basis necessary to ensure that companies with their headquarters in Switzerland respect human rights and the environment globally.
The Coalition then made a decision to launch a popular initiative demanding mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence throughout the operations of Swiss business. The work to collect the 100,000 signatures required to request a binding referendum was a main focus at the Amnesty event this weekend- which began a few days ago..
A serious stakeholder discussion in Lucerne
The meeting began as we heard the testimony of Diana Fonseca concerning the impact of the mining operations of Glencore, a Swiss-based company, on her village in Colombia, the story of a village and villagers whose lives would never be the same again. Dr Michael Fahrbach , Head of Sustainability for Glencore then gave the company perspective on the issues.
A round table debate followed on the initiative to regulate Swiss multinational corporations, with the participation of a diverse stakeholder panel. Daniele Gosteli- Hauser, Head of Business and Human Rights, Amnesty International Switzerland; Dominique Biedermann CEO of Ethos ; Regina Amman, Head of Public Policy Switzerland, Syngenta and Dr Fahrbach of Glencore.
A Swiss legal framework to regulate companies
As might be expected, opinions differed in this debate with regards to the necessity of a Swiss legal framework to regulate Swiss MNEs. Both Ethos and Amnesty International feel the framework is vital and could strengthen Swiss companies working globally. The Rana Plaza disaster was evoked, as was the lack of progress in helping victims of the disaster and addressing corporations' responsibility for human rights abuses in their supply chains, although two years have already passed since the factory collapse in Bangladesh. Gosteli-Hause from Amnesty International stated clearly the need for legal regulation of multinationals, given that the law has not kept up with changes in the globalized business landscape.
Dominique Biedermann, discussed the inadequacy of company codes of conduct to deal with issues companies face; he felt more precision is needed for companies. "It is good for Swiss companies to provide goods which are of good quality and are, environmentally and socially sound" he said. For Mr Biedermann voluntary initiatives are not enough.
Amnesty's Daniele Gosteli Hauser feels the mandatory human rights due diligence initiative would lead to transparency for companies, which would provide a common legal base for everyone, both non-governmental organizations and companies. This would, she said, be an advantage for everyone.
Regina Amman of Syngenta and Michael Fahrbach from Glencore did not agree with this reasoning as they felt the Swiss law adequately regulates Swiss companies. Really? In view of the multitude of human rights abuses suffered every day, everywhere, as a result of corporate actions, I found this difficult to agree with.
A member of the audience asked a pertinent question, "Why are Swiss companies afraid to take responsibility in their own country for actions in other countries?" she wondered.
In my opinion, a legal framework would help everyone do business in a transparent, accountable and responsible way.
Let's be the pioneers, Switzerland. Let's show the world how business should be done. Let's set a good example for the rest of the world!
Mary Mayenfisch-Tobin, BCL, LL.M, Solicitor
This entry was posted in Corporate Responsibility, Ethics, Human Rights, Leadership & Management, Sustainability and tagged Amnesty International, Amnesty International Switzerland General Assembly 2015, Diana Fonseca, Ethos, Glencore, Michael Fahrback, Rana Plaza, Regina Amman, Syngenta by bslfaculty. Bookmark the permalink.
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Ian scott on April 29, 2017 at 21:57 said:
Switzerland should never be held up as an example of human rights. It history is too corrupt and it's present legal system still reflects that corrupt past.


THE headteacher of a Batley school has joined MP Tracy Brabin in calling for an end to education cuts which she believes are putting children's futures at risk.
Samantha Vickers, head at Upper Batley High School, says cuts are making it "practically impossible" to offer high levels of education.
Figures show that by 2020 Batley & Spen's 45 state-funded schools will be £4.36 million worse off in real terms than in 2015.
And across Kirklees as a whole, £6.2m will have been cut from school budgets.
Ms Vickers said: "Our staff team have worked tremendously hard in ensuring that despite a loss of funding there will be no loss of provision for our children.
"We refuse to cut our curriculum offer because subjects like art, music, design technology etc, offer valuable skills for learners but are also enriching learning experiences that inspire, motivate and engage young people.
"Staff have donated hours of their time, for free, in running after school classes, clubs, trips, visits, charity projects and other enrichment activities.
"Staff have even funded breakfast clubs and purchased uniform and equipment for our most vulnerable learners from their own pockets.
"Class sizes have increased and they cannot increase any further.
Batley & Spen MP Ms Brabin said the cuts are "putting unbelievable pressure on teachers, headteachers and support staff and putting our children's futures at risk".