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The School of Advanced Study is the UK's national research hub in the humanities and offers a world-class research environment to our research students. We run a range of research training programmes, open to all postgraduate students, as well as an active public engagement calendar. The School is part of the AHRC-funded London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP), through which we are able to offer a number of studentships in humanities disciplines. Our institutes also offer a range of bursaries and studentships for applicants on our programmes.
The Institute of English Studies (IES) occupies a position at the centre of the academic study of English in the United Kingdom. It is recognised nationally and internationally as a centre of excellence for its research activities, and in the provision of resources to the academic community as a whole. A vibrant, interdisciplinary research culture is fostered within the IES, and more broadly within the School of Advanced Study, part of the University of London, which provides a unique configuration of academic resources for postgraduate and postdoctoral research
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The Institute of English Studies offers doctoral research supervision in the following broad areas:
History of the book from the medieval period to the present
History of authorship
History of communication
History of publishing from 1800 to the present
History of readers and reading
Reception history
Modern literary manuscripts and genetic criticism
Textual scholarship, scholarly editing and digital humanities
Author-focused studies (e.g. J.M. Barrie, Chaucer, Dickens, T.S. Eliot, Scott Fitzgerald, Hardy, D.H. Lawrence, Melville, Shakespeare, R.L. Stevenson, Twain, W.B. Yeats)
Medieval manuscript studies and palaeography
Early modern print culture
Twentieth-century literature
Anglo-American Modernism
Anglo-Irish literature
Scottish literature
The Institute registers students for MPhil/PhD study only when principal supervision is offered by the staff listed below. It is, however, possible to arrange co-supervision with particular experts in the Colleges of the University of London, and, on occasion, with experts from institutions outside the University of London (e.g. the British Library) when such experts are also Teachers of the University of London. In cases where it is more appropriate for MPhil/PhD students to be registered at a College of the University, the Institute is happy to offer informal advice.
Professor Sarah Churchwell
Chair in Public Understanding of the Humanities
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I broadly supervise topics relating to the American novel of the long 20th century (Henry James to the present), and my methodologies focus on biographical criticism, reception history and literary history. I am particularly interested in the intersection of biography, authorship, celebrity and the marketplace.
Sarah Churchwell is Professorial Fellow in American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She received her MA and PhD in English and American literature from Princeton University, and her BA with honors in English literature from Vassar College. She is the author of Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and The Invention of The Great Gatsby and The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe, editor of Forgotten Fitzgerald: Echoes of a Lost America, and co-editor of Must-Read: Rediscovering the American Bestseller.
Her scholarly articles cover subjects including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and the cultural influence of the 1920s Her literary journalism has appeared widely, including in the Guardian, New Statesman, TLS, New York Times Book Review, Financial Times, Prospect, and many others.
She also comments regularly on arts, culture, and politics for UK television and radio, where appearances include Question Time, The Review Show, and Today. She has judged many literary prizes, including the 2008 Orange (now Bailey's) Prize for Women's Fiction, the 2014 Man Booker Prize, and was a co-winner of the 2015 Eccles British Library Writer's Award. She is currently writing a book about Henry James.
F. Scott Fitzgerald and his circle
Henry James and his circle
The American 1920s and 1930s
American modernism and the marketplace
American cinema in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s
Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
American bestsellers (from the 18th century to the present)
Professor Warwick Gould
Emeritus, Institute of English Studies
I am happy to supervise on a wide range of late nineteenth and early twentieth century topics, especially in the literature of the Irish Revival, and in the general field of the History of the Book.
Emeritus Professor Warwick Gould FRSL, FEA, FRSA is the Founder-Director of the Institute (1999-2013). He is a well-known scholar of W. B. Yeats, and Irish Literature in English in the late Victorian and early 20th century periods. His current projects include a new Textual Biography of Yeats's writings and, in collaboration, the standard commentary on Yeats's poems, while he continues to edit Yeats Annual (1983—).
He co-wrote (with the late Marjorie Reeves) Joachim of Fiore and the Myth of the Eternal Evangel in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Clarendon: 1987, rev. & enl., 2001), while his co-editions e.g., of Yeats's Mythologies (2005), The Secret Rose: Stories by W. B. Yeats: A Variorum Edition (1981; rev., augmented edition, 1992); The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats Vol II (1997) gesture to his continuing enthusiasm for supervising editorial theses as well as studies in Victorian Fin de siècle, 20th Century Irish Poetry and the History of the Book.
He has been honoured with the Cecil Oldman Memorial Medal for Bibliography and Textual Criticism and the British Academy President's Medal (2012).
Irish Book History
Authors-Publisher Relations,1870-1939
Australian Literature (and Patrick White)
Irish Publishing, 1886-1930
Fin de siècle Poetry,
19th Century Irish Radical Verse
19th Century Occult Publishing
20th Century Literary Theory
20th Century Literary Agenting
Dr Cynthia Johnston
Lecturer in Book History and Communications
My research interests include all aspects of medieval book culture with special interest on the development and transmission of decorative technique in western Europe during the thirteenth century. I am also in interested in the history of collections and collecting.
Dr Cynthia Johnston is the Course Tutor for the MA/MRes in the History of the Book at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study. She has an MA and MPhil from New York University in late Medieval Literature, a Master of Studies from Oxford University in Medieval Studies and a PhD in Manuscript Studies from IES. Professor Michelle Brown supervised her dissertation on the development of penflourished decorative styles in English manuscripts between 1180 and 1280.
Dr Johnston has curated two exhibitions on the industrialist collector of books and coins, R.E. Hart, and she heads the 'Academic Partnership' between the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, who hold Hart's collections, and IES.
I am happy to receive inquiries regarding PhD supervisions on late medieval book historical topics.
Dr Andrew Nash
Reader in Book History and Communications
I supervise topics relating to three broad areas: the history of books and publishing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the material contexts of Victorian and twentieth-century literature; and Scottish literature since 1750. My methodologies focus on literary criticism and history, bibliography and book history, and manuscript and archive studies, especially publishers' and book trade archives.
Andrew Nash is Reader in Book History and Communications. He was formerly Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading. His research interests include book and publishing history from the nineteenth-century to the present, Victorian literature, and Scottish literature and he welcomes proposals from potential research students in each of these broad areas. Specific interests include: author/publisher relations and the history of authorship 1850 to the present; publishers' archives; the firm of Chatto & Windus; Victorian popular fiction; and nineteenth- and twentieth-century Scottish literature, especially the work of J.M. Barrie, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Muriel Spark.
Andrew's publications include the monographs William Clark Russell and the Victorian Nautical Novel: Gender, Genre and the Marketplace (2014) and Kailyard and Scottish Literature (2007), as well as several edited and co-edited collections including The Culture of Collected Editions (2003), Literary Cultures and the Material Book (2007), New Directions in the History of the Novel (2014) and Gateway to the Modern: Resituating J.M. Barrie (2014). He has recently contributed essays on the material history of the novel to volumes 4 and 7 of the Oxford History of the Novel in English. He is currently working on a book on Grub Street Authors and the Fiction Market, 1870-1914, and (with Claire Squires and Ian Willison) completing the editing of Volume 7 of the Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, covering the period 1914 to the present.
The history of publishing from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century
The history and economics of authorship from the 1850s to the present
Victorian popular fiction
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Scottish fiction
The firm of Chatto & Windus
Maritime fiction and the history of the sea story
Modern literary archives and manuscripts
Dr Christopher Ohge
Lecturer in Digital Approaches to Literature, Institute of English Studies
E-mail | Research Profile
Christopher Ohge is Lecturer in Digital Approaches to Literature at the Institute of English Studies. From 2014 to 2017 he was an editor at the Mark Twain Papers and Project at the University of California, Berkeley, where his editorial credits included the third and final volume of the Autobiography of Mark Twain, a digital letters edition entitled Mark Twain: April Fool, 1884, and the forthcoming critical edition of the Innocents Abroad. He also participated in the development of other digital texts at marktwainproject.org. He is a contributing editor on two digital projects, Melville's Marginalia Online and the Melville Electronic Library, for which he is co-editing a digital edition of Billy Budd, Sailor. His published work has appeared in Scholarly Editing, Critical Insights: Billy Budd, Sailor, Literary Imagination, Notes & Queries, and Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. He is currently working on a digital edition and network analysis of British anti-slavery writings.
Christopher would be interested in supervising doctoral projects on:
Scholarly editing, digital publishing, textual criticism, and bibliography (particularly of nineteenth and twentieth century literary texts)
Studies of Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Transcendentalism, and transatlantic romanticism
Text analysis and stylometry with the R programming language
Using "distant reading" to enhance "close reading" (and vice versa)
Network analysis and visualising social and literary networks
The impact of digital research on English studies
Professor Rick Rylance
Dean of the School of Advanced Study
My main research interests are in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and the intellectual and literary history of those periods. I have a particular interest in the history of psychology and the psychology of the reading process.
Before taking up the post of Dean of the School of Advanced Study, Professor Rick Rylance was Director at the Institute of English Studies, and before that he held the positions of AHRC Chief Executive and Head of the School of Arts, Languages and Literatures at the University of Exeter. Prior to moving to Exeter in 2003 he was Dean of Arts and Letters at the then Anglia Polytechnic University in Cambridge which he left as Dean of Arts and Letters.
His own research is in English and he was Chair of the English Sub-panel of the RAE 2008 and a member of Main Panel M (Languages and Literature). He was a founder member of the English Subject Centre's Advisory Board, a past chair of the Council of College and University English (CCUE), and is currently a member of the Higher Education Committee of the English Association. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in 1998 and a Founding Fellow of the English Association in 1999.
Dr Elizabeth Savage
Lecturer and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Book History and Communications
I supervise topics relating to the visual culture of books, historical book illustrations, and historical printing techniques and workshop practices 1400-1600, as well as the history of colour printing. My methodologies are object-based and draw on art history, bibliography, book history, and practical reconstructions at historically appropriate presses.
Dr Elizabeth Savage is Lecturer and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Book History and Communications. Her research explores how earliest printing techniques in the West shaped communication, both in text and image, 1400-1600. The early history of colour printing is a special interest. After taking a Gerda Henkel-funded PhD (Cambridge), she was Munby Fellow in Bibliography, Cambridge University Library. She has held fellowships at institutions including the Herzog August Bibliothek, the John Rylands Library, and the Warburg Institute, and she is a member of the Printing Historical Society's Publications Committee. In addition to the Wolfgang Ratjen Prize for distinguished research in the field of graphic art from the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte/Central Institute for Art History, Munich, her research has received awards from the Bibliographical Society of America and the American Printing Historical Association.
Dr Savage's recent academic curation includes exhibitions at the British Museum and Cambridge University Library. Her latest book, Printing Colour 1400-1700: Histories, Techniques, Functions and Receptions (2015), which she edited with Ad Stijnman, was recognised at the IFPDA Book Awards. Her next book is under contract with Oxford University Press, and she has published in journals including Apollo, the Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Print Quarterly, Printing History, and Journal of the Printing Historical Society.
Fifteenth-century print culture and incunable studies
Fifteenth- and sixteenth-century illustrations
Visual paratexts, including printer's devices and ornaments
The history of collecting printed material
Colour printing in the hand-press period, 1450-1830
Historical materials, techniques and workshop methods, especially in relief
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The way we deal with artificial intelligence-based voice assistants today is very different from that predicted by movies in recent years, which have even romanticized the relationship between man and machine.
The options available, created by giants like Google, Amazon and Apple, are still limited and quite robotic in terms of interaction, despite recent advances.
That's what Neon, a project linked to the Samsung-backed Star Labs group, wants to change. With just 4 months in operation, they came to the Consumer Electronic Show (CES), the technology fair in Las Vegas, to introduce the "artificial human".
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The idea behind Neon is to provide a more human interface to our interactions with technology – one that has genuine expressions, can show emotions and even react to certain situations, such as a crowded conference room, for example.
Neon Virtual Assistants, shown at CES – Photo: Thiago Lavado / G1
The name Neon itself is a kind of acronym for "Neo humaN", or new humans.
According to Pranav Mistry, director of the project and Star Labs, Neon doesn't have a brain yet, meaning it can't answer questions, interact in conversation, remember a person. The technology is based on video analysis and modeling to create a simulation with features that a person would have.
"Voice and intelligence could come from partner companies. We have the power of real time, "Mistry said during a presentation.
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Although the project is recent, Neon has been working since 2018 to develop a rendering algorithm called Core R3. The "R3" set is for reality, real time and response, characteristics that the team thinks are critical for an "artificial human" to get as close as possible to the interactions we have with other people.
If the "virtual humans" presented by Neon look like real people, it's because they were based on real people. The company has scanned the faces and reactions of people who exist to feed the neural algorithm, which must now be able to replicate millions of expressions and emotions – and also to build new faces.
Neon used real human figures to create virtual assistants – Photo: Thiago Lavado / G1
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Nevertheless, the company has shown that it can control expressions of artificial models with ease and precision, such as closing the eyes only partially, having different types of smiles, or raising eyebrows in different ways.
According to neuroscientist Angie Chiang, who is part of the project, the hardest part is getting technology to learn behaviors. "I don't have a single smile, tomorrow I may not say hi to you the same way," he said.
During the presentation, a connection map was shown, showing the millions of interaction options generated by the algorithm.
For Chiang, it is possible to change the way we currently communicate with personal assistants – usually for more mechanical tasks such as checking the weather or setting an alarm.
Chiang says there are several applications that the company considers for the platform, in areas such as hospitality, medicine, elderly care, customer service.
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Live 3D digital cinema transmission enabled by T-VIPS
Digital cinema has the potential to enable movie theatres to be used for much more than showing films - a potential that was fully exploited recently in Sweden, with the help of T-VIPS.
Ian McMurray ⋅ Apr 11, 2011
T-VIPS has announced that its TVG450 JPEG2000 Video Gateway helped make possible the live 3D transmission of Gounod's Faust from Stockholm's Folkoperan opera house to the city's Filmhuset digital cinema. The event was produced by Public Live AB, and T-VIPS' transport solution was chosen by technology provider TwentyFourSeven. Prominent guests at the live 3D opera premiere, included Sweden's Minister of Culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth and the Mayor of Stockholm, Sten Nordin.
The T-VIPS TVG450 JPEG2000 Gateway provides full resolution for both the left and right eye images, which maintains the quality of picture and the feeling of depth. "The TVG450 gateway was an obvious choice for this 3D contribution project," said Roger Allstedt, technical manager at TwentyFourSeven. "The visually lossless JPEG2000 compression solution with stereoscopic program-slave function ensured that outgoing left and right eye images and multi-channel audio were guaranteed to be in sync, which was critical for the success of the transmission and the viewer experience. The intuitive user interface made using the equipment very simple, which is important when you have a short time to set up the link and T-VIPS provided us with excellent support throughout the project. Technically the project was a complete success and the quality and reliability of T-VIPS' solution played a large part in that."
The transmission of the 3D opera content required a maximum bandwidth of 250Mbps and was sent over a fibre-based IP network.
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Fans Will Help Rate the Madden Rookies
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EA Sports is putting nearly everything about Madden NFL 11 up for a vote. First came the cover athlete, then the game's demo matchup. Now the ratings for first-year players will be based on community feedback.
Cover Candidates Announced for Madden NFL 11
A Doritos/EA Sports promo is giving fans the vote on who makes this year's Madden cover. The…
Peter Moore, the EA Sports boss, announced this on his official blog earlier today. Fans will have an advisory role - their word won't be final - but their opinions will still form a baseline when EA's ratings czars begin to tinker with player attributes once training camp begins.
How it will work, Moore said: On the day of the NFL Draft (it begins April 22), Donny Moore, the game's "ratings guru" will post what he believes should be the ratings for drafted rookies. Then fans can go to the Madden NFL official Web site and enter what they think each rookie's ratings should be. The average of the fan scores will then serve "as the player rating baseline for when training camp and pre-season begins," says Moore.
So, nothing commits EA Sports to a hard 87 Throwing Accuracy rating for Sam Bradford if enough Oklahoma alumni or St. Louis (or Washington) fans flood the voting and pump up their quarterback. That's the training camp baseline, and EA can bring that stat up or down to a more normal level between that time and the game's release.
But I'm not sure I like this. Certain attributes are just uncoachable - speed, throwing power and maybe, to a lesser degree, acceleration. Many of those can be backed up with objective data from the scouting combine. If enough people say CJ Spiller's a 99 in speed as a return man, is that where EA Sports will really start?
The inclusion of a subjective measure can work the other way. As we saw in comments on yesterday's post about Tim Tebow, plenty of people hate the former Florida quarterback. You can expect him to get rated 40 in everything by probably a majority of visitors. Is that really where they'll start?
This is similar to the reasons why I dislike putting All-Star rosters up to a vote of the fans. I think fans are even more uninformed, on the whole, about individual and team strengths than even the sports writers and poll voters. Sure, they have access to what Mel Kiper Jr. and other draft analysts have to say. But their opinions are definitely influenced by rivalries, thrills, grudges and other extraneous likes and dislikes. And that's fine, that's the definition of being a fan. I know I'm no legitimate appraiser of talent - in any sport. Most of my opinions are based on what other people say.
In the end, we're only talking about first-year players and only a few have any kind of game-breaking impact in the video game. It's also not clear how deep into the draft Moore will go in taking these kinds of suggestions. But it's a gimmicky ploy, and it opens this question: If it's easy to spot wild fan voting results, and we assume the EA Sports pros will discount them and adjust the measures, then what's the value of having the voting in the first place?
Connecting With Fans in New Ways [Peter Moore's Blog]


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U.S. Leadership's "Hands-Off" Saudi Arabia Policy + Failure to Connect Jihad To Islam = Pensacola's Slaughter – And More! Commentary By Adina Kutnicki
Posted on December 8, 2019 by Adina Kutnicki
AS always, whenever Allah's Muslim Terrorists (yes, those who slaughter infidels, including apostates, AND scream "Allahu Akbar ", Muhammad's war cry, leave no doubt that Jihad = Islam's main underpinning, hence, they are a bulls-eye definition of terrorists) prove that Islam's basis is totally incompatible with western civilization, reflexively, Islam's apologists dodge, spin, and weave along this twisted trajectory: so and so violated Islam's tenets and acted as a lone wolf! Hogwash.
EVEN so – and never mind what this counter-jihadist brings to the forefront – pay heed to the recently dispatched leader of ISIS, for he always told the truth about Islam's true underpinnings, that is….
NOT only that, western apologists (hailing from the far-left, in concert with CAIR, the Brotherhood Mafia's propagandists in America) are Allah-bent on confusing non-Muslims via Islamic-sanctioned taqiyya/tawriya/maruna/kitman-laced deception, meanwhile, redirecting the nihilism underlying Islam's roots!
AS such, it has become mandatory to set the Jihadi record straight through various avenues – one of which can be found within the following excerpted interview, as well as via others.
The viewpoint of ISIS echos throughout the Islamic world. Mawlana Abul Ala Mawdudi, founder of Pakistan's Islamic Fundamentalist Movement, which boasts hundreds of thousands of members, spoke openly and honestly about the religion of Islam.
"Islam is a revolutionary faith that comes to destroy any government made by man. Islam doesn't look for a nation to be in better condition than another nation. Islam doesn't care about the land or who own the land. The goal of Islam is to rule the entire world and submit all of mankind to the faith of Islam. Any nation or power in this world that tries to get in the way of that goal, Islam will fight and destroy."
NOW that that is settled – but before the specifics to the latest Jihadi slaughter are laid out – the question must be asked: since President Trump surely realizes which way the Islamic wind is blowing, how can it be that he stated the following balderdash, knowing full well that 9/11/01 took place under the sword and banner of Saudi Arabia – even though Iraq, Iran, and assorted Islamic nations lent material assistance?
'The King said that the Saudi people are greatly angered by the barbaric actions of the shooter, and that this person in no way shape or form represents the feelings of the Saudi people who love the American people,' Trump wrote.
KNOW this, too: nothing takes place on American soil re Saudi subjects without Saudi Intelligence agents catching wind of it. Similarly, who has been minding the FBI counter-terrorism/intelligence units – for have they learned nothing from 9/11/01 and onward? Keep reading….more on this charge-sheet below.
IN other words, wouldn't Pensacola's Jihad have been the exact time to stand tall and declare: starting now, the heretofore training of soldiers from Islamic-ruled nations will have to decamp elsewhere! No ifs, ands, or buts. Indeed, if any POTUS isn't afraid to buck the (swampy) status quo, it is Trump.
ON the flip side, by pretending as if the Wahhabi Kingdom isn't a sworn and implacable enemy, his administration (alongside other power brokers) ensures that many more American deaths by Islam's warriors will pile on. Be they on U.S. soil for military training; recently arrived, or longstanding immigrants; citizens by birth, or another variation, matters not a whit. Dead is dead.
PARADOXICALLY, it is due to Trump's energy-related economic genius that the nation is no longer dependent upon rulers whose mindset is still stuck in the 7th century of Mecca and Medina. Understood?
ONTO the specifics of Pensacola – and what didn't have to happen from the get-go!
AS expected, America's enemedia (Europe's, alike), akin to spinmeisters, keep repeating the same dangerous horse manure. Naturally, the terror-coddling NY Times sets the stage and the lede:
Officials Continue Investigating Gunman's Motive in Navy Base Attack
MORE pointedly, to further obfuscate and distance the Wahhabi-infused terrorist's "motives" from Islam, the following lede takes the cake, so to speak:
Saudi airman may have become radicalized before U.S. Navy base attack
YA THINK??
IN other words, if so-called journalists knew anything about Saudi Arabia in particular and political Islam's usage as a weaponized mechanism, they would realize that the Kingdom only allows their most loyal (most of whom are part of the royal family) foot soldiers into the Royal Saudi Air Force, as well as for overseas "training."
Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani opened fire (Dec. 7) at around 7am at the Naval Air Station Pensacola, which was immediately placed on lockdown.
Saudi pilot Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani is suspected of shooting dead three people at a US naval base
He also hosted a dinner party earlier in the week where he and three others watched mass shooting videos.
One of the students at the dinner party filmed outside the building while he went on the gun rampage as two others sat in the car with him, according to AP sources.
Sources added that ten Saudi students were being held on the base today, while several others were unaccounted for.
It was also reported that the FBI was examining social media posts and investigating whether he acted alone or was connected to any broader group.
Three people have been confirmed dead while eight others are being treated in hospital for injuries.
The gunman was shot and killed by deputies at the Florida base around 45 minutes after the start of the attack, Channel 3 News reported.
Florida state governor Ron DeSantis said the perpetrator was a member of the Saudi Air Force, later named as Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani.
He is believed to have been in the US as an aviation student, with reports saying he opened fire with a handgun in a classroom.
His training began in August 2017 and had been scheduled to conclude in August next year, CNN reported.
Investigators are now probing whether the incident was terror-related.
(UN) HOLY JIHAD, what's there "to think" about – as if the "incident" could be anything but terror-related!
ALSHAMRANI, akin to countless Jihadis, pre-announced his plan on social media, that is, to shed infidel blood! Imagine that. Most revealingly, Facebook and Twitter are the go-to addresses for Jihadis, yes, knowing full well that they won't be going against the "community standards" set forth so stringently for conservatives. Alas, he posted a lengthy Manifesto at 4:39 a.m. on Friday, less than two hours before the shooting. Go figure. Alshamrani's twitter snippet – now censored – by the "other" social media enabler of Islamic Jihad!
"O American people – I'm not against you for being American, I don't hate you because your freedoms, I hate you because every day you supporting, funding and committing crimes not only against Muslims but against humanity," the post read.
"What I see from America is the supporting of Israel which is invasion of Muslim countrie (sic), I see invasion of many countries by it's troops, I see Guantanamo Bay. I see cruise missiles, cluster bombs and UAV."
AND, did you know this, too:
Meet Twitter's second biggest shareholder, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
AS it happens, this writer co-authored a book (with Joe Newby) on the very subject at hand. It is more than related to the facts on the ground: BANNED: How Facebook Enables Militant Islamic Jihad spells it all out, in excruciating and brutal detail.
MOST significantly, one would have expected that the decision-makers (after all, the buck stops with them) within America's political and military hierarchy would have learned the following requisite and dual-based lessons from prior Jihadi attacks on the nation's installations – with Jihad at Fort Hood being the most well known.
AS such, Lesson Number One: a special notation to the military file of followers of Islam, discomfiting as it is (and regardless of their citizenship status in America), must be implemented. Simply put, they must be watched like hawks. It is what is. Lesson Number Two: the notion that military personnel are operating within GUN-FREE zones – even after others have died due to said Orwellian dictate – well, said directive smacks of both insanity and a total disregard for their welfare. If not, why not? More than negligent, too. So, isn't it fair to suggest: are (some of) the leaders trying to get them killed? But never mind. Arm them, post haste!
MORE than sitting ducks…..
AND while the poohbahs are at it, it is WAY past time to junk the following useless and toothless mantra – that which is trotted out after every Jihadi attack, this one included. It is as effective as a used condom when trying not to impregnate a woman, by pretending that the "swimmers" won't dare reach their destination. Sheesh.
IN plain speak, to assuage the public's fears that Jihad is, indeed, "manageable", all that is missing is to "say something, if you see something!" Like the garbage in, garbage out mantra that it is, military personnel and hapless citizens dare not be fooled. After all, what rational person doesn't know that suspicious activity should be reported? Come on…..
'The advisory also told leaders to remind their workforce to remain alert and if they see something, to say something by immediately reporting to appropriate authorities any suspicious activity they may observe,' Hatfield said.
ONCE again, not unlike a growing compendium of Jihadi attacks on U.S. soil, the Feds are behind the eight ball, and working overtime to play catch-up!
FBI hunts missing Saudi servicemen linked to Pensacola shooting and probes shooter's trip to New York two days before as terror investigators are called in
DEAR reader, who recalls Orlando's Jihadi, Omar Mir Seddique Mateen? Well, his slaughter-fest (June 12, 2016) at the Pulse Gay Nightclub was not only the largest terror attack since 9/11/01, but he too posted a FULL Manifesto on Facebook beforehand – with shout-outs to ISIS, while he paused to reload! Not only that, the Feds could have easily prevented the massacre, too.
AS a matter of record, the Afterword within BANNED is titled: Jihad In Orlando: Facebook Takes Center Stage. What a coincidence. Not exactly.
AS excerpted, relative to the Feds….then as now:
…..In 2014, the FBI hauled Mateen in again over a connection with Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha, a twenty-two-year old Palestinian American. They had grown up together in the small Florida coastal town of Fort Pierce. Abu Salha went off to Syria, joined al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front and killed himself in a suicide attack by driving a massive truck bomb into a restaurant. Yet the FBI closed the file on Mateen after determining that the links between the two young Muslims did not warrant further inquiry. Compiling all the known data on the Orlando killer with the results of the FBI interviews with him would have placed him high on the list of suspects and called in for further questioning.
The oversight of United States law enforcement, intelligence, and security agencies recur each time Islamist terrorists strike. The Ramadan 2016 attack in Orlando showed that no lessons had been learned from the lapses that led to September 11, 2001.
The FBI erred gravely in closing the case over the Mateen connection with the Palestinian American suicide bomber. This explains why senior FBI officials are downplaying the importance of that connection. When he was exculpated, the federal authorities also discontinued electronic surveillance of the terrorist's movements. So they missed his mounting extremism, his frequent attendance at a mosque led by a radical Imam, who regularly incited his flock to murder! Moreover, he kept his Security Officer's ID, which gave him access to secure government sites. He was licensed to carry firearms…….continue reading the whole security disaster here…..
FOR the time being, a patriotic ALERT and a DISPATCH from…..
Dave Gaubatz, a retired federal agent who worked for the (AFOSI/Air Force Office of Special Investigations), routinely had to track down foreign military students assigned to Air Force bases for technical training who suddenly would just disappear from the installations and were never found. Most were from Saudi Arabia and Iran. They were considered people these countries sent to America to become spies against us. They would vanish, and some were later found to have taken up new identifications and complete backgrounds. They were instructed by Saudi Arabia and Iran to spy on U.S. military installations because they had the background of U.S. bases and knew how to get around on a base and interact with U.S. military personnel. Many Saudi students are sent to Kirkland AFB, NM, for technical training in various scientific fields, to include nuclear programs. Kirkland is home to the world's largest nuclear storage facilities. It is not uncommon for foreigners to be found walking within a hundred yards of the nuclear weapons. (He served three plus years at Kirkland AFB, and it was a common problem trying to keep foreign students away from the nuclear weapons areas. A + B….)
{MEMO to this site's readers: some Intel is making its way to these hands, that which, hopefully, will shine a sharper spotlight on the whys and wherefores of Pensacola's Jihadi – at least to those who are not blind as bats. In the interim, timing necessitated laying the groundwork via the above analysis. Stay tuned…..}
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boudicabpi2015 on December 9, 2019 at 4:49 pm said:
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Insecure DoD websites... has anyone checked them for having a nasty that's spewing spam? If they can't protect their websites, can they actually protect the country? Enquiring minds and all that.
Lack of encryption in this case doesn't necessarily mean a vulnerable website - it does, however, mean bad security practices and a distinct lack of giving a toss about the site visitors'privacy.
"it does, however, mean bad security practices"
No it doesn't. Seems you have swallowed a whole bunch of Google crap.
Had another phone call from web host yesterday wanting to sell me some SSL cert. Whining about lack of said site would cause it to be downgraded by Google search. Being as the site has no user login, no user commenting, no sales cart, and is linked to by Washington State University, University of Texas, University of North Carolina, Oxford University, National Academy of Science SF, National Academy of Science Mexico City, British Parliament, University College London, Natural History Museum London, Natural History Museum Venice, etc, etc, it is most likely not going to be downgraded unless Google want to degrade their search.
"CIO Dana Deasy, your certificate's from Akamai."
Is it just me or does this not make sense - Your certificate's what is from Akamai? Surely an extra apostrophe or missing "are"?
Your certificate is from Akamai.
"certificate's" is a valid abbreviation even though it only saves a 'space' key-stroke.
Re: "your certificate's from Akamai."
""certificate's" is a valid abbreviation even though it only saves a 'space' key-stroke."
In standard English, this generally happens only with a small number of conventional items, mostly involving verbs. Hence it is rather ambiguous.
No, in standard English, it almost always arises from the combination of a noun, and the verb 'is'.
Pronouns also work, and can appear with a plural form of 'to be' as in "They're coming to visit tomorrow."
The ship's already reached the dock.
There is very little ambiguity in the above sentences due to syntactic modification of the form.
Any ambiguity lies in unstated context or definitions of nouns, verbs, etc. which would exist regardless of the exact syntax used.
For example, 'He's had a good run' is ambiguous because of the uncertainty in the noun referenced by 'he' and the myriad of meanings of 'run' which could fit the sentence - there are over a hundred recognized meanings including nouns, verbs, and adjectives the last time I counted in a good dictionary (the full Oxford, in many volumes - it was a good break from many hours doing math).
It's not the syntax, it's the unstated definition and connotations that provide room to get confused.
In fact, the conversation of educated native speakers of English is rife with examples of such forms - and the speech of other people who have become familiar and facile with the language.
"No, in standard English, it almost always arises from the combination of a noun, and the verb 'is'."
All of your examples are terrible English. They would be downmarked on say essays or English papers as they cannot be easily differentiated from the possessive form and are therefore ambiguous and are not considered acceptable formal English.
I think it's time that the DoD stop using 3rd parties (especially akamai) for certs and ONLY issue their own. Browser makers will just have to get on board and recognize the DoD's root certs.
To be a CA you have to have a certain amount of transparency.
Putting the DoD in as a trusted root to all browsers worldwide is going to raise eyebrows.
It will literally allow them to pretend to be ANY secure website in the world (pinning etc. not withstanding).
I know I wouldn't be happy to accept a US military agency to have a certificate root on my machines, and I'm just a personal user. Can you imagine, say, the Chinese government allowing it?
What will happen is that browsers won't be able to put those roots in without MASSIVE backlash and potentially losing market share.
You want to be a CA? Be a CA and follow the same procedures as all the other CAs, including external audit of their security. I'm not at all sure the DoD would allow that to happen.
Yet perhaps you are happy to trust a built in certificate from this issuer?
which, on my browser, shows up as expired.
As far as I understand, having the CA certificate installed in the browser mainly automates (and with some browser/browser settings) enables site identity verification, key negotiation, and link encryption for sites using keys the CA signed. And any or all of the installed certificates can be disallowed at your option.
Why is self-signed such a bad idea ?
If the DoD creates a master certificate and all other military sites get theirs from the DoD, what's the problem ?
Trusted certificates only mean they have been signed by a Cert Authority that is recognized by a central organism and we've seen that go badly already.
I think it wouldn't be such a bad idea to have all military sites of a country have their own trusted authority. Sounds good from a security perspective, IMO.
Re: Why is self-signed such a bad idea ?
While your utopian idea is all well and good, the problem is that the largest PKI trust chain out there - which includes the most common Web browsers - doesn't recognise the DoD as a trusted root CA. So, you know, might want to fix that first - provided they can satisfy the other members that they're trustworthy.
Trust me, I'm a network engineer.
I don't know about you but the pile of bits in my browser that claim they trust each other etc... yeah I don't trust. And stuff that happened over the years with some - not exactly confidence inspiring as well.
Re: Trust me, I'm a network engineer.
Well I'm a whale biologist and I think you're right.
I'm a whale biologist and I think you're smelly ~ Whale Biologist!
I play Sombra in Overwatch and I agree with this statement.
"the problem is that the largest PKI trust chain out there - which includes the most common Web browsers - doesn't recognise the DoD as a trusted root CA"
sounds like "someone" didn't pay "someone else" enough PAYOLA to 'play in their sand box'.
Yeah, I bet it's POLITICAL. Well, my earlier suggestion was for the DoD to issue their own root certs (being their own root CA basically) _AND_ at the same time, if "the world" won't play, then they ISSUE THEIR OWN BROWSER, too.
While they're at it, I'd appreciate a firefox fork that had the "old school" interface (no flatso Australis, no hamburger, 3D looking buttons, nice colors). And, of course, one that ACCEPTS the DoD's CA.
"And, of course, one that ACCEPTS the DoD's CA."
Which you should be able to configure yourself, relatively easily. The only person you may hurt that way is yourself and anyone who uses one of your browser instances.
Some of us would rather have the trusted CAs a little more dependent on doing a good, reasonably honest job on pain of bankruptcy, rather than a single nation government body that has a definite set of agendas and funding independent of what they do with certs.
Please excuse me, but the fact that the largest whatever trust chain out there does not recognize DoD as a trusted root chain is neither here nor there. I'm not expecting anyones's browser to be happy about it, I'm expecting the people who need to access DoD websites to know that they're accessing the right ones.
Your remark tells me that browsers are basically beholden to the largest trust chain, which means that I can't trust who I choose to trust. For Joe User that may be a very good thing and I do not dispute that, but for specific military users, I'm not convinced that that is so useful.
"Your remark tells me that browsers are basically beholden to the largest trust chain, which means that I can't trust who I choose to trust."
Every time you trust another CA, you provide a pre-built conduit for MITM attacks. That's why the number of universally trusted CAs should be as small as is practicable for the majority of users.
If you belong to a specific subpopulation willing to trust a specific organizational CA, you can add their root cert to your browser and you're done. Organizations do it as a matter of course, to spy on secure web sessions originating from corporate or government machines... sometimes for operational purposes, sometimes for security purposes, but never, ever, ever for abusive purposes - just ask them.
I do not trust any browser with a locally added root cert to maintain privacy or security.
If you want privacy at the very least, boot into your own OS and use your own clean browser instance... far better to use your own computer and a VPN tunnel to the Internet outside your current local network, or wait till you are somewhere else if that is not practical.
Here we are looking at consolidating all the MITM decryption / re-encryption into specialized hacking boxes so all the different snooping tools - network monitor/recorder, intrusion prevention, loss prevention, policy based firewall, filter proxy, etc - don't have to do the same work repeatedly... we'll just put in a decrypted VLAN, and route the traffic through each in turn before packing it up again and wiping off the fingerprints.
Limiting automatically trusted CAs and certs id far better than exposing every browser user in the world to another attack vector.
"While your utopian idea is all well and good, the problem is that the largest PKI trust chain out there - which includes the most common Web browsers - doesn't recognise the DoD as a trusted root CA. So, you know, might want to fix that first - provided they can satisfy the other members that they're trustworthy."
DoD has operated an internal CA for quite a few years. They install the necessary stuff on machines used internally and for telework and provide the certificates for internally developed or operated applications. I do the same on my internal private network.
- To encrypt the connection to the endpoint.
- To verify that the endpoint is the intended recipient.
Self-signed combats the first but not the second.
Now that is an argument that I can understand.
I don't know whether the DoD root certificates (and there are a number) still are available publicly, but they used to be. If obtained in a reasonably secure way and installed manually in a browser, the second purpose also would be satisfied, I believe.
I recall doing that a number of years ago when I worked for DoD and they required most accesses to be made through their VPN using government owned and maintained equipment.
> but not the second.
A subtle point here that I suspect Lee understands but others may have missed.
The first point is more correctly stated as "To encrypt the connection to some endpoint". If you deliver your site over a self signed certificate, you cannot be sure that the self signed certificate presented to the browser is the one you sent. Here is the scenario in action.
1. Alice visits bob.com from Mallory's internet cafe.
2. Mallory intercepts the initial clienthello negotiation and sends a fake serverhello with a self signed bob.com certificate.
3. Simultaneously, Mallory does her own clienthello to the real* bob.com and negotiates everything from there.
4. When Mallory gets the response back from bob.com, she decrypts it with the negotiated session key between her and the real site, then re encrypts that stream with the session key she negotiated with Alice.
5. The process is reversed for sending any requests to the server.
Realise that neither Alice nor Bob see anything unusual in this interaction. Alice would be informed by a big red warning box in her browser that the certificate is untrusted. The problem in our scenario is that this is exactly the error she will see where communicating with bob.com without Mallory in the middle.
*A comment on real site in this context. Even Mallory could not know in this step whether another mitm exists between her and bob.com. It's turtles from there.
Maybe we need to convince Americans that Encryption is like a gun (maybe by calling it something like WEAPON (Website Ecryption to Add protection On the iNternet)). And that every american (website) needs to have a WEAPON to defend itself.
And since it's all about the protection offered by your gun, sorry WEAPON, and not about the having the biggest shiniest thing on the market, then we could be sure that every American website would suddenly implement the biggest strongest WEAPON it could have.
Then we can convince the Courts that the second amendment was really talking about online WEAPON's as well, and we can kill off the FBI's and NSA's attempt to back door and destroy encryption. We all win!
Get to it my American friends! Get to it!
I don't know whether to be offended by this or declare it Actually Pretty Funny.
I think I'll punt, and be offended instead by your use of an apostrophe in a plural. You cad!
"Maybe we need to convince Americans that Encryption is like a gun"
Back in the early 90's, it was. Exporting encryption technology carried restrictions such that "strong" encryption technology could not be exported. This resulted in a number of _BAD_ things, from 'weak' https in U.S.-written web browsers, to Korea's SEED encryption (which is ActiveX based among other BAD things).
So yeah, this paradigm of 'encryption as a weapon' - already tried, and the unintended consequences were just *BAD*.
You jest, but I do wonder if you may be on to something here.
I would submit to the Court that encryption has been subject to weapons export restrictions under US law in the past. In effect, it is already the stance of the US Government that encryption is a weapon. Further, the language of the Second Amendment (the bit about "a well-regulated Militia") makes it clear that the intent of its authors was to ensure the ability of citizens and individual States to resist tyranny. Communicating without governmental eavesdropping is clearly important to that ability.
How quickly they forget. Junger v. Daley, Bernstein v. United States, the PGP book, etc.
Thursday 24th May 2018 20:35 GMT G.Y.
Didn't IAF sent F-35 into battle recently?
So probably the F-35 state is better than the Pentagon IT?
It's probably hard for others in the DoD to take anything that comes out of OPM seriously (and by extension, anything coming from D-Wyden and a former ACLU operative). Given, that OPM hosted the most colossal national security breach of all time when Chinese intelligence hacked its entire excruciatingly detailed data-base of all U.S. govt. security-clearance holders past and present (21M) - during which the head of OPM continued to tour and sing the praises of "diversity-hiring" in her agency - the agency has a credibility problem of its own. Many probably see its high-minded attempts to secure admittedly sloppy security in the DoD as more of a diversion than a serious attempt to effectively remedy the problem.
"prove their authenticity ... and consider Let's Encrypt certificates"
This is from Ron WhyDumb? It will *not* proceed well. It will get up off the ground, travel a short distance in a straight line and collide with the best of intentions before discharging all weapons into Rons feet.
They also need to be checked. I think the reasons why are obvious.
There is usually plenty of language in the prime contracts to ensure contractors are secure -- and apply penalties -- but can that alone be, ahem, trusted?
Wyden has been consistently pushing tech issues, and pushing them in the right direction. He got my vote in 2016 and, so far, he is going to get it again in 2022.
In the US we rely on the Senate to push the Federal government in the right direction - the senators have six year terms compared to the president's four and they tend to gravitate to fixed and fairly representative positions as a result.
Whatever the "abolish the government" part of the Republican party may say there are real parts of the government that can actually be fixed and, in that respect, it's not different to the UK government. Government website security *and* accessibility are real issues that have to be fixed in both countries. That really is the job of the Senate in the US (not sure who is responsible in the UK, last I knew you were using Round Tuit's).


It's not everyone's idea of a great afternoon out but for Lambeth Greens it was an absorbing way to asses the scale of the problem. The ethics involved of exporting our plastic waste to China, the health and safety difficulty of food recycling and the pros and cons of the incinerator in Bellevedere, Kent, were discussed. There is a growing willingness to recycle and we're getting better at it. But it is clear that more education is needed (particularly for adults; children are getting the hang of it in schools) and above all else, manufacturers and retailers need to be reducing the amount of packaging that can only end up as landfill. We have no time to waste.


Protesters interrupted a Bruin Day event held for thousands of incoming students by chanting "Stop protecting sexual harassers" and "Stop protecting Piterberg," in Pauley Pavilion on Saturday morning.
About 15 people stood up with banners, including one that read "#firepiterberg," during Chancellor Gene Block and Undergraduate Students Association Council President Danny Siegel's addresses to incoming students at the annual University Welcome.
The protesters chanted for less than five minutes before being asked to leave by Pauley Pavilion security staff.
Members of Bruins Against Sexual Harassment, or BASH, and some members of United Auto Workers 2865, the union that represents academic student workers across all University of California campuses, organized the protest to inform incoming students and their families about sexual harassment cases at UCLA.
BASH members have protested several times in professor Gabriel Piterberg's class. Two graduate students accused Piterberg of sexually harassing them and settled a lawsuit against the university in September 2016 for not properly handling their complaint.
BASH members and several other students have said they do not think UCLA gave Piterberg the appropriate punishment.
Additionally, in February the UC released documents detailing more than 100 cases of UC faculty and staff who were found responsible for sexual harassment.
"We've been trying to get UCLA's attention and a meeting with Gene Block," said Alli Carlisle, BASH member and a graduate student in Spanish and Portuguese. "We thought this was a good way to get this attention and to also alert families."
The protesters handed out flyers outside Pauley Pavilion as students and families left the building.


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Special Advertising Feature: Located next to the tranquil Sembawang Park, Watercove, a freehold seafront strata landed housing development (last 3 houses for sale) by Bukit Sembawang Estates Limited, offers the perfect blend of landed and condominium lifestyles right next to the sea.
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It is rare to find seafront landed living in Singapore, apart from Sentosa Cove, a resort-like residential neighbourhood located in the southeast corner of Sentosa Island—home to a handful of grandiose bungalows and apartments that cost a fortune. If you'd love to own a home by the sea, Bukit Sembawang Estates' Watercove is the choice.
Nestled within the quaint Sembawang estate along Wak Hassan Drive, strewn with verdant expanse of green, this rare strata freehold development project with direct seafront access is away from the hustle and bustle of daily urban life, making it the ideal abode for those who desire to live away from the city and close to nature.
Cluster Housing Offers The Best Of Both Worlds: Privacy And Convenience
Another notable feature of Watercove that is set to attract buyers is that it is a low-rise strata landed housing project. Strata landed are hugely popular among discerning home buyers as residents can look forward to living in an exclusive development that offers 24-hour security, well-maintained gardens, and an array of lifestyle amenities—similar to condominiums, without compromising on the privacy and spaciousness they would get from living in a landed property.
An Unrivalled Living Experience
The houses at Watercove range from 3,337 sq ft to 3,498 sq ft in floor area, each home is spacious and has been designed to offer an unrivalled seafront experience, featuring four and five ensuite bedrooms outfitted with top-of-the-line fittings and finishes, a private lift, a covered car porch, and more.
Limited Supply And Attractive Rental Yields
According to analysts, the supply of strata landed developments in Singapore, both future and current, is limited, hence demand is expected to be strong as buyers view this type of housing as assets with strong investment potential.
So for home buyers and investors looking for a strata landed home, whether for investment or residential living, Watercove will no doubt make an excellent choice as it is one of the last freehold strata landed homes in Singapore located near the sea.
Great Investment Potential
The appeal of Watercove as an investment property is further strengthened by its unique location next to Sembawang Park, near the sea. In fact, the Watercove is the first freehold development to be launched in Sembawang in more than 10 years, which has fueled pent-up demand for residential projects in this part of Singapore.
Unlike in the 1960s, when Sembawang was mainly known for being a commercial dockyard, the area has since been extensively developed in the last few decades, and now houses a vibrant public housing estate. The new town also features many communal facilities, such as the Sembawang MRT station, Sembawang Bus Interchange, shopping malls and schools.
The allure of Sembawang is further enhanced by its proximity to nearby industrial clusters such as Woodlands Regional Centre, Seletar Regional Centre, Punggol Creative Cluster and Learning Corridor, and the upcoming Seletar Aerospace Park.
The underway Seletar Aerospace Park, which is envisioned to be a world-class dedicated aerospace regional facility, is expected to create about 10,000 jobs upon its projected completion later this year, while the Woodlands Regional Centre, which is part of a larger commercial belt called the North Coast Innovation Corridor, will house the first business park cluster in Singapore's northern area.
Envisioned to be a commercial hotspot, the North Coast Innovation Corridor, which in tandem with the future cross-border rail link into Malaysia, will spawn a new generation of modern factories and innovation centres that will stretch from Woodlands Regional Centre, with more than 700,000 sqm of modern commercial space and more than 100ha of developable land. This will stretch to the Gambas area, and continue towards the east to Yishun, past the upper Seletar Reservoir, into the Seletar Aerospace Hub, and will continue towards the east to join the Punggol Creative Cluster and Learning Corridor.
That is not all as the government has announced that Sembcorp Marine will be relocating all its Singapore shipyards to Tuas by 2024, as such, the waterfront will be redeveloped—possibly for both commercial and residential purposes—to be a part of the North Coast Innovation Corridor.
Smoother, Shorter Journeys
Apart from the new Canberra MRT station, which is set to open at the end of 2019, plans to enhance road infrastructure have also been unveiled so that current and future residents can look forward to faster and more convenient travel.
One of them is the North-South Expressway (NSE) – Singapore's 11th Expressway, which will reduce travelling time to and from the city. Set to be completed in 2020, the NSE will connect the city centre with towns along the north-south corridor – Woodlands, Sembawang, Yishun, Ang Mo Kio, Bishan and Toa Payoh – via 16 in-ramps and 17 out-ramps.
Another highlight is a new road network at Sembawang Neighbourhood 1, which will serve new developments in the area.
A Good Mix Of Nature And Modern Conveniences
Offering a good mix of nature and modern conveniences, Sembawang makes an ideal residential neighbourhood for those who seek privacy and tranquility, yet would also like to enjoy access to amenities.
The area is surrounded by an abundance of nature including Sembawang Park, Bottle Tree Village, Sungei Sembawang and Sembawang Hot Spring. And in the pipeline are two new wildlife parks: a brand new Bird Park and a new Rainforest Park, which will be a part of the new Mandai nature precinct.
According to Mandai Safari Park Holdings, the new Bird Park, which is set to open by 2020, will comprise nine large aviaries and will house one of the world's largest collection of birds. In addition, the new Bird Park will also feature a facility that focuses on breeding and researching endangered species from all over the world. The Rainforest Park, on the other hand, which is scheduled to open in 2023, will not only offer visitors with access to a series of open spaces in the heart of Mandai, but it will also offer an indoor nature-themed education centre focusing on raising awareness and appreciation of the region's biodiversity and natural heritage.
For shopping, dining and entertainment pursuits, there are plenty of options such as Sembawang Shopping Centre, Sun Plaza Shopping Mall, Chong Pang City, Causeway Point and Northpoint Shopping Mall.
Families with school-going children will also appreciate the convenience of the location, with a handful of reputable educational institutions including Chongfu Primary School, Canberra Primary School, Admiralty Primary School, Yishun Town Secondary School, Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary School, and Yishun Junior College, located just a short drive away.
Transformation Through The Years
Plans to develop Sembawang were first mentioned in the Urban Redevelopment Authority's (URA) Planning Report in 1996. This Development Guide Plan, with the aid of zoning maps, highlights the various land zoning proposals, which eventually led to the creation of Sembawang New Town. Over the past two and a half decades, Sembawang has undergone huge transformation and now plays host to a vibrant public housing estate. The new town also contains some of the most communal facilities found in Singapore, such as the Sembawang MRT station, Sembawang Bus Interchange, shopping malls, and primary schools.
Improvements On Housing And Amenities
As a growing town, Sembawang will continue to be developed with more amenities, transport infrastructure and housing for its residents. Potential homeowners can look forward to more housing choices as new areas in the south and the east of Sembawang will be developed progressively.
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Federal Govt To Spend N500bn On East-West Road
by David Aduge-Ani
Federal government said it would spend over half a trillion naira to complete the section I-V of the East-West Road, which spans across five states of Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Cross River.
The permanent secretary, Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Dr Babayo Ardo, disclosed this yesterday, in Uyo Akwa Ibom State, in a keynote address at the stakeholders' validation workshop on "Access Management and Mitigation Action Plan."
In a statement by the director of press and public relations of the ministry, Deworitshe Patricia, Ardo stated that the dual carriage way which is designed to function as a regional spine on the East-West axis would promote unimpeded movement of goods and passengers in the Niger Delta region.
Represented by the director, housing and urban development department in the ministry, Michael Oloruntola Olufemi, the permanent secretary noted that the three inter connected essential parts of the complementary programme for the East-West Road would include "Access Management and Mitigation Action Plan; Corridor Development Plan and Collaboration; and Corridor Preservation Project."
He stated that the East-West Road corridor, like most other federal roads in Nigeria, is being impacted by settlement developments in many towns and cities along it, which includes Ughelli, Patani, Port Harcourt and Eket.
"It is for this reason that the ministry birthed the complementary programme to rally collective efforts to plan, protect and manage the road corridor to curtail the natural tendencies of settlement growths towards it.
This would ensure that goals, targets and Return on Investment (ROI) envisaged from the road development are not diminished or lost."
In order to facilitate the achievement of the desired aspiration of the corridor, the permanent secretary urged all stakeholders to play their roles singularly and collectively, while states should take proactive steps based on the recommendations contained in the report.
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CAN Makes Case For The Physically-challenged
PDP Members Defect To APC In Rivers


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Migrant and refugee organisations
Kōrero: Migrant and refugee organisations
Highland Games, Diwali, eisteddfods and White Sunday celebrations are some of the visible signs of migrant groups keeping their cultures alive in New Zealand. In the 19th century Scottish, Welsh, Irish and Chinese immigrants formed organisations to maintain their traditions and support their members. By the 21st century there was a huge range of migrant and refugee organisations.
Te āhua nui: Ethiopian refugee Nigisti Gebremeskel of the Mt Roskill Youth Wellbeing Project
Early migrant organisations
Later migrant organisations
Refugee organisations
Tung Jung Association building
Cambrian Society, 1937
Dunedin Hibernian Society, 1873
Turakina Highland Games, 2007
India Festival, 2010
Migrants or refugees?
People from overseas settle in New Zealand as migrants or refugees.
Migrants choose to leave their homeland and move to another country.
Refugees flee their homeland because of a crisis such as war or repression. They have little choice about where to move to, and may arrive with few possessions, sometimes after suffering greatly.
Migrants and refugees may find it difficult and confusing to live in a new country. They may not speak English well, and some New Zealanders are not welcoming. Migrant and refugee organisations help people keep their culture and traditions alive, and support them as they adjust to life in New Zealand.
Scottish, Welsh and Irish migrants set up groups in New Zealand in the 19th century. The Scots held Highland Games, and the Welsh ran singing and poetry competitions called eisteddfods.
Chinese who came to New Zealand as gold miners set up informal groups to support one another. They lent money to poor or sick members and helped them return to China. The Tung Jung Association was formed in 1926.
Indian migrants set up the New Zealand Indian Central Association in 1926.
From the late 1930s numbers of Italians, Greeks, Yugoslavs, Germans and other Europeans came to New Zealand and set up their own organisations.
Pacific Islanders migrated to New Zealand from the late 1950s. They formed groups based around their churches.
From the 1990s more people came to New Zealand from Asia and Africa, and established support groups.
Some women migrants set up women's groups. Radio stations, newspapers and magazines have been set up by some groups.
Refugees often arrive in New Zealand with little money and few belongings. Some have been tortured or abused, and may have mental health problems. Refugees As Survivors New Zealand helps with mental health services and support for refugees from Afghanistan, Burma, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan and other countries. Four regional community groups also help refugees.
Whai muri: Page 1. Early migrant organisations Whai muri
Mark Derby, 'Migrant and refugee organisations', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/migrant-and-refugee-organisations (accessed 17 July 2019)
Story by Mark Derby, published 5 May 2011, reviewed & revised 22 May 2018
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