Besides coming in handy for YouTube, these types of software options can be utilized for downloading videos and other media content from websites such as for example DailyMotion, MySpace, Grooveshark, Google Videos and more. Give our list an once-over and decide if you'd switch to one of these rather than adhere to Keepvid.
First up is Orbit Downloader that may be employed for downloading WebM along with HTML5 videos on YouTube. The application centered on p2p and multi-source downloading technology, extends support to HTTP, FTP, HTTPS, RTMP and MMS protocols. It boasts of an easy-to-use interface and the entire package occupies not more than 2MB of space.
The next contender within our alternatives to Keepvid roster must certanly be useful to those who find themselves skeptical about downloading software with their computers. Video Grabber will not need to be installed in the local system because it enables you to save your favorite videos from most video sharing websites directly. All you're required to accomplish is navigate to the official website, enter a video's URL and hit on 'grab it.' The utility finds the necessary video and offers you a choice to truly save it. You are able to download videos from websites like YouTube, gemonline.tv, DailyMotion, blip.tv and many more.
Designed for Windows XP SP3, Vista and 7 systems, this choice produced by DVDVideoSoft can be utilized to download a single video or perhaps a complete number of clips which could incorporate a user's channel, personal playlists, showlists and videos from YouTube charts amongst others. It combines simplicity with advanced downloading features and does not compromise on the quality of the media content. Moreover, it facilitates several other tasks such as for example multi-stream downloading, converting videos to formats like AVI, MP4 and WMV, customizing the output name and importing to iTunes amongst others.
Still another free software for Windows to have found a put on our lineup featuring software similar to Keepvid is ClipGrab. Although the compatible web portals listed for this software include YouTube, Clipfish, Collegehumor, DailyMotion, Sevenload, MyVideo, MySpass, Vimeo and Tudou, it even boasts of its power to 'unofficially'download media content from an array of other video sharing websites. You are able to decide to download hi-def clips and convert videos to WMV, MPEG4, OGG, Theora along with audio-only formats like MP3 and OGG Vorbis.
Apart from ClipGrab, people using Unix, Mac OS X or Windows can consider youtube-dl. It's a small command-line program capable of downloading videos from file sharing websites including YouTube. It needs Python Interpreter v2.5+ for the present time and will be suitable for version 3. This open source software can be modified by anyone capable to do so.
Whether it's a movie or an MP3 file you're after, Clipnabber Freecorder allows you to download such content from several websites, without charging you a single dime. It creates a similarly useful file converter and works together with both audio along with video formats including AVI, MP3, AVI and WMV.
Taking our compilation of alternatives to Keepvid further is Freemake Video Downloader that is lacking anytime constraints, feature limitations or hidden costs. Along with saving original videos on the local drive from websites like YouTube, Facebook, DailyMotion and Vimeo, it offers you the option to extract the initial audio from these videos too.
If the name doesn't already give it away, allow us to inform you that DownloadHelper is developed in order to assist you with downloading video clips. This Firefox extension works together with Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and is suitable for v3.0 to v13.0 of Firefox.


We stayed at the Maryhill Inn, which is in a tiny village just outside of St. Jacobs. Highly recommended! The rooms are gorgeous, the service is great, and the food is amazing!
Of course, we also checked out the flea market. There were a lot of amazing finds, but I find it hard to spend money at antique malls like these, as things are often marked pretty high. I did go home with an adorable table cloth (for $7...not bad).
On our way out of town, we pulled over to a grassy area beside a river, and took a nap in the sun. It was glorious.


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This recall was issued on May 11, 2010 for 2010 Ford Ranger, manufactured by FORD MOTOR COMPANY, in response to Parking Brake,driveline,hydraulic,actuator problems.
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Videxio Announces Pexip-Powered Interoperability Service for Hangouts Meet by G Suite
By Let's Do Video on June 4, 2018 Press Release
Videxio partners with Pexip to help break down communication silos by offering a cloud-based service for video conferencing interoperability for Hangouts Meet
June 4, 2018, Oslo – Videxio is a provider of cloud video collaboration solutions for companies and organizations of all sizes, from start-ups to large enterprises. One of the key benefits of the Videxio service is the level of interoperability it provides to those utilizing videoconferencing solutions on different platforms and devices, ensuring maximum return on investment for videoconferencing users. Videxio is delighted to announce that it has signed an agreement with Google Cloud, in partnership with Pexip, and will be one of the first to offer video conferencing interoperability for Hangouts Meet.
The new Hangouts Meet interoperability service means that users will be able to join Hangouts Meet using their existing video communication solution, whether that be Skype for Business, videoconferencing systems from the likes of Cisco or Polycom, or Videxio clients for desktop and browsers including Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Apple Safari. The service is based on Pexip Infinity cloud technology and utilizes both the powerful Google Cloud Platform and the Videxio Midgard platform to ensure security, quality and reliability for users. The general release of the service is scheduled for 20th June 2018.
"Hangouts Meet is designed to provide our customers with frictionless meetings. We are excited to work with Videxio to bring a cloud interoperability managed service utilizing Google Cloud Platform and Pexip Infinity to make it easy and fast for customers to enable interoperability with their existing infrastructure," said Rany Ng, Director of Product Management at Google.
"In partnership with Pexip, we are delighted to be chosen as one of the first companies to provide interoperability as a managed service between Hangouts Meet and other existing video capable meeting solutions. We believe that this provides an excellent opportunity for our existing partners, opens up opportunities for us with Google Cloud partners and provides an important service for users, extending videoconferencing interoperability to a whole new audience. With no complex technical setup required, companies can enjoy interoperability in seconds," says Tom-Erik Lia, CEO and Co-Founder of Videxio.
"Pexip Infinity was designed for this very purpose – as an interoperable and easy-to-use video collaboration platform that runs in the cloud," said Odd Sverre Østlie, Pexip CEO. "Our recent announcement of interoperability capabilities for Hangouts Meet is a major step forward in bringing communications solutions together, and it is great to see it being deployed and made available as part of the Videxio cloud service."
About Videxio
Videxio is a video service provider. Through our reseller partners, we make it easy for organizations of any size to use professional video communications. The Company has users in more than 195 countries and 12,000 cities across the globe. The unique architecture and operation of Videxio's cloud-based service allows individual users and businesses to be operational in minutes. Videxio has head office locations in Oslo, Norway, and Reston VA USA and sales offices across the world. To learn more, visit www.videxio.com.
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Q: The Wronskian are the same that det $\Phi$ I need to show that for a scalar equation:
$$a_0(t)y^{(n)}+\cdot\cdot\cdot+a_n(t)y=0 $$
where $a_0,a_1,...,a_n$ are continuous on I, and $a_0(t)\neq0$, $\det\Phi$ is the same that the Wronskian, i proved that the wronskian satisfy the Abel's identity (is sufficient?), and i proved this for $n=2$, but i don't have idea how to generalizate, thanks for the help.

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SA Select Women excited about Spanish challenge
Springbok Women's coach Stanley Raubenheimer and assistant coach Lungisa Kama shared the players' excitement ahead of Saturday's match between the SA Select and Spain Invitational XV in Despatch and looked forward to seeing the youngsters in action.
The team will be coached by Kama and fellow Springbok Women's assistant coach, Eddie Myners.
An expanded squad consisting of Springbok Women's and SA Select players gathered in Port Elizabeth on Sunday to begin their preparations for Saturday's match and the Bok Women's Test against Spain on Saturday 21 September. Both these matches will both be hosted at the WJ de Wet Stadium in Despatch.
"We had our first training session on Monday and the conditioning aspect was quite challenging for some of the new players, as they are not used to training at this intensity," said Raubenheimer.
"But it is important that we expose them to what is expected at this level, so they know what they have to work towards. That said, it has been pleasing to see them bite the bullet and push through, and it is a good start for them.
"This is a fantastic opportunity for the young players to stake a claim for places in the Test team in future, and I am really excited to see what they have to offer."
Kama was also pleased with the progress the players were making in camp and said: "Our training is going well and the vibe in the squad is good. Some of the women are here for the first time and they are excited to be part of the group, so I have no doubt they will use this opportunity to grow as players and learn as much as possible."
With only a week to prepare the squad, Kama said the focus in the next few days will be on the structures and sharpening up on the players' basic skills.
"We have limited time to prepare the squad so the keys for us this week are to fine-tune the basic skills and ensure that we can implement that effectively on the field. Our game plan in general will be quite simple, as we would like to get the best out of these skillful youngsters," he said.
Kama said there were two objectives for the team going into Saturday's friendly.
"One of the main goals with the selection of this team was to have an opportunity to work with the younger players and see who has the potential to play at a higher level," said Kama.
"But we would also like to win the match and prove that although this is an SA Select team we have good talent coming through.
"Having played against Spain in the UK last year we have an idea of what to expect from their Invitational XV going into the game, but the key for us will be to implement our structures well and hopefully we will get the desired results. This match is a great opportunity for us to see what we have in the basket in terms of the talent on offer in SA."
Myners and Kama will name their match-day squad for the clash on Friday.
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Longtime NHL coach Mike Keenan hired by Chinese team
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MOSCOW (AP) Mike Keenan is taking charge of a Chinese hockey team.
The longtime NHL coach has been hired to lead Chinese club Kunlun Red Star, which competes in the Russia-based Kontinental Hockey League. Kunlun's aim is to develop Chinese players as the country builds a national team to compete at its first home Winter Olympics in 2022.
Keenan, who ended the New York Rangers' 54-year wait for a Stanley Cup title in 1994, has been instructed to ensure at least five Chinese players get regular ice time on a roster dominated by foreigners.
It's not Keenan's first job outside North America. In 2015, he became the first coach to win NHL and KHL titles when his Metallurg Magnitogorsk team won the KHL's Gagarin Cup.
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Welcome to Traveling To World: The Smooth way to World Discovery > Asia > Hidden Beauty in the Himalayas: Explore and Relax!
If we have one amazing opportunity in life, that is to travel around the world and discover its most amazing wonders on the highest peaks and in the best hidden places. Nothing feeds the body and mind more than the eagerness to reveal new mysteries and adopt a proper path towards further evolution every day.
The Himalayas are the perfect example of touristic attractions that manage to offer this amazing opportunity. The area waits to be discovered by everyone of us and its hidden beauty will offer our souls and mind exactly what they need to make us feel alive again. Let's see what we should explore while visiting the Himalayas during our next traveling adventure.
The highest mountains in the world seem to have been created with the purpose of reminding us how extraordinary life is when we are not too busy to notice it. Climbing the mountains in search of perfect tidings and hidden secrets will help us rediscover our purpose and achieve perfect relaxation for our mind and body.
Nature's peace flows into those who are eager to discover its hidden beauty through the sunshine and the trees. The wind blowing through their hair while letting their freshness run wild on the highest mountain peaks is a wonderful experience shared by tourists from around the world who have chosen to discover the hidden secrets of the Himalayas during their traveling adventures.
There are various amazing destinations you can visit in the area. You will discover everything in terms of climate, geographical features and vegetation variations there. Every place seems to be different from another and this creates the wonderful magic behind this touristic destination. If we add up to this game a wide range of tribes and locals who showcase their rich culture and heritage, we will achieve a perfectly wild and valuable adventure in the mountains.
One of the most attractive locations from the Himalayas is the Annapurna Himal of Nepal where tourists discover the wonders of the Machapuchare which means fish tail in Nepali. A trekking experience to the Annapurna Base Camp will offer you the chance to experience the magic behind wildlife and nature in general.
Being among the most impressive peak towers and on your way to the Sanctuary will prove to be un unforgettable experience for the seeker of mysteries that you are. The highest peak there is visible on sunny days from Pokara. Just let your imagination flow and allow your body to experience the natural adventure of climbing the highest mountain peaks during your next trip to the Himalayas and you will have a lot to share with friends when you come back home.
India is a place of hidden treasures and valuable cultural heritage waiting to be discovered by tourists from around the globe. If we combine the Indian experience with the secret adventure in the Himalayas this means that we have discovered the secrets behind the Garhwal Area.
Visiting the Shivling, a spectacular peak lying there will become the greatest new discovery in your life. The magic behind this place has only been discovered by those who have been on pilgrimage adventures in the Himalayas. Glimpses of this peak have also been revealed in the popular movie Meru that has turned into one of the best documentaries of the adjacent peak known under the same name.
The whole place is full of historic richness through its clear reference to the sacred Hindu of Shiva Linga. 1974 is the year when it was first climbed and since then, only some of the most passionate climbers have managed to win the battel against the steep rock faces.
Wise people always say that a life that was lived well is one in which the soul and mind of the human have discovered new secrets. The whole magic behind beauty relies on natural discoveries and amazing traveling adventures that reveal the wonders of the world on the highest mountain peaks. The Himalayan experience has been and will always remain the perfect choice for trekking adventures meant to change your life.
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Multiple Flaws in New Update to macOS Mojave's Privacy Protection
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Apple isn't always in the news for the wrong reasons. Unlike Google and Facebook, Apple has had little to no privacy breach complaints. It also doesn't have to deal with malicious apps on the App Store.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has said in the past that privacy is every user's moral right. Therefore, the company will never compromise it.
Apple is True to Its Word
True to that, Apple has rarely had complaints about tracking users or collecting their information without consent. Apps on the Apple App Store are also safer than the ones on the Google Play Store. Even the locking mechanism of every iPhone is foolproof.
However, recently Apple came under the scanner with the launch of the macOS update of Mojave 10.14 last year.
Ever since the launch, some researchers have been dedicated to the task of finding flaws with the new update. Most of them have been successful so far. This is embarrassing for Apple, which is one of those companies with few security issues; we know if there is a security breach how dangerous that can be.
Flaws are no big deal every time a software update is released. The flaws are either noticed at the very beginning or after people have been using the new update for some time. In Apple's Mojave update case, the flaws have been discovered in the beginning and newer flaws continue to be found.
Faulty Implementation
At the time of launch, a security researcher had found the first loophole in Apple's privacy protection implementations in macOS.
The researcher called Patrick Wardle had demonstrated in a video clip that the security in the new macOS can be easily bypassed to gain access to sensitive data, such as the address book.
Wardle also explained that he was able to get access to the confidential data using an unprivileged app that did not require administrator permissions. This shows the extent to which the new operating system has been lacking in security measures.
The bypass can be accessed by going to System Preferences, then selecting Security & Privacy and then selecting Privacy. This wasn't the only bypass, though. Soon enough, other bypasses followed, and all of them were addressed to Mojave.
Apple isn't one to take things lying down. It highly regards the security of users and immediately got down to fixing the issues.
But it seems like the issues just keep coming up. Last week, just when it seemed like Apple had taken care of the issue, a new flaw was discovered by StopTheMadness browser extension developer Jeff Johnson.
This flaw affects all versions of Mojave including the update that's been released only a few days ago.
This flaw also involves an unprivileged app without requiring admin permissions. According to Johnson, he could find a way to get to ~/Library/Safari without requiring to ask the system or user for any kind of permission.
This is a cause for concern; that directory should only be accessed by privileged apps that have explicit permission to do so.
The only limitation about the flaw was that it did not work for sandboxed apps that have been separated from critical system files and other programs. This bypass only seems to work for the apps that aren't sandboxed, and have been signed by a Developer ID after passing Apple's automated malware check.
In an interview, Johnson said he had found the issue while working on his own Safari extension using a different API.
More Than Just iOS
Apple has always been known to value the security and privacy of users and have also been applauded for its security measures in the past.
Needless to say, Apple isn't going to remain inactive about the flaws that keep arising with Mojave. However, the company could have too much on its plate right now.
Apple has taken all the flaws into consideration and has been trying to deal with them all at once. But it's proving to be challenging. The company has to channel the access of apps to sensitive content such as Mail, Messages, Cookies, and Suggestions using a consent layer without the process turning into a chore.
That means every time someone tries to access these folders, they will need to be authenticated. Users may soon become frustrated at having to provide consent to access even the basic stuff on their devices.
These new measures should also work seamlessly for older apps that were built at a time when software had an intrinsic right to access all the information it wanted without the need for consent.
How Close is Apple to Solving These Issues?
It turns out the problems keep getting bigger. For example, it is common knowledge that privacy protection is useless in stopping someone from bypassing it through the use of Secure Shell to localhost when remote login is enabled.
Again, a malicious app could also continuously invoke "tccutil" in order to reset the privacy settings until the user is frustrated with the barrage of dialogue boxes and gives up. These and more are issues require fixing by Apple as soon as possible.
Johnson reported that he had already brought the issues to Apple's attention. They will hopefully be fixed in the new update. However, when one issue is fixed, another arises. It remains to be seen exactly what issues future updates of Mojave give rise to. For better privacy and security while using Mojave, we recommend you take a look at our list of best VPNs for Mac.
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Whether you adore Hatsune Miku or you think she's a symbol of an eventual cyberpunk dystopia, you'd be ignorant to not come to terms with the fact that Hatsune Miku eclipses most popstars today with her lack of drug use and positive influence on teens.
Sega's long-running and eclectic rhythm series Project Diva found it's roots on the PSP and arcades, with Vita and PS3 releases eventually making their way to the states. The latest entry Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X is coming to both Vita and PS4 in English-speaking regions on, and the latter will even be including PSVR functionality at a later date.
However, in Japan, Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X is old news as Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone is the latest and greatest incarnation of the colorful music game. It's a cripplingly content-heavy port of the arcade game, featuring most if not all of the previous songs featured in all 6 of the previous games. And it's all in full 1080p with 60fps visuals.
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Security, defense discourse and identity in NATO and Europe : how France changed foreign policy / Falk Ostermann.
1. Introduction: Rediscovering Discourse and Identity in French Security and Defense Policy Excursus: General Characteristics of French Foreign Policy Discourse – Agents and Parties 2. Chirac's Failed NATO Reintegration – European Identity Confirmed 3. Sarkozy's Successful NATO Reintegration and the End of Ambivalence – Identity Change Starting 4. The Normalization of French CSDP Policies during the Libyan War – Identity Reconstructed 5. Conclusions 6. Epilogue: Continuity or Change with Hollande and Macron?


The latest release of Varnish Cache (6.1.0) is now available on Section, bringing about several new features and stability improvements, albeit minor in the words of Poul-Henning Kamp.
Section made this version of Varnish Cache available within our platform 2hrs after the source code release, further highlighting the speed and flexibility of the Section Edge Platform.
Since this article was published, there has been a new bug fix release, Varnish 6.1.1, introduced on October 26, 2018. This release is recommended for anyone running 6.1.0. Packages are available from the official repositories. There are no new features in this release, and no reconfiguration is necessary.
Since new users often forget to vcl.discard their old VCLs, they have added a warning when you have more than 100 VCLs loaded. There are parameters to set the threshold and decide what happens when it is exceeded (ignore/warn/error).
req.http.Host is now mandatory and requests are handled without it on the fast DoS avoidance path.
req.grace had been previously removed, but has been reintroduced, since there are use cases that cannot be solved without it. Similarly, req.ttl used to be deprecated and is now fully supported again.
The evaluation of the beresp.keep timer has changed a bit. keep sets a lifetime in the cache in addition to TTL for objects that can be validated by a 304 "Not Modified" response from the backend to a conditional request (with If-None-Match or If-Modified-Since). If an expired object is also out of grace time, then vcl_hit will no longer be called, so it is impossible to deliver the "keep" object in this case.
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View a complete list of changes and detailed upgrade documentation.
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\section{Introduction}
Microlensing experiments (Bennet et al. 1996; Alcock et al. 1996) might
indicate that roughly half of the mass in the halo of our Galaxy could be
made of white dwarfs (WDs). The existence of such large numbers of WDs, the
remnants of an earlier generation of halo stars, poses different problems.
One of them is that as shown, for instance, by Adams \& Laughlin (1996), the
initial mass function (IMF) of the parent population of those WDs should have
been very different from the IMF inferred for the galactic disk (see also
Chabrier, Segretain, \& M\'era 1997; Fields, Mathews, \& Schramm 1997).
Otherwise, the low--mass tail of the IMF would give red dwarfs much in excess
of their maximum allowed mass fraction in the halo (Graff \& Freese 1996)
while the high--mass end, by its metal production, would raise the initial
metallicity Z of the galactic disk much above any reasonable level (unless
the supernova products were ejected into the intergalactic medium). Far too
luminous galactic halos (which should be seen at high redshifts) would also
result from the large numbers of massive stars. From that double constraint,
Adams \& Laughlin (1996) deduce that the IMF of the WD progenitors should be
confined within the mass range $1 M_{\odot}\hbox{\lower .8ex\hbox{$\,\buildrel < \over\sim\,$}} M\hbox{\lower .8ex\hbox{$\,\buildrel < \over\sim\,$}} 8 M_{\odot}$,
and be sharply peaked about a characteristic mass $M_{C}\simeq 2.3
M_{\odot}$. Even with such a IMF, due to the fact that only a fraction of the
initial mass of the progenitor star stays trapped in the remnant WD, those
authors (see also Isern et al. 1997) conclude that most likely the WD
contribution to the halo mass should be 25\% or less, 50\% being an extreme
upper limit. More recently, Gibson \& Mould (1997) have examined the
production of C, N, and O by the intermediate--mass star progenitors of the
WDs. They find that the expected [C,N/O] ratios would be hard to reconcile
with those measured in Population II halo dwarfs. Difficulties with models of
WD--dominated halos are also pointed out by Venkatesan, Olinto, \& Truran
(1997). Earlier, Charlot \& Silk (1995) had set upper limits to the WD
fraction in galactic halos from the absence of the luminosity signature of
the WD progenitors in deep galaxy surveys. It should be stressed that mass
determinations from gravitational microlensing are still uncertain (Mao \&
Paczy\'nski 1996; Venkatesan, Olinto, \& Truran 1997). Thus, possible
incompatibilities with observational constraints must be taken into account
before concluding that star formation in the halo should have been very
different from that inferred for the disk.

In this {\it Letter} we look further into the problem of the metal enrichment
of the galactic disk and halo by the putative parent population of the WDs.
Massive stars ($M\hbox{\lower .8ex\hbox{$\,\buildrel > \over\sim\,$}} 8-10 M_{\odot}$) eject metals mostly at the end of
their lives, when they explode as supernovae due to the gravitational
collapse of their dense, fuel--exhausted cores. Phenomenologically, those are
Type II (hydrogen--rich) and Type Ib/Ic (hydrogen--devoid) supernovae. Their
progenitors are basically eliminated by adopting the IMF proposed by the
aforementioned authors. However, the very population of halo WDs should give
rise to another type of supernovae: thermonuclear supernovae
(phenomenologically Type Ia, lacking hydrogen in their spectra). Type Ia
supernovae (SNe Ia) are the explosions of some WDs (among those made of C+O)
which ignite when they are compressed by mass accretion from a close binary
companion. Those explosions yield an average of $\sim 0.6\ M_{\odot}$ of
iron, and it is estimated that they produce about 2/3 of the iron in the
galactic disk (Bravo et al. 1993; Woosley \& Weaver 1994), the other 1/3
coming from gravitational--collapse supernovae. Therefore, unless the binary
frequency in the halo were very low and/or the distribution of initial binary
parameters (mass ratios of the two components, binary periods) in the
progenitor population of the halo WDs would strongly suppress the formation
of close binary systems containing C+O WDs, one should expect a large
contribution to the iron contents of the disk from a massive WD halo.

In the following we derive the time evolution of the iron mass produced by
SNe Ia after an initial burst of star formation able to generate the
presumptive WD halo population without violating neither the red dwarf nor
the high--mass stars constraints. Whereas the gravitational--collapse
supernova rate can just be set equal to the massive star formation rate, the
thermonuclear supernova (SNe Ia) rate depends on the evolutionary path
assumed to produce the supernovae from a fraction of the close binary systems
containing C+O WDs, together with the adopted distributions of initial binary
parameters. We will thus discuss the dependence from those hypotheses of the
iron production constraint on the mass fraction of WDs in the halo. We will
see that in most cases the iron enrichment from SNe Ia would be incompatible
with any substantial contribution of WDs to the halo dark matter. In the
remaining cases, the exceedingly high SNe Ia rate predicted for the present
time does also indicate that the mass fraction of the galactic halo in the
form of WDs should be much smaller than that suggested from microlensing
experiments. A further restriction to the hypothesis of particular IMFs
giving rise to a large halo WD population comes from the comparison of the
predicted spread in the iron abundances and the inferred $[O/Fe]$ ratios for
Population II halo dwarfs with observational data.

\section{Modeling, Results, and Discussion}
We will assume that the parent population of the halo WDs forms in a burst
lasting $\sim$ 1 Gyr, with a IMF of the form:

$$ln f(ln\ M) = A - {1\over 2\langle\sigma\rangle^{2}}\left[ln\left({M\over
M_{c}}\right)\right]^{2}\eqno(1)$$

\noindent
where $A$, $M_{c}$, and $\langle\sigma\rangle$ are constants (Adams \&
Laughlin 1996). $A$ sets the total mass in the burst, and for $M_{c}$, the
mass scale of the distribution, and $\langle\sigma\rangle$, its dimensionless
width, the values $M_{C} = 2.3 M_{\odot}$ and $\langle\sigma\rangle = 2.3$
are adopted. The IMFs proposed by Chabrier, Segretain, \& M\'era (1997) and
by Fields, Mathews, \& Schramm (1997) are similar and, to our present
purpose, give equivalent results.

A fraction of the halo stars will be in binary systems whose initial
parameters (primary mass, secondary/binary mass ratio, and separation between
the two components) imply that they should eventually end up as a C+O WD plus
a close companion. Mass transfer from the companion to the WD can then lead
to explosive C ignition and a SNe Ia. Different scenarios have been proposed,
depending on the nature of the companion (another C+O WD, a He star, a
subgiant or red--giant star). We have considered all of them in order to
calculate the SNe Ia rates and corresponding iron production following an
outburst of star formation. Namely, the scenarios are: a) merging of a couple
of C+O WDs (double--degenerate merging: DD); b) explosive ignition of He
(followed by central ignition of C) at the surface of a C+O WD as a result of
accretion from a He star companion (helium cataclysmic variable: HeCV); c)
central explosive ignition of C as a result of mass growth by accretion from
a red--(sub)giant companion (cataclysmic--like system: CLS); d) same as the
previous case, but allowing higher mass--loss rates from the companion
(``wind solution'': CLS(W)); e) explosive ignition of He (produced from
burning of H) at the surface of a C+O WD accreting mass from the wind of a
red--giant or supergiant companion (symbiotic system: SS). In scenarios a),
c), and d) the exploding WD has reached the Chandrasekhar mass while in
scenarios b) and e) the explosion takes place when a thick enough He layer
has accumulated, the C+O WD mass being still below the Chandrasekhar mass.
Most scenarios were already proposed in a seminal paper by Iben \& Tutukov
(1984) (see Iben 1997, for a recent review). The ``wind solution'' for the
CLS scenario has been proposed by Hachisu, Kato, \& Nomoto (1996). The
characterization of the different SNe Ia scenarios considered here is as in
Ruiz--Lapuente, Burkert, \& Canal (1995) and Canal, Ruiz--Lapuente, \&
Burkert (1996) (see also Ruiz--Lapuente, Canal, \& Burkert 1997). The results
reported here correspond to the distributions of initial binary parameters
adopted in those papers. We have also explored other suggested distributions,
but the outcome was not significantly altered.

In Figure 1 we show the growth of the iron mass, $M_{Fe}$, following the halo
star formation outburst, for scenarios a)--e). We will first assume that all
the iron produced by the SNe Ia in the halo directly mixes with the gas in
the disk and we will later discuss the possibilities of relaxing this
hypothesis. The halo mass adopted is $M_{Halo} = 10^{12}\ M_{\odot}$ (its
dynamical mass: see Peebles 1995). We take the disk mass $M_{Disk} =
0.1\times M_{Halo}$. The relevant quantity, four our purpose, is the ratio
$M_{Fe}/M_{Disk}$, that is the $Z_{Fe}$ in the disk due to the halo
contribution. As we see in Figure 1, in all scenarios $M_{Fe}$ grows with
time until reaching a maximum value at an epoch which corresponds to the
explosion of the most slowly evolving SNe Ia progenitors formed in the halo
outburst. The plateau value and the time at which it is reached depend on the
scenario. As a conservative upper limit to the initial $Z_{Fe}$ in the
galactic disk we take half its solar value, $Z_{Fe \odot} = 1.7\times
10^{-3}$ (Cameron 1982). Thus, $Z_{Fe}(0)\hbox{\lower .8ex\hbox{$\,\buildrel < \over\sim\,$}} 8.5\times 10^{-4}$. For our
disk mass, that corresponds to $M_{Fe} = 8.5\times 10^{7}\ M_{\odot}$. Such a
value is shown by the dashed horizontal line in the different panels of
Figure 1.

We see that, unless most of the iron produced by SNe Ia from the halo WD
population would not fall into the disk, in three of the scenarios considered
(HeCV, CLS, and CLS(W)) the upper limit would already be reached at the end
of the outburst (and even before that in the HeCV scenario), the iron mass
rapidly growing up to much larger values afterwards. In the SS scenario, the
limit would be reached at $t\simeq 0.5\ Gyr$ after the end of the burst.
Later on, much larger iron masses are produced (it must be noted that the SNe
Ia rates have been very conservatively calculated here: the SS efficiency in
producing SNe Ia has been set to its lowest estimate). Only in the DD
scenario the upper limit would not be reached until $t\simeq 1.5\ Gyr$ after
the end of the burst, to slowly grow up to $\simeq 1.7$ times that, $10.5\
Gyr$ later. The reason for the comparatively low SNe Ia rates in this
scenario is that most of the progenitors of the DD mergers are within the
initial mass range $6 M_{\odot}\hbox{\lower .8ex\hbox{$\,\buildrel < \over\sim\,$}} M\hbox{\lower .8ex\hbox{$\,\buildrel < \over\sim\,$}} 8 M_{\odot}$, which is not
favored by a IMF of the form (1). Note that, for longer delays between halo
and disk formation, the initial iron abundances in the disk would be higher.

In fact, the halo SNe Ia contribution to the iron enrichment of the disk
would still be dominant at the time of birth of the Sun. Therefore, even
neglecting the contribution from the SNe Ia and gravitational--collapse SN in
the disk (and also the decrease in its gas contents due to previous star
formation), the WD mass fraction in the halo should be $\hbox{\lower .8ex\hbox{$\,\buildrel < \over\sim\,$}} 5-10\%$ (for
the HeCV, CLS, and CLS(W) scenarios). From the iron argument alone, up to
$\simeq 20\%$ would still be compatible with the SS prediction, and that for
the DD scenario might even fit the microlensing estimate. However, as we will
see next, consideration of the predicted SNe Ia rates for the present time do
set more restrictive bounds.

\noindent
{\it SNe Ia rates.} It is interesting to note that, in the DD and SS
scenarios, SNe Ia should still be exploding in the halo at $t = 13\ Gyr$
after the start of the initial outburst. In the DD scenario, the rate would
be $\nu_{SNe Ia}\simeq 7\times 10^{-3}\ yr^{-1}$, whereas in the SS scenario
it would be $\nu_{SNe Ia}\simeq 2\times 10^{-2}\ yr^{-1}$. Even at $t = 18\
Gyr$ (a halo age suggested by Chabrier, Segretain, \& M\'era 1997), $\nu_{SNe
Ia}\simeq 4\times 10^{-3}\ yr^{-1}$ in the DD scenario, and $\nu_{SNe
Ia}\simeq 1\times 10^{-2}\ yr^{-1}$ in the SS one. All those values are far
above observational upper limits. The only supernova observed in our Galaxy
in the last 1,000 yr which clearly was a SNe Ia has been SN 1006 (van den
Bergh \& Tammann 1991), and its progenitor did not belong to the halo
population. The argument that the historical supernova sample is not complete
beyond a distance $\sim 3\ kpc$ applies to the thick disk population at most,
but not to typical halo objects. Even at a distance $d\sim 20\ kpc$ (that is
far out in the halo from our location within the Galaxy) the apparent blue
magnitude of a SNe Ia at maximum would still be $m_{B}\simeq -2.5$ (about 1
mag brighter than Sirius). From this argument, a reasonable upper limit to
the halo SNe Ia rate should be at least one order of magnitude below that
predicted by the DD scenario, which would again put the contribution of the
WD population to the halo mass below $5-10\%$. Consideration of the rate of
merging of WD pairs in the halo population strengthens this conclusion, since
it should occur at rates $\nu_{merg}\simeq 0.4\ yr^{-1}$ (13 Gyr) or
$\nu_{merg}\simeq 0.3\ yr^{-1}$ (18 Gyr). Most of them would not produce any
SNe Ia but a hot WD, which would remain very luminous for $\sim 10^{8}\ yr$.
Their total population should thus be $\sim 3-4\times 10^{7}$ nowadays and it
would hardly have escaped detection.

\noindent
{\it The halo gas component.} In the preceding we have assumed that most of
the material ejected by the SNe Ia mixes with the gas in the galactic disk.
If the halo were left completely gas--free after the initial burst of star
formation, one should expect that roughly half the SNe Ia ejecta would escape
the Galaxy whereas the other half would hit the disk and mix with the gas
there (typical velocities of the ejecta are larger than the escape velocity
from the galactic halo and there would not be halo gas to slow them down).
However, as pointed out by Adams \& Laughlin (1996), Isern et al. (1997), and
Gibson \& Mould (1997), the intermediate--mass star progenitors of the WDs
should return typically $\simeq 50-75\%$ of their mass to the interstellar
medium through stellar winds and planetary nebula ejection. The time scale of
such mass ejection is shorter than that of growth of the iron mass from SNe
Ia (especially in the case of the DD and SS scenarios). Therefore, much of
this gas should mix with the iron--rich SNe Ia ejecta. In that case, the iron
would be much more diluted than if it were only mixed with the gas in the
disk. There is, however, the problem of where this halo gas might be hidden
(it cannot fall into the disk, since otherwise the latter would be much more
massive than it actually is). One possibility is that it would be
concentrated into cold molecular clouds (De Paolis et al. 1997). In that
case, since formation of most clouds would precede ejection by the SNe Ia of
a major fraction of the iron mass and the filling factor of the clouds should
be small, the case would resemble that of a gas--free halo. Another
possibility is that heating of the halo gas by the SNe Ia explosions might be
enough to generate a strong galactic wind and eject most of the gas. A first
estimate of the energy budget shows that this possibility is only marginal.
Summarizing, in any case the problem of the halo gas component, rather than
rising the upper limit to the WD mass in the galactic halo, strengthens the
conclusion that it should be smaller than the total mass in the galactic disk
and make $\hbox{\lower .8ex\hbox{$\,\buildrel < \over\sim\,$}} 5-10\%$ of the halo mass only.

\noindent
{\it Halo dwarf metallicities and $[O/Fe]$ ratios.} As it can already be seen
in Figure 1, even within a burst of star formation lasting $\sim 1\ Gyr$,
there should be an appreciable variation in the iron contents of the gas from
the beginning to the end of the burst, due to the SNe Ia exploding during
this time interval. That should translate into a range of abundances $[Fe/H]$
within the halo Population II dwarfs. The predicted range will depend on the
duration of the burst, on the time variation of the star formation rate
within the burst, and on the SNe Ia scenario. In Figure 2 we compare the
growth with time of the iron abundance for the stars formed in the halo burst
(lasting 1 Gyr), among the scenarios a)--e) considered above, and assuming a
constant star formation rate. We see that, for any scenario, a significant
spread in the iron abundances among halo dwarfs should be expected. A
fraction of dwarfs would show near--solar iron abundances (and even higher,
for the HeCV scenario). The measured spread is $-3.5\hbox{\lower .8ex\hbox{$\,\buildrel < \over\sim\,$}} [Fe/H]\hbox{\lower .8ex\hbox{$\,\buildrel < \over\sim\,$}}
-1$ (Schuster \& Nissen 1989). Agreement could be obtained in all cases by
shortening the duration of the burst, but that would be in conflict with
evidence of a scatter $\sim 2-3\ Gyr$ in the ages of those stars ({\it
ibid.}). A more difficult problem is that SNe Ia explosions alone would
always give $[O/Fe]\simeq -1.4$ ($-1$ being an extreme upper limit) while the
observed $[O/Fe]$ in halo dwarfs is $\hbox{\lower .8ex\hbox{$\,\buildrel > \over\sim\,$}} +0.5$ (and thus bears the
signature of massive star nucleosynthesis) (Barbuy 1988; Abia \& Rebolo 1989;
Spite \& Spite 1991; Spiesman \& Wallerstein 1991). Therefore, not only the
duration of the halo burst should be extremely short to avoid contamination
by the SNe Ia products, but in addition some even earlier generation of
massive stars should have produced the $[O/Fe]$ actually measured. That
appears unlikely.

\section{Conclusions}

If a large fraction of the galactic halo mass were made of WDs, one would
expect a large iron production from the SNe Ia arising from a fraction of the
WDs belonging to close binary systems. Since both the total iron yield and
its time evolution depend on the evolution assumed for the SNe Ia
progenitors, we have considered all the main SNe Ia scenarios proposed so
far: double degenerate merging, He--star cataclysmic systems, two different
versions of the cataclysmic--like scenario, and symbiotic systems. The
results for each evolutionary path are fairly insensitive to the choices of
the initial binary parameters (distribution of mass ratios of the secondary
to the primary, distribution of initial separations). The IMF is chosen to
minimize the numbers of both red dwarfs and high--mass stars.

Assuming that most of the iron produced by the SNe Ia in the halo mixes with
the gas in the disk, the constraint that $Z_{Fe}$ at the time of birth of the
Sun should not exceed $Z_{Fe \odot}$ sets upper limits $\simeq 5-10\%$ to the
WD mass fraction in the halo for the HeCV, CLS, and CLS(W) scenarios.
Comparison of the predicted SNe Ia rates for the present time with
observational upper limits set similar bounds for the SS and DD scenarios.
Besides, a halo burst with IMFs such as those tested here would produce too
large a spread in the iron abundances of Population II halo dwarfs unless it
lasted less than 1 Gyr, which would conflict with evidence of a wider range
of ages among those stars. Worse still, the O/Fe ratio should be far below
solar while the measured ratio is much larger than solar, as one would expect
from massive star nucleosynthesis, and that hardly fits with the proposed
halo IMFs.

Consideration of the role that the SNe Ia originated in the halo WD
population would play in the evolution of the Galaxy, thus points in the same
direction as that of the fate of the gas ejected by the WD progenitors (Adams
\& Laughlin 1997; Isern et al. 1997) and that of the [C,N/O] ratios which
would result (Gibson \& Mould 1997): the WD mass fraction in the galactic
halo should be much lower than that suggested from microlensing experiments.
Our derived upper bounds are even lower than those set from number counts in
deep galaxy surveys.

As a more general conclusion, we can say that the proposal of {\it ad hoc}
IMFs to explain a presumptive huge halo WD population poses problems which
could only be solved by assuming that the whole process of star formation
(single as well as binary stars) in the galactic halo has been completely
different from all we know from local observations. Since the existence of a
massive WD halo is by no means firmly established, it is premature to make so
many {\it ad hoc} assumptions.

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HC at Chapel Hill
My Campus Celebrity: Leah Vance
Alexa Burrell
There is no doubt that the sense of community and unity at UNC-Chapel Hill is unique to college campuses. Around the world, alumni and students can bond over this shared experience and proudly proclaim that they are Tar Heels. This sense of community is what drew senior Leah Vance from Cleveland, Tennessee to North Carolina. In the past four years, Leah has also contributed to this special community through numerous service projects and involvement on campus. Leah's contributions and accomplishments are what make her this week's Campus Celebrity!
HC: What is your favorite thing about Carolina?
Leah: I love the sense of community. Even when I was senior in high school and came to look at UNC, I could tell that there was something different about Carolina. That initial "feeling" that I should be here came from the obvious unity on our campus. UNC-CH is populated with so many different people of various ages, backgrounds and outlooks, but we are all bound together by sense that we're all working towards making some sort of difference, both while we're here and once we're out. That unified passion brings our campus together in such a powerful way. I think that character is incredibly unique to Carolina, and I love it.
HC: What activities and organizations are you involved in on campus?
Leah: I'm the co-director of UNC Habitat for Humanity's project, Build a Block, so there's lots of Habitat in my life. I've been working in a cancer research lab at UNC's Medical School, and I try to stay active in the School of Public Health's incredible global and local health opportunities. I tutor for premedical classes through the University and do a little ESL. I'm a member of Alpha Chi Omega and have had the opportunity to serve as Philanthropy Chair within the sorority, working mostly with Orange County's Family Violence Prevention Center. Sometimes I try out an intramural, like flag football, but my hand-eye coordination has never been a strong point.
HC: Which of these activities means the most to you or is the most important to you?
Leah with other Alpha Chi's
Leah: UNC Build a Block has become an incredibly important part of my life. When I began, I was really excited about working with Habitat for Humanity of Orange County to build safe, affordable houses for people in our own Carolina community, but I never realized how wonderfully successful the initiative would turn out. We've had groups from all over campus come together to help us raise the fund and recruit volunteers so that we can start helping people in our own backyard.
HC: What do you like to do in your free time?
Leah: I love lounging around and chatting about life with friends. I'm a huge fan of traveling, and I love a good episode of 30 Rock or Modern Family. I like to bake, and I am hopeful that one day my baking skills will transfer into cooking skills. I'm also big on exercising with friends — gym dates, walks, the occasional class at the SRC. It's fun, healthy and social — the full package, basically. My roommates and I have an addiction to the Bachelor/Bachelorette that is shaming, but I guess I'm ready to go public with it.
HC: Why did you decide to major in Environmental Health?
Leah: I've always been interested in health, and once I got a grasp of what public health is and what a large impact it can have on any population, I wanted to see what it was about. Environmental health, itself, looks into exposures from the environment and their impact on populations, but in the School of Public Health, I've also been able to take classes in many of the various concentrations. I want to help better the health of individuals as a doctor, but I also want to make sure it's done in a larger framework of improving the overall health of the public.
HC: What are your plans for after graduation?
Leah: Right afterwards, I'm heading out of the country! Then, I'm taking a year off before applying to medical school. I want to be a doctor, maybe a pediatric oncologist, but that's about all I know.
HC: What's something most people don't know about you?
Leah: Anyone who's lived with me knows this, but I sing in the shower, sometimes unconsciously and always too loudly.
HC: What is your favorite memory from Carolina?
Leah: That's a tough one, because I've had so many amazing times here. I'm going to go with my first one: the first week of school, there was a group of us who had met at Carolina Kickoff and decided to get dinner together. After dinner, we went on a walk around campus, and when we were passing that fountain on north campus, someone was like, "Hey, anyone want to go swimming?" And within five minutes, we were all running around in the fountain. It was such an appropriately spontaneous start to college that I will always remember that, and I'm still friends with those crazy girls.
HC: What advice would you give to underclassmen?
Leah: You'll hear it a lot. But we seniors mean it when we say, please choose fun opportunities over another hour in the library. Please invest in late night runs to a random movie, surprise vacations and any way to make the most of your time with the incredible people you'll find here. Study, too, of course, but don't let it consume your life.
A Day in the Life at a Campus Experiencing a Mental Health Crisis
How to Push Through Midterm Week
Novels on Self-Discovery I'm Reading This Summer
Why You Should Make Pinterest Boards for Your Original Characters


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Take a stroll around Eden.
that can be enjoyed around Eden.
Some Scenic Drives around the Eden district.
exploring the town and it's surrounds on a bicycle.
Why not ride your motorbike? Here are some suggested rides around Eden and the local area.


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5 expats discharged in Guangdong
The Pakistani student under the Chinese name Wei Xing was cured and discharged from the Guangzhou No.8 Hospital at 10 a.m. on February 12th. He is the first foreign patient to have recovered from the novel coronavirus pneumonia in Guangzhou. A total of 5 expats have recovered to date in Guangdong.
Guangdong reported 22 new cases, raising the total number to 1,241 as of midnight February 12th. The province reported 2 deaths in total, and a total of 284 people have been discharged from hospital. A total of 123 suspected cases were reported and 3,123 people are under observation.
Wei had travelled to Guangdong from Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province, in the middle of January, and developed symptoms on January 26th and was confirmed as having the virus the next day. After treatment, his temperature remained stable and he has passed the health tests required before being allowed to leave the hospital.
Luo Jun, deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Office of Guangdong (GDFAO), said that the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the GDFAO are deeply concerned with the wellbeing of foreign nationals in Guangdong including Wei.
Throughout Wei's period of hospitalisation GDFAO maintained close connections with the Consulate General of Pakistan in Guangzhou. The designated hospital has been doing its utmost to treat the patient under the guidance of Guangdong Health Commission. Guangdong government and related departments will continue to take similarly good care of expats in Guangdong throughout the epidemic, providing them with all necessary assistance.
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THE ART OF INFLUENCE
THE CRIMINAL TRADITIONS
THE GALLERY TALK - PENN COLLEGE
CAROL BROOKES
CORINNA BUTTON
JAMES DEEB
SHEILA GANCH
CLAIRE GIRODIE
CHARLES GNIECH
SERGIO GOMEZ
SUZANNE GORGAS
TERESA HOFHEIMER
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RICHARD LAURENT
KATHY LIAO
JOYCE POLANCE
NANCY ROSEN
LORRAINE SACK
DOMINIC SANSONE
BARBARA SIMCOE
ANNE SMITH STEPHAN
ACID VIOLENCE - acid attacks against women by jilted lovers, jealous husbands, or female rivals. The attacks are exclusively to the face, often with battery acid. The resulting disfigurement and blindness leads to severe physical pain, psychological trauma, and intense social ostracism. Acid violence is predominantly found in Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan, which passed a progressive law against the act during the last two years. The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women held a panel discussion on acid violence for the first time in 2012.
BLIND STITCHING - the value of fine rugs is judged by the number of stitches per inch. To achieve this quality and subsequent high price, child labor is used. A boy or girl who starts rug making at age 5 or 6 is often severely visually impaired or blind by their twenties. The practice has been found in Turkey and probably exists in Afghanistan and parts of India as well.
BREAST IRONING - in conflict zones where girls are at high risk of individual or gang rape, mothers will physically iron the budding breasts of their daughters to retard growth, making their girls more androgynous and less appealing. The greatest risk of rape occurs when girls go to fetch water for their families which they must do several times a day.
BRIDE BURNING - predominant in India, Pakistan, and some Asian countries, brides may be burned alive if their dowries are insufficient; if their husbands or in-laws prefer to bring another woman into the family, if a man wishes to usurp his wife's wealth, etc. Called suttee, this practice goes back thousands of years. While now illegal in India, the estimate is that several thousand women die of bride burning there each year.
CHILD SOLDIERS - the history of child soldiers is as old as warfare itself. Currently, it is predominant in Africa, Burma, and parts of Indonesia. Both boys and girls are drafted. Current estimates are that 700,000 children ages 8 to early/mid-teens are in forced military service worldwide In addition, some countries use children, the elderly, and both the mentally and physically disabled as human mine sweepers.
CIRCLING - the act of soldering metal rings around a girl's throat. Girls receive one for each birthday from puberty, on, as a sign of beauty and availability for marriage. The rings elongate the neck and emphasize it as an erogenous zone. The problem is that the neck muscles atrophy and women cannot hold their heads high. In addition, their vocal chords are damaged and victims cannot sing, speak or voice an opinion. The practice is usually found in Africa and often photographed for National Geographic.
FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) - a practice stretching from Africa to the Middle East, female genital mutilation dates back thousands of years. It is popularly known as cutting because in FGM, the female sex organs are literally cut off. The clitoris, outer labial lips, and more might be removed. FGM is currently performed on about 8000 girls a day, usually at ages seven or eight, but sometimes on children as young as one and almost always without anesthesia. The cutter maybe a female elder or a male village blacksmith. The knife is usually not sterilized. After the procedure, tree thorns might be used for stitches. Then girls' legs are bound together for several weeks so a smooth ribbon of scar tissue forms with only a tiny hole for urine and menses. The scar is proof of a girl's virginity which in turn makes her a more desirable bride. This is important if marriage is the only option for economic survival. But the cost is enormous. Many girls bleed to death. Others develop massive psychological, gynecological, and obstetric complications including fistulas that cause incontinence and odor which in turn leads to social ostracism.
Many groups are working on the ground to help mothers end the practice and replace FGM with other healthy, coming of age rituals. The latter is important since girls maybe ridiculed if they are not cut. In 2012, the UN Commission on the Status of Women put forth a resolution to have FGM banned worldwide and named it a human rights violation. Note: FGM is sometimes called female genital circumcision, but many activists feel the word "circumcision" legitimizes the practice and diminishes the amount of violence and death that occurs. In addition, there is no comparison between traditional male circumcision and the extreme damage done by FGM. That said, the term FGM, while accurate and the designation used by the UN, is not considered politically correct since mothers are trying to do what is best for their daughters, especially in areas where nuptials depend on the practice.
Cutting is another word for female genital mutilation, the cutting away of a girl's genitalia to safeguard her virginity until marriage. According to the UN, cutting is practiced in 28 countries worldwide. An ancient, deeply ingrained ritual, cutting is performed on girls as young as one-year old. In places where it is practiced, cutting is considered an important, traditional female rite of passage. In impoverished or famine stricken regions, a girl's survival might depend on marriage and marriage might depend on whether or not she is cut. According to the 2013 UN Commission on the Status of Women, 4 million to 113 million girls are cut each year. The numbers are vague because in many places the practice now lives underground. Cutters often use unclean tools, tree thorns for stitches, and no anesthesia. Some villages believe that they "will be cursed by angry spirits" if every female infant isn't cut.
FGM creates catastrophic, lifelong psychological and physical complications including death. The scar tissue produced by FGM is often so thick the groom has to cut it with a knife to consummate the marriage. In 2012-13, the United Nations named FGM a human rights violation. FGM and male circumcision are not comparable in terms of physical and psychological consequences.
FEMALE INFANTICIDE Forced Ultrasound/Abortion - Also known as female gendercide and femicide, this relatively new criminal tradition (that's technologically speaking, the practice itself goes back centuries in one form or another) is rampant in India and China where there is a rabid preference for baby boys. Women either voluntarily have an ultrasound to determine their baby's sex and then abort the girls, or they are forced to do so. Estimates by activist attorney Reggie Littlejohn, featured in the 2013 documentary "It's a Girl" are that several million baby girls are forcefully aborted each year. Why? In India a girl belongs to her husband's family and it is her duty to care for in-laws when they age instead of her own parents. Or as they say, "a girl waters someone else's garden." In China, the huge demographic disparity between men and women has led to a population where males outnumber females by 37 million and the mothers of grown men contract with pregnant women for arranged marriages between their sons and unborn girls when those girls come of age. What's "of age"? …Sometimes it's early puberty.
FORCED CHILD MARRIAGE - the United Nations defines this as the marriage of children under age 18, but statistics show that 8 to 10 million girls worldwide, ages 9 to 15, are forced into marriage each year. The vast majority are physically and emotionally too young for sexual intimacy. Worse, promises by much older grooms (in Egypt. 2009, a 90 year old man was betrothed to a 17 year old girl) to sexually abstain until the girl is ready are often broken, resulting in lifelong gynecological, psychological, and obstetric damage. Where cultures allow for more than one wife, young brides may become virtual house slaves to the older women. There is also a phenomenon known as Gulf brides where men travel to the Gulf states to marry very young girls, but when the grooms grow bored, they return their wives like unwanted merchandise. Having lost their virginity and shamed their families by being abandoned, these girls are usually trafficked or honor killed.
Natural disasters also increase forced and child marriage, such as the recent Indonesian tsunami, when local governments offered men money to marry young girls and rebuild the population. In famine stricken areas, mothers may have to choose between marrying off their daughters or letting them starve to death because they can't afford to feed all their children. Please note that young boys are often forced to marry as well although this occurs much less often.
GUNS - in the United States with its historic frontier mentality and emphasis on independence, our gun culture can be defined as a criminal tradition - especially with conceal/carry; the 2nd Amendment debate, and Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University, Aurora, Columbine…
HONOR KILLING - the murder of a female family member (or sometimes a gay man) usually by male relatives who believe she has violated their honor. The violation can be anything from wearing hairspray to using the internet to talking on a cell phone or smiling at a strange man. A minor age male family member is usually chosen to do the deed as in the U.S. he will escape being charged as an adult. There are 8000 known plus an estimated 50,000 suspected honor killings each year, including 400 annually in the United States. Experts believe these numbers are low. Honor killings are often disguised as suicides, runaways, and disappearances. Women may also be imprisoned for "their own safety" and will not be released if their family wants to honor kill them. Many of these victims have been in prison for years. Ironically, the perpetrators are rarely jailed as honor killing is usually not considered a crime. In fact, many killers are treated as heroes because they have defended their family's honor.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING - There are strong links between human trafficking and various criminal traditions. For instance, child brides are often returned to marriage brokers by bored grooms. The brokers marry the girls off again and again, meeting definitions of human trafficking.
US law defines human trafficking as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of a human being against their will by means of threat, force, coercion, abduction, fraud and/or deception. Trafficking always involves the abuse of power and the exchange of money for human beings. (6)
It is the world's second fastest growing business with profits of $37+ billion a year and acquisition costs as low as $30. Profits continually increase because there is endless supply and demand. Human beings can be recycled and resold again and again. (7)
All of these trafficked humans - 80% of whom are female- are slaves. (3) There are more slaves today than at any other time in human history with 27+ million people enslaved worldwide. Slaves are present in every country and economy including the United States. (7) America is a major slave trade destination with an estimated one million+ slaves working throughout the United States. Most victims are found in domestic servitude including child and eldercare; restaurant and hotel work; construction; janitorial; factories; agriculture; panhandling; and adult services like massage, prostitution, and nail salons. (7)
The US identifies five major forms of trafficking including labor trafficking, sex trafficking, the recruitment of child soldiers for a gang or militia, trafficking in human organs, and trafficking in babies and children. (3) Trafficking victims come from vulnerable populations - runaways, the poor and disenfranchised, those who find themselves in a country where they don't speak the language, victims of war and natural disasters. (3)
Often the traffickers are gangs, the military, agricultural operators, labor brokers, business owners, domestic/child/eldercare agencies, matchmakers, marriage brokers, sex traders, and others. Together, they make $37 billion a year - tax free. (3)
Generally, laborers with bad contracts, rape and domestic violence victims, members of the military who freely enlist, and adult sex workers employed by their free consent are not considered trafficking victims. (3)
Likewise smuggling is a violation of US border law and is defined as illegal entry for self-benefit. By contrast, human trafficking is a violation of civil rights and does not require movement or relocation. (3)
Red flags that may indicate a person is being trafficked include a lack of identification or identity documents that are controlled by someone else; zero days off; the name of an owner painted, tattooed, or branded on the trafficked person's body, someone else constantly speaks for the trafficking victim; the victim has no sense of time or place. (7)
Trafficking occurs even when a person voluntarily migrates, signs a contract, and is paid for her work. Often the pay scale is insidious as the trafficker charges for room and board, clothes and transportation at exorbitant interest rates that can never be repaid. (3)
Trafficking victims can seek legal recourse, but often don't because they're afraid. They don't know American authorities are not required to deport them and they may not even realize they are being wronged. This is especially true of children. (8)
Fifty percent of the 800,000 people trafficked across international borders each year are minors. The International Labor Organization estimates that 8.4 million children are enslaved worldwide. (8)
The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers reports that nineteen countries use trafficked boys and girls in armed conflict. (9)
According to UNICEF, two million children participate in the commercial sex trade worldwide. Child sex slaves can be as young a three because many cultures believe sex with a female virgin can cure HIV. (3)
International agencies report that a growing number of human traffickers are women, many of whom use Craig's List as a major trafficking tool. (7)
Slave labor happens in almost every industry but is especially prevalent in coffee, cocoa, cotton, and electronic goods. Low cost suppliers are sometimes no cost suppliers, using slave labor. Consumer demand fuels the entire slave labor chain. (7)
Trafficking grows if there is a bad economy, high unemployment, gender based work discrimination, upheavals in one's personal/social life, civil unrest, natural disasters, illiteracy, lack of language, the caste/class system, poor immigration laws, border issues, abuse of prison systems, sex tourism, and more. (3) Trafficking victims become trapped by fear of deportation, violence, retaliation, civil/criminal prosecution, debt repayment, family honor, Stockholm syndrome, distrust of authorities, shame, low self-esteem, and anything that make them socially or financially vulnerable. (3)
STONING - a parallel practice that can be considered a criminal tradition, stoning is a form of execution almost exclusively reserved for women who have committed adultery. While men are occasionally stoned, this is rare. Geographic patterns of stoning were presented at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in 2013. Certain revered texts provide guidelines for the size of the stones to be used on female adulterers. The stones must be big enough to cause damage, but small enough to make the death slow. Convicted women are buried up to their chests, just above the breasts. Immediate family members - the father, husband, sons, or brothers are encouraged to throw the first stones. Death can take hours.
INFORMATION RESOURCES:
1 - Murder for Honor, Rana Hussein
2 - orchidproject.org
3 - United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, 2012-13
4 - The Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
5 - becauseiamagirl.org
6 - U.S State Department's Trafficking in Persons Report
7 - callandresponse.com
8 - International Labor Organization
9 - The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
10 - UNICEF
11 - Acid Survivors Trust International/ www.acidvilence.org
The United States: - All the criminal traditions cited here occur in the United States, but are called by different names—honor killing is homicide, FGM is assault or child endangerment—moreover in the US these actions are considered crimes. The US has the legal infrastructure to pursue prosecution but many countries do not because these traditions aren't against the law. Ending these behaviors means supporting other nations in their legal evolution, it means taking a stand for human rights and against criminal traditions.
What Will Help: Consumer awareness and education, boycotting countries with the worst trafficking records, buying fair trade, promoting transparency/ human rights within supply chains, effective trafficking laws and enforcement, awareness of vulnerable populations, ESL, community/faith based coalitions, focus on rescue and restoration; building awareness among the trades, community outreach, legislative focus, establishing stronger trafficking victims protection acts, trauma training, laws against sex tourism, outreach to the hospitality industry, multiple stakeholder awareness, cultural change.
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Q: Flex and PHP: HTTPService POST Error I am getting this error when using the HTTPService POST method in the Flex SDK:
[RPC Fault faultString="HTTP request error" faultCode="Server.Error.Request" faultDetail="Error: [IOErrorEvent type="ioError" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Error #2032: Stream Error. URL: http://localhost/MAMP/secondPHP.php" errorID=2032]. URL: http://localhost/MAMP/secondPHP.php"]
    at mx.rpc::AbstractInvoker/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::faultHandler()[E:\dev\4.y\frameworks\projects\rpc\src\mx\rpc\AbstractInvoker.as:345]
    at mx.rpc::Responder/fault()[E:\dev\4.y\frameworks\projects\rpc\src\mx\rpc\Responder.as:68]
    at mx.rpc::AsyncRequest/fault()[E:\dev\4.y\frameworks\projects\rpc\src\mx\rpc\AsyncRequest.as:113]
    at DirectHTTPMessageResponder/errorHandler()[E:\dev\4.y\frameworks\projects\rpc\src\mx\messaging\channels\DirectHTTPChannel.as:410]
    at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
    at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
    at flash.net::URLLoader/onComplete()

This is my flex code:
private function returnValue(evt:ResultEvent):void {
            label.text = "" + evt.result;
        }

        protected function add(event:MouseEvent):void
        {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            new_friend.send();
        }

    ]]>
</fx:Script>

<fx:Declarations>
    <!-- Place non-visual elements (e.g., services, value objects) here -->
    <s:HTTPService id="new_friend" result="returnValue(event)" method="POST" url="http://localhost/server/secondPHP.php" useProxy="false">
        <s:request xmlns="">
            <method>ADD</method>
        </s:request>
    </s:HTTPService>
</fx:Declarations>

Here is my PHP code:
    <?php
$method = $_POST["method"];

if ($method == "ADD") {
    $xml = new SimpleXMLElement("http://localhost/server/userdatabase.xml", null, true);

    $xml->Users->addChild("User", "testuser");
    $xml->asXML('http://localhost/server/userdatabase.xml');

    $returnValue = "Added";
    print($returnValue);
}
?>

And finally my XML code:
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Users>
<User>SomeUser</User>
</Users>

Does anyone know why I might be getting this error? I noticed that I am only getting this error when I am using SimpleXML in the PHP file, and when I delete the xml code I don't get the error and I see the "print($returnValue)" message.
RMK-Jacob


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By : Ryan Williams-Jent
Tags:drag queen, EPIC, Ryan Williams-Jent, St. Pete Pride, Tales of the City, tampa bay bureau chief's desk, transgender, TransPride March
I was recently asked by a fellow member of the LGBTQ community if my husband is transgender because he dabbles in drag.
While I often point out jokingly that he didn't don drag until after we were married, something I've mentioned here before, I have a tremendous amount of respect for his craft. It's one thing to be handsome, which he is, but it's just a work of art to be beautiful on top of that. Which she is.
The only loss that's stemmed from his decision to hone his talent is that of our guest bedroom, now one of the greater Tampa Bay area's most well-known wig warehouses. Drag is a gain for him, something he enjoys, so it's a gain for me because it makes him happy.
What's more, he and almost every queen I've met bring immeasurable value to our community. Throughout our shared LGBTQ experience, they've often been the ones on the forefront of our fight for equality—from changing the narrative at Stonewall to changing young hearts and minds with Drag Queen Story Hours here and across the nation.
The person that asked if my husband is transgender didn't do so with ill intent. They're someone who knows us rather well and has for quite a long time; someone who loves us as much as we love them, which is quite a bit.
But that's what struck me about their question. It wasn't that it was asked—asking questions leads to answers and education is essential in any healthy environment—but that there was concern as they awaited my response. It was as if there would be something wrong with him, our marriage or the world if my answer was yes.
While some of the most fabulous drag queens and folks that I've met in general are transgender, my husband isn't. I wouldn't love him any less if he was, though, which I only mention because I think we all need to be better as a community about making that crystal clear. The world needs to know that we see our transgender siblings and that we support them; we are them and they are us. No one in our ever-expanding LGBTQ community needs us more.
At least 26 transgender people were murdered in the United States in 2018, at least five of them in Florida and the majority of whom were women of color. While many were targeted simply for being transgender, societal stigma put others at higher risk in other ways. It's a disturbing trend that shows no sign of slowing in 2019, with at least eight deaths as of Pride Month.
We need to fight for every one of our transgender siblings in the ways that they've always fought for us, changing narratives as much as hearts and minds. We need to do so in our personal and professional lives, whenever and wherever we can and to whomever will listen. We must say their names and we must show them that they will not be erased.
It's that mentality that's largely shaped Florida's largest Pride celebration, which this year celebrates its third annual TransPride March and its 17th successful year. St Pete Pride 2019 promises to be its loudest and proudest yet, something we examine at length in our latest issue with local leaders including St Pete Pride board members like TransPride March founder Nathan Bruemmer and entertainers like Star Montrese Love, who this year celebrates 10 years of Miss St Pete Pride. We also discuss 25 years of "Stay (I Missed You)" with LGBTQ ally and singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb, who headlines this year's SP2 concert.
The city of St. Petersburg proves the sun shines on all in other ways in Tampa Bay news, adding LGBTQ-owned businesses to its small business program. The Plus Project, a new LGBTQ funding resource, also forms as Metro Inclusive Health announces "Stonewall to Pulse: A Community Discussion" and Dining Out for Life raises over $47,000 for EPIC.
In Central Florida news, Dining Out for Life also reveals the fundraiser will benefit new organizations in the area beginning in 2020. The Metropolitan Business Association also opens up about its own Pride.
In Arts and Entertainment, we focus on actor Matt Bomer, chatting with him about his new comedy "Papi Chulo" and projects like DC's "Doom Patrol." We also log into Netflix to dish on the streaming service's new "Tales of the City" era with star Murray Bartlett. Finally, Dr. Steve Yacovelli guides us through the pages of "Pride Leadership," his new book.
Watermark strives to bring you a variety of stories, your stories. I hope you enjoy this latest issue and for those of you joining us in the Sunshine City, have a safe and wonderful St Pete Pride!
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was found guilty of violating the terms of her house arrest and sentenced to three years of prison, but the junta reduced that term to a year and a half of house arrest.
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The National's Matt Berninger to star in a new TV series
Wednesday 21 February 2018 1:46pm
Berninger created the series with his brother and wife.
Aaron Dessner and Matt Berninger of American indie rock titans The National dropped by our studios this morning, answering a string of questions from the Double J audience. You can listen to the full chat here.
Towards the end of the interview, Zan Rowe asked about a rumoured new TV show that is reportedly on the cards for Berninger, being developed with the help of Aussie director Trent O'Donnell.
O'Donnell has worked on a string of acclaimed local productions like The Moodys, The Letdown and The Chaser's War On Everything, as well as big overseas shows like Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Grace & Frankie, The Good Place and New Girl, to name but a few.
But this next new project – a half hour comedy based on the life of Matt Berninger – sounds particularly fascinating.
"My brother [actor and director Tom Berninger] and my wife [writer Carin Besser] and I have been creating it, and then we teamed up with Trent and his wife," Berninger explained.
"He's the type of 'rush forward without any fear' sort of person we need, because we'd never done anything in television before. He's pulling us through the woods on this one."
Tom Berninger is best known for his 2013 documentary on The National, Mistaken For Strangers, and Matt says that this new show will have certain similarities.
"It's something we've been cooking for a while," he said. "My brother made this documentary [Mistaken For Strangers] and it has a lot of the same tone. But this is more scripted than that and it's not a film Tom's making, Tom is just a subject of it. It's not a fake documentary."
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While he wasn't ready to divulge too much information, Berninger did let us in on a few key facts about how it will play out.
"I play myself and my brother plays my brother - Tom can't play anyone else - but then the rest of it's all cast," he said.
"I'm in a band. Aaron [Dessner] helped cast the band with all the guys who were working on the Grateful Dead project together, it's a bunch of guys from different bands who we've known and been friends with for a long time. Aaron is in it as a producer, not as himself."
"I don't have a speaking part," Dessner chimed in. "Well, I might…"
While this is undoubtedly hugely exciting news for fans of the band, there's going to be a pretty immense wait before we see the show for ourselves.
"It won't see the light of day this year," Berninger said. "So, that's how far along it is."
We'll be keeping our eye on this one.
Tune into Mornings with Zan Rowe Monday to Friday from 9am AEDT, or catch up on the past week of shows right here.
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