It appears that Motorola is preparing a sub $200 Moto X alternative with pretty much the same design as the original model. Motorola Moto DVX images have surfaced as the device cleared its FCC certification.
The product is expected to be affordable and look identical to the Moto X, as shown by the pictures included in this article. The main difference is the left handed speaker included on the device. Its camera lens is centered on the top part of the back cover and the Motorola logo is concave, pretty much like Moto X.
Speculations say the newcomer may adopt a 4.3 inch or 4.5 inch display, making us think it will serve as sort of a Moto X mini role. The FCC filing reveals that the handset has been certified with GSM 850/1900 MHz bands support and it will lack 4G LTE connectivity. FCC documents also mention Voice Commands and Talking Phone, so the Moto special software features are included.


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Russian Military Deliver Humanitarian Aid to Syrian Soldiers in Aleppo - MoD
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DAMASCUS (Sputnik) - Russian military from the Russian Defense Ministry's Center for Syrian Reconciliation have delivered humanitarian aid to injured Syrian soldiers at a military hospital in Aleppo and their families, the center's spokesman, Maj. Gen. Sergei Popov, told reporters on Sunday.
"We gave wheelchairs and warm clothes to the Syrian army soldiers who suffered injuries during the armed conflict [in Syria] as well as their relatives. A total of 25 sets have been delivered," the spokesman told reporters.
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Popov also told medics working at the hospital that the reconciliation center and Russian charity foundations would continue to provide humanitarian aid both to injured Syrian soldiers and their families.
Representatives of the Syrian Armed Forces command and the medics thanked the Russian military for paying attention to the injured soldier's problems and for the provided aid.
The Russian side has been assisting Syria throughout the war, providing military and humanitarian aid and brokering ceasefire agreements. Damascus has already won back vast territories that had fallen into the hands terrorists and rebels during the war, and the armed conflict itself seems to be nearing its end, which prompted Syria to start the reconstruction process and the repatriation of refugees.
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She is The Keeper of the Nations
E. Maxine Bruhns has worked with the University of Pittsburgh's Nationality Rooms for 50 years -- and at age 91, she shows no sign of slowing down.
Lauren Davidson,
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Editor's Note: Bruhns died July 17, 2020, six months after announcing her retirement.
E. Maxine Bruhns brushes her hand over a photograph album, one of several in her office that hold mementos from her many years of living and traveling abroad.
"These are the Rosemans," she says, pointing to a picture taken in Cambodia. "They're the reason we came to Pittsburgh [in 1965]."
Alvin Roseman, associate dean of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, and his wife, Edith, had been friends of Bruhns and her husband, Fred C. Bruhns. Both couples had traveled the world when Alvin and Fred worked with the U.S. State Department, USAID and other international agencies; Alvin worked as Fred's USAID mission chief in Cambodia.
"Alvin said, 'Fred, why don't you come [to Pitt] and teach, and we'll find something for Maxie to do,'" Bruhns remembers. "And they did."
What then seemed to be a simple beginning would become a 50-year career. That "something to do" meant working in the office that governed the then-19 Nationality Rooms in Pitt's Cathedral of Learning, a job fitting for a world traveler with a love for and understanding of international cultures.
Bruhns became director of the rooms later that year. Her background has made her a perfect keeper of the Nationality Rooms Program, which was established in 1926; most of the 29 rooms, which represent cultures from all parts of the world, also serve as working classrooms.
She's now 91, yet her days remain busy as she celebrates her 50th anniversary at Pitt. Strict rules govern the preservation of the existing rooms as well as the process involved with establishing new rooms (a 30th is under construction, and three more have been approved) on the Cathedral's first and third floors.
Other cities have memorials dedicated to immigrant communities, but none are like Pittsburgh's Nationality Rooms, Bruhns says.
"I think the steel industry brought all kinds of immigrants here [who] could make a living," she says. "You didn't have to speak English to dig coal and run a steel mill and pour metal and things like that. I think it was the right time. Now it's no longer a steel city, but then it was full of immigrants."
While the city has changed over the years, Bruhns says she believes its residents today still are diverse and accepting of the rooms and people from other cultures who created them.
"They value them," she says.
Former Pitt Chancellor Wesley W. Posvar, who served from 1967 to 1991, once said the rooms, "more than any other single asset … epitomize the University of Pittsburgh character by melding culture, beauty and learning. In their diversity, the rooms preserve and honor our ethnic identities. Collectively, they symbolize our national unity."
Bruhns has preserved and expanded that legacy as the director of the Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs (NRIEP). She frequently works with local ethnic communities to hold fundraising events within and outside of the Cathedral and communicates with members of committees that support each room. She also coordinates the scholarship portion of the programs, which awards about 40 total graduate and undergraduate summer study-abroad scholarships each year to University of Pittsburgh students — a large undertaking that she has significantly expanded.
In addition, she writes for the NRIEP's quarterly newsletter, and she and her staff are preparing for the Nationality Rooms Holiday Open House — a festival she began in 1991 to celebrate the rooms' cultures and holiday traditions every December. In recent years, it has attracted 2,500-3,000 patrons. She serves as its mistress of ceremonies, and she recounts with fondness the experience of dancing with an African drum line last year. Spending time with her is akin to taking a trip to the United Nations, and conversations are a lesson in world history and current events.
"No day is the same," Bruhns says. "I always have challenges, and what more could you want? And if you're working on things that are going to be here forever, it's a hell of a good legacy."
Bruhns usually rises around 4 a.m. and starts her day by listening to international news on BBC radio or a live stream of Al Jazeera America in her condominium in North Oakland. She dresses in a colorful outfit composed of clothing and jewelry she's picked up during her travels abroad, and her assistant, Maryann Sivak, phones her shortly after 6 a.m. to go over their plans for the day. Bruhns walks to work unless the weather is bad and generally arrives at the Cathedral around 7 a.m.
On a recent morning, Bruhns descends from her office on the 12th floor and peeks into Cathedral of Learning Room 304, where construction crews are working on the Korean Heritage Room. It's set to be installed as the 30th Nationality Room this year with a dedication planned for November.
Bruhns enters the room and throws her hands over her head in an "o" shape. "I love you!" she calls to the Korean workers, who speak little English. They smile and raise their arms as well: "I love you!" they call back.
"I asked somebody [who] knew Korean to tell me how to say 'hello,' and it was about seven syllables," says Bruhns, who speaks Arabic, French, some German and "smatterings" of Greek and Farsi. "I went in and tried to say it the first time to the four carpenters, and one of them said, 'Do this,' and he put his hands up and said, 'I love you!'"
Bruhns marvels over their attention to detail for a few moments before moving to a neighboring room and greeting carpenters who are sanding wood boards.
After exclaiming at their progress, she makes the "o" and calls out once more, "I love you!" ("It's fun!" she says, with a little bounce on her toes) then heads back upstairs.
On another morning, she attends a meeting in the Cathedral's Austrian Nationality Room to discuss the construction of the Korean room. One of the room committee's chairmen, Sang Park, is present, as are several representatives from the construction crews.
There's one point of contention: A worker from the university's facilities management department notes the university won't allow donors' names to be displayed within the room. Park argues the Korean room's contract allows The Korea Foundation, which has donated $250,000 for construction, to be publicly thanked. He also notes that donors' names for the Armenian room are displayed above the door.
After much back and forth, Bruhns intervenes, promising to look into the issue.
By the end of the day, she has determined the donor names on display for the Armenian room are allowed because the names are listed outside the room in a stone setting above the doorframe. The Koreans will be allowed to do the same.
"When they hit the wall, Maxine knows how to get around the wall, to get it down," Sivak says.
Bruhns says she always sits in on the construction meetings as the NRIEP representative.
"Sometimes I'm needed," she says simply.
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A native of Grafton, W.Va., Bruhns (nee Moose) says she and her husband were happy to come to Pittsburgh, fairly close to her parents, after spending more than 15 years living abroad and working with war refugees and USAID in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
Fred, a native of Germany, was a teenager when Hitler came to power in 1933. He started delivering anti-Nazi literature on his bicycle until the Gestapo caught him and sent him to prison for two years, releasing him in 1939.
He left Germany and traveled to France, but after the Germans invaded that country, he landed in an internment camp for German intellectuals. In 1941, Fred received news that a visa had come through, enabling him to travel to the United States and join the U.S. Army. But he had no money for the trip.
"The International Rescue Committee paid his train fare and boat fare all the way to New York City," Maxine Bruhns says. "I give them $2,000 a year because I feel they saved his life."
Fred and Maxine met while studying at The Ohio State University and were married from 1946 until his death in 2008.
After serving in military intelligence in World War II, Fred Bruhns first worked in occupied Austria resettling European refugees and later in the Middle East conducting research on Palestinian refugees. Maxine completed her master's degree in early childhood education at the American University of Beirut during this time. Fred then worked for USAID in Southeast Asia, in Africa and in Iran under the Shah, then in Greece as a delegate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He finished his overseas work in Gabon, Africa, as head of the USAID mission there.
When the couple arrived at Pitt, there were 19 Nationality Rooms, dedicated between 1938 and 1957. The university hired Maxine to replace Marcella Finegold, the interim secretary. Director emerita Ruth Crawford Mitchell, who coordinated the classrooms' creation beginning in 1926 (the same year crews broke ground for the Cathedral of Learning), became Bruhns' mentor and best friend.
The Nationality Rooms grew from an idea posed by then-Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman, who asked Mitchell to invite the city's immigrant communities to create the classrooms to show "the good things they had brought to America."
"They just kept building and building and building, even through the Depression," Bruhns says, noting the rooms attract visitors from all over the world. When reviewers on the website TripAdvisor ranked them among the top 10 most popular sites to visit in the city, the company sent a Certificate of Excellence that she prizes.
When she started working at Pitt, the existing rooms were essentially completed, with no plans for more. Bruhns says her days then were rather boring.
"I had a closet in Bruce Hall," she recalls of her first office. "There was nothing to do."
Then in 1966, the unexpected death of Pitt Chancellor Stanton Crawford prompted the appointment of David H. Kurtzman as interim chancellor. Kurtzman was Jewish, and he believed the rooms should include an Israel Heritage Room.
"I had to learn how to do a room!" Bruhns says. "I went four or five times to Israel, and we got it done."
Research trips to a designated country are typical, and each room is authentic in its depiction of a specific time period or cultural style. The Greek Nationality Room, for example, represents classical architecture from the Fifth Century B.C. The marble in the columns originated from the same mountain that contained the material used to build the Parthenon.
The Japanese room, modeled after a structure from the 1700s, was constructed without nails, using traditional joinery techniques. Carpenters from Kyoto completed the entire room in Japan, deconstructed it for shipping and reassembled it in Pittsburgh.
The Israel Heritage Room wasn't dedicated until 1987, as the process for approval and the construction of the rooms can take years. The university charter states that each Nationality Room must be completed within five years after approval, but if the committee cannot raise enough money in time, they can present a fundraising plan and petition for more time in five-year increments.
Construction of each room is overseen by its own committee made up of seven to 30 members. Their backgrounds vary: Some committees contain prominent members of an ethnic community in Pittsburgh, some have interest or expertise in the arts or literature of a particular country, and some are NRIEP scholarship winners who want to give back through service.
Members of those committees are responsible for raising funds for their room and preparing for its eventual dedication, at which point the room is donated to the university for perpetual maintenance. From that point, committee members may remain as involved as they wish by hosting cultural programs and raising money for their room's scholarship program.
With the exception of the Early American and the Syria-Lebanon rooms, all of the rooms serve as working classrooms. Food and drink are prohibited inside them. Since 1944, members of Quo Vadis, a guide organization, have offered tours of the rooms (about 25,000 people partake each year), and each room is equipped to present a recorded narrated history.
Most guidelines governing the rooms' construction were established in 1926. The original guidelines stipulated that a room must represent a nation recognized by the U.S. State Department, the period it depicts must be prior to 1787 (the year the U.S. Constitution was ratified as well as the founding year of the University of Pittsburgh), and it may not contain political symbols or likenesses of living persons.
Bruhns managed to tweak the guidelines pertaining to the U.S. State Department recognition. When the Armenian and Ukrainian rooms were conceived, those nations were part of the Soviet Union.
"[Committee members] said, 'Maxine, you've got to get the rule changed,' and by God I did," she says. At the time, the local Ukrainian population was adamant about having its own room, and Armenians began seeking out supporters for a room when they discovered the rule was going to be changed, she recalls.
"It's how you can change history a little. And I remember during the dedication [of the Ukrainian Room], the priests were up there doing the blessings, and a woman tugged my shoulder and said, 'Now we're just as good as anyone.' It was so touching."
After she pops in on the Koreans, Bruhns' morning continues with several meetings. First is an appointment with Mohammad Taheri, a Persian rug expert. She wants him to inspect the 220-year-old carpet in the 12th-floor room where the Nationality Rooms scholarship panels interview students. She greets him in Farsi.
She says she can't bear to ignore the rug's wear and tear any longer, especially in a room where such important work is conducted. Since she took over the scholarships, more than 1,000 Pitt students have spent their summers studying in a country represented by a Nationality Room. Bruhns personally administers the judging panels for each of the scholarships annually — she chooses two members, and the room's committee chooses the other three.
"Last year I made 185 phone calls to get people," she says.
Bruhns has endowed three of those scholarships herself; she recently came to the realization that she and her husband donated nearly $2.5 million to the university within the last 20 years.
"I decided I should finish [and aim to] hit that $3 million mark," she says in her habitual chipper tone.
Taheri informs her the carpet is worth as much as $200,000 — much more than she anticipated — and they discuss how best to preserve it. He offers to help with the cleaning cost if she can't find donors willing to pay.
"What a dear," she says after he leaves.
Next, she meets with Abdesalam Soudi, the ad hoc chair of the Moroccan Nationality Room committee, which hopes to see that nation's heritage commemorated as the Cathedral's 34th room. He has brought her argan oil made in his hometown of Agadir.
There's now a cap — the provost has determined there is space in the building for only 33 Nationality Rooms. An Iranian room will be the 31st, and Finnish and Philippine rooms also have been approved. Bruhns says she hopes to gain approval for the Moroccan room as well — Morocco was the first foreign nation that officially recognized the United States as a country and the first U.S. historic landmark that was not constructed on American soil stands in Morocco: the American Legation building in Tangier.
Soudi says later he's always impressed with Bruhns' knowledge of Morocco, and he thinks that's part of what makes her perfect for her job.
"She is very well-traveled, and so her knowledge about world culture and language and intercultural communication helps to engage the support of the community," he says. "I think she's really wonderful. How many people do you have in Pittsburgh like her? Nobody."
Soudi, a lecturer in Pitt's Department of Linguistics, also says he appreciates that the focus of Bruhns' work is the cultural significance of the rooms, not the business end of creating and maintaining them.
"If I said, 'Maxine, I have $800,000 to build the Moroccan room [but no community support],' the answer would be no," he says. "This is about engaging the community. This is about how many Moroccans are in [the region] supporting the room. This is about are people excited about it. … It's a cultural commitment."
Bruhns and Sivak are fond of telling the story about a reporter from Voice of America who in April 2014 wanted to conduct an interview in the Ukrainian Room about Ukraine's recent revolution.
"I got the architect of record, I got the committee chairman, I got two students going to study there," Bruhns says. "The architect of record was very quiet and very concerned with what was going on in Ukraine, and [the reporter] asked him, 'How do you feel this room represents the political situation going on in Ukraine?' And he choked up. He was so emotional. It's those sorts of things that keep happening every day."
Bruhns says that because she never had children, the Nationality Rooms — and the scholarship awardees — are akin to her babies.
"It's because with most of [the rooms], I went to that country, looked at the prototypes, met with the artists and came back and saw the thing be born and grow and be beautiful, and now [we're] giving scholarships [for students] to go back," she says. "I had a very intimate feeling when I traveled there … and I still feel that way."
In the coming years, Bruhns hopes to see the Moroccan room approved and the scholarship program expanded.
"I will be replaced someday, and I hope that it's somebody who has an international background," she says. "It's very complex. The cultures, my God, the cultures in Africa alone — there are 54 nations in Africa. I lived there and just began to touch the surface. But you just can't get that sitting at a desk, so I'm hoping they will find somebody."
But she doesn't expect to be replaced anytime soon, does she?
She giggles at the question. "No," she says.
Next: A Multicultural Chronology: The Nationality Rooms Through the Years
A Multicultural Chronology: The Nationality Rooms Through the Years
University of Pittsburgh Historic Photographs, 1884-present, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh
1926 University of Pittsburgh Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman conceives the idea for the Nationality Rooms, meant to function as classrooms in the Cathedral of Learning and showcase the heritages of Pittsburgh's ethnic communities. • Construction crews break ground on the 42-story Cathedral of Learning. • Ruth Crawford Mitchell begins her 31-year tenure as director of the Nationality Rooms Program.
1938 The Early American Room is presented to the university, and the German, Russian, Scottish and Swedish nationality rooms are dedicated. The Early American Room is the only one of all 29 completed rooms to be presented to the university — not dedicated — as it was a gift from one man rather than an ethnic committee.
1939 The Czechoslovak, Yugoslav, Hungarian and Chinese nationality rooms are dedicated.
1940 The Polish and Lithuanian nationality rooms are dedicated.
African Heritage Classroom/photo provided by University of pittsburgh
1941 The Syria-Lebanon Room and Greek Nationality Room are dedicated. The Syria-Lebanon and Early American rooms are the only ones that do not serve as working classrooms.
1943 The French and Romanian nationality rooms are dedicated.
1944 Quo Vadis begins to lead free tours of the rooms.
1948 The Norwegian Nationality Room is dedicated.
Austrian Nationality Room/photo provided by university of pittsburgh
1949 The Italian Nationality Room is dedicated.
1952 The English Nationality Room — the largest of the rooms — is dedicated.
1957 Ruth Crawford Mitchell retires as director and becomes director emerita. • The Irish Nationality Room is dedicated.
1965 Maxine Bruhns is hired to work in the office of the Nationality Rooms Program and shortly thereafter becomes director.
Turkish nationality room/photo provided by university of pittsburgh
1973 Rules governing new Nationality Rooms are changed to permit nations not recognized by the U.S. State Department to be represented with a room.
1987 The Israel Heritage Room is dedicated.
1988 The Armenian Nationality Room is dedicated.
1989 The African Heritage Room is dedicated.
Lithuanian Nationality room/photo provided by university of pittsburgh
1990 The Ukrainian Nationality Room is dedicated.
1991 The tradition of holding the Nationality Rooms Holiday Open House begins.
1996 The Austrian Nationality Room is dedicated.
1999 The Japanese Nationality Room — one of three rooms to be constructed in its country of origin, deconstructed and rebuilt in Pittsburgh — is dedicated. The others are Syria-Lebanon and Korean Heritage.
Ukrainian nationality room/photo provided by university of pittsburgh
2000 The Indian Nationality Room is dedicated.
2008 The Welsh Nationality Room is dedicated.
2012 The Turkish and Swiss nationality rooms are dedicated.
2015 Construction continues on the 30th Nationality Room representing Korean heritage. A dedication is planned for November.
This article appears in the October 2015 issue of Pittsburgh Magazine.
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The Russo Brothers On How 'Star Wars' Influenced The Ending Of 'Avengers: Infinity War'
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by Eric Italiano April 27, 2021 11:25 am
Editor's Note: This article was originally published in the Summer of 2020 in tandem with our exclusive interview with the Russo Brothers. In celebration of the three-year anniversary of Avengers: Infinity War, we're republishing it today.
Just prior to the announcement of their new spy-thriller franchise over at Netflix with Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans, I was lucky enough to talk to Joe and Anthony Russo — the directors of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame — for a wide-ranging interview that touched on everything from Extraction to the best way to reheat your pizza.
While the entire chat was a blast — the Russo Brothers couldn't have been nicer guys — one of the most interesting tidbits we discussed was how the ending of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back influenced the ending of Avengers: Infinity War.
Aware of how affected they were by the famously dour ending of The Empire Strikes Back (Luke loses his hand, Han gets frozen — not exactly ideal), the Russo Brothers knew they had the opportunity to deliver that sort of shock to a new generation of movie-lovers.
"Look at Empire Strikes Back, the shock of that ending — experiencing that at a young age and knowing we had an opportunity to do something like that," Anthony said. "That was something we were very conscious of — we knew the effect that had on us and we knew we had the elements to give that sort of experience to the audience, especially younger audiences that weren't as familiar or hadn't experienced that at an impressionable age."
One of the few, but generally valid, long-running criticisms of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is that it can occasionally feel too formulaic, which is certainly not an adjective that can be applied to Infinity War, which completed bucked the trend and upended expectations with its instantly iconic Thanos-snap ending.
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Uyghur survivor of China's detention camps testifies to their brutality
Tursunay Ziyawudun at the International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, D.C. | Campaign For Uyghurs | Twitter @CUyghurs
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A two-time survivor of China's detention camps in Xinjiang described suffering physical and sexual violence at the hands of camp guards, in her July 14 testimony at an international religious freedom gathering in Washington, D.C.
Tursunay Ziyawudun, 42, of China's northwest province of Xinjiang, spoke at the International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, D.C. on the morning of Wednesday, July 14. She described how she was imprisoned in camps in the province on two separate occasions.
"My experiences in these Chinese camps have left indelible scars on my heart," she said.
"I have come to see it as my duty to be the voice for those people who are in the camps, those who died in front of my own eyes, and those who are being held unjustly in prison," she said, her voice quivering with emotion. Her testimony was translated with subtitles.
According to the U.S. State Department, since April 2017 China has set up a network of internment and detention camps in Xinjiang, imprisoning more than one million Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Hui, and members of other Muslim groups, and some Christians. Detainees have been subjected to political indoctrination, torture, physical and psychological abuse, forced sterilization, and forced labor.
The current Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has said that China is committing genocide in the region. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also said that genocide is occurring there.
The Uyhgurs are an ethnic minority in northwestern China, and are mainly Muslims. Most of the camp detainees are Uyghurs.
"Millions of Uyhgurs are suffering, and they are alive only because they have the hope and belief that there is justice in this world," Ziyawudun said. "My people, who have been experienceing a genocide for the past five years, are waiting for help from you and from all of humanity."
"I bow humbly before you and once again ask the whole world, and all of humanity, to save my people from this oppression," she pleaded with audience members.
The summit is a gathering of religious and civic leaders, featuring testimonies of survivors of religious persecution, as well as speeches and panel discussions on promoting religious freedom globally.
Regarding her two stints in the detention camps, Ziyawundun said her second stint "was even more inhumane than the first."
Ziyawudun said that life in the camp was lived in a constant state of fear, and that she was able to hear other detainees being tortured.
"On several occasions, the Han police and guards took me out of the cell and into interrogation, and they beat me," she said. "They used whatever oppressive methods they wanted."
The "Han" people are the majority ethnic group in China. Uyghur women have reported that they were forced into marriages with Han men after their Uyghur husbands were taken to the camps.
One time, Ziyawudun said, she and a woman in her 20s were taken by camp police officers and brought to "a man in a suit, wearing a mask over his mouth."
"They raped the young woman," she said. "Three Han police officers raped me as well."
This system of rape was commonplace, as the police "were always taking girls out of the cells like this" and "did whatever they wanted."
"Sometimes they brought some of the women back near the point of death," she said. "Some of the women disappeared."
"I saw some of them bleed to death with my own eyes. Some of them even lost their minds in the camp," said Ziyawudun.
Her second detention began in March 2018, she said, and lasted for nearly one year. She said that she noticed "many new buildings in the camp" as well as camera systems and armed guards.
"Sometimes they showed us propaganda films," said Ziyawudun. "Sometimes they taught us Chinese law, sometimes they taught us Chinese 'red' songs, and sometimes they made us swear oaths of loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party."
The Chinese Communist Party alleges that the camps are "re-education" camps aimed at combating terrorism.
Ziyawudun said she was only able to speak about her experience since she arrived in the United States, through the assistance of the U.S. government and the Uyghur Human Rights Project.
Another survivor of China's detention camps, Gulzira Auelkhan, testified before a congressional commission on Tuesday. She told members of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission that her detention camp had an organized system of forced prostitution and rape.
Auelkhan said she was arrested in 2017 for immigrating to Kazakhstan, and said she was sent to four different camps. She was allowed to leave China for Kazakhstan in January 2019.
In her time in the camps, Auelkhan said she had no privacy and reported being beaten with electric batons if she or others took more than two minutes to use the restroom. Detainees would be punished by being forced to sit in the painful "tiger chair," at times for 14 hours. If they fainted, guards would douse them with cold water to revive them. Detainees were forced to eat rice, study Mandarin Chinese, and the laws of the Chinese Communist Party.
Also at Wednesday's summit, Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, condemned China's "genocide" in Xinjiang.
"Xi Jinping's genocide includes the forced disappearances of millions of Uyghurs into concentration camps, the forced sterilization of Uyghur women, forced abortion of their precious babies, and state abduction of Uyghur children into orphanages far from home to be reared with non-Uyghur upbringing. All of this fits the definition of genocide," he said.
"The Chinese Communist Party is today systematically erasing Islam in western China—bulldozing mosques and shrines, severely throttling all religious practice, and forcing camp detainees to renounce their faith," he said.
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Christine Rousselle is a former DC Correspondent for Catholic News Agency. Prior to working at CNA, she was the managing web editor of Townhall.com; she has a BA in political science from Providence College.
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and here is the JS for jQuery
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});

He is opening the 2 and know it is missing a line of code but I have no idea how to fix.
Any suggestions?

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And this is all you need:
$(function () { // DOM ready shorthand
    $('.mostrar, .ocultar').click( function(){
       var $parent = $(this).closest('.item');
       $(this).toggle().siblings().toggle();
       $parent.find('.segmento').slideToggle();
    });
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using System;
using UnityEngine;

/// <summary>
/// This trigger is used to set an animation state property as a reaction
/// to changes in the music.
/// </summary>
[AddComponentMenu("Visualizer Studio/Triggers/Animation State Property Trigger")]
public class VisAnimationStatePropertyTrigger : VisBasePropertyTrigger
{
	#region Defaults Static Class

	/// <summary>
    /// This internal class holds all of the defaults of the VisAnimationStatePropertyTrigger class.
	/// </summary>
	public static new class Defaults
	{
		public const AnimationStateProperty targetProperty = AnimationStateProperty.NormalizedTime;
		public const string targetAnimation = "Idle";
	}

	#endregion

	#region Public Member Variables

	/// <summary>
	/// This is the target property to modify on the parent game object.
	/// As an example of how this works:
	/// minControllerValue = 0.2
	/// maxControllerValue = 0.8
	/// minPropertyValue = 2.0
	/// maxPropertyValue = 4.0
	/// invertValue = false
	///
	/// controllerInputValue = 0.5 -- newPropertyValue = 3.0
	/// controllerInputVlaue = 0.35 -- newPropertyValue = 2.5
    /// </summary>
    //[HideInInspector()]
	public AnimationStateProperty targetProperty = Defaults.targetProperty;

	/// <summary>
	/// This is the target animation to set the animation state for.
	/// This must be playing in order to modify its state.
    /// </summary>
    //[HideInInspector()]
	public string targetAnimation = Defaults.targetAnimation;

	#endregion

	#region Init/Deinit Functions

	/// <summary>
	/// This is callled when this commponent is reset.
	/// </summary>
	public override void Reset()
	{
		base.Reset();

		targetProperty = Defaults.targetProperty;
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Jean-Philippe Golay
CIO, ebiexperts
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Founded in 2000, ebiexperts is a leading provider of a software solution that enables companies to leverage their existing business intelligence investments to their full potential by delivering simple, secure and effective software solutions. The software helps organizations gain better insight into their business intelligence applications, improving agility, productivity and return on investments. ebiexperts works with a worldwide network of partners and resellers to support more than 100 customers worldwide and across all industry sectors.
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.NET-Based ebiexperts Avoids Time, Cost Drains in Wake of Business Objects' Switch to Java
ebiexperts provides a version control and deployment tool called Version Manager, specifically designed for SAP business intelligence (BI). Both the deployment management and version recovery are completely integrated in the application. ebiexperts' customers use Version Manager for other needs as well, including deploying Java applications to web servers, deploying QlikView and Qlik Sense applications, managing product documentation, ensuring there is always only a single copy of every file, or managing and deploying ERP configuration files.
In 2010, ebiexperts migrated its existing applications from Delphi to .NET for a number of reasons. "It was easier to find developers' C skill sets rooted in the more modern .NET," said Jean-Philippe Golay, CIO, ebiexperts. "But most importantly, migration to .NET meant better integration with SAP Business Objects."
As luck would have it, SAP decided to convert Business Objects to Java soon after ebiexperts' migration to .NET. "This bit of news was thrown at us by one of our customers that was evaluating a new SAP version," recalled Golay. "He said, 'Everything [ebiexperts] is using is gone. We need it in Java, and we need it now.'"
Integration with the new SAP BI platform meant that ebiexperts would have to sink countless developer hours into rewriting its existing applications in Java — and it had to be done quickly. "We could have written our own bridge to interact with Java applications; we had our own pieces and slices of code," said Golay. "But it would have been a massive nightmare to execute. It would have taken a lot of resources and effort — and time, which we didn't have."
Golay and his team's due diligence in searching for a solution to their Java woes led them to JNBridgePro. The solution enabled a faster implementation of a Java-compatible version of ebiexperts' software. In addition, Golay said using JNBridgePro has limited the amount of training needed so his team could stay focused on other tasks. "[JNBridgePro] is an elegant fix — and one that is absolutely reliable in bridging Java with whatever .NET applications we are running… It allows us to focus our efforts on understanding the SAP side."
JNBridgePro has also proven to help "future proof" ebiexperts' applications. "SAP has an ever-changing framework. Now, they seem to want to phase out Java and replace it with a new REST SDK," said Golay. "Using JNBridgePro makes it easier for us to move between technologies as things evolve."
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Wake up – 2:10am, leave Mangawhero Campsite by 2:30am and drive 7km to the Mangatepopo Car Park.
Over 600,000 people a year embark across the famous Tongariro Crossing. And it's easy to see why. The 19km hike passes Mount Ngauruhoe [Mt. Doom], an active stratovolcano that is famous for its appearance in the The Lord of the Rings trilogy, includes waterfalls, long deck strolls in between mountains, the Devil's Staircase, and crosses the massive South Crater [actually a glacier-carved basin], and this is all before the best part. From atop the highest point, hikers enjoy a 360 view of the famous Emerald Lakes, Mount Ngauruhoe and Tongariro, the Blue Lake, and the Mars-like Rangipo Desert. Ryan and I wanted to hike the Crossing before arriving in New Zealand, and although it took us over a year to finally do it, I believe it was worth the wait.
Plans had been stewing for weeks after we learned about hiking the Tongariro for sunrise. After waking up on the beach on Kapiti Coast and a big Valentine's Day brunch at Whisper's Cafe in Levin, Ryan and I stocked up at the supermarket for the hike. Per usual: avocado sammies, assorted fruit, trail mix, and overpriced Clif bars — to keep us energized. We arrived in Tongariro National Park late afternoon, visited Whakapapa village, and snagged a near by camping site. Knowing we had to wake up at 2am, we attempted to go to sleep before sundown. It didn't happen. We couldn't contain our excitement and probably slept 3-4 hours.
The alarm went off, and we were up. Excited like kids on Christmas morning, we exited the campsite as quietly as possible and headed to the Trail Head.
We started in the pitch-black night, but after 30 minutes of walking, the moon appeared through the clouds. Turning our torches off, we walked guided by the moonlight, taking in the vastness around us. We saw the shadows of massive mountains, and listened to the wind whistle ahead. This path that is usually full of groups of hikers, was ours and only ours. Not a soul in sight and I loved every bit of the night silence. In all honestly it felt magical to be awake and walking at this hour.
Not to mention, the best thing about hiking in the dark, is you cannot see your ascent. You climb and climb without knowing how high you have left or how high you have climbed.
Around 5am, we began crossing the crater (having no clue). The wind grew stronger and the air, colder. We found shelter behind a massive rock face to pass the time. We hiked faster than anticipated and chose to kill time before our final climb to the top of the Red Crater [1886m]. After 20 minutes of cuddling, we decided to head up to greet the sun. At this point the path shrinks, and eventually chains attached to the rock are there to help pull yourself up. Mix this in with battling strong winds and loose, volcanic terrain, with little light is a tad worrying, but this all disappeared when we reached the top just in time for the show.
As the sun rose, clouds pooled below us, and hues of orange, red, and purple began to light up the sky. The Emerald Pools lit up in the most striking green as the sun glistened on the surface. The volcanic ground beneath our feet turned fiery red, and we spent the next hour in absolute awe. Though we saw torches in the distance, we did not see another human for hours. After many fun photoshoots, we headed down the steep, always moving, volcanic ash to the edges of the Emerald Lakes and onto the Blue Lake.
We wandered the area catching views of Mt. Ruapehu in the distance and around 9am began our trek in reverse. Most hikers do the one-way crossing start to finish, grabbing a costly shuttle back to their cars. We chose to hike back the way we started to see what we missed in the dark, [and also because I refuse to pay $30 for a 10minute bus ride]. We slowly crawled back up the Red Crater, and finally ran into the masses. Looking down and across the South Crater, heaps of groups were making their way up. It looked like mayhem. As we climbed down, we took turns with people coming up on the narrow stairs. And I couldn't help but smile knowing how awe-inspiring our experience was that morning. Regardless of the time of day, this region is stunning, but it's unimaginable when you have it all to yourself.
I was glad to see many young kids on the trail, and props to those mothers carrying infants, people of all ages from every corner of the globe tackling this famous hike. I did worry that many of the people we passed were unprepared for the conditions atop. Ryan and I wore every layer we carried. Gloves, beanie, and my blanket-scarf saved me from the 0°C/32°F windchill. I could only hope the fellow hikers knew what lied ahead. While crossing the massive South Crater, we considered summiting Mt. Doom/Mt. Ngauruhoe, but the sheer incline and terrain turned us against this thought. We'll save the 2287 m summit climb up an old lava flow for another time.
We visited Soda Springs, a relaxing stream of waterfalls, for a rest stop/lunch break. And even caught a view of Mount Taranaki. A few hours later, we arrived at Ronda, proud of our accomplished day still gushing over the phenomenal morning. The rest of the day was spent venturing around the National Park and relaxing in Ronda waiting in hopes of a magnificent sunset as our sunrise. We found a great spot along the road with views of both Mt. Ngauruhoe and Mt. Ruapehu and took a few fun snaps while waiting for the sun to drop. We waited and waited and when it appeared that we weren't getting our wish, we hopped in the van and started driving. Only then did the sky start lighting up. Just as the last hint of sun dropped behind the horizon, cotton candy pinks and purples swept across the park.
If you plan on hiking the Tongariro Crossing, GO AT SUNRISE. You'll experience a sunrise unlike any before without a million other tourists getting in your way.
This type of hike is everything Ryan and I love about this country, this planet. It's why we fall madly in love with nature over and over again. Thankfully New Zealand is full of more impressive hikes, and we plan on tackling all of them while sharing our best tips and tricks along the way.
So awesome! It's such a great place. I just went back and did it again with friends and was at the top for sunset and again had it to ourselves! Watched the moonrise and headed down with the glow of the moon guiding us. It was magical!
Hi Anais! I apologize for the super late reply. My comments are filled with spam messages and I completely missed this until now.
Did you end up doing the hike? It's one of my favorites in the country and definitely doable in October!


To my surprise, this blog has been written by a woman near by me, and claimed that her job is a housewife, everytime I google the results are mostly from stackoverflow.com, macrumor etc. As I remember this is the first time I get the answer of my problem from a housewife in Surabaya. that is wow….
Could you please give us further explaination why this is happened, I just want to resolve the problem with another way. Puting additional codes in .bashrc or .bash_profile (for some OS) is not really "mak nyus" to me.. It just doesn't feel elegant if I have many servers for many purposes.
Would you be able to clarify what is happening when we add: [ -z "$PS1" ] && return to the bash profile?
$PS1 is the prompt string. If this is unset, it implies that the session is not running interactively. The added line tests whether the prompt string is null… and if so it skips execution of the rest of the .bashrc file, avoiding the error.
Very helpful. Cleared up a significant problem for me.
Thanks a lot. It was really useful for me.


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Happy Birthday guys- don't forget those great red helium balloons!
happy birthday to each of you! really sorry for my late! i hope you had a good time!!


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Q: Best way to build a deep tree from MySQL results? My tree structure is as follows:

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*Book

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*Chapters

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*Sections

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*Components

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*Images

My results are based off of a few outer joins:

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*book_id

*book_name

*chapter_id

*chapter_name

*section_id
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until images.

What is the best way to build a tree structure from the linear dataset returned from MySQL?

A: Very similar to this question.
There are three basic options and one pedantic one.
First Option:
SELECT * FROM Book b JOIN Chapters c USING (book_id) JOIN Sections s USING (chapter_id) ...

With the results from the above query, you can easily make a nested object by reading the columns and traversing the root object. It's trivial, but the amount of duplicated data from the DB may cause performance issues depending on your use case.
Second Option:
SELECT * FROM Book WHERE (your filters here);

With the query result, create a map of BookId -> Book Object, e.g.
for (result : results) { books[result.book_id] = new Book(result); }

With that, make another query:
SELECT * FROM Chapter WHERE book_id IN (book ids you collected earlier)

And continue doing this, mapping as you go. It can be quicker and more efficient than the first option, but the amount of complicated code might make the performance gains no longer worth it.
Third Option:
Use an ORM, such as Sequelize. It will use some efficient combination of my first and second options. Probably. But it will abstract the pain away from you, as the user.
Pedantic Option:
Depending on your use case, MySQL may not be right for hosting this kind of data. How often do you need to return an entire Book object, rather than the pieces that the user needs right now? Do you frequently filter books based on their images? Maybe a JSON-based store like MongoDB could be helpful, or perhaps you could store Sections, Components, and Images in a single BLOB column on the Chapters table. Again, it depends a lot on your use case.


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Summer living is peachy keen!
Nicholas Polanin
Jersey Grown peaches are at the top of everyone's list as one of the most beloved fruits of summer. But did you know that our peach season is from July through September and that the Garden State stands fourth nationally in the production of peaches, after California, South Carolina and Georgia?
New Jersey's entire peach crop is sold to the fresh market via supermarkets, farm markets, specialty produce stores, U-pick operations and community farmers markets. New Jersey's peaches are all picked by hand and are shipped all over the eastern US and eastern Canada.
Peach production in New Jersey dates back to the early 1600s. The peach was the first fruit to receive attention commercially and it was reported in 1683 that peaches were available in New York by the wagonloads from New Jersey orchards.
By the mid 1800s, the fruit industry was receiving considerable attention and the entire state was known for its abundance and quality of peaches. Production reached sufficient quantities to ship more than 500,000 bushels to New York markets by 1865.
In 1900, there were more than 4 million peach trees within Hunterdon County, then the major peach-growing region of the state.
Before a suitable control could be found, a major infestation of San Jose scale nearly wiped out the industry in the early 20th century
Today, New Jersey has less than 2 million peach trees. However, the industry has for several years been recovering vigorously. New varieties of peaches and nectarines are extending the season both early and late. New Jersey soils and climate are also ideal for maximum production of quality peaches.
The southern district of the state — Gloucester, Cumberland, Camden, Atlantic and Salem counties — is the state's major growing area.
Gloucester County has the state's most peach trees, and hosts the annual New Jersey Peach Festival every July, but peach orchards can be found throughout New Jersey.
For a complete listing of farms that provide pick-your-own tree fruit harvesting experiences throughout New Jersey, visit http://jerseyfresh.nj.gov/find/pickyourown.html.
"Peach production continues to be a challenge in New Jersey with a wide variety of pests, high production and labor costs, irregular weather patterns, and vigorous competition from other peach-producing areas," said Jerry Frecon, retired Gloucester County Agricultural Agent for Rutgers Cooperative Extension. "In spite of these obstacles, New Jersey remains a great place to grow and provide consumers high quality flavorful peaches."
And those peaches are plentiful and waiting for you at farmers markets.
Today there are more than 145 farmers markets operating statewide in communities both large and small.
Garden State farmers markets offer residents the opportunity to enjoy freshly-picked, Jersey Fresh produce directly from New Jersey farmers, while supporting the state's agricultural industry and their local economies at the same time.
For complete information on locations, days and hours of community farmers markets throughout New Jersey, visit http://jerseyfresh.nj.gov/find/community.html.
Farmers at many markets throughout the state participate in the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program (FMNP), which provides $20 vouchers for the purchase of locally-grown fresh fruits, vegetables and herbs.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) program administered by the State Department of Health and Senior Services gives these vouchers to qualifying individuals, which are valid through Nov. 30.
In addition, some farmers can accept Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program EBT cards, through use of wireless transponders, through the New Jersey Department of Human Services.
For more information on the WIC and Senior FMNP, visit: www.state.nj.us/agriculture/
divisions/md/prog/wic.html.
Picnic invites you to farm
The Somerset County Board of Agriculture has announced its annual Scholarship Picnic, hosted once again by Madden Farms, on July 26 in Franklin. From 4:30 to 8:30 Saturday afternoon and evening, this picnic takes place annually in celebration of the life of Thomas Everett, and its proceeds go to fund the board's scholarship program, named in his memory.
Returning this year providing live music will be Due South. The picnic features all Jersey Fresh, Somerset County-grown-and-raised produce and farm products.
This annual scholarship was created to honor Everett's personal and agricultural legacy, his initiative and leadership, and seeks to recognize those individuals whose goals are synonymous with his living definition of success.
Tickets are $25, $10 for children, and are available at
http://somerset.njaes
.rutgers.edu/pdfs/2014-AG-Taste-Somerset-Picnic.pdf or by calling 908-526-6293, ext. 4.
Madden Farms is at 117 Suydam Road in the Somerset section of Franklin.
So why not spend an afternoon on the farm, enjoying live music and locally grown food? Get your tickets and grab your lawn chairs or blankets, and bring your appetite.
Nicholas Polanin is Associate Professor and Agricultural Agent II at Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Cooperative Extension of Somerset County.


Easy Honey Buttercream Frosting - Sugar Free and Paleo!
An easy buttercream frosting recipe that is made without eggs or sugar, and holds its shape perfectly when piped! Learn how to make a delicious vanilla buttercream icing for all your dessert needs!
If you are looking for the best buttercream icing, you have found it! This buttercream recipe is perfect for Paleo or GAPS diets, but is enjoyable for everyone, even if you eat a Standard American Diet!
Sweetened with honey only, this buttercream is light and fluffy, and holds its shape when piped.
Since this recipe doesn't use any eggs, we are going to use gelatin to help the butter hold its shape.
The first time you make this, you might think the gelatin water is never going to mix into the butter. Just be patient. It really only takes about 3 minutes and is well worth it!
In a small saucepan over low heat, combine water and gelatin. Stir constantly until gelatin is completely dissolved.
Add honey to the gelatin water and mix well. Allow to cool to room temperature.
Place butter in the bowl of an electric mixer. You can mix this with a hand mixer, but it's going to be much messier than just using a stand mixer.
Beat butter until creamy and smooth. Scrap down the sides before continuing.
On low speed, slowly add the gelatin/honey water. You will need to scrap down the sides often.
I have found that if I turn up the mixer to high and shield the edges with a towel (to avoid splashing) it takes about 3-5 minutes to fully incorporate the ingredients.
NOTE: A paddle attachment works best for this recipe!
Add vanilla and any coloring, mix until well combined.
If you are ready to use your buttercream icing, you can do so right away.
Be sure that whatever you are icing is completely cooled before adding the frosting. If it is warm at all, the butter will melt right away.
If you want to make this in advance, it is very simple to do. Just make the buttercream as noted above, then store in the fridge if you are going to use it within a week.
Take the buttercream out of the fridge and allow it to slowly come to room temperature before using.
You can also store this buttercream in the freezer for up to 6 months.
To use frozen buttercream, place the icing in the fridge the night before, then place it on the counter and allow it to come to room temperature for an hour or so before using.
You can use homemade or store-bought natural food dye to coloring your buttercream in the same manner than I made DIY Colored Sugar here!
The colors are beautiful and you don't have to worry about chemical food dye!
Easy buttercream frosting sweetened with honey. Perfect for Paleo or GAPS diet desserts! Make this vanilla buttercream icing today!
Gently heat water just enough to dissolve gelatin. Stir well, add honey.
Remove from heat and allow to come to room temperature.
Beat butter until creamy and smooth, a paddle attachment works best!
Slowly add water/gelatin mix and beat until light and fluffy.
Buttercream can be refrigerated for up to a week, or frozen for up to 6 months.
To use: allow icing to come to room temperature then use!


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