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Pope Francis says coronavirus could be nature's response to climate crisis
Posted: Apr 8, 2020 / 10:47 PM PDT / Updated: Apr 8, 2020 / 10:47 PM PDT
Pope Francis has said the coronavirus pandemic is one of "nature's responses" to humans ignoring the current ecological crisis.
In an email interview published Wednesday in The Tablet and Commonwealth magazines, the pontiff said the outbreak offered an opportunity to slow down the rate of production and consumption and to learn to understand and contemplate the natural world.
"We did not respond to the partial catastrophes. Who now speaks of the fires in Australia, or remembers that 18 months ago a boat could cross the North Pole because the glaciers had all melted? Who speaks now of the floods?" the Pope said.
"I don't know if these are the revenge of nature, but they are certainly nature's responses," he added.
The pandemic has radically changed the way the Vatican operates, with the Pope celebrating Palm Sunday mass in an empty church and the sites normally packed with tourists empty.
The 83-year-old Pope, who has a damaged lung from an infection in his 20s, has twice tested negative for the novel coronavirus. He is being distanced from anyone who might be carrying the virus, takes his meals in his private quarters, and uses hand sanitizer before and after meeting any guests, the Vatican press office said.
Pope Francis also said in the interview he was recovering from his bronchitis and praying even more from his residence in the Vatican during this "time of great uncertainty."
Francis also revealed he goes to confession every Tuesday to ask forgiveness for his own selfishness. "I take care of things there," he said.
He also criticized the response to the outbreak, saying the homeless should be quarantined in hotels and not in parking lots.
"A photo appeared the other day of a parking lot in Las Vegas where they [the homeless] had been put in quarantine. And the hotels were empty. But the homeless cannot go to a hotel," the Pope said.
"This is the moment to see the poor," he said, adding that society often treats those in need as "rescued animals."
The Pope also warned against the rise of populist politicians — who he said are giving speeches reminiscent of Hitler in 1933 — and others who are focusing solely on the economy. He said he was worried by the "hypocrisy of certain political personalities who speak of facing up to the crisis, of the problem of hunger in the world, but who in the meantime manufacture weapons."
The Pope encouraged those in a lockdown to find creative ways of being at home. "Take care of yourselves for a future that will come," Francis said.
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We thought we would do a blog series for you to cover each important phase of pre-pregnancy, being pregnant and post-pregnancy over the next 3 months, and why staying hydrated during this crucial time when your body is changing & adapting is so important. Let's start with pre-pregnancy and the importance of eliminating as many toxins from your diet & lifestyle as possible.
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Non-stick chemicals – Remove these from your kitchen! Toxins are released when these pans are heated; Scientists have discovered women with higher levels of non-stick chemicals in their bloodstream take longer to fall pregnant.
How to protect yourself – cook with stainless steel, cast iron, glass, ceramic or stoneware.
BPA – A Hormone disrupting chemical which can cause widespread damage throughout the body, not only for fertility but for a developing foetus, babies and toddlers.
How to protect yourself – Opt for Glass, stainless steel, & BPA Free containers for eating (baby bottles included), drinking & storing food.
Phthalates – These are a family of industrial chemicals found in products containing artificial fragrances – scented products such as perfume, cologne, air fresheners, laundry detergents, fabric softeners, shampoo, soap, hairspray, body spray, lotion, deodorant, makeup and other personal care products.
Scientific studies have shown that high levels of phthalates are associated with altered DNA integrity in human sperm, reproductive development issues, and suppression of ovulation.
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Pesticides, Herbicides & endocrine disruption chemicals – linked to reproductive issues, birth defects, cancers, Alzheimer's, ADHD, miscarriage, & infertility. They are sprayed on our fruits and vegetables to protect them from pests, bacteria, moulds, insects and rodents.
According to an article published on CNN.com, children who are frequently exposed to a small amount of organophosphates (a pesticide found on commercially grown fruit and vegetables) are more likely to have ADHD and exposure to these pesticides has also been linked to behavioural and learning problems in children.
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Postcard: The Abita Springs girl (Varonica Stire) feeding her pet lamb "Teddy." It was published by W. E. Carruth, 1127. Postcard marked June 12, 1907.
Street scene with some houses.
Scene in the woods with the Labat Hotel in the background.
Full view of Labat Hotel.
Side front view of the main building of the Long Branch Hotel.
Main building of the new Abita Springs Hotel.
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church on the left and Abita School on the right.
N. O. G. N. Track, main bridge with Pavilion in rear.
Foot bridge to the Pavilion and the celebrated springs.
Bridge leading to Covington from Abita Springs, Louisiana.
3 & 4-views of the steeple of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Fourteen slides of the workings of the Abita Brewery, Abita Springs, Louisiana.
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Captain Mukula: If anybody adulterated the law and put lives of many Ugandans in danger because of his position, President will take appropriate action
Ninsiima Julian Posted on March 27, 2020 March 27, 2020
KAMPALA – Captain Mike Mukula, the National Resistance Movement-NRM party vice chairperson for Eastern Uganda has weighed in on impacts of coronavirus on Uganda's economy with much of the country in lockdown.
He says coronavirus is having a profound and serious impact on the global economy and has sent policymakers looking for ways to respond.
In an interview with Globe-News' Joseph Sabiiti, Captain Mukula, who is a businessman says China's experience so far shows that the right policies make a difference in fighting the disease and mitigating its impact—but some of these policies come with difficult economic tradeoffs.
He says some sectors, like aviation, tourism, and hospitality, will see lost demand and that 'this demand is largely irrecoverable."
The outbreak brought terrible human suffering in the world, as it is continuing to do elsewhere, along with significant economic costs.
By all indications, he says the slowdown in the first quarter of 2020 will be significant and will leave a deep mark for the year in all countries.
What started as a series of sudden stops in economic activity, quickly cascaded through the economy and morphed into a full-blown shock simultaneously impeding supply and demand—as visible in the very weak January-February readings of industrial production and retail sales.
The coronavirus shock is severe even compared to the Great Financial Crisis in 2007–08, as it hit households, businesses, financial institutions, and markets all at the same time—first in China and now globally.
But the former Soroti Municipality MP says the economy of Uganda would continue to thrive and he trusts President Museveni and his administration have a massive plan for Uganda amid coronavirus escalation.
As COVID-19 cases overwhelm intensive care units around the world especially the US, UK, Spain and Italy, Captain Mukula, a formers state minister of health also lauds President Museveni on the visionary leadership including making timely decisions to close the airport and all borders.
"If he didn't close the border, we would possibly hit the same situation Italy is facing now," Captain Mukula says, noting that "closing the airport was the best decision Uganda has so far taken in the struggle against coronavirus."
"The directives were core and strategic and if people don't adhere to his directives and guidelines issued by Ministry of Health, then you know that we're in deep trouble," he adds.
Asked on those who allegedly used their positions to ferry relatives out of mandatory quarantine, he says: "I think a decision will be taken at the highest level by the president."
If anybody adulterated the law and put the lives of many Ugandans in danger because of his position, the President will take appropriate action.
Will an emergency response to the disease send us out of the frying pan of the virus, into the fire of economic breakdown?
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After the fires
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Feral predators become opportunists following a forest fire, researchers have found. By Tim Thwaites (BSc(Hons) 1974, Trinity College, Janet Clarke Hall).
Regrowth near Kinglake three months after the Black Saturday bushfires of 2009. Picture by Craig Abraham
Warily, the fox creeps up to sniff at a cluster of three metal tea strainers suspended from a pole in her territory. They smell of nuts, golden syrup and rolled oats. They are also at exactly the right distance for an infra-red camera triggered by her movement to catch her in the act. She has unwittingly become part of an innovative study of the interaction of invasive predators and wildlife with fire.
Her picture is one of thousands captured at more than 100 such sites in an effort to determine the distribution of foxes and feral cats, and their prey, before and after a control burn in the dense bushland of the Otway Ranges, south-west of Melbourne. The idea was to compare the impact on wildlife of burning a block of about 1200 hectares with what happened in a nearby, untouched area of similar size.
The study showed that, in the Otways, invasive predators intensively used areas where prescribed burning had removed the undergrowth. In fact, appearances by foxes and feral cats occurred at five times their pre-burn rate.
And, by analysing faeces, the researchers determined that the foxes had switched their diet from the swamp wallabies of more open areas to smaller native mammals, such as bandicoots, echidnas and bush rats.
The research, some the first of its kind in the world, formed part of the PhD project of Dr Bronwyn Hradsky in the University's School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, as well as the Honours project of Craig Mildwaters (BSc(Hons) 2013). The work was published earlier this year in the respected US Journal of Mammalogy. In another segment of her PhD, Hradsky tracked the movement of individual foxes she had trapped and fitted with GPS collars, research which is currently under review for publication.
Dr Bronwyn Hradsky tracks fox movements.
Anyone who came across Hradsky deep in the forest during her 10-day tracking stints would certainly have taken a second look.
"I was often standing at a funny angle on one leg on a log holding an antenna over my head and balancing a laptop in the other hand," she laughs.
Now, as a Research Fellow in the School of Biosciences, Hradsky (BSc(Hons) 2008, PhD 2017) is using her findings as a basis for developing a general simulation model of how foxes and their native prey react to fire.
"I was always interested in applied outcomes from my research," she says, a triumph confirmed by Dr John Wright (BSc(Hons) 1989, PhD 1997), Team Leader for Research Co-ordination at Parks Victoria and an alumnus of the University.
"Her research is already embedded within real management," he says. "It has informed and influenced the design of Otway Ark, a major predator control program Parks Victoria is implementing across the Great Otway National Park."
That's one of the reasons why the Victorian Government through the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) and Parks Victoria is providing about half of Hradsky's ongoing support.
The issues raised by the interaction of fire management with wildlife, however, are much broader than ensuring native animals persist within one national park. And Hradsky's work is playing an important role in filling gaps in our knowledge.
As a result, she is also supported by the Australian Government through the Threatened Species Recovery Hub of the National Environmental Science Program, a $60 million consortium of 10 universities and the Australian Wildlife Conservancy. The hub is led by University of Melbourne alumnus Professor Brendan Wintle (BForSc(Hons) 1994, PhD 2003).
As more and more people seek the serenity and beauty of the Australian bush – on the fringes of cities, up and down the coastline, in forested and mountain areas – there is growing concern over the risk to life and property of bushfires, especially in an era of climate change.
So, one of the key recommendations of the Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission – convened in 2009 as a response to the catastrophic Black Saturday fires – was to increase significantly the level of control burning across the state. But the effects and consequences of prescribed burning are neither simple nor easy to predict, with complicated trade-offs to be made.
An urban fox. Picture: NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water.
For instance, if prescribed burning makes native animals more vulnerable to foxes, as Hradsky's work suggests, does protecting bushland living in this way end up damaging one of its drawcards? That's just one of a series of paradoxes to do with fire management. And the answers depend on the conditions and objectives of burning. What is best for a city fringe differs markedly from a national park; what's good for grassland may be disastrous in forest.
It all demands clever and careful research at a landscape level. And that is what the Fire Ecology and Biodiversity research group led by Associate Professor Alan York has been working on for about nine years.
Based in the School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences at Creswick, the group grew out of the Victorian Government's old Forest Research Division, which migrated to the University of Melbourne. It is one of six research groups at the University that the government employs by external contract.
For the past seven years, the group has been running a major project in the Otways entitled Fire, Landscape Pattern and Biodiversity. "After the Royal Commission, the government wanted to know if you put more fire into the landscape whether it would have a positive or negative effect on biodiversity," Professor York says.
"Two questions were particularly relevant. If you use fire to create burnt and unburnt vegetation over time, is the resulting mosaic pattern of bush regeneration good for biodiversity? The second question was how do factors other than regeneration – weather patterns, climate, predation by foxes and feral cats – interact with fire to affect outcomes? And that's where Bronwyn [Hradsky] came in."
By working with the land managers of DELWP and Parks Victoria who conduct the prescribed burning program in the Great Otway National Park, the overall project has been able to look at many aspects of plant, bird and mammal diversity before and after fire. In June 2017, the research won the Nancy Millis Science in Parks Award, which recognises the role of science in managing Victoria's parks.
Dr Hradsky has now moved to the School of Biosciences where she is working on her model. Because you can't just walk into a landscape and burn it as an experiment, she says, a major reason for the model is to bring together all the snippets of information on aspects of the question from studies all over the place. Some of the best research on the dynamics of fox populations, for instance, comes from Bristol, England.
A camera used to catch predators in the act.
"The model is based on individual foxes setting up territories, finding mates, and then having young that disperse across the landscape. So, we can capture the impact of very localised fox control." One benefit, she adds, is that you soon learn what information is lacking.
The model can be customised to a specific location by pulling in geographic and land use data. Then, by overlaying information on the fox population and territories, the idea is to use it to test the likely impact of different levels and patterns of fire and of control, such as baiting. "I hope in the future it will assist landscape managers with decision-making and planning."
The research programs described in this article were supported by DELWP, Parks Victoria, the Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment and the Australian Government's National Environmental Science Program.
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Instagram, Business | Now you can find us on Instagram again: – It is important for us to be where our audience is
Hanisi Anenih December 18, 2022 3 min read
– We who work in Helgelendingen and Sandnessjøen are proud of the quality reading we provide and engaging journalism with the community every day. At the same time, we would like more young people to get to know the newspaper and what we have to offer, says editor-in-chief Jonas Brecki.
Now, Instagram is not necessarily the most youthful communication platform to reach younger readers. But when seven out of ten Instagram users are under 30, it's still an exciting opportunity to connect with a target group that isn't overrepresented among subscribers.
– I myself am no slouch on social media, I have to admit. But fortunately, an editorial team has been assembled with experience in many fields and who take new challenges head-on, says Brick.
You can find us under Usernames »avisa. helgelendingen" And the "In Sandnessjoen».
"Helgelender" is ambiguous
It was the newspaper's new SoMe director, Benedicte Wærstad, who was given the task of creating a new Instagram account. She is so happy Media House has Helgelendingen and iSandnessjøen on Instagram.
– We will try to be present with both stories and videos, chronicles and reels. She adds that compiling our news and reports in a different way and spreading joy around our local community.
Several years ago, the paper made a somewhat half-hearted attempt. Therefore, there is still an Instagram account called Helgeland Arbeiderblad, which is not in use. The name Helgelendingen is also busy on Instagram. Until now, it was not possible to find out who was behind it.
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– It's kind of a mystery. US-based owner Meta also did not respond to our inquiries about who registered this user. Brække says if anyone knows, please contact us.
Mediehuset also wants to show some of what goes on behind the scenes. Among other things, by showing what happens before and during the creation of an article for a newspaper.
Instagram opens up a direct, personal connection with your readers. Those who follow us will sometimes get small glimpses of how an ordinary day in the editorial office of a local newspaper could turn out, in a looser, more humorous package, says Jonas Breck.
We welcome advice and input on both our journalism and issues we can mention for and about young people, and what kind of content is appropriate on social media. It's important for us to be where our audience is, Weierstad adds.
It is possible to contact Helgelendingen on social media, by phone, by e-mail or by visiting the premises.
The goal of having accounts on Instagram is, among other things, to reach those who use this platform more than Facebook.
– Like other media, Helgelendingen works to reach younger target groups and we like to create content that reaches out to and cares about the Millennials. That is, those born between 1996 and 1981, says Weierstad, who encourages everyone to follow "avisa.helgelendingen" and "iSandnessjoen".
We're still in the initial stage a bit, but eventually we're looking forward to more content. And a little towards the end of the new year, we'll be inviting our new followers to join a contest with a few select prizes, says Brick.
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Diary of a SAHD: What a year a baby makes.
So we've been doing a lot of celebrating with this kid. We partied a little when she came home. We partied hard for her first birthday. We then partied mildly hard for her baptism and her due date, which turned out to be the same day. That was by sheer coincidence of scheduling.
Now we just got finished with a small party for the anniversary of her being home one year. Hard to believe it's been a year already, until we looked at the pictures from then till now. Trust me, there are tons of pictures. This business of the first child getting all the attention and the second child barely getting in a picture, yeah not the case here. I'm a little surprised we can even find shot of Frank amongst the avalanche of Anne Marie pictures.
As has become the norm with this kid, words are useless. Pictures tell a much better story. And as I said we have a metric ton of photos, so for your viewing pleasure, one year at home….
From bath time… Hey who farted?
…to pool time. Yeah, alright, it was me. I farted.
And finally from basically being immobile to walking in a year. And yeah, that's a golf club in her hand. It was un-prompted, not staged, it's just the first thing she picks up in the mornings. Probably a balance issue, but who cares. Frank didn't pick one up till he was two, and now he's walking 18 holes with me at four years old. She'll probably be better than both of us in a few years.
So, happy one year at home kid. Glad you decided to stay around for a while.
Just a cupcake, but still pretty nice.
Yeah, good to be home.
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A nice journey through the last year of Anne Marie's life. You all are blessed with two beautiful children.
Thanks Chief. I think we can safely blame their beauty on Tracy.
She is beautiful! Happy 1 year home!
We are equally glad and thankful to have you right down the street Grammy.
Merci Joy. Frank a été en attente pour Anne Marie pour être en mesure de courir et de jouer. Il est très sérieux au sujet d'être un grand frère.
Fran all I can say is, What a blessing!!!!!
❤ ive only been around the past few months & she has been nothing short of one simply amazing, (tenaciously STUBBORN) piece of earth angel with a doll face & a streak of wild child to contend with; i am so blessed to get to be a very small piece in such a huge milestone of a year.
Thanks. Her amazing is in part to your work with her.
Aw how lovely!! Congrats to you all.


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The IEEE Communications Society has awarded 6G@UT Director Jeffrey Andrews the 2021 Joseph LoCicero Award for Exemplary Service to Publications.
The annual award recognizes exceptional contributions to meetings, conferences, publications, globalization, and service to the Society. Nominees have made notable contributions to the quality, scope, or visibility of those publications.
Dr. Andrews was commended on "outstanding leadership of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)," for which he served as Editor-in-Chief from 2014-2016. Under his leadership, TWC cemented its excellence in the wireless communications field as the venue for top research papers. Dr. Andrews established a novel and highly successful Editorial board structure known as the Executive Editorial Committee, which has since been replicated by other IEEE journals.
"It was a real honor to lead the TWC for 3 years," Dr. Andrews stated. "And I'm very grateful to the over 100 Editors who helped us simultaneously raise standards and increase timeliness—a difficult combination."
In his time as Editor-in-Chief, the Transactions improved its impact factor by over 100%, while improving its already well-regarded timeliness: submission-to-publication time was reduced from 10.4 months in 2014 to 9.2 months in 2016.
In Dr. Andrews' opinion, those milestones "helped establish the TWC as the gold-standard of how a top IEEE journal should function."
He also noted the "outstanding" assistance of Karen Little, WNCG Center Manager and 6G@UT Administrative Lead, who served as Executive Assistant for the Transactions while Dr. Andrews was Editor-in-Chief. "She was the invisible hand behind so much that happened during my time as EiC," he remarked.
After stepping down as Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Andrews served on and then Chaired the Steering Committee for the same journal. As TWC Steering Committee Chair, he initiated and led the effort to completely rewrite the outdated original 2001 MOU with the Signal Processing Society to create a modern charter, setting the journal up for sustained success for many years to come.
Jeff Andrews is currently the Cockrell Family Endowed Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. An IEEE Fellow and ISI Highly Cited Researcher, Andrews has received several awards, including the 2015 Terman Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the 2021 Gordon Lepley Memorial Teaching Award, and the 2019 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu technical field award. He has been co-recipient of 15 best paper awards, including the 2016 IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award, the 2014 IEEE Stephen O. Rice Prize, the 2014 and 2018 IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize, the 2011 and 2016 IEEE Heinrich Hertz Prize, and the 2010 IEEE ComSoc Best Tutorial Paper Award. He received the B.S. in Engineering with High Distinction from Harvey Mudd College, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Jeffrey Andrews received the B.S. in Engineering with High Distinction from Harvey Mudd College, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He is the Cockrell Family Endowed Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He has worked in industry at Qualcomm and Intel and consulted widely on wireless communications.


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People often ask me how I can resist bringing home all the adorable dogs cats, kittens and puppies I am surrounded by every day. I respond with my practiced answer, "I know that each and every one of them will get a loving, forever home because of the work we do at Bideawee".
I have successfully resisted bringing any more pets into my family since the summer of 2010 when I adopted Hairy and Maximus, two kittens I fell in love with during my first six months at Bideawee. It's been a nine year stretch of no more pets! But it hasn't been easy.
I am tempted frequently. Probably weekly. And I'm often guilty of sending photos home to my husband thinking he'll give in or the kids will say, "Yes! We want another!" But in my heart, I know that we haven't been ready. The kids would balk and say, "No more, Mom!" My husband would say, "How, cute but no." And I would know they were right. I'm out of the house working at Bideawee the majority of our waking hours and a good deal of the work caring for our pets has always fallen to my husband. Having had 4 children grow up in our house along with the 3 cats and 2 dogs – that's a lot of legs! – we always felt pretty complete. Bringing yet another animal into our family is a major commitment and a decision that would affect everyone in our home. So, despite all the furry temptation, I have always known that it would not be responsible or fair to our pets (or two-legged children) to take on more than we could handle.
I know how much work goes into successfully caring for a pet. Whether you adopt a dog, a cat, a kitten, or a puppy, you must be prepared for the responsibility, the expense, the joy, the worry, the inconvenience of walks in the cold, in rain, in the early hours. You must consider your furniture and floors – something WILL get peed and/or puked on - and of course, you must consider hiring a professional or learning everything you can about proper training. It's a long-term commitment and you need to be ready to care for that pet through changes in your life over 15-20 years. And we all know, a lot can change in that time.
Now that my children are grown and the youngest is away at college for most of the year, I'm starting to think again about whether or not we might soon be ready for a new four-legged family member. No more puppies or kittens. I only want to rescue/adopt/foster older dogs and/or cats from now on. But even with more than 10 years working in animal welfare and access to all the advice and support I could ever need, I have so much to consider.
First of all, my oldest dog Winnie is 16 and is showing her age more and more every week. How would she react to a new dog? Jack, my 12-year-old toothless guy who thinks he is in charge of everyone doesn't react favorably to other animals except those he already knows. And, then there is the added responsibility of another pet when I'm at a time in my life where I need to spend more hours at work and want the freedom to travel in my free time. There is much to consider when I see all the cuties who need rescuing. Every time I get that pang and send a photo to my husband, I think to myself, "Am I really ready? Do we have enough to give to another? Is this right for our family?" I certainly know I have enough love to go around, but would I be the best parent to that dog or cat I desperately want to bring home?
I think the answer is no - for now. I'll keep you posted though and let you know if the special someone comes along that changes my mind. In the meantime, I'll continue to make sure that all of the animals that come through the doors of Bideawee get the best care possible until we match them with their loving, forever homes. And remember, adopt responsibly. You aren't just bringing home a new pet, you are bringing home a new family member.


Eastern Libyan forces will pursue their advance on the capital Tripoli, the head of the eastern parliament in the divided country said over the weekend, despite international calls for a halt in an offensive that risks causing many civilian casualties.
His comments came as an eastern air strike hit the yard of a school on the southern outskirts of Tripoli, where eastern forces have been confronted by forces allied to Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj's internationally recognised government.
"Mr. Haftar accepted the recent Saudi offer of funds," Saudi advisors told the Journal. "We were quite generous," one of the advisers added. Saudi Arabia in recent years has either funded rebel groups or used its millitary power in conflicts in Syria, Yemen and Iraq – with lesser involvement in countries like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Lebanon.
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday met in Cairo with Haftar, the commander of eastern-based Libyan forces, who is under international pressure to halt an advance on the capital Tripoli.
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Q: Accessing Named Pipe for reading and writing I am trying to create a simple tool that can create, write and read a named pipe. Here is the code.
int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    @autoreleasepool
    {
        //create pipe
        system("rm /tmp/myPipe");
        system("mkfifo /tmp/myPipe");
        system("chmod 666 /tmp/myPipe");

        // write to pipe
        NSString *text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"this is a test"];
        NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
        if ([fileManager fileExistsAtPath:@"/tmp/myPipe" isDirectory:NO])
        {
            NSFileHandle *fileHandle=[NSFileHandle fileHandleForWritingAtPath:@"/tmp/myPipe"];
            [fileHandle seekToEndOfFile];
            [fileHandle writeData:[text dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
            [fileHandle closeFile];

        }
    }
    return 0;
}

The file is created correctly with perms of
prw-rw-rw-   1 xxx   wheel       0 May 17 09:48 myPipe|
When I run the tool it hangs at the line:
NSFileHandle *fileHandle=[NSFileHandle fileHandleForWritingAtPath:@"/tmp/myPipe"];

What am I missing here?

A: Nothing is wrong here other than my complete lack of understanding of what the code does. There was no "hang" just the code waiting for an external msg in the pipe.
I just needed to launch terminal and enter
echo "foo" > /tmp/myPipe

Thanks to everyone who assisted ...


Alpha & Omega is a touching short drama exploring love, identity, and faith from a black female Rastafari's point of view.
Brought to life by three determined women of colour Maia Watkins (writer/actor), Chloe Tai (director), and Dominique Toussaint (producer), alongside co-producer and executive producer Nathan Adabadze.
Nathan: Alpha & Omega focuses on Imani a Rastafari artist who runs a vegan health-stall with long-term partner Hakeem in South London. Dedicated to her Rastafari faith, a discovery forces her to consider a course of action that conflicts with her Rastafari teachings; and as a result, she begins to question her relationship, her faith and what it really means to be a Rasta. Alpha & Omega is Maia's attempt to explore the Rastafari faith you don't see in the media.
Maia: The film was inspired by a dream I had about my Rastafari Godfather who was diagnosed with cancer over ten years ago. He told of a time his dreadlocks fell out whilst sitting on the toilet due to his chemotherapy treatment and this image stuck with me for many years. I've always been interested in mental, spiritual and physical health as well as the Rastafari culture and the dream encouraged me to explore these things on a deeper level, leading me to create this narrative.
2# How did you guys come together to work on this project?
Nathan: Maia was the lead in my debut short film Olivia in 2014. Since then we've kept in contact via the short film festival circuit and a monthly film collective I co-run (with Alpha & Omega director Chloe Tai). The Smashed Screen Collective brings together ethnic minority filmmakers be it actors, writers, directors, editors, producers etc. to share their ideas and opinions, script read short screenplay drafts, watch first edits and more. We're trying to foster a safe space for BAME creatives to gain and provide constructive, well thought out and honest feedback to help them move forward confidently with their projects.
Maia brought Alpha & Omega to us and we were so enthused by the idea we jumped at the chance to be involved and spent 8 months helping her develop it through the collective.
3# Can you tell us a bit about your individual roles?
Maia: I wrote this film over the year and I play the lead character, Imani. The story changed a lot from the first few drafts as so many ideas were discussed and developed through readings and discussions. The narrative is personal to me so getting it right was paramount. Playing Imani was challenging at times as I had to separate myself from the writing once the script was complete and work on exploring the journey through new eyes in order to find more human connections to approaching the role. Having a great team and time to prepare really helped to inspire and push me.
Nathan: As co-producer (along with Dominique Toussaint) it was my job to find crew, cast, source locations, props, organise the rehearsals and run the shoot. However, as exec-producer, I had the added pressure of raising the money to fund all of the above. Since all my previous projects were self-funded for under £1K and the budget of Alpha & Omega was £5K, it's been a journey, to say the least!
To get this film financed I approached a couple private investors (both fell through). Raised £3.1K from 105 backers through a successful IndieGoGo Campaign. Applied to 5 film fund competitions, one of which The Pitch we were finalists in but didn't win, the other Genera Film Fund we won at the second attempt; we submitted the second time after the film was shot to help with post-production costs!
There are many things I would do differently but I believe the key to our success was that we decided early on to set a shoot date and regardless of how much money we were able to scrape together we were going to make the film. Having the pressure of a looming deadline gave us a sense of urgency and forced us to be creative.
4# A strong point about this project is that there are three women in key roles involved in bringing this to life, was this a conscious decision, or was it organic?
Maia: It all started organically as Chloe (director) and I had become friends from working on the previous shoot. I then met Dominique (co-producer) through The Smashed Screen Collective and she was excited about bringing Alpha & Omega to life. We are all artistic people in our own right so coming together was a great thing and we embraced the fact that we were all women from different backgrounds and cultures.
Nathan: Smashed Screen Films was founded to challenge the status quo and it's our intention to champion diversity both in front and behind the camera. Once we identified this was an opportunity to celebrate the women behind this film we definitely embraced it, in addition to our heads of department, the set designer, wardrobe and stills photographer, 1st & 2nd AD and sparks were all female and predominantly POC.
5. What was it like working with three women, thinking of the current climate?
Nathan: Working with 3 women at the helm is no different to working with men. You're working in a team of different personalities and striving towards the same goal. It's a shame we still have to have these conversations. The only consideration I had particularly when drumming up publicity from press/online blogs etc. for our IndieGoGo campaign, was that I was self-conscious of being a male fronting a project that claimed to be female-led.
6# As the story is based on your true life experiences with family loss, illness, and Rastafarian traditions. How have you managed the process of dealing with grief and telling such a personal tale… also how will this shed perspective on Rastafarianism?
Maia: Writing this film has become a healing process for the different losses I've experienced over the years, whether it is family or friends. Mediums such as acting, writing, meditation or drawing help to heal the soul and aid the process of recovering from traumatic events. I'm also on my own spiritual journey, where I've been learning more about Rastafari and health through a holistic perspective, speaking to elders and reading a lot.
Many people don't understand what Rastafari stands for especially as it's never represented positively or at all on our screens. I hope this film will open minds. I want people to be taken on a journey with the main characters, of consciousness and self-reflection, which is so rooted in the Rastafari culture. People from all backgrounds deal with grief, loss, and illnesses and I wanted these life issues to be told from a Rastafari perspective.
7# Nathan, was this a world you understood or did you learn about traditions and culture you didn't know?
Nathan: My mum is Jamaican and we have a few Rasta grand-uncles in the family, but I think her generation, especially in Jamaica, have grown up with a stigma attached to the Rastafari culture, primarily driven by Western perception. So the only thing I ever really heard from her about them was that they live in the bush! But because of the ever-evolving, and hopefully more accepting generation I've grown up in, through my personal research I've always understood Rastas to be more than the weed smoking, dancing, jovial stereotype. However, Alpha & Omega was a chance for me to gain a deeper understanding of their history, religion, culture and the nuances between the different sects.
I became a filmmaker because more than any other art form, it has the power to give people insight into perspectives and experiences they may not have been exposed to. I don't remember the last time I saw a film which featured a British Rastafari couple or showed aspects of their spiritual and holistic lifestyle. However, Alpha & Omega is not about the Rastafari faith, it's just the context within which we're telling the story. It's really about a woman's journey and growth to understanding herself, her faith and her relationship. To explore a relationship through a female lens has been just as refreshing as focusing on a culture rarely explored on film.
Maia: I got into this industry from doing performing arts and sports at my local youth club as a teenager. It was fun and kept me out of trouble. I also preferred creative and practical lessons at school such as art, sports, and drama. I took acting seriously when I did the MA Acting course at Drama Centre London. Training there forced me to be disciplined, hone my craft, and take risks. My inspirations for getting into the business were also from seeing my favourite actors – Cillian Murphy, Sophie Okonedo and more on stage, TV or film. Noticing the love they had for the craft and the way they took on roles was like fire to me. The journey is and has been difficult as there are so many actors in this industry but not enough roles, especially for ethnic minorities and women, hence why I've begun to create my own work. However, the buzz I get from it keeps me alive and forever curious.
Nathan: I'm a former actor and growing up, performed with a local Youth Theatre, the National Youth Theatre and at the Edinburgh Fringe. Up until a few years ago, I still dabbled in acting but encouraged by my parents went to uni to get that "back up plan" rather than applying to drama school. Post-uni I worked given the limited opportunities I saw in the UK for black actors. I'd always had ideas for things that I wanted to make and decided to create interesting roles and opportunities for others that I didn't see out there for myself; which is why I launched Smashed Screen Films on the side whilst working full time. I'm currently working in an International Film Sales Company to understand the business of feature films whilst making films in my spare time.
In the 3 years since we established the company, we've directed & produced 3 short films, two of which have been screened at Kush's film boutique, S.O.U.L Film UK's screening event at the BFI and the British Urban Film Festival. Alpha & Omega is the biggest project we've worked on to date, it's the first that's been externally financed and let's just say we have high hopes for this one!
9# How successful was the crowdfunding campaign for Alpha & Omega, and what happens now?
Maia: We beat our target for the campaign which was fantastic. It was lovely to know so many people support and love the film idea. We hope to take the film around the festival circuit and have a private screening in 2018. I'm also hoping it will open more doors and further opportunities for all of us as creative's in the industry.
Nathan: Our IndieGogo campaign was one of the most challenging but fulfilling experiences I've faced to date. Through a mixture of friends, family, our film network and complete strangers we were able to raise £3.1K. The Alpha & Omega team are so thankful to the 105 backers who helped us reach our target!
10# Do you have anything else lined up? How can people keep up to date with Alpha & Omega's progress and your future projects?
Nathan: We have another short called Prison Boy in post-production, which we developed with actor Ben Woodhall after watching him perform the monologue that became the film at Stratford East's Triforce MonologueSlam. Let's just say there's a lot more to come! I'm always happy to have a chat with potential collaborators hit me up on nathan.adabadze@gmail.com.
Maia: At the moment I'm just focused on doing my best for the film and auditioning alongside it, so hopefully a nice gig is coming. I'm also writing something new about climate change and geoengineering, which is something that I have become obsessed with this year.
You can keep up to date with Alpha & Omega via its Twitter page @AlphaandOmegaSF and @maiajw.


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Q: How to specify type information for Iterator::filter_map? fn main() {
    let a = ["1", "2", "lol"];
    let cnt = a.iter().filter_map(|s| s.parse().ok()).count();
}

Error message
<anon>:3:24: 3:34 error: unable to infer enough type information about `_`; type annotations or generic parameter binding required [E0282]

<anon>:3     let cnt = a.iter().filter_map(|s| s.parse().ok()).count();
                                ^~~~~~~~~~

I tried to specify types for filter_map() but was not successful. If possible, I also want to know why compiler does not complain if I remove the count() method.

A: The compiler doesn't know the result type of the parse, because the way you wrote it the code could work for any type. You need to annotate this method call specifically: s.parse::<i32>().ok()


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1 August 2002 Edition
British doublespeak
While the loyalist campaign was in full flow last week, the British government considered the IRA cessation. On the matter of sectarian violence, John Reid claimed during his Commons statement last Wednesday that British forces have been sent in to, in his words, dominate interface areas to stop the violence. He seemed blissfully unaware that his claim was being contradicted almost as he spoke, not only by the experience of the Catholic residents of those areas, but by the RUC/PSNI itself. Its spokesmen (and they are always men) insouciantly claim - on the rare occasions that attacks on Catholics make it into the news - that the force does not have the manpower to tackle the loyalist mobs who invade Catholic areas on an almost nightly basis. Free article
Lifting the stone - the unaccountable nature of the Special Branch
Over the next two weeks, GERRY KELLY, Sinn Féin spokesperson on policing, will examine what conceivably have been two of the biggest tests of effective accountability since the RUC became the PSNI - that is, the Ombudsman's report into the Omagh bomb and the new Policing Board's response to this. This week, he looks at the Ombudsman's Report. Free article
New inquiry into Lowry phone licence
You have to feel sorry for former Fine Gael minister, party chairperson and trustee Michael Lowry and former ESAT boss, tax exile and multi-millionaire Denis O'Brien. They are being unfairly victimised by outrageous publicity stunts and worse still by unfounded "innuendo". Free article
Justice delayed and denied
Rapists in Ireland can be pretty confident that the chances of their being brought to justice are slim indeed. This opinion will scarcely be dented by Michael McDowell's announcement last week of plans to tackle the severe backlog of such cases by relegating rape trials to the circuit courts. It was only after years of lobbying by women's groups that the law was changed so that all rape trials are held in the Central Criminal Court in Dublin. Free article
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This special edition which focuses on Irish Unity, features articles by Pearse Doherty, Dr Thomas Paul and Martina Anderson.
Pearse sets out the argument for an United Ireland Economy whilst Pat Sheehan makes the case for a universally free all-island health service.
Other articles include, 'Ceist teanga in Éirinn Aontaithe', 'Getting to a new Ireland' and 'Ireland 1918-22: The people's revolution'.
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Protecting Israel's unwelcome settlers
Shaul Mofaz, the chief of staff of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) who retired last week, was a primitive and amoral commander. In the Talaba, Gaza, Nablus and Jenin refugee camps (about 1,000 alleged deaths since the start of last winter's Israeli offensive) he was termed "the executioner". Many human rights organisations believe he should be brought before a court of justice, alongside Ariel Sharon, for crimes against humanity and war crimes. Free article
Éire Bocht
Following the UN Report on Human Development, the DRAOI RUA has a few comments about the disgraceful standing of Ireland as the second most unequal society in the world Free article
Pan-Celticism and the collapse of the British state
Celtic Identity and the British Image By Murray G H Pittock Free article


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Palladino: Jets Have That Rex Circa 2009 Look And Feel About Them
The Key Is Keeping Ivory Healthy Because As He Goes, So Will Gang Green's Offense October 7, 2015 at 9:42 am
Filed Under:Chris Ivory, Ernie Palladino, New York Jets
Eric Decker, left, celebrates with Devin Smith after he scored the Jets' second touchdown against the Miami Dolphins at Wembley Stadium on Oct. 4, 2015 in London. (Photo by Stephen Pond/Getty Images)Eric Decker, left, celebrates with Devin Smith after he scored the Jets' second touchdown against the Miami Dolphins at Wembley Stadium on Oct. 4, 2015 in London. (Photo by Stephen Pond/Getty Images)
By Ernie Palladino
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Don't look now, but those recent bunglers in Florham Park are starting to emit an old-timey feeling.
All the way back to 2009, in fact.
While it's still a bit early to proclaim Todd Bowles' first team as the scourge of the league, the one thing that can be said about the Jets as they enjoy this bye week at 3-1 is that they look an awful lot like Rex Ryan's initial squad. And that's a good thing because Ryan took that team to the first of consecutive AFC Championship game appearances.
Judging by their recent bulldozer job in London that brought an ignominious end to the Joe Philbin era in Miami and began that of ex-Giant and Dolphins tight ends coach Dan Campbell a day later, they will succeed this season in much the same way as Ryan did.
Ground and Pound with some throwing mixed in. And a lot of good, hard defense.
Only thing is, we won't hear as much about it from the low-key Bowles. He prefers his players do most of the talking — on the field.
They spoke plenty to a Wembley Stadium full of our old overlords Sunday. Though one might wonder how much the Brits understood about the on-field goings-on, the Jets made things quite simple for them.
After all, how hard is it to figure out the collision between 166-yard running back Chris Ivory and the defender he knocked halfway to Tottenham? Any hack of a back-bencher can spot that kind of dominance.
Nor is it difficult to comprehend that one Dolphins receiver after another getting smashed by cornerbacks, more balls hitting the ground than the hands, and a quarterback taking a nine-hit, three-sack beating translates into a really bad day.
For red-blooded Americans of this area — the English may like football, but we KNOW football — it should come as obvious that the Jets are on the move, and it's no coincidence that the van looks a lot like Ryan's first ride.
That team isn't hard to remember. As the Jets have more of a game manager in veteran Ryan Fitzpatrick now, they had a similar one in Mark Sanchez back then. It was the running game that kept that offense going, with Thomas Jones and Shonn Greene beating defensive fronts into submission. The defense was hard to beat as familiar but still-young folks like Darrelle Revis, Calvin Pace, and David Harris helped ransack the league for 31 turnovers and 32 sacks.
As long as main battering ram Ivory stays healthy and capable of producing locomotive performances like Sunday's, the offense will have a better than even shot at putting points on the board. Keep in mind, too, that Brandon Marshall and Eric Decker are better than Ryan had in Braylon Edwards and Jericho Cotchery.
But it is Ivory that will make the offense go. For proof, one need only look at the previous week's 24-17 loss to the Eagles. Ivory spent all but one play on the sideline with a bad quad, and the offense neither ran nor passed.
The malaise affected special teams and the defense, too, as Philadelphia went up 24-0 before Bowles could get comfortable in his headset.
But Ivory is healthy again, and the defense is churning with anticipation over a Pro Bowl reinforcement in Sheldon Richardson. Unless Roger Goodell slaps him with an additional suspension for his alleged attempt to break the sound barrier with a kid and a loaded gun in his car, his drug hiatus has elapsed.
The big issue now is keeping Ivory in one piece. He takes a lot of punishment. Perhaps not as much as the defenders he grinds up, but enough. As much as Marshall's receiving skills add to the offense, the one person the Jets can ill afford to lose again is Ivory.
Ryan prayed every night for Jones' and Greene's health, too. He had a shutdown defense to go with the Ground and Pound.
The teams are similar. The overall strategy is familiar.
It worked quite well for Ryan.
It appears Bowles has made good use of it, too.


Restricting blood flow to the arms or legs during training may sound crazy, but the Muscle Prof has been front and center on the latest research into what is actually a cutting-edge hypertrophy technique!
I keep hearing about occlusion training? It sounds bizarre. Is there anything to it?
Before I answer that question with a brief story, let me explain occlusion training for the uninitiated. Occlusion training, or what scientists call "blood flow restriction training" (BFR), involves restricting blood flow in the veins of a working muscle to elicit gains in size and strength. It sounds crazy, and there's definitely more to it, but that should get everyone on the same page.
In a sport where the majority of our time is spent figuring out how to increase blood flow, blocking it seems backward. How could that possibly that be beneficial? The short answer is that you should not completely restrict blood flow.1 That's important to remember, so take a second to let it settle in.
Occlusion training involves wrapping a device like a pressure cuff or knee wraps around the top of a limb at a pressure sufficient to occlude, or obstruct, blood flow to the veins, but not the arteries.2,3This way, the arteries continue to deliver blood to the limb, and the blood pools in the limb as the veins struggle to take it back to the heart.
The second way BFR works is that the low oxygen level in a muscle during the accumulation of blood forces your body to recruit larger fast-twitch fibers, resulting in extreme growth.
Recently Jeremy Loenneke and I published an extensive research paper on BFR in which we analyzed numerous BFR topics to determine what works best.4 First, we compared BFR walking to BFR lifting at 20-40 percent of an individual's 1RM, and we found that lifting was more effective than walking.
However, we still recommend people use BFR walking when they are injured, or to get accustomed to the technique before progressing to lifting.9 We also found that shorter rest periods of roughly 30 seconds optimize swelling and lactic acid accumulation in the muscle.
WITH OCCLUSION TRAINING, YOU DON'T NEED MUCH WEIGHT TO REACH FATIGUE. YOUR BODYWEIGHT IS OFTEN ENOUGH.
More recently, Dr. Thiebaud conducted a study on the best contraction for BFR.10 He compared concentric (the lifting portion) to the eccentric (lowering) portion of a lift. During traditional heavy lifting, the eccentric portion causes the most growth, but he found the opposite with BFR! The concentric part of lifting is most important. This suggests we should focus on pumping the reps out, while aiming to flood the muscle with fluid and lactate.
"PRESSURE THAT LIFTERS PERCEIVED TO BE A 7 ON A SCALE OF 10 ON THE LEGS, AND 5-6 ON THE ARMS, RELIABLY OCCLUDED THE VEINS BUT NOT THE ARTERIES. THIS IS AS TIGHT AS YOU SHOULD GO, AND NO TIGHTER."
The problem, as you might expect, is that many lifters don't know how tightly to wrap to restrict the veins and not arteries. This is no good. But our study addressed the problem directly, and we found a simple approach to make sure you're on the right track.
Simply put, wrapping at a pressure that lifters perceived to be a 7 on a scale of 10 on the legs, and 5-6 on the arms, reliably occluded the veins but not the arteries. This is as tight as you should go, and no tighter.
You may have to do some tinkering to find your 7, but you should never wrap as tight as possible, which would be a 10.
As for weight, all the research indicates that there's no benefit to be gained from going heavy. Select a weight that is 20-40 percent of your 1RM—seriously! Trust me, it will feel much heavier by the end.
Our recommendation for the ideal BFR workout to optimizing growth is 4 sets with reps of 30, 15, 15, and 15, with only 30 seconds rest between sets. Perform this workout 2-3 times per week.
Try this cutting-edge training technique and let me know what you discover!


Functional Movements or functional training is a hot buzz word used in fitness and by trainers around the world today but, what does it actually mean? Well it's about optimizing the way your body moves and handles real life situations. Focusing your efforts on activities you do and correcting dysfunction while exercising leads to a happier and healthier life and fewer pain related consequences.
Do you want to tone, sculpt, target and isolate your muscle for a lean and stunning physique? Well that's a trick question. Terms like, toning, targeting, sculpting and isolating exist for the benefit of machine manufacturing companies, with the sole intent to sell gyms and you products. The truth is you really don't need fancy apparatuses to be healthy. The best equipment out there is usually very simple and inexpensive.
Do you know how to use herbs and spices to maximize your health? Adding herbs and spices to our foods without question improves the flavor of what we eat. What many of us don't know is how impactful herbs and spices are to our daily requirements for vitamins and minerals. Supplementing our diets with herbs and spices has a tremendous benefit to our health and wellbeing. Below is a list of 5 of my favorite herbs and spices.
So, what's so special about water? Without question, water is the most important nutrient we consume! It plays a massive role in every major organ, physiological system and directly impacts exercise performance. Exercising individuals who are dehydrated will fatigue earlier, lose coordination or, even worse, have a terrible injury. A well hydrated muscle is 70-75% water, so why wouldn't you drink water before, during, and after exercise?
Do you want to improve your range of motion (ROM) in your muscles? In our last blog we talked about your unique range of motion. There are several ways to safely and effectively improve your ROM. Why would you want to increase ROM anyway? If you are training for a particular sport you should aim to have a little more functional ROM than is required for that sport. The same applies for the activities in your daily life.
This is a guest post from Colin Zauner at Ratingdietplans.com. Rating diet plans writes articles and provides reviews on popular diets and weight loss plans. Being overweight is one of the common issues that many people are facing today. This is the reason why various meal plans are coming out one from another claiming to be effective in losing weight. However, it is very important to know the effects of the meal plan before choosing one.
Are you flexible? For most folks, stretching is one of those things often left out of fitness. There are thousands of books and articles on stretching that lead you to believe that stretching is the same for everyone. Not so.


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Abdurrahman Wahid: Former Indonesia president was a key democratic voice
Abdurrahman Wahid led Indonesia for two years after the fall of US-backed strongman President Suharto. He passed away Wednesday at a Jakarta hospital.
Dwi Oblo/Reuters
Supporters light candles in a vigil to mourn the death of former Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid, in Yogyakarta, Central Java, Wednesday.
By Simon Montlake Correspondent
@sjmontlake
An Islamic scholar and secular democrat, former President Abdurrahman Wahid led Indonesia for two years after the fall of US-backed strongman President Suharto. He passed away Wednesday at a hospital in Jakarta.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Indonesian flags would be flown at half mast for a week. A funeral is to be held on Thursday for the former president, who stepped down in 2001.
Popularly known as Gus Dur, Mr. Wahid emerged as a democratic voice in the chaos of 1998, when Mr. Suharto resigned in disgrace and his deputy paved the way for Indonesia's first free elections in four decades.
As a politician, Wahid could draw on the support of Nahdlatul Ulama, a Muslim social organization founded by his grandfather that has around 40 million members. He also built ties to civil society groups pushing for change in the 1990s, when economic growth accelerated.
But he had also cooperated closely with Suharto and his family during their years in power, when most opposition was ruthlessly suppressed. To some that made him a suspect figure during the democratic transition.
After free elections were held in 1999, Wahid emerged as a compromise presidential candidate, edging out Megawati Sukarnoputri, whose party had won the biggest bloc of seats in the legislature but had many enemies in the former ruling party.
A backroom deal in October 1999 installed Wahid as president, with a disappointed Ms. Megawati given the job of vice president. At that time, an expanded parliament was empowered to elect a president to a four-year term. Indonesia has since shifted to direct presidential elections.
Wahid then attempted to govern a near-bankrupt country that was still largely controlled by unelected powerbrokers, including a disgruntled military that resisted civilian control. Suharto and his inner circle remained untouchable, despite Wahid's flailing attempts to bring him to justice.
At times, Wahid appeared to have a tenuous grip on power. A mercurial character with a penchant for earthy jokes and playful rhetoric, he kept his opponents guessing by constantly shifting his position. A devout Muslim, he lifted restrictions on Chinese culture, promoted Christian-Muslim dialog, and advocated normalizing relations with Israel, a red flag to many Muslims.
He also alienated supporters, became embroiled in corruption scandals, and failed to make his reforms stick. In 2001, his term was cut short after lawmakers ousted him for alleged incompetence. Ms. Megawati took over and adopted a more conservative, pro-military line.
Wahid remained popular, particularly in East Java, his electoral base. In recent years, he had fought to regain control of his former political party and tried unsuccessfully to run again for president, despite bouts of ill health.
A speaker of English, French, and Arabic, Wahid was a generous host and an avid traveler. In the summer of 2001, as his opponents prepared to oust him from power, he tried to declare emergency rule and appoint loyalists to the military.
When that failed, he vowed to stay put in the presidential palace, even after the vote was cast to install Megawati. Army units gathered in a nearby square in a show of force.
A day or so of tension ended when Wahid announced that he was ready to leave. Outside the palace, hundreds of supporters crowded into a public square. Inside the palace, dozens of family, friends, and reporters lined up to shake his hand, including this correspondent.
In the blinding sunshine, he emerged from the back door and was taken to a rickety stage to address the crowd. Nobody could hear much over the shouting, and part of the stage collapsed.
Then Wahid climbed into a waiting van and sped off through Jakarta's hazy traffic, vowing to return to power. He never did, but his place in Indonesia's democratic consolidation seems assured.
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This is my summary of Oxfam's summary. I haven't included their "solutions" since they depend on the collective good will of the wealthy, which is unrealistic. I have read their summary (12pp) but not their full report.
1) Apologists for the status quo claim that concern about inequality is driven by 'politics of envy'. They often cite the reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty as proof that inequality is not a major problem. But this is to miss the point. As an organization that exists to tackle poverty, Oxfam is unequivocal in welcoming the fantastic progress that has helped to halve the number of people living below the extreme poverty line between 1990 and 2010. Yet had inequality within countries not grown during that period, an extra 200 million people would have escaped poverty. That could have risen to 700 million had poor people benefited more than the rich from economic growth.
2) Rising economic inequality also compounds existing inequalities. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently found that countries with higher income inequality also tend to have larger gaps between women and men in terms of health, education, labour market participation, and representation in institutions like parliaments. The gender pay gap was also found to be higher in more unequal societies. It is worth noting that 53 of the world's richest 62 people are men.
3) One of the key trends underlying this huge concentration of wealth and incomes is the increasing return to capital versus labour. In almost all rich countries and in most developing countries, the share of national income going to workers has been falling. This means workers are capturing less and less of the gains from growth. In contrast, the owners of capital have seen their capital consistently grow (through interest payments, dividends, or retained profits) faster than the rate the economy has been growing. Tax avoidance by the owners of capital, and governments reducing taxes on capital gains have further added to these returns. As Warren Buffett famously said, he pays a lower rate of tax than anyone in his office – including his cleaner and his secretary.
4) Oxfam's experience with women workers around the world, from Myanmar to Morocco, is that they are barely scraping by on poverty wages. Women make up the majority of the world's low-paid workers and are concentrated in the most precarious jobs. Meanwhile, chief executive salaries have rocketed. CEOs at the top US firms have seen their salaries increase by more than half (by 54.3%) since 2009, while ordinary wages have barely moved. The CEO of India's top information technology firm makes 416 times the salary of a typical employee there. Women hold just 24 of the CEO positions at Fortune 500 companies.
5) A powerful example of an economic system that is rigged to work in the interests of the powerful is the global spider's web of tax havens and the industry of tax avoidance, which has blossomed over recent decades. It has been given intellectual legitimacy by the dominant market fundamentalist world view that low taxes for rich individuals and companies are necessary to spur economic growth and are somehow good news for us all. The system is maintained by a highly paid, industrious bevy of professionals in the private banking, legal, accounting and investment industries. 6It is the wealthiest individuals and companies – those who should be paying the most tax – who can afford to use these services and this global architecture to avoid paying what they owe. It also indirectly leads to governments outside tax havens lowering taxes on businesses and on the rich themselves in a relentless 'race to the bottom'.
6) In the garment sector, firms are consistently using their dominant position to insist on poverty wages. Between 2001 and 2011, wages for garment workers in most of the world's 15 leading apparel-exporting countries fell in real terms. The acceptability of paying women lower wages has been cited as a key factor in increasing profitability. The world turned its attention to the plight of workers in garment factories in Bangladesh in April 2013, when 1,134 workers were killed when the Rana Plaza factory collapsed. People are losing their lives as companies seek to maximize profits by avoiding necessary safety practices. Despite all the attention and rhetoric, buyers' short-term financial interests still dominate activities in this sector, as reports of inadequate fire and safety standards persist.
7) Inequality is also compounded by the power of companies to use monopoly and intellectual property to skew the market in their favour, forcing out competitors and driving up prices for ordinary people. Pharmaceutical companies spent more than $228m in 2014 on lobbying in Washington. When Thailand decided to issue a compulsory licence on a number of key medicines – a provision that gives governments the flexibility to produce drugs locally at a far lower price without the permission of the international patent holder – pharma successfully lobbied the US government to put Thailand on a list of countries that could be subject to trade sanctions.


One of t most popular spots in Upper Venosta Valley is Churburg Castle above Sluderno/Schluderns, a huge Renaissance castle, in which one can not only see Romanesque chapels and frescoes, but also a unique collection of arms and armour. Another must-see is the nearby museum in Marienberg Abbey dealing with the history of the Benedictine monks there.
In the Vintschger Museum in Sluderno, there are three permanent exhibitions on display: archeology and peasant life in the dry valley of Venosta. The focus is on the prehistoric findings of Ganglegg and the ancient system of irrigation channels that shape the landscape even today. The 3rd permantent exhibitions tells the history of the 'Swabian children', all specifically relating to the Venosta Valley. Also worth seeing are the heritage museum of Laudes/Laatsch, and the gate towers in Glorenza/Glurns. The medieval town has also dedicated a permanent exhibition to its most famous sun, the artist Paul Flora, in the church gate tower.
Two of the five South Tyrolean venues of the Messner Mountain Museum (MMM) of mountaineer Reinhold Messner are within reach of Upper Venosta Valley, in Solda/Sulden and in Castel Juval at the entrance to Schnalstal Valley.
All the museums of Upper Venosta Valley can be simply and affordably discovered with the museumobilCard.


nBox Recorder is a network traffic disk recorder application. With nBox Recorder you can capture full-sized network packets at gigabit rate from a live network interface and write them into files. It has been designed and developed mainly because most network security systems rely on capturing all packets (headers and payload), since any packets may have been responsible for the attack or could contain the problems that we are trying to find.
nBox Recorder uses the industry standard PCAP file format to dump packets into files so the resulting output can be easily integrated with existing third party or even open-source analysis tools like ntop, Wireshark. or Snort.
The following figures shows you the nBox Recorder web user interface.
The nBox recorder is available as physical appliance in the models below.
Please contact us for details, price and availability, or get in touch with our resellers.


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