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October Editorial
It was a Fashion Week, that of Milan, as we have not seen for some time. Very interesting fashion shows, many events full of good energy, a feeling of recovery, participation and the desire to go back to being the capital of fashion. As it should be.
We at Crida also did our part, presenting the new spring summer collection at 10 Corso Como, one of the most glamorous and iconic places in the fashion business. Emilia Romagna is the region that we wanted to tell with the models you will see next year: the art of hospitality, friendliness, good food of this land are reflected in the vast range of bright colors of the clothes that are always protagonists .
But there is also another story to tell.
The photos of this campaign, as always entrusted to Filippo Tarentini, were taken in the Masone labyrinth, in Fontanellato, near Parma. Why did we choose this place? Because we have come from two difficult and complex years that for various reasons have deeply disoriented us, overwhelming us first with the pandemic, then with the war and finally with the government crisis. Global, European or more strictly Italian events that have undermined our certainties, have changed us and in many cases forced us to change direction. The world of fashion itself has undergone a considerable shock and has had to adapt to the new needs of sustainability and slow fashion. And he has shown that he is able to do so, presenting a product that has never been as perfect as this year. That's why we wanted to use the labyrinth not in a negative sense. On the contrary. Each of us has been lost in a labyrinth, but it is also true that we all have the tools to get out of it, as has fashion, and many other sectors and people who have had to reinvent themselves.
We at Crida have experienced this discomfort heavily: we made our debut on the market in February 2020, when fashion stopped. It was like entering a maze and not seeing the way out. Yet this trauma, this tiring exercise in strategy on the future, this need to find the light at the end of the tunnel, has allowed us in two years to focus our path very well, finding the way out of the labyrinth and therefore the most meaningful meaning. depth of the project we had in mind.
The symbolism of the labyrinth is that of a journey within and beyond one's limit: it represents life and death, good and evil, the search for the infinite, for the beyond. For 5,000 years, that is, since it was born, the labyrinth has been talking about the risky complexity of the universe but it has also stimulated the search for a different world, yet to be explored. Whoever walks along it and with difficulty manages to find the exit becomes a better person.
This is what we want to wish everyone, with a collection that represents us deeply and with which we want to convey optimism, strength, energy and obviously the beauty of Made in Italy to everyone. And which visually reflects the newfound desire to live in the fluid shapes and colors.


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Scientists find new dimension to dynamics of Indian Ocean Tweet
By Sunderarajan Padmanabhan
New Delhi, Wednesday, April 03, 2019
Schematic diagram of the propagation of the newly discovered waves forced by winds over the eastern Indian Ocean (white box).
Indian scientists have discovered a hitherto unknown effect of the tropical weather phenomenon known as Madden-Julian Oscillation, which plays an important role in determining the fate of Indian summer monsoon.
The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) is an eastward moving disturbance of clouds, rainfall, winds, and pressure. It circles the planet along the tropical belt in 30-80 days. During its global ride, it intensifies over three regions - the eastern Indian Ocean, south of the maritime continent and the western Pacific Ocean and transfers a part of its energy to the underlying ocean.
The scientists have now found that when winds of MJO reach eastern Indian Ocean, particularly over the North West Australian Basin, its energy gets transferred down to the ocean bottom, leading to an oscillation of the entire water column. This results in an inter-play of underlying topography of the basin and non-uniform density of seawater across the water column. It subsequently gets radiated out through fast-moving ocean waves that eventually invade the entire tropical Indian Ocean within some hours.
INCOIS Director, Dr. S.C.C.Shenoi, with his colleagues at his Institute.
" The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) is an eastward moving disturbance of clouds, rainfall, winds, and pressure. It circles the planet along the tropical belt in 30-80 days. "
"These waves carry a lot of energy and momentum. The kinetic energy contained within the North Indian Ocean due to these waves is about 20 Peta Joules – similar to explosion of hundreds of atomic bombs. It will be interesting to explore various manifestations of this energy and how it is eventually dissipated," explained Dr. S. S. C. Shenoi, Director of Hyderabad-based Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) while speaking to India Science Wire.
The scientists have found that the sea level in the Indian Ocean rises and falls by up to four cm every 30 to 80 days because of the movement of the water column. This assumes importance in the context of forecasting impact of cyclonic storms because MJO is a low-pressure system that facilitates cyclone formation over Indian Ocean. Some of these cyclones intensify and inundate coasts of the Indian subcontinent. Thus, the waves generated by the MJO in the Indian Ocean can add to the impact of cyclones.
In addition, the rise and fall of sea level leads to exchange of as much as three trillion tons of water between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Such large mass exchange can influence polar motion of the earth and length of the day, whose variability is of utmost importance to the accuracy of the Global Positioning System (GPS). "Our findings are highly relevant since MJOs are expected to intensify in the wake of global warming," Dr. Shenoi said.
Besides Dr. Shenoi, the research team included B. Rohith, Arya Paul, S. Prerna, and M. Afroosa (INCOIS); S. S. V. S. Ramakrishna (Andhra Pradesh University); Fabien Durand (University of Toulouse), and Laurent Testut (University of Rochelle, France). The findings have been published in journal Nature Communications.
Evidence of pre-modern iron technology found in Nagaland
How dust storms are adding to pollution woes of North India
Gandhi: fitness freak, champion of sustainable food and staunch vegetarian
जलवायु परिवर्तन पर जागरूकता के लिए 19 भाषाओं में रेडियो धारावाहिक
कुपोषण से हृदय रोग तक लड़ने में मदद कर सकते हैं गांधी के सिद्धांत
Low soil moisture posing threat in most river basins
Giant LEAP to view materials - one atom at a time
More nitrogen may help offset effect of climate change on wheat : study
New technique can make flexible electronics self-repairing too
देश की नदी घाटियों में नहीं है सूखे से उबरने की क्षमता

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Jury deliberates in trial of UT researcher accused of hiding ties to China university
Anming Hu was arrested last year on an indictment alleging three counts of wire fraud and three counts of making false statements.
Published: 1:30 PM EDT June 7, 2021
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — UPDATE 6 PM MONDAY: A federal jury in Knoxville deliberated about three hours Monday in the case of a former University of Tennessee researcher accused of improperly hiding ties to a Chinese university.
Jurors will be off Tuesday and resume deliberations Wednesday.
Anming Hu's trial began last week in U.S. District Court in Knoxville before District Judge Thomas Varlan.
As the first week wrapped up. defense attorney Phil Lomonaco sought to toss the government's case, arguing it was vague.
Hu did research at UT on a NASA contract but didn't disclose his links to the Chinese university, the government argues. But Lomonaco argues he had no idea that was expected of him.
"Dr. Hu was expected to understand that Chinese universities were included in the NASA China Restriction, but the government has failed to show how he would have known that through provided documents, contracts and interactions," Lomonaco wrote in a motion to dismiss.
Varlan hasn't yet ruled, allowing the jury to go forward with deliberations.
Federal prosecutor Casey Arrowood, responding for the government in a Sunday filing, wrote that Varlan already has weighed and dismissed the defense's argument, finding that whether Hu understood the federal restriction isn't something the government has to prove at trial.
PREVIOUS STORY: The federal trial began Monday for a University of Tennessee researcher accused of hiding his relationship with a Chinese university.
Authorities allege that Hu lied about his ties to the Beijing University of Technology while working with UT. This caused UT to incorrectly claim that it had complied with federal law during work with NASA.
Credit: Blount County Sheriff's Office
Federal laws do not allow NASA to use federal funds on projects in collaboration with Chinese universities. Hu's work with BJUT while also working with UT violated that, authorities allege.
The alleged "scheme" by Hu began in 2016, according to the government.
Hu's family, friends and supporters Monday held a rally to speak out against the case in Knoxville. They contend the case is another example of the U.S. government's "unjust" prosecution of Asian Americans, accusing authorities of singling out scientists of Asian descent and conducting racial profiling.
His wife, Ivy Yang, spoke about the impact his arrest had on their family.
"I couldn't think of what kind of law he could break to ruin his life, to ruin his career and to ruin his beloved family, but his arrest left the family in shambles," she said.
RELATED: UT researcher arrested, charged with wire fraud, making false statements about relationship with Chinese university
Hu was an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering at UT at the time of his alleged crimes. Federal authorities said that UT has cooperated in the investigation.
He faces up to 20 years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000 for each count of wire fraud if convicted. Hu may also spend up to five years in prison for each false statement.
The case is part of the Department of Justice's China Initiative, which focuses on countering national security threats.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Varlan is presiding over the trial in Knoxville.


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Deadpool (UHD Blu-ray) (4K)
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on May 19th, 2016
2.40:1 Widescreen (16:9)
Dolby: Atmos
"Some of the best love stories start with a murder."
Deadpool may be one the most singular and unique characters in the history of comic book lore. His character has a very rabid fan base among the elite of Marvel comic nerddom, and they have been watching very carefully to see that he has been treated properly by the Hollywood people. He hasn't been in the past, but more about that later. He may not be the biggest name in the Marvel universe, but he might be the most extreme. Just in case you live in a cave or under a rock, the Marvel universe is inexorably taking over the actual universe with films like The Avengers, Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Ant-Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Hulk, Wolverine, Daredevil, and on and on. To get back to what happened to Deadpool in the past, we go to the movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine. This also gets into the 20th Century Fox vs. Disney battle over the rights of Marvel characters (which is actually only a small part of the picture, since Columbia owned Spider-Man for a long time, but let's not go down that rabbit hole). Lots of hard-core comic book fans were incensed at how far 20th Century Fox was straying from the origins and substance of the source material with the X-Men movies, but especially in the case of Deadpool, who is sacred to many. I shouldn't say sacred, but what can you do, since the character of Wade Wilson (A.K.A. Deadpool) is very profane and NSFW.
Let's discuss Ryan Reynolds for a moment. Reynolds has been a Deadpool fanboy for years and is specifically mentioned in the comics in a description of Wade Wilson as a cross between Reynolds and a Shar Pei. It should be noted the main characteristics of the Deadpool comics is that it has strong content in both sex and violence that is relentlessly full of silly fun and that Wilson is fully aware that he is in a comic book and talks to the reader in a self-aware manner. So Reynolds played Wilson in the X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie, and Fox did not show proper concern for the concerns of the core fans, and hysteria ruled. Reynolds then took it upon himself to try to get a proper Deadpool movie made (again, I shouldn't say proper). I think this time they got it right (and when I say right, I mean wrong in all the best possible ways).
The movie starts off with one of the best opening credit sequences of all time, and if you are not on board in the first five minutes, you should run from the theater, because this is not for you. The film is directed by Tim Miller, not be confused with comedian T.J. Miller, who plays Wilson's bartender friend.
I won't begin to try to summarize the plot, but simply state that this is an antidote to any other superhero movie out there. In fact, the X-Men are specifically skewered by the film with the inclusion of a rather silly version of Colossus and the X-Men mansion. It is unbelievably violent and gory, full of very bad language, and with a sex scene to rival Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Team America: World Police. In other words, it is wonderful but definitely not for the children (but we know they are going to get to see it anyway). I have warned some of you, and for everyone else, run out and see this multiple times and savor the sick, twisted satire that is Deadpool.
Deadpool is presented in an aspect ratio of 2.40:1. The Ultra high-definition image is arrived at by an HEVC codec. This is the kind of film that 4K was made for. These kinds of effects and action sequences provide the kind of amusement park ride experience that makes you want to be right in the seat of the ride. Now we have the potential to bring these larger-than-life comic book splash pages into our living rooms like never before.
I spent time comparing the Blu-ray to the 4K disc and found some remarkable differences. Most important of these is a new-found sharpness that brings out far more detail. In one scene we look at a street where there are parking meters. The numbers can't be read on the Blu-ray. They are legible in 4K. It's like putting on reading glasses for the first time. Black levels particularly benefit from this improved focus and sharpness. Textures come alive like never before. The costume's weave is clearly a distinctive part of the production design that jumps out at you even in a muted red color. Flashes of brilliant color occur during fire scenes. The improved HDR dynamic allows you to see so many more shades of reds and yellows in particular. The most impressive 4K to date. I can't wait to see where the format goes from here.
The Dolby Digital Atmos defaults to a nice 7.1 mix here. I expected a nice video presentation here. What I did not see coming was just how sweet the audio presentation is. This is an explosive mix that works for subs overtime. I'm not just talking explosions. The sub adds a nice dynamic depth to everything from the percussive score to the dialog itself. The surrounds put you squarely inside the action which will zip around your head in an almost dizzying sensation. I've rarely felt this immersed in a movie before. With all of this dazzling and dynamic sound you'd expect stuff to get lost, but it doesn't. Every element of this audio presentation cuts through in its own unique space. You won't be riding the remote on this one. Just keep your hands and feet securely inside your chair and enjoy the ride.
There are two audio commentary tracks. 1. Ryan Reynolds and writers Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick. This is the fun commentary. 2. Tim Miller with Rob Liefeld (co-creator of the Deadpool character). This one is the more informative track.
The extras are found on the Blu-ray copy which is the same as the original Blu-ray release.
Deleted/Extended Scenes: (19:14) There are 10 scenes with a handy play-all option and an optional commentary from director Tim Miner. There's even an alternate version of the stingers.
Gag Reel: (6:12) OK, I'll be honest. They're holding out on us. There has to be tons of better stuff than this. This just whets your appetite for the real fun and ugly stuff.
From Comics To Screen To Screen: (1:19:58) This is a pretty exhaustive making-of feature. You get a lot more than the typical cast and crew comments. You hear from the comic writers who developed Deadpool's comics world. There's a lot here about Reynolds superhuman efforts to get this film made and made correctly. Action junkies get plenty of stunt footage and even more f/x layers as we peel back each onion layer. Of course, there's a lot of love-fest going on here, but plenty of meat to go along with that fat.
Production Galleries
Bad Deadpool…"
The version of the character we got in the first Wolverine movie was a huge disappointment to the fans. That included Ryan Reynolds himself. This character has to be R-rated and irreverent as hell. Fox took a pretty big chance by giving the film its R rating. The result? "…Good Deadpool"
Parts of this review were written by Gino Sassani
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1914 establishments in Austria-Hungary
Defunct Polish intelligence agencies
Military history of Poland
Poland in World War I
Special forces of Poland
Polish revolutionary organisations
1914 establishments in Poland
Polish Military Organisation
Józef Piłsudski with Supreme Command of Polish Military Organisation in 1917
Polish Military Organisation, PMO (Polish language: Polska Organizacja Wojskowa , POW) was a secret military organization created by Józef Piłsudski in August 1914, and officially named in November 1914, during World War I. Its tasks were to gather intelligence and sabotage the enemies of the Polish people. It was used by Piłsudski to create a body independent from his cautious Austro-Hungarian supporters, and it was an important, if somewhat lesser known, counterpart to the Polish Legions. Its targets included the Russian Empire in the early phase of the war, and the German Empire later. Its membership rose from a few hundred members in 1914 to over 30,000 in 1918.
1.1 Intelligence and training
1.2 Sabotage and open fight
1.3 Later struggles
1.4 Vs. Lithuania
1.5 Influence in Soviet Union
2 Commanders
Intelligence and training
The Polish Military Organization (PMO) can be traced to formations of August 1914 or even earlier, but it was officially founded in November 1914, as a merger of two previously-existing youth para-military organisations: the Drużyny Strzeleckie and the Związek Strzelecki. Active in the Russian-held Kingdom of Poland, the PMO served as the intelligence and sabotage arm of Piłsudski's Polish Legions. In fact, many members of the illegal and secret PMO were at the same time soldiers of the Austrian-backed Polish Legions. The PMO was commanded militarily by Piłsudski himself, while the political command was a secret "A" Convent headed by Jędrzej Moraczewski.
Initially active only in Central Poland, with time the PMO units were formed in all parts of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, including modern day Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. It was mainly preoccupied with intelligence and sabotage, as well as military training of its members and acquisition of arms from various armies fighting on Polish soil. The PMO members were seen as the core of the future Polish Army after Poland regains her independence. After most of Poland became occupied by the Central Powers in 1915, the PMO became semi-legal and unofficially supported by the German army, which saw it as a useful source of information on Russia and a useful reservoir of skilled officers. However, in July 1917, after the Oath Crisis in the Polish Legions and the arrest of Piłsudski, the PMO returned to the underground and started covert operations against German and Austrian garrisons and supply lines. In place of Piłsudski, who was sent to a German prison in the fortress in Magdeburg, the commander of the PMO became his friend, Edward Rydz-Śmigły, also future Marshal of Poland.
Sabotage and open fight
With the collapse of the Central Powers during the final stages of the Great War, the PMO command decided to take an active part in the war and the organisation went out in the open. In October and November 1918 the revolutions in Germany and Austria-Hungary made the Ober Ost army collapse. The German units were struck by mass desertions of soldiers who simply left their posts and headed for their homes. The main tasks of the PMO during this period was to disarm the withdrawing soldiers and escort them to Germany. The campaign was successful and gave the new-born Polish state a large quantity of arms and military equipment. By mid-November, most of garrisons in Galicia surrendered to PMO members and the region became controlled by Poland. The PMO members continued the disarming actions in the former Congress Kingdom as well. Finally, the PMO was the core of Polish defences of the city of Lwów in the Battle of Lwów against the attacking forces of the West Ukrainian People's Republic (roughly 400 members in the initial phase of the struggle). In December 1918, the members of the PMO were all conscripted into the newly-reborn Polish Army.
Later struggles
Contrary to the rest of units, the PMO in the Ukraine (most notably the areas controlled by both the Western Ukrainian government and the areas controlled by the Kiev-based Directorate and Hetmanate) remained active after the Polish withdrawal from Kiev in July 1920. In February 1918, a similar organisation was formed in the German-held Greater Poland. It was modelled after the original PMO and maintained contacts with her predecessor. It assumed the name of Polish Military Organisation of the Prussian Partition and its main aim was to liberate the region and attach it to Poland. The members of the PMO became the core of the Greater Polish Army during the Greater Poland Uprising of 1918-1919. After the uprising succeeded, the PMO members were also drafted into the Polish Army, together with other military units fighting in the Uprising. In February 1919 the PMO was also formed in Upper Silesia. It had similar tasks to its Greater Polish counterpart and became the core of the Silesian Uprisings of 1919-1921. Afterwards the members of the PMO members were either demobilised or integrated into the Polish Army or the Polish Intelligence Services.
Vs. Lithuania
In Lithuania, the PMO was organizing a secret plot to overthrow the legal government of Lithuania and replace it with one more friendly towards Poland. The plot was planned to occur in August 1919, but it was uncovered by the Lithuanian State Security Department, and mass arrests followed, thus eliminating the possibility of a coup d'état.[1][2] From the documents stolen in POW headquoters safe in Vilnius and given to Prime Minister of Lithuania Augustinas Voldemaras it is clear, that this plot was directed by Józef Piłsudski himself.[3] A PMO-led uprising did occur in the Sejny region, at the time controlled by Lithuanian forces, and led to Polish forces gaining control of that disputed territory.
Influence in Soviet Union
Although the PMO was disbanded in 1921, Soviet authorities claimed that it continued to exist; during the Great Purge of 1936-38,[4] and as early as 1933,[5] many people of Polish nationality were charged with membership in it, which was illegal, see Genocide of Poles in the Soviet Union (1937–1938) for the circumstances, and NKVD Order No. 00485 in particular.
from August 1914 K. Rybasiewicz,
from October 1914 ppor. Tadeusz Żuliński,
from August 1915 mjr Michał Żymierski,
from October 1915 mjr Tadeusz Kasprzycki
Polish Military Organization of the Upper Silesia
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↑ Juozas, Rainys (1936). P.O.W. : (Polska Organizacja Wojskowa) Lietuvoje. Kaunas: Spaudos fondas. p. 184.
↑ Julius, Būtėnas; Mečys Mackevičius (1995). Mykolas Sleževičius: advokatas ir politikas. Vilnius: Lietuvos rašytojų sąjungos leidykla. p. 263. ISBN 9986-413-31-1. http://books.google.com/books?id=XDg1AAAAMAAJ&pgis=1.
↑ Lesčius, Vytautas (2004). Lietuvos kariuomenė nepriklausomybės kovose 1918-1920. Vilnius: Vilnius University, Generolo Jono Žemaičio Lietuvos karo akademija. p. 269. ISBN 9955-423-23-4.
↑ Wojciech Materski, Katyn: A Crime Without Punishment (Yale University Press, 2007: ISBN 0-300-10851-6), p. 417.
↑ Terry Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 (Cornell University Press, 2001: ISBN 0-8014-8677-7), p. 328.
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(Macao, Sept. 17, 2018)– Sands China Ltd. has mobilised its resources to assist the Macao community in the immediate aftermath of Typhoon Mangkhut, which slammed into Macao Sunday.
The company also provided assistance before the storm made landfall, with Sands Cares Ambassadors visiting 16 live-alone elderly and disabled members of the Peng On Tung Tele-Assistance programme Saturday to make preparations for the typhoon, including taping windows shut to minimise storm damage, and providing bottled water and essential food items. The Ambassadors are revisiting them again today to provide further assistance. Sands China is also sending team members from its facilities department to help with household repairs as needed.
The company also provided parking spaces for the General Union of Neighbourhood Associations of Macau (UGAMM), Fuhong Society of Macau, Caritas Macau, and Macau Special Olympics to park a total of eight buses at The Parisian Macao prior to Mangkhut's arrival, to prevent damage to the vehicles.
In addition, Sands Cares Ambassadors are teaming up with Caritas Macau to help deliver meal boxes prepared by Sands China for residents of the Elderly Centre at Illa Verde.
Sands China's relief efforts, which began immediately after Saturday's storm and remain ongoing, are part of Sands Cares, the global corporate citizenship programme of parent company Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Photo caption: Sands Cares Ambassadors visit 16 live-alone elderly and disabled members of the Peng On Tung Tele-Assistance programme Saturday to make preparations for Typhoon Mangkhut, including taping windows shut to minimise storm damage, and providing bottled water and essential food items. The Ambassadors are revisiting them again today to provide further assistance.
Photo caption: Sands Cares Ambassadors team up with Caritas Macau to help deliver meal boxes prepared by Sands China for residents of the Elderly Centre at Illa Verde.
Photo caption: Sands China provided parking spaces for the General Union of Neighbourhood Associations of Macau (UGAMM), Fuhong Society of Macau, Caritas Macau, and Macau Special Olympics to park a total of eight buses at The Parisian Macao prior to Mangkhut's arrival, to prevent damage to the vehicles.
For more information, please visit www.sands.com/sands-cares/our-commitment.html..


The biggest problem with a law like this is that one state gets it, and then it becomes a "model" for other states. Not only that, for breeders and other people who sell herps, there will be an entire state full of people they will not be able to sell certain animals too. Vendors who do exotic animal shows won't be able to take those animals with them if they are from another state and anyone who owns those listed animals who want to move there, can't take those pets with them. Who is all of this really going to benift? It will benifit the State who will now be collecting fees for permits and issuing fines to those without permits as well as the insurance companies who get to charge a nice premium for "dangerous" pets that cause less damage and are less dangerous than dogs and cats.


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The French Glacé Cherries Story
How are French Glacé Cherries made
The home of French Glacé Cherries
Did you know ?
Give it a try
French Glacé Cherry Personality Test
Your French Glacé Cherries Recipes
Where to buy French Glacé Cherries
Trade Recipes
French Glacé Cherry originate from Provence in the South of France, a region that is famous non only for its food, but also its climate, its beautiful landscapes, its thriving culture and art de vivre.
There is a lot to discover in Provence. Let your eyes and ears, your mind and taste buds marvel at all the wonders our region has to offer.
Below, we share with you some fun facts about Provence, just to whet your appetite!
• In Châteauneuf-du-Pape, a very famous wine village in Provence, a municipal law of 1954 prohibits UFOs from landing in the town.
• In 1868, an Englishman named Matthew Wood discovered the local speciality and helped introduce French Glacé Cherries on the English market.
• At the beginning of the golden age of candied fruit, wild oranges, etrogs, walnuts and almonds were candied. The boxes were decorated with candied violets and rose petals.
• The sloping vineyards, the cultivated lands and the colorful scenery charmed Cezanne (Aix en Provence), Van Gogh (Arles), Chagall ou Giono…
• Les Gorges du Verdon (the Grand Canyon of the Verdon) in Provence is one of Europe's deepest canyons, over 2500 feet deep. The gorge was not really known to the outside world until 1906.
• The Millau Viaduct, completed in 2005 in the south of France, is the tallest bridge in the world.
• The windmill, which once inspired Alphonse Daudet, is typical of the Provence landscape.
• Pont Julien and Via Domitia: Although over two thousand years old, this Roman bridge is in excellent condition and connects the Apt-Cavaillon road with Bonnieux and Lacoste. The bridge was built on the Via Domitia, the oldest road in France, built by the Romans to link Rome with the Empire's conquered territories. The road was probably built between 27 BC and 14 AD.
• The Luberon is characterised by a series of strikingly picturesque perched, hill-top villages, dating back 1000 years or more.
• Food / Regional products
• The word 'cherry' comes from the Turkish town of Cerasus.
• During the Early Middle Ages the cherries were preserved in honey until sugar was introduced in France during the Crusades.
• Lagarde d'Apt alone accounts for 20% of France's lavender production.
• Lavender oil has been used since Antiquity, but it wasn't until the Renaissance that trade developed, thanks largely to the Medicis.
• Virgin olive oil is a pure fruit juice.
• The Greeks brought the olive tree to Provence 8,000 years ago and the olive tree now is as present in the landscape as is the vineyard.
• The truffle season runs from November to mid-March in Provence, and 70-80% of France's black truffles emanate from the markets of the Vaucluse department of Provence.
MARKET / CULTURE
• The Apt market began to thrive as early as the 12th century and in 1504, letters patent of the Seneschal of Provence made it an institution on Saturdays.
• In 1996, Apt's Market received the prestigious label "exceptional French market" for its lively atmosphere.
• In Provence, people have a soft singing accent.
• In the summer, musicians from all over the world come to Provence to take part in many local music festivals.
• The name Aix in "Aix en Provence" comes from the source discovered when the city was founded by the Romans in 123 B.C.
• Aix en Provence was Provence's capital in the 15th century.
• The city of Aix en Provence inspired many of the greatest writers and painters: Guigou, Stendhal, Mistral, Zola, and Cézanne.
• Every summer, the International Festival of Lyric Arts and Music in Aix en Provence unites acclaimed prima donnas and maestros in a fabulous selection of singing and music.
• Avignon's acclaimed theatre festival attracts around 120,000 visitors every summer in July and August. It a great festival to discover new talents or see famous stars on stage.
• Both elegant and simple, the charming city of Nice boasts a lovely climate almost all year round.
• Nice is a city of art and culture. It is the French city with the most museums behind Paris.
• The Antique Theatre in the city of Orange is a UNESCO world heritage site. It was built in the early days of Christianity.
• The village of Gordes in Provence has suffered so many invasions over the centuries that its population built it "perched" on the mountains to protect themselves. It is its history that makes it today so unique and beautiful.
• Gordes in Provence is listed as one of "The Most Beautiful Villages in France".
• The Marchioness de Sévigé used to say that Apt was "a cauldron of jam". No wonder our French Glacé Cherry producers felt at home in Apt!
• Our producers' heritage goes way back! Crystallized fruits were offered to Pope Urbain V, who lived in Avignon, as early as 1365.
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Sessions vs. users vs. pageviews in Universal Analytics: an expert guide
Analytics GA4 Pageviews Sessions Users
Pageviews (PV) are one of the most basic metrics that you can track in Google Analytics (GA). However, the name is a bit of a misnomer since "pageviews" in GA don't actually have to be pages nor views on your website – they can be any type of interaction that you want to track.
Aside from understanding and tracking pageviews, it's also important to understand the difference between pageviews, sessions, and users in GA. Of course, all of these metrics are related, but they each provide different insights into your website traffic.
You need a good grasp of all three if you want to make the most of your GA data. So keep reading as we explain what GA pageviews are and what matters. We'll also compare them against sessions and users so that you can better understand how they all work together to help you assess how your content is performing.
What are pageviews in Google Analytics?
First, GA pageviews only apply to Universal Analytics (UA), which is the older version of Google Analytics. By July 2023, Google will be sunsetting UA in favor of Google Analytics 4 (GA4), which will be the only version of GA going forward.
Until then, however, most digital marketers are still using Universal Analytics to track, measure, and analyze their website data. So it's still important to understand how pageviews work in UA.
Google Analytics pageviews refer to a view of a page on your website that you've tagged with the GA tracking code.
In terms of website management and web analytics, pageviews (aka page impressions) are requests to load a single HTML file of an internet site.
A pageview (aka a page tracking hit or pageview hit) occurs when a page is loaded or reloaded in a browser.
As a metric, pageviews represent the total number of pages viewed, including reloads.
In plain terms, GA pageviews happen when a page on your site (e.g., the About page) is viewed or reloaded in a browser. If someone visits your site and views three different pages, that would count as three pageviews.
One thing to note is that pageviews only count the times a page is loaded in a browser. It won't tell you how many unique visitors saw that page or how many times someone viewed that page in one session. To get more meaningful insights, you need to contextualize pageviews with other GA metrics such as sessions, users and unique pageviews.
In most cases, pageviews are a good thing – they indicate that people are interested in your content and are engaging with your site. However, there can be such a thing as too many pageviews, especially if they're coming from bots or other automated processes rather than real human visitors. That's why you need to learn how to interpret your GA pageview data in the context of other data points.
Pageviews vs sessions vs. users
To understand the difference between pageviews, sessions, and users in Universal, it's helpful to think of them as nested metrics. That is, sessions (and users) are made up of pageviews. Before we go deeper into that concept, let's first define what sessions and users in UA are:
In Universal Analytics, a "session" refers to the period of activity completed by a user, and they're automatically recorded every single time someone visits your website.
Google Analytics starts recording a session the moment someone opens a page on your site and cookies are activated. If GA doesn't detect any further activity from that user for 30 minutes (by default), the session will end. If the same user returns to your website after that default period, the activity will be recorded as a new session.
However, if they leave your website but return within that 30-minute window, it will still be considered part of the original session. That's why you'll sometimes see "0 minutes" as the duration for a session in your GA reports.
Google Analytics counts a "user" as someone who initiates a session on your website. This means they loaded a page on your site that had the GA tracking code.
The moment a user lands on your page, GA identifies them as a new or returning user based on their browser cookies. Browser cookies work by storing a small amount of data on the user's computer, which allows GA to track their activity across the internet.
If it's a new user, they'll be assigned a unique ID (aka client ID) that will be used to track their future activity on your site. If it's a returning user, GA will look up their previous activity using the ID stored in their browser cookies.
The Users metric tells you the total of new and returning visitors your site receives within a specified time period. It's also important to note that one user can actually generate multiple pageviews in one session, such as when they reload a page or view multiple pages in one visit.
Pageviews vs. unique pageviews
Apart from differentiating between pageviews vs. sessions and users, you also need to know the difference between pageviews and unique pageviews.
Google Analytics Unique pageviews tell you how many users visited a specific page on your website. It's a more accurate representation of how popular a page is since one unique pageview is equal to one user.
On the other hand, total pageviews only count how many times a webpage is visited – and that includes all visits from the same user. So, you can have a high pageview but still a low unique pageview count if the same person is visiting the same page multiple times.
In most cases, you'll want to focus on unique pageviews rather than pageviews when analyzing your website's performance. However, there are certain situations where looking at pageviews can still give you valuable insights. For example, if you're trying to track how many times a user views a certain piece of content (like a video), then pageviews would be the more accurate metric to look at.
But if you're trying to identify the most looked at engaging content on your website, then you should focus on unique pageviews. That's because you want to know how many users are actually viewing the content, rather than just how many times it's being viewed.
Assessing content performance
So why do you even need to understand what all of these metrics are? Because they all play an important role in assessing the performance of your website's content.
Are people actually reading the articles you're publishing? How long are they staying on your site? What pages are they most interested in?
These are all questions that can be answered by looking at your website's traffic data, and one of the best tools for the job is Google Analytics.
Linking a Google Analytics account to your website will automatically pull data about everything that happens in it, including pageviews, unique pageviews, sessions, and users. Once you have that data in one place, you can then use it to evaluate how effective your marketing campaigns are.
In terms of content performance, no single metric – including pageviews – can tell you the full story. Instead, you'll need to factor in other content performance assessment metrics such as:
Bounce rate: Your bounce rate indicates how many users leave your website after seeing just one page. This shows a number of things, such as whether your content is relevant to what they're looking for or if your website is easy to navigate. A high bounce rate isn't necessarily a bad thing (for instance, it naturally occurs for pages like "Contact Us"), but it's something you should keep an eye on.
Time on page: How long are users spending on your website? If they're only staying for a few minutes, your content may not be engaging for them. Combined with other metrics like unique pageviews, it can show you gaps in your content strategy. Having a lot of unique page views (aka unique visitors) with low time on page may indicate that you're attracting the wrong audience, for example.
Goal completions: Each piece of content you publish should be nudging users down the funnel and towards a goal you've set, such as signing up for your email alerts or requesting a free quote. The more effective your content, the more likely users are to take action. You can track goal completions in Google Analytics by setting up conversion tracking.
New and returning visitors: Having lots of new visitors isn't always a positive sign. If you're noticing that most of your traffic comes from new visitors, but few of them return, this tells you that they don't find your content worth coming back to – and it's time to adjust your content strategy.
There's no magic number for any of these metrics – what counts as a "good" or "bad" number will depend on your specific website and business goals. However, by keeping an eye on them, you can start to get a feel for what content is working well and which isn't.
How are these different in GA4
Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is the latest version of Google Analytics, and it's a big departure from Universal Analytics (UA). One of the most notable changes is how GA4 deals with sessions, pageviews, and users.
GA4 tracks all of these metrics slightly differently from UA. As all information sent to GA4 is event based, the modeling can produce different information.
Sessions in GA4 are initiated by a session_start event and will generate a session ID.f a user is inactive for 30 minutes, their session will end. Unlike in UA however, sessions don't restart at midnight.
Pageviews are events based and the information is sent to GA4 when the event page_view is fired There is currently no unique pageview function in GA4.
Users are also tracked differently in GA4. In UA, a user is defined as a unique browser cookie. In GA4, a user is defined as a unique ID that can be assigned to multiple devices. This means that you can get a more accurate picture of how many people are using your website, even if they're using multiple devices. The primary user metric in GA4 is 'Active User'. An active user is anyone who has an engaged session. In most reports – this will be the default user view, so the data you look at when comparing GA4 to UA may be different.
Overall, GA4 provides a more accurate picture of how people are using your website. This is important for understanding not just how much traffic you're getting but also how effective your content is at engaging users and driving conversions.
Pageviews are just one of the many useful metrics you can track in Google Analytics. They offer a wealth of information on every aspect of your digital marketing strategy, including your content, campaigns, and website design.
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Although Mark and I try to have at least a weekend or two a year to ourselves, we generally go away for those days, holing up in a place where someone else makes our bed and food, and we can slip out of most every typical role and routine, parenthood included. As I mentioned before, this week was different. We certainly worked. We still made our bed each morning and cleaned our home. We rearranged furniture and cleaned out neglected piles and closets. Mark painstakingly installed floating shelves in our kitchen (which look incredible–I can't wait to share), while I painted the rest of our cabinetry (white, of course) and left for work at the college on my two usual days. Some friends lamented us, wishing us to spend the week in real vacation mode–and honestly, going into the week, I felt a tinge of my own sadness, too. However, remaining home this week was pleasantly surreal. Void of the usual [running, squealing, laughing, fighting] noises, I could hear our home's more subtle sounds, the way our old windows vibrate when the AC runs or the way our floors creak under our footsteps. I listened to the birds chorus each day's beginning and the locusts hum its end. I moved through ordinariness almost seamlessly–without bodies draped over me or "emergency" helps like finding shoes or snacks or a babysitter. I listened to the audiobook Paris in Love, a memoir of a couple (both professors and writers) who decide to move their family to Paris for a year. Distracted by James' description of patisseries, and Parisian style, art, and architecture, I lost track of how long I painted. On a side note, when possible, always listen to an audiobook while painting. I had a night out with girlfriends and went on a movie date with Mark. Of course, Mark and I also enjoyed uninterrupted conversation and time together, too, and for the first time in a while, we could discuss and dream possibilities instead of merely what we had scheduled for the day. We ate our meals together, sometimes with other people, sometimes just the two of us. When I picked the kids up on Saturday, ready to squeeze and kiss them, I realized the most restorative part of last week was remembering life with just the two of us, before the decade of parenthood, before the home renovations and interstate moves. Just the two of us. This week, I remembered the quality of our life isn't about what we're doing; it's about whom we're living it with. A good note, I'd say.
So nice. I will take your tip and, when I get married, make sure to spend quality time with just me and my husband. Sounds like you had a nice time.
This sounds like a lovely weekend! It sounds like you accomplished a lot, which must feel great, and I'm so excited to see these floating shelves!
Also, listening to audiobooks while painting is a wonderful idea — I've been listening to This American Life podcasts while I work, and (gasp!) am actually starting to get tired of them. Will have to check out Paris in Love…any other audiobooks you would recommend?


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USU Environmental Engineering Grad Runs Utah's Newest Wastewater Treatment Plant
USU environmental engineering alumna Madeline Tennant is the manager of the City of Logan's new wastewater treatment facility. (Photo Credit: USU/Matt Jensen)
By Matilyn Mortensen, College of Engineering Public Relations Specialist
When Madeline Tennant decided to study environmental engineering at Utah State University, she wasn't planning on a career in wastewater management. Having spent most of her life in Logan, she picked her major because she wanted to improve Cache Valley's air quality.
"Wastewater was definitely not something I ever thought I would do or was really interested in," she said. "It didn't sound very pleasant or fun to me."
That changed when Tennant worked on a group project related to wastewater. After that experience, she learned the City of Logan was building a new wastewater treatment plant. She contacted city officials and asked to be involved, and an internship was created just for her.
Tennant started the internship in May 2018 when ground was officially broken for the new facility. She helped manage the project's construction, tracking expenses and writing reports for the state in addition to other internship tasks.
When Tennant graduated in 2020, she was promoted from intern to engineer-in-training.
As the plant neared its completion date, the city was struggling to find a manager. Logan's location made it difficult to attract potential managers because of the high number of wastewater jobs available in the Salt Lake Valley. Other staffers who could have held the position had not passed the required certification test. Tennant was told the city would like to offer her the job. If she could get certified, the position would be hers.
"It was probably the hardest test I had ever taken," she said.
After passing the exam, Tennant was named manager of the new treatment plant — an especially notable accomplishment for an engineer at such an early stage in her career.
"It's definitely stressful, but I also love it so much," Tennant said. "It's such a cool opportunity and I'm so grateful to be here. I get to do different things every day. And I am learning new things every day. And even though I'm being pushed out of my comfort zone, I really enjoy that."
The plant officially began operations earlier this year. Since wastewater treatment plants are only built every 30 or 50 years, participating in the construction of a large plant and being its first manager is a once-in-a-career opportunity.
"It's fun for me to look back," she said. "Even though I know there's still a lot to learn, just seeing how much I've learned from the beginning is exciting."
Treatment plant operators undergo years of training in engineering and chemistry and must pass rigorous certification exams. (Photo Credit: USU/Matt Jensen)
USU alumna Madeline Tennant worked her way from an internship to managing the city's wastewater treatment plant. (Photo Credit: USU/Matt Jensen)
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In 2009, Jay Cunning launched Sub Slayers with a vision to fuse various styles of Bass music to create a new and forward thinking record label. The first release was by High Ranking back in October '09 while Jay was on Kiss FM and resident for Ram Records at The End. Over the following years Sub Slayers help forge and shape part of the Bass music scene we know today.
Storming into 2017, Sub Slayers not only drop their 50th release featuring VIPs of some of their biggest releases but also come with a new slick look.
Kicking of this monumental occasion is one of the labels biggest artists and undoubtedly one of the biggest tracks – King Yoof and his VIP of Back 2 Hackney. Staying true to the original vibe Yoof steps up the production & edits and ramps up the sub.
Next up is Toronto Is Brokens seminal Spirit Song, originally released back in 2012 when TiB was just 18 and supported by the like of Sub Focus, Metrik and Arcadia's infamous Festival Spider stage. The 2017 VIP pushes the tempo to 174 and is set to be another milestone in his career.
Wizards Phenomenon One featuring Rebel MC and Lady Chann was a big tune for Sub Slayers and the 2017 VIP is just down right filth. Get lost inside the bass heavy mind of Wizard for this killer Drum & Bass workout.
Jersey boys SKMA revamp their Fumin track with Cheshire Cat for an upfront D&B slice of genius. The boys have certainly kept their eye firmly on the dance floor for this one.
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So, why is it our family does some things that appear Jewish, like keeping the weekly Sabbath, or observing the Biblical feasts, even though we believe Y'shua (Jesus) is the Anointed (Christ)?
This can most simply be explained by saying we are striving to be Torah observant. What does that mean?
Torah is a Hebrew word meaning instruction. More specifically in the Biblical context, Torah is God's instructions to man. These instructions are contained in the whole Bible, but first and foremost in the first five books of the Bible. It is from the Torah that we learn that it is the basis of all other spiritual wisdom that God would reveal to man. This means that any further revelation from God must be in agreement with the principles laid down in these first five books, or it is disqualified from being considered genuine. How do we know this?
Moses made it clear that the information God was relaying through him was to be a "litmus test" of any further revelation or wisdom that would come along.
[Deu 4:2; 12:32 KJV] 4:2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish [ought] from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you….12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
[Deu 18:15, 18-19 KJV] 15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; … [YHVH speaking:] 18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. 19 And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require [it] of him.
[Mat 5:17-19 KJV] 17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. 19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach [them], the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Anyone claiming to be a disciple or follower of Y'shua (Jesus) in the kingdom of heaven, is also commanded by him to observe the Torah, or the instructions that God has given to man to abide by within that kingdom. It is in the Torah where we learn of things like observing the Sabbath, the Biblical calendar, and the guidelines of God-ordained foods to eat.
Since the Torah was carefully preserved and practiced by Jewish culture, then it stands to reason that if our family observes Torah we will also appear to be doing "Jewish" things.
We may also appear to be doing some "Christian" things, since we believe in Y'shua (Jesus) solely for our salvation. This means we accept the 27 books of what's commonly called the "New Testament", as well. (I prefer to call them the Believer's Writings, since they were all written by Jews who were believers in Y'shua). We believe these Writings are not contradictory to Torah, but are the fulfillment of its principles in Y'shua and his kingdom. Hence, for us, to be truly Torah observant is to believe the whole Bible.
However, we are not Jewish, since Jews don't believe in Y'shua. We are also not technically Christian, since Christians believe the Torah has been done away with. This leaves us with no real traditional pedigree other than "God-fearers", those who simply believe the God of the Bible to be the One true God, and Y'shua is his Anointed (Christ). We recognize that ultimately God is neither Jewish nor Christian, but that he has revealed himself in one continuous narrative from Genesis to Revelation, and desires all men everywhere to come to a knowledge of this truth.
While this may appear strange to either Jewish or Christian readers, I would encourage you to continue to explore other information on this site to gain a wider understanding of how exactly this can be, and why the God of the Bible is not about religion, but about knowing who he is, and what he expects of us in this life.
BACK 1 – YHVH is the "Tetragrammaton", the consonantal abbreviation of God's name commonly represented as "Yahweh".


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Support Palestine: come to Jazza Music Festival
Dear Friends of Palestine,
Musicians Sarah Gillespie, Gilad Atzmon and at least 40 other leading artists from UK and Palestine will try to achieve the impossible in London next week.
They will play together in a massive music festival for Palestine. They are flying musicians to London for the event, mixing jazz with folk, hip hop and roots music. They believe in one thing: that artists who support Palestine must say so loudly and proudly using their music and their voices.
The Jazza Music Festival is serious but is also a big fun party – and we want you to join in!
Jazza Music Festival
12 & 13 October 2010
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For the line up, click here.
The funds raised in the two nights of the Jazza Music Festival will help the Free Palestine Movement deliver more and more humanitarian aid to Palestine.
We are also proud and delighted to announce that Shadia Mansour, the Palestinian hip hop queen, has also joined the Jazza Festival line up.
You can listen to the amazing Shadia and the mind blowing Stormtrap (ex- Ramallah Underground) singing together on a track produced recently by Gilad Atzmon together with Robert Wyatt and Ros Stephen: "Where are They Now" (Wyatt, Atzmon, Mansur, Stormtrap).
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'When history speaks' for Israel in the Times it leaves out the Palestinians
by Remi Brulin on October 6, 2010
Rémi Brulin, an adjunct professor at New York University who is completing his dissertation entitled "The US Discourse on Terrorism Since 1945, and how The New York Times has Covered the Issue of Terrorism" (more here), sent us the following in response an article that ran in the New York Times Travel section last Sunday – When History Speaks in Israel:
The article in question is "When History Speaks in Israel," and is one of the starkest examples of a complete erasure of the Palestinian from the history of the region that I have seen in a long time. I actually did a word search of the article and the word "Palestinian" doesn't appear once! It is very much reminiscent of old claims that the Palestinian people "don't exist," that Israel was " a land without a people for a people without a land", etc…
Just read the lede:
CHAIM KAHANOVICH, an 18-year-old Polish Jew, caught his first brown glimpse of the Holy Land from the deck of a steamer in November 1924. He would never leave. Dark-haired, short and solid, Chaim brought with him a teenager's blazing passion and an ideologue's stubborn commitment to a cause. The long, slow journey had taken him from Warsaw by train to the Black Sea port of Constanta, then by ship through the Bosporus Straits and across the Mediterranean to Palestine. There at last, rising like the back of an ox from the blue water of Haifa Bay, was the sere ridge of Mount Carmel — the Promised Land.
From his boyhood study of Torah, Chaim would have known that Carmel was the place where the prophet Elijah faced down the pagan priests of Baal and fled the wrath of Queen Jezebel. But he had not come to Palestine to study Torah. He and his comrades were called halutzim — pioneers — and they had made aliyah (literally the ascent) to the Holy Land to plow the soil, plant grapevines and citrus groves, raise chickens, tomatoes and children, and to found a new nation.
I know the details of Chaim's life and circumstances because he and his wife, Sonia, were relatives of mine (my maternal grandfather was their first cousin), and I recently went to Israel with my oldest daughter, Emily, for the first time to retrace their journeys and uncover what I could about our family's story — a story of immigration shared by thousands of others. What made this trip especially inspiring was that I was able to cover so much of Israeli history: in this ancient but recently conceived nation, the founders lived just a generation ago. It's as if the children and grandchildren of Washington, Jefferson and Adams were around to give interviews and point out historical sights.
I am usually quite critical of the New York Times in its coverage of many issues that have to do with foreign policy, but even for the Times this is particularly obscene.
I was shocked by this article especially because, with my class at NYU, I am currently using Sandy Tolan's The Lemon Tree, the premise of which is precisely that so many Israelis ignore everything about their past, and especially about the fact that Palestinians lived for generations in those villages that became Israeli villages in 1948.
I was shocked also by this article because I had just read Johann Hari's great interview of Gideon Levy in the Independent. The following passage especially stood out:
He was fourteen during the Six Day War, and soon after his parents took him to see the newly conquered Occupied Territories. "We were so proud going to see Rachel's Tomb [in Bethlehem] and we just didn't see the Palestinians. We looked right through them, like they were invisible," he says. "It had always been like that. We were passing as children so many ruins [of Palestinian villages that had been ethnically cleansed in 1948]. We never asked: 'Who lived in this house? Where is he now? He must be alive. He must be somewhere.' It was part of the landscape, like a tree, like a river.
How did the U.S. government lead its people to war?
This website, in conjunction with the 72-minute documentary film LEADING TO WAR, details how the Bush administration made its case to the American people for military action against Saddam Hussein's regime, leading to the Iraq War which began in 2003.
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On each page of the main part of the website is a menu of seven topics. These topics analyze the wide-ranging strategies and rhetorical techniques used by the administration in marketing the idea of a war with Iraq, in addition to examining the pre-war claims made by the Bush administration as presented in the film.
The core of the analysis is presented in six topics that provide a comprehensive examination of how the Bush administration led the United States to war:
A Mechanism for War – how the Bush administration constructed an elaborate mechanism to propel the nation to war
Rhetoric and Spin – the skillful manipulation of language and facts
War Through Rose-Colored Glasses – the assurances made to the public about how the war would unfold
Abuses and Misuses of Intelligence – the cherry-picking and misrepresenting of intelligence
A Mythic Reality – the creation and promotion of a 'mythic reality' in order to persuade the public to support a war against Iraq
Items of Note – other points of interest
The seventh topic explores the statements made in the epilogue of the film:
Bush Administration Claims vs. The Facts directly examines the important pre-war claims made by the administration: that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, that Iraq sought to acquire yellowcake uranium from Africa, that there was a collaborative relationship between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, and others.
Relying on numerous government and press reports, this section shows how President Bush and his administration publicly presented intelligence as reliable and solid – even though behind the scenes they knew this intelligence to be disputed, or even false.
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Speaker criticizes lies behind U.S. helping Israel
By Pauline Kennedy
Matt Binter
Kenneth O'Keefe, former U.S. Marine, Gulf War veteran, and prominent organizer of the Free Gaza Movement, speaks in Forum Hall on Tuesday evening. O'Keefe criticized American support of Israel.
Tear gas filled the air, Israeli militants fired off rounds from snipers and percussion grenades went off all around. A 19-year-old American photographer holding his camera up to catch the moment was shot dead from helicopters above.
This was the scene aboard the MV Mavi Marmara, painted by Kenneth O'Keefe, ex-U.S. Marine and activist, in his speech at K-State on Tuesday night.
A flotilla of six ships, raided by Israeli militants on May 31, was en route to a blockade of the Gaza Strip while bringing humanitarian aid and supplies to the region.
Nine passengers aboard MV Mavi Marmara were killed in the raid. O'Keefe and others on the flotilla were arrested and detained by Israeli security, where O'Keefe said they were left without food and water and beaten.
As an activist, O'Keefe speaks out against American imperialism and its support of Israel in the Israel-Palestine conflict. Although an American-born citizen, he is now a resident of London and a citizen of Ireland.
"The power of indoctrination is not something to be overstated. It is very dangerous and it allows us to be manipulated, to be ignorant enough to support things that don't benefit us."
This was O'Keefe's message as he spoke in Forum Hall in the K-State Student Union on Tuesday night.
O'Keefe said the ability of the media and government to use propaganda to further their agenda is one of the most dangerous parts of the world today. He said many events in history, like U.S. involvement in WWII and the Vietnam War, have been direct results of false information given to the American people.
He said the situation is no different for the war in Iraq.
"The fact is we invaded on a pack of lies, and those lies were well-known to those of us who had our eyes open and looked beyond the mass media, the propaganda machine," he said. "That invasion, that occupation has led to an amount of suffering that can be hard to fathom for us."
O'Keefe said the real reason for the invasion of Iraq was not because of weapons of mass destruction, but rather to establish permanent military bases in the region and to take control of the oil reserves.
O'Keefe became a U.S. Marine at the age of 19 and served in the Gulf War. He said he saw the abuse of power firsthand in the military and has dedicated his life to fighting crimes against humanity.
One topic he has spoken about and fought for is the rights of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, and the right the Palestinians have to what is present-day Israel.
After WWII and the harsh treatment Jews faced, the United Nations designated land in Palestinian territory for them to settle. This U.N. partition allocated more than half the territory to the 15 percent of Jews in the area, and left the 83-percent Palestinian population to live in the rest of the region, now present-day Israel. Over the last six decades, the Palestinians have continued to lose land and have been forced into smaller and smaller portions of the region.
"One of the many lies that is being told over and over again is that this is a conflict that has been around for thousands of years, it's about religion and it's about the terrorists that want to drive all the Jews out to sea. That is a lie," O'Keefe said. "The real problem is the theft of land and denial of human rights and killing of innocent people."
O'Keefe denounced the support the American government gives to Israel, and said by supporting them and giving them weapons, the American government is aiding the problem.
"Can we believe that those people who are defending themselves in their homeland are the terrorists and we somehow are innocent?" he said. "It is exactly the opposite. We are the terrorists and we are funding state-sponsored terrorism."
O'Keefe said the American people and those around the world are being withheld the truth about the conflict. He said the truth is the Palestinian people are simply defending the land that is rightly theirs, but they are portrayed in the media as the enemy.
"If you believe the narrative, if you believe the propaganda, basically the Palestinians are a bunch of radical fundamentalist, Islamic freaks that want to kill all the Jews and hate us for our freedom, and that's who they are," he said. "The Palestinian people are much more patient, much more compassionate, much more humane than we are by any stretch."
O'Keefe said the Palestinians treat Americans with open arms. He said they will share everything they own, treat Americans as honored guests, and all they ask for is a basic amount of respect in return.
He said the one solution for the conflict would be one state, with equal rights for every person.
"I would argue that one of the most important things that we as people need to do is expand our circle of compassion and to see people all around the world as our family," he said.
Those in the audience gave O'Keefe a standing ovation after his speech, and many students in the audience said they were glad they took the time to come and listen to the speech.
Maxwell Gabel, junior in psychology, history and political science, said O'Keefe's openness and bluntness about the topic was refreshing.
"It was a lot more interesting than I expected," he said. "It was definitely worth my time."
O'Keefe's straight-forward approach was appreciated by many in the audience, but some felt his biased approach created problems as well.
"I think there's a bigger picture than the side he presents," said Amanda Perser, freshman in open option. "He also is relying on the very tactic that he condemns. I think it's a good way to deliver his viewpoint – it's also a good way to get people riled up when they don't believe the same thing."
Letter to the Guardian : Miliband's values on foreign policy
We welcome Ed Miliband's statement that Labour's foreign policy should be "based on values, not just alliances" (Leader's speech, 29 September). For too long Britain has blindly followed the US in supporting Israel, right or wrong. There is one, immediate decision Ed Miliband can make which will show that these are not empty words. Both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were patrons of the Jewish National Fund. We urge Ed Miliband to break from this tradition.
The JNF is actively complicit in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. For example, it established the Canada Park in the West Bank on the ruins of the villages of Imwas, Yalu and Beit Nuba. Today in Israel's Negev region it plays a major role in the establishment of exclusively Jewish settlements and the demolition of "unrecognised" Arab villages.
The JNF was founded in 1901 with the aim of purchasing land "for the purpose of settling Jews on such lands and properties". To this day it refuses to lease or rent land to anyone who is not Jewish. In 1953 and 1961, Israeli legislation made the JNF responsible for the land allocation policies of the state itself. In 1995 the Israeli supreme court, in the Ka'adan case, ruled that the JNF's partner, the Israeli Lands Administration, could no longer discriminate against Israeli Arabs by refusing to lease or rent state lands to them. This was held to be equally applicable to the JNF. The response of the JNF was that Israel was first and foremost a Jewish state not a state of its own citizens. Ed Miliband stood as the candidate of change in the Labour party. Now is the time to show that these weren't just words of spin.
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Using a Hierarchical Approach to Tame SoC Debug Anarchy
by Bryon Moyer
Imagine you're a private detective and someone hands you a picture. In that picture you see a slim young man in a bathing suit holding a surfboard. The board is plain, marked only with some sort of symbol like a sloppy A within a circle feature. He has dark hair cut into a mohawk, peaked with gel, tinted red at the ends. He's got a reasonable tan working. Your job is to find this guy. Somewhere in the US. (Let's assume for the sake of keeping it simple that the guy will be staying put – you won't be chasing a moving target.)
Oh, did we mention that you are completely unfamiliar with the US? In other words, you have no cultural pre-conceptions about where to find anyone. So, using only a brute-force approach, you would have you start, say, in Maine, and perhaps plot a boustrophedon path to San Diego. Which would take a very long time.
You could simplify your task dramatically if you took a couple of steps to narrow down your search. You could get yourself a guide to regional climates as well as a guide to local culture. So, for example, the tan indicates ample sunshine: the climate guide would help narrow the region to more southerly areas. The cultural guide could then add a couple more refinements: the surfboard would indicate coastal, eliminating the desert southwest. And the tinted mohawk (and the surfboard symbol) would suggest West Coast, deprioritizing the East and Gulf Coasts.
From this information, you could focus your search on Southern California (moving as high as Seattle just in case the picture was taken in the summer after a rare sunny streak).
You have just applied a hierarchical search to narrow down the region of concern, vastly increasing your chances of finding this guy before his time in this mortal realm expires. The climate guide took you part of the way, and then the cultural guide zoomed you in two steps further. At that point, you were back to the basic footwork required to find him.
Now imagine that you're debugging an SoC design. You've spent months validating your RTL, and now you're testing the entire system by running software on the hardware. The very fact that you're debugging means that something's not working right.
And the problem you have is much harder than finding one in 300 million people. Somewhere within a billion clock cycles, something went awry. You have to find that clock cycle so that you can figure out whether it's a hardware problem or a software problem. If you don't find the problem now, you may find it after you have silicon – which may mean a product launch delay to fix software. Or new masks and more delay if it's a hardware problem. Or, worse yet, your customer may find the problem in the system you ship them.
So you've got to resolve any issues now, before silicon. Which is why you use an emulator to run actual application software against the design to figure out where things go wrong before they end up in silicon.
The good news about testing your software ahead of time is that, with the aid of an emulator, you can run billions and billions worth of clock cycles of activity in a reasonable time frame. The bad news is that, if there is a problem, you have to wade through those billions to find the information. And there's no reasonable way to ox-plow your way through that at the waveform level even if you wanted to. So you need a hierarchical approach. To this end, you have three levels of abstraction to play with: software, transaction, and logic. Each of them can narrow your search range by many orders of magnitude.
Step 1: Software debug
The first step is accessible to anyone who's dabbled with software debugging – which pretty much means anyone with a computer science degree. It's the simple matter of using a software debugger to exercise the code and find the range of instructions where the problem seems to be occurring.
While this may sound easy enough, modern SoCs are typically complex heterogeneous multicore beasts, with modes that come and go and processors each doing their own thing and occasionally interacting with each other. Such an arrangement can be much more difficult to debug than the simple sequential processor you may have cut your teeth on.
If it turns out, for instance, that there is a problem between two cores, each of which is running its own OS instance, then you may have to run multiple instances of your debugger, tracking what happens on each core to see where the problem is. Keeping an entire such system in lock-step can be a challenge – if each of your debugger instances knows nothing of the other, then you can't single-step them together, for instance. Whether or not that matters is a high-level consideration that is rightly considered at the software level of abstraction, and would be tough to think through by diving down to the circuit level straightaway.
If the failure lies in a fundamental architectural problem that would be reflected in a virtual model, then it can be seen simply by running the software in the host on the virtual model and noting where it fails. But much more likely is that there is something more subtle going on in the actual implementation, in which case the idealized model would work fine. So the offending module must be exercised in the emulator, with other software running on the host to boost performance. Exactly which module contains the bug may be suggested by the original failure, or some trial and error may be needed to isolate the offending portion of the system.
The very fact of this complexity makes it that much more important to narrow the range of interest at the software level first. It gets your field of view down from billions of clock cycles to around a million – three or so orders of magnitude improvement.
Step 2: Assertions, checkers, and monitors
From here, you drop down a level from the software realm into the hardware realm. But you still work at the top level of hardware abstraction: TLM. Here you use assertions, checkers, and monitors to further isolate the region of failure.
Assertion-based verification has been slow in gaining mainstream usage due to the fact that a complete set of assertions for verifying the entire design can be difficult to set up. But, whether or not they're used for verification, they can be extremely useful for debug, where you're defining a limited set in order to figure out what's misbehaving.
These three terms, "assertions," "checkers," and "monitors," often accompany each other without careful distinction as to what they mean individually. If you scour the internet, you can, for example, find references where "checkers" and "monitors" are said to be synonymous with "assertions."
EVE does not use these terms in a way that has them all meaning the same thing, although they're related. Checkers and monitors are both used to verify, or, in the case of debug, to examine signals. The key distinction is that, while a monitor simply observes a set of signals for later perusal or analysis, making no judgments as to correctness, a checker contains its own means of determining whether the behavior is correct.
One way of implementing a checker is by using assertions. An assertion is a piece of SystemVerilog code that expresses design intent. So, in the ideal case, a thorough developer crafts two chunks of code for each bit of behavior: the description of the circuitry, coupled with assertions describing the basic operating assumptions that should not be violated. For debug purposes, assertions can be used both to confirm correct behavior and to test failure hypotheses.
It's not important to get hung up on the terminology, but it is important to know that these tools are there and can help pin down the location of failing circuitry much more efficiently because they can be executed via transactions.
By working at the transaction level, you can see which high-level operations aren't working properly without worrying about the intricacies of the signals. The SCE-MI interface between the emulator and the host can pass transactions back and forth quickly and efficiently. This narrows your view down to about 10,000 cycles – another couple orders of magnitude improvement.
Step 3: Logic debug
At this point, you can start looking at actual signals. You have a lot of clues in the form of failed assertions and incorrect signals from your transaction-level work; now you can start scanning waveforms to find the signal miscreant and fix the design.
Here again, the use of an emulator is beneficial in that it provides observability of all signals in the design. Which can be a mixed blessing when diving in to a debug session simply because there are so many signals. Taking a hierarchical approach to debugging allows you to radically narrow down not only the scope of clock cycles to study, but also the signals that you should view.
At this point, your standard logic debugging skills take over. There may still be plenty of backbreaking work to do to find where things are going awry; even 10,000 cycles can take some work to sort through. But at least you know that you're looking in the right region; you're not wasting your time looking for an anarchist surfer in Fargo.
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No, I don't mean taking up your sewing machine in a revolt against the only clothing available in shops seemingly made for tiny, wafer-thin twelve-year olds (although that would be reason enough to get sewing), instead I'm talking about my reluctance to use the machine at all.
I'm not sure what it is, but I have these seemingly fixed ideas in my head around when I can use the sewing machine and why it's a hassle to do so.
55 seconds it took to get the machine out of the cupboard, onto the table, unpacked, plugged in and turned on.
Next is the idea that I need a full day to sew or it's not worthwhile. I don't know where I get this from, and it's so silly. I rarely have a full day that I can sew and when I had the machine out today – for an hour in total – I managed to sew one side strip onto every square of the quilt I'm sewing. I call that progress!
Lastly, and this might be the biggest reason I don't like getting the machine out, I think it's having that extra something, a machine, between you and the thing you're crafting. I seem to get much more pleasure out of hand stitching, knitting, crochet, designing a craft piece or even choosing and cutting the fabric for a quilt, because there's nothing really between me and the object, save for a needle or a pair of scissors.
The process seems more in my control and more immediate. Sewing with the machine I sometimes equate to finishing off the ends in a piece of knitting - a bit of a tedious necessity.
Is there a part of your crafting process you don't like, or procrastinate over doing? Do you have any techniques you use to get past these road blocks?


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Q: Show $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{nx^2}{n^3+x^3} \rightrightarrows$ on $[0,A],A > 0$ and $\lim_{x\to 1}\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{nx^2}{n^3+x^3}=\cdots$
Show $\displaystyle \sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{nx^2}{n^3+x^3}$ is
  uniformly convergent on $[0,A]$ for any $A \gt 0$.
Then prove
$$ \lim_{x \to 1} \sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{nx^2}{n^3+x^3} = \sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{n}{n^3+1}.$$

My attempt:
Let $A \gt 0$ be given. Let $\displaystyle M_n := \frac{A^2}{n^2}$.
Then $\displaystyle \left| \frac{nx^2}{n^3+x^3} \right| \lt \left| \frac{nx^2}{n^3} \right|=\frac{x^2}{n^2} \leq M_n, \forall x \in [0,A]$. Also $\sum_{n=1}^\infty M_n < \infty$, so by Weierstrass M test, the series converges uniformly on $[0,A]$.
Now for the second part, to simplify things, I wrote it down like this:
Let $f(x) = \sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{nx^2}{n^3+x^3}$. Prove $\lim_{x \to 1} f(x) = f(1)$.
Now isn't this equivalent of asking if $f(x)$ is continuous at $x=1$?
We know $f(x)$ is uniformly convergent on $[0,A]$ so it is continuous on $[0,A]$. Pick $A=2$, then $f(x)$ is continuous at $x=1$, and hence the limit converges to $f(1)$.
Is there anything wrong with my second proof/argument?

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AT C5-6, there is a prominent broad based posterior disc protrusion and end plate osteophyte formation with n associated right para central disc extrusion which causes some mild indentation to the right side of the cervical spinal cord and significant impingement on the C7 nerve root and moderate encroachment on the right C6 foramen there is also considerable disc and osteophyte encroachment on the left C6 foramen.
What Dr ordered your MRI? Have you scheduled a follow-up with them? If so what did they say about the report? Have you approached them about an earlier referral to a spine specialist?
The report reads as potentially pretty serious but you really need to get the opinion of a spine specialist. They can read the MRI and determine what treatment is required.
You have a disc protrusion at C5/C6 which means the disc is poking out. You also have a disc extrusion there as well which means that the nucleus of the disc (which is a gel-like material) has pushed out. This is indenting your spinal cord at C5/C6 and also impacting the C7 nerve root that exits below.
At C6/C7 you also have a disk protrusion flattening the spinal cord. Any time something impacts the cord enough to flatten it, significant symptoms can occur.
There are two ways that disc pathology (in your case discs protruding, and/or busting open) can cause significant symptoms. They can impact the nerve roots coming off the spinal cord and exiting through passages in the vertebrae. This causes symptoms such as pain, numbness and sometimes weakness along the muscles that the nerve delivers sensory and motor signals to. In your case, the C7 nerve root impingement is probably causing the symptoms in your arm and shoulder. The other issue is when something compresses the spinal cord. When this causes symptoms, it can create what's called cervical spondylitic myelopathy which is damage to the spinal cord. In your case, this *could* be the cause of your issues with gait and possibly bowel and bladder issues. Do you have coordination problems with your hands as well? This is another common symptom. Of course these issues may be due to something else as well but they can be explained by CSM.
My advice is to get in to a spine specialist (neurosurgeon or orthopedic surgeon with specialty training in spine issues that treat only spine conditions) and have them evaluate your MRI as well as the clinical picture. From there they should be able to recommend a treatment plan.