Boston-based, now international, sneaker boutique Concepts has linked with Under Armour to produce an extremely limited sneaker that honors Tom Brady and his historic fifth Super Bowl win during the 2016 – 2017 NFL season.
Deon Point, work hard/party hard frontman and general manager of Concepts, got to present the unique sneaker to Tom Brady at Gillette Stadium (if that ain't a lifetime achievement type moment, I don't know what is). According to Point, every detail from the tissue paper to the box will pay homage to Brady and his legacy.
Interestingly, Tom Brady was one of the Under Armour athletes to weartest the 3D printed tooling of the ArchiTech Futurist prior to its release. According to an Under Armour designer that spoke with us on the condition of anonymity, it takes one full day to print the midsole unit on the ArchiTech Futurist due to its complexity.
This 'Tom Brady' 3D printed Under Armour ArchiTech Futurist will be limited to just 100 pairs worldwide. It will launch exclusively at Concepts Cambridge at 10 AM EDT for the New England Patriots' season opener on September 7. Remaining pairs will land online at 11 AM EDT. While no price has been announced, the ArchiTech Futurist retails for $300 normally.
For detailed look and review of the Under Armour ArchiTech Futurist, check out our latest Test Shoot segment.
Will you be heading to Concepts on the 7 to pick up this Tom Brady sneaker? Let us know in the comments.
One whole day to print because of it's complexity. More like one whole day because they are stuck with the wrong machines because whoever was in charge of 3D printing at UA never did their homework. Adidas print in minutes and UA print in a whole day. This is clearly a lame attempt to try and salvage some PR after wasting money on the wrong tech.
As you may know, adidas has been exploring 3D printing for years now. We, the general public, have not gotten results. While several "results" have been showcased, we've also been hearing about the ATL SPEEDFACTORY for years now. I don't see many results from ///, but I'm excited for what's coming, whenever it is actually coming.


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Julian Assange, Political Prisoner: A Dark Day for Citizenship
After a day of following RT's live coverage of the outrageous arrest of Julian Assange, abducted from the Embassy of Ecuador in London by British police agents, and then hearing US media fall over each other in a competition for who could make the most psychotic accusations against Assange (Fox News, interestingly, distinguishing itself as the sane exception on this matter), I have come to a different set of opinions on what this event means. It has been many years since I last wrote like I do below, but I have an axe to grind, and boy do I mean to grind it.
A Dark Day for What?
My first surprise was not in the arrest itself and the abrupt cancellation of Ecuador's asylum, but the conclusion that first came to many commentators' minds: this is a dark day for journalism. If that were true, we might even breathe a sigh of relief, given how disreputable and discredited most of the news media have become as publishers of falsehoods, propaganda, and smears. The sadder reality is that today was a dark day for citizenship, for democracy, and for international law. The event should serve as a reminder that we are all being violently confronted with a dead post-liberalism that is reactionary, abusive, and arrogant. In the West at least, all of us live in authoritarian prisons: mass surveillance, mass indoctrination, and increasingly all-inclusive censorship. Journalism would have needed to still be alive, for this to have been a dark day for it.
The Crime?
Julian Assange has been accused of many crimes over the years, and now his state-level detractors will finally have the unenviable task of actually trying to prove their accusations in court. Assange's most notorious "crime" is to have better informed us of the reality of global corruption and imperial warfare. Whether the broad public was deserving of his sacrifice is another matter, as is the question about the degree to which the public made use of the knowledge produced by WikiLeaks.
For my part, I benefited: thanks to WikiLeaks, I was able to mine the Afghan War Logs for information about the Human Terrain System, finding new information that had not been known to that point, and which revised some of the key arguments I had been making. WikiLeaks' publication of the US Embassy Cables, which I have still been using even in some of my most recent articles, has been a unique treasure trove that could be the source of countless books. In more recent years, I explored WikiLeaks' publications of the emails of John Podesta, and then tried to summarize the key findings (of which there were many). We are told that this publication significantly harmed Hillary Clinton's chances of being elected in 2016—to which I can only say: I hope that is true.
Academics have, for the most part, really missed the mark to the extent that they have failed to show sufficient curiosity and diligence in making use of WikiLeaks' freely available material—it truly stands as an indictment of the failure of their imagination, and the poverty of their methods. I have had my own criticisms of WikiLeaks over the years, but never about its core mission and its methods, and never about the need for WikiLeaks. Yet even on this point, some academics were quick to embrace OpenLeaks as a "better alternative" to WikiLeaks—now try to find OpenLeaks. One would think that, at a minimum, a site has to at least exist for it to be an alternative.
As for specific crimes for which Assange has been charged, they do not include "working for Russia," which he has never done—if he had, he might have enjoyed Russian protection. Russia does not leave its operatives hanging out there to be easily plucked by adversaries. Nonetheless, the hyperventilating Russiagate conspiracy theory crowd in the US, still reeling from the devastating defeat handed to them by the Mueller non-event, is looking for anything to restore just a shred of credibility. Assange also is not guilty of "stealing secrets" from the US military—only one person did that, has already been convicted, and has already served time: Chelsea Manning. Assange's hands, real or virtual, were never on any US government documents prior to their transfer—"theft" is thus totally false. WikiLeaks' publications have not resulted in the deaths of any US forces in the field—nor is WikiLeaks responsible for their being "in danger". Those responsible for putting the lives of US troops in danger are the politicians who deploy them in countless futile, reckless, and unnecessary wars.
As is to be expected, Julian Assange has also been the target of lurid, phony rape accusations, yet another ignominious episode in a long line of high-profile fabricated sex slurs. Assange was never charged with rape, nor did he evade questioning by Swedish authorities.
What Assange has said repeatedly, on countless occasions for several years, is that any effort to arrest him would be used by the US to seek his extradition. Unfortunately, Assange's claim has now received 100% validation, while his critics who dismissed his claim as unwarranted hyperbole, have just had any remainder of their credibility completely destroyed. This takes us to the nature of Assange's opposition.
The Gift of a Bad Opposition?
With the passage of years, it's a challenge to remember the names of Julian Assange's critics who came from the ranks of the many forgettable drones housed in foreign policy meat-lockers that are misleadingly called "think" tanks. They tried, and failed (often gloriously) to make the case that Assange was a "spy," that he had "endangered lives," that he in fact published nothing of any significance (so why arrest him?), and when that did not work, yes, of course, he was a "fugitive rapist". Whether they were deep state aficionados, freelance hacks, jealous mainstream media bobbleheads, paranoid activists, corrupt politicians, or warmongers, Assange's attackers came from every direction. Even some ostensibly left-wing conspiracy theorists would accuse Assange of being anti-Iran, pro-invasion of Iraq, a Mossad agent, and a CIA agent. What WikiLeaks could not publish, because it did not receive the leaks, was taken to be a deliberate act of omission (but clearly the nuts bought into the state-authored propaganda about WikiLeaks acting as hackers). US anthropologists were no exception—if and when they could ever be distracted from talking about themselves, what they had to say about WikiLeaks was painfully little, and usually of the most insipid, vapid, and trivial order. This includes all of the so-called "cyber anthropologists" and "digital anthropologists," who do not even really know what they are studying (they think they're studying "the Internet").
To spend time with Assange's opponents—and I have—is to experience intellectual squalor on a whole other level. Let's move on then.
Nobody is Above the Law?
Into what a trashy pit of decrepitude have the elite classes in the UK fallen. There was Theresa May today—still pretending to act as if she might be "Prime Minister" for five minutes longer—blowing the line "no one is above the law". Yes, but these days it seems that it's only ever those who are above the law that say that nobody is above the law. In stating that "nobody is above the law," the defunct, discredited, and soon to be banished Theresa May resorted to precisely the line that is used by actual dictators when cracking down on opponents. Opponents are always "criminals". But May also needs to distract the UK public, and Assange might offer a few moments of distraction. Assange's arrest, she will gloat, was her Hillary-Gaddafi moment.
The UK, however, is engaged in prosecuting an asylum-seeker. The UN's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention stated in 2016 that it considered the various forms of deprivation of liberty to which Julian Assange had been subjected, constituted a form of arbitrary detention, and that he should be released and compensated.
Yet the first UK judge to confront Assange today (April 11, 2019), did not concern himself so much with the UN or international law, as with Assange's personality. Julian Assange is apparently guilty of a personality crime. The judge—presumably a leading psychoanalyst too—went down into the bowels of Twitter trolling by unnecessarily slandering Assange as "narcissistic". Is that the crime? Is it even relevant? This already shows "the justice system" failing, beginning with its very first actual test—it reveals a degree of personal acrimony that renders fair and impartial justice ridiculous.
If dignity has fled the state in the UK, one place to which it did not relocate was the state in Ecuador.
¡Long Live Bananas!
All thanks are due to His Majesty, The Ironically Named Lenin Moreno, for successfully ushering Ecuador into a new era as a resurrected Banana Republic. The political leadership of Ecuador manifests that unique combination of servility and greed which we usually find in America's "force multipliers". Lenin Moreno, this new friend of the US, who expelled Assange a mere month after meeting Mike Pence in all his constipated Christian glory, is also someone who has openly backed the coup in Venezuela, whose figurehead is the opposition activist brat known as Juán Guaidó. Moreno operates as we have come to expect of corrupt goons, taking revenge on Assange for WikiLeaks exposing his corruption. In the process, Moreno treated his Embassy, its staff, and international law, as if they were his personal tools, put there to advance his campaign of self-aggrandizement.
In a plain lie, published dutifully and without question by mainstream media, Moreno's government totally denied that there was a decision to expel Assange, when Assange already knew that the decision had been taken. Clearly Moreno wanted to prevent a massive crowd from forming in advance of Assange's arrest, and he seems to have succeeded. Too few believed the reports of Ecuador's growing hostility toward Assange, a man to whom that government had granted asylum and even citizenship (apparently not worth much in Ecuador).
If this much squalor was not enough, then you have yet to meet the King of Squalor.
Me? I Never Knew Anybody!
The press has known since at least April of 2017 that the US had filed arrest charges for Julian Assange. Donald Trump has had ample time to prepare a response that did not sound quite so bumbling, another example of his trademark mendacity.
Donald Trump today acted as if he had never even heard of WikiLeaks. Not even his loyal fans at Fox News could support that illusion though, as they broadcast numerous clips of Trump loudly praising WikiLeaks, which he loved so very much during the 2016 election campaign. Julian Assange received respectful treatment on Fox News, with Sean Hannity traveling to interview Assange in person.
The Assange case will be like a toxic dump of radioactive feces on Trump, and perhaps this is what he intuitively fears. His own supersized "Secretary of State," former director of the CIA, Mike Pompeo, had set the stage for this himself, having lambasted WikiLeaks as a "hostile non-state intelligence service". Right then, Trump should have jumped on Pompeo: "Hey Mike, try to STFU about WikiLeaks, OK? Before you cause trouble. You yourself praised them for their publications". If Pompeo spoke out of both sides of his mouth on WikiLeaks, he was merely giving us a preview of Trump.
Trump's more deranged and dishonest opponents at home might alternatively claim that his government is arresting Assange in order to silence Assange. Yes. That's it! It's all a cover-up of the real extent of "Russia collusion"! That is why the DoJ is charging Assange for something unrelated to Russia. Get it?
All joking aside, what we see in North America is a crackdown on whistleblowers acting in the public interest, and a crackdown on journalism, and that is just the beginning. We have also seen (and some of us have experienced) censorship in "social media," along with increased corporate surveillance and rigging of Internet search results, added to actual banning and censorship. The list of cases is now longer than when it was summarized here in December, and here (search for the word "censor" to see the references on those pages).
Freedom of speech is the actual "threat" here—in other words, a basic right of citizenship. It's not impoverished Central Americans on the US–Mexico border that threaten the citizenship rights of Americans, as much as Americans' very own government. How will the US preach "in the name of democracy" to, say, Venezuela, while conducting a crackdown on journalism at home, stifling free speech, and persecuting whistleblowers?
With a bona fide political prisoner soon occupying front-page headlines, I cannot wait for the US to resume lecturing other countries about their democracy.
A Strange Relief
What a strange relief it must be for Julian Assange, even if he is not conscious of it at this very moment—to no longer have to endure that impossible stasis of being locked in a closet in Ecuador's embassy, without so much as the benefit of a short walk in the sun and fresh air. His time there rendered him ill, and he looked both sick and dramatically aged today. Clearly the time had come for a proper resolution, one way or another. For years, every day, Assange has been training his mind for this very confrontation with the US. Every argument, every idea, every detail has been rehearsed endlessly, reworked, elaborated, strengthened. Now Assange will be able to force the US authorities to finally justify themselves. This is the US on trial too, and it has more to lose from this confrontation than Assange. Great defense lawyers and ample defense funds will be provided to Assange, especially by his wealthier supporters (celebrities among them). This extradition and the upcoming trial of Assange might turn out to be a very significant mistake on the part of the US. And all for what? Maybe a maximum of five years in prison?
Assange will end his days as a free man, continuing his work, wealthy, and celebrated. The US has no such future prospects.
Media articles on WikiLeaks by M.C. Forte:
"The Wikileaks Afghan War Diary," CounterPunch, August 2, 2010— republished by Alternet as "7 Reasons Why We Should Celebrate Wikileaks, and 8 Reasons It's Not the Panacea Some Are Calling It".
نواقص في تسريبات ويكيليكس ("Deficiencies in the Wikileaks"). Al Jazeera Arabic, August 8, 2010.
"A War on Wikileaks?" CounterPunch, August 11, 2010.—translated into Spanish and republished on Rebelión as "Desquiciados en el Departamento de Estado y el Pentágono ¿Guerra contra Wikileaks?"
"EEUU amenaza a los soldados que busquen consultar los documentos—El Pentágono pretende callar a Wikileaks," Correo del Orinoco, August 17, 2010.
الهجوم على ويكيليكس.. هل من مخرج؟ ("Attacks on Wikileaks: Is There a Way Out?"). Al Jazeera Arabic, September 17, 2010.
"The Wikileaks Revolution," CounterPunch, December 14, 2010.
"Iraq after Wikileaks: Truth without Justice and Power without Law." Previously unpublished. December 1, 2010
"Al Jazeera and U.S. Foreign Policy: What WikiLeaks' U.S. Embassy Cables Reveal about U.S. Pressure and Propaganda." Monthly Review (MRzine), September 22, 2011.
"The Clinton doctrine: US reaction to events unfolding in the Arab world reveals the emergence of more insidious approach." Al Jazeera English, February 22, 2011.
مصر والإمبراطورية الأميركية ("Egypt and the American Empire"). Al Jazeera Arabic, February 16, 2011.
"What Do We Learn about the U.S. and Egypt from the Diplomatic Cables?" Previously unpublished. February 12, 2011.
Book by M.C. Forte that relied on WikiLeaks' CableGate:
Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO's War on Libya and Africa. Montreal: Baraka Books, 2012.
Book Chapters on WikiLeaks by M.C. Forte:
"The Ongoing Reinvention of Wikileaks: Media, Power, and Shifting the Shape of Dissent," in WikiLeaks, Media and Politics: Between the Virtual and the Real, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Beirut, 2011.
Chapter 7, "On Secrecy, Power, and the Imperial State: Perspectives from WikiLeaks and Anthropology," in Force Multipliers: The Instrumentalities of Imperialism, edited by Maximilian C. Forte. Montreal, QC: Alert Press, 2015, pp. 187-221.
Articles on WikiLeaks on Zero Anthropology:
"Collateral Murder: U.S. Soldiers Killing Civilians in Cold Blood," April 5, 2010.
"Collateral Murder, Part 2: Admission of U.S. War Crimes in Iraq," June 17, 2010.
"Human Terrain Teams in Wikileaks' Afghan War Diary: Raw Data," July 27, 2010.
"Wikileaks' Afghan War Diary: Problems to Note, More to Come on Human Terrain Teams," July 28, 2010.
"Human Terrain System in Wikileaks' Afghan War Diary: Searching for Evidence of the Positive," July 31, 2010.
"Revealing the Human Terrain System in Wikileaks' Afghan War Diary," August 1, 2010.
"Continued: Debating the Pros and Cons of Wikileaks' Afghan War Diary," August 2, 2010.
"Visual Intelligence: IED Attacks from Wikileaks' Afghan War Diary," August 3, 2010.
"Heroism in Doubt: Canadian War Mythology Takes a Hit from Wikileaks," August 12, 2010.
"Wikileaks: Bradley Manning, Sweden as Safe Haven, and Pentagon Propaganda," August 18, 2010.
"The Pentagon's Letter to Wikileaks," August 19, 2010.
"In the Conflicts Around Wikileaks, Is Julian Assange Really the Problem?" September 4, 2010.
"Wikileaks' Iraq War Logs: U.S. Troops Ordered Not to Investigate Iraqi Torture," October 24, 2010.
"Wikileaks' Iraq War Logs: Torture Widespread in Iraqi Detention Facilities," October 24, 2010.
"Wikileaks' Iraq War Logs: 76 Cases of Abuse Challenges U.S. Report on Iraqi Prisons," October 24, 2010.
"Wikileaks' Iraq War Logs: Obama Administration Handed Over Detainees Despite Reports of Torture," October 26, 2010.
"Wikileaks: The Iraq War Logs Documentaries," October 26, 2010.
"Wikileaks' Iraq War Logs: The War in Numbers," October 28, 2010.
"Wikileaks' Iraq War Logs: 15,000 New Civilian Deaths Uncovered in Leaked Files," October 28, 2010.
"Wikileaks' Iraq War Logs: One Day in Iraq: 128 Dead, Including Three Women and One Child," October 28, 2010.
"Wikileaks' Iraq War Logs: Hundreds of Civilians Gunned Down at Checkpoints," October 28, 2010.
"Wikileaks' Iraq War Logs: U.S. Apache Guns Down Surrendering Insurgents," October 28, 2010.
"Wikileaks' Iraq War Logs: U.S. Troops Hand Over Detainees to Interrogation Squad," October 29, 2010.
"Wikileaks' Iraq War Logs: UN High Commissioner Calls for Investigation Into War Logs Allegations," October 29, 2010.
"Wikileaks' Iraq War Logs: Pentagon Response to Publication of Logs," October 29, 2010.
"Wikileaks' Iraq War Logs: Al Jazeera's The Listening Post," October 30, 2010.
"Wikileaks' Iraq War Logs: The U.S. Government's Crisis of Legitimacy," October 31, 2010.
"Wikileaks' Iraq War Logs: On War News Radio," October 31, 2010.
"Roundup of Posts on Wikileaks: The Iraq War Logs," October 31, 2010.
"Torturing the Whistle Blowers: The Case of Vance and Ertel in Iraq, Substantiated by Wikileaks' Iraq War Logs," November 5, 2010.
"Wikileaks Roundup: Man of the Year, Assange the Swede, Blocked at Harvard, Telling the Truth," November 12, 2010.
"Wikileaks: Defend Julian Assange," November 19, 2010.
"Wikileaks: Intelligence Needs Counter-Intelligence," November 26, 2010.
"WikiLeaks Disrupts U.S. Propaganda Machinery," December 8, 2010.
"The Wikileaks Revolution," December 10, 2010.
"Zero Anthropology is Wikileaks," December 13, 2010.
"The Wikileaks Revolution, Part 2: Notes from the Insurrection," December 14, 2010.
"Wikileaks and the Moral Dualism of the U.S. State Department," December 18, 2010.
"Anthropology, Secrecy, and Wikileaks," December 24, 2010.
"The Excuse is Wikileaks. The Object is Freedom of Speech. The Subject is Authoritarianism," January 8, 2011.
"Journalist, Hacker, Spy, Racketeer," January 23, 2011.
"101 Things We Learned from WikiLeaks' Podesta Emails," November 8, 2016.
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17 thoughts on "Julian Assange, Political Prisoner: A Dark Day for Citizenship"
erichwwk
Hmm. Love your work, read one of your books. ……But…
" (H)ow disreputable and discredited most of the news media have become as publishers of falsehoods, propaganda, and smears" speaks more to the fact that Assange was one of the few WIDELY read PUBLISHERS that DID journalism, then it speaks to whether JOURNALISM dies, "we might even breathe a say of relief."
Yes indeed, if the NYTimes the WaP the WSJ, CNN, CBS, ABC, and most other "for profit/Corporate" news sources were to die, we could breathe a sigh of relief" . But it would not be "journalism" that had died, but a weird form of tabloid entertainment services. But if Assange is extradicted, REAL journalism diminishes . He was indeed one of the few doing the heavy lifting.
Real journalism is publishing the truth the government doen's want published; everything else is entertainment." IF STONE
Other than that nit, I love your work ! Erich Kuerschner, Taos, NM
Thank you Erich,
I understand and appreciate your point, and it's a valid one.
7zander
What was the crime that the British Justice system arrested JA for?
I realise that He might be extradited but wasn't there something about running from a court date breaking his bail conditions causing Jemma Goldsmith to lose her deposit?
I think you answered your own question–yes, he "failed to answer bail over sex assault claims in Sweden, now dropped" and he did so because he feared that arrest would lead to his extradition to the US.
[Warning: that link comes from the BBC and there is thus a chance that the material published there contains falsehoods or propaganda worded in subtle ways.]
Update: this appears to be more comprehensive and is clearer about the details:
https://www.rt.com/news/456268-julian-assange-all-charges/
justoh
Your point is an important one: this is about the further diminishment of citizenship in the hollowed-out 'liberal democracies' more than it's about journalism. As for your own use of Wikileaks, as I recall, in your tour-de-force Slouching Towards Sirte, leaked US embassy emails published in Wikileaks were important in providing evidence for the real motivations behind the West's outrageous war in Libya.
Without WikiLeaks' publication of the US diplomatic cables, that book would have been substantially different: shorter for sure, but also much weaker, and unable to draw some of the key connections that drove the war. One of the few critics of the book could only come up with references to New York Times articles as a rebuttal to some of the book's key points about Gaddafi resisting the presence of AFRICOM. Those NYT articles, however, were proven to be factually wrong according to US Embassy cables themselves. Whatever the NYT said at that point becomes irrelevant, except as an illustration of how wrong we can get things when we turn into mere scribes for empire.
shea05
I am feeling this one on a personal level as well.
First, because Wikileaks was active in my late teens, and led me to educate myself on the colossal lies, hypocrisy and murderous nature of the US Empire. I vividly remember watching the video "Collateral Murder" and the impact that it had on my perception of the world. He is a personal hero to me.
Second, because I am a vocal critic of both my government and the US's. It's hard not to feel as though a 1984-like scenario is creeping towards me, slowly but surely. My social media is bursting with "thoughtcrime", and I cannot shake the notion that there's a chance that some day in the not-too-distant-future I will be held & questioned at the US border, or face an attack on my career and reputation.
We will watch and see what happens as this drama unfolds I suppose.
Thanks Shea, and I have to say that I have the exact same impression, in terms of a 1984 world emerging. Many have the ability to distract themselves, or to twist all of this into perverse new shapes that, lo and behold, bolster the powerful, and will therefore dismiss the concerns. Look for example at the "journalists" making fun of Assange's abduction:
https://www.rt.com/news/456252-twitter-journalists-react-assange-arrest/
https://www.rt.com/news/456266-assange-arrest-mainstream-media/
I cannot put in to words the contempt I have for such individuals. Indulging in a bit of it yesterday, I tweeted to one of these cretins: "what's it like being an unhinged bootlicking lapdog yapping over Twitter at individuals of principle on behalf of the US establishment despite not even benefiting from a fraction of the power&wealth your masters have? not even they respect sycophants & spineless cowards. pathetic"
(context: the person I tweeted to was responding viciously to Tulsi Gabbard's condemnation on the Assange affair)
The Hillary Clintons; the Dick Cheneys; the Bush Families; the CIA assassins; I get them. They are the "bad guys", and they are rewarded with inconceivable amounts of power, wealth, and fame for their evil. They have that role to play in this story, and I'll bet some of them even embrace it and are proud of it in private. What I'll never understand is the sycophants in the media that spin, lie, obfuscate, and omit for the powerful. They sacrifice every last iota of integrity and respectability for what? A pay raise? What do they gain for casting themselves in to the most despicable depths of future-history's hell? It's so bizarre, they have lobotomized themselves so much that they are not even acting in their own rational self interest, as they are setting a precedent for some future tyrant to do the exact same thing to themselves.
First, let me apologize to you and others, for the constant situation where comments are diverted, leaving me to find them in various other inboxes. It's a pain, thanks for bearing with it, and I am afraid that there is nothing I can do to stop it.
Now, to get to your comment. What you are noticing is not just the power of group-think, but the power of affirmation and validation from what some assume to be their superiors. One sees this in academia all the time: otherwise intelligent individuals, holding their tongues, nodding their heads, emitting all of the necessary signals of approval, to flatter and assuage those they think are the top. I have never seen so much "yes momentum" as I have witnessed on university committees, where nothing is ever discussed, or really ever open for discussion (unless you want to get yourself blacklisted)…to the point that it makes serving on the committee nothing more than an empty formality. One might say that such individuals operate out of fear…but even after they're tenured? The fear argument is not that persuasive at that point. Most academics, like most journalists, are not interested in "discovering the truth," "exploring new knowledge," and "asking uncomfortable questions," let alone real debate. Skepticism is forbidden, because it suggests a failure to "believe". They are interested in their careers. They are not intellectuals, they are not thinkers, they are at best mere "researchers," and what that boils down to is the ability of a drone to say a lot of mundane nothings cloaked in jargon and theoretical gibberish, while padding one's bibliography with all of the loyal references to the big-wigs. There is a constant appeal to authority (they cannot then complain about authoritarianism with any right). "Peer review" then comes in, with loyalist drones checking your bibliography, with comments that amount to little more than literature review, and the demand that you always cite more of their favourites so that the citation indices can then pick up the references and further boost their profile. Anyway, the point is that when such individuals turn around and ask, apparently with all innocence, "how could a society as sophisticated as Germany's allow the rise of totalitarianism to happen?"–when they should know best exactly how it happens, since they are doing it right now themselves.
Also, some are pointing to a recent IMF loan as the price for Assange (or Moreno's soul, if there was one?)
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/how-ecuadors-globalist-regime-received-billions-to-sell-out-julian-assange/
Noticed you didn't mention that in the article, so just an FYI
(Replying to your latest comment here as it won't let me keep the above thread going).
I've mentioned this to you in the past, I did witness some professors using the classroom as a personal ideology bootcamp for students at Concordia, but I did not know the situation was that bad – more broadly speaking – in academia as well. That must be frustrating and discouraging beyond belief. How darkly ironic that tribalism and groupthink occur in the institution that (likely) produced those terms and where they are supposed to be non-existent.
This conversation is reminding me of the Asch conformity experiments: https://www.simplypsychology.org/asch-conformity.html
I appreciate the blog posts, nice talking to you and have a good weekend Max.
The news in Australia says the Swedish rape charge is being re-instated. Here is a quote from a newsletter by Ingrid N. with close ties to Sweden: "If my recollection of the original charges is correct, Assange was first charged in Sweden for "rape" but the definition of rape in Sweden includes unprotected sex. It was alleged that a condom broke during consensual sex. Only two people know what really happened, but what stands out here is the uneven application of the law. Assange's name can be dragged through the mud for an event that was ostensibly private and for which charges had been dropped. If there was a window for action, it involved the potential risk of infectious disease or pregnancy, and the reason given for the original complaint was to require a test for STDs. However, with the passage time and the immense political and journalistic pressure on all concerned, the questions surrounding disease and pregnancy could and should have been resolved. …What is illegal in Sweden is to make similar allegations against asylum seekers. Sweden became the rape capital of the world but horrific jail sentences and fines have been levied on victims who were brutally gang raped by economic and political refugees of the very issues that WikiLeaks was bringing to the attention of the world. … Sweden, sad to say, is making a precedent of inflating the importance of the private acts of a controversial journalist and ignoring the deeds of asylum seekers …"
Thanks Frances and Jenelle,
not knowing how the legal procedures might work, I wonder if this will further complicate matters for the US, if Sweden steps into line in front of the US. It would means years in British courts, followed possibly by years in Swedish courts, and all the while there are the prospects of changes in governments in the UK, Sweden, and the US.
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"yet another ignominious episode in a long line of high-profile fabricated sex slurs"
I enjoy your work, and agree wholeheartedly with this post overall, but the above line gave me pause–what are you referring to? Surely you can't believe that the recent rape accusations leveraged against powerful men have all been lurid and false?
I'm not going to re-litigate that here; instead, I will just leave the absence of actual evidence speak for itself. As for belief, I don't believe anything–what matters is not what you "believe," but what you know, and that requires questioning and evidence.

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echo "Config file : ${CONF_FILE:=/conf/aptly.conf}"

if [ ! -f "${CONF_FILE}" ]; then
    echo "Config file ${CONF_FILE} does not exit"
    exit 1
fi

filter_=""
while read -r line; do
    filter_=${filter_:+$filter_|}${line}
done < $(dirname ${CONF_FILE})/filter.txt

function fn_mirror() {
    echo "mirror config file: ${1}"
    source ${1}

    # make sure gpg keys are present
    if [ -n "${keys}" ]; then
        gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring trustedkeys.gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys ${keys}
    fi

    # check if repo is already configured
    if ! aptly -config=${CONF_FILE} mirror show ${name}; then
        # create mirror
        aptly -config=${CONF_FILE} mirror create ${name} ${source} ${distribution} ${components}
    fi

    # edit repo
    aptly -config=${CONF_FILE} mirror edit \
        -architectures=${architectures} \
        -with-udebs=${with_udebs} \
        -dep-follow-all-variants=${dep_follow_all_variants} \
        -filter-with-deps=${filter_with_deps} \
        -filter=${filter_} \
        ${name}

    # update repo
    aptly -config=${CONF_FILE} mirror update ${name}
}

echo "Updating all mirrors..."
# list all configured mirrors
for f in $(find $(dirname ${CONF_FILE}) -type f -name "*.sh"); do
    echo "Processing mirror: ${f}"
    fn_mirror "${f}"
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# mirrors=$(aptly mirror list -raw)
# echo $mirrors
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# report mirrors that do NOT have a config file
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Orinocosa est un genre d'araignées aranéomorphes de la famille des Lycosidae.

Distribution
Les espèces de ce genre se rencontrent en Afrique et en Amérique du Sud.

Liste des espèces
Selon  :
 Orinocosa aymara Chamberlin, 1916
 Orinocosa celerierae Cornic, 1976
 Orinocosa hansi (Strand, 1916)
 Orinocosa priesneri Roewer, 1959
 Orinocosa pulchra Caporiacco, 1947
 Orinocosa tropica Roewer, 1959

Systématique et taxinomie
Ce genre a été décrit par Chamberlin en 1916 dans les Lycosidae.

Publication originale
 Chamberlin, 1916 : « Results of the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911. The Arachnida. » Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, , ,  (texte intégral).

Liens externes

Notes et références

Lycosidae
Genre d'araignées (nom scientifique)

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Anna Ravenel, Edgar Allan Poe and the Unitarian Church Graveyard
11 months ago Leo S
Called the Holy City, Charleston, South Carolina, is a city with lot of churches and graveyards, including the cemetery at the Unitarian Church, that stands out for several reasons.
Here pathways are maintained for visitors, but the plots and the grave markers have been given back to nature, with trees, vines and shrubs growing wild among, around, and through the cemetery.
But, interestingly, that's how the dead buried here wanted: to spend eternity giving back to nature. Those who keep up the cemetery do this to show that the dead are reconnecting with nature and it is a symbol of their reunion with nature itself.
The cemetery is one of the most popular in Charleston and the Unitarian Church itself is the second oldest in the city, built for the first time in 1772 and then rebuilt in 1854.
During the Revolutionary War, it was used for barracks, and a lot of the church did end up getting destroyed.
That is why it had to be rebuilt.
Like many in the city, its churchyard is reported to be haunted and many believe that it is by the subject of one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems: Annabel Lee.
As story goes, Annabel (some historians believe her name was Anna Ravenel) was a woman who lived in Charleston before the Civil War broke out, who fell in love with a sailor, Edward Allen, who was stationed at Fort Moultrie, located just across the Charleston Harbor, but her father didn't approve of the relationship and forbid her from seeing him.
The two couldn't stay apart, though, and Annabel would sneak out to see her lover at the Unitarian Cemetery. One night, Annabel's father saw the two, became furious, had him transferred to Baltimore, and decided to lock her in a room for several months as punishment.
The two were never able to see each other again and, after losing her love, Anna became very ill.
She died of Yellow Fever, though many claim it was a broken heart that killed her.
Edward rushed back to see her, but was too late, as she was already dead.
Poor Edward was not even allowed to go to Anna's funeral, with her father blamed him for her death.
When the sailor arranged to visit her grave, nothing to do: bitter and angry, Mr. Ravenel, who suspected this might happen, had six graves dug and filled in so Edward wouldn't be able to visit her grave, actually placed beneath others in some family grave. And he left the site unmarked, which could explain why her name isn't in the church's records.
Sadly, Edward never found which plot belonged to his lover, returned to Baltimore and eventually attended West Point, but drinking and drugs destroyed his career – and he also died young.
But he became famous as the writer, Edgar Allen Poe, and his poem, "Annabel Lee," is believed to be the story of his ill fated love.
Today, a "Lady in White" is said to roam the cemetery at night, probably the ghost of Anna Ravenel.
Annabel Lee
By Edgar Allen Poe
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love—
I and my Annabel Lee—
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me—
Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we—
Of many far wiser than we—
And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Another famous woman that many visitors have seen around the cemetery is the spirit of Lavinia Fisher, the famous Charleston serial killer.
History says that she is the first female serial killer in America. In short, she owned a hotel in town and she and her husband would take advantage of male travelers in the area. They would get friendly with them and Lavinia would poison their tea. When they would fall asleep and the two of them would rob them and slit their throats.
Lavinia and her husband were hanged and when she was asked if she had any last words, she said "I have nothing to say to God because I'll be dancing with the devil in the morning."
A third horror story revolves around Mary Whitridge Bloomfield, a resident of Charleston more than one hundred years ago.
Mary was happily married but, when her husband departed for Boston on business one night, he was never to return.
According to another version of the story, her husband was a smoker and had terrible breathing problems. He ended up getting very ill and he had to go to Baltimore for the doctors there. On his way, he got sick and died. Mary was sent a letter about his death, but she never contacted the coroner in Baltimore, so he is in an unmarked grave there. And there is a reason that she never contacted them, as she collapsed and died in her home.
She died on the exact same day that her husband did and she is buried in the family plot in the cemetery.
In any case Mrs. Bloomfield was heartbroken and some say they have seen her ghost wandering the paths of the Unitarian Cemetery, where she is still looking for her husband.
But actually no one truly knows the lady in white that haunts the area, and we hope that one day she can rest peacefully….
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"Adult" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available.
Descriptor ID
M01.060.116
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Adult".
Persons [M01]
Age Groups [M01.060]
Adult [M01.060.116]
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Adult".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Adult".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Adult" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Adult" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Adult" by people in Profiles.
National and Regional Fraction of Cancer Incidence and Death Attributable to Current Tobacco and Water-Pipe Smoking in the Eastern Mediterranean Countries in 2020. Nicotine Tob Res. 2023 Jan 01; 25(1):12-18.
Health-related quality of life with lisocabtagene maraleucel vs standard of care in relapsed or refractory LBCL. Blood Adv. 2022 12 13; 6(23):5969-5979.
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Pain, mood, and suicidal behavior among injured working adults in Chile. BMC Psychiatry. 2022 12 06; 22(1):766.
Understanding motivations behind medical student involvement in COVID-19 pandemic relief efforts. BMC Med Educ. 2022 Dec 05; 22(1):837.
Diminished muscle integrity in patients with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva assessed with at-home electrical impedance myography. Sci Rep. 2022 Dec 03; 12(1):20908.
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The elation, which occurs when the three cherries or whatever appear on the winning line of the one armed bandit, can become a little muted when you realise that what is pouring out is merely tokens. You are now more or less tied to spending your winnings in the pub or else putting it back into the machine. Those who win, however, might be advised to keep the odd token for, at some future date, it might just become a collector's item. Admittedly it doesn't seem at all likely, but then who can tell? Certainly, pub 'tokens' from an earlier era are now extremely rare and sought after by specialist collectors.
Middle Obverse - W. Shaw Abbey Tavern Old Lenton Reverse Made by T. Pope Birmingham 3d.
Sometimes known as tavern tokens, but more correctly referred to as public house checks, they resembled coins and, although there was some variation, most were about the size of a five pence piece. The landlord of a pub would have them minted and the check would bear the pub's name, usually the landlord's name or initials and occasionally some sort of pictorial motif. Each would show a value, which ranged between 1d. and 6d., but usually was either 3d. or 1d. First minted in the mid to late 1840s these pub checks continued to be manufactured until the time of the First World War.
Publicans would use their checks in a variety of ways. One use was as a facility check. In order to attract patrons pubs would install billiard tables, skittle alleys or even layout bowling greens, but to ensure that these attractions led to improved sales, the landlord often required proof of purchase before the billiard table or whatever could be used. This was where the check fitted in. Along with the drink, the landlord would give out a check or sometimes the patron was required to pay a little extra on top of the price of the beer. Either way the patron kept the check until it was his turn when he would surrender the check and begin his game.
The check was also used in connection with 'wet' rents. Public houses were often the main meeting places for a wide variety of local clubs and societies. A special room might be set aside for a meeting and, rather than ask for rent, the landlord would sometimes request that the members of the club guarantee to drink a certain number of pints. The club would ensure this by purchasing from the landlord sufficient checks to meet the required amount. At the meeting these would then be sold to the club members. In the course of the evening the members would exchange the checks for pints. Any checks left over could be used at a later date - the landlord wouldn't really mind as he had already received his money.
In some cases where an employer also owned a pub, it made good business sense to pay some small part of an employee's wages in pub checks. The worker used the checks in the employer's pub and then usually parted with his own money later in the evening.
Although the manufacture of the checks had largely ceased by the First World War, their use in some pubs carried on for quite a long time afterwards. If any reader can recall them being used we should be delighted to hear from them. Someone else who would be interested is Grenville Chamberlain who, for the past nine years, has been collecting checks from Nottinghamshire pubs and researching their history. He has recorded checks from 212 different pubs in the County and personally possesses examples from about 140 of them. A number of these checks were used in Lenton pubs. In fact of the entire 212 it is a Lenton check which he considers to be the earliest datable check in Nottinghamshire. There is no date on the check from the New Inn, which once stood on Willoughby Street, but the address of the check's manufacturer is almost as good. T. Pope & Co. are stated to be at 36, St. Paul's Square Birmingham. As they were at this address only between late 1850 and 1851 it gives a very limited period in which the check could have been manufactured.
Pub checks must have caught on quickly in Lenton for there are at least two other pubs which used them early on. A Mr. Freudenthal, a Victorian gentleman who collected checks from all over the country, donated his collection to the British Museum in 1910. In this collection are three for Lenton pubs, The New Inn, The White Hart on Gregory Street and the Abbey Tavern (now The Johnson Arms) on Abbey Street. Grenville has examples of The New Inn and White Hart checks, but the only known check from The Abbey Tavern is that in the British Museum. Grenville's most recent acquisition is from a Lenton pub - The Traveller's Rest on Commercial Street.
Most of Grenville's checks come from dealers or fellow collectors. Every so often a new check will turn up, having been discovered in someone's drawer or button box. All the local and many of the national dealers know of Grenville's interest and contact him straight away. He has a gentleman's agreement with them that he will give £5 for any Nottinghamshire pub check whether he already has it or not. This sum is not so much an indication of the check's market value, but more an assurance that no dealer need come unstuck if they buy it with Grenville in mind. This offer is made to any member of the public who comes across a local pub check.
Grenville has one other pub check which he thinks may well be from a Lenton hostelry. It bears the name The Albion Inn, the face and name of Queen Victoria and the date 1862 but no other details. The Albion Tavern/Hotel was on Park Road and may well have also been known as The Albion Inn. The circumstances under which Grenville obtained the check would indicate that the source might be Lenton, but he cannot be sure. If any reader can help, he would be most grateful. In fact, if anyone has recollections of these checks, or knows the whereabouts of any, he would be most interested to hear from them.
In June 2006, a 19th Century pub check token from The Traveller's Rest, Old Lenton, appeared for sale on Ebay. I am grateful to the seller, Mr Cobwright of Beeston, Nottingham, for allowing us to reproduce the photograph (left).


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Outer Hebrides HIE announces seven appointments
Pictured (Top left and clockwise): Francesca Scott, Georgia MacRury, Amy Murray (middle), Claire Davidson, Emily Macleod, Grace Henderson and Rachel Law
Seven young people have been appointed in a range of posts in the Outer Hebrides by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE).
The posts, which have all been filled in recent months, are based in Benbecula and Stornoway and have an important part in helping businesses and communities to develop and grow in the Outer Hebrides and across the region.
The new recruits bring the total number of staff employed in both its Outer Hebrides' offices to 30, with 13 in the area team and others split over HIE's central team, which includes WES (Wave Energy Scotland), digital, energy and finance.
The new roles include two modern apprentice finance administrators based in Benbecula, who provide financial administration and claims processing services for the whole of HIE.
Francesca Scott, who is originally from Glasgow, was recruited in October and Grace Henderson who is originally from Lochaber, currently lives in South Uist having been with HIE since July.
Georgia MacRury lives in South Uist and was recruited as finance administrator at the agency's Benbecula office. She previously worked in the same role before going to college to study hairdressing and decided to gravitate back towards finance.
Barra resident and native Gaelic-speaker, Claire Davidson joined HIE as a development manager in August. Born and brought up in South Uist, she is passionate about community development and the opportunities presented by community ownership.
Emily Macleod is working in a split role as a project support worker in the area team and a support officer for the Highlands and Islands Regional Economic Partnership having worked in the finance team in her previous role. Emily is originally from Lauder in the Borders and in 2015 she moved to South Uist where she now lives.
Rachel Law who hails from the West Side in Lewis, started at HIE in August. She was recruited as a development manager after being in a year-long community support officer graduate role within the organisation.
Native Gaelic speaker, Amy Murray was appointed in October as a graduate development manager for Gaelic. Amy's parents come from Ness and the West Side in Lewis although Amy was brought up in Inverness and now lives in Stornoway. In her role, she works with businesses, communities and social enterprises with a particular focus on developing Gaelic.
Joanna Peteranna, area manager for the Outer Hebrides area team at HIE, said: "We recognise the benefits associated with having young people in our workforce and we are really pleased to have filled all our recently advertised vacancies with excellent young talent.
"They've already made a huge contribution to our teams. It's fantastic that they have found their future career with HIE in the Outer Hebrides."
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New e-book from ASSA ABLOY provides guidance on how to strengthen access control on campus
Thad Rueter || Nov 28, 2017 || Access Control, Contactless
Network security means more than preventing criminals and pranksters from breaking into computer networks. As a new e-book from ASSA ABLOY demonstrates, true security—including for higher education classrooms and administrative buildings—requires the use of existing network infrastructure to protect people, equipment and data.
In the book, "Network Security Redefined: IP-Enabled Access Control," ASSA ABLOY walks readers through the latest developments in access control technology, and shows how current technology can tie together such gear as card locks and sensors into a "single integrated system accessible from your Ethernet network." The e-book also shows why legacy access systems that depend on hard-wiring discrete, non-networked components can be more expensive and inflexible than IP-enabled technology.
Mission critical openings–such as perimeter entrance doors and rooms that store vital records–might be best served with a Power over Ethernet system, while low traffic opening are best for WiFi.
While the network security solutions and case studies offered in the new ASSA ABLOY e-book apply to various types of buildings, higher education is an especially rich area for deployment of these technologies.
That is because campuses typically include multiple buildings of varying use and security needs. This can become, in essence, a showcase for the flexibility of network security controls.
Campus buildings include a mixture of old and new construction, making them a challenging environment for communication and wiring. But this challenge also opens doors to a wise return on investment if the access control solution is correctly architected, explains Jim Primovic, ASSA ABLOY's director of campus EAC sales.
Different paths to network security and access control on campus
Building and network administrations have two general paths to better secure their buildings, whether in higher education or elsewhere. One involves a "Power over Ethernet" configuration, which relies on the "standard LAN infrastructure to deliver power to network devices over the same cable used for network connection." According to ASSA ABLOY, such a system uses 86 percent less energy than do traditional electromagnetic locks. The other path is WiFi, which employs 99 percent less energy.
ASSA ABLOY e-book: Network Security Redefined: IP-Enabled Access Control
So when it comes to colleges and universities, which path is the better one?
"Retrofits tend to be WiFi," Primovic says. The best fits for WiFi access control systems tend to be in residence halls and for dorm rooms. "Rooms that have a really low traffic schedule are best for WiFi," he explains. "For other rooms, the opposite is true. Mission critical openings–such as perimeter entrance doors and rooms that store vital records–might be best served with a Power over Ethernet system."
Already, Primovic says, higher education is proving to be a perfect fit for these newer approaches to security technology. The University of Southern California and Duke among the hundreds of colleges and universities using ASSA ABLOY IP-enabled solutions to boost their access control and security.
"We've moved beyond early adopters," Primovic says. "Security is on everyone's radar." Strengthening access control makes obvious sense for schools located in urban centers, where officials strive to push better security as deep as possible into buildings. But even rural institutions want stronger security perimeters, he said, underscoring the appeal of the technology.
The ASSA ABLOY e-book on network security and access control provides a checklist about what installation—Power over Ethernet or WiFi—best suits particular uses. Check out the new eBook, "Network Security Redefined: IP-Enabled Access Control," and contact an ASSA ABLOY campus security expert for assistance creating your security plan.
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Notes: Obscure prototype of the Creativision, provided by the Venezuelan contributor, Joaquin Coelho. It's not confirmed that it was specifically manufactured for the Venezuelan market, though.
The PCB is a very old PAL revision with handmade wirings and modifications changing it into a NTSC console.
The most noticeable mod is in the TMS9929 PAL/YUV video chip, which has been replaced by a TMS9918 NTSC/composite model with an additional daughterboard to enhance the video signal. The TBA520 (PAL encoder) chip is still present, though disabled.
The power supply works at 110V and it has a typewritten label reading "6 Aug 1982".
It's supposed to be a prototype model made to promote the system in America.


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News/Events | The Bakhita House "a place where love heals"
On Sunday, January 7, 2018, sisters, associates, and supporters gathered at the Sisters of St. Joseph Motherhouse to join in a prayer vigil to commemorate National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. The vigil was coordinated by the Anti-Trafficking Coalition of the Boston Unit of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (ATC). The Coalition was founded in 2006 by the Boston Unit of LCWR, and held the first symposium in 2008. In the early years, the focus of the symposiums was held to educate religious women. Gradually, others who became interested in combatting human trafficking began to attend.
The Anti-Trafficking Coalition of the Boston Unit of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) is committed to raising awareness and inspiring action that will stop the demand for human trafficking in our neighborhoods and our world.
The prayer vigil gave reference to survivors of human trafficking who have lived with sisters at Bakhita House. The mission of the Bakhita Community is to respond to the needs of survivors of human trafficking, both labor and commercial sexual exploitation.
St. John's – St Paul's Parish Collaborative highlighted the work of Bakhita House as part of their Lenten outreach program. Members of the Peace and Justice Committee spoke at Masses and provided information on trafficking in the weekly bulletin. As a result of their efforts, Bakhita House received a donation of $19,687.60 from parishioners of the St. John's – St. Paul's Collaborative. Bakhita Staff members are most grateful for their generosity.
Pictured below: Bakhita House Staff with members of the St. John – St. Paul Parish Collaborative in Wellesley.
In 2007, the U.S. Senate designated January 11th as a National Day of Human Trafficking Awareness in an effort to raise consciousness about this global, national and local issue. For the ninth consecutive year, local Catholic Sisters representing congregations in the Greater Boston Area gathered with over 100 sisters, associates, and friends on January 8, the Sunday closest to January 11, to mark this national day and pray for an end to human trafficking, also known as modern-day slavery.
A powerful part of the prayer vigil included the witness of two survivors of human trafficking who have lived with sisters at Bakhita House. Located in the Boston area, the mission of the Bakhita Community is to respond to the needs of survivors of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation. The prayer vigil offered these young women, whose voices had long been silenced, the opportunity to give voice to their experience. Their witness deeply moved all who listened.
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The young woman was brought to Bakhita House by FBI /Homeland Security for safety. They continued to work on her behalf to assist her in getting safe passage to her home in the Philippines and to assure that she received her back wages. Her story is very similar to women who have been labor trafficked. These women are called upon to cook and clean for the family, care for their children, which develops into an 18 hour work day, seven days a week. It is usual that their passports are taken ; they are allowed limited contact via cell phone with their families; their wages are not paid. Although the women have signed a contract with the family through a reputable agency, they have no recourse. The young women usually choose not to press charges against the family, because they care deeply for the children.
On November 18, 2015, the Peace and Social Justice Committees from St Mary of the Assumption, Dedham, St Susanna's Church of Dedham, St Joseph's Church of Needham and the Dedham, Walpole, and Waltham League of Women Voters presented a screening of the film. A Path Appears — A Documentary on Human Trafficking at Dedham Community Theater. The benefits from the film went to the Bakhita House. Sisters Mary Jane Cavallo, SNDdN, Sally McLaughlin, SC and Peggy Cummins, SNDdN gratefully accepted the check from some of the members of the planning group.
Toiling behind closed doors, domestic workers are vulnerable to wage theft, abuse, and in the worst cases, virtual slavery.


Whatever is true, whatever is beautiful, whatever is lovely… think of these.
Am I being my true-self? Am I being authentic? Or am I doing, saying, being; who I think others want me to be? Am I proud of who my true self is, or afraid to show it? I know most days I am afraid . Afraid that if I said what was actually on my mind that people might not "like" what I have to hear. Afraid that they wouldn't appreciate, acknowledge, even understand the true me.
Most days, I wear a mask. The intention is not to be fake, the intention is to protect. But at what cost? Am I losing myself in the process? Am I robbing my friends, family, neighbors, daily passer-byers with my true, genuine self? In truth, the answer is yes. Some days, most days, I chose my protective wall over my true and genuine self.
And the fear of being true still remains.
My prayer, my hope today, is to be even 1% more vulnerable. To take one step in the direction of being more true to myself, to others. How will I really ever know if I am truly loved by those around me if I never give them a chance to love the true me?


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4 Schools in 3 Days!
By the grace of God, last month we opened four brand new school buildings in Cambodia! These replace the four derelict sheds on the front cover.
And new buildings are just the start! With each new school, we launch literacy programs, which have historically improved literacy rates from 10% to 88%*.
Poverty and lack of resources prevent most teachers in rural areas from having adequate education qualifications. By providing training and the supply of computerised education, children are now able to overcome this obstacle.
It is you, our supporters, who make this a reality; giving children and whole communities a new hope and future. Thank You!
My Choeuy Channa, the deputy governor of the province of Banteay Meanchey, made an urgent plea to Samaritan's Purse to help build a secondary school in a region where there are seven existing primary schools, some of which were built by us. The students of these schools were previously unable to graduate and continue their education, because their regions were too far removed from the nearest secondary school.
Their parents are so desperate to provide secondary school that they constructed a make-shift shelter. The education department can afford teacher salaries, but cannot afford a school building, hence the deputy governor's plea.
Poverty is an ugly trap for so many millions of children globally, but education can provide an escape from this trap.
Together we can come to the assistance of children in Banteay Meanchey region who are desperate for education. Will you partner with us to build a middle school and implement literacy programs that are so impactful in the lives of children?
Jorge Rodrigues
Samaritan's Purse Australia/New Zealand
*End Line Survey, 2016, Samaritan's Purse Cambodia


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Q: jQuery Toggle -- One Function One Click Then Another Here's what I would like to do in pseudocode form.
Bind Two Functions to Click Event

On 1st/Odd Clicks Do FunctionA()

On 2nd/Even Clicks Do FunctionB()

The .toggle() function seems to not be designed for this.
I'm sure this exists in jQuery but my googling hasn't resulted in anything. :)

A: I don't see how this isn't exactly what toggle is designed for...
$('#someEl').toggle(FunctionA, FunctionB);

You may be confused by the other toggle function that exists in jQuery, which won't be called if you pass functions as the arguments.

A: var i=1;
$(".a").click (function () {if (i%2!=0) FunctionA();i++;});
$(".a").click (function () {if (i%2==0) FunctionB();i++;});

A: You just need to ask Google the right question ;)
$(selector).toggle(function(),function(),function(),...)

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*function()   Required. Specifies a function to run every EVEN time the
element is clicked

*function()   Required. Specifies a function to run    every ODD time
the element is clicked

*function(),...   Optional.    Specifies additional functions to toggle
between

http://www.w3schools.com/jquery/eff_toggle.asp

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DEEZER LAUNCHES INITIATIVE TO MAKE THE MUSIC INDUSTRY FAIRER FOR ARTISTS
by Hanleigh | Sep 11, 2019 | News
Deezer, the global music streaming service, has launched a new online initiative to help music fans understand how a user-centric system for music payments would make the industry fairer for artists all over the world.
The initiative is centered around a new website that explains the benefits of a fairer user-centric approach to distributing streaming royalties, compared to the market share-based way the industry is using today.
Deezer is encouraging music fans to explore the site, learn how a user-centric payment system ('UCPS') benefits artists and genres and helps by spreading awareness of UCPS on social media through the use of the #MakeStreamingFair hashtag.
Premium subscribers can also use a tool on the website to see and share exactly how much of their subscription revenues today go to artists they listen to, as well as how they would be supporting their favourite artists if UCPS was in place.
Alexander Holland, Chief Content and Strategy Officer at Deezer commented: "Streaming has been the main innovation driver in the music industry for many years now. Digital technologies and data make it easier than ever to make sure that all artists and content creations have a fair playing field. A user-centric approach is the next logical step and would mean that fans directly support the acts they love. Getting rid of bot fraud is a welcome added bonus and would make sure that your subscription money goes where it's supposed to – the acts you love."
Deezer's UCPS website is available from today and can be found here.
For further information, please contact Anton Gourman, Global Director of Communications at agourman@deezer.com
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I am always looking for quick and easy meals that are flavorful and also healthy. I found this recipe several years ago. I think it is from Southern Living - but not totally for sure. I made it the other day with a brisket... as the recipe calls for but felt the brisket was pretty pricey. Everyone loved it so the meat didn't go as far as I would have liked. I may try it next time with a roast. We enjoyed this in flour tortillas with sour cream, salsa, cheese, sour cream,avocado and cilantro.
Place first 3 ingredients in your crockpot. If you don't have a trimmed brisket, trim the fat off now. Cut the brisket into about 3 individual pieces, rub each piece with salt and chipotle powder and place on top of the vegetables. Top with about a cup of chopped cilantro.
Serve with warm flour tortillas and your favorite toppings!


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 palavra em latim para o conceito da psicologia Id
 Empresa de games Id Software. Criadora de jogos como Doom
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Applicants who are native speakers of English must have 12 hours of study of another language and culture. Non-native speakers must have a minimum score of 100 on the Internet-based, 600 on the paper-based, 250 on the computerized Test of English as a Foreign Language proficiency (TOEFL), or a score of 7.00 or better on the IELTS. An Internet-based TOEFL score of 95-100 will be considered for admission if other credentials are above average. An introductory course in linguistics (3 credits) is also required.
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Rakesh Pillai
August 24, 2022 9:51 pm GMT+0530
'UNTOLD: The Rise and Fall of AND1' Review: Did the Netflix Documentary Do a Good Job?
AND1 was a popular brand during the '90s
UNTOLD: The Rise and Fall of AND1 is Netflix's latest documentary on the sports world and all that dealt with it. This one is about a sports brand that thrived during the '90s and early '00s but faded away soon after. Unlike other brands, AND1 built its empire on trash-talking t-shirts and other wild and flashy stuff. Let's take a look at how UNTOLD: The Rise and Fall of AND1 fared.
UNTOLD: The Rise and Fall of AND1 Review
If you're a fan of basketball and grew up in the late '90s and early '00s, you have heard of this brand. AND1 wasn't even one of the big brands, but it definitely stood out and got customers due to its unconventional methods. They sold t-shirts, shoes, and even mixtapes and were the talk of the town. But it didn't stay at the top forever, and UNTOLD: The Rise and Fall of AND1 will tell what happened.
The documentary is the latest of the UNTOLD series that Netflix has been doing, and it's surely an interesting watch, especially if you are curious about the company's sudden downfall. The three founders gave their opinions on why the company went under. Tom Austin, one of the co-founders said that the company thrived because it was the essence of streetball, having found their audience in players who realised they cannot make the NBA. But the reason they went under was due to Nike adopting their somewhat edgy image with a "Streetball" campaign.
NetflixWatch the show. UNTOLD: The Rise and Fall of AND1 is a mix of nostalgia and basketball culture, and tells the fascinating story of a brand that was everywhere, and then nowhere all of a sudden. It can even be called the most entertaining of the UNTOLD series.
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This fabulous A4 white glitter card is perfect for a range of art, craft and wedding projects. With this being fixed glitter card, very little if any at all comes off onto your hands. The reverse of this green glitter card is white.


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Q: Removing some characters from string in c# I have a link like this :
 Https://example.com/assets/css/bootstrap.css

How can I remove Https://example.com/ and /bootstrap.css from this link?
the final result has to be this : assets/css
But actually this link is dynamic and not just static
What can I do?

A: Here is one way:

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*Create a System.Uri from the string

*Break it apart into .Segments

*Drop the last segment (the filename). (with .Take(length-1) or .SkipLast(1))

*Concatenate the remaining segments back together with string.Join

*Drop the trailing / using .TrimEnd
.NET Framework:
var uri = new Uri("Https://example.com/assets/css/bootstrap.css");
string result = string.Join("", uri.Segments.Take(uri.Segments.Length-1)).TrimEnd('/');

.NET Standard:
string result = string.Join("", new Uri("Https://example.com/assets/css/bootstrap.css")
   .Segments.SkipLast(1)).TrimEnd('/');


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Galuzin stressed the importance of first concluding a peace treaty to formally resolve wartime hostilities based on the 1956 Joint Declaration.
"It has to be a treaty aimed at building good neighborly relations and partnerships, a pact broader than the one that should have been concluded in the immediate aftermath of the end of World War II," the ambassador said.
The 1956 declaration states that two of the four disputed islands off northeastern Hokkaido, called the Northern Territories in Japan, will be returned to Japan as an initial step after a peace treaty has been signed.
The two islands are Habomai and Shikotan.
Soviet forces seized the four islands, called the Southern Kurils in Russia, around the end of World War II.
Galuzin also called on the Japanese government to acknowledge that the four islands became Moscow's possession as a result of World War II and to ease Russian concerns that U.S. military forces could be deployed on the two islands upon their return to Japan.
The Japan-U.S. Security Treaty and the related Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) can be interpreted to say that the United States can seek to establish military bases anywhere in Japanese territory.
However, Galuzin, noting recent textbook screening results in Japan, criticized Tokyo for retaining the "inherent part of the territory" expression in elementary school textbooks that will be used from fiscal 2020.
"It is sending a wrong signal," he said.
The ambassador said that even if Japanese officials do not use that description in public, Tokyo cannot claim that it has changed its position if the expression is used in textbooks for Japanese children.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga dismissed Galuzin's criticism the same day and defended the government's longstanding position on the Northern Territories.


Happy 3-Month Surgiversary to meeeee!!!! I can't even believe it's been three months since my surgery. In some ways it feels like it was a million years ago, but other times I feel like it was just yesterday. Hard to believe, too, that it's been almost a full year since I decided to have the surgery!
I had my 12-week checkup today and was told that I am right on track - if not slightly ahead - with my weight loss. My labs after my last checkup came back with favorable numbers and I'm healthy (excess weight notwithstanding). The doc was pleased with my progress, and I grinned like a fool the whole time. At one point I ran into the eating behavior counselor, whom I'd not seen since before my surgery (I'm seeing a different practitioner for that part of my process), and she was thrilled for me. I felt so proud at that moment, like a little kid running home with a good report card.
In the past week, several people who haven't said anything up until now commented on my weight loss. It's like it suddenly became apparent between last week and this week, like 60 pounds was the magic number or something. My next door neighbor mentioned it, and then three of my regular customers, people who see me nearly every day, made comments about it. That's encouraging!
Again, I have no idea how to quantify my total inches lost, but I've lost a few more since last month, though most of them seem to have come off my chest and hips this time.
And remember when I said in my 2-month update that I had some "official" photos from various angles? Well...I've decided to release them. It's a big step, because even though I know I should be proud of my progress, I'm embarrassed by the photos. The beginning photos are the stuff of mortification, and because of what I'm wearing, the current pictures aren't exactly glamour shots, either. But...this blog is all about the good, bad, ugly, and embarrassing, so...*deep breath*... here you go.
So there it is. My fat lil' self in pajama bottoms and a tank top. Not as pretty as the sweater picture, but this series is supposed to serve as a closer look at the actual bodily transformation in progress. Much of what got me to 259.8 pounds in the first place was a lot of denial. Denial that I was that big, denial that what I was eating was killing me, denial that I was miserable in my own skin, denial that I was out of control. At least now when I look at these I'm not covered with flattering clothes; I can't hide and deny. This is honest and true, and more revealing than I wanted to be but necessary to keep myself in check and on track. I see progress made, but I also see how far I still have to go.
Holy crap! You can really see your progress, especially in the side view. So proud. Next thing you know, you'll be singing the Cheese Tease jingle, you Incredible Shrinking Woman, you!
You are doing AMAZING my love !! Keep it up!
I enjoy reading about your progress. Way to go!


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As an EU citizen who has called the UK home for the past five years, I was alarmed this week to find language that I would normally associate with the Daily Mail appear in official NHS documentation.
On filling in a standard medical form, I found that, under the category of 'country or residency', the usual option of 'EU citizen' has been replaced with 'Economic migrant (EU)'.
This is deeply concerning on multiple levels. For starters, it is simply incorrect that all EU citizens in Britain are economic migrants. Those expats working here for multinational companies and organisations, for example, are not economic migrants.
Nor do I consider myself – a highly qualified researcher specialising in, of all things, migration policy – to be an economic migrant. I am not here 'in search of a better life' or because the UK has economic opportunities superior to the rest of the EU. On the contrary, as GDP figures published this week demonstrate, the Eurozone is now growing twice as fast as the UK.
This pejorative label also stigmatises EU citizens and will only contribute to the rising feeling that we are not welcome here, and the gradual 'Brexodus' of the EU's brightest and best talent from these shores.
Finally, even if the label were accurate and reasonable, the question naturally arises as to how this information is relevant to the workings of the NHS. At least until March 2019, EU citizens are entitled to the same NHS services at the same prices as UK citizens. Moreover, Theresa May has pledged to protect the rights of EU citizens even after Brexit. But the appearance of this label on NHS documentation tells us to expect the worst.
EU citizens have contributed greatly to this country, and nowhere more so than in the UK's cherished NHS. Yet the language of the far right appearing in officially sanctioned documentation sends a powerful signal to EU citizens such as myself that, whoever we are and whatever we have contributed, we are now merely unwanted mouths to feed.
Mattia Toaldo is Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). ECFR is an award-winning international think-tank that aims to conduct cutting-edge independent research; provide a safe meeting space for policy-makers, activists and intellectuals to share ideas; ECFR builds coalitions for change and promotes informed debate about Europe's role in the world.


Winston-Salem, NC- The Salem College soccer team swept the Salem/Guilford Classic with 2-0 wins at Guilford and at home against Southern Virginia to finish undefeated in non-conference play. Salem improves to 4-0 overall, while Southern Virginia is 2-2 and Guilford is now 1-1.
On the road at Guilford, Salem got on the lead late in the first half with a goal by Sydney Priest on an assist by Alyssa Denkovich. The Spirits scored again in the second on a Brooke Bukas goal from Martha Santos. Salem out shot Guilford 17-8 and had a 5-1 corner kick advantage. Kimmi Templeton and Hannah Wagner split time in goal for the shutout.
Salem earned their third straight shutout with a 2-0 home victory against Southern Virginia. Jordan Lanier scored in the 23rd minute. Chaniece Moss scored her first collegiate goal five minutes later on a Santos assist. Salem held a 21-7 shot advantage and 8-1 corner kick advantage. Wagner earned the win in goal.
The Spirits will play their first ever USA South game Friday at Maryville.


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Jamaican-American, Kristen Clarke, Becomes The First Woman & The First Black Woman To Be Confirmed To Lead The Civil Rights Division
by Denise Lee
The US Senate voted to confirm Kristen Clarke as the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Justice Department. Clarke becomes the first woman and the first Black woman to be confirmed to lead the Civil Rights Division.
Clarke's parents immigrated to New York from Jamaica a few years before her birth. She talked about her parents and how she grew up in an interview with ABA Journal in 2016 saying " [I] grew up in a household that was about discipline, working hard in school and about making the most of every opportunity".
Clarke attended Harvard University where she obtained a Bachelor's degree in 1997. Clarke completed her Juris Doctor in 2000 at Columbia University.
Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement regarding Kristen Clarke's confirmation:
"The confirmation of Kristen Clarke as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights is momentous and deeply significant. Ms. Clarke, a former LDF attorney and lifelong civil rights lawyer, is supremely qualified for this position. Her highly distinguished career as an attorney working on myriad civil rights issues – including voting rights and election protection and educational equity — makes her the ideal choice to take the helm of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division at this critical time. Her intellect, integrity, legal acumen, and commitment to civil rights are exactly what is needed to open a new chapter for the beleaguered Division.
"Ms. Clarke's confirmation is a groundbreaking one. She is the first woman — and first Black woman — to be confirmed to lead the Civil Rights Division. She is also the fifth LDF alum to serve as leader of the Civil Rights Division. We are thrilled to celebrate this historic moment alongside Ms. Clarke and look forward to working with her and the entire DOJ leadership team as they undertake imperative civil rights enforcement work.
"Indeed, now that the DOJ's leadership team is fully installed, we anticipate the Civil Rights Division will once again prioritize its stated purpose of upholding 'the civil and constitutional rights of all Americans'. This restoration of the division's long-held duty is urgently needed amid relentless threats to and infringements on rights and equality in this country — especially in the areas of voting and protester rights and protection from white supremacist violence. We are encouraged that the department is in capable hands and comprised of individuals immediately ready to carry out this vital work."
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