Helix Sleep mattresses that have targeted cushioning conform closely, making them optimal for those who sleep on their side. While those that have moderate cushioning don't conform as much and are ideal for all sleep positions. Lighter men and women may feel most comfy on models with balanced support, while people who weigh 130 pounds or more often favor the variants with additional support.
Helix Sleep also markets two models with dual-firmness, the Helix Dual Balanced (with balanced support and targeted cushioning) and the Helix Dual Extra (with additional support and moderate cushioning). Both these mattresses have one 'Firm' side and one 'Soft' side, making them great for couples with differing preferences. Lastly, the Helix Nightfall is a hybrid designed for bigger, heavier people. This mattress has an extra layer of memory foam for optimum support.
All nine of the various iterations of this mattress will differ slightly in construction, but for 6 of the 9 variants, the construction will be fairly similar. The 6 core models (listed above) are 10 inches tall, composed of 6 inches of pocketed coils and 4 inches of foam.
Cover – Originally, all Helix mattresses come with the same cover, made of 100 percent polyester. I found it to be stretchy and thin, allowing for some nice breathability. However, if you would like something more lavish, you can choose to swap out the normal cover for the brand's UltraCool one, which is made up of a phase-change material for heat regulation.
Comfort Layer – On top, you will encounter a thick layer of memory foam. This material has a slow reaction to pressure, which means you are likely to experience some gratifying body contouring. While it might seem odd for a purportedly medium firmness bed to make use of a memory foam layer, it is crucial to remember that the existence of deep sinkage doesn't necessarily translate to softness; in fact, most of the time it generates quite a firm feel.
Transition Layer – After sinking through the comfort layer, you will find a transition layer of poly foam. This layer of foam works to curb the sinkage of the memory foam and set a supportive, medium firm feeling as you hit the pocketed coils below.
Support Layer – Most of the mattress is made up of this section of pocketed coils. This system gives a supportive lift to the structure, working to place the sleeper "on top" of the mattress, as opposed to "in it". Since these coils are individually wrapped, they're also going to encourage additional breathability as air flows in between the spaces in the coils.
Base Layer – Last, you will find a thin segment of high-density poly foam. This layer does not really affect the feel of the bed too much, functioning mostly to provide the individually wrapped coils something off of which to respond.
The firmness level of the Helix is going to vary widely depending on which variant you choose. The Helix Dusk and Midnight, have moderate firmness levels, which tends to be quite versatile and therefore best-selling. If you have more specific preferences, however, Helix Sleep will be happy to oblige you with more options.
Lying down on the Midnight, the uppermost foam layer feels soft and generates some quality body contouring, while the other materials within the mattress work to control this and make an overall firmer structure. The firmer support foams and individually-wrapped coils also help with re-positioning.
For back sleepers, there is enough good comfort material here to conform to your lumbar while supporting your whole back in a neutral position. For larger buyers or those who want a firmer mattress, there are 2 more models for you in the Helix Dawn and Helix Twilight variants.
Majority of side sleepers should feel totally comfy on the Midnight, but, if you are needing less pressure while still going with a flexible medium firmness, you may decide to check out the Helix Dusk, which uses a body-conforming latex-alternative foam that's breathable and provides the surface a small bit of bounce.
Those who sleep on their side typically need to be mindful of pressure because they sleep with all their weight on a smaller area. People who are smaller than average or people in the market for lots of pressure relief may want to stick to the plusher variants.
Stomach sleepers will feel supported in the Midnight, especially if this isn't their main position or they tend to change things up a lot. Firmer mattresses might be preferable for exclusive stomach sleepers so they can make sure their hips do not dip and over-arch their back.
Finally, Helix Sleep suggests Helix mattresses for sleepers up to 350 pounds or partners that weigh a maximum of 250 lbs each. In the event you or your spouse are substantially bigger than average, Helix has also created a mattress called the Nightfall that's constructed to accommodate a combined weight of 1000 lbs.
Bear in mind that if neither of those models feel quite right, you may always have a look at the four other beds in the newest collection: the Sunset (plush, softer than the Moonlight), Dusk (medium feel, a little firmer compared to the Midnight), Twilight (firm, designed for side sleepers), or Dawn (the firmest variant in the line).
According to my research, Helix Sleep exceeds expectations for hybrid mattresses in this space because of the quantity and quality of foam it incorporates, as well as the pocketed coils which help trap motion at its source. If you are a light sleeper worried that motion from the opposite side of the mattress will wake you, you should not have much concern with this hybrid. I would say that any of the Helix mattresses would be a good choice for couples.
Even though you are likely to encounter some immediate sinkage in the soft foam at the top, by the time you sink through those layers, you are going to hit the pocketed coils and experience great support. This combination will appeal to a vast assortment of individuals, but will satisfy back and stomach sleepers the most.
Though I do feel the memory foam collapse as I sit close to the edge of the Helix Midnight, the pocketed coils prevent the mattress from collapsing a lot beyond that. I feel quite secure sitting on the mattress.
In my opinion, Helix mattresses perform above average for edge support in comparison to other bed-in-a-box brands, and this is because of their recently updated edges containing reinforcement in the coil system. There can be a little compression at the comfort foams when you sit with all your weight on the side, but laying on the side should feel comfortable and secure. Couples who need more space to stretch out typically appreciate strong edges.
Lying down, I feel like I could get near the edge of the mattress without feeling like I will fall off or be pushed off the bed. Overall, I believe the Helix has great edge support.
Among the best features of buying a mattress-in-a-box online is the sleep trials that they usually include. Helix Mattress is no different. You customize the mattress that's meant for you, place your order, and in two weeks, it's sent to your home. From the minute you click to order the mattress, you have 100 nights to test it out (minus the time for delivery, so it's more like 90 nights). If it isn't what you wanted, you can return it for free of charge, and get a complete refund.
The Helix Mattress includes a generous 10-year warranty that covers flaws, but it has a few limitations, exceptions, plus the burden of proof is on the customer (like most guarantees ). Needless to say, you must be the first owner of the mattress to use the warranty, and you will need to be sure you save your receipt as proof of purchase.
As long as you follow all Helix's expectations for use, your warranty is valid. That means you will need to have a suitable base (no adjustable bed frames or slats more than 4 inches apart) and that you don't use the mattress improperly – no jumping on it!
If your Helix begins to have an indentation of 1" or longer, which is what generally happens when low-density foams break down, you could be eligible for a repair or replacement of your Helix.
If you're convinced that a Helix Sleep mattress is perfect for you, you can see the size and pricing info beneath. However, please bear in mind that these prices indicate standard pricing, and does not consider my special discount. Click here to receive my special promo and receive up to $125 off your mattress now.
For regular cleaning, it's suggested to use cold water along gentle dish detergent to clean any dirt or stains. Be certain to wash using gentle circular motions, instead of rubbing.
The features of this mattress were thoughtfully manufactured to provide choices whether you were looking for a mattress that keeps cool all night, in the event that you needed one to support your curves with a thick comfort system, or both! The coil unit should offer great edge support and movement transfer is minimal with their individually-wrapped construction.
I hope that I've provided you some notion of what the average sleeper can expect from this mattress, but it truly does offer a sensational range of customization with an option for literally every particular desire or need. Your next best sleep might just be a short online quiz away.


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1. Within 7-14 days of your offer being accepted you need to have your home inspection if you choose to have one. We strongly suggest you do. We can make recommendations for inspectors. If this is a bank owned or short sale property, check withyour buyer specialist to see if Utilities are on. If they are not on, you might have to turn them on in your name if the bank is not willing to do so. This is not unusual.
2. If you are satisfied with the inspection, you will notify your lender and tell him to order your appraisal if he/she has not done so yet. If you are not satisfied, your buyer specialist can help you to renegotiate with the seller for a credit or repairs. Or at this point you can simply cancel.
3. It usually takes 3-5 days from the date your lender orders the appraisal for the appraiser to schedule and conduct the appraisal.
4. The appraisal takes 3-10 days for the results to be revealed. With VA appraisals expect 2-3 weeks.
5. During this time your lender should have all of the required documents. It's best to check with your lener to confirm he/she has everything they need.
6. You should call to get homeowners insurance quotes at this time. It's best you send your insurance agent the MLS info sheet. If you don't have one, ask our Closing Coordinator for the "MLS Info Sheet". This will prevent your insurance agent from asking you a million questions about the home. *If you need a recommendation for an insurance agent let us know. We have a great one that we work with.
7. When you're about 3 days away from closing you should call the Gas, Electric and Water Company and ask to "Transfer Utilities" for the date of your closing.
8. You should do a "Final Walkthrough" of the property you are purchasing within 24 hours before closing to confirm the property is in the same condition that it was in when you agreed to purchase the property. If for some reason your Realtor doesn't contact you, please reach out to them to get this scheduled.
9. For the day of closing you will need your driver's license for all signers and a Cashiers Check for the amount you are required to bring to closing. Your lender will be the one to give you the amount you will need to bring to closing. The Cashiers Check should be made out to the title company. This is very important. It must be a Bank Cashiers Check and it must be made out to the title company.
10. If your name is on the purchase agreement, you will need to be present at the closing or have signed a power of attorney for someone to sign on your behalf. If you are doing a power of attorney, you will need to notify our closing department and your lender at least seven days prior to closing.
11. The day before closing or sometimes even the day of, you should be in communication with your lender because they will tell you exactly how much you need to bring to closing. Don't be alarmed or upset if you get this number the day of closing or even an hour or two before closing. This is very common. For whatever reason, the banks wait until the last minute to gather final numbers. It's not your lenders fault; there is a lot of coordination in the final hours between Title Company and lender preparing all of the documentation and HUD 1 Closing Statement.
12. Closings are typically done Monday through Friday between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 P.M. The closing should take 1 to 3 hours depending on if everyone is on time and whether or not the loan funds right away. If this is a late closing say 3:00 or later, there is a very good chance it will not fund until the next day. In Hawaii the recording of property or official title transfer typically will be completed 2 days after signing.
1. If I find items during the inspection that are broken or need to be repaired can I ask the seller to repair or replace?
Yes, you can ask for the items to be repaired, replaced or you can ask for a credit towards closing costs or a price reduction for an estimated amount and then you will assume the repairs and work needed to be done.
2. If I get denied on my loan will I get my earnest money deposit back?
Yes you will, assuming your purchase agreement has a mortgage contingency. Most do.
3. What if the home doesn't appraise for what we offered them?
If the home doesn't appraise you are back to the negotiating table trying to find a price that everyone agrees to.
4. Can I pay over the appraised value if I want to?
Yes you can, more times than not, it is a compromise between the buyer and seller. However anything you pay over the appraised value is that much more than your required down payment that you will need to bring to the closing.


Any design project, whether for web or otherwise, should have a focus on typography. In fact it should be one of the first things you think of before beginning. Fonts and typefaces serve much more purpose than to look pretty, which is why there are so many of them available out there.
Typefaces actually affect the branding, image and atmosphere given off by your company. They offer a first impression of your business without a client or customer having to even know what you do. If this has you rethinking the typography on your website, you might want to check out some of these creative free fonts to jazz your site up. You can download fonts and start designing great typography driven websites.
This font is bold and colourful and almost something you'd expect to find in retro comic or on an Andy Warhol creation. Square and capitalised, letters are presented with a patterned overlay in a variety of bright shades.
This red typeface is very linear and almost childlike, made up of a series of red rectangles in each letter. It almost looks as if someone had used colourful sellotape to create each letter.
The self-described bold and sharp font does exactly as it says on the tin. Made of angular white type with filled-in holes in letters, this is certainly a statement typeface.
Another colourful Sahin creation, this typeface is fantastically colourful, filled with psychedelic rainbow blobs on each letter. Again type is in capitals and the pattern on each letter would suit a retro themed site.
This cool, quirky font is made up of a web of thin white lines inside a bold, block letter. The pattern is designed so that it almost seems like the font itself is 3D.
One of the only fonts to come in a lowercase type, the MAKHINA free font is one which is bold and unmistakable. The bright yellow shade of the type seems suited to those in trades with its immediate stand-out effect.
As the name of this font suggests, there's a serious 1920s vibe going on here. The simple font uses 2 white parallel lines to create each letter giving it an ultimately timeless feel.
This chunky typeface offers both uppercase and lowercase letters to create letters which are angular but have a sort of pointy handwriting feel to them. The colour scheme is shades of blue, which looks beautifully ombre in the preview of this font.
This beautifully elegant font looks as though it's jumped straight off a film poster from the 1960s. Sharp, slim and with extended upper and lower tails, it's the perfect headline writing for a classy, elegant homepage.
Sahin seems unstoppable in the creation of forward thinking free fonts and the knitting type is no different. Ideal for a visual and creative site, knitting type makes letters look like they have been stitched onto the site, with strings of yarn joining them together.
You won't find these fonts on bingo sites as yet, but maybe in 2015 one of these sites will be more creative and make use of these free fonts.
These fonts are cool. However, I don't think it would fit on corporate websites. I am going to use these on one of my artsy websites. Thanks for sharing.


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Q: How to label list elements? I have a list of lists. There are large number of elements in the list (I am showing here just a minimal example). I want to extract elements $d$ and $e$ from the data. So, I have to count at what position $d$ and $e$ are.
Is there any efficient way to do this without counting positions of elements manually? Can we label these elements and use those labels instead of using their positions?
a = RandomReal[{1, 100}, 10];
b = RandomReal[{1, 100}, 10];
c = RandomReal[{1, 100}, 10];
d = RandomReal[{1, 100}, 10];
e = RandomReal[{1, 100}, 10];
f = RandomReal[{1, 100}, 10];
data = Table[{a[[i]], b[[i]], c[[i]], d[[i]], e[[i]], f[[i]]}, {i, 1, 10}];
data1 = data[[All, {5, 6}]];

A: Make use of Association or Dataset:
data = Query[Transpose] @ AssociationThread[
    CharacterRange["a", "f"] -> {a, b, c, d, e, f}
];

data // Dataset

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In case you wonder: Using Transpose on the Association created by AssociationThread will not work directly. Nesting the Transpose in Query will make use of AssociationTranspose which is contained in the GeneralUtilities package:
Query[ Transpose ] // Normal

GeneralUtilities`AssociationTranspose

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Review by Allan A. Ryan, Harvard University
War, Law and Humanity: The Campaign to Control Warfare, 1853–1914
By James Crossland
New York: Bloomsbury, 2018. Pp. xx, 256. ISBN 978–1–350–04121–9.
Descriptors: Volume 2019, 19th Century, 20th Century, Law of War Print Version
War, Law and Humanity is an admirably concise, thoroughly researched account[1] of the development of the law of land warfare, particularly as it relates to battlefield carnage in Europe and the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the outbreak of World War I. It is a story of the "humanitarians, surgeons, lawyers, pacifists, progressives, politicians, utopians and adventurers" (2) who initiated the modern law of armed conflict despite their diverging objectives and politics.
Historian James Crossland (Liverpool John Moores Univ.) begins with a description of the appalling neglect of wounded soldiers in mid-nineteenth-century wars. The story of the Swiss businessman Henri Dunant is well known: his Memory of Solferino,[2] describing the writhing combatants left to die without medical care during and after an 1859 battle between French and Austrian armies eventually led to the 1864 Geneva Convention "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field." This first treaty addressing care of combat casualties led in turn to the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).[3]
Less well known is the state of medical care for the wounded in the field on both sides of the Atlantic in 1853–1914. It was not merely poor but nonexistent. Soldiers were left to die where they lay or stacked atop each other in horse-drawn carts and trundled off in hopes of finding a hospital somewhere near before they died. After the First Battle of Bull Run in Virginia (21 July 1861), the defeated Union forces retreated to Washington with no medical staff or any arrangements for hospitalization: "many were reduced to begging civilians they passed for food, medicine and shelter.… Before long, the city was pockmarked with huddles of wretched men, wrapped in filthy rain-sodden, threadbare blankets" (28–29).
Public outrage at what the New York Times called this "official imbecility" (29) led to the formation of the US Sanitary Commission, a citizens' group headed by the famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. The Commission made recommendations to the Union Army's feckless Medical Bureau "on everything from rations, to housing, to surgeon training and the organization of ambulance services" (34), all of which was missing or grossly inadequate. It eventually dawned on Union military commanders that providing soldiers with clean clothing, adequate drinking water, decent rations, and sanitary hospitals with experienced doctors who could do more than amputate limbs would do wonders for their fitness and health—and possible return to duty after they were treated. By contrast, the Confederacy, in the absence of such reforms, saw 40 percent of its troops incapacitated by wounds and disease by 1863; the Union's rate was half that (52).
In the meantime, two indomitable women—Florence Nightingale in Europe and Clara Barton in the United States—organized and deployed qualified volunteers to go to the battlefields and tend to wounded and sick men. Commanders on both continents were suspicious of these itinerant "meddlers," who answered to no military chain of command. But the women persisted. Nightingale soon recognized the need to integrate her volunteers into some form of coordination with military authority, though she insisted that would only amount to a stopgap measure toward accomplishing what armies should be doing themselves. Barton organized the American Red Cross with her own scant resources, when those of her charitable donors were depleted.
Those who devoted their efforts and skill to the health, fitness, and care of fighting men had to contend not only with obstinate civilian and military commanders but with what Crossland calls peacemakers—civilian activists who sought to end all war and saw humanitarian measures as wrongheaded attempts to prolong it: keeping soldiers healthy only enabled armies to attain their lethal objectives more effectively. Led by the London Peace Society and the American Peace Society, their concern—"contrary to that of the many volunteers now stirred to humanitarian service—had always been to end the practice of war, rather than mitigate the suffering of its victims" (87). There were intermittent efforts to conciliate the two movements, but, in the words of the American group in 1869, "Such reconcilement will be found impossible. The principles underlying, and the spirit pervading the system are essentially inhuman, cruel and barbarous.… You can no more make war either Christian or humane than you can mix oil with water, or blend light with darkness" (89).
Decentralized into national chapters, the international Red Cross movement faltered, except in militaristic Prussia, which adhered to the obligation to treat the enemy's wounded as well as its own. But the national chapters were "not an army of disciplined volunteers in the mould envisioned by [ICRC co-founder and president Gustave] Moynier, but an assortment of adventurers, half-trained medical students and well-meaning Samaritans who came together under the banner of the Red Cross to bring humanity to a conflict" (93) that did little but strengthen the military might of already powerful states. The Geneva Convention went unheeded in many countries, most notably France, where civil war in 1871 consumed Paris in "a maelstrom of fury and blood, the savagery of which—for all the apparent progress in the campaign to humanize war—put the horrors Dunant had witnessed at Solferino firmly into the shade" (112).
The ICRC's Moynier, with Fedor von Martens, legal advisor to the Russian Foreign Ministry, took the lead in organizing international conferences, first in Brussels in 1873 and later (and more successfully) in the Hague, to advocate a regime of international law, the strengthening of the Geneva Convention, and the formation of an international tribunal to investigate and punish violators of Geneva. The 1899 Hague Convention deftly combined regulations against the use of gas, poison, and exploding bullets with the aspirational goals of the humanitarians that "populations and belligerents remain under the protection and empire of the principles of international law, as they result from the usages established between civilised nations, from the law of humanity and the requirements of the public conscience" (182–83). The Martens Clause, as it is known today, is
a nebulous, but important edict. This was that, irrespective of what was agreed to at [the Hague], … there was a need in times of war to accept that there are "civilized" norms of behaviour to which belligerents must adhere…. Military necessity was no longer the be all and end all in the process of weighing up humanitarian considerations with the use of force. (183)
Crossland elucidates the complicated political maneuvers that made this possible, including the creation of an international tribunal of arbitration, which ultimately proved ineffective and was little used. But the idea was revived and broadened in the Treaty of Versailles as the Permanent Court of International Justice, which lasted until the formation of International Court of Justice in the United Nations Organization after World War II. The peace societies, with their "relentless activism … survived the cataclysm [of the Great War] with both their credibility intact, and their mission recognized by statesmen, the general public and even some soldiers as being more relevant than ever" (192).
Readers will find no uncritical homage to the peacemakers in this resolutely objective account of political changes during a turbulent half-century of conflict and suffering. Despite their many false starts, failed initiatives, and bitter rivalries, the campaigns to control warfare opened the way for the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, the UN Charter, and the 1949 recodification of the Geneva Conventions, including new and explicit provisions regarding treatment of POWs and civilians in occupied lands. James Crossland's patient examination of the decades before World War I is an essential guide to understanding how these fundamental changes in the law of warfare after World War II came to be.
[1] Just under two hundred pages of text with thirty pages of notes and an impressive bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
[2] French original: Un souvenir de Solférino (Geneva 1862). English translation: Washington: American Nat'l Red Cross, 1939.
[3] See, further, Jonathan Marwil, Visiting Modern War in Risorgimento Italy (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), with review by Dennis Showalter, MiWSR 2011-048.
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October 23rd, 2010 - The Book of the Celestial Cow
11:37 am - They Never Seem to Splurt, Though
You know how there are so many geek romantic comedies set at comic book conventions? Oh, you don't. Well, there's at least one, and it's One Con Glory, by Sarah Kuhn. In this cute little novelette—at under a hundred pages, it's too long to be a short story but too short to be a novella—Julie is covering GinormoCon for a magazine, but she's also a devoted fangirl of Glory Gilmore, a little-remembered character in the short-lived Marvel comic, The Periodic Seven, which is now a hit TV show. Glory means a lot to her, and after losing three action figures to different circumstances, she covets a fourth. She's accompanied by two entertainment website writers, her best friend, Mitch, and uberfanboy Braidbeard.
Part of her duties include interviewing pretty boy Jack Camden, an actor she believes was miscast as Travis Trent in The Periodic Seven. She's not looking forward to the interview, and she's deliberately hostile, but he surprises her by being more than just a pretty boy. Will there be a blooming romance? (Spoiler warning: yes, there will.)
Now, I don't read chicklit or stories where romance is the central focus (The Time Traveler's Wife was about TIME TRAVEL, come on), but I really enjoyed this story. It wasn't sappy or mushy, and it was full of geeky discussions about whether Scott should be with Jean or Emma and romantic displays of Guitar Hero prowess. And in the process, of course Julie learns a little bit about herself, but it feels earned and organic, even in such a short story.
Check out this excerpt for a taste of what the book is like. It's a quick read and very fun, and it's chockfull of nerdiness and geekery. Braidbeard verges on being somewhat of a caricature at times, especially with his overuse of the word "frakking," but in general, the dialogue feels less awkward than that on The Big Bang Theory. I don't think you can find it at stores, but it's now available on Amazon. I think many of you are in the target audience! But, hey, don't take my word for it.
On Thursday, I saw The Sunset Limited, by Cormac McCarthy, which is basically a long one-act (a playlette?) about two men arguing about the meaning of life or something. They don't even have names since they're not really characters. Black is an ex-con who found God in the jailhouse, and White is the crotchety, misanthropic professor he saves from killing himself. It gets kind of repetitive since they don't really seem to make any headway with each other, but there were several bits I found entertaining.
The reason I went, though, was because Black was played by Carl Lumbly! Of Alias and Justice League fame! And also M.A.N.T.I.S., which I remember watching as a kid. I somehow ended up with a front-row seat, so he was a couple yards from me the whole time! Unfortunately, he was speaking with a vernacular accent, so he didn't sound like himself, but he was really good. Even though he flubbed a few lines, he recovered immediately, not even missing a beat.
After a show, I was hanging with some theatre bloggers who had been Tweeting to each other during the show (a sanctioned project, don't worry, they sat in the back row), and the two actors walked by. "Great job!" we said. And there was Carl Lumbly, in the lobby! Talking to some people! Then the house lights flashed to shoo us out, and when I walked into the lobby, Carl went to talk with someone he clearly knew, so I didn't want to bother him. And my friends were leaving, and I didn't want to awkwardly hang around to meet/fanboy Carl Lumbly, even though I totally wanted to and get a picture with him and be a total dork. But I didn't.
Hey! Do you have some extra money lying around? Why not help out my oldest LJ friend, foresthouse, so she can continue to see? She just had keratoconus eye surgery on Thursday, and the hospital totally miscommunicated the terms of payment, and now she has to come up with $3000 by the end of October. Thankfully, she already has $1000 from cleolinda-organized PayPal donations. But now you can participate in a charity fandom auction at foresthouseeyes (she'll still need $4000 for the other eye). There are tons of awesome items up for bid, including a book signed by Wil Wheaton and fandom-inspired earrings including Howl's earrings from Howl's Moving Castle. You get awesome stuff, and foresthouse gets to continue seeing. Everybody wins!
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While the prospect of declining growth rates is hardly encouraging, executives should bear in mind that these are average declines across allindustries. Beyond the averages, we find that performance is distributed unequally, as digital further separates the high performers from the also-rans. This finding is consistent with a separate McKinsey research stream, which also shows that economic performance is extremely unequal. Strongly performing industries, according to that research, are three times more likely than others to generate market-beating economic profit. Poorly performing companies probably won't thrive no matter which industry they compete in.
Companies in this profile lack a disruptive strategic posture but compensate by being in the top 25 percent for all the other elements of digital maturity.2This fast-follower profile allows more room for strategic error—you don't have to place your bets quite so precisely. It also increases the premium on how well you execute. The size of the win is just slightly positive at 0.4 percent in annual revenue growth: 5.3 percent from good (but not best-in-class disruptive) strategy and an additional 7.1 percent through top-quartile digital maturity. This is probably good news for incumbents, since many of them are carefully watching tech start-ups (such as those in fintech) to identify the winning plays and then imitating them at their own bigger scale. That approach, to be sure, demands cutting-edge agility to excel on all the operational and organizational aspects of digital maturity.


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Top legislator praises enterprise for social contributions
National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan lauded the Van Phu – Invest Investment Joint Stock Company for its contributions to the community while meeting with the company's leaders on February 19.
VNA Tuesday, February 19, 2019 15:30
Disadvantaged people supported to enjoy Tet holiday
Friday, February 01, 2019 10:20
Campaign helps promote humanitarian aid
Tuesday, January 15, 2019 16:49
Leader calls on whole society to support disadvantaged
Activities held to bring warm Tet to policy beneficiaries, the poor
2018 AFF Cup champion's keepsakes auctioned to raise funds
Thursday, January 10, 2019 18:05
National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan (second from right) presents a ball with signatures of U23 football team to a representative from Van Phu – Invest Investment Joint Stock Company (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan lauded the Van Phu – Invest Investment Joint Stock Company for its contributions to the community while meeting with the company's leaders on February 19.
At the meeting, Nguyen Huy Hoang, head of the company's trade union, presented 7 billion VND (301,000 USD) to build a primary school in Dong Son commune, Hoanh Do district, the northern province of Quang Ninh, 6 billion VND to build a social work centre which cares orphans and children affected by Agent Orange/dioxin in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho, and 10 billion VND to the Fund for Poor Patients in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre.
Earlier, the company also carried out a lot of activities to support the construction of health care centres and the purchase of medical equipment to serve poor patients in far-flung areas, as well as social welfare funds in different localities.
Speaking highly of the company's contributions, the top legislator wished the company in particular and the business community in general gain greater achievements in production and business and continue sharing their successes with the society.
She requested the localities and units which receive the assistance to use it effectively and correctly to help disadvantaged people.-VNA
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The Myford super 7 lathe arrived at Nottingham hackspace in November 2011 thanks in part to members pledges.
The Myford company started in 1934, was based here in Nottingham (Beston to be exact) and only closed it doors due to liquidation back in July 2011. The ML7 lathe was launched in August 1946, retailing at £34.00 excluding motor. Later replaced by the the Super 7 in April 1953 build around the same design but with number of new features and improvements. Both models have been very successful and often favoured by hobbyists and model engineers.
The Hackspaces Super 7 has been dated to around January 1973.
Some basic details on the lathe.
We have a wide collection of accessories and tooling to go with the Super 7. See links for pictures.
DO NOT OPERATE THE LATHE UNTILL YOU HAVE BEEN INDUCTED, see below for details.
As always at the backspace YOU are responsible for your own safety, proper machine operation and safety of those around you.
Loose sleeves can catch on rotating work and quickly pull your hand or arm into harm's way. 'RepRap' Matt has the scar to prove this point!
Never, ever, leave a chuck key in a chuck.
All members are welcome to undertake a lathe induction, the induction is there to instruct you in the safe usage of the lathe. It will also give you the skills needed to do most of the basic lathe operations.
Induction cost £20, to cover cost of materials and lathe maintenance and some to the inductor.
This helpful video gives an overview of the features on the Myford Lathe. It does not act as a replacement for the induction but is a useful tool for jogging your memory after you've had an induction.
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3. Old-school note taking of any kind – Business meetings these are big for—but I'm surely not at that stage, and don't really plan to be—so I'm not really familiar with that one, but I definitely get the picture. High school kids would love this if they're productive at all, or want to be. When I go to college in my hopefully-near-future I'm going to buy another one of these bad boys. I probably won't ever fill it up (I'm not that creative) but you get the idea.
What the "Action Book" is based on, is Behance's "Action Method." It's technically just the name of their "Suite" of a variety of different notepads and stationary. The Suite includes the Action Method template on each sheet. It's simple.
Starts with a title area and a date slot at the top.
Below that is their slick "Dot-Grid" instead of college or wide ruled lines on a page or a clean sheet. The Dot-Grid is amazing for sketches, and It's really not bad for writing a ton.
Along the right side of the page, there are the "Action Steps." These are crucial little spaces (including checkboxes for obvious reasons) for your steps, and a little room to elaborate.
Below the Action Steps at the bottom is what's called the "Backburner." Personally, I use this very small space to simply jot down small clues for myself when I'd like to reference them later in the Dot-Grid. Lasting thoughts, if you will.
I've taken a couple of photos here for you all to check out from my unboxing affair.
Online: They also have a newly added Online Action Method. They now have an online service which you can now connect to via their iPad, iPhone, and Android mobile applications.
Overall: I love this thing. The Action Book full notebook is worth it above the rest; others are practically just add-ons for your workflow. They could really work as a workflow though, using the smaller pad to reference and take notes, while elaborating using the full size book. I advice everyone to grab one. Drop $15 and be more productive in your downtime; especially if you're lacking a laptop.
Readers: Have you used any of Behance's products? What about their new online suite? It's gone mobile, so get to it!
I've been using their materials from Levenger for awhile and just started trying the online version, too. It's amazingly simply and yet elegant. Seems to be working for many of us. Thanks for the post.
I actually haven't used the online version. The book is enough for me at the moment, but I hope to check it out sometime soon.
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Press Conference demanded justice: Rape & Murder of Indigenous women in CHT, Bangladesh
Source: Kapaeeng Foundation
A press statement of Durbar Network Programme which was read out at the press conference held on 16 September 2009 in Khagrachari press club demanding arrest of Bengali settlers involved with the recent sexual violence against indigenous Jumma women in Sindukchari and Dighinala in Khagrachari for your kind pursuant.
(Note: The press statement is written in Bengali, a Translation will be available soon)
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Ruling partymen grabbing minority properties and continuing repression in Bangladesh: American Chronicle
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
Source: American Chronicle
url: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/116878
The latest incident took place on Friday, when 9 members of a Hindu family at Dhaka´s Rhishikesh Das Lane were abducted by a group of miscreants mostly belonging to the ruling party under patronization of the local police station. According to reports, operation officer at Sutrapur police station, A B M Forman Ali was already aware of the abduction of the members of the religious minority group and grabbing of their property.
But he did not take any action in either preventing such incident or even rescuing the abducted members of the Hindu family as several influential leaders of the ruling party were already involved with this notorious crime.According to several investigations, series of meetings took place between a property development company named Anandadhara Housing Limited and few influential local leaders of Bangladesh Awami League.
Student front leaders of the ruling party also attended these meetings. Subsequently local police station was informed and instructed to remain silent to give chance to the party cadres in abducting members of the Hindu family thus illegally grabbing their property.
Owner of the house Mohabir Das told reporters that, they were abducted by the members of the ruling party and taken to a workshop named Janata Engineering at 65 Rhishikesh Das Lane. Several police officers were also seen with the abduction gang, while 9 members of the Hindu family were abducted. It is also learnt that, police gave chance to the abductors in escaping arrest, although at least 6-7 abducters were present when police rescued the abducted minority members from the mentioned workshop.
It may be mentioned here that, Bangladesh Awami League claims to be a secular political party and always claims to be defending right of religious minorities in Bangladesh. But, in reality, there is no qualitative difference between Awami League or any of other fanatic political parties in the country, as far as minority right is concerned. Since the new government came in power during the general election of 2008, series of incidents of grabbing of properties of religious minorities, abduction, rape, forceful conversion, murder etc is continuing to take place. According to reports, since the Awami League government came in power, on an average, there is more than 3 cases of minority repression in Bangladesh on every alternative day.
Although Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina promised to ensure safety and security to the members of religious minority in the country, her government possibly is heading towards creating a record of minority repression since the independence of Bangladesh.
Most interestingly, whenever any ruling party activist is involved in any sort of notorious crime, starting from extortion to murder to rape etc., law enforcing agencies are always seen reluctant in taking any action against the perpetrators as there is reportedly silent instructions on the police and other law enforcing agencies to ´ignore´ some of the ´activities´ of the ruling party men. Moreover, influential ruling party leaders compel the police in dropping most of the cases lodged against their partymen for various forms of criminal activities.
The present government is also completely silent in taking any initiative in cancelling the Vested Property Act. It may be mentioned here that, under this hated Vested Property Act, huge volume of properties of religious minorities especially Hindus are grabbed mostly by influential political leaders and politically blessed people belonging to almost all the political parties in Bangladesh.The present government also continues illegal ban on the religious publications of Ahmediya religious minority group in Bangladesh.
Such ban was enforced by the BNP led Islamist government few years back, when some local fanatics continued anti-Ahmediya activities and demanding declaring Ahmediyas as ´non Muslims´.Repression of religious minorities should immediately come to an end in Bangladesh. The government should immediately withdraw ban on the publications of Ahmediyas; cancel the Vested Property Act and ensure proper protection to each and every members of the religious minorities in this country.
Moreover, stern action should be initiated against those who are continuing various forms of crime and harrassment on the religious minorities in Bangladesh. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina should take personal initiatives in blowing a huge slap on the faces of her own partymen, who are now continuing such repressions on the members of the religious minority groups. If the government led by Sheikh Hasina will fail to show their commitment to the religious minorities in the country, it will for sure, completely devastate the very image of Hasina´s government and party.
Bangladeshi Hindu Abducted, Forced to Convert to Islam: CFP
By Dr. Richard Benkin
Source: CFP
Url: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/14606
I previously reported on the abduction of a young Hindu woman from her family's home in northern Bangladesh (Bangladeshi Hindu Abducted, Forced to Convert to Islam, Canada Free Press, August 11, 2009). At 12:45am on June 13, five Muslims broke into a home in the village of Ghosai Chandura, vandalized it, and grabbed the 21-year old the college student Koli Goswami from her bed.
She cried out, but the men easily overpowered her. They covered her head to muffle the screams, but not before others in the house heard them and came to her aid. But the perpetrators drove them off with gun fire and carried Koli off even as she struggled to break free. Her family has not seen her since that night.
The Bangladesh Hindu, Buddhist, Christian Unity Council (BHBCUC) first reported the inciden; and two human rights organizations, Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD) and Bangladesh Minority Watch (BDMW) have investigated the incident.
Even though these groups have a history of credibility in these matters, the sad fact is that such reports are often exaggerated. This one is not. Our own investigation confirmed the abduction itself and the People's Republic of Bangladesh's complicity in it.
We already knew that the police denied any crime occurred and refused to pursue a case; this despite physical evidence of a break-in, which they admit having; the family's video taped testimony; the legal complaint lodged by Koli's guardian; and the family's pleas for them to help locate and recover their daughter.
Police told GHRD and BDMW representatives, "It is not kidnapping. It is love affairs between kidnapper and victim." Kidnapper? Victim? That hardly sounds like a love affair.
Yet, police continue to insist that even while refusing to explain the basis for their conclusion, their investigation, or why they dismiss the physical evidence that refutes their claim. Nor can they explain why it took five grown men—including an accused murderer—to "convince" Koli to leave home.
Bikash Halder, my associate in India, led the investigation. He dispatched four men to the family home where they spoke with Koli's uncle and guardian, Professor Beraj Goswami. He claims to have faced nothing but corruption, duplicity, and collusion in the crime from police.
When he filed a complaint immediately after the kidnapping, he expected quick action given the nature of the crime. Instead, he met with police denial—but still insisted on producing Koli to clarify what happened that night. Instead, they produced suspect "affidavits and other so-called marriage of conversion documents," dated from the time of the girl's captivity. The only way to determine their veracity would be for Koli Goswami herself to testify in a safe environment that the documents were not secured under duress.
Instead, Goswami told Halder, the following sequence of events occurred. First, the Investigating Officer agreed to help him in exchange for a 25,000 Taka bribe, which Goswami paid. He ordered him to return to the Nandail police station on June 21 and wait while the police retrieved his niece.
After some time, they returned instead with an older woman in a Muslim burka that covered her identity. She said she was Koli Goswami's mother and that her daughter converted to Islam because of a love affair—something Koli's real mother disputed numerous times. Goswami denies that the woman was his sister-in-law, but cannot fathom the attempted deception since he could learn the truth by speaking to the woman he knew to be Koli Goswami's mother. There is a final, rather chilling element to the June 21 meeting: the local Awami League MP, Retired General Abdus Salam, was present during the episode and threatened Goswami should he proceed with the case any further or dispute the conversion.
Curiously, while the police did not produce Koli that day, they now claim that she was present at a secret hearing held the next, about which the family was never told until after it allegedly occurred. They cannot confirm that their daughter was there or that it even took place. Goswami "protested vehemently" and told Halder that as a result "we are afraid we may further be attacked and our adult daughters abducted."
What is not in dispute is: there was a home invasion; a family's daughter was taken and has not been seen since; the alleged perpetrators have been identified and at least one is a known criminal; and the police refuse to pursue a case. We also know that a magistrate and the police claim that Koli converted to Islam, and a government official from the ruling Awami League warned the family to stop fighting it.
The incident itself is a crime, but making matters worse is the fact that it remains a common occurrence in Bangladesh. Victims are universally young women and girls, sometimes boys, of child bearing years or younger, and almost always Hindu or Christian.
Their choice is deliberate and as such, meets the fourth condition of genocide, as described in the international Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: "Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group. Islamists have been following this pattern of ethnic cleansing for years. It is consistent with figures gathered during the period of Arab terror bombings in Israel. They disproportionately bombed places frequented by Israeli Jews of childbearing years or younger, children and even babies especially in Judea and Samaria: clubs like Mike's Place in Tel Aviv, markets where young mothers shop, shopping malls, and so forth. What Islamists cannot gain because they are militarily weak and morally bankrupt, they try to gain through genocide.
The destruction of Bangladeshi minorities has proceeded apace for decades. There has been no outrage by the supposed guardians of human rights. In its most recent report on Bangladesh, Amnesty International did not even mention the problem. This is not new, but since January, apologists especially on the left, have held that the leftist Awami League government will change things. It is an article of faith with them, and nothing could be further from the truth. There is no internal dynamic among Bangladeshi leaders of any party to end minority oppression.
First, they do not care. The only difference between the Awami League and its nationalist rivals is that the former will say that it is wrong; their actions are the same. Second, neither has the political will to anger Islamists and the votes they control—something that numerous Bangladeshi officials have admitted to me particularly in their refusal to stop their admittedly a false prosecution of pro-US, pro-Israel, and anti-Islamist Muslim Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury. And third, the parties, especially the one in power, get too much graft from the property looted from the victims and in the bribes they receive to turn the other way at the criminal acts. Figures again show that the Awami League's history of collusion in that.
Americans know little about Bangladesh other than its poverty and natural disasters. They do not know that Islamists have taken over the institutions in this third largest Muslim-majority country and that they supply shock troops fighting in several hot spots. And consider this: at the time of the 1947 India-Pakistan partition, Hindus made up almost one third of the population in the territory known today as Bangladesh.
Today, they are but nine percent. That population shift is part and parcel of international jihad, and jihadi organizations including Al Qaeda have found a fertile and save haven in Bangladesh. They now threaten parts of India as well. This is not the Islamist war on civilization that makes headlines in the West, but it is real and growing with the passive and active complicity of the government of Bangladesh, an Islamic republic. Incidents such as that of Koli Goswami are part of it, and if they are not addressed strongly and stopped, they will bring an end to Bangladesh's minorities in our lifetimes.
Bangladeshi minorities in volatile situation: American Chronicle
Source: Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
American Chronicle
On Friday, September 11, 2009, a group of 10-12 armed cadres of the ruling party suddenly attacked House number 88, 96 and 98 at Reboti Mohon Das Lane at Dhaka at around 1:00 pm.
Only 18 days back, a group of ruling party thugs abducted, tortured and raped members of another minority family at city´s Sutrapur area, which came in the local and international media. But, the government did not take any action against the culprits belonging to the ruling party.
Now, just in less than three weeks of the notorious incident of grabbing Hindu property at Sutrapure area only 18 days back, another incident took place at broad day light on Friday, September 11.
Resident of 88, 96 and 98 at Reboti Mohon Das Lane, Ms. Bashanti Rani told reporters that, they have been living on this land for decades. But, since Awami League came in power in January 2009, four Hindu families were evacuated from this property in March by groups of thugs under the command of local Awami League leader. The ruling party thugs were threatening remaining 11 families on the property for months.
At around 1 p.m. on Friday, a groups of armed thugs belonging to the ruling party went to the spot and asked the Hindu residents to immediate leave the property. As the Hindu family members started shouting seeking help from the neighborhood, local people got organized and chased the miscreants, who started shooting from fire arms and went inside Sutrapur police station and took refuge. Local people surrounded the police station and demanded immediate action against the culprits. But, police, instead of arresting the criminals, rather denied to lodge any complaint from the Hindu families and accorded VIP entertainment to the ruling party thugs inside the police station and escorted them up to the adjacent office of Bangladesh Awami League.
It is alleged that the ruling party thugs were led by Nizam Uddin Nizam [President, Bangladesh Awami League, Ward No 80] and his brother Abdul Qaiyum. While contacted the Awami League leader denied the fact of his any hands behind attempt to vacate the Hindu property, but he said, the Hindu families were residing there illegally.
Officer-in-charge of Sutrapur police station, Tofazzal Hussain said, the Hindu families are living on the property illegally so the police did not accord any protection to them. It may be mentioned here that, the much publicized abduction and rape incident of Hindu families took place 18 days back under direct patronization of the same officer-in-charge of Sutrapur police station.
Members of law enforcing agencies repeatedly said in past that there is verbal instruction on all police stations to ignore any incident where ruling party members are involved.
It may be mentioned here that, on February 22, 2009, a group of ruling party thugs led by one Shamim from Directorate General of Forces Intellogence [DGFI] attacked the office of Weekly Blitz on broad day light in presence of members of law enforcing agencies and looted valuables thus physically assaulting the members of the newspaper. On the same day a case was lodged with Paltan Police Station in Dhaka. But, till date, neither the police arrested the culprits nor there is any sign of investigation into the matter.Several officers of Paltan police station told reporters that, they were instructed to refrain from taking any action against the ruling party thugs, who were behind attack on the newspaper office on February 22, 2009. At such situation, various forms of criminal activities by the members of the ruling party are continuing in the country almost on a daily basis. And, now here is another disturbing news of attack on Hindu temple by some miscreants belonging to the ruling party at Bangladesh´s southern district of Kushtia.
According to information, several perpetrators entered two Temples at Kushtia, damaged Hindu deities´ Sunday, September 07, 2009 at night. Such tragic incident took place in the Hindu neighborhood just few weeks before the biggest Hindu festival named Durga Puja.There are two temples named "Halder Matri Sarbajanin Durga Mandir" and " Raj Kumar Kali Mandir" which are know as oldest in the locality. On the day of incident, criminals broke door locks and entered the temples, demolished Durga and Kali deities. Naba Kumar Dutta – President of Bangladesh Puja Ujjapan Parishad of Kumar Khali Upazila expressed grave concern at the heinous act on the deities and demanded exemplary punishment of the perpetrators. He said, no civilized society can tolerate such crime against religion. On initial investigation it was found that some local political thugs demanded extortion from the Hindus on the eve of Muslim festival named Eid. Being failed to extract money from the Hindu community, ruling party thugs staged such notoriety on temples with the ulterior motive of creating reign of terror in the locality.Biggest Hindu festival Durga Puja will be celebrated throughout the world during end of September this year. In all previous years, government accorded proper protection to temples around the country. But, this year, for the first time, Hindu temples are attacked and deities demolished weeks before the festival, which surely will not leave good signal for the present government in Bangladesh.
Christian Evangelist beaten to death in Bangladesh
Photo (courtesy: modernghana.com): Police officer Wahid being interviewed by the author about the murder of Swopon Mondol. (Photo Dipal Barua)
Source: Modernghana.com
Url: http://www.modernghana.com/news/239430/1/christian-evangelist-beaten-to-death-in-bangladesh.html
A Baptist youth minister and evangelist of the Free Christian Churches of Bangladesh was found seriously wounded in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, on Dhaka University's campus, in the evening of Sept. 12, 2009. Free Christian Churches of Bangladesh has been active for 25 years and has 320 churches and 30,500 members.
The church has faced severe problems during the second Iraq War, and, at various times, evangelists were persecuted. Police Sub-inspector Mohammed Wahid, of the Sahabag police station, said, "On Sept. 12, at around 8 p.m., I got a message that an unidentified man was found seriously wounded outside of Suhrawardi Park.
I rushed to the scene and found the wounded man, and immediately took him to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Meanwhile, we came to learn from him that his name is Swopon Mondol and that he is a worker of Free Christian Churches of Bangladesh. His wife, Lucky Mondol, came to the hospital when she was informed about the incident.
I left him at the hospital for treatment since his wife was there. Later, I came to know that Mondol died at 12:10 p.m., meaning in the early hours of Sept. 13."From local people, I came to know that Swopon Mondol and three or four people with him ran after some Dhaka University students over the issue of a theft. One of the students ran to the nearby campus and brought more students, who then beat Mondol brutally, until he fell down onto the floor."Lucky Mondol, the wife of the dead Christian evangelist, said, "My only son, Diptoo (age 10), and I rushed to the hospital. Some youth came to the hospital and wanted money, threatening me. My husband was fighting for his life, and this group of violent youths were threatening me and demanding 1400 taka, saying that my husband stole one of their mobile phones. I found myself helpless. I prayed for my husband."
I am afraid to file a police report. Who will guarantee my safety and give me money to pay for the case? I don't doubt that the violent people who beat my husband brutally and even came to the hospital afterward might kill me if I file a police report. And now it's a challenge for me and my son Diptoo to even survive, because my husband was the only earning member of our family." Sulekha Mondol, Mondol's sister, said, "We are so poor, and we are in the minority. My brother Swopon was very pious and very patient. He preached the good news of Christ, yet such a good man was killed like an animal. Now we are afraid, and we don't feel safe. Many Christian evangelists have been killed, and no one has gotten justice. On Sept. 13, we buried my brother in fear and hoping for justice in our village. We could hardly arrange for the money to bury my brother and transport his body from the hospital to our village in Khulna."
Bishop Albert P. Mirdha of Free Christian Churches of Bangladesh said, "Swopon Mondol was really a very active church worker over the last 14 years, and we are all shocked by his murder. Minorities are not safe in Bangladesh."Human rights activist Annie Halder said, "According to Art. 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 'no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,' and, according to Art. 3, 'everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.' Here, we have seen that there is no security of life and that the Christian evangelist was tortured like an animal."
Inspector Wahid said, "I have been working for the police for a long time, and when I saw Mondol, he looked like a simple and gentle man. I can't imagine that he would steal anyone's mobile phone. Recently, at Dhaka University, some violent students have been harassing innocent people, and, in this case, a gentle man was brutally tortured and killed. A source has told us that the group of students were from Mohasin Hall and were led by Mohammed Rajan".
"Bangladesh / Ghana / Africa / Modernghana.com
Source: William Gomes
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Bangladesh Destroys Hinduism, Buddhism: The Seoul times
Islamization Blamed on UK for Partition of British India
By Lee Jay Walker Tokyo
The Seoul Times Correspondent
The Seoul Times
Url: http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=8777
Image of Vishnu — Vishnu is the Supreme God in Vaishnavite tradition of Hinduism. Smarta followers of Adi Shankara, among others, venerate Vishnu as one of the five primary forms of God. He is exalted as the highest God in Hindu sacred texts like the Taittiriya Samhita and the Bhagavad Gita.
The nation of Bangladesh is witnessing Islamization, just like Afghanistan in the distant past and currently now in Pakistan. It is clear that the Indian sub-continent flourished under both Hinduism and then Buddhism which came afterwards. Both faiths nurtured the very fabric of society but invading Islamic armies and the partition of India was one disaster after another. Therefore, just like Afghanistan, it would appear that one day you will have either complete Islamization or a very small minority which is on the margins of society.
Many stories are never told because of several factors. This applies to not being deemed important because of political factors and of course because of the abject failure of the mass media. Nearly everyone knows about the Palestinian problem or Tibet, but of course we have a deadly silence about the ongoing Islamization in Bangladesh and Pakistan.
However, the current crisis in Bangladesh should be headline news because minorities need to be supported and senior politicians in India must do more to raise this ongoing crisis. Also, the United Kingdom is responsible because the partition of India took place after the British colonial period and the Commonwealth should think about suspending both Bangladesh and Pakistan, on the grounds of failing to protect their respective minorities.
Before the partition of India took place you had sizeable minorities in what was to become Pakistan and Bangladesh. For example in modern day Pakistan the Sikh community is very small but prior to partition this community thrived in parts of what was to become Pakistan. Yet during partition many Sikhs were butchered and killed by Muslims, therefore, they had to flee from the outset.
Of course all religious groups suffered during partition and many innocents on all sides were murdered. Therefore, innocent Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, and other minorities, fled in various directions because the situation was chaotic. However, if we look at events many decades later we see one clear reality and this reality is Islamization.
After all, the Hindu and Sikh communities of modern day Pakistan are very small and they face many hardships and it is clear that Islamization is in full swing. Also, in Bangladesh the Buddhist and Hindu minorities are dwindling rapidly and both communities have suffered greatly and the Christian community also faces many problems because of radical Sunni Islam. Yet in modern day India the Muslim population is still strong and vibrant.
Of course you have other minorities who also suffer enormous persecution, for example Christians and Ahmadiyya Muslims in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Also, in India some radical Hindus have attacked Christian minorities. Despite this, the nation of India is democratic and people from all faith groups can reach positions of power.
Also, the government of India believes in pluralism and Ahmadiyya Muslims have more rights in India than they do in Pakistan because radical Sunni Islamic zealots persecute the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in this nation. The same also applies to Shia Muslims in Pakistan, because often Shia Muslims are killed by Sunni Islamic extremists but in India they have much more freedom.
Therefore, Muslim minorities have greater freedom in India and other religious minorities like Jains and Zoroastrians can pray and worship freely in modern day India. It also must be remembered that Zoroastrians fled to India in order to escape religious genocide because Islamic fanatics destroyed Zoroastrianism in ancient Persia (modern day Iran) and other places in Asia where this faith had thrived before the rise of Islam.
If we look at the plight of Hindus in Bangladesh and Pakistan then it is clear that millions of Hindus have fled both nations because of systematic persecution. The consequences of partition are clear and the same applies to the nature of both dominant faiths. After all, the Islamic population remains vibrant in India because of the nature of Hinduism; however, the Hindu population is in freefall in both Bangladesh and Pakistan because of the nature of Islam and its theory of superiority, dhimmitude, and inequality in law which is sanctioned by Islamic Sharia law.
Clearly the growth of Hindu militancy is the legacy of countless Islamic invasions and many massacres throughout history; and the legacy of British imperialism which enabled partition to take place. Also, the ongoing de-Hinduization of Bangladesh and Pakistan is ongoing, therefore, Hindu militants are rightly worried that Bangladesh and Pakistan is following the Afghanistan scenario, whereby all non-Muslims turn into dust and even ancient monuments face destruction at the hands of radical Sunni Islamists.
Therefore, several years ago the Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities (HRCBM) held a major exhibition in America in order to highlight the continuing persecution of all minorities in Bangladesh.
Amalendu Chatterjee, HRCBM director, pointed out that the Hindu population was over 30 per cent in the 1940s in what was to become Bangladesh, however, today it is a mere 11 per cent. Given this, Amalendu Chatterjee comments that "It is time that the world should know what is happening with the Hindu minorities in Bangladesh." He also stated that the reasons for the decline of the Hindu population is ".....because of the atrocities perpetrated on the Hindus by the ruling class all these years."
Utsav Chakrabarti, a member of the Foundation Against Continuing Terrorism (FACT) stated that "All the representatives and their staffers reiterated the need to protect the rights of minorities and to deal with Islamic groups in a resolute manner."
American political leaders gave their support and Ed Royce, a Republican member of the House of Representatives, wrote "The international community must take an action against these genocidal acts now before this culture is extinguished and the minorities forcibly killed, converted or exiled in the face of an underground jihad."
Ed Royce also focused on the extreme " ... persecution faced by Hindus, Buddhists and Christians due to the threat posed by Islamic fundamentalism in Bangladesh." This threat, just like the systematic persecution and killings of Christians in Somalia is ongoing and it is based on the Koran, the Hadiths and the teachings of Mohammed.
Frank Pallone Jr. who is a Democrat member in the House of Representatives stated that "I was proud to be the Congressional sponsor of this important exhibition on human rights in Bangladesh. I believe it helped bring much-needed attention to the plight of minorities in Bangladesh who have suffered from increasing attacks over the past few years."
Rape was also highlighted because some Islamists use rape in order to convert Hindus to Islam forcibly. It is also important to add that Islamists use this same method in Egypt because countless numbers of Coptic Christian women have been raped by Muslims and then forcibly converted to Islam.
Therefore, Rosalind Costa who is a social worker highlighted the case of two girls who were raped and then forcibly converted to Islam after being gang-raped by Muslim jihadists. This applies to Rita Rani Das and Purnima Shil who were both gang-raped by Islamists.
The current reality is simple, in Pakistan the Hindu population is in complete freefall because only around 1% of the population is Hindu and now Islamization is taking place in Bangladesh. At the same time the Muslim population in India remains strong and vibrant. Therefore, it is clear that state sanctioned policies, Islamic radicalism and persecution is to blame and once more we are witnessing the reality of Islam in action.
Today all minorities face persecution and alienation in Bangladesh and Pakistan because of the role of radical Islam and natural Islamization based on discrimination and persecution. After all, inequality and discrimination is part and parcel of Islamic Sharia law and the Hadiths.
Therefore, will the international community stand up and debate this issue seriously or will the international community remain shackled by fear and indifference?
What is clear is that Buddhism and Hinduism is in mortal danger in Bangladesh and Christian minorities and Ahmadiyya Muslims also suffer.
When the partition of India happened it was clear that the Hindu minority was sizeable in both Bangladesh and Pakistan. However, within a short period of time we are seeing the demise of Hinduism in Pakistan and now the same is happening to both Buddhists and Hindus in Bangladesh.
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NSN sues Vodafone Hutchison Australia
Dylan Bushell-Embling
telecomasia.net
Nokia Siemens is suing Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) in a dispute over an A$8 million ($8.2 million) network performance payout.
NSN Australia has asked a court to intervene after VHA withdrew a network performance bond which NSN had set up as part of a mobile network upgrade deal, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
The operator had claimed the sum after announcing plans to overhaul the Vodafone Australia network using Huawei equipment, in the face of growing customer complaints over network quality and service outages. This marked the end of what was to be a seven-year supply deal with NSN.
VHA had been leaning on NSN to replenish the A$8 million bond, but an Australian court has ordered that NSN is not required to deposit the sum.
The company will also be obliged to keep A$10 million on hand until the trial is heard December 7, in case it is ordered to pay back the bond.
VHA was created in 2009 with the merger of Vodafone Australia and Hutchison Australia, owner of the 3 Australia brand. The network complaints have been centered on the Vodafone Australia brand. VHA eventually plans to merge both networks.
Earlier this year, law firm PiperAlderman started taking registrations from Vodafone Australia customers for a potential class-action lawsuit over the network quality complaints, and has so far attracted over 20,000 plaintiffs, but a court claim is yet to materialize.
VHA
Court battle
Vodafone Aust hit by network outages
FASTTAKES: Alcatel-Lucent, SAP, NSN, Global Switch, China Telecom
NSN teams with Intel on edge RAN
NSN likely to be next vendor JV break-up
Webwire: SK telcos fined for price fixing; Sprint splits with LightSquared


21/04/2017 Vampire: new album "With Primeval Force" released today!
17/02/2017 Vampire: first track of new album "With Primeval Force" released today!
Deep in a musty, age-old cellar of old town Gothenburg, the anonymous members—the quintet has fashioned a particular nom de guerre—of Vampire are plotting something wicked. They've been holed up deep underground for over two years. Here, light fails. But the disquieting darkness is right up Vampire's alley. Frontman Hand of Doom, guitarist Black String, bassist Command are urging relatively new recruits, guitarist Sepulchral Condor and drummer Abysmal Condor, to stay focused on the biennial ritual. As such, Vampire's founding members have experienced it before. Wait long enough and the abyss will open, the jaws of darkness gaping yet again for the vernal tides.
For neophytes, Vampire's cob-webbed, moon-burned brand of death metal stems from not just in one circle of Hell but all nine. The Swedes are just as influenced by Mercyful Fate and Slayer as they are informed by Sarcófago and Bathory. Likewise, traces of Autopsy, Master's Hammer, and, of course, Possessed are evident. But Vampire aren't an old-school act because revisiting the classics is modish. No, they genuinely feel present-day death metal is lacking spirit, is without presence, and has lost its eccentricity. So, they've robbed the aesthetics of Hammer Horror films, absorbed the pneuma their favorite metal bands, imbued it all with nostalgia for mysterious times long past, and have come out on the other side as Vampire. Or, the soundtrack to Castlevania II: Simon's Quest.
Vampire didn't form in 1987, however. The Swedes rose from the proverbial grave in 2011 when Hand of Doom, Black String and Command heard a voice in the dark. They quickly put together their self-titled demo, 2012's Vampire. Immediately hailed by tastemakers—such as Darkthrone's Fenriz—and fans, who raided 300 copies of the demo in a week, Vampire's vicious yet evocative style set fire to convention. Buzzed and then signed by Century Media a year later, the Gothenburgers quickly set out to work on their debut. Released in the abyssal spring of 2014, Vampire's self-titled debut was heralded by the press as "the real deal", bestowing "macabre charm", and "uniquely unhinged". Vampire's start was auspicious. So, when they released Cimmerian Shade—a limited edition 10"—in 2015, it was also met with rabidly rave responses.
Now, the members of Vampire are reveling in the next era of the band. Previous drummer Ratwing has been replaced by drummer Abysmal Condor and guitarist Black String now has a six-string sideman in Sepulchral Condor. A quintet, the Swedes set off to write not just a follow-up to Vampire, but an album that will redefine death metal in 2017. Composed over a two-year timeline, songs like 'Knights of the Burning Crypt', 'Skull Prayer', and 'Revenants' demonstrate a deadlier, more incisive Vampire. The difference between Vampire and most other bands is that they arranged the songs together in the rehearsal room—a tradition sadly waning—instead of one or two members controlling the process. The result is With Primeval Force, nine songs of malefic aggression and ritualistic transmission.
To test the Cthulhu-infested waters, Vampire released an early preview of rager 'Skull Prayer', which was the first song the band crafted with the Condors onboard. Devised at the same time as 'Night Hunter', off the Cimmerian Shade 10", the first song off of With Primeval Force is both a physical and figurative bridge to past and present. But 'Skull Prayer' isn't the only song designed to span Vampire and With Primeval Force. Black String was very aware of needing connective tissue between the two full-lengths. So, the unbridled 'Ghoul Wind'—with its nod to vintage Teutonic thrash—was also penned to maintain Vampire's ancestry. As for the rest of With Primeval Force, it demonstrates Vampire's ingenuity by re-shaping death metal's classic constructs into new horrific forms.
Recorded over 10 days at Nacksving Studios (Opeth, Dark Tranquillity) with engineer and studio owner Isak Edh, With Primeval Force continues Vampire's commitment to tracking on vintage gear as well as their professional ear for a good, if truculent sound. The new album was handled in split sessions in 2016. One in May. The other in November. The group also revisited Nacksving later on to lay down additional guitar work, keyboards, and vocals. The entire Nacksving experience turned out to be not just routine but enlightening.
If With Primeval Force is Vampire's musical hail to their influences and a statement of their own innovation, then lyrically it's on another Stygian plane. As Hand of Doom intoned earlier, Vampire are well versed in the hideous yet seductive imagery crafted by H.P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, and M.R. James. As with the music, so too the lyrics. They've parlayed Victorian and Romantic visions of the supernatural into their own.
With savage music and spine-chilling lyrics, Vampire are breaking the seals of seven with With Primeval Force. They are readying for supernal battle. And if the beasts and minions of darkness and the warriors of light don't collide in planet-shattering might upon its release, then, at the very least, the Swedes have their bags packed to hit the road in support of With Primeval Force.


In 1963, Wilder was cast in a leading role in Mother Courage and Her Children, a production starring Anne Bancroft, who introduced Wilder to her boyfriend (and later husband) Mel Brooks. A few months later, Brooks mentioned that he was working on a screenplay called Springtime for Hitler, for which he thought Wilder would be perfect in the role of Leo Bloom. Brooks elicited a promise from Wilder that he would check with him before making any long-term commitments. Months went by, and Wilder toured the country with different theatre productions, participated in a televised CBS presentation of Death of a Salesman, and was cast for his first role in a film—a minor role in Arthur Penn's 1967 Bonnie and Clyde. After three years of not hearing from Brooks, Wilder was called for a reading with Zero Mostel, who was to be the star of Springtime for Hitler and had approval of his co-star. Mostel approved, and Wilder was cast for his first leading role in a feature film, 1967's The Producers.


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1 Macklem Dr
Wilmore KY , 40390-1198
About Asbury University
Founded in 1890, Asbury University. is a Private college. Located in Kentucky, which is a city setting in Kentucky, the campus itself is Town. The campus is home to 1,640 full time undergraduate students, and 214 full time graduate students.
The Asbury University Academic calendar runs on a Semester basis. In the school year the student to faculty ratio was 12:1. There are 95 full time instructional teachers. Degrees awarded at Asbury University include: Bachelor's Degree, Masters Degree, Post-master's certificate, Doctor's degree.
SAT Range 1000-1240
ACT Range 21-28
Admissions at are considered Selective, with ,18% of all applicants being admitted.
We asked, and students answered these important questions about student life at Asbury University.
Asbury University REVIEWS
59 Students rated on-campus housing 4 stars. 22 % gave the school a 5.0.
33 Students rated off-campus housing 2.3 stars. 0 % gave the school a 5.0.
61 Students rated academics 4 stars. 41 % gave the school a 5.0.
What's your overall opinion of Asbury University?
16 Students rated Asbury University
Lauren - 06/08/2021
Where do I even begin with this review? Asbury on the outside looks like an amazing school. If you take a campus tour, you will be completely convinced and persuaded to attend. However, I advise that you take a step back and rethink other options before attending this school. There are no words to describe how bad and overpriced the on campus housing is. Glide-Crawford is falling apart. Paint is peeling off the walls, there are holes in the walls, the windows are dirty and dusty. The mattresses are very old with urine, period blood, and other mysterious stains. The community kitchen, aka the commons, has a weird smell and always dirty because the girls don't know how to clean up after themselves. The shower curtains have mold on them and there is mold in the corners of the showers. As well as, the occasional sewer bugs. You have to pay extra to live in a single dorm, and you don't even get a closet if you live in a single. The rooms are already tiny, but the single is extremely small but costs more than a double. I\'m also very disappointed that Asbury did NOTHING for the 2020 graduates during the COVID-19 pandemic. They had an online graduation, but that was it. The school did absolutely NOTHING else for these students who spent well over $120,000 for their degree and spending 4 years at this school. Smh. Even the University of Kentucky had an in person ceremony for their 2020 graduates. Also, the classroom buildings are old and falling apart. The desks are old and the classrooms feel like a high school. The professors don\'t know how to use the technology, especially if they want to use a powerpoint. Chapel is mandatory for 3x a week, which is fine. However, the songs are repetitive, and boring and the chapel speakers are a hit or miss. The only nice thing about Asbury are the professors and the financial staff, which is really sad. Don\'t get me started on the caf food. 2020-2021 food was horrible and such a waste of Styrofoam and money in general. They upped the meal plan cost, yet their lettuce was always brown, always served fries, fried chicken, burgers, and pizza. The healthy choice options sucked, and looked like someone either threw up or regurgitated the food. Overall, the school is overpriced and overrated. They only care about students who\'s parents have lots of money or have connections. You\'re honestly better off at a state school, and it\'s cheaper!
In my opinion they do not actually operate as a christian university. Christianity is about helping and forgiving. Not condemning. However, here if you are struggling with a problem it almost feel as if there is no one to actually help because you're afraid of being suspended or expelled. The mold caused me to become horridly sick which affected my grades. There is next to no affordable stores within walking distance. they have a locally owned grocery store that in my opinion is over priced. While i felt safe walking alone in the dark, i would not suggest walking around during the winter in the dark because they do not properly clear leaves and salt for ice. I fell down a set of cement stairs and nobody ever came to ask me what the problem was. There were icy leaves all over the stairs which could have helped me if they had been cleared.
Deionta
I love Asbury University. Great staff and peers. This is an awesome school to attend. You will not regret your decision to be apart of a family away from home. This is a big decision in your life so choosing wisely is a must. They stand on the their morals and standards as a whole. College should be taken seriously and Asbury as put an imprint on myself and my family heart. I will recommend Asbury to anyone. They believe God first and then education!!!!
I love Asbury. I could not have gone anywhere else. Asbury has a variety of people and trips to attend. The largest class I've been in is around 40 students and that was a Gen-Ed. I've had a class of five people for multiple classes. As you get into your major your class size gets really small.
Asbury University FAQS
What is the Acceptance Rate at Asbury University?
The fall 2020 acceptance rate for Asbury University is 69%. That means, out of _____ applications received in 2020 , _____ students were offered admission. The number of males who applied was _____ vs the number of females which was _____.
I would advise that I connect more with other classmates and study together. I relied too much on my own to complete assignments or take tests. I think learning from others and working together is a necessary component to education.
The best thing about Asbury College is that I am an Education Major and it is considered to be the top college in the state with regard to students who obtain teaching jobs after graduation. Graduates in Education from Asbury College are heavily sought which makes my future look bright.
Asbury College is a school in wilmore ky that tries to portray a christian academic environment, but really suggests a place where hoverparents can send their child who has no maturity, no willpower, and no means of disconnecting themselves from their overly-controlling parents.
Almost all of my peers are conservative, white, christian "do-good'ers" who have high standards for friends, who are offended by the media, and who look down on those who are not like them.
I feel like someone who is into the party scene should not attend Asbury. Asbury is a school based on a Free Methodist background so the school is very stron in its beliefs and set of rules and values. You do not have to be Methodist to feel welcome at Asbury though, I'm not and I feel great about being here.
Asbury is known academically media com department and Education department. Our school sends 40+ people to work for the Olympics every two years, and our teachers are nationally ranked. However, Asbury is known for its religious standing, its conservative style and its strict rules.
Asbury College is a great school for persons who want to attend a faith based institution. Chapel is required 3 times per week and is very focused on Christ centered gatherings, ballgames and functions.
I like to express to others how at home i feel here. All the students, staff, and alumni are friendly and welcoming. I know that I always have someone to talk to when needed. The professors are very good about their office hours and being available. Most professors even give you their home phone numbers. It feels as if everyone is one big family. The school is just perfect in size.
This is a school that is dedicated to christian values. It has a strong foundation in community and and helping everyone around the world. The school is supportive to everyone who attends and will allow you to recieve the best education and have the best resources.
The only thing I would consider inconveint about Asbury, is the reqirement to attend chapel three times a week. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday we are to attend chapel from 10- 10:50. The whole campus attends this and is required to sit in assigned seating. There are "chapel checkers" who spend the time checking to see if you are there that day or not. If your absent, sleeping, eating, etc you get marked absent. The only good part is we recieve .25 credit each semester for attending.
There are some rules that I don't agree with like our curfew and the no dancing rule. There are also some people on campus who seem to think that they are better than other people just what group they belong to and that bothers me.
The quality of community at the college, is low, but the academics are high. I wish I'd know before I attended any school that the school I'm at now has great support for students with learning disabilities.
99% of students attending Asbury University receive some sort of financial aid. 31% were awarded federal grants. While 59% received federal loans. Many students do also need to apply for additional private student loans.
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Across my threshold; happy hour!
Book I, Canto VIII, III The Spirit's Epochs.
Speech to the Labour Party Conference after winning the 1983 leadership election (October 2, 1983), reported in Labour Party Annual Conference Report 1983, p. 30.
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288: I'm Nobody! Who are you?; In some editions "June" has been altered to "day".
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Q: How to deal with invalid, but still community-approved edits? One of my answers has been edited by a low-rep user.

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*https://stackoverflow.com/posts/8971550/revisions, see revisions 3 to 4.

Now what he did is totally inexplicable to me, as a matter of fact he destroyed the answer. The new version is neither syntactically valid nor does it make any sense.
Still, the edit got "peer-reviewed" and nodded off.
Is there any way to deal with these kinds of things, other than sighing heavily and rolling back the edit?
Rhetorical side question: Could this be a side-effect of people grinding for reviewer badges?

A: Just roll it back. You may want to investigate past approvals of the other reviewers. If you see clear evidence that they are just blindly plowing through the queues, flag one of their posts and explain the situation.
Yep, this is a side effect of the incentivizing of /review

A: I totally agree with you. This edit should rejected, definitely.

Is there any way to deal with these kinds of things, other than
  sighing heavily and rolling back the edit?

I don't think so, unfortunately. When I look at the review history  https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/1851492
lc. reviewed this 1 hour ago: Approve
Jueecy reviewed this 1 hour ago: Reject
This edit is incorrect or an attempt to reply to or comment on the existing post.
Ben reviewed this 1 hour ago: Approve
ljh reviewed this 1 hour ago: Approve
David Olsson reviewed this 1 hour ago: Reject
There are 3 approve (lc, Ben, ljh) and 2 reject (Jueecy, David Olsson) votes. Seems like people might remained in this decision. Also Ben and ljh don't have too much revision activities, they might fall in wrong decision.
I think they just looked at the code formatted and approved it without any checking code content.

Could this be a side-effect of people grinding for reviewer badges?

In my opinion, YES!. Some people do unnecessary stuff just getting badges and this sometimes cause ridiculous stuffs..
Also might be related:

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*An alert to serial minor edits

*Too Minor rejection reason needs either to be reworded or removed