Citizens Demanding Justice: French Flag on Your Profile? Have You Heard of Sykes-Picot?
French Flag on Your Profile? Have You Heard of Sykes-Picot?
Imagine, someone taking a pencil and drawing a line between the A in Alabama and the L in Los Angeles and making that line the northern frontier of America on a map. Then extending this line down to the M in Mexico City and then back up to the last A in Alabama and making this the United States. Canada would come down to this line. ...and...the person doing this also designed the flag for each country.
The hillbilly culture of Alabama, Texas combined into one state with the Southern California population. Would this cause problems?
Southern states STILL have not given up on their claims to a legitimate hold on the Confederacy. They STILL want to fly their flag despite being defeated by the British in the British Civil War and and again by the Yanks in the American Civil War.
Do you think they would give up when a foreign power carved up their land and combined it with totally different tribes and GAVE them another flag to substitute their confederate AND U.S. Flags...do you think that people would take that well...?
So, with all the fervor over France being bombed by terrorists, in a HORRENDOUS ACT...I must also ask you to look at the reasons why.
How many people putting a French flag on thier profiles have heard of the Sykes-Picot Agreement?
I had not know about this until two years ago and I am an avid student of history.
A French and British diplomat took colored pencils and divided up the middle east for their imperial powers and even designed the flags for Middle Eastern countries during World War I.
No respect for ancient boundaries.
No respect for tribal laws.
No respect for the people there or their wishes.
No respect for their leaders, laws or religions.
The people of The Middle East have been suffering under this miscarrage of justice for more than one hundred years.
They are striking back in the only ways that they can against ruthless superpowers.
Now, I am not advocating violence against Americans, Europeans or any one in the west.
I am not on the side of fanatics that want to distribute indiscriminate violence against innocent people.
I do want to look at both sides of this and to encourage love, compassion and an effort to seek justice.
I want to present the side of the people of The Middle East and their plight instead of the one sided, mass, lame stream media view.
Middle Eastern people are being lynched in France now and in other parts of the western world.
Black people should be particularly sensitive to this.
During a trip to film a documentary in North Dakota about five years ago, I learned that German citizens in the United States were arrested when neighbors reported them playing German music too loud. They were arrested and put into the Snow Prison at Fort Lincoln. This was a SERIOUS thing. They were still on parole as long as 1957. Many of the one's I interviewed had fought against the Nazis in Germany and escaped to American ...only to be put into prison for playing German music! The same happened to the Japanese who were also held at Fort Lincoln (the fort that Custer was based at when he participate in the genocide of native Americans)....and Crystal City, Texas (the same place the many Latinos are being held today when they are FLEEING drug lords (put into place by U.S. drug laws)...who want to put them into prostitution, kill them and or enslave them and their kids.
Please stop, take a look and realize that we have all be indoctrinated, not educated.
Putting that flag on your profile suggests that you are part of the imperial outlook (I know that most of you are not..you just want to support the fine people of France...I do too)....I realize that France helped us defeat the British in the Revolutionary War, they allowed Black people to fly in their air force during WWI. They treated people of color with better freedom and dignity that this country did and does.
That does not assuage the things that were done wrong by the west....the people of The Middle East certainly cannot escape the damage. The face it everyday and continue to be tortured by actions promoted by greed and ignorance.
Please contemplate this post. Please share it. Absorb the information. A Smithsonian article is included along with a Wikipedia story....documenting the crimes of the west..specifically the French and the British.
Even before the final outcome of the Great War has been determined, Great Britain, France, and Russia secretly discussed how they would carve up the Middle East into "spheres of influence" once World War I had ended. The Ottoman Empire had been in decline for centuries prior to the war, so the Allied Powers already had given some thought to how they would divide up the considerable spoils in the likely event they defeated the Turks. Britain and France already had some significant interests in the region between the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf, but a victory offered a great deal more. Russia as well hungered for a piece.
From November 1915 to March 1916, representatives of Britain and France negotiated an agreement, with Russia offering its assent. The secret treaty, known as the Sykes–Picot Agreement, was named after its lead negotiators, the aristocrats Sir Mark Sykes of England and François Georges-Picot of France. Its terms were set out in a letter from British foreign secretary Sir Edward Grey to Paul Cambon, France's ambassador to Great Britain, on May 16, 1916.
The color-coded partition map and text provided that Britain ("B") would receive control over the red area, known today as Jordan, southern Iraq and Haifa in Israel; France ("A") would obtain the blue area, which covers modern-day Syria, Lebanon, northern Iraq, Mosul and southeastern Turkey, including Kurdistan; and the brown area of Palestine, excluding Haifa and Acre, would become subject to international administration, "the form of which is to be decided upon after consultation with Russia, and subsequently in consultation with the other allies, and the representatives of [Sayyid Hussein bin Ali, sharif of Mecca]." Besides carving the region into British and French "spheres of influence," the arrangement specified various commercial relations and other understandings between them for the Arab lands.
Russia's change of status, brought on by the revolution and the nation's withdrawal from the war, removed it from inclusion. But when marauding Bolsheviks uncovered documents about the plans in government archives in 1917, the contents of the secret treaty were publicly revealed. The exposé embarrassed the British, since it contradicted their existing claims through T. E. Lawrence that Arabs would receive sovereignty over Arab lands in exchange for supporting the Allies in the war. Indeed, the treaty set aside the establishment of an independent Arab state or confederation of Arab states, contrary to what had previously been promised, giving France and Britain the rights to set boundaries within their spheres of influence, "as they may think fit."
After the war ended as planned, the terms were affirmed by the San Remo Conference of 1920 and ratified by the League of Nations in 1922. Although Sykes-Picot was intended to draw new borders according to sectarian lines, its simple straight lines also failed to take into account the actual tribal and ethnic configurations in a deeply divided region. Sykes-Picot has affected Arab-Western relations to this day.
This article is excerpted from Scott Christianson's "100 Documents That Changed The World," available November 10.
Sykes Picot Agreement Map. It was an enclosure in Paul Cambon's letter to Sir Edward Grey, 9 May 1916.
Excerpt from the Manchester Guardian, Monday, November 26, 1917, This was the first English-language reference to what became known as the Sykes Picot Agreement.
The Sykes–Picot Agreement, officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, was a secret agreement between the governments of the United Kingdom and France,with the assent of Russia, defining their proposed spheres of influence and control in the Middle East should the Triple Entente succeed in defeating the Ottoman Empireduring World War I. The negotiation of the treaty occurred between November 1915 and March 1916. The agreement was concluded on 16 May 1916.
The agreement effectively divided the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire outside the Arabian peninsula into areas of future British and French control or influence.An "international administration" was proposed for Palestine. The terms were negotiated by the French diplomat François Georges-Picot and Briton Sir Mark Sykes. The Russian Tsarist government was a minor party to the Sykes–Picot agreement, and when, following the Russian Revolution of October 1917, the Bolsheviks exposed the agreement, "the British were embarrassed, the Arabs dismayed and the Turks delighted."
Britain was allocated control of areas roughly comprising the coastal strip between the sea and River Jordan, Jordan, southern Iraq, and a small area including the ports of Haifa and Acre, to allow access to the Mediterranean. France was allocated control of south-eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. Russia was to getIstanbul, the Turkish Straits and the Ottoman Armenian vilayets. The controlling powers were left free to decide on state boundaries within these areas. Further negotiation was expected to determine international administration pending consultations with Russia and other powers, including the Sharif of Mecca.
Following the outbreak of World War I, Zionism was first discussed at a British Cabinet level on 9 November 1914, four days after Britain's declaration of war on the Ottoman Empire. At a Cabinet meeting David Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, "referred to the ultimate destiny of Palestine." Lloyd George's law firm Lloyd George, Roberts and Co had been engaged a decade before by the Zionists to work on the Uganda Scheme. In a discussion after the meeting with fellow Zionist Herbert Samuel, who had a seat in the Cabinet as President of the Local Government Board, Lloyd George assured him that "he was very keen to see a Jewish state established in Palestine." Samuel then outlined the Zionist position more fully in a conversation with Foreign Secretary Edward Grey. He spoke of Zionist aspirations for the establishment in Palestine of a Jewish state, and of the importance of its geographical position to the British Empire. Samuel's memoirs state: "I mentioned that two things would be essential—that the state should be neutralized, since it could not be large enough to defend itself, and that the free access of Christian pilgrims should be guaranteed. ... I also said it would be a great advantage if the remainder of Syria were annexed by France, as it would be far better for the state to have a European power as neighbour than the Turk" The same evening, Prime Minister H. H. Asquith announced that the dismemberment of the Turkish Empire had become a war aim in a speech for the Lord Mayor's Banquet at the Mansion House, "It is the Ottoman Government, and not we who have rung the death knell of Ottoman dominion not only in Europe but in Asia."
In January 1915, Samuel submitted a Zionist memorandum entitled The Future of Palestine to the Cabinet after discussions with Weizmann and Lloyd George. On 5 February 1915, Samuel had another discussion with Grey: "When I asked him what his solution was he said it might be possible to neutralize the country under international guarantee ... and to vest the government of the country in some kind of Council to be established by the Jews" After further conversations with Lloyd George and Grey, Samuel circulated a revised text to the Cabinet in mid-March 1915.
Zionism or the Jewish question were not considered by the report of the De Bunsen Committee, prepared to determine British wartime policy toward the Ottoman Empire, submitted in June 1915.
"By excluding Hebron and the East of the Jordan there is less to discuss with the Moslems, as the Mosque of Omar then becomes the only matter of vital importance to discuss with them and further does away with any contact with the bedouins, who never cross the river except on business. I imagine that the principal object of Zionism is the realization of the ideal of an existing centre of nationality rather than boundaries or extent of territory. The moment I return I will let you know how things stand at Pd."
Lord Curzon said the Great Powers were still committed to the Reglement Organique Agreement regarding the Lebanon Vilayet of June 1861 and September 1864, and that the rights granted to France in the blue area under the Sykes–Picot Agreement were not compatible with that agreement. The Reglement Organique was an international agreement regarding governance and non-intervention in the affairs of the Maronite, Orthodox Christian, Druze, and Muslim communities.
"French intentions in Syria are surely incompatible with the war aims of the Allies as defined to the Russian Government. If the self-determination of nationalities is to be the principle, the interference of France in the selection of advisers by the Arab Government and the suggestion by France of the Emirs to be selected by the Arabs in Mosul, Aleppo, and Damascus would seem utterly incompatible with our ideas of liberating the Arab nation and of establishing a free and independent Arab State. The British Government, in authorising the letters despatched to King Hussein [Sharif of Mecca] before the outbreak of the revolt by Sir Henry McMahon, would seem to raise a doubt as to whether our pledges to King Hussein as head of the Arab nation are consistent with French intentions to make not only Syria but Upper Mesopotamia another Tunis. If our support of King Hussein and the other Arabian leaders of less distinguished origin and prestige means anything it means that we are prepared to recognise the full sovereign independence of the Arabs of Arabia and Syria. It would seem time to acquaint the French Government with our detailed pledges to King Hussein, and to make it clear to the latter whether he or someone else is to be the ruler of Damascus, which is the one possible capital for an Arab State, which could command the obedience of the other Arabian Emirs."
Many sources report that this agreement conflicted with the Hussein–McMahon Correspondence of 1915–1916. It has also been reported that the publication of the Sykes–Picot Agreement caused the resignation of Sir Henry McMahon. However the Sykes–Picot plan itself described how France and Great Britain were prepared to recognize and protect an independent Arab State, or Confederation of Arab States, under the suzerainty of an Arab chief within the zones marked A. and B. on the map. Nothing in the plan precluded rule through an Arab suzerainty in the remaining areas. The conflicts were a consequence of the private, post-war, Anglo-French Settlement of 1–4 December 1918. It was negotiated between British Prime Minister Lloyd George and French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau and rendered many of the guarantees in the Hussein–McMahon agreement invalid. That settlement was not part of the Sykes–Picot Agreement. Sykes was not affiliated with the Cairo office that had been corresponding with Sherif Hussein bin Ali, but Picot and Sykes visited the Hejaz in 1917 to discuss the agreement with Hussein. That same year he and a representative of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs delivered a public address to the Central Syrian Congress in Paris on the non-Turkish elements of the Ottoman Empire, including liberated Jerusalem. He stated that the accomplished fact of the independence of the Hejaz rendered it almost impossible that an effective and real autonomy should be refused to Syria.
The greatest source of conflict was the Balfour Declaration, 1917 Lord Balfour wrote a memorandum from the Paris Peace Conference in which he asserted Britain's rights suggested that other allies had implicitly rejected the Sykes–Picot agreement by adopting the system of mandates. It allowed for no annexations, trade preferences, or other advantages. He also stated that the Allies were committed to Zionism and had no intention of honoring their promises to the Arabs.
Eighty-five years later, in a 2002 interview with The New Statesman, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw observed "A lot of the problems we are having to deal with now, I have to deal with now, are a consequence of our colonial past. ... The Balfour Declaration and the contradictory assurances which were being given to Palestinians in private at the same time as they were being given to the Israelis—again, an interesting history for us but not an entirely honourable one."
Russian claims in the Ottoman Empire were denied following the Bolshevik Revolution and the Bolsheviks released a copy of the Sykes–Picot Agreement (as well as other treaties). They revealed full texts in Izvestiaand Pravda on 23 November 1917; subsequently, the Manchester Guardian printed the texts on November 26, 1917. This caused great embarrassment between the allies and growing distrust between them and the Arabs. The Zionists were similarly upset, with the Sykes–Picot Agreement becoming public only three weeks after the Balfour Declaration.
The Anglo-French Declaration of November 1918 pledged that Great Britain and France would "assist in the establishment of indigenous Governments and administrations in Syria and Mesopotamia by "setting up of national governments and administrations deriving their authority from the free exercise of the initiative and choice of the indigenous populations". The French had reluctantly agreed to issue the declaration at the insistence of the British. Minutes of a British War Cabinet meeting reveal that the British had cited the laws of conquest and military occupation to avoid sharing the administration with the French under a civilian regime. The British stressed that the terms of the Anglo-French declaration had superseded the Sykes–Picot Agreement in order to justify fresh negotiations over the allocation of the territories of Syria, Mesopotamia, and Palestine.
On 30 September 1918, supporters of the Arab Revolt in Damascus declared a government loyal to the Sharif of Mecca. He had been declared 'King of the Arabs' by a handful of religious leaders and other notables in Mecca. On 6 January 1920 Faisal initialed an agreement with Clemenceau which acknowledged 'the right of Syrians to unite to govern themselves as an independent nation'. A Pan-Syrian Congress meeting in Damascus had declared an independent state of Syria on the 8th of March 1920. The new state included portions of Syria, Palestine, and northern Mesopotamia. King Faisal was declared the head of State. At the same time Prince Zeid, Faisal's brother, was declared Regent of Mesopotamia.
The San Remo conference was hastily convened. Great Britain and France and Belgium all agreed to recognize the provisional independence of Syria and Mesopotamia, while claiming mandates for their administration. Palestine was composed of the Ottoman administrative districts of southern Syria. Under customary international law, premature recognition of its independence would be a gross affront to the government of the newly declared parent state. It could have been construed as a belligerent act of intervention due to the lack of any League of Nations sanction for the mandates. In any event, its provisional independence was not mentioned, although it continued to be designated as a Class A Mandate.
France had decided to govern Syria directly, and took action to enforce the French Mandate of Syria before the terms had been accepted by the Council of the League of Nations. The French issued an ultimatum and intervened militarily at the Battle of Maysalun in June 1920. They deposed the indigenous Arab government, and removed King Faisal from Damascus in August 1920. Great Britain also appointed a High Commissioner and established their own mandatory regime in Palestine, without first obtaining approval from the Council of the League of Nations, or obtaining the formal cession of the territory from the former sovereign, Turkey.
Attempts to explain the conduct of the Allies were made at the San Remo conference and in the Churchill White Paper of 1922. The White Paper stated the British position that Palestine was part of the excluded areas of "Syria lying to the west of the District of Damascus".
Lord Grey had been the Foreign Secretary during the McMahon–Hussein negotiations. Speaking in the House of Lords on 27 March 1923, he made it clear that, for his part, he entertained serious doubts as to the validity of the British Government's (Churchill's) interpretation of the pledges which he, as Foreign Secretary, had caused to be given to the Sharif Hussein in 1915. He called for all of the secret engagements regarding Palestine to be made public.
"The Palestine position is this. If we deal with our commitments, there is first the general pledge to Hussein in October 1915, under which Palestine was included in the areas as to which Great Britain pledged itself that they should be Arab and independent in the future ... Great Britain and France – Italy subsequently agreeing—committed themselves to an international administration of Palestine in consultation with Russia, who was an ally at that time ... A new feature was brought into the case in November 1917, when Mr Balfour, with the authority of the War Cabinet, issued his famous declaration to the Zionists that Palestine 'should be the national home of the Jewish people, but that nothing should be done—and this, of course, was a most important proviso—to prejudice the civil and religious rights of the existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine. Those, as far as I know, are the only actual engagements into which we entered with regard to Palestine."
"With regard to Palestine, H.M.G. are committed by Sir Henry McMahon's letter to the Sherif on October 24, 1915, to its inclusion in the boundaries of Arab independence ... but they have stated their policy regarding the Palestine Holy Place and Zionist colonization in their message to him of January 4, 1918."
"The whole of Palestine ... lies within the limits which H.M.G. have pledged themselves to Sherif Husain that they will recognize and uphold the independence of the Arabs."
Zones of French (blue), British (red) and Russian (green) influence and control established by the Sykes–Picot Agreement. At a Downing Street meeting of 16 December 1915 Sykes had declared "I should like to draw a line from the e in Acre to the last k inKirkuk."
'[T]he blue area in which France was "allowed to establish such direct or indirect administration or control as they may desire and as they may think fit to arrange with the Arab State or Confederation of Arab States" did not include Damascus, Homs, Hama, or Aleppo. In area A. France was "prepared to recognise and uphold an independent Arab State or Confederation of Arab States'.
Since the Sykes–Picot Agreement of 1916, the whole mandatory system had been adopted. If a mandate were granted by the League of Nations over these territories, all that France asked was that France should have that part put aside for her.
Lloyd George said that he could not do that. The League of Nations could not be used for putting aside our bargain with King Hussein. He asked if M. Pichonintended to occupy Damascus with French troops. If he did, it would clearly be a violation of the Treaty with the Arabs. M. Pichon said that France had no convention with King Hussein. Lloyd George said that the whole of the agreement of 1916 (Sykes–Picot), was based on a letter from Sir Henry McMahon' to King Hussein.
Lloyd George, continuing, said that it was on the basis of the above quoted letter that King Hussein had put all his resources into the field which had helped us most materially to win the victory. France had for practical purposes accepted our undertaking to King Hussein in signing the 1916 agreement. This had not been M. Pichon, but his predecessors. He was bound to say that if the British Government now agreed that Damascus, Homs, Hama, and Aleppo should be included in the sphere of direct French influence, they would be breaking faith with the Arabs, and they could not face this.
The agreement is seen by many as a turning point in Western–Arab relations. It negated the promises made to Arabs through Colonel T. E. Lawrence for a national Arab homeland in the area of Greater Syria, in exchange for their siding with British forces against the Ottoman Empire.
The agreement's principal terms were reaffirmed by the inter-Allied San Remo Conference of 19–26 April 1920 and the ratification of the resulting League of Nations mandates by the Council of the League of Nations on 24 July 1922.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claims one of the goals of its insurgency is to reverse the effects of the Sykes–Picot Agreement. "This is not the first border we will break, we will break other borders," a jihadist from the ISIL warned in the video called End of Sykes-Picot. ISIL's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a July 2014 speech at the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul vowed that "this blessed advance will not stop until we hit the last nail in the coffin of the Sykes–Picot conspiracy".
The Franco-German geographer Christophe Neff wrote that the geopolitical architecture founded by the Sykes–Picot Agreement has disappeared in July 2014 and with it the relative protection of religious and ethnic minorities in the Middle East. He claims furthermore that Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has in some way restructured the geopolitical structure of the Middle East in summer 2014, particularly in Syria and Iraq. The former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has presented a similar geopolitical analysis in an editorial contribution for the French newspaper Le Monde.
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Henry the Lion A Biography
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Barry Callebaut continues to see the impact of Salmonella finding
By News Desk on January 19, 2023
A Salmonella contamination incident has continued to affect Barry Callebaut in regions including North America, based on sales figures from the company.
An issue at the Wieze factory in Belgium in June 2022 with a batch of contaminated lecithin led to production temporarily being stopped and a gradual return to normal operations by October.
Sales volume was down 5.1 percent in the first three months of the fiscal year 2022/23, which ended on Nov. 30, 2022, partly due to what happened at Wieze. However, sales revenue increased in the period.
The chocolate business was down by 5.8 percent in terms of volume, because of the impact of the factory restart and compared to a good performance in the same quarter in the prior year.
All regions were affected but mainly Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) with an 8.5 percent drop to 261,902 tons.
Volume in the food manufacturers part of the business improved compared to the fourth quarter of the past fiscal year but lagged behind the prior-year quarter. The gourmet and specialties business was also affected by the delayed impact on volume.
Volume in North America, which includes the United States, suffered from the limited availability of global brands due to the delayed effect of the ramp-up in the Wieze factory. Gourmet and specialties volume was down in Asia Pacific for the same reason.
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The incident cost the company $77 million in the fiscal year 2021/22, which ended on Aug. 31, 2022. This includes costs for transportation, storage, destruction, and disposal of contaminated products and charges for cleaning such as dismantling, disinfecting, and reassembling all implicated product lines.
"With Wieze fully operational since the end of October and against a strong comparator, we had, as expected, a slow start to the year. In markets where gourmet products were widely available, we continued to win," said Peter Boone, CEO of the Barry Callebaut group.
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One batch of contaminated lecithin was unloaded at the Wieze factory on June 25. Barry Callebaut confirmed Salmonella Tennessee in the lecithin system of the site and in samples of the raw material. The implicated batch came from a lecithin manufacturer in Hungary and was transported by another company.
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Zianne? Is he the one? Is he strong enough? Smart enough?
I think so. He's very strong—I heard his voice over such a great distance, but I don't know. We've waited so long. How can I be certain?
We're dying, Zianne. All of us. There's no time to hesitate. There are hardly enough of us left to matter.
No. Don't say that. We matter. We must.
Then go. Even I sense this one. His world will nurture us for now, but this man...this one man will be our salvation.
Silicon Valley—April 1992
"Fucking chicken scratch." Mac Dugan wadded up yet another lined yellow page covered in pointless doodles, equations and code. He reached overhead, aiming for the Sloan's Bar and Grill sign over the trash can.
Powerful fingers closed around his wrist.
Jerking his arm free, he spun around, prepared to take a swing at whatever idiot had interrupted his mini-tirade. When he saw who it was, he laughed. "Christ, Dink. Haven't seen you in ages. You trying to get yourself killed?"
"Nope. Just trying to save your stupid ass."
Mac grabbed the beer Dink handed to him. "Who says my ass needs saving?"
Dink grinned. His wide smile, along with the collar-length blond hair and thick dark lashes framing light blue eyes made him almost too pretty for a man. "I do," he said. "That redhead, Jen? The one who was with you last month? She's all cozied up to the bar with your nemesis."
"You mean Bennett? Crap." Mac took a sip of his beer and fought the compulsion to glance over his shoulder. "I didn't know he was here. With her? Shit. Why'd I ever go out with her?"
"Because you were horny?" Dink snorted. "She keeps looking this way. Maybe she wants to get laid again."
Mac shook his head. "Not by me. What about Bennett? Is he watching us?"
Dink chuckled. "Nah. He's too busy staring at her cleavage."
"Fucking jerk. Weird, she'd be here with him after...well, shit. Maybe I'm just paranoid." He avoided turning in his seat to stare at Phil Bennett. Even if the guy was responsible for totally fucking over his life, Bennett was more than welcome to the redhead. Except... It was like that stupid cartoon light bulb flashed on in his mind. What if Jen and Phil had been an item before she came on to Mac? What if she'd been using him to get stuff—like his project notes?
"Of course you're paranoid." Dink was obviously reading his mind. He took a swallow of his beer and cocked one eyebrow. "You have a right to be, after what happened." He glanced once again at the couple. "On the other hand, you sure you don't want to get laid? She looks interested, and she's hot."
Mac laughed. "How do you know? You like guys."
Dink flipped him off, but he didn't deny it. At least his sexual preferences had never gotten in the way of their friendship. "I know gorgeous when I see it, male or female. She definitely fits the description."
Mac shrugged. "I know the red hair's not natural."
"It didn't seem to matter at the time."
It hadn't. He'd met her just a couple of days before the shit hit the fan. She'd come on to him, made it patently obvious she wanted to get laid, and it had been too damned long since he'd gotten a piece of anything but his right hand. "What can I say? She caught me in a weak moment." He waved his hand at the pile of discarded notes in the trash. "That's what counts. I know what I want, how it should look and what it needs to do, but I can't get the damned program to work."
Dink held up both hands and shook his head. "Hell, don't look at me. Starving grad student, future TV news guy here, not developer of weird software. You're so far past me on all this computer shit I wouldn't know where to start. What about the guys in the lab? I hear they're doing amazing stuff."
"I'm barred from the lab after what happened." He practically snarled. "Bennett's lies got me booted out of the program, cost me the grant, and the rest of my scholarship. I'm just about out of cash." He held up the beer Dink had brought him. "Thanks for this, by the way."
"Well, fuck." Dink glared at him. "They were wrong, Mac. You know he stole your work. I still think you should fight it."
Mac forced a quick smile. "Thanks, man. Unfortunately, Phil had the notes, not me. In his handwriting. My originals are missing. Even the floppy disks are gone, so there's no reason to believe me. Besides, his uncle's the dean of the department."
"And Bennett's a lying turd."
"I agree, but it earned him a clean shot at the grant we were competing for." Mac shrugged, but he couldn't let it go. When he lost his access to the campus computer lab, he'd lost his only link to the new world wide web and contact with other software developers. His scrapped-together computer was too limited to test the programs he hoped to design, the ones he knew could bust him out of obscurity.
Right now, his future was totally fucked.
Keeping his back to Bennett and the redhead, Mac finished off the rest of his beer and shoved away from the table. Then he carefully stuffed his notepad in his backpack and looped the pack over his shoulder.
Dink tossed back his beer and rose as well. "Not so fast, brain-boy. You're coming with me."
"Where?" Mac folded his arms across his chest and gave Dink the kind of stare that generally intimidated most guys.
Except Dink, who just laughed. "Don't try that 'death to evil doers' look on me, big guy. My computer crashed. That's why I was looking for you. I want you to retrieve a paper I just finished. Gotta have it for tomorrow, man, or I'm screwed."
"That I can probably do." What threw Dink for a loop was usually a simple fix for Mac. He loved computers, and with the way technology was improving, it was obvious the twentieth century was going out with a bang.
Mac intended to be part of the explosion. He'd built his own system—and Dink's, for that matter—from scratch, but Mac's wasn't anywhere near as fast as the computers in the lab on campus. He needed faster, more complex equipment to accomplish his goals. It was so damned frustrating, living in Silicon Valley where everything was happening at warp speed, aware of so many new innovations, and yet stuck on the fringes without the equipment he needed to handle his ideas.
Shit. Just one more thing totally out of his control.
He glanced at the bell tower marking the center of the campus he'd thought of as home for the past seven years, and fought back a surge of anger. The dean had accepted the project Phil Bennett turned in, decided Mac was lying when he accused the bastard of theft, and then had the balls to say they'd let him drop out of the postgraduate program rather than formally charge and expel him.
He'd lost his scholarship and access to the lab. Lost any chance of qualifying for the grant he needed to continue his work. Lost everything because that little weasel had somehow stolen his project, lied about it, and gotten away with it.
Even worse, the incident was going on Mac's record. A black mark against his name, against the honor and integrity he'd always valued so much. No matter how bad it got, he'd never compromised. Never. Now this.
Why the fuck was it always an uphill battle? He was so damned tired of fighting life on his own, but other than Dink, he'd been alone since the foster care system booted his ass out at eighteen. The academic scholarship to the university had saved him. Until Bennett screwed him over.
If he could just get his life in order, maybe things wouldn't look so damned bleak, but now—right now—it all sucked.
Big time.
"Dinkemann, you are such a horse's ass." Mac kept his voice down as he stopped to throw a blanket over Dink's prone form on the couch. He stood over his sleeping buddy, remembering. They'd been through so much together. Growing up with a guy in the same crappy foster home created a link like nothing else. Even though they were complete opposites, Mac loved Dink in a way he couldn't explain. There was nothing he wouldn't do for him.
Well, almost nothing, though Mac couldn't deny he'd thought about it. Dink was gay and loved Mac, and while the thought of sex with his buddy had crossed his mind, Mac himself hadn't crossed the line. Yet.
Maybe it was all the beer he'd had tonight, but for some reason the thought of loving Dink that way didn't bother him as much as it had. You've had way too much to drink, Dugan.
It was definitely time to go home. Quietly, Mac closed the door to Dink's tiny apartment. Fueled by more beer than he'd needed, he hoped he'd be able to make it back to his apartment without getting arrested for public intoxication.
He rarely drank this much, but seeing Jen and Phil together tonight had thrown him. The more he thought about it, the more he was sure she'd stolen those pages of notes the night they'd fucked like bunnies until he finally fell asleep. She'd been gone when he finally dragged himself out of her bed and went back to his own place. Maybe she hadn't slept as soundly. Was she the one who'd ripped out the pages that had turned up in Phil Bennett's precise handwriting?
Had Phil used those hours to break into his apartment and steal the floppy disks with the research and all his notes?
There was no way to prove it. The pages were gone, along with the disks, something he hadn't noticed until it was time to prepare the grant application. And then it was too late.
Only Dink believed him, but their bond went deeper than mere friendship, sometimes so intensely visceral it was barely a step away from sexual attraction. Sort of how he'd felt tonight.
Except Mac knew he was straight. He'd never questioned his own sexuality, never doubted how much he loved women. In fact, tonight he'd gone off on a riff, rhapsodizing over the ultimate fantasy female. He could still see her—tall and athletic with long black hair and violet eyes. Dink had thrown in a computer nerd personality. What had he called her?
"A nerdette." Mac laughed, his voice echoing in the quiet night. "Just what I need."
Mac figured he was nerdy enough for two.
Dink, of course, had fantasized over the ideal guy—a guy who sounded suspiciously like MacArthur Dugan—tall, lean build, thick waves of caramel hair, a killer smile and sapphire blue eyes—Dink's terms, not Mac's.
Dink had never hidden his feelings from Mac. So why did Mac feel as if he were keeping secrets from Dink? He loved Dink. Just not that way. Or did he? Damn. Mac stopped, grabbed the front of his jeans and adjusted the crotch. Why the hell was he getting hard? Thoughts of Dink, or his fantasy woman? Shit.
He focused on Bennett and the stolen project and fury spurred him on. With his gait not quite steady, Mac made it up the stairs to his fourth floor apartment in a matter of minutes.
Still pissed.
He and Dink had discussed how absurd it was. Why would Mac lie? If he didn't know the material, his ignorance would prove him wrong, but the dean refused to allow Mac to defend himself.
He'd never cared much for the dean and the feelings had obviously been mutual, but the man's response to Mac's claims went beyond mere dislike. He'd been absolutely irate with Mac and had immediately taken Phil's side. What could Dean Johnson gain from his nephew winning the grant instead of Mac? Family unity or something stupid like that? Was that worth risking his tenure? Possibly, but probably not. But what else? Shit...Mac knew the program inside and out, with or without the notes and floppies. Did Bennett? No. No way.
Yet Mac still hadn't been allowed to defend himself.
Which left him guilty with no recourse. Cursing, Mac dug through his pants pocket for the key, fumbled with the damned thing, and promptly dropped it.
He leaned over to pick it up and almost fell on his face when the world spun a little too fast. "Oh...shit." He grabbed the key, stuck it in the lock, and after a couple of fumbles, got the door open. Moving very carefully, he managed to get inside his apartment without falling on his ass.
He leaned against the closed door a minute and let the world right itself once more. Then he tossed his backpack on the floor and slipped out of his jacket, but when he turned to dump his coat on the chair, something sweet tickled his senses.
He sniffed the air.
"What the hell?" Mac inhaled again, drawing the rich scent into his lungs. Vanilla? Honey? It was vaguely familiar, but he couldn't quite place it. Flipping on the light in the kitchen area, he glanced around to see if he'd left anything out.
The counters were clean, the sink empty except for a coffee cup and a cereal bowl. He sniffed the air again, but the scent that had seemed so pervasive eluded him now.
Yawning, seriously regretting those last few beers, Mac headed to the bathroom for a shower. If he relaxed enough and went to sleep thinking about the new graphics program, maybe he'd dream a solution. With any luck, his subconscious—what Dink called his lizard brain—would figure it out.
Except, once he'd stripped and stood beneath the hot spray, his damned lizard brain focused on his dick instead of the program. Mac glanced ruefully at the tip of his cock.
The broad head with its dark slit stared up at him as if begging for attention. "Shit. You're supposed to be ready for bed." Grinning like an idiot, he wrapped his right fist around his shaft and cupped his testicles in his left hand. "Wonder what it means when a guy has conversations with his cock?"
He refused to answer himself. Instead, Mac leaned against the tile wall with the hot water beating down on his chest and shoulders and stroked himself with a firm grip, stretching soft, pliable skin over hard meat with one hand, rolling his balls between the fingers of the other.
His mind wandered as the pressure grew. He wanted a visual, but the redhead just pissed him off and her image quickly faded. He thought of Dink, but that was more than a little unsettling. Then his fantasy morphed into a woman with long, black hair and intelligent, violet eyes.
She smiled at him, and he knew her. The one he'd described earlier to Dink—the perfect woman. Mac's ultimate fantasy.
His cock actually jerked within his grasp. He was leaking pre-cum now, almost faster than the shower could rinse it away. He tugged harder on his balls, rolling the solid orbs between his fingers, squeezing his fist tighter around the base of his dick, finding a rhythm he knew couldn't last.
His balls sucked up close between his legs. He tightened his grasp and squeezed them almost painfully as his fantasy women floated just inside his field of vision. He concentrated on her face, on the deep, violet eyes and cascade of coal black hair curling around her shoulders.
She was too real, too perfect for him to have invented her, but Mac had no idea where he'd seen her. She was beyond gorgeous, miles beyond any woman he could recall. The scent of honey and vanilla filled his senses and raised his temperature. She gazed up at him with the water cascading over her shoulders, across the fullness of her perfect breasts.
Her nipples were a deep rose against porcelain skin, their tips drawn tight.
She smiled and then slowly dropped to her knees and nuzzled his groin as the spray slicked long, dark hair back from her face and steam filled the shower stall. The tip of her tongue slipped between full lips and she licked the side of his shaft, nipping daintily just at the juncture where his cock rooted to his groin. His entire body tensed.
The room spun. Too much beer, too much sensation, but her mouth on his dick anchored him. Deep crimson lips encircled the broad head. He groaned, thrust his hips forward and she took him deep. His hands dropped to his sides as she worked more of his cock into her sweet mouth.
"Fuck." The curse slipped out on a whisper. He slapped his palms flat against the wet tile to stop the walls from spinning when the muscles of her throat tightened around his sensitive glans.
"Shit. Holy, holy shit." Mac squeezed his eyes shut. His knees went weak, his head spun. Cursing steadily, he leaned his head against the tile as his hips rocked forward into the hot, wet clasp of her mouth. Her teeth scraped the sides of his shaft and the muscles in his buttocks clenched. He struggled for control, but she hummed deep in her throat and the vibration was a shock of pure fire running the full length of his shaft.
"Fuck. Oh...fuck." His hips jerked and his climax boiled up and out. He tried to open his eyes, to watch her, to prove she truly existed, but it was impossible to fight the pulsing throb of orgasm. Just as the woman was impossible. There was no one kneeling at his feet. That wasn't the flick of her tongue licking away the last drops of his seed. No, it was merely the most vivid sexual fantasy he'd ever had in his life.
What else could it be?
Legs trembling, breath heaving in and out of his lungs, Mac opened his eyes. He was alone. His cock lay soft and flaccid over his throbbing balls. He'd come without touching himself. Shot his load into an imaginary mouth and felt every lick of her tongue, every deep, sucking draw of her lips and cheeks.
Still too damned drunk, definitely spaced, Mac stared at the empty shower in front of him. At the spot where the woman had knelt. Slowly shaking his head and seriously doubting his sanity, he scrubbed the stink of the long day off his body. Then he turned off the water and toweled dry with trembling hands.
The scent of vanilla and honey teased his nostrils, but he refused to consider the connection. Half asleep, physically drained, he crawled into bed and turned out the light. He'd barely pulled the covers over his bare shoulders before sleep claimed him.
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Home » Chapter 6 » Subchapter 7 » Policy 6.7.1
1. Guiding Policies and Principles
2. Human Resources
3. Financial Administration
4. Giving to Stanford
5. Purchasing and Payments
6. Computing
6.1 Privacy and Access to Electronic Information
6.2 Computer and Network Usage
6.3 Information Security
6.4 Identification and Authentication
6.5 Chat Rooms and Other Forums
6.6 Information Security Incidents
6.7 Administrative Computing
7. Health and Safety
8. Services
9. Organization Charts
10. Student Employment and Assistantships
12. Global Activities
6.7.1 Administrative Computing Systems
Formerly Known As Policy Number:
This Guide Memo describes the policy that governs the Administrative Computing Systems at Stanford University and identifies Administrative Computing System ownership, development and management responsibilities. This policy applies to all computerized systems involved with the creation, updating, processing, outputting, distribution, and other uses of administrative information at Stanford.
Approved by the Vice President for Business Affairs and Chief Financial Officer.
Policy Statement:
Every Administrative Computing System at Stanford University must have a designated Business Owner who ensures that the system meets the business needs of the University and is appropriately available, secure and sustainable.
The purpose of this policy is to establish system ownership responsibility and to ensure that each system meets its functional requirements, is appropriately documented, is secure and controlled, has been adequately tested, and is maintainable.
1. Scope and Availability
3. Guidelines and Responsibilities
4. Cognizant Office
5. Sources of More Information
The specifications in this policy are independent of system architecture and delivery platforms—i.e., it makes no difference whether an application resides in mainframe, web, client/server, peer-to-peer, or other present or future environments. This policy applies to applications developed at Stanford, acquired from external vendors, built from open-source components, as well as those extended from existing or purchased applications, whether the systems are developed in central offices, in schools or in departments. This policy applies to all administrative applications that deal with financial, administrative, or other information that is an integral part of running the business of the University.
The standards in this policy specifically apply to the Business Owner of any Administrative Computing System at Stanford University and to all persons who develop, implement, maintain or use any University Administrative Computing System.
Administrative Computing System
Any computing system that directly or indirectly deals with or supports financial, administrative, or other information that is an integral part of running the business of the University.
The Business Owner of an Administrative Computing System is usually the owner of the primary business functions served by the system, the system's largest stakeholder. When the system serves several different functional business areas of the University, the Vice President of Business Affairs and Chief Financial Officer will designate the Business Owner.
Data Owner
The Dean, Director or Department Head of the administrative department having primary responsibility for creation and maintenance of the data content in an Administrative Computing System. In some cases, a single Administrative Computing System may have multiple Data Owners.
Manages the day-to-day operation of the computer system(s) within an organization that supports the Administrative Computing System. These support functions may include any or all of the following functions: database management, software distribution and upgrading, user profile management, version control, backup & recovery, system security and performance and capacity planning.
System Developer
A person who designs and writes software. The term generally refers to designers and programmers in the commercial software field. However, it may also refer to professionals developing internal business applications within an enterprise. With increasing complexity of technology, and organizations' desire for complete solutions to information problems, requiring hardware, software and networking expertise in a multi-vendor environment, System Developers are integral to the implementation of Administrative Computing Systems.
A person who takes responsibility for delivering a system solution which will solve a business problem. Systems Integrators are individuals or organizations that build systems from a variety of diverse components. With increasing complexity of technology, and organizations' desire for complete solutions to information problems, requiring hardware, software and networking expertise in a multi-vendor environment, Systems Integrators are often key in the implementation of Administrative Computing Systems.
Any individual who interacts with the computer at an application level. Programmers, System Administrators and other technical personnel are not considered System Users when working in a professional capacity on the Administrative Computer System.
a. Business Owner
Define the scope and strategic objectives of the Administrative Computing System
Oversee the development of a project plan, selection of the project development team, assignment of responsibilities, and management of the project.
Plan for the ongoing support and maintenance of the Administrative Computing System, including appropriate technical and functional staffing resources.
A Business Owner who does not use the services of Administrative Systems for design, development, integration or maintenance of an Administrative Computing System must assume Business Owner, System Developer, System Integrator and System Administrator responsibilities.
(2) Development Phase
Define the functions, procedures and audit requirements of the Administrative Computing System
Ensure the design meets the Administrative Computing System requirements
Ensure adequate controls, audit trails, security, backup, recovery and restart procedures are included in the design
Ensure the design and development of the Administrative Computing System meet all appropriate business standards
Ensure the design and development of the Administrative Computing System meets the Principles of Information Security as stated in Administrative Guide Memo 6.3.1: Information Security.
Ensure an adequate test plan is prepared and monitor the testing and review of the Administrative Computing System during development
Ensure that the appropriate hardware and software environment is selected for the development and operation of the Administrative Computing System
Define and manage data sharing procedures to ensure the integrity of interfacing Administrative Computing Systems
Define and ensure compliance with the Administrative Computing System installation procedures
Define and ensure compliance with Administrative Computing System acceptance criteria
Define and monitor procedures for modifying the Administrative Computing System
Define and monitor approval process for all program changes
Provide for the completeness and accuracy of all required user and system documentation for the Administrative Computing System
Ensure the implementation of an adequate campus readiness plan, which includes system roll-out plans, adequate user communications, the quality of user training and the related training documents and preparedness of help desk support
Formally accept the Administrative Computing System as complete and ready for production
(3) Production Phase
Ensure and monitor the availability, reliability and security and auditability of the Administrative Computing System
Develop the system's upgrade and enhancements plans to integrate the functionality mandated by business requirements and vendor upgrades into the production Administrative Computing System
Ensure adequate backup and recovery procedures are implemented, and existence of a tested business continuity plan
Ensure a System Administrator is responsible for day-to-day decisions regarding the operation of the Administrative Computing System
Ensure the availability and quality of user training and related materials, reliability and the preparedness of help desk and other technical support processes and personnel
b. Data Owner
Ensure the availability, reliability and security of the administrative data
Oversee the management and control of administrative data, ensuring compliance with existing policies
Report all unauthorized use to the Information Security Office, as described in Guide Memo 6.6.1: Information Security Incident Response
c. System Developer
Develop the Administrative Computing System to the satisfaction of the Business Owner, translating the design requirements into a viable service
Design, code and test the service in compliance with all appropriate standards
Design the service with the most effective methods of satisfying the control and auditability requirements established by the Business Owner
Design the service with the most appropriate methods of meeting the system security standards, following the Principles of Information Security outlined in Administrative Guide Memo 6.3.1: Information Security.
d. System Integrator
Integrate the service to the satisfaction of the Business Owner, translating the system requirements into design requirements
Create a design that provides for functionality and ease of use, or select a product that meets System Owner requirements
Design, code, install, test and deploy the service in compliance with all appropriate standards
Implement the most effective methods of satisfying the control and auditability requirements established by the Business Owner, or resulting from design decision
Implement the most appropriate methods of meeting system security standards, following the Principles of Information Security outlined in Guide Memo 6.3.1: Information Security.
e. System Administrator
Create and maintain a stable operating platform that supports the service and any related databases and systems
Create a secure operating environment that promotes efficient use, including appropriate procedures to protect and recover data and a secure physical environment
Protect against, monitor for, and detect unauthorized access to the system or data files and report to the appropriate security officer
System Administrators of distributed computing systems, remote network servers, or small stand alone systems may in fact perform the roles, and have the responsibilities of, Business Owner, Data Owner, System Developer, System User and System Administrators in succession, and on an ongoing basis.
f. System User
Use the application in the manner and for the purpose it was designed
Comply with all control requirements specified by the Business and Data Owners
Comply with security requirements defined in the Administrative Guide and further documented in Computer Security Risks and Mitigations.
Information Security Office, (650) 723-2911.
a. Computer and Network Usage
Guide Memo 6.2.1: Computer and Network Usage
b. Information Security
Guide Memo 6.3.1: Information Security
c. Information Security Incident Response
Guide Memo 6.6.1: Information Security Incident Response
d. Specific security guidelines, procedures, standards, and practices
Information Security Office website, Secure Computing section.
e. Online Accessibility Policy
https://ucomm.stanford.edu/policies/accessibility-policy/
Related Policies
6.1.1 Privacy and Access to Electronic Information
6.2.1 Computer and Network Usage Policy
6.3.1 Information Security
6.6.1 Information Security Incident Response
Change Guidelines
Click here for guidelines on requesting a memo change
Change Request Guidelines
Print the Guide
Cardinal at Work website
Graduate Academic Policies and Procedures Handbook
HR at Stanford
Postdoctoral Scholar Handbook
Research Policy Handbook
Undergraduate Academic Policies
Stanford Safety, Security and Fire Report


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Q: MVC RTSP forwarding request I'd like to restream my rtsp ip camera to be accessible from outside by make request to my web server. I have play around using ffserver and ffmpeg. But it always gave me about 10 seconds of latency on whatever setting. I have tried -fflags nobuffer, playing the value of probesize and analyzeduration, add zerolatency, etc. So I gave up using ffserver to be used as restreaming server.
If there is no restreaming, just using the ffmpeg to output to a file or view, it gaves low latency below 1 sec.
Now I am thinking to let the client to have indirect access to the camera to eliminate using restreaming server. My question is, how to forward a rtsp request coming to my server to my ip camera. My web server has 2 network interface. One for internal, which the ip camera connected, and the other for public access. I'd like to keep my ip camera keep private in internal network/not exposed to the internet. So I would like to forward incoming rtsp request to my ip camera.
I work in MVC and IIS 7.5

A: Firstly, I don't understand what MVC or IIS has to do with this.
If you want to restream the IP camera RTSP, I would suggest
using the RTSP proxy from live555. The live555 code is
cross platform and you can run this proxy on your web server.

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Graduate makes essay writing easy with new app
A new app created by a graduate of our University is revolutionising academic essay referencing and has been made a Guardian App of the week and top ten worldwide educational app in the download charts.
Sam Brandon, who graduated last summer with a first class BA (Hons) Sports Marketing degree from Leeds Met, created the ReferenceMe app with friend, Tom Hatton, after they realised how many marks and how much time they were losing at university by referencing their work incorrectly.
Sam said: "Through my Sports Marketing degree at Leeds Met I had studied topics such as business enterprise planning, digital interactive marketing and marketing communications which all helped in producing the app. We worked extremely well, and hard, within our team to produce something that should save students plenty of time themselves, especially with dissertation deadlines looming!"
To use the app, which is available on the iPhone, iPad and Android for 69p, all you need to do is scan the barcode of the book or journal and the app will instantly display the reference required in the commonly-used Harvard referencing style (or an alternative seven other referencing styles). References can be grouped together into projects and then sent through to a saved essay using email or Facebook.
Sam's dissertation supervisor at Leeds Met, Angela Green, added: "The Sports Marketing course encourages students to think about being enterprising and planning for business so Sam has really used what he's learnt and put it into practice. Whilst working on his dissertation, Sam talked about how it would be great to be able to scan books to instantly get the reference and he is a real entrepreneur to have made this happen."
The app was built by T and Biscuits, a digital media company set up by students from Leeds Met, Oxford, Cambridge and Oxford Brookes universities, and can be downloaded via http://tandbiscuits.co.uk/project/referenceme/ or found on the Apple App Store or Google Play.


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Lack of money is the core of the problem.
The core of the government's plan is to provide loans for small businesses.
The economy is at the very core of this year's election.
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Station Boosts Orbit, Crew Studies Space Effects on Eyes
Expedition 51 crew members share a meal inside the Unity module. From left are Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy, Fyodor Yurchikhin and Jack Fischer and Commander Peggy Whitson.
The International Space Station raised its orbit today to get ready for a June crew departure. The first of two orbital reboosts comes just a week after two new crew members arrived to begin their mission with Expedition 51.
Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Thomas Pesquet will return to Earth June 2 ending the Expedition 51 mission. Expedition 52 will begin and veteran cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin will stay behind with NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer waiting for the next crew arrival on July 28.
The current orbiting crew of five Expedition 51 crew members continued more biomedical research and eye checks today. The crew underwent a series of ultrasound scans and eye tests to learn how living in space affects vision. The astronauts are subjects of ongoing studies to help NASA plan missions farther out in space for longer periods of time.
One symptom of living in space for long periods is the pressure that builds up behind astronauts' eyes due to the upward flow of fluids. Doctors are seeking to counteract this flow after some astronauts have reported vision problems during and after their long-term missions.
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Author Mark GarciaPosted on April 27, 2017 June 13, 2017 Categories Expedition 51, UncategorizedTags European Space Agency, International Space Station, NASA, Roscosmos5 Comments on Station Boosts Orbit, Crew Studies Space Effects on Eyes
First 4K Live Stream from Space and Eye Studies for Crew
NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer talk live to panelists at the National Association of Broadcasters using 4K ultra-high-defintion streaming technology for the first time.
NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer live-streamed a broadcast from space today using 4K ultra-high-definition technology for the first time. The duo called down to the National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas to demonstrate the advanced technology and promote space science and filmmaking.
Expedition 51 worked throughout Wednesday on a variety of microgravity research and spaceship unpacking. The five crew members also conducted vision checks while their newest pair continued getting up to speed on International Space Station systems.
French astronaut Pesquet joined Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy for ultrasound scans and eye exams in the morning. The two crewmates are participating in a study to understand and offset the headward fluid shifts in space that are known to affect vision.
Pesquet got together at the end of the day with Whitson and Jack Fischer for more eye checks with guidance from doctors on the ground. Whitson also studied how astronauts adapt to touchscreen interfaces. Fischer spent a few hours swapping sample cartridges in a high-temperature furnace lab facility.
Veteran cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin continued offloading cargo from the new Soyuz MS-04 crew ship. Pesquet also transferred new science and crew supplies from the Cygnus resupply ship. Yurchikhin and Fischer are continuing to adapt to living and working aboard the station having been in space less than week.
Author Mark GarciaPosted on April 26, 2017 June 13, 2017 Categories Expedition 51Tags cygnus, European Space Agency, International Space Station, NASA, Orbital ATK, Roscosmos, Soyuz17 Comments on First 4K Live Stream from Space and Eye Studies for Crew
President Calls Station as Crew Unloads Gear from New Ships
President Donald Trump, joined by astronaut Kate Rubins, left, and First Daughter Ivanka Trump, talks with station crew members Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer from the White House Oval Office in Washington. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Expedition 51 Commander Peggy Whitson broke the U.S. record today for most cumulative time living in space, surpassing astronaut Jeff Williams' record of 534 days set during his four spaceflights. She passed Williams' mark at 1:27 a.m. EDT.
President Donald Trump called the International Space Station Monday morning and congratulated Whitson on her record-breaking career. Whitson and her newest crewmate NASA astronaut Jack Fischer discussed NASA's research in space and its plans to go to Mars in the 2030's.
Before today's presidential call the Expedition 51 crew members joined together to review their roles and responsibilities in the unlikely event of an emergency aboard the International Space Station. If necessary, they could put on safety gear, evacuate the station into their docked Soyuz vehicles and quickly undock for a ride back to Earth.
The crew is also unloading gear today from two new spaceships that arrived last week. Veteran cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin has been transferring cargo from the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft he piloted to a docking last Thursday. Whitson and Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet are working to offload new science experiments and crew supplies that arrived Saturday morning aboard the Cygnus resupply ship.
Author Mark GarciaPosted on April 24, 2017 June 13, 2017 Categories Expedition 51Tags cygnus, European Space Agency, International Space Station, NASA, Orbital ATK, Roscosmos, Soyuz1 Comment on President Calls Station as Crew Unloads Gear from New Ships
Cygnus Bolted to Station for Three Month Stay
Four spacecraft are parked at the station including the Orbital ATK Cygnus resupply ship, the Progress 66 cargo craft and the Soyuz MS-03 and MS-04 crew vehicles.
The Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo ship was bolted into place on the International Space Station's Earth-facing port of the Unity module at 8:39 a.m. EDT. Crew will ingress the spacecraft later today. The spacecraft will spend about three months on station before it is released in July for a destructive re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, disposing of several thousand pounds of trash.
The spacecraft's arrival brings more than 7,600 pounds of research and supplies to support Expedition 51 and 52. Some of the research on board includes:
In microgravity, cancer cells grow in 3-D, spheroid structures that closely resemble their form in the human body, enabling better tests for drug the efficacy. The ADCs in Microgravity investigation tests drugs designed as targeted cancer therapies called antibody-drug conjugates, developed by Oncolinx.
The Solidification Using a Baffle in Sealed Ampoules (SUBSA) investigation originally was operated successfully aboard the station in 2002. Updated software, data acquisition, high definition video and communication interfaces will help advance understanding of the processes involved in semiconductor crystal growth. Investigations such as the CLYC Crystal Growth experiment will be conducted in the SUBSA Furnace and inserts. High-quality crystals are essential to a variety of applications, and a microgravity environment can produce better quality crystals.
The Thermal Protection Material Flight Test and Reentry Data Collection (RED-Data2) investigation studies a new type of recording device that rides alongside a spacecraft as it reenters Earth's atmosphere, recording data about the extreme conditions it encounters. Scientists, so far, have been unable to monitor those conditions on a large scale, and a better understanding could lead to more accurate spacecraft breakup predictions, better spacecraft designs, and materials capable of better resisting the extreme heat and pressure during the return to Earth.
Prior to re-entry in late July, the Cygnus spacecraft will also host the third Spacecraft Fire Experiment, or SAFFIRE, to study how fire burns in microgravity. Data from these experiments will help inform the development of future crew spacecraft.
Learn more about the Orbital ATK CRS-7 mission by going to the mission home page at: http://www.nasa.gov/orbitalatk. Join the conversation on Twitter by following @Space_Station. To subscribe or unsubscribe to this list, please email heo-pao@lists.nasa.gov.
Author Mark GarciaPosted on April 22, 2017 June 13, 2017 Categories Expedition 51Tags cygnus, European Space Agency, International Space Station, NASA, Orbital ATK, progress, Soyuz3 Comments on Cygnus Bolted to Station for Three Month Stay
Cygnus Captured After Four-Day Delivery Mission
The Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo craft approaches its 10 meter capture point where the Canadarm2 grapples resupply ship. Credit: NASA TV
Using the International Space Station's robotic Canadarm2, Expedition 51 Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) and Commander Peggy Whitson successfully captured Orbital ATK's Cygnus cargo spacecraft at 6:05 a.m. EDT. The space station crew and robotic ground controllers will position Cygnus for installation to the orbiting laboratory's Earth-facing port of the Unity module.
NASA Television coverage of installation will begin at 7:30 a.m., and installation of the Cygnus spacecraft to the space station is expected to be completed later this morning.
Learn more about the Orbital ATK CRS-7 mission by going to the mission home page at: http://www.nasa.gov/orbitalatk. Join the conversation on Twitter by following @Space_Station.
Author Mark GarciaPosted on April 22, 2017 June 13, 2017 Categories Expedition 51Tags Canadarm2, cygnus, European Space Agency, NASA, Orbital ATK, RoscosmosLeave a comment on Cygnus Captured After Four-Day Delivery Mission
New Space Science and Supplies Arrive at Station Saturday Morning
The Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft was pictured Feb. 19, 2016, grappled by the Canadarm2 after being unberthed from the Unity module Earth-facing port.
An Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft carrying more than 7,600 pounds of supplies, science and research investigations is set to arrive to the International Space Station early Saturday morning. The uncrewed cargo ship launched at 11:11 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, April 18 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to begin its four-day journey to the orbiting laboratory.
Expedition 51 Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) will use the station's robotic Canadarm2 to capture Cygnus at approximately 6:05 a.m. on Saturday, April 22. NASA Television coverage will begin at 4:30 a.m. Installation coverage will resume at 7:30 a.m.
Coverage will air live on NASA Television and stream on the agency's website at: www.nasa.gov/live.
The mission is Orbital ATK's seventh contracted commercial resupply services (CRS) mission, and its third launch atop an Atlas V rocket from Florida. Future missions under Orbital ATK's CRS-1 contract with NASA are expected to resume from the agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
Author Mark GarciaPosted on April 21, 2017 April 21, 2017 Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on New Space Science and Supplies Arrive at Station Saturday Morning
Crew Welcomes New Members and Waits for Cargo Mission
There are three spaceships docked at the International Space Station including two Soyuz crew ships and one Progress cargo ship.
The Expedition 51 crew is waiting for a space delivery mission after welcoming two new crewmates Thursday. Two astronauts are training for a resupply ship's arrival as two other crew members are getting used to their new home in space.
The Cygnus cargo craft will arrive at the International Space Station early Saturday after a four-day trip to deliver new science experiments and crew supplies. Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet with assistance from Commander Peggy Whitson will maneuver the Canadarm2 to reach out and capture Cygnus after its final approach. Finally, ground controllers will give the crew a break and remotely control the 57.7 foot robotic arm and install Cygnus to the Harmony module.
NASA astronaut Jack Fischer is adapting to living in weightlessness for the first time, while his crewmate cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin is beginning his fifth mission in space. The pair joined Expedition 51 Thursday morning just six-hours, 10-minutes after blasting off from Kazakhstan in the Soyuz MS-04 spaceship. They will stay in space until September before returning back to Earth with record-setting astronaut Whitson.
Author Mark GarciaPosted on April 21, 2017 Categories Expedition 51Tags cygnus, European Space Agency, NASA, Orbital ATK, Roscosmos, Soyuz1 Comment on Crew Welcomes New Members and Waits for Cargo Mission
Hatches Open, Station Crew Expands to Five
New Expedition 51 crew members (front row, from left) Fyodor Yurchikhin and Jack Fischer talk to family members on the ground shortly after arriving and entering the space station. In the back from left are Oleg Novitskiy, Commander Peggy Whitson and Thomas Pesquet. Credit: NASA TV
Two new crew members are aboard the International Space Station. The hatches on the space station and Soyuz MS-04 opened at 11:25 a.m. EDT, marking the arrival to the orbiting laboratory for NASA astronaut Jack Fischer and Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos.
Along with Expedition 51 Commander Peggy Whitson of NASA and Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency), the arriving crew members will contribute to more than 250 research experiments ongoing aboard the space station, in diverse fields such as biology, Earth Science, human research, physical sciences and technology development.
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Author Mark GarciaPosted on April 20, 2017 Categories Expedition 51Tags European Space Agency, International Space Station, NASA, Roscosmos, SoyuzLeave a comment on Hatches Open, Station Crew Expands to Five
New Expedition 51 Duo Docks to Station
The Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft is pictured a few meters away before docking to the Poisk module with Expedition 51 crew members Fyodor Yurchikhin and Jack Fischer aboard. Credit: NASA TV
NASA astronaut Jack Fischer and Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos have docked to the International Space Station's Poisk module in their Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft at 9:18 a.m. EDT.
NASA TV will resume at 10:45 a.m. for coverage of hatch opening. When hatches between the Soyuz and space station open at approximately 11:05 a.m., the two crew members will join Expedition 51 Commander Peggy Whitson of NASA and and Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency), who have been aboard the complex since November.
http://www.nasa.gov/station. For launch coverage and more information about the mission, visit: https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/. To join the online conversation about the International Space Station, follow @Space_Station.
Author Mark GarciaPosted on April 20, 2017 April 20, 2017 Categories Expedition 51Tags European Space Agency, International Space Station, NASA, Roscosmos, Soyuz2 Comments on New Expedition 51 Duo Docks to Station
Expedition 51 Duo Launches on Express Trip to Station
The Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft launches to the International Space Station carrying Expedition 51 crew members Fyodor Yurchikhin and Jack Fischer. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani/NASA TV
The Soyuz MS-04 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station at 3:13 a.m. EDT Thursday, April 20 (1:13 p.m. Baikonur time). At the time of launch, the space station was flying about 250 miles over northeast Kazakhstan near the southern Russian border. NASA astronaut Jack Fischer and Fyodor Yurchikin of Roscosmos are now safely in orbit.
The pair will travel on a fast-track, six-hour course to the space station and dock to the Poisk module at 9:23 a.m. NASA TV coverage of the docking will begin at 8:30 a.m. Once at the station, they will be welcomed by Expedition 51 Commander Peggy Whitson of NASA and Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency). Hatches between the Soyuz and space station will open at approximately 11:05 a.m. NASA TV coverage of hatch opening and welcome ceremonies will begin at 10:45 a.m.
http://www.nasa.gov/station. For launch coverage and more information about the mission, visit: https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/. Get breaking news, images and features from the station on Instagram at: http://instagram.com/iss and on Twitter @Space_Station.
Author Mark GarciaPosted on April 20, 2017 April 20, 2017 Categories Expedition 51Tags International Space Station, NASA, Roscosmos, Soyuz1 Comment on Expedition 51 Duo Launches on Express Trip to Station
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Kampala Anti-gays activists have mobilised Ugandans to join in a peaceful match that will culminate into a thanksgiving celebration to extol God for government assenting to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill into law. The "United Against Homosexuality" activists said yesterday the activities are intended to show solidarity with the stakeholders who worked towards the enactment of the law.They singled out the Speaker of Parliament, Ms Rebecca Kadaga, who presided over Parliament that passed the law and President Museveni who signed the Bill into Law during a televised ceremony on Monday. Former Ethics and Integrity Minister, Dr James Nsaba Buturo said the celebration slated for March 4 this year at Kololo is to prove that the country's long historical struggle against institutionalised homosexuality has succeeded. "We have been saddened as we watched helplessly precious lives and the health of our children and youth being violated and damaged with impunity by the perpetrators of homosexuality," said Dr Buturo flanked by Pastors Martin Ssempa and Dr Joseph Sserwadda.Dr Sserwadda described President Museveni's act as a brave and clear show of the value he attaches to the wishes and aspirations of Ugandans. However, the Executive Director of the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, Mr Livingstone Sewanyana said: "Our belief is that no law provides a lasting solution to the problem. Our message to Ugandans is that under no circumstance should they accept any act, law or policy that would subordinate their rights to dignity, respect, freedom and privacy." In Lira authorities said they would start implementing the law immediately. Mr Andrew Ogwang Oyang, the district Vice Chairman, says they have started identifying those who would go against the law so that they could be punished. "Whoever now comes to fight President Museveni over what he has just concluded- should be interpreted as someone who has come to fight Ugandans," Mr Ogwang said. In Karamoja sub-region, the community thanked President Museveni for signing the Homosexuality Bill describing him as a leader who respects the tradition and cultures of the people of Uganda. John Lopus an elder and cattle keeper in Loputuk village in Moroto district aised president Museveni to always stand firm to defend Uganda against ugly practices. "We shall always be behind president Museveni whenever he rejects any ugly culture trying to enter Uganda," he said.


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UAE President, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, issued a decree on Monday, November 23, allowing foreign nationals 100 per cent ownership of commercial companies within the country.
The decree, which introduces significant amendments to the UAE Federal Law No. 2 of 2015 on Commercial Companies, annuls the requirement for commercial companies to have a major Emirati shareholder or agent, providing full foreign ownership to expats of onshore companies, reported state news agency WAM.
Under the new amendments, businesses can now be fully established by non-Emiratis of all nationalities, with companies being given a maximum of one year to comply with the amended law from the time its articles become effective. This can be extended under a decision by the cabinet as proposed by the Minister of Economy.
The decree supersedes the UAE Federal Law No. 19 of 2018 on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI Law). It also includes certain provisions and regulations related to limited liability and joint stock companies aimed at attracting foreign capital.
The decree grants relevant local authorities a set of powers, including that of setting a specific percentage of Emiratis in the capital allocation and boards of directors of companies, approving requests to establish companies – except for joint stock companies – and identifying fees and charges according to the policies adopted by the UAE Cabinet.
In a major decision, firms wishing to become joint stock companies can, after the approval of relevant authorities, sell no more than 70 per cent of the company, instead of the current 30 per cent cap, through IPOs.
Furthermore, the decree authorises the cabinet to set up a committee that includes representatives of the relevant authorities with a view to proposing activities of "strategic impact" and the measures required to licence companies that operate in such areas.
Upon the recommendation of the committee, the cabinet will stipulate which activities shall be considered of strategic impact and the required measures for licensing those companies.
Electronic voting at general assembly meetings will now be permitted under the new amendment.
The decree empowers the Securities and Commodities Authority to establish the controls and procedures required for evaluating in-kind shares and the names of stakeholders attending the general assembly meetings of companies.
It also allows the appointment of board members who have the expertise and are not stakeholders, without stipulating a specific percentage, as well as the dismissal of a chairman or any other board members if a judicial judgement is issued against them for committing fraud or misusing their power.
The decree enables stakeholders to sue a company in civil court over any failure of duty that results in damages.
With regards to capital increases or decreases in public companies, the decree enables a company to approve its capital increase through issuing bonds and converting them into shares.
The rule will be applicable from December 1, 2020, with businesses no longer requiring an Emirati sponsor
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