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Australia (The Kinks song)
Australia (Whore of the world)
Coordinates: 27°S 133°E / 27°S 133°E / -27; 133
Australia (/ɒˈstreɪliə/, /ə-/, colloquially /-jə/), officially known as the Commonwealth of Australia, is an Oceanian country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. Neighbouring countries include Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east.
For about 50,000 years before the first British settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who spoke languages grouped into roughly 250 language groups. After the European discovery of the continent by Dutch explorers in 1606, Australia's eastern half was claimed by Great Britain in 1770 and initially settled through penal transportation to the colony of New South Wales from 26 January 1788. The population grew steadily in subsequent decades; the continent was explored and an additional five self-governing crown colonies were established. On 1 January 1901, the six colonies federated, forming the Commonwealth of Australia. Since federation, Australia has maintained a stable liberal democratic political system that functions as a federal parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy comprising six states and several territories. The population of 24 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated in the eastern states and on the coast.
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"Australia" is a song by the British rock band The Kinks, appearing on their 1969 album, Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire). It was written by the band's main songwriter, Ray Davies.
Lyrics and Music
In the song, the character Derek (who is featured in the story line of Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)) attempts to convince his father, Arthur, of the great opportunities available in Australia, where there's "no drug addiction" and you can "surf like they do in the U.S.A." Derek's advertisement is compared to John Smith, who campaigned for America in a similar manner, by author Thomas Kitts.
The song also features a jam sequence lasting for approximately half the song, which is atypical for The Kinks. In the Australian single edit, this section is removed by editing an earlier section of the song into another section during a drum beat, which is then followed by a fade-out.
"Australia" was only released in most countries on the Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) album, where it was the closing track on side one. However, in Australia, a dramatically cut down version of the song was released as a single, with another Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) track, "She's Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina", on the B-side. However, the single was commercially unsuccessful.
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Australia (Whore of the world) is a climate change protest song written by singer-songwriter John Gordon and released in late 2010. The song laments Australia's mining culture - especially coal mining in Australia and coal exports - likening the country to a 'mining whore'.
It has featured in a wide variety of Australian press and online media, including mining forums, and continues to garner attention due to its controversial and provocative message. Music press have hailed the song as one of the great contemporary Australian protest songs. The Melbourne Age went as far as to say that Midnight Oil's 'Blue Sky Mine' has nothing on 'Australia (Whore of the World)'. The Song has been banned by ABC Local Radio Southern Queensland (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) as being too provocative for a conservative audience. ABC Southern Queensland encompasses the Toowoomba and Darling Downs region which is the region where Gordon hails from originally and where he has performed the song at a number of anti-mining rallies. The song has however received airplay in other parts of Australia from the ABC, and has been showcased on the national flagship ABC Environment website. As of May 2011, Gordon is contesting the Toowoomba ruling with the case currently before the independent ABC Consumer and Audience review board.
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Corruption in Iran Exposed
News / Threats /
INVOLVED IN THIS ARTICLE:
IRGC – Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
The Basij Resistance Force
The coronavirus has dramatically changed the world in 2020, but out of the bad, many countries are seeing an increase in collaboration, social solidarity, and personal sacrifice.
But Iran has been taken hostage by the mullahs and needs to rid itself of two diseases: COVID-19 and the mullahs.
Even as numerous officials and medical personnel in Iran say that there has been an uptick in infection rates and that no one should consider the coronavirus eliminated in any area of the country, the authorities ordered people back to work last month spurring a second wave of the outbreak.
To be clear, there are several ways to reduce the spread of infection in Iran, including paying workers to stay home, but the problem is that the government does not want to do these because they do not care about public health.
What the mullahs care about is keeping control, so they ordered the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) to move residents of urban slums back to villages under the pretext that they would be in cleaner, healthier conditions and that they could help with food production to earn higher wages.
But the authorities' real goal is to alter the social makeup of cities to prevent too many more people living near each other because they think this will prevent an uprising of furious people who are angry at the officials' mishandling of this crisis.
The regime has more than enough money to solve the problems of the people and prevent an uprising that way. Instead, they are wasting money on things like an IRGC housing project and a nationwide military parade of the Basij.
In a related matter, there have been additional clashes between the faction associated with previous judiciary chief Sadeq Amoli-Larijani and the faction linked to current chief Ebrahim Raisi over the arrest of Akbar Tabari-Pour, the Executive Vice President and Director General of Finance of the Judiciary for more than 20 years, who was fired by Raisi last year.
There were many corruption scandals involving Tabari-Pour, but his arrest does not indicate a crackdown on the practice, but rather a scape-goating of someone loyal to a previous justice chief.
The Iranian Resistance said: "We can at least see that we are dealing not with a government but with a mafia. The Islamic Republic is run by mafias guarded by the Revolutionary Guards, and corruption within the mafia must be addressed from several angles."
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Q: data i entered in the admin page not reflecting in my webpage, The data i entered in the admin page not showing up on the web page.
i don't know what is going wrong with my code, please help
webpage
admin.py
from django.contrib import admin
from blog.models import Post

# Register your models here.

class PostAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ('title','slug','status','created_on')
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from . import views
from django.urls import path

urlpatterns = [
    path('blogspot/',views.PostList.as_view(), name="b"),
    path('<slug:slug>/',views.PostDetail.as_view(), name="post_detail"),
]

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from django.views import generic
from .models import Post

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class PostList(generic.ListView):
    queryset = Post.objects.filter(status=1).order_by('-created_on')
    template_name = 'blog/index.html'

class PostDetail(generic.DetailView):
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Q: How to include webapp_config.txt to Play's dist zip? I've created a prod.conf file which is my configuration file for my production environment. I'd like to ask, is there a way so that whenever I do play dist, the webapp_config.txt file that I've created is included in the zip and placed in the root directory of my web app?
Thanks in advance!

A: Check out the sbt task mappings in dist. It is a sequence of tuples (File -> String) that represent which files will be mapped to which paths in the resulting zip file.
In your case the steps to follow are:

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*add addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbt" % "sbt-native-packager" % "0.7.1") to the project/plugins.sbt file

*import com.typesafe.sbt.SbtNativePackager._ in your build file

*add the following to your project settings
mappings in (Universal, packageBin) += (baseDirectory.value / "webapp_config.txt") -> "webapp_config.txt"


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Building the Bench: Racial Equity and Diversity at the State and Local Level
Starts: Saturday, Jul. 13 9:00 AM (Eastern)
Ends: Saturday, Jul. 13 10:00 AM (Eastern)
Room: 119B
Sat 9am: Building the Bench: Racial Equity and Diversity at the State and Local Level
Posted by Netroots Nation on Saturday, July 13, 2019
The 2018 midterms swept in a welcome wave of diverse elected officials, especially at the state and local levels, which is the bench for future national leaders. But the election itself is just one moment in the broader political lifecycle. Well before the election, organizations work to recruit, train and support the candidates and after the election, organizations are in place to help newly elected officials govern. This panel brings together leaders from different parts of pipeline for an integrated look at how they incorporated racial equity and diversity into their state and local work in 2018, what gaps remain unfilled, and a discussion of challenges and opportunities as we look to 2019 and 2020.
Krithika Harish
Krithika helps to lead the Pipeline Initiative, a project housed inside Civitas Public Affairs, dedicated to building a diverse talent pipeline of progressive staff, candidates, and elected officials at every level of the ballot. Based in Washington DC, she also works on advancing a wide-range of state and local policies in the immigration and behavioral health spaces. Krithika holds a Master's degree in Public Administration from Columbia University and a Bachelor's degree in International Relations with a minor in Spanish from the University of California, Davis. Born in India and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Krithika is a proud immigrant American.
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Gaby Goldstein
Gaby Goldstein is co-founder at Sister District, whose mission is to build progressive power in state legislatures. As Senior Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, she leads programs that strengthen the pipeline of diverse, progressive candidates, as well as programs that educate the public about the importance of state legislatures and policy, and which support progressive state legislators once elected. Prior to founding Sister District, Gaby was a bioethics lawyer and health policy researcher. She holds a BA from UC Berkeley, JD from Boston University School of Law, and PhD in health policy from UC Berkeley.
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Helen Gym
Seated in 2016, Councilmember Helen Gym is a longtime educator and community organizer and the first Asian American woman elected to Philadelphia City Council. In her first term, she led a schools agenda that championed the successful end of a state takeover of the Philadelphia school system, passed a tax on soda distributors to fund pre-K, and restored nurses, counselors, music programs and safe drinking water to every public school. She established the city's first legal defense fund for renters facing eviction and introduced and passed the nation's most expansive "Fair Workweek" law to give stable schedules and a path to full-time hours for 130,000 part-time workers. She is Vice Chair of Local Progress, a network of progressive municipal electeds, where she leads national efforts to support Sanctuary Cities, affordable housing, and public education.
Other sessions: What Philly Taught Us: How Philadelphia Activists Beat School Privatization to Restore Local Control, Pennsylvania Caucus, Not Just for Presidential Candidates: Bringing the Power of Small-dollar Donors to the Local Level (Sponsored Panel), Daily Kos/Netroots Nation Presidential Candidate Forum, Combatting Fake Clinics: Local, State and National Efforts to Fight Back, Building a Movement to #EndPoverty in America
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Johanna Silva Waki
Johanna is the State and Local Regional Director for the West Coast where she works to recruit, train and support pro-choice Democratic women who are running or have the desire to run for office. Prior to joining EMILY's List, Johanna was the owner and co-founder of Hope Road Consulting, LLC, a full service political consulting and public relations firm specializing in campaign and field strategy for candidates, initiatives, advocacy campaigns and community engagement programs. Johanna brings fifteen years of expertise in communications, mainstream and ethnic media relations, political engagement and government affairs. Prior to founding Hope Road Consulting, Johanna was a Special Assistant to San Francisco's Superintendent of Public Education. Earlier in her career, her community organizing experience led her to a Partnership Specialist position with the US Census Bureau.
Johanna currently chairs Emerge California's Campaign Advisory Team, a political leadership training program for Democratic women; is a founder of PowerPAC.org, and is on the Board of Directors of The Advocacy Fund. Johanna holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and La Raza Studies from California State University, San Francisco.
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High profile politicians or celebrities typically don't beat a path to the small town of Crosby.
In fact, Kim Harris, Crosby-Huffman Chamber of Commerce president, can't remember anybody really famous coming to the area.
On Monday, the White House announced that President Donald Trump on Wednesday would be coming to the town northeast of Houston to speak to the International Union of Operating Engineers at the IUOE's International Training and Education Center in Crosby.
Trump is scheduled to fly into the Houston area shortly before 3 p.m.
"Undoubtedly, this is a unique event for our community, and we recognize its historical importance," Viviana Killion, Director of Media Relations for Crosby ISD posted on the district's Facebook page.
She announced that STAAR testing scheduled for Wednesday would be moved to the next day and that there would be an early dismissal at 1 P.M.
"We can't confirm the exact time that the Presidential motorcade will be passing through. However, we feel confident that the early dismissal times will allow students to be transported home without significant delay due to road closures," the announcement read.
Shirley Dupree, executive director of Huffman ISD Human Resources and Communications, said that even though President Trump will be visiting Crosby, not Huffman, people in Huffman are still excited.
Harris said that she and Stephanie Walden, the Chamber Coordinator, plan on walking over from the Chamber building to see the presidential motorcade come down FM 2100.
She has been in touch with the Crosby Lions Club, which puts out flags for all holidays, to see if they can line FM 2100 with flags.
From what Harris has heard, Trump will come to the training center, give a short speech, and then leave Crosby.
Dan and Jennifer Meaux, who run the Crawfish Shack in Crosby, were invited to hear Trump speak by State Representative Briscoe Cain (the event is invite-only) and are excited to see Trump in person.
He doesn't expect the presidential visit to have any impact on his business.
Some Crosby businesses have put messages on their marquee boards welcoming the president.


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Quit Smoking or Die: What Ukraine Offers Smokers
On 31 May, the world celebrates World No Tobacco Day. The slogan of the World No Tobacco Day in 2021 is "Commit to Quit". The event aims to draw public attention to the challenges faced by Ukraine's 8 million smokers who need help to quit smoking.
In the run-up to the event, the Healthy Initiatives NGO conducted an assessment of accessibility of smoking cessation programs for smokers in Ukraine based on the findings of a representative survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology and on their own research of smokers' motivation to give up smoking.
"Despite its obligations to the World Hea
lth Organization, Ukraine is ignoring the issue of providing smoking cessation support to smokers and thereby fails to comply with Article 14 of the FCTC", said Natalia Toropova, the Chairwoman of Healthy Initiatives.
Every day, thousands of smokers try to give up the harmful habit. Nearly one in two (45% of all Ukrainian smokers) have tried to quit in the past year. However, none of them (0% of respondents) have ever received medical advice or assistance when trying to quit.
What are the most popular smoking cessation methods? According to the Healthy Initiatives NGO survey of March 2021, more than 70% of those who tried to quit smoking relied only on their own willpower. And most of them relapse afterwards.
"The effectiveness of independent attempts to give up smoking is estimated at 4-8%, whereas that of stop smoking support programs at 20-40%", says Dr. Yuriy Stratovych, a high category physician.
Doctors in Ukraine are neither trained nor motivated to provide support to smokers. 62% of cigarette smokers and 66% of HTS users reported that their doctor had never encouraged them to quit smoking (Healthy Initiatives survey, 2021).
Victim Blaming has become a cornerstone of the country's public health policy. Smokers bear the full responsibility for the fact that they are unable to overcome their addiction on their own. The health care system's attitude towards smokers is based on the principle "quit smoking or die".
The resulting low effectiveness of unassisted smoking cessation efforts (without the support of medical programs) has led to a slowdown in smoking prevalence in Ukraine. According to the WHO data, the prevalence of smoking in Ukraine fell from 35% to 25% over the period of 2007-2017. However, in 2020 the smoking prevalence in Ukraine rose to 33.9% among the population aged 18-69 years, which is a high rate for Europe. The rate of smoking reduction has dropped and is now mere 3% of smokers per year, putting off the goal of a complete cessation of the tobacco epidemic in Ukraine for an indefinite period of time.
"Countries where the medical doctors provide the leadership are the countries where we see the fastest decline in adult smoking", says Derek Yach, President of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, who, in his capacity as the Executive Director of WHO's Noncommunicable Diseases Program, was one of the initiators of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. "Ukraine has an extremely high smoking rate by worldwide standards.If the doctors get involved, if they do far more in cessation, and if the government work with doctors to make harm reduction available far more and tackle the disinformation, that high smoking rate among men could come down and many-many lives would be saved."
Natalia Toropova identified the main factors that would contribute to a rapid reduction in smoking in Ukraine. Firstly, it is necessary to continue raising the prices on conventional cigarettes in accordance with the plan of harmonizing excise duties. In addition, it is essential to address the smuggling of cigarettes from neighboring countries. Nowadays, selling smuggled cigarettes is becoming increasingly profitable in Ukraine because of the price difference.
Secondly, part of the revenues from excise tax on tobacco should be spent on smoker support programs, as well as on anti-tobacco public awareness campaigns. The tobacco cessation hotline should be reopened.
Thirdly, following the example of European countries, we should encourage mass smokers to give up conventional cigarettes, which are the cause of cancer, cardiovascular and other deadly diseases. In particular, putting combustible cigarettes on a par with harm reduction products (e-cigarettes)preserves the tradition of tobacco use and demotivates smokers to abandon smoking harmful cigarettes. In the meantime, the experience of the UK health system demonstrates the effectiveness of harm reduction products for experienced smokers who want to quit smoking. This view is supported by scientific evidence. According to an independent research conducted in the UK in 2020, harm reduction products contribute to smoking cessation in 41% of smokers and prevent smoking relapse in 20% of smokers.
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Mofussil Musings
Ruby Rai, 'toppers' scam' and the joke called Juvenile Justice
[This is an AHRC article.]
Bihar police have arrested Ruby Rai, a 17-year-old girl, under Sections 420, 465, 467, 468, 471, and 120(B) of the India Penal Code on 26 June 2016 and have duly sent her to jail, i.e. an adult jail. Her alleged crime is that of cheating to secure top rank in the state senior secondary school examination. Questioned by a journalist after the exam, she couldn't correctly answer even the most elementary questions. She is not the only one to be caught red-handed. There are three others who all failed to answer basic questions on subjects they had just "topped" in the exam.
The rot in the educational institutions of most Indian provinces is near total. They are so infested with various syndicates engaged in cons, corruption, and forgery that their being institutions is a fact that has become secondary to the institutionalised Mafiosi that rules within. This Mafiosi, duly known as cheating mafia, admission mafia, selection mafia, and so on, have grown like parasites to take over the hosts.
The most infamous of them all has operated in the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB), popularly known by its Hindi acronym, Vyapam. The Vyapam exam scam is now under a Central Bureau of Investigation probe for the suspicious serial deaths of 43 people associated with the scam.
Ironically, from the state to the common people, everyone knows this. They know that most of the teachers they are paying to teach their children have, in fact, bought not earned their degrees. They know that the cops the state pays to protect them have done the same. There have even been instances when the top administrative jobs of provinces being bought and sold becoming public, with the emergence of open rate lists. Ravinder Paul Singh Sidhu, ex-Chairperson of the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC), for instance, was arrested in 2002 and convicted in 2014 for openly selling jobs to aspirants.
The parasitic education Mafiosi rules in Bihar as well, and if the cycle is to be broken, the syndicate must be smashed. Arresting Ruby Rai, a minor, and that too after flouting the law of the land, cannot be the way ahead for society. Firstly, she could not have done this cheating on her own. She, after all, is a minor, and someone completely dependent upon her parents, who likely made the deal for her. They are roaming scot free, uncharged! Then there would be administrators in the school where she was tested, right up to the board that governs the examination and prepares the question sheets, and everywhere in between. Some charges have been made and a few arrests too, but the full nature of the racket has not been exposed.
The moot point here is how could the police send a juvenile to an adult jail in complete violation of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2015 (hereafter JJ Act)? When confronted over this travesty, Manu Maharaj, the Senior Superintendent of Police, who is leading the investigations into the alleged crime, asserted that it is Ms. Rai's responsibility to prove that she's a juvenile. He promised that she would be produced before the Juvenile Justice Board if she did so.
The top cop has got it the wrong side up. The JJ Act, promulgated on 15 January 2016, stipulates, in no uncertain terms, that it is his responsibility to prove the age, and not that of a child in conflict with the law. Furthermore, the JJ Act makes it absolutely clear that the birth date recorded on the matriculation certificate or birth certificate by a civic body would be proof enough and only in the absence of either of these can the child's age be medically determined. The police should have verified her age using her matriculation certificate; failing to do so exposes the real worth of their investigative prowess.
Section 94 (2) of the Act states the following:
"(2) In case, the Committee or the Board has reasonable grounds for doubt regarding whether the person brought before it is a child or not, the Committee or the Board, as the case may be, shall undertake the process of age determination, by seeking evidence by obtaining —
(i) the date of birth certificate from the school, or the matriculation or equivalent certificate from the concerned examination Board, if available; and in the absence thereof;
(ii) the birth certificate given by a corporation or a municipal authority or a panchayat;
(iii) and only in the absence of (i) and (ii) above, age shall be determined by an ossification test or any other latest medical age determination test conducted on the orders of the Committee or the Board: Provided such age determination test conducted on the order of the Committee or the Board shall be completed within fifteen days from the date of such order."
Top cop Many Maharaj would also know that the JJ Act, through Section 4, is the supreme authority in dealing with the children in conflict with law, and overrides any other law that might exist.
The police cannot justify its epic ignorance by invoking the bogey of heinous crimes. Yes, in the case of heinous crimes, the JJ Act allows – despite major opposition from civil society and despite being in contravention of many international laws – the trial of children as adults. However, the police cannot use this as justification because the Act defines heinous crimes as those carrying a minimum sentence of 10 years. The charges slapped on Ms. Rai under Sections 420, 465, 467, 468, 471 and 120(B) of the IPC are that of forgery and cheating and none of them carries a minimum sentence of 10 years.
Furthermore, even when a child in conflict with law commits a heinous crime, if it is so recognised, the police are not allowed to simply go ahead and treat the juvenile as an adult. In such cases, Section 15 (i) of JJ Act orders a verification of the child's mental and physical capacity to commit such an offence before proceeding:
"15. (1) In case of a heinous offence alleged to have been committed by a child, who has completed or is above the age of sixteen years, the Board shall conduct a preliminary assessment with regard to his mental and physical capacity to commit such offence, ability to understand the consequences of the offence and the circumstances in which he allegedly committed the offence, and may pass an order in accordance with the provisions of subsection (3) of section 18: Provided that for such an assessment, the Board may take the assistance of experienced psychologists or psycho-social workers or other experts."
Evidently, the police have flouted the JJ Act and made a mincemeat of it in this case. The joke that passes of as investigation doesn't stop here. The police can merely arrest an accused. Only a magistrate can send him or her to judicial custody. Alas, our magistracy has hardly ever been found wanting in obliging police requests for sending people to jail, whatever the (de)merits of the case may be. No wonder the man in black robes chose not to bother with the procedure and showed scant regard for the law in sending Ruby Rai to jail.
So why was she sent to jail flouting all rules? Perhaps the reason is in the fact that the scandal has come hot on the heels of mass scale cheating in the same exams last year, which hit eyeballs across the world and thus outraged local people. The outrage forced the political leadership to be seen to be doing something; in turn the pressure may have forced the police to act and hence the arrest of red-handed student.
Would the arrest, even if wrongful, help deter the same kind of cheating? It was likely her parents that planned it. And, it was society's emphasis on the ends, not the means, which assisted the same. It was the corruption endemic in the institution that made it possible. And, it is society's active collusion and a broken criminal justice system that will make the corruption persist.
The system cannot be cleaned up by individual cosmetic acts of arresting children least responsible, and perhaps not even fully aware, of the criminal acts. It calls for a systemic overhaul of the educational institution of the states and weeding out rackets in examinations and admissions and all other aspects in which the syndicates are most infested.
It calls for enrolling the police and judiciary in a refresher course to ensure that they know the law they are supposed to enforce.
The case of Ms. Rai has exposed the decadence in Bihar's education system. Her arrest has exposed the dysfunction in the police and judiciary.
Rai's re-examination is one thing.
But who will join the call for a re-examination of the police officers and the magistrate complicit in sending a child to adult jail?
धर्म और पंथ में अंतर
बहुत बड़ा अंतर है. यह कि रिलिजन वाले अर्थ में संस्कृत/हिन्दी में कोई शब्द ही नहीं है. यहाँ धर्म का अर्थ है 'या धारयति इति धर्मः'- अर्थात जो धारण किया जाय वह धर्म है। उदाहरण लें तो आग का धर्म हो जायेगा जलाना और बिच्छू का डंक मारना। पंथ इससे अलग है- आचरण का codified यानी कि संहिताबद्ध रूप है. धर्म वाले सन्दर्भों में कहें तो पूजापाठ, सम्पत्ति अंतरण, जन्म से मृत्यु तक के संस्कार वाला रूप. ऊपर वाला उदाहरण लें तो बिच्छुओं का कोई समूह अगर तय कर ले कि अब रास्ते में पड़ जाने पर ही डंक नहीं मारना है- दौड़ा के डंक मारना है तब वह पंथ हो जाएगा। उन अर्थों में भारत में कभी कोई धर्म (हकीकतन पंथ) रहा ही नहीं। अंग्रेजों के आने तक तो क्षेत्रीय ही नहीं (जैसे तमिल और काश्मीरी) एक ही क्षेत्र के हिन्दुओं में इतने फर्क थे कि वह एक मोटीमोटी जीवनशैली तो था पर धर्म नहीं था. बस एक उदाहरण लें तो अंग्रेज न आये होते तो (तथाकथित) पिछड़ी जातियों में स्त्रियों को पति के जिन्दा रहते भी पुनर्विवाह का अधिकार था जबकि (तथाकथित) उच्च वर्णीय जातियों में पति के मर जाने पर भी काशी के अलावा बस चिता का ही रास्ता
गुलमोहर की छाँव में खड़ी उस सांवली सी लड़की के नाम
किसी मीटिंग में जाना था उस दिन. शायद लाल बहादुर वर्मा सर के घर. सो आराधना को साथ ले लेने के वादे में तय समय से कुछ घंटे भर की देरी से हम डब्लूएच उर्फ महिला छात्रावास परिसर(जेल सी ऊंची चारदीवारी में कैद तीन महिला छात्रावासों का साझा नाम, जो कोई नहीं लेता था) के गेट पर पँहुचे. मैडम गुस्से से उबल रही थीं ही हमें देखते ही फट पड़ीं. ये वक़्त है आने का और न जाने क्या क्या. और हम थे कि कुछ सुन ही न पा रहे थे. और ये लीजिए जनाब, अचानक हम पर एक नगमा नाजिल हुआ – सांवली सी इक लड़की आरजू के गाँव में गुलमोहर की छाँव में. मोहतरमा हतप्रभ. इतनी कि पूछ भी न सकीं कि हुआ क्या है. हमीं से रहा न गया तो हमने कहा ऊपर देखें. सच में हुजूर-सरकार गुलमोहर की छाँव में खड़ी थीं. इसके बाद गुस्से का क्या हुआ खबर नहीं. वे क्रान्ति के दिन थे. जागती आँखों में दुनिया को बदल डालने के सपने देखने के दिन . वे दिन थे जब हम गोली दागो पोस्टर का रूमान भर आँख जीते थे. वे दिन थे कि ताजा ताजा शुरू की गयी दीवाल पत्रिका (संवाद- दीवाल्रें भी बोलती हैं) के परों पर सवार हमारी हौसलों की परवाज बड़े बड़े अखबारों से टक्कर लेती थी.
संस्कृति लड़कियों के कपड़ों में नहीं बसती आखेटकों!!
वे निकल पड़े हैं. अबकी बार यूं ही नहीं निकले हैं वो. लाठी डंडों, हथियारों भगवा साफों, भारत माता की जय जैसे नारों वाले अपने पुराने औजारों के साथ साथ इस बार तो कैमरों से भी लैस होकर निकले हैं वो. जरूरी भी था भाई, भारी बड़ा काम आ पड़ा हैं उनके नाजुक राष्ट्रवादी कन्धों पर. वैसे भगवा ही क्यों, मसला संस्कृति को, तहजीब को बचाने का हो तो भगवा और हरे झंडे वालों में कोई फर्क बाकी नहीं रह जाता. पर यहीं एक बड़ी दिक्कत आ खड़ी होती है. अब काम इतना बड़ा हो और जहनियत इतनी छोटी तो मुश्किल तो होती ही है न. अब भारत माता के इन जियालों को ये तो पता था कि राष्ट्र की संस्कृति खतरे में है पर यह नहीं पता था कि राष्ट्र की वह संस्कृति रहती कहाँ है. सो उन्होंने बहुत सोचा, बहुत दिमाग लड़ाया और आखिर में तय किया कि संस्कृति लड़कियों के कपड़ों में रहती है. हाँ, रोज होने वाली दहेज हत्याओं में संस्कृति नहीं रहती. सो जितने ज्यादा बड़े कपड़े, उतनी सुरक्षित संस्कृति. सो बस. जियाले निकल पड़े संस्कृति बचाने. वे बंगलौर में निकले थे. श्रीराम सेने के नेता प्रमोद मुथालिक के रूप में. घुस गए थे पबों में. खूब कहर


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What If a Magnitude 20 Earthquake Hits?
Would you sleep in this earthquake-proof bed? It senses when an earthquake is happening and drops you into a safe metal chamber. Yes, we know how ridiculous this looks. But desperate times call for desperate measures.
Because we're about to experience the most powerful earthquake in history, a magnitude 20. How much damage would it cause? Would it break our planet into pieces? And what could cause such a massive earthquake?
To understand just how big a magnitude 20 earthquake would be, let's take a look at the Richter scale. The Richter scale is a logarithmic scale that rates the amount of energy released by an earthquake.
What does logarithmic mean? In this case, it means that the amount of energy released increases 31.7 times between whole number values on the scale. For example, a 2.0ML [magnitude 2] quake is 32 times as energetic as a 1.0ML event. And a 3.0ML quake is 1,000 times more powerful than a 1.0ML event. The largest earthquake ever recorded registered a magnitude of 9.5, and it caused about five billion dollars in damage. It killed 1,655 people and left two million people homeless.
So how much worse would a magnitude 20 be? Would we have to evacuate the planet?
To properly prepare for an earthquake this big, we need to understand what causes earthquakes in general. Earthquakes are vibrations that travel through the crust of the Earth. They can be caused by events like volcanic eruptions and meteor impacts but the movement of tectonic plates is what usually causes them.
These plates, which make up the Earth's crust, can slide against each other at a region called the transform boundary. When the plates move in different directions, they can cause a break in the Earth's crust called a fault line. This is where most earthquakes take place.
The plates create friction as they push together tightly, and if there's enough friction, they can become locked together and stop sliding. But the forces of the Earth will continue to push against them and increase the pent-up energy and pressure.
When the pressure builds up enough, it will overcome the friction and result in an intense and sudden shift. This causes the vibration we know as an earthquake. And the longer the fault line, the more massive the earthquake.
So how long of a fault line would be required to produce a magnitude 20 earthquake? Well, let's put it this way. To produce a magnitude 10.5 earthquake, you'd need a fault length of about 80,000 km.
And given that the Earth's circumference is only about 40,000 km, that would be highly unlikely. With all that considered, a magnitude 20 earthquake seems pretty impossible.
So there's nothing to worry about.
Oh, right, except for that. One way that a magnitude 20 earthquake could occur would be due to a massive asteroid impact. An earthquake this large would last longer than any earthquake we have ever experienced.
You would feel the shaking for at least five minutes, and aftershocks would go on for hours. Tsunamis and volcanic eruptions would be taking place, more earthquakes would likely be triggered — and the whole world would be falling apart, literally.
For the power of this earthquake to destroy the planet, it would need to overcome something called the "gravitational binding energy," which describes the minimum value a spherical and uniform object needs to keep together under the influence of gravity. Now, we won't get into specific values here because we don't want to make things any more complicated, so we'll leave it at this, we're screwed.
A magnitude 20 earthquake would produce more than enough energy to overcome the gravitational binding energy and destroy our planet. But the good news is that we would likely see the massive asteroid coming and would have time to prepare for everything that comes with it.
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Seeing as today is the Centenery of the First World War, I thought I'd share one of my favourite WWI poems and a letter with you, which will hopefully illustrate the realities of both men and women during this dreadful time, through the perspectives of Madeline Ida Bedford and Wilfred Owen.
This one, I believe, satirizes the so-called 'good life' in the munitions factories that women were suppose to have appreciated and enjoyed. In reality, w hile they weren't faced with the horrors of the trenches, and whilst in the long term their involvement proved their capabilities and potential thus contributing to the reasons behind them gaining suffrage in 1918, women's experiences, in most cases, involved hard labour, danger, grief, loss and loneliness. Those on the Home Front deserved a voice too.
Letter from poet/soldier Wilfred Owen to his mother, Susan Owen. Click to listen to audio of letter.
Owen wrote over 500 letters to his mother through the years, until he sadly died one week before the Armistice in November 1918, aged just 25. My favourite poem of his is Anthem For Doomed Youth.
"Out of a war with such brutality, that killed millions, came art, literature and music of enduring elegance "


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La recuperación del vapor es el proceso de recuperar los vapores de la gasolina y otros combustibles, de modo que no se escapen en la atmósfera. Esto se hace en las gasolineras, para reducir los humos nocivos y potencialmente explosivos.

Normalmente se utiliza la presión negativa creada dentro del depósito subterráneo en succionar su líquido, para volver a aspirar los vapores hacia adentro.Se hace por unos agujeros justo al lado de la boquilla y circulan a través de unas  mangueras especiales que tienen un circuito de retorno.

Industria en general
La recuperación del vapor también se utiliza en la industria química para quitar y recuperar los vapores de tanques de almacenamiento. Los vapores pueden ser o bien peligrosos, o bien tener suficiente valor para ser recuperados.

El proceso consiste en un sistema de ventilación cerrada del espacio vacío del tanque de almacenamiento hacia una unidad de recuperación de vapores (URV),donde se recuperan los vapores devolviéndoles hacia el proceso, o bien sondestruidos, normalmente por oxidación.

Tecnologías ecológicas del automóvil

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Petr Kelemen, né le , est un coureur cycliste tchèque. Son frère aîné Pavel est aussi coureur cycliste.

Biographie

En 2020, il rejoint l'équipe de développement de la formation WorldTour CCC.

Palmarès sur route

Par année
 2018
  Champion de République tchèque sur route juniors
  du championnat de République tchèque du contre-la-montre juniors
 2020
  du championnat de République tchèque du contre-la-montre espoirs
 2021
  du Dookoła Mazowsza

Classements mondiaux

Palmarès sur piste

Championnats nationaux
 2017
  Champion de République tchèque de l'omnium juniors
 2019
  Champion de République tchèque de scratch
  Champion de République tchèque de poursuite par équipes (avec Nicolas Pietrula, Jan Kraus et Matyáš Janoš)
  Champion de République tchèque de l'omnium

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Coureur cycliste tchèque
Coureur cycliste sur piste
Naissance en novembre 2000


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School spirit is better than student recently expected
Lauren Abbott, Staff writer
As the weather gets colder and more and more snow seems to appear every day, it can seem hard to find fun and enjoyable things to do on campus until the sun shows up again. Going to sporting events always seem to be a student favorite.
Jan. 27 was the spirit hockey game against Niagara University, and Mercyhurst Lakers fans certainly showed up in force.
The student section was packed, the band was playing and there was an abundance of signs and face paint throughout the crowd. MSG did a fantastic job orchestrating this event and made it a truly entertaining experience.
Throughout the game you could feel the excitement of the fans and overall high spirits throughout the arena. Also that weekend was a wrestling match against East Stroudsburg.
Before going to the wrestling match, I was expecting there to be maybe a handful of students there cheering on our team. I know when I was in high school, if 10 people showed up it was a good turnout.
I was surprised to see that there were a lot of people there cheering on our boys. I went with a friend to this match and she was surprised at how interesting it was to watch, despite hearing that wrestling was boring. I knew a little bit about wrestling from watching my brother wrestle but I was still a little confused at times.
This past Friday, on Feb. 3, there was both a wrestling match against Kutztown and a hockey game against Sacred Heart. Both were scheduled at the same time as one another.
Knowing there was a hockey game going on, I did not think there would be nearly as many people at the wrestling match as there were the week before.
I was really shocked to find that there were even more people at this match than the one I had attended previously.
I would have to say one of my favorite parts of the match were the two guys who came in with pots and spoons chanting for Mercyhurst.
The excitement throughout the match was tangible, especially with the pots and spoons clanging anytime Mercyhurst scored some points.
The match ended with a win by a pin in the heavyweight class and everyone— teammates and spectators alike— were standing and cheering. It was the most exciting match I have seen here so far.
It was great seeing so many people get so pumped and turn out for a sport that often gets overlooked.
If I have learned anything these past two weekends, it is that Mercyhurst students know how to come out and support our sports teams, no matter the weather.
Lauren Abbott, Editor in Chief
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The Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 requires U.S. citizens traveling to Panama to present a valid passport. (Previously, only a driver's license and copy of your birth certificate were needed to enter Panama.) For an up-to-date, country-by-country listing of passport requirements around the world, go to the "Foreign Entry Requirement" Web page of the U.S. State Department at http://travel.state.gov.
Important: When entering the country travelers must be able to demonstrate proof of sufficient funds if requested, and they must present an onward or return ticket. And keep in mind that Panama charges a departure tax of $20 (£10) at the airport; the tax might already be included in the price of your ticket.
In an effort to prevent international child abduction, many governments require a parent or legal guardian (or someone other than the parent) traveling alone with a child to provide documentary evidence of relationship and travel permission. Having such documentation on hand can facilitate entry/departure if immigration requests it, although it is not always required. Inquire when booking your airline ticket about updated entry/departure procedures for children.
Citizens of the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and most European nations may visit Panama for a maximum of 90 days. No visa is necessary, but you must have a valid passport and a $5 (£2.50) tourist card, paid when entering by land or at customs when entering by airplane. Carry your passport and tourist card, or better yet, a photocopy of each, with you at all times. Police will sometimes ask for your documents, particularly on long bus rides on routine checks.
There are no vaccination requirements when entering Panama. However, if you'll be traveling to the tropical lowlands or to the jungle, it's wise to get vaccinated for typhoid, yellow fever, and hepatitis A. All travelers should also be up-to-date on their tetanus immunizations. There has been a recent spike in Dengue (the early stages of yellow fever) in recent years, so travelers will want to be especially careful during the rainy season. If you'll be going to the Darien, you may also want to take malaria pills, which should be prescribed by your doctor at least 10 days before your departure. However, if you're traveling during the dry season or won't be exploring the tropical lowlands or rainforests too much, your risk of tropical disease is relatively low.
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Roberto García-Calvo Montiel (La Bañeza, 14 de juny de 1942 - Villaviciosa de Odón, 18 de maig de 2008) fou un jurista espanyol, magistrat del Tribunal Constitucional espanyol. Destacà pel seu perfil conservador i espanyolista, i l'oposició a l'aprovació de l'Estatut d'Autonomia de Catalunya de 2006.

Biografia
García-Calvo va néixer el 14 de juny de 1942 al poble castellà de La Bañeza. Llicenciat en Dret, va ser número u de la XVIIa promoció de l'Escola Judicial i el juliol de 1968 va ingressar a la carrera fiscal; tres anys més tard va ser designat president del Tribunal Provincial d'Empara d'Almeria, on fins a aquell moment era tinent fiscal de l'Audiència Provincial. Durant aquestes èpoques va ocupar diferents càrrecs en el sindicalisme vertical i en el Ministeri d'Educació.

El 10 d'abril de 1976 va ser nomenat cap provincial del Movimiento i Governador Civil d'Almeria per Carlos Arias Navarro, càrrec en el qual va romandre fins que a mitjans de 1977 va presentar la seva dimissió per reincorporar-se a la carrera judicial com a magistrat de Treball a Guadalajara. El 1979 va ser destinat a la magistratura de Treball número 8 de Madrid, i el 1986 va ser nomenat magistrat del Tribunal Central de Treball.

El 7 de març de 1989 va ser elegit vocal del Consell General del Poder Judicial (CGPJ), càrrec que va ocupar fins a 1990. García-Calvo, que es presentava com a únic candidat a la vacant del CGPJ, va ser elegit pel Senat a proposta d'Alianza Popular (AP) i va obtenir 154 vots a favor dels 152 necessaris per ser ratificat per la Cambra. En dues ocasions anteriors, el març i l'abril de 1988, el Congrés de Diputats havia votat en contra de la seva candidatura, en no comptar aquesta amb el suport del PSOE.

En el CGPJ va formar part de les comissions d'Estudis, Informes i Disciplinària. L'octubre de 1990, en finalitzar el mandat dels vocals del CGPJ elegits majoritàriament el 1985, García-Calvo, que havia estat nomenat el 1989, va recórrer en empara al Tribunal Constitucional per considerar que havia de romandre en el càrrec fins a complir els seus cinc anys de mandat. El 30 d'octubre del mateix any el Constitucional va decidir, per unanimitat dels tres magistrats que van formar sala, no admetre a tràmit el recurs que havia interposat.

Després va exercir com a fiscal del Tribunal Suprem espanyol fins al 25 d'octubre de 1995, data en què va ser elegit magistrat de la Sala Segona de l'esmentat Tribunal, en substitució de Marí Barber. En aquesta votació García-Calvo va obtenir deu vots davant set del catedràtic Santiago Mir.

El maig de 1998 va advocar per aconseguir "la màxima aproximació de la carrera judicial a la carrera fiscal", ja que aquest model atorgaria al Ministeri Fiscal "més independència del poder polític".

També va tenir relació amb el denominat Cas Liaño. El 21 de març de 2001, el Suprem va rebutjar, per 10 vots a un (el de García-Calvo), el conflicte de jurisdicció instat pel Ministeri de Justícia contra la Sala Penal de l'alt tribunal. El Suprem va manifestar que l'esmentat conflicte podia resultar "constitucionalment improcedent" perquè el Tribunal de Conflictes no pot revisar o anul·lar resolucions fermes del Suprem.

El juliol de 2001 va ser proposat pel Partido Popular com a candidat a una de les quatre vacants de magistrat del Tribunal Constitucional. El 30 d'octubre de 2001, Eugeni Gay és elegit magistrat del Tribunal Constitucional pel Congrés dels Diputats, al costat de Javier Delgado, expresident del CGPJ i del Suprem, Roberto García-Calvo i Elisa Pérez per a un mandat de nou anys. Els quatre nous magistrats van prendre possessió del seu càrrec el 12 de novembre, en el ple del TC que també van jurar els seus càrrecs el nou president, Manuel Jiménez de Parga, i el vicepresident, Tomás Vives. García-Calvo va ser membre de l'Asociación de Fiscales (AF).

Un dels episodis més polèmics de la seva etapa en el TC va ser la recusació que contra ell va presentar, l'octubre de 2006, la Generalitat de Catalunya, per "falta d'imparcialitat" en relació amb els recursos presentats contra l'Estatut de Catalunya, pel Partido Popular. Un any més tard, el 19 d'octubre de 2007, el Govern espanyol va decidir recusar-lo junt amb el també magistrat del TC Jorge Rodríguez-Zapata, perquè no intervinguessin en el recurs del PP contra la Llei Orgànica del Tribunal Constitucional, per considerar-los contaminats en el procés. Ambdós magistrats van expressar el juny de 2007, a través d'un escrit, la seva "més profunda discrepància" amb la reforma aprovada de la LOTC i concretament amb l'article que estableix que s'ampliï automàticament el mandat de la presidenta del TC, María Emilia Casas. El 12 de març d'aquest any el ple de l'Alt Tribunal va estimar per majoria la recusació d'ambdós magistrats, que van quedar exclosos del recurs.

Altres episodis polèmics en el que va participar amb postures contràries foren l'excarceració de la Mesa d'Herri Batasuna l'any 1999 i la despenalització dels matrimonis homosexuals.

García-Calvo va morir el 18 de maig de 2008 al seu domicili de la urbanització El Bosque, a la ciutat castellana de Villaviciosa de Odón, a l'edat de 65 anys.

Referències

Persones de la província de Lleó
Juristes castellanolleonesos
Membres del Consell General del Poder Judicial (1985-1990)
Morts a la Comunitat de Madrid


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Posted on 5-May-2012 | 12 Comments
Nothing's going on out there that we can post about. Even the incurably crazed websites we prowl for amusement aren't very amusing today. So let's talk about one of the most famous anti-science episodes in Western history, the Galileo affair.
As you know, Galileo was hauled before the Inquisition and charged with heresy for publishing a book describing evidence for — gasp! — the solar system. That was clearly contrary to scripture, so it couldn't be tolerated. We know of two specific scripture passages were used as evidence against him during the trial:
Ecclesiastes 1, verse 5: The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
Joshua 10:13: And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Additionally, he was threatened with torture. Being no fool, Galileo confessed (see Recantation of Galileo. June 22, 1633). His book, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, was banned and placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, and he was kept under house arrest for the remaining seven years of his life. According to Wikipedia's list of authors and works listed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, more than a century after it was banned, a censored version of Galileo's book was permitted in 1741, and almost another century passed until the entire book was finally removed from the Index — in 1835.
You know all that. But what was Galileo's telescopic evidence demonstrating the solar system? You've heard about the phases of Venus, but what was that all about? Have you ever seen it illustrated in a diagram? Well, here you go then. Check this out:
That comes from this website, The Astronomical Revolution. The first frame shows what the phases of Venus would look like from Earth if the Sun were not in the center. In that model, Venus always shows a crescent — it's never fully lit. The second frame shows what Galileo saw, with the Sun in the center. At predictable intervals, one can see a fully lit Venus. But there's another way to look at it.
That comes from this website, Motions of Planets – History of Science and Astronomy. It shows the scriptural view with the Sun behind the Earth. (Imagine the Earth between the Sun and the orbit of Venus.) From that perspective, Venus always appears fully lit, without phases. Galileo's observations didn't show that either.
That was the classic disproof of the geocentric model. But Galileo was also the first to see the four biggest moons of Jupiter, and the significance of that is sometimes overlooked. Aside from seeing four objects which clearly didn't orbit the Earth, which alone was unsettling to the scriptural picture, there's something else which is mostly forgotten.
An old argument for why the Earth had to be motionless was that if it moved, it would leave the Moon behind! (This was before Isaac Newton explained that gravity works "out there" as well as on Earth.) But Galileo had found four bodies that orbited Jupiter, and that were never left behind — yet everyone agreed that Jupiter was moving. So if Jupiter moved and its moons were somehow never lost, the same could apply to the Earth's Moon as well.
Anyway, the Inquisition wasn't impressed, and Galileo suffered the consequences. That's how it goes when anti-science forces are in power. Oh, the Church eventually came around to accepting the solar system (see Science and the Vatican).
What about creationists who still insist on the literal truth of scripture, but who nevertheless accept the solar system? They're either hypocrites or idiots — or both. If you haven't seen these old posts, you may want to check them out: The Earth Does Not Move! and also, according to the bible, The Earth Is Flat!
So there you are. Some denominations are slower than others. Maybe they'll all come around eventually. Thus endeth today's lesson.
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12 responses to "Creationism, Galileo and the Phases of Venus"
Alan(UK) | 6-May-2012 at 6:12 am |
There is a long answer and a short answer to this question. Here is the short answer.
Things were a lot more complicated. Galileo's problems sprung from not only what he said but how he said it. The Roman Catholic Church was not in the least concerned about whether the Sun or the Earth moved, what was at stake was that the authority of the Church was being challenged. Both Copernicus and Kepler had not only got away with publishing heliocentricism but had had the encouragement of those in high Catholic offices.
Galileo chose the wrong way to publish his work. He wrote a popular book in Italian. He, a layman, tried to change Church doctrine. He insulted (his friend) the Pope.
He published his opinions before he had the evidence to substantiate them. This, combined with the enemies that he had made, was his undoing.
The Church of course came out very badly in all this and, having dug a hole for itself, just kept digging.
Ceteris Paribus | 6-May-2012 at 8:43 am |
@Alan(UK): "The Church of course came out very badly in all this and, having dug a hole for itself, just kept digging."
You are free to say that in the UK where there is little political or social penalty imposed on voters or even office holders for their non-theistic views, and many of them can be seen walking around in public actually proclaiming anti-theocratic views every day of the week.
But in the US, just last Tuesday our president again obeyed the mandate of congress to proclaim the annual "National Day of Prayer". And by unanimous vote of a US court of appeals, our court system currently holds that only the president, and not a mere citizen, has the power to further challenge the constitutionality of the national prayer law.
And so on this Sunday when many places in secular Europe are holding national elections on a non-work day for many of their voters, many US voters are safely in their pews or the seats of their mega-church theaters, listening to a creationist preacher explain why they must vote for the godly candidate in the next election. Which of course in the US is by law arranged to be held only on a week day, when most citizens of working age are likely to have competing events on their daily calendar.
TomS | 6-May-2012 at 9:35 am |
Today's geocentrists – yes, there are people today who follow their reading of the Bible and say that the Sun moves around a fixed Earth – tend toward Tycho's model of the motion of the planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn revolve around the Sun, while the Sun (and the Moon) revolve around the Earth. Tycho's model has no problem with the phases of Venus and the moons of Jupiter; and the Bible has nothing to say about the motions of Venus and the moons of Jupiter.
What I think is interesting is that no one noticed that those passages about the motion of the Sun around a fixed Earth were to be taken figuratively until the naturalistic evidence and reason made geocentrism untenable. It is even more interesting is that few people can give good reasons for rejecting geocentrism. I dare say that the evidence for evolution is more accessible to laymen than is the evidence for heliocentrism.
Tomato Addict | 6-May-2012 at 4:33 pm |
>"What about creationists who still insist on the literal truth of scripture, but who nevertheless accept the solar system?"
As much as we might want them to be left behind as the world move on, I suspect gravity will pull them along too.
It occurs to me to suggest a "Theory of Reality", and much like gravity, the advance of knowledge tends to pull everyone else along with it (perhaps kicking and screaming). Occasionally individuals might build up enough denial that they achieve a sort of "escape velocity" and go sailing off into the Creatio-verse.
I think I may start calling them "Creationaughts".
The Curmudgeon | 6-May-2012 at 4:39 pm |
Tomato Addict says:
A cumbersome term, so try again. Whatever one calls them, they inhabit the retard-o-sphere.
>"A cumbersome term, so try again."
Maybe that should have been Creationaut, but with just one less letter I can get Creatio-nut.
Ed | 6-May-2012 at 10:46 pm |
Creonaut might work. Short, simple.
As in "Mom, Dad, I've dropped out of school and am training to be a Creonaut."
garystar1 | 6-May-2012 at 11:22 pm |
"Creonaut" does have fewer syllables than "retard-o-sphere". Seems to me it will be more catchy. Just sayin'.
Retired Prof | 7-May-2012 at 2:02 pm |
Also "creo," while it suggests "creationism," also means "I believe." It points to the problem from two directions. Nice.
NeonNoodle | 7-May-2012 at 2:51 pm |
Cretinaut.
retiredsciguy | 7-May-2012 at 9:33 pm |
Creationaughts, Creationauts, Creatio-nuts, Creonauts, Cretinauts — I mean, really?
They are just creationists, plain and simple. Call them anything else and no one will know what you're talking about, unless by chance they happened to read this particular post on this particular blog. Sorry to spoil your fun, fellas, but you really can't beat "creationist". It is a term that has truly earned all of its negative connotations.
Tomato Addict | 8-May-2012 at 8:05 am |
RSG> "Call them anything else and no one will know what you're talking about…"
Creationist already don't know what they are talking about. Why should they get to have all the fun?
Ans curvaceous;y mocking squirrels. 😉


TENZING BARSHEE: Besides the current exhibition, Stag Nation, at dépendance in Brussels, you recently had solo shows at the Dallas Museum of Art and at the Kunsthalle Lüneburg. It seems to me that these shows are connected by a certain idea about American culture—something that was visible in your older works, too, but has become even more prevalent. In Dallas, for example, you showed a piece with two painted hands, depicting an elephant and a donkey face to face, called Mascot Face-Off (2016). How do these projects connect?
LUCIE STAHL: The three exhibitions share a strong emphasis on the idea of Americana and the nostalgia that comes with it. I guess I'm often tempted by clichés. I'm curious about how they work, what they mean, and how they are being used in our day-to-day lives.
TB: The three exhibitions bracket the time of the US presidential campaign and election. It seems to me that this coincidence had a big influence on what you were exhibiting.
LS: Yes, it's strange that these exhibitions took place in this period, from the time when the outcome of the election was still very uncertain, or seeming rather impossible, to the point when this madness came upon us. This adds an almost time-based quality. The outside world enters my work in all kinds of ways and I think in these exhibitions it is particularly obvious, although to me the works are not just documents of their time. I'm more interested in something that goes beyond that. They could be read metaphorically, perhaps.
TB: You often write your own press releases, which reminds me of your older poster works that included self-written statements. In the press release that you wrote for the show titled Spirit in Lüneburg you juxtaposed a wide range of issues, from contemporary health culture to the Flint water crisis, in a pretty fierce tone. Has the way you write your texts changed over the years?
LS: Yes, maybe! The older pieces were often commenting on particular situations that amused or enraged me, and I really tried to make them funny, while they were also supposed to transport a meaning. Maybe it is the humor that has changed. It might have become more severe, less punch-line-based. More outspoken, if that makes sense. The essence of the text in Lüneburg, apart from all the other things that I mention in it, is my discomfort with the overwhelming rise of patriotism, which is not only a problem in the US but is happening everywhere, and it is scary. The texts are important for me; they address the outside world in a more concrete way than the actual works, which function more on levels outside of language.
TB: I am curious about the fragmented Mickey Mouse sculpture that you showed in Brussels, Mausoleum for a Mutant (2016), which consists of Mickey's head, pants, and a fist, sitting on a butcher table. These fragments are missing their most recognizable features, the ears and the fingers, and they look a bit rugged.
LS: The Mickey Mouse sculpture comes out of a Disneyland keychain I've had for such a long time that all those features—fingers and ears—are actually missing. I like this thing a lot, and look at it often, and somehow it started summing up all sorts of ideas. Mickey—again—is such a cliché, such a landmark, such a sign of American culture, positive and negative. It is so overused in that way, too, which is a moment that interests me. It is such a familiar sign that I think people around the world instantly understand what a broken Mickey means. These types of works of mine, the pieces that are dealing with consumer culture, aren't just rejective, not meant as a simple critique, which might be a common misunderstanding. To me they are more than that, they're also an embracement, a joke. I am a part of that culture. I have a strong attraction toward these things. I collect a lot of things, I use them, like the keychain, and the works come out of dealing with and looking at the stuff, and thinking about it.
TB: Consumer goods remain a prevalent theme. Different types of packaging—beverage cans, cigarette boxes, consumer waste, unhealthy things. In Brussels you also show healthy products, the three New Artisan works for example, which seem like something positive gone bad.
LS: Yes, consumer stuff and waste attracts me. We constantly use and dump all this stuff that doesn't really mean anything and becomes instantaneously obsolete. But at the same time the packaging transports such a huge range of desires, and it is funny how quickly it becomes replaceable once it is used and emptied out. The New Artisan works are based on the packaging of "healthy eating grains" like chia or quinoa seeds and show a romantic image of one lonely farmer reaping his field. This "back-to-farming" pioneer culture positivism really speaks to me. There is a large part of the image that represents the subterranean land, the underground, onto which I smeared all kinds of substances to depict different types of earth—ground coffee, healing clay, a black face mask—which could be read as different resources, like crude oil et cetera. I added a model barn door that transforms from closed to open, becomes a dark hole. The suggested positivism transforms into a kind of abyss.
TB: In Brussels you show a group of photographs that deal with the pioneer age, too, called Alien Nation Heritage (2016). Can you tell me more about this series?
LS: When I first visited Dallas, I went to Heritage Village, an outdoor museum, a sort of ghost village with nineteenth century pioneer and Victorian houses. It is supposed to inform us of how the first settlers arrived in Texas, and it celebrates their success stories while it entirely leaves out the role slavery played. I was mostly drawn to a little farm, where this guy with a long white beard was reenacting life how it might have been back then. He was repairing a chair; there were chickens and sheep. Right behind the farm was the chain-link fence that limits the museum space. Behind it is a small strip of grass after which the freeway starts, and this small grassy patch is used by homeless people as a living site. In the museum there was of course no acknowledgement of the people living right behind the fence either; they seemed to be invisible. It was such a bizarre clash of narratives: the massive land dedicated to preserving the Texan success story with all the beautiful dream houses, and the tent city right behind the fence. The absurdity of these opposites amazed me, the way reality spilled into the museum space.
TB: This seems to be another recurring ambition of yours, how to—figuratively and literally—breach an object and connect it to the outside world, to break out of the ivory tower and allow life, which happens out there, to completely spill into the art, to integrate into it. I sense that this has to do with the intention of continuously undermining the power of your work.
LS: Yes. I want to introduce something that is unpredictable. At first sight my works might appear to be these shiny, perfect objects, these entities. That's why I build in these slightly undermining mechanisms that function in different ways: the reflectiveness of the epoxy resin, the holes piercing the works. It is on purpose that I don't mold the resin perfectly, that it includes occasional air bubbles, dust, hair, a small fly, or whatever. The surface isn't super smooth and flat but rather wobbly, though it's important to me that it remains reflective. You can't look at my work without noticing its environment.


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Нитрат актиния(III) — Ac(NO3)3, неорганическое соединение, актиниевая соль азотной кислоты. Белое вещество, хорошо растворимое в воде.

При нагревании выше 600 °C разлагается:

Нитрат актиния может быть получен растворением актиния или гидроксида актиния в азотной кислоте. Соль используется как источник ионов Ac3+ для получения нерастворимых соединений актиния осаждением из водных растворов.

Примечания

актиния
Соединения азота по алфавиту


MESUT OZIL, Roy Hodgson and Gareth Bale all feature in today's paper review.
THE SUN: Gary Lineker was painted in vegetables yesterday as Roy Hodgson warned him - You're sprout of order. Also: Mesut Ozil is in line for a shock start for Arsenal at Sunderland on Saturday.
DAILY MAIL: Gareth Bale turned up for his first day at the office and was warmly welcomed by the man he has replaced as the world's most expensive footballer. Also: Gary Lineker is willing to sit on FA chairman Greg Dyke's crisis commission into the state of English football after smoothing over relations with England manager Roy Hodgson.
DAILY MIRROR: Gary Lineker last night backtracked over his England criticism and insisted Roy Hodgson was doing "a good job". Also: Gareth Bale got to grips with the superstar he calls The Boss when he turned up for his first day with Real Madrid yesterday.
DAILY EXPRESS: Roy Hodgson's fractious relationship with Gary Lineker threatens to become further strained after he accused the former England striker of having a selective memory. Also: It was almost manbags at 20 paces yesterday as new signing Gareth Bale was greeted at Real Madrid by the man he replaced as the world's most expensive player.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Roy Hodgson has returned from Kiev with a point and a grievance. Also: Manchester United defender Phil Jones is demanding a written apology from Stuart Pearce after being left furious following claims that he lacked the commitment to play in the European Under-21 Championship this summer.
THE TIMES: Bradley Wiggins offered to walk out on Team Sky in the middle of his Tour de France victory last year. Also: Even now, Roy Hodgson seems surprised that his delight at a solid, if uninspiring England performance away from home might not be shared universally.
THE GUARDIAN: Roy Hodgson has admitted he deliberately set out his England team to play long-ball football in the World Cup qualifier against Ukraine that has led to prolonged criticism of the team's methods under his management. Also: On a tiny sofa in a private members' club in London's Soho, Clarke Carlisle draws up his long limbs and buries his face in his hands.
THE INDEPENDENT: Roy Hodgson has hit back at Gary Lineker's criticism of the England team's "awful" 0-0 draw with Ukraine, claiming that the England sides the former striker played in were not always a "total success" either. Also: What should not be forgotten about Roy Hodgson is that he is the coach called in from the cold.


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Q: Any good reason not to use
A: Yes, but only because you're using jQuery.
jQuery doesn't work with defer because it tries to fire as soon as the page becomes interactive. They can't fix it any time soon (I raised that bug over a year ago) because changing the ready behaviour to work with defer will break lots of components that rely on jQuery's ready event firing on interactive (i.e. before deferred scripts have finished loading).
If you're using a more modern framework (React, Angular 2, Polymer, Vue, or just about anything else) then go for it - or even go to the next step and use <script type=module in new browsers and a legacy bundle in <script nomodule defer... for IE.

A: As noted here you should take browser support into account, as some of them don't really support it. There are also some well known bugs in some versions like this one in IE<=9.
If your goal is not to support old browsers (find full support list here) then there is no real reason for not picking defer today.


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Channel Bonding
Definition - What does Channel Bonding mean?
Channel bonding is a practice commonly used in IEEE 802.11 implementations in which two adjacent channels within a given frequency band are combined to increase throughput between two or more wireless devices.
Channel bonding is also known as Ethernet bonding, but it is used heavily in Wi-Fi implementations. It has become a very popular technique in the world of Wi-Fi because its increased throughput provides for more functionality within Wi-Fi deployments.
Channel bonding is also known as NIC bonding.
Techopedia explains Channel Bonding
Channel bonding is commonly practiced in Wi-Fi networks, which typically operate within the 2.4 GHz frequency band. The 2.4 GHz frequency band has room for three non-overlapping bonded channels. Within 802.11n deployments this translates into a theoretical throughput of 54 Mbps. The combination of these non-overlapping channels is often referred to as increasing the size of the pipe.
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Ethernet Bonding, NIC Bonding