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Q: Windows Server 2012 with ASP.NET MVC application stops working (ESENT errors) The solution is an ASP.NET MVC application using E/F hosted in IIS on a Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard VM hosted in a Hyper-V environment. The same VM is running SQL Server 2012.
The hosting environment is hosting 30 other solutions and there is plenty of free disk space and no known disk problems with hosting environment or VM (chkdsk and sfc has been run on VM and did not report any problems).
The problem is that the solution/server stops working for short periods of 5-1o minutes and every time we see event ID 508/533 from ESENT and a message about writing to "C:\Windows\system32\LogFiles\Sum".
A similar message has been seen with sqlsvr but this was solved by giving everyone all rights to C:\Windows\system32\LogFiles\Sum.
When the problem persists, it affects the whole VM and sometimes it is no even possible to connect via remote desktop.
We have seen a high number of open SQL Server connections when the problems occurs and prior to introducing caching for a specific Web API method we were actually able to empty the SQL Server connection pool. Just in case we have changed the connection pool from 100 to 200 connections even though we have not seen this particular problem since we introduced the cache.
All DbContext instances are disposed by "using", an ApiController.Dispose override or a Controller.Dispose override and only one SqlConnection are used (for the logging system).
I suspect the problem to be outside the solution and that the high number of SQL Server connections are related to the fact that SQL Server is unable to write to the disk.
Below is some Windows Event Log excerpts for three recent "break downs" with some additional info about the number of web request prior to the problem and after the server has automatically recovered.
Any suggestions?

web requests during the 10 minutes right before the problem: 1399
  web requests during the first 10 minutes after the server has recovered: 1630

18-03-2015 20:07:20 833 MSSQLSERVER
SQL Server has encountered 1 occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on file [C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\Xxx.mdf] in database [Xxx] (5).  The OS file handle is 0x0000000000000A7C.  The offset of the latest long I/O is: 0x000003e104e000
18-03-2015 20:07:40 833 MSSQLSERVER
SQL Server has encountered 1 occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on file [C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\Xxx_log.ldf] in database [Xxx] (5).  The OS file handle is 0x0000000000000A8C.  The offset of the latest long I/O is: 0x0000007f203000
18-03-2015 20:08:16 533 ESENT
svchost (1740) A request to write to the file "C:\Windows\system32\LogFiles\Sum\Svc.log" at offset 1806336 (0x00000000001b9000) for 4096 (0x00001000) bytes has not completed for 36 second(s). This problem is likely due to faulty hardware. Please contact your hardware vendor for further assistance diagnosing the problem.
18-03-2015 20:17:14 508 ESENT
svchost (1740) A request to write to the file "C:\Windows\system32\LogFiles\Sum\Svc.log" at offset 1806336 (0x00000000001b9000) for 4096 (0x00001000) bytes succeeded, but took an abnormally long time (36 seconds) to be serviced by the OS. This problem is likely due to faulty hardware. Please contact your hardware vendor for further assistance diagnosing the problem.

web requests during the 10 minutes right before the problem: 696
  web requests during the first 10 minutes after the server has recovered: 614

19-03-2015 01:17:19 533 ESENT
svchost (1740) A request to write to the file "C:\Windows\system32\LogFiles\Sum\Svc.log" at offset 3067904 (0x00000000002ed000) for 4096 (0x00001000) bytes has not completed for 36 second(s). This problem is likely due to faulty hardware. Please contact your hardware vendor for further assistance diagnosing the problem.
19-03-2015 01:33:02 508 ESENT
svchost (1740) A request to write to the file "C:\Windows\system32\LogFiles\Sum\Svc.log" at offset 3067904 (0x00000000002ed000) for 4096 (0x00001000) bytes succeeded, but took an abnormally long time (983 seconds) to be serviced by the OS. This problem is likely due to faulty hardware. Please contact your hardware vendor for further assistance diagnosing the problem.
19-03-2015 01:33:03 833 MSSQLSERVER
SQL Server has encountered 5 occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on file [C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\Xxx_log.ldf] in database [Xxx] (5).  The OS file handle is 0x0000000000000A8C.  The offset of the latest long I/O is: 0x000000a389d000

web requests during the 10 minutes right before the problem: 555
  web requests during the first 10 minutes after the server has recovered: 784

19-03-2015 03:33:51 833 MSSQLSERVER
SQL Server has encountered 1 occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on file [C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\Xxx_log.ldf] in database [Xxx] (5).  The OS file handle is 0x0000000000000A8C.  The offset of the latest long I/O is: 0x000000aa95f000
19-03-2015 03:40:48 533 ESENT
svchost (1740) A request to write to the file "C:\Windows\system32\LogFiles\Sum\Svc.log" at offset 3846144 (0x00000000003ab000) for 4096 (0x00001000) bytes has not completed for 36 second(s). This problem is likely due to faulty hardware. Please contact your hardware vendor for further assistance diagnosing the problem.
19-03-2015 03:40:48 833 MSSQLSERVER
SQL Server has encountered 1 occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on file [C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\MSDBLog.ldf] in database [msdb] (4).  The OS file handle is 0x0000000000000A90.  The offset of the latest long I/O is: 0x00000000108000
19-03-2015 03:40:49 508 ESENT
svchost (1740) A request to write to the file "C:\Windows\system32\LogFiles\Sum\Svc.log" at offset 3846144 (0x00000000003ab000) for 4096 (0x00001000) bytes succeeded, but took an abnormally long time (36 seconds) to be serviced by the OS. This problem is likely due to faulty hardware. Please contact your hardware vendor for further assistance diagnosing the problem.
19-03-2015 03:40:49 17894 MSSQLSERVER
Dispatcher (0x1a88) from dispatcher pool 'XE Engine main dispatcher pool' Worker 0x00000000F03B8160 appears to be non-yielding on Node 0. Approx CPU Used: kernel 0 ms, user 0 ms, Interval: 336140.

A: Disk I/O problems was my initial thought but the "funny" thing is that it actually never has happened during peak hours and that the server during peak hours is not stressed on CPU or disk I/O.
I cannot find any VM disk errors. I have no access to the hosting environment but I am told that there are no disk problems. The hosting environment is performing VM backups and if this is the problem, there is nothing to do about it, as it is required. I might try to have the VM moved to another disk but I do not know if this is possible.
Currently we have set up some detailed disk I/O monitoring on the VM and hopefully this will give us some information about the problem but I rather doubt it.
Maybe the VM is just "sick" and the next step might be to create a new one from scratch…

A: It sounds like your disk is just plain overloaded, since I/Os are taking so long. Ideally they should take around 10 milliseconds. Instead, they're taking over 1000x that long.
Since you're running in a VM, though, tracking down the problem can be a bit more tricky. Is it due to the I/O load in the virtual machine, or on the host? Your VM disk may be shared with other I/O load of the host.
Can you move the database to a different volume in the VM, hosted on a different physical spindle of the host?
Another possibility is that the underlying storage is going bad, and the I/Os are being retried by the underlying hardware.
-martin

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Le  d'uhlans du Roi ( d'uhlans hanovrien) est une unité de cavalerie de l'armée prussienne, qui existe de 1866 à 1919.

Histoire
Après la guerre austro-prussienne perdue de 1866, le royaume de Hanovre est annexé par la Prusse. Avec l'agrandissement de la zone, selon la compréhension de l'époque, une augmentation de l'armée est devenue nécessaire. De nouvelles troupes sont donc levées dans les zones annexées.

Par AKO du , la formation du  d'uhlans avec garnison à Hanovre est ordonnée à partir du . À cette fin, le régiment des Gardes du Corps et les ,  et  d'uhlans de la Garde cède chacun un escadron. Le , il reçoit la désignation de  d'uhlans ( d'uhlans hanovrien) et la même année un  escadron est formé.

Le , l'empereur Guillaume II, en tant que roi de Prusse, se nomma lui-même chef du régiment et donna à l'unité son nom définitif,  d'uhlans du Roi ( d'uhlans hanovrien).

Vers 1890, l'empereur Guillaume II accorde au régiment le droit exclusif "d'exécuter les anciennes marches de présentation et de parade de l'ancienne  lors d'occasions spéciales. « Guillaume, qui a fait l'éloge de la tradition des officiers "dans le système étatique monarchique" comme "le plus grand soutien de l'État", veut remplacer la "noblesse [... de naissance]" autrefois possible par la "noblesse d'esprit", qui a "inspiré le corps des officiers en tout temps".

Par AKO du , Guillaume II décide que le régiment doit être considéré comme faisant partie de l'ancien régiment royal hanovrien de la Garde du Corps, qui a été créé à partir du  de dragons lourds de la Légion allemande du roi du roi britannique George III et électeur de Hanovre. Le jour de la fondation du régiment est donc fixé au .

Guerre franco-prussienne
Dès le début de la guerre contre la France, le régiment est impliqué dans des escarmouches et des batailles dans la zone comprise entre la frontière française à l'ouest de Metz. Du début à la mi-, il est déployé à la bataille de Vionville, à la bataille de Mars-la-Tour et à la bataille de Saint-Privat.

  au  : Siège de Paris
 Mi- : Batailles de Bû, Berchères et Richebourg
  : escarmouches à Sémur et Lavaré
  : Après l'armistice dans l'armée d'occupation en Normandie
 Mi- : retour en Empire allemand
  : Arrivée à Hanovre

Première Guerre mondiale
Au début de la Première Guerre mondiale, l'unité est mobilisée et se rend sur le front français avec le  de dragons de la  de cavalerie. Après l'avancée vers la Marne, le régiment est utilisé en patrouille et en escarmouches d'avant-garde. Après la retraite de la Marne, il est transféré dans l'Aisne, y abandonne les chevaux et participe à la guerre des tranchées en tant qu'infanterie. Remonté début novembre, le régiment est transféré sur le front de l'Est au sein de la  brigade de cavalerie. Il avance en Pologne et prend part à la bataille de Łódź .

 En 1915, le régiment est initialement déployé dans la guerre des tranchées en tant qu'escadrons de fusiliers. À partir de juin de cette année-là, à nouveau montée, l'avancée se poursuit avec la  jusqu'à la Vistule avec participation à l'offensive de Vilna et à la bataille de Vilna.
 Jusqu'en  en position d'infanterie au combat et aux services de patrouille sur le lac Narocz. Les chevaux étant infestés de la gale, contre laquelle on ne peut rien faire sur place, le régiment doit être retiré du front et transféré au Gouvernement général de Varsovie. Là, il est utilisé dans le service d'étape.
 En , il est transféré à Pinsk et déployé au front sur le Stochod pour repousser l'offensive Broussilov.
 En , le régiment déménage sur le front occidental, mais est d'abord réapprovisionné et entraîné jusqu'à la mi-.
 De mai à juin, le régiment participe à des batailles de positions de Reims, suivies de celles de Champagne à la fin août.
 À partir de fin septembre, le régiment participe à la bataille défensive de Verdun, qui s'y déroule jusqu'au début . Après avoir été détaché du front à des fins d'entraînement, le régiment participe à l'offensive allemande du printemps 1918.
 Lors de l'opération Michael en , le régiment poursuit les forces ennemies après la percée entre Gouzeaucourt et Vermand et le passage forcé sur la Somme, mais se replie ensuite derrière la Somme.
 S'ensuivent des combats sur l'Ancre, la Somme et l'Avre, du 14 au , la bataille de Noyon du 9 au , et des combats de position en Lorraine du  au .
 Lors de l'Offensive des Cent-Jours, le régiment combat devant le front Siegfried du  au , devant les fronts Hunding et Brunhild du 10 au , dans la position Hunding du  au  et enfin dans des batailles de retraite devant la position Anvers-Meuse du 5 au .

Après-guerre

Après l'armistice de Compiègne, le régiment quitte les territoires occupés à partir du  et se replie en Allemagne. Là, il est démobilisé et dissous en 1919. La tradition est reprise dans la Reichswehr par décret du  du chef du commandement de l'armée général de l'infanterie Hans von Seeckt, par le  escadron du  de cavalerie (prussien) stationné à Insterbourg.

Commandants

Uniforme

Uniforme de la paix
Le régiment porte l'uniforme typiquement prussien d'uhlan, composé d'un  bleu foncé, d'une culotte d'équitation de couleur athracite, de bottes de cavalerie et de la chapska.

 La chapska est équipée d'accastillage couleur tombac. Chaînes d'écailles, plus un aigle de garde avec une étoile de garde et le ruban monétaire avec l'inscription "PENINSULA - WATERLOO - GARZIA-HERNANDEZ". Le chapskahals est recouvert d'un tissu blanc pour le défilé et un buisson de crin blanc est attaché.
 L'ulanka est en tissu bleu foncé avec un col montant, des poignets polonais, un passepoil, des remises de défilé et des champs d'épaulettes de la couleur blanche de l'insigne. La signature "très grande" WR II est sur les champs d'épaulettes. Les boutons sont en nickel, c'est-à-dire en métal blanc.
 Les pantalons et les bottes correspondent au standard des dragons et des lanciers.

Uniforme de campagne M 1910
Avec l'uniforme de campagne de 1910, presque toutes les décorations colorées sur l'uniforme disparaissent. La chapska est recouverte d'une capuche vert roseau, l'ulanka et la culotte gardent leur coupe, mais sont désormais en gris champ et n'ont que des passepoils colorés sur les bords des bordures, les manches, autour du col et autour des épaulettes.

Historique de la caserne

La caserne est située dans la zone entre Callinstrasse et l'ancienne Militärstrasse (aujourd'hui : Appelstrasse) en face du  dans ce qui est maintenant le quartier de .

Une ancienne caserne d'uhlan est construite dans le royaume de Hanovre dans les années 1850 sur la  sous le nom de « Gardes royaux du Corps », mais n'est renommée caserne d'uhlans que dans les années 1870. Elle se situait à l'emplacement du  d'aujourd'hui. Au nord de celle-ci, dans la zone de ce qui est aujourd'hui la partie nord de la ville, une rue est aménagée en 1865 dans un jardin presque non aménagé, qui n'est officiellement nommé rue militaire qu'en 1868 "à cause de la proximité de la caserne d'uhlans". Cependant, le "dépôt de trains du  du train, dont la caserne sur le Möhringsberg se trouve directement sur la ligne de chemin de fer", est également situé sur la route militaire.

C'est ainsi qu'en 1863, l'abbaye Saint-Nicolas acquiert une première partie de ce qui est aujourd'hui le  nouveau cimetière Saint-Nicolas d'aujourd'hui sur un jardin et des terres agricoles non aménagés. En 1873, l'abbaye loue une partie de la zone qui n'est pas initialement nécessaire à l'administration de la garnison du  régiment d'uhlans, qui développe la zone comme un manège. « Probablement par [les architectes] Schuster et Habbe », une caserne à trois ailes y est construite sur la route militaire de 1885 à 1888, dont l'aile nord classée, l'ancienne écurie, est aujourd'hui conservée. Le bâtiment en briques allongé sous un toit en croupe avec un décor de tuiles éparses est «l'un des rares bâtiments militaires restants qui témoignent de l'essor de l'armée à Hanovre après l'annexion par la Prusse".

Depuis l'annexion du royaume de Hanovre par la Prusse à partir de 1866 (jusqu'en 1912), les uhlans du roi utilisent déjà les  à Welfengarten comme écurie.Néanmoins, le développement autour du régiment d'uhlans reste clairsemé au début : après la construction des premières serres, l'abbaye Saint-Nicolas acquiert une plantation d'asperges d'un peu moins de 1 acre pour agrandir le cimetière en 1886, que le monastère utilise initialement avec profit pour la culture des légumes nobles. Ce n'est qu'à la fin du  que l'Appelstraße, dans le cadre d'un développement ultérieur (résidentiel), est traversée par un système d'égouts, comme en témoigne la plaque d'égout de l' portant la date "1897". Plus tard, des bâtiments militaires situés sur le site de l'ancien régiment d'uhlans entre Appelstrasse et Callinstrasse, qui sont également conservés, sont maintenant utilisés par l'université Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz de Hanovre.

De l'époque nationale-socialiste, quatre autres bâtiments annexes portant l'année de construction 1936 ont été conservés à l'adresse Callinstraße 30, 30a et b ainsi que 34: L'ancien mess des officiers (maintenant bâtiment 3 416, géologie), les anciens bâtiments agricoles (3415), l'ancien hôpital pour chevaux (3414) et l'ancienne caserne (3407).

Bibliographie
 Friedrich von Seydewitz: Die ersten 25 Jahre des Königs-Ulanen-Regiments (1. Hannoverschen) Nr. 13. Verlag Hermann Peters, Berlin 1897.
 Albert von Nettelbladt: Die Althannoverschen Ueberlieferungen des Königs-Ulanen-Regiments (1. Hannoverschen) Nr 13. 1903.
 Joseph Kürschner: Kürschners Staats-, Hof- und Kommunalhandbuch des Reiches und der Einzelstaaten. Stuttgart 1890, München 1913, 1916
 Wolfgang Pietsch: Von den Kasernen zu den Laboratorien. Städtebauliche Entwicklung und Grundstückspolitik. In: , Wolfgang Pietsch: Die Universität Hannover. Ihre Bauten. Ihre Gärten. Ihre Planungsgeschichte. hrsg. im Auftrag des Präsidiums der Universität Hannover, Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2003, , S. 176–182.
 Conrad von Meding: Pferdestall als Campus-Zentrum / Der scheidende Uni-Präsident will an der Appelstraße einen Traum realisieren und dem zersplitterten Hochschulareal einen Veranstaltungsort vermachen. Doch noch fehlen Spender. sowie: Das Ulanenregiment. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. (HAZ) vom 26. November 2014, S. 15.
 Hugo F.W. Schulz: Die Preußischen Kavallerieregimenter 1913/1914 .
 Jürgen Kraus: Die deutsche Armee im Ersten Weltkrieg. Uniformierung und Ausrüstung 1913/1914. , S. 378 ff.

Références

Liens externes

Unité de cavalerie prussienne
Régiment allemand de cavalerie de la Première Guerre mondiale
Province de Hanovre
Unité ou formation militaire créée en 1866
Unité ou formation militaire dissoute en 1919

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£10 million boost to York flood defences announced by Prime Minister
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£40 million of funding announced for defences on Yorkshire rivers, including Wharfe and Derwent
David Cameron visiting York during last week's floods
THE Prime Minister has announced an extra £10 million in funding to bolster flood defences in York - and another £30 million on repairing defences on other Yorkshire rivers including the Wharfe and Derwent.
David Cameron was speaking just days after visiting York in the aftermath of the devastating Boxing Day floods, which affected households near the River Foss particularly badly.
Environment Agency officials decided to lift the Foss Barrier at the river's confluence with the Ouse - which was designed to prevent the Foss flooding - after finding that pumps at the barrier were at risk of electrical failure due to water entering the building.
The Prime Minister said: "I have seen at first-hand the devastation caused by flooding. And that's why this work to repair and improve flood defences is so vital.
"We are already spending £280 million over the next six years to protect thousands of houses from flooding in Yorkshire as part of our £2.3 billion investment to protect 300,000 houses across the country.
"But now more than £40 million will be spent to fix those defences overwhelmed by the record rainfall we've seen in recent weeks and to make them more resilient to further bad weather."
The money comes on top of £50 million of funding to help local authorities responding to the flood.
Charities raising cash for communities left devastated over Christmas by the deluge will be matched by the Government up to a total of £2 million, in a move echoing pledges to earlier flooding victims.
The £30 million will be spent on repairing defences on the Calder, Aire, Ouse and Derwent rivers in Yorkshire as well as the Wharfe, which runs through Tadcaster where the storm left the town split in two when an ancient bridge collapsed.
Mr Cameron has also made Transport Minister and Scarborough and Whitby MP Robert Goodwill a "flooding envoy" for Yorkshire to oversee the response in the region and identify what must be done to protect the area in the future.
Mr Goodwill said: "The effects of the flooding in Yorkshire have been devastating and my thoughts are with every person affected by the catastrophic weather we have seen sweep across the North of England this December.
"As a Yorkshireman I am determined to ensure I do everything I can to help protect communities in this area from the devastation flooding can cause. This is about ensuring people get the support they need as they repair their homes and rebuild their businesses."
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn claimed during a visit to York last Thursday that the Government 's response to flooding problems over the past five years had been cut to cut funding for flood defences and lay off expert staff from the Environment Agency, adding: "Public investment is for the good of the entire public."
Cllr Andrew Waller, City of York Council's executive member for environment, said he welcomed the announcement of new money, but warned that significant engineering work could be needed at the Foss barrier and pumping station which could cost more than £10 million.
He said that whatever the bill, it was essential the money was found, as it was vital that people living and working along the Foss basin could be confident their properties were fully protected from another devastating flood.


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Install a protection technique in your house that is monitored by a central monitoring station, and you will conserve about 5 % on your home insurance. You will probably have to provide evidence to your house insurance policies firm to get the low cost, but that is as easy as sending them a copy of your monitoring bill.
Obtaining home owner's insurance policy will give you peace of head that no issue what transpires to your house, you are lined. There are several various organizations that offer insurance policy and countless different choices offered. Use the suggestions from this article to guidebook you in the direction of what home owner's insurance coverage is appropriate for you.


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Our English lessons take inspiration from Pie Corbett's 'Talk for Writing' with added objective lead lessons which ensure the breadth of the Year One Reading, Writing, Spelling and Grammar curriculum is covered.
Talk for Writing was developed by the author Pie Corbett. It is a fun, creative yet also rigorous approach to develop writers. Talk for Writing starts with enjoying and sharing stories. Throughout the year, we place a strong emphasis on children reading stories, stories being read to them and enjoying a range of literature, including non fiction texts. Through regular reading, we want children to build up an extensive and rich vocabulary.
During the initial 'imitation' stage of Talk for Writing, children learn to tell a story off by heart. They retell a text with expression and actions and make use of a story map to support their retelling. Once the story is learnt, children are encouraged to adapt it. At the 'innovation' stage, children make the story their own, for example, by changing the character or setting. Finally, at the 'invention' stage, children write their own text independently.
We listen to children read on a one to one basis at the start of the year, working to build children up to Guided Reading (group reading with a teacher) at the end of the year. Children take home two narrative books a week, which parents should read with that home – developing comprehension skills by asking questions as they do so. Our narrative books have been carefully selected to match many different abilities, so each child takes home books which are perfectly matched to their ability. Children also take home one phonics book, which although not as narrative is matched to the child's personal phonics level. We are very proud of these books and have noted the success they enable children to achieve in their phonics work.
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ANGUS may refer to:

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 Air National Guard of the United States, a designated military reserve component of the United States

See also
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Packing for international travel is always stressful, but TechRepublic's almostEverest team had more to check than just climbing gear. Check out how Mike and Dave overcame last minute technical failures and headed for Nepal.
Let the trek begin!
by michaeljackman in Networking
on April 10, 2000, 12:00 AM PDT
Greetings all!
Well, the day finally arrived, and we're off! We boarded the plane on Saturday morning at 6:50 A.M. EDT and began this incredible adventure. After I slept the next four hours, I thought I'd let you know how the final days of preparation went for us. As always, when planning and preparing for a trip of this magnitude, you discover many unanticipated events as the project approaches launch.
My personal favorite was the fact that we received the laptops we're using to communicate with TechRepublic Base Camp just two days before setting out. Fortunately, our IT department went all out to ensure we had a stable configuration that would enable us to dial in via the satellite phone and transfer information with our internal servers.
Our IT department was fantastic—Dom and John spent all day working on our endeavor, and we placed several calls to MVS. However, fearing the IT dept was short of the serial cables we needed to connect phone to laptop, Dave and I made a quick trip to CompUSA to buy a couple. Then, all four of us spent several hours on a little grassy knoll behind the TechRepublic parking lot, pointing the Mini-M's antenna to the sky searching for satellites and testing our connection and our new e-mail account. (Tech hint: If you're using a slow [2400-baud] satellite data up-link, turn off DNS—it takes too much time.)
Another source of last-minute hysteria involved the batteries for all of the electronic equipment we're taking. After a couple quick calls to an MVS engineer, we had a perfect solution. Something called a gelcell battery would provide us with power for the phone through most of the trip. Best of all, it would only add between 10 and 20 pounds to our total gear weight.
From the beginning, I've planned to test a TRGpro version of a Palm III in the extreme conditions we're likely to face. So what happened in the week leading up to departure? The screen went out! Fortunately, I was able to get a replacement in time; however it was also broken—no power. One day before we were scheduled to leave, UPS came to the rescue again and delivered a working palmtop device for me. (I wonder if they deliver on the side of the mountain we're climbing? ;->)
Finally, let me tell you about my harness, and then I'll let you go. When it comes to buying climbing and expedition equipment, two sizes are available: small and smaller. Forget what the labels say. In order to rope in safely when climbing on the ice, I need something called a sit harness. It has a waist belt, two leg loops, and a loop connecting the legs and waist, which you rope into using a carabiner or two. Mountain Gear sent me a great harness. But, as my waist is a little bigger than most svelte climbers, I found that after putting on all the expedition gear, the harness just didn't fit.
So I had them send me another harness. This one, too, though billed as an extra large, was about the width of my wrist. Finally, I went to our local Quest Outdoors, where I'd purchased tons of gear before. They didn't have the harness I was searching for, but they called manufacturers and local outlets to find a Petzl harness with a larger waistband. After a twenty-mile drive into the boondocks at 8:00 P.M., I was able to purchase The Perfect Harness: a Petzl Gourou! OK, it had to be done, and I thought it was a royal pain when I should have been packing. But instead, I discovered Hester's Fitness Center, which has the biggest, best, most complex climbing practice wall I've ever seen.
Actually, the final days weren't completely stressful. TechRepublic threw a big ice cream and cake party for us on Thursday afternoon. The cake was beautiful—it had a detailed picture of a mountain and two frosting stick figures slowly making their way up. It said, "Good luck Dave & Mike." I hope that the climb is as good as that cake was.
Want to win a TechRepublic baseball cap? Share your climbing experiences or give the guys encouraging words by posting your comment below, or send us an e-mail. It's that simple.And so you don't miss one step of David and Mike's climb up Island Peak, subscribe to our free TrekMail. Be one of the first 2,000 subscribers to our TrekMail, and you'll get a cool TechRepublic flying disc!
Mike Jackman is an editor-in-chief of TechProGuild, an editor of PC Troubleshooter and Windows Support Professional, and also works as a freelance Web designer and consultant. Together with his co-editor-in-chief David Bard, he is traveling to Nepal to report on high-altitude technology and to climb 20,285-foot Imja Tse. In his spare time (when he can find some), Mike's an avid devourer and writer of science fiction, parent to two perpetually adolescent cats, and a hiking enthusiast.
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Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg (21 April 1673 – 10 April 1742) was Holy Roman Empress, Queen of the Germans, Queen of Hungary, Queen of Bohemia, Archduchess consort of Austria etc.[1] as the spouse of Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor.
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Wilhelmine Amalia was the youngest daughter of John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate. Her two surviving sisters were Charlotte Felicitas, who married the Duke of Modena, and Henriette Marie, who never married. Wilhelmina was given a Catholic education by her great-aunt Louise Holladine at the convent of Maubuisson, and did not return to Hanover until she was 20 years old, in 1693.
Early on, the Holy Roman Empress Eleonor Magdalene of the Palatinate-Neuburg decided that Wilhelmina Amalia would be her daughter-in-law. Prince Salm was instrumental in speaking for her candidacy. The adviser of Eleonor, Marco d'Aviano, had convinced her that Wilhelmine Amalia, being pious and older than Joseph, could act as a tempering influence and discontinue his sex life outside of marriage, and to Leopold, he claimed that he had a vision that the pair would be happy. She was subjected to medical examination to establish if she was fertile, and though she was senior to Joseph, which was initially to her disadvantage, it was decided that her mental maturity would benefit fertilization.
As a result, on 24 February 1699, she married Eleonor's son, Archduke Joseph, the heir of Emperor Leopold I. At their wedding, the opera Hercule and Hebe by Reinhard Keiser (1674–1739) was performed. Upon Joseph's election as Emperor in 1705, she became Empress of the Holy Roman Empire.
She had three children:
Archduchess Maria Josepha (8 December 1699 – 17 November 1757); married Augustus III, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
Archduke Leopold Joseph (29 October 1700 – 4 August 1701); died in infancy
Archduchess Maria Amalia (22 October 1701 – 11 December 1756); she married Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor
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Wilhelmina Amalia
Wilhelmine Amalia was described as beautiful but also as religious and serious. Her relationship with her husband was initially described as happy, but it soon deteriorated. Joseph had a long line of mistresses, both servants and nobles, such as Dorothea Daun. His hunting companion count Johann Philip von Lamberg provided him with lovers, and he eventually had a long term relationship with Marianne Pálffy, who became his official mistress. This was a scandal, as official mistresses had not been a custom at the Austrian court, and both Wilhelmine Amalia and the pope protested.[2] Her mother-in-law supported her, scolding Joseph and placed his procurers in prison, but after he became emperor, nothing could be done. He had several illegitimate children, but no surviving male heir with his spouse. In 1704, Joseph contracted syphilis, reportedly from the daughter of a gardener, and passed the disease to his wife.[3] Because of the prudishness of the Austrian court, she initially did not know what had happened to her and blamed herself for the infection.[4] It has been suggested that this condition was the reason for the failure of the Empress to produce more children after the birth of her second daughter. Without male heirs, a crisis developed in regards to the imperial succession.
As empress, Wilhelmine Amalia as well as her successor were described as accomplished in music, discretion, modesty and diligence, and was regarded to fulfill her representational role as empress well both within the Spanish court protocol of hunting and balls and amateur theater as well as the religious devotion days of pietas austriaca. Joseph did not allow her any political influence what so ever and kept her outside of state affairs as he did his mother and mistress Marianne Pàlffy, but she was described as intelligent and self-sufficient and she established political connections among the ministers, especially her relative Prince Salm, whom she generally supported even when he promoted the interests of the Holy German Empire against Austria.[5] She is described as an active participator in dynastic intrigue, and assisted in the marriage between her cousin and brother-in-law.[6] She worked closely with the Hanoverian envoy to benefit interests of her family the Guelphs.
Empress Dowager
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Wilhelmine Amalia HRE
In 1711, Wilhelmine Amalia was widowed, and her mother-in-law became the interim regent until her brother-in-law, the Archduke Charles, could return from Spain where he was the Austrian nominee for the Spanish throne during the War of the Spanish Succession. At the death of her spouse, the stress caused the syphilis of Wilhelmine Amalia to return in full force after several years remission.[7]
When Charles returned, he was proclaimed as the new Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI. His inability to produce male heirs irked Charles VI and eventually led to the promulgation of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, a document which abolished male-only succession and declared his lands indivisible. The new Emperor favoured his own daughters over those of Joseph I and Wilhelmine Amalia, in the succession, ignoring a decree he had signed during the reign of his father, Leopold I. She as well as her mother-in-law was active in fighting for their daughter's right to the throne. By the secret pactum mutuae successionis of 1703, Leopold had made an agreement with his sons that the daughters of Joseph would be first in the line of succession, followed by those of Charles and Leopold, and though none of the empresses knew of the existence of the document, there had been talk of it, and Joseph had hinted about it to Wilhelmine Amalia. Baron Seilern apparently showed Wilhelmine Amalia the document before it was presented to the head of her family, the elector of Hanover.[8] In 1712, the elector sent the famous Gottfried Leibniz to her to assist her in defending her daughters rights against Charles, and on 21 April 1713, Charles VI presented the Pragmatic Sanction in which he adjusted himself to the memorandum of Wilhelmine Amalia from the document of pactum mutuae successionis, after which she celebrated with a dinner for the empresses and archduchesses at the table of empress dowager Eleanore, where she was congratulated on her success and answered that she hoped the emperor would have a son.[9] In 1715, however, her supporter Seilern died, and in 1717, Charles VI changed the terms of the Pragmatic Sanction to favor his daughters over hers. She did not approve, but did not openly protest.[10]
In 1722, after her daughters were married, Wilhelmine Amalia retired a convent that she had founded earlier in 1717, the Salesianerinnenkloster auf dem Rennwege in Vienna. The convent did not mean a retreat from social life, as she was in fact very active as a dowager, regularly leaving the convent for family visits as well as representational visits. It was as an Empress dowager that she had her greatest impact upon cultural life in Vienna. Her medical prescriptions in her care for the sick was recommended, and she founded a boarding school as well as one of Vienna's first orphanages for girls. She admired Francois de Sales and Jeanne Francoise Fremont de Chantal, and helped promote her canonization. She was also a patron of the Catholic reformer Lodovico Antonio Muratori.[11]
Wilhelmine Amalia got along very well with her mother-in-law Eleonore and her sister-in-law Elisabeth Christine as well as with the archduchesses, and the three empresses were described as supportive toward each other: Wilhelmine Amalia nursed Elisabeth Christine when she had smallpox, and Elisabeth Christine nursed Eleanor during her last illness.
In 1740, Charles VI died. During the War of the Austrian Succession, Wilhelmine Amalia initially supported her son-in-law, Charles Albert, Elector of Bavaria, in his pursuit of the imperial crown, but soon retired again to private life. In June 1741, empress Maria Theresa visited her and asked her to act as a mediator between herself and her son-in-law the Bavarian elector, but she refused.[12]
Wilhelmine Amalia outlived her spouse by more than 30 years, dying on 10 April 1742. She is buried in the Salesian convent in Vienna. Her heart is buried in the Imperial Crypt.
Ancestors of Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg
16. Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
8. William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
17. Sophia of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
4. George, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
18. Christian III of Denmark
9. Princess Dorothea of Denmark
19. Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg
2. John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
20. George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
10. Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
21. Magdalene of Lippe
5. Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt
22. John George, Elector of Brandenburg
11. Magdalene of Brandenburg
23. Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst
1. Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick
24. Frederick IV, Elector Palatine
12. Frederick V, Elector Palatine
25. Louise Juliana of Nassau
6. Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern
26. James I of England
13. Elizabeth Stuart
27. Anne of Denmark
3. Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate
28. Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers
14. Charles I, Duke of Mantua
29. Henriette of Cleves
7. Anna Gonzaga
30. Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne
15. Catherine of Lorraine
31. Henriette de Savoie-Villars
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↑ Clarissa Campbell Orr: Queenship in Europe 1660-1815: The Role of the Consort. Cambridge University Press (2004)
↑ Crankshaw, Edward: Maria Theresa. Longmans. London (1969)
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Robert Arthur "Bobby" Bell (* 1904 in Lachine, Québec; † 20. Mai 1940 in Abbeville, Frankreich) war ein kanadischer Eishockeyspieler und -trainer.

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Bell spielte als Amateur in Kanada, besuchte mit seinem Team etwa 1927 Europa und wurde als Trainer für die Schweizer Nationalmannschaft verpflichtet. Mit dieser nahm er an den Olympischen Winterspielen 1928 in St. Moritz teil und gewann die Bronzemedaille. Anschließend wurde er vom HC Davos als Trainer verpflichtet. Zwei Jahre später betreute er die Schweizer Auswahl bei der Weltmeisterschaft und gewann eine weitere Bronzemedaille. 1931 gewann er mit dem HC Davos die Schweizer Meisterschaft.

1932 verließ er den HC Davos und wurde Trainer beim  EHC Basel. Ab 1935 betreute er die Düsseldorfer EG und war ab 1936 parallel erster Reichstrainer der deutschen Nationalmannschaft. Mit dieser gewann er die Bronzemedaillen bei den Europa-Meisterschaften 1936, 1937, 1938 und 1939.

In den Spielzeiten 1937/38 und 1940/41 war er Trainer des SC Riessersee und gewann jeweils die deutsche Meisterschaft mit der Mannschaft. 1940 betreute er zudem den Mannheimer ERC als Trainer.

1940 flüchtete er zunächst nach Belgien, um in seine kanadische Heimat zurückzukehren, wurde aber als deutscher Spion festgenommen und im Juni 1940 in Abbeville durch französische Soldaten ermordet.

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Conflict Resolution: Just what the doctor ordered? Bringing Judges Into Medical-Malpractice Negotiations
By PON Staff — on December 25th, 2014 / Conflict Resolution
Adapted from "Just What the Doctor Ordered?," first published in the September 2011 issue of the Negotiation newsletter.
Medical-malpractice litigation can be a lengthy, expensive, and contentious process. Lawyers on both sides might spend months or years conducting discovery and deposing witnesses. As for settlement negotiations, they tend to occur late in the process and are often treated as a perfunctory step before a trial.
In New York State, hospitals spend more than $1 billion annually on medical-malpractice expenses, and malpractice insurance rates for New York health-care providers are among the highest in the nation. Last year, the New York State Department of Health unveiled a three-year pilot program aimed at improving patient safety and reducing malpractice costs. A key component of the program: judge directed negotiation, a process that involves judges in mediating early settlements of cases that would otherwise go to trial.
A grassroots process
The concept of judge-directed negotiation was developed by Judge Douglas McKeon of Bronx
County Supreme Court to tackle a backlog of medical-malpractice cases. McKeon meets in his chambers with attorneys representing both sides of a dispute, typically a patient or a deceased patient's family and a hospital being sued for injury or death.
Drawing on his years of experience presiding over malpractice trials, McKeon advises each side on what they can reasonably expect from a jury and then tries to steer the parties toward agreement. His goal: to convince both sides to reduce their aspirations in exchange for a speedy conclusion, lower legal bills, and the security of a known outcome.
The judge, who audited anatomy classes to improve his medical knowledge, is assisted by a nurse with legal training.
As McKeon's model expanded into a formal program, 70 New York judges took a crash course on medical topics and also received mediation and negotiation training. The program boasts a 95% settlement rate and is estimated to have saved about $66 million in annual malpractice costs. The federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which funds the program, estimates that it could save more than $1 billion annually on a national level.
Cure-all or quick fix?
Is judge-directed negotiation ready to expand nationally? The jury is still out.
On the plus side, by convening parties early at the negotiating table, the process can head off adversarial posturing and entrenched positions. After a doctor apologizes for a serious error, a patient might lower his financial demands. And when a patient describes the daily challenges imposed by an injury, a hospital may no longer dismiss her claim as frivolous—especially when a judge takes her side.
As experienced negotiators well know, the desire to be heard and understood can be at least as important to parties as their financial concerns. In addition, an experienced judge's evaluation of the relative merit of their cases may temper parties' unrealistic expectations about winning big in court. Yet as judge-directed negotiation expands, some observers fear that clients will be shut out of courtrooms, freeing lawyers to haggle in private over the price of a misdiagnosis or botched surgery.
And although parties are technically free to reject a settlement and go to court, a judge's cajoling may intimidate them into accepting an offer that they view as unfair.
The process also invites criticism by borrowing some elements of mediation and neglecting others. Neutrality, for example, is a central requirement of mediation, yet judges who have experience presiding over medical-malpractice trials might bring a degree of bias toward one side or the other. Judges in the new program are also free to express their opinions about parties' offers—typically a mediation no-no.
Despite its flaws, judge-directed negotiation appears to be a promising method of addressing the inefficiencies of medical-malpractice claims and could serve as a model for other types of tort cases as well.
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Combating Terrorism India
An alternative to combating terrorism.
Mike Ghouse August 09, 2006
When pressure builds up under the earth, lava erupts; when there is oppression in the nation, rebellion is the release; when an employer abuses his employees, revolt occurs; and when there is oppression in a family, either the spouse or children will do what needs to be done to bring the balance.
Whenever adharma (immorality) creeps in, Krishna (God) will create a mechanism (miracle) and shake people up, to put the morality equilibrium in place. This is expressed in every faith in one form or the other. History is replete with great reformers who will figure out a way to keep the balance on a continual basis. Mahatma Gandhi brought about the transition in oppressoin to self-rule without the normal bloodshed associated with freedom movements. Martin Luther King brought about a peaceful transition of the society from a discriminative one to all accepting one, releasing the society from a potent guilt that lay dormant for years and eating he happiness from within. Mother Teressa helped the Indian psyche from the inner suffering for not doing anything about the lepers and un-wanted, it is the guilt we feel when we see immense poverty when we visit our motherland and our inability to bring a change.
India's fears about terrorism are legitimate. These are the signs telling us to handle the situation delicately, wherever and whenever there is injustice, rebellion becomes a catalyst leading to terrorism. It is not a solace, but the signs are there. How do we tackle this? India is like a bus, heading towards a fabulous journey of growth and prosperity, with that comes some happiness and some contentment and some unburdening of guilt, especially for us the American Indians. If one of the tires ( meaning one of the communities ) of the bus is low in air pressure, we can certainly tell the tire to fill it up it self or go to hell, why should we help that (community) tire, what if it does not care? Then entire bus journey is wrought with doubts, will the tire burst? Would it slow us down and would the journey be un-safe?. (More complete story on the subject at: http://mikeghouse.sulekha.com/blogs/blogdisplay.aspx?cid=52994 .)
Let's not look ignore to fix the pressure of each tire (each community) in the bus, each one of us need to commit within ourselves to be Indian, and work for one India. First we need to drop the state distinctions, let's call ourselves Indian... and resist the temptation to be further boxed into a sub identity....no need to be a Malyalee, a Punjabi, a Gujarati, a Bengali, Marathi, Bihari or whatever, let's just be an Indian. Second, I wish our names were numbers, so no one would be desperately trying to figure the persons religion, since they are not, let's not give religion to our names with the intention of discrimination. (That is another story: http://mikeghouse.sulekha.com/blogs/blogdisplay.aspx?cid=64521) Third, focus on commonalities between every Indian - if nothing else; Cricket, Soccer, Amitabh, Shahrukh, Lata Krishnamurthy, Sonu Nigam, Naan, Chutney, Achaar, daal and whatever that is common.
Terrorism is a menace, we should not counter with more terror, our objective ought to be to eliminate and minimize terror and not suppress or oppress it. Israel and American failures are examples for us to learn. With a genuine interest in the security, safety and stability of India, I propose that the entire population is asked to help the tire as it ensures a safe journey for all. It is not charity stupid, it is capitalism, investment in the community to create a better environment for all. Nothing will last if it does not have justice in it, treat service to the community as business.
Get involved, have events that bring people together, do not give people a chance to simmer. Do not reject people and their aspirations and let's listen to the people with problems. Violence breeds violence, our terror to terrorize the terrorist will do more harm than any good. It has never happened in history, nor will it ever happen as the forumla for equilibrium is short circuited. It is time to develop social programs (not charity, but investment for a safe society) to ease people in to co-existence.. It will not happen because we wish it, it happens because we want it and are committed to it.
The more we ignore a group of people, the more dangerous they would become, it would be smart to include people and evaporate badness from the society.
Ramadan and Diwali are coming, hopefully, we will hold a dinner event for all the Indians, Christmas is further out…reach out … not all can make to all the events, either they are busy or committed. Give room to people, give them the room to give excuses when you are building goodwill. Eventually goodness always wins. Wasn't that the lesson from Vijaydashmi, Ramzan, Christmas? Pateti and Paryushan are happening within 30 days…Invite your friends. As Indians, we should take pride in having as our guests from all walks of life without any bias. Reach them out, even few at a time. The creator will guarantee a joy for you that you have not experienced before, it is the law of nature. Justice and fairness ensures a stable society.
May God bless our nation and the world.
May we bring peace to the un-peaceful.
My salutes to Jayprakash Naryan.
Jai Hind.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/world/asia/09india.html?hp&ex=1155182400&en=809c50f6ffad9f57&ei=5094&partner=homepage
India Fears Terrorism May Attract Its Muslims
By SOMINI SENGUPTA Published:
August 9, 2006 NEW DELHI, Aug. 8 —
The bomb attacks last month on seven Mumbai commuter trains did more than raise Indian hackles against Pakistan for failing to rein in terrorist groups operating on its soil. They also underscored a gathering threat for India: a small but increasingly deadly cadre of young and often educated Indian Muslims who are being drawn directly into terrorist operations. The scale and coordination of the July 11 attacks, a senior Indian government official said, suggest that at least one terrorist cell, made up of fewer than a dozen local people and probably directed and financed by militants based in Pakistan, carried out the bombings, which killed 183 people. In the past, the official said, Indian operatives have aided foreign militants in what he called a benign fashion, sometimes providing little more than shelter or food. "The change is that some of them really know what they are up to," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was in progress.
The emergence of more sophisticated homegrown terror cells carries grave repercussions not only for national security, but also for domestic politics, Hindu-Muslim relations and diplomacy with Pakistan. Perhaps most important, it touches on India's idea of itself as the world's largest secular democracy, capable of including a multitude of peoples and faiths. "A small section of the Indian Muslim community has been radicalized," said C. Raja Mohan, a columnist for the daily Indian Express and a member of the National Security Advisory Board. "That's what makes it that much more challenging for the country as a whole to deal with." The police have arrested eight men from Mumbai, formerly Bombay, in connection with the attacks, though no specifics have been disclosed about their possible links to the bombings.
Among them are a doctor of traditional Islamic medicine and a largely self-taught software worker who the police said had landed a job with the American database and software company Oracle. Six of those arrested are said by the Indian authorities to have trained at terrorist camps in Pakistan run by the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba. Several have been linked to a radical homegrown outfit, now banned, called the Students Islamic Movement of India. For all the finger-pointing across the border, the attacks have forced India to confront a worrying disquiet among Muslims at home, who have overwhelmingly resisted calls to join in Islamic radicalism. "That is still true to a very, very large extent," India's national security adviser, M. K. Narayanan, maintained. "But what has happened is that a very, very manifest attempt to recruit Indian Muslims is now being done." Those efforts, he said in an interview on CNN-IBN television, are increasingly directed at educated Indian Muslims and, more troubling, at elements within the military. Senior Lashkar officials interviewed in Rawalpindi, Pakistani, said no more than 50 Indians attended military and religious training camps in Pakistan and the Pakistani-controlled part of Kashmir on average each year. But they confirmed that an active recruitment drive was under way in India. It is impossible to pinpoint to what extent the still apparently small number of recruits are motivated by essentially Indian grievances — especially the pogroms in 2002 against Muslims in the state of Gujarat, which left 1,100 dead — or by the ideology of global political Islam. But increasingly, many here fear, the two are at risk of merging. In fact, Mr. Narayanan said, a reminder of anti-Muslim violence in India is a powerful recruitment tool. "Quite often," he said, "the motivation is 'You know what happened in Gujarat.' " The Business Standard, an English-language daily, urged India in an editorial last week to start looking inward at what it called a "homegrown jihad," suggesting that blaming Pakistan alone for attacks on Indian soil was no longer sufficient. "The national effort should make sure that even if Pakistan does its damnedest to plant evil seeds in this country, it must not find hospitable soil," the editorial concluded. Just how hospitable India, home to roughly 140 million Muslims, may be as a breeding ground for extremism remains a matter of debate.
Some analysts in India maintain that were it not for the efforts of Pakistan-based militants, Indian Muslims would lack the resources to carry out large-scale terror attacks. "The entire leadership that is creating violence in India is in Pakistan," insisted Ajai Sahni, an intelligence analyst in New Delhi who runs a Web site called the South Asia Terrorism Portal. "If you extract Pakistan from the problem and the flow of funds, the subversive cadres, there would not be this problem in India." But visiting the Muslim neighborhoods of Mumbai in the aftermath of the July 11 bombings, what can plainly be felt is fear and resentment, fueled more than anything by police suspicion.
In the last two weeks the police have combed these neighborhoods in search of clues and suspects. They have knocked on doors demanding that parents produce their sons for questioning, unleashing even more bitterness. "It has become now very difficult to live as a Muslim in this country," Aslam Ansari, 58, grumbled in the hallway of a dilapidated largely Muslim apartment block in a central city neighborhood called Mominpura. "We have to bear. We cannot go anywhere." Among those arrested was one of Mr. Ansari's neighbors, a doctor named Tanvir Ansari, 32, who according to the police traveled to Pakistan for arms and explosives training. The two are not related, and Aslam Ansari insists that his neighbor is innocent. Also taken into custody were two brothers from Mira Road, a largely Muslim northern suburb of Mumbai.
Faisal Shaikh, 30, the elder brother, is described by investigators as a crucial Indian liaison to Lashkar-e-Taiba. It was his younger brother, Muzamil, 23, who was hired by Oracle in Bangalore. The police say he followed his brother into the arms of Lashkar, and to Pakistan, via Iran, for training. Sleeper cells connected to Pakistani-based organizations came on the Indian intelligence radar at least 10 years ago. Since then, bombings, arrests and weapons seizures have offered tiny peepholes into their suspected scope and strength. In 2003, a Mumbai couple with suspected links to Jaish-e-Muhammad, a banned Pakistani-based group, was charged in connection with a pair of powerful car bomb attacks, including one in front of the iconic Gateway of India monument in Mumbai that killed more than 50 people. The police said at the time that the couple was accused of planting the bombs in the trunks of two taxis as part of a local outfit calling itself the Gujarat Revenge Force. Last year, the Delhi police arrested a mechanical engineer on charges of conspiring to attack military and financial centers on behalf of Lashkar. And in May a large haul of guns and military explosives exposed what the police called a sleeper cell of roughly a dozen people operating out of Aurangabad, a provincial town about 200 miles northeast of here. As in the past, the arrests in the last three weeks have largely homed in on the Students Islamic Movement of India.
The police say several of those arrested in connection with the July 11 blasts were once members. Its leaders deny any involvement with the attacks. "Some such modules have been unearthed here," said Mumbai's commissioner of police, A. N. Roy. He said former members of the organization "form a fertile ground for providing local foot soldiers." Founded 30 years ago to promote Islamic teaching among Indian youth, the group began to espouse armed resistance more than a decade ago after a band of Hindu radicals tore down the 400-year-old Babri Mosque in the north Indian city of Ayodhya in 1992, unleashing an orgy of Hindu-Muslim riots across the country. The lingering tensions in this city are deeply worrying. Since the July attacks even career-minded young Indian Muslims complain that they are under constant glare. The ones who sport beards and skullcaps worry about how many times they will be frisked at the train station. Those who live in Muslim enclaves see the police knocking on doors. One young man recalled a banner that went up in his neighborhood, exhorting enemies of India to leave the country.
"Our identity is the main problem," said Abdul Hannan Khan, 21, a college student who plans a career in advertising. It is the same routine after every act of terror, said Sheik Abdul Qayyum, 20, recalling the Gujarat riots, which broke out after fire engulfed a train carrying Hindu pilgrims, killing 59. Whether the fire was deliberate or accidental is still disputed, and embroiled in political feuds. In Mr. Qayyum's mind there is no disputing the lesson of Gujarat, where he lived at the time. He says the violence there was the most important event in his life. "I learned that as minority Muslims we are unprotected," he said, and then quickly added, "According to the current situation, Muslims in the whole world are not protected."
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Certain elements within the interface of the Edit+ for Squiz Matrix can be customised with CSS using natural cascading and/or specificity. These customisations are configured as CSS or Text File assets and then referenced in the Design of a Site via a nested Standard Page.
Please note that it is important to test the Edit+ for Squi after any changes are made to ensure that the interface is operating as expected.
We want to change the logo of Edit+ from the Squiz Matrix to our company's corporate logo.
Create a new CSS File called custom-ees-style. You can use this file to place custom style overrides for various interface elements.
Upload the corporate logo as an Image file asset under the CSS File. This file should have the same dimensions (width/height) as the default logo.
Note: Replace 'path/to/my_logo.png' with the path to the logo uploaded in step 2.
Make the new CSS asset Live with public read access and copy the current URL from the Web Paths screen.
Tip: You can use this new CSS File asset to add additional CSS styles to further customise the interface of Edit+ for Squiz Matrix.
Part 1: We want to block access to specific elements from users (the URLs screen tab, in this example).
Create a new Text File asset called restricted-ees-elements.css (please make note that the web path of the asset ends with restricted-ees-elements.css).
Make the new Text File asset Live with public read access.
In this example we are hiding the URLs screen tab (ees_screenMenuurlsDefault). Please note that specificity or natural cascading should be applied - do not use !important.
Tip: You can use a browser extension, such as Firebug, to identify any Edit+ elements you may wish to hide.
Copy the current URL from the Web Paths screen and place a new CSS link tag reference in your Edit+ design code, as shown in the example below.
The URLs screen tab will now be hidden from users in the EES.
Part 2: We now want to redisplay this element for advanced users only (System Administrators and the Root User).
Create a new Text File asset called unrestricted-ees-elements.css (please make note that the web path of the asset ends with unrestricted-ees-elements.css). Please note that this file must be served with a Matrix URL - if not, set Allow Unrestricted Access to No on the Details screen.
Make the new Text File asset Live with denied public read permission.
This will reactivate the URLs screen tab. Once again, please note that specificity or natural cascading should be applied - do not use !important.
Copy the current URL from the Web Paths screen (should not be a __data URL) and place a new CSS link tag reference in your Edit+ design code, directly under the previously added tag in this example (Part 1, step 4), as shown in the example below.
System Administrators and the Root User will now see the reactivated URLs screen tab.
Tip: You can apply specific permissions on this Text File to reactivate elements for specific Users and/or User Groups.


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QST wraps up the third cohort of the accelerator program
Qatar SportsTech (QST) recently announced the completion of the third cohort of the accelerator program which featured ten very promising start-ups from six countries.
QST is a leading start-up accelerator and hub for sports-tech start-ups and scale-ups from around the world with the vision to be a catalyst for shaping and reshaping sports technology in the Middle East and beyond.
The third cohort included start-ups and scale-ups with solutions related to in coach-player wireless communication, drone and AI based remote health monitoring, virtual reality fitness gaming platforms, gym and fitness activity tracking, fan engagement applications, broadcasting platforms and e-sports development and management.
The start-ups and scale-ups benefited from the opportunity to participate in industry specific workshops hosted by national and international specialists, to attend one-on-one mentoring sessions with over 100 industry experts and to receive mentorship from global sports tech leaders. In addition, QST will continue to promote and support the participants with connections.
As part of the program, the participants had the opportunity to collaborate and cooperate with key players in the country's sports and entrepreneurship ecosystem(s) including Qatar Development Bank (QDB), Startupbootcamp (SBC), The Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy (SC), Qatar Stars League (QSL), beIN Media Group (beIN), MBK Holding, Qatar Financial Centre (QFC), Aspire Zone Foundation (Aspire) and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI)
The third cohort have raised nearly QAR 22m or USD 6m in funds and are currently in talks with QST's partners to run the pilots and to test their solutions.
The graduates of the third cohort will play an important role in strengthening the position of the State of Qatar as a leading sports hub and will join twenty alumni from the previous accelerator programs who have already raised additional investments and worked with international brands.
Business Start Up Qatar is connected with the third cohort in many ways. Most of the start-ups and scale-ups were on In The Game – Qatar's First Sports Podcast hosted by Steve Mackie (www.inthegamesportspodcast.com).
Please click on the link and reach out to learn more about Qatar Sports Tech and the Accelerator Program as well as the initiatives of Business Start Up Qatar.


Education in the Face of Catastrophe: What Do We Really Learn from Universities in Times of Crisis?
Universities are corporations. When under stress they often betray their moral and educational obligations for corporate priorities.
This program (EV&N #299) was recorded on 3 February 2019 at 4:30 pm.
This program (EV&N #299) is available on the Google Docs website for downloading after its initial recording and broadcast on CCTV, and YouTube.