With 500 exhibitors, 20,000-plus attendees, and more than 110 education sessions – 35 of which are new this year – CEDIA Expo remains the one can't-miss event for those in the residential technology industry, especially given its vast training catalog.
So just how does that catalog get built, revised, and updated for each annual Expo?
Pedigo's especially proud of what the industry's done over the past decade – and he believes CEDIA's commitment to education has helped. "We had a technology council meeting. It was a three-day meeting – this is probably in 2010 or 2011. We were looking at the emerging trends, opportunities and threats, and the number one threat to the industry was a lack of business acumen by our membership. Not technology changes, but lack of business acumen.
Pedigo notes that the volunteers who teach CEDIA classes have a broad array of approaches: It's not cookie-cutter, lecture-with-PowerPoint stuff. Hands-on learning labs are key, sessions that encourage attendee discussion with facilitators – these are all approaches one can find at various CEDIA sessions.
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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Arab star Mona Zaki unite for women empowerment at Expo 2020 Dubai
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Bollywood star joined hands with Mona Zaki, Aseel Omran, Aja Naomi King at Expo 2020 Dubai
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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in Dubai Image Credit: Viren Saklani
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Bollywood A-lister Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Egyptian powerhouse Mona Zaki, Hollywood talent Aja Naomi King and Saudi Arabian singer-actress Aseel Omran united forces to speak up for women empowerment at the Expo 2020 Dubai grounds on October 5.
The powerful quartet, who have done remarkably well in their own entertainment industry, urged men, women, and children to stand tall in the face of sexual harassment in public spaces.
Rai Bachchan, who was welcomed with thunderous applause, spoke about bystanders mutely watching as a woman is harassed as 'unacceptable'. Their lack of reaction to a crime was disturbing.
"We simply cannot accept raising our daughters in a world where people witness the absolutely unacceptable behaviour and look away because they do not know what to do," said Bachchan. The face of cosmetic company L'Oreal Paris also presented grim statistics about how widespread issue of harassment. She was at the Expo 2020 to kickstart a training programme at the grounds directed at educating women on how to handle such nasty episodes.
"Did you know that 80 percent of women around the world have been harassed at least once in their lives in a public space? And, I won't be surprised if that's a conservative assessment," said Rai Bachchan, reading out the figures from a paper in front of her. Rai Bachchan, a consummate actress, and a global icon has a young daughter and is married into one of the most influential acting dynasties in Bollywood.
"We are here today to raise awareness and encourage dialogue on a very important global topic – protecting women and protecting a woman's sense of self-worth. I am here to shed light on the prevalence of street harassment towards women," added Rai Bachchan.
Her brief appearance was preceded by a panel discussion featuring Egyptian star Zaki, King, and Omran.
"I have never met a woman or a girl who hasn't been harassed on the streets … As a woman remember never to doubt your self-worth or take the blame," said Zaki.
King, who is known for her role in 'How To Get Away With Murder', also spoke about how women are stereotyped.
"When I started to work in my industry I was told women are so catty … But I just feel lucky because I have witnessed so much sisterhood. Today, we stand alongside each other," said King.
All the women also reminded their fans to be authentic and never to feel apologetic about their dignity being trodden upon.
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The brief celebrity appearances were followed by training for Expo2020 Dubai guests on how to protect themselves and demonstrated how bystanders can help a distressed woman in the face of harassment in public spaces.
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CHIPS Articles: DON DIACAP Transition
DON DIACAP Transition
By Yuh-Ling Su - October-December 2008
Transitioning from DITSCAP to DIACAP involves much more than policy changes; it requires whole new ways of looking at information security.
Process and Security Improvements under DIACAP
On November 28, 2007, the most significant change in security policy in 10 years occurred when the Department of Defense (DoD) Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP) replaced the DoD Information Technology Security Certification and Accreditation Process (DITSCAP).
The Department of the Navy commenced full transition to DIACAP on March 31, 2008, with the release of a naval message issued by the DON Chief Information Officer, "Department of Navy's Transition Plan from DITSCAP to DIACAP." The message (311917Z Mar 08) is available on the DON CIO Web site at www.doncio.navy.mil, under the "Information Assurance" topic area.
All DoD and DON information systems are required to go through rigorous testing for certification and accreditation (C&A) prior to deployment on operational networks. Under DITSCAP, this process involved four review phases spanning several years of system development time before a system could obtain an approval to operate (ATO) in an operational environment.
Under DIACAP, a much greater emphasis is placed on key security stakeholder collaboration early in a system's development and the standardization of a robust, flexible, end-to-end C&A process, which results in a much shorter development cycle for a system to obtain an ATO and be fielded. The five key life-cycle phases for any system under the new DIACAP are summarized in Figure 1.
The changes ushered in by DIACAP don't stop with process improvements. DIACAP also provides a much needed net-centric approach to security risk determination and evaluation with expanded inheritability options relating to information assurance (IA) controls between systems, networks, sites and enclaves. It also forces IA to be built in from a system's concept stage through its entire life cycle. Not only will this yield improved security for fielded systems, but it will minimize the need for rework as C&A documentation proceeds through the independent government review process.
In fact, with this improved up-front security engineering, only a single security test will be required, either in a controlled development environment, or in the field to support an ATO decision.
DIACAP Transition
The DON CIO's goal is to ensure a smooth and successful migration of all DON information systems from DITSCAP to DIACAP. To adequately plan for DIACAP transition and the requisite automation of the C&A process, the DON DIACAP working group (DWG) is chartered to develop a unified departmental transition plan to implement DIACAP.
Key aspects of this plan include:
• Establishment of a DON DIACAP Transition Program to develop detailed guidance for implementing DIACAP throughout the DON;
• Procurement and implementation of a commercial off-theshelf tool to support the DIACAP process; and
• Guidance to assist personnel, such as program managers, information assurance managers and system managers, involved in the security of information systems in developing DITSCAP to DIACAP transition plans.
DON DIACAP Tool Solution
To ensure the DON realizes efficiencies and improved speed to security capability, the DON CIO established the DON DIACAP transition effort to procure an automated tool to support the entire end-to-end C&A process for the DON enterprise. Appropriately, this tool is named the C&A Support Tool. Without CAST providing C&A automation, from initial system registration to eventual system decommissioning, the benefits resulting from DIACAP would be dramatically limited.
The increased DoD emphasis on system security, as a result of recent Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) mandates, makes it critical to automate the entire C&A process. A DON automated tool to improve and standardize the C&A process was recognized in early fiscal year 2007 and is now well underway. The plan indicates the procurement of CAST will occur in late 2008, with initial operational capability available in early 2009.
Figure 2 identifies the organizations and the major functional components of the DON DIACAP transition effort managed by Program Management Warfare (PMW) 160, Networks, Information Assurance and Enterprise Services, under Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (PEO C4I).
PMW 160, as the technical agent for the DON CIO, will develop a standardized end-to-end C&A process and acquire and implement CAST, thus enabling the DON to fully transition from DITSCAP to DIACAP in a robust, controlled manner. In fulfilling this role, PMW 160 is providing the strategic planning, subject matter expertise and acquisition competency needed to not only fulfill DON CIO objectives, but to ensure a well-engineered, comprehensive and supportable tool is provided in a timely manner to support the entire C&A community.
DON DIACAP Transition Execution
The preliminary work in the DON DIACAP transition effort began in October 2007. To capture relevant requirements, a series of tabletop exercises and process walkthroughs were conducted with representatives from virtually all C&A stakeholder perspectives. The result was a C&A community understanding of the complexities of the DIACAP process, the respective roles and responsibilities of each level of interest and a very detailed process workflow chart characterized by five levels of fidelity.
This detail is illustrated in Figure 3, where Level 1 entails the process overview, Level 2 defines all activities, Level 3 assigns all tasks that must be performed, Level 4 delineates each task and the estimated time for completion, and Level 5 defines how each task is completed.
This workflow chart has been the basis for all follow-on efforts associated with requirements definition, procurement guidance, the training approach and community implementation.
To fully migrate from DITSCAP to DIACAP, four key program components must be successfully executed:
• C&A package generation and requirements estimation;
• Provision for DIACAP transition technical support;
• Acquisition of CAST to support end-to-end C&A processes; and
• CAST training to familiarize the C&A community with the tool's capability.
As envisioned, CAST must support up to 25,000 users ashore and afloat, with a minimum of 2,500 concurrent users. This rate is estimated for NIPRNET, with up to an additional 5 percent of this activity level expected on the SIPRNET.
The architectural approach will not only accommodate this level of activity, but will also allow seamless expansion should greater access be required in the future.
CAST requirements include the ability to collect metrics on all aspects of processing and management of C&A information so that a continuous process improvement program can be supported as the nature and requirements associated with C&A continue to evolve.
With CAST, automating major DIACAP requirements will be met for all information systems, including information technology systems; networks; circuits; sites; infrastructures; enclaves; and environments and assets that require security certification and accreditation within the DON, regardless of current accreditation status.
Specific goals for CAST include:
• Ensuring IA is built in from the concept stage through the life cycle;
• Accounting for inheritance of information assurance controls;
• Enforcing annual reviews for all systems and sites; and
• Providing enterprise-wide visibility into security posture and risk.
By facilitating standardization and quality improvement for C&A packages from the initiation of the process, significant reductions in review times, rework and learning curves are expected immediately.
In addition, early collaboration by stakeholders will ensure adequate identification and resolution of security risk issues early in the process and not later during formal C&A reviews.
Once the CAST procurement award is made, the tool will be initially implemented during a pilot phase with the objective of testing processes, procedures and templates. The pilot will build the necessary databases, verify process steps and proper tool configuration, conduct test and evaluation, and process selected DIACAP C&A packages to verify tool effectiveness in a controlled environment.
At the same time, training will be provided to the C&A community on the tool and detailed DON processes and policies. It is expected that training will be an ongoing requirement throughout the life of CAST. Once CAST is fully implemented, DIACAP training will target personnel performing activities in the three main tiers of the C&A process: package creation, review and approval.
Training will focus on required tasks and how to perform these using the tool. Each tier of training will contain an overview of the DON process flow and build upon the activities accomplished by all members of the C&A team.
Since transition from DITSCAP to DIACAP will be gradual over the next three years, there is a phasing out of systems' C&A documentation from DITSCAP to DIACAP. The DIACAP transition team will provide subject matter experts to support program and system managers, as well as IA managers, in planning each system transition to DIACAP. This will include assistance in developing transition plans and answering any related questions.
Finally, because systems will begin transitioning to DIACAP prior to full implementation of the DON automated tool, all submissions of C&A packages will continue using existing C&A package systems in the near term.
The transition to DIACAP is great news for DoD and DON system developers, program managers and security managers!
Ms. Yuh-Ling Su is the DON DIACAP transition assistant program manager under PMW 160.
The C&A process has undergone major changes over the last several years. These were driven by increased awareness of security vul¬nerabilities, shrinking resources and the pressing operational need to field new and improved capabilities to support the warfighter.
The movement from DITSCAP to DIACAP has provided an oppor¬tune time to both automate and standardize the entire end-to-end C&A process to conserve resources and ensure security risk is managed at acceptable levels. To stay abreast of the information being developed during this transition time, readers are encouraged to periodically ac¬cess the DON CIO Web site at www.doncio.navy.mil.
For now, programs desiring to make use of DIACAP templates can access them from the Fleet Forces Web site under the View All Site Contents/Documents tab on the left side of the page at https://www.fleetforces.navy.mil/netwarcom/navycanda/default.aspx.
For the Marine Corps, users can access the Marine Corps Xacta Information Assurance Manager tool available at https://hqtelosweb.hqmc.usmc.mil/.
The primary contact for DITSCAP to DIACAP transition technical support can be reached by e-mail at SPSC-DON-DIACAP@navy.mil. Secondary contacts for transition technical support are: Navy -Operational Designated Approving Authority (ODAA) -e-mail: Navy_ODAA@navy.mil or (757) 417-6719 x0. Marine Corps - Programs of record (not yet fielded), contact the Ma¬rine Corps Systems Command (Systems Engineering, Interoperability, Architectures & Technology (SIAT)) at (703) 437-3824.
All other systems (including fielded programs of record), contact the Marine Corps Enterprise Network Designated Approving Author¬ity (MCEN DAA) by e-mail: M_MCEN_DAA@usmc.mil or (703) 693¬-3490.
-- DON DITSCAP to DIACAP Transition Guide, version 1.1, June 9, 2008 –under the Information Assurance topic area at www.doncio. Navy.mil.
-- DON DIACAP Handbook, version 1.0, July 21, 2008 – under the Infor¬mation Assurance topic area at www.doncio.navy.mil.
-- DoD Instruction 8510.01, DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP), Nov. 28, 2007 –www.dtic.mil/ whs/directives/corres/pdf/851001p.pdf.
-- Secretary of the Navy Manual, SECNAV M-5239.1, Information Assur¬ance Manual, November 2005 – http://doni.daps.dla.mil/SECNAV%20 Manuals1/5239.1.pdf.
-- DoD Directive 8500.01E, Information Assurance (IA), Oct. 24, 2002 – www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/. Certified as current April 23, 2007.
-- DoD Instruction 8500.2, Information Assurance (IA) Implementation, Feb. 6, 2003 - www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/850002p.pdf.
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Figure 1. DIACAP life cycle phases.
Figure 2. DIACAP Transition Governance Structure.
Figure 3. DIACAP workflow illustration.
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Booking.com and Web Summit Expand Commitment to Women in Tech
Women in Tech initiatives led by Booking.com and Web Summit to span the globe at Web Summit, Collision and RISE events in 2018
New York, New York – April 24, 2018 – Today Booking.com, one of the world's largest travel e-commerce companies and a digital technology leader, announced a global partnership with Web Summit. Together they will host a dedicated 'Women in Tech' networking and mentoring program at the flagship Web Summit event, as well as initiatives at affiliated events Collison and RISE in 2018. This exclusive collaboration continues Booking.com and Web Summit's efforts to redress the under-representation of women in technology by creating more opportunities for women to enter, advance and thrive in the sector.
Booking.com will host the first of a number of networking initiatives for women at the Booking.com Women in Tech lounge at Collision 2018, being held in New Orleans, USA, from April 30th-May 3rd, 2018. One of America's leading technology conferences, Collison brings together CEOs of the world's fastest growing startups and Fortune 500 companies, alongside leading investors and media. Booking.com CEO Gillian Tans will also participate in a panel on "Sustainability in Big Business," sharing her insights on the role of major companies in furthering global sustainability and ethical practices.
Web Summit 2018, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from November 5th-8th, will be the focal point of the global partnership and will feature an expanded 'Women in Tech Mentor Program,' following the success of the inaugural initiative at last year's event. The Web Summit 2017 women's mentoring program attracted nearly 200 participants, with 60 high-profile mentors from across the tech sector, including Gillian Tans and other Booking.com executives.
RISE 2018 will take place on 9th-12th July 2018 in Hong Kong and is the largest tech conference in Asia. The event attracts more than 15,000 attendees each year from over 100 countries. Booking.com will host the Women in Tech networking lounge at the event.
Web Summit
"We are excited to partner with Web Summit again this year to build on the strong demand and engagement we saw in 2017 and to continue our efforts in driving gender diversity in tech at a global level. Recent data suggests that 90% of women working in technology across the world have experienced gender bias in the workplace and this, coupled with the lack of mentors (48%) and female role models (42%), are the top three obstacles preventing women from choosing to advance their careers in tech," said Gillian Tans, CEO of Booking.com.
"We are expanding our partnership with Web Summit with marquee events in Europe, North America and Asia to continue the conversations about gender diversity and to support women through mentoring and providing more opportunities for them to collaborate, network and share experiences. This global partnership will give us another platform to help pivot gender inequalities and gaps in the male-dominated tech workplace and encourage more women from across the world to become positive role models for others."
Web Summit runs the world's most highly regarded technology events which bring together world leaders, Fortune 500 companies, tech giants and groundbreaking startups to examine and celebrate the latest advances in technology.
Paddy Cosgrave, CEO and co-founder of Web Summit, said: "Web Summit run the most prominent technology events in the world and we are committed to driving a positive change in the industry. We launched our women in tech initiative three years ago to increase the number of women participating at our events around the world. This commitment to change resulted in a female/male gender ratio at Web Summit of 42% / 58% for the last two years.
"We are pleased to partner again with Booking.com to further this important cause and provide a platform for raising awareness about gender equality in the tech industry globally. The partnership with Booking.com will help us provide further opportunities for female tech talent attending our events to network with and learn from some of the most successful tech entrepreneurs in the industry today."
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With a mission to empower people to experience the world, Booking.com invests in digital technology that helps take the friction out of travel. At Booking.com, we connect travelers with the world's largest selection of incredible places to stay, including everything from apartments, vacation homes, and family-run B&Bs to 5-star luxury resorts, tree houses and even igloos. The Booking.com website and mobile apps are available in 43 languages, offer over 28 million total reported listings and cover more than 130,000 destinations in 227 countries and territories worldwide.
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India-Gulf Counterterrorism Cooperation
By Mohammed Sinan Siyech | Research Analyst - International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) - Singapore | Dec 21, 2017
India's interests and capabilities extend well beyond the sub-continent. This essay is part of a series that explores the geopolitical dimensions, economic ties, transnational networks, and other aspects of India's links with the Middle East (West Asia) — a region that plays a vital role in India's economy and future. More ...
In the wake of a receding Islamic State (IS) and a generally weakened Al Qaeda (AQ), India has managed to prevent many of its citizens from travelling abroad to fight or launch assaults domestically. Much of this success is attributable to the work of Indian intelligence agencies, coupled with a pushback from the Indian Muslim community.
However, the terrorism threat faced by India emanates not simply from domestic elements walled off from external influences but from transnational linkages between them and individuals and groups operating outside the country. The transnational dimension of the terrorism threat has led India to seek effective counterterrorism partnerships.
India's burgeoning economic relations with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have been accompanied by heightened security risks, including in the domain of terrorism. In light of these developments, this article addresses three questions: What is the nature and gravity of the transnational terrorist linkages that exist between India and Gulf Arab countries? What steps has India taken, in concert with its Gulf Arab partners, to counter the terrorist threat? And what more could be done to strengthen India-Gulf Arab counterterrorism (CT) cooperation?
Transnational Linkages to Terrorism
A migrant population of almost eight million Indians working in the Gulf laid the foundation for improved bilateral relations between India and the six GCC member states.[1] Geopolitical shifts in the late 20th and early 21st century, underpinned by the strengthening of India's relations with the United States — the latter being a major security provider of the Gulf nations, and India's hunger for energy led to more extensive India-Gulf Arab ties.[2] The broadening and deepening of India-Gulf Arab relations manifested in various declarations and Memoranda of Understanding on trade, defense and investments.[3] They also extended to the realm of security, including counterterrorism.[4]
This was an important development since the rise of the Islamic State as well as Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) towards the end of 2014 magnified fears regarding the involvement of Indian nationals abroad.[5] These fears have come true three years later, albeit on a very small scale; intelligence agencies have noted that a significant number of Indians who joined the Islamic State have had links to individuals in the Gulf, with a larger population at risk of radicalization.[6]
Furthermore, the Gulf has been used as a haven by homegrown organizations such as the Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) as well as the Indian Mujahideen (IM) even longer than AQ and IS.[7] This was done to mitigate the risks of colluding with Pakistani nationals across the border to conduct operations. Thus, many communication networks have been developed by Indian terrorists in the Gulf, which is also home to numerous Pakistanis. Due to the large migrant population in the UAE, frequent travels of terrorist group members between India/Pakistan and the Gulf nations were not viewed with much suspicion. Over the years, such individuals have leveraged the economic opportunities in the Gulf nations to raise funds and/or conduct businesses to later finance operations and exchange information.[8]
Given the linkages of transnational terrorism, cooperation between India and its Gulf counterparts is an important dimension of Delhi's overall efforts to combat the threat. These collaborative activities are mostly focused on threats emanating from Saudi Arabia and the UAE. To date, there are three focal points of nascent counterterrorism cooperation between India and its Gulf partners: terror financing, persons of interest, and travel routes.[9] As will be shown further, collaboration in each of these areas is both highly desirable and possible.
1. Terror Financing
Indians in the Gulf account for half of the total remittances sent to India.[10] Most of these transactions take place through wire transfers. However, a significant amount money transferred from the Gulf to India is channeled through the informal hawala system.
Hawala is an unregulated, trust-based way of transferring money that is used by various poorer immigrants to evade transaction charges slapped on them in the country of origin as well as taxes in their home country.[11] Its unregulated nature also makes it attractive for criminals, money launderers and terrorists. According to some estimates, India has lost over $1.5 trillion in tax revenue in the last 60 years due to hawala transfers.[12]
The terrorist group Indian Mujahideen (IM) has used the hawala system as a financial pipeline. Its chief financer, Abdul Wahid Sidibappa, is reported to have moved funds from the UAE to India.[13] Similarly, Lashkar-e-Taiba had channeled money via the Gulf to orchestrate the 26/11 Mumbai attack.[14] Apart from this, Indian authorities have accused various ostensible charity groups for funneling money into terrorist activities rather than actual philanthropy, underscoring the deep financial connection between transnational terrorists in India and abroad.[15]
To effectively synchronize responses towards this, both India and members of the GCC can utilize their engagement with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) the international body that works to counter money laundering and terrorist financing among other things.[16] Steps suggested include better inter-bank and inter-branch cooperation as well as communications sharing with banking officials and related institutions. Additionally, India could also work with the Gulf nations to identify and regulate hawala dealers — regulation of their activities being a more realistic alternative than seeking to stop them.
2. Travel Routes
The Gulf nations have been used as transit points for individuals travelling to conflict-ridden regions like Syrian, Iraq and Afghanistan. For instance, the cohort of 21 Keralites (including eight minors) who travelled to Afghanistan to join IS in 2016 had travelled via cities in the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman.[17] [See Map 1 below.]
That a lot of Indians travel to the Gulf nations either to work, or as stopover destinations makes it especially hard for intelligence agencies to detect suspicious persons. Thus, it is vital for immigration authorities in the respective countries to cooperate and share information of interest. Methods of such cooperation would include development of common databases and joint training for authorities in dealing with suspicious persons. These operations would also encourage the formation of networks between various security officials from the respective nations boosting counter terrorism efforts. Good models of information sharing to prevent foreign fighters travelling to risk areas exist in the European Union which had foiled more than 140 terrorist plots in the year 2016 alone.[18]
Map 1. Travel Routes of the Kerala cohort who joined IS in Afghanistan[19]
3. Persons of Interest
For a while now, India has been concerned by the fact that the Gulf nations are used as sanctuaries by various individuals wanted by the country. Chief among these individuals is Dawood Ibrahim, mastermind of the 1993 Mumbai attacks, who was also implicated in the November 11 attacks in the same city 15 years later that claimed the lives of more than 150 people.[20]
While Dawood himself is based in Pakistan and thus cannot be extradited to India, he has significant property and other financial assets in the UAE which have not been confiscated.[21] The Gulf nations have also been home to some important jihadists, such as Zabiuddin Ansari (alias Abu Jundal),[22] an alleged planner of the 2008 Mumbai attack, as well as Nicky Joseph, a known recruiter for the Islamic State.[23]
Table 1. List of known Islamic State cells operating out of the Gulf nations
Table 2. List of prominent Indian terror suspects operating in the Gulf
Incrementally though, India's engagement with these nations have led to more deportations of problematic individuals, numbering approximately 30 over the past four years (See Figure 1 below). Any increased collaboration between the nations has to focus on better information sharing between Indian and Gulf agencies and the development of more robust extradition frameworks that also protects human rights. Not only can this practice help bring terrorists to justice, but also help forestall terror plots altogether. A good example of this can be seen in the Singapore-Indonesia partnership, whereby Indonesia foiled an attack on the Singaporean mainland from its territory in the latter part of 2016.[30] Indian and Gulf agencies intelligence agencies should strive to develop similar teamwork.
Figure 1. Indians deported from the GCC nations on charges of terrorism.[31]
Potentially Promising New Avenues of CT Cooperation
There are numerous other avenues through which India and the Gulf nations can expand their counterterrorism cooperation. India has slowly begun augmenting its cyber capabilities to disrupt terrorist attacks. India is also employing these capabilities to prevent extremism and radicalization. For instance, in Operation Chakravyuh in 2014, Indian intelligence operatives assumed the role of Islamic State recruiters online and reportedly dissuaded about 3,000 youth from taking part in extremist activities.[32] In Operation Pigeon Hole, which was conducted in May 2017, security personnel identified nearly 800 youth deemed susceptible to online propaganda and worked with local communities and clerics to help deradicalize them.[33]
Building on the success of such operations, India has shared its expertise with Malaysia and the Philippines, deploying cyber experts to conduct training programs for local security forces.[34] Similar joint cyber training exercises as well as counter narrative development workshops would be excellent ways for India to further its relations with the Gulf nations.
Another plausible step the countries can take is to convene joint counterterrorism summits with all the members of the Gulf nations. In the short term, due to the ongoing intra-Gulf rift, this may require working with Qatar bilaterally and with the other GCC states as a group. Working along these parallel tracks, India and its Gulf partners could coordinate responses as well as iron out nuances in the respective extradition treaties or develop them in cases where they do not already exist.
An obvious way to coordinate terrorism response activities would be to conduct joint military-military training programs, such as the one held between India and Oman in 2017.[35] The current trend of urban terrorism and the inability of many security forces to counter it (e.g., in the case of the Philippines) necessitates an increased training in urban warfare. Here, Saudi Arabia and Yemeni forces' experience in Yemeni urban warfare against the Houthis could prove useful to India.[36] Similarly, the latter's long campaign against the Naxalites could help the Gulf nations in developing their own CT strategies.[37]
An important point that bears mention is Indian efforts to lobby the United Arab Emirates — an important voice in the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) — to stay neutral on the Kashmir conflict.[38] These efforts have helped the UAE to broaden their definition of terrorists to include those individuals who worked with Pakistani based groups against India, thus helping align the overarching perspective on terror threats. This alignment of perspectives, a gradual but definitive one, is crucial to facilitate better cooperation. If intensified and widened to the rest of the Gulf nations, this may lead to harsher crackdowns on such individuals residing there.
India and the GCC countries have undertaken cooperative efforts to combat terrorism. However, there is a pressing need to enhance this collaboration since, despite the defeat of IS and the degrading of AQ's capabilities, the terrorism threat is unlikely to substantially diminish any time soon. There is also ample opportunity to foster such cooperation, given the wellspring of mutual trust and strong economic ties that India and its Gulf partners have forged over the years.
[1] S.K. Sasikumar and Rakkee Thimoty, "From India to the Gulf region: Exploring links between labour markets, skills and the migration cycle," ILO Report, 2015, accessed December 01, 2017, http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/@asia/@ro-bangkok/@sro-new_delhi/documents/publication/wcms_397363.pdf.
[2] Ranjit Gupta, "India's Relations with West Asia: A New Era Dawns," Middle East Institute, March 7, 2017, accessed November 30, 2017. http://www.mei.edu/content/map/india-s-relations-west-asia
[4] Elizabeth Roche, "India, UAE look to expand counter-terrorism partnership," Livemint, January 23, 2017, accessed December 3, 2017, http://www.livemint.com/Politics/GARubOELWqeHei4CXmFn0N/India-UAE-look-t.... See also "India, S Arabia to enhance counter-terror cooperation," The Tribune India, April 3,2017, accessed December 10, 2017, http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/india-s-arabia-to-enhance-counte....
[5] Arif Rafiq, "The New Al Qaeda Group in South Asia Has Nothing to Do with ISIS," New Republic, September 6, 2014, accessed December 4, 2017, https://newrepublic.com/article/119333/al-qaeda-indian-subcontinent-not-....
[6] Sudhakar Reddy, "Medicines from India landing up with ISIS," Deccan Chronicle, January 16, 2017, accessed December 20, 2017, http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/crime/160117/medicines-from-india-....
[7] Viswavnathan Balasubraminayan, "Indian Mujahideen: The Face of 'New Terrorism' in India?" Geopolitical Monitor, October 4, 2013, accessed December 8, 2017, https://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/indian-mujahideen-the-face-of-new-te....
[9] A chronological tabulation of all terrorism-related incidents that are connected to India and any of the GCC countries reveal an increased frequency of such occurrences over the past five years.
[10] Elizabeth Roche, "India, UAE look to expand counter-terrorism partnership."
[11] David C. Faith, "The Hawala System," Global Security Studies 2, 1 (2011): 23-33, accessed December 19, 2017, http://globalsecuritystudies.com/Faith%20Hawala%20FINAL.pdf.
[12] "Hawala series: Tracing hawala money transactions in India, One India, November 14, 2016, accessed December 1, 2017, https://www.oneindia.com/feature/tracing-hawala-money-transaction-in-ind....
[13] Rahul Tripathi, "IM terrorist Abdul Wahid Siddibapa may have facilitated jailed Yasin Bhatkal's travel in 2005: Officials," Economic Times, March 24, 2016, accessed December 17, 2017, //economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/52410945.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst.
[14] Animesh Roul, "Lashkar-e-Taiba's Financial Network Targets India from the Gulf States," Jamestown Foundation, July 2, 2009, accessed December 17, 2017, https://jamestown.org/program/lashkar-e-taibas-financial-network-targets....
[15] Sreenivasan Jain, "Exclusive: Are Donors on Global Terror Watch Lists Funding Saudi-Style Islam in India?" NDTV, September 25, 2016, accessed December 15, 2017, https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/exclusive-are-donors-on-global-terror-wa....
[16] See membership of the Financial Action Task Force, available at http://www.fatf-gafi.org/about/membersandobservers/. While individual Gulf Arab countries are not members, the GCC as a whole is a participant.
[17] Toby Antony, "ISIS suspects who migrated to Afghanistan used foreign funds: NIA," New India Express, September 14, 2016, accessed November 29, 2017, http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2016/sep/14/ISIS-suspects-....
[18] "2017 EU Terrorism Report: 142 Failed, Foiled and Completed Attacks, 1002 Arrests and 142 Victims Died," Europol Press Release, July 15, 2017, accessed December 17, 2017, https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/2017-eu-terrorism-report-142....
[19] Map created by the author using Scribble Maps.com. Note: Open source websites identify the various cities used by members of this cohort to travel to Afghanistan from India but not the exact routes taken. The map does not depict the travel routes of Indians to Syria/Iraq since the majority have travelled via Bangladesh to Turkey. For more information on the Afghanistan travel route, see Toby Antony, "ISIS suspects who migrated to Afghanistan used foreign funds: NIA."
[20] "'D-company provided logistic support for 26/11,'" The Hindu, April 26, 2010, accessed December 04,2017, http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/lsquoD-company-provided-logistic-s....
[21] A previous article by the same author had noted that unverified reports tweeted by ministers from the current Indian administration lauded the success of Indian efforts in getting UAE to confiscate his property. This report however has been proved baseless. See Indrani Basu, "Reports of UAE Government Seizing Dawood Property Are Baseless: Intelligence Sources," Huffington Post, January 6, 2017, accessed December 06,2017, http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/01/06/reports-of-uae-government-seizin....
[22] "Abu Jundal, 6 others sentenced to life imprisonment in 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case," Indian Express, August 2, 2016, accessed December 9, 2017 http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/abu-jundal-auran...
[23] "ISIS recuiter Indian woman Afsha Jabeen aka Nicky Joseph sent to judicial custody," DNAIndia, September 13, 2017, accessed December 20, 2017, http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-isis-recuiter-indian-woman-afsha-ja....
[24] M.P. Prashanth, "Kozhikode native in UAE may have joined IS in Syria," Times of India, September 16, 2015, accessed December 17, 2017, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Kozhikode-native-in-UAE-may-ha....
[25] Vicky Nanjappa, "'Bahrain circle' case: Five from Kerala killed in ISIS' Syria territory," India One, July 2, 2017, accessed December 19, 2017, https://www.oneindia.com/india/bahrain-circle-case-five-from-kerala-kill.... https://www.oneindia.com/india/bahrain-circle-case-five-from-kerala-kill....
[26] Rama Lakshmi, "Saudi Arabia's policy shift toward India helps nab terror suspects," Washington Post, July 6, 2012, accessed December 2, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/saudi-arabias-policy-s....
[27] Shaju Philips, "'Islamic State module' in Kerala: Engineering dropout, graphic artist among 6," The Indian Express, October 4, 2016, accessed December 5, 2017, http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/kerala-islamic-s....
[28] "ISIS recruiter Indian woman Afsha Jabeen aka Nicky Joseph sent to judicial custody," DNAIndia, Setember 13, 2017, accessed December 20, 2017, http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-isis-recuiter-indian-woman-afsha-ja....
[29] Tripathi, "IM terrorist Abdul Wahid Siddibapa may have facilitated jailed Yasin Bhatkal's travel in 2005: Officials."
[30] "Indonesian police foil rocket attack plot on Marina Bay; Singapore steps up security," Straits Times, August 5, 2016, accessed December 18, 2017, http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesian-police-arrest-six-ba....
[31] This chart has been crafted using data from the South Asian Terrorism Portal (A database that covers terrorism related incidents in South Asian nations). This specific data was derived from the years 2014-2017 using the keywords: "Deport," "Qatar," "Bahrain," "Kuwait" and "Oman."
[32] Nanjappa, "Chakravyuh: These ISIS recruits didn't know who they were speaking to."
[33] "Kerala: Operation Pigeon 'saves' 350 youths from ISIS," Times of India, June 30, 2017, accessed December 16, 2017, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/kerala-operation-pigeon-s....
[34] Dipanjan Roy Chowdhury, "India expands counter terror coop with Philippines in ongoing fight against ISIS," Economic Times, July 13, 2017, accessed December 15, 2017, https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/india-expands-counter-....
[35] "India, Oman to hold counter-terror exercises," The Hindu, March 1, 2017, accessed December 12, 2017, http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-oman-to-hold-counterterror-e....
[36] Michael Knights, "The U.A.E. Approach to Counterinsurgency in Yemen, War on the Rocks, May 23, 2016, accessed December 17, 2017, https://warontherocks.com/2016/05/the-u-a-e-approach-to-counterinsurgenc....
[37] For a discussion of India's counterinsurgency experience with the Maoist Naxalites, see Varun Viru, "Counterinsurgency in India: The Maoists," Small Wars Journal, December 27, 2011, accessed December 10, 2017, http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/counterinsurgency-in-india-the-maoists.
[38] Shubhajit Roy, "Crown Prince Arrives, Talks in New Delhi Today: India to raise OIC on Kashmir with UAE," Indian Express, January 26, 2017, accessed December 19, 2017, http://indianexpress.com/article/india/crown-prince-sheikh-mohammed-indi....
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Boys tennis; golf; softball: Wednesday roundup
Marquette did all it could do Wednesday.
The Hilltoppers boys tennis team won every flight of the sectional it hosted at Nicolet to qualify for the WIAA state team tournament for the 10th straight season. The defending champion will face the winner of the Madison Memorial Sectional, which is scheduled for Thursday, in the Division 1 quarterfinals June 10 at Nielsen Tennis Stadium in Madison.
The top four finishers in No. 1 singles and doubles and the champion of No. 2 singles and doubles automatically qualified for the individual state tournament, which begins June 2 at Nielsen.
Returning state qualifiers Ethan Budiono and John Massart were among Marquette's automatic qualifiers. Also back at state is Nick Kallman, who won the state doubles title last season. This year he is teaming with fellow senior Danny Royston.
Brown Deer Sectional: Three-time defending Division 2 champion University School heads to state for the 11th straight year. Automatic state individual qualifiers for the Wildcats are seniors Jack Collison and Tommy Calvy in singles and seniors Zach Schneck and Jack Coran in doubles.
Plymouth Regional: Steven Young shot a 2-over 73 to lead Cedarburg to the title at Quit Qui Oc. The Bulldogs finished one stroke ahead of Sheboygan North. The top four teams and the top three individual finishers who were not part of a qualifying team advanced to the sectional.
St. Francis/Cudahy Regional: Whitefish Bay's Patrick Sicula (72), Teddy Weber (75) and Matthew Comiskey (75) finished among the top five to lead the Blue Dukes to the title. They finished four strokes ahead of Marquette and Harrison Ott, whose 1-over 68 at Grant Park was the low round of the day.
New Berlin Eisenhower 3, Wisconsin Lutheran 2: Anna Lang struck out eight to make the team's three-run first inning hold up.
Catholic Memorial 2, Cudahy 0: Lauren Mudlaff struck out six and tossed a no-hitter for the Crusaders.


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Mile Marker 28 Fire, Washington
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Visualization Date: July 30, 2013
Eight major wildfires burned through forests and grasslands in the Pacific Northwest in late-July 2013, threatening homes and forcing road closings and evacuations. Many parts of Washington and Oregon faced extreme fire threats, as strong thunderstorms lined up to hit parched forests and grasslands with lightning.
On July 28, 2013, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured these images of the Mile Marker 28 fire in the Simcoe Mountains northeast of Goldendale, Washington. Smoke blew east toward Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland. The lower image shows a closer view of smoke billowing up from the most active part of the fire.
Ignited on July 24, 2013, the fire charred more than 22,000 acres (8,900 hectares) by July 30, when more than 1,000 firefighters achieved 40 percent containment. The blaze forced the evacuation of dozens of homes and the closure of US Highway 97.
Through July 25, 450 wildfires had burned 10,220 acres (4,136 hectares) in Washington, while Oregon saw 603 fires that burned 63,135 acres (25,549 hectares). In all, 2.3 million acres burned across the United States by late-July, below the national average. Over the past ten years, an average of 4.2 million acres had burned in the United States by the end of each July.
While coastal and western Washington receive heavy rain throughout the year, the rain shadow caused by the Cascades leaves central Washington quite dry. The mountains force moist air from the Pacific to rise, causing it to cool and condense into rain or snow on the windward side of the Cascades. So little moisture is left by the time air passes over the Cascades, that the area around Mile Marker 28 typically receives just 8 inches (20 centimeters) of precipitation per year.
Inciweb (2013, July 30) Mile 28 Marker Fire. Accessed July 30, 2013.
National Interagency Fire Center (2013, July 30) Year-to-date Statistics. Accessed July 30, 2013.
Tri-City Herald (2013, July 28) Goldendale wildfire up to nearly 27 square miles. Accessed July 30, 2013.
The Oregonian (2013, July 30) Goldendale wildfire up to nearly 27 square miles. Accessed July 30, 2013.
NASA Earth Observatory (2012, September 23) Oregon Rain Shadow.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Adam Voiland


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Halal Cluster Network Collaboration between Halal clusters in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Spain
April 14, 2019 Marco Tieman
Modern Halal Valley from Indonesia officially launched on Thursday 4 April 2019 the 'Halal Cluster Network' during MIHAS 2019 in Kuala Lumpur. MOUs were signed between Modern Halal Valley (Indonesia) and Iskandar Halal Park (Malaysia), Penang International Halal Hub (Malaysia), and Cluster Halal Córdoba (Spain) to start the Halal Cluster Network.
The Halal Cluster Network links local, regional and international halal clusters together, as the full potential of halal parks can only be achieved when working together. The goal of this global initiative is to achieve synergy advantages for halal clusters and its industries based in a halal cluster. Amongst others areas of collaboration are on halal assurance, sourcing, market access, joint promotion, and research & development.
'The only way to meet the increasing demand for halal ingredients effectively, create new OIC halal brands, and bring halal mainstream is by collaborating among halal clusters instead of operating in isolation. The Halal Cluster Network is a true game changer for the global halal industry.' Mr. Pascall Wilson, President Director of PT. Modern Industrial Estate (Indonesia), the developer of Modern Halal Valley.
As Indonesia is hosting the largest Muslim population in the world, the country is also the largest halal food market in the world, second largest halal cosmetics and fourth largest halal pharmaceutical market. It has a fast growing middle class, driving domestic demand for high quality halal products. Halal Indonesia is recognised internationally as a preferred halal brand to have for halal industries, due to its transparent halal standard, efficient halal certification process and global market access.
Indonesia possesses an abundance of fertile soil thanks to its volcanoes and the tropical climate. This spurs the biodiversity and enabled the country to become the largest producer of a variety of important agricultural commodities such as palm oil, cloves, cinnamon and coconuts. Indonesia ranks second in the production of green beans, vanilla, natural rubber; third in rice, cocoa as well as nutmeg, mace and cardamoms; and is a leading producer of abaca, coffee and sugar cane.
Leveraging on its strong natural resources, labour force, and halal brand, Indonesia is in an excellent position to develop a global halal production base to produce halal food for the world. In line with the vision of the Indonesian Government to make Indonesia a large halal production base for the world, Moderncikande Industrial Estate is realizing Indonesia's vision in establishing a complete halal ecosystem for halal food and related industries.
Modern Halal Valley
Modern Halal Valley is located in the Moderncikande Industrial Estate in Cikande (Banten), just 52 km west from Jakarta on Java Island. The Moderncikande Industrial Estate has direct highway access through the recently opened Cikande Toll Gate, linking Halal Valley directly to Java's seaports, Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, and Indonesia's metropolis Jakarta. Modern Halal Valley is a 500-hectare development, a green halal industrial zone, embracing Islamic values throughout its development. Modern Halal Valley is a new generation of modern industrial parks, meeting the highest standards in halal, food safety, and environmental sustainability. Modern Halal Valley is a halal cluster, extending its reach far beyond the 500 hectares of Modern Halal Valley land.
This article was published in Halal Focus.
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Fertile Visions: Paintings by Marion Forgey Line
Kathy Johnson Bowles
Grandma Moses once said, "What a strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day."
Marion Forgey Line (1919-1999) has often been compared to Grandma Moses, and, like Moses, she is considered to be a memory painter. Indeed, Moses and Line seem to be kindred spirits as they painted luminous pictures of life in the country and family stories. Their vantage point is high above their scenes -- all seeing and all encompassing, as if they are spirits floating in the sky as silent observers. Their titles are eerily similar; each artist depicted subjects titled Springtime, Harvest Time, Shenandoah Valley, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas and Apple Pickers. Both lived in Virginia for part of their lives, started painting intently late in life and struggled with arthritis. However, until now we know much about Grandma Moses and little about Marion Line.
Marion Louise Forgey was born in Morristown, Tenn., in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. Though her work may suggest a childhood on a farm, her father and grandfathers were businessmen. She received a public school education and music lessons in Morristown. She attended Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tenn., where she earned a B.A. in English (cum laude) with a diploma in violin. There she met Lloyd E. Line Jr., and, after a courtship of six years, they were married in 1941. For 11 years, they moved around the country as he advanced in his career. During those years she taught English and music while continuing to play her violin in symphonies in Philadelphia and Knoxville. In 1952, they settled in Richmond, Va., and raised their family.
Although Marion Line always loved to draw pictures of people, places and animals, it was not until the 1970s that she returned to the visual arts. After arthritis left her unable to play the violin, she felt compelled to express her own sense of beauty, joy and spirituality through painting. Her paintings are awash with bright colors and nostalgic visions of spring flowers, harvests and wintry wonderlands. She said she gathered her "ideas from Bible stories, song titles and family history, people and events." [Judith Snyderman in "Grandma Marion," Richmond's Visual Arts Magazine Gallery, Vol.2, No. 2]
Jonah's Regurgitation (1987) is one such work - inspired by a Bible story but also conveying her sense of humor. In Line's version a large Jonah (nearly half as big as the whale) flies through the air toward the shore. Jonah is accompanied by what appears to be a great deal of whale saliva. A fisherman in a small boat in the foreground looks placidly upon the scene. Other paintings are exuberant reflections on nature, such as Fall Scene: Leaf Rakers (1994). Here, a father and son gather piles of leaves while all around them fall foliage is at its peak. Line could not resist making the scene her own. She painted the treetops with rhythmic, swirling lines that make the tree appear to be on fire.
She often said, "I am not a Pollyanna." Personal accounts lead one to understand that this was an honest self-appraisal. Family and friends described her as an individual, filled with a creative spirit and humor, and someone with a great deal of empathy and tenderness. Her college classmate, Margaret W. Cooper, wrote a letter to Lloyd Line after his wife's death, describing her as a woman "with large, soulful eyes, rich with internal reflection." To her husband, she was a beautiful and complex woman with a fiery spirit. In her works, these characteristics abound.
Perhaps one could look at her other creative endeavors for clues about why she painted such poignant observations as the beauty of the seasons, memories of quilts on a clothesline, or a dog named Sadi. Though homey and poetic, these subjects contain more than meets the eye. Marion Line wrote poetry in her journals expressing personal commentaries on life and relationships. Her writings often seemed to reflect her bouts with depression as well as the disappointments and discouragement she must have faced. After reading one of her poems, dated January 24, 1981, when she was nearly immobilized by arthritis, one can understand why depicting joy was so important. The title is "Bite the Bullet:"
I see no beauty in pain.
It does not ennoble my character.
It does not refine my soul.
It does not improve my disposition.
I see no hidden blessing in it.
Pain makes life harder.
It makes me mean.
It sets me apart from others.
It gets in the way of what I want to do.
According to her husband, the artist found great comfort in producing pictures of her childhood such as Easter Sunday When I Was a Child (1990) or Cousin Will's Place (1983). Each of these depicts a symbolic safe haven - a place where she felt no pain physically or emotionally.
From beginning to end, the process of creating provided great clarity for her. Lloyd Line explained: "It was her habit to spend a lot of time just thinking and planning a painting in her head while she was away from her easel doing other things (and perhaps even subconsciously while she slept), but after her mind was made up, she worked fast and seldom went back over a painting to doctor it up."
Her husband said that when she finished with a painting she always called out "It's done!" from the room in their home that served as her studio. Then they would ceremoniously hang the new work, declare it "the best yet" and toast each other with a glass of wine.
Her discovery as a painter is the stuff of legends and Hollywood movies -- like Grandma Moses or one of the main characters in the film "The Trouble with Harry." Anne Gray, owner of the Eric Schindler Gallery in Richmond, was delivering a cabinet Line had purchased when she happened to see a painting hanging in the hallway and inquired about the artist. Line was surprised to find that Gray took an interest in her work. In 1983, Gray exhibited several of Line's works in her Church Hill gallery. In 1984, at the age of 65, Line had her first solo exhibition there. During the final 15 years of her life she created approximately 300 works. Throughout the years, Anne Gray remained a friend and mentor.
Particularly charming and significant in Line's work are her devotion to storytelling, color harmony, an unyielding inventiveness in depicting subject matter and an innate sense of a balanced composition. Uncle Millard and the Pear Tree or the Letter of the Law (Forbidden Fruit), 1991, epitomizes these attributes. One of the Line family legends inspired this painting. As a teenager, Uncle Millard Line had an insatiable appetite for pears, often stripping an entire tree of ripe fruit before anyone else had a chance to partake. One day, his exasperated father exclaimed, "If I see you pull another pear off that tree, I'll wear you out." The next day, Millard spied a particularly ripe pear on the tree. Instead of disobeying his father, he put a ladder up close to the pear and devoured it without removing it from the branch. Later his father saw the core still hanging on the branch. Realizing that Millard had not literally disobeyed him, he had to laugh. Line's painting illustrates the moment.
That she did not successfully use linear perspective is perhaps a positive attribute rather than a shortcoming. Her lack of linear perspective, which Richmond Times-Dispatch art critic Roy Proctor called "delightfully cockeyed," supports the notion that these images are from the mind's eye. Indeed this seems to be a conscious choice for the artist. She once explained to a reviewer, "I sketch right on the canvas with a light wash of turpentine and yellow ochre. I go by shapes; I don't have to worry about depth." Style Magazine reviewer Jerry Lewis noted, "Line's ability to extract details from different eras and weave them into single frames results in a slightly distorted reality."
Sadi, the Lines' black poodle, appears in nearly every work, regardless of the period depicted. Perhaps for Line, Sadi is at once a talisman and provides comic relief. Other family pets also appear without regard to the chronology of their lives, for example, Trumpy, the horse from Line's girlhood, Simon the cat and another dog, Plato.
Her works are endearing because they seem familiar and emotionally restorative. They show us things that are true for all of us. They depict images of family heritage and homestead, significant childhood experiences, or stories told by mothers, fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers. These images are imbedded in our hearts and souls as memories. Memories keep our spirits uplifted in times of pain and sorrow. Memories remind us that time passes, yet they kindle hope. Memories provide examples of courage, truth and beauty. Memories are fertile visions that keep the past alive while providing inspiration for today and tomorrow.
Note: Much of the factual material presented in this essay, as well as the poem and other quotations, were taken from a personal essay by Lloyd Line, "Marion Line: Reflections on Our Life Together," 1999, and from interviews with him in November 2000.
Fertile Visions: Paintings by Marion Forgey Line was exhibited at the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Longwood College, Farmville, Va., January 19-March 2, 2002. A 16-page catalogue is available from LCVA, 129 Main St., Farmville, VA 23901.
KATHY JOHNSON BOWLES, Gordian Knot Consulting, Raleigh, NC
[#54] Vol. 14, No. 3, Fall/Winter 2001/02


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Dolores Ann (Rye) Zonarich
April 9, 1947 ~ August 8, 2019 (age 72)
Dolores "Dee" Ann Zonarich, 72, of Stuart, FL passed away unexpectedly, August 8, 2019.
She was born on April 9, 1947 to Anthony and Mary Ann Rye in Masontown, PA. As a young woman she worked in executive administrative positions for Allegheny Ludlum Steel, Westinghouse Nuclear Power, and DuPont Chemical. It was at that time that she met Francis "Frank" Joseph Zonarich, from Tarentum, PA. On June 13, 1970, they were married. In their life together, Dee and Frank lived in Pittsburgh, PA, Wilmington, DE, Seneca Falls, NY, and currently in Stuart, FL. In addition, she and Frank travelled to many destinations worldwide.
Dee's favorite hobby was music. She was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Stuart, FL, and a member of the church Choir. Throughout her life she was a soloist and member of several Broadway musical groups including The Brandywiners in Wilmington, DE, Blazing Star Choral Society in Butler, PA, Finger Lakes Chorale (Lincoln Hill Singers) in Canandaigua, NY, and Merry-Go-Round Playhouse in Auburn, NY. She was also the vocalist for St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Seneca Falls, NY.
Dee had two favorite sports: golf and football. She was an avid and good golfer, and with Frank loved being a member of the Seneca Falls, NY Country Club and the Butler, PA Country Club. Being Steelers' season ticket holders since 1971, she and Frank were proud members of the Steeler Nation and attended several Steeler Super Bowls. Dee and Frank always enjoyed boating and waterskiing.
Dee was an extraordinary hostess and people loved her excellent cooking skills. Her friends and family will always remember her amazing sense of humor and attention to personalized details.
Her beloved roles as Frank's wife, mother of Alyssa-Rae and Stephen, and grandmother to three, as well as relationships with family and friends were the most blessed and cherished in her life.
Dee is survived by her loving family: husband Frank of 49 years; daughter Alyssa-Rae (Kyle) Younger and grandchildren Emily Rae, Zoe Gabrielle, and Kellan Rex of Olathe, KS; son Stephen F. Zonarich of Georgetown, CA; her sister Marcella (Frank) Blout of Carmichaels, PA; brother Bernard (Marge) Rye of Willoughby, OH; niece Kimberly Rye of Alpharetta, GA and nephew Jeff Rye of Philadelphia, PA; her sister-in-law Judy (Clem) George of Saxonburg, PA; her niece Amanda (Dave) Ashbee, great niece Ava and great nephew Ryan of Downingtown, PA; her nephew Forrest J. Albaugh of Charleston, SC; her niece Jennifer (John) Kranik and great niece Elizabeth Kranik of Tarentum, PA; and many cousins.
She was preceded in death by her parents Anthony and Mary Ann Rye, parents -in-law Joseph and Amelia Zonarich, sister-in-law Arlene (Zonarich) Albaugh, brother-in-law Gale Albaugh, and niece Pamela (George) Vogel.
Family and Friends will be received in the Terravecchia-Haky Home for Funerals, 515 N. Main St., Masontown, PA on Monday August 19, 2019 at 8:30 a.m. A memorial mass will follow at 10:00 a.m. in Saint Francis of Assisi Parish in Masontown, PA, and Father James Murphy, family friend, will be the celebrant. Interment will follow at St. Agnes Cemetery, Masontown, PA.
In lieu of flowers, please consider donating in Dolores's name to the American Cancer Society www.cancer.org/donate or a charity of your choice.
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The Fall of Afghanistan is a topic of a myriad discussions at the moment as the nation the United States occupied for 20 years during the Global War on Terror crumbled and fell. The Afghan Army and Police forces were swept aside by the resurgent Taliban and it became clear that the efforts of the United States to train a self-sufficient security force had failed.
The Taliban now controls the declared 'Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan' and as part of that declaration begun confiscating private arms. Their claim is that the need for those private weapons to defend their owners is gone now, the Taliban will protect everyone… as they begin a likely long and bloody reprisal campaign. Not everyone who needs to get out is going to get out, and with private arms being taken by the returned Taliban regime there will be no recourse beyond torture and death for any the Taliban decide to act upon…
David Workman for Ammoland reports thus,
Alarming reports are emerging from Afghanistan that Taliban insurgents now controlling the capital city of Kabul are "collecting weapons from civilians" should underscore why so many Americans fight to protect their Second Amendment rights.
Reuters broke the news that an unidentified Taliban "official" justified the gun sweep with this explanation: "We understand people kept weapons for personal safety. They can now feel safe. We are not here to harm innocent civilians."
It is not reassuring that the report came at the same time The Sun was reporting, "The Taliban's reign of terror has begun as fighters are reportedly going door-to-door with a kill list and women face torture & execution under brutal new rules."
The story quoted Radio Free Europe journalist Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, who reportedly tweeted, "Taliban started door to door search looking for govt officials, former police & security forces members & those who worked for foreign countries NGOs or infrastructures in Afghanistan…At least 3 journalists' houses were searched in the last hour. Kabul is now becoming deadly. This is a game changer for us all."
In a video posted on YouTube by Crux, armed Taliban fighters can be seen detaining motorists and searching him for weapons.
Right or wrong, many gun rights activists believe that's the kind of scenario some extremist anti-gunners in the United State would like to see played out in American neighborhoods.
The fight in this country to defend the Second Amendment from constant erosion by the gun prohibition lobby and their allies on Capitol Hill and in the White House has gathered momentum during the past seven months of Joe Biden's presidency. But Biden's gun control crusade may have been derailed, at least for the time being, by his debacle in Afghanistan.
Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms—the grassroots gun rights organization often overshadowed by its sibling Second Amendment Foundation—told Ammoland News the public relations disaster now facing Biden over the Afghanistan situation just might keep the administration distracted from guns for the foreseeable future.
He said Biden has "other problems he's got to worry about," and that could include the negative reaction to his national address Monday evening during which he attempted to defend his withdrawal decision. Critics called his remarks "disingenuous" at best, and a former assistant Defense secretary under Ronald Reagan told Fox News Biden "has made a terrible mistake."
That official, Francis "Bing" West, summed up Biden's remarks thusly: "I was struck with how defensive [Biden] was, almost angry that this could be happening because he's so much in the right. He's not in the right and he didn't tell the truth."
However, Biden recently did reveal the truth about his desires for gun control, during a CNN Townhall meeting when he admitted, "The idea you need a weapon that can have the ability to fire 20, 30, 40, 50, 120 shots from that weapon, whether it's a, whether it's a 9mm pistol or whether it's a rifle, is ridiculous. I'm continuing to push to eliminate the sale of those things…"
The comment is now the centerpiece of a new CCRKBA 60-second message now airing on several national cable networks.
"Joe Biden's spinmeisters in the White House and the establishment media will not be able to walk this back," Gottlieb said in a prepared statement announcing the new televised campaign. "That horse has left the barn and no amount of clarification or obfuscation is going to clean up his mess. Biden's only mistake was that he accidentally told the truth about his intentions, and CNN broadcast it live. By his own words, he has confirmed everything we have warned about for months."
But now Gottlieb and other gun rights advocates may have an equally powerful example of what American gun owners have been warning about for decades. Repressive regimes invariably try to disarm the people under their control.
Reuters noted that Saad Mohseni, founder and director of the Moby group media company and resident of Kabul, tweeted that Taliban soldiers entered his compound, inquired about the weapons of his security team, and "collected govt issued weapons." Moby Media group is, according to Wikipedia, the largest media company in Afghanistan.
Taliban soldiers inside our compound in Kabul. So far they are polite, enquiring about our weapons (of the security team). They are collected govt issued weapons. They have also agreed to keep the compound safe pic.twitter.com/vlqHLAvtDL
— Saad Mohseni (@saadmohseni) August 16, 2021
Is that similar to a "gun buyback" in this country without an exchange of cash?
Is the Sun report about door-to-door searches just alarmist fiction? Is Reuters being misled about gun confiscations? Time will tell, probably sooner than later.
Gun confiscations are never a good sign. In this country, anti-gun politicians including Vice President Kamala Harris have talked about "mandatory gun buybacks" which are described as "compensated confiscation" within the firearms community. Former Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke famously threatened to order the confiscation of modern sporting rifles—erroneously identified as "assault rifles"—during a debate in Houston, Texas about three years ago. It is widely believed that remark led to his campaign's collapse.
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Pakistan has by and by postponed endorsement of clearing charge concessions for the Gwadar Free Zone, being set up under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), due to its unfavorable ramifications for other financial zones of the nation.
The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the bureau on Tuesday guided the partners to sit again and completely audit the proposed salary charge, deals assessment and traditions obligation exceptions for the Gwadar Port Authority and Gwadar Free Zone.
The Ministry of Maritime Affairs advised the gathering about different concessions conceded to the Gwadar Port and Gwadar Free Zone, as indicated by an official proclamation issued by the account service. It included that the ECC coordinated the Board of Investment (BOI), Ministry of Planning, Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Law Division and Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to survey the proposition and return to the council.


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Vegetable List for Planting in Massachusetts
By Caroline Fritz ; Updated September 21, 2017
Basket of Garden Vegetables image by Karin Lau from Fotolia.com
Climate is always a consideration when planning a garden, especially in colder climates such as Massachusetts. The state lies in USDA hardiness zones 4 through 7, which correspond to average minimum temperatures of minus 25 to 5 degrees F. When gardening in cooler climates, there are two things to keep in mind: last frost dates and vegetables that should be started from seed early.
Cool-Weather Vegetables
Planting dates hinge on the date of the last spring frost, according to James Underwood Crockett in his book, "Vegetables and Fruits." A general growing tip is if the average last frost is around the first day of spring, March 20, cool weather vegetables, such as broccoli, cabbage, chard, collards, kale, mustard, spinach and radishes and turnips, should be planted by mid-February, about a month earlier. If the last frost is on March 30, then plant these vegetables on March 1. Keep in mind these temperatures are averages and not absolutes and may vary from year to year.
Warm-Weather Vegetables
Vegetables that are vulnerable to the cold and should be planted after the last frost in Massachusetts include beans, sweet corn, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers, melons, okra, pumpkins, squash and tomatoes, according to "The Brooklyn Botanic Garden Gardener's Desk Reference," edited by Janet Marinelli. To maximize the growing season and reap an early harvest, warm weather vegetables, except for corn, can be started from seed indoors, approximately six weeks before the last frost and transferred to the garden when conditions are favorable.
Second Harvests
Second and third plantings of vegetables can be made after the heat of summer has passed, depending on the vegetable and the date of the first frost. A planting chart from the Yankee Gardener shows that if the first frost is on October 20, for example, lima beans, melons, squash and pumpkins should be planted on July 1. Again, the frost dates will vary from year to year, which is what makes gardening so unpredictable.
"Fruits and Vegetables;" James Underwood Crockett and Time-Life Books; 1972
"Brooklyn Botanic Garden Gardener's Desk Reference;" Janet Marinelli, ed.; 1998
The Yankee Gardener: Fall Planting Dates for Vegetables
Caroline Fritz has more than 20 years of writing and editing experience, mainly for publications in northwest Ohio. She is currently an editor for a national technical magazine focusing on the construction industry. She has a Bachelor of Science in journalism from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.
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Eleven adducts for the interaction between imidacloprid (IMI) and some activated carbon (AC) pieces are proposed in this work. Activated carbon pieces were obtained by using a finite zig-zag graphene structure saturated with hydrogen atoms on the edges giving a pristine model with 70 carbon atoms and 22 hydrogen atoms. The zig-zag graphene structure was oxidized with -O, -COOH, -OH, and -O- groups. In this process, two identical groups were inserted over selected sites of the pristine model. All of these structures yielded ten IMI-AC adducts by using the PBE0-D3/6-31G* method, which predicts stable adducts at 0 K, and six of our models give negative free energies changes at room temperature. Thus, we expect that our IMI-AC models can be present when IMI interacts with an AC model. For one of the IMI-AC adducts, we applied solid-state techniques to avoid border effects, and we found that the imidacloprid is deprotonated giving reactive species, suggesting a new path to degrade this insecticide. Additionally, from this analysis, we proposed an additional IMI-AC adduct, which involves high free energy at room temperature. With this study, we show that our AC models can trap imidacloprid, which is quite convenient to remove this insecticide from our environment. Although it is well recognized that functionalized graphene structures are designed to trap some chemical compounds, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first time where IMI-graphene pieces interactions are studied in detail, and hydrogen bonds are analyzed through some scalar fields defined in quantum chemistry like the electron density and the non-covalent interactions index.
The online version of this article ( https://doi.org/10.1007/s00894-019-4016-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
ART and EGH acknowledge the computing time granted by LANCAD and CONACYT. The authors appreciate the facilities provided by the Laboratorio de Supercómputo y Visualización en Paralelo at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa. JG and JA thank CONACYT for the financial support given through the project FC-2016/2412 and the scholarship 306248, respectively.


TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian president on Thursday met with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in preparation for the NATO summit in Wales.
The two talked about the importance of the summit on the background of the Ukraine crisis and the significance of strengthening security in the region.
Margvelashvili thanked Rasmussen for supporting Georgia in its aspirations for NATO integration and expressed hope that the upcoming summit will give a push Georgia toward joining NATO. The president also expressed hope that the final result of the summit will increase Georgia's security and defense ability, according to the president's press office.
Rasmussen said that the summit will be an important impetus to prepare the country for NATO integration and manage processes better.
The meeting was attended by the foreign minister, defense minister, secretary of the Security Council and the minister for Euro and Euro-Atlantic integration.
At the beginning of the meeting, Rasmussen congratulated Margvelashvili on his 45th birthday.
"Georgia carried out remarkable democratic and defense reforms. NATO urges Georgia to continue w/ reforms, uphold rule of law," the NATO chief tweeted on Thursday.
He also wrote that as one of the largest non-NATO troop contributors to ISAF in Afghanistan, Georgia showed itself as a security exporter.
The president also wrote on Twitter that he thanked Rasmussen for supporting Georgia on the way of NATO integration.


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Angered by a Republican push for tighter voting regulations, hundreds of people rallied on Richmond's Capitol Square on Tuesday, denouncing the bills as racist attempts to return to the era of Jim Crow.
Speakers at the rally, including Democratic state senators and delegates, compared the bills to the poll taxes and literacy tests once used to block blacks from voting. They accused Republicans of trying to disenfranchise racial minorities, poor people, the elderly and students at a time when Virginia is expected to play an important role in President Obama's reelection hopes.
"The fact that there's a brother in the White House is just so unsettling to people," Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones (D) told the crowd of more than 200.
But advocates said the bills target voter fraud, not racial minorities.
"I think it's needed to ensure the integrity of elections,"Del. Mark L. Cole (R-Fredericksburg) said on the House floor, where his bill was debated hours later.
"This bill does not deny a single person's right to vote," said Del. David B. Albo (R-Fairfax).
Under current Virginia law, a voter who shows up at the polls without identification may cast a ballot after signing a sworn statement that he is who he claims to be. The voter could face felony charges if the statement turns out to be false.
The House and Senate bills, sponsored by Cole and Sen. Stephen H. Martin (R-Chesterfield), would only allow the voter to cast a provisional ballot after signing the statement. That way, the ballot could be disqualified if the voter's statement proves to be false.
Martin's bill also would eliminate one form of identification currently accepted at the polls. Voters could no longer use Virginia voter registration cards to demonstrate that they are qualified voters.
The House voted 66 to 28 Tuesday to advance Cole's bill to a final vote, which is expected to take place Wednesday. Martin's bill passed a Senate committee Tuesday.
Eight states passed voter identification bills last year. In December, the Justice Department blocked the one adopted by South Carolina, which required voters to show a state-issued photo ID at the polls.
The Justice Department called the voter ID law discriminatory because minority voters are more likely than whites to lack that sort of identification.


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Katie Cassidy has expressed interest in a Black Canary movie.
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You can read the Fox News profile here.