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Cardinal Etchegaray, Henri de Lubac, and Vatican II
What is still very much the needful thing today is the de Lubac attitude.
September 17, 2019 Bishop Robert Barron The Dispatch 15 Print
Left: Cardinal Roger Etchegaray in an Aug. 15, 2006, photo. (CNS photo/Norbert Schiller); right: Henri de Lubac, S.J., in an undated photo. (Wikipedia)
Last week, Cardinal Roger Etchegaray passed away. Perhaps his was not a household name, but this very decent man made a substantive contribution to the life of the Church, serving in a number of different capacities over the years and collaborating closely with St. Pope John Paul II. I had the privilege of meeting him in the mid 1990s when he visited Mundelein Seminary, where I was serving as professor of theology. The Cardinal wanted to address the community, but his English was a bit shaky, so I translated for him. But I recall that his smile and evident joy in the Lord needed no translation whatsoever.
The first time I ever laid eyes on Roger Etchegaray was some years before that, on an extraordinary day in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris: the funeral of the legendary theologian Henri de Lubac. A third-year doctoral student at the time, I had made my way to Notre Dame, hoping against hope that I might be able to participate in the funeral Mass. As I approached the door, I was stopped by a security agent who asked, "Est-ce que vous êtes membre de la famille? (Are you a member of the family?)" "Non," I responded. Then he inquired, "Est-ce que vous êtes theologien? (Are you a theologian?)" With some trepidation, I said, "Oui," and he promptly directed me to a prime position near the front of the Cathedral. To the tolling of the deepest bells in the Cathedral, the simple wooden coffin of de Lubac was wheeled down the middle aisle. I noticed, as it passed by my position, that it was topped by de Lubac's red cardinal's biretta.
At the close of the Mass, Cardinal Etchegaray rose to speak on behalf of the Pope. He read a beautiful tribute from John Paul II, and then he shared the following anecdote. Soon after his election to the papacy, John Paul came to Paris for a pastoral visit. He made a special stop at the Institut Catholique de Paris to meet with theologians and other Catholic academics. After his formal remarks, Etchegaray continued, John Paul II looked up and said, "Où est le pere de Lubac? (Where is Fr. de Lubac?)" The young Karol Wojtyla had worked closely with de Lubac during Vatican II, specifically in the composition of the great conciliar document Gaudium et Spes. De Lubac stepped forward and, Etchegaray told us, Pope John Paul bowed his head to the distinguished theologian. Then, turning to the coffin, Etchegaray said, "Encore une fois, au nom du pape, j'incline la tête devant le pere de Lubac (Once more, in the name of the Pope, I bow my head before Fr. de Lubac)."
This is much more than a charming story, for upon John Paul's reverence for Henri de Lubac hangs a very interesting tale of continuing relevance to our time. De Lubac was the most prominent proponent of what came to be called la nouvelle theologie (the new theology). Departing from the strict and rather rationalist Thomism that dominated Catholic intellectual life in the first half of the twentieth century, de Lubac and his colleagues turned with enthusiasm to the Scriptures and to the marvelous and multifaceted works of the Church Fathers.
This return to the "sources" of the faith produced a theology that was spiritually informed, ecumenically generous, and intellectually rich—and it got de Lubac in considerable hot water with the academic and ecclesial establishment of that time. At the very height of his powers, throughout the 1950s, he was silenced, prohibited from teaching, speaking, or publishing. Rehabilitated by Pope John XXIII, de Lubac played a pivotal role at Vatican II, decisively influencing many of its major documents. It is altogether correct to say that this champion of the reforming Second Vatican Council was no friend of pre-conciliar Catholic conservatism.
However, in the years immediately following the Council, Henri de Lubac became impatient with the Catholic liberalism, led by such figures as Hans Küng, Karl Rahner, and Edward Schillebeeckx, which was pushing past the texts of Vatican II, accommodating itself far too readily with the environing culture, and losing its mooring in classical Christianity. And so, along with his colleagues Hans Urs von Balthasar and Joseph Ratzinger, he founded the theological journal Communio, which was meant as a counterweight to the journal Concilium, which published the works of the leading liberals.
It was this Communio school, this middle path between both a conservative and liberal rejection of Vatican II, that John Paul II enthusiastically embraced. If you seek clear evidence that the Polish Pope favored this approach, look no further than the Catechism of 1992, which is filled with the spirit of the nouvelle theologie, and to the fact that John Paul specially honored the three founders of Communio, making Joseph Ratzinger head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and naming both de Lubac and Balthasar Cardinals.
Are both left-wing and right-wing rejections of Vatican II on display today? Just go on the Catholic new media space and you'll find the question readily answered. What is still very much the needful thing is the de Lubac attitude: deep commitment to the texts of Vatican II, openness to ecumenical conversation, a willingness to dialogue with the culture (without caving in to it), reverence for the tradition without a stifling traditionalism.
Perhaps I might invite you to muse on that gesture and those words of Cardinal Etchegaray that I took in many years ago: "Once more, in the name of the Pope, I bow my head before Fr. de Lubac."
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Bishop Robert Barron is an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. He is the creator of the award winning documentary series, "Catholicism" and "Catholicism:The New Evangelization." Learn more at www.WordonFire.org.
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"What is still very much the needful thing is the de Lubac attitude: deep commitment to the texts of Vatican II, openness to ecumenical conversation, a willingness to dialogue with the culture (without caving in to it), reverence for the tradition without a stifling traditionalism."
Yes, waiter! Please bring us more of why we're in this mess today…what got it all started! With an extra side order of the Bromance approach (which is also "marvelous")…vs Thomas.
Be careful with "tradition" please! It should be regarded as something like the spice level chosen for dishes ordered in an Indian restaurant. We need some kind of coded checklist or even tradition-ometer to measure how much "tradition."
Exactly right, Joseph. Bishop Barron, who should actually and more accurately be known as Bishop Barren, is a lifetime careerist shill and shameless publicity hound for the once creeping and now vaunting infallibilism of Vatican II, an explicitly pastoral council that defined of itself absolutely nothing of faith or morals. For anyone who is not willfully blind, its novelties of the absolutism of individual conscience and relativism of moral precepts, the anthropocentrism of man-as-center of-the-universe, unlimited and self-defined religious freedom, truth-be-damned ecumenism, perpetual and pointless dialogue with every type of schismatic, heretic, apostate, and atheist, and a historically illiterate and ideologically secular liturgical modernism have produced an American Church that has squandered $4 Billion on the sins and crimes of its armies of clerical homosexuals and has rendered churches across Western and Eastern Europe as dusty museums for North American and Asian tourists. De Lubac, Kueng, Rahner, and Schillebeeckx, to name only a few, were all rightly and justly condemned under Pius XII as the blind and corrupt heterodox guides they were and remain. Cardinal Etchegaray has been notorious for decades for his bitter hatred of Tradition and as implacable despiser of the traditional Latin liturgy as well as the SSPX. To attempt to reposition De Lubac as a Vatican II meliorist seeking a via media is historically false and theologically incompetent. Catholic World Report should be ashamed to publish this sort of facile and dishonest nonsense nearly 55 years after the cataclysm De Lubac helped to create.
I believe that Bishop Barron may be well intended, but his choice of "the middle" theme recalls the same theme from very rotten sources.
McCarrick, the abusive sociopathic fraud, always talked about "staying in the middle between conservatives and liberals."
Talking like that is parroting McCarrick.
It has "the mind of McCarrick."
It is the ambiguity of the McCarrick Establishment.
Try something Catholic instead.
As recently as four years ago, I would've read this piece and nodded in agreement. But no longer: under this pope, the "via media" has now been shown to be a dead end and its legitimacy is fast crumbling away.
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I have to agree with Joseph. The "New Theology" was already producing disaster after disaster even before Vatican 2. We need to stop being cheerleaders for that wasted effort, and start living in the real world.
The very fact that it was called the "the new theology" ought to have set off warning bells, implying as it does a wholesale rejection of what had gone before.
"Departing from the strict and rather rationalist Thomism that dominated Catholic intellectual life in the first half of the twentieth century, de Lubac and his colleagues turned with enthusiasm to the Scriptures and to the marvelous and multifaceted works of the Church Fathers."
Mmmm, yes, because strict Thomism utterly precludes reading the Scriptures and the works of the Church Fathers? I am not a theologian or an expert on any of this, but the way Bishop Barron phrases that seems to indicate that de Lubac and his colleagues turned away from Thomism, instead of adding to it; and that implies a rejection of it, as I mentioned above. I can't think that rejecting St. Thomas Aquinas' work is a good thing.
"This return to the "sources" of the faith produced a theology that was spiritually informed, ecumenically generous, and intellectually rich"
So, everybody who came before "the new theology" was spiritually uninformed, "ecumenically" selfish, and intellectually impoverished? Nothing like temporal snobbishness.
"However, in the years immediately following the Council, Henri de Lubac became impatient with the Catholic liberalism, led by such figures as Hans Küng, Karl Rahner, and Edward Schillebeeckx, which was pushing past the texts of Vatican II,"
In other words, he helped open the floodgates and then was impatient when destructive floodwaters came pouring in.
But that's not what Bishop Barron wrote, is it?
A very bad reading of what was written and what actually happened. How much de Lubac have you actually read?
I was drawn to the Catholic Church, in large part, by reading St. Thomas AND de Lubac, von Balthasar, Danielou, Bouyer, Ratzinger (along with Newman, the Fathers, Chesterton, etc). But I was never attracted to Rahner, Küng, and the Concilium crowd, even though I read a fair amount of it. There are many reasons, but a huge one for me is that the while the ressourcement theologians were critical of many aspects of neo-Thomism, they did not capitulate to secularism and modernism. Rather, they provided incisive and rich responses (that's the very short answer as I don't have time for a longer one).
No, I quoted what he said before I analyzed what it meant. He wrote ""This return to the "sources" of the faith produced a theology that was spiritually informed, ecumenically generous, and intellectually rich." He didn't write that theology was more informed, more generous, richer; and that means that he was denying that those attributes existed before.
None. I'm judging by what happened as a result of "the new theology," and it isn't pretty.
"But I was never attracted to Rahner, Küng, and the Concilium crowd, even though I read a fair amount of it."
That's good.
There was a splintering amongst the ressourcement theologians (who didn't care for the term "new theology", and for good reason: it wasn't really new at all) following the Council, into the Communio group (Ratzinger, Bouyer, de Lubac, von Balthasar) and Concilium group (Küng, Rahner, Schillebeeckx, etc). It's essential to understanding what happened. See my May 2017 interview with Tracey Rowland for a good intro to it.
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One of the problems with understanding Vatican II is the pervasive misunderstanding of Vatican I and the situation it was attempting to address: the rise of the "new things" of socialism, modernism, and the New Age in the early 19th century. The widespread belief that all the problems of the modern Church began with Vatican II fails to take into account longstanding problems with the "new things" that used the Council as a springboard to publicize dissent that already existed, but had been suppressed (although not eliminated) by papal action since Gregory XVI's Mirari Vos in 1832. The massive confusion of Catholic social teaching with the "new things" has been ongoing from the beginning, with both liberals and conservatives damning the other side as heretics and dissenters, muffling and distorting the truths expressed by the popes and commentators like Chesterton and Sheen.
The best of Ressourcement was a reminder that there is more to Latin theology than neo-scholasticism and its manuals, and that Latins should become reacquainted with the sources of Latin theology, scripture, the Fathers, the liturgy. Some would prefer to attribute certitude the to one version or another of the Thomistic synthesis, but that desire is misplaced.
"It is altogether correct to say that this champion of the reforming Second Vatican Council was no friend of pre-conciliar Catholic conservatism"
"Pre-conciliar Catholic conservatism" really needs to be defined. AS history show, DeLubac's name is easily invoked for some things to which he might take exception.
Bishop Barron again demonstrates that his is a profound blindness. The Church is collapsing due to Vatican II and the New Theology of de Lubac, Chenu, Kung, Ratzinger, and Rahner. It was a catastrophe for the Church. He cannot see reality because he is mis-educated in the modernist principles that dominate today's seminaries and Churches. I am old enough to have seen the entire collapse of the Church, from solid dogma and priestly discipline to chaos and confusion. Lord, save us from these wolves in sheep's clothing!
We (the interfaith Center for Economic and Social Justice) gave a seminar on the role of private property in capital to deal with global poverty at the Vatican in 1992 hosted by Cardinal Silvestrini, and on which Cardinal Etchegaray commented favorably. A few years later (April 11, 1995), he again commented, this time on the book we developed out of the seminar proceedings, which I co-edited with the late Fr. John H. Miller, C.S.C., S.T.D., then head of the Central Bureau of the Catholic Central Union of America in St. Louis, MO. As his Eminence wrote to us after reading the book, "Curing World Poverty: The New Role of Property" (1994), "I trust this book will be read and studied by many since it offers a number of interesting proposals which might make a contribution to a more equitable economic system."
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What is the Mapping Center?
It is an online program that provides continuously updated demographic information on virtually every US adult that receives mail. This information is compiled from public information sources, public census data, and freely given information such as on warranty cards. No financial, credit card, income tax, or other private information is used or made available.
What is the Mapping Center used for?
It can focus on an area, zip code, or even an individual street to provide demographic information. This information can be used to identify the homes of unreached people groups in America in order to reach them with the Gospel. It can allow churches to better understand the people in their mission field in order to minister and share the gospel with them. This information can be used for mailings, prayer lists, door hangers, canvassing, mission field analysis, prayer walking, block parties, etc.
Individual information includes names of adults, age of children, education level, income bracket, household size, gender, and marital status. Address information such as street address, census block codes, type of residence, length of residence, own or rent, and census block groups. Ethnic information includes ethnic background, language spoken in the home, level of assimilation, and country of origin if Hispanic.
This information is only to be used by Churches and Christian ministries and only for ministry purposes.
The database is updated every three months though there could be a delay of a few months from when someone stats receiving mail and they show up in the database.
Because of our partnering church's generous giving through the Cooperative Program, the SBC of Virginia is able to offer this free of charge to our churches.
To take advantage of this free resource, email mappingcenter@sbcv.org for more information or call 804.270.1848 and ask for the Mapping Center.


The SIRA Committee wishes to thank Barbara Labram and Karine Valleix for their years of service as Community Hall Booking Officer and Cleaner.
As Hall Booking Officer, Barbara kept track of the regular and one-off bookings for the Hall, managed invoicing, maintained the calendar on the Scotland Island Community website and established good relationships with hall users.
Karine made sure the hall, kitchen and toilets always looked their best, keeping an eye on consumable needs and reporting any problems she encountered.
Teamwork was the answer. I enjoyed working with Barbara and Karine and now welcome Lucy Gregg, who has valiantly taken on both jobs.
Congratulations to Alec Foye Beckett, who has recently been appointed to the above position. Alec comes with excellent skills and experience, which will enable him to perform both the membership and IT aspects of the role.
For SIRA membership information and inquiries, he can be contacted on it@sira.org.au.
In the IT part of his role, he will be assisting SIRA to maintain and update its many computer programmes, the Community website and Facebook page.
SIRA is considering the formation of a Scotland Island Recreation Club (SIRC) and would appreciate any feedback/constructive ideas on this.
Initially this could be very small scale and comprise the management of a couple of table tennis sessions in the Community Hall. SIRA is willing to purchase a number of tables.
Sessions could be during the day and late afternoon to accommodate all ages.
If this proves successful we could look at expanding the activities. We would be looking for active volunteers to help. This is an opportunity to contribute to the health and well-being of the community, as well as to meet new people.
Come down to your nearest Wharf to collect a bag between the hours of 9am and 12.00 noon.
There are a number of watercraft on Cargo Beach which are encroaching on the picnic area and the beach. Some are used regularly, others have been lying there unused for some time.
The residents who use the picnic area spend time maintaining the table and keeping the area clear so it can be enjoyed by all. This is the only beach on the Island and it is a joy to sit back and watch the sunset, have a BBQ and a bevvy with friends.
Clean Up Australia will take any craft not in good shape or in use. If you would like to have yours removed, please contact Col Bailey 0413 815 111 by Saturday, March 2.
Col and others who use the beach will be there on Clean Up Oz day next Sunday, March 3 from 9am to 1pm to tidy the beach and the surrounding foreshore, removing any rubbish from the environment.
Please come down and join in and help rationalise the watercraft storage so everyone can enjoy the area. If you can't be there, Col is happy for you to call with your thoughts and suggestions.
Congratulations to Pittwater Online News on a fantastic article about Scotland Island and the Pittwater area. With numerour historical excepts taken from national archives, this is a must read for anyone living in the area.
".............Of course in Pittwater we have one emerald jewel where the ways are more alike leafy lanes in places and the 'roads' more a suggestion of a wending track than sealed asphalt drilled with white lines indicating formalised way of passage - and that place is Scotland Island.
Originally named 'Pitt Island' by Governor Phillip when he explored Broken Bay in March 1788, the island was renamed by the first European to be granted Scotland Island, Scotchman Andrew Thompson. The 120 acres comprising the island were granted on January 1st 1810, as a reward for his flood rescue work on the Hawkesbury River.
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Your hard working committee are pleased to present news of our next tasting and to be able to provide you with the tasting notes and the inevitable price list.
There are some exceptional wines in this collection and a couple of great value choices. Please take a look at the list and bring a copy with you when you attend the tasting. Hopefully attended by your neighbours and friends.
PLACE: Alan and Ruth Gaines lovely boatshed 'Shiraz' on the eastern side of Scotland Island.
Because this cute boatshed is a little short on size for the usual numbers that attend we do have the option to shift to Michael and Karen's boatshed adjacent to Greg and Louise's home on the north side of the island. (Just near Tennis wharf). This would only happen if it rains steadily. We would notify you by email on the morning of the tasting should a change be necessary. UNLIKELY.
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I'm wondering if any any Island folk would like to rent out their tinnie so as to make a few extra $$$.
My husband and I have recently moved to the Western Foreshore and require assistance with our TV and Internet set up.
We are happy to pick you up by boat if you need transport off shore.
Hard working, capable female to garden,painting and general jobs, Cleaning up that shed?
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The microwave is a freaking marvel, people. It cooks more quickly than other methods, preserves more nutrients, and is so easy to use that it obliterates all excuses for not cooking at home.
Maybe you're already using your microwave for heating up leftovers or popping up a movie-night snack. But what about the most important meal of the day? I'm here to argue that if you're not using your microwave to make breakfast, you're doing it wrong. Don't believe me? Take a break from that tired avocado toast and try these crazy delicious microwavable breakfasts.
Poached eggs aren't just that fancy, expensive thing you order at brunch: With a little help from your trusty microwave, they're a totally doable weekday breakfast. But be careful: In my early testing, I experienced a very messy explosion because I cooked an egg too long. Start on the low end of cooking time and gradually increase, especially if you have a heavy-duty, powerful microwave.
2. Place spinach and 1 tsp water into medium bowl. Cover with plate and microwave until spinach is wilted but still bright green, about 30 seconds. Drain and stack on top of tomato slices.
3. Fill same bowl with 1 cup water. Gently crack in 1 egg, making sure egg is completely submerged. Cover with plate and microwave until white is set and yolk reaches desired doneness, 45 seconds to 1 minute. Remove egg with slotted spoon and place on top of 1 tomato-spinach stack. Repeat with remaining egg. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Crepes in the microwave? I know, I was suspicious, too. But this is totally real. I first saw the idea on a microwave cooking blog for college students called Zap Eat Repeat, but I wanted to give the recipe a clean makeover with some more sophistocated flavors. The result? Pure magic.
1. Place berries in small bowl and microwave until thawed, about 30 seconds, stirring halfway through. Set aside.
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We recently designed a renovation for a local shopping center that was really showing its age. It had been built in several phases during the early to mid nineties. The following photos show what the Shopping Center looked like.
After discussing different scenarios with the Owner, we decided to completely demolish the existing facade and design a new facade that was very clean/modern and lent itself well to accommodating various retail scenarios. Mainly, allow for better signage visibility and storefront visibility. We also demolished the existing concrete sidewalks that were not A.D.A. compliant. The following photos show a small portion of the Demolition Phase and the early stages of the new facade renovation.
Once we had the existing facade measured and drawn, we began to sketch out different front elevations and ultimately decided on the scheme shown below.
The new design had to be relatively inexpensive to build and we decided to use a combination of E.I.F.S. (synthetic stucco), custom cast stone, and brick. We also designed the new facade to be able to retain the existing storefront and glazing, in case the budget would not allow us to install new storefront. We extended the existing front wall with continuous metal studs to give the front facade more height which also allowed the tenants an opportunity to obtain better signage visibility. By incorporating various brick details and creating "shadow lines" with the E.I.F.S., we were able to add interest to the front facade and do it on a budget. The new metal awnings will bring the entire design together and provide patrons shelter from the elements.
The color pallette was chosen to accent the brick and E.I.F.S. details but also allow the new tenant signage to be the focal point.
It's also important to point out that the General Contractor, Jimmy Miller Construction Company has done a great job. Jimmy Miller, his job foreman Joe Higley, and his entire crew have performed very well and executed our vision for the project.
As this phase of the project comes to a close, I'll post more photos of the finished product.


Despite the headlines of some media, mostly provincial, the invasive mosquito detected by the health authorities, is not a carrier of Dengue or any other tropical disease.
To be a carrier of a disease must have come into contact with the disease and that is "impossible on the island of Fuerteventura," according to health authorities.
Apparently, the mosquito enters the island "probably in import plants, since it is impossible for them to arrive by air from Africa. You have to understand that their life cycle is very short, and they cannot fly so much, "they continue," what comes in is the eggs, surely in some plant, "says the Director General of Public Health, José Juan Alemán.
It is important to eliminate the invasive species, but in this case the most that can happen is that the bite of this mosquito produces a sting greater than normal, that is, a more virulent reaction to the bite", says Miguel Rodríguez, Director Insular of Health.
These mosquitoes originate from more tropical places and with a higher humidity level than in Fuerteventura, so it is easier to control and eradicate them on the island.
The deposit of their eggs is done in containers that contain "clean" water (vases, pots, cans, bottles, plates, buckets with water from the pot). The eggs hatch in 2 or 3 days becoming larvae under favorable conditions of temperature and humidity. Therefore, an appeal is made to the population to monitor these places and warn the health authorities for their eradication.


Hosted by the Campus developer, Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), the visit included a tour of Aurora House, the £2.2m purpose-built life sciences building, which attracted £878,762 funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
Mr Swinney saw first-hand some of the ground-breaking collaboration, research and development activity being carried out by companies in the building. He met people from CorporateHealth International, 4c Engineering, Aseptium, OrganLike and Aqua Pharma (see Notes).
With 2018 being Scotland's Year of Young People, he was specifically introduced to some of the firms' younger recruits.
Mr Swinney also saw progress with a second building, Solasta House, which is currently under development by Robertson Construction in response to a healthy pipeline of enquiries. The £4.5m building, including £1.4m ERDF funding, will focus on accommodation for technology and life sciences companies.
"The life sciences sector is making a significant contribution to regional development across the Highlands and Islands and the Inverness Campus cluster is a key part of that. This incredibly diverse sector provides excellent career opportunities for young people and will be crucial in attracting new talent to the region.
"We have been developing Inverness Campus with a strong ethos of collaboration between commercial, research and education activities and an emphasis on life sciences. Of equal importance to us is that activities here should benefit communities and economies across the region.


The Center for International and European Studies is coordinating a one-week long summer course on "Turkey and its Environs" for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the disciplines of International Relations, European Studies, Political Science and Turkish Studies. This course is offered jointly by Kadir Has University and Coventry University.
This course is designed for undergraduate and graduate students in the disciplines of International Relations, European Studies, Political Science, economics, and Turkish Studies. The aim of the course is to present a substantive overview of the drivers of Turkey's foreign policy in particular in relationship with its neighborhoods -- Western Europe, the Black Sea Region, the Caucasus and Russia, the Greater Middle East, and the Unted States. The course is also meant to present an overview of the domestic context in terms of its politics; democracy; gender relations; the role of the media; and the influence of Istanbul. The economic and financial context both domestically and internationally will also be assessed. Finally, the course will conclude with a debate regarding where Turkey is heading based on the presentations given during the week. The course will be supported by guest lecturers with requisite expertise and a comprehensive reading list.
The course will be supported by guest lecturers with requisite expertise and a comprehensive reading list. It is designed to take place over the course of 6 days (24.5 hours in total).It will include a city tour and a goodbye lunch where certificates of attendance will be handed out to the participants.
More information regarding the course fees and how to apply can be found here.


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Q: QScrollArea won't acknowledge set widget's size I'm trying to implement a pinterest-like UI and I've been experimenting with the FlowLayout example for PySide.
The problem is that I'm trying to use a QScrollArea and it won't let me scroll down enough. In other words, I can't get to the bottom of the widget I'm trying to scroll.
You can get the hole file here. If you download it and run it, the problem will become pretty obvious.
My code was taken from here, with these modifications:
Added this class: (it just let's me generate colored and numerated rectangles)
class ColoredRectangle(QLabel):
count = 0

def __init__(self, height, color):
    super(ColoredRectangle, self).__init__()

    palette = QPalette()
    palette.setColor(QPalette.Background, color)

    self.setAutoFillBackground(True)
    self.setPalette(palette)

    self.setFixedSize(200, height)
    self.setText(str(ColoredRectangle.count))
    ColoredRectangle.count += 1

Now I'm adding rectangles instead of buttons...
class Window(QtGui.QWidget):
def __init__(self):
    super(Window, self).__init__()

    flowLayout = FlowLayout()
    flowLayout.addWidget(ColoredRectangle(450, Qt.white))
    flowLayout.addWidget(ColoredRectangle(200, Qt.green))self.setLayout(flowLayout)

    self.setLayout(flowLayout)

    self.setWindowTitle("Flow Layout")

Changed the doLayout method like this:
def doLayout(self, rect):

    if not any(self.itemList):
        return

    firstItem = self.itemList[0]

    x = rect.x()
    y = rect.y()

    wid = firstItem.widget()

    spaceX = self.spacing() + wid.style().layoutSpacing(QtGui.QSizePolicy.PushButton,
                                                            QtGui.QSizePolicy.PushButton, QtCore.Qt.Horizontal)
    spaceY = self.spacing() + wid.style().layoutSpacing(QtGui.QSizePolicy.PushButton,
                                                            QtGui.QSizePolicy.PushButton, QtCore.Qt.Vertical)

    itemWidth = firstItem.sizeHint().width()

    # calculate column count

    columnCount = (rect.width() + spaceX) / (itemWidth + spaceX)
    availablePositions = [None] * columnCount

    for i in range(columnCount):
        availablePositions[i] = QPoint(x + i * (itemWidth + spaceX), y)

    for item in self.itemList:

        currentPosition = availablePositions[0]
        currentPositionColumn = 0

        positionColumn = 0
        for position in availablePositions:
            if min(currentPosition.y(), position.y()) != currentPosition.y():
                currentPositionColumn = positionColumn
                currentPosition = position

            positionColumn += 1

        # update available position in column
        itemSize = item.sizeHint()
        availablePositions[currentPositionColumn] = QPoint(currentPosition.x(),
                                                           currentPosition.y() + itemSize.height() + spaceY)

        # place item
        item.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(currentPosition, itemSize))

And finally, I added the QScrollArea:
if __name__ == '__main__':
import sys

app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
mainWin = Window()
scrollArea = QScrollArea()
scrollArea.setWidgetResizable(True)
scrollArea.setWidget(mainWin)
scrollArea.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())

Thanks in advance!

A: Well, found the answer on my own...
Apparently the layout has to define the method heightForWidth, which, as far as I understand, returns the height of the layout which results after a width resize. So... I had to store the new height at the end of doLayout so I'm able to return it when asked for.
This is what I did after doLayout:
self.heightForWidthValue = max(map(lambda position : position.y(), availablePositions))

Also, I implemented these functions in FlowLayout:
def hasHeightForWidth(self):
    return True

def heightForWidth(self, width):
    return self.heightForWidthValue

And set 0 as the default value (initialized in FlowLayout->__init__) for heightForWidthValue.
Now it works like a charm :)
Here's the proper code, if anyone is interested.

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Apple 3D touch is not only for access Apps functions by Shortcut way; but it is also useful to Clear All Notifications in iOS 12 at once, switch between apps. Apple's four models of iPhone family have 3D Touch feature such as iPhone 6S and later models. Though if you have one model out of four, then you are eligible to dispose all notification at once, I will learn you here trick how to do it.
Remain iPhone models have no 3D touch since even have updated iOS, then the user can't get clear all notifications tab. Therefore, users have to compulsory delete notifications one by one.
Step 1. Launch Notifications Center on your iPhone by swiping down the screen on your iPhone XS Max, XS, X, 8 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus or iPhone 6S, 6s Plus.
Step 2. Now you will have to gently press and hold on the X button top of the Notifications Center.
Step 3. You'll get a Clear All Notifications option, Tap on Clear All Notifications.
It's a hidden feature so not almost users are unfamiliar with it. Hence, if 3D, touch not working to delete notifications, please check out that 3D touch is enabled on your iPhone.
Still, there is a no way I found to delete/ remove all notifications without 3D touch. If whenever we get an idea or app, then I will update you.
In addition, if you got a trick to do that please don't forget to share in the below comment box. Drop your reply and be helpful for others.
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Can Alcohol Cause Hair Loss?
Drinking alcohol can cause hair loss for several different reasons.
Alcohol can cause hair loss for several reasons related to how alcohol affects the body in general. Excessive alcohol use and alcohol addiction can wreak havoc on your life and your health, and can even affect your appearance.
One such side effect is the connection between alcohol and hair loss. Many people wonder if alcohol use can lead to hair loss, and if so, how can drinking too much alcohol leads to such an unexpected side effect.
No part of your body, health or life goes untouched by the effects of excessive alcohol use, and even your hair can be impacted.
When you drink excessively, you consume empty calories with no nutritional benefits, which is especially true if you primarily drink beer or liquor. As you consume so many of your calories in the form of alcohol, you're probably not focusing on maintaining a nutritious, well-balanced diet in the process.
You may even feel full most of the time when you're drinking heavily, simply because you're drinking so much alcohol, which can lead to malnutrition. That malnutrition can lead to scary side effects, including brain damage from a lack of thiamine, and hair loss. The right amount of vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats, and carbohydrates are essential to a healthy scalp and head of hair.
However, it's not just a lack of nutrients or a poor diet that connect alcohol and hair loss. Alcohol can also cause hair loss by interfering with the absorption of essential vitamins and nutrients. Drinking can destroy the lining of the stomach and increase acid production in the digestive system, which makes it difficult for your body to absorb nutrients properly.
Drinking excessively also has a diuretic effect that can lead to lower levels of potassium and magnesium in the body. When this happens, it makes it more difficult for your body to sustain typical, healthy functions, including hair growth.
While nutrition plays a significant role in alcohol-related hair loss, there are also other ways alcohol and hair loss are linked to one another.
Drinking alcohol dehydrates you: Heavy alcohol use can lead to damage to the health of your hair. When you're dehydrated, it can make existing hair follicles very dry and brittle, which makes them more likely to fall out. Dehydration can also cause dandruff.
Using alcohol causes blood sugar spikes: These spikes in blood sugar have been linked to pattern baldness.
Alcohol use disrupts your sleep: When you drink excessively you may sleep, but it's usually not high-quality sleep. When you don't sleep enough (or sleep well), it can increase stress, and stress is linked to hair loss. The condition called telogen effluvium, or TE, refers to stress-induced hair loss. When this happens, your hair follicles don't replenish themselves as they should, but they continue shedding.
Alcohol use changes estrogen levels: Alcohol use has been shown in research to be connected to increased levels of estrogen. Increased estrogen, particularly in men, can cause problems with hair growth and loss.
If you struggle to control your drinking, a treatment center like The Recovery Village® can help you overcome your addiction and connect you to the care you need. Call The Recovery Village today to learn more about your options for treatment.
Goldburg, Lynne J. & Lenzy, Yolanda. "Nutrition and Hair." Clinics in Dematology. August 2010. Accessed March 26, 2019.
World, M. J., Ryle, P. R., Thomson, A. D. "Alcoholic Malnutrition and the Small Intestine." Alcohol and Alcoholism. 1985. Accessed March 26, 2019.
Epstein, Murray. "Alcohol's Impact on Kidney Function." Alcohol Health and Research World. 1997. Accessed March 26, 2019.
Purohit, V. "Moderate alcohol consumption and estrogen levels in postmenopausal women: a review." Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. August 1998. Accessed March 26, 2019.


2K Games has posted some more information about the Career Mode in WWE 2K18. It seems as if the mode will be bigger and better compared to previous years.
WWE 2K18 promises you to take two different paths to better your virtual WWE career. You can choose to be a "Company Man" or a "Fan Favorite".
Company Man is the heel (bad guy) route where you do favors for upper management and backstab other wrestlers. You are pretty much a bad guy and you will be rewarded for your actions.
Fan Favorite is the opposite as you gain respect from fans and your peers by doing great promos and matches. You can become as great as The Rock or Stone Cold Steve Austin.
Also in this game is the ability for you to walk backstage. You are free to talk to other wrestlers or do your own interviews and more. Sometimes your interactions can alter your storyline in the game.
Lastly, they have updated the promos this year. There are more animations added and many of them have been modeled from the real life WWE Superstars. If you want to know more, click here for the full blog post.


When several callers phoned into San Diego's NBC News affiliate April 28, the station captured this unusual colorful grouping of aerial lights over San Ysidro, close to the U.S.-Mexico border.
"Some said they appeared to be red, blue, and green and kept flashing and changing colors. Some who saw them say the lights didn't seem to move, like those on a plane or a drone," NBC 7 San Diego reported.
According to the station, "We put in calls to the military here to see if they could identify what these were. So far, no response."
It wouldn't be the first time that UFOs had been reported to local military bases around San Diego. Previously classified government documents under the Air Force's former Project Blue Book UFO study show how San Diego's military has seen its fair share of UFO reports.
Regarding this most recent case of odd lights in the sky, the TV station itself has stopped responding, after UFO researchers and The Huffington Post called, asking for details of the event.
On the evening the video was shot, NBC 7 had been in the San Ysidro area working on an unrelated story.
One eyewitness, Larry Fox, sent UFO photos to the TV station in which he described seeing something that "looked like a strobe light." Fox told NBC 7 he didn't feel it was a plane or drone. "It was a series of flashing lights. If it was a plane, it would have moved."
Two UFO sightings near volcano in Mexico, one caused an explosion?


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Q: Cron job running in background with waitress in python:3.7.6-buster (debian) container I'm trying to run a cron job within a container alongside a waitress http server.
No matter what I do I can't seem to get cron to start automatically within the container...
Here's my docker file:
FROM python:3.7.6-buster
RUN apt-get update -y && apt-get install -y python3-dev cron
WORKDIR /home/user

COPY . .
RUN echo "* * * * * root echo hello >> /home/log.log 2>&1\n" > /etc/cron.d/task
RUN chmod 0644 /etc/cron.d/task
RUN crontab /etc/cron.d/task
RUN touch /home/log.log
CMD cron

EXPOSE 80

ENTRYPOINT [ "waitress-serve" ]
CMD [ "-call", "main:main" ]

I've tried also starting the cron service, but when the container is up, service cron status shows the following:
[FAIL] cron is not running ... failed!
What am I doing wrong?

A:
You're not starting cron anywhere in dockerfile. Also containers don't use init.d and systemd, they aren't virtual machines and they don't have own systemd/init.d. That's why you see following error:
[FAIL] cron is not running ... failed!

My solution is to write simple bash script (or just change whole CMD) which starts crond and other things you want to work in the background.
Example:
crond -P -n -s && waitress-serve -call main:main && tail -f /home/log.log

Command tail -f is here to prevent from exiting your container instantly. Flags -P -n -s are for inhereting path from environment (-P), sending job output to syslog which is optional and it is just my preference (-s) and working in the background (-n).
Then just copy that script and change your CMD to:
CMD script.sh

Also add this to your dockerfile. This is mandatory for -n flag.
RUN sed -i '/session    required   pam_loginuid.so/c\#session    required   pam_loginuid.so' /etc/pam.d/crond

I think this should work now. If you'll encounter problems just hit me up with comment. This is my first solution here so please be patient :D


The sentiment of this one is loneliness, distance, the soft heart of this song left out in the cold. There is something in the way the guitar calls out, virtually tempo rubato, out of time with the sharp beat—it appears grieving and sorrowful, lapsing on rhythm and sounding more expressive as a result, natural in its mournful ache. This is the emotive centrepiece of 'Frust' (like 'frustration' + 'frost'?) by Manila musicmaker Olympía; these soaring solo guitar snippets could well work against their synthetic counterparts in the track but in fact exhibit raw feeling juxtaposed against the smooth, glitching electronics.
Whilst the echoing guitar tells its emotive tale, an intricate bed of beats spreads out, with rapid-fire thumping kicks, ticking hi-hats, delayed snare clusters and a stark click that reverbs into the downcast gloom of the frosty track. Plaintive synth chords clonk percussively muted and warm: a smooth foundation for the shards of bristling beat, the squirling needles of the guitar. Wordless vocals from Olympía add to this sense of softness. But conversely the spectre of glitch, abrasive and disruptive, pockmarks the tranquil sadness of 'Frust', preying on its chill sense of regretful acceptance – blurry at 00:31, crackling mechanical from 00:43, occasional throughout – peace disturbed by the disquiet provoked in the mind by overflowing emotions that attach one human being to another.
🔔 You can find Olympía's own back catalogue of music on her SoundCloud, alongside songs she's featured on with fellow Manila artists like aries and crwn.


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Atlassian Cloud Mythbusting Part 3: Bye-Bye Server Apps – Hello Cloud?
11. January 2022 Joshua Brock
It's been a long time since the Rolling Stones were telling people "Get Off of My Cloud", and times have certainly changed; nowadays, we move more and more "into the Cloud". But what seems so simple for people privately can cause quite the headache in a professional context. Especially when it comes to sensitive topics such as data protection or information security in general. And so it's not surprising that in many countries, many companies that are considering moving their operations into the Cloud are hesitant at first. Questions about topics like security and performance weigh heavily on the minds of the decision-makers.
These concerns are understandable, as there have been repeated discussions and negative examples in the past. Reason enough for Seibert Media to take a closer look - and to do some "myth-busting"! Because many things you might think you know about the Cloud are not accurate (anymore). And one thing is clear: the future is looking up!
So join us in a journey into the clouds and read in our third article in our "Cloud Mythbusters" series what the current situation is with apps in the Atlassian Cloud (which, by the way, is not limited to the Atlassian Cloud!). The other articles will deal with the following topics:
What's the Deal with Data Security?
Put on a performance!
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes!
What Happens to my Data?
What Does My Admin do When There's Less Admin to Admin?
Can I still Customize my Cloud Instance?
How do I Leverage Cloud to Scale for My Enterprise?
In every blog article, we'll get to the bottom of each myth together, and we'll see what's left of them afterwards… And now: enjoy reading and "busting myths"!
Fear of change. We've all seen and experienced this in many areas of our lives. Changes in relationships, starting a new job, moving to a new city. As the saying goes, "change is the only constant".
If the past two years amid a global pandemic have demonstrated anything, it would be the reliance and adaptability of many companies, including your own we'd imagine. Teams and entire organizations have had to adopt or expand remote capabilities as their employees became distributed. As the workforce in general grew to embrace this change, prospective employees often requested or insisted on including either hybrid or full time remote work options.
An example of the continued commitment to empower and support their end user's need to thrive in this environment is Atlassian Access. Access gives an IT team the tools to safely and efficiently automate user provisioning and deprovisioning. Connecting to an organization's identity provider, Access provides the automation tools to easily onboard any number of new users throughout the year while protecting from breaches from employees who are no longer authorized. The infrastructure allows users to implement enterprise-wide authentication and oversight across all domains.
This issue of "fear of change" can certainly apply to our scenario here in this blog article; "Will our apps work in the cloud as they have on our servers?"
Cloud supports about 50% more integrations than server, and many integrations supported by both server and cloud have additional benefits in the cloud.
The good news, the light at the end of the tunnel if you will; Cloud is more app-friendly than you think, improvements are always ongoing, and as an Atlassian Solution Partner, we can help with all your concerns about app migration.
Now let's take a look at some of the common misconceptions, or myths as we like to call them, regarding cloud vs. server apps.
Myth #1: Cloud doesn't have as many apps
If you're familiar with any segment of the evolution of music technology, you'll understand why the move to the cloud is not a unique situation; record albums to tape cassettes to CDs to MP3s to streaming services.
At the outset, maybe you couldn't find your favorite classic album on tape, or a couple hundred of the MP3s you spent hours ripping from CDs isn't available on that new streaming service. Given time, however, not only are those tunes you love there, you discover there is much, much more available. Such is the case here.
Years ago this may have been the case regarding apps available in the cloud, however, the reality now is that cloud improvements are moving fast. What was true only a few years ago is definitely not true today. Atlassian Marketplace has over 1,000 apps and integrations for their cloud products and more are being added all the time. Atlassian added more than 250 apps to their arsenal in 2019 and in the first six months of 2020, Atlassian launched another 225.
Whether it's Atlassian's own server apps or apps from many of the prominent SaaS offerings such as Slack, Github, or Zoom, these are actually already available in the cloud. As more and more apps are developed via these partnerships, staff are added for these dedicated development teams. Functionality increases, the workflow between tools becomes more tightly integrated and seamless, and overall productivity increases.
This is obviously great news for over 200,000 of Atlassian's customers. But what if your work requires a solution that's a bit more specific and unique, requires a strict level of compliance, or a unique workflow? Specifics that make the solution require something more than an "off the shelf" application can meet? Atlassian is always working to develop the best-in-class cloud platform for their current and future customers. To that end, they introduced Forge in May
Forge is a next-generation app development platform designed from the ground up to ensure those solutions developed for Atlassian Cloud are future-proofed. Moving beyond the industry standard where iFrames place the majority of the heavy lifting on app developers, Atlassian instead has been working hard to give their developers the tools the easily create apps that are more secure and reliable. Additionally, these apps include the built-in capability to scale up, meeting the new needs their customers will require as time moves on.
Myth #2: I can't migrate my apps
Confused about which of your current Atlassian apps are available in the cloud?
Atlassian has developed a number of migration tools, such as Jira Cloud Migration Assistant and Confluence Cloud Migration Assistant to help come to the rescue. These tools help simplify both app assessment as well as migration by showing you at a glance which apps your team is using and which of those are available in the cloud.
"We don't have to think about keeping the server up and running, what to do when we need more space, or how we work. We can focus on Homegate because we don't have all the servers and instances on our mind."
- Peter Grube, Software Engineer at Homegate
The feedback received from the app assessment will identify which apps are currently installed on-prem and whether or not those apps exist in the cloud. Details also include links to feature differences and what migration options are currently available. Making use of all this information, app users can begin planning their journey to the cloud.
Many Marketplace partner apps currently already offer manual migration solutions or as part of the early access program, developed automated migration tools. Over forty developers have been building automated migration paths. This includes favorites including the likes of ScriptRunner, Zephyr, and Table Filters and Charts.
To learn more about this process, you can find additional information here - "We're making it easier to migrate your Marketplace apps".
Myth #3: Cloud app functionality is limited compared to on-prem
1,000+. That's how many cloud apps are now part of the Atlassian Partner ecosphere. As a result, this myth has easily been debunked.
Is there, in every instance, an exact features match between those apps previously on-prem that are now available in the cloud? No. At least not yet. Are apps in the cloud sometimes different than the ones use on-prem? Yes, but different doesn't mean less.
In some instances, users will be able to replicate their current workflows with existing cloud apps. In other cases, there may need to be some modifications of existing workflows, or possibly adopting a different workflow altogether. Finally, in other instances, the core functionality in Atlassian tools might be everything one needs to get workflows done, or the app functionality in the cloud is better and more robust.
In a similar fashion, we're certain the quality of your music streaming service is sounding better all the time compared to your albums, and it's a bit easier to listen to your favorite tunes on the metro this way.
Myth #4: Cloud apps aren't secure
I feel like we've heard this tune before. Oh yes, blog article #1.
As mentioned in that previous article, concerns revolving around security are companies' biggest concerns when it comes to cloud migration. As it turns out, however, 94% of businesses indicate that the move to the cloud has made them more, not less, secure.
You might ask yourself, "how does Atlassian keep our data secure?"
Glad you asked;
Enforced minimum security requirements
Establishes foundational security requirements for the process of accessing a company's network
Best-in-class "Bug Bounty" program
A powerful tool, which when implemented post-production, helps to detect vulnerabilities in applications and services.
Collaborative security self-assessment program
A collaboration between Atlassian and Marketplace Partners to increase security awareness and improve security practices
Clear privacy policies
Addresses the information collected about users when using Atlassian's products or services, or otherwise any interactions with Atlassian.
GDPR compliant practices
Detailed information regarding Atlassian's approach and investment in GDPR compliance in service of our customers and individual data subjects.
Constant improvements to security infrastructure and practices
Downloads Atlassian whitepaper, "Security @ Atlassian: An in-depth view of Atlassian's approach to Security"
Additionally, Atlassian always strips personal information from the API. This ensures user data never passes to app vendors, keeping it both safe and GDPR compliant.
And finally, part of their most recent improvements was the introduction of a new cloud security badge in the Atlassian Marketplace. The purpose is to help customers quickly and easily identify those cloud apps that participate in the Marketplace Bug Bounty Program, a collaboration between Atlassian and Marketplace Partners. Bug Bounty is hosted on the SaaS platform Bugcrowd, a crowdsourcing platform consisting of security researchers from around the globe, allowing for the discovery and documentation of app vulnerabilities.
When a developer joins the program, their application begins as a private program and then Bugcrowd extends the invitation to this talented group of security professionals to join. Doing so, they are given parameters about what they can and cannot test - their scope of work if you will. When one of these research professionals identifies what they believe to be a bug in the application, it is reported via Bugcrowd.
The bug is then reviewed and verified by the Application Security Engineering (ASE) team. If the developer concurs with the assessment, agreeing the bug indeed requires a fix, the security researcher(s) who identified the vulnerability is awarded a reward by the developer. In addition to rewarding the researcher for their diligence, it also automatically generates a work ticket for the development team to fix the vulnerability and improve security.
A commitment like Marketplace Bug Bounty Program increases the level of trust between partners and customers. Third-party reports can be generated indicating results of penetration testing. The badge earned identifies those vendors who have put in place ongoing vulnerability testing from a global pool of ethical security researchers.
"Atlassian highlights those developers who participate in the paid bug bounty programs on the Atlassian Marketplace. We want to signal to our customers the apps that reward researchers for reporting vulnerabilities and promote security-conscious apps in the Marketplace."
Atlassian's Bug Crowd domain offers "tools for teams, from startup to enterprise. Atlassian provides the tools to help every team unleash their full potential."
As always, if you would like to try Atlassian Cloud or have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at Seibert Media.
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Digital transformation most effective at the intersection of strategy, technology and design: N Manish of Wipro
By Siddhesh Raut
In this episode of 'Enterprise Transformation Series', hosted in association with AWS, N Manish of Wipro spoke about the role of cloud technology in improving agility, key drivers of efficiency and the factor that should define a business's cloud adoption strategy.
Enterprises have to be agile, get to market faster and more efficiently. In such a demanding business environment, enterprises are migrating their SAP workloads to cloud to enhance performance, simplify operations, and reduce costs.
The 'Enterprise Transformation Series', hosted in association with AWS, features experts who have helped enterprises undergo digital transformation by migrating their on-premise SAP workloads to the cloud.
In this episode, N Manish, VP, Head Application Service Lines, Integrated Digital and Engineering Application Services (IDEAS) India, Wipro Ltd., spoke about the role of cloud technology in improving agility, key drivers of efficiency and the factor that should define a business's cloud adoption strategy.
Meeting customer requirements crucial to developing business agility
Manish mentioned that the fundamental premise for business agility is to deliver value to the customer faster than the competition. This is one of the key reasons for cloud adoption. "Agility means the ability to innovate, harness various technologies and integrate them across multiple solutions. It (cloud technology) underpins the need for meeting customer demands quickly," he said.
Rapidly scaling compute power according to current needs, and integrating with multiple solutions to test proofs of concept using cloud technology solutions promote agility. Additional benefits include not having to worry about logistical aspects, such as finding the right infrastructure and integration points for deployment of third party solutions to carry out these operations.
Leveraging cloud technology, better decision-making
For Manish, gathering insights from data is crucial to change the trajectory of the organisation's growth
"The better insights you have into your customer, stakeholder, and supplier behaviour, the more efficient your supply chain, manufacturing and fulfillment process becomes," he said. "To gain insights, you need data stores and data lakes from which you can visualise the right insights. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are the components that can help to this end," he noted, adding that system integrators (SI) like Wipro are necessary to have the right solutions in place.
"While customers have an intuitive understanding of this (process), we work with them in a consultative manner to understand their business processes, break them down into solutions components, and provide a strategy," he said.
How cloud technology can secure operations beyond boundaries
Security has to be at multiple levels for remote working environments that have devices on public networks, Manish noted. "This includes right from providing the basic infrastructure system of patching Operating Systems, to identity management, access control, data encryption and ensuring compliance according to the security standards," he said.
The security services that a cloud environment provides are far more advanced than in on-premise setups, Manish noted. Apart from cloud services, organisations also have the option of taking up services of leading third-party security service providers.
Enable transformation downwards from a business process level:
Enabling a transformation with cloud technology is not an overnight journey, Manish said.
"All of these changes should be at the intersection of strategy, technology and design. Cloud will definitely be a component (to facilitate these changes), and the best way to approach it is from the business process downwards."


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Q: Trying to implement "Enter" event handler to textbook using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Data;
using System.Windows.Documents;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Imaging;
using System.Windows.Navigation;
using System.Windows.Shapes;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using Microsoft.VisualBasic;

namespace HelloWorld
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Interaction logic for MainWindow.xaml
    /// </summary>
    public partial class MainWindow : Window
    {
        string filePathTEST = "";

        public MainWindow()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            // Clearing text event handlers
            textBox1.GotFocus += textBox1_GotFocus;

            // Enter event handlers for textboxes
            textBox1.KeyDown += new System.Windows.Input.KeyEventHandler(textBox1_KeyDown);

        }

 static void textBox1_KeyDown(object sender, System.Windows.Input.KeyEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Enter)
            {
                //enter key is down
            }
        }

The error I am getting when I try to run the above code is the following:

Cannot implicitly convert type
  'System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventHandler' to
  'System.Windows.Input.KeyEventHandler'

Then I tried changing the code to System.Windows.Input and then I get the following:

Error 1   'System.Windows.Input.KeyEventArgs' does not contain a
  definition for 'KeyCode' and no extension method 'KeyCode' accepting a
  first argument of type 'System.Windows.Input.KeyEventArgs' could be
  found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

The whole point of me doing this is that when I press enter on a textbox, I want to take the text in that textbox and populate a certain text file with it but I am not sure how to go about doing that.

A: The compiler thinks you mean to use 'System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventHandler'  due to the namespace you've added: System.Windows.Forms.
Remove this line and your code should work:
using System.Windows.Forms;

Second, you should use Key instead of KeyCode since that is the WPF variant:
private void textBox1_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Key == Key.Return)
    {
         //
    }
}

A: You're running foul of the rather confused state of Windows client development. System.Windows.Forms is part of the WinForms library, the original UI framework that shipped with .NET 1.0. The project you're working with is written in WPF (Windows Presentation Framework) the new lib that started shipping in .NET 3. There's a lot of overlap, but the two libraries are distinctive.
The class you want is System.Windows.Input.KeyEventArgs. If you go up onto MSDN for the documentation for this class, you'll see that it does NOT in fact have a KeyCode property. It does, however, have a Key property which should do what you want.
I'll leave actually finding and reading the MSDN documentation as an exercise for the reader. :-)


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Arnaud Dubus, former RFI correspondent dies in Thailand
Arnaud Dubus, former Southeast Asia correspondent for RFI and other media. Arnaud Dubus
The French diplomat and former RFI correspondent Arnaud Dubus has been found dead in Thailand. The embassy in Bangkok said the 56-year-old had fallen from a train in the Yannawa district in the capital's south.
Police said they were investigating the circumstances of his death, which remained unclear on Tuesday.
Dubus was known for his profound knowledge of the region, including Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and the Philippines.
He worked as a correspondent for RFI (including its English service) since October 1988. Last year, he finally said goodbye to journalism and began working for the French embassy in Bangkok as press attaché.
Dubus, who also wrote for French newspaper Libération, studied communication at Celsa-Université-Paris-IV, where he produced a critical thesis called "Journalism and objectivity. Example of the attitude of Libération, Le Monde and Le Nouvel Observateur regarding the Cambodia of the Khmer Rouge (1975-1978): between blindness and partiality."
It launched him on a three-decade long journey through some of the most important events in Southeast Asia. He covered Aung San Suu Kyi confronting the Myanmar junta, before she was put under house arrest. He reported about the repression of the Rohyinga. He tried to make sense of the chaotic political landscape and the military coups in Thailand and made reporting trips to the Philippines.
He wrote several books, including Buddhism and Politics in Thailand and a book on the complex relationship between the Thai and Indonesian armies in the wake of popular uprisings.
For his colleagues in the newsroom in Paris and to those who visited him, he was always ready to share contacts, advice, hospitality and jokes. He will be missed.
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Keep out of temple dispute, Thai army tells government
Thai Red Shirts demand answers over 2010 killings


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Il maestro di campo è stato un grado militare.

Antico ordinamento militare francese
Quello di maestro di campo, in lingua francese mestre de camp, fu un grado militare francese durante lAncien Régime.

Comandante un reggimento, il maestro di campo era sotto l'autorità di un colonnello generale che comandava tutti i reggimenti di un'arma (cavalleria, fanteria ecc.). Quando fu soppressa la carica di colonnello generale - nel 1661 per la fanteria - il maestro di campo assunse il titolo di colonnello. Nella cavalleria, che rimase invece sotto l'autorità di un colonnello generale, i singoli reggimenti furono comandati da un maestro di campo sino alla Rivoluzione.

Come quella di capitano la carica era venale, ossia acquistabile e cedibile liberamente; di conseguenza, i rampolli dell'alta aristocrazia potevano accedere al grado ad un'età assai precoce e trovarsi quindi in buona posizione per ambire per anzianità al grado di brigadiere.

Il grado di maestro di campo era contraddistinto da un paio di spalline (épaulette) a frange dorate o argentate.

Il grado fu soppresso durante Rivoluzione e sostituito da quello di chef de brigade al comando di una demi-brigade (mezza brigata); nel 1803 con l'Impero furono ripristinate le denominazioni di colonnello e reggimento per tutte le armi.

 Antico ordinamento militare spagnolo
Il maestre de campo, maese o maestro fu un grado militare spagnolo creato nel 1534 dal monarca Carlo I di Spagna.
Nella scala dei gradi era inferiore al capitano generale e superiore al sargento mayor'' ed era di nomina regia nel Consiglio di Stato spagnolo. Il maestre de campo''' aveva il comando di un tercio e il potere di amministrare la giustizia e di regolare il vettovagliamento. Aveva una guardia personale costituita da otto alabardieri tedeschi, pagati dal Re, che lo accompagnavano ovunque.

Gradi militari
Forze armate francesi
Forze armate spagnole


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City Council to Vote on Increasing Fine for Doorings...AND Increased Fines for Rogue Bicyclists
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to present a proposed ordinance to the City Council today which would increase the fines for a number of traffic violations both committed by and affecting bicyclists. The proposal addresses three specific issues. First, the ordinance proposes increasing the fine for bicyclists who violate traffic laws from $25 to $50-$200 depending upon the type and severity of violation. Second, under the proposed ordinance, the fine for a motorist who opens a vehicle door in a bicyclist's path, known as "dooring" a bicyclist, would increase from $500 to $1,000. Third, the fine for leaving a vehicle door open in traffic would double from $150 to $300.
Mayor Emanuel justified the proposed increased fines for bicyclists with the following explanation:
If they are sharing the roadway with vehicles, cyclists must obey all traffic laws, including yielding to pedestrians, stopping at traffic signals and indicating when they are making turns. When the traffic laws are obeyed, everyone is safer. By increasing the fines for failing to obey the law, cyclists will behave more responsibly, increasing safety and encouraging others to ride bikes."
Mayor Emanuel also announced today that he has launched a sticker campaign to remind Chicago's taxi passengers to look for bicyclists before opening their vehicle doors. Stickers designed by MINIMAL design studios stating "Look! Before Opening Your Door" will be placed in the rear passenger windows of all of Chicago's taxicabs. MINIMAL became involved in the campaign after one of its employees was killed just last fall when he was hit by a semi-trailer after he swerved on his bicycle to avoid an open car door on his way to work.
Mayor Emanuel campaigned for office on a promise to make Chicago a more bicycle-friendly city. Since taking office in 2011, Mayor Emanuel has dedicated millions of dollars to installing more than 200 miles of on-street bike ways in the city. As a result, bicycling traffic has increased at a rapid rate while motorists and bicyclists are still adjusting to sharing the roadway with one another.
Ron Burke, the executive director of the Active Transportation Alliance, addressed this tension and his support of Mayor Emanuel's proposal, stating the following:
It's not so much bikes vs. cars vs. pedestrians. Unfortunately, there's a percentage of the population that travels recklessly -- whether it's on foot, on bike or driving a car. The Active Transportation Alliance supports increased traffic fines as an important way to improve safety.
The Illinois Bicycle Attorneys at Keating Law Offices strongly support Mayor Emanuel's proposal based upon their belief that increasing safety for bicyclists requires a conscious effort on the part of both motorists and bicyclists. Affording bicyclists the same protections as motorists also requires subjecting bicyclists to the same responsibilities as motorists.
In 2012, there were approximately 1,675 bicycle accidents in Chicago, including 250 accidents where bicyclists were "doored" by motorists. The attorneys at Keating Law Offices have negotiated favorable settlements for a number of bicyclists injured in the Chicagoland area, including several who have been "doored" by motorists.
Doorings have become nothing short of a vehicular plague on Chicago's bicyclists. The fear of a large traffic ticket will ideally act as a deterrent to motorists swinging their door into traffic without looking first.
The Illinois Bicycle Lawyers at Keating Law Offices are proud to represent and advocate on behalf of Chicago area bicyclists after a collision occurs. Part of our advocacy is promoting policies that protect bicyclists. That is why we fully support legislation aimed at preventing many of these tragic accidents before they occur, even if it might also mean more traffic tickets for bicyclists. We anxiously await the City Council's decision regarding Mayor Emanuel's proposal.
Posted by Mike Keating at Thursday, May 09, 2013
Labels: Chicago Municipal Code


However the message doesn't arrive at the recpient.
We have deployed Hudson 1.323 on Tomcat6.
I can't find any hint in Tomcats log-file.
What please is the proper way to trace the problem?
How to turn on debug-logging in Hudson for this?


Congratulations to everyone involved in the organisation of the second World Bronchiectasis Conference in the beautiful setting of Milan. WBC has yet again proved another success with great presentations, poster displays and discussions. Thank you to all who attended and we hope that you enjoyed every minute of it. It was great to see so much EMBARC data being used in both presentations and posters.
Looking forward to seeing you all again next year in Washington, DC for WBC3.


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Canada's Landforms
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Canadas Landforms What is a Landform? A landform is any physical feature of the Earths surface having a characteristic, recognizable shape, produced by natural causes. Landforms include major features (e.g. continents, ocean basins, plains, plateaus, mountain ranges) and minor features (e.g. hills, valleys, slopes, drumlins, dunes). Collectively, the landforms of Earth constitute the
entire surface configuration of the planet. Landforms in Canada Canada is made up of three distinct types of landforms: Canadian Shield Highlands Lowlands Within these landforms there are smaller subregions which have different characteristics. Canadian Shield
The Canadian Shield is the foundation of Canadas land mass. It lies under more than half of Canada and some parts of the United States. The Shield is an extremely old region, formed during the Precambrian era. The Shield was formed by tectonic forces (mountain building) and was at one time far higher than any
mountains presently on Earth. Over its long history, the shield was worn down by erosion, and now is nearly flat, with rounded hills of rock. The Shield is also made up of many different minerals and metals, which were formed in the igneous and metamorphic rock of the Shield. Due to these mineral deposits, many towns and cities have been built on top of it (ie.
Sudbury ON, Thompson MN.) The Shield is not well suited for farming, as the soil is thin on top of the rock, from glacial erosion. As well, water does not drain well as the Shield is rock, and impervious to water. The Lowlands There are three lowland regions in Canada, surrounding the Shield:
The Interior Plains The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands The Hudson Bay-Arctic Lowlands The bedrock of these regions was formed by the eroded material of the shield being deposited by the seas which covered parts of Canada. These sediments were gradually compressed over time into rock. Interior Plains
This region stretches from the 49th parallel (the U.S.Canada border) up to the Arctic Ocean (about 2700 km) At the southern point, the plains stretch 1300 km east to west, but are only about 275 km wide in the Northern regions. The soil that has developed in
this region is fertile and deep, and has allowed the growth of many crops in the Prairie region (Canadas breadbasket) The region was also shaped by glaciation, and lakes such as Lake Winnipeg were formed as a result of glacial forces. Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands South of the Canadian Shield, this region is made up of two
different parts, which are intersected at one point (near Kingston) by the Shield. South of this point, the Great Lakes lowlands are found. The region is relatively flat and made up of sedimentary rocks left by glaciers. The Great Lakes were themselves gouged out of the landscape by glacial movement. The St. Lawrence lowlands were formed as a result of tectonics, in a process called Faulting. Two plates moving apart left a valley in between, which became flooded with water. The St. Lawrence River is a result of this process.
The warm climate and good soil of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region allow agriculture to prosper. In addition, these factors have allowed the growth of large cities, which are well situated for trade on the major waterways. About 50% of Canadas population live in this region, and 70% of the countries
manufacturing takes place here. Hudson Bay-Arctic Lowlands The Northern regions of Canada are also relatively flat and formed from glacial debris and sediment. The harsher climate of this region makes it difficult for agriculture, as the ground remains frozen in many
areas, year round. The Hudson Bay lowlands are located near the southwestern shore of Hudson Bay and James Bay. The Arctic lowlands refer to the islands scattered across Canadas far north.
The Highlands Canada also has three highland areas to the east, north and west of the Shield and lowland areas. The Appalachians The Innuitians The Western Cordillera Each of these three areas has a different geologic history and appearance.
The Appalachian Mountains These mountains are the oldest highland region in Canada, formed about 300 million years ago. Tectonic folding forced the layers of rock upwards as the North American plate collided with the plates of Europe and Africa during the formation of
Pangaea. Millions of years of erosion has worn the peaks of the Appalachians down into rolling hills and mountains. During the last ice age, the weight of the glaciers on the region forced the plate downwards, and allowed the flooding of the lower areas by the ocean. As a result, the coastline of the area is dotted with deep inlets.
The Innuitian Mountains These mountains were formed in the Mesozoic era, by the northward movement of the North American plate. Since these mountains are younger than the Appalachians, they have not been worn down as dramatically.
Due to their location and climate, the mountains are barren as trees cannot survive on them. Mineral deposits in this region have been found, but are not commercially feasible, due to the remoteness of their location. The Western Cordillera This region, on the Western coastline of Canada, is made up of tall, rugged mountains.
These features tell us that the mountains here are still geologically young. The interaction of the Pacific and North American plate led to the uplifting of the region into several mountain ranges. The large cities in this region (Victoria, Vancouver, etc) are built in the flatter coastal area.
Tourist towns, such as Banff and Jasper, offer tourists a view of the beauty of the mountains. Glaciers still exist in the Northern and elevated areas of the region. A Common Misconception of the Cordillera Region The mountains in this area run in a North-South direction. There are three distinct and different mountain ranges in this region:
The Eastern Mountains (Rocky & Columbia Mountains) The Interior Plateaus (Okanagan Valley, etc) The Coast Mountains The Western Cordillera is therefore not only the Rocky Mountains, but several other ranges. Earthquakes in Canada? The continuing movement of the North American and Pacific plates makes the West coast of Canada the most active earthquake
zone in the country. Over 100 earthquakes of a magnitude of 5 or more have been recorded in the ocean west of Vancouver Island over the past 70 years.
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One who claims (verbally) and says that I am hopeful of the Mercy of Allah, is a liar. By Allah if his claim is genuine then why is his sincerity not reflected in his actions.
The Proof of fear is flight and the proof of hope is the effort to come near.


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HLS is proud to introduce our nine new writers. With an impressive range of experience and interests, we can't wait to hear what they have to say!
Jennifer Eltringham is a first year MLIS student at the University of Denver, where she is torn between specializing in public libraries and archives – she hopes to find a way to reconcile the two. When not processing interlibrary loans and answering reference questions at the Pikes Peak Library District, she daydreams about traveling, knits socks, pretends that her work environment is like a public library version of The Office, and thinks about how intersections of race, gender, and class affect the way human beings exist in the world. You can find her at her blog, tumblr, and instagram.
Amy Cross-Menzies has worked in libraries for about eight years, currently as a Library Assistant for an academic library in the North West UK. She has studied philosophy at bachelors and masters level and part of a PhD (now on long term hold!). She's about to start a distance learning MLIS in Digital Library and Information Services at the University of Borås, Sweden. She's interested in the ethics of librarianship, creative cpd on a budget, and balancing work and family life. She also likes longboarding and amigurumi and occasionally tweet as @amycrossmenzies.
Kathy Kosinski is a second year MSI student at the University of Michigan School of Information specializing in Library Information Science. When it comes to libraries, she focuses heavily on social justice and the implementation of user experience for both digital and physical library spaces. In her lifetime, she has worked in reference at University of Michigan, UX at Grand Valley State University, and circulation services at the University of Michigan Law Library. Her interests include dogs, reading, pictures of snakes wearing hats, and hearing about the latest library news. If you would like to talk libraries, or if you have a great picture of a dog or a snake wearing a hat, feel free to tweet her at @kkosinsk.
Carissa Hansen is a student in the University of Wisconsin-Madison's distance LIS program. She currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota and works full-time as an Office Specialist in the Special Collections, Preservation and Digitization department of the Hennepin County Library system. She developed a love for digitization and archival work while working as an archives assistant at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, where she earned her BA studying English and Family Social Science. In the past, she's also worked in the Fargo Public Library system. Her professional interests include public service, outreach and programming, archives/special collections, digitization, metadata, literacy/information literacy, and the history of librarianship. You can reach out to Carissa online via LinkedIn.
Jay Granger is currently an online student in the MMLIS program at the University of Southern California. After earning undergraduate degrees in English and History from the University of California, Riverside, Jay spent ten years as a teacher. During that time, he earned a master's degree in English from the University of California, Irvine as well as a master's degree in Educational Leadership from Brandman University. Crafting a career that will allow him to work from home as he cares for his family, Jay is interested in the digital version of librarianship. He enjoys long walks on the beach, good reads by the fire, and writing about himself in the third person. He tweets and twaddles @mjaygranger on Twitter and Medium.
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We were tasked with creating a communications campaign to promote the annual President's lecture series for the first quarter of the year, covering the 'Awakening Tech', Yuya Furakawa and Ben Tricklebank talks.
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The signature blue biro drawings became our interpretation of the blue brand coding for D&Ad events communications.
The illustrators Peter O'Connor and Daniel Seex were commissioned to deliberately change up the execution style / "hand" of each one to support the idea that each doodle represented a different moment and a different guest at the lectures.
The campaign was rolled out across various touchpoints including a Moleskin notebook style folded flyer, Large format posters, along with a collection of digital assets used on the website homepage, broadcast emails and across social media channels.