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The Kohl Initiative
The Kohl Initiative, funded by former U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl, focuses on three La Follette School priorities: expanding its public outreach mission, advancing the training of future public leaders, and supporting influential research by faculty and students.
Announced in May 2019, the Kohl Initiative demonstrates Sen. Kohl's deep commitment to public service and his ethos of civility in public debate and policymaking. The $10 million gift from Herb Kohl Philanthropies extends the reach of that legacy. To date, it is the largest donation in La Follette School history.
2019 La Follette Graduation at WI State Capitol
Supporting Public Policy Education
The value of public policy education
La Follette launches undergraduate certificate program
Undergrad certificate inspires students
U.S. Senator Herb Kohl
Herbert "Herb" Kohl, a Milwaukee businessman and philanthropist, represented Wisconsin in the U.S. Senate from 1989 to 2013. Kohl received his bachelor's degree in American institutions from UW–Madison in 1956 and his master's degree in business administration from Harvard University. In 1970, he was named president of Kohl's – his family-owned chain of grocery and department stores. After selling the business in 1978, he owned the Milwaukee Bucks professional basketball team from 1985 to 2014.
A lifelong Milwaukee resident, Kohl provided the lead donation for the University's Division I basketball and hockey facility, the Kohl Center. In 2016, he gave $1.5 million to the La Follette School to create the Herb Kohl Public Service Research Competition. He also created the Herb Kohl Education Foundation, which provides scholarships to students and fellowships to educators throughout Wisconsin.
Sen. Kohl is a founding member of the La Follette School Board of Visitors.
Thank you Sen. Kohl
Student-faculty research
Convener on policy issues


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Night Dive taking System Shock: Remastered to Kickstarter
Tags: #looking-glass #remaster #stephen-kick #system-shock #warren-spector
Companies: #night-dive #unity
The developers behind System Shock: Remastered Edition have confirmed that they will be turning to Kickstarter to fund development of the game, which will use the Unity engine.
Not to be confused with System Shock: Enhanced Edition or new entry System Shock 3 involving original designer Warren Spector, System Shock: Remastered Edition is designed as a complete ground-up rebuild of the classic cyberpunk shooter using a modern engine but without taking away any of the things fans loved about the original. At the time, Night Dive - the founder of which, Stephen Kick, negotiated for the rights to the franchise following the closure of Looking Glass Studios - was light on details, but the company has now confirmed that it will be relying on crowd-funding to get the job done.
'After two decades, we are remastering and re-imagining the original System Shock. We will keep the new game true to the classic experience, keeping all the things you loved, while updating the user interface and graphics to use a modern day engine (Unity),' claimed Night Dive in an update to the official website entitled 'Coming soon to Kickstarter.' 'With the help of the original concept artist, the original vision of the Citadel Station and its inhabitants will finally come back to life.'
Night Dive has yet to announce a launch date for the Kickstarter campaign or the game itself.
Starbreeze sells System Shock 3 back to Otherside
Aims to recoup all costs.
System Shock: Remastered put on pause
Mission creep blamed.
Starbreeze to invest nearly £10 million into System Shock 3
Will publish on PC and consoles.

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Introducing 2023 Dream All-American Offensive Lineman, Kendall Cauley
KENDALL CAULEY SELECTED TO PLAY IN 2023 DREAM ALL-AMERICAN BOWL
TEXAS (September 1, 2022) — Kendall Cauley was nominated and accepted into the 2023 Dream All-American Bowl taking place on January 16, 2023 at AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys. After rigorous review from the committee, the top athletes were invited to play in the exclusive all-star game and participate in a weekend long event of developmental activities and performance on a nationwide platform. Dream All-American Bowl showcases the nation's best senior and underclassmen athletes. Participation allows players to learn from some of the best teachers of the game, former NFL players and current college coaches.
"Kendall is a well-rounded offensive lineman. He has size, power, and quickness. He controls the line of scrimmage with great technique. He opens big gaps in the run game. We are excited to see him display his talents in Arlington, TX."


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Die reformierte Galluskapelle in Oberstammheim, gilt als ältestes Kirchenbauwerk im Stammheimertal. Ihr romanischer Kernbau geht ins 11./12. Jahrhundert zurück. Durch ihre hochgotischen Fresken aus dem Anfang des 14. Jahrhunderts gilt sie als wichtiges Kulturgut. Deshalb steht sie auch unter eidgenössischem Denkmalschutz und wird geführt in der Liste der Kulturgüter von nationaler Bedeutung im Kanton Zürich.

Geschichte
Die Ortschaft Stammheim bzw. ein Hof in Stammheim selber wird schon in den Jahren 761 und 879 in Schenkungsurkunden des Klosters St. Gallen erwähnt. In der Urkunde von 879 ist auch eine Kapelle erwähnt. Es wird allerdings ein später vorgenommener Neubau dieser Kapelle angenommen. Denn wenn auch für die Entstehung des romanischen Kernbaus schriftliche Quellen fehlen, kann anhand des Baustils eine Erbauung im 11. oder 12. Jahrhundert angenommen werden.
In die Zeit der Herren von Klingenberg, welche ab 1303 das Amt als Vögte übernommen hatten, wird auch die Ausmalung mit den heute erhaltenen Fresken erfolgt sein. Sie werden auf um 1320 datiert und einem Meister im Umkreis der Manessischen Handschrift zugeordnet. Denn um 1320 wurde die Kapelle in westlicher Richtung verlängert.

Der Ort und damit auch die Kapelle kam 1464 zu Kanton Zürich. Für das Jahr 1504 sind Umbauarbeiten belegbar. So wurden Spitzbogenfenster eingebaut und der Innenraum im spätgotischen Stil bemalt. Anlässlich der Reformation wurden die gesamte Bemalung übertüncht.

Die Kapelle wurde 1706 erweitert. Dabei wurde das Schiff in westlicher und östlicher Richtung verlängert. Dabei wurde auch der Chor aufgegeben, und Anstelle des Chorbogens ein Holzpfeiler eingezogen. Vermutlich wurde damals auch das Fenster in der östlichen Chorwand zugemauert. Das gesamte Gebäude kam damals unter das heute erhaltene einheitliche Dach mit Dachreiter. Die damals mit eingebaute Holzdecke wurde 1814 durch eine Gipsdecke ersetzt.

Bei Untersuchungen für eine anstehende Renovierung wurde 1896 durch den Pfarrer Alfred Farnen und den Kunsthistoriker Robert Durrer die übertünchten Wandmalereien entdeckt. Diese wurden anlässlich einer Renovation 1909 wieder freigelegt und gesichert.
Anlässlich der Restaurierung zwischen 1964 und 1968 wurde die Gipsdecke durch eine hölzerne Decke ersetzt. Bei dieser Restaurierung wurde im Chor auch das zugemauerte romanisches Fenster entdeckt und wieder geöffnet.

Ausstattung

An der Südwand finden sich die Wandmalereien von 1320. Sie in drei Bildstreifen zu unterteilen. Der oberste stellt die Schöpfungsgeschichte dar, was für diese Zeit eher ein seltenes Motiv ist. Der mittlere Streifen zeigt Szenen aus der Jugend Christi, welche durch gemalte Architekturteile getrennt werden. Und der unterste Streifen vergegenwärtigt die Passion Christi.

An der Nordwand findet sich zwei Fragmente der spätgotischen Wandmalerei von 1504. Einmal der Drachenkampf des Heiligen Georg, sowie eine Szene aus dem Leben des heiligen Eligius.

Die sechseckige hölzerne Kanzel wurde im 19. Jahrhundert eingebaut. Das Glasfenster in der Chorwand, wurde 1967 von Hans Affeltranger angefertigt.

Literatur
 Gesellschaft für Schweizerische Kunstgeschichte (Hrsg.): Die Galluskapelle von Oberstammheim. Reihe Schweizerische Kunstführer. 1970.

Weblinks

Beschreibung der Galluskapelle auf der Webseite der Gemeinde

Einzelnachweise

Oberstammheim
Oberstammheim
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Bauwerk in Stammheim ZH
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Q: facebook login throws Oauth Exception (certificate non found) it looks like my problems with facebook (and twitter) never end, and it is certainly my fault.
I had a facebook app that was working properly. Today all of a sudden it stopped working. The cURL response is empty, the POST if you try does nothing or throws an OAuth excetion, and the only error I get when I get something is that the SSL certificate can't be found. It worked until some hours ago, so I really wonder what the problem is.
Even the login button seems to give the same error. Any clues on what I am doing wrong and/or should have updated some hours ago to get things going?
I tried to disable the SSL, following this discussion, but it's still not working...
Thank you very much in advance!

A: I have finally managed to resolve this too, although the solution isn't the best option, so, if  someone has a more elaborate solution, I'll be glad to take notes.
For the moment, I was forced to add to the facebook php library (updated of course), and not to the page that is doing the job, the line
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER,false);
I wouldn't say it is an ideal solution though.

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Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Resident Commissioned Artists
BILL'S BLOG
Happy Spring (at last!) – by Bill T. Jones
This is part of a series of monthly blog posts–penned by Bill T. Jones–designed to provide further insight into his creative process, inspirations and more.
Hello! And a Happy Spring (at last!).
This blog/this essay/this stream of consciousness… Whatever you'd like to call it is going to be – depending on your point of view – in two parts or in thirty. It is an attempt to embrace fragmentation. What I mean by that is an acknowledgement of the diverse and often conflicting impulses, thoughts and responses I feel personally around life in general, New York Live Arts in particular and…
Context Notes: Emily Johnson/Catalyst
The Static and the Ecstatic: Emily Johnson
by Paul David Young
I met Emily Johnson in a bar in Cobble Hill on one of those desperately cold days we enjoyed all too often in New York this winter. Once out of the chill, I quickly found her waiting in a cozy booth, just made for a tête-à-tête. The bar itself was snug and lively on a Saturday afternoon. As I learned during our conversation, the character of the milieu was hardly an accident.
She struck me straight off as intelligent and gracious. I liked her immediately, and I was pretty sure most any other person would have the same reaction. I recollected the video of SHORE. The performance began almost imperceptibly outdoors, allowing the audience an experience of their environment and each other and a chance to find correspondences between the movement of the dancers and other things happening around them. It became more structured as she appeared and addressed the audience assembled for the occasion. The piece seemed gathered around her person, and, having met her, I found that to be a very fine choice.
SHORE is sometimes static, I noticed. When I think of dance, I tend to think of movement, whatever form that takes, but here I was being focused on nonmovement in a novel way, though there are also moments of highly athletic dancing. I asked her if I was correct in experiencing the work as alternately static and ecstatic. She said that she consciously allows these quiet moments as opportunities for reflection by all of the participants. Some of the still parts, when the performers are seated downstage close to the audience, she described as "silent stories," since the performers are at that moment thinking stories but not speaking them. She also referred to the power of the potentiality in nonmovement. "Movement possibility is really exciting." In creating SHORE, she strove to give herself and her collaborators permission to "let anything be possible—stillness, nothing, tons of motion, rigorous endurance, scratching your nose."
When I asked her about the concept of virtuosity as it applied to her work, she said, "Of course, there's virtuosity in the dance." But she also drew attention to aspects of sitting and walking, seemingly mundane, nondance activities which occupy portions of her work and are crafted in many subtle ways. She described, for example, "a gentle way of seeing, a more encompassing view, which changes the body." She showed me how this works as she took in the bar in what seemed to be a 360-degree scan, not a tight stare, nor a focus on details, but an openness to everything there is around us.
In SHORE, she wears red paint around her eyes, a kind of mask of maquillage. She explained that this was partly a way of raising questions about how we routinely link appearance and aspects of character and identity. But she had an even more ambitious interpretation: "It is a portal to another world." She is of Yup'ik ancestry, which influences her understanding of the function of masks.
Her work contains a variety of components. "I can't imagine my work without all of those elements," she said. "It's all an effort to give space for us to get to know each other and this place." She described her family's annual salmon harvest as a gathering that included people of all ages playing, working and eating together and telling stories and jokes. Similarly, in addition to two community service projects (one in the Rockaways and another on Governors Island), SHORE includes the experience of gathering and being together along with dance and stories and finally food. She is careful not to claim the community projects as her own; rather, wherever SHORE is performed, she seeks out community groups to work with, trying to be sensitive and responsive to local needs and organizations. "I can't be a part of that community. Building a community, no, that takes time. But I can come in and engage with it. I've always wanted what I do to connect." She does hope that there will be long-term resonance. "While I can't know or make it to happen, it's through those connections that the work we need to continue to do together (as citizens, as community members, as humans) becomes clearer."
I had wondered, since her work was so particular to her history and her embodiment of it, whether it could be performed or exist without her. And indeed, she said she has almost never created work on other people, but always with others. She emphasized in our conversation that the movement, the stories, and the entirety of the piece were created through improvisation, a process in which she welcomes the contributions and uniqueness of her collaborators.
To make SHORE, the task for Johnson and her collaborators was "conjuring future joy," a necessary and emotional starting point. "We have to work to envision a good future. We can't rely on anyone else to do that for us." For Johnson, the task involved recognizing a more fluid sense of time, which she regards as cyclical rather than linear. "We can access the future and the past in the moment. We are made of our ancestors. All of our thoughts and the possibility of our future thoughts reside inside us. Future joy connects us to the present and to past joy."
Her words had elevated our conversation to a splendid plateau, where it should have stayed, but I had to know. It was definitely trivial, but I was curious. Does she really dance in a full-fledged down parka in SHORE? Though I liked it as a costuming choice, I could easily imagine fainting if I tried such a thing. I thought maybe she had emptied the feathers out of the coat or otherwise altered it to prevent heat stroke. She answered, "It's a real parka. It gets very hot."
Creative Resistance: A Rising Economic Movement
by Ali Rosa-Salas
The second installment of New York Live Arts' conversation series Open Spectrum Critical Dialogues, "Creative Resistance: A Rising Economic Movement," focused on a critique of capitalism that both acknowledged its undeniable centrality yet pushed for the seemingly untenable: its downfall. Panelists Piper Anderson, Okwui Okpokwasili, Laura Flanders, Joan Morgan, Seyi Adebanjoand audience members collectively considered entry points for anti-capitalist resistance, both habitual and revolutionary. From the practice of cooperative economy to that of radical self love, these offerings of instigation constructed a glimpse of life after capitalism that made one thing clear: something's gotta give, and cultural workers are at the helm of envisioning an alternative way of being for all of us.
Context Notes: Rashaun Mitchell
Cosmically Happy Accidents, Incarnations:
In Process with Rashaun Mitchell's Light Years
by Jess Barbagallo
On a rainy Wednesday afternoon, I enter the theater at New York Live Arts where Rashaun Mitchell and Co. is preparing his latest work, Light Years. Lighting designer Davison Scandrett is playing with a circular pool of light center stage, tweaking its colors and testing them against a hazer–director and designer agree the haze is too distracting, drawing unnecessary attention to the shapes of the purple, green, and pink shafts that compose the watery mass of light, and the instruments in the air. Rashaun wants to make you feel like you're not even in a theater. So, there's that challenge. Now it'll just take thirty minutes for the haze to clear. (more…)
Bill's Blog: Irony, Aesthetic Arrest and What the Fuck Do You Care?
This is the first in a new series of monthly blog posts–penned by Bill T. Jones– designed to provide further insight into his creative process, inspirations and more.
At the invitation of Gotham Opera's Artistic Director and Conductor, Neal Goren, Bjorn and I attended that company's gala performance of a new work, The Tempest Songbook, at the Metropolitan Museum's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.
Photo: Richard Termine
Reflection on Open Spectrum Critical Dialogues
Photo by Ian Douglas
Artist as Activist: Futuring the Face of Protest
Six months after the murder of Mike Brown, "Black Lives Matter" has been a national rallying cry against state sanctioned violence in the US and beyond. In a kind of collaborative choreography, thousands commanded public space by stopping traffic, lying in the streets and chanting in affirmation of black and brown lives. (more…)
#OpenSpectrumNYC Chat: Artist As Activist
The first Twitter Chat for New York Live Art's Open Spectrum Dialogue Series
[View the story "#OpenSpectrumNYC Chat: Artist As Activist" on Storify]
Fifty Years Already?!
Fresh Tracks is celebrating its 50th birthday this year. Like anything (or anyone) five decades old, it's gone through its share of transitions and name changes. The program, created to support the work of emerging choreographers, dates from the very beginning of Dance Theater Workshop (DTW), which was formed in 1965 by a collective of young choreographers and dancers. That same year, they began holding a series of informal performances at co-founder Jeff Duncan's loft on 215 West 20th Street. (more…)
Context Notes: Fresh Tracks
First Impressions and Enthusiasms:
A Compendium to Fresh Tracks 2014-15
An artist's digital ephemera makes a curious body to sift. We (sort of) thrive in an age where documentation of live performance and in-process experimentation is readily available – awesome, but by no means all-encompassing. In the following notes, I attempt slightly expanded readings of micro-moments in a range of past movement scores generated by this year's 2014-15 Fresh Tracks Artists. By responding to the sensuous possibilities of pre-branded process-oriented work, I hope to maintain my wonder for dance and encourage a model of playful association in others. (more…)
Context Notes: Taylor Mac
The Historical Taylor Mac
One thing you can say for certain about Taylor Mac: he doesn't think small. His breakthrough marathon was the five-hour The Lily's Revenge. His work-in-progress A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, six hours of which are being presented at New York Live Arts as part of a first-time-ever marathon show, will, when completed, traverse American history, from the Declaration of Independence to 2016 in a 24-hour extravaganza of song, history, costumes, and commentary. (more…)


"I want Wielder and Mist to bring me a horn; Axe-age and Brandisher, War and Strength, Clash and War-bonds, Smash and Spear-waver, Shield-truce and Counsel-truce and Power-trace: they bring the Einherjar ale [Elder Edda at 56]".
"… fierce female spirits attendant on the war-God … Valkyries play a great part in the stories and poems about the exploits of the legendary heroes … They are said by Saxo to vary their appearance, and to be seen sometimes as fearsome beings and sometimes as beautiful maidens, who offer love to the warrior. Protective spirits of this kind were said to attach themselves to the kings and princes who worshipped Odin, giving them help and counsel and bringing them luck in battle, while at death they received them as their 'husbands' [Scandinavian Mythology at 41]".
In the second half of the 13th century CE an unknown Icelander copied a number of Pagan era poems into the Codex Regis (literally meaning "Royal Manuscript"), which makes up a large part of what is known as the Elder Edda or the Poetic Edda. Among them is the Hávamál, which means something like "Sayings of the High One", the High One being Odin. Theoretically Odin is the speaker throughout most of the Hávamál, if not the author. From a scholarly point of view the Hávamál is thought to be a composite of poems, written by up to six different authors hundreds of years earlier, before Iceland adopted Christianity as the State religion in circa 1000 CE. Whoever the author, or authors, the Hávamál is an invaluable record of traditional Norse values; it is full of good advice and insight, much of which is perfectly relevant to our own times. For this reason I attempt to summarise and extract those parts of the Hávamál that I find particularly inspiring. In so doing I draw from two translations: Larrington (translator), The Poetic Edda, Oxford World's Classics, 2008, and Orchard (translator), The Elder Edda: Myths, Gods and Heroes from the Viking World, Penguin Books, 2013.
Hecate (or Trivia, to use her Latin name – as this is now also an English word with a very different association I will retain her Hellenic title) is an enigmatic Goddess of the triple crossroads, the stygian night and magic; though she walks through the dark she is not a Goddess of darkness itself, for it is her torches which lit up the way for Ceres when she searched for her abducted daughter. Hecate is associated with both Diana,* who lights up the night, and Proserpina, who gives us hope that life can emerge from death. Hecate's rites were not recorded on the official Roman calendar (Beard at 384), but her veneration was well known in Rome. Cicero tells us that altars and shrines to her were commonplace in Greece, though not apparently in Rome at this time, however, she is referred to by a number of contemporaneous Roman poets, such as Horace and Catullus, which suggests that Hecate had already been successfully synchronised into Roman polytheism by the 1st century BCE. By the 4th century CE her worship was apparently prominent enough for Roman senators to be counted among her priests. This was during the last gasp of overt Paganism in Italy, when Christianity had become the religion of emperors; Paganism was increasingly mocked as a set of superstitions befitting peasants and barbarian Germans. Perhaps in an effort to assert greater spiritual legitimacy, some affluent and well educated Pagans were embracing an increasingly more sophisticated species of polytheism, by fusing it with mystery religions and philosophies from the east (a process which had been ongoing for centuries in any case). Roman veneration of Hecate appears to have gone hand-in-hand with this, for she almost certainly featured prominently within the well known Eleusinian Mysteries – a Pagan sect that was apparently so spiritually fulfilling that initiation into its secret rites brought about the apostasy of Constantine I's nephew Julian, who would later be known as the last Pagan emperor of Rome.
In Roman polytheism Dis Pater, Pluto and Orcus are all names for the same God of the underworld and of death. His consort Proserpina is equally a Goddess of death, but also of spring, and thus the possibility of renewed life. Any discussion of one of these deities is incomplete without the other. Both deities should be understood as being essentially the same as the Hellenic Hades and Persephone. Although they are infernal Gods they are in no way like their Christian usurper, Satan. They are not inherently evil and their raison d'etre is not to torture the damned or tempt the weak. Nor is their domain a burning hell, but rather a "gloomy palace" (Ovid) surrounded by water. Dis Pater is euphemistically called the rich one – this title meaning, literally, rich father. As the foremost God of the underworld Dis Pater is naturally associated with all the wealth that comes from it, including gold, precious gems and, most importantly, the latent fertility of the earth. This latter aspect of the God links him with the Goddess of the harvest (Ceres), and of course her daughter who emerges from beneath the earth every spring, Proserpina.
Note: this is a cathartic narration of my experience.
Earlier this year my husband (W) died suddenly from pulmonary embolism. He was in his early 40s. We first met at school, when he was 16 and I was 14. We hooked up two years later. For almost the entirety of my adult life we were together and for most of that time we were totally into each other (although we did have problems, and break ups, here and there). I adored him, he was my universe. Although I'm not sure I knew quite how much I adored him until he died. He treated me (mostly) very well. He had a traditional approach to our marriage; he was protective and loyal. He would not have left me for a younger woman when I got into my 40s (like my sister's husband did). He was not emotionally abusive or violent (like my father). He was honourable and true. He didn't care for religion but, even so, he had personal values that he upheld and believed in – he had integrity.
It is axiomatic that nirvana (ie, the extinguishment of suffering) is the ultimate end goal in Buddhism, however it is equally axiomatic that most people dwell in an ocean of suffering, hence most people do not achieve nirvana, but they do die. What happens after death is something that not all Buddhists agree on. Many Western Buddhists hold afterlife views that differ little from atheism, which is to say that essentially they do not believe in an afterlife except in some very abstract way (such as that what we do in our life echoes on through the ages, or that our material remains will eventually become the basis of some new form of life). However, the orthodox teachings make it clear that traditional Buddhism embraces the concept of repeated rebirths into multiple realms of being. Thus when most of us die we do not die with finality, rather death is part of the ongoing life-death-rebirth cycle that characterises ordinary existence.
The truth of the matter is that we are mostly left to invent our own way of mourning. Society at large, as fragmented as it is, will expect little from us once the funeral is over. The insensitive will hope that we will simply move on and adapt to the new normal as quickly as possible – the grief of others and the reality of death is simply too awkward to deal with. Those who care will probably encourage us to do "whatever feels right" and treat us gently (unless they are overwhelmed by their own grief). Those who mourn are often left grasping onto thin air, with few known traditions to fall back on – at such times looking at historic traditions may give the bereaved something to work with.


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Dozens of Latin American organizations, personalities and activists have expressed their concern over the growing tension in Western Sahara
Latin American groups condemn tension in the Sahara and ask for referendum
.- Dozens of Latin American organizations, personalities and activists have expressed their concern over the growing tension in Western Sahara and have called for a self-determination referendum for the Saharawi people in order to achieve peace in northwestern Africa.
Pablo de la Vega, spokesperson for the Ecuadorian Association of Friendship with the Saharawi People, told EFE in Quito on Thursday that more than a hundred and a half personalities and civil society associations have signed a document in which they also demand the withdrawal of Moroccan troops from the Guerguerat area.
Among the personalities, he said, the adhesions of the Argentine Nobel laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel stand out, as well as human rights defenders such as the Dominican Annalisa Melandri, the Panamanian Gloria Esther Castillo, the Colombian Lizeth Estrada and the Ecuadorian diplomat Horacio Sevilla.
Likewise, the Chilean filmmaker Marco Enríquez Ominami, the Brazilian Moara Crivelente and the Venezuelan Rafael Ramírez, as well as representatives of social associations from Ecuador, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Nicaragua, Panama, Uruguay, Venezuela, Bolivia and the Dominican Republic.
All of them, 'express their deep concern at the recent events that occurred (..) in the so-called Buffer Strip in Guerguerat', where 'the Moroccan Military Forces carried out a brutal attack on Friday 13 (November) on dozens of protesters Sahrawi civilians who were peacefully protesting the existence of that illegal gap opened in the 'military wall', says a text released by the Sahara Press Service, dated in Quito.
De la Vega commented that the basic argument of the statement of the international solidarity group is the right to self-determination of the Saharawi people be made viable through a referendum, already approved by the United Nations in 1991.
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He also said it the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, has been asked to delegate a special envoy of his to observe the situation in the area, an action that if applied in time would have prevented 'situations as critical as the current one. '.
GROWING TENSION
Tension in the Sahara erupted last Friday when the Moroccan Army intervened to evict a group of Sahrawi protesters who had been blocking the Guerguerat crossing for three weeks, a 5-kilometer strip between the Moroccan customs and the Mauritanian border, where they paralyzed traffic commercial.
The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), recognized by Ecuador and another twenty Latin American and Caribbean countries, many of which later canceled or frozen their relations, responded to this military action by breaking the ceasefire agreement, signed in November 1991 and declared war on Morocco.
This country minimizes these combats for now, describing them as harassment without any scope or "material or human damage."
The Polisario Front and the SADR sent this Thursday "an urgent message" to the countries and public and private entities in which they ask them to stop carrying out any type of activity in the Saharawi territory since it, from their perspective, is located ' currently in a situation of open war '.
COMPLEX SITUATION
De la Vega appreciated that the international solidarity movement sees a ceasefire "very difficult", since the Polisario Front will not accept the same arguments that in 1991 were used by Morocco to end the conflict.
The Polisario Front, surely, "is going to propose many more conditions to sit at a negotiating table," added the spokesman.
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Therefore, the regional statement seeks to urge the General Assembly, the Security Council, the United Nations Special Committee for Decolonization, France and Spain and African Unity to put an end to this conflict with the solutions already approved. , but to which Morocco has refused, he added.
"The right to self-determination is the umbrella of all rights," which is why a human rights mandate is called for, because at this moment there is strong repression in Sahrawi cities under Moroccan military occupation, "added De la Vega.
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A new law introduced last month abolished a cap, dating from 1980, that restricted each bank's lending to the construction and real estate sectors to a maximum of 20 percent of total deposits.
No new cap has been imposed, but Abdulaziz al-Ghurair, chairman of the UAE Banks Federation, said his federation has liaised with the central bank on what should be defined as real estate, suggesting a new cap could be looming.
"Flexibility is now with the central bank and it may come back and change [the cap situation] from year to year depending on the performance of real estate," said Ghurair, on the sidelines of a conference.
The former cap did little to protect banks from being badly burned by the rise in mortgage defaults and other bad loans during the UAE's property market crash in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2009.
Almost a decade later, banks are again feeling the impact of a sluggish property market, although not as severely, as many have cut back exposure and price declines are less steep.
Dubai and Abu Dhabi posted falls in residential prices of 6.5 percent and 6.9 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, among the steepest declines for cities anywhere in the world, according to Knight Frank's Global Residential Cities Index.
Banks have provided the UAE central bank with recommendations on what should be defined as real estate under any new restrictions, Ghurair told reporters. The regulator will then decide what limits should be introduced, he said.
In other rules relating to the real estate market, the federation is considering whether to ask the central bank to relax mortgage lending rules to stimulate a fragile market, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters in September.
At the moment, first-time buyers of a home worth up to 5 million dirhams ($1.4 million) can only borrow up to 80 percent of the property value if they are UAE citizens, while the cap is 75 percent for foreigners.


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Понтианак — мифическое существо из малайского, индонезийского и филиппинского фольклора, представляющее собой духа-вампира женского пола. В фольклоре считается, что понтианаками становятся духи женщин, умерших во время беременности. Понтианаки часто отождествляются с ланг сурами, что неверно, поскольку последние в фольклоре являются духами женщин, умерших во время родов.

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Слово Pontianak, как предполагается, является искажением малайского perempuan mati beranak — «женщина, которая умерла во время родов». Другая теория предполагает, что слово представляет собой сочетание puan (женщина), mati (смерть) + anak (ребёнок). Термин matianak означает «смерть ребёнка». Город Понтианак в Индонезии назван в честь этого существа, которое, как говорится в легенде, преследовало первого султана, который когда-то поселился там.

Внешний вид и поведение
В легендах понтианаки изображаются в виде бледных женщин с длинными волосами и в белых одеждах, но якобы способных принимать обличье красавиц. Многие истории рассказывают о том, что они подстерегают на ночных дорогах одиноких путников-мужчин, соблазняя их и затем зверски убивая и выпивая их кровь. Американский исследователь Пол Теру предположил, что изначально легенду о понтианаках выдумали женщины, чтобы их испуганные мужья опасались вступать в связь с уличными проститутками.

В Индонезии очень похожее существо называется кунтиланак, однако оно, согласно легендам, убивает только молодых девушек-девственниц. Аналогичное существо в филиппинском фольклоре называется тианак, однако там оно представляет собой призрак ребёнка, умершего при рождении.

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Situated just 16 miles from central London, no racecourse is more closely situated to the English capital than Kempton Park. It's one of only three racecourses in Britain to offer both an artificial track for flat racing and a turf course for National Hunt events.
Kempton Park is famous for its Winter Festival which sees an absolutely top class day of racing held on Boxing Day. There are few more cherished days on the British racing calendar and for a long time it has been the absolute height of racing in the festive period.
Kempton Park's all weather course consists of two ovals, the shorter of the two for races from five to 10 furlongs long and the outer oval for longer contests. The polytrack course is flat throughout and offers a short run in of just under two furlongs for inner oval races, stretching to nearly three furlongs for races on the outer oval. With it being a right handed track, the only artificial one in the country, it poses a different challenge for all horses and tends to suit handy types. It is certainly a track where a course win is something to look out for.
As for the turf course, this takes up a more triangular shape and hosts races of at least two miles in distance. It's one that's considered to be a very fair test and the fences are quite straightforward. Things only become tricky at Kempton Park when the going is soft to heavy, then a huge amount of stamina is required to see out the trip. Having energy left in the latter stages can make the difference as there are three fences or two hurdles close to the finishing post.
There's no doubting that Kempton Park's Winter Festival is its most prized meeting. The two day festival includes the Grade 2 Wayward Lad Novices' Chase and Desert Orchid Chase on the final day but the biggest races take place on the opening day, the 26th December.
The Boxing Day schedule includes the likes of the Kauto Star Novices' Chase, Christmas Hurdle and the jewel in the crown, the King George VI Chase, the second most prestigious chase in England. That one has been won thrice by Wayward Lad, four times by Desert Orchid and a record five times by fans' favourite Kauto Star.
Kempton Park also hosts a few Grade 2 and 3 races in February but the biggest event outside of the Winter Festival is January's Lanzarote Hurdle. It is named in honour of 1974 Champion Hurdle winner, Lanzarote, although the race has changed significantly over the years since its inception in 1978. Despite the changes, it still remains as a fine handicap affair, one which now holds Listed status.
The major flat races in Britain stick to turf rather than artificial ground so when it comes to flat racing, the schedule at Kempton Park doesn't quite match its National Hunt fixtures. Nevertheless, it does still hold several races of Class 1 quality including two Group 3 events, the Magnolia Stakes and the Rosebery Stakes, which both take place in September.
Despite being close to the expensive city of London, Kempton Park does accommodate those looking to see some raceday action on a budget. It's well worth a visit at any time of year but the Boxing Day action is undoubtedly a great way to shrug off any post-Christmas blues!
Smart dress is preferred at Kempton, particular during special events, including big racedays but it's only required for entry in the more expensive enclosures.
If you have purchased a ticket in the cheapest enclosure then you'll have no problem getting in with more casual attire or even fancy dress providing it's not of an offensive nature.
A standard day at Kempton Park will cost you £14.40 in advance or £18 on the day for National Hunt meetings and £9.60 in advance or £12 on the day for Flat meetings. The exception to this is students and senior citizens, who can claim a £5 discount at the gate at most meetings.
There is also the option of a Winner Package ticket (£21.60 flat & £26.40 National Hunt) which provides you with a food & drink voucher, racecard, £2 Tote bet and a free visit to a future meeting. Meets that include post-racing entertainment are usually more expensive and prices peak for the Winter Festival.
For the two day event, it's a good idea to buy in advance and you will receive a 10% discount if doing so. On Boxing Day, Festival Enclosure tickets are £15.30, Paddock tickets are £36 and Premier tickets are £45. On the 27th December, tickets are £10.80, £22.50 and £31.50, respectively.
There are four different types of membership/season cards at Kempton Park designed to suit a range of budgets and interests. To see all of Kempton's 13 jump fixtures without the perks of being a member, a season card can be purchased for £99.
If you would like the perks, then annual membership covering jump meetings costs £170 for one or £310 for two, providing both people live at the same address. There is also the option of Kempton/Sandown Park dual membership, giving you a total of 22 jump fixtures for £305 a year.
For flat racing enthusiasts, membership that covers all of the flat meetings throughout the year is available. At the time of writing the price for this is yet to be confirmed but given the lower standard of the meetings you can expect it to be very keenly priced.
As Kempton Park has a dedicated on site rail station, the train is a great way of getting there if you would otherwise have to drive on the busy M25. Trains run every 30 minutes from London Waterloo and take around 40 minutes.
There are no services on Boxing Day, however, so to get to the opening day of the Winter Festival, you need to catch the dedicated bus service from Kew Underground Station. For people with a long way to travel to Kempton, you may consider flying as Heathrow and Gatwick airports are just 25 and 45 minutes away respectively.
There is free parking available at every meeting but in the main car park, charges do apply on selected flat meetings and all jump fixtures.
Racing began at Kempton Park on 18th July 1878 when Henry Hyde was able to fulfil his desire of building a racecourse on the plot of land he purchased six years prior. It didn't take too long for Kempton Park to make a name for itself and the Prince of Wales paid a visit in 1889. The venue wasn't used to accommodating such high profile guests but was able to quickly assemble a Royal Box in just 21 days.
The Royal Box accompanied the grandstand, member's stand, tattersalls bar and a restaurant until 1932 when a large fire burned them down. The course was also ruined by the Second World War as the site was used to accommodate prisoners inside a temporary camp. As a result, a big restoration project was needed to get the racing back underway in 1947.
More work was needed five decades later, this time to build the new grandstand with its distinctive curved roof and many floodlights that facilitate evening racing. By far the biggest undertaking at Kempton Park came eight years later though, with the introduction of the artificial track. The new floodlit course meant the Kempton had to close for 11 months before it reopened with its new £18.78m weather resistant flat track.
Kempton is undoubtedly a top class track with superb facilities. It caters to every budget, every taste and every style of racing, so why not pay it a visit on Boxing Day? It certainly beats eating cold turkey!


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Abby Ispahani is the Project Manager for the award-winning PBS/Impact/Tribeca comedy documentary MEET THE PATELS, which tells the story of an Indian American man torn between the woman of his dreams... and his parents. A highly creative, heartfelt, and entertaining film, Meet the Patels has won audience awards at the majority of festivals where it has screened, including The Los Angeles Film Festival, HotDocs, and an historical double-win as Best Film and the Audience Award at Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival. Having grown up abroad, in both the Netherlands and Sydney, Abby developed an interest in social justice and societal issues through her perspective of the world. While studying sociology at Colorado College, she took a documentary filmmaking course that opened her eyes to the important role film plays in enacting social change. This class inspired her to move beyond her passion for watching film and, instead, begin creating film. She began by directing and editing a documentary short called, Sid & Alice, a portrait of an elderly couple who examine what it means to grow old. After moving out to Los Angeles to pursue film producing, Abby became an executive producer on the film, Miss India America, which follows an Indian-American high school graduate as she struggles with balancing ambition and humility.
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Q: MIG Layout not showing the correct formatting I looked up some example GUI's from MIG Layout's demo app downloadable from their site for Swing
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I looked at the samples and liked their formatting. They also show the source code. They showed the source code gave the following output

I used it and this is how I am getting it

The code I am using for it is
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    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
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    JLabel label2 =  new JLabel("ISD Version");
    frame.getContentPane().add(label2,"skip");
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    JLabel label3 =  new JLabel("ISD Port");
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    JLabel label4 =  new JLabel("ISD UserID");
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    JLabel label5 =  new JLabel("ISD Password");
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    frame.getContentPane().add(field6,"growx,span,wrap para");

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    addSeparator(frame);

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    JLabel label8 =  new JLabel("PowerVC User ID");
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    final JTextField field8 = new JTextField(getUser());
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    System.out.println("The value of getPassword is "+getPassword());
    JLabel label9 =  new JLabel("PowerVC password");
    frame.getContentPane().add(label9,"skip");
    final JPasswordField field9 = new JPasswordField(getPassword());
    frame.getContentPane().add(field9,"growx,span,wrap para");

    JButton cancelButton = new JButton("Cancel");
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    JButton updateButton = new JButton("Update");
    frame.getContentPane().add(updateButton,"");

    JButton updateAndExitButton = new JButton("Update and Exit");
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    frame.setVisible(true);

    private void addSeparator(JFrame frame2) {

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        frame2.getContentPane().add(sep1,"growx,wrap,span");

    }

}

In my GUI look compare the look of font in my GUI. How the seaprator starts after manufactturer, the alignment of Manufacturer and Company , more specifically I want this sort of look, it is not looking nice in what I have made

A: the trick is to use both span and split for the label/separator pair (as you can see in the demo code :-)
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NETmundial submission: Roadmap for the Further Evolution of the Internet Governance Ecosystem – institutional mechanisms
While there are multiple forums where issues pertaining to internet governance are being addressed, these forums do not all adequately fulfill basic procedural criteria, such as transparency, effectiveness, accountability and open participation. As a result, development issues have not been adequately tackled and some fundamental human rights are under threat. This submission intends to propose a model that improves existing institutions, maintaining a distributed, coordinated, system of internet governance.
Draft roadmap for the further evolution of the internet governance ecosystem
Shortcomings of the current internet governance ecosystem
1. Certain issues that are not adequately addressed in the current system
A variety of internet-related public policy issues are not being adequately addressed in the current internet governance ecosystem. A non-exhaustive list of pressing substantive issues that we, the undersigned members of civil society, believe are not being adequately addressed and that have important global dimensions include:
Universal and affordable high-quality access
Protection of the right of freedom of expression
Protection of the right to privacy
Protection of net neutrality
Enhancing cultural and linguistic diversity
Cross-border information flow and jurisdiction
2. Institutional shortcomings of the current system
Institutional shortcomings in the current internet governance ecosystem are at the heart of the existing structural failures to address the substantive issues we list above. In our view, these are:
Lack of multi-stakeholder decision-making forums to address certain internet-related public policy issues: decisions that affect all stakeholders are being made on an ad hoc or arbitrary basis both by governments and the private sector, without proper multistakeholder processes, in a way that impacts the rights of users and encroaches on the global and distributed functioning of the internet.
Lack of clarity and coordination between existing forums: While there are multiple forums where issues pertaining to internet governance have been addressed, there is a lack of clarity about how and where decisions are made.
Imbalance of power in existing forums: Many people and groups, in particular from the global south, are marginalised from decision-making processes. There is also insufficient diversity of voices, including with regards to gender and language diversity.
Digital development agenda as set out during WSIS has failed to fully deliver: The international digital development framework as set out in the Tunis Agenda and the WSIS Action Lines[1] is seen to have done little to address development concerns and the digital divide which remains a pressing issue.
Guiding Principles for Evolving the Internet Governance Ecosystem
We consider the following mutually-supporting criteria to be necessary for the further evolution of the internet governance ecosystem:
a) Underlying Values
Protection and promotion of Human Rights should be at the core of any governance process and outcomes, guided by international human rights legal frameworks as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, (UDHR), International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ICESCR)[2].
Preservation of the global nature of the internet should be at the core of any internet governance processes. Maintaining and advancing the interoperable, decentralized, open and global nature of the internet should be a priority over the short-term interest of any particular stakeholder group.
Operationalization of multistakeholder approaches to governance processes, recognizing that the role of different stakeholder varies according to the issue, venue, and status of discussion. Sections b) and c) below provide minimum guidelines.
b) Decision making processes
Transparent and comprehensible: it should be possible for anyone to understand how Internet Governance related decision making processes work in the various fora and how decisions are made. Institutions should pro-actively publish data, information and documents in accessible formats in a timely manner.
Accountable: internal and external accountability processes should exist, including a way of challenging decisions;
Effective: decisions should be enforceable and meet the policy goals they were meant to tackle;
Adaptable: able to take account of new innovations and developments in the field, and also be able to accommodate new voices.
c) Participation
Inclusive and open: not limited to a small exclusive club, but open to many, with all necessary points of view included in order to reach good decisions/agreements;
Informed: possessing the necessary expertise to make decisions, including reflecting all different geographic regions;
Meaningful participation: anybody affected by a decision should be able to impact upon decision-making processes. Ensuring gender and regional balance and the inclusion of marginalized voices are particularly important.
Roadmap for the Further Evolution of the Internet Governance Ecosystem[3]
We outline below a proposal to address the shortcomings of the current system that are consistent with the list of criteria highlighted above. These arrangements seek to improve the existing internet governance ecosystem, developing and maintaining a distributed, coordinated, multistakeholder system of internet governance. The gradual implementation of this proposal provides a roadmap for the evolution of the Internet Governance Ecosystem.
While a centralised system might be easier to navigate, a distributed system guided by the principles outlined earlier in this submission addresses far more effectively the shortcomings listed above. The internet is not an fixed issue but an evolving space. Therefore it is a mistake to think that one body, and one set of experts, could possibly be responsible for effective policy making on all Internet-related matters. Rather, a distributed system better enables issue-based expertise, including from civil society from around the world, to engage on specific issues. Therefore the proposals below seek to address the weaknesses and gaps in the current system by strengthening, coordinating and improving the existing distributed system of internet governance.
1. A new co-ordinating function
In response to the shortcomings underlined above, we propose a new coordinating mechanism, consistent with paragraph 37 of the Tunis Agenda, to facilitate the coherence and effectiveness of existing internet-related policy making mechanisms within a distributed model.
This coordination mechanism, should include all stakeholders and build on work already done (including within the Correspondence Group of the Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation) to seek, compile, review, research and analyze inputs on progress and gaps in international Internet related public policy. Based on this work, it shall also recommend the most appropriate venue or venues to develop further policy as required.
It could [be newly established or] attached to an existing multistakeholder body such the IGF (per paragraph 72 b of the Tunis Agenda), to the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD), or to any comparable venue consistent with the guiding principles outlined earlier in this submission.
2. Issue-specific multistakeholder working groups
For some specific issues[4] that are not being adequately addressed in the current framework we propose that these should be resolved through ad hoc multi-stakeholder working groups developed on a case by case basis, bringing together relevant actors. The above-mentioned co-ordinating function would aid stakeholders in identifying gaps in the current framework so that ad hoc working groups would only be formed when there is an actual need and help forge collaboration between existing institutions and disband once the issue is addressed.
These groups could, but not necessarily, work within the IGF framework or through flexible, open and inclusive processes and that are consistent with the guiding principles outlined above. Innovative methodologies of broad consultation and participation could be looked into as alternatives when necessary.
3. Broad participation & role of reformed IGF
While the coordination function can be responsible for designating the venue or venues where issues that are not adequately addressed will be taken forward, the IGF should continue to function as a platform where ongoing policy processes and their outcomes are presented and can receive feedback from a wider audience.
The lGF process of the last five years has enriched our understanding of internet public policy issues, actors, spaces and challenges. Therefore, we view a reformed IGF that, at minimum implements the recommendations of the Working Group on IGF Improvements, as playing a central role for a space where problems are framed and principles are developed. In addition to the recommendations of that report, we also point to a series of concrete recommendations previously proposed by members of civil society, including new approaches to IGF themes, session formats, reforming the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG), funding and online deliberation mechanisms.[5].
[1] http://www.itu.int/wsis/implementation/
[2] A comprehensive list of these values was developed and posted under the topic set of internet governance principles of this consultation.
[3] Note: Reform of ICANN will be addressed in another submission.
[4] Additional comments can be found in Questionnaire response to CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation.
[5] Additional comments can be found in Submission to IGF on themes and formats for the 2014 meeting.
Endorsement of NETmundial submission on Further Evolution of the Internet Governance Ecosystem
This statement is now closed to new endorsements.
End date: Apr 24, 2014
Signatures collected: 31
Organisational endorsements
23 University of Zurich / NCUC Switzerland Mar 24, 2014
22 Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication Bangladesh Mar 17, 2014
21 Center for Democracy & Technology USA Mar 10, 2014
20 Fundacion Karisma Colombia Mar 08, 2014
19 Movimento Mega Brazil Mar 08, 2014
18 Association for Progressive Communications Global Mar 08, 2014
17 Internet Democracy Project India Mar 06, 2014
16 Media Foundation for West Africa Ghana Mar 05, 2014
15 ITS Brazil Mar 05, 2014
14 CENTRE AFRICAIN D'ECHANGE CULTUREL (CAFEC) Democratic Republic of the Congo Mar 05, 2014
13 Korean Progressive Network Jinbonet South Korea Mar 05, 2014
12 Laboratory Of Internet Governance, Ukrainian Associaltion Of International Law Ukraine Mar 05, 2014
11 Media Rights Agenda Nigeria Mar 05, 2014
10 ARTICLE 19 International Mar 05, 2014
9 Center for Technology and Society (CTS/FGV) Brazil Mar 04, 2014
8 Government of Cross River State Nigeria Mar 04, 2014
7 Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum Zimbabwe Mar 04, 2014
6 Access International Mar 04, 2014
5 World Wide Web Foundation Mar 04, 2014
4 Bytes for All, Pakistan Pakistan Mar 04, 2014
3 Global Partners Digital Mar 04, 2014
2 ONG Derechos Digitales Chile Mar 04, 2014
1 Public Knowledge USA based, with International work Mar 04, 2014
Individual endorsements
8 Grace Githaiga Kenya Mar 25, 2014
7 Stephanie Perrin Canada Mar 13, 2014
6 rafik dammak Tunisia Mar 08, 2014
5 Young-eum Lee Republic of Korea Mar 06, 2014
4 NATHALIE COUPET HAITI/USA Mar 05, 2014
3 Jeremy Malcolm Malaysia Mar 05, 2014
2 Simon Ontoyin Ghana Mar 04, 2014
1 Ian Peter Australia Mar 04, 2014
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High dive
Haley Ishimatsu participates in diving at all three distances, but specializes in the 10-meter platform.
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- There's no way the 10-meter diving platform is just 33 feet above the water's surface. No way at all.
It's got to be a thousand feet or more. From across the building, divers look tiny perched on the platform near the rafters of the building. Yet divers preparing for Saturday's competition here in the NCAA Division I national championships leap right off, twisting and tucking this way and that before gracefully piercing the water below.
2015 DI WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIP
Day 3: Cal wins fourth title Highlights | Results
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Selections: Swimming | Diving
Amazing. Give every last one of them medals for sheer bravery if nothing else.
Southern California's Haley Ishimatsu is particularly talented on the highest of the three platforms. It's her specialty, and has helped propel her to the past two NCAA Division I platform titles. No woman in the history of NCAA competition has ever won three consecutive national championships on the platform.
She finished 16th in Thursday's 1-meter competition, with 3-meter competition scheduled for Friday and 10-meter on Saturday's third and final day of the meet.
With all the success she's enjoyed, jumping off a platform from that high up would appear to be extraordinarily easy for Ishimatsu. Yet it was another gigantic leap of faith that could very well have ruined everything.
Duke's Durham, North Carolina campus rests more than 2,500 miles from her family's home in Seal Beach, California. Planning to be a doctor, the school's elite pre-med program appealed to her. But she laughs when she says that taking chemistry was all it took to realize that being a doctor wasn't actually for her.
She liked the school well enough and felt she fit in with her swimming and diving teammates there, but a major part of her was missing. She was away from her home and her family, and it hurt.
Desperately, it hurt. This was all new to her, going from being homeschooled into a university the size of Duke. She was diagnosed with depression and needed to go back home, where sister Tori had starred for the Trojans and was serving as a volunteer assistant coach.
"Being that far away from home was definitely very hard, especially during that transition from high school to college," Haley said. "I came home and got a lot of help from my family, especially from Tori. She pushed me a lot and helped me get better. Now I'm at USC. It's close to family, close to home and close to Tori. It's been great."
Separated by an thousands of miles, Tori knew nothing of her younger sister's struggles.
"I was very shocked," Tori says. "I kind of felt disappointed in myself that I didn't catch it. I feel very protective. I didn't notice that she was unhappy. When she was there, she didn't really let me know and I guess I never really asked."
Back in California, Haley took a year off from school. During that time, Tori made sure that Haley stayed busy.
Southern California's Haley Ishimatsu was the Pac 12 Women's Diver of the Year in 2014.
"We went out shopping, even though she doesn't really like shopping," Tori continues. "It was just being more social. Being out a not just sitting around watching TV all day, I felt, was good for her. She probably didn't like me at the time taking her places she didn't want to go."
The results of Haley's comeback have been nothing short of spectacular. She set a platform point record on her way to the 2013 NCAA Division national championships, and then became the first woman since the 1992-93 campaign to win two consecutive titles. She was last year's Pac-12 Women's Diver of the Year, this year's conference Women's Swimming and Diving Scholar Athlete of the Year and winner of three conference diving crowns in a row.
Haley is one of the lucky ones, really. She had somebody like Tori to walk alongside her as she came out of the fog of her depression. It's not that Tori takes it easy on her, either.
Far from it, actually.
"She's my sister," Haley begins, trying to describe what Tori means to her. "I don't know … she's a mentor. She's a coach. She's a friend. She's pushing me and basically whipping my behind to make sure I keep going. She pushes me, but it's always been good. I'm so glad she's been here for my college career."
When Haley needs her space, Tori will give it to her. But when she needs a push, Tori won't hesitate to do that, either.
"When I coach, I wear a lot of different hats," Tori concludes. "I wear the friend hat. I wear the big sister hat. I wear the coach hat. I wear a mentor hat. But when I have to coach, she's just another diver. I don't treat her any different than any other diver."
The bottom line is this. Tori is incredibly proud of how far Haley has come since those dark days at Duke, and not just as a diver.
"That was really scary," Tori concludes. "I was very upset that she was so sad. To see where she's come from since then, I'm really proud of her. I feel like we've grown closer. She's grown up so much. For her years, I think she's really matured. I'm really excited to see what she gets to do after this."
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Discussion in 'Ampage Area' started by dan P, Aug 20, 2009.
The 15P is now available with reverb. Dan, you mentioned reverb some time ago. I can retrofit it to your amp with a rear-mounted control panel.
untill I read the I....I would rather you fly here and do it, than have to send that back, just price the kit and I will install...k?
Dan & Jer: I still plan on putting a few sound clips on the forum, just have been procrastinating a bit much this winter. Synchro is making me some clips for the bridges website and when I get that in place I will put the deLise clips on there also.
It's not actually a kit. I will need to do some additional chassis work, modify (or remake) the rear cover panel, install the tank, and of course some wiring. Reverb is a $200 option on a new build. I'll do the retrofit for that, too. And, if you get it to me, I'll send it back on my dime.
Finally as promised, I managed to stumble through a couple minutes of playing with a backing track and recorded it. Please excuse my humble picking style and mistakes in this clip but it does represent a fairly good idea of how my deLisle 15P amp sounds. The amp clip is on the link below. When it opens, go to the bottom right corner of the page and give a listen. Thanks to Mugsy again for a fine job on the amp.
I dig it, Wayne You had my toe tapping.
I posted a link to the clip under your review on our site.
Wayne, I have always enjoyed listening to you play (okay, small sample at last year's NW Jam, and now the samples on the comp comp site...), and the bridges sound good and interestingly varied. Nice to hear the comparison. The Delisle sound great, too! I need to measure the bridge on the Armstrong!
Thanks mugsy, I just turn to putty when trying to record something. Don't know what there is about it. Don't usually have a problem playing live, but the recorder or a movie camera has always had an effect on me.


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Trump & Co. Are Serious: The EPA and DoT Propose Plan to Limit Fuel Efficiency Rules
The proposal would also limit California's ability to set its own more stringent standards.
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The Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Thursday that officially calls for leaving fuel economy standards alone rather than increasing them as decided under the Obama Administration.
"There are compelling reasons for a new rulemaking on fuel economy standards for 2021-2026," said National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Secretary Elaine L. Chao in a press release. "More realistic standards will promote a healthy economy by bringing newer, safer, cleaner and more fuel-efficient vehicles to U.S. roads and we look forward to receiving input from the public."
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EPA and Automakers Clash Over 2025 Fuel Economy Standards
"The federal government's own data shows that when managed properly for vehicle footprints, light-weighting, and fuel economy rules don't undermine highway safety," Robbie Diamond, president and CEO of Securing America's Future Energy, told The Drive. "Saving lives while saving fuel can be accomplished simultaneously—especially while integrating new technologies such as advanced driver assist and other semi-autonomous features, which can result in 18-25 percent reductions in fuel demand system-wide, and save approximately 10,000 lives per year."
Buried deep within the lengthy text of the proposal and not mentioned in press releases is an attack on the ability of individual states to set their own emission and fuel economy standards.
"EPA is proposing to withdraw the January 9, 2013 waiver of preemption for California's Advanced Clean Car (ACC) program, Zero Emissions Vehicle (ZEV) mandate, and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) standards that are applicable to new model year (MY) 2021 through 2025. 78 FR 2145 (January 9, 2013.)551, 552 EPA proposes to do so on multiple grounds." This would revoke California's ability to set its own standards above and beyond federal regulations.
The public has 60 days to provide feedback on this proposal. Though not online at the time of this writing, comments may be submitted to www.regulations.gov on Docket EPA-HQ-OAR-2018-0283.
White House Looks to Cut Fuel Economy Standards
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Fuel Economy Drives Investment in U.S. Manufacturing
Environmental and labor group says standards now in place a boost to U.S. job creation.
Average U.S. Fuel Economy Shows Monthly Decline in December
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Public comment period opens for plans to potentially revise stricter gas mileage requirements.


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"We are now just one pre-clinical step away from the finish line", said Melton, whose daughter Emma also has type 1 diabetes. "You never know for sure that something like this is going to work until you've tested it numerous ways. We've given these cells three separate challenges with glucose in mice." The results were clear and fast. Melton told NPR news: "We can cure their diabetes right away — in less than 10 days."
China has long gotten a bad wrap for its disregard for the environment, but it seems as though they are changing their ways. According to the country's premier, Li Keqiang, China cut its carbon emissions by five per cent in the first half of 2014 – the largest drop in years.
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