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Thought Balloons - Creating Comics One Page At A Time: Why Hourman?
There are so many variations of the character and I love variety. In my previous attempts on why posts I've always liked legacy characters because they breathe new light into heroes who have been around for a while. I love the fact that Jane Foster is Thor now, and Miles Morales is Spider-Man, and generally feel sad when we go back to the same-old same-old characters like Barry Allen and Hal Jordan. Part of it is I didn't grow up with those Silver-Age iterations of the characters, and I like new takes and new characters occupying a similar look.
Here's some background for those of you not familiar with Hourman: The original Hourman was Rex Tyler, a pharmaceutical executive who developed the drug Miraclo, the drug gives Tyler an hour of strength, speed, and invulnerability. Sound familiar? For those of us who are baseball fans, this character presents a unique opportunity to talk about doping.
Then there's Rex's son Rick, who—well—he's had a pretty complicated history. And I'll just leave hisWikipedia entry here to give you the scope of it.
Probably the most significant take on the character for me was the Hourman of the 81st century. Created by Grant Morrison during the DC One Million event of the early 2000s this Hourman has the ability to manipulate time itself. But that's not why he's interesting. He got his own series—the only one that ever happened for the character—written by Tom Peyer and drawn by Rags Morales. The series only lasted about a year, and it was about the near-omnipotent android reducing his power just so he could try to connect to his human side. It was a beautiful, weird, series that is hard to find. I still have the original issues and I treasure them. Mostly because between that and Transmetropolitan—they were the only comics I had access to in college.
As always, feel free to leave your scripts in the comments below and I look forward to reading your take on the character. There's a lot of fun to be had.
Labels: David Press, Hourman, Why?


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You just found this post.
And you intend to read it to the end.
Your gaze will likely scan or skim through the content first. Then you will decide whether to read through again or save for later. That's just one of the pleasures your eyes afford you – reading.
Others include looking at your dear and loved ones; admiring the beauty of Allah's creations around; communicating with your children, spouses and students; and engaging in many creative pursuits.
Your sight is a gateway to developing your mind and soul. But….
And it's a big B.U.T, your eyes do not have unrestricted 24/7 rights to glancing at everything that comes into your view. Your gaze, along with all other actions you perform as a Muslim must be aligned with a meaningful purpose.
Imaam Ibn Kathir commented on Surah an-Nur [24:30], saying: This is a command from Allah (swt) to His believing slaves to lower their gaze and refrain from looking at that which is forbidden to them. So they should not look at anything except that which they are permitted to look at, and they should lower their gaze and refrain from looking at forbidden things. If it so happens that a person's gaze accidentally falls upon something forbidden, he should quickly avert his gaze.
Lowering your gaze therefore is restraining it from looking at what is forbidden.
Living in today's world where you are faced with explicit content – at the workplace, in school, on the streets or even at family gatherings such as weddings or in forms such as billboards, TV and Internet. You name it, the tech world has made things even more fast and furious.
Going to the masjid and Islamic events are not fitnah free.
What can a striving brother or sister do in this case?
Below are 30 ideas for you to consider. They are simple but worthy acts to help you lower your gaze.
Remember every new habit starts with a simple effort, so you can pick just one idea or two to get started. Then stick to it and keep practicing from day to day. In sha Allah you will get there.
The heart is the seat of intention (niyyah). When your heart is pure and sound, your intention will equally be pure and and firm – anchored by sincerity. This will affect the actions of the rest of your organs including your gaze.
A pure heart is filled with love and remembrance of Allah (swt) and His Rasul (saw). Such a heart will nurse a firm intention to gaze at only what is pleasing to Him, while guarding against what is displeasing to Him – whether at home, work or while out with friends.
Visualise the great reward and compensation for your restraint. Allah (swt) rewards His slave for good deeds with something similar and if he gives up something for His sake, He will compensate him with something better than it.
Therefore, if he lowers his gaze and refrains from looking at things that Allah (swt) has prohibited, Allah (swt) will compensate him for restraining his gaze for the sake of Allah (swt) and put light in his heart.
Engage in a lot of involuntary (naafil) acts of worship, because this in addition to your regular obligatory acts of worship will serve a means of protecting your senses & intellect.
Obey Allah (swt) and keep doing good deeds.
Keep your sight pure to earn Allah's Pleasure in this dunya and in anticipation of seeing Him in jannah.
Make supplications for patience, self control, discipline and true surrender as you struggle to remain consistent on keeping your gaze pure.
Just as Luqman the wise advised his son, 'be regular in your prayers', so must you be regular in your prayers for it is a protection and shield for you.
Make every effort to get married to guard your chastity as prescribed by Prophet Muhammad (saw).
Your friends make or mark you. Choose good companions who will help you devote yourself to Allah (swt) and develop yourself spiritually, morally and mentally.
Drop the friends who encourage you to engage in immoral activities and disobedience of Allah (swt). Or keep a distance from them and do not ask them for advice.
Set yourself a goal of winning against your nafs. Strive hard against your innermost desires.
You will be accountable for your actions. The earth and your senses will testify to your activities. Your eyes, limbs and private parts will be witnesses on judgment day.
Be grateful for the gift and blessings of your eyes and other senses; Internet and other tech. tools, Islam and your intellect. If you are truly thankful, you will utilise your gifts in ways pleasing only to the Giver of the gifts.
Recall Luqman's advice to his son, "Allah (swt) will bring everything to light"?
Guard your actions because no affair is hidden from Allah (swt), even if it's equivalent to the weight of a mustard seed or scattered around. He is The Subtle and Informed and He will bring all matters to light – for reward or punishment in the hereafter.
Death is inevitable and it isn't marked on any calendar for you to be warned about. Therefore seek a good end, for you will be raised on what you died upon.
Imagine the possible end result of an unrestrained gaze. It could lead to great immoral acts such as zina. Why lead yourself down that path with such heavy consequences when a simple lowering of gaze can bring you happiness and joy beyond measures?
Be humble, admit you are weak but remain repentant. Don't feel helpless or make excuses for not repenting.
Set your ambition for the highest station in Jannah then imagine the promised pleasures within. What will you give to achieve such a goal and gain all of the pleasures?
Do not aim for anything less, because you are worth it and you have the opportunity to go for it.
It may be a difficult personal battle especially where your work environment, school or family gatherings are mixed and with little or no Islamic ethos. Mark it as part of your worship acts.
Just as it is not easy to wake up for Fajr, attend congregational prayers or give charity but you do it anyway because it is worship and you crave for the rewards. Lower your gaze and crave for the sweet rewards.
Have a copy of the Quran, kindle, ipad, ipod etc with you while traveling, waiting for an appointment, standing at a queue etc. That way, your sight and mind will be engaged productively while you develop yourself with every passing minute.
Avoid or limit your visit to places where your gaze will be affected – because you will most likely be tempted to gaze around. Malls… check; beaches… check; streets… check.
Even those stolen glances or clear focused looks will be recorded.
Study from the authentic teachings and use what you learn to remind yourself to focus on your purpose on earth.
After reminding yourself and taking action, send reminders to your friends and loved ones to benefit, gain rewards and safeguard against negative consequences.
Avoid popular culture. Your intention and actions may be pure and sound originally, but due to weak faith or low self esteem you may try to imitate *that* rich and popular musician, footballer or actor who looks at non-mahrams, mixes freely with them and gains attention of the world.
Mind you, its negative attention with huge consequences. Your model should be the Rasul (saw), so follow his example and you will prosper and command attention of the Angels and noble beings.
Tell your nafs what you desire of success in this dunya and akhirah and how badly you want it. So you welcome no negative distractions from those success goals. Thank your nafs for its anticipated co-operation. Write a letter to your nafs if possible.
Spend time with your righteous sisters or brothers in Islam. Or with your spouse and children. Play sports, games, share stories and take walks if you can.
Set some time for relaxing after productive work. Use your energy in permissible entertainment so you are not driven to utilise it via an impermissible outlet.
Shaytan is ruined. He is focused on doing the same to you and your pals so beware of his plots. Seek refuge with Allah (swt) against his plots and evil inclinations. Do not partner with him in disobeying Allah (swt).
Keep your tongue moist and busy in the remembrance of Allah (swt).
For it is light on the tongue but heavy on the scales. And it is a means of of keeping your heart calm and at rest so you feel no undue attachment to the blings of the dunya including seemingly attractive non mahrams and other prohibited materials.
When you restrain that gaze, thank Allah (swt) for the strength he gave you then give yourself a thumbs up for engaging in jihad – by moving away from zina.
Do not feel you are above temptation. Interact modestly with non-mahrams in necessary situations and refrain from excessive and unnecessary mingling.
Be modest, decent and sincere in your actions – including your speech and what you gaze at.
Make it a goal to improve your character and relationship with others. Strive to strengthen and showcase your Islamic identity. This includes what you look at and what you do not look at.
Having a true Islamic personality will help you interact with kindness, humility and with a smile while calling to the truth and forbidding the wrong.
For any of the above ideas you choose to practice with, you will be developing many aspects of your spirituality, personality and relationships. You will be improving yourself and making the Ummah a much better place in sha Allah.
Lower your gaze, it is worth it!
Did I leave out any ideas? Please share below. And which of the ideas above do you find most beneficial in your situation?


Vibrant new territory of science is dissecting which solid propensities best keep your psyche and memory sound in the 40s and past. -chief of the Neuroscience Research Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has examined which propensities most effectively help our intellectual capacity. Here he shares the most breakthrough look into from creative labs in addition to the best brain-boosting tips from his book. Regardless of whether you're pondering a chess move or feigning at cards, you're also giving the frontal projection, the zone of your brain that handles official capacity, an exercise. "The frontal projection is especially helpless against degeneration and the impacts of maturing," says Dr. Kosik. As per 2014, the University of Wisconsin contemplates more established grown-ups who routinely took a shot at riddles and played tabletop games had higher brain volume in the region in charge of psychological capacities, including memory than the individuals who didn't play recreations.
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Researchers studied volunteers on seven well-known heart-health factors and tried their psychological execution at two more than eight years. The outcomes found that the more heart-sound propensities individuals had the less mental decay they showed. A more grounded cardiovascular framework implies a more grounded pipeline of supplements to the brain, says lead creator Hannah Gardener, ScD, a disease transmission expert in the Department of Neurology at the University of Miami. The seven heart-healthy standards to take a stab at might be natural (on the off chance that they appear to be overpowering, Gardener calls attention to that "everyone helps"): Not smoking; solid weight list (under 25); physically dynamic (for no less than 150 minutes per week); sound aggregate cholesterol (under 200 mg/LD.); rational circulatory strain (under 120/80 mmHg); sound glucose (under 100 mg/dad adjusted eating regimen (wealthy in organic products, veggies, and entire grains; low in sodium and desserts).
As the brain ages, its white issue regularly grows little injuries due to disturbed bloodstream, prompting debilitated personal capacity and portability. Specialists at the University of British Columbia needed to decide if quality preparing may offer security. Ladies ages 65 to 75 who as of now had sores were partitioned into three gatherings.
once seven days of quality coaches, two times every week quality mentors, and the individuals who did different sorts of activity. The outcomes: Women who quality prepared two times every week indicated less movement of white issue sores than the other two gatherings altogether. Key moves you can attempt at home (using soup jars for weight): biceps twists, triceps augmentations, calf raises, smaller than expected squats, scaled down thrusts, and rush strolls; go for 45 minutes a session. Old Brain Pain Make moves directly against Alzheimer's Exercise benefits the brain by enhancing vascular health—however recently distributed research proposes it additionally battles the interminable neuro in inflammation saw in Alzheimer's, sorrow, and other brain sicknesses. In such neurological conditions, the irritation that ordinarily clears tissue harm doesn't stop and begins to meddle with correspondence between neurons. Exercise has demonstrated mitigating impacts against maladies like diabetes and rheumatoid joint inflammation, so that could be the reason practice ensures brain health too, says colleague educator Jonathan Little, Ph.D., in a survey article in Brain Research Bulletin. "Any sort of moderate-force workout, for example, strolling, cycling, and swimming can have calming impacts," says little. Go for around 30 minutes every day.
Albeit any activity is excellent, vigorous exercises might be the best for brain health. An investigation from Wake Forest School of Medicine demonstrated that the brain volume was higher in elderly individuals who took an interest in oxygen-consuming activity than in individuals who merely extended. The oxygen-consuming exercisers additionally observed their mental capacity enhance over a six-month time span. "Research demonstrates that oxygen-consuming activity builds bloodstream in the hippocampus, the memory area of the brain," says neuroscientist Sandra Bond Chapman, Ph.D., originator and boss executive of the Center for Brain Health at the University of Texas at Dallas.
The brain depends on associations between neurons to work well; in Alzheimer's, these associations start to cease to exist. Doing whatever you can now to help fortify your neural associations will help secure your brain as you age. So use any open door in your everyday schedule for basic idea and examination. "The most grounded mental propensity is to seek after more profound level reasoning," Dr. Chapman says. "This can occur in your regular day to day existence, for example abstracting subjects from shows you see or books you read. More profound level reasoning resembles push-ups and sit-ups for the brain." Joining a book club or notwithstanding talking about a week, ego's a scene of Game of Thrones with your accomplice is an astounding spot to begin.
Another approach to keep those neurons stable is to support neuroplasticity, or, in other words, the capacity to rework itself and shape new associations. Studies have demonstrated that psychological incitement really enhances brain pliancy. Any new undertakings you leave on can help keep your brain dynamic, roused, and motivated. "The brain is immediately fatigued on routine and goes to auto-pilot when it gets exhausted," Dr. Chapman says. "Doing new things—and enhancing stuff you're as of now doing—can enable your brain to make progress. Get brain circuits singing Tuning in to or playing music can actuate the engine cortex (contacting a piano key or guitar string), the sound-related cortex (hearing the notes you make), and the passionate focus, or limbic framework (feeling moved by an excellent section). "Circuits and systems are animated by these exercises, which help keep the brain solid. More seasoned grown-ups who had somewhere around ten years of melodic experience improved the situation on psychological tests, as per a 2011 Emory University consider. Draw out your neural connections When you draw, paint, or shape, you need to make spatial counts and concentrate consideration on points of interest, Taking part in these exercises (notwithstanding doodling has medical advantages!) shields octogenarians from mild intellectual weakness, as indicated by a 2015 Mayo Clinic think about. Also, 60-and 70-year-old craftsmanship class members helped scores on mental strength tests; MRI pictures demonstrated their neurotransmitters had shaped new associations.


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U-Boats' Anti-Aircraft Weapons
Raul Colon
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Much as they did towards the end of the Great War, in the early years of World War II German's U-Bootwaffes roamed, almost with impunity, the sea trade routes of the Western Allies, engaging and sinking vital shipping at an alarming rate. It wasn't until the Allies began to implement a sophisticated system of long rage, air patrol over the Atlantic that the tide of the submarine war finally began to turn in their favour.
Because most of Germany's U-boat force was incapable of prolonged, submerge patrol time, they became easy targets for predatory allied medium and heavy bombers covering the North Atlantic.
Engaging and hitting allied patrol airplanes became the sub's main objective from late 1943 to the end of the war in May '45. In an attempt to achieve this task, each boat was fitted with a vast array of defensive weapon systems.
The submarine's main anti-aircraft weapon was the 2CM Flak Gun. Two basic designs of this uninspired looking, but tremendously effective flak system were employed. The first operating 2CM was the No. 30. The thirty was a single barrel weapon with a 360 degree traverse and capable of a two degree depression and 90 degree elevation. It fired a 0.32kg shell capable of reaching distances of up to 12,350 meters. What made this weapon so effective was it impressive cycle rate of 480 rounds per minute.
The second, improved version of the 2CM was Flak 38th. Similar to the 30th, but capable of reaching a cycle rate of 960 rounds per minute, the 38th was arguably the best German, light attack weapon of World War II.
Another light weapon use by U-Boats to fend-off attackers was the 3.7CM M/42 Flak Gun. In the bottom half of the war, most German submarines were fitted with the 42nd platform. It fired a .73Kg shell up to a distance of 15,350m. Maximum firing cycle was 50 rounds per minute.
Those two weapon systems accounted for almost 85 percentage of all hit allied aircraft. Official numbers regarding hit aircraft varies from source to source, but the most reliable figure (coming from British-generated documents released in the mid 1950s) puts the amount at 247 from the spring of 1944 to April 1945.
Although it was not a intended as a primary anti-aircraft weapon, the 8.8CM Schiffskanone Deck Gun was also used in that role, especially towards the end. This remarkable 8.8 gun employed by the German navy was not directly related to the more famous, 8.8 Acht-Acht flack gun utilized by the army as an anti-tank weapon. The CM was purely a naval gun develop in the waning days of World War One.
The gun was mounted on a low box forward of the conning tower. It could traverse through a field of 360 degrees. Its -4 degrees depressed parameter and 30 degree elevation capacity were two of the most impressive features of this remarkable weapon. The gun fired a 13.7kg high explosive shell at a 700m/sec muzzle velocity. It had a solid impact range of up to 12,350m.
Manned by a three men crew, the CM was a powerful, horizontal weapon that when use against sea-based platforms, it caused heavy damage. As the U-Boats began to sustain alarming losses to Allies praying bombers, German crews commenced utilizing their main armament on incoming enemy aircraft. Although their use in that type of environment wasn't tested before the war, the gun performed well.
Data on the numbers of downed allied aircraft hit by the 8.8CM is not reliable. But unofficial accounts put the numbers in the low 50s. Much of that was accounted for between the autumn of 1944 and the spring of 1945.
Aside from those three defensive weapons, German submarines carried a limited amount of small calibre fire arms including 9mm and 7.62mm hand guns. Nine millimetre machine guns and some 7.92mm rapid fire rifles. No data on hit aircraft by these weapons are available.
Of course, no weapon can be effective if the enemy isn't spotted. For long range detection, the U-boats employed the Funkmessorungsgerat (Fu) MO-29 Radar. The MO-29 was use primarily on Type IV boats as well as some Type VIIs. The 29 was simple to utilize thanks to its twin horizontal rows of eight dipoles on the upper front part of the conning tower.
On the top row laid the transmitters and in the lower one, the receivers. An improved version of the 29 was introduced in the summer of 1942. In that version, known as No. 30, the diploes were replaced by a retractable antenna which was housed in a slot in the tower.
Although relative powerful for the times, this system barely was able to detect surface vessels because of the low position of it's mounting in respect to the horizon.
A more complex system, FuMB1 or the 'Metox' was introduced in the fall of 1942. This system was utilized in conjunction with a raw, wooden cross antenna strung with copper wire know as the 'Biscay Cross'. But as with the early Fus platforms, this unit wasn't that reliable. In fact, a case could be mad that their use was highly detrimental to the sub's survival thanks to the Metox's volatile emissions which were easy detectable by Allied radars.
By November 1943, the Germans had finally develop what would become the world's first true, all around naval radar. Born out of desperation, FuMB7 combined Metox and Naxos emissions to give U-boat commanders a first rate, long range detection system. Further enhancements were undertaken (the FuMB24 and 25) to the base MB7 giving it an extended operational radius.
Aside the radar, maybe the most ingenious defensive measure used by German submarines was the Focke-Achgelis. The 'Focke' was basically a manned unpowered autogyro with a triple blade rotor. It was as simple to operate as it was to assemble. Housed in a storage cylinder on the afterdeck, the Focke was quickly armed and launched. It remained connected to the U-boat by an umbilical cord. From its advantageous position high above the sub (10-12,000 feet), the pilot could spot any target approaching the boat. Unfortunately for the Focke, if the U-boat came under direct attack, there was no time to reel it in, thus the sub cut the cord and left the pilot to defend himself until all was cleared to surface back again.
More effective than the Focke-Achgelis was the Aphrodite. It was a basic devise consisting of a large (one meter diameter) hydrogen-filled balloon from which dangled small strips of metal foil. It was attached to the sub by way of an anchor weight. Its main purpose was to confuse allied aircraft utilizing radar navigational systems.

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Kirkistan: What gives with your slow and sporadic posts?
I'm thinking of my next book. It may be something related to the seven essential questions that shape our expectations about work and life. It may be something completely different. But I am consciously pulling back from daily posts so that I can invest a bit more time in these early stages of exploring what next. These explorations will likely look like blog posts.


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Ferencz Mónika (Budapest, 1991. március 29. –) magyar költő, műfordító.

Élete és munkássága
Budapesten született, Gödön nőtt fel, középiskolás tanulmányait pedig Vácon végezte. A Szegedi Tudományegyetem anglisztika, majd a Budapesti Gazdasági Főiskola marketing-közgazdász szakára járt.

József Attila Kör volt elnökségi tagja , a Fiatal Írók Szövetsége tagja és a Műút folyóirat volt online szerkesztője.

2017 tavaszán jelent meg az első verseskötete Hátam mögött dél  címmel a Scolar Kiadó L!ve sorozatának első költészeti darabjaként.

Művei

Önálló művei

Hátam mögött dél, Scolar, Bp., 2017 (Scolar live)
Búvárkodás haladóknak, Scolar, Bp., 2021 (Scolar live)

Antológiák

 InstaVers antológia, Athenaeum, 2016
 Szép versek 2017, Magvető, 2017
Mind túl vagyunk a határon, Szépírók Társasága, 2019
Lehetnék bárki – Kortárs és kortalan versek, Tilos az Á, 2020
Hunger Like Starlings: Hungarian & Scottish Poetry, Tapsalteerie, 2020
Mind túl vagyunk a határon, Szépírók Társasága, 2019
Alibi hat hónapra – Levegő, Hamu és gyémánt kiadó, 2020
AZ 10 – A 10 éves Ambroozia antológiája (2021)
Către saturn, înot, Max Blecher, 2021

Díjak, ösztöndíjak

Babits Mihály műfordítói ösztöndíj (2016)
Horváth Péter irodalmi ösztöndíj (jelölés, 2017)
Móricz Zsigmond-ösztöndíj (2019)
Junior Szépíró-díj (2019)

Interjúk

 Szükséges a csend – Köménymag irodalmi kör – interjúsorozat – ContextUs.hu
 Nem szól a cím se másról, csak ami biztos – soundcity:szeged
 A tűz és a jég egyszerre van jelen benne  – Now Magazin
 Észak felé tartó utak – Félonline
Kevés vadhajtás van benne – Pesti Bölcsész Újság
 Összeszedettebbé tett a Hátam mögött dél – ContextUs.hu
Észak, a megfontolt égtáj – Klub Rádió, Belső közlés (2019)

Jegyzetek

Magyar költők
Budapesten született személyek
1991-ben született személyek
Élő személyek
Babits Mihály-ösztöndíjasok
Móricz Zsigmond-ösztöndíjasok


Villalón-Turrubiates, Iván E.; Andrade-Lucio, José A.; Ibarra-Manzano, Óscar G.
In this paper, we analyze the Multidimensional Kalman Algorithm to estimate a signal corrupted by white Gaussian noise. Because the theory provide a good solution to the problem with a large number of signals, we developed an algorithm for three-dimensional Kalman filtering applied to the positioning problem (latitude, altitude and longitude) of a stationary object based on GPS signals. This application was selected because the incoming signals of the GPS encounters some noise on its way to the receiver, which is originated from different types of sources, the consequences are that the received signals are noisy, therefore inaccurate. The signals are digitally processed, and the implementation may be carried out on a computer-aided system for a specific application.


SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is an Internet standard for sending email and is often referred to by email programs as the 'outgoing mail server'.
When you setup an email account, whether on a desktop/laptop running Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird, or on your tablet/smartphone (walk-throughs can be found here), you will need to select your 'outgoing mail server (SMTP)'. In most cases you have the option to use your Internet Service Provider (ISP) for outgoing mail however as an alternative you can use HostAway's mail server. The benefit of using your ISP's mail server is that you do not need to authenticate yourself, as you are already on their network. The downside is that if you move your device (eg. laptop, tablet or smartphone) onto another network you will not be able to send emails as you cannot authenticate yourself.
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Many customers have difficulty choosing between IMAP and POP mail protocols when setting up their email accounts, and for good reason – it can be confusing!
POP (Post Office Protocol) is the traditional method used by email programs to retrieve e-mail from a mail server. The important feature of POP is that when you retrieve your email the messages are moved from HostAway's server to the computer/device you are using. Emails can be kept on the mail server for a number of days before being deleted (this is determined by the advanced settings in your mail program), allowing you to download the messages onto multiple devices before they are purged. POP accounts have a one way communication with our mail server simply pushing a copy of all mail out to each connecting device, leaving each device with its own copy of the emails which must be organised individually. They run fairly autonomously and do not encounter quota issues unless receiving large amounts of mail with attachments or if they are not set to purge old emails frequently enough.
Message storage limited only by the capacity of your computer.
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Reading your e-mail from multiple computers or e-mail programs results in duplication of filing and deleting emails.
Messages are stored locally on your computer. If your computer fails you may lose all your email.
IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) is the other major method used by email programs to retrieve mail. Unlike POP, IMAP keeps your messages on the server, therefore when you click to read an email IMAP presents the message that is stored on the server. IMAP accounts are a two way communication with our mail server where each device talks to our mail server to organise and view mail. All devices will see the same messages and an email that is moved to a folder on one device will be moved on all devices. As an IMAP account leaves all messages on our mail server they require some end user diligence to monitor quota usage.
Messages are stored on the server and are not affected if your computer fails.
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Reading messages while offline requires use of your e-mail program's Offline mode.
If you plan to view your mailbox from multiple devices (computer, laptop, smartphone) and plan to manage your mailbox size then we recommend using IMAP. If you are simply using one mail program or device (such as Outlook on your Windows PC or Mac Mail on your Apple PC) or don't want to worry about mailbox quota then we recommend POP.
It is possible to change your email account from POP to IMAP and vice versa, however this is a setting on your mail program (Outlook or Mac Mail for example) and not on the server.
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When you send email from some devices it may not save the sent message to your IMAP account by default (eg. An iPhone saves this locally by default). You need to edit your settings to save sent messages to an IMAP folder if you wish for this to be saved within your IMAP account.
If you use Webmail you are effectively using IMAP. If you have a POP account and want to use Webmail whilst on holiday make sure you don't leave your mail program open on your home/office PC or it may download all of your recent emails.
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They claim to be authorised by the CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center) which is the Chinese Domain Registry.
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The reply addresses that these emails appear to come from vary, sometimes coming from .cn addresses and sometimes from Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo etc addresses.
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You are probably familiar with some of the many Phishing attempts circulating the Internet (whereby someone fraudulently tries to acquire your information by pretending to be a trustworthy organisation) however there are a few 'companies' that have been mailing out letters for domain name renewals with something that appears to be an invoice.
These letters originate from companies such as Domain Register, Domain Name Group or Domain Renewal Group however they often change their names so please read your letter carefully. They apparently avoid breaking the law by including a small note claiming 'this is not an invoice' or 'this is an invitation to register'. They will also sometimes offer a free iPod or prize but be warned, if they manage to gain control of your domain name you will be hit with very high renewal fees and hosting costs.
You can now edit your mailbox quota through the HostAway Members Panel. Each new mailbox is 100MB in size by default, however with this new tool you can now resize your mailboxes and take advantage of all the space you are entitled to. To access simply select 'Email Quota Manager' on the left hand menu within the Members Panel. If you require additional space this can be added in blocks which can be shared across all your mailboxes or allocated to a single large mailbox.


Comrade Jack Conrad's great tour de force, 'Marxism versus holy script' (January 10), falls flat when we examine the details. He seeks to prove, in lockstep with Lars T Lih, yet again, that Kamenev (Trotsky's brother-in-law), Stalin and Zinoviev were fundamentally right to support the Provisional government after the February 1917 revolution before Lenin returned to reverse this with his April theses. He also proposes that Kamenev and Zinoviev were fundamentally right, or at least had good reasons, to oppose the insurrection that was the October revolution and it is incorrect to fault them for opposing the Bolsheviks for not forming a coalition.
However, the best of the Menshevik-Internationalists had joined the Bolsheviks in August, demonstrating Lenin was right against the vacillating pair. The remaining Menshevik-Internationalists won only two out of 306 seats in all-Russian central executive committee at the Third Congress of Soviets in January 1918. But, even after the victorious insurrection, the two argued that the Bolshevik Party would be unable to maintain itself in power unless they entered into a coalition with the other socialist parties: ie, the Social Revolutionists and the Mensheviks.
"Indeed, reality shows us both the passing of power into the hands of the bourgeoisie (a 'completed' bourgeois-democratic revolution of the usual type) and, side by side with the real government, the existence of a parallel government, which represents the "revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry". This 'second government' has itself ceded the power to the bourgeoisie, has chained itself to the bourgeois government.
Oh, well done there, the whole world has got the history of the great revolution upside down and completely wrong. The real leaders were Kamenev, Zinoviev and Stalin and not these bumbling idiots, Lenin and Trotsky, who not only did not understand revolution, they did not understand the peasantry (we will deal with this later) and Marxism in general, like this sagacious triumvirate.
Jack's arguments continually confuse strategy with tactics, and this is at the root of the whole confusion he perpetrates. That and the failure to understand the role of the peasantry - why there cannot be a two-class dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry, revolutionary or otherwise. Lenin's April theses set the strategic goal of the second, socialist revolution. Kamenev, followed by Stalin and then Zinoviev, led the opposition to this - their strategic goal was a bourgeois revolution led by the working class, which entailed support for the Provisional government. Trotsky had pointed out the flaw with this argument back in 1905; once the working class had taken revolutionary power, it was impossible to expect them to tolerate bourgeois exploitation. This central aspect of his permanent revolution theory was fully accepted by Lenin, as is graphically illustrated in the above exchange with Kamenev in his April 'Letters on tactics'.
Once Lenin had won that month-long argument, then the tactical question was over the time of the insurrection when circumstances were right. But even then, as John Reed tells us, "Riazanov and Kamenev had both opposed the insurrection, and felt the lash of Lenin's terrible tongue." But comrade Jack feels that "Lenin and Trotsky proved audacious; Zinoviev and Kamenev cautious".
Eddie Ford worries that an increased police presence on College Green in response to verbal and physical intimidation of MPs and lobby journalists amounts to a threat to our freedom to protest ('Our rights threatened too', January 17).
I venture to say that it does not. In political debate there should be no space for the sort of vile abuse spouted by the likes of James Goddard. Eddie quotes Mr Goddard on Anna Soubry - a "lying trollop", a "morally repugnant scumbag". Such language would get you censured, ejected and suspended from any democratic forum. And rightly so.
When the great Nye Bevan branded the Tory Party as "vermin" in a speech, he did neither himself nor the Labour Party any favours. Freedom to give gratuitous, inflammatory, intimidating abuse is not the same as freedom to protest.
We are civilised people. We win the revolution by argument and subsequent 'push and shove' by the working class. We don't need 'potty-mouth' barbarism in the ilk of Goddard to move our cause forward.
Paul Demarty, I think, mischaracterises the nature of the debate over the European Economic Community/European Union, going back to the 1970s ('Dead as a dodo', January 17). He says two factors defined the approach of the left: the first, going back to the 1970s and the cold war, was historic hostility to the EU; the second was fanatical hostility to the far right.
It is completely wrong to say that any part of the left's attitude at that time was based on fanatical hostility to the far right. The far right, in the form of the National Front, which was its main representation, supplemented by various splinter groups, was certainly a growing force, and engaged in regular physical-force activities. But, compared even to the several thousand members of the Communist Party, of the Socialist Workers Party, Militant, along with the numerous other far-left groups, such as the Workers Revolutionary Party, let alone the many thousands of Labour activists - even at a time of relative morbity of the LP - they were insignificant. Turning out to stop the NF was almost inevitably a confrontation between the massed ranks of the left against the massed ranks of the police sent out to protect a small number of fascists, who cowered, as they slunk into some meeting hall, rather than any mass confrontation between far left and far right - other than on a few occasions, where the fascists managed to mobilise significant numbers to stage a march.
The disagreement within the left had no relation to a response to the far right, but was almost entirely a continuation of the old argument between Stalinism and Trotskyism over the question of socialism in one country, which breaks down to a debate over the issue of the attitude of Marxists to nationalism and internationalism. In the 1960s, the far left held to an internationalist position of abstention over joining the EEC. The Communist Party argued for opposition, reflecting the interests of the Moscow bureaucracy.
The debate was not just over the attitude to the EEC: it was also over opposition to the nationalistic British road to socialism, which reflected the Stalinist policy of socialism in one country. It also carried over into the debates over the Alternative Economic Strategy, which in its dominant formulations was based upon the same kind of economic nationalist agenda of proposing import controls and so on, which was the policy of the Communist Party, and its fellow-travellers within Tribune and the Bennite left within the Labour Party.
It was that division that drove the debate, not any concern about, let alone fanatical hostility to, the far right. What intensified the debate at that time was the fact that those that came from the more orthodox Trotskyist background found themselves having to defend that internationalist position, as the larger organisations, such as the SWP and Militant - that had driven further and further in the direction of economism and syndicalism/reformism respectively, as they sought to capitalise on the gains in recruitment they had made amongst industrial workers during the period of intensified industrial struggle of the late 1960s and early 1970s - abandoned their previous positions, for fear of losing their periphery to the CP and Bennite left, as they promoted the more populist, nationalist solutions of 'blame the foreigner, blame the EU, blame foreign imports' and so on.
In fact, in the 1970s, any chance of pulling out of the EEC was not to be found in the influence of the far right, but of the left. The Tory Party, unlike today, was firmly under the sway of its EEC-supporting wing, most visibly represented by Heath. The reactionary wing, representing the small-shopkeeper capitalists, as depicted in David Edgar's Destiny, were a small minority. The anti-EEC lobby, apart from the mavericks like Powell, was overwhelmingly made up of people like Michael Foot, Benn, Peter Shore, Barbara Castle and so on.
Fast-forward to today, and what we see is that those sections of the left that abandoned the internationalist position in the 1970s have continued to abide by the nationalist stance they adopted at that time, though the dynamics of why they have done so has varied. The Militant/Socialist Party is just as a left reformist outfit, whose programme of parliamentary reforms, and nationalisation of the top monopolies, fits fairly seamlessly with the old nationalistic concepts of the CP's 'British road to social democracy', whilst the SWP's two defining characteristics - spontaneism/build a bigger demo/more militancy, and Sismondist anti-capitalism/anti-imperialism - lead it inevitably into a knee-jerk opposition to anything that seems to be in the interests of the development of capitalism.
For my part, at least, it's opposition to that reactionary nature of the forces of left nationalism that is the basis for opposing Brexit/Lexit, not any consideration of whether doing so is required in order to assuage some fanatical hostility to the far right. In fact, the driving force today behind Brexit is not the far right, nor the far left or the Stalinists: it is the reactionary wing of the Tory Party, representing all of those small-trader capitalists. It is they that have captured the Tory base, and via the European Research Group exert their influence over the Tory Party in parliament.
That is what defines this division. On the one hand, the EU represents the interests of big, socialised capital, and of the shareholders and bondholders that draw their revenues from it. It also represents the interests of the working class, because it is on the basis of these more developed forms of capital that its higher living standards, ability to organise, to increase social security and to struggle for industrial democracy and then socialism, depends. On the other hand, the interests of the small capitalists lie in Brexit, and they drag behind them a long tail of associated, usually atomised layers, which now has control over the Tory Party, as well as being falsely presented as potential Labour voters, to scare rightwing Labour MPs into not opposing Brexit.
And the situation facing Marxists today is not the same as in 1975. Then it was quite appropriate to argue for an active abstention. Now it is not. Marxists could not argue for workers to join a capitalist Europe as an alternative to a capitalist Britain - though they could point to all the reasons that the EEC was more progressive than Britain, by removing borders and so on, and making worker solidarity easier to achieve. But simply more progressive was not enough. Our solution was not a more progressive capitalist Europe, but a socialist united states of Europe. However, we are now in that more progressive capitalist Europe. It is quite a different matter now to be indifferent as to whether we remain within that more progressive structure, rather than leave it to go back to a more reactionary structure!
As Marx sets out in his essay on 'Political indifferentism', we would not argue for capitalist provision of state education, or various other forms of welfarism, because we are in favour of workers' self-government and provision of those services. But, if the capitalist state provides them, would we then refuse to take advantage of that development, and demand going back to some more primitive situation? Of course not.
If I work for a small firm, I do not demand that it be taken over by a monopoly, even if that might have advantages in terms of wages and conditions, ability to organise and so on. I argue that the solution lies in workers' ownership and control, not simply a more developed, more civilised capitalist regime of the larger monopoly. If the firm is to be taken over, I neither argue for or against such a takeover, I set out the advantages of working for the larger capital, but pointing out the need not to settle for that, but to struggle for industrial democracy, and workers' ownership and control. But, if the firm is taken over, I would then not be indifferent if someone were to propose that the monopoly be broken up, in order to force things back into some previous, more primitive form of capitalism. I would have a duty to oppose such a development.
And the same applies with the EU. It is no longer a question of arguing the need for a socialist alternative to what exists rather than simply accepting a more progressive capitalist alternative. It is a matter of arguing against the imposition of a more reactionary alternative.
If the far right don't like that, and try to make hay out of it, that can be no reason not to argue for stopping Brexit, and indeed can be no argument for opposing a further democratic vote on the issue. That is a quite different situation to those proposing Lexit, who via their nationalist arguments directly gave sanction to the nationalistic, xenophobic arguments and actions of the far right.
Arthur Bough states that the product of labour in a "primitive commune or under communism" takes the form of value. This is because all products of labour in every society are "nothing more than an expression of ... labour-time" ('Subjective and objective value', January 17).
This statement rests on fallacious reasoning. It is true that all products in every society take a certain amount of time to make. It does not follow from this that they take the form of value. Labour-time is a necessary condition for value to exist, but it is not sufficient. If value is the form that abstract labour takes within generalised commodity production, then the measurement of labour-time expressed in a value relation presupposes the commodification of labour-power. This is regardless of labour's specific useful characteristics.
In other words, the measurement of labour-time can take place in societies where labour-power is not a commodity and all products are use-values, not commodities. For example, in the primitive commune, the determinants of labour-time are the length of the day, the weather and the health and strength of the producers. In contrast, under communism, the determinant of labour-time is the consciously chosen, democratically organised plan. Freely associated producers create this plan.
Put differently, the category of value entails production for exchange. It shares this quality with exchange value. Both categories imply production for the exchange of commodities as equivalents. The equivalence of exchange value with money has a subjective character, expressed in the price of a commodity. Marx argues that underlying the movement of prices is value and abstract labour. Abstract labour does not exist without the generalisation of exchangeability to labour-power. In the absence of the alienation of labour-power as a commodity, the socially objective character of value either declines or disappears. This is what happened under Stalinism, where the political police atomised workers and used brute force to try to produce a surplus. The failed aim of Stalinist production was the production of use-values - not value and surplus value.
Why is it important to strive for clarity on this issue? Ideologically, Bough's reasoning supports an aspect of commodity fetishism. This is the idea that the market has existed in every form of society. It is therefore natural and eternal. Politically, the abolition of the wages system, full employment and the shortened working week strike a blow to the global subordination of workers to the law of value. Planning for need then replaces commodity exchange as the universal social relation.
After their rout in 1745, the mangled, wounded Jacobites were systematically and brutally murdered where they lay. Retreating troops were followed in a hysterical fox-hunt by Georgian cavalry, with infantry following up behind. Every man, women child and beast they encountered on the way was butchered and houses destroyed.
There is something of the same hysterical revenge being enacted by the government's latest phase of exterminating coal. They now plan to ban coal from house fires, ban open fires and ban wood-burning stoves. This marks the end to wee, traditional pubs with nice roaring wood and coal fires in the grate. It also marks a huge problem for tens of thousands - maybe hundreds of thousands - of folk in coalfield and industrial areas, whose only source of heating is their solid fuel central heating and open fires. Will we have smoke detection vans patrolling the area, as TV licence enforcers used to?
But it also marks up the relentless war of attrition against the coal communities. One will recall that Drax, the largest coal-powered station in Europe, burned coal from all over Yorkshire and ultimately just from Big K, which lived next door, a few hundred yards from the power station.
The government, after closing down the White Rose Scheme based at Drax, which would have used carbon capture systems to reduce 50% of CO2 emissions at the plant ordered them instead to use wood. So millions of tons of wood would be grown around the world, where natural forest would have been growing and redressing the excess of CO2. Or else they took the place of much needed food for the peoples of the 'third world' - instead they grew wood to burn in the power station.
It would be cheaper than carbon capture, it would deliver the coup de grace against coal-mining and it would be 'carbon-neutral'. The idea behind this being that, although it would generate 40% more CO2 than coal, with the White Rose CCS scheme it would come from renewable forests. They were growing anyway and might regenerate some of the CO2 into oxygen. The fact that these wood chips would then be shipped across the world in vessels burning diesel was never added into the equation. Neither was the locomotive transportation from the coasts, none of which had affected Big K's delivery of coal next door.
So thrilled was the government with its 'green renewable' plan, they actually gave the process a £1billion per year subsidy, while coal was ultimately charged a 75% mark-up on its tax for daring to be produced. They had called it an emissions tax, but they charged it not when any emissions were made, but when the coal was bought. The point about that was to penalise coal burning, even if it was used in clean-coal, non-emission systems like the Don Valley one, which had been approved for Hatfield Main colliery. It killed Hatfield Main stone dead. But it allowed Drax to mop up the million tons it had already had on the ground, burned up the flues making emissions, but charged 33% less emissions tax than any new coal they might buy. They chose not to buy any new coal and as such destroyed Hatfield's only market - job done: pit closed.
The subsidy was equivalent to £100 million per megawatt-hour (MWH), while coal without any carbon taxes was being produced at a cost of £30-£35 per MWH without subsidy!
So, having been so thoroughly thrilled with wood, many folk bought wood-burning stoves and multi-fuel burners for their living rooms. After all £1 billion of wood-burning subsidy can't be wrong, right ? Oh - I nearly forgot to mention a further £2 billion was paid in subsidies to customers who used the power supplied by wood.
But here is the further rub: the government now says it will eliminate all coal-power production by 2025 (a tripartite deal drawn up my 'red' Ed and designed by Blair. It means all three political parties in Britain agreed that, whichever of them got in, they would wipe out coal power without opposition), "unless they are using carbon-capture systems". Would that be the carbon-capture systems the government pulled the plugs on at Hatfield Main and Kellingley?
We should remember, by the way, that the big fan club for 'biomass systems' in opposition to coal was ... the Greens, God love them. Biomass was a renewable and therefore the environmental equivalent of the second coming (for those who do not read the Bible that is not a sexual reference.). The salesman for the renewable saviour of the world (literally) was Lib Dem energy secretary Chris Huhne, who went on to be hired by the big US biomass firm, Zilkha. He went on to serve a sentence for perverting the course of justice - the major players in the great environmental con against coal and for 'renewables' could all be charged with the same thing in my view.
So there they go - pursuing the evil coal demon, even to the last lump on the family hearth.
Comrade Mike Macnair's article on the gilets jaunes protest movement covered many aspects and considerations, for the most part interestingly so ('An enigmatic movement', January 17). But it failed in one highly important respect. Little or no emphasis was given to how this entirely spontaneous outburst of anti-establishment action has demonstrated beyond all doubt that any 21st-century capitalist state is a fragile thing.
Despite an ability to exercise manipulative control over the hearts and minds of a population. Despite the unarguably ultra-efficient methods of civil and military oppression it amasses (ie, those nowadays standing ever more well-equipped, ever more poisonously prepared). In truth and in contrast, the capitalist state is an entirely moribund entity - one that could readily be overthrown by a socio-culturally focused mass of its working class. In short, the modern-day capitalist system is wholly vulnerable to our revolutionary ambitions.
Of course, it's only too easy to fall into the trap of being simplistic, overly enthusiastic, idealistic or even downright naive. However, a good dollop of optimism, allied to platinum-grade positivity, never goes amiss - most pertinently when trying to draw fresh members of society into the fight. That is to say, encourage them to join our Marxist/communist side of the barricades and battle lines - those as variously will develop over time.
In a certain sense expanding upon these lines of thought, surely the use of a 'hammer and sickle' masthead is now entirely outdated, indeed an active obstacle to gaining connection with potential supporters or more generally reaching beyond current confines. Almost all working folk associate that iconography with Stalinism, and anyway are far more familiar with a coffee-shop barista's apron, computer mouse or steering wheel of a delivery van than any such Old Skool reminder of wage-slavery - any such profoundly dispiriting obedience to The Man.
Although by no means sweeping aside all problems, a modernised design would do nothing but help in generating some desperately needed 'wokeness' in our world. So, yes: a stylish new masthead for the Weekly Worker, please! - one to take its place alongside other vibrantly connected and dynamic presentations of our ideas and policies; our timelessly relevant values.


Have you ever seen a unicorn in a forest on a misty alien plant, dancing with a popsicle whilst being rained upon by cupcakes and the fire of dragons, all the while being spied upon by Puss N' Boots? You have now! And, you can own a mug with such nonsensical awesomeness, that comes in 11oz and 15oz sizes, and several styles (scroll through the pictures to see the style choices). Designs are on both sides of the mugs.


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Philemon Ombogo Kiriago, né le , est un coureur de fond kényan spécialisé en course en montagne. Il a remporté la médaille d'argent sur l'épreuve de course en montagne en montée aux championnats du monde de course en montagne et trail 2022 et a terminé deuxième de la Coupe du monde de course en montagne 2022.

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Philemon Ombogo Kiriago fait ses débuts en course en montagne lors de la course du mont Kenya 2022 où il rejoint les rangs de l'équipe run2gether. Arrivé en Europe, il confirme son talent pour la discipline en établissant un nouveau record du parcours lors de la Mugelberglauf. Le , il domine la course du Monte Faudo et s'impose avec trois minutes d'avance sur son compatriote Hosea Kimeli Kosorio. Il prend ensuite part à la Coupe du monde de course en montagne où il se retrouve dans l'ombre de son compatriote Patrick Kipngeno, terminant à plusieurs reprises deuxième derrière ce dernier, notamment à la course de montagne du Grossglockner, à la montée du Nid d'Aigle ou encore au Trophée Nasego. Alors que Patrick Kipngeno s'assure de la première place du classement général après le Trophée Nasego, Philemon Ombogo Kiriago continue sa saison en prenant part aux deux courses de Canfranc-Canfranc. Il doit lutter face à l'Irlandais Zak Hanna sur le Vertical et s'incline pour terminer troisième. Il mène ensuite la course du 16K, mais se fait dépasser par le Français Loïc Robert en fin de course et termine deuxième. Grâce à sa solide saison marquée par sept podiums sur huit courses, il termine deuxième du classement général. Il se classe en outre deuxième du classement Classique et troisième du classement Long. Le , il prend part aux championnats du monde de course en montagne et trail à Chiang Mai au sein d'une équipe kényane réduite. Il effectue une solide course sur l'épreuve de montée, suivant dans un premier temps son compatriote Patrick Kipngeno. Ce dernier s'envole en tête pour remporter le titre. Philemon Ombogo Kiriago parvient à conserver sa position et décroche la médaille d'argent.

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Naissance en décembre 2002
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So today i'll share the MIB kaspersky security center and the procedure to how you can configure for the ksc server (console) to stay on according for you start the monitoring by NOC (zabbix, nagios, or any way) your product just have support for SNMP protocol.
for import those mibs you must downlaod of this files and put on your MONITOR server like (ZABBIX, NAGIOS) or someting like that.
normally for zabbix for example, i need move this files for /usr/share/mibs folder and restart the service snmpd daemon. but depends for your monitoring software.
muito bom... mas como importa as mibs do kaspersky pro linux?


Last year was the deadliest for journalists in Cambodia since 1997, according to a report released by the Cambodian Center for Independent Media on Thursday, but most of the media professionals surveyed by the organization believe that the industry is heading in the right direction.
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Wednesday that he has convinced his deputy Kem Sokha to end his recent attacks on the government, hours after Prime Minister Hun Sen warned that the new "culture of dialogue" between the CPP and CNRP will be abandoned unless Mr. Sokha tones down his rhetoric.
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday announced that he would replace CPP President Chea Sim if the ailing octogenarian were to pass away, and promised to maintain his three-decade hold on power as the ruling party's candidate for prime minister in the 2018 national election.
Posts and Telecommunications Minister Prak Sokhonn estimated Monday that the number of Internet users in Cambodia would reach 9.5 million by 2020.
At a special public meeting with opposition leader Sam Rainsy in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, Prime Minister Hun Sen acknowledged that Mr. Rainsy could replace him in 2018, but warned that CPP-loyal "forces" would prevent any acts of revenge Mr. Rainsy planned in such a case.
Funcinpec leader Prince Norodom Ranariddh and second vice president Nhiek Bun Chhay left for China on Sunday to meet with officials from the Chinese Communist Party, the Cambodian royalist party's longtime benefactor and supporter.
A woman in Kampot province who allegedly decapitated her father and murdered her sister in a fit of rage on Tuesday evening was questioned by the provincial court Thursday, police said.
The son of a wealthy property developer was charged Wednesday by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court after assaulting the son of logging tycoon Try Pheap in a tattoo parlor on Monday night, according to police.
The son of a wealthy property developer and police general was arrested Monday evening after attacking another rich, young businessman inside a Phnom Penh tattoo parlor, military police said Tuesday.
Upon officially taking the helm of the country's revamped National Election Committee on Monday, Sik Bunhok promised to follow in the footsteps of the outgoing committee members, most of whom were widely lambasted as tools of the ruling CPP.
After about 70 villagers and environmental activists spent the weekend trying to drive away sand-dredging barges they claimed were illegally operating off the coast of Koh Kong province, a local official said Monday that he had ordered a brief suspension of all dredging in the area.
An environmental activist and a fisherman said Sunday that about 70 residents of Koh Kong province had worked together over the past few days to chase away sand-dredging barges they accused of operating illegally around Koh Kapi island and damaging vital fishing grounds.
The new National Election Committee, a key pillar of last year's political deal between the CPP and the CNRP, will formally assume its duties as the country's election-organizing body this morning after almost nine months of negotiations and preparations.
A month after Prime Minister Hun Sen issued a directive ordering government bodies to put a halt on new hires—except to fill vacated positions—the Ministry of Public Function has authorized state institutions to hire 5,001 civil servants to replace those who had recently retired, quit or been fired, according to a statement released Tuesday.
The ruling CPP and opposition CNRP made a rare show of fraternity Wednesday morning in unanimously passing the country's first tobacco control law—which bans sales to minors, smoking in public and most advertising—in a bid to combat related illnesses.
Prime Minister Hun Sen said Sunday that lawmakers must pass a controversial law on NGOs in order to prevent funds from terrorist groups such as al-Qaida from seeping into the country.
Representatives for some 200 families in a yearslong land dispute with the Union Development Group in Koh Kong province met for the first time with both company and government officials Tuesday but left with little to show.
Deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha told supporters Monday that the CNRP's 55 lawmakers will soon ask to revisit the three controversial judicial reform laws passed by the National Assembly last year during the opposition party's post-election parliamentary boycott.
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday took aim at the Global Teacher Prize, a major new award that a Cambodian teacher was recently shortlisted for, saying that the competition might have been rigged in favor of the U.S. winner.
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday called on his ruling party to give its staffers a base salary on par with the country's lowest paid teachers plus 30 percent, roughly matching the raises teachers, nurses, police and soldiers will be seeing this year.


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Labour and Civil Society urge G20 to support more medicine accessibility during the COVID-19 pandemic
February 22, 2021: The World Trade Organisation will finally vote on the suspension of intellectual property rules during the COVID-19 pandemic on March 1-2, 2021. The global advisory bodies for workers and civil society to the Group of 20 rich countries is urging it to call on the WTO to support the suspension.
On February 20, the joint statement said, "Patent ownerships on the vaccines platforms and IP restrictions on the novel technologies such as mRNA vaccines and monoclonal antibodies are already limiting manufacturing and price flexibility, in the face of 93 billions of public investment in R&D during 2020.
"Confronted with a global situation of around 110 million confirmed cases and a toll of over 2.4 million deaths, challenged by the emergence of new threatening variants of SARS-CoV-2, the G20 leaders have the moral and political obligation to take every measure that can put an end to this pandemic.
"World's governments are dealing with an unprecedented economic and social crisis and their critical resources should not be now spent on sustaining the cumbersome legal intricacies of intellectual property disputes on COVID-19 technologies with patentholders. This means that G20 countries need to support the proposal put forward by India and South Africa at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to waive intellectual property rights related to COVID-19 goods and facilitate dissemination of existing medical knowledge. Supporting the TRIPS waiver means translating into actions the announced commitments aimed at making all COVID-19 vaccines and treatments "global public goods".
Rich countries including the United States, the UK, European Union, Canada and Australia have been opposing the suspension of intellectual property rules since it was proposed in October 2020.
The G20 is the international forum that brings together the world's major economies. Its members account for more than 80 percent of world GDP, 75 percent of global trade and 60 percent of the population of the planet.
The Labour 20 - L20 - unites trade unions from G20 countries and Global Unions, and is convened by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) to the OECD. The Australian Council of Trade Unions in part of L20.
C20 includes Transparency International, Oxfam International, E-Civicus, Climate Action Network, Debt and Development and Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration.


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AT THE HEART OF MYANMAR'S PEACE PROCESS: DDR, SSR, OR BOTH?
23 Apr AT THE HEART OF MYANMAR'S PEACE PROCESS: DDR, SSR, OR BOTH?
By Martine van Mil
As Myanmar readies itself for the third 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference scheduled this May, a critical debate about the future of the country's security sector appears to be at the heart of the ongoing negotiations. A particular contentious topic that generates a heated debate between the ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) and the Myanmar military (Tatmadaw) is the discussion on disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) and security sector reform (SSR).
The discussion stems from the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) negotiations, during which both parties agreed to establish a dialogue framework including negotiations on a dual DDR/SSR process, in the NCA referred to as 'security re-integration' [1]. Throughout the negotiations, the government maintained that security re-integration means DDR, whereas EAOs advocated for a more holistic approach encompassing SSR aimed at the formation of a Federal Union Armed Forces ensuring ethnic nationalities representation and power-sharing mechanisms [2]. The Tatmadaw, focusing on modernization rather than root-to-branch reform, envisioned EAOs simply disarming or coming under its command [3]. Today, EAOs demand a political dialogue defining the parameters of federalism in Myanmar followed by SSR and subsequently DDR, while the Tatmadaw prioritizes DDR and presses for immediate disarmament prior to a political dialogue [4].
EAOs thus far refused to enter a unilateral DDR process, fearing this would be synonymous to surrender. True or not, their main suspicion is that the Tatmadaw is not sincere about resolving the conflict politically and aims to neutralize them to take control of their territories. EAOs established parallel governance structures and enjoy considerable control over ethnic territories and peoples. Disarmament thus seems an unattractive option before a comprehensive political settlement is reached [5]. Yet, demilitarizing these areas and normalizing governance and security provisions is vital to achieving sustainable peace. What would a transition to a more federal security sector look like and how could EAOs be incorporated? This requires conceptual clarity on the tools at hand: DDR and SSR.
DDR encompasses a set of processes that demilitarize post-conflict societies and transition combatants into civilian life. Disarmament refers to the removal and destruction of weapons from combatants and civilians. Demobilization involves disbanding military command structures and their units as well as downsizing the armed forces. Reintegration is the long-term process of absorbing combatants into licit peacetime economies by providing alternative livelihoods and employment opportunities [6,7,8]
During peace negotiations, the discussion on DDR is generally a sensitive one as armed groups do not want to disadvantage themselves by demobilizing their troops. DDR requires a high level of trust that the parties involved will not break the ceasefire. Consequently, negotiating parties are unlikely to disarm until the peace process has provided a credible commitment to peace and some benefits that were demanded from the outset [9]. In Myanmar, it is likely that only after a political settlement towards federalism is reached and the peace agreement is signed the process of DDR among EAOs becomes realistic.
DDR's success largely depends on the credibility and viability of the relevant peace agreement, the implementation environment, mechanisms for monitoring, verification and third party guarantees, and the degree of local support and ownership including conflict parties' involvement in the planning, implementation and monitoring of DDR processes [10]. DDR is most successful when it is conflict and context sensitive, responsive to the needs of the different groups involved, and embedded in a larger peacebuilding process. DDR thus requires sufficient funds, especially for the reintegration phase. Poor implementation and a lack of ownership or support can inflame perceived insecurity and generate new tensions [11].
Effective reintegration is particularly important as it prevents ex-combatants from engaging in illicit activities or remobilizing for lack of alternatives [12]. Some scholars argue that Myanmar's context calls for a more flexible sequencing of DDR starting with political and economic incentives for reintegration and ending with disarmament [13]. This so-called 'third-generation DDR' or 'RDD' reverses its conventional sequence to adapt DDR to specific contexts [14]. Prioritizing reintegration before demobilization and disarmament can be advantageous when the political will for disarmament is lacking [15]. Combatants that are suspicious and insecure about demobilization can gain an added sense of security when they do not completely disarm before the political settlement is fulfilled [16]. Reintegration incentives, including non-material incentives such as political recognition, can also catalyze peacebuilding efforts and persuade financially motivated combatants to commit to the peace process [17]. Besides economic integration, experience shows that military integration can be a way to create stability and ease the transition to civilian life [18].
While DDR is generally a first manifestation of attempts to deal with immediate post-conflict security concerns, SSR involves long-term processes to install an efficient and effective security sector within a framework of democratic governance. Indeed, SSR refers to a comprehensive, holistic reform of all sectors involved in the security of a country and its citizens. SSR thus has wider implications than DDR as it involves reforming a country's defence apparatus including its military, police, judiciary, and relevant ministries [19]. Its objective is to enhance civilian control and democratic accountability of a country's security sector which can prove vital for political stability. Myanmar's security sector does not only encompass government security agencies, such as the Tatmadaw and police, but also all EAOs and their security wings.
Compared to DDR, which is relatively easy to manage and generally takes a few months, SSR can take years, is resource intensive, and is difficult to operationalize. Like DDR, it involves a political process that requires collaboration with all conflict parties as part of a larger peacebuilding effort, as well as a high degree of local ownership [20]. When implemented properly, SSR can consolidate a country's rule of law by creating a balanced and effective security sector with a clear understanding of its objective and significant local support and ownership. Additionally, SSR can professionalize the security forces, build civilian-led security sector institutions, and establish transparency in the security sector's legislative and executive branches [21].
It is not uncommon that SSR involves the direct employment of ex-combatants in different security sector branches. Some scholars argue in favor of this approach in the context of Myanmar, as it would create de facto power-sharing mechanisms and dampen perceived insecurity [22]. This could involve integrating EAOs into national and regional police branches as well as into local level policing. Additionally, shared control of the judiciary and local level justice systems could be conducive for long-term stability [23,24]. Such an approach could meet EAOs' calls for state-level police and defence forces, representative of the respective ethnic group. It may also fit broadly with the Tatmadaw's seeming openness to EAOs playing a security role in local communities and to recognizing their role in law enforcement in their respective territories. Nevertheless, differing views regarding the exact distribution of powers and command hierarchy remain. While EAOs perceive such options as a means to keep protecting their territories, the Tatmadaw views such options only feasible if EAOs commit to solely serve the central government [25].
SSR is often linked with DDR as both tools are interrelated and can be mutually reinforcing [26]. Both aim at consolidating a state's monopoly of force to uphold the rule of law, and both can determine the long-term success – or failure – of the other. If done properly, sequencing DDR and SSR could reinforce the peace settlement and foster mutual trust encouraging further disarmament and reintegration. Additionally, security sector governance through SSR includes programs that create alternative employment for ex-combatants, preventing them from becoming insurgent or joining criminal activities. DDR can also function as a tool within a broader SSR framework which may be more attractive to EAOs that are suspicious of DDR efforts [27].
Despite these linkages, integrating DDR and SSR can be difficult in practice. Both processes are highly political and changing power structures in conflict-affected societies is complex. Unaddressed grievances of ex-combatants can challenge successful reintegration and security sector reform, and the degree of local support or ownership may vary for DDR and SSR. For instance, local communities may welcome the disarmament of combatants but not their inclusion in new security structures, especially when there are high levels of distrust of the police and military due to past atrocities. Programmatically DDR and SSR can also be difficult to synchronize due to their different objectives and time frames [28].
Nonetheless, DDR and SSR will undoubtable be a topic of debate during the upcoming peace talks. This raises crucial questions: should EAOs be integrated into existing security structures, or should the security sector be holistically reformed creating new avenues for integration? Should combatants be integrated alongside former adversaries or into segregated units? Whichever direction the parties agree on, each path will have significant political and practical implications.
[1] Kyed, H. M. and M. Gravers. 2015. "Integration and Power-Sharing: What are the Future Options for Armed Non-State Actors in the Myanmar Peace Process?" Stability: International Journal of Security & Development 4(1): 1–20.
[2] Anderson, B. 2017. "Myanmar's Peace Process: Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration, Borderland Economies, Service Delivery, and other Post-Panglong Concerns." Online at: https://teacircleoxford.com/20…
[3] Jolliffe, K., J. Bainbridge, and I Campbell. 2017. Security integration in Myanmar. Past experiences and future visions. Saferworld, May 2017.[4] Mark. E. 2018. "Myanmar's Challenging Path to Peace." The Diplomat, February 1, Online at: https://thediplomat.com/2018/0…
[5]see 1
[6] Wilén, N. 2013. "Identifying the spoilers in the security sector reform – disarmament demobilisation and reintegration process in the Congo." Defense & Security Analysis 29(2): 117-127. Nilsson, 30, Ozerdem 962)
[7] Nilsson, A. 2005. "Reintegrating Ex-Combatants in Post-Conflict Societies." Stockholm: SIDA. Online at: http://www.pcr.uu.se/digitalAs…
[8] Özerdem, A. 2002. "Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of former combatants in Afghanistan: lessons learned from a cross-cultural perspective." Third World Quarterly 23(5): 961-975.
[9] Sambinis, N. and Schulhofer-Wohl. 2010. "Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Programmes: An Assessment." Folke Bernadotte Academy Publications.
[10] Spear, J. 1999. "The Disarmament and Demobilization of Warring Factions in the Aftermath of Civil Wars: Key Implementation Issues." Civil Wars 2(2): 1-22.
[11] Berdal, M.R. 1996. "Introduction: Disarmament and Demobilization after Civil War." The Adelphi Papers 36(303): 5-8.
[12] Mutengesa, S. 2013. "Facile Acronyms and Tangled Processes: A Re-Examination of the 1990s 'DDR' in Uganda." International Peacekeeping20(3): 338–356.
[13] see 1
[14] Sedra, M. 2003. "Recommendations, in Confronting Afghanistan's Security Dilemma. Reforming the Security Sector." Brief 28, Bonn: BICC: 62–68.
[15] UNDPO. 2010. Second Generation Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) Practices in Peace Operations, New York: UN.
[16] Walter, B. 1999. "Designing Transitions from Civil War: Demobilization, Democratization and Commitments to Peace." International Security24(1): 127-155.
[17] see 16
[19] Brzoska, M. 2006. "Introduction: Criteria for Evaluating Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Security Sector Reform In Peace Support Operations." International Peacekeeping 13(1): 1-13.
[20] McFate, S. 2010. "The Link Between DDR and SSR in Conflict-Affected Countries." Special Report 238. Washington: USIP.
[23] Bryden, A. and V. Scherrer. 2012. "The DDR-SSR Nexus: Concepts and Policies. Chapter 1. Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration and Security Sector Reform. DCAF.
[26] Muggah, R. 2008. "Emerging from the Shadow of War: A Critical Perspective on DDR and Weapons Reduction in the Post-Conflict Period." Contemporary Security Policy 94(379):239-252.
[27] Hanngi, H. 2004. "Conceptualizing Security Sector Reform and Reconstruction. Chapter 1." Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF): 1-11.


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The First of Two Abductions
Some stories take a little time to tell. Today's post will be the first of two about abductions in 1915 and 1916.
Residents of Blackfoot found out about the kidnapping of A.E. Empey on July 22, 1915, even though he was abducted on July 17. Empey had a sheep ranch in Long Valley, which is east of Wolverine Canyon in Bingham County, but his home was near Idaho Falls. Law enforcement officers in Bingham and Bonneville counties had requested the story be kept out of local papers for a time.
Alonzo Ernest Empey, who went by Ernest, was a wealthy sheepman, as were his father, E.S. Empey and his brother Harry. Ernest and Harry lived in Ammon at the time of the kidnapping. Their father lived in Garland, Utah.
Ernest, his 10-year-old son, Worth, and his son's friend were traveling near the Empey ranch with two wagonloads of poles when they were confronted by a man brandishing a pair of six-shooters. The man marched the three at gunpoint to a small basin nearby. He gave the boys a letter he had prepared and told them to deliver it to Ernest's father, E.S. Empey.
The boys took the letter back to the ranch house where they spent the night, waiting until Sunday morning to ride their horses into Ammon to deliver the letter and the news of the kidnapping.
The letter to E.S. Empey demanded $6,000 in ransom. The penalty for not complying with the terms of the ransom would be the death of Ernest. Shortly after the senior Empey got the phone call about the kidnapping, he left his Utah home and drove through the night to Ammon, no doubt pondering what to do.
The instructions for the ransom drop demanded that two men drive the distance of Long Valley on the road leading to Henry the following Saturday night in an open wagon. The man in front of the wagon would carry a lantern while the man in back was to have a sack of gold coins in the sum of $6,000. When they heard someone shout "Hey!" they were to drop the sack of coins in the middle of the road, turn around, and leave. If they attempted to follow, A.E. Empey would be killed. The letter said that explosives were planted strategically along the road to discourage anyone who might think of deviating from the instructions.
Meanwhile, the kidnapper had force-marched Empey to a hideout on Sheep Mountain, crashing through brush on the way and wading through streams to throw off bloodhounds. They arrived at midnight at a site about three miles from where the abduction took place. The kidnapper chained Ernest to a tree and secured the links together with a padlock.
E.S. Empey, working with the sheriff's offices of the two counties, put out the word in the local press that he would pay the ransom. In reality that was a ruse. They had kept things quiet in the newspapers so they could organize search parties to scour the mountains near the Empey ranch.
On Sheep Mountain the kidnapper had fallen into a routine of having Ernest chain himself up at night to a quaking aspen, but setting him free during the day to move around. One day they heard some twigs snapping and brush popping. The kidnapper thrust a gun in Ernest's face and told him to get down and be quiet. Huddled on the ground they saw two men struggling through the nearby undergrowth. Ernest recognized his brother Bert as one of the searchers.
By Friday, the day before the ransom drop was to take place, the kidnapper and Ernest had gotten quite chummy. The kidnapper said that he wanted to catch some sleep and would chain his captive to the tree. Ernest said, "Ah, don't do it. It is too lonesome sitting here on the end of a chain. Sit up and let's talk."
The kidnapper assented. They talked and talked until the man got drowsy. He lay on his bedding with a gun in his hand facing Empey. Eventually the kidnapper closed his eyes. Ernest got up, gathered a few sticks to make a fire, and moved around venturing a little further from camp picking up wood. After a few minutes of stirring around he determined that the kidnapper was truly asleep. He began a mad dash down the mountain, running smack into two aspens and a pine tree before determining that he had to run and watch where he was going.
The kidnapper woke up a few minutes after Ernest left the camp. He hiked to the nearest cabin searching for Empey. By the time he reached the cabin Empey had made his way to a sawmill and the word had gone out about the kidnapper. The residents at the cabin were ready for the man. When he was within a few steps of the yard the men of the Coumerilh cabin drew their guns and told the kidnapper to throw up his hands. He hesitated. Mrs. Coumerilh, standing in the door of the cabin, lost her patience and fired a shot at him, putting a hole through his hat.
The kidnapper turned out the be a sheepherder who had worked for Empey briefly five years before the abduction. Leonidas Dean had quit his job when Empey had threatened to shoot Dean's dog because it was nipping at sheep. It wasn't revenge Dean was after, though. It was simply money.
"I took this means of getting money as I thought I could do more good with it than those who had it," Dean explained. He said he had no intention of harming Empey if the ransom were not paid.
Dean was convicted of kidnaping and sentenced to from one to ten years in prison. While in the Idaho State Penitentiary in Boise, the man would emphatically deny that he had anything to do with the second Empey abduction, this one in 1916. But that's a story for tomorrow.
Alonzo Ernest Empey.
Convicted kidnapper Leonidas Dean.


Floppy Disk? Punched Cards?...Change Does Happen!
Some things on the Internet need to be updated. I know, some of you are saying that people who live in glass houses should not throw stones!
In lieu of updates, some websites just go away, even if once useful. An example is Roy Williams' Powers of Ten website, once housed at CalTech. Don't search; it is no longer on-line, and at best you can find cached copies.
But, what made his website useful? Below is the information listed around the year 2000. Some of the comparison-items need to be updated, plus some new bigger numbers have appeared on today's scene. Anyone want to take this task on?


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Woman who was caught having an affair with stepson by her husband is now married to him and expecting a baby
Jan 17, 2021 Hasan
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Cop is seen pinning K9 to the ground and repeatedly punching the helpless dog as it continues yelping in pain
A retired cop who was a K9 handler for 20 years and trained police dogs for 15 law enforcement agencies clarified that this was no way to treat or train…
"We hit the jackpot" – Mom says she fell pregnant with third baby while already pregnant with twins
A woman says she fell pregnant while already carrying twins in a rare occurence said to affect less than 1 per cent of women. The mom-to-be from the U.S. revealed…
Top 5 reasons why your cat loves you
Jan 5, 2021 Hasan
Cats are extremely famous for their behavioral changes and most people call them rude too. But they develop love with the people they live with. Although their feelings and love…
Man wants to get his dog life-saving cancer surgery — but his girlfriend doesn't want him spending the money
Dogs are so loving and loyal to us, and it's important for people to be loyal to them in return. Many pet owners would do anything for their pets. However,…
Couple dies from COVID-19 holding hands after 61 years of marriage
Dec 23, 2020 Hasan
COATS, N.C. – Brian Pope, 57, said his parents were so inseparable it wasn't surprising they died holding hands in the hospital after suffering from COVID-19. "They never went to bed mad…
US soldier shoots dead heavily pregnant wife and dies by suicide in front of 3-year-old daughter
A US soldier shot his pregnant wife and then turned the gun on himself in front of the couple's three-year-old daughter, as per tragic reports. Staff Sergeant Keith Lewis, 31, is said to…
Student who worked as garbage collector to support family accepted into Harvard Law School – congrats
Rehan Staton was raised by his father who had to work three jobs to support him and his brother. He said his mother left the family home in Bowie, Maryland,…
8-year-old boy spends birthday handing out pizza to homeless people living in "tent city"
Dec 7, 2020 Hasan
As children, birthdays are usually a time for us to relax and spend a day doing precisely what we want. For some, that means going to the movies and getting to…
Mom gives birth to healthy baby boy, but dies of COVID-19 before she can hold him
A family is mourning the loss of a 33-year-old Detroit mother who died of COVID-19 just after giving birth to a healthy baby boy. As per tragic reports, 33-year-old Erika Becerra was…