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Wolf Krötke (* 5. Oktober 1938 in Berlinchen/Neumark) ist ein deutscher evangelischer Theologe.

Leben und Wirken
Nach dem Abitur am Philanthropinum Dessau begann Krötke 1957 sein Studium der Theologie an der Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig. 1958/59 war er politischer Häftling in  der Justizvollzugsanstalt Waldheim / Sachsen wegen "Hetze und staatsgefährdender Propaganda und Herstellung und Verbreitung von Hetzschriften". Anschließend setzte er sein Studium am Katechetischen Oberseminar in Naumburg (Saale) und am Sprachenkonvikt Berlin fort. 1967 promovierte er über Karl Barths Lehre vom Nichtigen und von der Sünde. 1967 war er Gemeindepfarrer in Görschen/Krs. Naumburg (Saale). Ab 1970 war Wolf Krötke Studentenpfarrer in Halle (Saale) im Jenastift in der Rathausstraße und ab 1973 Dozent des kirchlichen Lehramts am Sprachenkonvikt in Berlin.
1976 erhielt er die Ehrendoktorwürde der Universität Tübingen. 1990 wurde ihm der Karl-Barth-Preis der Evangelischen Kirche der Union verliehen. Von 1991 bis zu seiner Pensionierung 2004 lehrte Wolf Krötke als Professor für systematische Theologie an der Theologischen Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Für seine wissenschaftlichen Leistungen erhielt er zahlreiche Ehrungen.

Mitgliedschaften
 Europäische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste
 Theologischer Ausschuss der Union Evangelischer Kirchen
 Vorstand der Internationalen Bonhoeffer-Gesellschaft
 Karl-Barth-Stiftungsrat
 Vorsitzender des Fördervereins für das Theologische Konvikt Berlin
 Mitherausgeber der Wochenzeitung Die Kirche

Schriften
als Autor
 Das Problem "Gesetz und Evangelium" bei W. Elert und P. Althaus (= Theologische Studien. Band 83). EZV-Verlag, Zürich 1965, .
 Sünde und Nichtiges bei Karl Barth (= Neukirchener Beiträge zur systematischen Theologie. Band 3). 2. Auflage. Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1983, ISBN 3-7887-0702-X (Nachdr. der Ausg. Berlin 1971).
 Im Blickpunkt. Der geschichtliche Gott. Theologische Informationen für Nichttheologen. 2. Auflage. Hrsg. von Johannes Adler, Christoph Demke, Uwe Dittmer, Brigitte Grell, Jürgen Henkys und F. Winter. Evangelische VA, Berlin 1978, .
 Der Mensch und die Religion nach Karl Barth (= Theologische Studien Band 125). Theologischer Verlag, Zürich 1981, ISBN 3-290-17125-6.
 Gottes Kommen und menschliches Verhalten. Aufsätze und Vorträge zum Problem des theologischen Verständnisses von "Religion" und "Religionslosigkeit" (= Arbeiten zur Theologie. Band 69). Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-7668-0728-5.
 Die Universalität des offenbaren Gottes. Gesammelte Aufsätze (= Beiträge zur evangelischen Theologie. Band 94). Verlag Kaiser, München 1985, ISBN 3-459-01592-6.
 Bekennen – Verkündigen – Leben. Barmer Theologische Erklärung und Gemeindepraxis (= Arbeiten zur Theologie. Band 70). Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-7668-0739-0.
 Beten heute (= Evangelium konkret). Kösel-Verlag, München 1987, ISBN 3-466-25130-3.
  (= Éntrée libre. Band 15). Nachwort von Eberhard Jüngel. Übersetzung von Sylvie Le Grand und Sylvain Fattebert. Éditions labor et fides, Genf 1991, ISBN 2-8309-0634-9 (74 S.).
 Was ist "wirklich"? Der notwendige Beitrag der Theologie zum Wirklichkeitsverständnis unserer Zeit. Antrittsvorlesung, 1. Februar 1995, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Theologische Fakultät, Seminar für Systematische Theologie (= Öffentliche Vorlesungen der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Heft 79). Hrsg. vom Präsidenten der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin 1996, .
 Gottes Klarheiten. Eine Neuinterpretation der Lehre von den "Eigenschaften Gottes". Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-16-147582-8.
 Erschaffen und erforscht. Mensch und Universum in Theologie und Naturwissenschaft. Wichern-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-88981-138-8.
 Sprachräume für Gott, Lebensräume für Menschen. Predigten. Evangelische VA, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-374-02593-0.
 Barmen, Barth, Bonhoeffer. Beiträge zu einer zeitgemäßen christozentrischen Theologie (= Unio & Confessio. Band 26). Luther-Verlag, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-7858-0564-0; 2. Auflage 2014.
 Die Theologische Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 1945–2010. In: Geschichte der Universität Unter den Linden 1810–2010. Band 6: Selbstbehauptung einer Vision. Hrsg. von Heinz-Elmar Tenorth in Zusammenarbeit mit Volker Hess und Dieter Hoffmann. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-05-004671-6, S. 47–90 (PDF; 830 kB).

als Herausgeber
 Die Kirche im Umbruch der Gesellschaft. Theologische Orientierungen im Übergang vom "real existierenden Sozialismus" zur demokratischen, pluralistischen Gesellschaft. Eberhard Jüngel zum 60. Geburtstag am 5. Dezember 1994. Mohr, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-16-146287-4.

Literatur
 Christopher R. Holmes: Revisiting the doctrine of the divine attributes. In dialogue with Karl Barth, Eberhard Jüngel and Wolf Krötke (= Issues in systematic theology. Band 15). Peter Lang Verlag, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-8204-8696-3.
 Heike Krötke (Hrsg.): Ein Wort, ein Glanz, ein Flug, ein Feuer… Theologen interpretieren Gedichte. Wolf Krötke zum 60. Geburtstag am 5. Oktober 1998. Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-7668-3604-8.
 Philip G. Ziegler: Doing theology when God is forgotten. The theological achievement of Wolf Krötke (= Issues in systematic theology. Band 14). Peter Lang Verlag, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-8204-7874-6.

Weblinks
 Website von Wolf Krötke

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Evangelischer Theologe (20. Jahrhundert)
Evangelischer Theologe (21. Jahrhundert)
Systematischer Theologe
Evangelischer Studentenpfarrer
Person (Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur)
Hochschullehrer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Ehrendoktor der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Mitglied der Europäischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste
Opfer der Diktatur in der DDR
Person des Christentums (DDR)
Deutscher
Geboren 1938
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'Woodmen and Fenmen: Blackfen's story' is a history of Blackfen from its beginnings as a hamlet in the woods, later surrounded by farmland, to its development as a residential and commercial district. Historical documents and reminiscences from past and present residents have been used to tell a story of enterprising and strong-willed individuals who have helped to build this community.
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Available to buy from Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre, Central Library, Bexleyheath and from Bexley Borough libraries, including Blackfen. Also available by post (UK and overseas) at the Bexley Borough Online Shop.
I am also the author of 'Boswell's Bexley: a photographer's view of the Borough 1890-1950'. This looks at the life and work of amateur photographer Arthur Boswell. He was taking photographs from 1890 to 1950 and they capture the transformation of the borough from a rural district to a bustling suburb of London, as well as people he came across and events that he witnessed. He had a complicated family life, but he was a great showman and presented his lantern slides to huge audiences.
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I set up on the bench, wine bottle, jug and glass, with window behind. As always I enjoyed doing this painting, lovely to put in a kitchen or dinning area.
Elvira Ingram is a well-established, award winning water-colourist residing in Perth Western Australia. Elvira's subjects are many, diverse and well executed. Her style is graceful and classy with clever composition. Elvira prides herself on the presentation of her artwork and as such, careful selection of quality frames complements every masterpiece. Elvira's passion for art shines through as her paintings all have heart and soul. Enjoy her my journey.


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The life of the Classics Department is student-centered, both in and out of the classroom. We prioritize and value student goals, needs, and contributions. Our numbers — of faculty, of majors, in classes — are the right size for students to have a very personalized academic and extracurricular experience. Students get to know each other and faculty personally through coursework and through departmental programming including book groups, guest lectures, "works in progress" talks, Eta Sigma Phi events, and parties and receptions.
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The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's Replacement of the Hulton Bridge near Oakmont, PA, involved the replacement of a two lane truss bridge with a new 1,633 LF four lane five span haunched girder bridge erected upstream of existing bridge on the Allegheny River. Abutments 1 and 2, as well as Pier 1, include H-Pile foundations. River Piers 2, 3 and 4 are founded on eight each, five-foot diameter caissons with Piers 2, 3 and 4 requiring the use of cofferdams. A portion of the main span was erected over the active channel by strand jacking a 1,200 ton, 283 foot long and 60 foot wide segment to final elevation – a first for both Brayman and PennDot.
A portion of the main span was erected over the active channel by strand jacking a 1,200 ton, 283 foot long and 60 foot wide segment to final elevation – a first for Brayman and PennDot.
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ZZ Top was formed by guitarist Billy Gibbons, who had won praise from no less than Jimi Hendrix for his guitar work with the Houston band, Moving Sidewalks. After the break-up of Moving Sidewalks, he recruited fellow Texans Dusty Hill and Frank Beard. Inspired by Muddy Waters, the Rolling Stones and Texas blues legend John Lee Hooker, they played a solid brand of blues-rock that won them a devoted local following.
While not their best-selling or most renowned album, ZZ Top's 1970 debut, ZZ TOP'S FIRST ALBUM, showed that the Texas trio had already nearly perfected their signature down n' dirty, blues-boogie-rock style. Like ZZ Top's other classic '70s albums, this one's an ass-kicker from beginning to end, especially on such standouts as the album-opening twang of "Shaking Your Tree," the vicious "Brown Sugar," the big rock of "Goin' Down to Mexico," and the fat blues groover "Bedroom Thang." Also of note is guitarist Billy Gibbons' supreme guitar tone and tasty playing; few other rock guitarists have sounded as confident on their debut as Gibbons does on ZZ TOP'S FIRST ALBUM.
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Home > CATALYSIS > Era of lynching… ripe time for community police
chukannabuifeISSUES August 12, 2021 CATALYSIS
NOBODY loves to see blood more than the mob. The desire of a lynch crowd is always one thing – to kill and disperse.
Often, if not all the time, the people on rampage get what they crave, and nobody takes the blame for the killing.
There is a growing tempo of lynching and public killing across Nigeria. It is, especially so in the Southern axis of the country. People now take the laws into their hands and hack down persons that fall foul of their system on any guise or excuse. Victims are fallen brutally on a plethora of reasons from theft to murder, to sexual perversion, dating of another person's partner, holding unpopular beliefs, voodoo practice, and witchcrafts or just being disgusting misfits.
We are now in a reign of street lords, self-styled puritans, audacious neighbourhood gangs and lords of the manor who exact their influence on societies through fearsome control of communities' vigilante groups and nativity youths' associations. These are mostly manifest in the South East and South West as recent events show.
With the nightmare that social security has become and the failure of relevant government organs to live up to the challenges that emerge day by day, the streets are evolving their survival strategy.
In the near absence or startled existence of police and law enforcement agencies, a de facto but not de jure form of law enforcement approach has emerged in various communities.
The 'new' approach is more direct, crude and brutal in combating crimes. Its languages are force-for-force; blood-for-blood; payback in same coin and waste the criminal – no long story.
Operating along with this is a trend of recording a flurry of gory, bloody and carcass-marked still and moving pictures of killings, muggings, beatings and tortures to accompany the brutalities.
Almost daily, pictures that hunt the viewer for as long as memory lasts come up in social media channels as WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Telegram among others, living the beholder with the thought that he or she had seen the worst image ever but the next day a more devastating visual would pop up. The day after, another would emerge.
Recently, one beheld pictures of two young men hacked down and set ablaze until they burnt to death in Lagos. They were caught stealing.
In Nkpor town of Idemili North Local Government Area, Anambra State, a group of three young men who were caught in a robbery operation were mugged and torched. There were similar incidents in neighbouring Ogidi and Obosi towns of the same local council.
In Awka, capital of Anambra State, two men who specialised in robbing people on motorcycles met their doom as they were nabbed by some vigilant natives and set alight until they were burnt to ashes. Onitsha had its show too.
A similar event happened in Oraukwu, in the state, last week. There was another in Ozubulu, capital of Ekwusigo Local Government Area.
In Owerri, capital of Imo State, there have been instances of similar development.
In Enugu, Ebonyi and Oyo States, there have been reports of similar lynching.
One common factor in them is that, it is the youth of the area that do the falling and torching. Reasons given for the actions appear germane even in extreme. In all, the alibi of the operators is that they are saving their communities by flushing away criminals. The redundancy or comatose state of police activity in the areas further give credence to the self-help bid of the overt and blood-thirsting men of the executing act.
Another trend that accompanies the incessant killing of the said criminals is the inundation of social media with images of torture and videoed trials of perceived bad eggs and criminals.
Usually, those 'trials' are one-sided and marked by intimidation as well as torture. Peopled with tied arms or held in severe conditions and beaten at intervals and pinned to spots with angry men around them as they are quizzed and filmed. Thereafter, the films are made to go viral even when in some of the pictures the objects are filmed in conditions not apt for public display.
Indeed we are in an era of mundane and horrible spectacles in pictorial sense but from cultural perspective, we are in a period of jungle justice, lawlessness and brigandage. Most worrisome about the time is the odious possibilities it points towards. What the vista show is that sad flops of law enforcement and security agencies have given room for killers and blood-thirsty sadists to go to their homelands and corner legit homeland bodies such as youths' associations and vigilantes. They now use them to do their biddings.
The danger possible is that the embittered and ill-purposed men and women may soon manipulate zealous mobs to attack and victimise their enemies soon – if they have not already.
Arguably, these would not have happened if the officers of the law have lived up to their responsibilities. In fact, in almost all the developments appraised, it appeared people in the host communities were more comfortable with the dastard acts of their so-called, crime-fighting boys than say the police or soldiers, which should give a food for thought for the corporate minders of the police or soldiers.
One recalls that the whole yell and crave for #EndSARS campaign of the October 2020 was about the dissolution of a particularly, unpopular and generally unwanted 'crime-fighting' arm of the police that embarked on extra-judicial killings and extortion of citizens.
Why then would a society that kicked vehemently against the police in such manner be seen to be in support or silent over a growing wave of indiscriminate extra-judicial killing and maiming in the name of citizens' self-assigned roles of protecting their communes? Could it be that the police work in the shadows with the youth?
However, a bigger question to ask is: what happens to the communities if the boys in the hood stop the lynching and the police still fail to do their job? Pondering such situation helps one to appreciate the magnitude of the mess we are in.
It therefore appears apt to conclude that something between the margins could solve the quagmire. This may be a clear primer for the fruition of the long-debated community policing system. Furthermore, there is a need for citizens to be made to know unacceptability of publicising very private or bad-taste photo images of others, irrespective of what cause that is being pursued. The courts and activists should help in arresting this debasing of the dignity of the human person by resolving to set examples that would deter others from taking that route.


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Les parcs nationaux du Mexique sont un ensemble de 67 aires protégées.  Ils sont administrés par la Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas.

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I love this stand for it's absurd structure and pink top. Some stands I know deep in my heart will never find a home or will require to many excuses on my behalf. I conjure up images of an abandoned kitten and suddenly I want to make it pride of place within my home.
The top and pom-pom/tassel detail makes me deliriously happy.
It has taught me the lessons on stability and striving for balance in my stand making.
With all it's oddities it has a special place in my home.


Looking for a place to keep all that loose change you've been saving up since you gave up on tipping the baristas at the Starbucks? Keep 'em all in this whimsical piggy bank that chows down on your coinage before it heads deep into its porty, porky belly.
As soon as you put a coin in its mouth, the little pink piggy gets down to business, making appropriately piggish snorting sounds as it gulps your money.
As an added bonus – if you flip him upside down, he kinda looks like Spiderpig.
Available from UK gadget shop GadgetShop, you'll need to save up £14.99 (appx. $30 USD) in coins before you have enough money to put one on your desk.


Welcome to the revamped Recent Reads! As previously mentioned here, I've switched to a new book review format to accommodate a change in blogging priorities. Recent Reads will now be a retrospective of the books read over the past month, and will consist of multiple, shorter reviews. Now that I'm reading faster that I used to, I'm hoping this will be a more "economical" way of sharing bookish thoughts. So, in addition to any comments on the individual books, let me know what you think of the new format in the Comments section at the end.
So, onto the books I read last month!
Someone had told me that once I'd read one book by New Zealand fantasy writer Juliet Marillier, I'd want to read them all. Dear heart, now I know why. Marillier's debut novel Daughter of the Forest is an exquisite tale of love, loyalty, and sacrifice that sweeps readers into medieval Ireland. Young Sorcha of Sevenwaters is the only one who can break the curse placed on her six older brothers by her father's new sorceress wife. Her task? To weave shirts for each of her brothers from the fibers of a nettle plant, and remain silent until she's done – a task that proves increasingly difficult when Sorcha is captured by the Britons.
Marillier's writing here is simple yet heartfelt, expressing Sorcha's tangled emotions with ease. The romance between Sorcha and Red is also masterfully handled; it's slow-building yet intense, without overpowering the plot. My only critique is that the long chapters (30+ pages on average) made reading this book feel like a marathon. Yet I felt for Sorcha so deeply and savored the undercurrents of Celtic paganism that set this book apart from other fantasy novels I've read. If you're a fan of Ursula K. Le Guin or enjoy a dash of folklore in your fantasy, you really should consider Daughter of the Forest. I'm already looking forward to the rest of the Sevenwaters Trilogy, as well as the rest of Marillier's repertoire.
With her debut novel Radiant, Karina Sumner-Smith introduced readers to a frightening beautiful world of magic-rich Towers, a crumbling Lower City, ghosts, nightwalkers, and an unlikely friendship between the living and the dead. Now, with Defiant, readers reunite with Xhea and her ghost-friend Shai as they're hiding in Edren's skyscraper so Xhea can heal from her injuries. Both girls know they're only biding their time. The Lower City's other skyscrapers envy Edren's newfound wealth from Shai's Radiant magic. One, however, seems more interested in Xhea's darker, more sinister powers – powers that she finally begins to understand after she's offered a chance for the privileged life she dared to dream of when homeless.
That latter thread is Defiant's greatest strength: Xhea, and therefore the reader, learns more about her rare abilities as well as her origins, all while confronting a haunting moral dilemma. Shai also comes into her own, as she develops a new understanding of being a Radiant and communicates with the living in Xhea's absence. Defiant plods along, however, and relies heavily on exposition and character thoughts to carry the story. This didn't surprise me; Sumner-Smith used the same approach for Radiant, but it's more noticeable with Defiant and not really to my tastes. I also had trouble connecting with some of the secondary characters this time. That being said, I was still fascinated by the build-up to all-out civil war, and with how Xhea and Shai come to terms with their roles in that battle. I can only guess how things will end in Towers Fall – but finding out the "how" is part of the fun of trilogies, right?
How about you? What books did you recently read? Have you read any of the titles mentioned above?
I've been trying to read a Juliet Marillier book for about a year now (Dreamer's Pool) but darn those review books! And I LOVED The Falconer! So much fun. I can't wait for the second book to come out.
I haven't read Dreamer's Pool yet, but after my first Marillier novel I definitely want to! She has such a beautiful, effortless, folkloric style. I hope you get to it soon!
I know what you mean about Ember in the Ashes. I ended up liking it, but if it weren't Elias carrying most of the story I would have given it a lower rating. Laia was such an insufferably annoying character, I couldn't make a connection to her either.
Yeah. There was just… a lot about that book that I didn't like. A very frustrating read.
I've heard a lot about Pierce Brown's series but haven't read it yet. What is Red Rising about?
I'm not great at describing whatbooks are about, but here goes. Basically it's a scifi set on Mars. People have colours, the two prominent ones are Reds and Golds. Gold are the ruling class, who oppress everyone else, including the Reds. Darrow, the main character becomes a kind of freedom fighter, and fights against the oppression. I've only read the beginning at the moment, but I'm really enjoying it.
What a lovely idea about doing a monthly roundup:). I heartily endorse your enthusiasm for Juliet Marillier's wonderful series about Sorcha, based on the Grimm fairytale. I love her worldbuilding and strong sense of period, which really chimes with her protagonist. I've also read the Bridei Chronicles about the Picts, which have more or less disappeared from history, and I strongly recommend that, too… Have to say The Falconer sounds intriguing – I'll be interested to hear your take on it next month.
The Falconer was… pretty good. I think. I finished it on Saturday, and I'm… still recovering from the ending, if that makes sense(?).
Oh yes… I do find Marillier quite an emotional read, at times!
Sweet, I'll check that out now!


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Q: HTTP 405 Method Not Allowed ( rest framework ) i learn some django code with rest framework and i get a problem
i try from model but i'm getting an error :
HTTP 405 Method Not Allowed
"GET /create-room HTTP/1.1" 405 12243
someone help me .
i will write  view.py , serializer.py and (urls.py in my app)
my code :
view.py
from django.shortcuts import render
from rest_framework import generics, status
from .serializers import RoomSerializer, CreateRoomSerializer
from .models import Room
from rest_framework.views import APIView
from rest_framework.response import Response

# Create your views here.

class RoomView(generics.ListAPIView):
    queryset = Room.objects.all()
    serializer_class = RoomSerializer

class CreateRoomView(APIView):
    serializer_class = CreateRoomSerializer

    def post(self, request, format=None):
        if not self.request.session.exists(self.request.session.session_key):
            self.request.session.create()

        serializer = self.serializer_class(data=request.data)
        if serializer.is_valid():
            guest_can_pause = serializer.data.get('guest_can_pause')
            votes_to_skip = serializer.data.get('votes_to_skip')
            host = self.request.session.session_key
            queryset = Room.objects.filter(host=host)
            if queryset.exists():
                room = queryset[0]
                room.guest_can_pause = guest_can_pause
                room.votes_to_skip = votes_to_skip
                room.save(update_fields=['guest_can_pause', 'votes_to_skip'])
                return Response(RoomSerializer(room).data, status=status.HTTP_200_OK)
            else:
                room = Room(host=host, guest_can_pause=guest_can_pause,
                            votes_to_skip=votes_to_skip)
                room.save()
                return Response(RoomSerializer(room).data, status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)

        return Response({'Bad Request': 'Invalid data...'}, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)

serializer.py
from rest_framework import serializers
from .models import Room

class RoomSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = Room
        fields = ('id','code','host','geust_can_pause',
        'votes_to_skip','created_at')

class CreateRoomSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = Room
        fields = ('geust_can_pause', 'votes_to_skip')

api/urls.py
from django.urls import path
from .views import RoomView, CreateRoomView
urlpatterns = [
    path('room',RoomView.as_view()),
    path('create-room',CreateRoomView.as_view())
]

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Virginia Del. Kathy Tran (D.) posted a video Thursday morning defending her bill loosening regulations on third-trimester abortions, but now she's saying she misspoke when she talked about the bill.
Tran drew attention from pro-life figures and some news outlets for her comments about HB2491, a bill that would make critical changes to abortion restrictions in the state—comments she now disavows. Back on Tuesday she defended the bill in the Virginia Assembly saying abortions should be legal on the day the baby would be delivered, even when the mother is dilating, if her physical or mental health would be "impaired" by giving birth. But Thursday she told the Washington Post she had misspoken, mere hours after she took to Twitter to hit back at critics who blasted her comments and the bill she was defending.
As for how she could misspeak in such a drastic way, Tran said she wasn't "agile" enough in the face of difficult questions from her fellow delegates.
"I wish that I was quicker on my feet and I wish that I was able to be more agile in that moment," Tran told the Post in a telephone interview. "And I misspoke, and I really regret that."
During a hearing on the bill, she told a fellow lawmaker that her bill would allow babies to be aborted on the day of their delivery, something she is now saying is "infanticide." It was Virginia's Majority Leader Todd Gilbert (R.) who asked about the day of the birth.
"Where it's obvious that a woman is about to give birth, she has physical signs that she's about to give birth, would that still be a point at which she could request an abortion if she was so certified?" Gilbert asked Tuesday. "She's dilating."
At the time Tran said her bill would allow an abortion in that case; Thursday she backtracked about what she should have said.
"I should have said: 'Clearly, no because infanticide is not allowed in Virginia, and what would have happened in that moment would be a live birth,' " she told the Post.
"I want to be very clear about what's currently allowed in Virginia law," Tran said on her Twitter video. "Right now, women are allowed to access abortion in the later stages of pregnancy under certain conditions with the approval of medical doctors. I've done nothing to change that. What I have done is try to make sure that women are able to make these decisions and access these services in a timely manner."
Tran's bill makes it easier to get an abortion by drastically reducing the medical requirements to perform the operation. Instead of three doctors approving the operation, the bill says a patient would only need one, and it also strikes the requirement that continuing the pregnancy would "substantially and irremediably" impair a woman's health.
Pro-choice groups have dismissed critics of the bill and late-term abortion in general by saying it is only done in circumstances where the fetus is "non-viable." However, the liberal Guttmacher Institute has data contradicting that point, showing the majority of abortions after 20 weeks are made for reasons other than the woman's health.
Tran said there's nothing in her bill that should shock Virginia lawmakers, and she was "surprised" by questions other delegates asked about the implications of the law.
"I presented the bill this week and was really surprised by the line of questioning that I got," she said in her Twitter video Thursday. "This bill had been introduced in the General Assembly in previous years, and in fact, this session, was also introduced in our State Senate."
Her reasoning to back the bill is based on the personal experiences of women and a desire to end "unduly burdensome barriers" to abortion.
"I know women in my family, women in my district, and women across Virginia who have had to make the very personal decision as to whether or not they're going to have an abortion. That's why I introduced a bill to repeal the medically unnecessary and unduly burdensome barriers that Virginia women face when they are accessing this healthcare service in consultation with their doctor," she said.
Pro-choice activist groups have publicly backed Tran's efforts, including NARAL.
Gov. Ralph Northam (D.) came under fire Wednesday for his attempt to defend the bill after Tran's initial comments in the Virginia Assembly saying abortions should be legal when the mother is dilating. Northam mused about the circumstances in which babies are allowed to die after being born, prompting backlash he fought by saying his comments were taken out of context.
"Republicans in Virginia and across the country are trying to play politics with women's health, and that is exactly why these decisions belong between a woman and her physician, not legislators, most of whom are men," Northam's spokesman said.
In his original comments, he said women in difficult circumstances sometimes had to have abortions, and he said "a discussion would ensue" between doctors and the mother about what to do with certain babies after they are born.
"If a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother," Northam said Wednesday, alluding to the physician and mother discussing whether the born infant should live.
Some support for the bill in Virginia is melting away, as evidenced by Del. Dawn Adams (D.) saying she no longer supports the bill now that she's read what's in it.
Some pro-life members of Congress, such as Sens. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) and Ben Sasse (R., Neb.), blasted Northam when video of the interview went viral.
"What's shameful is that you're too cowardly to say point blank that it's wrong to leave babies to die after birth," Sasse told National Review. "You could have said that yesterday. But because you're terrified of an extremist pro-abortion lobby that now defends even infanticide, you're still ducking."
Updated 3:02: This post has been updated to include Tran's Thursday statement to the Washington Post saying she "misspoke" on Tuesday.
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APSPublicationsPlant Disease1998September
Leafroll Virus Is Common in Cultivated American Grapevines in Western New York
September 1998 , Volume 82 , Number 9
W. F. Wilcox , Z.-Y. Jiang , and D. Gonsalves , Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva 14456
http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS.1998.82.9.1062C
Accepted for publication 30 June 1998.
American grapevines (Vitis labrusca L. 'Niagara'; Vitis × labruscana L. H. Bailey 'Concord' and 'Catawba'; V. labrusca × V. riparia Michx. 'Elvira') from 24 vineyards in the New York portion of the Lake Erie production region (>13,000 ha cultivated) were tested to explore a possible relationship between virus infection and an unexplained fruit set malady in the district. One-year-old cane segments were collected 4 to 6 weeks before budbreak from 65 individual vines, which previously had been identified as malady positive or negative. Preparations from bark scrapings were tested for the presence of double-stranded (ds) RNA and for fan leaf degeneration virus, tobacco streak virus, and grapevine leafroll associated closterovirus-3 (GLRaV-3) by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Mechanical transmission of other potential viruses to Chenopodium quinoa was attempted with sap extracted from young shoots forced from intact segments of sampled canes. GLRaV-3 was detected in 17 (26%) of the sampled vines from eight (33%) of the vineyards, but there was no apparent relationship between infected vines and the fruit set malady. Vines of all four cultivars were infected. dsRNA was detected in all 17 samples positive for GLRaV-3 plus four additional samples. No other viruses were detected. Near harvest, nine vines (from two vineyards) previously testing positive for GLRaV-3 were examined and retested; all nine tested positive again, although none showed any overt symptoms of viral infection. This is believed to be the first report of GLRaV-3 from American grape vineyards in New York. The source of these infections is unknown: all vines were self rooted, the individual vineyards had been planted independently at different times, and V. vinifera and its hybrids are rare in the district. Wild grapevines (primarily V. riparia) are abundant in the region, although it has been reported that leafroll disease does not occur naturally in wild North American grapes (1). Nevertheless, our results indicate that cultivated American grapevines can be common reservoirs of GLRaV-3, and furthermore suggest the need to reassess the possibility that wild grapes also may serve as reservoirs of the virus. Trials are currently underway to determine possible effects of GLRaV-3 on cv. Concord, the most widely planted variety in the region.
Reference: (1) A. C. Goheen. 1988. Leafroll. Page 52 in: Compendium of Grape Diseases. R. C. Pearson and A. C. Goheen, eds. American Phytopathological Society, St. Paul, MN.


Richard Pietruska the famous sculptor has created an amazing piece of sculpture that is sure to delight car enthusiasts. He has sculpted the most visually stunning version of the Ferrari 250 GTO. His sculpture looks so realistic and lively that one would be tempted to drive off. Of course, we know that is not really possible. Pietruska who teaches transportation and product design at the Art Center College of Design in California has flawlessly captured the beauty of the Ferrari 250 GTO. Working with materials like fiberglass, bronze, and painted finishes he is able to honor the notoriously famous 1960s Ferrari 250 GTO.
His one-of-a-kind Ferrari sculpture will be on display at the annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance on August 21st.


The deluge of monthend data releases continued on Thursday, but the dollar hasn't reacted much, with no net change against the yen, yuan and kiwi, upticks of 0.1% versus the euro, Swissie and loonie, and gains of 0.2% relative to sterling and 0.4% vis-a-vis the Australian dollar.
Share prices are mostly lower, but a 1.2% advance in China's market is an exception. Stocks are down 1.4% in Taiwan, 0.7% in India and France, 1.8% in Spain, 1.3% in Italy, 0.9% in Germany and 0.2% in Japan and Indonesia.
Ten-year British gilt and Japanese JGB yields firmed a basis point, while the 10-year German bund is steady.
Oil and gold are under the thresholds of $100 a barrel and $1,300 per ounce, respectively. WTI fell 0.8% to $99.49. Comex gold slid 0.1% to $1,296.
Euro area consumer price inflation ticked down 0.1 percentage point to a four-year low of 0.4% in July according to preliminary estimates. That's only a fourth as much as a 1.6% increase in the prior year to July 2013. Energy posted a 1.0% on-year drop compared to +0.1% in June and +1.6% in July 2013. Food price inflation swung from 3.5% in July 2013 to negative 0.3% in July 2014. Core inflation of 0.8% was unchanged from June's level and down just 0.3 percentage points from July 2013.
Euro area unemployment slid to 11.5% in June from 11.6% in May and 12.0% in June 2013.
German retail sales volume jumped 1.3% in June following three consecutive month-on-month declines. Sales still slipped 0.3% on quarter in 2Q and were just 0.4% higher in June than a year before.
The German jobless rate was at 6.7% for a fifth straight month in July. The number of unemployed workers fell 12K, more than twice expectations, and job vacancies rose for a second straight time. Employment grew 0.9% between 2Q13 and 2Q14.
French consumer spending, up 0.9% on month and 1.8% on year in June, outperformed expectations. Producer prices in France were unchanged on month after posting drops in each of the first five months of the year. On-year PPI inflation was the highest in 15 months, albeit just +0.5%.
Italian CPI inflation eased to 0.1% in June from 0.3% the month before. Producer prices dropped 1.6% on year, after a 1.4% decline in the year to May. Italian unemployment slid to 12.3% from 12.6% in May.
British consumer confidence fell three points to a minus 2 reading in July. The Nationwide U.K. house price index exhibited decelerating upward pressure, edging up only 0.1% on month in July and gaining 10.6% on year versus market expectations of 11.3%.
Greek retail sales volume declined by 8.5% on year and 3.8% on month in May. Cypriot and Hungarian producer prices fell by 3.3% and 0.6% in the year to June.
Spain's current account deficit in May was 63.5% smaller than the April shortfall.
S&P declared Argentina in default for the second time since 2001, as debt talks collapsed.
Japanese labor cash earnings grew 0.4% on year in June after a 0.6% rise in May. It's good to see positive growth in this measure of wages, but the magnitude remains paltry. Japanese motor vehicle production climbed 6.6% on year in June, a bit more than in May. A 9.5% on-year drop in housing starts was the fourth such decline in a row though less than a fall of 15% in the year to May. Construction orders advanced 9.3%, in contrast, marking their third on-year rise in a row.
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas increased the Filipino central bank borrowing and lending rates by 25 basis points a piece to 3.75% and 5.75% in a preemptive move to ensure anchored inflation expectations. Like Malaysia earlier in July, this was the first tightening since May 2011.
Australian building permits fell 5.0% in June after a 9.9% advance the month before. Aussie M3 money growth accelerated to 7.0% on year in June from 6.5% in May. Aussie import prices fell 3% last quarter, but export prices slumped by a steeper 7.9%. New Zealand M3 money growth edged up to 5.4% in June from 5.2% in May.
Hong Kong retail sales recorded 12-month declines in June of 7.5% in volume and 6.9% in value. Real GDP in Taiwan accelerated more than anticipated to an on-year pace of 3.8% in the second quarter from 2.8% in 1Q.
Turkish consumer confidence edged up to 73.9% in May from 73.7% the month before. South African producer prices rose 8.1% in the year to June, less than May's 8.7% pace but well above the very low levels reported elsewhere today.
Scheduled U.S. data to be released today include the employment cost index, weekly jobless insurance claims, and the Chicago and Milwaukee purchasing manager indices. Canada will be reporting monthly GDP, and the Czech National Bank announces its latest decision on monetary policy.
Copyright 2014, Larry Greenberg. All rights reserved. No secondary distribution without express permission.
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Callosciurus honkhoaiensis — вид мишоподібних ссавців родини вивіркових (Sciuridae). Описаний у 2018 році.

Поширення
Ендемік В'єтнаму. Поширений лише на острові Гон Хоай на крайньому півдні країни.

Опис
Найближчим родичем є Callosciurus caniceps. Від нього С. honkhoaiensis відрізняється меншими розмірами.

Примітки

Вивіркові
Ссавці В'єтнаму
Тварини, описані 2018


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Q: Google search with textView from a button press in iOS I am customizing an open source QR Reader to take the text from a TextView and either do a Google search or open the text in a browser. The customer is adamant about using Google search only.
I have two buttons. "Google" and "Web". The code indicates how they work.
I was thinking of appending "http//www.google.com/search='" with "resultText.text'"
But I don't know the correct format on how to do that with a google search.
The code I have to do this thus far is:
- (IBAction)openBrowser :(id)sender
{
    if ([[sender currentTitle] isEqualToString:@"Google"]) {

        NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:resultText.text];
        [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:url];

}
    else if([[sender currentTitle] isEqualToString:@"Web"]){
        NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:resultText.text];
        [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:url];
    }
}

I tried googling this, but as you can imagine the results were nothing close to what I was looking for. I kept getting Google/Apple search bar headlines from the recent news.
Cheers!

A: I found the answer to my own question after a more extensive search.
http://www.our-picks.com/archives/2007/01/30/google-search-urls-revealed-or-how-to-create-your-own-search-url/
Here is the code I added in:
if ([[sender currentTitle] isEqualToString:@"Google"]) {
NSMutableString *googleUrl = [[NSMutableString alloc] initWithString:@"http//www.google.com/search?q="];
[googleUrl appendString:resultText.text];

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:googleUrl];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:url];

}


Masterclass with Gisèle Vienne and Anja Röttgerkamp, organised by Dansalliansen. More info on Dansallianens homepage.
This masterclass will provide an opportunity to approach the repertoire of the choreographer and director, and discover her work from the materials that will be the basis of her new creation for ten dancers. Developed from the reflections of Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss on the sacrifice, and Georges Bataille on ritual and art, this project will question the need for violence in our civilized society, and the possible locations of its expression. The play revolve very dynamic stillness, the living picture, the stopped movement, the split movement and its fluid development and even precipitate.
Application deadline is 31 January: www.dansalliansen.se.
Gisèle Vienne's piece "I apologize" will be presented at MDT later the same week – read more here.
Anja Röttgerkamp was born in Germany in 1969. She lives in Brussels, Belgium. She performed for several choreographers in Germany. She worked with L'Esquisse, Raffaella Giordano, Marco Berrettini (Sorry, Do The Tour!, New Movements for Old Bodies, No paraderan), Gisèle Vienne : I Apologize (2004), Une belle enfant blonde / A young beautiful blond girl (2005), Kindertotenlieder (2007), Showroomdummies (rewriting, 2009), The Pyre (2013), Louise Vannest and Ayelen Parolin in Brussels. She works also as therapist and does her own works.


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"As the Administration notes, approximately 8 percent of the bulk drugs imported into the U.S. are counterfeit, unapproved, or substandard, and 10 percent of global pharmaceutical commerce, or $21 billion, involves counterfeit drugs. In 2008, 34 million counterfeit drugs were seized by European Union officials in just two months.
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"The Partnership for Safe Medicines commends the efforts of the Administration to include online pharmacies in IPEC's latest plan, as well as tactical approaches like the establishment of a Counterfeit Pharmaceutical Interagency Committee and increased enforcement activities on the part of government officials. Collaboration with IPEC to coordinate and implement proposed policies is not only wanted but needed. We look forward to stepping to the plate to do our part to change this dangerous counterfeit culture."
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In the case of an emergency situation where evacuation is required, evacuation is your only responsibility. This applies to all residents -- students, guests, and faculty/staff who live and work in Housing & Residence Life-owned properties.
All residents must remain calm, move quickly (without running), and keep out of the way of emergency personnel and equipment. When exiting a building and proceeding to the designated assembly area, remain at least 20 feet away from the building walls and overhangs.
Housing & Residence Life is responsible for reviewing designated evacuation routes and assembly points with residents at the start of each semester. Students should be aware of all alternative routes in the event the primary routes are blocked.
Remain low to the ground. Crawl if necessary.
Place a cloth over your mouth/nose to serve as a filter. A wet cloth is best.
Place clothing and/or towels around your doors to block smoke from entering your room. Wet clothing or towels are best.
Use your phone to inform the fire department of your location. If your phone is not working, signal for help from a window. Use a towel, clothing, sign, etc. to help alert emergency personnel to your location.
In some situations (flood, fire, etc.) it may take some time before buildings are ready to be re-occupied. After the initial evacuation and assembly, you may be asked to move to a temporary indoor location to await further communications. You should be aware of your designated post-evacuation recovery location so you can join the group at this location if you are away from the building when the initial evacuation occurs.
Exit the building using the most direct and appropriate route. Always use stairs to evacuate the building. Do not use elevators.
Assemble in the front of Ern Commons.
Assemble in the grassy area between Shannon & Tuttle-Dunnington.
Assemble in the grassy area between Gibbons & Woody.
Assemble in the Gooch quad.
Always use the stairs to evacuate the building. Do not use the elevator for a fire escape.
Apartments 101, 102, 103, and 107 exit by the front door.
Apartments 104, 105, and 106 exit by the back stairway.
Apartments 01, 02, 03, and 08 on each floor exit by the front door.
Apartments 04, 05, 06, and 07 on each floor exit by the back stairway and back door.
Residents using the front door and front stairway should move to the opposite end of the parking lot, away from the building.
Residents using the back stairway should exit though the back door and to the end of the lot, toward the railroad.
All residents should assemble in the parking lot in front of Bice.
Residents should exit using the fastest and safest available route.
Assemble at the Hume Fountain.
Assemble by the Monroe Hill outdoor elevator.
Assemble on the grass area between the parking lot and Massie Road.
All residents should exit the building and locate to the nearest open area that is at least 100 feet from the impacted building(s).
Residents should exit their suites using the most direct and appropriate route.
Assemble in the Gooch/Dillard quad.
Assemble in the parking lot to the west of the building.
Assemble in the parking lot to the north of the building.
Assemble in the entrance roadway south of the building.
Residents should exit using the fastest and safest available path.
Assemble on the grass area away from the building.
Assemble at the front entrance of Runk Hall.
Residents should exit the East and West buildings by the nearest available exit. Assemble in the back Alumni Hall parking lot.
Residents should exit the buildings using the safest and most direct exit. All residents should assemble in the Alumni Hall front parking lot.
Residents should exit using the fastest and safest available path. Assemble in upper level parking lot.
Residents should exit their apartment using the most direct and safest available route. Assemble on Lambeth Field.
Residents should exit using the most direct and safest available route.
Cross Monroe Lane and assemble in the area adjacent to the Elson Student Health Center.
Residents should exit their rooms and use the safest available route to proceed to the assembly location in front of the University Chapel.
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Late-night and weekend drivers who use SR 167 and northbound I-405 in Renton near the I-405/SR 167 interchange should prepare for weekend lane closures this weekend, WSDOT announced.
Starting tonight – Friday, July 27 – construction crews working for the Washington State Department of Transportation plan to close multiple lanes nightly on SR 167 and northbound I-405. During these closures, crews will remove concrete forms on I-405 and continue electrical work on SR 167. This work is necessary for crews to continue building the new flyover ramp for the I-405/SR 167 Interchange Direct Connector Project.
Friday, July 27, to the morning of Sunday, July 29 – Two lanes of northbound SR 167 between South 180th Street and I-405 will be closed nightly from 11 p.m. to 4:30 a.m.
Friday, July 27, to the morning of Monday, July 30 – One lane of southbound SR 167 between I-405 and South 212th Street will be closed from 8 p.m. on Friday to 4:30 a.m. on Monday.
Friday, July 27, to the morning of Monday, July 30 – Three lanes of northbound I-405 between SR 167 and Talbot Road South will be closed nightly from midnight to 6:45 a.m.
Friday, July 27, to the morning of Monday, July 30 – Rolling slowdowns are scheduled on northbound I-405 between SR 167 and Talbot Road South nightly from midnight to 4 a.m.
Drivers should also prepare for weekend work in this area for the next few weeks.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends his annual special televised question and answer session at the World Trade Centre in Moscow, Russia, June 30, 2021
Photo by Alexei Nikolsky/Reuters
by Terrence Kelly, Timothy M. Bonds, Michael Johnson
Russian President Putin may believe the time is right to invade Ukraine if NATO refuses to meet his demands. Reports indicate that he sees the Biden administration as weak after the pullout from Afghanistan, and in 2014, Russia felt sufficiently confident of success to annex Crimea and impose unappealing terms (PDF) on Ukraine. Massing 170,000 troops on Ukraine's border is excessive for a diplomatic signal and represents an offensive threat. How can he be deterred?
Mr. Putin may be looking for an opportunity to re-establish Russia's sphere of influence. Mr. Putin views the breakup of the USSR as a catastrophe of historic proportions. In Putin's eyes, retaking Ukraine would also cement his legacy as a strong president who reversed Russia's decline and restored its geopolitical standing. None of the current or proposed NATO ground forces in Europe pose a credible threat to Russia.
Positions on what the United States and its European allies should do range from encouraging Ukraine to quickly implement unpalatable aspects of the Minsk Protocol, carefully "threading the needle" to signal commitment without causing provocation, and revitalizing efforts to arm Ukraine. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is reported to have said that, "Diplomacy is the only responsible way to resolve this potential crisis." To the extent that he means that a headlong rush to conflict with Russia is unwise, and that diplomacy during times of potential conflict includes the threat of military consequences, we agree.
If Russia were to invade Ukraine, install a friendly government, and establish a buffer state, this would alter the strategic balance in Europe far beyond the annexation of Crimea.
However, if Russia were to invade Ukraine, install a friendly government, and establish a buffer state, this would alter the strategic balance in Europe far beyond the annexation of Crimea. With its southern front secure and Belarus firmly within Russia's sphere, Russian forces could present a direct threat to Poland and isolate the Baltic states. This could potentially even be the start of a new cold war. It could also substantially detract from the United States' ability to manage competition with China.
In keeping with the need for specificity when developing concepts for deterrence, NATO could adopt a dual-track strategy to preserve Ukraine's independent status and deter a new war in Europe. As Henry Kissinger suggested in 2014, the United States could reject extending NATO membership but insist Ukraine be free to govern itself without coercion. NATO and the EU could clearly specify the economic costs of Russian aggression, including a strategy to eliminate European dependence on Russian natural gas. The United States could state its intention to provide weapons to Ukraine and support long-term resistance to Russian occupation if necessary.
Renewed Russian aggression could also pose grave dangers for Europe, not just Ukraine. Given Russian preparations to coerce or invade Ukraine and concerns it may do the same in the Baltics, NATO still has time to recognize the Russian threat, agree to a new defense strategy, reverse the decline in defense budgets, develop a general defense plan and the forces to implement it, restore training and readiness, and improve its posture or risk a rapid fait accompli in Poland and the Baltic States.
The United States can lead the alliance but cannot meet this challenge without its European allies. The 30-30-30-30 Plan championed by then-Secretary Mattis and agreed by NATO may no longer be sufficient. For its part, the U.S. Army could deploy a robust V Corps headquarters capable of commanding a joint task force and an armored division to Poland along with fires and logistics support. Likewise, Britain, France, and Germany could raise, equip, and prepare more forces than one brigade each in 30 days.
The worst outcome for Putin short of war would be a revitalized NATO, led by capable U.S. forces on or near Russia's borders.
Russia is opportunistic but lacks the power of the Soviet Union. Putin does not want to galvanize NATO, sparking a cold war that will add significant pressure to the Russian economy. The worst outcome for Putin short of war would be a revitalized NATO, led by capable U.S. forces on or near Russia's borders. Action now to make clear that this will happen if he does not change course could constitute tailored deterrence. Some capability improvements may be needed regardless of future Russian actions (e.g., deploying a capable Corps headquarter to Poland, revitalizing European NATO defense budgets and capabilities) whereas other steps could be contingent on Russian behavior (e.g., moving heavy U.S. ground forces and additional air assets to Europe).
After having gone years without a significant threat from Russia, NATO leaders and legislatures now may be recognizing that the security environment has changed and that the more comfortable political status quo is gone. But if NATO were to decide to stand firmly together, conflict in Europe may be deterred and strategic stability restored.
Terrence Kelly is vice president and director of the RAND Homeland Security Research Division. Timothy M. Bonds is a senior fellow and Michael Johnson is a defense research analyst at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation.
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Good Sports, FOX Sports Supports and FOX Sports "Magnify" Series Team up to Bring Sports Equipment to Chicago Youth
21st Century Fox Will Match Every Donation to Good Sports Made Through www.goodsports.org/shotinthedark, Dollar-for-Dollar, Up to $25,000
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LOS ANGELES, March 16, 2018 /3BL Media/ - Good Sports has teamed up with FOX Sports Supports and FOX Sports Films' MAGNIFY documentary "Shot in the Dark," providing sports and fitness opportunities to the youth of Chicago. Supporters of the initiative can visit www.goodsports.org/shotinthedark to personally handpick sports equipment that will be directly donated by Good Sports to the youth programs in Chicago. In addition, all donations made through the "Shot in the Dark" webpage will be matched up to $25,000 by 21st Century Fox.
"In connection to these powerful, sports and community narratives, we're committed to meaningfully working, within our FOX Sports Supports organization and alongside others, to help neighborhoods and schools capitalize on the awareness that 'Magnify' brings to the stories," says Charlie Dixon, Executive Vice President, Content at FOX Sports.
"We are excited to kick off this partnership with FOX Sports. This is such a wonderful opportunity for the kids we serve," said Christy Keswick, Good Sports Chief Operating Officer. "Chicago is a key market for Good Sports and we are thrilled to be able to address the high need in the area through this new partnership. The match is going to be instrumental in getting a significant number of Chicago kids in the game."
"Shot in the Dark" is produced by Los Angeles Media Fund, executive produced by Dwyane Wade and Chance the Rapper and directed by Dustin Nakao-Haider for Bogie Films, and in association with ZZ Productions . The film follows Orr Academy's high school basketball team and its stars Tyquone Greer and Marquise Pryor as they aspire for greatness under inspirational head coach Lou Adams, facing systemic inequities that threaten to claim their future. Through incredible on and off-the-court challenges – from championship and collegiate aspirations to violence and incarceration -- they assess the daily voices and influences of teammates, friends and family on their next steps as young men.
Following its original February 24 airdate, "Shot in the Dark" is available via the FOX NOW app and video-on-demand. Re-airs are also scheduled on FS1 and various FOX Regional sports networks.
FOX Sports Supports has contributed millions of dollars to previous partners through the production of public service announcements, broadcast and cable air time, special event activations, verbal and special messages during FOX Sports programming and in-kind support, including monetary and gift donations. It has become the industry leader in raising awareness for worthwhile causes associated with youth, sports, education and military. In the last nine years, FOX Sports Supports has supported more than 40 charities, from tackling youth sports and environment issues to assisting military personnel and their families. Through its various media channels and on-site support, FOX Sports Supports has successfully helped generate millions of dollars in donations to these organizations. In addition, the PSAs have received tens of millions of dollars' worth of air time across all 21st Century Fox channels, helping to support causes such as the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Positive Coaching Alliance, Folds of Honor, Girls on the Run, National Alliance on Mental Illness and many more. For more information, visit FOXSportsSupports.com.
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About Good Sports
Good Sports gives all kids the lifelong benefits of sport and physical activity by providing equipment, apparel and footwear to those most in need. Since 2003, Good Sports has provided more than $26 million worth of equipment to more than 3,700 youth programs, impacting over FIVE MILLION kids. Good Sports has also been awarded a coveted 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, the nation's largest charity evaluator, for sound fiscal management, transparency and accountability; is a Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance accredited charity; and is listed on Social Impact Exchange's S&I 100, an index of top American nonprofits creating meaningful social impact. For more information on how you can support Good Sports, please visit www.goodsports.org
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On Wednesday November 28th an international group of 12 Greenpeace activists from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Finland, and Belgium gained access to the premises of the mining company Hornonitranske bane Prievidza (HBP), climbed the tower housing the pithead gear, and installed a several-metre-high banner with the motto "Stop the Coal Age". The activists intended to draw attention to the devastating impacts of the decades-long mining of low-quality lignite that pollutes air, water, and soil, threatens the health of people, and changes the climate of our planet. For this non-violent protest they were detained, accused of a crime, taken into custody, and held for seven days in Slovakia's Ilava prison, where people sentenced to life punishment are serving their sentences. Since the usual sanctions for similar activities have always been a small fine or a few hours of communal services, one can suspect that there are economic-political interests behind the case.
The decision to organize a direct non-violent protest came after several years of efforts to stop or limit the operation of the Novaky mine. The activists have negotiated with local mayors, collected and analysed samples of polluted water (where high concentrations of carcinogenic asbestos were found), and organized public pressure, but nothing has changed.
On the day of their protests the activists did not break in, they did not damage anything, and they gained admission to the premises through a public entrance and to the pithead gear via open-access stairs. Soon after the installation of the banner they were detained, placed in a detention cell, and interrogated. Two days later (on November 30th) they were accused of the crime of damaging and endangering the operation of a public facility, a crime that can be punished by up to five years in prison.
The Novaky mine is the property of a private company and there was no damage to it; in other similar cases this has been considered as no more than a misdemeanour. Moreover, the company was informed about the protest from the side of Greenpeace. Just before the protest, they informed the company representatives that the activity planned was non-violent and that there would be no blockade of the facility. Therefore the accusation itself was an unprecedented step, but it was followed by even more absurd and unfounded steps on the part of the district prosecutor's office. On Sunday December 2nd the district court in Prievidza refused a bail request and decided that the activists would have to remain in custody until the trial. They were transported to Ilava prison soon after that. According to the judge, the custody was necessary to prevent the activists from continuing with their activities. This was rebutted by the Greenpeace office, which emphasized that the activists have been cooperating with the investigators since the very beginning and that they clearly do not represent any threat.
The accused's attorneys immediately appealed against the court's decision and asked for the investigation of the case to be moved outside the region because of doubts about the impartiality of the law enforcement authorities.
The reaction of civic society was strong and immediate. Dozens of people already gathered in Prague and Brno for a protest against the false accusation on Saturday December 1st. This was followed by protests in Bratislava and internationally. These became stronger when it started to be clear that nobody would be getting home soon.
In the afternoon we are signing the last official papers before our transfer to custody. We do not mind that each of us must sign about a hundred pages of the file. Every minute we can spend together and listen to how people are chanting outside in our support is priceless to us. But then we have to say goodbye. We all hug each other and give each other our wishes to stay strong. Accompanied by the sounds of police sirens, we go down the road to Ilava prison and try to eat everything that people have sent us because all the food will be confiscated when we arrive there.
While the politicians were broadly silent in the Czech Republic, in Slovakia several of them, including the Prime Minister, Peter Pellegrini, spoke carefully in support of the activists. "It is really worth considering whether taking 12 young people into custody is the best step. I respect the rulings of the courts, but just as I felt the release of the apparent young Filipino murderer was absurd, I also did an intense double-take about this decision," the prime minister stated, saying that only people who are clearly dangerous and who are committing crimes should be taken into custody.
This case finally got its happy ending when on Tuesday December 4th the Slovakian attorney-general Juraj Čiznár ordered the release of the activists. He repeatedly stressed that no reasons for custody existed and that the activists were being held unjustly. Two weeks later it was followed by the dropping of the accusation of the crime of damaging and endangering the operation of a public facility. Nevertheless, the investigation is continuing and it will focus on whether a general threat was posed by the protest. "We believe that, similarly to the moment when everyone was improperly held in custody, the prosecutor's office will eventually come to the conclusion that only a misdemeanour was committed," concludes the director of Greenpeace Slovakia, Ivana Kohutkova.