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God's Word Vindicated Again! Musicality is Built In
We are a part of a marvelous, musical creation with musicality permeating the smallest of living organisms all the way up to the world's largest, from the tallest of earth's mountains to the flattest of fields, even to the farthest reaches of the universe.
Everything revolves around Jesus Christ. He is the center of, and even the maker of, the substance of our molecular structure, because this pleases the Father. Colossians 1:19:
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
When God says "all," it's ALL!
All things are held together by what physicists describe as "the strong force," without which all physical things would go *poof!*—just fall apart and disappear. God's children know this strong force that holds all things together as a person, even a living Word person (John 1:14, Revelation 19:13).
If man's vaunted scientists would take the time to really look, they would find that God's Word, the living Word of the Creator, is already there, thousands of years ahead of their "latest discoveries." Hebrews 1:1-3:
Everything in the universe is held together by the Word of His power. All things revolve around Jesus Christ—and this absolutely and most literally means ALL—because this pleases the Father.
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Without Jesus Christ, your life has no (as in zero) eternal value, but in Christ, your soul—just one soul—is worth infinitely more than the aggregate wealth of the earth and its universe.
In Jesus Christ, we are BORN AGAIN. We become sons and daughters of God: Born a very real second time, this time of the Spirit of God. Today can be the best day of your life, and as you walk in childlike faith, tomorrow will be better. In just a moment, I will invite you to follow me in a simple prompt. If you follow me, everything in your life changes today. Today, all of your sin and shame will be expunged from your record and cast as far as the east is from the west. Today, all of Satan's bondages will be broken—and it is certainly true: the bigger, the better. Today, your soul is in your hand. Everything will revolve around this decision. Today, two doors stand before you, Life and Death. Choose life and live. Here is the prompt I promised: Click onto Further with Jesus for childlike instructions and immediate entry into the Kingdom of God. NOW FOR TODAY'S SUBJECT.
GOD SAID, Isaiah 55:12:
For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
GOD SAID, Psalm 96:1:
O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
GOD SAid, Psalm 98:4-8:
4 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
5 Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.
6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.
7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
8 Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together
MAN SAID: The Bible should be banned from an enlightened society! Teaching children about God and Jesus Christ should be illegal and considered child abuse. Let's face it: the Book is hate speech.
Now THE RECORD: Welcome to GodSaidManSaid feature 1136 that will, for the 1136th time, certify the supernatural bonafides of the majority-text Holy Bible. All of these glorious features are archived here in text and streaming audio for the edification of the blood-bought and as a platform from which to fish for the lost souls of mankind. Every Thursday eve, God willing, they grow by one.
Thank you for visiting. May the glory of the Cross fill your life and your home with its magnificent Light.
Many will claim that, "if one is going to take the Bible at all, it shouldn't be literally." Others add to the doubt and confusion by asserting that the Bible is not inerrant. However, be it known unto you, saints, that the Bible IS to be taken literally (literal spiritually or literal physically), and it IS certainly inerrant, Holy Ghost truth.
We are a part of a marvelous, musical creation with musicality permeating the smallest of living organisms all the way up to the world's largest, from the tallest of earth's mountains to the flattest of fields, even to the farthest reaches of the universe. When these musical creation principles were laid out thousands of years ago in the Bible, contrarians asserted then and now that the statements were to be received metaphorically. But, metaphorically speaking, they were not.
Some of you know Brother Randy Estella, who is now in the presence of the Lord. On the earth, he served the Kingdom as a Holy Ghost concert pianist, evangelist, and minister of the Cross. On one occasion, while ministering at our country church, he taught us that we were musically created and central to life was our heartbeats. The heart says boomp-boomp, boomp-boomp, boomp-boomp, budda-bubba-de, boomp-boomp, boomp-boomp, and the music continues. The Word of God is the literal, inerrant truth. Creation is musical.
GodSaidManSaid has addressed the Biblical fact that all creation sings several times. Saints must remember that when science arrives at their "latest discovery," they find the children of God are patiently awaiting their arrival. A singing creation will be just one more glorious example.
Karen Bakker is a Rhodes Scholar of the University of Oxford, a professor at the University of British Columbia, and a former Annenberg Fellow at Stanford University; she published The Sounds of Life in which she certifies the literal perfection of God's Word, if inadvertently. Before we highlight information from Professor Bakker's book, several findings follow from the GodSaidManSaid feature, "Literal Interpretation Stands—All Creation Sings:"
How bizarre! The Bible records that all of creation has been designed to sing praises to its Creator. Bible-believing Christians are often berated for taking the Word of God literally. Does creation sing? Could this ancient record be once again vindicated?
The headline on ScienceMag.org reads, "Pitch-Perfect Frogs." A paragraph follows:
A concert of croaking male frogs is a fierce singing contest, and he who has the sexiest voice gets to mate the most. Now two ecologists working in Malaysia report on a tree frog that has taken this musical battle to a strategic extreme: It adjusts its pitch to match the resonance frequency of the hole it lives in, thus tipping the scales in its favor. [End of quote]
"Wired for Harmony" is the November 12, 2012, headline at ScienceMag.org. An excerpt follows:
Stop that noise! Many creatures, such as human babies, chimpanzees, and chicks, react negatively to dissonance—harsh, unstable, grating sounds. Since the days of the ancient Greeks, scientists have wondered why the ear prefers harmony. Now, scientists suggest that the reason may go deeper than an aversion to the way clashing noises abrade auditory nerves; instead, it may lie in the very structure of the ear and brain, which are designed to respond to the elegantly-spaced structure of a harmonious sound. [End of quote]
The following headlines were posted by Mother Nature Network:
♬ Toadfish can be tenors
♬ Mice sing at supersonic levels
♬ Mexican fire-tailed bats sing for love
♬ Antelope squirrels trill their songs
♬ Killer whales sing for their peers
♬ Pacific chorus frogs sing for soundtracks [End of quotes]
The headline at NationalGeographic.com reads, "Plants 'Listen' to the Good Vibes of Other Plants." A few excerpts from the May 9, 2013 feature follow:
Plants might be able to eavesdrop on their neighbors and use the sounds they "hear" to guide their own growth, according to a new study that suggests plants use acoustic signaling to communicate with one another.
"We have shown that plants can recognize when a good neighbor is growing next to them," said study co-author Monica Gagliano, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Western Australia.
"We are proposing that this communication may be based upon an acoustic exchange."
The findings, published this week in the journal BMC Ecology, suggest that plants can not only "smell" the chemicals and "see" the reflected light of their neighbors, they may also "listen" to the plants around them.
"Plants are more complex organisms than we've given them credit for," Gagliano said.
Gagliano thinks that learning the secrets of plant communication could have practical applications that could benefit humans. She imagines farmers using sound to encourage or discourage the growth of certain plants, negating the need for fertilizers or pesticides.
"Whether it would be economically viable," co-author Michael Renton said, "for a farmer to play music to get that little extra germination speed, I think we'll have to wait awhile for the answer to that one." [End of quotes]
All of creation sings—literally. Consider these paragraphs from the September 2016 issue of Acts and Facts:
Hearing is beautifully represented in the animal world. Experts say fin whales can hear the bleeps of other fin whales from more than 500 miles away. Some scientists even claim their hearing range is thousands of miles.
Humpback whales are famous for singing songs that can last up to 30 minutes. They sing in rhyme, and the songs can be heard by other male whales. It's passed along the water so that an entire ocean may have all the humpback whales singing the exact same song at the exact same time—a kind of great whale choir. [End of quote]
From the GodSaidManSaid feature "Music Power:"
Why is there this phenomenon of song and music? It transcends every nationality line and, for that matter, all of creation. It exists because it is part of the spiritual construction of all life and all of God's creation is designed to harmonize with it. Within music is found great benefit to all of life and God invests much instruction time in our owner's manual, the Holy Bible.
A relatively new psychological-medical area of training is making serious strides in the field of medicine, and it's called music therapy. Some of the following cited research will make its now recognized benefits abundantly clear. A marvelous thing to consider is that thousands of years before science knew the reason why, God in His perfect wisdom, the engineer and creator of all life, declared the importance of music in His Word—just another proof of the supernatural credibility of the Bible.
Music is now known to improve immune response. A subject on this website in the "GodSaidManSaid: The Record" category, titled "A Merry Heart Or a Broken Spirit," declares that when one is in a joyful, positive spirit, something that music can help induce, his bone marrow pumps out red and white blood cells profusely. Red blood cells carry food and oxygen to the body and white blood cells destroy disease. A joyful, positive spirit, that music can surely help to promote, enhances a strong immune system.
Mood is a reflection of the spirit dwelling in your earthen vessel (your body). The Bible teaches that music is a spiritual medium having the ability to change mood. Spirits are affected by music: whether the spirit of man, of angels, or devils. Songs of praise to God have the power of mood-changing life in them, because God inhabits the praise of His people (Psalms 22:3), and where the Spirit of God and His Light dwells, the spirit of darkness and its dark moods must flee. Note I Samuel 16:23:
And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
The music of the LORD has the power to alter spiritual composition. Also note that evil music has the opposite effect. For example, carnal musical concerts, especially those directed toward the 15 to 30- year-old age group, have major security concerns. Police are brought in to attempt to control the violence, alcohol, and illicit drugs. At a gospel concert you'll typically need police only to help direct traffic. Two different musics—two different spirits—two different moods—two different Gods: one big G-O-D and one little g-o-d. So music directly affects moods and science now confirms it. Energy Times magazine cited research published in two medical journals concerning mood. The journals stated that "People undergoing cardiac procedures enjoy improved mood and see drops in blood pressure and respiratory rates after listening to music. Also, neophyte music makers have shown improved immune responses." The list of the benefits of God's music is long indeed.
The power of music is created by God and all of creation responds to it. Put music therapy to work in your vehicle and home. Bless yourself and your home by playing and singing along with Godly music. Your spirit and your flesh will respond favorably. [End of quotes]
The headline of the September 2018 feature in Discover magazine reads, "Hearing Nemo," and the subhead reads, "How scientists discovered a symphony under the sea." A few excerpts follow:
Biologists have, for the most part, continued to focus on the sounds individual fish make and hear. Gradually, though, a new approach is emerging. More people are beginning to listen to the entire aquatic symphony.
These habitat soundscapes are subtly composed. Recent studies are revealing that, far from this being an impromptu free-for-all, fish don't simply yell and shout however and whenever they want: They fit their voices together like an orchestra of instruments in a melodic musical score. [End of quotes]
Yes, all creation sings, just like God said. [End of quotes]
Short paragraphs, sentences, and phrases from Dr. Bakker's book The Sounds of Life spotlight how today's science of bioacoustics reveals the marvels of God's singing creation. At first, the statements selected will certainly appear somewhat disjointed from the overall purpose of the doctor's narrative, but for the purpose of this feature, it will be apparent. The following statements were lifted from The Sounds of Life:
🎼 (Pg. 12)To pass the time while waiting for the ice to open, sailors kept themselves busy by hunting walrus and seals, gambling, and storytelling. Herbert Aldrich, a journalist, boat-hopped from the Eliza to the Hunter, the Balaena to the Thrasher, photographing the voyage on his Scovill detective cameras.
But mostly he fretted. Captain Kelley attempted to console him one night by telling tales of "singing" whales. At first, Aldrich assumed this was a joke aimed at him, a gullible outsider and the first writer to accompany the whaling fleet into the western Arctic. Then, one day, he too heard the whale music as the ships followed their prey.
🎼 (Pg. 16) Eventually, Navy researchers realized that these monstrous cries were the distinctive sounds of whales. Diving into the ocean, the whales were communicating with one another along the SOFAR channel, where their songs traveled unimpeded across hundreds and even thousands of miles. The whales had long ago perfected what the military had only just discovered.
🎼 (Pg. 18) Like humans, killer whales use sound to identify individuals, exchange information, and negotiate social relationships. Each pod has its own unique dialect of calls that calves learn from their mothers over several years, one of the most complex cultural communication repertoires in the animal world. As pod members stay together their entire lives, their dialects form part of their identity and indicate a strong cultural bond; killer whales with different dialects rarely intermingle for long. These dialects are so distinct that scientists (and even trained amateurs) can differentiate between pods simply by listening. Some whale calls are also very loud: sperm whales, the loudest animal in the world, can vocalize at over 200 decibels, louder than a rocket launch or a jet engine at takeoff (and loud enough to burst your eardrums if you were swimming nearby).
🎼 (Pg. 19)The third type of sound made by some cetaceans is the long, low, rhythmic pattern of sounds produced by baleen whales (Mysticeti), popularly referred to as whale song. The songs, which are thought to be sung exclusively by males and may be related to mating, are some of the most complex sonic displays in the animal kingdom. Some whales sing in the infrasound range, while others sing at frequencies that are audible to humans. Humpback whale songs are the best studied, although other species also sing distinct songs.
🎼 (Pg. 21)Soon after meeting scientists Roger and Katy Payne, something moved Navy engineer Frank Watlington to show them his secret recordings of whale songs. Listening to the reels playing in the engine room of Watlington's boat, Katy later recounted that they "had never heard anything like it. Tears flowed from our cheeks. We were just completely transfixed and amazed because the sounds are so beautiful, so powerful—so variable. They were, as we learned later, the sounds of just one animal."
🎼 (Pg. 21)The whale songs, Katy Payne realized, were as complex as an intricate piece of music.
🎼 (Pg. 23) Decades after Katy's discoveries, song transmission among humpback whales is now accepted as evidence of the planetary scale of humpback whale social interactions, vocal learning, and cultural evolution: a song originating in one part of the Pacific can gradually spread to other humpback populations across the entire ocean basin.
🎼 (Pg. 33)When you lower the hydrophone into the ocean, it's a complete cacophony of voices and singers. It's like … the twilight zone, a completely different world—belugas, bowheads, and bearded seals and ice. And you're going, "oh, my God, it's a jungle underneath the ice!"
🎼 (Pg. 47) Katy Payne's discovery [that elephants "speak" in sounds below the range of human hearing] generated considerable excitement in conservation circles. The New York Times described her study in lyrical terms: "It is the first evidence that land mammals can produce such infrasonic sounds, and it adds the elephants' basso calls to the wildlife choir that includes the high-frequency shriek of bats, the soprano voices of porpoises, the alto wails of wolves and coyotes, and the tenor-to-bass-range songs of humpback whales." Thomas Lovejoy, vice president of the World Wildlife Fund, described the findings as a revelation: "This discovery is like suddenly finding a … hitherto unknown language."
🎼 (Pg. 62)Scientists' insights into whales and elephants set the scientific community on a new path: using bioacoustics to decipher nonhuman communication across the Tree of Life. Scientists are learning that a vast array of species is listening and sounding in ways we have only barely begun to understand.
🎼 (Pg. 66) If whales are the opera singers of planet Earth, and birds are the orchestra, then turtles are more like a quiet marimba or a tiny thumb piano: low-frequency, quiet sounds of relatively short duration that only an attentive ear, and a body held in stillness, might pick up.
🎼 (Pg. 76) It was only some years later, when Brazilian scholar Rafael Bastos went to a bioacoustics workshop organized by scientists at the University of Santa Catarina, that he heard the sounds of fish songs and realized that Ekwa's claims to have heard the dourados singing were more than merely fanciful.
🎼 (Pg. 84) Healthy coral reefs, Tim Gordon knew, are lively with sound; the unfolding waves of sound are like an underwater orchestra or the endless improvisation of a jazz band. On the Great Barrier Reef, the humpback whales sing the soprano melody. Fish supply the chorus: whooping clownfish, grunting cod, and crunching parrotfish. Sea urchins scrape, resonating like tubas. Percussion is the domain of chattering dolphins and clacking shrimp, who use their pincers to create bubbles that explode with a loud bang. Lobsters rasp their antennae on their shells like washboards. Rainfall, wind, and waves provide the backbeat. To get the best seat, you would have to attend the concert in the middle of the night at the full moon, when fish chorusing typically crests. But you wouldn't necessarily need to have a front row seat: mass fish choruses can be heard up to 50 miles away, and whale sounds resonate for hundreds of miles.
🎼 (Pg. 120) Professor George Pierce, an early pioneer in communications engineering, lead research into decoding the sounds of insects, becoming one of the world's first bioacousticians. The implications of Pierce's research would not be widely understood until many years later. Yet at the end of his life, Pierce displayed a keen sense of the future relevance of his work. His final book, The Songs of Insects, focused on his work with crickets and grasshoppers rather than summing up his influential career in wireless communications.
🎼 (Pg. 125) Concerning bats: As the pups start to fly, they learn their group signature call, a key vocalization that facilitates future decisions about mating partners. Juvenile males learn territorial songs from their fathers, and even undergo a "babbling" practice phase, much like human and songbird infants. The pups begin pronouncing individual syllables of their group songs at around two to three weeks of age; by ten weeks, these syllables have crystalized into songs. For a while, their songs are more variable than those of adults, as if they are still practicing. By the time they are adults, the bats have defined songs unique to their territory, signature calls unique to their immediate family, and a large vocabulary of specific sounds, including individual-specific calls. As in other bat species, these vocalizations are learned rather than innate.
Bat songs, like whale songs, are also culturally transmitted and evolve over time. The greater sac-winged bats have two types of songs: territorial songs, which fend off rival males; and courtship songs, which lure females to roost in a male's territory.
🎼 (Pg. 161) Scientists have recently discovered, for example, that animals share linguistic features once thought to be uniquely human, including the previously unsuspected syntax in whale song and birdsong, and even combinatorial processing in primate and insect vocalizations.
🎼 (Pg. 201) We are just beginning to understand the universal importance of sound for species across the full range of the Tree of Life. From the humble coral to the mighty whale, the nonhuman world is more sensitive to sound than we suspected. Many nonhuman creatures use sound to communicate with one another, in much more complex ways than scientists previously understood. By using digital bioacoustics tools, we can record these complex forms of communication; by using artificial intelligence, we can decode them.
Bioacoustics and artificial intelligence, combined, offer humanity a powerful new window into the world of nonhuman meaning-making. You and I could never sing like a whale or buzz like a bee, but computers and biomimetic robots can. Our digital devices have brought us to the brink of a new era in digitally mediated interspecies communication. [End of quotes]
As the children of faith surely know, the Word of God is true and righteous altogether—fully literal, fully inerrant, and a place to build a life that will last forever, fully.
Does all creation sing? Science's "latest discoveries" say yes.
Bakker, K., The Sounds of Life, Princeton University Press, 2022
GodSaidManSaid, "Heaven—Looking for Proof?"
GodSaidManSaid, "Literal Interpretation Stands—All Creation Sings"


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In British Columbia, a will does not need to be processed by a lawyer or notary in order to be considered "legal". At the very least, you should check out will kits, which are readily available online. However, if an estate is complicated, professional advice is advised in order to avoid problems.
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See our Will Sample for an example of a will.
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Use and reporting of experience-based codesign studies in the healthcare setting: a systematic review
Background Experience-based codesign (EBCD) is an approach to health service design that engages patients and healthcare staff in partnership to develop and improve health services or pathways of care. The aim of this systematic review was to examine the use (structure, process and outcomes) and reporting of EBCD in health service improvement activities.
Methods Electronic databases (MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO and The Cochrane Library) were searched to identify peer-reviewed articles published from database inception to August 2018. Search terms identified peer-reviewed English language qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods studies that underwent independent screening by two authors. Full texts were independently reviewed by two reviewers and data were independently extracted by one reviewer before being checked by a second reviewer. Adherence to the 10 activities embedded within the eight-stage EBCD framework was calculated for each study.
Results We identified 20 studies predominantly from the UK and in acute mental health or cancer services. EBCD fidelity ranged from 40% to 100% with only three studies satisfying 100% fidelity.
Conclusion EBCD is used predominantly for quality improvement, but has potential to be used for intervention design projects. There is variation in the use of EBCD, with many studies eliminating or modifying some EBCD stages. Moreover, there is no consistency in reporting. In order to evaluate the effect of modifying EBCD or levels of EBCD fidelity, the outcomes of each EBCD phase (ie, touchpoints and improvement activities) should be reported in a consistent manner.
quality improvement methodologies
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Women Leadership Symposium
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Faves & Raves 2020
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A Woman of Firsts: The Midwife Who Built A Hospital and Changed the World
Author(s): Edna Adan Ismail; Wendy Holden (As told to)
An incredible true story SIMPLY A MIDWIFE is the inspirational story of a remarkable daughter, nurse and First Lady.
The indomitable Edna Adan Ismail survived imprisonment, persecution, and civil war to become a pioneering politician, a leading light in the World Health Organisation, and a global campaigner for women's rights. The eldest child of an overworked doctor in the British Protectorate of Somaliland, Edna was the first midwife in Somaliland, she campaigned tirelessly for better healthcare for women and fought for women on a global stage as the first female Foreign Minister of her country. But mixing with presidents and princes, she still never forgot her roots and continued to deliver children and train midwives - a role she has to this day.
At 81 years old, she still runs what is hailed as the Horn of Africa's finest university hospital where she trains future generations and still delivers babies. After all - as she puts it - she is 'simply a midwife.'
Publisher : Harlequin Mills & Boon, Limited
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Author : Edna Adan Ismail; Wendy Holden (As told to)
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How to model a detailed tire in Blender using modifiers. A free chapter from the upcoming course "Master Car Creation in Blender" by Chris Plush from CG Masters. Project files are included.
In this video tutorial in 3 parts, Claas Kuhnen shows how to model 3 toothbrush in Blender using several advanced techniques, and how to properly import and rebuild the model in Autodesk Fusion 360.
Are you already designing in 3D? If not, this is a list of 10 reasons why should probably consider learning some 3D skills – and thanks to the available software and training, today is the best time ever to start.
A video by Ali Ismail from Ebal Studios that shows different techniques for creating hard surface models. Done in 3ds Max, but the general concepts can be applied to all polygonal 3D modeling software.
The series of detailed videos by by Hyunjoon Shin titled "BMW 6S Alias Car Modeling Tutorials" has been completed with the new, final episodes.
A very detailed tutorial in 25 parts that explains the entire 3D modeling process of a Lamborghini Huracan using SubD modeling inside Autodesk Maya.
The series "BMW 6S Alias Car Modeling Tutorials" by Hyunjoon Shin has been recently updated with new episodes.
A video by designer Aaron Walker from carstylus, who shows how to cut lamps and other shapes from car 3D models in ZBrush.
In this video tutorial Raymundo Burgueno from HandleBar3D explains his approach in the first stages of design in Autodesk Alias, for quickly creating and transforming surfaces and volumes to evaluate different solutions.
In this 20 minutes video designer Raymundo Burgueno explains his process for creating high quality 3D models and how to keep things relatively simple.
An advanced 3D modeling tutorials showing a technique to avoid artifacts and creases when creating hard surface 3D models using subdiv modeling. For Blender but applies to most polygonal subdiv modeling software.


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Digging in on Mars! How Astronauts Will Survive and Thrive on the Red Planet
By Leonard David
Artist's concept: One small step on the Red Planet, with many footfalls to follow. (Image credit: Bob Sauls/XP4D/M. Wade Holler, director, Digital Content and Media Strategy, Explore Mars Inc. (Used with permission))
GOLDEN, Colo. — Establishing a permanent colony on Mars means living off the land.
Mars has usable resources such as water ice that could help sustain future expeditionary crews on short missions, or pioneers living permanently on the Red Planet, experts say.
"The use of local resources is pivotal for our future human exploration of Mars," said Angel Abbud-Madrid, director of the Center for Space Resources here at the Colorado School of Mines. [5 Manned Mars Mission Ideas]
"Either we bypass our reliance on them for an expensive, one-time trip carrying all needed supplies from Earth…or we incorporate resource utilization for a more affordable, multimission, and sustainable exploration of the Red Planet," Abbud-Madrid told Space.com.
But accessing and exploiting Martian water ice and other resources — a process known as In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) — is easier said than done. So experts have begun to strategize what's needed to allow astronauts to maintain a Martian lifestyle on the Red Planet.
Enabling element
ISRU was a topic of much discussion at NASA's First Landing Site/Exploration Zone Workshop for Human Missions to the Surface of Mars, which was held in October at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.
The meeting brought together planetary scientists and ISRU experts, Abbud-Madrid said, to work side-by-side as part of an extended effort to select the first landing site and exploration zone for humans on Mars.
"This was not only a sign that NASA has decided to take an extended, multimission approach to explore the Red Planet, but also that Martian resources are now considered the 'enabling element' for a sustainable human exploration campaign," Abbud-Madrid told Space.com.
Nevertheless, by the end of the workshop, it was clear that further work needs to be done to get scientists and engineers to agree on the optimum landing site and exploration zone, "with both geologically interesting regions and with the necessary resources to establish a permanent human base," Abbud-Madrid said.
"On the one hand, scientific knowledge of the location and nature of local resources is needed to identify the optimum method to extract them," he said. "On the other hand, engineering knowledge of the extraction method is required to select the most appropriate deposit of resources. Realizing this interdependence is essential for the design of a successful human mission to Mars." [Giant Leaps: Top Milestones of Human Spaceflight]
Conversation has started
Choosing a human touchdown spot on Mars requires use of "embedded ISRU experts" working with landing site selection teams, said Jerry Sanders, ISRU chief engineer in the Propulsion and Power Division at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
"There is a need to understand that distance and ability to reach the resources are also important factors," Sanders told Space.com.
"The science and ISRU communities are making steps toward understanding each other's needs and goals…but there is still a ways to go," he said. "I am encouraged that the conversation has started."
The leap to Mars will require technological advances in a number of areas, including the ability to extract and exploit native Red Planet resources. (Image credit: Pat Rawlings / NASA)
Details still vague
NASA is committed to implementing ISRU on Mars, "but the details are still vague, and significant technology development will be required," said Robert Mueller, a senior technologist within the Science and Technology Projects Division at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Water and atmospheric carbon dioxide are anticipated to be the most valuable resources on Mars, Mueller said.
"These resources will provide propellants for the ride home on the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) as well as [be] used for other critical uses such as life support, growing crops and radiation protection."
Mueller told Space.com that the selection of a Mars landing locale depends, in very large measure, on obtaining more data on what resources would be available at that site to sustain human life. Gathering added information is necessary, he said, "not only for one mission with a six-person crew, but rather a campaign of at least five missions with a long-term goal of having a permanent human presence on Mars."
Next-generation Mars orbiter
NASA has commissioned a team called the Next Orbiter Science Analysis Group — or NEX-SAG in space agency jargon — to analyze objectives for a possible next-generation Mars orbiter, Mueller said.
"If approved, this orbiter could be launched as early as 2022," he said. "One of the recommendations from this NEX-SAG team is to find resources on Mars to benefit future human missions."
This orbiter would likely carry dual-use instruments to "benefit science as well as resource prospecting," such as performing radar scans to look for subsurface pockets of ice and surveying key minerals, Mueller said. [Occupy Mars: History of Robotic Red Planet Missions (Infographic)]
A recent NASA workshop identified nearly 50 locations on Mars that might serve as future locales for human landings. (Image credit: NASA)
Water is key
Not all local resources are equally important, Abbud-Madrid said.
"For production of propellants, radiation shielding, cooling of thermal systems, food production and last but not least, for human consumption, water is the most precious of them all," he said. "It turns out that because such large quantities of the vital liquid are needed for a sustainable operation of a human outpost, carrying that resource from Earth is not a viable option."
Although several types of water deposits on Mars have been identified, Abbud-Madrid said only two appear promising for ISRU purposes: subsurface ice/permafrost or water bound to rocks and fine-grained soil in the form of hydrated minerals, such as clays or gypsum.
Homework to be done
Nonetheless, Abbud-Madrid said that there is currently "no consensus" among scientists or ISRU experts regarding which type of water is the most desirable. They just don't have enough information yet.
"Accurately determining the source type, location, depth, distribution and purity of potential water deposits will be the homework for planetary scientists," Abbud-Madrid said. "Evaluating the most efficient techniques for excavating, beneficiating, extracting and purifying water from its various sources, as well as assessing the energy needed to perform these operations, remains on the to-do list for ISRU technologists."
Scientists and ISRU researchers alike will push for precursor missions to Mars, Abbud-Madrid added, to provide prospecting data from orbit, ground-based measurements and testing of extraction systems. Such work would verify the presence, quantity and optimum production method of water ahead of the first human Mars mission, which NASA hopes to launch in the 2030s.
Human exploration of the Red Planet will depend on an evolving suite of vehicles, and also life-sustaining technologies that make use of local resources. (Image credit: Pat Rawlings / NASA)
Clear next step
David Stillman, a senior research scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, said he, too, took away some important messages from the October NASA meeting.
"The only resource NASA planners really cared about was water … so that they could make rocket fuel," Stillman told Space.com. "They would really like to find this water resource near the equator, and [they'd] only need 100 metric tons over a span of about 15 years."
Stillman said that there are a number of locations on Mars that could potentially serve up heaps of water. But the amount of energy required to extract water from what he sees as three possible sources — seasonal flows of water called recurring slope lineae (RSL), ice or hydrated minerals — has not been determined or studied.
"This is the clear next step," Stillman said.
Planetary protection concerns
All serious discussions of putting boots on Mars take into consideration planetary protection issues — the desire to avoid contaminating the Red Planet with Earth life (and vice versa, if Mars life exists).
"You cannot send a human mission to Mars without violating planetary protection," Stillman said.
"So either we need to send a precursor to the final landing site to determine if it has extant life, or we just ignore planetary protection in the name of exploration," he added.
Leonard David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. He is former director of research for the National Commission on Space and is co-author of Buzz Aldrin's 2013 book "Mission to Mars – My Vision for Space Exploration" published by National Geographic with a new updated paperback version released in May 2015. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.
Leonard David
Space Insider Columnist
Leonard David is an award-winning space journalist who has been reporting on space activities for more than 50 years. Currently writing as Space.com's Space Insider Columnist among his other projects, Leonard has authored numerous books on space exploration, Mars missions and more, with his latest being "Moon Rush: The New Space Race" published in 2019 by National Geographic. He also wrote "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet" released in 2016 by National Geographic. Leonard has served as a correspondent for SpaceNews, Scientific American and Aerospace America for the AIAA. He was received many awards, including the first Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History in 2015 at the AAS Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium. You can find out Leonard's latest project at his website and on Twitter.


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H-ATLAS: estimating redshifts of Herschel sources from sub-mm fluxes
Pearson, E. A.
Eales, S.
Dunne, L.
Gonzalez-Nuevo, J.
Maddox, S.
Aguirre, J. E.
Baes, M.
Baker, A. J.
Bourne, N.
Bradford, C. M.
Clark, C. J. R.
Cooray, A.
Dariush, A.
De Zotti, G.
Dye, S.
Frayer, D.
Gomez, H. L.
Harris, A. I.
Hopwood, R.
Ibar, E.
Ivison, R. J.
Jarvis, M.
Krips, M.
Lapi, A.
Lupu, R. E.
Michałowski, M. J.
Rosenman, M.
Scott, D.
Valiante, E.
Valtchanov, I.
van der Werf, P.
Vieira, J. D.
Upon its completion, the Herschel Astrophysics Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) will be the largest sub-millimetre survey to date, detecting close to half-a-million sources. It will only be possible to measure spectroscopic redshifts for a small fraction of these sources. However, if the rest-frame spectral energy distribution (SED) of a typical H-ATLAS source is known, this SED and the observed Herschel fluxes can be used to estimate the redshifts of the H-ATLAS sources without spectroscopic redshifts. In this paper, we use a sub-set of 40 H-ATLAS sources with previously measured redshifts in the range 0.5 < z < 4.2 to derive a suitable average template for high-redshift H-ATLAS sources. We find that a template with two dust components (Tc = 23.9 K, Th = 46.9 K and ratio of mass of cold dust to mass of warm dust of 30.1) provides a good fit to the rest-frame fluxes of the sources in our calibration sample. We use a jackknife technique to estimate the accuracy of the redshifts estimated with this template, finding a root mean square of ∆z/(1 + z) = 0.26. For sources for which there is prior information that they lie at z > 1, we estimate that the rms of ∆z/(1 + z) = 0.12. We have used this template to estimate the redshift distribution for the sources detected in the H-ATLAS equatorial fields, finding a bimodal distribution with a mean redshift of 1.2, 1.9 and 2.5 for 250, 350 and 500 μm selected sources, respectively.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
10.1093/mnras/stt1369
arXiv:1308.5681
2013MNRAS.435.2753P
galaxies: high-redshift;
galaxies: photometry;
submillimetre: galaxies;
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
13 pages, 11 figures
SIMBAD (43) NED (34) MAST (1) Herschel (1)


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Dien bien travel guide
Dien bien local products
The brocatelle of Lao people in Dien Bien
Among brocatelle products of ethnic minority groups in Dien Bien, those of Lao in Na Sang II Village are considered the most famous to both domestic and foreign tourists. It is the brocatelle weaving craft that enriches the traditional cultural value of Lao people. This weaving craft appeared many years ago and was handed down from generations to generations. Up to now, this craft has contributed to increase the revenue source of Lao people. Annually, mainly in the end of April and early May, tourists are impressed by a wide range of brocatelle products here. At that time, many of these products are sold with the reasonable price. There are various kinds of brocatelle products ranging from the simple cloth of brocatelle to the colorful traditional customs in Na Sang II Village. The exhibitions taken place not only in Dien Bien but also in the whole country offering favorable chances to broadcast the Lao's brocatelle products to domestic and foreign travelers. Moreover, these products are also displayed and sold in trade fair celebrated regularly.


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When wet weather strikes, ditch the sofa and Friends reruns and instead, duck for cover inside one of these cosy hideaways.
Boutique bookstores
Rain is falling. It's hitting the windows in a rhythmic, hypnotizing fashion, conjuring whale-song-esque relaxation feels. You're curled up in an armchair with a great book in one hand and a soul-warming cup of tea in the other. Idyllic, no? In a day and age blighted by social media addiction, it can be hard to remember the last time we took a breather and immersed ourselves in a good old-fashioned book. From the Jervois Road drop-in Novel, to the comprehensive selection at The Women's Bookshop to Mount Eden gem Time Out, there are a number of places to go to find your next page-turner perfect for a day like today.
Auckland Art Gallery is home to a panoply of significant New Zealand art, making it the ideal place to take cover. Plunge into the contemporary, historic and modern works that are a mainstay, or immerse yourself in one of Auckland Art Gallery's brilliantly thought-provoking exhibitions (currently it's the incredible Frances Hodgkins European Journeys — on until 1st September). Open seven days a week, Auckland Art Gallery is a no-brainer for downcast weather days.
Wellesley Street East, CBD
Go to the cinema
The Capitol Cinema, to be exact. This Dominion Road gem offers the classic, old-school cinematic experience and is always showing a range of interesting, current and blockbusting movies. And, if the rain has subsided when you emerge from the movies, head to one of Dominion Road's many delicious dining destinations for a feed unlike any other you'd find in Auckland. But be sure to consult our definitive dining guide to Dominion Road first, here.
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Eat your way through the rain
Whether it's to get some work done, to catch up with a friend or to simply sit for a few hours with a book and some delicious food, Auckland's hospitality offering is comprehensive. From Ozone's all-day menu and perfectly-brewed coffees to Andiamo's cosy ambience and delicious, Italian food, if you feel overwhelmed with the vast and varied array, see our round-up of the best new openings of 2019 so far.
Wintergardens
It may be raining outside but fear not; inside the Winter Gardens awaits a light-filled paradise. Saturated blooms blossoming from lush green palms adorn the glass walls and vast gardens, while still waters shimmer under the glare of the overhead lamps. Visiting the Auckland Domain Wintergardens is like stepping out of rainy Auckland and immersing yourself in a lush, tropical nirvana, complete with an on-site cafe for a relaxed afternoon pick-me-up. The best part? Admission is free.
Wintergarden Road, Parnell
The Domain Wintergardens
Meditation Auckland
As if you need an excuse, Meditation Auckland is offering free 'Learn Meditation' courses. With the daily grudges of city life combined with the dampening effects of miserable weather, a meditation session might be just what your strained mind, body and soul are pining after. A typical course involves two guided meditations focusing on breathing and concentration techniques, lead by class givers who have studied under the guidance of Sri Chinmoy, (an Indian spiritual leader who totally knows his stuff).
Class locations in various places around Auckland, for the full list, check here.
Go to the ballet
The RNZB's Bold Moves is on at the moment and is offering the ultimate temporary escape from this blustery weather. Featuring works by George Balanchine, William Forsythe and Andrea Schermoly, this compilation of incredible pieces moves through definitive danceworks from different decades and is a captivating exploration of how dance has captured the zeitgeist over the years.
On until 15th September, buy tickets here.
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Q: Using "at" with "home" Why don't we use at when we use home? For example:

I arrived home
vs.
  I arrived at home

or

I am home
vs.
  I am at home

A: You can use both, they both mean the same thing, literally.
In common usage they are used slightly differently.
If I have just arrived home, I would say "I am home".
Whereas if someone asked me where I was, I would say "I am at home".
Idiomatically you would not use the word arrive often as a native English speaker, you would instead say "I came home". There's a little discussion about this here.

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Traditional chilaquiles are an easy way to use leftover tortillas. Serve with refried beans, eggs, and guacamole for a hearty breakfast.
Fried tortilla chips are cooked with eggs, salsa, and cheese. Don't wait to try this Mexican favorite!
One taste of this great Mexican breakfast dish made with crisp corn tortillas, eggs, and chile peppers, and you'll be hooked!
An old Southwestern family recipe for tortillas layered with flavorful sauce and cheese -- with a secret ingredient, cocoa!
Freshly fried tortilla chips are layered with a spicy chicken and tomatillo sauce and plenty of cheese. Serve it with fried eggs for hearty breakfast or as a cheesy dinner.
This recipe is a speedy alternative to the more traditional Mexican breakfast dish. Enchilada sauce, tortilla chips, and Mexican cheese are assembled in layers, and then heated in the microwave to meld the flavors together.
Bursting with Mexican-inspired flavors, tortilla chips are quickly cooked with chopped onions and enchilada sauce, topped with fried eggs and shredded cheese, and broiled for just minutes until bubbly.
Loaded with the flavors of Mexico--poblano and chipotles chiles, cilantro, adobo, and queso fresco--this chicken and tortilla casserole is a sure crowd pleaser.
This Mexican-inspired dish features a combination of shredded cooked chicken, tomato chipotle soup, onion, garlic, cheese and crispy tortilla strips. It's easy to prepare, super delicious and guaranteed to be a hit at your dinner table!
Eggs are scrambled with crispy tortilla strips and a spicy tomato salsa in this quick and easy brunch dish, known as chilaquiles in Mexico.
If you've got stale tortillas lying around, this chilaquiles scramble with eggs, Cotija cheese, and avocado just might be the answer.
Crispy corn tortillas, eggs, and enchilada sauce are the main components of this quick and easy chilaquiles, a Mexican breakfast recipe.
Here's a quick and easy version of chilaquiles with tortilla pieces, whisked eggs, green taco sauce, and shredded Monterey Jack cheese.
Perfect for family brunch, these verde chilaquiles are tortilla chips blanketed with a spicy tomatillo sauce, shredded chicken, and olives.
Make the pulled pork at home, and then layer it with tortilla chips, tomatillo salsa, and Cheddar cheese in this chilaquiles recipe you can prep over a campfire.
Repurpose leftover cooked turkey in this 30-minute version of Mexican chilaquiles made with cilantro, green chiles, and queso fresco.
Chilaquiles are a great way to use up the last of those blue corn tortilla chips and that leftover green salsa; top with shredded cheese and sour cream for a quick breakfast.
These chilaquiles made without eggs, Jalisco-style, feature tortilla chips in a spicy tomato-chile sauce topped with fresh cheese and freshly chopped onion.
Chilaquiles are a quick and easy brunch item with scrambled eggs, salsa, cheese, and tortillas. They can easily be scaled up and down to feed more people.
This delicious quick and easy shortcut to chilaquiles verdes gives you authentic Mexican flavor without the effort of roasting tomatillos and peppers or frying tortillas.


Hands up if you rocked a side-pony.
The fashion and beauty world's obsession with nostalgia has done us good. It's essentially given us a way to wear the trends of our childhood, but without the embarrassment. Seriously, hair barrettes have come back in style—they even showed up on the runway during Libertine's Fall/Winter presentation. Glitter is having a moment if we've ever seen one. And do we even have to bring up the phenomenon that was chokers this summer?
Well yesterday, Chanel had their Spring/Summer 2017 show, and as expected, there was beauty inspiration abound. What was not expected was that Karl Lagerfeld basically brought back the middle school side-pony.
A side-pony, we should add, that was accented with an upgraded and infinitely more chic version of our childhood charmed colorful hair-tie and a sideways baseball cap.
Now if that doesn't scream '90s, I don't know what does.
We'll either be adding this into our regular rotation or using this as inspo for some sort of nostalgic Halloween costume. Either way, thanks, Karl!


Polarbröd bakes and sells bread of the highest quality. The company's brand is a guarantee of genuinely good and safe food products.
Polarbröd has its own quality system, the unique Polarbröd Quality System, which includes rigorous and systematic checks throughout the baking process.
Our production meets the highest international standards of quality and safety.
Polarbröd's two bakeries are BRC (British Retail Consortium) certified, a standard for improved product safety and hygiene. BRC places high demands on the company's quality systems, on process and production management as well as production facilities and employees. Every stage of the operation must be carefully documented. Since 2016, Polarbröd is also IFS Food certified.
Polarbröd has systematically measured its environmental impact since 2000, and became ISO 14001 certified in 2009 – proof that we manage our environmental responsibilities.
The bakery in Bredbyn is Euro Leaf certified, which means that at least 95% of the agricultural ingredients are organic and that relevant EU legislation is adhered to. The bakery in Bredbyn is also certified by KRAV, which regulates sustainable agriculture in Sweden, and has even stricter requirements.
Polarbröd takes full responsibility for the bread to be transported safely in an unbroken freezer chain all the way to the customer.


….Maggie wandered among the exhibits, watching craftsmen make brooms and baskets, tapping her foot to the dulcimer music, and listening to the storytellers who had drawn a sizable crowd in the shade of tall oaks. She stopped to listen to a woman dressed in a style Maggie imagined was common among frontier women long ago. Sturdy boots peeked out from beneath the hem of her skirt, and the simple cotton blouse she wore looked homespun. Her steel gray hair was tucked beneath a bonnet.
"This land belonged to the Chickasaw tribe, and they were good neighbors, always sharing what they had. They were good traders, too, and pretty near famous for their beautiful silver jewelry. They always had plenty of silver but nobody knew—'cept the Indians, of course—where it all came from. Some said it was from a silver mine, and some claimed it was Spanish silver, but nobody knew for sure.
The storyteller looked across the crowd. "Well, you can probably guess what happened next. The federal government didn't take too kindly to somebody else making money. They didn't like the competition, my granddaddy said." There were chuckles and murmurs of agreement from some in the crowd.
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Q: gcc - argument "buf" doesn't match prototype in this function
    char *function(buf,salt)
    char *buf;
    char *salt;
    {
        function_body
    }

I get this error
error: argument "buf" doesn't match prototype
error: prototype declaration
argument "salt" doesn't match prototype
error: prototype declaration

This is the actual code:
    char * function(const char *, const char *);

    char *buffer = NULL;

    buffer = function(arg1, arg2);

A: This means you have a declaration of the function somewhere, that is different.
Also, you shouldn't be doing "K&R-style" functions, that should be written:
char * function(char* buf, char *salt);

And most likely both arguments should be const, too.

A: You have a prototype declaration of function() somewhere and the actual function declaration does not match it. In your case the (type of the) parameters is different.
Usually, the errors show the location of the prototype. Look it up and compare it with your function declaration. The function arguments and their types must be exactly identical.
In your updated qustion you say that the prototype is defined as:
char * function(const char *, const char *);

So you also need to define your actual function as
char *function(const char *buf, const char *salt)
{
    // function_body
}

(It needs to be identical, so including the const-statements!)


Living Up to the Martha Standard.
Maintaining a well organized home is a challenge for any mom. Constantly picking up after family members, cajoling them to be neat: it's an endless task. It's also a prime opportunity. That's how office supply experts Avery Denison saw it. But Avery had no brand recognition with the target. Enter organizational guru Martha Stewart. Their partnership resulted in Martha Stewart Home Office™ with Avery™, 300+ products sold exclusively at Staples to help moms put their homes and their lives in order.
Questus' charge was to extend Martha's tremendous equity while honoring her creative approach to a T. Questus constructed a cross-channel campaign that included print, broadcast, social, and promotional. But it was in the mid-funnel that we brought the line to life. We knew these practical products needed a smart show-and-tell to help them fly off the shelves. So we created video demos for Martha's and Avery's social channels that starred Martha herself. Strategically shot in Martha's office, they provided a rare and coveted peek into her professional life, and showcased both her charm and her Type A skills as she conducted organizational makeovers on her own staff. The stories reached, engaged and inspired Martha's army of loyalists and spread from there. Success came in good order. The line of totes was snatched up from Staples—a most unlikely source for women's purses—as were chalkboard labels, magnetic wall boards, and much more. How neat is that?


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Q: report server (ssrs): how to handle long names on vertical axis I have a chart built in Report Builder (MS Reporting Services), where vertical axe is categorical.
Label names of categorical axe is very long.
Is it possible to shrink the length of names for first 10 symbols and show full names when mouse coursor is over the names?

A: I don't think this is possible natively in SSRS but you might be able to get an acceptable compromise.
First click on the chart, so the config pane opens, click on your category group and then edit the label property to something like this
=LEFT(Fields!Caption.Value, 10)

(Caption is the name of the field containing the label that appears on the Y axis in my case)

Now that you have the shortened name showing you need to show the full name somewhere. Unfortunately, the group labels do not support tooltips but chart series do.
Click anywhere on the bar (but not on the data label) and then set the tooltip property to something like
=Fields!Caption.Value & " " & Fields!Amount.Value

When we run the report and hover the mouse over the 3rd green bar, we get the following...


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miHoYo Co., Ltd. (, міхаю ванло кецзі ґуфень юсянь ґунси, з 15 лютого 2022 року перейменовано за межами Китаю як HoYoverse) — китайська компанія з розробки відеоігор та анімаційна студія, розташована в Шанхаї, Китай. Заснована 13 лютого 2012 року трьома студентами Шанхайського університету Цзяо Тун, зараз компанія miHoYo налічує 2400 людей.

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Has the US been a stabilizing or destabilizing influence in the Middle East since the end of the Cold War?
Either with regards to its geo-strategic interests, securing potential economic gains or working to deal with autocracy as the most common form of rule in the region which differs with its own idea of the ideal form of governance, the United States has always been involved with the Middle East in one way or another. Its involvement took on an even more profound shape after the Cold War ended, since now, the US emerged victorious, as the new world hegemony which gave it the opportunity to engage in ventures that had previously taken a back seat owing to the constant lingering threat posed by the Soviet Union.
This essay intends to analyze whether the actions of the US since the end of the Cold War have stabilized or destabilized state of affairs in the Middle East by specifically focusing on US's ventures firstly, in Iraq and secondly, in Saudia Arabia. In attempting to gauge the nature of the effects of the US's activities, both the level of security and the effectiveness of domestic political governance have been looked upon to analyze whether the overall effects have been stabilizing or destabilizing in these two particular countries.
The relationship between Iraq and the US has been exceptionally troubled since the end of Cold War. Marked by a period of prolonged suspicion and animosity in the 1990s, this relation took a turn for the worse when US declared war on Iraq in 2003. Although the war officially ended in 2010, Iraq is still entangled in dealing with the repercussions of the war amid repeated assurances of the US of providing any assistance, be it military, political or economic, that it might require for a complete recovery and normalization of its affairs.
Soon after war was declared, the central Iraqi government was overthrown and in its place, the US appointed a governing council with itself as the head. However, this arrangement was short-lived since within a year, this governing coalition ended and in a move depicting the country's apparent transition to democracy, the control was handed over to the interim government which had come to power as result of the elections held in June 2004. Following the elections for the interim government, the US oversaw elections for a permanent government soon after, which brought Jalal Talabani (Kurd) and Ibrahim Jaafari (Shi'ia) to power as President and Prime Minister respectively. Significant political developments which followed later were elections for the National Assembly, the Parliament and the return of the previously banned, Baath Party officials to political activity along with parliamentary elections in 2010 which re-elected Jalal Talabani as President and Nour-al-Maliki as the Prime Minister (BBC News, 2012).
However optimistic this may seem for a country having been recently subjected to foreign invasion, this apparent transition towards democracy in Iraq had underlying flaws and unwanted repercussions for the country which could have been mitigated, if not avoided altogether, had the US's steps been well-worked out and in line with what the local conditions demanded so.
Firstly, this sudden change in the political scenario brought about soon after the US invasion led to a deepening of the sectarian divide between people belonging to multiple sects in the population (Cordesman, 2006). This happened because US's immediate dismissal of the secular Baath Party led to political power now becoming available to other, individualist political factions which were representative of the Iraqi population which had previously been underrepresented all throughout Saddam's regime. This especially included the Shi'ite population of the country which, therefore, when given a chance to choose its rulers, was quick to elect a Shi'ia dominated government which came to power after the elections for the interim government held in 2004. This ultimately caused apprehension amongst the Sunni ranks in Iraq since not only were they now deprived of the previously advantaged position in the country's governance which they had held throughout Saddam's rule, they also feared a potential collaboration between the newly elected Shi'ia government in Iraq and the Shi'ia dominated, neighboring Iran (FPIF, 2012).
The repercussions that this political divide along sectarian lines described above had can be better understood if one looks at the security situation in the country at that time which is yet another unfortunate evidence of how US's venture in Iraq contributed in destabilizing the state of affairs in the country. Soon after the elections, a Sunni militant insurgency erupted which targeted not only the newly formed government which they termed to be the "puppets of the US" but also launched numerous attacks on Shi'te civilians and holy sites (FPIF, 2012).Thousands were killed in numerous car bombings, terrorist attacks on shrines and other public places and encounters between the US military forces and insurgents became a daily occurrence so much so that the UN reported an average of a hundred civilians dying every day in Iraq and reported a total of 34000 civilians to have died in instances of violence throughout the country during 2006 (BBC News, 2012). In retaliation, the Shi'ite rulers retaliated with repressing and marginalizing other sectarian groups in matters of governance and also initiated numerous counter-insurgency programs. These were mostly characterized by abhorrent Human Rights abuses including activities like those of the infamous, government-backed, Death Squads operating in the country and the operations of a police force, maintained especially by the central government and allegedly supported by Iran to target Sunni civilians from amongst the population (FPIF, 2012). Therefore, it can be seen that the inter-sect differences which were given room to actualize and multiply after the removal of Saddam's regime played a major role in affecting the level of achievement of stable governance in the country. Not only did it affect political stability but also aggravated the security situation in the country, to which the US was unable to respond in that it failed to timely come up with an effective security framework for the war-torn region, making the locals take refuge under their respective sectarian groups, thereby furthering this divide amongst the population (FPIF, 2012).
Secondly, the US can also be criticized for the lack of commitment that it showed in order to confer the status of a stable democracy on Iraq, something that it had claimed to have envisioned for the country in the first place. For a country that had been recently uprooted from decades of autocracy and which was oblivious to the norms and workings of democracy, what was needed was a gradual and effective, long-term plan which took into consideration the needs of such a region while being in transition towards becoming a democracy. However, what Iraq got instead was in complete contrast to this. The electoral process was rushed into place in 2004 where Iraqis, in a very short span of time, were required to elect new leaders and form a new government along with ensuring the commencement and functionality of renewed democratic institutions in the country. Coupled with this hasty change in the state of affairs, what made matters even more difficult was that the US, instead of giving prime emphasis to ensuring that the nascent democratic institutions operated effectively and that an efficient governance system was in place, stressed more on mere electoral processes in the country. The lack of governing assistance given to the newly appointed ministers, the little attention paid to local government systems, the presence of dysfunctional civil structures such as the under-resourced departments of Police and the Courts whose officials lacked the necessary skills and expertise required to deal with the sudden onslaught of issues etcetera are just some examples which show that the US failed to employ the necessary resources to help the Iraqi officials through the transition phase, a point that Carothers also talks about when he says "Yet at the same time….democratic principles" (Carothers, 2007).
These problems were further aggravated by the fact that the rehabilitation and reconstruction procedures in the country, for which billions of dollars worth of aid poured in from the US, were very poorly organized. Figures put forward by the Congressional Research Service stated that around $28.9billion worth of aid was given to Iraq to be spent on building the economic and political structures of the country between 2003 and 2006. However, the results did not turn out as anticipated because of multiple reasons. Firstly, the US failed to recruit sufficiently competent personnel required to implement the aid programs in the country and the ones who were at work were unable to comprehend a plan whereby the aid could be distributed efficiently on a national level. Moreover, the US sought to execute such plans on its own terms which were mostly incompatible with the Iraqis' capability to implement them which ultimately rendered any long-term functionality of the programs impossible. Even where aid was proving to be useful, rampant corruption and the fact that such aid programs came without any security provided to the personnel by the military, and so were only limited to considerably safe areas in the region, severely undermined the potential that the large amounts of US aid and the prolonged presence of the US forces in Iraq could have gained for the region in terms of it becoming a stable state in the long-run (Cordesman, 2006).
Just like with Iraq, one of the most prominent linkages that can be drawn between the US and a Middle Eastern nation is the one associating it with the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia. Since the end of Cold War, both the countries have been directed by their mutual set of interests to collaborate time and again for ventures that have not only affected their domestic settings but have also had regional and global repercussions. Both the countries joined forces in the Gulf war and declared war against Saddam Hussain's invasion in Kuwait, defeating the Iraqi Army in just a matter of days. Since then, the Saudia-US cooperation has grown many folds, characterized mainly by the large amounts of military assistance that the US provides to the Kingdom. Exceptions to this otherwise cordial relationship between the two nations include the 9/11 attacks and the disagreements over the probable solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict (BBC News, 2012).
Saudia Arabia has always seemed of crucial importance to the US mainly because of its rich oil reserves and also because of its utility as being a force in place to check the growing influence and activities of Iran in the region. This is primarily the reason why the US has always sought to acquire a considerable control inside the Kingdom primarily by increasing military assistance given to Saudia (Blanchard, 2012).
Although, this military build-up and the associated increasing cooperation between the two nations was meant to serve the interests of both these countries, the attacks of 9/11 and the subsequent threat of terrorism which it entailed for the entire world created a myriad of other problems for both the regions to deal with. As was revealed later, fifteen out of nineteen attackers involved in the attack were of Saudi origin and one of the prime reasons identified for the attacks was to strain the growing relations between the US and Saudia in order to dismantle the regime which had failed to provide for its people. Although this did affect the previously cordial and stable relations between the two countries temporarily, ironically, countering terrorism yet another cause for which the two countries vowed to work together. However, this led to deterioration in the security situation inside the Kingdom where the growth of Al-Qaeda and the threat that it poses to the security of the people has become evident ever since. From 2003 till present, Al-Qaeda has been claiming responsibility of numerous suicide bombings and other terrorism related activities which have specifically aimed to target American officials inside the Kingdom but have ultimately also claimed lives of locals too (BBC News, 2012).
Apart from just being a domestic Saudi issue, the threat of Al-Qaeda has now taken on a shape of a regional problem too since its presence in Yemen (AQAP- Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) is a cause of grave concern both for the Saudia and the US government alike. The current leadership in Yemen of the AQAP is Saudi in origin since all those who failed in Al-Qaeda's campaign in the Kingdom have now taken refuge in Yemen. Owing to its close proximity with the SA, the current political instability in Yemen coupled with the threat posed by Al-Qaeda could endanger the Kingdom's stability which is why Saudi and American forces have joined in to deal with the threat of terrorism arising out of Yemen which could possibly have positive results for all the parties involved. However, things get even more difficult when the activities of Saudia are seen in combination with the kind of relations that Saudia and Yemen have had in the past. Although SA would want to curb any Al-Qaeda activity in the region, Yemen views Saudia as being ill-willed, aiming to break Yemen in order to counter any threats which a unified Yemen could pose to its existence (Blanchard, 2012).
Moreover, an interesting interaction between the two countries has come to be seen with regards to the Saudis' demands for more reform and 'change' for themselves. In wake of the recent "Arab Spring" in the region and the various regime changes or multiple instances of reforms being granted to Middle Easter regions which have undergone change, Saudis have also demanded changes in the way the Kingdom's run. Some of these demands include demands for provision of basic human rights, more employment opportunities, women's demands for gaining employment in public spheres, to get education and to be able to have access to other basic rights such as voting and driving in the Kingdom (Blanchard, 2012). Unsurprisingly, these demands have been unwelcome by the ruling elite but have been accepted and encouraged by the US, keeping in view its democratic values in mind and the way it had encouraged the rest of the ME going through the 'Arab Spring' to look towards a 'change'. However, what should be noted here is that the US has not pushed the monarchy beyond a certain limit to make sure that it does in real, provide change to its society, Rather, it has on most occasions just of provided lip-service encouragement to the population that is demanding a change in the conventional system of things. In that case, it can be seen that the US's actions and words, in this regard, not really challenged the stability of political rule in the Kingdom.
Conclusively, when US's venture in Iraq, as is described above, is analyzed, it can be easily concluded that the US and its activities destabilized the country. Starting from providing false grounds for declaring war in the first place to ending up, failing to deal with the circumstances that resulted, the US was wrong on many levels. By going in, not only did it aggravate the security situation of the country by flaring sectarian differences amongst the population which were not as manifest in the country's politics as before, it failed to equip the country with any viable democratic structures which could guarantee long-term political and economic stability of the county. Even today, the effects of an incomplete transition to democracy are evident in how Iraq ranks on a "Democracy Index", where it comes at 111st position out of 167 countries observed and is still termed as a"hybrid regime" somewhere between a "flawed democracy" and an "authoritarian regime" (Costsofwar, 2010). As for its interactions with SA, it can be seen that although the US hails itself to be the guarantor of civil rights and liberties and terms itself to be a strong proponent of people's freedom, it has not pushed SA enough to provide effective reform and freedom for its people and so has not really, by its actions, affected the political stability of the Kingdom. This could be understood if US's actions are seen in context of its interest in the region. Although it shows outward support to the people of SA demanding reform and change, it is not in its interest to push the SA's ruling elite to do it in real since that would encourage political instability in the Kingdom (keeping in view how the public would be encouraged to demand more change while the regime is not in favor of such grants) which the US would not want given how stability in the Kingdom is crucial for the US to achieve its own interests in the region. As for the threat of terrorism, US's actions to counter the threat have no doubt affected the level of security in the Middle Eastern region. In an attempt to curb its activities, the US has resulted in letting it take roots in various regions other than SA which make it even more difficult now to tackle the danger that it poses; not only does it harm the stability of the Middle Eastern regions but also of the United States itself.


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import os
import csv

from flumine import BaseStrategy
from flumine.utils import get_price

HEADERS = [
    "market_id",
    "publish_time",
    "status",
    "inplay",
    "selection_id",
    "last_price_traded",
    "back",
    "lay",
]

class PriceRecorder(BaseStrategy):
    """
    Example strategy for recording prices
    from historical or live data.
    """

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        BaseStrategy.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
        self.local_dir = self.context.get("local_dir", "/tmp")
        self.filename = self.context.get("filename", "output.txt")
        self.file_directory = os.path.join(self.local_dir, self.filename)

    def add(self) -> None:
        # check local dir
        if not os.path.isdir(self.local_dir):
            raise OSError("File dir %s does not exist" % self.local_dir)
        # write headers
        with open(self.file_directory, "w") as f:
            writer = csv.DictWriter(f, fieldnames=HEADERS)
            writer.writeheader()

    def check_market_book(self, market, market_book):
        return True

    def process_market_book(self, market, market_book):
        with open(self.file_directory, "a") as f:
            writer = csv.DictWriter(f, fieldnames=HEADERS)
            for runner in market_book.runners:
                writer.writerow(
                    {
                        "market_id": market_book.market_id,
                        "publish_time": market_book.publish_time,
                        "status": market_book.status,
                        "inplay": market_book.inplay,
                        "selection_id": runner.selection_id,
                        "last_price_traded": runner.last_price_traded,
                        "back": get_price(runner.ex.available_to_back, 0),
                        "lay": get_price(runner.ex.available_to_lay, 0),
                    }
                )


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