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Slaughter of Christian & indigenous Nigerians, varied drivers
[ by Charles Cameron — switching between my comparative religion and cultural anthropology hats, while reading of Christian and indigenous mass graves in Nigeria — and the fear of a Rwanda-scale genocide ]
The Christian Post reports:
'Pure Genocide': Over 6,000 Nigerian Christians Slaughtered, Mostly Women and Children
Villagers stood at a mass grave in Dogon Na Hauwa, Nigeria, in 2010. | (Photo: Reuters/Credit Akintunde Akinleye)
The church leaders said that "over 6,000 persons, mostly children, women and the aged have been maimed and killed in night raids by armed Fulani herdsmen," which is prompting their cry to the government of Nigeria "to stop this senseless and blood shedding in the land and avoid a state of complete anarchy where the people are forced to defend themselves."
That last phrase, to "avoid a state of complete anarchy where the people are forced to defend themselves", is a telling one with an implication of considerable restraint on the part of Christians thus far..
Reading the piece carefully, the question arises as to the interwoven influences of tribal, religious, and cultural differences..
Consider the Catholic bishop's comment as reported:
"Please don't make the same mistake as was made with the genocide in Rwanda," he pleaded, referring to the massacre of Tutsi people in Rwanda, where close to 1 million were killed in 1994.
To what extent can this conflict and slaughter be characterized as tribal?
Consider also the clash of religions — indigenous / ancestral tribal religions included — implied by the reference to Boko Haram, and the Intersociety comment:
Nigeria is drifting to [a path of] genocide through killing, maiming, burning and destruction of churches and other sacred places of worship, and forceful seizure and occupation of ancestral, worship, farming and dwelling lands of the indigenous Christians and other indigenous religionists in Northern Nigeria
Or — and this one's of terrific importance, as implied by the comment:
raids carried out by the herdsmen on local area farmers
To what extent is the conflict one of (mobile) herdsmen vs (settled) farmers?
Fulani vs one or more other tribes
Islam vs Christianity & indigenous religions
herdsmen vs agriculturalists
Please note that there are two feared outcomes here, the first of which touches my heart in its implication of Christian non-violence in the face of terrible violence, while the second addresses a significant increase in the scale of that violence:<
to avoid a state of complete anarchy where the people are forced to defend themselves
the same mistake as was made with the genocide in Rwanda
Tragedy is seldom simple. If we are to avoid the worst, we need both to understand the drivers in all their subtle diversity, and to avoid the paralysis that comes from overthinking — not an east task, but a necessary one.
With thanks to J Scott Shipman.
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Far more severe than the Israeli occupation?
[ by Charles Cameron — an invitation to explore some suggested comparisons — Afghanistan, too ]
ben wittes, lawfare blog
I generally find Ben Wittes' Lawfare blog worth reading, and was accordingly struck when I read The Methodology of Historical Misrepresentation and came across this paragraph:
There is a widespread tendency amongst scholars, journalists, and legal experts to app double standard when relating to Israel and the Palestinians. Israel is often singled out for prejudicial treatment in comparison to cases far more severe than its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza since 1967, such as the killing in Syria of over half a million people, the hanging of hundreds of dissidents in Iran every year, the Chinese occupation of Tibet, Russian behavior in Chechnya, Syria, and Ukraine, and countless other human rights infringements infinitely worse than the Israeli occupation and settlement movement.
That wasn't, I'll admit, what I expected when I read the post's title: in the context of the Israeli/Paalestinian issue, I could iagune the misrepresentation might be found in Israeli hasbara as easily as in Mahmoud Abbas' tendency to say things about the "occupied territories" that only include the West Bank and Gaza when addressing English-speaking audiences, and the whole shebang including Tel Aviv when speaking in Arabic — as repeatedly shown by Itamar Marcus of Palestinial Media Watch
That said, I'd be interested in specific comparisons in detail, one at a time, between these levels of documented human rights infringements..
For instance, the Israelis have established "facts on the rgound" in the form of both settlers and their sccompanying schools, synagogues, etc within the Palestinian und, with military enforcement, while the Chinese appear similarly to have established "facts on the ground" in Tibetan territor in the form of both settlers and their institutions, militarily enforced.
Howw can one compare these two situations in greater detail, fairly?
Israel separation wall in West Bank
The first problem any such attempt will encounter is that both sides will produced partisan accounts of history, law, populations, etc, and that accounts by "honest brokers" are desperately hard to find — I mean, educate me in the comments section.
I've tried to propose a graphical/typographical system for conducting bilateral debates.. but maybe the Talmud is not ideal for these particular debates..
Talmudic page
Specifically, I took my early inspiration from the Talmud because it explicitly llows divergent viewpoints in its graphical format, as explained by Eliezer Segal on his interactive (ie clickable) Page from the Babylonian Talmud. But perhaps the Talmud is not the ideal basis for these particular debates, in which the Israelis (often deeply influenced by forms of Judaism) are one of the contending parties…
In any case, how, with all the affordances of the web, can we provide a space in which written debates can be refined in light of written (and equally valued) responses, iteratively, so as to provide a record for ongoing dialogue, with both sides equitably represented, and able to respond point by point whwere they disagree or wich to provide additional material, and to agree where they agree.
I am encouraged to know what such a format can eventually produce a document where twwo adversaary-friends collaborate, because of the collaboration of Mustafa Hamid and Leah Farrall, friend of Mullah Omar and OBL and Australian Federal Police AQ expert respectively, on their book, The Arabs at War in Afghanistan, in which some sections indicate that the two co-authors were agreed on theie contents, while some sections are attributed to Mustafa alone, and some to Leah likewise. Two adversaries first meet on the net, then in person in Alexandria, Egypt, then after months and months of collaboration, and no doubt much excellent coffee — this book!
PS & NB:
Ben Wittes has notably and repeatedly challenged Vladimir Putin to a martial arts match: I'll Fight Putin Any Time, Any Place He Can't Have Me Arrested.
That would be something to watch on both RT and MSNBC!
Global politics might never be the same if the #fearlessshirtlessone answered @benjaminwittes's challenge!
— Anne-Marie Slaughter (@SlaughterAM) October 17, 2015
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Anne-Marie Slaughter on Twitter as "your private CNN"
[ by Charles Cameron — importance of social media ]
h/t @caidid — on Twitter, naturally!
Posted in Charles Cameron, foreign policy, media, Slaughter, twitter, Uncategorized, web 2.0, youtube | 3 Comments »
Kesler on R2P Hypocrisy
Nice catch by Bruce Kesler who goes en fuego on the weirdly discordant note Anne-Marie Slaughter strikes in her latest New York Times op-ed:
Majority Rule Over Minorities: Ironic R2P Hypocrisy
The extremism of R2P's leading proponent is exhibited in Anne-Marie Slaughter's op-ed in today's New York Times. Slaughter likens the Wall Street protesters to those demonstrating against oppressive regimes in the Middle East and recommends removal of the US system of checks and balances that protect minority views and avoid poorly developed political stampedes. (Slaughter doesn't mention or give credence to the more numerous, mature citizenry participating in or supporting the Tea Parties more peaceful protests for more limited government intrusions into Americans' private lives and earnings.)
R2P's leading proponent, Anne-Marie Slaughter of Harvard, believes that US foreign policies and military interventions should prioritize the Right To Protect severely repressed peoples through US obeisance to liberal internationalist elites' sentiments in favor of some they like regardless of the US Constitution or laws or national or security interests.
In today's New York Times, Slaughter takes her R2P home to the US, advocating that majorities rule regardless of the formal and informal checks and balances of our political system and overriding the rights of political minorities. Again, it is the majorities that liberals like who should be given more powers.
Without any sense of proportionality or of core differences between the US and Middle East satrapies, Slaughter says, "Indeed, the twin drivers of America's nascent protest movement against the financial sector are injustice and invisibility, the very grievances that drove the Arab Spring." Slaughter then concludes, "The only effective response is a political response, of a nature and magnitude that convinces protesters on the streets that they can in fact secure the change they seek within, rather than outside, the system."
Slaughter's system, however, would reduce the ability of permanent or transitory political minorities to protect their interests. They would, also, further factionalize the US and make compromises more difficult as the power of centrists is reduced….
Good grief. Anne Marie Slaughter opining on the need for greater democracy and accountability to the people is somewhat akin to Ayn Rand calling for more welfare programs.
My suspicion here, since this rhetoric runs counter to Slaughter's most influential ideas, is that Slaughter is just carrying water as part of the current Democratic political strategy of trying to co-opt the Occupy Wall Street movement. Perhaps the Axelrods and Podestas see that open-source protest movement to potentially be "their tea party". Whatever. I will take her op-ed more seriously when she is marching against the Hedge fundies and Wall Streeters who are top donors to her Party, her administration and her university.
You can put a three corned hat on a Princeton theorist of global governance by transnational "governmental networks" but even if you adjust the hat at a suitably jaunty angle for maximum populist effect, the agenda underneath is still neither democratic nor popular.
Posted in 21st century, academia, America, analytic, Arab Spring, democracy, democratic party, dystopia, economics, egalitarianism, elections, extremists, fisking, foreign policy, government, ideas, intellectuals, kesler, Liberalism, logic, networks, non-state actors, Oligarchy, politics, R2P, reform, Republic, rule-sets, Slaughter, society | 7 Comments »
More on R2P, Second Thoughts by Slaughter? Plus, Drezner on Networks
R2P is in the news while I slowly and laboriously wind my way through writing the next edition of the R2P is the New COIN series.
LATimes – R2P and the Libya mission:When does 'responsibility to protect' grant countries the right to intervene?
The Palestinian bid for statehood and traffic congestion weren't the only things going on in New York last week as the 66th U.N. General Assembly convened. One of the issues privately discussed by foreign ministers at the United Nations was the "responsibility to protect," or R2P. This concept was central to the U.N. mandate to protect civilians in Libya, which led to NATO's aerial involvement there. As the dust settles in Tripoli, it has become necessary to refute a powerful myth that has developed among some pundits and politicians. That myth is that R2P bestows "the right to intervene" in Libya.Even though R2P features in just two paragraphs of the 40-page "outcome document" of the 2005 U.N. World Summit, historian Martin Gilbert has suggested that it constituted "the most significant adjustment to national sovereignty in 360 years."R2P's core idea is that all governments have an obligation to protect their citizens from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. It is primarily a preventive doctrine. However, R2P also acknowledges that we live in an imperfect world and if a state is "manifestly failing" to meet its responsibilities, the international community is obligated to act. It is not a right to intervene but a responsibility to protect.
The distinction is not diplomatic artifice. After the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the 1995 massacre in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, the international community resolved to never again be a passive spectator to mass murder. Still, it would not have been surprising if R2P had quietly expired after 2005. The United Nations, after all, can be a place where "good ideas go to die." Instead, within the U.N. the debate now is about how R2P should be meaningfully implemented, rather than whether such a responsibility exists….
If I were the House Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee or the Senate Armed Services Committee, I sure would like to know what those foreign ministers and especially our SECSTATE or UN Ambassador were saying about R2P! I might even suggest that, in televised hearings, that before the US endorse or adhere to any newly fashionable concepts of sovereignty, the elected representatives of the people of the United States should be informed and consulted.
Simon Adams, like most commenters in the R2P debate, is focused on the impact an R2P doctrine as part of international law would have on military intervention, especially the frequency of American military intervention. This is reasonable because, logically, R2P implies much larger burdens and more frequent interventions overseas. But the flip side, if you look at the implication of "new sovereignty" as articulated by Dr. Slaughter, are changes to how we as Americans govern ourselves, transfers of power and authority to unelected officials, private interests and even foreigners, as well as limitations on democratic consent.
[Limitations on the democratic consent of the unwashed masses seems to be popular lately with the political elite]
Speaking of Anne Marie Slaughter, she recently penned a curious op-ed about Afghanistan that is not a retreat from R2P, but comes across as at least a step back from seeking maximalist policy objectives with military force, in the face of messy realities:
Where the Afghanistan effort broke down
….For a long time I was convinced that the NATO intervention in Afghanistan could be successful at building a functioning Afghan government that would provide basic services to its citizens. My views were largely shaped by my regular conversations with my long-time friend Sarah Chayes, who lived in Kandahar for much of past decade running first a dairy cooperative and then a soap and fragrance business with Afghans. We were failing, in her view, because of the high NATO tolerance for the cancerous corruption that was sucking the life out of the country, starting at the top. Her book Punishment of Virtue tells the tale, describing how Afghans genuinely committed to rebuilding their country have been systematically driven out or killed by their compatriots who are profiting from the enormous in-flux of money and opportunity that inevitably accompanies large-scale Western intervention in a poor country. She thought, and I agreed, that the U.S. had had an opportunity to help rebuild a very different Afghanistan immediately after the invasion, and that it was still possible to empower the good guys if we were really willing to take on the bad guys profiting at the local, regional, and national level.
Over the past two years, I have reluctantly changed my mind. I have come to believe that where the problem is a predatory state, which the very presence of massive Western resources tends to fuel, it is essentially impossible for outsiders to spur or even effectively support a process of reform from within when we are a big part of the problem by being there in the first place. Stewart makes the argument succinctly and effectively: "the international community necessarily [lacks] the knowledge, the power, and the legitimacy to engage with politics at a local provincial level."
I would add a much more personal dimension, one that is consistent with a 21st century focus on social actors and social relations as well as on governments and inter-governmental relations. The "international community" does not engage with Afghans. Individual men and women (mostly men) do. Those individuals – diplomats, soldiers, development professionals – develop personal relationships with Afghan officials at the national, provincial, and local level. They have to work together on common programs; moreover, the Americans or Europeans are doing their best to cultivate personal relationship in part to garner exactly the knowledge they know they lack. But once those relationships are established, how exactly is a general or a captain, an ambassador or a political counselor, a USAID Mission Director or a field development expert supposed to turn to his or her Afghan counterparts and interlocutors and explain that they should really stop taking bribes and looting the funds intended for their fellow Afghans? And once the denial is issued, as of course it must be, then what? Accuse him or her of lying? The problems that are most central cannot even be talked about honestly. They are always someone else's fault. But if they cannot be acknowledged, they cannot be resolved.
It is at this micro-level that policies must actually be implemented. And it is at this level that I conclude state-building military interventions are much more likely to fail than to succeed.
Slaughter, in my view, is more insightful with her empirical analysis of the granular mechanics of international relations than the theoretical and especially legal constructs she builds from them. Military force is a blunt instrument; whether you approach it from a Clausewitzian perspective or one partial to Sun Tzu, the ability to extract desired political concessions with violence – to compel the enemy to do your will – becomes more difficult and costly as your ends are at once both expansive and "fine-tuned". We transformed and fine-tuned the societies of defeated Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan, but only after waging the greatest total war since the Mongols sacked Persia. Bismarckian strategic talent to accomplish major ( but not maximalist) strategic goals at reasonably affordable ( but not cheap) costs is an extreme historical rarity.
Finally, Dan Drezner has re-engaged Slaughter on the point of networks in international relations and politics:
Do networks transform the democratic political process?
….As a social scientist, I must acknowledge that this is a powerful prima facie data point in favor of Slaughter.
And yet, it's worth pushing the NYT thesis a bit. What happens when the coalition of like-minded individuals stop being of like mind? These sorts of protests can be very powerful on single-issue questions where a single policy change is desired. Maintaining this level of activism to affect the ongoing quotidian grubbiness of politics, however, is a far more difficult undertaking. Even if people can be mobilized behind the concept of "Policy X is Stupid!" getting the same consensus on "Policy Y is the Answer!" is harder. Over time, these kind of mass movements have an excellent chance of withering away or fracturing from within. See, for example, the Tahrir Square movement in Egypt.
Another thing, and this is important: unless the people in these movements actually vote in elections, then their agenda will be thwarted in the long run. Even if these kinds of networked movements are new, the political imperative to get elected and re-elected is not. If they don't vote, then officials have a pretty powerful incentive to curry favor with the people who do vote, don't take to the streets and don't like these young whippersnappers with their interwebs have different policy preferences.
On the transformative nature of networks, I think Slaughter is, in the big picture, correct that scale free networks are different from hierarchies in important behavioral and structural ways. RAND scholar David Ronfeldt, a friend of this blog, has a paper that I would strongly recommend that looks at the sociopolitical nature of tribes, hierarchies, markets and networks that has great relevance to this discussion. Drezner's counter-point to Slaughter has traction because although networks are powerful, it is a matter of comparative advantage over other social forms in certain environments, but not all environments.
Moreover, a lot of what Slaughter is calling "networks" – especially the "governmental networks" that occur in and within IGOs are really organizations with the characteristic of modularity and are not naturally emergent scale free social networks like your twitter follower list. Secondly, networks have weaknesses as well as strengths and history is replete with networks – like political and social protest movements, peasant rebellions and revolutionary conspiracies – that were unceremoniously and thoroughly crushed by the power of ruling hierarchies. Third, and most important, the de facto existence of tacit, dynamically evolving, social networks as political movers to be taken seriously is not itself a good reason to grant them de jure status in international law as legitimate, authority-wielding, actors.
In fact, I can think of many good reasons not to do so.
[Belated hat tips to Cheryl Rofer, Bruce Kesler, David Ronfeldt]
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Q: How to define []= and at() = for a custom collection? EDIT: This question is not for overriding the operator [] I know how to do that
I have implemented My own collection class, and for assigning data I would like to provide the same operators/functions as std::vector.
However, I have not been able to find a way to define the operators [index]=elm and at(index) = elm.
I am not even completely sure what to terms to search for as these two are not exactly operators

A: Define your operator[] overload and your at function to return a reference to the specified item. You can then assign the new value through that reference.

A: There is no []= operator. If your operator[] function returns a reference that can be assigned to, that's all you need.
Simple example to demonstrate the idea.
struct Foo
{
    int i;
    int& operator[](int) { return i; };
    int operator[](int) const { return i; };
}

Now you can use
Foo f;
f[10] = 20;   // The index is not used by Foo::operator[]
              // This is just to demonstrate the syntax.

You need to do the same with the at() function.

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Q: data = null withRest (rest client) in Grails I'm having a problem with the HTTPBuilder rest client in grails. Code below:
withHttp(uri: "http://uclassify.com") {
                println "fetching comment sentiments for " + comment.content
                get(path : '/browse/uClassify/Sentiment/ClassifyText/', query : [readkey: key, text: comment.content, version: '1.01'], requestContentType: ContentType.XML){resp, data ->
                    println "data:"
                    println resp.getData()
                    println "status"
                    println resp.getStatus()
                    println "status line"
                    println resp.getStatusLine()
                    println "headers"
                    println resp.getAllHeaders()

                    println "data again"
                    println data
                    println "finished"
                }

The headers return correctly compared with headers shown in firebug and curl, however the body of the response is always null. Content-length 383 would imply the server is returning the data (same size compared with header in firebug).
Here is the stdout that is produced.
fetching comment sentiments for something
data:
null
status
200
status line
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
headers
[Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:55:40 GMT, Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0, X-Powered-By: ASP.NET, X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727, Set-Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=ipttqq55rini0t555i53zmvd; path=/; HttpOnly, Cache-Control: private, Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8, Content-Length: 383]
data again

finished
fetching comments complete

any ideas or recommendations?
Thanks


Added by David van der Spoel 6 months ago. Updated 5 months ago.
The routine get_atom_index in mtop_util.cpp works for only one molecule at a time. The routine is used for normal mode analysis with vsites or shells and for analysis of the result using gmx nmeig.
Updated normal modes output for sw-dimer.
Change get_atom_index to allow multiple molecules.
Make gromacs take into account atoms in all molecules.
tests has been submitted as well.
which is fixed here as well.
Gerrit received a related patchset '3' for Issue #2720.
Gerrit received a related patchset '1' for Issue #2720.
A problem with the normal mode calculations itself surfaced as well unfortunately, related to virtual sites and shells.


Governor Ibikunle Amosun, who supervised the exercise said the open process was a demonstration of the transparent democratic ideals of the APC.
According to him, candidates for the three remaining seats as well as those of the National Assembly seats, will be adopted on Tuesday.
The exercise, however, witnessed some protests as some members particularly from the Ogun East Senatorial District expressed dissatisfaction over the process.


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Primary School Workshops | Ages 10-12
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Introduction to Millennium Goals
The United Nations Millennium Declaration, signed in September 2000 commits world leaders to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, discrimination against women amongst many more global challenges. How can students contribute to meeting the Millenium goals? This module will provide young minds with the skills, mindsets and values to tackle the Millenium Goals.
Exponential technologies such as artificial intelligence, advanced robotics, virtual reality, biotechnology, and digital medicine are a major source innovation, invention, and discovery. Breakthroughs in this area have the potential to positively affect billions of lives. This workshop will explore the impact of emerging technologies on the way we live and work.
Future Fluencies & 21C Skills
We live in a world of accelerating change. New industries are constantly being born and old ones are becoming obsolete. A report by the World Economic Forum reveals that almost 65 percent of the jobs elementary school students will be doing in the future do not even exist yet. Both the workforce and our knowledge base are rapidly evolving. What are the skills future generations will need? This workshops will give an overview of the critical survival skills that our youth will need.
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The way the NHS is purchasing goods and services is changing.
A number of NHS organisations have selected The Edge4Health as their new and intuitive online eMarketplace.
And Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICH), as part of the Shelford Group, is the latest to implement the platform.
The Shelford Group is a collection of trusts comprised of England's leading NHS multi-specialty academic healthcare organisations and is in the middle of its rollout programme of the Edge4Health.
The Edge4Health provides a comprehensive, online, end-to-end PIM2Pay platform delivering a solution that spans the entire product lifecycle – from product information management (PIM) to payment (eInvoice).
The platform is designed to meet exacting healthcare & GS1 eCommerce standards, including a consumer-style experience to accelerate the pace of adoption.
Built upon agile, disruptive, cloud-based technology, its 'responsive design' enables full functionality to be delivered online, to device and mobile, supporting and improving productivity at the front-line of the NHS for both trusts and suppliers.
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust selected the platform so it could manage all products in one location, providing a holistic view of its suppliers' product ranges, catalogues and prices.
Denis Kelliher, the trust's head of procurement, said: "We reviewed the whole market and felt The Edge4Health offered the best solution for procurement staff to manage price variation, contract compliance and improve efficiency.
"As part of the Carter Review we have been set a target to ensure 80% of spend is captured via a catalogue solution.
"With The Edge4Health, we believe we can maintain and exceed our current percentage spend on catalogue.
The platform will also offer suppliers to the NHS a single marketplace to display rich product data such as specifications, images, videos, articles and importantly matching their attributes to the Department of Health's Global Data Source requirements.
A single place to manage price files and contracts will also offer suppliers an enhanced channel of communication directly into the NHS buying and sourcing teams.
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Archbishop Oscar Cruz wants list of bishops who accept PAGCOR donations
Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Emeritus Oscar Cruz wants to know who among Catholic bishops have accepted donations from the government-owned gambling agency, Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR), reports PhilStar.com.
The list of PAGCOR donation recipients is confidential but Cruz, the chairman of Krusadang Bayan Laban sa Sugal, hopes to obtain the list through the passage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill. The bill failed to be ratified due to a lack of quorum on the last day of session of the previous congress, but various groups are currently pushing for the bill's passage, reports Inquirer.net.
If the list is made available to the public, Cruz will present it to the Plenary Assembly of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP). Based on two pastoral statements of the CBCP, bishops are not allowed to receive donations from legal or illegal gambling, Cruz said in an article posted on CBCPNews.com.
"Truth knows no party. I'm sorry but I'm just saying that the truth will set us free," Cruz said. "The CBCP never claims sanctity nor sainthood but it doesn't mean that it should also be dishonored by contradictions to their own pronouncements."
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Q: accessing route prefix in app/providers i have a multi template website , i've created multiple folder for differetn templates in my views folder  ... but i have 1 admin template and i want to load admin section from that folder for all
in my route i have something like
Route::group(['namespace' => 'Cp', 'prefix' => 'cp'  , 'middleware'=>['admin' ,'auth'] ], function()
{

    Route::get('/' ,  'IndexController@index' )->name('index_cp');
});

in app/providers/ViewServiceProvider.php im changing template folder dynamically based on database stored value , but im trying to get the prefix of current route so if its cp it ignores the template folder and loads template from cp folder
    public function registerViewFinder()
    {
        $request = app(\Illuminate\Http\Request::class);
        dump($request->route()->getPrefix());
        if($request->route()->getPrefix() != 'cp')
        {
         // read from db &  set the template folder
        }

    }

im getting this error
Call to a member function getPrefix() on null

basically $request->route()  returns null

A: I think rather than going for the getPrefix way you could use the is() method on the request object,
where the is method does the following

The is method allows you to verify that the incoming request URI
  matches a given pattern. You may use the * character as a wildcard
  when utilizing this method:

if (request()->is('cp/*')) {
   // do the template switching.
}

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The radio was introduced as an Oldsmobile option. The radio worked well, but it proved to be so easily stolen that it was dropped by GM. Included is the dashboard mounting unit. This work was done in 1957-8.


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Samsung and IBM utilising 5G and AI to improve safety
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Technology giants Samsung and IBM Cloud have joined forces, leveraging their joint capabilities to provide innovative safety platforms.
Who are IBM Cloud and Samsung?
IBM Cloud - a leading hybrid cloud company, that has over 60 cloud data centers, in 19 countries as well as 18 availability zones, in six regions. IBM Cloud advises, moves, builds and manages cloud solutions for its customers in the public and private sectors. IBM Cloud utilizes innovative technology such as cloud-native APIs, AI, blockchain, IoT, serverless and quantum computing, and consistent functions.
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In the US nearly 3mn deaths occur each year due to occupational accidents, according to the International Labour Organization. IBM and Samsung have partnered alongside governments and enterprises to help improve the work environments for police officers, firefighters and other first responders.
The software will be built on IBM Cloud and will allow clients to track their workers vitals and other key indicators in real-time. With the help of Samsung's Galaxy watches and Galaxy smartphones managers will be instantly alerted if there are any changes in the key data points, which could indicate the responder is at risk.
Samsung reports that the devices can be customized to withstand intense environments and are currently being piloted by multiple police forces.
"IBM continues to bring leading cloud and AI capabilities with deep industry expertise to our enterprise clients," said Martin Schroeter, senior vice president of global markets, IBM. "Together, IBM and Samsung will use the power of IBM Cloud, 5G, AI and edge computing to enable our clients to leverage these advanced technologies to have greater impact on the way people work, shop and protect their health and families."
Did you know? Samsungs 2018 revenue was 284.58bn.
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Open data collaboration creates new services
Thirty-five municipalities and three regions in Denmark have joined forces in Open Data DK, a data portal that makes public data open. Greater transparency has been achieved by allowing citizens and businesses easy access free of charge to data. New services have also sprouted up, including a parking app that has used data over a million times from Aarhus Municipality from a multi-storey car park.
Usually, whenever citizens or businesses wanted access to public data, they had to contact the individual municipality or region to get permission from researchers or apply for the right to access documents. This was a time-consuming, often cumbersome process. There was no universally available single point of entry offering free, quick and easy access to public data generated by local authorities. This meant that much of the data were never used.
In 2015 five municipalities and one region joined forces to create Open Data DK, a data portal that aims to create greater transparency in public administration. Making public data open and accessible helps to provide fertile soil for data-driven growth. Local authorities and regions are free to publish their own data sets, made available on the same open-source platform and in the same formats. This means that citizens, companies and others can use the open data easily and free of charge to develop new applications or services. The data can also serve as a foundation for research and analyses. The app mentioned above allows people to find available parking spaces. Elsewhere, local authorities, regions and companies have joined forces in regional communities to create innovative solutions, for example in the tourism and mobility sectors. In the cities of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg, a new app provides directions to all playgrounds in the area. Regions and municipalities can become members of Open Data DK for an annual subscription of 25,000 DKK. The aim is to release as many comparable datasets as possible and to create a common standard and increase value using previously collected public data.
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At a meeting of the UNAIDS PCB in Geneva, UN agencies, governments and NGOs gathered to discuss 'fast-tracking' the international HIV response. In the sidelines, Harm Reduction International, is ringing the alarm bells for people who inject drugs, who are being left behind in global efforts to end AIDS by 2030.
Since 2006, HRI has mapped the response to drug-related HIV and viral hepatitis epidemics in policy and practice around the world. Collaborating with service providers, academics and advocates to pull in information from every corner of the globe, this is the only project of its kind. But it ultimately tells a tale of political neglect, unchecked epidemics and systemic human rights violations.
Released last month, the 5th edition of the Global State of Harm Reduction report shows that of 158 countries where injecting drug use is reported, more than a third (68) still do not provide needle and syringe programs and half (78) do not offer opioid substitution therapy.
For the first time, we report no progress in the number of new countries establishing needle and syringe programs. This is especially worrying given the increasing amphetamine injecting reported in all regions, a practice already linked to HIV outbreaks in several countries.
The benefits to employing harm reduction approaches are many – harm reduction saves lives, saves money and promotes the dignity and human rights of people who use drugs. With a vast evidence base behind them, the implementation of harm reduction programs is a no-brainer from health, economic and human rights perspectives.


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TAMPA, Fla. -- Gio Gonzalez reported to Yankees camp on Tuesday for his physical, which general manager Brian Cashman said he passed. The left-hander, who signed a Minor League deal with the Yankees, is expected to throw in the bullpen on Thursday and could appear in a Grapefruit League game as soon as Saturday against the Blue Jays.
"Now he'll go into the Larry Rothschild University program and see where it takes us," Cashman said, referring to the Yankees' veteran pitching coach.
Though Gonzalez has been active during his period as a free agent, throwing about 80 pitches on Monday, the 33-year-old has not regularly faced hitters and is not expected to be ready for Opening Day.
"I defer to Larry Rothschild now," Cashman said. "He'll engage the player, who'll tell him what he's been doing. There has to be an aspect of trust and believability there, and then he'll see a bullpen session. He's done his physical assessment, so all those evaluations will come into play to see if he's plug-and-play."
Gonzalez's contract is worth $3 million if he's in the Majors, plus $300,000 for each start he makes, and includes an April 20 opt-out clause.
Gonzalez, 33, was among the most accomplished starters remaining on the free-agent market after going 10-11 with a 4.21 ERA with the Nationals and Brewers last season. Washington dealt its long-tenured southpaw to Milwaukee on Aug. 31 along with international bonus pool money for two Minor Leaguers, and Gonzalez went 3-0 with a 2.13 ERA across five starts down the stretch for the Crew. He also made two brief starts against the Dodgers in the National League Championship Series.
Gonzalez owns a career 3.69 ERA across 313 Major League appearances (307 starts) and has averaged 187 innings per season over the last nine campaigns with Oakland, Washington and Milwaukee. He has finished as high as third in NL Cy Young voting, with that placement coming with the Nationals in 2012.


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Police officer dies after 13-year in coma from on-duty crash
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A Connecticut police officer who spent 13 years in a coma following a high-speed collision with another officer's vehicle has died. The New Haven Register reported Tuesday that Officer Diane Gonzalez suffered a traumatic brain injury. The New Haven Police Department said the 60-year-old Gonzalez succumbed to her injuries Monday. On Sept. 9, 2008, she and another officer were responding to a report of a violent domestic dispute when their cars collided at an intersection in central New Haven. Gonzalez was 13-year veteran of the department.


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Laurent Wetzel, né le  à Landerneau (Finistère) et mort le  à Clamart, est un universitaire, homme politique et essayiste français. Il est maire de Sartrouville entre 1989 et 1995.

Biographie

Marié et père de trois enfants, Laurent Wetzel, né le  à Landerneau (Finistère), est le fils de Jacques Wetzel, polytechnicien, ingénieur du génie maritime, actuaire agrégé et d'Hélène Durosoy, infirmière et assistante sociale. Il effectue sa scolarité au lycée du Havre, à l'école du Sacré-Cœur et au lycée Claude-Bernard à Paris ().

En 1969, il est reçu à l'École normale supérieure (promotion L1969), après une préparation au lycée Louis-le-Grand où il a été l'élève en français et latin d'André Lagarde.

Il participe avec Michel Leroy, Franck Lessay et Michel Prigent à un groupe de normaliens de droite.

En 1973, il est agrégé d'histoire.

Carrière
Laurent Wetzel a été professeur d'histoire-géographie-éducation civique, de 1973 à1986, dans plusieurs collèges et lycées franciliens. En 1977, il a été maître de conférences en histoire contemporaine à l'IEP de Paris, et, en 1985-1986, professeur d'histoire politique à Sup de Co de Paris. Il a été inspecteur d'académie-inspecteur pédagogique régional d'histoire-géographie dans les académies de Reims (1990, 1995-1998), Rouen (1998-1999), Créteil (1999-2008) et  Versailles (2008-2011).

Retraité depuis 2011 et délié de son devoir de réserve, il a publié, en 2012, aux éditions François Bourin, un livre intitulé Ils ont tué l'histoire-géo, dans lequel il dénonce l' et le  des hauts fonctionnaires qui dirigent le ministère de l'Éducation nationale ainsi que l'inculture du personnel politique français en matière historique, géographique et juridique.

Il a été chargé de mission au Service d'information et de diffusion du Premier ministre (1977-1978), et aux cabinets de Jean-François Deniau, ministre du Commerce extérieur, puis des Réformes administratives (1978-1981), de Gérard Longuet, ministre des Postes et Télécommunications (1986), et d'André Giraud, ministre de la Défense (1987-1988).

Parcours politique et mandats électifs
Jeune normalien, Laurent Wetzel a adhéré au parti « Progrès et Liberté » que Jacques Soustelle avait fondé au retour de son second exil. Il appréciait en Jacques Soustelle le brillant ethnologue qui avait adhéré à la Ligue contre l'antisémitisme dès 1932, appartenu au Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes en 1935, condamné les accords de Munich au lendemain de leur signature en 1938, rallié la France Libre en , fondé en 1957 l'Alliance France-Israël avec le concours de Menachem Begin, et condamné les conditions dans lesquelles l'Algérie était devenue indépendante, ce qui lui avait valu d'être banni durant sept ans.

À la suite des élections municipales de 1983, Laurent Wetzel est devenu conseiller municipal d'opposition (UDF-CDS) de Sartrouville (deuxième commune du département des Yvelines). En , il refuse d'assister à l'inauguration d'une rue Marcel Paul en rappelant, entre autres,

Le , le Tribunal de grande instance de Versailles le relaxe du grief de diffamation de la mémoire de Marcel Paul, après qu'il eut obtenu de la  Chambre correctionnelle du Tribunal de grande instance de Paris en  la condamnation de ses adversaires pour injure publique.

Maire de Sartrouville
Élu maire de Sartrouville en 1989 en battant Auguste Chrétienne, maire communiste depuis , Laurent Wetzel procède, alors que tombe le Mur de Berlin, à une opération de « débolchévisation du paysage urbain ». Le Conseil municipal renomme la rue Hô Chi Minh Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny, la rue Karl-Marx Alexis-de-Tocqueville, la rue Lénine Général-de-Gaulle, la rue Marcel-Cachin Charles-Péguy, la rue Maurice-Thorez Robert-Schuman, la rue Benoît-Frachon Léon-Jouhaux, la rue Paul-Vaillant-Couturier Pierre-Brossolette, la rue Jacques-Duclos Saint-Exupéry, la rue Marcel-Paul D'Estienne-d'Orves, la rue Ambroise-Croizat Claudius Petit et la rue 19-Mars-1962 Bachaga Boualam. La salle municipale Nelson Mandela est également rebaptisée Félix Éboué.

En mars-, après avoir dénoncé les certificats d'hébergement et les attestations d'accueil comme vecteurs de l'immigration illégale en France et obtenu la condamnation par la  Chambre correctionnelle du Tribunal de grande instance de Paris du président de la plus importante société d'HLM française, la SCIC, pour violation de la loi antiraciste pour avoir refusé d'attribuer un logement social à une jeune Algérienne, Laurent Wetzel affrontera les émeutes qui ont embrasé Sartrouville à la suite du meurtre d'un jeune Algérien par un jeune vigile tunisien.

Le , Laurent Wetzel est réélu conseiller général de Sartrouville avec plus de 53 % des voix contre 34 % au candidat socialiste et 12,5 % au candidat du Front national.

Aux élections législatives de mars 1993 dans la V circonscription des Yvelines, il est battu au second tour par Jacques Myard, maire RPR de Maisons-Laffitte. Après plusieurs mois d'instruction et d'hésitations, le Conseil constitutionnel, présidé par Robert Badinter, confirme, le , l'élection de Jacques Myard, sur requête de Claude Guéant, directeur adjoint de cabinet de Charles Pasqua, ministre RPR de l'Intérieur.

Autres activités politiques
Depuis 1990, Laurent Wetzel est membre du comité directeur et du bureau de l'Association France-Israël Alliance Général-Koenig.

Aux élections municipales de 1995, Laurent Wetzel est battu par le candidat RPR Pierre Fond. Le tribunal administratif de Versailles a d'abord annulé le scrutin en raison de rumeurs jugées calomnieuses d'une hospitalisation  sous contrainte au centre hospitalier Sainte-Anne de Laurent Wetzel qui ont couru dans Sartrouville et sur les ondes le . Mais le Conseil d'État a finalement confirmé l'élection de la liste RPR menée par Pierre Fond.

Après un rapprochement de quelques semaines avec le Front national en 1997, au siège duquel il lit que le commissaire de police de Sartrouville qui l'avait arrêté le  à la tête de la Brigade anti-criminalité était un adhérent du FN, il critique vivement, le , devant le Conseil général des Yvelines les propos tenus par Jean-Marie Le Pen à Munich devant son "ami" Franz Schönhuber, ancien membre du parti nazi et de la Waffen SS, le .

Aux élections régionales de , Laurent Wetzel conduit la liste Ensemble contre la corruption dans les Yvelines.

À l'automne 2013, Laurent Wetzel échoue à se faire élire au Conseil d'administration de l'Association des anciens élèves de l'École normale supérieure en raison d'une fraude destinée selon lui à le faire battre.

Le  mars 2017, il fait partie des membres fondateurs du Cercle InterHallier.

Décès
Il meurt le 12 octobre 2021, à l'âge de .

Ouvrages
 Un internement politique sous la  République. Barbouzes et blouses blanches; Odilon Media, 1997
 Ils ont tué l'histoire-géo; François Bourin, 2012.
 Vingt intellectuels sous l'Occupation - Des résistants aux collabos; Monaco (éditions du Rocher), 2020.

Notes et références

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Naissance en janvier 1950
Naissance à Landerneau
Élève de l'École normale supérieure
Agrégé d'histoire
Conseiller général des Yvelines
Personnalité du Centre des démocrates sociaux
Personnalité de l'Union pour la démocratie française
Maire de Sartrouville
Décès à 71 ans
Décès en octobre 2021
Décès à Clamart


This was a weekend antelope hunt in Ft. Sumner, New Mexico. There were eleven hunters in camp. All taged out the first. I killed the smallest goat (my choice) at 13.5 inches. There was one over 17 inches and an overall average of over 15 inches for the eleven antelope. There were plenty of antelope to choose from as we only hunted a fraction of the property available. There was no need to see it all. The food was good and the guides were great. I would recemend this hunt to anyone looking for a quality antelope as well as a good time.


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St. Adrian was a Berber, a native of North Africa. He was the Abbot of a Monastery near Naples, called "Monasterium Niridanum", on the island of Nisida. He was offered the vacant Archbishopric of Canterbury by Pope Vitalian, two separate times, but modestly declined the appointment.
He first recommended that it should be given to Andrew, a monk belonging to a neighboring Nunnery, who also declined on the plea of being too old. When the offer was made the second time to Adrian, he introduced to the Pontiff his friend Theodore of Tarsus, who then by chance happened to be in Rome, and who agreed to take the position. Pope Vitalian, however stipulated that Adrian should accompany the new Archbishop to Britain. He gave as his reasons that Adrian, having twice before made a journey into Gaul, knew the road and the mode of traveling.
The two set out for Rome on May 27, 668. From there they went north to France, and parted ways. Adrian became the first Bishop of Sens. Adrian was detained by order of Ebrion, who is said to have suspected him of being a emissary of the Greek emperor sent to stir up troubles against the kingdom of the Franks. Finally, Adrian was permitted to proceed to England, where upon his arrival was made the Abbot of the Monastery of St. Peter, later called St. Augustine's Abbey at Canterbury.
Adrian was known to be a man that was well versed in the Bible, as well as Greek and Latin, and an excellent Administrator. Under his direction the abbey came to have substantial, far reaching influence. He taught many the languages of Greet and Latin, and a record of his teaching is preserved in the Leiden Glossary. Adrian long survived his friend the Archbishop, and is said to have lived for thirty-nine years after he came to England, continuing until his death, presiding over the monastery at Canterbury. He died on January 9th, which the Church celebrates his feast day. He is buried in the church of the monastery.
St. Adrian was a Berber, a native of North Africa. He was the Abbot of a Monastery near Naples, called "Monasterium Niridanum", on the island of Nisida. He was offered the position as Archbishop of Canterbury, and declined, so he could remain as the abbot of the monastery of Canterbury. He was well versed in both Greek and Latin, and was able to have substantial influence because of his great teaching.


If you have never had Ethiopian food, you must try it! I always take guests to Ethiopian Diamond for their first taste of this delicacy. While there are other Ethiopian restaurants in the city such as Demera and Ras Dashen, I primarily go to Ethiopian Diamond. When I lived in Roger's Park, this was so close that I never really ventured further to Edgewater and Uptown to try the other two places. Ethiopian food is very naturally vegan-friendly. They serve food in a communal-style way. Everything is eaten with your hands by using a certain bread called injera bread (it is somewhat like crepe sourdough bread). Greens, potatoes, and lentils are a big component of vegan Ethiopian cooking. Another must is the Ethiopian spice mix, berbere. I have tried making injera on my own and it was a total disaster. Luckily, if you want to have your own Ethiopian feast at home, there are a number of African groceries in Roger's Park & Edgewater where you can buy injera.
Towards the end of the menu at Ethiopian Diamond, there is a whole page of vegetarian selections. They are all vegan! One can choose any of these entrees, a combination, or a "Taste of Ethiopia" for one or two people. To start, I love to get the veggie combo sambusa. If you've never had sambusa, they are basically like a flat, triangular samosa. The veggie combo includes the lentil, spinach, and the potato and carrot sambusa's.
For entree's, I usually go with a friend and get two orders of the veggie combo. It is cheaper than getting the "Taste of Ethiopia" for two people. We get six of the seven options to choose from on the combo. The options we usually get are the yemisir watt (spicy red lentils), kik alicha (split peas in sauce), gomen (collard greens), tikel gomen (cabbage and carrots), yatkilt watt (string beans, carrots, and potatoes in sauce), and dinich alicha (potatoes and carrots in sauce). The seventh option is quosta (spinach). This whole dinner comes on a large platter a top of injera bread with a salad in the middle. I love the salad dressing at Ethiopian Diamond! They also bring extra bread to eat the dishes. My favorite is the gomen. I really love greens, though. My friend's favorite is the yemisir watt, but he loves spicy foods.
There is also a special dish on the vegetarian menu which I have never tried. It is the shimbra assa. It is chick pea dough that is formed to look like fish watt (stew). There is also the tofu tibs which is grilled tofu with vegetables in a sauce. I'm usually way too full for dessert, but I believe all the desserts have honey in them.
On Friday's and Saturdays, there is usually a live band playing Ethiopian music at the Broadway location. There is another location on Clark St. near the Howard Red Line stop (Ethiopian Diamond II).
I give Ethiopian Diamond a 4.5/5 stars. They loose half a star because it can be really busy sometimes and the wait staff suffers in service. If you get the chance to try Ethiopian food, I strongly recommend it! It is one of my favorite types of food, for sure.
ETA: Oddly enough, I decided to use my Groupon I had for Demera last night (was going to Drew's Eatery, but it has sadly closed). We had the veggie sampler sambusa which were spinach and lentil. They were more flaky than the ones at Ethiopian Diamond and the sauce was spicier. Overall, I think I liked Demera's more. The entree was similar to what I get at Ethiopian Diamond - a mix of six different dishes with a salad in the middle. I finally had shimbra assa! I really loved it. Definitely a fan. Overall, I prefer Ethiopian Diamond's entree dishes to Demera. The ones at Ethiopian Diamond are much more flavorful and robust. The salad dressing is better there too (I really like salads!). It wasn't bad by any means, just comparing the two, I did not prefer it. The Groupon came with a dessert, so we had a dessert sambusa. Be warned it comes with raspberry sauce and a load of white chocolate sauce and whipped cream which I didn't realize. I was told the sambusa was vegan, so I had a few bites of it with raspberry sauce. It was also very flaky like the appetizer sambusa's. It was filled with an almond paste type thing which was the perfect amount of sweet. I give Demera a 3.5/5 stars. If Ethiopian Diamond is super busy (which it tends to be on a weekend night) and you don't want to drive all the way to the Howard stop, I would check out Demera. Plus, The Green Mill is just across the way. Love that place!
Also, I stopped by Tai Nam Market last night after I wrote about how many mock meat options they sell in my previous post. Wow, Yelp was right! They had three freezers full of all kinds of faux meat. Be warned, some of it has eggs and whey powder in it. So, not everything is vegan, though it is vegetarian. I ended up getting a bunch of things because weird mock meats kind of make my laugh and hey, it's vegan. I got "chicken", "pork", and "shrimp". They also had vegan pork belly, salted fish fillets, tuna slices, etc. It is worth going there just to check out the crazy selection they have. Vegan mutton, anyone? It's there.
Now I just have to find an Ethiopian restaurant in my area.I'm a little afraid it's going to be too spicy.
It usually isn't spicy! Even the dishes marked "spicy" tend to be pretty mild overall. I'd say between mild and medium in spice level. I am not a fan of spice myself, so I understand how you feel!


This lovely hotel enjoys an idyllic location near the popular beach of Megali Ammos where there are many taverns, restaurants and mini supermarkets. Skiathos town is only 800 metres away and there is a bus stop just next to the property, allowing guests to easy access the rest of the island. Offering great views across the sea and the neighbouring islands from the terrace and a few or the rooms, the hotel features pleasant guest rooms, equipped with useful amenities such as comfortable beds, private bathrooms, a mini fridge and air-conditioning upon request. A fantastic breakfast buffet is served each morning and delicious à la carte options are available for lunch and for dinner at the on-site restaurant. Guests can spend a relaxing day on the beach or soak up the sun by the sparkling hotel's outdoor pool while sipping a refreshing drink from the bar. The hotel also offers a cosy TV lounge, where visitors may relax after a busy day of shopping or sightseeing.
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