Published quarterly, The NDT Technician provides information valuable to NDT practitioners and a platform for discussion of issues relevant to their profession. Information will include write-ups on NDT practice, advertising, employment and relevant ASNT activities. Content includes technical feature articles, practical tips and advice, technician profiles, a crossword challenge, and Tech Toons.
The NDT Technician is now available online for free! Click here to access the digital edition.
The April issue of The NDT Technician includes the first of a two-part feature on internal corrosion detection, as well as a Working Smarter feature on storing quantitative quality indicators. The issue also introduces a new series on workforce development and outreach, with an article spotlighting the work that NDE Institute has done in partnering with its local government and community. The Practitioner Profile highlights Glenda Molope.
Share your stories and insight into the NDT profession by submitting your papers to this practical, quarterly publication.
Showcase your company, products, and services within the pages of The NDT Technician! Follow the link or contact Advertising Supervisor Diane Oen at doen@asnt.org for more information.


If it's in my beak, it's mine.
If I'm chewing something, all the pieces are mine.
If it looks just like mine, it's mine.
If you have something and put it down, it automatically becomes mine.
If it's something that I can reach, it's mine.


text:
Email: info@warwick-interiors.com | Phone: 250.342.6264 | Toll Free: 1.877.342.7085
Best Paints
Carpet consists of two parts; the pile, which is the twisted strands of fibre that make up the surface of the carpet that you can see and feel, and the backing, which is the material that the pile is attached to and gives the carpet its strength and stretchability. Traditionally the pile is made from twisted or knotted wool but, modern carpet pile is also made from a synthetic fibre like polypropylene or nylon.The pile is dyed and cut and twisted in a certain way to create the look and style of the carpet.
Carpet is the softest floorcovering, especially when coupled with a quality underpad. The comfort of the soft surface is great for walking barefoot and lying or playing on the floor. This makes it the ideal choice for bedrooms, family rooms and rec rooms. The pile of the carpet brings more special properties, such as sound dampening, grip, which makes it perfect for stairs, and durability. Carpet by nature cannot be scratched which makes it ideal for pets to walk on, although it is prone to staining.
Copyright © 2016 Warwick Interiors.
Contractors | Employment | Privacy Policy | Contact Us

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Die Juedische - MEP Fulvio Martusciello concerned with recent German reports on Antisemitism in Germany.
Member of European Parliament Fulvio Martusciello concerned with recent German reports on Antisemitism in Germany.
MEP Fulvio Martusciello concerned with recent German reports on Antisemitism in Germany. As reported by Politico Europe this week, following German Governmental reports in response to a Parliamentary inquiry Antisemitism is on the rise in Germany.
MEP Fulvio Martusciello. We are waiting for the Fundamental Rights Agency report on Antisemitism which will be published later this year but meanwhile the indications are not good.
I urge the EU coordinator on Antisemitism to continue pushing for effective measures to fight Antisemitism such as the adoption and use of the working definition by all EU member states and the implementation of the European Parliament resolution on combating Antisemitism, MEP Fulvio Martusciello concluded.


Silva Find is an extension for Silva to allow easy creation of search forms and result pages, both for users of the public site and for authors in the SMI.
Authors can add a Silva Find object anywhere and define which fields to make searchable by end users of the public site, and/or which fields to limit to a preset value. Authors also can determine which fields should be displayed in the search results. All metadata set/fields are supported.
By default all possible custom search criterion fields and result fields are available in the SMI. Besides that, the elements of all metadata sets are also available as result fields. If these fields are indexed in the catalog, they can also be used as search criterion fields. All available fields can be enabled/disabled in the SMI.
Besides this behavior, SilvaFind also allows you to manually override the list of search criteria.


Some of my favourite experiences on this adventure are those where I've been able to get my hands dirty (literally at times). This is because not only am I learning about a new career or business at each job, but also because in many cases I'm doing something I've never done before. It's the chance to tick things off my bucket list that I hadn't even thought to write on it yet. Walking a baby camel, using a fire hose, arranging a beautiful bunch of flowers, riding a John Deere mower, taking horse x-rays, sanding furniture that I've painted…it's all been so much fun. When I was offered the opportunity to do work experience for my cousin Beau Small in his cabinet making business, Cabinetry Queensland, I was excited at the thought of getting to use some tools in the workshop. It may also have had something to do with the fact that it's located at Coolum at the Sunshine Coast, which meant I could hit the beach after work. Yay!
Beau's company, Cooper Small, undertakes both commercial and residential construction works. Cabinetry Queensland is a cabinet making business which trades under the Cooper Small banner. One of the beautiful spaces they helped to create is shown in the picture below.
It's an early 7am start for Beau and his team at their headquarters. After being introduced to my new colleagues it was time for the Monday morning meeting. An agenda had been prepared, and each item on it was discussed such as which projects have been quoted on, the status of projects that were currently being undertaken, and future opportunities.
Day 1 was interesting, as Beau had quite a few appointments to attend out of the office, and he let me come along for the ride. One was a home renovation project that his business had recently completed for a customer, and Beau wanted to check to see if everything was to her satisfaction. What a beautiful home, a small Queenslander positioned to overlook a rolling acreage property in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. Beau was genuinely interested in chatting with the owner, and was happy to follow up with any concerns she had. As someone who has done home renovations before and had some not-so-customer-focussed tradespeople doing work for me (and many fantastic ones too), it was lovely to see that Beau was all about customer service. So much work in the construction industry is through word of mouth, so quality work and good customer service is essential in my opinion.
Next we drove to Maroochydore to do a handover with the business owner and staff of an accountancy firm that had just expanded into larger premises. The office space required a complete fitout, including individual offices, desks and storage, reception desk, boardroom, team meeting and work space, kitchen and bathroom. Beau's clients were thrilled with the work, and were very excited about moving in the following week.
After that we met Beau's gorgeous family for lunch at Mooloolaba Wharf. It was a beautiful Summer's day, and the whole time we were at lunch I was trying to work out how I could work and live at the coast again. My first teaching job waaaay back in 1999 was in Noosa at the northern end of the Sunshine Coast, and I loved every bit of it. What an amazing lifestyle! People pay to holiday there (and I'm one of them) and these guys just get to pop down to the beach or canals on their lunch break. So lucky!!
When my belly was full of fish, calamari and chips (essential beach eating), we headed back to the office. Beau and his colleague Matt had to do a teleconference with an interstate client to discuss the detailed design and drawings for the fitout of a bowling alley venue. There was a lot to discuss, as the fitout included everything but the bowling alley itself, such as the reception area, dining area, seating and bathrooms. There were many drawings for each space, showing different angles and including which materials would be used. Essentially it was an opportunity for the client to be certain of what they were getting in relation to the detailed design and materials, and for Beau and Matt to be certain that they were providing exactly what the client wanted before they started undertaking work. The meeting took at least an hour, but was an important one. Afterwards the client was issued a contract to be signed to show both parties agreed to the work that was to be carried out.
Before I knew it, 3pm rolled around, and it was time for me to leave for the day. I collected my kids and mother-in-law (we were staying at their place for a couple of nights), and headed straight to the beach. Seriously, who wouldn't want this lifestyle? An early morning start, early afternoon knock-off, and beach on the doorstep. Happy days!
Day 2 was a completely different day, as I was heading into the workshop. Beau thought it'd be a great idea for me to be involved in the design and construction of a cabinet, so that I could get a full understanding of the process they go through when designing and constructing cabinetry for their clients. As it turned out, I was in the market for a new cabinet and bench for my laundry. What a coincidence! (Seriously…I had no idea we were going to do this, and had to get my husband Tim to measure up the space after he'd finished work the night before.) What I was after was a 2-door base cabinet with a bench covering it, but extending further to fly over the top of my washing machine.
Draftsman/cabinet maker Anthony was given the task of turning Tim's rough hand-drawn plan and measurements into a functional and practical architectural drawing using the Microvellum CAD program. I was able to see pictures of the front-on view, plan elevation and isometric views, so I was certain of what I'd be getting. For paying customers, a disclaimer would be added at the bottom of the drawings for them to sign, to show they agree with the design, effectively giving the go-ahead for works to begin.
Once the detailed drawings of my cabinet and bench were done, the program compiled a spreadsheet of all of the components required, and put them into a cutting list for the CNC (cutting machine) using code. The final stage in the office was to print stickers for each component on the cabinet.
This was the moment my sandals came off (literally kicking them off under the table) and my work boots went on. I'm quite amazed at how much use I've had from my trusty Blundstones on this adventure, and you can tell by the state of them!
In the workshop after the CNC machine had been turned on and given time to warm up, Anthony and Beau placed a large piece of whiteboard in position on the machine before I pressed start. And away it went! The machine cut each of the pieces of the cabinet that were required, such as the doors, shelves, sides, and kickers. It even cut each of the holes needed for screws. Before moving any of the pieces, we placed the stickers on each component, according to the layout that had been printed from the computer. Even with a relatively small cupboard, if we didn't have a guide as to which piece was which it would've been really difficult to work out.
Once the stickers were on, it was time to use the edge banding machine. It's clear on each sticker which sides of the cabinetry components need to be edged, and they're the ones that would be seen once the cabinet is constructed. You can imagine a cupboard door being cut straight from a large sheet of whiteboard has a raw edge. The edging makes it look neat, clean and finished. The edge banding machine uses a roll of edging material, which is attached using hot glue as the cabinet component is fed through the machine.
Next, we needed to scrape off any remnants of glue, and file where two pieces of edging met at a corner to make them feel smooth. Using the stickers again to work out which piece was which, we put all of the pieces of the puzzle together and constructed the base cabinet. I used an electric drill to screw in many of the screws, using the pre-drilled holes as a guide, and then used a nail gun along the edges to ensure each piece was securely in place.
After that, we used a different machine to cut an extra protective layer for the kickers, which were then sprayed evenly with glue and attached. Finally, the bench piece was cut to size and put through the edge banding machine.
The cabinet was complete! Luckily for me, I was able to lay one of the back seats of my car down, and fit the fully constructed base cabinet and bench in for my return trip to Brisbane.
For the remainder of the day, I spent time with Beau's Accounts Manager Jane. She showed me how to process purchase orders and invoices, and also explained the business's cash flow spreadsheet which she frequently updates. This spreadsheet tells a lot about what is going on in the business such as when money is due to come in, go out, or has been paid. It's also useful for planning and forecasting work. Jane's other duties involve liaising with the accountant, paying staff wages, and organising vehicle services, registration, insurance and any other bills to be paid by the business.
It was great to see a business of this size in operation, and get an understanding the many different roles people have within it.
In terms of the design and construction of cabinetry, I learnt about the importance of having accurate measurements and quality control in the manufacturing, so that when the materials are taken to site they fit exactly. Any mistakes can cost Beau's business a lot of time, money and loss of reputation, so need to be avoided.
I also confirmed that living in a location like the Sunshine Coast has many perks. I would never get bored of going to the beach every day before or after work. Love it!
Beau shared some interesting insight into his career as the business owner of a construction company in my interview with him. Click here if you'd like to check it out.
Now you can add "handyman" to your resume! you can practise your newfound skills at my place….sadly I do not live near the beach!


text:
Q: Bash: highlight command before execution (set -x) I have a bash script which executes about 20 commands and for debugging purposes I find myself scrolling through the output a lot.
Unfortunately bash doesn't tell me which part of the output is part of what command.
When I use "set -x" in the script it at least prints some information on what it just executed, but I don't really like the output it generates.
For instance, if I have this script:
#!/bin/bash

set -x
echo "foo"
if [ "$ASD" == "QWE" ] ; then
    echo "bar"
fi

I would like the output to be something like this:

echo "foo"
  foo
echo "bar"
  bar

Or maybe:

echo "foo"
  foo
if [ "value_of_ASD" == "QWE" ] ; then
echo "bar"
  bar
fi

Instead of printing the commands in bold, highlighting with a color would also be okay. But I don't just want to have "+" characters in front of the commands and I also don't like the if statements showing up like '[' value_of_ASD == QWE ']'.
How can I accomplish that with bash?
At the moment the output looks like this btw:
+ echo foo
foo
+ '[' value_of_ASD == QWE ']'
+ echo bar
bar

Edit:
One idea I had was to write a script that I would source in the very beginning of the main script and then let the sourced script parse the main one. Something like this:
source_me.sh
#!/bin/bash
SCRIPT_PATH="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )/$(basename $0)"
FORMAT_SET_BOLD='\033[0;1m'
FORMAT_RESET='\033[0m'

cat $SCRIPT_PATH | tail -n "+$START_LINE" | while read line; do
    printf "${FORMAT_SET_BOLD}${line}${FORMAT_RESET}\n"
    eval "${line}"
done

exit 0;

main.sh
#!/bin/bash
START_LINE=$((LINENO+1)) source ./source_me.sh

echo "Foo"
echo "Bar"
echo "+Hello"

The output in that case is:

echo "Foo"
  Foo
echo "Bar"
  Bar
echo "+Hello"
  +Hello

But this method will fail if I use more complex code that goes over multiple lines (if statements, loops etc):
#!/bin/bash
START_LINE=$((LINENO+1)) source ./source_me.sh

echo "Foo"

if [ "$FOOBAR" == "" ] ; then
    echo "Bar"
fi

echo "+Hello"

In this case I get:

echo "Foo"
  Foo
if [ "$FOOBAR" == "" ] ; then
  ./source_me.sh: eval: line 9: syntax error: unexpected end of file
echo "Bar"
  Bar
fi
  ./source_me.sh: eval: line 8: syntax error near unexpected token ´fi'
  ./source_me.sh: eval: line 8: ´fi'
echo "+Hello"
  +Hello

A: I would like to extend rubo77's answer with a few examples that I think deserve a separate answer:
Plain text prefix
So the basic example is to set PS4 to some plain text, e.g.:
PS4="# "; set -x

Which will result in:

Color & extra line text prefix
But because you can use special characters and ANSI escape codes you can for example add a new line before each new command and print the prefix in a color, e.g.:
PS4="\n\033[1;33m>>>\033[0m "; set -x

Result:

Dynamic color prefix
Finally you can make the command prefix call other programs with each use, which you can use  to add a timestamp, e.g.:
# yes, there have to be single quotes below, not double!
PS4='\033[1;34m$(date +%H:%M:%S)\033[0m '; set -x

Result:

A: You can change the + to a string of your desire by setting PS4, e.g.:
PS4="# "; set -x

A: Note that set -x has no innate knowledge of your terminal, which would be required to send the correct characters to create bold or coloured text.
If you can capture all output through a single file handle, you can probably do this with a pipe:
$ /path/to/your/script 2>&1 | sed "/^+ /s/.*/$(tput bold)&$(tput sgr0)/"

You might want to man tput for more information about the tool we're using to get bold type.
The viability of this depends on many factors I don't know about your environment. YMMV, may contain nuts.

Note:
You might think it was better to capture stderr separately with a line like this:
$ /path/to/your/script 2> >(sed "/^+ /s/.*/$(tput bold)&$(tput sgr0)/")

Alas, this doesn't behave consistently, because stderr passing through the pipe may not be submitted to the terminal before subsequent stdout from the script itself. Note also that this solution, because it uses process substitution, is a bashism and is not portable to POSIX.

A: What you are looking for is set -v.
-v prints out the line the interpreter just read.
-x prints out the post-parsing results of the line that the interpreter just read.
file x:
set -vx
foo=1
echo $foo
set +vx

Executing:
$: . x
foo=1
++ foo=1
echo $foo
++ echo 1
1
set +vx
++ set +vx

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


Friday, May 4 – 3:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 6 – 12:00 p.m.
La Salle comed to Kingston after dropping a pair of midweek games to Villanova and LIU Brooklyn.
Ben Faso leads the way for the Explorers with a .346 batting average and 31 runs batted in. He also leads the team in putouts (304).
Chase Arnold and Ryan Guckin are tied for the team lead with four home runs each.
On the mound, Jackson Ray has pitched a team-high 48.2 innings pitched and owns a 4.81 ERA.
Austin Constantini leads La Salle in saves, with four, but is 0-2 with a 9.82 ERA over 12 appearances.
After a nine-day layoff that included their Atlantic 10 bye weekend, URI returns to action this weekend for a conference series againse La Salle.
The Rams have won eight in a row, taking three from Saint Joseph's, two from UMass, and one each from Bryant, Hartford and Boston College.
Jackson Coutts leads the way for the Rams with a .308 batting average. He and Kevin Heiss each have driven in a team-leading 14 runs.
After missing seven games win an injury, Greg Cavaliere has hit .529 (9-17) with six RBI and four runs scored in Rhody's last five games.
On the mound Nick Johnson is continuing his hot streak with a 1.21 ERA over 22.1 innings pitched. He leads the team in saves, with six.
After hosting the Explorers, URI will have two remaining A-10 weekend series - next weekend at Dayton, and the following weekend, at home, versus St. Bonaventure.
The Rams also have one remaining midweek game - a May 15 matchup with UConn at Bill Beck Field.


text:
Home | SAN ANTONIO | Featured Project | Campus pays homage to its history
Campus pays homage to its history
Front elevation, Alamo College District's Support Campus
SAN ANTONIO - The Alamo Colleges District's Support Operations campus is one of Skanska USA's most exciting projects in San Antonio because it has so many unique features, starting with the rich history of the site. During construction, Skanska found artifacts tracing the land's history back to when it was inhabited by Native Americans, all the way up to the 1960's – 1970's, when San Antonio's beloved Playland Park, located on the property, was at the height of its popularity.
The campus pays homage to its history through the landscape design, which highlights the portion of the Acequia Madre de Valero that runs through the site. A rock garden marks the underground path of the Acequia, an ancient tributary water source that is believed to extend all the way to the Alamo.
In addition to the land's historical significance, the campus offers users and guests unobstructed views of the iconic San Antonio skyline, including the prominent Tower of the Americas. Users also benefit from being within walking distance to The Pearl, which is the epicenter of the economic revitalization taking place along Broadway. Urban living residential options, upscale retail, chef-driven restaurants, entertainment, museums, Riverwalk access and more are all located within close proximity to the campus.
From a construction and design standpoint, the glue-laminated timber roof structure made this a distinctive project. Timber is not only a beautiful and sustainable element but incorporating it into this project is a smart practice since the timber can be replanted to replace materials used on the roof structure. Additionally, the use of timber is a growing trend in the built environment, and it's a great way to achieve carbon neutrality.
This project entailed the new construction of a 156,000sf, three-story consolidated office building on 12 acres. This new facility houses more than 580 of the Alamo Colleges District's support staff. The project includes a new board room that can host up to 300 people, an outdoor auditorium space and cyber café, and includes a rock garden that represents the Acequia Madre de Valero.
Primary construction materials used included corrugated tilt wall panels, exterior metal panels, glulam beams and decking roof structure and DIRTT modular wall systems. The approximate cost to construct the Alamo Colleges District Support Operations Complex is $55 Million and took the Skanska team 21 short months to complete.
Consolidating the Alamo Colleges District's Support Operations into a single campus required robust telecommunications, audio visual and video surveillance systems to enhance engagement and coordination among teams that have not previously worked within the same facility. However, Skanska encountered the unanticipated challenge of installing these systems while also installing the building finishes due to a change in the scope of work.
Initially, Skanska bid, conducted post bid interviews and provided recommendations for the telecommunications, audio visual and video surveillance systems to expedite the buyout of this equipment based on recommendations from the Alamo Colleges' low voltage consultant. Upon review of the recommendations, the Alamo Colleges realized the consultant's recommendations were cost prohibitive. The client first tried to value engineer several items through a process that took several months, and ultimately decided to directly procure the scope of work. By the time this process was completed, Skanska was already installing the building finishes.
Skanska met with the new vendors and helped them create a flow of activities that would enable the vendors to get into spaces where finishes were not in progress, as well as minimize damages and repairs to spaces that were already completed. Bi-weekly meetings were also conducted with the low voltage vendors to help them prioritize their work ahead of pending finishes and to proactively address any additional issues.
For more than a decade, Skanska's had the privilege of working with the Alamo Colleges District on projects to expand and enhance multiple campuses, and it's been a special honor to deliver on the vision that former Chancellor Dr. Bruce Leslie had for the District Support Operations campus prior to his retirement. "We firmly believe that this consolidated office space will help the Alamo Colleges meet the needs of its students, faculty and staff, while also serving as a valuable asset to the community," says Project Manager Blake Beran.
"This particular project strengthened our existing relationships with the Alamo Colleges and helped establish new ones, as Skanska worked closely with Associate Vice Chancellor of Facilities John Strybos and Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Dr. Diane Snyder," adds Senior Superintendent Shane Spry. Skanska also had the opportunity to work with the new Chancellor, Dr. Mike Flores, and the team is excited about his vision for the future of the Alamo Colleges District. Skanska especially enjoyed fostering strong relationships with Ford, Powell & Carson and West East Design Group, the project architects, and is already leveraging their synergy with both design firms on new projects.
Skanska USA is a full-service general contractor. -cmw
Carol Wiatrek meditor@constructionnews.net


text:
SLØTFACE, AJ Tracey, and Novelist among new names for Latitude Festival
30 May 2017, 13:22 | Written by Laurence Day
(Novelist) (AJ Tracey) (Sløtface)
SLØTFACE, AJ Tracey, and Novelist are just a few of the latest names confirmed to be joining the Latitude Festival lineup.
Public Service Broadcasting, DJ Semtex, Dead Pretties, Saint Motel, Bessie Turner, Rad Pitt, Chagall, and more are also added to the music lineup.
Latitude have also confirmed film, debate, and lecture bills, with Whitney Houston's Can I Be Me documentary and Placebo's Alt.Russia tour flick among the screenings taking place.
"I am delighted to present our Wellcome Trust programme at Latitude 2017," says Tania Harrison, the festival's Arts Curator. "In the past four years we have worked to bring the most rigorous, engaging discussion and research to our audience. My theme for the festival this year is Come The Revolution, and in the Wellcome Trust programme I have invited scientists, speakers, and artists to present discussions and shows that explore the revolutions taking place across scientific disciplines: the breakthroughs in neuroscience that will change our health, wellbeing and technologies. This is reflected in a programme that extends from the Wellcome Trust Arena and literary speakers, to theatre, film, music and pop-up experiences and testing across the site."
View the full lineup so far.
Latitude 2017 takes place 13-16 July at Henham Park in Suffolk. Tickets are on sale now.


I have a B-D pen called the Pen Ultra and it is getting in rough shape and need a new one, but this model apparently have been replaced by a new one. Where can I get the same one that I have now? I have tried B-D's website, local hospitals, and pharmacies, to no avail. Can you give me any other suggestions? I have seen the new one and I don't trust it as I do the one I have now.
Since you're in Canada, I'd suggest you call Becton Dickinson's headquarters in Canada. If they can't help directly, they should be able to put you in contact with the local B-D sales representatives, who may know where some of your favorite pens are sitting on someone else's shelf, unused.


text:
Artwork created by UWATX Middle School Matters students depict powerful messages of community, empathy, and tolerance
Meet featured artists, UWATX's Middle School Matters Students!
Their artwork is on display now through January 4, 2016 at our Southwest location, 4301 W William Cannon Dr., Austin, TX 78749.
In support of and collaboration with United Way for Greater Austin's Middle School Matters program, we came up with a way to use our walls as a platform to represent a youth perspective about community and what they think #MakesAustinGreater. UWATX's Middle School Matters art project aimed to show how art can be used as a service and a message of social change. Through displaying their artwork, students were given an opportunity to use their voice to cultivate community with people they don't know and will never meet. 45 students were involved in the project, along with a couple of Kerbey Lane Cafe volunteers. Typically, 2 to 5 students collaborated on each canvas.
Students were given the broad topic of "community" and encouraged to think about how they could send a positive message through their art: the benefits of where they live, the things that make them happy and imagery that cheers them up. Photos of 15 different murals from Austin and around the country were provided to the students as inspiration so that they could brainstorm ideas of what they would like to incorporate onto their canvas.
"Texas Pancake" by Sarah of Webb Middle School
Description of the program provided by United Way for Greater Austin: "In October 2015 students from schools supported by United Way for Greater Austin's Middle School Matters program put their imagination, creativity, and teamwork skills to work to create these depictions of community. No two groups had a similar approach or idea, but all reflect the spirited discussions and debates about the meaning of community. This art display gives students a rare platform to communicate as young leaders and critical observers of their communities. Caring for nature, fostering diversity, and celebrating the eclectic offerings of Austin are just a few of the key ideas that students want to highlight.
"commUNITY" by Giovanni & Sheila of Decker Middle School
Middle School Matters funds a suite of critical wraparound services for students at three key campuses in the greater Austin area: Webb, Mendez, and Decker middle schools. By ensuring that student needs are appropriately addressed we're improving individual student performance as well as contributing to an enhanced culture of learning that spans the entire school."
Katy Aus, Program Coordinator at UWATX told us, "The advanced empathy and sensitivity displayed in the artwork of these middle school students is truly remarkable."
Take for instance, "Diversity Pizza". Artists Laila, Alyssa, and Erion of Decker Middle School had originally had included text around the crust naming different races, religions, and languages. When asked why that text did not make it to the finished version of the painting, their response was that by naming certain groups they couldn't avoid leaving out others and they did not want to unintentionally exclude anyone.
"Diversity Pizza" by Laila, Alyssa & Erion of Decker Middle School
"Cow and Chicken" by Avion, Caleb & Kevin of Decker Middle School
A powerful message of tolerance came from Avion, Caleb, and Kevin of Decker Middle School with their painting titled "Cow and Chicken". They recalled Chik-fil-A's anti-gay messages in the media and their opposition of same sex marriage, inspiring them to depict a cow and chicken side by side with the text, "There's nothing wrong with who you like. There's nothing wrong with who you are."
The students' artwork on display is not for sale, but will be auctioned off at the Young Leaders Society Super Bowl party. To learn more or donate, please visit www.unitedwayaustin.org.


In a nutshell, the Quantity Surveyor is a valuable resource for any construction project that ensures a timely delivery of the project with minimal effect on expenses.
The role of the quantity surveyor starts from the very beginning of the construction project. During this phase, he plays a major role in preparing cost estimates. When the project owner is preparing the budget, the quantity surveyor helps in defining the optimal quantity and price for the materials being used in construction.
Although the project plans are initially designed before the start of a project, these documents help in preparing the actual budge. However, there are always surprises in any construction project. Some of the scenarios could include weather delays, unforeseen delays, materials shortages, labour shortages, bad ground delays and many more.
One of the major roadblocks in any project is the delays in Payments. A quantity surveyor plays a key role in avoiding this roadblock. Since the beginning of the project,the expert has a keen eye on the budget and associated costs.
An ideal quantity surveyor has a strong eye for detail and always keeps a foot on the ground. He makes regular visits to the construction site. These visits serve many purposes such as getting an actual feel of the progress of the project, face to face interaction with the construction team and analyzing the task requirements ahead of time.
Using their negotiation and mediation skills these surveyors are able to keep the project on track even when there are unexpected incidents that could have caused delays otherwise. The feasibility and expense report that they generally to keep the owner or their employer abreast of the progress and helps in deriving maximum efficiency during the project lifetime.
Quantity Surveying is the measuring of all materials, labour, and plant for a construction project into a neat and tidy group of descriptions called Items. Construction drawings illustrate the work that is to be completed but may not make much sense without Items to describe, in detail, the work that is to be completed. quantity Surveyor will then measure how much of a certain supply will be needed to complete the item. For example, 10m3 of concrete is needed to fill a foundation footing or 10 doors for a house.
A Quantity Surveyor is a person who performs the Quantity Surveying duties. They are usually educated to a tertiary degree level and have excellent experience on construction. A Quantity Surveyor may also have several different roles in any one project. They may have rules with the Client, the Main Contractor, a Subcontractor, or even a Supplier. All Quantity Surveyor roles are to accurately forecast the cost of any construction project and to maximize value for their employer.
Who needs a Quantity Surveyor?
Whether you are a 'Mum and Dad' team building for the first time, or a multi-national contractor, everyone really needs a Quantity Surveyor.
Quantity Surveyors are needed on a project no matter the size so that they can keep control of the costs, progress and any contractual issues that may spring up during a project. Having a Quantity Surveyor on your team is like having an accountant. They will be able to advise and help guide you through construction making sure you receive the best value.
When do you need a Quantity Surveyor?
From the very start, a Quantity Surveyor is an essential part of any construction project. Their role is as integral and similar to that of an Accountant in that if you are asking yourself 'how much will this cost?', 'how long will it take, and how do I go about constructing this project?', then that is when you need a Quantity Surveyor. It does not matter if you are just building an extension on your house or if you are dealing with projects in the billions. Having a Quantity Surveyor on your team is invaluable, no matter the scale.
How to hire a Quantity Surveyor?
Hiring a Quantity Surveyor for your project can sometimes be harder than you expect. Professional and good Quantity Surveyors can be difficult to find, and unfortunately our industry has had a skills shortage! While hiring a Quantity may not be as easy, finding the right one may take some time!
How do you choose the right Quantity, Surveyor?
Choosing the right Quantity Surveyor can be tricky. It really depends on the project, the budget you have set out, and the experience of the Quantity Surveyor. Some Quantity Surveyors may only specialize in certain fields within the construction and so engaging that surveyor to do a project outside of their field of experience may not work to your advantage. So, before choosing a Quantity Surveyor, ensure that their expertise and your requirements for a project are communicated well from the start, to avoid any disappointments.
What benefits can I expect from using a Quantity Surveyor?
The benefits a quantity surveyor will bring to any project are most certainly invaluable. Controlling cost and time are the major factors behind the success, or failure, of any project. Benefits of their services range from; cost advice, contractual advice, procurement all the goods for projects, helping with cost issues, and being able to control programs for a timely completion.


text:
Censorship Question Is Russian Duma's Answer To Protection From Free Speech
According to RT major Russian Internet sites, including Wikipedia, are protesting a lower house, Duma passed, draft law establishing censorship to control abhorrent behavior. The original proposal, under review since last week, implied only "harmful information" would be censored. But the phrase was amended Tuesday night and the list of reasons for which the government will be allowed to shut down a site has been more strictly defined by a list including web pages that advocate suicide, substance abuse, excessively risky behavior, and child pornography. But critics contend the blacklist of not-for-children sites will restrict Internet freedom as the proposal contains a non-governmental Internet watchdog which would monitor the web for potentially harmful content, then request hosting companies restrict access to those pages. If hosting companies refuse, the page would then be blacklisted.
So on July 10 Wikipedia declared a 24 hour blackout against the bill and their screen protest included blacking out their logo with text reading, "imagine a world where knowledge isn't free," or "Imagine a world without free knowledge," as RT translated the statement two different ways in the same article. Apropos. Another statement on the Wikipedia homepage read, "Lobbyists and activists supporting the amendments claim they are only aimed against content like child pornography and 'similar things', but strict adherence to the wording of the bill will result in the creation of a system similar to the 'Great Firewall of China'."
Top Russian websites Yandex, Vkontakte, and LiveJournal joined Wikipedia in the fight against this draft law they claim will pave the way for Internet censorship in Russia. Search engine Yandex responded by crossing out the word "everything" from their, "You can find everything" logo and the company provided a link to a statement that warned the legislation may stifle free speech and questioned the bill's "rash" adoption. Yandex's chief editor, Elena Kolmanovskaya, wrote, "We think it's necessary to maintain the balance of public interests and also consider technological characteristics of the Internet. That's why a review of the draft law must be postponed with the legislation openly discussed."
In January this year, English-language Wikipedia and other Internet giants participated in a blackout in order to protest SOPA and PIPA bills in the U.S. Congress and Senate. Critics claimed they would empower the government beyond reason, and would damage the Internet as a result. Both bills have since been put on hold. Probably till heads can be turned elsewhere and legislators can hoist the law on citizens with the same disdain the Duma has for the public's independence. While still unaddressed is why, since there's a legal compromise with the world's leader in human tragedy, alcohol, does the criminal enterprise system have to remain so profitable?
Censorship Question Is Russian Duma's Answer To Protection From
7/112/2012 concluded: In January this year, English-language Wikipedia and other Internet giants participated in a blackout in order to protest SOPA and PIPA bills in the U.S. Congress and Senate. Critics claimed they would empower the government beyond reason, and would damage the Internet as a result. Both bills have since been put on hold. Probably till heads can be turned elsewhere and legislators can hoist the law on citizens with the same disdain the Duma has for the public's independence. While still unaddressed is why, since there's a legal compromise with the world's leader in human tragedy, alcohol, does the criminal enterprise system have to remain so profitable?
Original Essay Ended Off-Topic
That most everything strays doesn't excuse expanding criticism of government leverage in private interest, by overlapping the malignant lucrativeness of the spiraling criminal enterprise system's immoral moralizing. Because the freedom to exploit is unbridled power. As when courts are beholden, or even just friendly with government's or private privileged sectors. Imagine Marlon Brando's Colonel Kurtz sweating his frustration out further, even more, responding to his own last anguished, "the horror" with labyrinth.
Power is cooperative. Jumping up and down in exhilarated unison behind a figurehead's superiority could, as it sounds, be deluding and illusory as has been proven time, and time again. That success excuses unethical behavior is either faced or farce as pride reflects arrogance. Gauging the trains of thought demoralizes to sad effect actions worthy of referral as Mendastic-in-Chief, whose mounting anecdotes still hardly define being personally to blame for the vast social narcissism. Resulting from an opportunistically toyed with culture that's identified a loyal American intellectual understanding of our country as beneath the status of absolute devotion. Right, mumbo-jumbo. We're deluged. Cultivating patriotism such that the symbolization of having the biggest wall of all is shrugged off as potentially pragmatic. When what's obvious is the problem's that there are any walls at all. So discombobulate point-of-views to the contrary. But none of this arrogant nonsense was set in place yesterday. That the ideals of liberating America include an incredible amount of veracity and fraud, spite whatever the good intentions of William F. Buckley are and were, as he supposedly wasn't just standing for holding dear upper-class entitlements.
But it's not like ruthless streaks haven't always been the path to power and occasional ruin. What's to face? Ethics becoming a shoulder shrug? Authenticity, chivalrous sycophancy? This is the hold on power, that the hold on power breeds. Pure strategy, nuance be damned. So be it.
Mr. President, please take a Magical History Tour -
Read from the Lower East Side and
Roy Cohn's Townhouse
Granted our American President's flippantly brazen. The chest pounding reverential insistence that a cursory knowledge of history entitles belief in conclusions riddled with contortions immobilizing facts. Seriously. Not everyone's cast themselves within this anger mode toward America's political spectrum. Suits or otherwise.
Americans think this or that. Twaddle. A celebrity defeated the idea of a woman president. It's like Kentucky giving up the power and prestige of an all powerful United States Majority Leader Senator. The macho instinct being the bottom line reason. Although noteworthy is Malcolm Gladwell's comment on 1947: The Meet The Press Chuck Todd Podcast, July 2nd, 2017. Starting at 12:38. - How 'moral licensing' was a factor enabling America's fusion with convenient judgement to be nuance-dly neutered.
Lambast is not dialogue. Why does reflection have to seem the most impossible prospect of all?
Mr. President. Here. Have a sit-down here with me and Roy. I know that at an hour that last film was long. The soundbites you consume from vast arrays of sources probably preclude your energy from being tapped by my humble hour. Here, pause here with me and Roy. Watch this at seven minutes, nineteen seconds. The time of just a couple of interviews, no doubt. But perspective is hard to come by, and you're the President. Here, you remember Roy. Let's take this Magical History Tour together, sir.
The criminal enterprise system wants to operate in overdrive. What's possibly wrong with that? It's not the militarized state's fault. The fault is with rules and obligations that sublimate humanity to revenge ridden dissatisfaction.
Tom Selleck in police drama Blue Bloods.
"This job is not about being strong enough to use force. It's about being strong enough not to."
Cue the reminder, Allah/God inspires no murder at all.
All the madness, just a mean and preposterously profitable, extremely bad, thoroughly harmful, diseased joke. Honorable Killing's not even acceptable as oxymoron. The shame. The shame.
YOGA'S A STATE?
Days are all like different days in that they're measurements of time. From which balance is found, from the ability to schedule, that's defined what humans have made of ourselves today. I'd bet all his money, retiree Bill Gates still lives with a schedule.
The teacher once remarked the Saturday yoga in the park position was susceptible to regime change. Inevitable. No surprise. Though you'd think there'd be more regard for seventeen years based on the principles that the introduction yoga in the park class were founded on. Power's impatience with nuance is legendary. Apparently in season now.
Time passes. Past recedes. It isn't as if political leverage's adversaries today replicate thenear century ago excesses of the Harding Administration. Where oil industry insiders were prosecuted for nefarious greed. Naw, a polished professional sophistication has nothing to do with everything's extreme commercialization. Immelt from GE mist on oil technology that in the immediate long cycle GE blames for loss but will no doubt shrug what's better for the company despite this ambivalence toward the unblinking of our atmosphere. Tree Huggers? Exhaust chuggers. It's not right to disregard reality.
Conservative values means smart cars clog unprepared roadways jammed till everywhere's just a parking lot. No, eventually people will be satisfied carried around inside solar driven nodules that just bounce off each other if anything were to go wrong. Wait till the self propelled's rights-of-way accommodate the machine. Where's the conveyor belts for people to obey rather than doge as much and more so as people due now through the aggressive tactic of devotion to the machine to the point it is a Mobile Throne. I'm afraid that's not just a joke. I'd speculate the current Secretary of Transportation, Elaine Cho can still flippantly regard cycling as she had in a BBC interview during her previous stint with the Department of Transportation.
If the train had been incorporated properly into the nation's transportation network, so many accidents could have been designed out of the equation. People can't generally drive the safest speed of 20 mph. That's unrealistic. So the inherent calculated aggressiveness creates mistakes. The nature of a ruthless world and we pass ourselves off as civilized. What a racket.
Seen It All's In Season
Conjecture's possible the Fake Conservatives' fake conservative, David Brooks wrote an accurate assessment of America's comfortableness with elitist culture in The New York Times 7/11/2017 titled, How We Are Ruining America. Sounds rash. But that's the industry. Trash and Pizzazz readers require for ringing the lights bells and whistles.
Americans have learned to face the truth America hasn't. Shameful prejudicial ignorance is used to coerce some who hold dear the noble title of "God-fearing American." Because, bottom line, there's no such thing as holy war. Zilch.
The following story about this film, People Will Talk, was written by William Snyder - In 1988, Joseph L. Mankiewicz was honored in San Francisco with the Akira Kurosawa Award for Lifetime Achievement as a film director. I think it was interesting that when he was asked to pick one of his films to be shown at the Kabuki Theater, he didn't choose films he had won Oscars for like "All About Eve" (1950) or "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949) or even a Shakespearian classic like "Julius Caesar" (1953), but instead, he picked "People Will Talk." I was an SF journalist then and he told many of us at a press conference of the back-story behind the making of this film. Before the filming began, Cecil B. DeMille was trying to get Mankiewicz---then President of the Screen Directors' Guild---banned and accused of being a Communist. When the SDG held a private meeting on the subject, John Ford embarrassed DeMille, saying, "C.B., you've made great films, the pride of our industry, but I don't like you. You're not a good man and what you're trying to do to Joe is wrong." The Guild voted to keep Mankiewicz. When you look at this film, it is an accurate explanation of the witch-hunts of its day and Hume Cronyn's character---Prof. Elwell---failed in the same way as Cecil B. DeMille did. "People Will Talk" was a box office failure for 20th Century-Fox. But it was a winning film with a great message.
To even just use the term "greatest witch hunt in history" points beyond insensitivity to a willingness to twist susceptibilities. As if the skewer's set and secured to an adherence to the belief America's malleable for team ends. The basis of the whole world's problems is there's an us and them. Reality. A switch requiring the power to turn off, and on. Oh the cauldron of presumed populist appeal under the Great Banner Politics. Where choice is fallen in line or having none. Scary people've convinced themselves without question, team's better than none. But that's politics, folks.
A world of indifference and misunderstanding faces manipulation.
The vitriol. The vitriol.
When we're so TECHNOLOGICALLY-SOCIALLY, imaginably, far advanced, where's the collective shame for ridiculous disasters
Surfing History's Parallels.
FROM THE THEATER OF THE ABSURD FIGUREHEADS
Stuff To Know About A Bike
Labels: censorship, GALL, reverse stewardship
Liêu Á Phàm July 11, 2019 at 3:31 AM
Có rất nhiều món quà lưu niệm tuyệt vời mà bạn có thể mang về nhà từ chuyến đi đến Seoul. Dưới đây là những món quà lưu niệm ý nghĩa bạn nên mua cho người thân, bạn bè khi đến Hàn Quốc. Bạn có thể tham khảo cách mua hàng Hàn quốc tại Việt Nam qua dịch vụ mua hộ hàng hàn quốc của chuyển hàng quốc tế
Chuyển hàng quốc tế tốt nhất sẽ giúp bạn dễ dàng mua hàng từ mọi nơi trên thế giới và vận chuyển về Việt Nam nhanh chóng không khiến bạn phải đợi chờ lâu. Bên cạnh đó chuyenhangquocte còn đảm bảo hàng hóa của bạn được an toàn luôn đóng gói cẩn thận. Nếu có bất kỳ hư hỏng nào chuyenhangquocte.com sẽ hoàn tiền 100% giá trị đơn hàng cho khách hàng.


This Project 365 Template Set 5 by Simply Kelly Designs is a set of 2 templates that are designed to be used for Project 365. Each template comes in PSD and PNG formats. Each 12x12 layout has 7 photo blocks for one full week of photos and journaling. These templates are designed for a photo book with one template being the left side and one template being the right side.


text:
Film: The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Year poster printed: 1988
Exact Size: 20 1/4 in x 28 5/8 in (51 cm x 73 cm)
This is an original, rolled, Japanese B2 movie poster from 1988 for The Last Temptation of Christ starring Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey, Harry Dean Stanton and David Bowie. Martin Scorsese directed the film based on the Novel by Nikos Kazantzakis.
The poster measures 20 1/4" x 28 5/8" and is in very good condition with some edge wear and surface creasing at the top of the poster. It has never been folded.
Please look closely at the photo (this is the exact poster you are buying). This rare and collectible movie poster, printed in 1988 to promote the Japanese theatrical release of The Last Temptation of Christ, is not a reproduction or a reprint.
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY (COA) INCLUDED
Please order by:
Standard Shipping - December 17
Priority Mail - December 20
Overnight - December 23
Outside the United States:
International customers must choose express shipping at checkout for delivery by December 24. Please order via Express by December 18.
Customers in the United States:
Free Standard Shipping on Orders of $25+
° $4.99 Shipping on orders less than $25
° Shipping upgrades available at checkout.
Customers in Canada:
° Standard Shipping: Starting at $12.99 USD (Based on Size of Poster)
Customers from Other Countries:
° Standard Shipping: Starting at $14.99-19.99 USD (Based on Size of Poster)
International buyers are responsible for any customs and import taxes that may apply.
GIFT OPTIONS AVAILABLE.
Verified Customer Reviews:
Related Posters
Departed (2006)
Goodfellas (1990)
Raging Bull (1980)
Age of Innocence (1993)
Mean Streets (1973)
Aviator (2004)
Sign Up for Original Film Art Updates
Exclusive discounts, details on new arrivals and more.
We will not sell your information.
Call us at (253) 256-3185, send us an email, or connect with us via social media:
Original Film Art
Payment Options & Returns
Poster Condition Guide
Linen-Backing
Every poster we sell is guaranteed to be 100% authentic with a lifetime money-back guarantee.
© 2020 Original Film Art - Vintage Movie Posters. 100% SSL Secure Site


Come with Mahjong all around the world. Search the pieces with the same theme and progress to unlock new worlds, bonuses and themes or compete with your friends in the best score.
You will travel all the world and your task is always the same – get rid of all the stones by searching pairs. As the time limit goes you are clicking on the pieces that look or are the same. They are mostly put into various shapes and pictures and the rule that if you want to get to the bottom you should concentrate to the top and surrounding. When the game area is "clean" or you run out of time the results come. If you have collected enough points you don't need to get all the pieces but more is better.
For the collected points you get experience and when leveling up you may unlock some new power ups or new area.


turf king lawn care program by turf king.
turf king it is the turf king who is not a lawn the name as for the a motto or the message it is i make a casino tip marker by a favorite letter simply.
turf king turf king excellence in artificial grass.
turf king 5 tips to a healthy lawn by turf king.
turf king the turf king synthetic artificial turf suppliers and installers.
turf king bally turf king bingo pinball machine.
turf king lawn care gift certificates available at turf king.
turf king image 1 bally turf king pinball machine.
turf king avoid unsightly weeds use turf king.
turf king a picture of the turf king line x land rover defender which is coated.
turf king save with turf kings anniversary special home of the king of green.
turf king for towards lawn care programs and services in.
turf king artificial turf flame pack turf turf king series turf king ml in width proof.
turf king midland turf king.
turf king turf king lawn care discovers a unique lawn.
turf king king of the turf board game.


text:
Blooms confident ahead of Spireites
Matt Bloomfield says there is no reason why the Wanderers can't turn the form-book on its head and secure a win against leaders Chesterfield on Saturday (k.o 3pm).
The Spireites booked their place in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final on Tuesday after seeing off League 2 promotion rivals Fleetwood Town 3-2 on aggregate, however, Bloomfield says confidence is building within the Chairboys squad following their draw with the same opponents last time out.
"It's going to be a tough game, that's the way it is in this league," he told Chairboys Player.
"If we are going to pick up points then we need to perform against the big teams and the people around us.
"It's an opportunity for us to pick up three points. Yes, it will be a tough game, but we've got some quality in our squad and with a full week behind us there's no reason why we can't put on a performance for our fans.
"Hopefully we can put in a good performance, score some goals and give our fans something to cheer about.
"I think we've looked quite solid in the past couple of games and we'll be looking to take that forward."
Tickets for the visit of the Spireites are priced from just £5 for juniors, £9 for young adults, £11 for seniors and £15 for adults. U7s can enjoy this and all league fixtures for FREE.
A family of four (two adults and two juniors) can watch the game for just £25,while season-ticket holders will be provided with an extra £5 guest ticket, which if redeemed will see them receive 500 TeamCard points (equivalent of £5) to spend on merchandise or their 2014/15 season ticket.
That's not the only entertainment at Adams Park on Saturday as Bloomfield kicks off his testimonial year with a special fans' night in the Vere Suite.
for more information about the night.hereClick
Buy , by onlinecalling 01494 441118 or in person from the Information Centre at Adams Park.


I'm Sudobeats, a music producer, and game developer.
Growing up as a kid in the 90's, I spent most of my time playing RPGs and watching anime. One anime in particular fascinated me as an 8 year old and stuck with me for the rest of my life: Cowboy Bebop.
The thrilling tales of a crew of space bounty hunters, who spent the course of the series barely getting by with what little they had, felt refreshing amongst the typical fare of flashy beat-em-up shows I was so accustomed to watching. Cowboy Bebop had a little something for everybody in it: a beautiful jazz and blues soundtrack, western, sci-fi, noir, and horror tropes/themes, and a lovable cast of main characters.
After recently rewatching the entire 26-episode series as an adult, I found myself desperately wanting more. I wanted more stories set in that whacky futuristic yet familiar universe, and more chances to laugh and cry at its brilliantly written inhabitants. For the longest time I felt I would never be able to fill the void it left in me.
And that was when I was hit with a spark of inspiration and purpose.
A couple of months ago I started writing an outline for an RPG that would later become my current project known as: Junkdogs. The game is set in the year 2091. Humanity has expanded far beyond the Earth and made settlements across the solar system. In this future, the expansion into space has led to the creation of many new opportunities and careers. One such path is that of a "junkdog" also known as space scavengers. These are individuals who explore and collect from objects abandoned in space. This concept would become the core of the game I would later go on to develop into a playable demo for the Indie Game Making Contest 2018.
The demo for Junkdogs was made in one month per the rules of the IGMC 2018. The game offers roughly 30-45 mins of playtime and features: exploration, puzzle-solving, a unique turn-based space battle system, and an original soundtrack comprised of jazzy hip-hop and electronic beats.
I decided to create a project that is essentially a love letter to the things I enjoyed as a kid. I hope you'll check out Junkdogs, and if you enjoy the experience please consider leaving a rating to help the game advance in the Indie Game Making Contest.
I have plans to continue development of Junkdogs into a full-fledged game to be released (hopefully) next year. But more on that next time.


text:
Supernatural: Heaven Can't Wait
November 7, 2021 4:27 AM - Season 9, Episode 6 - Subscribe
Dean and Castiel team up to find a Rit Zien, an angel healer, who is easing peoples' suffering by killing them. Sam and Kevin ask Crowley for help in finding a way to open the gates to Heaven.
Castiel: [to Dean] I guess you can't see it, but there's a real dignity in what I do, a human dignity.
Nora: Hate to interrupt you guys, but, Steve, a customer had an accident in the men's room.
Heartbroken Teenager: He dumped me, Jace. In the cafeteria. In front of *everyone*. It's just like, who does that, you know? Like, why couldn't he just dump me on Facebook like a normal person?
Castiel: Going on dates, that's something humans do, right?
Dean: Yeah, I mean, my dates usually end when I run out of singles, but, yeah.
Dean: [prepping Castiel for his date] Always open the door for her, okay? Ask a lot of questions. They like that. And, oh, if she says she's happy to go Dutch, she's lying. All right? Go get him, tiger.
Bill: Morning, Steve.
Castiel: Bill. High -- [hold up hand. Bill walks past] -- five.
Castiel: [Baby Tanya is crying] Hello? Um... please -- please don't.
Crying Teenager: She was kind of bummed that dick-bag Travis broke up with her in front of the whole school.
Dean: Kind of bummed?
Crying Teenager: Yeah. Like more bummed than when she got a "C" on a quiz, and less bummed than when her parents split up. Kind of bummed.
Dean: [reading the title of a large book] Zimmerman's Encyclopedia of Extinct Languages, Volume One: Adai to Atakapa. How many volumes are there?
Kevin: Twenty-four. Don't worry, we've got them all.
Dean: Awesome. [his phone rings, giving him a chance to do something other than reading the Zimmerman's Encyclopedia of Extinct Languages] There is a God.
Nora: I also found a rolled-up sleeping bag behind the tool locker.
Castiel: Yes, I wanted to be thorough with inventory, so I worked late last week, and taking a nap here was easier than going back home to my bed. Which I have, of course.
Crowley: I'll do it. But I want something in return.
Sam: Yeah, what's that?
Crowley: A telephone call. Come on, moose. Even Dahmer got one telephone call.
The "lullaby" that Castiel sings to baby Tanya is actually the theme song to the '80's TV show The Greatest American Hero.
Crowley teases Kevin by calling him "Short Round", the name of the Indiana Jones' Asian kid sidekick in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
When Castiel unbuttons his shirt in preparation for his date, Dean tells him, "That's far enough, Tony Manero." Tony Manero was the character John Travolta played in Saturday Night Fever.
When Dean answers the phone in the mini mart he says, "This is Agent Lee Ermey." R. Lee Ermey is an actor most famous for his role as the savage Gunnery Sergent Hartman in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket.
The title of this episode is a take on the angel-themed 1943 and 1978 films Heaven Can Wait.
Dean says, "I'll track down this Kevorkian wannabe." Dr. Jack Kevorkian, often called Dr. Death, is known for his role in the national debate over physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients.
This episode takes place in Rexburg, Idaho instead of Rexford.
Sam says that Metatron designed the spell (to cast the angels from Heaven) to be resistant to any attempts to reverse it. However Metatron didn't create the spell; God did. Metatron was merely the scribe who wrote it down.
posted by orange swan (4 comments total)
That whole "Castiel thinks he has a date with his manager" thing was so contrived. Nora would have made it perfectly clear that she was asking Castiel to babysit. It was cute watching Castiel with that adorable baby, though.
It was also funny watching Castiel wear his convenience store uniform vest to what he thought was a date. It's consistent with how he wears Jimmy Novak's suit and trenchcoat throughout the series. To him, if he's inhabiting Jimmy Novak's body, then he wears the outfit Jimmy was wearing when he possessed him; if he's homeless, he wears cast off things from the laundromat lost and found; and if he's a convenience store employee, then he wears the uniform for that. Castiel doesn't understand how clothes work and that people wear different styles/looks depending on what they're doing and where they're going at the time, just as he doesn't understand so many things about how people operate.
Interesting way to exterminate a human being. Those crime scenes looked like they were covered in Pepto Bismol.
Crowley being placed on hold when he called hell was hilarious.
posted by orange swan at 4:36 AM on November 7, 2021 [1 favorite]
Jeeze, that's a dirty by the store manager (and a durrr in the writer's room). But... Cas is so naive that he shouldn't have concluded that it was a date and should have been clueless enough not to be let down?
Then again, I'm not convinced - from the writing qua sine non - that Cas is as clueless as he's trying to make everyone thinks he is.
Speaking of contrived, the rit zein not understanding degrees of human emotional distress thing is just stupid. Shouldn't Ephram be buried under by the background noise of pain that Castiel's sitting baby's mild fever would be completely lost? He'd be too busy pepto bismol-ing 5/8ths of every town he's traveling through.
Along the lines of R. Lee Ermey, that sheriff-type dude at the first "suicide's" house looked like he was trying his best to do an Ermey impression.
I did like Crowley being picky about blood re: Sam, "No, not you, I've had you."
The Short Round comment - jeeze writers, yeah, Crowley might go there but that's almost designed to put Osric Chau's (HK/ Malay) hackles up, if not Kevin Tran's. 'Temple of Doom' (where the Short Round reference is from) is a very low point in Hollywood (and... I hate to say it, 'Goonies' also, which Jonathan Ke Huy Quan, who's Vietnamese, was also in - and was ethnically miscast in both of those [possibly for the latter]) and (along with 'Gung Ho,' which ethnically miscast Gedde Watanabe) a really bigoted and confused era in response to Japanese economic adolescence.
'Temple of Doom' also did real dirty to South Asians.
fwiw, I think that 'Big Trouble in Little China' is the least bad among these films of the era, because it acknowledged what it was doing and got the ethnicity, cultural mythologies, and the nuances and realpolitik of then-current race-relations in the US not terribly wrong. It was also a rollicking good movie, counted coup on some of the shittiness of Chinese culture, and Kurt Russel's character got a lot of comeuppances and got kicked around a lot, which Russel took with aplomb.
Sam just rinsing the used (now non-"virgin") blood down the drain bugs me a tiny bit. The bench immunologist in my whimpers quietly to (at least) pour some bleach into the bowl and swish it around first. The rest of me applauds the blase the boys have towards potential sources of (supernatural) power. Or not, the supernatural power had been consumed from it already from the ritual/ spell.
posted by porpoise at 5:52 PM on November 7, 2021
The Short Round comment - jeeze writers, yeah, Crowley might go there but that's almost designed to put Osric Chau's (HK/ Malay) hackles up, if not Kevin Tran's.
Another on Supernatural's ignominious pile of "oh this didn't 'age poorly', this was clearly trash at the time."
The whole contrivance of the date/babysitting was real dumb but Dean coaching Castiel for his date was pretty funny. He probably would've been more help with baby advice tbh. One can only imagine the version of that talk Sam would've gotten when Dean was like 17.
This is going to sound sarcastic and it's not, but I really would have been curious to know what in Dean's worldview would be an acceptable day job for a fallen angel.
posted by jameaterblues at 7:22 PM on November 7, 2021 [1 favorite]
How the hell does Cas know that Greatest American Hero theme song, given how unaware he is of most pop culture references? Also, why is he singing that? The lyrics are about somebody who is in the exact opposite situation that Castiel is in: happy, flying (literally), being free and being in love.
posted by sardonyx at 10:38 AM on November 8, 2021
« Previous Episode | Next Episode »
« Older Saturday Night Live: Kieran Cu...	| Podcast: The Adventure Zone: E... Newer »


text:
CIA Director Pompeo tells gathering of neocons that clandestine ops against Iran, N. Korea will become "much more vicious"
Newsbud
Thu, 19 Oct 2017 16:20 UTC
© REUTERS/AARON P. BERNSTEIN
Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo
CIA Director Mike Pompeo told an interviewer at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) the CIA will "become a much more vicious agency" in conducting covert operations against its roster of enemies, most prominently Iran and North Korea.
Pompeo also told the gathering of neocons Trump decertified the Iran deal not because it is in violation-the Iranians are playing by the rules-but rather because Trump has been told it "would curtail Iranian adventurism."
Trump advisor, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, also addressed the FDD neocons. He said America has suffered from a lack of "strategic competence... in recent years," in other words, the deep state has failed to remove the governments of Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, and assorted others.
Foreign Policy columnist Jeffrey Lewis compared McMaster's remarks to those of General Maxwell Taylor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Taylor urged President Kennedy to launch an invasion of Cuba.
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies is a cross-pollination of neocons and humanitarian interventionists. Its board of advisors includes Weekly Standard publisher Bill Kristol, former CIA boss James Woolsey, radical fringe neocon Frank Gaffney, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and assorted deep state insiders, namely Newt Gingrich, Joe Lieberman, Donna Brazile (the former DNC boss is a founding member), and Charles Schumer.
The organization is funded by the Bronfman brothers, Clifford D. May, and assorted millionaires and billionaires. May is president of the foundation and a signatory of the Project for the New American Century, noted for its preoccupation with Iraq and the chimera of Saddam Hussein's nuclear and chemical programs. It was founded by two neocons, Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan, and is responsible for many of the lies used to make a case for invading Iraq.
As May noted, Israel is a prime focus for the think tank. "May and FDD have been calling for action against Iran since the organization's founding. And in doing so, they have almost invariably cited Israel's security," writes John B. Judis.
Mike Pompeo is ardently anti-Iran, so it will be the primary target of his agency's covert viciousness, followed by North Korea. In a replay of the ruse used to frame Saddam Hussein, Pompeo said during his visit it is "an open secret and not classified information that there have been relationships, there are connections" between al-Qaeda and Iran. He provided no evidence of this.
There is evidence, however, senior members of al-Qaeda-including Osama bin Laden sons Saad and Hamza-were arrested by the Revolutionary Guard and held in Iran after they fled the US invasion of neighboring Afghanistan in 2003.
Iran turned them over to other countries. It also offered to hand al-Qaeda members over to the United States in a trade for People's Mujahedin of Iran members held by the United States in occupied Iraq, but the neocon dominated Bush administration refused. Porter Goss, Bush's CIA director, said in 2005 there was the "understanding that there is a group of leadership of al-Qaeda under some type of detention-I don't know exactly what type, necessarily-in Iran is probably accurate."
The Saudis had their suspicions. They believed the captive al-Qaeda leaders were used to mastermind a 2003 attack in Riyadh. This is improbable considering Iran is predominately Shi'a and Saudi Arabia Sunni and the two factions of Islam consider each other infidels and apostates.
The official US narrative was set in stone by the 9/11 commission report. It holds up as unvarnished truth there was "strong evidence that Iran facilitated the transit of al-Qaeda members into and out of Afghanistan before 9/11, and that some of these were future 9/11 hijackers."
Saudi intelligence added to the narrative by announcing in 2004 its agents apprehended Khaled bin Ouda bin Mohammed al-Harbi inside Iran. The legless cleric appeared in a video attributed to Osama bin Laden, but subsequently dismissed as a crude fake. "It is preposterous for anybody to think that this tape is doctored," Bush said. "That's just a feeble excuse to provide weak support for an incredibly evil man."
Last year the US Treasury Department announced it had sanctioned three high-level al-Qaeda operatives "living in Iran." The State Department was a little more circumspect. It said al-Qaeda members continued to be "held" as prisoners or guests-depending on who tells the story-and Iran has refused to release their identities. "Since at least 2009, Iran has allowed AQ facilitators to operate a core facilitation pipeline through the country, enabling AQ to move funds and fighters to South Asia and Syria," the State Department explains on its web page.
This contradicts previous announcements by the State Department. In its terrorism reports for 2015and 2014, it said al-Qaeda was no longer operational in Iran. As we learned with Iraq and the Gulf of Tonkin, the government specializes in lying, fabrication, and deception to fit the agenda script.
Trump has embraced the neocon Iran narrative. He made this clear when he decertified the nuclear deal. Trump pinned the Khobar Towers bombing in 1996 on Iran and said it supported al-Qaeda following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. He also said Iran has killed hundreds of US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Saudi Arabia blamed the Khobar Towers bombing on "Saudi Islamic militants, including many veterans of the Afghan War," in other words, al-Qaeda operating in the kingdom. Following a three year investigation by the FBI the US blamed Iran despite the Pentagon saying in 1997 it did not have evidence pointing at Iran.
Four months before September 11, an indictment was issued in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The indictment named Ahmed Ibrahim al-Mughassil and others and charged them with carrying out the bombing. Al-Mughassil is said to head up the military wing of the pro-Iran Saudi Hizballah.
Even The New York Times admits there is no evidence Iran killed US soldiers in Afghanistan. In March Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the accusation in a speech before a joint session of Congress. "But after more than 13 years of war, there is still scant evidence that would link Iran to any specific American deaths in Afghanistan, never mind the thousands that Mr. Netanyahu spoke of," the Times reported. Netanyahu ignored the fact the US and Iran have worked together indirectly in Iraq for self-serving purpose over a period of years. The omission proved to be great fodder for the neocon narrative, however.
It doesn't take much effort to get Mr. Pompeo's drift. Beginning with the creation of the national security state in 1947, the CIA has worked behind the scenes arranging coups, assassinating disfavored leaders, and manufacturing proxy wars around the world. Its inglorious past includes undermining Iran, Guatemala, Chile, Cambodia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Bolivia, Honduras, and many others.
Following the revelations of the Church committee of the Senate, the Pike committee of the House, and the Rockefeller Commission portraying the CIA as a rogue and murderous agency, it was decided to farm out much of what the CIA did to the National Endowment for Democracy and its beneficiaries, the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, and Freedom House. NED played a pivotal role in the Iran-Contra affair, intervened in the Philippines, and funded a fanatical anti-Castro group in Miami. More recently, it has worked to oust the democratically elected leaders in Ukraine and Venezuela.
"The NED, like the CIA before it, calls what it does supporting democracy. The governments and movements whom the NED targets call it destabilization," writes William Blum.
It's not clear how the CIA under Mike Pompeo will become "more vicious," but its past-or that we are privy to-should serve as an example.
Pompeo put Michael D'Andrea in charge of CIA Iran operations. During his tenure at the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, D'Andrea presided over the illegal drone program that has killed untold numbers in Pakistan and Yemen. His operatives also oversaw the interrogations of Abu Zubaydah, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, which a United States Senate report described as torture. Robert Eatinger, a former CIA lawyer intimately involved in the agency's drone program, asked if D'Andrea will take a hardline on Iran, and replied, "I don't think it's the wrong read."
If you think sanity will prevail in US relations with Iran, think again. Trump was tutored on decertifying the Iran deal by Senator Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican. Cotton, a former Army captain, believes bombing Iran is doable. He also compared the Iran nuclear negotiations to the "appeasement" of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, said there are too many empty beds at Guantánamo Bay, and called for jailing journalists after they revealed a secret Bush administration program.
According to the Beltway rumor mill, Pompeo or the equally virulent Nikki Haley, Trump's UN ambassador, may become the next secretary of state if Rex Tillerson steps down. Speculation has it Pompeo's replacement may be Tom Cotton. During the transition, Cotton was seriously considered to run the CIA.
"As CIA director, he would have no compunction about doing whatever is necessary to 'find' evidence to achieve his long-cherished goal of a war with Iran," writes Heather Digby Parton.
If appointed, Tom Cotton will set the stage for a disastrous war. In 2015, he told CNN it would only take "several days" to bomb Iran into oblivion and the operation would resemble 1998's Operation Desert Fox, Bill Clinton's four day raid on Iraq.
"It would be something more along the lines of what President Clinton did in December 1998 during Operation Desert Fox: Several days air and naval bombing against Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) facilities for exactly the same kind of behavior-for interfering with weapons inspectors and for disobeying Security Council resolutions," Cotton told the Family Research Council in 2015.
There is a problem with this, however. At the time, Iraq was working its way to failed state status under punitive sanctions that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. "Whatever they do we will take reciprocal measures. All options are on the table," said a senior advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, after Trump decertified the nuclear deal and threatened to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist group.
Unlike Iraq, Iran has prepared for asymmetric war with the United States. It will shut down shipping in the Persian Gulf if Trump attacks. In addition, its Revolutionary Guard has long planned on mounting an insurgent and guerrilla campaign against an invading force trying to reach Iran's northern cities from its coastlines.
Are Donald Trump supporters ready for the damage that will be inflicted on our petroleum-based economy if Iran sinks tankers and blocks the Strait of Hormuz? Are they ready to shell out billions of dollars to launch an ill-fated war that will have a significantly different outcome than the neocon "cakewalk" in Iraq?
graeme15b · 2017-10-22T12:56:10Z
These retards just don't get it. Iran is a far more powerful country than Iraq was. Iran has powerful allies. The true axis of evil, i.e. Zionist/US failed miserably in Syria. The Kurdish question has been answered in part, at least. So desperation seems to be the norm in DC these days, as the tide is turning against them. Even the Saudis are now courting the Russians, and the Chinese, and this current trajectory means ultimately, Iran as well. That is why this is quite a dangerous situation. In swampland, they really have no choice. But they will fare much worse should they proceed with such insanity. The Iranians are ready, so are the Russians. So the end result would be an even more diminished US presence, and influence in the region. The loses the US would suffer would be rather severe, regardless of the outcome. So hopefully, the retards in thinktankland will for once take a reality check, and realize that this could spiral into a global conflict. Just like North Korea. Basically they have come as far as they ever can, and cannot go any further. Anyway, this is the same old tired playbook in action. Doesn't work anymore. If the intention is to pressure Iran to give up its missile program, well that won't work either. Take Mr Putin's words. This is getting boring ladies.
Tennessee sheriff opens new investigation into two deputies after Tyre Nichols bodycam video is released
Best of the Web: Tonic Intersectionality
Radoslaw Sikorsk, ex-Polish FM names two major Ukrainian problems
Pentagon think tank warns against 'long war' in Ukraine
Science..didn't they give us the died suddenly phenomenon. Weird that native peoples of the world could have told you that all living beings have...
Considering AI only has the input its creators entered into it , does one need a PhD to come to that obvious conclusion ? When AI figures it needs...
More Shoa shit Sick of hearing about the whole bs You should all see the devastation colonial shitheads created for us pacific natives. Never...
"Open the pod bay door Hal" [Link]
Good Optics
You know what - who the hell cares what they are doing in DC. Fuck that place. Eff em. They forgot to whom they are vested and now there is going...


text:
Indian Ocean tsunami
The international tsunami response: showcase or circus?
Linking preparedness and performance: the tsunami experience
Managing private funds – maintaining a humanitarian perspective
Accountability lessons from the tsunami response in India
'People to People': an alternative way of delivering humanitarian aid
Donor issues in the tsunami response: the view from DFID
Cash-based transfers – and alternatives – in tsunami recovery programmes
Emergency malaria and dengue fever control: lessons from the tsunami in Aceh
Implementing minimum standards for education in emergencies: lessons from Aceh
An IHL/ICRC perspective on 'humanitarian space'
International troops, aid workers and local communities: mapping the perceptions gap
The development of the International Criminal Court: some implications for humanitarian action
Addressing sexual violence in emergencies
SMART: a collaborative approach to determining humanitarian needs
Using satellite imagery to improve emergency relief
Land, housing and property restitution after conflict: principles and practice
Real-Time Evaluation: where does its value lie?
Katrina and Goliath: why the greatest military and economic power in the world didn't protect New Orleans
by Kate Mackintosh, MSF January 2006
Before the International Criminal Court (ICC) became a reality in 2002, most humanitarian workers thought it was a good thing. Many humanitarian organisations called for an end to the impunity enjoyed by the people who cause the misery that humanitarian workers try to alleviate, and some joined formal campaigns for the establishment of the ICC. There was what seemed an obvious commonality of interest between those campaigning for justice and those trying to supply food, shelter and medical care to the victims of violence and armed conflict. The court does indeed have the potential to benefit the people humanitarians try to assist. At the same time, however, it could make our job more difficult, and more dangerous. This article explores why.
The ICC as a problem
In what would have seemed an almost laughably utopian outcome only five years earlier, states met and agreed on the Statute of the ICC in Rome in 1998. On 1 July 2002, after the sixtieth state had bound itself to the ICC treaty, the court came into existence. A year later, in July 2003, the Prosecutor announced that he was looking into the situation in Ituri in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In July 2004, an investigation was opened in northern Uganda. Investigators are on the ground in both of these locations. The UN Security Council referred the situation in Darfur to the ICC in March 2005, and the Prosecutor is currently analysing seven other 'situations of concern', including the Central African Republic and Côte d'Ivoire. The ICC, in other words, is real. It may also be a problem.
In May 2005, the Sudanese authorities arrested the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Head of Mission and Darfur coordinator over the publication of a report detailing the high number of rape victims that MSF had received in its clinics. Coming only two months after the referral of the Darfur situation to the ICC, the intimidatory intent of this action was clear. At the end of October, two aid workers were killed in attacks on humanitarian NGOs in northern Uganda that have been linked to the ICC indictments. These events remind us that the people being brought to justice may well be part of the same group granting us access or guaranteeing our security. On a pragmatic level, and sometimes on a principled one, humanitarian organisations are feeling the need to put some distance between themselves and the agents of international justice.
This might prove difficult. Earlier in 2005, humanitarian staff working in northern Uganda were startled to find representatives of the ICC Prosecutor's office addressing them at the regular OCHA meeting in Kampala. For the ICC investigators, in search of victims and witnesses to alleged crimes, contacting humanitarian organisations at the OCHA meeting was a logical step. As a UN agency, OCHA has an agreement to cooperate with the ICC, and it was part of its role to facilitate this meeting. For the organisations that work in areas where the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is active, this encounter was alarming. Would the LRA hear distorted reports that agencies had been in a meeting with the ICC? The perception that agencies were cooperating with the court could be dangerous. And, as one humanitarian organisation is generally indistinguishable from another to the majority of people we work with, the actions of one are likely to affect us all.
Cooperating with the ICC or other international justice mechanisms raises the same issues for humanitarian organisations that arise from any other form of speaking out about the atrocities they may have witnessed in the field. Such acts bring us into confrontation with powerful and dangerous people, and may challenge perceptions of our neutrality. We can find our access to people in need denied, and our staff put in danger. Nonetheless, some see cooperation with the ICC (or other international justice mechanisms) as significantly different to other forms of speaking out. It can be seen as more risky, because of the severity of the consequences for indicted individuals, although it is possible to imagine situations where simply publicising what we have witnessed could lead to more immediately challenging outcomes for perpetrators – such as sanctions, or even military intervention – than cooperation with a tribunal, which will inevitably take years to bring a few individuals to trial. It has also been characterised as participation in a fundamentally political and inevitably controversial process, and so as straying too far from neutrality.
Both these views presuppose that we have a choice about whether or not to cooperate with international courts. The question would be different in our home countries, or in the national systems of the countries in which we work, where justice mechanisms have the full force of the state behind them, and a decision not to cooperate could result in a significant penalty. Lying outside a national framework, the ICC is in a weaker position. But do we really have a choice about whether or not to join in? Although the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has negotiated a specific exemption from the obligation to testify before the court, other humanitarian organisations are not covered. As the law stands it seems that, as in any national jurisdiction, if we are ordered to cooperate we are legally bound to do so. It may be that we can narrow the scope of the issues upon which we could be ordered to testify; for example, a case could be made for exempting humanitarian organisations from the obligation to testify unless the information they provide is of direct and important value in determining a core issue in the case, and cannot reasonably be obtained elsewhere. More significantly, however, we are unlikely as a matter of practice to be forced to cooperate. The ICC has no police force, and must depend on states to enforce any orders it issues. It is hard to imagine a state arresting and transferring a humanitarian witness, especially one of its own nationals, to the ICC in The Hague. For that reason, the ICC is unlikely to make such an order – no court wants to look ridiculous, after all.
We should not lose sight, meanwhile, of how reluctance to cooperate could appear to the victims. There is a moral trade-off involved in trying to keep out of the justice process. We may justify this stance to ourselves because it protects our ability to carry out our core mission, but it may be hard to explain to the people we are feeding and treating why we refuse to stand up and talk about the crimes we have seen committed against them. This becomes clearer if we look at some hypothetical examples.
In July 2004, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) published a mortality survey for the DRC. In the course of that survey, IRC workers must have interviewed hundreds of people about difficult events in their and their family's lives. Would it be legitimate, hypothetically speaking, for the IRC to refuse to repeat that information in court, even though this might spare hundreds of individual victims the necessity of going through a traumatic courtroom experience? To take another example: MSF sometimes provides medical certificates to survivors of violent trauma, including rape, in the belief that these patients can use them, if they wish, to pursue legal proceedings. What if some of these victims testify before the ICC, and MSF is asked to confirm the authenticity of the medical certificates? Could MSF legitimately refuse to do so, even though this might undermine a former patient's claim?
If we are obliged to cooperate, either for legal or moral reasons, it should be possible to arrange some degree of confidentiality, so that only the defendant knows the name of the witness and the humanitarian organisation, for example. The ICC judges can order this kind of measure in order to protect the 'safety, physical and psychological well-being, dignity and privacy of victims and witnesses', and similar provisions have been used to protect humanitarian organisations and their staff in the international tribunals in Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. It is also possible to pass on information on a strictly confidential basis to the prosecution or, potentially, the defence, which cannot be used in evidence but may help them with their investigations.
The ICC as part of the solution
Legitimate concerns about the problems the ICC may pose for humanitarian operations should not blind us to its potential to improve the situation for the people we try to help, both directly and through the protection of humanitarian assistance. After all, if the ICC manages to fulfil its promise and provide some kind of deterrent to abuse, we could see more respect for international humanitarian law, even – possibly – fewer wars.
On a practical level, the ICC could give us leverage in negotiating with those in control – either for better treatment of the civilians in their power (because they could be prosecuted for any violence or ill-treatment), or for permission to provide humanitarian assistance to those populations. In particular, where there is a blatant attempt to block humanitarian access to civilians as part of a war strategy, this is a crime within the jurisdiction of the court.
Four crimes can be prosecuted at the ICC: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and aggression. Crimes against humanity are defined as widespread or systematic attacks against a civilian population, and can take many forms – murder, torture, deportation, extermination are among those listed in the ICC Statute. Extermination explicitly includes 'the intentional infliction of conditions of life, inter alia the deprivation of access to food and medicine, calculated to bring about the destruction of part of a population'. Thus, if someone blocks our access in order to increase the suffering of the people we are trying to reach, this is an international crime. If this takes place in a country which has ratified the ICC Statute (and 100 had, by November 2005), that person can be arrested and tried before the ICC. These are sharper teeth than we are used to having at our disposal.
The ICC Statute could also increase our own protection. Attacks on humanitarian workers can be prosecuted as war crimes by the ICC, because the ICC can take action in response to attacks on civilians. The Statute lists as a distinct crime attacking 'personnel, installations, materiel, units or vehicles involved in a humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping mission in accordance with the charter of the United Nations', although this only reinforces our existing protection from attack as civilians. This means that, even where we know that the state authorities of the country in which we are working would be unwilling or unable to prosecute those who attack us, we (like the civilians living in the territory) are protected by the ICC. Once the ICC has shown that it can get its hands on some of its indictees, and actually has defendants in the dock, this thought may give our attackers pause.
With the coming into force of the ICC comes a new understanding of the problems it could cause us in the field. It is important to think about how to control relations with the court, but we should not lose sight of the ICC's potential to work for the benefit of the people we try to assist, or of how we can use it as an additional tool to negotiate support for humanitarian action.
Jacques Stroun, 'International Criminal Jurisdiction, International Humanitarian Law and Humanitarian Action', International Review of the Red Cross, no. 321, December 1997.
Stéphane Jeannet, 'Recognition of the ICRC's Long-standing Rule of Confidentiality – An Important Decision by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia', International Review of the Red Cross, no. 838, June 2000.
Françoise J. Hampson, 'The International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia and the Reluctant Witness', (1998) 47 I.C.L.Q. 50.
Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court: http://www.un.org/law/icc/statute/romefra.htm.
Kate Mackintoshis the international law adviser to MSF-Holland. This article is written in a personal capacity. Kate's email address is: kate.mackintosh@amsterdam.msf.org.


text:
Dr Hemchandra P Tipnis, retired principal of Bombay College of Pharmacy, passes away
By Sanjiv Das	 On May 23, 2016
Tipnis was active in professional activities of IPA and was elected President of Indian Pharmaceutical Congress (IPC), in 2007
Dr Hemchandra P Tipnis, Retired Principal of Bombay College of Pharmacy (BCP) and Central Executive Council Member of Indian Pharmaceutical Association (IPA) recently passed away after a massive cardiac arrest. He is survived by his wife, Vinodini and daughter, Reshma. Born on July 7, 1933, Tipnis completed his Masters and Doctorate from University of California School of Pharmacy and University of Nebraska respectively. He pioneered the initial bioavailability studies in human volunteers and his research papers formed the basis for amendments to Drugs & Cosmetics Act, with the ultimate inclusion of Schedule Y in the Act.
Tipnis was amongst the first to understand the importance of industry tie-ups in growth of academic institutes and sew-up partnerships between the pharma industry and BCP, a move that propelled BCP into the big league of pharmacy colleges not just in the country but internationally as well.
Tipnis was active in the professional activities of IPA and was elected President of Indian Pharmaceutical Congress (IPC) in 2007. He was also the Scientific Convener of IPCs in 1988, 1989,1990 and 1991. His vision and acumen helped Indian pharma industry get attuned to the global regulatory requirements and opened the doors to Indian ANDA filings with the US FDA. A recipient of many prestigious awards conferred by the pharma fraternity and IPA, Tipnis in his career guided 35 doctorate and 100 masters students.
Indian Pharmaceutical Association, Bombay College of Pharmacy and the fraternity join hands in condoling the sad demise of this doyen of pharma profession.
Bombay College of PharmacyDr Hemchandra P Tipnispharma
Arbro Pharma launches nanotechnology-based bio-available curcumin
Ajanta Pharma receives US FDA approval for migraine drug


text:
The 2012–13 Southeastern Louisiana Lions basketball team represented Southeastern Louisiana University during the 2012–13 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Lions, led by ninth year head coach Jim Yarbrough, played their home games at the University Center and were members of the Southland Conference. They finished the season 13–18, 10–8 in Southland play to finish in fourth place. They advanced to the semifinals of the Southland tournament where they lost to Stephen F. Austin.

Roster

Schedule

|-
!colspan=9| Exhibition

|-
!colspan=9|Non conference Regular season

|-
!colspan=9| Southland Regular season

|-
!colspan=9| 2013 Southland Conference men's basketball tournament

References

Southeastern Louisiana Lions basketball seasons
Southeastern Louisiana
2012 in sports in Louisiana
2013 in sports in Louisiana

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia