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Paul Albert Scheer (* 4. April 1889 in Prüm; † 29. Januar 1946 in Kiew) war ein deutscher Polizeioffizier, zuletzt Generalleutnant der Polizei und SS-Gruppenführer im Zweiten Weltkrieg.

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Scheer war der Sohn eines Apothekers. Er absolvierte die Schulen in seiner Heimatstadt und wurde danach Berufssoldat. Er trat Ende August 1907 in das Rheinische Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr. 8 ein, mit dem er am Ersten Weltkrieg teilnahm; zuletzt im Rang eines Hauptmanns. Nach dem Krieg wurde er Mitglied im Deutschvölkischen Schutz- und Trutzbund und betätigte sich ab dem Frühjahr 1919 beim Grenzschutz Ost. Im Februar 1920 wurde er offiziell aus dem Heer entlassen. Danach besuchte er eine Handelsschule und absolvierte eine kaufmännische Ausbildung in Koblenz.

Anfang August 1921 trat er in den Dienst der Schutzpolizei in Koblenz ein und war in den folgenden Jahren als Hundertschaftsführer, u. a. in Dortmund und Düsseldorf tätig. Von Oktober 1928 bis Dezember 1933 war er Ausbilder an der Polizeischule Bonn.

Nach der Machtübergabe an die Nationalsozialisten wurde er Anfang Mai 1933 Mitglied der NSDAP (Mitgliedsnummer 3.144.248). Ab Anfang Januar 1934 war er Kommandeur der Schutzpolizei in Duisburg, ab April dieses Jahres in gleicher Funktion in Mühlheim-Oberhausen bzw. ab Anfang Dezember 1937 in Bochum. Als Kommandeur einer Einheit der Ordnungspolizei nahm er im März 1938 am Anschluss Österreichs teil und nach dem Münchener Abkommen Anfang Oktober 1938 am Einmarsch in das Sudetenland.

Nach Beginn des Zweiten Weltkrieges war er ab Mitte September 1939 Kommandeur der Schutzpolizei im Raum Kattowitz. Als SS-Standartenführer Anfang August 1940 in die SS übernommen (SS-Nr. 337.753) wurde er noch im selben Monat Befehlshaber der Ordnungspolizei (BdO) Saar-Lothringen mit Dienstsitz Saarbrücken. Ab Mai 1941 fungierte er als BdO Wiesbaden. Während des Deutsch-Sowjetischen Krieges war er von Ende Oktober 1941 Kommandeur der Ordnungspolizei (KdO) in Kiew unter dem Höheren SS- und Polizeiführer Russland-Süd. Von Mitte März 1943 bis Juli 1944 war er BdO Frankreich mit Dienstsitz Paris. Bald nach der Landung der Alliierten in der Normandie wurde seine Dienststelle aufgelöst und Scheer an seinen Wohnort Kattowitz versetzt. Als SS-Führer leitete er im Januar/Februar 1945 den Auffangstab "Grenzen Niederschlesien" im Gebiet Kamenz/Zittau. Ab dem 20. Februar 1945 war er BdO im Bereich Heeresgruppe Mitte. In dieser Funktion geriet er am 9. Mai 1945 bei Tábor in sowjetische Kriegsgefangenschaft und wurde im Kriegsgefangenenlager 27 in Krasnogorsk interniert.

Vom 17. bis zum 28. Januar 1946 musste sich Scheer mit weiteren 14 Angeklagten, darunter auch Generalleutnant Karl Burckhardt (u. a. Wehrmachtskommandant von Kiew), vor einem sowjetischen Militärtribunal wegen der Beteiligung an Kriegsverbrechen verantworten. Ihm wurde insbesondere die Teilnahme "an der Ermordung von 75000 Zivilisten, v. a. Juden, und an der Verschleppung von 25000 Sowjetbürgern aus dem Gebiet Kiew zur Zwangsarbeit" vorgeworfen. Scheer, seinerzeit KdO in Kiew, gab in dem Verfahren zu seiner Verteidigung an, dass die Morde an Juden bereits zu seinem Dienstantritt weitestgehend abgeschlossen waren und er danach nur auf höheren Befehl noch vereinzelt Judenmorde im Rahmen seiner Kommandeurstätigkeit angeordnet hätte. Ab Februar 1942 seien Judenmorde nach Verlegung der Einsatzgruppen durch ihm unterstellte Einheiten der Sicherheitspolizei durchgeführt worden. Mit weiteren elf Beschuldigten wurde er in dem Schauprozess zum Tod durch den Strang verurteilt und hingerichtet. Drei weitere Angeklagte wurden zu 20 Jahren Arbeitslager verurteilt.
Ab Februar 1928 war er mit Marie-Theres Schulte (1905–1997) verheiratet.

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 Eisernes Kreuz II. und I. Klasse
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 Schlesischer Adler I. und II. Stufe
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 Totenkopfring der SS
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Literatur
 Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann: Die Generale der Waffen-SS und der Polizei. Band 4: Podzun – Schimana. Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 2009, , S. 475–482.
 Klaus-Dieter Müller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner, Andreas Weigelt: Todesurteile sowjetischer Militärtribunale gegen Deutsche (1944–1947). Eine historisch-biographische Studie. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-36968-5, Kurzbiographien auf beiliegender CD, dort S. 589.

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Person (deutsche Besetzung der Ukraine 1941–1944)
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Freikorps-Mitglied
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Favorite Fishing Spot: Swartkops River P.E.
Hey all, anyone keen to do a little fishing after work sometime this week?
I'm prett ymuch game for anything (except really heavy duty stuff like shark as I don't quite have the tackle for that atm).
Boat: Didn't float as well as I had hoped!!!
This weekend Robyosh and myself went fishing at Swartvlei for some shad/grunter/cob as we have heard rumors that this spot is going off. Rather desperate to break the dry spell, I packed up and off we went.
On arrival the dropshot fellas were hitting garick on the left side of the lagoon by the dozen. 500g - 800g...good fun. As I was setting up my d/s rig, I noted movement in the water a good couple of fellas running around madly throwing rocks and hitting with sticks...and that's when the fun started.
Two Windhoek draughts; one six foot, 108 kg fella by the name of J A M; one cast net and pations.
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2. Take your 6 foot, 108kg fella named J A M and spot a shallow bank adjasent to a drop off (grunters frequent these when feeding).
3. Now run after the grunter like an absolute fool and push it to the nearest sand bank whilst readying your cast net. Open your cast net and jump on the fish like yet another fool and hold on for dear life.
4. Take the grunter for a photie and enjoy the other windhoek whilst telling this story to your mate on the other side of the river.
PS: I caught 2 of these grunters in the above mentioned fashion. One was a 52cm and the other a 63cm which I gave to a little girl.
Hey Cuan. Welcome to George Boerie. Myself and Robyosh will be fishing this week after work. I think the swell coming through at current will be to big to go left at Vic, how ever about a week ago the guys were catching shad from the pier at Vic. Might be worth a look now that most of those fine Transvaal fellas have departed. If you are interested my friend, let either myself or Robyosh know and we can make a plan. We will also, God willing, be fishing this weekend...left of flat rock perhaps, try and target some cracker. You are most welcome to come along.
Favorite Fishing Spot: Just moved here, no clue yet.
Club: Mombakkie club at the moment.
I was watching this on Friday, looked more like a football game checking the okes run after the fish.
One Question if you don't mind.
"On arrival the dropshot fellas were hitting garick on the left side of the lagoon by the dozen"
Was the above by the mouth? Were they casting into the sea or Channel.
Well, I will head down to Vic Bay tomorrow.
But the swell looked pretty small, so I think left at Vic Bay (through tunnels) may be an option tomorrow as well. What is it like fishing at the point on the left of the bay?
It looks to get very deep very quickly there, but I don't really see any way of landing anything big that side.
Just shout if you see me.
Cheers, and thanks for the tips.
jinnnne. both of you should be taken to Kaaimans , Shot , and then slid out .
Lucky for you rob it's 12 in the Morning Or i'd be calling you !!!!!
I'm keen to come wth , I'm getting a bit tired of Chasing sharks , and to crown it all lindie's work collegue Gets gatvol sunda of catching bronzes , so he swims out the Last one wth 4 hooks set in it , and - well - true to form - the Newbie gets FLOOORED by Mr blek !!!!


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Preventing the spread of airborne disease: Training videos for greenhouse and garden center workers
Jeremy Jubenville and Melissa Millerick-May, Michigan State University Extension - June 16, 2021
Tools aimed at fulfilling pandemic preparedness training requirements.
Workers on a transplant line at a greenhouse production facility in Michigan. Photo by the National Pesticide Safety Education Center.
The floriculture team at Michigan State University Extension, in cooperation with the National Pesticide Safety Education Center (NPSEC), has developed employee training videos for the prevention of airborne disease transmission at greenhouses and garden centers. These videos, funded by the Western Michigan Greenhouse Association (WMGA), can help green industry employers fulfill the need for COVID-19 training requirements as required by the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) and keep their workforce prepared in the event of a future widespread airborne disease outbreak.
Video link: Preventing the Spread of Airborne Diseases at Garden Centers
Video link: Preventing the Spread of Airborne Diseases at Greenhouse Production Facilities
Growers can expect these videos to:
Follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) COVID-19 training guidelines for agricultural workers
Satisfy worker training requirements for COVID-19 (MIOSHA)
Satisfy worker training requirements for pandemic preparedness plans (MIOSHA)
Many will recall the effort put into preparedness for pandemic influenza in the early 2000s. In agriculture, most of this effort was directed toward preventing the spread of influenza in poultry flocks (H5N1, H7N9, H9N2) and swine herds (H1N1, H1N2, H3N2) and addressing mass mortality in the event of an outbreak. As such, there was little to no guidance developed for preventing zoonoses or widespread disease outbreaks among workers. This preparatory shortfall, in combination with the novel nature of the coronavirus, resulted in a situation in which few tools were available to guide the industry on how to implement appropriate preventative measures while maintaining business operations. In short, the industry was largely unprepared to prevent or mitigate the spread COVID-19 within its workforce.
The high-profile failures to contain infectious diseases at agricultural operations exposed a huge weakness and highlights the necessity for our industry to:
Be prepared: Have an established plan and be ready to implement should there be a threat of widespread public disease outbreaks.
Demonstrate to regulators and public decision-makers that the green industry is fully capable of maintaining business operations while preventing/minimizing the spread of an infectious disease among their workers.
Although presented in the context of the Michigan green industry, these videos were specifically designed for use in greenhouses and garden centers across the United States. The subject matter is general enough to be used for the prevention of a wide range of airborne diseases, ensuring the videos will remain relevant worker training tools for years to come.
Topics covered by the videos:
How airborne diseases spread, risks for workplace expose, and how workers can protect themselves (CDC, MIOSHA).
Proper handwashing practices and use of hand sanitizer stations (CDC, MIOSHA).
Farm-specific social distancing practices (CDC, MIOSHA).
Cough and sneeze etiquette (CDC).
Other routine infection control precautions: social distancing measures and putting on/taking off masks and gloves (CDC, MIOSHA).
Steps to take if workers get sick (CDC, MIOSHA).
Employer policies regarding COVID-19 (CDC, MIOSHA).
How to report unsafe working conditions (MIOSHA).
Working with retail customers who do not follow safety protocols (garden center video only).
Closed captioning is available for both training videos. Spanish versions will be available at a later date. Additional resources for greenhouse and garden center operators can be found at the MSU Extension Floriculture COVID-19 Resource page. Operationally specific questions, clarification inquiries, and requests for assistance with pandemic preparedness plan development can be directed to:
Melissa Millerick-May – MSU Extension Health & Safety Resource
Email: milleric@msu.edu
Jeremy Jubenville – MSU Extension Floriculture and Greenhouse Crop Production
Email: jubenvi3@msu.edu
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Broken Hill Celebrates 130 Years of Pioneering
Thu, 2nd August 2018
Wesley Uniting Church in Broken Hill has celebrated 130 years of being a pioneering church, part of the local community since the beginning.
Uniting Church NSW/ACT Moderator Rev. Simon Hansford preached at the commemorative service, which took place on Sunday, 29 July.
In his sermon the Moderator reflected on how the story of Wesley Uniting Church was one of pioneering, "One that has never been short of courage and character."
Rev Hansford spoke of the number of prayers and lives, "embedded in the mortar of the of the church since the foundation stone was laid some 130 years ago."
The church has been part of the community since the very beginning, with the stones first laid on 31 July, 1888, three years after Broken Hill started as a mining community.
"Today is a celebration. Wesley Uniting Church Broken Hill is a hospitable and magnificent space always in the heart of the community not just represented by these walls but wherever that may be," Rev. Hansford said.
The Moderator paid tribute to the church's continual resilience over these years, especially now that the community faces another drought.
"As the community faces another drought-stricken year, we hear God's call into a new space," he said.
"We are on this journey together as a whole church.
"We are disciples of Christ not just because of the evidence we see but because of the hope that we have.
"We need courage to renew. And hear how the church is calling them into this new space. We are disciples of Christ because of the hope we have not just because of the evidence we see but the hope."
Rev. Hansford said that the commemoration marked a "fine weekend."
Wesley Uniting Church was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 23 April, 2010 when herritage classifications were changed. The building is recognised as having State significance as a place dating back to the town's pioneer days. It is also recognised for its Victorian Gothic design.
The church is also known for being featured in an advertisement with the late artist Pro Hart in 1988.
Part of this story first appeared in the Barrier Daily Truth.
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RIO VISTA (AP) � A wayward mother whale and her calf have miles to go and obstacles to overcome as they try to make the 90-mile trip from the inland Port of Sacramento back to the Pacific Ocean, a week after taking a wrong turn and swimming to the state capital.
By this morning, the humpbacks � nicknamed Delta and Dawn � had made it nearly halfway there, spotted just north of Rio Vista, about 45 miles southwest of Sacramento. Their homeward journey had stalled briefly when the pair began heading back upstream overnight, forcing scientists and the U.S. Coast Guard to position boats in front of them to turn them around.
�The plan is to keep boats behind them, trying to coax them in the direction we want them to go,� Carrie Wilson, a marine biologist with the California Department of Fish and Game, said today.
The whales started moving toward the Pacific at around 3:30 p.m. Sunday, swimming at about 6 mph, from the Port of Sacramento, where crowds had gathered over the weekend to catch a glimpse.
No one is certain why the whales decided to go back downstream, but Jim Oswald of the Marine Mammal Center said the change may have been spurred by tug boats. The tugs� engines fired up about 100 yards away from the pair, and the sound may have had an influence.
�The tugs were out in the basin and the whales decided to follow them. They�ve been on the move (ever since),� Oswald said.
�We�ve got a bunch of metal pipes and hammers, and if we need to, ... we can give the other boats pipes to bang on to persuade the animals not to turn in the wrong direction,� said Wilson.
Wilson said there was no indication that the whales were in poor health. �They have been very consistent, and moving along at a good pace,� she said.
The whales� plight has been followed closely, and hundreds of people have gathered along the banks of the Port of Sacramento to see the pair. People were also appearing on the banks of the Sacramento River trying to get a glimpse of the retreating whales, Wilson said.
Wildlife experts decided on Friday to leave the whales alone for the weekend, since heavy recreational boat traffic in the delta could have complicated any efforts to move them.
If the whales don�t continue on their current course toward the ocean, marine mammal rescue crews will resume trying to lure the pair in the right direction by playing recorded sounds of other humpbacks feeding.
That strategy worked in the case of a humpback named Humphrey, who in 1985 swam in the Delta for nearly a month before returning to the Pacific.


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Opinion | The Texas GOP platform calls for secession? Good riddance.
By Missy Evans On Jun 21, 2022
The Lone Star State does not have the best track record as a sovereign power. The Republic of Texas survived only 10 years from independence to annexation by the United States in 1845. Texas seceded during the Civil War — and, with the rest of the Confederacy, was crushed.
But, as the saying goes: If at first you don't secede, try, try again. The Texas GOP now wants the state to vote on declaring independence.
And the United States should let Texas go! Better yet, let's offer Texas a severance package that includes Oklahoma to sweeten secession — the Sooner the better.
Over the weekend, while many Americans were celebrating the 167th anniversary of Juneteenth (when Union Gen. Gordon Granger, in Galveston, Tex., delivered the order abolishing slavery) the Texas Republican Party voted on a platform declaring that federal laws it dislikes "should be ignored, opposed, refused, and nullified."
The proposed platform (it's expected to be approved when votes are tallied) adds: "Texas retains the right to secede from the United States, and the Texas Legislature should be called upon to pass a referendum consistent thereto." It wants the secession referendum "in the 2023 general election for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation."
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Of course, protections would have to be negotiated for parts of Texas that wish to remain on Team Normal. Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio and parts of South Texas would remain in the United States, and they will need guaranteed safe passage to New Orleans or Santa Fe, along with regular airlifts of sustainable produce, accurate textbooks and contraceptives.
But consider the benefits to the rest of the country: Two fewer Republican senators, two dozen fewer Republican members of the House, annual savings of $83 billion in defense funds that Texas gets. And the best reason? The Texas GOP has so little regard for the Constitution that it is calling for a "Convention of the States" to effectively rewrite it — and so little regard for the United States that it wishes to leave.
In democracy's place, the Republican Party, which enjoys one-party rule in Texas, is effectively proposing a church state. If you liked Crusader states and Muslim caliphates, you'll love the Confederate Theocracy of Texas.
The Texas GOP platform gives us a good idea what such a paradise for Christian nationalists would look like. Texas would officially declare that "homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle choice." It would redefine marriage as a "covenant only between one biological man and one biological woman," and it would "nullify" any court rulings to the contrary. (The gay Log Cabin Republicans were banned from setting up a booth at the convention.) It would fill schools with "prayer, the Bible, and the Ten Commandments" but ban "the teaching of sex education." It would abolish all abortions and require students to "learn about the Humanity of the Preborn Child."
The Texas Theocracy, which maintains that President Biden "was not legitimately elected," would keep only traces of democracy. It wants the Voting Rights Act of 1965 "repealed," and it would rewrite the state constitution to empower minority rule by small, rural (and white) counties. It would rescind voters' right to elect senators and the Constitution's guarantee of birthright citizenship.
The Texas Theocracy would probably be broke; it wants to abolish the federal income tax, "Ax the Property Tax" and do away with the estate tax and various business taxes. Yet it is planning a hawkish foreign policy! The platform argues that Texas is currently "under an active invasion" and should take "any and all appropriate measures the sovereign state defines as necessary to defend" itself. It imagines attacks by a "One World Government, or The Great Reset" — an internet-born conspiracy belief — and proposes "withdrawal from the current United Nations." The Theocracy would put the "wild" back in the West, abolishing the minimum wage, environmental and banking regulations, and "red-flag" laws or waiting periods to prevent dangerous people from buying guns.
Above all, the Confederate Theocracy of Texas would be defined by thought police. It would penalize "woke corporations" and businesses that disagree with the theocracy over abortion, race, trans rights and the "inalienable right to refuse vaccination."
Government programs would be stripped of "education involving race." Evolution and climate change "shall be taught as challengeable scientific theories subject to change." There would be a "complete repeal of the hate crime laws." The Texas Revolution "shall not be 'reimagined'" in a way the theocracy finds "disrespectful." Confederate monuments "shall be protected," "plaques honoring the Confederate widows" restored, and lessons on "the tyrannical history of socialism" required.
In their platform, the Texas Republicans invoked "God" or the "Creator" 18 times and "sovereignty" or sovereign power 24 times. And the word "democracy"? Only once — in reference to China.
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There are many times when an estate planning attorney can step in, answer your questions, provide advice, and help you avoid a difficult situation.
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A week of presentations, workshops, film screenings, and cultural events to raise awareness around the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli apartheid. All IAW 2011 events are open to everyone, and are free of charge. We look forward to seeing you there!
You can now check out the full schedule of events in Edmonton. For details of IAW events around the world, visit apartheidweek.org.
If you are part of an organization, union, or collective that would like to endorse Edmonton IAW 2011, please email us at psnedmonton@gmail.com.
Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an annual international series of events held in cities and campuses around the globe. The aim of IAW is to educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system and to build Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns as part of a growing global BDS movement. Last year, Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) took place in more than 40 cities across the globe.
The past few years have seen a sharp increase of literature and analysis that has sought to document and challenge Israeli apartheid, including reports issued by major international bodies and human rights organizations and findings published by political leaders, thinkers, academics and activists. Many of these efforts have highlighted the role that could be played by people and governments across the world in providing solidarity with the Palestinian struggle by exerting urgent pressure on Israel to alter its current structure and practices as an apartheid state. Prominent Palestinians, Jewish anti-Zionists, and South Africans have been at the forefront of this struggle.
At the same time, an international divestment campaign has gained momentum in response to a statement issued in July 2005 by over 170 Palestinian civil society organizations calling for boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against apartheid Israel. Important gains have recently been made in this campaign in countries like South Africa, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States.
The aim of IAW is to contribute to this chorus of international opposition to Israeli apartheid and to bolster support for the BDS campaign in accordance with the demands outlined in the July 2005 Statement: full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, an end to the occupation and colonization of all Arab lands – including the Golan Heights, the Occupied West Bank with East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip – and dismantling the Wall, and the protection of Palestinian refugees' right to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in U.N. resolution 194. In previous years IAW has played an important role in raising awareness and disseminating information about Zionism, the Palestinian liberation struggle and its similarities with the indigenous sovereignty struggle in North America and the South African anti-Apartheid movement. Join us in making this a year of struggle against apartheid and for justice, equality, and peace.
This year marks the third annual Israeli Apartheid Week in Edmonton, and the seventh year the week has been hosted internationally since its founding in Toronto.
A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other film ever produced on the conflict — 'Occupation 101' presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions.
The film also details life under Israeli military rule, the role of the United States in the conflict, and the major obstacles that stand in the way of a lasting and viable peace. The roots of the conflict are explained through first-hand on-the-ground experiences from leading Middle East scholars, peace activists, journalists, religious leaders and humanitarian workers whose voices have too often been suppressed in American media outlets.
The film covers a wide range of topics — which include — the first wave of Jewish immigration from Europe in the 1880's, the 1920 tensions, the 1948 war, the 1967 war, the first Intifada of 1987, the Oslo Peace Process, Settlement expansion, the role of the United States Government, the second Intifada of 2000, the separation barrier and the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, as well as many heart wrenching testimonials from victims of this tragedy.
International solidarity in support of the Palestinian freedom struggle is growing around the world: from international direct action activists standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Palestinians fighting confiscation of their land in the occupied West Bank to the Free Gaza Movement's naval challenges to the illegal siege of Gaza to local boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaigns across the globe targeting corporations and institutions that benefit from the occupation.
What are the ways these international movements can best support the Palestinian-led anti-Apartheid movement in the future, and how can they best respond to ongoing attempts at the national and international levels to silence, marginalize and even criminalize effective solidarity with Palestine?
From 2007 – 2008 Huwaida taught in a human rights law clinic at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem, the first legal clinic in the Arab World. Huwaida was one of the initiators and organizers of a delegation of American lawyers to Gaza in February 2009, and co-authored the report on their findings, "Onslaught: Israel's Attack on Gaza and the Rule of Law."Huwaida is currently the Chairperson of the Free Gaza Movement. Since August 2008, she has led five successful sea voyages to the Gaza Strip. Huwaida was traveling with the Gaza Freedom Flotilla when it was lethally attacked by Israeli forces on May 31, 2010.
Queerness and Occupation: What's the Connection?
What is "queer"? What is "apartheid"? Why should queer people be concerned about Israeli apartheid? If you have ever asked yourself these questions, you are invited to attend this informal workshop hosted by the Edmonton Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (EQuAIA). We will discuss as a group many questions and criticisms queer people face when standing in opposition to Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory, and will work together to develop answers and solutions to these areas of concern. All queer- and non-queer identified individuals are welcome to attend the workshop. No previous knowledge or expertise is required, but we do expect everyone participating to contribute to the discussions.
Robert Nichols is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. His research is on 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, as well as the study of late-modern and contemporary imperialism and settler-colonialism, and the forms of resistance to them.
Join us at Rouge Lounge for an incredible night of spoken word and performance poetry relating the liberation struggle of the Palestinian people. This night will leave you inspired to share the stories of struggle with others and to be part of the growing movement against the injustice of apartheid in Palestine. Sorry, no minors.
A fast-paced tsunami of revolutionary uprising is changing the social and political map of the Middle East and North Africa. Triggered by the Tunisian protest movement, this tsunami of change has already ended Mubarak's 30-year dictatorship in Egypt, and has brought a re-birth of street politics to Algeria, Yemen, Jordan, Bahrain, Morocco, Libya, and other parts of the region. What do these developments mean for Israel and for Palestinians? What is their likely impact on the Palestinian anti-apartheid movement in the occupied territories, as well as inside Israel? Will they trigger a popular protest movement against racialized segregation and disenfranchisement? Finally, to what extent will the recent events change the balance of power in the region and the prospects of continuation of Israeli apartheid?
Dr. Ghada Ageel is a third generation Palestinian refugee. She was born and raised in the Khan Younis Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip, were she attended high school and completed a BA in Education. In 1999, Ghada won the Jerusalem Studies' Scholarship of the University of Exeter in Britain, where she completed her Master's degree in Middle East Politics, and her PhD in Refugees Studies. Sine then, Ghada has worked with several organizations and institutions in Canada, UK and Palestine. She currently lives in Edmonton and works at the Canadian Islamic Centre.
Professor Abu-Rabi is a Palestinian who was born in Nazareth, Galilee. He holds dual citizenship in the U.S. and Israel. He is currently the ECMC Chair in Islamic Studies at the University of Alberta, and a professor at the department of Political Science. He has a special interest in the study and practice of interfaith dialogue between the Islamic and Christian religious traditions. Dr. Abu-Rabi specializes in issues of contemporary Islamic thought, particularly on religion and society in the contemporary Arab world, Turkey and South East Asia. Abu-Rabi is the author of Jewish-Muslim Dialogue, Israel's Fate Will be Tied to the Middle East's, and Trends and Issues in Contemporary Arab Thought.
Philip Weiss is, along with Adam Horowitz, the co-editor of the online magazine Mondoweiss, a "news website devoted to covering American foreign policy in the Middle East, chiefly from a progressive Jewish perspective." He has been a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor to Esquire, Harper's Magazine, and the New York Observer.
Since the Nakba (Arabic for "catastrophe") of 1947-1948, in which some 500 Palestinian villages were destroyed and at least 700,000 Palestinians were forced from their homes or lands, in what Israeli historian Ilan Pappe has called "the ethnic cleansing of Palestine." The majority of these Palestinian refugees — now numbering over 5.5 million — have since been forced to live in exile, prevented despite multiple UN resolutions and international law to return to their homes, and unable to call any other place home. Come hear the stories of generations of Palestinians living in the diaspora, from refugee camps in neighboring Arab countries to life in western society.
Dr. Ghada Ageel is a third generation Palestinian refugee. In 1948, her family was expelled from their homes and lands in the village of Beit Daras in what was then known as mandatory Palestine and is now part of Israel. Ghada, was born and raised in the Khan Younis Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip, were she attended high school and completed a BA in Education. In 1999, Ghada won the Jerusalem Studies' Scholarship of the University of Exeter in Britain, where she completed her Master's degree in Middle East Politics, and her PhD in Refugees Studies. Sine then, Ghada has worked with several organizations and institutions in Canada, UK and Palestine. She currently lives in Edmonton and works at the Canadian Islamic Centre.
Samar El-Bekai is a second generation Palestinian refugee. Her father's family are refugees from Beria, Safaad, while her mother's family are exiled Palestinians from Salfeet, Nablus. Her parents met and married while studying in the former USSR where after completing their studies they lived for 3 years in Al Yarmook refugee camp in Syria. After which they moved to settle in a village in Lebanon, where Samar was born. There Samar grew up until 10 years of age when her family immigrated to Canada. Samar completed a BSc in Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Alberta and also received a Diploma in Medical Laboratory Technology from NAIT. She is currently employed at the Provincial Laboratory of Alberta as a Medical Lab Tech.
Reem Skeik is a Palestinian immigrant. Her father's family is from Gaza, while her mother's family are Palestinian refugees from Jaffa. After their expulsion in 1948, the family lived in Lebanon for a few years, and eventually settled in Kuwait, where Reem was born. After the Gulf War, like many other Palestinian refugees, Reem's family endured another expulsion. Reem and her family settled in Gaza, where she started her elementary education for the next four years, until immigrating to Canada. In Edmonton, Reem continued her education, completing a BSc in Molecular Biology and Genetics at the University of Alberta. She is currently at the University of Alberta completing her Master's degree in the same field.
Academics who have been active in Palestine solidarity work will address efforts to suppress dissent on university campuses and the role and responsibility of academics and scholars in this regard. Panelists will also address the role of the university (if any) in protecting spaces for dissent and whether or not dissent is an important aspect of academic freedom.
Mary-Jo Nadeau is a founding member and organizer with Faculty for Palestine, a network of over 450 faculty from more than 40 universities and over 15 colleges across Canada. She is also on the Coordinating Committee of the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) in Toronto. As a member of Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 3908 (Trent University), Mary-Jo was one of the main organizers of the motions which passed around the boycott of Israeli academic institutions in the university workers sector in February 2009. She is a Lecturer at University of Toronto Mississauga and is co-author, with Alan Sears, of "The Palestine Test: Countering the Silencing Campaign" (Studies in Political Economy, Issue 85, Spring 2010).
Keith Hammond's research and teaching are on modernity as a social and political problem. Mr Hammond works in the Lifelong Learning and Social Justice knowledge transfer groups and the Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network, looking in the main at Palestinian issues. He convenes seminars on European philosophy and the writings of Edward Said and contributes to Modern Educational Thought as part of the School's postgraduate programme.
Bill Bruneau is a native of Saskatchewan, but a graduate of the University of Toronto. He taught at UBC from 1971 to 2003 and is a specialist in the history of universities. Bill Bruneau is past president of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) and a member of the CAUT's Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee (2003-2009). His publications include a rather severe book-length criticism of performance indicators in higher education, reports and articles on academic freedom and university governance, and recently, articles and a large forthcoming book on the life and thought of Bertrand Russell in the inter-war period.
Len Findlay is Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Research Unit at the University of Saskatchewan, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and President–elect of its Academy One. Widely published in nineteenth-century comparative studies, literary theory, and the nature and role of universities and the humanities in Canada, his more recent work includes the several times reprinted "Always Indigenize! The Radical Humanities in the Postcolonial Canadian University," "Memory's Hegelian Estate: 'Race,' Class, Treaty, and the Canadas of Alexander Morris (1826-1889)" (Essays on Canadian Writing), "Can the Institution Speak? The University as Testimony in Canada Today" (Humanities Review) and "Extraordinary Renditions: Translating the Humanities Now" (in Retooling the Humanities). Co-editor of Pursuing Academic Freedom: "Free and Fearless"? and a two-term member of CAUT's Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee, his revised translation and edition of The Communist Manifesto for Broadview Press appeared in 2004, and his book Oral Culture for Book Historians will appear soon with University of Toronto Press. He recently organized the only hosting of the photo exhibit "Human Drama in Gaza" on a Canadian university campus.
The Palestine Solidarity Network is joining Palestine solidarity activists across Canada in calling on Mountain Equipment Coop (MEC) to end its partnerships with Israeli factories and to stop sourcing from Israel. Until MEC does so, we will continue to pressure MEC to act in accordance with their stated ethics by ending its partnership with Israeli factories.
During its brutal three-week assault on Gaza two years ago, the Israeli military killed 1400 Palestinians, the vast majority of them civilians. A recent report to the UN by Judge Goldstone concluded that Israel's attack was "designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population." Since its founding in 1948, the State of Israel has systematically oppressed the Palestinian people and denied them the fundamental rights of freedom, equality and self-determination. The ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine is defined by racism, dispossession, and brutal violence, as the recent massacre in Gaza has demonstrated.


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Skype takes VoIP software to the Mac
The Net phone-calling provider is testing a version of its software and service for Apple fans.
Aug. 31, 2004 10:35 a.m. PT
Skype Technologies launched a version of its Internet telephony package for Mac owners on Tuesday, as it battles a growing number of competitors offering VoIP products.
Skype for Apple Computer's Mac OS X is only at the beta, or testing, stage at present and can be downloaded at Skype's Web site. The software includes the SkypeOut service, which lets users call traditional telephones and cell phones worldwide, with prices starting at 1.7 euro cents (about 2 U.S. cents) per minute.
"This is very significant," a Skype representative said on Tuesday. "It means Skype users can speak for free to other Skype users seamlessly across a wide range of platforms." Versions of the Skype software already exist for the Windows, Linux and Pocket PC operating systems.
Luxembourg-based Skype says it has more than 9 million users worldwide, which puts it at the forefront of the fast-growing Internet telephony market. But it is facing plenty of competition, both from fellow start-ups and established telecommunications providers.
America Online on Monday confirmed that it is testing its own Internet phone service, which is likely to be launched next year. The company intends to offer a homemade VoIP service, using partner Level 3 Communications as a conduit to the local telephone system, according to a source in the VoIP industry.
AT&T recently said it would stop adding new copper wire phone customers and instead will pour resources into its own VoIP product, called CallVantage. Ma Bell is trying to sell the service as an added application for broadband customers.
Cable companies are also toying with their own services. AOL corporate cousin Time Warner Cable, for example, has begun selling a VoIP service and plans to launch it nationwide by the end of the year.
A full version of Skype for Mac OS X is expected before the end of this year, and Skype is prepared to add features or make changes as a result of the beta trials.
"We direct our development by listening to the comments and requests from Skype users. We look forward to hearing from the Mac users, who are known to 'think different' about how we can continue to improve Skype," Niklas Zennstrom, chief executive and co-founder of Skype, said in a statement.
Graeme Wearden of ZDNet UK reported from London. CNET News.com's Jim Hu and Ben Charny contributed to this report.
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The TRADE > News > Software firms push new surveillance systems
News April 21, 2010 11:32 AM GMT
Software firms push new surveillance systems
MillenniumIT, the trading technology firm owned by the London Stock Exchange Group, has entered into a partnership with the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) to provide it with a trading surveillance system.
The new software will enable EGX to proactively and accurately identify abusive behaviour and conduct further investigations to ensure it operates a fair, efficient and transparent market for all its participants.
"To effectively oversee its markets, the EGX must employ a surveillance system that is not only capable of rapidly recognising abnormal trading patterns but is also able to support further investigation of such behaviour, while easily adapting to the changes taking place in the market – demands that Millennium Surveillance is perfectly suited to meet," said MillenniumIT CEO Tony Weeresinghe, in a statement.
"We are confident this system will be an important asset to EGX in fulfilling its vision of providing an equitable, transparent and high-quality marketplace," added Maged Shawky, executive chairman of EGX.
Furthermore, Progress Software, a provider of trading software, has enhanced its real-time surveillance capabilities with the launch of a new market surveillance and monitoring accelerator product.
The new tool will enable financial institutions, exchanges and market regulators to detect patterns of abusive or erroneous trading activity and take action to prevent such behaviours in real-time. In addition, the surveillance accelerator will automate the steps required to manage subsequent investigations into trading activity. The product is built on the Progress Responsive Process Management suite, which unites real-time visibility, immediate sense-and-respond and continuous business process improvement capabilities on one platform. This platform will allow for an increased number of features, including improved market abuse pattern detection, integrated workflow, alert management, case management and collaboration.
"The regulatory talk right now focuses on throttling or dumbing down trading technology so regulatory agencies can keep up with the firms they are expected to monitor," said Adam Honore, research director at consultancy, Aite Group. "Further, while risk managers are seeing more influence in technology internally, many continue to rely on after-the-fact reporting systems. Regulators should instead be pushing real-time monitoring and responsive technology both for themselves and the firms they govern to keep up with trading trends instead of trying to slow innovation."
"A? massive increase in trading venues and vehicles, including dark ?pools, ECNs, and MTFs, has created a dangerously fragmented market? that is increasingly challenging to police," added Dr. John Bates, Progress Software's chief technology officer and senior vice president of corporate development and strategy. "Rogue trading and? fraudulent activity have become increasingly difficult to control.? The goal must be to sense these trades – be they errors or fraud – ?as they are taking place and ideally before they move markets."
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When we hear about people and families being injured or killed in drunk driving accidents, often times it conjures the mental image is of a happy family in one car and a careless drunk driver in the other car. However, recent studies have shown that this is a common misconception. If a child is killed in a drunk driving accident, chances are the drunk driver was in the same car as the child.
From the years 2001 to 2010, 2,344 children under age 15 died in car accidents, according to the CDC. One in five involved drunk driving and sixty five percent of the time, it was the child's own driver who was drunk. So it seems more likely that mom or dad having a few too many at a party is the largest risk in fatal drunk driving accidents to children.
What makes this even worse is that 61 percent of the children killed in these accidents were not wearing a seat belt or any restraint. Research shows that the likelihood of a child wearing a seat belt decreases as the driver's blood alcohol content increases.
The child fatality rates varied from state to state. South Dakota, New Mexico and Mississippi had the highest national death rates of children riding with impaired drivers. Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey had the lowest rates, with NJ having just one child per 1.4 million die in an accident while riding with a drunk driver.
State drunk driving laws have been correlated to the varied death rates from state to state, though population and geographic terrain are also likely factors.
Aside from just making sure not to drink and drive, the safest thing parents can do is make sure their children are buckled up and sitting in the backseat. For younger children and toddlers, make sure that you've correctly installed booster and car seats for maximum protection.
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Q: Access Docker Container Port in a Ubuntu VM Given an Ubuntu VMWare Machine (IP: 192.168.10.35) that runs a docker image inside (IP: 172.0.18.2) and given this docker-compose.yml how would I access the Docker Image from my local machine?
version: '3'

services:
    sc2:
      build: .
      ports:
        - 127.0.0.1:4620:80
      restart: always
      networks:
        - default
      volumes:
        - ./sc2ai:/sc2ai
        - ./apache/000-default.conf:/etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
networks:
    default:

I tried to access 192.168.10.35:4620 but the connection failed. What am I missing? Is there an option in the docker-compose missing or do I need to forward ports from inside the VM to the docker image?
PS: If I start the image in docker-for-windows on my local machine I can access it via http://localhost:4620.

A: You can't, because you've explicitly declared that the container (not the image) is only reachable from the VM itself.  The declaration
ports:
  - 127.0.0.1:4620:80

forwards inbound connections on port 4620 on the host to port 80 in the container, but only on the interface bound to 127.0.0.1, which is the dedicated loopback interface (often named lo).  When you try to contact it from the host, it arrives on the VM's external IP 192.168.10.35, but nothing is listening there.
If you remove the explicit port binding, Docker will listen on all interfaces, which is usually what you want, and then you should be able to reach the container via the VM's external IP address.
ports:
  - '4620:80'

(Terminology: an image is a set of static filesystem content; you launch containers from an image and make network connections to the running containers.  You can't directly see what's inside an image, an image doesn't have any running processes, and you can't connect to an image on its own.)

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The NSA hacking tool – DoublePulsar – was used to infect hundreds of thousands of Windows computers with malware last year after it was leaked online by the Shadow Brokers hacking group. At the time, the hacking tool worked on all Windows versions except the latest Windows 10 version, but not on the Windows IoT operating system.
However, a security researcher going by the name Capt. Meelo has tweaked the hacking tool, which now works on the Windows IoT system. All that was required was a simple edit of the DoublePulsar Metasploit module, according to Beeping Computer. Capt Meelo is not the only researcher to tweak the hacking tool, as FractureLabs researchers did the same thing last year.
By using the FuzzBunch framework and exploit tools such as EternalRomance and EternalBlue, malicious actors can gain a foothold in a system and use DoublePulsar as a permanent backdoor.
The tools take advantage of a vulnerability that has been patched by Microsoft in the MS17-010 security update, although many companies were slow to apply the update. Following the exploitation of the vulnerability on hundreds of thousands of Windows computers last year and the exploitation of the vulnerability in the WannaCry and NotPetya campaigns, businesses scrambled to apply the patch and secure their systems.
However, since the hacking tool did not work on Windows IoT, companies may not have applied the security patch to their Windows IoT devices, such as ATMs and point of Sale (PoS) systems.
With this hacking tool now shown to work on Windows IoT, it is important for the MS17-010 security update to be applied to those systems to prevent malicious actors from accessing those devices and adding them to a botnet or accessing data that is stored or passes through those devices.


A recent article from online publication OZY takes a rare, deep dive into the life of our fearless leader, Lars Boilesen. Declaring him the "King of emerging economies," journalist Nathan Siegel pens an intriguing look into the life and success of Opera's CEO Boilesen, both in the office and out.
It is extremely rare that we get to read about the other side of chief executives, making this one of the most interesting interviews of Opera's CEO you will come across.
Read the complete interview here or on USA Today, where the article was also published.
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How to write a scene where the villain meets the protagonist?
The villain was, like the protagonist, a child soldier/mercenary, who served with him. The villain was captured, tortured, and snapped. He feels a burning hatred for the protagonist, believing that he left him behind. The protagonist however feels heavy guilt, blaming himself for not saving him.
Now. They meet each other, when the protagonist infiltrates a building and is then faced by the villain. Now, I don't know how to write that scene, though. Like what should I avoid? What clichés should I avoid for example?
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First, is this supposed to be their first meet-up, but not their last or is this their first and final showdown? Also, does the villain still have a heart? Is this a villain that could be saved or is he now too far gone and has to be vanquished no matter what? Lastly, did they have a friendship before, like were they as close as brothers, or is being child soldiers their only common ground? – Joshua A Feb 5 '16 at 2:56
It's their first showdown. It's the latter. He has gone too far and needs to be killed no matter what. Also, yes they had a brother like relationship. – DarkYagami Feb 5 '16 at 14:26
Have you read kane and Abel? – Akash Feb 7 '16 at 16:03
Western audiences are into heroic self sacrifices in "brother v. brother" conflicts, such as the archetypal death of Ben Kanobi at the hands of Darth Vader in Star Wars, Episode 4.
Some, like the "death" of Neo at the end of Matrix Revolutions or of Ripley at the end of Alien 3 include Christian symbolism.
The hero's journey usually entails the correcting of wrongs in some way. As such, perhaps your protagonist offers his life, soul, honor, etc., to his long-lost friend. The villain does what he will with it. Perhaps he then gets pulverized by bits of building falling on him. That's up to you.
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Write it like it is. Write what happens. Write from the hearts of the characters. Bring it to the end you have chosen to continue to the story. If they don't come to the end you want, maybe something is wrong with your plot, or with your knowledge of the characters.
The more you can expose the characters through their action and dialog, spoken or internal, the more readers will understand the characters, and the more they will be emotionally bound into the result. It will matter who lives and who dies -- and how they live or die.
I'm picturing this as the climax of the story, with creamy character development leading to this resolution. How the actual death happens needs to be consistent with the characters. I would be disappointed if the villain died "randomly" by stuff falling on his head. I think, without knowing your characters, that I would prefer the protagonist to actively kill the villain. Rocks tumbling on him seems cliche. A third party intervening as a Judge deciding who should live, but that's probably been done to the point of cliche.
Only you know the characters. Only you know what is proper in the story, and consistent with the lives they live and their emotional state. Only you know the secondary characters, their loyalties, and their capabilities.
I would suggest not worrying about cliche. Do what is real for your characters. Write from their reality. Don't take short cuts. Show us all the scars and blood, physical and emotional. Your story will be compelling. Your villain will die as he must, and your protagonist will survive and be altered by the experience.
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Personally, I'd think a few clichés to avoid are:
1) The villain does something stupid so the protagonist has no choice but to kill him, in self-defense of defense of an innocent. This relieves the protagonist of responsibility in the kill; and to me makes for a less satisfying ending.
2) The villain realizes all is lost and kills themself. Again, relieves the protagonist of responsibility.
3) Any long-winded explanation from either party.
To me, the best confrontation plays to the characters. The protagonist feels guilty and caused the antagonist. The antagonist agrees and hates the protagonist. The antagonist feels completely justified in killing the protagonist; but the protagonist does NOT feel completely justified; he feels he is responsible for turning his brother into a monster and it is unfair that his failing will now force him to act again against his brother, and actually take the life of his brother after destroying it. The antagonist is all too willing to play on this guilt and goad the protagonist, but somehow the protagonist has to choose to do the one thing he hates most in the world, and compound his own guilt, in order to save innocent lives.
Many final confrontations are too pat. The protagonist dispatches the antagonist with bravado and a clever catch-phrase. No regrets, no angst, no indecision, no emotion but vengeance satisfied. The antagonists have zero saving traits, they are psychopathic evil and care for nobody but themselves, power and money. This makes them easier to kill.
But that is cliché. Still popular, but expected; in most movies the only twist or surprise is in exactly how the beleaguered antagonist manages to trick the antagonist, or pull a rabbit out of the hat to pull off the kill.
If you want to avoid clichés, don't make it emotionally easy for the hero to make the kill, and don't let the villain relieve him of one ounce of responsibility by acting stupidly or rashly. Force the hero to make a deliberate kill he has to think about despite having a clear choice to let the villain escape.
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Enabling Bankers to Leverage Learning During a Crisis
If there's any silver lining to COVID-19, it's that a time of crisis can be a time of learning, too.
As the pandemic spread, there was an urgent need to transition to remote work, which left many companies scrambling to define new policies and communicate changes to employees. But for Penn Community Bank, the infrastructure was already in place for sharing vital information with its team and holding employees accountable for reviewing it.
A Cornerstone client since 2017, the bank leveraged the technology not only to share the organization's remote policy and subsequent updates to it, but also to ensure that employees viewed and understood the materials by requiring their sign-off. What's more, the LMS became a comforting resource for learning and engagement during a time of massive disruption.
Using Downtime for Learning
With most of Penn Community Bank's workforce working from home for the foreseeable future, the bank wanted to ensure that employees felt supported and empowered to work remotely. After all, remote work isn't just a technological shift—beyond the need to master Zoom or other communication channels, there's a need for soft skills like adaptability and resilience.
To that end, the bank leaned on Cornerstone Cares, a centralized compilation of learning materials from providers such as Grovo, Whil and ej4, curated by Cornerstone, to help employees navigate the COVID-19 disruption. With courses like "Tips for Productive Remote Work," and "Build Work Relationships Remotely," Penn Community Bank provided its workers with valuable advice on how to stay engaged—even from a distance. Already, 70% of team members have completed these optional courses.
"Our team members loved the content. They were three to four minutes long and right to the point," says Lianne Richards, senior training specialist, LMS Administrator, at Penn Community Bank.
And employees have been proactive about sharpening other skills, from public speaking to Microsoft office proficiency, during their time at home, too—there has been a 100% increase in registration and completion of courses available in the CyberU learning marketplace via the Cornerstone LMS.
Penn Community Bank also wanted to give its employees the opportunity to get ahead on required compliance training if they were able to. The bank typically requires compliance training to be completed via the Cornerstone LMS twice a year, in January and July, but decided to roll out the July training early. "We still have the due date set for the end of October, but we definitely gave folks some wiggle room," Richards says.
Recognizing Top Performers
Under normal circumstances, Cornerstone Performance provides a place for Penn Community Bank's team members and managers to communicate regularly about performance goals, provide timely feedback and revise goals mid-year as priorities and projects shift. But the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic required the bank to adapt its normal business processes and routines, including the ways in which it manages performance.
For example, the bank has updated its normally scheduled mid-year goal review task to include additional areas for evaluation and input, enabling managers to recognize team members for their adaptability and extraordinary efforts during the pandemic.
"We expect this will be a great tool to encourage meaningful conversations and provide a basis for rewarding those team members who have gone above and beyond," says Kirsten Palmieri, HR business partner and VP at Penn Community Bank. "During times like this, we're especially thankful for the ability that this platform gives us to create and customize performance tasks to meet our needs in the moment."
Preparing for a Post-COVID World
Though the future of work is still in flux as the pandemic continues, Penn Community Bank is planning to pick back up various initiatives when employees do eventually return. Before the shutdown, the bank was experiencing success with its shadow program and is eager to reinstate it when team members return. As part of the program, employees interested in learning about departments other than the one they work in shadow other teams, from accounting to loan operations and others.
As workforces aim to become more flexible than ever in the face of COVID-19, the program is giving its employees an opportunity to "new skill" and not only experience personal growth but also add more value to the business as potential candidates for open positions in the future. "We've had an incredible result. As soon as we sent the email that shadow positions were available through Cornerstone, they filled up immediately through the end of the year," Richards says.
Similarly, the company introduced a series of learning activities built around its core principles. "We had activities that the team members can do together in a team meeting. Just five-, 10-, or 15-minute activities for engagement. We created a library and shared it through Cornerstone," Richards explained.
From introducing gamification techniques like badging to reward employees for engaging with learning materials to debuting the Check-ins feature and thinking about the best ways to apply Cornerstone's succession planning tools, Penn Community Bank is always looking for new ways to support and empower its employees. When the crisis ends and workers can finally return, "we have some very exciting things to look forward to," Richards said.
Learn more about how Penn Community Bank used Cornerstone's LMS and Performance products here.
The history of Juneteenth – and how to honor it this year
On June 19, 1865, news that the Civil War was over reached Galveston, the capital city of Texas. A brief statement, General Order No. 3, was read aloud. It went like this:
Ensuring your organization is future ready: Cornerstone Originals wins 6 Telly Awards
The results are in! Three Cornerstone Originals series — A Seat at the Table, DNA: Sustainability and The Glossary — recently received a combined six Telly Awards. This was the second consecutive year we've won Telly Awards.
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A series of children rap profane, sexually explicit lyrics from Rick Ross, 2 Chainz and others in the video for "Kids."
Rap lyrics from 2 Chainz's "Birthday Song" and Rick Ross's verse on Rocko's "U.O.E.N.O." are among those rapped by pre-teen children in the video for "Kids."
The clip was created by Jimmy Smith II and Jarrel Smith of Los Angeles-based agency Amusement Park.
"All I want for my birthday is a big booty hoe," 2 Chainz raps on "Birthday Song," a single he released last year.


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GateWorld Podcast: Misdirected Emotion?
Do fans give too much credit to actors, and not to writers, for creating beloved characters?
Features | February 10, 2010
Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, John Sheppard, Rodney McKay — we love 'em, and we love the actors who bring the characters of Stargate to life. We welcome them into our homes, cheer for them at conventions, and thank them for inspiring us. But just how big a role do the actors play in creating the characters we love? Do we, as fans of Stargate or any television show, not give the writers enough credit for conceiving the character, writing the dialogue, and sending him or her on adventures?
That's this week's discussion topic on the podcast, as David and Darren consider the role of the actor, the role of the writer, and what goes into making some of our favorite TV characters who they are.
Discussion – Misdirected Emotion?
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Thanks for another good podcast.
I don't think I agree with a fair amount of what you said, and the Lost references were "lost" on me as I gave it up after the second season.
But thanks nonetheless, I always look forward to the podcasts.
candylyn
You can have the best writers in the world, the director can be great, the set production top notice but if your actors suck it is all for nothing. And vice verse. If all the elements are not there it just won't work. Actors get mad love because they are the face we can see, but you only need to look at the fan love given to Lucas, Roddenberry, Abrams and others to see that fans care for and adore the production team!
katikatnik
I admit that I go for the actors and their chemistry first, the writing is secondary to that. Joe Flanigan and David Hewlett carried me through the most horrendeous, most stilted SGA episodes (Brain Storm, Irresistible, Trio etc.). If I didn't love them first, some of the writing would have turned me off pretty fast.
Imitation Tofu
The writers and producers don't get a lot of credit because most of the Atlantis cast wanted more from their characters and were regularly shot down when trying to work with the writers. The actors did the best with what they had and have been always polite and generous to the fans.
I have to go with Imitation Tofu above. Look what happened to poor Tori Higgenson. She practically begged TPTB for more of just about everything from her character. More lines, more backstory, more involvement, etc. What did she get for her troubles? She was unceremoniously let go from the show! Who's idea was it to kill off Paul McGillion's beloved Dr. Beckett? Only after fierce fan clamoring did the producers reluctantly agree to bring him back. Jewel Staite expressed an interest for having her character, Dr. Keller establish a relatinship with Jason Momoa's character, Ronon Dex. This began to develop… Read more »
Just remember, there are two sides to every story. Don't take one person's word over another's just because you've seen that person on screen and think you know the content of their character. Pardon the pun.
@David Read Read what you say is true. However, I submit that it is also true that if you are getting the story from someone you have a good working relationship with, they will also shade the facts to work in their favor. And you will tend to believe them because you do like them.
No one will ever know the real story, except the involved parties, and even then I'm sure each side feels justified in their positions and does not understand how the other side can be so shortsighted.
Just human nature.
EverybodyhatesBa.al
I didn't get a chance to listen to the podcast, but my attention was caught by the title of this post.
I would think that sometimes the writers are forgotten and sometimes the writers make actors stars. For example, the Whedon fan base and all the new blood they introduced to entertainment.
That's a good example, and for some reason we didn't end up talking about those writer-producers who are just as big of "superstars" as many actors — Joss Whedon, JJ Abrams, etc. It's interesting to me that it differs from writer (or producer) to writer. Some are beloved by fans of their shows, while others are demonized (e.g. Berman and Braga).
seanflint
obviously its not the writers as they have mostly the same people for sga sg1 and sgu
sg1 and sga are great while sgu sucks


With state legislatures back in session, it's not surprise new RUUPA-inspired bills have begun moving.
In Colorado, S.B. 88 would significantly revise the state's unclaimed property statutes, including shortening of some dormancy periods and changes due diligence and reporting requirements. The bill has been assigned to the Business, Labor & Technology Committee for review.
Likewise, Washington H.B. 1179 would update the state's unclaimed property statutes, including provisions covering presumptions of abandonment, reporting requirements and due diligence requirements. The bill is scheduled for a Finance Committee hearing on Jan. 31.
Two bills – North Dakota H.B. 1187 and Oregon S.B. 454 – would move administration of their states' unclaimed property functions from the land commissioner and Department of State Lands, respectively, to the state treasurer. It's not known whether this legislation was promoted by the National Association of State Treasurers, but the simultaneous consideration of two bills with essentially the same goal seems noteworthy.
In preparation for the new congressional session, the GRAC Priority Issue Workgroups are finalizing talking points and single-page position papers about key issues. These materials will be used to help consistently demonstrate support or opposition of state legislation that is likely to affect unclaimed property compliance.


There's a need for using a blend of best practice methodologies, but also a risk. The risk is that the elements of the final system might not be consistent with each other. It happens when people pick elements from multiple systems just because they seem interesting without paying attention to the whole structure. Unfortunately, this is very common.
There's also a need for using multiple best practices for two reasons. First, we have different layers that affect projects: a project delivery level, where agile or predictive lifecycles are used, a project management level, where PRINCE2® can be used, the programme management approach and, finally, the portfolio management system. The best results are achievable when we pay attention to all these layers and, of course, they should be compatible with each other. The tricky part is that the delivery level and the project management level usually have an overlap, which makes the consistency more difficult. Scrum, for example, may also cover about 30% of the project management level; DSDM Atern, an agile methodology, almost covers both layers completely; PRINCE2, which is designed for the project management level may also cover up to 20% of the delivery level.
The second reason is that even a single level is not completely covered in one best practice. PRINCE2 is a great methodology for the project management level, but doesn't answer the "how" questions; that's where we can use another best practice such as the PMBOK Guide to fill in the gaps, but even that's not enough, and we need more.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. That's the same with the layers involved in projects. For example, you can have great project delivery, project management, and programme management systems in place, but continuously fail because you don't pay enough attention to your portfolio management system. It doesn't matter how great you are on delivering the projects if they are meaningless projects.
This is the same for the relation between the project delivery layer and the project management level. Many companies that are good at project management and are using PRINCE2 properly can neglect their delivery method and vice versa.
One way of addressing this problem is to educate everyone on the distinction of the two, and the necessity of having both systems. The other way is to combine them into one. I see PRINCE2 Agile™ as a solution of the second type.
I believe that the AXELOS Best Practice portfolio deserves to have its own agile product: a synthesis of the experiences we've had in the PM community.
Scrum, for example, is a great system, but is heavily dependent on a culture we cannot expect to have in a large, mature company. Why don't we use the successful experiences of using Scrum and other agile methods to create something new, from scratch, that matches the needs of a larger audience, as PRINCE2 has been covering for the PM layer?
I believe agile practitioners always need the greater level of governance that's in PRINCE2 in every possible scenario.
We have the old problem of misunderstanding PRINCE2: many people believe that it's a complex system, because they cannot master the tailoring concept. A really simple version of PRINCE2 can benefit any agile system, except for those that already have the PM layer fully covered, such as Atern.
I've always believed that AXELOS should invest in a light version of PRINCE2; a version compatible with PRINCE2 that is already tailored to be useful in simple projects. That really helps larger audiences*.
PRINCE2 practitioners can use agile approaches when their product has the capacity to be developed adaptively, and they choose to do so.
A problem nowadays is that "Agile" is in fashion and everyone likes to be "Agile", without knowing its exact meaning. Adaptive methods are not always suitable. It's not right to reduce them to "more flexible" ways; they are a different approach to delivery that should match the nature of the product.
PRINCE2 practitioners will only truly embrace agile philosophies by understanding the real meaning of agility, which is using an adaptive method instead of a predictive one. If they have the right understanding, the rest will be taken care of automatically.
My usual suggestion is "The Lean Startup" book by Eric Ries; it gives a simple explanation of the adaptation concept. Even though it's mainly about adaptation in the programme and portfolio levels, the understanding would be enough for the practitioners to incorporate it in their projects.
For agile practitioners, it might be hard for them to understand the real effectiveness of PRINCE2, unless they see it in the context of all AXELOS best practices. When they get to know the whole family, they can go back to PRINCE2 and enjoy it even more.
The problem here is that it's too difficult for most people to familiarize themselves with the complete best practices package. The solution? Similar to what I've proposed for PRINCE2: we should have light versions of all Best Practices; MSP, MoP, MoV, M_o_R, and so on. It's a real shame, for example, that almost no one involved in agile projects is familiar with MoV, while it can help them a lot.
*AXELOS has published a white paper called PRINCE2 for Small Scale projects, by Chris Ferguson (worth 0.5 CPD points).
The is also a publication by Allan Ferguson called Integrating PRINCE2, available from the AXELOS store, which is all about how organizations can tailor PRINCE2 to their project environments (worth 2 CPD points).
We have looked at small scale implementations as you can see either in the Chris Ferguson white paper or in Allan Ferguson's book on integrating PRINCE2 into organisations. The latter uses three examples of using PRINCE2 in small medium and large organizations to show aspects adjusting PRINCE2 to meet those different circumstances. It is a message we have been saying for a long time now that it's about intelligent and appropriate application of PRINCE2. I recall talking to someone from a bank who said they probably had a bureaucratic implementation of PRINCE2 but then why won't they it was the very nature of the business after all.
When we set out to develop PRINCE2 Agile we deliberately steered clear of inventing our own agile approach but chose to focus on the interaction of PRINCE2 with the more popular agile approaches. This means there is plenty of meat in the guidance for practitioners to bring into their day-to-day work.
I agree its a shame that not more people are aware of MoV after all it and agile share the perspective that its about adding something of value or maximising value. Those two concepts should go hand in hand.
Great post. I agree that "light" versions may help, but I also believe that we need to address some of the fundamentals as well, especially where they may run counter to agile thinking embodied in the agile values and principles.
MoV has always been to my mind a lost gem in the suite of PPM suite of guidance - if we don't understand why we are doing something then it severely impedes our ability to appropriately answer the what, when, where and how questions.
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