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Four winemaker friends came together and created The Living Wines Collective. This conversation begins with Shaunt Oungoulian, in whose parents' basement is the winery where all wines are produced, and then Sam Baron joins us midway to hear help explain the Reverse Rose. Shaunt, Sam, and their other partners met at UCDavis while studying viticulture and enology, went off to work at some impressive estates across the globe, and then returned to California and launched the Populis, Les Lunes, and Ama Cellars that now encompass the natural winemaking efforts that bind their efforts and aspirations.
"What can I not do?" Asking this question throughout all of the winemaking, Shaunt describes their definition and practical applications of natural winemaking. We take time to wade through the methods employed to hold true to those intentions and the thoughtful ways they use SO2. This young team is making wines from organically farmed, select vineyards, treating the wines as naturally as possible in the cellar, and releasing them to the the world at affordable prices, an uncommon formula which pits them with the perception of something less serious. It is precisely the combination of these tenets that sets their wines apart and that hustle is very serious.


The Program is aimed at students primarily concerned with mastering a specific discipline who would like to apply their knowledge to Africa. The Program seeks to draw together the many members of the York community with an interest in Africa , and to provide them with a scholarly, cultural and progressive political forum.
During the academic year, the Program sponsors a variety of public events. Students are encouraged to participate in these events, and to interact with Africanists who teach in the Faculty of Graduate Studies, the Faculty of Environmental Studies and in the Faculty of Fine Arts.


When your beer glass is empty and you get scared, its happened to all of us!
"Fear of an empty beer glass"? Areound here, it's rampant, I'm sure.
I thought that "beer" would make a fun topic for the weekly pub trivia challenge I have the privilege of hosting. While looking on line for tidbits, I came across the word "Cenosillicaphobia: the fear of an empty glass." My BS detectors were set into full alert, and sure enough, I can't seem to find it in an on-line dictionary.
Anyone ever come across this term in their scholarly - or happy hour - meanderings?
Barkeeper: No worries, I'll refill your beer.
Man: Beer is the best!
You'veprobably heard of arachnophobia (the fear of spiders), and acrophobia (the fear of heights), agoraphobia (the fear of open spaces), and claustrophobia (the fear of confined spaces), and mysophobia (the fear of germs), but have you heard of cenosillicaphobia? That would be the fear of an empty (beer) glass.


Walk With a Scholar is a 'New Initiative in Higher Education' by the Department of Higher Education, Govt. of Kerala. The programme aims at giving necessary orientation to needy students for all round development for leading a successful social life. The scheme involves both internal and external mentoring. Admission to the scheme is voluntary in nature. A student of the first-year degree programme with a minimum of 60% mark is eligible to apply for admission. The scholars for this programme were selected on the basis of merit of qualifying examination and interest.


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Land cover and land use change
By: Benjamin M. Sleeter, Thomas Loveland, Grant Domke, Nate Herold, James Wickham, and Nathan J. Wood
Edited by: D. R. Reidmiller, C. W. Avery, D. R. Easterling, K. E. Kunkel, K. L. M. Lewis, T. K. Maycock, and B. C. Stewart
https://doi.org/10.7930/NCA4.2018.CH5
Climate can affect and be affected by changes in land cover (the physical features that cover the land such as trees or pavement) and land use (human management and activities on land, such as mining or recreation). A forest, for instance, would likely include tree cover but could also include areas of recent tree removals currently covered by open grass areas. Land cover and use are inherently coupled: changes in land-use practices can change land cover, and land cover enables specific land uses. Understanding how land cover, use, condition, and management vary in space and time is challenging.
Changes in land cover can occur in response to both human and climate drivers. For example, demand for new settlements often results in the permanent loss of natural and working lands, which can result in localized changes in weather patterns, temperature, and precipitation. Aggregated over large areas, these changes have the potential to influence Earth's climate by altering regional and global circulation patterns, changing the albedo (reflectivity) of Earth's surface, and changing the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. Conversely, climate change can also influence land cover, resulting in a loss of forest cover from climate-related increases in disturbances, the expansion of woody vegetation into grasslands, and the loss of beaches due to coastal erosion amplified by rises in sea level.
Land use is also changed by both human and climate drivers. Land-use decisions are traditionally based on short-term economic factors. Land-use changes are increasingly being influenced by distant forces due to the globalization of many markets. Land use can also change due to local, state, and national policies, such as programs designed to remove cultivation from highly erodible land to mitigate degradation, legislation to address sea level rise in local comprehensive plans, or policies that reduce the rate of timber harvest on federal lands. Technological innovation has also influenced land-use change, with the expansion of cultivated lands from the development of irrigation technologies and, more recently, decreases in demand for agricultural land due to increases in crop productivity. The recent expansion of oil and gas extraction activities throughout large areas of the United States demonstrates how policy, economics, and technology can collectively influence and change land use and land cover.
Decisions about land use, cover, and management can help determine society's ability to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
10.7930/NCA4.2018.CH5
Office of the AD Climate and Land-Use Change
Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II

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Манакова кућа се налази у предграђу некадашње Савамале, на углу улица Краљевића Марка и Гаврила Принципа. У њој се налазе богате збирке народних ношњи, са Космета и из Јужне Србије, затим обичаја и слично, све укупно око 2600 предмета.

Проглашена је за споменик културе Решењем Завода за заштиту споменика културе града Београда бр. 277/2 од 9. 5. 1963. За културно добро од великог значаја проглашена је Одлуком објављеном у Службеном гласнику СРС, бр. 14/79.

Историја
Савамала је почетком деветнаестог века, поред Палилуле, била једино предграђе насељено углавном Србима. Почињала је од садашње Улице Краљевића Марка и захватала је крај око Зеленог венца, Босанске (Гаврила Принципа) и Абаџијске улице (Народног фронта). Када је кнез Милош Обреновић у првој половини деветнаестог века од турског паше добио на поклон Савско приобаље, оно је имало изглед сеоског насеља са сиротињским приземљушама, трошним рибарским колибама и понеком циганском чергом. У жељи да од Београда направи модеран град, Милош је започео радове на регулацији и трансформацији овог подручја.

Тодор Стефановић Виловски пишући о првом покушају регулисања српске вароши у Београду 1834–1836. године наводи:

Манакова кућа сведочи о стању пре регулисања и настанка нове, српске Савамале. Њу су, по наредби кнеза, "инџилири" морали да чувају док су рушили Савамалу и просецали нове улице. Не зна се тачно време њене изградње. Претпоставља се да је подигнута у време када су подизани Конак кнегиње Љубице и Кафана "?".

Постоји више легенди које се везују за ову кућу. По неким предањима, у њој је био смештен татар (пошта) кнеза Милоша Обреновића. У време Милоша Обреновића нису постојале уређене поште, нити поштанске линије са одређеним правцем и временом одласка и доласка пошиљки. Пренос поште вршиле су, према потреби, писмоноше на коњима који су се звали татари. Носећи пошту, татари су се током пута кратко задржавали у поштанским станицама, где су мењали коње, одмарали се и јели. По њима су се називале поштанске станице, а по предању једна од њих, Манакова кућа, била је на линији на којој су татари преносили службена писма и државне документе.

За ову стару градску кућу везује се и легенда да је била намењена турском аги и његовом харему. Поуздано се зна да је кућу купио Грк Манојло Манак, који је седамдесетих година деветнаестог века у приземљу држао пекару и кафану, док је спрат користио за становање. По његовом рођаку Манаку Михаиловићу, добила је и име.

У сећању старих Београђана остала је запамћена као кафана. На најстаријој фотографији која се чува у Музеју града Београда види се натпис са именом Арсе Петровића, испред које се налазе столови постављени на тротоару улице. Поред заинтересованих фотографа, изглед Манакове куће забележили су и архитекта Штаудингер и графичар Лука Младеновић.

Архитектура
Својим конструктивним одликама, Манакова кућа, лоцирана на старој регулацији, документује развој Београда. У њој се огледају грађевински поступци, прилагођавање терену и култура становања тога времена. Грађена је у бондручном систему, са ћерпичем у блату. Покривена је ћерамидом. Диспозиција просторија последица је наслеђене регулације и неравног терена. Има подрум, приземље, међуспрат и спрат.

Средином педесетих година двадесетог века зграда је била руинирана и склона паду. Њено рушење је спречено, а Завод за заштиту споменика културе града Београда је од 1964. године до 1968. извео рестаурацију и конзервацију. Пројекат темељне реконструкције поверен је архитекти Зорану Јаковљевићу и том приликом ојачани су темељи, замењена је дрвена бондручна конструкција, а задржан распоред и величина просторија. Задржани су и детаљи ентеријера – дрвене таванице, оџаклије и степенице. Доксат је потпуно реконструисан путем аналогије с појединим објектима из тога времена и сличне архитектуре у Београду, Гроцкој и Сопоту.

Радови су изведени наменски за смештај етнографске збирке Христифора Црниловића (1886–1963), сликара, једног од ретких истраживача и колекционара фолклорног наслеђа, који је за собом оставио тако значајну колекцију предмета да представља својеврстан музеј народног стваралаштва.

Уговором о поклону Збирке сликара и колекционара Христифора Црниловића граду Београду, обновљена Манакова кућа уступљена је на коришћење Етнографском музеју за смештај, чување и излагање поменуте збирке.

Данас се ту налазе и радионице за изучавање традиционалних заната и народне радиности – ручно ткање и керамику, као и школа класичних графичких техника. У приземном делу Манакове куће постоји етно-излог. Очувањем оваквог архитектонског споменика као својеврсног културног центра са изложбама које у оваквом амбијенту дочаравају дух старог Београда, кућа је добила музејску вредност и простор за едукацију. Данас, уз историјске изворе говори о развоју српског друштва, о томе како су се развијале стамбена архитектура и привреда тог времена, односно о континуитету развоја архитектуре Београда XIX века на Савској падини.

Проглашена је за споменик културе Решењем Завода за заштиту споменика културе града Београда бр. 277/2 од 9. 5. 1963. За културно добро од великог значаја проглашена је Одлуком објављеном у Службеном гласнику СРС, бр. 14/79.

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 Списак споменика културе у Београду

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Литература

 Б. Максимовић, Урбанизам у Србији, Београд, 1962.
 Тодор Стефановић Виловски, Постанак Савамале (Први покушај регулисања српске вароши у Београду 1834–1836, архивска студија), Нова искра, књ. X, стр. 76–79, Београд, 1911.
 Гордана Цветковић, Манакова кућа, Годишњак града Београда, књ. XXII, 1975.
 Извештај комисије за утврђивање споменичких својстава, Документација Завода за заштиту споменика културе града Београда
 Др Дивна Ђурић-Замоло, Београд као оријентална варош 1521–1867, Београд, 19
 Документација Завода за заштиту споменика културе града Београда

Спољашње везе

 Завод за заштиту споменика културе града Београда, 10.10.2013.
 Етнографски музеј у Београду - Манакова кућа, 23.9.2015.
 Запослени у Етнографском музеју забринути за судбину Манакове куће ("Вечерње новости", 29. јун 2016)

Грађевине на Савском венцу
Музеји у Београду
Споменици културе Београда
Споменици културе од великог значаја
Грађевине у Београду
Знаменитости Београда
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CREEPSHOW: A SHUDDER ORIGINAL SERIES — series premiere Thursday, September 26
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Story by Stephen King, adapted by Byron Willinger and Philip de Blasi
Directed by Greg Nicotero
Synopsis: Doc and Chief, two old-timers in a small, dying town, brave a storm to check on Richie, an alcoholic single father, after encountering his terrified son at the local convenience store.
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Synopsis: Evie discovers her new dollhouse might be haunted.
"Gray Matter" stars Giancarlo Esposito (Emmy-nominated for Better Call Saul), Tobin Bell (Saw, Belzebuth) and Adrienne Barbeau (who also appeared in the original Creepshow movie) and is adapted from a story originally published in Stephen King's 1978 bestselling collection, Night Shift.
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Q: Sympy: How to calculate the t value for a point on a 3D Line Using sympy how would one go about to solve for the t value for a specific point on a line or line segment?
p1 = sympy.Point3D(0,0,0)
p2 = sympy.Point3D(1,1,1)
p3 = sympy.Point3D(0.5,0.5,0.5)
lineSegment = sympy.Segment(p1,p2)
eqnV = lineSegment.arbitrary_point()

if lineSegment.contains(p3):
    t = SolveForT(lineSegment, p3)

A: You can get a list of coordinate equations and pass them to sympy's solve function:
In [112]: solve((lineSegment.arbitrary_point() - p3).coordinates)
Out[112]: {t: 1/2}

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Home » MacBook Pro 2017 to Come with AMD Ryzen Processor?
MacBook Pro 2017 to Come with AMD Ryzen Processor?
It seems like AMD will be taking over the world with their Ryen processors. If the latest reports are to be believed, Apple might be considering AMD Ryzen processors for their MacBook Pro series for 2017 that is due to be released later this year. Apple being a tech titan will certainly boost AMD's position in the market as a processor maker.
Apple tried hard to be more creative with last year's MacBook Pro but many still weren't happy with the Touch Bar being the 'only' innovation. Lack of certain ports left many frustrated for having to attach several adapters. This year Apple wants to iron out all the flaws that the users pointed out and would come out with a machine that is better and more creative than the current series.
Tim Cook, during a session at Apple annual shareholder meeting, mentioned that creative area is very important and the company will 'do more in the pro area', hinting towards the MacBook Pro 2017. KGI security analyst Ming-Chi Kuo also claimed that MacBook Pro will see a major revamp this year.
The revamp also means in terms of the specifications of the high-end laptop. Many professional and power users have complained about the low RAM capacity of the MacBook Pro series and the company may come with an option of 32GB RAM with this year's model. Having said that, MacBook Pro 2016 wasn't much faster than its predecessor since Apple wanted to conserve battery life while maintaining the performance level.
Architosh suggests that instead of producing its own or using Intel's chips to look for ultimate performance per watt, Apple could use AMD's Ryzen CPUs which already promise to do so. The AMD Ryzen processors for mobile devices are also expected to come in second half of 2017, making it a great timing and choice for Apple MacBook Pro 2017.
32GB? That's it? Please. My Lenovo P50 has 64GB of RAM, 2 M.2, and a SATA SSD. Plenty of power, speed, and space for nested VMs. 32GB will get me by, but it doesn't feel professional. It feels…like what should be standard for DDR4 based machines.
Sure, I'd prefer the 9 hours of life my old 2013 15″ MBPr gave me, but I want to move up, not back. I'll take a lateral. What I've lost in battery life and size, I've more than gained in functionality.
If you can launch a 65w 8 core desktop CPU that'll get the attention of some mobile workstation manufacturers for sure.


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Rockport Revisited ~ Rebuilding from Disaster
By Michelle Curren on Saturday, October 21, 2017
How does a community survive a direct hit from a class 4 hurricane such as Harvey? How long does it take to rebuild and restore?
The day after Hurricane Harvey made landfall, my husband left our home in Missouri to go to Rockport, Texas, to check on our business. He didn't know what he would find there, or how long he would be gone. For that reason, I stayed at our home in Missouri to take care of things there. He ended up being gone a month, the longest we'd ever been apart in our near 25-year marriage. Scott finally returned home for a short break, but two weeks later he returned to Rockport, and this time I went along.
I have to admit that I feel guilty that I didn't suffer alongside Scott and the others. I felt bad for him while he was miserable in the heat, not having much to eat, and dealing with stress and mosquitos.
I wrestled with writing this post, too. Who am I to write about this disaster when I didn't weather it with the people there? But in the end, I decided that I'm a blogger and that's what bloggers do – write about it. There are a lot of people from all over that love Rockport. It's a popular destination for "Winter Texans," as well as for families who flock to the area for spring breaks and summer vacations. A lot of people would be interested in the progress Rockport is making to restore what once was. And when I say "Rockport," I'm really referring to the Rockport-Fulton area – two small conjoined towns on the Texas Gulf coast. If you're from that area, I invite you to help me write your story by adding a comment with your perspective.
This is a follow-up to In the Eye of the Storm ~ Hurricane Harvey.
Scott and his crews have already made a big improvement to our business, StowAway Storage. The land has been cleared of debris, for the most part, and the fences propped up and gates fixed. They had to wait to do a lot of it until insurance adjusters could visit to take photos. Being without electricity for a few weeks also deterred them. The facility looks pretty good, but it's in need of repairs which are being arranged.
StowAway Storage cleaned up, but awaiting repairs.
One of the amazing things was that the fifth wheel that we parked beside our office, survived the hurricane almost unscathed. There was a little cosmetic damage on the outside, an awning was torn off, and there is evidence of the trailer "torquing," but there wasn't any water damage or broken windows.
Our fifth wheel miraculously survived the hurricane.
We had bought the fifth wheel to have a place to stay when we visited. Scott was wondering aloud what he would have done had it been destroyed. He would have had to sleep on the hard floor of the office, he guesses. Our little trailer ended up being a big blessing. During the first few weeks before power was restored, Scott and a few others were able to take showers in it. With a generator he was able to run the a/c, and although it couldn't keep up, it still helped offset the heat and humidity following the storm.
The media had reported that no one would be permitted to re-enter the area, but that didn't deter Scott. He was anxious to check on, and protect, his business. He reported that he didn't have any trouble getting back into town, and that looting was underway. Scott likened it to the Wild West.
As residents and business owners returned, many began openly carrying weapons. During my visit, six weeks later, make-shift signs could still be seen on properties, warning would-be looters.
Brush and Debris
As property was cleared, all the brush and debris was piled high along the roadsides. Crews, residents, and volunteers have all been hard at work since soon after the hurricane, but the piles are still everywhere. Heavy equipment makes its way around town, picking it up and heaping it into trucks and trailers. Boats and campers are still strewn all over.
Large trucks and trailers used for hauling debris.
Nearly every street in the area is still lined with debris.
There are temporary areas where the debris is being dumped. I came upon one area in the middle of the divided highway, and another near the airport. The piles are humongous and keep growing.
Debris piled temporarily near airport.
It's baffling how some concrete buildings were demolished, and yet some mobile homes seem untouched. Like my husband said, "some buildings that shouldn't have made it did, while buildings that should have made it didn't." We've heard different estimates of how many tornadoes were spawned from Harvey, from 48 to 200. I can imagine that would be very hard to determine. We think the tornadoes explain the inconsistency in the damage.
With most buildings damaged or demolished, some businesses rushed to reopen by finding temporary locations, using trailers, or making do in their damaged facilities.
Pizza Hut's temporary trailer.
Temporary pharmacy
Most of the hotels are still closed. As they reopen, they quickly fill up with workers, volunteers, and residents that lost their homes.
The Hampton Inn was heavily damaged.
Some businesses were so heavily damaged that they've announced they won't rebuild, meaning a loss of jobs for the area. Others are still cleaning and making repairs, and won't be able to reopen for months.
The facilities that are open are busy. Convenience stores are jam-packed, as are the laundromats. There are so many people needing to eat out, that restaurants are busy and it's big news when another one reopens.
Paradise Key restaurant sustained damage to its building, so it opened outside with a tent, tables with umbrellas, and a trailer to cook in. We ate there one evening with our cousins, and it was actually very charming and the food was excellent. We were impressed with their quality and ambience under the circumstances.
Paradise Key's temporary restaurant.
Right outside of Paradise Key restaurant is a heavily-damaged dry-stack boat storage facility, and piles of wrecked boats.
A pile of wrecked boats.
A dry-stack boat storage that was heavily damaged.
FEMA trailers have begun to arrive for displaced residents. Some have purchased RVs to live in temporarily.
For weeks after the storm, children were bused to nearby cities for school, but portable buildings have been brought in for temporary use so that the kids could return to their own campuses.
Pulling Together
Heroes and heroines showed up to help from all over. I'm not even aware of all of the different church groups, organizations, and individuals who came to the rescue, but I know they were all so appreciated! Residents who have problems of their own have volunteered to help others as well.
Businesses pitched in to use their heavy equipment and manpower to help residents clear their properties, and restaurants gave free or reduced meals. Our friends, the Meinhausens, of Stevie Lew's BBQ Kitchen, gave out a huge number of free meals, and even let first responders use their showers. Soon after Whataburger reopened, Scott went there to get lunch for his crew, and they gave him a reduced price. When Pizza Hut first opened their trailer for business, they sold pizzas for $5. I'm sure the stories go on and on, so feel free to give some credit of your own in the comments.
Everywhere you go, people are still talking about Hurricane Harvey. When Scott was there right afterwards, he said he couldn't go anywhere without someone wanting to tell him their story.
While I was at the laundromat, I struck up a conversation with a woman there who had lost everything. In restaurants I could hear the conversations at nearby tables centering around the storm.
Harvey memorialized on a tree stump.
Residents are wearing t-shirts that say "Rockport Strong" and putting signs in their yards.
"We are stronger than u Harvey"
The Long, Long Road
Help has flooded the area from all directions. Everywhere you look there's heavy equipment and crews hard at work. In spite of that, it takes time. The road to full recovery will be very long, but each day there is progress.
To check on the status of businesses or to donate to relief efforts, visit the Rockport-Fulton Chamber of Commerce.
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Michelle, thank you so much for sharing this. I don't always listen to the news, but it seemed as though with one natural disaster after another hitting the country, we never heard much about how everybody was pulling through. It's good to know the struggles people are and were facing. Well written. Thank you!
Thank you! I really appreciate that!
Thank you for letting us know how Rockport is recovering. The news media flits from one event to another and we don't hear any follow-up. I'm glad to hear that moral is high and people are working through this. As for how long it will take, well, Moore Oklahoma was hit by an F5 tornado in 2013 – four years later there are still signs of the tornado's path in places but the community is booming with new businesses and new homes. It takes awhile but hope springs eternal.
I agree. It's nice to check back and see how they're doing. They're pulling together to rebuild, and that's good to see.
Vencie
Oops. Hit send by accident.
I was trying to say it was like Harvey brought fertilizer.


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Brenda Shaffer: Non-Persian Ethnic Minorities in Iran May Be Ripe for Revolt
by Marilyn Stern
Middle East Forum Webinar
https://www.meforum.org/62473/shaffer-ethnic-minorities-in-iran-ripe-for-revolt
Brenda Shaffer, Senior Advisor for Energy at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), spoke to a May 21 Middle East Forum webinar (video) about Iran's multi-ethnic minorities.
According to Shaffer, the size of non-Persian ethnic minorities in Iran is larger than commonly estimated by Western sources, which have relied on "old versions of the CIA Fact Book," which has been "debunked." In fact, Iranian government data mined by Shaffer for her FDD monograph, Iran Is More than Persia, shows that these minorities, including Azerbaijanis, Kurds, Baluchs, Lurs, and Ahwazi Arabs, comprise "over half of the population of Iran." According to the Iranian government's own internal polling data, some 40% of the population claims to be not fully fluent in the Persian language (Farsi).
Iranian Azerbaijanis protest the broadcast of a children's cartoon depicting an Azerbaijani brushing his teeth with a toilet brush in November 2015.
Despite Iran's majority multi-ethnic composition, the regime adheres to a "Persian-centric ideology" and heavily suppresses non-Persian minorities. Languages other than Persian are prohibited in schools and government offices, and parents are pressured to teach their children Persian before they enter the school system to avoid the latter being segregated into special education programs alongside those with learning and development disabilities. Shaffer said the regime's enforcement of this policy is "a real invasion of the government into the home."
Non-Persian ethnic minorities, "concentrated in Iran's border provinces," are poorer and suffer from government services neglect. The provinces in which these ethnic minorities reside are riddled with "life-threatening environmental challenges," such as water shortages "especially affecting the Baluchs and the Kurds" and toxins expelled from the oil and gas industry in Khuzestan, where Ahwazi Arabs predominate. Iran's ethnic minorities, particularly the Kurds, also have "the highest rates of incarceration [and] judicial execution."
Iran's ethnic minorities suffer higher rates of judicial execution than Persians.
Although Persian nationalism first became entrenched as state policy under the Pahlavi Shahs during the twentieth century, the fact that most members of ethnic minorities are Shi'a Muslims gave many hope that the 1979 Islamic Revolution would allow for greater ethnic freedoms under the unifying banner of religion. But 40 years of Islamic Republic rule have shown this to be a mirage. "[T]hey know this isn't an Islamic Republic. ... [T]hey know Islam is just rhetoric for the regime," said Shaffer.
Ethnic solidarities have been strengthening in recent years, particularly "among the younger generation," which Shaffer attributes in part to its proficiency with modern technology, "higher education level" and greater exposure to outside influences, including foreign television broadcasts. Members of non-Persian minorities tend to have close "co-ethnic ties" to cross-border groups whose lives and cultural freedom are far better in comparison. "A Kurd can go from Iran to Iraqi Kurdistan and see a better situation, see his language can be used. An Azerbaijani can go ... to Baku [the capital of Azerbaijan], go have a good time, see people living well and using their native language and enjoying their culture."
Israel's support for Azerbaijan "bought Israel a lot of respect [and] even friendship inside Iran."
Shaffer noted a shift in the Azerbaijani community, which is the largest non-Persian ethnic minority in Iran, comprising a third of Iran's population. Although "relatively integrated" compared to the other minorities, Azerbaijani disaffection increased greatly as a result of the Iranian regime's support for Christian Armenia against Shi'a Azerbaijan during their war last fall. Iranian Azerbaijanis "would go to the border areas ... [and] cheer the Azerbaijani soldiers, and talk to them, and throw candies to them." Israel's support for Azerbaijan, in contrast, "bought Israel a lot of respect [and] even friendship inside Iran from ... ethnic Azerbaijanis."
Members of ethnic minorities "don't watch Persian language television."
Members of ethnic minorities "don't watch Persian language television, whether it's the regime's television, or whether it's opposition television, or even US-sponsored Voice of America television," said Shaffer. "They're watching television in their own languages." Kurds watch television broadcasts from Europe and Iraqi Kurdistan, while Ahwazi Arabs watch foreign Arabic-language television. Azerbaijanis watch television stations broadcasting in their own language from neighboring Azerbaijan, Turkey, and the United States, where Gunaz TV in Chicago is popular. Large numbers of Iranians, at "huge personal risk," call into interactive programs of Gunaz TV urging the Biden administration to leave sanctions in place in hopes of getting rid of the regime, said Shaffer. In one segment about Israel, dozens called, rejecting the "regime's enmity towards Israel."
The regime is adept at fomenting discord among ethnic minorities, "playing the groups against each other." This is especially done with policing. "For instance in the Kurdish areas they generally use police that are ethnic Azerbaijanis so that the minorities think not of the 'bad Persian cop', but 'the bad Azerbaijani cop'." Similarly, governors in the Ahwazi areas are usually Lurs, not Persians, so "if you're upset about what the regime is doing, you're upset against the Lur and not the Persian."
Since late 2017, anti-regime activities of non-Persian ethnic groups have become much more overt, and at times turned violent, with military attacks against the regime's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Unrest among the ethnic minorities also emerged during 2019's demonstrations and protests, accounting for many deaths perpetrated by the IRGC.
The Iranian opposition must "develop a "model where everyone can have their rights fulfilled."
Thus far, however, the regime's opponents have not made common cause against it due to discord between ethnic minorities and the mainstream Iranian opposition, which "is not interested in granting minority rights to the ethnic minorities." Unless they can develop a "model where everyone can have their rights fulfilled ... the regime will not have a united front against it."
Because the regime and mainstream opposition are both Persian-centric, the U.S. government has paid too little attention to Iran's non-Persian ethnic minorities. Shaffer expressed hope, embodied in the title of her FDD monograph – Iran Is More than Persia – that it "will start taking more of an interest in this issue."
Marilyn Stern is communications coordinator at the Middle East Forum.
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Failure of education and religion causes: Violence in society
A class in progress. File photo
Going back to the roots of human values, education and religion is the way for the Sri Lankan society to stop the kind of carnage and rioting which happened recently, say academics. Speaking to the Sunday Observer, they agreed that the extremism and sadistic mob attacks was a result of the failure of modern education and religion to produce holistic individuals and the bankruptcy of the wider socio-economic environment guided by petty partisan politics.
May 13 and 14 was not the first time that mobs attacked minority communities in Sri Lankan society. Be it a place of Christian worship on Palm Sunday in Anuradhapura early last month, or Muslim houses and businesses in Digana last year, what was revealed at the end of the day was that they were the actions of sadistic mobs propelled by sinister political leaders. How did a society which boasts a more than 3000 year old culture where many ethnic and religious groups lived in harmony, end up thus? What would help society to rise-up from this predicament? The Sunday Observer explored.
It is the failure of the education system that has led Sri Lankan society to the kind of sadistic mob mentality, say academics and psychologists alike. Holding on to trivial benefits (the certificate which is the output) instead of using education to build up holistic personalities (the proper outcome of education), had been a main contributor to the sadistic mob mentality of the people, all said in one voice.
"I'm not surprised at all about this social turbulence," said Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Colombo, Siri Hettige. The person is the product of society. The difference between humans and other animals that live in social groups is the socialisation, the sense of right and wrong, of justice and injustice. Socialsation is neither automatic nor inherent , it is the product of education. When it comes to socialisation, the newborn comes with a clean slate or to take a modern example, with an empty hard disk. It is society which inputs programs to this hard disk. The output is the sum total of the input. "If we install wrong programs, later we can't complain that the computer does not work correctly," he said. Socialisation essentially comes through education which has many components such as personal development, intellectual development and establishing identity. However, "in modern Sri Lankan society education had lost its intrinsic value and is taken only for its instrumental value. We have forgotten all about the important parts," said Hettige.
"Education is not only knowledge but some of our societies especially the developing countries have narrowed it down so," Prof. Rangika Halwatura, Commissioner, Sri Lanka Inventors Commission and Civil Engineering Professor at the University of Moratuwa, told the Sunday Observer.
Both academics agreed that education systems in the country have not looked at the holistic development of the person and have totally forgotten about skills building - especially social skills, values, attitudes, communication, information management and more which needs to be an integral part of education. Furthermore, it had failed in developing critical faculties enabling a rational outlook, balancing emotion and reason.
Further, there is a gap in the values and attitudes transferred from generation to generation, said Halwatura. "We, as parents have failed to transfer the values and attitudes our parents had given us to the next generation. I'm not saying we have to live within the old culture. There is a lot of innovative changes, so we have become modernised. However, the baseline should not change." As the present society is money and wealth centered, it runs devoid of traditional values.
"If we think that education makes a man we are wrong. We saw that the suicide bombers were well educated," said Halwatura. What we perceive as education in modern Sri Lankan society cannot teach them how to integrate with society. Individuals have to learn equal social responsibility to live in society. They have to interact with the society, feel for each other, face problems, feel the pain of the society, and integrate. Usually this is done through education and religion, he added.
It is the failure of religion as well as the failure of education, says Psychologist and Lecturer Rev. Sr. Janet Nethisinghe. "Religion has failed to give meaning to life. It has become highly ritualistic, be it Buddhism, Christianity, Islam or Hinduism. People just go through rituals, without applying religion to their daily lives.
Sometimes, they don't even understand what they do. Religion needs to go beyond; we need to go to the roots, the origins and understand the deep spirituality and what was meant by the authors of these religions," she reasoned.
"We could look at the recent events from different psychological facets using many theories," said Nethisinge. Usually, individuals don't allow their dark or mostly the negative side of personality to be seen. In Asian cultures, it is unacceptable and even repressed. However, unless an individual consciously integrates this 'dark' side into life, that person is imbalanced and cannot lead a proper and wholesome life.
By doing so a person acknowledges his or her negative behaviour and shortcomings, and becomes aware which actions or incidents trigger these dark behaviour patterns. That would help minimise our dark side awakening and harming people around us and the society at large. That happens in many western cultures, but as Asians we do not allow it. In the famous psychologist Carl Jung's words, "The shadow denied is the shadow active." If it is the dark side that is in action it could create mayhem.
According to Nethisinghe, Sri Lanka has gone through decades of war and violence. We have not had the time to heal ourselves. There are many who are hurt and therefore, angry with society. As a society we are not encouraged to reveal our feelings and emotions, but suppress them. Then, there is the aggressive part of our personality. It could be very helpful if used positively. However, suppressed, it behaves in a negative manner.
"The dominant instinct in human beings is the life instinct or the urge to protect self and stay alive. People have to be trained and brainwashed for years to embrace death as suicide bombers. However, the kind of people who joined the mobs early this month are different." said President of the Sri Lanka Psychological Association (SLPA) and Clinical Psychologist Dr. Kanthi Hettigoda. People with dependent and avoidant personalities usually have no views of their own and could easily be influenced by others. Sometimes , there could be people whose feelings and urges are suppressed. At tense times, individual social responsibility is diluted. No one expects others to function according to social norms or behave properly. At such times, their aggressiveness may surface. Such individuals become prey to sinister groups, she said.
Their influencers would put them together with like-minded people providing acceptance and recognition, and validating violence. They have no care for the result as they know their 'handlers' or leaders would shield them from the law of the land using political clout. It was a case of the vulnerable personalities in the society being used by sinister political factions, Hettigoda said.
What impact would violent actions have on Sri Lankan society?
"We are a society traumatised by civil war for three decades and as they had started to live freely in peace the Easter Sunday incident re-traumatised them. Those who had personally experienced such situations many years ago, they do not necessarily have to be the physically wounded from earlier bombings, there are many emotionally wounded persons directly involved, those who suffered personal loss, especially the military and their families had been re-traumatised, " she said. The scale of the devastation not only created insecurity in society but fear as well. While traumatised people needed to be reassured that it would not happen again, they had to go through it repeatedly, not only throughout the day but later being barraged by repeat telecasts due to media frenzy. Further, fake news and rumours through many avenues exacerbated the fear, she added.
The Easter bombing and later riots being man-made disasters, makes it a very difficult situation to overcome psychologically, said Hettigoda. Unlike the tsunami which was a natural disaster, there were other humans behind the incidents, who had planned the killings and the destruction therefore, generating the feelings of anger, disappointment, distrust and unforgivness especially in affected people. Bringing such a society to normalcy, poses a huge challenge for psychologists and other emotional support groups, said Hettigoda.
According to Sr. Nethisinghe, the utmost danger lurking in society is the cycle of violence; which could be carried into the future through our children. "Violence begets violence. Children learn through models and if what they see around is often violence, be it family, the society or anywhere else such as media it is very likely that they change their schemas and attitudes about violence. Exposure to violence can increase violent behaviour in the long run. By viewing violent behaviour and seeing how those who use violence get away with it can make them think that this is the way to survive in a violent society," she said.
Another outcome of viewing and being exposed to violent behaviour is desensitisation. We can get used to it and be less influenced by it. When we first experience it we are likely to get shocked, afraid or repulsed, even. But over time we can get habituated. Exposure to violence may not generate a negative impact anymore. Violence becomes part of life, and that is very dangerous to a society, she said.
What are the options available for the Sri Lankan society in reversing the trend?
"Facing the facts is imperative," says Prof. Hettige. "We need to stop turning a blind eye to larger realities threatening the society such as climate change. Our ideologies, emotions and world views should be geared to face these massive challenges." Accepting the fundamental values of the modern social systems, such as equality, justice, fairness and democracy is another imperative. Streamlining public institutions based on modern ideas, promoting and appointing people on merit rather than on the nepotism which has already crumbled public institutions at the base would help, according to Hettige.
According to Sr. Nethisinghe, there should be changes in the education as well as religious systems. Education needs to be for life formation and integration of the value system for life. Religion should go back to the roots of spirituality. Focusing on core human values – respecting self and others, not harming or infringing on others' lives, should start from religious places of worship. Healing our own wounds is imperative. To experience holistic healing, the society should need to break off from stigmatising psychosocial support. Instead, it should be promoted as a healthy way of life.
"Reconciliation is the only way," Dr. Hettigoda points out. We have to come together and think as one nation overcoming racial, religious and all other such bias. Both psychologically and sociologically we must ensure safety and security. It will take time, but we must rebuild trust. In a multicultural society we cannot proceed without trust. Using mainline as well as alternative media with proper rules and regulations and in a positive manner would help in minimising trauma and building trust. The legislature should bring in strong laws to punish extremism as well as terrorism and implementing it at ground level without fear or favour, not leaving room for impunity goes a long way.
Becoming independent thinkers with critical analytical skills, mental as well as physical independence and overcoming the mindset of 'political slavery' would help Sri Lankan society not to repeat sadistic mobbing, says Prof. Halwatura. It seems that in the modern Sri Lankan society that the foundations or its values and attitudes are damaged. This needs to be corrected by laying down core human values, which would prevent extremism as well as opportunism.


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A superb study guide! This book contains all the general biology exams given during a four-year period at a major university, along with the answers. Questions are sorted into general areas (genetics, evolution, metabolism, etc.) In the opening page there is a link to the highly recommended OUTWITTING COLLEGE PROFESSORS in either electronic or paper format.
Many of us are dealing with lifestyle diseases that could have been avoided with simple consistent healthy habitual techniques that have stood the test of time. These techniques helped me to lose 2 dress sizes. Now I implore you to look at these "10 Key Habits" and decide within yourself, which one is the easiest for you to implement. Then all you need to do is be consistent.


Why taking actions for Africa now?
Africa is not an interestless part of the world. After reading the work by African pioneers, and conducting research about the impact of globalization on trade and debt burden impact on economic growth, we started thinking about Africa. Our first public action took place in 2007 when we interviewed African diplomats to the World Trade Organization in Geneva. In 2009 we presented our ideas to African diplomats in Ottawa, followed by a presentation at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington DC in 2010. We later travelled to Africa to attend Infrastructure Partnership for Africa Development (IPAD) conference. During his presentation about investment opportunities in Africa, we actively listened to an African leader who asked to Canadian participants: "What can Canada do for the Congo?" One of the major challenges to start business in Africa is the difficulty of estimating the cost and risk. But despite this, the reality on the ground is completely different since there are many Canadian companies that invest heavily in mining, oil, wood, etc. Why not invest in agriculture in Africa because it is a major contributor to GDP? How can Canada transfer its know-how to Africa for mutual benefits? And how can Africa learn from the Canadian agribusiness model?


Wi-Fi is now one of the most widely deployed high data rate wireless technologies for consumer and enterprise applications. However, in high density environments such as airports or stadiums, the technology is becoming bogged down by its own success…often leading users to incorrectly believe their device is faulty, not the surrounding infrastructure.
To help resolve this wireless gridlock, a new standard known as High Efficiency Wireless (IEEE 802.11ax) is being developed and promises to significantly increase per user throughput in high density user environments.
Upon completion of this webinar, you'll have a good understanding of the upcoming changes to expect with 802.11ax and you'll be able to prepare and plan for future testing requirements.


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Educating Girls. Change The World.
With all of the thought leaders, innovators, and game changers at CES, it is sad to see as this article points out how many companies are not showcasing how they are helping "the people" of our world. Check out Intel's involvement with 10×10 and their Girl Rising film project. We need more organizations to back and promote humanitarian programs and CES would have been a great place to showcase such efforts. Intel is one of the few companies that highlighted its involvement with 10×10 and their Girl Rising film project. Think of how many children would be empowered to be our next innovators if they were supported by Corporate America and its minds and budgets.


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System Theory And Choral Music
By: Aurelio Porfiri
by Aurelio Porfiri, composer, conductor, writer and educator
In a world as connected as the one we are living in, it is not difficult to think in a connected way, rather than in tiny segments of knowledge. Knowledge is one, as affirmed by the internationally reknowned scholar and biologist Edward O. Wilson: "I had experienced the Ionian Enchantment. That recently coined expression I borrow from the physicist and historian Gerald Holton. It means a belief in the unity of the sciences – a conviction, far deeper than a mere working proposition, that the world is orderly and can be explained by a small number of natural laws" (Wilson, 1998, p. 4). I share this belief with the great biologist, and I am always the first one to recognize that, to be a good musician or a good choral director, you need to deepen your knowledge in many other cultural fields, where you may find unpredictable connections with you and your music making. Not only this, but I think that art and music indeed own a truth that is much higher than the truth of other disciplines, even scientific ones. I agree with Chesterton when, talking about poetry, he says that: "The great error consists in supposing that poetry is an unnatural form of language. We should all like to speak poetry at the moment when we truly live, and if we do not speak, it is because we have an impediment in our speech. It is not song that is the narrow or artificial thing, it is conversation that is a broken and stammering attempt at song" (Chesterton, 1905, p. 73). The conductor Stephen Layton, when asked about advice he give to a young conducting student, so affirms: "It would probably be to study modern languages – don't study music in terms of a degree. Be a conductor and be a musician, but don't read music as a subject. Don't make that your complete thing, do something else. I read music – which I thoroughly enjoyed – but if somebody got me doing German and Italian and speaking those fluently as a student that would have been fantastically helpful as a musician" (Davis, 2015). I share the belief that in order to understand something, it is often good to look for other things; this is also a constant conviction in the tradition of scientific discoveries.
Having said that, I think one of the most promising ways of looking at choral music is by using some elements from system theory. System theory is a very complex concept, but using some features to make sense of things very dear to our hearts may be interesting and, somehow, revealing. The initiator of system theory is considered to be the biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972): "General systems theory is a series of related definitions, assumptions, and postulates about all levels of systems from atomic particles through atoms, molecules, crystals, viruses, cells, organs, individuals, small groups, societies, planets, solar systems, and galaxies" (Miller, 1956). So a system is the way things or people organize themselves. It is the observation of complex phenomena as a whole. A choir is certainly a complex thing, made of people, interactions, languages, and much more. Very often, we look at these elements as separate segments, but this may be not a good idea according to the theory we are trying to apply: "Systems theory is antireductionist; it asserts that no system can be adequately understood or totally explained once it has been broken down into its component parts" (Zastrow, 2009, p. 49). So, to make sense of some phenomena, as for choral music, we should look at the bigger picture, rather than just simply looking for this or that element. There is no need to specify that this approach can not only be applied to choirs or orchestras, but also, looking at the bigger picture, to organizations that gather choirs or organize activities involving choirs, like competitions and the like. All in all, it is a new and fresh way to look at something we think we know very well.
The British conductor Stephen Layton
A choir is a small world. For this reason, every choir has to be understood in its own terms: "The system, to a large extent, causes its own behavior" (Meadows, 2009, p. 2). There is no choir outside of itself. What we call traditions are simply new systems' networks that, at the end, create a new system themselves. A tradition is a system, too. But first, we need to look at each individual choir as a system in itself: "Once we see the relationship between structure and behavior, we can begin to understand how systems work, what makes them produce poor results, and how to shift them into better behavior patterns" (Meadows, 2009, p. 1). Because we have said that systems often cause their own behavior, we need to put ourselves at the intersection of the different elements that shape what a choir is. Before being the people, the interactions, the languages, the feelings, the emotions, the psychological blocks and so on, we must try to analyze why our system, the choir, produces some result and not others. To give an example, is very utilitarian to think that intonation problems are just the outcome of specific faults, and can be solved by simply addressing the specific exercise. These problems, as others, are a sign of something to be addressed at the system level (intending the choir as a system, as I am repeating more and more). The Anglo-Saxon pragmatic approach may temporarily solve a specific issue but not address the problem in general. It is like having a runny nose and taking medicine to stop that specific symptom without considering that it may be a symptom of influenza or something bigger. So this is one lesson we learn from system theory: problems have to be addressed in a connective way; once identified, the segment that has the issue (for example, intonation or poor expression) has to then be recomposed in the totality of the system: "The behavior of a system cannot be known just by knowing the elements of which the system is made" (Meadows, 2009, p. 8). This total connectivity is indeed peculiar to systems: "Systems happen all at once. They are connected not just in one direction, but in many directions simultaneously. To discuss them properly, it is necessary somehow to use a language that shares some of the same properties as the phenomena under discussion" (Meadows, 2009, p. 4).
A system needs three things to run correctly: elements, interconnections, and purpose. We know the elements of a choir to be the people, the musical parts, and all the technique connected with that. But even if seems easy to know about this, and many handbooks of choral music give us a lot of information about what you need to know, we do not frequently find people who stop to look at interconnections. Indeed, and this is also true for bigger systems like the ones I mentioned at the beginning, we should not forget the golden rule: what makes the choir what it is, is the way people are able to interact meaningfully with each other and the way they are able to produce meaning together (and not "for") with the conductor. Many books about choral music teach the conductor to produce different effect using a variety of methods, but this is something that betrays the deep nature of choral music, which is the ability to listen and give back together under the coordination of the conductor. The Israeli conductor Itay Talgam has indeed made the process of applying one discipline to others using conducting to be translated to business, military or other fields. Analyzing the style of several conductors, he was able to present different models of leadership relevant for businessmen, generals, and more in his book (Talgam, 2015). So, if you read Talgam's interesting and entertaining book, or you are able to see some of his video presentations online, you will notice how the ability of the conductor to create these interconnections and to assure that the system is filled with energy is always being shared among the members guarantees the good state of the system itself.
But what is the purpose of doing this? Why does a system exist in the first place? "An important function of almost every system is to ensure its own perpetuation" (Meadows, 2009, p. 15). Now, is this not evident? A system wants to live. So, together with making music, the reasons of a choir-system existence have to be found in the willingness of the elements of the system (people) to find meaning in what they are doing freely (for most of the non-professional choirs) to justify their participation. The meaning is helped by the music but must not be the music itself; it can be for personal growth, to alleviate loneliness, a desire to socialize, and so on. I think that is important to keep in mind that the perpetuation of the system also means the perpetuation of its member's purposes, which are often existential. This has to be considered when talking about the bigger organizations – choral, musical, artistic – whose goals, often non-declared and hidden behind noble purposes, are the survival of the organization itself and the protection of those members that guarantee the purpose stated above (or similar purposes that have to do more with personal ambitions and the like). I think that when one looks at things with this particular point of view, one is able to see things – choirs, associations, foundations – in a better and more healthy perspective. I am emphasizing this because often these true purposes are not so straightforward: "The least obvious part of the system, its function or purpose, is often the most crucial determinant of the system's behavior" (Meadows, 2009, p. 16).
It would be interesting to continue this analysis following system theory and apply it to choral music. There are so many more things that can be said, but the space here is only to give a little introduction to the potential of this kind of investigation to make us look at choirs not as a bunch of disconnected elements coming together through the demiurgic work of an all powerful conductor, but a complex system working at a much more subtle level, where different parts influence each other, and how one thing happening in one section can be solved in other sections of the choir (a quasi-quantitative appraisal of choral music). As I have mentioned before, being able to walk these paths will help good and willing conductors to see things in the right perspective in their own system as well as in bigger systems, and will give them the tools to manage the problem in a more honest and effective way.
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Davis, E. (2015 йил 27-November). 'Don't study music – study languages instead' says conductor Stephen Layton. Retrieved 2015 йил 6-December from www.classicfm.com: http://www.classicfm.com/artists/stephen-layton/interview/#bjAX15XMcdsx5LhW.97
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I just loved this article so much because as someone currently writing on African choral music composers of the 20thC in South Africa, it resonates so much with my view.
Mpumi


Jeb turns 11. We celebrate by traveling to the tippy-top of the island.
There, the air is cooler. The trees, larger.
It was a dreamy getaway. Happy to share!
I don't get to these vistas often, but they're certainly humbling when I do.


On December 6th the non-profit organization Hyperloop Advanced Research Partnership (HARP) organized a conference in New York City. The title of the conference was The Hyperloop: Promises and Challenges. There were 75 attendees — the meeting was sold out.
As many readers of this blog know I started to look into the feasibility of hyperloop in order to find out if this new technology could create an end run around the problems to do with our 'High Speed Rail' project. But I have learned that this technology has the potential to change our transportation world as much as the automobile did a hundred years ago.
Can it meet regulatory requirements?
The panel discussion was wide-ranging; I was encouraged to find that the research that we have done so far to do with the five questions has been quite successful — there were no surprises.
The technology is quite mature and proven.
Hyperloop is not just a substitute for traditional rail. It will create a new culture that will transform all forms of surface transportation.
The biggest challenge is political will — do we want to step out and adopt this new technology?
Yes — there is no commercial hyperloop system in service yet but pilot projects are going well and all the pieces (maglev, low pressure tubes, linear electric motors) are in service and are successful.
Conditional Yes — there are some concerns that need to be addressed regarding tracking stability.
Strong Yes — the fact that hyperloop takes up much less real estate than roads, railways and airports was a stressed by the panelists. The technology is also environmentally clean.
Uncertain — but the fact that Sir Richard Branson, who is a very successful business person with his own rail and airline companies, has invested in the company now known as Virgin Hyperloop One is a strong indicator as to the financial potential for this technology.
Yes — the regulations have yet to be written (I have volunteered to help), but there is no reason to anticipate that they will constitute a major hurdle.


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Leftism Threatens American Family Life
By E. Jeffrey Ludwig
From many on the left we hear the words "collective" "intersectionality," or "hegemony" as central vocabulary in socio-political-economic discourse. Words like "liberty," "individuality," "freedom," "free markets," "responsibility," and "personal autonomy" are rarely used. Words like "faith, family, and freedom" which is the motto of the Family Research Council are depicted as not only passé but as dangerously "right-wing." Persons like myself who appeal to that motto and wish to defend traditional marriage, the unborn, natural rights, liberty, freedom of religion (especially of Judeo-Christian values) and the family of man are depicted by the left as "right-wing" or "deplorable." Although this writer is a rational centrist, I bear the title deplorable proudly.
A recently retired former high school classmate of mine and so-called liberal who ended his career as Director of Pediatrics at a major New York City hospital wrote to a nationally known communist on our high school website that his son had married a young woman whose father was an evangelical Protestant. When he greeted his son's father-in-law, he gave him a copy of Noel Ignatiev's book Race Traitor and a copy of Karl Marx's and Friedrich Engels' Communist Manifesto. A great way to build bridges with your daughter's new family, right? How would you have reacted to this gift? I would not have accepted the books.
It might have seemed that after Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist Party candidate for president, lost four times at the beginning of the 20th century, that socialism was finally buried as non-viable in the U.S. context. But socialism became retooled, American-style, and emerged in a more acceptable form as the graduated income tax, the Federal Reserve, and the "alphabet agencies" of the New Deal.
Now, this drivel from the past has re-emerged with Bernie Sanders and some stupid lady who just won a congressional seat in New York City and openly proclaims socialism. But the shallow pundits who critique them and interview them keep asking only about how they are going to pay for their vast Green New Deal, socialist program. "Where will the money come from?" they ask, and of course, since the money will come out of the pockets of all the people, the left becomes evasive. The interviewers and critics fail to address other more serious consequences of their outdated and self-serving vision.
The main problem with their socialism (communism relabeled) is that it will weaken or even give the coup de grace to the family. Government will pretend it can take care of people and give sufficient womb to tomb nurturance, and can do what no family can do in terms of assuring security, purpose, and even love. Undoubtedly under any new federal takeover of day-to-day life there will be new "love laws." Virtue signaling will become passé, and persons will be open to public contempt and fines if they do not participate in state-defined love signaling. These assumptions and promotions are gaining momentum among our obsessed, depressed, and possessed fellow citizens as they experience lovelessness to an extreme.
What could be more important than being wanted, loved, taken care of, and sharing a close relationship with others in one's family, others who love and care about what happens to you, others who will share in your sufferings and rejoice with you in the good times? Wake up, my beloved countrymen! Family life is disintegrating before our very eyes. Less than 5% of children were born out of wedlock in 1960 and now, cutting across all ethnicities, it is near 40%. Daycare centers will never replace the intact family. Babysitters will never be a substitute for mom. We need someone there to establish the rules of social intercourse and encourage us and involve themselves with us and be there when we have a fever and are throwing up.
We need special someones who will come to the school play to support us and our classmates even though we only have two lines or no lines. I was a gingerbread boy in 3rd grade with no lines in a performance of Hansel and Gretel, but my parents were there and were thrilled to be there. Let's stop pretending that the left's agenda is only about or mainly about money, and start realizing that many in our culture are pushing against the family as the bedrock institution of all civilization. Marx believed that families are a "bourgeois institution" that is premised on the inequalities of the capitalist system. This teaching is disgusting and wretched, in the deepest sense. It must be persistently and openly repudiated. In the name of "helping people," the consequences of more and more government intrusion is more and more destruction of families as well as poverty.
My grandparents were dirt poor in their home country and came to the USA at a time when there was no safety net, but they had a strong sense of family, strong commitment to family values -- yes, have your children in marriage, stay married, and do your best to take care of your families! We are on the brink of a family catastrophe in this country.
Do you know how much I miss Phyllis Schlafly? Phyllis was not afraid to attack the Equal Rights Amendment and defeat it. This was not because she did not want women to get ahead, not because she wanted to keep women in the kitchen (she had a law degree and was a tremendously active careerist as well as a devoted mom). But she understood that the anti-male component of the feminist agenda was wrong. She knew that the pro-lesbian agenda of the women's movement was wrong and anti-family. She knew that liberation as in "women's lib" could not be built on denigrating men and ways of life that have existed for millennia. Freeing women from men, and freeing children from parental authority such as we see increasingly in schools, is a dangerous trend. Common Core asks 400 personal questions of students. This is encroaching on the privacy of children which privacy is part and parcel of family life.
Schools were established in loco parentis (in place of the parents) but now increasingly operate as though they rule the children and that the parents are simply there to rubber stamp the school's practices. In NY State, minor females can be referred for an abortion without parental notification. My God, a 13-year-old girl can get an abortion without her mother or father knowing about it? Yet the same girl cannot get a learner's permit to drive until she is 16. The message is that the state loves and cares for you more than your own parents. That idea is noxious to me. Health education teachers are teaching the birds and bees with demonstrations about how to put a condom on a cucumber. Non-marital fornication is thus being encouraged by our public educational systems.
The greatest problem with Bernie, Alexandria, and the Green New Deal is not mainly that their programs cost too much, which they do, but that the radical growth of government further undermines and erodes the family.


Safe Mode is a great feature for Windows computers in that it allows a user to resolve issues they might not ordinarily be able to address in Normal Mode. That's because Safe Mode runs only software that is critical to the proper functioning of the Windows operating system.
But safety isn't equivalent to security.
Windows Safe Mode prevents a lot of third-party software that isn't necessary to boot up the PC from running, including anti-virus solutions. Attackers can therefore abuse Safe Mode to launch their exploits, whereas they might be prevented from doing so in Normal Mode.
To illustrate that point, researchers at CyberArk Labs have described a method by which attackers could exploit Safe Mode on a PC to execute pass-the-hash attacks and other campaigns.
The attack begins with an malicious hacker gaining local admin privileges on at least one machine on the corporate network. It doesn't matter how they do it, but if they had to choose, they might choose to target a particular individual in an organisation with a malicious email.
From there, hackers would need to look for vulnerable endpoints where they could reuse stolen login credentials to move laterally throughout the network.
Remotely configure an infected machine to reboot into Safe Mode. This can be done using BCDEdit.
Configure attack tools to run in Safe Mode. A hacker can include a malicious service that runs only in Safe Mode in their initial payload. Alternatively, they can register a malicious COM object to run every time explorer.exe executes.
Reboot the machine in Safe Mode. The actor can just wait for the next restart or create a fake "update" window that asks the victim to restart their computer.
Malware in the wild have exhibited that type of one-two update scheme to conceal their activity. That includes some variants of Cerber ransomware.
In a test, CyberArk's researchers found that once they modified the registry keys in Minimal Safe Mode, they were able to run Mimikatz and steal credentials without a security solution removing the program from the machine.
Given the risks associated with that type of attack, Naim recommends that sysadmins restrict administrator privileges, employ security tools that work in Safe Mode, and overall monitor who's going into Safe Mode and what they're doing once they're there. That's all they can do… Microsoft has refused to fix the issue as they say someone must already compromise a machine to initiate this sequence.
Interesting. In my opinion, a security hole is a security hole, including if it serves as a secondary attack vector.
The best anti-virus protection for Windows 8.1 home users and business?
Microsoft's answer should have been enable Credential Guard and secure boot which are new features in Windows 10 and they should have recommended that as well.
Bob in reply to James.
Neither feature would help this particular attack vector.
Credential Guard is restricted to Enterprise versions of Windows so most users can't take advantage of it, but, as I've said, it wouldn't help here.


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If a fielder has one foot in fair territory and one in foul territory and drops a fly ball is it fair or foul?
It depends on the location of the ball, not the location of the fielder or of his feet.
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Q: If a fielder has one foot in fair territory and one in foul territory and drops a fly ball is it fair or foul?
If the player is in foul territory and drops the ball is the batter safe?
If the ball is in fair territory, the fact that the fielder is standing in foul territory does NOT make the ball foul. the same as if a ball is foul, the fielder standing in fair territory doesn't make the ball fair.
In baseball if you knock a fair ball foul is it fair?
If the batter "knocks" a ball foul it's foul ...if a fielder "knocks" the ball foul while in fair territory the ball is fare... the fielder can catch the ball in foul territory for an out ...
How does a batter get 3 RBIs without hitting a fair ball?
Fielder knocks the ball in fair territory
Is a ball fair or foul if the fielder has two feet in fair territory and catches the ball in foul territory?
Once the ball is past first or third base, the ONLY consideration is where the BALL is located -- fair or foul -- when it FIRST comes in contact with either the ground or a player. If the player is almost entirely in fair territory when he first grabs the ball, but the glove that touches the ball is in foul territory, then it's a foul ball. "If the ball touches a fielder in-flight, the judgment is made at where the ball was when it was touched, NOT from where it may land after a miss, or drop of the ball, by a fielder. The position of the fielder is irrelevant."
Is a ball fair or foul if the fielder has one foot in fair territory and one foot in foul?
The location of the fielder's body has no bearing on whether a ball is fair or foul. It is the location of the ball when it is touched by the fielder or when it goes by the base that determines whether it is fair or foul.
If a fielder standing in foul territory touches a fly ball over fair territory it is a foul ball?
yes it is a foul ball
Can a base runner get in front of a fielder on a batted ball?
Yes, but if they are in fair territory and the ball hits them they are out.
A fielder standing in fair territory reaches over the foul line and drops the ball back into fair territory does the ball remain foul because it was golng to drop foul?
No matter where the feilder is standing... foul or fair territory... the second they come into contact with the ball, its considered fair and in play. Even if it was going foul and you try to catch it and miss it, if there is any contact, the ball becomes fair.
If an outfielder juggles and drops a fly ball while in fair territory but the ball is falling foul is the play fair or foul?
Is there a rule in the MLB rule book that says if a fielder touches a foul ball but does not catch it is fair?
No. The umpire calls the ball fair or foul based on where the ball is when the fielder touches it. If the ball is in foul territory when it is touched, the ball is called foul.
In baseball if the ball is popped up in foul territory but is not past first base and you go and try to catch it and then drop it is it a fair ball?
no the only way it can be a fair ball is if you go to try to catch it in foul territory and then you drop it and it drops into fair territory
If a ball is hit between first and home and is in foul territory but is touched by a player standing in fair territory before the ball hits the ground is it fair or fowl ball?
The position of the fielder's body or feet, have absolutely nothing to do with judging whether a ball is fair or foul. The judgment is based solely upon the relationship between the BALL and the LINE at the moment the fielder touches the ball, or at the moment the ball comes to a stop, or on outfield fly balls; the moment it touches the fielder or the ground.
In baseball if a ball is picked up by the fielder while it is on the foul line before it reaches 3rd base it is a fair ball?
Yes, the entire line is in fair territory.
Is it a fair or foul ball if the ball hits a player and lands in foul territory?
AnswerDepends on who the player is and where he is when hit by the ball. If player is in fair territory when he is hit it is a fair ball, if he is in foul territory it is foul. If player in on offense (team at bat) he is out if hit in fair territory. If player hit is on defense its playable if he is hit in fair territory and foul if he is hit in foul territory.Actually, a bit of clarification is needed.Whether or not a ball is fair or foul has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the position of the of a fielder, or, for that matter, a base runner being hit. Fair or foul has EVERYTHING to do with the position of THE BALL in relation to the field when it hits said fielder or baserunner.I've seen situations where managers argue up and down that a fly ball was fair when it was attempted to be caught by a third baseman standing on fair territory on the line was dropped - but that the fielder reached across the line to attempt the catch. The ball however was over foul territory when it struck the player's glove. People sometimes forget that it's ALWAYS the position of THE BALL that is the "defining moment."
What's the ruling if the defensive player kicks a batted ball in play purposely to keep the runner from advancing a base?
There would be no advantage to a fielder kicking a batted ball. If a ball is in fair territory when touched by a fielder, it will remain a fair ball until play is stopped. If a ball is in play when touched by a fielder in any way, it remains in play.
Is runner out if fielder does not field the ball and the runner is then hit by the ball?
If a runner in fair territory is struck by a batted ball prior to the ball having been fielded, the runner is out.
If a ball lands in foul territory but bounces inside the baseline before first or third base is it fair?
Yes, it depends where the ball is first touched by the fielder.
Player is the first baseman who is standing in foul ground but hits his glove and lands in fair ground?
It's a fair ball as long as that's where the ball lands. But, it doesn't matter anyway because all players are supposed to be in fair territory to play.ClarificationIf a ball is touched like the scenario you have painted above. It does not matter where the ball lands. The determining factor to whether it is fair or foul is where the ball is in relation to the foul line when it is touched --- if the ball is in the air in fair territory and you touch it making it land in foul territory... this is fair ball since the fielder touched it when fair territory and visa versa -----tigersy2k3
If a batted ball hits the pitchers mound and goes into foul territory is it fair?
If a batted ball hits the mound and then makes it into foul territory before going past 3rd or 1st base and without being touched and without stopping then it would be a foul. If it goes into foul territory after passing 1st or 3rd base, then it is fair. Likewise, if the ball stops moving or is touched by a fielder in fair territory, it is also a fair ball and in play. The key is where the ball stops moving. If the ball stops in fair territory (without having been touched in foul territory), it is a fair ball. If the ball stops in foul territory (without having been touched in fair territory or advancing beyond 1st or 3rd base), it it a foul ball, regardless of the route it took to get there.
If the batter hits the ball and the ball hits the plate then goes in to fair territory is it a fair or foul ball?
Home plate is considered fair territory so the ball would be fair.
If a ball in fair territory hits Miller Park's roof and is knocked foul the ball is?
fair because it hit in fair territory
If the ball hits home plate is it fair or foul?
Home plate is considered in fair territory. If the ball hits home plate and rolls into foul territory, the ball is foul. If the ball hits home plate and rolls into fair territory, the ball is fair.
What is the different between fair and foul in softball?
There are lines placed to divide the foul territory and the fair territory. Any ball that lands on the foul territory will be called foul. When the ball enters the fair territory, ball is at play.
If a batter hits a ball in the air and it drops inside line before it reaches first base and is caught on the hop in foul territory is this fair or foul ball?
The ball is fair.If it bounces fair and the player catches it then steps in foul territory,it's fair because he touched the baseball before it went foul.
How is a foul ball determine?
A Fair ball is any ball that either 1)lands in fair territory in the outfield (including hitting the wall) 2) hits or bounces over first or third base 3) leaves the park between the foul poles or hitting the foul poles (home run) 4) is first touched by a fielder in fair territory 5)stops moving with being touched in fair territory, and 6) did not hit the batter. Any ball that is not fair, is foul.