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This is the new JAC iEV7 electric sedan for China
Tycho de Feijter
JAC is going EV-crazy. The Chinese brand will debut three new electric cars on the Beijing Auto Show. The largest among these is this JAC iE7, an electric sedan based on the upcoming JAC Refine A60. The JAC iE7 will be launched on the Chinese car market sometime in the fourth quarter.
The iEV7 gets the usual EV treatment; a lot of blue stuff (blue = green) and a fancy grille. The mirrors are blue too.
Power comes from an electric motor with 148hp and 330nm, mated to a 145Ah/55.2kWh battery. Top speed is 160 kiometer per hour, 0-50 takes 5 seconds and 0-100 takes 11 seconds. Range is a very decent 320 kilometer. Speed is heavy influenced by weight; the iEV7 weights a hefty 1880 kilo (curb).
Size as the A60: 4995/1890/1503, and wheelbase is 2915.
The interior, note blue mirror, is exactly the same as on the regular A60, which is kind of suspicious. Are we just looking at a petrol car with a reworked exterior..?
It has a plug in the grille.
But we can't see the motor.
However, even if this particular car is just a prop, that does not mean the whole project is a fake. JAC already has two electric cars on the market, with the JAC iEV5 being a big success, these things are really all over the place. So we bet the iEV7 is for real as well.
Kinky red polyester dress goes very well with white blue electric car.
A bit of extra blue in the bumper.
beijing auto show
JAC iEV7
JAC Refine A6
JAC Refine A60


So we have found something that people trust the government more to do than private interest groups?
Toto, were not in Kansas anymore.
Nobody said anything about trusting the government, but as much as we do not trust our government we don't trust Muslims even more and with damned good reason. Do you remember September 11? well we do and we will never forget. And I would like you to tell me Pottery, what would you do if they came to your town and did this very same thing? Where they impersonated official police. Would you throw boomerangs at them since you can't have guns in Australia?
So as much as you don't trust the government you don't trust private interests that contravene your interests either?
And so we are back to this idea that somehow you have this entitlement that you should run society.
Its illegal to impersonate a cop. So we would could use laws and shut them down. And the reason for that would be as a society we don't empower individuals without requiring accountability.
I bet nobody uses a gun to solve this problem. Because for this situation a gun is about as useful as a chocolate teapot.
Until they are in your neighborhood cutting the heads off of your family and friends and destroying your town with suicide vest, then I bet you wouldn't take up for them. Seriously Pottery, what if it had been the Sydney opera house that they bombed back in '01? and you had family that dies in that bombing, would you still defend them?
and why must you always try to project on to me and others that do not see things the way you do? You are continually nitpicking our words as if we were the ones who had an ulterior motive, much like those on the left do. If you paid better attention to detail, you would not have so many arguments from people on here. Muslims are not trusted by Americans because of what they have done to us. If that is too hard for you to understand then maybe you shouldn't be on this board.
Eh you are comparing privately owned property to what is happening on tax payer funded streets. This is not a good comparison. Apples and oranges.
It all depends on who pays to maintain those streets. If the city foots the bill then it is pubic property.
Every gated community I've seen in Florida, someone mans the gate around the clock. Positions are filled from the community in some cases by ex cops. I see private firms in others.
The ones I see in NY, the gates are largely left open and anyone can drive in. Some are manned in summer months. Take a 24/7 security force and spread it over 30 houses and the HOA bill goes up accordingly.
Pubic property? Like a landing strip?
I think I am firmly opposed to all of them.


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Chad was selected as one of the Best Lawyers in Dallas by D Magazine in 2014 and has been repeatedly selected as "Rising Star" by Texas Monthly (Thomson Reuters) in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014.
AE: What drew you to working in the legal field?
CW: Working in the legal field peaked my interest while serving my country by serving in the military. The importance of helping those that cannot help them-selves was very important to me.
AE: You have had your own law firm since 2011, what are the significant differences being an owner of a law firm versus working as an attorney for one?
CW: Owning my own law firm requires a great deal of time and energy to make sure everything runs smoothly and the bills get paid. However, the personal reward is much greater. Being in a small law firm in such a community based part out of Dallas give me the ability to connect with each client to make sure we are getting them the best results possible.
AE: Prior to becoming an attorney you served in the military and had a very distinguished career going, what made you decide to leave military service?
CW: I wouldn't trade my time in the U.S. Army for anything. It was a time of my life that really shaped who I am as a man and as a leader. I left because I wanted to start my own business that focuses on helping people, and I saw the legal field as a way to do so.
AE: How did your time in the military prepare you for running your own law firm?
CW: The military prepared me for running my own law firm by instilling dedication to a greater good, defending freedoms, and working hard.
AE: You are a member of a number of organizations, do you think leaders and business owners have an obligation to get involved and give back to the community?
CW: Without giving back to your community, you should not expect to receive much from it. As a small business in the Oak Cliff part of Dallas, it is a privilege to be able to give back to such a vibrant and evolving area.
AE: The workplace has changed drastically over the last 20 years, do you think what motivates leaders and their teams have changed?
CW: Absolutely. The millennials are swarming the workplace, and the motivations and personalities are completely different than my generations (Gen X's) motivations.
AE: How do you empower, inspire or motivate others in the workplace?
CW: I hire the best people and do my very best to give them everything they need to succeed. I avoid micromanaging whenever possible.
AE: What is one characteristic that you believe every leader should possess?
CW: The ability to recognize your own weaknesses and needs to put a team together to turn one's weaknesses into strengths.
AE: What are you doing to ensure you continue to grow and develop as a leader?
CW: To continue to grow and develop as a leader I look for new ways to challenge myself both professionally and personally. Finding new challenges to take on is a good way to remind ourselves to remain humble.
AE: Have there been any role models for you?
CW: Both of my parents, for very different reasons. My mother taught me compassion and the love for learning. My father showed me the benefits of owning my own business. Both taught me the value of hard work.
AE: What do you attribute your success to?
CW: Success would not be possible without a good support system. My family and friends are my biggest supporters.
AE: If you could give one piece of leadership advice to your employees what would that be?
CW: Work on your most brain-intensive projects first thing in the morning, as you are at your best when you first get to work.
AE: What advice would you give someone going into a leadership position for the first time?
CW: Roll up your sleeves and get ready to work hard. Don't sweat the small stuff and never lower your standards.
AE: What has been your greatest professional accomplishment so far as a leader?
CW: Starting my own business. Nothing beats it!
AE: What is something people don't generally know about you as a leader?
CW: I absolutely hate public speaking, but I work hard to overcome it.
AE: If you could have a conversation with one leader alive or dear who would that be?
AE: What would you want to ask them?
CW: He was a multiple-business owner and brilliant politician and was ahead of his time in many ways. I would want to know what motivated him and how he became the leader he portrayed to the world.
AE: They say anyone can become a leader, in your opinion do you believe that?
AE: What do you want your leadership legacy to be?
CW: I want to leave a legacy of achieving high quality results and making a difference in the lives of others. Helping to start a charity 5k, Dash for the Beads, was a great way for me to give back and help a large number of people while focusing on healthy ways of life.
AE: What is next for you?
My firm is expanding to South Dallas, a second location, and we are welcoming two new lawyers to the firm in June and November of 2015, which I'm really excited about! In the non-legal world, I'm opening an express car wash with my family in Ennis, TX in early 2016.
AE: I start each day off with a motivational quote, do you have a favorite?


DIGITAL has pioneered many networking developments in its 40-year history. A recent development, AltaVista, has captured the popular imagination, as evidenced by worldwide accesses, averaging 18 million per day, to this Internet search engine. Introduced in 1995, AltaVista indexing of the entire Internet was made possible by 64-bit VLM Alpha technology. The index proceeds today at a pace of more than 6 million pages per day. DIGITAL's Internet developments, however, go well beyond search functions. Business users need greatly improved security and protection to integrate the power of Internet connectivity into their businesses. It is this need that is addressed in the papers on tunnels, firewalls, and electronic mail. Additional papers in the issue feature high-performance, low-cost Alpha microprocessor-based workstations with unique design features, such as a single-chip core logic ASIC.
"Tunnel" and "firewall" are strong metaphors that developers use to connote the kind of security software necessary to protect business communications transmitted over the Internet. Tunneling protects data as it travels in the public Internet by providing secure encapsulation within the standard TCP/IP protocol. However, as Ken Alden and Ted Wobber explain, additional security measures are necessary, specifically, cryptographically secure encapsulated packets. The authors describe how secure network-level routing can be achieved by combining the well known technologies of tunneling and secure channels. The paper includes their experiences in deploying the AltaVista Tunnel within DIGITAL.
Once data arrives—almost—at its destination, the firewall is a filtering router that determines which data packets will be allowed to pass from the public to the private network. Mark Smith, Sean Doherty, Ollie Leahy, and Der Tynan compare types of firewalls; describe firewall functions such as alarm systems, authentication, and reporting; and present the design of the AltaVista Firewall for DIGITAL UNIX. The AltaVista Firewall comprises both application-level and packet-filtering functionality and implements the principle "that which is not expressly permitted is denied."
The development of the AltaVista Mail product is presented by Nick Shipman as a case study in the issues facing engineers who design products for business users of the Internet. He relates several of the fundamental assumptions about engineering projects that were overturned by the engineering team; for example, product definition had conventionally started with the technical issues to be addressed and now started instead with a product purchase price. Further, in an effort to ensure product simplicity for the target customer, they imposed the principle of simplicity throughout the project—simplicity in presentation, in design, in methods, and in implementation.
A low-cost, high-performance workstation has been designed by DIGITAL's workstation engineering group. In the first of two papers about the DIGITAL Personal Workstations, Ken Weiss and Kenny House discuss the primary reasons for initiating a wholly new design: simultaneously to take advantage of new, high-performance memory technologies and to implement at a low cost. A new, low-cost core logic design was needed to function as the CPU to- memory interface. The result, described by Reinhard Schumann, was the 21174 single-chip core logic ASIC for the Alpha microprocessor. Designers were able to meet their own aggressive performance goals by focusing on reductions in the main memory latency that was attributable to the memory controller subsystem and by using as much of the raw bandwidth of the Alpha 21164 CPU's data bus as possible.
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Jon Steuer aka Jonny P. Jewels, former child star who played Worf's son on Star Trek: The Next Generation, has passed away. Click through for details about his death.
Jonny's cause of death has not yet been confirmed, according to Portland's Williamette Week. His last post on Instagram was on Dec. 28. He posed with friends, writing "These are the joys of oi//boys."
The former child actor was also the frontman of the mid-aughts power-pop band the Soda Pop Kids. He was living in Portland when he died.
In addition to Star Trek: The Next Generation, Jonny appeared in Little Giants. He also starred in the '90s sitcom Grace Under Fire. His experience on that show caused him to quit acting at just 12 years old.
"I had never really gotten into acting for the stardom or the fame or the attention," Jonny told The AV Club in 2015. "I did it because I liked acting. That show brought a lot of press and attention around me and my personal life. I was right on the cusp of puberty, going through that awkward stage. To be put under a microscope like that is kind of a bizarre addition to your life that obviously not a lot of other people can relate to."
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Arts & Culture » Theater
St. Louis Stage Capsules
Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene.
by Paul Friswold
And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little And Then There Were None Corleone: The Shakespearean Godfather Fat Pig Skylight
And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little Time has not been kind to Paul Zindel's thin 1971 play about three alienated sisters, which is receiving an understandably rare revival. Set in an apartment in Queens, New York, this script about the Reardon girls – one caustic, another uptight and the third mad as the proverbial hatter – is straight out of Playwriting 101: laughs up front, yelling at the end. But we don't ever learn much of anything about this unholy triad. Maybe it's all Chekhov's fault. He made it look so easy. The good doctor C spawned a genre of family chronicles by playwrights who think they too can make absorbing drama out of the ephemeral bonds of sisterhood. Suffice to say, Miss Reardon is no Three Sisters. Performed by Stray Dog Theatre through November 17 at the Tower Grove Abbey, 2336 Tennessee Avenue. Tickets are $18 ($15 for students and seniors). Call 314-865-1995 or visit www.straydogtheatre.org.
– Dennis Brown
And Then There Were None The set design by Roger Speidel is great fun. This cozy living room on an island villa would be a charming place to visit. But wait a minute. That stone fireplace looks familiar. Where did we see a stone fireplace similar to this before? Of course! A few seasons back in the Rep production of Agatha Christie's dreary thriller Ten Little Indians. Could it be? It sure could. This is the very same tale about a rogue's gallery of misfits that's been summoned for execution. The biggest mystery here is why Christie needed so many different titles for the same dull play. But the set is terrific. Performed by the Alton Little Theater through November 18 at the Alton Little Theater, 2450 North Henry Street, Alton, Illinois. Tickets are $14 ($6 for students). Call 618-462-6562 or visit www.altonlittletheater.org. (DB)
Corleone: The Shakespearean Godfather The NonProphet Theater Company is making you an offer you can't refuse — again. Which is to say that if you did refuse the opportunity to see this Bard-styled treatment of Francis Ford Coppola's iconic 1972 film on its first go-round last month, you now have another opportunity to enjoy the family chronicles of the Corleone clan. Michael, Fredo, Sonny and the don himself are all eager to joust through their briskly paced evening of mayhem, much of it, forsooth, in Elizabethan-style verse. Through November 18 at the Ivory Theatre, 7622 Michigan Avenue. Tickets are $15 ($12 for students and seniors). Call 314-752-5075 or visit www.nptco.org. (DB)
Fat Pig Neil LaBute's Fat Pig is an attack on the American ideals of beauty, with the nascent relationship between regular-guy Tom (Drew Pannebecker) and plus-size librarian Helen (Jessica Justine Girard) serving as both the development of LaBute's argument and the weapon that carries out the attack. The two meet, begin to fall in love and then society – Tom's office frenemy Carter (Andrew Bayer) and former flame Jeannie (Angela Sebben) – reminds the would-be lovers that fat people are neither desirable nor worthy of love. LaBute's story is a tough one, and his dialogue is bare-knuckle. And while David A. Lane gets some good performances from his college-age actors, for the majority of the evening the cast seems unwilling to deliver the killing blows with real venom. Only Sebben delivers a truly ruthless performance, burning Tom with a scathing glance in an early scene and incinerating him in their final argument. Sebben's finest moment is no high-octane bit of histrionics, however: A shocked and awkward smile flits over her face but never touches her eyes when she finally meets Helen. It's the first genuinely uncomfortably moment in a play that should be rife with them. Presented by St. Louis Community College-Meramec Theatre through November 17 at the Meramec Theatre, 11333 Big Bend Road (on the Meramec campus), Kirkwood. Admission is free. Call 314-984-7564 or visit www.stlcc.edu/mc/dept/theatre.
– Paul Friswold
Hedda Gabler Reviewed in this issue.
Measure for Measure Reviewed in this issue.
Skylight Kyra (Renee Sevier-Monsey) is a teacher living in a frigid London flat. One night Tom (Robert Ashton) barges into her life after a three-year absence with a bottle of whiskey and a need to talk. It sounds flimsy to the point of being ephemeral, but David Hare's Skylight is a raw and bracing visit to the cramped spaces of the human heart. Sevier-Monsey has a warmth and generosity of spirit that seems incompatible with Ashton's oblivious self-confidence. Though Tom is incapable of talking about anything but himself, Ashton imbues his character with gruff charm and a not-quite hidden softness. The two circle one another like duelists, pinking away at the other's armor until they're both utterly exposed. Kyra's pained expression at this moment of epiphany is matched by Tom's victorious smile, which then breaks when he realizes what he's done. And we're not quite at intermission. The final scene seems incongruous with what passed before it, but such is life. Presented by West End Players Guild through November 18 at the Union Avenue Christian Church, 733 North Union Boulevard. Tickets are $15 ($12 for students and seniors). Call 314-367-0025 or visit www.westendplayers.org. (PF)
Theater Reviews Neil LaBute Angela Sebben Robert Ashton Renee Sevier-Monsey

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Antisemitism and the British Labour Movement – David Hirsh
June 9, 2016 — David Hirsh
This is the talk that David Hirsh will give tonight in Amsterdam
David Hirsh
Locatie: CREA Amsterdam, Muziekzaal
Adres: Nieuwe Achtergracht 170 Amsterdam
Datum: Donderdag 9 juni 2016
Tijd: Inloop 19:00 uur, programma: 19:30 – 22:00 uur
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Yesterday two gunmen opened fire in a restaurant in Tel Aviv. Four diners were killed and three others were seriously hurt. Video of the attack is circulating widely on the internet.
Housam Badran, a Hamas spokemsn said that this was the 'first of many surprises' planned against Israeli forces during the month of Ramadan. Both Fatah and Islamic Jihad have described the attack as a 'natural reaction to Israeli crimes'.
Before Jeremy Corbyn was elected as leader of the Labour Party he famously referred to Hamas officials as 'friends'. When challenged on this, Corbyn said that this was just diplomatic language and that he was trying to help the peace process.
But he was not telling the truth. In the same speech, still available on YouTube, Corbyn is heard saying that he believes both Hamas and Hezbollah are dedicated to 'bringing about long-term peace and social justice and political justice in the whole region.' Corbyn has been hosted on a number of trips to Gaza by Hamas.
Jeremy Corbyn supports Hamas politically; he believes the violence and the antisemitism of Hamas is an expression of resistance to Israeli colonialism. Corbyn is aware that the founding document of Hamas explicitly opposes peace talks. He is also aware that in the same explicitly antisemitic Charter, Hamas is clear about its support for the shooting of Jews.
Jeremy Corbyn's Director of Communications Seuamas Milne, a longtime supporter of Stalinist politics, once responded to claims concerning the antisemitism of Hamas that
Hamas and the support it attracts is only the current expression of a spirit of Palestinian national resistance to oppression and dispossession going back decades.
The picture offered is that what is real is the timeless democratic resistance of the Palestinian people; at any one time, the antisemitic form that it takes is not significant.
Gerry Downing, a Labour Party member who has now been suspended after he called for a 're-opening of the Jewish Question' argued that the attacks of 9/11 were manifestations of the
justified outrage of the oppressed as opposed to the outrage of the oppressor, one violence is that of the slave and the other is that of the slave-owner. One is progressive, no matter how distorted its actions are, and must never be "condemned"…
Judith Butler, an influential philosopher and social theorist famously said that
understanding Hamas, Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the left, that are part of a global left, is extremely important.
She later clarified: 'They are "left" in the sense that they oppose colonialism and imperialism, but their tactics are not ones that I would ever condone.' Judith Butler inadvertently puts her finger on a key point.
One element of the socialist and critical tradition, opposition to colonialism and imperialism, is raised to a new '–ism' itself, anti-imperialism. From being one element of the tradition, anti-imperialism became an absolute principle, predominating over other left wing and democratic principles such as self-liberation, equality, democracy, the rule of law, human rights, liberty, women's rights, lesbian and gay rights and national self-determination. This process is related to a resurgence of antisemitism on the left.
Much importance is ascribed to the 'call' of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) for a boycott of Israel. This 'call' explicitly says that the 'vast majority of Israeli intellectuals and academics,' that is to say individuals, have contributed to, or have been 'complicit in through their silence,' the Israeli human rights abuses which are the reasons given for boycott. While PACBI maintains the fiction of the 'Institutional Boycott' of Israel, in fact it lays the basis for thinking of all Israeli individuals as being responsible for the crimes, real or imagined, of the Israeli state.
One of the victims of the attack last night was an academic at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Dr. Michael Feige. We remember that in 2002 Hamas killed 9 people in a bomb attack on a canteen at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
There is a relationship between boycotting Israelis and shooting Israelis; both rely on similar understandings of the relationship of the individual to the state; and of the essential malignancy of Israel.
It is often said in discussion in Britain that Israel is an apartheid state. Last night one of the gunmen was shot by Israeli security forces. His life was saved in an Israeli hospital where he was treated alongside some of his victims. Israeli hospitals are staffed by mixed teams of Jewish, Arab and Muslim doctors and other healthcare professionals.
Malia Bouattia is the newly elected President of the National Union of Students (NUS) in the UK, which is one of the largest youth movements in the world. Bouattia has condemned the Israel-Palestine peace process as 'strengthening the colonial project'; she has argued that 'to consider that Palestine will be free only by means of fundraising, non-violent protest and the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is problematic…[These] can be misunderstood as the alternative to resistance by the Palestinian people.' By resistance, in this context, it is clear that Bouattia is referring to the stabbing, bombing, running-over and shooting of Israelis.
The politics of hating Israel is allied to the toleration of antisemitism. This current has existed in dusty corners of the obsessive left for decades. What is new today is the emergence of this politics into the mainstream left.
Last summer, Jeremy Corbyn swept to power in the Labour Party — in spite of his political support for Hamas and Hezbollah. It did him no damage when it emerged that he had leapt to the defence of Raed Salah, the blood libeller, and Steven Sizer, the 9/11 conspiracist. When people realised that Corbyn had worked for the Iranian state's antisemitic TV propaganda channel, nobody seemed to mind. Labour now has a leader who supports the campaign for a boycott of Israel and who prefers anti-Israel politics to the politics of peace.
This Spring there has been an intensified focus in the mainstream media on antisemitism within the Labour movement. When the leaders of the Labour Party and the Trade Unions stood for democratic politics, when they unequivocally supported Israel's right to exist, when they opposed antisemitism, the existence of some antisemitism on the fringes of the movement was not really a big story. Now that the leader himself embraces this kind of politics, every explicit example that can be found is being raised in the mainstream as a problem for the Labour Party as a whole.
There is a relationship between the political culture of Israel-hatred and the examples of easy to recognise antisemitism bubbling up to the surface.
In 2014, Vicki Kirby, a Labour Parliamentary candidate, was warned by the party for posting antisemitic tweets: 'We invented Israel when saving them from Hitler, who now seems to be their teacher,' she wrote.
She also asked why ISIS was not attacking the 'real oppressor', 'evil' Israel. Kirby had been reinstated as a party member and she was active in the Corbyn support network Momentum.
Oxford University Labour Club has been torn apart in the last year by Israel-haters who succeeded in drumming out their co-chair Alex Chalmers. Chalmers wrote that a large proportion of club members had 'some kind of problem with Jews'. There was a culture in which the politics of peace between Israel and the Palestinians was mocked as 'Zio'. A politics of war against Israel was considered more appropriate and the 'Zios' were routinely baited with the song 'Rockets over Tel Aviv'. Jewish students were treated as defenders of racism and apartheid and attempts were made to deny 'Zio' members the right to vote in club business. Alex Chalmers wrote that the antisemitic incidents he witnessed were less troubling than the culture which allowed such behaviour to become normalised.
The Palestinian campaign to kill Israeli civilians in the streets has hardly impacted either the news or the political agenda in the Britain.
In 2012 the key institutions of the Jewish community said that the University and College Union had a problem with institutional antisemitism. Members who opposed the boycott, and the antisemitism which came in its wake, were routinely denounced as supporters of Israeli racism; a string of respected academics resigned from the union in disgust at the treatment they had received; the union stood stonily aloof as Jewish members were denounced as Nazis, as the Torah was portrayed as the source of Israeli racism and as opposition to the boycott was said to be allied to the forces of global capitalism.
Last week the union passed a new boycott motion, complete with paranoid clauses about the power of Israel and 'Zionism' on campus. There are no Jews left in the decision making structures of the union who are willing or able to oppose the boycott campaign; they have been driven out or silenced.
Fears are now mounting that what Jews experienced in the UCU was neither an isolated incident nor an exaggeration, but a prototype of what was to come in the wider labour and progressive movement.
Jewish life in the UK is still rich and free. In spite of legitimate fear of terrorist attack and in spite of the fact that Jewish communal buildings are marked by the fluorescent vests of the Community Security Trust, Jews are not subjected to significant violence on the streets.
Antisemitism in Britain today is largely an elite phenomenon. It does not figure hugely in the popular press and in mass culture. It is, so far, a phenomenon about ways of thinking rather than physical violence. But, as Hannah Arendt warned us, the elite searches for a mob.
Contemporary antisemitism is carried by people who believe themselves to be opponents of antisemitism; it is neither transparent nor obvious. The antisemites take the high ground, they feel virtuous and courageous. It is an antisemitism which makes Jews feel fearful and lonely, which makes us doubt ourselves and our own judgment. We accuse ourselves of inwardness and of paranoia and our instincts for self-preservation are disrupted and confused. But antisemitism is not a subjective feeling of hatred towards Jews, it is an objective social phenomenon and it can be defined and recognised by those who understand how it works and how it manifests itself.
Antisemitism is recognized by what is said and done, not by the purity of a person's soul.
Everybody agrees that there is a distinction between criticism of Israel and antisemitism. The problem is that this truism is often interpreted such that everything is judged to be criticism and nothing is judged to be antisemitism.
If some things are recognised as legitimate criticism and others are recognised as demonizing or antisemitic, then we are brought back into the democratic realm of rational politics. The task then is by debate and discussion to find consensus on how to draw the boundaries.
If, on the other hand, some people in practice insist that every example brought before them is legitimate criticism then we remain outside the world of democratic and rational politics.
Those who insist that nothing is antisemitic, that everything is just 'criticism', tend to try to construct the whole problem as a battle between supporters of Israel and supporters of Palestine. They want us to take sides with the 'oppressed' in this battle and against the 'oppressors'.
Some on the edges of the trouble looking in are tempted to see it as a bad tempered and un-civil struggle, between two sets of angry 'foreigners' within our movement. This is tempting because it assigns blame in a seemingly balanced way on all sides while also absolving the poor old Brits who have to try to ensure fair play and comradely good manners.
Incidentally, we see an analogous problem in judging what is criticism of Islam, what is opposition to Islamism and what is Islamophobia. Islamophobes love to declare that all they are doing is criticising Islam; Islamists enjoy portraying genuine criticism of their politics as Islamophobic.
In order to judge what is antisemitic and what is legitimate criticism it is necessary to judge the politics of a situation as a whole, taking into account the context.
For example, some might say that the analogy of Israel with apartheid South Africa is antisemitic while others might say that it is legitimate. The problem is that it could easily be either. It could be a serious and rational debate about similarities and differences; on the other hand a Jewish society on campus might be harassed, banned and isolated over a period of time as apartheid, racist and supremacist; this could constitute an antisemitic way of relating to Jewish students. The apartheid analogy is often deployed in a way which encourages people to think less rather than more, in the campaign to exclude Israelis from the global community.
We have seen it said often that the claim that Labour has an antisemitism problem is invented by Zionists, Tories and Blairites to damage the Corbyn faction and the Party.
Some say that there is an antisemitism problem; others respond that there is a Jewish problem; at least a problem concerning the overwhelming majority of Jews who are defined in a hostile way as 'Zionist' or apologists for Israel.
There is a long history of antisemites trying to make a 'Jewish Question' part of public debate; antiracists have always responded by insisting that the 'Jewish Question' is a racist question and the real problem is a problem of antisemitism.
Is there a woman problem or a problem of sexism?
Is there a black problem or a problem of racism?
Naz Shah is a Muslim Labour MP. She was brought up politically in the Islamist/Trotskyist Respect Party; she then joined Labour and is well known for having defeated the more or less explicitly antisemitic George Galloway in Bradford West. In April it emerged that during the time of the last Gaza conflict in 2014, Naz Shah had published an image on facebook which portrayed 'Apartheid' Israel as being similar to 'Hitler'. She had warned that 'The Jews' were 'rallying' against a claim that Israel was committing war crimes. And she had published on facebook a plan to ethnically cleanse all the Jews from Israel and send them to Nebraska, complete with an estimate of 'transportation' costs.
Naz Shah made an apology for her actions; an apology which seemed to be much more serious than the standard politician's apology. She said that she had been ignorant and she wanted to learn; she said that she wanted to understand antisemitism and she wanted to bring her new understanding back into the Muslim community. Since then Naz Shah has been doing that; including a long and serious and lengthy meeting with the congregation at her local synagogue.
By contrast, while Naz Shah was coming to terms with her own political history, Ken Livingstone, former mayor of London, was appearing in the media defending her and declaring that she had nothing to apologize for.
In March, Livingstone said that in his 45 years in the Labour Party he had never once seen any antisemitism.
In April Livingstone said that Hitler supported Zionism. Most people know that Zionism was a response to antisemitism; most people know that Hitler wasn't in the business of responding to antisemitism but was himself an antisemite.
Livingstone smears Jews, at least those who refuse to identify as antizionist, by saying that they are like Nazis. He encourages people on the left and in the student movement to relate to the overwhelming majority of Jews as though they were Nazis.
Back in 2006 Ken Livingstone got into an argument with a Jewish journalist, Oliver Feingold. Feingold asked Livingstone for a comment about a birthday party from which he had just emerged. Livingstone got angry and Feingold responded that he was 'only doing his job'. Livingstone latched onto this phrase, replying that Feingold was like a Nazi war criminal. Feingold told him that he was Jewish and he objected to that. Livingstone persisted.
Livingstone is a bit obsessed by Nazis; he loves to think through everything by analogy to Nazism.
When the conversation was published, some accused Livingstone of antisemitism. Livingstone spotted a political opportunity. He wrote an article in The Guardian criticising the occupation of the West Bank in which he wrote:
For far too long the accusation of antisemitism has been used against anyone who is critical of the policies of the Israeli government, as I have been.
This Livingstone Formulation is a response to a charge of antisemitism. It is a rhetorical device which enables the user to refuse to engage with the charge made. It is a mirror which bounces back onto an accuser a counter-charge of dishonest Jewish (or 'Zionist') conspiracy.
Firstly, the Livingstone Formulation conflates anything allegedly antisemitic, in this case repeatedly insulting a Jewish reporter by comparing him to a Nazi, into the category of legitimate criticism of Israel.
Secondly, it goes further than accusing people who raise the issue of antisemitism of being wrong; it accuses them of being wrong on purpose; of crying wolf, of playing the antisemitism card. It alleges an intent, often a collective intent and so a conspiracy, to mobilize Jewish victim-power for illegitimate purposes.
Jews may have good reason for raising the issue of antisemitism, as black people have for raising the issue of racism and as women do for raising the issue of sexism. Indeed if people who have a long and intense memory of antisemitism racism or sexism occasionally recognise something as threatening which others may judge is not, the usual way is to relate with empathy rather than with aggressive accusations of bad faith.
Indeed people whose primary concern is to support Israel may still have good reason to raise the issue of antisemitism; they may feel that Israel was and is necessary because of antisemitism; they may feel that Israel is threatened by antisemitic movements amongst its neighbours; they may feel that the construction of Israel as the pariah nation is analogous to the construction of the Jews as the pariah people; they may feel that talk about the decisive power of the 'Israel lobby' reflects older the older trope of Jewish power.
There are four problems with the Livingstone Formulation as a response to concern about antisemitism:
It is a way of avoiding discussion of the actual issue of antisemitism which has been raised by deflecting attention onto the imputed motive for raising it.
It often functions as a form of antisemitic conspiracy theory in itself. It does not accuse Jews of being wrong – they could all be wrong independently and there is no shame in being wrong; but it accuses them of acting dishonestly, following a common, secret plan to try to help Israel in this disgraceful way.
It is a key mode of bullying. When a Jewish person raises the issue of antisemitism, instead of being heard respectfully, they are often themselves accused of acting dishonestly, as an agent of a foreign power, as an agent of a foreign faction or as an agent of a foreign party.
It trains our youth to recognise a claim of antisemitism as an indicator of Zionist dishonesty. It acts as a barrier to the education of our youth in recognising and understanding antisemitism.
When I named the Livingstone Formulation back in 2006 I was a little worried; I thought perhaps it was a bit arbitrary to give it his name. But in recent weeks Livingstone has really embraced the identity which I named after him; he has really made it his own.
In 1981, when he was already leader of the Greater London Council, Livingstone became editor of a Newspaper called Labour Herald. The Workers Revolutionary Party was an antisemitic Trotskyist group. Labour Herald was financed by the WRP, which was in turn financed by Colonel Gadafi and other Arab Nationalist dictators.
Already in the 80s, Livingstone's paper was running cartoons depicting the Prime Minister of Israel, Menachem Begin, wearing a Nazi uniform and doing a straight arm salute. Portraying the Jews as Nazis is deep in Livingstone.
Later, as Mayor of London, Livingstone hosted Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi at City Hall. Livingstone insisted that Qaradawi was 'one of the leading progressive voices in the Muslim world'. Qaradawi is the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, of which Hamas is the Palestinian affiliate. Qaradawi speaks in favour of wife-beating, Female Genital Mutilation and the execution of gay people. He says that Hitler put the Jews in their place; he described the Holocaust as both exaggerated and also as divine punishment.
In 2012, a group of Jewish Labour supporters sat down with Livingstone to try and come to some agreement so that they could back him in the Mayoral election. They reported that at 'various points in the discussion Ken used the words Zionist, Jewish and Israeli, interchangeably, as if they meant the same, and did so in a pejorative manner.' They also raised the issue of Livingstone having taken money for fronting a programme on the antisemitic Iranian propaganda channel Press TV. Livingstone told the group that Jews are rich and so are not likely anyway to vote Labour.
Ken Livingstone says antisemitic things; he leaps to the defence of antisemites and antisemitic movements; he supports the positions of political antisemitism; he gave his name to a particular variant of antisemitic conspiracy theory whereby those who stand up against antisemitism are accused of doing so in bad faith; he recycles antisemitic tropes. He loves getting into a fight with the Jews. He crosses the street to pile in. He's hungry for the spotlight in this fight.
Ken Livingstone and a significant minority of people in the UK still do not see that there is a problem of antisemitism on the left.
They see a right wing Zionist witch-hunt against good people who oppose austerity, imperialism, the Israeli occupation and Islamophobia. They are enraged by the injustice of the antisemitism 'smear'. They are entrenched in their position that the influence of Israel, and the Jews who support it, is toxic. They are worried how this influence seems to seep into the dominant ideology of the ruling class and the mainstream media. Their blood boils more and more intensely about Israel, its human rights abuses, its vulgarity, and the racism that is to be found there; their anger is mixed with shame at this European Colonial outpost, created under British rule. They see Islamophobia, imported from Israel and America, as the poison of the post national Europe hope. They feel that everybody has learnt the lessons of the Holocaust except for the Zionists, who, having rejected Christian forgiveness and love, find themselves stuck more and more in the Nazi era.
The way that Corbyn found to deal with the antisemitism crisis was by announcing a committee of inquiry into the problem in the Party. It is sitting this summer and is due to report in the Autumn.
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Q: Smokeping make install error i try to install newest version smokeping and get error when run "make install". I do everything as written on the official website.
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/artemto/smokeping-2.7.2/thirdparty'
echo "If the moduile install hangs, this may be because one of the modules expects you to press [return] without telling you ... just do it!"
If the moduile install hangs, this may be because one of the modules expects you to press [return] without telling you ... just do it!
  GEN      touch
! Installing FCGI failed. See /home/artemto/smokeping-2.7.2/thirdparty/work/1533497827.2903/build.log for details. Retry with --force to force install it.
CGI is up to date. (4.38)
CGI::Fast is up to date. (2.13)
Config::Grammar is up to date. (1.12)
! Configure failed for Socket6-0.28. See /home/artemto/smokeping-2.7.2/thirdparty/work/1533497827.2903/build.log for details.
IO::Socket::SSL is up to date. (2.056)
Digest::HMAC_MD5 is up to date. (1.01)
Net::Telnet is up to date. (3.04)
Net::OpenSSH is up to date. (0.77)
Net::SNMP is up to date. (v6.0.1)
! Installing Text::Soundex failed. See /home/artemto/smokeping-2.7.2/thirdparty/work/1533497827.2903/build.log for details. Retry with --force to force install it.
! Couldn't find module or a distribution GSSAPI
! Installing the dependencies failed: Module 'Text::Soundex' is not installed
! Bailing out the installation for perl-ldap-0.65.
Net::DNS is up to date. (1.15)
! Configure failed for IO-Tty-1.12. See /home/artemto/smokeping-2.7.2/thirdparty/work/1533497827.2903/build.log for details.
LWP is up to date. (6.33)
Authen::Radius is up to date. (0.26)
Path::Tiny is up to date. (0.104)
Makefile:410: recipe for target 'touch' failed
make[1]: *** [touch] Error 123
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/artemto/smokeping-2.7.2/thirdparty'
Makefile:363: recipe for target 'install-recursive' failed
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

A: Problem solved, sorry for make this quickly post
apt install gcc

A: I get similar problem on Debian 9.5 and smokeping-2.7.2.tar.gz .
Installed the following packages prior to compilation and I assume some other package is missing but which?
apt-get install rrdtool curl perl make gcc
curl is already the newest version (7.52.1-5+deb9u6).
gcc is already the newest version (4:6.3.0-4).
make is already the newest version (4.1-9.1).
perl is already the newest version (5.24.1-3+deb9u4).
rrdtool is already the newest version (1.6.0-1+b2).

...
Successfully installed Data-HexDump-0.02
Successfully installed Authen-Radius-0.26
Successfully installed Path-Tiny-0.104
37 distributions installed
Makefile:410: recipe for target 'touch' failed
make[1]: *** [touch] Error 123
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/cisadmin/smokeping/thirdparty'
Makefile:363: recipe for target 'install-recursive' failed
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
root@l-mog-horch:/home/cisadmin/smokeping#

EDIT
It works fine with 2.7.1 so something is wrong in the 2.7.2 package...

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English Heritage – Barbour and Belstaff
January 25, 2015 megatron1505	Leave a comment
As an Englishman it is sometimes difficult for me to find much clothing of the "made in England" variety which is really my thing, though part of me feels that I should, I have always preferred denim (fairly obviously), American style work boots and Japanese styled and detailed work and street wear. The main reasons for this being that American styles have always suited my rather awkward frame better than the English which have a tendency to be a little more delicate in my opinion. Add this to the fact that I favour utility over aesthetics having never really followed fashion to any degree and you will see why brands such as Iron Heart, White's and Wesco hold such a strong pull for me, I have in the past tried English footwear from luminaries such as Trickers and Grenson, but always found myself going back to my White's SD's or Bounty Hunters. There is one particular garment though, which is both English designed and English made (until recently), and it happens to be one of my all-time favourite pieces of utilitarian work wear.
Call it what you will, a moto jacket, a trials jacket or a vintage styled biking jacket, what the two best known examples are called is the Barbour International and the Belstaff Trialmaster, and they are a different as night…..and later that same night. Both companies have a long a distinguished history of producing tough jackets and trousers for the military, motorcyclists, and outdoorsmen of many a persuasion, both are famed for their liberal use of heavy ounce waxed cotton to provide a breathable waterproof garments and both are genuine English heritage brands. Barbour stake a claim to the patent of the first waxed cotton jacket in 1924, they also supplied deck suits and jackets to the British military in the second World War which bore a startling resemblance to the later itineration's of the bike jacket for which both brands would become famous.
If Barbour's history begins with military hardware then equally it is Belstaff who can claim genuine racing pedigree, producing jackets for such esteemed riders as Trials legend Sammy Miller, still racing today at the ripe old age of 75. Belstaff partnered with other well regarded iconic British brands such as Lightning zippers, and even had their wares produced under license in Australia by the bushman's brand Drizabone. Both brands lay claim to the man who, perhaps more than any other, personifies real man's style, the illustrious Steve McQueen. The story goes (and I have seen no actual proof of this), that McQueen wore Barbour jackets to ride in as they had a sponsorship deal with him, but his personal preference was for Belstaff, with the story even going so far that he once failed to turn up for an evening appointment with a Hollywood beauty because he was waxing his Belstaff (not a euphemism). As a result of these dual claims both brands have at one time or another produced a Steve McQueen tribute jacket, with the current Belstaff S Icon being based upon the jacket which they provided for "The Great Escape".
Unfortunately the stories of the two companies have diverged in more recent times, whilst Barbour have become the standard for the faux landed gentry in the UK, and come in a variety of colours to co-ordinate with their Land Rovers, Belstaff have declined at an alarming rate to the point where they are now almost exclusively bought by reality TV stars, footballers and minor Hollywood celebrities who are eager to show their love of all things "heritage". Barbour are now the standard for waxed outdoors wear, Belstaff are owned by a Swiss fashion conglomerate (after a few years of Italian ownership), and manufacture things which would not look out of place in an auction of Michael Jacksons 1980's stage costumes, a truly sad decline. The beginning of the end for Belstaff came when, feeling the economic pressure of the late 70's/ early 80's in England, many of their key suppliers (including Lightning) went to the wall, quality dropped off and so did orders. The original Longstaff plant was closed and moved to a much smaller facility, sensing blood in the water and before the brand name lost all its value, they were ripe for takeover and reimagining into the vacuous fashion oriented brand which they remain today. Barbour themselves have also been through a minor reboot, from being the standard working garment of the agricultural set they now firmly pitch their tent on the well-manicured lawns of the rural middle class, with a price point matching their new ambitions (although nowhere near the daylight robbery which accompany the fashion conscious Belstaff offerings).
This tale of woe particularly resonates with me as I really love the trails jacket style, it is a perfect piece of iconic British design combined with true sense of practical usefulness, so to see them being poorly made for movie product placement (see Will Smith in I Am Legend sporting the Belstaff Trialmaster Legend edition), or underused by Essex housewives taking young Theodore and Jasmin to their private school in the Bentley really irks me. This is a piece of clothing made to be used, abused, waxed, worn and kept for life. It is not an accessory for your Prada jeans and Gucci bag and I believe that the time has come for this jacket to be reclaimed by people who will use them properly, the only problem being that the new offeringsfrom Belstaff are awful and ludicrously overpriced, and even Barbour have priced their International jacket at about £100 more than it should be for a "proper" version. What this has led to is the creation of a second hand market for well used jackets which can also be priced disproportionately high, but there are still bargains to be had if you have time and patience.
The main body of the pictures for this article are of a pair of vintage Belstaff Trialmaster jackets which I have acquired in the last 12 months, the first jacket proved to be much too small for me, but as it only cost £35 and I auctioned it for over £300 it certainly proved its worth. The second and most recent purchase is a pre-1974 Sammy Miller edition Belstaff Trialmaster Professional, complete with fully working Lightning zipper, in short it is my idea of the perfect example of this jacket. I paid £89 for it from eBay and have sent it away for some much needed restoration on a few small rips and tears, but when it comes back I am extremely confident that it will continue to perform its job for a further 40 years, probably outliving me.
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387 F. 2d 944 - Parson II v. United States
387 F2d 944 Parson II v. United States
Billy James PARSON, II, Appellant,
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.
No. 9559.
United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.
Jan, 18, 1968.
Thomas M. Thompson, Albuquerque, N.M., for appellant.
John A. Babington, Asst. U.S. Atty. (John Quinn, U.S. Atty., with him on the brief), for appellee.
Before HILL and SETH, Circuit Judges, and DOYLE, District Judge.
SETH, Circuit Judge.
The appellant, Billy Parson, and Stanley Staniewicz were indicted for transporting a stolen vehicle in interstate commerce from Chickasha, Oklahoma, to Santa Rosa, New Mexico, knowing it to have been stolen. Both were tried and convicted by a jury, but only Billy Parson has taken this appeal. As ground for reversal, appellant urges that certain oral statements made to police officers were improperly admitted in evidence at the trial.
The record shows that the car in question was reported to have been stolen from Chickasha, Oklahoma, in the early morning hours. The appellant and his codefendant were found sitting in the car, which was out of gas, in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. The sheriff there had received a report from a store that two strangers had tried to cash a check on a local bank, and was directed to where the defendants were parked. The sheriff took the defendants to his office, learned they were AWOL from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and held them for military authorities which he notified. The sheriff wanted to move the car in question off the street to put it in storage. A key found in the personal effects of the appellant would not unlock the car doors nor fit the ignition. The ignition switch was the kind that if left unlocked could be turned on and off without a key. When the sheriff could not move the car he told appellant's codefendant that the key would not work, and told him that they were giving him the 'runaround' about the key. Then the codefendant told the sheriff that he and appellant had stolen the car and appellant confirmed it. The sheriff told them he would not talk to them about the theft, and that an FBI agent would do so. The sheriff testified that until the defendants told him the car was stolen he believed their previous story that the car had been bought by them for $900, and had no reason to think the car was stolen.
At the trial both defendants testified that they bought the car for $250 from two men in Oklahoma City at three o'clock in the morning. The appellant testified that they gave him a handwritten bill of sale, but it was not produced at the trial.
Appellant here urges that the statements that they had stolen the car were inadmissible because the attorney for the Government erred in eliciting the testimony of the alleged admission contrary to a stipulation between the attorneys. The gist of this argument is that appellant was 'surprised' by the testimony of this admission, and had he known that such testimony was to be introduced he would have moved for a preliminary hearing to determine the constitutionality of such admission. The record however shows that appellant knew of the statements, and there is no indication from the record that there was ever any agreement not to use them. The counsel for the Government denies that there was an agreement although he does admit that he told opposing counsel that he did not intend to use the statements. Notwithstanding this fact, when the Government sought to introduce the admissions after the defendants had testified, appellant did not object to their admission for the reason that they were involuntary or that he was surprised by their admission, but rather he objected that the Government had not laid a proper foundation for their introduction. The trial court brought up the question as to whether the admissions were voluntary, and it later determined that they were. Appellant's counsel, however, made no further objection.
The disposition of this case in reality turns on the question of whether the statements were inadmissible for the reason that they abridge the privilege against self-incrimination. Miranda v. State of Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966), of course, defines the permissible scope of such admissions. The Court in Miranda held that the prosecution may not use statements, whether exculpatory or inculpatory, stemming from questioning initiated by law enforcement officers after a person has been taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom of action in any significant way, unless it demonstrates the use of procedural safeguards effective to secure the fifth amendment privilege against self-incrimination. The thrust of the prohibition is aimed at statements elicited during an in custodial interrogation. However, volunteered statements are not barred by the fifth amendment and their admissibility is not affected. Miranda v. State of Arizona, supra; Stone v. United States, November 15, 1967, 385 F.2d 713 (10th Cir.).
It is clear that previous to the statements in question the sheriff did not warn these defendants of their constitutional rights. However it is relevant to the inquiry as to whether they were the product of custodial interrogation to note that the defendants were then being held pending the arrival of the military authorities, and not for interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle. Although Staniewicz made the statement while alone with the sheriff in his office, the facts show that the sheriff was not interrogating the defendant about the crime in question and that the defendant volunteered the statement. The sheriff made an inquiry about the key to the car because he felt it necessary to remove the car from the street and into storage. The statements were apparently in response only to this inquiry. Further, it appears that the sheriff until that time had accepted appellant's story that the car had been purchased in Oklahoma, and he did not otherwise know that the car was stolen. The statement to the effect that the car was stolen was not responsive to the inquiry about the key and was completely voluntary. Miranda v. State of Arizona, supra, does not prohibit such voluntary statements. Stone v. United States, supra. It further appears from the record that upon hearing the statement, the sheriff told Staniewicz that he must talk to the FBI about that and would not talk to him further about it.


Idaho erased three match points to capture an improbable 3-2 win over UTSA in the WAC tournament semifinals Tuesday.
Brandy Huskey sets for the Runners as Idaho beats UTSA 3-2 in the semifinals of the WAC volleyball tournament at the UTSA Convocation Center on November 20, 2012.
McKenzie Adams spikes for the Runners as Idaho beats UTSA 3-2 in the semifinals of the WAC volleyball tournament at the UTSA Convocation Center on November 20, 2012.
Dempsey Thornton finds a hole through the defenders as Idaho beats UTSA 3-2 in the semifinals of the WAC volleyball tournament at the UTSA Convocation Center on November 20, 2012.
Brittney Malloy flips the ball over defenders as Idaho beats UTSA 3-2 in the semifinals of the WAC volleyball tournament at the UTSA Convocation Center on November 20, 2012.
McKenzie Adams gets the ball by a wall of defenders as Idaho beats UTSA 3-2 in the semifinals of the WAC volleyball tournament at the UTSA Convocation Center on November 20, 2012.
Whitney Walls spikes for the Roadrunners as Idaho beats UTSA 3-2 in the semifinals of the WAC volleyball tournament at the UTSA Convocation Center on November 20, 2012.
Whitney Walls goes high for the Roadrunners as Idaho beats UTSA 3-2 in the semifinals of the WAC volleyball tournament at the UTSA Convocation Center on November 20, 2012.
McKenzie Adams spikes through Allison Walker Baker as Idaho beats UTSA 3-2 in the semifinals of the WAC volleyball tournament at the UTSA Convocation Center on November 20, 2012.
Kylie Schott tips over Idaho as Idaho beats UTSA 3-2 in the semifinals of the WAC volleyball tournament at the UTSA Convocation Center on November 20, 2012.
Annie Kunes fields a ball for the Roadrunners as Idaho beats UTSA 3-2 in the semifinals of the WAC volleyball tournament at the UTSA Convocation Center on November 20, 2012.
McKenzie Adams (10) jams the ball through for a point as Idaho beats UTSA 3-2 in the semifinals of the WAC volleyball tournament at the UTSA Convocation Center on November 20, 2012.
McKenzie Adams spikes for the Roadrunners as Idaho beats UTSA 3-2 in the semifinals of the WAC volleyball tournament at the UTSA Convocation Center on November 20, 2012.
Brittney Malloy spikes for the Roadrunners as Idaho beats UTSA 3-2 in the semifinals of the WAC volleyball tournament at the UTSA Convocation Center on November 20, 2012.
Whitney Walls and Brittney Malloy defend for the Roadrunners as Idaho beats UTSA 3-2 in the semifinals of the WAC volleyball tournament at the UTSA Convocation Center on November 20, 2012.
Kylie Schott shoots around the defense as Idaho beats UTSA 3-2 in the semifinals of the WAC volleyball tournament at the UTSA Convocation Center on November 20, 2012.
Dempsey Thornton takes a shot for the Runners as Idaho beats UTSA 3-2 in the semifinals of the WAC volleyball tournament at the UTSA Convocation Center on November 20, 2012.
Whitney Walls goes sideways around the defense as Idaho beats UTSA 3-2 in the semifinals of the WAC volleyball tournament at the UTSA Convocation Center on November 20, 2012.
Whitney Walls powers the ball into the defense for the Runners as Idaho beats UTSA 3-2 in the semifinals of the WAC volleyball tournament at the UTSA Convocation Center on November 20, 2012.
McKenzie Adams is stopped by Idaho defenders as Annie Kunes reacts for the Runners as Idaho beats UTSA 3-2 in the semifinals of the WAC volleyball tournament at the UTSA Convocation Center on Nov. 20, 2012.


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Insight into how car dealers can tackle dubious data
09/12/2015 in Digital Marketing
The biggest obstacle today's dealer has to overcome is acquiring and inputting accurate and up-to-date data, according to Marketing Delivery managing director Jeremy Evans.
As headline sponsor at this year's AM Digital Marketing Conference, which takes place on 3 February 2016 at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, Evans will explore the increasingly complex customer purchase journey which sees consumers abandon the decision to buy at various points as well as utilising multiple communication channels whilst expecting a seamless service from dealers.
Evans said: "Customers use multiple communication methods when buying a new car or booking a service.
"There is no linear journey to purchase anymore. Having to keep up with potential customers as they flip from one communication to another is a challenge in itself, but customers expect dealers to know them, they do not want to explain themselves each time they make contact. Accurate data has always been vital, but now it is the very lifeblood of the business."
Whilst gaining a holistic view of one customer or vehicle history from often disparate data sources is no longer such an issue due to technological advances enabling relatively simple data extraction and analysis, the quality of the data remains a problem.
"Basic information such as the MoT due date or the date of the next service is imperative yet dealers continually fail to capture these details. We continue to see missing mobile numbers, no email recorded and no next service dates even when the customer has been in contact with the business just a few weeks previously.
Data needs to be continuously assessed, gaps identified and action taken.
"Sending an email about a service or sales offer is not a magic formula to drum up trade, they need to be carefully crafted and highly targeted to have any effect or dealers risk customers hitting the unsubscribe button."
Evans will highlight facts and figures from their extensive work with dealers to illustrate the potential results when customers are exposed to offers which more accurately reflects their circumstances compared to lack of details or failure to apply information when distributing digital campaigns.
For example, an analysis of over 2,000 sales enquiries shows top performing dealerships achieve an average sales conversion rate of 31.3%, significantly out-performing the industry average of 25.4%.
He said: "In a bad dealership we have found up to 200 records have not been accurately maintained in the previous month with basic information such as the next service date missing, this equates to around £50,000 of lost service revenue per month."
Outlining how to become a high conversion dealership, one of Evans' recommendations include following up every sales enquiry with a mobile-friendly interactive message after 24 hours, 72 hours and 14 days. After 14 days, enquiries that haven't resulted in a sale, receive car alerts that updates the customer when new stock arrives that matches their enquiry.
Tickets are available to dealers and manufacturers, with a limited number of supplier tickets on sale.
To book, please contact Emma-Louise Kinnaird on 01733 395133, email emma-louise.kinnaird@bauermedia.co.uk or visit www.amdigitalmarketing.co.uk
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This has to be my favorite place because, well, it's dog themed! You can always grab a table! It has great food! Water bowls everywhere! Dog treats, dog photos, dog wallpaper, dog paintings–you name it: Fat Dog has it. Now, yes, I may be a little too excited to share this but do not fret: it isn't slapping you in the face with it's dog lovingness because it's actually quite understated in its approach to the theme (and, after 7PM, they don't allow dogs anymore so, yeah, they're totally legit and understand dogs like me want to be in bed by that time, anyway). Brunches here give you a large selection of (cheap!) cocktails and great, hearty meals for the price. You can also trek over to Tailwaggers next door after or even Lindy And Grundy for a gourmet (dog) treat when you are finished. Doesn't get any better than this, pups.
For the residents of WeHo, the dog days aren't over, they're just beginning: The Fat Dog gastropub opens today.
The resto's formula is something to bark about: upscale comfort food, a weekly rotating tap, and an inspiredcocktail menu (Key lime pug martini, anyone?). Like the original Montrose location, the Fairfax outpost follows a something-for-everyone ethos. Brews range from the esoteric to Coors Light, and you can nibble on anything from Swedish meatballs to soy chorizo risotto to a croque madame.
Comfy surroundings get tails wagging, with clusters of big booths; flat-screen TVs tuned to ESPN; oil paintings of Luther, owners Susann and Richard Mandeville's English bulldog, flanking the walls; and a sizable outdoor patio where Fido is more than welcome.
We give it a canine out of ten.
The Fat Dog, 801 North Fairfax Avenue, at Waring Avenue, West Hollywood (323-951-0030 orthefatdogla.com).


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Q: Automate data import process We currently have multiple flat files that need to be imported daily.  Currently, we are manually importing the files using data loader.  We are simply importing to Accounts and Opportunities.
The process is two prong.  First, we have a process that exports the data from another database to a flat file (csv) and copies it over to a FTP site.  Then a user will manually get the file and load into Salesforce.
We are looking at ways to automate this process with no user intervention. We are looking at the automated pull approach or an http request / response.  Is there any Salesforce examples of how each of these processes would be implemented?  I'm sure this is probably a pretty common problem.  We don't want to do any command line scripting process.
Any examples of how to implement this functionality would be immensely helpful.
Thanks for any help.
Regards.

A: You could use Jitterbit Data Loader, to schedule the imports. We do something similar were I work and have a scheduled export from one of our systems to a .csv file and have a daily upsert into Salesforce. You can import from Flat Files, Databases, Excel Files, Local Files, Fileshare or FTP as documented here.

A: Jitterbit is not the best solution. If you have more than one UPSERT to run for different Salesforce objects, you will have always to update the SOURCE writing the .CSV file from which you are picking up the data for the UPSERT to run.
If a column is added or removed or data change in your .CSV file, you need user interaction to update the file format, the mapping, deploy them. That's not automated.

A: You can use the Salesforce standard CLI DataLoader which is used to automate the import and export.
Here, You can get the detailed info.
Thanks,
Vipul


A very special maritime addition has hit the waters in New York City: A GlassBarge from The Corning Museum of Glass opened at ONE°15 Brooklyn Marina at Brooklyn Bridge Park yesterday morning, here for ten days on the first leg of its four month state wide journey along the historic waterways of New York State. The GlassBarge, though not made of glass itself, contains patented, boat-tested all-electric glassmaking equipment for live glass blowing demonstrations.
There is a cultural, historical and infrastructural goal with the GlassBarge, to support and emphasize the important role New York's waterways "have shaped the state's industry, culture and community," to better acquaint downstate New Yorkers with The Corning Museum of Glass, a preeminent center for glass innovation that contains more than 50,000 works of glass across more than 3,500 years of history, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the construction of the Erie Canal, which has many traces still remaining right here in New York City, and the centennial of the commemoration of the Barge Canal in New York State.
The 30 x 80 foot GlassBarge, designed uniquely for glass blowing, will be flying the flag of the South Street Seaport Museum, accompanied by the C.L. Churchill tugboat, built in 1964, and the Louis McClure, a replica of an 1862 canal barge, both which are in the collection of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. Along the Erie Canal, the South Street Seaport's historic tugboat, the W.O. Decker, will be accompanying the GlassBarge.
As Karol Wight, President and Executive Director of The Corning Museum of Glass told the press audience yesterday at the opening (which included a "ribbon" cutting of a long ribbon of hot glass and a live glass blowing demonstration!), the story of glass actually began in Brooklyn, steps away from Brooklyn Bridge Park at the site what is now Adam Yauch Park. There, the Brooklyn Flint Glass Company had its start in the beginning of the 19th century and developed a patent for glass window blinds. Its later owners, Amory Houghton, Sr. and Jr., were enticed to move it to upstate New York in 1868, in search of cheaper operational costs, as well as closer access to the Erie Canal.
The company was renamed the Corning Flint Glass Company, and later become Corning Glass Works, and then Corning, Inc. It would be responsible for many cutting edge innovations, building Thomas Edison's first electric lightbulb, developing products for Pyrex, fiber for telecommunications, and flat screen displays. "The 1868 journey on New York's waterways set in motion 150 years of innovation in Corning that has shaped the modern world," said Rob Cassetti, Senior Director of Creative Strategy and Audience Engagement for The Corning Museum of Glass. Captain Jonathan Boulware, President & CEO of the South Street Seaport Museum, reminded the audience of the forward thinking initiative the Erie Canal was for its time – "a public work that would materially benefit [the state] in ways they couldn't yet imagine," and put a call to action for infrastructure investments now that can set the stage for the next few hundred years.
The GlassBarge is to operate as part industrial machine, part classroom – a floating studio that will go to thirty communities from now until the end of September. It will be at ONE°15 Brooklyn Marina until May 28th, and will call along six port cities and towns along the Hudson River Valley in June, then heading along the Erie Canal through August, and hitting the Finger Lakes region in September with a celebratory arrival in Corning on September 22nd.
The GlassBarge was made possible through grants from I LOVE NEW YORK, New York State Council for the Arts, and New York State Canal Corporation through Governor Andrew Cuomo's Regional Economic Development Council Initiative. You can use the PastPort app to follow the GlassBarge journey and learn about the points of interest along the route.
Next, check out 10 Traces of the Erie Canal in New York City.


Today there are more ways than ever for businesses to save money and go green. And there are resources and incentives that can help!
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Claiming our own Gaze & Getting out of the Cage
July 8, 2015 June 23, 2017 Posted in Uncategorized
I've been working on a presentation I'm giving this August at a conference in California–it's on subjectivity and women in Shin Buddhism. The research has been really interesting, in no small part because there are parallels between the way women have been viewed in Buddhism & the way they have been viewed in Christianity. Need I even say the parallels are negative? Probably not.
As you might imagine, the disparagement of women in general, and the contempt for women's bodies more specifically, has a long history in Buddhism—and, of course, in Christianity, too. In spite of counter-examples, the evidence is impossible to ignore, particularly in sutras that advocate the well-established Indian Buddhist soteriological path of asceticism and physical austerities. This path was particularly popular in male monastic communities; and in texts that were written by and for this audience, the female body often was used as the epitome of corruption and delusion that must be transcended in order to attain awakening.
Again, this is not surprising: in a tradition where "desire" is the overarching human problem, women—women's bodies & women's sexuality—very quickly and easily become the physical manifestation of that problem, and are demonized for it. [Think Augustine and his preoccupation with concupiscence.] One example of this is Aśvaghoșa's Saundarananda, in which he tells the life story of the Buddha's half-brother Nanda. Throughout, Aśvaghoșa compares women to violent and even poisonous animals who are waiting to trap weak-natured men. In general, women are deceptive, aggressive predators, and men are emasculated and easily ensnared. For example, he writes, "Like creepers poisonous to the touch, like scoured caves still harboring snakes, like unsheathed swords held in the hand, women are ruinous in the end….Women behave ignobly, maliciously spying out the weaknesses of others, such that kinsman is set against kinsman and friend against friend….Women's speech is honeyed but there is the deadliest poison in their hearts….like hordes of crocodiles in a river, they attack without discrimination." I couldn't help but be reminded of the ways in which some of the early desert monastics described women, viewing them as dangerous tempters and the embodiment of sin.
Overall, however, it is the female body itself that comes to stand for all that is evil and decrepit about human existence, the nadir of humanity, in a way; and thus it is the female body, when viewed "rightly," that becomes the best prompt for awakening. Canto 5, "The Departure," in Aśhvaghoşa's Life of the Buddha, is perhaps the paradigmatic example of the experience of awakening generated by meditation on "disgusting" female bodies. In this episode of the Buddha's life, Gautama has had the experience of the "four sights," and returns home deeply conflicted. After speaking with his father, he enters his palace, where, in the inner chamber, he is entertained by "splendid girls," playing musical instruments. Once they go to sleep, Gautama sees them as they really are, with their limbs splayed, their hair disheveled, snoring and drooling. Repulsed by this realization, he leaves his chamber, "in utter contempt of those sleeping girls," resolved to renounce his life of privilege.
This trope is related to the more general, and well-known Buddhist monastic practice of meditation on corpses—asubhabhāvanā, described in detail in many different sutras. One particularly troubling version of this practice is the ritual of meditating on live female bodies, but envisioning them "dead, oozing and maggot-ridden." One of the most trenchant examinations of this practice is Liz Wilson's text Charming Cadavers: Horrific Figuration of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature. There are too many excellent examples in her text to include them all here, but let me mention just two. She describes the story of Cittahattha, who, after several periods of coming and going from the monastery, definitively commits to monastic life after seeing his pregnant wife looking like a "bloated corpse." According to Wilson, the text emphasizes that it is the "revolting sight of her swollen, cadaverous body" that finally convinces Cittahattha to permanently renounce his home life.
Another example is the story of Sirimā, a beautiful woman who becomes a patron of the sangha. She falls ill and dies, and the Buddha orders that her body be left to decompose publicly. After four days, the Buddha gathers a crowd at her repulsive, decaying corpse, and asks if anyone wants to purchase her, for any price. When there are no takers, he says, "Monks, look at this available woman adored by so many people. In this very city men used to pay a thousand kahāpaņas for the sake of spending one night with this woman. Now there is no one who will take her even for free. Her beauty has perished and decayed…" In story after story, the moral is brought home: "If one can only see through the cosmetics and ornaments a woman wears…one will discern a walking cadaver, a vessel of filth…"
These sutras reinforce a reality that is by no means limited to a Buddhist context, and in fact, continues to be operative in contemporary American society: the phenomenon in which the female body is marked as a "site of sight." Wilson describes it this way: "Men look at women. Women watch themselves been looked at." She then goes on to observe: "Consider, for example, the ritual of congregation in bathrooms and striking poses before the mirror that adolescent girls in contemporary America engage in so readily. Through such openly self-reflective activities, young women learn how to evaluate themselves from the perspective of potential admirers, how to accentuate those features that are most likely to turn heads. As long as women are encouraged to capitalize on their looks, such rituals will inevitable continue, making the process of socialization for women one of sexualization." This was published in 1996. Would anyone try to argue that 20 years later, in the age of the selfie & the Kardashians, that this phenomenon has gotten anything but worse?
Too often, still today, the reality we see in some of the Buddhist sutras from millennia ago is still operational today: women are only the objects of the male gaze; they are unable to "see" in their own right. "…the dead, dying, or unconscious women…are incapable of returning the gaze of their male observers. Since they are never given the capacity to return the gaze that surveys them, they cannot assert their own status as conscious subjects." In a context where only men have the power to "see," only their gaze and their perspective have value—only they can create. By contrast, women are superfluous—invisible, even.
Decades ago, Marilyn Frye talked about this in her essay on "Oppression," as she tried to describe all the ways—both subtle and gross—that women are oppressed in a patriarchal society, the way they are "caged." This is her metaphor [I've described it before]: "Consider a birdcage. If you look very closely at just one wire in the cage, you cannot see the other wires. If your conception of what is before you is determined by this myopic focus, you could look at that one wire, up and down the length of it, and be unable to see why a bird would not just fly around the wire any time it wanted to go somewhere….It is only when you step back, stop looking at the wires one by one, microscopically, and take a macroscopic view of the whole cage, that you can see why the bird does not go anywhere; and then you will see it in a moment…It is perfectly obvious that the bird is surrounded by a network of systematically related barriers, no one of which would be the least hindrance to its flight, but which, by their relations to each other, are as confining as the solid walls of a dungeon."
The lack of a gaze, the lack of our own subjectivity, is one strong "wire" of that cage—one that all too often women willingly concede to men, content to be viewed as beautiful, desirable, attractive; content to let men define us primarily through their view of our bodies. The challenge for women is to own our own gaze: to see, create and define ourselves, with the categories we choose for ourselves and our own bodies. In this way, we become subjects in the world of our own making, rather than objects in the cages of others.
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Despite major advances in recent years, the regeneration of urban public spaces is still regarded in many quarters as a cosmetic exercise, a bit of urban beautification but not really a serious device to be used in the toolkit for regenerating cities and certainly not anything to do with the economy. Until public space regeneration is understood and taken seriously; until it is recognised that there is a connection between whether people feel safe, comfortable, relaxed, entertained and informed and whether they participate in urban life economically, social and culturally; the cause of walking in urban areas will never be a key political agenda item. The regeneration of urban spaces can be a key driver, and sometimes the key driver, for overall urban regeneration there is evidence from a range of international case studies and specifically ongoing work in the EU North Sea Region to illustrate that spatial regeneration schemes can create significant economic benefits, overcome barriers to social inclusion, combat threats to well being, encourage environmental sustainability and celebrate local distinctiveness by promoting a cultural renaissance. The best means of measuring these benefits can be assessed to develop a transferable set of measures. The paper given at the conference held in Leicester will report the results of a major research study forming part of the EU Liveable City Programme and research being developed by the Heritage Economic & Regeneration Trust and the Regional Development Agency (EEDA) and will make proposals for a performance indicators tool kit The paper is expected to conclude that only by demonstrating clearly the economic and other outputs/outcomes of spatial regeneration schemes can we hope to make a real change in the way that the pedestrian environment is viewed politically and culturally.