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When Robyn House's father died in a car accident at age 28, his pregnant wife and then then four-year-old Robyn were left to fend for themselves. It was 1958, and the young family decided the best option was to move in with grandparents. For Ms house, it was just the start of her fascination with history. "It meant I grew up with stories," she said. "My grandparents would tell me stories, things about our family, our history." For the past 20 years, the Somerset woman has been collecting her family members' stories and crafting them into scrapbooks, filling an entire room with piles of photos, newspaper clippings and memorabilia. But two-and-a-half years ago Ms House set her sights on a slightly different story - that of her ancestors. "I've been doing our family tree since I stopped working," she said. "I thought I had heard everything growing up with my grandparents ... but once I started looking there was so much I didn't know. "Just last week we found the grave of my grandfather's half brother ... we didn't know about him. He died in 1974, he didn't have any family. Well, he did, we just didn't know." Ms House volunteers for Libraries Tasmania and the Burnie Museum, which left her with a lot of free time during the coronavirus restrictions. "I'm doing the Introduction to Family History ... through UTAS," she said. "A lot of people now are really interested in family history, it used to be that you avoided it. "The best way to start is with what you know, use yourself and your immediate family as the catalyst." For anyone interested in researching their family, August is National History Month, and Libraries Tasmania is offering a variety of services to mark the month. "Where to look: beyond the TROVE years" These sessions will cover the online and hard copy newspapers available through Libraries Tasmania and the newspaper indexes at Burnie Library. They will also include general tips on where to look for newspaper records after 1954. Places are limited and booking is essential. Tuesday 11 August, 11.00am - 12.00pm, and Tuesday 18 August, 2.00pm - 3.00pm. To book, go to the Burnie Library Eventbrite page, or call the lIbrary on 6477 7400 A display showcasing interesting and helpful resources for Family History research, including books and family tree templates. The Queenstown Family History group will be displaying a selection of their work and the Galley Museum has loaned a selection of photographs and artefacts about local soldiers for display. Check out the Burnie, Queenstown, Smithton and Currie Library Facebook pages for photos of the local areas from the Libraries Tasmania collection of historic Tasmanian images - see if you can pick out people and places you know. While you're with us, did you know that you can now sign up to receive breaking news updates and daily headlines direct to your inbox? Sign up here.
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Finding her story: Robyn's dive into the 'black hole' of family history
Meg Powell
RECORDED MEMORIES: For Robyn House, growing up with her grandparents and their stories has sparked a deep love of family history and personal stories. Picture: Phillip Biggs
When Robyn House's father died in a car accident at age 28, his pregnant wife and then then four-year-old Robyn were left to fend for themselves.
It was 1958, and the young family decided the best option was to move in with grandparents. For Ms house, it was just the start of her fascination with history.
"It meant I grew up with stories," she said.
"My grandparents would tell me stories, things about our family, our history."
For the past 20 years, the Somerset woman has been collecting her family members' stories and crafting them into scrapbooks, filling an entire room with piles of photos, newspaper clippings and memorabilia.
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But two-and-a-half years ago Ms House set her sights on a slightly different story - that of her ancestors.
"I've been doing our family tree since I stopped working," she said.
"I thought I had heard everything growing up with my grandparents ... but once I started looking there was so much I didn't know.
"Just last week we found the grave of my grandfather's half brother ... we didn't know about him. He died in 1974, he didn't have any family. Well, he did, we just didn't know."
Ms House volunteers for Libraries Tasmania and the Burnie Museum, which left her with a lot of free time during the coronavirus restrictions.
"I'm doing the Introduction to Family History ... through UTAS," she said.
"A lot of people now are really interested in family history, it used to be that you avoided it.
"The best way to start is with what you know, use yourself and your immediate family as the catalyst."
For anyone interested in researching their family, August is National History Month, and Libraries Tasmania is offering a variety of services to mark the month.
"Where to look: beyond the TROVE years"
These sessions will cover the online and hard copy newspapers available through Libraries Tasmania and the newspaper indexes at Burnie Library. They will also include general tips on where to look for newspaper records after 1954. Places are limited and booking is essential. Tuesday 11 August, 11.00am - 12.00pm, and Tuesday 18 August, 2.00pm - 3.00pm. To book, go to the Burnie Library Eventbrite page, or call the lIbrary on 6477 7400
A display showcasing interesting and helpful resources for Family History research, including books and family tree templates. The Queenstown Family History group will be displaying a selection of their work and the Galley Museum has loaned a selection of photographs and artefacts about local soldiers for display.
Check out the Burnie, Queenstown, Smithton and Currie Library Facebook pages for photos of the local areas from the Libraries Tasmania collection of historic Tasmanian images - see if you can pick out people and places you know.


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ServiceMax Maximize Chicago: An Aging Workforce and Growing Customer Expectations Drive Field Service Innovation
by The Editors | 28 October 2019
Aly PinderProgram director, service innovation & connected products, IDC
Sara CerrutiSenior Director of Global Customer Transformation, ServiceMax.
Speakers at ServiceMax's annual Maximize conference discussed how field service has evolved from an industry that relied on legacy processes into one that uses real-time communication, artificial intelligence, and other technology to increase uptime, improve the customer experience, and prepare for an impending wave of retirements as an older workforce steps aside.
Back in 2011, ServiceMax made a bold move to introduce a case-handling app for the iPad, one of the first apps of its kind. What followed was a series of updates and new technologies, including scheduling, collaboration, and other tools designed to help field service workers maximize both their efficiency and the customer experience—all well ahead of their time. And today, almost two decades later, the spirit of innovation remains at ServiceMax, Stacy Epstein, chief marketing and customer experience officer, said during her presentation.
Over the years, field service has become an industry of older workers, but as these seasoned professionals with extensive experience repairing different kinds of equipment retire, a skills gap emerges. Younger workers entering the field are eager to learn, but as they take time to gain experience and master the field, companies will need to rely on new solutions. "The workforce is changing, and we have to deal with it," Epstein said. "Assets are starting to outlive the people who know how to fix them."
To that end, Epstein cited the need for self-healing equipment (equipment that can use AI to diagnose and correct certain performance issues without human intervention) and technologies to help provide inexperienced technicians with decades of accumulated knowledge through artificial intelligence, informational videos, and descriptive text.
In the midst of it all, customer expectations for uptime and outstanding experience have only grown, leaving service organizations very little room for error. Epstein says ServiceMax will continue to deliver solutions that leverage the latest capabilities of artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), augmented reality, virtual reality, and other technologies to more readily engage the workforce and help technicians provide better service.
A key ingredient in ServiceMax's recipe for innovation? Its partners, which not only help support customers' existing needs, but also enables ServiceMax to anticipate and innovate for upcoming trends, from the skills gap that's emerging as experienced workers retire, to the growth of AI, which promises to automate some routine technician tasks.
Partner-Driven Growth
It's been a big year for ServiceMax. In the months since Silver Lake purchased a majority stake of the company from GE, ServiceMax has grown in its assets and its capabilities, said CEO Neil Barua in his keynote address. "Silver Lake is a great partner. They have enabled us to provide our customers with all of the things they need to keep service at top of mind."
With the backing of Silver Lake, ServiceMax has indeed grown, and now has more than 200 million assets—"an amazing arsenal," as Barua described it. "We have solutions that will make a real difference. The way that we service customers shows the depth of experience that we [provide]. What we have is not just a pretty roadmap. We push our company aggressively so that you can do the things that you do."
ServiceMax partners keep the "world running," offering everything from artificial intelligence-powered diagnostics tools to medical devices with 100 percent uptime, Barua said.
"The world does not function without what they do," he added.
Partners also play a critical role in product development at ServiceMax, said Amit Jain, ServiceMax senior vice president of product. "Most of the upgrades come from suggestions from our partners," Jain said.
He credited such dialogue for the development of the ServiceMax Go app, which brought service execution management, including field service management and asset service management, directly into the pockets of technicians. "We couldn't be happier about the beta program," Jain said. "It was the fastest adopted program in our history. Now we're working on a beta version for tablets."
Similarly, ServiceMax worked with partner Aquant.io to develop ServiceMax Remote Triage, which was released earlier this year. The offering is a new module for the ServiceMax platform and leverages the power of Aquant's learning engine to help service organizations analyze data from multiple sources to reduce unnecessary dispatching of technicians and service equipment, while also providing knowledge for technicians on site.
"It turns AI into data," said Shahar Chen, CEO and co-founder of Aquant. "You need to think of it as providing assisted service with a human touch."
Ultimately, ServiceMax's dedication to continually improving its solutions and offerings comes down to the company's deep understanding of the importance of customer experience. "Being able to provide service and positive customer experience will sustain companies. It's what companies can hang their hats on during a downturn," Barua said.
For ServiceMax customers, that dedication to experience has been much more than a promise—it has delivered real value. For example, Australia-based workforce design and delivery organization Tandem Corp. entered into a partnership with ServiceMax eight years ago to help manage millions of contracted field service technicians, said Eric Yilmaz, the company's chief information officer. He credited ServiceMax for helping the company hit seven key improvement goals within six months after starting to work together.
Robb Origer, vice president of in-home services for Dish Network, said a challenge for his business is that technician's tools and experience are limited, meaning they may not have everything they need when they get to a job site. In the past, that has meant the technician might not be able to complete the work—a poor customer experience.
But working with the collaboration tool from Zinc, now a part of ServiceMax, Dish Network's technicians can connect via broadband with different subject matter experts to quickly get any needed information to fix the customer's issue. Not only does that mean a good experience for the customer, but the technician is satisfied as well, meaning better retention of customers as well as of technicians.
"You need to start preparing for the talent cliff," Origer said, pointing to the retirements expected over the next few years."There is a lack of practical expertise. You need to be able to support the next wave of workers."
Mike Rowe, executive producer and host of television's Dirty Jobs, said it best in the closing keynote of the conference: The importance of field service workers who keep the country running is growing, and it's critical to support them.
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Classical plays at the Greek Theatre in Syracuse
Euripides' Bacchae and Iphigenia in Tauris and Aristophanes' comedy The Clouds are the texts chosen for the 56th season of the 2020 Greek Festival of Syracuse in Sicily.
In all three you can find hidden truths, the theme of the 2020 season, scenes and characters that present themselves in an opposite way to what they really are.
Starting from the last tragedy of Euripides, The Bacchae, a mosaic impossible to compose, where every truth overshadows its opposite, in Iphigenia in Tauris, where every reality believed is false, to The Clouds, where every faith in certain solutions or certain "new culture", proves to be illusory.
Image credit INDA Fondazione Siracusa
Iphigenia in Tauris
Iphigenia in Tauris will be staged at the Greek Theatre in Syracuse for the third time after the editions of 1933 and 1980. The text of Euripides represented for the first time probably between 414 and 412 BC, tells how, thanks to the intervention of Artemis, Iphigenia was saved during the sacrifice made by her father, Agamemnon. Transferred to Tauris and become priestess at the temple of Artemis, she will meet her brother Oreste, tormented by the Erinyes after the matricide, without recognizing him.
Agnition's mockery against the local king, Toante, and happy escape by sea close this tragedy with a happy ending, like Elena and Ione, a unique case in the complex and articulated history of the Euripidean dramaturgy.
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The Bacchae
Seventh representation for The Bacchae. The tragedy, written by Euripides in 405 BC and represented posthumously, narrates the arrival in Thebes of the god Dionysus, who took human form to punish the Theban women who doubted his divine birth.
Only the king Pentheus seems determined to oppose the god-inspired madness. When women go to Monte Citerone to celebrate the Dionysian Mysteries, Pentheus lets himself be persuaded by the god, disguised as a woman, to follow him on the mountain. Agave, Penteo's mother, and the bacchanties in the throes of the Dionysian delusion mistake him for a lion and tear him to pieces.
When Agave comes to herself, she recognizes with horror the head of her son in the trophy believed the head of a lion. The revenge of the god is accomplished.
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The Clouds
The Clouds of Aristophanes will be staged at the Greek Theater in Syracuse for the fourth time. The Clouds was represented for the first time in Athens, at the Great Dionysia of 423 BC and tells of the farmer Strepsiade, persecuted by creditors, who decides to send his son Phidippides to the school of Socrates where he can learn how to prevail in dialectical clashes. In the face of his son's reticence, it will be Strepsiade himself who will go to the philosopher's school of thought, where, however, he will not understand anything of what he is taught.
His son Phidippides, intrigued by his father's stories, will decide to follow the teachings of Socrates, in search of the best way to prevail in verbal duels, up to witness the debate between the Just Speech at the Unjust Speech, and finally to beat his father, proving it to have the right to do so and pushing Strepsiade himself to set fire to Socrates' school.
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The Horde of Khan Islyamov at Crimea's Gates 5 out of 5 based on 4 ratings. 4 user reviews.
The illegal Majlis [organization of Crimean Tatar radicals] is preparing to form a Crimean Tatar army for the invasion of the Crimean peninsula.
On Ukrainian television, one of the architects of the Crimean blockade, Lenur Islyamov, declared that the time had come for a Crimean Tatar army within the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 'Maybe now, the Crimean Tatars will understand that now is the time for its own army. We have our own political power, we have deputies in the Supreme Council of Ukraine, but we don't have our own army. Accordingly, we should do what's necessary to bolster our army within Ukraine. We want to take our national politics down a new path, declared Islyamov.
The debate about an ethnic, and armed militia of Crimean Tatars coming into existence is nothing new. Initially – it would be at least a battalion, bestowed with the 'Crimea' standard. The leaders of the Majlis – which is prohibited in the Russian Federation – periodically discuss its formation on Ukrainian mainstream media, but it hasn't translated into concrete action. However, at the end of April, Rafat Chubarov – sought in an international manhunt by the prosecutor of Crimean -announced that the concept of a battalion named 'Crimea' has been thoroughly developed and, indeed, suggested to the President of Ukraine and the Minister of Internal Affairs.
Supposedly, 500 natives of Crimea would serve in the battalion. Chubarov says, that the newly formed volunteer units will accommodate all faithful Muslims, providing a Imam, Halal food, etc,. At the same time, he demanded that Kiev not turn a blind eye to the 'military factor' of the return of the peninsula, and suggested that, 'during the de-occupation of Crimean, these armed elements would ensure social order, secure infrastructure, and bolster the organs of power in the first months of the peninsula's liberation.
Negotiations within the Ukrainian Supreme Council about the formations of the battalion 'Crimea,' are ongoing. According to other reports, leaders of the Majlis have begun forming a second such 'military unit,' or formation It would be similar to an armed militia because, until now, there is actually no legislative basis for the proposed unit. But this 'battalion,' as it turn out, exists, or almost does.
Even Kiev isn't exactly thrilled with this presumption by the Crimean Tatars. On the 26th of April the same Chubarov complained that the creation of the battalion was lagging because of delays within president Poroshenko's administration. The administration hadn't directly refused the Majlis, but they were doing everything to delay its implementation.
Why is Kiev applying the brakes? Well essentially, the Crimean Tatars aren't hiding their desire for wider autonomy within Ukraine. But, to encourage Tatar autonomy while suppressing others' attempts to federalize in western and southeastern parts of the country does seem strange, to say the least. If the question is ever posed bluntly, Kiev will find itself in an uncomfortable position, even before their Western partners.
But there's an even more serious problem. Even now, one can't say how much the Crimean Tatar activists are subjugated to the administration. For the time being, the aims of the Tatars and the government coincide, it's as if they're trailing the same tangent. But what if the politics of Kiev cease to suit the Majlis?
Even now Islyamov and his public organization 'Asker,' which has been responsible for the blockade of the peninsula, acts independently. The other day, something very interesting appeared on the pro-Ukrainian resource, 'Crimea.Realities.' In essence, a large article, in which the authorities of Kherson region and their local inhabitants complained about the lawlessness of 'activists' fleeing Crimea for Kherson.
'Crimea.Realities' claims it reached a point where, 'at a recent gathering of citizens in the village Ataman, close to the administrative border of the Crimean peninsula, local inhabitants demanded regional leaders remove members of the 'Civil Blockade of Crimea,' as well as 'Crimean Tatar Autonomous Republic' signs from regional checkpoints.
Deputy head of the Kherson Regional State Administration, Valentina Sichevaya, posed an unconvincing defense saying, 'activists' are struggling with certain shadow schemes, and if they shoot, it's because they're conducting exercises. However, she could not answer whether the 'public organization' of former Crimeans had the right to conduct exercises with live firearms, including machine guns.
Yet, this whole scandal cannot be attributed to the intrigues of 'Russian propaganda.' Essentially, 'Crimea.Realities' is a branch of the well-known, global, American organization 'Radio Liberty,' which is, naturally, on the side of contemporary Kiev, in both heart and soul. Therefore, there's no doubt that claims of outrage by the most egregious members of Crimean Tatars in Kherson region must, in fact, be a stark reality.
However, if Crimean Tatar 'activists' are already behaving lawlessly on the border with Crimea, what will they do if they obtain their own officially accredited army?
'Ukrainian legislature does not grant the creation of battalions on a nationalist basis,' according Dr. Andrei Manoilo, Professor of Russian Politics in the Political Science Faculty at Moscow State University. He adds, any similar formation immediately constitutes an illegal armed militia. But Islyamov and his accomplices are clever. They initially received Kiev's consent for the formation of such a unit, before beginning to form two Crimean Tatar battalions, while simultaneously seeking their inclusion in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard.
Whether the application is sufficient for the Ministry of Defense is still not known. It was planned that the battalions would be incorporated into the Armed Forces of Ukraine, much like the so-called territorial battalions – which consisted of nationalists who took part in the Civil War in Donbas – were recently assimilated. But the Crimean Tatar formations can't exist independently in Ukraine, because then there would be a power struggle between official authorities and their Armed Forces.
Therefore, the question of legality is very acute. In his statement Islyamov insists that the Crimean Tatar people command 'special merit' before Maidan authorities, and therefore, have earned their own army. Officially, Kiev has not admitted the battalion into its ranks. Islyamov's interview underscores the doubt, if not hopelessness in his initiative to obtain legal status. If the Armed Forces of Ukraine don't admit the battalion into their ranks, it should be disarmed if not disbanded. But the last option on the Majlis' list is not attainable.
'SP' – Until now, the Majlis has maintained good relations with Ukrainian authorities. Can they begin a conflict?
Firstly, Crimean Tatar nationalists only support the current Ukrainian regime because they hope to obtain privileges and preferences leading to the creation of a quasi-state. A state, initially, subordinated to Ukraine, but then possibly self-determined. The motives of the Crimean Tatar nationalists are transparent. They have long desired this state, and since Yushenko's administration, they've been tolerated.
Secondly, the formation of varying sorts of militias, battalion size and larger reflects the political landscape in contemporary Ukraine. The government is very weak. Real power is in the hands of oligarchs, like Kolomojsky. Suffice it to say, he maintained, and continues to maintain up to ten territorial battalions. Islymov very much wants to join the ranks of these oligarchs with his own personal army.
'SP' – Will Kiev agree to the formation of such an army?
The Crimean Tatar battalions are yet another ungoverned force, not subordinated to Poroshenko. If the president strikes a bargain with Islyamov, Chubarov others, whereby the Tatars become privy to what must happen to obtain greater autonomy in Ukraine, he can allow the inclusion of the battalions in the Armed Forces. This type of support could be beneficial to Poroshenko. Considering the difficult economic conditions in today's Ukraine, the time is ripe for a third Maidan. In the near future, the nationalists may revolt against Poroshenko and take Kiev. Under these circumstances, the Armed Forces won't defend Poroshenko. He has to depend on his own resources. This doesn't preclude him colluding with the Crimean Tatar nationalists because he hopes that they will become expedient at the decisive moment.
But this is a very risky game. These formations pursue vested interests. They only consider Poroshenko a temporary companion. Things can change at any time, and the Crimean Tatar nationalists can surface against him alongside the 'right wingers.' Until now, Poroshenko's tactics consist of either, the dissemination of a bloc of ungoverned, nationalistic formations throughout the National Guard and Armed Forces of Ukraine, or to simply annihilate them in a civil war. But it hasn't completely worked out for him, and now he has some problems, and the Crimean Tatar battalions could be one of them.
The Crimean Tatar nationalists have been behaving very badly in Kherson. They haven't been capable of anything but robbery. And that has been what they occupy themselves with. The population of Kherson region is gradually fermenting partisan revolts against them. The longer the upheaval lasts, the more intense it becomes. If Poroshenko can't exploit these battalions, yet another nucleus of civil war will emerge in Kherson.
'SP' – Do these battalions pose a threat to the Crimean Republic?
They sooner represent agitating rhetoric. Let's begin with the fact that the Crimean Tatar battalions are hardly made up of all Tatars. Following the Majlis, a very small portion of Crimean Tatars left for Kherson, and after a few months many returned back to Crimea. The remainder stayed on the peninsula and, by all appearances, have been happy there. In any case, there have been no mass protests by that portion of the population over the last two years on the peninsula. Thus, a considerable portion of Crimean Tatar battalions actually consist of mercenaries from all over the world.
These formations are created and financed for the sole purpose of agitating Russia. The militia's sponsors require them to cause provocations and organize incidents on the borders, in essence, fighting a diversionary war against the Russian Federation. Turkey has funded and equipped these formations. Islyamov's deferral to bellicose rhetoric is nothing more than him briefing his sponsors. Regarding their actual military might, I don't think the inhabitants of Crimea have anything to be afraid of. If even one of these battalions moves towards Russia, it will be swept aside in five minutes. They don't pose a military threat. But the information war, stirring about these formations, is certainly persevering.
Islyamov's declarations are even an affront to the rather striking and twisted world of Ukraine's domestic politics, says Ivan Konovalov, director at the Centre for Strategic Affairs. He adds, when someone speaks like this, questions should be asked, even in Kiev. But there, such things are encouraged. But, in my opinion, any encouragement of nationalistic tendencies is counterproductive.
In Kiev they've already come toe to toe with nationalistic battalions, these 'Azov' battalions, whom even the Americans consider to be Nazi formations. Now they're beginning to consider a Crimean Tatar army, even though they wouldn't be able to mobilize more than a couple battalions. From where would they draft their soldiers? Crimean Tatars aren't exactly a populous people. And the majority of them don't recognize the Majlis and his activities. Beside, people are living peacefully in Crimea.
But whether they intend to form a militia under the standard of a Crimean Tatar army, which is composed of whomever they please, is another question. The Tatars themselves will be a minority. But it's likely that even this won't work so there isn't really anything to react to. It's just another emotional and inadequate declaration, which isn't even esteemed in Washington. It's not in their interests. If the civil war in Ukraine escalates to a new level – and all signs point to the fact that it will – on whose side will this army fight?
'SP' – That is, Kiev won't allow the formation of a Crimean Tatar army?
If a similar formation emerges, it will just be another 'Azov' battalion, loosely commanded by the central government. But I don't believe Kiev will allow this. It's one thing to exploit, but quite another to form an ethnic army, which will later break free of its subjugators control. Imagine that the USA forms a separate Mexican army to resolve trafficking issues with Mexico.
I can think of one circumstance where this army is formed: a brigade of Nepalese Gurkha volunteers, serving under contract in the British Army. But that's one small brigade, not an army. Besides that, everyone knows about the French Foreign Legion. But it's not mono-ethnic. And it's not the army that Islyamov is talking about. And from where will his plans be financed?
By all appearances, Kiev is trying to brush the issue under the rug, without categorically resolving it. They will exploit the Tatars, as long as it's politically expedient. For now, there is a benefit. For example, the Americans have unequivocally prohibited the Majlis in Crimea. This ban pays political dividends, and, once again raises the question of Crimea, which Europe has absolutely no desire to contemplate. Therefore, as long as it's relevant, the creation of a Crimea Tatar army will be discussed.
The Crimean Tatars emerged as a nation at the time of the Crimean Khanate, an Ottoman vassal state during the 15th to 18th centuries. Until the late 18th century, the Crimean Khanate maintained a massive slave trade with the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East as the basis of its economy. One of the most important trading ports and slave markets was Kefe (modern: Feodosia). The Russo-Turkish War (1768–74) resulted in the defeat of the Ottomans by the Russians, and according to the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca (1774), Crimea became "independent". In 1783, Russians seized Crimea. It was the end of the Crimean Khanate's slave buisiness.
In May 1944, the entire Crimean Tatar population (about 230000), at the time about a fifth of the total population of Crimea, was exiled to Central Asia, mainly to Uzbekistan as result of a massive collaboration with the Nazi Germany during the German occupation of the peninsula. Overall, the number of Crimean Tatar men who joined SS battalions of the Nazi army was about 20,000 (8,69% of the total population).
According to the recent census (2014), Crimean Tatars are 10,57% of the Crimean population.


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A bit of aimless web-surfing led me to stumble across this nugget, a reprint of a 17-year-old Santa Clara Law Review piece that looks at some of the legal underpinnings governing that prime piece of fictional Ancapistan real estate known as Gilligan's Island. Some highlights:
Gilligan on equity compensation and the vagaries of the tax code --
In Episode 13, entitled "Three Million Dollars More or Less," Gilligan wins $ 3 million from Mr. Howell in a golf game. When it comes time to pay, Mr. Howell uses a convoluted explanation of the federal tax laws to convince Gilligan that receiving stock in a (worthless) oil company is better than getting cash
Gilligan on joint-and-several liability --
Finally, in Episode 85, entitled "Court Martial," a radio broadcast informs the castaways that a board of inquiry convened to investigate the loss of the Minnow has found the Skipper guilty of negligence. To prove to the Skipper that he was not at fault, the Professor suggests the castaways reenact the final hours of the storm. Doing so reveals that it was Gilligan's failure to secure the anchor to the boat that caused the sinking. This discovery leads both the Skipper and Gilligan to experience unbearable guilt. Just as things are at the blackest, however, good news arrives: after further study, the board has changed its verdict and concluded that the real cause of the wreck was a faulty weather report that had failed to predict the storm.
Gilligan on Lockean homesteading --
In Episode 16, entitled "Plant You Now, Dig You Later," Gilligan unearths a treasure chest while digging a barbecue pit for Mr. Howell. When Mr. Howell claims that he owns the chest because Gilligan found it while working for him, the Skipper insists that Gilligan is the owner because he discovered it. To settle the matter, a courtroom (complete with a judge's bench, witness stand and an American flag made out of flowers and starfish) is built and a trial held before the Professor (who substitutes one of Mr. Howell's capes for a judge's robe). Following a hard-fought contest, he rules that the chest should be treated like the island's other natural resources and, as such, belongs to all the castaways. Unwilling to share the chest, Mr. Howell immediately buys out the other castaways for $ 500,000. Much to his chagrin, the chest is then opened and found to contain nothing but old cannonballs.
Gilligan on estate planning and moral hazard --
In Episode 74, entitled "Where There's a Will," Mr. Howell rewrites his will to thank the others for their attentions during a recent illness. The new instrument leaves a large bequest to each of the castaways: Ginger receives a diamond mine, the Professor is given a railroad, Mary Ann is promised two plantations and a fleet of cars to travel between her properties, Gilligan is granted an oil well and the Skipper becomes the owner of Denver. Through a series of miscues, Mr. Howell subsequently becomes convinced that the castaways are planning to kill him to collect their inheritances. All is put right, however, when he later learns that the "old bore" they intend to kill is a wild boar to be served at a dinner honoring him for his generosity.
Gilligan on Miranda --
In Episode 27, entitled "New Neighbor Sam," the castaways become terrified after overhearing a group of gangsters. When it turns out that the "voices" are coming from a parrot, the Professor and the Skipper decide to interrogate the bird to learn what else it knows. Jumping to its defense, Gilligan insists that the bird be allowed to speak to an attorney before answering any questions.
Gilligan on discovery --
In Episode 52, entitled "Not Guilty," a crate washes up on the island. Inside are some old newspapers from Honolulu which report that someone aboard the Minnow might be a murderer because each had been shopping in the same store on the same day as Randolph Blake, a man who turned up dead just as the Minnow had set sail from Honolulu. With their imaginations running wild, the Professor proposes that the castaways reenact the scene in the store to determine the killer's identity. To their great relief, doing so proves that the incident had been an accident: slamming the store's door had released the trigger of the spear gun that had killed Blake.
Gilligan on immigration --
In Episode 38, entitled "Beauty Is as Beauty Does," the castaways hold a beauty contest to select Miss Deserted Island. When the others are unable to agree upon a winner from among Ginger, Mary Ann and Mrs. Howell, Gilligan casts the deciding ballot for Gladys, a chimpanzee he had found on the island. His reason for doing so rests on solid legal grounds: as the tournament's only native, Gladys is the sole contestant eligible to win the title.
And finally, in what serves as a disturbingly apt parable for our current times, Gilligan on Liberty vs. Security:
In Episode 83, entitled "Gilligan Goes Gung Ho," the castaways decide they need greater law-and-order. Therefore, they appoint the Skipper to be their sheriff and Gilligan to be his deputy. Adopting a "by-the-book" approach, Gilligan soon has the castaways under arrest. Unfortunately, his zeal costs them one of their best chances to be rescued: while they languish in jail, a rescue plane flies over the island.
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The Marginal Revolutionaries Play Dr. Doolittle
Over at Marginal Revolution, Tyler and Alex have of late been pondering the role of animals in the social calculus -- namely, the question of whether, and to what extent, animals matter.
Tyler believes they do, though he's not quite certain how to account for them:
Surely it seems reasonable to count the welfare of animals -- or at least selected high-cognition animals -- for something rather than nothing. But this throws moral calculations into a funk. Even if you count individual animals for very little, there are many billions of them.
For my part, I'm less than troubled by my own specieist instincts. The reason, I suppose, is that, from a social contractarian point of view, animals just generally aren't parties to the negotiation. Besides their unfamiliarity with the language and the lack of opposable thumbs making signatures difficult to obtain, I just don't trust their sense of reciprocity, either with us, or with one another. I love and am eternally fascinated by bears, but the experience of those unique souls who have chosen to commune with them suggests they aren't prone to hold up their end of the bargain. Nor do they particularly trust you to hold up yours.
Which is not to say that some form of reciprocity is impossible to maintain with an animal, but there remains in such relationships a significant assymetry to the balance of power. Master provides Fido with Puppy Chow, health care, and warm doghouse. Fido provides master with his slippers, a frisbee partner, and a babe magnet down at the local walking trail. Despite the language barrier, both seem to implicitly proceed from the Schelling point that outward aggression on either's part will jeopardize the terms of this arrangement as a going concern.
Yet, despite this micro relationship, Fido has no place in the macro compact among humans to which his master belongs, not even the 3/5ths of a person regarded under chattel slavery. Perhaps this is inequitible, but I don't find it at all troubling, and don't share Tyler's desire to justify a place for Fido at the table. Down, boy...this is for people.
Alex, on the other hand -- betraying his background as a teenage Randroid -- thinks Tyler's problem is his unwillingness to throw caution to the wind and allow the white wings of REASON to whisk him away to whatever logical conclusion lay waiting at the end of the Rationality Rainbow, no matter how intuitively ludicrous it might seem:
Tyler wants to find a theory that both rationalizes and is consistent with our intuitions. But that is a fool's game. Our intuitions are inconsistent. Our moral intuitions are heuristics produced by blind evolution operating in a world totally different than our own. Why would we expect them to be consistent? Our intuitions provide no more guidance to sound ethics than our tastes provide guidance to sound nutrition. (Which is to say, they are not without function but don't expect to be healthy on a yummy diet of sugar and fat.)
The reason to think deeply about ethical matters is the same reason we should think deeply about nutrition - so that we can overcome our intuitions. Tyler argues that we don't have a good approach to animal welfare only because he is not willing to give up on intuition.
Tyler asks (I paraphrase) 'Would you kill your good friend for the lives of a million cats? What about a billion cats?' He answers, No, but says "Yet I still wish to count cats for something positive."
My answer is not only Yes it is that we do this routinely today. The introduction of "your good friend" (or "children" in Larry's example) engages our primitive intuitions and feelings and that is why Tyler's answer goes awry. But consider, last year Americans spent more than 34 billion dollars on their pets. That money could have saved human lives had it gone to starving Africans.
I think Alex is wrong on several counts, but more importantly, I think he's copping out on directly addressing Tyler's inquiry. Alex says that many people already value animals -- at least, they value the animals they own -- and demonstrate their preferences by spending money on those animals' upkeep. This is true, but unremarkable. Many people also value their homes, and similarly spend many billions not only purchasing, but improving and maintaining those homes. Any broadly utilitarian set of ethics would have no trouble incorporating both sets of human preferences, and acknowledging that people value some things more than the well-being of their fellow humans. In fact, people often seem to value most things more than they do the well-being of their fellow humans.
But it strikes me this was not at all what Tyler was on about, as he seems to have no concomitant concern about how to account for the welfare of one's home. He seems to proceed from the notion that animals have intrinsic value, not just the subjective value different people ascribe to them. Or, perhaps, he is just unwilling to accept a utilitarian approach to moral theory, in which respect he is hardly alone, though I don't see why the issue of animal welfare should confound the matter any more than a host of other concerns.
I also think Alex's comparison of moral instincts to nutritional instincts is faulty. It is not that our predisposition to crave sugar and fat is wrong, but that it isn't perfectly applicable to all scenarios in which modern man often finds himself -- namely, inhabiting a world in which sugar and fat are far more plentiful than our ancestors found them to be, while many other nutrients are necessary to sustain long-term health. But if one's evolutionary predisposition to feel varying degrees of empathy toward concentric circles consisting of kin, tribe, race and species is similarly ill-suited to the particulars of modern life, then pure reason would seem to suggest abandoning such empathetic inclinations wherever practical. Sociopaths everywhere are vindicated.
What Alex wants to say is that, where moral reasoning and moral intuition prove incompatible, we should abandon moral intution and stick with moral reasoning, much as reason forced us to abandon the more intuitive Newtonian framework for the strange world of relativity, and even stranger world of quantum mechanics. But that argument is valid only if moral concepts, like the concepts of physics, have empirical truth value. If they do not -- and I remain, well, skeptical -- then attempting to apply reason to move past intuition toward a fuller elaboration of moral theory amounts to an updated version of theological debates about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. It's spinning the straw of intuition into golden nonsense.
I agree with Alex on this much: our moral intuitions are certainly inconsistent, and frequently incompatible. As evolutionary adaptations, they've proved a stable enough paradigm to ensure the survival of the species, but that stability obviously has its limits. Struggling to reconcile incompatible intuitions raises the costs of social bargaining considerably. But by moving away from those intuitions toward abstractions that few would accept, Alex misses the main value that moral intuitions still hold -- not that they're true, but that, at the very least, they're common.
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This is a story of adventure, friendship, and self-discovery firmly rooted in the culture, dramatic landscape, and magic of northern Vancouver Island.
When a hike in the woods goes horribly wrong, young Shirley is forced to think on her feet and grow up quickly. While saving her father from a terrible fall, she notices an unusual cave in the distance. She soon finds that she is unable to shake the vision of it in her mind and embarks on a long journey of discovery. Aided by a mystical friend, she stumbles on more than she bargained for in the darkness of the strange cavern. The second installment in the Her Vision Quest series follows Shirley's experience after waking from her mystical journey with the soul of the young boy who had helped her through the wilderness. After returning to the mountain with two friends to find the boy's remains, she comes home to discover that her father has died. Together with her spirit friend, she learns to live with her loss and move on with her life....
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ADZUKI or AZUKI BEAN
Native to China, the adzuki beans (Vigna angularis) is a small (1/4 inch long), reddish-brown, oval bean with a thin, white stripe down the side. It grows on a bush, rather than on a vine. The bean has a nutty, sweet flavor and firm texture. This is the red bean used in Asian desserts; it also has savory uses, and can be enjoyed with rice dishes. The adzuki bean was brought to the U.S. in the mid 19th century. When steamed with rice, the bean gives the rice an attractive, slightly pink color. It is also known as the aduki, adsuki, asuki, azuki, feijao, field pea, red Oriental bean and Tiensin red.
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Amaranth (Amaranthus creuntus), an 8,000-year-old crop, was food for the Aztecs and Incas, and was a significant part of the ancient Aztec empire's agricultural base. The crop was regarded so highly that each year bushels of amaranth were presented to the emperor Montezuma. Because the crop figured so prominently in Aztec culture and religious ceremonies, the conquering armies of Cortez burned the fields to the ground. As European crops replaced indigenous ones, amaranth slowly fell out of use. Amaranth is high in protein and contains large amounts of dietary fiber, iron, and calcium as well as other vitamins and minerals.
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Amaranth also has naturally high amounts of lysine, methionine and cysteine combined with a balance of amino acids. These grains are round and tiny, smaller than mustard seeds. gold in color with flecks of black. It has a crunchy texture and is very chewy. Amaranth is not a true grain, but a seed from a broadleaf herb plant.
ANASAZI BEANS
Originating in New Mexico, these pretty reddish-brown beans with white markings are popular in Southwestern recipes, including soups and refried beans. When cooked, the bean becomes light beige or pink in color with a somewhat sweet taste and meaty texture. They are also known as the appaloosa bean, Aztec bean, Jacob's cattle bean and New Mexico cave bean.
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BARLEY or PEARL BARLEY or PEARLED BARLEY
Barley (Hordeum vulgare) is one of the oldest domesticated crops (there is evidence of barley in the Nile Delta more than 18,000) and one of the major cereal crops in the world (in 2005 it ranked fourth in amount cultivated—consider that it is an ingredient in beer, a drink popular worldwide). A small, spherical grain, it is grown worldwide and usually "pearled" to remove its outer bran and husk, leaving only a small white "pearl" of endosperm. Pearled barley has a slightly sweet, nutty, earthy flavor, chewy texture and high starch content. It was a staple cereal of ancient Egypt, where it was used to make bread and beer, and it was used to make beer when it was first planted in America around 1600. Barley has been accorded special status as well: The Chinese believed it increased male sexuality; in Rome, barley was the special dish of the gladiators. A new variety of barley, black barley (also known as purple hull-less barley, originally from Ethiopia, is now being raised in Montana. A specialty product, it is unprocessed; the nutritious bran layer is edible and stays attached to the kernel.
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Bean originally meant the seed of the broad bean, but the definition was later expanded to include members of the genus Phaseolus such as the common bean or haricot and the runner bean and the related genus Vigna, which includes the mung bean, the rice bean and the black-eyed pea. The term is now applied in a general way to some 15 other genuses which include such varieties as soybeans, peas, lentils, chickpea (garbanzo), pea, lentil, lima, common bean (including the black bean, pinto bean and kidney bean), soybean and guar.
Broad bean, a.k.a. fava bean. Photo of by Rasbak Gebruiker.
Broad beans in the pod. Bean originally meant the seed of the broad bean, but the definition was later expanded to include members of the genus Phaseolus such as the common bean or haricot and the runner bean and the related genus Vigna, which includes the mung bean, the rice bean and the black-eyed pea. The term is now applied in a general way to some 15 other genuses which include such varieties as soybeans, peas, lentils, chickpea (garbanzo), pea, lentil, lima, common bean (including the black bean, pinto bean and kidney bean), soybean and guar. Broad beans in the pod.
BELUGA LENTIL
Beluga lentils are tiny black lentils, one of the smallest lentils, so named because they resemble beads of beluga caviar. Their beautiful color, sheen after cooking, elegant petite appearance and mild yet earthy flavor make them a favorite with leading chefs. Easy to cook, the lentils make an elegant bed for meat, poultry and seafood; a beautiful garnish; a lovely addition to soups and salads. Since they look like caviar after cooking, you can use them on canapés as well. Try hummus garnished with beluga lentils.
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See chickpea flour.
BLACK BEAN or BLACK SPANISH BEAN or COMMON BEAN or TAMPICO BEAN or TURTLE BEAN or SPANISH BEAN or VENEZUELAN BEAN
A relative of the kidney bean, the black bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), or common bean, is thought to have originated in southern Mexico and Central America more than 7,000 years ago. Evidence of its use has been found in excavations of prehistoric dwellings. The common bean has since spread around the world. Black beans are small in size with a cream-colored flesh and black skin. They are used throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, and the southern United States (especially Florida and the Southwest). Black bean soups, stews and sauces are very common in Latin American countries and are an important ingredient in Brazilian and Cuban dishes.
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Black beans are becoming more popular in the U.S., in part due to increased immigration from Latin American countries. They are small, kidney-shaped and shiny, with a slight mushroom flavor. Black beans hold their shape when cooked and absorb flavors well.
BLACKEYED PEA or BLACK-EYED PEA
Blackeyed peas (Vigna unguiculata) are medium-sized (3/8 inch long), ivory-colored beans with a large black coloration (the "eye") on the inner curve of the beans, where they are attached to the pod. Related to the mung bean, blackeyed peas originated in Eastern Asia. They were brought to the Americas with the African slave trade, and were a staple of many plantation diets. Blackeyed peas have a sweet, mild flavor and firm texture, and absorb the flavors of a dish very well. Blackeyed peas are perhaps best known as a Southern dish, where they are often served with ham and rice.
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Blackeyed peas are also commonly used in bean cakes, casseroles, curry dishes, fritters and salads. Variations are yellow, brown or red in color. The bean is also known as the black eyed Suzy, brown-eyed pea, cherry bean, China pea, cowpea, frijole, Indian pea, Jerusalem pea, lobhia, marble pea and Tonkin pea.
BORLOTTI BEAN
See cranberry bean.
BULGUR or BULGHUR
Bulgur is an ancient grain from the Middle East, made of wheat berries that are partially hulled, steamed, cracked and dried. There are two kinds of bulgur: one made from the soft, white, wheat berries, which has a more delicate taste; and one made from hard, red, winter wheat berries (shown in photo), which has nutty, earthy taste. It is also available coarse, as shown, or ground into a fine, quicker-cooking form. Bulgur is often confused with cracked wheat, which it resembles; but bulgur differs in that it has been pre-cooked (steamed). It is used in baked goods, pilafs, soups and stuffings, and is best known to Americans as the base of tabbouleh salad (with parsley, tomatoes, lemon juice, scallions and mint) and kibbeh (a torpedo-shaped fried croquette stuffed with minced meat and bulgur).
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The topic of our next Sweet Union Republican Women's meeting on Tuesday, February 26 will be School Safety, a subject near and dear to our hearts: children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, etc. Please come and welcome Jarrod McCraw who is the Union County School District's Assistant Superintendent of Student Support: Safety and Security Director and Sheriff Eddie Cathey.
Jarrod McCraw is the Assistant Superintendent of Student Support for Union County Public Schools (UCPS). A graduate of Gardner Webb University, Jarrod joined UCPS in 2006 as the school district's Safety and Security Director. Prior to coming to UCPS, he was a Trooper and Troop Recruiter with the North Carolina State Highway Patrol for nine years.
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Yves Edwards Ends 17-Year MMA Career
By GPinPitt 5 years ago
Yves Edwards announced last night via his Facebook account that he was retiring after 17 years of fighting. Edwards amassed a 42-22-1 record, with one no-contest.
The 38-year old known as the "ThugJitsu Master" fought in many top organizations, including HOOKnSHOOT, Pride, Bellator, and the UFC. Edwards made his UFC debut at UFC 33 against Matt Serra, back in 2001. (Let that sink in, Yves Edwards has been on-and-off employed in the UFC for nearly a decade-and-a-half).
Edwards totaled 21 fights in the UFC, going 10-10, along with the no-contest. He scored many impressive victories over fighters such as Rich Clementei, Josh Thomson, Aaron Riley, and Hermes Franca. Of Edwards' 42 victories, 33 came via TKO / submission (a 78% finish rate). In other words, Edwards always came to scrap and looked for the finish.
Edwards never had the chance to wear UFC gold, which is no shame and will be remembered in MMA as one of the most stand up, humble guys who always showed up to fight, and showed honor and respect inside and outside of the cage / ring. He can be more than proud to compile such an impressive mma career, with so many professional fights and such a great overall record, and will go down as on of the most decorated lightweight competitors in the game.
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From Yves Edwards' facebook page:
"I've thought about how to say this for a week now, but there's no better way than to just do it. So here goes; 1st I'd like to say thank you to all the people that I've met through and because of fighting, friends, training partners, coaches, fight fans, doctors and even some promoters/matchmakers. A lot of you guys have always shown me nothing but love and I really appreciate that.
Fighting has been a part of my life ever since I was 17 and that makes this a hard pill to swallow but it's time for me to end this chapter and move on to the next part of my life. So thank you again to all the people that have supported me through this, whether it was through cheers, training, coaching or anything else at all."
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CIA #TortureReport - Detainees Waterboarded, Fed Anally, Dragged Naked, Sleep Deprived
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A report released today by Democrats on the Senate intelligence committee has revealed how extreme were the enhanced interrogation techniques by the CIA. Dubbed the #torturereport by many on social media, the interrogation program drew outrage and condemnation across party lines.
The report states that at least one detainee died in an unheated cell. Another tried to chew off his arm from the elbow as well as cutting several veins in his arms and legs. Many suffered hallucinations, paranoia and showed other forms of psychosis.
It concluded that the techniques used by the CIA were largely ineffective at providing useful information, Bloomberg reports. Below are the experiences of some of the detainees.
Abu Zubaydah, who was captured in 2002, was initially cooperative with interrogators. He identified Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as the planner of the Sept. 11 attacks, for example.
As he recovered from wounds suffered in his capture, however, the interrogation techniques grew harsher. Officials believed he was withholding information about pending attacks.
Zubaydah was shackled naked during interrogations and was forced to stay awake. He spent 47 days in isolation without being asked any questions. After that he was subjected to waterboarding, which prompted him to vomit and caused his body to convulse in involuntary spasms.
He spent a total of 11 days and two hours in a box the size of a coffin and 29 hours in a box that was even smaller, at 21 inches wide, 2 1/2 feet deep and 2 1/2 feet high. Daily cables from the site where he was interrogated said Zubaydah frequently cried, begged, pleaded and whimpered, the report said.
The CIA later concluded Zubaydah didn't know about any pending attacks.
Another detainee, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who was suspected of being involved in the bombing of the USS Cole and the 1998 East Africa U.S. embassy bombings, was subjected to four periods of enhanced interrogation techniques, including on three occasions being subjected to a method of simulated drowning known as waterboarding.
On-site interrogators said al-Nashiri was compliant, but officers at CIA headquarters disputed that contention and sought to continue his interrogations, according to the report.
The report said interrogators used unauthorized techniques against al-Nashiri, including forcing him to stand with his hand over his head for 2 1/2 days. A CIA officer placed a pistol near al-Nashiri's head while he was blindfolded. He was also given a forced bath with a stiff brush.
Muhammad Rahim, described as an al-Qaeda facilitator who was thought to have information about Osama bin Laden's whereabouts, was subjected to "eight extensive sleep deprivation sessions" after his capture in 2007, according to the report.
Rahim was usually shackled in a standing position, wearing a diaper and a pair of shorts, the report said. His diet was almost entirely limited to water and liquid Ensure meals.
Other detainees were subjected to "rough takedowns" where they were dragged naked down long corridors while being slapped and punched by CIA officers.
One detainee was left handcuffed by his wrists to an overhead bar for 22 hours over two consecutive days, the report said.
At one detention site known as Cobalt, detainees were held naked in tubs as interrogators poured cold water on them, according to the report.
"Others were hosed down repeatedly while they were shackled naked, in the standing sleep-deprivation position," the report said.
Majid Khan, who the CIA thought had knowledge of a plan to attack gas stations, was one of at least five detainees subjected to rectal feeding. He was fed a pureed mix of hummus, pasta with sauce, nuts and raisins.
He tried to chew into his arm at the elbow, attempted to cut his wrist on two occasions and tried to cut a vein in his foot, according to the report.
"Multiple psychologists identified the lack of human contact experienced by detainees as a cause of psychiatric problems," the report said.
Numerous CIA interrogators and other CIA personnel associated with the program had either suspected or documented personal and professional problems that raised questions about their judgment and CIA employment, according to the report.
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Academics / College of Professional Studies / School of Education / Undergraduate Programs / Early Childhood Education (Grades Pre-K-3)
In this career, you teach more than lessons: you teach the love of learning.
As an early childhood teacher, you are one of the first adult influences that children have outside of the home: imagine the impact you can have!
Teaching Degree: Pre-K–3rd Grade
A major in Early Childhood Education sets you up with everything you need for Ohio teaching licensure for pre-kindergarten through third grade.
From your first semester to your final day of student teaching, a bachelor's degree (four years) in Early Childhood Education gives you the direction you need to teach our next generation. Someday, you'll walk into your own classroom, materials in hand and ideas in mind to build a unique learning environment that nurtures and encourages your young learners.
Your classes at Shawnee go beyond basic methodology and subject matter. With classes like Child and Adolescent Psychology, Art in the Curriculum, Understanding Cultural Diversity, and Matching Books with Readers, you learn practical skills from professors across several departments. You'll finish your degree with the experience you need to lead your whole class on learning adventures, and also guide each student through their own unique challenges.
After three years of foundational classes with your peers, you'll spend the first half of your fourth year preparing for student teaching. Then, you'll round out your time at Shawnee in a classroom of your own, working side-by-side with a current teacher for your final semester.
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Free Tuition Program is Making College Possible
College affordability is a concern for most graduating high school seniors. According to SSU President Jeff Bauer, Shawnee State University is making college possible for these students through a free-tuition program.
Shawnee State University announces Free Tuition to Need-Based Students from southern Ohio and northern Kentucky
Shawnee State University has announced a Free Tuition Initiative – offering free tuition to Pell-eligible first-time students who have a minimum 3.0 GPA and 18 ACT score living in Scioto, Lawrence, Adams, Pike, Jackson, and Ross counties in Ohio, as well as Greenup, Boyd, and Lewis counties in Kentucky.
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There's no limit to the amount of good you can do. Every experience your students have, every word they learn, and every problem they overcome sets the foundation for who they'll become.
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In addition to a career as a pre-K to third grade teacher, a degree in early childhood education teaches you the skills you need to be successful as a childcare worker, childcare center director, special education teacher, English Language Learner (ELL) teacher, in-home childcare provider (e.g. nanny), early childhood education specialist/counsellor, or a daycare director for a pre-school program.
Stepping beyond the traditional school environment, early childhood educators also work in public and private childcare centers, community centers, individual clients' homes, and libraries.
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Julia Bland's work does not fit perfectly into a single category, but spans beautifully across fiber art and painting. In her work, she deconstructs and manipulates fabric and threads before reconstructing them into the final pieces you see here. The vibrant, geometric designs are stunning. Some of the work is stitched into a solid piece, while others float on loosely woven backgrounds. Either way her work is unique and intriguing.
With a few simple tools, artist Aakash Nihalani transforms ordinary spaces into wildly imaginative and playful ones. By creating visually dimensional shapes out of tape, cardboard and paint, seemingly sterile spaces become interactive. Making the impossible seem possible.
I've just stumbled across the work of painter John Holcomb and I'm completely infatuated. In John's Floral series he uses inspiration from nature itself and the old Dutch masters. John uses these paintings as a form of therapy to ease his mind and work through the complexities of his other work. He brings an absolute brilliant and whimsical interpretation to the 17th century paintings.
During my stay at Penland School of Crafts, I made my way to the Penland Gallery and Visitors Center. There are several gallery spaces within the building, but they each house work related in some way to Penland. The main space features work by artist who have taught at Fenland and this is where I saw the work of Leigh Suggs. Her large cut-out pieces stand out from other work constructed in the same manner. There is wonderful movement to her work and when viewed up close, one can see the texture added through painting that offers a unique feel.
If you go to Emily Barletta's website (and I highly recommend that you do), click on her paper portfolio page. You'll have to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page to find more pieces like the ones in this post, but along the way you'll stumbled upon one amazing piece after another. Emily's expressive illustrations are created through calculation and precision, building the image one stitch at a time.
Australian artist, Sarah Strickland is predominately a textile designer, but her work with paper is quite stunning. The following pieces were originally created as painted paper collages before being digitized and printed on fabric. Sarah crafts her multilayered pieces using bold colors and textures.
Using double-exposure, Miranda Crooks has created these dreamlike images of plants. The photographic effect and the rich, vibrant colors pull you away from reality. In her watercolor pieces, Miranda uses a softer palette to capture the essence of each plant.
The Imaginary Beings series from Johanna Goodman are delightful and witty. Through her collages, she is able to create so much emotion (and attitude) by playing with character's facial expressions and posture. Plus some ultra-fabulous couture garments.
As Program Chair for the New England Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers, I had the pleasure of organizing a project brought to me by one of our members. Jonathan Romain, a recent graduate of the North Bennet Street School Bookbinding Program, brought forth the idea of a collaborative project between the students at NBSS and the NEGBW. I loved this idea and so with the help of instructor Jeffrey Altepeter, we put this plan in motion.
An Exquisite Corpse is a method of illustration invented by Surrealists in the early 1910s, where each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence usually without seeing the prior portion. Upon reveal this rule to hide the previous sequences offers up an abstract and amusing portrait. Each student created a plaquette covered in neutral leather (we used Harmatan Terracotta and Brown goatskin) and also completed the "head" portion of the figure. The plaquette's were about 18in x 6in; allowing each participant to cover a 6in square portion of the board.
The project spanned over 3 months as each participant received and worked on their portion over the course of a month. At the end of May, the finished pieces were on display as part of NBSS's Student & Alumni Show, an annual exhibit that showcases work from current students and alumni from the various programs.
I had the pleasure of receiving the finished pieces and bringing them back to the students. We gathered around one another as each student revealed the unique and strange characters that developed over the course of the project. Each piece is displayed below with a brief description from each collaborator remarking on their concept and use of materials.
The robot head was inspired by my son's fascination with mechanical and technological design and construction. It is made up of traditional leather decoration techniques—leather onlays, tooled with gold leaf, foil and carbon.
I opted for humor in my approach to the Exquisite Corpse. The design concept was to depict bird legs: the initial tests were for tooling in the positive; it became clear that the negative space would be more interesting. I used four sizes of "dots" in gold foil to produce the background behind the legs. Repetition and rhythm became the focal point.
This head was created as an onlay piece. The main portion was cut out of navy blue goat skin, pared thin. The sections for the eye, ear, and ghosts were all cut out, and their edges beveled on the flesh-side. Light blue leather for the eye and ear were glued to the back before pasting to the base leather. The ghosts were cut out from parchment; their faces backed with thinly pared gold leather, and painted with watercolor before being glued in place. The outline of the original drawing was then blind tooled over the leather. The intention behind the design was to look at intense personal struggles (depression, intrusive thoughts, insomnia) through a lens of whimsy and humor.
Melrose, MAWhite alum-tawed goatskin onlay with blind tooled details, inspired by the shape of an Early Cycladic marble female torso (2800-2300 BC, Keros-Syros Culture). Flanking the torso are shapes commonly found incised on Early Cycladic pottery, a spiral and a two-headed ax, executed in surface gilding.
My materials were leather and hand-cast paper (made by the artist). The concept was a bit literal, since I had the last portion and was finishing the body with the legs, but I was inspired by a particular set of medical prints from Yale's collection.
I wanted to created something really playful with my portion of the plaquette. When I saw no indication of where to begin, I chose to create a headless girl with comically long arms. The girl's dress is a series of blind tooled onlays in pink and purple goatskin and white buffalo. Her skin is gold tooled. And the blood spurting from her headless stump is painted with red acrylic.
The design is largely non-representational, with a vague suggestion of legs. Otherwise, there is no concept. Tooled in gold and metallic foil, with inset lines of white box calf.
Blue Pageboy, a leather tool-edged onlay made of goatskin is inspired by the Russian pioneer of geometric abstraction, Kazimir Malevich's costume design and his Yellow Man painting. Blue Pageboy gives off a theatrical and mysterious vibe. Who is s/he? Only the body will tell!
Inlay consisting of glazed earthenware, scraps of Thai papers, and wheat paste. Colored with watercolor. Additional adhesives used are E-6000, and Jade 403 PVA. Finish coat on the inlay is SC 6000 acrylic polymer and wax emulsion.
This design was inspired by nothing more than a common theme in much of my art: day and night. I'm drawn to the color palette each time presents and the way in which our perceptions of those colors change as the light does. The techniques utilized are predominantly onlays and gold tooling, however a variation of the lacunose technique and an Ascona tool were used for the hair.
When I'm sketching, I often come back to the roots of a plant. For this project I decided to attempt the same type of free flowing, loose, many-from-one nature of these sketches with traditional gouges. Using five or six tools I built up the legs of this plaquette, and then added acrylic paint into them that gets darker as the roots go lower. The dirt is represented by grain manipulation with sandpaper, changing the surface of the leather and giving it a different look and feel.
My inspiration for this project came from a group of mustachioed, high-collared, quirky members of the Viennese Secessionist art movement. This movement was part of the golden age of illustration and graphic design in Vienna and Germany from 1897 to 1918. Their main influences were derived from William Morris and the English Arts and Crafts movement which sought to bridge the applied and fine arts. The Secessionists favored hand-made object opposing machine techniques. Hand tooling and acrylic paint.
The initial description of the project attributed the Exquisite Corpse to the Surrealists. My concept was of a Magritte-ian gentleman – fine suit, hands crossed in the standard coffin pose holding the usual flower — but then with an amphibian's green gnarly 'hands'. Carbon tooling and goatskin onlays.
The vivid colors on the chubby tum were used to inspire whimsy, as well as the funny shape of the legs, which took inspiration from the cartoon Invader Zim, a silly plot animation focusing on an alien sent to Earth and meant to blend in. Stars: gold and palladium mixed together is a challenging medium to tool as they are different weights, but the outcome is very rewarding and attractive. Leather onlays, gold and palladium tooling.
The design of this head is inspired by the sugar skulls used as part of the Mexican celebration of Dia de los Muertos (day of the dead). On that day, these skulls, made of sugar, are part of an altar made to honor and celebrate dead ancestors, particularly children. Blind tooled outline filled with raised, ascona, and back-pared onlays. It is finished with blind and lemon gold tooling, and surface gilded teeth.
I wanted to stay true to the surrealist exercise of the exquisite corpse by combining the distorted human figure and nature. For my design I chose the octopus, the master of disguise, which doubles as the female torso. Leather onlays (Harmatan and Pergamena), vellum inlay (Pergamena) with walnut ink wash and Prismacolor marker detail, blind tooling throughout.
Concept: I wanted my plaquette section to be whimsical and colorful and wanted to utilize the feathered onlay technique. Something about chicken legs appealed to me, so I ran with that, though I think they ended up looking more like reptile legs with funny leg warmers.
I love these abstract paintings from Dennis Congdon. His use of pastels against vibrant hues is engaging and dream-like. Each painting feels like a lost page from a graphic novel in which the story tells of displaced art and culture.


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Q: Accelerate the ruby on rails website I am running ruby on rails website with unicorn as app server and nginx as web server. Which is okay for the time being,but in spite of having CDN in the place, the response time of the website is too slow.Also I am using Sunspot solr for searching and index but its running in another ec2 ubuntu instance and also redis server which is also running in another server.
How do I optimize the site and make it faster.

A: There's a great plugin for Chrome called PageSpeed which scores your pages and gives you ideas for optimisation, such as minifying JS and CSS, making sure images are the best size, getting your browser to cache as much as possible and so on.
There's also a good pro Railscast about client side performance.

A: Maybe you could also have a look at the Bullet gem. It helps to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading. There is a nice Railscast about it! Bullet Railscast

A: Another helpful gem could be MiniProfiler. There is also a nice Railscast about it. It allows you to see the speed of a request conveniently on the page. It also shows the SQL queries performed and allows you to profile a specific block of code.

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Tunisia Main Cities
by indexdotcom | Posted on November 8, 2021 November 8, 2021
Kairouan
Kairouan [ka ɪ ru a ː n, kεr van, French], Arabic Al-Qairawan [ka ɪ -], Governoratshauptstadt in central Tunisia, in the basin of Kairouan in the lowland plains, 60 meters above sea level, (2014) 139 000 residents.
One of the four holy cities of Islam (pilgrimage site); Trade and market center; Carpet weaving center (in addition to large manufacturers, around 500 family businesses), handicrafts (leather, metalwork); Brickworks; Tourism; Road junction. Irrigation agriculture in the surrounding area (including irrigation from the Nebhana dam).
The old town has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. In the medina (1 × 0.5 km) completely surrounded by a brick wall (between 1706 and 1712 on the foundations of a wall from 1052) is the Great Mosque Sidi Okba (about 135 × 80 m; started in 672, until the early 20th century). Century; main structure 817–875, prayer hall 836–863, 80 × 40 m, in Syrian-Omayyad tradition), which became the archetype of Western Islamic sacred and secular architecture: T-shaped floor plan, stepped dome structures, keeled horseshoe arches in the narthex, faience-clad mihrab (862/863), Maksura (1022) and Minbar (862/863) in rich wood carvings, three-story minaret (35 m high, 724–728, dome 13th century) on a square floor plan, 17 naves with eight bays each on 414 antique buildings Columns; the east gate Lalla Rihana (1294) is an elegant square risalit in the Spanish-Moorish style. Excellent examples of Islamic decorative art are the facade of the mosque Tleta Bibane (»Mosque of the Three Gates«, 866) and the entire Zawija des Sidi Sahab (»Barber's Mosque«, northwest of the medina, today's building between 1629 and 1692 with stucco and faience decoration) and the Zawija of Sidi Abid el-Ghariani (early 14th century, redesigned several times). Holy tower fountain Bir Barouta (current construction 1676–90); in the Zawija of Sidi Amor Abbada ("Saber Mosque", west of the medina, 1860, five ribbed domes) collection of weapons; Museum of Islamic Art (especially finds from Rekkada and Sabra Mansourija). North of the medina are the Aghlabid basins (9th century) with a 48-sided main basin (diameter 128 m) and a 17-sided clarifier (diameter 37.4 m). – 8 km east of Kairouan are the ruins of the Aghlabid residence Rekkada, 1.5 km southwest the ruins of the Fatimid residence city Sabra Mansourija.
Kairouan, the first Arab city to be founded in North Africa, was laid out between 663 and 670 by the Arab general Okba Ibn Nafi as an army camp and caravan site and flourished in the 9th and 10th centuries as the residence of the Aghlabids, Fatimids and Sanhajids; Destroyed by the Beni Hilal in 1057, it lost its capital city function, was rebuilt by the Hafsids in the 13th century and enlarged by the Husainids in the 18th century. Kairouan has remained the religious and spiritual center of the eastern Maghreb to this day (most recently the starting point for Islamic fundamentalism opposed to the government).
According to Militarynous, Sousse [sus, French], Arabic Susa, is the governorate capital, port and industrial city with seaside resort on the east coast of Tunisia, on the Gulf of Hammamet, (2014) 221 500 residents.
Hotel management school; Theaters, museums; Textile industry (large tannery, spinning mill, clothing factories also for the European market), food industry (especially canned fish), olive oil mills, metal processing, production of greenhouses, plastic goods, soaps, arts and crafts; major tourism; Fair (every two years); Commercial, fishing and marina; Transport hub; international Airport. To the north, the seaside resort of Hammam Sousse, with 33,800 residents, extends over 10 km to the modern, neo-Moorish tourist complex of Port el-Kantaoui with a marina. In the area around Sousse there are extensive olive and vegetable crops, in the south sea salt pans.
The medina with a rectangular floor plan is enclosed by a stone wall with round battlements and square towers (built 857–874; renewed in 1205; two of the original six gates have been preserved, the third gate from 1864). Early Islamic ribat (around 787 from an older large ashlar structure) with semicircular wall towers and 30 m high round watchtower ("Nador"; built in 821); in the former Ribatmosque Museum of Islamic Art. Fortress-like Great Mosque (founded in 851 and built in the style of the Sidi Okba mosque of Kairouan; the 13 aisles were lengthened in the 10th century, a narthex was added in 1675); The small mosque Bou Fatata (838–841) was a test construction. Palace building Kalouat el-Kubba (11th – 13th centuries; today a Moorish café); Turkish Zawija Zakkak with octagonal minaret (18th century).3); in the southwest corner, at the highest point of the city (77 m above sea level), the spacious Kasba (9th-11th centuries) with the 30 m high, square tower Khalef el-Fatah (859) and the archaeological museum (Punic, Roman, Byzantine finds). To the west of the medina are the Christian catacombs (15,000 well-preserved but threatened graves from the 2nd to 4th centuries) and the remains of Roman villas. – The old town of Sousse has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Sousse, in antiquity Hadrumetum, by the Phoenicians in the 9th century BC. Founded in BC, it flourished as a trading center and was established in the 6th century BC. Incorporated into the empire of Carthage and was in 203/202 BC. Chr. Hannibal's headquarters. The Roman city (from 146 BC) was an important export port for food during the imperial era and became a colony (Colonia Concordia Ulpia Traiana Augusta Frugifera Hadrumetina) under Trajan (98–117 ). Under the Vandals (439-534) the city continued to exist as Hunericopolis; the Byzantine Sozusa was called the Justinianopolis Capital of the province of Byzacena; In 647 it was conquered by the Arabs; rebuilt under the Aghlabids in the 9th century as Susa. Sousse was under Norman rule from 1148–59; in the 16th century it was the base of a corsair fleet. In 1942/43 Sousse suffered heavy British air raids.
Tunis, capital of Tunisia, near the north coast, with (2014) 638 900 residents.
The oriental old town (UNESCO World Heritage Site) with numerous mosques (including the Great Mosque, founded in 732) and palaces is followed by a modern new town.
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