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Despite Police brutality, the Demonstrations in Haifa continue
Posted by freehaifa in Gaza, Herak Haifa, Palestine 48, Popular Struggle, Right of Return
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Palestinian political youth activists in Haifa call for a new demonstration under the title "From Haifa to Gaza" on Friday (1.6.2018) at 9:00 pm in the German Colony in Haifa. This demonstration calls for the end of the Israeli siege over the Gaza strip and for the implementation of the right of return for the Palestinian refugees to their houses, villages and cities. This demonstration will be held on the same day as a protest which will take place in Gaza under the slogan "From Gaza to Haifa."
The slogans of the demonstration:
Break the Israeli siege over the Gaza Strip.
The right of return for Palestinian refugees.
End the fragmentation of the Palestinian people.
"In Haifa and Gaza, one struggle and one hope for liberation."
In Haifa and Gaza, one struggle and one hope for liberation
Following the calls to demonstrate in Gaza on Friday, 1.6.2018, under the slogan "From Gaza to Haifa," Palestinian political youth activists announced a demonstration in Haifa on the same day (at 21:00, in the German Colony). In their announcement, the organizers in Haifa emphasized the unity of the Palestinian hope and struggle for breaking the ongoing Israeli siege over the Gaza Strip and for the right of return of Palestinian refugees to their houses, villages and cities.
In the call to demonstrate, the organizers highlighted the fact that Palestinians have faced Israeli crimes for decades in all parts of historic Palestine yet even so the Israeli regime has still managed to divide the aspirations of the Palestinian struggle and it's battle against this regime. They also stated that the planned demonstration aims to break the Israeli regime attempts to separate them as Palestinian citizens of Israel from their Palestinian people in the West Bank, Gaza and the diaspora: "They tried to rob us as people of our right to live in the future in unity with freedom and dignity… this demonstration is a step in the path of a united struggle and a united hope for liberation."
The organizers explained that the need for a unified struggle is essential in light of the fact that all Palestinians are subject to the Israeli policies whether as citizens of Israel or residents of the Palestinian territory occupied in 1967. They added that these policies that include home demolitions, forced displacement and destruction of villages, confiscation of water and resources, restrictions on freedom of movement, extra judicial killings, and political repression, are all deeply rooted in the Nakba (Palestinian catastrophe) of 1948. They stated: "If we know that Israeli crimes are united against all of us, why do we accept a fragmented resistance against them?"
The Herak Gaza solidarity demonstration in downtown Haifa on Friday, May 18, was brutally suppressed
The planned demonstration in Haifa is one of a series of peaceful demonstrations that took place in the city in the last few weeks following the Israeli massacre of demonstrators in Gaza. In the last demonstration in Haifa (Friday – 18.5.2018) the Israeli police responded with excessive violence and brutal assaults toward the demonstrators and arrested 21 of them. The detainees were subjected to physical and psychological violence during their arrest and in the police station, and seven among them received medical treatments in nearby hospitals.
Dareen Tatour and the Right of Return
Posted by freehaifa in Dareen Tatour, Palestine 48, Popular Struggle, Right of Return
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(The following article was first published in Mondowiess)
We were visiting poet Dareen Tatour in her house arrest in Reineh on April 17th, which is known here as "The Palestinian Prisoner's Day". Two and a half years after she was arrested for publishing a poem, Tatour is still under house arrest, waiting the verdict in her trial that is now set to be announced on May 3rd.
Dareen Tatour in the Annual Return March
In these days Palestinians are protesting 70 years of ongoing Nakba. For Palestinians inside the "green line", those that succeeded to stay on their land or near it after the 1948 ethnic cleansing, "The March of Return", held at the same day that Israel celebrates its establishment, became over the last two decades the central yearly gathering to express their national identity and their aspirations for freedom and equality. This year we also witness a new initiative for mass non-violent struggle in the besieged Gaza Strip under the title of "the great march of return". On every Friday since Land Day (March 30th), tens of thousands of Palestinians march toward the prison-walls that Israel had built all around them. Israeli army snipers shoot at them in cold blood, killing dozens and wounding thousands. Through these marches the Right of Return regained its natural place at the center of the Palestinian liberation struggle.
To see how Tatour's story fits within the context of these contemporary events, I decided to interview her about her personal experiences with the Nakba and the struggle for "Al-'Awda" – the return.
Dareen's Granma and the Nakba in Safsaf
Are you a refugee yourself? I asked her. "No", she said, "the Tatour family lived in Reineh long before the Zionists came to Palestine."
So how did you become aware to the ethnic cleansing of 1948? I continued to ask. "Well, it all started with my grandmother." She said. "She told me how they were expelled from Safsaf".
Dareen and her Grandmother – remembering Safsaf
Safsaf was a Palestinian village northwest of Safed. On October 29, 1948, it was occupied by the Israeli army. After the villagers surrendered, the soldiers performed a massacre, shooting more than fifty bound villagers and throwing their bodies into a pit. Young women were raped and killed, including a 14 years old girl. The story of the massacre in Safsaf is recognized not only by Palestinian historians but also by Israeli sources. The Israeli army held an internal investigation but its results are still a state secret.
Dareen's grandmother was 16 years old at the time of the occupation and was already married to a man from Al-Jesh, a nearby village. At the day of the occupation she was in Safsaf and witnessed the horrors of the massacre. She told Dareen how, before the mass shooting, when the soldiers were instructing people to gather in the middle of the village, she saw how they found two young women and a young men hiding in a cave. They shoot the three of them dead before her terrified eyes.
Most of the people of Safsaf, including the grandmother's brothers and sisters, ended up as refugees in Lebanon and Syria, thrown into an ordeal of statelessness and suffering to which, after 70 years, there is still no end in sight. The grandmother joined her husband in Al-Jesh and stayed there, where Tatour's mother was later born. Most of the people from Al-Jesh, after hearing about the massacre in Safsaf, also fled, so more relatives, also from the grandfather's family, became refugees. Some of them, as a result of Israeli and/or Arab massacres in the Palestinian refugee camps, later found refuge in different European countries, but most of them are still in Syria and Lebanon.
Tatour never met her grandfather, who died when her mother was still a girl. But she is proud of what she heard about him from her grandmother. He was a revolutionary and took part in the organization of the great Palestinian general strike against the British occupation and against the Zionist colonization of Palestine, back in 1936. Later he took part in the revolution that lasted from 1936 till 1939, until it was bloodily repressed by the British army.
She felt very close to her grandmother, who was telling her about life in the lost paradise in Safsaf, as well as about the Nakba and the fate of the refugees. From here came her urge to write down the stories, to photograph whatever was left from people, memories and homes, and to devote her life to the Palestinian struggle for restoring lost rights.
Photographing, Oral History and Activism
Just as she finished high school, Tatour started documenting Palestinian life before the Nakba, interviewing old people, filming on video and writing down stories. She started by interviewing her own grandmother, but soon widened her effort and started looking for displaced people from any of the more than 500 villages and towns that were destroyed by Israel in 1948. She would accompany them to their destroyed villages, or go there herself to take pictures.
She published some of her documentary evidence in the "Palestine Remembered" site, as well as her own Youtube channel, Facebook, a blog and a dedicated site she established for this purpose, "ynbu3.com" (yanbu'a in Arabic means "water spring"). During her detention and later house arrest, prevented from any access to the internet, she lost contact with the service providers of the ynbu3 site and now the site is not accessible. She is afraid that the precious materials in it might have been lost, as well as many documentary evidence that she kept on her computer that was confiscated by the police.
In 1995, a few years before Tatour began her documentation effort, representatives from groups of displaced Palestinians from different towns and villages united to form "the national committee for the defense of the rights of the internally displaced Palestinians in Israel". In 1998, on the 50th anniversary of the Nakba, they started the new tradition of "The Annual March of Return". In the year 2000 the national committee established itself as an officially registered association.
Dareen organizing a visit to a destroyed Palestinian village – and taking videos
The activist of the internally displaced association discovered Tatour's documentary efforts in Palestine Remembered and invited her to take part in a "guides' course" that they held in order to expand their activities. Tatour joined the association and found another platform for her effort to perpetuate Palestinian memories. She combined the guidance of groups of visitors to the destroyed villages with documentary work – bringing old refugees to tell their memories to the visitors – and taking videos with their stories.
As the March of Return events evolved to draw tens of thousands participants, they now also include tents with special exhibitions. In the last marches before her arrest Tatour maintained her own tent, with an exhibition of more than 500 photos from the destroyed villages and towns, under the title "tell me about my village".
She gave new dimension to the struggle to save the memories by using the Ynbu3 site to build connections between the internally displaced and refugees beyond the borders. Each side gave what the other missed. The people that stayed in Palestine could visit the sites of destroyed villages and send pictures. Refugees were contacting the site to request from local activists to find what remained of their houses or to send photos of the locations of endeared memories. The people in the refugee camps conveyed a treasure of precious memories and Tatour interviewed them by Skype and wrote their stories. She also helped to coordinate visits of refugees that now hold European passports to their destroyed villages. She produced three films about such "return visits" to the villages of Al-Damun, Al-Birweh and Tirat Haifa.
Wounded in Saffuriyya
While I was looking in Tatour Facebook page, which she is not allowed to do but everybody else can, I found her image lying in a hospital bed, visited by Knesset Member Jamal Zakhalka. She told me how she was wounded during the 2008 March of Return.
It was the 60th anniversary of the Nakba. On that year there was a surge of right-extremists' and settlers' incitement against the March of Return, which was held on the lands of the destroyed town of Saffuriyya, northwest of Nazareth. There was a very big Palestinian presence, with many families bringing kids of all ages to take part in the educational event. As the marchers were returning from the site of the gathering toward the parking, the police allowed a group of settlers to come close and throw stones at them. As some Palestinian youth tried to confront the settlers, a big police force, including special mass-oppression ("anti-riot") units, some of them mounted on mighty horses, attacked the whole Palestinian public with tear gas, shock grenades and batons. The police weapons caused a wild fire in the dry vegetation, which put the participants in extra danger.
Dareen in hospital – after being injured in Saffuriyya in the March of Return in 2008
There was havoc. Many people that didn't expect such violence were confused and tried run away in all directions. Children were crying and many people lost contact with their relatives or friends. Tatour, armed with her professional camera, tried to stay calm and document the events. She still remembers the scenes of policemen beating whoever they could catch, sometimes stumping with their boots on their victims. She also vividly describes how people were wounded when the mounted police rode their horses into the crowd.
Suddenly she saw three children that lost contact with their parents and were stuck between two lines of the police, not knowing where to hide. She stopped filming and went there to help them. She succeeded to guide the children out of danger, but was caught herself between the police lines, and became direct target for their fury. Officially gas canisters and shock grenades should be shot in the air, but she remembers how the policemen were shooting them directly at her from close range.
She especially remembers one direct hit at her leg, and another shock grenade that hit her chest. She felt the burning heat of the iron and the force of the blow left her unable to breath. She fell on the ground. She remembers herself calling for help before she fainted and was evacuated by an ambulance to a hospital in Nazareth. She was hospitalized for one day before her situation stabilized.
Exactly 10 years later, on Friday, April 20, some twenty thousand Palestinians attended the 21st March of Return on the site of the destroyed village of Atlit, just south of Haifa. It was the third march in a row that Tatour missed due to her house arrest. Some Israeli politicians and Facebook racist activists demanded to abolish the march and threatened havoc if it will take place. They didn't show up. I just hoped that on the next year Tatour will be marching with us again.


The administration of public safety policy has a tremendous impact on quality of life. It requires ethical selection and professional development of personnel, strong leadership skills and core competencies critical for serving 21st century communities. Mastering these competencies requires an honest evaluation of the recruitment, mentoring and training procedures that produce organizational synergy capable of delivering a unified policing mission and purpose.
Among those objectives are issues related to generational variations, cultural values, diversity, collaboration, transparency and intellectual professionalism to equitably exercise legal and departmental policies. When selecting and managing an assortment of internal stakeholder values, a premium should be placed on reflecting the external, community-oriented values that comprise and complete the stakeholder set.
In the field of criminal justice, social inequalities are greatly impacted by public safety policy and issues related to fairness, equal justice and social equity for the individuals and communities served by the justice system. Absent a representative spectrum of interest and values within organizations can lead to civil angst, harmful divisions between communities and governance entities and a general reduction in the overall health of local life.
Public trust and a sense of equality before the law is a critically binding asset of the social fabric in democratic cultures. Public safety administrators impact the way these social inequalities are managed and resolved, starting with their own organizational vision and perspective which influences employee selection and development. The stewardship of public safety in the 21st century requires leadership that understands how to include and manage persons of diverse backgrounds and value sets in a collaborative effort that builds mutual trust. This includes a transcendent understanding of group dynamics, individual needs and conflicting perceptions.
Philosophically, the collaborative paradigm requires cultural exploration and varying perspectives. Law enforcement management, in particular, requires a keen proficiency for seeking out, integrating and reconciling the various needs of subordinates and stakeholders alike. It is an ethical obligation for creating an environment that fosters healthy debate and interaction between competing or conflicting value sets to determine the one inclusive path forward upon which all can prosper.
To effectively meet and resolve these challenges, a good leader must endeavor to match need and skill sets where they are best leveraged to align community and individuals needs with organizational goals. This means working with people and through them –never exploiting them.
Outreach and inclusion are two basic methods of reducing bias, disparity and inequality in the justice system. Likewise, they are also a means of effectively and productively managing and reconciling internal issues such as generational divides over traditional enforcement models or the application of technological advances (like body cameras) while simultaneously maintaining respect for privacy concerns. Failure to properly predict and address such problems may lead to internal and/or external resentment, fear, confusion or anger between the community and the justice professionals who serve them.
We must continue to maximize any opportunity to engage employees in genuine and sincere diversity and conflict resolution training. More importantly, we should make sure that we never shy away from real-world opportunities to engage in diversity or conflict resolution, growing these particular skill sets through continual exposure to the unique concerns and needs of every individual and employee. Asking people what they need and how they are doing, as a fundamental duty of management, will help keep any leader well-informed. Making oneself accessible to subordinates and stakeholders fosters openness and communicates a collaborative sense of concern, security and inclusion that will help to maximize the values of diversity and human capital in public safety endeavors.
The collaborative philosophy of community-oriented policing avoids the public policy pitfalls and public relations missteps that can disenfranchise the most vulnerable elements of society. Therefore, public safety agencies must be led by police executives and managers that support an inclusive approach to leadership, problem-solving and employee/stakeholder empowerment.
Leadership is a process, not a position. It is a process of knowledge and people. Perhaps more specifically, it is knowledge of people that can only be mastered by a constant pursuit of collaborative options and the development of technical skills. It is also requires tremendous focus and a commitment to otherness where public service is involved.
The problems of crime and justice are multi-faceted and involve the perceptions, wants and needs of a variety of stakeholders and myriad interests. Resolving dilemmas in such an environment is a challenging goal, and it must be measured with a practical understanding of the root causes for potential successes and failures. Including the voices of assorted interests and fostering a climate that encourages and supports those voices, is an essential element of management and leadership in increasingly diverse workforces. Indeed, peace and social justice can only be achieved when all of the concerned individuals are sought and included in public policy formulation.
Author: Donal Hardin is a retired policing and corrections professional currently conducting research for his doctorate in Public Policy and Administration. Specializing in public safety ethics, Donal teaches criminal justice courses at various institutions of higher learning. Donal can be reached at [email protected].


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Where does the future come from?
Day by day, small changes are turning our world into that of the future. We don't really notice it, except when our parents are unable to use their new tech widget. Or, god forbid, the power goes out and we are shunted back to the previous millennium. At such times we might find ourselves perplexed by how things worked in the past: twenty years ago, an appointment to meet someone in the city required you to schedule a time and place to meet, and then actually be there at the agreed-upon hour (Californians in particular might find this hard to accept). Without cell phones you'd be stuck in limbo, waiting for someone who might be in traffic for five minutes or tapping their feet at a misunderstood meeting point. Moreover, you'd actually have to plan out how to get there before leaving your home, lest you subject your rendezvous to such a limbo. Reminiscence aside, the point is that as we go about our lives, worrying about mean people and philosophical ideals, the stage for our lives undergoes dramatic changes.
The future indomitably forces itself upon us, but where does it come from? By the end of this century organ donors will no longer be in high demand, and interacting with digital devices will be through voice and gesture more often than by typing. But who makes it so? By whose authority does the real world turn into the imagined (and sometimes the unimaginable)? One answer would be that it 'just happens', that every single person's actions have this tiny incremental effect that somehow adds up to the progress of the world. Leo Tolstoy would condone this belief. In fact, he spent something like six years writing a book on the theme that "great men" are merely figureheads for the spirit of the time. That if Napoleon had died at Arcole another would have taken his place, and would have been forced to make the same decisions as Bonaparte did. It's not easy to refute these claims. But it's also kind of a non-answer, since we can't imagine the "zeitgeist" substantially doing anything except guiding the hands of men. And without insight into how this supposed force works, we are no further along than when we started our inquiry.
Whether particular individuals matter or not, we can still ask: 'what category of people bring about the future?' (be this on behalf of zeitgeist or their own free will). The most common answer seems to be "the people in power", although opinions differ somewhat on whether membership in this oligarchy is dependent on wealth, political office or corporate authority. As I see it, the assumption here is that after achieving a position of sufficient power, your day-to-day decisions are so influential that they shape the path by which we (the world) encounter the future. It's easy to see how one would come to this conclusion: I know that my own future is shaped by my decisions, but it doesn't feel like I have any power over 'The Future of The World'. It's obvious that Warren Buffett's decisions can have broader impact than mine, so perhaps this feeling of impotence doesn't apply to him. Nevertheless, while the people in power certainly have the ability to affect many lives, I would question whether their power isn't acting on the present more so than producing the future? Sure, the two are necessarily related, but I don't know that they're inseparable. If we look back through history, monarchs don't stand out as the people that brought about the future. It would seem that more change came through Gandhi than George V (and that Gandhi's position of power followed rather than preceded this change). Even looking at the present, the idea that the future is produced by those in power seems (at least at times) to be patently untrue…
At least that's what people in Silicon Valley believe. Google wasn't started by powerful people, but few entities seem more synonymous with The Future. You could of course argue that Larry and Sergey had entered the group of "people in power" by the time they brought us the future, that Google as an unmonetized search engine wouldn't have shaped our world to the extent that the company now does. But examples of world-changing technology are endless – the origins of lasers can be traced through a legion of (more or less) humble scientists and engineers, Gould, Townes, all the way back to Einstein, without encountering an all-powerful beneficiary. And it's hard to argue that putting the Encyclopedia Britannica on a 12 cm disc, restoring vision to the (nearly) blind and Steve Aoki concerts are anything but spectacular representations of The Future. To some people, then, the answer to "where does the future come from" is "from the ones that build it". Politicians, venture capitalists and society at large represent circumstances that must be properly navigated while you're making the impossible possible. People like Elon Musk and Ray Kurzweil would obviously fall into this camp (in fact Kurzweil might be called the camp counselor), but so would Francis Bacon and Benjamin Franklin. Part of this view's appeal is that it's tremendously enabling, and these days supporting examples seem to happen rather frequently. At the same time, however, Sergey Brin would probably tell you that building Google would not have been possible in Russia.
On the third hand (we are talking about the future here), we might ask how the builder decides what to build? How could the hands create what the mind can't conceive? With this in mind, perhaps the future really comes from those who extend our concept of the possible. In this case it's not so much made on demand as glimpsed by someone, who then initiates mankind's slow trod towards making it reality. To quote Steve Jobs: "A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them". Of course this visionary could be an entrepreneur, or a president. But it could also be a humble science fiction writer, or a Hungarian doctor. I find it hard to completely rule out any of the three paradigms we've discussed, and this last possibility in particular is utterly impossible to test empirically (until somebody comes up with a way to measure ideas). If pressed for a definite answer to the original question, I might postulate that a true Agent of the Future is inevitably a collaboration between influence, invention and imagination. Though without saying anything about the dynamics between the three, this might not be any more useful than saying 'the zeitgeist did it'.
Perhaps a better way to address the original question is by asking another: Can we somehow measure the fundamental unit of 'Future'? In other words, is it possible to transcend the "I'll know it when I see it" definition that the discussion above is based on? If so then this might be the most plausible way to identify the people producing it. But while we get that sorted out, we can at least be confident that wherever the future comes from, the only way to get there is through tomorrow.
May 3, 2015 Martin Borch Jensen	Entrepreneurship, Influence, Progress, Society	1 Comment
The power you wield – Part 2
I have a fairly big ambition, which will probably come up here sooner or later. But what's relevant is that there's something I want to happen, and to pursue it directly would without a doubt require effort by a lot of people. And I've occasionally caught myself thinking of say Warren Buffett or Eminem, going "Man, if I had that much money/influence, I could really make things happen".
The problem is that I don't really know what would need to happen to achieve my ambition. You know, in a totally brass tacks, David Allen action-item kind of way: if I had a million dollars for this specific purpose, what exactly would I do with them? And as long as I don't have an excellent answer for that, I don't really need to worry about the million dollars.
Of course money would help, in that I could pay other people to think about what to do. But it would be just that, help. Like a carbon road bike lets you go faster, but doesn't do the biking for you. It's tempting to go all Stephen Covey and say that the million dollars aren't within my sphere of influence, but (aside from my being 25 years and eighteen thousand self-improvement books late in making that point) I find the topic is interesting because the million dollars are attainable. As in, if I choose to shift my focus entirely to making money instead of figuring things out, I could make a million dollars. Only I probably couldn't do both at once, and if my ultimate goal was something other than the money itself, I might not be any closer once I had the million dollars. If you don't know what to do, your resources don't matter.
"A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!". So cries Richard the Third, who has more resources than most, but not the thing he really wants. I wonder how often that scenario plays out in our lives? Have you ever cursed your commute even though you spend a good deal of your time merely existing? Coveted a promotion without considering whether you would enjoy the daily work of that position? Wished for the next episode of True Blood to be out even though the last one didn't really blow your mind? If you're lucky you get what you wanted, only to find out that pure bliss (or whatever it is that you really wanted) wasn't part of the benefits package.
So I guess in a sense it is all Stephen Covey, about being effective by doing the thing that matters. About not wishing for things that you don't really need.
This series is about the influence, small or large, that you have over the world. Part 1 talked about invulnerable superheroes, and what we can learn from their limitations.
September 26, 2014 Martin Borch Jensen	Influence, Self-honesty	Leave a comment
For as long as I can remember, my favorite superhero has been The Incredible Hulk.
I guess any control freak would have a repressed desire for 'hulking out'. But more significantly, I'm captivated by his special kind of invulnerability: the more punishment he takes, the angrier he gets. And the angrier he gets, the stronger he gets. Nothing really hurts him, every kind of adversity is a temporary inconvenience until he gets powered up enough to… totally hulk out.
So if you get in the Hulk's way, it doesn't really matter how strong you are. You can beat him down, which will piss him off and make him stronger. Then he'll get back up, and you'll have to do it again. And again, until eventually he gets up and smacks you around. So he always wins, right? Like, he really can't lose, because he doesn't have an Achilles' heel the way Superman (or, well, Achilles) does. Say you trap him in a force field or under a glacier: now he's helpless, which will really piss him off. And eventually he'll flip out and explode the glacier all over the place. So he always wins, right?
No, he doesn't. You don't have to know a lot about comic books to realize that the Marvel universe does not revolve around the Hulk. In fact, only rarely do 'invulnerable' type superheroes (e.g. Colossus or the Juggernaut) have a huge impact on what's going on. Why? Because even though their powers mean that they can never really lose, that doesn't mean that they always win (something that my adolescent self failed to realize). And this explains why comic book writers get away with handing out something that at first glance seems rather imbalanced, even in the realm of superpowers. Sure, if the invulnerable hero is content to merely exist within himself there's nothing anyone can do about it. But as soon as he wants to exert his influence on the world (and what hero doesn't?) he might find that his powers fall short. He's invincible, but other heroes are more effective.
What lessons can we learn from the limitations of invulnerable superheroes? The most obvious is: No matter how much you persevere, you might not get results if you're not doing things the right way. An extension of this, which we may recognize in slightly different real-life scenarios, would be: When something isn't going your way, doing whatever you are already doing harder may not get you anywhere. Finally, on occasion we may need to offer the following to someone who seems invulnerable: It is possible to make no mistakes, and still lose.
This series is about the influence, small or large, that you have over the world. Part 2 talks about whether you need additional resources to reach your goals, or just greater clarity.
August 14, 2014 Martin Borch Jensen	Influence, Perseverance	1 Comment
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One week before the German election, the latest voter poll has put the far-right AfD barely ahead of the other "small parties." But Germany's Green party and the liberal FDP haven't given up in the race for third place.
The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) maintained its slight lead over its "small party" competition, according to the latest poll reported by the German Bild am Sonntag newspaper on Sunday.
The "Sonntagstrend" survey by the polling institute Emnid showed support for the AfD at 11 percent, with the Left party just behind at 10 percent, followed by the business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP) at 9 percent and the Green party at 8 percent.
Should the AfD's double-digit polling numbers hold, the populist party would enter Germany's national parliament for the first time after the September 24 election.
Another poll carried out by the Infratest dimap research institute last Thursday showed the AfD polling at 12 percent, but it should be noted that the margin of error can be up to plus or minus 3 percent.
The Emnid poll also put German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives well ahead of their Social Democratic Party (SPD) rivals and on track to remain the largest party in the Bundestag.
Support for Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), was at 36 percent.
The SPD, under party leader and chancellor candidate Martin Schulz, was polling at 22 percent in the poll.
When asked by pollsters about the success of the AfD, 58 percent said they believed Merkel's policies were partially responsible for the rise of the nationalist party while 34 percent disagreed.
The FDP and the Greens said on Sunday that the battle for third place was hardly over, with the Greens vowing to come out on top behind the CDU and SPD.
At the Greens' party conference in Berlin on Sunday, top candidate Kathrin Göring-Eckardt promised that the party "will land a real surprise coup" in the polls next week.
Across town, FDP leader Christian Lindner begged to differ.
Speaking at the FDP's special party conference, Lindner said the Greens didn't have a chance of taking third place and that his party would need to step up as the main opposition voice should Merkel's CDU form another grand coalition with the SPD.
Lindner emphasized that the opposition shouldn't be led by the AfD, a party he described as having "nationalist-authoritarian" ideals.
The FDP is looking to re-enter the Bundestag after losing all of its seats when it didn't clear the 5 percent hurdle in the 2013 election.
The leaders of both parties did not rule out the option of a so-called "Jamaica coalition" between the Greens, the FDP and the CDU/CSU.


From Orthography to Pedagogy pays tribute to Richard L. Venezky's work and influence on reading, linguistics, and computer science. This book catalogs findings related to speech and language development, reading and spelling's role in infant speech development, and the present and future advances in the study and theory of speech and cognitive development. The editors focus on the role technology could play in development and advancement of literacy speech and reasoning.
*influences of modern technology and multi-media.
Representing a history of study in the field, this book appeals to anyone working in the area of language development, as well as those in related fields such as linguistics and developmental psychology.
Contents: Preface. R.C. Calfee, The Exploration of English Orthography. R-M. Weber, Phonological Variation and Spelling. D.W. Massaro, A. Jesse, The Magic of Reading: Too Many Influences for Quick and Easy Explanations. K. Pence, R.M. Golinkoff, R.J. Brand, K. Hirsh-Pasek, When Actions Can't Speak for Themselves: How Might Infant-Directed Speech and Infant-Directed Action Influence Verb Learning? T. Trabasso, The Role of Causal Reasoning in Understanding Narratives. M.L. Kamil, D. Lane, E. Nicolls, Theory and Practice of Using Information Text for Beginning Reading Instruction. B. Öney, A.Y. Durgunoglu, Research and Theory Informing Instruction in Adult Literacy. J. Sabatini, What Does It Mean to Comprehend or Construct Meaning in Multimedia Environments: Thoughts on Cognitive and Assessment Construct Development. D. Mioduser, From Real Virtuality in Lascaux to Virtual Reality Today: Cognitive Processes With Cognitive Technologies. T. Shanahan, Gaining Perspective Through Science: A History of Research Synthesis in Reading. D.A. Wagner, Literacy and New Technologies: Ten Principles for Assisting the Poor. F.B. Murray, E.M. Stotko, Problematic and Promising Trends in Holding Teacher Education Programs Accountable. D.D. Johnson, B. Johnson, High-Stakes Testing: Literacy by the Numbers. D. Kaplan, X. Uribe-Zarain, Time Is of the Essence: An Overview of Quantitative Methodologies for the Study of Change. A. diPaolo Healey, The Dictionary of Old English: The Next Generation(s).


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Carlos A. Santos-Viola (San Miguel, 8 april 1912 - 31 juli 1994) was een Filipijns architect. Zijn meest bekende ontwerpen zijn de kerken van Iglesia ni Cristo (INC).

Biografie
Carlos Santos-Viola werd geboren op 8 april 1912 in San Miguel in de Filipijnse provincie Bulacan. Hij was een van de zes kinderen van Melecio de Guzman Santos en Miguela Magpitang Antonio. Na het voltooien van zijn middelbareschoolopleiding aan de Ateneo de Manila in 1930 studeerde hij aan de University of Santo Tomas. Daar behaalde Santos-Viola in 1935 zijn bachelor-opleiding architectuur. Tijdens zijn opleiding kreeg hij les van architecten als Tomas Arguelles, Tomas Mapua, Juan Nakpil, Fernando Ocampo en Andres Luna de San Pedro.

Na zijn afstuderen werkte Santos-Viola voor het architectenkantoor van Juan Nakpil. Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog openende hij samen met Alfredo Luz zijn eigen kantoor en vanaf 1955 ging hij alleen verder. Santos-Viola's meeste bekende klant was de Iglesia ni Cristo. De eerste opdracht die hij voor deze kerkgenootschap uitvoerde was het San Juan Bishop's Palace. Later kreeg hij, inmiddels werkend vanuit zijn eigen kantoor, een tweede opdracht voor de kapel van Cubao. Dit werd het begin van een lange relatie tussen het kerkgenootschap en Santos-Viola. Hij ontwierp vele van de kenmerkende (kerk)gebouwen van de INC door het gehele land, waaronder het hoofdkantoor van de INC in Quezon City.

Naast zijn werk als architect doceerde hij van 1949 tot 1981 aan de University of Santo Tomas. Voor zijn werk als architect kreeg hij diverse onderscheidingen. Zo won hij in 1981 een Patnubay ng Sining and Kalinangan Award van de stad Manilla en in 1990 een Gold Medal of Merit van de Philippine Institute of Architects (PIA).

Santos-Viola overleed in 1994 op 82-jarige leeftijd. Hij was getrouwd met Caridad Nakpil, een jongere zus van architect Juan Nakpil. Samen kregen ze vijf kinderen.

Bronnen
 Gerard Rey A. Lico, Awards in Architecture, website National Commission for Culture and the Arts (geraadpleegd op 19 april 2013)
 Carlos A. Viola, www.arkitektura.ph (geraadpleegd op 19 april 2013)

Filipijns architect

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Q: Disprove inequality by induction EDIT: This is the explicit text of the practice problem:
Find out, by induction, whether for $ n \geqslant 1$, it is true that $n^2 - 3n - 1 \leqslant 0$.
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I am learning to use induction. I am asked to prove by induction whether the property $n^2 - 3n - 1 < 0$ holds for all $n\geqslant 1$.
This is obviously false, but I am finding it hard to prove by induction. I am not sure what I am allowed to do.
Base case: P(1) = -3 < 0.
Inductive step:
Assuming the property is true for $n$, prove that it is also true for $n+1$.
$(n+1)^2 - 3(n+1) - 1 < 0$.
$n^2+ 2n + 1 -3n -3 - 1 < 0$
$n^2 -3n - 1 < -2n + 2$
Since, by inductive hypothesis, $n^2 -3n - 1 < 0$, then $0 \leqslant -2n+2$.
(Is it ok to state it like this?)
Can I just plug a 2 in the inequality and end the proof there?
Or do I have to disprove $-2n+2 \geqslant 0$?
I did not know what to do, so I started a new proof by induction.
I tried to disprove that $-2n + 2 \geqslant 0$ for all $n \geqslant 1$.
Base case: $P(1) = 0 \geqslant 0$
Inductive step:  Assuming the property is true for some $n$, prove that is is also true for $n+1$.
$-2(n+1) + 2 \geqslant 0 $
$-2n -2 + 2 = -2n < 0 $ (for all positive integers)
Is there a more straightforward way to disprove the first property?
Even if there is, would it be correct to do it the way I did?

A: you can not prove this by induction, since your inequality is wrong, plug in for example $$n=4$$ this gives $$16-12-1=3>0$$

A: Excercise: For every $n\geq 4$ show that :
$$n^2-3n-1 > 0.$$

Base: $4^2-3 \times 4 -1 = 3 > 0 . \quad \checkmark$
Suppose that the statment holds for $k=n$:
$$n^2-3n-1 > 0;$$
on the otherhand we know that:
$$(2n+1)-3=2n-2 \geq 2 \times 4 -2 =6 > 0;$$
adding both sides togetter we get :
$$\big(n^2+2n+1\big)-\big(3n-3\big)-1 > 0+0 \ \Longrightarrow \ (n+1)^2-3(n+1)-1 > 0;$$
So we have showed the statement for $k=n+1.$

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Q: Jitsi Meet make command not working on Windows I cloned Jitsi Meet repo on Windows but when I try to build with make command it fails (That I installed from  GNUWin32). I tried on ubuntu and it worked so that's strictly a Windows issue.
This is the error when I tried to build.
./node_modules/.bin/webpack -p
'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
make: *** [compile] Error 1

It seems that windows make not recognize the relative path of linux make, so I replaced all the . with a absolute path to the local repo and after it builds some files it stops here.
rm -fr libs
process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, rm -fr libs, ...) failed.
make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.
make: *** [deploy-init] Error 2

What else should I change to make the build work?
BUILD_DIR = build
CLEANCSS = ./node_modules/.bin/cleancss
DEPLOY_DIR = libs
LIBJITSIMEET_DIR = node_modules/lib-jitsi-meet/
LIBFLAC_DIR = node_modules/libflacjs/dist/min/
OLM_DIR = node_modules/olm
RNNOISE_WASM_DIR = node_modules/rnnoise-wasm/dist/
NODE_SASS = ./node_modules/.bin/sass
NPM = npm
OUTPUT_DIR = .
STYLES_BUNDLE = css/all.bundle.css
STYLES_DESTINATION = css/all.css
STYLES_MAIN = css/main.scss
WEBPACK = ./node_modules/.bin/webpack
WEBPACK_DEV_SERVER = ./node_modules/.bin/webpack-dev-server

all: compile deploy clean

compile:
    $(WEBPACK) -p

clean:
    rm -fr $(BUILD_DIR)

.NOTPARALLEL:
deploy: deploy-init deploy-appbundle deploy-rnnoise-binary deploy-lib-jitsi-meet deploy-libflac
deploy-olm deploy-css deploy-local

deploy-init:
    rm -fr $(DEPLOY_DIR)
    mkdir -p $(DEPLOY_DIR)

deploy-appbundle:
    cp \
        $(BUILD_DIR)/app.bundle.min.js \
        $(BUILD_DIR)/app.bundle.min.map \
        $(BUILD_DIR)/do_external_connect.min.js \
        $(BUILD_DIR)/do_external_connect.min.map \
        $(BUILD_DIR)/external_api.min.js \
        $(BUILD_DIR)/external_api.min.map \
        $(BUILD_DIR)/flacEncodeWorker.min.js \
        $(BUILD_DIR)/flacEncodeWorker.min.map \
        $(BUILD_DIR)/device_selection_popup_bundle.min.js \
        $(BUILD_DIR)/device_selection_popup_bundle.min.map \
        $(BUILD_DIR)/dial_in_info_bundle.min.js \
        $(BUILD_DIR)/dial_in_info_bundle.min.map \
        $(BUILD_DIR)/alwaysontop.min.js \
        $(BUILD_DIR)/alwaysontop.min.map \
        $(OUTPUT_DIR)/analytics-ga.js \
        $(BUILD_DIR)/analytics-ga.min.js \
        $(BUILD_DIR)/analytics-ga.min.map \
        $(BUILD_DIR)/video-blur-effect.min.js \
        $(BUILD_DIR)/video-blur-effect.min.map \
        $(BUILD_DIR)/rnnoise-processor.min.js \
        $(BUILD_DIR)/rnnoise-processor.min.map \
        $(BUILD_DIR)/close3.min.js \
        $(BUILD_DIR)/close3.min.map \
        $(DEPLOY_DIR)

deploy-lib-jitsi-meet:
    cp \
        $(LIBJITSIMEET_DIR)/lib-jitsi-meet.min.js \
        $(LIBJITSIMEET_DIR)/lib-jitsi-meet.min.map \
        $(LIBJITSIMEET_DIR)/lib-jitsi-meet.e2ee-worker.js \
        $(LIBJITSIMEET_DIR)/connection_optimization/external_connect.js \
        $(LIBJITSIMEET_DIR)/modules/browser/capabilities.json \
        $(DEPLOY_DIR)

deploy-libflac:
    cp \
        $(LIBFLAC_DIR)/libflac4-1.3.2.min.js \
        $(LIBFLAC_DIR)/libflac4-1.3.2.min.js.mem \
        $(DEPLOY_DIR)

deploy-olm:
    cp \
        $(OLM_DIR)/olm.wasm \
        $(DEPLOY_DIR)

deploy-rnnoise-binary:
    cp \
        $(RNNOISE_WASM_DIR)/rnnoise.wasm \
        $(DEPLOY_DIR)

deploy-css:
    $(NODE_SASS) $(STYLES_MAIN) $(STYLES_BUNDLE) && \
    $(CLEANCSS) --skip-rebase $(STYLES_BUNDLE) > $(STYLES_DESTINATION) ; \
    rm $(STYLES_BUNDLE)

deploy-local:
    ([ ! -x deploy-local.sh ] || ./deploy-local.sh)

.NOTPARALLEL:
dev: deploy-init deploy-css deploy-rnnoise-binary deploy-lib-jitsi-meet deploy-libflac deploy-olm
    $(WEBPACK_DEV_SERVER) --detect-circular-deps

source-package:
    mkdir -p source_package/jitsi-meet/css && \
    cp -r *.js *.html resources/*.txt connection_optimization favicon.ico fonts images libs static
sounds LICENSE lang source_package/jitsi-meet && \
    cp css/all.css source_package/jitsi-meet/css && \
    (cd source_package ; tar cjf ../jitsi-meet.tar.bz2 jitsi-meet) && \
    rm -rf source_package


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Q: How to disable Dexguard? I went through the documentation looking for the way how to disable dexguard when running gradle but keeping  plugin: 'dexguard'.
I tried to modify proguardFile getDefaultDexGuardFile('dexguard-debug.pro') to do nothing but unfortunately no luck. I need to set no dexguard functionality for my functional testing suit MonkeyTalk which cannot instrument the apk now.
How to turn the dexguard functionality off?

A: Update from zatziky's answer for current Android Gradle Plugin (v1.0+) and Dexguard Plugin (6.1.+)
To create a dexguard plugin switch you may do the following
In your root build.gradle add a property to your ext (or create it if not done yet, see here why you would do that)
ext {
    enableDexGuardPlugin = false
    ....
}

In your app build.gradle add the plugin like this:
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
if(rootProject.ext.enableDexGuardPlugin) {
    apply plugin: 'dexguard'
}

and if you have library projects do it like this
apply plugin: 'com.android.library'
if(rootProject.ext.enableDexGuardPlugin) {
    apply plugin: 'dexguard'
}

remove all proguard configs from your debug build-types (especially getDefaultDexGuardFile('dexguard-release.pro')) if you dont need them. Unfortunatly at least with lib projects, all buil-types are build even in assembleDebug, so you have to provide a stub for getDefaultDexGuardFile like zatziky said:
private File getDefaultDexGuardFile(String name) { new File(name) }

you may add this to your root build.gradle so every script has it.
Now if you expected huge performance benefits from that you may be disapointed. The key is to disable ALL minifyEnabled on debug builds, since as said before currently gradle android is dumb and builds all build-types (at least with libs). You may use the property above for it: enableDexGuardPlugin
release {
    ...
    minifyEnabled rootProject.ext.enableDexGuardPlugin
    ...
}

A: It is not possible to keep the dexguard plugin on.
This is a workaround that Eric La Fortune send me and it works (Dexguard 6.x):

For disabling DexGuard, you would need to revert to the Android plugin. You could create a separate Gradle builld file. Alternatively, you could pick the preferred plugin with Groovy. E.g. in

build.gradle:
boolean dexguard = ......

apply plugin: dexguard ? 'dexguard' : 'android'

You can also call the utility method getDefaultDexGuardFile in the same way:

runProguard true
proguardFile dexguard ?
getDefaultDexGuardFile('dexguard-release.pro') :
getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt')

You do need to define a dummy version of this method in the build file, in case the standard Android plugin is chosen. It is not called in either case, but it solves the missing method definition for the standard plugin:

private File getDefaultDexGuardFile(String name) { new File(name) }

A: In the recent versions of DexGuard you can disable processing for specific build variants simply by not listing the 'proguardFile' lines.
So for example, to disable it for the debug build:
buildTypes {
    debug {
    }
    release {
        proguardFile getDefaultDexGuardFile('dexguard-release.pro')
        proguardFile 'dexguard-project.txt'
        proguardFile 'proguard-project.txt'
    }
}

Edit - all proguardFiles must be gone for it to work


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I'm aware of the kind of excitement people have around RRR: S.S. Rajamouli
S. S. Rajamouli reacts to the high anticipation that has been built around RRR...
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SS Rajamouli's highly-awaited period action drama 'RRR' revealed its trailer today.
Post ravishing success of Baahubali series, this is Rajamouli's first film and thus the excitement around this one is higher than ever.
The RRR trailer launch was followed by a grand event at Mumbai, and SS Rajamouli has had his say on his upcoming patriotic spectacle.
On seeing the huge excitement and anticipation of the audiences from RRR, Rajamouli opened up on his craft in the film said,
Obviously a lot of people will be expecting the same kind of film after Baahubali. We can't keep bringing the same film again and again. But the trick is, if you look deeply, they're not looking for another Baahubali. They're waiting for the kind of experience they had in the film. The kind of emotion they felt in the film. That's what they want. But, they can't tell you that. They don't have that much of analysation to tell you that. So, they simply say we need another Baahubali. But what they actually want is the same kind of emotions and highs they got in the film.
- S. S. Rajamouli
He further added,
I'm aware of the kind of anticipation the people have. I will be focusing more on the story, the character, the relationship between the characters, and the emotional highs that we get when we watch the characters. The previous assets including posters, songs and trailers will help us bring the audiences to the theatre. The moment they come in to the theatre and watch 2-3 minutes of the film, they'll know what the film is.
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Francisco de Andrade (ur. 15 lipca 1923) – portugalski żeglarz sportowy. Brązowy medalista olimpijski z Helsinek.

Zawody w 1952 były jego jedynymi igrzyskami olimpijskimi. Był trzeci w klasie Star. Płynął wówczas wspólnie z Joaquimen Fiúzą.

Przypisy

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TRIP PLANNER 15 days in Costa Brava Itinerary
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L'Estartit is a small town and seaside resort on the Costa Brava, on the north-eastern coast of Spain.The town is situated between the foothills of the Montgrí Massif and the Mediterranean Sea, and is part of the municipality of Torroella de Montgrí, in the Baix Empordà county, Girona province, autonomous community of Catalonia.L'Estartit stretches North-South from Cala Montgó, at the southern tip of the Bay of Roses (Badía de Roses) to the Ter River estuary in the Bay of Pals (Badía de Pals). Relax by the water at La playa de Tamariu and Platja de l'Estartit. Explore L'Estartit's surroundings by going to Playas de Calella (in Calella de Palafrugell), Begur (Platja Fonda & Plage de Sa Tuna) and Aigua Xelida (in Tamariu). There's lots more to do: enjoy the sand and surf at Playa Sa Riera, stroll through Platja Port Bo, step into the grandiose world of Castell de Begur, and don't miss a visit to Village Medieval de Pals.
For where to stay, other places to visit, reviews, and more tourist information, read our L'Estartit travel itinerary planner.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands to L'Estartit is an approximately 14.5-hour car ride. Prepare for somewhat warmer weather when traveling from Amsterdam in July: high temperatures in L'Estartit hover around 35°C and lows are around 20°C. Wrap up your sightseeing on the 6th (Tue) early enough to drive to Cadaques.
Things to do in L'Estartit
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Begur, Tamariu, Playas de Calella, Platja Port Bo, Village Medieval de Pals
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Cadaques — 5 nights
Cadaqués is a town in the Alt Empordà comarca, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. Visit Cala Rostella and Playa Llane Gran y Petit for some beach relaxation. Get out of town with these interesting Cadaques side-trips: Roses (Ciutadella de Roses & Aquabrava). Spend the 10th (Sat) exploring nature at Cap de Creus National Park. There's lots more to do: get a new perspective on things with Boat Tours & Water Sports, explore the world behind art at Salvador Dali House, join the crowd at Karting Roses, and appreciate the history behind Estatua de Salvador Dali.
For other places to visit, more things to do, where to stay, and tourist information, refer to the Cadaques road trip site.
Traveling by car from L'Estartit to Cadaques takes 1.5 hours. Alternatively, you can take a bus. In July, plan for daily highs up to 34°C, and evening lows to 22°C. Cap off your sightseeing on the 11th (Sun) early enough to go by car to Lloret de Mar.
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Parks · Outdoors · Beaches · Nature
Roses, El Port de la Selva, Salvador Dali House
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Plage Canyelles Petites
Cala Rostella
Lloret de Mar — 6 nights
Lloret de Mar is a Mediterranean coastal town in Catalonia, Spain. Relax by the water at Lloret Beach and Fenals Beach. Explore the numerous day-trip ideas around Lloret de Mar: S'Agaro (Camino de Ronda & San Pol Beach) and Stand-Up Paddleboarding (in Sant Feliu de Guixols). There's still lots to do: steep yourself in history at Vila Vella (Old Town), kick back and relax at Playa Santa Maria de Llorell, admire the natural beauty at Jardi Botanic Marimurtra, and make a splash at Water World Lloret.
To see reviews, other places to visit, where to stay, and other tourist information, go to the Lloret de Mar visit planner.
You can drive from Cadaques to Lloret de Mar in 2 hours. Alternatively, you can take a bus; or do a combination of taxi, train, and bus. In July in Lloret de Mar, expect temperatures between 35°C during the day and 20°C at night. Cap off your sightseeing on the 17th (Sat) early enough to catch the flight back home.
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Parks · Outdoors · Beaches · Theme Parks
Tossa de Mar, Blanes, S'Agaro, Stand-Up Paddleboarding
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Costa Brava, Catalonia's famous "rugged coast," is an interesting mixture of rocky cliffs and picture-perfect sandy beaches. One of the country's three major coastline vacation destinations, Costa Brava has an incredibly diverse marine life and draws considerable tourism for some of the finest scuba diving spots in the country. But its biggest attractions may very well be its inland stone villages and towns, many of which feature well-preserved medieval structures and extremely narrow cobblestone streets. Here, see numerous sites associated with the life and work of Salvador Dalí, the country's renowned surrealist artist.
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Per Scholas is a 22 year-old national nonprofit that provides rigorous and tuition-free technology training and professional development to people who are unemployed or in low-wage jobs. The organization helps people launch successful and life-changing careers in technology, creating on-ramps to businesses that need their talents. The Chubb Charitable Foundation has provided support to Per Scholas' New York City program since 2012, including the piloting of a Network Engineer course in partnership with the local community college; the development and launching of the Software Testing course whose graduates have become employed at Per Scholas' Urban Development Center -- a high-tech outsourcing center in the South Bronx; and in 2016, support was provided to the CodeBridge training program, a program that focuses on graduating new web developers from a 17-week training program that results in graduates entering the workforce with skills that qualify them for middle skill IT positions as web developers. Along with IT job training, Per Scholas provides professional development and job placement services to all their students.


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In recent TV news features and magazine articles, we have learned of the threat from germs and bacteria in health clubs and gyms. Gym cleaning supplies make claims: "disinfects", "sanitizes", "kills germs", and more. But what do these terms really mean? Which is best? What do they have to do with your club?
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ING Source has named Josh Higgins as the new president of the sports and medical compression bracing company. Higgins will run the day-to-day global operations of ING Source and work closely with outgoing president Dave Higgins, who will continue in the role of CEO, as well as with the current management team and staff.
Using Data to Gain a Competitive Advantage
The world of sport has always been a numbers game. In the past, coaches and strength coaches tracked everything manually, filling journals with the number of sit-ups a player did in a workout and how many touches he had on the ball during a game. Today, technology has automated much of that work. To learn more, download this new digital guide.


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Letters to the Editor, Top 5
From our readers: Labor isn't offering voters even a 'small target'
By Pearls and Irritations
By planning to make TAFE free, Labor recognises the need to reskill and upskill Australians. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas)
In letters to the editor this week: Labor's policy vacuum, how Australia is (not) handling climate change, the value of independent political candidates.
Bob McMullan ruffled some feathers this week with his piece arguing that, in fact, the current Labor opposition has a good deal of policy out there. We also received some appreciation for regular Sunday columnist Peter Sainsbury's environment news wrap, and readers' thoughts on the need for more independent members of Parliament.
More policies needed from Labor — Bob McMullan
The small talk about Albanese and small targets is wrong
The one policy area which every thinking person recognises as taking precedence over all others — Australia's responses to climate catastrophe — gets not a mention from Bob McMullan. I realise that Labor has no concern for the views of a "greenie leftie" like me. But it is catastrophic for the nation that the party we all hope will send the Morrison government into political oblivion is not willing to speak honestly to the people of Australia about the looming crises and the plans it has for dealing with them. Does Labor think that after a handsome election victory it will be able to suddenly take the drastic action we need and bring the populace with it? Or does it secretly hope to be "forced" by The Greens, as minority government partners, to "reluctantly" take action while saving face with fossil fuel interests? In just the past week Labor has "welcomed" the massive BHP-Woodside Scarborough LNG joint venture; and has joined with the government to allow $50 million of government money to open up the Beetaloo Basin to fracking. On the "greatest moral challenge of our generation", Labor is not offering voters a small target: sadly, it has no target at all! — Richard Barnes, Canterbury, Victoria
Bob McMullan's article is a feeble apology for an almost irrelevant "Opposition". The most ridiculous point he makes is the one related to our need for a federal ICAC. It is not a complex or difficult issue to deal with. We have a multiplicity of state and territory "templates" to deal with as a guide for the federal Parliament. Labor voters have lost any trust in the bureaucrats and careerists who have white-anted the now neo-liberal Australian Labor Party. — David Bell, Orange, New South Wales
Action is the antidote to fear in climate action — Peter Sainsbury
Sunday environmental round up.
With a government like ours, it's not surprising that Peter Sainsbury is "extremely pessimistic about the world avoiding catastrophic global warming". Stuart Rees agrees and provides a reason. In his thoughtful article Rees wrote: "Public money via subsidies to mining corporations represents official yet usually concealed collusion in lining the pockets of the powerful, so it is no surprise that mining giant Santos sponsored Australia's Glasgow pavilion." Our government is conflicted if not corrupt. Immediately after signing the Glasgow pact, calling on countries to return next year with stronger 2030 targets, Scott Morrison and Angus Taylor reneged saying "Australia's 2030 target is fixed.." Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce even denied agreement saying, "The Nationals did not sign it". After the disastrous COP15 in Copenhagen, James Lovelock who developed the Gaia theory said, "I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle as complex a situation as climate change". While the advances at COP26 may have given Lovelock, now 102, some hope, Australia certainly did not. — Ray Peck, Hawthorn, Victoria
I thank Peter Sainsbury for his "Sunday environmental round up". The use of "round up" in the title prior to describing the perils of BigAg was clever. A little, albeit sarcastic, humour is often appreciated when reading about the appalling and disappointing harms that we humans continue to inflict upon our precious natural environment. I was also grateful to Peter for highlighting that the oceans are protecting us humans. We should all remember and respect the fundamental role that our oceans play in absorbing carbon from the atmosphere. Finally, even though my environmental anxiety was exacerbated by the pictures of Alberta's tar sands, I did value some focus on the solutions to the described problems. Action is the antidote to fear. Knowing that there are available answers to our environmental woes gives rise to opportunities for each of us to find positive ways to be part of the global movement towards a sustainable future. — Amy Hiller, Kew, Victoria
A difficult path for independent candidates – Julian Cribb
Our two-party system is corrupt — vote for decency instead
Julian Cribb expresses eloquently the deep frustration of many with the endemic corruption within our federal politics. This frustration, allied with the admirable contributions that Independents like Helen Haines, Jacquie Lambie, and Andrew Wilkie have made, has inspired a growing movement to support the election of more independent candidates in 2022. This hope of joining hands with many more like-minded electors to elect politicians with their own minds to represent their communities' priorities is admirable, but it may well be dashed by the system these independents are trying to break. Independent candidates can expect ruthless resistance from the major parties they are campaigning against. They must expect those parties to be supported to the hilt by their vested interests, who will surely be prepared to contribute very substantial donations to maintain the current system which brings them so many benefits. Donations made between now and the election will not be declared until February 2023, long after the election is over. The Independents movement will need to be very strong, determined, and well-resourced if decency is to gain the ascendancy in this election. — Christopher John Young, Surrey Hills, Victoria


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Items Henry R. Bishop
Henry R. Bishop
Wageman, Thomas Charles, approximately 1787-1863
Gould (fl. 1823)
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Joseph Muller collection of music and other portraits
Sir Henry Rowley Bishop
Wageman, Thomas Charles, approximately 1787-1863 (Artist)
Gould (fl. 1823) (Engraver)
Date Created: 1600 - 1900 (Approximate)
Shelf locator: Muller Collection (Bishop, Henry Rowley, Sir #2)
Bishop, Henry R. (Henry Rowley), Sir, 1786-1855
Content: "Drawn & engraved for the Monthly Magazine of Music, Jany. 1st, 1823"
Stipple engravings
Barcode: 33433017230297
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 0d6ef7d0-c59a-012f-0adc-58d385a7bc34
1600: Created (Approximate)
1787: Creator Born
1863: Creator Died
Music Division, The New York Public Library. "Henry R. Bishop" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1600 - 1900. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-7f03-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Music Division, The New York Public Library. "Henry R. Bishop" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 21, 2022. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-7f03-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Music Division, The New York Public Library. (1600 - 1900). Henry R. Bishop Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-7f03-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
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We've seen a flurry of additional candidate filings for Texas State Board of Education races over the last few days. We don't yet have announcements or campaign websites for all of these candidates, but we wanted to list their names here. We have included other candidates who filed earlier but for whom we also don't yet have formal announcements. You can find posts about those other SBOE candidates here.
The candidate filing period ends on Monday.


A collection of ten essays on writing by the great Margot Livesey is a book to be savored, to be read again and again. A thoughtful reader as well as writer, Livesey's essays are full of terrific ways in which to become better at both disciplines. Every claim that she makes about writing is based on examples from classic texts—Austen, James, Woolf, Shakespeare, to name but a few—and she takes the time to explain how each excerpt works towards the point that she is making. Reading this book is akin to taking a class that combines literature and writing.
There are essays here on dialogue; on homage; on research; on the intersection between life and writing. Livesey's style is conversational and yet weighty. She uses her own experience as a writer—with humility and humor—to show us both her successes and her failures. The essay on homage speaks to literary texts but also uses visual art—with examples—to explain the process of speaking or responding to another artist.


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Chris Jericho Says Hiroshi Tanahashi Can "Bridge The Rift" Between AEW - NJPW At Wrestle Kingdom 14
By Joshua Gagnon | January 04, 2020
Chris Jericho will face Hiroshi Tanahashi on Night 2 of Wrestle Kingdom 14 at the Tokyo Dome. While this match is a non-title bout, if Tanahashi is victorious, he'll receive a rematch for Jericho's AEW World Championship.
In the video above, last night Jericho filmed a message to his upcoming opponent.
"The match everybody is talking about in Japan and across the entire wrestling world, especially in the United States is Jericho vs. Tanahashi. "The Ace" vs. "The Painmaker." The hero of New Japan Pro Wrestling. Here's your chance, Tana. If you can beat me at the Tokyo Dome at Wrestle Kingdom: Night 2. You will be granted a title shot for the AEW Championship. You're gonna get a chance to open the forbidden door.
"You'll get a chance to possibly bridge the rift between the two biggest companies in the world today. From a fan standpoint, the two companies with the most goodwill among hardcore fans, and you, Tana, could be the one to bring those worlds together. All you gotta do is beat Chris Jericho in the Tokyo Dome. ... You got a chance to be the second-ever AEW Champion. You think you can do it? I don't think so. But the world does and all the questions will be answered at the Tokyo Dome."
Be sure to join Wrestling Inc. for complete live coverage (Night 2 card here), beginning tonight at 12 am ET (9 pm ET for those on the West Coast). We will also have WINC Podcast right after the show ends.
You can check out Night 1 results here.
NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14 Night 2 Final Card, Live Coverage Reminder
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Lady Susan Hussey beams alongside King Charles as she attends Sandringham church service
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January 26 – On this day: 52 years since the Industrial Relations Bill row
The magic Quick Fix 'pen' that can sharpen your eyeliner, remove mascara smudges and lipstick bleeds
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We also reported that cult leader Charles Manson and three of his girl followers had been found guilty of the murders of actress Sharon Tate, 26, and six others on a two-day killing spree in Los Angeles in August 1969. Manson died in prison in November 2017.
71 years ago (1952) Egypt's King Farouk declared martial law amid a wave of anti-British riots in Cairo. Some 750 British-owned businesses were burned and looted.
Farouk was deposed in a coup in 1954 while the last British officials left the country in 1956 following the Suez Crisis.
25 years ago (1998) Speaking at a White House news conference, President Clinton denied an affair with intern Monica Lewinsky and rejected accusations that he asked her to lie about their relationship under oath.
But he admitted the affair in a speech to the Grand Jury the following August.
Andrew facing more embarrassment as accuser could release book on King's coronation
Care workers in UK earn below the minimum wage as 165,000 posts are vacant, report says


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Q: Group with exactly two subgroups of index 2
I am looking for a group $G$ such that $G$ has exactly two subgroups of index 2.

I have searched by GAP but I couldn't find it.

A: Such a group does not exist. Suppose the group $G$ has subgroups $N \ne M$ of index two. Clearly they are both normal, and $M N = G$. Then
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So $G / M \cap N$ is a group of order $4$, which is isomorphic to the Klein four-group $V$, as $a^{2} \in M \cap N$ for each $a \in G$.
Since $V$ has three subgroups of index $2$, $G$ has at least three such subgroups, by the correspondence theorem.

A: There is a very nice result proved by R.R. Crawford and K.D. Wallace, On the number of subgroups of index 2 - an application of Goursat's Theorem for groups, Math. Magazine, 48, no. 3 (1975). Let $I_2(G)=\#\{H \lt G: |G:H|=2\}$.
Theorem Let $n$ be a non-negative integer. Then there exists a group $G$ with $I_2(G)=n$ if and only if $n=2^k-1$ for some non-negative integer $k$.
The theorem can be generalized as follows. Let $p$ be a prime and $N_p(G)=\#\{H \lhd G: |G:H|=p\}$.
Theorem Let $n$ be a non-negative integer. Then there exists a group $G$ with $N_p(G)=n$ if and only if $n=\frac{p^k-1}{p-1}$ for some non-negative integer $k$.

A: $G=S_3\times S_3$ would work. The subgroups of index two being $\mathbb{Z}_3\times S_3$ and $S_3\times\mathbb{Z}_3$.
Edit: Removed last sentence due to an error pointed out by Tobias Kildetoft.
Edit: $G$ is not an example of such a group as Andreas Caranti points out.


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Lacassine Industrial Rail Terminal could bring up to 200 jobs to Jeff Davis parish
By Ashley Joseph
Updated: Oct. 12, 2018 at 6:56 PM CDT
LACASSINE, LA (KPLC) - It's not quite finished yet, but a new state-of-the-art Industrial Park in Lacassine is hoping to bring some big business into Jeff Davis Parish.
As development continues, officials say it's sure to have a great impact in the parish—especially for the farmers.
Marion Fox, president of the Jeff Davis Parish Economic Development & Chamber of Commerce, says that progress on the facility is moving at warp speed.
"We started working to make lemonade out of lemons and this is what has come to fruition," said Fox.
The park, operated by private investor Rail Logix, will be able to accommodate 800 rail cars (expandable to 2,300+) with more than 450 rail car spots of interchange track.
Fox says it's something this region currently does not have, but definitely needs.
Located on Jointly Operated UP/BNSF Mainline with Local Interchange to KCS via UP
Strategically Positioned at the Mid-Point of Houston and New Orleans Gateways
Direct Access to Heavy-Haul Corridors Connected to the Port of Lake Charles and the Local Petrochemical Complex, via I-10 and Hwy 90
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"The more cars you can put in a train, the better price break," she said, "So, our goal is to provide unit train access to the rail facilities so that we can ship the rice or other commodities direct to Mexico."
The rail park, located strategically at the midpoint of Houston and New Orleans gateways, is going to give rural farmers a quicker and easier way to export their crops.
"Our job is to provide new markets for our farmers. We don't want to lose our way of life here; we want to keep our way of life here and add on and that's why this park is so vital to Jeff Davis Parish," Fox said.
Job creation is also a major focal point with the rail park with the possible introduction of more than 50 to 150 news jobs to the parish.
Ultimately in the long run, it will help those rural farmers with their contributions to the surrounding areas.
The Laccasine Industrial Park is scheduled to be fully operational in the first quarter of 2019.