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Unleashed: America Must Pummel ISIS
March 21, 2015 Topic: Security
Despite Obama's reluctance, the American people agree that ISIS must be destroyed.
by Colin Dueck Roger Zakheim
More than a year since engaging in hostilities against ISIS, President Obama formally requested authorization from Congress to use force against the Islamic State. Consequently, Congress is now debating the great issue of whether to authorize America's use of force against the ISIS terror state. As Republicans in Congress consider an authorization, they should first evaluate whether the proposed authority is tailored to facilitate victory and accomplish the Commander-in-Chief's explicit strategic objective: to defeat ISIS.
The President's declared position is that this use of force should be limited by law to three years maximum, including the specious limitation of no "enduring offensive ground combat operations."
Congressional Republicans agree that ISIS is an atrocity, and that Obama's handling of it has been inadequate, but they do not entirely agree on what to do about it. There are two main groups. GOP national security hawks—a group that includes most congressional Republicans when it comes to ISIS—suggest the proposed use of force is too restricting. GOP non-interventionists, like Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), suggest it is not restrictive enough.
This debate also takes place within the context of some dramatic shifts in popular opinion regarding U.S. foreign policy over the last few months.
For much of the Obama era, the American public has been quite skeptical of arguments for military intervention, especially on the ground. President Obama both encouraged that trend and responded to it.
The rise of ISIS, together with its demonstrated brutality, have triggered a sea-change in American popular attitudes, at least on this particular issue. One Quinnipiac poll from March 4 found that 62 percent of all Americans now support the use of U.S. ground troops versus ISIS, as against only 30 percent who oppose. So a two-to-one majority of U.S. public opinion today supports not only the use of force, but the use of American ground troops against the Islamic State. The majorities supporting U.S. airstrikes are even more overwhelming.
One suspects that President Obama, his core supporters, and many of his inner circle find this fierce and unexpected response from the U.S. public toward ISIS rather terrifying. Isn't this the sort of characteristically American, "cowboy" foreign policy reaction Obama was elected to suppress?
Well, yes—and he's doing his best to suppress it. That's what the restrictions on the proposed use of force authorization are supposed to do.
Obama says that his goal is to "degrade, and ultimately destroy ISIS," because Americans insist that he say so. But as so often internationally, his actions have hardly matched his words. As former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates made clear, the policy tools Obama has so far authorized against ISIS in no way match the goal of that group's destruction.
There has been a limited U.S. campaign against ISIS for several months now. It has helped to blunt the group's advance. But in terms of seriously rolling back or destroying ISIS, realistically there is no such prospect on the horizon given current U.S. policies. A key U.S. ally, Jordan, in particular is in grave danger.
Most congressional Republicans would like to see U.S. efforts against ISIS escalated, so that the terror state is rolled back rather than simply contained. And they are honest enough to admit this will require more U.S. troops on the ground.
Obama has actually already placed over 2,000 American troops on the ground since this crisis began last year, including Special Operations troops, to help train and advise Iraqi government forces in their fight against ISIS.
But judging by his actions, the fixed point in Obama's thinking is not so much the destruction of ISIS, as the avoidance of another American ground war in the region. And in fact he says as much. He wants to be given credit for believing in the long-term destruction of ISIS. He wants to avoid another ground war, and he wants credit for that too, especially with his political base. He wants congressional Republican approval for whatever language he puts forward. Yet, he simultaneously wants to be able to accuse those same Republicans of favoring the dreaded "boots on the ground"—even though there are already U.S. boots on the ground in Iraq by his own orders.
In other words the president's main objection to robust Republican criticism of his proposed use of force is, in effect, that such criticism is insufficiently disingenuous, as well as politically inconvenient for him.
Not exactly Abraham Lincoln.
But how should Republicans respond? What would an effective American strategy against ISIS look like?
A proper U.S. strategy would start by recognizing the nature of the enemy. By its own description, ISIS looks to recreate an Islamic caliphate commanding the loyalties of Sunni Muslims everywhere. It has an apocalyptic mindset. It looks to expand and erase postcolonial boundaries throughout the region. To an even greater extent than Al Qaeda, ISIS operates on sheer sadism and intimidation. For many of its foreign recruits, sadism is part of the appeal.
ISIS is a terror state, rather than simply a group of terrorists, because it has already taken on many of the qualities of a state. It fields a well-armed, fervent, and well-organized army, collects vast revenues, and occupies an expanse of territory larger than England. In a way, these qualities make ISIS more of a threat than Al Qaeda ever was. At the same time, they leave ISIS with certain vulnerabilities. If territory can be occupied, it can also be taken away. And an army can be defeated in battle.
ISIS cannot be contained, because as its leaders and followers have made very clear, they aim at continuing violent attacks on the citizens of the United States and its allies. The containment of the USSR worked only insofar as Soviet leaders wished to preserve nuclear-armed peace with the United States. ISIS has no interest in any such peace. It will attack until it is destroyed.
An effective U.S. strategy would therefore not only verbalize the destruction of ISIS as a fitting end goal, as Obama has, but implement that goal with some seriousness—and this Obama has not done.
The concern of many is that a U.S.-backed ground war against it, is precisely what ISIS wants—that these sickening videos of beheadings, for example, are deliberately intended to provoke Americans into a ground campaign that then becomes another "bleeding war" by violent jihadists against U.S. forces in the region. Skeptics of intervention against ISIS, including the president, further suggest this will be yet another mistake America—and specifically, Republicans—made in Iraq during 2003.
This is certainly a legitimate concern, but the answer to it is the following. Of course ISIS hopes to defeat the U.S., by whatever tactic it can imagine. But ISIS may get more than it bargained for. The lesson of Iraq 2003 is not that the U.S. must avoid overseas interventions regardless of circumstance. Rather, the proper lesson is that having undertaken a military campaign, as a matter of life and death, it is absolutely incumbent to get it right. Prudence in such matters requires taking great care before intervening, but then doing so, once settled, with full capability, competence, decision and determination. Since Obama incorrectly believes prudence and whole-heartedness to be incompatible in military affairs, he does not understand this simple truth, and probably never will.
In one international crisis after another, Obama operates on the premise that if only the U.S. holds back from robust action, others will step up to fill the gap and promote American interests. After six years of experimentation, we have learned the untruth of this assumption. Iraq's Sunni Arabs do not yearn to be ruled by ISIS. They do however fear ISIS, and they cannot stand up to ISIS without some outside material support. Sunni Arab forces from outside Iraq can and should provide that support. But again, U.S. allies in the region are not impressed when the White House talks yet refuses to get skin in the game. Local populations will rally only if ISIS is physically defeated. And one indispensible actor in ensuring that defeat is the United States of America. This is not simply a matter of regional interests. It's a matter of U.S. interests, because ISIS threatens and kills Americans, as well as threatening regional stability.
A whole-hearted and genuinely prudent campaign against ISIS is not impossible. Thoughtful non-partisan experts in strategy such as Steven Metz of the U.S. Army War College have suggested the United States could participate in a punitive ground expedition against ISIS, not to be tied down in endless nation-building, but to batter ISIS and then withdraw major American combat units.
Obviously this would require extremely careful thought as to what follows any subsequent U.S. drawdown. The outcome of U.S.-backed intervention cannot be simply to empower Shia militias, allied as they are to Iran and hated by Sunni Arabs. Nor is it likely that Iraq is suddenly about to become a flourishing, peaceful, multi-ethnic democracy. We should make no such promises. But from an American point of view, the chief purpose of a U.S.-backed ground campaign would be to push ISIS back from holding vast amounts of territory in the heart of the Middle East that today function as a safe haven for terrorist attacks on the United States and its allies.


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Q: Capitalizing letters in C using ascii I'm just beginning in C and I'm having a hard time with a segmentation fault in my code(which is pretty simple btw).
The goal of the exercice is to capitalize each letter in a string.
Could someone please help me out ?
here is the assignment: "Write a function that puts every letter of every word in it in uppercase" (we've got to do it manually without using other libraries methods).
here is the error message: "[1]    14328 segmentation fault (core dumped)  ./a.out"
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>

char *my_strupcase(char *str) {

    int index = 0;

    for (index = 0; str[index] != '\0'; index++) {
        if ((str[index] >= 'a' && str[index] <= 'z') || (str[index] >= 'A' && str[index] <= 'Z')) {
            str[index] = (str[index] - 32);
            printf("%c \n", str[index]);
        }
    }

    return str;
}

int main() {
    my_strupcase("salut");
    return (0);
}

A: This is a corrected version with comments:
#include <stdio.h>
                                                        // you don't need unistd.h
char *my_strupcase(char *str) {
    for (int index = 0; str[index] != '\0'; index++) {  // declare index here
                                                        // as it's not used anywhere else
        if ((str[index] >= 'a' && str[index] <= 'z') {  // only process a-z
            str[index] = str[index] - ('a' - 'A');      // 'a' - 'A' is more clear then 32
            printf("%c \n", str[index]);
        }
    }

    return str;
}

int main() {
    char mytext[] = "salut HELLO 123";   // here mytext is an array of char
    my_strupcase(mytext);                // that can be modified.
    puts(mytext);
    return (0);
}

Output should be:

SALUT HELLO 123

Your program segfaults because you try to modify a string literal; this is undefined behaviour and results in a program crash on many platforms. You can find more detailed information about this in following SO article.
Be aware that capitalisation should normally be done using standard functions such as toupper.

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Music, arts proponents renew push in land use code for creative spaces
Monday, August 9, 2021 by Chad Swiatecki
Music and creative proponents are renewing a push to change the city land use code to make it easier for live music venues and other creative spaces to open throughout the city.
The Music Commission voted unanimously last Monday in support of a draft letter from a working group made up of members of the arts and music commissions, asking City Council and the mayor to push city staff to include considerations for those spaces in an update to the code that is expected this fall.
The letter writers want the new Land Development Code to designate music venues and creative spaces as separate uses from bars and nightclubs, which require special planning and zoning approvals to open in spaces outside of downtown. The letter also asks that a section of the code be dedicated to "diversify, sustain and cultivate art, music and culture," creating a placeholder for more detailed language that could be finalized at a later date.
Distinguishing live music venues and performance spaces such as theaters from bars and nightclubs is an important consideration for giving those businesses more opportunities to operate around the city while still observing the city's noise ordinance and other quality-of-life regulations.
The Imagine Austin comprehensive plan for future land use specifies entertainment districts located in neighborhoods throughout the city as a priority. Stakeholders for those businesses argue that the combination of rising rents for commercial properties downtown and the extensive planning and zoning requirements for bars and nightclubs make the proposed changes to the land use code necessary to open arts venues elsewhere.
"This separates music venues from nightclubs and bars … to make it easier in theory to have a live music venue when you have districts that may make it not OK to have bars located there, open up at a lower cost and offer more diversified ownership opportunities spread around the city," Commissioner Graham Reynolds said. "Right now more bars and these creative spaces are concentrated downtown in very specific places and we're trying, without imposing on the peace and quiet of neighborhoods, to make venues more accessible to a geographically wider segment of the city."
The latest push to reduce the approvals and regulations on music- and arts-focused venues began as part of the CodeNEXT process that kicked off in early 2017, but was eventually abandoned by City Council in 2018 due to conflicting priorities and unhappiness with the draft document.
Mayor Steve Adler and Council members have since moved to update the Land Development Code in pieces and sections rather than as one comprehensive document. The working group's letter is an attempt to ensure that creative spaces are not left out of the piecemeal approach.
"It's nice to see the (music venue) definition snake its way through a couple of years and continue to resurface," Commissioner Stuart Sullivan said. "It seems like on one side we're looking at making it easier for venues and on the other side I almost see it as trying to get this kind of use codified in the city as an institution, as a right in the way that clean water is."
Reynolds said the language will also make it easier for the city to incentivize creative spaces as a community benefit in developments around the city. The music venue definition that specifies desired business practices relating to music will help ensure that those spaces do their part to promote creative culture.
"If we incentivize supporting diverse live music, we can't have business owners that take advantage of those incentives and benefits by throwing a musician in the corner and not really treating them well, paying them well, and still saying, we're a music venue."
Photo made available through a Creative Commons license.
Posted In: Land Development Code
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Chad Swiatecki is a 20-year journalist who relocated to Austin from his home state of Michigan in 2008. He most enjoys covering the intersection of arts, business and local/state politics. He has written for Rolling Stone, Spin, New York Daily News, Texas Monthly, Austin American-Statesman and many other regional and national outlets.
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Austin Music Commission: The Austin Music Commission guides city practices on music development issues, including the SxSW music festival.
City of Austin Land Development Code: The city's Land Development Code regulates building and development in the city of Austin. As part of the Imagine Austin Comprehensive Plan, the code is currently undergoing a rewrite in what is called the "CodeNEXT." That process is expected to be completed in 2016.

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Very nice suggestions for coloring icing. For those wanting to improve their diet, may I suggest visiting the Feingold website at http://www.feingold.org – their materials make it more possible and certainly more pleasant to remove the worst of the additives without having to completely change your lifestyle.


On April 12, the University of Iowa will enact a five-month moratorium on campus projects in an effort to defer cash spending. The deferral is necessary because the UI must close the funding gap caused by the newly announced late-in-the-year state funding cut of $5.49 million. Ongoing efforts to address these continuous state cuts while maintaining student and research excellence have impacted the care and modernization of our more than 250 buildings. Unfortunately, as this trend of generational disinvestment continues, the university's options are becoming increasingly limited.
The moratorium will suspend all campus physical care and improvement projects until Sept. 12, 2018. At that time, the university will evaluate levels of state support to determine if the moratorium must continue. However, the current and pressing need to account for the fourth-quarter cut to the approved university budget forces this action.
Based on the number of UI projects currently in the design phase, the five-month moratorium will defer an estimated $5.5 million in general education fund cash flow. While this addresses the shortfall created this fiscal year, it does not address the shortfall created in FY19.
Additionally, in response to the generational disinvestment, in FY19 the university will need to advance cuts to centers and institutes in order to proactively address the ongoing reduction from the state. These additional cuts will protect the core educational, research, and scholarship mission of the university but will impact programs that were created because of previous state support.
Historically, with state support, the university created programs that provided positive impact across our state, region, and nation. Given the ongoing generational disinvestment from the state, these programs must now be reevaluated in order to determine the long-term feasibility of maintaining them without that support. Administration, in conjunction with academic leadership and shared governance, will determine the future of these centers and institutes within the university's new budget allocation model.
The project moratorium could have numerous consequences. The condition of facilities may suffer, and repairs may become more expensive in the future. Savings in FY18 may translate to higher subsequent costs because of changes in the construction market during the moratorium period. In addition to the moratorium, the reductions to centers and institutes will impact citizens across Iowa's 99 counties. None of these outcomes are desirable, but current circumstances have forced the UI to make these difficult decisions.


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Q: Tkinter says "Not Responding" until webbrower is closed Tkinter says "Not Responding" until webbrowser is closed
is it possible to fix with multi-threading?
i have added the code here
beat() has the webbrowser
and i am calling them from solve()
of button click
I have removed some code as it says"
It looks like your post is mostly code; please add some more details."
def solve():
 if com.get() == "one":
    d=e1.get()
    if not len(d)==1:
       Msg=msg.showerror("Only one variable", "Equation must contain only one variable!")
    else:
     clear()

     t1.insert(tk.INSERT,"$$"+"Solutions\ of\ "+d+"\ are:"+"$$"+"
")
     for z in range (1,len(a2.args)+1):
         t1.insert(tk.INSERT,"$$"+d+"="+latex(((a2.args[z-1])))+"$$")
     beat()
 elif com.get() == "two":
    d=e1.get()
    if not len(d)==3:
       Msg=msg.showerror("Two variables", "Equation must contain two variables seperated by comma!")
    else:
       clear()

       abcd=nonlinsolve((bb2),[a,c])
       t1.insert(tk.INSERT,"$$"+"Solutions\ of\ "+str(x[0])+","+str(x[1])+"\ are:"+"$$"+"
")
       for z in range (1,len(abcd)+1):
         t1.insert(tk.INSERT,"$$"+str(x[0])+","+str(x[1])+"="+latex(((abcd.args[z-1])))+"$$")
       beat()
 elif com.get() == "three":
    d=e1.get()
    if not len(d)==5:
       Msg=msg.showerror("Three variables", "Equation must contain three variables seperated by comma!")
    else:
       clear()
       x=d.split(',')
       a=Symbol(x[0])
       c=Symbol(x[1])
       d=Symbol(x[2])
       bb=e2.get()
       bb1=bb.replace('=','-')
       bb2=mathematica(bb1)

       abcd=nonlinsolve(bb2,[a,c,d])
       t1.insert(tk.INSERT,"$$"+"Solutions\ of\ "+str(x[0])+","+str(x[1])+","+str(x[2])+"\ are:"+"$$"+"
")
       for z in range (1,len(abcd)+1):
         t1.insert(tk.INSERT,"$$"+str(x[0])+","+str(x[1])+","+str(x[2])+"="+latex(((abcd.args[z-1])))+"$$")
       beat()
 elif com.get() == "four":
    d=e1.get()
    if not len(d)==7:
       Msg=msg.showerror("Four variables", "Equation must contain four variables seperated by comma!")
    else:
       clear()
       x=d.split(',')
       a=Symbol(x[0])
       c=Symbol(x[1])
       d=Symbol(x[2])
       e=Symbol(x[3])
       bb=e2.get()
       bb1=bb.replace('=','-')
       bb2=mathematica(bb1)

       abcd=nonlinsolve(sympify(bb2),[a,c,d,e])
       t1.insert(tk.INSERT,"$$"+"Solutions\ of\ "+str(x[0])+","+str(x[1])+","+str(x[2])+","+str(x[3])+"\ are:"+"$$"+"
")
       for z in range (1,len(abcd)+1):
         t1.insert(tk.INSERT,"$$"+str(x[0])+","+str(x[1])+","+str(x[2])+","+str(x[3])+"="+latex(((abcd.args[z-1])))+"$$")
       beat()
 elif com.get() == "five":
    d=e1.get()
    if not len(d)==9:
       Msg=msg.showerror("Five variables", "Equation must contain five variables seperated by comma!")
    else:
       clear()
       x=d.split(',')
       a=Symbol(x[0])
       c=Symbol(x[1])
       d=Symbol(x[2])
       e=Symbol(x[3])
       f=Symbol(x[4])
       bb=e2.get()
       bb1=bb.replace('=','-')
       bb2=mathematica(bb1)

       abcd=nonlinsolve(sympify(bb2),[a,c,d,e,f])
       t1.insert(tk.INSERT,"$$"+"Solutions\ of\ "+str(x[0])+","+str(x[1])+","+str(x[2])+","+str(x[3])+","+str(x[4])+"\ are:"+"$$"+"
")
       for z in range (1,len(abcd)+1):
         t1.insert(tk.INSERT,"$$"+str(x[0])+","+str(x[1])+","+str(x[2])+","+str(x[3])+","+str(x[4])+"="+latex(((abcd.args[z-1])))+"$$")
       beat()
def clear():
    t1.delete(1.0,'end')
def beat():
 f = open("hmmmm.html", "w",encoding="utf-8")
 t1.update()
 s=((t1.get('1.0','end')))
 f.write("""
 +"\n"+
 s""")
 f.close()
 cwd = os.getcwd()
 webbrowser.get('"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" %s').open(cwd+'/'+'hmmmm.html')
 webbrowser.close()

root=tk.Tk()
root.config(background='#F0F8FF')
root.geometry("+255+45")
root.geometry("1000x750")
root.title("Equation solver")
w=tk.Label(root,text="Enter variables(separated by comma):",bg='#F0F8FF')
w.place(x=81,y=119)
w1=tk.Label(root,text="No.of variables:",bg='#F0F8FF')
w1.place(x=83,y=42)
w2=tk.Label(root,text="Enter equation to solve:\n(separated by comma)",bg='#F0F8FF')
w2.place(x=81,y=179)
e2=tk.Entry(root,width=60)
e2.place(x=218,y=179)
e1=tk.Entry(root,width=50)
e1.place(x=280,y=119)
btn=tk.Button(root,text="Solve",bg='#BEF18B',command=solve)
btn.place(x=276,y=249)
btn1=tk.Button(root,text="Clear",bg='white',command=clear)
btn1.place(x=398,y=669)
t1=tt.ScrolledText(root,height=20,width=110)
t1.place(x=81,y=300)
n = tk.StringVar()
com=ttk.Combobox(root,width=12,textvariable=n)
com['values']=('one',
               'two',
               'three',
               'four',
               'five')
com.place(x=278,y=42)
root.mainloop()

The problem is that if I call beat() in another thread still the problem persists maybe due to solve() includes beat().And forgot to say that this uses sympy to solve and then mathjax to display result is chrome by webbrowser

A: Define a normal python function to do the webbrowser things like this:
from threading import Thread

def start_webbrowser(cwd):
    webbrowser.get('"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" %s').open(cwd+'/'+'hmmmm.html')
    webbrowser.close()

and then you can call it using:
webbrowser_thread = Thread(target=start_webbrowser, args=(cwd, ), daemon=True)
webbrowser_thread.start()

That starts a new thread where the start_webbrowser function is called with cwd as the only argument. For more info on python threading read this


Pam McDonald, author of The Apo E Gene Diet: A Breakthrough in Changing Cholesterol, Weight, Heart and Alzheimer's Using the Body's Own Genes , contacted me to offer a free article on treating and preventing Alzheimer's through a specialized diet.
You can contact Ms McDonald through her website.
Here it is. I hope it will be of interest and benefit.
The ApoE Gene Diet – An Integrative Medicine Approach to Disease Prevention.
We all have the Apo E gene (pronounced by saying each letter, A - P - O - E). This gene plays a key role in our body's internal environment and is a determining factor in the development of chronic disease, especially heart disease and Alzheimer's disease.
Keep in mind – Heart disease and Alzheimer's disease are two inflammatory diseases. Our goal is to create a "gene-supportive environment" (GSE), based your individual Apo E genotype and reduce inflammation in the body specifically in the arteries, heart and brain.
The Apo E gene occurs as three variations, or alleles, in humans: Apo E 2, Apo E 3, and Apo E 4. Since genes come in matching pairs, we each have two alleles of every gene, one from each parent. If you received an Apo E 2 from one parent and an Apo E 3 from the other parent, your genotype would be E 2/3. The six possible combinations of Apo E gene pairs are E 2/2, E 2/3, E 3/3, E 4/2, E 4/3, and E 4/4.
As you can see from the table below, the most common genotype, Apo E 3/3, is found in approximately 64 percent of the population. It is considered the "neutral" Apo E genotype. Combinations that include either the Apo E 2 or Apo E 4 are considered "alternative" expressions of the more common Apo E 3 pairing. People with Apo E 2 or 4 alleles will process foods differently from the way in which an Apo E 3's body will.
The APOE Gene Diet can help prevent Alzheimer's disease and Heart disease.
The specific pair of Apo E genes you inherited from your parents greatly influences your predisposition to certain illnesses, including heart disease, vascular dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and cancer. For example, persons with the Apo E 4/4 genotype could have up to a 90 percent chance of developing a chronic illness such as Alzheimer's disease. Maintaining an optimal diet and lifestyle for your particular Apo E genotype is known as maintaining a "gene-supportive environment" (GSE), and doing so can dramatically reduce your risk of developing these chronic illnesses. That's why the Apo E Gene Diet was created.
The foundation of the Apo E Gene Diet is a nutritional plan that focuses on eating the optimal percentages of "The Big Three" - carbohydrates, fats and proteins - for your specific Apo E genotype. One diet does not fit all because each Apo E genotype processes foods differently. There is a unique optimal combination of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins which creates the ideal diet for each of the six Apo E genotypes. Creating this optimal balance in your diet provides the foundation for your good health.
The Apo E gene has been shown to be the number one factor affecting how your body uses The Big Three macronutrients or food groups, and this influences the possibility and severity of developing certain diseases. It is extremely important to eat the right balance of carbohydrates, fats and proteins for your specific Apo E genotype.
Most of the existing dietary recommendations are based on the assumption that one diet plan is appropriate for everyone. Because of that assumption, those diets fail to accomplish long-term weight loss or optimal disease prevention. We are not all the same. In reality, diet and exercise recommendations must be individualized, beginning with a person's genetic foundational recipe.
The Apo E Gene Diet focuses on an individual's genetic recipe, creating dietary and exercise recommendations for each of the six possible Apo E genotypes a person can have. No other program does this. In addition, the Apo E Gene Diet takes into account the whole person (physical, emotional, and spiritual) in creating a gene-supportive environment which promotes a healthy life, free of chronic illnesses.
So how do you create the optimal diet and lifestyle for your particular Apo E genotype? There are three steps.
1. First, consider reading The Apo E Gene Diet: A Breakthrough in Changing Cholesterol, Weight, Heart and Alzheimer's Using the Body's Own Genes by Pamela McDonald.
2. After reading the book, you can make an informed decision as to whether you want to know your Apo E genotype. Finding out which Apo E genotype you have is done through a simple cheek swab test or non-fasting blood test (more information on testing options).
3. Once you know your Apo E genotype, follow the diet and lifestyle plan outlined in the book for your particular Apo E genotype.
Following these three steps will support you on the path to a healthy life, free of chronic disease.
recommendations that apply to all, regardless of their particular genotype.
recommendations will help you be successful in those changes.
Apo E Gene Testing—Should I Do It?
Apo E gene testing offers the beginning of improved health and a happier life for many people. Once you know your Apo E gene type, a clear personalized dietary, exercise, and general wellness program provides you with the key to preventing heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, and many other chronic illnesses.
However, we recommend that you be tested only if you are willing to follow the personalized diet and lifestyle program that creates the most supportive environment for your Apo E gene type.
The decision to be tested is a very personal one. Some people want to be tested to learn the appropriate diet and lifestyle for their particular Apo E genotype, thereby minimizing their risk of developing chronic disease. Other people prefer not to know their genetic predisposition toward certain chronic diseases—clearly, this test is not for them.
1. Why do I want to learn my Apo E gene type?
2. Once I get my results, am I willing to follow the recommended diet, exercise, and wellness program best for my gene type?
3. Who is going to support me in undertaking any lifestyle change program?
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Helix bed mattress requires its clients to take a Sleep Quiz. This is more of a questionnaire that assists the sleep experts and engineers at Helix to comprehend your requirements. This Sleep Quiz takes 2 to 3 minutes. Helix deals with sleep as science and the mattress as a piece of innovation, which is not really various from how contending brands like Casper, Leesa, Purple or Nectar approach their own bed mattress. Once the test is taken, Helix sleep specialists and engineers deal with the style, product and every physical quality of the mattress that will match the requirements of the particular individual or couple who had actually taken the quiz. This procedure is called the Helix Sleep System by the company. The company takes a few days to design and make the individualized Helix mattress. The bed mattress is manufactured in US based factories and it ultimately gets delivered within ten organisation days. You would secure free shipping anywhere within the United States. For the most parts, the tailored Helix bed mattress is provided within ten company days.
The most noteworthy quality of Helix bed mattress is its ability to truly comprehend the sleeper. The test assists at the same time. There is the normal protector for the bed mattress to avoid wear & tear and to secure the bed mattress from spills and dirt. The customization is truly beneficial considering that the designers, sleep specialists and engineers don't just create basic features throughout the whole bed mattress when there is a couple with various choices. They come up with distinct attributes for each half or side of the mattress. This takes care of the requirements of a couple that has different sleeping patterns, postures and preferences or requirements.
As you explore Helix reviews, a few facts will emerge in no time. Helix mattress is more expensive than most other bed mattress. This is easy to understand provided it is personalized. The majority of other brands do not make personalized bed mattress. The guarantee and life expectancy or resilience of Helix mattress might be much better. If you read customer Helix mattress reviews on Amazon and other sites then you would recognize that motion seclusion and heating problems are not issues that you should fret about when you purchase a Helix mattress however you do have to know the kind of mattress you require. At the end of the day, the design and engineering of the bed mattress will be according to exactly what you express so your choices are the key.
It is tough to compare Helix bed mattress with its competitors such as Casper, Leesa or Purple due to the fact that they are standard and Helix is a customized mattress. Helix is thinner than most bed mattress at ten inches. That is a standard feature. It will have four layers, which is more or less exactly what most other brands choose. Rather of memory foam, Helix bed mattress has micro-coils. There are two more layers of poly foam and base foam respectively. The upper layer is dynamic foam. The leading layer is two inches, so is the 3rd layer which is of poly foam. Base foam is four inches and the 2nd layer from top is a little more than two inches.
The most notable emphasize of Helix Vs Casper is the cost. Every size has a rate difference of $50 to $100. Examining Helix Vs Leesa will lead you to infer that the latter deals much better quality sleep however it is less durable than the previous. Helix Vs Purple will draw you to the topmost cover of the latter that is much more comfortable but the former has the power of modification. Customization will always weigh heavy in favor of Helix bed mattress evaluations.
Nectar bed mattress is mild yet firm, it has a blended cover of cotton and tencel, the density is eleven inches and it weighs anywhere from 45 pounds to 89 lbs depending on the size. Nectar utilizes a layer of 1 inch gel memory foam, the 2nd layer is 3 inch memory foam, the third layer is 1.75 inch memory foam and after that a 5.25 inches support foam layer at the base. The tiniest size of Nectar mattress sells for $500 and California King sells for $900. There is complimentary shipping and an entire year or 365 nights of trial. There is lifetime warranty and you can easily conserve more than $100 on every size. That is not the kind of saving you can get with Helix mattress coupon. Helix has only 10 years service warranty, it is firmer and thinner, the cover is polyester and the weight ranges from 40 lbs to 100 pounds. The cost is much greater from $600 to $1195. The trial duration is for only a hundred nights.


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Q: Does steam track network usage in megabytes per second or megabits? When you download new content in Steam it will show you the current and historical network usage. Is this tracked in megabytes or megabits?

A: Megabytes by default, but can be changed to megabits in the Downloads tab of the Settings/Preferences.

A: I just checked, and it does indeed seem to be tracked in megabytes.

A: It's in megabytes (or kilobytes etc... [and technically, it may be in MibiBytes, but I can't say for sure]).
You can tell the difference by looking at the symbol : b stands for bit, and B for Byte (i.e. 8 bits).


I don't know about you but I loooove Thursdays! There's just something about knowing that the next day is the last before the weekend that makes them sweeter to me. I particularly enjoy not having to go through the whole "looking at your watch non stop counting down the hours" of a Friday at work. Do I even make sense here? I think my Thursday excitement took over my brain hahaha.
Today I have a review of the Celestial Cosmetics & Color4Nails Stamping Line. This colaboration consists of 10 bottles of 9ml stamping polishes (duh!) : 8 cremes, 1 jelly and 1 shimmer.
I'll start by saying that the entire line stamps perfectly.
I was able to pick up the designs I used fairly easily before stamping them over my topcoated canvases. I actually put very little effort in the stamping process. I didn't start over but rather transferred to my nails the first attempt to try and show you realistic conditions so please excuse the crooked, stretched or ill-centered stamps.
All pictures taken in the shade.
I'm seriously impressed with the pigmentation here.
Pearl over black is a huge surprise, I didn't think it'd look so bright! The Moyou plate I used has 2 twin designs, one being the exact negative of the other, an opposite engraving if you prefer, and it's actually been fairly impossible to tell which nails were black over white or white over black.
I also enjoyed the smell of the solvents used in this collection, or lack thereof. Not that I make a habit of sniffing my bottles but they do not have any strong scent whatsoever, they just smell like your average polish, which is a huge plus.
Finally, I can only add that I'm usually not a fan of minis or smaller sized bottles but given the quality of this collection, I have all the more reason to wish they came in full size.
You can purchase the Celestial Cosmetics & Color4Nails Stamping collection on Color4Nails.com for $7 each (international shipping available).


I miss being here with you all but I'm working so hard at school to ensure the kids are getting the support they need to be successful on state mandated assessments and for college readiness. I work six days a week compared to my old job where I worked 5 and left 2 minutes after the students. That's probably the only thing I msix about my old school but I do miss it and being home early. But I won't complain because I'm in a school using my gifts.
Tomorrow I'm off and hoping for my first beach day of the year. Can you say floral print swimsuit?!?! It's Good Friday so I'll be attending church. On Sunday, I'm planning to attend early morning service and be back home asleep by 10. What are your plans?


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High fives aren't enough to build meaningful international business relationships
By: Ennio Vita-Finzi, CITP|FIBP
Businesspeople will inevitably be involved or touched by some international activity, regardless of what generation they feel closest to – the Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Generation X, the Millennials, or even Generation Zers, born in the last 20 years.
The way that newer generations are communicating, however, is changing worldwide. We now live in a world where the current generation's attention span has dropped to 8 seconds and people increasingly communicate with emojis and 140-character tweets.
Within the next four years, almost 3 billion people worldwide will be on social media, simultaneously multi-tasking on up to 5 different devices. Many of them no longer have the time (or inclination) to stop and look up at the person they are interacting with.
Given these circumstances, how will these future executives interact in foreign markets, where meaningful exchanges with other cultures are still based on careful development of face-to-face personal relationships?
Technology can't replace the "live" experience
Many will argue that seeing someone on a screen is just as effective as face-to-face interaction. They would argue that foreign executives have their own electronic identities and websites with the ability to communicate virtually around the world. But it is also a fact that anyone who wants to succeed internationally cannot simply refer their new contacts to a Facebook or LinkedIn profile.
Any seasoned international executive knows that meaningful exchanges with other cultures will always be based on the careful development of a personal relationship.
In many international cultures, the decision to trust another person can only be done "live", meaning developed in-person. Communicating via blogs, forums, business networks, photo-sharing platforms, chat apps, "selfies", Twitter Feeds, etc, can be useful, but is not enough to build a trusting business relationship.
While videoconferencing, webinars and Skype are excellent methods of communication, nothing replaces a warm handshake, a respectful bow, the verbal exchange of personal confidences, or a spontaneous hug.
Cultures around the world are comparably proficient at communicating electronically, but in order to succeed in foreign markets, North American executives will have to remember the way of doing business on a one-on-one basis. To do that, they're going to have to dig deep into their subconscious memory-banks and once again add this forgotten skill to their business quiver.
Remembering the basics of international business relationships
It takes two to tango.
It is not enough to hope that someone will read and reply to a text or email, or even react positively to viewing a website. To obtain (and evaluate) an answer, nothing replaces face-to-face communication composed of verbal and nonverbal messages.
Millenials and Generation Zers will have to re-learn this ability by joining and participating in networking groups such as BNI (Business Network International) –or even practicing one-on-one communication skills by talking to strangers.
An executive I know likes to strike up conversations in office tower elevators, asking people what they do and exchanging business cards (the 30 second elevator pitch). He even goes so far as complimenting someone for their choice of tie in order to find common ground.
Fifty percent of the time he succeeds, and an interesting conversation ensues, while at other times he is simply ignored. Imagine if you did this just twice a day – that's one new business contact every day.
Learning about other cultures.
It is natural that those interested in other cultures will go online to learn the basics of interacting abroad and follow social media related to one's country of interest.
However, all this secondary data is never as valuable as one's own primary research, resulting from personally interacting with individuals from that culture. Chambers of Commerce and business clubs representing foreign countries exist in most major cities and their websites publish cultural and business events open to the public.
A businesswoman I know was planning a trip to Japan. As part of her research she visited the Japanese Consulate and chatted with the Trade Commissioner, attended a function at a local Japanese Cultural Center, and met with visiting Japanese executives who were part of an incoming delegation.
By interacting with and watching the visitors' body language, she was able to round out the dry statistics she had read about during her research.
Naturally, these steps take time and effort. But in order to be successful in establishing international relationships, it will always be important to be able to look at foreign clients in the eye and create a personal bond.
It takes more than a well-written social media profile, offering a fist-bump or leaping to an exuberant high-five to succeed internationally.
Author: Ennio Vita-Finzi, CITP|FIBP
Ennio Vita-Finzi is a Certified International Trade Professional (CITP) and was a Trade Commissioner in Europe, Latin America and the US as well as President of the Canadian Council for the Americas during NAFTA negotiations. He has been a multinational executive and entrepreneur and is now a College lecturer, keynote speaker, and author based in Montreal. (e.vita-finzi@sympatico.ca) View all posts by Ennio Vita-Finzi, CITP|FIBP
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Botany of The Los Amigos Conservation Area
Connexions course version of the Los Amigos Conservation Area website.
Storing and Retrieving from the course History of Information
This course explores the history of information and associated technologies, uncovering why we think of ours as 'the information age.' We will select moments in the evolution of production, recording, and storage from the earliest writing systems to the world of Short Message Service (SMS) and blogs. In every instance, we'll be concerned with both what and when and how and why, and we will keep returning to the question of technological determinism: how do technological developments affect socie
Spinal Cord and Nerves from the course General Human Anatomy
General Human Anatomy - Fall 2006. The functional anatomy of the human body as revealed by gross and microscopic examination.
Skeletal System 1 from the course General Human Anatomy
Mud feels good!
Students will listen to "Mud Walk" by Joy Cowley. Students will experience and describe mud using a bubble map to record their responses. Students will create a class book using chocolate pudding to imitate mud.
Identifying RAFT elements in writing prompts and assignments
Student will read writing prompts and practice identifying RAFT elements: role of writer, audience, writing format, and topic. This is the first lesson in a series of three based upon LEARN NC's 9th grade writing exemplars.
Formulating Questions to Meet Information Needs of ESL Students
A multi-activity lesson plan to teach the concept of asking engaging, researchable questions prior to reading which leads to effective inquiries during project work. Using engaging questions creates a sense of connectedness by linking academic contents with students' personal concerns. The lesson is primarily designed for English Language Learners although it can be adapted for mainstream students. This lesson can also be modified for use with grades 4-8.
Feel In The Blanks
The following lesson is designed to function as a review of beginning, middle, and end and an introduction to individualized imagination, creativity, and perspective as it relates to the development of dialogue (i.e. improvisation).
This lesson will begin a unit on fairy tales for young learners. It will begin with assessing what first graders know about fairy tales. Children will learn about the original version of "The Three Little Pigs". There is a second lesson linked to this lesson - Fairy Tales - Another Point of View. This second lesson presents another point of view of the original version of the fairy tale.
Do you "Really" Believe in Magic?
Students are introduced to the genre (or mode) of Magical Realism in World Literature by reading Gabriel Garcia-Marquez's short story, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings." This lesson plan is modified for an English Language Learner (ELL) at the Intermediate Low (IL) proficiency level.
Creating found poetry from picture books
Students select and read a picture book and afterwards create "found poetry" based on the picture book.
Calico Watercolor Cats
This two-class lesson focuses on students learning how to draw a cat using geometric shapes, learning and applying wet-on-wet technique of watercolor painting, and using crayon to create area surrounding cats. The final art product will be a mixed media painting of one cat and one kitten in an indoor or outdoor environment. Students will orally present their completed artwork using prepositions and nouns to describe the location of their cats.
Be the sentence: An interactive language arts activity
Students take on the roles of different words and punctuation and work collaboratively to create a complete sentence using correct parts of speech, word order, and punctuation. Students progress from simple sentences to more complex sentences.
Solar Still Part I: Salt Water
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members assemble a solar still and make fresh water from saltwater, demonstrating two steps of the water cycle, evaporation and condensation.
Nuclear Waste: Yucca Mountain
What happens to nuclear waste? This video segment adapted from FRONTLINE explores the controversy surrounding the United States' first nuclear repository site.
Ingredients for Life: Carbon
This video segment adapted from NOVA illustrates why carbon is at the center of life on Earth. It also asks whether carbon-based life might exist on other planets.
White Resistance
Civil rights activism sparked social and political change, but it also amplified white resistance to racial equality, as this video segment illustrates.
A news camera captured this video excerpt of a 1965 voting rights demonstration, from People's Century: "Skin Deep".
This interactive resource adapted from The Virtual Cave by Dave Bunnell, presents images of various features found in solution caves and includes detailed information on how these features are formed and where they occur.
The Grand Canyon: Its Youngest Rocks
This video segment adapted from NOVA features the youngest rock formations in the Grand Canyon, lava dams, and how they are subject to the eroding power of water.


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Osinbajo Assures Return Of kidnapped Lagos School Boys
By Independent On Jul 23, 2017
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Sunday assured parents and guardians of the kidnapped Lagos school boys of the safe return of the children.
In a chat with newsmen on the sideline of 60th birthday thanksgiving service of Pastor Salami Ololade in Lagos, Osinbajo said Federal Government was collaborating with the state's authorities to ensure their safe return.
On May 25, six boys of the same secondary school in Lagos were abducted by unknown gunmen. In the same school, six staff members and four students were also kidnapped in October, 2016.
The acting president acknowledged that the parents must be going through trauma over the abduction of the children, but said "there should be no doubt at all about the commitment of government in the matter''.
"I don't know how many times the governor has spoken to me about this and the Inspector-General of Police, the Commissioner of Police, the DSS and even the Armed Forces.
"I am sure these children will return as quickly as possible; so, we look forward to their return,'' he said.
Osinbajo advised children currently on holidays to learn something new outside academics, saying "because it is a long holiday, it is a great time to do something new.
"Those who like to learn a skill, whatever skill that may be, should learn it. I wished that when I was growing up I learned even carpentry''.
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Three suspected Russian spies traveled to Barcelona in 2016 and 2017
According to information obtained by EL PAÍS, the members of the elite military group Unit 29155 made a total of four trips to the Catalan capital
María R. Sahuquillo
Madrid / Moscow 27 DEC 2019 - 09:39	GMT
Image of Denis Sergeev in 1999 taken from a documentary on the battle for Alilen.
At least three suspected members of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU, as it is known in Russian by its initials) traveled to Barcelona between November 2016 and December 2017, according to information obtained by EL PAÍS with the investigative journalist network Bellingcat and its associated foundation Civic Media.
Alexey Kalinin has long been on the radar of Western intelligence services for his alleged involvement in other operations
The suspected members are Denis Sergeev, Alexey Kalinin and Mikhail Opryshko. All belong to an elite military group within the GRU known as Unit 29155, whose activities are being investigated by Spain's High Court, the Audiencia Nacional.
The first to travel to Barcelona was Denis Sergeev. On November 5, 2015, he took a direct flight from Moscow under the false name Sergey Fedotov. He returned to the Russian capital six days later, on November 11, not from Catalonia but from the Swiss city of Geneva. It is not known how long he stayed in Barcelona. Sergeyev, a GRU veteran of general rank, returned to Spain 11 months later on September 29, 2017, just two days before the October 1 unauthorized referendum on Catalan independence.
On the second trip, Sergeev traveled again to Barcelona using the name of Fedotov to hide his true identity. Once again, he returned to Russia via Switzerland. On this occasion, according to information collected by Bellingcat on the GPS position of his suspected cell phone, Sergeev was in the Catalan capital for just 19 hours. He left by train for Geneva, via Lyon (France), the morning of the next day, September 30. Bellingcat is a website created in 2014 by a group of investigative journalists who use data verification techniques and open source platforms such as Facebook and Google Earth for their reports.
Alexey Kalinin and Mikhail Opryshko, the other two suspected agents from Unit 29155 who traveled to Barcelona, made only one trip each. Kalinin, under the alias Alexei Nikitin, flew on December 14, 2016, more than a month after Sergeev made his first trip. He did not return to Moscow from Barcelona either, but instead went to Rome and returned to Russia three days later on December 17. Kalinin is considered one of the most active members of the GRU. His presence has been detected not only in Europe, but also in China, Turkey, Israel and Dubai, according to information collected by the Civica Media Foundation. Spanish police sources admitted on Thursday that they were aware of the existence of this agent, and his alleged link with spy operations in other European countries. But they refused to confirm whether he was believed to be involved in the alleged attempt to destabilize Spain via the Catalan separatist movement.
The Russian government has accused certain Spanish media of having an "unhealthy interest" in Russian interference in Catalonia
Indeed, Kalinin has long been on the radar of Western intelligence services for his alleged involvement in other operations. Kalinin is also on the list of a dozen names linked to Unit 29155 who oversee British, French and Swiss counterintelligence services in their investigation of GRU activities, according to a Western officer. The unit is made up of around 20 people with different and complementary abilities, including experts in computers, technology, cryptography and even medicine; all with in-depth knowledge of weapons handling.
These same sources place Kalinin in Sergeev's team which allegedly took part in the attempted poisoning of Bulgarian arms manufacturer Emilian Gebrev in 2015. Kalinin's brief presence in this failed operation was one of the first pieces of evidence that he belonged to Unit 29155. Indeed, this assassination attempt has provided the most clues about the group's activities. Kalinin has been detected in other "hot spots under investigation," said an official on condition of anonymity. The group's alleged involvement in allegedly irregular money transfers is also under investigation.
Opryshko, meanwhile, traveled to Barcelona in December 2017. At that point, the Spanish government of Mariano Rajoy, of the conservative Popular Party (PP) had already applied Article 155 of the Constitution that suspended autonomous powers in Catalonia, and gave the central government control of Catalan institutions. Rajoy invoked the emergency powers on October 27 after a unilateral declaration of independence was passed in the Catalan parliament. Ousted Catalan premier Carles Puigdemont fled to Belgium at the end of the same month. It is not currently known how long Opryshko spent in Spain.
Sergeev is the most active of member of Unit 29155 with regards to Catalonia. Born in 1973 in Usharal, a small town in what today is Kazakhstan, Sergeev served in the Siberian army until he was transferred to Moscow. There he signed up for the Elite Diplomatic Military Academy, which is known as The Conservatory, the feeding ground of the GRU. He then became a high-ranking officer, stationed in the top levels of the military intelligence services, those that operate with their normal identity but with a certain level of cover. His cover was that of manager or shareholder of at least eight Russian companies.
In 2010, he was given a new identity: Sergey Fedotov. With it, he operated in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, according to the Western intelligence services who have tracked him in recent years. In 2015, he was in Bulgaria when the arms dealer Emilian Gebrev was the target of two assassination attempts. In 2016, before and after the "Brexit" referendum – a vote on whether the United Kingdom should stay within the European Union – his presence was detected in Great Britain, according to an in-depth investigation carried out by the specialized media outlets Bellingcat, The Insider and Respekt.
Official silence
Western secret service reports also link Sergeev to the failed poisoning attempt of former Russian spy Sergey Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the United Kingdom in March 2018. Months later, the British government officially accused two other GRU members of the attack that killed a British woman and caused Skripal and her daughter to fall seriously ill when they came into contact with toxic gases.
British and US intelligence services provided information on various destabilization actions by Russians
Spanish diplomatic sources
Sources from La Moncloa, the seat of government, and the Interior Ministry declined to comment on Thursday about the new information on the alleged presence of three agents from Unit 29155 in Barcelona. The caretaker government of Socialist Party (PSOE) leader Pedro Sánchez has kept a tight seal on the alleged activities of this group in Spain since November 22, when EL PAÍS revealed that High Court Judge Manuel García-Castellón had opened an investigation into the group, which remains sealed. That investigation is being carried out by the General Information Office of the National Police, which specializes in counter-terrorism.
Spanish diplomatic sources admitted on Thursday that the Spanish government has long suspected Russian interference in the country. "From spring 2018, and following the Skripal case, British and US intelligence services provided information on various destabilization actions by Russians in Western territory, which in the case of Spain was focused on Catalonia," the sources said.
The Kremlin and the Russian Foreign Ministry have categorically denied any type of interference in Catalonia or in Spain's domestic affairs. At the end of November, the Russian government accused certain Spanish media of having an "unhealthy interest" in bringing back the "half-forgotten issue," and talked about "an anti-Russia campaign."
English version by Melissa Kitson.


By James Burgess. James is a writer and journalist from the UK. Please read his article and leave your thoughts and comments below.
In makeshift camps on the French shores of the English Channel; in tents huddled under bridges in central Paris; in portacabin camps in the windswept valleys of northern Greece – scorching in the summer, freezing in the winter; on Turkey's patrolled beaches; from Libyan ports through the hands of people-smugglers. This is reality for hundreds of thousands of people. This is home. This is fleeing home. This is seeking home.
Politicians in Europe have struggled to respond adequately to helping the largest number of displaced people since World War II, exposing a failure of asylum systems and a catastrophic absence of compassion. European governments have presented a series of half measures and stopgap solutions, bowing to electoral pressure from ascendant rightwing parties across the continent that has brought them up short in their aid and asylum efforts. These rightwing parties have exploited the global financial collapse, growing poverty and inequality, and the marginalisation of many people and communities throughout Europe. They have turned the blame for hardships onto migrants and refugees. From this, a dangerous myth has grown, suggesting that men, women and children from the Middle East, Africa and beyond are flocking to our shores to take our jobs, scrounge off benefits and warp our cultures.
At best, it is a failure of understanding that propagates this myth. It leads to ineffective political decisions that aim to stem the flow of people across the Mediterranean. This involves destroying smuggler boats, making transit harder, cracking down on smuggler rings, and withdrawing search and rescue missions and NGO funding. At worst, it amounts to the cynical outsourcing of responsibility, to politicians turning their backs on the worst refugee crisis since the Second World War. You have to understand.
The "pull-factor" of promised prosperity in the European Union is not why people put their children in leaking, rickety boats.
Withdrawing search and rescue missions from the Mediterranean doesn't save lives, and doesn't stop people from trying to cross the sea.
Destroying smugglers' boats is impossible, and doesn't save lives or stop people from trying to cross the sea. Many boats are chartered by smugglers from fishing fleets or other local sources hours before they sail. Destroying large boats forces people into less safe smaller vessels.
Putting up fences doesn't save lives or stop people from trying to cross borders. The harder it becomes to reach a safe country, the more people die trying to make a crossing.
Cracking down on people-smuggling rings displaces exploitation as people fleeing danger seek alternative routes, or suffer in their homes.
European politicians often cite an economic pull-factor as one reason why asylum seekers come to Europe, though studies have shown this is seldom the case. Guided by this misconception, politicians condemn to death thousands of people, and inflict greater suffering on many times more. We must understand what drives people from their homes, and respond compassionately. We must offer people refuge, and work hard and long to address the root causes – conflict, persecution, violence – which are often themselves relics of a European imperial past. There is no quick fix, but action needs to be taken.
Volunteering with refugee support groups in northern Greece and Calais, I met families from Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Eritrea and beyond who had crossed the sea in unseaworthy vessels. Were they scared? Of course. Many couldn't swim. They put their own children in these boats. Not because they wanted to. Not because they think the generosity of Europe will provide for them a more comfortable life. But because the choice of remaining where they were was worse.
It is not a question of ignorance on their part; people fleeing persecution, war and instability know the risks. They know people who have drowned in the attempt to cross the Mediterranean. They have lost friends and family.
Sometimes, the decision to cross the water comes many months or even years after fleeing their homes. Many Yazidis fleeing the horrors of IS in northern Iraq in 2014 went first to Kurdish-controlled areas, and then on to Turkey, where they stayed in camps for a year or more, with no prospect of returning home, settling in the country or being able to work.
There was no future where they were – only the promise of more of the same. Waiting, wasting away. Lives lost, years squandered. 10-year-olds who had never been to school. Students who had not been able to start their careers. Doctors, engineers, teachers, farmers, shop owners, policemen, musicians, actors, mothers, fathers; lives and careers on hold.
It is no easy decision to jump on a boat and head to the supposedly prosperous shores of Europe. Of course, people hope for a better life. They hope for treatment with dignity. They hope to resume careers and studies and play and normal family life. They hope that the European Union lives up to its promises of upholding human rights and the rule of law, of supporting hard-working citizens, of fostering opportunity. But sadly this is not the reality they are met with.
Many in refugee camps across Europe suffer severe mental health issues, both as a result of the horrors they have fled, and, tragically, as a result of the treatment and conditions they have endured in Europe. They are met with months or years of enforced idleness with no right to work, few educational opportunities and an opaque, bureaucratic asylum system.
But people do not put their own children directly in harm's way for this, boarding unsafe boats to unknown destinations and destinies. Warsan Shire's poem, Home, is powerful, cutting through the politics of the European asylum crisis and exposing the failures of creating a hostile environment for refugees, and the futility and cruelty of outsourcing border control to questionable regimes. Blocking flights of refuge across the Mediterranean can make the land even more dangerous than it already is. Patrick Kingsley's investigation into the refugee crisis around the Mediterranean in his book The New Odyssey carefully documents the systems of abuse and exploitation that exist around refugees fleeing through North Africa. Many endure slavery at the hands of people smugglers in Libya, are held to ransom in prisons or are sold into forced labour. The UK steps back from its responsibility, opting out from the European programme of refugee relocation. Government talk of opposing modern day slavery rings hollow.
Shires's poem sums up and explodes ill-founded popular arguments and misconceptions about the refugees and border crossings. It asks us what we value. What values define us? What is home?
For some children, home is a lifetime on the move, between war-torn villages, towns and cities, foreign countries, desert camps and dust, travel in dangerous lorries, crowded inflatable boats across the sea, tents in the snow and mud in the Balkans, fences, portacabins and abandoned airstrips.
A child sits on a buggy with no seat in the Jungle camp in Calais, a week before it is torn down, the makeshift buildings in flames. Another child plays with a stray kitten outside the makeshift porch of a container home in northern Greece, waiting years for an asylum decision. They are still not home, still not safe.
There are no easy answers. But understanding is a starting point. An appreciation of, and respect for, home and childhood, and a willingness to extend a hand of friendship and support. Until this happens, mothers and fathers will continue to put their children in boats, because the sea is safer than the land.
I want to cry. What an amazing piece of writing. Real, to the point, emotive, political and expressive.


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Brian founded Good Dog Workshop with one goal in mind: to help dogs. After years of volunteering with dog rescue groups, seeing so many people struggle with their dogs' behavioral issues, he realized that people simply didn't understand their dogs. He felt that after the successes with his own dog and his foster dogs, he believed he could help others. So in 2008, Brian established Good Dog Workshop to teach people how to "Speak Dog".
Brian has been a student of dogs for many years. His interest in dog behavior combined with his passion to help dogs led him to volunteer with dog rescue groups where he has fostered and found homes for dozens of dogs and continues to evaluate dogs and provide in-home assistance to people who might otherwise have surrendered their dogs.
From his work rehabilitating dogs came his idea for DogMatch™. Brian realized that pairing the right dog with the right owner from the start would eliminate many problems that would otherwise occur and could be easily avoided. With DogMatch™, Brian assesses the needs and desires of a family looking to acquire a new companion and then he searches for the perfect canine match.
Another way he helps dogs in need is by educating the volunteers who work with dogs. He holds seminars for rescue groups to train volunteers and foster parents on the best ways to raise well-balanced, more adoptable dogs.
Brian has owned German Shepherds for 15 years and is always accompanied by Morgan, his 9-year-old rescued GSD. Morgan assists Brian in training sessions and provides an excellent example of achieving the ideal Human-Dog Bond.
Brian has carefully hand-picked each member of his staff to provide every client with the best instruction and best customer service possible—the #1 goal at Good Dog Workshop.
As a young man growing up in Northern Virginia, Carlos witnessed a lot of unnecessary stress and abuse towards dogs ranging from over-feeding to aggressive and violent behavior, sometimes resulting in euthanasia. These unfortunate incidents of neglect and cruelty sparked a very powerful desire in Carlos to effect a change. This led Carlos to want to reach out and help. His love for dogs grew as did his drive to help dogs, even suffering a leg bite when he attempted to help a neighbor turn around her dog. He quickly realized it would take more than just courage to get his message across. He began educating himself in ethology, obedience, leadership and animal psychology. He sharpened his timing and agility with corrections with some difficult dogs.
Carlos credits Cesar Millan and Dr. Temple Grandin for giving him the inspiration to develop a very organic and intuitive way of dealing with dogs.
Learning about dog behavior wasn't enough for Carlos, however; he also wanted to learn about human behavior. He used his opportunity in college to study social psychology and interpersonal relationships where he learned about the similarities between humans and dogs including fear, avoidance and anxiety. He graduated from the George Mason University with a Degree in Communications with a Film & Video specialization.
Carlos currently manages the Good Dog Workshop company page on Facebook and has created all the company videos including a documentary he wrote, produced and narrated. He hopes to continue to help build the company and will continue to be a die-hard 'documentarian' to promote responsible dog ownership.
Josh has always felt a deep connection with and an appreciation of animals, especially how they have helped impact human development throughout history. From early domesticated wolves guarding and removing waste from communities, to service dogs overseas, Josh loved the thought of the mutual respect and bond that formed between two and four legged creatures.
Having lived in both the city and the country, Josh recognized a distinct difference in the lifestyles of each animal. Where he worked and played on the farm, the dogs didn't have issues; they ate, played, and slept outside, of course having the occasional "Who's boss" scuffle around the porch wasn't unexpected. Whereas in the city, he saw that dogs tended to be more anxious and develop serious behavior issues.
In 2005, Josh joined the Marine Corps and served two tours in Iraq. It was a common sight to see the Explosive Ordinance dogs out running their rounds, keeping the troops safe — this added a whole new level of respect for canines. After returning home and to the normal ways of life again, Josh decided he wanted to help dogs — more specifically, to help them help people. After returning to the States and getting a 9-5 job, a chance encounter with Brian gave Josh the opportunity he was looking for to work with dogs.
Josh excels at helping aggressive dogs, off-leash training and obedience training, but also has the often-overlooked patience necessary to help anxious, fearful and insecure dogs. Josh's affable demeanor and sense of humor help make clients feel comfortable with Josh from the start. And Josh just loves working with dogs, stating, "Once we prescribe the correct balance, I want the dogs to enjoy me as much as I enjoy them."


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Structured Transition Systems as Lax Coalgebras
This paper relates labeled transition systems and coalgebras with the motivation of comparing and combining their complementary contributions to the theory of concurrent systems. The well-known mismatch between these two notions for what concerns the morphisms is resolved by extending the coalgebraic framework by lax cohomomorphisms. Enriching both labeled transition systems and coalgebras with algebraic structure for an algebraic specification, the correspondence is lost again. This leads to the introduction of lax coalgebras, where the coalgebra structure is given by a lax homomorphism. The resulting category of lax coalgebras and lax cohomomorphisms for a suitable endofunctor is shown to be isomorphic to the category of structured transition systems, where both states and transitions form algebras. The framework is also presented on a more abstract categorical level using monads and comonads, extending the bialgebraic approach recently introduced by Turi and Plotkin.
Titolo: Structured Transition Systems as Lax Coalgebras
CORRADINI, ANDREA
Grosse Rhode M
Heckel R.
ELECTRONIC NOTES IN THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
Abstract: This paper relates labeled transition systems and coalgebras with the motivation of comparing and combining their complementary contributions to the theory of concurrent systems. The well-known mismatch between these two notions for what concerns the morphisms is resolved by extending the coalgebraic framework by lax cohomomorphisms. Enriching both labeled transition systems and coalgebras with algebraic structure for an algebraic specification, the correspondence is lost again. This leads to the introduction of lax coalgebras, where the coalgebra structure is given by a lax homomorphism. The resulting category of lax coalgebras and lax cohomomorphisms for a suitable endofunctor is shown to be isomorphic to the category of structured transition systems, where both states and transitions form algebras. The framework is also presented on a more abstract categorical level using monads and comonads, extending the bialgebraic approach recently introduced by Turi and Plotkin.


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Japan step closer to qualifying for the Pioneer Hi-Bred World Men's play-offs
Japan qualify for the play-offs © WCF / Jeffrey Au
Lethbridge, Canada
Japan beat Scotland by 8-6 in Wednesday evening's 14th round-robin session of the Pioneer Hi-Bred World Men's Curling Championship 2019, to share top spot with Sweden, who beat Canada by 9-4 in the same session.
In the other games in this session Italy kept their play-off hopes alive with a 9-4 win over Korea, while Germany beat Netherlands by 7-6.
In the game between Japan and Scotland, Japan had a 6-1 lead at the half-time break, but, in the sixth end, Scotland's skip Bruce Mouat played a hit and stay on a Japan stone to score three points and reduce Japan's lead to 6-4.
In the tenth end, Japan's skip Yuta Matsumura hit out a Scottish stone with the last stone of the game, to score one point and win by 8-6.
Meanwhile, defending champions Sweden were up against hosts Canada - as well as a packed home crowd - and, in the fifth end, Sweden's skip Niklas Edin played a hit and roll on a Canadian stone to score two points and take a 3-2 lead.
Then, in the seventh end, Edin drew his last stone into position to draw for three points and move on to a 6-4 lead. Canada then conceded after the eighth end, when their skip Kevin Koe wrecked on a front guard with his last stone, with the score-line at 9-4 for Sweden, who now move to the top of the rankings alongside Japan.
Because of their playing record and the teams they still must face, unlike Japan, Sweden are not yet assured of a play-off slot.
After this win, Sweden's Edin said, "That was a good test for us and a really important game. We have it all in our own hands now and we're top of the table, so looking pretty good from here. I don't think that was our best performance but, considering who we played, that was our best win."
In the ninth end of their game against Korea, Italy's skip Joel Retornaz played a draw into the house to score four points and win by 9-4, to keep his team's play-off hopes alive. Afterwards, he said, "The team is performing well, as a strong team. We know every win is important now. We know we're sitting in a good position and, if we get some more wins, we might achieve something big."
In the fourth game of the session, Netherlands faced Germany and in the sixth end, the Dutch fourth player Wouter Goesgens hit out a German stone to score one point and take a 3-2 lead.
However, in the tenth end, Germany's skip Marc Muskatewitz drew his last stone into the house to score three points and take a 7-6 win.
Japan and Sweden now share top spot, with Switzerland third. Canada and United States share fourth place in the rankings.
Italy currently occupy the crucial sixth and last qualifying slot, with Scotland still challenging behind them.
Korea have now moved onto nine games without a win.
Results: Japan 8-6 Scotland; Korea 4-9 Italy; Sweden 9-4 Canada; Netherlands 6-7 Germany.
Current Standings (W-L):
Japan 8-1
Sweden 8-1
Switzerland 7-1
Canada 6-2
United States 6-2
Italy 5-3
Scotland 4-4
Netherlands 3-5
Norway 2-6
Russia 2-6
Germany 2-7
China 1-7
Korea 0-8
Watch, follow, engage
Live coverage of these championships will be available via the World Curling Federation's broadcast partners: Eurosport (Europe-wide), TSN and RDS (Canada), NBCSports (United States), NHK (Japan), CCTV5 (China), SBS (Korea), SRF/RTS/RSI (Switzerland), Viasat (Denmark, Norway, Finland), Polsat (Poland), SVT (Sweden), Match TV (Russia), La Chaine Equipe (France), BBC Online (United Kingdom). Coverage will also be available, subject to geo-blocking restrictions, on the event website and the World Curling Federation's Twitter, Facebook and YouTube Channels: www.youtube.com/WorldCurlingTV
Correction: a previous version of this story had incorrectly stated Japan had qualified for the play-off stage. However, due to the possibility of a complicated five-way tie they have yet to qualify.
To engage with the World Curling Federation on social media during the Pioneer Hi-Bred World Men's Curling Championship 2019 follow it on Twitter, Instagram (@worldcurling) and Facebook (@WorldCurlingFederation) and use the hashtags when posting: #WMCC2019 #curling


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The canton of Villeneuve-sur-Lot-2 is an administrative division of the Lot-et-Garonne department, southwestern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Villeneuve-sur-Lot.

It consists of the following communes:
Bias
Hautefage-la-Tour
Pujols
Saint-Antoine-de-Ficalba
Sainte-Colombe-de-Villeneuve
Villeneuve-sur-Lot (partly)

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By Compiled from wire service reports by Robert Kilborn, Sara Miller, and Kristen Broman-Worthington
As expected, Vivendi Universal narrowed the field of bidders for its US entertainment properties to two: General Electric's NBC-TV division and a consortium of investors led by Edgar Bronfman Jr., former chairman of the Seagram beverage empire. The French conglomerate said it would continue to discuss a sale with both, indicating in the process that bids by CBS and Viacom no longer will be considered. But against that backdrop, Vivendi's board said it also would explore an initial public offering for its theme parks; Universal movie and TV studios; and the cable-TV channels USA, Sci-Fi, and Trio. Meanwhile, the Financial Times, citing an "insider," reported that the Bronfman group might quit the bidding on grounds that it was being used merely to give Vivendi greater leverage in negotiations with NBC.
A news conference was scheduled in Oklahoma City Wednesday to announce that state law-enforcement officials are filing new criminal charges against the former WorldCom Inc.; its chief executive, Bernie Ebbers; and five other senior administrators for "willfully" misrepresenting information about the company to investors. The company, now operating as MCI, filed the largest bankruptcy case in US history last summer, but is attempting to emerge from Chapter 11 protection later this year. It already is confronting a federal criminal investigation as well as probes by several other states.
In an all-cash deal valued at $1.2 billion, Lone Star Funds agreed to buy majority control of troubled Korea Exchange Bank, the fifth-largest lender in South Korea. Lone Star, based in Dallas, specializes in acquiring distressed companies. It failed in an attempt to buy government-run Seoul Bank last year. Korea Exchange Bank needs an infusion of new capital because of a portfolio burdened by nonperforming loans, reports said.
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Physicists Split Ultracold Atom Clouds
Physicists at the University of Otago have developed steerable optical tweezers that use intense laser beams to precisely split minute clouds of ultracold atoms and smash them together.
The feat enhances efforts to understand how atoms interact at temperatures of less than a millionth of a degree above absolute zero, with potential applications including new tools to probe microscopic structures and sensors that can map minute variations in magnetic fields.
In research published in Optics Letters, the researchers used the technology to split a single ultracold cloud of rubidium atoms sequentially into 32 daughter clouds, spreading them out over nearly half a centimetre.
"This sort of precise control of these atoms is like being able to pull a delicate snowflake into two clean halves with your bare hands," says lead researcher Dr Niels Kjaergaard. "It's quite remarkable that we are able to manipulate such minute and fragile samples while moving them such a comparatively large distance."
The researchers steered horizontal and vertical laser beams around with precisely controlled travelling acoustic waves. These steerable laser beams confine and move the atoms. As well as splitting atom clouds, the system allows them to be collided.
"Tongue-in-cheek, we like to refer to our set-up as the 'Littlest Hadron Collider'," Kjaergaard jests. "In some ways it's the complete opposite of what is the world's largest and most powerful particle collider, because instead of using extreme acceleration, we smash our atom clouds together at a pedestrian pace of up to a metre per second."


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Deze lijst van voetbalinterlands is een overzicht van alle officiële voetbalwedstrijden tussen de nationale teams van Bosnië en Herzegovina en Vietnam. De landen speelden tot op heden één keer tegen elkaar: een vriendschappelijke wedstrijd, die werd gespeeld op 22 februari 1997 in Shah Alam (Maleisië).

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De eerste en tot op heden enige ontmoeting tussen de nationale voetbalploegen van Bosnië-Herzegovina en Vietnam vond plaats op 22 februari 1997 in het kader van de strijd om de Dunhill Cup. Het duel, bijgewoond door 18.000 toeschouwers, werd gespeeld in Merdeka Stadion in Shah Alam (Maleisië), en stond onder leiding van scheidsrechter Nik Ahmad Haji Yaakub uit Maleisië. Bondscoach Fuad Muzurović van Bosnië-Herzegovina liet in de achtste interland onder zijn leiding zes spelers debuteren: Admir Adžem (FK Željezničar), Džemo Smječanin (FK Sarajevo), Senad Repuh (FK Sarajevo), Dželaludin Muharemović (NK Zagreb), Samir Bajtarević (FK Rudar Ugljevik) en Nermin Važda (NK Bosna Visoko).

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Gold Rush is on for Svord Von Tempsky Bowie
by The Loadout Room Jul 5, 2017
Svord Knives is teaming up with H.L. Dalis to produce a special, historically-accurate version of their long-running Svord Von Tempsky Bowie. Called the Gold Rush edition, this unique variant first released in a limited run of 25 pieces, but will soon see wider distribution.
The knife takes its name from Gustavus von Tempsky, a Prussian soldier of fortune. "He went where he felt like going, and where there would be work for an adventurer," says Jon Blumenfeld, President of H.L. Dalis. Although von Tempsky traveled far and wide, he left his greatest legacy in New Zealand, where he led a contingent of Forest Rangers against the Māori.
Von Tempsky ended up in California during the Gold Rush, where he first discovered the Bowie knife. "He adopted it as a sidearm. He became proficient in it, and it became his trademark so to speak," Blumenfeld tells us. In 1863 he commissioned a New Zealand bladesmith to make a batch of Bowie knives to his specifications for distribution among his men.
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