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Daughters For Life Wins PIEoneer of the Year Award!
pandi2018-09-11T13:40:55-04:00
The Daughters for Life Foundation was named PIEoneer of the Year at the 2018 PIEoneer Awards on September 7th in London, UK. The event is held annually by The PIE, an organization with a focus on professionals in international education. The awards ceremony brought together winners from ten regions to celebrate the achievements and innovations of a diverse selection of individuals and organizations in the field of international [...]
Daughters For Life Wins PIEoneer of the Year Award!pandi2018-09-11T13:40:55-04:00
Daughters For Life Honours Three Remarkable Women
The magical, memorable Daughters For Life Third Annual Gala was an overwhelming success– both in raising funds for the Foundation's important educational work and raising its profile in the community. On Wednesday, May 28, 1014, night the annual Daughters for Life Gala took place at The Carlu in Toronto, featuring live entertainment, an auction and celebrating the first young scholars and honouring three remarkable women who have made a difference [...]
Daughters For Life Honours Three Remarkable Womenadmin2018-07-22T21:04:14-04:00
2013 DFL Award Winners!
Announcing the 2013 DFL Award Winners! In memory of Bessan, Mayar and Aya, the three daughters of Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, President of the Foundation, who were killed on January 16, 2009, when an Israeli tank shelled their home, the Daughters for Life (DFL) announced the winners of the 2013 DFL awards. The awards are given to support and celebrate the educational achievements of young women across the Middle East, irrespective [...]
2013 DFL Award Winners!admin2018-07-23T20:22:30-04:00
Asian University for Women
Daughters for Life Signs a Scholarship Agreement with Asian University for Women The Daughters for Life Foundation has signed an agreement with the Asian University for Women (AUW) to provide full scholarships at the undergraduate level to disadvantaged young women from the Middle East. The Asian University for Women (AUW) is based on the firm belief that education—especially higher education—provides a critical pathway to leadership development, economic progress, and [...]
Asian University for Womenadmin2018-07-23T17:09:28-04:00
RBC Top 25 Immigrants Award Winner
Dr. Abuelaish Selected as one of the 2013 RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award Winners! Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, Founder and President of the Daughters for Life Foundation, was selected as one of RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrants for 2013. This is a peoples' choice award that recognizes people who have come to Canada and have made a positive difference living here. Over 600 nominations were received in just two [...]
RBC Top 25 Immigrants Award Winneradmin2018-07-23T20:20:04-04:00
Global Scholarship Agreement
Daughters for Life Signs Global Scholarship Agreement with New College of Florida. The Daughters for Life Foundation has signed an agreement with New College of Florida to provide full college scholarships to disadvantaged women from the Middle East. New College of Florida is a national leader in the arts and sciences and is the State of Florida's designated honors college for the liberal arts. Consistently ranked among the top [...]
Global Scholarship Agreementadmin2018-07-23T20:20:13-04:00
An Evening to Remember!
Second Annual Daughters for Life Gala an Evening to Remember! The Daughters For Life Second Annual Gala was an overwhelming success – both in raising funds for the Foundation's important educational work and consolidating its standing in the community. It was also a stunning evening of celebrating women "firsts". Yosra Albakkar and Hadeel Baraka, the first two young women to arrive in Canada from the Middle East on full [...]
An Evening to Remember!admin2018-07-23T20:15:51-04:00
Fundraising Dinner a Success!
Hong Kong Fundraising Dinner a Success! A Hong Kong Gala held to raise funds on behalf of the Daughters for Life Foundation was held on May 15, 2013, at the Aberdeen Marina Club. The high-profile dinner was a huge success in supporting the vision and work of the Foundation, which is breaking new ground in its mandate and scholarship programs that provide girls, struggling with conflict and hardship in [...]
Fundraising Dinner a Success!admin2018-07-23T20:14:34-04:00
First Annual Gala 2012
The Daughters For Life First Annual Gala a great success! The magical, memorable Daughters For Life First Annual Gala was an overwhelming success– both in raising funds for the Foundation's important educational work and raising its profile in the community. Over 10 stellar musicians, film makers, poets and song writers volunteered their time and talents and skills to the programme. Carol Off, the acclaimed co-host of CBC's As It [...]
First Annual Gala 2012admin2018-07-23T20:13:04-04:00
Lebanon Awards
Photo Caption: DFL award receipients, Batoul Othman, Alaa Issawi, Hiba Maoued and Laila Maraqa, with Her Excellency Ambassador Mrs. Hilary Childs-Adams, Ambassador of Canada to Lebanon, and LAU President Dr. Jabra. Her Excellency Ambassador Mrs. Hilary Childs-Adams, Ambassador of Canada to Lebanon, and LAU President Dr. Jabra, attended the ceremony. In her speech, Ambassador Childs-Adams congratulated the award recipients saying "You are proof that hard work, dedication and determination can [...]
Lebanon Awardsadmin2018-07-22T21:19:44-04:00
Daughters for Life Scholarship at Humber College
Announcing the Daughters for Life Foundation Scholarship Program in collaboration with Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Toronto.The Daughters for Life Foundation Scholarship Program, in collaboration with Humber College, will provide one full scholarship which includes tuition, accommodation and food for a female student from the Middle East to pursue postsecondary studies at the diploma or degree level.Applications will be considered based on financial need, academic achievement, satisfactory [...]
Daughters for Life Scholarship at Humber Collegeadmin2018-07-23T20:05:52-04:00
Dr. Abuelaish Appointed to the Order of Ontario
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, Founder and President of the Daughters for Life Foundation, was appointed to the Order of Ontario, the province's highest honour which recognizes extraordinary residents who have made a lasting contribution to the province, the country and the world. The Honourable David C. Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, invested Dr. Abuelaish with the Order of Ontario medal at a special ceremony on Wednesday, February 6, 2013, at [...]
Dr. Abuelaish Appointed to the Order of Ontarioadmin2018-07-23T17:00:26-04:00
Tufts Delegation
The Daughters for Life Delegates Return to Gaza after successful participation in the 2013 EPIIC symposium at Tufts University in the United States. Four women delegates returned to Gaza after successfully participating in The Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium on Global Health. The event was held at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, from February 19-25, 2013. The delegation was made up of Asmaa Abumuamar, Saja Abu Sultan, Majd AlWahaidi [...]
Tufts Delegationadmin2018-07-22T21:20:01-04:00


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SHINee and Aegyo: No More, Please
In my last article, I mentioned that I believed that SHINee could do a masculine concept. And you know what? I still do. I believe in them. In my heart, I feel as if the boys could do something stronger and more masculine than what they've done in the past. Their noonas Other people want SHINee to remain as the colorfully-dressed, cute boys we've all come to know and love but I strongly believe that it's time for SHINee to hang up their rainbow-colored skinny jeans for good.
But then, I came across this.
Everyone already knows that SHINee recently received the opportunity to endorse Etude, a cosmetics brand; Megan wrote about it months ago. And here I am, coming to agree with her. SHINee needs to stop with this aegyo business. It's becoming disturbing. I felt uncomfortable watching the boys make cute gestures and and act all giddy as they recorded this video. They look out-of-place, as if they were wishing they could be doing something else. I cannot be the only that sees the kill me now look in Key's eyes or the please let this be over soon look on Minho's face. The feigned happiness and supposedly cheerful smiles looked strained at times. You can't blame them. Half their dignity went out the window with this video.
Aside from that, the song isn't terrible but it's an overload of cuteness. I've never heard their voices so chipmunk-y or seen anyone rap so cutely. I mean, that rap scene was adorable. A little creepy (I'm starting to agree with Ree about Taemin being a potential serial killer) and uncomfortable-looking, but adorable nonetheless. it was amusing to see the boys trying to rap all gangsta-like. It looked so contrived, like they were just immitating what they saw on TV. I kept hearing Mickey Mouse in the background, which was distracting and unnecessary. The cheek-swiping was a bit much, but they are selling skincare so they do need to emphasize that flawless skin of theirs.
This video only strengthened my desire to see SHINee do something masculine this year. I want them to stop acting cutesy and instead put their heart and soul into a concept they've been yearning for, one where they aren't tied down to what noonas want of them (sweet little boys next door) and instead are able to show their prowess. I know that it's next to impossible (SHINee needs its noonas to survive) but I'm still going to hope for it. The knowledge that SM hired a best-selling university professor, Kim Nando, to write the lyrics for SHINee's newest album gives me more hope. With luck, we'll be listening to lyrics with more depth and meaning than typical pop songs.
(Omonatheydidn't)
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Sweet Briar College will host a performance by The Vivaldi Project at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 21, in Memorial Chapel. Following the concert, members of the ensemble will answer questions about their performance.
The Vivaldi Project is an all-women period instrument ensemble dedicated to presenting a 17th- and 18th-century string repertoire. Its name refers not only to the group's core repertoire — the extraordinary works of the virtuoso violinist and composer, Antonio Vivaldi — but also the group's goal of probing both the roots of Vivaldi's distinctive musical style, as well as his role as the most influential Italian composer of his generation.
The performance is supported by the generous gift of an anonymous donor to Sweet Briar College and is free and open to the public. Because there is limited seating in Memorial Chapel, the College asks that attendees reserve their seats by picking up their tickets in advance at the Florence Elston Inn & Conference Center on campus (for off-campus visitors) or in the Office of Student Life (for Sweet Briar community members). For more information, please call Amy Ostroth at 434-381-6330.


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Global COVID-19 Vaccine Equity
After lagging behind many other countries, Canada has now become one of the global leaders in citizens who have received the first dose of their COVID-19 vaccine. As a result, hospitalizations have decreased and every day we see new signs that things are returning to something closer to normal.
The global picture, however, is far more concerning. Massive inequity in the distribution of COVID vaccine means that many countries are being left far behind.
It is estimated that it could be 2023-2024 before low- and middle-income countries have sufficient vaccine supply for their citizens.
COVAX, a global alliance co-led by the World Health Organization to provide vaccines to the world's poorest countries, has delivered over 70 million vaccine doses to countries around the world. However, COVAX estimates a current shortage of 190 million doses due to virus surges, particularly in places like India.
The Presbyterian Church in Canada has joined with other denominations and organizations from across Canada in the Love My Neighbour initiative, aimed at ensuring that equitable vaccine supply exists both here in Canada and around the globe. In May, the PCC signed on to a letter sent to the Prime Minister urging global vaccine equity.
Support PWS&D's ongoing COVID-19 response
Since the start of the pandemic, PWS&D has responded with its partners and through the ACT Alliance and Canadian Foodgrains Bank in response to needs made worse by COVID-19. We have responded in Malawi, Bangladesh, India, Nicaragua, and Afghanistan to name a few, with food assistance, personal protective equipment and knowledge-sharing on infection prevention and control. To learn more, click here.
Write the Prime Minister and your Member of Parliament (find your MP here) letting them know you care about vaccine equity. Urge the Canadian government to lead the way in ensuring fair access, distribution and administration of the vaccine around the world, by:
Sharing doses of Canada's purchased and committed vaccines, including those purchased from COVAX.
Supporting intellectual property waivers to allow easier generic vaccine production globally.
Strengthening global health systems through increased Official Development Assistance.
Remember in prayer those most affected by the pandemic
These prayers have been gathered by the World Council of Churches.
This helpful background document from the World Council of Churches provides more information on vaccine equity and the COVID-19 pandemic.
The former moderator, Rev. Amanda Currie, has written a reflection encouraging Presbyterians to get vaccinated and support efforts to ensure global vaccine equity.
Karen Bokma2021-11-17T12:50:56-05:002021/06/10|Advocacy and Educational Resources, News|0 Comments


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Young scientists form group for International Polar Year
In anticipation of the upcoming International Polar Year, a group of young scientists at UAF have formed a University of Alaska IPY Young Researchers Network (UA IPY YRN) with the hopes of getting involved in this exciting historic event.
The group will next meet on Feb. 1 at 1 p.m. in the West Ridge Research Building, room 101. The network is looking for involvement from fellow young researchers from any of the UA campuses. Teleconferencing will be provided on request to those outside of Fairbanks.
The volunteer network is comprised of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows representing a variety of disciplines. While many of the students are from areas far from Fairbanks, the members felt the need to "Think Globally, and Act Locally." To that end, the ideas of engaging Alaskans outside the university in IPY activities and creating a lasting legacy for future generations are behind the group's proposed projects, which include Science Café - a series of informal science discussions for the public; Project Snowball, in which schoolchildren across Alaska will analyze snow chemistry; and Wildlife Day by Day, which will put young researchers in contact with local people throughout rural Alaska to share information and data about the state's various migrating wildlife - many species of which are being affected by climate change and development in the Arctic. The group is also developing an overarching synthesis project that promotes life and science in the North through interdisciplinary and cross-cultural partnerships.
The UA IPY YRN has a presence on the Web at http://ipy-youth.uaf.edu/. For more on the overall IPY effort at UAF, go to www.uaf.edu/ipy/. Those interested in arranging to attend the meeting remotely should contact:
• Derek Mueller and Jeremy Harbeck, IPY YRN co-chairs: (907) 474-5382, dmueller@gi.alaska.edu, jharbeck@gi.alaska.edu.
• Matthew Druckenmiller, IPY YRN member: (907) 474-1156, ftmld@uaf.edu.
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LAPD: "We Don't Get Into" Immigration Status Of Christmas Story Director's Killer
At 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 4, Bob Clark, the 67-year-old director of the Christmas movie classic A Christmas Story, and his 24-year-old son Ariel Hanrath-Clark, were killed when the Infiniti that Clark was driving was hit head on—by a drunk, unlicensed driver in a GMC Yukon driving in the wrong lane.
An AP story on the incident reported that "the driver of the other vehicle, Hector Velazquez-Nava, 24, of Los Angeles … will be booked for investigation of 'gross vehicular manslaughter' after being treated" for minor injuries at UCLA Medical Center, according to LAPD spokesman, Lt. Paul Vernon.
The AP story quoted Lt. Vernon as saying: "The initial investigation has concluded that Nava was driving without a license northbound in the southbound lanes while under the influence of an alcoholic beverage." [A Christmas Story' director, son killed in L.A. car crash, By Jeremiah Marquez, April 4, 2007]
A 29-year-old female companion riding with Velazquez-Nava also suffered minor injuries.
At the LAPD Media Relations Section, an Officer Hurty told me, "I think blood was drawn" from Velazquez-Nava, but that "we don't [have a blood alcohol level on him]," and "that's going to be part of evidence used in court" so "we don't want [unclear] releasing that."
And, I asked, do you know anything about [Velazquez-Nava's] immigration status? "No, we don't."
Do you plan on …, "No, we don't get into that." (Officer Hurty anticipated my question on immigration status; she must get a lot of that.)
[VDARE .COM note: See tonight's TL: A reader who emailed the LA Times found that, surprisingly, they were willing to look into Velazquez-Nava's status, but said that police might withhold the information.]
Let's see. A man with a Spanish name and no driver's license is so blasted that he drives into incoming traffic, kills two American citizens and almost kills his female companion.
What are the odds that he is a legal resident or American citizen?
Maybe it's time that the LAPD "got into that".
But the LAPD still enforces Special Order 40, the 1979 illegal ordinance instituted by the LA Police Commission and signed by then Chief Daryl Gates requiring that police officers not inquire into people's immigration status.
Thanks to S.O. 40, much of LA is today under the control of murderous illegal immigrant gangs and Los Angeles last year suffered 269 gang-related murders.
LAPD Chief Bill Bratton still defends S.O. 40. He insists that if police inquire about people's immigration status, no-one—i.e., no illegal immigrants—will come forward to report crimes and bear witness against bad guys.
But, as Bratton [email him] has to know perfectly well, his sanctuary policies have emasculated the police and ceded sovereignty to the Hispanic gangs. So no illegals report crimes and bear witness against the gangs anyway—because they know that doing so will guarantee their death and the deaths of their loved ones.
And Bratton's own officers have for years complained about seeing known illegal immigrant gang-bangers on the streets but not being able to do anything until the gang-banger commits additional crimes, such as murdering someone.
Such a handcuffing of the police, which has no legal basis, is at the root not only of the LAPD's years-long impotence in solving murders, but of its role in enabling murderers to kill people in the first place. A sane policy would permit police to stop all known gang members on sight, make them show identification proving that they are legal residents or U.S. citizens, and detain them if they fail to do so.
(Identifying them is child's play. Gang members make it their business to identify themselves via gang tattoos, gang signs, and gang "tags" that they paint on private property in acts of vandalism.)
A video blog on Special Order 40 produced and posted last July 30 by the folks at Full Disclosure contains interviews held with current and former LAPD officials over the past few years. In one interview, host Leslie Dutton asks a uniformed LAPD official, "Why don't you enforce immigration laws?"
The official responds,
"Well, I think it's a basic human right. ["It" apparently refers to breaking America's immigration laws.] And what we've looked at in terms of the immigration status of somebody is that we have a tremendous melting pot in the City of Los Angeles and we recognize that there are a number of basic social issues that come to bear as a result of a number of people coming from a number of different nations, and as a result of that type of melting pot of atmosphere that we've seen in the City of Los Angeles, the city fathers, [E mail Mayor Villaraigosa] the City Council, our Police Commission has taken the attitude that what we want to do is provide services to everybody in the community, regardless of their undocumented status, and unless they break the law, we're not going to report things to INS. Where it's just the sole status of them being here illegally, we don't take that into consideration when we're enforcing the law."
Since when do uniformed police officers, who have taken an oath to enforce the laws of the United States, get to speak the foreign language of "human rights," and openly say that they will refuse to enforce the nation's laws?
It would have been one thing if the LAPD officer had simply said: "The politicians have ordered us not to enforce America's immigration laws, so the matter is out of our hands." But instead we get this shameless "human rights" sophistry.
Just imagine how far an American citizen would get with the same LAPD if he said he refused to follow written statutes because they violated his "human rights."
But, as Officer Hurty's response to me shows, the LAPD does not even follow its own pathetic guidelines. Even after the LAPD announced that Hector Velazquez-Nava was indeed guilty of crimes—of driving without a license, of reckless driving, of driving "while under the influence of an alcoholic beverage"—and that the Department will "book [him] for investigation of 'gross vehicular manslaughter'" once he is ready to be released from the hospital, it still has no interest in determining his immigration status.
As the Clark family just learned, the impact of illegal immigrant crime is not limited to gangs—or even to illegal entry to the country, illegally working, illegally driving or tax fraud. VDARE.COM's Brenda Walker has shown that Hispanic men in the American Southwest (anywhere from 25 to 50 percent of whom are illegal immigrants) get arrested for drunk driving in proportions dwarfing the rest of the population—an almost four-to-one ratio in Austin, TX—but Hispanic men are much more often arrested in a condition of "extreme drunkenness".
Walker quoted "Assistant Dean at the University of Texas School of Public Health in Dallas Raul Caetano [who] put it this way, 'The profile of a drunk driver in California is a young Hispanic male, and I bet you have a similar situation all over the Southwest.'" [Diversity Is Strength! It's Also…Drunk Driving]
As Walker observed:
"America's highways are becoming far more dangerous because of cultural differences-unassimilated foreigners who believe that knocking down 10 beers before hitting the road is no problema. And drunk driving is an accepted behavior among Mexicans in particular."
The appalling truth is this: Due to President George W. Bush's national sanctuary/open borders/merge-with-Mexico policy, probably more Americans have been killed by illegal immigrants in America than by insurgents in Iraq.
Didn't Bush swear to uphold American law?
Isn't that the LAPD's job, too?
Nicholas Stix [email him] lives in New York City, which he views from the perspective of its public transport system, experienced in his career as an educator. His weekly column appears at Men's News Daily and many other Web sites. He has also written for Middle American News, the New York Daily News, New York Post, Newsday, Chronicles, Ideas on Liberty and the Weekly Standard. He maintains two blogs: A Different Drummer and Nicholas Stix, Uncensored.


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Q: build failure when trying to cross-compile Qt 4.8.3 on Debian, for win32 I am trying to build a pristine Qt 4.8.3 tarball, and I configured the build with this command:
./configure -opensource -xplatform win32-g++ -device-option CROSS_COMPILE=i686-w64-mingw32-

Following is a result of (re)running make:
$ make
cd src/tools/bootstrap/ && make -f Makefile
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/tools/bootstrap'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `first'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/tools/bootstrap'
cd src/tools/moc/ && make -f Makefile
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/tools/moc'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `first'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/tools/moc'
cd src/tools/rcc/ && make -f Makefile
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/tools/rcc'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `first'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/tools/rcc'
cd src/tools/uic/ && make -f Makefile
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/tools/uic'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `first'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/tools/uic'
cd src/winmain/ && make -f Makefile
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/winmain'
make -f Makefile.Debug all
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/winmain'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/winmain'
make -f Makefile.Release all
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/winmain'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/winmain'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/winmain'
cd src/corelib/ && make -f Makefile
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/corelib'
make -f Makefile.Debug all
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/corelib'
i686-w64-mingw32-g++ -shared -mthreads -Wl,--out-implib,/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/lib/libQtCored4.a -o ../../lib/QtCored4.dll object_script.QtCored.Debug  -L'/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/lib' -L'/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/lib' -lole32 -luuid -lws2_32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -luser32 -lkernel32 .obj/debug-shared/QtCored_resource_res.o
Creating library file: /home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/lib/libQtCored4.a
./.obj/debug-shared/qtextcodec.o: In function `setup':
/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/corelib/codecs/qtextcodec.cpp:771: undefined reference to `QGb18030Codec::QGb18030Codec()'
/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/corelib/codecs/qtextcodec.cpp:772: undefined reference to `QGbkCodec::QGbkCodec()'
/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/corelib/codecs/qtextcodec.cpp:773: undefined reference to `QGb2312Codec::QGb2312Codec()'
/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/corelib/codecs/qtextcodec.cpp:774: undefined reference to `QEucJpCodec::QEucJpCodec()'
/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/corelib/codecs/qtextcodec.cpp:775: undefined reference to `QJisCodec::QJisCodec()'
/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/corelib/codecs/qtextcodec.cpp:776: undefined reference to `QSjisCodec::QSjisCodec()'
./.obj/debug-shared/qtextcodec.o: In function `QEucKrCodec':
/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/corelib/codecs/../../plugins/codecs/kr/qeuckrcodec.h:77: undefined reference to `vtable for QEucKrCodec'
./.obj/debug-shared/qtextcodec.o: In function `QCP949Codec':
/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/corelib/codecs/../../plugins/codecs/kr/qeuckrcodec.h:91: undefined reference to `vtable for QCP949Codec'
./.obj/debug-shared/qtextcodec.o: In function `QBig5Codec':
/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/corelib/codecs/../../plugins/codecs/tw/qbig5codec.h:56: undefined reference to `vtable for QBig5Codec'
./.obj/debug-shared/qtextcodec.o: In function `QBig5hkscsCodec':
/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/corelib/codecs/../../plugins/codecs/tw/qbig5codec.h:70: undefined reference to `vtable for QBig5hkscsCodec'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [../../lib/QtCored4.dll] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/corelib'
make[1]: *** [debug-all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/wena/src/qt-4.8.3/src/corelib'
make: *** [sub-corelib-make_default-ordered] Error 2

I am building on latest Debian 7 (Wheezy).

A: I had the same error when cc-ing 4.7 with -no-iconv.
Came to this hack to src/corelib/codecs/codecs.pri:
win32 {
        !contains(QT_CONFIG,iconv) {
                # no iconv, so we put all plugins in the library
                HEADERS += \
                        ../plugins/codecs/cn/qgb18030codec.h \
                        ../plugins/codecs/jp/qeucjpcodec.h \
                        ../plugins/codecs/jp/qjiscodec.h \
                        ../plugins/codecs/jp/qsjiscodec.h \
                        ../plugins/codecs/kr/qeuckrcodec.h \
                        ../plugins/codecs/tw/qbig5codec.h \
                        ../plugins/codecs/jp/qfontjpcodec.h
                SOURCES += \
                        ../plugins/codecs/cn/qgb18030codec.cpp \
                        ../plugins/codecs/jp/qjpunicode.cpp \
                        ../plugins/codecs/jp/qeucjpcodec.cpp \
                        ../plugins/codecs/jp/qjiscodec.cpp \
                        ../plugins/codecs/jp/qsjiscodec.cpp \
                        ../plugins/codecs/kr/qeuckrcodec.cpp \
                        ../plugins/codecs/tw/qbig5codec.cpp \
                        ../plugins/codecs/jp/qfontjpcodec.cpp
        }
}

There were other errors and hacks, but it looks like they're gone in 4.8.3.

A: You are missing the libiconv library used by the text codec plugins.  Someone with the same problem here.

A: To avoid this error:
In file included from main.cpp:42:0: dialog.h:65:5: error: 'QSharedMemory' does not name a type

Looks like mxe uses ./configure -nomake examples ... (another option is what vlc uses, which is to just do make sub-src instead of global make--though you can't use make install with this method since it still tries to build the examples).  Seems like a bug in qt to me...or maybe using the locally built qmake would help, didn't try that...
See also How do I configure Qt for cross-compilation from Linux to Windows target?

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module ScorchedEarth
  module Subscribers
    module Effect
      def setup
        super

        event_runner.subscribe(Events::Hit) do |event|
          objects << Explosion.new(event.object.x, event.object.y)
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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Airbus may set up Goa MRO facility for EC725 choppers
European aviation major Airbus has chosen Goa to set up a maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility for the EC 725 helicopter, provided it wins the over Rs 2,000 crore Coast Guard contract for which it has pitched. The facility, close to the Indian Coast Guard's main center of operations, is planned as part of Airbus' offer to equip the Indian Coast Guard with 14 EC725 for its Twin Engine Heavy Helicopter (TEHH) requirement and the foreseeable future needs for a helicopter of this category by the Indian armed forces, industry sources said.
Asked about their plans, Airbus in a statement said, "We cannot comment on the location of the MRO for the EC725 but it is true that such a facility is envisaged as part of our offer to supply 14 EC725 to the Indian Coast Guard. All 14 EC725 will be integrated and flight-tested at this site."
The Coast Guard had first raised the requirement post 26/11 which exposed the loopholes in its surveillance and interception capabilities. The force currently uses ageing Chetaks as well as indigenous Advanced Light Choppers (ALH) for patrolling, search and rescue and casualty evacuation.


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Phantogram est un groupe de rock électronique américain, originaire de Saratoga Springs, dans l'État de New York. Il est composé de Josh Carter et Sarah Barthel. Le batteur Tim Oakley accompagne le groupe uniquement lors de spectacles.

Le groupe définit son style musical d'electro rock, dream pop, electronica et trip hop, sous le terme de . D'après Carter, leur style est  Carter et Barthel s'inspirent notamment des Beatles, de David Bowie, Cocteau Twins, J Dilla, the Flaming Lips, John Frusciante, Serge Gainsbourg, Madlib, Sonic Youth, Yes, Kevin Shields et Prince.

Biographie

Carter et Barthel sont amis depuis l'école maternelle. En été 2007, Barthel revient chez elle mécontente de son orientation au Champlain College de Vermont, et Carter revient chez lui après avoir joué à New York avec Grand Habit, un groupe expérimental formé avec son frère, John.  Les deux amis se réunissent et forment un groupe. Ils jouent d'abord sur scène mais décident de se consacrer aux albums.

Le duo est à l'origine appelé Charlie Everywhere, joue dans la banlieue de Saratoga Springs, et publie deux EP sur le label local Sub-Bombin Records. Après avoir signé au label britannique Barely Breaking Even le , ils changent de nom pour Phantogram.
Leur premier EP éponyme est publié au label CE Records le  suivi la même année par l'EP Running From the Cops.

Ils signent chez Barsuk Records en  sous les encouragements d'Erich Cannon de Spectre Entertainment, qui les a contacté après avoir trouvé leur page MySpace.

Phantogram publie son premier album, Eyelid Movies, le  chez BBE (Europe) et Indica Records (Canada), et le  chez Barsuk (US). L'album est bien accueilli par la presse spécialisée, et comprend trois singles : Mouthful of Diamonds, When I'm Small et As Far as I Can See. L'EP Nightlife est publié le  et comprend le single Don't Move.  Le duo collabore avec Big Boi d'OutKast sur trois morceaux (Objectum Sexuality, CPU et Lines) sur son deuxième album studio, Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors, publié en . Le , Republic Records publie l'EP Phantogram. Il est suivi par un deuxième album, Voices, publié le  par Barsuk/Republic. Un cinquième single, Nothing But Trouble, est publié le .

Barthel est invitée sur la chanson de Miley Cyrus, Slab of Butter (Scorpion), issue de l'album Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz. Phantogram collabore de nouveau avec Big Boi en 2015, pour l'EP sept titres Big Grams, publié le  chez Epic Records.

Discographie

Albums studio
 2009 : Eyelid Movies
 2014 : Voices
 2016 : Three
2020 : Ceremony

EP
 2009 : Phantogram EP (2009)
 2009 : Running From the Cops EP (2009)
 2011 : Nightlife EP (2011)
 2013 : Phantogram EP (2013)

Singles
 2009 : Mouthful of Diamonds
 2009 : When I'm Small
 2011 : As Far As I Can See
 2011 : Don't Move
 2013 : Black Out Days (réédité en 2014)
 2013 : Nothing but Trouble
 2014 : Fall In Love
 2016 : You don't Get Me High Anymore (#6 du Billboard Alternative)

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Groupe musical de l'État de New York
Groupe de dream pop
Groupe de shoegazing
Groupe d'electronica
Groupe de trip hop
Groupe musical formé en 2007
Artiste de Fiction Records
Artiste de Republic Records
Artiste de Barsuk Records

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First Stolperstein for Roma installed in Zagreb, Croatia
On 5 November 2021, the Center for Promotion of Tolerance and Holocaust Remembrance in Zagreb installed the first Stolperstein, "stumbling stone," in memory and remembrance of victims of the genocide of the Roma.
Honoring the victims of the genocide of the Roma
This first Stolperstein honors sixty-nine Roma victims from the Nikolić, Lakatoš, Štefanović, Maleković, Kovačević and Šajnović families, all families of Roma who lived in the Zagreb area and who were deported to the Jasenovac concentration camp in mid-1942.
It reminds us of the individual lives that were cut short by the genocide of the Roma. Mijo Nikolić, for example, lived in the area of the Remete municipality, having purchased land there for residential buildings. Although his year of birth is unknown, available documents show that he was born in Gornji Bukovac, that he was Roman Catholic, that his nationality was Yugoslav, his mother tongue Croatian, and that he had three family members. Together with the small group of Roma living in Remete, he was deported to the Jasenovac concentration camp in mid-1942.
International cooperation for Stolpersteine project
This series of Stolpersteine represent a continuation of cooperation between the Center, the Spuren Stiftung, and the German artist Gunter Demning, the founder of the Stolperstein project, after having laid twenty Stolpersteine beginning in 2019 commemorating victims of the Holocaust and the Ustasha Regime in Zagreb. This was done in close cooperation with the Jewish religious community Bet Israel and the Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media.
The series of Stolpersteine for victims of the Roma genocide were organized in partnership with the Kali Sara Roma Association in the Republic of Croatia. The ceremony for the first of twenty Stolpersteine in this series was held on 5 November 2021 in the Park 5. Studenoga, the Park of 5 November, which is dedicated to Roma and located near one of the Ustasha camps where many died.
This international project was financially supported by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Embassy of Canada and the Embassy of Republic of Austria (Austrian Cultural Forum).
The Centre for Promotion of Tolerance and Preservation of Holocaust Remembrance was established in 2017 in Zagreb. Its founders and managers are the City of Zagreb and the citizens' association called the Zagreb Jewish Film Festival, a former IHRA grant recipient, which brings together institutions, the non-profit and civil sectors, experts and citizens of different social and economic backgrounds and age groups with the aim to promote the development of socially engaged individuals who work to redefine the notion of public interest. Working together with public authorities and the private sector, the Centre works on various projects aiming to combat intolerance, prejudice, discrimination, oppression and violence and to develop a more tolerant society.
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A Região Geográfica Imediata de Itajubá é uma das 70 regiões imediatas do estado de Minas Gerais, uma das 5 regiões imediatas que compõem a Região Geográfica Intermediária de Pouso Alegre e uma das 509 regiões imediatas do Brasil, criadas pelo IBGE em 2017.

É composta por 14 municípios, tendo uma população estimada pelo IBGE para 1.º de julho de 2017, de  habitantes e uma área total de  km².

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 Lista de regiões geográficas intermediárias e imediatas de Minas Gerais
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Mississippi Gulf Coast has a quick turnaround in MACJC play Tuesday when the Bulldogs travel to Decatur to take on East Central.
The Bulldogs had their weekend series pushed back to Sunday, giving them only one day off before the 3 p.m. doubleheader, which will be streamed at https://www.eccc.edu/eccc-media.
Gulf Coast needed only one relief pitcher in its sweep at Coahoma.
MGCCC swept Coahoma in its MACJC opener Sunday, winning 17-2 and 7-3.
East Central split its MACJC opener Saturday, losing 5-4 to Holmes and winning 3-1.
Gulf Coast swept ECCC at Perk last year on May, winning 9-1 and 5-2. Brandon Parker broke the school record with his 20th home run, and Josh Lewis threw a two-hitter.
"They're always a team that's going to compete really hard. I think East Central is one of the toughest places to go and play in this league. It's gonna be two tough games. It'll be a test for us." – Gulf Coast coach Rodney Batts.
Dawson Hall (Fr., East Central/Hurley) ranks 12th among NJCAA Division II pitchers who have thrown 20 innings in K/9 at 12.13.
Cullan O'Shea (So., Mary G. Montgomery/Mobile Ala.) has a nine-game RBI streak (20 total).
Dee Hawthorne has gone 2-for-3 in his last three games.


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David Stern, former NBA commissioner, dead at 77
Posted 2:51 pm, January 1, 2020, by CNN Wire, Updated at 02:52PM, January 1, 2020
(CNN) — David Stern, the former NBA commissioner who reshaped the league and presided over its skyrocketing growth for three decades, has died, the league said Wednesday. He was 77.
The NBA announced the news of his death in a statement stating Stern "passed away this afternoon as a result of the brain hemorrhage he suffered approximately three weeks ago. His wife, Dianne, and their family were with him at his bedside."
On December 12, the NBA said Stern had suffered a sudden brain hemorrhage that required emergency surgery. His son, Eric, told CNN days later his father had not been conscious since the incident and was on a breathing tube.
The NBA wouldn't be the league it is today without Stern. During his 30-year tenure as the league's commissioner, Stern led a major franchise expansion and helped globalize the game, turning it into a multibillion business.
He also oversaw the creation of the Women's National Basketball Association and the NBA Development League.
After graduating from Columbia Law School, the New York native became a skilled negotiator working in the litigation department of law firm Proskauer Rose. His involvement with the NBA began when he worked as outside counsel for cases involving the league in 1966.
He became the organization's first general counsel in 1978 and was later promoted to executive vice president in charge of legal and business affairs before becoming the fourth NBA commissioner, replacing Larry O'Brien.
When Stern took his post as commissioner in 1984, television revenues were low and several franchises were in financial turmoil. But he quickly rolled up his sleeves and got to work.
Over the next 30 years until his retirement in 2014, the player's salary cap grew from $3.6 million to just under $59 million, according to Forbes.
While television revenues jumped from around $22 million to about $930 million, and franchise values from $400 million in 1984 to $19 billion when Stern retired, the magazine reported.
The league took off globally under Stern's tenure, becoming the first professional sports league to play regular-season games outside the US. Then NBA players were allowed to compete in the Olympics for the first time with Stern's blessing.
In 1992, the "Dream Team" — comprising a coterie of NBA legends, including Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, John Stockton and Michael Jordan — claimed to the gold medal.
Many, like former NBA star Shaquille O'Neal, saw Stern as a visionary.
"In 1994, he envisioned all that's going on now. Europe, China, big TV contracts, free agency, guys being able to pick and control where they go," O'Neal said on TNT's "Inside the NBA" following the news of Stern's hospitalization in December 2019.
Another big part of Stern's strategy was marketing the league's superstars and making them global icons. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird leading the charge in the '80s, then Jordan in the '90s and extending well into the 2000s with Kobe Bryant and LeBron James.
His ability to adapt and grow translated into the development of NBA.com and the league's television and production company.
But it didn't come without some growing pains and challenges.
Stern presided over four player lockouts and angered some players with tough disciplinary decisions and the adoption of an unpopular sideline dress code.
When Johnson announced he was retiring from the NBA and that he was HIV-positive in 1997, Stern stood close. Months later, he supported Johnson's return to the league.
For Stern, it was a chance to educate fans on issues beyond the court.
"By virtue of that announcement, and the league's standing behind him and assisting communications efforts about the disease, we taught the world not to be afraid of people who are HIV positive. That was a seminal moment for me," he said in an interview with Columbia Law School in 2017.
In the years since he passed the reigns over to now-NBA commissioner Adam Silver, Stern became a senior adviser for the NBA, venture capital firm Greycroft Partners and investment bank PJT Partners, among other accomplishments.
Stern was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2014 and the International Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016.
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Updated: 01 JAN 20 16:39 ET
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Lilley's Lake Taneycomo Fishing Report, November 12
By Phil Lilley, November 12, 2019 in Upper Lake Taneycomo
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With the lakes above us approaching the "9's", we all below Table Rock Dam on Lake Taneycomo are breathing a sign of relief at the end of yet another high water event. Beaver has dropped about 18 inches from its crest of 1,130.5 feet to 1,129, and Table Rock is right at 919 feet. Both lakes continue to move water over their spill gates and through their turbines --- Beaver at more than 8,000 cubic feet per second, and Table Rock at 21,800. But I expect we should see a reduction of flow very shortly.
This has been a very different high water event. Why? Spill gates have never been used during the months of either October or November when dissolved oxygen levels are an issue for our tail water. It's one thing to release water through the turbines where liquid oxygen can be added to keep O2 levels at safe levels, but when rainfall in the upper basin warrants bigger releases, things can get real dicey for our lake.
The U.S. Corps of Army Engineers was forced to release water from the spill gates a few weeks ago for the first time October, and luckily the water released was cool enough not to harm our cold water trout. We've had three big rains; the last one dumped 3-5 inches of rain on Beaver Lake and the rest of the upper White River basin, causing pretty big releases from both dams. At the same time, the Corps has taken a couple of turbines at Table Rock Dam offline for service, so spill gate releases were increased to make up for turbine release. Again, Table Rock's water temperature had dropped to the low 60's, so this release didn't bother the trout.
As these releases continued, and we fished in the high flows, I expected to see threadfin shad coming over the upper gates. It's almost a given to expect some awesome fishing opportunities when the gates are open, but again, they've never been opened this time of year. They were opened once in September 2009, and that release killed a lot of trout, main our brown trout, because the water was very warm -- in the 80's.
So, no shad appeared last week. Fishing was just okay. It took me several days of frustrating fishing to figure out why shad weren't coming over the spill gates. It was because the thermocline was above the gate level. Water below the thermocline is basically void of oxygen, so there was no living thing below it. It wasn't until Saturday, when the lake started to mix, and the thermocline started to dissolve, that fish were able to swim down to that level of the spill gates and be transported to Taneycomo. Yes, we saw a few shad and other fish come over last week but just a few, in spurts. But now that Table Rock has started to mix and that good, cold water is starting to sink, we should see a steady diet of bait fish flow in to Taneycomo for the duration of the spill.
At the time of this writing, I don't know exactly what's going on below the dam and what's in the release from Table Rock, but I assume there are shad coming over and our fish are eating them like crazy. The shad we've seen are small, maybe an inch long. Again, I assume it's because of the time of year that they are so small. Usually, later in the winter and spring, the shad we see are much bigger. I don't think we will need to adjust the size of what we're throwing to match a smaller bait fish, though. Our white 1/8th ounce marabou jigs and shad flies should do the trick.
As seen in this One Cast video, white jigs and the Bomber Fat-Free Fingerling crank bait was working Monday afternoon/evening. And I know a nickle or white spoon will also catch fish. A medium size white marabou jig under a float with either a fly rod or spin cast rig will work, too, and I don't think you'll have to set your float at 20 feet deep, which is a real pain to manage. Those fish will be coming off the bottom for a white morsel of fish -- actually they'll even take them off the surface.
These reports are always hard to write, especially when I know there will be changes to flow and conditions days, or even hours after I post them. Such is the case today. So I'm going to keep adding to this report in the comment section and try to keep everyone up on these changes and how they will affect fishing conditions. But one thing is for sure -- we're in for some great trout fishing through the holiday season!
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No rain in the near future... nice!!
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Your face isn't very hairy for this time of year😃. It was a great video !
Couldn't get past the itchy stage this fall... no beard.
They dropped the flow this morning to about 16,600 cfs. Increased turbine flow to 3 units at 9,000 cfs and 7,600 cfs over the top.
Haven't been out yet today but will this afternoon.
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Great fishing.Thanks for the video.Might I suggest that you wear a life jacket when you are fishing and running your boat.Always wear a kill switch.
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It began with an email on October 24, 2013 to Tom Stalcup, Ph.D., Co-Producer and Senior Science Advisor for the new documentary, "TWA Flight 800." New York Magazine intern Claire McCartney wrote that editor Geoffrey Gray wanted to talk to Stalcup and to "get in contact" with Kristina Borjesson, the film's Producer/Director.
In his first phone conversation with Stalcup, Gray jokingly identified himself as being with the National Transportation Safety Board. He congratulated Stalcup on his success and suggested he write a book. Stalcup asked if Gray had seen the documentary. Gray hadn't, but promised to talk again after watching it.
Gray portrayed himself as an honest investigative journalist, saying that investigations like Stalcup's into TWA 800 are his life and that he has conducted many of them and knows what it's like. He gave Stalcup the impression that he was working on a serious article for New York Magazine. Stalcup provided Gray with verified, factual information, free of any speculation or theorizing.
When Gray called film director Borjesson, she asked Gray about the context of his article so that she could better answer his questions. Gray said it was for an issue on conspiracy theories. Borjesson responded that she and her investigative team wanted nothing to do with that because the first-hand sources (members of the original official investigation who had actually handled the wreckage and evidence), hard forensic evidence and eyewitnesses presented in the "TWA Flight 800" documentary had nothing to do with conspiracy theories and didn't belong in that issue. Borjesson added that if New York Magazine ever wanted to do an issue on whistleblowers, that that would be more appropriate, because six former members of the original investigation who appear in the documentary show how the investigation was corrupted and present hard forensic evidence indicating what happened to the airplane. Among these six whistleblowers are Hank Hughes, retired senior aviation accident investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board who reconstructed TWA 800's interior; Robert Young, TWA's lead investigator on the Flight 800 investigation, Jim Speer, the Air Line Pilots Association investigator, and Colonel Dennis Shanahan, M.D., forensic medical consultant on the investigation for the National Transportation Safety Board.
In his follow-up conversation with Borjesson, Gray seemed sympathetic to her argument that the long years of scientific research resulting in "TWA Flight 800," a documentary featuring an investigative team of first hand sources and the government's own experts presenting hard forensic evidence, did not belong in a conspiracy theory issue of the magazine. He understood her concerns, Gray said, because he too, was an investigative journalist. Gray said he had been a producer on Lifetime's "Unsolved Mysteries," a series featuring programs on Bigfoot, lost treasure and wanted criminals.
On November 17, 2013, Gray's article appeared in New York Magazine's "50 Years of Conspiracy Theories" section. Prefacing the magazine's conspiracy theory reportage on page 31 is Zohar Lazar's lurid red, white, and blue ink pen illustration featuring, among other things, an airplane trailed by three missiles flying under a canopy of alien spaceships. "Flight 800" and "Naval Coverup" are written around the blue plane, which is semi-obscured by red scribbles. The word "Coverup" is underlined several times. "The Truly PARANOID [the biggest word in the headline, highlighted in red] Style in American Politics," positioned to the right of Lazar's illustration, is the first of a series of sensational headlines in this section. In New York Magazine's web issue, under the yellow-highlighted title "More Greatest Hits of Out-There Theories," "TWA Flight 800 Was Hit by a Missile" is listed above "Stephen King Killed John Lennon." These images and headlines graphically convey the message that a missile causing the demise of TWA Flight 800 is a far-fetched scenario entertained by paranoid conspiracy theorists.
Stalcup reviewed his very detailed records of his phone conversations with Gray and found that the New York Magazine reporter had not uttered one word indicating that the piece would be part of a conspiracy edition. In fact, as detailed above, when asked directly about it during the second interview, Gray denied it.
On page 36, the word "CONSPIRACIES" in red type-face sits above the title of Gray's piece on TWA Flight 800: "Don't Trust the CIA When They Tell You 'IT WAS NOT A MISSILE." Gray provides no reporting or evidence to justify the previously mentioned "out-there" missile theory headline or to support his title about not trusting the CIA.
Gray is factually wrong about "no damage to the fuel tank." The left wall of the center wing fuel tank was shattered, with pieces curled inward. His inaccurate fuel tank line along with his reporting on the traces of explosives tease the reader into thinking that the "out-there" missile theory might not be so out there after all.
What's really missing in Gray's brief paragraph on Stalcup is any actual reporting on the validity or accuracy of the "overlooked critical evidence" Gray refers to in his article and on the eyewitness accounts presented by the TWA 800 investigative team. Gray conveniently fails to mention that a petition to reopen the investigation based on the TWA 800 investigative team's findings (which include multiple pieces of forensic evidence consistent with a missile hit) is under consideration at the National Transportation Safety Board. Gray arguably has to maintain his silence on these so that he can credibly keep Stalcup in his conspiracy theory piece under the sensational "paranoid" and "out-there" headlines preceding it.
Gray presents two more sources in his piece, journalist Peter Lance and Harvard professor Elaine Scarry. Neither subscribes to a missile strike. The cases they make for their own theories fail to meet minimum investigative reporting standards and aren't credible. Mixing them in with Stalcup, who is a credible source, taints Stalcup by association.
Lance writes about TWA Flight 800 in his book, 9/11 Commission Cover Up: What the Government is Still Hiding About the War on Terror. He reports that a bomb placed over TWA Flight 800's central fuel tank caused the jetliner's demise. The physical evidence refutes this. If a bomb had exploded over the center wing tank, it would have blown a hole down into the tank. In fact, the top of the tank remained relatively flat, indicating that no bomb had exploded over it. Beyond that, other physical evidence shows that the initiating event did not occur in the center wing tank.
The only hard evidence Lance writes about is explosives evidence. The presence of PETN and RDX explosives would apply to both a bomb or missile event so it is not enough to definitively prove which explosive device was the culprit. Then Lance mentions that nitroglycerin (used in a Philippines Airlines bombing) was found in TWA's passenger cabin. An 8/27/1996 article in the Orlando Sentinel titled "Nitroglycerin in TWA 800 Not Suspected in Explosion" mentions the possibility of heart medication being the source of traces of nitroglycerin on the plane. From a reporting perspective, the alleged presence of nitroglycerin on both planes is not proof of a connection between the two events.
Lance's first four "facts" refer to terrorist Ramzi Yousef setting a bomb aboard Philippines Air Line [PAL] 434 to try to explode a center wing tank; to Yousef giving fellow jailbird and mobster Gregory Scarpa a schematic of the bomb trigger he'd used in the PAL 434 blast weeks before TWA 800 exploded; to Yousef telling Scarpa his people would explode a bomb aboard an aircraft (allegedly TWA 800) to seek a mistrial; and to the FBI giving Yousef phone access to his uncle Khalid Shaikh Mohammed who also knew how to build the kind of bomb that blew up PAL 434. There is, simply, nothing connecting these "facts" to TWA 800.
The next "fact" Lance offers is that the chemicals Yousef "suggested" to Scarpa were identical to those found in the TWA wreckage. As shown above, Lance presents no solid evidence connecting the similar explosives, terrorists or a bomb to TWA 800's demise.
Then Lance points to the "NTSB's conclusion that an explosion in the center wing fuel tank was the ultimate cause of the…crash." Not only did the NTSB not prove this, to date they haven't even been able to conclusively identify an ignition source for the alleged explosion. Further, other hard evidence, including radar data, shows that what happened in the tank was not the initiating event but a secondary event.
Lance's last "fact" refers to the FBI's false claims of a dog-sniffing test for explosives being responsible for explosives residue found throughout the TWA Flight 800 wreckage. Since that wasn't true, Lance reports, the presence of explosives must be attributed to the bomb. This is a logical leap backed up by nothing, least of all any bomb signature damage pattern on or inside the center fuel tank.
With his "aggregated facts," Lance manufactured connections that simply don't exist. This is the same technique that some reporters used to show that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was connected to the 9/11 attacks.
Regarding the eyewitnesses, Lance writes: "a number of witnesses reported seeing a "white arc of light just before the explosion…" He fails to mention that more than 65 eyewitnesses identified and interviewed by the FBI reported seeing a rocket or flare rise up from the earth's surface and meet the plane. A "white arc of light" was not a pervasive observation among the eyewitnesses. It is a vague description that gives the impression the eyewitnesses only saw something up in the sky. This is important for Lance to convey, because he can't say a bomb already on board the plane caused the crash if dozens of corroborating eyewitness accounts indicate something went up from the earth's surface and caused the plane to explode. As it was for the CIA, FBI and NTSB, dismissing the witnesses is key for Lance given his explosion-from-within proposition.
If Gray included Lance as a credible source to refute the missile scenario and present a credible bomb scenario, his reporting falls egregiously short on both counts.
While Lance at least mentions one type of hard evidence (explosives in the TWA wreckage) to support his untenable bomb scenario, Gray's next source, Elaine Scarry, labored under no such compunction in her reporting.
A Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value at Harvard, Scarry wrote "The Fall of TWA 800: The Possibility of Electromagnetic Interference", a long article in the New York Review of Books presenting a theory to which she attaches no hard evidence.
Scarry's main thesis is that since "electromagnetic interference" was thought to have caused previous military mishaps and since military units (Coast Guard, Navy and Air National Guard) were in the vicinity of the TWA Flight 800 crash at the time it occurred, then perhaps that same type of interference had caused the jetliner's demise.
After quoting from a 1997 FAA bulletin saying that interference from lightning and a high intensity electromagnetic environment can "couple voltage and current transients into the electrical/electronic equipment or components," Scarry surmises that "a sudden pulse or a high-intensity field could have acted as the source of the central fuel tank ignition." Crucially, she fails to explain how this could occur within the surge-protected fuel probe wiring aboard the jetliner.
The only electronics in the fuel tank are fuel quantity probes, which Boeing showed (during the official TWA Flight 800 investigation) can withstand direct short circuits from voltages of 3,000 volts or more without creating even the weakest of sparks. It would have been virtually impossible, therefore, for a source miles away to introduce into those probes the energy required to cause TWA Flight 800's fuel tank to explode. The NTSB correctly dismissed Scarry's work.
Whether or not Scarry intended it, her article feels like a look-here-not-there red herring piece. The content and lack of any credible evidence connected to TWA Flight 800 in Scarry's article raises these question about Gray using her as a source in his piece: Did he read her article? Did he notice it didn't mention any hard evidence and was technically far-fetched? Was he using her work to discredit the missile scenario while presenting the electromagnetic interference scenario as credible? Here, Mr. Gray clearly failed to meet minimum investigative journalism standards and practices.
Gray ignored Stalcup. Nearly half of Gray's article focuses on the discredited reporting of these two sources, but again, not as subscribers to "out-there" missile theories. Further, if Gray had scrutinized their work, he would realize that these sources couldn't credibly make a case for their own alternative theories. So, after discrediting Stalcup by including him in his piece, Gray brings in two other sources with questionable credibility, further tainting Stalcup by association.
So the question for Gray here is: If your own magazine had already found these sources questionable, why, without any new evidence from either, would you use them to make your point? Basic reporting standards and practices require a reporter to use valid sources with valid, fact-checked information to tell an accurate story. Gray has not met those standards. Further, Gray misled the only credible source in his piece when he told Stalcup he would seriously consider his evidence. Gray not only failed to do so, he also grossly mischaracterized Stalcup and his work, which is backed by first-hand sources like retired Senior NTSB Aviation Accident Investigator Hank Hughes. Hughes, who oversaw the complete reconstruction of the TWA 800's interior, is on the TWA 800 documentary's investigative team that presented hard evidence consistent with a missile strike.
Clearly Stalcup is the target of this hit piece. He is the only credible source in the piece. He is the only source addressing the subject of Gray's article. He is the only source who can present hard evidence consistent with a missile strike. Gray provides no reporting highlighting these facts and then places Stalcup in questionable company with two problematic sources who neither address the subject of the article nor offer credible alternatives.
Gray's misrepresentations prompted Stalcup to reach out to Gray's editor, New York Magazine literary editor David Wallace-Wells. Wells was in charge of the magazine's entire "conspiracy compendium" piece. He admitted to Stalcup that he did not consider him to be an "out-there" conspiracy theorist.
This hit piece is emblematic of the deterioration of rigorous standards and practices in American journalism today. Not only is Gray's own reporting highly problematic, he and Wallace-Wells have used the New York Magazine platform to insult an investigator and reporter—Stalcup—who has held himself and his investigative team to the highest standards of investigative reporting.
The fact is that the only scenario consistent with the forensic evidence and corroborated by eyewitness accounts is a missile strike. For the last 17 years, government officials and officials in charge of the investigation who have not wanted the press or anyone else to go there have placed this scenario in the conspiracy theory bin. This ongoing duplicity works for them. It also works for the reporters who have engaged in official source reporting on this story, because evidence presented in "TWA Flight 800" discredits their previous reporting.
Gray and New York Magazine are not alone in their high-profile presentations of unsubstantiated, inaccurate reporting on the TWA story and the TWA 800 investigative team's work. They are joined by, among others, CNN, Popular Mechanics, Bloomberg Businessweek, Politico, and Business Insider. Rebuttals of their reporting can be found in the "Fact Checking" section of the TWA 800 investigative team's website, flight800doc.com.
The journalism community's silence on the kind of rampant violation of ethical standards and misleading reporting illustrated above is deafening. Reporters and media critics endlessly point to corporate control of the news, dwindling resources and a host of other issues making good journalism on important issues more and more difficult to provide.
Taking a harder look at the journalism landscape in this country, particularly coverage of major controversial stories about powerful individuals and institutions could be an instructive exercise for those who find hit pieces and deleteriously bad journalism rare. In fact, in the same New York Magazine issue, Benjamin Wallace-Wells, David Wallace-Wells's brother, opens the magazine's conspiracy theory segment with a hit piece on investigative reporter Gary Webb's well-documented story, "Dark Alliance," about the CIA protecting cocaine trafficking by Nicaraguan Contra rebels in the 1980s. The hit piece continues several pages later under the headlines "AIDS is a bioweapon" and "CRACK is too." Gary Webb is specifically mentioned in a paragraph under the second headline. Investigative reporter Robert Parry has written a fact-based rebuttal to Benjamin Wallace-Wells's piece here: http://bit.ly/18OOU91. Besides Benjamin Wallace-Wells, other journalists who baselessly vilified Webb and his work include high profile names like Bernard Kalb (for CNN's "Reliable Sources") and Walter Pincus, Roberto Suro and Howard Kurtz (for the Washington Post).
Reporting on the run-up to the Iraq war is another well-documented case in point. Those who asked the right questions, like Knight-Ridder's reporters, were attacked or derided. In television network newsrooms, reporters feared being hit with the "unpatriotic" label, which resulted in widespread self-censorship. Dan Rather, Christiane Amanpour and Ashleigh Banfield were among the high-profile broadcast journalists who spoke publicly about this.
What is rare, though, is accountability for bad reporting.
No reporter is forced to write a hit piece, engage in un-fact-checked official source reporting, or report lies. Every reporter who does chooses to do so, often with impunity. Worse, when whistleblowers and competent journalists step in to correct their inaccurate reporting, these reporters often go on the attack. The damage they do to civil society and the social fabric is easy to see. America is not the country it used to be, and with their work, these journalists have contributed to the current state of affairs.
Kristina Borjesson has been an award-winning investigative reporter and media critic for thirty years. She is the producer/writer/director of the newly released, critically acclaimed investigative documentary, "TWA Flight 800". She has won major awards for her work in both print and TV, including Emmy and Edward R. Murrow broadcast awards for her investigative reporting for CBS Reports. For her books, INTO THE BUZZSAW: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press and FEET TO THE FIRE: The Media After 9/11, Top Journalists Speak Out, Borjesson garnered the National Press Club's Arthur Rowse Award for Media Criticism and two Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book awards. She is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.


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5 Terrorists Surrender After Deadly Church Bombing
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Philippine Army members secure the area outside a church after a bombing attack in Jolo, Sulu province, Philippines. (Western Mindanao Command/Handout via REUTERS)
A senior Abu Sayyaf operative and four members of the militant group believed to be behind the deadly bombing of a church in the southern Philippines surrendered to authorities over the weekend, the national police chief said on Monday.
Kammah Pae, whom authorities believe to have aided an Indonesian couple in the Jan 27 suicide attack, gave himself up to government troops, Oscar Albayalde said.
"He was forced to surrender," Albayalde told a media briefing. "He probably didn't want to die during the military offensive."
Philippine troops killed three suspected Abu Sayyaf militants and suffered five fatalities in a firefight on Saturday in Patikul, a town in the province of Sulu as troops pursued those behind the church attack.
Albayalde said Kammah denied involvement in the twin bombings at the Jolo cathedral that killed 23 people, including civilians and soldiers, but eyewitnesses' accounts showed he escorted the Indonesian couple.
Security forces also retrieved an improvised explosive device (IED) and components from his home, Albayalde added.
The five suspects will face multiple murder charges, among others, Albayalde said.
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However, the investigation into the church bombing in Sulu, a known stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf group, is "far from over," he added.
Abu Sayyaf is a militant organization notorious for kidnappings and extremist factions and has pledged allegiance to Islamic State.
"There are more pieces of evidence that need to carefully examined," Albayalde said.
Before Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte suggested on Tuesday that the twin explosions may have been a suicide attack, military and police said the bombs within and outside the church appeared to have been detonated remotely.
A few days later, Duterte's interior minister, Eduardo Ano, said that suicide attack was carried out by an Indonesian couple with the help of Abu Sayyaf.
That would be in line with a claim of responsibility by Islamic State via its Amaq news agency early on Monday.
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As he defended himself before Agrippa, Bernice and Festus, it is quite clear that Paul had a higher goal than just to prove his innocence of the charges that had been leveled against him by Jerusalem Jews. He seized the opportunity to proclaim the gospel, and his message was incredibly persuasive.
Paul began by recounting his own background, something which could be verified easily. He had previously been a very well-known Pharisee who was more devoted to destroying Christianity than any of his peers. This was an undeniable historic fact. Yet now the persecutor had become the persecuted. Christianity's greatest antagonist had become its greatest ally. And Paul's change was not gradual but almost instantaneous. Obviously, something had happened that moved him to promote what he had previously sought to crush. What could possibly have happened that effected such a dramatic change? The catalyst must have been equally dramatic. And of course, it was.
As Paul's audience heard him recount his experience on the road to Damascus, they had a choice. They could believe that he was lying or telling the truth. If Paul was lying, it would beg the question, "Why was he lying?" His lie had gained him nothing and cost him everything! It was the very reason he was in chains as he stood trial. So there was no logical reason to believe that he was lying. The only logical conclusion was that he had indeed had a divine encounter, and as a result, he was a changed man.
Festus' response, "Paul, you are out of your mind! Your great learning is driving you mad," reveals that it was Festus, not Paul, who was "out of his mind." Are people who are greatly educated, as was Paul, more likely to report being knocked down by God, blinded by a bright light, and hearing God's voice? Do people who are zealously opposed to others, believing they deserve death, generally join those whom they so passionately hate? So we see that in Festus, as is always the case with every unbeliever, that his unbelief was not the result of the lack of convincing proof, but the result of his resistance to the truth.
Agrippa was somewhat more honest than Festus, admitting that Paul's testimony was very compelling, saying, "In a short time you will persuade me to become a Christian" (26:28). Obviously, if he were open to being persuaded, he would have asked Paul to continue so that he might learn more. But he didn't want to hear anything more, because what he had already heard was pulling him in a direction he did not want to go. The apostle John described both Festus' and Agrippa's attitudes when he wrote, "Men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil" (John 3:19).
Today we learn something that Jesus said to Paul during his Damascus Road experience that we did not previously know. Jesus told Paul that He was sending him to the Gentiles "to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in [Him]" (26:18). It is those who turn from darkness and from Satan, and who turn to light and God, and only those, who receive forgiveness of sins. They are sanctified, that is, made holy, by faith in Jesus. Notice it is not faith in a doctrine about Jesus that makes one holy, but faith in the person of Jesus.
The devil believes every doctrine about Jesus. Faith in Jesus implies submission to Him, because He is Lord.
Because of those very things that Jesus said to Paul, he began preaching that people "should repent and turn to God, performing deeds appropriate to repentance" (26:20). Poor Paul! Such a legalist! He didn't know any better than to tell unsaved people to start keeping God's commandments, when all they really needed to do was invite Jesus into their hearts or accept Him as their personal Savior!


Government is planning to increase the rate of service tax and excise duty by 2 percent to 14%. Currently the rate of service tax and excise duty is 12%. Finance ministry is planning to increase the rate in the forthcoming budget 2013. Finance ministry is also planning to roll back some exemptions from excise duty and service tax. The increase will help the finance ministry about 30000 crore more.
Finance ministry is seriously debating now days about increasing the rate of excise and service tax. Some exemptions may be removed like custom duty on crude may be back. Final decision on increasing the rate and stop the exemption will only be taken near to budget.
Government is planning to increase the gross domestic product (GDP) and the harsh decision will be taken in the coming budget. However peak custom duty to be remain as it as at 10%.
The chance in service tax and excise duty comes in effect immediately after the announcement in the parliament in budget speech. Like if the budget is presented on 29 February and the rate of service tax or excise increases, the rate will be in effect from March itself.
Government is also planning to implement GST (goods and service tax) in which the rate of service tax and central excise may be 16%. Service tax will be equally divided to center and the state while excise duty belongs to center only.
So the inflation is tend to rise in the coming months as government is likely to stop exempting crude oil from custom duty as well as increases the rate of service tax and excise duty. This will definitely affect the growth rate which is very down 5.5%.


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Q: How do you isolate $\theta$ from $\sin(\theta) - k\cos(\theta) = \frac{m_1}{m_2}$? This equation derives from physics force equations, and I have verified to make sure that the equation works. No actual physics pertains to this question. The part I need help on only requires math skills. Here is the equation:
$$\sin(\theta) - k\cos(\theta) = \frac{m_1}{m_2}$$
where $k$, $m_1$, and $m_2$ are variables, specifically the kinetic friction coefficient, mass one, and mass two respectively (irrelevant).
I have tried squaring both sides to then use double angle rules on the $2\sin\cos$ that yields, but all of my attempts have failed to simplify the equation further.
Could someone help me derive an equation for theta?

A: Let $sin{\theta} = x$.
Then your equation becomes
$$x-k\sqrt{1-x^{2}} = \frac{m1}{m2}$$
Separate the linear terms and square both sides.
$$(x-\frac{m1}{m2})^{2} = k^{2}(1-x^{2})$$
It is now a simple quadratic equation which you can solve. But remember to choose only those solutions that lie within [-1,1] or can lie within [-1,1] for some values of $k,m1, m2$.
Now when you have obtained $\sin{\theta}$, use $\sin^{-1}$ to obtain $\theta$

A: It can be shown that any expression of the form $a\cos(\theta)+b\sin(\theta)$ ($a$ and $b$ are constants) can be written in the form $m\cos(\theta+c)$, where $m$ and $c$ are constants. Specifically, by taking $m=\text{sgn}(a)\sqrt{a^2+b^2}$ and $c=-\tan^{-1}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)$, where $\text{sgn}(a)$ denotes the sign of $a$, we can write
$$a\cos(\theta)+b\sin(\theta)=\text{sgn}(a)\sqrt{a^2+b^2}\cos\left(\theta-\tan^{-1}\frac{b}{a}\right)$$
Substituting $a=-k$ and $b=1$ gives
\begin{align*}
\sin(\theta)-k\cos(\theta) &= \text{sgn}(-k)\sqrt{(-k)^2+1^2}\cos\left(\theta-\tan^{-1}\frac{1}{-k}\right)\\
&=-\text{sgn}(k)\sqrt{1+k^2}\cos\left(\theta+\tan^{-1}\frac{1}{k}\right)
\end{align*}
so if $k>0$, your equation boils down to
$$-\sqrt{1+k^2}\cos\left(\theta+\cot^{-1}k\right)=\frac{m_1}{m_2}$$
Dividing both sides by $-\sqrt{1+k^2}$ gives $\cos\left(\theta+\cot^{-1}k\right)=-\frac{m_1}{m_2\sqrt{1+k^2}}$, provided that $\left|-\frac{m_1}{m_2\sqrt{1+k^2}}\right|\leq 1$.
It can be shown that for any real number $y$ with $|y|\leq 1$, the only solutions to the equation $\cos(x)=y$ are of the form $x=2\pi m\pm\arccos(y)$ for integer $m$, so
$$\theta+\cot^{-1}(k)=2\pi m\pm\arccos\left(-\frac{m_1}{m_2\sqrt{1+k^2}}\right)$$
The desired result immediately follows.
$$\theta=2\pi m-\cot^{-1}(k)\pm\arccos\left(-\frac{m_1}{m_2\sqrt{1+k^2}}\right)$$

A: You might want to post the physics question which led you to this equation. It is likely there was a mistake in the derivation. Nonetheless,
$$\sin \theta - k \cos \theta = m_1/m_2 = \gamma$$
$$\sin \theta - k\sqrt{1-\sin^2 \theta} = \gamma$$
$$\sin \theta - \gamma = k \sqrt{1-\sin^2 \theta}$$
$$(\sin \theta -\gamma)^2 = k^2(1-\sin^2 \theta)$$
$$\sin^2 \theta - 2\sin \theta \gamma + \gamma^2 = k^2-k^2 \sin^2 \theta$$
$$(k^2+1) \sin^2 \theta  +(-2 \gamma) \sin \theta + \gamma^2 -k^2=0$$
$$\sin \theta = \frac{2\gamma \pm \sqrt{4\gamma^2 - 4(k^2+1)(\gamma^2 -k^2)}}{2(k^2+1)}$$

A: Let:
$$k=\tan \alpha \ \iff \ \alpha:=\tan^{-1}k.$$
The equation
$$\sin \theta - k \cos \theta = \underbrace{m_1/m_2}_{\gamma}$$
becomes, by multiplication by $\cos \alpha$:
$$\cos \alpha \sin \theta - \sin \alpha \cos \theta =\gamma \cos \alpha$$
$$\sin(\theta - \alpha)=\gamma \cos \alpha \tag{1}$$
If $\gamma \cos \alpha \in [-1,1]$, we can set
$$\sin \delta:= \gamma \cos \alpha \ \iff \ \delta=\sin^{-1}(\gamma \cos \alpha)$$
Equation (1) becomes:
$$\sin(\theta - \alpha)=\sin \delta \tag{2}$$
$$\iff \begin{cases}\theta - \alpha&=&\delta+k 2 \pi\\
\theta - \alpha&=&\pi-\delta+k' 2 \pi\end{cases}$$
whence two expressions for $\theta$.

A: Here's a general guide and explanation for problems of your type:
If we have an expression, $a\sin{x}+b\cos{x}$, let us assume it can be written in the form $R\sin(x+\alpha)$ Now to see if we can find values for $R$ and $\alpha$ in terms of $a$ and $b$. Using the compund angle formulae, also known as the addition formulae:
$$R\sin(x+\alpha)=R\sin{x}\cos{\alpha}+R\sin\alpha\cos x=a\sin{x}+b\cos{x}$$
So we have
$$R\cos\alpha=a,R\sin\alpha=b$$
So dividing the second equality by the first:
$$\tan\alpha=\frac{b}{a}$$
meaning we can find $\alpha$ in terms of $a$ and $b$, as we wanted. Now, to find $R$:
Squaring the $2$ equalities above we have
$$R^2\cos^2\alpha+R^2\sin^2\alpha=R^2(\cos^2\alpha+\sin^2\alpha)=R^2=a^2+b^2\implies R=\sqrt{a^2+b^2}$$
So, to finish off by recapping what we have learnt:
$$\tan\alpha=\frac{b}{a},R=\sqrt{a^2+b^2}$$
meaning
$$a\sin{x}+b\cos{x}\equiv\sqrt{a^2+b^2}\sin(\theta+\arctan{\frac{b}{a}})$$
Try applying that to your question. If you have any questions, please ask!
I hope that was helpful :)
Note: It's not always going to be the case that we take the positive square root for $R$. It depends on the sign of the quantities $a$ and $\cos\alpha$ ( I could've picked $b$ and $\sin\alpha$ as well; can you see why?).


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Late Thursday night an SUV rear-ended a HPD patrol unit that was stopped with its emergency lights activated on Highway 290 near Pinemont. The truck of the police car is crushed all the way to the base of the rear window, which suggests a very significant impact given the size of the trunk on a Ford Crown Victoria. At the time of the accident the officer was sitting in the police car and was blocking an exit ramp for a stranded driver. The police officer and the driver of the SUV were transported to the emergency room; according to Channel 2's report police are now investigating whether alcohol was a factor in the crash.
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Modern chair design delights with bright colors, functionality, and lightweight. The folding chair is called Flax. Folding chairs are convenient furniture items, particularly in small homes. You can fold it, store it, carry around, use in any room enjoying the light, unusual, and practical design. The modern chair is not cheap, but the contemporary, functional, attractive, and bright design is worth it.
The Flax chair design is about a transformation and space-saving. The modern chair quickly turns into a large polypropylene envelope. The briefcase-sized, portable chair is a contemporary blend of the functionality and appeal. The colorful, contemporary design makes the chair a perfect accents for nomad interiors and outdoor rooms.
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Talking with attendees at last year's Solid Edge University event it is apparent that the ability to meet with software and technology partners who are demonstrating a wide variety of complementary solutions is seen as a real benefit. At this year's SEU15 event held in Cincinnati October 26th-28th we will again have a great group of partners available to discuss their solutions, including some who are exhibiting for the first time.
One of the first timer exhibitors is QuadriSpace who will be demonstrating their technical documentation and web publications software. One of their solutions Share3D enables illustrated documents such as manufacturing and service instructions to be published to the cloud. Share3D users can incorporate Solid Edge models into these documents, and can also quickly create online parts catalogs with shopping cart features. In this demonstration you can click on parts in this Solid Edge Assembly, get a cost for the part and add it to your shopping cart. Catalogs published using Share3D can also access external pricing, inventory and other on-demand part information from ERP and PLM databases. QuadriSpace has been working closely with Solid Edge to ensure a good level of integration between the two solutions, and there is an entry level version of QuadriSpace's Publisher3D technical illustration software available on our Solid Edge App Marketplace.
Design of wire harnesses and control panels is a key part of the product development process for many Solid Edge users and one of our long term partners in this area Zuken will be demonstrating E3.series. E3.series is a Windows-based, easy-to-learn system for the design of wiring and control systems, hydraulics and pneumatics in the aerospace, automotive, machinery, power, railway, special vehicles, and telecommunications industries. E3.series has a bi-directional integration with Solid Edge using the E3 Routing Bridge. Electrical harness components and data such as connectors, terminals, splices and netlist information are transferred to Solid Edge where engineers can route the cables in the mechanical space. This video shows how easily a wire harness can be imported into Solid Edge and routed within the mechanical design. Length and structure data for the wiring harness can then be transferred back to E3.series where the final details are added for manufacturing. In addition attendees at SEU15 can find out first-hand about the many enhancements made to the Solid Edge Wire Harness Design module in the latest ST8 release, or you can watch this video for a quick overview of these new capabilities.
The ability to analyze moving parts and understand the full dynamic behavior of their designs is critical for designers of machinery and many other products. Design Simulation Technologies (DST) are experts in this area and will be demonstrating their Dynamic Designer solutions at SEU15. In fact Simply Motion from DST is included inside Solid Edge to provide a basic level of motion modeling and analysis. More advanced capabilities are available in DST's Dynamic Design Motion Professional enabling Solid Edge users to model, test and refine their products and output performance information like part interference, optimum motor size, cam performance, and gear and linkage layout that may otherwise require expensive physical prototypes to be built and tested. You can watch a demonstration of Dynamic Designer for Solid Edge here.
And just to give you a feel for the diversity of the add-on applications that you can find at SEU15 some of the other partners exhibiting include Microsoft (Windows 10, SharePoint, Surface Pro 3), Lenovo (PC workstations), Keyshot (3D Rendering and animations), 3DConnexion (precision input devices), Mechworks (technical document management), CADMAC (sheet metal manufacturing), Kenesto (engineering document management) and CAD Partner (plant design).
So another great reason to attend SEU15 is to meet one-on-one with experts from many different fields, strengthen your product design processes and move ahead of your competition! If you cant attend SEU15 then checkout the links above - and let us know if there are more applications you would like to see working closely with Solid Edge to meet your specific needs.